Austin Theory

We welcome back our now first ever WWE recurring guest in our guy Austin Theory! We talk the Road to Wrestlemania, working with Grayson Waller, butting heads with The Rock, and much more. Be sure to grab the new Austin Theory t-shirt at wweshop.com!

Episode Transcript

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This is Austin Theory, and you'relistening to the baby Faces Podcast only on
iHeartRadio. Lina wup right the Wallerand you are listening to the baby Faces
on iHeartRadio. What's going on,y'all is WWE superstar Kobe Kingston and you'll
look into the Babyfaces on iHeartRadio.Baby all right, you hear that music

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that means we are back again.It is the Babyfaces Podcast only on iHeartRadio,
where we got a new slogan freenever sounded so good here at iHeartRadio.
Just make sure to download that freeiHeartRadio app. You can tune into
me and my co host Billy onninety seven to five w A MZ.
We are promoting a station all theway down in South Carolina because WWE,

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you know, we got a reallystrong relationship with them. They're bringing the
Road to WrestleMania to the North CharlestonArena this weekend. And we have on
a very very very special guest today. But first let me go ahead and
get to our co host, BillyPrickett. And you see that guy on
the right, that's not our specialguest. Our special guest is the guy
right below us. Let me goahead and get a better look at everybody

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here. Let's see. There wego. That's a little bit better of
it. There we go, AustinTheory. You are now back. That
officially makes you a reoccurring guest.Welcome to the show Man. How you
doing, hey, you know itfeels good to be back again. So
I guess this show is getting alittle Austin Theory live. Check it out.
That's right, you are now ourfirst recurring WWE guest. So you

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know that's a huge off for you. Kind of an average day for us,
but it's got to be a prettybig moment for you to come on
the podcast. I'm ready for theplaque to be on the wall in the
studio. And that's right, babycassguy. I love it. I love
it. Well, hey, Alsen, I mean it's those secret. This
time of the year is the excitingtime in wrestling. We are on the
road to WrestleMania. You've been verylucky, lucky in your young career to

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have quite a few WrestleMania moments already. I know last time we had you
on, we talked about your matchwith John Cena to open last year's WrestleMania,
which was an awesome match, awesomemoment for you to retain your US
championship, and you've even been inthe ring with guys like Pat McAfee and
Stone Cold Steve Alson on the bigstage. So, you know, how
do you feel going into this year'sWrestleMania and how do you follow up some
nig moments like that? Man,I'm ready to smack somebody in the mouth.

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That's what I'm ready to do.You know. Like you said,
I've been in the ring with thoseguys, and they're all very lucky to
be in the ring with me,you know, even Big Dwayne. You
know, everybody's not too happy thatThe Rock came back. And I told
everybody, you know, I toldThe Rock to his face and said,
it doesn't matter what you got tosay. But now everybody's trying to agree

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with me, you know. Buthey, that's that's been there and it's
passed. But looking forward to thisWrestleMania, man, there's so many different
moments that can happen that I canmake happen, and I'm just excited to
see what happens. So we allgot to just stay tuned. It's a
very exciting time in your young career, just because we were talking about going

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to WrestleMania. You're back to backWrestleMania, to having big spots and John
Cena, the legends you've already kindof been in the ring with and had
interactions with. You mentioned the Rock, You told The Rock to his face,
you went toe to toe with theRock, Austin. It's kind of
really hard to do that nowadays,and especially when it seems like a lot
of people have critics of just howyou present yourself. You really held your
own against the great One. JustI kind of want to ask you the

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same thing we kind of asked whenyou're on here last time. What it
was like a dealing with Sena andwhat he said to you. You can
kind of explain what the locker roomvibe was like after that promo with the
Rock and after your Interrock, afteryour interaction with him, did Rock ave
any words of advice or how wasthat received in the back once you got
back there from that? I mean, you know, when I got to
the back, everybody just stared atme. Everybody kept their mouth shut.

