Dumb Blonde - Reby Hardy on Gothic Baby, Wrestling and Being a Child Bride

Episode Date: April 12, 2023

Bunnie gets in the ring with Reby Hardy this week. This beautiful wrestler, game designer, model, host, super mom and wife (and even more) paints the picture of growing up in Queens, becoming a child bride at 16 and divorcee at 18, and her journey to having her first wrestling match televised on live TV. She talks about working with huge brands like Sirius, MTV, and Playboy, meeting her husband, wrestler Matt Hardy through a fan's suggestion on Twitter, and together making the cutest viral Gothic Babies that the world has ever seen. Reby talks about building their family compound in North Carolina, and what's next for the family of superstars.    Reby Hardy: IG | TikTok  Matt Hardy: IG    Watch Full Episodes & More: www.dumbblondeunrated.com   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Oh thank you. Does it ever bother you being referred to as Matt Hardy's wife? It's like I get it to an extent like he's the more famous one but it really does like discredit literally everything I've ever done in my life. Like all the cool shit that I've ever done it was before I met him really and there's a hundred different lives lifetimes that I feel like I've lived before I met him and all that is just like null and void like no one cares once you're with him you're just like Matt Hardy's wife that's it that's your whole personality there's nothing else special about you so yeah I get it but at the same time I'm like just fuck me I guess yeah for sure. So I heard the New York accent and I heard you mention a hundred lifetimes. So I want to take it all the way back. You grew up in New York, correct? Yeah. Queens, New York. My father's from Queens,

Kew Gardens. Oh shit, okay. I was born in a hospital not far from there. Oh, very cool. I love that. So growing up in New York, what was that like for you? Paint that picture for us. Growing up in New York, I feel like now that I've lived in other places than New York and especially now I live in like the deep country like you gotta drive 30 minutes to go to the supermarket oh my gosh I didn't even know places were like that in New York no no now no okay now yeah so it's like now that I look back on on my upbringing and my childhood like damn I really took shit for granted right I'm out here like you know just going and hanging out in the city doing it you know just at the drop of a hat and i think about that now it's like man i really gotta drive 20 minutes to go to a walmart

like it's crazy but um yeah we my dad was a superintendent of a an apartment building that we lived in and that's how we were able to live in a nicer area which was great so we had three bedroom apartment in New York and um you're balling yeah no we were balling shout out to my dad because he busted his ass you know I feel like everything I have now even like the gothic baby stuff in my life and my DIY stuff is watching him being like a handyman and doing everything himself it's like that's where I get it from so you have a pretty good relationship with pops yeah we actually ended up moving him down the street so he lived in puerto rico after him and my mom split up because she was fucking the gardener and damn it mom god damn it mom damn trifling oh um so the whole you know it was when the hurricane was happening in puerto rico

about five years back maybe god even longer by now and and we were like you know what every time it rains it rains inside of your house to like, this can't we can't do this. So we bought him a house on the compound. We live on 100 acres in the middle of nowhere. So now he's he's part of the compound there. He's got his own little house. So yeah, we're close. And you know, thank goodness for him. I love that. So you said, so growing up, did you have both parents? Or did they split when you were growing up? Yeah, they were together up until not long ago. My mom bought a house in Illinois, North Carolina also. Unrelated to Matt.

It was just, you know, meant to be in the stars, I guess. Yeah. And she moved first to get the house set up and everything. And my dad had it finished so he could collect his pension. He had to stay X amount of years or whatever. And she ended up, you know, she went went buck wild and then they broke up mom was just ready she fucking had her what do they call it midlife crisis and just fucking yeah just went crazy so growing up what was little rubby like were you always like into wrestling and stuff

like that or was that like were you always roughhousing do you have relative uh siblings yeah so i have four siblings but there's like 18 years in between me and the youngest wow so you know they were more like parental figures that i really never saw so almost like uncles really at that point i'm closer with their kids now who are technically my nieces and nephews than right with my actual siblings so it was just me because i'm my dad's only kid um and uh I feel sorry I feel like wrestling in the like the late 90s like Y2K was it was like the hot cool thing to do it's not like it is now you know it's like oh hokey wrestling yeah nerd like wrestling used to be a cool thing you know it's like

everybody was into it so that's kind of you know I I got into it that way yeah did you know like as a kid like this is what I want to do? Or it was just you were just kind of like a fan about it? I was like a showbiz kid, like in dance classes and piano classes and just any sort of like entertainment or stage, like I was there. So when I was younger, I never really thought in a million years that I would have any involvement in wrestling at all. That kind of happened after I started working.

