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Speaker 2: Episode four to seventy two of the Bobbycast with Stone

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Speaker 2: Cold Steve Austin, which our boss went with us and

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Speaker 2: he never goes anywhere with us because he was like,

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Speaker 2: I gotta go meet Stone Cold, right. Yeah, I was

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Speaker 2: really one of the cooler sit downs that we did.

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Speaker 2: We were with him for We were probably with them

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Speaker 2: for a couple hours. The interviews about an hour long,

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Speaker 2: but after we finished, he just wanted to hang out

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Speaker 3: It's almost like he's lonely out there at that ranch

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Speaker 3: and he had people to talk to, so it was us.

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Speaker 1: I feel like, I don't know if he's low.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a chosen sure isolation because it's hard

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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. He's been at a bunch of movies, including

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Speaker 2: The Longest Yard, The Expendables, Grown Ups Two. He's had

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Speaker 2: Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge, he has Broken Skull Beer

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Speaker 2: where he has an ipa and a logger that are

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Speaker 2: distributed in thirty five states, and is currently into off

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Speaker 2: road racing professionally. We talk about that. He's an ambassador

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Speaker 2: for Kawasaki. Six time WWF Champion, two times WWF Intercontinental Champion,

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Speaker 2: It's just pages and pages. I mean, he is, if

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Speaker 2: All right here. He is a stone called Steve Austin.

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Speaker 2: When I saw you drive up in your truck. My

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Speaker 2: curiosity went to what does he listen to in his truck?

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Speaker 2: Like just the human part of Steve Austin. You're driving

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Speaker 2: here or you're driving into town, like, what's on? What

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Speaker 1: Man? I'm not really listening to anything these days. I'm

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Speaker 2: You're a silence guy, I really am.

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Speaker 1: At this point, I don't think any of the radio

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Speaker 1: selection goes, I've got everything from country just to meddle.

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Speaker 1: I've been really into a Sepultura, which is old as

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Speaker 1: I still think his voice is gonna drop a little bit,

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Speaker 1: God named Joe Nicholl just came through town and me

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Speaker 1: But you know, Joe Nickel, I used to realize to

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely. Music in your family, Well, my dad

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Speaker 2: Any of my friends that are extremely athletic, especially when

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Speaker 1: And man, I'm lucky that I grew up one hundred

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Speaker 2: Now, what age did you tear because you kickoff teams?

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Speaker 1: That was my junior year, my first year at North

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Speaker 1: they call it a mop. But they can either repair

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Speaker 2: Would you go back and have that repaired? Now? Would

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? But I wasn't of that mindset, you know. And

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Speaker 2: Now tell me how you think what you think about

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Speaker 2: me when I tell you the story. So I have

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Speaker 2: some tendonitis on my foot here. If them bother me

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Speaker 2: for like what I don't here, we go listen. I

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Speaker 2: respect his opinion. He's been through it all. He's so

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Speaker 2: I have some tend to night. It's on my foot

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Speaker 2: that goes up through here. I have a strained calf.

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Speaker 2: I just did a whole couple of days at the

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Speaker 2: University barks. I'm playing basketball. I have two days this

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Speaker 2: festival have to do. I just requested a wheelchair. Now

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Speaker 2: what do you think about that? Don't gold?

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Speaker 1: How did it happen? It was just something that's been ongoing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well the ten to night is for like six months.

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Speaker 2: The strained calf has happened through like full court basketball.

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Speaker 2: But I mean like the wheel Like I literally just

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Speaker 2: minor injuries?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Man, I'd give me a walking stick, but a

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Speaker 1: wheelchair is kind of cool. No, man, I'm I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: use my walking stick. Yeah, I have one that I

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Speaker 1: You know, every now and then you can get away

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Speaker 2: No, I was actually balancing on one foot. I was

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Speaker 1: Told, But you don't come out and just start running.

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Speaker 2: That's true.

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Speaker 1: Same thing that's true, same thing with racing, but graduated

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Speaker 2: So I don't understand the side by side. Do you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my co driver is a guy named Shane Kissman.

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Speaker 1: I was filming that show. They got into contact with

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Speaker 1: I said, man, I've got to do some more of this.

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Speaker 1: And somehow, some way out of the blue, Shane called

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Speaker 1: there's people my age, but there's also people that are

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Speaker 1: kids are fast. So it's fun, it's competitive. It gives

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Speaker 3: Mister stone Cold, when you said co drivers call you.

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Speaker 2: Mister stone Cold, that felt weird.

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Speaker 3: I'm just going to say that I don't respect that,

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Speaker 2: I think mister Austin would be more more human, not

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Speaker 2: mister right. You're right, I don't know why, mister Cold.

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Speaker 2: What's the weirdest thing somebody? Not to interrupt your question, girl, like,

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Speaker 2: what is the weirdest thing people would call? Because I

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Speaker 1: God nag. Mike Tyson used to always call me Cold

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Speaker 1: Stone like, motherfucker, that's an ice cream shop. My name

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Speaker 1: is stone Cold, Steve Auston and out there to raise

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Speaker 1: his money. I go by Steve Auston. You know, I

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Speaker 1: never you know, if someone calls me stone cold all.

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Speaker 1: Answer to it, mister Stone Colile, damn sure, answer.

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Speaker 2: To I love it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been living my life for a long time

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Speaker 3: Well, I love that you're from South Texasaus. I'm from

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Speaker 3: South Texas. I'm from accall In, Texas and it's way

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Speaker 3: way down there, and you're from ed nine. I think

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Speaker 3: it's awesome that that, you know, when you're in South Texas.

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Speaker 3: And maybe Bobby don't understand this. You think that everything's impossible.

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Speaker 3: Everything on TV is impossible, which you probably got that

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Speaker 3: any like being a superstar that seemed impossible.

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Speaker 2: Was that impossible to you?

