CT FLETCHER & STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN | My Magnificent Obsession DELETED SCENES (RAW & UNCUT)

[Music] samsonite lead every time a new stone cold dog came out we had to go to the [ __ ] store and buy that damn i appreciate it too this one got a knee wrap dad let's go get that one yeah the stone cold steve as long as you breathing you got life that's it it's not it's yes jim but it applies to life every [ __ ] thing that's right dude you can't rattle the rattlesnake goddammit we don't mess up everybody's workout dang they'll get back to it one time hell yeah they just take a little break all right this [ __ ] matched my shirt i didn't i didn't even know i'm coordinating see i'm i'm actually a clairvoyant to the future that's coordinating like a [ __ ] that's all wrong yes sir did you expect i guess exactly what the [ __ ] i expected all right a little bit of general information for the audio portion okay all right yeah i come down from the mdr to lbc now you get to live in los angeles to be able to appreciate the [ __ ] we're talking about so i'm breaking down some of them the [ __ ] on the podcast man we're talking about all right check one two with ct ct give me a little sound so we go through a check i guess that'll work all right with that all right are we rolling sound man i left the mdr marina del rey to come down here and talk to c.t fletcher in the lbc now let me break that down for y'all that's long beach that's california talk that's it ct uh man it's good to meet you we started talking on a text message man mark bell we've got to give him a shout out smelly bell hooked us up he's running uh uh super training gym over sacramento strongest gym in the west he said hey man what about talking to c.t fletcher on your podcast i said well god damn i should be great but he might know who the [ __ ] i am oh please so as it turns out man so he gave me a number we started texting back and forth and uh you went down to england what you're doing down in england down in england trying to uh stir up some new business for my goddamn sponsor uh isotory trying to stir up some business for them break some new ground and get able to buy some of my goddamn supplements when they come out steve you know what what's your name with the supplements you got coming out yeah i got a ct fetcher signature series is my surprise isaac troy be making the ct flutter supplement series and man can you believe that some polo kid from comedy got his own [ __ ] supplements yeah well let's talk about that because you know within uh man uh the the steve austin show goes all around the world and there's a couple of guys over there and uh and malaysia might not have heard of ct fletcher but if you're from the bar the bodybuilding or the pilot world everybody knows who you are and through your youtube channel uh ct flesh your personal trainer well yeah i i guess it would cost you millions and millions and millions of downloads yeah [ __ ] know who you who you are yeah if you if you're a lyft iron but some people say uh ctr are you famous and [ __ ] no and i'll tell you why because i can go to the car wash the grocery store and [ __ ] won't even say [ __ ] but if i was stone cold steve austin if i stick my [ __ ] head out the door i'm gonna be mobbed when you're traveling down the grocery store went to a shopping basket you got 22-inch jacks you know and you look like you look at night ain't too many people gonna [ __ ] with you anyway yeah [ __ ] with me and recognize me at two different things stone cold so man what i figured man just coming down here um i i just wanted to shoot the [ __ ] oh let's do it and i asked questions and go back and forth because it turns out that uh hell you actually knew who i was you're a little bit of a pro wrestling fan yeah i'm a super pro wrestler fan i go all the way back to the 60s i'm a child of the 60s and goddammit when pro wrestling come on judo jean lebel was the [ __ ] announcer me and my brother would run to the [ __ ] tv and slide like we're still at home do you remember do you remember in the big stars that was around like first of course i do bruno san martino the flame throwing sheet john toles and rocky soul man johnson right of course okay so you've been lifting for quite a while yeah did you dig uh you know like superstar billy graham body guys in the business of yes so you had the day of course and the thing about him was man when he started talking [ __ ] nobody [ __ ] like a superstar he had the big [ __ ] arms and he was an exceptional [ __ ] talker right [ __ ] talking extraordinaire as i like to call i don't think you could coin it any better than that but you started out down in little rock arkansas i i was born in a little rock argument so how in the [ __ ] did you out end up in compton watching now here in lbc i had no choice in the matter i was [ __ ] three years old where my crazy ass daddy took me that's where the [ __ ] i went steve so we we upgraded to compton upgrade yeah but your dad was a preacher right yes he was a fire and brimstone every [ __ ] thing is a sin uh kind of whoop your [ __ ] ass kind of preacher right that kind of creature but you know it was funny man because i've been watching your videos for about at least a year because i you know found out about you i'm like man the motherfucker's strong and he's bad and he talks a lot of [ __ ] he's right up my alley but so and i was listening to a story on one of your youtube uh videos which again got millions and millions of downloads uh you and your brother i mean y'all just sit there and entertain each other and you know when you could when dad went around and just invent cuss work exactly i mean that's that's what we did anytime i you know we we uh obs foreign objects you know like the kind used to hide your trunks when you [ __ ] somebody up in the ring if i see the foreign object i would uh call my brother that you know he would be a broken spoon [ __ ] yeah you know being up [ __ ] whatever whatever the [ __ ] trash can here we just invented cuss words because that was our former entertainment but with your dad being a religious guy i mean like i mean shirley ain't hearing you guys lay this down is he oh hell no i wouldn't be here sitting here talking to you right now if he did but so if if he if it comes from a religious background and you know you talk all that [ __ ] i mean where'd he draw a line there okay cause some people i cuss like a [ __ ] yeah and so that's why we're doing the unleash show i like that but some religious people just you know they rarely cussing yeah they don't know wrongline he he was not a cusser i mean he was an ass beater a super hard dude he was in the korean war and he went in at 16. so it made him a little loony and uh you know i didn't know why he was loony at the time but he was a loony song [ __ ] and he used to [ __ ] me up for you know breathing the wrong way but and uh so being around super religious people made me not want to be super religious that actually that's what really did you know i haven't gone to church in many many years last time i went my daughter got married but uh you know other than special occasions like that i i because i've seen people uh you know the five brimstone preachers right that are super super religious through some of the [ __ ] upest things uh outside the church that you know right i'm like so i'm i'm not super super but believe me i believe in god that's for sure so now i know you're right in the middle of filming a movie which one part of this map might end up making you movie so so tell me a little bit about what the movie's about it's my life story it's a documentary about ct [ __ ] [ __ ] to the superman from compton to master mister i command you to grow and i'm here with stunning steve austin i bet you [ __ ] don't go back that far dude i might get through i rolled in here i got 18 and three quarters jack by the time i get through i might be close to 20 just by listening my arms are [ __ ] down close between we're going to the mighty iag with 20 inch on you got the uh you you got uh a certain kind of mantra you you live by and it's uh it's what does it go it's still your [ __ ] set see and that has uh actually it started with nothing to do with wrestling whatsoever my mother is the inspiration for stevie [ __ ] said i watched that woman for 40 years of her life of her 63 years on this life she was uh seriously ill she's in and out the hospital all the time emergency rooms all the time and i don't give a [ __ ] what condition she was in she'd be under oxygen tent and i would ask her i say mom how you doing and she said i'm blessed her answer was always i'm blessed no matter how sick she was no matter what she was going through and that that was my example you know to no matter what comes at me what happens to me i'm blessed man i'm still alive so still my mother [ __ ] said i keep rolling keep doing what i got to do my mother was the inspiration for that and so you know no matter what happens you know it's still it's the bonus is on you as long as you live now long as you breathe don't sit there lying you know don't sit there and [ __ ] and complain that's your punk ass up and do it and do something to do so it's a positive message yes sir and you sure go about expressing it in an interesting fashion it's it's a uh interesting thing now here was a facebook post you put out a couple years ago and uh i'm gonna read it but these are your words and correct me if i'm wrong it says i didn't expect to live a long time that's why you see me ranting and raving in my vids i don't have much time i have a mission that i must fulfill before i leave this world i know better than most tomorrow is not a promise you can be cut down at any moment death is uncaring your undone list means nothing to this cruel master i don't fear death at all i've seen it up close shook hands with it embraced it and was covered up by it it was peaceful but i was spared that permanent piece for a while longer why why me i'm nothing special a hard man who lived a hard life i don't deserve this second chance but be that as it may here i am and damn it i'm gonna kick yell scream and cause a [ __ ] ruckus and free as many of you as i possibly can from the prison of your own mind free from doubt free from fear free from the chains that bind you i'm gonna do it by proving to you you have it within you to control that which is most