This is the Steve Austin show.

Going back to your weightlifting accomplishments, and your mother bought you your first weight set when you were about 10 years old.

And you've always, your side of the family, or y'all's family had big men in it.

Oh, yeah.

But you had an uncle, Uncle Chud.

Ted Adams. Who was 6, 7, about 500 pounds. I wanted to...

About 450. He was a big, big dude. It would be easy for me to get up to 400 pounds again if I ate like that.

In the country, he worked in the woods, and my grandmother's favorite cousin and never really had

a pair of shoes. He used to wear moccasins or what they called brogans. It was like a soul with

a shoe that kind of wrapped around your foot. Just an unbelievable like my family when they used to

talk about him, it was like Bigfoot. It was like they was telling you the stories about some monster that existed a long,

long time ago.

And they spoke with reverence when they talked about him.

My grandmother used to say, Mark, remind me so much of Chud, he's just smaller.

I'm six, four, you know, 400 pounds, and she referred to me as smaller.

Was he able to get in any kind of sports or anything like that?

No, this was...

Known as the strongest man in the piney woods.

Yeah, this was...

He used to, like, pull logs and do...

He was a logger.

Right.

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