Life before becoming Ice from American Gladiators

[00:00:00] Lori: Welcome to Chilling With Ice with me, Lori Fedrick, or most of you know me as Ice from the American Gladiators. Thank you for joining me on this podcast where we're gonna dive in and go behind the scenes on the number one hit iconic show of the nineties. It's time to get up close and personal on what drove us to be gladiators, what challenges we faced, and how we overcame to reach all of our. I know in this first season, inquiring minds wanna know, was their drama fight hookups? Are we all still friends? What did we do in our personal lives? And how are we staying in such good shape years later? Well, stay right here and let's get into chilling with ice.

[00:00:47] Lori: Welcome to Chilling With Ice with me. Your host, Lori Fetrick. And most of you know me, is Ice Ice Baby from the American Gladiators, and I am very excited about this new podcast and I'd like to introduce my guest, co-host for the next two to three episodes.

[00:01:03] Lori: This is April. She is my girlfriend of 13 years, and I thought, who better to actually interview? Then somebody who knows me really, really well. . Yeah. That, you know, yeah. Can interview me and cut through the bullshit. Let's say . Kind of funny. Yeah. I'm, but so thank you for being here.

[00:01:20] April: Yeah.

[00:01:21] Lori: It's gonna be a lot of fun.

[00:01:22] April: I'm glad to be chilling with you today.

[00:01:24] Lori: That's right. And we're gonna go through today, basically, this episode's gonna be, about my life, let's say before the American Gladiators because nobody has really ever asked me questions about, Hey, what was it like? You know, when you are a teenager or high school or you know, body building, anything like that.

[00:01:41] Lori: We've never had anything like that, so, mm-hmm , that's what this episode's gonna be about, and we're gonna have a lot of fun with it. So I would say, you know what, let's just dive in. Okay. What do you think that my fans slash audience would actually love to. You know that really, it's never been asked before.

[00:02:00] April: Well, I think we're gonna start with, you know, what was it like to be ice? You know? What was it like to be that iconic kind of superhero type character in the nineties?

[00:02:11] Lori: Well, it's interesting you say superhero, and I know that we've talked about this before, but I guess. I guess I just don't see the, the superhero part.

[00:02:19] Lori: I, I mean, yeah, we were in uniform, red, white, and blue, so yeah, it kind of, yeah, I, I can see it, but I don't, I guess,

[00:02:25] April: well, you were, you were superheroes too, you know, a lot of kids, even adults, I mean, saw you as this, um, icon, these, , strong, confident, yeah. Ninja Turtle type

[00:02:41] Lori: we were before then, charact. But No, I hear what you're saying.

[00:02:44] Lori: I get what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And I guess back then, you know, it was television. There wasn't the social media. Mm-hmm. . So if you were on tv. Yeah. I mean, it's like, that was, that was it, man. You were like, it was, you know, pretty impressive. Mm-hmm. . And I understand that because, you know, I mean, the show was huge.

[00:03:04] Lori: Yeah. Okay. I actually had to write down some statistics on this and it ran for eight years. Mm-hmm. , and actually there was 208 episodes. Mm-hmm. 32 Gladiators, which I have no idea who all 32 .

[00:03:19] April: I didn't even know there were 32.

[00:03:20] Lori: I know. Yeah. We'll, we'll go through that in the, a couple episodes, but yeah, 32 gladiators.

[00:03:24] Lori: Okay. Um, and actually there was 24. and I, I, I can't, I can't name all 24 games, but I know there's the handful of games. Maybe they can probably, you know, we can ask that question. Yeah. But it was a, it was a huge franchise and I, I don't think a lot of people understood about what the franchise meant, which means that like the uk um, let's see, Australia, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, um, Australia, Fenland, well, they had their own teams.

[00:03:55] Lori: They literally had their own gladiator teams.

[00:03:57] April: Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. I thought it was just, um, the UK that had it. I didn't even know. Yeah. Interesting.

[00:04:03] Lori: Other countries did, so Wow. And this ran in so many countries and I tried to look up how many countries it was actually broadcasting. I couldn't even find that out.

[00:04:11] Lori: Wow. But yes, it was huge. Interesting. Yeah.

[00:04:15] April: Were the characters. The same or were they, did they,

[00:04:18] Lori: some of them transferred over. Some of 'em they made their own. Okay. You know. Very good. I gotta say that when I found out that the UK. Name someone Ice Uhhuh . And it was just probably, it was, I don't wanna say recently, but it was years ago.

[00:04:31] Lori: I was like, what? What? They took my name.

[00:04:35] April: Oh, that was the newer, I think that was a newer show. Yeah, that was not that. It was maybe a while back ago.

[00:04:39] Lori: Exactly. Ago, yeah. So what do you think my, my audience and fans would like to hear?

[00:04:44] April: Well, I think we need to start with like, you know, What led up to you becoming ice.

[00:04:50] April: So why don't we start with, uh, where did you grow up? Like what was your family life like? Back in what, the seventies? I'd say.

[00:04:56] Lori: Oh my god, it seems like so long ago.

[00:04:59] April: What was it like, what was your, you know,

[00:05:01] Growing Up as Lori

[00:05:01] Lori: what was Yeah, it was back in the seventies. Yeah. Um, I grew up in San Bernardino, California. Mm-hmm. , and it was, um, it was a small, normal street.

[00:05:11] Lori: When I say normal, that means like there was a bunch of families on it. Mm-hmm. . And so there was kids ranging from uh, three to five years younger to three to five years older. So it was kind of perfect, you know? Yeah. And think about it back then in the seventies, it was super safe back then. Mm-hmm. or safer than it is way now.

[00:05:27] Lori: I mean, We left our doors open. We were playing outside until dark. You know, all that kind fun stuff. Um,

[00:05:33] April: kids in the street.

[00:05:34] Lori: Yeah, completely.

[00:05:35] April: We never seen kids in the street anymore.

[00:05:36] Lori: Yeah. Playing hide and go seek, jumping off roofs, you know, riding your bike, your skateboards, you know, so it was kind of cool.

[00:05:42] Lori: Mm-hmm. , um, We were, we as a family. I mean, I'm gonna say that. Yeah. We were kind of poor. Mm. You know, my dad worked, my mom was a stay-at-home mom. Mm-hmm. and that's the way it was back then. Yeah. And my mom made our clothes. Mm-hmm. . And, um, it's interesting because I look back then and go, wow, you know, we got, we got to go out and go clothes shopping maybe once every two years.

