WEBVTT - Charlotte Flair 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.680 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John And this 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.960 is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.520 Let's getting down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.880 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.040 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:39.159 about it, then we're about to let you know. It's all. Yeah, 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.839 I'm kind of spacey today. I don't know. Just sometimes 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.360 it's good to just kind of come in. No no agenda, 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.960 no no rhyme, no reason, no rhyme, no reason, just uh, 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:56.560 just just enjoying life. Okay, okay, any new developments, man, 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.480 there's a lot of new developments. Um so pretty cool. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:05.600 UM coach Bobby Ingram UH former coach, former player Baltimore Ravens. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:07.960 He's the tight ends coach. Used to be my wide 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.800 receiver's coach. Good friend of mine as well. He played 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:16.200 with Seattle Seahawks, UM, and so we we became friends 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.039 when he was coaching me and then become frames over time. 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:26.640 And so his son, Dean Ingram, is a corner at 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:34.680 UH University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Badger and Darren Baltimore. So 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.080 they're driving down and we're gonna you know, he's also 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.760 he played wide receiver in high school, so he moved 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.319 a corner, so they actually got him playing both both ways. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.120 He's played both ways in Wisconsin. Now, yeah, he's gonna 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.360 playing going into this year, he's gonna be playing both ways. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.120 So it's pretty cool. And so I get to work 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:56.960 out this weekend with him, and I'm actually looking forward 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.559 to it. And that's rarely because you don't. You don't 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.840 don't do that. You don't work guys out. I know you. 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.640 You You get plenty, plenty, plenty offers that you know, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.560 and you don't take them. I don't take them, and 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.480 and I think I'm in a place where I can't. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.880 I'm excited to take this one because it's not competition. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:22.000 There's no Am I good enough? Right? I have a 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.400 pair of clicks I got I got a few, three 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.560 or four pairs of clicks still left in in the attic. 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:29.880 But I think I may want to go buy me 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:34.400 some clicks. So you get you getting festive. I just 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.560 want to go buy me some clicks, I think, yeah, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.120 just because I don't want to put on old clicks, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.960 because there's the clicks I warm when I played. Now 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.600 we're getting somewhere, and I just I don't know how 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:54.560 I feel about that, So I'd rather go by a 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.639 pair on sale or a pair to try that maybe 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.000 I wanted to try or thought. You know, I used 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.200 to be a rebox for about ten twelve years, and 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:05.800 then I moved to under armor when I went to 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.440 UH in Carolina for about three years and then Baltimore, 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.840 and I think the under armour ones really is associated 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.640 with playing, and I'm not really sure that I want 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:25.640 to put those on just because be associated with playing light. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.840 I still have all my cliques. First of all, Carolina 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.480 still has in in their storage right now. They have 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:37.000 like six and seven boxes of my locker stuff still there. Uh. 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.400 The Baltimore Ravens sent me after a full cycle year 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:46.040 of me not playing, they finally sent me my locker stuff, 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.360 like all my cleats and all my gloves. So right 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.920 now in my in my attic, I have probably about 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:58.320 four or five pairs of Baltimore Raven cleaks. And then 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:03.960 I got all obviously all my significant uh rebok in 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:10.120 Carolina blowing black cleats. But what really says that I'm 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:15.560 still a person at keeps up with his craft. Is 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.880 I still got all my gloves, so I have my 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:23.800 under armour Carolina Baltimore. Just you name it glove, so 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.560 I can always I can bring out the pack of 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.360 gloves anytime. So when you say you didn't really want 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.440 to dust office, is it like a it's like a 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.320 Pandora's box kind of thing, or it's just so emotionally 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:38.320 drawn to it. I'm not emotionally drawn to it. I'm 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:45.000 more of understanding that this opportunity with Dean is a 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:50.240 teaching moment, not a competition moment. Okay, teaching moment. Explain 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.240 the difference. So competition is I put on my cleeks 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.240 and my gloves. You got a corner, he's gonna jam 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.200 me up. And this bragging rights and all this stuff. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:03.480 No teaching is Let's talk about the nuances, the small 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.680 little things, tricks of the trade, mastering your craft, understanding 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.840 finding loopholes, understanding why and what right to where, the why, 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.800 the how the whin the where not the I want 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.800 a loss, let me quick jam you. I picked you off. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.440 It's not about that. It's about all the little things 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.400 me and I had to text my my trainer, which 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.960 my body guy so looking to see is a space 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.640 in between his backpeller or runner wide receiver routes? Is 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.680 it functional? Is he doing wasteless space? Right? Is it 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:42.880 too much space? He's wasted all these little two nuances 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:51.400 that only another craftsman would understand. So is it is 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:56.640 it safe to say this is a sniff of coaching? 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:01.080 Almost because the way you said t I mean one 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.760 with someone's gonna listen to that and say, oh, he's 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.680 coaching this kid up. So what's the difference between the 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:13.200 teaching and coaching. Well, one, this person is teachable, and 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.760 this person desires to be taught, not desired to be 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:22.279 talked to see talked to? Is what all these people want? 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.640 I want. I want to train with you. No, I'm 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.359 not training, first of all, because you're training to play. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:34.040 I'm training to not be fat. There's a big difference, right, 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:40.159 I'm training just to get a cardiovascular exercise to keep 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:45.279 my all three chambers of my heart going. Right, You're 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:49.200 training to do something that I know longer want to do. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.040 And so that's the difference. And then Dean is very teachable. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:59.040 He respects me, I respect him. Uh, he knows he's 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.160 he's coming down taking out of his time. So I'm 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.360 gonna honor that he's taking out this time. And then 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.799 I'm he's honoring that I'm taking out of my time. 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:08.839 So we're gonna get after that. I think we're doing 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:14.680 uh to training sessions on on on Sunday, a little 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.600 bit some stuff. I look at some stuff on Saturday. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.440 Then we'll get we'll we'll get down in dirty. Two 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.440 sessions on Sunday and then one session on Monday. Well, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.600 you you better stay the disclaiming because people are gonna 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:27.800 listen to this and they're gonna think smithy shop is open. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.280 I'm gonna hit you up and they're gonna want you 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.400 to train them or teach them or give them games. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.680 So you you, you might want to put a disclaimer 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.440 out there that this ain't This ain't for any and everybody. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.000 It's not. But I'm also not in a space where 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.320 I can dedicate a lot of that time. And one 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:50.000 of the other things is too is people think that 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.239 my time isn't valuable, right, And when I say valuable, 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.600 people think, oh, you're talking about money, don't talking about 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:01.040 what I have to do. So this weekend m As 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:05.560 I do that, I'm also taken away from the time 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:10.600 at the house. Right Saturday mornings is we me and 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.400 Ducey usually fill up the bird feeder, put out the 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:19.440 woodpecker um feeder because it's been eight up and the 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:24.960 birds come. We average about fifteen sixteen birds in our backyard. Um, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.040 so you got the bird feeder. Uh, you know, just 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.960 whatever stuff is needed to be done around the house 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.719 with the wife. Boston has a basketball tournament, so it's 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:42.800 a lot of moving parts that are required. That it's 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.400 not money, it's something I can't get back, which is 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:50.360 my time. So that that that's why it's this. This 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.120 is not a something that where oh I'll pay you, 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.760 and you know, because that's not where I'm at. You know, 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.120 I don't I don't think I'm qualified and I have 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.679 the right mind frame or the state of mind to 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:09.319 really kind of do it as a full time gig 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.880 or training because it's just it's tough to do right 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.160 well if you gotta request and they're gonna happen over here. