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This is the first time that I've kind of talked to anybody about Ben on camera at all. It's hard to really put into like a concise statement what sort of person he was. I think that's the place that I always start. He was just like an awesome dude. Like he was so funny and so unique, but he was also super loyal and he was down to earth. He was kind of like just one of those people that, and I don't think he, I don't know if he knew this or not, but like a lot of us who were his friends, at least speaking for myself, we looked up to Ben. We admired him, I think because he was so incredible at what he did in the ring, but he was also so humble about that part of his life and the way he treated people with kindness and love and there was a warmth about him. He was just an awesome dude. And I known him for I mean I met him I wanna say it was 2007 We were in Europe it was my first time in Europe and I was on this tour maybe Germany or Austria or somewhere in that neighborhood and I saw him wrestle for the first time, and I was blown away. This is 2007, so I would have been 21, and I remember thinking, you know, I'm an athletic guy, right? And then I saw Ben, and I was like, oh, okay, I got to figure something else out because I'm never going to be able to move the way he moves. He was such a unique person, but he was also just a great human. Like just top to bottom, fantastic. And I hope, you know, his legacy in the wrestling world will be one thing, but his legacy amongst the people that loved him and knew him was just that he was an awesome, awesome human being. And my heart goes out to his family, his parents, and his wife who are, you know, everything to him. You know, he's like a lot of people who make it big in the States the way he did. They move and they stay here permanently. But like his home was Newcastle. Like that's where he, that's just where his heart was. And that, I think him moving back there and wanting to be there was kind of said everything in one little piece about who he was and what was important to him in life.