[00:06:08] April: I think we have a photo of that actually. Oh my God, this is, yeah. Photo of you and your mom's made clothes. .

[00:06:14] Lori: Yeah. Check this out. As a matter of fact, this is me. And I believe that pattern, right. There's, it's kind of cute That's hot because I think I picked it out as a matter of fact. Yeah. And this'll show on the, um, screen and it was strawberries, like the whole shirt, the whole pattern was strawberries.

[00:06:32] Lori: Yeah. But yeah, my mom made my clothes, you know? Yeah. Um, and what I remember back in that time too growing up is, um, my mom was really, really heavily into this one church, and we tease her today that it was a, Know, and I don't know, maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. It was, I know it kind of did, but it was, um, and, and the church is actually dismantled and there's like little small portions of it around the United States.

[00:06:55] Lori: I think it's why it's dismantled. Right. Exactly. The worldwide church of God. But the reason I bring this up is because it was such an impact on my life as a little kid that, I mean, they, the rules they had like, um, we did have, um, Sabbath on Saturdays. So from sundown Friday night to sundown. Like no tv, no nothing.

[00:07:16] Lori: Okay. That's devastating for a kid basically. Cuz Saturday morning cartoons come on. We couldn't watch 'em. What did you do? I don't, we must have, I don't know. Did you rub sticks together? Yeah, exactly. , nick, bottle caps. It was . It was one of those kind of situations to where, um, we couldn't eat large, so therefore no donuts.

[00:07:34] Lori: Oh my God. That's my favorite. And we didn't, the big thing here is they didn't believe in the traditional holidays. Mm-hmm. Christmas, Easter. Our birthdays, anything that's traditional as far as holidays, we did not celebrate. Like what religion was this? They just took a lot of different things from, you know, seventh Day Adventist, Jehovah Witness, Catholic, Baptist, they took 'em all.

[00:07:56] Lori: I don't wanna say the bad things, like, don't get me wrong, all crapp things, but all the, you know. Yeah. And the thing of it was, is that I would, as a kid, you know, you'd go to school, and like everybody was celebrating and, and you know, making it, having fun with the holidays and I couldn't understand why we could not participate as kids.

[00:08:13] April: Yeah. I can't even imagine that. Cuz that was so a huge part of my, yeah. Of my childhood was the holidays.

[00:08:20] Lori: So that's one thing that definitely as I was, you know mm-hmm. growing up, I remember.

[00:08:25] April: Okay. Did you ever go on vacations?

[00:08:27] Lori: Our idea of vacation was, Okay. I wasn't on a plane. , you're gonna laugh. I wasn't on a plane until I was 21 and I'm not even joking.

[00:08:37] April: Wow. What was that like?

[00:08:37] Lori: Well, well, we didn't have the money. We didn't have the money, so we went camping everywhere. My dad would take me, my dad would take me fishing when we were camping. My sister hated it. Um, I do have a sister, she's three years older than I am. Yeah. Complete opposites. She's like a book.

[00:08:52] Lori: I was a tomboy. My dad wanted a boy. He got his tomboy. He got you. but so he would take me fishing and not her because, you know, he'd teach me how to clean him and gut him. And I was cool. Totally cool with that. Yeah. It was not a big deal.

[00:09:04] April: So you were like a good little fisherman.

[00:09:05] Lori: I was, it was fun.

[00:09:07] April: Well, what was it like to not fly until you were 21, right?

[00:09:10] Lori: I didn't know. Because I, I never missed it cause I didn't know what, yeah, I had no idea.

[00:09:15] April: But what was it like to be up in the air at 21 and just like looking down? Because I remember when I flew for the first time,

[00:09:20] Lori: anxiety .

[00:09:22] April: Oh, really?

[00:09:22] Lori: Especially when you're older.

[00:09:23] April: It was like, it was like magical to me.

[00:09:25] Lori: It, it was, it was a little scary for me because I was older.

[00:09:28] Lori: Mm-hmm. . I think that if when you start as a little kid, it's different, obviously.

[00:09:32] April: Yeah. Okay.

[00:09:32] Lori: You know,

[00:09:33] April: do you remember what some of the games you guys played as a kid? Do you like,

[00:09:37] April: oh my God. Um, yeah, back. I mean, I mean, think about it, back in the seventies we didn't have. We didn't have the video games, we didn't have all those kind of things.

[00:09:45] April: You have internet, nothing. Yeah. So we had to build fires and, I mean, put, you know, , this is funny actually. I put leaves together and, you know, make a fire out in the driveway and my mom like got all scared. I was gonna become a pyromaniac. But anyway, um, we played with games like, um, oh my God. Do you remember Pyrograph?

[00:10:02] April: Uhhuh? Oh, I love that. Hey, they. Spirograph, nice to love that life Mystery date. Mm-hmm. . I played with GI Joe's Matchbook cars. I mean, no, no dolls. No Barbies. You know what? No. My sister had the ball, my sister had the Barbie dolls. I wanted to play with GI Joe's . Okay. That explains it. I know, right? ,

[00:10:24] April: we're getting somewhere.

[00:10:25] April: I know.

[00:10:26] April: Okay, so speaking of, you know how you were. Kind of, um, a little tomboy, I guess. Yeah, I remember you told a story. Told me a story about your, what was it, your third grade teacher. Oh my God, that's right. What kinda of student you were and like tell 'em about that kind of, that's right. Tell 'em that.

[00:10:43] April: , my third grade teacher pulled my mother into a parent-teacher conference and told my mother that I was gonna turn out to be a juvenile delinquent because of the fact that I never wore dresses or skirts to school. I only wore pants. I. Go figure. What the hell is that all about? That's so my mom, she literally scared my mom.

[00:11:02] April: Yeah. And so my mom made me wear dresses and skirts the rest of elementary school. And I remember, by the way, it was, I, I had my cowboy boots on with them, and I remember my mom and my dad fighting about it. My dad would just be like, God let her wear the cowboy boots.

[00:11:17] April: That's awesome. Yeah. That he was like on your side,

[00:11:20] April: but a juvenile delinquent. Seriously.

[00:11:22] April: That's funny cuz you were wearing pants.

[00:11:23] April: Third grade teacher. Come on. Can you imagine today, in today's day and age? Yeah. No, there's no way.

[00:11:28] April: No way. So how were you as a teenager if you were a delinquent as a child?

[00:11:34] Lori: I wasn't a delinquent as a child.

