WEBVTT - Sam Adonis

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<v Speaker 1>All right, let's get it going right here, right now.

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<v Speaker 1>This is Eyes up Here, and you're listening to a

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<v Speaker 1>brand new episode of Eyes up Here exclusively on our

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<v Speaker 1>Patreon channel as well as simulcast on the Creative Control

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<v Speaker 1>podcast network, and also right now on Twitch. As the

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<v Speaker 1>Queen of Extreme is holding up her camera and doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm multitasking over here you are if you didn't know

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<v Speaker 1>by now, my name is Chad and here she is.

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<v Speaker 1>She's the Queen of Extreme, the Twitch Queen ran scene.

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<v Speaker 1>I am trying to be the Twitch Queen. Thank you

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<v Speaker 1>for everyone who's followed me on Twitch so far and

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<v Speaker 1>has helped me on my journey to affiliate. I am

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<v Speaker 1>so close. I'm getting there and just bringing Twitch people

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<v Speaker 1>over to the Eyes up Here world to show them

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<v Speaker 1>what we do every Friday. So everybody's in the chat now.

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning to everyone watching. And if you are interested

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<v Speaker 1>in Eyes up Here and our Patreon page, you need

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<v Speaker 1>slash Francceine Podcast and check us out even further because

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<v Speaker 1>this is just a little tease for you, just to tease.

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<v Speaker 1>We do four episodes in these recordings, so it's this

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<v Speaker 1>main episode and three extras that I haven't revealed them

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<v Speaker 1>yet to franccene, but there we got a couple doozies

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<v Speaker 1>this week, and yeah, we want you to join us,

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<v Speaker 1>so Patreon dot com slash franccene podcast. We're giving you

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<v Speaker 1>just the tip. Ladies and gentlemen. See we're two minutes in.

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<v Speaker 1>You're already dropping innuego. Yeah, we get a little naughty

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<v Speaker 1>on this channel, So I will I'm going to sign

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<v Speaker 1>off of Twitch because we got to get to work here.

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<v Speaker 1>But guys, we will see you. Well, I will see

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<v Speaker 1>you later on around one thirty two o'clock and I

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<v Speaker 1>hope you all can join me over there. Hope you

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<v Speaker 1>have a great day and I'll see you soon. Guys,

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<v Speaker 1>take care. Look at that he's multitasking recording a podcast

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<v Speaker 1>on Twitch. And I also want to point out that

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<v Speaker 1>she sounds phenomenal with her brand new microphone I have.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, look at this, as Mr Glory, Yes

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<v Speaker 1>I did, uh, I did think that as you were

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<v Speaker 1>saying that you were as Mr Dreams, are getting ever

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<v Speaker 1>so closer with your intimate microphone that you have there.

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<v Speaker 1>I love it. Yeah, I got it for Christmas. Hubs

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<v Speaker 1>hooked me up with some really nice equipment and it's

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<v Speaker 1>starting to look like an actual I don't know what

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<v Speaker 1>you would call it work area studio, you know what

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<v Speaker 1>could you say? Uh? I would say office perhaps. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean there's a many, many a name out there for

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<v Speaker 1>what you've got going on. I have a lot going

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<v Speaker 1>on and I still don't know how to use everything.

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<v Speaker 1>But today for our watch along, I actually put YouTube

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<v Speaker 1>on the second monitor like last time I had it.

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<v Speaker 1>Like what am I doing? I have two monitors. I

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<v Speaker 1>could totally do it like this. See how much you've

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<v Speaker 1>evolved over a year and a half. I mean, now

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<v Speaker 1>we're on the same page. We're doing the same thing.

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<v Speaker 1>That's exactly what I got going on. So yeah, you

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<v Speaker 1>and I can't be any more on the same page.

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<v Speaker 1>I can do all kinds of certain things now, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm very professional, I must say. So it's exciting and well,

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<v Speaker 1>you're welcome for bringing you into this way. Yeah, thanks

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<v Speaker 1>all as always by bringing bringing the podcasting world this

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<v Speaker 1>glorious content. Yes, So, how's your week been, kid, It's

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<v Speaker 1>been pretty busy. You know. The stuff going on in

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<v Speaker 1>the news is my business outside of the podcast world,

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<v Speaker 1>So it's been off the freaking chain. And you know

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<v Speaker 1>that's to include the big events of what would be

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<v Speaker 1>this week as we're recording on Wednesday. It's just it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's unbelievable what's going on out there, and I get

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<v Speaker 1>to be a small part of it, and it is nuts,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think it's only going to get better in

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<v Speaker 1>the dates to come. There's a lot of information being

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<v Speaker 1>leaked so interesting. All I say is I just want

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<v Speaker 1>my money. That's all I want. You want your money.

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<v Speaker 1>I just want to get paid. Stimulus check pay check,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever check you got, you're stimulus, just get I want more.

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<v Speaker 1>I just want more. I want more. Well, that's all

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<v Speaker 1>I care about. We all want more, right, just give

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<v Speaker 1>me that a bad thing, that's a good thing. Give

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<v Speaker 1>me more. Well, you know you have to work hard

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<v Speaker 1>for UH for the benefits, to reap the benefits. Oddly enough,

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<v Speaker 1>I almost grab my hardly working UH coffee cup I have.

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<v Speaker 1>My wife has working hard. I have hardly working which

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<v Speaker 1>is like the complete opposite of my life. But it's

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<v Speaker 1>just ironic. Life works hard. Are you kidding me? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>then you both should we have a work you both

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<v Speaker 1>should have a working hard mug. Then that's true. How

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<v Speaker 1>are you. We barely this week. Now, this week has

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<v Speaker 1>been so busy for me. I had so many cameos

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<v Speaker 1>I offered. I offered the police outfit and people were

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<v Speaker 1>like jumping on it, which was great, and some of

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<v Speaker 1>them trickled over to today. So now I have a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch to do later on today when I'm done everything

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<v Speaker 1>in my life. But yeah, I just had a really

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<v Speaker 1>really busy day. I had a lot to do. Twitch

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<v Speaker 1>is becoming a part of my life. I do that

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<v Speaker 1>three times a week, so I'm live on three different

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<v Speaker 1>days and one day is the cameos. Today is busy.

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<v Speaker 1>I have you, I have Twitch, I have cameo all

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<v Speaker 1>in one day. There's a doctor appointment in the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of there somewhere, and yeah, I'm lucky though, don't get

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<v Speaker 1>me wrong, I'm exhausted, but I'm happy about it. So

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<v Speaker 1>come a long way from just sarah little Friday morning,

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<v Speaker 1>this little session, you know, and oh yeah, I got

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<v Speaker 1>to go on the road this weekend, and blah blah blah.

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<v Speaker 1>That's cameos and this version on the road. I know, well,

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<v Speaker 1>next week I will be on the road. So I'll

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<v Speaker 1>announce it now because it'll be on Shane and I

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<v Speaker 1>a later in this week. Yes, Shane and I are

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<v Speaker 1>doing a virtual signing on January twenty second. Unfortunately, I

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<v Speaker 1>have no information on it because the flyer that was

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<v Speaker 1>sent to me is very vague, and one of the

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<v Speaker 1>fans told me when he went to the page that

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<v Speaker 1>was listed, it wasn't working. So I'm hoping to get

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<v Speaker 1>an update on that for you guys. Probably before next

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<v Speaker 1>Friday would be nice. But it's from I know. It's

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<v Speaker 1>from seven to nine thirty Friday, January twenty second, so

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<v Speaker 1>the franchise will be in town. It is right there.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it. Yeah, but it doesn't say much on it.

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<v Speaker 1>This is twenty second at seven pm, which we know

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<v Speaker 1>is a Friday, So you spend your Friday night with

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<v Speaker 1>the duo of the franchise and the head cheerleader, Francine.

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<v Speaker 1>He actually just called me, so I could have asked

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<v Speaker 1>him if he had any more info. He doesn't. If

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<v Speaker 1>I talked to him too, he doesn't. Now it's okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll figure it out, but that'll be fun. So I'm

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<v Speaker 1>actually cooking. He requested my world famous gravy and meat balls,

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<v Speaker 1>so I am making a feast and we're eating probably

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<v Speaker 1>at four point thirty because it's the Early Bird Special

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<v Speaker 1>that day, and then we have to head out to

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<v Speaker 1>do the signing. So it's great. That's cool. I love

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<v Speaker 1>that you guys are doing that. I love the duo.

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<v Speaker 1>That's smart booking right there. Yes, we're good together. Actually,

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<v Speaker 1>i'll show you. I was gonna, you know, show you

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<v Speaker 1>this later. But you know, I've talked to you. I

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<v Speaker 1>have a thing I want to work on in the

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<v Speaker 1>coming weeks. I have this bad boy that I just

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<v Speaker 1>got made right here. What do you think of that? Whooh, sexy,

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<v Speaker 1>fancy schmancy. Huh, I'm just gonnare. Then we'll talk more

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<v Speaker 1>about it later. Oh, maybe I have another booking my

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<v Speaker 1>future Austin I got Oh my gosh, look I even

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<v Speaker 1>have it in a bigger size too. Oh that is

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<v Speaker 1>that is beautiful? Yes, yes, indeed, you can't see what

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking about. You need to come over and join.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh I'm not going to say what it is, just

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<v Speaker 1>in case you've got to be on the video for

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<v Speaker 1>that shit. Yeah that's nice. That's that's nice work. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>but uh yeah, you know, just it's been it's been

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<v Speaker 1>something that's for sure. I know we'll get into it later.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure, but there has been a shitload of good

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<v Speaker 1>Disney shit that's come out this week. We'll talk about

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<v Speaker 1>it later if you want, No, we have, we have

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<v Speaker 1>a wow. I was shocked. First of all, my heart

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<v Speaker 1>is broken Disney Disney World is discontinuing the Magical Express.

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<v Speaker 1>I am beyond myself. But it was like a day

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<v Speaker 1>of mourning in my house because the Magical Express, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's going to continue through this year, but then

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<v Speaker 1>in twenty twenty two they're doing something else, which was

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<v Speaker 1>very vague. I don't know. They're supposed to have some

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<v Speaker 1>kind of shuttle taking from the airport or something like that.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what it is, but let me just say.

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<v Speaker 1>We called it the Magical Express going and then the

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<v Speaker 1>Tragical Express coming home, because no one wants to get

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<v Speaker 1>on that bus coming home because it's sad. It makes

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<v Speaker 1>very good sense. It's a nice play on words. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>that's what my house deems at the Tragical Express. But

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<v Speaker 1>it was a huge part of our trip because once

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<v Speaker 1>you're on that bus, it meant it's starting, you know

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<v Speaker 1>what I mean. And my kids were so excited. We

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<v Speaker 1>were so excited. Me and my husband getting on that

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<v Speaker 1>bus and just sitting there and knowing within like fifty

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<v Speaker 1>minutes we were going to pull up to our resort

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<v Speaker 1>and it was all going to start. And that is

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<v Speaker 1>a huge part. It's like an attraction for us anyway.

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<v Speaker 1>We love the Magical Express and I am so heartbroken

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<v Speaker 1>and I don't understand why they are getting rid of

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<v Speaker 1>it because it was so convenient and it's just it

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<v Speaker 1>was part of the trip. So I'm very upset. Disney,

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<v Speaker 1>that's very sad. I saw your reaction. I actually read it,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I saw your reaction afterwards, and man, it's

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<v Speaker 1>just it's very tough. As we talked about, with all

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<v Speaker 1>the closures and the amount of times they've they've had

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<v Speaker 1>to limit people. Now to just start taking shit away

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<v Speaker 1>is you know, it's it kind of stinks, But it

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<v Speaker 1>could be worse. You could be at Disneyland, which is

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<v Speaker 1>never opening never again presumably. Well, Disneyland canceled all annual

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<v Speaker 1>passes and they are in disarray of in California. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I feel so bad for them as well. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what's going on over there. I mean, it's crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>We are still looking to play in a trip for

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<v Speaker 1>this year. But I don't know what months. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know when. Then we got the news that there's no

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<v Speaker 1>Magical Express. We were like, oh my goodness, we have Rentneuver.

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<v Speaker 1>Things are nuts nuts. My beloved Disney is just falling apart.

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<v Speaker 1>It's weird too, because you know, I mean on the

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<v Speaker 1>film end, you know, they're releasing stuff left and right.

