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Steve
Austin talks new show "Stone Cold Takes on America"
| FOX 5 DC (FOX 5 Washington YouTube)
'Stone
Cold' Steve Austin goes toe-to-toe with new challenges
on TV show, has words of wisdom after experience
Austin
told Fox News Digital he would tell anyone to 'live
your dream life because life doesn't last forever'
By
Ryan Gaydos
"Stone
Cold" Steve Austin has been known for three things
over the course of his career in the wrestling business
raising hell, kicking butt and drinking beer.
As he leaves the industry behind, aside from a few
appearances at major events, Austin has developed
a different persona in podcasting and television.
On
Sunday night, Austin will debut his new television
show on A&E called "Stone Cold Takes on America."
The premise of the show centers around the six-time
WWE champion doing the things he never got a chance
to do because he put his mind, body and soul into
the squared circle for several decades. He embarked
on a journey in an RV to experience all kinds of new
adventures.
Austin
told Fox News Digital in a recent interview that among
the most difficult things to do was to try to compete
and be the best at something he has never done before.
He admitted there were some situations that were downright
"painful" to be in while he had to really
get a good grasp of the ropes in others.
"Well,
one of the things you would sit there and laugh at
taking someones order at a steakhouse,
waiting tables for an evening when I did not know
the menu. Heres the thing, the show is called
Stone Cold Takes on America, you know,
Ive lived my life as Steve Austin so you know
Im not going up to your table and throwing down
a menu, saying if you wanna order a steak gimme a
hell yeah," he said. "I dont have
that shell of protective armor Stone Cold
provided me. Thats not what Im doing during
the show.
"When
I was doing the things that I loved or doing the things
that I always wanted to do but never had a chance,
man, I was all in. But on some of the other stuff,
which I would consider sort of fish out of water stuff,
man, some of it was extremely painful because I was
just trying to do a good job and I wasnt relying
on humor or just to try to make a spectacle of it.
I was really trying to perform. I would say in some
of those segments, I actually failed. Maybe theyll
be entertaining on TV. Some of it was hard. A lot
of it was adventurous. Some of it was adrenaline filled.
And quite frankly, some of it was very painful."
Austin
said he learned a lot when he was put into new types
of situations and mostly that experience doing some
of the jobs he experienced matters a lot and the average
or above average person cannot just walk off the street
and thrive in a new environment. It takes learning
and practice.
"What
I learned, and this is going to sound basic. Im
not really a philosophical kind of guy with words
of wisdom. But whatever you do in life. the things
that you end up being really good at are the things
you have repetition at and experience matters,"
he told Fox News Digital. "Like take for instance,
like any time I showed up to do someone elses
job thats my first time to ever try that. Im
a real competitive person if they could do
it, I could do it. Eh, not so fast.
"When
I first started in the wrestling business, way back
in the day, I was terrible. I was God awful. By the
time I finished up, I was pretty dang good and I was
able to draw a lot of people into the building. It
took me a while to get that good. So, some of the
things that you do in life I think the things
that you do most are the things you get the best at.
And this was kind of a deal where I got a chance to
go to a lot of things that I never had a chance to
do and also a bunch of other situations."
Even
as "The Texas Rattlesnake" claimed he does
not get too philosophical with his words, he offered
some advice.
"I
would say to anybody out there, man, if youre
on the fence about trying something or getting good
at something, man, I say go for it," he told
Fox News Digital. "Put your fears behind you
and strike out and do as many things as possible.
Live your dream life because life doesnt last
forever. And when you look at the totality of everything,
not to go out on a limb here but were not here
forever so the time that you are here for, experience
as much life as you can and excel at the things that
you want to."
As
far as bucket list items go, Austin said he checked
a lot of it off the list with the show. He said he
loves driving experience, but while filing the show,
it was not all smooth driving.
Austin
told Fox News Digital there were some issues with
the RV initially and had another driver give him the
bird at one point.
"Were
going through a traffic circle, just leaving my house
about 10 miles from here, and you yield to the left.
So any time youre coming, youre yielding
to the traffic on the left. And I blow through there
and this guy doesnt yield to me and I just lay
on the horn and he gives me the middle finger.
"I
got three cameras on the dash, I got my copilot Lauren,
whos my producer, and I know that Im on
television so I kinda keep the parameters at a family-friendly
vain but yeah. I used to teach drivers ed when
I was in college so Im real strict about driving
rules and laws.
Me in an RV, Ive been
camping my whole life but just obey the traffic signs
and al the rules when youre on the road with
Steve Austin."
"Stone
Cold Takes on America" premiers Sunday at 10
p.m. ET/PT on A&E.
(FOX
News)
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Steve
Austin Speaks on WrestleMania 30, Potential of a Final
Match, CM Punk & More
Profiles
'Stone
Cold' Steve Austin CM
Punk WWE
WrestleMania
Wrestling
WWE
Hall of Famer "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
was a guest on Busted Open Radio with Dave Lagreca
and Doug Mortman this week, and the three talked about
the much-rumored possibility of the Texas Rattlesnake
lacing up the boots for one final match at WrestleMania
XXX in New Orleans.
"When
youre gonna try to commit to do a WrestleMania
30, youre looking really at, at least a two
to three month commitment, if not four. So you know
youre talking about taking everything else of
the table. I can still do my podcast but take everything
else off the table and focus specifically on that
task. To do it the way I would do it - the way 'Stone
Cold' Steve Austin would do it - at 120 percent ...
So once you throw a legitimate, real deal offer down
on the table and say lets talk, then well
talk. But until then, conjecture ... If the stars
lined up, then it would happen, but its going
to take a lot for those stars to line up."
Austin
also spoke on CM Punk, a long-time Twitter rival who
has been extremely vocal in past years about wanting
to wrestling Stone Cold at WrestleMania.
"I
like his product in the ring. I like to see him turn
it up more in the mainstream. I like to see a little
more physicality, laying in stuff a little more. I
like to see him be a little bit more aggressive. Thats
just off the top of my head. Other than that, I like
everything about the cat."
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