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Speaker: Live.
Speaker: Laugh.
Speaker: How's it going everybody?
Speaker: This is Daniel and I am joined today.
Speaker: Oh, the picture is wrong.
Speaker: I got confused because I looked at you and it said my name.
Speaker: Okay, I'll be here today.
Speaker: You can be Selena.
Speaker: Yeah, this is going to be a fun interview then.
Speaker: And I'm joined by Selena Rose.
Speaker: Super excited to have you on.
Speaker: Before we get started, though, where can everybody find you on your socials?
Speaker: And do you have anything coming up?
Speaker: All of my socials are at Selena Rose Pro.
Speaker: And I'll be at Pro Wrestling Turbo, Palmetto Championship Wrestling.
Speaker: thought yeah a lot of fun stuff playing coming up awesome awesome and i want to start off with the hard-hitting questions that people like have grown to appreciate as this podcast and it's one that uh your training partner actually kind of suggested but uh i've seen you get a lot of flack for your driving it's funny enough that you're sitting in your car so i want to give you the opportunity to clear the air put out a statement and let everybody know how how good of a driver you actually are
Speaker: I'm a great driver, okay?
Speaker: Ricky Bobby Talladega Knights is my inspiration.
Speaker: If you're not first, you're going to be like... I do drive a little fast, but I've never gotten a ticket for it, so no one can prove that.
Speaker: Yeah, if you don't get a ticket, you're winning.
Speaker: That's what I always like to say, too.
Speaker: Maybe it's just Drew Hood.
Speaker: Maybe he just can't handle the speed.
Speaker: No!
Speaker: I mean, Drew drives fine, but he doesn't drive fast, and it takes forever to get anywhere.
Speaker: You hear it first.
Speaker: Drew is inefficient with his driving.
Speaker: And that's the bottom line.
Speaker: It's on record.
Speaker: It's not on social media.
Speaker: It's in video recorded form.
Speaker: So as far as I'm concerned, that is the truth of the matter.
Speaker: He just needs to drive a little faster and things will be fine.
Speaker: we'll have to talk to him about that maybe i'll have an intervention somebody my dad drives like it's he got to like a certain age where he's just like i'm not going to go over 65 miles an hour he claims it's for gas mileage but like it takes him like an extra hour just to get anywhere so i'm all for for encouraging people to go faster 85 90 is such a safe speed
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's maybe too fast for me just for like a paranoia of anxiety standpoint.
Speaker: I feel like that's where I would be like the cops.
Speaker: That's fair.
Speaker: I get it.
Speaker: But if you're a passenger, what do you have to lose?
Speaker: It's perfect speed for me as a passenger.
Speaker: Awesome.
Speaker: I always have my little speed.
Speaker: So it always tells me when cops are coming up so I can slow down and it's
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: What did our grandparents do?
Speaker: They also didn't have seatbelts.
Speaker: So it was really driving.
Speaker: It was just not a, not a fun back then.
Speaker: So, uh,
Speaker: But yeah, this is a wrestling podcast.
Speaker: You are a wrestler, so I guess we should at some point probably start talking about wrestling.
Speaker: Although I do have one more thing to bring up.
Speaker: Apparently, The Legend of Solar, Chris Solar, wanted me to let you know that Twilight is a bad movie.
Speaker: And he's wrong.
Speaker: He's wrong.
Speaker: Twilight is the best movie series.
Speaker: We watch it at least once a week.
Speaker: Really?
Speaker: It's my comfort movie.
Speaker: If I'm having a bad day, I come home and turn on Twilight.
Speaker: Which one?
Speaker: Do you have like a... Or is it just picking up where you left off last?
Speaker: It depends on the day.
Speaker: Most of the time I'll start it over because I love the opening sequence.
Speaker: The tiny cactus.
Speaker: I want one of those so bad.
Speaker: I have nothing against Twilight.
Speaker: Me and my wife recently had a week before we binged it, but I don't know if I could do it every week.
Speaker: Is it every day or is it once a week?
Speaker: I feel like we should unpack this a little bit more.
Speaker: It's like once a week.
Speaker: If I have a stressful day at work or school or just have a bad day in general, it's my go-to happy movie.
Speaker: This will put me in a great mood.
Speaker: It'll fix everything.
Speaker: Are you a fan of the books or just the movies?
Speaker: So dad actually just got me a custom like covered set of the Twilight books for Christmas.
Speaker: They're on display in my room.
Speaker: I just finished reading New Moon again.
Speaker: The books are so much better than the movies, but the movies are great too.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Do you have, are you a team Jacob or a team Edward?
Speaker: Oh, team Edward all the way.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Am I the only one that thinks it's a little weird that like Jacob just kind of imprinted on that baby?
Speaker: Oh, yeah.
Speaker: No, that was so weird.
Speaker: I don't know why Stephanie Meyer thought that was a good idea.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But she did.
Speaker: She was like, this will sell books.
Speaker: This will make movies.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: This is one of those weird internet things.
Speaker: So it's all going to make sense, but I'm going to start off with 9-11, which I know it sounds awful.
Speaker: But apparently, do you know My Chemical Romance?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: So they were inspired by the lead singer saw 9-11 happen.
Speaker: He's like, I'm going to form a band because of that.
Speaker: Stephanie Myers wrote Twilight because of My Chemical Romance.
Speaker: So there's a line that came along between 9-11 and 9-11.
Speaker: So you could say, and I don't know if you want to, but if 9-11 never happened, we would never have Twilight.
Speaker: Is this still your favorite movie?
Speaker: I don't... That is a wee bit rough.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Well, it's a thin line.
Speaker: I never said it was a very straight one.
Speaker: My favorite movie... So we can just replace favorite movie with in-game.
Speaker: In-game's great.
Speaker: Okay, yeah, Endgame, I don't think has any weird tiebacks to a national tragedy.
Speaker: I'm sorry for starting off that episode that way.
Speaker: That wasn't my intention, but when an opportunity presents itself, you have to take it.
Speaker: But back to wrestling.
Speaker: What was that?
Speaker: Can you hear me all right?
Speaker: Say what?
Speaker: Can you hear me?
Speaker: Yeah, I can hear you.
Speaker: Can you hear me?
Speaker: Cool, cool, cool.
Speaker: So as far as wrestling goes, so you're in a unique position to where your dad's also a wrestler.
Speaker: So I imagine your origin story might be a little different.
Speaker: But what was your first introduction to wrestling?
Speaker: So the very first time I watched wrestling was...
Speaker: Around Christmas, I was like eight or nine.
