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Brewsers #161- Samira

Today on Brewsers, we talk to Samira. We talk all about her journey into wrestling, the North East Wrestling scene, and her YouTube channel. Follow us on instagram and twitter at Brewserspod. Like, share, review, enjoy and cheers. Sign up for our newsletter! #brewsers #brewserspod #Enjoylife #DrinkLocal #Cheers

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Duration:: 41m
Broadcast on:: 27 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

[Music] Welcome to Bruisers, a podcast about beer, coffee, booze, and bruisers. I'm your host, Rudy John, and today we talk to Samira. We talk all about her journey into pro wrestling, the Northeast wrestling scene, and her YouTube channel. She's doing so many fun things. She's not only a commentator, but she's a ring announcer. She's a backstage interview person. She is a vlogger. She's doing it all, and you definitely need to start checking her out because she is definitely going to be on the TV very soon for you. While you're checking her out on the TV, make sure to sign up for our newsletter. You get even more information about our guests. You get fun facts, and you get to find out what's happening with your favorite podcast all about beer, coffee, booze, and bruisers. So, without further ado, here is Samira. [Music] I would like to welcome to the show Samira. How are you doing tonight? I'm doing good, John. Thank you for having me on. Thanks for coming on. So, for those listening right now, kind of pain is a word picture. What's going on around you? What are you doing right now? Oh, man, a lot of stuff. I just got them, you know, with my April bookings, which was, you know, crazy starting out with Mania and Philly, give three shows, and, you know, then worked every weekend after that. So, just finished up that and May's about to be real crazy as well. Lots coming. So, okay, I know you're from the Pennsylvania area. Where in Pennsylvania are you from? So, I don't usually like to give a statistic. Okay, well, sorry. Are you on the east side or are you on the west side? The east side. Okay. So, I think that's pretty obvious. It's the east side. I do a lot in New Jersey shows. So, I think a lot of people could tell them, like, from around that kind of area. Well, because I was in Philly for Mania too. And so, like, the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia for people who are not in Pennsylvania are, you know, like, oh, yeah, they're right next to each other. No, they're very, very different. Yes. Yeah, that's like the other side. Yeah, I've never been to that side of PA. Hopefully one day. Oh, there you go. Hopefully one day you will be booked over there. That'd be fun. There's a couple promotions I know out there that would be fun. One of the timings, all right, you know, make my way over there. I'm slowly making my way over to the Midwest as I've joined Black Label Pro as they're ringing out there. Congratulations. That's fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. Ready for their show on Sunday will be a good one. Well, normally I do this at the end of the show, but I am going to start doing it at the beginning of the show. Just kind of almost like an icebreaker, if you will. So, I have a segment I call it the five counts. It's five random questions. Just answer them as quick as they come in your head. All right. Sounds good. Okay. Number one, how do you take your coffee? Oh, okay. This is hard because it depends on the mood. True. But it like for me in the morning, I like to have a hot coffee, but then during like the day, I need like I need something cold and it depends like sometimes in the morning, like I usually have mess cafe. It's these like little packets because I used to drink them all the time when I was in Lebanon. So I usually have that, but if I'm not, I like to take my like my hot coffee just plain black. If I'm having like a cold coffee, always most likely cold brew or like a ice coffee with like a sugar freeze syrup in it. But I, I will drink any coffee. I love coffee. Yeah. Same. I will drink any coffee. If you owned a liquor company, brewery, winery or coffee shop, which one would you own and what would the name be? Oh, yeah. I'm going to go with winery because I really love wine. But if anybody knows me, they know I love tequila. That's my choice of poison. But I would do, I think a winery would be cute. And I think I'd call it. Oh, this is probably a foreign one. Um, yeah, I never had a question like this. So I got to really think about it. I know this is supposed to be quick. I'm being on the spot. I always tell people quick. I don't know why, but it's I should just say five random questions. And so that's it. I feel like I need to be like as quick as possible. Yeah. Um, I maybe like rose winery because there is, um, meaning behind rose for me. It is, um, contacted as my little name and like, it was like kind of like the meaning of my mom, my mom, her first name, but then when she and then like she changed it, there's, it's a whole thing, like a whole backstory of my life. We're going to get into that after this five count. That's, remember, remind me that's going to be the first thing I asked about. Number three, what would your last meal be? All right. Does it have to be one item or is it multiple? So I created this question before I knew there was a YouTube show about it. And since I've seen the show and people have like genuinely three to eight course meals for the last meal, you could do whatever you want. Ooh. All