Stone Cold Podcast with Edge and Christian Recap

Follow along with our recap of last night’s Stone Cold Podcast with guests Edge and Christian.

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The heavily popular Stone Cold Podcast, hosted by Steve Austin, returned to the WWE Network live last night. The legendary WWE tag team, Edge and Christian, will be guests on tonight’s show.

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You can check out recaps of previous Stone Cold Podcasts below:

Stone Cold Podcast with Paige Recap
Stone Cold Podcast with Paul Heyman Recap
Reaction to Triple H’s Appearance on Stone Cold Podcast
Full Stone Cold Podcast with Vince McMahon

Every episode of the Stone Cold Podcast has been controversial or must-see TV in its own way.

The first airing with Vince McMahon touched on topics like the use of Brock Lesnar, WrestleMania, etc. One of the biggest may have been with Cesaro, who McMahon said doesn’t have the “It Factor.”

The second airing with Triple H brought up his past with Chyna. This led to her firing back in an interview with Vince Russo.

An airing a few months ago with Paul Heyman brought on controversy towards the end. Heyman and Austin began cutting promos on each other to hypothetically set up an Austin vs. Brock Lesnar match at WrestleMania 32. However, both men would deny this days later.

Then there was Paige, who showed off her fascination with Austin.

With Edge and Christian being tonight’s guest, will there be any controversy? What will she discuss with Austin?

Find out by checking out our coverage below at 11:05 pm ET.

Austin says Edge and Christian were two guys he got along with since the day they walked in the door of WWE. Christian talks into the dummy mic and Austin makes fun of him. Austin asks if he should call them by their ring names or real names; Christian says Christian or Captain, and Edge says a one hump camel rider, or Edge.

Austin asks when they were all together last and Edge says it was Wrestlemania 27 when they sat together and Austin says he got blackout drunk at Wrestlemania 30 with Christian and doesn’t remember anything after.

Austin asks both of them what they’re up to nowadays. Austin pulls up pictures of all three of them in their long blonde hair days, and Austin commends them for now looking like responsible human beings. Edge talks about how he and Christian are now fathers and had their kids 6 weeks apart from each other without knowing it. Edge talks about calling Christian and telling him he was going to have a kid and Christian just responding with “me too.”

Edge talks about how his daughter asks for Uncle Jay all the time and Christian laughs and says he’s getting over. Austin asks Edge about how he decided to live in Asheville, North Carolina once he retired. He says his three choices were Portland, Seattle and Asheville but chose North Carolina to be closer to family. Austin asks Edge if the family was planned and Edge says he pulled the goalie and managed to score.

Christian talks about living in Tampa, Florida because he was tired of the cold in Canada and how his wife is getting a degree in Art History at the University of Florida so he is stuck there for now. Austin pokes a little fun at the Art History degree.

Austin asks both men what it was like to adjust back to civilian life. Christian said he got culture shock and was constantly in his wife’s way once he was home, but he was lucky enough to have a best friend on a tv show and did some episodes of Haven. Christian says he has time and is entertaining so they should give Edge and Christian their own show on the network. Totally agreed.

Edge says he was ready to be off the road. Edge says growing up his only goal was WWE and that was his entire life. He says he was most likely going to retire after his contract was up, which had one year left when he was forced to retire. Edge says he still focused on trying to put over talent before he would leave though.

Edge mentions how the producers of Haven saw his retirement speech and that gave him an in with the show he now stars on. Christian talks about how it was a shoot that they did after he won the world heavyweight championship after Edge retired, and then Edge flew right from that show to Halifax to start filming on Haven. It was initially a one episode deal that has turned into forty.

Austin says he’s going to ask the hard questions now. He calls them one of the greatest tag teams in WWE history and then asks the two of them to play Stone Cold’s theme song on the kazoos. Austin says he loved the kazoo bits and then Edge says he has a proposition for him. Christian says they’ll do the kazoo if Austin will do kum-bay-ya and hand him a ukelele and a tiny cowboy hat.

Edge and Christian go first and absolutely nail Stone Cold’s theme song on the kazoos. Christian says he wished he would’ve known how far the kazoos would get them or he wouldn’t have spent as much money on other stuff like flashy tights. Edge and Christian say most of their comedy stuff came from ideas they would just pass around during road trips. Austin asks if they pitched their own ideas to creative at first and the two of them said they just kind of took one idea and ran with it initially.

After trying to get out of it initially, Austin starts warming up for kum-bay-ya and plays it for his guests who clap along. Austin doesn’t even finish the song because he throws the hat off and the ukelele down. A twitter question comes in asking Edge and Christian’s thoughts on the tag team division currently.

E&C say they welled up when they saw Dudleyz come back, and Austin says that WWE is the home of the Dudleyz and he’s glad they came back. Christian says New Day is on fire right now, and Austin says how for a while he was frustrated with the tag team division.

Edge talks about how he and Christian knew the best thing for them was to be a tag team when they came in because Austin and Rock and people like that were on fire and would be hard to contend with. Austin talks about all the different dynamics in a tag match like cutting off the ring, and the blind tag and asks Edge and Christian if they think that the psychology is missing from tag team wrestling now.

