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PT2: Adam Copeland on Wrestling Roots, Filming Percy Jackson, and Raising Creative Kids - Part 2
Join us on "Your Story Club" as Adam Copeland reveals how his mother ignited his passion for music, setting him on a path toward creativity and success. From enjoying classic rock albums to navigating the complexities of high school as a jock, theater kid, and music enthusiast, Adam's journey is filled with personal anecdotes that highlight resilience and determination.
Discover the powerful impact drama and acting had on Adam's life, fostering immense personal growth and confidence. He shares his experiences working on shows like "Haven" and "Vikings," illustrating how these roles prepared him for significant parts in "Percy Jackson.” The boys share creative ideas such as a homemade clue game with stuffed animals & more jokes about doggies.
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Hello world, I'm Miles and I'm Memphis. Welcome to the your Story Club podcast, a place where stories are told and legends are made. That was cute, but I'm here for the interviews and not the jokes. Sorry, oh guys. And, by the way, his nickname on the podcast is the lame joke dude. Hey, I'm watching you here.
Speaker 2:And so am I. I'm also watching you. We're going to be interviewing all kinds of creatives, and you guys are going to be asking them awesome questions about what?
Speaker 1:Uh, their childhood.
Speaker 2:I think that if we can chat with people about their childhood, you creative too will be inspired, and then we can pass it on to other people.
Speaker 1:Should we call you dinosaur dude or lame jokes guy?
Speaker 2:I think we're going to call you nickname maker. That's what we're going to call you.
Speaker 1:I actually don't like that nickname, mr Nickname maker no.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, everyone, we want to welcome you to.
Speaker 1:The your Story Club, where everyone has a story. Hey everybody, I know it's been a while, but we've been adjusting to school and trying to figure out how to do this. We're finally done with the episode and we can't wait for you to hear it. So here we go. Part two of the Adam Copeland story in three. Two, one.
Speaker 2:Okay, memphis, you're up, give us a question.
Speaker 1:What did your mom or teachers do to be creative?
Speaker 3:So my mom, she was just gosh, she was the best you know. She was the mom who sat with me and listened to albums. Now, I know you probably don't know what albums are, but they're these big vinyl things that you put a needle on and and music just sounds better on them. But my mom and I would sit down and she would put on her albums and that's where I fell in love with the Beatles and that's where I fell in love with Led Zeppelin and it's where I fell in love with the Eagles and Creedence, ccr and just all of this amazing music that kids my age didn't really get to listen to.
Speaker 3:ACDC my mom was not into ACDC, but we're talking this is kind of pre-ACDC breaking. This is a while ago. And then I would sit down with my uncles and they had all of the Queen albums. So I would sit and listen to Queen and Cheap Trick and Boston and all of these great bands. So I fell in love with music from a really, really early age and to this day it's still probably my greatest love outside of my family, even more than wrestling is music. It's a constant in my life. I think it opened up my mind to creativity. Music was the great bridge that brought me to what I eventually ended up doing. It opened my eyes to performance and I fell in love with Kiss, which is face paint, and these larger-than-life characters like the comic books, like then wrestling. So it all kind of led to that. But I did drama. I always took drama in school. You did.
Speaker 2:I don't think I realized that I didn't know, you were a theater kid in high school. That's awesome.
Speaker 3:See, I kind of fell in this weird pocket where I was a jock but I wasn't a jock. I was a theater kid, but I wasn't a theater kid because I was on all the sports teams. So I kind of fell into this weird pocket. But I was also like a headbanger because I listened to Metallica and Led Zeppelin. So I was this weird island unto myself really and I had friends, but I wasn't in any one pocket. I didn't hang with a gang or anything. I had my one best friend and that was kind of it.
