More UNLEASHED with Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson - SAS CLASSIC

Summary

The Steve Austin Show: More UNLEASHED with Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson (SAS CLASSIC)

Episode Overview

In this lively and laughter-filled episode (aired March 19, 2026), Steve Austin welcomes pro wrestlers Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, and guest Rocky Romero to 317 Gimmick Street for part two of their wide-ranging, behind-the-scenes conversation. The group dives into road stories from across the wrestling business, sharing wild tales from indie shows to WWE and New Japan, their love/hate relationship with the road, customs and locker room etiquette, the evolution of wrestling, and the brotherhood that sustains their careers. With Austin at the helm, the episode flows naturally between nostalgia, humor, and insight, making it a must-listen for wrestling fans and anyone fascinated by life behind the curtain.

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Key Themes and Topics

Life on the Road & Wrestling with the Brothers

• Busy WWE schedules: Austin opens by discussing the relentless travel and appearance demands of pro wrestling, empathizing with his guests and other superstars who juggle non-stop gigs, pay-per-views, and TV.

  • "It is a relentless grind. During my active years, I was having so much fun... you damn near do it for free. But you can't do it for free ‘cause you gotta pay the bills." (05:15)

• Attitude Era nostalgia: Steve reflects on shifts in wrestling and the tendency for veterans to see their own era as the best—agreeing the Attitude Era was peak, but every generation’s different.

  • "Business always has to change... you go back to one statement Triple H made: ‘Everyone thinks the era they performed in was the best there ever was.’” (08:13)

Locker Room Etiquette & Early Days Stories

• Handshakes, introductions, and the “bird on a limb”: The guys joke about the legendary “soft handshake” and how customs shift over time.

  • Gallows: "First time I was an extra, shook Victoria’s hand and she goes, ‘We don’t do that here!’" (19:23)
  • Anderson: "You still goin’ with that perch? You notice they stopped that fifteen years ago?" (19:18)

• First impressions & rookie mistakes: Gallows retells getting heat as a green extra in WWE—misreading the locker room, meeting Bob Holly, and not having an answering machine at home for booking calls.

  • "Tommy Dreamer got a hold of me: ‘What kind of wrestler doesn’t have an answering machine?’ One who lives at home now since he lost his apartment because of wrestling." (19:49)

• Infamous indie characters: Comic stories about meeting faux “Buddy Rose” and “Cuban Assassin” at low-budget independent promotions, double-gimmicked shows, and meeting legends under bizarre circumstances.

  • "There were ten Doinks on that same show... Spiderman vs. Batman main evented!" (18:04)

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The Art of the Gimmick

• Impressions and in-ring personas: Gallows and Anderson show off their Stone Cold impressions, discuss the craft of reinventing iconic gestures (“too sweet”) and using real locker room banter in character, especially in their roles as “Sex Ferguson” and “Chad Too Bad” (Southpaw Regional Wrestling).

  • Anderson: "I don't want to do my Stone Cold impression in front of the man himself... But—oh hell yeah!" (12:09)
  • Gallows: "We took the too sweet and reinvented that son of a..." (12:23)
  • Classic promo-off: Gallows does a Tex Ferguson promo: "My boots are the belly of a baby crocodile..." (43:03)

• On authenticity: Discussion about why their most popular stuff is the material they develop themselves, not what gets written.

  • Luke Gallows: "It’s way funnier if it’s just us doing it, because it’s shit we really lived and think about... that’s why people liked it." (44:00)
  • Steve Austin: "The times we took chances were the best times." (45:18)

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The Grind, Gear, and Hygiene

• Wrestling gear horror stories: The importance of not letting your gear get funky—tales of stinky heat in Europe and Japan, washing rituals, and locker room pet peeves.

  • Gallows: "We’d lay out our gear on tour. In Japan? Those guys—they wash their gear every single night!" (26:36)
  • Anderson on European tours: "Nine cans of Axe, and I still got stinky heat." (30:06)
  • Steve Austin on overscented co-workers: "Dudes come in and wear too much goddamn cologne. Now you smell like the motherfucker’s hand—you just shook." (31:06)

• “Stinky guy” incidents: A hilarious story about being stuck wrestling and then having to get a car ride from a particularly pungent indie wrestler in Germany.

  • Gallows: "He got a must... a lot of must. Didn’t shower, and we’re in the car, I’m like texting Carl—guess who’s driving? That stinky mother..." (33:00)

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Wrestling as a Lifetime Passion

• Never wanting to truly retire: The guys express their inability to give up wrestling, even joking about being on the road at 55 or 58.

  • "Man, we might not be good at it, but we’re gonna be out there. We’re gonna wrestle forever." (41:47)

• Running indy promotions: Gallows shares about his time managing a wrestling promotion; the joy (and financial peril) of being a road warrior who becomes a promoter.

  • "Wish I still had my promotion. Loved it, enjoyed it... I just love wrestling." (38:10)

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Tales from New Japan, WWE, and International Tours

• Cultural and professional differences:

  • Washing gear in Japan, etiquette around language: Gallows’s accidental use of “Jap clothesline” and ensuing quick education about respectful terminology. (64:33)
  • Austin’s experiences with legendary Japanese talent, seeing young boys become top stars.

• Praising peers: Frank talk about talents like AJ Styles, Okada, and Kenny Omega—what makes them special, their evolution, and why AJ is “easily the best wrestler in the world right now.”

  • "AJ Styles... he’s the best wrestler in the world at this moment." (52:22)
  • "Okada—he was a young boy when I was there, now he’s a huge name. Good kid." (50:55)

• Danger of the sport: Touched on wrestler fatalities in the ring (Misawa, Perro Aguayo) and how safety standards and medical support have changed—“the Wild West” days compared to now, and the value of trainers, staff, and proactive self-care.

  • "It’s different now... we’d never have said 'I’m hurt'—it wasn’t a thing." (58:26)
  • Steve Austin: "Harley Race wraps a towel around my neck and jerks like a ... I thought he was gonna rip my head off!" (60:03)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

On Wrestling Nostalgia and Change

• Steve Austin: "Everything changes. If you don't like it, don't watch it. It ain’t my fault—I’m just talking to the people that do." (09:22)

On Character Development and Promos

• Steve Austin: "If you get a chance to just be yourself and talk—it’s different for me to read... In WWE, they hand you promos, want you to stick to it. But the best stuff comes from us." (44:40)

On Legendary Moments

• Steve Austin on the Austin 3:16 promo: "I made that shit up on reply. If Marc Merrow hadn’t kicked me in the mouth, I would've never gotten the opportunity..." (46:54)

On the Brotherhood & The Road

• Luke Gallows: "We were the last cowboys, man. Big Show was like 'Who do you ride with?' I said, 'Just us two.' Next week, 'I'll get the car, let's ride together.'" (70:13)
• Gallows on passing wrestling down: "I tell my son every day, you're not gonna be a wrestler... he comes in, does handstand bumps. He's ten." (39:59)

On Hygiene Pet Peeves:

• Steve Austin: "I love the smell of a goddamn mat... but when someone’s gear is funky, that’s a different story. Bad gear, too much cologne, it becomes you." (31:06)

On Wild Indie Moments

• Steve Austin: "There were ten Doinks. Spiderman and Batman main evented. Someone came out to Badstreet USA... That’s the kind of stuff we saw." (18:04)

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Notable Segments & Timestamps

• Introduction and Business Talk
  • [00:36–09:00] – Austin on scheduling, shoutouts, and why wrestling—and entertainment—has changed.
• Handshakes & Locker Room Etiquette
  • [12:34–19:00] – Hilarious handshake stories, indie show mishaps, and out-of-place rookies.
• Funky Gear & Hygiene Fails
  • [25:39–34:36] – Tales of stinky heat in Europe and Japan, and hygiene pet peeves.
• Character Building & Too Sweet Origins
  • [12:09–14:29] and [43:03–45:18] – Stone Cold impressions, Tex Ferguson promos, and why real-life shtick works.
• Southpaw & Creative Freedom
  • [43:03–45:18] – The birth of Southpaw characters, why organic promos are best.
• New Japan, International Tales & Safety
  • [49:58–59:16] – Okada and Omega talk, Japanese wrestling culture, indie “wild west” stunts vs. modern safety.
• Harley Race’s "Chiropractic" and Old School Toughness
  • [60:03–62:19] – Steve’s near-decapitation at the hands of Harley Race.
• On Retirement and Wrestling Forever
  • [41:47–42:04] – The ongoing drive to stay in the ring.
• Closing Tales & Cheap Plugs
  • [74:33–75:15] – Gallows’s tattoo shop, wrestling school, and more.
• Final Reflections and Laughter
  • [75:17–74:33] – Heartfelt thanks, the essential brotherhood, and a joyous wrap-up.

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Conclusion

This episode is a treasure trove of wrestling lore, rich with funny, unvarnished tales, and the warmth of wrestlers whose lives revolve around a unique, punishing, and endlessly rewarding craft. Laughter, camaraderie, and real love for the business shine as Steve Austin, Gallows, Anderson, and Romero riff on everything from stinky gear to the global evolution of wrestling. Whether you’re a die-hard fan or a newcomer, this is one of those podcasts that gives you a seat in the locker room—and makes you wish you could hit the road with them, just once.

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Quick Reference

Best Quote:
"If you don’t like it, don’t watch it... I’m just talking to the people that do. The business always has to change." — Steve Austin (09:22)

Funniest Moment:
"He got a must... a lot of must. Didn’t shower, and we’re in the car, I’m like texting Carl — guess who’s driving? That stinky mother..." — Luke Gallows (33:00)

Biggest Wrestling Take:
"AJ Styles... the best wrestler in the world at this moment." — Karl Anderson (52:22)

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Cheap Plugs (from the brothers themselves)

• "Painted Gypsy Tattoo, 1140 Nortech Drive, Conyers, Georgia — tell 'em Big LG sent you." (74:36)
• "Good Brothers Dojo, Jenkinsburg, Georgia — learn to wrestle, get the basics." (74:36)

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For more wrestling stories, laughs, and life lessons, keep an eye out for future Steve Austin Show episodes — and as the man says, that's the bottom line!

Transcript

[Steve Austin]

The following program is a podcast one.com

[Luke Gallows]

production he started in a small town in Texas, worked his ass off to

[Steve Austin]

become one of the most famous wrestlers of all time.

[Carl Anderson]

We're gonna take care of business tonight. And that's the bottom line.

[Luke Gallows]

And now he's dominating the world of On Demand Audio.

[Steve Austin]

And he's doing it for the working man.

[Carl Anderson]

This is a damn good outlet for me to spew the off my brain.

[Steve Austin]

This is Steve Austin unle unleashed.

