WEBVTT - #472 - Bobby Interviews Stone Cold Steve Austin at His Ranch 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:09.600 At fifty eight. Last year, I was a Rookie of 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.440 the Year in the Federation. So I was a Rookie 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.000 of the Year when I started my wrestling career in 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.520 nineteen ninety, so I think I was the oldest rookie 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:19.720 to ever win that ward. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.760 Episode four to seventy two of the Bobbycast with Stone 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:30.000 Cold Steve Austin, which our boss went with us and 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.240 he never goes anywhere with us because he was like, 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:34.400 I gotta go meet Stone Cold, right. Yeah, I was 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.960 really one of the cooler sit downs that we did. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:38.640 We were with him for We were probably with them 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:40.560 for a couple hours. The interviews about an hour long, 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:42.519 but after we finished, he just wanted to hang out 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:42.880 and talk. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.160 It's almost like he's lonely out there at that ranch 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.159 and he had people to talk to, so it was us. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.000 I feel like, I don't know if he's low. 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:53.320 I think it's a chosen sure isolation because it's hard 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.600 to get to his place, and so we landed and 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.120 we had to drive an hour and it was a 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.560 whole situation to get there. But yeah, he reminded me 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.479 a bit of a younger Arkansas Keith, except that would 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.959 really Whoop Your Butt Great Stories. Stone called Steve Austin 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.440 was inducted in the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame in 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.200 twenty sixteen. He's been at a bunch of movies, including 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.360 The Longest Yard, The Expendables, Grown Ups Two. He's had 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:20.080 Steve Austin's Broken Skull Challenge, he has Broken Skull Beer 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.880 where he has an ipa and a logger that are 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.760 distributed in thirty five states, and is currently into off 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.360 road racing professionally. We talk about that. He's an ambassador 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:33.640 for Kawasaki. Six time WWF Champion, two times WWF Intercontinental Champion, 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.240 four time tag team Champion, was a cover athlete of 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.720 nine wrestling video games. Has the Guinness World Record for 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.399 most wins at the Roller Rumble, and I could keep going. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.280 It's just pages and pages. I mean, he is, if 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:53.880 not the most famous, it's one be it's Hulkogan, Stone Cold, 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.040 the Rock. Yeah, and the Rock has got no I 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.360 don't think John, and it's not pretty upper tier, but 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.000 not in that tip tip top. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.280 I mean, look, if my mom knows who Steve Auston is, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:07.720 he's pretty famous. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.079 All right here. He is a stone called Steve Austin. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.800 When I saw you drive up in your truck. My 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.520 curiosity went to what does he listen to in his truck? 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.080 Like just the human part of Steve Austin. You're driving 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.560 here or you're driving into town, like, what's on? What 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:23.200 are you listening to? 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.399 Man? I'm not really listening to anything these days. I'm 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.520 just kind of going down and really listening to the silence. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.119 You're a silence guy, I really am. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.679 At this point, I don't think any of the radio 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.200 stations working that pickup truck. I've had to think such 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.760 as brand new right now. As far as my gym 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:46.360 selection goes, I've got everything from country just to meddle. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.440 I've been really into a Sepultura, which is old as 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:54.720 hell stuff like that. But I'm a big George Straight fan, 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.040 and lately I just got kind of got turned on 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.720 to Zach Top. He's kind of come along. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.400 Twenty six, but sounds like he's like fifty five. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.960 I still think his voice is gonna drop a little bit, 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:06.359 but that that kid can sure sing. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:06.880 Yeah. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:07.239 You know. 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.440 God named Joe Nicholl just came through town and me 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.160 and my wife are gonna go see him. And the 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.080 concert started at nine and so we got our tickets 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.960 and then it started getting close from nine o'clock. We're homebodies, 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.440 so we gave our tickets to some friend of ours. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.600 But you know, Joe Nickel, I used to realize to 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:25.880 it a whole lot downer in South Texas when we 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.120 had the broken score. Ranch down there kind of made 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:29.600 a little bit of come back. He disappeared for a 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.400 little bit, had some demons, but got dang. He was 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.600 on fire for a minute. But I'm just pretty much 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.960 standard country and country music and just a lot of 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:39.440 hard rock. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.720 You mentioned George Strait is that you're from Texas Originally, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.800 If you're from Texas, you're kind of forced you to 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.560 love and then you have that love naturally for George 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.200 straight because he's such a Texan. Is that why? 