I have know Paloma, as we figured out during the podcast, for 16 years or more! She was kind enough to come on and help me out on this episode. Paloma started her wrestling career here in Texas and has since moved to Chicago. We talked for a full hour about everything you can imagine. She wants a part 2 to happen, and I whole heartedly agree!
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Here. All nine devices.
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Alright, cool. So, three, two,
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Alright, we're back again. This is actually 2 weeks in a row that I've actually done a podcast and it's.
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I have known you for a really long time hasn't it? I mean how long has it been?
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Probably 2000 062 1007.
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Photo shoot stuff is like 2006.
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Wow, that's a really long time. I don't know how to do math off the top of my head. So, I'm literally doing math on my phone calculator right now. It's 16 years. Hey, Jesus.
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You know, and and you're one of the ones. I had bis on my show last week.
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Help. Well, I wasn't mentioning how he actually give me credit for him starting. I mean, like he was just a fan and then I asked him to do.
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Interviews and then it just you see where it is now. You know? Yeah. And the same thing when I was going to when I anytime I post about doing.
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Photo shoots or whatever. You always chime in there. Hey, he was one of the first ones and you know, it's cool.
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Unfortunately, nowadays, you kinda need that kind of stuff, you know
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They came from but a lot of people don't realize that it took a lot of steps to get where you're at but because of a lot of other people.
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A lot of other opportunities that people presented themselves with. So, I think it's kinda cool that people have like, oh yeah, shout out to Stan and shout out to whoever it was. Right.
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Along the way cuz even like small things like that add up. Right.
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For a lot of those small things. A lot of people wouldn't be where they're at now. Right? And it's it's funny cuz I was looking up I was actually trying to find the old
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It came up with the Indie Wars radio logo which is what I was doing in.
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I mean, even going back to that, I mean, how many people did we, I mean, think about all the people that you and I have met and interacted with, you know, just when you were here in Texas, not since you moved to Chicago, but I mean, all of these people and then.
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To be able to look at him on TV and go. Well, I remember that guy and this interview, that guy and you know what I mean? It's absolutely insane.
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Or TV like I met in Texas. I work shows with them in Texas. Like.
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I wanna say the majority of people that I know that made it
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Any rain in podcasting people even before it was cool.
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And I was listening to your interview with this and you're so right like imagine and we had this technology back then like how much faster how many more interviews how many more like,
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Views and opportunities that I have because I remember back then it wasn't it was not like this cuz I've been around for a long time and I don't think a lot of people,
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Realize that I don't think I give myself credit enough for how long I've been around but I remember when my space was the only social media. Yeah. So, add to get bookings and all that.
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More of a musicians kind of thing you know but yeah and and you know he and I and every time we talk to somebody that I've I've been around for a long time that's all we talk about is how.
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How fortunate the guys are guys and girls are now.
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With what they have you know they can go and have a match and instantly have it online somewhere before they even get dressed in their head at home you know it
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Yeah. Yeah. So, I wanna say cuz I was thinking about it while I was driving over here because.
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I'm trying to think of the first time I ever actually met you. I probably seen you two, you know, before, but then when I actually met you, I think you were in, no, someone was in a.
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A Thai death match.
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Gettings or something. Yeah. Yeah.
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Hardly anyone's name. But i kept i keep thinking about him. Because like you said he was there, you know, Rachel Summerland, all these people were there.
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And I just could never remember his name. So, anyway, sorry, go ahead.
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Yo and the worst part of this story is that I wasn't even in the match. Right. But I was the one that got the worst injury of like
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Yeah. Yeah.
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That I had to that you could see my sinus cavity,
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Why would you and the closest hospital was 35 mi away and I remember a fan offering to stitch me up in the parking lot
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No.
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With Knoxville. Right.
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Gushing blood. Right. Yeah.
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Taking a picture of of such an injury at and I've got so many DVDs and CDs and and hard drives and stuff with with pictures on them from way back then and I run across some you know here and there,
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And and it would be cool if I I'm gonna look around and see if I can find that picture cuz I know that I've seen it before.
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If you ever find that please send it to me I would love to be able to see it cuz I've actually never seen.
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Videos or pictures or anything other because I've only I only have a picture of me before and have a pic of me like a very blurry selfie
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Picture of me holding a towel to my face while driving shot or while I'm driving shotgun and those rules are the only two I only have before and after
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I would love to yeah so I hope I hope you do find it,
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What day introduction to me like oh hi nice to meet you and then here I
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Yup. Well, you know, it was an ACW show. What were we expecting early, you know?
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Yeah and and obviously you've probably kept up and know that that Darren and and them have moved to Florida so we don't know what's gonna happen with the ACW.
