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82 Year Old Man on TikTok with 1.7 Million Followers - with Old Man Steve

• Kyle Kaplanis / Stephen Austin • Episode 60

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In this episode, we are chatting with the incredible and inspiring Stephen Austin. Steve is best known on TikTok as Old Man Steve (@omsteve) and he has grown a following of over 1.7 million followers (as of September 9. 2021) at the incredible age of 82 years old. 

We discuss Steve's success story on how he was able to grow his audience by focusing on what makes him happy so he can be as authentic as possible to his fans. Steve tells us that he has had many opportunities like being on the Rachael Ray show, and Kelly Clarkson show, but one of his biggest dreams is to play a dead body on a hit television show. 

This episode will leave you feeling inspired as Steve talks about how TikTok has given him a purpose in life, to get up and create each day, and to share his message with his followers. That is something that each and everyone of you can do today, get up and create, and never let age be a deterrent to your life.

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Stephen Austin
TikTok Creator - @omsteve
1.7M Followers

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Kyle Kaplanis:

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the BizTok for TikTok podcast. I am really excited because today on the show I have a guest who is defying, everything you think of when it comes to TikTok. People, think, oh, it's all about teens and kids. That's definitely not the case. And on the show today, I have old man, Steve, who is an 82 year old TikTok creator from Dallas Fort Worth. I'm really excited to talk to him and learn about his experience on TikTok and how that even got started. So Steve, welcome to the podcast.

Stephen Austin:

Glad to be aboard board.

Kyle Kaplanis:

I'm really excited that you were able to jump on. And the funny thing is, is that you were on one of my LinkedIn lives and I had people on from a podcasts called too old for TikTok podcasts, and I had them on and you jumped on and said, no, you're not too old for TikTok. I'm on TikTok. And I had to reach out and get you on. So thank you so much for commenting that, or we wouldn't have had this opportunity to be able to have you on the show.

Stephen Austin:

I was at the right place to thrive time because I had just signed down and then there you were. I had to jump in on it because I hear that all the time about people saying, you're too old, or, how can you do what you do? You're at your age? So I do take every opportunity to let people know. Age is not a factor.

Kyle Kaplanis:

I love that a hundred percent, okay. There's a, question a lot of people have that are looking from an outside perspective and that is how did you get started on TikTok? What inspired you to download the app and make videos?

Stephen Austin:

I had been doing YouTube for a number of years. Probably like 12, 13 years. And as apps became available on our phones, I did vine, when it was around and I enjoyed that a lot. I had fun with it and I had a moderate following, on vine and, then vine went away and then there was some other ones that came along that I tried, but. My nephew said, uncle Steve, you need to try TikTok. It would be a perfect fit for you. And it's a lot like vine because he knew that I really enjoyed vine and I was upset when it went away. So I tried TikTok . And I realized it was like all the other apps. Young people. There's not a lot of people, my age if any. And I could see that people were dancing and lips thinking and mostly that's what they were doing. And that just wasn't something that I did. So I started doing my own thing. And started getting a following. And before I knew it my numbers started just going crazy. I couldn't believe how people were responding to what I did, which was not what anybody else was doing that I knew of., , it was. And adventure. And it was something that I guess, paid off for me because, I started getting following. Now I've got 1.7 million followers and, which to this day blows my mind. And they're all mostly young people and they want me to be their grandpa or remind them of their grandpa or. I get comments like that. I have fun with it and I have fun with my fans and I try interacting with them, as much as I can.

Kyle Kaplanis:

I love that story. Thank you for sharing that. I think it's so cool that you didn't just jump into this. You were doing all sorts of stuff, creating on YouTube, creating on bine, which is really fun as well. Your nephew said, Hey, you got to try TikTok now. And how fun is that? Now you have 1.7 million followers who look up to you as a grandpa, figure on take talk and, people might have thought. There's no way because your demographics not on there or people might not find you exciting because you're just not going to be relatable to them, but clearly you are. And it's proven with 1.7 million followers. Was the success pretty quick on the platform? Or did this take time?

