If this tape wasnt leaked, do you think youd be using that word today . But the scandal that could have broken him actually redefined him. I made a whole switch from, you know, being negative that is id work hard. Im in check with myself. Im happy, brother. Harvey hulk hogan, a life of the highest highs and the lowest lows. Oh, my gosh. It is so good to see you. Hey, my brother. Usually i see you in golds gym. Thats true, in los angeles. Well, were far, far away. Have a seat. Well, thank you for coming. So, um, i want to spend some time going through your life. But i want to do it with things you chose to keep over the years that are important to you and help define who you are. So im looking at that. What is it . My dad worked construction his whole life. Right. He dug ditches. He put the big storm drainage in the roads. This was in florida. And when i was about five or six years old, my memory is having this little gas truck. It was pink. harvey why save that . What does it represent . It symbolizes how i grew up. I grew up in a very small, square little house, 650 square feet. And he had a tough life. My mom was a housewife, and i kind of kept this truck to make me realize i always wanted to work hard but i always wanted to make sure that i raised the bar. You know, and i never wanted to be in situation like that, where i remember them living check to check. There was always talk about my dads income and always talk about what bills to pay. I just made a decision that i never wanted to be in a situation like that. What are your thoughts right now, mrs. Hogan . Your son, the new world champion. Im so excited i dont know what to say. You are not a tough guy by nature. No. cause its odd that youre this the icon of wrestling, and you werent really a tough guy growing up. Hulk because i was fat, and my head was so big. I got teased, but i wasnt a kid that wanted to fight. I was always really mellow, and i would avoid any type of confrontation. Even through high school, i never got in any trouble with fighting. I didnt fit in. I went all the way through high school, and i think my senior year i finally had a girlfriend. I think because i was so heavy, you know . It was just tough. When did you lose weight . Right when i was getting out of high school. I started eating burger king once a day and drinking diet cokes, and i started getting into lifting weights. Howd your mom influence you . Hulk my mom played piano, and she was our music teacher in the neighborhood. And so she would play all the time so i got real interested in music and i was very young, about 11 or 12 years old. My dad bought me this really expensive guitar. Is that it . Yeah, thats the guitar. Thats the guitar . Can i see it . Yeah. And you played this . Uh, yeah, i did for many years. You were in a band . I was in several bands. Let me see this thing. This is amazing. This is really coollooking. Yup, still plays. harvey laughs was your passion music or sports . My passion was doing anything to avoid working a real job. I was out on the weekends playing music and making money. Harvey your brother, he had a very rough going in life. Hulk he had a tough time with running around getting in trouble, you know . He, uh, got married to an older lady, had a beautiful family and passed away quite young. He just went down the wrong road. And got into drugs. Yes. Harvey and trouble. Yes. I can see it is still emotional for you and he died many years ago. As hard as this is to say, some people are in your life just to teach you life lessons, and when i look at my brother i look at nothing but positive stuff. I wish he was here, i keep a picture of him up in my house, a couple of them, and i wish he was here, but now i understand that he was in my life to teach me a life lesson. Whats the lesson . Of how to correct myself and reboot, which ive done over and over and over again until im finally happy with myself. How did he die . Um. Id rather not talk about that. Fair enough. So, all in all, your childhood. Um, happy, challenging . I look back on it now and wow, it was it was pretty darn rough. I mean, it could have been better but i didnt realize at the time that there was anything wrong. So i had a great childhood. Harvey this beach shop is awesome hulk thank you. Well, this is like the transition. You know, ill always be part of wrestling so theres a lot of wrestling stuff in here and you know, stuff from my career and memorabilia plus since im on the beach and im the official beach bum around here were making the transition with the beach hats and the board shorts so its a beach shop for everybody that comes here to orlando. What are these . Okay, these are the boots as you can see theyre pretty worn out that i wore in wrestle mania 3, and bodyslammed andre the giant. Harvey this was to me the biggest moment that i can remember in your career. This you picked up a 700pound guy. Hulk yes, sir. This moment etched wrestling in the wwf wwe in history that we were not going anywhere. This was a huge gamble. We didnt know if we would pull if off. 94,000 people. I do not understand how you can lift a 700pound guy in the air. With a lot of help from him. It was a situation, if you watched the tape, when i went to go underneath andre roars when andre was coming, his arm went around my