Speaker 3:And prior to kind of hitting my genetic potential, I was kind of a nerd and I had kids pick on me and I remember thinking that that's not going to happen again. I remember, like remember it was yesterday these three guys one threw me up against the locker, punched me in the face and tried to knee me downstairs and I kind of dodged that. But then they walked away and I kind of stood there thinking why did that happen? What just happened and that's never going to happen again. And that summer I uh started working out. So the following year when I saw those guys they wouldn't even look at me and that was. That was revenge. Enough. That and the fact that they all came to my book signing and stood in line to get my book signed, that was wow, it was pretty good revenge that is amazing.
Speaker 2:I, if I could be a fly on the wall. Do you, boys, hear that? Kids that gave him a hard time. It like literally hurt him. Yet that was something in his life that propelled him to to be who he is now. And look at that.
Speaker 3:They came to a book signing it's odd too, like as much as I never want that to happen to my girls at school. That moment it stuck with me and it did drive me. I use that as a kind of a driving force to get out of my hometown and to do those things that I wanted to do. In a weird way I almost got to thank them.
Speaker 2:We have these really tough moments in our lives and your childhood. I'm sure it's chocked full of them, but it's. What are we going to do with it? Are we going to allow that to be our story? Are we going to allow that to be the only part of our story, or?
Speaker 1:are we going to? They're kind of the reason you're jumping off 15 foot cages.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, so I can blame you for the broken leg too.
Speaker 1:But so, adam, I'm usually the nickname maker here, but you already have a lot, so let's hear yes what are what?
Speaker 3:are all your nicknames adam, uh, the ultimate opportunist, the master manipulator, the one that really stuck the rated r superstar edge.
Speaker 2:Yes, now I just go as cope yes, that's right, I think, to miles you'll always be, uncle Adam, we'll always keep it that way, or Ares?
Speaker 3:Then there's Ares, there's Shettle Shet, what Shettle? Vikings were named Apparently Shettle Flatnose, and this is historically accurate. His nose was smashed in battle so they nicknamed him Flatnose. So on Vikings, I had to wear like a giant nose prosthetic. I mean it kind of makes me not look like me.
Speaker 1:I'm going to press pause right there. Okay, guys, I'm going to press pause right there to do a dog joke. What do dogs do when they watch Netflix? They press pause.
Speaker 3:Oh, my goodness the girls just went to camp. I gotta remember that one because they'll be home in a week and I'm gonna use that.
Speaker 2:I have one more joke? Okay, one more joke, leaving it to Memphis to lighten things up.
Speaker 1:What goes tiktok and woof, woof, a watchdog a watchdog.
Speaker 2:You heard it here first. Ladies and gentlemen, so we learned.
Speaker 3:You did theater as a kid and we know you did haven and flash and um vikings, vikings, so much more well what the theater was for me and and what, taking drama honestly, I thought it would help me with wrestling everything I did.
Speaker 2:You knew at that young of an age you were thinking okay, wrestling's a goal, wrestling's a goal, wrestling's a goal. What's would help me with wrestling Everything I did. So you knew at that young of an age, you were thinking okay, wrestling's a goal, wrestling's a goal, wrestling's a goal. What's going to help me with wrestling theater?
Speaker 3:It wasn't a goal, it was the goal. There was no second option For me. I knew that I was going to be a wrestler. Now the only thing I couldn't control with that was am I going to be tall enough? Am I going to be big enough? I didn't know that, right, because, again, I've never met my dad so I didn't know my mom's 5'7". I just don't know.
Speaker 3:But I thought I can do everything else within my power to try and give myself some tools that I think will help me with wrestling, because I knew there's a huge element of talking and we tell stories in professional wrestling, right. So we tell stories with our body, but we also tell stories with our face. We tell story with the words we tell. We're kind of like standup comedians, we're kind of like musicians, we're kind of like actors, we're our own stunt men, we're athletes. It's. It's a. It's a melting pot of a lot of different things. So I thought, well, drama is going to help me come out of my shell, because it was a pretty shy kid. And then I took radio, television and radio in college because, again, I thought it would help me with my, yeah, I read that.
Speaker 2:I read that I was like you have your radio broadcasting degree, like you're a Pandora's box. This is amazing, sorry.
