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Open Mic 33: Lashes & Lariats
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In this episode, Marco sits down with the multi-talented Lucia Marte, known as Lashes & Lariats on Instagram and TikTok. Lucia is a wrestling content creator, cosplayer, and makeup artist who has captivated fans with her incredible wrestling-themed cosplays and insightful commentary.
Join them as Lucia shares her journey into the world of wrestling, which began with the iconic Hell in a Cell match between The Undertaker and Mankind. Discover how she balances her demanding job with her passion for content creation and cosplay. Lucia also opens up about her love for deathmatch and technical wrestling, highlighting her admiration for wrestlers like Zack Sabre Jr., Bryan Danielson, and Kyle O'Reilly. We also get her thoughts on the current state of women's wrestling and the importance of giving deserving wrestlers the spotlight.
Don't forget to check out Lucia's amazing work on Instagram and TikTok at @Lashes&Lariats, and follow Marco at @themvpmarco on all social media platforms. Enjoy the show!
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Transcript
Introduction to Open Mic and Marco's Social Media
00:00:37
Speaker
Welcome, everyone, to another episode of Open Mic with the MVP Marco. I am, of course, your host, the MVP Marco. Do a quick intro, obviously. You want to check things out over on chickfully.com. That's where you'll find
00:00:47
Speaker
Who the hell told you tonight was open mic night?
00:00:53
Speaker
everything chick fully show related. You'll find this show open mic with the MVP. You'll find obviously the flagship show chick fully show, as well as the goal line, which is our sports oriented show. I'm not on it. That's run by Seth and
00:01:08
Speaker
and Jordan. So definitely check that out. And then you have the Chick Foley show, which is, like I said, the flagship show. That's where you hear everything. And don't forget, also follow me at the MVP Marco on pretty much everything except for TikTok. For some reason, I think someone either took my name or I signed up for it and I forgot that my name was there. Now it's like the MVP Marco underscore. So that was my mistake or someone's just mean and took my name.
00:01:34
Speaker
Anyway, definitely check out our brethren, as we like to call them, the Pod Foundation, the Turnbuckle Tavern. I'm also on their feed. We do a show called The Rawdown every Tuesday night at 9 on Patreon. It's live, myself and J-Bone, who also runs a show called Coming Down the Isle. Definitely check that out. And we also have the Extra Cooler show with Nick, Extra Cooler, and Matt and the rest of the gang. Definitely check those guys out.
00:02:03
Speaker
And that's pretty much it.
Guest Introduction: Meet Lucia
00:02:05
Speaker
That's all I wanted to get all that stuff out of the way before we get to our my my guest, my special guest for tonight. So I'll just bring her on. No need for introduction for for me, for what I've seen anyway, she's she has a multi talented. Obviously, you know, I wouldn't have them this person on if they weren't multi talented. So let me bring her on.
00:02:28
Speaker
Hello, you flatter me. Oh, man, won't you introduce yourself? Let everyone know your name and why you're here. All right. Hi, guys. My name is Lucia. I go by lashes and lariats on Instagram and TikTok. But also Lucia does I have two pages.
00:02:51
Speaker
Um, I am a wrestling, I'm on a wrestling podcast myself. Um, but kind of just like a wrestling, you know, content creator. There we go. And, um, I also do some cosplay things like that. So, and I'm a makeup artist as well. So lots of stuff.
00:03:09
Speaker
We'll definitely get to that. Cause I, I did not know, say if I follow your lashes and various page, but I did not know I seen like in your bio, it says evil twin. And I was like, Oh, let's see. I was like, who's, I was like, she has a twin. So I click on that and that's your other, your main page, as we say. And that's obviously like your, your more personal. Yeah. And I was like, Oh, I was like, this is, this is interesting. Cause I only, I mean, I only known you from, you know, going through my, uh,
00:03:35
Speaker
you know, my feed where they, you know, they throw people in there that you might be interested in. And
Lucia's Wrestling Cosplay Journey
00:03:40
Speaker
obviously I follow a lot of cosplayers, a lot of wrestling oriented, you know, accounts. So you popped up. I think the first, one of the first things I seen was your, uh, Mick Foley or mankind, um, cost me that you did. And you, I got to ask you, so how did you, did you do that from the ground up that that costume? How did, how did that, how did you, uh, create that costume?
00:04:04
Speaker
So I actually got the mask, um, as a Christmas gift. So that was my, that was my only Christmas gift and it was the best one ever. So I would agree. It was my favorite. So, um, I got that. And then I was actually, um, so I did it at blurred con and I was like, I need to do like another wrestler. Cause I was like, I was going to do, um, right. You Piper. And, but I was like, that one's going to be kind of like,
00:04:32
Speaker
something cute, you know what I mean? But yeah, I was like, I got to have a really good one. And then I was like, wait a minute.
00:04:42
Speaker
I have a mankind mask. I'm like, let me, let me, let me see if I can get it in. It took me forever to get it on. Cause my hair got stuck in the Velcro. Um, but, uh, figured it out. And then I'm like, okay, it's going to be hot. Let's buy some shorts, get a button up. You know, one of my socks.
00:05:04
Speaker
I think you're the third woman
Lucia's Wrestling Inspirations
00:05:11
Speaker
that I've seen with Bic Foley like Matt. So the first one I've ever seen was obviously Sheena Chick Foley. That's pretty much where the whole origin is.
00:05:22
Speaker
Mick Foley based. And then over the moon cell, who I just interviewed, she also, if you go to her page, she's, she's a wrestling cosplay as well. She also, as a man, you're the third person, you don't really see many ladies doing the Mick Foley or mankind cosplay. So you're like one in three that I've seen.
00:05:41
Speaker
So I mean, I mean, there might be more out there, but you're the only, you're the third one that I've seen do. And it's, it's a hard one to pull off. That's the other, that's the other thing is, as you actually just kind of mentioned there, it's not a, not an easy cosplay to pull off at all. Although I didn't have to put on any makeup and I did not have to do my hair at all that day. So that was actually a pretty good day. Just getting my hair out of the Velcro was like the worst part.
00:06:05
Speaker
you kind of probably just pulling your hair like like he did back in the day we just after the match was rippus yeah pretty much that's basically what it was yeah um now i see that you you mentioned obviously you know ronnie piper and there's other obviously other uh causeways that you do um
00:06:22
Speaker
I love the bull nacana one that you did there with the the face paint. That was pretty awesome Because you kind of mentioned it you do other Yeah, I mean you don't just do wrestling cosplay you do other cosplays as well How did you like where where did that idea come from? Like did you start with wrestling cosplay and then work your way outward
Creative Process and Artistic Skills in Cosplay
00:06:44
Speaker
or was it you know outward and then worked your way into wrestling and
00:06:48
Speaker
So funny enough, I am actually one of the newer wrestling fans. So I did not grow up with wrestling. My parents were like, nope, this is way too, you know, you're a girl and, you know, go do ballet and all that other stuff. So, um,
00:07:06
Speaker
But yeah, no, I didn't watch it as a child. But what got me started into cosplay was I moved from my hometown. I moved here. I'm in Charlotte and I moved from Detroit. And I was a stay-at-home mom and I was bored. And so I had never worn makeup really, wasn't really like my thing. Never had even heard of cosplay before.
00:07:34
Speaker
Um, but I did see a girl who was like dressing up in her costumes and I was like, Oh, that's really cool. Um, so I was like, okay, I'm poor. So I can't afford a costume. So I actually started out by drawing my costumes on my body and then painting it in.
00:07:54
Speaker
So then that turned into, okay, people are paying me to do stuff now so I can afford costumes. So that's where the costume started. Um, but then I would say maybe about, ooh, what are we looking at now? Like maybe, I think it's been about seven years, six, six years maybe that I've been watching wrestling. Um,
00:08:17
Speaker
I started, uh, watching and I actually only started wrestling started watching it. Like really, you know, my ex at the time he would have it on in the background and somebody and paying attention to it. But, um, I really started watching it one day. He was just going back and watching like old Wrestle manias and old like paper views and stuff like that. And he was watching hell in a cell 98. Okay. And I was kind of like, okay, yeah, this is cool. Whatever. And then.
00:08:46
Speaker
That's when the taker and mankind match happened. And after I saw that, I was like, Oh, this is my shit now. This is mine. This is mine here. I need, I need this all the time. So Mick Foley, I credit him as
00:09:07
Speaker
the reason why I'm even you know doing any of this wrestling stuff at all so ever since then from that day forward I watch wrestling like every day so that's awesome that's uh that's that's one of those things where like I've interviewed people on here before and obviously the one thing I love about wrestling
00:09:26
Speaker
is that you don't have to be there from the beginning. Um, you could, like you said, start off like pretty new. And then if you're, it gains your interest, obviously you're going to work your way backwards to see, like go a little bit further back to like, maybe you'll find out where this came from or who this person is, that type of stuff. So I don't always, I don't always think you're, I mean, obviously if you've been in the wrestling, uh, community,
00:09:49
Speaker
people always feel like you have to know wrestling from the, you know, from the, whenever it began all the way up until now. And I think that's just kind of ridiculous. I think someone's going to go way back when to like learn every single wrestler and every single wrestling move, stuff like that. I like the fact that, you know, you've seen something that interested you and it kind of sparked your interest. And that was, uh, one of the questions I used to ask, um,
00:10:11
Speaker
So just ask it now. So like, if you were to bring somebody in that wasn't a, that was a casual as a, as they call them, like a casual wrestling fan, what match would you show them to bring them into wrestling?
00:10:26
Speaker
That's the one. That's the one. I would also say maybe so.
Wrestling Preferences: AEW vs WWE
00:10:32
Speaker
So funny enough, like I was like, I didn't think there was, you know, because I didn't see many, you know, black women in, you know, even watching it, talking about it, any of that. So I was kind of like, I didn't, you know, do too much with it. I kind of just watched it on my own time, didn't really talk about it. And then I had a Twitch.
00:10:52
Speaker
a Twitch page and I would go live on Twitch, but I would just be doing makeup, you know, like it would be makeup me just talking, you know, but then one day I was like, Hey, so I actually want to watch wrestling right now. So I'm going to watch it and you guys can watch with me if you want. Like, I know that's not really the thing we do here, but you know, let's just, you know, I didn't have any violent, maybe like 10 followers. I'm like, I don't care. You know, so then, um,
00:11:19
Speaker
we started watching wrestling and then people started following and like finding me because we're watching this and like, they would be like, oh, if you like this match, you know, go watch this match. So then we go, we watch that match. So I actually know a lot of my history because of Twitch. So yeah, no, I would do either that Hell in a Cell match or I would do, there was a, oh my goodness, Minoru Suzuki,
00:11:48
Speaker
And I can't remember who it was with, but it was against Kana, Oscar. Oh, there's a gender match. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I think I actually seen clips of that on a, like, no, I mean, I post a lot of like the shortened versions of matches and stuff like that. I think I see, I think I did see that. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely a great recommendation. The crazy ass match too. Crazy. I'm a death match girl. Okay. Death match wrestling and technical wrestling.
