Faces & Feels: 177. Nathan Mowery

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[SPEAKER_02]: What it is, what's up, and welcome everyone to faces and feels I'm your host, Ralph Houston, and today I'm joined by a very special guest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a while since I've done this, but I was having a chat with this man the other day, and I decided maybe I'd knock the rust off and get back on the market again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't even do my proper intro.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't remember what it is, but we're going to talk about some wrestling, and we're going to talk about the career of the
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[SPEAKER_02]: How are you today, my man?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm doing good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm super stoked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Excellent, excellent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be interesting for me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like I haven't done this in ages, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even remember when I lie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I released an episode, but I'm super excited to speak to you today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But before we get into everything that is Nathan Mary, let's rewind all the way back to the star.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So my man, when you think about perishing what got you into it, the faces that like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: really sort of gave you the wrestling bug who comes to mind straight away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, it was like for me, like a, you know, going up at the south, wrestling is like super big, like where I'm from, show a thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I didn't get like into it until like about, maybe like 2004, 2005.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think what captivated me is like, I turned on TV and saw Matt Hardy and Edge and that whole storyline and everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the first thing I ever see on TV is Matt Hardy and Edge going off the side of the stage through a bunch of electrical equipment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was around the same time they brought back like DCW for the one night stand pay reviews.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, yeah, there's like this crazy or more violent phone wrestling, what's this about?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you of course like you can do you watch the one night stand pay reviews.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you go back and watch some the old ECW and then you learned about Mick Foley and FMW and all this stuff and it was just like a rabbit hole from there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he just starts a spiral down it right remind me what's that the Matt Honey Edge thing is that the hole like
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[SPEAKER_02]: adultery later kind of thing like the essentially the rivalry that was happening around what was actually happening in their real lives.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, and that's what made it like so interesting to me when I was just like a teenager or whatever I was like, oh, this is like real real life and it just like it's hard to tell where, you know, where the lines were blurred or whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if there was just super exciting like as like a dude, you're like, you want to see that hearty kill this guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so that's got me super into it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've been like hooked ever since now I was like 14 then.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and that's the perfect time to be saying guys like, you know, the Heidi boys and Edgen stuff because they're giving you a much more, you know, fast-paced, exciting style of wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Whereas maybe all you had seen in your peripherals were, you know, the big men of old, you know, what I mean, like, you're a whole coat and some things like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't really know what wrestling is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then you see guys like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And like you said, coming off the top of stuff and doing extreme shit, you're like, what, what the fuck is wrestling?
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, oh man, it was awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's like, yeah, so I'm Matt Hardy and then like, I realize there's other show called T&A wrestling where Jeff Hardy was on at the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, yo, Matt Hardy has a brother.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's this about?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I watch him wrestle Sambu and Abyss and right now I have like, yo, this guy's even crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're like, what if these guys tag team together?
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[SPEAKER_02]: That would be sick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was really happy about the era of wrestling on grew up and I was just so stoked like every week as a kid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's so cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was happening in that time period.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's always so wild for me because I mean, I've talked about before on the show, but I grew up in Western Australia, right, very isolated from the rest of the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I live in the, uh, in Perth, which is the most isolated city in the world, but actually grew up in a smaller place again, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I grew up in a tiny town called Dongrow, which is about, you know, four hours north of here, kind of thing, maybe further, I can't remember, three and a half, four, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and when I, like, started to get into wrestling, there was nothing, like it wasn't on TV, like you can maybe find some VHS, like a blockbuster and shit like that, you know, so it was really challenging for me to find the stuff for you growing up, like, I mean, it would have been everywhere, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it just took the right sort of spark to kind of ignite your, your fandom, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was like easier about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also do a part of like of the south where like we didn't really have good internet access.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I couldn't like I didn't get into like YouTube and all these trying to flip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was genuinely while was happening on TV at that time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was, you know, just WWE and TNA and then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Learning about ECW and all these other things through documentaries and whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd go to the FYE or whatever and buy all these DVDs and stuff and learn about more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's kind of how my fan I've got.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Until we got the internet and that's what I discovered, CZW and Nick Mondo and Nick Gage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh, Zandig or whatever, and also grew up in the era of like when Jack asks the CKY was popular.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was just, I always say like Stivo and John Zandig were just the worst influences on me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was just, I was the target demographic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just right between the eyes, those two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can say a Stivo skydick on the wall behind you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a wrapped in everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So a huge Stivo guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's Stivo and G. I guess part.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's so well, that the, once you start getting into that, how does that then work, you know, you're talking age 14, 15, you're into all that stuff?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know me and my mates were into all that, and we started doing dumb jackass stuff, and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We, you like, I need to show my friends wrestling, and my everyone was getting into it together, or was it kind of a sort of solitary thing?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because that was it, I tried to show people wrestling, and nobody in Australia knew what it was, nor did they fucking care.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it was like, I just sort of enjoyed on my own and then my dad got into it and we much a lot of stone coal matches, you know, but that was about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So was it everywhere?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is like just culturally in the south.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty popular, but just in my little circle of things, it kind of wasn't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I was like homeschooled as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're kind of like, you know, casually into it or my dad would watch every now and again, but for me, it was like the thing I was really just overly obsessed with like as a teenager that was my thing I always go to and my like comfort and everything so yeah, that was kind of like yeah, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so more so I guess it's a solitary thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, exactly, until later on, tell me about homeschooling.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's actually pretty fascinating to me because I've never literally met anybody that has, has been homeschooled before, like, do you, do you parents set up a classroom?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, do you still have the same retain that a normal school does?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Or, or your parents a bit more kind of like free flowing with constant knowledge and life skills and things like that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like a mix of all sorts of so my mom she was a actual school teacher as like a career And everything so she was retired So she already has like their credentials to like actually teach people everything and she's like I know how shit pages can be I'm gonna do this shit myself
