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Speaker 1: I guess it's just a radio thing. One thought per break.

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Why have only one podcast when there are fifty thousand

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things moving around us all at one time? Why are

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you shoving that into a potato bag aro? Dot net?

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A R R O E dot net? Seventeen unbelievable podcasts

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are waiting for you. Good morning, How are you doing today, Tatum?

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Speaker 2: I'm wonderful. How are you doing well?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic, and I'm very excited to share a

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conversation with you because I will sit here and brag

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up NXT left and right, because I believe that you

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guys are doing what we've been begging for for decades,

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and that is give us the next level. You are

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living up to your name on NXT.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much. That means so much to me.

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Speaker 1: What is it like for you to step into that

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role knowing what's happened long before any of us even

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got here, Because I mean, professional wrestling is nothing new.

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It's been with me all the way back to my grandfathers.

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Sitting there with me on a Sunday morning, there's like.

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Speaker 3: There's literally no word for me to describe, to describe it,

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you know, it's such like a one of a million opportunity,

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and even when I got signed, you know, people would

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ask me how do you feel? And I didn't know

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what to say, Like there's just so many emotions and

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feelings towards it, and it's saying like, well, how did

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you feel when you finally won the NFC Women's title,

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And it's it's crazy because I've been asked this question

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and I struggle to answer it because, for a lack

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of better words, the word is just awesome, you know,

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but like that's not like that's not the word I

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want to use. There's like a word that I can't

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figure out what it is because it's such an insane

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feeling just to beginning to do this, to.

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Speaker 1: Be inside those matches. I always looked at it as

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being the playground. I mean, so many people see it

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as the squared circle, or they see it as the

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mad or they see it as a ring. It's always

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a playground because that to me, I watch your guys's eyes,

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I see your planning, I see what you're doing, and

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you're so many light years ahead of us who are viewing.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much. I love the term playground too.

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Speaker 3: That's probably what I'm going to start saying as well,

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but I know it's definitely it's just a.

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Speaker 2: Feeling, you know, being in that ring. And then there's.

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Speaker 3: Still so much, especially for me to learn because being

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four years in the business, that's that's still new.

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Speaker 2: You know, people have been doing this for a long time.

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Like you said, like, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Still very new in this business, especially someone that didn't grow.

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Speaker 2: Up with wrestling.

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Speaker 3: I'm having to grow into it and I learned orn

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more every single day that I'm here, and I'm fortunate

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that I get to learn.

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Speaker 2: And you know, what better place than the performance center.

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Speaker 1: So now growing into it, I mean, that's the first

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time that I've ever heard something like that, because I

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mean I have sat down with Rick Flair and the

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big names of wrestling and they've never said that. And

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now you've got my imagination as well as my passion

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for the sport because you grow into it, which means

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to me that's long lasting.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I hope this is a you know, really

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long journey. I'm doing everything I can to make it

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a long journey.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't grow up with wrestling, but

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obviously I knew.

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Speaker 2: What it was like. Everybody knows the name WWE, and.

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Speaker 3: It's so funny, like I'm almost embarrassed to say this,

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but when I was working at a supplement store, I

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remember we brought in like shaker bottles, like stuff you

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would shake protein in, and we brought in a line

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of like WWE like merchandise, and I remember people asking.

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Speaker 2: Me like, what is this and I was like, I'm

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not familiar.

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Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, you know, like now,

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how I like to say, I've been growing into wrestling.

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I look back at that, I'm like, wow, things have changed.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's so different.

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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Tatum Pasley coming

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up next from the NXT. We are spending time with

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Tatum Pasley growing into that that personality that you've got

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to become each and every week on NXT on the CW.

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I mean this righting, I mean this now is your lifestyle,

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this is your legacy in the making. How do you

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protect it and how do you continue to expand? Because

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to me, you're in a position where you get to

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meet new people every day, literally new people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, absolutely, So the way that I plan to expand

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is continuing what my number one goal has been the

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past four years. It's going to be my number one

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goal moving forward as long as I'm here in WWE.

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Speaker 2: Is to connect with that audience. That is all I've

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ever wanted to do.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I've been asked many times before I

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was NXT Women's Champion.

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Speaker 2: Like don't you want to be champion? Do you want

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to get.

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Speaker 3: Called up to Raw or SmackDown? And my answer to

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that was like, that's cool. I just want to connect

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with the audience, you know. I want to prove I

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can do that with or without this title, with or

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without being Raw or SmackDown, Like, I want to connect

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with you, and I feel like I've done a pretty.

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Speaker 2: Good job at doing it. But I do know like

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whenever the.

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Speaker 3: Time comes to be on Raw or SmackDown or even

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having this title, it does open the door for a

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larger audience for me to connect to.

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Speaker 2: So the way I plan to expand is.

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Speaker 3: To just keep that as my number one goal, to

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be relatable, to be human.

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Speaker 2: And I just feel like that's kind of what's helped

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me get so far, at least where I am right now.

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Speaker 1: You're speaking my street when you talk like this, when

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you say that you want to put the people first,

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and the reason why I bring that up is because

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I've always lived by the mantra. People are not happy

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to see me. What they are is they're happy that

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I see them. And that's what I just heard in

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your voice. You enjoy seeing them before they see you.

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Speaker 2: So much they.

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Speaker 3: I can't even explain to you what the people like,

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truly truly mean to me in this business, like they

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are everything, you know, their reactions, their emotions, like their.

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Speaker 2: Feelings, it is.

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Speaker 3: It's entirely what we do, you know. It's not like

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I'm not chasing this title, you know, like I'm thrilled

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to have it, and now that I have it, I

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can represent those people that aren't always on top. Because

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my character, you know, was not somebody that was always

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in the spotlight, you know, and and I knew that

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and I was happy about that, and now that I

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have this title, it represents that. But like I said earlier,

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with or without it, the job is to just connect

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and relate.

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Speaker 1: CW has really embraced what it is that you're doing.

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And the reason why is because when I was a

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kid watching professional wrestling, it's what we did very early

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on Sunday mornings or after midnight.

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Speaker 3: Oh are they are expanding us and sending us out Like,

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I'm so thankful to CW. They actually allowed me and

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my best friend Izzy Dame Trick Williams, Josh Briggs.

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Speaker 2: They sent us over to NASCAR wow, which I I.

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Speaker 3: Don't know anything about Nascar and I show up there

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and I'm like, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: Like this is like this is my life.

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Speaker 3: This is so crazy, like and you know, the CW

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like they were with us holding my hand like sholling

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me everything.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't incredible.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Where can people go to find out more about you?

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Because I want them to really get into your journey

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growing forward and NXT is just the start.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely so.

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Speaker 3: You can also follow my Instagram at Tatum Pasley Underscore WWT.

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I try to be as active as I can on there,

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but I also have a subscription page on there where

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I'm posting every day. I like to have stories where

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I just say, okay, I'm yapping now and I just

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talk about God knows what what I'm cooking and eating.

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty active on that as well.

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Speaker 3: You can follow me on Twitter, which I believe is

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just at Tatum Pasley. I'll just post a random thought

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in my head. You know, if I'm thinking it, I'll

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just go in there and post it.

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Speaker 1: You know, Well, when you come to Charlotte with NXT,

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we've got to go to the Charlotte Motor Speedway because

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in reality we are NASCAR country. I can show you

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so much Nascar.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh I can only imagine.

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Speaker 1: Well, you have yourself a brilliant day today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you so much for having me