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I did not know they moved to Florida. Yeah. Yeah. They they moved to Florida. And I think his last mat that the last show that they put on was before.
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The pandemic started and then.
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You know it's weird cuz somebody here keeps talking about they're gonna run ace there that they bought ACW and they're gonna run it and then Darren was posting
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Man, it's just, I'm sure Mohawk is gonna miss that.
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Oh, totally for sure. You know, people there, that's for sure. So, what are some of the, let's, let's talk about since, you know, we we brought up ACW.
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Oh man it's been so long since
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Yeah, totally. It doesn't seem like, you know, that long ago.
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Not at all. Time has definitely,
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Five other women. Right. That's it. So, it's crazy to see the Texas scene now. I mean, it's awesome. I love it but also like, damn, where was this one I was? Right. Yup.
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Where where where did all these women come from?
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Me Angel Blue.
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Barbie Barbie Hayden
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Alexa, like that, I can't unrestling the same.
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Five women over and over and over again like.
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San Antonio.
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A metroplex. In Texas are no longer even around. Right. Like how long I wrestled in Texas? How long ago it was? I mean
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Well a text homema and Sherman
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When every time NWA Southwest would come through or I was in the pool.
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Mania weekend everybody was running into.
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In in Dallas
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Oh man he's back around cuz we haven't heard from him since he.
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You know close down NWA Southwest and and all of a sudden you showed back up at all of these different shows for for mania weekend I was like hmm
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So, did you come down from any weekend? Were you here?
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I'll rather wait
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Give all my money for my honeymoon Jamaica trip so I was originally gonna go down but I was like
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So many people were in Texas for,
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Exploding and booming and I remember
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We used to wrestle in Oklahoma and New Mexico and Colorado more because it was easier for me to get to because.
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For a few good quality.
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Promotions running in Texas honestly but now there's so many and so many good quality ones now. Right.
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Quantity or equality
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More yeah and and it's funny cuz we we I used to talk to people from the East Coast.
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About that where they're like, oh my god, I've gotta I gotta drive from Connecticut to to Delaware. Oh, whatever I'm gonna do. I'm like, shit, you can't get from El Paso to Austin in the same amount of time you can get from
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Connecticut to Delaware and back. I mean, it's.
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Oh totally. 4 hours away, 4 hours away. My oh my gosh that's nothing. Yeah. It's like.
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One way for a booking. Right. This is absolutely nothing for me. Yeah, cuz I went down and did some video
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Had a show in McAllen.
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What do you mean that's normal here? We just, you know, that's what we do.
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There is totally different like i would drive 4 hours and you'd leave Albuquerque to go to like Farmington out in the four corners.
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And you would drive for 4 hours which isn't bad.
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Truly why I like to travel is because
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You know, driving to different shows that never bother me. I I love to see what's out there. But what made you move to to Chicago?
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I had more choose Amarillo for a really long time way longer than I like to admit and actually.
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Over the worst. I hated it there. I mean, good news is I had a place to wrestle out weekly. I had a place to train. So, I definitely got my teeth as a wrestler and I'm real and I definitely
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Really sharpen up my my skills and and resting cuz of abmeral but I I just did not like living there like
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It was so close minded, small town. I mean, the quiz in central Texas, like when people think taxes, they think like, oh, cowboys, cowboy boots.
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It's really not that but I'm really
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Map as a wrestling cuz I feel like every time I say oh you still live in that mural they look at me where do I where Terry Funt's from or was like okay yeah I know.
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I know where but I was so tired of living in Amarillo I knew I wanted to move we just didn't know where
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We talked about going to Florida. We talked about Denver. We talked about the Northeast,
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Flying flying directly or like driving from Emerald to Dallas and they're having a flight from Dallas to Chicago and one time it was like a 16 hour drive and then I remember sitting in the
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And I'm like
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Okay
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Probably did everything I could in Texas I especially been.
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Now, an umbrella and I know I was getting this opportunity. It's a wrestle so much in Chicago that I'm like, when else am I gonna have this opportunity? Let's go, let's go, and thankfully, I was able to transfer with my shoot jobs. So, I had a job when a guy, when I
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I fell in love with the city for sure. I mean, I think we are a persona that was moving here for a resting but I think we just fell in love so much with the city that whenever
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Never look back and I love it. He actually wish I would have moved here sooner.
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Wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for my time in Texas I definitely always appreciate it and don't forget I don't forget where I came from and I try to I like I when I do wrestling Texas
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But I would love to go back and,
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Russell in Texas sometime again especially in the Austin San Antonio area I mean that's that's where it all started for me. Right? Yeah and and it's funny cuz I was listening to,
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For the same thing I was looking up this morning and I actually show or it actually.