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I could do this, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, she was, so she just, you know, homeschooled me and my brothers, and it's, you know, it's good, there's like definitely pros and cons, like, pros are like, you don't have like other people telling you what you're into as lame.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you're just super to find and watch a like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so you don't feel back, you're not like bully or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why a lot of homeschooled people end up being really weird because they, they don't get their interest bullied out of them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I love that you say that, especially like being
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like you're constantly like judged in kind of everything you do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a real tall poppy syndrome type of culture.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like you're a loser if you like something too much, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you kind of keep those things inside.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you were able to just like have your interest sort of nurtured.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And like nobody's like your brother's not going to say anything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Be on normal brother bullying stuff, you know, and who gets what they think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's what made it like that's like a big benefit of like homeschool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think like one of the cons, it's like you like, you know, the process like you don't get to interact with a lot of the kids with also the cons, you know, you don't get to interact with a lot of kids.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was like it took a while for me to have like pretty decent social skills as an adult.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was really quite really introverted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I had a hard time holding conversations and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: True.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like what didn't think of that now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, now, now it's way better now, like, so a rehabilitated social homes fully here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, what did, how do you, so you've got several kids in your home school?
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[SPEAKER_02]: How do you, like, socialize them with the world?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, what I mean, like, where we go doing like after school sports and things like that, like to sort of get out and be around other kids or how's that work?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so there we would do like this like home school group like once a week we're all like the home school families and the county would come together and and there was like this group school thing which is kind of cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's that's our impact with other kids there and you know I and being sit in the south I grew up in church so I see like kids on like Sunday or whatever in the church but like outside of that that was very middle amount of people I knew like kind of grow up and whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I mean like through like homeschool groups of church, you kind of meet people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that was kind of like, I guess how, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I got my first friends or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's fascinating to me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, it's so interesting because it's like a different kind of wide-a-leave into learning.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I found that like, you know, author school and stuff like, I really struggled.
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[SPEAKER_02]: with like just book learning and stuff in general.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sit at the back of the clock.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've sat at three hundreds of classes where I've just stared at the window.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't engaged with a teacher and things like that and I think anybody that knows me wouldn't say I'm a dumb person by any means but I definitely like this apartment where my brain just turns off when I'm in that situation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If I'm sitting in a classroom and someone's going to talk to me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gone.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have left the room.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My body may be there, but I am like that does not work like I learn through doing and doing things and stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, I mean, for you, you know, interacting with you, you know, like your mother and your siblings and doing these kind of things like must have been like a completely different way of learning, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, definitely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was cool and I kind of had a lot of freedom growing up in like I grew up next to like a a sawmill like great grandfather saw mills.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So when I'm announced like in wrestling, I'm a a building for the saw mills of east Tennessee because I grew up on an actual sawmill, east Tennessee and when I was a kid you know I'd go and I'd make my brothers or the little friends I had like we go out to the sawmill and I'd set up you know fake tables out of all the old rotten like sawmill would and I would just put
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jeff Hardy and jump off these structures and like just do backyard wrestling with our brothers doing fire tables or Being together with like tubes and our solmille so that's kind of like when I became a wrestler I was like that's what I would not like when I was a kid and just playing at the solmille pretending to be a wrestler that that is See and what do you what do you your family think about where you're at in wrestling now just not even surprised or
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it was like a natural trajectory, but I think like, you know, like as a teenager, like I was just always like I said super inspired by jackass and death match wrestling was a horrible thing for teenagers would be influenced by.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was always just jumping off of things and doing dumb things with my friends and whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So she was used to me like coming in and just being, you know, cut up or just doing something dumb.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She got a, I guess, used to it as a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Completely dissent to tell us, like, oh, yeah, this is kind of like just who he is, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they were, I guess, supportive, but when I started wrestling, like, I think my mom was really freaked out by the blood and also, like, my first match everyone was like, I get tanked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, wrapped in Wilson's doing his whole deal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And my mom was just so freaked out by, like, the devil stuff, you know, she's like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't mind a lot of the violence, but you know, it was the metal stuff that made me feel really weird.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad that you brought up tank and river.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're jumping ahead slightly, but it seems appropriate to talk about them since you mentioned them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Tour, my favorite guest that I've ever had on the show, both guys, class acts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, obviously you are currently aligned with them and with tantrum time and everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to ask how you ended up meeting them and how the covenant of the goat came around.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I think sounding there like your first match was with Teg.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He probably played a part in your development in some way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 100%.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's like, I mean, you grow up like in the south wrestling fan, you know about tank and how he's just this legit badass, just ask, kicker, yeah, death mat, so naturally, I'm a fan of tank, you know, and so, and so essentially like, you know, I become a wrestler and everything, and like, I'm so trying to like, I'm training and whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's just a company called Southern on a wrestling and Canton Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_00]: basically like there was like a storyline that was going on with tank and it's got him gunner miller it was like the main baby face take was like a heel and so basically I dressed up as rap day and I had a stragg gunner miller he loses his match and in return because I did this favor for a tank and rap day and I get my debut match and so it's me and tank in a death match so that on a wrestling and that was your debut match.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's tank in a death match, so that's the hell of a day view.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so it's like, I'm like, all right, man, I was just so I was like, very nervous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just asked tank, I was like, all right, what do you want to do?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're just like, just listen to me out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was like, shit, you know, we're calling it out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're kidding, Jesus Christ.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so that was it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all I got.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: We went out there and he just was really good at, you know, leading the mansion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He like, you know, brought his like sick allowed and cut my head and I got crazy color.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there was the first time I bladed to in my first match.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember like, being like, all right, I got to blate this tank.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to blate good and red Dan Wilson looks at me before we go out and he's just like, you're not gonna let us down with blading, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, no sorry.
