Jesse Ventura Part Two - SAS CLASSIC

The Steve Austin Show

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jesse "The Body" Ventura returns to the Steve Austin Show, and this time he's telling stories about working with Vince McMahon Sr, vs Vince McMahon Jr; being in the ring with Chyna; his 2009 return to Monday Night RAW after the big WWE lawsuit; and what happened when he tried to unionize the pro-wrestling biz. He's also dropping some 411 on the legalization of marijuana, why he's such an advocate, and what it took to write his latest book, "The Marijuana Manifesto."

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0:00.0	Podcast 1 presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.
0:05.0	Let's get the part two of my conversation with Jesse, The Body Ventura.
0:10.0	And looking back at your career, I'm thinking, unless I'm missing something from the w w f as the body you never
0:26.8	work baby face never never never never once once once when? Once, beginning?
0:33.4	Middle, no, Portland, Portland.
0:36.3	Okay.
0:37.3	No, what happened there?
0:38.3	I worked baby face for maybe, a situation, baby, heel turn baby. I had left and gone to Hawaii and so they
0:47.4	worked a split between me and Buddy Rose. I was teamed with Buddy Rose then. So we did a split between buddy and I buddy was staying so he stayed heel
0:58.0	I actually switched a baby face for that brief program of a few weeks and then later when they brought me back
1:05.2	Don flew me in right before I worked for Vern he flew me in because he had lost
1:10.6	snooka and he needed someone to go against Rose.
1:14.4	So he flew me in for a two-week program to work with Buddy out in Portland
1:18.7	right before I started with the AWA.
1:21.0	But then I'm imagining that was an edgy baby face who was making his return based on the storyline.
1:26.0	Oh, yeah, totally. Situational. Situational all the way. Other than that, never did I work baby face. never was I brought in as one never did I want to be one because
1:36.8	baby faces couldn't create that's interesting as a heel you could create, baby face, it was mom apple pie and the girl back home.
1:47.0	You couldn't insult no one.
1:48.6	You couldn't be controversial.
1:51.5	And there was the old saying, from before your day they gotta hate
1:56.4	you before they can love you yeah but I've always and I've always felt though also as a
2:01.6	heal you have so much freedom you can have that on your face you can
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