00:12:17
Speaker
Those are my favorites. So, okay. All right. Didn't know that either. I know. I mean, what's, what drew you to, what drew you to like death mattress? Like, cause that's how they go. The first thing that, yeah, not the first thing people think. So, um, well, it really was, you know, Mick Foley and everything he's done. And it was kind of like, like when I, the re I think.
00:12:39
Speaker
Wow. That sounds really sick. I'm about to say it out loud, but the reason why I like that match so much is because he was destroyed. Oh yeah. And came back and I was like, that's so bad ass. And then he fell and I was like, Oh my God, this is amazing. Like love this. So yeah.
00:12:59
Speaker
to know none of that stuff was like even planned too because they did a uh they recently did a video together i think it was like i think what i think the anniversary is it has to be like almost like what 20 years or 25 years or something um they did a video together sitting together there you know commentating all the matching stuff and you know obviously none of that was
00:13:18
Speaker
None of those plans yet. I mean, Mick Foley wanted to climb to the top. They're like, yeah, we don't really think you should do that. Um, it's not really built for your weight, both of you guys on top. And obviously, as you've seen, um, you know, things broke and he fell through, um, and then him getting thrown off and not even remembering after that, like just going through the match without even, you know, getting back up and going and doing it again. I was like, that is so bad. I love it. Yeah. So yeah, after that I was hooked.
00:13:48
Speaker
Yeah, if you go on YouTube, there's a lot of non-wrestling fans that do reaction videos to that match. Everyone has the same reaction.
00:13:59
Speaker
It's like, they go and they go, Oh, isn't this kind of like, you know, scripted or predetermined? It's like, as they're going along, they're like, when he gets thrown off, they're like, Oh my God, what the hell? And then like, you know, and then when he gets thrown through the cage, it gets even like, it just like watching the people's, like everyone's visual visceral reactions of that match is very, uh, very entertaining. I definitely highly recommend you watch people do that thing. But, um,
00:14:23
Speaker
I want to go back a little bit to the other side of it, so technical wrestling. So who on the technical side do you like as a technical wrestler or wrestlers, I should say?
00:14:33
Speaker
Um, I'm a really, really big Zach Sabre Jr fan. I actually found him while I was on Twitch, like found him, found out about him because I was like, yeah, guys, I really like, you know how, like, when they are like doing like the wrestling moves, not like the flippy flips, but like the wrestling, you know? And they're like, yeah, that's technical wrestling. I was like, Oh, I love that. And they're like, Oh, you're gonna, you're gonna love this guy. Go look him up. So we had a whole like Zach Sabre Jr week that time. So.
00:15:03
Speaker
but I don't stream right now because I moved and my setup is all different and my work stuff is over here and too many screens for work, not enough, so just not enough room, but eventually, hopefully I'll get back to it. But yeah, no, that's how I started.
00:15:23
Speaker
Zach Sabre Jr. I love Brian, obviously, you know? Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, of course. Um, let me think. Oh, goodness. I'm gonna draw blanks. I love Pac. And I love, um, oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Why am I drawing a blank right now? I cannot. Uh, Kylo Riley.
00:15:46
Speaker
Okay. Oh yeah. They're amazing. Um, what about, do you like any, have you, have you dipped into any, any of the old school like wrestling or like the old school technical guys? Like a, you know, like a Bret Hart or, um, you know, even Owen Hart. Yep.
00:16:04
Speaker
like all of the above. Yeah. I guess you know, Sean Michaels as well. He was kind of like a mix of high flying and technical wrestling as well. So I mean, I like the ones that are like, they're down on the ground and they're all that like, yeah, high flying is cool. You know, I'm going to go toward more people with like the
00:16:19
Speaker
the technical wrestling more so than the high flag. Yeah, I did. We were doing, I think we were doing, I think on the Chick-fil-A show we were doing a recap of Wrestle Dream, A.W. Wrestle Dream, and that match with Bryan and ZSJ.
00:16:37
Speaker
like i i i mean i think i was the only one i forget i'll have to go back and listen but i think i was the only one on the show that like that was i thought that was the best match on that that was match of the night first yeah 100 yeah definitely like it yeah and it wasn't it was one of those things where you can
00:16:53
Speaker
they were entered, entered, they were doing very technical wrestling, but they were entertaining enough where you weren't even, you weren't even thinking about it. You're just like, just back and forth, back and forth. Yeah. Super matchup. Awesome matchup. Yeah. It was, uh, yeah. Zack Sabre Jr. is one of those, one of those guys. Like, I mean, I don't think, I hope he's not cocky in real life, but if he, if he isn't, he does a very good job on camera. Yeah. His name, he's the best. Um,
00:17:23
Speaker
So do you have a, do you have a favorite? Are you a, uh, do you do tribalism when it comes to wrestling or are you a fan of everything? So like, obviously, you know, there's the AW diehards and the WWE diehards and then, you know, TNA and all that stuff. Yeah. So I try to get a little bit of everything. I'll be totally honest.
00:17:42
Speaker
I stopped watching WWE when I really was like, when I first started like really getting into it, I was like die hard WWE fan, you know, then AW came and I was like, okay, this is another thing. It was never like a, I can't watch AW because I watched it. It was never like that for me. It was kind of like the more wrestling the better, like give it all to me. But I actually really stopped watching WWE.
00:18:10
Speaker
after there was so much that happened, but Vince made me stop watching WWE. Honestly, I will do it. My heart got broken so many times. I'm like, there's so many things you could do with this, this person or that person is so many people that are, you know, they're sleeping on. And I'm like, why didn't you do anything with this storyline or, or that it was so many different things. And.
00:18:36
Speaker
I would, I would, you know, watch it be super disappointed. And then the next week they would do something and maybe it's kind of promising. And then they would disappoint me again. And I'm like, I can't do this. This is like a traumatic, toxic relationship. Yeah.
00:18:52
Speaker
stopped watching any WWE and truly did not come back until he was gone, gone, like TKO had taken over. Yeah. Gone. Like that's when I actually got, so I'm actually pretty new, like getting back into WWE. I'll be honest with you. I missed the whole like, you know, tribal chief thing. I kind of missed all of it because it was all during the Vince era.
00:19:16
Speaker
You know, I know what happened I know, you know the stuff like the summary of it, but yeah, I wasn't there for it unfortunately, so I don't know too much about it like I'm not you know, but I'm an AW girl because I can get what I need there I get my technical wrestling there and I'm more of a wrestling fan than a sports entertainer fan if that makes sense so like
00:19:40
Speaker
That definitely makes a lot of, it makes total sense. I always say, uh, well, I don't always say, but, uh, Eric Bischoff on his podcast, like a while back, always said like wrestling is a buffet. It should be, there's something for everybody. You don't have to, you know, you know, like something over the other thing, you can pick and choose what types of wrestling you like. You don't have to force anyone to like your vert, whatever you like of wrestling. You can take your own thing and live in your own, you know, bubble and like that type of, of wrestling. So that's.
00:20:09
Speaker
I mean, that's what that I mean, that's how he's always trying to look at it. Yeah. Trying to I'm trying to get my son to like watch AW more, but he's not. It's not with WWE. It's obviously it's like the, you know, the bright lights and very big production. So I think he like obviously pulls children into it a little bit more. It's the sports entertaining of it. Yeah, he loves Roman Reigns out. That's what brought him into wrestling was. Yeah, not for me. Give me the match. I don't want the intro. I need the match. So, you know,
00:20:39
Speaker
He does love swerve though. He does love, uh, uh, storyline, you know? Yeah. He loves, he loves swerve, uh, an AW. Um, he does love, uh, Oh yeah. He loves a dance. He loves orange Cassidy, got him into orange Cassidy and obviously Mercedes Monet.
00:20:55
Speaker
Oh yeah, I do this all the time. Yeah, that kind of brought him into it too because he obviously recognizes her from WWE. So that kind of pulled over. So he knows something. I'm trying to inch him towards watching a little bit more. Not that I'm trying to make him a loyalist, but like open his eyes to every single aspect. Every style, yeah. Every single aspect. It definitely helps. It opens up your pal a little bit more and it makes you
00:21:20
Speaker
makes you a more intelligent. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think it makes you more intelligent. If you watch every type of wrestling you can, like you shouldn't pigeonhole yourself to just being a diode of this particular thing. Like watch everything. Like you said, when you said deathmatch wrestling, I was like, that's very niche because you don't see deathmatch wrestling all the time. Uh, that's like, I mean, what do you do? It's like, obviously you have GCW. I love it.
00:21:43
Speaker
And then in Japan, they do like death matches and stuff. I actually own a, I own the King of the Deathmatch tournament DVD from 1995. The one that actually Mick Foley won as Cactus Jack. I think him and Terry Funk were the final participants and they have like the barbed wire ropes. Yes, that's another guy. Love Terry Funk. Are you a fan of him as well?
00:22:11
Speaker
Yes, very much. Yes. They told me they were like, wait, you like because they at first it was like, I really like the guys that are wrestling, you know, told about the technical wrestling. And then something happened and I was like, wait, we got to watch this one. And like they I think they saw the excitement on my face when there was like a lot of like blood.
00:22:31
Speaker
So then it became like a, oh my God, you like deathmatch wrestling. Let's watch this one. So yeah. Oh, you must've loved that. I'm definitely a GCW girl.
Social Media Branding: Lashes and Lariats
00:22:41
Speaker
Love GCW. Whenever it's here, I'm there.
00:22:43
Speaker
You must have loved swerve and hangman. So good. Oh my God. Yes. That was a, did you think the drinking of the blood was a little too much or was it a, that's the first time I've ever seen that I think willingly. Someone out there liked it. I guess I don't know. It wasn't me.
00:23:02
Speaker
I mean, doing it willingly. I mean, like when they're in matches and like, you know, they'll take the blood and like smear it on them or something or do something like that. But like, when you willingly like, grab someone's face and like drink that, but yeah, that, I mean, again, another great match. Definitely. Definitely recommend anyone to watch that. Um, another, another question for you. So obviously you have both, both your, you know, your pages.