neck. Right. Well, actually this way. Went around my neck. Oh, he helped you. And he pushed up on my thigh. Announcer were seeing what this guy is really made of what he is the greatest professional athlete in the world today. Look at this in front of him i dont believe it i dont believe it hulk dropping a big leg over for the giant its over harvey but still. hulk oh yeah, but it was okay when i got into here. And then when i got into here, i had all this weight and i had to turn him. And thats how i tore my biceps. Both biceps are torn. Harvey so that moment is when you tore the bicep . Hulk yeah, yeah. When i tore em. Harvey what about the back . Well, my inserts and up here where my backs supposed to ive got a big hole in my back from turning him, but, uh was that worth it . Yeah. Oh, god. It was a onetime deal for me. Yeah, onetime deal. But that moment changed my whole career because hulk hogan was off and running and hulkamania was off and running but that put me on a rocket ship. So, when you were growing up, you didnt like contact sports. No, not at all. You shied away from them. Not at all. I didnt like any type of confrontation. So, howd you get into wrestling . I was a huge fan. I mean, i just loved it. I grew up watching it. But you never joined the wrestling team in high school. No, sir. I had a really good band. And right when we were getting ready to hit the road, one guy was getting married, one guys wife had a baby and nobody wanted to go. I said, thats it, im done, im gonna go be a wrestler. So the worst thing that i did was i went all around tampa telling everybody i was gonna be a wrestler. The first day they took me down there, they broke my leg on purpose the first day. If wrestling were not fake, would you have done it . At the time, i didnt know you thought it was real. Oh, yeah. I didnt know it was predetermined back then. I guess when they break your leg, that kind of confirms it, right . But yet you didnt like contact sports. Thats right. So i dont understand that. I dont either. laughter i just love wrestling. I was intertwined in society americana. I was americana at the time. So why flip it and become a bad guy . Well, a lot of reasons. You have to reinvent yourself in the wrestling business and i wanted to be a bad guy because i thought i could make these good guys hulk hogans. I would get booed so much that i could give them my oomph. Thats when i reinvented myself. Thats when i said, all the training, the prayers, the vitamins, all the stuff i did for the kids, i did it for the money. You fans can stick it, brother yeah because. If it wasnt for hulk hogan, you people wouldnt be here hulk i thought id be the ultimate bad guy, which i was. Id beat guys up and then id cower like a chicken and beg for forgiveness and wanna shake hands and blow cheap shot em, you know . But the people cheered me and it backfired on me. I became hollywood hogan, that bad guy, in the back, with the black beard. And people were cheering me out of the building. It was amazing. The lines had gotten blurred at the time, so there was this big gray area in entertainment that the fans thought it was cool to cheer for the bad guy, hollywood hulk hogan, so i became bigger than ever again. announcer shouting indistinctly its kind of a statement about america, isnt it . That all of a sudden the bad guy gets cheered. Yes, sir. Its kind of scary. Ive had 17 surgeries in the last 10 years. Oh, my god. Whats not original here . Hulk the knees are fake, the hips are fake, um, the backs full of metal. And part of my face is full of metal. I didnt get the memo about the fake wrestling. I was gonna say. Yeah, i missed that part. I didnt get the memo about the fake wrestling. When you own 1,000 acres, your wway to the horizon. Ll the you need the fast, durable kubota sidekick. Get the sidekick now for as low as 10,649, plus zero down and 3. 99 percent apr for 60 months. And the clock could be ticking towards bad breath, receding gums and possibly tooth loss. 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When i first sent my first picture to jennifer of me in the gym i was posing, showing my tricep, and behind me there must have been 80 crutches, cause i saved all the crutches you get two at a time, by the way from all the surgeries, and even since ive been with jennifer, ive had 17 surgeries in the last ten years. Oh, my god. Hulk my knees, ive had three or four surgeries on my knees, each knee before i had em replaced. Harvey whats not original here . Hulk the knees are fake, the hips are fake. The backs full of metal, and part of my face is full of metal. Oh, my god. Tell me about the injuries. I didnt get the memo about the fake wrestling. I was gonna say. Yeah, i missed that part. Its predetermined, you know whos gonna win or lose, but what people dont understand is that its very physical. And back in the day in the 70s when i first started, i still got, like, teeth marks on my finger. Theres a eyetooth there i can see it teeth marks of people trying to bite my fingers. Oh, my god had my eye reconstructed a couple times from getting hit in the face, nose broken 13 times, all these teeth, these fake teeth have been knocked out six times so, its been a wild ride. I remember reading things that you were 67 or 68. Yeah. laughs i gotta say, you dont seem 67 or 