Speaker 1: At fifty eight. Last year, I was a Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year in the Federation. So I was a Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year when I started my wrestling career in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, so I think I was the oldest rookie
Speaker 1: to ever win that ward.
Speaker 2: Episode four to seventy two of the Bobbycast with Stone
Speaker 2: Cold Steve Austin, which our boss went with us and
Speaker 2: he never goes anywhere with us because he was like,
Speaker 2: I gotta go meet Stone Cold, right. Yeah, I was
Speaker 2: really one of the cooler sit downs that we did.
Speaker 2: We were with him for We were probably with them
Speaker 2: for a couple hours. The interviews about an hour long,
Speaker 2: but after we finished, he just wanted to hang out
Speaker 2: and talk.
Speaker 3: It's almost like he's lonely out there at that ranch
Speaker 3: and he had people to talk to, so it was us.
Speaker 1: I feel like, I don't know if he's low.
Speaker 2: I think it's a chosen sure isolation because it's hard
Speaker 2: to get to his place, and so we landed and
Speaker 2: we had to drive an hour and it was a
Speaker 2: whole situation to get there. But yeah, he reminded me
Speaker 2: a bit of a younger Arkansas Keith, except that would
Speaker 2: really Whoop Your Butt Great Stories. Stone called Steve Austin
Speaker 2: was inducted in the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. He's been at a bunch of movies, including
Speaker 2: The Longest Yard, The Expendables, Grown Ups Two. He's had
Speaker 2: Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge, he has Broken Skull Beer
Speaker 2: where he has an ipa and a logger that are
Speaker 2: distributed in thirty five states, and is currently into off
Speaker 2: road racing professionally. We talk about that. He's an ambassador
Speaker 2: for Kawasaki. Six time WWF Champion, two times WWF Intercontinental Champion,
Speaker 2: four time tag team Champion, was a cover athlete of
Speaker 2: nine wrestling video games. Has the Guinness World Record for
Speaker 2: most wins at the Roller Rumble, and I could keep going.
Speaker 2: It's just pages and pages. I mean, he is, if
Speaker 2: not the most famous, it's one be it's Hulkogan, Stone Cold,
Speaker 2: the Rock. Yeah, and the Rock has got no I
Speaker 2: don't think John, and it's not pretty upper tier, but
Speaker 2: not in that tip tip top.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, if my mom knows who Steve Auston is,
Speaker 3: he's pretty famous.
Speaker 2: All right here. He is a stone called Steve Austin.
Speaker 2: When I saw you drive up in your truck. My
Speaker 2: curiosity went to what does he listen to in his truck?
Speaker 2: Like just the human part of Steve Austin. You're driving
Speaker 2: here or you're driving into town, like, what's on? What
Speaker 2: are you listening to?
Speaker 1: Man? I'm not really listening to anything these days. I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of going down and really listening to the silence.
Speaker 2: You're a silence guy, I really am.
Speaker 1: At this point, I don't think any of the radio
Speaker 1: stations working that pickup truck. I've had to think such
Speaker 1: as brand new right now. As far as my gym
Speaker 1: selection goes, I've got everything from country just to meddle.
Speaker 1: I've been really into a Sepultura, which is old as
Speaker 1: hell stuff like that. But I'm a big George Straight fan,
Speaker 1: and lately I just got kind of got turned on
Speaker 1: to Zach Top. He's kind of come along.
Speaker 2: Twenty six, but sounds like he's like fifty five.
Speaker 1: I still think his voice is gonna drop a little bit,
Speaker 1: but that that kid can sure sing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: God named Joe Nicholl just came through town and me
Speaker 1: and my wife are gonna go see him. And the
Speaker 1: concert started at nine and so we got our tickets
Speaker 1: and then it started getting close from nine o'clock. We're homebodies,
Speaker 1: so we gave our tickets to some friend of ours.
Speaker 1: But you know, Joe Nickel, I used to realize to
Speaker 1: it a whole lot downer in South Texas when we
Speaker 1: had the broken score. Ranch down there kind of made
Speaker 1: a little bit of come back. He disappeared for a
Speaker 1: little bit, had some demons, but got dang. He was
Speaker 1: on fire for a minute. But I'm just pretty much
Speaker 1: standard country and country music and just a lot of
Speaker 1: hard rock.
Speaker 2: You mentioned George Strait is that you're from Texas Originally,
Speaker 2: If you're from Texas, you're kind of forced you to
Speaker 2: love and then you have that love naturally for George
Speaker 2: straight because he's such a Texan. Is that why?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was a big Conway fan. Merle Haggard,
Speaker 1: George Jones, Randy Travis, you know Knot when he came
Speaker 1: out way back in the day.
Speaker 2: So you're a real fan.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely. Music in your family, Well, my dad
Speaker 1: played in the country western dance band way back in
Speaker 1: the day. He sold insurance, but on Fridays and Saturdays
Speaker 1: they played gigs. My dad sang back up sang a
Speaker 1: lot of the songs as well, kind of spun them
Speaker 1: with a lead singer, but he was a lead guitarist.
Speaker 1: So I grew up with music and just grew up
Speaker 1: more into old school hip hop stuff and metal. And
Speaker 1: I wasn't so much a country fan until I got
Speaker 1: out on the road, and that's when I really turned
Speaker 1: in the country. So I don't know what turned me
Speaker 1: on about George Strait, but I guess his talent speaks
Speaker 1: for itself, and he stood the test of time and
Speaker 1: he's done everything with such class and grace. You can't
Speaker 1: help but be a George straight fan, especially if you're
Speaker 1: from Texas.
Speaker 2: If your dad loved music, did that get passed down
Speaker 2: to you? Did you ever want to do music yourself?
Speaker 1: Well? I did. I wanted to sing, hell, I wanted
Speaker 1: to be a rock and roll star, But I don't
Speaker 1: have any musical genetics. He's actually my dad, is actually
Speaker 1: my stepdad, so I didn't inherit any of his talent.
Speaker 1: I couldn't I can't sing. I tried to play guitar,
Speaker 1: I didn't practice enough. I switched to bass. I didn't
Speaker 1: practice enough. So if you don't practice, you're never going
Speaker 1: to be good at anything. What I seemed to excel
Speaker 1: at was athletics, so I really I started working out
Speaker 1: with the seventh graders when I was in fifth grade
Speaker 1: dinner in Edna, I was over standing on the side
Speaker 1: of the building and my brother was in their training.
Speaker 1: He coach says, who's that kid over and my brother,
Speaker 1: Scott said, that's my little brother, and the coach looked
Speaker 1: at me. Instead of running me off, he goes, you
Speaker 1: want lift weights? I said, yes, sir, So I started
Speaker 1: training and athletics helped me find my way.
Speaker 2: Were you a bigger kid?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Were you bigger than your other classmates?
Speaker 1: Yeah, somewhat. And you know, like compared to my you know,
Speaker 1: my brothers and my sister, I'm a little heavier framed,
Speaker 1: and just for some reason, I had a different structure
Speaker 1: than them. And we're all pretty much. I have the
Speaker 1: same mindset and got the same you know, genetics as
Speaker 1: far as everything goes. But for some reason, hey, maybe
Speaker 1: it was the waste. But like I said, I started
Speaker 1: at fifth grade, and it's kind of been a love
Speaker 1: hating thing that you know, you love to do it,
Speaker 1: but sometimes you just got to do it, so you
Speaker 1: hate it. But I've done it my whole life, so
Speaker 1: I still do it to this day.
Speaker 2: Any of my friends that are extremely athletic, especially when
Speaker 2: they were in high school, they played every position, like
Speaker 2: I would assume because you have been an athlete your
Speaker 2: whole life, that they had you running the ball, catching
Speaker 2: the ball. Is that? Is that true? Especially in high
Speaker 2: school to play running back, I bet or a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was running back and I wasn't fast enough
Speaker 1: to run east or west.
