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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, looking for Steve Austin show. I'm sitting here in Atlanta, Georgia, the AT&D.L. I was the one of the greatest of all time, Jake and Snake Roberts. And I'm in the confines or the compound in DDP yoga. Man, I drove up this damn thing, and I was like, holy smokes. I was looking for just a little building, Jake, and I drove by this thing, and said, it's a monstrosity.

I pulled in, here we sit. I haven't seen you in a long time. And I've never got a chance to thank you in public or in person about what you did for me way back in the day. And that was I created Austin 316 due to a match that I had with you yeah

Vader roughed you up pretty good yeah worked over your ribs

Mark Merrill had kicked me in the mouth I went to a job of it too he did a good job

I like that phony blood capsule you used yeah oh yeah that was the phony blood

blood blood blood blood

yeah chicken blood.

So I go to the hospital and get stitched up. As soon as I get out of ambulance, I got my stuff on because you and me are going to go. And Michael PSAs comes up to me. He goes, hey, Steve, before you go to the ring, I just want you to know, before you to do the King of Ring acceptance speech, Jake, cut a religious-based promo on you. And that's when I came up with the Austin

316 thing. And I always think, Jake, in my career, nothing would have happened, it would have

no reason to happen. I wouldn't have created that because it was just organic. So if I had not

been wrestling you in that damn final match at King of the Ring, P.S. Hayes had not told me what you said. If you'd not have said that, Austin 316 would have never been born. And then, Stone Cold said so, would have been born either. So I basically owe my whole WWE run to you. No, no, no. You don't. No, you don't. Because, you know, if you owe me for anything, you owe me for sticking up for you in the fucking

office.

I'm sorry.

Well, tell me about sticking up from in office.

What happened?

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