Speaker: My uncle had actually just come back from me and stationed overseas in the military.
Speaker: And I think it was like the day after Christmas, he had turned on SmackDown or I think I want to say it was SmackDown.
Speaker: And Zack Ryder and Santino Morello were on and I don't know why, but from then on, I was like, yes, hooked.
Speaker: This.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Those are two very great character moments.
Speaker: Zack Ryder is one of my favorites.
Speaker: Two months later for my birthday, he got me a Zack Ryder t-shirt.
Speaker: It was a purple one.
Speaker: I still have that.
Speaker: Yeah, I think those are worth money now.
Speaker: Every all of when I was a kid, the only thing my aunts and uncles would get me for birthdays, Christmas, for wrestling T-shirts.
Speaker: And so my grandma actually kept all of them and is making them into a quilt.
Speaker: That's awesome.
Speaker: No idea she was doing that until this past Christmas.
Speaker: She was like, hey, so this was supposed to be done.
Speaker: And I dropped a kid.
Speaker: That's an awesome quilt, though.
Speaker: I'm super excited for her to finish it.
Speaker: That's awesome.
Speaker: What are your thoughts on, just to sidebar, Matt Cardona on his recent, once he's been released?
Speaker: I love it.
Speaker: I think it's so entertaining.
Speaker: You can tell he's just having the time of his life.
Speaker: I love it for the story, but I also love it because of the gear.
Speaker: Yes, the Bowser gear.
Speaker: Oh, my God.
Speaker: That was one of my favorite things.
Speaker: Yeah, he did The Undertaker recently.
Speaker: He's just like, he's a kid at heart.
Speaker: He's just, you can tell by what he's doing.
Speaker: But yeah, Matt Cardona's awesome.
Speaker: Zack Ryder's awesome.
Speaker: Was it, like, obviously, probably, but the characters that drew you in, or was it, like, the in-ring action?
Speaker: It was a good mix of both.
Speaker: When I was younger, it was definitely the characters and getting, like, invested in the storylines, but then as I got older, I got really into the physical stuff, like,
Speaker: like the entering stuff was like okay that actually looks really cool i bet i could do that kind of thing so like who are some of the characters besides like zach rider that you're really attracted to those early years um
Speaker: AJ Lee was my favorite.
Speaker: Like she was the first one I was like watching Russell's like, yeah, I could do that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Paige, CM Punk, Dolph.
Speaker: I loved Dolph Ziggler.
Speaker: Like he was my favorite.
Speaker: John Cena.
Speaker: Very like who else is wrestling at that time?
Speaker: Oh, I loved Beth Phoenix.
Speaker: Oh yeah.
Speaker: Beth Phoenix is awesome.
Speaker: She was one.
Speaker: She was one of my favorites.
Speaker: the bellas when i was a kid but i mean who didn't like the bellas as a kid oh yeah hard not to like um so you're i've had that with like my grandparents where like they only know one thing about like like we're getting you something it's going to be wrestling or it's going to be this or that yeah did you always kind of like know that like this is in the back of my mind this is something i want to do whether or not like it was actually like a reality for you in your mind
Speaker: Yeah, probably within the first month of watching, I was like, okay, yeah, I'm going to try this at some point.
Speaker: I don't know when, but I'm going to try it.
Speaker: And then as I got older, I was like, yo, I don't like anything else other than wrestling.
Speaker: I don't know what I'm going to do with my life.
Speaker: What causes you to take the leap to actually jump into wrestling?
Speaker: Is that like a linear, like you kind of graduate high school, a time people are going to be a wrestler or did it come out later?
Speaker: Before I graduated high school.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Um, yeah, I started, that was actually my sweet 16th present that my parents paid for the deposit for wrestling school.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And I started training when I was, I think I had to wait till I was 17.
Speaker: I think I started like two weeks for my 17th birthday.
Speaker: I, and that was, and once I started, I was like, okay, yeah, I'm cool.
Speaker: I'm not going to do anything else.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: What was it like the moment?
Speaker: Because I've always thought about this, like being a wrestling fan.
Speaker: Like it's one of the things like stepping into a ring is something that's very tangible, especially like on smaller shows.
Speaker: But it's also it's something that you don't get to do.
Speaker: So what was it like the first time that you like walk through the ropes?
Speaker: At first, it was definitely kind of intimidating, but I'm also just like a very nervous, anxious person.
Speaker: But after that first couple seconds went away, it was like the most surreal feeling of, hey, I actually get to do what my heroes do now.
Speaker: Yeah, sure.
Speaker: It was really cool.
Speaker: Where did you start training initially?
Speaker: Originally was at AML with George, but now all of my training is done with my dad, James Johnson and Drew.
Speaker: It's usually just the three of us at training.
Speaker: Our buddy Bryce Saturn, who just moved to North Carolina, joins us.
Speaker: So that's really fun.
Speaker: So you go from watching larger-than-life guys on TV, like Zack Ryder and John Cena and the fellas and AJ Lee, and then you step into the ring with George South.
Speaker: What is that like as far as the adjustment goes?
Speaker: I love George.
Speaker: He's one of my favorite humans.
Speaker: I was...
Speaker: definitely like okay wrestling is a lot harder than i thought it was but george was a great teacher um i will like his teaching style and james's teacher style were very different like night and day different yeah but yeah stepping in the ring with george was a lot of fun like he is he's great man like
Speaker: You can really tell he enjoys teaching and helping out.
Speaker: Yeah, he's, like, wrestling to the bone.
Speaker: Like, he's the most wrestling person, like, that I've ever seen.
Speaker: Like...
Speaker: we're in the process of getting him on the on the podcast but it's like he's like we got to do it at a smaller show because like aml is too much pressure he's like i gotta have time to go out there i saw my stuff like he's like true to the bone like oh yeah for sure to the core uh and we've heard nothing but like great stories about him but i've also heard and i've only one person's told us this we haven't been able to confirm it but as you talk about jessica simpson
Speaker: I don't remember him talking about Jessica Simpson, but I also have a horrible memory, so I'm one to ask.
Speaker: Brittany Jade said it, and then nobody else has been able to confirm it, so I don't know if she was missing.
Speaker: It's probably true.
Speaker: I trust her with my life.
Speaker: Okay, cool.
Speaker: And have you ever had a meeting with George or to Bojangles?
Speaker: I've brought George Bojangles so many times, especially during Wrestlecade weekend.
Speaker: That's funny.
Speaker: We had AJ Kazana on and he was talking about having to run and get chewing tobacco for Trevor Murdoch.
