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INTERVIEW: Becky Lynch Talks New Memoir, Book Tour, Motherhood, Vince McMahon, Brawl With Rhea Ripley + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that answer up in the morning Breakfast Club Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is the j n v Ess hilarious charlamage the guy.
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  Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. You got a special guest
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  Speaker 2: in the beauty Yes, indeed, Becky Lynch, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Becky, I'm not gonna lie. For some reason, I thought
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  Speaker 2: you were gonna be a lot bigger TV look like
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  Speaker 2: you're super muscular, Like I thought you could lift up
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  Speaker 2: every man in the room and throw us out the roof.
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  Speaker 3: I've been I've been bulking. Been boking comes in small packages,
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  Speaker 3: but I have I have been broken. Nobody has noticed.
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  Speaker 3: So I just keep telling everybody that I'm balking, hoping
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  Speaker 3: that somebody's gonna say, what the hell are you?
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  Speaker 1: So you've been big backing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, fulcing season. You know we're coming up to WrestleMania.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to get them.
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  Speaker 4: We don't work out in here, right, beckyans that's what
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  Speaker 4: you can tell we don't work out by asking you
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  Speaker 4: that question, right.
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  Speaker 2: I said boking because she doesn't look like she's boking,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't look like she's getting big, said what is boking?
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  Speaker 2: Because she says she's been boking? And I don't see
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  Speaker 2: any muscles, so I'm asking, what what is boke?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, cover it off underneath this, then biceps
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  Speaker 3: to be bulging. Where you're from from Ireland?
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  Speaker 1: From an Okay, I hate it. No, no, no, I
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  Speaker 1: hear it, I hear it. No, I never been.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lovely spot. You gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I want to know what a name, Becky Lynch
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  Speaker 1: because I need your real name. How you feel about that?
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  Speaker 3: So so so when you come into w W, they
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  Speaker 3: always ask you for uh for a different name, right
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  Speaker 3: so they can copyright and all those things. And so
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  Speaker 3: when I was when I was signed, like I was off,
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  Speaker 3: Like I came in w W, and I had no
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  Speaker 3: business being there. Like everybody. Look, they were giant, they
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  Speaker 3: were muscular, they look like superstars, and I look like
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  Speaker 3: just little average for Becca Quinn and uh and so
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  Speaker 3: and and I. You know, I loved wrestling my whole life,
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  Speaker 3: and I'd worked and my journey was that like I
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  Speaker 3: had By the time I was nineteen, I was main
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  Speaker 3: eventing shows in Japan and around America and around Canada,
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  Speaker 3: and I'd given it up and I actually just came
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  Speaker 3: back to WWE through chance. I was working as a
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  Speaker 3: stunt woman, but I actually wasn't a stunt woman. I
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  Speaker 3: kind of blagged my way on set because I was
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  Speaker 3: an actor and I was just taking an opportunity. And
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  Speaker 3: then I went back to a wrestling school. The person
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  Speaker 3: that was teaching the wrestling class was like, you should
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  Speaker 3: go for a trial because I think he'd get in WW.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how I ended up in WW. It's a
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  Speaker 3: very long story to anyway to get to the point
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  Speaker 3: of They asked us for a list of names, and
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  Speaker 3: so I gave them a long list of names, to
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  Speaker 3: which they came back and said, no, none of these lists,
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  Speaker 3: none of these on the list. And then they, oh, gosh,
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  Speaker 3: I remember there was one there was like I tried
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  Speaker 3: to use part of my name. There was like Becky something,
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  Speaker 3: Becky something, Beck's something, Quinn Quinn something, Quinn Colin I
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  Speaker 3: think was one of them, and straight through Lynch in it.
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  Speaker 3: And and so they came back with and then I
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  Speaker 3: threw another list, and then they came back and that
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  Speaker 3: one of them was like Madeline, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't sound very tough. And then and then I
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  Speaker 3: don't ever remember putting Lynch on the thing, but one
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  Speaker 3: of them was Becky Lynch, and I was like, okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: I like I like having Becky because my name is Rebecca.