Not even working. I did. It's so crazy. So this is one of the lifetimes. I had this thing where I would go to Giants game. I was a huge New York Giants fan and I would go to all the games and I would dress up. And now it's like, who cares, bitch? Everyone dresses up. Listen, back 900 years ago, no one was doing this. no one was dressing up in crazy outfits and you know like cute corsets and tutus and shit and going to the gate just wasn't happening right so I started getting this sort of like cult following and becoming like this New York Giants I want to say icon because that's a big word but you know notable and like on NFL Network and in the commercials and all that kind of thing so I got to do interviews at SiriusXM.

And from there, I met somebody who ended up hosting a wrestling show on SiriusXM. And I was like, oh my God, I used to watch wrestling. I remember wrestling, whatever. Anyway, I ended up being a fill-in host for that show. And then eventually, you know, kept doing that kind of stuff, kind of gopher apprentice type stuff. Ended up being an actual host. And then we would have guests in studio, you know, kind of like this and everyone who would come in would say, man, you should be in the business. Like, what are you

doing over here interviewing me? Like you should be wrestling. And then when I heard that, you know, enough times I was like, well, fuck it. Let me, let me go find a school and let me train. And literally two months after I started training, I got a deal with MTV too for a wrestling TV show that they were doing. It like spiraled from there. That's crazy. Well, let's all like one thing to another random. Yeah.

Let's rewind it back real quick before we start talking about your wrestling and let's talk about this child bride thing. Oh, I, we cannot just skip over that. I always do though. I drop it every now and then and then I keep moving. Yeah, that's trauma.

It's a long story, bro. Well, we're ready. So everybody get your coffee, get your fucking crumpets and tea. We are sitting down right now. It's tea time. Okay. All right. Child ride.

So how old were you? I was 16, technically. The whole thing started when I was 15. But I was, you know, I want to say like problem child. But when I look back at it, like, was I really? Like, I was sort of in the foster care system for a minute. I was in the troubled teen industry, which like, you know, I don't know if you guys seen like that Paris Hilton interview that she did speaking out.

It was literally that. It was one of those places. Did you just start getting into trouble? What was the? I mean, it wasn't even trouble i wasn't like i wasn't on drugs i wasn't like you know out here robbing people i was rebellious i feel like i was just a regular ass teenager the way you would expect teenagers to be right my mom was really crazy so she was just i don't know she had me really i don't want to say really old but she had me at like 41 which in the 80s is like miracle baby you know nowadays

nothing but back then it was a big deal she already had four kids you know so I feel like she really really liked me when I was a little baby and then once I stopped being a baby it was like it was hard for her to relate she didn't want to do it felt like she didn't want nothing to do with me so I feel like anything that wasn't just me being like a complacent like doll that she could dress up at that point was like too much. So anything I did was trouble. And I had met this guy and it was like my third boyfriend in my life ever, you know, like 15 years old, whatever. But he was Jewish. And the neighborhood right next to the neighborhood that I grew up in, like Regal Park, Lefrak, was a huge like Hasidic Jewish community.

So his parents were like hardcore Jewish. So they absolutely hated me. And it was like it was this huge thing. So his mom, just to be spiteful, called CPS on my mom. be spiteful called cps on my mom and because i was already in the system and like cops had been called to the house prior because like we'd be fighting and throwing hands craziness you know they were like yeah she we're just gonna she's gonna go back in the foster system and i was like bro so what ended up happening was they sort of like arranged for me to marry this guy so that my mom wouldn't go to jail because they were threatening her with that.