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<v Speaker 1>They've got a lot of great things going on. But

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<v Speaker 1>at the parks, which okay, yes, Disney World is operated

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<v Speaker 1>at a portion capacity, and obviously Disneyland presumably never opening again,

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<v Speaker 1>and the euro Disney's stop it. The euro Disney's shangha.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, they're still, they're rocking and rolling. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I've watched some of their clips. It's just very odd

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<v Speaker 1>that they can't all sync up. And I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's just it's strange. But I guess that's what goes

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<v Speaker 1>with you know, the new covid Land. It's like, that's

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<v Speaker 1>what they should rename it, Covidland. Well, it depends on

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<v Speaker 1>the state, depends on the governor, you know that. I know,

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<v Speaker 1>Flora is starting to with the rides. At least they're

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<v Speaker 1>starting to put up a lot more plexa glass so

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<v Speaker 1>that more people can get on rides now. Right now,

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<v Speaker 1>your fast passes aren't in play, so everybody is waiting,

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<v Speaker 1>which is going to be a problem because if they

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<v Speaker 1>you know, lift the uh you know, say twenty five

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<v Speaker 1>percent goes to maybe fifty percent or whatever, and you

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<v Speaker 1>still have no fast passes. Those lines you're waiting now,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe you're waiting an hour to two hours, they're going

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<v Speaker 1>to go to three and four hour waits because you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to have double the people in the parks and

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<v Speaker 1>no one fast pass. And I don't want to wait

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<v Speaker 1>in line for four hours. I mean, that's that's ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 1>I remember flight of passage over an Avatar. There were,

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<v Speaker 1>like I read almost six hours people were waiting to

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<v Speaker 1>get on that ride at one point, and that was

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<v Speaker 1>with the fast pass system working. Right now, there's no

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<v Speaker 1>fast passes, so people are going to start complaining about

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<v Speaker 1>wait times and it's gonna get messy. It's really going

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<v Speaker 1>to get messy. And I'm due to go in April,

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<v Speaker 1>last week of March, first week April. I still don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what to expect. You know, it's on schedule. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't expect the cancelations like I had to suffer through

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<v Speaker 1>last year of we're going, we're going, We're not going,

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<v Speaker 1>we're going here. Stop, No, we're not going. No, we're

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<v Speaker 1>going here, and then it's canceled. I don't think we're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna deal with that. Yeah, but I just I'm still

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<v Speaker 1>curious to see what it is we're walking into. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe a little bit more, you know of the cavalcade,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe a couple more floats, a few more characters, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>some photo ops, photo ops. I sadly, I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>they're gonna happen for a long time. It's weird because Universal,

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<v Speaker 1>from what I've read, their restrictions are like they're not

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<v Speaker 1>social distancing at all. I think you still have to

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<v Speaker 1>wear a mask, but there's no markers. Somebody route they

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<v Speaker 1>went and there was like markers to stand six feet

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<v Speaker 1>away from each other. So everybody's just like arm in

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<v Speaker 1>arm walking through Universal. And they're saying, well, it is

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<v Speaker 1>Disney going to be next? Because there they are in Florida.

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<v Speaker 1>Florida is open, you know, I don't reilly nilly. They're

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<v Speaker 1>all like, ah, yeah, anything goes. Yeah. They're they're like

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<v Speaker 1>the hippies of the skiff through Harry potter Land, like

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<v Speaker 1>it's nobody's problem. You just use the magic to get

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<v Speaker 1>rid of it. I guess, I don't know. It's it's

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<v Speaker 1>interesting to see things unwined and unfold, but the Magical

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<v Speaker 1>Express just got me that that was really depressing. And

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<v Speaker 1>then seeing Disneyland take those pass holders away, that's it's

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<v Speaker 1>so sad. People like me love this stuff, you know

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<v Speaker 1>what I mean, We don't live for it, but it's

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<v Speaker 1>a big part of my life. And it's it's just

0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.600
<v Speaker 1>it's the outlet. It's your thing. It's the thing that

0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.080
<v Speaker 1>keeps you, you know, motive. You always set the goal

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<v Speaker 1>of it's going to be this, and it's this family

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<v Speaker 1>outing and you have all these special memories. So it's

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<v Speaker 1>your thing, I mean, and that's that's great, but it

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<v Speaker 1>just sucks that your thing is really really altered right now. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>It's something that my family looks forward to every single year,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, we were devastated this year. We're supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to be going in like two weeks. Our trip was

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<v Speaker 1>always at the end of January, I mean going into February,

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<v Speaker 1>so this obviously we're not doing that this year. So

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<v Speaker 1>we're looking at on their months and other hotels and

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<v Speaker 1>which is another thing. Man, they really spike those hotel

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<v Speaker 1>prices for Disney book both lord, I still think I

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<v Speaker 1>got mine a pretty good damn deal when I booked it.

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<v Speaker 1>By yeah, i'd be crazy because right now, even with discounts,

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<v Speaker 1>they are expensive, and I guess they're making up for

0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.720
<v Speaker 1>the losses that they suffered. But good lord, it's uh,

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<v Speaker 1>you got to get eight jobs in order to go

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<v Speaker 1>to Disney. Let me see, that was my I'm looking

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<v Speaker 1>to see if I could pull it up right now. No,

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<v Speaker 1>that's fine, that's the twenty twenty one. Let's see. I

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<v Speaker 1>was due to stay Monday, July twenty seventh to July thirtieth.

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<v Speaker 1>I was at one forty eight a night at the

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<v Speaker 1>All Star Movies Resort. But I believe we're paying less

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<v Speaker 1>than that right now, for we're saying I had don't

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<v Speaker 1>have it in front of me, so I can't give

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<v Speaker 1>you the exact expensive. I mean, we were thinking of

0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.480
<v Speaker 1>going for now fourteen days. We usually do twelve, and

0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.520
<v Speaker 1>I think it's almost close to being a permanent resident. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>we just love it so much and if we can

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<v Speaker 1>find a good deal and we can add a couple

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<v Speaker 1>of days on it, so I don't know what we're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna do, but we're we're gonna keep looking. Well, the

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<v Speaker 1>saga will unfold right in front of our eyes as

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<v Speaker 1>you will document that respect of the way, including and

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<v Speaker 1>for people who are just listening to us now haven't

0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.440
<v Speaker 1>checked us out before. Last year when Francine went, we

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<v Speaker 1>got video exclusives. She took a little diary, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and was showing us everything she did. So that's what's

0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.320
<v Speaker 1>to look forward to. If I do it, it's not fun.

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<v Speaker 1>They want to see you walking around and all the

0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.640
<v Speaker 1>great stories that you had, so you should do it too.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll do something, but I'm not gonna do it like

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<v Speaker 1>you did. That was great with really, if you join

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<v Speaker 1>back to last like January. We posted them in February,

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<v Speaker 1>you'll see France Disney trip. It was fantastic. Yeah, and

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<v Speaker 1>my kids are like, mom, are you ever gonna get

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<v Speaker 1>done blogging? They would be asking me questions. I'll be quiet,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm flogging. So you know, de's something we're talking about

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<v Speaker 1>building up the YouTube channel a little bit that you

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<v Speaker 1>have that could be something we give a little piece

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<v Speaker 1>of your trip, like a little snip of that clip

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<v Speaker 1>and give it to them. See what uh see, what

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<v Speaker 1>do people think of that? And then maybe come and

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<v Speaker 1>to introduce him, it's all you. Oh well, this this

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<v Speaker 1>is a hot commodity on the indie scene. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>sure why he's not signed anywhere, but we just followed

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<v Speaker 1>each other on Twitter and he reached out. So this

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<v Speaker 1>is Sam Adonis. It was a little flow on the click.

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<v Speaker 1>There is half of the theory I'll look at him

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<v Speaker 1>all lounging in his hotel room. I'm loving it. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>enjoying River Monsters on Discovery Channel because that's what I do. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>really nice, I have not I'm jealous Sam, because I

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<v Speaker 1>haven't been in a hotel room in quite a long time. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's been pretty rough. I mean I was lucky enough

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<v Speaker 1>to be made by living on andies before this, I

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<v Speaker 1>was doing a lot of stuff in Mexico, Japan, and

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<v Speaker 1>then once this hit, I had to get a full

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<v Speaker 1>time job. I'm so this is actually kind of feeling

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<v Speaker 1>like a vacation now. And the cool thing is I

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<v Speaker 1>have my cheat job money, and now my indie money

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<v Speaker 1>is like extra money. So it's actually I'm not complaining

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<v Speaker 1>too much. I mentioned a while ago because I think

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<v Speaker 1>you and I were following each other. Oh no, he's

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<v Speaker 1>still there. A screen just went up, But you keep talking.

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<v Speaker 1>I think you and I were following each other a

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<v Speaker 1>while ago, and then I don't know what happened with

0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.040
<v Speaker 1>your Twitter, but you came back, and then I got

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<v Speaker 1>a friend request, so I refollowed you. But I had

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<v Speaker 1>mentioned when the pandemic started, I was like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of people lost their income because we can't

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<v Speaker 1>wrestle and we can't go on the road. And I

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<v Speaker 1>mentioned you took a job with Amazon. Yes, ma'am. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just we need to be gotten. It was just like

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<v Speaker 1>I said, I was lucky to be able to make

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<v Speaker 1>a living on the indies, because I mean it's they

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<v Speaker 1>were hot before hid. The indies were a good thing

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<v Speaker 1>prior to all of this. And then I lost you guys,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know where. Ok, you're there, No, we got you.

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<v Speaker 1>Keep talking, You're good. Yeah, it was just it's I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't really want to wait for it because it happened

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<v Speaker 1>so quick and all the shows were canceled and everything.

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<v Speaker 1>So I had to kind of just you know, do

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<v Speaker 1>my business or get out of the restroom if you would.

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<v Speaker 1>And yeah, just I hopped on it real quick, and

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<v Speaker 1>luckily it got worse before it got better. But I

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<v Speaker 1>never really suffered any financial strain because I was delivering jobs.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's very humbling, I must say that, because I

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<v Speaker 1>mean I was doing some big stuff in Mexico and like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, as a rock status for a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>next to you know, I'm delivering packages, you know, delivering

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<v Speaker 1>to some seventy year old lady on an Amazon route.

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<v Speaker 1>We interviewed you. We interviewed Sam on Too Many Power

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<v Speaker 1>Trip in twenty seventeen. So that was really, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>basically like you were smack dab in the middle of

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<v Speaker 1>that craziness that was going on, and it was it

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<v Speaker 1>was a sight to see just to like research it

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, and check it all out. It was unbelievable.

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<v Speaker 1>But not many Amazon drivers I know that know have

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<v Speaker 1>that unique look that you do, so you'd probably stand out.

0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:07.920
<v Speaker 1>I actually had people like because in Pittsburgh, my dad

0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:10.760
<v Speaker 1>was an been promoter for years, so like I in wrestling,

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<v Speaker 1>if you're wrestling fan of Pittsburgh, you know me and

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<v Speaker 1>you know my brother. So I mean, it's happened a

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<v Speaker 1>few times where I've been stopping for lunch or something,

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<v Speaker 1>Hey are you Samon Donnas, and I'm dressing my Amazon

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<v Speaker 1>uniform and whatnot. So so over tell the people who

0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:27.320
<v Speaker 1>your brother is if they don't know, I am actually

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<v Speaker 1>the younger brother of ww's Corey Graves. So now let

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<v Speaker 1>me ask you. Go ahead, go ahead, I just I

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<v Speaker 1>don't really it's I've been wrestling for thirteen years now,

0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:40.520
<v Speaker 1>and you'd be surprised how few people actually know that

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<v Speaker 1>We've actually really had very separate careers, and I'm proud

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<v Speaker 1>of it, of them without being known as his little brother.

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<v Speaker 1>But I guess now that it's coming out a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit more, and I guess maybe I'm being seen a

0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:54.840
<v Speaker 1>little bit more, it's probably starting to help my cause.

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<v Speaker 1>Finally people say, oh, yeah, your Graves brother. So I've

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<v Speaker 1>been able to do a lot by myself, but now

0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:02.960
<v Speaker 1>it's kind of cool to be synonymous with the guy

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<v Speaker 1>that calls the shows on Monday nights and Friday nights.

0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:10.439
<v Speaker 1>Just say Sterling James Keenan. Everybody will know that that

0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:14.679
<v Speaker 1>was so long ago. That was yeah. I don't know

0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:16.800
<v Speaker 1>if you know an him press scene from I don't

0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:18.960
<v Speaker 1>know if you did a three p W. Do you

0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:22.359
<v Speaker 1>remember Meeni's company? I do. My brother used to wrestle

0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:24.600
<v Speaker 1>there a lot, so I was probably maybe fourteen or

0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:27.720
<v Speaker 1>fifteen being coming to three PW with him. I used

0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:30.520
<v Speaker 1>to go to E c W at the Bouldome in Manaka.