Speaker 2: So I ran north straight south.
Speaker 1: And man, I'm lucky that I grew up one hundred
Speaker 1: miles south of Houston, Texas, because if I'd have grown
Speaker 1: up in Houston, I'd have been sitting on a bench
Speaker 1: or playing a lot more linebacker. But being down there
Speaker 1: in South Texas, you can run a four nine and forty,
Speaker 1: and if you can run over people, you'll get the
Speaker 1: job done. So I was, you know, all district enough,
Speaker 1: good enough of a football player to get a junior
Speaker 1: college scholarship, and good enough after that to go to
Speaker 1: the next level to get another scholarship. And then I
Speaker 1: dropped out of college after my last year of eligibility
Speaker 1: ran out, and I stopped college at seventeen years. It
Speaker 1: was seventeen hours to graduate, and god dang it broke
Speaker 1: my mom and dad's heart. But athletics helped pave the
Speaker 1: way for me to get into college and get into
Speaker 1: education or whatever I got of wanted, and get me
Speaker 1: into the wrestling business.
Speaker 2: Now, what age did you tear because you kickoff teams?
Speaker 2: I was reading like, that's where you like tour in
Speaker 2: ACLMC at one of those Where were you in your
Speaker 2: college career when that happened?
Speaker 1: That was my junior year, my first year at North
Speaker 1: Texas State University there in Denton, Texas, running down on
Speaker 1: a kickoff coverage it to hit my guy I was
Speaker 1: supposed to block, and man, I went down. I'd never
Speaker 1: felt anything like what I felt in my left knee
Speaker 1: and a tour my ACL. But it was a mop
Speaker 1: in tear where you tear it in the middle and
Speaker 1: the edges are kind of a frayed and that's why
Speaker 1: they call it a mop. But they can either repair
Speaker 1: it or not repair it. Based on the strength of
Speaker 1: my quads and my hamstrings. They didn't repair that knee,
Speaker 1: so anyway, subsequently, that's what led to all my knee
Speaker 1: issues down the road, and I've had the a c
Speaker 1: L E c L put in there from cadaver ligaments
Speaker 1: several years ago. And you know, if I'm telling you
Speaker 1: like it is, and I will, you know, I need
Speaker 1: a new I need a new left knee here pretty quick.
Speaker 2: Would you go back and have that repaired? Now? Would
Speaker 2: you tell that kid to have it repair to take
Speaker 2: a year off?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? But I wasn't of that mindset, you know. And
Speaker 1: if you've got two years to play, and I didn't
Speaker 1: even think about, you know, doing a medical red shirt thing.
Speaker 1: I re you know. I stayed down for the season
Speaker 1: and then I rehabbed all during the summer, came back
Speaker 1: and that was when I was playing linebacker. They switched
Speaker 1: me to week side defensive end, which is an easier
Speaker 1: read for me. And you know, started all eleven games
Speaker 1: and then got on and started driving a forklift.
Speaker 2: Now tell me how you think what you think about
Speaker 2: me when I tell you the story. So I have
Speaker 2: some tendonitis on my foot here. If them bother me
Speaker 2: for like what I don't here, we go listen. I
Speaker 2: respect his opinion. He's been through it all. He's so
Speaker 2: I have some tend to night. It's on my foot
Speaker 2: that goes up through here. I have a strained calf.
Speaker 2: I just did a whole couple of days at the
Speaker 2: University barks. I'm playing basketball. I have two days this
Speaker 2: festival have to do. I just requested a wheelchair. Now
Speaker 2: what do you think about that? Don't gold?
Speaker 1: How did it happen? It was just something that's been ongoing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well the ten to night is for like six months.
Speaker 2: The strained calf has happened through like full court basketball.
Speaker 2: But I mean like the wheel Like I literally just
Speaker 2: requested a wheelchair. Would you request a wheelchair for these
Speaker 2: minor injuries?
Speaker 1: Oh? Man, I'd give me a walking stick, but a
Speaker 1: wheelchair is kind of cool. No, man, I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: use my walking stick. Yeah, I have one that I
Speaker 1: use every here and there. But man, I, whatever you
Speaker 1: gotta do, you gotta do. Are you taking any anti
Speaker 1: inflammatoris are?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I don't. Uh No, I just thought the wheelchair would do. No. No,
Speaker 2: I think about the actual things, like the healthy, productive
Speaker 2: things I could do. I just felt like i'd request
Speaker 2: a wheelchair to kind of give me out for a
Speaker 2: couple of days.
Speaker 1: You know, every now and then you can get away
Speaker 1: with it, and you know it makes you it's helping
Speaker 1: you get to where you need to go. I guess
Speaker 1: that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, I feel like that's an endorsement for the wilchair.
Speaker 1: I love man. I'd probably crawled in on my way
Speaker 1: to that chair.
Speaker 2: What do you do now? That's fulfilling because for us,
Speaker 2: like I see on social media holding the chicken and stuff,
Speaker 2: like I see like you doing little things around here,
Speaker 2: But like what now is exciting to you?
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah? I do the chores around here. We
Speaker 1: live on forty acres. We got horses, chickens, and a
Speaker 1: couple of dogs, the cats. My wife mainly takes care
Speaker 1: of all that stuff. Competitively, what I found lately is racing,
Speaker 1: you know, side by sides, you know, utility vehicles. I've
Speaker 1: been a brand ambassador for Kawasaki Motorsports is twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: on the Mule division, the Workhorse brand. And then I
Speaker 1: was filming the show last year that turned into a bomb.
Speaker 1: But I got a chance to one of the producers
Speaker 1: ask me, do you want to do a poker run?
Speaker 1: And I said, what the fuck is a poker run?
Speaker 1: Because I don't play cards.
Speaker 2: I was about to say it the same question you
Speaker 2: just yeah.
Speaker 1: So a poker run as it h you know, pertains
Speaker 1: to side by side racing if you're going to run
Speaker 1: a course and say I just got fish racing this
Speaker 1: past weekend. Each lap was fifty five miles out in
Speaker 1: the desert. So on that poker run, basically you're pre
Speaker 1: running the course that you're going to run the next
Speaker 1: day and race. So on your GPS you can mark
Speaker 1: all the dangers, what kind of turns you got, where
Speaker 1: you might need to check up things, adjustments you need
Speaker 1: to make while you're driving. Now during that ride where
Speaker 1: you're marking all your dangers there, you're getting cards as
Speaker 1: you go. And so at the race driver's meeting the
Speaker 1: next you know that later that day and we do hey,
Speaker 1: who wanted to poker in? Who had the worst hand.
Speaker 1: It's kind of entertainment. But that's how I found racing
Speaker 1: side by sides, and I been doing it for about
Speaker 1: a year and a half and I've absolutely fallen in
Speaker 1: love with it. And it's just so different from anything
Speaker 1: I've ever done because I've been driving you know, four
Speaker 1: by four, you know, full whel drive stuff four wheelers
Speaker 1: done when I lived in Georgia and the mud hunting
Speaker 1: and side by sides, but just recreationally. And when you
Speaker 1: start racing something and pushing the machine to its limits
Speaker 1: and pushing yourself to your limits, which you don't know
Speaker 1: that you have yet because you've never driven at one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, it takes a while to learn how to
Speaker 1: do that. So I equated with when I first started wrestling,
Speaker 1: I sucked, and when I first started driving these things.
Speaker 1: I won't say I sucked, but I had a lot
Speaker 1: to learn. And the biggest mistake you making pro wrestling
Speaker 1: trying to get is trying to do everything too fast
Speaker 1: and racing, they'll tell you. And it didn't make sense
Speaker 1: to me until I ran a few races. In order
Speaker 1: to you know, to drive fast, you must first learn
Speaker 1: to drive slow. I mean like when you was born,
Speaker 1: you started crawling right.
Speaker 2: No, I was actually balancing on one foot. I was
Speaker 2: pretty I came out of the room, amazing, I was.