Like, cause his mom had said, oh, you're allowing them to have sex in your house and you're facilitating all this illicit thing, blah, blah, blah. So my mom's like, you ain't, you about to catch me in none of this. So she's like, you're going to marry him. It's going to go away. And I'm going to wipe my hands clean of it. I don't have to deal with you. And now I'm not going to get in trouble. Kind of is really how it happened how did you feel were you ready to get married and kind of get away and get out of the system well you know my dumb ass at 15 I'm like oh I love him like whatever it's like this random dude I've known for a few months like what the what do I know you know how did his parents feel about the arrangement were they okay they were mad oh they were mad mad mad

because she was playing the game you know because his because his mom thought, haha, I'm going to break them up. You know, I'm gonna end this and the you know, his her mom's gonna get in trouble. And my mom was like, bet. So they're like playing their little chess game. Yeah. So that that's really, that's how that happened. And it was it was terrible. You know, I went to my first prom. I was with my husband. I was married before I went to my first prom. Wow. And you know, just having to figure out where we're gonna live now. How are we gonna make to my first prom i was with my husband i was married before i went to my first prom wow and you know just having to figure out where we're gonna live now how are we gonna make money now you know and it's it's not like you know around where i live no just get an apartment get a room in new york it's like you know two grand for a studio for a room whatever so i mean it took a lot

of i feel like time to develop and like become my own person and like pursue my own interests that I should have been able to have as a normal fucking teenager, like regular teenagers. Like it took that away from me. I feel like part of that is why I'm like so psycho into everything. Like I literally do everything and anything because like I couldn't do that before. Like let me let me be crazy now. No, I love that. How long did that marriage last?

Technically, it was two, almost three years. But I mean, really, it was over. It wasn't even really like a marriage, really. How did you guys get, like, did he work? Did you work? Like, how did you guys even live? Yeah, we both worked. I worked as a belly dancer.

So I worked for an entertainment company. I would do weddings, bar mitzvahs, you know. you belly dance for us still i mean i got the belly for it now i guess i could that's like so i love the way they move their hips and shit like it is just it's like it puts people in a trance it does it is so hot and seductive dude um okay so after you get this divorce you're how old almost 18 almost 18 where did where does Reby go from here so you're already you're 18 just divorced yeah divorcey and I took my wedding photos from a wedding photo shoot that we had done at the mall like one of those like glamour shots places and I uploaded it onto I remember I'm fucking embarrassing I need to go find these pictures because I feel like a good

story time or something I do it I put it on this like model portfolio website yes and within the first like week I met this guy of course him and a bunch of guys bunch of fucking creeps because that's what that shit was and yeah yeah if they hide behind a modeling agency oh yeah i'm a photographer you know come do artistic photos there was a lot of that and i learned that pretty quick i was dumb but i caught on pretty quick yeah but i met this guy who i ended up dating very briefly but he had a friend and he was like oh yeah i got this friend who's a photographer and he shoots film and you know I feel like he you know you'd be a good fit for him because I used to be like 90 pounds like super you know ideal for that kind of stuff that he was doing at the time so I went and

I did that we shot on like some rooftop in the city I went to Montauk and in Long Island in the Hamptons and we shot some stuff that ended up being the guy who shot my first playboy pictures my first playboy pictures i didn't even know we're gonna be i didn't even know i was gonna be in playboy i got a call from this guy six months eight months after the fact and he's like oh i'm gonna be in playboy and i was like congratulations and he's like no no no we're gonna be in playboy and i was like isn't this what isn't that crazy how back in the day like people could take anybody's pictures as long as they had the author or not even an authorization. But as long as they had the pictures and submit them to a fucking magazine like Playboy, they would never do that now.

I couldn't imagine the lawsuits that would happen now is crazy, you know. But it's like they were like film pictures on the beach. I literally thought he was just like because I was sort of like his test models for when he would, you know, shoot the real beautiful models, you know, like the real tall girls or, you know, the stuff that he because he was doing arts and books and museums and stuff like that. So I was like, OK, nothing's ever going to come of it. And, you know, that ended up being published. And from there, I was like, bitch, I'm going to run with this. Yeah, this is my moment and I like took that and literally like marketed myself to try and be the most important model that has ever modeled in the fucking world of modeling like

I was just like this is my chance and I just I hooked my trailer up to that shit and went and it worked out thank god so you got published in playboy what happens after that uh after that really just like magazine stuff signed to a couple agencies i ended up moving to florida um and then sort of the whole giants thing and from there it went to radio and to wrestling okay so now we circle back to when you got signed you got signed by who was it again and was it you didn't say mtv who who signed for the wrestling yes so it was a company it was called lucha libre usa and it was um it was a show didn't say mtv who who signed for the wrestling yes so it was a company it was called lucha libre usa and it was um it was a show to be on mtv okay gotcha so it was on mtv

mtv too it was on the latino mtv um and and yeah i was thrown into wrestling my first match my first proper match was televised on live tv so it's like crazy because a lot of times wrestling fans would be like this this dumb bitch, she's only in wrestling because of Matt. She sucks. That's the only reason she got a chance.

