August 31, 2024 • 40 mins
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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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello world, I'm Miles and I'm Memphis.
Welcome to the your Story Clubpodcast, a place where stories
are told and legends are made.
That was cute, but I'm here forthe interviews and not the
jokes.
Sorry, oh guys.
And, by the way, his nicknameon the podcast is the lame joke
(00:25):
dude.
Hey, I'm watching you here.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And so am I.
I'm also watching you.
We're going to be interviewingall kinds of creatives, and you
guys are going to be asking themawesome questions about what?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Uh, their childhood.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I think that if we can chat with people about their
childhood, you creative toowill be inspired, and then we
can pass it on to other people.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Should we call you dinosaur dude or lame jokes guy?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I think we're going to call you nickname maker.
That's what we're going to callyou.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I actually don't like that nickname, mr Nickname
maker no.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Okay, okay, everyone, we want to welcome you to.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
The your Story Club, where everyone has a story.
Hey everybody, I know it's beena while, but we've been
adjusting to school and tryingto figure out how to do this.
We're finally done with theepisode and we can't wait for
you to hear it.
(01:22):
So here we go.
Part two of the Adam Copelandstory in three.
Two, one.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Okay, memphis, you're up, give us a question.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
What did your mom or teachers do to be creative?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
So my mom, she was just gosh, she was the best you
know.
She was the mom who sat with meand listened to albums.
Now, I know you probably don'tknow what albums are, but
they're these big vinyl thingsthat you put a needle on and and
music just sounds better onthem.
But my mom and I would sit downand she would put on her albums
(01:57):
and that's where I fell in lovewith the Beatles and that's
where I fell in love with LedZeppelin and it's where I fell
in love with the Eagles andCreedence, ccr and just all of
this amazing music that kids myage didn't really get to listen
to.
ACDC my mom was not into ACDC,but we're talking this is kind
(02:17):
of pre-ACDC breaking.
This is a while ago.
And then I would sit down withmy uncles and they had all of
the Queen albums.
So I would sit and listen toQueen and Cheap Trick and Boston
and all of these great bands.
So I fell in love with musicfrom a really, really early age
(02:37):
and to this day it's stillprobably my greatest love
outside of my family, even morethan wrestling is music.
It's a constant in my life.
I think it opened up my mind tocreativity.
Music was the great bridge thatbrought me to what I eventually
ended up doing.
(02:58):
It opened my eyes toperformance 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 (03:16):
I don't think I realized that I didn't know, you
were a theater kid in highschool.
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
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 Iwasn't a theater kid because I
was on all the sports teams.
So I kind of fell into thisweird pocket.
But I was also like aheadbanger because I listened to
Metallica and Led Zeppelin.
So I was this weird island untomyself really and I had friends
(03:42):
, but I wasn't in any one pocket.
I didn't hang with a gang oranything.
I had my one best friend andthat was kind of it.
And prior to kind of hitting mygenetic potential, I was kind of
a nerd and I had kids pick onme and I remember thinking that
(04:04):
that's not going to happen again.
I remember, like remember itwas yesterday these three guys
one threw me up against thelocker, punched me in the face
and tried to knee me downstairsand I kind of dodged that.
But then they walked away and Ikind of stood there thinking
why did that happen?
What just happened and that'snever going to happen again.
And that summer I uh startedworking out.
(04:28):
So the following year when Isaw those guys they wouldn't
even look at me and that was.
That was revenge.
Enough.
That and the fact that they allcame to my book signing and
stood in line to get my booksigned, that was wow, it was
pretty good revenge that isamazing.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
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 hislife that propelled him to to be
who he is now.
And look at that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
They came to a book signing it's odd too, like as
much as I never want that tohappen to my girls at school.
That moment it stuck with meand it did drive me.
I use that as a kind of adriving force to get out of my
hometown and to do those thingsthat I wanted to do.
In a weird way I almost got tothank them.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We have these really tough moments in our lives and
your childhood.
I'm sure it's chocked full ofthem, but it's.
What are we going to do with it?
Are we going to allow that tobe our story?
Are we going to allow that tobe the only part of our story,
or?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
are we going to?
They're kind of the reasonyou're jumping off 15 foot cages
.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well, yeah, so I can blame you for the broken leg too
.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But so, adam, I'm usually the nickname maker here,
but you already have a lot, solet's hear yes what are what?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
are all your nicknames adam, uh, the ultimate
opportunist, the mastermanipulator, the one that really
stuck the rated r superstaredge.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
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 (06:08):
Then there's Ares, there's Shettle Shet, what
Shettle?
Vikings were named ApparentlyShettle Flatnose, and this is
historically accurate.
His nose was smashed in battleso they nicknamed him Flatnose.
So on Vikings, I had to wearlike a giant nose prosthetic.
I mean it kind of makes me notlook like me.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'm going to press pause right there.
Okay, guys, I'm going to presspause right there to do a dog
joke.
What do dogs do when they watchNetflix?
They press pause.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Oh, my goodness the girls just went to camp.
I gotta remember that onebecause they'll be home in a
week and I'm gonna use that.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I have one more joke?
Okay, one more joke, leaving itto Memphis to lighten things up
.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
What goes tiktok and woof, woof, a watchdog a
watchdog.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You heard it here first.
Ladies and gentlemen, so welearned.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
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 andwhat, taking drama honestly, I
thought it would help me withwrestling everything I did.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You knew at that young of an age you were
thinking okay, wrestling's agoal, wrestling's a goal,
wrestling's a goal.
What's would help me withwrestling Everything I did.
So you knew at that young of anage, you were thinking okay,
wrestling's a goal, wrestling'sa goal, wrestling's a goal.
What's going to help me withwrestling theater?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It wasn't a goal, it was the goal.
There was no second option Forme.
I knew that I was going to be awrestler.
Now the only thing I couldn'tcontrol 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's5'7".
(07:50):
I just don't know.
But I thought I can doeverything else within my power
to try and give myself sometools that I think will help me
with wrestling, because I knewthere's a huge element of
talking and we tell stories inprofessional wrestling, right.
So we tell stories with ourbody, but we also tell stories
with our face.
We tell story with the words wetell.
(08:11):
We're kind of like standupcomedians, we're kind of like
musicians, we're kind of likeactors, we're our own stunt men,
we're athletes.
It's.
It's a.
It's a melting pot of a lot ofdifferent things.
So I thought, well, drama isgoing to help me come out of my
shell, because it was a prettyshy kid.
And then I took radio,television and radio in college
because, again, I thought itwould help me with my, yeah, I
(08:35):
read that.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I read that I was like you have your radio
broadcasting degree, like you'rea Pandora's box.
This is amazing, sorry.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, more than anything, I really just I.
They were all tools that Ithought I could take with me.
You're supposed to go tocollege, so I was like, okay,
I'll go to college, but I wantto go to college for something
that can.
That can be another one ofthose tools in the tool belt.
And it really did help.
It helped me come out of myshell.
Being in drama helped me comeout of my shell, helped me kind
of become comfortable in my ownskin while I was putting on the
(09:06):
skin of characters, if thatmakes any sense.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I know I feel that way.
I feel like after I leave acharacter, there's kind of
inherit, some of that character.
Yeah, there's stuff I need tosay goodbye to in that character
and there's stuff I've learnedfrom that character.
After playing Audrey for solong, I felt like she gave me
this assertiveness and thisconfidence that I didn't really
necessarily feel that I hadbefore.
But then I also had to temperthat sometimes I was like, Okay,
(09:31):
you don't need to have thatskin on all the time.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, and what's interesting about it too, is is
there's a part of you in eachcharacter.
That has to be.
You have to pull from yourpersonal experiences, but then
you bring a part of thatcharacter and it kind of becomes
a part of you too, um, and, andyou're the lead of a show,
there's an extra confidence thatcomes with that.