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[SPEAKER_02]: just basically scalp yourself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like immediately just going big.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, if you ever look up the match on YouTube or whatever, just I got crazy color because I didn't want to disappoint Dan and tank.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's so sick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to have to check that one out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I should get you to send me the link and I can put it in the show notes as well for you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's so interesting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll talk a little bit more about those guys in a bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But let's rewind into how that you even found training, like before leading to that debut match, how do you then you're out in the world, like what kind of age you, you know, you found wrestling at 14, you started a dumb shoot with your brothers and friends, like, how do you then find real training at wrestling?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm a filmmaker for a living.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I grew up in East Tennessee when I was 19.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I moved to Atlanta to pursue filmmaking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And through just kind of being around with the Atlanta film scene, I stumbled upon working at DDP yoga for Diamond Dahl's page in his production.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that was been my job of the past like 13 years work for DDP really.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so when A.W.
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[SPEAKER_00]: first came around,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, Cody and DDP, they're really close.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, how it's kind of loans, his production crew, me and everybody, you know, it works there to help you bend yet, stray W and we kind of helped like shoot a lot of the bend yets of stuff in the early days of A, W and, uh, uh, QT Marshall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He has a school out here and, uh, the Atlanta area, the nightmare factory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I was just ran into going around filming videos of people training and getting ready for A, W. And I was just like, oh, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm only getting older and I've always kind of wanted to do this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of put some fillers out and asked QT.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, hey man, like, I kind of want to like check out the school or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's like, oh, yeah, come check it out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And at that point, I started to come friends with like Luther and at A, W and he moved to Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we ended up being really good friends, and he ended up starting to train me at Nightmare Factory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then COVID happens, and then I kind of fell out of the rhythm of going to training or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was only half committed at that point too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was going pretty inconsistently up to the night after training.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I wasn't ready for it or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I always appreciate Luther and QT Marshall for inviting me and showing me everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then my now wife, she bought me a cameo from Nick Gage, like a high for me up to go back to training and chasing my dream of being a death best wrestler and super supportive from that just fired me up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then I was at that Southern on a wrestling show as Tony Bell and I took a crazy bomb on the show and Jimmy Wayne gang was there if you remember him from WW and he was like, is that bar wire clipped?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, no, and they sees me gets thrown at the top row on to my head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, but then all when he comes back in the next show and he's like, his daughter, Jazzy Yang who's also just like, she's also an incredible wrestler that's breaking out and everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jimmy was like, hey, do chain wrestling with Jazzy and I couldn't do it because I had not to do anything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I never remembered anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so Jimmy Yang started teaching me how to wrestle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, hey, I'll, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: show you how to wrestle and so me and him kind of hit it off and I've been training.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I got to rewind real quick because there's a funny story about how you met Jimmy Wang Yang through I'm a Dallas page.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I got to tell you this, the Jimmy Wang Yang is your trainers, not the way I thought this story was going to go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why, uh, if you go on my cage matches, like trainers, Jimmy Wang Yang and Lucifer, I'm like the devil.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean Lucifer?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they met Lucifer?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, no.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They did, it works for, it works for the gimmick though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: by Jimmy Engen, the devil, so that's great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yes, so there's one time Dallas needed to be picked up from the airport, so I went and go pick them up and we're chatting along the way, dropping them off at his house, and I was like, hey, you wanna go have a beer on the back porch?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my, yeah, man, sounds great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is awesome, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Dallas, best boss ever, he's like also a side note.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He really walks this talk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's just the most positive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: like the best dude and I could never say enough great things about Diamond Dallas page.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I just throw that out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we're on his back porch and we're just having a couple of beers hanging out, talking and we end up talking about Jimmy Wayne Yang and Jimmy Yang when he was a kid would go trigger treat at Dallas's house and everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he knew him like, you know he's a little kid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's like always like a video about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you're familiar with the story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, and now, and he was, we were talking about Jimmy Yang and I was like, man, I really love Jimmy Yang, like, especially when I got into it in like 2004, 2005, where he was like on TV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now it's like, you know, this Asian rag back to you, this rules.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really like the character.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Until Dallas was like, man, I really like Jimmy Yang.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was super underrated and he was one of my favorites when I was a kid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Dallas, mind you, this is like two o'clock in the morning, he's like, oh, yeah, just calls Jimmy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is like, two way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Jimmy picks up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, why does DDP call me at two o'clock in the morning, hands read the phone and then it just me and Jimmy's I let all the phone with each other and he's like, hey, I'm like, hey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think you're really cool, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what to say.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then when I and then he ended up at that, so that on a wrestling show that's like, hey, we're phone call.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got it too clocked as me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: like that, then we became friends, he ended up training me, so that was fun.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's fucking wild, rather.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's so funny.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's so interesting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you, um, so filming all the stuff and working with dating pay, like, were you,
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[SPEAKER_02]: involved right from the start, like back when it was like Y-R-J, and so because I, I still kind of like leaning to a bit of the daily pain work out and stuff like that, you know?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it's some really good stuff and just makes you feel wipe out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I've been there since 2013.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's post-wired G.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.