Speaker: And the equivalent of that for George South is Bojangles, which is just kind of makes me happy.
Speaker: I've never met anyone who loves Bojangles more than George South.
Speaker: Yeah, I think it might have been one of the Dalsons, but when they came out with the alcoholic version of Bojangles, they tagged him and they were like, George, if you see this in the stores, I want you to watch out because this is not regular sweet tea.
Speaker: They came out with that.
Speaker: Yeah, I've heard it's bad.
Speaker: I don't think sweet tea and alcohol should mix, but that's a podcast for a different day.
Speaker: So when you first started wrestling, did you feel like you had an idea of what you wanted to do with your character or you're just so excited to be like in the ring that you were just kind of focused on?
Speaker: No idea what I was doing character wise.
Speaker: I was just really excited to start learning how to wrestle.
Speaker: Uh huh.
Speaker: I think that's still something I still have really no idea what I'm doing with.
Speaker: I think that's probably the thing I've struggled the most with trying to figure out what I'm doing as character work and just figuring out what I'm doing as a character.
Speaker: Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker: It's tough for sure.
Speaker: I've thought of ideas because at one point or another, I thought about training.
Speaker: But the ideas always sound really good and then I think them out and this is the dumbest thing ever.
Speaker: Like, my dad, him and Drew have helped me out so much with, like, working on character stuff and understanding that stuff because they're both, like, so good at characters and know exactly what they're doing.
Speaker: So, like, being able to, like, not only do the entering training with him, but having the psychology classes and just, like, when we're on the road to shows, we talk about it.
Speaker: I've been, like, able to learn so much from those guys.
Speaker: Like, James has such a good mind for character work and psychology and all of that.
Speaker: Training with him has been one of my, like,
Speaker: one of my favorite things like it's I am not the best at learning things and picking things up so who will sit there and have to explain something to me for like 45 minutes there's a train one second it's no problem
Speaker: Yeah, if he has to sit there and explain the same thing to me for like 45 minutes or an hour, he never gets annoyed.
Speaker: He just keeps trying to find new ways to explain it to where it clicks.
Speaker: And I really appreciate that because like I'm so used to, especially in school, I always had teachers who would get frustrated with me for that.
Speaker: And he never ever gets frustrated.
Speaker: He's like, okay, so that way of learning doesn't work for you.
Speaker: So let's try this.
Speaker: And it's like, I really appreciate that.
Speaker: I just posted something on Facebook the other day about him being my favorite teacher.
Speaker: That is so true.
Speaker: Training is my favorite part of the league because I know I'm going to learn something and I love getting to learn from him.
Speaker: I'm about to look really dumb right now.
Speaker: I know that you guys are daddy-daughter dads.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Is he your dad?
Speaker: He is.
Speaker: So I'm adopted.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I didn't get adopted until like probably like five, six years ago, something like that.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's awesome that you found a family, especially one like so in love with wrestling, is you are... Oh, it's been the best.
Speaker: It's...
Speaker: Has he been in wrestling longer?
Speaker: Like, how long has he been in wrestling, I guess is a good question.
Speaker: I want to say right about 10 years.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So that's got to be cool for you to like, not only like finding like your second, like your family, but also like your, your new dad is a wrestler, somebody that could teach you something that you're so, what is that like?
Speaker: Like at first, and then like, what is it like that been like working with him and growing together?
Speaker: I always say all the time, tagging with him has been the highlight of my life and career.
Speaker: I'm having more fun tagging than I've had doing anything else.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I wish we got the opportunity to tag more.
Speaker: I absolutely love it.
Speaker: Because I feel like I just learn something new every time we get to tag and I pick up on something new.
Speaker: um but like learning from him has been great because he's not only is he my dad he's my best friend yeah so like just we can we literally will sit at the house and watch wrestling we both get home from work and do psychology class in our living room or like we're out to eat for dinner and we're talking about wrestling we're yeah just constantly learning and bouncing ideas off each other it's great
Speaker: That's awesome.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like my podcast co-host Christian's like my best friend also.
Speaker: And we kind of bonded over wrestling.
Speaker: And I think wrestling is so unique because it's not as like widely popular.
Speaker: Like you're not going to go to school and like everybody in your class is a UNC fan where that's not the case with wrestling.
Speaker: No, I got bullied so much in school for being a wrestling fan.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So much.
Speaker: But to find somebody to like talk, like for me, it's almost like there's been so many years of like not being able to talk about it.
Speaker: So like when you do get to talk to wrestling about somebody, it's like, like a overflow.
Speaker: It's just like, oh my God, what about like this year, that year?
Speaker: And it's just like all these crazy things that like you haven't been able to talk to anybody.
Speaker: So that's gotta be pretty awesome.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: Like I'm constantly like scrolling or like watching something on YouTube and sending him screen recordings of stuff.
Speaker: I think it's cool.
Speaker: It's like, Hey, can we do this at training this week?
Speaker: Hey, how do you do this?
Speaker: How did they do that?
Speaker: I don't understand.
Speaker: Explain it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I think there was one point I sent him like 30 clips in a day and he was like, just stop sending these to me and we'll go.
Speaker: Let's make a slideshow.
Speaker: Like just put them in a separate little album in your photos, whatever, and bring them to training.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: What are some of those clips look like?
Speaker: Are you looking for certain things or is it kind of all over the place?
Speaker: Oh, it's definitely all over the place.
Speaker: It's just whatever I'm watching on YouTube at the time.
Speaker: Anything I think that just looks cool or I don't understand how they got there or did that, explain.
Speaker: My brain doesn't, my brain don't understand.
Speaker: Help.
Speaker: Like, that's just the message that goes with this.
Speaker: Me no understand, please explain.
Speaker: Do you have an example of something off the top of your head that would apply to?
Speaker: I don't remember exactly what the move was, but I know I just sent him a bunch of Gail Kim stuff because I went down a rabbit hole.
Speaker: His response every time is, that's so easy.
Speaker: We'll have it done in five minutes when we get to training.
Speaker: That's awesome.
Speaker: I think it's super complicated.
Speaker: He's like, no, that's easy.
Speaker: That's so easy.
Speaker: I'm like, but that doesn't look easy.
Speaker: What do you think?
Speaker: I think that's the mark of a good wrestler, though, like a Canadian Destroyer, for instance.
Speaker: I was terrified of those at first, but far easy.
Speaker: I will say that.
Speaker: Kind of a fun story involving a Canadian Destroyer.
Speaker: I think it was a gout show last year.
Speaker: First time, I will be saying I was ignorant.
