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ABJ Podcast Ep 64 Squid Sterling · ABJ

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What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the ABJ podcast
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episode 64 with Squid Sterling. I will bring him in in one
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moment but make sure you guys do me a favor and check the links
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one. I got to be completely honest
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guys. I was done well.
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My car broke down and and before all my other stuff my life took
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a huge turn. I didn't have it in me anymore
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man. I I've been really, really
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chasing at this and I felt like I was coming up short and it has
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affected me in so many avenues and in ways.
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But this is, this is a passion of mine.
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I believe in it. I want it to be successful.
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makes a big difference. So tonight's goal I I've never
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done this before but the likes what I've been reading is likes
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on it on YouTube or what gets more eyes and more algorithms
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going on just not just YouTube but like Facebook and stuff like
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that. So let's go for a goal of 30
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likes 30. It's not a lot.
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There's more than 30 people that watch these videos.
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So just hit the like button while you're here.
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If it's your first time, hit, follow, subscribe and hit that
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Tonight. The live chat will be open.
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You can join in, ask some questions, hang out with us and
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let's have some fun here. We're going to get this party
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rocking and rolling with one of the guys who has crossed both
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platforms when it comes to rock music as well as professional
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wrestling. I've known this guy for some
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quite, quite some time. He is.
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He is absolutely one of the biggest sweethearts in the
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scene. He is so goddamn hardworking and
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so humble. I've been following him since
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his Backbreaker days and he's been making appearances a lot of
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other places. I believe there was PPW at one
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point in time. He was there for a little bit.
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He did. He he's he's he's all over the
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place. Northeast Pennsylvania born and
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Braves. Awesome guy.
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Let's bring him in. Without further ado, the one,
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the only squid. Sterling.
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What's going on, bud? A BJ.
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What's going on, man? Thank you for having me brother.
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Not a problem dude. So you we had a conversation on
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camera before it was at a Backbreaker show but this is a
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little different now. Different.
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Different place this that. A little different platform.
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Oh here you go. Let's just say that Squid 100%
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showed the world who he was at Smash Master Classic show.
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Keep an eye out for Squid Sterling.
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Dude this. So that's where I want to start
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as well is you've always had the intangible things that you need
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to be have in this business, you, you, your work ethic is
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very good, your attitude is very good.
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You're very humble, you're very giving, you're very you just you
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want to help other people around you.
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And then during I would say end of pandemic going into this
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year, maybe even a little bit before, you can correct me if
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I'm wrong, you have really worked on your physical
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appearance. You've been hitting the gym
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hard. You, you're, you're taught,
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you're tightening up the body. You're putting some mass on like
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squid sterling four years ago is not the squid sterling now.
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You're getting a little get a little beefy, boy, you know what
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I mean? Like.
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I'm I'm trying. If I'm being honest with you, I
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ain't going morbid right off the bat, but the going into the gym,
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aside from like the kick in the ass to really like want to look
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the part and not just play the part.
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I use it as a coping mechanism for when my mom died, she
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passed. I didn't know what to do with
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myself. So I'm just like workout, just
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get keep the mind busy workout and that became a lifestyle
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because it's not just like going to the gym like I spend my time
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like one of my favorite. I go to ban and I research the
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books to learn like the science behind muscle building and I'm
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always learning. There's so much more that that I
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can learn, but I trying to. Learn about all the nutrition
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and everything that you have to do to make it and maintain that
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lifestyle. If this question is too much or
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you don't want to disclose it, you don't have to say, but we'll
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just say you have a gym partner. It looks like a lot in your
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video, in your photos when you're at the gym I.
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Do. Yes.
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So so it's so you're, you know, the loss, the loss of one of the
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most important women of your life and then obviously has led
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to the gym and it looks like you guys are doing it together,
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which looks like a very beautiful thing where you're
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you're almost motivating each other and you're, you know what
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I mean? Like I don't know.
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I I just think the overall thing of what you're trying to go for,
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I think it's just super healthy and I think it's really dope for
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you. Thank you.
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Yep, she's my soon to be fiance. She knows already if she's
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watching. Getting no surprise?
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Yeah, breaking new LA VJ. I have gratefully had her by my
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side through the whole thing cuz she keeps you motivated like cuz
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there's definitely days where you don't want to be there and
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like you're slugging, you know, you had a long week at work,
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whatever. And she's just keeps pushing,
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keeps pushing me and I do the same for her cuz it's like a
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personal journey for her too and we're just trying to do it
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together. I love that.
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That's that's insanely motivating and it's sweet to
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hear. I love that Lindsay and JS
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Michaels in the chat, they both just started their little
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podcast experience. Go check those guys out.
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And then what we talked about earlier Rosh go support my boy.
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Rosh go go a little banged up right now.
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So make sure you go to a smash mouse wrestling.
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Go buy his merchandise and help the boy out.
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Once again, if you're here new, just make sure you hit those
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likes, hit those likes if whatever you're watching on our
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our goal is 30 likes for this video.
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So let's get it going and hit that share button.
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Do it. It's free.
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Cost nothing. Oh, look at Crispy Boy in here,
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too. Everyone's here tonight.
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Look at everyone's here for squid, baby.
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I love to see Y'all. Thank you.
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So let's let's let's ask if the The Most Notorious Question on
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Wrestling podcast. But when did you fall in love
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with this business? When was your earliest memory of
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being like, holy shit, I'm a pro wrestling fan, let's get this
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done. I I definitely fell in love with
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the business early. He opened that so I it was my
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sister that initially got me into it because she was watching
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her VHS of WrestleMania 17 and I I was tuning in and out through
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the whole thing. I was sitting there watching it
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with her, and then stone Cold and the rock came on and as soon
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as the glass shattered. That was my first introduction
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to Stone Cold and I just. I couldn't stop watching.
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I I just couldn't and I fell in love ever since then.
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And aside from that, my cousin Jerry, ever since I was a little
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kid, he would always take me to like local indie shows and
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everything around the area. I wish I remembered a lot of
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them like like names and and work as that I saw from back
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then but we used to do that all the time and it it was ever
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since that WrestleMania. Moment that made me feel Fall in
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love with the glass shatter and stone cold.
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So are you always the Northeast PA scene?
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Like, is that where you've kind of been born and raised?
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Yeah, I've been born and raised here my whole life.
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I don't necessarily want to stay here in my whole life, but I'm
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here and I rock it and I support it and I'm gonna do that for as
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long as I'm here. I love that.