right. Um, definitely some with the chocolate and peanut butter. It's my favorite thing in the world. I think it would have to be specifically this chocolate peanut butter cheesecake from, uh, one of my favorite diners, like I'm upset. Um, oh gosh, for actual food, this is like, yeah, he's on. Okay, I got to go with like a good burger because I, I love burgers. Maybe some ribs. I don't know, if that sounds fewer. Um, I'm trying to think of what else I like because I'm just, uh, I definitely some Arabic food. I need to get some chicken show one man there. Like I got to have my last of that and like some bit lewe aka boss lava, because, and all right, I'm going to pick one more thing. And I think a coffee, I think I have to throw a coffee in there because I'm obsessed with coffee. All right. I got to throw that in. Perfect. Uh, who or what inspires you? In terms of wrestling or wrestling life, uh, you know, the universe, whatever you, uh, whatever inspires you in any form. I would say my, my parents and my grandmother definitely really, um, inspired me. They worked so hard. Um, when they, like, came here and like my parents were such hard workers. I was my grandmother. And you know, they just inspired me to work so hard at anything that I do, whether it is wrestling or my work life or whatever it is in my life. Like work hard for family from work for just like anything. That's awesome. I love that. Uh, and what would you tell your 17 year old self? Oh man, I tell that girl a lot. But, um, I would tell her, you know, don't, don't rush, um, anything in life. Uh, you know, everything just have patience with everything. Everything comes at the right time and just, you don't need to know, um, everything right away. Like, if you don't know anything at that age and you think you do, you like, you know, and just you, you'll know what makes you happy. It just takes time. Just, just focus on your happiness. I love that. I mean, I think you could really tell yourself that at any age, really. Yeah. Uh, let's go back to the roasting. So tell me about, I mean, obviously it's your middle name and then your mom and she changed her name. Go through, go through a little bit of that story for us. So, uh, yeah, my, I think like as I was answering some questions, it's like, uh, I'm like kind of touching on things. So, um, my grandfather, when he was alive, came here from Lebanon, like in, man, I want to say it was like the really 70s with his two brothers, you know, for a better life. And, you know, then my grandmother and my, then, my mom and her brothers followed suit after a while. And like that, that's where I technically come from. They, you know, they came here for a better life. And then, um, my dad eventually came here, I believe in sometime in the late 80s, I want to say it was. And my mom's name and, uh, she had an Arabic name and, you know, she used to get teased for it when she was growing up because, you know, that's just how people were, especially back in the day. So she changed it when she was 18. And like her American name is Wendy, but her Arabic name was, um, you could call her runs it or, but it was Wadia, but the Arabic name for Rose is Wadda. So, my middle name ended up being just Rose. And I always wanted to kind of incorporate it in wrestling, but then I didn't because it's just like, there's so many people with a, then their last name, like wrestling name as Rose. So I didn't do it. So I kind of just did Samira. So yeah, I think that's why I would do Rose for the winery just because of that. And also thinking of Rose. I was like, all right, that's kind of cool. It's basic, but it's just had there's meaning behind it. I was drinking Rose earlier, actually. So, you know, I think it's not too basic. Now let's go all the way back in time. What is your earliest memory for wrestling? Ooh. So my mom's brother, my uncle, so we, me and my brother would like come home from school. We like, because obviously we would be with my, uh, we would be with my grandmother, my uncle, while my parents like would work, like, uh, probably take a home from work. And, um, my uncle had an Xbox like the OG Xbox, if he had like a raw two and we would play that in that liquid in terms like us into wrestling. Like, I think I was like six or seven years old, and I remember just like John Cena and Randy were a few, then I just knew him. But it was like, okay, that one right there. The one with the tattoos is my favorite. He's such like, he's, even though he was like a bad guy, I was like, I knew he was just like super like, he was great at what he does. I'm like, yeah, I was like, I like him. Everybody's doing it, but I like the reason doing it. Great job. So how did that translate into you being a fan of the actual product that was on the TV? Because I've had this conversation with so many wrestlers now that they have gotten into wrestling because of the video games and not because of the product that's on TV whatsoever. So how did the translate? So it started out as yeah, like it started out in the video games, but then it came into like watching and trying to understand like, oh, like the versus bad as a kid. And like, I don't know, I just kind of like then got and invested in it because then because obviously it's like trying to aim towards like the kids to watch and like grow up with it. And I don't know, I kind of just got hooked and then seeing the girls on there. And even though at the time, like they got short amount of time, it was still like cool to see the girls and you're just like, oh my god, and like going to