00:23:28
Speaker
do they differ from each other at all? Obviously you have the lashes and lariats, which is more wrestling oriented, but do you think they're too separate?
00:23:39
Speaker
Things are kind of like all in one. Um, well, I try to keep the wrestling page a little bit more like wrestling. I do understand that a lot of my, like the people who found me when it was just Lucia does before I got lashes, like up and running. When I just did Lucia does, um, a lot of those people came because of the paint and the makeup and
00:24:02
Speaker
you know, that kind of thing. And once again, I love the does match wrestling. So, you know, I might be talking about like how something was bloody and all that stuff. And I'm like, not talking about a costume. And then people are like, that's weird. Um, so I was like, let me separate them. But if it ever is like something where like I'm cosplaying or is something like that, um, I would share it on both pages and kind of just like collaborate with both pages, you know?
00:24:30
Speaker
And then I kind of have like the crossover audience too. So. Okay. Um, my other, the other thing is, uh, as far as like the, so where did you learn to, obviously, cause I mean, I had to, I had to go through and be like a, as they call it like a IG creep and kind of scroll all the way back on your, the Lucy it does page and see like the, you know, the, the makeup stuff. Like, where did you learn to do, to do that? Did that take a while to learn or did you just like one day just
00:25:01
Speaker
Yeah, I did it. I mean, I always used to like when I was younger, I used to draw like Pokemon all over stuff. So I know how to draw a little bit. I was just kind of like, well, you know, this is kind of the shape of it. I can kind of like shade it so that it looks, you know, more 3D and, you know, stuff like that. But I mean, you know, very minimal drawing skills, you know, so. Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:24
Speaker
just like, just like going through them to like, just like the, the, like you said, like the shading and the detail on a lot of those are pretty amazing. Like you didn't, you wouldn't think that you think that someone else would be doing that, but you're doing that all yourself. Like even every, every like.
00:25:40
Speaker
So when you do it, is it a lot of mirrors? Is it just one mirror? Do you have multiple? Do you have like a whole set up? Usually just one mirror, one light, you know, right? Just like this. And, you know, I might get up and go look in a bigger mirror and then walk back and finish and, you know, like that. But yeah, usually just one mirror. Pretty simple, you know. Are you afraid to do it backwards or anything like that? Because you're looking at me. I do it backwards all the time. So actually,
00:26:05
Speaker
If you look on the lashes page, I did a fire of firefly fun house where I just kind of drew like the word, like the bubble letters for firefly fun house. And then I did like, um, a fiend like on the side there. I actually did that totally backwards because the picture, I don't know why I didn't think that I could just flip it. I don't know, but I did the whole thing backwards on my chest and drew it out like that backwards. So.
00:26:34
Speaker
Yeah, sometimes it's backwards, but you know, they have this thing where you can flip the picture. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Um, cause I did watch, I was watching, I watched one of them when you did the, I think it was the sting, um, face paid for the retirement match. And I was watching it. I was like, I, I would definitely mess that up. I wasn't even like, like, how do you, I did just like.
00:26:58
Speaker
Just to have that like type of talent and not like do you ever met? Do you mess up at all? Like do you have to like oh, yeah I'll start doing it and then you have to how do you get is it easy to get off and start over again? Or do you just washable? Do it if I have to like take it all off I get in the shower rinse it off and start over. Oh Yeah, that one actually what didn't take me very long the sting one took me maybe a half hour think I had a half hour to get ready and get to the Coliseum so
00:27:26
Speaker
awesome and did you so just to continue with that did you to do the sting face paint did you do that from like memory or did you like watch like because he there's videos of him doing it himself like him doing it did you watch him do it at all or did you just know i can just watch him do it i actually um so i was watching sting videos like a while ago and i was like i like that outfit so that's where the outfit came from
00:27:50
Speaker
And I was like, that outfit had a very specific like face paint. There was like, it was like blue and it was red. And I was like, I can't really see like all the videos they have of that match. Cause so I did it from that outfit where when it was like, I think it was 86 clash of champions, I believe. And he was at that arena.
00:28:11
Speaker
So I was like, I have to do this one. I was like, I have to. So I remembered the face paint was like black and red and blue. So I was like, I have that in my bag. I was like, let me just go ahead and do it. So I kind of like the pictures and the video that they have of the match, they never get like a full like.
00:28:30
Speaker
clear picture of his face. And I knew what I was doing wasn't exactly like it. I was like, get the shape. They'll be all right. They'll be all right. They'll know what it is. So that's what it was. It was just that I just kind of made it up as I was going. But no, I just got the shape, just like the outline part. As long as that part was good, you could literally do whatever in the middle. That kind of makes sense. Did you know, how did you get the, how did you get like the pants? Did you, did you order those? Did you make them?
00:28:58
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So the pants, I just ordered the pants, like the actual like pants from Amazon. And then I haven't, I went to Hobby Lobby and just got like iron on decals and I cut it out. It's actually one of the videos. Like I cut out, like I drew it out, draw out a scorpion and then cut it out and then ironed it on.
00:29:17
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Oh, you drew the, actually you drew the scorpion yourself. Yeah. That's. So that's another like talent that I would not. I mean, I used to, when I, when I was younger, I used to draw a lot, but I, I think you have to continue drawing over the years and actually have like, I think that that's like amazing. Because besides, besides you, like, you know, um,
00:29:39
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Like I said, over the moon. So when I Casey, when I interviewed her the very first time, she does everything from the ground up. Like she like she like obviously she knows how to sew and all that stuff. So she sews her own costumes. Obviously, you know, if you listen to a new episode, you know, life gets in the way. So like now
00:29:56
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It's a lot of ordering things. But at the beginning, she did like, if you go on her page, she did like a Ricky the Dragon steamboat cosplay with the headrest, the wings and all, like the dragon wings and everything, sewn everything, like from the ground up, which is
00:30:15
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Pretty insane. I wish I had that time and that patience. Cause man, I would love to do that, but no, I just order my stuff from Amazon. I make it as simple as possible. Order, order some stuff. Maybe I can, you know, put a button on it or something. Oh yeah. Something like that. So yeah.
00:30:30
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I think, I mean, I do, for some reason I, I interview a lot. I think I'm, I'm not, I think I'm like subconsciously like fascinated by cosplay. Cause I think a majority of the people I do interview, I give it obviously you over the moon. So Chris Wayne, um, if you follow him, he's like a model slash, um, cosplayer and then the macho verse. If you ever, if you ever follow him.
00:30:52
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I know. Yeah. So that's another thing. I was going to ask you, do you know like other cosplayers there? Have you interacted with any besides Marchiverse? Um, so, I mean, I've talked to a few other creators, you know, like if I share their stuff, they'll be like, Oh, thanks for, you know, sharing. And then they might follow, you know, something like that. But like, um, yeah, I've met other creators, um,
00:31:18
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Uh, there's none in person yet. Yes. Well, no, I'm, I'm, I am not telling the truth. I have met a few other like wrestling content creators, but not the actual like cosplayers per se, but like, you know, going to cons and stuff, you know, people have podcasts and things like that. So yep. I met some of them, you know, some of the wrestlers and stuff when you go to shows and things like that. So.
00:31:44
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Would you ever consider just speaking of like macho verse? Cause I asked, uh, I think I asked every cosplay or this or who anyone that does cosplay, would you consider doing a full on like cat or like taking on a persona? Like, like the macho verse does like just macho man. That's all, that's all he does. It does different variations. Um, cause I had him on the show. I interviewed him.
00:32:06
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Um, you know, and, uh, would you, who, who would that be? If you were to like, go like, I'm going to, this is my cosplay. That's what I'm set doing. And I'm only going to do this forever. Who would that be? It would probably be Mick Foley because I can do four different people. That is very true. That is very, that is true. That is very true. Just going up to people in that costume and just being weird.
00:32:33
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And not really having to say very much was awesome. Like that was probably my favorite costume of the, no, not probably. That was my favorite costume of the weekend, for sure. A hundred percent. It was so much fun. So you stay in character then. That's what happened. When you get that character, you're like, you be covered. That's. Oh yeah. You gotta be in character. Don't even dress up if you're not going to be in character. That is true. So when you were staying, did you, were you, were you active like staying? Were you doing the.
00:33:01
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No, I wasn't, not for staying because I was just like, you know, so excited to be there for the day. There was so much going on during that time. Yeah, no, not for staying, but yeah. I try to be in costume like for the Twitch stream. I used to dress up if I could, like I would dress up and cosplay and stuff. And there was one time I did a macho man.
00:33:26
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It was really bad. But yeah, I did that one. That was a lot of fun. I've done Luna Vachon and I tried to like talk like her the whole time. It was really bad. Your voice is probably sharp. I actually lost my voice. Yeah. Good times. Good times.
00:33:43
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You could do, you could do the bowl, the condo. You kind of don't have to speak. I could. Yeah. Just like having an intimidating, uh, presence on my face all the time and like, yeah, exactly.
00:33:58
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uh actually you know because i want to kind of talk about it so that when you were there at revolution how was like the like how was the atmosphere was like was stink like were you are you like a fan of sting like a super fan or anything like that or no no no no not a not a super fan definitely have steam matches you know you know a fucking icon i'm sorry out of can i come no i'm no you can get okay i wasn't sure sorry
00:34:25
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My word, you know at work I'll say something like oh my god, I can't believe I just said that
00:34:32
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But yeah, not like a super fan or anything. Definitely have seen, you know, how do you not, you know, see a Sting match and you watch wrestling. It doesn't make any sense at all. So, you know, different, the different like phases were, you know, so cool and stuff like that, but not a huge like, I only watched Sting kind of fan, but you know, you had to dress up for the retirement, you know.
00:34:59
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But that was the atmosphere was awesome. It was like it felt different than any other like match that I've gone to like any other like collision that I've gone to a rampage or you know, whatever else that I've gone to felt different. It was more like people were excited, you know.
00:35:18
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Like, you know, they're ready to see so many people and they were all dressed up as Sting. Um, so that was pretty cool. A lot of people dressed up as Sting. Um, but yeah, no, it was, it was actually really fun. And that was actually the first time they did the meat chance too.
00:35:35
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You know, okay. That was the first time they did that. I was very happy to say that I was part of the crowd that didn't meet chance first. So yeah. That's all that's actually, that's funny. Did you start it or did you participate? There were a couple of guys in my section that were screaming meat before everybody else. And I was like, I like this. Let me join. It's contagious pretty much. That's what happens.