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I love that. So when did you transition from
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watching wrestling and and then saying like this is what I want
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to do, this is the path I want to take take on and and what was
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that process like and how did you find your your school.
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Well, so funny story about that it to me, I believe whenever you
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get down and then I'm something bad happens.
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Like, it's always going to propel you to something better.
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I sure hope so. And I promise it will.
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When I I was working as an assistant manager at This is
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wait, this is before wrestling. I was just, I was coming out of
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my teens, coming out of college. And the GameStop was a dream
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job. Like, you get to just rip the
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games open, brand new, midnight release, take it home and play
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it, bring it back, sell it as brand new.
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Oops. Didn't mean to give the secret,
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but I love that job and I ended up losing that job and I wasn't
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ready for that mentally or like financially nothing.
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So I kind of went into to panic mode, turmoil and I went into a
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depression. And I'm not normally like that.
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And and I felt weird and I'm like, I have to do something to
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get out of this. And I've been saying for years
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and years and years that I wanted to wrestle.
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Like I just, I just wanted a taste of it to see if I could do
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it. And shortly before I got let go
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Kit Raff came into GameStop getting some games off me and he
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told me about backbreakers. And he's like, yeah, they do
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tryouts every now and then blah, blah, said OK.
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I never. I always kept that in the back
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of my head. So then when the time finally
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came, I didn't have the job. I had no responsibility at the
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moment. I just said fuck it.
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And I messaged Justin Glory and I'm like Mr. Glory.
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I I'm ready to put myself through this.
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Like I need to do something. I've been wanting to do this,
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you know, let's make this happen.
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We did. And the rest is history from
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there. Yeah.
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So when before you like growing up or in there another Were you
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athletic? Did you play sports growing up?
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Did you ever experience those football, basketball, 23A days?
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Like, did anything in your path prepare you for your first hell
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week of professional life? Not a damn thing.
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Not a thing. The only thing I did I like
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legitimately consider doing sports wise, that I tried was
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with baseball, but that was a Little League.
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That was years ago. So from the time I got out of
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that and through high school, I never did any sports.
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I was always music. And when I I went to wrestling
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training, thinking I I'm, I'm an idiot.
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I I thought this was going to be easy.
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I don't know what made me think that.
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But when I stepped in that ring, 30 minutes went by and I was
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puking on the bathroom floor. I was just, I was puking my guts
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out. I was so out of shape.
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I had no cardio. I did not know what I was
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getting myself into. But it's just something there.
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Just. I loved it still.
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And I I picked my sorry puking ass up and I got back in the
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ring, wiped off first, got back in the ring and and finished it
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out. And I told myself that I was
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going to keep doing this. How many people in your training
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class are still actively in the business?
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Oof. In my class, I don't think.
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I think I'm the only one. Wow, my personal class, because
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there you have Erin Rocks is. Who was the class before me?
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I I guess you could say we're we're around the same there.
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Yeah. And Adina Steele, she was in the
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class after me. And I I I really think that
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that's all that really stuck around.
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Wow, that's crazy. Any other familiar faces on the
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scene that were there your first week of training that that
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you're still close with? That were stare the 1st.
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Week of training? No, not really.
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Most of them are all gone, but like, you know, Dean is there,
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Brad Brad was there, and Johnny Toxic.
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They're around for. I don't know if they were there
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on my first day or not, I I truthfully don't remember.
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But they're all there mentoring and helping us from the
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beginning. Yeah, other than that, most of
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them, seriously, most of them quit.
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But by the time it came to that time, and I don't like to hear
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like obviously that that question isn't asked to say how
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many people quit. It just kind of shows people who
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are listening that may not be professional wrestling fans of
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how extremely difficult this industry can be on just your
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mental and your physical because there's a lot to it.
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But that for walk me through the first time you you're hitting
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ropes and you're taking bumps, what?
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What does it? What does it do to a body?
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It it doesn't make it feel very good.
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Taking bumps that truthfully for me, like maybe it's just how I
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was taught. I felt like the teaching was
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very well done on how to take bumps.
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That wasn't the worst until we had to start taking them over
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and over. And then you start taking bumps
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next to each other and bumping at the same time to get your
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timing down and if. Soon as one person hits that mat
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and the other one's just an inch above that ground, you're
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getting stiff so hard and you're you're going to feel that for a
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week. The ropes, the ropes, we've
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bruises everywhere, all on your back, on your arm, your armpit.
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And I, I'm not the tallest guy on the scene, man, let's be real
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here. So that that's getting right up
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in my pit half the time and it looks terrible.
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It It's fun. In some sickening, sadistic way,
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it is fun. Well man, it don't always feel
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good, Eric Pinhat says. His graduation photos came
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across my memories of their day, and I'm pretty sure he's right
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and he's the only one left. My God, I remember being nervous
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for those photos because that was before I really had my
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character or had a really decent understanding of the business.
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I'm like, Oh my God, what promo photos like.
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What is gonna work? What's not gonna work?
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Like I crossing like this and I'm like, I look at it now.
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You did the punk. You did the punk?
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Yeah, I did the punk thing with The Drum 6 coming across my face
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and cringe. So, So, since the start, have
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you always adapted the name Squid Sterling and the persona
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of the Rock'n'roll Wrestler? Yep, that was my, that was my
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intention right from the start and still rocking with it and.
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Evolving, you know, you know as time goes on in this business
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especially, you have to just you have to continue to evolve and a
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lot faster than then. Sometimes I anticipate too.
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Yeah, but I will. I will say what your character
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you come out to good music, you come out looking like a rock
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star. You can't.
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You have your drumsticks you got, you got everything you need
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there. But like when you wrestle that,
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I don't know, I'm not saying it's a good or a bad thing, but
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that kind of the character rock side vanishes.
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And then when you get in the ropes, that's when the wrestler
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begins and then you become more of that heart and soul style
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wrestler because you're the undersize, the shorter guy, you
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are putting muscle mass on, but you always, you have that fight
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from behind attitude and and everything like that.
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So like you're rock'n'roll until the hit the rope and then you do
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your pose and then when the bell rings, you're now it's not rock.
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It's right, it's it's it's fighting time, you know what I
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mean? And I think that's a cool idea
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to your character. Like, you're not really, you
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don't really do much when it comes to it.
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Like maybe sometimes you'll do the drumstick spots where you
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hit like, you know what I mean? But like, for the most time,
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most of your stuff is just like, it's just wrestling.
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There's not a lot of crossover. Like, you know what I mean?