0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:33.320
<v Speaker 1>That's where I used to I was kidding. And then

0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:36.040
<v Speaker 1>when I was fourteen, my brother started working at the arena,

0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:38.920
<v Speaker 1>but E CW was gone. So I mean, I've known

0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:41.240
<v Speaker 1>a lot of the guys for years because my brother,

0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:44.240
<v Speaker 1>you know, Meani and Dreamer. Like it's kind of cool

0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:46.199
<v Speaker 1>because I was such a fan as a kid, and

0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:47.960
<v Speaker 1>just like little things like this being able to talk

0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:49.760
<v Speaker 1>to you today, it's like it's kind of surreal in

0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:54.200
<v Speaker 1>a weird way, you know, because you guys, you had

0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:57.920
<v Speaker 1>mentioned that you and I have met before. What kind

0:24:57.960 --> 0:25:00.199
<v Speaker 1>of got it was just an autograph sign I get

0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:03.159
<v Speaker 1>National market in robo mall. I think it was November

0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:06.520
<v Speaker 1>to remember, weekend of ninety seven. I know Bam Bam herself,

0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:12.720
<v Speaker 1>Chris and uh and Shane Diava was wrong. It was

0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:15.520
<v Speaker 1>so cool because like I was a starstruck and I

0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:18.760
<v Speaker 1>was kind of weird because I was I was born

0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:21.199
<v Speaker 1>in eighty nine, but my brother and dad were the

0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:24.200
<v Speaker 1>biggest wrestling fans. So when I was born, they had

0:25:24.200 --> 0:25:26.600
<v Speaker 1>all VHS tapes, We had all the you know with

0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:29.960
<v Speaker 1>Class of the Champions, with all Memphis TV tapes and like,

0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:34.040
<v Speaker 1>even though my earliest memories of wrestling were like, let's say,

0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:36.879
<v Speaker 1>Razor Ramone and Shawn Michaels at the Eel and like

0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:39.480
<v Speaker 1>that was my That's what I remember. But I wasn't

0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:42.359
<v Speaker 1>ever too into like what's currently happening. I was always

0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:45.000
<v Speaker 1>watching old tapes. I loved the Saturda Night's main events,

0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:47.480
<v Speaker 1>so the Class of the Champions or you know Memphis

0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:50.520
<v Speaker 1>in the eighties, and I kind of paid attention to

0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:53.359
<v Speaker 1>what was happening, but I always felt like there was

0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:56.679
<v Speaker 1>more out there, so we'd always get the aftermags and everything,

0:25:56.680 --> 0:26:00.240
<v Speaker 1>and ECW was getting pushed so hard. I remember remember

0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:03.199
<v Speaker 1>on weekends, I'd stay up to UH and sleep in

0:26:03.200 --> 0:26:06.320
<v Speaker 1>the basement on the couch, and it was like twelve

0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:09.159
<v Speaker 1>thirty at night and I wake up, I flicking through

0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:12.679
<v Speaker 1>the channels and e c w's on. I literally recapt

0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:16.040
<v Speaker 1>jump out of bed, Run Officers Dad. E c w's on, Matt,

0:26:16.119 --> 0:26:19.760
<v Speaker 1>Wake Up. E c w's on, wakes Up, My mom

0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:22.040
<v Speaker 1>wakes up and puts a pot of coffee on. This

0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:24.879
<v Speaker 1>is I think maybe December ninety six, so I was,

0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:27.560
<v Speaker 1>you know, six years old, and it was just it

0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:29.760
<v Speaker 1>was a at that point we were hooked. I was

0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:32.679
<v Speaker 1>so so addicted to that, and then you know, just

0:26:33.200 --> 0:26:36.280
<v Speaker 1>the ECW led me to finding Japanese wrestling and Mexican

0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:39.160
<v Speaker 1>wrestling and kind of just you know, branching out from

0:26:39.240 --> 0:26:42.520
<v Speaker 1>being an American wrestling fan and that ultimately has been

0:26:42.760 --> 0:26:46.400
<v Speaker 1>the major influence of my career. I love that story.

0:26:46.520 --> 0:26:50.280
<v Speaker 1>That's great. I do have a question for you. What

0:26:50.440 --> 0:26:54.120
<v Speaker 1>is the age difference between you and your brother? He's

0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:57.760
<v Speaker 1>five years older than me. Okay, yeah, he was her

0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:00.679
<v Speaker 1>he helped train you. Yeah. Yeah. My dad had an

0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:03.760
<v Speaker 1>independent company in Pittsburgh at the time, and I was,

0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:08.280
<v Speaker 1>I guess sixteen. So my dad we got like a

0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:10.600
<v Speaker 1>rental unit and we put the ring up and my

0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:13.200
<v Speaker 1>brother was actually my trainer. And I'm actually the only

0:27:13.240 --> 0:27:16.240
<v Speaker 1>wrestler from the school that still wrestles. But that's kind

0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:18.960
<v Speaker 1>of natural. I was using the analogy that if your

0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:21.760
<v Speaker 1>parents own a bakery, probably bake a pretty good cake,

0:27:22.440 --> 0:27:24.920
<v Speaker 1>so it's bit in the blood. And then luckily O

0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:29.000
<v Speaker 1>Wrestlings showed me a lot of things and now I'm

0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:33.359
<v Speaker 1>fluent in Spanish because of it. Okay, well, you know

0:27:33.440 --> 0:27:38.800
<v Speaker 1>your brother works for WWA. We all know that there's

0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:42.960
<v Speaker 1>a connection because he's your brother. Why don't we see

0:27:43.000 --> 0:27:46.679
<v Speaker 1>you working there. Have you had an opportunity to like

0:27:46.760 --> 0:27:51.919
<v Speaker 1>have a tryout or go to like you know, train

0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:54.720
<v Speaker 1>or anything because of it? Or does not want to

0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:58.000
<v Speaker 1>pull strings? I had a contract before my brother did.

0:27:58.680 --> 0:28:03.400
<v Speaker 1>I was signed to W twenty eleven and I was, Yeah,

0:28:03.480 --> 0:28:04.920
<v Speaker 1>I was there for like a year and it was

0:28:04.960 --> 0:28:06.880
<v Speaker 1>just stawful. I didn't do well. I was a kid.

0:28:07.000 --> 0:28:10.159
<v Speaker 1>I just it was you know, it was a really

0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:13.840
<v Speaker 1>overwhelming situation for a kid with my life experience. So

0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:17.480
<v Speaker 1>I got released and h it's just timing just has

0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:20.439
<v Speaker 1>never really been on my side, you know, you know

0:28:20.520 --> 0:28:22.600
<v Speaker 1>as well as I do. There's a lot about timing

0:28:22.640 --> 0:28:26.080
<v Speaker 1>in this business. And I've done so much international travel

0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:30.000
<v Speaker 1>that you know, I think now that the independent scene

0:28:30.840 --> 0:28:33.360
<v Speaker 1>is its own thing, and I'm almost even though I'm

0:28:33.440 --> 0:28:37.120
<v Speaker 1>well experienced in the international wrestling and the rest as

0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:40.280
<v Speaker 1>a whole, there's so many you know, hot indie companies

0:28:40.280 --> 0:28:43.280
<v Speaker 1>that have their own hot stars, and there's a pecking

0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:45.800
<v Speaker 1>order that I'm almost not involved in because you know

0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:49.520
<v Speaker 1>that pecking order is established in the local independency. Well

0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:53.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm in Japan or Mexico, I'm not in that pecking order.

0:28:53.120 --> 0:28:55.000
<v Speaker 1>So I think it's a matter of time, you know.

0:28:55.120 --> 0:28:57.840
<v Speaker 1>I definitely think my best years ahead of me. I've

0:28:57.880 --> 0:29:00.240
<v Speaker 1>just you know, I've been working hard. There there's not

0:29:00.280 --> 0:29:03.600
<v Speaker 1>too many guys my age, my size, with my experience

0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:06.960
<v Speaker 1>my ability, so like I would like to think that,

0:29:07.000 --> 0:29:08.800
<v Speaker 1>you know, my best years are ahead of me, But

0:29:09.560 --> 0:29:12.160
<v Speaker 1>I don't think. I don't really want to ask my brother, hey,

0:29:12.240 --> 0:29:16.840
<v Speaker 1>get me a job, because you know, no, Yeah, but

0:29:16.920 --> 0:29:18.840
<v Speaker 1>at this point, you've been in the business a very

0:29:18.840 --> 0:29:21.400
<v Speaker 1>long time. He's been there a very long time. I

0:29:21.400 --> 0:29:25.880
<v Speaker 1>would think, you know, something would have crossed by now. Yeah.

0:29:26.040 --> 0:29:28.040
<v Speaker 1>I think a lot of people think that. But yeah,

0:29:28.080 --> 0:29:30.840
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't, I don't. I have no

0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:32.840
<v Speaker 1>idea what it is. But I'm just having fun and

0:29:33.040 --> 0:29:36.000
<v Speaker 1>enjoying it right now. I think when the time's right,

0:29:36.080 --> 0:29:38.800
<v Speaker 1>somebody would come to me somewhere, especially now that you know,

0:29:38.840 --> 0:29:42.080
<v Speaker 1>the competition is building again. Now there's more places to work,

0:29:42.120 --> 0:29:44.760
<v Speaker 1>and you know, eventually, I hope, you know, and this

0:29:44.800 --> 0:29:47.520
<v Speaker 1>is something for all of us independent guys. I hope

0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:49.400
<v Speaker 1>it gets to the point when they start hiring people

0:29:49.480 --> 0:29:51.719
<v Speaker 1>so the competition can't have them, you know, and then

0:29:51.720 --> 0:29:54.440
<v Speaker 1>there's gonna be a lot of guys with jobs and looks.

0:29:54.480 --> 0:29:56.959
<v Speaker 1>If we can repeat what happened in ninety nine, two thousand,

0:29:57.360 --> 0:29:59.720
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's a better place for all of us. Yeah,

0:29:59.800 --> 0:30:04.120
<v Speaker 1>I I agree with that. It's it's great to see

0:30:04.560 --> 0:30:09.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, aw nwa roh. It's great to see these

0:30:09.080 --> 0:30:11.880
<v Speaker 1>companies kind of not step up. But I mean it's

0:30:12.240 --> 0:30:17.360
<v Speaker 1>it's like everybody's joining forces against like WWE right now

0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:19.680
<v Speaker 1>to try and combat with them, because they were the

0:30:19.680 --> 0:30:24.680
<v Speaker 1>only game for a long time and now they're being challenged.

0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:26.880
<v Speaker 1>And I love that, and I love that there's more

0:30:26.920 --> 0:30:29.840
<v Speaker 1>places for guys to work. So there's so much talent,

0:30:30.360 --> 0:30:33.000
<v Speaker 1>like you're one of them. There's so much independent talent

0:30:33.040 --> 0:30:36.320
<v Speaker 1>out there, and not enough people get their opportunity to

0:30:36.360 --> 0:30:40.120
<v Speaker 1>shine on television. So this is the way I've always

0:30:40.160 --> 0:30:42.280
<v Speaker 1>looked at it, though, is it's a marathon, not a sprint.

0:30:42.400 --> 0:30:45.320
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's it's in my blood. And I almost

0:30:45.440 --> 0:30:48.040
<v Speaker 1>I almost peaked too early when I signed in twenty eleven.

0:30:48.160 --> 0:30:50.560
<v Speaker 1>It was ready to be there, and that taught me

0:30:50.680 --> 0:30:52.960
<v Speaker 1>that like, Okay, this isn't something I want to do

0:30:53.000 --> 0:30:55.280
<v Speaker 1>while now, and this is something I'm doing for my life,

0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:57.200
<v Speaker 1>you know, I want a career. I look at a

0:30:57.200 --> 0:31:01.040
<v Speaker 1>guy like aj Styles as super inspirational because he signed

0:31:01.040 --> 0:31:03.240
<v Speaker 1>with them to be at forty years old, and he

0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:05.480
<v Speaker 1>came in on the top and just you know, took

0:31:05.560 --> 0:31:08.920
<v Speaker 1>off and did really well. Maybe that's my path. You know,

0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:11.000
<v Speaker 1>maybe I'm not going to get there for five more years,

0:31:11.040 --> 0:31:13.360
<v Speaker 1>but when when I get hired, you're not hiring a

0:31:13.400 --> 0:31:15.400
<v Speaker 1>young kid that has to play by the rules and

0:31:15.480 --> 0:31:17.880
<v Speaker 1>do you know, go through the package they're in the system,

0:31:18.120 --> 0:31:20.000
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna say, Okay, this guy's one of the best

0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:22.640
<v Speaker 1>talents on earth. We have to do something with them. So,

0:31:23.120 --> 0:31:24.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, there's a lot of things in my favor

0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:29.400
<v Speaker 1>patience being one of them. But I definitely think there's

0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:34.000
<v Speaker 1>something good on the horizon that that twenty eleven time too,

0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:35.600
<v Speaker 1>that's kind of like a rough time to be in

0:31:35.640 --> 0:31:38.800
<v Speaker 1>developmental because they're making the switch and they're kind of

0:31:38.800 --> 0:31:42.960
<v Speaker 1>putting into place the plan that they'd have now and

0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:44.760
<v Speaker 1>it's kind of sink or swim. So for you being

0:31:44.800 --> 0:31:47.240
<v Speaker 1>so young at the time, that's that's like a that's

0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:49.000
<v Speaker 1>like oil and water. You know, it's not going to mix.

