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Podcast One presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

I'm inside of a tour bus.

John's seen with a lead dog here in the WWE right now.

And we've been talking for 15 minutes.

John's on a tight schedule squeezing my ass in

here right before they go live at 5 p.m. here in los angeles and i wasted 15 minutes because i had to

pause button push but we thought we were talking and it sounded real good guys you missed some great

stuff we found the meaning of life payperview list and stuff but But we go, and I'm not going to re-go. I'm not going to redo that. No. What I do want to bring to the first thing I want to say then now that we are recording is I want to say congratulations on a hellacious run. Your run that you're currently seemingly right in the middle of because I see, you know, three, six, or how many years you want to keep going in front of you or whenever you put the brakes on, but you're putting together one of the best runs in the history of our business. And it's been through, I, everybody knows, I do my show for the working man. And you have worked your ass off ever since you got in the business. And I remember one time back in the day, I was

stone cold. Don't remember the building. You had been, you had just had a match. You was the prototype.

Yeah. Yeah, that was a long time ago. It might have actually been either here or Anaheim.

Now, who would have figured? Yeah, I think it was. And I think that still goes down the angles of worst dark matches in the history.

And now who we are. And I said, man, Jews, how long is that? It's probably 14, 15 years ago.

Yeah, just about 14 years ago. And you was a good looking kid. And we had words.

And I can't remember what exactly it was. I didn't know what the prototype was, but

obviously you look good, but didn't have the gimmick figured out. Yeah, it was just right as I broke

into the business, just trying to find out what it's all about. What was the thought press,

what was the thought process behind the prototype? You know what? You know the cat, Chris Bell

of the Bell family, Mark Bell's brother. Yes. Saw me in Gold's gym and said, what are you doing, wasting your time here? I was just working a literally, I'd show up to work at 5 in the morning, and I lived in my car outside, so I'd shower in the gym at night and do whatever. I'd pretty much hump till midnight and do everything from work the protein bar stand to work check-in to fix equipment, everything in there.

Right. Bell comes up to me, says, why are you wasting your time?

And he's referring to Mark Bell and known as Smelly Bell.

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