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Don Blonde
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Reby Hardy
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Don Blonde
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Reby Hardy
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Don Blonde
Dude, that is fucking iconic. What's up, you sexy motherfuckers? Welcome to another episode of Don Blonde. Today I have one half of the iconic couple. The beautiful Revie Hardy is here, baby.
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Reby Hardy
Oh, thank you.
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Don Blonde
Does it ever bother you being referred to as Matt Hardy's wife is like.
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Reby Hardy
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 100 different 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. Yeah, I get it. But at the same time, I'm like, just fuck me, I guess. What am I, chopped live over here?
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Don Blonde
Yeah, no, 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?
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Reby Hardy
Yeah, Queens, New York Queen.
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Don Blonde
My father's from Queens. Cute gardens. Oh, shit. Okay. I've never been hospital.
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Reby Hardy
Not. Not far from there.
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Don Blonde
Oh, very cool. I love that. So growing up in New York, what was that like for you? Paint that picture for us, man.
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Reby Hardy
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 got to drive 30 minutes to go to the supermarket.
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Don Blonde
Oh, my gosh. I didn't even know places were like that in New York.
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Reby Hardy
No, no, no. Now. 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 our. You know, just at the drop of a hat. And I think about that now. It's like, man, I really got to drive 20 minutes to go to a Walmart. Like, yeah, but. Yeah, my dad was a superintendent of an apartment building that we lived in. And that's how we were able to live in area, which was great. So we had three bedroom apartment in New York. And you're balling. Yeah, no, we were balling. Shout out to my dad because he. 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.
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Don Blonde
So you have a pretty good relationship with Pops?
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Reby Hardy
Yeah, we actually ended up moving him down the street so he lived in Puerto Rico after him and my mom so split up because she was the gardener and.
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Don Blonde
Damn it, Mom.
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Reby Hardy
God damn it, Mom. Trifling up 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 too. 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.
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Don Blonde
Nice.
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Reby Hardy
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.
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Don Blonde
I love that. So you said. So growing. Did you have both parents or did they split when you were growing up?
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Reby Hardy
Yeah, they were together up until not. Not long ago, my mom bought a house in Milanoa, North Carolina. Also unrelated to Matt. Just, you know, meant to be in the stars, I guess.
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Don Blonde
Yeah.
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Reby Hardy
And she moved first to. 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 buck wild. And then they broke up.
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Don Blonde
Mom was just ready. She had her. What do they call it? Midlife crisis and just fucking went crazy. So growing up, what was little Revie like? Were you always like into wrestling and stuff like that? Or was that like. Were you always roughhousing? Do you have rel or siblings?
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Reby Hardy
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 with my actual siblings. So it was just me because I'm my dad's Only kid. And 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.
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Don Blonde
Yeah.
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Reby Hardy
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.
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Don Blonde
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.
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Reby Hardy
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. So crazy. So this is one of the lifetimes. I had this thing where I would go to Giants game. I was like 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, whenever this, 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 don't 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 Sirius xm. And from there I met somebody who ended up hosting a wrestling show on Sirius xm.
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Don Blonde
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Reby Hardy
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 go for 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. Let me train. And literally two months after I started training, I got a deal with MTV2 for a wrestling TV show that they were doing. It, like, spiraled from there.
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Don Blonde
That's crazy.
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Reby Hardy
Well, let's, like, one thing to another. Random.
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Don Blonde
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, we cannot just skip over that.
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Reby Hardy
I always do, though. I drop it every now and then. I keep moving.
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Don Blonde
Yeah, that's trauma.
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Reby Hardy
You're like, long story, bro.
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Don Blonde
Well, we're ready. So everybody get your coffee, get your crumpets and tea. We are sitting down right now. It's tea time.
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Reby Hardy
Okay. All right.
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Don Blonde
Child ride. So how old were you?
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Reby Hardy
I was 16. Technically. The whole thing started when I was 15, but I was, you know, I. 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. Yeah. Speaking out. It was literally that. It was one of those places.
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Don Blonde
Did you just start getting into trouble? What was the.
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Reby Hardy
It wasn't even trouble. I wasn't like. I wasn't on drugs. I wasn't like, you know, out here robbing people. Yeah, you're just rebellious. I feel like I was just a regular ass teenager, the way you would expect teenagers to be. But my mom was really crazy, so she was just. I don't know, she had me really. I don't wanna 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.
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Don Blonde
For her to relate to me.