0:31:49.440 --> 0:31:52.560
<v Speaker 1>The thing that was really difficult about my time in

0:31:52.680 --> 0:31:56.120
<v Speaker 1>FCW is right before NXT. It was almost a conflict

0:31:56.160 --> 0:32:00.160
<v Speaker 1>of interest because FCW was not owned by ww R

0:32:01.520 --> 0:32:05.480
<v Speaker 1>had to promote their own events and make their money

0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:09.000
<v Speaker 1>aside from WWE, so they had their own priorities. They

0:32:09.040 --> 0:32:11.040
<v Speaker 1>had the stars they wanted to push that they think

0:32:11.040 --> 0:32:13.080
<v Speaker 1>are going to sell tickets at the local markets and I,

0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:16.080
<v Speaker 1>you know, enjoy they need to sell their merchandise and

0:32:16.160 --> 0:32:19.600
<v Speaker 1>do it, you know, for the local business as opposed

0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:22.800
<v Speaker 1>to creating a star that's getting ready for national business.

0:32:23.200 --> 0:32:26.160
<v Speaker 1>So for example, W hired me to get ready and

0:32:26.400 --> 0:32:28.640
<v Speaker 1>you know, hey, you know who knows what they wanted

0:32:28.680 --> 0:32:30.840
<v Speaker 1>to do with me. But I was a WW employee.

0:32:31.120 --> 0:32:33.000
<v Speaker 1>Well I was really good at selling merch at the

0:32:33.000 --> 0:32:36.040
<v Speaker 1>merch table. I was a hustler. I'd you know, move stuff.

0:32:36.320 --> 0:32:38.800
<v Speaker 1>So every Friday or Saturday night it was Hey, Sam,

0:32:38.840 --> 0:32:41.320
<v Speaker 1>you're on merch. I'm like, can I have a match?

0:32:41.480 --> 0:32:46.400
<v Speaker 1>Was like, yeah, you merch you know this, and I'm thinking, like,

0:32:46.480 --> 0:32:48.640
<v Speaker 1>what the hell? You know, WD had no idea this

0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:50.520
<v Speaker 1>was going on. You know, they come down once a

0:32:50.520 --> 0:32:53.080
<v Speaker 1>month and you know, send the agents and talk to

0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:55.440
<v Speaker 1>us and you guys really need to want this and

0:32:55.480 --> 0:32:57.720
<v Speaker 1>do it. You know, they preached. They were blue in

0:32:57.760 --> 0:33:00.000
<v Speaker 1>the face, and I didn't want to be a stud

0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:02.080
<v Speaker 1>huge and call the boss and say, hey, what the

0:33:02.120 --> 0:33:05.000
<v Speaker 1>hell I'm you know, I can't get a match. But

0:33:05.040 --> 0:33:07.880
<v Speaker 1>at the same time, the longer I was selling merch,

0:33:07.960 --> 0:33:10.600
<v Speaker 1>the lower my value went. You know, I wasn't getting

0:33:10.680 --> 0:33:12.360
<v Speaker 1>opportunity to didn't see anything in me. There was no

0:33:12.440 --> 0:33:16.120
<v Speaker 1>return on their investment because I'm just selling merchandise. And then,

0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:18.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, I had a knee surgery in about you know,

0:33:18.160 --> 0:33:20.479
<v Speaker 1>five days after I was clear. They cut me because

0:33:21.280 --> 0:33:24.040
<v Speaker 1>he's been there a year now, he hasn't done anything. Well,

0:33:24.280 --> 0:33:25.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, I hate to blame anyone else for my

0:33:26.200 --> 0:33:29.040
<v Speaker 1>own misfortune, but there was a lot of circumstances beyond

0:33:29.040 --> 0:33:35.160
<v Speaker 1>my control. Understood well March huh, Yeah, I mean it's

0:33:35.200 --> 0:33:36.960
<v Speaker 1>just this this charming smile of mind. You know, I

0:33:36.960 --> 0:33:41.240
<v Speaker 1>can sell a lot of programs with it, the good Cop,

0:33:41.280 --> 0:33:42.960
<v Speaker 1>Bad Cop, with some of those people who were on

0:33:43.000 --> 0:33:48.360
<v Speaker 1>the fence about buying stuff. Exactly again, I mentioned my

0:33:48.440 --> 0:33:50.840
<v Speaker 1>dad on an independent show and just growing up around it.

0:33:51.280 --> 0:33:55.000
<v Speaker 1>I've always had such like a thirst for the business,

0:33:55.000 --> 0:33:57.920
<v Speaker 1>and I've always wanted to pay my dues. Not because oh,

0:33:57.960 --> 0:33:59.520
<v Speaker 1>you have to build a ring, because that's what you're

0:33:59.520 --> 0:34:02.760
<v Speaker 1>supposed to do. I couldn't wrestle, So let me build

0:34:02.760 --> 0:34:04.800
<v Speaker 1>the ring, let me sell the merch let me carry

0:34:04.800 --> 0:34:06.680
<v Speaker 1>the guys right, let me ring the bell. Anything I

0:34:06.680 --> 0:34:09.359
<v Speaker 1>could do, I wanted to do. And this started at

0:34:09.360 --> 0:34:11.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, twelve or thirteen years old, and this is

0:34:12.040 --> 0:34:15.480
<v Speaker 1>something that has been invaluable in my wrestling career because

0:34:15.520 --> 0:34:19.160
<v Speaker 1>you know, I've been on independent shows where they couldn't

0:34:19.160 --> 0:34:21.600
<v Speaker 1>even tie the curtain off on the ring, and I said,

0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:24.200
<v Speaker 1>let me do this. You know, I got this. Just

0:34:23.920 --> 0:34:27.000
<v Speaker 1>there's so many things that have helped me because of

0:34:27.080 --> 0:34:29.440
<v Speaker 1>growing up in that, and you know, merchandise being one

0:34:29.480 --> 0:34:32.480
<v Speaker 1>of it. You know, I would sell merchant hustle, you know,

0:34:32.480 --> 0:34:35.440
<v Speaker 1>how to talk to people, and you know, coming from

0:34:35.480 --> 0:34:37.719
<v Speaker 1>a background like that, the one thing I when I

0:34:37.760 --> 0:34:40.239
<v Speaker 1>was fifteen or sixteen, me and my dad would argue

0:34:40.360 --> 0:34:42.759
<v Speaker 1>till we till we were just angry at each other

0:34:43.200 --> 0:34:47.960
<v Speaker 1>because I didn't understand the consumers is what we're looking for.

0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:49.799
<v Speaker 1>I always want to say, let's book these guys. They're

0:34:49.800 --> 0:34:52.120
<v Speaker 1>going to have a great match, and my dad will say,

0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:54.040
<v Speaker 1>these people in this town aren't going to give a

0:34:54.080 --> 0:34:56.280
<v Speaker 1>crap about these guys. Yeah they're big on the internet,

0:34:56.280 --> 0:34:58.919
<v Speaker 1>but they're not going to sell tickets. So it kind of,

0:34:58.960 --> 0:35:02.880
<v Speaker 1>you know, trained me to understand what the paying public enjoys.

0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:05.759
<v Speaker 1>And now as a performer, I understand it's not about

0:35:05.760 --> 0:35:07.360
<v Speaker 1>what I want to do. It's about what the fans

0:35:07.400 --> 0:35:10.560
<v Speaker 1>want to see, you know, and just performing for the

0:35:10.640 --> 0:35:13.440
<v Speaker 1>masses as opposed to a bit of a you know,

0:35:14.640 --> 0:35:17.600
<v Speaker 1>segregated demographic. I'm not just trying to get over on

0:35:17.640 --> 0:35:19.560
<v Speaker 1>the internet. I want to move as many tickets as

0:35:19.560 --> 0:35:21.680
<v Speaker 1>I can. I want people to come to our shows

0:35:21.719 --> 0:35:24.080
<v Speaker 1>and say, yeah, you know that would be is great.

0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:27.080
<v Speaker 1>But saming, honest is my favorite wrestling. Yeah, and it's

0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:29.920
<v Speaker 1>also a group effort and you're trying to better the

0:35:29.960 --> 0:35:33.280
<v Speaker 1>company and not just put yourself over. So I love that.

0:35:33.280 --> 0:35:36.279
<v Speaker 1>That's that's a great point that you're trying to make there. Well,

0:35:36.520 --> 0:35:39.359
<v Speaker 1>we're in a weird situation now because it is it's

0:35:39.400 --> 0:35:42.960
<v Speaker 1>such a selfish, self centered industry, and with social media,

0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:46.319
<v Speaker 1>you have to be selfish to be seen, you know.

0:35:46.400 --> 0:35:49.600
<v Speaker 1>And the thing it's it's it's blows my mind that

0:35:49.800 --> 0:35:51.959
<v Speaker 1>you know, I've wrestled. I worked a bunch of times

0:35:51.960 --> 0:35:54.520
<v Speaker 1>for All Japan Pro Wrestling, and I worked in Mexico

0:35:54.600 --> 0:35:58.480
<v Speaker 1>City for CML, And every time I'm there, you know,

0:35:58.640 --> 0:36:00.880
<v Speaker 1>I know what I can do, but I know what

0:36:00.880 --> 0:36:04.240
<v Speaker 1>my bosses want me to do. So for example, in Mexico,

0:36:04.560 --> 0:36:07.080
<v Speaker 1>we had to train and do all the high spots,

0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:09.680
<v Speaker 1>had to do all the moon soalts everything once a week.

0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:12.880
<v Speaker 1>We had to do this at like a wrestling practice classes,

0:36:13.520 --> 0:36:15.799
<v Speaker 1>and you had to perform at this class or you're

0:36:15.800 --> 0:36:18.000
<v Speaker 1>not booked on the shows. So I had to earn

0:36:18.040 --> 0:36:21.160
<v Speaker 1>my spot on these shows every week killing it. Then

0:36:21.200 --> 0:36:23.560
<v Speaker 1>on Friday night there'd be ten thousand people to Arena

0:36:23.600 --> 0:36:26.640
<v Speaker 1>Mexico and I'm rest a Negro Cassis and I want

0:36:26.640 --> 0:36:28.880
<v Speaker 1>to do all my fancy stuff that I just practiced

0:36:28.920 --> 0:36:30.919
<v Speaker 1>on Wednesday and said no, no, no, you're a heel.

0:36:31.040 --> 0:36:33.600
<v Speaker 1>You don't do that. Don't do that, You're a heel.

0:36:34.120 --> 0:36:38.480
<v Speaker 1>So I'm punching and kicking and the thing is about

0:36:38.480 --> 0:36:42.480
<v Speaker 1>like the internet fan base, if they're watching that, they're saying,

0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:45.680
<v Speaker 1>why the hell Samon Donnison CML he doesn't do any

0:36:45.719 --> 0:36:48.840
<v Speaker 1>high spots. We want to see lucha. My boss is

0:36:48.960 --> 0:36:52.480
<v Speaker 1>were over the moon. They loved me. I was making

0:36:52.520 --> 0:36:55.319
<v Speaker 1>great money. We're actually drawing money, which is you know,

0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:59.200
<v Speaker 1>almost a lost arm these days. But we made money

0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:03.239
<v Speaker 1>for the company. Everything was great. But because I wasn't selfish,

0:37:03.280 --> 0:37:05.680
<v Speaker 1>because I worked for the company and for my bosses,

0:37:06.200 --> 0:37:08.319
<v Speaker 1>that kind of you know, affected me on the back

0:37:08.400 --> 0:37:11.720
<v Speaker 1>end because now I come to the United States like, yeah,

0:37:11.800 --> 0:37:13.160
<v Speaker 1>I saw, I'm an expert. He doesn't do anything that,

0:37:13.360 --> 0:37:17.239
<v Speaker 1>he's nothing special. Yeah, but don't you think the fans

0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:20.760
<v Speaker 1>are smarter these days as well because of the Internet

0:37:20.880 --> 0:37:25.520
<v Speaker 1>and they know that it's the office and it's not you. No, No,

0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:28.360
<v Speaker 1>I don't think it's no that at all. I think, honestly,

0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:32.080
<v Speaker 1>people don't understand that because I go against the grade.