Edge says the Dudleyz being back probably helps the other tag teams remember the little things. The Usos, Harper and Rowan, Wilder and Dawson get shout outs from Edge, and he especially talks up Wilder and Dawson being a throwback tag team that is really enjoyable to watch. He even compares them to Ole and Arn Anderson.

Austin asks who out of the two of them was the go to guy for leading the match, and they agree that the two of them were both doing that. He mentions how when they were doing ideas for the TLC matches it was Bubba Ray from the Dudleyz, Matt from the Hardyz, but both Edge and Christian from their team.

Austin asks about they have been together for 35 years and how that effected them as a team. Austin and Christian bring up a game they would do to kill time hanging out or on the road where it was called “Don’t Look At Me.” The game is just when someone looks at you, say “don’t look at me” and give them a length of time to not look at you for. Christian says it was Austin who started it. Christian says that when they were in the Ministry, and were tying Austin to the Undertaker’s symbol, he said it to Austin and ribbed him in the middle of a the main event angle.

Austin asks how well the two of them know each other. Christian had just moved to town and Edge said he was dressed like a dork but Christian had a ninja star and so Edge became friends with him because of the ninja star. Christian says he told the kids he was thinking of selling it so other kids would come talk to him and hang out with him. The two of them both discovered that they both loved wrestling.

Austin asks who their favourites were and both men say Hogan. Austin does a version of the newlywed game and asks Christian what Edge’s favourite arena is to wrestle in. Christian says All State Arena in Chicago and he’s right. Edge says the same answer for Christian and is correct as well. All three talk about the arena as their favourite. Austin asks the two of them if they are sports entertainers or pro wrestlers and both men say they are pro wrestlers.

He continues the newlywed game and asks Edge what Christian’s favourite match is. He says vs Randy Orton at Summerslam and Christian says he’s wrong and it’s actually ladder match against Del Rio when he won his first World Heavyweight Championship. Same question goes to Christian and he says when Edge main evented Wrestlemania against Undertaker and Edge says that he’s right. Austin asks if it made him validated and Edge says absolutely and it made him feel like he earned it and deserved to be there.

Austin asks both men for their most embarrassing moment in the ring and tells his own from the triple threat match on pay-per-view against HHH and Mankind where he goes to push Shane McMahon and accidentally gets caught in the ropes and can’t get up so he yells at everyone in the match to try and help him up.

Edge says his was when he almost bacon stripped his tights, meaning he almost pooped his pants taking a bulldog off the top rope. Christian’s was when during the Invasion pay-per-view when he went to do a move where he launches off Edge’s back over the ropes and suicide dives to the outside. Edge’s back was too sweaty and Christian slid, hit his knees off the ropes and missed everyone.

Austin introduces some video footage of the TLC matches, including Edge’s spear of Jeff Hardy while he’s hanging from the titles, Jeff’s Swanton Bomb to Bubba Ray off the ladder through the table, Christian getting 3D’d through a table by the Dudleyz, Jeff Hardy getting powerbombed through a table that had Edge on it, Christian and Edge both getting pushed off ladders and Christian hitting the floor on the outside. and the two of them getting sandwiched in a ladder by Matt Hardy.

Austin asks if the TLC match was invented in WWE and Edge and Christian say it was for Wrestlemania 16/ Austin urges people to watch the match and calls it a great match. Austin asks them what position they were on the card and they say middle late, and when Austin follows up to ask about how they were followed Edge says that they put the girls on.

Austin asks the two men where they decide to draw the line for a danger factor when planning the matches. Christian says they tried to avoid having them become just a spectacle or a car crash. Edge says it was always going to be a tornado in a trailer park. Edge says the bar kept getting raised and raised, and in Houston when they were planning that match was the first time the teams butt heads and were thinking of ways to one up themselves. Edge mentions how the only thing that didn’t go to plan was Jeff walking across the ladder during Wrestlemania 17.

Austin asks them both if the reward was worth it from these match ups and both guys say yes. Christian says it catapulted them and gave all six guys exposure. They wanted to be the match everyone was talking about after the card was done.

Austin mentions the Hardyz and the Dudleyz and calls them the perfect 6 men for these match ups. Edge mentions how they seemed to always feel like they would pay each other back with moves later to make each other look good. Edge says Edge and Christian were Muhammad Ali, then the Hardyz were Joe Frazier and the Dudleyz were George Foreman in that they all balanced each other out.

Austin asks how it feels after those matches and Christian says he tried to lift up a dumbbell the next day but simply couldn’t. Edge says it was actually two days after the match was the worst for sure.

Edge gets asked about his first gimmick: Sexton Hardcastle. Christian mentions one of his first gimmicks was wearing scrubs and a mask and being known as the Male Nurse. Edge explains how when he first got the Edge character he really didn’t know what it was. He says his first character design had leather pants and would recite poetry, and how he developed it over time. He says it then became a confused kid who was looking to find his way in the business.

