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Steve Austin
From Hollywood, California, by way of the Broken Skull Ranch. This is the Steve Austin Show.
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Now here's Steve Austin.
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All right, everybody. Welcome to Steve Austin Show. I am coming to you from the mean streets of Los Angeles, California today. I'm sitting over here at 317 Gimmick Street. I got a damn good show for you today. Today I'm going to finish up some of the questions that you guys sent in to questions of Steve Austin show dot com. That's right, I got a Q and A for you and, and I'm gonna be talking and answering your questions for about an hour and 15 minutes. So I ain't gonna dilly dally around. I'm gonna get right into your questions.
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All right, everybody, welcome back to Steve Austin Show. I am sitting here in my Austin316 chair at 317 Gimmick street and I'm about to provide some answers to the questions you guys sent in to questionsveaustinshow.com and the first question comes from a guy named Matt in Saskatoon, Canada. If you and he's saying, hey, I was hoping Steve Austin might talk about the time that WWE toured Canada when he wrestled. Did you enjoy doing Raw Smackdown in Canada? Did wrestlers complain about traveling through Canada? Be honest. Or did they enjoy it? Do you have a favorite Canadian city? Best and worst about wrestling in Canada. Thanks and love the show. Hope you can provide a few minutes of commentary on this. Sincerely, Matt and Saskatoon, Canada. Big wrestling fan, Best boy. I'll tell you what, Matt, man, I always enjoyed working in Canada. The people were great, the crowds are great. Canada's a great wrestling territory. Going back to the Calgary Stampede days. I'm not sure about all the different other wrestling promotions that were there, but because of my relationship with the Hart family, specifically Bret Hart, I know a lot about the Calgary wrestling scene. Know so much about the super long trips, road trips that those guys used to go on between the towns, all the snow and weather that traveled through to get to their destination to put on a house show wherever it was. I always dug Canada. Like I said, great wrestling place. The biggest problem was crossing over the border. And Canada is very strict at the border and they should be. And they go through everything. They make sure all the I's are dotted and the T's are crossed. And when the boys start coming through, due to the fact that a lot of times back in the 80s, early 80s, probably 70s, 80s guys were carrying of stuff over there. There's many stories about the Iron Sheik. And you know, he'd always have some weed or something like that with him and he'd put, he'd put that in someone else's bag. But the, the precedent had already been set that a lot of times when the guys came through, they were going to be carrying some stuff. Whether it was this, that or whatever. You can probably guess what it might have been. But that was one of the biggest pains in the asses about going to Canada because you knew you can get pulled over, you're going to sit in a room for an hour, two or three, they were going to go through all your stuff and shake everything out. And so 99 times out of 100, nobody had shit. But every here and there someone would have something. And that's why they always kept checking the boys when they came into the country. So great on customs part, they did a very thorough job. But when you're one of the guys who's passing through there and you ain't got nothing in your bag and you get pulled over, that's a pain in the ass because you're always on a schedule trying to hit the gym, you try and hit a tanning bed, you try and go get something to eat, you may check into your hotel room. It might be one of those deals where you're going straight to the building and then you got a long road trip after that. But that was always a pain in the ass when you had to go and cross through customs on the way there. Coming back in the States, Hella wasn't nothing but a thing as far as traveling in Canada. You know, I used to listen to a lot of the Calgary Stampede days. Some of the guys that, you know that were part of the Attitude era, Chris Jericho, a lot of those guys that were in my period of participation in WWE came from Stampede days and had traveled in that territory. Brian Pillman managed to hear all the stories. All the ribs, all the guys loaded up in vans trying to save some money. Everybody shipping on gas, nobody was making a whole bunch of money. And all the ribs that were played on the road. So there's a lot of history there in Canada. And Canada is just a great country for restaurants because the fans are very enthusiastic. I always talk about the Calgary Stampede, that pay per view we had that one year. I can't remember I talked about it on a podcast before. Man, those people are hardcore fans, so that makes it fun. And as I'm looking at this map, you know, I'm looking at some of the classic cities that we used to go to. And this was a period of time when I was traveling with Bart Gunn and Billy Gunn, and we were staying at some of these shitbox econo lodges and red roof ends and stuff like that. And there would be three of us in a room. And towns like Moose Jaw, God dang Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Red Deer. Those are kind of some of the B towns. Kamloops, I think. Kalana, you know, the big cities like Vancouver. Vancouver was always cool. I mean, that's one of my favorite cities across the border because it's right across the United States border, just north of Seattle. The weather for Canada, in my opinion, is fairly mild compared to the rest of the country. You start to get into Calgary, it starts getting really, really cold. Vancouver's absolutely beautiful. The thing about wrestling in Vancouver was every time we got in the damn ring, you'd be in there in the main event, you'd be in there working your ass off. And damn near every single time, a lot like Salt Lake City, man, there'd be a fight in the crowd. Every time a fight in the crowd breaks out, the attention goes to the fight in the crowd. And as two guys who are in the ring trying to put on a show that doesn' work so well because you want the attention on you and you also want to watch the fight. So anyway, that was one of the. I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It was a funny thing about Vancouver because it's really a pretty mild city. Calgary, the Saddle Dome, that's an awesome place to wrestle. A lot of atmosphere. All the history there with the hearts and all of that. Edmonton was another good town. I had a great match with Chris Benoit in Edmonton one night, and I believe it was on the smackdown show. And we had worked a night on Raw and they only gave us a certain amount of minutes, and I wasn't very happy with that match because we didn't have enough time to tell the proper story. And I'll never forget, when we rolled into Edmonton that night, it was a smackdown. And we were going to work Together again. And I told Chris before we went out there, I said, dude, I said, I don't care how much time they give us, we're going to go when it's time to go home. And you know, it's all on me, I'll take the heat. So if they give us a go home cue, disregard it. And we really ripped it up that night. And there's another question coming up with regards to that match, which I'll get into in a little bit, but, you know, then you get over there to Regina, you know, with. I said Moose Jaw already. Winnipeg. I think we're starting to get close to where Chris Jericho's from. Right over in that area. That was a great little town hotbed. People are crazy over there. They really love their wrestling. And then of course you got Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City. Here's where some of the problems start to come in. Because when you start getting into the, I guess the French speaking provinces, maybe they all speak French all over the country, but specifically, man, it's Ottawa, Montreal City and Quebec City. And all of a sudden if you're on a road and you pull over to a gas station and back in the day we used to always chew Skoal or Copenhagen or whatever or we'd need to gas up or we' that's just the way it was. We didn't have iPhones to give us directions. You didn't punch in an address into something and it started talking to you. We had those regular full size road atlases that were about 2ft long and about 2ft wide when you opened it. And you learned how to read a map pretty damn good or your ass was lost. And getting lost doesn't pay the bills. So you always found a way to read a map every now and then. Like I said, when we pulled over, ask some directions and the dude behind the counter would just look at you with this deadpan look and start speaking straight up French to you. And I'm thinking, come on man, 80% of this country, this is my guesstimate, 80% of the country speaks fluent English. And I know that the Rest of the 20 speak some English and they probably speak a lot of French, but I know without a shadow of a doubt that they speak English and it almost was like they were a rib on you. And so when you start getting into those French speaking areas, they're great wrestling fans. And of course the Rougeaus were huge in these areas and Canada as well. But that French would really throw you for a loop. But it was a Good time being over there. And it was