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.200 I don't know. I was a big Conway fan. Merle Haggard, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:00.560 George Jones, Randy Travis, you know Knot when he came 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:01.560 out way back in the day. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:02.400 So you're a real fan. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.840 Oh yeah, absolutely. Music in your family, Well, my dad 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.360 played in the country western dance band way back in 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.800 the day. He sold insurance, but on Fridays and Saturdays 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.400 they played gigs. My dad sang back up sang a 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.080 lot of the songs as well, kind of spun them 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.880 with a lead singer, but he was a lead guitarist. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.120 So I grew up with music and just grew up 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:26.720 more into old school hip hop stuff and metal. And 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.279 I wasn't so much a country fan until I got 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.320 out on the road, and that's when I really turned 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.760 in the country. So I don't know what turned me 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:37.560 on about George Strait, but I guess his talent speaks 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.200 for itself, and he stood the test of time and 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.520 he's done everything with such class and grace. You can't 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.280 help but be a George straight fan, especially if you're 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:46.920 from Texas. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.920 If your dad loved music, did that get passed down 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.719 to you? Did you ever want to do music yourself? 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.560 Well? I did. I wanted to sing, hell, I wanted 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.880 to be a rock and roll star, But I don't 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.400 have any musical genetics. He's actually my dad, is actually 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.640 my stepdad, so I didn't inherit any of his talent. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.520 I couldn't I can't sing. I tried to play guitar, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.960 I didn't practice enough. I switched to bass. I didn't 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.520 practice enough. So if you don't practice, you're never going 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.120 to be good at anything. What I seemed to excel 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.680 at was athletics, so I really I started working out 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.760 with the seventh graders when I was in fifth grade 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.520 dinner in Edna, I was over standing on the side 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.400 of the building and my brother was in their training. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.719 He coach says, who's that kid over and my brother, 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.520 Scott said, that's my little brother, and the coach looked 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.520 at me. Instead of running me off, he goes, you 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.400 want lift weights? I said, yes, sir, So I started 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.760 training and athletics helped me find my way. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.039 Were you a bigger kid? 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:41.159 Yeah? 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:42.839 Were you bigger than your other classmates? 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.200 Yeah, somewhat. And you know, like compared to my you know, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.599 my brothers and my sister, I'm a little heavier framed, 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.240 and just for some reason, I had a different structure 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.000 than them. And we're all pretty much. I have the 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.520 same mindset and got the same you know, genetics as 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.000 far as everything goes. But for some reason, hey, maybe 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.559 it was the waste. But like I said, I started 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.720 at fifth grade, and it's kind of been a love 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.039 hating thing that you know, you love to do it, 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.440 but sometimes you just got to do it, so you 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.520 hate it. But I've done it my whole life, so 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.039 I still do it to this day. 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.080 Any of my friends that are extremely athletic, especially when 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.200 they were in high school, they played every position, like 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.560 I would assume because you have been an athlete your 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.520 whole life, that they had you running the ball, catching 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.240 the ball. Is that? Is that true? Especially in high 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:25.919 school to play running back, I bet or a quarterback. 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.839 Yeah, I was running back and I wasn't fast enough 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.200 to run east or west. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.520 So I ran north straight south. 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.279 And man, I'm lucky that I grew up one hundred 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.560 miles south of Houston, Texas, because if I'd have grown 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.400 up in Houston, I'd have been sitting on a bench 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.280 or playing a lot more linebacker. But being down there 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.960 in South Texas, you can run a four nine and forty, 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.080 and if you can run over people, you'll get the 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:51.000 job done. So I was, you know, all district enough, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.679 good enough of a football player to get a junior 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.960 college scholarship, and good enough after that to go to 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.000 the next level to get another scholarship. And then I 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.200 dropped out of college after my last year of eligibility 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.600 ran out, and I stopped college at seventeen years. It 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.599 was seventeen hours to graduate, and god dang it broke 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.000 my mom and dad's heart. But athletics helped pave the 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.160 way for me to get into college and get into 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.320 education or whatever I got of wanted, and get me 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:19.440 into the wrestling business. