The following program is a podcast.1.com production. 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, so I'm talking to Kevin Steen here on my new system. I got my little headphones on. I got my blue Yeti Mike. Kevin, how are you doing?

Welcome to the Steve Austin show.

What's happening? I'm great. Thanks a lot for having me, man. It's a huge thrill for me to be talking to you. I hope you know this. Hey, man, it was just interesting that you sent me the email. I said, hey, man, I started reading this email. I said, I got to give this cat a call and get him on the show.

And then I said, hey, you know I started reading this email. I said, man, I got to give this cat a call and get him on the show.

And then I said, hey, you know, I'm trying to get something done. But, you know, maybe I'll just talk to him for 15, 20 minutes. And I started watching more and more of your stuff on YouTube. And I said, man, this motherfucker can work. So I said, fuck that. We'll just talk for, you know, an hour and open up a total can of audio whoop-ass.

So, hey, man, let's go back to the story.

Before I went to break, I read the email that you sent in and going back to the year 2005 when you and I met at L-AX Airport.

Yeah.

Tell me about that story from your perspective, where you guys were coming from or where you were going back in the day?

It was me and this wrestler El Generico who was also on the Indies.

We came up together, like we started in Montreal together for a company called IWS and we

were wrestling there in 2003 and then in 2004 we started, you know, getting out there in the

United States a little bit.

And then by 2005, we were wrestling for this company in California called PWG for wrestling guerrilla. And we were on our way there. We had a layover. I believe it must have been in Dallas, I'm pretty sure. And it was our second layover of the day. We had like, we flew. We drove to Albany because we used to drive to Albany, New York to catch a flight because it was way cheaper than Montreal back then for the, you know, for PWG. So we drive four hours to Albany. It was always, you know, through the night from like we leave at midnight, get there on 4 a.m., catch a 6 a.m. flight, something like that. And then I think we had a layover in Philly, maybe, and then another layover in Dallas, and then on to L.A. So we were pretty exhausted, and I remember I was wapped into a water fountain at the gate, and then I saw you standing over by the corner. But, you know, I wasn't sure if it was you, just because... I can blend into a crowd pretty good. You're Steve Austin. I wasn't sure if I was seeing things.

But then I really... the corner, but you know, I wasn't sure if it was you, just because... I can blend into a crowd pretty good.

You're Steve Austin, I wasn't sure if I was seeing things, but then I realized it was definitely you, and you're kind of trying to be, you seem like you were trying to stay a bit of, you know, a bit on your own, but I'm like, I can't not go up to them. So I went up to Generico and I'm like, I didn't want to alert everybody around us, you know.

So I was trying to be quiet and saying, hey, come over here.

You're going to. up to him. So I went up to Generico and I'm like, I didn't want to alert everybody around us,

you know, so I was trying to be quiet and saying, hey, come over here, you're going to, we're going to go see Stone Cold. And he didn't understand what I was saying. For some reason, he thought that I was about to get into a fight with somebody and I needed backup. So he was following me and asking me who are we going to fight?

I'm like, what are you talking about?

We're in an airport.

Why are we getting into a fistfight?

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