the live shows and they would they come like every summer here and we would go and it was like always like the funnest thing ever like just to watch and I was just like, this was a lot of fun and I just like kind of kept up with it through the years. Like I just got more and more invested, like I used to have this notebook. I remember in school and I used to like, because at the time, like I remember the revamped ECW was on to and I would write in my notebook who was on the Raw roster who was on the SmackDown roster who was on the ECW and I and I also like write who my favorites were like, I was just I was so excited like about it. And even though none of the girls my age, like or anybody like none of the girls like liked it or anything. It was like mainly for the boys in a sense. I still loved it. It was fun for me. Do you still have those notebooks? I don't know. I wonder if they are somewhere. I would have to ask my mom because I know she keeps like memory box of like me and my brother stuff growing up. So I wonder if they're they are anywhere. I would love to see it. There's I also I keep thinking about that there is a photo of me at my first WWE event and I'm in a John Cena shirt like he's holding up this spinning title and I just know there's a photo somewhere and I want to find it. But I do have this old like Randy or a shirt. It's like blue and we like we kept like some of the old shirts like that. But I really want to find that photo though. Please do and send it to me so that I can put it with this with this podcast social media because I think that would be amazing. I think that I love I love hearing about people's first shows too. I'd actually thought about asking anybody about it until you had brought it up right now. And the first shows are always the best because I try to get as many of my friends in on pro wrestling as possible. Getting them to an actual live show is way better than ever trying to explain it to anybody. Oh my god. It is it's just so different from like the television and I tell like I tell my friends that and my best friend like from like middle school we've been friends like very close ever since and she wants to come to one of my shows and she's like she's never been into wrestling. She really wants to come support me and she watches my vlogs which I do like the behind the scenes stuff. I like to like show like that and with my friends and then some of the show and she and she loves them. She's like I hadn't posted in a while. I had been really busy and I finally just uploaded my March vlog of everything that I did and but before I saw her she kept me she's like when are you going to post the vlog like I'm ready to see it. She's like oh my god it's like I got this like I'm gonna I promise I'm gonna put it up. He really wants to come do a show so I really got it like bring it to one of my shows so she could see me in action. Yeah I was uh I was working a show here in the DFW area and my friends had come out to see the live wrestling and support me even though I was doing the same thing you were and I was backstage doing backstage interviews but I would still come out and kind of see how they're you know feeling on them on the shows and they brought their kids and their kids loved it and at the end of the show I of course checked on on them again and they're like when can we come again? I was like well in six weeks they're gonna be another show you guys become and they love it. Like kids love it and then you know obviously the adults love it too because if you can find something a kid can actually sit through and actually really want to go see again you've won so yeah it's just I tell people it is such like a different experience being there live then watching it like on your phone or on your tv like just being there like because I still remember from my first time like watching it for seven how much I wanted to like keep doing shows like that it's just it's a it's a different feeling. Yeah so this WrestleMania was my 15th WrestleMania and I was telling my friend about it and I was like I think next year's Vegas or Minnesota we're not sure yet which you know as of recording time it's quote unquote hasn't been released yet but Undertaker who said it so it has to be true so it's gonna be in Vegas and they're like oh well we would totally go to Vegas and I was like we don't have to go to actual WrestleMania if you don't want to but they're like no I'd love to check it out so I showed him one I would just just the size of it off it was the first night or the second night match one and I was just like just watch the size of like when they pan out and show the entire stadium they're like holy shit is it really that big I was like yeah it's it's that massive now but they will show all the seats too like when people see it they're just like what and I'm like yeah they come from all around the world for this like this is the biggest weekend of the year I always wish I had all the money in the world and all the time in the world to watch every single bit and meet everybody when it comes to WrestleMania weekend but it is just so packed and it's basically a week long that there's just it's not possible oh my god it's so busy and it's like trying to find time to do everything that you want to do or for the shows that you're working and it's it's a lot and I feel oh my god I felt like I got like four hours of sleep each night that I was there it's just it's very busy so how did the translation happen from you know I mean you're still a fan but how from being a fan to all right