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.360 What I'm looking forward to it though, so you know, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.959 maybe who knows, maybe in the future. I know some 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.360 people have asked me what I do. Maybe in the 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.400 future I may do a little bit more than what 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.360 I do now, which is pretty much nothing. Right, So 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.400 some people have asked me. I've asked me, uh man, 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:42.160 would you do a uh university or wide receivers? You know, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:49.360 you know why? Too many not dolls? You know? I 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.080 get that. Yeah, And according to a lot of people, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.120 right man, I was just I was. I was allowed mouth. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:02.760 So so I'll just keep allowed mouth to myself. So 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.720 who we got in advance of w w E Summer 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.320 Slam up next on the cut to a podcast, We've 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:13.000 got w w E superstar Charlotte Flair. She's won the 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.920 women's championship thirteen times and she's the daughter of legendary 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.800 Rick Flair. Be careful, she might just throw you in 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.360 the figure eight leg lot. Charlotte Flare's on the cut 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:28.560 to a podcast. Well, we're about to get into our 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.599 first statement. It's called get iced up. It's gonna go 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.440 ahead and give it the first one. They're super random, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:41.040 so just get ready. Alright, First of all, are you 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:49.240 your stage name or your birth government name? Your government name? 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:59.120 I prefer Queen Way to escalate it. Alright, Okay, so 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:05.680 how did you pick Charlotte as the name, so I 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.760 kind of think it was a joke on me at first. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.960 But when I started at f c W, which was 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.600 the developmental territory for w W, which is now an 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:21.240 xt our third brand, they asked you to submit names. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:26.319 So I was like, I don't know. My middle name 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:31.680 is Elizabeth, maybe Elizabeth, and then there's miss Elizabeth, miss Ashley, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.680 and then I love Sex in the City. So I 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.679 was like, oh, I love the name Charlotte, but I 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:41.679 don't know I'm from Charlotte. I don't know, and I 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.880 I think I requested a few others. I'm not I 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.640 don't even remember, but they came back and they were like, oh, yeah, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.040 we love Charlotte. But my first match, the commentators were like, 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.559 it's Charlotte from Charlotte, North Carolina. So I was like, oh, 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.720 that sounds terrible. I was like, you got you to 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.679 say the Queen City. So that's how that all came up, 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:04.240 just because it sounded terrible on commentary. So you're telling 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.480 us it wasn't necessarily where you're from. First, it was 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.640 from doll going Sex in the City, where you got 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.680 inspired by Charlotte. Well for me it was, but I 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.880 think for them it was like, well, Rick's build from Charlotte, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:22.760 so well, name or Charlotte, but Charlotte from Charlotte. So 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:27.000 what hidden talents do you have that no one else 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:34.040 knows about until today? I don't think any. I don't 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:39.160 think I could eat a large pizza and one sitting 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:44.600 like a normal large pizza. That's pretty impressive. Yeah, that's impressive. 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:52.480 That would make me super bloated. You think that's when 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.240 you see me at the gym and like my sweet 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:59.000 sweatbelt for like two hours doing the You're gonna you're 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:09.200 gonna need it all right, favorite old school wrestler not 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:18.319 named Flair Anderson, Okay, right, she hit it with the uncle. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:24.840 We know a little bit of wrestling, so we knew 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.320 that was from the from from the four four Horsemen. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:35.520 So my wrestling history is dated, but I stayed there 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.680 because that's where it's most comfortable identified with it. I 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.160 also it's kind of that sweet spot where I used 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.400 to watch, Uh, I used to watch wrestling with my grandpa. 