kind of like the wild, wild west. And you could see a lot of territory over there because there was a lot to drive. But I enjoyed my time over there. Coming and going across the border was a pain in the ass. Getting the directions in French was not fun. The crowds are always great. And best and worst about wrestling in Canada, I'd say the worst thing was about how cold it could be in some of the cities where it got really cold. And I would always wear shorts wherever we went because we spent most of our day in an airplane, a hotel room, a gym, a building. We were always indoors. And all the boys would rib me and said, man, why don't you put on some frigging long pants? And I had on a jacket, I had on a heavy coat, I had a cap, I had everything. I was warm. And people always think, oh, you're going to get the flu because your legs are showing. You don't get the flu because you get cold. You get the flu because, you know, you get some kind of virus or whatever causes the flu, the influenza virus. It ain't because your legs are exposed. So anyway, my legs would be all ashy and white and I look like shit, and all the boys would rib me about that. So the cold part of Canada was the tough part. You know, when you stop in the middle of the night to gas up, then you could freeze your ass off a little bit. The best part, the crowds. Because, man, when you showed up, I mean, Canada is very. They love their fellow Canadians. And when we did Calgary Stamped there, and I was technically. And everybody on my side was technically a baby facing United States. And we went over there and we were working against guys that were heels in the United States and we swapped roles and that was an absolute blast. So I think the best part about wrestling in Canada is how avid of wrestling fans they are. They absolutely love the business, they love the product. They're into the storylines and they're very, very engaged and very involved. So anytime you get a hot crowd, you know, you want to go out there and give them a good show. I will say, one of the towns we used to wrestle in all the time, Hamilton was always that was. I'll put this in the worst, Hamilton is a great town. But it always seemed like someone got hurt every single time we worked Hamilton, I don't know, it was like one of those Bermuda Triangle type things. One time we had a six, man. It was myself, Triple H and somebody else against three other guys. And, you know, the House wasn't very good, the territory was down. And we kind of just told each other, all right, man, we got a big show coming up. Everybody just kind of go out there and take it easy. Let's give these guys a good show and let's get out of dodge. Sure enough, Triple H was hitting the ropes doing nothing. He was just hitting the ropes. Bam, blows out a knee, does something to his knee, but he gets hurt nonetheless. And it was like a lot of the injuries that happen in the business, and this isn't specific to Hamilton, it just always seemed like something went awry over there. But sometimes you get in those matches and people always think, oh, man, wrestling's rigged, wrestling's fake, this ad, whatever, that the mat is like a trampoline. Oh, man, the mat ain't like a trampoline. Hitting the ropes, just hitting the ropes. Just doing a crisscross high spot for argument's sake. Dude, if you trip, if anything goes wrong, if a rope snaps, much less, you know, you get involved in a high spot where something goes wrong and you have two guys or two gals running full speed and you collide and something goes wrong or there's a botch or, you know, you land. You don't land flat anytime could be your last time inside a ring, and that's a total shoot. So. But anyway, that was just a side note about Hamilton. Always seemed like someone got hurt there, but that's about all I got to say about Canada, man. Great fans over there, of course, the legendary Hart family, the Rougeau family. There's been some famous wrestling families come out of Canada and at Calgary Stampede Wrestling. Here's one. This is from Paul from South End Unsee. He says, my question is, in your prime, do you think you could have been a success in the MMA ufc? And he has a follow up question which I'll get to in a minute. Man, I tell you what, I'm a huge fan mma, ufc. I've been asked this question before, but to give you a straight up answer, I think I would have had a good chin for it. I don't know if I'd have had a good anything else for it. The only time I ever got knocked out in my life and I've been in a couple of car wrecks. Never got knocked out when I got dropped on my head. I never got knocked out when I was wrestling the Undertaker in Madison Square Garden at Highway to Hell, when he bent over to give me a backdrop and I kicked him and he straightened up and the back of his Head caught me flush under the chin, right in that zone, and it flashed me. I went down. And that's when I was looking up at the Madison Square Garden ceiling, and Earl Hebner looked down at me and had that little smile on her face. And he says, God dang it, boy, you okay? And I said, where am I? He goes, that dang, boy, you in the garden. And so I got knocked out there. So I think that was a hell of a damn shot. So I think I would have had a pretty good chin for the MMA ufc, but. But, man, I've never taken any karate classes, no jujitsu classes. I never had one single wrestling shoot wrestling lesson in my life. All I've known is college football, baseball, discus throwing. I didn't do any boxing. I've trained in boxing for a few months at a time. Wasn't extremely proficient at it. Always kept my hands down. Well, my right arm doesn't straighten out all the way, so that kind of cuts the range out in my right arm. But going back to my prime, I don't know if I'd have been worth a shit or not at mma ufc. All I can say is that I'm a good fan. I love the business. Just got finished texting Daniel Cormier. I know he's getting ready for a fight with Stipe Miocic coming up here on July 7th, and that's a fight that I'm really looking forward to. It's a sport that I really enjoy. It's a sport that's been interesting to watch evolve from the guys that were just pure strikers to the guys that were just pure wrestlers. And now, all these years later, to see what it's morphed into, where, you know, wrestling is still kind of, you know, the bread and butter of it all. But the jiu jitsu with the striking and the wrestling, that's all combined to become the hybrid art form that it is or sport that it is. You know, I used to love boxing. All of the great characters kind of disappeared from boxing, and now, you know, UFC is kind of, like, so exciting, and anything can happen at any time with the kicking, the strikes, the chokes, just the art form that it is and how deceptive some of these guys can be and the skills that they bring, it's at a whole different level. So, nah, I wouldn't have been successful at it, but I'm a huge fan and continue to watch it and watch damn near every single pay per view they do and all the stuff on Fox Sports 1. But as a Follow up question. He says, hey, is there anyone from your prime time, not obvious, like a Kurt Angle, who you think could have cut it in the octagon? Well, and this is from Paul McKeon. Yeah. Obviously, Brock Lesnar has done what he's done, and I guess there's word or maybe rumor or maybe something that he might go have another fight in the ufc. I don't know. I know he just kind of. I thought he re signed with wwe. But Brock obviously has done what he did. Kurt Angle, it would have been interesting to see what Kurt could have done because he won the gold medal in the Olympics in 1996 with a broken neck. And obviously that means his wrestling skills are, you know, premier. But as a striker, how would he have fared as a chin? What kind of chin does he have as far as trying to, you know, take some blows that these guys are dishing out? I'll never forget when Kurt Angle broke into the business. I guess it was back in the late 90s, or was it 2000? Nonetheless, you just see this blue chip athlete, and the guy was an absolute blur. Very aggressive, highly technical. You know, he caught on to the business of pro wrestling faster than anybody I've ever seen. So had he applied himself to MMA and striking and jiu jitsu and everything that went with it, he was so high level of a wrestler, I don't know why he could not have been high level at the striking and every other aspect of mma. But obviously that's my speculation as far as other guys. I mean, you had Ken Shamrock, but he was already in. He was training for pro wrestling, got into mma, then came back out of pro wrestling. And there's a guy who, like I said many times before in the podcast, a guy who came out of a shoot business after being in a work business and come back to a shoot world as the legit toughest guy in the world, the baddest human being walking planet Earth. And it was Ken Shamrock. And I caught some words or lines from an interview he just did. And he initially had reservations about being the special guest referee when Brett and myself were going to have the submission match, because coming from that shoot world of mma, he didn't want to be part of something that wasn't going to be able to hold up or, you know, wasn't going to pass the test or make the grade. And obviously, you know, we went out there and rocked the house and tore the joint down and executed a double turn. And Brett got his shit in, I got my shit in. I left As a baby, Brett left as a heel and you know, Ken