Speaker: This podcast has helped me learn a ton of people.
Speaker: At that time, I wasn't aware of who James Johnson was.
Speaker: I think it was Tim versus Victor Andrews.
Speaker: Your dad, out of nowhere, just gives him a Canadian Destroyer on the grass.
Speaker: I remember that show.
Speaker: We got so sad.
Speaker: It was a very hot show.
Speaker: All I remember about that show is the Canadian and then by the time we got home, we were all so sunburned.
Speaker: We looked like lobsters.
Speaker: We didn't leave the house for the next day.
Speaker: We all just stayed in bed.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It was the worst sunburn I've ever had.
Speaker: Yeah, that was like for me, that show, like at first it was so hot.
Speaker: I can't imagine anybody's in the ring bouncing off those like black.
Speaker: It's awful.
Speaker: But for me, that just solidifies, for those who don't know, it was a show at the back of a cigar shop and there were chickens right next to the ring.
Speaker: There were chickens!
Speaker: They were so cute!
Speaker: But it just kind of shows wrestling can be anything.
Speaker: It can be anywhere.
Speaker: It's just kind of cool whether it's next to chickens or it's in Madison Square Garden.
Speaker: Wrestling is... Always bring people together.
Speaker: That thing is one of my favorite things about it is just getting to meet people, getting to travel...
Speaker: I think we took a very big tangent.
Speaker: So I'm not going to apologize for it because that's kind of what this podcast is about.
Speaker: But going back to your training, at what point into your training do you have your first match?
Speaker: I want to say I trained for about two years before my first match.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I think.
Speaker: Like, does that match, like, this is another thing that always interests me is, like, entrance music.
Speaker: Like, I spend a majority of my time listening to music thinking, oh, this would be really cool to go to the ring.
Speaker: So they lasted for two matches, and it was a suggestion from one of my friends because I was super panicked and nervous about it, and I waited until literally morning gov, and I was like, I don't know what to do for music, and she was like, she's not a wrestling fan at all.
Speaker: God bless her.
Speaker: And she was like, come out to God as a woman by Ariana Grande.
Speaker: And I was like, okay.
Speaker: And that's what we did.
Speaker: What is the reaction of the crowd like that?
Speaker: And what does George think?
Speaker: Does George care about that at all?
Speaker: I don't remember.
Speaker: I don't think George is paying attention to the music.
Speaker: Because I don't remember him saying anything about it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I also don't remember the crowd reactions.
Speaker: I remember I wrestled Maddie Max.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And I remember her getting...
Speaker: booed so much and I came out right after her.
Speaker: So I was like, okay, this will be fine.
Speaker: Oh, God is a woman.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Now we're actually using custom music that my dad had and gave me.
Speaker: It was his old stuff.
Speaker: And he was like, this actually would work great for you, kid.
Speaker: So here.
Speaker: Awesome.
Speaker: Did you have any in between that?
Speaker: Like any other ones?
Speaker: I bounced around a couple ideas.
Speaker: I came out to Do You Want to Start a War by Fozzie for a couple months.
Speaker: And then my dad again gave me another song that I used for the longest time.
Speaker: And I still to this day love that song.
Speaker: I came out to Blackstone Cherries.
Speaker: What is it?
Speaker: Shaking My Cage.
Speaker: I was about to forget the name of that song.
Speaker: I absolutely love that song.
Speaker: It is still on the playlist that I listen to when I go to the gym or driving.
Speaker: Awesome.
Speaker: It always curies to me because as a wrestling fan and somebody that through this has become closer to wrestling and we've worked shows and stuff like that, every song I hear, I'm like, I could come out to this.
Speaker: You got to have the build up and then you got to have the beat drop.
Speaker: That's what I would walk through the curtain.
Speaker: Every single time I listen to a song.
Speaker: that that's pretty cool um especially having your own kind of custom entrance especially like handed down um it gets me it's even more special to me that it was his first and now i get to use it like he passes a lot of stuff down to me like uh he has these old custom logo knee pads and gave me those and like i love getting to wear those i'm like it's just really special to me that we get to share all that stuff and like i get to have it all passed down awesome um
Speaker: So your first match, how did that go?
Speaker: Was it, was it, do you feel like it was a good match?
Speaker: No, no, I did not know what I was doing.
Speaker: I was not ready for that.
Speaker: Was, was it like you get in the ring?
Speaker: You're just like, Oh shit, I have to do this now.
Speaker: Or like, what are your, what's going through your mind during the match?
Speaker: So I don't remember a lot of it.
Speaker: I guess I have a, I've had a lot of concussions, so I can't remember a lot anymore.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And that sucks.
Speaker: I remember being super nervous all day.
Speaker: And I don't remember who it was that someone gave me a piece of gum right before we went out to rest on there.
Speaker: Like, this will help you breathe.
Speaker: This will help with your anxiety.
Speaker: This just chewing gum helps.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Five seconds into this match, I am choking on the gum.
Speaker: No, chewing gum does not help.
Speaker: I almost died.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I guess I've heard of the thing where, can you walk and chew gum?
Speaker: But I guess to wrestle and chew gum, significantly harder.
Speaker: I can barely walk and chew gum.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's not my strong suit.
Speaker: No, not mine either.
Speaker: The other day, I was getting out of my car, and this happens way more often than I'd like to admit, until I grabbed something out of the shed, and I turned around and my car was not where I left it.
Speaker: It ran onto the curb just because I forgot to come to my car and park.
Speaker: So I'm right there with you.
Speaker: I haven't had anything too bad happen.
Speaker: I like to fall walking up the stairs, not walking up the stairs.
Speaker: I'm really good at that.
Speaker: It's the best way to do it because you could easily cut yourself.
Speaker: And then I jam up my wrist and it's nice.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I fall down the stairs too.
Speaker: I'm just constantly tripping and falling all over the house.
Speaker: It's honestly quite the comedy show.
Speaker: It's kind of like, this is a tangent city today, but there was a musician that had a stutter, so bad of a stutter that he couldn't talk.
Speaker: But when he sang, it was perfectly fine.
Speaker: And one day he was getting robbed.
Speaker: Somebody came in through the window.
Speaker: And the only way he could call for help is to sing it.
Speaker: So is that a thing where once you get into the ring, it takes over and now you're like this...
Speaker: Sometimes, because there are, like, not so much when I'm wrestling, but there's a lot of times where I will trip during my own entrance, especially sitting in the ring.
Speaker: I wrestle Tyler Aiken at XWW.
Speaker: I love Tyler.