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  Speaker 3: And then like you know, one day I won't be
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  Speaker 3: doing this and I'll have I'll have my name still
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  Speaker 3: kind of and Lynch. I was like, well, I don't
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  Speaker 3: like that, but yeah, but but I didn't I didn't
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  Speaker 3: feel like I could say anything like that. I could
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  Speaker 3: that I had the authority to say, can I have
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  Speaker 3: can I go back for morenings?
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  Speaker 1: Sound like I hang people?
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  Speaker 3: But you know it. And it's also like a common
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  Speaker 3: Irish name, so it was like maybe you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and so it yeah, like it's a it's
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  Speaker 3: a common Irish name. So I was like, okay, that
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  Speaker 3: kind of ties in with with the irish ness. But
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  Speaker 3: so because of that, I've always relied on a great moniker.
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  Speaker 3: So hence like there's the Man, there's big Time Becks,
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  Speaker 3: There's the Last Kicker, and and and uh there was Becky.
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  Speaker 3: Two belts coming up. There is going to be best
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  Speaker 3: seller Becks.
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  Speaker 2: Song song Becky No wait, have I heard it?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's the older song called Becky Give me that Becky?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yes, I've definitely heard that. Actually, there was
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  Speaker 3: a guy called Chris Hero and like once they said
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  Speaker 3: that this was my name, then he yeah, He's like
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  Speaker 3: you know that song? And I was like, no, what's
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  Speaker 3: it about? And then he told me what it was about?
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, well you know what it's about. No,
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  Speaker 3: I know what it's about, saying do you know what
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  Speaker 3: it's about? You know what it's you know, get getting down?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's about money going down but different here to
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  Speaker 4: promote her new book, Becky Lynch, is an autobiography, Becky
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  Speaker 4: Lynch the Man not your average average girl.
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  Speaker 2: Well made you decide to write a memoir? Now?
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  Speaker 3: So I always wanted to write a book. My dad
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  Speaker 3: was always on me for uh for for writing everything down.
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  Speaker 3: And when I became a big wrestling fan, my my
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  Speaker 3: my dude was Mick Foley, you remember me, and and
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  Speaker 3: he's the person who really got me into wrestling. So
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  Speaker 3: he had written a book. He had written it himself
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  Speaker 3: and have you ever read it? Was such a but
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  Speaker 3: I saw the documentary, such a great such a great
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  Speaker 3: documentary too. I used to watch it on repeat when
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  Speaker 3: I was and so and so it was always kind
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  Speaker 3: of in the front of my head. That one day
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to write a document or write a biography
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  Speaker 3: and and so then then the deal fell on my
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  Speaker 3: lap and I got to work. And here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Why the title the Man not your average girl.
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  Speaker 3: It's on the man. And so around twenty eighteen, I
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  Speaker 3: adopted the moniker. Like I said, I always like to
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  Speaker 3: have a moniker. I adopted the moniker the man because
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  Speaker 3: in our business, in most businesses, right, the top dog,
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  Speaker 3: the person who was of outstanding ability, has historically been
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  Speaker 3: referred to as the man. And so this was me
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  Speaker 3: claim and that I am the man now.
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  Speaker 1: She brings all today the man everything I know.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm breaking the rules.
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  Speaker 2: He got into a huge head injury that that kept
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  Speaker 2: you away from wrestling for a while. So what made
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  Speaker 2: you want to go back after all? At the trials
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  Speaker 2: and tribulations, distress and all that.
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  Speaker 3: So, like I said, so I started when I was
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  Speaker 3: fifteen years old. And I started because you know, it
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  Speaker 3: was just up to no good. I was drinking, I
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  Speaker 3: was smoking, I was you know, not focused. I was
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  Speaker 3: kind of all over the place. And I found out
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  Speaker 3: they were opening the wrestling school in Ireland. And I
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  Speaker 3: loved watching wrestling, but I never even thought of it.
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  Speaker 3: Becoming a wrestler like that seemed like a far away dream.
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  Speaker 3: And so I went down to this this school and
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  Speaker 3: they didn't even have wrestling ring. They had six blue
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  Speaker 3: padded mats on the ground, and I fell in love.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, this is the best thing I've
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  Speaker 3: ever done. I was terrible, and I was terrible. I
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  Speaker 3: was so bad. I didn't I didn't know what I
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  Speaker 3: was doing. I wasn't athletic, I had failed Pete.