was a big part of that match. It's like I said when I was doing a podcast with Edge and Christian and Bret Hart talking about that match, you know, I thought Ken brought a lot of star power to the match, legit. He brought presence, just good looking dude jacked up. If there's anybody that could enforce the rules between two guys who are at a major angle that was built and ready to go, it was Ken Shamrock. He brought a lot of star power to the match and from a different world, bringing those outside eyeballs. So obviously Ken did what he did in the world of mma. When I think about the rest of the guys, there's been some, there's been a lot of tough ass guys in the business of pro wrestling, but when you're in the gym or you're in the dojo or whatever they call it and you're training like those MMA guys do day in, day out, going through the grind, I mean, whether it's working on their grappling, their striking, their jiu jitsu, but that's what you train to do. And you are a professional fighter, that's a whole different level, that's a whole different stratosphere. And when you're trained to entertain people like you are in the world of professional wrestling, you know, some of the best athletes I've ever seen in my life came from, you know, that were in the business of pro wrestling and came from the world of football. But football ain't fighting. And if you put a UFC guy in a football uniform, you know, that doesn't really transfer. His skills in the octagon don't transfer to the gridiron. So, you know, most of the guys skills in the world of pro wrestling wouldn't transfer into what would go on in an octagon, although many have said, and I've never seen him in action. But Haku Meng was an absolute destroyer in his prime. Big ass hands, just tougher than all get out. And everybody will vouch to that. But you know how he would have fared into a heavyweight match with someone, one of the premier people in the octagon, I don't know. But out on the streets, everybody in the locker room respected him. And if you didn't know anything about him and you were about to start some shit with him in a bar, you were about to have your ass handed to you. And that's the bottom line. So anyway, I segued into a little bit of street fighting there, but no, man, I probably wouldn't have been worth a shit at it, but I'm a huge fan and I'm looking forward to CM Punk's fight coming up here pretty quick. I'm looking forward to stipe Miocic and DC Daniel Cormier getting it on July 7th. Hopefully I get a chance to talk to DC before that fight. And that will be a fight where it'll be interesting because Daniel's coming up from light heavy to go back to being a heavyweight. And then there's Stipe, you know, probably going to go down maybe as the greatest heavyweight fighter in the history of the ufc. So we'll find out. But that is going to be an interesting match and will be one that I will be paying my 60 bucks to watch. Here's another question comes from Baz over there in Walsall, United Kingdom. Get a lot of people from the UK that listen to the show and I appreciate it very much. Got a long question here. Why do you think there isn't a lot of focus on Bruiser Brody by the wwe? Do you think we'll ever have a documentary on the network based on his life? Or anything similar to the Andre documentary would be great for the younger fans who might not know what influences guys like Bruiser had on guys like yourself who influenced the current guys and us fans. Cheers, mate. Love the show. Hey, Bob, I appreciate the question. Let's get to this. I'm sure Bruiser Brody probably stepped foot in a WWF ring or WWF ring back in the day as an independent coming through, I'm guessing. But he never spent an appreciable amount of time in that territory. If he crossed through it, from everything that I've understood about Bruiser Brody, he was an independent. He worked Japan, he crossed through the promotions, the different territories, and worked the bookings that he picked up. He was a smart guy with his money. He was a shrewd businessman. You know, he lost his life in Puerto Rico where he was stabbed in the shower. I don't know if they were talking about finish of the match, if they were talking about payoffs or angles or whatever went down, but I don't think he spent a whole lot of time in the wwf. And I don't know that WWE would be able to monetize making a documentary on Bruiser Brody because the business has moved on so far from that now. A lot of people don't know who Bruiser Brody is. To your point, I think it would be great for somebody to do a documentary about Bruiser Brody because to me, he Was one of the most influential guys in the history of the business. As far as the brawlers go. I don't know that there's ever been a better brawler than Bruiser Brody. And he could basically not just brawl, he could do it all. If you watch some of his matches that he had with Nature Boy Ric Flair, they would actually lock up headlock takeovers and wrestle. Bruiser could wrestle his ass off. He preferred to brawl. And he was a tough son of a bitch by anybody's account. So he was a smart guy. He could be a very intimidating guy from what I've heard about him. I never got a chance to meet the guy. I'd love to see a documentary made on him. I don't know that it's incumbent upon WWE to make a documentary on him, but it'd be neat for someone to make a documentary on him. He didn't have the worldwide or global appeal or notoriety that Andre the Giant had. And so maybe that's why you won't see a documentary on him. But from some wrestling, smaller type budget wrestling. Suddenly I like those. What's that? Guy sends me DVDs all times. Elbow. Broken Elbow, whatever productions. Someone should do a documentary on Bruiser Brody. I'll stop rambling because I'm getting out of my wheelhouse there. But he was very influential and shit for myself, for Cactus Jack, for anybody that brawls. Keith in Indiana says, hey, Steve, I was just wondering, did you ever catch that skunk? Man, I tell you, last time I told a story about that skunk over there in Nevada at the broken skull ranch 2.0, man, my yard guy had a blower stuck in one side of a culvert. I was 20ft away with my.22 in my hand waiting for that skunk to come out. And he never came out. So we ain't caught the skunk yet. Put the 22 away. I have the Havahart trap ready. Next time I go back down to Nevada, I'm gonna try to catch that bastard. Because the last thing I need that some bitch to do is to squirt Callie or Moolah and have them smelling like shit when that damn skunk let up Hershey a couple of years ago down there in South Texas, she stunk like hell. We knocked the initial smell off of her, but it took a couple of months for her to smell back to normal and it scalded her eyes. So them skunks. Hey, man, I ain't got nothing against the skunk. They're just being skunks. But when they come up to, you know, do business or all of a sudden they're face to face with your pet and they turn around and squirt their ass in and light their ass up, I can't have it. So the skunk's got to go. All right, here's a question from Sammy. Hey man, I've been a die hard fan since I was a kid and I'm currently 23. My question is, how do wrestlers work out effectively when they're on the road traveling all the time? I'm a traveling salesman and I stay in Hampton Inns, Holiday Inns and Hilton Garden Inns 300 days a year. These hotel gyms more often than not have nothing but treadmills and dumbbells up to £50. There are so many important workouts I cannot do without bars or machines. How do the wrestlers do it and look like bodybuilders? Sammy, Sammy, come on, man. 50 pound dumbbells are 50 pound dumbbells. Your cardio is your cardio, man, if you just make up a circuit when you're in those garden ends and those Hampton Inns Hollands. Dude, I've stayed at a million of those places where all they got is 50 pound dumbbells. So I know exactly what you're talking about. And I think that they don't want to go any heavier than that because they don't want a liability. They're not going to have those hundred pound dumbbells in there for someone to go in there and get hurt. Ain't nobody going to get hurt. But I just think that's what they do over there. It can be frustrating, but dude, if you just put your mind to it, if you make up a circuit routine and throw in some abs or some squat thrust or some burpees in between doing 50 pound dumbbell presses, jump down and just string a bunch of exercise together. And then in between that, go one minute hard on a treadmill or one of those bicycles and get back on your weights. There's so many ways that you can mess with those. Make yourself up a little cycle while you're there of just a cycle of exercises and train your whole body. Yeah, we spent all those days a year on the road. And the thing about it is, when you get into a new territory, you start hanging out with the guys and you learn where every gym in the United States is. Well, all the good gyms and they're all the same. So each town you fly into, you're going to the same gym. Sometimes you don't Have a chance to get your workout in the gym. But more often than not, that's what we did. And for sometimes I've trained it a million of those damn hotels you speak of. Just go in there and get something done. If you go in there and put in 45 to 60 minutes and get your swell on, you maintain your consistency, you burn off all them shit calories you're eating from eating most of the trash that's on the road. But again, if you want to talk