Wrestling stories with road dust still on them.
The Steve Austin Show mixes wrestling memory, backstage craft, and blunt everyday storytelling from places like 317 Gimmick Street and Broken Skull Ranch. It swings from Chris Jericho talking Vince McMahon to RV updates, Texas road miles, listener questions, and old territory scars.
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The Steve Austin Show is a wrestling-world hangout that keeps one boot in the ring and the other in whatever is happening that day. It is loose by design. Episodes move through classic wrestling business, old road stories, listener questions, ranch updates, and conversations with people who know how the work actually felt from the inside. Chris Jericho shows up for a conversation that reaches past surface nostalgia into Vince McMahon, Shawn, character changes, and the long climb toward being trusted at the top. Raven brings another flavor of memory, full of announcer talk, DDT mechanics, territory stories, and the kind of match details that only matter to people who have taken them seriously. Mick Foley, The Rock, Undertaker, Kane, Jerry Lawler, Jake, Ricky Nelson, the Zebra Warriors, Owen Hart, and Ted Fowler all appear in the orbit of stories, references, or recollections. The show likes names, but it likes texture more. A listener question can become a story about Kuwait, scuba gear, a boat, cold beer, and wrestlers doing exactly what they were warned not to do. A rumor-clearing episode can become a Texas travelogue about selling the Broken Skull Ranch, missing the work around it, and thinking through what the next version might be. Another session leaves wrestling behind for BSR 2.0, a wife on mic, labs nearby, and the practical irritation of life around bears and mountain lions. That range is the point. The show is not just about famous matches or famous guests. It is about the strange overlap between performance, travel, business, friendship, hard work, and boredom between the big moments. The pacing can feel like someone talking until the story reveals why it needed to be told. Short bursts of opinion sit beside long loops of memory. The wrestling analysis is strongest when it gets physical: timing, impact, crowd logic, protecting an opponent, making a finish make sense. The personal material gives the same blunt attention to miles, heat, gear, dogs, weather, and daily aggravation. It is funny, rough-edged, and often self-indulgent in the way long-running personality shows can be. It also has a real sense of respect for people who knew the job, brought ideas, and made others look whole. For fans who want clean recap culture, it may wander too much. For fans who want the business remembered in a working voice, it has the feel of being close to the room.
Made for: Best for wrestling fans who enjoy backstage craft, classic names, territory memories, and long conversational detours. It also fits listeners who like personality-driven shows where ranch life and travel stories sit beside ring psychology.
What sets it apart: Unlike cleaner recap shows, this one lets wrestling memory arrive through rambling stories, Q&A, and lived-in shop talk. The result feels less like analysis from a desk and more like a long conversation after the drive.
Live from Hollywood, CA by way of the Broken Skull Ranch, Pro Wrestling Hall of Famer, Action Movie/TV star, Steve Austin talks about anything and everything that pops into his brain. Steve shares tales from his new life, unbelievable past adventures, talks to pro wrestling pals...you name it, Steve's on it. For more episodes, go to podcastone.com/premium Got questions? [email protected]
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Steve Austin makes professional wrestling craft legible through detailed conversations about matches, characters, career setbacks and working relationships.
Steve Austin turns wrestling memory into shop talk, moving easily between guest conversations and solo answers to listener questions. With Chris Jericho, the discussion reaches character development, working relationships and the long process of earning greater responsibility.
Steve Austin turns DDT mechanics and Vince McMahon nerves into the shop talk you came for.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose catch-up that lands best when Jericho gets into podcasting, Vince, and the road to top-guy status.
Steve Austin spends most of the episode catching up with Chris Jericho, and that is the draw. Jericho talks plainly about his podcasting run, the pressure of working for Vince McMahon, and the slow climb toward being taken seriously as a top guy.
RV Q&A gives way to a Kuwait dive story, and the loose, conversational tone is the point.
The Steve Austin Show catches Steve Austin in the back of his RV on the outskirts of Los Angeles, answering questions sent to questions at steveaustinshow.com and Twitter while he waits on a project he cannot discuss yet.
A warm veteran's view of Mick Foley's creativity, ring sense, and care for the match.
The conversation works best when it treats Mick Foley's style less as nostalgia and more as practical wrestling sense. It frames him as a performer who cared about the match itself, the finish, the crowd, and the person across from him.
A focused wrestling-craft conversation tracks Jake's influence through Raven's promos, DDT, and corner pose.
Steve Austin and Raven use the DDT as a way into the finer points of wrestling craft: why the move can feel sudden and nasty, and why it can lose its edge.
A Tennessee territory lesson in early promise, public embarrassment, and one match the guest still cannot let go.
A newcomer steps into the Tennessee territory and learns how fast a good first impression can curdle. The episode circles a match with an opponent he had never met, the praise that came after it, and the next night's booking against the masked Zebra Warriors, whose…
Steve Austin opens the door and Chris Jericho walks in for a long catch-up that feels like two guys picking right back up where they left off.
Steve opens from the back of his RV on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
The episode settles into a wrestling conversation about Mick Foley's way of working.
The host attempts to interview Stone Cold Steve Austin, a WWE Hall of Famer, in a lively and humorous setting at the Broken Skull Ranch in Texas.
Steve Austin shares personal updates about selling his Texas ranch, his recent trip there, and plans to discuss it further in future episodes.
Steve Austin and his guest dig into the DDT.
Scott Levy, Raven, tells Steve Austin that The Raven Effect on Podcast One and the Jericho Network is built from an eight-second texted production meeting, a slide whistle, and absurd bits about a pet goat and the L.A.
Steve Austin hosts a casual conversation with his wife about personal challenges and wildlife encounters at his Broken Skull Ranch in Nevada.
Steve Austin shares personal stories from his Christmas at the Broken Skull Ranch, including hunting with his dog Hershey and a non-traditional Mexican food dinner with family.
Steve Austin shares personal updates about his travel plans, upcoming birthday, and holiday celebrations in this casual episode.
X-Pac discusses the current state of professional wrestling, predicting a new boom fueled by indie resurgence and WWE's evolving roster quality.
Steve Austin interviews his longtime friend and fellow wrestler X-Pac (Sean Waltman) about their careers, wrestling psychology, and current wrestling scenes.