anytime anywhere. today larry king steve austin the former wrestling star on life out of the ring been found out will come up one day and i said you know what you're forty years old you need to be productive you need to go find a job and just how stone cold is the real steve austin you like being a good guy in life yes i like to think that i am and what made him the biggest wrestling star in america i was never the best looking i was never the best technical wrestler but i worked my and enough things that i became the best it's all next on larry king now. going to larry king our special guest steve austin you know almost stone cold steve austin six time world wrestling federation champ and w w e hall of famer he now

host country music television's competition series redneck island airing wednesday nights at ten thirty eastern we'll talk about that in a while how did how did the name stone cold come of one of the new stone cold happen back in a day i was wrestling a steve austin and then one of the guys that i was traveling with gave me the name stunning steve austin stunning steve yeah you're a great looking guy. and i had long hair didn't have to go t. i was a pretty good looking kid sitting when i lose a job or get fired it's time to come up with a new identity you know and when i went to a that's when vince mcmahon from debbie debbie f. back and i gave me a call and i was going to go in and they want to bring me in as the ringmaster so i went in as the ringmaster but i knew going in that was just a foot in a door that the ringmaster didn't have staying power didn't have legs you're never going to see that as a marquee name on anything hard to merchandise the ringmaster so you know i watched a special on a serial killer. richard kuklinski i came up with the concept of just

a cold blooded ruthless hill you know because he was known as the iceman puts you off as all these ideas and they came back with names like thing with frost autobahn rootless and i stagger temperature based names like that but anyway i was very frustrated my wife at the time was from england and at the time she made me a cup of hot tea she put on the table and she said well don't worry about it you come up with something is going drink your tea forget stone cold that's your name stone cold steve austin so that's how that name was born so you were a villain i was a villain when i first broke in the business in dallas texas become champions do the well you know they can they get yes absolutely they can because of all of the middle that scene but ultimately larry that good guy has to come back and defeat that villain and that puts the babyface of the good guy at a higher place and so many different changes would happen along the road and when i first started real heart of stone cold steve austin i was

a heel but i was starting to become cheered more than a baby thanks as i was working with so that's when vince gets the idea hey we need to transition this guy into a good guy or maybe faces we would say in the business and through a match with brett the hitman hart and russell many of thirteen we executed a double turn where he went in is the baby face left on the way to being a heel i went in as a heel and left on the way to being a baby face and ultimately ended up in my peak as stone cold as a babyface a good guy you like being a good guy. yes in the. end lies yes. you're a good guy yeah i'm a good guy and i like to think that i am you got you had to work hard for everything and the wrestling business i was like being the heel of the villain because seemingly you just had more freedom more creative liberty to push the envelope in different directions actors would rather play billons them right where you are an athlete. oh yes i was i was

a an athlete all through high school and specialized and thrown the discus in track and went to the state level and i got you know for three years of education where play in college football two years in a junior college outside of houston and in two years at north texas state university and not good enough to play pro football but good enough to get a free education but like iraq where you are an actor no i was not an actor i was probably the hottest thing on two feet back in the day one and bridges started calling you know debbie debbie up and say hey we'd like to have steve on the show so i did about ten or eleven up so it's a nice bridges and i just would go in and we were on the road all the time was a great show it was a great show and don johnson was absolutely wonderful best so i was working about three hundred days you're on the road if i'm in the san fran i would shoot out about three to five days and get back on the road so fast forward all these years until i retired to get out of the ring and i stayed unemployed or did nothing for

about two or three years kind of finding out what i was going to do next and found out will come up one day and i said you know what you're forty years old you need to be productive you need to go find a job i didn't want to go back to driving a forklift and loading and unloading trucks like i did before i got in the business so i said take us out to hollywood and get met doing business that's when i turned to acting see why did you quit wrestling man it was just a build up of accumulation of a lot of injuries i got dropped on my head in about ninety seven i was a train's a quadriplegic for about ninety seconds there in the middle of the ring in front of twenty thousand people live on pay per view and i was thinking at that time as i was laying there looking up at the lights that i was going to be the next christopher reeve chris reeve has just gotten paralyzed so in a way it was just a build up of injuries and finally the writing was on the wall that hey this is the part of the movie where you need to ride off into the sunset what's your oh no. well who is the boss then now. the show than

