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foreign. Welcome to the Steve Austin show. All right, everybody, and I'm back from a commercial break. Appreciate my sponsors before we get cranked up with the man, Stone cold Steve Austin, the guy who's done so much for the world of professional wrestling. A guy who really changed the game, so to speak. A guy who brought a lot of gray into a world of black and white. That guy kind of rode the lightning bolt between being a heel and a baby face. But depending on what he was working, was either one of those. A very edgy guy, to say the least. Edgy in his personal life, Certainly edgy in a 20 by 20 squared circle when he's working with the WWE. I'm lucky to have him out here, here at the Broken Skull Ranch, live and in living person. I'm a little bit. I don't want to use the word trepidatious because trepidatious ain't in my dictionary. But nonetheless, I will proceed somewhat with caution, but proceed forward at a rapid pace. This is the Steve Austin Show. I am, as he would say, the bottom line. And we're going to talk to Stone Cold Steve Austin after I tell you one more time about this Amazon.com stuff. Because if you guys want to support the Steve Austin show, if you go to podcast1.com, click on the Amazon banner on the Steve Austin show page, save that in your URL. That will get you to the same Amazon place you normally go, but with a bonus because Amazon will kick back a small piece of chump change on the sale to help support the Steve Austin Show. It helps keep this show up and running. And if you want to take a shortcut, you can also go to my personal website, broken skull ranch.com. there's an Amazon link right there on the home page on the right hand side. Click on that, save that on your URL and you're good to go. And Amazon just shows a little bit of love to the SAS and keeps this motherfucker up there for free. Anyway, before I waste any more time fiddle fucking around, I cannot lollygag any longer. I go into this interview and I ain't pussyfooting around. But then again, you know, I don't want to sass Stone Cold Steve Austin because this son bitch will come upside my head and knock me all cattywampus. So anyway, here's the man, the living legend himself, Stone Cold Steve Austin. Welcome to the show. But I'm glad to be here, motherfucker. You got any questions to ask, Stone Cold? Because I've been sitting over here for 25 minutes while you've been over here flapping your gums, singing on that stupid guitar. And I drove down here 1500 miles to be on your stupid show. So if you're going to ask questions, you might as well start asking questions. Otherwise I'd throw your ass through this goddamn window. And once you land out there in that gravel, I'll walk outside, stomp a mud hole in your ass. I ain't wearing nothing but a pair of flip flops, but it ain't nothing but a thing like a chicken wing on a shoestring for me to bury my foot up your ass. And when I pull it Out. That flip flop will stay there so you can take your little ass to the hospital, get an mri, an X ray, or whatever it takes to get that flip flop removed from your intestines. What do you got to say about that? Well, Stone Cold, I mean, during the break, I made you a cup of coffee, but I didn't know you was gonna show up in a real pissed off mood. Well, how'd you expect me to show up? You wake me up early, treat me like a jabroni. Trying to stall all this time and I want to know what happened. You let me borrow your toothbrush. What the fuck was on the end of that toothbrush? It tasted like shit. Oh, I forgot. You borrowed my toothbrush this morning. Yeah, I borrowed your toothbrush this morning. What happened? That's a long story, Stone Cold. You actually used the Coochie Tronic 6000 to brush your teeth with now. Coochie Tronic? The way you're talking about. Nevermind, it's a long story. But I'm sure your teeth got clean enough. Could you step back about three feet? Because I'm kind of smelling a little bit of something. Let's go on with the interview, Stone Cold. But before we go on with the interview, I thought I would sing you a song just from me to you back in the day, and kind of help you wake up and get you in a cheery mood. Here goes. Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya Kumbaya. Give me that goddamn guitar, Stone Cold. I'm just trying to sing you Kumbaya. I used to sing it all the time on Monday Night Raw. I don't give a rat's ass what the fuck I used to do on Monday Night Raw. You didn't bring me down here to sit on a damn guitar singing me Kumbaya. Dude, you ain't gonna get hot about it, man. I was just trying to entertain your ass. Yeah, well, you can entertain Stone Cold Steve Austin by asking him some questions. Well, all right. How was your drive down here at the Broken Skull Ranch? What difference does it make how my drive was? I'm sitting here live and living color right here in front of you. Just ask me some stupid questions. How do you like living in California? I know you've been living out in California now about 10 years. What does it make