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Busted Open

Laurinaitis Family Talks the Truth About Road Warrior Animal

Busted Open

SiriusXM

Mark Henry, Professional Wrestling, Nxt, Njpw, Dave Lagreca, Tommy Dreamer, News, Leisure, Sports, Wwe, Sports News, Ring Of Honor, Aew, Bully Ray, Wrestling

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dave LaGreca & Tommy Dreamer are joined by the family of Road Warrior Animal, Kim and Lindsey Laurinaitis, who speak the truth after the A&E bio, plus, Don Callis joins the show ahead of AEW Double or Nothing.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Busted Open podcast.

0:02.5

This is Dave Legreca.

0:04.1

On today's episode, myself and Tommy Dreamer talk to the family of Road Warrior Animal, Joe

0:11.3

Laurenitis, Kim Laurenitis, and Lindsay Laurenitis.

0:15.4

They set it straight on the A&E bio of Road Warriors.

0:21.0

Also, getting you ready for double or nothing this weekend with AEW, Don Callis

0:26.6

joins us right here on the Busted Open podcast.

0:29.6

This is the Busted Open Podcast.

0:34.0

The family of Joe Animal Lorenitis, and that is Kim and Lindsay Laurenitis, wife and

0:41.2

daughter of Road Warrior Animal. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Appreciate your time.

0:48.1

Oh, thank you for having us. Good morning. Hi. Nice to see you both.

0:55.4

You too.

0:57.0

Okay. So let me start with you, Kim.

1:00.5

So the A&E biography, you know, and by the way, I think from watching it, Animal was definitely put in a very positive light, I felt, like in the

1:13.4

biography itself. But I know that you went to social media after it. And you were very upset and

1:19.9

very angry because your side of the story was never told. And a lot of facts you believe were definitely wrong that they put into the biography. So

1:31.0

the floor is yours. You know, after watching the biography, you know, what were the main pieces of

1:37.3

what we saw on A&E that bothered you the most? It was kind of a combination of things. First of of all i want to apologize for going off on social

1:47.2

media the way i did well you used all caps so you know you were very angry because you used all

1:52.9

caps i know i've gotten backlash on that a lot um but it got to the first part is i didn't even know that there was going to be an episode.

2:04.9

The fact that I found out when the Von Erick's episode came and I saw their picture advertised on it, and I started questioning it then.

2:14.3

I was contacted last year in February about a biography coming out.

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