a dog in the next segment of our redneck island will have your own interview show who are you who you know you've always been someone yeah i do you know i grew up i was the real steve but the real steve is a guy just like anybody else walking on the street i was a guy who came from my dad sold insurance when we were when i was growing up my mom was more like an interior decorator she hung wallpaper and we were very middle class growing up in a small town of south texas i've never been a guy who's been out of the ordinary but you know once i set my sights on something and as far as a competitive environment or arena goes as in the as in football they say you have to have a killer instinct and that's that's my competitive mindset when i do anything i want to be the best when i when i got to be the best in the world of professional wrestling i was never the most talented i was never the best looking i was never

the best technical wrestler but i worked my hands solve and enough things to have enough things going for me that i became the best so steve osman isn't merely a god now who realized his dreams as a kid to be a professional wrestler who took it to the highest level who when i got dealt a different set of cards played the other cards came out here found success and the movies hosting reality television which i love and now hosting my own podcast steve austin show and which i get to talk to people just as steve austin and from both the roads that i've been down that things that i've learned the lessons i've learned the dues are paid to as their home many in many ways i'm a i'm a beginner at the larry king level on a podcast and i'm not even close to lacing your shoes but that's who steve austin is right now and he is a lot tougher than i am. i call today's reckoning beer storm because today it is going to rain beer.

they got me. but. that's a scene from redneck island it's a take of on survivor right i think there's elements of survivor and there we don't like to use a survivor word because we like to think that we're you our own living will you all would you argue that we are willing are there's a group of rednecks competing for one hundred thousand dollars cash prize on an island correct and what are the things they have that like what they do they would that would be against right here this one the first things that we did when they arrived here at the island and i what they've got to do if you can see the color shirts they have on there's all these beers were dropped about five hundred beers man helicopters quite spectacular they've got to go out and round up twelve of the same color beer koos use and put them in their beer holder the to the man and woman

to do that first are going to be the team captain so they're picking their teams here and so it's pretty important set up who came up with this i don't know who came up with it but when they did come up with when they did come up with it and c.m.t. said hey we got to do this you know i was kind of the first name that came to mind to host the show but i don't think they could and i don't want to blow a bunch of smoke but i don't think they could have picked a better host for the salad and me are you red necked i think i am can anyone be a redneck anybody could be a redneck and well it's a good read next anybody that loves the outdoors has an appreciation for the outdoors hans fish is enjoys the finer the simple things in life and makes the most of whatever you have you got a ranch called broken skull located in south texas you spend your time between l.a. and texas you never fly but you drive the r.v. everywhere is that it yeah man my wife and i we have our r.v. we just sold it we're right now looking for we're doing odd. diligence and i

researched by another rig and we had a few mechanical issues with the other one we don't like to fly because our dogs are our babies my wife and i are dog people and now we have two labs of a chuckle lab in a black lab but we will not fly them underneath the plane so we travel with them and that's why we drive back and forth. how's the red the red make shows a big hit right it is i think is the number one show on the music television i love been in business with these guys it's a great demo for me and it's a great fit and you know we're never rest on our laurels you always want to strive and and go for bigger and better things so what this season last year we set a premier record for our season premiere there's year i'm open that will break that and the show would have been our number so i'm very happy but not satisfied just with what we have we could just since come from the contestants come from all over the place in the south many this year this season come from kentucky florida alabama tennessee texas georgia louisiana mississippi and most of these have been

