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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.

Oh, dude, where exactly did you grow up?

Because right here, you went to the University of Delaware.

I never knew, did you get a degree?

Yeah, yeah, I got a criminal justice degree and then I

took a semester off of college to go into the Marine Corps and uh and then I went back

to college and instead of being an officer because I didn't want to because then I have to do active duty which I didn't want to do I just wanted to go to boot camp and see how I thought I was so I after boot camp I went to

to infantry school and then I went back to college in the fall and then I just had to do

six years of reserve duty basically.

Dude what were you gonna do with a criminal justice major?

I was going to be in the FBI to DEA, the CIA, I don't know.

But somewhere along the way you've got sidetracked in the wonderful world of professional wrestling

When did you first start watching the business? Because I mean you and me

Used to travel together back in our W cw days and we call ourselves the comedy trio because it was yourself, me, and the

one and only flying Brian Pillman. Plaged by bad service wherever we went to all the restaurants

we went to, renting out of those Chevy Linovans and we had the times of our

life but going back to your early days I started watching in Texas at seven eight years

of age and I bought in it was real to me tell me how you were introduced into the business

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