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Reby Hardy
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 tr. 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. You know, next to the neighborhood that I grew up in, like, regal park. LeFrack 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 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, because his mom had said, oh, you're allowing them to have sex in your house, and you're felicit. Facilitating all this illicit, 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 gonna marry him. It's gonna go away and I'm gonna wipe my hands clean of it. I don't have to deal with you now. I'm not gonna get in trouble. Kind of is really how it happened.
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Don Blonde
How did you feel? Were you ready to get married and kind of get away and get out of the system?
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Reby Hardy
Well, you know, my dumb ass at 15, I'm like, oh, I love him.
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Don Blonde
Like, whatever.
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Reby Hardy
It's like this random dude I've known for a few. What do I know?
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Don Blonde
How did his parents feel about the arrangement? Were they okay?
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Reby Hardy
They were mad. Oh, they were mad because she was playing the game, you know, because his mom thought, haha, I'm gonna 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 there.
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Don Blonde
She's like, checkmate. Yeah.
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Reby Hardy
Yeah. So that, that's really. That's how that happened. And it was. It was terrible. You know, I went to my first promotion. I was with my husband. I was married before I went to my first prom.
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Don Blonde
Wow.
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Reby Hardy
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, you know, 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.
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Don Blonde
No, I love that. How long did that marriage last?
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Reby Hardy
Technically, it was two, almost three years. But I mean, really, it was over. It wasn't even really, like, a marriage, really.
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Don Blonde
How did you guys get, like. Did he work? Did you work? Like, how did you guys even live?
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Reby Hardy
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.
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Don Blonde
Can you belly dance for us still?
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Reby Hardy
I mean, I got the belly for it now. I didn't have it back then. I guess I could.
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Don Blonde
That's like, so. I love the way they move their hips. And, like, it is just. It's like it puts people in a trance.
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Reby Hardy
It does.
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Don Blonde
It is so hot and seductive, dude. Okay, so after you get this divorce, you're howled.
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Reby Hardy
Almost 18.
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Don Blonde
Almost 18.
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Reby Hardy
Where did.
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Don Blonde
Where does Rebbe go from here? So you're already. You're 18, just divorced.
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Reby Hardy
Yeah. Divorce. 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 it.
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Don Blonde
Glamour shots. I remember.
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Reby Hardy
I'm embarrassing. I need to go find these pictures because I think it'd make a good story time or something.
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Don Blonde
God, do it.
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Reby Hardy
I put it on this, like, model portfolio website.
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Don Blonde
Yes.
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Reby Hardy
And within the first, like, week, I met this guy. Of course I met a bunch of guys, a bunch of fudgeing creeps, because that's what that shit was. And yeah.
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Don Blonde
Yeah. If they hide behind a modeling agency.
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Reby Hardy
Oh, yeah. I'm a photographer, you know, come do artistic photo. There was a lot of that. And I learned that pretty quick. I was dumb, but I caught on pretty quick.
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Don Blonde
Yeah.
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Reby Hardy
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 friend photographer, and he shoots film. And, you know, I feel like he, you know, you. 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, we're gonna be in Playboy. And I was like, isn't that what.
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Don Blonde
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 magazine like Playboy, they would never do that now.
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Reby Hardy
I couldn't imagine the lawsuits that would.
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Don Blonde
Happen now is crazy, you know, but.
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Reby Hardy
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, okay, 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. 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 like, this is my chance. And I just. I hooked my trailer up to that and went. And it worked out, thank God.
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Don Blonde
So you got published in Playboy. What happens after that?
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Reby Hardy
After that, really just, like, magazine stuff. Signed to a couple agencies. I ended up moving to Florida and then sort of the whole giants thing. And from there it went to radio and to wrestling.
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Don Blonde
Okay, so now we circle back to when you got signed. You got signed by. Who was it again? Was it. No, you didn't say mtv. Who.
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Reby Hardy
Who signed for the wrestling? Yes. So it was a company. It was called Lucha Libre USA. And it was a show to be on MTV.
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Don Blonde
Okay, gotcha.
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Reby Hardy
So it was on MTV. MTV 2. It was on the Latino MTV. 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 dumb bitch. She's only in wrestling because of Matt. She sucks. That's the only reason she had a chance. Like literally like this 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 swim. So yeah, it was like, yeah, go ahead. Good luck.
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Don Blonde
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Reby Hardy
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.
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Don Blonde
Oh I tough. They're rowdy dude.