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Speaker 1: Man? I look, well, I look at it now, and

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Speaker 1: we were doing shit, sitting in this very same shop

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Speaker 1: But you know, I never would have figured, and I

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Speaker 1: got crushed because I can't sing. You know that wrestling

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Speaker 1: especially when I finally got that call up to WWE.

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Speaker 1: If you put all the superstars up against the wall

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Speaker 1: and say, hey man, pick the next big thing off

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Speaker 1: that wall right there. Of all this talent, I'm going

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Speaker 1: ain't where you're from. It's what you do with. You

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Speaker 1: for manual labor. All I've ever done was haul hay,

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Speaker 2: I grew up in rural Arkansas. We hauled a lot

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Speaker 1: Man? We swap off, you know, one guy riding that

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that was That job sucked.

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Speaker 1: God dang man, I don't know. The most ever made

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Speaker 2: And I'd always have hay like in my throat. Like

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Speaker 1: One time we was we was out there hollering, Hey,

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Speaker 1: it was hotter in hell in South Texas. You remember

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Speaker 1: them funon onion rings.

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Speaker 2: Remember am I still getting at the gas station?

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Speaker 1: Are you still eating them? Yeah? Damn, you need to stop.

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Speaker 2: Man, that's still the hillbilly Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: I was eating things for lunch and just bringing ship

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Speaker 2: Who was somebody who believed in you early. And you

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Speaker 2: look back and you go, I don't really see why

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Speaker 2: they did it, but I'm so appreciative they did because

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Speaker 2: it helped launch me into whatever it is that you

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Speaker 1: Man, that's a damn tough question. Who believed who believed

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Speaker 2: And I can vamp for a second, like, there's a

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Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, I really feel like this is

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Speaker 2: help you do. He is the first executive that ever

438
00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,159
Speaker 2: flew in and I thought somebody flying in to meet me.

439
00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,480
Speaker 2: I was like, this is unbelievable. Somebody's gonna spend money

440
00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,159
Speaker 2: to come and have dinner with me. And so for me,

441
00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,720
Speaker 2: that was that guy who I still like, I don't

442
00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 2: know what he saw in me then, but had he

443
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,520
Speaker 2: not seen it then, I don't think I would be

444
00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:05,000
Speaker 2: here now.

445
00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:11,320
Speaker 1: You know, There's been a few people like that. But

446
00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,000
Speaker 1: now I got to go to probably a really good

447
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,560
Speaker 1: friend of mine from Oklahoma would been Jim Ross, and

448
00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,359
Speaker 1: he had been announcing all over the South and finally

449
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:22,920
Speaker 1: he got the call up to go to New York

450
00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,520
Speaker 1: to work for mistering Man, and he kind of saw

451
00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,960
Speaker 1: me through all the weeds and figured, hey, man, this

452
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 1: is a guy we might need to talk to based

453
00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:34,760
Speaker 1: on what I was doing at that time. So I

454
00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,639
Speaker 1: would say Jim Ross was a strong advocate for me

455
00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:39,960
Speaker 1: back in the day and turned into a really close

456
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,560
Speaker 1: personal friend. But I would I would say his support

457
00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:43,680
Speaker 1: helped me out a whole lot.

458
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Speaker 2: Before we started. You'd asked if I get nervous when

459
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,720
Speaker 2: I do this, and I said, this is actually where

460
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,600
Speaker 2: I'm most comfortable put in the reps. I've messed up

461
00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 2: a lot, but I've also realized when I messed up

462
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:53,880
Speaker 2: a lot, it's never even that bad. So no really

463
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,960
Speaker 2: need to get that nervous like I've done the worst

464
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,399
Speaker 2: and got out. When did you get most nervous? Or

465
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,040
Speaker 2: when do you get both questions? When when's the most

466
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,320
Speaker 2: nervous you've been to perform? And then when do you

467
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 2: get nervous?

468
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 1: Now? Back in the day, man, when I first started

469
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:12,440
Speaker 1: and in Dallas, Texas, and after just a couple of months,

470
00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 1: they shipped me over to Tennessee, where the bulk of

471
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:17,960
Speaker 1: the territory was based. And I'll show I'll never forget

472
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,719
Speaker 1: showing up to the little town and Dutch Mantel was

473
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,119
Speaker 1: the booker, and the bookers guy who's making all the

474
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 1: storylines and making the matches. I showed up out of

475
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,719
Speaker 1: no where. I just got finished two months in Dallas,

476
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 1: just came off of forklift, drove my little nineteen eighty

477
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,960
Speaker 1: eight high end Excel down there. And we're in some

478
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,520
Speaker 1: non descript town in Tennessee and there's a guy that

479
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 1: works in a mask and I was going in as

480
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 1: a good guy, and Dutch Mantel says, go out there

481
00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 1: and give us about eight or ten minutes and then

482
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,879
Speaker 1: whatever the finish was was was to finish. And I'm thinking,

483
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: as I'm walking to the ring, what the fuck am

484
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: I going to do for eight or ten minutes? That's

485
00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,720
Speaker 1: a lot of time you do stand up eight or

486
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 1: ten minutes. Yeah, that's that's a pretty that's a pretty

487
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,760
Speaker 1: good good amount of time to fill when you don't

488
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 1: know anything. So now, if you told me not now,

489
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,920
Speaker 1: but back in the day, if you told me eight

490
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 1: or ten minutes, you know, when I had, you know,

491
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,119
Speaker 1: a couple of years in the business, said what the

492
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:17,479
Speaker 1: fuck am I going to do with that? I need

493
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty So, uh, getting nervous before matches way

494
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,439
Speaker 1: back in the day, or really before, you have an

495
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,440
Speaker 1: identity and you don't know who in what you are.