0:37:32.120 --> 0:37:35.640
<v Speaker 1>I think it's the general idea is get your shit

0:37:35.719 --> 0:37:37.720
<v Speaker 1>in because you need to get that gift on the internet.

0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.480
<v Speaker 1>You need to be seen and you need to go viral.

0:37:40.640 --> 0:37:44.480
<v Speaker 1>And I think everybody has one train of thought that. Again,

0:37:44.520 --> 0:37:47.040
<v Speaker 1>maybe I'm insane because I'm a mark for the eighties

0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:49.279
<v Speaker 1>and nineties that it shouldn't be the old school way.

0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:51.719
<v Speaker 1>But I've almost bail off my nose to spite my

0:37:51.760 --> 0:37:54.440
<v Speaker 1>face because you know, I've heard it, I've seen it

0:37:54.520 --> 0:37:58.080
<v Speaker 1>on Twitter and whatnot. It's, oh my god, why is

0:37:58.120 --> 0:38:00.560
<v Speaker 1>Sam and Donnas in all Japan? He doesn't do anything?

0:38:00.600 --> 0:38:03.919
<v Speaker 1>Oh why see? And it's like, well, you know, there's

0:38:03.960 --> 0:38:06.120
<v Speaker 1>a lot more than that. If that's the case, then

0:38:06.160 --> 0:38:09.160
<v Speaker 1>you know, I don't know. I don't I think the

0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:13.520
<v Speaker 1>fans almost get too much credit sometimes for being the pulse.

0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:17.360
<v Speaker 1>But you know, it's all about making your own social

0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:22.680
<v Speaker 1>media important, and we didn't have social media, so we

0:38:22.760 --> 0:38:25.239
<v Speaker 1>couldn't benefit off that. I mean, I've bet I just

0:38:25.320 --> 0:38:29.200
<v Speaker 1>joined Twitter three years ago and still have trouble navigating sometimes.

0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:31.360
<v Speaker 1>But what you guys did is you all played for

0:38:31.440 --> 0:38:34.239
<v Speaker 1>the team you had, you know, thirty or forty wrestlers,

0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:38.120
<v Speaker 1>all doing their part the best they could. Now there's

0:38:38.200 --> 0:38:40.600
<v Speaker 1>no your part. It's you want to be the show.

0:38:40.920 --> 0:38:44.239
<v Speaker 1>It's almost more of a competition. I don't like that.

0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:48.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, but that's the difference between an independent In

0:38:48.040 --> 0:38:51.719
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty, a good indie house is two hundred and

0:38:51.760 --> 0:38:54.239
<v Speaker 1>fifty three hundred. That's a good house, you know. In

0:38:54.360 --> 0:38:56.640
<v Speaker 1>ninety nine a good indie house was twelve hundred and

0:38:56.640 --> 0:39:01.359
<v Speaker 1>fifteen hundred. Because you guys understood it's not competition. Now

0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:03.919
<v Speaker 1>we're of the mentality. There's some locker rooms, some big

0:39:03.960 --> 0:39:06.640
<v Speaker 1>locker rooms of these big events. I don't like being

0:39:06.680 --> 0:39:10.359
<v Speaker 1>in because the pressure is too high. All of us

0:39:10.400 --> 0:39:12.200
<v Speaker 1>walk in like we're the cock of the walk. We're

0:39:12.200 --> 0:39:14.239
<v Speaker 1>the best one there. We know what we're doing and

0:39:14.280 --> 0:39:16.960
<v Speaker 1>it's follow that, you know, and then by the fourth

0:39:17.000 --> 0:39:19.560
<v Speaker 1>match of fans are burnt out. And you know, when

0:39:19.600 --> 0:39:21.640
<v Speaker 1>when you give the fans that much power, they know

0:39:21.680 --> 0:39:24.000
<v Speaker 1>they're in control and they don't want to enjoy the

0:39:24.000 --> 0:39:25.839
<v Speaker 1>wrest of them. They just want to critique it. So

0:39:25.920 --> 0:39:27.759
<v Speaker 1>the next thing, you know, one great show that draw

0:39:27.800 --> 0:39:29.640
<v Speaker 1>us three hundred people, next Time has you know, two

0:39:29.760 --> 0:39:32.200
<v Speaker 1>hundred and twenty people, Following Time has one hundred and

0:39:32.200 --> 0:39:34.560
<v Speaker 1>fifty people, and then something that was a great thing,

0:39:34.640 --> 0:39:37.439
<v Speaker 1>you know, kind of tapers off. Yeah. See, I don't

0:39:37.520 --> 0:39:41.440
<v Speaker 1>like that. I'm not going to lie. And the difference

0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:45.040
<v Speaker 1>now is because I've done In twenty nineteen, I did

0:39:45.080 --> 0:39:47.319
<v Speaker 1>a couple of shows with Shane because I said, I'm

0:39:47.320 --> 0:39:49.160
<v Speaker 1>not going to work anymore. I can't bump because I've

0:39:49.200 --> 0:39:52.200
<v Speaker 1>had so many surgeries and if I take a bump

0:39:52.640 --> 0:39:56.200
<v Speaker 1>things can go wrong. My doctor said absolutely no ring right,

0:39:56.719 --> 0:40:01.000
<v Speaker 1>But I did managing for him. We're not the main

0:40:01.040 --> 0:40:03.960
<v Speaker 1>event anymore. Obviously, it's about the younger kids, and we

0:40:04.040 --> 0:40:06.439
<v Speaker 1>get it, and Shane's good. Shane will put anybody over

0:40:06.560 --> 0:40:09.520
<v Speaker 1>like we're good with that. But we're usually like second

0:40:09.520 --> 0:40:14.239
<v Speaker 1>third match, you know, And it's different than when you're

0:40:14.280 --> 0:40:19.719
<v Speaker 1>always main eventing, different dynamic. And I noticed the houses

0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:25.319
<v Speaker 1>are smaller and some kids don't even say hi when

0:40:25.320 --> 0:40:27.200
<v Speaker 1>you walk into the locker room. And I said, well,

0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:28.759
<v Speaker 1>I said, when I grew up, you had to go

0:40:28.840 --> 0:40:33.279
<v Speaker 1>around shake everyone's hand, that was the law. Now they

0:40:33.280 --> 0:40:35.400
<v Speaker 1>don't maybe they don't even know who we are, but

0:40:35.480 --> 0:40:39.920
<v Speaker 1>they don't even acknowledge you. So it's certain dynamic. It

0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:43.760
<v Speaker 1>drives me nuts because again I went the old school route,

0:40:43.760 --> 0:40:48.800
<v Speaker 1>and I love classic wrestling. Ninety five percent of independent

0:40:48.800 --> 0:40:52.919
<v Speaker 1>wrestlers now, their first memory of wrestling would be, let's say,

0:40:53.120 --> 0:40:56.719
<v Speaker 1>the Ed Guerrero era two thousand and four. So, like,

0:40:56.800 --> 0:41:00.080
<v Speaker 1>you know, WB has done such a great job of

0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:03.080
<v Speaker 1>kind of rewriting history, you know, the way it fits

0:41:03.080 --> 0:41:07.560
<v Speaker 1>into their their system. There's almost just there's so many

0:41:07.600 --> 0:41:11.319
<v Speaker 1>massive stars that are just virtually obsolete now and if

0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:13.879
<v Speaker 1>you go into arrest of the block room, you can't say,

0:41:14.000 --> 0:41:16.560
<v Speaker 1>you know, you can't even say, oh, yeah, this this

0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:22.440
<v Speaker 1>you know Jack Briscoe is you know, is he the

0:41:22.480 --> 0:41:24.239
<v Speaker 1>father of the Briscos from Ringham Honor? You know, like

0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:29.480
<v Speaker 1>that's one thing, like I get along so well with

0:41:29.520 --> 0:41:32.880
<v Speaker 1>a lot of the you know, the generation before me, because,

0:41:33.000 --> 0:41:35.680
<v Speaker 1>like I'd like to think, I'm one of the last

0:41:35.760 --> 0:41:38.200
<v Speaker 1>real ones that makes sense. You know, I can sit

0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:40.600
<v Speaker 1>there and talk, you know, with somebody that's been around,

0:41:40.640 --> 0:41:43.640
<v Speaker 1>and I always say that. You know, I can hang

0:41:43.680 --> 0:41:45.719
<v Speaker 1>out with Ultimate Draggon and he's going to tell me,

0:41:45.880 --> 0:41:48.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, holy cowt Samon Donna's is, you know, one

0:41:48.120 --> 0:41:50.319
<v Speaker 1>of the best young kids in the business. And then

0:41:50.360 --> 0:41:52.279
<v Speaker 1>I can go to an independent show, you know, with

0:41:53.160 --> 0:41:55.319
<v Speaker 1>local indy guys, and they're going to say, what the

0:41:55.320 --> 0:41:57.000
<v Speaker 1>hell is the big deal about Sam Donna's He doesn't

0:41:57.040 --> 0:42:01.520
<v Speaker 1>do a Canadian destroyer, you know, so crazy, it's so crazy.

0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:04.320
<v Speaker 1>Where are you now? Who are you working for Tonight?

0:42:04.840 --> 0:42:08.359
<v Speaker 1>I'm in Texas with Pala Pro Tonight I'm off, which

0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:11.239
<v Speaker 1>is also cool. I never have tell room. We have

0:42:11.280 --> 0:42:13.879
<v Speaker 1>another show tomorrow night, and I'm with your friend MK

0:42:14.120 --> 0:42:18.680
<v Speaker 1>Bandit Matthew. Yes, we're are in a hotel room. He's

0:42:18.719 --> 0:42:21.400
<v Speaker 1>at the gym right now. I'm doing a little bit later.

0:42:21.880 --> 0:42:24.919
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, we actually hooked up at Tommy Dreamer show

0:42:24.960 --> 0:42:27.399
<v Speaker 1>at the House of Hardcore and he's been like one

0:42:27.400 --> 0:42:31.640
<v Speaker 1>of my best buddies ever since. Hey. Yeah, he almost

0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:35.080
<v Speaker 1>is like a shoe agent, which is awesome because in

0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:37.319
<v Speaker 1>the United States it has one of us. But he's

0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:39.760
<v Speaker 1>such a you know, he's so tied into the West

0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:42.719
<v Speaker 1>Coast scene and I'm Pittsburgh in the Northeast and I have,

0:42:42.960 --> 0:42:46.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, the connections I've made, and he'll literally say, okay, hey,

0:42:46.880 --> 0:42:50.040
<v Speaker 1>March nineteenth, you good for Dallas, Texas? Yeah? Good? And

0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:52.799
<v Speaker 1>he gets my fight, my hotel paid for everything, gets

0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:54.919
<v Speaker 1>it all, take care. I never touch a dollar bill,

0:42:56.320 --> 0:43:00.759
<v Speaker 1>and it's it's absolutely phenomenal. Solast night, he knocked the

0:43:00.760 --> 0:43:01.960
<v Speaker 1>hell out of me. I got. I don't know if

0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:05.960
<v Speaker 1>you can see the big Yeah. Yeah, he hit me

0:43:06.000 --> 0:43:14.399
<v Speaker 1>with a he's an ass was I will for sure fine. Well,

0:43:14.640 --> 0:43:16.680
<v Speaker 1>Dreamer put us together just because I guess he was

0:43:16.719 --> 0:43:20.360
<v Speaker 1>doing the director of something competition for House of Hardcore

0:43:20.520 --> 0:43:22.800
<v Speaker 1>and I was in the middle of, uh the Donald

0:43:22.840 --> 0:43:26.400
<v Speaker 1>Trump run in Mexico. So I actually had a show.

0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:29.719
<v Speaker 1>I was in Pittsburgh for my family, but my flight

0:43:29.800 --> 0:43:33.400
<v Speaker 1>got canceled because of a snowstorm, and I was like, well,

0:43:33.719 --> 0:43:35.400
<v Speaker 1>if I stay four days and I'll text stream Er

0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:36.560
<v Speaker 1>see if I can get on. So I got to

0:43:36.640 --> 0:43:38.960
<v Speaker 1>the two House Hardcourse shows, my first time working at

0:43:39.000 --> 0:43:41.759
<v Speaker 1>the Arena, which was just surreal. I was gonna say,

0:43:41.760 --> 0:43:43.560
<v Speaker 1>how did you like get there? They've changed it a

0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:46.319
<v Speaker 1>lot though. Yeah, well I was there back when it

0:43:46.400 --> 0:43:48.680
<v Speaker 1>Like I said, three p W. I know the difference

0:43:48.680 --> 0:43:50.920
<v Speaker 1>of the change. I just never got to work there

0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:53.319
<v Speaker 1>back when it was you know, the original arena it was.

