1 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: Hi, guys, welcome back to Post Friend High. Today we 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: are joined by Ashley Flair. She is a WWE star 3 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: also known as Charlotte Flair, and she is the daughter 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: of Rick Flair, who is a WWE legend. I am 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: so excited for you to listen to today's episode. To 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: be totally honest, I knew very little about WWE going 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: into today's run and then sit down conversation with Ashley, 8 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: but I have to say I was so excited to 9 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,519 Speaker 1: be able to chat with her, learn all about the 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: world of WWE, and just learn about her in general. 11 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: She is such an interesting person. She's so kind, and 12 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: her energy is seriously contagious. I think you guys are 13 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: going to be so inspired and motivated coming out of 14 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 1: this conversation. Ashley and I also both share a traumatic injury. 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: She tore her ACL last year. I've toured my ACL twice, 16 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: so it was nice to be able to connect a 17 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: bit on that during our run and then also during 18 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: this down chat. But anyways, I hope you guys are 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: excited to get to know Ashley or Charlotte, whatever name 20 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: you want to call her. And without further ado, let's 21 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: get into today's episode. 22 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 2: Ashley Elizabeth Flair. Welcome to Post run High. 23 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 3: Hi, thank you. I'm a little sweaty. 24 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: I'm sweaty too, So we just ran a mile through Dumbo. 25 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: We have a lot to unpack here. Before we started talking, 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,639 Speaker 1: I was like, I need to we need to unpack 27 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: WWE and. 28 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 2: All the things that gore. 29 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, we need a little wrestling one on one, but 30 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: first let's start here. Because publicly, well, you go by 31 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: both Ashley and Charlotte, but your stage name is Charlotte Flair. 32 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 1: Stage name Charlotte Flair or the Queen, and you grew 33 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: up in North Carolina. Yes, so that's where we're getting 34 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: the Charlotte from. Were there any other names in the 35 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: running before you chose Charlotte. 36 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 3: I pitched a few names. 37 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 4: I pitched Elizabeth read I loved to miss Elizabeth, and 38 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 4: then my little brother's name was real but they were like, no, 39 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 4: your dad's from Charlotte. W name me Charlotte because my 40 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 4: dad is Rick Flair in the wrestling world, he was 41 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 4: like one of the greatest of all times. So it 42 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 4: was Rick Flair from Charlotte, North Carolina. So when I started, 43 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 4: it was like, oh, Charlotte, my name of Charlotte and 44 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:15,359 Speaker 4: that was. 45 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 3: The jokes on them. 46 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, And what is the importance within the world of 47 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: wrestling and WWE of having a stage name, Like why 48 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: why go buy Charlotte and not Ashley because I love 49 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: the name. 50 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 3: No, I mean I could have gone by Ashley Flair, 51 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 3: to be honest. 52 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 4: It's just at that time, I don't think it was 53 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 4: as common, and I think probably being Rick's kid, it 54 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 4: was like, oh, we're going to give her like a 55 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,359 Speaker 4: stage name, like, not be Ashley Flair, because I when 56 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 4: I first started, I wasn't Charlotte Flair. 57 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 3: I was just Charlotte. 58 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 4: They didn't attach my last name till like four or 59 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 4: five years later or five years later. I didn't become 60 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 4: I did not become Charlotte Flair until like I grew 61 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:00,079 Speaker 4: into it. 62 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 3: It mm hmm. 63 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 2: Your dad was like, don't give her that laugh name. 64 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 3: And my dad had nothing to do with it. 65 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 4: It was just like I don't want to say burden, 66 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 4: but it was like a lot of pressure being his kid, 67 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 4: and then could I handle that pressure? And then you know, 68 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 4: coming like it's one thing people kind of knowing that 69 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 4: you're his kid, but then like, oh, Charlotte Flair, like yeah, 70 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 4: that's his kid. 71 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 3: So a couple of years. 72 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 4: After I started, that's when I started to come out 73 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 4: to as Charlotte Flair. 74 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: It's pretty wild your life and growing up with Rick 75 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,200 Speaker 1: as your dad and growing up in that kind of 76 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: world of but. 77 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 3: It really wasn't. 78 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 4: I think everyone thinks it was, like I mean, he 79 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,839 Speaker 4: had like bleached blonde hair and wore robes and went 80 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 4: wu But like, I really wasn't like I went to 81 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: shows with. 82 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 3: Friends or with teammates, but like I really. 83 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 4: Wasn't around the wrestling world or I wasn't really exposed 84 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 4: like to really much anything like played sports. 85 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 3: Was very much a homebody. 86 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 4: So like I think people think my life was like 87 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 4: super extravagant or wild growing up, but it was very like, 88 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 4: very normal other than like my dad's a professional wrestler. 89 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: When everyone at. 90 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 4: School was like, what's your dad do? Oh he's a doctor, 91 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 4: he's a lawyer. My dad's a wrestler. That was like 92 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 4: the only difference. 93 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: Talk to us then a little bit more like paint 94 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 1: the picture of your childhood, Like what was Ashley like 95 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: growing up? 96 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 2: Where exactly did you grow up? 97 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 3: I grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. 