496
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 1: You haven't really honed or come up with a character,

497
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 1: you know, and you just go out there and try

498
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 1: to do an interview and you're you're talking from your

499
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: throat and not using your diaphragm, and you don't know

500
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,480
Speaker 1: who or what the fuck you are, and you just

501
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 1: trying to talk a bunch of trash like you heard

502
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 1: everybody else. And maybe you're you're yelling because you've seen

503
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 1: so many people yell. You figure that's the thing to

504
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: do rather than be kind of silent and articulate like

505
00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 1: Jake the Snake Roberts Uh talking you know, you don't

506
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: you don't really know what is it to talk about?

507
00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 1: Who am I really involved with? So these days I

508
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 1: think maybe right before we start a race, I wouldn't

509
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,160
Speaker 1: even call it nerves anymore. I call it an anticipation,

510
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 1: because man, I'm looking forward to seeing what I can

511
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: do with that car. But other than that, I mean,

512
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot to get nervous about.

513
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 2: I have a question about communication with an athlete while

514
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 2: you're working with them. In my comparison is I did

515
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,199
Speaker 2: a dancing show once and I was not good at it,

516
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 2: but my partner would talk to me under her breath

517
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,160
Speaker 2: with her lips close the whole time, and she would say, okay,

518
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,160
Speaker 2: lets And I imagine when you're working with someone, there's

519
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,639
Speaker 2: a lot of that communication in the ring. Are you

520
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,919
Speaker 2: guys talking to each other or what is there a

521
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 2: language that you use or is it all just you

522
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 2: can do it by feel.

523
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,399
Speaker 1: That ventriloquist thing you just said. You know, back in

524
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,159
Speaker 1: the day when I first started in the wrestling business,

525
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,880
Speaker 1: the way you know, almost all sports have sped up,

526
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: the wrestling business has sped up as well. So you know,

527
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 1: back in the day, you were talking in a ring

528
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 1: like a ventriloquist and calling the match as you go.

529
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you're doing something just to a listit a response,

530
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: and based on that response that you get from the people,

531
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: you keep going on and on and on. So yeah,

532
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: you're talking like a ventroller quist, and people talk about

533
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: choreographing and setting up matches. I'll never forget the first

534
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: times yet I worked with, you know, the King Jerry Lawler,

535
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: who is one of my all time favorites and one

536
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 1: of the best, and I was pacing around the ring

537
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: with him and I had two weeks in the business,

538
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,919
Speaker 1: and Jerry said, all right, tackle dropped down hit toss.

539
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 2: And I said, like a PETRILLI quest he was saying it, Yeah, yeah.

540
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 1: Tackled down hit toss. And there's about I know a

541
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: thousand people out there, and I go.

542
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 2: What this is?

543
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: Before I admitted to what and he goes running down

544
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: hit toss? I said what, God, let me called it

545
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 1: one more time and then I said, well, fuck, I

546
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 1: did a tagle drop down and I didn't know who

547
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: was supposed to hip tops who and it was a

548
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: cluster fucking ensued from there, and Jerry Lawler was booking

549
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: the territory at the time, and I'm sure he was

550
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: thinking to himself, why you know, why in the fuck

551
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: did I book this match with this punk kid? Anyway, Yeah,

552
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 1: that's how that's how it's done. You've got to communicate.

553
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,200
Speaker 1: People used to think, oh, they're squeezing each other or

554
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 1: they're giving a signal by you know how many times

555
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 1: they know that, ain't it?

556
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, So either you know them in the communication is

557
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 2: in a because of so much you've worked together, or

558
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 2: you're still in some way communicating talking Oh yeah, yeah, man,

559
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 2: I have to extend a match because sometimes I'll be

560
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 2: on TV like I did American Idol, and they wouldn't

561
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 2: be able to commercial, So for four years they'd be like, stretch, stretch.

562
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 2: I'm on freaking national TV and they're telling me to

563
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 2: stretch out fifty one seconds, which is an eternity. You

564
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 2: ever have to do that last minute where they're like, uh,

565
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 2: we just got to.

566
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: Call go Oh absolutely, man, you know the end of

567
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: the match or the finish, just called it go home.

568
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: And so a lot of times, you know the referee

569
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: he's want to keeping time and so or he's getting

570
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 1: the timekeepe for somebody. And you might think, okay, as

571
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: you go out to TV, you and your guy have

572
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. All of a sudden, something happens and you

573
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: have six minutes. So now you have to make a

574
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: long story or a fifteen minute story, a six minute story,

575
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 1: or hey man something the cameras are down. We're't a

576
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,400
Speaker 1: commercial break, so you've got to adjust there. No matter

577
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,919
Speaker 1: what they say, you just do it on the fly.

578
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,360
Speaker 1: And these days, if you watch those cats, they're they're

579
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: so good they you can talent and the ring has

580
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: to be able to improvise, adapt and overcome. And so

581
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: that's what you learn to do. You think on your

582
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: feet and you just become a jack of all trades,

583
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, you just buying time, you know,

584
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: whatever you got to do to just to make everything work.

585
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 3: That's what you do, mister Steve Austin. Was there a

586
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 3: specific time better pay I was working, I was thinking

587
00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 3: how I'm going to do that? Was there a specific

588
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 3: time in your career your life when you realize like,

589
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 3: oh wow, I'm getting famous?

590
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: Like this is it?

591
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 3: It's happening.

592
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 2: And do you notice it immediately? Because a lot of

593
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 2: the artist friends that we have, they're on the road

594
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 2: so much, Yeah, that they will not notice it because

595
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 2: they're constantly moving.

596
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: Interesting. I started in Dallas, and then I went to Tennessee,

597
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: and then I went to UH. I was living in Nashville,

598
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: and then I got hired by Dusty Rhodes to work

599
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 1: for World Championship Wrestling in Atlanta. Ravishing Rick rud had

600
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: just come into Atlanta and we hooked up almost immediately

601
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: and became very good friends. So I would travel with

602
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: Ravishing Rick Rud. Rude had just come off as run

603
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: with w NWWF and everybody who watched wrestling knew who

604
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: that guy was.

