1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:17,639 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome, Welcome all, Welcome Aaron to here he is 2 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: you can see his booty. Welcome, Welcome to another episode 3 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: of Bells of the Brawl. Thank you, thank you for 4 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: joining us, hell f Iar and Brindstone. This is us 5 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: pulling the trigger. This is what that's what we say 6 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:38,279 Speaker 1: when we pull the trigger to go live. So hell 7 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: Fire and Brinstone, we are live. So welcome, Welcome. Who's uh, Lena, 8 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: bump your audio up a little up. I bumped the 9 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: desktop audio a little bit so you should be able 10 00:00:53,960 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: to hear her. Look at the hair her today, Lena 11 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:06,559 Speaker 1: is beautiful. Look at that so long Alexis. Alexis got 12 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: her her signature hair, looking beautiful as usual. Now and 13 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: let's let's let's take a moment to look at those teeth. 14 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,839 Speaker 1: Alexis got her braces off today after how many years? 15 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 2: Yay yea, you got them off right or got them 16 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 2: on right before? 17 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 3: Nola? 18 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 2: Yeah right, And that's like right around the time we 19 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 2: all found each other. And I'm like telling these girls, 20 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 2: like I'm about to get braces on right before we got. 21 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: I mean right before, like day, like I mean it 22 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: was like weeks before, right, days. 23 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 2: Like days literally seven days before. 24 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: Wow, maybe not even yeah, it was. It was and 25 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: she wasn't pain during that trip to like, but listen, 26 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: but if anybody can pull off braces, it's Alexis like, 27 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: come on, like you you like somehow made it so cute, 28 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: so cute. 29 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 2: I work with a lot of people that I worked 30 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: with didn't even know I have racist They're like, I 31 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 2: eat off work because I have to get my braces off. 32 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 2: And they're like, you've had racists. 33 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: The whole time, and I'm like, I just looked real 34 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: good with them. 35 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 3: So he said that you could bump my audio up. 36 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: I am, let me see it. But Lena's audio is okay. 37 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 1: Can someone confirm I did turn the desktop audio. 38 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 3: Up a little bit more? Check one two. 39 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: So yeah, we are continuing. I'm still messing with my camera. 40 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: We are continuing our series of female creators in the community, 41 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: I mean creators, wrestlers, whatever. If you're a female and 42 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: you're in the wrestling community, you're welcome. So Alexis is 43 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: a brand influencer. She's a merch maven. She is the 44 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: originator of the wrestle Bay movement. She started. She is 45 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: the reason that most of us have found each other 46 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,959 Speaker 1: so I want to I want her to talk a 47 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: little about you. Guys know that you guys know the structure. 48 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: She's gonna spend some time talking about herself. We're gonna 49 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: ask her some questions while will we are talking. You 50 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: guys can leave whatever questions you have for Alexis in 51 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,839 Speaker 1: the chat and once we get real unprofessional at the end, 52 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: we will answer your question. So, Alexis, tell. 53 00:03:58,520 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 3: Me your story. 54 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: I know your I mean, I kind of know your story, 55 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: but like, tell tell the people of. 56 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 3: Your story, tell me, tell everyone. 57 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 1: She may be a little frozen, guys, so if if 58 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: she freezes, we will we will bear with her. 59 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 3: Which is really funny. 60 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 2: Can y'all hear me? 61 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: I can hear you? Just find now you just froze 62 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: for just a second. 63 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 2: Ill it keeps saying my connections unstable. And I don't 64 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 2: know why, maybe because I live out in the country. 65 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 2: I literally started everything by accident. 66 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 3: I've been. 67 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 2: I've been a wrestling fan since like early two thousand. 68 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 2: I want to say, like two thousand and three is shit, 69 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 2: like where I call myself a wrestling fan. But I 70 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: made a shirt some of you may know it. 71 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 4: It was. 72 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 2: I feel like, take her on the front and then 73 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,359 Speaker 2: it had this big like two some arch and it 74 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 2: was like undertakers accomplishments, and it was like. 75 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 3: The dead Man. 76 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: This was like what three or four years ago? 77 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 3: Two? 78 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 2: Three years ago? 79 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's how I found you, That's how 80 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: we became friends. 81 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 2: By accident. Well I didn't make the sure by accident. 82 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 2: I made it shortly after Manio and take her loss. 83 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 2: And I made it just a one on one for 84 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 2: myself because at the time my friend. 