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[SPEAKER_00]: whole crew and everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was crazy for me because like I had action figures of these guys growing up and like and I just come right in, Dallas is in like Costa Rica, I come in right as Jake is like relapsing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I just show up at a really chaotic time at D.P.O.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just as this one-year-old kid just scared shitless of like everything that I'm seeing and experiencing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But
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[SPEAKER_00]: But man, just that whole experience was genuinely locked changing, watching Jake and Scott like change and just the relentless love that Dallas has for his friends and what the lengths he's willing to go to to help people that he cares about for it's just yeah it was like such a very powerful part of my life and that experience.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have this whole tattoo of my arm and
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's like a race of blade and a diamond and the stakes mouth represent that whole period of my life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a really crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure that was so intense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like a somebody who's been around people with addiction and stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It can be intense and it can be scary.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then for you, you're kind of dropped into it like as a job, but it's your like childhood heroes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was so wild dude.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was so weird, because yeah, I had, you know, DDP, Jakes, and Scott's actually figures, but I was kid, and so here I am, seeing like, I'm not seeing like the bigs, you know, larger than like characters, you know, that's the real human being, the real men behind these people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're seeing some of their hottest moments, like some of their worst moments, lowest points, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: them as their most human.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that man, that's just like a really crazy thing to take in and experience them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that whole that those years that like watching get sober and when Jake and Scott go into the Hall of Fame and yeah, Dallas like man, he's such a good dude.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so that was right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was chugging up, talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no, it was the like the documentaries and all that stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's easy to get emotional, even watching them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I wasn't even there for it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And like Dallas comes across a sergeant, genuine dude.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I've listened to hundreds of podcasts with him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and things like that, he's really amazing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, somebody that I think doesn't
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he does get a lot of his class, but really somebody special and like to see how emotional it makes you and how real that is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just like great to say because I'll be honest like since I've been doing wrestling podcastings a lot of wrestlers let me down very often.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've seen people that I've put time into that I've considered friends and things like that, you know, just really get like out of disappointing people and or decisions like my a call that affect others negatively and stuff and to see somebody like that that you look up towards a hero and things actually come through and be that for you is an amazing bro.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's it's so special and I'm I'm
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so happy for you that you have somebody like that and they like haven't let you down, you know, that's that's a cool old saying go to like, you know, never meet your heroes and I met so many people, especially in wrestling it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, wrestling things are all really kind of like messed up people sometimes, honestly, and it's like you're going to be very disappointed by a lot of people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a tiny business, you know, and a lot of people are
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[SPEAKER_00]: hustlers and they had to do that and they didn't let you down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People you really trust will, you know, you'll put them getting like screwed over whatever it's like, damn, and you didn't think that, but I can genuinely say that Dallas is one of the most genuine people in wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm always just like super supportive of him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I'm always about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's cool because he like, like, you
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[SPEAKER_00]: He encourages what I do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though he doesn't fully get it, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Cause it's like, we're talking about a guy that like, to had millions of dollars wrestling at football stadiums.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here I am rolling around in glass in a bar for like, you know, a couple hundred bucks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's like, I'm really supportive of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to get your thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he fully like, like, gets it just from his.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But he sees how happy and how passionate I am.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes he'll see a crazy spot on my Instagram and be like, hey, dude, chill the fuck out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so glad that you brought that up because that was going to obviously be my next segue into like what does Dallas think of what you do because it's obviously Though it's wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a light year away from what he did
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, yeah, definitely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, he's super supportive.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think he just like like said, I kind of just go after things I'm passionate about even if the things I'm passionate about seeing kind of just absurd and also the things that you're passionate about a directly contradict the things that he preaches about body health and taking care of you just like flying for a glass.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The irony of being a guy that works at DDP yoga, but I'm also a death match wrestler is pretty crazy because it's like, I do DDP yoga.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So my back is in really good health, but I also take crazy bumps, so I feel like I'm balancing it out pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was about to say you could be like, man, if I wasn't doing DDP yoga, we'd be doing this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, DDP, I'd be screwed, DDP.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's already burned out by this point and I wasn't doing DDP yoga in some degree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm always stretching before and after.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's a cool thing because, you know, being the editor, like one of the editors at DEP Yoga, you, you see all of the moves and workouts over and over and over again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you, it's almost muscle memory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can sit there and do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like it's like, oh, my lower back, sorry, I know exactly what position I needed to get into.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I can work that on that for like 15 minutes until that's like, feels better and it's amazing, like prices thing to have knowledge of.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's definitely, there's definitely things that like, I have learned through the DDP yoga system that like, if I'm having a low back issue or whatever, I can do that stretch and stuff like that and I'm like, that helps every single time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a man, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: For anybody, uh, do a quick plot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But for anybody that, like, doesn't know what Danny Pat Younger is or even you mentioned Arthur's story.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We weren't getting to it because it's documented way better than we can.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You should really look it up because Dallas was somebody that had had a whole wrestling career was really dealing with some pretty intense issues and was kind of told that he was going to have a really hard life.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he went and did the light research.
