#232: The Wrestler (@ColtCabana)

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🗓️ 17 August 2015

⏱️ 218 minutes

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Summary

Colt Cabana had me over to his flat in Edinburgh, Scotland for a talk about indy wrestling. Colt is a looper. He's made a living as a wrestler for almost two decades. We talked about the travel, the money, the trials and tribulations. Everything about what it's like to be an independant wrestler. He's a super positive guy and he taught me a thing or two about appreciating what you've got.

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0:00.0	I used to go to Mexico and I used to buy, this is before I kind of became a name where I could sell my own merchandise.
0:04.8	I would go to Mexico and I would buy wrestling masks and I'd bring them back to America.
0:10.4	Nobody was doing this and I would sell lucha masks at the shows in America.
0:14.0	People would want them.
0:15.0	Yeah, you're a wrestling fan, don't you want a wrestling mask?
0:17.0	It's a souvenir.
0:18.0	Right.
0:19.0	And so I was making a living, literally I was a, I was a Rey Mysterio Mass seller.
0:23.0	That was like my job for years, really.
0:25.0	And the punch is smooth and chance was smashed into.
0:29.0	There was blood in a single gunshot, but your two shots, who at the copa?
0:35.0	Copa Copana.
0:37.0	The hardest part, no, no, no, no, no.
0:40.0	He asked the copa, Copa Copana.
0:45.0	Music and passion.
0:47.0	You've watched, you've watched like way too much porn.
0:55.0	You take over your life.
0:58.0	You've heard a fear of missing out.
1:01.0	Fomo, some people call it.
1:04.0	So what, what is like you can't appreciate what you've got because there might be something else better.
1:11.0	So a lot of times that'll happen when you're reading a menu and you like you get frozen
1:17.0	because you don't want to order anything because what if something else is better?
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