about dietary stuff, you go to any ihop, Denny's, Cracker Barrel, Waffle House. If you get grilled chicken, egg whites, steamed hash browns from Waffle House, you can eat clean in any restaurant you go to. If you only see a string of McDonald's, Burger King's and Wendy's, you just go through the drive through window and get either chicken or hamburgers and throw the bread away and just eat the meat. You don't need to go keto, but you don't need all that white starchy stuff in that bread. So it's easy, very easy to eat on the road. It's easier to make excuses to eat garbage on the road because one, you want comfort food. Two, because it's easy to say it's hard to eat clean on the road so you just eat shit. But it's really easy to eat clean on the road. And after all the times I travel with Billy Gunn, Bob Holly and those two guys were absolute gym fanatics. And whenever it came to eating at a restaurant, I'd be over eating junk or hamburgers or Burt's chili or whatever, and those guys would be eating egg whites and chicken breasts. And that's why they always look like a million bucks, because they always put the time in in the gym. And neither one of them drank as much as I did. Well, I don't even think Bob even drank. Billy would have some cocktails with me. But we were so active in the ring doing cardio when we was at the gym making the rounds. But that 15 to 25 minutes every single night in that squared circle would burn so many calories and you get your heart rate up so high, man, you could almost eat like shit and damn near be a body guy depending on your genetics, he says. One more question, he says. Steve, even after you adopted the brawler style following the Owen Hart Tombstone Pile Driver, I still feel we could have gotten more from the Dude Love versus Stone Cold feud. What are your memories with Mick from that part of your 98 run as World champion? Well, man, it's hard for me to remember everything that happened in 1998 just because it's been so damn long ago, and that's 20 years ago. I just remember working with Dude Love. I remember working with Mick Foley, whatever you want to call him, whatever Mankind. And Mick was absolutely phenomenal. And we met way back in our early days when he was in the business before I was. And we met, I guess, in Dallas, Texas. And then, of course, we crossed paths in wcw and then we turned into traveling partners and we rode the roads together. But as far as the feud and his totality goes, I can't remember. I remember that one match we had and there was a bunch of cars involved, and we were bouncing off those and used those as a lot of props. But Mick Foley is one of my favorite guys to work with. There was a guy who would do absolutely anything in the world, and Mick was always hungry to have the best match on the card. I don't know, a night that Mick Foley took off, he always wanted to have a damn good match. He wasn't selfish. He wanted both guys to get over. He wanted to finish, to make sense. Mick was a very smart businessman. He knew how to take care of himself. And he had a big enough heart and he gave a shit enough that he wanted the other guy to come out whole just as well. You know, that's whether, you know Mick Foley's going over or under. He was a businessman and he knew the business. He was a very smart guy and had a very good demeanor about going into a match. And, you know, some of those matches he had with myself, the Rock Undertaker, I mean, the dude had classics with everybody he worked with. So he's one of my favorites as far as the feud in and of itself. How long it lasted, I don't remember. But I remember working with Mick plenty of times and always loved working with him because every time you work with Mick, he's going to bring plenty of ideas, plenty of creativity. He's going to want to get our shit in and entertain those fans to the utmost ability that we both had. And so nothing but respect to Mick Foley, the hardcore legend. WWE hall of Famer.
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Steve Austin
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Here's one from Edmond, Oklahoma, from Regford, who said, hey man, I've heard you talk about your longtime friendship with Brian Pillman. Did that make it harder or easier or just fun to beat the hell out of him during that SummerSlam promo about Bret Hart? You wore his ass out, man. I tell you what, when I shanghaied Brian Pillman from behind with that big right hand, kind of like a semi closed line, I stomped a mud hole in his ass and walked it by. I was working, but it was a damn near shoot because it had to be. I was wearing those heavy ass high tech magnum boots. I still wear those boots to this day. And those things got a damn sole on them. They're very, very comfortable. But I stomped the shit out of him. I was kicking him, I was beating him to death. And I'll tell you, and I threw Jerry Briscoe out of the ring when he ran to the ring. And as long as that beating lasted, if you'll watch that footage back, you know Brian was out there with that cane and there was a brass duck head on top of that cane that you put your hand on. And so when I took that baseball swing and hit him in his shin and he had his leg bandaged up, there was some plastic wrapped around his shin. So I didn't break his shin, but the stick broke. The walking stick broke. And if you watch that footage back, watch that brass duck head as I hit him in the leg. Fly off right into the crowd. And I believe it hits the top of that metal barricade thing. And it damn near could have easily hurt somebody. But we got lucky and it didn't. And believe me, when I swung that damn walking stick, I was swinging for the fence. It broke off. It didn't hurt him. I sandwiched his leg in between that chair and then I jumped off that damn second turnbuckle. Like I said, shit, can Briscoe, who I absolutely love, through those ropes, ropes. And I beat the hell out of him. It was fun because it was a piece of business, but it was A very serious piece of business. I was a heel. I was trying to get heat. I attacked him for no apparent reason other than the fact I was probably a little bit psycho because I was jealous of the fact that he kept bringing up Bret Hart's name with reverence in my interview time. That's the reason I jumped him. But if you will remember, a couple of weeks or a couple of months later, he turned the tides on me. And let me tell you something, mister. As bad and as hard as I was kicking the shit out of him, he gave it to me and then some. He beat the flying shit out of me, and I wasn't selling it. And I knew I had it coming. And I knew there was going to be a receipt on the end of that ass whooping. And I didn't know how Brian was going to respond because this was weeks or months later. But when he beat the dog shit out of me, I mean, that was one of the worst beatings I've ever had in the history of my time in the business. That's a straight up shoot. Brian was kicking the shit out of me. And on a note, when I kicked the shit out of Brian, you know, they drug him out of there, I think they put him on a damn gurney or something, carried him off, and they took him to the opposite side of the arena. I went back to the dressing room. They took him out of different ways. I think they put him in an ambulance. And I actually asked all of the agents, I said, hey, man, I said, is he okay? Because that's how bad I was beating him. That's how stiff I was on that beating. And again, I'm not calling myself a UFC fighter. We've already talked about that. But when a guy is giving you his body, but you got to lay your shit in and make it look good, you know, anything could happen. And I was hitting him in all the right spots and he was staying flush and square for me, and vice versa. Versa when he was beating me. But you know, when you're beating the out of somebody, shit happens. And so it was stiff, but it was a lot of fun. Anytime I got a chance to do business with Brian, it was a good time, but it was very competitive. And by the same token, he beat the flying shit out of me when he wore my ass out. And that's the bottom line. Here's another question. Hey, Steve, Jeremy here. I've been a fan of yours for about as long as I can remember, and I've always been a big fan of your ring Work. You never seemed to lose your cool when things got heated up or botched. What was the most heated in ring moment or botch you had or was a part of? J. Bruner Man Jay I always tried to remain calm in the ring with respect to things going wrong, because there's that old saying, never let them see you sweat. So if some things go wrong, you don't want them to know it. I never really got heated up inside the ring because I never had to. I'll never forget the one time, one time I was working with Booker T. Somewhere, Me and Booker T. Worked together a lot and had a blast. And I love Booker T. But one time, and I've told this story on a podcast before, one time, Booker T. I don't know if it was like a jab or a cross, but he knocked the dog shit out of me and it incensed me immediately. And I knew that a return receipt must be fired. And so as soon as he hit me and I sold it, boy, I said, God dang it, and I hit him with the right hand. Well, like I said earlier, my right arm doesn't straighten out. But I threw the hardest shot I could back at him because that's how hard he hit me. And I told him backstage, I said, man, I said, if we ever get in a fight, I'm going to whip your ass, because I already know that I took your best shot. And my