[00:11:37] April: with your jeans and your boots,

[00:11:40] Lori: so, Yeah. I mean, let's be honest.

[00:11:42] Lori: I mean, in your teenage years, you think you know it all. My parents got divorced when I was 13. Mm-hmm. , so obviously at that point in time my mom left and then my sister and I had lived with my dad. Mm-hmm. . So yeah, I tested the waters and the boundaries as far as I could go, and I was a little rebellious.

[00:11:58] Lori: Yeah. You know, there's no doubt I was, yeah. I was testing.

[00:12:02] April: Who was your first crush in, um, high school or as a teenager? Do you remember? Like your poster on your wall? Like who was it?

[00:12:10] Lori's first crush!

[00:12:10] Lori: Actually, I'm gonna say that we're, we're gonna go back probably, I guess what, 10 11? Yeah. Donny Osmond, , Donny Osmond, leaf Garrett, Bobby Sherman, I mean, all these different names.

[00:12:23] Lori: But as far as you know, who came on the scene, who actually caught my eye, and I should have known something at this point in time. What were, what was her name as Christie? Um, McNeil. Hmm. I think that was her name. Mm. And she was like a little cute tomboyish. And I remember just even being 13, I thought, oh, she's kind of cute.

[00:12:42] Lori: Just not really thinking of anything else. No. 13. Yeah. 13. Okay.

[00:12:46] April: Yeah. All right, so 13. Is that when you kinda started noticing you were into girls? Is that when it was.

[00:12:56] Lori: I'm gonna say I was around 13. I was playing softball, by the way. I played softball from the time I was in fourth grade. Typical. I know all these things.

[00:13:04] Lori: I played with GI Joes, I played softball. Yeah. Okay. You know? Yeah. Um, I was

[00:13:10] Lori: Did you wear flannel a lot?

[00:13:11] Lori: I didn't wear flannel a lot. Oh, okay. , I think you did. I did actually. , but yeah, when I was 13, I. Thought of, wow, when would it be like to kiss a girl? Mm-hmm. . And that was pretty much it. I mean, like 13.

[00:13:22] Lori: Yeah. Yeah. I was 13. You know, is it weird? Is it different? Is like an alien. I mean, you're gonna hit me, struck by lightning. But yeah, I mean, I had that thought. Yeah. It was very bizarre. But I didn't act on it until I was in high school. Okay. All right. You know, ,

[00:13:37] April: did you, um, do anything to make money as a teenager? Like did you have any jobs, odd jobs? Like what'd you do to make money?

[00:13:44] Lori: It's funny because I , I, I did a lot of going around the neighborhood mowing yards. And then, you know, you, I start babysitting, you know, I started babysitting. Oh yeah. They think babysitting. They think, you know, you're old enough at 13, 14 to start babysitting.

[00:14:01] Lori: And the interesting thing about that, that I'm gonna tell us this actually that I've never said before, and that is I would go babysit for this couple and again, remind you we're in the seventies and they're kind of like hippies, you know? And everything was like freedom and drugs and not a big deal.

[00:14:17] Lori: So I would go over to their house to, you know, babysit their kids. Mm-hmm. and they're getting stoned and they literally would hand me the joint to ask me if I wanted to get stoned with. Did I was, I was 13 and And you were gonna watch their kids? I, I did. Yes, I did. Which is crazy. I know. Who would you imagine?

[00:14:37] Lori: Can you imagine No. Handing your child over into somebody going, Hey, do you wanna get Stone before you watch my child?

[00:14:41] April: No. It's like, my son was a baby at 13. Yeah. You know, like, that's crazy.

[00:14:45] Lori: Well, these kids are obviously very young because they never came out of their rooms. I mean, were they there? I don't, I don't know.

[00:14:51] Lori: Didn't even know

[00:14:56] Lori: Thank you, but I, I remember this so vividly because of the fact that they got me stoned, and then I remember getting the munchies and probably eating all their Captain Crunch, you know? And then all of a sudden they walk through the door and I go, oh, what'd you forget? And they're like, we've been gone for two hours,

[00:15:17] April: Oh my God. Was that the first time you ever smoked then? Yeah, at a babysitting job.

[00:15:22] Lori: At a babysitting job. Wow. I mean, come on. Who does that? Except hippies in the seventies. .

[00:15:29] April: That's hilarious. Put that on your resume. .

[00:15:31] Lori: Mm-hmm. . Exactly.

[00:15:34] April: So going from there. Did you ever wanna actually become an actress or did you ever think you wanted to be like, what did you wanna be when you grew up?

[00:15:44] Lori: I'm still asking myself that question. Um, actually. I never thought about becoming an actress. It's really strange. I didn't look at people on television and go, oh my God, I wanna do this more than anything. I wanted to be a rockstar. I mean, I played a mean air guitar and I remember grabbing whatever I could grab like a hairbrush or you know, something that resembled a microphone and I would be in my living room and just like, you know, just lip syncing and wailing and yeah, I remember that.

[00:16:11] Lori: I mean, God, that was like yesterday. It feels like

[00:16:14] April: you don't have a picture of that. Unfortunately.

[00:16:16] Lori: I don't have a picture of that. What can I say?

[00:16:20] April: So, okay, so. How was high school for you? Were you popular? Were, were you playing sports? Like what were you, how was your high school experience?

[00:16:28] Lori: I had a great high school experience. My freshman sophomore year. My whole goal in high school, believe it or not, was to hit the varsity team. . , volleyball, basketball, and softball. I wanted to hit varsity all with those sports my first freshman year.. and I actually did. . So that to me was an. Yeah, and I, I'll talk about my coach in a minute, but, um, high school was great. Was I popular? I, I kind of wanna say I hung around with the popular crowd, but I mean, if you saw me in high school, no, I didn't look like the really cool, like, popular girl. I mean, here I Did you go to prom? I did go to prom as a matter of fact, and I do have a photo check this. That is my prom photo.

[00:17:12] Lori: That looks like my mom's wedding dress. Hey, come on now. Day. What can I say? Aw, look at you. I know braces. You look like you. My hair was up. I was, oh, I was so mad at my mom. My mom put my hair up for the prom and I walked in. She's like, oh, it'll be so pretty, you know? And I walk in and all the girls' hairs, gown.

[00:17:31] Lori: Really?

[00:17:31] April: It's like normal, you know? Everybody had their hair up at mine. This is all like in this crazy tight. No, but it did. And like,

[00:17:36] Lori: yeah, exactly. But I mean, check this out. This is my, this is what I look like at 17. Oh my God. Okay. A, a mouth, a softball cake. A mouthful of braces. My hair parted down the middle.