[Carl Anderson]

All right, everybody, welcome to Steve Austin Show. I am coming to you from the mean streets of Los Angeles, California, today, sitting over here at 317 Gimmick street, opening up his podcast. We're about to get into part two with Gallows and Anderson and also Rocky Romero. The good brothers came by 317 Gimmick street last week. We shot the breeze, drank a few beers or read books, as we were saying, reading novels, and had an outlandishly great time. God dang, man, I ain't laughed my damn ass off like that in over 10 years. So today we're going to continue that conversation. And if you guys heard the podcast this past Tuesday, it was supposed to be Elias on the Tuesday show. Who wants to walk with Elias? Well, Luke Bryan came into town and we pushed Elias to this coming Tuesday. So you will hear my interview with WWE Superstar Elias. One of my favorite gimmicks going right now, this coming Tuesday. One of those deals where Luke Bryan had an album coming out and they're trying to get the bulk of all of his promotion stuff done in these past few weeks. And I understand that coming from the game of promotion shit, I was only involved in the wrestling business 14, 15 years, so I kind of get it now. Now, had Elias been pushed into pay per view or something that was on a time schedule like a pay per view, whatever, obviously then I would have ran that show. But anyway, I appreciate Elias patience. I was texting him the other day. Apologize profusely. Sometimes, man, in the podcast business, that's just the way it is. And the podcast that I did with Elias was just two cats, one former pro wrestler talking to a current pro wrestler sports entertainer, shooting a breeze with nothing with a specific timestamp on it. And that's just the way podcasts are. Nonetheless, I had a good time talking to the young man. I'm going to talk to my producer, see if he can roll in one of those songs that Elias played on his guitar. Posted a couple of pictures of the library as Gallows and Anderson and Rocky Romero left. And holy shit, they absolutely destroyed this place and I took a couple of pictures of Elias when he busted out his six string guitar and he was kind enough not to wrap that son bitch around my head like he's been doing a few people. On Monday Night Raw he sat down, strummed a couple songs, we sat down, shot the breeze and had a good time. And that is my conversation coming up next Tuesday. Bottom line, no ifs, ands or buts. Elias on the Tuesday podcast. Amen. One more shout out to Gallows Anderson and Rocky Romero for coming by the Crib last week. And oh, and Elias too, and Sasha Banks and Bayley. Man, ain't nobody knows how damn stressful, how damn busy that WWE schedule is. Because I've been there and I've done it at a high level and they run the shit out of those people. And that's just the nature of the wrestling business, man. You're everywhere, doing appearances, making gigs, getting inside that damn squared circle, getting on to the next show, doing Monday Night Raw smackdowns pay per views. It is a relentless grind. And I'll tell you what, during my active years in the business, I was having so much fun. And like we always say in the business, you know, you can't believe you're doing it. You're having so much fun, you damn near do it for free. But you can't do it for free because that's what you do for a living. And you got to pay the bills because if you don't send those gimmicks, they send in the mail call bills, they turn on your shit off. So I appreciate the schedule. Everybody's making hay while the sun shining. They're busy as hell. They stopped by the crib when they were in town and I appreciate their time. It would have been nice to get a few more superstars here. But hell man, with that schedule we're trying to do a little bit of research on something. It'd be hard to do too many more than that. So big props, big props. And again, thanks to Luke Bryan, what Makes yous country is on sale right now. I enjoyed the shit out of that album and it's funny man, I posted a picture of me and Luke on Instagram and it's amazing thing how many people out there love that guy. He's probably been the number one country act for the last four years. And some people just say, oh man, that ain't country music. And goddammit, I don't know what country music is anymore. I don't know what rock and roll music is anymore. I don't know what wrestling is anymore. I don't know what football or baseball is anymore. Because it's all changed. It's all went through the evolution that it's gone through and become a faster moving, more popular oriented genre. You know, wrestling business is faster, football is faster. Country ain't pure country like it was at one time. And at the end of the day, they're all forms of Entertainment. As Vince McMahon will be the first to tell you that, as Ted Turner called him way back in the day and said, vince, I'm in the wrestling business when he bought wcw. And Vince says, ted, that's great because I'm in the entertainment business. At the end of the day, whatever you're watching is entertainment. So people blasting me, blasting someone else about this, that or whatever, I don't know what the fuck's going on. Everything changes. If you don't like it, don't watch it or don't listen to it. Shit, it ain't my fault. I'm just talking to the people that do it. And hell, I happen to be a big ass Luke Bryan fan. I happen to be a big fan of what WWE's doing these days. It's different from when I was in there. Shit, the business always has to change. I always go back to, you know, that one statement that Triple H made. You know, everybody thinks the error that they were performing at was the best era that there ever was. So, yeah, I believe that because, you know, that Attitude era was the most profitable era in the business of pro wrestling. But that'd be like calling the guys in the squared circle today. Hey, they're not really wrestlers. Yeah, they really are wrestlers. They're really inside a squared circle called the ring. They might call them sports entertainers, but God damn it, that's wrestling. So, Luke Bryan, that's country music. It's changed a little bit. It's a little bit slicker, but it's country music. No ifs, ands or buts. So don't jump on my Instagram account, start hammering me about it. Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick. Lighten up, Francis. I don't know, man, everybody gets a goddamn out of control these days over a bunch of bullshit. It just drives me crazy. But nonetheless. Hey, man, now that I got all that shit out of the way, I want to talk about broken skull challenge last night, man. I gave the women second place a second chance. And I'll tell you what, man, Orla Walsh came out there and just totally kicked ass, man. She got real far in the first go when she came out this past season and got rejected and she came back, man, with an attitude and she already had an attitude. And you talk about a bad stick of wood and just heart of a champion, just badass attitude, never surrendered, never die. Just go down swinging. And I tell you what, she made it through three tough ass rounds and then, holy smokes, what a performance turned in by Ann on the first go of that damn skull buster. Chose to go first. Chose to go first. I couldn't believe that strategy. But man, she went down that course and she was blazing the fastest time ever on that course up until a certain point and she just could not make it up that rope and she was coming from that CrossFit background and you know, so is the DNF did not finish. So close but yet so far. But Anna, I got to give you a shout out, man. You were just blazing, just absolutely blazing. So what a performance. Come up short. Has she had a little bit of obstacle course experience? I think it might have been a different ball game. And I'll tell you what, Orla, man, she ran that course. She probably could have run it a little bit harder than she did, but all she had to do was finish. She played it smart. $25,000 was on the line and she fought her ass off for three round get there. So I know what she was doing and she did a great job and I'm proud of her. So hey, man, I'm giving you a heads up. Stay tuned. This coming Tuesday is the last episode of season five of the Broken Skull Challenge. It's a co ed episode. We got the men and the women out there as teams competing and it's just absolutely off the charts, badass and fun and I've been proud to be a part of this damn thing. Been doing it for five seasons. We'll see if we get any more. I give a shout out to every single athlete who came out there this year and kicked ass. We've had some epic performances out there, some crazy decisions and crazy outcomes, but at the end of the day, the baddest, toughest athletes in the United States of America take a step away from that comfort zone. If there is a comfort zone in obstacle course racing or CrossFit. But you're taking a chance and you're going into the wild card. You're going into the X factor. You're going into what we do out at the Broken Skull Challenge where you never know what we're going to throw at you. And then people come out there because they want A challenge, and we deliver a challenge, and that's the way it is. So thanks to everybody who was a part of that show, and thank you very much to the crew for packing up all them cameras, all them lights, building all those props, building all that shit out there and design and everything. And the brains, the production people, Vince Cariotti, Nicole, Steve. Man, I can't name everybody right now, Alan. Everybody that was involved out there was just a badass experience for me, myself and I living out there in my trailer. And I dedicated this past season to Hershey the Wonder Dog, who passed on the first day that we were out there filming. So it was a very special season for me, and I dedicated that show to her that whole entire season. And I'm proud of everybody that took part of it. And thank you to the athletes who continue to make that show what it is. Anyway, my conversation continues with Gallows Anderson and Rocky Romero. They came by 317 Gimmick street after a Monday night raw before they headed over to Abu Dhabu in India, and God dang, we had a goddamn blast.

[Luke Gallows]

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[Steve Austin]

This is Steve Austin unleashed. Hey, Stone Cold.

[Carl Anderson]

You'll hang out with us.

[Luke Gallows]

Steve, thanks for bringing us over. Can we stay tomorrow, Steve?

[Steve Austin]

Can we spend the night, you motherfuckers?

[Carl Anderson]

Abu Dhabu tomorrow. Y' all gotta get the out of here. No, no.

[Steve Austin]

Can we spend the night?

[Carl Anderson]

Part two of the podcast? Great. Sitting here with Gallows and Anderson. Rocky, my name is Steve Austin.

[Steve Austin]

I'm in my house and so are we.

[Luke Gallows]

Yeah, he's about to kick our asses out, too. We're not allowed at 317 Gimmick Street.

[Carl Anderson]

Where do y' all want to go with this segment?

[Steve Austin]

Podcast, you know, anything you want to talk about.

[Carl Anderson]

We have so many that you had a damn good Stone Cold impression, but I don't know nothing about it. I don't want to do it in front of the man himself because I grew up watching him, but, oh, Hell, yeah. Business. Some bitch. I like Stone Cold Steve Austin.

[Luke Gallows]

And imitation's the greatest form of flattering. We took the too sweet and reinvented

[Carl Anderson]

that son of a.

[Luke Gallows]

Here's.

[Carl Anderson]

Here's the only problem.

[Steve Austin]

Here's the only problem, though, Steve. We do this thing for eight hours.

[Carl Anderson]

What? Eight hours.

[Luke Gallows]

What?

[Steve Austin]

AJ would sleep.

[Carl Anderson]

What?

[Luke Gallows]

He'd wake up.

[Steve Austin]

We're still.

[Luke Gallows]

Y' all freaking.

[Carl Anderson]

Still doing Stone Cold. I wish you guys would shut the

[Steve Austin]

freak up, because he don't cuss. He don't say F bomb. Well, you know what? Stone Cold in our voice does a

[Luke Gallows]

lot of F bombs.

[Carl Anderson]

Hey, man, I used to watch. I know that. I guess I got about three seasons of it now, but I haven't seen the second two. I've seen the first one. The goddamn Southpaw regional. You talk about popping like a mark shed. Too bad. Talk to me about that, because I loved it.

[Steve Austin]

You know, I knew when we made it. I knew we'd made it when we made it.

[Carl Anderson]

Besides.

[Steve Austin]

Besides my bank account. Yeah, I knew when we made it was. I wish you'd buy something. I was. I was walking around Meyer, which is a. It's a. It's a grocery store in. In Cincinnati, not a discount one. I look. No, it's not. Yeah. I looked down at my phone, and Stone Cold's calling me. And I said, hello? And he goes, ah, damn, kid. That damn extended laugh from Chad.

[Carl Anderson]

Too bad.

[Steve Austin]

I said, we made it. I made it. I know. I know that. It's working. Stone Cold Steve Austin's gonna call you.

[Carl Anderson]

Take.

[Steve Austin]

Take time out of his day to call you and tell you. That was. That's. I said, that's what I knew. And we did it.

[Luke Gallows]

He's a cool.

[Carl Anderson]

Go ahead.

[Steve Austin]

Please tell himself. Well, that's just us.

[Luke Gallows]

No, I just. We. We both. We both grew up and came up wrestling basically a lot in the Carolinas and the south and through West Virginia and Kentucky and all that. And we met, both of us, and that's. I feel like I've been doing it to entertain the boys since I started. We used to call it Sex Ferguson when it wasn't pg because it would

[Carl Anderson]

just be like, hey, brother. You shoot brother into brother, and then turn around. Dabble, hip toss.

[Luke Gallows]

But they didn't know each other's names, and they're all messed up and they're all brothered out, and you're a kid and you're going, oh, this is. Is awesome.

[Steve Austin]

And so many of those half handshakes that you get from the guys coming

[Luke Gallows]

up the lip handshake. And then.

[Carl Anderson]

Come on, we met a lot of.

[Luke Gallows]

I mean I remember we do that on TV now. If they don't ever shoot every time.

[Steve Austin]

They didn't really get over so many guys.

[Luke Gallows]

I remember being in the bottom of West Virginia and I met this guy named Danny Ray who supposedly chained trained Jamie Noble, right? So this is a big deal for me, me and Punchy McGee and my manager Justin. Just hold on, Justin. You wanna know my manager's name? Rock Justin Case.

[Steve Austin]

Of course it was.

[Carl Anderson]

I needed him.

[Luke Gallows]

So he goes, we're gonna get you on this show, kid. 18 year old kid. It's gonna be great. I go, this is awesome. Meet Danny Ray trained Jamie Noble. They'll probably put a word in for me. This is how I thought back then.

[Steve Austin]

Of course. Yeah.

[Luke Gallows]

So I walk in, dumb uncoordinated kid, Doran Deville. And I see him.

