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The Steve Austin Show

Big Van Vader - SAS CLASSIC

The Steve Austin Show

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Sports, Wrestling, Talk Radio

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Leon White aka Big Van Vader had a heck of a conversation with Steve Austin... and this here's only the beginning! He talks a little Colorado college football, some stories from his days in the NFL with the Rams, and it's all wrestling from there - from how he got his name to his early training days to his first match against Bruiser Brody to landing with New Japan Pro Wrestling.

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0:00.0

Podcast 1 presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

0:05.0

I'm sitting here in the Broken School Ranch talking to Leon White,

0:10.0

also known around the world as Big Van Vader coming to me from where you at

0:15.2

Leon Union Boulder Colorado today.

0:17.2

Got in Colorado buddy. God dang man we've been talking about getting together on a podcast and shooting a breeze and you

0:25.7

reached out to me through an email and it was so good to hear from you because I've been wanting

0:30.1

to get you on the show and just really basically

0:32.8

wondering in general how you were doing

0:34.6

because they hadn't heard from me in so many years.

0:37.8

How are you feeling right now?

0:39.1

Steve, I'm feeling good.

0:40.2

I mean, I'm probably in better shape

0:42.4

than I've been in the last 20 years physically

0:44.4

mentally things are going well you know I'm in the gym every day and I'm I'm on the

0:50.0

road a little bit here so things are going good and you know talking about

0:54.3

knowing you how long do we go back we we met what in the man early 90s and W.C W and I

1:00.6

don't even remember the first time we met do you know I know buddy tell me I don't know I don't know I don't remember I just remember what we hit it off and man you had a hell of a run in W c. W as the lead hill but we're just shooting a breeze on the

1:16.4

family-friendly show there's gonna be an s-bomb here and there drop but we're not gonna drop

1:21.0

any f-boms while we're talking on this hour.

1:23.2

Man, I want to go back to you for Giddens because, you know, hell I'd forgot, you know, you've been from Boulder,

1:28.3

Colorado for so long or living out in that area, you know, I just assume that that's where you're from, but little did I know that you had born in LA.

1:36.3

I was born in Compton, California. Actually, I was in St. Francis Hospital in Linwood, but we were living in Compton and they were but you grew

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