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Number one what are they up to now like shimmer 392 or something.
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Historian wrestling stuff in your podcast for sure but I bet you could find some.
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Hey,
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We did.
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You know, because the word podcast wasn't even around then. No. Nobody knew what a podcast was. And so,
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I would literally go to the internet because it was so new at that time and I would find all these crazy commercials for red stripe beer and stuff like that and so I would play those while I was trying to get a guest on and
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And whatnot and then.
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You know, now, you know, you you've got 3 seconds of a copyrighted song and they block everything you do and so, I'm guessing that might be the reason why I can't.
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Download some of the old archive stuff.
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Yeah, that makes sense. But I do remember internet radio. I remember like having a call in a couple of times for it and like you and like I think I did like one other one very early on and I feel like now I could do it
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Internet radio cuz it was podcast.
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At least we didn't know it. Right.
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Right?
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I think we did it for like 8 years or something like that. I mean, we did it forever.
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Yeah totally oh I remember George so cool that you guys were like the dynamic duo.
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I I still go to all these different shows,
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You know but maybe 2 hours each day it it was so fun god I'm I'm I'm the next one's in California I'm really thinking about going to that.
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It's really cool opportunity and like where else are you gonna get so many wrestling fads, wrestlers,
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Ruffling a Jason people in one place and one time i don't I've been to seven wrestling
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Ring up on and dragging gate. That's it. Like that.
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WrestleMania 27 ish that that's when like the indie company start like oh wait we could capitalize on this cuz people already in town anyway but before it was just like,
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Ring a water and dragon game that's where you would see everybody or like for WrestleMania 30 everybody was just hanging out in Bourbon St and you
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Minnie get together convention reunion that if I feel like if you haven't had an opportunity to I definitely recommend everybody to do it whether you're a fan or a wrestler it's it's a totally cool different experience it's definitely one of a kind right
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So, you know, I always tell everybody that my podcast is different than ever. We, I like to get into like personal. So,
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It's well as the personal side of pro wrestling. So, I thought I I how long have you been married now?
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At seven mi. Oh.
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Right?
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I thought it was cool that you propose to him.
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Yeah, totally. What what made you decide? You know what? Fuck this. I'm gonna propose to him. Look, you know, what what went through the process for that?
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Well, first of all, this is actually the first time that I'm talking about it and like a wrestling podcast and so here exclusive news.
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Three times. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and I said,
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Yes but not right now or,
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So, I feel like well, whenever I was ready to get married and I wanted to get married, I feel like I should do it since
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So many times. Right?
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Whoever wants to propose I think it's a very weird hetero normative societal thing that.
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Feel for some amazing people have this thing that only men could do certain thing or or even women
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Dance around and I'm like, hey,
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Or anything like that. He's like, no, I think this is awesome and I I even ask him like, hey, do I do anything to make it feel like,
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What I cannot remember that word is what it makes you feel like less than a man.
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Hey,
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Right.
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But yeah and we were supposed to get married back in May 2020 but obviously the pandemic happened. We postponed our wedding four times. So we finally got married this past October. We're just kinda crazy to say I've only been married.
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7 months of news but we went together.
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Go go down to one of the cow the the cow auctions to get married
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San Antonio so we just thought
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Austin's school and plus we don't wanna necessarily bring all of our Chicago friends.
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Austin's call.
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So, it is not.
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And that's that's and that's even worse. You know, that's even worse. Nobody.
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Yeah, no, nobody wants to get married in Midland, Odessa. No. No. No disrespect, Midland, Odessa, folks, but.
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Admit that nobody wants to live in Midland Odessa.
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Agreed. You know,
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Will nobody else wants to live there? Why in a fuck would I wanna live there?
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Totally agree for sure but I definitely that's why we got married in Austin. We we both love Austin. We both have really nice good experiences in Austin. I'm plugging in my laptop. Hold on.
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Is it Tommy low battery I don't want today that's okay I'm I'm recording audio I always have like three things recording so if one so if like the video doesn't work I'm cool with that I we can just do the podcast you.
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Yeah, that works. So,
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Honestly. Right. Yeah.
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No and and you know that's the only thing that sucks for us that live in Austin is it everybody thinks Austin is so cool and so they moved here and it is absolutely miserable now but see I guess it's all relative because
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I've been here since I was,
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Again, I guess it's relative cuz you guys probably have traffic and stuff in Chicago, huh?
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You know so that's that's our biggest problem here is that it it boomed so fast that they you know the roads sucking there's no way to get around and it's just.