[Steve Austin]

I go home. There we go.

[Luke Gallows]

So I go, hello, Danny Ray, how you doing?

[Carl Anderson]

I shook his hand that big man

[Luke Gallows]

gripped and he dropped to his knees

[Carl Anderson]

and he went, oh, Kay Fab is dead.

[Luke Gallows]

Who let the mark in the dressing room?

[Carl Anderson]

And they made me sit in the

[Luke Gallows]

front row while the boys worked. And I just sat there like a mad little fat kid with my arms crossed watching Everybody. I was one of the 29 in the audience and I was not having a great time.

[Steve Austin]

I remember I worked a show in Lancaster, Ohio and I met the guy at. Hello sir, my name's Chad. He goes, hello. Cuban Assassin. Cuban Assassin. And I can still see his face.

[Carl Anderson]

I remember to hear.

[Steve Austin]

But it was. That wasn't trust, trust me, it wasn't

[Luke Gallows]

brother, it was a gimmick.

[Steve Austin]

It was a hooted up brother.

[Luke Gallows]

It was very over hooted question.

[Steve Austin]

And that show was run by the Wild Hog. And you know, it was also. It was also main evented by Spider man versus Batman. That was so yeah, when we first

[Luke Gallows]

started, the Ninja Turtle was making a lot of sounds.

[Steve Austin]

Spiderman and Batman made invented so somebody.

[Carl Anderson]

But here's the thing and it's always funny because when you talk to some of the guys, you know, do you call them by their shoot name or the work name? Because. Because some guys, I mean like, like when I'm talking to CM Punk, everybody calls him Phil. But me, you know, I consider my good friend. We want to talk a lot, but he's punk. When I'm talking to say punk.

[Steve Austin]

Of course.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah. So like where are y' all with that?

[Luke Gallows]

I feel like it's.

[Carl Anderson]

I mean like with, with Cuban Assassin. If your name is George. It would be like, hey, Cat. Yeah.

[Luke Gallows]

You know, I mean, hey, Cuban ass.

[Carl Anderson]

But it just.

[Steve Austin]

That just feels like a whole lot to say, like, Cuban assassin. If you just say assassin or something. I just felt like.

[Carl Anderson]

I'm like, that's one of those. We're like.

[Steve Austin]

That was kind of like I was 23. I think that was when I kind

[Carl Anderson]

of figured out maybe.

[Steve Austin]

I do get it.

[Luke Gallows]

Yeah.

[Steve Austin]

I mean, I understand he's a goof.

[Luke Gallows]

Oh, yeah.

[Steve Austin]

Because. And I understand that because he was. He really literally wasn't the real.

[Carl Anderson]

No, but. But see, then on the artistic side of our business, you could, like. You'd be thinking like, in. I guess that's believing in.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah, yeah. He was. He was the size of Rocky. He was small.

[Luke Gallows]

He definitely wasn't a Cuban. We're talking about this.

[Steve Austin]

No, he wasn't a real Cuban.

[Luke Gallows]

Started in a lot of these towns. Like, we're going to flea markets in West Virginia. I saw Buddy. I was in the ring one night, and Buddy Landell ran away from the Native American flea market with the money in a box and chase him.

[Carl Anderson]

You know what I mean?

[Luke Gallows]

But a lot of these guys. There was a guy named Buddy Rose. And he goes, hello, I'm Buddy Rose. And he had blonde hair.

[Steve Austin]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke Gallows]

And he was 6ft tall. Buddy Rose is dead. You're not Buddy Rose. But I'm like this respectful guy, like, oh, hello there, Mr. Rose. What would you like to do tonight knowing that you're not Buddy Rose? Like, well, you know what I mean?

[Steve Austin]

There were 10 doinks on that same show where a Cuban assassin was Playboy. Buddy Rose was there. It wasn't the. The course. It wasn't the guy. Guess what? Guess what? And guess what music he came out to. Bad street usa.

[Carl Anderson]

Oh, Jes.

[Luke Gallows]

Exactly.

[Steve Austin]

That's the kind of stuff we saw double.

[Carl Anderson]

That's double gimmick at Friends, man. That's a dgi.

[Luke Gallows]

I remember thinking Tex Ferguson and Chad Dubai.

[Steve Austin]

Something's wrong here. Yeah, yeah, there's There. There's.

[Luke Gallows]

There's texts. Brothers, man.

[Carl Anderson]

Okay, but here's the deal. Back in the day, when you get into the business. And you guys are way behind me, but when you got into the business, I mean, like you said, you go in there, you go over that full handshake, man, and you're like, let's shake hands. Like, these days you sing it in there deep. And then all of a sudden you get into business, you go, that bird on the limb. Fucking bird on the limb.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah.

[Carl Anderson]

Like what? And you know, like, when you do that. Shake it. Like, hey, man, I'm not no crowbar. I'm like one of the boys, of course. And that was in vogue for a while. And like, a few times when I went to these gatherings, and it's like, dude, I'm already out of business, you know, so I'm sinking in there deep, you know, with a good handshake. You're not trying to put the gripper on something like, we're drunk redneck. You want to give a good handshake. And then they're still going with that perch. I'm like, enough. Did you not know that they stopped that 15 years ago?

[Steve Austin]

Stone cold Steve Austin like, yeah, shake my hand.

[Luke Gallows]

But I. I remember the first time I was an extra. I shook Victoria's hand like that, and she goes, we don't do that here. Don't do that.

[Carl Anderson]

I went, thank you.

[Luke Gallows]

I would have went up to Bob Holly and done that and got cuffed.

[Steve Austin]

You got to tell Steve when you. When you were an extra and you walked into the room, I mean, he. This guy, he walked right into the mail locker room.

[Luke Gallows]

Give me another one of those novels. So they. I. I kept sending my. And sending my.

[Steve Austin]

And then they finally booked him.

[Luke Gallows]

They finally booked me. Tommy Dreamer got a hold of me, and he goes, we've been trying to call you, but you don't have an answering machine. What kind of wrestler doesn't have an answer machine? One who lives at home now since he lost his apartment because of his wrestling.

[Carl Anderson]

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's the guy.

[Luke Gallows]

So I'm 20 years old, have booked his in action. It's is going to be awesome. So you walk in, but you don't know anything. So I have my dad's suit on, oversized suit. I look dumb as hell, you know, And I see Vincent Hunter walk by me, and I'm going, this is 2004. We're in the Baltimore Arena. So I was like, well, no one's telling me what to do. I search out what to do. So take my little wheelie bag, and I walk down the hall, and I see male talent cruise right in,

[Carl Anderson]

start

[Luke Gallows]

getting my tape out. You know, I didn't know they hadn't provided tape in the Fed. My oil, my hot stuff, all my essential things that I need. Nobody else is in there because I'm early. Bob Holly walks in and goes, who are you? I go, hi, Bob. I'm Drew. Nice to meet you. And he goes, what are you doing in here? I go, I'm just getting dressed, sir. And he goes, you can't sit there. I'm sitting there and I go, oh, no problem. So I moved down about three steps. He goes, you can't sit there either. I go, oh, no problem, sir. I go down to the end. He goes, you can't sit on this whole side. I went, that's no problem, Bob.

[Carl Anderson]

I don't get it.

[Luke Gallows]

I go to the other side because

[Carl Anderson]

you can't sit here.

[Steve Austin]

Imagine walking in the mail, a guy

[Luke Gallows]

walking in the mailtown, a blithering green dumbass just flopping around.

[Carl Anderson]

How you doing?

[Luke Gallows]

That was me.

[Carl Anderson]

Hey man, were you one of those guys that when you talk about the hot stuff, is that that, that vasodilator get you in your eyes Like a

[Luke Gallows]

brother said, all the guys that really do this, that's what they use. So you get your pump that way you get a little redness to you. So I was like, well, since I am a real wrestler, I will buy some of that and do it all the time. But it gets in your eyes. And dude stuff in WWF years before that.

[Carl Anderson]

But dude, all the bodybuilder guys had that on. And you know, like, you know, back in the day, you know, I used a little baby old, you know, because at the time, you know, when I had that long blonde hair and I was stunning, Steve, if I didn't have a physique. And I remember going to the guy in Mid South Coliseum and I said, hey man, because I noticed all the guys had interest music. I say, hey man, could you play this tape for me? And he looked at me and he goes, son, he goes, God damn it, you got to be in the business a couple years here to have your music played. Yeah, I've been in business too much, but goddamn, I know somebody else. If you ain't looking after yourself, you got to look out for yourself. So I said, man, would you play it? He goes, God, he ended up playing it. So the man unchained or whatever it was, vanhandling, I'd go out to the goddamn ring. I remember I was doing my push ups for the damn match because that could work with a flying shit. So at least I get a little pump going on. See this before I started starving to death, lost all that damn weight, do some push ups, get ready for the damn match. But then towards the end, when I got into wwf, man, we'd be working in Calgary, all those cold ass places not to be wearing my gimmick shorts. And I'd show up ash legs all ashy as a son of bitch, and I just use water Just to put on my legs, get the ash off, you know, we all stayed tan back in the day. I don't know what you guys are doing because they ain't healthy with the

[Steve Austin]

UVA and the uvb. We spray them.

[Carl Anderson]

The guys, man, I'll never forget, dude, we was in San Diego. They was trying to give me a little bit of a push. I've been in the company for a little bit. Battle roll, roll Rumble. And I was supposed to be like, the fourth guy left in the ring. And I was doing something with one of the Samoans, and he was just going to clothesline me over the top. I was just going to land on the apron, come by again. Well, he hit me pretty good with that clothesline, just like he should have. All of a sudden, all them guys wearing that baby oil, I got them ropes all slippery and up. Zip, zip, zip. San Diego sports Arena. I'm laying on the floor like, God damn it, man. I'm thinking, holy. These trying to do something with you. There are about 12 guys still in the ring. I just shit to bed. So Sean, I think he's gonna win it, but he's one main. You know, he's the main guy. So I knew I had to give him the high sign that I had been eliminated. I remember I was laying on the floor. You know how it is when you're in a 20,000 square, you know, seat arena, and you're laying out there like a pile of shit. God damn it, I fucked up. And then, so I'm coming up and hitting like this. Damn neighbors. Someone's beating the piss out of Shawn in the middle of the ring, and I'm waiting for him to be able to notice me. I'm, like, doing this right here. Finally, I give him the old cutthroat side. I've been living at it. Call an audible. Sean's eyes got about this big, and he went back to know what he's doing, and I walked to the back and then like, what the happened? But, so. But my point is, you could buff Bagwell. I like buff, but he used to always wear that vasodilator. And word wouldn't get my goddamn eyes. Hell, I couldn't call a spot high spot, and I couldn't see the ropes to run one.

[Steve Austin]

I did it before we signed with wwe. I did an Indian in England, and I was in a locker room just sitting there. Door opens up and goes, you guys seen. What's the guy's name over there, the booker for Rev Pro Andy. He goes, you guys Seen Andy? I look up, I go, Buff Bagwell? He goes, well, yeah, it's great, man. I didn't know he's gonna be there. I didn't know Buff is his stuff, man. That's a big deal. I popped for him. He went, oh, thanks, man.

[Carl Anderson]

He's great.

[Steve Austin]

Nice gu.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah, he was great.

[Steve Austin]

Well, thanks, man. Hell, have you seen Andy?

[Carl Anderson]

I was like, well, I don't know.

[Steve Austin]

But anyways, you want. You want to talk a little bit?

[Luke Gallows]

You want to hear all about my whole life?

[Steve Austin]

You want to talk about that running nitro when you turn, you know, turn heel and get pretty cool. Talk about it now, man, I'm good, thanks. I just didn't expect Buff Bagwell to put. Pop his head in there.