Speaker 3:Well, more than anything, I really just I. They were all tools that I thought I could take with me. You're supposed to go to college, so I was like, okay, I'll go to college, but I want to go to college for something that can. That can be another one of those tools in the tool belt. And it really did help. It helped me come out of my shell. Being in drama helped me come out of my shell, helped me kind of become comfortable in my own skin while I was putting on the skin of characters, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 2:I know I feel that way. I feel like after I leave a character, there's kind of inherit, some of that character. Yeah, there's stuff I need to say goodbye to in that character and there's stuff I've learned from that character. After playing Audrey for so long, I felt like she gave me this assertiveness and this confidence that I didn't really necessarily feel that I had before. But then I also had to temper that sometimes I was like, Okay, you don't need to have that skin on all the time.
Speaker 3:Well, and what's interesting about it too, is is there's a part of you in each character. That has to be. You have to pull from your personal experiences, but then you bring a part of that character and it kind of becomes a part of you too, um, and, and you're the lead of a show, there's an extra confidence that comes with that. Like I'm not going to be afraid of walking into a room, I just let a show, and if that stays with you, I think that's a that's a good thing, it's, it's a confidence building thing. And so when I was on Haven, I was, I was like I don't know what I'm doing, I, I, I don't know what to do with my hands. You know, I'm like Ricky, bobby and Talladega nights. I just I don't know how to do this Right. Little did I know that I actually kind of did, because I was going to say that I was like you knew.
Speaker 2:You knew more. I know that's what you felt, but you really. It was very clear that you knew what you were doing.
Speaker 3:I leaned on my wrestling. So with wrestling we're live, we're without a net If I'm out there. I got to fill 10 minutes with a live microphone and I don't have a script. There's a confidence that comes with that. But even still I knew I was walking, something that was different enough and I always kind of liken Haven to my.
Speaker 3:It was like my high school and I would ask, I'd ask you know our DP, why are we doing this angle? Why are we getting that? I was always trying to study because I thought these are things that are going to be important to learn, going forward to the next set that I go on and the next set and the next set. To the point where when I got to Percy Jackson, my first day on set, I had like a five or six page monologue and I'm meeting this crew for the first time and of course, the coverage is on me. First I was like all right, I got this, I got this and I had that confidence from Haven, from Vikings and so on and so on, to where I felt really, really confident walking out of the Percy Jackson set and the fact that it was Disney and everything. I didn't even think of that stuff.
Speaker 2:And so amazing to watch. It's such a great show. So silly to say this, but I just felt like such a proud parent watching you up there. I'm like he's a fully capable man. He's done so much but I'm watching him step into this incredible role and do it so well. I loved the laughter and the joy that I got to see in this character, this God, this God of war, right, but yet the humor and the just bipolar nature of this guy. It was so enjoyable to watch. I was just so proud of you. I was like man. What an excellent casting and an excellent job. You're doing incredible work on that show, so good job.
Speaker 3:Well, thank you, and I, like I said, I truly consider Haven like my boot camp, like at that point, I had to retire from wrestling and I quickly realized that I loved acting and that this was going to be my path going forward.
Speaker 2:You kind of know him more from his acting work, whereas he has this entire life and that was actually embarrassing.
Speaker 3:Your mom was this Viking surfer guy.
Speaker 2:When they said you're going to have a wrestler cast on the show, I just thought he was going to be a short, fat, bald dude Not that that's what I think wrestlers are. But I had. No, I didn't know. I have so many stories in my life of just it. Just I wasn't even thinking or nor did I know, and that was one of them. And then I was like wait, why is there a surfer here? I felt like we had a. I thought we were getting a wrestler.
Speaker 1:Just the naivete so this week, when my mom said we couldn't watch tv miles, well, me, I made a game for you two and it was really fun. It's basically clue, but with stuffed animals and murder and real life wait, real life murder.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. So tell them what you did not real.