85 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 3: In Louisville he was making I. 86 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 2: Feel like Gucci shirts, Gucci for Gucci man who I 87 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:37,359 Speaker 2: think at the time he was in jail so and 88 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 2: about to come out, and so he already knew how 89 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 2: to make the design. I was like, can you make 90 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 2: this shirt for me? 91 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 3: And I went and. 92 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 2: Got it printed at a local T shirts spot here. 93 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 2: It cost me like forty dollars to get it printed 94 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 2: for myself. Wore a twitture of a Scott concert, took 95 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 2: a picture in it and it went viral and then 96 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 2: people were under in the thread on Twitter like where 97 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 2: do I buy this shirt? Can I buy this da 98 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 2: da dah? 99 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 3: So a few weeks later I was like, Hey, we 100 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 3: need to run this shirt like people are going crazy. 101 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 2: So we printed a few copies of it and started 102 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 2: selling them. I think at the time, around the time 103 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 2: it went viral. Simone Johnson, who is the Rock's daughter, 104 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 2: bought it and she took a picture and she was 105 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 2: probably like the first celebrity celebrity. Sorry, I have a 106 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 2: list right now with these retainers. She was the first 107 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: celebrity to wear it. And then Sasha Banks wore it, 108 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 2: and I sent one to Summer Ray Sasha and Stella 109 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 2: who is a former w W makeup artist who now is 110 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: with a w. 111 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 3: And they went on a. 112 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 2: Girl's trip to Vegas and they wore it and they 113 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 2: posted pictures in it like literally kind of like a 114 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 2: year later or a few months later after it flew up. 115 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 3: The first time. 116 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 2: So after that, when Sasha posted the picture and it 117 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 2: and dragged me, I went viral again. At the time, 118 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 2: I had sold out of the original shirt, wasn't making 119 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 2: it anymore. 120 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 3: And so I had to like revamp the shirt. 121 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: And make it out and make it again and did that. 122 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 2: So that is my claim of fame story, my origin story. 123 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 2: I literally found wrestling by accident flipping channels and it 124 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 2: was right around. 125 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 3: The John Cena and JBL feud and. 126 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 2: He was coming out and throwback Doctor of the Economics year, 127 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: and I was like, who is this white man in 128 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 2: throwback jerseys? I was obsessed. And then literally from that 129 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: day on, I started watching it myself on TV, yeah 130 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 2: or whatever. And so I thought this whole time, that 131 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 2: whole time. 132 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 3: Before up untiled in that wrestling was a video game. 133 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 2: I did not know that it was a television show. 134 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 3: That came on TV. 135 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 2: I literally thought it was like Mortal Kombat or something 136 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 2: that was just like made up as like from a 137 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: video game, until I found it myself on keating. 138 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: And now you've pretty much I mean, you're working to 139 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: make a career out of it. I mean, not only 140 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: have you done some incredible things with your merch, but 141 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: you're planning on training. So it's it's really I mean, 142 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: it's it's paved so many paths for you. I mean, 143 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 1: she went viral with this this Undertaker shirt, and I 144 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: remember buying it and we I mean I bought it, 145 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: and then we didn't become like really close friends for 146 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, after that. But you have 147 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: released so many hitters it's insane, Like every drop she 148 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: drops is I mean it sells out. I've got one 149 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,239 Speaker 1: on today. Oh, this is probably my favorite. 150 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 3: You did this. 151 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: You did this around Lave like I think you did 152 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: this around like Evolution, right. 153 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was because I wore before Evolution. 154 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so yeah, because I wore this shirt while 155 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: I was up for Evolution. So you know, she's I 156 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: mean I bought all of her merch, but I mean 157 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: she's done like a sick Halloween. My my favorite is 158 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: your monster mash rip that you did. That is probably 159 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: my favorite teaching. You know, that's my favorite one that 160 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: you've done. But uh, tell us a little bit about 161 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: what else you've cooked up as far as like merch 162 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: for people. Tell us a little bit about walle Mania, 163 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: like you having your booth at walle Mania. 164 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. So I so through the ongoing viral, I've met 165 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 2: like a lot of friends through that. 166 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 3: And just became like lifelong friends through wrestling and. 167 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 2: Through my brand and having it. And even long after 168 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 2: I retired from making ty shirts just based off WWE 169 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 2: or whoever, I will still probably be making merch underground 170 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 2: for people. It was just something that I always grew 171 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 2: up wanting to be a fashion designer. That's what I 172 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 2: went to college for and I've always just loved clothes, 173 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,839 Speaker 2: but I never imagine making wrestling merch for myself as 174 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 2: my own brand. It was really like a hobby to me, 175 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 2: an extra way to make money so I can go. 176 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 3: To wrestling shows. 177 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 2: But I had followed Amelia and Kaz when they did 178 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 2: the Wrestle Wrap podcast together and literally. 