[Carl Anderson]

Last time we talked, we was talking about your ring gear or ring gear in general. Yeah. Let's talk about the sanitary conditions of ring apparel, because this has come a long way from back in the day because guys would be out there with some just funky ass. And especially when you're on those European tours when you, you know, like a week in England, a week in Germany, and a lot of guys, dude, they don't even hang their shit up. They just leave the bag.

[Luke Gallows]

Just leave it in there and it's full.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah, yeah, Steve, I got.

[Luke Gallows]

Can I. Can I cut you off? Because I'm gonna lead you into this.

[Steve Austin]

All right, good.

[Luke Gallows]

So I had come from WWE and then TNA and Indies and stuff like that, and what we would do if we were on a tour overseas or working through the loop or whatever, is we would lay our knee pads out, our tights and our boots so they didn't get ruined. Because I figured out real quick if you leave them in your bag, that whatever eats them. So I just lay them out, and then I'd go work, and, you know, after a while, I get a little funk to them. So I went to Japan, and I would lay my out every night.

[Steve Austin]

Well, you know, those Japanese guys are. You know, they're just different cats.

[Luke Gallows]

They.

[Steve Austin]

They wash their. Every single night.

[Luke Gallows]

A laundromat every.

[Steve Austin]

Even in every little small town. And it's his first tour. He's doing well. He's getting over. We're doing good, man. Fale speaks Japanese. He's a big Tongan kid. He went to university in somewhere in Japan, played rugby. There he goes. Hey, Chad, man, Gallo's got. Man, everybody says he stinks, man. I go, ah. Because, yeah, he's got stinky heat, man.

[Luke Gallows]

The hell's that?

[Steve Austin]

I said, it's all good, Gallows is a great guy. We'll just tell him. We'll just tell him, you know. Will we knock on his door in his hotel room? He goes, yeah, come on. He goes, hey, man. You say, yeah, come on in. He sits down, he's eating, having a beer, drinking a novel or drinking a novel.

[Carl Anderson]

I was actually reading a novel.

[Luke Gallows]

I was laying in bed trying to read it.

[Steve Austin]

He was drinking his novel. I go, hey, man. I go, hey, man, I gotta tell you something, brother. This is, you know, just keeping it real. He goes, what?

[Carl Anderson]

I go, well, just keep it real. Like this is gonna ease. Like this is gonna ease.

[Steve Austin]

The blow I never seen. Because big, I've noticed traveling with big guys now, they got these crazy tempers. These guys are insane, you know, nice guys. But, you know. You know, there's a dark side to the brother. But I go, we walk in there, we sit down. I go. He goes, what's up? He's eating, you know, and he goes, you know, man, I gotta tell you something, brother. Everybody says you got. You know, that you stink. Stinky heat. And he goes, who? Who? I said to all the boys, they say you stink. He goes, you know, with her? And I went, jesus Christ. So then some. I go, all right, man. His face turned purple. I was like, then that's the first time we got. I had, like, a little weird argument.

[Luke Gallows]

And I was like, well, I mean,

[Steve Austin]

like, well, I mean, I don't know. So it was real awkward for about five minutes. Finally, he goes, ah, man, I'm sorry, man. He never stuck again. If those. Get those gloves away. Because his gloves started smelling terrible, you

[Luke Gallows]

know, that, like, that was something that I learned in the business, because they would always be like, well, you know, Kane. And I got to work with Kane. Like, his glove will stink after a while.

[Steve Austin]

That's just the thing.

[Luke Gallows]

It's fine. But these Japanese brothers, every single night, their socks, their pads, their tights, the whole deal, it's getting washed. It's in the laundry bag.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah, they have young boys sitting in

[Luke Gallows]

the room reading novels.

[Steve Austin]

And I'm just like, you know, And I got to. Because they. Once New Japan started expanding a little bit, they started bringing in, like, you know, foreign young boys, like, you know, English guys from England and guys from America. And I. I. And they. They'd be on tour with us, and I knew they were going to do laundry no matter what. And I just would. I'd give them money and say, wash my gear, please.

[Carl Anderson]

Right?

[Steve Austin]

Get a hundred bucks and just do it a couple days, whatever. Didn't care. I remember in tna, I didn't want to do it.

[Luke Gallows]

Gloves in tna. And one night I grabbed Chavo by the face, just being a heel. He goes, get the. Get those gloves out of my mouth.

[Carl Anderson]

Okay, we'll go the old working punch. How'd I throw you around if I can't grab you?

[Luke Gallows]

He was my buddy, too. He was hot.

[Carl Anderson]

But that's.

[Steve Austin]

But with, like, wwe, we work Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, home on Tuesday. That's cake. Like, you know, in Japan, we'd be there for three weeks.

[Carl Anderson]

We wouldn't.

[Steve Austin]

They'll go to the launching Laundromat once the brother started to kick, you know, But. But in the four days, you just air it out, you're good to go. It's. But we go in these. These Europeans.

[Luke Gallows]

Nine cans of Axe, and I still got stinky heat.

[Carl Anderson]

But here's what. Here's another one of my pet peeves, though, man. I mean, the bo. The bad gear. I mean, you got to take care of your gear. I mean, God, you can't stand that ring's a dirty to get with. And. But you love it, you know, when you get down and somebody got a hold on you smelling that sub. And people walk in the bathroom, stepping in piss, all the spilled beer spits in our mouths, our eyeballs sweat, and all of a sudden, you know that, but it just smells good. I love the smell of a goddamn mat. But here's my other side of that pet peeve was the dudes that come in and they wear too much goddamn cologne. I mean, they crank it on and people listen. We talk about this on my podcast for four years. It's like you're sitting on the damn airplane. Somebody walks by where it's a man or woman, just hits you like a. Or you dinner. Oh, no. But someone shakes your hand all of a sudden, you know, they had so much cologne. Now you smell like the motherfucker's hand you just said. That ain't no. That ain't cool. So all of a sudden, you locked up and you're rolling around. I'm grabbing all over gallows. God damn it. Big macho. Now all of a sudden, I got your smell on me. You get in the shower, you're trying to wash that off.

[Steve Austin]

Steve, what happened to us in Germany, Steve?

[Carl Anderson]

Am I alone?

[Steve Austin]

No, you're right.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah.

[Luke Gallows]

I already got heat for this. I'll do it again. We went.

[Steve Austin]

We went to Germany for the indie the year before. We came over here for. In October of 2015 for WRX.

[Luke Gallows]

Your stuff.

[Steve Austin]

Great hey, they booked us, they paid us. It was great then. But, you know. But, but, but, but they had a little brother to them. They had a must. A lot of must to them. It's done. We're doing like.

[Luke Gallows]

We come out, we're just doing our stuff and we.

[Steve Austin]

So like, I remember the German crowd is just different people, you know. And so we're walking to the ring and they're all doing the two too sweet sign and they're just kind of dancing weird. And I felt like we were like in a trance weird place.

[Carl Anderson]

But I was.

[Steve Austin]

But all their arms.

[Luke Gallows]

Psychedelics arms.

[Steve Austin]

So all their armpits. And so we're walking in G. God,

[Carl Anderson]

it smells like hell in here.

[Luke Gallows]

We're both air.

[Steve Austin]

So he's getting pissed off.

[Luke Gallows]

This place sucks. I want to leave.

[Steve Austin]

Then we had to work this other team and Gallows got in there right in the first spot. Comes out goes.

[Carl Anderson]

I smell like that son of a.

[Luke Gallows]

It was something.

[Carl Anderson]

He got me.

[Luke Gallows]

And then he comes up and we do a slip slam. And it was like. Have you ever seen that movie where like Will Frell's body hair goes across his face? This brother's in trunks and he's. He's not in great shape. He's hairy. And it just like. And I. And I went. And I start gagging in the ring. I start gagging and. And I. I couldn't finish the spot. I cut him off. And I tell you, I can't. I can't. I'm going to puke.

[Carl Anderson]

And I'm.

[Steve Austin]

And there's. There's a big bad temper. He's on the. He's on the. On the apron going, I'm gonna kill that son. I said, relax. He.

[Carl Anderson]

I smell.

[Steve Austin]

I smell like him. I said, I can smell it.

[Carl Anderson]

Trust me, I can.

[Steve Austin]

I can smell you on him.

[Carl Anderson]

But let's. He's like, I need to shower now. I need a shower now.

[Steve Austin]

Then the real rib was. And as soon as the show was over, he had to get a ride to the airport.

[Carl Anderson]

Guess who was driving. Guy was him.

[Steve Austin]

Stinky.

[Luke Gallows]

Some didn't take a shower after the match. And we're in the car and I'm

[Carl Anderson]

like this to be read, texting me

[Steve Austin]

go, guess who's running the airport.

[Carl Anderson]

That stinky son of a

[Steve Austin]

whole r. He smelled like hell.

[Carl Anderson]

Before we work for two hours. Terrible shout in the autobond shaking his hand.

[Steve Austin]

He stunk, let alone when he had a little sweat going. He had a must, a lot of must.

[Luke Gallows]

I don't care if he hears it. He Needs to know, take a shower and wash your.

[Carl Anderson]

God damn it. Come out of the shower. Goddamn wise, Gall. Put so much deodorant on his face,

[Steve Austin]

Gallows stinks, man. It's not me.

[Carl Anderson]

Not me.

[Luke Gallows]

I've had stinky heat before.

[Carl Anderson]

Damn, dude. Sometimes we go on them overseas tours. You go in the gym, like, dude over in the lap, pull down machine like one human being. I mean, don't give a. That's kind of, you know, didn't wear a whole lot of over there. But there's that one that just reeks. And it's like, holy. I'm like, I sound like David Bourne Smith or whoever. I'm just gonna wait outside while y' all work out. I couldn't hang, man.

[Luke Gallows]

You guys are used to that. Have fun with it, man.

[Carl Anderson]

But I've never been into a situation where I'm involved in the middle of a high spot. Rather cut him off, transferred on to

[Luke Gallows]

me, and now I was the offensive of one.

[Steve Austin]

He aborted mission.

[Luke Gallows]

I said, you know what? We can't do this great.

[Steve Austin]

Greatest guy, greatest guy, greatest guy of all time until he gets pissed off.

[Carl Anderson]

Tag, you got to take care of him. Probably tags back out. We are going to forfeit this match.

[Luke Gallows]

We don't care if we win. It's fine. Anyway, you guys want to buy a T shirt?

[Carl Anderson]

It's by the way, I'm selling my shorts after the match.

[Luke Gallows]

You want?

[Steve Austin]

Of course he is.

[Luke Gallows]

They don't even stink yet.

[Steve Austin]

See, one time we were about to do a run in. A run in for. For a Finn Balo match on tv. Television in Japan. We're about to run out. Go get warmed up. Look over. He's got this stupid bandana on his eyes like this. I said, what the. What are you doing? He goes, oh, my God's out there. I'm gonna sell it to him.

[Carl Anderson]

You can't run out there like that.

[Steve Austin]

He goes, I have to God run out of. Stupid bandana on his head. He sold him for 100 bucks after, naturally. I gotta get on TV.

[Luke Gallows]

He's watching this thing, sniffs TV. I get a little money for it.

[Steve Austin]

I see. You look like an idiot. I'm getting paid.

[Luke Gallows]

That's fine. We're already over now.