Speaker 1:So I basically punch, put a bunch of clues in different rooms in the house, grab some stuffed animals, made suspects and they had to read off the clues. Some were useless, some were helpful and decided who was the real suspect. Real, who done it? You two can also make a great game, or you could just copy off of ours. We don't really care For more ideas. Check out our Instagram and maybe some pictures of the stuffies. Uh, I'll let you two do that.
Speaker 2:What else do you want to ask him about Percy Jackson?
Speaker 1:How much swordplay did you pick up?
Speaker 3:So what has been pretty interesting with a lot of the characters I play, at some point there tends to be some physicality. For instance, with Vikings there was a few battle scenes. But what I will say is I assumed that I was hired kind of just for battle scenes and then as I got started getting script, I was like, oh, they want character work here and and I didn't have very many physical scenes, just the physicality of rowing the boats, because if you saw us on the ocean we were rowing, those bad boys. Um, it was the hardest show I did was Vikings, and just from a physical standpoint it was a hard show.
Speaker 3:It was rewarding because you knew, as you're doing things, what it was going to look like. So you knew it was going to be. It was just going to be epic and massive. So it was a very, very physical, physical role and eventually by the end so I had to start using axes and start using some swords and the final scene for my character is actually a battle scene and the director wanted to do it in a one shot and my character leads the camera and that's actually really good advice.
Speaker 2:Miles, you know, here was a character that you really only thought was going to be so small or something in your life that you thought was going to be small, but because you went in and you did an amazing job and you were kind to people and you were great to work with, they actually turned into a much bigger thing. It turned into a much bigger role.
Speaker 1:When's the second season?
Speaker 3:Oh, I can't give away too too much. But there is a second season there is, that's great um did you, did you do creative stuff with your friends? I, uh, I love to draw, as we already know, since I was, uh, the honorary fire chief, um, and I love to draw wrestling characters and I love to draw, you know, comic book characters, and so what I would do.
Speaker 2:Memphis has a comic book.
Speaker 1:His name is Pizza man.
Speaker 3:Pizza man. That sounds amazing and it makes me want pizza now.
Speaker 1:So I know. Thank you for that.
Speaker 3:I currently have a comic going with my daughter's Lyric and Ruby and it's called Aloha Dog.
Speaker 2:The.
Speaker 3:Aloha Dog fights danger with a ukulele. So, for instance, the first issue there was a giant lightning storm at the beach, because Aloha Dog was at the beach, of course, and Aloha Dog is also a Frenchie and this was pre-getting Frenchies, so there's that. But lightning struck the beach and left a giant divot in the beach and all of these people at the beach got stuck in the hole. So Aloha Dog took his ukulele strings off, tied them together and reached it down into the hole to pull the people out of the hole.
Speaker 1:Would that like cut your hands?
Speaker 3:Well, it was nylon string. So no See, I was a heady on that one. I know where you're going.
Speaker 1:Were you creative with your friends, and are you still creative with them?
Speaker 3:Yes, I was creative with my friends because a lot of my friends couldn't draw but they loved wrestling. So, especially my best friend, jay and I. We grew up together. All we talked about was wrestling. We loved wrestling. That's how we connected and how we became best friends. So what we would do during art class I would draw wrestling characters and I would draw wrestling match-ups, and then we would go outside the library in our school where there was kind of round cavernous area and that was our wrestling ring. So we would go there and wrestle in between classes. But I would draw up these wrestling shows during art class with all of these characters. So Jay was Sweet Daddy Freakout. This other guy, mike Van Ed, was the Canadian Corn Flake. I was the Bl cornflake. I was the blonde bomber splint. Then there was the one man posse and then there was Decker Hard.
Speaker 1:So those were all of our characters Decker Hard Anyway, oh my goodness, that's amazing.
Speaker 3:And then Jay is who you did the podcast with, right For a long time as well. And then you also wrestle that. He was afraid to come in the school because he had just moved to the school and the teacher sent me out to talk him into coming in. And that's kind of how we first met. And then he had a Ninja Star which he bought in Karate, illustrated and offered to sell to me. Little did I know. He offered to sell it to everyone to make friends after school.