179 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 3: Just became a fan of them. 180 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 2: This is even way before I even had a brand, 181 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 2: before I went viral, just we just became friends after 182 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 2: they followed me back because we were just back and 183 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 2: forth wrestling conversations and I'm a girl, and it's very 184 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 2: rare for girls to a like wrestling. 185 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 3: And then be be knowledgeable about wrestling, especially me. 186 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 2: You think somebody that started watching wrestling or like in. 187 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 3: Two thousand and two or two thousand and three, that's like. 188 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 2: Not really knowledgeable, but kind of like Alex last week, 189 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 2: She's like she knew what wrestling was, but she really 190 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 2: went back and went and saw for herself and watched 191 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 2: like the old old school stuff. And that's really how 192 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 2: I found Sean Michaels. And I'm like, just like Alex, 193 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with Shawn Michaels, like he is the Ghat. 194 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 2: There's no other number one. There is Shawn Michaels, and 195 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 2: then there's Rick Claire and then maybe three, well maybe 196 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 2: be John Cena for me or Teddy Bassi. But can 197 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 2: you tell that all my favorite wrestlers are flashy? Yeah, 198 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 2: I love that, as in a millio from wrestll Wrap. 199 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 2: I owe them a ton of like I just owe 200 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,720 Speaker 2: them my life as far as merch goes. 201 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 3: So Wrestling New Orleans. 202 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 2: Was that thirty four? I can't remember numbers off the 203 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: top of my. 204 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 3: Head me neither that thirty four. It sounds sounds right. 205 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 2: It sounds right. 206 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like it feels like ten years ago. 207 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 2: I know it was so long ago. I like, oh 208 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:21,559 Speaker 2: my god. So WRESTLINGIA thirty four went to New Orleans 209 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 2: just as a fan. That's my first Mania, first experience 210 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 2: at a wrestling show for like at a pay per 211 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 2: view that large ever and then this is also to 212 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:35,839 Speaker 2: my first time in New Orleans. 213 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 3: As an grown ass. 214 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 2: Adult over the age of twenty one. So also went 215 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 2: out there to be lit. So I went. 216 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 3: That was my first walle Mania. 217 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 2: The first day I got there, literally dropped my bags down, 218 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 2: started getting ready and went to actually I met up 219 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 2: with the girls for a little bit. Then me and 220 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 2: a Leio went and got ready and Lia met up 221 00:12:54,600 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 2: with me and we went to the show. This like literally, 222 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 2: like I said, I went as a fan, so I 223 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 2: paid one hundred dollars for VIP ticket because I support 224 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:09,319 Speaker 2: my friends too, just like that, my friends support me, 225 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,199 Speaker 2: like I'll pay for whatever you're selling, like if it's 226 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 2: dope to me, I'm always going to support my friends 227 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 2: because they supported me through someone so much. So I 228 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 2: went to that experienced it, and of course that was 229 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,439 Speaker 2: my first time meeting Cas in person. I was actually 230 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 2: with Cast at lunch in New Orleans when he got 231 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 2: the notification that he was going to be working for 232 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 2: WWE when he got the WWE writer position, which is 233 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 2: really cool, like the first person he told and like 234 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 2: this is just coming off of being friends with somebody 235 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 2: off the internet, Like I tell people, like the importance 236 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 2: of the Internet is so crazy, especially in wrestling culture, 237 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,079 Speaker 2: Like it's bigger than being a heel podcaster or whatever, 238 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,959 Speaker 2: and it's bigger than just being a personality on the internet. 239 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 2: You can make really like good connections and then Alstoff 240 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 2: too lifelong friendships through this ship and I don't play 241 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,439 Speaker 2: about any of the people, regardless of I've met them 242 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 2: over the Internet or in real life. I care so 243 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,839 Speaker 2: much about this community that I hate to see it 244 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 2: crumbling the way it is right now due to assholes 245 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 2: on the Internet, people with their heel opinions. 246 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: It's fucked jd all day. 247 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 2: He sucks and I don't even know. 248 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 3: Who he is. 249 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: I don't either. I wish I had never found out. 250 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 3: Grams Toys whoever that. 251 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 2: Grim's dude is. Oh my god. They just like, there's like, 252 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 2: as much good there's in this community, is so much 253 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 2: poison as well. And we as first of all, we 254 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 2: have females need to step up as leaders to lead 255 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 2: that ship out of here. It's got to get the 256 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 2: fuck out well. 257 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: And that that brings me to I want to pull 258 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: it back to you starting the Wrestle Bay series in 259 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 1: your on your blog, because that is what that is 260 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: not only the way that you and I became close, 261 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: it's the way that we have pulled in so many 262 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: females into the community. And you you started this, like you, 263 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: we give you credit for this all day, like and 264 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm thankful that you know several years later that we've 265 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: kept it going. So tell us about the Wrestle Bay series. 