a difference if I'm living in California or not? I could be living in New York City. I could live in Des Moines, Iowa. I could be in Oklahoma City. I could be in Indiana. I Could be in Minnesota. What the fuck difference does it make where the fuck I live? Ask me some stupid questions, boy. I tell you what, you might have had one too many cups of coffee. You want me to. No, I don't want you to. Sing me another song. All right, let's get down to business. Let's talk about. Let's talk about a little bit about wrestling. I know that when I listen to you talk sometimes that you'd like to help the future generation of upcomers in the wwf. And speaking of upcomers and guys that are trying to break into business, whether it's in the WWE or guy in Independent Circuit or any, some of the cats down there in TNA trying to make a name for themselves. I know that you love wrestling. I know that you spilled blood, sweat and tears and left body parts all over the United States, all over the world working with wwe. I know that it's in your blood, but you watch all forms of wrestling. So with that being said, without any further ado, I just had a couple of questions that I wanted to ask you before we get to the ones from the fans. So, Stone Cold, in your opinion, what makes a great baby face? Well, that's a goddamn good question. Anybody out there listening wants a little bit of 411 on wrestling. Shut the fuck up. Put whatever you're doing down and listen to what Stone Cold Steve Austin got to say. A great babyface, in my opinion, has got to have great fire. A great baby face has to be able to sell like a motherfucker. A great baby face has to have a solid work base. And a great baby face has to have a great promo, or at least a good promo. When you're in that ring, people cannot be able to see through your work. All the holds, all the moves you must execute with perfection. When I say fire, when that heel has cheated too much, you have to get pissed off. You have to show a spark of energy. When you make that comeback, you. You have to throw all the rules out the book. You have to be a pissed off, mad motherfucker. And it's almost. They call it fire, but I mean, it's just. You have to be livid. You have to give a shit. You have to make that crowd feel the emotions that you are feeling. If the crowd does not feel your emotions, you are an ineffective baby face with that fire you've got to sell. You've got to show vulnerability. You have to show, I don't care how tough you are. Even as Stone Cold Steve Austin back in the day I had to be vulnerable to a degree. You're going to have different levels of baby face. Some may be white meat, easy to get heat on. Some are going to be more like the Undertaker. A baby face, but not a guy you're really going to feel sympathy for, but you will cheer for because you respect him so much and you know that he will arise soon enough from that set of heat that that relentless heel has instilled upon him. So there's different levels of baby face. But if I was just going to go traditional baby face with a lot of fire, who could sell and had solid work and good promos. Three of my favorite baby faces, and this is not the top three in the history of the business. But if you're looking to watch a baby faces work for the tangibles that I have laid out, I would check out Ricky Steamboat, Ricky Morton and Dusty Rhodes. Ricky Morton was big as a minute, but you talk about one of the most fiery competitors ever step inside a squared circle. Ricky Morton had a damn good promo. You could not see through his work and he had tons of fire. Ricky Steamboat is on the top of the list. I've never seen Ricky Steamboat when he was green. He was always good. He could fill in the gaps. Work was his specialty. Fire was his specialty. Selling was his specialty. But never dying. When you sell, you cannot die. You must keep yourself alive. If that hill is not keeping you alive, you must keep yourself alive. Steamboat, great at that. And then you go down to Dusty Rhodes, the American dream. One of the all time greatest in the history of the business. A guy could talk anybody into the building. Dusty Rhodes could work his ass off. You could not see through his work. One of the most charismatic entertainers of all time. Look to Dusty Rhodes. Watch some of the trademark moves he did. Watch his fire. You could get that motherfucker down and he would keep fighting and he would sell. He was like Lawrence Olivier when it came time to sell. Not too many people could sell like the three guys I mentioned. Steamboat, Morton and Rhodes. All right, that's pretty good. That's pretty damn good. But let's talk about what makes a great heel. I'm interested to see your take on this. Well, I'll tell you what makes a great heel. As a great heel, one of the most important things that you need, you need to have a mean streak. And I mean that because I don't think there's too many people in the ring today who really possess that mean streak. And there's also almost hand in hand with that Mean streak is what I like to call a piece of shit