important the effort that you give and the weight room in school on your job and [ __ ] life the effort is always controlled by you and ladies and gents [ __ ] and [ __ ] the goddamn effort is the key it is the thing that legends are made of the thing that lasts long after we're dead and gone 300 one of my personal favorite movies is an example of this the spartans lost but the [ __ ] effort they gave makes them immortal call me crazy if you want i don't care one bit but i want that kind of death fighting yelling given every ounce of will i have to muster hell no i will not go quietly into the night i'm ct [ __ ] fletcher and i'm on a mission if only for a moment to shake the world down to its [ __ ] foundation all right damn did you post that he said that [ __ ] better not said you got there we got an audience in here people watching hillary got a little nervous saying that but you posted that now that was due what to the heart attack you suffered or several heart attacks tell me the story about this because back in the day you as a world-class power lifter lifting like a [ __ ] but you had a very famous lunch and you weighed every single day for 20 years which ultimately caused your demise yeah talk about that lunch and then i want you to talk about these words of inspiration well yeah uh the the lunch that everybody refers to is four big bags four fries a couple apple pies and a strawberry stick i had that uh every day at lunchtime they'd have it waiting for me when i got there and that's right at five thousand calories yes a lot of [ __ ] fat in there you know when i live oh [ __ ] i never even counted how many calories it was didn't make the [ __ ] to me i just wanted to eat i thought that the answer was to eat as much as possible and be as big as possible i had one philosophy like i said i didn't plan on living a long time right i just wanted to [ __ ] be the biggest monster sidewalk cracking monster on the [ __ ] planet right and i thought that's what it took so my doctors told me the strain of all that [ __ ] heavy powerlifting for all those years and the fact that my mom was already it was in my uh i was hereditary to me heart disease was hereditary to me so um it started by me not being able to breathe i'm like [ __ ] i'm you know sitting here having a conversation like me and you know and i'm [ __ ] having a breathing attack i just [ __ ] could not believe i couldn't figure out what the [ __ ] it was so i went to the doctors and and one of them uh mc squared [ __ ] examined me and finally i said you know your aortic valve is [ __ ] up it's not working right it's about to go out and if that [ __ ] go outside you ain't going to be around no longer right so uh that's how that's how i find out just not being able to breathe is what was the so they go on there and when they did open heart surgery what all did they do they affect the aortic valve but was there other [ __ ] in there was all the cholesterol you was eating compounding the problem oh definitely they uh i had also have another surgery for the unclogged some some arteries as you can imagine after all those years of doing that that had some [ __ ] up arteries and they put in an implanted a metal uh valve in my chest new aortic valve made out of titanium so when i you know they bust out the technology on youtube yeah damn right but yeah what year was this this was 2005. okay so technology was good uh 10 years ago so what did it tell you prognosis because man uh you was about 325 yes and you was pushing some heavy weight you had world records yes and then this uh the surgery pretty much decimated your ass oh man yeah uh pretty much is an understatement i was [ __ ] up i i had to uh sleep for months sitting down uh after this after i got out of the hospital and i spent a lot of months in the hospital up against the wall because if i laid down i couldn't breathe i was still having problems breathing they cut my diaphragm during the surgery and [ __ ] that up so i still had a lot of recuperating to do after i got out of the hospital so how long did it take for you to start feeling like okay hey man i can start getting back in the gym again and but before we go there i mean how did that [ __ ] with your head because as men man we spent our whole lives trying to get buffed up to get strong to overcome everything that life's going to throw at you and because like here in iron addicts gym i mean the atmosphere here is very competitive got some bad ass athletes in here uh and all of a sudden you're laying down and you're wilting away you feel like a piece of [ __ ] and you ain't a man no more how do [ __ ] with your head steve as you know uh you you are bad ass the toughest wrestler ever stepped through the [ __ ] ropes but as a weight lifter because i know you're weight lifter also yeah uh we we get upset when we lose anything what we call size and you know five pounds to us is a [ __ ] tragedy to a normal person would not be oh [ __ ] i lost five pounds right and people look at us like we [ __ ] crazy but to go from 325 down to uh 185 now that's drastic you can imagine i mean i was walking around thinking that i was the [ __ ] strongest thing on the planet and it was a lot of strong sun [ __ ] out there and i thought i was the king of the [ __ ] beasts and to go down to i i had friends that knew me for 25 years but i'm sitting this close to them right and they didn't even recognize me so i went from you know king of the beast to a [ __ ] skeleton and it was it [ __ ] with me big time it [ __ ] with me big time and uh it was the only thing that got snapped me out of it was and i think this you'll be able to resonate with this uh uh a doctor a young doctor come in to the room one day and i'm in a wheelchair because i had to stay in the wheelchair for a while and he said so you see t [ __ ] i said you god damn right i'm ct he said you're a [ __ ] world champion power god damn right i was a world champion power lifter and he dropped his head and shook it and with disgust in his eyes he looked at me and said man what happened to you what happened to you [Music] rattlesnake that [ __ ] gave me the drive that i needed really yes he did that [ __ ] disgusting look that he gave me and i sit there in that wheelchair and i said you know what i didn't think i'd ever be able to lift weights again i said you know what i'ma show your [ __ ] ass that i can come back from this [ __ ] i said you stay your punk ass around here long enough i'll be back [ __ ] that's the thing that motivated you you're just distain and to discuss what he yeah that you would say you're the world champion pilot so he knew who he was yes he's like it's over you'll never don't tell me that i can't [ __ ] do something i know that you know yeah yeah yeah i said that a couple times myself yeah so how do you embark on the comeback trail you're weighing about a bucket you feel like [ __ ] i mean for you former you know world champion world-class lifter so how did you start back what was the protocol just going to the paces and just doing like uh you know just grunt style i'll tell you what it was i was literally walking dead because three times during that surgery i flatlined three times during that surgery and you know i almost fought into not being able to come back doctor said i never lift weights again and but after that the young guy came in here and then i made up i started i made one little goal and my goal was to walk around my block if i could just walk around my block one [ __ ] time that's a humble start that's it and you know just just walk man i wasn't even thinking about lifting weights but if i could just make it around the block without [ __ ] falling out then that was my start that was my goal okay now we're sitting right now as 2015. so that was 10 years ago and right now you're clocking in you're five left what 235 225 225 uh you got to get when someone guesses your weight by 10 pounds over that's great yeah so if i just said what are you 215 that would have been an insult yeah yeah you were waiting to a chick it wouldn't have been insulted 225. so you still got the 22 inch jacks uh how long did it take you to to get to where you're back at now and uh looking like a million bucks well 2 000 i don't know about a million but uh 990 it probably took three years three years to get back to looking halfway decent and it was because i had a deep hole to climb out of you know as far as as high as i guess you would say in the weightlifting world i was i went you know that low and more down down down man people didn't recognize me like i said and so what did you do from a nutrition standpoint man because obviously you're not gonna be eating all them damn double cheeseburgers right [ __ ] so now what are you eating like i had to oh now i have my uh uh turkey chicken breast all that clean [ __ ] and you know uh people talk about they say it's dieting it's so hard because the diet food is nasty you know what if you i think that's [ __ ] up i'm not eating for the taste i'm eating now because i want to stay alive so i don't give a [ __ ] what it tastes like if it's going to help me stay around and see my grandkids i got 15 of them now stuff right then i'll eat that [ __ ] nasty or not so let's go back to the to the powerlifting days what kind of numbers were you putting up back in the day okay my my best uh bench press in competition with the paws and everything was 650. but inside the gym i had touch and goals 705. now that says that that's his that's 650. that was raw what was it wrong yeah i've done a 650 raw in the competition that's unheard of yeah i mean you know everybody's i mean this the suits to me i mean the shirts kind of a little overboard these days i saw tony atlas you remember yeah yeah me and tony just used to travel a little bit a little bit back in the day and i was playing football in north texas state and uh tony came in and uh he benched 550 that day he missed six but would have got it had he went and he went for that on his 550 attempt because he blew 550 up like it wasn't nobody's business but the game has changed so much are you do you keep up with powerlifting anymore yeah i dig it and of course being friends with mark bell as you are i i like how stan uh has kind of gone back raw mark now is kind of going back well i'm enjoying seeing that trend where the guys are underequipping rather than over equipping and we're still seeing really what they can lift