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Reby Hardy
Oh my God. The. The people, they had me in there too. I Thought I was gonna die. And it's very, like, wrestling cult mentality, like, the. 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 has started with, because people are like, oh, this new. She hasn't paid her dues, whatever. The.
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Don Blonde
Like, it's like a pecking order.
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Reby Hardy
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 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.
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Don Blonde
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?
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Reby Hardy
So we actually met on Twitter.
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Don Blonde
Oh, really? Okay.
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Reby Hardy
The worst way to meet anybody, honestly.
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Don Blonde
I mean, you could have said Tinder. So, I mean, better than Tinder.
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Reby Hardy
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? It 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, recognize me for being able to talk kind of thing.
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Don Blonde
Believe it or not, I think you're doing great.
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Reby Hardy
It's a very different life. And this girl on Twitter saw that I was gonna be at a show or the show that saw that Matt was gonna 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.
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Don Blonde
Yes, very much that I'm gonna die.
- [24:19]
Reby Hardy
My life is very dramatic. So this girl, I guess, wrestling fan Cena, 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 were referencing, but I found out since she's like, he's been through a breakup, and you've been. 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, like, 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.
- [24:59]
Don Blonde
But that's destiny, you know? I mean, literally, I guess if you think about. I mean, you guys have been together, what, 10 years now? Longer?
- [25:05]
Reby Hardy
Thirteen.
- [25:06]
Don Blonde
Thirteen years. Like, that's obviously. That was definitely written in the cards. Okay, so you and Matt are tweeting each other. When do you guys officially meet?
- [25:16]
Reby Hardy
So there was that show that that girl was saying, oh, you should. Oh. So there was a show that he had that weekend, and the fan persisted, right? Because I probably would have just let it go, but the video was like, are you gonna go see him? And I was like, how else are we supposed to consummate the marriage? Joke's 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 an announcer on that show. And then we met, and from there, it was, like, almost inseparable, like, from that day. Crazy. Yeah.
- [25:44]
Don Blonde
Look at your eyes light up when you talk about it. She's like, he drives me nuts, but I love him. 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, yes.
- [25:58]
Reby Hardy
Yeah.
- [25:59]
Don Blonde
See, I've seen it online, and I'm like, bro, like, they have four kids together. They literally are been married 13 years. Like, yeah, leave her alone. So you. 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 for.
- [26:20]
Reby Hardy
From that.
- [26:21]
Don Blonde
How did you guys kind of, like, come together and just buckle down?
- [26:26]
Reby Hardy
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 it, like. And I look back and I'm like, what the fuck was I thinking, bro? But, you know, I'm sure, baby, 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. Like, troll mentality. Like, you're not about to talk crazy to me.
- [27:18]
Don Blonde
Right.
- [27:18]
Reby Hardy
Without having me talk back. And I've calmed down a lot.
- [27:21]
Don Blonde
Yeah, it's hard because you can't win.
- [27:23]
Reby Hardy
But I'm like, you're not gonna disrespect me. I don't care if it's. If. If you're. If you got a screen behind you or if you don't mind. You want to say that to my face? I wouldn't let that slide in person. Why am I gonna let it slide now? Like, these.
- [27:32]
Don Blonde
You don't find out in your presence.
- [27:34]
Reby Hardy
Yeah, exactly. So it's like, I. I used to have to attack everybody.
- [27:38]
Don Blonde
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.
- [27:49]
Reby Hardy
Oh, yeah.
- [27:49]
Don Blonde
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 want to go back and forth.
- [28:01]
Reby Hardy
Yeah.
- [28:01]
Don Blonde
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?
- [28:13]
Reby Hardy
So his. He's from there. His whole family's from there. Like, for 300 years, just everyone's been born on the same block kind of thing and lived on the same. I say block, but, you know.
- [28:22]
Don Blonde
Yeah, well, you're from New York, so it makes sense.
- [28:25]
Reby Hardy
But, yeah, I 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, like 500,000. That shit's like 800,000. I'm like, we should have bought it.
- [28:41]
Don Blonde
Yeah.
- [28:42]
Reby Hardy
You know, but he. He. He's just born and raised there. His whole family's from there forever. He will never leave. We'll be there forever.
- [28:47]
Don Blonde
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.
- [28:52]
Reby Hardy
Oh, he. He don't even want to, though. He's just like, this is it. That's all he knows. So.
- [28:58]
Don Blonde
So you guys bought 100 acres in North Carolina?
- [29:01]
Reby Hardy
It was just there.
- [29:01]
Don Blonde
It was just there. Oh, you guys built. So you guys built your house on the acres?