Like literally, like this was, I had like months of training and thrown into it and that's it. On TV, bam. It wasn't like how most people, you know,

years of training and, you know, going to a facility and, you know, having indie matches. It was like, boom, right away on TV with like veterans of wrestling.

Sink or fucking swim. Yeah. It was like, yeah, on tv with like veterans of wrestling fucking swim so yeah it was like yeah go ahead bitch good luck and so how did that first match turn out i feel like they protect the producers of the match protected me enough it was like a six girl tag match at least but i mean i was so fucking scared oh i bet because you know those bitches are tough they're're rowdy, dude. Oh my God. The people that had me in there too, I thought I was going to die.

And it's very like wrestling cult mentality, like the culture of wrestling to like shit on the new girl and to like show her who's boss kind of thing. So in that match necessarily, it really wasn't. But like that is sort of the whole feeling around wrestling in general, which is where I feel like

a lot of my wrestling beef started with because people are like oh this new bitch she hasn't paid her dues me whatever the fuck like it's like a pecking order it really is and it's like a lot of those people got bullied coming up and even if it was coming up 20 years ago when you know the culture around wrestling and what was socially acceptable was a lot different 20 years ago people used to be shitting in people's bags just to show them who's boss and that was normal you do that now you're going to jail you know what i mean so it's like those people went through that and they're like oh who's this you know little pretty bitch coming up and she thinks she's just gonna roll up in here and have a spot and then especially once i started dating matt it was like bullseye on this dumb bitch so take me take us into your wrestling career a little bit

so you did that first match and then where does that go from there how long after your first match did you meet matt so we actually met on twitter oh really okay awesome the worst way to meet anybody honestly i mean you could have said tinder so i mean oh my god better than tinder it's more embarrassing than that i feel like but i i was doing i started doing indie stuff so i did it sort of backwards right i was like on tv and then I started doing independent stuff locally and I was doing a lot of announcing work because I was still working in radio so people sort of like recognized me from being able to talk kind of thing believe it or not I think you're doing great it's a very different life and um this girl on twitter saw that I was going to be at a show or the show that

saw that Matt was going to be at a show and the show that saw that Matt was going to be at a show. And she, she tweeted me and I had just broken up with somebody and I'm lamenting like my life is a very dramatic fucking emo 2012 Twitter, you know, whatever. Yes. Very much. I'm going to die.

My life is a very dramatic. So this girl, I guess a wrestling fan seen it. And she was like, you know what? You should, you should try and talk with this guy, Matt Hardy. He's just, he's been through a breakup and I don't even know what they should you should try and talk with this guy matt hardy

he's just he's been through a breakup and i don't even know what they were referencing but bitch i i've found out since um she's like he's been through a breakup and you've been and you guys would be really great together and he just like wrote back like a colon parentheses this how long ago wasn't even emojis yet like winky face and i was like uh-huh yeah sure I'll let you know you know when the wedding is or whatever and literally it just started with bullshit flirtations back and forth because like this random fan on Twitter decided that we needed to be together out of thin air but that's destiny you know I mean literally I guess if you think about I mean fuck you guys have been together what 10 years 10 years now? Longer? 13 years. 13 years? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. right because i probably would have just let it go but the feeling was like are you gonna go see him and i was like how else are we supposed to consummate the marriage jokes on me bitch hello now look at me but you know so i ended up actually getting booked on that show so he was performing and i was booked as a an announcer on that show and then we met and from there it was like almost inseparable like from that day blue crazy yeah oh look at your eyes light up when you talk about it she's like he drives me nuts but i

love him oh i love that so you guys get together you deal with the backlash of his breakup right we don't really have to touch too much on it because i know people go are today yes yeah i've seen it online and i'm like bro like they have fucking four kids together they literally are been married 13 years like yeah leave her alone so you can't you catch all this backlash you know how do you deal with everything that was getting thrown your way like the girls are picking on you and the wrestling and then you know you're dealing with the backlash from that how did you guys kind of like come together and just buckle down yeah man it it was hard I really had to hold my own.

