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The following Program is a podcast ONE.com production from Hollywood, California, by way of the Broken Skull Ranch. This is the Steve Austin Show. Give me a Hell yeah. Now here's Steve Austin. All right, everybody. Welcome to Steve Austin Show. I'm coming to you from Mean Streets, Los Angeles, California. Today I got a hell of a podcast for you now that you've hit the download button and your eardrums are ringing because you can hear my voice. I got WWE Superstar, former RAW women's champion, World Champion Bayley on the show today and she will be on the show next Tuesday as well because this is a two part podcast. She came over, we started shooting a breeze, talking about the business of pro wrestling, all kinds of stuff, even in the back part of the conversation. On part two, next Tuesday, we talk about her epic match with the legit boss Sasha Banks at NXT Takeover in Brooklyn. And man, what fun that was because that is one of my favorite matches in the last few years. Anyway, I was sitting here at the house and all of a sudden I looked down, I got a text message, a direct message, some kind of message, and it was Bailey. And she says, where can I find your beer? So I texted her back. I said, are you in la? She goes, yeah. I said, what are you doing here? And she said she came down early to work on some CrossFit activities with her coach. She was looking for the Broken Skull IPA to have a beer afterwards. So I told her where she could get the Broken Skull ipa. So I sent her another text message and I said, hey, no pressure. Do you have time to do a podcast? And she texted me back, well, let me think about it. Yes. Anyway, I got on the phone with Bailey. We started talking about what would work for her time schedule and what would work for mine. And she came over and, man, it was good to see her. Came over here live and in living color. Looked fantastic out there, working out, doing a CrossFit grind, traveling all over the world and just having a blast. And it was a breath of fresh air to talk to her and just shoot the breeze with her. I had a lot of fun. Bailey, I'm glad you reached out to me. It was a pleasure talking to you. And we'll see if Bailey likes the Broken Skull IPA later on in the podcast. Again, I am talking to Bailey today and next week on the family friendly show. Here's one spoiler or heads up or warning. I drop one single cuss word when we're talking about a building, the San Francisco Cow Palace. So there's one cuss word in this entire family friendly episode. And there's you got to use a cuss word to describe that building. So I did. But those of you with delicate ears, there's one word coming at you, but other than that, it is indeed family friendly. Talking with the class act that is Bailey and a lot of fun. She got a chance to come over here to 316 Gimmick street over there at the other place. I got painters over there. I got some new lights being put in. That's going to be, I guess that's going to be my place where I start recording the podcast. And that place is under construction. So we just kind of cobbled together a little setup and had our conversation. And I'll be damned. Last night as I record this podcast. It is Monday afternoon right now, WWE is getting ready to go live in about one hour at the Staples center here in Los Angeles. This there's been word on the street, on my Twitter account, on all the sheets, that Stone cold Steve Austin has indeed been spotted at the Staples Center. Well, I can vouch for you or I can clarify that right now. If somebody thought they spotted me, they was wrong. I'm at 316 Gimmick street in Marina del Rey. Staples center is about 20 miles from my house. I ain't nowhere in sight. I ain't wearing camo. You can't see me because I ain't there. I'm here at the house laying down and open for this damn podcast. But anyway, back to the story, because all the WWE Superstars are coming into town and Bayley came in early to visit her family and friends and get her CrossFit workouts in. Man, I'd been wanting to talk to Luke Gallows and Carl Anderson for a long ass time. Those guys had a hell of a damn run over New Japan Pro Wrestling. They're having a hell of a run over here in wwe. They were coming through. And I'll tell you what, Carl Anderson came in from Cincinnati. His flight was on time. Luke Gallows was leaving out of Atlanta, gl, the atl. And I tell you what, his schedule, his whole entire trip got caddywampus sideways and scrambled up and he got delayed by a long time. Those guys were going to come over last night and we were going to go over to 317 Gimmick Street. I had all my neon clocks, had my neon beer signs going. I had a couple of broken skull IPAs in the refrigerator. I even cut back on my calories during the day so I could jump off this eating Regimen for one night to have a couple of shots of whiskey with those guys as we shot the breeze and recorded an epic session of Audio Whoop Ass. But it turns out Luke Gallows was going to get in so damn late, we decided we would postpone the podcast until next time. I believe they're coming back maybe sometime in September. Hopefully I'll be able to get in with those guys at that time. There's some. I was really looking forward to talking to those guys. We'll get it done on another day. And there's some people coming in from the New Japan program, Pro wrestling scene, obviously. I just talked to Josh Barnett a few weeks ago. Jumping Jim Ross, White Meat Babyface from Norman, Oklahoma is going to come by the crib here in a couple of days. We're going to talk. Don Callis of New Japan Pro Wrestling is coming by. My buddy Paul Lazer, me, my stunt double from back in my Vancouver movie days is coming into town and a couple of other people. So, man, I got some good people coming by and shooting a breeze with me. It's been an absolute mess over here at 316 Gimmick street and place next door. The painters over gussing that place up like I said. So it's all kinds of hassle over here, but it's all good. God dang it. I tell you what, just a while ago I got in the car with my wife and we were going to go down to this furniture place and look at some couches. That's right, we're still looking for some freaking couches. So anyway, we're going to the couch place and we sat on a couple she said were comfortable. And she