98 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 4: I I took a jazz tap in ballet class I 99 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 4: think from like third grade to middle school and gymnastics. 100 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 4: Gymnastics where I spent like twenty four hours a week competitively. 101 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 4: Until middle school. My little brother and I were inseparable. 102 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 4: I always remember every summer driving in my Grandmammy's car 103 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 4: in the back seat making a tent to Panama City 104 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 4: because my grandmother had a beach house on Mexico Beach. 105 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 4: We went to the same school together from t K 106 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 4: until high school. Read transferred first to public school and 107 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 4: then I transferred after him. He transferred for wrestling. I 108 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 4: transferred for volleyball. Grew up with the same kids, grew 109 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 4: up in the same house. It was very like normal. 110 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. 111 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 4: We went to my dad's shows when we could, went 112 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 4: to Disney every year when w CW had a Disney show. 113 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 3: Yeah. 114 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 4: After I graduated high school and like, things kind of 115 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 4: started to fall apart when my dad and my mom separated. 116 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 3: But I had that like great childhood. 117 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like a quintessential like North Carolina. 118 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,920 Speaker 4: There are like very much things that were going on. 119 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 4: I just don't think I was as aware of them 120 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 4: until I was older and I was like, oh yeah, 121 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 4: that probably wasn't normal or right or all. My mom 122 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 4: went through this and my dad went through this. But like, 123 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 4: for the most part, I was so involved in gymnastics. 124 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 4: I mean I really was training competitively, like you had 125 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 4: to hit a certain amount of numbers or hours a week, 126 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 4: probably fourth grade until middle school, which was a very 127 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 4: you know, impressionable years. So I spent a lot of 128 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 4: time on my gymnastics team, in my gymnastics coach. So 129 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 4: I just wasn't aware of like probably things and that's 130 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,479 Speaker 4: probably good until like college I was like, oh, yeah, 131 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 4: that wasn't that's not right. 132 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, what was going on that wasn't right? 133 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 3: Like no, like my dad's lifestyle being on the road 134 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 3: so much, and like my mom struggling with that, Yeah, 135 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 3: because what is that? 136 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 2: Like, like how often was your dad home? Like what 137 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: is the schedule? 138 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 4: I mean he was more home for Reed and I 139 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 4: than he was home for my older brother and sister, 140 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 4: my half brother and my half sister. How much older 141 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 4: My sister's fifty My older brother I think is forty five. 142 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 4: I'm thirty nine. No, so my brother's seven. My older 143 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 4: brother's seven years older than me, So yeah, late forties. 144 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 4: My sister's fifty and my dad was home a lot 145 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 4: more for me. But my dad just lived a very 146 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 4: fast paced life, and I think that was hard on 147 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 4: my mom, probably more like I just wasn't aware of 148 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 4: growing up and my dad was a great dad. My 149 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 4: mom was a great mom, but it definitely took a 150 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 4: toll on my mom. And like things that would come 151 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 4: out in the news or things that happened in wrestling, 152 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 4: like I just wasn't aware, Like I kind of remember flashbacks, 153 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 4: but it's probably better that I wasn't. 154 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: Aware, definitely, And I could imagine now that you are living, 155 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: you know, that similar fast paced life to what your 156 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: dad lived when you were growing up. 157 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 4: Like, and what I mean by fast paces, yeah, that 158 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 4: we're always on the road, right, just like I mean 159 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 4: we traveling circus. 160 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: Right, literally traveling circus. We talked about this before we started. 161 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: Fifty two weeks a year, fifty two weeks a year, 162 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: no breaks, Like, there aren't many professional sports out there 163 00:07:58,680 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: like that that. 164 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 3: Don't have MF season. 165 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: So what is it like having to be always on 166 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: And what does like a week in the life look 167 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: like for you? 168 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 4: I have my routine, I have my trainer now because 169 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 4: I tore my knee. I have rehab as well, so 170 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 4: I have the same time with my trainer every week, 171 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 4: rehab every week, wrestling practice that I still do just 172 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 4: because we went from having a lot more live shows 173 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 4: that aren't televised to less live shows, which gives you 174 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 4: a little, you know, more of a life. I do 175 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 4: miss the live shows that we do have them sometimes, 176 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 4: and that's what I do in between our shows. 177 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 3: So I always fly out Thursday. 178 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 4: I'll fly to whatever city we're in, work this TV Friday, 179 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 4: and then fly home Saturday, unless we have shows, or 180 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 4: unless we're overseas and unless I'm on Monday Night Raw, 181 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 4: which you could be, or unless you have a big 182 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 4: PLI which is our pay per views like we just 183 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 4: had at MetLife Stadium for Summer Slam where one of 184 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 4: the tag titles with Alex this past Saturday. It just 185 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 4: really varies week to week. I almost like don't even 186 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 4: feel like I work. I mean, I literally perform for 187 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 4: a living two audiences of all ages. Obviously the kids 188 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 4: are the best part, but the fans are the heartbeat 189 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 4: and then traveling the world getting to see them and 190 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 4: whether it's doing pr signings now being on Netflix, we 191 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 4: have opportunities to kind of show the person behind the character, 192 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 4: and we do documentary style interviews to I mean, but 193 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 4: when I feel most alive is when that bell rings 194 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 4: and I'm performing for whether it's MetLife Stadium or Barkley's tonight. 