Speaker 1: Told, But you don't come out and just start running.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: Same thing that's true, same thing with racing, but graduated
Speaker 1: a little faster.
Speaker 2: So I don't understand the side by side. Do you
Speaker 2: have a partner with you or is it as always
Speaker 2: the same partner?
Speaker 1: Yeah, my co driver is a guy named Shane Kissman.
Speaker 1: They owned the race team that I raced with when
Speaker 1: I was filming that show. They got into contact with
Speaker 1: these people and they ride Kawasaki like I do. And
Speaker 1: because I won't get any and I won't get into
Speaker 1: anything else. And so anyway, I did the poker run
Speaker 1: with those guys and I had so much fun. We
Speaker 1: were hauling ass out there, and I had so much fun.
Speaker 1: I said, man, I've got to do some more of this.
Speaker 1: And somehow, some way out of the blue, Shane called
Speaker 1: me up and he said, hey, man, do you think
Speaker 1: you'd really want to start racing side by side? And
Speaker 1: I said, hell yeah. And so we built a car
Speaker 1: and I started racing. And that's just by meeting people.
Speaker 1: And they asked me if I wanted to start, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it took me this long to find,
Speaker 1: you know, this sport that I found At fifty eight.
Speaker 1: Last year, I was the Rookie of the Year in
Speaker 1: the Federation. So I was a Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: when I started my wrestling career in nineteen ninety. So
Speaker 1: I think I was the oldest fucking rookie to ever
Speaker 1: win that ward. You know, I'm competing against. You know,
Speaker 1: there's people my age, but there's also people that are
Speaker 1: half my age. I'm one of my art rivals last
Speaker 1: year was a fourteen year old girl. She drive her
Speaker 1: ass off. So you know, when you're born out there
Speaker 1: and you get that DNA and you the men him
Speaker 1: kids are fast. So it's fun, it's competitive. It gives
Speaker 1: me something to do.
Speaker 3: Mister stone Cold, when you said co drivers call you.
Speaker 2: Mister stone Cold, that felt weird.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to say that I don't respect that,
Speaker 3: just wanted didn't want to disrespect.
Speaker 2: I think mister Austin would be more more human, not
Speaker 2: mister right. You're right, I don't know why, mister Cold.
Speaker 2: What's the weirdest thing somebody? Not to interrupt your question, girl, like,
Speaker 2: what is the weirdest thing people would call? Because I
Speaker 2: would never call you mister stone called it was in
Speaker 2: mister Austin.
Speaker 1: God nag. Mike Tyson used to always call me Cold
Speaker 1: Stone like, motherfucker, that's an ice cream shop. My name
Speaker 1: is stone Cold, Steve Auston and out there to raise
Speaker 1: his money. I go by Steve Auston. You know, I
Speaker 1: never you know, if someone calls me stone cold all.
Speaker 1: Answer to it, mister Stone Colile, damn sure, answer.
Speaker 2: To I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been living my life for a long time
Speaker 1: as Steve Austin.
Speaker 3: Well, I love that you're from South Texasaus. I'm from
Speaker 3: South Texas. I'm from accall In, Texas and it's way
Speaker 3: way down there, and you're from ed nine. I think
Speaker 3: it's awesome that that, you know, when you're in South Texas.
Speaker 3: And maybe Bobby don't understand this. You think that everything's impossible.
Speaker 3: Everything on TV is impossible, which you probably got that
Speaker 3: too from being a small town Arkansas. But in South Texas,
Speaker 3: any like being a superstar that seemed impossible.
Speaker 2: Was that impossible to you?
Speaker 1: Man? I look, well, I look at it now, and
Speaker 1: we were doing shit, sitting in this very same shop
Speaker 1: doing a biography for biography for a and and I
Speaker 1: just told those people I'm still Steve, the dude from EDNA.
Speaker 1: But you know, I never would have figured, and I
Speaker 1: always wanted to be after my rock and roll dreams
Speaker 1: got crushed because I can't sing. You know that wrestling
Speaker 1: was the next thing that I wanted to be, But
Speaker 1: you just never would figure. You know, some kid from
Speaker 1: EDNA is going to mount to a hill of beans,
Speaker 1: especially when I finally got that call up to WWE.
Speaker 1: If you put all the superstars up against the wall
Speaker 1: and say, hey man, pick the next big thing off
Speaker 1: that wall right there. Of all this talent, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be the last person you're going to select. Had
Speaker 1: a receding hairline, had a buzz cut when I walked
Speaker 1: in there. Nobody ever saw anything really for me. So
Speaker 1: to answer your question, I don't know. I guess it
Speaker 1: ain't where you're from. It's what you do with. You
Speaker 1: know what you got, and you got to work your
Speaker 1: ass off in anything, so and you got to have
Speaker 1: some luck and some breaks along the way. So I
Speaker 1: guess I caught some lucks and some breaks. But I
Speaker 1: never figured that. When I got into the business of wrestling.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to get in there because it looked
Speaker 1: cool on TV. I never knew what it could turn to.
Speaker 1: But had I been born in Los Angeles, I guess
Speaker 1: maybe the same shit would have happened. But I guess
Speaker 1: just because you're way down there and a tip of Texas,
Speaker 1: you just don't figure you know much is going to
Speaker 1: happen other than hard work. And I always tell people. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm lucky I found pro wrestling because I was built
Speaker 1: for manual labor. All I've ever done was haul hay,
Speaker 1: work on Lee's crews, drive fork lift, load load and
Speaker 1: unloaded trucks. I'm lucky I found when I found when
Speaker 1: I found it.
Speaker 2: I grew up in rural Arkansas. We hauled a lot
Speaker 2: of hay. And there were two jobs. There was the
Speaker 2: person that ran behind the truck and there was a
Speaker 2: person in the truck that stacked the hay. And I
Speaker 2: was thin and young, so I was doing a lot
Speaker 2: of stacking in the truck. You seem to have been
Speaker 2: genetically a little larger. Were you tossing the hay into
Speaker 2: the truck?
Speaker 1: Man? We swap off, you know, one guy riding that
Speaker 1: trailer for a little bit and I've got to throw up,
Speaker 1: throw on and then we just swap out and changed.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that was That job sucked.
Speaker 1: God dang man, I don't know. The most ever made
Speaker 1: Holland hay, and this is a lot of money back
Speaker 1: in the day was thirty five cents of baill Man.
Speaker 1: You thought she was really making a ship ton of
Speaker 1: money When he's making thirty five cents a Bill.
Speaker 2: And I'd always have hay like in my throat. Like
Speaker 2: I would get back at night and I was like
Speaker 2: a for a cat having a ferbal like the hay,
Speaker 2: and the taste of hay never left.
Speaker 1: One time we was we was out there hollering, Hey,
Speaker 1: it was hotter in hell in South Texas. You remember
Speaker 1: them funon onion rings.
Speaker 2: Remember am I still getting at the gas station?
Speaker 1: Are you still eating them? Yeah? Damn, you need to stop.
Speaker 2: Man, that's still the hillbilly Arkansas.
Speaker 1: I was eating things for lunch and just bringing ship
Speaker 1: tons of gatorade. And after a while you're supposed to
Speaker 1: wait forty five minutes after eating before you swim. Same
Speaker 1: thing with hall of hay. Damn, I got the worst
Speaker 1: stomach cache I've ever had in my life. And it
Speaker 1: didn't end up in a pretty fashion. And I'll leave
Speaker 1: it at that.
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Speaker 4: and we're back on the Bobby cast.
Speaker 2: Who was somebody who believed in you early. And you
Speaker 2: look back and you go, I don't really see why
Speaker 2: they did it, but I'm so appreciative they did because
Speaker 2: it helped launch me into whatever it is that you
Speaker 2: feel great about now.
Speaker 1: Man, that's a damn tough question. Who believed who believed
Speaker 1: in me back in the day.