But on top of it, at the time, he was going through like a shit time, like a ton of issues. So he was like always in the press, like getting in trouble. And I was having to, you know, toe that line of not wanting to defend him because I was the one trying to pull him out of it. But also like not wanting people to shit on your man kind of thing. So I got a lot of shit just for even sticking by him half the time and you know we were young and dumb and

probably not making the best choices you know he got out of rehab for one day and the first thing we did was like do a nude photo shoot like post like and i look back and i'm like what the fuck was i thinking bro but you know i'm sure to fans they're like baby what the hell is this you know it probably looked fucking crazy but you know so it was a to fans, they're like, what the hell is this? You know, it probably looked fucking crazy. But, you know, so it was a lot of backlash. Some of it was deserved because I was just young and dumb and, you know, just going with it. And I've always had like a very like troll mentality. Like, you're not about to talk crazy to me without having me talk back.

And I've calmed down a lot. Yeah, it's hard because you can't win. But I'm like, you're not going to disrespect me. I don't care if you got a screen behind you or if you don't mind't mind you want to say that to my face i want to let that slide in person why am i gonna let it slide now like you just you don't find out liver in your presence yeah exactly so it's like i i used to have to attack everybody so yeah i've had to learn that this very past week it's very hard to keep your mouth shut especially when it's like you know the whole story and they don't,

and everybody's got a fucking opinion. Oh yeah. My, now I just tell people, you know, hopefully you can mind your business this week, you know? And they hate it because they're like,

you too. And I'm like, you're on my page. You know, it's so hard not to go back and forth. Yeah. So let's move forward. You and Matt have been together.

You guys have created this beautiful life. How do you guys end up in North Carolina? How do you guys end up in North Carolina? So he's from there. His whole family's from there. Oh, okay, okay. Like for 300 years. Just everyone's been born on the same block kind of thing.

Wow. And we've lived on the same, I say block, but you know, country block. Yeah, well, you're from New York, so it makes sense. But yeah, I mean mean and he'll never leave i've tried especially before we had kids well let's get a place in florida let's get a place in new york i tried to get him to buy my old apartment 10 years ago and 10 years ago it was like 500 000 that's just like 800 000 i'm like we should have bought it yeah you know but he he's just born and raised there his whole family's from there forever he will never leave we'll be there

forever that's how country boys are my husband will never leave nashville as much as he says he wants to we're never gonna leave oh he he don't even want to though he's just like this is it that's all he knows so so you guys bought 100 acres in north carolina it was just there it was just there oh you guys built so you guys built your house on the acres yeah so it's sort of like the family compound that was it used to be like. So it's sort of like the family compound. That was it used to be like his dad's house and then like the house he grew up in across and then his sister's house. And the next to that was like another family house.

It was like this huge plot of farmland. I think they used to be like tobacco farmers or something. So awesome. Matt had the 40 acres on it. And then we've sort of built on Jeff. His brother is next to us. And then we've sort of built on Jeff, his brother is next to us. And then across is their dad who's passed. And then next to that is my dad. I love that. That is really awesome. Yes. Take me into the house. Where did you have you always been into Gothic

interior? Like, is that your thing? Like, take me on this journey of Gothic baby. Because everybody is just obsessed with gothic baby that's what drew me in that was the first video of yours i ever saw i was like look at this fucking baby i was like this is so amazing and then i saw the all your shit that you do and i'm like oh god i'm following her she's like inspiration like for the for the decor and shit love it thanks i i grew up you know that apartment that i grew up in queens i mentioned that my dad was the super of the building right so when people would die he would get he would get first dibs on their apartment you know what i was like if next of kin didn't come and claim the stuff it's going in the dump or my dad's taking it you know what i mean right so we had this

very eclectic mix of like antiques and and old stuff and oddities and sort of weird stuff so that was the apartment that i grew up in it was very like mixed match and antique right so to me that was normal and i always thought that was the most beautiful thing i didn't never want anything modern or you know futuristic even throughout like y2k everything's you know modern i just i wanted to live like in a castle my whole life so even like i feel like i would ask for christmas for like i want like a beauty and the beast mirror but like i would get like something pink and plastic and i'd be like what the fuck is this right i wanted the carved wood gilded exactly so that's sort of like my whole life that was like goals you know so when i had when i was pregnant with gothic baby uh is she evermore yeah i love the names thank you i love