Stephen Austin:

It's happened over a few months as I remember it, it seemed like overnight, I did a video and I was getting maybe 50 or a hundred views. And, then all of a sudden I did one and overnight, it was like 25,000 views. And then it just kept going up, but I couldn't believe it. And my sister who is my biggest supporter and. Who lives here nearby. I would call her up and I said, well, you're not gonna believe. And that became like an everyday phone call. You're not gonna believe, the numbers that I got or. It became like almost a game as it's to see how high the numbers would go and trying to figure out what I did that made that happen. And I have found that there's no formula You never know what's going to click and you never know. What's not going to click. I can do videos that I think are funny or cute, and nothing happens. And I do something that I think is stupid and I wished I hadn't done it or it really didn't amount to anything. And it'll just go off the charts as far as. Viewing. So you never know, and I tried to figure out what, maybe if you. Post something in the morning rather than the afternoon is the better time. There's just no way of knowing. It's just, it's a gamble is what it is., I'm to the point now that , I don't get depressed, but it bothers me that if my numbers don't go up that maybe I'm not doing something right, or I'm losing my followers. And then the next day, some something will shoot up and I'll get over a hundred thousand views on one video, you know?

Kyle Kaplanis:

It's very interesting and I'm glad that you brought that up because there's a lot of creators out there that are looking for this stuff. Formula and exactly. And that's the thing is that everyone's constantly looking for how to break the algorithm to have guaranteed success. And there isn't, so it's really just showing up and trying different things out and being yourself. And I think the most important factor. When creating content is to be authentic and have fun, because if you're not doing those two things, you're going to be constantly in a depression because you're never going to find that success. And the success really lies in just being yourself and having fun. And if you. That's just the cherry on top. And Steve, I'm really grateful that, you were able to create these fun videos and inspire people and grow. But I'm glad that you did bring up as well. That you do get into a routine where. You feel like you're letting your audience down. If these views don't do well. And I think a lot of creators go through that. So it's very interesting to hear your perspective as an 82 year old man, that has those feelings sometimes of feeling like, oh no, is my account not doing as well? And there's a lot of young creators show. What gets you through those days where you feel a little bit down with TikTok.

Stephen Austin:

I used to let it bother me more than it does now. And I finally realized there's just not really much you can do., of course, I'm like anybody else. I have good days and bad days. And because of my age, I probably have more bad days, good days. But, I tried to do it least one video a day. Because I want to hold onto my audience. I don't want them to forget me. And I think if you don't produce, you're going to lose your audience no matter how popular you are. I think it's important that you produce. So I try to do at least one a day, and usually I do two or three of my four. If I get inspired and sometimes I get inspired, I'll be watching TV and. Pops into my head. I turned the TV off and I go do my TikTok about it and go back and watch my program. And I've even gotten up in the middle of the night, once or twice. Well, something comes to mind. I thought, well, that'll make a great TikTok. And I do it. And, I have developed certain things that I do that I find my fans look forward to. I do a magic Saturday was Steve, where I tried to do a magic trick, but really. I can't do it. I messed it up and, I have no ability to be a magician. that's one of my popular things that I do, that my fans ask me about all the time. Can't wait for Saturday. My magic Saturday was Steve. And then I started doing a cooking thing, but I don't cook. I just made a bowl of cereal , and that was cooking with Steve. And as the result of that, , I was on the Rachael Ray show twice. just by making a sandwich, and, she got a big kick out of that. I do those things, but also like the cooking was Steve. Thing I run out of stuff to do, I'm constantly trying to think of something new to do. Sometimes it's hard, at my age and living by myself. TikTok has given me a purpose and it gives me something to do something to get up for. And I think that's important. Seniors tend to live in. Conditions where they're alone and their family might be forgets about them or their friends have passed. And, so it's like a hobby, I guess if you have a hobby that you stay busy. I have TikTok. I stay busy. And, it's brought me a little bit of, 15 seconds of fame. Yeah., I was on Kelly Clarkson show. Wow. I got interviewed on CNN. And I even got interviewed on Australian TV, which was a kick because we did it on zoom and it was nighttime here, but it was the next morning and Australia. So I was on their morning show and, They made fun of my Texas accent and I made fun of their Australian accent. So, so that was, that was interesting, but I've had a lot of that happened and it all happened. Pretty fast. And, it was a bit overwhelming. daily, I was getting requests to do interviews or be on this show or that show and I'm enjoying the ride. I love it.

Kyle Kaplanis:

I love it because, I think a lot of people they get older. And they start losing that purpose in their life. Maybe they're retired and they don't have to work anymore. Now you have something that drives you every single day. And I love that you're inspired even in the night, you're think of a video and you wake up and you're like, I gotta do this video now. And making the TikTok sometimes can be as easy as just holding your camera. In front of you and talking to somebody. And is that what you find some of your inspiring things is just being able to speak , and talk to your.