that's that's the instinct i mean when you go raw i mean it's just you and the iron i mean eric spodo right uh 722 raw right that's a strong [ __ ] you know and uh what what's that what's the other guy's name the bench press guy did uh he had the wrong antichrist world record yeah man i'm just escaping me right now yeah that [ __ ] that's that's that's a bad dude uh he's a [ __ ] friend of mine too and i'm [ __ ] thinking let's talk about some of the uh the motivation or some of the training videos you got on youtube because to me i mean they're motivational as hell people always ask me hey steve how do you stay motivated well i'm kind of motivated anyway but sometimes matty i'll check out your [ __ ] i'll check out some stuff off of elite fts i'll go to super training i'll check out some of that stuff but you with the language and and your style really captured me and i gravitated to watching your videos because you're you're doing some damn curls and i don't know what the weight was but you're just telling you're gonna grow [ __ ] grow now it sounds good but it ain't that easy no because with it i mean obviously you have great genetics yes not everybody gonna come and come down as much as they might want it ain't gonna get a 22-inch arm but the fact i and i think what you preach is to to maximize whatever your genetic potential is right and the only [ __ ] way you're gonna know what that is and get your ass in there and work if people are always looking for a [ __ ] easy way out man they want they want the easiest thing five minute abs and five minutes whatever if you see a [ __ ] with some great abs he did not do that [ __ ] in five minutes and if you say it did he a [ __ ] lie and i said so that'll that along with the fact that he's got to have some type of nutritional program because you can you can work out your ass for five minutes or an hour but if you ain't got the right nutrition and you ain't got to load enough body fat you ain't gonna see those [ __ ] right not going to show uh you know what i want to switch this conversation back to wrestling if you don't mind okay okay one more question tell me about the penitentiary style weightlifting system what's that what's that all about all right now uh people assumed that i spent 20 years locked up in the penitentiary which is not true i've done a lot of county time in the county jail but i've never been to the penitentiary but i have a whole gang of relatives the most famous being junior miles i love the junior models shut the [ __ ] up that's it everybody who spent plenty of time in the penitentiary when they would come out briefly uh to see the family uh he would show us how he lifted in the pens so that's how i learned uh penitentiary style there so what was that style oh man not complete complete uh you know extended like when i was in powerlifting we had to do everything uh full extension pauses and everything like that but in penitentiary styles rapid fire right back and forth and not a complete full extension to keep counseling you know i thought we used to laugh at guys like that right and we said man that [ __ ] ain't doing that right he's not you know that's what the [ __ ] that's some [ __ ] yeah but it you know it was big as [ __ ] yeah so you know i talked [ __ ] about them and i gave that [ __ ] a try once i got older my joints wouldn't go all the way any [ __ ] way yeah i adapted that style and you know it works pretty good but but now being 56 like what's the training style i know you backed off on the weights uh and you're a lighter body weight but but what is a style is it still that penitentiary style is it the continuous tension rapid fire or is it more paced and controlled just because i mean i don't imagine you're trying to get any bigger because you're just trying to be you which is pretty badass in and of itself no i i my style now see you know as you know i've been doing this a long time and you've been doing what you do for a long time the master ass whooper stone cold steve awesome my [ __ ] ain't working as good as your [ __ ] but i'm i'm working at it the toughest song is to step inside the squared circle mr double birds just a bad [ __ ] well i i've you know learned a lot of things over all these years so my style is a a combination of all the [ __ ] that i've learned over 34 years of lifting weights and it's always about work working hard but it's working smarter as well as harder definitely work yo uh man you hear all these different systems you know a guy once hit a body part once a week okay chest on monday back on tuesday so okay how often do you like to hit a body part okay [Music] i'm a very especially you know as much as we travel when it changes it's it's hard to get a regular routine in so i'm a very instinctive [ __ ] i'll go into the gym and hmm i think i'll train this today yeah and and if that feels good sometimes i have uh um one i'll do one [ __ ] thing for the whole [ __ ] hour and a half or out then i'm in there are you [ __ ] me yes sir straight up [ __ ] yes so if you wanted just just for just for shits and giggles if you want to man up today i'm going on my bench press for an hour and a half yeah straight up that's what you would do yes sir i'm going to do it all the time i go out there and that [ __ ] bench press is feeling good that day i would stay on that [ __ ] for hours and won't do [ __ ] else and and all your experts and and they'll tell you if that's [ __ ] that's not the way to do you got to do this you got to do that [ __ ] them right welcome now what was the story i i was reading about i was watching another one of your videos on youtube you got to check it out ct fletcher on youtube uh at one time i think you said you trained arms every day for that man like a year it was a ridiculous amount of time yes but straight up real deal oh hell yes really i mean uh people knew uh my birthday holidays cooking whatever the [ __ ] i was gonna be in the gym first and the first half or the first 30 minutes or so of my work i was always armed you know like you said billy superstar graham and guys like that i mean that was larry scott from bodybuilding and that that was that was the thing you know i mean and and growing up in compton we didn't give a [ __ ] like no calves and no [ __ ] like that you got to work [ __ ] arms right if you want to streak hey man i'm looking in the back here you've got a bunch of old school bodybuilding magazines you're awesome uh i guess vince carrano is on a cover one were you around did you ever meet vince because i already a little bit out there yeah he was he was out there did you come up on hillary clinton i never i never met him but i did meet uh bill pearl yeah another legend joshua the bodybuilder and uh you know i never got to meet this but i like him because he was out there and people thought he was crazy and you know he did some off the wall and things are not ordinary that's that's me i like to do [ __ ] that everybody else ain't doing you ever make the trip down to uh well i'm sure you know charles glass of course charles charles and i grew up the same uh he grew up in compton same areas we know the same people well how often do you make it down to uh goals in venice uh i used to go all the time i used to go all the time you know i was uh really really really into it but i got my own [ __ ] gym now so i still and we're right here at iron addicts yeah that's it iron addict's gym the hardest core gym on the [ __ ] planet and everybody was working out like a [ __ ] when i got here i was like man this shit's got good good energy yes sir that's that's part of it yeah [ __ ] talking stone cold steve hey you you wanted to go before we go back i know you want to talk a little bit more about some pro wrestling but but just going back to the bodybuilders of today and going back and look at some of the classic pictures you have on the magazines and of course you know being a schwarzenegger to me one of the greatest physiques of all time uh that that kind of that classic style yes uh of body was kind of king to me uh serge oliva also yeah bill perry you mentioned him some of those guys uh but and they didn't mean they dude from atlanta got dang eight times nine times mr levitt lee lee haney yes okay those guys and then and dorne yates still yeah a little bit kind of biggie size whatever taking it too far now it's like man back in the day when you see like you go watch pumping iron you see those guys out there ken walden them guys said robbie robinson tossing the football on the football field like man that's some good [ __ ] there yeah right these days and it's like goddamn how much can the body take yeah exactly i mean uh i think that when you get to where you are injecting actually injecting fluids and [ __ ] in your muscles uh shinto yeah synthol thank you uh if it kind of becomes disfigured and they're going a little bit you know uh and i'm i'm the the king of saying that it's no such thing is too [ __ ] big because i don't think it's it's possible for a [ __ ] muscle or human being to be too goddamn big i just i don't think it's possible but when you start distorting it right and having lumps and [ __ ] that just you know don't uh not supposed to be there where a lump ain't supposed to be right then then you know it's getting a little bit ridiculous right uh you said you want to talk a little bit about pro wrestling you got them right well go ahead we're going to talk about as as you may not know the old uh superman from compton trained to be a pro wrestler what happened what derailed your attempt i will tell you what happened steve uh they found out they told me that i would be in a different hotel room every [ __ ] weekend and i said [ __ ] that that little boy over there was a little baby right there i wanted to see i want to be around and see him grow up and i said [ __ ] it i i can't do all the traffic so you had designs or inspired to be a pro wrestler well like i said when i was a kid man i i [ __ ] love progressing i i also want to say this i'll tell you this if you guys don't know already pro wrestling is hard as [ __ ] it's hard as [ __ ] i mean people don't they used to you know i think they are a little got a little wiser now because we have a heavyweight champion go straight from pro wrestling and winning the [ __ ] ufc champion they know that pro wrestlers are actually ass beaters in real life yeah i mean i i knew that from being in the