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From Hollywood, California, by way of the Broken Skull Ranch, this is the Steve Austin Show.

Give me a hell yeah.

Hell yeah.

Now, here's Steve Austin.

All right, everybody, welcome to Steve Austin Show.

I am coming to for the main streets of Los Angeles, California today.

I'm sitting here at 317 Gimmick Street doing the open to this podcast.

I'm sitting in my podcast chair from Clutch Chairs.

It says Austin 316 on it.

I'm about to stomp a mud hole in this podcast and walk it dry.

My guest on the show today is A.J. Kirsch.

We used to call him Tumbleweed during the filming of

Tough Enough during season four way back in 2011. Well, it turns out, AJ and I have been

keeping in touch with each other for a long time. We don't talk every single day, but every now

then he'll call or I'll call or whatever and just shoot the shit and talk about what's up.

AJ just blew out his knee the other day, had some surgery, had everything fixed. And he called me out of the blue, and we were shooting a breeze. And I thought to myself, man, AJ, he'd be great for the podcast. Articulate, eloquent, always has something to say and is very well, very good at saying it. So I said, hey, dude, I said, let's do a podcast. So I called him up and we start shooting

a breeze and we talk about the tough enough experience, his background, what he's doing, what he's

doing now, what he wants to do. It's just a great conversation. The dude has the gift of gab.

He was a communications major

at Chico State University, so that doesn't hurt anything. The guy knows how to talk. And so we fire

up a conversation, and it's going to last about an hour, 10, hour, 15 minutes. And I'm shooting

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