605
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 2: Dance like him. I would watch him. I like him.

606
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 2: So I'll be like eight, and now I'll be doing this.

607
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: We will go down road, stop at a Denny's, a

608
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: Cracker Bear or whatever our usual stops, and everybody knew

609
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: who he was, and maybe about maybe one out of

610
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: every fifteen that knew him knew who I was. And

611
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: so when you're sitting there in somebody's shadow, and it's

612
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: a competitive industry, and you said, god damn, you know

613
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: what does it take to get some recognition? So it's

614
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: a it's an interesting thing to deal with. I forgot

615
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: the question you asked.

616
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 2: When did you notice?

617
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: Oh so, okay, so when I I love about being famous,

618
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: but when I started noticing that people were starting to

619
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: finally gravitate towards me. Where I started off in Dallas,

620
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: I'm just a punk. I went to u USWA where

621
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: Dutch Mantel gave me the stunning Steve Boston name. He

622
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: gave me the Steve Boston name, and I was starting

623
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: to gain traction. And then when I went to w CW,

624
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: you know as stunning Steve that that was okay. But

625
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: when I went to when I went to WWF, and

626
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 1: I became stone cold, and we were in Chicago, and man,

627
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: it was a tag mash and I can't even remember

628
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: who I was tagging with or against. For some reason,

629
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: Chicago has always been a stronghold for me, and every

630
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: time I got in that damn ring and people would

631
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: come alive. And that was when I really got a

632
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: sense of, hey man, I'm gaining traction. People know who

633
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: and what I am and they're starting to get with me.

634
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: So that's when I on an internal sense. As far

635
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: as the business, I never really after not getting recognized

636
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: by people traveling with Rick Rude, didn't pay any attention to.

637
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 2: That you mentioned before we came on. You didn't have

638
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 2: the gift a gap. I think your podcast is great.

639
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 2: I think you seem like a natural at it. Do

640
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 2: you feel like you were a natural when you started

641
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 2: because you're compelling when you speak, You say things that

642
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 2: make me want to listen. What have you learned while

643
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 2: interviewing other people and how do you feel like you've

644
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 2: developed as a question asker well Man.

645
00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: I stopped podcasting in twenty two when COVID hit. I

646
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: kind of had some disagreements with the people that I

647
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: was doing the podcast with. And man, I'm a real

648
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: easy guy to to I'm a zero maintenance. Let me

649
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: do my thing and I'm good. But anyway, so we

650
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: stopped doing that. But when I first started doing the podcast,

651
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: podcast one gave me a call or my agent and

652
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: they wanted to know if I want to do a podcast.

653
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: And I was already thinking about it, but I didn't

654
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: know how to get in on the technology level, and

655
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: I said, well shit, yeah. So we had a meeting

656
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: and I started. And so at the time, you know,

657
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: they were I started, you know, using a little recording

658
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: all got over there and going out and just two microphones,

659
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: doing my own thing. But the first time when I started,

660
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: it was in a glass building. All the walls were glass.

661
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: You can see everybody and all the other cubicles. And

662
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,719
Speaker 1: here I am, boy, this is stone cold Steve Boston.

663
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: He's starting a podcast. Fucking guy can talk and he's

664
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: just going to be a natural. I didn't make any notes,

665
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: I didn't research nothing, I didn't do shit. I started talking. Hey,

666
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: welcome to Steve Austin Show. Blah blah blah. Hit the

667
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: wall in eight minutes, and all the producers in the room,

668
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: and again, because there's pressure, right, all these producers and

669
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: all this guy's gonna be a fucking natural. I hit

670
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: the wall in eight minutes, and boy, I took my

671
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: tail and went home and realized that, boy, you better

672
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: get your shit together if you're going to start doing

673
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: a podcast. And that's when I started researching and doing

674
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: whatever I had to do to get the job done.

675
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: And I was rougher. I was rougher and shit in

676
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: the beginning. As you know, you know you step on people, Yeah,

677
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: you step on people, or you just you talk too much.

678
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: You know, you're there to talk to your guests. You know,

679
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: let your fucking guests talk. And now don't try to

680
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: get all your shit in. People don't seeing all your stuff.

681
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: We're here to talk about them. So it was I

682
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: don't do it anymore. I you know, I've actually thought

683
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: about starting a small show up again, just maybe a

684
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: thirty minute version of the things that go on here

685
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: around the ranch and with my racing career. But I

686
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: sucked at it, to tell you the truth, and I

687
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: figured I got a little bit of a speech impediment.

688
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: I'm not the most seamless flowing talker. You know, I'll

689
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: stutter and make my way around words, but that's the

690
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: way I've always talked, So it worked okay for me.

691
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 2: I was watching some clips of the podcast. I mean,

692
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 2: they're still up and it again. Tom Rady wasn't good

693
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 2: his first game a couple of weeks ago. He came

694
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 2: back week two was much better. Like a guy that

695
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 2: went in. You could tell. The reason why he was

696
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 2: great at what he did is because he took the

697
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 2: notes of him not being so great week one and

698
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: came back. It was super strong week two. And so

699
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 2: I watched like two or three of your old podcasts

700
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 2: that are up now, and I was like, God, dang,

701
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 2: like you could have done this. But it's funny to

702
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 2: hear you talk about how you weren't good at the

703
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 2: beginning and then you dedicated yourself to being better. Did

704
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 2: a lot of that translate into how you wrestled as well?

705
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 2: Would you go back and go out maybe that match

706
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 2: wasn't good early and go this is what I could

707
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 2: have done better? Or was it all just you had

708
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 2: to get in the ring to do it.