[Carl Anderson]

Did you guys ever work any territories or back in the day? Because I know the problem. Not doing it in today's current system is 2017, damn near 18. Things are a lot different. But back in the day, man, we'd go on overseas tours, man. I mean, like, we'd plan run ins, like hey, man, like, two guys be working a mess. Let's fucking do a run in, lob them down, get some fucking heat and we'll leave. And so we do that shit all the time. And one time, well, it was going back to San Diego Sports Arena. Triple H is working. I can't remember who he's working with. And there was a old ragtag bicycle in the back. You know, there's a woman's bicycle with a bell on it. And I figured, I'm gonna with him. I'm ride that bike down to the ring during this match. And I was. I had my trunks on, I had my boots, my vest, and I rode that bicycle around the ring. That's awesome. Triple H reached over the top rope, grabbed my damn leather vest and ripped the dog out of it. I was mad at the horror. So anyway, matches go on. Anyway, I can't remember what happened. Kevin. Kevin Nash popped big time for it. Triple H worked his match, I think. I guess someone beat him up. Kevin rides the bicycle out there. Triple H gets on the back of it. Y' all ever get to do any stupid shit?

[Luke Gallows]

I wish we could still do that. We did that. Places where we could take our own liberties and, like, you know, little Indies and my promotion and stuff. We had a lot of fun.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah.

[Carl Anderson]

You had a promotion.

[Luke Gallows]

Different out. Yeah.

[Carl Anderson]

Well, how did that go? Because here's the thing. When I was younger, USWA was always like, hey, man, this is the story. You know, when you're the young kid breaking in, they tell you, hey, man, you get into business, you make your money, you get out.

[Steve Austin]

Yes.

[Carl Anderson]

Okay, now, who gets in the. Who gets in the business makes money and gets out because they got money. Dude, you hooked on the business. Or it's this one. You get in the business and then you turn into a promoter. And then you lose all your fucking money. You go back in the ring because you lost all your money. So what happened with your promotion?

[Luke Gallows]

Had itself, for some professional reasons. Wish I still had it. It was going okay and I loved it and I enjoyed it. And he would get so mad at me because I come back to Japan. He's like, why am I looking at clips of you on Facebook handcuffed to the top rope with juice running down your face? And I'm like, I don't know. I mean, I had the weekend filled up. The gym, it was a great time.

[Steve Austin]

I got my big heater over here, handcuff going. People see this, man, I love it.

[Luke Gallows]

I really loved it. I wish I still had it. I Will have it again one day. I think it was a lot of fun because if you could figure out how to make it, make a little bit of money, and for us, when we were in Japan and stuff, like, if I didn't have to fly somewhere, then go try to get a couple grand or whatever, I ran this little town all the time. Then it started expanding. We had a little local tv, and I just. I love wrestling. So it was fun to, like, sit

[Carl Anderson]

with my guys and try to figure

[Luke Gallows]

out how to make people come back to it. And then we'd bring a name in or this or that, and. And it was always a big bunch of bullshit.

[Carl Anderson]

But I.

[Steve Austin]

It.

[Luke Gallows]

I don't have hobbies. You know what I mean? I love wrestling. So we would sit and think about that and do that, and it was pretty ridiculous. But I really enjoyed it. I. I just got rid of it a few months ago because I had to, but it was fun, I think.

[Steve Austin]

I think. I can't imagine neither of us doing anything else. I mean, I wanted. I wanted. Of course we want to bring you.

[Luke Gallows]

Even if we won the lottery or something or we became you, I. I can't see me being like, well, you know what? I'm gonna go live on the island. Well, it'd be fun to go to the island, but. But in three months, I want to come back and, like, take a couple bumps and sign some autographs.

[Steve Austin]

Like, Seth Rollins. Seth Rollins goes, you guys on. You guys on the next loop last month? And I go, no, we're not on. He goes, why? I don't know. He goes, jesus, I need to go talk to somebody. We need the good brothers on the loop. You guys keep us laughing because we just.

[Luke Gallows]

We'll get in there and say something.

[Steve Austin]

We just enjoy any kind of. You know, we just like the boys, man.

[Luke Gallows]

You know, it's hard to get.

[Steve Austin]

Get that.

[Luke Gallows]

You can't get out of that or get rid of it. I don't think, like, even, like, yourself. And like, I look at Kevin Nash, like, that sting. And, like, you can still tell when you see you guys, you still enjoy the business and seeing the guys and seeing, like, what's part of it. I love that, man, because I don't ever want it to not be part of my life. I tell my son every day, you're not going to be a wrestler. And then he comes in the little wrestling school we have, and he's doing flip bumps and handstand bumps and locking up and running high spots. And he's 10, and I'm like, You're not gonna be a wrestler.

[Steve Austin]

But

[Carl Anderson]

back in the day, when I was living in. I was just starting to get hot in the wwf and just. I remember being on the road all the time. We was running hot and heavy back in the day. I mean, we was never home. And it's kind of like you love the road, but then every night, you hate the road. But you love the road, and you love the business. You love the pops, you love the boys, but sometimes you've got to go home. So all of a sudden, you've been on the road for all this time. You go home and it's like a day and a half, and you got one more day. I'll be like, God damn, I'm ready to get back on the road. But my point is about putting that suitcase in front of the washer and dryer I wear in my personal life now, even today, I wear the same shit all the time.

[Steve Austin]

All the time.

[Carl Anderson]

When I go shopping, when I find something that fits, and I always wear camo, I'll buy a tin of everything. That way, I ain't got to shop again for a couple of years. But going back to the business, I'd park that damn suitcase front of the washer. Dryer, Wash the. That was dirty. Leave the clean stuff in it. Just put it right back in. So I'm living out of a suitcase. Yeah, that was my. That's what. That's what. I knew. Y' all still doing the same.

[Steve Austin]

I debuted in this shirt. We debuted. We debuted in WWE in this exact shirt. You know why I'm wearing it right now?

[Luke Gallows]

Because I bought it for you.

[Carl Anderson]

Son of a. Bragging about that goddamn bank account.

[Luke Gallows]

Hey, you guys debuted in here, you know, with the shirts. And he went.

[Steve Austin]

I go.

[Carl Anderson]

I go, how did Bruno remember that? He was trying to get a T. Get a tip.

[Luke Gallows]

Trying to get a tip. You didn't know yet you had to tip Bruno when he goes and gets you. You want some skull?

[Carl Anderson]

All right.

[Steve Austin]

I pull my suitcases out of the truck. I put them in the garage. We leave out on Fridays. Thursday night, I start washing them. I rewash. The same. Exact thing.

[Luke Gallows]

Same.

[Steve Austin]

That's it. Yeah, it's.

[Carl Anderson]

You know, when you.

[Steve Austin]

That's what we did. You know, we've been doing this for a long time. I have three boys, right? My wife told me she's pregnant again, right? And I'm a little. You know, I'm like, man, geez. You know, that's a lot of kids.

[Luke Gallows]

He was like, holy.

[Carl Anderson]

I don't know.

[Steve Austin]

What am I going to do? And gallows goes. This is. He pops.

[Carl Anderson]

Great.

[Steve Austin]

This is great. We're gonna wrestle forever.

[Carl Anderson]

We're gonna wrestle toward 55 because he loves this. I said, man, we might not be

[Luke Gallows]

good at it, but we're gonna be out there.

[Carl Anderson]

He's.

[Steve Austin]

Oh, my God, I'm excited, man. We're gonna wrestle forever.

[Luke Gallows]

We're gonna work Hootin punky when they're 75 and we're gonna be 58 going, hell, yeah. Double drop kick.

[Steve Austin]

I need this. I need this booking.

[Luke Gallows]

Pluto TV has thousands of free movies and TV shows. You swear? If I'm lying, I'm dying.

[Carl Anderson]

This is the mindset. Free. This is. This is the mantra.

[Steve Austin]

Free.

[Carl Anderson]

This is the. With movies like Interstellar, Dreamgirls and Gladiator. Why are you not entertained? And TV shows like Survivor, SpongeBob SquarePants, the Fairly Odd Parents, and Ghosts.

[Luke Gallows]

Pluto TV is always free.

[Carl Anderson]

Huzzah. Pluto TV stream now pay. Never.

[Steve Austin]

This. This is Steve Austin Unleashed.

[Carl Anderson]

Are you guys in the cars at all? Because your character's own southpaw, which we got off on, that's what's there. Cut that promo about what you bought.

[Steve Austin]

What he wants, Trust me, he'll catch it right now.

[Carl Anderson]

He'll cut it right from the belly of a crocodile or whatever.

[Luke Gallows]

Your boots are made of the belly of a cow, and mine came from the belly of a baby crocodile. You're jealous of me. You look at my sunglasses, they say Ray Ban in the top corner of my right eye. And what do yours say? They say BP. You know why? Because they were $10. Okay? That's the difference between you and me. What you want right now is to lay down with who I laid down last night with. But you can't do it, can you, Chad? Too bad. No, you can't. Because there's always going to be a difference between you and me because I'm big techs, and the difference is this. I got a size 16 boots, going to lay you down. And then you know what you're going to look at while you're laying the lights. Big man text Ferguson baby.

[Steve Austin]

There you go.

[Carl Anderson]

See?

[Steve Austin]

Right there. And then Chad, Too bad, is obviously jealous. He actually is jealous because he used to see all the girls on the road from. Maybe I am Jim. Maybe he was jealous. Well, we.

[Luke Gallows]

They wanted to do that and we'd just been doing it to pop boys for so long. They came in and we're like, well, can you guys say this? And I was like, if. If you guys don't mind, can we just do it, and you don't say anything. And if it sucks, then we'll do what you say. And we did it in one take. And the first time and then the second one, there's a bunch of people, stuff like that. But, like, it's way funnier if it's just us doing it, because it's shit we really lived and think about and think it's funny instead of them telling us to do something. And that's why I think people liked it the first time around.

[Steve Austin]

You know, Ellis, this. The stuntman Ellis, he was there with us because he was the car guy doing all the car dealing with. He goes, man, hell, I didn't know you could talk, man. I didn't ever knew that. I said, well, I can. All right?

[Luke Gallows]

I need a chance.

[Steve Austin]

If you get a chance to just be yourself and talk like, you know, it's different for me to read. It's like, you know, this is scripted now. In wwe, they hand you the scripted promos and they want you to stick to that. I think that. I think for us, I think the times that we've taken chances and we've. And we've said stuff off the script, that's been the best stuff.

[Luke Gallows]

I mean, honestly, the only thing that we've gotten over is us saying the nerds and the skis and the stuff that we actually say in real life to pop each other. Because if it's just written for you and you're like, hey, I'm gonna beat you up. Everybody says that. Like, if we had our own little thing to it and our little fans like it. Wish we had more of that, obviously, but that's the stuff they like. And then they make T shirts of it. And we're.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah.

[Luke Gallows]

Not always on tv, but we're still selling a lot of T shirts.

[Steve Austin]

The times we took chances were the best times.

[Carl Anderson]

Right.

[Steve Austin]

Obviously, I think has been the best for us.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah.

[Steve Austin]

You know what I mean? You know all about that.

[Luke Gallows]

You could probably give us a whole tutorial that this one time you cut this little promo,

[Steve Austin]

3:16 said, I just whooped your ass.

[Luke Gallows]

DS AJ back here, 360. My dad. My dad goes, is Steve Austin gonna be pissed off when you walk in his house because he knows you mock him? We don't mock him.

[Steve Austin]

That's no mocking.

[Luke Gallows]

We love him.

[Steve Austin]

That's not mocking. That's stone cold.

[Carl Anderson]

God damn it. The whole thing was a fluke, though, because I wasn't supposed to win the event anyway, but I won the King of the Ring. Yeah. Of Course, no.

[Steve Austin]

Who was booked to win that?

[Carl Anderson]

It's just.

[Steve Austin]

Was it like.

[Carl Anderson]

No, man. Well, this, man. Dude, it's common knowledge, man. Yeah, yeah, that's right, man. I'm walking across the parking lot with Low or Worcester, Mass. And then Vince coming up behind me. You know, I didn't really have a relationship with Vince at the time. He goes, steve, you got a second? Yeah, man, that's the boss. Sure do. As long as you want. Let me put it here on my. On my chronograph. I got plenty of time.

[Steve Austin]

Let me check my Rolex real quick.