Austin asks Edge how the character got over and Christian jumps in and says that it was the formation of the Brood that really did it. The entrance and the aura of it really helped them, and Edge says Gangrel really helped them as a veteran to earn their keep with the rest of the locker room.

Austin asks them if it’s fun to be back and if they yearn for it. Edge says he doesn’t yearn for it but he does like seeing everybody. Christian says he likes to come in to talk to the younger guys to get a feel for what they’re doing and what they’re up to.

Austin asks them how hard it was to compete with each other to get accolades and if it was every difficult due to their friendship. Christian says no because if you take the Edge and Christian tag team out of the picture and look at their careers individually, they are both impressive careers and calls Edge’s one of the greatest of all time. Edge says they were the only tag team that became world champions on their own (by that meaning full time tag teams) and says that he was always lucky because they are best friends.

Edge gets asked about going in to the Hall of Fame and says he was surprised how quickly it happened and how he got calls from Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels afterwards to say he deserved it. Christian is asked about how he felt when he got the news and Christian says he was over the moon about it. Austin asks Christian if he think he’ll get in and he says he likes to think so but it’s not up to him. When Austin asks Edge about Christian he says yes without a doubt and starts a petition with #ChristianHallofFame. Austin says Christian deserves it as well.

Austin brings up Michael P.S. Hayes and asks Edge and Christian about his influence. Edge says he thinks he saw a little FreeBirds in them and mentions how the FreeBirds should be in the Hall of Fame. Edge says the most important advice he got was from Hayes and that is that the heel has to really believe what they say and have to have a kernel of truth to everything that they say to get heat. Christian says that Hayes saw the passion in the two of them and took that and molded it.

Austin brings up Rated R Superstar stuff and calls Edge a prime jerk and brings up how they were put in “wrestler’s court” when they went to a head writer’s house for dinner which reeks of a brown nose according to Austin. Christian says they were pitching ideas but they never went to the house. He says they went into wrestler’s court with a rock solid defence.

Austin gets them to explain wrestler’s court, where someone will say you cross a line of etiquette. Undertaker was the judge as usual and JBL was the prosecutor. Christian says as a rib they told people they were getting a book deal and infuriated the whole locker room since they were so young. The title of their fake book was “Edge and Christian Ass Kissing: Our Road to the Top.” Christian says they bought the judge in wrestler’s court and got Undertaker a bunch of boxing and motorcycle stuff as a “settlement” which worked.

Austin asks Edge about Vince McMahon who called Edge and told him his career was done. Edge says he could tell something was going on due to trembling in his hands. He says it was faster than he thought to get the call but since he had already been preparing for it he just had to wrap his mind around it. Austin asks Edge if he felt like a weight was off his back when he knew that he was done and Edge agrees since he knew he was walking away without letting someone down.

Austin asks them what’s the biggest thing they take away from their relationship with Vince and Edge says the way that Vince sees the world. He says it’s because he sees it differently from Vince but he likes being able to understand the way Vince sees it. Christian answers the question by saying it’s Vince’s dedication to the business that he took away the most. He says the work ethic is infectious from Vince. Christian talks about how he was treading water when he first became a singles guy and he had a good chat with Vince where the boss told him straight up how to give him the platform to become his own person and his own character.

Austin asks about their “exit strategies” when they were retiring, and Edge says he lucked into acting and was frugal already so he didn’t need to get into another job right away. Austin makes a joke about how Christian’s appearance on Haven was during the last year and then the show got cancelled which Christian gets mockingly offended by.

Christian tells a story behind the “What” chants. Austin was calling Christian while on the road and Christian was in a gym and got a voicemail from Austin who kept saying what during the six minute long voicemail. 3 weeks later Austin was doing it on RAW and Christian was laughing in the back.

Stone Cold asks them to tell the Ice Road Trucker story, which takes place in Manitoba Canada. They were driving to Manitoba on roads that were just fields between trees since they were driving on ice. Edge was driving at about 3:30 in the morning and everyone was sleeping but woke up to see water in front of the car where the ice had been thawing out. Everyone was trying to discuss a strategy but another guy there were with gunned it and they managed to make it across. The ring truck when a different way and fell straight in the ice. Everyone was trying to rock the van out of the ice, and Christian almost falls through the ice as well and then goes to van to dry. Rhyno was apparently in the van crying and went out, pushed the van out of the ice and they were on their way.

Austin asks them what their biggest regret while in the company was. Edge says he has none and that it was all good and he regrets nothing. Christian says he regrets doing the podcast and Austin says he regrets playing the ukelele for them. Christian then says he really has no regrets and that he went farther than he ever had any business going.

Austin asks how they want to be remembered and Edge says he just wants to be remembered. If kids look back and remember them fondly then they did well. Christian says he wants to be remembered as being better than Edge, but then honestly says he wants to be remembered as someone who gave it his all every night.

The 5 Second Pose is brought up and Edge and Christian says it came from another one of their spit\ball sessions. Christian says they stopped going through the crowd since they were heels and no one should be able to touch them but they would still pose for people, hence the 5 second pose.

Austin’s last request for the two is a five second pose as they go off the air.

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