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.800 So it's it's that it's that little happy place for me. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:56.920 So yeah, dad, finished move was the figure four? Yours 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:03.640 is the figure eight twice as good? So the next 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.800 flares its very flaish, right there. Finished move would be 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:13.439 what because you got four eight? Well, I mean exactly 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.600 the face you just made, exactly what I was thinking. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:21.680 I'm like, what is the next person? The next? What 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:26.600 are you gonna do? Oh? I don't know, see you 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.560 to think about that? You're so selfish. She is so honestly, 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.720 I don't even know if I would want my daughter 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.480 to wrestle on my kids. I don't know. M M. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.480 We have to dive into that, right I want to. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.560 We'll come back there. What's your favorite finishing move? I 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.920 ain't gonna lie. This is so this is so random. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:53.000 But I used to love the sleeper move with Brutus 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.880 the barber beefcake and then they would cut their hair 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.760 when they were oh yeah, when he used to put 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.440 them to sleep. I remember that. What was the cross 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.200 face chicken Wayne Bob Backling? What you know about that? Nothing? 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.520 I know? I know wrestling wrestling, first of all, the 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.320 same thing I did, the same thing I watched wrestling 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:13.880 with my granddaddy. Cross face chicken wings. Yes, this is 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.040 the last one, and I think we may have her. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:27.560 Are you ready? How many letters are in the alphabet? 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:31.800 I told you we are getting I knew it because 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.720 I say, how did I say the other day? How 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.560 many did I say? All right, I put you out there. 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.760 So we're just we're just we'll just say you had 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:47.640 the first land alphabet. It's it's don't google it. Are 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:54.000 you googling? Yeah? Don't google. Yes, listen, it doesn't matter 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.040 how many degrees you have or what school you went too. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.360 Just on the spot, on the spot, nobody really knows 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.520 how many alphabets on the latter. I mean, let us alphabet. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.840 You just don't go. You don't walk around with that 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.920 kind of knowledge. Just on the whim. How many teeth 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.240 do you have in your mouth? I don't. You're saying 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:30.720 this rooking house count really fake account. Doesn't want even break? 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.800 So break what happened? You walked into it? I was 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:38.120 going I was on class over. So we started off 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.400 by said, I said, hey, let me see smile. Now, 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:51.200 last week in your training, what happened? What's your fronts? No, 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.440 it's not public knowledge. So this started. Gosh. I had 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.760 been like six or seven, all right, was riding my 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:05.080 bike in Providence Plantation in Charlotte, off the Providence Road, 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:10.480 and I went over the handlebars and knocked out four 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:16.200 front teeth and they were able to put I think 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:23.600 like two or three back in. And then I just 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:27.840 had one tea. It was one tooth missing, and I 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.199 remember they like connected it with something so like the 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.399 teeth could heal back. Like we literally two of them 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.399 or three of them were found in my sweatshirt and 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.960 my mom put them in milk. We went to the 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:42.840 dentist or whatever orthodonist, dentnist, I don't know. They had 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:47.479 different paradonist, I don't know. Um. And then in middle school, 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.240 seventh grade and cheerleading, a girl knocked him out. And 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:56.480 then the same girl, the same girl a year later again, 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.639 so this is this That was around two yeah, but 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.880 three rounds. So the same girl seventh grade knocked him out, 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.200 eighth grade knocked him out the same ones. Okay, hold on, 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.639 hold on, let's go back. So you took the first 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.879 ale from the bike. What kind of bike was it? Was? 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:16.320 It like a Barbie bike, my little pony, It was 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:21.280 a Barbie bike, all right? And then and then you 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:26.600 took another ale by the same person. This was a person. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.879 This was the second time. Was a person she bobbed you? 