Speaker 2: And I can vamp for a second, like, there's a
Speaker 2: guy that's with us now named Rod who uh when
Speaker 2: I was doing one single radio show in one single market.
Speaker 2: He was like, yeah, I really feel like this is
Speaker 2: bigger than what it is. And I was like, I
Speaker 2: think this should be like a national just wait before
Speaker 2: the TVA, before radio. I was like, I want to
Speaker 2: help you do. He is the first executive that ever
Speaker 2: flew in and I thought somebody flying in to meet me.
Speaker 2: I was like, this is unbelievable. Somebody's gonna spend money
Speaker 2: to come and have dinner with me. And so for me,
Speaker 2: that was that guy who I still like, I don't
Speaker 2: know what he saw in me then, but had he
Speaker 2: not seen it then, I don't think I would be
Speaker 2: here now.
Speaker 1: You know, There's been a few people like that. But
Speaker 1: now I got to go to probably a really good
Speaker 1: friend of mine from Oklahoma would been Jim Ross, and
Speaker 1: he had been announcing all over the South and finally
Speaker 1: he got the call up to go to New York
Speaker 1: to work for mistering Man, and he kind of saw
Speaker 1: me through all the weeds and figured, hey, man, this
Speaker 1: is a guy we might need to talk to based
Speaker 1: on what I was doing at that time. So I
Speaker 1: would say Jim Ross was a strong advocate for me
Speaker 1: back in the day and turned into a really close
Speaker 1: personal friend. But I would I would say his support
Speaker 1: helped me out a whole lot.
Speaker 2: Before we started. You'd asked if I get nervous when
Speaker 2: I do this, and I said, this is actually where
Speaker 2: I'm most comfortable put in the reps. I've messed up
Speaker 2: a lot, but I've also realized when I messed up
Speaker 2: a lot, it's never even that bad. So no really
Speaker 2: need to get that nervous like I've done the worst
Speaker 2: and got out. When did you get most nervous? Or
Speaker 2: when do you get both questions? When when's the most
Speaker 2: nervous you've been to perform? And then when do you
Speaker 2: get nervous?
Speaker 1: Now? Back in the day, man, when I first started
Speaker 1: and in Dallas, Texas, and after just a couple of months,
Speaker 1: they shipped me over to Tennessee, where the bulk of
Speaker 1: the territory was based. And I'll show I'll never forget
Speaker 1: showing up to the little town and Dutch Mantel was
Speaker 1: the booker, and the bookers guy who's making all the
Speaker 1: storylines and making the matches. I showed up out of
Speaker 1: no where. I just got finished two months in Dallas,
Speaker 1: just came off of forklift, drove my little nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: eight high end Excel down there. And we're in some
Speaker 1: non descript town in Tennessee and there's a guy that
Speaker 1: works in a mask and I was going in as
Speaker 1: a good guy, and Dutch Mantel says, go out there
Speaker 1: and give us about eight or ten minutes and then
Speaker 1: whatever the finish was was was to finish. And I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: as I'm walking to the ring, what the fuck am
Speaker 1: I going to do for eight or ten minutes? That's
Speaker 1: a lot of time you do stand up eight or
Speaker 1: ten minutes. Yeah, that's that's a pretty that's a pretty
Speaker 1: good good amount of time to fill when you don't
Speaker 1: know anything. So now, if you told me not now,
Speaker 1: but back in the day, if you told me eight
Speaker 1: or ten minutes, you know, when I had, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of years in the business, said what the
Speaker 1: fuck am I going to do with that? I need
Speaker 1: twenty or thirty So, uh, getting nervous before matches way
Speaker 1: back in the day, or really before, you have an
Speaker 1: identity and you don't know who in what you are.
Speaker 1: You haven't really honed or come up with a character,
Speaker 1: you know, and you just go out there and try
Speaker 1: to do an interview and you're you're talking from your
Speaker 1: throat and not using your diaphragm, and you don't know
Speaker 1: who or what the fuck you are, and you just
Speaker 1: trying to talk a bunch of trash like you heard
Speaker 1: everybody else. And maybe you're you're yelling because you've seen
Speaker 1: so many people yell. You figure that's the thing to
Speaker 1: do rather than be kind of silent and articulate like
Speaker 1: Jake the Snake Roberts Uh talking you know, you don't
Speaker 1: you don't really know what is it to talk about?
Speaker 1: Who am I really involved with? So these days I
Speaker 1: think maybe right before we start a race, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even call it nerves anymore. I call it an anticipation,
Speaker 1: because man, I'm looking forward to seeing what I can
Speaker 1: do with that car. But other than that, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot to get nervous about.
Speaker 2: I have a question about communication with an athlete while
Speaker 2: you're working with them. In my comparison is I did
Speaker 2: a dancing show once and I was not good at it,
Speaker 2: but my partner would talk to me under her breath
Speaker 2: with her lips close the whole time, and she would say, okay,
Speaker 2: lets And I imagine when you're working with someone, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of that communication in the ring. Are you
Speaker 2: guys talking to each other or what is there a
Speaker 2: language that you use or is it all just you
Speaker 2: can do it by feel.
Speaker 1: That ventriloquist thing you just said. You know, back in
Speaker 1: the day when I first started in the wrestling business,
Speaker 1: the way you know, almost all sports have sped up,
Speaker 1: the wrestling business has sped up as well. So you know,
Speaker 1: back in the day, you were talking in a ring
Speaker 1: like a ventriloquist and calling the match as you go.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're doing something just to a listit a response,
Speaker 1: and based on that response that you get from the people,
Speaker 1: you keep going on and on and on. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you're talking like a ventroller quist, and people talk about
Speaker 1: choreographing and setting up matches. I'll never forget the first
Speaker 1: times yet I worked with, you know, the King Jerry Lawler,
Speaker 1: who is one of my all time favorites and one
Speaker 1: of the best, and I was pacing around the ring
Speaker 1: with him and I had two weeks in the business,
Speaker 1: and Jerry said, all right, tackle dropped down hit toss.
Speaker 2: And I said, like a PETRILLI quest he was saying it, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Tackled down hit toss. And there's about I know a
Speaker 1: thousand people out there, and I go.
Speaker 2: What this is?
Speaker 1: Before I admitted to what and he goes running down
Speaker 1: hit toss? I said what, God, let me called it
Speaker 1: one more time and then I said, well, fuck, I
Speaker 1: did a tagle drop down and I didn't know who
Speaker 1: was supposed to hip tops who and it was a
Speaker 1: cluster fucking ensued from there, and Jerry Lawler was booking
Speaker 1: the territory at the time, and I'm sure he was
Speaker 1: thinking to himself, why you know, why in the fuck
Speaker 1: did I book this match with this punk kid? Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how that's how it's done. You've got to communicate.
Speaker 1: People used to think, oh, they're squeezing each other or
Speaker 1: they're giving a signal by you know how many times
Speaker 1: they know that, ain't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So either you know them in the communication is
Speaker 2: in a because of so much you've worked together, or
Speaker 2: you're still in some way communicating talking Oh yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I have to extend a match because sometimes I'll be
Speaker 2: on TV like I did American Idol, and they wouldn't
Speaker 2: be able to commercial, So for four years they'd be like, stretch, stretch.
Speaker 2: I'm on freaking national TV and they're telling me to
Speaker 2: stretch out fifty one seconds, which is an eternity. You
Speaker 2: ever have to do that last minute where they're like, uh,
Speaker 2: we just got to.
Speaker 1: Call go Oh absolutely, man, you know the end of
Speaker 1: the match or the finish, just called it go home.
Speaker 1: And so a lot of times, you know the referee
Speaker 1: he's want to keeping time and so or he's getting
Speaker 1: the timekeepe for somebody. And you might think, okay, as
Speaker 1: you go out to TV, you and your guy have
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. All of a sudden, something happens and you
Speaker 1: have six minutes. So now you have to make a
Speaker 1: long story or a fifteen minute story, a six minute story,
Speaker 1: or hey man something the cameras are down. We're't a
Speaker 1: commercial break, so you've got to adjust there. No matter
Speaker 1: what they say, you just do it on the fly.