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They knew what time it was,But man, that that whole experience with
the Rock, that was so cool. It was so last minute. I
literally found out maybe thirty minutes beforeand then yeah, and I actually met
the Rock five minutes before that,and we went out there and you know,
we just felt the crowd and leteverything rock and everything. You know,

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that's funny, I say the rock, right, yeah, right,
but yeah, everything just flowed.Man, it worked out really well.
And maybe I wasn't supposed to saywhat I said to the Rock, but
I said it because I had tosay it, you know, had to
put everybody on notice. So Austin, I think that that's like a really
cool thing that when you mentioned whateveris supposed to be said or not supposed

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to be said, when you reallykind of kind of blur the lines,
I think that that helps out.Like here, Austin, here's Dwayne,
Dwayne, here's Austin. All right, now go out and kind of promo
and then boom, that's what youhave to do. Like I said,
it's not really easy to do that. Now I feel like you managed to
handle yourself well in that situation.Yeah. Man, it's it's one of
those things that you know, noteveryone can do that, but it's one
of those things when you feel comfortablewith yourself and you know, honestly,

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I really was just so loose withit and I just wanted to entertain and
that's what it's all about at theend of the day. And I think
we got that accomplished out there.That's what Billy said. You took it
on billy'sie because Billy texting me thisguy is a star right after that.
There it is a big old star, yes, sir. And you've also
been teaming with another star, anotheryoung star in the in the business,

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Grayson Waller lately, who friend ofthe show by the way, has been
on the baby Faces. Actually,both of you guys are in our podcast
open it's it's Austin Theory liner andthen it's Grayson Waller Liner. Then Kothe
Kingson is in there. So justhuge fury, right right. But what's
it been like teaming with with Grayson? And I hope you know, they

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just announced this tag team water matchat Wrestlingia. I'm hoping you guys can
possibly find your way into that.But you know, what's that experience been
like a team with Grayson Leiley Man, It's really cool, especially you know
him being Australian. He teaches me, you know some cool Australian things and
some of the snacks. I don'tknow too much about that stuff, but
yeah, it's been cool, man, and just you know, being able

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to kind of take a step backin a way, because you know,
when you have somebody else along theside, you know, with you and
you're doing backstage interviews and you're doingmatches with Randy Orton and things like that,
Like, it's really cool to havesomebody in it with you, and
you guys are on the same pagebecause you know, you guys are kind
of doing the same thing. Soit's been it's been awesome, and even

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going to Australia, you know,but we won't talk about that talk show.
I don't want to bring that upright now. I mean, that's
I'm glad that we're going to shyaway from that because I know, like,
like Billy just mentioned, we hadGrayson on the show when it was
literally, i think actually back toback weeks after we had you guys too,
So that was a pretty funny thingyou have. I always thought that

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two guys were a match made inheaven. I thought, if you kind
of get these two together, theyboth really get at talking. They both
kind of have that I told AaronStevens this last week, and please don't
take this wrong. You guys bothhave that that just kind of like Kevin
Owens is right, you know whatI'm saying, you kind of have like
a I don't know about that part. I can. I would personally never
punch you in the face. Iwould never, I would never dare step
to you. And well you knowI'm not and I'm not going to because

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what you do Austin, I respectit and it's and it's real, and
I don't know what those people overseasare kind of over there thinking. So
do you think that you guys leftAustralia and you think that Perth had a
different view of what professional wrestling was, especially WW once you guys left your
market elimination chamber. Oh? Absolutely. And you know what's really crazy is

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it's one of those things actually beingover there in Australia really seeing how much
of an impact the WWE had onPerth, how huge it was, how
many media outlets, how many newspaperswe were in, how many places we
were Like every day there was youknow, at least man I'd say ten
or you know, fifteen of usdoing something and I even did a meet

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and greet in the mall there.Never been to the mall, never been
to Australia, and I thought itwas cool. You know, I'm in
the middle of the mall in Australia. I got three hundred fans that came
out to meet me. And I'mon the other side of the world.
So that market over there is it'sinsane, man. And Australia is just
one of those places like we gottago back you get the hold of koala,

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or like did you get to seea kangaroo? So I did see
a koala, but you know,I'm good on holding it. I'll just
let it stay on that tree.You know everybody else, you know,
they're all into that. I'm like, yeah, it looks cool right there
on the tree. Yeah right,crazy man, Yeah, no doubt.
If you're watching on the YouTube,I got to shout out this T shirt