from the south i'm looking forward to when we have some though of johnson from from the northeast maybe a jewish guy a new york had absolutely right i would i want to be able to push this thing to be as big as it can be you. know again that i got one boy that's the name of the ranch you're aware does the weird and i mean larry king so it must be true. in the weird in the best sense all i know i know so anyway i wrestled for about give or take fifteen years and i've always been wanting to buy ranch in south texas i should've bought years before i did when prices were cheaper but being that as it was about the ranch and any time you bahrain she got to have a cool name for it and i figured with everything that i had to do to buy this place i literally had to break my skull so that's why i called it the broken skull ranch here a hunter i guess or proudly so you think hyundai's misinterpreted is that

a sport. i mean the animal don't have a chance to see well it all depends on you know how you what you determine a sport i mean is a sporting event no but it is you know man versus you know the i am a white tail deer guess so is me trying to outsmart that white tail deer that you have done well absolutely the tail did and i'm getting into the way it is i'm getting into more archery stuff but all really is funny because my wife is a vegetarian and you know owning my ranch it's a lot of deer management we're trying to grow big deer and all of my dear native south texas deer and so my wife is not going to shoot anything she's not going to killing them and she's not going to eat any meat but she can go to her deer stand and she can have her binoculars and her camera and she can enjoy the place and the process as much as i can without killing as far as the killing or the taking of an animal's life goes i'm a responsible hunter i make a responsible shot i eat what i kill so i stand up for my rights his honor and i'm

very proud to be a honor what about what you make of gun control. the gun control issue is an ongoing nightmare to me most of the people who are doing the to me a lot of this you know random stuff or stupid things with guns used days. i don't know that a background check would get you so what stronger measures would you take you know what if you committed gun cramming united states i think you ought to be punished to the nth degree quite what they do in england. and i live if you use a gun in a committed crime attacks on five years no matter what it was right there as you go and it was seven eleven never take the going to be a pocket rob a candy bar bible is just for having a great man when did when there is a serious repercussion to be had people pay attention i don't have a bit more quickly tooth for tooth coming up by us he will sound off on the state

of pro wrestling today that. right after the break. is it possible to navigate the economy with all the details it's instinct and misinformation and media hype will keep you up to date by decoding the main stream had. it been your. time as a new alert animation scripts scare me a little. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow

the breaking news. alexander's family cry tears of joy at a brave thing that had to be added brenda arquette a court of law found online is a story made for a movie is playing out in real life. we're back with steve austin stone cold steve austin he knows country music television's hip dumping titian's series redneck guy lou has his own podcast show you i'm going to show if you'll be on the studio will you be on the steve austin show yes all right we're going to book ok you booked big name guests and all kinds of people are rude and i've only got about thirteen episodes maybe fifteen episodes under my belt so far and part of that time i was in mexico working so a lot of times and other you may have an internet one that was going on so long to

. disco to work with what i've got to create a show because when you have a content deadline you've got to turn something in but to answer your question people like you and and all walks of life absolutely i'm going to enjoy doing it ok row you got a favorite wrestle today someone in the steve mode i don't know there's a lot there's a level be another's now i don't think there lobby another steve guy i currently like. right now i think john cena is the face of the company but if i was a guy one guy i got to go see him talk. i like the attitude i like i like what he doesn't ring he's very creative he's very safe he's very entertaining you would know that for us stunner right yes or what was a move you know in vegas don't do that to me i know but basically the set up was a kick to the gut to kind of been him over and put him in position and then i would turn to him and put their chin on my shoulder rub the back of the head i would drop down to sit on my butt and and rapid fire fashion so when i hit they basically