266 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: We all know Miss Vanessa was the first. Uh yeah, 267 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 1: so tell us tell us you know what, Obviously you 268 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: wanted to give females a platform, But tell us a 269 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: little bit about that. 270 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, wrestle Bay was like kind of like a 271 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 2: little nickname that I gave myself. Of course, like before 272 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 2: I was like a full pledge internet wrestling nerd. I 273 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 2: was selling sneakers at a boutique here in town, and 274 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 2: I was just know around town about being this sneaker Bay, 275 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 2: I guess, and so I flipped. 276 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 3: That really and turned none. 277 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: Nope, she froze. 278 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 2: I froze in. 279 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh there you are. 280 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 3: It happens. 281 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: It happens. 282 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 2: Sorry. 283 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 3: So wrestle Bay is any girl. Doesn't matter. 284 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 2: Your color, doesn't matter, your size, doesn't matter how long 285 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 2: you've liked wrestling, if you liked it for two minutes 286 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 2: or twenty five years, it doesn't matter. It's any girl 287 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 2: that loves wrestling. And I'm talking about from top to bottom. 288 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 2: You live and breathe a shit just like anybody else. 289 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 2: Because I felt like, who gets the shitty into the 290 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 2: stick at the end of the day in this community 291 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 2: it's always the women. So I wanted to create a platform. 292 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 2: I'm kind of an outlet for girls to meet other 293 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 2: girls that are also in this community, that are not 294 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 2: as well known, that may not have other friends that 295 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,919 Speaker 2: they know that they can travel as shows with. So 296 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 2: I'm like literally showcasing girls from all across the United 297 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 2: States and sometimes outside of the United States to other 298 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 2: girls that are either scared to come out and say 299 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 2: they like wrestling, or not really active in the community 300 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,360 Speaker 2: or really active in the community. That's pretty much why 301 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 2: I started it. I built this group of friends just 302 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 2: off of liking wrestling, and I wanted to show, hey, 303 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 2: there's a group of girls out here that really like 304 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 2: this shit, and if you like this shit, we can 305 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,719 Speaker 2: all be friends well. 306 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:48,120 Speaker 1: And because of that, we've been We've all been friends 307 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: for over three years now. We've traveled to several shows together. 308 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:58,120 Speaker 1: So I mean, you, even if I know you haven't 309 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: done one in a long time, even if you never 310 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: do one again, you accomplished what you need to do 311 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: accomplish with that series. I mean, you brought so many females, 312 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: not only our core group, but people like Lena who 313 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: had stopped watching wrestling, and I was going to you know, 314 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: a lot of people know this, and me and Lena 315 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,400 Speaker 1: talk about this as we had a you know, our 316 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: last podcast was about horror movies. And Lena didn't even 317 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: watch wrestling. She watched it a little bit when she 318 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: was a kid. But I mean, Lena, you you only 319 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 1: really heavily got back into it last year. 320 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean after hearing you talk about it and 321 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 5: Eli talked about. 322 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 3: It, but especially you, I was like, oh. 323 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 5: Another girl likes this, and that got me interested in it. 324 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 3: And especially when I saw Cayla post. 325 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 5: The picture of the og wrestle bays at WrestleMania, you know, 326 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 5: with all the different personalities you can relate to the 327 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 5: you know, different ones, and I was like, I can 328 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,479 Speaker 5: get into this and it's cool, you know, like and 329 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 5: it's it's like mainstream now. 330 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 1: And that's something that I owe. I owe to Alexis 331 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: because if if Alexis had not started that series, and 332 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: if I had not met Vanessa, I would I would 333 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: have felt alone. I didn't know anybody. I was new 334 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: to wrestling. I didn't start listening, you know, watching in 335 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:31,959 Speaker 1: until like twenty thirteen, so like when I got into it, 336 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: I felt very, very alone. I felt, I felt like 337 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 1: I had no other female connections. And yeah, like I mean, 338 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 1: I've been friends with guys my whole life, but that 339 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: female to female connection just it hits different. And when 340 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: you find something in a male dominated industry, when you 341 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: find a group of females and a male dominated industry, 342 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: you want to hold onto that and and I can't. 343 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: I mean, I gush about I mean these people, you know, 344 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: these people are my friends. We bring you know, they're 345 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: content creators, but they're also my friends and the people 346 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 1: I love. I owe all of my friendships essentially to Alexis. 347 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: I mean, if you had not started, if you had 348 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: not started that series, we would not have all met 349 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: up at Mania met seth Rowlands. 