ring with some of them those [ __ ] will [ __ ] you up you can say oh that's fake if you want to and your [ __ ] teeth might be laying on the floor man it well and back in the day when when wrestling was perceived as as real for all the exposes and the business was protected i mean there were fighting words right days it is what it is but you you take great pride in being able to represent the your chosen profession and whether it's professional wrestling which is a work sport you know you know here's the thing uh in a world of make-believe you have to make yourself believable so you see all that [ __ ] and back in when i was around see two hours of raw and like okay wow and all of a sudden that glass broke and so all right that [ __ ] just got real right now yeah stone cold's out there so so the thing these days is you make make yourself believable you know in a world you know disbelief and so that's how you can actually be real and that's how you are able to to draw money right but man here's the thing man uh and like you saying you wanted to watch you know your boy grow up yeah kids you know that was one of the things that i you know talk about people send me uh emails all the time hey how come you don't talk about your kids uh anymore than you do i got two daughters and don't know my well i was always on the road and so man that that that's part of uh you know the business of pro wrestling yeah and then that's why you didn't do it exactly but you come up uh and your dad was a preacher but but you had a rough childhood oh yeah it was very rough uh and he was there oh yeah he was there and i the [ __ ] one i wish he would so what wha what was the story what was the deal with this man that was so rough about him everything everything steve that normal kids did as a teenager was a [ __ ] sin as far as my dad was concerned going to the movies that was how he even took the tv which was our last [ __ ] resort uh out of the home for uh two years because he had decided that that was a sin so you know kids would go to school they'd be talking about the movies they'd seen that weekend or they went out with some girl that weekend and we didn't have [ __ ] to talk about right because everything everything was the same my dad told me one time i walked the wrong way and [ __ ] me up walked i walked the wrong way see what kind of [ __ ] is that man right i was trying to correct my [ __ ] walk for this [ __ ] so he was looney [ __ ] i got my ass with quite a bit but he made me uh i don't he made me part of him made me the man i am today i mean it takes quite a bit to rattle me because i you know when i went to the army i was ready for the army like a [ __ ] right because of how he i thought well this is a [ __ ] piece of cake this ain't no harder than my dad yeah i can do this [ __ ] so he prepared me uh for life in a lot of ways so he's not totally bad but when did you decide that the the army was gonna be your ticket uh uh or or the path that you wanted to go down and it was just to get the [ __ ] out of house or uh you didn't have any direction in your life how were you doing i mean how was uh life in compton watts at that time i mean were you going to school did you get your high school uh diploma yes i did i i graduated from david stark jordan in 1977 and the biggest motivation i mean it was either uh i was going to kill him or he was going to kill me it was at that level it was at that level one of the two and my dad had a rule that everybody had to be home for dinner we all had to sit around at the dinner table we sit there not saying the [ __ ] thing is we had nothing to talk about but we had to be there when he got home from where we had to sit there and eat dinner together and i i decided that i wasn't gonna eat dinner that [ __ ] day i was 16 years old my mom said uh oh [ __ ] your dad's gonna be home at four o'clock he better get you and i'm like you know what not today because he had just a week before he had broke my nose and i was uh you know i was still pissed off about that yeah and i said you know what i went out stephen i bought a gun and uh i said you know what i'm i'm not going to eat dinner today i'm not going to eat dinner with this [ __ ] today and she said well yeah you know i'll have to tell him uh you know that you decided not to be and i wrote down on a piece of paper to address where i would be at i said uh i'll be right here but if you love that [ __ ] if you want to see him this evening i wouldn't send him over there if i was you and i love my mom and dead but i had to tell her i was fed up right that was it i just decided i wasn't going to take no more ass football how old were you i was 16. and i was that was a real deal that would that was going to go down yes oh yes i prepared to kill him that day now you talk about growing up with a brother was it younger brother he's older brother older yeah it was your two-year-old or more i had a younger brother that's uh i think he's 17 years younger than me so he didn't really grow up with me okay what about the older brother what path did he go down when he just had to leave a house that was a strong psalm [ __ ] but for for some reason see him and my dad he could get he could get along with my dad a lot he got ass whoopers too right but he could uh get along with my dad a lot more than me and my dad told me one day in front of the congregation as a matter of fact he stood up in church and he said that kid right there i hate him and the reason i hate him is because he's so much alike he told me that the reason he hated my guts was because i was just like them really yes just like them well why would he not see i grew up down in south texas and it's funny you know when you talk about you know disciplining kids these days man you talking about a belt i mean oh no and we used to get high ass whip like a [ __ ] my dad could swing a belt but that's as far as that went right obviously it was on a much more extreme level for you yeah i mean you know but nowadays if you thought about whooping them with a belt yeah [ __ ] they want to lock you up yeah you know i liked the way i was brought up i mean it taught me a lot of [ __ ] yeah but being being on the extreme end of that i mean so how did that help you as a father now i mean is that one of the things you you knew you wasn't going to do because psychologically because man that's [ __ ] up yeah let me tell you steve like you said um you didn't know your kid your daughter's growing because on the road all the time when i first i first became a dad at 18 years old i still [ __ ] up i was still [ __ ] up and i thought that if i treated my children better than i got treated then i was doing you know a good job right but i was still [ __ ] up because you know i'm 300 some pounds i would never i never hit them with a belt right but i would spank them on the back of their hand and i was like oh [ __ ] this is nothing yeah compared to what i was 325 and strong as [ __ ] and my my kids told me what they got going they said boy my [ __ ] hand was about numb you know he about to kill me with the [ __ ] head and i thought that was nothing compared to what happened to me but it was still [ __ ] up right so uh i started out you know i [ __ ] up path you know because i thought it was i compared it to how i grew up but by the time my youngest son sampson came around and i i realized i had i had it a lot better and i realized my mistakes with the older kids and i you know i never walked in hey going back to some of the youtube videos that you've uh made dude you started out doing this a long time ago when you were a heavyset lifter and you're just very well spoken you never cursed because you said you know because when the camera's rolling you gotta you know just keep it clean yeah and it was a different day and age exactly and so but you've always talked like that and i've always talked like i've talked yeah that's why i have my family friendly show and the unleashed show where i can say whatever i want to uh but now like how do people take you i mean it is man sometimes the world's a goddamn pc it just makes me um [Applause] there you go and that's why i say it as well uh so but anyway but that's who you've always been so so now uh it's it's part of who you are yeah and and it's your calling card yeah just it's just just like you see when when the camera was rolling and you were doing the interview you couldn't cuss i know you couldn't cuss but i could [ __ ] tell as one customer to another yeah that it was there when when stone cold steve also threw up the double birds i know he was saying [ __ ] all you know yeah i know it you know there's a lot of things people used to always ask hey man what do you say when you get on top of them turnbuckles you know what i was saying man and basically you know because you're on a power trip because all that address yes and so it was basically a bunch of four-letter words yeah you got that [ __ ] right all right [ __ ] you know but you know i wasn't mike so i can get away with it right if you read my lips yeah that's what that's what i'm talking about so uh and like you and you and your brother were sitting there yeah trying to invent cuss words or you spoon-headed [ __ ] i wasn't watching your youtube video richard pryor was very inspirational to me because he was one of the guys that i grew up and obviously you did too you were listening to eddie murphy to a degree and george carlin but richard pryor specifically oh and my dad was a great customer as well and he let it flow when he needed to but richard pryor was a guy that uh and i've always gravitated to his style of comedy but when he cussed it was like oh it's a silver tongue devil now because it wasn't offensive yeah no he was just like man that's who he is and that's how he talks yeah that's totally cool it was [ __ ] poetry man i i loved i loved richard pryor as a kid growing up listening of course we had to sneak and do it oh yeah yeah but uh yeah it was [ __ ] poor he was the master he was the master of cussing and i always appreciate good cousin i do too so what's the protocol here at the gym and i roll in here and a bunch of heavy duty men and women here training a lot of good physiques rolling around what's the gym protocol over here at iron addicts well i iron addis is the place that you can come and be your [ __ ] self as you see there's [ __ ] cuss words on the world on the wall over here and we were