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Like there's it's. It's hard to explain.
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Sometimes that sometimes I like it like that because I I really
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do. I love getting in there and and
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putting on just a wrestling match, but I do love getting in
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there and. And putting a little bit of that
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flares, like there's something we have that cowbell spot every
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now and then. I love having that cowbell up
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near someone's face and ringing their literally ringing their
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bell. Yeah, you know, it would be a
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good one. Like, you know, the tent.
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Over, O'Malley said. That's, that's a high spot in my
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head. Oh yeah, hit anybody.
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I I feel like if you're a rock star, like that's got to be like
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the is hitting somebody with a guitar.
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I don't. I don't ever want to be hit with
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one, but. It was invigorating.
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That's like the way it is. So fun.
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You know what you should do. I don't know if you've ever you
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probably have done it already. I'm I'm probably not original in
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this but like the this the the old school classic.
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Throw them in the corner. Climb up 10 punches right.
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But instead of the punches you should be doing the Pete
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Townsend like bang like you like you're strumming like like you
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know what I mean? Like the strum punch.
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Like it? Hasn't happened yet.
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There you go. You can have that.
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You can have that. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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Boom. And then and then jump off or
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something, I don't know. Fun Little Rock incorporation.
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How did you? Yeah, get my ass power bombed.
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Yeah, or like instead of I don't know if your your gear is
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prepared for but instead of like you know when you do the the the
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the lucha spot where you know one jumps over like just like a
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a stage slide like a need slide underneath their legs Oh my God,
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thinking about that makes me nervous.
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Yeah, because your legs stick and then you they don't.
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And then you take it. A crotch right to the face.
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You get your nose broke by someone's wean.
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It would be horrible, yeah. How did you come up with the
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name Squid Sterling? Where does that come from?
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What? What was your your your idea of
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the name? So I feel like the name Squid.
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I I didn't choose the name. The name chose me.
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I love that I've had that name for literally as long as I can
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remember from being a kid. But I can truthfully tell you
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it's not too much of A secret anymore.
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It came from Rocket Power. How many on here?
21:31
No, from that. I loved it when I was a little
21:35
kid. I talked about it a lot.
21:36
And my sister Tanya, she just came up behind me one day.
21:40
I was talking about my friends and she just called me Squid and
21:42
everybody around me thought it was hilarious and it just stuck.
21:46
So everybody throughout my life, professors, teachers, my
21:49
parents, family, friends, everybody called me Squid.
21:52
So I felt like it was only right.
21:55
So So what you're saying is we need a we were kind of talking
21:59
off camera for the podcast started.
22:01
So you need a rocket Power inspired squid.
22:03
Sterling logo? Yes, money I would.
22:10
We might know some people in here that can make that happen.
22:12
If you, I'll get you their deeds.
22:15
I'm looking for those deets. Yeah man.
22:19
So early on your career obviously you're at
22:21
backbreakers. You're you're doing that.
22:23
How long of your training before your first match where they were
22:27
glory or anybody at the school was like hey man, we're going to
22:29
put you in there and we're going to you're you're ready to go
22:32
think it was about 10 months, 10 months of training.
22:37
I went three days a week religiously.
22:40
I don't think I I seriously don't think that I missed a day
22:45
of training before I graduated three days a week.
22:50
I would only be allowed to participate in maybe one class.
22:53
Like at first there's a beginner's class so you learn
22:55
your bumps and all your fundamentals.
22:58
And I went to that participated. And then on Tuesday was the
23:03
advance class and Thursday was open ring.
23:05
And I would just go and watch. And I would sometimes I'd sit at
23:09
the end of the ring, sometimes just sit in the chairs and I
23:11
would just take everything. And you learn in just as much by
23:14
by watching, listening as you do by doing.
23:17
And eventually I was allowed to go to, I bumped up to advance
23:23
and I was allowed to go to the open ring.
23:26
And I I just never stopped going to the beginners.
23:30
If I had a place to go right now, I'd still be doing that
23:33
because you you can never get enough of that, you know?
23:35
Always. I believe there's a church you
23:37
can go to. There's some guys you could hit
23:38
up. They're always doing some stuff
23:39
there. Once I once that vehicle's
23:42
rolling, Hell yeah, I've been watching real bad because
23:45
they're. They're training A lot there of
23:47
information sitting in that building up at Sanctuary.
23:50
There really is. It is a goldmine of information
23:52
and character development in everything that I believe that I
23:56
need to be real. Yeah, kinda.
23:58
Start hanging first Friday, man. You get a ride to come hang out
24:01
with us. We love having squid at the
24:03
church. So when when, when did you have
24:07
that? So your first match.
24:08
That's why I wasn't. Yeah.
24:09
Your first match. You're you're you're about to go
24:11
out there. Was it Did you get your
24:12
traditional six man tag? Was it a rumble spot?
24:15
What was your first match? It was a it was a one-on-one,
24:20
which is yeah. And I'm very I'm thankful for it
24:23
Because even still to this day, it was some of the most fun that
24:25
I've ever had. You know something you never
24:28
forget is your first time out there.
24:30
But yeah, it was a one-on-one match.
24:32
Lost the match, who'd you work? His name.
24:35
It was one of the kids that I came up with.
24:38
And his. It was also his first match.
24:41
So it was a double debut and it was Cinderella man.
24:44
Chris Harsh. He's no longer in the business
24:48
anymore, but we worked twice. My second match was also a
24:51
rematch with him and yeah, that's that's pretty much how
24:58
that went there. Yeah, so I when by the time I
25:02
started learning the backbreakers and started going
25:04
there and consuming their content, you were essentially A
25:07
staple there at that point in time.
25:09
You were there. What championship was it?
25:13
It was like their Was it like their lightweight champion or
25:15
like their for? At first I ended up getting
25:20
their heavyweight championship and had to give up that because
25:24
I dislocated my elbow. So I was out for a few months
25:28
and then it was a cruise away championship.
25:30
Cruise I I came around for your cruise Away run, yeah and
25:35
technically I'm I'm a two time champ, but I had to give the
25:39
first one up due to injury because I dislocated my knee.
25:43
I was there. I was there for the night when
25:46
you hurt yourself and you couldn't compete and you had to.
25:48
You had to hand it in. I that that was an awful night.
25:53
I did not have fun that night. But but yeah, I held that in
25:59
total. I mean, I didn't defend it too
26:01
much because COVID happened. I had it all through COVID, but
26:04
there was no show. So like, does that really count?