- [29:05]
Reby Hardy
Yeah. So it's sort of like the family compound that was. It used to. To be, like, his dad's house, and then, like, the house he grew up in across and then his sister's house, and then 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.
- [29:20]
Don Blonde
So awesome.
- [29:21]
Reby Hardy
Matt had the 40 acres on it, 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.
- [29:33]
Don Blonde
I love that. That is really awesome.
- [29:35]
Reby Hardy
Yes.
- [29:36]
Don Blonde
Take me into the house. Where did you. Have you always been into? Got 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 baby. I was like, this is so amazing. And then I saw the. All your. That you do, and I'm like, oh, God, I'm following her. She's like, inspiration, like, for the deck, for the decor, and love it.
- [30:03]
Reby Hardy
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, like, if next the kid 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 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.
- [30:32]
Don Blonde
Right?
- [30:32]
Reby Hardy
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. 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 is this?
- [30:52]
Don Blonde
Right.
- [30:52]
Reby Hardy
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.
- [31:05]
Don Blonde
Is she evermore?
- [31:06]
Reby Hardy
Yeah.
- [31:07]
Don Blonde
I love the names.
- [31:08]
Reby Hardy
Thank you.
- [31:08]
Don Blonde
I love all. What is it? Maxel.
- [31:13]
Reby Hardy
Which I found out on Twitter, is very controversial name. Bartholomew. I didn't know that 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.
- [31:30]
Don Blonde
I never heard that in my life.
- [31:32]
Reby Hardy
Me neither, bro. Now I'm like, guys, God damn it. I didn't know that.
- [31:35]
Don Blonde
That is insane. Okay, so when you were pregnant with Gothic baby.
- [31:39]
Reby Hardy
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 a girl, 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.
- [31:50]
Don Blonde
So I was to break the cycle.
- [31:52]
Reby Hardy
So, you know, the first girl after. Sorry, Matt's over here. Like, asmr.
- [31:59]
Don Blonde
It's okay.
- [31:59]
Reby Hardy
It's okay, bro. So 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 luxe 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 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, so. But people were seeing that I was just posting little bits of here and there on my social media, and people were just going crazy, like. Like, this poor child living in a gothic house. She has no color.
- [32:57]
Don Blonde
Like, you know, a huge house. Yeah, poor child.
- [33:00]
Reby Hardy
Yeah. Like, we just put her in this one room all day, and that's all it's going to be, you know? 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, wanting a troll. Yeah, like, you're being. I'm being sarcastic. Like, yes, my poor child. Gothic baby.
- [33:25]
Don Blonde
Yeah.
- [33:25]
Reby Hardy
And that. That's how it happened. If it popped off and people really liked it, I was like, dude, it.
- [33:29]
Don Blonde
More than popped off. It's literally just viral. Everybody knows Gothic baby now, which is insane. She's like. She's like, damn it. I get showed up by my husband, and then I get showed up by my kid.
- [33:39]
Reby Hardy
I've always said I am the least popular person in my family.
- [33:43]
Don Blonde
Not true, though, because you're probably. Probably the glue that holds everybody together. I feel like us wives, we don't get enough credit, but it is what it is. So do you have plans on, like, branding Gothic baby or, like, so I'm.
- [33:57]
Reby Hardy
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. And, I mean, I would love to take it to the moon, you know, I love doing it. It very much fits, like, our. 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 just. It started because that's what the hell was happening in my house, you know? So it would be great to. To keep on going with that.
- [34:24]
Don Blonde
Are you gonna put the kids into it, too? The other kids, the older ones, the younger ones.
- [34:30]
Reby Hardy
It's funny, because anytime Bartholomew, bless his heart, poor thing, we call it, you know, Barty Hardy. It rhymes, you know?
- [34:38]
Don Blonde
Yeah.
- [34:38]
Reby Hardy
Poor, poor thing. I didn't know about the party, okay?
- [34:40]
Don Blonde
I never. That's news to me. I am so tired of the Internet, though. Girl, you Caught me on the right week. Because I am just. The Internet is so sensitive, dude. Like, you can't do anything right.
- [34:50]
Reby Hardy
No, you can't do it, period. Yeah, yeah.
- [34:52]
Don Blonde
You're damned if you do. You're damned if you're down. So just live your life like, who cares? Love you guys, but you okay.
- [34:59]
Reby Hardy
No, I feel you there. But. But anytime we even see anything black or, like, you know, for example, I, like, have my name nails done, right? And they're like, you know, they're darker, they're black. And the first thing that Barty says, he comes in, he says, 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 they. 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.