factor. A piece of shit factor means you will go above and beyond whatever it takes to get heat on that baby face. You cannot give a shit. Some people would want to work heel but were afraid of the heat that the crowd would give them. Hey, back in the day, people used to come back from the ring after working a heavy duty angle in the territory. The crowd was so hot, the baby faces were over to such a large degree. When they left those motherfuckers laying in a pool of blood, guys were getting knifed and stabbed on the way back to the dressing room. Many times back in the day, they would have to fight their way back into the dressing room. So you've got to have that piece of shit factor that goes right hand in hand with that mean streak. A good heel or a great heel, rather, is also relentless. It doesn't mean you rush through things. You just must be relentless. Relentless in shining that baby face, telling the story, letting him out, wrestle you, outsmart you, whatever the case may be, then grinding that baby face down and establishing a strong set of heat worthy of a tremendous comeback. You must be able to read that crowd. How do you read a crowd? You read a crowd by listening to that crowd. You should be able to hear a cricket fart up in row 100 as a hill. I'm a deaf motherfucker, I can barely hear. But once you get me in an arena, Whether it's a 500 seater, a 20,000 seater or a 70,000 seater, I can hear a cricket fart and row 200 because I am tuned into that crowd. A great hill will always listen. You've got to know psychology. You've got to know how to shine that baby face, when to cut him off, when to give him a hope spot, how to keep him alive. And then going along with the relentless factor, you've got a flip flop and fly for that baby face. When it's time to give it all back in that comeback. As you head into the finish, all the false finishes, and whether you're going over or he's going over, you've got to be able to, to always have some reserves in your gas tank you cannot blow up as a great heel. And to top it all off, it all goes back to working that microphone. You've got to be able to cut an effective promo. And if there's a couple of guys who, you know, embodied some of the things which I just said, I would pick Buzz Sawyer as one of my heels with a great Mean streak. Not so much the greatest promo in the world, but when he did cut a promo, I believed he was out of his mind. I believed wrestling was real. Now, granted, this was back in the day, before all of the exposes, but this motherfucker was a walking mean streak 24 7. I also dug a guy called Adorable Adrian Adonis. Adrian Adonis. There was something about him. When he went to get the heat, he switched and he turned into the biggest piece of shit you could imagine. He did not rush. He was relentless in his heat. He would flip, flop and fly for that baby face on a comeback. Was he the greatest in the world? No. But just when he got his heat, it really made an impact on me. Of course, you got to throw the nature boy, Ric Flair, in there. One of the greatest workers of all time, one of the greatest, in my mind, psychologists of all time, and obviously a great, great talker. Ric Flair could go in there, shine up a baby face, pick on a body part for 10 or 15 minutes, put the baby face back on top, then ground him and work on that damn knee for 15, 20 more minutes as he tried to set up the figure four. That was a classic Ric Flair match. Some people will argue, have you seen one Ric Flair match? You've seen them all. Well, to a degree, that's like saying if you've heard one Boston song or one Van Halen song, you've heard them all. All bands sound the same to a degree. Every wrestler wrestled to the same match. To a degree, have you seen one stone cold match? You've seen all of those, too. Certainly they're all going to be different. But that's one of the biggest knocks against Ric Flair. How many times can you get thrown off a top turnbuckle before you know that, hey, I better not climb this motherfucker? That's entertainment. That's one of the intangibles that Ric Flair brought. But that's what I loved about the guy. I never seen Ric Flair blow up a match in my life. So, Buzz Sawyer, Adrian Adonis. Ric Flair would have been three great hills for you young cats just to look at. Look at pieces of their work and check them out. One more guy who I'll throw in here. From a heel babyface standpoint. If you watch Brett the Hit Man Hart, whether he was a heel or baby. And the thing about having fire as a baby, you can't have. Let me put this a different way. You can have fire, but you've got to be able to gauge that fire so you don't look like you're complaining or crying every time that heel cheats. So that's something that you have to weigh in very delicately with. Some of you will understand that, some of you will not. But Bret Hart, whether he worked heel or baby, his work was so credible, you could not see through none of it. And he had a vicious mean streak when he had the heat. And he was relentless. Bret Hart would stay on your ass as a