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[SPEAKER_02]: through a physio and yoga and things like that and developed his own essential method of stretching in yoga like four athletes and stuff like that and so many people in the world swear by it and there are cases of people that literally like Arthur Luke to walk again through it, it's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's absolutely awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I did a documentary about Dallas's transition from wrestler and to being DDPO goods called Relentless is a documentary you can fight for free on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I think you're interested.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know obviously I didn't know you in, but yeah, I've watched it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, it's great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so for anybody out there, there was a no-bore about DDPO.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where you need to go check it out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just go to a big YouTube rabbit hole.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a bunch of cool stuff out there, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your phone's fired, and you'll be better for that promise.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, so you made to repair, yeah, such a crazy transition.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he's just to try to do more wrestling than just like, you know, bumps and crazy stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Was your very first match, so your very first match ever wasn't with Tag, that was your first death match, is that right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it kind of went like I was like in a battle royal thing and then I did a little segment with tank and then I had that official first bench against tank.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so my first few matches were involved heavily around tank and everything and.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I was probably about 10 matches in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like I only knew like the very basic basics.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I did what was it doing a lot in these matches.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Jimmy was like, yeah, I got to teach her to actually be a wrestler, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I would not be an idiot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he, yeah, he taught me like a lot and I tried with him still, you know, every week can really try to learn, yeah, I tried to like learn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's the thing too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because when I got into wrestling, obviously, I wanted to do death matches and crazy stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to be a good wrestler first and that's something I need to go back and really work on my fundamentals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've really been putting in the work of trying to be a better just technical and traditional wrestler and understanding like the psychology that goes behind it out of format, like the matches and whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I think that just makes you a better death match wrestler if you can tell a story very well or format of match really well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's something I've really put in work on in the last like year to get better at that kind of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It absolutely matters.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It absolutely matters.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And kind of in a lot of ways in death match, it really does because it separates the really good death match wrestlers from the guys that just throw stuff around.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And also like the creativity that can come from that, applying moods and holds and using them in different ways with weapons or whatever it may be, you can lead to some really, really cool stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's cool because it's like, I know a bunch of, you know, knowing tank or rep that Wilson or Austin, my matches to like Eric Ryan or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't watch it and he'll get me very thorough feedback about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This sucked out to you this again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't just, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Throw notes out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's cool.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's so cool.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that you can get that honest feedback from people that you can trust.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Eric Ryan is one of the fucking best to do it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When I first started like really getting the ICW and things like that, you know, I was on the podcast and I used to do reviews with the like great SPO and Jeremy Nicarcin over it, um, I've got your five stars and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'd just like team up and do stuff and I was a bit critical of Eric Ryan, which seems fucking insane to say now, but.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was going through a lot at the time, and I told him this, like, he was on the show and we had a conversation about it, and I was like, this is what I felt about you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it wasn't about his in-ring stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was his character and his face and how he was into it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he explained that the injuries he was carrying at the time and all that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, and then after he had some time off, and then he came back, and then he came to Australia.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I watched him wrestle in Australia live from the front row.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, this might actually be one of the best death mattresses I've ever seen in my life.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it...
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[SPEAKER_02]: unbelievable, the intensity, the intention, like just everything he's fucking unbelievable, which I then also told him, I was like, I honestly think you're one of the best, but there was this era where I kind of, I wasn't buying it and he was like, this is why I'm explaining this, introduce with his hands and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the fact that he's somebody that you can rely on, I doesn't surprise me because he's
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[SPEAKER_02]: a sweet, sweet boy, but like he's just going to have so much knowledge for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm like just stoked that he even gives a shit about what I'm doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like we had a match in ICW and it was really cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I learned a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and that's a cool, a lot of like the people that I really walk up to, people like you have body Beverly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I love just the really handy hitters like this, not really bad as type wrestlers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I always like want to get their opinion and how to like, I want to be, you know, I want to be more like, you know, body Beverly or tank or Masada or Eric Ryan or just the
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[SPEAKER_00]: I always try to get their perspective and, you know, I try to be coachable and learned as much as I can, you know, so I want to be good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not getting my feelings hard if people are going to tell me I suck at something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, but that's how you learn right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like you've got to go through it, and especially in something physical, you know, physical repetition and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I imagine that you need a lot of that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't believe I'm about to say fucking Eric Ryan, Russell, and Japan in just a few weeks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's going to be, yeah, I think he's wrestling to Kate, he's got so many matches, but seeing him into Kate or in Japan, it's going to be fucking nuts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, yeah, I haven't seen him wrestle in so long.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't seen him wrestle in so long.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we discussed how you end up having the debut death mat for tank and stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How does the whole cover of the goat thing come about?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because obviously tank is now taking a step back and you're coming out with Dan, which is killer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The rev, how did that whole stable vibe come about?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah man, so you know, here like it like in about 21, 22, I was just getting my ass kicked by tank on the rug, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was just like, you're just walking all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we have this match at this bike or alley and like North Georgia mountains, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like, and it's being tank again and being to be again and like Dan and tank or like, you know, we really like this like Nathan duty as like a cool little
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[SPEAKER_00]: The devil's rejects from their like original stable back in like in W.A.