709
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to get in the ring to do it.

710
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: We used to One of the guys that used to

711
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: travel with is one of my closest friends, Diamond Dallas Page.

712
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: He was ahead of his time as far as taking

713
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: care of his body, and he videotaped all his matches,

714
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: and I'd be over doing color commentary, you know, while

715
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: who's in the ring working and the Sure enough we'd

716
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: get to some ship box motel and we'd hook the

717
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: VCR thing up to the TV so we could watch

718
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: his match and say, Man, no, don't do this right here,

719
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: do this then, or do it like this, So we

720
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: start critiquing all of his matches, so the same thing. Man,

721
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: it's reps in anything, just like with racing east side

722
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: by side, just reps. You got to do anything or

723
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 1: whatever whatever it is you're trying to do, you got

724
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: to do it over and over and over again to

725
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: get to make improvements.

726
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 2: And you know that are you feeling Are you feeling

727
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 2: fulfilled in your competitive spirit by racing now from what

728
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: you were getting from football and then professional wrestling, like,

729
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 2: is it the same feeling of fulfillment?

730
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: I would compare it more to football rather than wrestling,

731
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: just because in wrestling you're in front of such massive crowds.

732
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: Which meant I've been in front of crowds of twenty

733
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: five people, you know, and shit hurts a lot more

734
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: with it. Ain't nobody there high A drilling ain't near

735
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: as eye. Just give me a good swift kick in

736
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: the ass before I hit the damn door and make

737
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: my entrance. Uh Many, A drilling factor is a whole

738
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: different thing, because man, when that glass broke, when they

739
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: wrote that music for me, they couldn't have wrote a

740
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: better piece of music for Stonecold Steve Boston. When that

741
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: glass breaks, you could be dragged out for being on

742
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 1: the road because we used to live on the road

743
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: like all that. A lot of the artists you talk to.

744
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: It's a way of life, and shit happens, and sometimes

745
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,800
Speaker 1: you're down. And when that glass breaks and that crowd

746
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: goes through the roof, it's and adrenalinst spike that may

747
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: if you've never felt it, There's no way I could

748
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: put it into words to explain it to you enough.

749
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: But this racing thing is more like football because of

750
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: just I just want to compete, that's something, and I

751
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: want to win, and god damn it, I ain't gonna

752
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: win all the time. Hell I broke down We had

753
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: a race a couple of weeks ago. It was a

754
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty five mile race, and I broke

755
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 1: down at mile mark or one hundred and had to

756
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: pull out of the race. And that sucked ass because

757
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,760
Speaker 1: I was on about a four four race winning streak

758
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: in my federation that I run in. And so it's

759
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: nice when you experience those highs and you know, it's

760
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: like anybody can learn how to win. It's those losses

761
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: that kicking ass and kind of ground you and say, Okay,

762
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: the lows come with the highs, and the highs go

763
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: with the low. So racing is it? Really? It gives

764
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: me a lot of satisfaction, a lot of fulfillment. And

765
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 1: I never knew this, but last year when I started racing,

766
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: we're running basically on just rough ass, you know roads

767
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: out here in the desert, on a two track road,

768
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: and we'd be going straight down the road and there's

769
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: rocks and turns and it's reference hell out there, and

770
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: hell I just veer off the fucking road and end

771
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: up in the sagebrush. Well, my co driver's been racing

772
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: this whole life, and he's called Calm Cooling elected and

773
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: I'd gather my ship back together and get on the

774
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: road and say, hey, man, sorry about that. We're wired

775
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: for sounds so we can talk to each other. And

776
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: what had happened was I was thinking, hey man, what

777
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: the fuck what am I drinking tonight? I'm gonna have

778
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: a beer? Am I gonna drink whiskey or whatever? As

779
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 1: soon as my mind left the task at hand, which

780
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: is navigating, you know, through that desert. And it happened

781
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: about three or four times that first season, and racing

782
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: has taught me to be laser focused, because as soon

783
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: as you take your mind off what you're doing, you

784
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: will fuck up. And that that's one of the things

785
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: I enjoy about it as well, Like the world can

786
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: be in a pile of shit right now, but if

787
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: I'm in that race, bug in a race, it can

788
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: wait because I'm dealing with what I got to deal

789
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 1: with and try to get across that finish line before

790
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: the other guys. Do you have a drink wine? Oh? Yeah,

791
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: I love wine.

792
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 2: People were like, why are you drinking wine? Your stone cold,

793
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 2: Steve Bosta, You should only drink beer.

794
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm a well rounded drinker.

795
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 2: I would just be like answer, sharing a are you sure,

796
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 2: mister Austin, But I've.

797
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: Been around for so long. Now I'll make a post

798
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Oh man, you better want you live. You've

799
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: been drinking like motherfucker. I take care of myself. I

800
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: ran hard when I was in the wrestling game. I

801
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: ran hard and I ran fast. It's just the way

802
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: I lived. I won't speak about anybody else, but you know,

803
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I love wine. I love my beer. I've

804
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: been in a beer business with Elsie gun Know brun

805
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: coming he since twenty fifteen, and I love a good bourbon.

806
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just fire a waiter. Are you sure they

807
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 2: bring a beer anyway? Looking at that?

808
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: Wine is good, man, Wine is good after a race

809
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: when you add a couple of beers and this is

810
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: that that that final drink for you. Hit the hey

811
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: Ema with.

812
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 2: Rember.

813
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: That was the thing when it first came out. Oh yeah,

814
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: they're still around. I don't know. I hope not.

815
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding you were You were in a few

816
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 3: movies with Adam Sandler.

817
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: What was what was he like? I always tell people

818
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: as a night guy, I ever met in Hollywood, and

819
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: I didn't do Hollywood. I lived in you know, in

820
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: uh Marina del Rey in the Venice area. So I

821
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: didn't go to parties, I didn't go to the Hollywood Hills.

