Summary
Darby Allin is passionate about filmmaking, skateboarding, and professional wrestling, and explains how all three led him to AEW. He talks tattoos, his straight edge lifestyle, and how living in his car motivated his work ethic. He also explains why he turned down WWE’s tryout offer, what it meant to wrestle Cody and Chris Jericho as some of his first matches at AEW, his relationship with Dean Malenko, and why he’s so surprised by the fan reaction to him. Plus, Darby shares the stories behind his face paint, his name, and why he licked Seattle’s infamous gum wall!
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| 0:13.4 | This is a w all a lead wrestling unrestricted wrestling unrestricted the official a-e-w podcast Tony Shavani and my good friend |
| 0:16.2 | Aubrey Edwards. Why don't you introduce our guests this week? It's a very special one for us. |
| 0:20.6 | Very, very special guest this week. I'm excited to have Darby Allen on the show. |
| 0:25.0 | So Darby Allen also from My Neck of the Woods, Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:29.0 | It was with the Valve for a long time, I think 2016 through 2018. Big name on the |
| 0:34.6 | Indie Circuit, I know he came up to Define Seattle a lot, Lucha Libra, AAA, June |
| 0:39.4 | 2018. Darby, you've got like a super, super impressive resume impressive resume very very happy to have you today. |
| 0:44.4 | Thanks for having me. So was wrestling the first thing you did or were there any other |
| 0:50.9 | like I heard maybe you played some sports in high school. |
| 0:54.0 | Well I grew up skateboarding my whole life and I went to film school but I'm a film school |
| 0:58.8 | dropout so wrestling wasn't the first thing that I did. A because when I turned 18 I was 120 pounds and I thought I thought it was like a impossible for me to go that route. I just viewed it as like people that were you know six foot three |
| 1:16.3 | two hundred and something so in my mind I was like I'm just gonna be this like skate |
| 1:21.2 | guy in film crazy moviesrazing movies. So I went to film school. |
| 1:25.6 | So what aspiration, going to film school, what aspirations of movies did you want to make? |
| 1:30.2 | Do you have any type of movie you wanted to make? |
| 1:32.4 | Horror movies? Didn't matter what? |
| 1:34.0 | Documentaries mainly, just like real life stuff. |
| 1:38.0 | I was going to make a film based off of Craigslist fetishes. |
| 1:42.0 | Ooh. |
| 1:43.4 | Wow. |
| 1:44.4 | This crazy, there's a, so we had some, this friend of mine down there |
| 1:48.8 | that was going to be, we were going to find like 10 different crazeless ads with crazy ass fetishes and then the |
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