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[SPEAKER_00]: wild side.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, he would have fit in with that whole vibe and
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[SPEAKER_00]: They kind of wanted to start like a new faction kind of like a modern day that was rejects like a type thing and so yeah, that was one of the first people they were like yeah, we got to get you and then another guy and CJ Lawler at TW we have a new guy and so we were the first recruits of coming up to go and yeah and then just tank and Dan taken me under their wing and you know tank is like the kind of wrestler that
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I want to be at just want to be just like this badass southern ass kicker like tank is very feared and strikes heavy and when people are like, you're wrestling tank.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're just like, all right, I got to get ready.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that's the, that's what I want to have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to have that effect on people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, so I just really look up to that kind of thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How do you, as a, as a, a wrestler, I guess, like besides having good matches and stuff, like the thought process and stuff that goes behind it, how do you set about, I don't know, trying to set yourself apart and maybe engineer like that match or moment that,
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[SPEAKER_02]: define to a defines as such a fucking heavy word, but you know what I'm saying like because a lot of a lot of made men, you know, kind of have that moment or or thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think it's just a natural thing that eventually comes or I mean everything in wrestling's at work and so there's something that you can, I mean especially being a filmmaker and stuff like that
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[SPEAKER_02]: or something like that that you can envision working towards to maybe cement that reputation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Man, yeah, it's going to hard because like, sorry, that was like a heavy question, but it just popped into my mind because I'm like, okay, like the image and now the stable's there and now tank is taking a step back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So usually in those kind of things, there's a bit of a power vacuum.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How does Nathan Mary step to the forefront of that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He may not want to, I don't know, but, you know, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's one of those things, like, somebody pointed this out at the last, like, ICW shows in China, New Year, like, tank retired from the chains, and then the very next match, I come in with red there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I mean.
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[SPEAKER_02]: For my, I haven't, I haven't been able to keep up with everything as much, and that was how I read it, right, when I watched it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, or tank retired,
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then, like, he's in the ring withbearance of like that, you guys aren't there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then it's like, he waves and then you guys just come in and it's just like, he's old news and this is the future was how I read it as a wrestling fan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's one of those things where it's like, like, I want to be like the Southern death match guy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I...
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[SPEAKER_00]: been the past few years, you know, I'm just getting started, but I really want to like elevate death mattressing in the south.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I love southern death.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love southern wrestling, you know, I want to take what, you know, tank is done and see if I see if I can take it even greater and further.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, so yeah, I think for me, it's just a, I don't know, it's a, I want to just, if I had a legacy or a goal or whatever, I think it's kind of like take what people like
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[SPEAKER_00]: and Dan have done and just kind of like make it known, make it a very prominent force in the wrestling sphere, just southern death that's wrestling and to me be the at the forefront of it, but it'll once you know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's um, do you,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you plan much, I mean, again, it comes back to the filmmaker thing, like with vignettes and promos and videos, like is that something that you continue to sort of develop and work on and think about?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, 100%.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's like my favorite part of wrestling, honestly, is like I really love just cool vignettes and promos and yeah, you know, filmmaker, that comes in handy with like shooting good promos because I already have like pretty cool, like good equipment and lights and what microphone.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a step up already.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and like I love the art of the promo and whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The first time I ever cut a promo, I texted to, you know, Jake the snake, and I was like, what do you think?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what if I wanted to just bounce a promo off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was like, yeah, first promo, I'm asking the god of like, really like, yeah, all of primacy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was, I don't know why I did that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was just like, maybe he'll give me some cool advice, but he said, like, he's like, this is good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're naturally better than a lot of other people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like, keep at it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, from Jake the snake who is like the best like sinister like dark character promo ever, you know, so that's so it's that was super encouraging so that's something I try to, you know, watch my watch Jake promos or Raven promos or whatever and kind of have that dark sinister vibe to it and the.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I like watching like, you know, brisco brother promos where it just has that unhinged southern edge to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like kind of mix those vibes together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And are you still, you still living in the south?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Are you?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I live in Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I live in a Mariana, Georgia, which is a suburb of at the Atlanta area.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, so I just bought a house here in 2019.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm enjoying it and I can't see myself living anywhere but the South, I'm a very big proud to be from the South kind of guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I drilled this hapes of like cool locations and stuff like around there, like for filming stuff, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You talk about saw mills and creepy old things and stuff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's not a joke.