(09:54):
Like I'm not going to be afraidof walking into a room, I just
let a show, and if that stayswith you, I think that's a
that's a good thing, it's, it'sa confidence building thing.
And so when I was on Haven, Iwas, I was like I don't know
what I'm doing, I, I, I don'tknow what to do with my hands.
You know, I'm like Ricky, bobbyand Talladega nights.
I just I don't know how to dothis Right.
(10:16):
Little did I know that Iactually kind of did, because I
was going to say that I was likeyou knew.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You knew more.
I know that's what you felt,but you really.
It was very clear that you knewwhat you were doing.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
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 alive microphone and I don't
have a script.
There's a confidence that comeswith that.
But even still I knew I waswalking, something that was
different enough and I alwayskind of liken Haven to my.
It was like my high school and Iwould ask, I'd ask you know our
(10:51):
DP, why are we doing this angle?
Why are we getting that?
I was always trying to studybecause I thought these are
things that are going to beimportant to learn, going
forward to the next set that Igo on and the next set and the
next set.
To the point where when I gotto Percy Jackson, my first day
on set, I had like a five or sixpage monologue and I'm meeting
(11:12):
this crew for the first time andof course, the coverage is on
me.
First I was like all right, Igot this, I got this and I had
that confidence from Haven, fromVikings and so on and so on, to
where I felt really, reallyconfident walking out of the
Percy Jackson set and the factthat it was Disney and
everything.
I didn't even think of thatstuff.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And so amazing to watch.
It's such a great show.
So silly to say this, but Ijust felt like such a proud
parent watching you up there.
I'm like he's a fully capableman.
He's done so much but I'mwatching him step into this
incredible role and do it sowell.
I loved the laughter and thejoy that I got to see in this
character, this God, this God ofwar, right, but yet the humor
and the just bipolar nature ofthis guy.
(11:58):
It was so enjoyable to watch.
I was just so proud of you.
I was like man.
What an excellent casting andan excellent job.
You're doing incredible work onthat show, so good job.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Well, thank you, and I, like I said, I truly consider
Haven like my boot camp, likeat that point, I had to retire
from wrestling and I quicklyrealized that I loved acting and
that this was going to be mypath going forward.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You kind of know him more from his acting work,
whereas he has this entire lifeand that was actually
embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Your mom was this Viking surfer guy.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
When they said you're going to have a wrestler cast
on the show, I just thought hewas going to be a short, fat,
bald dude Not that that's what Ithink wrestlers are.
But I had.
No, I didn't know.
I have so many stories in mylife of just it.
Just I wasn't even thinking ornor did I know, and that was one
of them.
And then I was like wait, whyis there a surfer here?
I felt like we had a.
I thought we were getting awrestler.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
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 withstuffed animals and murder and
real life wait, real life murder.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
No, no, no.
So tell them what you did notreal.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
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 readoff the clues.
Some were useless, some werehelpful and decided who was the
real suspect.
Real, who done it?
You two can also make a greatgame, or you could just copy off
of ours.
We don't really care For moreideas.
(13:36):
Check out our Instagram andmaybe some pictures of the
stuffies.
Uh, I'll let you two do that.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
What else do you want to ask him about Percy Jackson?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
How much swordplay did you pick up?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
So what has been pretty interesting with a lot of
the characters I play, at somepoint there tends to be some
physicality.
For instance, with Vikingsthere was a few battle scenes.
But what I will say is Iassumed that I was hired kind of
just for battle scenes and thenas I got started getting script
, I was like, oh, they wantcharacter work here and and I
(14:09):
didn't have very many physicalscenes, just the physicality of
rowing the boats, because if yousaw us on the ocean we were
rowing, those bad boys.
Um, it was the hardest show Idid was Vikings, and just from a
physical standpoint it was ahard show.
It was rewarding because youknew, as you're doing things,
(14:29):
what it was going to look like.
So you knew it was going to be.
It was just going to be epicand massive.
So it was a very, very physical, physical role and eventually
by the end so I had to startusing axes and start using some
swords and the final scene formy character is actually a
battle scene and the directorwanted to do it in a one shot
(14:53):
and my character leads thecamera and that's actually
really good advice.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Miles, you know, here was a character that you really
only thought was going to be sosmall or something in your life
that you thought was going tobe small, but because you went
in and you did an amazing joband 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 biggerrole.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
When's the second season?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh, I can't give away too too much.
But there is a second seasonthere is, that's great um did
you, did you do creative stuffwith your friends?
I, uh, I love to draw, as wealready know, since I was, uh,
the honorary fire chief, um, andI love to draw wrestling
characters and I love to draw,you know, comic book characters,
(15:42):
and so what I would do.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Memphis has a comic book.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
His name is Pizza man .
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Pizza man.
That sounds amazing and itmakes me want pizza now.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So I know.
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I currently have a comic going with my daughter's
Lyric and Ruby and it's calledAloha Dog.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Aloha Dog fights danger with a ukulele.
So, for instance, the firstissue there was a giant
lightning storm at the beach,because Aloha Dog was at the
beach, of course, and Aloha Dogis also a Frenchie and this was
pre-getting Frenchies, sothere's that.
(16:23):
But lightning struck the beachand left a giant divot in the
beach and all of these people atthe beach got stuck in the hole
.
So Aloha Dog took his ukulelestrings off, tied them together
and reached it down into thehole to pull the people out of
the hole.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Would that like cut your hands?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Well, it was nylon string.
So no See, I was a heady onthat one.
I know where you're going.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Were you creative with your friends, and are you
still creative with them?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yes, I was creative with my friends because a lot of
my friends couldn't draw butthey loved wrestling.
So, especially my best friend,jay and I.
We grew up together.
All we talked about waswrestling.
We loved wrestling.
That's how we connected and howwe became best friends.
So what we would do during artclass I would draw wrestling
characters and I would drawwrestling match-ups, and then we
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would go outside the library inour school where there was kind
of round cavernous area andthat was our wrestling ring.
So we would go there andwrestle in between classes.
But I would draw up thesewrestling shows during art class
with all of these characters.
So Jay was Sweet Daddy Freakout.
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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 manposse and then there was Decker
Hard.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So those were all of our characters Decker Hard
Anyway, oh my goodness, that'samazing.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
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 theschool because he had just moved
to the school and the teachersent me out to talk him into
coming in.
And that's kind of how we firstmet.
And then he had a Ninja Starwhich he bought in Karate,
illustrated and offered to sellto me.
Little did I know.
(18:38):
He offered to sell it toeveryone to make friends after
school.
And we're throwing this ninjastar into a tree.
Don't try it at home, kids.
So we're doing that and he'slike you know, I think I want to
keep it.
And I was like, ah, really yeah.
And then, while we're throwingit though, we started talking
about wrestling and that was it.
We both loved wrestling and wecontinued that love for
wrestling all the way to I'mgoing to college, he's going to
(19:00):
college, I started training forwrestling, then he started
training for wrestling, and thenwe hit the road after college
and just went wherever we couldand we starved and we we
hitchhiked and we we tookgreyhounds across countries.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
So did you ever get in any fights with Jay besides
on the big screen, and were youever TV before families, before
all of the stuff, there was meand Jay.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
And we always had each other to lean on.
So when things got crazy likewhen we're driving across what
are supposed to be frozen lakesin northern Manitoba but the van
goes through the lake what?
And you're together, you gothrough stuff like that just to
wrestle in front of 20 kids on areservation in Northern
(20:12):
Manitoba where we made 75 bucks.
You go through that kind ofstuff together and you kind of
have a friendship for lifebecause it's pre-TV shows and
all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
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 supportand his friendship is a big part
of your story.