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that you're rocking here. Man,it looks like the old like SmackDown logo.
It's the new T shirt Austin TheoryLive Baby. I went to there.
It is pushed them. I alwayshad a good thing with logos.
You always have like a good likethrowback. Even your WrestleMania a gear and
it was kind of like the logotheme that is, really do you go

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inspire doing that? Does somebody elsekind of pitch with you? Or do
you just say, like, thisis what I went on my gear that
night. Man. So I've alwayshad one person that makes my gear.
He's made it since I started wrestling. He's made every single pair, whether
it was the long tights that Iwore on the independent scene or now it's
you know, the biker shorts.But we kind of collabed together and kind

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of come up with ideas. Butit seems that the you know, logos
of pay per views and even thisone, you know, this is the
old SmackDown logo. Yeah, butyeah, just kind of a collab thing
with him. But for the mostpart, you know, I come up
with a lot of my designs.Well, we're gonna be at WrestleMania this
year. Shout out to w WEfor hooking us up credentially to cover our

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first WrestleMania, and we're super excitedto check out the WWE world that's going
on throughout the week and the weekend. You know what, what's kind of
that like for you as superstars toto have that full week of events leading
up to obviously the big event ofwrestle Media. Imagine it's just a super
cool experience. Yeah, it's justlike a blast of you know, wrestling

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every day for a week. Everybodyaround the world comes in and it's just
so many people and so many fans, and there's so many different things that
WWE puts on, you know,like there's different programs, there's different like
access. We have the WWE Worldthing going on. There's just you know,
pictures, autographs, all that stuff, and even getting to meet a

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lot of the WWE superstars that's obviouslya huge deal to our fans, and
just being able to do a wholeweek of that and it's gonna go down
right there in Philadelphia, So it'sgonna be awesome. Absolutely. That's one
thing that we are extremely looking forwardto because it seems like they're bringing that
access back. It's kind of youknow, ever since after a couple of
years ago that kind of switched itto a little bit more of a superstore,

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but now kind of bringing the immersivenessback, and that's one thing that
we're excited that. Content wise,hopefully we can run into you out there.
You never know who you're gonna runinto, especially being in Philadelphia.
Just a quick question, are youAtlanta Falcons fan? Man? If it's
Atlanta, I'm with it man,but actually a sports fan at all.
Okay, Okay, I got anotherwhole Atlanta thing, and I'm a Minnesota

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Vikings fan and they just got ridof Kirk Cousins to go down there.
So I was just gonna wish youall the luck in the world with that,
But thank you, thank you forthat. Well, we'll just go
ahead and talk about the Road toWrestleMania. It's coming up at the North
Charleston Arena. It's going down thisSaturday in North Charleston. You want to
go check it out. We're talkingto one of the up and coming stars,
Austin Theory in the WWE. Austin, thank you once again so much

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for coming on again for we alwaysask this for people that's never been out
to a show, especially one ofour new markets down there in Charleston,
South Carolina. What could you sayto the fans that's gonna get out there
and what can they expect from aWWE show, especially a WWE Live Road
to WrestleMania. Man, what's socool is I mean you and said it
right there. We're on the roadto WrestleMania, so this changes, you

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know, the whole show dynamic asitself. You know, everybody is trying
to squeeze it into that last WrestleManiaspot, trying to make those final you
know, impressions on everybody. Andat the same time, this is a
WWE live event, so that meansthat you know, anybody that's there in
the crowd. This is a youknow, a really up close and personal
experience because we're all into the crowd. We're focused on the crowd. You

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know, whatever we do in thering, we're watching those reactions. I
mean, I love doing that.If you guys are gonna boo me,
I'm gonna make sure you want toreally boo me. So I'm going to
give it to them. So makesure you come out to a WWE live
event. It's such an experience.It's fun for family, friends. Maybe
you just met some random strangers likeon the street. Maybe you should bring
him or maybe not, maybe that'snot safe. But yeah, the ww

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live events are awesome, man.So and like I said, again,
we're on the road to WrestleMania,so things are getting pretty serious and you
never know what could happen, andyou never know who could shoe up.
Well, Austin, this has beenawesome man. I know you've got a
lot of media to do today,so we'll get you on your way.
Hopefully we'll runningto you in Philly andI'm definitely got to grab me an Austin
Theory T shirt when I've got toget one there. So absolutely thanks man,

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Thank you guys, appreciate it.You sir,