Speaker 3:And we're throwing this ninja star into a tree. Don't try it at home, kids. So we're doing that and he's like you know, I think I want to keep it. And I was like, ah, really yeah. And then, while we're throwing it though, we started talking about wrestling and that was it. We both loved wrestling and we continued that love for wrestling all the way to I'm going to college, he's going to college, I started training for wrestling, then he started training for wrestling, and then we hit the road after college and just went wherever we could and we starved and we we hitchhiked and we we took greyhounds across countries.
Speaker 1:So did you ever get in any fights with Jay besides on the big screen, and were you ever TV before families, before all of the stuff, there was me and Jay.
Speaker 3:And we always had each other to lean on. So when things got crazy like when we're driving across what are supposed to be frozen lakes in northern Manitoba but the van goes through the lake what? And you're together, you go through stuff like that just to wrestle in front of 20 kids on a reservation in Northern Manitoba where we made 75 bucks. You go through that kind of stuff together and you kind of have a friendship for life because it's pre-TV shows and all of that stuff.
Speaker 2:We talk a lot about what makes a good friend, and it's so neat to hear that Jay, this incredible friend who was also on Haven, that his support and his friendship is a big part of your story. Okay, hey, hey, speaking of good friends, we need to give a couple of our good friends a shout out. One of our good friends has given us a review on the show, and we also want to thank anybody who subscribed or reviewed the show and dub you all official friends of the podcast. So, miles, what one of our friends do you want to give a shout out to?
Speaker 1:colin perry, one of my best buds. We've been friends for a while and he is a hockey goalie. And I would like to give a shout out to one of my friends. It's actually Colin Perry's brother and he is a hockey player and he's just a great friend.
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Speaker 2:Did you have any other jokes you wanted to tell Adam? Oh?
Speaker 1:yeah.
Speaker 2:I have a bunch.
Speaker 1:Okay, why aren't dogs good dancers? They have two left feet. Do they have two left feet? I don't know.
Speaker 3:Well, they have four legs, so they kind of do I guess.
Speaker 1:So what do you get when you cross a dog with a telephone, a golden receiver?
Speaker 3:Okay, well, that's a good one, that one I can remember too.
Speaker 1:What did the Dalmatian say after lunch? That hit the spot, I'm definitely using that one on Ruby. When did you first start liking dogs?
Speaker 3:You know it's interesting. Growing up I grew up in an apartment so we couldn't have pets and I was always kind of afraid of dogs, honestly, just because I'd never been around them. It was actually a wrestling tour and we were in this place called moose factory, ontario. There was this little husky and, um, it didn't have a home and its mother had passed away. So so I took it and I brought it home and I fell in love with her. Her name was Frisco and she was my first dog. And that's when I really rescuing that dog and understanding the relationship that you can have with your pets because it was my first pet I just fell in love. I really did how they can make you feel and how pets, but dogs in particular, seem to have a special ability to know when you need a cuddle.
Speaker 1:Maverick does that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they can just feel when you're down and when you need them.
Speaker 3:I remember getting a phone call telling me I had to retire from wrestling and I was sitting on my deck here in Asheville and I got off the phone and I put my head down. I cried a little bit because it's the only thing I ever wanted to do. When I first found this out, the dogs surrounded me and they all just started nuzzling me and cuddling me and I needed it so much at that point, even though I was a grown man, even though I, I still needed it, and they knew it and they sensed it, and that's why, to me, pets, animals, are just so special and and they deserve every bit of love and attention and affection that we can give them. So, like I'm constantly snuggling with my dogs and just loving on them and kissing them, and my daughters are the same way, because they see Beth and I, you know, treat our dogs that way. We treat them like their family because they are so. Frisco was the one that opened up my heart to loving pets.
Speaker 1:Wow, sweet story.
Speaker 2:And, yes, memphis. Do you know that Adam in Nova Scotia used to watch our first puppy dog? What was our first puppy dog's name? Memphis McAllister McAllister, yes, you would love our current doggy, actually too as well. We got one called Maverick, and he's what kind he's a.
