WEBVTT - Trish Stratus Meets World 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:24.960 So my family has had to make so many adjustments 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.680 to our daily life since I have started season thirty 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.479 four of Dancing with the Stars. I'm just not able 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.640 to be there as often as I used to be. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.360 You know. I used to regularly pick both of them 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.000 up from school, take them to karate, take them to baseball. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.240 On the weekends. I was always at their baseball games, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.600 and we could have playdates, and we would, you know, 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.279 do movie nights. And now I just haven't really been 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.600 able to be too present. I am if I'm not 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:58.320 at rehearsal, I'm doing an interview for Dancing with the Stars, 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.440 like our master interviews or our ot or I had 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:06.200 high press, I'm doing one of the many podcasts that 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:11.160 we do, and I you know, or I'm seeing the 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.800 PT you know, or I'm in a wardrobe fitting, or 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.000 I'm at a hair and makeup fitting, or we're in 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.319 camera blocking, like there's always something to do. And my 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.520 dad called maybe about two weeks ago, and he said, 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.800 what I really want to know is how are the 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:31.120 kids handling it? Because this is such a total change 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:35.399 for them. And at the time, the very honest truth 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:40.360 was they were thriving, like Jensen was doing. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.440 Great, Moody's get along fine. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:49.680 I mean, everyone was stoked, and like, I felt really 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:51.840 good being able to be like, wow, it's such a 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.840 relief to not have all of this, you know, day 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.680 to day constant house pressure, like taking care of the 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.000 house pressure, taking care of the kid's pressure. And I've 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.400 really what a selfish but like selfish in a great 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.880 way thing I've been able to do to just really like, 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.160 what a gift. I've been able to focus on this 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.320 and it's been just about me, and it's felt really good, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.240 and like everyone was doing really great. Jensen was loving it, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.800 even though it's been you know, we're all exhausted, but 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.880 everyone seemed fine. And I'd come home from work and 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.680 the kids would say, how is your dance and do 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.320 you have a video? Let me see it, and they'd 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.160 want me to walk them through what the dance was 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:32.040 about or whatever. And then a couple of days pass 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.400 after I have this conversation with my dad and we 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.840 get a call from Adler's school and it's his teacher 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.440 and she says, so, we had a little bit of 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.160 an issue today with Adler, and I wanted to talk 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.440 to you about it. And we're like Okay, what happened? 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.200 And she said, well, he's been having a little bit 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.000 of trouble self starting on some of his work. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.680 Welcome to the club, and she. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.960 Said, And so I started asking him, like what was 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.840 going on? And he told us that he is feeling 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.920 very stressed because his dad input it a lot of 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:16.000 information on the computer wrong and then got fired. And 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.800 he his dad is very nervous that he's never going 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:26.720 to get another job. And none, none of this is true, a. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.600 Single a computer programming job we're unaware of. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:35.040 No, none of that's true. And the teacher was like, oh, well, 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.160 that does sound stressful, and he said, yeah, my dad's 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.880 very upset about it and he's very nervous. And then 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:45.160 he said and also my mom died, and the teacher 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.720 said I'm sorry, and he was like, yes, my mom. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:48.880 My mom is dead. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:54.280 And I just saw her last week. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.840 And the teacher was like, well, why don't you tell 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.120 me more about that, because didn't want to shut him down, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.240 didn't want to be like oh she didn't, just like, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:03.840 why don't you tell me more about that? And he 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.560 kept going, but then at some point just said, well, 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:11.119 maybe that's not true, and then moved on and like wow, 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.240 and she said, so, I just wanted to talk to 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.080 you guys about it. So I get out of rehearsal 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.760 that day at like two pm and was supposed to 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.200 see the PT and was like, not going to go 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.320 see the PT. I'm just going to go pick up 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.520 Adler from school. And so I get to your school, right. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.920 So I get to the school and he sees me 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:32.599 on campus and he comes running to me. He goes, Mom, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.320 what are you doing here? This is a Friday night, 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.040 and what are you doing here? And I go, I 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.760 got out of rehearsal and I just I missed you. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.360 I wanted to pick you up and so, you know, yeah, 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.440 let's go. And he goes, great, what are we doing tonight? 