well how do I do the interviews or how do I do a ring announcing or how did you just get into the business in general so it's a such a like it's a funny story how it all panned out to be so when I started college I didn't know what I wanted to do and I went in like as like my Gen Eds I went in that general like studies so at least I was taking like my main forces but I like still needed something and at the time I was doing stuff on my youtube channel or like like just making wrestling content because it was just like fun I was like because I've had been on like quote-unquote stand twitter like all of my high school years and I just I just loved professional wrestling and I just never wanted to be a wrestler I can't take pain like they do and I get all the respect in the world for them for because I know how much they put their bodies through for this it was just something I never like that never like I was like okay um so when I started creating content and then I got approached by a news outlet you know hey like maybe we could try interviews with you you're doing like your own content on your channel we want to build up ours like let's maybe we could try like interviews on our channel like we'll give you a test and I'm like okay and this was 2018 and we do the interview and I remember thinking oh this was like really fun they seemed to like it so I was brought on and I did that for a couple years with two sites and then as I was ending college and then I eventually then switched to communications I felt it was a sign because I was between um early childhood education and communications and after I took a communication course um at the ones at my one school I was like this is it I just know this is it for me and then this came about I felt like everything was aligning and I was realizing what I wanted to do I was like I really like communications I like talking to people I just knew I was like okay I think I really want to do like I really want to do this so I didn't like I have so I have my degree in community uh bachelor's degree in communications with um with um broadcast journalism and public relations so I doubled yeah so I doubled up on concert tracing just in case of anything because I didn't want to just yeah so and I managed to graduate on time too I was really surprised so congratulations thank you so from there uh once I was ending I remember thinking to myself you know as much as I like this side like it's it's fun I was like I want to see what interviewing actually is like backstage interviews and like renouncing I was like you know what I'm ending school now as like I have like more time to focus on that now like on my weekends and stuff like I'm not going to have all these projects like in schoolwork I was like you know what if I don't try now I might never know so I hit up a friend of mine in the business as like hey I really want to try this out I said I know you're a broadcaster like you know I really want to try bringing it up so you're interviewing like could you give me some tips and I remember she asked me for um just like a demo of something and I sent it to her and she's like you got like she you know critique me and stuff like that she goes I think all right there's this company that I work out by you she goes I think you would fit in perfect there like let me talk to some people and after I did that with them and I started working with them and at the time that was Campley Frog and the girl was Sam Laturna a former guest of the show that's yeah I saw that on your on that was one of the companies where I was like oh shit I know that thing yeah so Sam Laturn I reached out to Sam and Sam was just like so helpful put me in touch with Campley Frog and from there I started with them and I go back and every partner like look back at those like first interviews of you and I'm like oh my god I like because I could critique myself so hard but it was my first time but I'm so lucky they took a chance on me and kept me going because I just got I just was okay I continue to learn now but I was learning and I continued to get better and then I started working with more promotions and it's just kind of then everything was starting to fall into place that now I'm here sorry this was that that was a long answer to that question if you couldn't tell that's why I'm a broadcaster I talk with you so much this is a podcast I feel like long stories are perfectly okay for this kind of medium it's no big deal whatsoever well so I wanted I wanted to kind of compare stories because so your first time backstage I want to explain mine was just pure holy shit I'm not supposed to be here what am I supposed to do where am I supposed to set up I don't have anything like is that kind of where your thought process was or did they kind of already know what they were supposed to do with you and like already had your like either camera person or I mean what they were supposed to do with the interviews afterwards like were you kind of like the imposter syndrome in your head too or how did all that work for you well my first time was like I brought my own equipment just because I didn't know what I was walking into and now and like as I've done this now for like going on but through almost three years technically in the independence like I always bring my own equipment because nobody really gives you anything nope so um thank god they had a promo sheet for me like they knew what they wanted and it was just like I think I was just really nervous because like I didn't know anybody I only knew Sam because she was