195 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 3: It's the best part of what we do. 196 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 4: Like I'm like very grateful and blessed, Like I can't 197 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 4: wake up and be like, oh, I have to go 198 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 4: to work today. 199 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's you know, you're you're doing a job 200 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: that you're made for and like meant to be doing. 201 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: And we talked about this a little bit on the run, 202 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 1: but it's like you never knew you were going to 203 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: get into rest in WWE, right, Like imagine telling your 204 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:05,440 Speaker 1: collegiate volleyball self that you were going to go on 205 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: and following your dad's footsteps. 206 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,199 Speaker 4: Absolutely no, I was scared of my own shadow, right, absolutely. 207 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: Not. So, like, let's kind of explain to us, like 208 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: how did it all come to be? Like how do 209 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: you go from college volley ballplayer for a couple of 210 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: years to then getting a PR degree, right, yeah, and 211 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: then ending up But WWE Superstar, Okay, so that's coming 212 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: for Rick's title? 213 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 4: Come on, Yeah, that's coming from my dad's record. I 214 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 4: got a volleyball scholarship. I went the freshman I went 215 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 4: and played freshman year halfway through sophomore year. And then 216 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 4: when I talk about struggles, when my mom and dad 217 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 4: separated and my dad left my mom, my brother went 218 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 4: to boarding school to Blair, and I went to college 219 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 4: at the same time, and I just really struggled, and 220 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 4: I ended up quitting my scholarship for no reason and 221 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 4: moving to Chapel Hill, finished at NC State, got a degree, 222 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 4: and then when I moved back to Charlotte afterwards, I 223 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 4: just was like completely clueless, Like I had no idea 224 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 4: what I wanted to do in life. 225 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 3: Like I loved communications, but like. 226 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 4: I don't know what I was gonna do it, Like 227 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,079 Speaker 4: what am I gonna be Samantha on Sex and the 228 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 4: City like a good pr job and. 229 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 2: Don't get me started on Sex and the City. 230 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 3: I can't believe they cancel. I was so devastated. 231 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 4: Okay, at that time though, after college, my little brother 232 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 4: was trying to get into WWE, but he was struggling 233 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 4: a really bad drug addiction. So when he when I 234 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 4: went to college and he transferred into Blair for amateur wrestling, 235 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 4: but it was a boarding school. 236 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 3: He was just. 237 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 4: Exposed to a faster pace than he was in Charlotte. 238 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 4: And then he already had started to do drugs, so 239 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 4: that just continued to get worse and worse. So we 240 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 4: were both in Charlotte at the same time, and my 241 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 4: parents were trying to get into WWE because he wanted 242 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 4: to be just like my dad, Like Reid's dream from 243 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 4: a little boy was like I'm going to be the 244 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 4: next greatest thing. I'm gonna be Rick Flair, like he 245 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 4: idolized my dad and they were best friends. So when 246 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 4: I got when I graduated and moved back to Charlotte, 247 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 4: I my dad used to own gold gyms in North 248 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 4: Carolina growing up, but they had all closed. So I 249 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 4: went to one of the trainers that worked at one 250 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,319 Speaker 4: of the golds and he had opened a private training 251 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,199 Speaker 4: studio in this area called Valentine, so I remembered him. 252 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 3: I showed up at a studio and I. 253 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 4: Was like, hey, I just took my ACE training tests 254 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 4: and I passed, and I'm looking for a job and 255 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 4: he was like, oh, absolutely, like young college girl, blonde. 256 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 2: Like come on, He's like, you're gonna get so we're 257 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 2: gonna get so many more and. 258 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 3: He's like, let's go. 259 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 2: I was. 260 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 4: Like, I had had trainers my whole life, but I like, 261 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 4: I wouldn't have hired myself like now, like I. 262 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: Was great and very like, let's go, but like I 263 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: would have trusted you honestly. 264 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 2: But yeah, knowing that Rick. 265 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 3: Was your daughter of a life coachy. 266 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,319 Speaker 4: Hey No, But like the training that I do now 267 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 4: is so much more specific. I was just very basic, 268 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 4: like fundamental training. 269 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 3: But I fell in love with my clients. 270 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 4: And at the same time, Reid was living with me, 271 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 4: and I had gotten him a job at the other 272 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,960 Speaker 4: studio of the there's two studios, one in Valentine, one 273 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 4: in South Park, and I got read a job at 274 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 4: the other one. He was also living with me off 275 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 4: and on, but he had failed multiple WWE drug tests. 276 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 4: So I think about two or three years after college, 277 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 4: the Four Horsemen Hall of Fame induction, which was a 278 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 4: group that my dad was in in the eighties and nineties. 