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5 Questions with ABJ with Chio Valentin · ABJ

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  We are back with another 5 questions with ABJ Conrad Weiser
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  High School here for Spotlight Slam students to Superstars
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  hosted by ACE Austin in conjunction with AXW Wrestling
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  and I'm here with. Geo Frost.
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  Also, you can find me as Gio Valentin online there as well.
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  The Gio Frost listen, if you're in the northeast business, you
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  know about this guy this guy works hard been doing everything
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  up and down the business and now you know taking a more
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  production size I. I am very proud of you because
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  you got the name of the high school out your mouth.
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  Yeah, there's. A lot of bonus takes of me
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  trying that, but we we got it down this time.
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  So what are your current? What's your current goal in
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  life? I mentioned before you should
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  ask me this like 20-30 years ago when I was still wrestling.
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  Now that I'm retired from the ring, current go is just to be
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  the best man that I can and give back to the industry that gave
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  so much memories to me right now.
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  So anyone who can entry achieve their dream in and out of the
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  ring, just by one small percentage of whatever I can
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  give, even if it's not training, even if it's just verbal
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  knowledge. That's that's my goal, just to
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  help everyone else succeed. Yeah.
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  And you've been doing a fantastic you've helped me and
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  myself, BP numerous times, so we're very appreciative of you.
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  What are you currently doing? I think I have a piece of my
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  beard on there. What are you currently doing to
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  achieve your goal? Well, currently today I'm I'm
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  donating my time here at this event with, with Ace and the Axw
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  to Conrad Weiser, the musical department.
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  Other than that, like, like like I said before, I'm giving back
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  to every everyone else besides, you know, offering my services
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  at at a fee, of course. But at the same time, I'm doing
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  so much more behind the scenes that people don't realize of
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  watching matches, giving the the new guys advice, helping the
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  promoters out however I can possibility and also running my
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  own podcast, helping them plug their events whenever possible.
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  Yeah. What is a current possible set
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  back or distraction from your goals?
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  Time. We all are limited to the time
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  we have on this earth, to the time we get to spend with family
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  and friends and time at events. So prior to me doing what I'm
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  currently doing, just time spending with the wrestling
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  industry took away from a lot of time I got to spend with family
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  and friends. Now currently it's still kind of
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  in that ballpark there, but it's wedding down since I'm not
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  performing on the shows so I'm not travelling as much.
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  So going forward, as soon as I'm retired doing working with sound
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  and doing behind the scenes, I'll have all the time in the
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  world then to spend with, hate to say it, grandkids.
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  Yes, it's showing. It's showing what's going to
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  happen. I'm not trying to show my age.
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  And the grandkids and the daughters are all going to get
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  in the business, and then you're going to be back anyway.
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  Well, well, they all. They already are.
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  Yes. Anyone who knows JoJo from JoJo
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  Photos, she's she was training to become a wrestler, but then
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  she found the love of photography.
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  So now you see, you see her all over.
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  And now my grandsons are getting involved.
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  They're they're starting to travel with me to help me out
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  with the sound equipment. And they're slowly getting in
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  the ring little by little. Yeah, but not as at the fast
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  pace that I did. I want them to learn the the
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  rights, the wrongs and be a lot more safer than I did because my
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  career ended a lot sooner than what I expected.
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  So what do you what? What currently motivates you or
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  inspires you when it comes to your goals currently?
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  Just the youth like be besides the the youth of my family, of
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  the grandkids, the youth that are participating in the world
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  of wrestling who's continuing a legacy that was passed down
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  before me from others. That that that I was fortunate
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  enough to learn from a lot of people.
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  Now I get to see others to follow that same dream, same
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  footsteps in their own ways, and then so on after them.
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  They're going to be the vets. They're going to be the ones
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  passing down the torch to the next generation after them.
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  So basically it's just to see this legacy of pro wrestling
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  strive and move on to, to, to, to the future for bigger and
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  better things, which since back then, the good old golden era we
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  have, black and white guys wasn't doing all the fancy moves
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  that they are the our wrestling gear wasn't made to the top
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  quality that it is now. So every generation, the pro
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  wrestling world just gets better and better and better.
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  And that's what I love seeing, Yeah.
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  So are you, what are you currently grateful for and are
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  you happy? Grateful that ever since I did
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  really step away from the ring that I found other opportunities
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  to, to still be a part of the industry in one form or another.
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  Most guys, once they lose their career, they just hang it up
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  and, and they sit home and become bitter and think about
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  them. I could have been, no, you still
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  can be. You still can contribute in
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  other ways. You just got to find out what
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  works for you. So I'm grateful enough that the
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  door didn't shut on me right away, that other promoters out
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  there was great enough to pull me in and say, hey, we still
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  have other work. You're not done.
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  There's still more work for you to be done.
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  Where can people find and support you?
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  There's a whole bunch of social medias out there.
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  I'm not going to go into saying each and everyone because each
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  one is different, but if you go to chio247.com, that's Chio 24,
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  seven.com. I have everything linked up to
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  DARE on there as far as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram.
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  I think I even have Myspace on there too actually.
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  I need to make a new. One, yeah, yeah, it's it's I I
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  tried logging on the other week and it's like you can't really
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  do much with it anymore. But but I still have it though.
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  It's still there, yeah. Well, the podcast, Like about
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  the podcast? Fuck that.
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  Wow. Yeah, we're on.
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  We're coming to the end of season 3 of this year.
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  We see the end of season 3 of the Body Slams podcast.
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  We we start out with breakfast and body Slams and and then we
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  have Thursday night slam and pop up bite bombs.
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  But everything can be found on bodyslamspodcast.com and it'll
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  link up to all of our other social medias.
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  It'll have the playlist of updated playlist as soon as we
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  go live and it's done. Our YouTube playlists are up so
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  people can rewatch it if they like to, as well as our audio
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  playlist. So you can if you're on the go,
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  in the gym, in the car. You can actually listen to us on
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  there as well though. Keep killing the game, brother.
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  I try, I'm getting on your level.
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  I'm trying so hard. It's.
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  It it takes a lot of work, yeah, to be this terrible.
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  We'll see you guys next time. 5 questions with ABJ.
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  The hold of my you're not throwing me through no windows.
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  I only I only take bumps for a Gavin and Leo.
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  Huh. Is it bad?
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  No, don't plug Rd. They don't pay.
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  They didn't pay me well. Then we'll turn it this way.
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  So I mean, you could put it there so, you know, show that
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  I'm a little bit of a baller. I spent money on equipment.
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  He. Uses the money he uses what
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  charity comes in. This is.
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  I think I'm doing karaoke. I'm looking at the screen and
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  seeing a hair and. Makeup on hair and makeup on the
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  fly. There you go.
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  Alright, cool the hair and. Makeup Department.
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  Yeah, when you, when you, when you make it big, you know.
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  I know for real. I wish I can get on your level.