Speaker 1: And these days, if you watch those cats, they're they're
Speaker 1: so good they you can talent and the ring has
Speaker 1: to be able to improvise, adapt and overcome. And so
Speaker 1: that's what you learn to do. You think on your
Speaker 1: feet and you just become a jack of all trades,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, you just buying time, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you got to do to just to make everything work.
Speaker 3: That's what you do, mister Steve Austin. Was there a
Speaker 3: specific time better pay I was working, I was thinking
Speaker 3: how I'm going to do that? Was there a specific
Speaker 3: time in your career your life when you realize like,
Speaker 3: oh wow, I'm getting famous?
Speaker 1: Like this is it?
Speaker 3: It's happening.
Speaker 2: And do you notice it immediately? Because a lot of
Speaker 2: the artist friends that we have, they're on the road
Speaker 2: so much, Yeah, that they will not notice it because
Speaker 2: they're constantly moving.
Speaker 1: Interesting. I started in Dallas, and then I went to Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and then I went to UH. I was living in Nashville,
Speaker 1: and then I got hired by Dusty Rhodes to work
Speaker 1: for World Championship Wrestling in Atlanta. Ravishing Rick rud had
Speaker 1: just come into Atlanta and we hooked up almost immediately
Speaker 1: and became very good friends. So I would travel with
Speaker 1: Ravishing Rick Rud. Rude had just come off as run
Speaker 1: with w NWWF and everybody who watched wrestling knew who
Speaker 1: that guy was.
Speaker 2: Dance like him. I would watch him. I like him.
Speaker 2: So I'll be like eight, and now I'll be doing this.
Speaker 1: We will go down road, stop at a Denny's, a
Speaker 1: Cracker Bear or whatever our usual stops, and everybody knew
Speaker 1: who he was, and maybe about maybe one out of
Speaker 1: every fifteen that knew him knew who I was. And
Speaker 1: so when you're sitting there in somebody's shadow, and it's
Speaker 1: a competitive industry, and you said, god damn, you know
Speaker 1: what does it take to get some recognition? So it's
Speaker 1: a it's an interesting thing to deal with. I forgot
Speaker 1: the question you asked.
Speaker 2: When did you notice?
Speaker 1: Oh so, okay, so when I I love about being famous,
Speaker 1: but when I started noticing that people were starting to
Speaker 1: finally gravitate towards me. Where I started off in Dallas,
Speaker 1: I'm just a punk. I went to u USWA where
Speaker 1: Dutch Mantel gave me the stunning Steve Boston name. He
Speaker 1: gave me the Steve Boston name, and I was starting
Speaker 1: to gain traction. And then when I went to w CW,
Speaker 1: you know as stunning Steve that that was okay. But
Speaker 1: when I went to when I went to WWF, and
Speaker 1: I became stone cold, and we were in Chicago, and man,
Speaker 1: it was a tag mash and I can't even remember
Speaker 1: who I was tagging with or against. For some reason,
Speaker 1: Chicago has always been a stronghold for me, and every
Speaker 1: time I got in that damn ring and people would
Speaker 1: come alive. And that was when I really got a
Speaker 1: sense of, hey man, I'm gaining traction. People know who
Speaker 1: and what I am and they're starting to get with me.
Speaker 1: So that's when I on an internal sense. As far
Speaker 1: as the business, I never really after not getting recognized
Speaker 1: by people traveling with Rick Rude, didn't pay any attention to.
Speaker 2: That you mentioned before we came on. You didn't have
Speaker 2: the gift a gap. I think your podcast is great.
Speaker 2: I think you seem like a natural at it. Do
Speaker 2: you feel like you were a natural when you started
Speaker 2: because you're compelling when you speak, You say things that
Speaker 2: make me want to listen. What have you learned while
Speaker 2: interviewing other people and how do you feel like you've
Speaker 2: developed as a question asker well Man.
Speaker 1: I stopped podcasting in twenty two when COVID hit. I
Speaker 1: kind of had some disagreements with the people that I
Speaker 1: was doing the podcast with. And man, I'm a real
Speaker 1: easy guy to to I'm a zero maintenance. Let me
Speaker 1: do my thing and I'm good. But anyway, so we
Speaker 1: stopped doing that. But when I first started doing the podcast,
Speaker 1: podcast one gave me a call or my agent and
Speaker 1: they wanted to know if I want to do a podcast.
Speaker 1: And I was already thinking about it, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know how to get in on the technology level, and
Speaker 1: I said, well shit, yeah. So we had a meeting
Speaker 1: and I started. And so at the time, you know,
Speaker 1: they were I started, you know, using a little recording
Speaker 1: all got over there and going out and just two microphones,
Speaker 1: doing my own thing. But the first time when I started,
Speaker 1: it was in a glass building. All the walls were glass.
Speaker 1: You can see everybody and all the other cubicles. And
Speaker 1: here I am, boy, this is stone cold Steve Boston.
Speaker 1: He's starting a podcast. Fucking guy can talk and he's
Speaker 1: just going to be a natural. I didn't make any notes,
Speaker 1: I didn't research nothing, I didn't do shit. I started talking. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome to Steve Austin Show. Blah blah blah. Hit the
Speaker 1: wall in eight minutes, and all the producers in the room,
Speaker 1: and again, because there's pressure, right, all these producers and
Speaker 1: all this guy's gonna be a fucking natural. I hit
Speaker 1: the wall in eight minutes, and boy, I took my
Speaker 1: tail and went home and realized that, boy, you better
Speaker 1: get your shit together if you're going to start doing
Speaker 1: a podcast. And that's when I started researching and doing
Speaker 1: whatever I had to do to get the job done.
Speaker 1: And I was rougher. I was rougher and shit in
Speaker 1: the beginning. As you know, you know you step on people, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you step on people, or you just you talk too much.
Speaker 1: You know, you're there to talk to your guests. You know,
Speaker 1: let your fucking guests talk. And now don't try to
Speaker 1: get all your shit in. People don't seeing all your stuff.
Speaker 1: We're here to talk about them. So it was I
Speaker 1: don't do it anymore. I you know, I've actually thought
Speaker 1: about starting a small show up again, just maybe a
Speaker 1: thirty minute version of the things that go on here
Speaker 1: around the ranch and with my racing career. But I
Speaker 1: sucked at it, to tell you the truth, and I
Speaker 1: figured I got a little bit of a speech impediment.
Speaker 1: I'm not the most seamless flowing talker. You know, I'll
Speaker 1: stutter and make my way around words, but that's the
Speaker 1: way I've always talked, So it worked okay for me.
Speaker 2: I was watching some clips of the podcast. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're still up and it again. Tom Rady wasn't good
Speaker 2: his first game a couple of weeks ago. He came
Speaker 2: back week two was much better. Like a guy that
Speaker 2: went in. You could tell. The reason why he was
Speaker 2: great at what he did is because he took the
Speaker 2: notes of him not being so great week one and
Speaker 2: came back. It was super strong week two. And so
Speaker 2: I watched like two or three of your old podcasts
Speaker 2: that are up now, and I was like, God, dang,
Speaker 2: like you could have done this. But it's funny to
Speaker 2: hear you talk about how you weren't good at the
Speaker 2: beginning and then you dedicated yourself to being better. Did
Speaker 2: a lot of that translate into how you wrestled as well?
Speaker 2: Would you go back and go out maybe that match
Speaker 2: wasn't good early and go this is what I could
Speaker 2: have done better? Or was it all just you had
Speaker 2: to get in the ring to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to get in the ring to do it.
Speaker 1: We used to One of the guys that used to
Speaker 1: travel with is one of my closest friends, Diamond Dallas Page.