279 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,839 Speaker 4: I don't know early too, I don't know the dates, 280 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 4: but just a famous group were being inducted into the 281 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 4: Hall of Fame in April twenty and two, and I 282 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,560 Speaker 4: was even though training loved my clients making like what 283 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 4: I thought, like, oh my god, I'm making money, like 284 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 4: I you know, I had bought my first car, which 285 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 4: was a Honda Fit and all these different things. I 286 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 4: was still in a very lost, not good place, and 287 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 4: obviously Reid wasn't either. So but Reed and I went 288 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 4: with my dad and we were at dinner with one 289 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 4: of the producers after the Hall of Fame induction in Miami, 290 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 4: and the producer was like, why aren't you doing this? 291 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 4: But it was really my dad and the producer trying 292 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 4: to get like read kind of like riled up, like 293 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 4: why are you asking my sister? Like why aren't you 294 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 4: asking me? But at the time, Reid was like, oh, 295 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 4: you can do this, you can do this, you can 296 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 4: do this. And I was like, well, I don't look 297 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 4: like Tristratus, I don't look like Stacey Keebler. 298 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 3: I don't look like Tory Wilson. 299 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 4: Like when I thought of Michelle McCool, like when I 300 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 4: thought of the divas growing up, like I just saw 301 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 4: these like absolutely beautiful women, like I knew I could 302 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 4: athletically do it, but like I didn't view myself as 303 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 4: a diva or like eye Candy or however, the women. However, 304 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 4: the women were perceived, but something in me was like, well. 305 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 3: I'm not doing anything here. I'm lost. 306 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 4: Maybe if I say yes to this, I could help 307 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 4: Read get into WWE. So mind you like, I'm scared 308 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 4: of my own shadow, a shell of myself, have no 309 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 4: idea like what I'm about to do, very nervous. Had 310 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 4: the phone call a week later with Triple H, my boss, 311 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 4: and he was like, listen, our developmental system is changing 312 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 4: over from. 313 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 3: FCW to NXT. I'm taking over. 314 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 4: But like, because I'm giving you this opportunity doesn't mean 315 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 4: I'm going to give Read an opportunity. And I was like, yeah, 316 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 4: I know, like this is like I don't know, like 317 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 4: it's sure whatever, Like uh huh in the back of 318 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 4: my mind. I literally reported to an XT three months later, 319 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 4: and I was like, Okay, Read's gonna meet me. 320 00:15:58,240 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 3: This is gonna be great. 321 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 4: So I get there, I fall in love with it, 322 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh man, I have felt like I 323 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 4: never belonged anywhere my whole life, and then when I 324 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 4: started wrestling, I was like, oh, like I really belong here. 325 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 3: Then eight months. 326 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 4: Later, redied of a Haroin overdose, and I never got 327 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 4: to see him before, and he never got to see 328 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 4: me wrestle. So my career is just dedicated to him 329 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 4: because I wouldn't have done it had I like not 330 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 4: started because of him, Like that was all for him, 331 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 4: Like everything from the producer asking me to. 332 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 3: Like I didn't like, excuse. 333 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 4: Me, like give a shit about wrestling, like love, like 334 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 4: my dad was Rick Flair, like cool, take my friends, 335 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 4: the wrestlers are hot, like whatever. So when re died, 336 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 4: I just like put his death in a drawer and 337 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 4: turned out to like be the most decorated woman of 338 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 4: all time. I don't know, it's just very great, full 339 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 4: and blessed. I would I never went a million years, 340 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 4: would have pictured myself here. 341 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 1: Do you feel like having a brother that went through 342 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: that and then you know, passed away from it? 343 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 3: Did it? 344 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 2: How is it driven you in your career? 345 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 3: I started wrestling and then. 346 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 4: I reported in July, and then he kept asking me 347 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 4: to come home to see him a Thanksgiving and Christmas, 348 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 4: like come home to see me, come home to see me, 349 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 4: come home to see me. And I was like so 350 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 4: wrapped up in this new life and having fun and 351 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 4: wanting to get better. 352 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 3: And just like. 353 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 4: Ultimately I spent so many years trying to save read 354 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 4: after college or like trying to get him on the 355 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 4: right path, when like, in reality, he saved mine because 356 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 4: he had this dream and when I didn't go home 357 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 4: to see him and then he ended up dying. I 358 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 4: just think that like that guilt and that burden, and 359 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 4: like did because I didn't go home to see him, 360 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 4: did it not like give him that boost that he needed? 361 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 4: Like did his addiction get worse? And like I have 362 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 4: blamed myself all these years for that and also like. 363 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 3: Taking his dream. 