26:08
If it counts, if it counts and it's long as raining and it's
26:12
going on about three years. Yeah, up until Backbreakers
26:17
folded in and I just handed it back.
26:19
Yeah. Christy said there's a church
26:21
you can get all that in. Christian says who looking
26:23
forward to Friday night. What's going on Friday.
26:25
Is there something cool happening Friday.
26:27
I know there's a there's a show at the at the sanctuary this
26:29
Friday, if that's what you're talking about.
26:31
I'm looking forward to it. And then Finco says hey man, how
26:34
are you? I'm good.
26:35
Thank you for coming. Hanging out, Finn.
26:38
Yeah. So.
26:39
And then also you you got the team up with you had a little
26:41
bit of a of a manager situation there.
26:43
You had a little CR O'Malley who I did get your message.
26:46
CR you are on the list. I promise I'm not.
26:51
He's busted my ass about that. You are on the list.
26:55
Your boys. Just your boys just going
26:57
through some stuff. But I definitely have your,
26:58
your, I have both your forms. So I preach one of the only ones
27:01
who's actually filling the forms out.
27:03
So I I you're on the list, I swear to God.
27:06
But how did used to team up and start doing stuff?
27:10
We we just started driving together like when we started
27:14
getting our footing because like he never managed me in back
27:17
Breakers. Yeah, I don't think he's ever
27:18
done it in back Breakers. Hit me up, squid.
27:21
I'll pick you up on the way. Ah, you know what that is?
27:24
That's great, but that's great. But terrible.
27:27
It's great that you're coming to the Sanctuary, but it's terrible
27:30
because Ricky Price going to be there too.
27:32
That is. What a wow, what a double edged
27:35
sword that is. I'm going just to see that feud.
27:39
I want. I want to see that play out.
27:42
But we, we just started being travel partners and you know
27:47
when we started getting booked, you know he's managed coming
27:50
with me. So I would always ask for like
27:52
hey, like if you're going to use me like who use him to like you
27:56
know, we could do whatever spot you want comedy or if you want
27:58
to be serious, face healed, whatever.
28:01
He was always more fun and it just kind of started to
28:06
organically happen like that. And then we started like
28:09
especially up in like the New York, like the Six O 7 area up
28:13
there. We're paired together a lot.
28:15
It's kind of like almost like a package deal.
28:17
I love that. How actually that's that's
28:19
that's what I love. That's interesting to me because
28:22
a lot of a lot of times in the industry a lot of people get
28:25
stuck in that 1520 mile, 30 minute, 30 mile bubble of where
28:29
they live and where they work. How was it your first time
28:32
breaking out of that? I don't know anyone in the
28:35
locker room. I'm going to go to a promotion.
28:37
I don't maybe know anyone here and and stepping into.
28:41
Unfamiliar territory and going in and just getting that
28:43
working. Absolutely Nerve wracking.
28:47
Sometimes I might come off as an extrovert, but like, this boy's
28:50
loaded with social anxiety and I I can mask it.
28:53
And when you put me in mask, baby, mask it.
28:56
When you put me in a room with a bunch of people that I have no
29:00
idea. Especially when you're coming up
29:02
in the business and you're taught like, oh, you need to
29:04
watch what you say, you need to, you know, you can only talk so
29:07
much with someone. Spoken to, Yeah.
29:11
So I'm like, am I even allowed to talk?
29:14
Like, what's going on here? Like how do I work this?
29:17
Eventually, you know, you get to know the guy and they're all
29:21
welcoming. I I really don't have,
29:23
thankfully, I don't have a lot of negative experiences when it
29:26
comes to that kind of stuff. Yeah, but 607 seems very
29:29
welcoming, bringing me in there. And it got easier as time goes
29:33
on. Now I think I might be able to
29:35
go somewhere and be a little more confident in, you know, and
29:40
and just getting my feet wet in there and making the
29:41
connections. But for a while.
29:43
Oof. Who's that nerve wracking?
29:45
Yeah, it's scary. I I'm lucky.
29:47
Everywhere I went out of the PA scene, I've always been with
29:51
Pete Delong, so I've always had him as my crutch.
29:55
Yeah, it's it's good to roll with somebody.
29:58
So when was that moment in your career?
30:01
Where you had that click right now, it could happen at your
30:04
home promotion. But I feel like a lot of times
30:06
it happens when you're on that road or you're away from
30:09
everyone in your immediate circle.
30:10
Because everybody in your immediate circle is going to,
30:12
they're going to be honest with you.
30:13
But it's like almost like listening to your parents,
30:15
right? Like your parents can give you
30:17
all the best advice, but then when you leave the nest and then
30:20
the advice that they've been saying comes from somebody else
30:22
and then it you're like, oh, this makes sense.
30:26
What was that moment for you as professional wrestler?
30:28
I can pinpoint that we were talking about it earlier,
30:33
definitely when I had my match with HC Loke and that was at UW
30:39
up in New York. And the reason why was because
30:43
that was the first match that I went in with almost other than
30:48
the normal anxiety, like before you step out of the curtain,
30:51
like you know the jitters. As soon as I stepped out of the
30:56
curtain, it's it just all went away.
30:59
I didn't have to think about what I was going to do or my
31:03
strategy or anything like that. I just went in there and we
31:06
worked and I felt it. And it's a testament to him
31:09
because man, I he he's a blast to work with, one of my favorite
31:15
guys to work with. I love him to death that.
31:19
He spent that he spent on you. No.
31:21
Yes, he did. He did.
31:23
He. Yes, he did.
31:26
He spit all that water in my face like he was Triple H Yeah.
31:31
And that whole time I was like, I was really sad that he spit in
31:38
my face. But I was also like, this is
31:40
kind of cool shit. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna get,
31:42
you're gonna get a feet. You're gonna get a you're gonna
31:44
get spit on and you're probably gonna get a top rope not grab,
31:47
throw off top rope or something along those lines.
31:50
I didn't get I didn't get one of those.
31:53
He he told me look out for it, but it didn't happen.
31:56
Yeah. And the reason why I was such
31:59
like an aha moment is look, he he looks at me beforehand he's
32:03
like, here, take this kid and he gives me a shot of rock.
32:07
He's like, just loosen yourself up.
32:09
You look too damn nervous And I'm like, OK.
32:11
A lot of love took that, and I was like, Damn, he's right,
32:15
loosen up. But that that loosening up just
32:18
allowed me to to to get in there and feel it for what I think is
32:24
probably the first time. And I've been wanting to do it
32:28
like that ever since. It's like you said, it's like
32:31
aha moment, like that's what I want out of it.