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.159 And I said, you've got movie night with your friends? 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.200 Remember you've you know, you were seeing you wanted to 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.120 get together with these people and you're doing a movie night. 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.799 And he goes, oh, yeah, I remember that, but that's okay. 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:58.200 You know what, I just want to hang out with 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:03.080 you tonight. I said, well, actually, while you are at 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.560 movie and I I have to go back to rehearsal. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:14.920 And he bursts into tears and says, I hate this job. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:23.280 Why did you take this job? All you do is dance, dance, dance, dance, 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.240 that's all you do. You never get to hang out 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:30.159 with me and Keaton anymore. I want you to quit. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.800 Are you going to quit or not? 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:34.839 God? 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:40.080 And I said, I was like, oh, it seems like 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:45.280 maybe you've been feeling this way for a while and 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.800 maybe you just haven't been telling anybody. Yes, I have 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.200 been feeling this way for a long time. And you 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:57.120 even got hurt. Your leg was purple, and you and 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:02.840 then all this just apparently everything just came out. And 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.440 I like reached my hand into the back because you know, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.120 he's sitting behind me in his car seat, and I 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:08.640 reached my hand into the back and he kicked my 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.919 hand away, and I was like, okay, I like pulled 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.200 my hand for it, and I said, I I can 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:15.200 tell that this is really hurting you. And I said, 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.560 and I'm sorry because I have obviously not done a 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.880 good enough job of being able to connect with you 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:23.760 when I have been able to see you. And I 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.520 know that I haven't seen you as much as I 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.560 was able to be with you before. But my love 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.919 for you doesn't change when we're apart. And he was like, 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:33.360 I just need to know if you're going to quit. 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.840 And I said, Mommy is not going to quit her job. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.000 And he said, why why won't you quit your job? 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.560 And I said, well, a couple of reasons. One mommy 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.839 really loves her job, and two because this job is 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.440 not forever, and i made a commitment to the job, 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.240 so I'm not going to quit. And he was like, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.719 but you even got hurt, and I said, and you 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.599 got hit with a baseball and baseball, but you still 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.160 play baseball. And when you're in karate, you have heard 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.360 you've rolled your angle in karate, and you still continue 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.800 with karate. I said, I'm okay, and I'm and I'm 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:01.719 going to continue the job. I said, but no matter what, 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.400 this job is over by Thanksgiving and we've got you know, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.800 then things will go back to normal. And I said, 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.440 and in the meantime, you and I will find special 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.880 ways to connect when I am able to be with you. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.560 But for the next few weeks, it's still going to 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.800 be really hard. And it's totally understandable that you're angry, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.920 and and I love you very much and I'm thankful, 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.760 thank you so much for telling me, and you can 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.960 always tell me when you're upset. And I said, and 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.040 so do you think maybe that this is the reason 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.880 why you told your teacher that daddy got fired and 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.360 mommy died. And he was like yes, and I said okay. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.080 And then we get home and he walks in and 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.720 as he walks in, he goes, one last chance, are 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:38.520 you going to quit? 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:38.840 Oh? 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.240 And I said, mommy is not going to quit her job. 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.120 And he walked in, slammed the door, went into the 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.720 other room. Keaton's there, and so Keaton's like, mommy, and 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.960 I grab Keaton. I talked to Keaton a couple of 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.800 minutes past and the nather goes, mom I said, yeah, 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.520 He's like, come in here, I need you. I said okay. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.280 So I go around the corner and he goes, I'm sorry. 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.800 I said, all of that's tough, all man. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.720 And I gave him a hug. And anyway, we're still 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.280 we're still working through it. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:07.960 Yeah. A couple questions. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.000 One when he kicked your hand away, did he pull 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:11.480 the kick back in a good snap. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:15.680 Give kick onration? 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:18.400 I was wondering if the other call was going to be, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.480 you know, your school calls and they're like, we've had 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.200 a problem with Adler. He got in a fight with 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.680 another boy and he did an Argentine tango on his face. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.440 Oh man, well yeah, I mean again, you're you're busy 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.480 rider and I have been wanting you to quit this job. 