68 and i dont know whether theres a connection here. Hulk youre killing me. harvey you see, not that youre not tall, hulk yeah. harvey but you dont seem 67 to me. I was 67 before the rocky movie. How tall are you now . Im 64 and a half. How could you lose almost 3 inches . Fast forward 35 years later . Dropping a leg drop every night on my spine, two knee replacements, two hip replacements, nine back surgeries. When you get older, you kinda crunch up a little bit anyway. All those things added up so you know, its very physical. There are some wrestlers and maybe a lot of wrestlers who deal with this with alcohol and drugs because of pain. Yeah. How common is that . Its very common. When i was wrestling full time, all of us did. That was the norm to survive. Its hard to believe when you see somebody this big that steroids is not kind of the common drug in the ring. Okay. You ever do it . Yes. Yes. There was a time you said no. Yeah, one time. Ive trained 20 years, 2 hours a day to look like i do. But things that i am not is im not a steroid abuser, and i do not use steroids. And actually when i said no, i wasnt on steroids at the time, so i was playing with words. Knowing what youve gone through, if you could make a decision again on whether to go into wrestling having become the bionic man, would you do it again . Commentator 1 a running clothesline and macho going after the eye oh, no commentator 2 a fly commentator 1 he flyplants hogan oh, yeah. Id do it all over again. So tell me what that is. Well, this is the second or third attempt by stallone to get ahold of me for the rocky 3 movie. Vince mcmahon sr. s secretary got a handwritten note. Well, i called him right away, and the whole story is i flew out there, got in the ring with him. We did a couple things. He tried to hit me a couple times. See if you can grab me pretty quick, big guy. Which i did. harvey this was an audition. Hulk yeah, and they were filming everything. And so, i didnt have an agent, never had done anything before. He goes, ill give you 10,000 to do the movie. I went, nah, i want 15,000. So i did it for 14,000. No. Yeah. Wait a minute, he negotiated you down from 15 . chuckles well, yeah. I apologize. First of all, you should have gone for way more than 15. Well, i didnt know. cheering where are my love slaves out there . Thunderlips is here, in the flesh, baby now the character was great for you know, the females. Its the ultimate male, thunderlips. Look at those lips. It helped you get laid. Im talking about it helped me attract the opposite sex. Good match. Hey, whyd you get so crazy on me out there . Thats the name of the game. You ended up on the cover of Sports Illustrated. I cant get over that, because wrestlers werent on that magazine. And to be on the cover, that must have been a moment for you. Ah, its never happened since. Ive been the only wrestler ever to be on the cover. And at the time we had not deregulated wrestling, which means we didnt tell the people it was an actual exhibition and we know whos gonna win or lose at the time. We were still fighting that fight, you know, saying, this is a real sport. And i think hulkamania just got so popular and it was a such a cult following that Sports Illustrated didnt really have a choice. What was so crazy is when i went back and i wrestled the iron sheik, it was a perfect storm. Iran was holding, like, 400 hostages at the time. The iron sheik was really the real deal. He was the shah of irans bodyguard, he was the real deal. And i was doing allamerican hulkamania thing tan, full head of blonde hair, the real american, so, it was like the perfect time for this thing to take off. Harvey and it became really almost a show of patriotism in weird way, right . Yes, sir, it sure was. Commentator and now, World Wrestling federation heavyweight champion, the incredible hulk hogan i think changed the sport and the crowd because you were the first true entertainer. And i did that because i was not the greatest wrestler. I wasnt the greatest technical wrestler, but id had enough that i knew how to create emotion, how to create excitement, and tell a good story when i was in there. And i just prided myself on telling stories. What was the biggest perk of being a celebrity . The biggest perk of being a celebrity. Probably would have been at the airports. Harvey what . You got through faster . laughs hulk well, youd get through faster but then when you got to the gate, thered be so much chaos because id stand next to oh, is the plane on time . And wed get swarmed by so many people, the gate agent would go, get him on the plane as soon as you can. Harvey thats funny. Biggest drawback. Biggest drawback, having to maintain and just really be cool and calm when it got extra, extra, extra, extra personal. They get me, like, caged in and i cant go nowhere. Why cant they just calm down a little bit . Because youre hulk hogan. Im hulk hogie. When youre sitting there with your wife and kids and youre eating dinner and, oh, hulk hogan, i want an autograph im your biggest fan, and their pack of cigarettes would fall in your food. Good to see you. How are you . Are you enjoying your steak . Im trying. You just had to go, i love you, brother. Ill take that picture and sign an autograph with you after i finish eating. 