Speaker 1: He was ahead of his time as far as taking
Speaker 1: care of his body, and he videotaped all his matches,
Speaker 1: and I'd be over doing color commentary, you know, while
Speaker 1: who's in the ring working and the Sure enough we'd
Speaker 1: get to some ship box motel and we'd hook the
Speaker 1: VCR thing up to the TV so we could watch
Speaker 1: his match and say, Man, no, don't do this right here,
Speaker 1: do this then, or do it like this, So we
Speaker 1: start critiquing all of his matches, so the same thing. Man,
Speaker 1: it's reps in anything, just like with racing east side
Speaker 1: by side, just reps. You got to do anything or
Speaker 1: whatever whatever it is you're trying to do, you got
Speaker 1: to do it over and over and over again to
Speaker 1: get to make improvements.
Speaker 2: And you know that are you feeling Are you feeling
Speaker 2: fulfilled in your competitive spirit by racing now from what
Speaker 2: you were getting from football and then professional wrestling, like,
Speaker 2: is it the same feeling of fulfillment?
Speaker 1: I would compare it more to football rather than wrestling,
Speaker 1: just because in wrestling you're in front of such massive crowds.
Speaker 1: Which meant I've been in front of crowds of twenty
Speaker 1: five people, you know, and shit hurts a lot more
Speaker 1: with it. Ain't nobody there high A drilling ain't near
Speaker 1: as eye. Just give me a good swift kick in
Speaker 1: the ass before I hit the damn door and make
Speaker 1: my entrance. Uh Many, A drilling factor is a whole
Speaker 1: different thing, because man, when that glass broke, when they
Speaker 1: wrote that music for me, they couldn't have wrote a
Speaker 1: better piece of music for Stonecold Steve Boston. When that
Speaker 1: glass breaks, you could be dragged out for being on
Speaker 1: the road because we used to live on the road
Speaker 1: like all that. A lot of the artists you talk to.
Speaker 1: It's a way of life, and shit happens, and sometimes
Speaker 1: you're down. And when that glass breaks and that crowd
Speaker 1: goes through the roof, it's and adrenalinst spike that may
Speaker 1: if you've never felt it, There's no way I could
Speaker 1: put it into words to explain it to you enough.
Speaker 1: But this racing thing is more like football because of
Speaker 1: just I just want to compete, that's something, and I
Speaker 1: want to win, and god damn it, I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: win all the time. Hell I broke down We had
Speaker 1: a race a couple of weeks ago. It was a
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty five mile race, and I broke
Speaker 1: down at mile mark or one hundred and had to
Speaker 1: pull out of the race. And that sucked ass because
Speaker 1: I was on about a four four race winning streak
Speaker 1: in my federation that I run in. And so it's
Speaker 1: nice when you experience those highs and you know, it's
Speaker 1: like anybody can learn how to win. It's those losses
Speaker 1: that kicking ass and kind of ground you and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: the lows come with the highs, and the highs go
Speaker 1: with the low. So racing is it? Really? It gives
Speaker 1: me a lot of satisfaction, a lot of fulfillment. And
Speaker 1: I never knew this, but last year when I started racing,
Speaker 1: we're running basically on just rough ass, you know roads
Speaker 1: out here in the desert, on a two track road,
Speaker 1: and we'd be going straight down the road and there's
Speaker 1: rocks and turns and it's reference hell out there, and
Speaker 1: hell I just veer off the fucking road and end
Speaker 1: up in the sagebrush. Well, my co driver's been racing
Speaker 1: this whole life, and he's called Calm Cooling elected and
Speaker 1: I'd gather my ship back together and get on the
Speaker 1: road and say, hey, man, sorry about that. We're wired
Speaker 1: for sounds so we can talk to each other. And
Speaker 1: what had happened was I was thinking, hey man, what
Speaker 1: the fuck what am I drinking tonight? I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a beer? Am I gonna drink whiskey or whatever? As
Speaker 1: soon as my mind left the task at hand, which
Speaker 1: is navigating, you know, through that desert. And it happened
Speaker 1: about three or four times that first season, and racing
Speaker 1: has taught me to be laser focused, because as soon
Speaker 1: as you take your mind off what you're doing, you
Speaker 1: will fuck up. And that that's one of the things
Speaker 1: I enjoy about it as well, Like the world can
Speaker 1: be in a pile of shit right now, but if
Speaker 1: I'm in that race, bug in a race, it can
Speaker 1: wait because I'm dealing with what I got to deal
Speaker 1: with and try to get across that finish line before
Speaker 1: the other guys. Do you have a drink wine? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love wine.
Speaker 2: People were like, why are you drinking wine? Your stone cold,
Speaker 2: Steve Bosta, You should only drink beer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm a well rounded drinker.
Speaker 2: I would just be like answer, sharing a are you sure,
Speaker 2: mister Austin, But I've.
Speaker 1: Been around for so long. Now I'll make a post
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Oh man, you better want you live. You've
Speaker 1: been drinking like motherfucker. I take care of myself. I
Speaker 1: ran hard when I was in the wrestling game. I
Speaker 1: ran hard and I ran fast. It's just the way
Speaker 1: I lived. I won't speak about anybody else, but you know,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I love wine. I love my beer. I've
Speaker 1: been in a beer business with Elsie gun Know brun
Speaker 1: coming he since twenty fifteen, and I love a good bourbon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just fire a waiter. Are you sure they
Speaker 2: bring a beer anyway? Looking at that?
Speaker 1: Wine is good, man, Wine is good after a race
Speaker 1: when you add a couple of beers and this is
Speaker 1: that that that final drink for you. Hit the hey
Speaker 1: Ema with.
Speaker 2: Rember.
Speaker 1: That was the thing when it first came out. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they're still around. I don't know. I hope not.
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding you were You were in a few
Speaker 3: movies with Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1: What was what was he like? I always tell people
Speaker 1: as a night guy, I ever met in Hollywood, and
Speaker 1: I didn't do Hollywood. I lived in you know, in
Speaker 1: uh Marina del Rey in the Venice area. So I
Speaker 1: didn't go to parties, I didn't go to the Hollywood Hills.
Speaker 1: I didn't do none of that shit. I just wasn't
Speaker 1: my scene. I was an athlete. We were talking early
Speaker 1: before we started rolling cameras, and we start talking about
Speaker 1: the artistry of some of the guys that you've interviewed.
Speaker 1: But man, those those actors are a little different, you know.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean a bad way. I just mean
Speaker 1: they're different than an athlete. They're wired different and or
Speaker 1: I'm wired differently than they are. Adam Sandler was the funniest,
Speaker 1: nicest guy I've ever worked with, and I've enjoyed each
Speaker 1: time I've gotten to work with him. He's a super guy,
Speaker 1: a sweetheart.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to mention any names. I don't expect
Speaker 2: you to either, But there are times in my career
Speaker 2: profession I have to work with people I don't enjoy
Speaker 2: working with. It's just part of what we do. But
Speaker 2: you gotta fake it, you know. I feel, especially if
Speaker 2: it's like a boss'll be like, I need you to
Speaker 2: have this person on the show. He doesn't often do that,
Speaker 2: but I'm like, I don't really like them. But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna bring them in, I'm gonna work with them. We're
Speaker 2: gonna make it work for me. That's difficult, but I
Speaker 2: can fake it. What is it like happen to be
Speaker 2: do a job so intimate and you just don't like
Speaker 2: the person you're working with and you're wrestling with them.
Speaker 1: Those were so few and far between. I always got
Speaker 1: along with pretty much everybody and I and you could
Speaker 1: go talk to anybody that's ever worked with me, and
Speaker 1: maybe they might have a different opinion. But I've seen
Speaker 1: some guys that were outstanding workers, but they were kind
Speaker 1: of at odds with each other, and when they got
Speaker 1: in the ring, it didn't click because there was some animosity.
Speaker 2: But I was.