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.040 And we had that whole crying thing with you too. Yeah. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:42.920 We announced on our other podcast that Danielle had died, right, yeah, Jason. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.319 Computer job. That's how moral people act out. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:50.280 That's what we do. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.719 We don't express that we miss you. We just make 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:58.360 up lies for further attention him. And I'm Wilfredell and 0:08:58.440 --> 0:08:59.920 our partner just flew to the moon. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.520 So here it is. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.720 Your schedule is ridiculous, though, I mean it is. It 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.560 is really ridiculous. And I know it's a finite schedule, 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.360 but I mean, damn it's This has become basically a 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:16.680 twenty four to seven job for you. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.160 Yes, literally. Well that's the other thing I forgot all 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.200 about factoring in social media posts. We have to like 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.480 twice a week, meet with meat, meet and spend an 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.960 hour each time just coming up with posts. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.880 That's what makes jealous, that's what makes to get there. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.439 The party loves he's got up here. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.959 They just can't get out all up here. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.760 My next favorite thing that happened was yesterday. Adler. For 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.600 the last couple of days, like right after the live show, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.920 Adler wants to watch Dancing with the Stars every morning. 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.040 He wants to like rewatch all the performances. So we 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.040 were watching it a couple of times in this last week. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.679 When Elaine was in the ambulance, Adler looked at me 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.320 and he said, I want you to have to go 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:02.000 in an ambulance so that you can come home. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.320 Please. Well, you basically would have gotten the same scores. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.520 So anyway, my kids want me injured. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:13.920 I know. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.600 Well, the good news is if the if the worst 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.440 happens and you get kicked off Dance with the Stars, 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.840 they're going to be so happy. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:22.480 Homecoming when that. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.960 Happens, exactly like I know it is. It is very sweet. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.240 Yeah, yeah, just hang the mirror ball in their room. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.839 I'm just gonna have to buy two mirror balls. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.360 So you actually have to keep a mirror ball if 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:35.600 you win. 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.600 Like that's oh yeah, I'm sure it is. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.360 It like a big disc, it's a trophy. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.559 It's it's it's got a big round bass and then 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.240 it's got you know, like a stand and then a 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:49.719 ball that sits on top of it, and it says 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.800 dancing with the stars across it. It's like the logo 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:53.160 all rhyin stoned out. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:53.800 Wow? 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.800 Is it more opulent than when I was the UH 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.880 in the parade and Christmas in Louisville, Kentucky in nineteen 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:02.360 ninety three? 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:03.880 I got this little plaque? 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:04.440 Is it? 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:05.600 Yours? Is probably better? 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:10.920 It's not nearly as Film Award though, Wollhard our paper. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.559 Look at that it has a golden seal on it. 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.760 Oh wow, Oh that's just your nomination though. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.520 This is just what I was nominated. It's an honor 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:19.680 just to be nominated. Yeah. 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:20.360 Really, that is. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:26.080 What I really want to do, is direct kids. 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.920 Welcome to bond Reads World. I'm Danielle Fischl, right or Strong. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:30.800 And I'm Will Ferdell. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.560 To be considered a goat in your chosen profession is 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.920 as much of a burden as it is a blessing, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.040 whether you're Michael Jordan in basketball, tiger Woods and golf 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.720 me in ballroom dancing. Heavy is the head that wears 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.920 the crown, And somehow this week's guest is not only 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.000 a goat in her field, she continues to set the 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.920 standard twenty five years later. She's a WWE Hall of 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.040 Famer who holds the record for longest reign of any 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.560 women's World champion in the twenty first century at four 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:20.120 hundred forty eight days. Widely regarded as the greatest female 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.000 wrestler of all time, she's a record seven time Women's 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.280 champion who has returned to the WWE now mixing it 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.200 up with the wrestlers she inspired, celebrating her twenty fifth 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.679 year in the industry. She is an absolute icon who 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.800 brings fans not only a sense of nostalgia, but an 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:42.359 example of strength and perseverance that goes well beyond championship 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:46.280 titles and pile drivers. And she's been on enough magazine 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.800 covers to personally offend trees. Welcome to pod meets World. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:56.800 The quintessential WWE diva, Canada's greatest export, the Queen of 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:06.720 Queen's and the best diva ever. It's Trish Stratus. Yeah, Hey, hi, Trish, 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:08.800 how are you? This is awesome? Thank you so much 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:09.360 for doing this. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.880 Of course I was like, I know this is gonna 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:12.440 happ one of these. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:17.920 Days, right absolutely. I just as my first question to you, 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.680 I just want to know, have you also been told 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.160 somewhere around thirty thousand times that we look alike. It's 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.679 a massive honor every time it happens. But I want 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.800 to know if it happens to you too, I feel. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.640 Exactly the same way. I think maybe thirty three thousand 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.520 times thirty three I remember. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:42.120 I don't see, I don't I was gonna say, glasses, 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:49.360 I don't even know who she is. Clark Clark, that 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:54.320 was John. I got the reference, I got the yes, will. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.680 I have been a fan for a very long time, 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.720 but it was not until this very podcast during my research, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.200 did I realize that you went to the university in 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:07.840 Toronto to become a doctor? 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:08.880 Correct? 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.640 Yes, Oh my gosh, what specific field were you interested in? 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.880 So? I was always wanted to be a pediatrician. I 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.440 studied by so first I was biology and chemistry double major, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.320 and then I like always was, you know, sports, grew 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.760 up playing just total tomboy, and so then I kind 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.440 of merged into some of my passion, which was kinesiology. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.160 So I was biologic kinesiology, and the idea was to 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.800 become a doctor. I wanted to be a pediatrician, and 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.840 that I mean, I really look back when I did. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.120 I did a documentary for Andy, and you know that's 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.480 when you pull out all these everything when you're like, oh, 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.160 I actually have stuff when I was a kid, so 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:45.880 I like journals and I was like little pictures of 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.280 me being like, I want to be a doctor since 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.000 I was as like, you know, tiny as I could remember, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:50.960 so it was pretty cool. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.240 Wow, how did you then make a detour because you 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.880 started modeling? So how did you make the detour from 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.760 school and being becoming a doctor and and then incorporating 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:01.480 modeling into that. 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.480 So my university went on strike, so I was like, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.240 I'm like hyper focused everything I was doing from the time, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.760 even before you know, in high school. I was like 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.440 I started volunteering at the hospital. I was prepping to 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.600 become a doctor from a very young age. And then 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.560 my university. I was three years in and my university 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.680 went on strike. So the professors striked and everyone, like 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.160 the kids just went and we literally just waited for 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:27.960 school to come back in session. So a lot of 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.320 the art students went back and just did their exams 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:31.560 and things like that, but a lot of the science 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.200 students had to go back and do you know, like 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:37.720 the hands on practicums and stuff. So so during that time, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.840 though I got discovered, I was working at a gym. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.920 Just my thought was just to go work at a 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.160 gym so that I could train for free and you know, 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.680 keep ready for my sports because I was playing field 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.800 hockey for university and I was playing soccer for my 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.080 town and and so I was waiting for them to 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.360 come back in session. And so fitness modeling everyone kind 0:15:55.400 --> 0:16:03.080 of knows it now, but back in yeah, it was 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:04.840 not really a thing. It was sort of like there 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.920 was women bodybuilding and not really fitness models. Nothing really 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.160 like attainable or like achievable or healthy necessarily as well. 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.320 And so one of the publishers of the bodybuilding magazine 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:18.120 saw this sort of missing niche and he started Oxygen magazine. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.120 You guys might have known it, might know it, but 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.080 Oxygen magazine. And so he was like, Okay, I'm going 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.040 to start this thing. I think it's a niche. And 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.480 he went out and like handpicked a bunch of women 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.480 to basically be his his supermodels of you know, of 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.760 the fitness modeling world, to launch this world of fitness modeling. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.080 So he basically slept us on the cover of magazines 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:36.920 and said this is Tristratus. She's the newest and hottest 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:41.920 fitness model. And I was somewhat and there he was, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.200 and I suddenly had a career, and then school came 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.720 back in session and I was like on the cover 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.000 of magazines. I was starting to do autograph signings at stores, 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.360 like you know, it was just it was became this 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.440 little uh, I had a career suddenly, So going back 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.680 and like balancing the two, going back to full time 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.760 school and like you know, I was doing and you know, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.320 the bodybuilding thing where you're carrying the lunch in the 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.600 you know, rotine and chicken and broccoli three to six 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.040 times a day, so you would be carrying that to class, 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:10.680 and it just didn't work out. So I just at 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.080 twenty two years old, I was like, I'm gonna I 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.200 think I'm going to take advantage of this little opportunity 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.600 have and then focused on fitness modeling. It did that 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.919 for a couple of years and banged out half a 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.199 dozen covers and then ended up from wrestling. 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:28.159 Wow, how did that phone call from WWE come about? 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.880 Because now there are tryouts and there are performance centers, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.159 but back then they had to contact you. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.680 Yeah, Oh it was. It was such a different world. 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:38.879 I mean it now it's I mean, as you know, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.439 it's a whole thing. It's they they're grooming their talent 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.159 to become in the big leagues, right, so it's like 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.240 the minor leagues. And back in the day it was 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.000 like traditionally most people were sort of in the independent scene, 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.239 wrestling and doing their things, and then they would get 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.280 discovered or someone would see them or they you know, 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.160 Internet would make them popular and then people they'd seek 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.800 them out. Mine was a little different. I was on 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.000 television show with one of my magazine covers to promote it, 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.080 and so I don't know if you can, so in 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.640 Canada we had this thing I'm in Canada. A yeah, 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.240 in Canada we had this thing called slam Jams. Do 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.720 you remember that? Did anybody? Okay, So Michael Days, he 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.760 was basically to the Canadian audience, was like, Hey, Canada, 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:18.080 we're coming to and it was like just for the 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.560 Canadian broadcast, a little like little vignettes for them, right. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:22.880 And so they were filming it in the studio next 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:24.720 to where I had filmed my interview for my for 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.240 my magazine, and they're like they knew I loved wrestling. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.119 They're like, oh, they're doing And I mean when I 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:30.960 say I love wrestling, like they used to come to me, 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.520 used to come to at the time, used to come 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.080 pay with gardens. I used to go when I was 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:36.879 a kid. I grew up watching it. I was that 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.679 that was my thing. And so they're like, we know 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.160 you love wrestling. They're actually filming slam jams next door. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:43.280 If you want to go sit in the audience. It 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:44.840 was like, oh my god. So I go in there 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.520 and Michael Hayes, who's well known from back in the day. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.160 He he actually spotted me and said, oh, you're your 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.440 true stretus from the Fitness Muscle mags. And I was like, oh, yes, 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.560 I am cool. And he says, why did you send 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.080 your stuff to us? And I was like like, there 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.119 was no you know, this is like nice ninety No, 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.119 this is nineteen nine nine. There's like not really a 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.880 flourishing women's anything, right except for the women who walk 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.719 the men to the ring. And so I was like, 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.920 so what do I do there? I never thought that 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:14.119 would be something I could do. I never saw wrestle, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.080 I never watched wrestling. Assaut like, oh, I can do 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.760 that like they do now, right, and so I just said, okay, sure, yeah, 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.199 I'll do that. So I prepared a press kit. I 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.680 sent it to them and I didn't hear back initially. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.439 And when I didn't hear back for a couple months, 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.640 I was like, well, let me prepare the best possible 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.800 package AKA me and I went and found where Edge 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.840 from Toronto as well, and I went found out where 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.240 he trained and I knocked on the door and said, hi, 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.480 I'd like to train, and they're like, oh, isn't she cute? 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.240 What do you want to do, honey like? And I said, no, no, 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:44.640 I want to be like I want to be treated 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.240 like the boys. So I was thrown into this wrestling 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.480 gym basically with all boys, and I wanted to be 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:51.320 treated like the boys. And I learned to wrestle, and 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.800 then they called a couple of months later, Jim Ross 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.000 called me up to Connecticut and then I went and 0:19:57.000 --> 0:19:59.080 met with him, and then I went okay, I went 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.119 home to Toronto. A couple of weeks later, I had 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.560 a contract offer. So it was sht off. Oh that's 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.680 my compre just meets opportunity, you know, Because there was 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:08.320 a moment in the meeting where he was like all right, 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:11.159 and it's like because it's like there wasn't women much, right, 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:12.200 So he was like, I'm just like, you know, it's 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.040