Austin, you found a pic with your mom and Kof?
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> From pre New Day.
>> Yeah, so it was my first mania, right?
And I think it was first mania, it was in New Orleans, I think.
But, anyway, my mom sent me this picture and she says,
this was taken in New Orleans at your first WrestleMania.
Kofi was so kind to take a picture with me.
He had no idea who I was at the time.
It predates the New Day.
>> [LAUGH] >> And
then we talked about how crazy it would have been if that picture came through and
my mom was like, man, Kofi was so mean to me.
He's so nice now, I'd be like, wait, Kofi, you were meeting my mom?
Yeah, you know what I mean?
>> [LAUGH] And that all breaks down.
>> Right, what if you were really rude to her or what if she thought you were rude?
And that sunk us and she told Woods right away, Kofi was awful to me, and
then The New Day never happened?
What? >> You never know,
every interaction that you have is relevant, man.
And, like even the thought cuz I sent the text I said, man, I'm so
glad that I wasn't a jerk.
Because you never know like, I don't know, sometimes we have bad days and
somebody might wanna be saying hi to you.
And you might be on a rush to catch your plane and you're not trying to be mean.
But just I'm sorry, I can't take a picture right now, but
they might perceive it as this guy's a jerk.
He wouldn't even sign my picture and then that's what they think of you.
So I always just try as hard as I can, man, like when I have an interaction
with even a stranger, just to be kind, just to take a little time to say hello.
And not necessarily make the moment like so memorable but
just don't make it memorable for the wrong reasons.
And like you just even thinking about it now still, like if I were to have
been a jerk to your mom all those years ago and she remembered that.
Like the thought of that possibility just makes my skin crawl.
I always hate when you hear stories about like, I met so and so.
This famous person though and they were just such a jerk.
It's like man, like you have this image of people that you enjoy.
You enjoyed their work, you enjoy their content, you enjoy their music,
whatever it is that they do.
And then you meet them in person and then they're not grateful or
they just don't treat you like another human being.
Like, I hate that, I despise that, so I never ever want to be that to anybody.
And I'm just again just like [LAUGH] so glad that I was like kind to your mom.
Like I said man, even just thinking about it,
it just it makes me like physically nauseous.
But I don't know that it could have happened that way, and then I don't know
that you'd have been holding on this holding on to all this is anxious.
Like, it's nice now, but I know we really, he knows who I am now, but
when he didn't know who I was.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> He was a jerk, so I'm just [CROSSTALK] >> I'm thinking what would be a weird
universe the universe where I knew beforehand.
So he and I got together and then your name never came up and
what if New Day happened but with someone else?
And we're just we're ships in the night and but
I always hated you because you were mean to my mom.
>> Yeah [LAUGH] >> Or it works out just like this, but
that text says man Kofi was mean to me.
Now it's like, we're already in the thick of it.
Am I like, what is this?
Do we have a conversation?
Now do we handle it differently?
>> Like, who knows?
We don't have to decide.
>> I'm glad that it worked out the way that it did,
and we don't have to think about that.
>> I cannot fathom The New Day being a group without Kof.
>> No way, I don't think it would have worked any other way than did.
>> There's no way.
>> I think us even getting on TV was like we barely made it work.
>> [LAUGH] >> We just like,
whenever you watch a cartoon from when we were kids and
there's the bay door or the garage doors, slowly closing.
>> [LAUGH] >> Feel like we barely slid under and
our jacket got stuck for a second as we're underway to pull it through.
[CROSSTALK] Exactly.
>> [CROSSTALK] Yes, it was.
>> It wasn't on the fastest setting because when they saw the three of us
running for the door, they're like well, one of them's Kofi.
So put it on the slowest setting, at least.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah.
>> See how they about to do this?
>> Exactly.
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