0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:56.840
<v Speaker 1>It's just, you know, it's something so exciting, you know.

0:43:56.880 --> 0:43:59.360
<v Speaker 1>I think literally I've been lucky. The only real major

0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:01.640
<v Speaker 1>arena left is the Garden for me, because I did

0:44:01.640 --> 0:44:03.840
<v Speaker 1>Arena Mexico, I've done Cork and Hall, I've done the

0:44:03.840 --> 0:44:06.640
<v Speaker 1>ECW Arena, you know, and that's and I did also

0:44:06.680 --> 0:44:11.360
<v Speaker 1>in England there's one called Croydon Fairfield Halls and Croydon

0:44:11.400 --> 0:44:14.600
<v Speaker 1>in London, which is like the historic British venue. So

0:44:14.920 --> 0:44:16.799
<v Speaker 1>I've been lucky to see it all and do it all.

0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:21.160
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, the Garden's the last one left. Yeah, and

0:44:21.239 --> 0:44:25.120
<v Speaker 1>I was at the Garden and I prefer the arena whatever,

0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:29.400
<v Speaker 1>crazy reason. The thing is, the overall energy is different

0:44:29.440 --> 0:44:32.400
<v Speaker 1>now and rest Yes, you know again, I know a

0:44:32.440 --> 0:44:35.160
<v Speaker 1>lot of people hate Jim Cornett and the way he preaches,

0:44:35.239 --> 0:44:36.560
<v Speaker 1>but you know he's got a very a lot of

0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:39.000
<v Speaker 1>violot points about. You know, there's a difference between an

0:44:39.040 --> 0:44:43.480
<v Speaker 1>emotional investment and a physical and visual investment. I say

0:44:43.520 --> 0:44:46.319
<v Speaker 1>it's the difference. Let's say you know that the home

0:44:46.400 --> 0:44:49.239
<v Speaker 1>run derby versus Game seven of the World Series. You know,

0:44:49.320 --> 0:44:51.680
<v Speaker 1>if you see home runs, you're gonna get excited. But

0:44:51.719 --> 0:44:53.200
<v Speaker 1>what do you want? You just want another home run.

0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:55.120
<v Speaker 1>But when it's the bottom of the seventh, you know,

0:44:55.160 --> 0:44:57.759
<v Speaker 1>and you're down by two in Game seven, you're you know,

0:44:57.840 --> 0:45:00.080
<v Speaker 1>everything's on the line. So your heart, your brain, in

0:45:00.120 --> 0:45:03.240
<v Speaker 1>your eyes are invested in this emotion. You know, wrestling's

0:45:03.280 --> 0:45:05.319
<v Speaker 1>not like that right now. People are doing so much,

0:45:05.400 --> 0:45:09.200
<v Speaker 1>you know, exciting cool things for that instant gratification on

0:45:09.239 --> 0:45:13.200
<v Speaker 1>Twitter or whatnot. And now that's why the fans almost

0:45:13.320 --> 0:45:16.719
<v Speaker 1>they're more, their attention spans shorter. They don't have that

0:45:16.800 --> 0:45:19.520
<v Speaker 1>genuine emotion. Watch a match for me now, I always

0:45:19.520 --> 0:45:22.800
<v Speaker 1>talking about November November ninety seven, Bam Bam and Sean Shane.

0:45:23.560 --> 0:45:27.480
<v Speaker 1>When Shane wins, every fist in the building is raised

0:45:27.480 --> 0:45:29.560
<v Speaker 1>in the air. I vividly remember the only time I

0:45:29.520 --> 0:45:34.680
<v Speaker 1>ever know my mom mark out was jumps up in

0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:36.759
<v Speaker 1>the air. You don't get that investment anymore, you know,

0:45:36.760 --> 0:45:39.239
<v Speaker 1>you get a this is awesome chance and you get

0:45:39.320 --> 0:45:41.879
<v Speaker 1>maybe you know, a standing ovation because of oh hey,

0:45:41.880 --> 0:45:44.759
<v Speaker 1>that was a really good match. It's just different, you know,

0:45:44.880 --> 0:45:47.800
<v Speaker 1>and I luckily try to keep you know, try to

0:45:47.840 --> 0:45:50.480
<v Speaker 1>get a few elements of that back the best I can.

0:45:50.960 --> 0:45:52.920
<v Speaker 1>But I think that being said, that's all part of me,

0:45:53.120 --> 0:45:56.359
<v Speaker 1>you know, kind of being a slow burn. People kind

0:45:56.360 --> 0:45:59.160
<v Speaker 1>of appreciate it, but it takes a little longer, so

0:45:59.640 --> 0:46:02.000
<v Speaker 1>that I probably also goes back to why I not

0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:06.279
<v Speaker 1>signed anywhere right now? Yeah, well, you're doing wonderful. Maybe

0:46:06.320 --> 0:46:11.640
<v Speaker 1>I just suck. It could be that. Fuck I feel yes, now,

0:46:11.680 --> 0:46:15.800
<v Speaker 1>you don't suck promoters. Let Sam do his thing, yes,

0:46:16.040 --> 0:46:19.520
<v Speaker 1>and let the world see how talented he is. How

0:46:19.520 --> 0:46:22.120
<v Speaker 1>about that. I appreciate that. I just yeah, to take

0:46:22.160 --> 0:46:24.239
<v Speaker 1>your thumb off him and let him work. That's it.

0:46:24.640 --> 0:46:26.279
<v Speaker 1>That's what we did last night. There was a guy

0:46:26.320 --> 0:46:29.720
<v Speaker 1>down here that Nobe Bryant was his name. He actually

0:46:30.080 --> 0:46:32.160
<v Speaker 1>he was working for All Japan at the same time

0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:33.959
<v Speaker 1>I was, but we were never on the same tour,

0:46:34.040 --> 0:46:36.879
<v Speaker 1>so I never met him. And last night, I mean,

0:46:37.480 --> 0:46:39.839
<v Speaker 1>I'm enjoying wrestling a lot right now because I haven't

0:46:39.840 --> 0:46:41.160
<v Speaker 1>had too much of it, But that was one of

0:46:41.200 --> 0:46:43.840
<v Speaker 1>my favorite matches I ever had because we're both in

0:46:43.880 --> 0:46:47.000
<v Speaker 1>the same weight length. You know, we were both just clicking.

0:46:47.080 --> 0:46:49.279
<v Speaker 1>We went about twenty five minutes and people were just

0:46:49.440 --> 0:46:52.680
<v Speaker 1>into it. So we had so much fun. I don't know,

0:46:52.760 --> 0:46:55.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm excited for another match tomorrow night, and I'm just

0:46:55.120 --> 0:46:58.200
<v Speaker 1>happy to pick things back up a little bit. And

0:46:58.239 --> 0:47:00.520
<v Speaker 1>that's the key word. You're having fun and you're enjoying

0:47:00.520 --> 0:47:03.719
<v Speaker 1>what you're doing. So where can the people find you?

0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:08.480
<v Speaker 1>On social media? I'm on Instagram and Twitter at real Samas.

0:47:09.080 --> 0:47:12.160
<v Speaker 1>My Instagram is basically just wonderful pictures of me and

0:47:12.160 --> 0:47:16.920
<v Speaker 1>I'll I'll get my girlfriend the other. The Twitter is

0:47:17.200 --> 0:47:20.280
<v Speaker 1>mostly I just always like kind of share old wrestling

0:47:20.320 --> 0:47:24.759
<v Speaker 1>videos and matches and stuff because I'm still sick with it.

0:47:24.760 --> 0:47:27.320
<v Speaker 1>I'm obsessed with it. I just I mean, it's everything

0:47:27.360 --> 0:47:30.240
<v Speaker 1>I've ever loved. So I find the most obscure match

0:47:30.239 --> 0:47:33.040
<v Speaker 1>from nineteen seventy and if it's I always share what

0:47:33.080 --> 0:47:35.839
<v Speaker 1>I'm watching with Twitter. So a lot of people now

0:47:35.840 --> 0:47:37.799
<v Speaker 1>are getting to see something they wouldn't see anywhere else,

0:47:37.800 --> 0:47:40.839
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<v Speaker 1>the Eyes up Here family. I love it, and keep

0:49:19.320 --> 0:49:22.600
<v Speaker 1>putting yourself over, because if you don't put yourself over,

0:49:22.719 --> 0:49:25.680
<v Speaker 1>no one else will. I always help you. That follow

0:49:25.800 --> 0:49:28.840
<v Speaker 1>it up, there's a very important man in the restling

0:49:28.880 --> 0:49:31.479
<v Speaker 1>business that was actually mad at me because I put

0:49:31.520 --> 0:49:34.760
<v Speaker 1>myself over on Twitter, and I'm like, what the hell

0:49:35.360 --> 0:49:38.920
<v Speaker 1>you're doing me a job? I'm I'm an independent. If

0:49:38.960 --> 0:49:41.120
<v Speaker 1>I don't tell people how good I am, They're not

0:49:41.120 --> 0:49:43.520
<v Speaker 1>gonna think I'm good. I'm not gonna get booked. So

0:49:43.560 --> 0:49:46.560
<v Speaker 1>how can I put myself over too much of I'm good?

0:49:47.960 --> 0:49:50.000
<v Speaker 1>I just I just give up. You know, I just

0:49:50.080 --> 0:49:51.839
<v Speaker 1>kind of go with the flow now and have fun

0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:55.160
<v Speaker 1>and smile. You have to promote your brand. You need

0:49:55.200 --> 0:49:57.759
<v Speaker 1>to believe in yourself because if you don't, nobody else

0:49:57.800 --> 0:50:00.000
<v Speaker 1>will believe in you. So you keep doing what you're doing.

0:50:00.640 --> 0:50:03.200
<v Speaker 1>I think you're doing an excellent job of promoting yourself

0:50:03.360 --> 0:50:07.839
<v Speaker 1>and just screw the haters. Just do you, kid, and

0:50:07.880 --> 0:50:11.239
<v Speaker 1>you'll go very far in this business. That means a

0:50:11.239 --> 0:50:15.080
<v Speaker 1>lot coming from one of my childhood crushes. So thank you, well,

0:50:15.080 --> 0:50:19.080
<v Speaker 1>thank you. My heart is full. I appreciate this interview

0:50:19.120 --> 0:50:22.400
<v Speaker 1>was very insightful by the way I enjoyed it. I

0:50:22.400 --> 0:50:25.319
<v Speaker 1>think I come off as grumpy Stemes and I'm not. No, no, no,

0:50:25.360 --> 0:50:28.000
<v Speaker 1>you were very pleasant. Because I'm in the room, I

0:50:28.040 --> 0:50:29.640
<v Speaker 1>don't know. I like to give I like to put

0:50:29.640 --> 0:50:31.680
<v Speaker 1>myself over sometimes, so maybe it was because of me.

0:50:32.040 --> 0:50:34.760
<v Speaker 1>It's not because of chat, that's for sure. Everybody's counting

0:50:34.760 --> 0:50:36.680
<v Speaker 1>me out of this. I mean, I'm a huge part

0:50:36.719 --> 0:50:39.840
<v Speaker 1>of it. I didn't let you guys get enough in.

0:50:39.880 --> 0:50:42.839
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, No, no, you were very insightful. Well, we'll

0:50:42.840 --> 0:50:45.160
<v Speaker 1>have you back on in the future, but good luck

0:50:45.200 --> 0:50:50.000
<v Speaker 1>with your tour for the next couple of days and

0:50:50.360 --> 0:50:55.600
<v Speaker 1>come on. Oh I know we love Yes, I'm not

0:50:55.640 --> 0:50:57.960
<v Speaker 1>saying I love it. I'm shy now now that I'm

0:50:57.960 --> 0:51:00.600
<v Speaker 1>a camera. I can't sing Abba for the masses. I

0:51:00.640 --> 0:51:04.160
<v Speaker 1>sing all the time. People's ears bleep. I can't sing,

0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:07.480
<v Speaker 1>but I sing. I don't care. And we'll do some

0:51:07.480 --> 0:51:12.759
<v Speaker 1>some songs together. How about finished the lyric. You can

0:51:12.840 --> 0:51:16.000
<v Speaker 1>do Patreon extras with me one day. I'll study up

0:51:16.000 --> 0:51:18.560
<v Speaker 1>on my lyrics and then we'll play a game with it. Yes,

0:51:18.920 --> 0:51:21.399
<v Speaker 1>all right, write that down, Chad. We'll have him back

0:51:21.440 --> 0:51:27.160
<v Speaker 1>and we'll do some market You're delightful, Sam, Thank you

0:51:27.200 --> 0:51:31.320
<v Speaker 1>for coming on. And I'm sure we'll keep in touch

0:51:31.600 --> 0:51:35.120
<v Speaker 1>on the on the Twitter. As the kids say, and

0:51:35.480 --> 0:51:40.560
<v Speaker 1>don't get hurt. I'm sure. Yeah. Maybe i'll see you

0:51:40.600 --> 0:51:43.520
<v Speaker 1>somewhere soon. I don't know. Did he leave? Is he gone?