Speaker: But I almost, like, fell completely over the ropes back out to the floor making my entrance, and Drew was doing commentary for that.
Speaker: Uh-huh.
Speaker: And that is one of my favorite clips.
Speaker: We sent that back and forth in our group chat laughing at me so much after it happened.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I don't know if you're familiar with what we do with our clips, but we take videos of the things that we talk about.
Speaker: So if you have that clip, I would love to have that.
Speaker: Yeah, I will look forward and send that to you.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: Did you see a few years ago when I'm forgetting his name.
Speaker: It was at like the Saudi Arabia Royal Rumble where he runs.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And he just slides.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: That's me.
Speaker: Oh, my God.
Speaker: No, we sent that in our group chat right after having it.
Speaker: And everybody was like, oh, this is going to be Selena.
Speaker: She's going to do it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And they're not wrong.
Speaker: I know what's going to happen to me at some point.
Speaker: I just can't wait to see when.
Speaker: And I hope somebody makes a video and a meme out of it.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: At that point, that's all you could do.
Speaker: One time at work, I was leaning too far back in a chair.
Speaker: Another one of my tragic flaws, especially at my size, and the chair just collapsed.
Speaker: We had a camera right there, so I put it to Sugar We're Going Down by Fall Out Boy and just sent it to everybody I know.
Speaker: I was like, I'm going to get ahead of it.
Speaker: That is one of my all-time favorite songs.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I love Fall Out Boy.
Speaker: They're underrated.
Speaker: No, I have a similar story at work.
Speaker: I used to work at a coffee shop and someone had spilled something on the floor and I didn't know it.
Speaker: So I slid, went completely, fell on the floor straight in the puddle.
Speaker: And I just got up.
Speaker: I looked at my manager and was like, I'm going home to change and I don't know if I'm coming back.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And then I just left and she was like, yeah, no, that's understandable.
Speaker: You've been here till 4.30.
Speaker: You opened the store.
Speaker: I don't care if you come back.
Speaker: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker: That's good because imagine coming back would be tough.
Speaker: I've worked in restaurants.
Speaker: That's actually where I fell.
Speaker: I've worked in restaurants most of my life.
Speaker: I just got back into working retail.
Speaker: It sucks.
Speaker: Yeah, but it's the only place that's working with my school schedule.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Have you seen the show The Bear?
Speaker: I have not.
Speaker: That show, it's good, but it gave me anxiety because it's like so realistic.
Speaker: There's a scene where like they forgot to turn off the DoorDash.
Speaker: And so all of a sudden, like there's like 80 tickets printing all at once.
Speaker: And like, I legitimately had to like pause, step outside, like do the breathing exercises.
Speaker: No, so I've actually had that happen.
Speaker: When I was opening said coffee shop, I got there.
Speaker: I was supposed to be there at 445 to open.
Speaker: I always got there at 430.
Speaker: Because most of the time, something else would have to be cleaned or something didn't get done.
Speaker: So I like to get there early to make sure the store was set up, ready to go, and organized.
Speaker: And I walked in one morning.
Speaker: We had 25 DoorDash orders.
Speaker: All for like these super big over $100 orders.
Speaker: And I was like, I'm the only one here until 6 o'clock.
Speaker: All of these pickups say 615.
Speaker: So I called the other manager and I was like, you need to get someone here.
Speaker: Because I can't.
Speaker: There is no way I'm doing this all by myself.
Speaker: Yeah, it happened before too.
Speaker: I worked at a pizza place.
Speaker: So we would come in and there would be like a $1,000 order for pizza.
Speaker: And I was like, not today.
Speaker: But yeah.
Speaker: anxiety related for restaurants restaurants they're like i loved working in the coffee shop i loved waiting tables like i had so much fun with that there's like a good camaraderie like being able to talk crap about the customers and then like kind of like going through something like that together it's definitely fun but
Speaker: And then, like, having your regular customers who are always, like, super happy to see.
Speaker: Like, I had one regular who would come through one of the restaurants I worked at.
Speaker: And every holiday, he was leaving me a $100 tip.
Speaker: Like, it isn't 4th of July, Christmas, my birthday, he was giving me $100 tips.
Speaker: Like, him and his wife were two of, like, two of them I ever met.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Definitely good people like that out there.
Speaker: I don't even know where.
Speaker: How do we get... Why are we... I'm ADHD, okay?
Speaker: I am too.
Speaker: I'm very... Yeah.
Speaker: So we're lost.
Speaker: We're talking about wrestling.
Speaker: Let's backtrack.
Speaker: Your first match.
Speaker: So at what point do you... Like, what is the first match that you feel like I belong here?
Speaker: Like, I know what I'm doing.
Speaker: It was, there's been like two matches that distinctly, well, three that gave me that moment.
Speaker: My first one, I remember afterwards, like being like, okay, things are starting to click.
Speaker: I get this.
Speaker: The very first time I remember feeling that was when I wrestled my dad for the first time.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I just remember like as soon as the bell rang, he picked me up and hugged me and I started crying because I was like, everything we've been working on in training just clicked.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: that is probably one of my favorite matches I've ever had.
Speaker: Um, I still to this day love that match so much.
Speaker: And that's the only time we've ever gone to work singles.
Speaker: And, uh, I want to wrestle them again.
Speaker: Cause I feel like it'd be a lot better now.
Speaker: Cause that's probably been about two years ago now.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Um, correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker: Like when I, when I've seen you wrestle, like when you hit people, it looks like you're, you're laying it in.
Speaker: Yeah, he taught me how to do that.
Speaker: Okay, so like when you're wrestling your dad, is that something to where you're like, I'm going to take it easy or is it like I'm going to hit you as hard as I can?
Speaker: Oh, no, he absolutely pushes me to hit people the hardest, like work as hard as I can because he's going to do the same thing with me.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's got to be more fun too.
Speaker: It's so much fun.
Speaker: I remember like it was I remember like wrestling the entire time was just like having fun with it the whole match.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I loved it was I had so much fun that day it was like 110 degrees outside but it had some of the most fun yeah where was that show at oh it was at our friend's house he was doing like some it was like during COVID and he was just taping stuff for his YouTube channel oh nice how how is COVID during wrestling because that's something I don't think people talk about but wrestling got hit hard
Speaker: Yeah, so not only did I not get to wrestle during COVID, I also got laid off from work because I was waiting tables.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So I was just stuck at the house, not being able to do anything.
Speaker: But we did still find time and places to train, and I think that helped a lot.
Speaker: We found a couple shows here and there, like we did, that show at my friend's house.