822
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: I didn't do none of that shit. I just wasn't

823
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: my scene. I was an athlete. We were talking early

824
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: before we started rolling cameras, and we start talking about

825
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: the artistry of some of the guys that you've interviewed.

826
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: But man, those those actors are a little different, you know.

827
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: And I don't mean a bad way. I just mean

828
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: they're different than an athlete. They're wired different and or

829
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: I'm wired differently than they are. Adam Sandler was the funniest,

830
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: nicest guy I've ever worked with, and I've enjoyed each

831
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: time I've gotten to work with him. He's a super guy,

832
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: a sweetheart.

833
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 2: I'm not going to mention any names. I don't expect

834
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,919
Speaker 2: you to either, But there are times in my career

835
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 2: profession I have to work with people I don't enjoy

836
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 2: working with. It's just part of what we do. But

837
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 2: you gotta fake it, you know. I feel, especially if

838
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 2: it's like a boss'll be like, I need you to

839
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 2: have this person on the show. He doesn't often do that,

840
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 2: but I'm like, I don't really like them. But I'm

841
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 2: gonna bring them in, I'm gonna work with them. We're

842
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 2: gonna make it work for me. That's difficult, but I

843
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 2: can fake it. What is it like happen to be

844
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 2: do a job so intimate and you just don't like

845
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 2: the person you're working with and you're wrestling with them.

846
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: Those were so few and far between. I always got

847
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: along with pretty much everybody and I and you could

848
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: go talk to anybody that's ever worked with me, and

849
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,879
Speaker 1: maybe they might have a different opinion. But I've seen

850
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 1: some guys that were outstanding workers, but they were kind

851
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: of at odds with each other, and when they got

852
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: in the ring, it didn't click because there was some animosity.

853
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 2: But I was.

854
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: I meant, for some reason, I've always gotten along with

855
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: just about it, damn near everybody I've ever worked with.

856
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: Now there's some guys whose style is so different and

857
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 1: that you knew it was going to be a difficult task, you.

858
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 2: Still liked them as humans? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they

859
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 2: were stylistically so different.

860
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, and there was there was, There was

861
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: very few people that I disliked.

862
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: Who in your career And I tell you why. I

863
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 2: asked I remember and if I'm wrong on the facts.

864
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 2: Please correct me. I remember w CW you were still

865
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 2: Stunning Steve. And when I was really young, I loved

866
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 2: Ricky the Dragon Steamboat.

867
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: Awesome.

868
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 2: I hear he was a really great guy too. Never

869
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 2: never met him, and he was maybe the US champion.

870
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,439
Speaker 2: He had the belt, but he his backer I don't

871
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 2: know if it was real or not, and he had

872
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 2: to give you the belt, and and so he was

873
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,720
Speaker 2: I can't wrestle, so you got the belts as Stunning Steve.

874
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 2: And I remember thinking, man, that would be so cool

875
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,760
Speaker 2: to be in the ring with Ricky the Dragon Steamboat.

876
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: Aside from whatever the storyline there was then, who were

877
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 2: those guys? And one could have been Ricky Steamboat? Who

878
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,439
Speaker 2: are those guys? When you came up and the first

879
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 2: time you got to actually professionally be a peer that

880
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 2: you were like, this is freaking awesome.

881
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 1: Well, I was wrestling with Ricky the Dragon Steamboat and

882
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: I think I was in the turnbuckle. He was on

883
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: the second rope and he was punching me, and I

884
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: pushed him off and he landed on his back. I

885
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: believe that's that that was one. That was how he

886
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: got one of his bad back injuries and Ricky the

887
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: Dragon Steamboat was awesome, probably one of the best ever

888
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: for sure. Uh what was the question, like, who did

889
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: you get to work with me?

890
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 2: Like this is you were young, but you're like, this

891
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 2: is sick. I get to be in the ring with

892
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 2: this person.

893
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 1: I looked up to, well, Rick Flair because people kind

894
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: of saw me as maybe being the next Rick Flair

895
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: because I was modeling this four I had my neck

896
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: injury down to WCW. You know, I was kind of

897
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: modeling my style after Rick because to me, he had

898
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: the ultimate pro wrestling style. And I'll never forget. We

899
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: were at a TV tape and down there South Carolina

900
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: or somewhere like that, and it was me, Rick and

901
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: somebody against three other guys, and I'm thinking, man, I'm

902
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: gonna show this motherfucker what's up. And all of a

903
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: sudden Rick tags in and I see him go go

904
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: to work. Of course, I'm a lifelong fan. And when

905
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: you're standing on an apron and you're watching the guy,

906
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: and that was at eighteen by eighteen ring and WCW,

907
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: but all of a sudden, when you're watching the man

908
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: do his thing, You're like, fuck this, I got a

909
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: long way to go, but it was all to be

910
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 1: in a ring with him, because it was like a

911
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: head's up called like, okay man, this is kind of

912
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: you need to step up your game a whole lot

913
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: more than you thought you did. And I would never

914
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: say that I ever reached Rick Flair status in the

915
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: ring at all, because I consider him the goat. But

916
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: working with a guy like that, Hey Morgan, with Ravishing,

917
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: Rick Rude, but working with any of those guys that

918
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 1: had any any any names was always fun to me.

919
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: But also, yeah, I really didn't look at it like

920
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: that way. After a few years in the business, or

921
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: even after a few months in the business, you're just saying,

922
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: okay man, these guys are just just like me. It

923
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: might be more well known, but there's really it's not

924
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 1: a big deal.

925
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 2: Yeah. The first time I met Garth Brooks, I was like,

926
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 2: holy crap, this is the craziest thing ever. And Eddie

927
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 2: and I then went and open for Garth Brooks and

928
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 2: Football Stadium once and I still see him go, holy crap, business,

929
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 2: Garth Brooks. So I guess you're just way better at

930
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 2: your job than we are at ours because we never

931
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 2: got normal.

