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Podcast One presents The Steve Austin show classics.

I've always known you just as Pat Patterson, the guy who was the agent and helped guys with their finish.

And here's the thing, as you know, because you've been around for so many years and so many different territories.

In New York specifically, a guy comes in with the different agents.

You know, I was kind of a blackjack lands a guy exactly I was

going to say that yeah he was a guy that kind of handled you know my matches in the

book we're sitting there talking about Pat's new book it It's called Accepted. I read this thing from

cover to cover and shit let me just backtrack Pat. The book is mesmerizing.

You live such a hell of a fun life. I mean it had its ups and downs, you know, your high spots and your low spots.

Yeah. But it's a very fun book to read and I thought what we tried to do in our conversation, given the short prep time I had for it, I can sit there and go chapter

by chapter and take you through the book, but that would be giving the book away.

So I just kind of wanted to pick your brain, shoot the shit, and just talk about the business

and coming up.

Well, I tell you what, when you first came here, I remember that.

I remember it was somewhere in San Diego or in LA somewhere and you were not stone cold you were

the ringmaster the ringmaster and you went out of your mind and I remember you was screaming at somebody and all that.

I said, I don't know what's going to happen.

You hated that fucking name, did you?

Dude, they called me up, Vince called me and I was in Atlanta,

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