shot didn't connect good because my right arm wasn't straightened out. And he started laughing. And Booker T. Can go, absolutely, he can go. But that would be a shot that I fired that I thought had to be an immediate receipt. And we still laugh about that to this day. But other than that, the hottest I ever got in the business of pro wrestling was when we was working the keel center in St. Louis, Missouri, and we was working an angle. And I don't remember who I was working with, but big boss man was supposed to run out there and hit me with the chair to cause me to lose the match. We get in the spot, it's at the end of the match. There's no big boss man. He's nowhere to be found. That big bastard supposed to run out there and cause me to lose the match so we can get off and start working an angle together. So here comes Jerry Briscoe. Jerry Briscoe was one of the great shooters out of Oklahoma State and comes out there. Those old school guys aren't really great with chairs because they didn't really use chairs, steel chairs or even Wooden chairs back in their generation and they didn't sling them like we would sling them in the attitude era and currently now when they are able to use chairs. So he comes out there and hits me with this weak ass chair shot. I got to go down. I get beat. I really want him to kill me with that chair. So it looked better. But anyway, I get to the back and then all of a sudden as I'm getting to the back, I'm like, where is. And here comes Ray, Big Boss Man. He had been in the back talking to Undertaker while the match was going on. I guess Undertaker was in the main event or he had already wrestled, but he was back here talking to Taker. And man, I lit in the big Boss Man. It was the loudest cuss job I'd probably ever done in the history of the business. And I never ever lose my cool like that. Never in a million years. Well, except one other time in Cleveland Gun Arena. But yeah, I really uncorked on Ray because I was really upset that he wasn't there. Because not only did he mess up the match and you know, here comes Jerry Briscoe rather than Big Boss man, but that nullified our angle that we were supposed to work. And I was looking forward to working with Ray and he was such a great guy and a great big man. There weren't too many times I got heated up. I mean, when you go out there and you're at that level, you're a pro and you take pride in what you're doing and you know that things are work, you know that things can go wrong. And if they do go wrong, it's up to you to fly by the seat of your pants. And that's something that I always prided myself on. Whether it was on a promo segment, a segment with physicality in a match, complex matches where multiple people involved, things get out of order and you just got to find a way to make chicken salad out of chicken shit. And so that's the way we always rolled. And for that matter, I can't say this is a blanket statement across the history of the business, but I haven't seen too many times when people really got hot in the ring. I'll never forget I was just talking about Bruiser Brody the other day. For some reason, way back in the day in wcw, Bruiser Brody was it. Nwa I think it was wcw. Bruiser Brody was working with Lex Luger in a steel cage and Fonzie was the referee in that match. And for some reason, I don't Know what went wrong, but whether Brody didn't like the finish, but he started no selling all of Lex's moves. And, you know, Lex didn't really know where the shit or wine is watched. And he finally just gets out of the ring and climbs out of the cage. And I don't know if Bruiser had a bunch of blades taped to his finger. I think that's where he used to keep his blades or what was going on. He didn't cut Lex or anything like that, but he started no selling him. Bruiser was a big scary guy, and it wasn't like Lex ran away. It wasn't like Lex ran away like a punk. I just think he didn't know what to do. He just said, hey, man, f this, let me just get out of here. So he just climbed out of the ring. So that was kind of a case where, you know, obviously, you know, Bruiser was a strong, opinionated guy and something pissed him off. And there's been many cases where guys have gotten mad. But in a work sport, you know, when it turns to a shoot, things get real ugly real fast. And it works better when you work. Here comes a question from Joseph. Joseph says, hey, Steve, I think my way Limp Bizkit build up promo between you and The Rock at WrestleMania 13 is the best build up promo I've ever seen. What are your thoughts on it and what is your favorite build up promo that you'd have ever been involved in? Looking back, Joseph, well, that my way promo for WrestleMania 17 in Houston, Texas at the Astrodome with Jim Ross and Paul E. Dangerous Lee. Paul Heyman calling that match was phenomenal. The way they edited that footage together, the way that song just, just fit everything that we were doing. Those toasts that the Rock and I did, where I had that beer and I handed him his beer and I hit him in the chest and foamed it all over him. And then he took that microphone from me and just completely disrespected me. And I kind of cocked my head and look at him and then he does a hard toast to me and I think he knocks the beer out of my hand. And about the time he does that, here comes a swinging door, right? Wham. I drill the Rock. That shot connected a little bit. He drilled me. Couple of trade offs. I do a double leg on him and we were off to the races. When you look at the whole storyline, how we got Kurt Angle involved and, you know, Rock would almost hit me with his finish certain times, and I'd always get out of it and end up hitting him with mine. It was such a back and forth. And then that celebration where I had about three or four beer cans in my hand and. And it was a blind feed to him. Once I guzzled all that beer, boom. He hits me, I think, with a stunner. Hits my own finish. I sprayed the beer all over the place. Anytime me and the Rock stepped in a ring together, it was lights out from the word go. And I think it was the biggest part of that was the chemistry between myself and the Rock. Just the fact that lyrically that was a great song. And it was either going to be Rock's way or my way. And when I said in that promo, the sit down promo with Jim Ross, which they took excerpts from, you know, Rock was really coming on, man. He was white hot. I was white hot. I thought I was cooling down a little bit. That promo, that feud, that angle leading into 17 really reinvigorated me and just got me even hotter than I was. And of course, we were basically in hostile territory for the Rock because we were in. In Houston, Texas, basically my backyard. Had we been in Florida, I would have been in his backyard. So I think that crowd was a little bit biased for Stone Cold because I was a Texas native. But they loved the Rock as well. But they would boo when he would start doing offense on me and cheer when I would start doing offense on him. So it was all in all electricity that went into that. What is my favorite Bill at promo that you've been involved in? Looking back, that's my favorite Bella promo. That and a lot of the stuff with Vince, because, well, shoot, man, that stuff going into 13 with Bret Hart, you know, that was a great promo and a great buildup. And I just love that one promo when I think it was Todd Pettingill when he says, you've been there for so long, and then here comes this other guy, which is me, and I'm spewing my bullshit Austin316 stuff. I think that was a great buildup package as well. And I also think the one time when I was feuding with Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler said, Vince McMahon hates Stone Cold Steve Austin so much. For every grain of sand in the desert, that's how much Vince McMahon hates Stone Cold Steve Austin. And I'm paraphrasing because I can't remember exactly what he was saying, but I always thought that was a premier buildup as well. And always give a shout out to those guys, Production Adam and all those guys that were putting those videos together. But the my way one, to me, I still hear people talk about it to this day. And it was a very special buildup package and it encompassed everything that was going on in that feud and then some. Hey, Steve, one of my fondest memories was the night you won King of the Ring in Milwaukee. I remember the shock in the crowd when you beat Jake Roberts in the finals. The sympathetic figure Roberts gets beat by the badass Steve Austin. I also remember hearing about the trip to the emergency room you took during that pay per view. Can you recall the events of that evening? And did you ever think your promo would lead to such an iconic Austin316 status? Thanks, Ryan. No, man. You know, I remember working with Mark Merrow there in that first round match, or second round match, whatever it was, and we had a pretty, pretty decent match. And Marc Merrill was doing one of his moves, kicked me in the mouth and busted me up real good. Finally, you know, hit him with a stunner. This is before I had the set up with a kick to the gut. Hit him with a stunner. One, two, three. I get on that turnbuckle and I said, you F. Right, And I meant it. I know they had to fix that F word there, but, you know, I knew that my time had come. I had one more match to go and I was going to be with Jake the Snake Robert, but I was going to have to go to the hospital first, get my mouth stitched up, went to the hospital, came back, and as soon as I stepped out, Michael Hayes told me that Jake had cut a religious based interview and the match with Jake was really short because they didn't want all the 14 stitches in my mouth to get jacked up or infected or anything like that torn out. So pretty much just kind of started working Jake's ribs, unwrapped them. He had suffered a rib injury from working with Vader and softened him up for me. And question is, did you ever think your promo would lead to such an iconic Austin316 status? Hell no. I didn't think, you know, beyond that night that it would ever resonate or would ever be brought up again. Because I didn't know if there was ever going to be a reason for that. But sure enough, when Jimmy Miranda, the old WWE merchandise guy, came up to me and said, steven, the office finally wants to do a T shirt for you. Do you have any ideas? And I said, you God dang right I do. I said, I want to put, I want Austin316 on the front and a skull with stone Cold carved in the back. So I got a T shirt out of that. Austin316 is here forevermore. It's been here ever since 96. Hell, every March 16th, people start sending tweets about Austin316. 