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.959 Was it an accident. So I was a fourth baseman, 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:41.560 so like the girl, and I think that was and cheerly, 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:46.520 like you know when you based the flyers, okay, and 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:51.080 her nickname was her nickname was duck actually, and she 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.400 came down with her arm. And then the next year 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:59.840 the same thing knocked it again, not the second the 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:04.080 first time you cried, the second time you cursed. I 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:09.040 mean I was just like, I'm not meant to And 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:14.119 then besides have been like three years ago. I don't remember. Yeah, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.880 three years ago I was in Germany on tour and 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:22.080 Carmela knocked my bridge out and I finished the match, 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.440 but then they had to fly me home from Germany 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.000 our first night, I think it was like our first 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.639 night and just gave me a new bridge. And then 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.919 just last week I cracked my bridge. So I just 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.919 have had bad luck. We have to take a break 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.560 and the morning thing, we gotta pay some bills. You 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:48.040 got checks. I love cut to It, and I love 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:52.200 it even more when you download us and subscribe, and 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:54.919 you can follow us on social media too, Smithie, where 0:19:54.920 --> 0:20:00.320 where at at? Cut to It? On Instagram? What about Twitter? At? 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:04.439 Cut to It? Facebook? Cut to It featuring Steve Smith Sr. 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.960 What about online? And you can follow Louis at cut 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.160 to It podcast dot com where you can buy merch 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.520 and you can subscribe to this wherever you listen to podcasts. 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.600 I got all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.000 all my questions answered. That's what I'm here for, a brother, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.400 cut to a podcast dot com. Growing up as a kid, 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:33.399 what was your favorite team or sport or both? Probably 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:40.879 gymnastics growing up mm hmmm why Um, just because I 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:43.600 was a gymnast until middle school and not until like 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:48.480 middle school in high school did I really venture out. 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.640 That's when I started playing volleyball, basketball, softball. So yeah. 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.240 And I loved watching the Olympics, like the Olympics like 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:58.960 just so for some reason just stands out to me. 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:06.119 That group of girls, like the Magnificent Seven. Yeah, that 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.280 was classic. That was classic. I loved watching it. Did 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:12.879 you have any teams that you rooted for? Oh, like 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:18.520 football teams? Well, the Panthers, Um Panthers and then the 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:25.480 Hornets at the Old Colosseum. That was amazing, original, the 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:31.119 original bless Sea with my dance team. I mean I 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:35.520 was so little, but look at you, she's flexing all 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:41.400 through she's been flexing. Just used to the spotlight. Where 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:45.920 are you from and the place you call your hometown? Oh, 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:51.600 Charlotte born and raised. Not many of us, it's not, 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.879 and you don't live here. I love Florida the weather 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.119 because as much as I travel, it's just nice coming 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:06.680 home to sunshine. Plus Mews Performance Center is that of Orlando, 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.840 so it's just easier for me. Yeah, because actually I 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:14.919 moved back to Charlotte, yeah, like three years ago, and 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:16.879 I was only there for like six months because it 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:20.159 was just the schedule is different for what I do 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:23.119 than my friends that are still in Charlotte. So like 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:25.800 when it's a Wednesday and I'm ready to go, Their 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:30.239 work weeks Monday through Friday. So it was kind of 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.280 lonely and then I don't know, it's just easier having 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.800 the Performance Center in Orlando next door if I need 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:41.080 to do something. So, but I love Miami, so maybe 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.800 that's the next place. So what was your experience growing 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:49.879 growing up in Charlotte as Rick Flair's daughter, Because you know, 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:52.680 growing up in Charlotte is one thing. It's all different, 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:58.080 but you know, growing up with an iconic dad, I'm 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:03.400 assuming uh had to be a little bit different for you. Well, 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:06.280 Charlotte was so small. I mean, I just feel like 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:11.760 in the recent years, it's you know, a place to 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:15.640 live or a place