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.160 Now, what age did you tear because you kickoff teams? 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.080 I was reading like, that's where you like tour in 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.880 ACLMC at one of those Where were you in your 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:28.920 college career when that happened? 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.920 That was my junior year, my first year at North 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.080 Texas State University there in Denton, Texas, running down on 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.360 a kickoff coverage it to hit my guy I was 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.040 supposed to block, and man, I went down. I'd never 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.680 felt anything like what I felt in my left knee 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.160 and a tour my ACL. But it was a mop 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.480 in tear where you tear it in the middle and 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:49.040 the edges are kind of a frayed and that's why 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.720 they call it a mop. But they can either repair 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.600 it or not repair it. Based on the strength of 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:58.120 my quads and my hamstrings. They didn't repair that knee, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.920 so anyway, subsequently, that's what led to all my knee 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.160 issues down the road, and I've had the a c 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.000 L E c L put in there from cadaver ligaments 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.080 several years ago. And you know, if I'm telling you 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.720 like it is, and I will, you know, I need 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.120 a new I need a new left knee here pretty quick. 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.040 Would you go back and have that repaired? Now? Would 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:21.840 you tell that kid to have it repair to take 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:22.360 a year off? 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.320 Absolutely? But I wasn't of that mindset, you know. And 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.080 if you've got two years to play, and I didn't 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.559 even think about, you know, doing a medical red shirt thing. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.640 I re you know. I stayed down for the season 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.439 and then I rehabbed all during the summer, came back 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.840 and that was when I was playing linebacker. They switched 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.079 me to week side defensive end, which is an easier 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.720 read for me. And you know, started all eleven games 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.319 and then got on and started driving a forklift. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.240 Now tell me how you think what you think about 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:53.280 me when I tell you the story. So I have 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.000 some tendonitis on my foot here. If them bother me 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.480 for like what I don't here, we go listen. I 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.400 respect his opinion. He's been through it all. He's so 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:01.680 I have some tend to night. It's on my foot 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.800 that goes up through here. I have a strained calf. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:05.000 I just did a whole couple of days at the 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.840 University barks. I'm playing basketball. I have two days this 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.320 festival have to do. I just requested a wheelchair. Now 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:12.320 what do you think about that? Don't gold? 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.559 How did it happen? It was just something that's been ongoing. 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:19.880 Yeah, well the ten to night is for like six months. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.520 The strained calf has happened through like full court basketball. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.760 But I mean like the wheel Like I literally just 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.720 requested a wheelchair. Would you request a wheelchair for these 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:29.880 minor injuries? 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:35.559 Oh? Man, I'd give me a walking stick, but a 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:41.280 wheelchair is kind of cool. No, man, I'm I'm gonna 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.920 use my walking stick. Yeah, I have one that I 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.520 use every here and there. But man, I, whatever you 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.520 gotta do, you gotta do. Are you taking any anti 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:50.320 inflammatoris are? 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:50.559 Though? 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:51.079 No? 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.480 I don't. Uh No, I just thought the wheelchair would do. No. No, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.000 I think about the actual things, like the healthy, productive 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:58.680 things I could do. I just felt like i'd request 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.280 a wheelchair to kind of give me out for a 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:00.880 couple of days. 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.720 You know, every now and then you can get away 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.880 with it, and you know it makes you it's helping 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.440 you get to where you need to go. I guess 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:08.000 that's a good thing. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.559 Yes, I feel like that's an endorsement for the wilchair. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.439 I love man. I'd probably crawled in on my way 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.000 to that chair. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.880 What do you do now? That's fulfilling because for us, 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:21.839 like I see on social media holding the chicken and stuff, 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.840 like I see like you doing little things around here, 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.760 But like what now is exciting to you? 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.920 You know? Yeah? I do the chores around here. We 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.319 live on forty acres. We got horses, chickens, and a 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:37.360 couple of dogs, the cats. My wife mainly takes care 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:42.200 of all that stuff. Competitively, what I found lately is racing, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.760 you know, side by sides, you know, utility vehicles. I've 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.480 been a brand ambassador for Kawasaki Motorsports is twenty fifteen 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.920 on the Mule division, the Workhorse brand. And then I 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.520 was filming the show last year that turned into a bomb. 