Okay, hey, hey, speaking ofgood friends, we need to give a
couple of our good friends ashout out.
One of our good friends hasgiven us a review on the show,
(20:42):
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podcast.
So, miles, what one of ourfriends do you want to give a
shout out to?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
colin perry, one of my best buds.
We've been friends for a whileand he is a hockey goalie.
And I would like to give ashout out to one of my friends.
It's actually Colin Perry'sbrother and he is a hockey
player and he's just a greatfriend.
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Yes, and also we have a bunch of other friends who
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Okay, I think Memphis has somemore jokes as we wrap up this
awesome interview with AdamCopeland.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Did you have any other jokes you wanted to tell
Adam?
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I have a bunch.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, why aren't dogs good dancers?
They have two left feet.
Do they have two left feet?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Well, they have four legs, so they kind of do I guess
.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So what do you get when you cross a dog with a
telephone, a golden receiver?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Okay, well, that's a good one, that one I can
remember too.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
What did the Dalmatian say after lunch?
That hit the spot, I'mdefinitely using that one on
Ruby.
When did you first start likingdogs?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know it's interesting.
Growing up I grew up in anapartment so we couldn't have
pets and I was always kind ofafraid of dogs, honestly, just
because I'd never been aroundthem.
It was actually a wrestlingtour and we were in this place
called moose factory, ontario.
There was this little husky and, um, it didn't have a home and
(23:18):
its mother had passed away.
So so I took it and I broughtit home and I fell in love with
her.
Her name was Frisco and she wasmy first dog.
And that's when I reallyrescuing that dog and
understanding the relationshipthat you can have with your pets
because it was my first pet Ijust fell in love.
(23:38):
I really did how they can makeyou feel and how pets, but dogs
in particular, seem to have aspecial ability to know when you
need a cuddle.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Maverick does that.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, they can just feel when you're down and when
you need them.
I remember getting a phone calltelling me I had to retire from
wrestling and I was sitting onmy deck here in Asheville and I
got off the phone and I put myhead down.
I cried a little bit becauseit's the only thing I ever
wanted to do.
When I first found this out,the dogs surrounded me and they
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all just started nuzzling me andcuddling me and I needed it so
much at that point, even thoughI was a grown man, even though I
, I still needed it, and theyknew it and they sensed it, and
that's why, to me, pets, animals, are just so special and and
they deserve every bit of loveand attention and affection that
(24:34):
we can give them.
So, like I'm constantlysnuggling 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 familybecause they are so.
Frisco was the one that openedup my heart to loving pets.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Wow, sweet story.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And, yes, memphis.
Do you know that Adam in NovaScotia used to watch our first
puppy dog?
What was our first puppy dog'sname?
Memphis McAllister McAllister,yes, you would love our current
doggy, actually too as well.
We got one called Maverick, andhe's what kind he's a.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Labradoodle.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
He's a Labradoodle yes, and that's exactly how he
talks to Maverick all the time.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
He loves Maverick and .
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Maverick's great for that, because you just hug him
and cuddle him and everything.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Everybody has their dog voice.
You should hear the dog voicefor Miss Pickles, so like.
Beth has cornered the market onthis.
But as soon as she starts doingMiss Pickles voice, pickles
turns and looks like oh, that'smy voice, she's talking about me
right now.
I actually brought Branny, myteacup poodle, out to Haven one
season too.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You did and we remember Branny.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yep, we drove out my pickup truck.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Hey Miles, do you have any more questions about
Percy Jackson?
Anything you want to say aboutPercy?
I don't want to close thisinterview and have you being
like I wish about Percy Anything.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
What were you feeling when you had, when you were
fighting Percy on that beach?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Well, I'll take you back, Okay, if that's all right,
even though I know we'regetting close to the end here.
But I know, miles, you want tohear 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 moviescame out, I was on the road like
(26:26):
250 days a year, so it kind offlew by and I didn't really
understand what it was.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Those are good movies .
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I never saw the movies, I'd never read the books
.
I'd seen the books, obviouslyin bookstores and everything,
but I didn't fully grasp how bigit was.
So I read for it.
I didn't think much of itbecause with auditions you just
kind of got to throw them away.
Once you do them they're gone.
But this was the first time thatI ever dressed how I thought
the character would dress.
(26:54):
The very first time I did it.
So I wore one of like my, myedge vests and I had just shaved
the kind of mini Mohawk myselfand and I wore like an Andre the
giant tank top.
I was sleeveless, I was alltown.
I just figured, eh, why not?
And when I read the sides I sawhumor in it and I came to found
(27:21):
out that that's kind of whatgot me the gig is that I found
the humorous beats in it and Icame to found out that that's
kind of what got me the gig isthat I found the humorous beats
in it, and I guess a lot ofother people didn't, so I'd
forgotten about it.
And then my manager called andsaid hey, you got a zoom call
with the executive producers ofPercy Jackson.
Oh, I still didn't thinkanything of it.
I just thought, okay, maybe I'mon a list now and, sure enough,
(27:42):
no-transcript.
Wow, Awesome, Cool.
But in the meantime I'd startedwrestling again.
So now I'm going.
Okay, how do I pull off this?
Because?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
get a wrestling day in Vancouver whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Well, I think I know the reason.
Rick Riordan saw my take and hesaid he's Aries, there's nobody
else.
So I think that's why I wasstill allowed to wrestle and
still do Percy Jackson which iskind of crazy which I got a
funny story there.
We did the diner scene, right,yes, and as we're doing the
(28:25):
diner scene, the kids didn'tknow what I was going to do.
So when I pounded the tableArian, who plays Grover he was
petrified.
He had no idea it was coming.
Nobody on the set had any ideait was coming.
Everyone jumped.
We did a take where the burgersjumped coffee spilled and our
(28:46):
director, jet Wilkinson she'sawesome, she came up to me and
she goes really trying to scarehim this time.
So I do it in differentportions of the scene, then fast
forward to closing out thatscene.
And we finished at 1am inVancouver or no in Abbotsford,
bc, outside of Vancouver,abbotsford, abbotsford.
(29:06):
And then I had to hop directlyon a jet at 2am, fly, fly
overnight across the country,land in Philadelphia, go
straight to the arena to do apay-per-view.
I hadn't slept since 6 am theprevious morning and it wasa
half an hour match and Iremember just my eyes were
burning.
I was so tired and Beth waswith me and she was involved in
(29:28):
the finishes wrestling match,everything.
We get back to the hotel afterI am so wired I can't sleep
again.
So now I haven't slept for 48hours, got home and collapsed
for like a day, fast forwardagain to the beach battle and I
wish people could see you rightnow, I know we're just doing
(29:50):
this for podcasts, but I loveall of your close-up faces to
the camera.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, I'll lean in.
Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So we got to the battle scene and we had
rehearsed it and we had walkedthrough it and all of these
things, but I'm still I'm doingthis sword fight with a
13-year-old, so that's a little.
It's stressful, awkward andstressful because I'm like I
gotta be careful here becauseI'm a big dude and this is a 13
(30:18):
year old and he's the star ofthe show.
But we had a blast and he wasso game walker, who plays percy,
he was so excited for thisscene.
It was what he looked forwardto most in the scripts was our
battle scene.
Because he's again, he's 13years old, right in the the time
of discovering sylvesterstallone movies.
He's doing push-ups betweentakes like he's.
(30:40):
He's all fired up and he reallyis excited about this fight
scene with a pro wrestler.
He was, he was all down andthere were times I'm chucking
him everywhere and he justlooked like a bobblehead and I'm
just thinking, oh my gosh, he's13 years old, I have to be so
careful here.
He was so excited, he was sogame uh, an absolute pro.