- [35:27]
Don Blonde
Yeah.
- [35:27]
Reby Hardy
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 show biz family. That's just sort of how it is. You know, A lot of people done.
- [35:37]
Don Blonde
A reality show on you guys yet?
- [35:39]
Reby Hardy
We're actually talking to a bunch of people now, but I don't want to.
- [35:42]
Don Blonde
Jinx anything, but, like, if not, I'll produce it. Production company. That shit would be amazing, dude.
- [35:48]
Reby Hardy
I. I agree. There's so. There's so many different things that are happening at any given time that I feel like are weird and different.
- [35:54]
Don Blonde
But, yeah, I hate the whole reality show thing because it takes. Takes forever for the networks and, like, the filming, the sizzle. We've been doing it with Chelsea handler for. Since 2018 or. When was it? When did we meet her? Yeah, 2018. And it is a process, dude.
- [36:11]
Reby Hardy
Yeah. 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.
- [36:22]
Don Blonde
That's what I just did with me.
- [36:23]
Reby Hardy
So I'm. It might end up being.
- [36:26]
Don Blonde
I'll help you. We'll talk about it whenever we're done with this interview, like, for real.
- [36:30]
Reby Hardy
Thank you.
- [36:30]
Don Blonde
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.
- [36:35]
Reby Hardy
We would be down. Yeah, we. We would love that.
- [36:38]
Don Blonde
I'll talk to you about it after this. But, yeah, so, okay. So you guys still. Are you still wrestling or. No, no, Matt is still wrestling.
- [36:47]
Reby Hardy
He is? Yeah.
- [36:47]
Don Blonde
That's crazy. That. How long has he been in the business?
- [36:51]
Reby Hardy
Do you want to come say hi?
- [36:52]
Don Blonde
He's eating. He doesn't have to. It's okay. Yeah.
- [36:55]
Reby Hardy
31. 31 years.
- [36:57]
Don Blonde
31 years. Like, that's insanity. But do you. You think that your boys are gonna follow in his footsteps?
- [37:05]
Reby Hardy
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 super season. Thank you. And, you know, it would say, what do you want to do in Europe? And it was always, rusta, Rusta, rust. I feel like the older one, which is the one that was on TV, he literally had a match on TV when he was 1 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 jiu jitsu 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 make sense. But at the same time, I'm like, I've been there. I know what it's like, and that scares the out of me.
- [37:58]
Don Blonde
So, yeah, just gonna.
- [38:00]
Reby Hardy
It's. It's.
- [38:00]
Don Blonde
Whenever that comes, you guys will deal with it as it comes.
- [38:04]
Reby Hardy
I. I guess I don't even want to think about it, honestly.
- [38:07]
Don Blonde
What if she is like, I want to be the wrestler.
- [38:09]
Reby Hardy
No, hard.
- [38:11]
Don Blonde
Gothic baby. The wrestler.
- [38:13]
Reby Hardy
I'm sorry. I let her have complete body and personal life autonomy. Until then, the. You are.
- [38:19]
Don Blonde
Yeah, like, no, you're not doing it, girl.
- [38:22]
Reby Hardy
I've been there. Oh, you don't want this.
- [38:24]
Don Blonde
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?
- [38:41]
Reby Hardy
I would love to have like, a. Like a reality series or something and make it sort of like A modern day Addams fan 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 Osbornes 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 all 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.
- [39:17]
Don Blonde
Extremely wholesome.
- [39:18]
Reby Hardy
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 two, like, just share the. The good parts.
- [39:27]
Don Blonde
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 Tick Tocks, too, because he's like my husband. My husband hates to get in the Tick Tocks. And you can tell. He's like posted something the other day.
- [39:38]
Reby Hardy
And I was like, I. 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.
- [39:43]
Don Blonde
Yeah, no, Jay hates it. He always says, you can be the online Persona and I'm the 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, tick Tock. Well, Revi, 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.
- [40:04]
Reby Hardy
Yeah, just take me out on. On Tick Tock. It's at Rebbe Hardy. R E B Y Hardy on Instagram is Rebby Sky. Someone stole my name. Can't get it back. But yeah, other than that, that's it. Damn it.
- [40:16]
Don Blonde
Thank you so much for coming.
- [40:18]
Reby Hardy
Thank you.
- [40:18]
Don Blonde
Really appreciate you. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Don Blonde. I will see you guys next week by.