there I didn't really know anybody else like it wasn't really and I was like nervous because I'm like oh my god are these people gonna like me you know it's very shy I'm like I don't know anybody and you know I thought you know everything ended up going well and like from there like they they became that that's in a sense my home promotion I started there and they welcomed me with open arms and I started working with you know other companies within then the network in a sense and it's it's just the same but then it's like when you start working I think if that's how you get at new promotions like especially when you don't know anybody get like shy and you just you don't know what to do and you want to make sure you're doing a good job like if you want to come back mm-hmm that's awesome yeah it's it's definitely a we all see the people that do it backstage where it could be WWE or AEW now or any other company that's that does the backstage interview person but like you know when you're doing it yourself you're like oh what am I supposed it's almost like the Talladega night it's like what am I doing with my hands like what I don't know what to do with oh my god I didn't even know what to do with my hands yeah I think I kept it at my side but then eventually as I was studying more people I noticed they put their hand behind their back like while they're talking they use the hand but then when they when other people are talking you keep it behind the back so I started doing that I forget when I started doing that but I continuously make sure I study you know Renee Pickett like she's a big inspiration for me because she did it all she just was she's such a queen and Lily and Garcia and Justin Roberts like when it comes to then uh ring and I was like too like I I'd like to like watch everybody see how everybody does their own thing Kathy Kelly like especially how they word their questions too because you don't want to ask like the same thing like how are you feeling what's your thoughts like you want to like word it in the way yeah so I make sure to pack as much information as I can in there but without it being too long and not like having just like these such generic questions all the time especially like if the promoters don't give me like my own Renee or they kind of don't know I I try to give whatever I can the best I can for them right and then you're also so it's not even just I mean yeah it's for you but it's mainly for the other talent too it's like getting reps in if they don't know how to cut a promo after a win or after a loss then you're trying to help them as well so then you're also the kind of bridge between stories of or chapters even if like okay well you either want to loss this match what's gonna happen in between now and you know what are you trying to convey till your next match and so then you're trying to help build that story and again if you don't have the promoter telling you what the next thing is supposed to be you can't really help lead into that and so you're like kind of just trying to create a story with them as well and you know not the kind of story that they were just telling in the ring but it's something that they have to like sometimes physically but for the most part verbally really help people to bring them into their character and what that story of them in that company or in wrestling in general supposed to be yeah it's literally all work in progress like it's it's literally everybody together when it comes to this and you know like I said sometimes it happens where they'll have anything and you just do your best to get whatever you need and it ends up like most cars it does work out yeah well when it comes so when it comes to working backstage and trying to do those interviews and then also you know you have your own youtube show and you're making your own content and you're actually interviewing people in a longer form how do you try to like you said you try to get as much information as you can in that tiny bit but then when you try when you actually have the time to let it breathe and stretch out kind of like what we're doing right now how do you feel like that's more relaxed as opposed to trying to fit everything in in like a tiny little box yeah because then you could space it out between like so many questions and you can like it's just so much easier in a sense because then I do sometimes I do those interviews for like for example for a pre-combination wrestling like I was doing some with them before like some of our shows and like it's easier because then we can feed in to more with the story instead of just some hey we need this like quick under two-minute interview just about such and such but here I can like talk about it more we can discuss more details of certain things so that's like pretty like then like a good thing to have yeah that makes sense I mean with your youtube channel like you said you you touched on it earlier with your vlog which I think is was very funny and also you know would you peel an order for somebody I think needs to be something you ask everybody on a regular basis because that was hilarious oh my god because it was just such a meme on the internet and we just decided and I I just listened I knew to ask Darius Carter Darius Carter I listen as much as he picks on me when he's in character um I he is he's so fantastic and I I knew to go to him to ask him because I knew whatever he had in store for me was gonna be good and it was literally no words and I just laughed I laughed he didn't need to say anything and that was a