16 Things We Learned From Paul Heyman On The Steve Austin Show

3. Road Stories

Steve coaxes Paul to share a couple of road stories, and he starts with one where the two of them were traveling through South Georgia with Rick Rude, and in the course of casual conversation Austin is repeatedly using the phrase "godd*mn", which offended Rude, who was no saint himself. Rude turned around and asked Steve if he could please stop taking the lord's name in vain and Austin sincerely apologized, saying that he had no idea Rick felt so strongly about religion. Rude responded with a "thank you" to which Stone Cold returned a "You're godd*mn welcome" and Rude blew up. The other story was back in the day before all the highways had traffic cameras and drones, and he talks about how Sting was the wheelman for the Steiner brothers. He says that when the trio would see other wrestlers while driving, Sting would speed up, Scott would hold his brother out the window and Rick would open their car door and grab them by the leg, which is certifiably insane. Heyman was riding with The Samoan Swat Team, Fatu - who would later become Rikisha - and Afa's son, Samu, and when they see the car with Sting and the Steiners approaching they locked the doors. Rick starts pounding on the door and then Sting and Scott switch seats while driving and the three men start chucking their food out at them including a whole watermelon. The Samoans tell Paul to pull over at a convenience store so they can load up with supplies, then cut their hands and write "SST" in blood on their car, and Sting and the Steiners are now involved in a full scale Mad Max-style road war, throwing food, bottles and baseballs and anything else they could get their hands on. By the time they returned the rental car to Charlotte, North Carolina it was totaled, and Heyman was banned from using the rental company ever again.