(31:01):
And I can't say enough aboutthem uh, leah, ari and and
Walker, because in between takesthey go out to school in a
trailer and then they come backin and do more scenes and then
they go back to school.
I don't have enough bandwidthfor that.
I don't remember what I had forbreakfast, let alone going to
school and then coming in anddoing a five-page scene.
(31:21):
Just really really hard.
Workers, really good head ontheir shoulders, great families
behind them.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
So do you have any advice for parents in helping
their kids be creative?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
have any advice for parents and helping their kids
be creative.
So what I would say sometimesas parents, I know I do, anyway,
I, I really I'm, I'moverprotective.
You know, I want, I want thebest for my girls, but I also
want them to be safe and I wantthat.
I want to help them andsometimes I realize I need to
just get out of their way andand they need to discover and
they need to create on their own.
And then they'll come to me andsay dad, let's do a comic book.
(31:58):
And there's Aloha, dog lyricand Ruby have joined the
Shakespeare club at school, soevery year they do Shakespeare
and I'm blown away because I'llrun lines with them.
It's funny because Beth will goto run lines and no, we have to
do this with dad.
And I'm like, who do you thinkI do my auditions with?
Mom, knows what she's doing,but so, but it's so much fun and
(32:20):
we sit there and we run linestogether and they asked me the
process of how I remember linesand it's just so much fun to be
able to help.
But then I realized I don'twant it to go beyond help to
where I'm butting in and I needto let them discover on their
own.
Beth and I also run the dramaclub at the girls' school oh fun
.
And this year it was so muchfun.
(32:44):
We did Shel Silverstein poemsand we had the kids build all of
the props and paint all of theprops.
So that's one of the things wedo every year is we do this
drama club and this year we had50 kids come out.
Also so much fun to see kidsgrow and grow confidence and
(33:05):
find their voice.
And that's what I'm learningwith Lyric in particular,
because she started actingclasses and she loves it and
it's a connection that we have.
Because she loves Percy JacksonEven 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 onthe show that she loves and she
(33:27):
sees that kids can do this.
That's really exciting to watchher kind of discover and find
her, find her voice.
So my advice to parents was bethere but don't be in the way.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, and that's tricky.
Sometimes you want to be, youknow being present and available
, you know entering into theirworld, you know entering into
what the kids want to do andthen also walking away when it's
when it's time to be done, likewhen you just need to step away
and let them, like, live theirown kid life oh, and just and
let them fall and and if theyneed to pick up, you can be
(34:01):
there to pick them up, butchances are probably get up and
go right.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I got this yeah if you were an animal, what animal
would you be?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
wolf, or currently a sloth, because I just sit on my
butt all day I don't think thatI know.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Even if you are, your brain's probably going a
million miles a minute with allof the creative stuff that
you're doing.
Thank you so much.
We like to close out oursegment with kind of a time of
reflecting your story back toyou.
So, um, I will do my best,because I take a few notes, but
usually I kind of do this on thefly.
So how do these stories alwaysstart off, boys?
(34:38):
once upon a time once upon atime there was a little boy
named adam and he grew up incanada where it was really
really cold but really reallybeautiful.
He was a little guy and he hadan amazing, amazing, amazing mom
who cared so much for him anddid everything she could.
She was such a hard hardworkingmom.
(34:58):
One day he won a art contest.
And he won this art contestwhere he drew these like firemen
and he got to go and put on afireman hat and be in a parade.
He was so terrified but thatwas some great feedback for him
that he had kind of won this artcontest.
And then later on he's atschool and he's growing up and
(35:19):
these guys pick on him and punchhim and it totally surprised
him and totally disoriented him.
But in his heart and his spirithe knew that was never going to
happen again.
And while at school he met thisgreat friend named Jay, who
actually really needed a friendhimself and he was, you know,
trying to peddle these ninjastars and doing whatever he
could just to have a good friend.
(35:40):
And out walks this guy namedAdam.
Through Adam's kindness,because he just was born with
this genuinely kind heart, hestarted up a conversation with
Jay, and they were outside andthey would throw these ninja
stars around and they didn'tknow that their friendship would
spark over wrestling andthrough their friendship they
began to share this love ofwrestling through art, through
(36:04):
staging scenes, through goingout in this, you know schoolyard
area, and that those momentswere foreshadowing of what was
to come.
And this next contest that Adamwon because Adam was a winner of
contests.
This next contest that Adam wonwas one that was in the
newspaper and he wrote and thiswas a time where they didn't
(36:27):
have technology to write forthem or anything.
He wrote.
And here Adam was using hiscreativity.
He was an artist and now he wasa writer and he wrote his story
on why he would love to be awrestler 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 beseen and he would be given and
(36:49):
win this contest.
When he heard this voice comeover the phone and tell him that
he had won.
And so that was huge for Adam,because Adam was a hard worker.
He was such a hard worker, hismom was such a hard worker and
he had this dream in his heartand he didn't know how he was
going to make this possible.
But winning this contest iswhat made this possible for him,
(37:10):
and so he went on his way.
Adam grew up, he grew tall, hegrew strong, he grew brave and
he began to tell these stories,not on a tiny little stage in
the back of a schoolyard, but ona world stage.
Through driving through allkinds of bad weather, through
almost falling into icy lakes,all different kinds of
(37:30):
conditions in life and notknowing where paychecks or food
or things were going to comefrom, he built this friendship,
this ragtag group, with theseother guys with like-minded
spirits and hearts, and littledid you know before he knew it
he became this incrediblewrestler and through his time on
(37:51):
stage he was able to take careof doggies and inspire young
children and study more arts andmore craft and be a good
steward of all the relationships, the friendships and the
talents that he was given.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
He also kind of jumped off of a 15 foot cake and
he's still here and broke hisleg and has lived happily ever
after.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And he's still here and broke his leg and has lived
happily ever after.
Okay, I feel like, even thoughthere was a little part, before
you climbed off of a big cageand fell, you met an amazing,
amazing woman named Beth and shewas incredible, and you got
married and you've had thesekids and you have this beautiful
family to tell more and morestories and continue these
(38:35):
stories on so well.
Adam, thank you so very muchfor being patient.
Not only you've been so patientwith all of our technical stuff
that we're still trying tofigure out, but we'd love to
hear your story, miles.
What do you want to say?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Well, you're welcome, I am.
I am always good to be a guineapig well, thank you so much,
adam.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
We so appreciate it, and I'm just gonna go ahead and
stop my recording right now Ijust hear in my headphones
recording stopped okay, so thatwas such a great episode.
I know it was a bit long, butthere was just so much to fit in
.
He has such such a great story,so you know the drill.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
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other kids, parents andcreatives can find us.
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Special thanks and shout outsto everyone who helped this
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Speaker 2 (39:31):
Emma Schuster, who helped create our logo and did a
bunch of the admin, MatthewHolden, who interned at North
Rose this spring, and my brother, andy Mayer, who brought the
logo to life and continues to bemy emergency lifeline on all of
our technical and audio needs.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It takes a village people it really does.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
To catch the latest from me.
You can follow me atEmilyRoseLA to visit our
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Speaker 1 (40:05):
Most importantly, we hope you kids were inspired
today to know your story isbeing written as we speak.
These people that we interviewstarted somewhere and you've
already started and workedthrough so many challenges along
the way.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
So until next time, remember, everyone has a story
no-transcript.
Hello world, I'm Miles and I'm Memphis.
Welcome to the your Story Clubpodcast, a place where stories
are told and legends are made.
That was cute, but I'm here forthe interviews and not the
jokes.
Sorry, oh guys.
And, by the way, his nicknameon the podcast is the lame joke
(00:25):
dude.
Hey, I'm watching you here.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And so am I.
I'm also watching you.