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You know, if if you have an accident on I 35 in downtown Austin, you know, the whole city is jacked for the next 6 hours. It's just.
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Too many people moved here too fast.
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Totally. I could tell. It was completely different. I was like, wow, what happened? It was not like this. Right.
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From the week that I was there that definitely has boomed. Yeah, and then you know, my son, Jay, he he lives in Tennessee cuz he was in the military and he came back, he's here this weekend, and he's just the same thing. He's like,
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Where did all this stuff come from he says all the he's like I'm only been gone 2 years
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And like there's stuff being built every day which for my business is good cuz we've always got work but guys so crazy how how quickly it it happened.
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I bet definitely. So, what's your, let's do this, let's let's help out Chicago cuz well, number one, I was always gonna tell I was gonna talk about this because.
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And,
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In I never realized how huge a baseball fan he was like he'll get up at 3 o'clock in the morning to watch
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Taiwan baseball league.
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Hey Facebook.
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Some fans bring.
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Instruments.
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And like I said, he said, yeah, he's like, yeah, man. I'll get up sometimes, 234, o'clock in the morning and turn on YouTube so I can watch a live baseball event from Taiwan, you know, the
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Taiwan League, whatever and like, that is insane. That has, that's, that's a whole another level of fan, you know?
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So share definitely. But I see that you go to a lot of baseball games.
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So many baseball games. I live in the same neighborhood as Ridley Field. No way. That's cool. Yeah.
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Yeah, I really feel there's like a 15 minute walk from my loft. So, that's why I'm always there is because it's literally a walk away and plus the tickets are
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Generally especially during a week or like seven bucks.
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It's so fun. Right.
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Like 7 to 10 dollars per ticket. I mean that's that's pretty cheap entertainment and I I mean I just like embrace Chicago as soon as it moved over here. I definitely like I mean I have the Chicago flags back to you. We're flying out loud. Right?
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Like I lived I lived in Texas longer than anything and I don't have a Texas anything
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Don't worry we'll we'll edit this part out go ahead
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But we're always at Cubs games just because it's so close and then there's very few limited good
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Nice weather days in Chicago so I definitely take a live as much as I can and it's just so cool it's so I mean so much history
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Bleachers was this huge.
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Game of sports game in my life. Right. Who holding in the mass of people and being there for the parade was insane but I definitely just,
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Jovan had first to Chicago culture. I'm
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A Cubs fan I'm a I'm not I went to my first Chicago Sky game yesterday the WNBA team here okay yeah
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It's great to see the Chicago such a huge sports town and like Chicago just loves to do stuff,
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Right?
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That's a at the at a neighborhood where
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Starting like May 1 and there's always seems to be wrestling that pops up
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Damn, they, you know, I used to love going to the pecan street festival downtown and all these and I don't even, it doesn't even cross my mind anymore. I'm not even interested.
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It's so man you gotta park nine blocks away and so you guys down there in Chicago has good you know public transit as well.
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Really, really good. That's what Austin needs. I think that would probably help out a lot of people.
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That I used to public transportation. Right.
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Public transportation at first but I didn't know it would help out Austin a lot. Yeah, and you know and I I tell people this all the time. I want to New York.
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Well I've I've been to Upstate New York and I went to,
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That my hotel was in Brooklyn but anyways and,
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Absolutely love everything to do with it. The the going underground, the the everything's a tunnel and just you know, the
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People.
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Everything. I, you know, of course, I didn't see the, you know, the people thrown up on each other and the fights and stuff like that. You know, that didn't run any of that the entire week that I was there. But it was so cool to be able to you know, I had this card that I paid like
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12 54 and it was for 7 days.
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Two blocks, you know, get on a train and it drops you off a block from Times Square. You walk up me.
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I was amazed. I was I absolutely loved it.
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Yeah, definitely. It's like that over here too. I mean, they have a
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You just had to kinda like even it's pretty easy to navigate once you like kinda get the hang of it and plus
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And and I said I wanna go from this corner to you know wherever Tony Island or whatever wherever we were going and it was okay get on this train headed you know.
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Even when you got that wrong literally all you had to do was get off of the train
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Walk upstairs, walk across the street, come down back into the train station and you would go to the opposite direction. It wasn't like you had to go,
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No, you just go to the office side of the train track and take you back to the other direction. So, I I did enjoy that. So, let's let's talk now about Chicago food.
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What's what's.
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But what are some of your your top restaurants there? Where your go to's?