Speaker 1:Labradoodle.
Speaker 2:He's a Labradoodle yes, and that's exactly how he talks to Maverick all the time.
Speaker 3:He loves Maverick and.
Speaker 2:Maverick's great for that, because you just hug him and cuddle him and everything.
Speaker 3:Everybody has their dog voice. You should hear the dog voice for Miss Pickles, so like. Beth has cornered the market on this. But as soon as she starts doing Miss Pickles voice, pickles turns and looks like oh, that's my voice, she's talking about me right now. I actually brought Branny, my teacup poodle, out to Haven one season too.
Speaker 2:You did and we remember Branny.
Speaker 3:Yep, we drove out my pickup truck.
Speaker 2:Hey Miles, do you have any more questions about Percy Jackson? Anything you want to say about Percy? I don't want to close this interview and have you being like I wish about Percy Anything.
Speaker 1:What were you feeling when you had, when you were fighting Percy on that beach?
Speaker 3:Well, I'll take you back, Okay, if that's all right, even though I know we're getting close to the end here. But I know, miles, you want to hear some of this stuff. So I read, I read for Percy, and I didn't really understand what exactly Percy Jackson was, because when the books came out, when those initial two movies came out, I was on the road like 250 days a year, so it kind of flew by and I didn't really understand what it was.
Speaker 1:Those are good movies.
Speaker 3:I never saw the movies, I'd never read the books. I'd seen the books, obviously in bookstores and everything, but I didn't fully grasp how big it was. So I read for it. I didn't think much of it because with auditions you just kind of got to throw them away. Once you do them they're gone.
Speaker 3:But this was the first time that I ever dressed how I thought the character would dress. The very first time I did it. So I wore one of like my, my edge vests and I had just shaved the kind of mini Mohawk myself and and I wore like an Andre the giant tank top. I was sleeveless, I was all town. I just figured, eh, why not? And when I read the sides I saw humor in it and I came to found out that that's kind of what got me the gig is that I found the humorous beats in it and I came to found out that that's kind of what got me the gig is that I found the humorous beats in it, and I guess a lot of other people didn't, so I'd forgotten about it. And then my manager called and said hey, you got a zoom call with the executive producers of Percy Jackson.
Speaker 3:Oh, I still didn't think anything of it. I just thought, okay, maybe I'm on a list now and, sure enough, no-transcript. Wow, Awesome, Cool. But in the meantime I'd started wrestling again. So now I'm going. Okay, how do I pull off this? Because?
Speaker 1:get a wrestling day in Vancouver whatever reason.
Speaker 3:Well, I think I know the reason. Rick Riordan saw my take and he said he's Aries, there's nobody else. So I think that's why I was still allowed to wrestle and still do Percy Jackson which is kind of crazy which I got a funny story there. We did the diner scene, right, yes, and as we're doing the diner scene, the kids didn't know what I was going to do. So when I pounded the table Arian, who plays Grover he was petrified. He had no idea it was coming. Nobody on the set had any idea it was coming. Everyone jumped.
Speaker 3:We did a take where the burgers jumped coffee spilled and our director, jet Wilkinson she's awesome, she came up to me and she goes really trying to scare him this time. So I do it in different portions of the scene, then fast forward to closing out that scene. And we finished at 1am in Vancouver or no in Abbotsford, bc, outside of Vancouver, abbotsford, abbotsford. And then I had to hop directly on a jet at 2am, fly, fly overnight across the country, land in Philadelphia, go straight to the arena to do a pay-per-view.