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[SPEAKER_00]: holding some whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, it's prime for great, you know, backdrops for promos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How long I was going to ask you, I saw you as we were kind of, uh, take this up, you know, I was doing a bit of research and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know you're a married man, like I am.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was going to ask you how it is being like a husband and having a wife when you're a death mattresser and do they support it, but I mean you answered the question right at the start that she encouraged you to take getting into training and to pursue it right from the beginning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was like a really cool thing like my wife, Michaela, you know, she, she, she like really encouraged me because she saw a happy I was pursuing like wrestling and doing the few things with tank and then I was like, whatever, maybe it's not for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, I'm 30.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm too old if you do it whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then she was like, really, because she's like, no, I saw happy we were.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She got in that Nick Gage came me up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She really pushed me to kind of go back and she's like, no, go train with Jamie and like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: going to learn to be wrestling and pursue it, you know, and it was cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So she's super supportive even in the times where I do something stupid and like I almost went out and filled a Knoxville Tennessee and we had to like, and I was like bleeding out and driving to the hospital and she was like, what's still like, she's like, I know you like you love it and she was like freaked out but she's just been super supportive and she she's a filmmaker herself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So she's
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[SPEAKER_00]: So film the matches, and we're in the hotel, she's picking glass out of my body, and in the match that I had, like, hood foot, which was like, my gnarly match, and then got a lot of eyes on me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I had some friends, film maker friends, kind of filmed behind the scenes, and then that, where it's on in the back, and I'm just, you know, bleeding my ass off, and then my wife comes up to me, and she's crying, and I'm like, oh, she's super freaked out by the match, but she was crying because she was so proud of me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's true.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's so, so amazing man, I'm so happy with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's awesome.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's cute.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought I was worth noting because yeah, you were like, she actually encouraged me to do the wrestling things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a little bit of a different thing where sometimes, you know, partners can be like, you know, I don't want anything to do with it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't really like wrestling.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's sort of the separate part of people's lives, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, for sure, she'll come with a quiet issue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be like, what do you think of this match?
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's like, I didn't think this is cool or she'll come up with ideas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, what if you use this as a weapon or like, what you had like cool golf chicks that come out with you and they have like, tubes or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like hell yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're like, you're like, you're like, really cool ideas.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm just about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's kind of what users are racists and for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because she's like a super creative person too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So she'll tell me what was good and she'll be on and she's also a very just blood person So she'll tell me if I suck or whatever or you know, so or she'll tell me if I did good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's I love the honest feedback I surround myself with very honest people that seems very clear like you have quite a few people giving you very honest Big back
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, I was just going to say that it speaks to your character, I think, that you can receive all of that feedback and use it and not be the kind of person that is driven by ego or shuts it out or it's got to be my way or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's very open and I feel like that being teachable can only help you succeed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, definitely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's been times where especially when I first started early and coming up to go there's what definitely one instance where I absolutely Shit the bed of the match.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I did awful and then I was getting in the back and I was like, I was so green.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I think that went well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It did not go well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I, they were like, you know what Nathan can really take, take like a tongue lashing from us or whatever, so I think that made them was, you know, respect me more or got cooler with me or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they like showed you adding you know, you're not given it like I'm upset.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so sorry.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're like, that's interesting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me tighten notes on the things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I say, you know, they care.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I've seen them being tens of people and then, you know, people will get freaked out or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they eventually quit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like, come on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that about tank and Dan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They'll just tell me if I suck and they'll tell me what I did that was cool and yeah They're just a baronist super blunt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've chewed me out a couple times for being stupid in the ring Like and it's good, so they but it's always it's always from a place of love or whatever and I think
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[SPEAKER_00]: just kind of like, they've really kind of shaped me be the kind of wrestler I am now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I appreciate, I appreciate the rough times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so I really made me better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I really respect Grand and Tank for that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So cool man, that's so cool.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How was the, it's fresh in my mind because I just watched it last night, but how did you feel and how was the feedback from the mattress slack?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was great, you know, it's like a somebody that, you know, that's like a bucket list match for me and he didn't have that match with Danny like in New Jersey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was like his ICW return match, like official, I see, which is super crazy and awesome to me, you know, so, yeah, it was the really good feedback, everyone seemed to really dig it, you know, we, we just spot the end where we played around some fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love making people nervous and fire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was a lot of fire.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There was a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm lying there on the stage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Schlags spray as I don't kind of like, it's a pretty good match for them there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was dripping.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, that thing is going to line up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the idea was, you know, to ignite him and we're both on fire and these sweets, me and starts off and elbows on me, chaotic and I think it was cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, it kind of went as planned to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I loved it because it was chaotic and messy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it would have people questioning, like, is this real?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is that a barge is what happened to you?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Or whatever, you know, there was so much going on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, he was like, had you on the ground in your niche, just like, still blazing away?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I didn't even attempt to put it out because I've been on fire so much that I kind of know how long I could be on fire So it's one of those things where it's like I'm burning I know I'm gonna be okay But I can feel the energy in the room everyone's bubbles pucker and off and getting nervous cuz like I'm still on fire And I just love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love making people nervous while fire
