Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another edition of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. I got a good one for you this week. And I think it shows the range of our podcast. If I may be so bold. Last week, Tony winner, Ben Platt, a man of the stage, a man of song and dance. This week, something completely different.

An icon of professional wrestling, and now a movie star, John Sina, the biggest star in professional wrestling.

I grew up on Hulk Hogan.

John Sina is that guy to an entire generation of kids.

But a great conversation about his children's book.

It's called Elbow

grease versus Motozilla, the latest in his best-selling series. I'm joined, as always, by the

producer of this fine podcast, Maggie Law. Hello, Maggie. Hi, Willie. So, John Sina, and this

has been my experience because I've met him a bunch before because he does a lot with the Today Show,

is so he's this big muscle bound menacing

dude of course he gives out attitude adjustments that's the name of his move okay gives you an attitude

adjustment I can see you're nodding because you know all this already I was to say this is definitely

a different sunday sit down for us not your wheelhouse W.WE particular wheelhouse. No. But I know that it is yours.

Well, it was.

It was.

Like in the 80s, I was a Hulkomaniac. Right. And John and I are about the same age. I'm like a year older. Right. So we both grew up on Hulk Hogan. We had the Hulkomania t-shirt that we wore to school every day, all that kind of stuff.

But Sina is, yes, he's that guy in the ring, but out of the ring, he is effusively polite and kind and generous. I know he's on the Today Show all the time, and I feel like everyone's eyes. He's just the nicest, like most humble guy. Yep, and a professional, he comes to do a job. Right. showed up to our we our, we met in a little coffee house. I will say, just as a bit of color, no people, no publicist, no manager. Just him. No assistant. No security guard. I love it. I love it. Just seeing it rolling in hot to a coffee shop. It's perfect. And that is unusual for these. And he was wearing a three-piece suit. the hair is quaffed perfectly. I mean, it was all, it was all working for.

I was going to say you mentioned is unusual for these and he was wearing a three-piece suit the hair is quaffed perfectly i mean it was

all it was all working for i was going to say you mentioned off the top the the outfit that he

has just two weeks in a row now that they've shown up i know i know uh different clothes than what

you're wearing i think i will say i think it's good to let the guest shine in a TV interview.

Like, I don't, I'm not a believer in like, I'm going to have a stylist to pick out a look for me. Sure. You just want to want to blend in and then they'll be the start of the show. But in this case, since you're listening, I have a button down shirt and a light fall sweater. Yeah, it was a very coffee shop.

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