We're going to be interviewingall kinds of creatives, and you
guys are going to be asking themawesome questions about what?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Uh, their childhood.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I think that if we can chat with people about their
childhood, you creative toowill be inspired, and then we
can pass it on to other people.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Should we call you dinosaur dude or lame jokes guy?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I think we're going to call you nickname maker.
That's what we're going to callyou.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I actually don't like that nickname, mr Nickname
maker no.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Okay, okay, everyone, we want to welcome you to.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
The your Story Club, where everyone has a story.
Hey everybody, I know it's beena while, but we've been
adjusting to school and tryingto figure out how to do this.
We're finally done with theepisode and we can't wait for
you to hear it.
(01:22):
So here we go.
Part two of the Adam Copelandstory in three.
Two, one.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Okay, memphis, you're up, give us a question.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
What did your mom or teachers do to be creative?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
So my mom, she was just gosh, she was the best you
know.
She was the mom who sat with meand listened to albums.
Now, I know you probably don'tknow what albums are, but
they're these big vinyl thingsthat you put a needle on and and
music just sounds better onthem.
But my mom and I would sit downand she would put on her albums
(01:57):
and that's where I fell in lovewith the Beatles and that's
where I fell in love with LedZeppelin and it's where I fell
in love with the Eagles andCreedence, ccr and just all of
this amazing music that kids myage didn't really get to listen
to.
ACDC my mom was not into ACDC,but we're talking this is kind
(02:17):
of pre-ACDC breaking.
This is a while ago.
And then I would sit down withmy uncles and they had all of
the Queen albums.
So I would sit and listen toQueen and Cheap Trick and Boston
and all of these great bands.
So I fell in love with musicfrom a really, really early age
(02:37):
and to this day it's stillprobably my greatest love
outside of my family, even morethan wrestling is music.
It's a constant in my life.
I think it opened up my mind tocreativity.
Music was the great bridge thatbrought me to what I eventually
ended up doing.
(02:58):
It opened my eyes toperformance 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 (03:16):
I don't think I realized that I didn't know, you
were a theater kid in highschool.
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
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 Iwasn't a theater kid because I
was on all the sports teams.
So I kind of fell into thisweird pocket.
But I was also like aheadbanger because I listened to
Metallica and Led Zeppelin.
So I was this weird island untomyself really and I had friends
(03:42):
, but I wasn't in any one pocket.
I didn't hang with a gang oranything.
I had my one best friend andthat was kind of it.
And prior to kind of hitting mygenetic potential, I was kind of
a nerd and I had kids pick onme and I remember thinking that
(04:04):
that's not going to happen again.
I remember, like remember itwas yesterday these three guys
one threw me up against thelocker, punched me in the face
and tried to knee me downstairsand I kind of dodged that.
But then they walked away and Ikind of stood there thinking
why did that happen?
What just happened and that'snever going to happen again.
And that summer I uh startedworking out.
(04:28):
So the following year when Isaw those guys they wouldn't
even look at me and that was.
That was revenge.
Enough.
That and the fact that they allcame to my book signing and
stood in line to get my booksigned, that was wow, it was
pretty good revenge that isamazing.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
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 hislife that propelled him to to be
who he is now.
And look at that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
They came to a book signing it's odd too, like as
much as I never want that tohappen to my girls at school.
That moment it stuck with meand it did drive me.
I use that as a kind of adriving force to get out of my
hometown and to do those thingsthat I wanted to do.
In a weird way I almost got tothank them.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
We have these really tough moments in our lives and
your childhood.
I'm sure it's chocked full ofthem, but it's.
What are we going to do with it?
Are we going to allow that tobe our story?
Are we going to allow that tobe the only part of our story,
or?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
are we going to?
They're kind of the reasonyou're jumping off 15 foot cages
.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well, yeah, so I can blame you for the broken leg too
.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But so, adam, I'm usually the nickname maker here,
but you already have a lot, solet's hear yes what are what?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
are all your nicknames adam, uh, the ultimate
opportunist, the mastermanipulator, the one that really
stuck the rated r superstaredge.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
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 (06:08):
Then there's Ares, there's Shettle Shet, what
Shettle?
Vikings were named ApparentlyShettle Flatnose, and this is
historically accurate.
His nose was smashed in battleso they nicknamed him Flatnose.
So on Vikings, I had to wearlike a giant nose prosthetic.
I mean it kind of makes me notlook like me.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I'm going to press pause right there.
Okay, guys, I'm going to presspause right there to do a dog
joke.
What do dogs do when they watchNetflix?
They press pause.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Oh, my goodness the girls just went to camp.
I gotta remember that onebecause they'll be home in a
week and I'm gonna use that.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I have one more joke?
Okay, one more joke, leaving itto Memphis to lighten things up
.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
What goes tiktok and woof, woof, a watchdog a
watchdog.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
You heard it here first.
Ladies and gentlemen, so welearned.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
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 andwhat, taking drama honestly, I
thought it would help me withwrestling everything I did.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You knew at that young of an age you were
thinking okay, wrestling's agoal, wrestling's a goal,
wrestling's a goal.
What's would help me withwrestling Everything I did.
So you knew at that young of anage, you were thinking okay,
wrestling's a goal, wrestling'sa goal, wrestling's a goal.
What's going to help me withwrestling theater?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It wasn't a goal, it was the goal.
There was no second option Forme.
I knew that I was going to be awrestler.
Now the only thing I couldn'tcontrol 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's5'7".
(07:50):
I just don't know.
But I thought I can doeverything else within my power
to try and give myself sometools that I think will help me
with wrestling, because I knewthere's a huge element of
talking and we tell stories inprofessional wrestling, right.
So we tell stories with ourbody, but we also tell stories
with our face.
We tell story with the words wetell.
(08:11):
We're kind of like standupcomedians, we're kind of like
musicians, we're kind of likeactors, we're our own stunt men,
we're athletes.
It's.
It's a.
It's a melting pot of a lot ofdifferent things.
So I thought, well, drama isgoing to help me come out of my
shell, because it was a prettyshy kid.
And then I took radio,television and radio in college
because, again, I thought itwould help me with my, yeah, I
(08:35):
read that.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I read that I was like you have your radio
broadcasting degree, like you'rea Pandora's box.
This is amazing, sorry.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, more than anything, I really just I.
They were all tools that Ithought I could take with me.
You're supposed to go tocollege, so I was like, okay,
I'll go to college, but I wantto go to college for something
that can.
That can be another one ofthose tools in the tool belt.
And it really did help.
It helped me come out of myshell.
Being in drama helped me comeout of my shell, helped me kind
of become comfortable in my ownskin while I was putting on the
(09:06):
skin of characters, if thatmakes any sense.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I know I feel that way.
I feel like after I leave acharacter, there's kind of
inherit, some of that character.
Yeah, there's stuff I need tosay goodbye to in that character
and there's stuff I've learnedfrom that character.
After playing Audrey for solong, I felt like she gave me
this assertiveness and thisconfidence that I didn't really
necessarily feel that I hadbefore.
But then I also had to temperthat sometimes I was like, Okay,
(09:31):
you don't need to have thatskin on all the time.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, and what's interesting about it too, is is
there's a part of you in eachcharacter.
That has to be.
You have to pull from yourpersonal experiences, but then
you bring a part of thatcharacter and it kind of becomes
a part of you too, um, and, andyou're the lead of a show,
there's an extra confidence thatcomes with that.
(09:54):
Like I'm not going to be afraidof walking into a room, I just
let a show, and if that stayswith you, I think that's a
that's a good thing, it's, it'sa confidence building thing.
And so when I was on Haven, Iwas, I was like I don't know
what I'm doing, I, I, I don'tknow what to do with my hands.
You know, I'm like Ricky, bobbyand Talladega nights.
I just I don't know how to dothis Right.