0:51:44.040 --> 0:51:47.000
<v Speaker 1>He's there, he's there there, all right, now say goodbye

0:51:47.040 --> 0:51:53.399
<v Speaker 1>because we're losing. He for on a show sometime this year.

0:51:53.600 --> 0:51:56.640
<v Speaker 1>We'll see all right now, I'm kicking him out see it.

0:51:56.880 --> 0:51:58.520
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, I don't know what's going on there. Yeah,

0:51:58.520 --> 0:52:01.160
<v Speaker 1>that's great. I'll tell you something. And here's why. I mean,

0:52:01.200 --> 0:52:02.759
<v Speaker 1>I want to say it, but here's why he's not

0:52:02.840 --> 0:52:05.080
<v Speaker 1>going to get booked a lot because he's six foot

0:52:05.120 --> 0:52:08.040
<v Speaker 1>four and everybody else is like five foot four, so

0:52:08.080 --> 0:52:10.600
<v Speaker 1>he's gonna be a taller than everybody. I didn't know

0:52:10.719 --> 0:52:12.799
<v Speaker 1>he was that tall. Yeah, he's a big six four

0:52:12.840 --> 0:52:15.800
<v Speaker 1>two fifty Wow. Yeah, see, I like I said, I

0:52:16.320 --> 0:52:19.440
<v Speaker 1>he was telling me that we met but at an

0:52:19.440 --> 0:52:22.080
<v Speaker 1>autograph signing and he was like eleven and I was like, oh, sorry,

0:52:22.080 --> 0:52:24.160
<v Speaker 1>I don't remember. So he's like probably like five a

0:52:24.360 --> 0:52:26.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, one eighty. Oh okay, I was still taller

0:52:26.960 --> 0:52:29.839
<v Speaker 1>than made at that point, unless then I would tell her.

0:52:29.880 --> 0:52:33.800
<v Speaker 1>But he's a he's a nice guy, very very smart

0:52:33.840 --> 0:52:37.200
<v Speaker 1>for the business. Vers Yeah, a couple of great points

0:52:37.200 --> 0:52:39.200
<v Speaker 1>to follow up on it. And I talked about this

0:52:39.239 --> 0:52:40.920
<v Speaker 1>with Shane the other day. I don't know if you

0:52:40.920 --> 0:52:43.799
<v Speaker 1>saw the story about hul Hogan last week when he

0:52:43.880 --> 0:52:46.000
<v Speaker 1>was at the Monday Night Raw taping. There was a

0:52:46.080 --> 0:52:48.240
<v Speaker 1>he did an interview to promote it where he talked

0:52:48.239 --> 0:52:50.719
<v Speaker 1>about how and this is dialent back to what you said.

0:52:51.440 --> 0:52:53.759
<v Speaker 1>He doesn't get a response from the kids when he

0:52:53.800 --> 0:52:57.400
<v Speaker 1>goes backstage. Everybody's kind of cold to him. And I'm like,

0:52:57.400 --> 0:52:59.680
<v Speaker 1>all right, you know, I've been backstage where Shane comes

0:52:59.719 --> 0:53:02.319
<v Speaker 1>in and the guys shake his hand whatever. But this

0:53:02.360 --> 0:53:06.480
<v Speaker 1>is Hulk Hogan in the WWE. Do you think it's

0:53:06.520 --> 0:53:09.280
<v Speaker 1>because of the racial stuff. I think that's a part

0:53:09.280 --> 0:53:11.440
<v Speaker 1>of it. But he says he gets the vibe that

0:53:11.520 --> 0:53:13.799
<v Speaker 1>people feel like he's coming to steal the main event,

0:53:13.840 --> 0:53:15.520
<v Speaker 1>and he said those days are well behind me, folks,

0:53:15.560 --> 0:53:18.120
<v Speaker 1>you don't need to worry about that. And this whole

0:53:18.120 --> 0:53:21.200
<v Speaker 1>discussion came out all over you know, Twitter and Instagram

0:53:21.239 --> 0:53:25.680
<v Speaker 1>and Facebook and everything about how the veterans of your era,

0:53:25.880 --> 0:53:29.200
<v Speaker 1>the Hogan era and before are perceived. Now it's this

0:53:29.400 --> 0:53:34.640
<v Speaker 1>cold shoulder because everybody is like either intimidated a that

0:53:34.680 --> 0:53:37.640
<v Speaker 1>you guys were such big stars, or by they don't

0:53:37.680 --> 0:53:39.319
<v Speaker 1>know who you are and they don't know how to

0:53:39.320 --> 0:53:41.680
<v Speaker 1>react to you and to me, both of those should

0:53:41.719 --> 0:53:44.879
<v Speaker 1>be completely put to decide, because you're coming in and

0:53:45.000 --> 0:53:48.240
<v Speaker 1>you should be greeted. I feel this way. Well, first

0:53:48.239 --> 0:53:50.120
<v Speaker 1>of all, with the whole Corona thing, I don't want

0:53:50.160 --> 0:53:53.920
<v Speaker 1>to shake hands. Yeah, no way for me. It's fine.

0:53:54.040 --> 0:53:58.560
<v Speaker 1>I don't care. But seriously, I feel like even if

0:53:59.400 --> 0:54:03.439
<v Speaker 1>you don't know know who we are right and we're

0:54:03.480 --> 0:54:07.040
<v Speaker 1>coming in, you could still shake somebody's hand and introduce

0:54:07.080 --> 0:54:10.880
<v Speaker 1>yourself right like you know. I'm not expecting people to

0:54:11.160 --> 0:54:13.040
<v Speaker 1>look at the card and say, oh, I have to

0:54:13.080 --> 0:54:16.239
<v Speaker 1>study matches because you know Shannon Francine. No, I don't

0:54:16.280 --> 0:54:17.560
<v Speaker 1>care if they don't know who I am. I don't

0:54:17.560 --> 0:54:20.760
<v Speaker 1>care if they didn't watch ECW. But a nice hello

0:54:22.320 --> 0:54:25.879
<v Speaker 1>would be welcoming. You know, when I go into these

0:54:26.280 --> 0:54:28.960
<v Speaker 1>locker rooms and I see these kids, I always walk

0:54:29.040 --> 0:54:30.960
<v Speaker 1>up to them and I always say Hi, I'm Francy,

0:54:31.160 --> 0:54:33.759
<v Speaker 1>Nice to meet you. And I get two responses. I

0:54:33.840 --> 0:54:36.960
<v Speaker 1>either get the limp handshake and they're looking in the

0:54:37.000 --> 0:54:39.680
<v Speaker 1>sky and they don't care, or I get I know

0:54:39.719 --> 0:54:43.120
<v Speaker 1>exactly who you are, either one or the other. You know,

0:54:43.680 --> 0:54:46.399
<v Speaker 1>and even if you don't give a shit who I am,

0:54:46.480 --> 0:54:49.480
<v Speaker 1>act like you do. You're a worker. You can put

0:54:49.520 --> 0:54:51.640
<v Speaker 1>it on for five seconds and just be like, hey,

0:54:51.680 --> 0:54:56.160
<v Speaker 1>how's it going. People are ignorant. Yeah, it's just you know,

0:54:56.360 --> 0:55:00.160
<v Speaker 1>I know we were raised in this business differently, and

0:55:00.239 --> 0:55:02.000
<v Speaker 1>I know it's a different time and we have to

0:55:02.080 --> 0:55:05.799
<v Speaker 1>adapt to the times. And it takes five seconds to

0:55:05.840 --> 0:55:08.480
<v Speaker 1>smile at someone or say hello. It's not a big deal.

0:55:08.800 --> 0:55:10.919
<v Speaker 1>I'm not telling you to put me over and say

0:55:10.920 --> 0:55:14.000
<v Speaker 1>how great I am. I'm just hello, how are you?

0:55:14.360 --> 0:55:16.120
<v Speaker 1>That's it. Don't get it. I don't get I just

0:55:16.160 --> 0:55:20.560
<v Speaker 1>watched this documentary from nineteen eighty five from Salt Lake City, Utah,

0:55:20.760 --> 0:55:23.160
<v Speaker 1>about you know, pro wrestling. The guy was actually he

0:55:23.239 --> 0:55:25.560
<v Speaker 1>kept calling it wrestling. He would say rassele, rassele, wrassele,

0:55:26.040 --> 0:55:28.920
<v Speaker 1>And he was at an Awa event and he was

0:55:28.960 --> 0:55:30.920
<v Speaker 1>getting interviews from like Kurt Henny, and Kurd Henny was

0:55:30.920 --> 0:55:34.319
<v Speaker 1>like twenty five years old. This great, great documentary. But

0:55:34.719 --> 0:55:38.480
<v Speaker 1>the respect that this guy had for the business and

0:55:38.600 --> 0:55:41.479
<v Speaker 1>how everybody protected it, I think if it went back

0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:44.560
<v Speaker 1>to that, you would see a completely different generation coming

0:55:44.600 --> 0:55:47.520
<v Speaker 1>into the business. And I think what Sam said, kids

0:55:47.560 --> 0:55:50.680
<v Speaker 1>who are basically training now started watching in the mid

0:55:50.680 --> 0:55:53.879
<v Speaker 1>two thousands, where okay fabe really was on its way out.

0:55:54.120 --> 0:55:56.560
<v Speaker 1>We started seeing more and more about the you know,

0:55:56.640 --> 0:56:00.080
<v Speaker 1>the back end stuff, shoot, interviews, interviews, YadA YadA, YadA U.

0:56:00.600 --> 0:56:03.640
<v Speaker 1>And I think that the uh not a lore like

0:56:03.719 --> 0:56:08.719
<v Speaker 1>the I don't know, like the the curtains. Well, yeah,

0:56:08.760 --> 0:56:10.799
<v Speaker 1>like the curtain was pulled back enough where people don't

0:56:10.800 --> 0:56:12.880
<v Speaker 1>give a shit anymore and they could kind of beat

0:56:12.920 --> 0:56:15.160
<v Speaker 1>to their own drum. Sam had an advantage. You know,

0:56:15.360 --> 0:56:19.040
<v Speaker 1>Sam's dad, right, so he was taught. I hate to

0:56:19.080 --> 0:56:22.719
<v Speaker 1>say the right way, but the old school way is

0:56:23.120 --> 0:56:27.920
<v Speaker 1>what I will refer to. It's a different era, I

0:56:28.000 --> 0:56:31.040
<v Speaker 1>get it, you know, and people do different things, and

0:56:31.520 --> 0:56:35.080
<v Speaker 1>I just feel a common courtesy just be nice. You know,

0:56:35.719 --> 0:56:37.439
<v Speaker 1>they were not asking you to bow at our feet.

0:56:37.480 --> 0:56:39.920
<v Speaker 1>It's just if you look up and say hello. Now,

0:56:39.960 --> 0:56:42.719
<v Speaker 1>people are tying their boots, you know, they're hunched over

0:56:42.760 --> 0:56:45.600
<v Speaker 1>in their chair, they're going over their match, and you don't.

0:56:45.640 --> 0:56:47.520
<v Speaker 1>You don't get two words set to you. So we

0:56:47.680 --> 0:56:49.759
<v Speaker 1>just go sometimes and we just sit in our own

0:56:49.800 --> 0:56:53.400
<v Speaker 1>corner and people are really nice. But some people just

0:56:53.440 --> 0:56:58.239
<v Speaker 1>don't care. And I guess that's indie wrestling today. And hey,

0:56:58.239 --> 0:57:00.919
<v Speaker 1>if it works for you, by all means, yeah, it's

0:57:01.000 --> 0:57:03.839
<v Speaker 1>it's just it's an ever evolving business. I guess that's

0:57:03.880 --> 0:57:07.480
<v Speaker 1>the way you could say. It's ever evolving, you know,

0:57:07.960 --> 0:57:11.560
<v Speaker 1>for the better. Possibly, you know, it's it's very it's

0:57:11.560 --> 0:57:14.400
<v Speaker 1>a it's an odd thing to kind of quantify because

0:57:15.000 --> 0:57:19.240
<v Speaker 1>ratings are down, right, but guys are making money. Who

0:57:19.240 --> 0:57:23.440
<v Speaker 1>are you know, signing contracts and are employed and having

0:57:23.480 --> 0:57:27.200
<v Speaker 1>to work a lighter schedule and it's it's just it's

0:57:27.240 --> 0:57:29.640
<v Speaker 1>a weird time. Merchandise is at an all time high.