Stephen Austin:

I do that. Take talk as a thing on there that I recently discovered it might've been on there all the time, and I just found it questions and answers. So now that they asked me questions and I've started doing a series of videos where I answered their questions, and talk directly. So the Mike fans and I still do videos on YouTube. But of course that's a whole different thing. And, I'm on Facebook and I'm on Instagram and, Twitter. I'm very active on social media, in different venues. You have to work at it. It's not just a casual thing with me. it's almost like a job. It keeps me busy, keeps my mind active.

Kyle Kaplanis:

Would you say that using social media and being this active with it, do you think keeps you young.

Stephen Austin:

It keeps my body my mind. Yes. I mean, I get a lot of things I would love to be able to do that. I just can't do anymore. Sometimes it even surprises me, I have to be careful about a lot of physical things and I even do some dancing on TikTok, but I'm not a dancer. I just kinda move around to the music and then I speak to the camera up and it looks like I'm really going at it. But, um, but, um, and, and so I've had a lot of response from. For my dance video.

Kyle Kaplanis:

That's awesome. And you do it all by yourself, right? Like you don't have anybody helping you make these videos, you know how to do all the features.

Stephen Austin:

That's another thing when you're by yourself, you have to be invented. As far as your camera work or whatever I've got a lighting equipment. I think I'm very conscious of making sure that my lighting and all my technical things are correct. But it would be better if I had a partner or somebody. Could film me doing things. And since I don't have that, I have a lot of gadgets. That sometimes I use in order to be able to video something that I do. But that's a challenge when you're by yourself trying to create something, that, might be visually different from what you normally do. Just setting there, looking at the camera. I'm conscious of all that. And something I work at, I try to be inventive and I do get people say, how do you know all this? How do you know how to even my nephew says it? I said, I don't know. I just do it. And if I'm not sure of something, I Google it. All right. Go on YouTube, because you're going to find anything on those you look it up. You figure it out.

Kyle Kaplanis:

Exactly. I love that. Age doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean you can't look something up and learn it. It's still at any age. And I think, that there is a lot of people out there that feel like they can't. Do these things anymore, but you were like, no way, I'm going to learn it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to try it. And I love how you say, you have to be inventive and I think another thing that you do really well, as well as being fun with even your appearance and things like you, you have different hats that you wear, on a daily basis. Do a lot of people know you, for that as well.

Stephen Austin:

Well that yeah. Has become like a trademark. I don't know how that happened. People said, why did you just start doing that? I said, I don't know. I had one hat and put alone. I liked the way it looked. And so I started wearing the hats and then I started getting different color hats and trying to coordinate my hat with my shirt. And now I get fans to send me hats. And I probably have over a hundred. Yeah. No. So I, and I tell fans, please, no more hats. I don't need that anymore.

Kyle Kaplanis:

Have, have you ever thought of creating your own hat? For merchandise?

Stephen Austin:

Well, yeah my sisters let's go to do all that for me, but, I think she's more talk than action. So I don't, nothing's really come up with Shanta. She has a lot of great ideas, but, She has her own life to live and, I do sell merchandise. I have t-shirts and all that kind of stuff. But I keep, being told. There's a lot of opportunities out there and I've taken advantage of a few of them. One of my TikTok videos, I made a remark about my back hurting or something, I think I need to get a new mask. Well, in a couple of weeks, I got an email from a mattress company and they said they would send me a new mattress if I would do TikTok unboxing of it. And I said, well, sure. So I got a free mattress. There's been a few perks from getting well-known and now ticks seller they have a fund, I guess. Yeah. And I've gotten a little bit of money from that, but you have to have a lot. Followers and a lot of, views on your videos to really make, any money from that. I'm not up in that league. But I have managed to get a little bit of money each month from that. And that really helps somebody like me. Who's a senior and who lives on a fixed income. So it's been lucrative for me and in some respects., but I don't do it for that reason. I do it because I like it and I enjoy it. And those are just some extra parks that's come from it.

Kyle Kaplanis:

Yeah. I was going to ask you cause you've done some unboxing videos and agreed the creator. Isn't the best source of income. YouTube is much better for payouts, for creators, but the CPM rates for TikTok is so super low, but it's exciting. Cause there's still some sort of incentive to create videos and earn from it. Have you been able to do any more brand deals or anything like that to monetize your efforts?

