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Steve Austin (0:01)
The following Program is a podcast ONE.com production from Hollywood, California, by way of the Broken Skull Ranch. This is the Steve Austin Show.
Steve Austin (0:10)
Give me a Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
Steve Austin (0:12)
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Steve Austin (0:14)
All right, everybody. Welcome to Steve Austin Show. I'm coming to you from the main streets, Los Angeles, California. I'm pacing around my office here at 316 Gimmick Street. It's early in the morning right now. As I record this open, it is 10 minutes till 9am I didn't sleep a wink last night. I don't know what it was, but I was just tossing and turning. I probably slept for about two hours. So when my alarm clock went off at 6am this morning, man, I got my ass out of bed and started guzzling coffee and took my alpha brain. It's a big day for the kid here. I've got a real busy day. What I'm going to do today is right now, as I speak in here in the office, recording this open. I'll send this down to Stacy in Beverly Hills 90210 where she puts the show together. And my wife is in there pounding out some chicken breasts for me, putting all my meals together for me for the day. I've got a lot of business to take care of. The eating program is starting to fall in place. I think I've got my nutritional values where they need to be. I'm starting to see a few results, starting to tighten up a little bit and. And I really started to focus on my weight training. And by focus on my weight training, I mean that by. I'm always in a hurry. So sometimes before I blew up my rotator cuff, I would rush in the gym, just go in there, slam some weights around and get out and not pay attention to details. But now that I've been given the green light to start back with the weights on my right side, very, very lightweight, I might add, I'm taking it in a whole different level and it's kind of made me apprec a lot more of the bodybuilding style of training. I guess I could say that I trained like a bodybuilder during my active career because I wasn't training like a powerlifter. I never considered myself a bodybuilder because I didn't have that type of physique. But I would just, you know, five sets of 10, five sets of 10, four sets of eight, and that might be chest. Well, I'm kind of still doing that now, although even higher reps because I'm training with one arm and Then when I switch to that bad arm with the rotator cuff and a bicep reattachment, I'm training with baby weights in very slow fashion with no explosion. And it's basically German volume training, trying to get some blood in that injured area, into that tricep and that bicep, which have had no activity in about three and a half months. So I've got a lot of atrophy going on. So the thing about my tricep workout is I can't really do. One of my favorite tri exercises is lying skull crushers with an easy curl bar or standing tricep extensions with a cambered curl bar. Those are two of my go to exercises right now. Because those two exercises put my shoulder, my rotator cuff, in a compromised position. I'm really stuck for tricep workouts to just stick with tricep push downs and tricep kickbacks. And the thing about those two exercises are those are known more as shaping exercises, more so than a size building exercise. But that's all I've got to work with. And on that tricep kickback, due to the fact that my right arm doesn't straighten out entirely, I'm not getting a whole lot of emphasis on that try because of the calcium built up in my elbow joint to finally kick that thing in at the far extension to get it fired up. So anyway, I'm taking my time in the gym and doing less cardio, but more weight training. And it's starting to pay off for me. Things are starting to pick up. So once I come full cycle out of this injury and I get the green light to start really employing some heavier weights, that's when I'll shift my training into kind of just focusing more on the body parts. And it was like I've read all these years, visualizing the muscle, feeling the muscle. And that's what I've started to do and it's starting to pay off for me. So any of you guys out there that are just going to the gym, slamming weights and just not paying attention to anything, if you're in there gabbing with your buddies, got your music cranked up, hey man, focus on your muscle groups. I'm starting to do that. And man, seeing this, believing and doing it, going in there and just being prepared to spend as much time as I need to to get my work done has been paramount as well. And hey man, I can throw a little bit of shout out to my buddy C T Fletch over at Iron Addicts gym. He Said he had a low tolerance for sissies. I dig it. C. And it's taken my motivation to another level. So it was a good conversation we had the other day on the Unleashed show. I'm headed down to Anaheim, California