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And this is a letter she wrote me. Harvey when was it written . hulk oh, my gosh. Well, this letter was written 121415. Ive known jennifer almost ten years now. So, um, this on our fifth anniversary and heres has a really cool passage in here. You are my best friend. I am very proud of you for how youve handled the different challenges that have come up. Now i feel its time for you to be rewarded for staying in faith, time for you to help people even more. I love you so much each day. Im totally grateful for being blessed with such a wonderful husband. Love you for life after life after life, bird. Can i take you way back . Sure. So, jennifer is not your first wife. You were married actually once before to linda. What attracted you to linda . I just filmed the rocky movie and i was hanging out with one of my buddies that went to high school with me here in florida. I just saw linda, was attracted to her. You know, she was a beautifullooking lady and she was just alive with energy, you know. Harvey was she attracted to terry or hulk . I dont know the answer to that. I just think that as the pressure mounted and we got older and the kids get older, we just grew apart. Was it coincidental that the marriage crumbled around the same time as the reality show . You know, i dont think you can put those two together like that. Whats up . I cant live like this, terry every day, its drama. Its just ridiculous. In case you cant tell, ive had it, okay . Im spent. I got it, i got it. I dont want to make it work anymore. Im like over it well, im done with it. I knew that one of the problems in our marriage was linda, she said, well, ive helped you all these years and you know, i didnt have a career. And i looked at the reality show as a calculated risk because my marriage was already starting to implode and things werent good at all and i thought that maybe if we did a reality show, everybody would get busy, have a huge net worth, feel great about themselves. Oh, man, isnt that great . Get a good show. And it would just make things just channel in a different direction. That didnt happen. No, it didnt. It didnt. Harvey you know, when people get divorced a lot of times, you split things 50 50 down the middle, hulk yeah. harvey and you move on. I read that you gave way more than 50. That was a big deal. Hulk it was a huge deal. My understanding was it was about 70 you gave up. clears throat there was a low point in all of this where you literally had a gun in your mouth. How did you get out of that . Well, i got to a point where everything kind of hit me at the same time the divorce, my whole world falling apart, both of the kids were with linda. And thats how i ended up playing with a gun. So, howd you get out of that . I made friends with laila ali and during the day i had several phone calls and i picked it up and said, hey, im just checking on you, i wanna make sure everythings cool. You know, we havent talked, because we were doing american gladiators together. Harvey right. i said, everythings fine, everythings good. Im crying, you know, sitting in the bathroom. Did she have a sense . She knew something was wrong with me. So she literally calls you when youre holding this gun. Yes. Wow. And just her saying hello to me and saying, hey, were just checking. I wanna make sure everythings okay, that pretty much woke me up. In that moment, i said, you know what . There are a lot of good people out there. So, laila ali in some ways saved your life. I really believe that, that if she hadnt called just to say hello, you know. It might have changed. Have you told her that . I cant remember if weve talked or not. So lets talk about jennifer. Tell me how she changed your life. Hulk oh, my gosh. She just, um we just kind of hit it off, and to be around somebody that was enlightened and real spiritual, which i didnt even understand. Every single day now is a good day for me. I dont have good and bad days. Ive got good days and ive got better days. What went through your mind when you first heard there was a sex tape out . I mean, you used the nword in this sex tape. That was the nuclear bomb, right . Yeah, it was. If this tape wasnt leaked, and suppose there was no gawker trial, you think youd be using that word today, when you got angry . You think youd be using that word today, and i like to question your im yoevery move. N law. Like this left turn. Its the next one. You always drive this slow . How did you make someone i love . That must be why youre always so late. I do not speed. And thats saving me cash with drivewise. My son, he did say that you were the safe option. 