00:36:07
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Did you, um, do you, do you get to meet like any, I, I seen a few people that you met, like, you know, I seen on like Shelton Benjamin and stuff like that. Have you ever met like any other wrestlers? I've actually met a few wrestlers. I just, I'm not like a bragger. I'm not like, Hey guys, let's.
00:36:24
Speaker
You know, but I've actually met a few. Actually, I never posted it. I probably should. I probably will now that I'm talking about it. But I actually did Sonny Kisses makeup for an Ache match. What? Yeah. Ache wrestling. Yeah. Sonny's first, like his debut in Ache. I did his makeup for that. Let me think. I have also met
00:36:53
Speaker
I think for the most part, I pretty much put everything on there. I met AJ Styles, like I got to two sweet AJ Styles, but I don't have that video anymore, unfortunately. You know, I've done, I've like, I've spoken to like Batista before. It was online, but it was because I did like a Drax cosplay and he was like, oh, that's really cool. You know, you're really, really good at what you do, that kind of thing. He was really nice.
00:37:20
Speaker
Um, let me think. I mean, I, I, I'm very much like an Indies girl, right? I love Indies, you know, like wrestling. I'll go to like little indie shows, you know, if it's a small show, I am there. Like that sounds like so much fun. So I go to these indie shows and you meet a lot of wrestlers who are, you know, a little bit bigger now, you know, at the time they weren't like, I've met like Jake something and I've met, um, his name isn't lucky Ali anymore. It's, uh,
00:37:51
Speaker
I can't remember. He's in the next heat, but he's hurt right now. Um, I've met, uh, a few people, you know, cause these small, you know, shows, they kind of hang out after and kind of talk to people after, Oh, I've met swole. Um, I've met, um,
00:38:11
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Promise Braxton, I've met Tasha Steeles. I met a few people, but the first thing I do is not to be like, hey, let's take this picture. I'm not that kind of a person.
00:38:28
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It's funny that I create content. People will tell you all the time, like people that actually know me, they'll be like, I can't believe you actually content create because I, the first thing I do is not pull out my, I don't pull out my phone. Like when I'm at a thing, I try to enjoy the thing unless I know I have to get video and pictures and stuff. Yeah.
00:38:48
Speaker
wrestling shows, I'll take video and picture because I have people that are like, Hey, can you show part of this match? So I'll actually do it. But like, if it was up to me, honestly, I would not pull out my, my camera at all. Like I, you know, I am very much an in the moment kind of a person. So I do miss a lot of like, you know, ways to be able to like brag and say I met this person, but I miss a lot of that.
00:39:13
Speaker
I'm the same way. I always, when I've had a show, I always, I'm just, like you said, you're in the moment, you're sitting there watching it. But like, there are instances, if you are a wrestling fan, if you weren't watching a certain type of match, you'll know like, oh, I should have my phone out right now. If someone's climbing up that ladder, you might get that. Yeah, exactly. Because I went to around here in Mass, there's New England Pro Wrestling, which is like a school slash,
00:39:41
Speaker
uh, a training school, but they, they also have a chaotic wrestling, which is another company around it. Yeah. So like, um, I'm actually going to one next week, but, uh, I went to, they do one at a brewery every year. Um, it's called night shift brewery, but they do one every year. It's called owl mania. So, um, I went there, uh, it was a couple of months ago, actually. And, uh, there was a, there was a kind of like a falls down anywhere match and, um,
00:40:07
Speaker
outside of the brewery, this is big, like kind of like trailer where there was like a ladder set up. And obviously I was like, they're definitely using that. So one of the matches came on, the dude climbs up the ladder. He's, he's on the trailer. It's like, yay. Hi. And it did obviously did the dive onto, I was like, I have my phone. I was like, I had to get my phone out because I know it was going to happen. But other than that, I like, like, I'm like you, I just like sit there and watch it. You're in the front row. You get to like experience like an actual wrestling event, like an intimate
00:40:36
Speaker
type deal where it's not like a big production happening. And there's nothing like a local wrestling show. I've been trying to encourage every time just if I'm talking to somebody, definitely go to one. They're amazing. Kids, if you have kids, you can bring them as well. They're very interactive too, all the wrestlers.
00:40:57
Speaker
uh you know they you know you just play into it it's what especially if you're a wrestling fan you know you know what to do when you go there and you there's a hill you play into the hill there's a face you play into the face so exactly so much fun so much oh yeah definitely um and my other question for you would be so
00:41:17
Speaker
The name, where did the name come from? Blashers and Lariat, so it's a very interesting name. Yeah, I was trying to come up with something. So before my name, for my main page, I guess, is what I've been calling it. I don't know, my other page, Lucia Does. Before it was that, my name was Ishi Black or Asian.
00:41:40
Speaker
and because I'm half black and asian so that was like the name for a while and then I'm like I really like the like kind of quirky names and stuff like that so I've been trying to come up with something I was like I want to have a wrestling page you know when I like really started to pick up like followers on twitch
00:41:58
Speaker
I was like, I want to have like a wrestling page because, you know, everything I was doing was just kind of like on, you know, if she black or Asian at the time, it was just kind of on there. But like I realized that my page was going a little bit more like wrestling oriented. So I was kind of losing like the like
00:42:16
Speaker
I guess female, like kind of like demographic a little bit. So I was like, you know what, let's separate these. And this one will just be like me and what I do outside of this. And then this one will be like more wrestling content, you know? But I was trying to find a name for it. And I was just like, I can't think of anything that's like wrestling, wrestling related. Like everyone already had cool names, like, like Suplex and like, like they had cool names, you know? And I'm like,
00:42:45
Speaker
what could my name be and I'm like it has to deal something with being like kind of girly and like wrestling and I was like what's something that's girly and I'm like I love lashes and I'm like okay lashes or something else that's an L that's like wrestling and like lashes and like ladders didn't like
00:43:05
Speaker
flow, right? You know what I mean? So like, I, you know, lashes and larias is what I came up with. I love a, I love a good buckshot lariat. You know, I, I was like, you know, I just hilarious works. And I, I didn't, it didn't feel right at first. And then like, I kept saying, I'm like, okay, we can do that. So it just stuck. Cause I was thinking, I was thinking as you were saying, I was like, Oh, what about, uh, like lashes and leg drops? That would have been a good one.
00:43:33
Speaker
That's going to be fine. That's it. I'm taking taking lashes and leg drops. Oh, no. But no, that's that's I always I always ask everyone like there, you know, especially if they like a name like that, like what the idea behind it was, like I had a John who's if you don't go as names, gold bars and hooks. Yeah. And I asked him and I was like,
00:43:55
Speaker
I was like, what? I was like, why that? He was like, Oh, cause wrestling in hip hop, it kind of, those are three things that kind of like run concurrent with both things. And I was like, Oh, that makes sense. Like, you know, hooks, um, you know, uh, bars, arm bars.
00:44:11
Speaker
And I was like, Oh, okay. All right. That's yeah. No, it is a good, I mean, like I said, it's a, it's one of those like things where you, like, you see, and you're just like, would they come? I mean, that, I mean, I'm not, I'm probably like, I'm not the only one that thinks about it. I'm always curious as to what, what went behind the inspiration. Yeah. The inspiration behind the name.
00:44:31
Speaker
Like when people go, why do they, like, why do they call you MVP Mark? I'm like, well, it's because, I mean, it was, you know, Sheena chick Foley named me MVP. Cause at the beginning when they first, she first started her podcast before I was even on it, I would like, I was always sending in questions and things like that. And I was doing stuff for like, you know, we were figuring the figure collector. So like, I would always like help out like people in the area. Like if they didn't, they couldn't find anything and there was something in my area, I would buy it, ship it to them and all that stuff. So like.
00:44:58
Speaker
That's how the name came about. Yeah, I was a real MVP. That's what they're saying. So that's how the name came about. So it wasn't like I gave myself the name. I wouldn't call myself that, but that's how it came about. The best nicknames, the one that just happened. Yeah, exactly. So it just kind of stuck with me in that sense. So would you consider, because you spoke about going to local indie shows, and I know some
00:45:26
Speaker
some fan some content creators go to like you know get involved with local shows and stuff like that is that something you would consider doing or is that like not on your radar like not to wrestle okay no that's what i mean like not a wrestle but like you know be a valet like bring it out
00:45:45
Speaker
Yo, commentate. Yeah, I would love to. That would be so much fun. Absolutely, yes. Because I'm such a huge supporter of local stuff, local wrestling, all of that stuff. I'm such a huge supporter of that. I will go to every single thing I can if I have the time and the money for it. Absolutely, I'm going and I'm taking everybody that I know with me that can stand me at that time. Yeah, I'll take all of them.
00:46:12
Speaker
my kids have no they have no say in it they have to come like so yeah um
00:46:18
Speaker
But yeah, no, I would absolutely do that. I've never been asked, but I would love to. That'd be cool. You wouldn't step foot in the ring, right? Oh, no. That ain't for me. No. I have problems falling backwards, okay? I'm good. I can't do it. It's funny, because I used to be a cheerleader. Cannot fall backwards. I don't know what that is. I'm super afraid of falling backwards. I don't know.
00:46:42
Speaker
Is that one of the things that they like, is that one of the things you learned being a cheerleader is like falling inside? Well, I was a base, so I wasn't the one holding at the bottom. Yeah. Okay. I was firmly on the ground at, you know, most of the time. So
00:46:58
Speaker
Because I I I also interviewed Hale Liz before she she's in Southern California. So and she's like, she's you know, if you go on her IG page, she's like at every single everywhere local independent thing. And she's like part part took in some of these things like Dave Astor. Hey, do you want to and she's you know, she's hit somebody with a light to before in the head. I thought so cool.
00:47:25
Speaker
So I was like, when I had her on, I was like, what? I was like, how'd that come about? And she was like, Hey, they just, she's like, they just asked me, they're like, Hey, would you mind being doing this? And I'm like, without any practice, she was like, no, they just said, Hey, just take this and go with the ring and do it. I was like, I would not set foot in a ring without trying it first. Oh, no. Give it to me. I can do it. Trust me. I've seen enough. I can do it. I'm an expert right now. Give it to me. I can do it.
