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5 Questions with Dani Mo · ABJ

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This is a Ben Frank connection presentation.
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We are back with another five question with ABJ at PPW Born to
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Run. What an amazing show and getting
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a big W today is the champion and I'm here today with.
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Your girl dynamite Danny MO. All right, Danny, So what is
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your current goal in life? Current goal in life, not even
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just with wrestling. It could be wrestling, personal,
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anything you want. OK.
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So current goal, it's kind of all-encompassing.
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I would, I want to make a lot of money, OK, for the reasoning of
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being able to help others as well as being able to buy the
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house. I want to buy, have that big
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kitchen, big bathroom, big basement, and just have a nice
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big yard and travel the world for work.
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So that would involve wrestling. So I want to be able to have
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enough money to travel the world, help others, and live
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with the freedom of being able to do whatever I want.
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That's awesome. What are you currently doing to
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achieve this goal? Grinding it only in.
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DC, you are grinding. You're both grinding.
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I'm researching new companies because I want to get my name
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out there to places that I've never been because like,
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different states, one, might not have a lot of wrestling to begin
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with, and two, they might not even know who the heck I am.
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Yeah, other countries might not know who I am.
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I have been lucky being coming up under a facade.
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So like, people already knew me as a manager.
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So I was already kind of like known before I started
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wrestling. So that was definitely a
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benefit. But there's still a lot of
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people that don't know me. So I just got to keep grinding,
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keep putting social media out there, keep reaching out to
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people and keep trying to make waves.
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I. Love that real quick.
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The first, like what I say with the Neon Blonde so much is that
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even since the early days of PPW and you guys have been here, I
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pride myself when I used to be part of the company and like
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doing stuff here more often with the commentary and everything
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else and then put the meet and greets.
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But like I would pride myself on being one of the first ones in
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and then one of the last ones out.
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Yeah. And it was like a personal
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contest between us 2. Like, like we used to walk out
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together when the building. We would lock the building up.
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Yeah. People have to wait for us.
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Yeah, it's not necessarily my choice.
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Yeah, but not to like talk myself up, but we do normally
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have the longest line after the show and we take time with every
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single fan. Like if you want to wait in line
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and come talk to us, we're going to freaking talk to you.
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We're not going to be like, hey, buy my shit and buy no, we're
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going to talk to you. See what's up?
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How's school going? Where you going?
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Like we're going to actually talk to you.
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And like I like we like to not I, we like to make connections
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with our fans. Facade's goal is to learn his
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school this year is to learn people's names.
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I'm not so great with that. So when he's like reiterating
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people's names and like saying it over and over again, I yell
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out a different name to try to mess him up.
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It's not working. But he he's really trying to
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learn people's names. I've done a lot of meet and
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greets and used to in Philly was the easiest time because like
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you just have that you guys have that master like.
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Yeah, we try, We try. So yeah, being the first there
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and the last to leave, that's what we do.
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Love that. Who are what?
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I'm sorry, what is currently holding you back?
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Our distraction from your goal. I don't, I don't know if maybe
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I'm holding myself back because like sometimes you might
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subconsciously hold yourself back by like not sending that
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one e-mail or not being like, hey, I know you're friends with
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this person. Can you please put in a word for
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me? Maybe I'm not doing that.
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I know I I'm not afraid to approach somebody and ask for a
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question because the worst answer is going to be no.
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Oh well, I tried, but potentially it could literally
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be myself or it could be a gatekeeper.
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Who knows. But I'm trying to have the best
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gear. I'm trying to keep my teeth
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pretty. I'm trying to evolve whether
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it's one thing at a time or like a whole match completely, but
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I'm trying to just get better at the little things.
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So then everything comes full force together.
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I'm doing more promos. Like for every match I have,
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I've been trying to cut a promo. So like, if you look at my
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social media versus any other female social media, best
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believe I have more promos. Yeah, than.
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A lot of females. And like 80% of them.
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There's nothing wrong with it. Like a lot of females, they'll
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learn more because it's in the wrestling industry.
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It's easier to lean make towards the looks and the yeah, and the
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the TNA aspect of it because that's kind of what we were
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raised with. And and you're treating it like,
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like the pro wrestling standard. And there's nothing wrong with
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either one. I'm just, I'm just reiterating
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what you're saying on your social media firm.
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Like, not a lot of people are comfortable doing the promos,
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but you're doing the things that like comfortable.
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Yeah, I don't. I don't like doing them.
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That's like my least favorite. Thing yeah, there's a divide.
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It was still between men's and women's wrestling and I feel
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like you're doing everything that like, like the guys are
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doing to try to break that barrier.
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I'm trying, yeah, I'm trying. And like the whole like people
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tell me I'm sexy and good looking, but like I'm not like a
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sexy person. Like I'm not going to do the
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lingerie shoot and post it on my regular social media like my
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friends and family. And like, I don't know, like
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I'll, I'm in my gear. So like this is pretty small to
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begin with. So this is almost like lingerie.
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But like I, I don't consider myself sexy.