364 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 4: But at the same time, I think Reid's addiction really 365 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 4: got worse and stemmed from the fact that, like he 366 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 4: felt that he had to live up to the expectation 367 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,479 Speaker 4: of being Ric Flair's son and what that meant and 368 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 4: what that looked like, and thinking that he had, you know, 369 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 4: to be the man, and he was also doing independent 370 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 4: shows and being compared to my dad, and like I'm 371 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 4: compared every single day as a female, but like I 372 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 4: can imagine being Ric Flair's son, Like, yes, I have 373 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,959 Speaker 4: my own struggles and what that looks like being a woman, 374 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 4: but and I've overcome him, and I don't won't want 375 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 4: to say it's like harder or less hard but like 376 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 4: generational wrestlers, it's very hard to live up to the 377 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 4: expectations of your parents. But like my dad is considered, 378 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 4: if not one of, if not the greatest, one of 379 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 4: the greatest of all time, and read like I think 380 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 4: his drug addiction just that's how he coped being his son. 381 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,439 Speaker 4: So I turned my career into like I wish I 382 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 4: could take the pain that Reid felt, whether it was 383 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 4: being made fun of or not living up to the 384 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 4: fans expectations or whatever he struggled with. I just took 385 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 4: that and like ran with it. 386 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:32,960 Speaker 2: It is so true. 387 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: It's it's one thing to be compared as as a woman, 388 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 1: and it's a whole other ballgame to be compared as 389 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: a man. You hear that sometimes with you know, even 390 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: professional football players that have sons that you know want 391 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: to be as great as their dads. But you yeah, 392 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: and it's not saying they can't be, but the pressure 393 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 1: can absolutely be debilitating. 394 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 2: And that's just horrible. 395 00:19:52,320 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 3: And I think it was for him. 396 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: What was it about wrestling that clicked for you? Like, 397 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: what do you think it was that you were like, 398 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: I love this? Was it the performative aspect. Was it 399 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: the physical sport? 400 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 4: It was a physical sport Noxuse I was like I 401 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 4: had no charisma, no acting background, but what I was 402 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 4: good at was sports. Like I'd played so many different sports, 403 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 4: team sports, individual sports. So when I got there, that 404 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 4: was my edge amongst the females that like, even though 405 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 4: they had different backgrounds or whether they were models or 406 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 4: independent wrestlers or it just helped. Like it gave me 407 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 4: that edge, especially that competitive edge definitely. 408 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: And I feel like the gymnast part of it is 409 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: really interesting too, because it's like as a gymnast, it's 410 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 1: one of those sports where you have to work so 411 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 1: hard for so many hours a day a week. The discipline, 412 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: the discipline, Yeah, like that translates into a sport like wrestling. 413 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:58,880 Speaker 4: And I think, yeah, like when I become a mom 414 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 4: one day, hope, like my kids will definitely, even if 415 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,679 Speaker 4: they're not going to be like gymnasts, just be in 416 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 4: some kind of tumbling gymnastics class when they're young, because 417 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 4: it really does teach you, you know, body awareness and 418 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:12,160 Speaker 4: that discipline. 419 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's pretty cool to be able to be 420 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 1: able to do a flip yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Like 421 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:21,199 Speaker 1: what were those hands a handspring of that handspring, I'm like, 422 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: I always can do a handstand. 423 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, I always wish I did. 424 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: Like dance classes, video games, you're going to be in 425 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:27,160 Speaker 1: tumbling class. 426 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 3: Yeah. Literally. 427 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: Let's talk about the performative performative aspect though of WWE, Like, 428 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: can you unpack it to me a little bit? And 429 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 1: at what point did you go from like wrestling matches 430 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: to like, okay, now you're actually on TV quote unquote performance. 431 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 3: So that's the that's the other thing. 432 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 4: Just because someone's athletic doesn't mean they're going to be good. 433 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 4: Like I was athletic, but I really had to figure 434 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 4: out a character or like kind of figure out how 435 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 4: to lisit some kind of emotional response and that took 436 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 4: a lot of the years. 437 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 3: But the thing about WWE is it's like. 438 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 4: Fifty percent a professional d one sport and then fifty 439 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 4: percent like a Hollywood studio backlot and imagine that always 440 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 4: colliding and everything from beginning to end is performative. But 441 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 4: it's all storyline based fifty two weeks a year. So 442 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 4: whether you're fighting for a title or a non title, 443 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 4: or a backstage fighter in the ring or a promo 444 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 4: whatever that looks like it is all storyline based. Now, Obviously, 445 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 4: some of the best stories over the years is when 446 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 4: real life and storyline kind of blend in and you 447 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 4: don't know what's real or not, and that does happen, 448 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 4: but that's like the beauty of what we do, and 449 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 4: that's been professional wrestling since day one and that'll never change. 450 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 2: So it's kind of like reality TV in a way. Yes, yes, 451 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 2: because it's like a yeah, it's a fusion of. 452 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 4: Real life meets what the best characters have, the authenticity 453 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,479 Speaker 4: of something from themselves that they put in their character. 454 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 2: A couple questions here. 455 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: The first is like Charlotte Flair when she started out, 456 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: how did she differ. 457 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 2: Than the Charlotte Flair now? 458 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: And I look back, what was your first storyline that 459 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: you were like, Okay, this is Charlotte. 