32:33
Loke is the epitome of keep it simple stupid.
32:39
His matches are if you if like, you're going to get a loke
32:42
match. When you get a loke match or get
32:44
a Loke match, he's gonna, he's gonna do the greatest hits.
32:46
You're going to, it's like it's like going to see your favorite
32:48
band. You're going to you're going to
32:49
see the greatest hits. He's going to part.
32:52
He's going to get the crowd participation in.
32:54
He's going to get the crowd involved in the match.
32:56
You're going to leave just how you came in, insanely safe,
32:59
insanely protected, and it's going to look like he kicked the
33:02
ever living shit out of you or he gets the ever living shit out
33:05
of you. And he can spell that too.
33:08
He's he's a, he's a gangster man.
33:10
And there's a reason why he's has accomplished as much as he's
33:13
accomplished in his building, in this business.
33:15
And his students that he has come up around him are some of
33:18
my favorite people in this industry.
33:20
Man, it's not even fair. Those kids are phenomenal.
33:23
There's two They're two good, dude.
33:24
They first time I said at the Sanctuary, I was like, well,
33:26
what is happening? Phenomenal.
33:29
They're on the list as well for future podcast stuff, because I
33:31
love those guys at Death as they should.
33:33
So good. Yeah man.
33:36
So was that like your first name or established person that
33:40
you've worked? I I think so.
33:43
I I at that point, yeah. I think that would have been the
33:45
first established worker. Who was any other ones after
33:49
that I asked for? Like, wildly established, Not so
33:54
much. OK, I've not in front of a live
33:58
crowd anyway, You know a lot of seminars and and have been
34:03
grateful to be an opportunities to be around a lot.
34:05
Of Were you at the seminar for PPW when they were in
34:08
Battlefield or when they were at Broadheadsville?
34:11
Which one? I've done a few for PPW.
34:14
I feel like I was there for your one second.
34:15
Were you were there? Were you there for the Jay
34:16
Lethal? No, I wasn't.
34:19
I wish I was. I was so mad I missed that one.
34:21
Who were you there for? I was there for Billy Gunn.
34:24
I did. Dean Malenko.
34:27
Luke Gallows. Luke Gallows, when they were in
34:29
Broadheadsville. Yeah, I remember.
34:33
Yeah, you were there for that one.
34:36
That was a good one cuz he treated it like if you were
34:38
going to a WB tryout. I talked about it before in the
34:42
podcast, so I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself for people who
34:44
listen every episode, maybe two of yous.
34:47
But I loved when he told everyone to take their shirts
34:49
off and they're just like, what? And he's like, they looked at
34:52
him like a deer in a headlights, like you want me to.
34:56
Yeah. And a few people were like, and
34:57
he's like do it. That's this is exactly what
35:00
they're going to do with WE. And then he was just like that.
35:03
Is that the body you'd want to see on TV?
35:05
And they're just like, but you need that in this business.
35:08
You need that. We really do.
35:11
Even comments on my body too, because at that time I had no
35:14
meat on me, man. I was skinning bones and he he
35:18
told me I needed to to beef up. And it took me a bit, but I
35:21
finally took your advice, brother.
35:23
Yeah. And and listen, you were at, you
35:25
were at a Monday Night Raw and the crowd was chanting your name
35:27
and you weren't even in the ring.
35:29
Oh my God. Don't, don't even, don't even.
35:33
When I look and I saw you down there, I was like, what the?
35:37
So I I was graciously given floor seeds to a Monday Night
35:41
Raw 35 minutes before it happened.
35:44
And we're all like going around and Bp's like go to squid.
35:48
And I was just like, let's go squid.
35:50
Squid, Sterling or Chan. And he's just like he you just
35:53
stopped. And you're like, it took me.
35:55
Like, I don't even think I was not paying attention.
35:56
Like, I think I was in my own little trance, too, and it broke
35:59
me out of it. I'm like, why is this happening
36:01
here? No what?
36:03
And then I took a picture of you and sent it to you and you're
36:05
just like and you spot on it. That's like that's like where is
36:09
this? It was a good time.
36:13
So listen, the the wrestling thing we can we can swing back
36:15
to. If you have any stories or
36:16
anything we can get back to because there is some stuff I
36:18
want to talk about most recent stuff that you have done.
36:21
But I want to kind of shift gears here on this.
36:24
It's root beer, It's Lions Head, but it's root beer.
36:26
I'm not drinking on the job. You can drink on the job.
36:29
I'm just mad I don't have beer to drink with you.
36:32
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We're trying to grow. We just hit 700 subscribers so
36:52
we can hit that 800 that would be amazing on the quote.
36:56
The quest of 1K that'd be amazing but music music wise you
37:02
carry drumsticks but what what what do you do for music What
37:05
what instruments do you Instruments I'll give you.
37:08
I will say if you can play more than one or or or front man what
37:11
do you do in the music scene and and.
37:13
Has has the music and the wrestling been hand in hand this
37:17
entire time? So for me it has always been
37:20
hand in hand. I'll get to that soon.
37:24
But musically I I do just a lot myself right now.
37:29
Solo stuff. I don't have a band.
37:31
I did when I was for years at a band called Life After Misery,
37:34
when humanity remains and we used to do some cool stuff.
37:39
I was a front man. I was just a singer slash
37:42
screamer for that at the time. I didn't want to be tied down on
37:47
stage with an instrument. I like being free.
37:50
I like running around and acting crazy, as you could probably
37:53
tell from the ring stuff. But I have been playing guitar
37:59
for How old am I? Oh my God, like 1617 years now.
38:08
Drum drumming wise, I've been playing for a couple years.
38:13
Safety with bass. One instrument I'd love to learn
38:16
is piano. Can't play piano to save my
38:19
life. Wish I could I.
38:21
Think we got rated on Twitter, on Twitter, on Twitch.
38:25
Appreciate that. I've never been.
38:27
I've never been rated before. I'm on Stream Yard, so I can't
38:30
see when I get rated. But my little brother, Captain
38:32
Butler's here, who's also on Twitch.
38:35
Go follow him. He plays a lot of MLB The Show.
38:38
So, yeah, if we got rated. Thank you so much.
38:40
That's a huge help. I'm trying to, I'm really close
38:42
to that. I think it's like affiliate
38:44
status or whatever it is. So, yeah, thank you.