[Carl Anderson]

I thought I was getting my release. He goes, steve, I just want to let you know, in two weeks, you can win king of the ring. I was like, okay. I know. Sold it. I said, okay, thank you. I walked and, you know, got in the locker room, did my thing. And then. So I won king of the ring. But it was the thing about, you know, when I wrestled Marc Merrill in that first match at the pay per view, he kicked me in the mouth, went to the hospital, got stitched up, stole my ring gear. 14 stitches come back, man. Doc Hendricks was there. Michael, did you actually go and come right back? Oh, yeah, man.

[Luke Gallows]

I mean, we believe that.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah. Milwaukee at the Mecca. So I come back and there's Michael PSAs. And he says, hey, man, while you were gone, Jake and Snake Roberts got a religious space promo on you. You might want to remember that when you do your acceptance speech. And so, man, as soon as I said that, the 316 thing popped into my mind. And, man, all of a sudden, I didn't even create the promo. I just. I knew that I was going to say Austin 316, and that was it. I made that shit up on reply. But if Marc Merrow hadn't to kick me in the mouth, I would have never got to the hospital, and I would have known everything was going to happen. So Michael smartened me up. I went out there, cut that promo. And it was weird because this is back when Vince used to do the commentary. And so we were feeding the live house and the pay per view as well. And I could hear Vince trying to wrap that promo up because I started talking that trash. You can hear him start talking in the background. So I'm sitting there listening with this ear, and I'm talking, you know, using this side of my brain to talk. And I hear him wrapping it up. And I say, hey, man, I need a button on this promo. Because I'd already said, Austin316 sign just whipped your ass so the next night at Monday Night raw, all those 316 signs were there. But when I heard him rapping that promo up, I said, I need a button. And all of a sudden just. And that's the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so. So it was just a lucky fluke. And so I just capitalized on it.

[Steve Austin]

That's pretty cool to hear.

[Carl Anderson]

But it was. It was never supposed to happen.

[Luke Gallows]

Yeah.

[Carl Anderson]

That's why I think it was kind of destiny.

[Luke Gallows]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Steve Austin]

It goes back to chat too bad in textbook.

[Luke Gallows]

I don't really know if it does.

[Steve Austin]

I don't mean to compare those guys to Stone Cold because Stone Cold's a whole lot cooler. But it's fun to be. It's fun to be those characters because that really is just us. We literally love to just cut promos. We cut promos all the time. You know what I mean? That's what we do.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah. Like literally. That's not. That's not a false. We drove from Tokyo to Sendai, Japan. It's about a six hour drive. Yeah, I think we started. We had maybe that hungover charisma flying. And I think we started right, right. As soon as the ride got going, AJ took a nap and woke up and we were still going and he. He went nuts. He said, you guys have got to stop.

[Carl Anderson]

You guys kidding me?

[Steve Austin]

Aj, why don't you sit down or

[Luke Gallows]

shut up, you little bearded baby mouth.

[Carl Anderson]

My boy. Come here. Knock you out.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah, but you know, like you said, something just comes in your head and you just. That's cool, man. I love hearing that.

[Carl Anderson]

I had fun being that guy. I. I don't love that guy anymore, but I had fun being that guy.

[Steve Austin]

No, it's the coolest guy business for sure.

[Carl Anderson]

Y' all still keep up with the new Japan product?

[Luke Gallows]

Yeah, well, we were just grilling him about it on the way over here.

[Steve Austin]

Well, who's mad at who?

[Luke Gallows]

What's going on? What's going on? How much money are they making anyway? What happens?

[Steve Austin]

Well, you know bullet clubs. Yeah, I. I do. Kenny Omega's had a great rise to, you know, Kenny. Kenny's a buddy of mine that got a great, great shove when he. When he first jumped into the. Into the bullet club.

[Carl Anderson]

Yep.

[Steve Austin]

Helped him out a lot. And it's cool to see where he's going now because he's a great athlete, man. And I've had some good matches with him and it's been cool to, you know, we teamed up with him all the time. And 8 mans and 6 mans on the Road. And Nick, he's a real creative of. Different cat.

[Carl Anderson]

Yep.

[Steve Austin]

You know, he's from Canada. Then those Canadians are different cats, you know? Yeah. Different cat. He's. It's cool to see that rise, but it's also cool to see, like, you know, Okada, who's a huge name, was a young boy when I was there. He was. He was in the dojo, you know, cooking my food. And now he's, you know, doing what he's doing in Yoshi Hashi and Makabe and Tanahashi, and these guys are, you know, guys I became really good friends with. It's cool to see how good. It's cool to see where they're at.

[Carl Anderson]

God damn. I went to the New Japan when they came over to Long beach, and God dang, Okada was working out there with Cody Rhodes.

[Steve Austin]

Yep.

[Carl Anderson]

And I was a calf slicer, whatever the hell it's called. What was that move called, that calf crusher when Cody rolled him up. Anyway, Okada went into super sales mode. I mean, like Shakespeare and damn Hamlet. He started selling his ass off. And goddamn that crowd came. Good looking kid.

[Steve Austin]

Oh, yeah, he is. He's getting work, man. He's good.

[Luke Gallows]

He's tall and good looking. He's got the hair.

[Steve Austin]

He gets it, man.

[Carl Anderson]

And the thing about it is he doesn't do anything crazy. He's efficient.

[Luke Gallows]

He's not difficult, man.

[Carl Anderson]

He don't do nothing crazy. He just. He just solid as. And he's over.

[Steve Austin]

And. And like, I remember saying, like, hey, can. Can. We had a couple really big matches him and I did. I remember saying, like, you let me sell there.

[Luke Gallows]

Just.

[Steve Austin]

Just sell for that moment there. And he goes, you know me, Shadow. Very slow style. See, I know. He just. He really gets it right. Everything clicked with him. He's. He's. It's cool to see where he's at. Good kid, too.

[Carl Anderson]

Okay, you guys in. In a square circle at this time. As we speak, I'm up on the sideline. Man, AJ lightened up. I was so happy to see when AJ came to WWF because another guy had been. He came in for a cup of coffee, but then he came back, and I was like, man, this guy, he's gonna light it up if they give him a chance. Yeah, and they gave him a chance. And the lighting it up. And then, you know, when I watch the New Japan stuff and all of a sudden I start hearing, I don't watch the new Japan product all the time. I said, man, you got to see this Omega match. You got to see the Omega match, I'm like, man, I've been hearing about Kenny Omega for a long time. So I watched. Started watching the Omega match. Like, God damn, this kid is good.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah, he can do it all.

[Carl Anderson]

So who you like better? I mean, you're close to both of them.

[Steve Austin]

Well, you know, it was cool because I didn't have a relationship with AJ at all when he came over. And, you know, Finn Balor just signed with wwe, so he was leaving. AJ came over. I didn't know aj, so I wasn't sure what he's going to be like. You know, I wasn't sure if he's going to want to do the two. Sweet. Because that's. Because he never know where people are at with that.

[Carl Anderson]

Because when we.

[Steve Austin]

Because when we started doing that, it was different. Like I said at that point, we brought it back and, like, you know, made it kind of cool again. And he. He just committed completely, man, he was. And he was great with us in the ring. I was blown away, like, how incredible he was. Especially, you know, it's a different style over there. As in, like, you got to, you know how to do different. You had to do different things to get the different reactions over there, which would be different here. But to. And he got it so quick, man. I. AJ Styles, I've been saying it since my first match. I saw him wrestle in 2014 in Japan. He's on easily the best wrestler ever in the world right now. I don't mean ever. I mean, like, right now he's just on. He's like, he's the best wrestler in the world at this moment. I mean, you know, there's no. And if you ever get a chance to go back and watch a couple of his matches he had in Japan in. You think about people when you think back and watch some of their stuff, you think all that offensive move was cool, like. But you forget with aj, you can look back and think about. Watch the way he sells stuff. He gets punched in the face and he falls over. I mean, he's on. He's unreal.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah. But one thing I really like about him is just with respect to his offense, the way he lays his. And you know, when he'll go into that spinning stuff and going to that. I mean, it's a mean streak and it's fire and he's working, baby. Or he can work heel too. But I'm just saying the way he lays his shit in, just the mustard behind it is not going through the motion. So sometimes I see guys and okay, man, they're doing a lot of things mechanically good, but the shit ain't behind it, so it ain't having the same effect. And so when I see him doing that shit, I know he's taking care of guys, but just the way he lays his shit, God damn, that's good. He.

[Steve Austin]

He literally became like. I don't think when he first debuted in Japan and I think he would attest to this. He. I don't think people knew who he was because, you know, TNA wasn't really, you know, it is what it is, but I don't think people knew exactly who he was. So he was, he was. He had an uphill battle and he literally turned himself into a Japanese wrestling legend.

[Luke Gallows]

Yeah.

[Steve Austin]

Just because he's just. He does that kind of stuff, man. He.

[Carl Anderson]

Hey, man, you guys, short amount of time. Remember those? What was that? Was it Kibashi and Masawa? Masawa Kawada.

[Luke Gallows]

Oh, kicking the.

[Carl Anderson]

Out of each other? Yeah. And then one of them died. Which one was it?

[Steve Austin]

Masawa died? Yeah.

[Carl Anderson]

Weird.

[Steve Austin]

I was over there when it happened. I remember, I remember on the bus the boys were getting text messages saying that Misawa san died in the ring. I said, what do you mean?

[Luke Gallows]

He took a back suplex on his neck and he must already had some damage to his neck and. And it killed him. Yeah. Vertebrae broken. That was it. Yeah, right there in the middle of that ring. Makes you think about what we do all the time, right? Kind of like that.

[Steve Austin]

What was that with the. The Mexican Paraguayo. Yes.

[Carl Anderson]

Oh, yeah, man, that was weird.

[Luke Gallows]

That was a weird one too. And you watch it, you go like.

[Steve Austin]

I mean, what we do is dangerous.

[Luke Gallows]

While I was talking with some of the guys who were there. Yeah. And they're, you know, usually on. On the side on of the. The ring right there on the apron. There's padding. There was no padding at all. So it was just the, the steel. So when he took the bump to the outside, it was like right on the top of the vertebrae and it crushed and broke that vertebrae, which broke

[Carl Anderson]

his neck right through his spinal cord then.

[Luke Gallows]

That's it, man.

[Carl Anderson]

I remember sometimes and those were what they were. I remember one time, it always seems like it's at the small shows. One time he was working Hull, Ontario and goddamn territory was down. It was like a six man tag or something like that. We was going out there and I said, told Triple H, we'll just say, hey man, house ain't really great. Everybody be careful. God damn. I'll be damned Triple H does something, he gimmicks his knee up or someone's hitting the ropes, they roll an ankle. It's the stupid shit, just the routine stuff. And all of a sudden, bam. Something happens.

[Steve Austin]

Always Windham Bray Wyatt tore his calf. Like just doing. Locking up, just locking up. Went to lock up, had a long flight. Went to lock up and towards calf. Yeah. You know, right the month. It's just, you know, you never know what can happen in there.

[Carl Anderson]

How you feeling? I was asking Carl about how he's feeling. How you feeling? You big, tall. So it's because here's the thing, here's my theory on tall guys. Just because, you know, from my physical education background, of course, about a while back, you know, kinesiology, physiology, anatomy. Man. Dude, longer guys, man, the physics is different.

[Luke Gallows]

The more you read, the better you're gonna be. But no, I. I think that you got to take better care of yourself. And we talk about it because there'll be times when I don't do it, and I'll be like, hey, man, stretch. Drink some water.

