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-Welcome to another edition of the Stone Cold podcast on the WWE Network and tonight Paige gets grilled as she is the fill in for Hulk Hogan. Thanks for being patient with the slight delay due to technical problems and weather for me here in Southwestern PA.

-Austin congratulates Paige on her win and asks her what she thought about the match. She admits that she nitpicks things while in the ring and Austin says he used to do that when watching the match later.

-They talk about how Paige, like Austin, cusses a lot. She says she lets out F bombs at times and she has been told to be more lady like. Austin says that it works for some people.

-They go to Paige’s history and how she is only 23 years old, but is a 10 year veteran. She says that people always think she hasn’t been around long, but she has. She covers how her family has always been in wrestling and that her father has his own promotion.

-They discuss the differences between European style and American style. After a bit of that they switch to Paige being brought in NXT. Austin mentions he likes to work snug and that Paige works a similar way. She says the girls didn’t like her at first. She was told the girls were intimidated by her because of the way she came into NXT. She tells a story of giving Summer a stiff tackle and how the other girls thought she was trying to sabotage Summer. She says just accident and she would gladly take a receipt for that.

-The Paige character is brought up and she says her idea was to be the anti-diva. She wanted to stand out and be different like Bull Nakano or Lita. She took some of the things for her mom’s style and then let Dusty Rhodes influence her.

-Austin jumps on that and has Paige talk about what Dusty meant to her. She says that Dusty kept her sane and that fans don’t know how tough the business is. She moved across the world at 18, and the other girls were mean to her, but Dusty was there to help her. Cody always told her that Dusty loved his broken toys to fix and Paige was one of those.

-Dusty would always talk about the need to save money. Paige does that now and Austin is happy she has figured that out at age 23. She tells a story with a decent Dusty impression about how he didn’t want her to talk during a promo. All she got to say was once sentence, and he told her that he asked for chicken dinner and she gave him chicken shit. She was shocked by it, but Dusty would always make her do extra promos like pretending she was in love with Roman Reigns. She talks about how Dusty would bring tough love, but in the end it was because he wanted the best for her.

-Austin asks her what her hangup was with the promos. She says that she never knew how to tell a story with her promos. They show still pics of her passing out flyers and photos of her with her parents. She talks about how she got hit by a car one day. She drug herself home, and her dad asked her if she could wiggle her toes and when she said yes, he told her to get ready as they had a show to do. Damn! He also made her tear down the ring and set it back up the next day.

-They talk about working hurt and how Paige grew up in the business with the idea that you worked hurt. She says it is different in the WWE, but in a good way as they have doctors there to check on them for anything. They mention how Cena worked last week with a broken nose during his match and Paige says Cena is old school.

-Austin gives her props for a match she had in 2011 against her mother. Her mom worked as a heel and Austin puts her over for being a bad ass heel. He calls her awesome and Austin wants Paige’s thoughts on her mother. She says that if she would rush, her mom would deck her. She would do the same to other girls when she got to FCW and they told her she needed to stop.

-Austin brings up why she always asks fans why they like her or why they want her autograph. She says that she has a self confidence issue outside the ring. She says there are so many famous and beautiful people out there and she is just a small girl from a small town. She was given great advice by The Rock as she told her to remain humble. Austin gives his own bit of wisdom and tells her she has a chance to step back and realize what she is doing and how powerful what she doing is to her fans. She says the message she always wants to give is to be yourself.

-Talk shifts back to FCW/NXT and what HHH has meant to her. She says that he is a huge influence on her. She had a period where she was in a car accident, money was stolen from her bank account, and her dog was hit by a car, but HHH helped her get through. She was the first NXT Diva’s champion and she puts over Emma.

-Austin asks her if she started the Diva Revolution. Before we get an answer he asks another question about her favorite part of the Divas Revolution and why (a question from Twitter). She puts over HHH for making the push to give them a chance in NXT. She also gives credit to AJ Lee even though she didn’t get a chance to wrestle as much on the main roster at first, but by being different it gave others a chance.

-Paige then gives Sara Del Ray a ton of credit, along with Finlay and Malenko for training the girls in NXT. It was a group effort and it started with HHH pushing the idea and the trainers and girls running with it.

-She tells some road stories and Austin runs a story of him and Regal being in England together. She talks about how basic and low key things were. He says he met a guy there that told him to enjoy life. Austin always remembered that and he asks Paige if she is enjoying life. She tells her friends and family that she has to have a life outside wrestling. She takes just random trips with her two days off just to feel normal.

-Austin asks her where she wants to be in 10 years. She is rather young and has a lot of time left. She says she that she has to improve as some days she feels she knows what she is doing and what she wants to do, but other days she questions herself. Austin says that she had to be light years ahead of the others in NXT just because she was brought up in the business. She says her biggest learning curve was all the people in the arena. To her even 1800 people seems like a lot as her dad taught her that if even 2 people are in the crowd you need to give them a show for spending their money.

-They bring up Tough Enough and Austin says he likes the show. He does feel they are trying to cram too much in one show, but he likes the live dynamic. He knows it is a different show than the one he did in 2011, but he has enjoyed what he has seen. Paige talks about how she is apparently the bad guy on the show, and she says that was the way she was raised in the business. She showed tough love on Sara Lee because she wanted to get some personality out of her. She calls Sara Lee boring and that she was only getting by on the popularity vote.

-Austin applauds Paige for being hard, but also fair on the show. He says he would rather have the truth spit to him then someone sugar coating things. She brings up the Patrick ordeal and Paige says he had an ego. The whole point of that episode was humility and she wanted to teach him a little. She says she didn’t expect him to get bounced, and then she was shocked at the backlash she got. She puts the blame on the fans for not saving him if they were that upset. She says the biggest mistake has been Mada being eliminated. She says he stood out, and that Amanda should not have been saved because The Miz thought she was hot.

-They talk about Daniel Bryan now. She met him in 2003 when she was only 11 years old. She did 3 matches in one day, and Bryan introduced himself to everyone. He walked in on Paige’s dad and brother holding a guy by his ankles out a window.

-That turns into talk about her brothers and uncles being protective of her. They would give her garbage bags to her and tell her to give to any boyfriends and let them know if they messed up with her they would end up in the bag. Her brother punched a guy out once and another brother beat a guy with ice from a pond. She never got to have fun, but she admits to missing all of them now. She says her one brother is sick and is in a mental home, but he is doing well now.

-Austin asks her about any hobbies outside the ring, and she says travel and music. They discuss drinking and she says she drinks whiskey and beer. She rattles off all the different beers she likes and covers the whiskey as well.

-Austin asks her about goals she has and she says she wants to be Divas Champion again. He brings up WrestleMania 32, and she says she hopes to be part of it. If she’s not then she will do a run in or something just to make sure she gets on the card. The two discuss how working in a stadium is different because you can’t hear the crowd do to all the noise going up and out.

-She says right after this she is jumping on a jet and heading to Tough Enough.

-Before going off the air Austin tells her she needs to tell her Big Show story. Her and Renee Young were cold and instead of getting blankets, Show tossed them a pair of his pants. They then each got into one of the pant legs and danced around like mermaids.

-We get a final plug for Tough Enough tomorrow night and that ends this show.

-Again thanks for following along even with the delay.