0:57:29.720 --> 0:57:32.320
<v Speaker 1>It's just it's a very weird, weird time to be

0:57:32.440 --> 0:57:40.280
<v Speaker 1>in wrestling. I feel like the hustle isn't as h

0:57:40.800 --> 0:57:43.520
<v Speaker 1>I don't know that it's not there as much as

0:57:43.560 --> 0:57:45.800
<v Speaker 1>when we were on the road. Yeah, I feel like

0:57:45.840 --> 0:57:48.320
<v Speaker 1>we had to hustle a lot more. I feel like

0:57:48.520 --> 0:57:51.320
<v Speaker 1>these days, and and social media is a big part

0:57:51.360 --> 0:57:56.440
<v Speaker 1>of it too, things are easier, I think for guys

0:57:56.480 --> 0:57:59.680
<v Speaker 1>and girls that are in the business today because, like

0:58:00.000 --> 0:58:03.680
<v Speaker 1>Sam was saying, he's on Twitter promoting himself and getting

0:58:03.720 --> 0:58:07.320
<v Speaker 1>himself over, and we didn't have these features, you know

0:58:07.320 --> 0:58:11.320
<v Speaker 1>what I mean. And we all we relied on was

0:58:11.400 --> 0:58:15.040
<v Speaker 1>our entring work. Uh. You had to be there to

0:58:15.080 --> 0:58:18.040
<v Speaker 1>see us and our television and that's that's all we had.

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<v Speaker 1>But there's so many different things today that these guys

0:58:21.520 --> 0:58:25.520
<v Speaker 1>and girls have, you know, uh, the opportunity to use

0:58:25.600 --> 0:58:28.960
<v Speaker 1>and tools, and I just feel like it's a lot

0:58:29.040 --> 0:58:32.240
<v Speaker 1>easier to get out there and promote yourself than it

0:58:32.320 --> 0:58:34.720
<v Speaker 1>was when I was in the business because I had

0:58:34.760 --> 0:58:39.240
<v Speaker 1>to rely on others to help me. We don't even't

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<v Speaker 1>have media and stuff like that. It was TV. Yeah,

0:58:41.960 --> 0:58:45.520
<v Speaker 1>he u's your television slot. Yeah, that was it. So

0:58:45.960 --> 0:58:48.600
<v Speaker 1>and like we've talked about the random news story that

0:58:48.720 --> 0:58:51.240
<v Speaker 1>was done, you know, where you got spread out a

0:58:51.280 --> 0:58:54.320
<v Speaker 1>little bit more to a while, that's it. Or a newspaper.

0:58:54.520 --> 0:58:56.400
<v Speaker 1>You guys are going to Asbury Park and now you're

0:58:56.400 --> 0:58:59.360
<v Speaker 1>in the Asbury Park Press for Friday before the show.

0:58:59.560 --> 0:59:02.800
<v Speaker 1>We had the magazines because the magazines were hot back then,

0:59:02.880 --> 0:59:05.880
<v Speaker 1>not so much today. But if you didn't buy the magazine,

0:59:06.160 --> 0:59:08.480
<v Speaker 1>you didn't, you know. And then ninety percent of the

0:59:08.560 --> 0:59:11.479
<v Speaker 1>articles were fake in the right exactly, So it wasn't

0:59:11.480 --> 0:59:13.680
<v Speaker 1>like the truth was out there. But I just feel

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<v Speaker 1>like I'm not saying they're not working as hard, because

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<v Speaker 1>they certainly are. But all I'm saying is they have

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<v Speaker 1>more opportunities to get themselves out there and promote their

0:59:23.160 --> 0:59:29.000
<v Speaker 1>brand than we did, you know. And and brand wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>a word in the nineties. We didn't have brands. It

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<v Speaker 1>was just like, hey, I'm a wrestler, Hey I work

0:59:34.400 --> 0:59:36.840
<v Speaker 1>for this company. That was it, you know. So there's

0:59:37.040 --> 0:59:40.800
<v Speaker 1>there's plenty of opportunity out there, and it's great. I'm

0:59:40.840 --> 0:59:44.280
<v Speaker 1>happy for everyone, but it's it's a different time. It's

0:59:44.280 --> 0:59:48.360
<v Speaker 1>completely different. If he was good at selling T shirts. Yeah,

0:59:48.400 --> 0:59:50.520
<v Speaker 1>you know, And like he said, how FCW was was

0:59:50.560 --> 0:59:53.439
<v Speaker 1>built in a complete different model. Why didn't somebody from

0:59:53.480 --> 0:59:55.920
<v Speaker 1>FCW go to the office and say, look, this guy's

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<v Speaker 1>great in the ring, but he's got a sales knack

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<v Speaker 1>to him. What can you guys do with the guy

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<v Speaker 1>who can sell stuff like that? That's what I don't

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<v Speaker 1>get about how certain things work out. If he had

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<v Speaker 1>a neck for being able to sell merchandise, why wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>you accentuate that. I have an angle Right now, he's

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<v Speaker 1>the merch guy. He's selling T shirts. You put him

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<v Speaker 1>in the ring and you make him toss T shirts out,

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<v Speaker 1>somebody comes out, says something negative to him, and he

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<v Speaker 1>does a great move, and then people can see that

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<v Speaker 1>he's a worker, right exactly. Why not do something like that?

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<v Speaker 1>What did you used to do? Used to be ring crew?

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<v Speaker 1>The ring crew guys would get beat up and then

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<v Speaker 1>all of a sudden they fight back and never something

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<v Speaker 1>to show people. Yeah, I am a worker. I can work. No,

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<v Speaker 1>I like thatll T shirts. I mean, I'm not a booker,

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<v Speaker 1>and I can come up with these all day. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>very easy. Yeah, it's not rocks. But that's why I

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to get into your business from back then and

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<v Speaker 1>not what was ultimately today's wrestling business. I wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>get into the old school. And when I showed up

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<v Speaker 1>for my first day working in the WWTV studio and

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<v Speaker 1>I had to wear a suit, does the worst day

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<v Speaker 1>of my life? Okay? Because I'm like Renegades wrestling T shirts,

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<v Speaker 1>Zubez snake skin boots and I'm working in a TV

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<v Speaker 1>studio in a suit. So I was like, this is

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<v Speaker 1>already off on the wrong foot. Your suit was my bikini.

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<v Speaker 1>There you go? They see? Is something about it? Two

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<v Speaker 1>different ends of the spectrum, right, absolutely? Yeah, Well he

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<v Speaker 1>seems like a great guy, so happy we had him on. Absolutely.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't get over how good you sound on this microphone.

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<v Speaker 1>I swear you sound fantastic. Thank you very much, amore.

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<v Speaker 1>You're gonna be great on the games that we play

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<v Speaker 1>on Patreon where you can lean in and answer. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for making noises? Now that's the noise? Was that

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<v Speaker 1>the noise of a bird tapping on a window? Should

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<v Speaker 1>I whisper? Can you hear me? Yes? Very clearly, very true? Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, so yeah, all the best to Sam and

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<v Speaker 1>we will go into Patreon links will do our plugs

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<v Speaker 1>at the end again like we did last time. You

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<v Speaker 1>and I will splice him in as much easier on

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<v Speaker 1>the old chadstar there but on Patreon. This week, we're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna play something that Francine has brought to the table.

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<v Speaker 1>I supposed to do this last week, but Chadster jumped

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<v Speaker 1>the gun. We are going to play a game called

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<v Speaker 1>Dead or Alive. Wan it. So what's the purpose of

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<v Speaker 1>dead or Alive? What's the purpose? Like, will give me

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<v Speaker 1>the objective of the game. See if I know if

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<v Speaker 1>they're living or deceased. Okay, well there you go, so dead.

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<v Speaker 1>I believe it was our Patreon member Pat that suggested that,

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<v Speaker 1>And if I'm wrong, I'll correct myself. But I think

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<v Speaker 1>it was Pat who said, oh, Dead or Alive would

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<v Speaker 1>be a fun game. Yes, yeah, so we'll see so

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<v Speaker 1>Dead or Alive. We were also speaking of Patrick. He

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<v Speaker 1>will be this week Patreon member spotlight where we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>get get to meet him. And this is one of

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<v Speaker 1>the perks of Patreon. Now for the new year, if

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<v Speaker 1>you join, we're going to schedule you to come on,

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<v Speaker 1>introduce yourself, talk to us, tell us what you're looking for,

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<v Speaker 1>tell us what you like, and you get to chit

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<v Speaker 1>chat and shoot the breeze and you get to talk

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<v Speaker 1>to the Queen of Extreme. That's a win win in

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<v Speaker 1>my book. I feel like I'm on that tier every

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<v Speaker 1>week I get to chitchat with the Queen of Extreme.

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<v Speaker 1>And then see, I was going back and forth on

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<v Speaker 1>what I wanted to do for the watch along, and

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<v Speaker 1>I actually I thought I had found another match with

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<v Speaker 1>Jazz and Steve Carino. Again, it was mislabeled and it

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<v Speaker 1>was exactly the same match that you guys did on

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<v Speaker 1>TV on a house show identical. So I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, I can't do that one back to back.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe we'll revisit it in another time. But this one's interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a little longer, but we're going to talk

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<v Speaker 1>during it about one participant of it. But it's also

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty big match Tommy Dreamer versus Just Incredible from

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<v Speaker 1>heat Wave two thousand. I have zero recollection of Gorgeous

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<v Speaker 1>George c W zero zero, but I watched a few

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<v Speaker 1>minutes and I saw you take her fricking head off

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<v Speaker 1>with a kendostick, And we're going to talk about that

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<v Speaker 1>during the match, so but that wasn't during this match.

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<v Speaker 1>I know, I saw that and it led me to

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<v Speaker 1>get to this and this match is longer, so we

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<v Speaker 1>can talk about it because it wasn't a long stretch

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<v Speaker 1>of time. But I have zero recollection of this and

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<v Speaker 1>I love George so much, so that was hard for

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<v Speaker 1>me to do. I smacked the living shit out of her.

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<v Speaker 1>But yes, we'll talk about it later. Yes, So that's

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<v Speaker 1>that's what we're gonna do on on Patreon this coming week.

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<v Speaker 1>If you want to follow me, it's at Chad E

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<v Speaker 1>and B on Instagram and Twitter and head over to

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<v Speaker 1>my website Ibexclusives dot com. We got a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>autograph signings in the pipeline, have things coming up, and

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<v Speaker 1>again I'll just tease this again. I have something like

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<v Speaker 1>this coming in the future. Okay, we'll talk about that

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<v Speaker 1>at a later date. We'll do those later on. We're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna do that at the end again. Okay. So that's

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<v Speaker 1>all I got. That's all you got. When when are

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<v Speaker 1>Diamond Conversations coming back? Possibly at the beginning of the season,

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<v Speaker 1>moving moving it to the Creative Control Network because they

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<v Speaker 1>need sports content. But I think it works best in

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<v Speaker 1>season rather than during the off season, which you would

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<v Speaker 1>think it might be the opposite, but it's I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>it kind of fits better when it's going on, when

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<v Speaker 1>the season's happening. So we'll be back probably around spring

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<v Speaker 1>training in you know March. Ish awesome. Okay, Well, for

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<v Speaker 1>me across the board, it is at ECW, DVA Francine, Twitter, Instagram,

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<v Speaker 1>I think my fan Facebook page, I don't know. Cameos

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<v Speaker 1>are a hot, hot commodity. You want a cameo, you

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<v Speaker 1>have to go to my Twitter to book because if

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<v Speaker 1>you don't, they take fifty five percent, those bastards. So

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<v Speaker 1>come on ever to Twitter and book book a cameo

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<v Speaker 1>for yourself or for a friend. And my Twitch is

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<v Speaker 1>my new amazing baby and I am loving it and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going so far three days a week. So if

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<v Speaker 1>you want to check me out, I would love for

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<v Speaker 1>you to give me a follow on twitch. It is

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<v Speaker 1>www dot Twitch, dot tv, Forward Slash, ECW Diva, Francine

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<v Speaker 1>Awesome and uh yeah, another another fun one in the book.

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<v Speaker 1>So we can we can say goodbye for this week. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>Well that's a wrap. Then