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So I'm not leaning into sexy as my way to make it.
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I'm trying to be skillful and a good person and know the
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psychology and ask for help when I know I need to ask for help or
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if something just doesn't like I will reach out to people and ask
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them. I'm sorry, I love it.
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Well, who or what motivates or inspires you to?
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Begin with or now in general? In general, Honestly, I feel
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like right now, I feel like I am my inspiration.
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Love that. I I don't know if that's cheesy,
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but no. I wish I could.
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I wish I could be better at being my own cheerleader.
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I I'm pretty good at it. Some people might think it's
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cocky, but like literally you, you can't rely on anybody no
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matter how close they are to you, no matter like how much
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somebody's cheering you on. Like honestly, outside of like
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your mom, like it's up to you if you want to get up out of bed,
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make that delicious breakfast and then go to the gym or get to
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work or just get out of bed every morning.
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It's literally only up to you. So I say myself is my
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inspiration, but originally because I never wanted to
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wrestle, it was Facade. He's the inspiration to actually
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me being here as a wrestler. Yeah, what are you grateful for
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and are you currently happy? I think I'm pretty happy.
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I mean, I think we can always have better mental health
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because we always, we're all so hard on ourselves to begin with
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and hard on other people. And then that recoils back to
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your own self issues, I guess you could say.
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But I think I'm doing pretty good.
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I really worked on the last couple months to like, I don't
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know if I would say rework my brain, but I've been like
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getting all the little things done and you know, like things
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build up and then it gets like builds up pressure because
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you're not doing the things that you just need to like just daily
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things or like little things like call the cable company
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because there's a new discount or some shit like that.
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But like, just like the little things matter and that makes
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getting the little things done #accomplished is my thing.
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I used to say in college I would like literally make shirts and
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like we would puff paint #accomplished.
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So like or hashtag hurts so good.
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But I think I'm pretty happy and I wish I would have taken more.
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I wish I would have pushed myself forward a little bit
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sooner in my career rather than being like, oh, I'm not ready.
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I'm not ready when I had people saying, hey, you're ready.
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And I'm like, no, I'm not. So I feel like I maybe kept
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myself on the back burner longer than I needed to so.
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I agree that's. Not I really agree.
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With that. Regret.
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But like, I could, I could have done better.
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I could have pushed myself a little bit harder.
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Where can people find and support you?
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Every social media real. Danny Moe.
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REAL DANIMO. There you have it.
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That's five questions with ABJ. We'll see you on the next one.
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We're out of here. Thanks for.
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More. We are back for that Marvel
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Cinematic end credits scene where we get where where Danny
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gets a personalized question. So.
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We talked before about First in, first out, and there's a lot of
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things you said during the five questions that I could resonate
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with you because even though I wasn't there for your whole
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journey in the independent wrestling scene, I was there for
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the PPW ROM, right? So I seen you come in as the
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manager, I seen you come in and like be put in the wrestling
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role and you can tell your confidence wasn't there and
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everybody else was seeing that, but you weren't.
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And I, I've seen that from an outside person.
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So you're saying that it did make me smile because I, I, I
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watched that progression. But like, so one of the things
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that just happened recently at PPW was you had a match with
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Cosmic. You and Cosmic were both at a
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stage where you were both very, very new to what you were doing,
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but there was shades of greatness.
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And then you guys just had a match a couple weeks a couple
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two months ago. Yeah, cuz we had what?
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At the gym? Yes, in that like four way or
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something. Yeah, but even in a year's time,
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for both of you's, the time you put in and the effort you put in
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and everything you talk about in those five questions shine
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through in that match. And as a fan of both of you's
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from that day one stuff till now, it's been fantastic.
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And it's not so much of a question, just I really want to
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like state that and put that over like I'm proud of you guys.
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I'm proud of both of you and like knowing some of those
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things that you put on social media in front of your struggles
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and, and, and even like Facade with injuries and stuff, like
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you guys are always a beacon of positivity and light.
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And, and I'm so rooting for you guys and that they're, they're
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both going to be on TV soon. I promise you.
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They're so good at what they do. So it's not so much a question,
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but it's just me putting you over.
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And I really wanted to say that cuz, cuz like, we developed a
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friendship like being the first and last night we had a lot of
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conversations, you know what I mean?
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And I and even like the old place there was the church and
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then the next one, we were like, all right, yo, you can't put
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anything there because that Danny's going to be there.
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That's going to be her spot. Leave that balance and mean
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because you can do hair or makeup like, you know what I
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mean? Like, but I just, I'm proud of
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you and, and keep grinding and, and you're, you're the champion
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that PPW deserves and and needs and, and, and thank you.
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Keep crushing it, keep crushing it.
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Thank you. Not a question.
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I'm sorry, you, you just miss out.
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It may be a full interview coming in the future.
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We'll see you next. Time maybe.
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I said no a lot until today. Yeah.
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She's like, I owed him. I owed him this.
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And this is fun, so I appreciate you having me.
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I appreciate you doing it. We'll see you next time.