It's the lapsed fan wrestling podcast.

Special report.

The lapsed fan presents the complete Hulk Hogan, a real American story.

Brought to you by Garage Beer.

Wait to pull this one together, boss, because in the special interview vein, if we're going to be in the middle of the complete Hulk Hogan, we all know where we're heading, right?

We're heading to Hulk gets massive. Hulk makes millions. Hulk has to

shrink again when the state rates. That's right. It's about the deflation of Hulk Hogan.

The deflation. We're talking about inflation. We're talking about deflation in the months to come on

TLF and serendipitously there is a book that has dropped that we think might make a very nice compendium.

This author's really entire Titan series in a lot of ways will track kind of the pivotal moments

in which Hulk Hogan and the WWF came to fruition, but perhaps no more than the latest release,

which is Titan shrinking.

The author is James Dixon. You might know him from

his many collaborations with Kenny McIntosh and the inside the ropes crew over in the UK. He's done

a series of books chronicling and really nice compendiums of everything that's been said by people

who were there through the Titan Rise. You might remember Titan screwed, Titan sinking, Titan

shattered, and now it's

Titan shrinking, how wrestling's muscle lost its power. James Diction joins TLF to talk all about it. James,

great to have you on the show, man. Thank you very much. My absolute pleasure. I'm a big fun of you

guys, so it's great to be with you. Oh, that's a good start. So, uh, very good start. Very good start. Uh, I want to start by going to a point in the book where you talked about your author conducted interviews because if folks don't know, one of the things James does exceptionally well, it's not only like what we do, go through all the shoot interviews, go through all the media articles, go through all the observers and the torches, all the contemporaneous stuff, and really pull it together because it is so hard in professional

wrestling to make sure you account for everybody's voice, not only everyone who was there,

but everyone who claims to be there, and all of the debunking that has to go with, you know,

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