Speaker: So, yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like I've like, it's a consistent thing that like always comes up.
Speaker: It sucks.
Speaker: Like some people like, like Erica Demian, for instance, like COVID hit right as she was like starting to train.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I love her so much.
Speaker: She's great.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And then like we had James Ryan on recently and he was like really hitting a stride.
Speaker: The COVID hit like COVID is like, he's such a good human being.
Speaker: yeah it really is there's there's a lot of good people in north carolina when it comes to wrestling yes a lot of bad people but there's also a lot of good people plus i i feel like north carolina and south carolina just have so much great talent like just to be like yeah like there's just so many good people here and like they're good wrestlers they're good people outside of the ring it's just they're all just it's great
Speaker: Yeah, it is a great time to be a fan of wrestling in North Carolina.
Speaker: And skip ahead to your story, I guess.
Speaker: I don't know if we're skipping ahead, skipping around.
Speaker: So your first match with your dad, at what point do you guys start teaming together?
Speaker: We started teaming together.
Speaker: I'm really bad with dates.
Speaker: I know it's been at least two years ago.
Speaker: I think we just hit two years tagging.
Speaker: So what was the original idea for that is Daddy Daughter Dance, which is an awesome tag team.
Speaker: Is that always the name?
Speaker: How did that come about?
Speaker: So the name actually, we had a big group chat with a bunch of our friends.
Speaker: And we sent a list of names in there because we were getting everybody's opinions on it.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I remember seeing that one on the list.
Speaker: And all I sent back was Daddy Daughter Dance.
Speaker: That's the one.
Speaker: And I think we just, it came up in the group chat and we went with it.
Speaker: don't know remember where he got that from or where he got the idea for it from but i remember a couple months later i saw in one of our old messages something about this father daughter duo would be sick as a tag team and then we had just started tagging one when i saw that again i was like so i stood on the screenshot i was like we've been planning this all along and didn't know it it was meant to be
Speaker: Yeah, that's like one of the coolest names.
Speaker: Like there's a lot of cool names out there, but it just like, it's like that moment where like reality fits into wrestling perfectly and creates this like perfect thing.
Speaker: I'm trying to think of another, I can't really like think of like another, but yeah, that's pretty awesome.
Speaker: So what is it like?
Speaker: Are there, it seems like it's really great most of the time, but are there any times where it's just like, like when you're working with your dad, like,
Speaker: I don't remember ever getting frustrated or anything like that when I worked.
Speaker: It's always just so easy.
Speaker: He makes it so fun.
Speaker: I think a lot of it is because we're best friends too.
Speaker: So we know each other so well.
Speaker: We both have ideas at the same time.
Speaker: We both look at each other and be like, hey, what if we do this?
Speaker: And I'm like, yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker: It's always just been super easy and fun.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And you guys being in the tag team, that was a dumb question, by the way.
Speaker: Sometimes I just say dumb questions.
Speaker: Like, I ask somebody what their least favorite match they ever, like, called last week.
Speaker: Like, nobody's going to tell me that.
Speaker: He tells me all the time there's no such thing as dumb questions, though we don't say that here, so...
Speaker: Yeah, no, but like this is a podcast.
Speaker: There are dumb questions and I admit that that was one of them.
Speaker: Working with your dad in matches puts you in like kind of a unique position, especially like as a women's wrestler to where you're having a lot more like intergender or mixed gender matches.
Speaker: What is that like?
Speaker: Because I know for like some people like this old country mentality, like where it's like almost weird to them, but like it's the future.
Speaker: I think it's really cool that you guys are working on that.
Speaker: No, so for me, it's like I get people come up to me all the time and saying, we don't see a whole lot of intergender tag teams.
Speaker: That's so cool.
Speaker: I personally love intergender wrestling.
Speaker: It's probably my favorite thing to do besides tagging.
Speaker: It's just like, it's great, man.
Speaker: The women around here are great.
Speaker: The men are great.
Speaker: And getting to be able to work with both of them is so special to me.
Speaker: I really am thankful I get to do that.
Speaker: Do you have any favorite intergender tag teams?
Speaker: Um, if you give me something to think, uh, Brittany and Prague have been doing some stuff or Elijah Proctor.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I really want us to wrestle them just because we're all such good friends outside of the ring.
Speaker: I know we would like, it would be stupid fun.
Speaker: Uh, same thing with Ella and BK.
Speaker: I saw them doing some tag stuff.
Speaker: We have been trying to wrestle Sadie Lee Moss and TGA Alexander since we started tagging, and it has not happened.
Speaker: And it's the one tag match I keep begging for.
Speaker: It's one of the tag matches I keep begging for.
Speaker: There's another one that he keeps telling me no to, but it's going to happen, I swear.
Speaker: What is that match, if you don't mind?
Speaker: I really want us to wrestle the Workhorsemen, J.D.
Speaker: Drake and Anthony Henry.
Speaker: I have been asking for that since the day we started tagging.
Speaker: I'm not letting him retire until we get this tag match.
Speaker: That'd be an awesome match.
Speaker: That'd be a painful match.
Speaker: Yeah, but I want it so bad.
Speaker: That's what he said.
Speaker: He's like, bro, it's going to hurt.
Speaker: And I was like, I don't care.
Speaker: I want to do it.
Speaker: Yeah, like we've had a lot of people that have wrestled them on.
Speaker: And like Robert Marder we had on said that JD Drake's chops were harder than Minero Suzuki's.
Speaker: yeah like that's cute not afraid of chops yeah um i wrestled rayhan on tayas not long ago and good job everyone beforehand was like his chops are the worst they're gonna hurt so bad and i was like after much i was like all right you know that was fun let's do it again i was like i don't know why all of you were complaining i love rayhan though he has uh been like we have been
Speaker: He has definitely like been there, looked out for me since me when I first started training.
Speaker: Like we have been friends for years.
Speaker: He has always looked out for me.
Speaker: He's another one of those guys.
Speaker: Like we were talking about earlier where you could just kind of talk about wrestling.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like, like he's great.
Speaker: We talked to him about like 2005 SmackDown for most of his episodes.
Speaker: It was great.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: I can see him talking about that.
Speaker: Yeah, we talked about like, because that's like when I started watching and I think he was kind of similar along those lines.
Speaker: So like, it's always nice to like have that bond.
Speaker: But yeah, definitely Ray Han is awesome.
Speaker: I had a question and I forgot it.
Speaker: Oh, I was going to admit another thing.
Speaker: This is, I feel very dumb for, but up until last week, I thought that Sadie Lee Moss was Alexander Moss's mom.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Professional wrestling and allegation.