932
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: Well, we did hey quit Garth Brooks story. We was

933
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: at the I love it was a CMA, the CMTS,

934
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 1: the MTV Awards, I know what the fuck it was.

935
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: But I was given out award. They called down there

936
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: to the office, said hey, we would like Stone CoA

937
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: Steve Auston to give Garth Brooks the Entertainer of the Year.

938
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: Whatever it was. I gave it to him, and I

939
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: was so in character. I'm thinking, well, you know, I

940
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: ain't dressed up like these people because I'm stone Coach

941
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: Steve Austin. And then I showed up an event. At

942
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: the event, I had my black high tech boots on

943
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: that I used to you know, stomp mud holes in.

944
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: I had blue jeans on in a vest, my stone

945
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: Cold best and that's that's what I wore, no shirt underneath.

946
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: And I walked out there and you know, gave him

947
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: the award. It's a pretty cool thing, but I was

948
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: so wrapped up in being stone Cold Steve Austin and

949
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: Garth Brooks had been on fire, and of course, you know,

950
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,399
Speaker 1: it was fun to listen to all of his music

951
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: and it was cool to give him that award back then,

952
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: but I was I was going to be stone cold

953
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 1: about it.

954
00:43:52,160 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 5: The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the

955
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 5: Bobby Cast Final three questions.

956
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 2: What is your favorite picture in your house right now?

957
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 2: It's just a personal picture, but it's in the living

958
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 2: room and it really gives you just a fond memory

959
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:16,280
Speaker 2: of something special.

960
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: Well, my daughter had a good flies hanging around here.

961
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: My daughter had a picture painted of my dog, Hershey.

962
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: She has this wonderful artist friend of hers. It's in

963
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: my closet on the left hand side. And me and Hershey.

964
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: She was a chocolate lab and we were just I

965
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: bought that dog off my hunting partner in South Texas.

966
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 1: I met that dog when she was six months old.

967
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: Next year I went down there, she was a year old,

968
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 1: and I'd recruited my wife. That's what I was working on.

969
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: I was dating my wife. I'd rented a Class C

970
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: camper down there and was staying out there. And you

971
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: know christ and my wife, she's vegetarian at first vegetarian

972
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:04,720
Speaker 1: I ever met my life on how they lived. Anyway,

973
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: she met Hershey and I told her about this dog,

974
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: and so while I was out hunting, she would text me.

975
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: She goes eighty nine to five feet. Hershey's some chicken

976
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: or what. I said, no'll go ahead. So anyway, we

977
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: were sitting at the airport fixing the fly back to

978
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: LA from South Texas at there in San Antonio Airport,

979
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: and we were sitting there drinking bloody Mary, and I

980
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: told my wife, I said, man, we can't leave that

981
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: fucking dog buying. I said, we got to buy it.

982
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: And I called my buddy Trey, who's a car salesman,

983
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: and he got top dollar off that fucking dog, and

984
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: I drove down there. I flew down there, and I

985
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: was gonna get a rental car, and I'm a very

986
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,359
Speaker 1: frugal person, so I was gonna get a one way car,

987
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,240
Speaker 1: and it was gonna get to be a money Carlo

988
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 1: because I was the best deal I could find. And

989
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: of course, you know, they didn't have any Mony Carlos,

990
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 1: so they upgraded me to Lincoln Cott mital and so

991
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: me and Hershey, after I flew down there, got to

992
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: ride down to the ranch, paid my buddy for the dog,

993
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: and me and Hershey rode in a Lincoln Continental all

994
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: the way back to Los Angeles. And that picture of

995
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: Hershey in my closet is one of the favorites, one

996
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:12,919
Speaker 1: of my most favorites in the house.

997
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:13,720
Speaker 2: Awesome.

998
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:15,439
Speaker 3: Are you still going hard in the gym?

999
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, I trained this morning. I you know, I

1000
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,439
Speaker 1: completely changed my workout. It's more for like a racing

1001
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: type workout. But man, I'll do Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I

1002
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: do a full body workout. I pick one exercise per

1003
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: body part and I'll make four to six circuits. Those

1004
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 1: first two or warm ups, they each get heavier, and

1005
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 1: I'm always in the first twenty reps fifteen and then

1006
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: tens and then to failure. But yeah, I can. If

1007
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: you want to go right now, I'll show you what

1008
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: you Oh no, no, no, we.

1009
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 2: Don't got it. We go be a welchair. I gotta

1010
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 2: be in a wheelchair. For the wheelchair, I'd be like,

1011
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 2: let's go.

1012
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: No, you know, I'm out there and compete with all

1013
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: these damned kids out there. Now we're just driving race cars,

1014
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: I mean side by sides. But man, I'll sit in

1015
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: my sauna. I'll do my thirty minute cardio every morning.

1016
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: I'll stretch. I do mobility things. When you're young and

1017
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: you're going through all the stuff, people say mobility, Like

1018
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: the fuck is that stretching? Together? These days, I thought

1019
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, mobility, what about that cold puns

1020
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 1: you do? Cold cold punch? I got the other thing over, Yeah,

1021
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: I did my first post. Man. I didn't know you

1022
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 1: was supposed to just jump in there, and I just

1023
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: kind of started immersing myself in there slowly.

1024
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 2: And that ain't what's up, because the nuts are when

1025
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 2: you go you get I mean that's honestly, because yeah, just.

1026
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: Just just drop down, dunk your head and just sit

1027
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,359
Speaker 1: there and then start your breathing routine. That's the best

1028
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: way to do.

1029
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 2: It, because it's hard to acclimate your for me, maybe

1030
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 2: not for you. It's hard to acclimate you're junking it

1031
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 2: because that's when you start to go. I can't go

1032
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 2: any further.