today and I was on YouTube the other day. I spent a good amount of time on YouTube just looking for things to watch because some of television's offerings aren't that great. And, man, I came across some footage of a young man named Adam Shear. And he's a strongman competitor. And he's not just any Strongman competitor. This guy is 6, 8 at the time, he's about 415 pounds. I said, man, that dude looks real familiar. Well, turns out the guy I was looking at was Braun Strowman, the latest addition of the Wyatt family. So I said, man, he was cutting promos and talking to the people at the Arnold and talking at the Strongman competitions, doing these interviews. And I said, man, this guy can talk his ass off. And I've been intrigued watching his journey into the world of professional wrestling coming out of the Strongman competition. So, man, I put the word on the street that I sure would like to talk to that guy and spend about an hour with him and talk about training, talk about nutrition, talk about life on the road, getting away from the strongman world, entering the world of sports entertainment, and how he had taken to the psychology of the business and where he feels he's at. So I set it up and I'm heading down there to Anaheim. He's going to be my first guest. I'll interview, and then I'm going to get a chance to talk to the one and only Pat Patterson. Now, for many younger people may not know, Pat Patterson is one of the best finished guys in the history of the business when it comes to matches. Just as far as laying out an entire match, he's fantastic. And Pat just wrote a book called Accepted about his life and the business of professional wrestling. And I read the book and it's absolutely phenomenal and I high it to everybody. It's a great read. I think what I'll try to accomplish with Pat is kind of stick to some of the wrestling stuff, because what interests me is Pat was always a creative person from the get go. Early on in life in Montreal, growing up very poor with 11 people in his family in a two bedroom condo. So he didn't have anything handed to him. He earned everything the hard way. And he saw his first professional wrestling match, and I'll get that story from Pat and just From a self described creative guy who was always looking for an audience, found his way into the business of professional wrestling and all these years later paid so many dues, paved so many roads for guys like me and guys before me and guys that I paved the road for. So I want to get inside Pat's head, ask him questions about his education process as it pertained to drawing money. Pat Patterson worked with some of the baddest promoters, I mean bad, I mean smart promoters in the business. Going back to when he was working in Portland for Don Owens, when he went over to work in San Francisco with legendary Roy Scheyer, spent some time down there in Texas, pass through Oklahoma, worked with Leroy McGurk who was a blind promoter. That's going to be very interesting. He spent some time down there with Eddie Graham in Florida. Of course he started working for Vince Sr. There's going to be some interesting stories there as you compare the vision of Vince Jr. With Vince Sr. And his relationship with that family. He's had an incredible run and is highly respected by everybody in the business and by his own right. In his own right, had a hellacious career as part of the Blonde Bombers with the legendary Ray Stevens in the San Francisco territory. We're going to talk about getting some heat over at the Cal palace back in the day. Man, those guys were so hot, those people would get so mad. His life was actually in danger. I remembered working the Cal palace way back in the day, in the 90s. That building was built in about 1941 and it was the original home of what is now the Golden State Warriors. So anyway, I'm going to talk to Pat about his days there. Some stories about getting heat, some of the famous things that promoters said to him that stick out to me and resonate with me as I kind of take my look on the business and you get a chance to talk with a guy who's been around longer than me and saw more and worked for different promotions back when it was a total territory system. I'm looking forward to talking to Pat and then of course, Man Live tonight on tv. Well, live yesterday on tv. As you hear this, I'm going to talk to the one and only Dean Ambrose, WWE Heavyweight Champion. I don't know if I said that right. They got so many different names for those belts. But I'm looking forward to talking to Dean. I didn't know a whole lot about the guy other than I liked him. And every time I've gone up to a show, got a chance to talk to him, he's a good dude, he's fun to talk to but man, this guy has really paid a lot of dues in his business and he came up, you know, with a hard life out on the streets. Cincinnati, Ohio, where my old partner Brian Pillman came from. But anyway, let's get on with the show.