Cooking With "Old Man Steve"

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We totally love this guy on a couple of different levels. First off, as people who have been making cooking videos (see "Dishin' With Debbie") over the last two years, we respect this guy doing his thing.

Second, and most importantly, we think that he's unknowingly making a mockery of a millenial stronghold in the social media world: TikTok.

TikTok is the land of carefully choreographed dance videos, goofy "gotcha" videos, and slight of hand videos that your kids can and do spend hours watching.

Meet 81-year-old Stephen Austin of Ft. Worth, Texas. "Old Man Steve" has a slew of cooking videos on his account. And it's not like he's breaking new ground in the cooking world. His most popular video is one of him making frozen biquits. Personally, I'm a fan of the one of him heating canned soup.

Beautiful.

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You might wonder why a retired office worker posts videos of himself like this. Well, Steve says he doesn't have any children or grandchildren and doing them makes him feel not no alone and loved.

I'll say, his videos have more than 8.5 million views.

Keep on keepin on, "Old Man Steve."

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Charlie Nance is the Afternoon Drive co-host (along with his wife) of "The Charlie and Debbie Show" at WSOC, Country 1037 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The couple have been with the radio station since 2006. Charlie has won the prestigious CMA (Country Music Association) Award for Radio Personality of the Year and has been a finalist for the Country Radio Hall of Fame four times. Prior to his time in Charlotte, Charlie (along with Debbie) spent more than a decade hosting successful morning radio shows in Greenville, SC; Augusta, Ga; and Birmingham, Al. As a content creator for Country 1037, Charlie writes about dream lottery windfalls, sports, restaurants and bars, and travel experiences in North and South Carolina.