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  Speaker 1: But but there my villa gym, I don't know, and
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  Speaker 1: I was there. Yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 3: There, I was present whatever. It was just bad. But
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  Speaker 3: for the first time my life, wanted to be good
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  Speaker 3: at something, and so so wrestling had a four me
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  Speaker 3: one like a dream but also a focus. And then
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  Speaker 3: I left it. And and when I left it, I
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  Speaker 3: kept trying to find things that I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 3: Like I became a personal trainer, and I was not
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  Speaker 3: really into that. And then my mom was a flight attendant,
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  Speaker 3: and so she asked if I wanted to be a
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  Speaker 3: flightded and so then I became flooded and into that,
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  Speaker 3: and then uh, you know, and then I would do
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  Speaker 3: different things like around a platy studio, and I did
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  Speaker 3: a teaching English as a foreign language course and like
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  Speaker 3: just all of these random things that I thought, maybe
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  Speaker 3: maybe this will be my passion, you know. And then
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  Speaker 3: I started acting an acting course and I love that.
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  Speaker 3: And then I went to act in college and I
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  Speaker 3: like that, and then and then from that, then I
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  Speaker 3: ended up doing the stunt work, which then led me
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  Speaker 3: back to w w But in that entire time frame,
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  Speaker 3: like I kept feeling like there was something that I
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  Speaker 3: was meant to do in wrestling, that I had this
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  Speaker 3: passion and this, uh, just a spark for it. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know what that spark was, because I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't I wasn't necessarily the greatest, but I maybe thought
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  Speaker 3: about it differently, and I just had a love for it.
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  Speaker 3: And I felt tremendous guilt for leaving it and and
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  Speaker 3: for for feeling like it had given me so much
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  Speaker 3: and I had left it, and uh, and then when
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  Speaker 3: I got the opportunity, it was like, oh, yes, this
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  Speaker 3: is this is what I'm meant to do.
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  Speaker 4: And a woman who introduced you to wrestling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my brother, yeah, yeah, yeah, he was so I
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  Speaker 3: remember I always remember being in the house, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I remember like watching it when we were kids, but
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  Speaker 3: then then falling out of it. And then when the
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  Speaker 3: Attitude era happened and Mick and Stunkle and the Rock
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  Speaker 3: and everybody was it was so great and and but
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  Speaker 3: still I was stuck in that oh wrestlings, fake kind
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  Speaker 3: of thing, like I was the worst and uh. And
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  Speaker 3: then when I would see Mick Foley on TV, I
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  Speaker 3: was like, Oh, this guy's really captivating. So then I
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  Speaker 3: would come back and would watch and then I saw
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  Speaker 3: Leda for the first time. She was so cool and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then I was sucked the Rock And then.
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  Speaker 2: Have the Rock been good for business coming back?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been great. It's been great. Anytime the Rocks
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  Speaker 3: involved in anything, I love to see that. Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's been awesome. And he's he's always been so so
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  Speaker 3: great to me and encouraging my career. And to have
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  Speaker 3: him back and watch him do his thing, it's been amazing.
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  Speaker 2: How often do you practice God practice?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're on the road fifty two weeks a year,
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  Speaker 3: so we're in the ring. We're doing live events, so
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  Speaker 3: we might have TV. We have two TV shows that
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  Speaker 3: we got wrong. We got smacking, but in the introim
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  Speaker 3: we have live events, shows that only happened for the house,
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  Speaker 3: like like a live theater if you will, And they
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  Speaker 3: happen on Saturday and Sunday. So I'm on the road
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  Speaker 3: every week doing those live events. And that's more practice
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  Speaker 3: than say practice you so work out every day and
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  Speaker 3: then and then when we go, you learn more from
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  Speaker 3: being in front of a crowd than you ever would
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  Speaker 3: wrestling around in the gym.
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  Speaker 2: And have you ever been starstruck? Like you're a matchine
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  Speaker 2: and you're wrestling somebody that might be were a fan of,
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  Speaker 2: and you ever get stuck sometimes like wow, I'm here.