Stephen Austin:

In the early days, when my numbers were going up, I wasn't even at a million yet. I don't think. And I got an email from taco bell, somebody at taco bell just thought I was. Funniest thing that I've ever seen. And I enjoyed my, cooking was Steve and everyone wanted to fly me out to California to do a video in their test kitchen. Well, I didn't even know they had a test kitchen and apparently they do, and it's a big deal. And I thought that would be funny to have me, and they implied as a result. Uh, might get a commercial out of the deal. Well, then the, Corona virus, Thing happened. People weren't flying anymore. People weren't traveling, people were being quarantined. And so that fell apart and they've never contacted me again, but, they send me some merchandise, so I have a baseball cap. But, the other thing that was supposed to happen that I really was disappointed about was, , Jenna Bush. Haggar the president's daughter who is co-host on the today show. She had written a book and she was going to come to Texas to promote her book because she's from Texas, of course, president Bush lives in Dallas. She was going to come to Dallas and do a book signing. And then she was going to come over to Fort worth and spend the day with me and interview me and film it. And it was going to be on the today show. Well, I never happened because of the. Pandemic. And so her book tour got canceled and she never came. So I was just supported about that. Cause I thought that would really be neat. I was very excited that. I think that something like that would have happened to me. And, I did get interviewed by local television where they came to my apartment and videoed me, with the local host celebrity person. And that was fun. But, some of my fans that they kept mourning to send me stuff. And so my sister. So those should get a PO box, which I did. And somebody sent me a box full of six boxes of pasta in it, jars of pasta sauce. And, I guess I like I need to eat or okay. I even got a package from Australia that had a bunch of their local snacks and things of names that I never even heard of, you know, so I've gotten stuff like that. And, I have a fan that stuffers and they keep sending me frozen dinners. So yes, I'll ever go hungry

Kyle Kaplanis:

for some reason, your audience thinks you need to eat more. I guess. I

Stephen Austin:

know

Kyle Kaplanis:

that's funny, are you hoping that there's going to be a lot more, which I, I think there is. Continuing to do this, but are you hoping that there's going to be a lot more opportunities, for fun things like this

Stephen Austin:

I got an email yesterday from the Steve Harvey show. In fact, I have a meeting with them this afternoon. After we get done with the podcast, we're going to do a zoom interview with the producers about me being on the Steve Harvey show. I'm still getting. Request just when I think that, my 15 minutes of fame was over and then all of a sudden something happens. So I guess I still have my viewers on Tik TOK and I'm still doing so I guess, as long as I keep doing that, in the public and I do self promotion. I find that's something you have. I don't have a manager or a, yeah. Agent or whatever it is that you supposed to have? I do it all myself. I do, on Twitter, on and B sees , law and order issue. V I tweeted, once I said, if you ever needed a dead body for one of your shows, I can be a dead body because I'm old and I've had a lot of experience napping, so I can lay still for long periods of time. I never heard from them.

Kyle Kaplanis:

I really hope that somehow this podcast episode can get out to the right people.

Stephen Austin:

I was telling him I can play on good dead body, but, I'm always doing stuff like that. And I feel like that's the way of getting my name out there, to people that might not otherwise see it. Who knows something, might happen from it. You never know,

Kyle Kaplanis:

you know what, it's funny how there's sometimes negative, connotation around self promotion. But at the end of the day, there's nobody that is as passionate about. What we're doing than ourselves. And I think that it's really important to be the biggest advocate for yourself, because nobody's going to do it like you can. And I love that you're able to do that for yourself and being out there and reaching out to people and making those things happen. Is really powerful. And if you didn't believe in yourself, you probably wouldn't be where you are now. And I think that's a huge lesson that we can all learn is just really believing in ourselves and what we're doing and having fun with it. Like you have been.

Stephen Austin:

i've , kicked around the idea of maybe trying to get an agent a manager or something, first of all, I don't have the money. I'm not that big, I wouldn't mind having an entourage or,, what did they call it now is quad or what is it? Yeah. So somebody to drive me around and somebody to go shopping for me and all that, God, that'd be fun. I've even promoted myself to Disney and Netflix and discovery plus, and all that. I've written, to them saying that they should do a show around old man. Steve. I said it would make a very fun, interesting show. Uh, the life and times of old man, Steve.

Kyle Kaplanis:

But nothing yet. Huh?