jolted bare bottom of their chin and throat on my shoulder very effective you're all friends aren't you didn't hurt to hurt someone well most get hurt most time it didn't hurt but the guys get hurt during absolutely when you get guys in there are two hundred fifty pounds plus flying around those rings and sometimes you've been on the road for weeks and weeks at a time and timing gets off and things happen as they do it any time you're drought you're dealing with gravity and the laws that there's nicks and you don't always land flat in sometimes you start landing in stages that's when the whips occur and that's when things start getting messed up together i know it's kind of it's showbiz's i know i've been with the monday nights and i was down to her first have you ever been in the ring with the crowd going nuts and you give us that forget about everything else you want to really trample this guy where it goes beyond that into really harmful things no ads ever happened no absolutely honest always keep in mind show yes yes it is a show because if it was out of the mindset then i would have been and you have

seen your him. may but it's all about the show it's all about taking that crown on a ride and that's where the psychology comes in because you know you do something to elicit a response based on that response you proceed accordingly so it's a thinking man's game out there the guys are successful in business are very smart guys don't mean they can't screw up in life but they're very smart guys and have a have a feel and an ear for that audience and you do have to be a character right you got to stay until you were stone cold oh you know it would in turn will finally turn out to what stone cold actually was it was like i said earlier you know it's just part of me in a competitive environment turning my volume from one to ten names from wrestlers what do you think of how do you like local to know one of the greats of all time john seen a terrific tremendous young man great bill goldberg oh i love bill goldberg is a good read about or i always yeah he was kind of cut from the same cloth one of my guys i grew up with a lot of guys not one became a wrestler oh i go and plus bill goldberg bill was one of the most strongest

powerful guys to ever be in the business and a sweetheart of a guy i just talked to me the day the undertaker the theme absolutely incredible run and a legend triple h. the cerebral assassin now one of the had all assassin you gotta love it i'll gather i love being in a ring with because they're censoring general. and randy orton up in income and i think that he kind of peaked out there for a little bit but i think he has another level to take it to and so if rainy season assisted my challenge to reign or to step it up one notch because you could go father is everything ok with you in your ex-wife oh everything that i know of why. i did deb. because when that benoit thing happened i was terrible oh you know that was just absolutely yeah it was you know him a tragedy he was one of most wonderful human beings i've ever met my life whatever happened in the house that day will for ever tarnish who and what he was he did a whole show that night yeah. i remember. remember i was going to be

a part of that show and couldn't but when that whole situation went down it was a shock across the world to anybody that knew him and of course in and of itself it was it was shocking so his career his legacy will be ever be forever tarnished because of that wrestling change was interested absolutely and as i remember growing up when i was seven or eight changing channels on t.v. and come across houston wrestling there was a smart it was a dark arena with just a light bulb over the ring smoky you can only see the second and third row two guys were in there it was before all the exposé is this is was would this is when wrestling was real about ted turner would he did it in the studio at c.b.s. oh it was great that inside a studio it was great you know then all the things happening you know john stossel interviews. exposé so then you haven't found it does a smart thing and comes out of the closet so to speak in college sports entertainment and it is today what it is i loved. the organic nature of it back in

a day sometimes i think it may be a little bit overproduced these days but show business show biz and so the same changes that have happened in professional wrestling have happened in baseball and football and hockey and that's just the way things go sometimes i long for the years back especially in the mid eighty's in the end in the carolinas that stuff in the stuff that bill watts was doing out of tulsa but i still love the business today and i appreciate the guys and gals honoring given that they're all trying to perfect their craft and entertain the crowd so you love your career you enjoy you got no regrets over wrestling you know i think there was one one. time when i no showed a building because i didn't like the creative and it was probably the biggest mistake i ever made in my wrestling career if i could go back in time i would have changed that one decision but sometimes when you get out of bed sometimes you move a little slow but anything you do what you whatever you do is going to catch up

with you i have no regrets. i had a blast i had so many i have so many good memories when i first got out i missed it it was like i was in withdrawal and i missed the business but now that i'm done with it and i've moved on i just have great memories we got flooded with social media questions for our special guests steve austin he hosts redneck island on c.m.t. here we go kelley anthony on facebook who is your role model growing up as a child role model kilis a role model but i just say i really looked up to john wayne. not a kazoo on reddit wants to know when we when you were starting out in the wrestling business what was the hardest thing for you to learn the psychology just learning how to push buttons and pull strings and then a ten and i do want to know who is your greatest opponent. probably brett the hitman hart or the rock and that's read in the hit man hunt read the hit man hart on the greatest of all time and he was hard to he was rough you in the ring oh no