16 days. So it's still going strong. And as far as I guess what I remember or recollect is the number one selling T shirt in the history of the wrestling business. So we sold a shitload of them. I had fun cutting that promo, and I had no idea that it would be so big. On another note, the what chant. I never knew the what chant would stick around as long as it's as it stuck around. And it's. It's quite interesting, actually. But there is a way to avoid it when you're out there. But yeah, sometimes it kind of gets on my nerves too, but not really. I'm kind of laughing inside because I find it very entertaining that people still do that. When people give them the pause on a promo and people cuss me on Twitter because they're trying to listen to a promo, or one of the guys or girls is trying to cut a promo and be serious about the angle they're in, and they keep getting whatdded out the building. So, yeah, it has its ups and it has its downs or its pros and cons. I never thought that would take off or last as long as it has. All right, here we go. Hey, Steve, what was your favorite part about doing the WrestleCon you did at WrestleMania this year? And would you do another Aiden man? My favorite part was just meeting the people that came to my alliance and have been supporting me all my career. And I had so many good interactions with everybody, and everybody was so complimentary. And I wanted to make sure that if they traveled halfway across the world, that I shook their hand and made eye contact with them and created a moment that they will remember and give them an autograph. And so meeting people was truly what I enjoyed the most. I actually didn't get a chance to visit with too many of the wrestling people there because WWE was so busy. That's the biggest show of the year. And I was basically staying at the Russell Khan Hotel, hanging out and getting a chance to shoot the breeze with Kenny omega for about 30 minutes. Just casual talk and a little bit about wrestling. Getting to know him a little bit was really cool. Getting a chance to meet Pentagon Jr. In Phoenix was really cool because I'm huge Lucha Underground fan and big Lucha Libra fan. So to. To talk to those guys and they actually speak pretty Good English. So to have a conversation with them and to learn more about them was fun. And being in the great state of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana is one of my favorite towns. Louisiana is one of my favorite states. I've wrestled in almost every middle size, medium size or big size town in Louisiana, and I played most of their football teams when I was playing at Wharton County Junior College and then North Texas State University. So I've been all up and down that state and I love the food, I love the people. And of course, Louisiana is a big wrestling country. Anyway, Bill Watts running Mid south down there for a long time. So they're used to good wrestling action and they love it. So that was my favorite part about being down in there, being part of a city that I really love. I got a chance to eat at my Fisherman's Cove seafood restaurant that I eat at. Been eating at for 20 years, I guess, but that's what I enjoyed the most. Dear Steve, how do you feel when so many superstars today try to cut a serious promo, but the audience takes the wind out of their selves with the what chance? Well, I wanted to get your take on it since you're the originator. I love the work you did in the ring and I'm a huge fan of your podcast. Thanks. That's from Raj Thomas. Hey man, I just got finished talking about the what thing. I didn't remember this question was going to come up. It can really mess with a guy or girl's rhythm, what they're trying to say. They can get flustered sometimes that what chant can really be overwhelming and you think people aren't paying attention to what you're saying. And sometimes when a really strong, heartfelt promo is happening, they'll start with that what chant. And you know, the audience is missing out on what the wrestler is saying. And so sometimes, man, you gotta time that what chant? When there's some bullshit going on and you gotta be able to listen to a real deal promo so you know what's going on in the story. So yeah, I feel for you and I feel for them when they're trying to cut a good promo and it interrupts your rhythm. Plain and simple. Steve, when you inadvertently throw a potato, whose receipt did you dread the most? Getting back. Thanks and love the show. There wasn't a name with that, man. When you inadvertently throw a potato, when you, when you hit a receipt, man, I never got too many receipts because a lot of the times, you know, when the guys from dx, Road Dog, Billy Gunn, Triple H, X Pac man, all those guys, when they're feeding my comeback, man, I was just throwing and a lot of them were connecting. Those guys, especially Billy Gunn and Road Dogg. They'll say, God dang, Steve was the stiffest guy in the business. But they weren't. They were. They were so busy feeding the comeback, they didn't really get a chance to throw a potato. So I can only imagine that any one of those guys would have loved to knock my block off because of all the potatoes I was throwing during a comeback. But like I said that one time when Booker T. Snugged me, now he got the receipt, but if I'd have tagged him and he'd have hit me with that receipt, that had been a pretty stiffer seat to get back. So Booker T. Throws a pretty good right hand. Other than that. God dang, I gotta throw Bob Holly in there. I did a slap slap spot with Bob Holly. We were doing a double shot. First shot was in Pittsburgh and the next shot was, I think it was in Cincinnati. It might have been just 100 miles away, wherever it was. And I did the slap slap spot. Bob's a baby face. I'm the heel, and I slap him first. And then, you know, about a minute or two later, Bob's gonna slap me back and holy shit, Bob got those damn brick hands. He's tougher than nails anyway, but he ain't got them brick hands like Billy Gunn. Goddamn Billy Gunn. Big brick handed bastard. But Bob lit me up. I mean, boy, he slapped the piss out of me. And I just started laughing. Not laughing at the moment or right there in the ring, but when we locked back up with him, I said, God dang. I said, I ain't going to call that spot this evening. Because we were going to work again that evening. This was the early show, but Bob had a hell of a damn receipt. And yeah, I'll go with Bob Holly. Boy, he could blast you. But he never complained when he hit you. But he never complained when you hit him. But he was going to get his shit in, but he never complained about nothing. Hey, man, my question is, how did you maintain great abs in late 98, 99? I know you said you drink a lot of beer and whiskey. I'm currently doing about five hours of cardio a week on a bike and running and struggling to get results. I drink most nights three to four, sometimes five beers. I gave up carbs in January, but still not satisfied. Any tips or any chance you can go through your diet on the road? A question you've probably been asked a hundred times, Vincent, he's coming from the uk asking this question, dude, you got to get out of them beers. Unless you, you know, if you're not getting any results and you're still drinking three or four or five beers a night, let's just say a beer in England is probably going to have 150 calories. Five times 15, that's 750 calories. Is that because four times 15 be 60s? Yeah, 750 calories a night. So then you go 750 times seven. Man, that's a lot of damn calories. And I'll let. Man, beer bloats you, dude, anything will bloat you if you drink enough of it. My advice to you, you can't out train a shitty diet. And when I try to get serious about weight loss, like when I did that keto diet, I eliminated all alcohol from my diet and that was the difference. If you're going to drink, drink one day a week or one night a week at the most, two. And I would do them back to back and get them out of the way. But don't let me give you any excuses. If you have to have a couple of beers during the week, drink one day or one night a week and don't get shit faced. Drink you four, five or six beers and then you're done. You're going to play your catch up work during the week. But drinking that much beer every single night of the week, I can tell you first hand experience, you probably ain't going to burn much