Welcome to the Busted Open podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself, Nick Nemith,

and Natty Niedhart talk to Matt Hardy. And you don't want to miss this conversation right now on the

Busted Open podcast. This is the Busted Open podcast. Somebody who is a legend, somebody that's been a great friend to this show. Matt Hardy joins us here in studio. Love Matt. Thank you, Dave. And it's very good to hear from you, Natty. I'm so proud of you and the way you've been killing it. Something you brought up there, you talked about everything as momentum. It's so cool that we live in a time right now where you can step away from WDB and do something on the outside and get buzz about your name and people are talking about you. You know, that's one of the really, really cool aspects of social media and the internet today because this stuff catches fire and you get hot again. You know, you're a hot act automatically. It's real cool. And myself and Jeff, we've kind of had the luxury of doing

that at TNA as well. And I'm not going to lie, even when TNA was really getting hot, the guy who started that whole movement was Nick Nimith. The guy sitting right here to my right. I mean, he was the first guy, came over, a very credible guy, was the champion. And that's when things started picking up. Business started picking up. And we're very happy to be here in New York last night to the AMC up front and

it was amazing the reception was great and of all the trailers they played of all their new programming

and their new shows and and like different series that were movies and now it's going to be a series

T&A got the biggest pop in the room last night which was very very cool which I love to hear

that is great no and Matt is right when he talked the biggest pop in the room last night, which was very, very cool, which I love to hear.

That is great. No, and Matt is right when he talks about, like, Matt and Jeff, like, like,

especially when you guys, you know, stepped away from WWE, like, Matt, you were building shit on your own. You know what I mean? Like, that's the thing is that, like, whether you're in

WWE or TNA or wherever it is that you are,

like you guys understand about like with social media these days.

Like, and just social media in general, we have the ability to build everything.

You know, and it does catch fire.

Like guys like Joe Hendry, for example, like Joe Hendry was a big part of TNA, of course.

And like you look at what he built part of TNA, of course. And like,

you look at what he built that caught the attention of upper management in WW. Like, Matt, you, you were doing, you were so ahead of your time with social media and with like the internet and

YouTube and building all that stuff. Like talk a little bit about what inspired you to do that.

Well, I, you know, I've tried very hard to be ahead of the curve, trying to kind of stay on the pulse of pop culture and society, whatever else. I got to tell you, whenever I did Matt Hardy version one, I was so happy because when Jeff and I first separated, like when we comfortably separated and we were going to be on different shows and Jeff was a babyface on

raw and I was a hill on Smackdown and I got to do Matt Hardy version one that was much more

in my lane to a degree it was like character work that I got to be over the top a little delusional

full of myself where when it comes to being the Hardy Boys I mean Jeff represents he is the

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