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  Speaker 3: No I don't think so, No, No, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that's ever happened. No. No, well, actually you know, because
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  Speaker 3: I've done promos with with Rock and John Cena and
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  Speaker 3: and that's been very cool, like like there's been a
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  Speaker 3: moment of oh my gosh, what am I doing? You know?
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  Speaker 1: But never why you're in the fight.
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  Speaker 3: Though, No, no, no, no no, because because then you
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  Speaker 3: have to just carry on with business and then you've
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  Speaker 3: got to be the man.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have a baby? I do, I do?
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  Speaker 1: How How is that? How is motherhood and being a
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  Speaker 1: pro wrestler? How's that?
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  Speaker 3: It's the best. It's it's a balancing act. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: a balancing act. Ah and and one that I don't
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  Speaker 3: I don't think ever really figure out. You know. You
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  Speaker 3: just do your best and you get on with it.
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  Speaker 3: But she's incredible, and she comes everywhere with us. She's three.
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  Speaker 3: She has tostling too, yeah yeah, yeah, So so it's
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  Speaker 3: cool being able to do that, bring her everywhere with us.
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  Speaker 3: And we're lucky. We're in a good position. We have
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  Speaker 3: a bus and our bus driver is amazing. And then
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  Speaker 3: his wife is our nanny, so she looks after our
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  Speaker 3: baby well while we're working and while we're in the
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  Speaker 3: and it's like she has an extra set of auntie
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  Speaker 3: and uncle, you know. And so it's it's a big
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  Speaker 3: family adventure. And then we're always you know, we're in
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  Speaker 3: the ring every night, but during the day we're looking
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  Speaker 3: for zoos and for kids museums.
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  Speaker 2: Like you're losing and then all of a sudden, your
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  Speaker 2: daughter pops out of no way and helps mommy. She's
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  Speaker 2: got to do that one I see the other day
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  Speaker 2: it was real wrestling and little sister came in and
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  Speaker 2: helps her brother. But you got to do that one time,
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  Speaker 2: like when you're losing it and here comes the three
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  Speaker 2: year old with a toy. It's the rock over the
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  Speaker 2: head and you win or whatever. Maybe I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: A great TV.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Rock rock bottom of the baby.
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  Speaker 4: Then, Jesus, when you rock bottoms a little three year old.
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  Speaker 3: They need to really be a hell yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Wrestling in the house, like when y'all oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ok, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's not one of those things that's off limits. We
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  Speaker 3: like it. Actually, I think it helps us.
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  Speaker 1: It was fun having a little wrestled baby because.
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  Speaker 3: Then you can understand. And also, you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: most people would think, oh you have to wrestler parents,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna put the fuck that She she the roost.
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  Speaker 3: She is the boss. She is the boss. Yeah, she runs.
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  Speaker 4: What happens when the baby gets a little older, though,
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  Speaker 4: because then once once she starts starts school will be
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  Speaker 4: a little more complicated.
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  Speaker 3: Right, These are conversations we need to have help keep
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  Speaker 3: so much then, yeah, these are the things that we
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  Speaker 3: keep putting off mm hmm until we have to actually
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: deal with them. Right now, we don't have to deal
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  Speaker 3: with them. Maybe next year we have to deal with them.
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  Speaker 3: We should probably start thinking about them. But it's it's
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: sometimes a little overwhelming. So we're like, oh, well, let's.
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  Speaker 1: Just never be bullied.
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  Speaker 5: Well, gosh, because my mom's the man, she'll be the boy.
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  Speaker 1: Crushed down on somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh. But isn't that the thing now, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: you you'd hope that, But aren't we kind of especially
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: in this world of social media, aren't we all kind
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  Speaker 3: of getting bullied all, you know? And it's a weird thing.
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  Speaker 3: Especially she's quasi in the public eye, like we tried
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  Speaker 3: to protect her and keep her out a little bit,
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: but just people be ruthless on that thing, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I tried to. I just try to avoid really try
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  Speaker 3: not to. I try not to take stock in either
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  Speaker 3: to go to the bad, because if you take too
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: much stock in the good, then you have to take
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: stock in the bad. So I tried to. And also
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: I think when you're when you're taking in all of
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  Speaker 3: these opinions all the time, it affects your art. And
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  Speaker 3: I look at what we do is it's my art,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't want other opinions blocking me and mean
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  Speaker 3: not trying something because somebody on the internet says that's stupid,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what I mean, And I think there's somewhere
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  Speaker 3: it lives in you if.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: You read it and you I was gonna ask you.