all i what is it maxell evermore wolfgang which i found out on twitter is very controversial name bartholomew fuck i didn't know that i didn't either until i posted it apparently bartholomew is like a name that you call somebody like make fun of them or like when you think somebody's not cool you just like karen you're like okay karen if somebody's not cool you say like okay bartholomew like i didn't know that i've never heard that in my life me neither bro no i felt like god damn it i didn't know that that is insane okay so when you were pregnant with gothic baby so she was my first girl after three boys and i have it in my head like i'm a boy mom that's that's all i am i don't know how to deal with girls especially with all the horseshit with my mom i didn't know how to have a relationship like with a mom or with a

girl so I was to break the cycle so you know the first girl after sorry not over here like asmr it's okay it's okay bro no the first girl after three boys and I could either like go completely pink ruffle glitter like you know Barbie or you know maybe something more gender neutral which is what I ended up going with so the original intent for like the nursery was never I was never like I'm gonna make a gothic nursery it was like I'm gonna do something neutral and try and make it like as lux as I can without being modern so to me what does that mean a lot of antiques a lot of like draperies and stuff and then even in just sharing that stuff you you know, and there's nothing inherently,

I would say, goth in her room. And I feel like there's a difference between like goth and gothic. Like gothic, I feel like is more of a style aesthetic and architectural style. And goth is more like the music scene or, you know, the fashion or, you know, maybe even into emo, whatever the hell, you know. But people were seeing that. I was just posting little bits here whatever the hell you know so but people were seeing that i was just posting little bits here and there on my social media and people were just going crazy like this poor child living in a gothic house she's no color like you know a huge

fucking house yeah yeah poor child yeah like we just put her in this one room all day and that's all it's gonna be yeah so the whole gothic baby thing started as like a satirical response like to what these people were saying like oh this gothic baby just mopes around all day surrounded by darkness so literally i didn't mean for it to be a series it was just me like you know like i was wanting a troll yeah like you're being i'm being sarcastic like yes my poor fucking child gothic baby yeah and that that's how it happened if it popped off and people really liked it i was like dude it more than popped off it's literally just viral everybody knows gothic baby now which is fucking insane oh she's like she's like damn it i get showed up by my husband and then i get showed up by my fucking kid i've always said i'm the least popular person

in my family oh not true though because you're probably the glue that holds everybody together you know that that is i feel like us wives we the glue that holds everybody together you know that that is i feel like us wives we don't get enough fucking credit you know but it is what it is so do you have plans on like branding gothic baby or like so i'm actually in the middle of writing a children's book and it's sort of like based on her and inclusivity and that kind of thing um and i mean i would love to take it to the moon. You know, I love doing it. It very much fits like our organic family dynamic

and how we actually live and what our house really is. You know, it's not like a front or anything. It started because that's what the hell was happening in my house, you know? So it would be great to keep on going with that. Are you going to put the kids into it too? The other kids, the older ones? The younger ones, it's funny because anytime Bartholomew, bless his heart, poor thing. Who's Barty?

Barty Hardy. It rhymes, you know? Yeah. Poor thing. I didn't know about the Bartys. Okay. That's news to me. I am so tired of the internet though, girl.

You caught me on the right week because I am I am just fucking internet is so sensitive, dude. Like you can't do anything right. You can't do anything period. Yeah. You're damned if you do, you're damned if you don't. So just fucking live your life. Fuck them. Like who cares?