[Steve Austin]

And we're saying you do that and

[Luke Gallows]

you drink a gallon of water a day and you stretch and you go to the gym, like you should do, and you do the things you can do. I think that it can prolong. I. I always tell him, too, I don't know that I'll ever quit wrestling, but I don't want to quit doing it at a high level immediately. So try to prolong it. I feel pretty good, you know. I got a. My neck broken by Nito, I like to say, but not really. I get dumped on my head.

[Carl Anderson]

So how'd that go?

[Luke Gallows]

Little neck issues and it is what it is, but took an edt. I feel great now because I go and get it worked on and worked out and stuff like that. So I feel pretty good these days.

[Carl Anderson]

You guys got these, you know, the trainers and the staff. I mean, it's been like probably 10, 15 years. But before that, dude, like when I got dropped on my head in Madeleine's in New Jersey, East Rutherford, and goddamn, I remember they took me to the hospital in ambulance. And then when I came out of getting them, all the exams, stuff like that, there wasn't nobody there. Three chicks had followed the damn ambulance to the hospital. And I was like, walking down. Like, I was pretty up, right? Yeah, of course. Pretty emotional. And I'm like, hey, how am I gonna get back to hotel? The girl said, hey, Steve, you wanna ride back to hotel? I said, yeah, yeah. So I got in the Car with him. I said, hey, man, if you don't mind, can we stop and get a 12 pack of beer? Yeah, they bought me a 12 pack of Bud. Yeah, and should have went to my hotel and went to Monday Night Raw. But you guys grew up in some of the little territories that you did. You remember back in the old days when it wasn't.

[Luke Gallows]

Well, I. Oh, that's one of those things that's hard for. I think that it's different now because, like, even way different for you guys. But when we all started and we were making no money or 20 bucks and we're driving 10 hours and getting hurt and like, you know, I remember Samu like hit me across the face with a chair wrapped in barbed wire when I was 19 years old in a cast because my pec was already torn. But like, you would never be like, hey, like I'm hurt or hey, I need to. Can I go to. Like, that didn't happen. It wasn't a thing. And now it's better for the guys now and it may prolong their careers, but we would never be like, hey, I'm hurt, my bicep feels tense. You'd be like, hey, I'm not going to clothesline. I'll just, we'll brother it and then I'll tag you in.

[Carl Anderson]

You know what I mean?

[Luke Gallows]

Like, it was different. I remember I had this conversation with Raven. He goes, you got to work so much harder now. Back in the day you could kfab your injuries.

[Steve Austin]

I like you, Raven, you're raving impersonations,

[Carl Anderson]

but back in the day, man, everybody was a self made chiropractor and a couple of, a couple of boys are like, you know, they were like a fish. I told this story many times, but I told you guys my neck was fucked up or something. And so we was in Kansas City, you know, Harley Race. Did y' all ever meet Harley?

[Luke Gallows]

Yes.

[Carl Anderson]

Okay.

[Luke Gallows]

I met him.

[Carl Anderson]

Okay. This is back many years ago. So he was still pretty physical. And Harley was one of those guys. You had that body because Harley's world renowned for being a tough guy and a fighter. I mean, if, if you crossed his bad side, I mean, he was a guy that would straighten you out. But he wasn't going to be the guy that was going to put three, three wheels on each side of the bar and start doing bench presses. That one Harley, yeah. Smoking a cigarette like this, I'll never forget. I won't get that story. But anyway, I had a bad neck and Harley Race.

[Luke Gallows]

Well, kid, come here.

[Carl Anderson]

So I Go over there.

[Luke Gallows]

And he lay down on this table,

[Carl Anderson]

laid down on the table. Because Harley Race, eight time world champs and laid down, he gonna fix horse. I believe in him. Because it's Harley Race. Yeah, I'm probably 20 some odd years old. Harley Race knows what he's doing because he's a pro wrestler, of course. He wraps his towel around my neck and then he grabs a towel and he jerks like a. I like lightning bolts shot out of my fingers and my toes. I thought he was gonna rip my head off. I was like a flash of light went off. It was crazy.

[Steve Austin]

Almost killed you.

[Carl Anderson]

And maybe this is a precursor for when I got dropped on my head. And I said, holy shit. He goes, okay, kid, now come here. So he stands me up, puts me in a full nelson and he goes, you know, pulls the fuck out of me. And lightning bolts did shoot out of my arms and my legs. And he turns me around, he looks at me and he goes, how's that feel? What do you think? I said, great, great. So great. Feels, feels good. Harden. Thank you.

[Steve Austin]

I feel great.

[Carl Anderson]

He walked outside, God damn scared. I thought he was going to paralyze me. Next night we're in uptown, kid, you want me to work on that neck?

[Steve Austin]

You know what, it feels great.

[Carl Anderson]

No, you, you, you got me last night.

[Steve Austin]

You know what, Harley?

[Carl Anderson]

I'm good, I'm good. Yeah, but that's what, that's the way it was. And I remember riding with Diamond Dallas Page. Me and Mick Foley and him would travel together. And Dallas was the oldest guy in the room, but he was the youngest guy in the business, so he was on the cot. But when we walked around, he was one of those kind of guys that was proactive as far as the injury prevention. Ice packs everywhere on his body. Every joint. I could walk up that motherfucker, just stick a goddamn beer underneath his arm and cool it. I didn't need a cooler, but he was proactive in that shit. But now when I look back, I'm like, God dang, if I wouldn't have drank so much, taken better care of myself. I got dropped on my head, but nonetheless, I mean, I should have treated my dumb ass better, but I was no rocket scientist, man. I was the pro wrestler, you know.

[Steve Austin]

It's good now though. It's like, you know, I remember in Japan there's some guys got hurt a couple times and yeah, I wonder even if Masawa got passed away and Noah, if there had been, you know, a real serious doctor there all the time, because there's not doctors there.

[Luke Gallows]

They have some gimmick doctors.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah. They have a couple trainers on the road with you, and they don't have a doctor with you. I mean, I think they're like, you know.

[Carl Anderson]

Okay. Okay.

[Steve Austin]

I mean. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, that's true. True.

[Carl Anderson]

Okay.

[Luke Gallows]

Okay.

[Carl Anderson]

Hey, dude, we. We used to go to some. Some of the towns and. Yeah. That the doctors would show quack ass of a. I mean, this isn't goddamn. L. Everybody had something.

[Luke Gallows]

Okay.

[Steve Austin]

This isn't a.

[Carl Anderson]

This isn't a back to the airport sound like a Moroccan going on. This.

[Steve Austin]

This. This isn't a shot on New Japan at all, man. But I remember, like, during the G1 tournament, the guys are going strong. They're going rough, you know? And I remember Kojima got. Kojima got whacked. And, man, he came back, bro. He laid down in front of the monitor, started taking a nap, and I said, man, he ain't doing good. I said, kojima, son, you okay? No answer. I said, jado, another book. I said. I said, kojima, no talk, man. He goes, koji. Koji. Yes, yes. I said, you okay? Huh?

[Carl Anderson]

Oh, yeah.

[Steve Austin]

But he wasn't okay. He worked the next day. I mean, like, he obviously had some issues going on. I could still see him laying there going, he was not. If he was not with us at that moment.

[Carl Anderson]

What did he say again?

[Steve Austin]

Yes.

[Luke Gallows]

Yes, yes.

[Steve Austin]

That's the way coaching talks, you know? Gallows thought Kojima looked like his aunt and Donna from Yo.

[Luke Gallows]

We were calling this match, man, the first tag league over there. And he's saying all this, and it's my first tour. And I go.

[Carl Anderson]

I go.

[Steve Austin]

I said, what?

[Luke Gallows]

He goes, what? I go, nothing. I got to respect Kenzan and Kojima. They're big Japanese legends.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah, of course.

[Luke Gallows]

Hey, what the hell's going on? I go, he's got the same hair as my Aunt Donna. I'm looking at him calling his matching looks like he's married to my Uncle Merv. And I can't get out of my head, Steve.

[Steve Austin]

I. I don't know. This story is. Is a good story. It said there was a time Gallows is first. He's one of his first tours there. And then he's talking about throwing a line in the corner. They said, what move do you do in the corner?

[Luke Gallows]

Steve will understand this.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah.

[Luke Gallows]

And.

[Steve Austin]

And this isn't a racist thing, but it's just real. It's what happens. Gallows goes, well, I'll do this line. I. I said, what do you mean? He goes, I Do a jap line in the corner. And I said, yeah, so. So. So Tanahashi goes, what move you do, guys? I'll do a jap star in the company. Yeah, we're doing.

[Luke Gallows]

We're doing jap clothesline, brother.

[Steve Austin]

He said, I do a jap clothesline. And I grabbed him. I looked at him and I said. I looked him. I said, what the hell did you just say?

[Luke Gallows]

I said, jap clothesline.

[Steve Austin]

I said, I said, come. I said, excuse me, guys, come here. I can't say that.

[Luke Gallows]

No.

[Steve Austin]

He goes, what are you talking about?

[Carl Anderson]

Not from world war ii other.

[Steve Austin]

He goes, jesus, you're right. I'm so sorry. Go back.

[Luke Gallows]

That's what everybody called it because the

[Steve Austin]

Japanese guys did it. Yeah, but you know, you know, that's a. That's not a good.

[Luke Gallows]

I didn't know that was a racial term. I just had to do a clothesline in the car,

[Carl Anderson]

and the boys are looking at me going, tell her how.

[Steve Austin]

She goes, what the hell did I do to you? Because I'll do a jab line and tell her. She goes, what?

[Luke Gallows]

Jap clothesline? Excuse me. You know, in a corner.

[Carl Anderson]

I said, what the did you just say? Give this sign language. Would you shut the up?

[Steve Austin]

Anyways.

[Carl Anderson]

No, but you meant it in the right way. It was a Japanese style clothesline.

[Luke Gallows]

Of course, I had always heard guys call it that way, and that's what I called it. Well, that was that also.

[Carl Anderson]

Exactly.

[Luke Gallows]

But it doesn't exist in Japan.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah, they don't say that.

[Luke Gallows]

That one. Well, they. They said to tenzan and Kojima, go double brain B.

[Carl Anderson]

Okay?

[Luke Gallows]

And I went, yeah. And I looked him, I went.

[Steve Austin]

He pulled me. Can they.

[Luke Gallows]

Can they give me a double brainless safely 300 pounds right now? And he goes, yeah. And I go, am I gonna get hurt? He goes, it's a double suplex.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah, just.

[Steve Austin]

Yeah, Cuz, you know, they.

[Luke Gallows]

Oh, well, I didn't know.

[Carl Anderson]

Bathroom podcast.

[Steve Austin]

We're still doing a podcast, kid.

[Luke Gallows]

I thought we were just hanging out.

[Steve Austin]

It feels like it.

[Carl Anderson]

We got four minutes left on this podcast, and we'll turn this thing off and read a book, talk shop. I know you guys got to go to Abu Dhabi tomorrow.

[Steve Austin]

Yes, sir.

[Carl Anderson]

Are you looking forward to the trip?

[Steve Austin]

You know, I've never been to Abu Dhabi. I've never been to India. You know, I love going overseas. I literally just. I love being at home with my family. And I love. I love warfare.

[Carl Anderson]

Hey, man.

[Luke Gallows]

Guy.

[Carl Anderson]

So, yeah, is that by Kuwait or is that in Kuwait?

[Luke Gallows]

He told me it's south of Iraq.

[Steve Austin]

I thought it was part of India. Iraq's up here and Abu Dhabi's down here.

[Luke Gallows]

Ish.

[Carl Anderson]

Okay.

[Steve Austin]

Egypt is right here.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah, man, I don't know where the anything is. But I mean, one time, to the point, you guys are going overseas, man. One time went over to Kuwait. Bad thing is Kuwait, you can have no alcohol over there. And I mean, you better bring your own because you can't buy it or it's very, very hard to find. And so I figured, hey, man, it's like, shit, we'll be over 10 days. I said, must be a good time for me to dry out.