[00:17:48] Lori: I mean, I was, I was just a normal average. Yeah. High school girl. Yeah. You know. Okay. So high school was a lot of fun for me. Again, let's go back to the God, my coach in high school, coach Doak was her name, . And I really contribute a lot of. A lot of my discipline mm-hmm. and how to train to her because our very first year in, like, cuz uh, obviously she coached all three, by the way, volleyball, softball, basketball.

[00:18:15] Lori: So she coached all three, but the way her conditioning was, was intense. Like she would have us put ankle weights on and run up and down the bleachers and then run around the track and jump rope, and then she'd take the ankle weights off and we'd have to do it all again. Then we went in and started practicing whatever sport it was, and it was just drills after drills, after drills.

[00:18:36] Lori: But you know what I learned? She took our team every single year and we were completely, somewhat years, we were undefeated. We were in first place. I mean, Awesome. Wow. She made me like literally the athlete that I, that I was and that I am today. She was an amazing coach and I gotta give that to her. So she was like a legit coach.

[00:18:58] Lori: She was a legit coach,

[00:18:59] April: not like my high school were, you know, like, yeah, you can run her jog

[00:19:02] Lori: or whatever you want. Oh, no, no, no, no. She wanted, she wanted to take our team first place. And so, wow. Yeah, that was, that's one thing that I learned from her. So was super amazing, you know, in the high school experience with that. And by the way, she was the very first one that took us in the weight room. She even took her all the girls into the weight room. Wow. To get us stronger. That's awesome.

[00:19:21] April: So whereas they wouldn't have been because Right. They were doing like aerobics and

[00:19:25] Lori: Yeah, exactly. Whatever. Yeah. So as I got older and went into the gym, and we'll talk about that in a minute, but I wasn't completely new. To the gym setting because she had taken us in there. Mm-hmm. , mind you, freshman, sophomore. Yeah. You know, kind of situation. Yeah.

[00:19:39] April: So, so did you. Did you ever throw any, you know, like rag parties in high school? Were you like, did you ever go to parties?

[00:19:47] Lori: Well, it's interesting that you say that because I, okay, so my freshman, sophomore year I was at San Bernardino High School.

[00:19:55] Lori: Mm-hmm. . And once my parents got divorced, though, I lived with my dad, by the way, super rebellious. Again, pushing the limits, curfews at midnight, I'd come in at two in the morning. I must have done that one too many times. So your third grade teacher was right. And maybe a little bit. I must have done that one too many times.

[00:20:14] Lori: Yeah. And I came in one evening and he was sitting at the table and it was pitch dark. I thought I was sneaking in and all of a sudden I heard this, where have you been? And I just must have had a heart attack, you know? He was so pissed because I was okay. Yeah, he was worried. I understand that. I get that.

[00:20:30] Lori: Mm-hmm. , but he gathered up all my clothes. At two in the morning, put him all in his truck, all my stuff, everything. Drove to my mom's house, threw all my shit on the front lawn and said, take her, I'm fucking done.

[00:20:47] April: Wow. Yeah. That's crazy.

[00:20:49] Lori: Yeah. So that was, that was kind of intense. And that was my sophomore year.

[00:20:54] Lori: He was not having it. Mm-hmm. . So therefore moving into my stepfather's. He was a chiropractor, so he had a large house. Mm-hmm. . And the backyard was beautiful. Big backyard, perfect pool, right in the middle, you know, everything. Right. So my junior year we decided to throw a party. . My parents, um, my mom and and him went up to Las Vegas and I thought, oh my God, perfect time.

[00:21:23] Lori: We hired a band, we had kegs. We charged the money to get in the door. I mean, it was like we put flyers out even mm-hmm. . This wasn't like a small party. This is like, we made flyers. Wow. And so the flyers went to our high school and then two other high schools. Mm-hmm. , it was a rag. And this must have been, I mean, we must have literally had two, 300 kids at this.

[00:21:44] Lori: Geez. Yeah, it was crazy. And you were charging and we were charging money at the door. We had to pay the ban. We had to pay off the keg. Mm-hmm. . Um, the funny thing is, is that of course your parents call every night. We should have known this, but we were kids and we didn't even think about it. Right. And that is, they called one evening and my stepsister answered the phone.

[00:22:02] Lori: She got nervous and hung up. Instead of just not answering the phone. Well, they would've kept calling cause they knew we were home. Wow. So I don't even know what we were thinking at that point in time. But what they did is they called the neighbor, the neighbor's, like, um, yeah, you've got like two, 300 kids in your house.

[00:22:17] Lori: And so they called the cops on us. We had helicopters and cop cars and everything else. Helicopters even. Yeah, 100%.

[00:22:24] April: Did you get in big time trouble? Like what?

[00:22:26] Lori: No, we were minors. We were minors, we had to give all the money away to, um, charity, which kind of sucked.

[00:22:32] April: Wow. That was it. Yeah. And then did, were you grounded?

[00:22:35] Lori: Did they Oh god, yeah. I got grounded all the time. . So, and that's how I got so good at playing pool because my stepfather had a pool table, . So when I was grounded, I would just play pool all the time. Wow.

[00:22:48] April: So did your dad know that you were also into girls? Is that why he was also over you? Did you notice?

[00:22:53] April: No. You were, no. When, when did you realize that you. Gay or bisexual? Or did you have a boyfriend first?

[00:23:00] Lori's love life in High School

[00:23:00] Lori: Oh yeah. You have a girl? Okay. Oh yeah. I dated, I dated all, you know mm-hmm. all through high school. Um, no. I thought it, I, like I said, I thought about what it was like to kiss a girl when I was 13. Mm-hmm.

[00:23:13] Lori: I met my best friend my junior year. You know, basically I'm, I'm gonna blame it on her. Yes, I will. Because she's the one who was like, I have a secret, I wanna tell you. It's always the best friend. It's always the best friend, . And it was just, you know, I kissed another girl. Yeah. And it was almost like testing the waters how I was gonna react.

[00:23:32] Lori: And I was like, oh, okay. Whatever. Yeah. We wound up making out. Wow. Yeah. And it kind of started there. Uhhuh . And what was funny is that I don't, I, I mean, yeah, she was my girlfriend, but I never considered her my girlfriend. It was just something we were doing. I thought I was a phase. So your parents had no idea this was happening?