Stephen Austin:

I don't know nothing yet, so much content out there that there's so many channels now that are looking for content. Somebody might see something that I did and it's like, Hey, they want to make a good sitcom or something. I don't know. Maybe not, I did do a, documentary thing for this company in Canada. And, I was part of a group talking about , how we're using video now because of the pandemic of how people have had to stay home and work at home and how that has opened up the use of things like zoom, and, we're not around even five years ago. and how people are communicating. The video and besides entertainment, like TikTok and that sort of thing, but just doing business. So I was part of that and that was done like over a year ago they came, they sent a TV. Crow so my apartment and interviewed me and filmed me, asked me questions like you are. And, then,, it took them over a year to put it all together. I posted it. own LinkedIn.. You may have seen it, maybe not, but it's on one of my posts on LinkedIn and it was very interesting and I don't know what they're doing with it. I don't know where it's being shown, but it was fun to be part of, there was a lot of interesting people on there.

Kyle Kaplanis:

That's really cool. I think there's some inspiration here from this is, you could be reaching out to a lot of people and hearing crickets, but we can create our own awareness and fame by just showing up and being in front of the video because, With certain things, like all these opportunities came because of your proactiveness and creating video and being in front of the camera. If you were just a typical, guy that had these stories and reaching out without that credibility, nobody would have reached out to you. But because you took the time and you're creating videos for yourself, that's where people are really inspired by. And people that are listening right now, just creating that one video. Today could lead you to so many opportunities for the feature. Just being in front of the camera has led to so many great things. And this is just a, an interesting question that I'd like to know. Do you feel a lot of really interesting things happen to you later in your life then than in your earlier days because of the social media presence?

Stephen Austin:

Oh, definitely. Oh yeah. I wish that what's happening to me now. And it happened when I was, younger, But, I'm glad that it's happening now, but yo yeah, this, social media has changed, not just my life, but it's changed everyone's lives. We live in a different world now. And video is a big part of it. It's beyond anything I could have ever imagined when I was younger. I've seen a lot of changes. I can remember when we got our first TV and it was like this big, and it was black and white. And we were the only one on the block and all of the neighbors came over to look at it because I had never seen a TV before. So I can remember that I've seen that to go through change after change, up to can remember when they said someday the TV's are going to be flat and you're going to be able to hang on the wall, like a picture. And that's all now. How can I do that? And now that's all the Oreos, and I remember. The old Dick Tracy things, where they had the watch and it was a screen and had video on the watch, and thought, that'll never happen. And it happened. I've gone through all of that and , young people don't get it. They don't realize that changes that have happened just in very recently too. It's been very rapid, and here we are now we're talking video video, And you can talk to somebody. From Australia or from Canada. We can have somebody from England and we can all go up and just chit chat and hair and live. And it's just the thing now is this it's the norm. It's not unusual anymore. But I guess there are people that are still out there. It is unusual to them, because they haven't evolved with the technology. Like most other people have. I take things for granted. Maybe somebody else would think, oh my God, how can they do that? I guess it just depends on who you are.. Kyle Kaplanis: You have taken the time because it does, it moves quickly. And like you said, even in, my time period, I'm still a young guy and, even I can still remember the first phones in and they were just the numbers and that's it. And it's crazy how fast things evolve and you can be left behind fairly quickly. Keep learning about these new things which you have done. So I know firsthand that there's a lot of people in your demographic that have no idea. They would have no clue where to even start with picking up a phone and filming. So I give you a lot of credit to have done that, that, is a huge success. Which is really cool though. It's fun to learn it and see firsthand, It's something that's kept me, active my mind active. I don't know without it, if I wouldn't be as active, I don't know. Is that a way of knowing, but I just do it because I like it and I enjoyed it and you have to be a bit of a ham and I'm a ham.

Kyle Kaplanis:

That is true. That is true. You definitely have to have, but,

Stephen Austin:

I never inspired to be a performer., My grandfather was in show business. And his name was the same as mine, Steve Austin. And he went by barnyard stew because he did animal impersonations and, in the early days of Disney Eve and went to California and was going to work. For Disney to do animal impersonations for his cartoons, but it meant that he was going to have to leave Texas and his family, and he didn't want to do that. So he turned around and came back to Texas and never went to work for him. But he had a, local radio show a kid, his show where he would do. And of course there was no TV back then, then when people didn't, that was really high, fun entertainment. Now, it sounds silly to think of somebody having a radio show where they do nothing by the animal and personally, but. That's what he did. And, he would travel around to schools and do performances and he performed, various organizations, like the lions club and stuff like that. And my mother once told me, she said, you're silly. Just like your grandfather. She always thought he was. Um, and so maybe I inherited his genes. I don't

Kyle Kaplanis:

know it was in the blood to be entertaining

Stephen Austin:

and fun. I think about him when I do my TikTok. Some things I think about my grandfather probably would really. Thanks. This is what I'm doing is pretty cool. So he's on my shoulder.