funk pity yes sir we reserve the right to refuse service to any [ __ ] body and that includes your punk ass it's right on the wall over there so i mean you you know when you come in here that you won't be kicked out for saying [ __ ] or if you're doing something extremely heavy and you know as we do sometimes you miss and lifts around missile lift and then we [ __ ] [ __ ] they should do it in competition they'd be like oh no no no no you can't do that you can't say that well here's the place you can be your goddamn self i want to be the hardest court training facility on the planet here you can come here and just you know let it fly and that being said let me speak because some people are so intimidated to go into a new gym or a different gym and all of a sudden you walk in and there's some badass artwork on the walls uh but everybody here is very polite yeah oh yeah yeah so there's there's respect but you can be yourself and it is it is a hardcore gym there's so many gyms these days it's turned into a goddamn i mean fitness is almost an overstatement they [ __ ] serving donuts on fridays and [ __ ] and and fitting this fuckingness and fitting you can do it it's just [ __ ] i can't believe this is the kind of place that i grew up [ __ ] i got my uh [ __ ] upholstery is [ __ ] up it's sweat and it's hard work and i want this atmosphere to be one of hardcore you you when you walk this [ __ ] you know hey you talked about uh you know briefly you thought about being a professional wrestler but all of a sudden you you've got the grind and you heard about the the travel schedule say hey not so much but you did i want to throw some hands you started training for boxing oh yeah and at one point you you was gonna fight or maybe had a chance to fight uh billy blanks yeah billy planks i was uh uh had earned my black belt and taekwondo in the service and uh i wanted to come out and be the [ __ ] bruce lee and middleweight champ in the world all wrapped up in [ __ ] one and i was 165 pounds and i thought i was a bad [ __ ] oh man and i don't know what happened i entered the tournament and i liked uh i liked it i liked fighting but uh the way i grew up i had a [ __ ] hot head so i didn't have the control necessary [ __ ] kicked me upside the head and it was so pretty i admired the [ __ ] myself i didn't see it it was so [ __ ] fast but i admired the way he did this [ __ ] but it pissed me off and at this time it was a i was tournament fighting so you know right you get a point or whatever and then and when that zombies kicked me outside the head i forgot all about every [ __ ] thing i learned every all my cool all that [ __ ] went out the window and i went compton on him i went off and i i was disqualified okay tell me what happens when you go compton on a [ __ ] in a tournament oh they they tell your ass to take a seat so what'd you do to him oh i i threw every [ __ ] thing that i had i threw at him uh as fast as i possibly could because this [ __ ] was fast yeah and i you know it was a bunch of hooks you know a whole bunch of stuff that i wasn't you know everything was the honor and respect and he bowed to your opponent and all that [ __ ] went out the window back in the day growing up and and compton watts i mean what was it i mean were you on the streets were you were you fighting uh i i i was yes definitely that was that was the fist fighting right was the thing back then but she but wasn't this back in the day when you could just get in the fist fight before the gun yeah you know and you got that whole different world yes i am old enough to remember you know i i've come from from both air i remember when it switched from uh the toughest guy the leader of the game was the best fist fighter to the the guns until you know my i had a gun pull on me in the ninth grade was the first time uh god pulled a gun on me in the ninth grade now how was that come to jesus mean when you're looking down there oh yeah oh yeah that was the experience that i'll never forget right it's clear as a bell yeah and he read my mind because he told me he said if you start running i'ma shoot your ass and he like i said he was clear point because running was the [ __ ] first thing on my [ __ ] mind as soon as he pulled that pistol so what did you do uh i started negotiating that's where i became a good negotiator right there on the spot i'm like hey uh look man uh we don't have to go here start talking i start talking yeah but but when you do not have the gun you do not dictate the terms what did he want from you what was he physically okay he wanted the apology uh he uh was dating uh my girlfriend actually actually she uh you know was his girlfriend yeah but i didn't find out about it until that day so uh you know i was pissed off and i said a whole bunch of derogatory things about uh his mom and a few of his relatives man you can't go yeah he wanted an apology and uh i didn't want to give it to him but when he pulled that snub no 38 out you know you know he became served yeah you know maybe after all you're all right i'm sorry about your mama yeah whatever happened to the gun that you bought that you was ready to do business with had your father showed up and your mom gave him that address when he was 16. what happened to that gun well you know what i left it in the trunk of my uh 1967 city which was my first car yeah when i went into the service and i don't know what the [ __ ] happened to it after that so he was under the trunk of that car when i left what are you doing with your workouts every day because iron addicts i mean that that's that's as we would say in the business that's a shoot for you that's that's who and what you are right i mean you do you still love to train and and uh you know be around these young men and women to help them reach their goals well yeah that's that's my uh you know uh everywhere you know i get to travel i'm blessed now i get to travel all over the world and i hear people yelling at me hey what did junior miles say in russia or england or something i [ __ ] love it my biggest thing now is motivating other people i have done just like you you have done everything there is to do inside the professional wrestling room right so now i just mentor these kids coming up and i try to motivate them a little and talk a little [ __ ] and tell them about what i used to do right but every once in a while steve i have to remind the [ __ ] that i may be old and rusty just for me but i'm still ct [ __ ] right and i can get in there with them sometimes hey tell me about uh you know some of the the the clothing line you have cause you got some great t-shirts out there what the excuses [ __ ] excuses and your website yeah let me go ahead is mention that ctfletcher.com what's the ct stand for oh god damn he didn't hit below the belt right there it's 20 20 on this [ __ ] hit below the belt and i know you [ __ ] want to know but gonna have to look at the master plan movie uh the cp [ __ ] live story in order to find the [ __ ] out exactly and when's that gonna come out that's coming out september yep at the mr olympia contest to debut of the documentary c.t fletcher and and if you want to know what ct stands for [ __ ] look at the movie yeah now i can dig that but okay since i got a nine inch on that but what's what brought about the the movie do you say hey man i want to film a movie about my life or someone approached you and said man you got a badass story let's document this and talk about it that's exactly uh exactly what happened i mean i was shocked because i seen the movie generation iron and i thought uh it reminded me of pumping iron the reason you know it's the generation iron is the pumping line up to date okay and i like the movie you know [ __ ] weightlifting we're gonna like [ __ ] right weights in it anyway and they approached me and they thought that my little story was uh you know compelling enough to make a documentary and i i [ __ ] couldn't be happier i can't i can't believe my life now obviously you're a smart guy and you you came out of the military uh but have you always had the gift for gab you know because and watching your videos again ct fletcher's find him on youtube you just you're born talker you know it would have been great if you weren't done pro wrestling uh you had been a great promo guy have you always had to get for gab or were you shy as a kid or just always outspoken well i was i was always outspoken to the people you know who knew me uh you know if guys that trained with me 20 25 years ago they know that what they see is just you know i've been saying for [ __ ] 30 years right and they know but you're just like your friends that really know steve austin know that you are a connoisseur of the four letter words and that you know you're very good at what you do the best but uh that's for people that really know you know the audience is different i had to be a different guy back then but now this [ __ ] youtube [ __ ] came along like be my [ __ ] self but it's funny watching you just because you're quick on the cuff and just fly by to see your pants and like i never know what's going to come out just like steve austin but it's but it's good is there is anybody out there who can talk as much trash and and motivate people in a bodybuilding world like you because i haven't seen anybody quite like you at a gold gym i i started training a little hole in the wall but there's anybody else out there that you train with that that's in that same ballpark a hole in the wall is exactly the kind of gm i started on the two-car garage but um you know there probably is steve but i don't sit around and watch uh other people's videos because i don't want to be like anybody else you know i do my very best not to knock the copies just like you know dude that's why i don't unless anybody else podcasts that way i can't i can't bar nobody should i can't rip it off right i don't know about it right i mean if i say something that somebody else said is purely by coincidence i don't i mean people they'll take your [ __ ] catchphrases and claim them as their own they'll they'll take steve austin i know you had to have it happen a million times you'll see something that you did other [ __ ] wrestling they'll copy you well yeah i like to say that was uh i influenced them yeah i know one of your passions is a gem it's the iron and it's motivating others and helping the people that are here in the gym i know