fat. And that's the end of that story. Hey Steve. I just wondered what Kristen thinks of how the wrestling world still reacts to. She came along afterwards and it must be sort of weird for her to occasionally see you being stone cold again. Like Raw 25. Great show. Love the podcast. Chris from Charleston, South Carolina. You know what, I met my wife when I'd already retired from the business of pro wrestling. And a lot of times people will send me matches that I've been involved in through my questionsteveaustinshow.com website or I check my emails, I'll be watching a clip and she'll go, oh my God, you were crazy back then. So she thinks the Stone Cold character was obviously, you know, pretty over the top and a lot different than the guy she's been living with for 14 years. So I guess it's kind of, it's weird for her. I mean, like I said, it's been a long time, but like when I showed up on raw 25. I mean, she was, she was cool. I mean, she really appreciated the pop that I got. Probably didn't appreciate it as much as I did, but she handles it. But we don't talk about it too much, really. Hey, Steve, Your famous match with Chris Benoit For SmackDown on May 31, 2001 has recently been made available to watch on the network. I had not watched it since it originally aired and remembered it being badass. Well, I watched it and it's every bit as awesome as I remember it. My question is about the 10 German suplexes. I know you've talked about them before on your podcast, but I was wondering, was this an in the moment decision or did you plan on taking them before the match? Were you in pain going into the match? It is a fast paced brawl with lots of little bits of details you don't often see today. Also, your beer is delicious. Thank you, Paul. Paul Malone. Yep, I do have a delicious beer. Broken Skull ipa. Let's talk about that match. That was a match I was talking about earlier. I said, hey man, we're going to go as long as we need to go. And it was Chris's hometown, I believe, I think it was Edmonton. We had worked the night before. Didn't have the match I wanted to have because that's how much I knew Chris could go, how much I respected him. And so I just said, hey man, I don't see you making a traditional comeback on me. I see this being something where you just grab, you know, me from behind and let's go, let's do 10 German suplexes, 10 in a row. Because I just don't see a regular comeback. I see 10 German suplexes and here comes Vince coming down and I barely escape with the belt. And Chris thought about that for a minute. He goes, I like that. And so that's what we went out and did. So it wasn't in the moment. It was something that I called, I planned, I ran across Chris, he dug it and we did it. And I'll never forget after that match, one of the, I've said it on the podcast before, is one of the, one of the highest compliments I'd ever been paid by an opponent. You know, we always shake hands after the matches and man, that was Chris's hometown, man. And we got off the headbutt off the top turnbuckle, me throwing the belt up. He gets a little bit of color from that accidentally. Just, it was a real solid match. And he goes, man, he goes, thanks. He goes, you really got me over. And he got it. He knew what I was trying to do, and that was my job to do, was to get him over. He was already over to a degree, but I got him more over than he was after the match than he was before the match. And he recognized that, and he told me that. And I'll never forget that compliment. And I wish things hadn't gone the way they did with Chris as far as down the road, but. But, man, the Chris Benoit that I knew, badass worker, great dude, cool as hell. And so I remember that match vividly. Out of all the things I've forgotten, I remember that match. And I remember my first trip to Japan. Hell, I guess it was with wcw, it's when I tore my tricep off my arm. But, you know, Chris was there, Eddie Guerrero was there, Dean Malenko was there, myself, Arnold, Ron Simmons. And watching Benoit and Maliko and Guerrero go out there every night and rip the damn roof off the building to have to follow them, that was damn near impossible. Those guys, as great as they were in America, Dane was awesome everywhere. But, you know, Chris and Eddie, man, they thrived over in Japan, and they could work their asses off, and they were like buzz saws over there, so they were hard to follow. So, yeah, that's what I remember about that match. I called the Suplexes, and I wasn't in any pain. And the pain he's speaking of is because I just come back from a neck fusion. And I figured at all the bumps that I'd taken leading up to that match that I would be fine taking those bumps, and it would be a great ploy and a great strategy for Chris to use to take me out and to focus on my weakness or perceived weakness, which could have been construed as being my neck because of the fusion, because of the surgery. And I was working heel at the time, so, you know, he's giving it back to me and then some. And so it made sense for that in his comeback from Michael Brian in Cincinnati, Ohio. Steve, not only am I a lifelong wrestling fan, but I've been a fan of yours in particular for many years and continue to listen to your podcast every week. My question is, for a brief period during your WCW run In the early 90s, did you stop wearing knee pads? I've always been curious as to why some guys chose not to wear them, and in some cases, both yourself and Cody Rhodes come to mind. Guys who previously wore them will suddenly stop. You eventually went back to wearing them. So I didn't know if this was a reason other than just trying to change up your look. Thanks. Okay, Mike from Cincinnati, you know what? I've been wearing them damn knee braces. And I just figured, you know what, I'm going to go back to being old school. And you know, if the old timers did it, hell I can too. And I'm just going to take those knee pads off a while and change things up. And so there for a while. I can't remember how long it was. Kevin Nash always talks about this. He goes, man, I remember traveling down the road with you when you weren't wearing knee pads and every night your ass was up there on the top turnbuckle fixing to splash something, somebody in front of 75 people. You know, he was talking about how we paid our dues and going down the road and learning all the tricks of the trade. But yeah, man, I don't think it was the smartest decision in the world. And then after a while, I ended up obviously going back to the knee pads. I don't recommend anybody wrestle without knee pads. You just spend too much time on your knees, taking bumps, getting in positions with rear chin locks and stuff like that. It's not just the bumps. It's landing on the map mats, it's stuff like that. It's just a constant grind. Strawberries and all kinds of things happen. And that mat is the dirtiest piece of fabric in history. So staph infection, all that stuff, very easy to get. So I just did it for a while and smartened back up, put the knee pads back on. And shortly after that there came the knee braces. But. But dude, I was just changing up my looks and that was all there ever was. Here comes one from Richard McMickens. Steve, my question is, have you ever thought about selling any of your rides? Not including your Ford Escort? No. It's a Ford Focus. I know you have the Ram Charger, which is badass in the Bronco, and your pickup. If so, I would love to take one of those off your hands. Man, I tell you what, Richard. I just bought a brand new 2018 three quarter ton Duramax Z71. That's my new ride. But I still use my 2003 Z71 with that 5.3 liter to haul my four wheeler around and my motorcycle when I go out to ride it on a BLM. I love that pickup truck. It's got 80,000 miles on it. And my new one's got 1400 miles on it. I'll probably never sell that Chevy. As far as that Bronco goes, I thought about selling it. I entertained the thoughts of buying a new Jeep wrangler or a Toyota TRD Tacoma. But I just love that Bronco too much. It has 41,000 original miles and it's a 1995 and it's 100% stock. So there's a slim chance that I would sell the Bronco. That Ram charger. That Ram charger is a 1988. It's got a 3 1/2 inch lift kit on it for broken skull challenge. I'm the second original owner. I'm fixing to de lift it and go down to 33s and I think about a 2 inch lift so I can make it a little bit more user friendly. It's got the 318 cubic inch motor. It's 99% original. I installed a tachometer to see the RPMs. Other than that, well, I had the exhaust done from the muffler back. But that thing is completely stock. It has a zbart rust protection package. 