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Interview: WWE Star Zaria · The Smallzy Show

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, WWE is coming back to Australia this December. Wrestlepalooza
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: in Perth. Smackdown and Raw. LiveNation.com.au for tickets. If you
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: love watching people just belt the crap out of each other.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: This....
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: Here's your winner and still the NXT Women's North.
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  Speaker 1: American Champion, Zaria.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Zaria.
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  Speaker 1: She's from Adelaide, Aussie girl making it big, the reigning
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  Speaker 1: women's world champ, and she's on the show right now.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure it feels comfortable to hear a familiar accent.
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  Speaker 3: It does. It's very comforting.
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  Speaker 1: I have to paint a picture here. Damn, you were jacked.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Those delts. I am. Fuck me. Those arms. Holy shit.
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  Speaker 1: You put me to shame.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you know.
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  Speaker 1: You are just a vision. Let me tell you. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Now, I mean, we'll get the news out
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  Speaker 1: of the way. They're bringing WWE back to Perth. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: How exciting is that?
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  Speaker 1: This is huge.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: For the next three years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Is this exciting? Like as someone who grew up in
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  Speaker 1: Australia to then like come here, wrestle in the WWE
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  Speaker 1: and but then now be able to take it home
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  Speaker 1: and work at home?
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  Speaker 3: I am dying to come back home and wrestle in
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  Speaker 3: Australia again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like I can't tell you almost every day I think
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: about wrestling in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: So the fact that we're coming back to Australia, we're
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  Speaker 2: coming back to Perth, it's now going to be for
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  Speaker 2: the next three years, thanks to WWE partnering with Tourism
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  Speaker 2: Western Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: For the next three years, I get a chance to
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: wrestle back in my home country.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: Now, talk me through the training. Talk me through, like,
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: how you stay so fit. Well. Like, are you in
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: the gym every day? Oof.
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  Speaker 3: I give myself maybe one to two rest days. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Every day.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry to interrupt. How many calories a day are you doing?
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: Because you like, again, I don't need to be like,
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  Speaker 1: your arms are like incredible and you are just so solid.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you walking down the hallway and I was
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: like that, that tapering back V there. I'm like, damn. Um, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. I don't even know how many calories.
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  Speaker 1: You just eat constantly?
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  Speaker 3: Probably too much.
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  Speaker 1: All the time. All the time. All the time.
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  Speaker 2: And I also eat a lot of things that I
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: probably shouldn't eat either. So that might help to contribute
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: to the size.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what sort of physical toll wrestling takes on
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  Speaker 1: your body.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I can't remember the last time a body part
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: didn't hurt. Really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My neck hurts, my back hurts, you know, so there's,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot and it can be really tiring, especially
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  Speaker 2: when like, You know, you've got a training for two
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  Speaker 2: hours straight.
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  Speaker 3: You're running around, rolling around, all that.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff, and wrestling at least once a week, at least
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  Speaker 2: once a week, sometimes twice. Sometimes you wrestle three days
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  Speaker 2: in a row, five days in a row. So it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot, but, you know, your body sort of builds
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  Speaker 2: up the cows, and that's why we've got to be big.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to be big. We've got to be strong
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  Speaker 3: because if you're not, your body can't take it.
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  Speaker 1: For people who are only discovering your character in the WWE,
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  Speaker 1: what are your famous signature moves? Do you trash talk people?
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  Speaker 1: What will people get to see you do in the flesh?
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  Speaker 3: A lot of throwing people around. Okay, great.
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  Speaker 1: How many tables have we broken on a reg?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, okay. For me recently, not that many.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, maybe a couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Ago I was breaking a lot more tables.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm looking forward to doing that more in the future.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, my finishing move is an F5.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to try that on me now or
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  Speaker 1: would we not walk out of here?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you wouldn't be able to get back up. You
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be able to get back up and I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to do that to you.
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  Speaker 1: No, don't hurt me. Please don't kill me. I need
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  Speaker 1: to go home. So that's the finishing move? Mm-hmm. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Do you shout at people? Do you yell at people?
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  Speaker 1: Do you, like, say offensive things?
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm yelling and I'm grunting. I keep the
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  Speaker 2: offensive things to my opponent, maybe not to the people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think most of my talking is through
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  Speaker 3: my throwing around.
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  Speaker 1: No, I like that. Definitely, yeah. I like that. You've
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  Speaker 1: got family in Australia still, right? Mm-hmm, yeah. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to come out and see you wrestle? Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, if, if I get to make it, then they're
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  Speaker 3: just straight away.
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  Speaker 1: Love it. When you said you were, did you want
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  Speaker 1: to do it since you were a kid?
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  Speaker 2: So I have an older brother. He was the one
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  Speaker 2: that always wanted to do it. We would, we would
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  Speaker 2: wrestle each other when we were siblings. Um, I'd be
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  Speaker 2: the little wrestling dummy.