00:47:49
Speaker
I'd rather take him, I'd rather take a bump or something. Not like, not getting slammed, but like, I'd rather take a super kick or, you know, a chop or to the chest or something. The bump that Tony took, that awful bump Tony took. I think, I think a lot of us could do better than, uh, like Tony to come on, Tony, say, stay in the back. Don't go on screen. I think that's one of the, that's one of the things that I think
00:48:12
Speaker
People love AEW for the most was the back, obviously besides the young bucks. They're not on screen. You know, like Tony Khan does it, like if he comes out, he does an announcement. He's not getting involved in matches and, you know, screwing people over and, you know, doing that type of stuff. He's doing his thing in the back. He's saying it away. But then when that happened, I mean, at least he played into it when he hurt his neck. He did the draft. He hurt his neck and had the brace. Yeah. When he was on the NFL draft. Yeah. You ever notice that?
00:48:41
Speaker
He's he's a he's a owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars and he's at the NFL Draft. What the thing on his neck like. But he kept turning his head, you know, like you're supposed to like, I'm sorry, but he's just like, yeah, yeah. That's awesome. I mean, if you're going to do it, if you're going to like, you know, do the gimmick, you gotta go.
00:49:01
Speaker
fully into it I guess that's how that's how it's supposed to be done anyway that's how you that's how you're supposed to do it you gotta you gotta stick with the gimmick don't go don't break kayfabe full throttle gotta do the whole thing oh yeah definitely you don't you don't uh you don't skimp on any any of that stuff not at all
00:49:21
Speaker
And, uh, with, so just to pivot a little bit with like, you know, social media, um, influencing and all that type of stuff. Would you, I know that's like a lot of people don't like that word, like social media influence. Do you consider yourself as a social media influencer or, or anything like that? Like, do you influence? I mean, I mean, you influenced me to follow your page. I have to see it all the, like the cosplay and then the makeup and all that stuff. I was like, holy crap.
00:49:51
Speaker
Oh, thank you.
00:49:55
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I think I used to do a little bit more influencing before. Now I kind of just create content whenever I'm able to because my job is super demanding and we're actually about to go into like the busy time of the year at my job. So it's not going to be as frequent. You know, I try to do what I can. It's mostly stories for me. Like I do a lot of, I try to do a lot of stories. So like I'll,
00:50:22
Speaker
catch up with like in my stories like at work or you know if I get home and I'm watching like wrestling or something I might have like an opinion or there'd be times when like I am very either strongly against something or for something and I have to give my little opinion on it in my story so it's mostly stories not so much like the actual like posts but I wouldn't say I'm so much an influencer anymore really just kind of like a content
00:50:52
Speaker
whenever I can create like a part like a part-time content creator pretty much yeah I'm gonna try to get back more into the influencing because that was a lot of fun but yeah the job's so demanding and you know
00:51:08
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kind of had some of the time. Like, that's that actually, you actually kind of brought up my next question.
Balancing Work and Content Creation
00:51:14
Speaker
Like, how does it, you know, how do you feel? I mean, I know how it is. I have my own, you know, I have my own like personal life and stuff. And to do with this, like, how do you how do you juggle both, both things like your work life and, you know, your social media life? Um, I kind of so I kind of make like a
00:51:33
Speaker
Every Friday, I go live, me and my best friend, who also creates content as well. We go live every Friday on Lucia Does. And we just kind of talk. And that's actually where my following started. I was just...
00:51:52
Speaker
you know, bored stay at home mom that had nothing to do. And I just went online and started just talking and doing stuff and yeah, talking shit and you know, that kind of thing and you know, making friends that way. And that's really where my following came from. So I'm like, let's go back to the roots. We're going to just do this live every Friday. So we go on there. I might talk a little bit about some wrestling if, you know,
00:52:15
Speaker
someone asks about it, but basically it's kind of just like, hey guys, what's up? How you guys doing? Was it like we just talking stuff? And then that's when people kind of like, they're like, oh, this was a cool little live. Let me go see what she does. Let me go to her page. And they're like, oh, you're into da, da, da. So that's kind of how I get my people from just like that.
00:52:40
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to I want to try to do a little bit more. It's just very hard. It's you know, my job is very demanding. I'm very like busy with that. I have agents messaging me all the time and calling me and stuff. So it is a little bit more difficult to do it. And by the time it's the weekend, I'm exhausted and I'm ready to just not do a single thing. Oh, yeah. So it's very hard trying to come up with like time to do something. I really have to.
00:53:07
Speaker
schedule everything and plan everything out in advance. I can't just like I used to when I was before I had this job, I used to just be like, Oh, today I feel like painting or Oh, today I feel like putting on makeup or putting on a costume or doing this and that. Now it's kind of like, okay, in three weeks, I'm gonna have this time off and I'm not gonna be doing anything this day. I'm gonna do this. So have all the stuff ready. I'm gonna do it at this time and I have to let
00:53:34
Speaker
everybody know I am not available during this time because I'm doing this so it's a lot of planning it's possible but
00:53:44
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Oh, yeah. No, like I said, even like I said, even doing this and, you know, because obviously my show is guest oriented. So I'm working around whatever that other person is, obviously, you know, because we've been messaging back and forth like a couple of weeks anyway, and just trying to like, you know, figure out a time and stuff. So like, I'm at the, you know, for the most part, I'm at the mercy of the other person, like, yeah.
00:54:08
Speaker
They can't do it. I got to, you know, kind of try to pivot and maybe do my own thing or try to keep stuff going. And it definitely is hard. I'll tell you that just like you kind of live in almost like a double life. A double life. And honestly, like who I am online is totally different from who I am in person. So, you know, like my agents, you know, they might see me online.
00:54:34
Speaker
You know, and be like, Oh my God, I can't believe you do this. Like I don't talk about this at work. You know, like I don't talk about this. You would know I'm a wrestling fan if you know who Mick Foley is only because I have a little Mick Foley on my desk and that's literally all you would know about that. Right. So like.
00:54:54
Speaker
things like that they'd be like holy shit you do all of this like you do makeup you do this you do that like that's so crazy you know so like i keep my lives very separate it is very much like having a double life for sure
00:55:07
Speaker
Yeah. Oh man. Is it, is it, uh, yeah, I can, you kind of brought it up. Is it tough keeping this like the, you know, the social media separate from the personal, I mean, obviously, cause there's going to be people that follow your page and stuff. And yeah, we have work friends, family and stuff like that. How does that, how do you, uh, I, I don't talk about social media at all at work. So if you found me, it's because.
00:55:36
Speaker
Well, I have to give my number obviously out to my agents and stuff like that. So they might find me because on TikTok it might be like, people you may know based on your contacts and they might see me on there and be like, holy shit, that's huge. And that is how people follow me. And I just tell my agents, if you follow me, don't follow, or if you see me, don't follow me.
00:56:01
Speaker
Because it's kind of like, you know, like, this is this is my time away from work. This is my home away from work. You know what I mean? Like, I don't want you there and here. You know what I mean? Like, so I just don't follow me. If you do like keep it a secret. Don't tell anybody else, please. You know, so. Yeah, if they see the get creeped out by the the nun.
00:56:28
Speaker
They're like, that none thing was so cool. And they're like, are you dressing up during Halloween at work? And like, are you kidding me? I'm working. Yeah, no, that's, that's the other thing. They're going to be like, you want you to like dress like Mario or.
00:56:43
Speaker
So I actually dressed up as Mario a couple of weeks ago. That one where I did the Joe Hendry thing, that was because we had a Comic Con day at work. And the people who found it, found me online were like, Lucia does this all the time. She has to dress up. So I was like, okay, how can I keep this work appropriate? Because my outfits are not work appropriate when I do. Yes. I'm like, okay, how can I make this work appropriate? So that was,
00:57:11
Speaker
Yeah. That was the only outfit I had. That was work appropriate. Oh my God. I kind of, I can't imagine unless I was going to be Mick Foley and I couldn't wear the mask all day. So I can't imagine like the basket like, Oh, you can come. Can you come as a poison Ivy or, or, uh, or storm or something like that? Or, um, they think it wasn't. Yeah. I think he did. So storm, right? I think that was one of the ones I see. I did storm. Oh yeah. I did storm last blur kind. Yep.
00:57:40
Speaker
Yeah, that's that was a pretty act. Actually, if you were if they were to ask you something, obviously you're not going to you're going to pick something that's easy to do. You're not going to sit there and do the whole makeup and all that stuff to go in for. No, for that type of thing. No, that time of year, like for Halloween, that's like our busiest time of the year. So I might actually be working like a 15 hour day. I am not going to be spending an hour before putting on like paint. So no. OK.
00:58:09
Speaker
got it. And as far as you know, obviously, you know, work, social media stuff. Is there any other interest that you are like anything you're out here into like, you know, music, movies, TV? Do you have the time to do book book reading books?
00:58:27
Speaker
So I wish I had the time to read books, but I used to have a lot of time to read books. I used to, but not anymore. Um, I do find, you know, like a couple hours, maybe an hour if I can to like watch TV or something like that. So
00:58:44
Speaker
I just picked up House of the Dragon, so I just finished season one, about to start season two, probably this weekend. But yeah, I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I love Marvel movies.
00:59:00
Speaker
You know, Game of Thrones, love it. Um, but you know, wrestling is like every day. So yeah, that's, that's, that's tough. That takes up all the time. Like, so I actually take, so I try to watch PNA when I can, but I try to take like Thursdays off from wrestling. I might have NXT in the background on Tuesdays. So Tuesdays and Thursdays are kind of my like day to not.
00:59:24
Speaker
watch so much wrestling, but I always end up watching wrestling anyway. Yeah. I'm the same. I think I'm the same way. I mean, you can kind of watch this NXT and CT and AP people anyway. Cause they have like that work relationships. Seems like freaking, uh, Joe Hendry's going to be champion at some point. I don't know if he's going to be champion. He's not going to win that over Ethan page. Not that at all.
00:59:46
Speaker
I do have the fact that, uh, you know, they're, this is that they're, this is what I wanted a W to do when, when Kenny Omega, not to get into wrestling talk, but like when Kenny Omega was like the belt collector and he had that, you know, you know, TNA impact by crossover. That's what I wanted more of like that, like kind of like an invasion, not an invasion, but like a lot more bodies being swapped. Exactly. They did nothing with that. That could have been so much better. They could have had Joe Henry. Like, let's be real dude. Like.
01:00:16
Speaker
Jordan Grace main eventing like a WWE pay-per-view was insane. That was like unprecedented and definitely hope to see because I did see that you went to a show and you definitely seen John Grisham. I've seen him like three times actually. He's definitely one of the better or
01:00:39
Speaker
He's one of the best technical wrestlers out there. Oh, yeah. I can't believe I forgot him. Yes. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. He's a, I was very upset when you know, that whole ROH thing happened with him. I was hoping he would find his way into NXT or TNA or something like that. And, or maybe, you know, if he did show up in TNA show up in NXT, something like that. Cause I definitely want to see him on, you know, I want to, I want people to see like.