Love you guys, but fuck you. Okay. No, I feel you there. But, but anytime we even see anything black or like, you know, for example, I like have my nails done. Right. And they're like, you know, they're darker, they're black. And the first thing that Barty says, he comes to his

gothic baby nails, like anything black is like gothic baby. And, you know, they see their sister, you know, when I do my little bits and stuff with her and he's always trying to get in, you know, they always want to be in. And even our first kid, you know, he was on the road with us at wrestling shows on TV from the time he was four months old yeah like literally traveling the world he's been to like four different continents at this point at like one you know so they're just we're just a showbiz family that's just sort of how it is you know a lot of people have done a reality show on you guys yet we're actually talking to a bunch of people now uh but i don't want to jinx anything but like if not i'll produce it with my production

company that shit would be amazing dude i i agree there's so there's so many different things that that are happening at any given time that i feel like are weird and different but yeah i hate the whole reality show thing because it takes forever for the networks and like the filming this is what we've been doing it with chelsea handler for fucking since 2018 or when was it when did we meet her yeah 2018 and it is a fucking process dude yeah it takes forever that just scares me because i'm like first of all she's not gonna be a baby forever yeah and then secondly you gotta like strike while the iron's hot you know and i'm very impatient as a person that's what i just did with me so um it might end up being i'll help you we'll talk about it whenever um we're done with this interview like for real thank you that would be awesome to go

out there and like film for a few weeks and just get get a whole thing for you guys we would be down yeah we would love that I'll talk to you about it after this um but yeah so okay so you guys still are you still wrestling or no no No. Matt is still wrestling. He is. Yeah, that's crazy. That fucking how long has he been in the business? Do you want to come? Say he's eating. He doesn't have to.

It's OK. Yeah. Thirty one. Thirty one. Thirty one years. Like that's fucking insanity. But do you think that your boys are going to follow in his footsteps? You know, when they were younger, it was like literally all they were about.

And, you know, you'd ask them, what do you want to be when you grow up? And we would, I homeschool. So we do our little board every year for, you know, the beginning of the season. Thank you. And, you know, it would say, what do you want to be when you grow up?

And it was always rest and rest and rest. I feel like the older one, which is the one that was on TV, he literally had a match on TV when he was one years old, like insane. I feel like he's almost like a jaded vet like he's over it it's funny the other two are very much like the younger ones are very much into it we have a wrestling ring in our house so like they're always asking

to go out there and you know the little little one is is in jujitsu right now so it's I feel I'm scared I'm almost scared to say it because I know how the business is. Like I want them to do it because it would be cool. And obviously like carry on the Hardy legacy and you know, it makes sense. But at the same time, I'm like, I've been there. I know what it's like. And that scares the shit out of me.

So yeah. Just gonna, it's, it's whenever that comes, you guys will deal with it as it comes. I guess. I don't even want to think about it. Honestly. What if she is like, I want to be the wrestler no hard fucking no i think baby the wrestler i'm sorry i let her have complete body and personal life autonomy until then yeah the fuck you are

yeah like no you're not fucking doing it girl i've been there uh-uh you don't you don't want this well what do you think gothic the whole thing for you your family gothic baby what do you see it in 2022 or 20 sorry wrong year what do you see for 2023 gothic baby your brand all that stuff what would you want to manifest if you could manifest something right now i would love to have uh like a like a reality series or something and make it sort of like a modern day Adams family you know not not tie myself you know not too close to that whole thing but I mean it is a huge part you know sort of like the Osbournes were like the cool alt reality family back in the day I feel

like you know we could there's not really that much representation I feel like for alt people that's positive at least and I feel like you know we do have that style and we do have that lifestyle and that aesthetic, but you know, we're also, I don't know. I would say fairly wholesome. We're pretty cool. There's a lot going on.

I feel like that'd be cool to share because extremely wholesome. There's already so many like misconceptions about every single person in this family at this point that it would be nice to like one clear the air. And then to like, just share the good parts. I think it'll be awesome and I think it will happen for you guys because you guys have a very I love whenever he gets in the tiktoks too because he's like my husband my husband hates to get in the tiktoks and you can tell he's like something the other day and I was like I forget what it was that he was saying but I was like oh my god this like literally word for word

what my husband would say yeah no Jay hates it he always says you can be the online persona and I'm the fucking musician like he's like I just want to be mysterious and I'm like okay well mysterious this on my TikTok there you go he's like fucking TikTok well Reby I really enjoyed having you here thank you for coming by why don't you tell people where they can find you shout out your TikTok Instagram anything you want to plug yeah just tag me on TikTok. It's at Reby Hardy, R-E-B-Y Hardy. On Instagram is Reby Sky. Someone stole my name. Can't get it back. But yeah, other than that, that's it.

Damn it. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you. Really appreciate you. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week. Bye.