27,000 original miles, and I will own that thing when I am dead. And that's the bottom line. Here's a question. Hey, Steve. I was at a bar or a pub today, hitting the breeze with some friends when a man tapped my shoulder and told me to stop using strong language, quoting it as idiotic and shamefully on myself and others in presence before attempting to get me thrown out for such vulgar vocabulary with the F word. I told him to F off, but it still pissed me off. I wonder if you've ever had strangers have a problem with your use of curses. Do you respect them or tell them to shove it? Love the show, especially you and Kristen together. Hey, this is from Sean Allsop in London. Hey, Sean, you know, sometimes when you're in a public place, you know, when I'm in a public place, I cuss a lot. But when I'm in a public place, I'm actually pretty damn quiet. I'm probably one of the quietest people in a restaurant. And if I'm cussing, the only other person that can hear me cuss is my wife. But when I'm around people like that that are being real loud or dropping F word, I don't really take up issue with them. I just kind of let them do their thing. Hopefully, maybe someone will quiet them down or maybe they'll put two and two together. Some people are just loud drunks or sloppy drunks so I could see where the dude was coming from, you know, when, you know, maybe he Was maybe you were offending him or his family or especially if there's some kids around. Hey, it is what it is, dude. Most of the time in my personal life, everything comes out of my damn mouth as a four letter word. But sometimes you got to pick your spots. And I guess the guy kind of took offense to him, but I can see where he come from. And you probably could too if you had your girl there, maybe your parents or something like that and someone was being real. So it is what it is. But I've heard many, many people do that. But I'm not the guy that people will say, hey, I heard Stone Cold dropping F bomb over and over in a bar. That ain't gonna happen because that ain't how I roll. Here's a question. Hey Steve, glad you're doing well. Always been a huge fan. Back to your stunning Steve days in wcw. I was wondering, since you sold the bsr, what did you do with the vehicles like your Ford Broncos? Thanks. You show rocks. Robert. Robert, that's my green and silver 1996 Ford Bronco and my green 1995 Bronco, which is out of Arizona. I bought those off of ebay. I conveyed those with the sale. I kept my 95 Bronco that I just got finished. Speaking of, I let those convey with the sale because I didn't have anywhere to take them, anything to do with them. And they were geared up for the ranch and the value on those things. Well, those are badass four wheel drive vehicles and they're highly dependable. So I just didn't have any more use for them. So I conveyed those two Broncos with the ranch and I kept my white and silver one. Steve, I love the show. I've been listening since day one. You Rock and Triple H were the big three in WWE F in the Attitude era and had a lot of chemistry. What was your relationship with these guys outside of the ring and do you remember your first time meeting them and your first impression of him? Thanks. Marvin D from Philly. Man, Marvin. I met Triple H when he first came into wcw and here he came in. Good looking dude, good worker. Even back then he wasn't too long out of Killer Kowalski school. I think he'd probably been working. He'd worked several matches because he was pretty polished, you know. Even when he came into wcw, we hit it off right off the bat, same sense of humor. I was a little bit older than him, but I hadn't been in business too much longer, if any. So man, we just introduced ourselves to each other and I knew he had a bright future in the business and I don't know what he thought about me, but we always hit it off. Same sense of humor, same taste in music. He was a huge bodybuilding, powerlifting fan. Always hit the gym, wasn't a drinker, respected that. Good dude, great sense of humor. Low key, one of the boys. So that's how I met Triple H. And we hit it off from day one. And to this day, whenever we see each other, it's like old times. We didn't run in the same crowds, we didn't travel together. He had his crew and I had mine, or I was solo at the time, but nothing but good things. I mean, when Rock came in, Rock, man, you knew this guy had potential when you saw him. He was a good looking guy. You just knew the gimmick wasn't right at first. And then he changed his gimmick around. He ended up joining A Nation and then turned into the Rock. And then me and Rock started working together. But I was always cool with the Rock. I knew he had potential. I think everybody did. He had the right frame, the right look, really smart, charismatic. So you saw a lot of potential as soon as he came in. But the gimmick wasn't right. But boy, when he turned into the Rock or when he was was with Nation and he started turning heel, I mean, the people rejected him at first as a baby, but they took to him as a heel and he had some serious, serious heat. And then of course when he turned baby, he was mega over myself and the Rock. I probably worked with Triple H many, many times, but I probably worked with the Rock more times. And the chemistry with both guys in the ring. I go back to the three stages of Hell match that I had with Triple H in Las Vegas. It was a hell of a match, but I've worked so many matches and I was really getting hot when I was working with Triple H. Roc was really getting hot when he was working with me. So we kind of, you know, each. And of course, when I was gone, the few those two guys had while I was getting my neck surgery was awesome. But hit it off. Both guys instantly remain great friends with each of them. We don't call or text each other, but whenever we're in the same room, it's like nothing ever changed. No time has ever passed. We just start shooting the breeze and start picking it up from right where we left off and nothing but respect. Hey, on last two questions, Steve, just wondering if you have anything to say about Hawk, Hawk, Davey, Or Pillman. They were all in the main event and now they're gone. Kind of sad to think about. Thank you, Tim. Man, as far as Hawk goes, one of the Road warriors, one of the greatest tag teams. The biggest draws in the history of the business. What a character. What a cool guy. He was out there. He was out there and everybody liked him. He had some issues, but, you know, Hawk and Anima were the two guys that came up with the idea for the stone cold championship belt. And I remember when I first saw the Road warriors, well, I saw their debut in nwa. I hadn't seen them before that, but, man, when I saw those guys, I said to myself, holy shit, what is this? These guys are insanity. I mean, Hawk, those gigantic traps, Animal, just both guys just jacked up. Makeup. Mohawk, reverse mohawk. The spikes. Tell them, Hawk. Will the promos. Precious. Paul Ellering Gym fanatic workout freak. Smart guy. Those guys were awesome. But Hawk, just a good dude, man. It's too bad he's not here with us anymore. Davey, man, what a run he had. I'll never forget that one match. I guess it was when they wrestled in Wimbledon when he had those, the Cornrows in and he was jacked up. He looked like a million dollars. Had a classic match with Brett the Hitman Hart. And a couple times, you know, I travel a little bit with Davey boy. And just the consummate ribber, always, you know, like in a good mood or if he was in a bad mood. He was so sarcastic and dry. He was absolutely hilarious with that Manchester, I guess, accent, whatever. It was super dude. Hell of a worker. Great gimmick him and dynamite, you know, one of the greatest tag teams of all time as well. Just phenomenal. I wish he was still here. Davey was cool as shit. He really was. And the late, great flying Brian Pillman, man, one of my best friends in the history of the business. One of my tag team partners is the Hollywood Blondes. And then the cutting edge character, that was the loose cannon, Brian Pillman, that he created and just really launched and did that. Kay fabed everybody and worked everybody. What a phenomenal mind and a guy who overcome and a guy. What a phenomenal mind and a guy who overcame every obstacle that life threw at him and just sad. I'll never forget that night in Minnesota. We got finished working that house show and we had that pay per view the next day and Brian was kind of wobbling through the dressing room and I didn't think anything of it, just figured, you know, that's Brian, he'll be fine. And he wasn't fine. That's when he ended up dying that night. And we found out the next day at that pay per view. But man, nothing but respect for all those guys. And I was closest with Brian Pillman, obviously. And I'll never forget riding that Porsche he had, man, when we was in Cincinnati and he scared the living shit out of me. I thought the guy. One of the smartest guys I've ever known. One of the craziest guys I've ever known, but all good dudes. But anyway, I'm gonna wrap up his podcast, I'm coming back, and I'm gonna close the show. All right, everybody, give me the go home Cuesta. Time to wrap up his podcast and ride off in sunset. Before I do that, I want to thank you for sending me your questions to questionsteveaustinshow.com anytime you have a question or comment, send it to me to that address. I'll either write you a response myself or answer it on the show. I always keep these questions. I try to comprise a list of them so that I can get a show out of them because quite frankly, I like answering the questions that you guys sent in. So thank you very much. And if you have a question, please send it in. As random as they are. I dig answer them. Hey folks, I want to say thank you to all the fine sponsors of the Steve Austin show, especially Diamond Dallas Page, my buddy from ddp, Yoga, Geico Hymns and the WWE Network. That's how I'm able to do the podcast for you twice a week for free. And you can find all my sponsors@podcast1.com. Just click on the killer deals button at the top of the page and then click on the Steve Austin show banner. Folks, I am on social media. I'm on Twitter and Instagram @SteveAustin BSR. Folks, until next time, my name is Steve Austin and I'll catch your ass down the road.
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