baby face. I loved the way he would sell. I loved the way he took his time, whether he was working heel or baby. So Bret Hart is also in my list. Man, that's interesting. Stone Cold, you dig talking about wrestling and with those answers of what makes a great heel and what makes a great babyface, seemingly to me, great tag team wrestling has disappeared. Why is that? You know, I don't know why great tag team wrestling has disappeared. It just seems to be more of a solo type sport where guys are, you know, truly, once you get into the business of professional wrestling, you're in it for yourself. I would rather depend on myself, the guy looking at me in the mirror any old day of the week, than having to depend on a partner who may get hurt, who may get injured, who may want to take off, who may get burned out. Maybe he's on drugs. If I've got to depend on a guy looking at me in the mirror, I'm in a better place because it's all on my shoulders. But seemingly a lot of the importance has been taken off of the tag team division. And that is a shame, because when you have two great tag teams in there who know how to work and understand the dynamics of a match, two tag teams who are really over as a heel team, over as a babyface team with everything that they can do with a great referee, drawing that ref stuff behind the ref's back, cutting off the ring, false tags, false finishes, interference from outside, outside shenanigans going on, brawls outside the ring. A very exciting tag match can steal the show almost every night of the tour if you have great tag teams in the ring. And I always looked at to name a couple of my favorite tag teams and there's many others out there. But if I had to say a bunch of great tag teams, I'll give you seven. And I'll start off with the Rock and Roll Express. Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson. These guys should be in the hall of Fame. Midnight Express. Bob Eaton and Lover Boy Dennis Condrey or Bob Eaton and Sweet Stan Lane. Those guys could work their ass off whichever combination you're talking about. Those guys should be in the hall of Fame. Now. When you're talking about the Midnight Express, you've got to throw one of the greatest managers in the history of the business. One of the greatest all time talkers in the history of the business, Jim Cornette, into the mix. When you had the Midnight Express doing all the dirty deeds they did to get heat and you've got Jim Cornette flapping his gums on the microphone and nobody could talk like Jimmy Cornette, then you have a winning combination. Jim Cornette used to piss me off so much as a kid I would like to climb through my TV screen and punch him in the mouth, steal his tennis racket and whip his ass with it. Jimmy Cornette highly effective. Here's a tag team a lot of you guys might not have heard of nowadays as I speak. But back in the days in the USWA in that mid south area, the Fabulous ones, Steve Kern and Stan. Steve Kern and Stan Lane. Two good looking cats, rugged, worked their ass off, lots of fire, great gimmick. And those guys put asses in the seat and would give anybody a great match. Fabulous freebirds, Michael P.S. hayes, Terry Bam Bam Gordy. Buddy Roberts, Michael Hayes. These guys, the Fabulous Freebirds, I think were the first tag team or first team in general to ever come out to the ring with music. Michael Hayes, one of the great all time talkers, a heat seeking missile. Not the greatest athlete in the world. But when I used to pay my money to go see the Freebirds take on the Von Erichs in the Sportatorium in Dallas, Texas, the Freebirds were one of the big reasons I paid money and to watch Michael Hayes. The entrance was worth the price of admission. Come down in that sequin red Rebel flag robe. And then you had the Heater, Terry, Bam Bam Gordy, the bully, the mean streak and Buddy Roberts, the guy who everybody's asked, they thought they could kick Buddy Roberts. Those three guys was a hellacious combination. Talk about the Road Warriors, Hulk and Animal. You don't need to go on and on and on about these guys. These guys changed the face of tag team wrestling. Some say for the good, some say for the worse, but kings of the no sale, kings of power, kings of intimidation, man, when the Road warriors music hit, you stood up, goosebumps popped out. It was Hulk and Animal with Precious Paul Ellering as their manager. These guys were awesome. You just, you looked at the Road wars and you either were intimidated or you were scared, but you respected these guys and they had one of the greatest tag team careers in the history of the business. While we're talking about tag teams, man, you can't get no better than the Andersons. I didn't get a chance to see a whole lot of Gene and Ole, but I saw a lot of Ole and Arn. And that's probably my favorite combination right there. Because yet Ole was the mean streak. He was the bully, he was the promo, the straightforward guy. Arn was the worker. Arn was also a grade A promo. We can talk a mile of trash, but he was the guy, the spark plug of that team and