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These are just, like, affirmations, you know . I am only victory. Perfect health. In the middle of the trial . God fights and wins all battles. Still and stay centered. If you read all the stuff, i was praying the whole time. This is all god, god, god, god, god. Yeah, i mean. When i would go in there, i would walk in i would walk in with light, with this high vibration. Id write you know, id pray for these very talented lawyers of gawker to see the error of their ways and become great lawyers and help people. Why did you sue in the first place . I sued basically because i never wanted anything like this to happen to anybody else. When they first put the tape up we were very kind and asked them to take it down. When they said no, i said, okay, thats it. The allegations in that lawsuit state that approximately six years ago, the clems secretly videotaped mr. Hogan having private, consensual, intimate relations in a private bedroom. In the beginning of the trial, my attorney David Houston got an email from a lady whose husband had just committed suicide. A person he was having an affair with sent him a tape and he took his own life. I said, i know that feeling. I understand that train of thought, and i never wanted anybody to go through anything like i went through, and at the end of the day, you know, the First Amendment needed to be protected, our privacy rights. It put a very. Bad part of your life on public display. And that mustve been an issue for you before you decided to sue. Hulk it was, but this, um. Was much bigger than me or much bigger than my career. This was something that, you know, ive said it before and im not joking around. You know, as a wrestler, that was a great part of my life, but now that i understand why im here, wrestling was just setup. It was just a setup, a stepping stone for who i am and what im meant to do and be. No matter what happened to my career, this was so much bigger. What went through your mind when you first heard there was a sex tape out . I mean, you used the nword in this sex tape. In referring to brookes boyfriend at the time. What goes through your head to say, i will still fight even if that comes out, because that was the nuclear bomb, right . Yeah, it was. When i knew that was coming out, all the lawyers said, if you want to stop, you can stop. You dont have to go forward. Theres a huge amount of money being offered. This will never see the light of day. I went, i cant do that. Why . cause im not that guy. I have to be able to look at myself in the mirror every day. I have to be accountable. I have to be able to live with myself. And whats so cool about it is it did really wake me up. It really slapped me and woke me up, and it made me realize how powerful words are. For the people that know me and love me, they know who i am, you know, they know im not a racist, but i understand that people that didnt know me judge me, just from those words. Thats all they had. If this tape wasnt leaked, and suppose there was no gawker trial, do you think youd be using that word today when you got angry . No. Why . No, ive tried to clean up my whole life, you know . Ive made a whole switch, almost a shift, from being negative, or fighting, scratching, and clawing, cause i work hard and i move forward. Im in check with myself, so all this stuff comes back around. You have to be what you say you are. How do you think the black Community Views you right now . Whats so crazy is the black community has never backed away from me. As far as, you know, the black community and using the word, thats not part of who i am now. Thats not part of my language because i understand how powerful words are. You know, growing up in south tampa, where we came from, it was a situation where, when you played baseball and basketball and ran around in south tampa it was just Common Knowledge 45, 50 years ago, but its not that way anymore. Harvey you heard you were gonna get 140 million. Hulk yes, but harvey what went through your head . Hulk i just broke down. They said 143 million, i was like, what . It just blew me away. I just didnt expect it. It just was overwhelming. Harvey you eventually settled for 31 million. Are you set for life . I was set for life before i had that money. Im happy, brother. Things are good. One of the things that did happen was that the wwe broke ties with you. Yes. Did you expect that was gonna happen . clears throat no, i didnt. I when i heard this was going to happen, i called them on a thursday or friday, and i said, theres a chance that this verbiage may come out. As i hung up the phone that night, they fired me at 5 00 in the morning. And it really caught me off guard. I didnt expect it. Because the wwe knows who i am. Im not that person. Thats not who i am and not what i do. So why do you think they did it . I think they did what was best for business. They were worried about losing sponsors and network support. I expected something different. Is that the most painful thing in terms of the fallout . It was tough. It was tough, you know. It hit me hard. You know, theres ive been through a lot of highs and lows, when you look at a 40year career. Just. Gone. Now that time has passed, do you think theyll ever ask you to come back . Im not sure, you know. Would you come back if they asked . I dont know. I want to get into a tough subject, the car accident. Nick was in a car, and he had a passenger in the car, who was john graziano, former marine. Who, um, to this day is in a vegetative state after the car crashed. Do you at all partly blame yourself . You ever wish you werent a motaur . Sure. Sometimes i wish i had legs like you. Yeah, like a regular person. No. Still half bike half man, just the opposite. Oh, so the legs on the bottom and motorcycle on the top . Yeah. Yeah, i could see that. For those who were born to ride, theres progressive. I have my good luck rock right here. So tell me about the rock. Well, this