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💫LETRIX💫talks Madonna, Emporium, Undertaker, Personas, Greg Burridge, Jasmin, Chyna, UKPW & more · What Do You Call It? Podcast!

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  Hello and welcome to a very special episode of What Do You
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  Call It Podcast. I'm your host, GB.
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  Today's guest is a dropkicker, A captivating dancer and a true
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  diva. Please welcome Electrics to the
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  podcast. Electrics, how you been?
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  I'm doing very good, thank you. How are you?
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  Not too bad, not too bad at all. How your fever is around the
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  corner of me. So yeah, I'm kind of feeling the
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  effects already. But in general, I can't
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  complain. Life is not too bad for me, but
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  I'm not going to talk about my life because I do that enough on
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  the podcast is talk about you, your persona and your wrestling
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  career. So far.
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  However, I've got 2 questions that came into my inbox on
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  social media today. So let's start off with the
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  first question. The question comes from my good
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  friend Dan from the HCW Show. And Dan wants to know, what's
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  been your favorite moment in your career so far?
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  Oh wow, that's a great question. My favorite moment in my career
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  so far considering I've not had a very long career.
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  I'm still very new in today's. I actually do feel like I'm
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  blessed enough to have quite a few a moment, but the number one
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  would probably have to be when I made my debut in ring debut at
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  UKPW and that was in, I think it was like a nine person battle
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  royal match for the British Fight Design Championship.
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  So I think my first match being for a championship, that was
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  amazing, but also pretty much everyone within that match, we
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  were all making our debuts. So that was a really cool moment
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  in the sense that we were all kind of in it together.
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  Greg Burridge was there as well with us.
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  Just to have our trainer by our side and just the buzz
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  throughout before the show, how excited and nervous we all were,
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  and then going out and doing the show, which was an amazing
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  introduction to the whole world of electrics and just the
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  support of the crowd. So I think that is definitely
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  the number one highlight of many that I've been blessed to have
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  so far. Wicked, wicked good answer and
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  thank you very much for the question, Dan.
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  I appreciate it. Second and last question may
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  come from a enemy, Jasmine, a fantastic former guest on the
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  podcast. Jasmine has asked why are you so
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  jealous of them and why are you scared to fight them?
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  Oh I think it's not jealousy. My issue is the spotlight is
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  made for stars such as myself. Jasmine, Jasmine, Jasmine,
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  whatever they want to call themselves, as we saw, are
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  actually the help. So I'm not sure if you were
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  there at the first Emporium. Sure, they need to be cleaning
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  the ring, making sure everything's good and ready for
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  me. So it's not that I'm jealous of
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  them. I just want them to get out of
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  my way so I can give the people what they want to see.
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  In terms of me not fighting them, I've already given them a
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  shot to the back of the head with a chair.
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  If they want another one that can be arranged.
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  So just give me the time and the place and I will be there.
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  I hope you had the answer, Jasmine.
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  I'm not getting involved. I'm just the middleman, the guy
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  with the mic. But I do love to see a good
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  fight, so I'm very excited to see.
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  We need to eventually face off one-on-one.
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  It's going to be great. It's going to be awesome.
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  So yeah, I will touch on Emporium and Greg and various
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  things that happened in your career.
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  But before I do that lecture, it's what I want to know is what
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  first drew you to professional wrestling and when did you
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  realize it could be more than just a passion?
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  I am. I kind of remember just watching
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  wrestling pretty much since the day that I was born.
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  It was always on in the house and so I kind of just grew up
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  watching wrestling. I think before I actually got
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  into the whole wrestling move and some kind of things, I was
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  really intrigued by the different characters, the
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  storylines, how everything was so much larger than life.
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  So I think growing up, I loved the idea of good versus evil.
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  I was always attracted to the evil and just all the different
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  personalities, like people like The Undertaker, Demolition, The
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  Ultimate Warrior and then going into the attitude.
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  Era metrics is old school. I've got time for that.
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  Yes, yes, I love the old school and then straight into the
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  Attitude Era as well, where I think my wrestling fandom kind
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  of peaked. It was a lot of it was about the
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  characters for me, and that's kind of what kind of what drew
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  me into it. And in terms of taking it beyond
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  to just being a viewer, that happened very, very late in
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  life, I would say it's not something that I ever
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  considered. I'm kind of watching wrestling.
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  I never really saw anyone who kind of looked like me.
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  Like I said, everyone was, you know, a lot more, bigger, larger
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  than life, and it just never crossed my mind.