350 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 3: Oh my god. The process of getting the seth rawlins, Like. 351 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 2: I got my ticket, I got my ticket. I was like, 352 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 2: do I really? Because I'm not like a meet and 353 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 2: greet person like I, like Taylor said last episode, like 354 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 2: she sees like these people as her peers. So I'm 355 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 2: not like the type of the person that we stand 356 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 2: in line, you know, like a mark to meet these 357 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 2: because like I said, like I see these people as 358 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,199 Speaker 2: my peers as well. Because I'm right before the Corona happened. 359 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 2: I was literally supposed to start training, so I can't 360 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 2: be I mean, of course she looks cool, like looking back, 361 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 2: if you do make into wabi and you have a 362 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 2: picture with a wrestler like way back in the day. 363 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:08,479 Speaker 3: But it's like this is still kind of current. 364 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,200 Speaker 2: I don't want to be looking like a geek. 365 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, all ther way, But it's crazy though. 366 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 2: What I was gonna say is it's crazy because as 367 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 2: passionate as Taylor is, Taylor talks like she's been watching 368 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 2: wrestling for like literally forty years. Like I agree, just 369 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 2: started watching wrestling in twenty thirteen. 370 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 3: Like I was floored when she said that she had. 371 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 2: Just started relating wrestling, And I was like, are you serious, 372 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 2: because you were like more passionate than. 373 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 3: The like most intense person that's. 374 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 2: Been watching it all their lives. 375 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 3: Yeah. 376 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 2: Well, I like she said though, like it is it's 377 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 2: hard thirteen and you're on the internet in twenty thirteen 378 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 2: and twenty you know, twenty thirteen and beyond up to 379 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:49,959 Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. 380 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,639 Speaker 3: When we met. 381 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 2: It's like people would attack, Like guys would attack you 382 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 2: on the internet if you didn't know your shit about wrestling. 383 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 2: So that's really intimidating as a female to get ripped 384 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,919 Speaker 2: on the internet because it's like name uh. 385 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 3: Sean Michael's first. 386 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 2: Five matches, Like come on now, Like you don't have 387 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 2: the quiz like that? Just no, I know my shit 388 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 2: and I like what I like and keep it moving. 389 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: Well and you don't know. If you don't know, then 390 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: who cares? 391 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 3: Like you can't handle that? 392 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 1: Like give people an opportunity to learn, you know, like 393 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: male or female, Like I don't know everything. There's so 394 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: I'm not like Alice who is like a walking wrestling encyclopedia, 395 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: Like my brain doesn't hold like my brain doesn't hold 396 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 1: that information. But like if people like, don't dog people 397 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: for not being super knowledgeable, Like I don't know everything. 398 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: You don't know everything, like we you have not watched 399 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: every second of wrestling over the past like fifty years, 400 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: one hundred freaking years. 401 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 2: There's so much content out there that it's impossible to 402 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 2: touch everything. Like I'm pretty sure wrestlers have anyone watched 403 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 2: that that much content? Yeah, yeah, you can't. You can't 404 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 2: grasp that. Yeah and shut out to Hannah, thank you 405 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:12,919 Speaker 2: so much. I actually had over here in my pile 406 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,120 Speaker 2: of life so I will get that shipped out. 407 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you haven't checked out her merch, her website 408 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: will drop this again at the end. Her website is 409 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,880 Speaker 1: alexislittlefit dot com. She's still got a ton of designs 410 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 1: up and definitely check her out. Her merch is just 411 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. But I want to talk to you about 412 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,640 Speaker 1: you know, we we've talked about how you've basically changed 413 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: the landscape for females and wrestling and brought so many 414 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: of us together and given us so much confidence about 415 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,199 Speaker 1: being able to be passionate. And I mean, you know, 416 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: two years ago, I didn't have this. I didn't I 417 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,959 Speaker 1: didn't want to, I didn't make content, and now you know, 418 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,719 Speaker 1: people like Alexis have inspired me to give my platform 419 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 1: to other females and continue that chain. So what I 420 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,479 Speaker 1: want I want to talk to you about who are 421 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: your influences? You talked about you know, you're you're wanting 422 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: to train, You're gonna train, We're gonna get out of 423 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: Rona and you're gonna train. So talk to me about 424 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: who who are your influences? Who what females really caught 425 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: your attention when you started watching wrestling, and who do 426 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: you do you see yourself, Like, obviously you're gonna be yourself, 427 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 1: You're not gonna be anybody else. But who inspired you? 428 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 1: Have you thought about move sets, any tributes? Tell us 429 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 1: a little bit about. 430 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 3: That theme music? Maybe? 431 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, theme music? Oh listen it. One thing I can 432 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: tell you about Alexis is that she has all this 433 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: ship cooking in her brain. This woman one can put 434 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 1: together an outfit better than anybody that I've ever met 435 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: in my entire life. She can put together an outfit. 