is a rock that i got in high school. You kept it . Yeah, i kept it, ever since 12th grade. Me and a buddy of mine had a big cooler of beer and were standing up drinking beers, and we picked this thing up and went, oh, this looks like the cromagnon man. You know, we had a little beer buzz on. It looks like a skull, and we went, thats a good luck rock. And i gave it to my buddy to keep, and we argued about it, and i said, no, you keep it. So he had it for a while, and got married and had kids, and went through a bunch of drama and things turned out okay, and he gave it back to me. He goes, you take the rock now. And i kept it for several years, and then when i went through the divorce, the kids were kind of torn, and i told my son nick, i said, nick, ive got the same power as your mom, 50 50. So if you want to stay here with me in florida, you can stay here, or if you want to go with your mom you can go with her. He goes, you know, dad, i really want to take care of mom. I said, well, heres my good luck rock. Take it with you and, you know, just take care of business. So nick took off to california and a few years later when everybody got settled in and everythings okay, he gave me the rock back. So this is my good luck rock. Lets talk about your kids, actually. What about the reality show . Were they positively affected, negatively affected, not affected . Hulk you know, i think it took them out of the rhythm of that normal friendship with their friends, the camaraderie and going to school and being on a schedule. Home schooling and you gotta film every day and you gotta have a mic on you at 8 00 in the morning and it doesnt come off till midnight sometimes. I think it was too fast, too much. Its probably a little bit our fault because theyve been getting away with murder and weve just been letting it go. A lot of this is our fault. I want to get into a tough subject, the car accident. Police investigating a horrific car accident in clearwater, florida involving pro wrestler hulk hogans son. 17yearold nick hogan released from the hospital today after the car he was driving hit a raised median, flipped around, smashed into a palm tree. Police say hogan was driving at a high rate of speed before the crash and both he and a passenger had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital. The passenger in the car was john graziano, former marine, who, to this day, is in a vegetative state after the car crashed. Do you, at all, partly blame yourself . There was a time when i did, you know . Ive learned to forgive myself, nick, everybody, part of the race team, everybody that lived in my house, everybody that was there and wasnt there. Everybody that pointed the finger and blamed, you know. It was a very tough situation, all the specifics, the no seat belt, the rain, all of it added up to just a very bad, tragic situation. You know, i just had to forgive everybody, even myself. John grazianos dad did not. August 26, 2007. Everything changed because of the senseless, reckless acts of nick bollea. What alqaeda could not do to my son, nick bollea did in a matter of minutes. I can only imagine the things john could have accomplished with the rest of his life. Thank you. Harvey it doesnt sound like he forgave. Hulk well, like i said, ive forgiven everybody, you know, even mr. Graziano. One of the reasons john was living with me was because there were several attempts, physically, to hurt him on his life when he was at home. So. I understand, you know, the venom and the negativity and i just had to you know, release it, and just forgive everyone. Harvey nick was in jail for this. Hulk no one has ever been put in an adult prison, or even gone to jail for the situation nick was in. Reckless driving with serious bodily harm, everybody in florida gets probation except for nick. You think it was because of your celebrity . Hulk i dont know what i have my opinions, but i dont know the answer. Harvey would i be wrong if i said that that spotlight got put on him cause of you . Yes, you would be spoton right. Not wrong, youd be right. I do want to talk about the jailhouse tapes. You guys had talked about doing another reality show, making some money off of that. The point of it was, if you were in my shoes, and your 16yearold son went to jail and they put him in an adult prison. They put you in the shu, which is a very small, small cell, when youre by yourself, isolated, and when you get a panicked phone call from your son, oh, my gosh, dad, i cant see out, i cant i dont know where im at, duh duh duh duh duh, and you get calls from duane the dog chapman. That youve gotta get him out of there. After four or five days hell start chewing on his own tongue. Sometimes, you know, theyll eat worse things, you know, their own feces if they dont get out of there. And what i did on the phone was read to him, you know, the secret, the power of now, Eckhart Tolle stuff, or the bible to him. I did everything i could including talking about a reality show and well get back in front of the camera and well turn this into a positive. I did everything i could to keep my son from mentally defecting and losing him mentally. Hows he doing now . Hes doing great. Hes on track. He got a degree in mixing and mastering, so he does a lot of deejaying stuff, and hes selling different