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  Then around maybe 2010, I kind of took a step back from
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  watching wrestling in general. No particular reason, just life
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  with Life, Inc, but just the idea of being in the ring was
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  kind of always in the back of my mind.
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  And then one day, maybe like 15 years later, I thought, OK, do
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  you know what? This has been in the back of my
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  mind for the longest time. Maybe I should give it a go.
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  I thought it would be one or two sessions that I would do and I
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  could kind of tell myself I've tried it and just take it off.
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  And from there, it just kind of escalated.
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  Before you knew it. I was on autopilot every week.
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  I was on the Tube on my way to training and then it just all
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  went off from there. That's awesome.
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  That's awesome. Respect you being an old school
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  fan by the way. That makes sense.
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  Though when I do like post like a bit of old school content,
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  literally it's one of the first like I'm like yeah, wicked.
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  That's awesome. Now that you've mentioned the
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  training, can you walk us through your early days, sort of
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  the training? What's the toughest lesson that
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  you had to learn and who were your biggest influences?
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  Influences. Not influencers, maybe Logan
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  Paul, but both inside the ring and outside the ring when you
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  were training. Sure.
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  So I think with the training, so I haven't really got either a
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  performance background or an athletic background.
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  So the whole thing was pretty much brand new to me.
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  So I think the physical side of things was definitely
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  challenging, but I was definitely in the right space in
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  terms of training with Greg Burridge at Burridge Fact
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  Design. It was very supportive.
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  I never felt like I can't do this.
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  It was always take it one step at a time and I think that is
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  how I got to where I am today and even now I know there's
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  places where I need to develop, but I'm just taking it all one
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  step at a time and most importantly enjoying that
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  journey. And I think the biggest lesson
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  that has really stuck with me that Greg has taught, maybe it
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  was in my second session. At the time I didn't realise I
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  was going to be sticking with wrestling.
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  I thought this was going to be my second and final session.
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  So I could have told myself, you've tried it twice and you've
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  done it. That is always think about the
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  crowd because at the end of the day, that is who you're
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  performing for. And that is something that has
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  really stuck with me. So whenever I'm kind of putting
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  matches together or thinking about the character, I'm always
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  thinking, how is the crowd going to react to this?
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  Because for me, as Greg taught me, the other most important
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  thing when it comes to doing a match.
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  So I think that is the biggest lesson that I've learned.
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  You're saying not sure and. Then in terms of.
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  Someone see electrics in the ring.
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  Honestly, just go see electrics and you'll understand just how
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  loud but confident. And you've got that confidence
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  from Burridge Fight Design. But I'll let you continue.
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  I didn't want to interrupt too much.
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  No, no worries. And in terms of influences, I
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  think again, just growing up, like I mentioned, all the kind
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  of old school characters where it was all about larger than
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  life characters and personalities.
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  And then growing up in the Attitude Era, everyone was kind
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  of, everyone had the unique personality, the unique look.
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  And also growing up a big fan of the Divas definitely pulled a
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  lot of inspiration from them as well.
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  So I think in terms of wrestling, my wrestling style, I
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  wouldn't pinpoint it to a particular wrestler, even though
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  I do have a lot of amazing wrestlers that I think are
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  great. It's usually what I see, and I
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  think, will that work for me? So, for example, my favorite
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  wrestler is the Undertaker. I would love it if I could drill
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  someone with the last Ride, namely Jasmine, but I know it's
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  not going to happen. But I pull inspiration from
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  whatever it is that I see, whether it's a match on the
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  Internet, if it's something I see on a live show.
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  And it's not necessarily about the wrestler who's doing it.
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  It's the way it looks, the way people react.
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  And I think is that something that would work for me?
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  So that's kind of my in ring style.
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  And in terms of in terms of outside of the ring, when it
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  comes to things like my entrance and the way I dress, the way I
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  walk, A lot of pop culture, I think electrics is very much a
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  millennial diva. So kind of people like Britney,
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  Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, all that kind of world and all those
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  Divas. And then of course, the WWE
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  Divas like your Sable, Maurice, China, etcetera.
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  That's wicked. It's just a combination of
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  everything that's influenced you sort of in your life and that's
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  developed into this Electrics persona.
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  I mean, what does the name represent?
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  You've talked about the influence and, you know, the
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  Lurk and Undertaker especially, all these individuals that have
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  had an impact on your wrestling career and who you are as a
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  character. But Electrics, the name.
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  I want to know a bit more about that.
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  So cool name that stands out. Sure.