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, so many amazing tidbits from this, this is to be so far, but the quote, I've been on fire so many times that I know how long I can be on fire as I'm like, insane thing to say to human being.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have way too much experience about being a fire.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Way too much about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When you talk about being on fire too much or bleeding too much, when you spoke about the, when you feel like you're playing how to go into the hospital, what had happened?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this was a Knoxville, I think three years ago, and I was in this tournament.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: My opponent like after the match was done it was honestly it was just like it wasn't a good match.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was really happy to the match and after the match is over my opponent gets a two randomly and just He hates me with it again, and I wasn't expecting it and it's nice and super deep.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was like almost like a turning of water bottle upside down in the water, which was pouring out really fast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's such a dumb white again, it was well like some stupid like that somebody else did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's so whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was it was stupid.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was pissed and then like there was a wrestler there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His name's Danny only and he was like a field medic in the army.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he made a turn to get for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Keep it from bleeding out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fuck him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're driving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got to go the hospital and then I'm we're going to the hospital and I'm trying to tell my wife, okay, like, hey, can you film this and be sick footage and she's like, no dude.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, she's like bugging out because I'm bleeding to death and like my man in her bombshell that that's with me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's like a photo and a hung up of my hallway where she's like holding my arm up in the car to make sure I'm not just bleeding out and one of the wrestlers otherwise drove me to the hospital and my wife is so freaked out by the time I get there like I couldn't feel the lower half of my body it just was just numb and tingling and.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just show up in full gear, covered in blood.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just walk in the ER room, people are freaking out because I'm just, this Charles Manson looking do cover and blood and like, people are bugging out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I imagine you'll completely calm about the entire situation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have a scarier for everybody else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like, hey, I need help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they were just like, oh my god, this is like a stab victim.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got to get them in the back or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They thought I got stabbed at a football game or something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I was like, don't, I'm just stupid, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I just, I just, this is one of the different fun Saturdays.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're like, working like, why?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just lying there and then like, I'm getting stitched up and I had a wrestle pool at a bike rally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, it's some kind of promo who like, in the hospital bed, we like on a kicker ass, they're excited and cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it was fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, my wife was just about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it was all good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: fuck it out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What do you even say to that fucking dude right like because it's an accident he's kind of him carried him but it's also sort of after it's all done like it must be frustrating like it's you know that's a rough situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a poor super yeah that didn't happen so very pissed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah and it's like constant time and and all that stuff and scaring everybody and yeah that's one of those things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember when I had slack on, I had slack on for episode 100 and he told me about going to hospital.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's been so many times and isn't basically a field medic himself at this stage and he's like walking and they're like freaking out because obviously eight slack looks like he looks at this thing and they're like, oh there's the you probably think he's gone through all windshield of a car or something like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, don't worry about any of this stuff
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll deal with everything else.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Cheese, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sounds all right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And like the nurses are getting selfies with him and Chip, because it's just like the craziest thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're just like, yeah, cheese.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Man, it's wild.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Does the...
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[SPEAKER_02]: how was like the aftercare because obviously in the moment and in the energy and the adrenaline stuff and these what it is and you're going to do crazy stuff but it's the aftercare the absolute worst thing or you would appoint where you're completely disincentaged to that took.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I run off Miller-Light super blue and namal sprayers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just hope for the best man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I do have like a lot, it's it's it's like I rarely go to the hospital.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I only go to the hospital
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For me, you can get my with kind of glue and your stuff shut or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm a big proponent of super glue or liquid bandage and I'll just kind of butterfly my wound shut or whatever and that usually does the trick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I do a lot of like self medication type things, which is super glue and whatnot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I try to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's like, it looks and they heal a little bit gnarly or looking, but it also saves you $1,000.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's kind of just the trade you have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it looks cool.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, it's about just like plush your death man trust me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're supposed to have scars.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, what are you going to do?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, scars are like tattoos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They just make you look more badass.
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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Goal and shave.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, tell everybody what you've got coming up and
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, so, yeah, lots of stuff going on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can find me like AdNate and Mowery on everything on Instagram, X, you're gonna be able to Facebook, I'm pretty easy to talk to you and find.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do a show called The Blood and Honey series and Atlanta Georgia, it's my own death match company and we're coming back April 25th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So make sure to check out the prior episodes up on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have a YouTube page where I upload a lot of my matches, especially with my wife being a filmmaker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have a lot of like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: extra angles and footage and content, up on my YouTube for free that you can go check out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, go check out my YouTube, check out Blood and Honey, and follow me on all the things and watch me bleed for your entertainment.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's amazing, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I gotta say this interview, when places that I never thought it was going to go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have really enjoyed speaking to you, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate you making the time for me on your, what is it, Sunday evening there?
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[SPEAKER_00]: At Sunday, it's like almost nine o'clock.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They still got your whole evening left to, so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know, I've got no flowers to hang on out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is great, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for your time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I really do appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll get you to send me through the links and things like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we can put them in the show notes for the crew out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then you guys can follow it and figure out everything that's going on with Nathan
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is sick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't thank you so much.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody out there, thanks for listening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for tuning into this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know this feed has been a little bit quiet for a while, but I feel like this is a great one to come back on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm really excited.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I am about to go to Japan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be at the ICW shows and stuff there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So everybody keeping eye on the feeds for stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm sure I'll be back with different shows.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, it's for an hour.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Excellent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And everybody out there, remember it's all about peace, love, and pro wrestling.
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