said, I hope you like these couches. I said, I hope I like them too, because I ain't buying them based on anybody's opinion. And I love you and I trust you, but when I'm sitting my ass on a piece of furniture, I want to make sure that it conforms to my standards and it is indeed as comfortable for me as it was for you. Well, it turns out I go down to this damn place where I can't remember the name of the store. I sit down on the couch and I immediately say, this ain't worth a damn. This thing ain't comfortable. So she sits back down on the couch and she goes, yeah, you know what? It doesn't seem as comfortable as I thought it was last time either. So, man, I took off my hat. I'm already sweating bullets. We got the heat wave going through Los Angeles. We drove all this away over here to get on this couch and give it a try, give it a test run. Let me sit my ass on this couch, put my leg up on a damn coffee table and it wasn't worth a damn. It was like sitting on a cotton ball, a bunch of cotton balls that were wrapped in a burlap sack. And I'm like, man, what kind? I went to get up and I would have needed a couple of damn crutches to get up or either a couple of damn gymnast rings hanging from the ceilings, pull myself out of the damn couch. It was absolutely ridiculous. And my wife says, well, we could go down the coast to Mesa. There's a bunch of furniture stores over there. I said, goes to Mesa. I said, how far is that? She says, well, according to my phone, it's 34 miles away. Hell, we done driven about 10 or 15 miles down past LAX. I figured I got plenty of food packed up in the car. I can turn in my podcast open later, give me something to talk about. I said, let me flip this thing around. We'll go to Costa Mesa and try out all the couches they got. I'll be damned if we didn't walk into about five, six, seven damn stores. And it's the same old thing. They got the long ass, deep seats and the short back which is tilted way back. I guess if you're trying to look cool, if you're trying to pick someone up or you're at the lounge at a lobby or something like that, I guess those things are just fine. But when I'm sitting my broke down, crippled up ass on a couch, I want to sit up about half ass vertical. I kind of want that thing to be overstuffed cushions. I won't be able to put my foot on an ottoman or something and just sit there. And for some reason, the way they're making all these couches these days, I don't know who they're making them for. Our couch that we got right now is 11 years old. We went back to the place that made that couch that we originally got. Those things are just wore out. They don't make them no more. I don't know why they stopped, because they couldn't have gone out of style. How can good furniture that's comfortable that lasted us 11 years with always having three dogs in our rotation jumping up and down off of them, climbing on them, sleeping on them. But we done wore those things slap out. But why would they stop making that couch the stuff they make these days? I don't Know, I don't know where to crap or why my watch. It's hard to find a damn couch. But anyway, we finally went to this one damn last store, went over there, started walking around, you know, doing the whole circuit, walking around, walking the floor. And then people are watching you like a hawk, saying, come over and pester you while you're trying to buy a couch, and you got to do your due diligence, try everything out, and you always got to have that table in front of you so you can kick your legs on top of it. Because we're back to the regular couches. Everybody. Y' all all sent me emails to questionsteveausonshow.com and I was looking for those electric reclining couches, and you said, stay away from them. They all break. So we're back to the regular couches. And finally, I'll be damned if I didn't finally find a couch with a pretty high back, proper armrest. The cushions look pretty damn sturdy. And I sat in that dang thing and I said, hey, out of all the couches that we done sat in, I said, this is my favorite one. Of course, my wife's nowhere to be seen. She's in a different part of the store. I finally see her, I flag her down, and she comes over there and she sits on that couch. I said, I'm telling you, this is the most comfortable couch we've found so far. Finally, here comes a dude from the store. He goes, well, if you like this one, you might like this one over here. We go over there, that part of the store, and I'll be damned if that wasn't the most comfortable couch out of all the couches we sat on. We finally found it. And of course, the other couch was halfway across the store. I kept going back and forth, back and forth. I couldn't just go as the crow flies. Had to walk between all the furniture and zigzag my way around the way they had everything situated in the store. Went back and forth about eight times from couch to couch to make sure that when we pulled the trigger and decided to purchase this couch, that we're going to get the right one. Because you know when you kind of get something and you don't give it a proper test drive, whether it's a car, a couch, whatever, and all of a sudden you get that thing in the house and you're like, oh, man, this thing ain't that good. Because by the time you order the couch in the color that you want it in, and it gets there all of a sudden, if the damn thing ain't what you thought it was, hey, usol out of luck, you done purchased it, it's yours in the story. So I'm gonna make sure if I'm gonna put down my hard earned cash and sit my ass on a couch, I want to make sure I like it, I want to make sure my wife likes it, and I really want to make sure that my three dogs are going to like it. But if my ass likes it, they're going to have to take my word that I say it's comfortable and that's the bottom line. So anyway, long story short, we bought the couch. Well, we're going to turn in our order and those things should be here in about two weeks. And I will be extremely happy that we will have finally solved our couch situation at 316 Gimmick Street. Case closed. Hey, I got an epic podcast with one of my favorite WWE superstars, Bailey. She's coming up next and she will be on next Tuesday as well. And on part two, the podcast, @ the very end, we break down and watch and enjoy her illustrious match with Sasha Banks at NXT.