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Oh man is that so it's you're right because it's so hard to answer cuz there's such good food here and what's awesome I feel like in Chicago is a big city of a lot of neighborhoods and every neighborhood has its own
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On different identity. It's on different little vibe and every neighborhood has great great restaurants like
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Specialize in one type of
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Culture, one type of food that are really good there, but I mean you, there's an brunch, it's so huge here in Chicago, like brunch, religion, and
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In Chicago like every restaurant has like a brunch special.
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Or like rooftop brunch places are so so super popular but I'm really good places he oh man it's so you put me on spot I'm gonna just say Portillo's cuz just because it's like a,
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It's like hot dogs and hamburgers and they have a chocolate cake shake. That's like the easy, casual one. So, it's so good. It was like, oh, I can't wait to eat fortillas. It's like the whole,
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Oh you have to eat type of meal
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And why you love pizza? I only eat Chicago deep dish pizza when somebody from out of town comes in to visit and they wanna eat it because that's a lot. It's a more of a casserole. Oh yeah.
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It's the app because that deep dish is
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Hey, it's like heavy and you don't wanna do anything after you eat it but about you have to pack a pizza,
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Wild bar and it's oh I know it sounds like it's a wild vibe it's actually a restaurant,
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And that's always packed. I have patio seating and patio seating and outdoor seating are huge years. So, if you see up a restaurant that has a patio seating in Chicago.
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They probably have really good food and drinks but you get you really can't go wrong with any food that you eat.
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That you eat, you're like, I will never run out of places to eat at or drink out here in Chicago. There's so many.
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Hey Facebook
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Because I don't think a lot of people realize that there is a huge difference between Mexican food and Mexican food
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And sometimes i do want some legit Mexican food like.
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Text Max food. Right. Which is very specific type of Mexican food and the one place down the street has the closest thing.
00:34:53.570 --> 00:35:06.842
To text Max that I found here. Did you miss me some breakfast burritos? Some breakfast tacos. Hi.
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What? Like, I remember going to text being in Texas and like running late to work and I stopped invited at a burrito place. So, like taco seed or something like that and getting a whole bunch of breakfast, tacos, a breakfast
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Less than $three each so I can buy it
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Well, some for everybody. They literally here. It took me so long to find,
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9 or 10 dollars. Yeah.
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We're all ridiculous how expensive breakfast burritos. It it better be about 12 lb if I'm buying it for $nine. Right?
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Where is that?
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That has breakfast tacos and they're like specific.
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Right?
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And you know it's funny cuz a lot of people don't realize that about lots of places you know a Chicago deep dish pizza from Chicago is gonna be totally different than the conans deep dish Chicago pizza that we get here in Austin,
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Yeah.
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Is it everything everything is different
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According to the region. You know.
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It was called Joe's it's a food restaurant right in the middle of downtown Chicago they serve like soft crab crab crab legs lobster.
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Thankfully I wasn't picking up the bill
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Yeah yeah cos that's you know I always tell everybody and and for many years I
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Lived off the dollar menu just cuz that's just what I was used to and then I have I've been to some really.
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Steakhouses and you know Perry Steakhouse in Houston and all these and you know
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You don't do it very often but you should you should definitely do it. You know, go out to somebody's.
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Because like I tell people the difference between a steak at like outback.
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Nothing against outback,
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Hey Facebook.
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What about the the cuz you were saying that there's, you know, an obviously if anybody knows anything about Chicago, it's freaking cold.
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And that's why I I say people moved Austin because it's it's hot here for 10 and a half months out of the year you can do just about anything you want but,
00:38:06.741 --> 00:38:10.660
What about what what about the recreational activities up there.
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Oh, man. There's so many things to do. Especially, the lakefront cuz where's right next to? Obviously, Lake Michigan. So, there's a huge lake front, red that goes all around the city and you could walk it, bike it,
00:38:24.781 --> 00:38:34.047
Rule blades on scooters. I just go walking up and down the lakefront. It's so beautiful. Not only did you see the lake but the skyline on the lake is
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There's a few restaurants along the way. There's some bars along the way. They could do that as well. So, I mean, just like how we mentioned the street festivals. It literally, every, every weekend, starting in May, there's a street festival for anything. There's a rip.
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There is a one down the street right now called.
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Belmont and Sheffield Music Festival just because it's the cross street names. There's my windy city
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The bean and the sears tower the Willis Tower but I actually still love going to that when people come visit. I love showing them around. They love taking them to touristy spots.
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But Chicago lows to do things as far as they love to drink.
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Super boujee bars.
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Like there's a lot of spikies speaky bars for sure. Rooftop and patios that is like are always packed. I was just at a rooftop myself because I'm telling you, you're in Chicago. Like, it was literally still 50 something degrees last week.