38:48
Yeah, and aside from that, we back in high school I I had the
38:55
opportunity to open up for a few national international acts like
39:00
motionless and white, Sleeping With Sirens.
39:04
We came as Romans Sepatora. Most of this happened at Eleanor
39:09
Rigby's when that was open and it turned into 3 kings.
39:14
So those are good times. We were on the Allstar Festival,
39:19
I think that was 20 2012, 2013. Don't smoke weed, kids.
39:26
Did you don't? Remember or do or do as as I
39:29
wear my But yeah, lately though it I I haven't been doing too
39:39
much other than just sitting down and writing my my own
39:42
material and learning how to learning how to record it and
39:49
produce it myself. Which is a train wreck of
39:52
knowledge that I need to get because it is, it is so much.
39:57
We you need a car and I need you to bring, I need you to bring to
40:01
this side of the 570 because if you need to get in contact with
40:04
musician people. I have so many talent musician
40:07
friends that I can link you up with and you you can do some
40:11
cool shit, man. What was the name of your band?
40:15
My brother said. Band was life after Misery when
40:20
we when we broke up. It was just a lot of like
40:28
animosity within the band, a lot of different music styles.
40:32
The one do you put a lot of our stuff on lock, but you could
40:34
still find stuff out there if you search hard enough.
40:38
Videos. And there's one recorded
40:40
material. I have no physical copies.
40:42
I don't even have a digital copy, but it does exist.
40:46
There's an EP out there with my voice somewhere.
40:48
I love that. I think.
40:50
I think when you were saying the band names if I'm not mistaken
40:53
my brother was a big we came as Roman fans.
40:55
So I think when you said that is theirs picked up, I heard them
40:58
on like every band you said right now was all like bands.
41:01
I heard on like the Punk Goes albums.
41:04
Yeah, yeah, it was all around that era too, like when they
41:07
were all hot and people were freaking out over that, so, so
41:11
they were coming off of a big high.
41:12
Plus Warped Tour. Warped Tour was real popular at
41:14
the time, so that was probably at their height and it was for
41:18
We Came as Romans. It was their OG singer before he
41:21
tragically passed. Yeah.
41:24
It also wonderful people, every single one of them in the band.
41:27
We're we're great to hang out with.
41:29
I would support them for life. I love that.
41:31
I love that. So have you really tried to
41:33
balance that lifestyle of touring musician as well as a
41:36
touring wrestler? Has that has that been a a big
41:39
thing that you have as I have you have.
41:41
You've experienced, as you said, you're you're still struggling
41:43
to try to find a band, but have you had that band life as well
41:47
as touring, wrestling? Not at the same time.
41:51
At first. That was my goal.
41:54
And I I got away with that just because I I put so much in the
41:58
wrestling. When I started training like I
42:01
before I started, I I truthfully didn't realize how much time and
42:04
sacrifice of other things that I need to do is going to have to
42:07
go into this. But the sacrifice is real.
42:10
And I just stopped all of my my musical projects at the time to
42:15
really to really dive deep in the wrestling.
42:18
But. That is something I want to do.
42:21
I want to start juggling that. I just need to get my footing
42:24
for it, you know, baby steps. Absolutely.
42:28
So we are getting closer. Here we are.
42:31
We're getting hit that 45 minute mark.
42:32
We try to keep it around there or an hour.
42:35
If anyone has any questions in the chat, please get them in now
42:37
so we can get those prepared for everybody.
42:39
I did have one, Finn says. Do you think Randy Orton will
42:43
ever wrestle again? He wants, he wants to know from
42:45
you. Squid, what's your thoughts on
42:47
Randy Orton? I love her, Andy Orton.
42:50
I hope he does, man. I hope he goes back.
42:52
I hope he comes back. I hope his his back holds up and
42:55
he's safe to do what he loves to do.
42:58
So I'm gonna, I'm gonna let you know a little secret, Finn.
43:00
I'm gonna pull back the curtain of wrestling when when a
43:03
wrestler comes out and their families come out and they start
43:06
talking about that, they had career ending, ending injuries
43:11
nine times out of 10. Now, sometimes there's truth to
43:13
it, like when Stone Cold broke his neck, it's like, OK, he
43:15
broke his neck. But nine times out of 10, when
43:17
the reports start coming out that they may be done as a
43:20
wrestler, that means they're close to coming back.
43:24
Adam Cole was going to be done with wrestling.
43:27
He returned. Athena was going to be done with
43:28
wrestling. She returned all like that.
43:30
So I think if you're a Randy Orton fan, I think you're pretty
43:34
close to a return sooner than later.
43:37
Fingers crossed, fingers crossed, we get the Viper back.
43:41
What do you what are some things you have going on now that you
43:43
want people to check out? Or where can people see you
43:45
work, whether it be music or professional wrestling?
43:49
Right now, wrestling wise, absolutely come out to smash
43:53
master wrestling. We need your support now more
43:56
than ever. Just don't deny yourself a good
44:00
time. It's a damn good time.
44:02
It's. They're really good time.
44:03
Yeah. But June?
44:05
17th That's that Classics in Scranton, PA in the West side.
44:08
Any little I miss. I missed the last one because I
44:10
was hosting an open mic night that night.
44:13
So I did miss the last Smash show.
44:16
But maybe I'll bring my speaker and host another open mic after
44:21
the show. Who knows?
44:22
And you could bring your guitar and hop.
44:24
It could be. It could be all the talented
44:25
musician wrestlers who could just sing a couple songs after
44:28
the show. We'll we'll just have a family
44:30
jam. Yeah, I love that.
44:33
Aside from that, another smash show July 2nd that's happening
44:36
in troop. I'm going to be at NTW at the
44:41
Lycoming County Fair. That is a Monday night that's
44:44
going to be July 17th. I have August 4th and 5th coming
44:49
up, but I can't say that one yet.
44:53
But there will be a time and that's exciting.
44:55
I can't wait to say that, but I got to keep shutting down.
45:01
But as As for right now, off the top of my head, that's what I
45:04
have. If I can get down to Excite, I'm
45:07
not booked on Excite, but I love those guys.
45:10
They're all fantastic locker room, fantastic wrestlers, love
45:14
Moose. Check them out too.
45:16
If you're in the area and you want to see some damn good
45:19
shows, they got two of them coming up well.
45:21
High tension, high tension. Wrestling with the shout out
45:24
earlier on saying about how you impress them at at Classics.
45:28
I know they have a show coming up on the 10th.
45:30
It's a prom, it's a it's a wrestling prom.
