Paul Heyman on the Steve Austin Podcast

[jmt225]

A must listen.

I can't link it since it breaks our advertising rules, but if you have any sense you'll know where to find it.

He says some very interesting things about the Punk situation, explains Raven's brilliance, goes behind the scenes in WWE, etc. All great, intriguing stuff. The guy is such an awesome storyteller. You can't help but to hang off every word.

 

[The Butcher]

The discussion was so wide-ranging that I was pleasantly surprised to hear Austin say there'd be a part 2 on Thursday. They covered a lot of bases, but it flowed naturally. Being a Rick Rude fan I dug all the talk about the Ravishing one. Great show as is usual whenever Stone Cold has a guest on who's also an old friend. Like Austin, Heyman is eminently listenable. Lucky for us he never got that radio show; he would have crushed it.

 

[The Dragon Saga]

Heyman has his ear to the ground on everything business wise. And him saying how shit works in the WWE, where if you don't succeed, and you leave, and you go to Japan and ROH and apply yourself and make yourself stand out, that WWE will bring you back and you'll get more money was really cool to hear. Plus the fact that he may have never even started ECW at one point opting for a career in radio broadcasting could have changed wrestling forever.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

I'm still not sure what a podcast is, so could somebody tell me what was seas about Rude please?

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

I'm still not sure what a podcast is, so could somebody tell me what was seas about Rude please?

They were talking about great promo men and Heyman mentioned that he always felt Rude was a great live promo, but they never really worked on TV.

This transitioned to Austin recalling the time he roomed with Rick one night and had to keep yelling at him to stop snoring, because he was like a "god-damned freight train" when he snored, but never fully yelling at him because Rick was a veteran and Steve was a rookie.

Then Austin recalled the catfish trip with him and Rude where Rick caught a bunch of catfish that Austin ended up cleaning because Rude brought a colour TV with a VHS player, went inside, rolled a joint ("Rick loooooooved the pot") and started watching Cape Fear (Scorsese version).

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Ah. i've always wanted to hear more about the Rude/Austin relationship because I've heard Rude was always cool with Austin and Steve looked up to him.

I find it interesting because both Rude's gimmick and Austin's eventual gimmick are completely different in terms of era.

 

[The Butcher]

They also talked about how Austin would often want Rick to cut promos ahead of him during their Dangerous Alliance days so that Austin would have something to shoot for and hopefully top. Heyman kept that in mind when Austin came to ECW and would often have Austin go last when they were doing their pre-taped stuff in the basement.

Plus there was a humorous anecdote from Austin about how Rude would chastise Austin for saying "goddamn" while in the middle of rolling/smoking a joint.

 

[Danger Burger]

I'm still not sure what a podcast is

Basically a downloadable audio file (MP3), often episodic, and in this case presented in the medium of an informal interview.

Worth a checking out, especially if you have to do that awful public transport thing.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Download!? No, my boy. No!

 

[Shocky]

I can listen to Heyman all day. Great podcast this week.

 

[klunderbunker]

Here's the show page. It's currently the first one listed.

http://podcastone.com/Steve-Austin-Show-Clean

For future reference, linking to an interview like this isn't advertising. This is something that people would want to hear and has a wide ranging appeal. Linking to something home made or that you're going to possibly profit off of etc is advertising.

 

[Pay Per Ghost]

Cant wait to hear this.

 

[Kris Benwa]

Most of them are must listens if not for the guests but for Steve himself. I could listen to him talk all day it's hilarious. I enjoyed this podcast though definitely eagerly awaiting pt 2 on Thursday.

 

[Shocky]

I love that Heyman said Brock was one of the best workers he's been around, can't wait for that to rile up the Bork Laser crowd. Plus trying to pitch Lesnar vs. Austin was pretty funny.

 

[Danger Burger]

Download!? No, my boy. No!

Downloadable, but not only available through download. You can stream it too, if you like sitting in one spot or carrying a laptop around.

I don't use iTunes, but I think there's a feature where it automatically downloads new episodes. Could save some hassle is downloading bothers you so.

 

[The Butcher]

Another great podcast out today is the latest edition of Grantland's Cheap Heat hosted by Pete Rosenberg and The Masked Man. Their guests are the entire cast of Legends House minus Pat Patterson. A little bit in and so far so good.

"Roddy Piper's got more issues than Newsweek magazine." -Hillbilly Jim

 

[Lee]

"I would never allow a chair shot to the head" - Paul Heyman.

 

[The Dragon Saga]

Unleashed is out, halfway in, pretty much the same, no wrestling talk so far just Heyman Hustle, but before going into the interview Austin congratulated James Storm on winning the TNA title. Well done James Storm, well done.

 

[Shadowmancer]

the 2nd part is quite possibly better than the first part.

 

[The Dragon Saga]

Now that I'm near the end, yeah, totally agree.

Heyman's story about the conference call and how he wound up writing One Night Stand is great. And the Vince stories, Jesus Christ. I know we sometimes joke about it, but Vince might actually be a robot.

 

[Shocky]

Am I the only one that cracked up when he goes full Paul E Dangerously?

 

[jmt225]

The conference call story was priceless.

 

[Dr. Mantis Toboggan, M.D.]

I listened to the second half last night and that was amazingly entertaining. I never knew about the PPV company holding 2 million worth of ECW's money hostage, crazy to think that the money would have kept them in business if they had gotten it. The conference call was pretty funny too.

 

[X]

Digging the fact that Austin says he'd like to work with Brock. Guy needs atleast one more match before he's really too old.

 

[braveh]

Basically Paul Heyman's track record is
Losing the national cable tv slot on TNN
Losing viewers and ratings when he booked Smackdown
Cooperating with Vince McMahon to book the biggest piece of crap that was ECW in 2006

He was good at some things but he is way overrated.