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I was still having to wear a jacket like we're I always said like oh starting in May is when we get a nice weather but I was wrong cuz apparently it was a couple of cold days in May but now I see the weather I'm like okay well it's gonna be 78° today and that's like.
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It gets hot here but not as hot.
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I really do love hot weather so sometimes I'm like oh my god I don't know how to do it here but for.
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Almost winter that seems like an eternity is the summer. It's like there's always something to do. So many concerts come here too. So many different shows because of this gonna be like anything that's on tour. It's gonna have a stop in Chicago cuz it's gonna like the biggest market. So right. Comedy
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Comedy's huge here.
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Gonna see stand up shows and have a couple of friends
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Or come through Chicago. I feel like Chicago is a huge comedy town in Wrestlingtown. And I don't feel like a lot of people either do know that whore in wrestling or comedy but I feel like a lot of people don't but like a resting and comedy are huge in Chicago. So you could see.
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Any comic at any any day of the week you can see a comedy show even like on Mondays or Sundays like there's literally comic show
00:41:00.881 --> 00:41:10.011
And that works out considering that so many wrestlers now go on a comedy tour. You know?
00:41:09.973 --> 00:41:23.875
You know because people I don't well yeah I'll I'll put words into other people's mouths but you know like people that aren't in this line of work don't understand what it is and probably some of the funniest shit you ever hear is in the dressing room.
00:41:24.322 --> 00:41:36.208
At a wrestling show in in the locker room you're going to see.
00:41:36.620 --> 00:41:44.148
And why wouldn't they go on tour and tell those stories and tell those jokes and you know it I think it's super cool that's happening now.
00:41:44.677 --> 00:41:51.323
I think so too. It's awesome and I think a lot of people don't realize how much in common wrestling has with,
00:41:51.383 --> 00:42:01.568
Comedians or musicians or literally any person that's a performer trying to get their name out there to the next level whatever that level is. Right. Cuz where everything is like you see like dealing with
00:42:01.412 --> 00:42:09.210
Shitty promoters or people of politics. Oh my gosh. So much politics not only in Russington and so many other aspects of football.
00:42:09.109 --> 00:42:13.973
Performing as well. Trying to get your name out there, driving to the next town, you,
00:42:14.051 --> 00:42:23.830
Making friends and like it's a lot of things that are the same that I don't think a lot of people realize that go ahead and hand with wrestling cuz everybody thinks like oh wrestling is
00:42:23.827 --> 00:42:30.033
While it is, of course, it's just I feel it's a different way of expressing ourselves performance whether be if it's through.
00:42:30.183 --> 00:42:38.702
A musical instrument or through your voice through comedy or through singing it's still at work way of expressing yourself and still the same bullshit you have to put up with,
00:42:38.726 --> 00:42:45.508
Regardless if you do it in the ring on the mic or anything you you we put up with a lot of same bullshit that a lot of people do a lot.
00:42:45.946 --> 00:42:49.028
A lot and I feel like now with so many wrestlers doing,
00:42:49.034 --> 00:42:58.489
How many you're doing anything else that they're like kinda bridge that that got together and be like yo we we get it like we we go through the same thing that you all go through.
00:42:58.558 --> 00:42:59.974
Unfortunately. Right?
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Yeah and it and and I guess that's the best part is that you know some of the new kids just you know they don't when you're joking with them they don't enjoy this much as we did but they'll they'll get over it or whatever but,
00:43:12.548 --> 00:43:18.735
Yeah. So, let's let's let's write this. You do have a gig today.
00:43:19.074 --> 00:43:26.099
How did the sriracha mama think come about?
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Funny thing is I actually started it when I moved to Chicago I knew I wanted to do something different once I moved to Chicago cuz I think a lot of people don't even realize that for the longest time I
00:43:46.945 --> 00:43:57.409
All that happened was when I first started moving
00:43:57.406 --> 00:44:00.929
Billy Corrigan from the Smashing Pumpkins. Right.
00:44:04.506 --> 00:44:06.132
What? So it's kinda like fun way.
00:44:06.228 --> 00:44:15.584
To explaining that and when I was coming up here to wrestle, I actually won their all women's tournament that they have and that's actually how I started getting booked up here cuz they're like, whoever, when's the tournament?
00:44:15.627 --> 00:44:22.264
Win a contract and quotations cuz it's independent wrestling there's no such thing as.
00:44:22.369 --> 00:44:35.074
Hey
00:44:34.909 --> 00:44:40.728
So that was kind of a cool and that's how I end up putting tournament is because I got over the most 10 Billy Corden pick me.