really, I think the consummate worker of that team. But the combination of the two was such that it was a badass combination. And those guys, you want to talk about a mean streak, you can't get no better mean streak or piece of shit factor than the Andersons. Rough and tough, but when it came time to give it back, they could and would. Also, when you throw Tully into the mix with Arn and they brought those guys up to WWF as the Brain Busters, those two guys could have a match with anybody. Tully Blanche had brought innate cockiness and ability to talk. And another one of those guys who, when you watched him in the ring, you think, man, I can kick his motherfucker's ass. But the Andersons, any combination was money. My last tag team on the list is going to be the Midnight Rockers, Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetti. Shawn Michaels in the hall of Fame, the greatest single performer I've ever seen inside the squared circle. I've never seen anybody do the things that Shawn Michaels did on a Night in night eight basis. And when I say that, I just say from an execution standpoint, peerless Marty Jannetti, a great worker in his own right. But that would meet my list of tag teams. And going back to what I was telling you earlier, Steve, it's a shame that more focus is not placed on tag teams these days. I think they're in today's mix, at least as far as WWE goes. They're combining, they're compiling more talent. I think they should definitely dedicate more effort to bringing up the tag team division. Because you talk about excitement when you have dedicated tag teams and you're not just throwing two WWE Superstars on the same team and letting them have a month run to build up to a pay per view. Can you have a good match like that? Yes, you can. But do you have true tag team wrestling with all the psychology employed, cutting off the ring, being able to work at referee with all the great false tags going into the false finishes? I think not. It takes a lot of time for these guys to spend together to turn into a true team. It's easy to go out there and have a tag team match with another guy who's not your partner. But to do all the little things, all the things that add up, that can really twist and turn and work that crowd, you truly have to be on the same page. And that's what tag team wrestling is all about. God damn, you got me all fired up about tag team wrestling. You got anything else you want to ask me? Well, yeah, I got a bunch of questions I want to ask you. Let's go to. You know what? Let's don't do that. Let's go back and let's take a break and have a word from our sponsors. And when I come back, I'm gonna ask you some questions from the people that I asked to send in questions. And we're gonna do that right after I sing a song. Well, I broke down my bronco out in the pasture welcome to the Steve Austin show. All right, everybody coming back from a little bit of break here want to show my sponsors some love. I appreciate them staying on board the Steve Austin show. We got a little bit of an edgy animal here, but that is what it is because that's who and what I am. And I'm sitting here with the man himself, Stone Cold Steve Austin. I sent you guys out a tweet that said if you had questions for Stone Cold, send them in. And we're going to take care of that. But before we do, want to remind you guys about Redneck island on CMT Saturdays, 8pm Central, 9pm Eastern. I also want to remind you, Grown Ups 2 comes out July 12th. I've got a part in that movie. Also want to remind you, on July 12th on AXS TV, I'm going to be on the Voice versus Steve Austin with Michael Chiavelli, 8pm Eastern, 10pm Repeat Eastern. You're not going to want to miss this interview. Probably one of the best interviews I've ever done. The Voice versus Steve Austin with Michael Chiavelli on July 12, 8pm Eastern. There's a repeat at 10pm Eastern. I might have even got a little bit emotional on this, as a matter of fact. But anyway, with that being said, I asked you guys to send in questions. My guest is Stone Cold Steve Austin. He threatened me during a commercial break that he was going to yank the guitar from me and shove it straight up my ass. And that I would have to open my mouth to tune this motherfucker, so I probably will not pick up the guitar again. Nonetheless, let's get to some questions. Hmm, make a good one here for Stone Cold. I know these guys at the studio will trim out all these. Alright, here we go. This is a question from Kirk up in Philadelphia. Stone Cold, did you accomplish everything you had originally set out to accomplish to Stone Cold Steve Austin? Well, you know what, that's a good ass question. And you know what, that being said, I might drive up Philadelphia and put my foot up your ass because I don't think I got a chance to whoop enough ass. I had several cans of whoop ass left to open. I didn't get a chance to open those. I had to ride off into the sunset a little bit too early. So I had unfinished business to take care of. I would have loved another couple championship runs. I would