he Darius Carter everybody well when it comes to your show when you're interviewing other people like from when it comes in we'll all spray Trevor Murdoch Chelsea Green Barrett Brown what are some of your moments that one of your some of your favorite moments that you didn't expect because sometimes you have a kind of thought process when you're going into trying to talk to somebody and then all of a sudden you guys can get on a conversation about stuff that you didn't even expect to happen and it was just like wow that was amazing I didn't think to you know I think that was gonna come up and that was like the I I miss doing stuff like that because at the end there I was starting to just interview friends a lot and it's nice because you never know what one of your questions will come of like what story will lead to and what other questions that you might have to come from it and that's like the the cool part about it and you get to hear their stories and you know what what's their you know wrestling life like and the past and the present like it's that's it's just so interesting to hear their stories of what what's going on in their lives and I love that like I love to hear that like because because I know because I was like that's when I have stories and you know I and I love to hear that I love always hearing those two now I mean since you do travel so much for you know your work you know making the dates and everything what is a must-have in your travel bag when you're traveling oh definitely a pen and note cards you never you just never know I I will not leave the house without those yeah I'll grant it my equipment too but I know to bring that but I know my pen and my note cards for anything genius that's that's really smart you never know uh you know really and another question I have it this came up from a interview I'd done before and I haven't asked enough people about this but do you have a tale of double stick tape a tale of double stick tape a story I guess I get a tale story of double stick tape what do you mean uh so I had a female wrestler on here and she had told me about how double stick tape kind of saved her multiple times and how she also wish she had had it beforehand where it did not save her I didn't know if double stick tape ever came into your universe and she needed to use it yes okay um so funny enough my second black label show which was in February the vest that I was wearing was a bit too big and I knew that and I take that like when I know like if something like that's gonna happen I take it with me I'm like oh my god like I don't need to like like do us I'm like I put it on um luckily that they came in such good hands but it's also it's like so difficult to deal with you're like oh my god that's gone but then it's also sucks if it if you're somewhere hot and it doesn't want to stay and I'm just like so it's like that that's also like a like a thing especially for like the broadcasters like you want to like dress nice like you have your own style so I always try to make sure what I'm wearing and I keep in mind like do I need to bring something with me because I want to make sure like that it's too too like out there and like you know you got to keep everything in check back yeah you got to have a lint roller and then a you know double stick tape you never know now you are in the northeast where it's been a hotbed for progressing forever really uh who are some talented people that you see on a regular basis that I think you you feel like people should be on the lookout for oh number one I say this anytime anybody asks me Darius Carter I just mentioned him before Darius is if you guys don't know who Darius Carter is I suggest you look up a match of his his like in ring work and his character work oh my god like it is amazing I love him he's so great at what he does like you just you just have to watch a Darius Carter match you have to watch a Darius Carter promo like he is amazing um as for women there's just oh my god I just think of so many people when I think of this question because I work with so many talented people and I just wish I could say them all um oh my god who's that whole who's a woman because I'm gonna mention a guy in a girl um oh my god there's there's just so many people under my mind uh Christina Marie is amazing I've worked like a couple shows here and there with her she is she's been killing it man she's really good I love that yeah I mean on the independent scene I always tell people to go watch local for wrestling no matter where you are because your new favorite wrestler is on that show and they're gonna be in the big time at some point you just you just know too I feel like also like broadcasters I don't know like and after being around it for like oh so long like you just like you just know when you're just with somebody and how they are and I'm just like that person right there mm-hmm yeah they just have that it back especially afterwards like you know because that you know shows in late you got to find a restaurant that may or may not be open or in Uber Eats or whatever is happening and just the just hanging out with them you know like you have this just charisma about you and then like you know then you see what they obviously did in the ring earlier that night and you're like how are you like this on the regular basis this is nuts I know it's insane but it's that's the lovely part about it you get to meet so many people from everywhere and it's just it's a fun time yeah I love I love the industry so much and I can't wait to see how it