you you uh value your family life you your 15 grandkids your kids uh what other passions do you have outside of the gym you mentioned a 67 was chevelle or chevy empowered apollo are you a car guy i mean what do you do if you ain't immersed in the world of weights or family what else floats the ct's boat i'm a [ __ ] car are you i [ __ ] love bars man uh muscle cars are my right a specialty you know if i had uh unlimited funds and i would be jay leno right i'd have a [ __ ] garage that would rival his and i think that jay leno is that's the [ __ ] hero of mine right he's got full-time mccain's full-time garage and goddamn if i can just be a miniature j minnow so you're a chevy guy if you go out of the whole chevy lineup going from your camaros your impalas you know the uh the malibu's uh what would be the car that you would go to what year what model well i got a [ __ ] uh i have two corvettes four years uh i have a 62 corvette and a 72 corvette sorry [ __ ] damn i love the 72. i love those old ones too but can you get in that [ __ ] i can get in there if your big ass can get in there i can get in there but how about getting out of that 72. oh man i just open up the door and fall out there [ __ ] it don't matter it don't matter what color is the 72. it's black like me right man i was the 68 first year of the stingray 69 but all the way through through the 73 i mean i've always wanted that body style of corvette i had a couple of uh late model ones and then i ended up getting rid of them you know because here in l.a my goddamn knees got so bad and here's the thing about those long corvette doors uh you know they're you can only la was built for a mid-sized car yeah so and and nobody can drive in this [ __ ] town and nobody wants to use a blinker and then you get someone wants to park right next door to you so when you drive that door you only got like eight inches of space to get your sorry ass out of the car that's right and as you can see i'm a little heavy in the drum right now and so it got so hard to get out of that [ __ ] and then get up off my knees i just started driving a goddamn suv so i love that corvette do you drive them every day they're in a garage somewhere hell no i i got one out in the parking lot out there which one you bring uh it's the it's a 72 i got to see that one it's got a mate the mako kid on it the evolving motion shark [ __ ] yeah and you know that's my latest toy and i really really like that when did you get it 427 another card uh i got that less than a month ago really yeah man that's right where'd you find it at ebay yeah now did you go look at it no i didn't i i talked to the guy on the telephone a lot and he said i've owned this car for 34 years and it's my baby california car it's a mississippi car really i got it from a poor down south and he took care of it they ship it up here yes i did god damn man [ __ ] back in the day man i get on ebay with a bottle of wine i ain't gonna lie to you two bottles of wine i bought an 87 el camino i bought a damn 95 ford bronco i got lucky you know something could not be in good shape but sometimes oh yeah you probably don't wreck no not now not now did you uh during my service when i was in the army i mean it was uh a requirement i think you just get [ __ ] up every weekend well i mean you know what everything everybody else yeah all the boys getting [ __ ] up yeah yeah eyeball to this podcast don't get on ebay while you're drinking it yeah see here i get competitive yeah i get a little buzz like oh [ __ ] that [ __ ] yeah how about that outbid me a [ __ ] you're crazy you know i think on the other side of it they're like man it's done [ __ ] guy keep pushing that [ __ ] up man other than cars what else okay you read a lot i mean could you say smart mode no i i i think i'm allergic to a book yeah my attention span ain't worth it [ __ ] so it got to be something really good uh yeah i mean i love boobies uh any anything old i mean i'm still stuck in the 60s man i'm like oh [ __ ] i collect old bikes i'm an old man i got you i see you got a couple of bikes oh [ __ ] man okay okay if you're old i'm still kind of trapped in a lot of older school music what are you listening to oh man you gonna see james brown and isaac hayes and al green all kind of [ __ ] with these kids now they don't want to hear that's that's myself you gotta go let's eisner brothers in there too oh my god we trying to make some babies around this [ __ ] studio but but then you got it you had to be good in the days of the cameo can function yes yes that stuff of course but mr chains yeah oh my god man i mean i watch these awards shows these days no disrespect to people but i guess i'm trapped in the older style music i i am i'm guilty because i don't even understand what the [ __ ] they be saying so on uh on twitter you're at ctfletcher.com and is why mfs.com is the apparel store but there are some other letters attached to your twitter handle ct fletcher it's still uh oh yeah that's that's the the uh facebook is it's ct function sticky [ __ ] set motivation the ct motivation on youtube and ct fletcher facebook is team i [ __ ] said i always got through that i asked him in the face right so what's the story on the membership up here you know well it's 50 bucks a month right here pretty damn reasonable yeah i think so to train here at the [ __ ] hardest poor gym in the world watch hours how was it from 5 00 a.m to 11 00 at 11 p.m all right did you train today uh i have not i'm waiting with train with the [ __ ] rattlesnake [ __ ] man that man i'm all broke down today i broke down everything just too old [ __ ] two old [ __ ] banging a little bit we ain't gonna do nothing ridiculous uh god damn i if i was 10 pounds lighter i'd take you up on that ct uh anything else you won't plug or talk about uh okay here's my quote i have a couple questions for you you got it i got an answer this is i got answers for a [ __ ] who got questions you got damn right uh now knowing that you are such a uh profound cusser uh and good at the [ __ ] how difficult was it during some of those promos a heated promo to contain your [ __ ] self man it was just a deal i knew the ones i knew the words i could get away with i get away with summit son of a [ __ ] ass uh bastard uh you know don't drop the p word ladies are present uh and so i i could i could really uh walk the line pretty easily what's hard sometimes is on my family friendly show is just to and i love to talk to people and never cuss right because i can do that right and so and i appreciate like uh like uh like a jerry seinfeld who doesn't cuss in this comedy and he can make you laugh like a [ __ ] but doing it so i can appreciate that so sometimes doing doing that uh family-friendly show is kind of hard because that yeah that's just kind of that's that's who i am but you know obviously man if i go into a business meeting and i know hey man straight up you know there's men and women there and it's straight up don't drop one single cuss word i put that filter on and zero problems exactly you know i can relate to this people think i don't know how to do that that's one he goes hey man how about doing a family friendly show for everybody and some of the sponsors ain't down with the language so now that now the unleashed show was my hotter show right another one's just man a little bit less hot but with the family friendly thing so that way i'm able to cross into a few different areas that i couldn't because of the language parameters set with the unleash show so you know it is what it is it turned out okay right and trust me steve i can relate i know when i speak to veterans or world war ii guys older guys or i go into a hospital i i speak to kids now you will not hear a cuss word from c.t fletcher in a unappropriate segment hey tell the story though about because i was watching the the the one thing on youtube and what was it invention or there was a big yellow word on the uh you were out there speaking it's a public appearance right yeah and and all of a sudden you started busting out oh you got a bunch of trademark [ __ ] yeah there's some kids and ladies out there and you said oh [ __ ] yeah yeah i i j i know i was up there speaking and i noticed the kids in the middle of you know little kids around you know i i'm a very people don't know but i'm a very respectful guy right older people kids you know uh you know oh [ __ ] i [ __ ] i'm sorry so you know i i you know i don't uh i have respect but the thing about it was i mean it was such an honest mistake because here's the thing it was it's organic and it because you ain't trying to put it on just so you can say it right to jazz up you know who you are and so the people were out there they were actually smiling yeah yeah big [ __ ] he's supposed to be cussing but he is but it's okay but but then you then then you cleaned it up and i didn't finish uh the video but i thought that was a pretty damn good moment yeah yeah people i figure if you come to a a seminar or whatever then i'm gonna then you know me you've been looking at the videos you know how you know what you're gonna get yeah exactly you know what to expect so you know and then people would actually be disappointed if i you know when i didn't you know didn't do like i do in the video if i wouldn't saw richard fryer and he wasn't rich i'd be like yeah i want my money i got [ __ ] money back i got my money back hey i'm glad to see all you [ __ ] and you know see if you can get away with calling a [ __ ] a [ __ ] all day long all you got to do for a weightlifter bodybuilder pro wrestler whatever just put big in front of you right yeah you big [ __ ] oh they start cheesing and [ __ ] as long as you put that big yeah yeah yeah cause you know you know that's the icebreaker they're seeing yeah you're cool [Applause] i'm trying to wrap this thing up but all the [ __ ] uh in the gym what's some of the craziest most [ __ ] up [ __ ] you've seen oh man with respect i mean is it [ __ ] getting on a bench and just dropping [ __ ] everywhere oh my god well okay here's one you cause you got to be able to go off on a tangent on etiquette as far as racking your [ __ ] plants oh cause i would imagine with the structure here and old school you i would imagine a [ __ ] has got to rack his weights won't you load up a shrug bar with six wheels on each side and leave it there or put three wheels on each of the ends of the bench and just walk