Speaker 3:I hadn't slept since 6 am the previous morning and it wasa half an hour match and I remember just my eyes were burning. I was so tired and Beth was with me and she was involved in the finishes wrestling match, everything. We get back to the hotel after I am so wired I can't sleep again. So now I haven't slept for 48 hours, got home and collapsed for like a day, fast forward again to the beach battle and I wish people could see you right now, I know we're just doing this for podcasts, but I love all of your close-up faces to the camera.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll lean in. Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 3:So we got to the battle scene and we had rehearsed it and we had walked through it and all of these things, but I'm still I'm doing this sword fight with a 13-year-old, so that's a little. It's stressful, awkward and stressful because I'm like I gotta be careful here because I'm a big dude and this is a 13 year old and he's the star of the show. But we had a blast and he was so game walker, who plays percy, he was so excited for this scene. It was what he looked forward to most in the scripts was our battle scene. Because he's again, he's 13 years old, right in the the time of discovering sylvester stallone movies.
Speaker 3:He's doing push-ups between takes like he's. He's all fired up and he really is excited about this fight scene with a pro wrestler. He was, he was all down and there were times I'm chucking him everywhere and he just looked like a bobblehead and I'm just thinking, oh my gosh, he's 13 years old, I have to be so careful here. He was so excited, he was so game uh, an absolute pro. And I can't say enough about them uh, leah, ari and and Walker, because in between takes they go out to school in a trailer and then they come back in and do more scenes and then they go back to school. I don't have enough bandwidth for that. I don't remember what I had for breakfast, let alone going to school and then coming in and doing a five-page scene. Just really really hard. Workers, really good head on their shoulders, great families behind them.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:So do you have any advice for parents in helping their kids be creative?
Speaker 3:have any advice for parents and helping their kids be creative. So what I would say sometimes as parents, I know I do, anyway, I, I really I'm, I'm overprotective. You know, I want, I want the best for my girls, but I also want them to be safe and I want that. I want to help them and sometimes I realize I need to just get out of their way and and they need to discover and they need to create on their own. And then they'll come to me and say dad, let's do a comic book. And there's Aloha, dog lyric and Ruby have joined the Shakespeare club at school, so every year they do Shakespeare and I'm blown away because I'll run lines with them. It's funny because Beth will go to run lines and no, we have to do this with dad. And I'm like, who do you think I do my auditions with? Mom, knows what she's doing, but so, but it's so much fun and we sit there and we run lines together and they asked me the process of how I remember lines and it's just so much fun to be able to help. But then I realized I don't want it to go beyond help to where I'm butting in and I need to let them discover on their own.
Speaker 3:Beth and I also run the drama club at the girls' school oh fun. And this year it was so much fun. We did Shel Silverstein poems and we had the kids build all of the props and paint all of the props. So that's one of the things we do every year is we do this drama club and this year we had 50 kids come out. Also so much fun to see kids grow and grow confidence and find their voice. And that's what I'm learning with Lyric in particular, because she started acting classes and she loves it and it's a connection that we have. Because she loves Percy Jackson Even if I wasn't on it she was going to love it. She just loves the show. But now she has a dad who's on the show that she loves and she sees that kids can do this. That's really exciting to watch her kind of discover and find her, find her voice. So my advice to parents was be there but don't be in the way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's tricky. Sometimes you want to be, you know being present and available, you know entering into their world, you know entering into what the kids want to do and then also walking away when it's when it's time to be done, like when you just need to step away and let them, like, live their own kid life oh, and just and let them fall and and if they need to pick up, you can be there to pick them up, but chances are probably get up and go right.
Speaker 1:I got this yeah if you were an animal, what animal would you be?
Speaker 3:wolf, or currently a sloth, because I just sit on my butt all day I don't think that I know.
Speaker 2:Even if you are, your brain's probably going a million miles a minute with all of the creative stuff that you're doing. Thank you so much. We like to close out our segment with kind of a time of reflecting your story back to you. So, um, I will do my best, because I take a few notes, but usually I kind of do this on the fly. So how do these stories always start off, boys?