01:01:05
Speaker
Not that WWE doesn't have any technical wrestlers, but I think they need someone like him. Put as much emphasis on it. I think they have technical wrestlers. It's just that it's not so much about the wrestling. It's more about the entertainment part of it, which is why I don't really care too much for WWE. I'll watch it and I'll keep up with it.
01:01:26
Speaker
But everything that I watch for is the entertainment like the bloodline and yeah Wyatt six and you know Bianca and jade I'm not watching for your match. Like I'm watching for the storyline, you know, yeah
01:01:41
Speaker
Yeah. So as far as like, do you, are you into like, you know, cause you said you like death masters, are you into horror movies or anything like that? Or like, are you into, do you, because you said like, you know, obviously you love Marvel and Star Wars and stuff, but what kind of, what's your, what's your genre of movie? Um, funny enough, horror movies are a little too gory for me sometimes.
01:02:06
Speaker
I can't believe I just said that. They're a little gory. They're a little bit, it's kind of like now this is ridiculous. Why are you doing it? It's like Nick Gage to slice someone's head open with a pizza cutter. You know what?
01:02:23
Speaker
When he had that match with Jericho, um, at AW, like his debut in AW, um, that match with Jericho, that was actually either, I think it was a day before my birthday. Yeah. And it was my first time seeing Nick Gage in person. Maybe my, no, no, it was the first time seeing the Gage in person. Then I saw him again at a GCW match and, uh, he came out and there was like glass. It was so awesome. And just like.
01:02:53
Speaker
Man, Nick Gage is one of my favorites. Yeah, his stuff is awesome. But anything that's done in a movie, I'm like, oh, that's just disgusting. That's gross. That's insane to me. That's so weird. Why would you do that? This is inhumane. Like, what? But yeah, no. They're a little too gory for me. If I'm going to watch a movie, like one of those movies, I'm a mafia movie girl. I can watch The Godfather over and over and over. Only the first two, the third one does not exist.
01:03:22
Speaker
Um, I, uh, one of my favorite movies is, um, good fellas. I like the classics, but then I also like a good like psychological thriller. Those are good. What would you say? Um, what would you say is your, I want to say your favorite, but what comes to mind, what psychological thriller comes to mind? I don't want you to like kind of, I haven't like,
01:03:48
Speaker
Let me think, I haven't really watched like a movie in a while. It's usually just like TV shows, just trying to catch up on everything. Yeah, same here. It's so, there's so much like, let me think. What's the last psychological thriller that I guess was supposed to be a horror movie, but it didn't feel like a horror movie to me was Late Night with the Devil. I thought that was pretty good. I didn't see, I want to see that. Yeah, it wasn't really like a horror movie. It was more a psychological thriller because you're just not sure like what's real and what's not.
01:04:17
Speaker
Yeah. So are you one of those people that is afraid of, you know, watching those types of movies with like demons and devils and cause all like people say, if you, if you, whatever you watch, you allow it to your, to your home. Are you one of those? Okay. So I'm really usually not, but there, there's one movie that I cannot watch to this day. Just can't do it. And it's the exorcist.
01:04:43
Speaker
Oh, yeah. That's a timeless classic. It is right. And I can't watch it because every time I've tried to watch this movie, something happens. So I'm like, I'm not gonna fuck with this anymore. I'm not even gonna try. That movie is too. Obviously, it's a very old movie. But at the same time, there's something
01:05:04
Speaker
Like I'm not sure if it's off. I don't know. It's obviously it's a movie, but it seems real for some reason at the same time. It's like, it's a movie, but it seems like it's like, it's actually happening. I've never seen it. So, you know, like I've seen maybe the first 20 minutes of the movie and I have not seen anything past that because literally every time I've tried to watch the movie, something happens and it, I can't get past that first 20 minutes. It's like,
01:05:34
Speaker
Every, it'd be totally okay. Let me, let me just tell you what happened. So when I was in high school, my friends and I went to blockbuster. Okay. So we went to blockbuster and rented the DVD and took it home. And with, to one of my friend's house and we went in her basement, we watched, we were trying to watch the movie and it started skipping about 20 minutes into it. We're like, okay, it's still early. Let's go back. It's around the corner. We go back and.
01:06:00
Speaker
We get a new one, totally new one. We watched him put it over there. We went and grabbed another one and played it. And it started skipping in the same spot. So we were like, okay, nevermind. We're just not even going to watch this. We'll go get something else. So then a few years later, I was home watching TV and you know, this is before we had like cable and like, you know,
01:06:28
Speaker
on demand and stuff so i mean not cable we had cable obviously but um i saw it playing on i want to see it was like amc or something like that so it's like oh okay it hasn't started yet starts in like 10 minutes i'm just gonna watch it and you know i won't have to worry about it so i wait until you know watch the show that came on before it start the movie and it was raining outside and
01:06:53
Speaker
As we got up to about the 20 minute mark, right about the same place, my power went out.
01:07:00
Speaker
Oh boy. And I was like, this feels like a sign. I work in three. So if something has happened to me three times, I don't, I don't mess with it. So never try it again. I've literally never even tried there. Like I'm actually pretty sure we own it on, on Voodoo. I won't watch it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm the same way. I have a three strikes you're out person.
01:07:26
Speaker
um yeah i'd probably do the same thing i i haven't watched it recently i watched it fully oh very very long time ago and i don't think i've ever i don't know if it's subconsciously i don't want to watch it again but i don't feel like you have to watch it like on repeat like it's not more than like yeah i'm just gonna throw on exorcism and watch it again it's like and honestly they've done it so many other times there's so many other exorcist movies too have you watched any
01:07:52
Speaker
other type of exorcism type movies like The Exorcism of Emily Rose. I haven't seen that one but there was one pretty recently. There was one that came out not too long ago that I saw
01:08:06
Speaker
Um, and I was just kind of like, uh, no, that, that access because some of them are based, I mean, they're supposedly based on real events. I think the access system of Emily Rose was supposedly based on a real thing that will be creepy out that movie. Not as much as excesses, but that.
01:08:24
Speaker
That scared the crap out of me. Something about it, yeah. Yeah, I know that it kind of. I sometimes stay away from those. Yeah, if it could have happened. Like, religion type of movies, I kind of, eh, I'm good. Yeah. So as far as like horror movies, so would you, are you, paranormal, like ghost movies, like ones with like, yo, paranormal activity, like, are you fine with those or are those? Those never really interested me. Okay. I would think things like The Witch or like, um,
01:08:50
Speaker
Like I said, I love the classics. So give me a good Halloween. Give me Jason. Give me, you know, all of that. I'm like, definitely a classics girl. Um, I like which project and anything like that with that creepy out or no.
01:09:07
Speaker
That didn't really do it for me either. I wasn't interested. Like the found footage movies don't really do it for me. No, because they always there's always something in it. And I'm like, that's stupid. Why would you do that? You know what I mean? Like you I can't believe you really did it. You're lost in the woods and you decided to turn on your camera. Get the fuck out of here. Yeah. It's just like a level of like, you know, like you're not smart. And I don't know if I want to watch it, not be smart for an hour and a half. So, you know, yeah.
01:09:36
Speaker
the only series yeah the only series i let fly with that is um there's a series called vhs um v slash yeah like that's the only found footage like movie series i let go because it's like it it's found footage but it's found footage to the extreme so like
01:09:53
Speaker
Yeah, there's some crazy stuff like one of them, like they end up like I think like one of these dude, it's a couple of dudes, they end up going to hell or something like that. And they're like, you know, it's a fountain. They're like walking. One of them has a camera. The other one is just like that. That type of stuff gets a little crazy. Very fun footage of him.
Unexpected Viral Moments
01:10:08
Speaker
OK, well, so basically it's like I'm good because it's like it's a it's one of those anthology series. So like each movie is a bunch of short stories.
01:10:16
Speaker
that kind of connect to each other so like there's an overarching story but like each story is like connected to it so one of the stories was it was like some these two dudes are like documentary guys and they break into this house and there's they stumble upon this like
01:10:34
Speaker
It looked like a seance happening. There's like a bunch of people around this woman giving birth. And it's like they try to, I guess, did try to give her, give the birth, give birth to the devil essentially. So what happens is they, you know, obviously they get caught the two dudes that are filming them and they end up like something happens. They end up going like to hell. Like that's how they, they, they get knocked out. They wake up and they're like the fiery depths of hell. They're trying to escape the camera.
01:11:02
Speaker
With the camera, yeah. So that's the only time I'll let it go. If you're going to the depths of hell, you gotta bring the camera to the doctor. Of course. Or it didn't happen. Exactly. It was a video, it didn't happen.
01:11:21
Speaker
Oh man. But, uh, no, I usually like to ask that question because like a lot of like, you know, I asked, you know, what, uh, what are, what are other interests besides wrestling? Cause a lot of people, you know, obviously you love wrestling. That's what you watch, but like people have other interests. Like I love basketball. I love other, you know, different types of sports. Um, I try to read sometimes.
01:11:44
Speaker
Um, not too much. I have a very short when you're an adult, you know? Yeah. And especially with kids too, as well. So that's not, that's, that's a no go at all on my side. Like if I read it's reading a story or something like that, that's pretty much the gist of that's happening. Um, so my last question to you would be what's the.
01:12:04
Speaker
Do you see a future with lashes and lariats like as a brand? Do you want to expand on it? Or is it something that you're just going to, you know, it's going to be like my side page and I'm just going to, you know, post to it. Funny enough, my brand, like, or my page has grown significantly just this year.
01:12:25
Speaker
Earlier this year, I was like really kind of like wondering if I should even keep the page anymore because I couldn't make it past 1100 followers. I think it was like, yeah, almost. It was like just after just after 1000 followers. I'm like, I can't get past this part. So I'm like, I didn't put too much attention on it. Then I was just like, you know what? Fuck it. Nobody's watching me anyway. Let's just do some shit.
01:12:51
Speaker
Yeah, I just started posting like whatever and like sometimes I have like some good engagement on a story. And so I've just posted. I'm like, like I said, no one's watching it anyways. Yeah, exactly. And then lo and behold, it has huge like, you know, it goes viral or something like that.