away and leave it there tell me about that [ __ ] how does it work here at iron addicts look uh even if your mama do work out here she ain't gonna clean up after your punk ass and i ain't even if i got i'm the [ __ ] owner of this [ __ ] if i gotta wreck my [ __ ] weights hey son [ __ ] to come through that goddamn door gotta do the same [ __ ] thing and if they don't want to yeah they can stay the [ __ ] ass at home i sit there talking with ct fletcher i'm in the lbc fixing to uh uh turn the recorder off shoot the [ __ ] with ct and hang out for a little bit and then drive back to the mdr i got to go down to san antonio and uh interview a cat for the wwe network or paul heyman oh do you still watch your current product no i don't you're too busy too is there anything you watch on tv well i watch uh real good action movies i still like real good ac and then my i watch a lot of classic stuff on uh turner classic network yeah the old stuff yeah i watched the old [ __ ] hey man what about cool hand luke oh jeremiah johnson paul newman [ __ ] yeah of course i can eat 50 eggs nobody can eat 50 eggs my boy luke says he can eat 50 eggs he can eat 50 eggs he's a [ __ ] car guy too yeah so yeah i [ __ ] and okay i got one more question for you before you turn to turn your [ __ ] yeah yeah uh what happens and i know this had to happen when you wrestled the [ __ ] that you really didn't like in real life how you could keep from [ __ ] his ass up it didn't happen oh no because i mean you know there was one program i cut off because you know i wish road that was trying to go down and and try to force an angle i said listen man i ain't going down that road i'm gonna do it and uh so i just i never did now there there's some guys that you're gonna end up working with that you don't have the best chemistry with right and then you know it's just for some reason your styles don't jim yeah and so sometimes the matches aren't as good as they can be but i really over my whole career can't say that i worked with anybody that i hated working with my deal was i had my my what my phobias was i'm like a clean freak oh and so like man there's one dude when i first started wrestling school he weighed about man 400 something pounds was he funky yeah he was funky i knew god damn it man and we had to do this drill and it was almost like a shoot on each other type of thing that big [ __ ] got me down because he has 400 pounds now i just got finished playing football in north texas so about 250 way better shape than i meant and now but he got me in this one position and i was like right underneath his big ass stinky armpit and sweat was just dripping drip grip dripping and coming down my face and boy i got about ten drops of sweat i went full [ __ ] [ __ ] and lift that [ __ ] up tonight yes that was one of my things was getting into her and sometimes here's the deal man you get out on the road man we're pro wrestlers man you you you work you put your [ __ ] in your bag and you go the next town you take a shower and you do that over and over and over again finally man your [ __ ] starts getting funky yeah you know a lot of guys you know you wash your trunks in the sink let them dry or something like that but a lot of times when you get on the road [ __ ] gets funky yeah and that's when i mean even with you even if you're friends with a guy i mean sometimes you know guys would go out of the uh their way to rib another guy yeah like like big van vader oh yeah those big uh paws or ufc gloves he wore all that sweat would run down into those things and leona's the sweetheart of the guy but man that [ __ ] when he was hitting you with those bear piles it wasn't the fact that he was really knocking you around like a bear it was the smell of the [ __ ] gun yeah hit me [ __ ] just take those gloves off yeah yeah i like that guy too i like it your favorite pro wrestler of all time oh my god you you that's damn you really like to come up with them poignant ass questions i mean not me but i mean you because you mentioned a couple well you know it's i'd have to go by error yeah and uh you know you know i talked to a true wrestling fan yeah i guess uh bruno san martino in the beginning because he was a strong [ __ ] at one time i think he had the world record in the business claim too yes yeah world record defense platform same time started out i think and then there's a guy named bobo brazil yep uh that you may not know i remember you might not be old enough historian so uh but uh now everybody is you know and i i like them too don't get me wrong i like the rock right but the rock's daddy rocky's soul man johnson drop kick you from a standings point to right in your [ __ ] forehead rocky saw me and johnson uh for that area my growing up here was probably my favorite [ __ ] wrestler really and then coming up to the new age of course steve stonecole steve austin the rock and um who else bill goldberg i put those i like goldberg he had a good hot streak going on but when you say rocky johnson i gotta say because uh tony atlas come up in there oh you've been in the waist you had the dixie tortillas you know i [ __ ] up uh by of course i had i i admit it i'm sorry uh tony uh mr universe uh atlas uh definitely was in the i think him and uh so man johnson were the first black guys to win the uh world tag team titles you know as a kid in compton uh to see some uh black guys i i really looked up to him you know because uh i was you know i grew up during uh some [ __ ] up p i got to see you know uh a prejudiced area era i got to grow up as a young kid i got to see some real life kids don't you know they don't know about this music but i've seen some white only you know uh faucets and sitting drinking blacks go through the back i got to live through that right so uh to see a couple of black guys win the world heavyweight wrestling title that was really something special yeah so i mean them and muhammad ali you know up there all time grace i got i got a chance to meet muhammad ali uh a long time ago before it you know really got yeah kind of bad it was an early night i don't want to do that with mr wonderful paul orndorff oh my god we got a chance to work uh a deal with mike tyson where we shoved each other way he shoved me in madison square garden and that was kind of a highlight thing about mike was man mike was so cool because he was actually a big wrestling fan yeah he knew more about the business than half the guys in the locker room you know the past champions and the history and all that other stuff right so so he was fun to do business with but you know i miss uh these days in boxing did you watch out mayweather pacquiao yes i did what'd you think well uh i think that uh pacquiao was you know he was frustrated because mayweather wouldn't stand still long enough for him to [ __ ] uh plow right i think the fans and myself appreciate a good total toll match they like to see people slugging the [ __ ] out but that's not mayweather's game no it ain't i mean so you know when you when you shelled out you kind of had to expect that yeah exactly i but you know i got uh i give floyd his props but the only thing that pissed me off about him is when he uh talked about being greater than cigarette robertson muhammad i'm like you know you know this kid need to ask right yeah i was uh you know in his corner then when he started saying stuff like that uh i'm like you you don't have the right yeah and i caught more of ali's career obviously but when you go back and you see and and when you revisit sugar ray robinson's record that [ __ ] was lighting people out from day one until he stopped telling him and so as we would say in texas that's a bad stick of wood that is a [ __ ] bad sticky wool you got damn right do you follow any mma of course what do you think uh about uh dc daniel cormier and uh anthony rumble johnson when because jon jones got stripped of the heavyweight title with the trouble he got into right did you see that fight of course i was in the audience oh were you yes and uh travis i went to see travis brown was a good friend of mine very good friend of mine travis brown was close that's like my younger brother yeah and i went to see him and he's a tough zombie by the way tough song [ __ ] uh and with the cornmeal corgi did what he had to do he took him to the ground he did if he stayed on his feet he's gonna get [ __ ] up but god damn you know uh rumble hit him with that big right hand i mean fly there change the [ __ ] whole fight and then god damn you know i think you know i was uh it was a disappointing because i'm a huge dc fan and i respect jon jones talent but i don't know if it was a rough weight cut or whatever happened to dc when he fought jon jones because it wasn't him at his best well you know they they said that uh john was he had a little you know had a little something in the system he had a little rocket booster yeah yeah and god damn he fought like that is a fighting thumb [ __ ] well there ain't no doubt about that but i just thought uh man with uh anthony roman johnson he was really on a hot streak he went over and sweden beat the [ __ ] out of johannesburg and so man obviously you want to win this fight just just uh you know stan don't get took down and just you know his corner told him don't throw the kick down because he's catching the kid could take him down right and so if he'd just kept him away yeah because he could throw it yeah oh god damn that's when i mean dc really swarmed him he stayed sticky and he used that body weight just to sap all the strength out of him and then boom he did what he had to do he did because i was happy for dc yeah yeah i like it i like him i like him a lot but he's done louisiana but you know i like anthony rumble too but i did too i thought he was actually going to win the fight based on hands man but again i'm a dc fan yeah i'm a dc fan but uh again his wrestling his wrestling his wrestling he went back to his wrestling went to what he had to do took this [ __ ] down and stayed on top because d.c knew if i left this [ __ ] but before the fight dc was like well you know he hit hard they say he hits hard but you know i hit hard too and i've been hit by heavy weights it's probably boy would rumble knock the [ __ ] out of him yeah all of that changed yeah yeah yeah and he can take a shot ain't no doubt about it and that overhand right here is i mean it's funny for someone who comes from a