00:44:40.986 --> 00:44:47.236
To to win a tournament. Anyway, so when I introduce myself to him, I introduce myself as Paloma and he's like,
00:44:47.423 --> 00:45:00.110
Why don't you wrestle as a am I because I don't think anybody could say it or like I don't
00:44:59.918 --> 00:45:03.206
Only in resistance pro only in Chicago.
00:45:03.510 --> 00:45:15.567
And that's what I started really thinking about I wanted to have like a moniker cuz I never really had.
00:45:15.708 --> 00:45:27.675
A monogram. I mean, how boring is the name star? Come on. I'm so creative. Oh, I got that.
00:45:27.609 --> 00:45:34.714
It was a typo
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Probably.
00:45:44.317 --> 00:45:57.121
Hey I'm just gonna leave it.
00:45:57.370 --> 00:46:10.615
And her Instagram handle was Sriracha and
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And I always thought I was so cool and I really did love sriracha. I mean, I wear the waitress at a sushi,
00:46:22.487 --> 00:46:28.458
So when I moved to Chicago that's like alright I'm gonna call myself the sriracha which I'm gonna start.
00:46:28.482 --> 00:46:34.066
And that's when I started getting red, white, and green gear. Coming out to the rain ball of sriracha bottle and I remember
00:46:33.991 --> 00:46:44.905
Cody at the time was telling me it was the so stupid. He thought was he so stupid. He's like it's never gonna work. It's not a get over and then now so many times like I remember the time that he said.
00:46:45.469 --> 00:46:53.403
I I owe you an apology. I'm like for what? He's like, for thinking that sriracha wasn't gonna work.
00:46:53.310 --> 00:46:57.229
I mean it got over or worked really well it's ridiculous it's dumb,
00:46:57.244 --> 00:47:09.904
Reply to your tweets and all that stuff.
00:47:09.775 --> 00:47:21.949
I mean everyone knows what it is and there's not a commercial about it
00:47:21.793 --> 00:47:26.036
Not one. Exactly. Everybody knows the iconic red bottle with the green top.
00:47:25.980 --> 00:47:38.144
Right
00:47:38.142 --> 00:47:48.281
Teaching ones.
00:47:48.629 --> 00:47:57.004
Exactly.
00:47:56.902 --> 00:48:05.142
Cuz hashtag it's not a gimmick. Right.
00:48:05.058 --> 00:48:18.439
From time to time. So, and I use it as like my spinach, sometimes in a match, like if I'm down, I eat some sriracha, then I like pull up, and that's what gives me the strains or like, I'll try to something that use it to like cheat
00:48:18.301 --> 00:48:25.361
Lots of fun. I love it. I get to have a lot of fun with it. I'm really into my character work. I think that's like my strongest strong thing.
00:48:25.575 --> 00:48:37.451
My strongest skill is my character work and my promo skills so I think having something like that definitely helps out with that. Yeah and it's funny I I always have a bottle of sriracha at.
00:48:37.331 --> 00:48:46.931
At my house but i have fallen in love with the sriracha I'll send you a picture of it it's actually in a jar and it's sriracha garlic sriracha
00:48:46.865 --> 00:48:55.717
Yeah I know it turned it as so good it is so
00:48:55.642 --> 00:49:07.852
Totally recommend it to everybody too. Yeah, it is.
00:49:07.786 --> 00:49:15.999
Eat dinner somewhere because it didn't start till eight and it was live at the time and so we go eat somewhere so we went to this Chinese restaurant G put some.
00:49:16.419 --> 00:49:19.609
Sriracha NG's. Okay with spicy food.
00:49:19.678 --> 00:49:32.608
He put some sriracha on there. He's like, nah, nah, that didn't really taste and he put some more on there and he still can't really taste it and I looked down. You might wanna slow down. It may hit you later and he put some a third one on there and all of a sudden, he just starts sweating
00:49:32.506 --> 00:49:35.921
He's like, oh my god. He's like, oh, now it's too much. I'm like,
00:49:36.080 --> 00:49:47.687
I told you to stop on the second one.
00:49:47.792 --> 00:49:51.666
Not that last message for the match before that. I was literally choking on my sriracha.
00:49:51.663 --> 00:50:04.701
It was like I had a spot where I ate it. Huh. And I went down the wrong pipe or what? But I could not stop coughing. I felt like I couldn't breathe. I'm like, oh my god.
00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:07.771
And that's,
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:17.133
Is it clip,
00:50:17.140 --> 00:50:31.537
My own siraja almost took me out. That's hilarious. That's hilarious. So, to wrap this up, why don't you go ahead and and I've, I've been scrolling across the bottom, but Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,
00:50:31.597 --> 00:50:33.338
Anything else you might have.