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  Speaker 2: One thing I would say about wrestling fans is like
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: they die hard, right they are follow you write your letters.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure, go state the state. Have you ever had
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  Speaker 2: an awkward encounter? Because I know some of these they'll
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: pop a bet your house, your hotel, your bus. I know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's crazy when I see wrestling fans.
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  Speaker 3: I've a few. Yeah, I've had a few.
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  Speaker 4: Yet right now I'm looking at you like you gotta
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  Speaker 4: stalk right now.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so right now. But I've had some.
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  Speaker 3: I've had some things that have gotten a little a
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  Speaker 3: little crazy. Police have been called, and yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Would you ever put your hand on somebody like just
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  Speaker 2: clothes line somebody one day and they come to.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it depends, it depends what happens. Wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't rule it out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the book is not your average average girl. How
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  Speaker 4: do you define average?
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, I don't know what is average? I suppose I
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  Speaker 3: think that's that's the other question. I never think that
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  Speaker 3: there's a normal, like what it what is normal. But
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  Speaker 3: I think averages is the baseline, right, like it's the
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  Speaker 3: the standard. What is the standard? Girl is five? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: no four four something?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Average guys what five?
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  Speaker 3: Seven?
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  Speaker 1: Think?
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, something like that. So you know, it's it's
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: it's it's it's metrics that you can measure. And you know,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: what's the average weight? You know? So I think I
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: was I was always in that in that average average line,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: like average weight, average height, average intellect, probably average grades,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: you know, But we have been able to carve out
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: this this quite un average life for myself and and
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: and I suppose that's the message of the book, is
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I suppose, especially in a world where it's superstar right,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: like we call them superstars, and so you expect people
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: to be superstars and look phenomenal and a certain way
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: and and and be a certain way. I wanted to
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: show that you can. You don't have to have all that,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: You just have to have a dream and work for
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: you know, when you realize you weren't average, well probably
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: around no, I don't know. I think I think I think,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: uh gosh, I don't know. I think I've I've felt
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: like I had this this this gift for wrestling and
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: it's not even a physical gift. It's a it's a
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: mental gift. It's the way that I think about it,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: and this this spark and this passion. And I suppose
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: that might not be average, but in terms of of
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: of everything else, I think I'm just living this human
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: experience that we all are that I'm trying to document
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: and communicate. And I think that's also helped with with wrestling,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: is that I feel much like everybody feels, right like you.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: You have your your doubts about yourself, You have your insecurities,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: and you're you're constantly fighting to overcome them. And so
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: sometimes then my opponents become those things that I'm trying
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: to overcome. And and a lot of the time the
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: story is is me versus me, you know, And and
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I think that's that's the that's the bigger opponent.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: What I want to ask about. You talked about women
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: getting this, you know, the same salary as their male counterparts.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: How difficult was it for you, you know, because I
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: know it must have been a fight to show that, Look,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I'm just as talented. People come to see me just
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: as much. How difficult was it for you to make
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: sure that you got what you would deserve as far
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: as financial.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: So that I mean, the last contract I signed was
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: three years ago, and and I was coming back after
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: having my kid. But when I left, I left on top.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: And you know, it's one of those things where sometimes
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: in a male dominated sport, we're historically like, uh, thank you,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: thank you, thank you for that. I don't want to
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: make anyway, but it was one of those things where
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: I was like, no, did I deserved this, Like there's
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: no reason that I should should not be getting paid
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: the same as as a top guy or or anybody.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: But because of my gender. Now I've been able to
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: you can put me in any main event. You can
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: put me in any main event, and it makes sense. Uh,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: and and I've proved that time and time again. So
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: compensate me fairly, please, absolutely, you know. But it is
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: I think it is that thing of like of of
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: of having to ask for more, and I think we're like, oh,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I'm so grateful that you're paying me more than we
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: used to be paid, but still I need more. Yeah,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: So you're always kind of pushing pushing that that that barrier,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: and it's come a long way, and and.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: I'd love to see it yeah, and I would say,