wrestling background especially with 11 level skills he's got he he put the hands together pretty damn quick yes because he does throw some thunder he can throw some [ __ ] thunder but he got in there what i mean a [ __ ] punching machine that [ __ ] rumble johnson can yes all right we're gonna wrap this thing up yeah uh if i'm gonna try to improve my physique you you got any uh recommendations advice for a brother to i can take back to the mdr oh man to will these muscles to grow oh my god can you inspire me with the promo i would love to have stone cold steve austin in my clutches do a a [ __ ] session just just one torch i'm sorry i mean training says not torture said one one training session with the rattlesnake himself after i got you commanding ooh can you imagine that the command the commander himself the rattlesnake the baddest [ __ ] to strap up some wrestling boots to get your ass in there and work steve off oh my god hey do you think you fought the fact that your father was a preacher and did you go to church every sunday to watch his sermons i didn't have no [ __ ] choice so do you think that helped with uh just because i mean i mean so many uh uh preachers are charismatic in the way that they deliver their message i mean because it's either gonna fall on a deaf ear because you ain't delivering a message right and you've got to either operate with a cadence i mean look at looking like uh like a joel osteen these days right he blinks his eyes a lot but he talks in that cadence it kind of ropes you in and they were robert tilton back and you remember yeah yeah he started speaking another tongue uh some of you guys are crazy yeah yeah but my dad but my point is but they can they can articulate right and eloquate uh with uh the word and did that inspire you any you think oh i i you know i told my dad you should always say that you know he said from uh time was a little kid you're gonna be a preacher and i was like [ __ ] no no way if all preachers are like you that's the last thing i ever want to do in my [ __ ] life is be a people as it turns out they call me a part uh preacher uh part philosopher right and a part raven [ __ ] lunatic you know so i guess i have uh some of that preacher in me as bad as i didn't i didn't want it last question you don't watch a whole lot of [ __ ] on tv other than the classics you're kind of stuck in old school music mode kind of like me uh do you what do you do you watch the news to see what's going on in the big picture uh just to stay in tune with [ __ ] yeah i i watch the news uh for probably uh 15 minutes a day and sometimes it gets you know so [ __ ] depressing uh you know and but i i have so much just like yourself so much going on now i try to you know this twitter [ __ ] uh it's actually me talking and i try to relate i owe these i don't like to call them fans but i i owe iron addicts i just call him iron i i owe iron addicts so much you know because uh three years ago after the surgeon lost my job i lost every [ __ ] i had a house home cars everything i was [ __ ] walking up and down the street well what do i know i know [ __ ] weight lifting let me return to what i know and i owe these fans so much if i i wouldn't have i wouldn't be sitting here talking to [ __ ] stone cold steve austin if it wasn't for these [ __ ] i own so much so i'm trying you know to repay them and uh i say i'm mr [ __ ] set i have to uh leave the by example so i get out there and i i don't give a [ __ ] steve whether i feel like just like i'm sure it was many days when you didn't [ __ ] feel like climbing through them ropes but you took your ass in there anyway because it was your [ __ ] job you did what you had to do so we cut from the same club you got to pay those give us a cut they keep sending to the mailbox called bills what time you get up every morning you're a regimented guy no i'm [ __ ] uh my schedule you know like you traveling all the way [ __ ] time my internal clock is [ __ ] up a lot and sometimes you know i'm awake when i should be asleep and i'm [ __ ] sleeping when i should be wide awake so but you know whenever if i have an appointment or something i have to do then i'm going to be there for that but other than that my schedule was all [ __ ] up and i never know i have to ask someone where am i going next week where am i what am i doing i can't i can't even [ __ ] keep up with it all right i'm at iron addicts gym it's in the lbc if you need a badass place to to build some muscle and do some [ __ ] check his place out ct fletcher the movie about you is going to come out when september the mr olympia should be interviewing if this is along with the ct fighter semester series of uh supplements and you can find him on twitter at ct fletcher uh twitter is ct fletcher i asked why he meant that what that's what i was saying a while ago it's your scent [ __ ] yeah yeah it's still yours [ __ ] that's right and the the website is ct fletcher.com.comfs.com that's the bottom line because that's all i got to say that's the bottom line what what god damn i like what you did all right talking to ct fletcher we're out thank you yes sir fantastic thing i i knew we would have no trouble oh i know yeah i mean we have no trouble when he pulled up you gotta leave his [ __ ] car right in the middle of the street i said oh yeah no problem everybody get back to their training yeah i don't know i had an hour and 20 minute break look look at me you know who that is stone cold steve austin i'm sitting in the [ __ ] chair across the stone i can't believe it man what's up hi baby hey cole y'all know who that is that's who it is that's right hey man watching your uh training videos uh that one time he was in the gym he was doing start off on flat bench he worked out with buck 35 225 315 405 495 uh he was just doing such a five and then you went on to uh something else yeah like what was what was basically you know in training for a bench i mean did you ever get into heavy triples and singles man i was a power mister man that was my that was my thing and heavy uh uh [Music] arms man carbs okay yeah they [ __ ] good to grow never could get the last to grow uh you know everybody got a good body yeah yeah back in the day i had good legs but other than yeah such an overwhelming uh level of positivity and positive reinforcement that he commands you to grow and people respond to that he's a real deal he's not trying to do a put on he's not trying to act like a tough guy or talk like a tough guy it's who and what he is and that's why people buy into it i think uh i think yes it's just a i think he has such a wide demographic of fans and people that follow his words just because i think he's an alpha male he's very knowledgeable he's a guy that's been down the road and done that at a very high level and you know he walks the walk he talks to talk and he backs it up and he knows what the [ __ ] he's talking about i think people are driven to his videos because of they've heard how how motivating and positive he is in his words and i think someone with that level of enthusiasm and commitment and uh the the fact that he's trained his whole life is this way and that's what he loves and breathes and what he what he preaches and it it's the truth you know hard work sacrifice and you know nothing's going to come easy working your ass off i mean when you've got a guy who's been around a few times and has had a high level of success like he has the proof's in the point he's a real deal well first of all i can't [ __ ] believe it i gotta pinch my [ __ ] self because i mean it's like you know a dream come true for a guy like me to be sitting across from the rattlesnake the stone cold steve austin mr what himself yeah yeah well actually uh mark smelly bell uh a power lifter very famous powerlifter uh is a mutual friend of ours and he arranged for us to contact each other uh unbelievable unbelievable most uh down it's like we've been knowing each other for 20 years man there was no love in the conversation we both had uh plenty to say and he's a spontaneous uh spur-of-the-moment kind of [ __ ] just like me so we jail i think we do very well i only know the same steve uh stone cold sleep officer and everybody else knows the rattlesnake the one on tv uh mr what you know so i really didn't know uh what to expect uh but when he pulled up he's he was in the middle of the street he said i'll just leave the [ __ ] right here then i knew from just that uh we were going to have a good conversation because my my kind of guy down the earth hardworking you know i knew we were jail uh you know i've been watching him for years like i said my son sampson every time a new stone cold steve austin doll would come out and actually figure we had to go buy that [ __ ] and whenever oh this one's got the belt this one's got the neat every time one came out we had to run over the toys for us and get that thing for him so all i knew was you know what i see on tv like everybody else and i was happy to find out that you know he was down to earth uh you know just a nice [ __ ] guy he's got three dogs by the way we didn't touch him but he's got three dogs he's a dog lover and so am i so we got something else in common yeah so would you have him again what you're talking about like again would you talk to him be on his podcast again of course any i mean uh uh from from now on i mean if steve austin asked me to [ __ ] come to timbuktu you better believe i'm gonna have my happy ass on a plane or a boat or something going over there ten buck two to [ __ ] uh you know i owe him one for this it's fantastic even though he's stoned close to all you're still a humble guy and i'm sure that he can hang with the old man no problem he's just you know us weight lifters you know if we're not in tip-top condition or not and what we feel is our best condition then we sometimes we don't like to you know perform i'll say you know i'm not gonna i'm not gonna do this at this time because i'm not ready i feel like i'm not ready and he probably felt like you know he wanted to get and lose five pounds to me he looked [ __ ] fantastic he looked a lot bigger in person than i thought he was you know from looking at him he didn't look small on wrestling but he looked even bigger in person he looks like he can get in the ring right now and [ __ ] a whole lot of people [Music] you

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Published: Sun Jan 31 2021