Speaker 1: I meant, for some reason, I've always gotten along with
Speaker 1: just about it, damn near everybody I've ever worked with.
Speaker 1: Now there's some guys whose style is so different and
Speaker 1: that you knew it was going to be a difficult task, you.
Speaker 2: Still liked them as humans? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 2: were stylistically so different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, and there was there was, There was
Speaker 1: very few people that I disliked.
Speaker 2: Who in your career And I tell you why. I
Speaker 2: asked I remember and if I'm wrong on the facts.
Speaker 2: Please correct me. I remember w CW you were still
Speaker 2: Stunning Steve. And when I was really young, I loved
Speaker 2: Ricky the Dragon Steamboat.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 2: I hear he was a really great guy too. Never
Speaker 2: never met him, and he was maybe the US champion.
Speaker 2: He had the belt, but he his backer I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was real or not, and he had
Speaker 2: to give you the belt, and and so he was
Speaker 2: I can't wrestle, so you got the belts as Stunning Steve.
Speaker 2: And I remember thinking, man, that would be so cool
Speaker 2: to be in the ring with Ricky the Dragon Steamboat.
Speaker 2: Aside from whatever the storyline there was then, who were
Speaker 2: those guys? And one could have been Ricky Steamboat? Who
Speaker 2: are those guys? When you came up and the first
Speaker 2: time you got to actually professionally be a peer that
Speaker 2: you were like, this is freaking awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, I was wrestling with Ricky the Dragon Steamboat and
Speaker 1: I think I was in the turnbuckle. He was on
Speaker 1: the second rope and he was punching me, and I
Speaker 1: pushed him off and he landed on his back. I
Speaker 1: believe that's that that was one. That was how he
Speaker 1: got one of his bad back injuries and Ricky the
Speaker 1: Dragon Steamboat was awesome, probably one of the best ever
Speaker 1: for sure. Uh what was the question, like, who did
Speaker 1: you get to work with me?
Speaker 2: Like this is you were young, but you're like, this
Speaker 2: is sick. I get to be in the ring with
Speaker 2: this person.
Speaker 1: I looked up to, well, Rick Flair because people kind
Speaker 1: of saw me as maybe being the next Rick Flair
Speaker 1: because I was modeling this four I had my neck
Speaker 1: injury down to WCW. You know, I was kind of
Speaker 1: modeling my style after Rick because to me, he had
Speaker 1: the ultimate pro wrestling style. And I'll never forget. We
Speaker 1: were at a TV tape and down there South Carolina
Speaker 1: or somewhere like that, and it was me, Rick and
Speaker 1: somebody against three other guys, and I'm thinking, man, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show this motherfucker what's up. And all of a
Speaker 1: sudden Rick tags in and I see him go go
Speaker 1: to work. Of course, I'm a lifelong fan. And when
Speaker 1: you're standing on an apron and you're watching the guy,
Speaker 1: and that was at eighteen by eighteen ring and WCW,
Speaker 1: but all of a sudden, when you're watching the man
Speaker 1: do his thing, You're like, fuck this, I got a
Speaker 1: long way to go, but it was all to be
Speaker 1: in a ring with him, because it was like a
Speaker 1: head's up called like, okay man, this is kind of
Speaker 1: you need to step up your game a whole lot
Speaker 1: more than you thought you did. And I would never
Speaker 1: say that I ever reached Rick Flair status in the
Speaker 1: ring at all, because I consider him the goat. But
Speaker 1: working with a guy like that, Hey Morgan, with Ravishing,
Speaker 1: Rick Rude, but working with any of those guys that
Speaker 1: had any any any names was always fun to me.
Speaker 1: But also, yeah, I really didn't look at it like
Speaker 1: that way. After a few years in the business, or
Speaker 1: even after a few months in the business, you're just saying,
Speaker 1: okay man, these guys are just just like me. It
Speaker 1: might be more well known, but there's really it's not
Speaker 1: a big deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The first time I met Garth Brooks, I was like,
Speaker 2: holy crap, this is the craziest thing ever. And Eddie
Speaker 2: and I then went and open for Garth Brooks and
Speaker 2: Football Stadium once and I still see him go, holy crap, business,
Speaker 2: Garth Brooks. So I guess you're just way better at
Speaker 2: your job than we are at ours because we never
Speaker 2: got normal.
Speaker 1: Well, we did hey quit Garth Brooks story. We was
Speaker 1: at the I love it was a CMA, the CMTS,
Speaker 1: the MTV Awards, I know what the fuck it was.
Speaker 1: But I was given out award. They called down there
Speaker 1: to the office, said hey, we would like Stone CoA
Speaker 1: Steve Auston to give Garth Brooks the Entertainer of the Year.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was. I gave it to him, and I
Speaker 1: was so in character. I'm thinking, well, you know, I
Speaker 1: ain't dressed up like these people because I'm stone Coach
Speaker 1: Steve Austin. And then I showed up an event. At
Speaker 1: the event, I had my black high tech boots on
Speaker 1: that I used to you know, stomp mud holes in.
Speaker 1: I had blue jeans on in a vest, my stone
Speaker 1: Cold best and that's that's what I wore, no shirt underneath.
Speaker 1: And I walked out there and you know, gave him
Speaker 1: the award. It's a pretty cool thing, but I was
Speaker 1: so wrapped up in being stone Cold Steve Austin and
Speaker 1: Garth Brooks had been on fire, and of course, you know,
Speaker 1: it was fun to listen to all of his music
Speaker 1: and it was cool to give him that award back then,
Speaker 1: but I was I was going to be stone cold
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 5: The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Speaker 5: Bobby Cast Final three questions.
Speaker 2: What is your favorite picture in your house right now?
Speaker 2: It's just a personal picture, but it's in the living
Speaker 2: room and it really gives you just a fond memory
Speaker 2: of something special.
Speaker 1: Well, my daughter had a good flies hanging around here.
Speaker 1: My daughter had a picture painted of my dog, Hershey.
Speaker 1: She has this wonderful artist friend of hers. It's in
Speaker 1: my closet on the left hand side. And me and Hershey.
Speaker 1: She was a chocolate lab and we were just I
Speaker 1: bought that dog off my hunting partner in South Texas.
Speaker 1: I met that dog when she was six months old.
Speaker 1: Next year I went down there, she was a year old,
Speaker 1: and I'd recruited my wife. That's what I was working on.
Speaker 1: I was dating my wife. I'd rented a Class C
Speaker 1: camper down there and was staying out there. And you
Speaker 1: know christ and my wife, she's vegetarian at first vegetarian
Speaker 1: I ever met my life on how they lived. Anyway,
Speaker 1: she met Hershey and I told her about this dog,
Speaker 1: and so while I was out hunting, she would text me.
Speaker 1: She goes eighty nine to five feet. Hershey's some chicken
Speaker 1: or what. I said, no'll go ahead. So anyway, we
Speaker 1: were sitting at the airport fixing the fly back to
Speaker 1: LA from South Texas at there in San Antonio Airport,
Speaker 1: and we were sitting there drinking bloody Mary, and I
Speaker 1: told my wife, I said, man, we can't leave that
Speaker 1: fucking dog buying. I said, we got to buy it.