car parts and you know, he sells used cars and stuff. Harvey what about brooke . She went to nashville, she wrote songs. She works it, doesnt she . Hulk yeah, brookes been beating it up. Im telling you, shes been on the path for quite a long time. Four years in nashville as a songwriter. Now shes back in la still doing music and doing the entertainment stuff. She hosted a new show called fashion hero that got picked up overseas in a lot of different countries. Shes out beating those streets, trying to find the bridge. Whats your wish for your kids . Hulk greatness, happiness, consciousness. More than anything, just being aware that life is good, that people are good. Just always be happy and positive, you know. You said something a couple of years ago and made me wonder maybe the next thing could be politics. You said, im ready to be trumps running mate. 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You know, maniacs, in seven days and seven nights god created the heavens and the earth. And on the eighth day he created a set of 24 pythons. And then, on the ninth day, i created hogans beach shop, brother. cheers, applause this is the ribbon from the grand opening. When we opened hogans beach shop orlando, we had a crazy crowd out front, with tons of hulkamaniacs, red and yellow, you could see it for miles. And this was the ribbon that we cut for the grand opening. Did you ever wonder, especially around the time you stepped away from wrestling, is that gonna continue, cause there are a lot of people that get forgotten when they retire. I was wondering. You know, i was wondering, but, you know, ive been around so long, and the public knows me so well, i kind of, like, etched my way in, you know. Some people sometimes call me the babe ruth of wrestling. So its really cool to have people say those things about you, you know. You miss wrestling . Tremendously. How so . What do you miss about it . Oh, my gosh. Um. Anybody thats ever had a good workout you know, once you get done working out, youve had that good sweat. Oh, my gosh, it makes my day. Sometimes when you wake up in the morning you dont feel good. Oh, i dont feel like working out. But after you train, you go, yeah, all right, im ready. Its that times ten. Do you enjoy it more now when people come up and they cause i saw this outside your shop, where you walked in and everybody kind of swarmed. Whatcha gonna do when hogans beach shop runs wild on you . all yelling harvey is that kind of that thrill, they havent forgotten me, and it may not be 20, 000 people. But sometimes 15 can do the trick. Hulk yeah, it really is just like its an affirmation. It makes me feel that everything i did actually meant something to all the fans. You said something a couple of years ago and made me wonder maybe the next thing could be politics. You said, im ready to be trumps running mate. First of all, whyd you say it . Well, because i was probably crazy at the time. It wasnt about how good you were for the job, it was almost like how popular you were. And i thought i had a legitimate chance, back in the day, you know, of running. But when you said that about trump. Like i said, i was out of my mind. Would you ever think about running in clearwater or in orlando or somewhere around here . Youre extremely popular, wellknown. Interesting to you . Well, ive thought about it, you know, about clearwater, mayor of clearwater, governor of florida, you know. Ive thought about it, but its just been a thought. Your life, your career, has kind of been defined by huge, incredible highs, and a lot of lows. Why did people stick with you through the highs, the lows, through all these decades . Because everybody has scars on em, you know. A kid, young boy or young girl, high school, college kid, older adult, came from a family that was divorced, scar. Parents were alcoholics, scar. Boyfriend broke up with me, scar. Dui, scar. Someone bullied you, scar. There are so many people out there just like me that have scars. Things you said that you shouldnt. Right, exactly. Scar. They look at me i didnt call myself a hero. I didnt call myself a role model. My fans did. And i think im tangible, they relate to me because ive got so many scars on me, you know, and im still standing. Like stallone said, its not about how hard you get hit. Its about getting hit, getting back up and moving forward. Whats the one thing you want to do before you kind of go into the sunset . The one thing i want to do before i go into the sunset. Wow. laughs im tapping out. Cut. Thats a good one. I made hulk hogan tap out. You got me. Thats the end. Thank you. You got me. I love that. Thank you so much. Life is so good, brother. I couldnt even answer that question, life is so good. A homemade hatchet man. Oh, my god, this is not for real it is. What are these meant to do . Those could dismember people. An attic of axes. I was in shock because it was floor to ceiling axes, knives. Cannons, guns. Ready for an offthewall inheritance . I heard that they thought he was the unabomber. One day my mother has a knock on the door, and it turns out to be two fbi agents. Leave it to cleaver. How many really great knife makers can do what he did . Probably about forty or fifty. Thats it . In the world. In the world . In the world. Last call, for 2,750. [ door creaks ]