460 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 4: So when I won the Divas Championship from Nikki Bella, 461 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:37,199 Speaker 4: I wasn't ready like the title owned me. 462 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 3: I didn't own the title. Like you don't want. 463 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 4: It to be about the title. You want it to 464 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 4: be about you. It's about the person holding it. So 465 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 4: I didn't think I got to that until I became 466 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 4: the inaugural Raw Women's champion at WrestleMania thirty two at 467 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 4: and T Stadium and I retired the Divas Championship. One 468 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,360 Speaker 4: of my opponents but also peer, sent me a picture 469 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 4: of the AT and T Stadium and it was myself, her, 470 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 4: Sasha Banks, and Becky Lynch and we were front and 471 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 4: center of AT and T Stadium. 472 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 3: Triple H was on one side. 473 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 4: Roman Reigns was on the other, Shane McMahon undertaker. But 474 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:19,719 Speaker 4: it was like, I was like, oh my god, this 475 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 4: is like really silly fan art, Like why are they 476 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 4: putting us front and center of the stadium? Oh no, 477 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 4: my face was front and center of the stadium. And 478 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 4: that's when like, really it was like You're like, that's me, 479 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 4: that's me, I'm front. So but since then, like and 480 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 4: I think athletes go through this, I've my confidence has 481 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 4: wavered up and down. But that was like, my okay, 482 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 4: I'm getting this. But did I grow like other moments 483 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,199 Speaker 4: past then, for sure, Like twenty nineteen faced Ronda in 484 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 4: La had an incredible moment WrestleMania thirty five, first ever 485 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 4: main event MetLife Stadium, actually first ever women's main event 486 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 4: for WrestleMania. Things have happened in my career, but like 487 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 4: that was probably the first moment where I was like, 488 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 4: oh yeah, I'm that girl, like where I felt confident. 489 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 4: But it's like coming, it comes and goes. 490 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,679 Speaker 1: When did you first start realizing like you had an 491 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: audience of people that was supporting you. 492 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 4: My job was to be hated really, so I definitely 493 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 4: had that. But I will say, and do they tell 494 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 4: you that, the fans, the producers. 495 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because you're either a good guy or bad guy. 496 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 4: Oh okay, yeah, so I've been a bad guy most 497 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 4: of my career. But when I got injured, the amount 498 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,680 Speaker 4: of like support and following that from the fans that 499 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 4: I've had all these years, and like what they sent 500 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 4: me and the pictures and just the reminders every day, 501 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 4: Like it is really a very special. 502 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 3: Fandom that we have. 503 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 4: Like I really think we have the most passionate fan 504 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 4: base out of any like sport or big movie promotion 505 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 4: in the world. Like, first of all, our audience is global, 506 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 4: and they really I don't know, I've never. 507 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 3: Seen a more passionate fan base. Like it's one thing 508 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 3: to like. 509 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 4: Love the New York Knicks, but I feel like our 510 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 4: fans are just like on a whole different level. 511 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: What's the wildest way You've seen a fan show up 512 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: for you, Like, do you have a fun fan story? 513 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 4: Well, I get like little peacock dolls all the time 514 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 4: at the airports because the fans know I love peacocks. 515 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 4: So I've had peacock stuffed animals. I've had paintings done 516 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 4: of my brother and I of him as an angel 517 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 4: and me and my wrestling gear, like yeah, this is 518 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 4: the poems written. 519 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: Was it hard for you when you first started out 520 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: being on TV? 521 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 4: Yes, well, because when I first started, I was like, 522 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 4: why does everyone care what I look like? Like when 523 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 4: I played sports, like no one like that's not a thing. 524 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 4: And I think I struggled most with that, With the 525 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 4: transition from dealing with criticism of beauty and like aesthetics 526 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 4: and clothes to like, wait, I'm just a good athlete, 527 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 4: Like why do you care what I look like? I 528 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:14,199 Speaker 4: struggled with that. 529 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 3: I mean that's the hardest and I think I still struggle, 530 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 3: I mean not as much, but. 531 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I mean you're beautiful, and everybody like that 532 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: looks that you know that. But the hardest thing about 533 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: being a woman is people will find every single thing 534 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: like to comment. 535 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 3: Oh, like oh my gosh, she looks like your dad. 536 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 3: Well it's my dad. Yeah, Like who am I supposed 537 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 3: to look like his partner? 538 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 2: Yeah? 539 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 3: Like I'm just so confused here. 540 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 4: Yeah no, But I really struggled with that because I 541 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 4: wasn't like around I just wasn't around that world grow 542 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 4: like growing up or modeling or acting or like anything 543 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 4: like that. So when like, oh, she's not diva enough 544 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 4: or she's never gonna make the main roster because she's 545 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 4: not diva, Like. 546 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 2: What does that even mean? 547 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 3: What is that even? 548 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 4: Like? 549 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 2: Yeah? 550 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 4: I really like actually I struggled with that probably ninety 551 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 4: percent of my But social media wasn't as big growing 552 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 4: up as it is today. 553 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 3: So it's just that transition. 