to move. But because I went 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:20.359 to the same school, well, preschool, and I would to 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:24.399 Providence Day until high school from kindergarten high school, so 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:27.800 I was around the same kids and they were just 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:30.639 used to my dad, So I didn't really mean the 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:33.520 little area where we lived, everyone was used to him, 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:38.919 So I didn't really realize how well known he was, 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:41.439 I guess, or famous, because I was like, oh, it's 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:44.800 just my dad wrestles. I didn't know any different. So 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:49.720 not until college and I go, ah, this is kind 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:56.399 of cool, my dad's famous. Like it didn't really because 0:23:56.440 --> 0:23:59.040 my dad I had done stuff for my school all 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:00.640 growing up, and then I went to a Providence high 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:04.040 school to finish school and people were just used to 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:07.960 him in South Charlotte, so it wasn't a big deal. 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:09.920 And I was such a homebody and the only time 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:14.840 I traveled was really for sports. Um, so not until 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:19.640 college was like, oh man, my dad's famous. So would 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:24.040 you say when you start to realize that your dad 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:27.040 was famous and how famous and how iconic you was. 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:30.359 Did it start to change things? Did it start to 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:34.800 make things a little bit complicated for you? No? I 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:40.800 mean kids had like when I played um volleyball and 0:24:40.800 --> 0:24:46.200 basketball for school sports like the heckling. The heckling for 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:49.200 me like the wooze and my dad with the cow 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:51.200 bells and stuff. I had been used to it since 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:57.480 middle school. I think it just really didn't register or 0:24:57.560 --> 0:24:59.800 bother me till I started wrestling. When people were like, oh, 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:03.119 he's only wrestling, or she only got in or can 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.320 wrestle because of her dad being Rich Flair, And I'm like, 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:12.080 excuse me, I like, I don't know how to put it, 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:14.639 like super athletic, that you don't know what you're talking about. 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:17.240 I mean that's when it really started to impact me. 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:20.320 And that was my late twenties when I started wrestling. 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:26.480 So yeah, I think for my brothers it probably impacted 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:28.440 them more than it did me because I was always 0:25:28.560 --> 0:25:31.720 doing my own thing. So as a kid, what was 0:25:31.720 --> 0:25:37.320 your safe haven? Just being home and my mom and dad. Yes, 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:42.680 I mean people think that it was super wild, but 0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:45.080 I mean I wasn't really around that. My dad didn't 0:25:45.200 --> 0:25:51.480 have my little brother and I um out there around 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:55.919 like like a celebrity scene or trying. I mean, I 0:25:55.960 --> 0:25:58.520 wasn't trying to get into movies or acting or anything. 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:01.479 I just I played sports and I went to school. 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:04.360 That was it. And my dad was already beat your breakfast. 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:06.000 You have to see the trainer, like, get me with 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:08.680 the trainer. Since like a moment I could walk like 0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:14.200 it wasn't. I didn't have a crazy like some I mean, 0:26:14.960 --> 0:26:16.560 like I knew when he when my mom and dad 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:20.000 had Christmas parties for their Gold's gym, like things would 0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:22.240 get a little crazy, but we always had to go 0:26:22.280 --> 0:26:27.120 back to our room, so it wasn't with the adults. Man, 0:26:27.160 --> 0:26:34.399 that's like a rule. Nothing I mean did it was 0:26:34.480 --> 0:26:38.160 weird like different, like, oh my dad's a lawyer, Oh 0:26:38.160 --> 0:26:44.400 my dad's a wrestler, like I mean it. I don't 0:26:44.440 --> 0:26:49.240 think it impacted me that because it was my whole life. 0:26:49.240 --> 0:26:51.280 I didn't know anything different. Maybe if my dad had 0:26:51.320 --> 0:26:54.520 had me in that scene, then yeah, but I wasn't, 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:57.840 you know. I think it's one of the interesting parts 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:02.520 about you is a lot of people don't really know 0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:07.600 You've done such a great job of keeping your privacy, 0:27:07.680 --> 0:27:11.440 like you're out there, but you're not out there. You 0:27:12.359 --> 0:27:16.159 can you make sure that you keep your privacy But 0:27:16.240 --> 0:27:21.359 a lot of people don't know. I think you want to. 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:25.480 You know, you went to college and play volleyball app state, right, 0:27:27.000 --> 0:27:33.120 but yet you're this bona fide superstar, right, like you said, 0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:39.359 crazy athletic. But and I'm assuming and guessing just based 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:41.320 off the conversation and a little bit I know about 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:45.640 you that you're also very quiet, and you keep to yourself, 0:27:45.720 --> 0:27:53.360 and you you are sometimes overthinker, right, you're thinking and 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:57.520 and and listening. But people don't really have a great 0:27:57.600 --> 0:28:02.200