436 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 1: She I mean her like if you've never seen her 437 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: Carmelo cosplay, like, oh my god, mind blown it was. 438 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: It was mind blowing. It was, Oh god, it was 439 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: so good. So yeah, so tell us tell us about 440 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:20,359 Speaker 1: who your influences are, I mean female and male, but 441 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: mostly female, And who really inspired you to want to 442 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: actually get out there and wrestle? 443 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,040 Speaker 3: Oh so many? 444 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 2: Uh of course, off the top of my head, the 445 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 2: first female really was Mickey James. I fell in love 446 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 2: with her because before she was Mickey James, her name 447 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 2: was Alexis Lourie and I was like, I can't believe yeah, 448 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 2: And she's amazing and her DDT is fucking perfect, Like 449 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 2: I love I'm Mickey James to this day, like if 450 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 2: I met her, I would probably break down and cry. 451 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: She lives in Nashville, of course. 452 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 2: I started watching in like the two thousand. She does 453 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 2: live in Nashville, like only like three hours away. 454 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 3: I should stalk her. 455 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 2: Also, topd my head from the from the Diva Search, 456 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 2: Ashley Massarrow Rest in Peace because she was the first 457 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:33,199 Speaker 2: like reality show if you want to call it a 458 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 2: reality show diva that literally got a contract off of 459 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 2: being herself. Like that was so cool to me that 460 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 2: she didn't have to be fake or change the way 461 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 2: she looked. And then she also put her her phone 462 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 2: number on live TV and I literally called that phone 463 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 2: number every day after school. I was in middle school. 464 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 2: I was like blown away that this lady would cut 465 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 2: her phone number. 466 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, we froze. 467 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: That's all right, it's all right, that's what battles for. 468 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,080 Speaker 3: He can edit, that's right. 469 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 2: Last, but I don't even I can't do last, but 470 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 2: a least. I got Jackie Jacqueline, I got Jazz, Crystal Marshall, Naomi, 471 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 2: Alicia Fox, all the black divas, because as a black 472 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 2: girl that young watching white male dumbas for it, you 473 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 2: just can't forget those ladies and who like how tough 474 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 2: it could have been for them even now still oh. 475 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure it has never stopped being tough. 476 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. I just couldn't imagine, especially back in the day 477 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 2: when Jazz and Jacqueline were throwing down, because early two thousands, 478 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 2: late nineties, there's not really that much many black women 479 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 2: on TV anyway, So I know, I can't imagine how 480 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 2: many opportunities they probably missed because they're a black woman, 481 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 2: and that just sucks to me. And they are even 482 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 2: more powerful that they still rose up to the occasion 483 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,119 Speaker 2: in each of their respective errors. 484 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:27,920 Speaker 1: So and they are still kicking ass, killing it. 485 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm ready for Nailmi to have the belt. 486 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: Just sam my girl, long overdue glove. Every everyone that 487 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: listens to this podcast listens to me and Lena bitch 488 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: about Bianca, and I'm like, yeah, we're not going to 489 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: get into that conversation. We all we all know how 490 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 1: we all feel about it. But it's just a fucking tragedy. 491 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: It's just long overdo. But as females in the industry, 492 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: I think that it's really important that people like you 493 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 1: are changing it. They're you're changing the landscape for not 494 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: only women, but you're changing it for women of color 495 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: as well. And that's I mean, even if you never train, 496 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,479 Speaker 1: make sure that you know that you had that and 497 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: you did make a difference. And that's why I mean, 498 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: that's honestly like merch and everything fire merch aside. That's 499 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: why I wanted you on here is because you have 500 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 1: You're I don't want to use the word trailblazer because 501 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: it sounds so dramatic, but you have. I mean, you 502 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: You've opened a lot of doors for people. You've inspired 503 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: a lot of people, and you've inspired a lot of 504 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: women and women of color to be vocal about their 505 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: passion for wrestling. You've you've helped them be vocal I 506 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: mean about a lot of things. Because we all know 507 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: Lex is vocal and it's the best. She's a Southern 508 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: woman like me. But she's a Southern woman like me. 509 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 1: We don't shut our mouth. So I think that's why 510 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: we get along so well. So so, Lex, what is 511 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about who you're watching right 512 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: now in the indies? Who are you watching on the 513 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: main shows? Who who are your current your current favorites 514 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: that you're you're keeping keep on. 515 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 2: Bianca Bill Air. 516 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 3: I feel like. 517 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 2: She the it's the black girl affect in w W. 518 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 2: I call it. 519 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: About she has the IT factors, but still not get 520 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: your opportunities. 