554 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: What's the best piece of advice that your dad gave 555 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: to you when you were getting into this world? 556 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,399 Speaker 4: Oh, just know who you are when you like so 557 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 4: we call it gorilla or the curtain the minute your 558 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,200 Speaker 4: music hits and you walk out. If you don't believe 559 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,679 Speaker 4: in yourself, the fans are going to eat you up. 560 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 4: I'll never forget that. Oh, and always dress for the 561 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 4: job you want. 562 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 2: What if that look like? 563 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 4: In so I have these like ridiculous peacock feather Robesky, 564 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 4: which I'll be working forever to afford them, because I 565 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 4: like a new one every show. 566 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 2: How much does a peacock robe cost? 567 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:37,479 Speaker 3: Usually around fifteen grand? 568 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 4: Well, I but I believe like the more you invest 569 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 4: in yourself, the more you invest in your character, the 570 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 4: fans invest in you, and like. 571 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 3: It's just part of like. 572 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 4: The Charlotte flair, like the elaborate robes and the feathers, 573 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 4: it just makes that character larger than life. Like then 574 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 4: they didn't start. I think, like my first robe was 575 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 4: probably like four grand. But as like I've evolved and 576 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 4: the characters evolved in my page, I'm looking at an outfit. 577 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 2: Oh my god, who's making these for you? 578 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 3: So that's the thing. 579 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 4: I started using designers and they don't realize that, like I. 580 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 3: Have to pay for these. These aren't production. This is 581 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 3: my money, but it's worth every penny. 582 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 2: Do you have like a whole closet full of just 583 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 2: your robes? 584 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 3: I do, and I've only sold one in ten years. 585 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 2: Like do you always have them kind of in production? 586 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 3: Well, I try to have a new one every big 587 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 3: pay per view. 588 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 4: So we probably will start production this week for if 589 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 4: I'm gonna wrestle in Paris, or we have a couple 590 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 4: of big shows coming up. If not, they're just on 591 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 4: rotation for TVs. But they take about like three to 592 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 4: four weeks. But it's the stoning that takes so long. 593 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 4: And then like, if I want the feathers to be 594 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 4: a certain color, they had to die of the feathers. 595 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 2: Where did the peacock love come from? 596 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 4: The peacock love came from? So my dad alway had feathers, 597 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 4: but they were boo chicken feathers. But there's like a 598 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 4: there is a Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine that has all 599 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 4: of my dad's robes like this and all the colors. 600 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 4: It's so they call him the peacock of wrestling. So 601 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 4: I was like, oh, I love peacock feathers. I love 602 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 4: what peacocks stand for. So why don't I just use 603 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 4: the peacock feathers as part of like my like I 604 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 4: still use the chicken feathers, but as like the back. 605 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 4: And then also there is an image of China where 606 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 4: she has peacock feathers in the back, but mine isn't 607 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 4: really a tribute to her, even though she has done 608 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 4: it before. Mine is like the pro wrestling magazine called 609 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 4: him the peacock and I was like, oh, I should 610 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 4: do the peacock feathers. 611 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: How do you separate Charlotte from Ashley because I love Ashley. 612 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 3: Oh, it's easy. 613 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:56,200 Speaker 4: Charlotte is so put together glam makeup outfits. If you 614 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 4: saw me at home, you're like, girl, brush your hair 615 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 4: like stylist. So my stylist also does my makeup and hair. 616 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 4: He does a lot of things. He's like trifecta, trifecta. 617 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 4: He's like, that's lucky. Have you brushed your hair today? Like, dude, 618 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,719 Speaker 4: I'm off today. I'm not over the camera. I'm just 619 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 4: like much more laid back. 620 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: It's kind of fun to have like a show name 621 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: because it really does allow you to be on when 622 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 1: you're on at work and then just turn off. 623 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 4: Well like so when I'm not at like at TV, 624 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, I feel the sexiest and like a 625 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 4: baggy's design or T shirt and like big baggy jeans. 626 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 4: But then at TV it's like you could see me 627 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 4: in like a crystal corset and it's just well, also 628 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 4: me the Beyonce of wrestling. 629 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 2: You are the Beyonce. 630 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 3: I mean. 631 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 2: Also, it's nice to have the separation too. 632 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: Because I feel like with your industry, like there's probably 633 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,719 Speaker 1: a little bit of pressure to always feel like you 634 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: have to like look a certain way and present yourself 635 00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: a certain way. 636 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 4: Because I've done this for this is my tenth year, 637 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 4: I'm just now or the fans are just now getting 638 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 4: to enjoy the separation between who I am and the character. 639 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 4: And this summer, I've partnered with someone who I came 640 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 4: up in the business with. Her name is Alexa Bliss, 641 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,959 Speaker 4: and she has been able to bring out who She 642 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 4: has been able to humanize my character in a way 643 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 4: that I never thought was possible. 