have loved to work with a couple of the cats that are in the system right now today, but. But that didn't happen. It is what it is. But you know, I whipped a lot of ass while I was there. I had a lot of feuds. I had a lot of fun feudin with everybody that I feuded with all the way from Vince to Brett to Rock. The matches I had with Triple H, I had a damn blast and I drank so much damn beer. Stone Cold Steve Austin, I had an absolute blast. A lot of blood, sweat and tears left all over the world and I had a damn good time doing it. I could have stayed around a little bit longer, I would have, but it was trying to get the fuck out of Dodge, you know what I'm saying, brother? Thank you for the question. Goddamn, Stone Cold, you're actually being pretty nice to these guys. That's. Well, what do you want me to do? Be fucking rude to your listeners? Well, no, not rude, but anyway, it's nice to see you toned down a little bit. But anyway, let's go to another question. Stone Cold, I always wondered who was throwing your beers into the ring. I always thought whoever it was, it was like Staubach always putting it on the numbers. Who was throwing you the beers? The guy that used to throw me those beers was a guy named Mark Eaton. He was a timekeeper. He's one down there running that bell. And man, the thing about throwing beers in an arena is you're kind of either coming underneath and through the ropes or over the ropes. So you gotta have that lob factor in there. You gotta throw them underhanded, overhand, you Know we only threw a couple like that because you don't get the right trajectory. Mark Yeeton was the guy who's throwing me those beers. And I gotta say, give Mark a shout out because I don't know how many beers that motherfucker tossed me, but he was on the money damn near every time. I remember one time, I think it was on a pay per view or television. It was something I misjudged. One, and that motherfucker hit me right between the eyes and the forehead. Course, I had to do the no sell routine like it never happened, but some bit knocked the shit out of me. It didn't hurt. But Mark Eaton, and I think, if I am not mistaken, you can follow Mark on Twitter @WWE Timekeeper. Hell of a job, Mark. And if you listen to the show, appreciate all the beers you tossed me. It was a damn good time working with you. Now ask me another question before I throw you chump ass through that window. Oh, it's stone Cold. You ain't gotta get hot about it, man. God damn it. Here's one. Shit, here we go. Well, this one's actually for me. Hey, Steve, huge fan of the show, no question. But I would like to say how I personally love when you shoot the shit with us hearing stories about what's going on in your life. I feel like I had a full ab workout after listening. And stories are very helpful and educational with the word of the day. And we also learned that the word of the day was cock block. We all know what cock block means. Now, I never carried a pocket knife with until you advised it. And the scrubber on the stick is pure genius. Please keep doing it and don't stop. No time. I love the show. Oh, hell yeah. For a future show, you should get your wife on the show and shoot the shit. Well, on that note, I've asked my wife to be on a couple of these shows and she says she's down for it and she'll be on here pretty quick. Give her. So it'd be nice to get her 411 on a lot of stuff that goes on here. Might have to tone my language down a little bit, actually. Maybe she'd be down with it, but she's gonna be on the show coming up in a couple future episodes. Hopefully she's chipped in from time to time when she's laying over on the couch, but nonetheless, let's go back to the questions for Stone Cold. Hey, Austin, been watching tweets between CM Punk and you. Are you friends or something? Well, Stone Cold, are you friends with CM Punk? I ain't friends with nobody. As far as the Twitter account goes. Somebody wants to send me a damn tweet, I'm gonna tweet them back. CM Punk's a damn good hand, but he ain't got the damn talent to lace my boots, if you know what I'm saying. If CM Punk was smart, he would leave Stone Cold Steve Austin alone. And that's all I got to say about that. Well, but surely you guys are friends because, you know, I know you've talked to him, and you said in the past that you got a lot of respect for the guy and the promos and his work ethic and his work in the ring. Well, yeah, I said all that, but I'm not gonna get all mushy and act like I'm in love with the guy. He's a pretty good hand in the ring. He does a pretty good promo. And that's the end of that. And that's all I got to say about that. Now move on to the next damn question. Stone Cold, how often do you watch the current product? Or do you watch it at all? Yeah, I try to watch it whenever I get a chance. Most time, I'm not at home. Most time I don't watch a whole lot of show on tv. Do you watch it? Well, I've been actually trying to watch it, and I'm actually thinking about coming up with another show. And not to cut off your question time, Stone Cold, but