grows and blooms and gets even bigger than it is now which I mean I'm sure how it's possible at this point isn't it there's just so much of it and I love it I love being a part of it it's I always say it's just it is my happy place like I'm I'm there and I'm like the happiest person ever same and like you're on this cloud nine afterwards and it's just you you know you're trying to figure out how to you know come down from it like it is a drug but you're like nope I'll just ride this out until I guess I'm not going to sleep tonight oh my god and it's always like that transition like from like working the weekend to then going back to your shoot job during the week going back to a regular job is the worst I'm just like I and I even say that I'm like I went from being wrestling Samira in the in the weekend to being marketing Samira during the week two different two different people I'm just like oh I'm just like you know but it's still it's still fun I do love my shoot job but you know I love I love wrestling wrestling is my my passion I love it so much there is a quote that you you keep your day job so it can fund your dream job until your dream job funds your life oh I love that and I don't think I've ever heard that one yeah well you can you can have it it's yours now a quote I always like to I always just tell people is to do what makes you happy I know it's like cliche and so basic but like it's like true in any aspect of your life you have to do what makes you happy you just have to go after whatever it is I mean you see do you see so many people in life that just I mean you know I mean I'm 40 now and I have friends that are also 40 and they were just like oh I'm too old I can't do anything you know what I'm just like what at what point do we hit the where you just that handle that that light that was inside you was just blown out like where why why is that happening why is that a thing you should never allow that to happen because at any age anything can happen to you and that's true yeah I just like I said like how I touched earlier in the beginning like I knew when the time was there I was like if I don't do this now I probably will never know I need to take the risk and find out and I did it and now I'm here and now I'm interviewing you about your life it's insane I still think like that's all crazy to me anytime I'm just like I think it's insane when I get anybody be like yeah of course and like you know no matter what level of you know whether they be you know they've had a company forever and they're talking to me or they're just want a giant championship and they're talking and or they're just you know they've had eight matches in the business I'm like you know not fine either way because everyone has that story and it's all about that passion that they have and that they still have obviously because they're still doing the thing that they want to do and like you said if you're doing what you love then you're not really working oh I always say that and that's also like a cliche thing that's like oh if you you know do what you love you never work a day in your life but it is it's so true like in a sense this is technically quote-unquote work it is but like I don't feel it I don't like to me this is like this is fun I don't like I don't ever dread going in I'm excited I'm always like just ready to do what I gotta do sure is it like sometimes you get your pre-show nerves of course you do but once you get into it you're great and you're just having the best freaking time and you're with like a bunch of your friends and it's different fun time if you don't think I think if you don't have nerves that might be the time that you might want to rethink what you're doing because oh my god may not be into it anymore oh my god I get nervous every time before like any of my interviews like my like like because you're just like once you're like trying to get the roll like roll into it so I always get nervous before I start my interviews but oh I especially get real real nervous before bringing out things I'm like freaking out in the back a little bit I'm just like oh my god if anybody could tell you the story that was back at black label pro when we did the the one at um grid circle and the first match was Matt Cardona versus Nick Nemeth and this is two guys that I've you know watched on TV and I've been following their like now on their independence that I'm just like this is insane like and there that here comes my imposter syndrome where like I don't deserve it to be here to like even bring it out to the two of them and probably not a good idea that I'm having an energy drink beforehand because I'm also shaking oh yeah I it's not good for me and I still have it before my shows and I'm just shaking but you know all as well and like I'm just I'm nervous like especially when it comes to ringing out then like right before I go out I'm like I'm nervous like I'm like oh my god and then I and then I sit there and I realize that I know I'm gonna be fine as soon as I walk out there and start talking I'm gonna be so I'm just gonna be fine but it's literally just before I go out I'm like oh my god oh my god oh okay all right just like hopefully I don't fall hopefully I don't mess up anything like I'm always afraid that I'm gonna fall out of the ring or something knowing me but like and it's just those pre-show jitters but as soon as you'll walk out there and get applied I'm just like I don't know how that makes sense at all that's the progressing business 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