[00:23:51] Lori: My parents had no clue whatsoever. You know, I was, we were dating guys, we were going on dates. You know, me and her, my best friends, we'd go home and sleep together.

[00:24:00] April: and And did the guys ever know?

[00:24:02] Lori: They never knew. Wow. They never knew. Wow. Yeah, it was kind of crazy.

[00:24:07] April: That's crazy. I think I did that once. Actually, it's funny you say that.

[00:24:09] Lori: I'm sure you did. I won't mention any names, but again, I thought it was a phase. I really did. I thought it was a phase that I was going through. Yeah. And eventually I was going to get married, have kids, have the normal life, because that's what my parents like, brainwashed me in thinking.

[00:24:24] Lori: Mm-hmm. . So I didn't get to go to college. It wasn't like I was thinking of career. Right. You know? And that was kind of sad. You know, I, I wish that they had definitely kind of molded me into something. Give me a path of something. Yeah. Given me a path, but there was no path. Yeah. You know, it's like, oh, she'll get married and have kids because that's what they did.

[00:24:43] Lori: Yeah. You know, they didn't know anything else, and so it kind of trickled down. You know what they knew she's

[00:24:47] April: pretty, they'll find a man. I know. He'll take care of you.

[00:24:50] Lori: So it was a phase I was going through. I mm-hmm. didn't admit it to myself really until I was 28, and that's when I. One of my girlfriends that I completely fell in love with, she was gorgeous, and I just went. I'm gay. , do you, have you have a photo of this time in your life? Um, I, I do not, but I'm sure that I could probably find one. Oh, I, I do have a photo . I do have a photo of when I was 19. Remember the parachute pants? Oh my god, yes. Oh yeah.

[00:25:24] April: I'm loving the hair and the head, the headband.

[00:25:26] Lori: Really? Oh, yeah. Where I'm loving.

[00:25:27] Lori: Exactly. That was when, um, around 19 when I was just starting to go out.

[00:25:34] April: So just starting to go out and party maybe?

[00:25:37] Lori: Yeah. Going out and partying.

[00:25:39] April: Um, so when was the first time that, okay. What kind of jobs did you have? Actually? Oh God. My first job. When you got, yeah. When you were a little bit older, like, I don't know, outta high school, what were you doing?

[00:25:50] Lori: Did we all start at McDonald's because I did.

[00:25:52] April: No, I didn't do fast food. I did, um, serving, but I didn't do fast food.

[00:25:56] Lori's career

[00:25:56] Lori: NIO was never a server. I was a bartender, but I was never a server. So I started at McDonald. Went to Del Taco. I think I was a cashier, like a, a car wash. Mm-hmm. . I worked at U P s. As a cashier, not as a, a trucker thank driver or whatever, loading the trucks. And then I worked at a place called Cellex Marley. It might still be there, who knows? But they made Spanish tiles for roofs, Uhhuh . That was like the labor job. Uhhuh . Then I went to like this place called Leo Stereo. Mm-hmm. , Leo Stereo. Leo's Stereo and University stereo. Okay. Back then, I don't think they were across the United States.

[00:26:33] Lori: I think in California. , but like you would go there to buy your big huge home speakers and your turntables. Yeah. And your cassette decks. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. You know, and stuff like that. Yeah. So there was just this ginormous store. Mm-hmm. . I worked there down in, um, Newport Beach. Yeah. And then I kind of graduated and went into their corporate office.

[00:26:55] Lori: Mm-hmm. as a matter of fact, and their corporate office. We were just like auditors, meaning that, you know, back then again, it wasn't computers where everything was, you know, pushed out to corporate. It was like literally they had couriers bringing in their packets to corporate with their receipts, their money and everything.

[00:27:11] Lori: We audited to make sure they matched. Right. That's what. And that job was a lot of fun. But that, and there was two reasons why that job was a lot of fun. One of the reasons why is because I, at that point in time, I was like 19, 20 years old. Mm-hmm. I was getting into, I was a little bit more into girls, I wanna say.

[00:27:32] Lori: started partying a little bit more. Mm-hmm. . And then there was like, I remember there was a girl that would walk around the office and I'm not even joking, she would take our drug order. And what I mean by that, I know it sounds absolutely terrible, but at the time you gotta think at the time. Yeah. It's not now.

[00:27:48] Lori: It was back then. Remind me of what it was, the movie. Uh, which one?

[00:27:52] April: With the, the Wolf on Wall Street or whatever.

[00:27:54] Lori: Pretty much exact. Well, you know what, think about it. Because that's exactly what the orders, they were taking, Quaaludes and cocaine. You know, and we weren't excessive about it. It was on the weekends.

[00:28:04] Lori: Yeah. And so we would go like that Friday night meetup, you know, and have our little party at the house, and then we'd go over into Hollywood and there was this club and it was only for girls and it was called peanuts. Wow. So

[00:28:17] April: it was actually a girl.

[00:28:18] Lori: It was bar, it was actually a girl bar and I was just like, again, I had my fake ID and I just thought, oh my God, this is the best thing.

[00:28:26] Lori: That's been cool. It was so

[00:28:27] April: much fun because there's no girl bars anymore. If any someone could you please open a girl bar, that'd be awesome.

[00:28:32] Lori: You would think in Los Angeles. Exactly.

[00:28:34] April: All places We have a night. I know, but we don't have that. They're all boys and it's a Wednesday night.

[00:28:39] Lori: They're all boy clubs, but you know,

[00:28:40] April: they're still boys. It's different. Yeah, exactly. It'd be cool to have a girl club.

[00:28:45] Lori: It would be ,

[00:28:45] April: so, okay. After all the partying.

[00:28:50] Lori: Yeah. I did party a lot. Oh wait, you

[00:28:52] April: were, cause you were working a lot. You were sitting a lot. And that's when you I think, joined a gym, right? Because

[00:28:58] Lori: Yeah. As a matter of fact, um, after I left University Stereo, I went to another company and I was, I was, I walked in and now again doing an accounting.

[00:29:08] Lori: And at that point in time, and I love these women, these, there was four women in the back that I worked with. Hmm. And they're kind of heavy set and I. Oh my God. I, if I, if I sit here and I just do this and I keep eating, I, is this where my life is going? I mean, I was an athlete. Yeah. You know, so I started going to the gym during lunch and that's when I hit, I don't know, way back when it was called Bally's.

[00:29:34] Lori: Mm-hmm. . And remember it was like you could, you could have a Bally's membership for a dollar a year or something like that. That was small fitness. There you go. Exactly. Yeah. So I would go on my lunch hour and I would. You know, all the girls were doing aerobics. I kind of did aerobics maybe a couple times.

