Podcast One presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

Oh man, you know what?

I just hit the record button.

You know, Shane and I just signed off, and I called him right back to continue this conversation,

and he asked me what got me into the podcast business.

You know, Shane, when I left WWF, you know, I floundered for a long time.

You know, when I left the business, it took me three years to really get it out of my system. And, you know, like I said, I think I told this story last week. I fished, I drank, and I hunted, and not necessarily in that order. Finally got out of my system. You know, all those years later, you know, I moved out to Los Angeles to get to some kind of entertainment business, ended up following love with the reality television genre.

And I'd always just kind of, you know, had to, uh, wanted to do something that I could still

stay in touch and communicate with my fan base.

And so I thought about doing a podcast, uh, because I was starting to realize what they were.

And they'd been around for, you know, for three, four, five years. And so. So I thought about doing a podcast because I was starting to realize what they were.

And they'd been around for, you know, three, four, five years.

And so finally, the people of podcast one called my agent and said, hey, man, these guys want to meet with you.

You think you'd want to do a podcast.

Well, I'd been wanting to do one for about a year.

I just didn't have the wherewithal or the impetus or, you know, just the drive to try to work through all the technology stuff. So, hey, when they call me, I thought it was a great opportunity and I just jumped right in. And dude, I ain't a pro. Don't know what the fuck I'm doing. It turns out all right. But you know what the thing about it is, Shane, it's just like guerrilla radio. People don't expect me sound like a professional DJ and nor do I try to imitate one and to tell you like it is I don't listen to my own show because I don't like

the sound of my voice so you know and that's just the way it is I mean it's kind of like if you were to

go back and watch some of your old matches,

I know you're just like me. You would cringe and you'll say, Jesus Christ, that looked like

shit. Or why did I do that? Or this is what I would do now. So that's I got in a podcast

business. But hey, man, let's go from, let's go from UWF, where we left off last week.

And I want to talk just a little bit more about the impact that Eddie Gilbert had on you.

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