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Podcast One presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

I'm talking with Booker T.

WK.W.Hall of Famer back in a day, many, many years ago, one of the top five workers in the world.

All time.

You remember when you pulled that rib way back in the day in WCW?

And the whole locker room got all stirred up about it.

You know, especially Regal.

Regal hated me, man, for doing that.

They wanted to fight me all the time for, you know, doing that stupid deal. But, hey, man, you know what, don't? I believed it. You know, I believed it back then, man. I had to make myself believe it, man, in that locker room. You know, it was a lot of top flight talent, man. You know, like yourself, like Jericho and, you know, so Eddie, so many others, man. And if I didn't do that and, but more importantly, though, Steve, I went out and backed it up a lot of times too, man. I went out and worked my ass up to be, you know, where I became. We were talking the other day on the telephone and, man, I've been wanting to do a podcast with you for years, but I always wanted to do it in person to talk about your career and everything like that. And I've told so many stories over the past, you know, during podcasts, I was talking to Dallas page and the story when you was trying to knock me out. But we never have got to sit down in person to do a podcast. And I called you the other day and I said, fuck man, we just got to do one over Skype. And we started talking about MMA. And I didn't really know that you were a huge MMA fan. When did you first start watching? I've been a fan since day one, man. So, it's graceyie. But this ain't know when you call me.

I call you off guard.

You don't know what I say?

This, boogerty.

This book or tea.

Yeah.

No, man.

But I go back to the Haas Gracie days, man. you know, the Shamrock, you know, the ultimate

warriors, man, the gladiators of the sport, man, those guys, you know, I've been intrigued

a long time about it.

I'm an advocate for those fighters, too, because, you know, those guys, they work their

butts off, man, and, you know, the money they get paid.

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