00:50:33.506 --> 00:50:42.052
At Paloma Star on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. I'll also co-host for ring the bell on YouTube. No.
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Yeah it's a show it's a wrestling show the YouTube show that a reviews women's wrestling and only women's wrestling
00:50:49.215 --> 00:50:53.179
Because there's so many other shows, podcasts are reading that focuses on both.
00:50:53.158 --> 00:51:04.782
So I go sit
00:51:04.555 --> 00:51:09.716
Along with DSN which is awesome. Have a cute little little following there. Nice.
00:51:09.713 --> 00:51:17.296
Weekly reviews. I jump under for all the pay-per-view reviews but it's really fun to have a platform where I could bring my
00:51:17.194 --> 00:51:26.262
Point of view as a wrestler and as a woman being able to talk about women's wrestling is.
00:51:26.403 --> 00:51:32.086
That is that is absolutely so cool. Which is one of the reasons why I try to make
00:51:32.065 --> 00:51:39.756
And like you said with podcast and video streams now it I tried to watch some of them and I'm just it's just you know.
00:51:40.096 --> 00:51:52.495
Just people sitting in their living room the dog keeps interrupting him and you know the kids keep running by and I watched one and the the guests kept walking away from the camera to go do something in his house and come back and it was like
00:51:52.411 --> 00:51:56.644
What in the world is going on here? So, it it it's cool to.
00:51:56.795 --> 00:52:05.179
Cuz I I wanted to do something different on this one where I didn't know Kay where did you train?
00:52:05.032 --> 00:52:15.297
Who's your favorite tag team? Well, I looked on Wikipedia and it said
00:52:15.096 --> 00:52:22.985
That super cool with the your your YouTube hosting is cuz you're right everybody talks about
00:52:22.865 --> 00:52:33.590
Older death matches all all the AEW all the WWE and I've always said cuz people used to ask me why even on any worse radio you never talk about
00:52:33.479 --> 00:52:39.873
WWE you never that guy's got to beat a one 1 billion dollars company why does he need me to talk about it
00:52:39.826 --> 00:52:53.476
He doesn't need me you know why not talk about shimmer and ACW and NWA Southwest and all these different places
00:52:53.446 --> 00:53:04.036
Exactly. And so I think that super cool that you guys do that with the the women's wrestling. That is that is fucking awesome. I didn't know that
00:53:04.024 --> 00:53:11.796
Yeah, totally, definitely come check it out but this was awesome. I'm so glad we did this. I definitely have had so many experiences both,
00:53:11.847 --> 00:53:16.477
Positive and a lot of negative experience in wrestling in Texas specifically in.
00:53:16.537 --> 00:53:25.236
Oh, man. I can go honey. I can have a whole party guide. So, episode about all the crazy stuff. That'll be part, that'll be part two. Oh my god.
00:53:25.278 --> 00:53:34.472
All the crazy stuff that I did, all the crazy stuff that I had to put up with, all the crazy stuff that happened to me and and
00:53:34.460 --> 00:53:41.665
Drove me away from the business but thankfully like Sam you were always one of the good ones. I thank you so much. I appreciate that.
00:53:41.563 --> 00:53:47.732
I'm like literally I'm in some
00:53:47.631 --> 00:53:58.733
Dumb tax and tables yeah
00:53:58.631 --> 00:54:10.274
Call positive never never been problematic at all. You know,
00:54:10.127 --> 00:54:16.387
I just mentioned it last night at a at a show you know when the speaking out thing came out,
00:54:16.438 --> 00:54:26.271
Somebody actually sent me a message and like, so, are you worried anyway? No, not at all. I'm not the least bit concerned. It doesn't even affect me. And they're like, really, I'm like.
00:54:26.601 --> 00:54:36.561
Yeah, dude. I do not why I do this. I do this cuz it's cool. It's fun. I like hanging out with these people and if I piss everybody off, then I'll have nobody to hang out with. So, yeah, I
00:54:36.396 --> 00:54:49.902
Try really hard to stay one of the good guys
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Hey Facebook,
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Even better for the but yes, I would definitely have to do a part two, make a little bit juicier. Yes.
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Billy everybody who's watching this or his involved in Texas wrestling now yah I don't have no idea how good you,
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Feel so so considered saying this but you're welcome everybody cuz people
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Yeah.
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Wrestling business but I like you think that because of all the bullshit that people like me and not just me and others had to go through cuz of
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Through the Texas wrestling scene. I believe it's thriving. How it is today. This is great. So, awesome. Well, go out there. Enjoy yourself at at your event today and we will definitely do a part two.
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Alright. Thanks.