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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Stone Cold Steve Austin: Iconic WWE Moments, Worst Stunner, One More Match, CM Punk, Vince McMahon

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Mental Health, Sports, Wrestling, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Business

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Steve Austin (@steveaustinBSR) is a professional wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at Broken Skull Ranch in Nevada to discuss his legendary wrestling career, iconic theme song, how beer became a part of his celebration, why he came out of retirement to wrestle Kevin Owens at WrestleMania 38, a possible in-ring comeback, why he and Bret Hart had great chemistry, a dream match with CM Punk, who took the worst Stunner of all time, his cats Pancho and Macho, and more! Please support our sponsors! PURE PLANK: The future of core fitness! Use the code CVV to save 10% on Pure Plank designed by Adam Copeland & Christian: https://gopureplank.com/cvv AMERICAN FINANCING: NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.196% for well qualified borrowers. Call 866-721-3300 for details about credit costs and terms or visit https://Americanfinancing.net/Chris SEAT GEEK: Use my code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order*: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/CVV2025 Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount NORDVPN: Exclusive deal! https://nordvpn.com/cvv Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you have ever enjoyed any of these episodes, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast or Spotify? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Flea! Yes!

0:35.9

Van Flea! Van Bleet!

0:50.2

Great to see you.

0:52.3

Great to have you here, man.

0:53.6

It's hard to get here.

0:56.6

Glad you find your way. It's a little out of the way.

1:02.3

I like it, like it. Yeah. Yeah. Is that, that's the plan? Look, you got a ton of property here on the ranch. Yeah. Well, I mean, it was the plan. And my wife and I decided it was time to get out of

1:07.6

L.A. You know, a while back, and we finally did. And we ended up here.

1:11.8

If it was up to me in a perfect world, I'd like to be further out, probably about 50 miles further out in the desert. I have a place out there. She didn't go there that much. I would rather be a little bit further removed from civilization, but this is handy. And it had enough to go back and forth to town. but if you're coming here from Florida,

1:29.3

Kevin Nash came here a long time ago and he goes,

1:31.4

man, why in the hell are you here? He didn't really get it. So it's beautiful outside, and I love Nevada. I don't know, there's mountains over here with snow on. I mean, this is beautiful. You can do a lot of things here, man, hunting, skiing, fishing, and people out here are very active in the outdoors and kind of suits my taste as well. People will be surprised that the Texas Rattlesnake lives in Nevada. God dang, you know, and I was, you know, a lot of people still think I live in Texas. And that's where I was born and raised, and I'll always love Texas. But at this point in my life, probably moving forward,

2:01.1

you know, Nevada is my home and with so much public land to roam around on, and it's just

2:06.7

been amazing hunting and I started racing anywhere you, I just left this past weekend on one of

2:14.8

my buggies side by sides and drove 100 miles. So, you know, it's hard to do that in another state. I thought I might see some cats as we were walking in here. The cats are out in the horse barn. Solid-ass cats? Yeah, solid-ass cats. They're out roaming around. Macho is prowling by the pond. He's a hunter. Andancho will pretty much stay by the horse barn. He has

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