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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. Chris Birko, Y2J sitting right in front of me. Jesus, saints, crash, and pop, super stick. I ain't seen you a long-ass time. You know, it's funny, and this happens to me quite a bit when I see the boys that I hadn't seen for a while. I forget just how big everyone is from the attitude era compared to me. Because now on the show, everybody's kind of the same size. But as soon as I saw you, it's been, gosh, I don't know, five, six years. And it's like, oh, my God.

Like, Austin's huge.

I mean, you look great, but you're tall. Like, even with the Hardies, I saw Matt and Jeff the first time in a few years. I couldn't believe how tall they were. But, yeah, man, it's great to see you. And I never knew that I hadn't done your show. I thought I'd done it before.

No, dude.

Actually, there was a little bit of a beef

because this between you and me, nobody knows. Well, you didn't even know. I'd called you or sent you some text messages because I know you're going to be in, or you told me you're going to be in L.A. But you're filming one of your rock videos for Ozzy. I was like, hey, man, I'll come by to set if you don't mind and we can knock out a podcast and you blew me off or you had other things to do.

I can't remember. rock videos for posy i was like hey man i'll come by to set if you don't mind and we can knock out

a podcast and you blew me off or you had other things to do i can't remember that intentionally i would never blow you off but i'm just saying yeah they didn't have nothing i was like god dang i was kind of perturbed because i was like i did his first two shows god that's got it you got to return the favor.

You got me pretty much got me hooked up with the gig.

I mean,

you were the one that was the contact that took me. You got to return the favor. You got me pretty much got me hooked up with the gig.

I mean, you were the one who was the contact that took me there. So like I said, I had thought for sure that I had done it. And when you said, I still owe you one. I'm like, oh, man, this is a debt that has to be repaid. I know it is one of those things where I'm so bad about holding the grud. like, God dang, Chris

that can't pay me on the show.

I got he with this guy.

I don't even remember that things where I'm so bad about holding the grud. I'm like, God dang, Chris, it can't pay me on the show.

I got he with this guy I want. I don't even remember that I could, I would have loved to have you come to this set. I'm not sure what happened. Maybe we were busy filming or something. Dude, you know how the boys get. I mean, it's like, you know, half the time. It's interesting. I don't know how you are with this.

And to Trevor out there, listen,

we'll probably talk about wrestling in a minute.

But it's interesting. I don't know how you are with this. And Trevor out there, listen, we'll probably talk about wrestling in a minute. But it's always funny. Dude, when you get around the boys, sometimes you just want to catch up and just talk about you. And Chris is over at the house for about 30 minutes. We was drinking coffee. You're talking about labs. I can't believe you got a silver lab and a black lab just like I got. I walked through your door, the gate that you have, and I saw the front door.

I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. I saw a silver lab and a black lab, and I saw your wife. And I was like, is that? Oh, yeah. We just got them two months ago at the same time. So it blew me away. It's the exact same pairing, except for my black lab is a boy and yours as a girl. So we got that going for us. But, you know, it's like I'd ask you a couple times and you're busy or whatever life happened. And vice versa. And, you know, so, but then it's also kind of like, you know, you do really well at spreading yourself around and you're traveling a lot more than I am. So, and you get your rock and roll connection. You've got your wrestling connections. You've got those out there connections. Me, man, I really like talking to the boys. You know, I just spend a lot of time talking to some of these cats. I don't think every A. L.A. is going to come over to 317 Gimmie Street and shoot the breeze with me. Nor do I really want to shoot the breeze with them. But sometimes it's like, you know, sometimes it's like, you know, it's cool to ask somebody if you want to be on a show. But when you keep asking, they're a good guest or you enjoy talking. You almost like, I feel like I'm imposing my friendship on them. or like, hey, you know, that hold up that crucifix because Dracula's there.

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