Podcast 1 presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

You talked about earlier about putting worth on yourself

because when you first started out and you made five dollars for gas money.

I was making 15 and 20 dollars and making 400 mile round trips when I was living in

Tennessee when I went down there to the USWA.

So I'm not asking for dollar signs.

I don't want to know anything now. did you start you know you come out to

LA you don't make it you go back to New York you write your ass off you get some

gigs things are starting to spin up I always tell all the guys to get in the business

of pro wrestling. You've got to learn the business part of the business not just

the stuff in the ring. That's the ring that's the entertainment part of it.

And it comes the business aspect of it. So as a comedian and

dude and all of a sudden you get into some demand you hit a lull, you get

come on and because you get a break from open Anthony and Jim Norton, the HBO

thing, how do you determine hey hey, this is what's going to cost you?

You get a good agent.

You can't negotiate your own thing.

You got to get a good agent, and what I did is I got with the guy who was he was like me we started

working together in like 2001 Mike Berkowitz and he was trying to make a name for

himself and I was trying to make a name and we were right at the exact same like place and as I've

gone up you know the stand-up ladder he's gone up the agent ladder now he's he's like

you know I think as far as like being an he's past me as far like being an agent I mean like the client

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