Speaker 2:once upon a time once upon a time there was a little boy named adam and he grew up in canada where it was really really cold but really really beautiful. He was a little guy and he had an amazing, amazing, amazing mom who cared so much for him and did everything she could. She was such a hard hardworking mom. One day he won a art contest. And he won this art contest where he drew these like firemen and he got to go and put on a fireman hat and be in a parade. He was so terrified but that was some great feedback for him that he had kind of won this art contest. And then later on he's at school and he's growing up and these guys pick on him and punch him and it totally surprised him and totally disoriented him. But in his heart and his spirit he knew that was never going to happen again. And while at school he met this great friend named Jay, who actually really needed a friend himself and he was, you know, trying to peddle these ninja stars and doing whatever he could just to have a good friend. And out walks this guy named Adam. Through Adam's kindness, because he just was born with this genuinely kind heart, he started up a conversation with Jay, and they were outside and they would throw these ninja stars around and they didn't know that their friendship would spark over wrestling and through their friendship they began to share this love of wrestling through art, through staging scenes, through going out in this, you know schoolyard area, and that those moments were foreshadowing of what was to come.
Speaker 2:And this next contest that Adam won because Adam was a winner of contests. This next contest that Adam won was one that was in the newspaper and he wrote and this was a time where they didn't have technology to write for them or anything. He wrote. And here Adam was using his creativity. He was an artist and now he was a writer and he wrote his story on why he would love to be a wrestler and he had this one goal in mind to be a wrestler. That was it. There was nothing else to it, and it was in the cards that his story in his heart would be seen and he would be given and win this contest. When he heard this voice come over the phone and tell him that he had won.
Speaker 2:And so that was huge for Adam, because Adam was a hard worker.
Speaker 2:He was such a hard worker, his mom was such a hard worker and he had this dream in his heart and he didn't know how he was going to make this possible. But winning this contest is what made this possible for him, and so he went on his way. Adam grew up, he grew tall, he grew strong, he grew brave and he began to tell these stories, not on a tiny little stage in the back of a schoolyard, but on a world stage. Through driving through all kinds of bad weather, through almost falling into icy lakes, all different kinds of conditions in life and not knowing where paychecks or food or things were going to come from, he built this friendship, this ragtag group, with these other guys with like-minded spirits and hearts, and little did you know before he knew it he became this incredible wrestler and through his time on stage he was able to take care of doggies and inspire young children and study more arts and more craft and be a good steward of all the relationships, the friendships and the talents that he was given.
Speaker 1:He also kind of jumped off of a 15 foot cake and he's still here and broke his leg and has lived happily ever after.
Speaker 2:And he's still here and broke his leg and has lived happily ever after. Okay, I feel like, even though there was a little part, before you climbed off of a big cage and fell, you met an amazing, amazing woman named Beth and she was incredible, and you got married and you've had these kids and you have this beautiful family to tell more and more stories and continue these stories on so well. Adam, thank you so very much for being patient. Not only you've been so patient with all of our technical stuff that we're still trying to figure out, but we'd love to hear your story, miles. What do you want to say?
Speaker 1:Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 3:Well, you're welcome, I am. I am always good to be a guinea pig well, thank you so much, adam.
Speaker 2:We so appreciate it, and I'm just gonna go ahead and stop my recording right now I just hear in my headphones recording stopped okay, so that was such a great episode. I know it was a bit long, but there was just so much to fit in. He has such such a great story, so you know the drill.
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Speaker 2:Emma Schuster, who helped create our logo and did a bunch of the admin, Matthew Holden, who interned at North Rose this spring, and my brother, andy Mayer, who brought the logo to life and continues to be my emergency lifeline on all of our technical and audio needs.
Speaker 1:It takes a village people it really does.
Speaker 2:To catch the latest from me. You can follow me at EmilyRoseLA to visit our production company at North Bros Pictures and for Adam visit at Rated R Cope. For the Doggy Rescue, visit Road Dogs with 1D and to see our creations this week, head on over to Instagram at your Story Club Podcast.
Speaker 1:Most importantly, we hope you kids were inspired today to know your story is being written as we speak. These people that we interview started somewhere and you've already started and worked through so many challenges along the way.
Speaker 2:So until next time, remember, everyone has a story no-transcript.