Stone Cold Steve Austin - WWE, Reality TV, Podcasting - Jim Norton & Sam Roberts

Lama, that's your name, yes, by the way, I would like a goodwill ambassador, right? I'm trying to climb I'm trying to watch the language now you can curse okay hit it are you the big boss of DME Jay Strongbow yeah when I first came in and this goes back to when I was still F? Chief Jay Strongbow was a great man because he was one of the guys along with the Brisco slaughter blackjack lands that took me under his wing. George Animal Steele gave me a lot of good advice and Jay was super old school and all about saving money. and you too, yes, he was very instrumental and gave me a lot of advice.

It's probably strange what a lot of those guys were talking about. Things you'd never expect, the rest of the money and investments and all those things that guys you just wouldn't think they'd talk to you about a long time ago, when you could still buy a house for a relatively small amount. small of money in their territory because you never knew how long you could last in the territory, most of the guy is in the past and again, houses were much more profitable than these days, but you always bought a house if you bought one. house she bought it in cash you bought it in cash because no one could take it from you you didn't have to make any payments right and that was your security blanket if you got hurt if a promotion screwed you up that was the one thing you had and that was just a mentality from the guys from a long time ago and you learn it from Chief Jay, well that was yeah, Chief Jay and a lot of guys did that and then I'll never forget it.

I was on a plane once and Terry Taylor had his tray in front of him, it's probably the early '90s and he has receipts everywhere and I said, Jay, I said, what are you doing? He says. I'm just writing down all my receipts, all my expenses and all that for my taxes, so you know he was a little ahead of the curve, as far as you know, keeping track of all his expenses. You know he had an amazing fanny pack, worth about a pound. of paper, yeah, and everything else we carried, most of which is illegal, these guys, you know, took care of the business aspect while he had some downtime on a plane.

I usually drank, you know, Bloody Marys and whatever, having a good time, yeah, I'm having a while, you took a break from

podcasting

, you were doing some reruns on Steve Austin's old show, which is back, you had what Hulk Hogan, Mark Henry D, no you haven't done it, who did you do it? aw Tony Kanaan that's the one but you took a six month hiatus where they were running repeat what happened man I just needed to break you know I've had several things to go on and I just hit the ceiling. or hit the wall and I needed a break to kill my brain and part time, man.

I love people and I want to give you a hug right now. Likewise I can be pretty antisocial when I used to go to the ranch man I lock the doors if I don't see another human being for two months man I'm fine so anyway I hit the wall for a moment I needed a little break, kind of a reset and recharge I'm running out of batteries and I'm getting all these emails, I mean, hate tone emails and I'm like, hey man, I'm going to give you a break, yeah, it was strange, so I was happy that people wanted me to come back. in error as much as they are yeah anyway after a break I wanted to come back because what I love about podcasts and the reason I started the podcast uh I wanted to start one about a year before but I didn't do.

I don't know anything about technology or how to get started or do anything, and some agents called me and said, Hey, we just got a phone call from podcast one. Do you want to make a podcast? I said you're absolutely right, I'm doing it so we could do it. He didn't take the meeting and I said it started and Sam, the thing about that is you know when you leave WWE, you know it's a huge platform to promote anything that has the core, so I mean, maybe it will come out. there on the corner of Lincoln and Washington there in Marina del Rey with the damn megaphone hey I have a CD for sale or whatever you don't have that voice anymore so even though my podcast is on a much smaller level I want to say a lot.

Then you know what the W platform is. It is a voice for me to stay in direct contact. You know, to stay in touch with all the fans it took me, you know, throughout all the years of wrestling to build a direct line of communication. and they helped promote a lot of podcasters, oh yeah, because it's something specific that people listening really want to hear and they actually do better than a lot of radio shows. Podcasts are great for promotion and then, by the way, I didn't add anything by saying no, but at that point, you know what I say about something, I mean, it will be picked up and picked up and broadcast, so I mean , oh yeah, you don't have to just listen to my podcast.

Can? You may be reading the Internet and something that Stone Cold or Steve Austin said on his podcast is going to get traction, so just keep my presence there to help push me forward. You know all the things I'm doing. Do you feel like you are? I'm going to do that kind of cycle where you do it for six months so take six months off you'll go back and forth okay you keep doing it I just needed a break and now the thing is it was really hard because you know during Many of those years, I would go to production, either on the southern island of Mexico and I have no material or where there is a broken skull challenge.

I'm working, you know, 14 hour days before, you know, podcast, you know you have I have to do some research, yeah, what could be an hour or an hour and a half, you could have put in six, eight, ten, twelve, whatever. kind of preparation you put into that show, you don't have time to do that when you're in production you're working hard, so that was, you know, one of the things that led to those in need needing a break, but I'll continue the podcast. For a long time. Do you think you would be up to date with wrestling? if it wasn't for the podcast because you were talking about the current product all the time, but do you think you'd be looking at it at that level if you weren't doing the podcast?

Yes, yes, because I love the business and I record all the shows on DVR. and then if someone says "hey man, check us out because this was a cool angle or someone's coming in with great potential," then I'll see where they are or what people are saying about them and see in them. If I see those same things, I would still stay in touch with the business because I don't know if it sounds like, uh, when I came up and couldn't be, you know, a rock and roll star, you know, being a professional wrestler was my entire dream. life and I had to go into the sunset after about 13 years and you know, I was for a year with the neck injury for six or eight months because I basically said, fuck you when they wanted me to work.

I'm looking for Brock Lesnar, which I would have loved to do the job, you know, if it had been a match built at the right time, at the wrong time, so I wasn't in the business for that long if you really think about it, but that That's what, that's one of my biggest passions in life is professional wrestling, what do you think? Stunner Kevin Owens is doing Kevin Owens like a restaurant. Smackdown, he's doing the stunner, which is Stone Cold's finisher as his finisher. He says for the audience, not for you. comes with a little bit of a different approach than I had, but I mean he's coming and I'm glad he's using it because I like Kevin Owens and it's funny, many years ago, I don't remember, I think it was in Toronto or some area. from some airport somewhere and he just walked up to me and introduced himself.

I had never heard of him because I'm Kevin Steen and I'm trying to do business, because I'm a wrestler and do you have any advice for me and he tells a story I said yeah man, I said you need to learn, you need to learn how to cut a promo , I said learn to learn to talk, kid, it's easy for me to say, well, he took it to heart, oh yeah. now it's like a top promotion yeah he told me you said never stop talking and that's why everyone he's in the ring mid match like he just talks non stop but in the past he had all these crazy moves . he's not doing anything, the man just moves, you can only do the ones you've known for so long, but you can talk forever as long as you have a base, you know you need your offense, you need to move, you need to be able to work.

You can do it as well as anyone, but you have to have that character to make people believe in you or have something to love or hate about you and then back it up to sell tickets with words, well, that's the lesson, isn't that what I mean? If anyone can prove that you can talk forever, it's Stone Cold Steve Austin, he's still talking on a podcast type TV show, but when you go back and look at my movement, I mean what I did now, I mean people, I had a stop. into a corner and a big right hand and that was it, yeah I lose, that's pushing everything I was drinking for 11:00 and resting on the side, it all worked, did anyone get mad because you said on Raw?

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