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: just as a voice for women, don't stop doing that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: That's really that's that's good that you're doing that. You
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: just recently gained his citizenship. Does it fail to be
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: an American citizen?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: It feels great, great, tell you no, but but so look, no, no,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: so I always wanted I came to New York when
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I was six years old, and I was I was
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: in love with the place.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I love.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I loved it. I loved it, and you know, I
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: watched American TV. That's what I grew up on, American movies.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I always want to come over here, and I felt
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: like if I could come over here, then it could
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: be whoever I wanted to be. It didn't have to
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: be this average girl. I could do more. I could
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: do more with my life. And I've been able to
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: live my dream and I've been able to have my
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: amazing family and live beyond my dreams because I have
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: an incredible hot husband who I definitely wouldn't have gotten
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: in Ireland. And and uh every no, no, no, no, no,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: very very very very very very handsome men, very handsome
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: men over there. They're lovely lads, lovely lads, you know.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: But they but they didn't have him, you know, you know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: fine hands, Armenian lad and uh and and and because
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: of that, then I wouldn't have had my daughter. And
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: so I am so proud to be Irish. I am
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: so proud of my heritage and uh and everything that
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: comes along with with being Irish, you know, the banter
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: and and and the storytelling. But MHM America has afforded
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: me this amazing life and my amazing family, and to
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: be able to marry those two has been great.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Are you scared, Ripley? No, he's talking a lot of smack.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not scared of anybody.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: But are you distracted though?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Because next week gives WrestleMania forty You on a book
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: tour right now.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I am on a book tour. But I can do
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: it all because I'm the man. You I didn't do
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: it all. I can be on a book tour. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: can be a full time mother and wife and be
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: a full time perform I can do it all and
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: still and still be real.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: She mentioned your daughter.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: She did mention. She said that she's going to leave
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: a little bit of me so that I can be
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: at home watching her while my daughter calls her mommy
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: and yeah, yeah, yeah, that that that fired me up,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: fired me up a lot, because you don't you mentioned
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: my daughter. But also also I you know, I've gotten
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: to do a lot of things that I am proud of,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: but none of it compares to being a mother and
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: being her mother, and so yeah, you don't, you don't matter.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah I will, Yeah, I will. And I did. I
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: did one I I yeah, I smacked a little boy
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: toy dominic mysterio punched them right in the face. Great punch, great,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: look it up and it's a great punch. I'm surprised
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: got up from it.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: So you guys don't have friends like I mean, just
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: other wrestlers, or you have other wrestlers, you have friends,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: but you just don't f what up? No, do you
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: see her in the street? You might give you might
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: two pisa might Yeah. Does it help take emotion in
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the ring? Does it help hurt?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Take all that emotion in the ring?
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Does it hurt? Does it help hurt, help hurt? It
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: depends what you're talking about. Does it help to sell tickets? Yes?
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Does it hurt emotionally? Absolutely? But I think the best
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: stories and things that people relate to are the things
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: that are real. So I think you need to be
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: courageous enough to put them out there because that's the
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: They're the things that are going to resonate with people,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: and they're the things that are going to entertain people too,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: you know, And that's what people want. That's why people
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: watch wrestling. You want to you want the distraction from
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: everyday life. You want to live vicariously through these characters
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: or forget about your own stuff. That's a great thing
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Has everything that's been going on with Vince McMahon, him
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: stepping away from the organization, has that uh distracted distracted
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: the organization in any way?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. I think it's I think
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: we're in this new boom period, like wrestling is is
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: the hardest it's been in years, and and I think
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: the thing is is that now we have a new focus,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: we have we're all bonded together and making wrestling the
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: coolest thing on TV. And I would say we're doing
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: pretty darn well.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Absolutely well, she has to go, guys, and she got TV. Well,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: we appreciate you for joining us. A good luck.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me to pick up.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: The book right now. The man not your average girl,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Becky Lynch fire a couple by, thank you, thank you,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: appreciate you again. It's the Breakfast Club. It's Becky Lynch.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Wake that answer in the morning. Breakfast Club