(10:16):
Little did I know that Iactually kind of did, because I
was going to say that I was likeyou knew.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You knew more.
I know that's what you felt,but you really.
It was very clear that you knewwhat you were doing.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
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 alive microphone and I don't
have a script.
There's a confidence that comeswith that.
But even still I knew I waswalking, something that was
different enough and I alwayskind of liken Haven to my.
It was like my high school and Iwould ask, I'd ask you know our
(10:51):
DP, why are we doing this angle?
Why are we getting that?
I was always trying to studybecause I thought these are
things that are going to beimportant to learn, going
forward to the next set that Igo on and the next set and the
next set.
To the point where when I gotto Percy Jackson, my first day
on set, I had like a five or sixpage monologue and I'm meeting
(11:12):
this crew for the first time andof course, the coverage is on
me.
First I was like all right, Igot this, I got this and I had
that confidence from Haven, fromVikings and so on and so on, to
where I felt really, reallyconfident walking out of the
Percy Jackson set and the factthat it was Disney and
everything.
I didn't even think of thatstuff.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And so amazing to watch.
It's such a great show.
So silly to say this, but Ijust felt like such a proud
parent watching you up there.
I'm like he's a fully capableman.
He's done so much but I'mwatching him step into this
incredible role and do it sowell.
I loved the laughter and thejoy that I got to see in this
character, this God, this God ofwar, right, but yet the humor
and the just bipolar nature ofthis guy.
(11:58):
It was so enjoyable to watch.
I was just so proud of you.
I was like man.
What an excellent casting andan excellent job.
You're doing incredible work onthat show, so good job.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Well, thank you, and I, like I said, I truly consider
Haven like my boot camp, likeat that point, I had to retire
from wrestling and I quicklyrealized that I loved acting and
that this was going to be mypath going forward.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
You kind of know him more from his acting work,
whereas he has this entire lifeand that was actually
embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Your mom was this Viking surfer guy.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
When they said you're going to have a wrestler cast
on the show, I just thought hewas going to be a short, fat,
bald dude Not that that's what Ithink wrestlers are.
But I had.
No, I didn't know.
I have so many stories in mylife of just it.
Just I wasn't even thinking ornor did I know, and that was one
of them.
And then I was like wait, whyis there a surfer here?
I felt like we had a.
I thought we were getting awrestler.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
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 withstuffed animals and murder and
real life wait, real life murder.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
No, no, no.
So tell them what you did notreal.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
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 readoff the clues.
Some were useless, some werehelpful and decided who was the
real suspect.
Real, who done it?
You two can also make a greatgame, or you could just copy off
of ours.
We don't really care For moreideas.
(13:36):
Check out our Instagram andmaybe some pictures of the
stuffies.
Uh, I'll let you two do that.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
What else do you want to ask him about Percy Jackson?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
How much swordplay did you pick up?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
So what has been pretty interesting with a lot of
the characters I play, at somepoint there tends to be some
physicality.
For instance, with Vikingsthere was a few battle scenes.
But what I will say is Iassumed that I was hired kind of
just for battle scenes and thenas I got started getting script
, I was like, oh, they wantcharacter work here and and I
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didn't have very many physicalscenes, just the physicality of
rowing the boats, because if yousaw us on the ocean we were
rowing, those bad boys.
Um, it was the hardest show Idid was Vikings, and just from a
physical standpoint it was ahard show.
It was rewarding because youknew, as you're doing things,
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what it was going to look like.
So you knew it was going to be.
It was just going to be epicand massive.
So it was a very, very physical, physical role and eventually
by the end so I had to startusing axes and start using some
swords and the final scene formy character is actually a
battle scene and the directorwanted to do it in a one shot
(14:53):
and my character leads thecamera and that's actually
really good advice.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Miles, you know, here was a character that you really
only thought was going to be sosmall or something in your life
that you thought was going tobe small, but because you went
in and you did an amazing joband 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 biggerrole.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
When's the second season?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh, I can't give away too too much.
But there is a second seasonthere is, that's great um did
you, did you do creative stuffwith your friends?
I, uh, I love to draw, as wealready know, since I was, uh,
the honorary fire chief, um, andI love to draw wrestling
characters and I love to draw,you know, comic book characters,
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and so what I would do.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Memphis has a comic book.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
His name is Pizza man .
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Pizza man.
That sounds amazing and itmakes me want pizza now.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So I know.
Thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I currently have a comic going with my daughter's
Lyric and Ruby and it's calledAloha Dog.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Aloha Dog fights danger with a ukulele.
So, for instance, the firstissue there was a giant
lightning storm at the beach,because Aloha Dog was at the
beach, of course, and Aloha Dogis also a Frenchie and this was
pre-getting Frenchies, sothere's that.
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But lightning struck the beachand left a giant divot in the
beach and all of these people atthe beach got stuck in the hole
.
So Aloha Dog took his ukulelestrings off, tied them together
and reached it down into thehole to pull the people out of
the hole.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Would that like cut your hands?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Well, it was nylon string.
So no See, I was a heady onthat one.
I know where you're going.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Were you creative with your friends, and are you
still creative with them?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yes, I was creative with my friends because a lot of
my friends couldn't draw butthey loved wrestling.
So, especially my best friend,jay and I.
We grew up together.
All we talked about waswrestling.
We loved wrestling.
That's how we connected and howwe became best friends.
So what we would do during artclass I would draw wrestling
characters and I would drawwrestling match-ups, and then we
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would go outside the library inour school where there was kind
of round cavernous area andthat was our wrestling ring.
So we would go there andwrestle in between classes.
But I would draw up thesewrestling shows during art class
with all of these characters.
So Jay was Sweet Daddy Freakout.
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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 manposse and then there was Decker
Hard.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So those were all of our characters Decker Hard
Anyway, oh my goodness, that'samazing.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
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 theschool because he had just moved
to the school and the teachersent me out to talk him into
coming in.
And that's kind of how we firstmet.
And then he had a Ninja Starwhich he bought in Karate,
illustrated and offered to sellto me.
Little did I know.
(18:38):
He offered to sell it toeveryone to make friends after
school.
And we're throwing this ninjastar into a tree.
Don't try it at home, kids.
So we're doing that and he'slike you know, I think I want to
keep it.
And I was like, ah, really yeah.
And then, while we're throwingit though, we started talking
about wrestling and that was it.
We both loved wrestling and wecontinued that love for
wrestling all the way to I'mgoing to college, he's going to
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college, I started training forwrestling, then he started
training for wrestling, and thenwe hit the road after college
and just went wherever we couldand we starved and we we
hitchhiked and we we tookgreyhounds across countries.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
So did you ever get in any fights with Jay besides
on the big screen, and were youever TV before families, before
all of the stuff, there was meand Jay.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
And we always had each other to lean on.
So when things got crazy likewhen we're driving across what
are supposed to be frozen lakesin northern Manitoba but the van
goes through the lake what?
And you're together, you gothrough stuff like that just to
wrestle in front of 20 kids on areservation in Northern
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Manitoba where we made 75 bucks.
You go through that kind ofstuff together and you kind of
have a friendship for lifebecause it's pre-TV shows and
all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
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 supportand his friendship is a big part
of your story.
Okay, hey, hey, speaking ofgood friends, we need to give a
couple of our good friends ashout out.
One of our good friends hasgiven us a review on the show,
(20:42):
and we also want to thankanybody who subscribed or
reviewed the show and dub youall official friends of the
podcast.
So, miles, what one of ourfriends do you want to give a
shout out to?
Speaker 1 (20:52):
colin perry, one of my best buds.
We've been friends for a whileand he is a hockey goalie.
And I would like to give ashout out to one of my friends.