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  Yeah. So initially I was just kind of
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  came up with a mood board of different buzzwords and things
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  that could work. And initially I like the idea of
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  the word electric because I feel like that is one word that just
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  sums up me pretty much from the moment you hear my music and
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  then you see me, I walk, make my way to the ring when I'm inside
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  the ring. So I kind of had a bunch of
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  different names with the Electric theme, and then I had a
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  chat with Greg Burridge, who I think is just super underrated,
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  not just in the world of wrestling, but as a creative in
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  general. So I took the ideas that I had
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  to him. Electric was kind of top of the
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  list that I wanted something that encapsulates that.
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  And then Greg had a thought and he came back with a bunch of
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  names and Electrics was on the list.
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  And that just as soon as I saw that it it just jump out to me.
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  I thought this is it's unique. It's something that the people
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  can chant while I'm beating people up.
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  And it was close enough to electric, but not quite
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  electric. Yeah.
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  So that's kind of the story of how I got the name.
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  Yeah, that's a good story. Greg seems to put such an
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  importance to character. I know the wrestling part's very
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  important. Very important.
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  But also, I think I've said before myself as a fan, I do
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  feel that as important investing is, and you can do all the moves
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  you can in the world, But unless you don't have that connection
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  and give the crowd reason to Boo or cheer or even react in some
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  way, then them being there is kind of pointless, isn't it?
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  Exactly. And I think just when I go out
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  there and I see people in the crowd reacting the way they're
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  reacting, whether it's positively or negatively, and
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  that's kind of reinforces it, how important the whole
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  character is and just having a connection with the fans.
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  Because again, like I said, for me growing up, I brought you
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  into the wrestler and the character before I looked into
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  what they were doing in the ring.
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  The shows that I have seen you involved in, including the debut
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  show of Important Pro Wrestling. What I Want to Know Electrics is
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  what led you to get involved in Important Pro Wrestling at the
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  Genesis Cinema in London. In terms of getting involved, I
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  think the opportunity came up obviously training at Burge
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  Fight Design, seeing a lot of other people within the school
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  being involved and I thought this looks really cool and it's
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  something that I think I'm ready for.
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  And again, and I think a big pot was also the venue it's in, it's
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  in a cinema, where else am I going to get that opportunity?
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  I think Emporium are probably the only promotion who regularly
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  hold wrestling shows in a cinema of that size.
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  So I thought that was really cool.
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  And then the opportunity was to be involved for the championship
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  and I thought if I need to be in it to win it, if I'm not in
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  there, I'm not going to become a champion.
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  So yeah, I think I've just been taking it one step at a time.
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  All the matches I've been in have been multi person matches.
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  So I think for now I'm still kind of finding my feet, making
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  the most of the time that I've got scouting out the
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  competition. So yeah, I think in terms of my
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  journey into Emporium, that was it.
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  And As for what's next, I think, I mean Emporium came in with a
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  blast last year, and this year it's just going to get even
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  bigger. They've just announced their
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  next bunch of shows. I think there's one in June and
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  one in July. They've got the Emporium
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  Heavyweight Championship tournament coming up, which, you
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  know, I wouldn't mind throwing my name into the hat for that.
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  And of course, 2nd of May is the Emporium NRG show, which is
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  going to be part wrestling show, part techno rave.
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  But the thing that I'm most interested in is this is going
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  to be the debut of the Soleil Championship.
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  That championship looks amazing, by the way.
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  It does. I, I need to get that around my
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  waist, around my body somehow. It just looks amazing.
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  It's kind of, from what I've seen of it, you can wear it
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  around your waist, but you can also wear it around your body,
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  kind of like a sash situation. And yeah, I, I just love it and
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  I need it. And that is what I've got my
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  sights on for the rest of this year.
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  I think the Slave Championship belt is going to look great on
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  electrics. Baz can do some good facts on
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  that. Awesome, because if you have any
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  dream matches, any error, what dream matches would you pick?
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  So it doesn't necessarily have to be the old generation Golden
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  era or Attitude Era, but now that you've become Electrics,
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  who do you think would make a good opponent for Electric's
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  past or present? I think first would have to be
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  Jasmine, just because we need to sort that out once and for all.
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  I think we I think we bought that a point where we had enough
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  of a sneak attacking each other and talking trash.
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  We just need to get in the ring and get it sorted, get it off
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  and done with so I can beat them and then move on to my slave
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  championship. And then I don't know.
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  That's a really good question because I'm thinking it's not
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  only about who would some of my favorite wrestlers be, but it's
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  what our styles necessarily work well in the ring together.