521 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 2: And that's crazy to me that you see what happened Naomi. 522 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 2: It took her with about six seven years to get 523 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 2: a championship, and hopefully we don't have to see it 524 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 2: take that long for her to be on the main 525 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 2: roster to get her championship. But mm hmm, I'm not 526 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 2: going hold my bro. 527 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: Nope, I don't think anybody is going to hold my bro. Yeah, 528 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: are you watching anybody on the indies right now? 529 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 2: But I haven't really watched much indie wrestling. I really 530 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,160 Speaker 2: want to get into the Josie wrestling just because of 531 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 2: what transpired last week and getting some more of the 532 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 2: female Japanese wrestling, but I haven't. 533 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 3: Really been watching indian. 534 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 2: I haven't really been watching a W. I watched NXT 535 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 2: for the first time since they debuted on USA yesterday 536 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 2: and it was kind of crazy. But I don't know, 537 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 2: it's just nothing without the fans, It's nothing's really sparking 538 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 2: for me, like it just the fans really add that 539 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 2: much more intensity to whatever is going on. 540 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: Unless you're a big swallow, then you threaten everybody and 541 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 1: fight and trying to find everybody in the middle. 542 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 2: Talent in there. 543 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 3: I love her, I love her great. 544 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: She is I mean, yes, Alexis and I both know her, 545 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 1: and she is I mean, she's she is, I mean, 546 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: and she's just as incredible as as you would expect 547 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 1: her to be like. 548 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 3: She is just amazing. 549 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: She is one of one of my especially favorite people. 550 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 3: But she was I think it was double. 551 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 5: I guess it was double or nothing. She and Sonny 552 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 5: Kiss look like they're going to get into something, like 553 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 5: they're scheming something together. I love them together. 554 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: I wish I would. I would pay for them to 555 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: be at I would pay for them Anatae. 556 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 3: It's funny that you were so great. 557 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: It's funny that you mentioned Joshi Wrestling, because I do 558 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: want to. I do want to. I'm trying to find 559 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: I had a match of the week. We actually had 560 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 1: a Twitter suggestion of a match of the week, so 561 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: while we're talking about Joshie wrestling, I want to pull 562 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: that up, and for some reason, I can't find it. 563 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 1: But it was a Kana versus hikarusheta match. I'll if 564 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 1: I can find it for some reason, Lena, I think 565 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: it was on your Twitter as well. I retweeted it, 566 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: but for some reason I cannot find it now Twitter 567 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 1: has somehow eaten my tweet. But the I think it 568 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: was like from twenty fourteen, it was, Yeah it was 569 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:52,600 Speaker 1: Oscar who when she was Kana Yep versus Hikarusheeda. But 570 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 1: I cannot find it, so I don't know if the 571 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 1: person that suggested it deleted the tweet. I was gonna 572 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: shout them out and fortune for some reason, I can't 573 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: find it. So sorry. But yeah, if you just google 574 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 1: Kanda versus Carusheta, that's gonna be your match of the week. 575 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 1: Go watch some Joshie wrestling. Alexis, thanks for sending that. Yeah, yeah, 576 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,880 Speaker 1: I can't pull up the Twitter name. If you're listening 577 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 1: to this, you know who you are. Thank you for 578 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: the suggestion. I don't know where your tweet went, so 579 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Alexis. This is a part of the show 580 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:39,160 Speaker 1: where we it is Ladies Choice. So if you have 581 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: anything that you want to speak on, any matches, any 582 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 1: wrestlers that you are passionate about that you want to 583 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 1: talk about, this is your platform to give us your socials. 584 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,399 Speaker 1: Talk about whatever you want to talk about while we 585 00:34:55,520 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: do this chat, please field your questions for a Alexis 586 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: will take a short break after she uh has her 587 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:11,279 Speaker 1: her final time and then we'll shoot the ship. So Alexis, 588 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,879 Speaker 1: the floor is yours. To round out the episode, say 589 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: whatever you want to say, drop your socials, plug what 590 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,760 Speaker 1: you need to plug, and we will take a small break. 591 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 3: Hey, my name is Alexis little Foot. 592 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 2: You can follow me at Young Little Foot on all 593 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 2: platforms yu D. 594 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,400 Speaker 3: Because I'm ghetto, I just want to. 595 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,719 Speaker 2: Say, first of all, I just want to applaud every 596 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 2: single wrestler that is a talent that's in the Indies, 597 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 2: that's in the w w AW, whatever that is speaking up. 598 00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,839 Speaker 3: On the situation that's happened in Minnesota right now. 599 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 2: Like back in the day, I honestly believe that none, 600 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,359 Speaker 2: none of our favorite wrestlers would be speaking on this 601 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,600 Speaker 2: moment had this happened in the early two thousands, mid 602 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,479 Speaker 2: two thousands, and now we are here in twenty twenty 603 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,439 Speaker 2: and we're finally getting our favorite wrestler speaking up. Shout 604 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,320 Speaker 2: out to Titus O'Neil, Shout out to Naomi jay Usso, 605 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 2: Jimmy Usso even Italian Nightheart says something, you know, we 606 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 2: are nothing if we don't have any allies, and this shit. 607 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 2: So if you're not an ally and you have a 608 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 2: rebuttal to what's going on, and you have a rebuttal 609 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 2: to somebody saying black lives matter, fuck you, because. 