45:33
So I've never actually been to Prom, so this is be the first
45:36
time for me. But maybe, maybe maybe make a
45:40
Prom appearance? I could I I can get spiffy if I
45:44
wanna. Yeah man.
45:48
So I got one question in the chat from Hunter and it says if
45:50
you could write a letter to your younger younger squid Sterling,
45:54
what would it say? Just just keep working.
46:00
Not because it don't get easier. It it doesn't get easier and
46:05
that's OK, accepted that. But just keep working and try
46:10
not to bitch about it. I that's what I got to work on.
46:13
Not bitching. I got to keep my mouth shut more
46:15
too. That's that's my problem.
46:17
My Italian Irish kicks in and then I get in trouble.
46:20
Who are some people on the scene that Squid Sterling want to lock
46:24
up? Who are some people you want to
46:25
work, team up with, whatever it may be?
46:28
Let's start speaking stuff into existence.
46:30
Who's on the radar for squid? Sterling I.
46:34
Ricky Price is a guy that I want to lock up with.
46:37
We had one tag match, but we never even touched each other.
46:40
I don't even think I'd touch anybody in that match.
46:42
I screwed my partner. Screw it.
46:44
Anyway, it was Joey P Joey Perfect okay.
46:50
Screwed him. Lost our tag belts.
46:52
Then joined the same team that won the tag belt.
46:54
So like it's kind of weird. But yeah, I I'd love to lock
46:59
horns with him. I want to have a one-on-one
47:02
match with TJ Epics. Got to work him in a three-way
47:05
with Sear and Rain and had a blast.
47:09
He hits. How did he not get dizzy work in
47:10
those three or those two? I never said that.
47:14
I never said that, he no, I said you work, you worked a three-way
47:20
with Serin and TJ, right? In that match, I never said I
47:28
didn't. Yeah.
47:23
How did you not get like dude, they're quick, they're
47:25
everywhere. How did you not get?
47:29
Oh, OK. They they ran me for my money.
47:34
That was a good time. But yeah, they're oh guys.
47:38
I want a lot of horns at Mike Skyrose.
47:39
He's the guy I've been watching, Ricky Price says.
47:42
You guys can do that Friday night.
47:46
You're speaking my language, Ricky Price.
47:47
Oh, did we? Just possibly.
47:49
I mean, Trosky's got to approve it, but I don't think he's gonna
47:51
hate it. I I hope you don't hate that
47:55
because I don't hate that. There you go, we hard to hear on
47:58
the ABJ podcast enough. You just gotta.
48:00
I want to come watch it live on on YouTube or live in Hazelton.
48:03
Come see the first ever Ricky Price Squid Sterling match this
48:06
Friday, 1st Friday at the Sanctuary.
48:09
God, I hope we're not false advertising now.
48:12
We'll make it happen. I'll give Trotsky a couple beers
48:16
over here, a couple gay beers. That's our that's our new thing
48:18
is the gay beers we bring, we bring, we bring Bud Lights, and
48:23
it's our gay beers. As you should, yes any any any
48:29
other names out there. Off the top of my head.
48:35
So you put me on the spot. It's my Skyros.
48:39
I want to work with him. Kobe Riddick is a guy that has
48:45
popped back up that I've been wanting to work.
48:47
I actually was thinking Jacoby from the smash shots.
48:50
I'm like because, like a lot of the guys are saying are quick.
48:52
Something like that though, yeah.
48:54
I think. I think you guys can just keep
48:57
feet planted and just beat the dog shit out of each other.
48:59
I think that'd be fun to watch. I didn't be fun to do.
49:02
Yeah. God, I honestly I would like on
49:07
a pure wrestling sense, I I want to work Matt Turner.
49:11
One-on-one local legend guy knows his shit and I I don't
49:17
even care if I get my ass kicked.
49:18
I at least learn something good. I love that.
49:21
That's another good one. I love that a lot.
49:23
Promotions that you have never worked, that you would like to
49:26
jump into. Promotions.
49:28
I would love to get out to wrestle pro.
49:33
I would. I would definitely like to.
49:36
I know high tension was in there.
49:38
I'm wanting to get on the high tension show.
49:39
I'd love to come down and help out.
49:43
And put in my my use word, it could be used, you know, for
49:48
lack of a better word, tongue tie.
49:51
Other than that standalone wrestling, I I would like to get
49:55
involved in there with pro wrestling After dark.
49:57
They have a lot of cool things going on.
50:00
I'd love to get in with Create a Pro.
50:04
There there's a lot battlefields.
50:06
I haven't been down to battlefields yet.
50:07
I want to get. I want to get down to there.
50:09
They put on a great product WX WC4I.
50:14
That was the first I worked them once.
50:16
It was my first ever. Are they still running?
50:19
They are. I just saw the running in
50:21
Sunbury. Oh, wow.
50:23
Coming up, I I don't remember to date right offhand, but I I did
50:27
just see that they're back, so that's somewhere where I'd like
50:30
to get involved with. God, yeah, you got me on.
50:36
You got me on the spot, brother. I love it.
50:38
No, these are all great answers. I love that a lot.
50:41
Yeah, man. So where can people find you?
50:43
On social media? Our comes, our support.
50:45
You buy merchandise, whatever it may be.
50:48
Well, everything. Like all my Facebook, Instagram,
50:51
Twitter, TikTok, YouTube. Excuse me, it's all squid
50:55
sterling. Some of them you need the under
50:58
score. I don't, I don't remember which
51:00
ones need the underscores, which ones don't, but squid sterling
51:03
on everything and pro wrestling teas.
51:06
I got a design up on there. You can get some merch.
51:08
Other than that I'm going to be posting some back merch that I
51:11
have online soon. I want to clear some of that
51:15
out, make room for some more stuff.
51:16
So keep an eye out for that. Maybe some new logos coming.
51:20
Hint, hint people in the chat. You may be getting a DM, aka.
51:25
Wink, wink, wink, hint, hint. Hunter Dylan.
51:27
Just saying Logos by Hunter on Instagram and Twitter.
51:33
Yeah. Oh, he said creator pro guys
51:35
come down to the sanctuary every once in a while.
51:36
There you go. Creator Pros are the place to
51:38
be. I actually fancy booked my last
51:41
guest that was on with with Leo Sparrow.
51:43
I said Leo Sparrow and Ricky Price would be a fun one to
51:45
watch, but I think Leo you and Leo Sparrow would be another
51:48
good one there too. I I.
