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5 Questions With ABJ Tom LaRosa · ABJ

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  This. Is a Ben Frank?
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  Connection presentation. We are back.
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  Five questions with a BJ here once again at Attic Brewing
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  Company. Labor of Love, WrestleMania
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  Weekend, Wrestle John and I am here today with.
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  Tom Larosa of the Citywide St. Gang 1/2 of the notorious
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  Citywide St. Gang, I've been watching thank
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  you for a while you know you've been bouncing around I've been
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  keeping an eye on you. I, I really like what you're
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  doing, so I'm very excited to sit down here with you today
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  I'm. Glad somebody does, yeah.
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  Yeah, so let's let's get into this.
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  What is your current goal in life right now?
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  Just to, I mean, I want to get paid obviously, so getting this
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  as a great source of income and just living, I mean living the
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  dream job, you know, I get to be a pro wrestler.
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  Absolutely. I think like high end goal kind
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  of went towards Japan, but that's as far as like high goals
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  are right now. I'm just riding the moment.
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  Absolutely. Well, what are you currently
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  doing to achieve that goal? Getting really beat up, getting
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  really beat up and going to as many shows as I possibly can.
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  You know, I got like work in WrestleMania weekend, FDR with
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  queer punk outlaws. So it's going to be great.
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  And working with two cracked ribs, an arm that's colored
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  purple, so it's great. It's awesome for rock.
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  What is currently holding you back are a distraction.
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  Besides those ribs, An arm. Oh man, I'll give a double
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  answer of obviously getting started.
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  You don't get paid a lot, so it's hard to or and.
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  All sometimes. Make time to to get into the
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  field and also just an an oversaturation of the market.
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  Yeah, we'll say. Absolutely and.
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  The rest of those? I think after 50 episodes I'd
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  have these all memorized, right? What a what a pro?
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  Who or what motivates or inspires you?
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  Oh man, well, First off, shout out to my tag partner Martin
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  Hughes. Keeps me going and I really want
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  to kill somebody sometimes and I get really pissed off.
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  But but just the environment that I try to keep positive
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  people around me, people like Hot Sauce, Tracy Williams,
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  people like Drew Goulet, people like Wheeler Yuta, the other
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  students that come in and catch point, some of the people I meet
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  along the way. But that home environment really
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  keeps me going, keeps me wanting to learn more and do better.
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  Oh, Nate, Nate from the Rep. Obviously I got to give a shout
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  out too. So.
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  What are you grateful for and are you currently happy?
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  Oh man, that's all I finished. I'm always kind of a miserable
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  prick, but I'm grateful that I'm in it, you know?
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  I'm riding the wave. I'm, I'm having a good time, you
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  know, I'm, I'm grateful that I can let my frustrations out on
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  somebody with a few good chops and I'm happy.
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  I'm, I'm more Zen. I was a lot more punk rock and
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  angry when I was 21 and now at my humble 28, a lot more, yeah.
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  Where can people find to support you?
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  I'm on Instagram, search Tom Larosa.
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  I'll pop up somewhere. I think it's thrilled Larosa
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  right now. Thanks, Drew, for that nickname.
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  That's about it. I don't really do social media,
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  so I kind of just hide out for the most part.
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  But if you're coming to FDR, come to FDR on this weekend.
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  You know, it was April 6th, April 6th, We got to go out
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  there. This will airway after.
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  That it doesn't matter. Go.
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  Watch it if you can find it on IWTV or something.
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  Yeah, well, thank you so much. We'll see you guys on the next
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  episode. We're out of here.
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  OK, thanks for watching this presentation.
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  All right, we're back at that. Bonus question.
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  Now, being newer to this game, you've been around a very short
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  time, but done all but done some pretty cool things.
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  If you were to give advice to someone who's also new or
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  getting into this, what makes you stand out?
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  What are things that help you get more bookings and and and
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  and move forward in this business?
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  Well, just first, first and foremost, pleased to be able to
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  take a hit. You know, like, I don't know how
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  many people I come across that like really just want to bitch
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  out on taking a hit. If you're a pro wrestler, get
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  hit, you know, it just comes with the business.
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  But just in it like to me, the thing that helps me the most is
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  just interacting with the crowd. Interact with them.
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  I believe if someone, if you're a bad guy, piss people off, I
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  want people to throw trash at me.
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  Get them involved. You know, there's an old lady in
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  the crowd. Do everything you can to piss
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  her off. You know, just fucking get
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  really mad, you know, get them fumed, get them coming back.
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  Because that's, that's what's fun for me is getting them
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  involved. Because otherwise, what are we?
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  What are we doing? Yeah, absolutely.
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  All right, we'll catch you on the next one.
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  WrestleMania weekend. It's going to be a lot more
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  coming hang out as we got, we got more, more coming your way.
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  Awesome job. Awesome job.