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  Speaker 1: Um, he'd throw you around.
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  Speaker 2: He'd throw me around. Uh, and then, so he got
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  Speaker 2: into wrestling. So that got me into wrestling, like back
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  Speaker 2: into wrestling and, uh, And then we were a tag team.
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  Speaker 3: We threw each other around. And now, you know, now
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  Speaker 3: I'm throwing other people around in the WWE.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. For people who are listening, you have
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: a belt on your shoulder here. Congratulations. Should I say?
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  Speaker 1: When did you win this?
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  Speaker 2: This is the North American Championship.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I won this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 3: When did I win this? I think maybe two months ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And so I've been.
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  Speaker 1: You just carry that around just regularly, right? Everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to let everybody know who I am.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: You go get coffee.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just to have that on your shoulder.
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  Speaker 3: For free. I get coffee for free for this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Because you have that on your shoulder.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I would have gotten it
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  Speaker 3: for free if I didn't have it, but, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it always helps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you lock that away at night?
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  Speaker 3: I sleep with it.
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  Speaker 1: You sleep with it? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to keep it close to me, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What's the fan interactions like? Do they come up to
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  Speaker 1: you in the street?
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  Speaker 3: The bold ones do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The bold ones do, but... Most of the time, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people are very scared.
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  Speaker 1: Are they scared of you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, you see this walking down the street? Are
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  Speaker 3: you going to approach it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but do you look like this normally? I just
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: don't know. Obviously, I've seen you like this and I've
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  Speaker 1: only met you for the first time and you look
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  Speaker 1: like how I've seen you.
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  Speaker 3: So, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes maybe a McDonald's employee or a Chick-fil-A employ me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Employ me?
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  Speaker 1: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Or the … The gas station at Wawa might see
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  Speaker 3: me like this from time to time after a show.
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  Speaker 3: But on the regular basis, I.
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  Speaker 1: Do it a little bit. Are you incognito? Can you, like,
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  Speaker 1: without all of this?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 1: You're unrecognisable?
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  Speaker 3: To some people, the red hair does give it away.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But to other people... they won't recognize me without the makeup,
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  Speaker 3: which is very nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can just do your normal things.
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  Speaker 3: Normal people things.
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  Speaker 1: Normal people things. And be like shopping at the supermarket
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  Speaker 1: and just putting anything in your trolley and then it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 2: I could be at Publix or if I'm back at home,
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  Speaker 2: I could be at Woolworths and just buying some chicken.
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  Speaker 1: No one will ever know. Barbecue chicken in a bag.
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  Speaker 3: No one will ever know who they're standing next to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. What's your worst injury that you've had? Because I
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  Speaker 1: talked about your fitness and you said you wake up
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  Speaker 1: literally every day sore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, I've never had a major injury. Knock on
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  Speaker 3: wood that I, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where the wood. There's no, you know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So thankfully I haven't had like a very long
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  Speaker 2: lasting injury. It's just been like little things that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you might sprain your ankle.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Or bruises. tear some little things in, like, your shoulders
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  Speaker 3: or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, thankfully I've never had any injuries and hopefully
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  Speaker 2: I won't for a very long time. But it's all
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  Speaker 2: the little things where it's just, you know, falling around
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  Speaker 2: on your neck a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It takes a toll, but, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of muscle soreness too.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously you train how to handle– those moves that
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: are taken on you. But every time you're out there
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  Speaker 1: doing it, there is a slight chance if I don't
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  Speaker 1: land this correctly or if I don't take that hit
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  Speaker 1: the right way, this could be bad.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely.
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Like safety is your personal safety. You have to
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  Speaker 1: be so responsible for it, right?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that's also like it comes into recovery as well.
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  Speaker 2: Like you've got to spend– when you're not in the gym,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to be spending a lot of time recovering.
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: Are we ice bathing? What are we doing?
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: Look– I've done a nice bath once in my life
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  Speaker 3: and never again.
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Not unless I absolutely have to. No, I use the
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  Speaker 2: sauna a lot. I love the sauna.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: The sauna? Okay.
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. WWE also has a great medical and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: rehab team.
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  Speaker 3: So there's, yeah, there's a lot of like the facility
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  Speaker 3: there is great. So a lot of recovery.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: Last question. Is there like a group chat? Like when
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: you hate each other in the ring... are you like
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  Speaker 1: group chatting and kicking outside of it? Or are we like,
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: do we like hate each other nonstop?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, wrestlers aren't very, uh, very, very secretive. So there
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: is no group chat. If, if we're, we're probably surrounding you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We're surrounding you talking, talking shit right to your face.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. Um, you're getting back
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  Speaker 1: in Perth in December.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, being three shows.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Raw, Smackdown and Wrestle Palooza.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: December 11th to 14th.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: And are you doing every one of those or does
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: it all come down to?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I don't know yet, but I'm keeping my fingers
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: crossed that I get to come back to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: We can't wait to have it there.
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.