01:13:09
Speaker
there's been so many times when I do some like little tiny like something that took me you know less than five minutes to do and it goes viral and I'm like there's no rhyme or reason to this I might try to just you know whatever if I can just post anything and it'll do well then sure let me just post whatever um so yeah I am
01:13:30
Speaker
I'm hoping it will, you know, grow. Um, I think I'm pretty close to almost 3000 followers, which I didn't even notice until the day when I was like looking at my page, I was like, Oh my God, when did I get here? So, you know, that that's been happening. So yeah, I can see like some kind of like something happening. Um, I am, uh,
01:13:53
Speaker
I do this thing like every day that I am able to at work, I'll do like a little like outfit and I'll like talk, like do my outfit, like this is what I'm wearing today, you know? And I'm just like, hey guys, you know that. And I always do this thing where like, especially if I have on like a low cut shirt, I'll be like, titties, you know? And like, it started out as a joke because like that was, there was one day where my like boobs were out and they were like really out and I was like, oh, okay, titties Leo.
01:14:19
Speaker
But then I had another show and I was kind of low cut. The next day they were like, so where's the titties? So I'm like, OK, so that's the thing. So I was thinking maybe we could do something like something with that. Maybe wrestling and titties sounds great. Yeah, I don't know. Figure it out. I don't know. So I'm not sure where it's going to go, but I do want it to do something.
01:14:45
Speaker
That's funny. One of the because I did one of the the the mankind one in particular. What do you like? What the hell? What did you say? You're like, you see, you see a big cake.
01:14:58
Speaker
That was actually like I said, like by some of my story, I go viral and I'm just like, I didn't think it was going to do anything. That was literally just me being stupid in my hotel room as I'm walking out the door and I'm waiting for my friend and I'm like, you ever seen a caked up McPho? And nobody was really supposed to pay any attention to that. It was a story
Community and Collaboration in Wrestling
01:15:19
Speaker
and I didn't think anything of it. And I was like, you know what? That would be funny to post.
01:15:23
Speaker
So I posted it, and it actually did well. I was like, OK. That's funny. Like, would you bring that type of, like, humor to it? Oh, yeah. You can't go wrong with that at all. That's why I brought it up. I was like, that was freaking hilarious. Oh, trust me. I was like, no, I was like, I've never seen the cake on Mankind.
01:15:43
Speaker
Do Love is in the works. Have you ever... Cactus Jack and Do Love coming to us, trust me. Have you ever thought about like, cause what I started doing too was like, you know, do a lot more like collaborations on Instagram.
01:16:01
Speaker
That helped me out a lot with like, you know, followers and stuff like that. Um, especially like, you know, collaborate with like gold bars and hooks or, um, Justin from the wrestling classic, um, you know, just, you know, sending them, they've, you know, added them to, you know, one of my things. And if they accept it, obviously they do. If they don't, they don't, but that definitely helped me out. Uh, like a significant, I think like nowadays Sue, like, like, obviously you could do things on your own, but it definitely helps to, you know,
01:16:30
Speaker
try to get someone else. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. That's what I mean. That's what I mean. I've kind of given away my secret sauce, but that's what I think it is nowadays. I think you have to like, especially if you're just trying to build your page, you have to. It's the community, you know, it's the community. Yeah, absolutely.
01:16:49
Speaker
I'm very open to collabing. It's just my lack of time makes it so that collabing is not as hard or not as easy. I mean, a little bit harder for me to do it and like be on time and be do a schedule and like all that stuff because so much, you know, if it's not one thing, it's another, you know, as an adult, it's like.
01:17:10
Speaker
everything goes wrong on the same day and it's kind of like you know when is there time to do anything you know so yeah I try I will try I'm gonna I'm gonna I just had to schedule it better I think that's that's what the thing was gonna have to be oh yeah yeah definitely I think like you know you like if you were to like say like you know
01:17:28
Speaker
Hey, I have this like, I have this cosplay, blah, blah, blah. I'm going to post, do you mind posting? Do you want to collaborate on it? Stuff like that. I'd be like, yeah, yeah, sure. I mean, or if anyone else is like, yo, that's doing like a, you know, that's a page. I'm trying to, like you said, use the community, try to like encourage, we're all here because of
01:17:50
Speaker
wrestling, I say this show that I created, obviously it's a, you know, we talk about other things or we talk about like the other person more, more than anything. But like, my thing is like the blueprint, the base of this show is the love of wrestling. That's what pretty much catches me or like what catches my eye to most, most people. Um, and then I, you know, then I want to like figure out like, Oh, where'd they get this name? How'd they come up with this? Or would they get the idea to do that? Yeah.
01:18:17
Speaker
but that's what kind of like that's that's how I like kind of do it so and from there I've like I've met so many you know great people doing this as well and continued you know relationship relationships with these people so like I think it could go like something like that could go beyond further I think we all need our we should stay closer together like we should all kind of you know it's it's a wrestling community and we're trying I'm trying to I mean I'm not sure if I've been able to do it but like
01:18:44
Speaker
I'm trying to diminish the tribalism aspect of wrestling and try to make it like one community, try to do my little part in doing that. Because I think that's one of the things that we should kind of, I mean, I don't go on X much. I do run the Chick
Challenges in Women's Wrestling
01:19:02
Speaker
-Fully show X page. And if you've ever been on there, it's like,
01:19:07
Speaker
No man's land. It's like, it's bad. Yeah. I don't go on a negativity because it's very, yeah. The, the wrestling community can be very negative. Yeah. Especially on X. Yeah. Instagram's fine. Like the comments might get a little crazy when you post something, but you can pretty much ignore that. Not like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe a little bit. Every once in a while. Yeah. It's pretty, it's pretty chill on Instagram, but yeah, I don't go on X anymore at all because it's kind of like.
01:19:37
Speaker
you know, kind of scared to go on there. Yeah, no. Yeah. That's why that's why, uh, yeah. She was like, Hey, you want to run the, uh, the Twitter page at the time? And I was like, yeah, sure. And I just going on and like, jeez, these people are crazy. It's like, dude, it's a show. Yeah. Oh my God. The stuff you see on there, but actually that wasn't my last question. I do have a question because I, you know,
01:20:02
Speaker
You're a lady. I do have to ask, how do you feel about women's wrestling nowadays? Obviously, if you've watched the older stuff, like back in the attitude era and all that, how do you feel like it's in the spot now? Do you feel like it's in a great spot? Do you feel like it could grow? Do you feel like it's? Absolutely grow. Absolutely. Yeah.
01:20:30
Speaker
It is, it is more of what appeals to me as a wrestling fan now than it did back then. Cause I will say that like, even just going back now and watching like.
01:20:45
Speaker
diva's era type stuff, not really the best, you know, the, the wrestling was not the focus at all. Um, I'm very much more into the wrestling than the boobs, but yeah.
01:21:06
Speaker
You know, but that, that's, you know, the whole era, right? But, um, I enjoy women's wrestling a lot more, you know, now, um, I will say that I feel like, um, I don't feel that the women wrestlers that I feel should have a little bit more shine or having that shine.
01:21:32
Speaker
And I will say the people that are having the shine are kind of throwing it away and I don't really know exactly what they're doing with that. I have opinions on a lot. I do have opinions on a lot of it.
01:21:50
Speaker
Not sure which one is better, AW or WWE for that one, honestly. If I was to choose any wrestling promotion that has the best women's wrestlers, I would say
01:22:03
Speaker
New Japan, like, I would, I would go there because it's kinda like, that's where they're actually wrestling. It's not just about how, you know, cute you are, you know, whatever. And now I'm not saying like they're like, all of it is like that, right? Cause you got like Rhea and you got, you know, like people who are really dominating Bianca, things like that. But it's also like that shine is also diminished a little bit because why did Bianca and Jade lose those titles?
01:22:32
Speaker
uh yeah yeah that's another hole yeah so yeah i have a lot of opinions on that it's like they don't know what they're doing with them but it's almost just kind of like do the same thing you're doing with the guys let them fucking wrestle and yeah i have my own opinions on that too it's like it's one of them for the women's i'll say for
01:22:54
Speaker
Not really for AEW, but for WWE in particular, the caliber of ladies that they have wrestling now are, like you said, it's more like if Jaden Bianca should technically have those titles forever. We'll put it that way. Like there's no one can that physically on that roster that maybe obviously Rhea or what's her name?
01:23:23
Speaker
I'm going to name Gonzalez Raquel Raquel physically gifted ladies like that are muscular and all that type of stuff. Like technically they, they could, but I think it's, I think they ran into a spot where for WWE in particular, not AW, but in WWE, they have these like, like advanced ladies that it's like,
01:23:52
Speaker
How do you book them without giving those other ladies a chance? Nia Jax, Jade, Bianca, Rhea, Raquel, those five ladies.
01:24:04
Speaker
Realistically, if you're a casual wrestling fan, do you believe a Dakota or a EOSCHI is beating a Jade or a Bianca? I could see an EOSCHI or a Dakota when it's over, but it's more like what kind of like is weird to me is like,
01:24:24
Speaker
How did Rio win over Nyla Rose? That's when I'm like, I don't really understand it. How is it that Jade is just unstoppable, never lost a single match. Well, except the one. But then you have Chris Dallander come out who's the same size.
01:24:49
Speaker
And then someone else beats her who's half her size and it's kind of like the inconsistency is kind of like
01:24:58
Speaker
That's what I'm getting at. Yeah. Yeah. They have to book it in a way where it's, you know, the, the people like with the, with the men, obviously with like, you know, back in the day with Sean Michaels and Brett, Brett Hart, they are the smaller guys going up against the bigger guys. So like, but they made it, you know, when you watch Brett face diesel or Kevin Nash, it looked, you know, you didn't, you didn't have any like down in your mind that Brett Hart couldn't win that match. Like, right.
01:25:22
Speaker
He
Future Podcast Plans and Female Voices in Wrestling
01:25:23
Speaker
made it, they made it in a way where he made it so he could win. Like he worked on the leg. He, you know, he chopped it down to size. He did. We need to do that. Yeah. That's, that's what it is. Like the women get in there that are the powerful women get in and they just dominate. There's no like offense from the smaller ladies. And then that's what they need to, I think that's what they need to, to work on. I mean,
01:25:45
Speaker
But other than that, like I said, that's a whole other whole, like I said, only focus on WWE. Cause that's what we, I mean, I watch everything, but like we, you know, I have a weekly program that we talk about WWE. So like, we're always talking about that stuff. But that just pops in my mind. I forgot about Chris Stadtlander and Nyla Rose and Camille too, as well. They start see that like they, W starting to get that those caliber of women. So they got to watch out how,
01:26:14
Speaker
Yeah, but presented with it. Look what I mean. Hey, I'm kind of dating the show, which I don't like to, but Hickor, Hickor, Rashida, you know, kind of backing down Camille, like, no.