1033
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: That's why I just got to jump in.

1034
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 2: No, I hear you. I don't do it. I don't

1035
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 2: do that. The final question, what are you most proud of?

1036
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 2: And I want a professionally and a personal answer.

1037
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: And on a professional level, I don't know. I guess

1038
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: being able to succeed in the business, which, like I said,

1039
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: if you put me on the lineup, you would never

1040
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: pick me to be worth the hill of beans. So

1041
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: professionally and in the world of professional wrestling on a

1042
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: personal life. On a personal level, you know, it took

1043
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: me a while to find my wife, but me and

1044
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,800
Speaker 1: my wife have been together now for twenty years and

1045
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: I think we got married in nine and just on

1046
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: a personal level, man, my wife makes me so much

1047
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:38,200
Speaker 1: better than I am and she you know, i'd been

1048
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: married three times before and never wanted to get married again.

1049
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: And I found my wife and she had never been married,

1050
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: so of course she wanted to get married. And I

1051
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: was almost like, well, this is crossroads because I don't

1052
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: really want to go there, And then I'm glad I

1053
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: did because my wife is a former special education teacher

1054
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: and her students love her. Anytime we're back in La,

1055
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: if we're like a home depot or the grocery store

1056
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: in one of her kids recognize her. They just they

1057
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: just love her. So I think the fact that she's

1058
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 1: such a great communicator, I mean, for one of the

1059
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: things that takes to be a special education teacher, amongst

1060
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: many other qualities. But I'm very proud of my relationship

1061
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: with my wife. That took me a long time to

1062
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:25,879
Speaker 1: find her. She's my soulmate and we'll be together until

1063
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: it's over.

1064
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,399
Speaker 2: Thank you for being so generous with your time. We're

1065
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 2: massive fans, and I know it's been super cool for me.

1066
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 2: Oh this wasn't totally annoying for you. And I'm going

1067
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 2: to edit you saying I should be in a wheelchair

1068
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 2: because that we have that ability now to be like, yeah,

1069
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,399
Speaker 2: I would be in a wheelchair and know I'm stone cold.

1070
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 2: That's what it's gonna say when I'm doing here. So

1071
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 2: as long as you call with that, we're good.

1072
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 1: Man. I was sorry to hear you guys have travel

1073
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: problems coming in here because the fog.

1074
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 2: We made it though, we made hitchhiked.

1075
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: And then I think my publicist said something to amen,

1076
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: Steve's the time fanatic, don't don't be late.

1077
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 2: I'm also a time fanatic. And I literally said to

1078
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 2: my guys, we're here, but we're canceling because I will

1079
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 2: not show up and be disrespectful.

1080
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 3: He'd rather cancel them rather be canceled.

1081
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, then then show up and be like, hey,

1082
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 2: we disrespected you by making you wait on us. So

1083
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 2: that was what I told him. We're canceling because and

1084
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 2: now that was our side of it. What would you

1085
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,720
Speaker 2: have thought if we were you know, I would have matter.

1086
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: If you cancel it, because already set up side part

1087
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 1: of my day for you. And so just because you

1088
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: got late, dudes to factors which were beyond your control.

1089
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: When when that guy's flying that jet, you back there

1090
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,399
Speaker 1: as a passenger and they say, hey, man, we can't land.

1091
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't expect you to go strong

1092
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: on that pilot and say hey, motherfucker, get out of here.

1093
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: And then you commissed the landing the airplane. So I

1094
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: might have done that. Yeah, that's right, So I can understand.

1095
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 1: I understand that. But I remember when we used to

1096
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: live in La. You know, of course, my wife is

1097
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: from LA and she knows that city. I don't know

1098
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 1: how she does it. As soon as we moved in

1099
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: this town, she knew this table like about of her hand.

1100
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: I'm still struggling. There's only ten thousand motherfuckers that live here,

1101
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: so anywhere on the streets of La. I used to

1102
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 1: this is way back before the technology days of the iPhone.

1103
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,399
Speaker 1: I had a garment on my windshield and then I'd

1104
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 1: be going to a meeting, I said, goddamn, I call

1105
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: my wife, Kristen, I said, garments telling me to hang

1106
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: a right on this street said no, no, no, go

1107
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,280
Speaker 1: do this. She'd give me the back route. But anyway,

1108
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: a lot of times I'd go to a meeting and

1109
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: she goes, well, your meetings at nine am tomorrow. What

1110
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: time you leaving? Eh seven? And she goes, it's only

1111
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: two miles away, sud You're going to be there way

1112
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: too early, And I said, I don't care. I'll sit

1113
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: on the side of the fucking road and send emails

1114
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: or do something to kill time. But I will not

1115
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 1: walk into a meeting late. So that's kind of one

1116
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,360
Speaker 1: of my things. I've always been. Even going to the buildings,

1117
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: we're always supposed to be back in the wrestling days,

1118
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: you're always supposed to be there at least an hour before.

1119
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: So they got something, you know, they know what they're

1120
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: working with. The cards subject to change, right, But I

1121
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: was a guy, especially when I got a chance to

1122
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: start main eventing, but I was always the first guy

1123
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: to the building and then later on the last guy

1124
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: leaving the building.

1125
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 2: I think successful people that do the big things right

1126
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 2: have to do the little things right in order to

1127
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 2: even have a chance to do the big things. And

1128
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 2: the little things are showing up on time, having a

1129
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 2: good attitude, being respectful, and so thank you very much

1130
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 2: for allowing us to because I told the pilot you

1131
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 2: land this thing right now, or I'll do it for you.

1132
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 2: I didn't, he didn't. It didn't work.

1133
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,720
Speaker 1: So was that from your the seat of your wheelchair.

1134
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 2: Hi, we're done. Thank you, thank

1135
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 5: You, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production