Speaker 1: And I called my buddy Trey, who's a car salesman,
Speaker 1: and he got top dollar off that fucking dog, and
Speaker 1: I drove down there. I flew down there, and I
Speaker 1: was gonna get a rental car, and I'm a very
Speaker 1: frugal person, so I was gonna get a one way car,
Speaker 1: and it was gonna get to be a money Carlo
Speaker 1: because I was the best deal I could find. And
Speaker 1: of course, you know, they didn't have any Mony Carlos,
Speaker 1: so they upgraded me to Lincoln Cott mital and so
Speaker 1: me and Hershey, after I flew down there, got to
Speaker 1: ride down to the ranch, paid my buddy for the dog,
Speaker 1: and me and Hershey rode in a Lincoln Continental all
Speaker 1: the way back to Los Angeles. And that picture of
Speaker 1: Hershey in my closet is one of the favorites, one
Speaker 1: of my most favorites in the house.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 3: Are you still going hard in the gym?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, I trained this morning. I you know, I
Speaker 1: completely changed my workout. It's more for like a racing
Speaker 1: type workout. But man, I'll do Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I
Speaker 1: do a full body workout. I pick one exercise per
Speaker 1: body part and I'll make four to six circuits. Those
Speaker 1: first two or warm ups, they each get heavier, and
Speaker 1: I'm always in the first twenty reps fifteen and then
Speaker 1: tens and then to failure. But yeah, I can. If
Speaker 1: you want to go right now, I'll show you what
Speaker 1: you Oh no, no, no, we.
Speaker 2: Don't got it. We go be a welchair. I gotta
Speaker 2: be in a wheelchair. For the wheelchair, I'd be like,
Speaker 2: let's go.
Speaker 1: No, you know, I'm out there and compete with all
Speaker 1: these damned kids out there. Now we're just driving race cars,
Speaker 1: I mean side by sides. But man, I'll sit in
Speaker 1: my sauna. I'll do my thirty minute cardio every morning.
Speaker 1: I'll stretch. I do mobility things. When you're young and
Speaker 1: you're going through all the stuff, people say mobility, Like
Speaker 1: the fuck is that stretching? Together? These days, I thought
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, mobility, what about that cold puns
Speaker 1: you do? Cold cold punch? I got the other thing over, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did my first post. Man. I didn't know you
Speaker 1: was supposed to just jump in there, and I just
Speaker 1: kind of started immersing myself in there slowly.
Speaker 2: And that ain't what's up, because the nuts are when
Speaker 2: you go you get I mean that's honestly, because yeah, just.
Speaker 1: Just just drop down, dunk your head and just sit
Speaker 1: there and then start your breathing routine. That's the best
Speaker 1: way to do.
Speaker 2: It, because it's hard to acclimate your for me, maybe
Speaker 2: not for you. It's hard to acclimate you're junking it
Speaker 2: because that's when you start to go. I can't go
Speaker 2: any further.
Speaker 1: That's why I just got to jump in.
Speaker 2: No, I hear you. I don't do it. I don't
Speaker 2: do that. The final question, what are you most proud of?
Speaker 2: And I want a professionally and a personal answer.
Speaker 1: And on a professional level, I don't know. I guess
Speaker 1: being able to succeed in the business, which, like I said,
Speaker 1: if you put me on the lineup, you would never
Speaker 1: pick me to be worth the hill of beans. So
Speaker 1: professionally and in the world of professional wrestling on a
Speaker 1: personal life. On a personal level, you know, it took
Speaker 1: me a while to find my wife, but me and
Speaker 1: my wife have been together now for twenty years and
Speaker 1: I think we got married in nine and just on
Speaker 1: a personal level, man, my wife makes me so much
Speaker 1: better than I am and she you know, i'd been
Speaker 1: married three times before and never wanted to get married again.
Speaker 1: And I found my wife and she had never been married,
Speaker 1: so of course she wanted to get married. And I
Speaker 1: was almost like, well, this is crossroads because I don't
Speaker 1: really want to go there, And then I'm glad I
Speaker 1: did because my wife is a former special education teacher
Speaker 1: and her students love her. Anytime we're back in La,
Speaker 1: if we're like a home depot or the grocery store
Speaker 1: in one of her kids recognize her. They just they
Speaker 1: just love her. So I think the fact that she's
Speaker 1: such a great communicator, I mean, for one of the
Speaker 1: things that takes to be a special education teacher, amongst
Speaker 1: many other qualities. But I'm very proud of my relationship
Speaker 1: with my wife. That took me a long time to
Speaker 1: find her. She's my soulmate and we'll be together until
Speaker 1: it's over.
Speaker 2: Thank you for being so generous with your time. We're
Speaker 2: massive fans, and I know it's been super cool for me.
Speaker 2: Oh this wasn't totally annoying for you. And I'm going
Speaker 2: to edit you saying I should be in a wheelchair
Speaker 2: because that we have that ability now to be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I would be in a wheelchair and know I'm stone cold.
Speaker 2: That's what it's gonna say when I'm doing here. So
Speaker 2: as long as you call with that, we're good.
Speaker 1: Man. I was sorry to hear you guys have travel
Speaker 1: problems coming in here because the fog.
Speaker 2: We made it though, we made hitchhiked.
Speaker 1: And then I think my publicist said something to amen,
Speaker 1: Steve's the time fanatic, don't don't be late.
Speaker 2: I'm also a time fanatic. And I literally said to
Speaker 2: my guys, we're here, but we're canceling because I will
Speaker 2: not show up and be disrespectful.
Speaker 3: He'd rather cancel them rather be canceled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, then then show up and be like, hey,
Speaker 2: we disrespected you by making you wait on us. So
Speaker 2: that was what I told him. We're canceling because and
Speaker 2: now that was our side of it. What would you
Speaker 2: have thought if we were you know, I would have matter.
Speaker 1: If you cancel it, because already set up side part
Speaker 1: of my day for you. And so just because you
Speaker 1: got late, dudes to factors which were beyond your control.
Speaker 1: When when that guy's flying that jet, you back there
Speaker 1: as a passenger and they say, hey, man, we can't land.
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't expect you to go strong
Speaker 1: on that pilot and say hey, motherfucker, get out of here.
Speaker 1: And then you commissed the landing the airplane. So I
Speaker 1: might have done that. Yeah, that's right, So I can understand.
Speaker 1: I understand that. But I remember when we used to
Speaker 1: live in La. You know, of course, my wife is
Speaker 1: from LA and she knows that city. I don't know
Speaker 1: how she does it. As soon as we moved in
Speaker 1: this town, she knew this table like about of her hand.
Speaker 1: I'm still struggling. There's only ten thousand motherfuckers that live here,
Speaker 1: so anywhere on the streets of La. I used to
Speaker 1: this is way back before the technology days of the iPhone.
Speaker 1: I had a garment on my windshield and then I'd
Speaker 1: be going to a meeting, I said, goddamn, I call
Speaker 1: my wife, Kristen, I said, garments telling me to hang
Speaker 1: a right on this street said no, no, no, go
Speaker 1: do this. She'd give me the back route. But anyway,
Speaker 1: a lot of times I'd go to a meeting and
Speaker 1: she goes, well, your meetings at nine am tomorrow. What
Speaker 1: time you leaving? Eh seven? And she goes, it's only
Speaker 1: two miles away, sud You're going to be there way
Speaker 1: too early, And I said, I don't care. I'll sit
Speaker 1: on the side of the fucking road and send emails
Speaker 1: or do something to kill time. But I will not
Speaker 1: walk into a meeting late. So that's kind of one
Speaker 1: of my things. I've always been. Even going to the buildings,
Speaker 1: we're always supposed to be back in the wrestling days,
Speaker 1: you're always supposed to be there at least an hour before.
Speaker 1: So they got something, you know, they know what they're
Speaker 1: working with. The cards subject to change, right, But I
Speaker 1: was a guy, especially when I got a chance to
Speaker 1: start main eventing, but I was always the first guy
Speaker 1: to the building and then later on the last guy
Speaker 1: leaving the building.
Speaker 2: I think successful people that do the big things right
Speaker 2: have to do the little things right in order to
Speaker 2: even have a chance to do the big things. And
Speaker 2: the little things are showing up on time, having a
Speaker 2: good attitude, being respectful, and so thank you very much
Speaker 2: for allowing us to because I told the pilot you
Speaker 2: land this thing right now, or I'll do it for you.
Speaker 2: I didn't, he didn't. It didn't work.
Speaker 1: So was that from your the seat of your wheelchair.
Speaker 2: Hi, we're done. Thank you, thank
Speaker 5: You, thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production