Possibly the only surviving interviews from the glory days of professional wrestling in Hawaii.

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Not making that up. That's what he was doing. He was talking about a quote about the content of their sex tape.

Michael Sullivan emulates Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee during Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial

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Apologies for the sound quality and me sounding like a Muppet, I had to use a cheap portable audio recorder and I probably overly processed it, too. I knew a lot less about audio back then.

My T.J. Perkins interview from 2009 (backstage at Lucha Va Voom's NYC debut)

Weird trivia: "Hulk Hogan's Theme" from the World Wrestling Federation's "The Wrestling Album" and Bonnie Tyler's "Ravishing" from "Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire" are not just the same song, but very obviously built on the same recording sessions and arrangement. Both were written and produced by Jim Steinman, best known as Meat Loaf's collaborator, who helped create a similar anthemic sound for Tyler. The first 1m18s or so even sync up before diverging on different paths. So I decided to do a comparison going back and forth, and the notes for what is where are below (the parenthetical notes are for the origin of snippets after the point where they stop syncing up):

0:00-0:10 Ravishing
0:10-0:45 Hogan
0:45-0:51 Ravishing
0:51-0:56 Hogan
0:56-1:00 Ravishing
1:00-1:03 Hogan
1:03-1:06 Ravishing
1:06-1:10 Hogan
1:10-1:12 Ravishing
1:12-1:14 Hogan
1:14-1:16 Ravishing
1:16-1:18 Hogan
At this point, because the chorus was tweaked for Ravishing, they stop matching up exactly.
1:18-1:23 Ravishing (Ravishing 1:20-1:25)
1:22.991-1:28.341 Hogan (Hogan 1:21.600-1:26.950)
1:28.352-2:26.641 Ravishing (Ravishing 1:31.400-2:29.700)
This is the one rough-ish cut, but was the closest matching point I could find for this section.
2:26.646-2:47.130 Hogan (Hogan 1:45.311-2:05.800)
2:47.130-3:12.180 (Ravishing 2:07.950-2:33:000)
3:12.180-3:37.810 (Hogan 2:28.700-2:54:330)
3:37.810-4:40.510 (Ravishing 3:41.300-4:44:000)
4:40.510-5:10.000 (Hogan 3:40.525-4:30.000)

David Bixenspan

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