[00:29:50] Lori: Yeah. And then I went into the weight room cause I wanted to lift weights. Mm-hmm. . Okay. So, but then I kind of, kind of somebody, I met somebody and they said, you need to go around the corner here and there's another gym and it's more of a serious body building gym and I think you'd fit in there. So I went over there and it's called Brignoli.

[00:30:09] Lori: And, um, I met a couple really cool trainers and they're just like, oh my God, you have the genetics to be this, uh, great bodybuilder. I didn't even know what body building was then.

[00:30:22] April: Wow. Yeah. So that's how you got introduced to the body building world. Did you actually, um, do shows and did you get into that?

[00:30:33] Bodybuilding and going to shows

[00:30:33] Lori: Well, I actually started training. And it was one year later. Mm. I actually did my very first show. Yeah. Because my whole thing with me and my life, it's like I need a goal. I couldn't just go in and train to train. Mm-hmm. , you know, I needed a goal to go to. So it was like, okay, if I'm gonna go into the gym every day or every morning, And that's really what I started doing as a matter of fact, is I had to be at work at eight o'clock.

[00:31:01] Lori: I was so disciplined that I'd get up at 5:30 and I would be in the gym by six o'clock. I would train for an hour, hour and a half and then get ready to go to work, which was right down the, right down the way. Wow. I mean, I can't even get up now. , eight o'clock . I mean, , I have a problem getting up early to go, have to go play golf.

[00:31:25] Lori: you coffee, love your face, come to get up. But yeah, I mean back then it was like, no big deal. Boo Pop up at five 30, go to the gym. Wow. But I had a goal. You know, I wanted to compete. Well, that's probably where your discipline came in was from. And that's what I was gonna say, coach. That's what I was gonna say from my coach.

[00:31:43] Lori: Yeah. You know, it was pretty amazing. And so I started training, I had a couple trainers, as a matter of fact. My first one. And, um, I'll give her credit. Lee Brandon, you're awesome. She's the one who actually kind of talked me into this mm-hmm. into body building and she trained with me for a while and then from her I went into, um, another trainer.

[00:32:02] Lori: His name was Andy Loy. Andy was awesome. Andy was Andy. Even today, I can hear him in the back of my head going, come on, push it harder, you know, stop being a baby. I mean, yeah. You know, he was like that kind of a coach. But yeah, it was just, it was pretty cool. I mean, as a matter of fact, I mean, this is, I have a couple photos here from my very first show ever and what I looked like when I did actually dye down.

[00:32:31] Lori: Look at that. I mean, I was just like so little and thin. You know, but I had the muscle, this was in a year. That was a year. You were ripped in a year. And that's why they said genetically I had what it took. You know, I had the shoulders, I had, you know, kind of like the V shape, the little hips. You know, and I just had to build the muscle on top of it.

[00:32:53] April: It's been like 20. I am still trying to get like that, but that's okay.

[00:32:55] Lori: Yeah. Well, you don't train like I do. That's why .

[00:32:59] April: Oh. Oh. Is that what it is?

[00:33:02] Lori: It might be the hot and you eat like, shit. Let's be real. It might be the Hot Cheetos. It's the hot Cheetos. I'm, what do you want? What are you looking for? I thought you had another picture.

[00:33:09] Lori: No, I'll get into those in a little bit.

[00:33:11] April: Okay. So how many shows did you do?

[00:33:14] Lori: Um, after my, did you go pro? Well, after my first show, Let's see. I did, I did city and then I did a couple like town type events. Mm-hmm. and then I did state, and then I went nationals. Okay. And you had to win the nationals in order to go pro?

[00:33:33] Lori: Mm. At that point in time back then, yeah. I don't know what it's like now and um, I wanted to go pro, but that's when gladiators came along. But throughout my body building year, I mean, if you think about it,

[00:33:45] April: did you make money in body building? Like how did that back.

[00:33:49] Lori: There was, there was no money to be made in female bodybuilding.

[00:33:52] Lori: Mm-hmm. Unless you went pro. And even if you went pro, you just got, I'm sure you got a couple endorsements. You got some magazine coverage. But there was no money to Oh, well, unless you became a personal trainer. Mm-hmm. You know, you could make money that way. Trainer. Yeah. But I would say most of the women not even most. I'm gonna say handful. Mm-hmm. . Um, back then there was this underground kind of female wrestling thing going on. Mm. The underground. Well, and this came out with, um, the documentary killer Sally. Hmm. And she was spot on. I mean that, going into that. And I always said, oh my God, there needs to be a documentary literally all about the underground, kind of like side hustle.

[00:34:41] Lori: You know, female bodybuilders do as far as the wrestling world is concerned. Mm-hmm. . Yeah. So it's interesting because, um, I tried it once. I did becau I mean, the money's there. Yeah. Because what was happening is these guys would get in touch with you and they called themselves producers, you know, and they said, Hey, we'd love to do a video with you.

[00:35:03] Lori: We'll pay you $500. You know, and back then I was like, oh my God, okay, $500 for a video. What do I gotta do? Oh, you're just gonna be wrestling a couple dudes.

[00:35:13] April: Did you have to stand on their balls and stuff?

[00:35:15] Lori: Stop. We didn't do that. That's, that's the fetish shit later on. I mean, no. Oh, okay. Okay. My bad. That's, that's a whole nother subject I to I'll tell you about that.

[00:35:24] April: I had to know who I'm dealing with here, you know?

[00:35:26] Lori: Well, and so the body building, I mean that, that wrestling world. Mm-hmm. , you know, , you know, would you do this? I was like, oh, 500 bucks. Just wrestle some guys, you know, I was big and buff at the time. I was like, oh, why not? And I remember when I was, when I was actually doing this mm-hmm.

[00:35:41] Lori: I thought, oh. Again, I'm sorry, I, I don't mean to offend anyone or, you know, kind of like, look down. There's, I'm not looking down on any, it just wasn't for me. Yeah. I didn't feel right about it. I didn't feel right about having a dude's head between my legs when they're pretending and they're like, squeeze my head harder when their face was in my crotch.

[00:36:04] Lori: Mm-hmm. , I just didn't feel this stuff didn't fit. Yeah. I could see that. You know, and then there's like a lot of different move. Um, in wrestling called the scissor move. Literally, they lay on top of you and you're supposed to, you know, bear hug him. Well, they're laying on top of you. Course. I mean, it's like all these different things and.