Kyle Kaplanis:

Oh, blessed. Yeah. he's looking down really proud of what you're doing now. That's really cool. I love that. Yeah. I'd love to ask, just a quick question on, and it's more of a serious topic, but a lot of creators go through this and that is, getting, some trolls come through and make some hate comments. I'm sure you've had your experience of those. And what's your process of going through those? Do you ignore them? Do you move on?

Stephen Austin:

I've been fortunate because I've had very little of that., I tend to just ignore them if I get a nasty remark I will delete it. I don't know, dress it. I don't know why people do that, but they do. And everything that I do is G rated. I don't do like a lot of young people, and I even talk about this. So I don't use the F word and I don't think all of that's necessary. Why people do that, it's become a thing. And I just don't. I'm not approved. I've been around the block a few times, but I don't see why people have to talk that way or act that way. So I guess I've been lucky because if I do get some comments, I just deleted them in a ignore them. I don't know, dress it. And. It hasn't been a problem.

Kyle Kaplanis:

Awesome. I think that is a good solution. And I tell a lot of creators, don't let it affect you and just remove it and move on because those people out there, could be having a bad day and don't let it affect you personally. Cause that's just a reflection on them., I'm grateful to know that you're not getting hate and that there's so much more positivity around your account and that's how it should be. And I'm so grateful that those few that have done that do not affect you and have not disabled, your creative ability.

Stephen Austin:

So. I don't talk about religion and I don't talk politics because then you get in trouble. So I, those are two subjects I don't talk about and I just try to be me. And I tell people if they don't like what I do well, don't much. Right. So none of that changed.

Kyle Kaplanis:

I love that. Exactly. It's as simple as that. If you're not a fan of something, just move on. Why that's that's fun. Is there any advice that you'd give to creators regardless of their age? when using TikTok as a creator?

Stephen Austin:

You have to do your own thing. You can copy people, but I don't think that's going to get you very far, try to be creative and say, well, I'm not a creative person where you sometimes will surprise yourself. If you just. Give it a go and, just be yourself. And if people don't like that, well, then they don't like it. There's not really much. You can do, trying to be something you're not usually doesn't work had just said just. I

Kyle Kaplanis:

agree if you're just yourself, then you will create some sort of audience around just being, being, you know, and then it's authentic. And those who follow you just love everything about what you do. And I, I think that no matter what we do, regardless, if we think it's boring or not something that people will find entertaining. I believe that every single person, if you put yourself out there, you can build an audience around it. Somebody's going to love who you are. Somebody who's going to be inspired by something you say. And there is an audience for all of us out there. We just. Take that chance and put ourselves out there, but if you can be you,

Stephen Austin:

yeah. I'm a perfect example. Who would think I would be this big deal on tech talk at my age, you'll find your audience and sometimes it takes time, but you can find them.

Kyle Kaplanis:

I love that Steve what's the best way for people to find you and follow your chair?

Stephen Austin:

If you own textile com. At O M Steve, Facebook I'm old, man, Steve 75 on Instagram, old man, Steve 75. On Twitter, all van Steve, 80. And I have a website it's www dot old man, steve.com.

Kyle Kaplanis:

Awesome. I made it very easy for the listeners if you just go to the description notes of this podcast episode, you'll find all the links to follow Steve on all his social medias. Yeah. I'll put all that there for everybody. So it makes it very, very simple so people can listen and follow you on all those socialists. And I wrote, I really motivate everybody to go follow Steve over there because it's. It's inspiring. And, you'll just put a smile on your face, which a lot of us need, especially during times like now. So I really appreciate your time and talking to us in the audience today. Well, it was

Stephen Austin:

my pleasure. I enjoyed it

Kyle Kaplanis:

really fun. And I'm looking forward to seeing Some of the opportunities come forward for you. And I really do hope that somebody from, the shows hire you for, a body,

Stephen Austin:

Coming to a channel near you. So

Kyle Kaplanis:

thank you, Steve. I appreciate it.

Stephen Austin:

Okay. Thank you. Bye bye.

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