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.560 But I got a chance to one of the producers 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.439 ask me, do you want to do a poker run? 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.400 And I said, what the fuck is a poker run? 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.000 Because I don't play cards. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:07.520 I was about to say it the same question you 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.240 just yeah. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:13.640 So a poker run as it h you know, pertains 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.559 to side by side racing if you're going to run 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.319 a course and say I just got fish racing this 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.880 past weekend. Each lap was fifty five miles out in 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.959 the desert. So on that poker run, basically you're pre 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.880 running the course that you're going to run the next 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.320 day and race. So on your GPS you can mark 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.040 all the dangers, what kind of turns you got, where 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.600 you might need to check up things, adjustments you need 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.320 to make while you're driving. Now during that ride where 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.600 you're marking all your dangers there, you're getting cards as 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.520 you go. And so at the race driver's meeting the 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.480 next you know that later that day and we do hey, 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.400 who wanted to poker in? Who had the worst hand. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.880 It's kind of entertainment. But that's how I found racing 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.800 side by sides, and I been doing it for about 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.240 a year and a half and I've absolutely fallen in 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.920 love with it. And it's just so different from anything 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.560 I've ever done because I've been driving you know, four 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.000 by four, you know, full whel drive stuff four wheelers 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.559 done when I lived in Georgia and the mud hunting 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.280 and side by sides, but just recreationally. And when you 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.280 start racing something and pushing the machine to its limits 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.920 and pushing yourself to your limits, which you don't know 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.640 that you have yet because you've never driven at one 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.080 hundred percent, it takes a while to learn how to 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:36.040 do that. So I equated with when I first started wrestling, 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.720 I sucked, and when I first started driving these things. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.439 I won't say I sucked, but I had a lot 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.560 to learn. And the biggest mistake you making pro wrestling 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.400 trying to get is trying to do everything too fast 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.640 and racing, they'll tell you. And it didn't make sense 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.120 to me until I ran a few races. In order 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.720 to you know, to drive fast, you must first learn 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.160 to drive slow. I mean like when you was born, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:02.520 you started crawling right. 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.240 No, I was actually balancing on one foot. I was 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.360 pretty I came out of the room, amazing, I was. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.440 Told, But you don't come out and just start running. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:09.960 That's true. 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.880 Same thing that's true, same thing with racing, but graduated 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:14.439 a little faster. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:15.880 So I don't understand the side by side. Do you 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.120 have a partner with you or is it as always 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:18.800 the same partner? 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.840 Yeah, my co driver is a guy named Shane Kissman. 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.719 They owned the race team that I raced with when 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.320 I was filming that show. They got into contact with 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.439 these people and they ride Kawasaki like I do. And 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.800 because I won't get any and I won't get into 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.760 anything else. And so anyway, I did the poker run 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.480 with those guys and I had so much fun. We 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.040 were hauling ass out there, and I had so much fun. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.120 I said, man, I've got to do some more of this. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.040 And somehow, some way out of the blue, Shane called 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.320 me up and he said, hey, man, do you think 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.080 you'd really want to start racing side by side? And 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.720 I said, hell yeah. And so we built a car 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.600 and I started racing. And that's just by meeting people. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.720 And they asked me if I wanted to start, and 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.920 I couldn't believe it took me this long to find, 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.600 you know, this sport that I found At fifty eight. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:08.880 Last year, I was the Rookie of the Year in 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.840 the Federation. So I was a Rookie of the Year 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.600 when I started my wrestling career in nineteen ninety. So 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.960 I think I was the oldest fucking rookie to ever 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.920 win that ward. You know, I'm competing against. You know, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.560 there's people my age, but there's also people that are 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.320 half my age. I'm one of my art rivals last 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.640 year was a fourteen year old girl. She drive her 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.080 ass off. So you know, when you're born out there 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.080 and you get that DNA and you the men him 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.880 kids are fast. So it's fun, it's competitive. It gives 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:40.720 me something to do. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.880 Mister stone Cold, when you said co drivers call you. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:45.560 Mister stone Cold, that felt weird. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.400 I'm just going to say that I don't respect that, 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:48.680 just wanted didn't want to disrespect. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.840 I think mister Austin would be more more human, not 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.120 mister right. You're right, I don't know why, mister Cold. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.360 What's the weirdest thing somebody? Not to interrupt your question, girl, like, 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.000 what is the weirdest thing people would call? Because I 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:59.480 would never call you mister stone called it was in 0:14:59.560 --> 0:14:59.960 mister Austin. 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.520 God nag. Mike Tyson used to always call me Cold 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:09.200 Stone like, motherfucker, that's an ice cream shop. My name 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.880 is stone Cold, Steve Auston and out there to raise 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.120 his money. I go by Steve Auston. You know, I 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.000 never you know, if someone calls me stone cold all. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.479 Answer to it, mister Stone Colile, damn sure, answer. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:20.880 To I love it. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.280 Yeah, I've been living my life for a long time 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:24.160 as Steve Austin. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.320 Well, I love that you're from South Texasaus. I'm from 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.720 South Texas. I'm from accall In, Texas and it's way 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.040 way down there, and you're from ed nine. I think 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.760 it's awesome that that, you know, when you're in South Texas. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:38.360 And maybe Bobby don't understand this. You think that everything's impossible. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.120 Everything on TV is impossible, which you probably got that 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.240 too from being a small town Arkansas. But in South Texas, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.280 any like being a superstar that seemed impossible. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:49.640 Was that impossible to you? 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.440 Man? I look, well, I look at it now, and 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.840 we were doing shit, sitting in this very same shop 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:02.040 doing a biography for biography for a and and I 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.560 just told those people I'm still Steve, the dude from EDNA. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:07.840 But you know, I never would have figured, and I 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.600 always wanted to be after my rock and roll dreams 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.520 got crushed because I can't sing. You know that wrestling 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.480 was the next thing that I wanted to be, But 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.120 you just never would figure. You know, some kid from 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:19.960 EDNA is going to mount to a hill of beans, 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.120 especially when I finally got that call up to WWE. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.320 If you put all the superstars up against the wall 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.600 and say, hey man, pick the next big thing off 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.960 that wall right there. Of all this talent, I'm going 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.400 to be the last person you're going to select. Had 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.400 a receding hairline, had a buzz cut when I walked 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.960 in there. Nobody ever saw anything really for me. So 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.520 to answer your question, I don't know. I guess it 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.280 ain't where you're from. It's what you do with. You 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.560 know what you got, and you got to work your 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.280 ass off in anything, so and you got to have 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.520 some luck and some breaks along the way. So I 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.960 guess I caught some lucks and some breaks. But I 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.040 never figured that. When I got into the business of wrestling. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:02.680 I just wanted to get in there because it looked 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.600 cool on TV. I never knew what it could turn to. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:10.400 But had I been born in Los Angeles, I guess 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.680 maybe the same shit would have happened. But I guess 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.160 just because you're way down there and a tip of Texas, 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.080 you just don't figure you know much is going to 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.160 happen other than hard work. And I always tell people. Man, 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.240 I'm lucky I found pro wrestling because I was built 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.560 for manual labor. All I've ever done was haul hay, 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:32.000 work on Lee's crews, drive fork lift, load load and 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.200 unloaded trucks. I'm lucky I found when I found when 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:35.760 I found it. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.000 I grew up in rural Arkansas. We hauled a lot 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.159 of hay. And there were two jobs. There was the 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.639 person that ran behind the truck and there was a 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.720 person in the truck that stacked the hay. And I 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.040 was thin and young, so I was doing a lot 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.439 of stacking in the truck. You seem to have been 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.600 genetically a little larger. Were you tossing the hay into 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:55.000 the truck? 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.600 Man? We swap off, you know, one guy riding that 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.600 trailer for a little bit and I've got to throw up, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.160 throw on and then we just swap out and changed. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.159 I mean, that's that was That job sucked. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.560 God dang man, I don't know. The most ever made 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.960 Holland hay, and this is a lot of money back 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.120