It's actually Colin Perry'sbrother and he is a hockey
player and he's just a greatfriend.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yes, and also we have a bunch of other friends who
have been huge supporters andalways taken the time to say
that they like listening to thepodcast.
So thank you, thank you all.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
If you want to keep this story train going, then you
can do it a few ways.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
One subscribe to the podcast and give us a review so
that other people can find us,and our newest way is by
becoming a monthly supporter ofthe show by a paid subscription.
If we get enough of these, thenwe'll be able to release all
this kind of special content forthose of you who sign up for
that.
You can find that by going toour Buzzsprout site.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
That we will link in our show notes and go ahead and
click subscribe and you cansupport us monthly.
The other way is going to ourInstagram page, your Story Club
Podcast, share and subscribewith your friends.
We always love to hear from youguys, so email us at hello at
yourstoryclubpodcastcom and I'llemail you right back straight
from me, no robot.
Okay, I think Memphis has somemore jokes as we wrap up this
awesome interview with AdamCopeland.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Did you have any other jokes you wanted to tell
Adam?
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I have a bunch.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, why aren't dogs good dancers?
They have two left feet.
Do they have two left feet?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Well, they have four legs, so they kind of do I guess
.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So what do you get when you cross a dog with a
telephone, a golden receiver?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Okay, well, that's a good one, that one I can
remember too.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
What did the Dalmatian say after lunch?
That hit the spot, I'mdefinitely using that one on
Ruby.
When did you first start likingdogs?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know it's interesting.
Growing up I grew up in anapartment so we couldn't have
pets and I was always kind ofafraid of dogs, honestly, just
because I'd never been aroundthem.
It was actually a wrestlingtour and we were in this place
called moose factory, ontario.
There was this little husky and, um, it didn't have a home and
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its mother had passed away.
So so I took it and I broughtit home and I fell in love with
her.
Her name was Frisco and she wasmy first dog.
And that's when I reallyrescuing that dog and
understanding the relationshipthat you can have with your pets
because it was my first pet Ijust fell in love.
(23:38):
I really did how they can makeyou feel and how pets, but dogs
in particular, seem to have aspecial ability to know when you
need a cuddle.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Maverick does that.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, they can just feel when you're down and when
you need them.
I remember getting a phone calltelling me I had to retire from
wrestling and I was sitting onmy deck here in Asheville and I
got off the phone and I put myhead down.
I cried a little bit becauseit's the only thing I ever
wanted to do.
When I first found this out,the dogs surrounded me and they
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all just started nuzzling me andcuddling me and I needed it so
much at that point, even thoughI was a grown man, even though I
, I still needed it, and theyknew it and they sensed it, and
that's why, to me, pets, animals, are just so special and and
they deserve every bit of loveand attention and affection that
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we can give them.
So, like I'm constantlysnuggling 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 familybecause they are so.
Frisco was the one that openedup my heart to loving pets.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Wow, sweet story.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And, yes, memphis.
Do you know that Adam in NovaScotia used to watch our first
puppy dog?
What was our first puppy dog'sname?
Memphis McAllister McAllister,yes, you would love our current
doggy, actually too as well.
We got one called Maverick, andhe's what kind he's a.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Labradoodle.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
He's a Labradoodle yes, and that's exactly how he
talks to Maverick all the time.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
He loves Maverick and .
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Maverick's great for that, because you just hug him
and cuddle him and everything.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Everybody has their dog voice.
You should hear the dog voicefor Miss Pickles, so like.
Beth has cornered the market onthis.
But as soon as she starts doingMiss Pickles voice, pickles
turns and looks like oh, that'smy voice, she's talking about me
right now.
I actually brought Branny, myteacup poodle, out to Haven one
season too.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
You did and we remember Branny.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yep, we drove out my pickup truck.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Hey Miles, do you have any more questions about
Percy Jackson?
Anything you want to say aboutPercy?
I don't want to close thisinterview and have you being
like I wish about Percy Anything.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
What were you feeling when you had, when you were
fighting Percy on that beach?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Well, I'll take you back, Okay, if that's all right,
even though I know we'regetting close to the end here.
But I know, miles, you want tohear 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 moviescame out, I was on the road like
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250 days a year, so it kind offlew by and I didn't really
understand what it was.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Those are good movies .
Speaker 3 (26:33):
I never saw the movies, I'd never read the books
.
I'd seen the books, obviouslyin bookstores and everything,
but I didn't fully grasp how bigit was.
So I read for it.
I didn't think much of itbecause with auditions you just
kind of got to throw them away.
Once you do them they're gone.
But this was the first time thatI ever dressed how I thought
the character would dress.
(26:54):
The very first time I did it.
So I wore one of like my, myedge vests and I had just shaved
the kind of mini Mohawk myselfand and I wore like an Andre the
giant tank top.
I was sleeveless, I was alltown.
I just figured, eh, why not?
And when I read the sides I sawhumor in it and I came to found
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out that that's kind of whatgot me the gig is that I found
the humorous beats in it and Icame to found out that that's
kind of what got me the gig isthat I found the humorous beats
in it, and I guess a lot ofother people didn't, so I'd
forgotten about it.
And then my manager called andsaid hey, you got a zoom call
with the executive producers ofPercy Jackson.
Oh, I still didn't thinkanything of it.
I just thought, okay, maybe I'mon a list now and, sure enough,
(27:42):
no-transcript.
Wow, Awesome, Cool.
But in the meantime I'd startedwrestling again.
So now I'm going.
Okay, how do I pull off this?
Because?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
get a wrestling day in Vancouver whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Well, I think I know the reason.
Rick Riordan saw my take and hesaid he's Aries, there's nobody
else.
So I think that's why I wasstill allowed to wrestle and
still do Percy Jackson which iskind of crazy which I got a
funny story there.
We did the diner scene, right,yes, and as we're doing the
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diner scene, the kids didn'tknow what I was going to do.
So when I pounded the tableArian, who plays Grover he was
petrified.
He had no idea it was coming.
Nobody on the set had any ideait was coming.
Everyone jumped.
We did a take where the burgersjumped coffee spilled and our
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director, jet Wilkinson she'sawesome, she came up to me and
she goes really trying to scarehim this time.
So I do it in differentportions of the scene, then fast
forward to closing out thatscene.
And we finished at 1am inVancouver or no in Abbotsford,
bc, outside of Vancouver,abbotsford, abbotsford.
(29:06):
And then I had to hop directlyon a jet at 2am, fly, fly
overnight across the country,land in Philadelphia, go
straight to the arena to do apay-per-view.
I hadn't slept since 6 am theprevious morning and it wasa
half an hour match and Iremember just my eyes were
burning.
I was so tired and Beth waswith me and she was involved in
(29:28):
the finishes wrestling match,everything.
We get back to the hotel afterI am so wired I can't sleep
again.
So now I haven't slept for 48hours, got home and collapsed
for like a day, fast forwardagain to the beach battle and I
wish people could see you rightnow, I know we're just doing
(29:50):
this for podcasts, but I loveall of your close-up faces to
the camera.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, I'll lean in.
Yes, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
So we got to the battle scene and we had
rehearsed it and we had walkedthrough it and all of these
things, but I'm still I'm doingthis sword fight with a
13-year-old, so that's a little.
It's stressful, awkward andstressful because I'm like I
gotta be careful here becauseI'm a big dude and this is a 13
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year old and he's the star ofthe show.
But we had a blast and he wasso game walker, who plays percy,
he was so excited for thisscene.
It was what he looked forwardto most in the scripts was our
battle scene.
Because he's again, he's 13years old, right in the the time
of discovering sylvesterstallone movies.
He's doing push-ups betweentakes like he's.
(30:40):
He's all fired up and he reallyis excited about this fight
scene with a pro wrestler.