he was one my favorites merge those blue shell on reddit as how did you come up with the allston three sixteen catch phrase basically it was a tournament style pay per view is king in the ring of the first guy russell to kick me in the mouth i had to go to hospital and get fourteen stitches in my upper lip when i came back in a moment the paper view was still going on a guy came in for me that i was going to wrestle jake the snake roberts and the final for the king of the ring at the time jake was going around giving religious testimonies i was informed that he kind of religious promo on me as soon as i heard that and i was in a hill mode i was the bad guy i knew that when i beat him because i knew what the finish was going to be that i was going to say something in reference to john three sixteen and say i'll spend three sixteen says i just whip your ass and was totally spontaneous and had no one told me that he'd cut that promo allston three sixteen would have never been born that's the new new testament simply sausages on reddit wants to know do you have any real backstage heat with any of the wrestlers i know

you know there's going to be times in places where you're in a bad mood and things you go in kind of rough or maybe the same guys in a difference in the same situation and sometimes you can work with guys you'd rather not work with but at the end of the day you always go to the ring to protect the person you're in the ring with your life is in their hands and vice versa when it all comes down to it you're there for longevity if you get sent home due to an injury you don't make money so you always go to the ring with a par with what the aspect of taking care of who you're performing with demetrius nineteen seventy five s if you go back and change one of events that happened during your wrestling career what would it be that one of an i referred to as when i was going to lose a match to brock lesnar and like creative and decide to take my ball and go home as they said so that would be the one phil rock sixty on instagram if you would have one less imagine w w e who. if you want to your opponent that's a great question see him poke. glenn hireable on facebook as when you come back to

wrestling to have a match with c.m. punk i would consider it but all of the all the stars would have to be aligned it would not be good for them it had to be great for me spastic here on reddit wants to know if you regret leaving w w e no i do not regret leaving i did what i had to do and i moved on down the road and forged another life and the one seventy and read it wants to know what exactly is the bottom line and the bottom line is whatever us eight is on how i feel passionately about a subject i am very happy to be on larry king show and that's the bottom line ok we did we finish with a game called if you only knew what you have a guilty pleasure we don't know about. going to favorite pastime hunting first person you have a kissed my first girlfriend was a name kathy soliah. sixteen seventeen sixteen meadows a shock here larry you fourteen never kissed a girl in the oh my goodness i would believe it or not. whatever having

a kathy. married divorced. next question you have been called. the worst thing i've ever been called i cannot say on the show when you are a bad guy the crowd hated you right yes. was that fun to have to this yeah yeah because when you're if you're if you're there to be hated you want to be hated if you're there to be loved you want to be love you don't want that in between all or nothing what scares you in life is scared of anything snakes anything wow i don't like snakes i don't swim in the ocean i live right by the ocean out here and l.a. but i will swim because i don't want to leg it off by a shark of a fear of sharks i did my first research paper on sharks good thing to thea yeah you know one brush shocks don't care they don't never interviewed a shark but i have the opinion they don't care if i got one on the sand i wouldn't have such a problem with him but in the water in his element that's his ballgame that's right the best piece of advice you ever got always let a cooler heads prevail problems moment. making my

parents proud in anything i did working hard to to live up to the standards that they set for me and is this something no one knows about you sure there is. there that's your an outlaw photograph and you know best man thanks to my guests stone cold steve austin catch redneck island every saturday at nine pm eastern on c m t and you can download his podcast the steve austin show on i tunes and podcast one dot com and remember you can find me on twitter and kings things and that's the bottom line because larry king says so.

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