[Steve Austin]

That's not bad, right? It's a good idea.

[Carl Anderson]

Are you ribbing me? I was a drinker. Still am. Got over you around the boys and all of a sudden like, holy shit. So anyways, a couple of guys had some stuff, you know, vodka, whiskey, this, that or whatever. And you couldn't really find any beer. But I had the stuff covered, you know, after the shows. And then a couple of guys said, hey, man, y' all want to go scuba diving? And, man, sign me up, I'll go, of course. And all of a sudden, about 15 of the boys out on his damn boat and we're going out to the. The Kuwait Gulf, whatever it's called, Golf. Kuwait, A big ass body of water. Anyway, we're all on the boat, and I'll be goddamn if there wasn't a case of Heineken. Heineken. In Kuwait. In Kuwait. So I was sitting thereineken, drinking a couple of Heinekens. I won't name any names, but anyway,

[Steve Austin]

I got a pee now, too.

[Carl Anderson]

All of a sudden, man, they start handing the boys out oxygen tanks, man, snorkel, you know, putting the flippers on. And like this, dude, we're in water that's. I don't know, it's 50 foot deep. It's pretty clear. And these are the boys. Y' all know how fucked up the boys can be. So the plan was, hey, man, you. You got to get certified to be a scuba diver, right? And then we're first timers. We're in the middle of God damn the Kuwait Gulf, or Gulf of Kuwait, is it when you go down, just meet by the anchor.

[Steve Austin]

This makes it funnier, I guess.

[Carl Anderson]

You gotta keep okay. So the boys say, okay, well, I'll go meet by the anchor. And all of a sudden guys start bailing, bailing off the boat. I remember thinking, because, you know, back in the day, you know, you're tough. Well, you're still, at that age, you think you're tough as nails. All of a sudden you said, you let the air out of that bladder and you start going down. And you think it is pretty easy. I don't even know what you got to get certified for. Fuck me. And at the anchor, I'm going to do my own thing. So the boys are swimming out and shit like that. And then I remember Owen Hart was having a hard time letting the air out of his bladder. So he was swimming around the boat like a shark because he couldn't descend. So we went out there, swam around, snorkel, I mean, went scuba diving, and we all came back up. Nobody drowned, and what, no damn emergency situations? Got back on the boat, and me and the other dudes started drinking a Heineken beer. But it was. It was the greatest thing in the world. But, dude, these days, with all the liabilities and shit like that and the PC and the safety factor, this was back in the. In the mid-90s when the shit was still a wild, wild west. It was just great.

[Luke Gallows]

We always say that, man. We're like, I think we. And you've heard a lot of dudes say it, but I was like, I think we would have been really good back then. We would have really loved that.

[Steve Austin]

Oh, yeah, Like. Like, big show pulled us aside at one of the shows.

[Luke Gallows]

You guys are the last cowboys.

[Steve Austin]

He goes, who you guys ride with? I said, just. Just us two. He goes, next week, I'll get the car, I'll get the rooms.

[Carl Anderson]

Just.

[Steve Austin]

We'll split it up later. So we're riding with you show. He goes, yeah, cool.

[Luke Gallows]

Hell yeah.

[Steve Austin]

He was like, all right, cool. The weekend before, he goes, you guys want to go out?

[Luke Gallows]

You ever did?

[Steve Austin]

He was in, like, Wichita. He would have went to college, right? Because you guys want to go out? Yeah, we went out, drank, you know, 10, 15 beers, whatever. Tong hung out with Show. And he goes, I like you guys. Let's go. Let's ride together. That's pretty cool.

[Luke Gallows]

Yeah, he left us there and, well,

[Steve Austin]

you know, we didn't get back. Y' all in Wichita that time? Yeah, Wichita, Yes.

[Luke Gallows]

But he went to. He played college basketball there, I guess.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah, exact spot.

[Steve Austin]

It was like a little cowboy bar or something.

[Carl Anderson]

God dang. I remember, dude. It might have been the same place. All of a sudden, I got a phone call from wwf from the office. Hey, man, we need you to do an on sale or pre sale, whatever you call it. Some kind of sale. Pre sale. It's pre sale. How about that? And you know, because we go to Wichita pre sale and said, hey, man, we have a couple people to show you around or whatever. And I said, okay, man, I'll go. And Tracy Bird's in town. If you want to go see the Tracey Byrd concert, the two girls will take you to see the Tracy Bird. I said, yeah, man, that's badass, dude. I went to the presale, did my thing for wwf, went to the Tracy Bird show, and there's probably about 3,000 people. There's like a big dance hall. That son of a bitch sang for three hours. I was just. Just kicking back beers. And that son. Bitch was on time. Had a little bit of reverb delay in there. And it sounded like you guys understand who Tracy Bird is or was.

[Luke Gallows]

I know everything about Tracy Bird.

[Carl Anderson]

Yeah, Just singing his ass off. So that's my Wichita story. I did nothing. I can't tell you about what happened after that, but I enjoyed to sit at concert reading all those books.

[Luke Gallows]

I got to go on stage one time just because I had a little bit of wrestling, whatever. Notoriety, fame.

[Steve Austin]

That's what I want to say, Steve.

[Luke Gallows]

Trace Atkins was on there, and I love Trace Atkins. And he started to do every. I was like, I hope he does. Every Light in the House is On. I don't like the new. So he starts doing Every Light in the House is On. And he's doing it, and me and my buddy are going. Then all a sudden, he goes, oh, hell, I forgot the next verse. I ain't even drunk. Just walked off the stage.

[Steve Austin]

That's awesome.

[Luke Gallows]

He came back out, they went into another song. We act like nothing happened, and there were like 2,000 people there going, all right. Every line. He quit singing.

[Carl Anderson]

I went, what's next?

[Luke Gallows]

I remember the spot.

[Steve Austin]

That's it. We got VIP to Zach Brown at SummerSlam last year to the new the New York Met Stadium, Citi Field and Lane. Zach's just. We're on stage. People are too sweet. And just all of a sudden, colder weather comes down on code, you know, and all young, real brother down. Out of nowhere, G looks at me and goes, we got. We gotta leave. I said, what are you talking about? I need to leave. I'm not leaving. You're on your own if you leave. He goes, all right, fine. He said, we just sat there like this. And Hawkins looked at me. I go. I go, Gallows wants to leave. Hawkins goes, oh, cold weather's on. It makes him get real emotional. What the. What are you talking about?

[Luke Gallows]

What do you.

[Steve Austin]

You talking about? Why why do you hate cold? Why does cold weather make you emotions, man.

[Luke Gallows]

That's song. It's like turn the page or something. Start thinking about it. We're on all the mistakes I made my whole life.

[Steve Austin]

We're on the stage. We're on the stage of City Field and like, there's people like throwing the two sweet ass ver. It's so cool. He looks at me, does he wants to leave. I ain't going anywhere.

[Luke Gallows]

I'm stuck in cold or weather. I'm getting out of here.

[Steve Austin]

He was being serious, too.

[Carl Anderson]

All right, I'm gonna get out here. Let's shut this thing down because I want to be able to talk with you guys off mic and shoot the before you guys go right off at the sunset.

[Steve Austin]

Thanks for having us. Good brother.

[Carl Anderson]

Thank you. Gallows Carl Anderson, Rocky, over here at 317 gimmick street did y' all want to get any more in? You always got that guy in the match. He's trying to get. Talk about the match a little bit. We're gonna call him. I'm swinging the ring. But there's always that guy that's got to get his shit in the same shit every fucking time. So is there anything that y' all got to get in?

[Luke Gallows]

What about cheap plugs?

[Steve Austin]

We know a lot of them.

[Carl Anderson]

Oh, I love them.

[Luke Gallows]

All right, guys. If you want tattoos of piercing, come to painted gypsy tattoo, 1140 Nortech Drive, Conyers, Georgia. Tell them the big LG sent you. That's my shop. You'll get the deal of the century. If you want to learn the basic professional wrestling. Good Brothers dojo in Jenkinsburg, Georgia. Goodbrothersdojo gmail.com or 770-915-6530. We'll teach you top to bottom. And if you need anything for your printing needs, I'm talking embroidery, signage, anything you need. Good Brothers Inc. Get us a promo on an apple.com. come on over, we'll set you up. I gotta retire at some point, but I'm not gonna quit being a fall down man. Click on over and we'll do all your business for you. Is that okay? Thank you.

[Steve Austin]

There you go, Steve.

[Carl Anderson]

God damn, that's good. All right, everybody, give me the go home queue. Time to wrap up his podcast right off. Before I do that, I want to thank Luke Gallows Carl Anderson, Rocky Romero for coming by 317 Giving street last week. And give me the time that they gave me, man. We laughed our fucking heads off. And I had one of the best times. I've ever had doing a podcast and we read a lot of novels and if you go to my Instagram account, Steve Austin bsr, you'll see some of the evidence. Put the evidence in the car, some of the evidence that was laying around. All the novels that we had read and checked out were strewn around the table in the room. Hell, I figured up a whole hefty scent sack of that damn stuff just trying to get it ready for the recycled men. But hey, the WWE Superstar schedule is a sumbitch you are busy all the time for those cats come by really meant a lot to me and I appreciate it very much. One last plug for Luke Bryan. What Makes yous Country? His latest album is out there and I dig it the most. Amen. Broken Skull Challenge the last episode of this season will happen this coming Tuesday at 109 Central. This is a co ed edition and we have never done a team type setting of anything out there because it's every man or every woman for themselves. This time this Tuesday we team them up in pairs and they do battle out there at the Broken Skull Challenge compound. And it was absolutely awesome. Lots of energy, lots of badass athletes giving it their all and it was a badass show and a badass season. Props to everybody that came out. Thank you to everybody that tuned in and supported the show. Thanks to CMT for the opportunity and thanks to 51 Minds, a production company. It's been a great five years. Hey man, speaking of five years, speaking of Broken Skull Challenge, all those T shirts that I was wearing. ProWrestlingtease.com Steveaulson has every single one of those shirts. If you want one of those shirts, head over to prowrestlingtease.com steveaulson and you can find them. And if you're thirsty and you want a beer, specifically an ipa, I happen to have the best IPA in the United States of America. Broken Skull IPA from El Segundo Brewing Company. And you can get Broken Skull IPA at Whole Foods and Total Wines if you live in California. If you ain't in Cali, check insidethecellar.com and see if they ship to your state. If you're looking for a pocket knife and everybody should have a pocket knife, you can find a cold steel Broken Skull knife for the new cold steel Working Man's knife at my new Amazon store. Amazon has the best price on both knives. Just go to Amazon.com shop steveaustin Christmas is right around the corner and you can't give a better Christmas present than a cold steel broken Skull or Working man Knife. And that's the bottom line. I want to say thank you to all the fine sponsors of the Steve Austin Show. How I'm able to do this podcast for you twice a week for free and you can find all my [e-mail] just click on the Killer Deals button at the top of the page and then click on the Steve Austin show banner. And speaking of Podcast 1, the new Podcast 1 app is now available for download at the App Store Google Play. There ain't another podcast app like this some bitch anywhere. And that's because the new Podcast one app is loaded up with some cool ass features that let you do a lot more than just listen to your favorite shows. You can access behind the scenes photos, articles and connect with other fans of the shows you like. Watch over 1,360 virtual reality videos and you can actually watch some of your favorite shows in virtual reality. It's like you sitting in the same room with them. So get to the App Store, Google Play and download the new Podcast one app now. Stay tuned. Coming up this Tuesday, WWE Superstar Elias will be on the Steve Austin show and I still have a 35 minute podcast with the legit boss Sasha Banks and the hugger Bailey. Probably coming up next Tuesday, folks. Until then, my name is Steve Austin and I will catch your ass down the road.

[Steve Austin]

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