610 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 3: For to say all lives matter and to. 611 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,759 Speaker 2: Have a rebuttal to, oh, well, he was doing this 612 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:44,960 Speaker 2: and she was doing this, and there was it's irrelevant. 613 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,880 Speaker 2: Nobody should have to lose their life over signing a 614 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,799 Speaker 2: bad check. Nobody should have to lose their life over 615 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,640 Speaker 2: being in the bed and police coming in and banging 616 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,040 Speaker 2: down your door at eight o'clock in the morning, two 617 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,880 Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning, firing a weapon at you because 618 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,880 Speaker 2: they had a police search warrant. Like that happened in Kentucky, 619 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,800 Speaker 2: my state, a state that I live in. It's ridiculous. 620 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,480 Speaker 2: And I've lived in Kentucky pretty much all my life. 621 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,480 Speaker 2: I've lived in other places too. This is one of 622 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,319 Speaker 2: the racist states in America. And to say that and 623 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:21,040 Speaker 2: there's still racism in Minnesota, there's still racism in New York, 624 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:27,080 Speaker 2: one of the most diverse states in America, ridiculous. So 625 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,040 Speaker 2: if you are part of the community and you are 626 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,880 Speaker 2: not an ally, then what the fuck are you doing? 627 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:37,040 Speaker 2: Because this community is wrestling community is a melting pot 628 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:41,520 Speaker 2: in itself, So how can you not respect other racism? 629 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 2: Be a wrestling fan, period, period and summer on that 630 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:48,720 Speaker 2: all you want. 631 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 1: To yeah, I mean simmer it. To round it out 632 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: a quick personal story, I spent my entire morning having 633 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: a panic attack and crying over this situation, and I 634 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 1: chose to reach out to a person of color and 635 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,839 Speaker 1: have an open conversation of what I could do one 636 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,759 Speaker 1: thing that I wanted to do tonight and that I 637 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,879 Speaker 1: want to do in the future. Unfortunately it's user error 638 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,839 Speaker 1: and I haven't quite figured it out yet. Is there 639 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,759 Speaker 1: is a charity function? I believe now as an affiliate, 640 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,719 Speaker 1: I can set up a charity function, and I do want. 641 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,839 Speaker 1: I want to the Minnesota bail thing. If I can 642 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:30,359 Speaker 1: somehow set that up for a next stream, I want 643 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 1: to set that up. But I can only urge people 644 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,040 Speaker 1: that if you do not understand the struggles of a 645 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:40,040 Speaker 1: person of color in any industry, that I urge you 646 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 1: to have the open conversation with someone that you I 647 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,960 Speaker 1: had it with a basic I mean a stranger, I 648 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,160 Speaker 1: mean someone that I know on Twitter that happened to 649 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 1: be up while I was crying at eight o'clock this 650 00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:56,399 Speaker 1: morning and had an open conversation with me. Made sure 651 00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 1: that I stayed educated and that I knew how to 652 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,239 Speaker 1: support the black community. So I urge everyone, if you 653 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,759 Speaker 1: are not a person of color and you do not understand, 654 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:10,239 Speaker 1: have the conversation, educate yourself, be open and listen and 655 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 1: stand behind the people that you love. We have. That's 656 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:16,480 Speaker 1: what we have to do. We have to we have 657 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:22,000 Speaker 1: to protect each other. So yeah, we're gonna end it 658 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:28,359 Speaker 1: on that ship is fucked up right now, and we're 659 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,719 Speaker 1: gonna use this platform to make sure that we are 660 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:38,120 Speaker 1: supporting each other, supporting females, supporting people of color. If 661 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 1: you don't like it, don't listen. So uh, Lena, drop 662 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,960 Speaker 1: the socials and then we're gonna we're gonna turn off 663 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:49,560 Speaker 1: the professionalism. 664 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:55,600 Speaker 5: Yes, you can find me at Lena Delby on Instagram 665 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:57,879 Speaker 5: and I'm tweeting more. 666 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,920 Speaker 1: I'm so proud. I'm so proud these. 667 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:06,080 Speaker 5: Crazy thoughts out onto Twitter. So at Lena delbear on 668 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,640 Speaker 5: what about you, Kayla? 669 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:13,239 Speaker 1: I am the sheenam uh t h E s h 670 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:17,440 Speaker 1: E N O M like the phenom, but she because 671 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:23,400 Speaker 1: a lady. The sheenam on Twitter, the dot genom on Instagram, 672 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:28,719 Speaker 1: the sheename on Twitch. Where you are currently If you 673 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,000 Speaker 1: are are watching this, uh, we are on Twitch. If 674 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,799 Speaker 1: you are listening to this, you should be joining us 675 00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:40,560 Speaker 1: every Thursday, maybe Saturday, depending on who we have at 676 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:45,799 Speaker 1: Twitch tv, Twitch dot tv, Backslash, Forward Slash whatever. I 677 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,360 Speaker 1: never remember uh the she name. We have started to 678 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:53,920 Speaker 1: stream these episodes. We're having guests on every week, females, creators, 679 00:40:54,200 --> 00:41:00,120 Speaker 1: wrestlers in the wrestling community, giving everyone UH as as 680 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:04,280 Speaker 1: much of a platform as we possibly can. 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