Speaker: I knew that she was a wrestler, but I thought that she was his mom.
Speaker: And I was like, that's so cool that he's following his mom's footsteps of being a wrestler.
Speaker: And I feel really dumb that I didn't see it.
Speaker: And now that I know it's very obvious, but yeah, I was like, it hurts me to say it.
Speaker: I was like, that's weird.
Speaker: That's his mom.
Speaker: Why would you call her his wife?
Speaker: And then I went and I told somebody and they're like, you're an idiot.
Speaker: I wasn't going to say that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: yeah like i have my faults i can't know everything i know for a fact i am an idiot it's one of my defining character traits yeah so it's okay yeah i i have like a bad memory but i have a great memory for times when i'm an idiot i can have a lot of stupid things i don't i get that but if you ask me to remember any kind of date or anything important
Speaker: It's gone in five seconds.
Speaker: It's not there.
Speaker: Yeah, I remember the time that I accidentally waved at a guy that wasn't waving at me.
Speaker: Like, I remember dumb things I say, like, all the time.
Speaker: Like, there's no way nobody else remembers this but me.
Speaker: I'm sitting over here, like, losing sleep over it five years later.
Speaker: Oh, no.
Speaker: So, like, I had to call my lawyer's office last week for a car accident I was in.
Speaker: Huh.
Speaker: And without even thinking about it, when I went to hang up with the lady, who's great, by the way, I was like, love you.
Speaker: Bye.
Speaker: Because only people I ever call on the phone.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: My parents or my sister.
Speaker: My grandparents.
Speaker: Nobody else.
Speaker: So I don't.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So there's that was my idiot moment.
Speaker: I was like, I hope she didn't hear that.
Speaker: She was like, I did such a good job.
Speaker: You didn't stutter.
Speaker: You didn't mess up any of your questions.
Speaker: You sounded like an adult.
Speaker: I'm so proud of you.
Speaker: And then I said, love you, bye.
Speaker: And I was like, you had it.
Speaker: You almost had it.
Speaker: You were this close, kid.
Speaker: I like to imagine that she's like, I know I'm a good lawyer in the courtroom, but now I know that I'm a good lawyer outside the courtroom.
Speaker: This lady loves me.
Speaker: I've never even met her in person.
Speaker: So I'm...
Speaker: She's like, I'm really good.
Speaker: I just remember like hanging up that phone and just sitting there like, did you really just say that?
Speaker: I have one that I will hopefully will make you feel better.
Speaker: So when I was in college, I did like the athletics like video for like the sports teams and I was doing a baseball game and I was like right by the home dugout and I was videotaping it.
Speaker: And after the game, the coach walks up and he says, hey, good game out there.
Speaker: And I'm like, thanks, coach.
Speaker: Never talked to him before.
Speaker: Never had any interaction.
Speaker: And then I turned behind me and there's the starting pitcher that just won the game that he was talking to.
Speaker: Like a professional college coach.
Speaker: And he was like, you did a good job too.
Speaker: And I think that was 2015.
Speaker: That was seven years ago.
Speaker: I think about it at least once a month.
Speaker: But I'm sure you did an amazing job and you deserve that compliment.
Speaker: I didn't though.
Speaker: I wasn't very good.
Speaker: No, I'm sure you're better than you thought.
Speaker: I hope so.
Speaker: But yeah, this episode is getting all thrills.
Speaker: But those are the fun episodes.
Speaker: I think we were talking about you and your dad wrestling.
Speaker: You mentioned that you wanted to face the work horsemen.
Speaker: Who are some other tag teams that you'd love to face?
Speaker: I definitely mentioned him before us working Ethan Case and Chip Day.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Best of the rest.
Speaker: I will always take another opportunity to wrestle anybody in the Kingsgate, like any combo of people they want to send us.
Speaker: I think we've wrestled all of them at this point, but I love working those guys.
Speaker: They're all so talented.
Speaker: If you have to write them an order of talent.
Speaker: Oh, man.
Speaker: I can't do that.
Speaker: They're all great.
Speaker: We'll talk off the air.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'm just kidding.
Speaker: That was an impossible question.
Speaker: Kingsgate.
Speaker: Kingsgate's great.
Speaker: We've worked on Warm No Souls.
Speaker: We did one of my favorite matches, which was a street fight or notice qualification match.
Speaker: I absolutely loved that match.
Speaker: I love any street fight, no DQ match I get to do.
Speaker: I want to be more of those.
Speaker: Just give me weapons, honestly.
Speaker: I love that.
Speaker: What's your favorite weapon?
Speaker: I have a trash can.
Speaker: His name is Ralph.
Speaker: And I like to throw him at people and y'all wreck it, Ralph.
Speaker: That's awesome.
Speaker: I did that with Ella Envy when we had our No DQ match at Jewels of Wrestling.
Speaker: That is, again, another one of my matches.
Speaker: Afterwards, I was like, yo, we killed that.
Speaker: I'm really proud of this one.
Speaker: Awesome.
Speaker: Trash cans, it seems like they're made out of aluminum foil and they don't hurt.
Speaker: I imagine they do hurt.
Speaker: Yeah, I did another Nodiki match with Sawyer Wreck, and she cursed on me that trash can twice.
Speaker: Is that scary?
Speaker: Yes and no.
Speaker: Sawyer is like one of my closest friends.
Speaker: Oh, cool.
Speaker: But she's also very tall, and when you're wrestling her, you're like, oh, wow.
Speaker: She's going to kill me.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Starbucks afterwards.
Speaker: And it's great.
Speaker: She's like, you want to get Starby's baby?
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Yes, I do.
Speaker: We go get Starby's.
Speaker: That's awesome.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: She's terrifying.
Speaker: I absolutely adore her.
Speaker: I can't wait for her to come back.
Speaker: The last time I saw her, it wasn't even wrestling related.
Speaker: She was just in the area and hit us up.
Speaker: I was like, hey, do you guys want to come hunt for crystals and gem mine with me?
Speaker: And we were like, yes.
Speaker: So we spent the entire day out on this creek river thing just looking for crystals.
Speaker: We brought home a bucket this big full of pretty shoddy rocks.
Speaker: And I want to go do that again so bad.
Speaker: awesome yeah that sounds fun a lot that's a lot more fun than the wrestling here so both are fun both are equally i will say that but we did get really good french fries afterwards from where it was some little local place in downtown statesville okay i we it was the only thing i remember about it is it was the only place in the area that would let us bring her dog in so like shout out to them for being real ones
Speaker: Yeah, we'll have to look them up.
