Big Van Vader | SAS CLASSIC

The Steve Austin Show

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

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 80 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 One presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.
0:05.0	I'm sitting here in the Brooks Girl Ranch talking to Leon White,
0:10.0	also known around the world as Big Van Vater.
0:13.0	Come and tell me where you at Leon, you need Boulder, Colorado today?
0:17.0	Got it, man.
0:20.0	We've been talking about getting together on a podcast and shooting the breeze,
0:25.0	and you reached out to me through an email, and it was so good to hear from you
0:29.0	because I've been wanting to get you on the show, and just really basically,
0:32.0	wandering in general, how you were doing because it hadn't heard from me in so many years.
0:37.0	How you feeling right now?
0:39.0	Steve, I'm feeling good.
0:40.0	I mean, I'm probably in better shape than I've been in the last 20 years.
0:44.0	Physically, mentally, things are going well.
0:46.0	You know, I'm in the gym every day, and I'm on the road a little bit here,
0:51.0	so things are going good.
0:53.0	And, you know, talking about knowing you, how long do we go back?
0:56.0	We went in the early 90s and WCW.
1:00.0	And I don't even remember the first time we met.
1:03.0	Do you?
1:04.0	No, I don't know.
1:05.0	What do you tell me?
1:06.0	I don't know.
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