He was, he was all down andthere were times I'm chucking
him everywhere and he justlooked like a bobblehead and I'm
just thinking, oh my gosh, he's13 years old, I have to be so
careful here.
He was so excited, he was sogame uh, an absolute pro.
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And I can't say enough aboutthem uh, leah, ari and and
Walker, because in between takesthey go out to school in a
trailer and then they come backin and do more scenes and then
they go back to school.
I don't have enough bandwidthfor that.
I don't remember what I had forbreakfast, let alone going to
school and then coming in anddoing a five-page scene.
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Just really really hard.
Workers, really good head ontheir shoulders, great families
behind them.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
So do you have any advice for parents in helping
their kids be creative?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
have any advice for parents and helping their kids
be creative.
So what I would say sometimesas parents, I know I do, anyway,
I, I really I'm, I'moverprotective.
You know, I want, I want thebest for my girls, but I also
want them to be safe and I wantthat.
I want to help them andsometimes I realize I need to
just get out of their way andand they need to discover and
they need to create on their own.
And then they'll come to me andsay dad, let's do a comic book.
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And there's Aloha, dog lyricand Ruby have joined the
Shakespeare club at school, soevery year they do Shakespeare
and I'm blown away because I'llrun lines with them.
It's funny because Beth will goto run lines and no, we have to
do this with dad.
And I'm like, who do you thinkI do my auditions with?
Mom, knows what she's doing,but so, but it's so much fun and
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we sit there and we run linestogether and they asked me the
process of how I remember linesand it's just so much fun to be
able to help.
But then I realized I don'twant it to go beyond help to
where I'm butting in and I needto let them discover on their
own.
Beth and I also run the dramaclub at the girls' school oh fun
.
And this year it was so muchfun.
(32:44):
We did Shel Silverstein poemsand we had the kids build all of
the props and paint all of theprops.
So that's one of the things wedo every year is we do this
drama club and this year we had50 kids come out.
Also so much fun to see kidsgrow and grow confidence and
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find their voice.
And that's what I'm learningwith Lyric in particular,
because she started actingclasses and she loves it and
it's a connection that we have.
Because she loves Percy JacksonEven 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 onthe show that she loves and she
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sees that kids can do this.
That's really exciting to watchher kind of discover and find
her, find her voice.
So my advice to parents was bethere but don't be in the way.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah, and that's tricky.
Sometimes you want to be, youknow being present and available
, you know entering into theirworld, you know entering into
what the kids want to do andthen also walking away when it's
when it's time to be done, likewhen you just need to step away
and let them, like, live theirown kid life oh, and just and
let them fall and and if theyneed to pick up, you can be
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there to pick them up, butchances are probably get up and
go right.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
I got this yeah if you were an animal, what animal
would you be?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
wolf, or currently a sloth, because I just sit on my
butt all day I don't think thatI know.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Even if you are, your brain's probably going a
million miles a minute with allof the creative stuff that
you're doing.
Thank you so much.
We like to close out oursegment with kind of a time of
reflecting your story back toyou.
So, um, I will do my best,because I take a few notes, but
usually I kind of do this on thefly.
So how do these stories alwaysstart off, boys?
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once upon a time once upon atime there was a little boy
named adam and he grew up incanada where it was really
really cold but really reallybeautiful.
He was a little guy and he hadan amazing, amazing, amazing mom
who cared so much for him anddid everything she could.
She was such a hard hardworkingmom.
(34:58):
One day he won a art contest.
And he won this art contestwhere he drew these like firemen
and he got to go and put on afireman hat and be in a parade.
He was so terrified but thatwas some great feedback for him
that he had kind of won this artcontest.
And then later on he's atschool and he's growing up and
(35:19):
these guys pick on him and punchhim and it totally surprised
him and totally disoriented him.
But in his heart and his spirithe knew that was never going to
happen again.
And while at school he met thisgreat friend named Jay, who
actually really needed a friendhimself and he was, you know,
trying to peddle these ninjastars and doing whatever he
could just to have a good friend.
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And out walks this guy namedAdam.
Through Adam's kindness,because he just was born with
this genuinely kind heart, hestarted up a conversation with
Jay, and they were outside andthey would throw these ninja
stars around and they didn'tknow that their friendship would
spark over wrestling andthrough their friendship they
began to share this love ofwrestling through art, through
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staging scenes, through goingout in this, you know schoolyard
area, and that those momentswere foreshadowing of what was
to come.
And this next contest that Adamwon because Adam was a winner of
contests.
This next contest that Adam wonwas one that was in the
newspaper and he wrote and thiswas a time where they didn't
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have technology to write forthem or anything.
He wrote.
And here Adam was using hiscreativity.
He was an artist and now he wasa writer and he wrote his story
on why he would love to be awrestler 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 beseen and he would be given and
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win this contest.
When he heard this voice comeover the phone and tell him that
he had won.
And so that was huge for Adam,because Adam was a hard worker.
He was such a hard worker, hismom was such a hard worker and
he had this dream in his heartand he didn't know how he was
going to make this possible.
But winning this contest iswhat made this possible for him,
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and so he went on his way.
Adam grew up, he grew tall, hegrew strong, he grew brave and
he began to tell these stories,not on a tiny little stage in
the back of a schoolyard, but ona world stage.
Through driving through allkinds of bad weather, through
almost falling into icy lakes,all different kinds of
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conditions in life and notknowing where paychecks or food
or things were going to comefrom, he built this friendship,
this ragtag group, with theseother guys with like-minded
spirits and hearts, and littledid you know before he knew it
he became this incrediblewrestler and through his time on
(37:51):
stage he was able to take careof doggies and inspire young
children and study more arts andmore craft and be a good
steward of all the relationships, the friendships and the
talents that he was given.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
He also kind of jumped off of a 15 foot cake and
he's still here and broke hisleg and has lived happily ever
after.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And he's still here and broke his leg and has lived
happily ever after.
Okay, I feel like, even thoughthere was a little part, before
you climbed off of a big cageand fell, you met an amazing,
amazing woman named Beth and shewas incredible, and you got
married and you've had thesekids and you have this beautiful
family to tell more and morestories and continue these
(38:35):
stories on so well.
Adam, thank you so very muchfor being patient.
Not only you've been so patientwith all of our technical stuff
that we're still trying tofigure out, but we'd love to
hear your story, miles.
What do you want to say?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yeah, thanks.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Well, you're welcome, I am.
I am always good to be a guineapig well, thank you so much,
adam.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
We so appreciate it, and I'm just gonna go ahead and
stop my recording right now Ijust hear in my headphones
recording stopped okay, so thatwas such a great episode.
I know it was a bit long, butthere was just so much to fit in
.
He has such such a great story,so you know the drill.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
If you like it, leave a review, especially so that
other kids, parents andcreatives can find us.
If you would like to helpsupport the podcast, please
share it with others.
Post about it and share it onInstagram at your Story Club
Podcast.
Special thanks and shout outsto everyone who helped this
podcast happen.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Emma Schuster, who helped create our logo and did a
bunch of the admin, MatthewHolden, who interned at North
Rose this spring, and my brother, andy Mayer, who brought the
logo to life and continues to bemy emergency lifeline on all of
our technical and audio needs.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It takes a village people it really does.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
To catch the latest from me.
You can follow me atEmilyRoseLA to visit our
production company at North BrosPictures and for Adam visit at
Rated R Cope.
For the Doggy Rescue, visitRoad Dogs with 1D and to see our
creations this week, head onover to Instagram at your Story
Club Podcast.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Most importantly, we hope you kids were inspired
today to know your story isbeing written as we speak.
These people that we interviewstarted somewhere and you've
already started and workedthrough so many challenges along
the way.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
So until next time, remember, everyone has a story
no-transcript.
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