51:49
Love the work, Leo. I got a pleasure to meet him
51:51
once. I was at a XW.
51:53
That's a place where I would love to, you know, to show him
51:57
what I can offer, yeah. Hopefully, maybe against Leo.
52:00
Kai. Kai also a good logo designer.
52:02
Maybe that rocket power one. Maybe something Kai would be
52:04
like be into. So maybe that we can look at
52:06
that. He liked he he's the he did the
52:08
Bob's Burgers and The Simpsons one.
52:10
I couldn't call it Simpsons, so it's called the ABJ Simp logo.
52:17
Got to be careful how you name stuff.
52:18
You get flagged, but any other questions in the chat, I don't
52:21
think anything else came in. So anything that we didn't talk
52:25
about, anything you want to plug, anything you want people
52:27
to know about before we get out of here?
52:31
For there's one thing that I that I wanted to say earlier.
52:35
It slipped my head. It's a little story that I had
52:40
the pleasure of being around so right before my first match.
52:46
I had a great opportunity to sit down with Bob Backlund and I.
52:53
Me and him, we just chatted for hours, like probably 3 or 4
52:57
hours. We just sat there and talked and
52:59
he gave me all this advice. And for anybody watching,
53:04
whether you're a fan, whether you're you're worker, whomever,
53:08
he gave me advice going into a match that I took and tried to
53:13
translate it. Into everyday life and he said
53:18
that you have a match no matter how many people are in there.
53:22
But if one guy goes in there and his sole his sole purpose is to
53:32
make the other guy look like $1,000,000, beat the shit out of
53:34
him all you want, and make him look like 1,000,000 bucks.
53:36
If both people go in there with that exact same attitude you're
53:41
going to, you can't have a bad match.
53:44
And I took that to heart. And I also put that into real
53:48
life, too. Like if you put each other over,
53:51
like if everybody had that attitude, man, nobody would ever
53:54
lose. Nobody would ever lose.
53:55
I totally agree and like I said, we are.
53:58
We are very fortunate to be in an area in the 570 when it comes
54:02
to local anything, local business, local artists, local
54:06
creators, local wrestlers, local musicians.
54:09
We're fucking talented in these in these coal mountains, man.
54:12
There's a lot of really talented people and a lot of them are,
54:17
you know what I mean? And and and we should be
54:19
supporting each other and putting each other over because
54:21
there's a lot of potential in this area.
54:23
But man, I I don't think there's a better way to end it.
54:25
Squid thank you so much for for doing this and coming and
54:28
hanging out in the podcast. Like I said dude you're one of
54:31
my favorite people on the scene. Your attitude the way you
54:33
conduct yourself you're you're you're a class act dude and more
54:36
people should be booking Squid Sterling and buying your tshirts
54:39
and following you on social media.
54:40
So let's make that happen with the A ABJ Nation.
54:43
I don't know I don't have a name for my people.
54:45
The BJ Ers. I think someone said the ABJ Ers
54:47
I think someone said but we'll figure it out.
54:51
We'll figure it out. The yeah, the ABJ Ers in the
54:53
chat, but dude. I appreciate you man.
54:57
Thank you for having me on here and just aside.
55:00
Even not for me. Thank you for continuing to do
55:02
this. And even if you're you're
55:05
suffering like like in your personal life, you still keep
55:08
this going to give us a plan. It's hard.
55:12
I'm trying. And we love you and we
55:15
appreciate you for that. Don't you ever forget that when
55:18
you get down? Yeah, I I do.
55:20
And that's why, honestly, that's what keeps me going, man, is
55:22
this. I want, I want to have that
55:25
voice for the people who may have a hard time getting their
55:27
voice out there. So that that's what motivates me
55:29
to keep this grinding and keep this moving is so more people
55:32
can hear about people like you and the rest of the amazing
55:34
guests I've had on this podcast. And yeah, that's that's what
55:38
that's the motivating factor for me.
55:40
Before we get out of here, though, Speaking of amazing
55:42
people, to get your name out there, this Thursday will be
55:44
live again. This will be the first week, the
55:46
first and only week of the month where we're gonna have two in
55:48
one week. Going forward, it's just going
55:51
to be one a week. So for the month of June we're
55:52
going to do one a week, just because I have a lot of moving
55:56
and setting up and and hoping that my new locations Internet
56:00
is good and testing. But so this Thursday we will
56:04
have on PJ Savage on the podcast if if you don't know you're
56:09
going to find out PJ Savage is is an animal.
56:12
He's you know, I mean he and he's a great great great human.
56:15
I don't have the graphics up for the rest of them but I'll give
56:17
you a little run down here. Tuesday of the 6th, the first
56:22
ever out of character interview with Prince Ahmed will be
56:25
happening. He's only doing 2 podcasts.
56:27
Mine and one other one. So get it while you can Monday
56:30
the 12th jocko, another member of the Billy Walker clan from
56:34
the Sanctuary or the Takeover where all the amazing places
56:37
you've seen him, to the Tuesday the 20th.
56:42
An alien will be touching down. Rocket is going to be on the
56:45
podcast who is absolutely stunning and to watch on the
56:48
wrestling scene. And then a guy that we talked
56:50
about on this episode will be on the 26th of June on a Monday, 8C
56:56
Fucking Log will be on the podcast and I might be doing a
57:00
shot of something with him before we start.
57:01
To get our nerves down, I'm safe doing it virtually.
57:06
I can't get spit on, you know what I mean?
57:09
But but like I said, I have a lot more coming up July.
57:12
I'll probably jump back on it again hard and get some more
57:14
stuff. But I am also looking to start
57:17
filming more interviews in person.
57:19
I've been testing out the Gopros.
57:20
It's been working really well. So possibly Fridays on
57:24
Sanctuaries. If I can get somebody pull them
57:26
aside for a couple minutes and record something, I will.
57:28
Maybe at Smash maybe at High Tension.
57:31
Maybe at I WA all those shows coming up on these Saturdays
57:34
that will be at. So make sure you're going to
57:35
support all those shows if you want to come see a BJI will I
57:38
will be at the show on Friday Sanctuary, the 10th The High
57:42
Tension, the 17th at Smash the 24th at I WA New Jersey and
57:46
Nutley and then on the 18th for Sanctuary so that there's a
57:49
shows I'll be at for the month of June.
57:51
I will remind you guys as we keep going but thank you guys so
57:54
much for support. We'll we'll get out of here Now
57:56
here's some music by the Converse Kid.
57:58
Billy Trey. We'll see you next time.