[00:36:23] Lori: For me, super sleazy, like yeah. I mean, it just, it wasn't for me. Mm-hmm. and I, and I did, I did try it once, you know? Yeah. So I'm sure if somebody, I don't even know if it's out there, they tossed it or burned it or whatever, who knows. But, um, yeah, that whole world is really interesting. And then it, it kind of goes further into.

[00:36:44] Lori: The fetish. I mean, I do have a few friends that have done it and like, oh my God, there's, you know, certain videos out there to where it's like, you can get paid to kick these guys in the balls. Yeah. I mean, how crazy is that? I mean, sign me up,

[00:36:56] April: you know. Shit. I'll do that all day for

[00:36:59] Lori: $300 an hour. Where are you at?

[00:37:01] Lori: Oh, no, it's more than that. I got some shit kicking boots. I can kick in

[00:37:04] April: balls all day long

[00:37:05] Lori: if you want. Oh my God, you're terrible. .

[00:37:09] April: You're gonna

[00:37:09] Lori: pay me to do that. I know, right? Why not? But um, as far as a body building, uh, was concerned, I mean, I, I really got into it. You know? Yeah. Did you get your pro card?

[00:37:21] Lori: I never got my pro card. Mm-hmm. , unfortunately, I, I wish that I, I kind of wish I would've had, I would've already went there. Yeah. But that year is when the gladiator tryouts came along. Mm-hmm. ? Mm. So, well, not even then, let's put it, let's go back. I placed third in the nationals in the heavyweight. Mm. . And so I actually did, I have to, I have to win the nationals Yeah.

[00:37:44] Lori: In order to go pro. So I would've had to keep competing. Yeah. Let's put it that way. In order to win the nationals to go pro. Mm-hmm. . Okay.

[00:37:52] April: So, so how did you end up hearing about the gladiator tryouts and stuff? Hmm.

[00:38:00] Lori: That's gonna come later. Okay. But as far as, let's go back to the body building for a minute, because there's a lot of things.

[00:38:08] Lori: I mean, I'd like to touch on that. A lot of people don't know. Okay. You know, and that is like, um, what I ate, how I got ready for these shows. I mean, it's out there, but at the same time, I think back then it was, um, it was pretty unhealthy. Yeah. The way you

[00:38:26] April: guys lost it so fast and then you gained a bunch of weight.

[00:38:30] April: Well, and then can we talk about, you know, Taboo part of it that everyone is intrigued about. I'm sure about, you know, how steroids were, you know, in every sport it was, it was everywhere. It,

[00:38:46] Lori: yeah. I mean, let's be real. Yeah. And you can't get it. It is a, it is an, and it's, it's, it is an enhancement. Now, mind you, it's not a magic pill.

[00:38:56] Lori: And that's one thing I will talk about. Mm-hmm. is steroids are not a magic pill. It's like if you're taking 'em, you still have to train your ass off. Mm-hmm. and you still have to eat correctly. Yeah. In order to gain that muscle or get ripped. Right. Well the problem was, is what was happening is I won my first show and it wasn't a problem, but I'm so competitive.

[00:39:16] Lori: Mm-hmm. that. Okay. Bring on the next show. Mm. Well the next show I play second and I was like, That's kind of bullshit. What do you mean at play? Second. So what was happening I noticed, is the judges, they were, they were picking the bigger, the more ripped girls. Mm-hmm. . So therefore it kind of, if you wanted to be in the sport mm-hmm.

[00:39:41] Lori: and I'll call it a sport, you know, it really is, if you wanted to be there, you had to play the game. Yeah. So if the judges are picking bigger, More ripped. Well, guess what you're gonna have to do? You're gonna have to make the decision. Do I go into the world of steroids or do I not? Yeah, cuz you're not gonna get that

[00:39:58] April: big

[00:39:58] Lori: though without steroids.

[00:39:59] Lori: No. I mean, everybody, it's absolutely impossible for a woman to do that.

[00:40:03] April: No. Well, even men were striving to be what? Um, Arnold and Umno. Oh God. Yeah. I mean, you can't, you can't, you can't get there without it. I mean, it's like go big or go home at that point. 100% that day and age, right? Yeah. So, yep. That's how it was.

[00:40:17] April: So

[00:40:18] Lori: I. . Okay. As competitive I as I was, yeah. Mm-hmm. , I dabbled, I definitely did the steroids and in order to win to get to the next level mm-hmm. , but I was always a little afraid of 'em, you know? So I was kind of like very, um, I wanna say minimal when it came to the steroids. So, yeah. Just a little bump. Yeah.

[00:40:39] Lori: So if somebody was like, okay, well you need to take, you know, Let's say if it was yes, some of them were injections, which is even more insane. Cause I'm super afraid of needles and I mean, I pass out at taking blood . Yeah. You know, but you know, some of them, you know, you had stick a needle in your ass. and you know, if it was like take one cc, I would literally take half or even maybe a quarter of it.

[00:41:01] Lori: Mm-hmm. , I was so kind of really, you know, I was shy about taking him. I was just like, oh my God, I don't wanna look like this big dude and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. But yeah, I look back on my body building photos and I'm like, holy fuck, I, I got pretty big . You, you

[00:41:15] April: know? Yeah. Thank, do you have the picture?

[00:41:18] Lori: You have pictures?

[00:41:19] Lori: I do have, I do have some, um, photos here. As a matter of

[00:41:23] April: fact, when you got super cut and then when you, after. When you let it all hang out and let it go?

[00:41:27] Lori: Yeah, I do. I mean, here are, here's a bunch of photos that like from, you know, the beginning of body building, um, all the way through different, you know, yeah.

[00:41:39] Lori: Exactly. So. Yep. You know, these will be definitely shown. You guys are all, see these things? These are just amazing photos. You're gonna see all the photos. Actually, I'm sure you have. Oh, these cake one.

[00:41:48] April: That's awesome. But it's, oh, this is you in a dress right here. Yes, yes. This is not something that I

[00:41:54] Lori: have.

[00:41:55] Lori: Okay. So that was the other thing. There was like a lot of guys that wanted to photograph a lot of these muscular girls, and they were like, Hey, can you put on five inch heels? And I was just like, I felt so stupid. It's like, I'm like a big bodybuilder girl. Why do you wanna see me in five inch heels? Right.

[00:42:09] Lori: I don't know. It was just one of the things back then.

[00:42:12] April: Where's the one of you? Um, you have the one the after. Okay.