check it out. If you guys would like for me to do a show based on wrestling where I break down what happens on Monday Night Raw, Friday Night Smackdown, and the TNA Impact Zone, you can send your comments, yes or no, or you would be interested to Questions@SteveAustinShow.com. wait a minute. You're going to break down what's going on on WWE Monday Night RAW, SmackDown, and TNA? Well, I was thinking about it because, you know, I enjoy talking about the wrestling business. So you don't think that that'd be a pretty good idea? You don't really want to know what I think, do you? How would you like me to grab that guitar and wrap that motherfucker around your head, man? I'm just talking about doing a damn show. I wasn't even talking to you. I'm talking to my listeners. Can you see that? I'm not addressing you. I'm looking at the microphone from which I'm talking to. So I'm gonna. You know what? You have kind of meddled me for about the last time, motherfucker, you're only about three foot away. Don't think that I won't reach over there and slap the fuck out of you. Oh, you gonna slap the fuck out of me? You gonna draw back a bloody stump? You better ask Stone Cold another question before I fucking get mad and start commencing to whooping that ass. All right, relax, Stone Cold. Relax. I ain't backing down from you. But you wanted to finish up with a couple questions. Here we go. Well, here's a question actually for me. Dear Steve. What went wrong in your match against Mr. Fly? Well, I thought I had Mr. Fly exactly where I wanted him. Superfly, Jimmy Snooker come out of the back. I didn't even know snooker was in the building. I had to fly exactly where I want him. Wait a minute. You got your ass whipped by a fly. How much does a goddamn fly weigh? Two and a half grams. Five grams? You got your ass whipped by a fly? Well, no, I mean, I was wrestling Fly and I was working his wing. I thought I picked the right body part because if I worked his wing, it take away some of his mobility. And then I had him right where I wanted to. And then the referee took a bump. He couldn't see anything. Superfly, Jimmy Snuka came in from the back of the dressing room. I didn't even know he was in town. I didn't know he was in the building. He hit me in the head with a coconut, knocked my ass out. Referee came to, and then Mr. Fly pinned me. One, two, three. You got beat by a Fly. Is there going to be a rematch with said Fly? Yeah, I'm trying to set the rematch right now. I've been calling the promoters, having a hard time tracking down Mr. Fly. I would like to, you know, seek revenge. I like to avenge my loss. I like to redeem myself as a man, a person, as a professional wrestler. But then again, you know, I wouldn't count on the Superfly coming into the ring and hit me in the head with coconut. You didn't know that? Superfly? Jimmy Snooker likes to hit people in the head with coconuts. Well, yeah, I knew that, but I didn't know he's going to be in the ring where you got to expect anything. Don't you understand? DTA brother don't trust anybody. Well, all right, Stone Cold. All right. Understood. Understood. I'm gonna go for the rematch against Mr. Fly. Maybe you would be interested in taking on Mr. Fly. Well, if he beats you again, maybe I will. Don't be such a Puss, open up a can of that stupid fly. Well, that's what I'll do, Stone Cold, and I'm going to do it because you said so. Well, let's finish up here. Let's finish up. Let's do one or two more questions. Stone Cold. Here's the question. Can Stone Cold Steve Austin exist in the WWE under the PG13 rules that now exist? Could Stone Cold Steve Austin exist in today's scenario? Well, you know, that's a good ass question because I don't really know right now. I don't feel like wearing any filters right now. I like saying whatever the hell I want to say right now. I could go out and cut a promo and not say one single cuss word. But the system these days is a little soft. Or Stone Cold, could I go back? Yeah, do I want to go back? I don't know. You ain't going to hand Stone Cold Steve Austin a piece of paper and say, hey, Stone Cold. Say this. Hey, Stone Cold. Say that. Hey, Stone Cold. How about this? So it doesn't sound like you're really intrigued with some of the elements that are going on today. Well, let me tell you something this way. Let me put it like this. Stone Cold Steve Austin don't walk on eggshells. Stone Cold Steve Austin walks in the door, does what he wants when he wants. Then if I got the right offer, would I consider it? I don't know. It is what it is. It's a different system. They've got a good thing going on. I'm looking forward to what they got going on in the future. I'm looking forward to seeing what you got to say if you start doing your wrestling podcast. Well, Dan, sure gonna get that. Thank you for joining us for another classic episode of the Steve Austin Show. Please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends. For more Steve Austin show go to podcast1.com that's podcast o n e.com.

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