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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, I'm coming to Venture, California.

I'm at the Cold Steel headquarters talking to Lynn Thompson.

And I always say on the podcast, every man's got to have a pocket knife. Every woman does too. And I'm here with the guy that makes them. And again, the name is Lynn Thompson. Lynn, I tell you what, I've gotten a whole tour of the facility here at Cold Steel Knives of Ventura, California. Y'all say that y'all make the strongest, sharpest, what does it go? Strongest sharpest knives? Y'all make the strongest sharpest? How's it going?

Strongest, sharpest knives?

Y'all make the strongest sharpest knives, and that's what we're here to talk about that.

But give me a little background on where you come from and where you're born,

because I've done a lot of research, but I can't find out a whole lot about you.

Did you grow up here in Ventura?

No.

I was born in Fort DeLays of Brazil, and I have dual citizenship. My parents were Americans, and they registered me with the American consulate when I was born. So I have a Brazilian birth certificate,

and Brazil still considers me a citizen. I consider myself primarily American in a Brazilian

second, but I love Brazil still and the Brazilian people.

Do you speak Portuguese?

I used to speak Portuguese.

When we moved to this country, my English was broken, and we moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan from Brazil.

And all those Dutch kids were really hard on us.

And my parents, because we were having such a hard time in school, they stopped speaking

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