[00:42:17] Lori: So this is my favorite. I know, I know, I know. Because it, look, I can't even believe it's you. Now here's the, here's the inch. Okay. And I'm gonna kind of. I'm gonna talk about this photo for a minute.

[00:42:27] Lori: Yeah. So before a comp stop laughing, , before a competition we would do something called bulking up. Yep. Which meant that you're going to eat anything and everything under the sun to put as much weight on and hopefully muscle on as you can before you start dieting down to the show. Yeah. So I would try to gain as much weight as I possibly.

[00:42:52] Lori: Before dieting down. Mm-hmm. . So that photo right there, I mean, I think I got up one time to 180. Mm-hmm. as a matter of fact, and I was competing at 1 55. Wow. If that tells you anything. So we would take three months to diet down. Yeah. Now mind you, your body. Why three months? And why it was so hard is because your body naturally would rather feed off of muscle first.

[00:43:18] Lori: Mm-hmm. rather than body fat because it's just the way our body's made for survival mechanisms. Hmm. So you had to train your ass off with heavy weights, do cardio, and at the same time diet down. Now there is a lot of things that I know now that I wish I'd known back then. Mm-hmm. , like when I talk about dieting down, I was eating nothing but boiled fish.

[00:43:40] Lori: Let's say, uh, chicken breast only, broccoli with no sauce, no nothing, and like maybe a baked potato or small thing of rice or pasta. . Okay. So these were so strict, and then once a week while we were dieting down, we could have , what it's called, a carb day. Wow. Well, that carb day was more of a cheat day to where you could eat whatever you wanted.

[00:44:03] Lori: So I was eating like we would go to breakfast and I kid you not. I wanted everything on the menu because I was so hungry from dieting all week. Mm. I would have pancakes and omelets and. . And by the time the day was done, you were sick.

[00:44:16] April: I was gonna say, did you make yourself sick after that? Yeah. After you were after eating. So clean. Mm-hmm. and then eating syrup and butter and all that.

[00:44:24] Lori: Oh, no doubt. Yeah. You were so sick and gassy, . I was. You were like, oh, I just wanna diet again. . You were ready to diet the next day. I'm not even joking. Yeah. So we would do this for three months to hold as much muscle as we possibly could. And now here's the insane part.

[00:44:40] Lori: Hmm. We'd go to the show, we'd do the show, and literally the next day we would just like eat whatever we wanted. And you would gain almost 10, 15 pounds in one week. No way. And how that's possible. All through water weight. Wow, that's crazy. You know, it's insane. So you would just blow up and look like this balloon as you're walking through the gym when somebody just goes, oh my God, she was shredded two weeks ago.

[00:45:07] Lori: How crazy. But that's what I meant by, I wish I'd have known things back then that I know now. Like, I mean, we completely took out all the fats out of our diet completely. 100% like abs, everything. I wish that I would've known that if I would've been adding some avocado. Good fat. Yeah. Cause it's dangerous.

[00:45:24] Lori: Peanut butter fat. Well, my body would've released mm-hmm. the fat that too easier. Mm-hmm. , you know, because since I was completely starving it and depleting all, it just hung onto it as much as I, you know, it possibly could. But yeah, there was, you know, there was steroids to get big and then there were steroids to cut.

[00:45:42] Lori: Hmm. You know, I mean, I remember. Um, there was, there's something out there called Winstrol v. Now , this is, I'm laughing about it because I'm thinking, what an idiot I was. , you know, Winstrol V is a horse steroid. Mm-hmm. The, it's for race horses. Wow. It's for race horses. And you would take the Winstrol V before the competition because it would get you shred.

[00:46:05] Lori: Wow. You know? But again, how long before were you taking it? Like two months before. Oh, really? Yeah. Everything was, I mean, to me, I tried to keep everything in moderation, but um, obviously once body building was done, I was done, I done done with steroids. Mm-hmm. didn't ever touch 'em again. Wow. You know, so even when I went into gladiators, when they were all, everybody was thinking that we were all on steroids.

[00:46:28] Lori: No. That was way before the show . Yeah. You know? Yeah. During, no, didn't, nothing like that. Okay. You know, so the bodybuilding days, it was, it was a lot of fun. It was really intense. Um, I did it for a solid, I'm gonna say six to seven years. Mm-hmm. , but that's exactly what led me up to gladiators. , I would've never gotten gladiators if I hadn't have chosen this path.

[00:46:53] Lori: Mm-hmm. . So honestly, everything that I've done in my, in my early, early days mm-hmm. completely led me up to the time when I went to go try out for the American Gladiators. I was ready. I was prepared. Yeah. And I didn't even know I was preparing.

[00:47:11] April: Okay, so that's more, we're gonna get into that in the next episode.

[00:47:15] Lori: Yes. So we have to wait. Yes. The next episode is gonna be a lot of fun. It's gonna be, um, all about basically my, my first year trying out what it was like. That's awesome.

[00:47:27] April: You know, so

[00:47:29] Lori: recap, basically, um, recap on today is, I mean, everything that I did in my c. I feel I had a great childhood. I was a little rebellious.

[00:47:40] Lori: Um, I think I was a normal teenager, but you know, I think back on different things and I was like, oh, maybe, you know, I could have done things differently, but, um, but you know what? I wouldn't change a thing for the world. Everything led me up to where I was supposed to be at that time.

[00:47:58] April: Yeah. And especially your coach getting you like prepared for such intense training.

[00:48:05] Lori: Absolutely. From, from, yeah. My coach teaching me from my other coaches and body building. Um, getting my body ready. Mm-hmm. and prepared. But yeah, it was, you know, I had a great childhood. It led me up to where I was supposed to be, and yeah, it's, it was, it was awesome. It was great. And so this is the part of the story that nobody has ever heard before.

[00:48:27] Lori: Like, how were you before a gladiator? Mm-hmm. . You know what led you up to this? How were you as a child? Yeah, well, as a little tomboy, rebellious, little shit . I mean, I left a lot of things out, but you know what the hell? It was fun.

[00:48:40] April: And that's how you get ice right here.

[00:48:44] Lori: Exactly. . So thank you so much. That was a lot of fun.

[00:48:48] Lori: Yeah,

[00:48:49] April: it was. I'm excited for the next episode, too. I'm excited too. That's gonna be a fun one to do as well. Yep.

[00:48:55] Lori: Yeah.

[00:48:57] Lori: All right. That's. Signing off. Signing off.

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