Podcast One presents the Steve Austin Show Classics.

All right, everybody, welcome to Steve Austin Show.

I am coming to you from the Broken School Ranch down here in South Texas by way of the little town called Tilden, Texas off Highway 16.

Yes, sir, that's it.

It's hotter than a motherfucker ride here.

I'm slugging away. It is early in the morning. I have tried to record this show, this interview, with my guest today. And it has been a sum bitch to try to get it accomplished. But I am under the gun today. I have pushed the record button. I will not push the stop button until this show is completed, delivering the can of audio whoop-ass that it has to be.

That's right.

The one-man cluster fuck is alive, up, ready to rock and roll.

I've had coffee, had my alpha brain.

I got some sparkling water on standby. This is

going to be a bust-ass show because I got a bust-ass guest. I've had a lot of great guests on this show.

Love and respect all of them, but today we take it to a whole different level. Because today,

sitting right here in front of me, I have six-time WWE heavyweight champion,

W.W.E. Hall of Famer, Stonecold, Steve Austin, sitting right here live and in living audio,

in living color for me. Hopefully this son bitch is in a good mood. I've tried to interview this man

about five or six times already,

and he has been in a surly mood. But what I'm hoping right now is that since he just woke up,

I get him in a little bit more docile mood. Yesterday I tried to record this show. Several

Donny Brooks almost busted out. I thought it was going to be a pier-six braw, ending with one of us wearing a crimson mask.

Nonetheless, I've got the one and only.

Stone Cold Steve Austin sitting here, and the thing about it is, good old stone cold is over there,

sipping on a cup of coffee rather than a can of beer. And when he's drinking coffee and

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