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  But I'm going to throw, I'm going to swap gold dust out
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  there. I think he's a bit of a wild
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  card and so's electrics and I think if you put us both in the
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  ring wrestling wise, he'll beat me in a BUB 3.5 seconds.
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  But I think I've got the mind games to go up against him and
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  give him a bit of a challenge. Don't write yourself off,
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  Frederick. Don't write yourself off.
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  Old school gold dust for me was just, I don't think it was ready
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  for it as a fan base. But if you watch some of them,
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  it's like, Oh my God, how do they get away with this?
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  And yeah, people didn't have to react.
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  But I think some of it's fantastic and I love it.
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  It's really good. Last question fun question 3
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  dream dinner guests so I'm keeping with the word dream
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  still 3 dream dinner guests for your dream party dead or alive
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  fiction nonfiction doesn't have to be rest related but three
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  people as to why I want them there give me #1.
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  Oh, that's a tough question. Definitely.
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  Maybe. OK, I think maybe #1 would have
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  to be China just because growing up, I was a huge fan.
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  And I think before she passed away, she didn't quite fully
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  understand the impact she had on so many people.
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  And as people would say, you know, she didn't get her flowers
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  that she deserved. So I think she would probably be
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  #1 just so, just so I could let her know how appreciated she is
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  and how much she changed the game and pave the way for a lot
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  of people. Definitely #2. #2 would have to
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  be, I'm going to say Madonna because again, she is someone
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  who has pushed boundaries and broken barriers just in the
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  world in general. And I'm also impressed how she's
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  still going, doing her thing. And I love how she constantly
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  keeps reinventing herself. And that is something that I'm
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  inspired by that. I don't know how far this
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  journey in wrestling is going to go for me.
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  But if I'm in it for the long haul, I'm thinking OK, what can
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  I do to keep on reinventing electrics and keeping him
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  current and relevant? Just before I ask you for #3
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  what Madonna song would you pick for Electric's theme song?
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  Oh, that is the that is a good one.
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  It would have to be either vogue because I think that would just
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  make an amazing banger. It's iconic.
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  Or. Maybe something a bit more
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  upbeat, like I hung up where I can do a little dance for the
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  ring. At the Genesis Cinema.
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  Yeah. Number three, final Dream dinner
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  guest Madonna and China so far. I would have to say Greg
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  Burridge, actually, because if it wasn't for him, electrics
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  would not be at the dinner table to begin with.
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  And he works really hard, so I think he does deserve to have a
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  break, to get off his feet and sit down and have a good dinner.
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  Yeah. I'm just super appreciative for
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  everything he's done, not just for me, but for everyone at the
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  training school. Yeah, I think again, he's
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  someone who doesn't get the praise and the flowers that he
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  deserves. Good lineup.
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  Madonna, China and Greg Barrett love it.
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  And Electrics being the host. Electrics, is there anything or
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  anyone you want to call out? By the way, any wrestlers
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  Emporium UK, PW anywhere in the UK, seen anywhere in the world?
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  But is there anything you want to say as we sign off on this
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  podcast? And how can the listeners find
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  your social media? Sure.
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  In terms of calling anyone out, I'm kind of training to be at a
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  place where I can stay ready so I don't have to get ready.
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  So I'm kind of ready for anyone and everyone.
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  Of course, Jazz Bin is number one on the list, but apart from
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  that, I've got my sights set on the Slay Championship, which is
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  going to be crowned very soon. I don't know who else is going
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  to be in the mix for that. I'm going to be keeping an eye
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  on, I don't know, maybe Ray Rata, Leo Tarante, Peregrine
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  Kelly. I'm keeping my eyes on everyone
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  because I know they're all going going to be coming for what is
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  clearly my title because I found.
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  The name of the hat, because I really like the belt and it'd be
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  good as a prop on the podcast. Have it there.
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  I really like it. You can find it on Important.
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  Progress, we'll make it happen for the next, we'll make it
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  happen. So yeah, that is kind of what's
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  happening next with electrics and you can find me on social
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  media, electrics under Score City.
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  Instagram is the main place where I am, but I'm also on
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  Twitter X whatever and TikTok. Give Electrics a follow give me
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  a follow my social media handles there you'll be in description
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  below like this video, subscribe to the channel and keep give me
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  your love and support because the podcast has been trying
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  worldwide. So thank you so much everyone
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  who has been making it happen so I can continue awesome
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  interviews like I've just carried out today with
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  Electrics. But for now, everyone, take
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  care. I've got to sign on the Madonna
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  song. But copyright kind of strict she
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  is. So just sing in your head.
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  Take care everyone, please.