Speaker: This is a question anytime I get to ask it.
Speaker: You guys are on the road a lot.
Speaker: Where is somewhere that you're after a show that you could... Where's your go-to?
Speaker: It definitely depends on where we're at because my dad and I have this road trip tradition.
Speaker: If we're going somewhere new we've never been before, must stop after a show is a brand new pizza place.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Pizza is one of our favorite foods, so we try and find pizza...
Speaker: Like somewhere where we're at and we keep rankings of which pizza has been the best.
Speaker: Oh, nice.
Speaker: You should like put that behind a paywall.
Speaker: I keep trying to get him to take us back to Florida just so we can get this one pizza again or Pennsylvania because they were the top two.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Come on.
Speaker: Let's go back.
Speaker: I don't care if we're booked.
Speaker: Let's just make a day trip to go get pizza.
Speaker: And he's like, we're not driving all the way just for pizza.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like we should though because it was really good.
Speaker: There's a place, if you ever work in the Raleigh area, it's called DeForta.
Speaker: And they have a machine that's supposed to replicate the water of New York.
Speaker: Because that's what they say about New York pizza is that the water is what makes it so good.
Speaker: I've been begging to go to New York just so we can try the pizza.
Speaker: It's also one of the places on my bucket list that I want to visit.
Speaker: But I specifically want to go just for the bagels and pizza.
Speaker: And we haven't gone there yet.
Speaker: It makes me so sad.
Speaker: Yeah, well, until then, if you're in Cary, I recommend DeFortis.
Speaker: DeFortis, it's in downtown Cary.
Speaker: We live closer there, so I'm sure we'll be in the area.
Speaker: I'm going to make him go with us.
Speaker: Check it out.
Speaker: It's a little pricey, but it's good.
Speaker: We went there, like, so I got married in downtown Cary, and we all, like, kind of took the party with us.
Speaker: So we all, like, afterwards, like, trying not to die, walked all the way down the street and had their food there.
Speaker: And it's even better drunk.
Speaker: I can tell you that.
Speaker: I don't drink anymore, but I'll take your word for it.
Speaker: Okay, yeah.
Speaker: Well, it's also very good sober.
Speaker: I've had them both, and they're both very good.
Speaker: But yeah, I would like to ask that.
Speaker: As you can see, I'm a big fan of Wawa.
Speaker: Anytime I'm near a Wawa, I'm stopping at a Wawa.
Speaker: Jack in the Buc-ee.
Speaker: We pass the Buc-ee's.
Speaker: Whoever I'm in the car with, it's usually my dad and Drew Hood.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I love Buc-ee's so much.
Speaker: But we don't get to go to a lot of Buc-ee's.
Speaker: So we're big Sheets people.
Speaker: We go to Sheets before and after shows.
Speaker: Because they have a lot of healthy stuff for Drew.
Speaker: Like they have protein cookies.
Speaker: And it's got the perfect comfort to take his pictures.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Drew loves a good Sheets lighting.
Speaker: We had him on when we talked about that.
Speaker: And we posted a video of it.
Speaker: And Sheets actually commented on the video.
Speaker: He sent me the screenshots of that.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So those in our group chat.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So sheets, big fan of sheets as well.
Speaker: I guess the last question I typically ask is as far as like people in this area or not in this area, but who are some wrestlers that you think the more people should know about?
Speaker: I definitely think James Johnson and drew hood.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: who Eric Ademia, Florida man, Angelo, Raylan, I'll be the funk, Samson, just like all the kids coming out of the Palmetto wrestling Academy are fantastic.
Speaker: I absolutely love when we get to go down there and train and hang out with those guys.
Speaker: Ethan is doing amazing work with those kids.
Speaker: Sure.
Speaker: Brittany Jade, Ella Envy, Elijah Proctor, the Kingsgate.
Speaker: All of those guys are super, super talented.
Speaker: They're all killing it.
Speaker: And I just, yeah,
Speaker: Ray Han's great.
Speaker: Yaya doesn't get to wrestle a lot around here anymore, but he's great.
Speaker: Lucky Ali.
Speaker: There's just so much talent coming out of the Carolinas right now.
Speaker: For sure.
Speaker: The Moody's that come out of the Palmetto Wrestling Academy.
Speaker: There's just good talents coming up.
Speaker: Lilith Grimm isn't in this area, but she's phenomenal.
Speaker: I'm actually wearing her t-shirt right now.
Speaker: Nice.
Speaker: She is one of our closest friends.
Speaker: I text her in our group chat almost.
Speaker: Like, we're talking in there almost daily.
Speaker: Saw your wreck.
Speaker: It's phenomenal.
Speaker: There's just so much talent around here.
Speaker: And I'm sure I'm forgetting people.
Speaker: Of course, yeah.
Speaker: There's always... TGA, Sadie.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Amira, the entire star, has been killing her.
Speaker: Of course.
Speaker: Nadia, no love.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Love her.
Speaker: there's just there's so many people around here yeah and uh i'm gonna end on this question because i feel like you might be the most the person that's been most qualified to answer this question that we've had on it's a question we ask anytime we're given the chance to but does drew hood season his food the only time drew hood has eaten like had seasoned chicken to eat is when he came to our house and i cooked it okay for family and then he uh got very mad during ano because he was losing but
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Truehood.
Speaker: Sore loser.
Speaker: Doesn't like to drive fast.
Speaker: Doesn't season his food.
Speaker: And he's not very good at Uno.
Speaker: Not very good at Uno.
Speaker: But my dad is undefeated, so there's that.
Speaker: Is there skill to Uno?
Speaker: I don't know, but he always wins.
Speaker: And Monopoly.
Speaker: He has never lost a game of Monopoly in his entire life.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Baby Yoda theme version of it because obviously.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I was like, I bought that because like baby Yoda, he's my good luck charm.
Speaker: No, absolutely not.
Speaker: I have never won a game.
Speaker: That's awesome.
Speaker: Well, this has been so fun.
Speaker: I've had the best time.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Like I said, I love to have your dad on.
Speaker: I love to have you both on at some point too.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I will go tell him all of that right now.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But yeah, this has been so fun.
Speaker: Check out Selena Rose if she's on a car near you.
Speaker: Definitely a great wrestler.
Speaker: Beats the crap out of anybody she's in the ring with.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I'll take the crap out of them too, man.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So check her out.
Speaker: Thank you so much for taking the time with us.
Speaker: And hope you have a great time.
Speaker: No problem.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: Bye.