01:26:28
Speaker
The male should be the opposing. I'm, I'm, I'm the dominant one. You're not backing me down type of deal, but it's another, it's another story. Well, that's another thing, but yeah, this is great. Um, thank you for being on the show. You are awesome. I've definitely inviting me. Definitely love to have you on again at some point. I mean, if you, if you're down to do so, I know it's, you know,
01:26:56
Speaker
personal life, my, like I said, my life, your life, we have some crazy things happening. So it's hard to pin down a date to do so, but yeah, definitely. We'll figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. To talk some, uh, talk, talk a little bit more wrestling because I want to get your takes on some things. Cause I think, uh, not, no, I don't really do that on this show. Like, uh, talk about like, you know, wrestling takes and stuff, but definitely want to get your, you know, get your thoughts on, you know,
01:27:23
Speaker
the wrestling world. Cause yeah, absolutely. I'd love that. Cause, um, I think that's, I think it's needed. I think it's needed. Sometimes we don't, we see very, I mean that I kind of missed this question, but there's a handful of like ladies out there, content creators that are, you know, talking, wrestling and stuff like that. And, you know, there's a, there's a, I think there's a huge space for it, uh, for ladies anyway. And I think, you know,
01:27:47
Speaker
Something can be done there. I'm not sure what it is. I'm not sure if it's more like it's a collaboration. I think it's more collaboration or just teaming up ladies team up. Just take over. I want to see that. Like I love like, you know, the WWD podcasts like they, you know, they love them. Yeah. Yeah. They get there on, you know, I love, I love what like a group of ladies get together there.
01:28:16
Speaker
That's, you know, I said, I come, I come from a, uh, you know, two sisters. Uh, but I didn't have any brothers growing up. So, um, if I saw if I have two daughters.
01:28:26
Speaker
And I'm surrounded by, I mean, I have a son too, but yeah, I've been always surrounded by like women and stuff like that. It's, it's one of those things that I like to see, you know, like to succeed the succession, like women succeeded and things and stuff like that. So if there's any way I could like help or like kind of maneuver it, I think that's, that's the reason why I like started with a chick Foley show. Cause at 2013, 2014, she was like the only wrestling oriented IG page.
01:28:55
Speaker
was like actually like comment commentating our wrestling and you know yeah you have her thoughts and stuff like that so like that drew me you know to her and obviously the rest is history but now i'm sorry i'm starting to see it a little bit more like you know you obviously they're out there a lot of other podcasters but it's all like the idea i wanted the forefront more that's that's what i'm
01:29:16
Speaker
Oh yeah, we're gonna work on that, for sure. Yeah, I mean, like I said, I'd definitely love to be an advocate of it in some way, shape, or form. Absolutely. Because in my show anyway, we were a three man, but now we're down to two, one of the guys left. Definitely love to add a lady to it. I'm saying this publicly on air, my partner's part of the company. But I think that would definitely help out just to get a different perspective.
01:29:45
Speaker
Yeah, honestly, my opinions sometimes are a little bit different than like the guys and it'll be like, Oh, I never thought about it from that perspective. You know, sometimes that fresh perspective and just something different, you know, totally changes a lot of stuff. So yeah, I know. Do you, do you fence ride at all? Or do you like, do you fall on one? Are you like, do you try to stay a fine line and try to be
01:30:08
Speaker
Like a, you know, you try to play both sides or you just fall hard on one side than the other. Depends on what the thing is. It really depends because if it's something like, um, Oh man, I can't even think of anything off top of my head. I have very strong opinions on certain people and things like that. So, um, but I try not to be too opinionated because, you know, like just in case I happened to meet him once.
01:30:35
Speaker
Oh yeah, yeah, that's the other thing too. That's the other. Yeah, I tried. I never, obviously I don't think I'm ever going to beat anyone, but you know, that's, that's just my way of like, you know, kind of pushing on, but yeah, I never think, I never think of that. Like if you, you know,
Wrestling Storylines and Speculations
01:30:49
Speaker
you had a show one day and.
01:30:50
Speaker
You're like, hey, weren't you the one that was, yeah. Yeah. I said a clip of you on, on so-and-so's thing saying, saying this about like, jeez, I shouldn't have said that. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say that. Like I was like. I will only say things if I feel that I can back it up in person. So.
01:31:09
Speaker
Oh man, when I was, uh, I gotta, I've been trying to end the show, but like, I gotta say this when I was, when, when Bianca lost to, um, uh, Becky Lynch, like in 26, whatever, whatever that amount of time was. And then like Becky went on her heel run.
01:31:27
Speaker
I was like, I mean, it wasn't a really good heel run anyway. Like we didn't, I didn't think she was like a really great heel, but I was like, not the best. I was just like freaking, I was in fence riding and I was like, this sucks. No, I was very much there with you. I was like, what the hell are you doing?
01:31:45
Speaker
And it's like, she's not a good heel. What the hell? And then like, why would, yeah, it was a whole thing. She had such a great run and then she loses it. It was like the Kofi Kingston. It was Kofi. Oh my God. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. And, uh, actually before I let you go, what's your prediction for? Cause you know, I always say this.
01:32:10
Speaker
Brian Danielson, Daniel Bryan, however you know him, is a cornerstone in black history. Mainly because WrestleMania 35 and his match with Kofi Kingston. That was the WrestleMania moment of that WrestleMania. I know it was made of ended by first time ever three women, but that match, that was the emotional match I made everyone cry and everyone was a part of. Do you think it happens again for
01:32:41
Speaker
Brian and Swerve. Do you think Brian Danison is, you know what? I still want to wrestle. I'm taking that title. Or it's my turn to put this guy over and have that another moment. So would it be great for Swerve's career? Absolutely. Yes. Does it make sense for Swerve to retire Brian? No.
01:33:07
Speaker
No, it doesn't. And I think the person that should retire him is somebody who is in that same kind of like technical wrestling lane, someone that's new, like one of the pillars or something like that. I don't, I think it should be, I personally think the person that would benefit the most from retiring Brian would be Daniel Garcia. Ooh.
01:33:36
Speaker
because that would be a fucking awesome match. I think having Osprey do it, yes, great match, but it's been done, if that makes sense. Even though, yes, Garcia and Brian's been done too, which is kind of like, he's coming up. Osprey doesn't need that. Yeah. I would love Darby.
01:34:02
Speaker
No, you don't like that stupid pink jacket. Oh, I can't with that stupid fucking pink jacket. That jacket pisses me off. He looks like knockoff, like goth, Doflamingo. I can't. I can't do it. You know that like you said, either a pillow, like you said, maybe MJF again, maybe they go at it again.
01:34:28
Speaker
I think he's, I think he would only do it for somebody just knowing who Brian is, right? I would think he would only do it for somebody that would need it. MJF doesn't need it. MJF is basically Roman Reigns for AEW, right? He doesn't need it. I feel like someone who would need it.
01:34:47
Speaker
Okay. Do you think Swerve, you don't think Swerve needs it at all? He said classic matches. Okay. He doesn't need it because he already has like, he has the titles. He has, you know, his little run is going on. Okay. I'm not even gonna say, I think that's a little too controversial. Okay. I'm not gonna say that, but I feel like Swerve doesn't need it. He has his own like little,
01:35:15
Speaker
like thing going, but I think like a young kid needs it. Like it would be really cool for like Wheeler Yuda to have it or like, you know, like I said, like Daniel Garcia to have it or like he doesn't need it, but Nick Wayne, you know, would be good with like, that's not, that's not his lane, but you know what I mean? Like something like that. Some new kid, like a, like a young kid needs it. I don't think, I don't think anybody like Swerve needs it. You know what I mean? Yeah.
01:35:42
Speaker
I mean, I can I can see it that way. I thought maybe they would not like repeat what they did with WrestleMania 35 and kind of have, you know, him pass a torch over to Swerve in a sense, not like pass a torture. But I don't really like swerves. Let me I'm going to say it. Fuck it. I don't like swerves run right now. So I don't think that this would be I don't think that would make
01:36:12
Speaker
in my opinion, it doesn't make sense for me. It doesn't make sense because it's kind of like all of this, you do all this buildup with Hangman and then you retire, like you retire Brian and it's kind of like, I don't know, it just, it doesn't fit in the storyline. Is this where, cause he's facing supposedly, did they announce it or did I read like rumors that they're supposedly having that at the next pay-per-view as Swerve and Hangman again?
01:36:41
Speaker
I don't know, but honestly, I don't need it twice. I'm good. Like we're good here. Do they need a rubber match? Who was it? Yeah. Was hangman won the first one, right? Yeah. And it's worth the second one. Yeah. Yeah. They're going to do it. I don't need it again. I mean, it's going to happen eventually. I think we all know that, but it's kind of like,
01:37:03
Speaker
I don't need it. If it didn't happen, I'd be okay. Give it a few years, maybe I'll think about it, you know? Yeah, leave it off with that match that they had with the blood drinking and stuff. That was a... That was great. That was peak. That was a good match. Yeah.
Closing Remarks and Social Media Plugs
01:37:17
Speaker
All right, now I'll let you go, because I was like way over time. But I want to thank you again for joining. This was amazing. You were amazing. Thank you. You were great guests. This was awesome. Hopefully you had fun. I did, absolutely.
01:37:32
Speaker
And we'll hopefully talk soon. Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you for having me. Yeah. But let everyone know again where they can find you, where they could follow you. All right. So you can follow me on my main page, I guess is what I've been calling it. It's Lucia underscore does LUCIA underscore does. And then my wrestling page is lashes and Lariat.
01:38:01
Speaker
So you can find me there, I'm on TikTok, Instagram. I don't have a YouTube and I barely use X.
01:38:10
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. Yeah. And everyone out there definitely follow her. Follow both pages. I just did. I only followed the lashes lariat. So then I followed the other one after. Cause like I said, I thought she had a twin K-fabe. I was like, holy crap. She has a twin. This is weird. But she does not have a twin. She has a breaking K-fabe right now. She has a different page. But yeah, definitely follow both of those. You'll be very entertained. And
01:38:35
Speaker
Yeah, it's pretty much it. Well, I'll talk to everyone soon and hope you enjoy the show. Peace.
01:39:06
Speaker
done.