Podcast One presents the Steve Austin Show Classics. Man, I'm from here in Tampa, Florida. I talk to the one and only Hulk Hogan. I'll call him Terry throughout the interview. Terry, thanks for having me over in your crib, man. It's good to finally talk to you because I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time, but it's hard to get to Tampa from Los Angeles. How are you? Well, I'm doing great, brother. It's good to see you here

on the beach and coming on down to the calm side of the world here. My son and my son lived in

Los Angeles for the last 10 years and I spent 23 years being out there so I know how crazy it gets.

So it's good to see you here in the calm beach area today.

Man, I started rolling, I started flying in yesterday. We got close to land, and I was like looking at the coastline. You know, back in the day, you know, obviously there was a territory here in Florida. We're going to get to that. But, you know, a lot of guys are based out here because of that. And it's a good place to live. and part of WWF, part of WCW, we should run here all time,

but it's been a long to live and part of WWF part of WCW we should run here

all time but it's been a long time since I've been here and then uh to let people know what's been

going on I've been over here hanging with Terry for about two hours now we've been talking about

everything under the sun that's you know stuff that you don't really record so I don't know where to

stop or where to start but let's just jump in it somewhere. Sure. And let's jump at it from this standpoint. And I got all coffeeed up, and now I'm drinking a truly passion fruit, 5% alcohol. This kind of settling me down a little bit. I kind of needed this. And as I walked in, I was getting out of your car. and I kind of gimped around and I'm trying to pick up my recording bag. And I was stumbling a little bit and you looked at me and said, are you all right? I said, yeah, I'm all right. It just takes me a while to get going sometimes. How are you feeling after everything that you've been through? Because I have been watching probably six hours of your matches, read everything about you,

and watched all the beatings that you took, all the legs that you dropped.

Got to hang around with you filming a K-Fa project, which we can't talk about yet,

but it's soon to be released.

And I got a chance to hang out with you about a month ago.

So after everything that you've been through, just from a physicality standpoint,

where are you? Well, I got to kind of, I got to kind of set it up first with the woes me story,

you know, because, you know, everybody talks about the fake wrestling, you know, and all that

crazy word that they always say, but you do get hurt. We all know that. So the woe was me story

goes, I started having my knees scoped many years ago.

Right knee four times with a scope, left knee four times with a scope,

and then I finally had them both replaced.

Then I had both hips replaced.

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