644 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 3: So I went from being like the number one. 645 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 4: Hated female in the wrestling industry just like four months 646 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 4: ago to like, oh, she's not so bad due to 647 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 4: like just kind of I felt like Charlotte always had 648 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 4: to be perfect because of the pressure of being Rick's kid, 649 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 4: being the fourteen time women's champion, always in the title picture. 650 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 3: To like it was exhausting. 651 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 2: What makes somebody the most hated. 652 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 3: Just being that good? 653 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 4: You don't feel sorry for the Yankees, Like when Alabama loses, 654 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 4: they still go back and they're still Alabama. That's like, 655 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 4: but that pressure just just eats at you. And like 656 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 4: being a woman in a male dominated industry and always 657 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 4: at the top. 658 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: Where are you currently at in life? Like, what are 659 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 1: you currently working on? 660 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 2: Excited about? I'm in my soft girl era. Okay, I 661 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:21,320 Speaker 2: love that. 662 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 4: I don't even know what that means, but that's what 663 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 4: I keep my fans keep saying, like, oh, you're in your. 664 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 3: Self girl era. 665 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: No. 666 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 3: I had a really hard twenty twenty four. 667 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,959 Speaker 4: I went through a divorce, my knee injury, and then 668 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,080 Speaker 4: came back to work and my return wasn't what I 669 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 4: thought it was going to be. But like things have 670 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 4: kind of shifted, and I'm just I've been traveling between. 671 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 3: My shows, living more. 672 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 4: I'm working on a project with a restaurant owner and 673 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 4: creating like my own spice, so I'm excited for that. 674 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 4: And in wrestling, I just won the tag titles with 675 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 4: I say Lexi, with Alexa Bliss, but with Lexi, and 676 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 4: she's had me to la a lot. I'm just like, 677 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 4: I don't know what's next, but I guess, like, even 678 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 4: for life and wrestling, I didn't expect to be where 679 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,319 Speaker 4: I am right now, Like I didn't have on my 680 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 4: BEINGO card, tagging with Lexi and winning the tag Championships 681 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 4: because it's it's such a departure from what I have 682 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 4: stood for and what I've done on ww television. And 683 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:30,319 Speaker 4: then obviously like I wasn't planning for twenty twenty four 684 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 4: to go the way it did, and I don't know, 685 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 4: it's like, oh, the best things are unexpected. 686 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,880 Speaker 1: So just seeing where life goes really quickly. We have 687 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: to call this out because we talked about it a 688 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,279 Speaker 1: little bit on the run for me ACL twice. You 689 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: just tore your ACL about a year ago? How did 690 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 1: you tear your ACL wrestling in a match? A match 691 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: in a match wow in Washington, d C. On Live 692 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 1: TV on Live TV. 693 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 4: Oh, and I still finished the match because I was 694 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,799 Speaker 4: like I didn't know how to stop or give up. 695 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 2: Did you know in the moment you tore it? 696 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,000 Speaker 3: Well, I was like why can I not walk? 697 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,840 Speaker 4: So I just kept going and then like I think, actually, 698 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 4: I know I made things a lot worse because I 699 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 4: didn't stop, so like I landed on my neck at 700 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 4: one point and how to get a neck X ray? 701 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 3: And then landed on my face Like it just it 702 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 3: was a. 703 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 4: Train wreck to watch, Like if you go back and 704 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 4: see how many times I just kept but I finished. 705 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 4: Ugh still lost, but yeah, but it all happened for 706 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 4: a reason, Like I needed to reset, restart, make like 707 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 4: other choices in my life, and. 708 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 3: Sometimes what you're holding on to isn't good for you. 709 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:41,839 Speaker 4: And like I think my knee made me slow down, 710 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,640 Speaker 4: reset and so like as much as it sucks to 711 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 4: have any injury, I'm like, oh, I'm grateful for it 712 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 4: because it put me on a different trajectory for life. 713 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,479 Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of the hardest injuries to go through, 714 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: and like rehabs to go through, it's so like humbling 715 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,839 Speaker 1: in the way that it atrophies the muscle and you 716 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: have to I hate it ice machine. I remember that 717 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 1: was like my least favorite part of it. But it 718 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,319 Speaker 1: really does teach you so much and everything happens for 719 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:06,720 Speaker 1: a reason. 720 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for you. Okay's feady for 721 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,719 Speaker 2: our run, I know, so good. Good luck in your 722 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:13,400 Speaker 2: match today. 723 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:16,440 Speaker 3: You I appreciate you. We have a rematch. 724 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 4: I know this airs later, but Lexie and I are 725 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:24,279 Speaker 4: tag Tag Team Champions, so we will be wrestling the 726 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 4: team that lost their titles to us, which will be 727 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,800 Speaker 4: was which was Roxanne, Perez and Raquel. So we'll be 728 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,480 Speaker 4: facing them again tonight, and you just face them on Saturday, 729 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:34,720 Speaker 4: and we just face them on Saturday. 730 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,799 Speaker 3: Oh wow, I know quick. Yeah, it's a quick turnaround. Yeah, 731 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,520 Speaker 3: it's you know, fifty two weeks a year. Go go go. 732 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you. 733 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: Alrighty, thanks for listening to Post Run High. If today's 734 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 1: episode moved you, please share it with a friend and 735 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,280 Speaker 1: make sure you subscribe if you don't already. 736 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 2: I'll see you guys next week.