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is watching. have yourself a fantastic week. to keep in their home define who they are. this is... >> the objects people choose to keep in their home to find who they are. this is objectify hulk hogan. this is a story about the babe ruth of professional wrestling.e hulk hogan put an entire industry on the map, but not without paying a heavy price. >> the needs are fake, the hips are fake, the back is full metal. >> he became one of the most recognizable and beloved figures in the world. figures in the world. behind the scenes, his life was crumbling. >> you literally had a gun tou your mouth.
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>> and elicit sex tape would bring this american hero toth his knees. >> if this tape wasn't leaked, do you think you be using that word today? the scandal that could have broken him redefined him. >> i had made a whole switch from being negative. i work hard and i'm happy with my life. >> a life of the highest highs and lowest lows. >> oh my gosh. it is so good to see you. >> usually icu in golds gym. >> that's true. we are going far far away. thank you for coming. 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. i'm looking at that. what is it. >> my dad worked construction his whole life. he dug ditches and put the
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storm drains in the road. when i was five or six years old, my memory is having this little gas truck. it was pink. >> why save that could what does it represent. >> it symbolizes how i grew up. i lived in a very small house, 600 -- 650 square feet. i kept this truck to make me realize i always wanted to work hard, but i was wanted to make sure that i raised the bar. i never wanted to be in a w situation like this. situation like this. i remember them living check to check. there was always talk of income and bills to pay. i made the decision i never wanted to be in a situation like that. >> what are your thoughts right now? your son, the new world champion. >> i'm so excited. i don't know what to say. >> you are not a tough guy by nature. >> no. >> it's odd that you're this icon of wrestling and you icon of wrestling and you weren't really a tough guy growing up. >> i w fat in my head was so
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big and i get teased and kids would want to fight. i was really mellow and would avoid confrontation. even through high school. i never gotten any trouble for fighting. i went all through high school anything my senior year ien finally had a girlfriend. i think because i was so heavy , it was just off. >> when did you lose weight. >> when i was getting out of high school, i started eating burger king once a day and drinking diet coke and lifting weights. >> my mom played piano and she was our music teacher neighborhood. she would play all the time. i got real interested in- music. and i was young, 11 or 12, my dad bought me this expensive guitar. that's guitar. >> and you played this. >> i did, for many years that i was in several bands. >> this is really cool.si
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>> was your passion music or sports? >> my passion was doing >> my passion was doing anything to a real job. i was out on the weekends playing music and making money. >> your brother, he had a very rough going in life. >> he had a tough time, was getting in trouble, he got married to an older lady, had a beautiful family and passed away quite young. he just went down the wrong roa road. >> and got into drugs. >> yes. >> and trouble. >> yes. >> i can see it is very emotional for you and he died many years ago. >> some people are in your life just to teach you life lessons. when i lookem at my brother i look at nothing but positive
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stuff. i wish he was here. i keep a picture of him up at my house and i wish he was here. now i understand, he was in my life to teach me a life lesson. >> what's the lesson. >> of how to correct myself and reboot, which i have done over and over and over againir until i'm finally happy with myself. >> how did he die. >> i'd rather not talk about that. >> fair enough. >> all in all, your childhood, happy, challenging. >> i look back on it now and it was pretty darn rough. it could've been better but i didn't realize at the time that there was anything wrong, so i had a great childhood. >> this is awesome. >> thank you. this is like the transition. i'll always be part of wrestling so there's a lot of wrestling stuffwe in here, and
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stuff from my career and memorabilia, plus, since i'm on the beach and, i'm a beach bum around here, were making a transition so it's a beach shop for everybody who comes through orlando. >> what are these. >> what are these. >> these are wore in wrestlemania three. >> this was, to me, the biggest moment that i can remember in your career. you picked up a 700-pound guy. >> yes, sir. this moment etched wrestling in history that we were not going anywhere. we didn't know if we pulled off. i do not know how you can lift a 700-pound guy in the air. >> with a lot of help from him. it was a situation, if you watch the tape when i went to go underneath andre, his arm went around my neck.he >> he helped you. >> yes, he pushed up on my thigh. >> let's see what these guys are really made of.
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[applause] [applause] >> it was okay when i got into here. then when i got in here, i had to turn him. that's how i tore i my biceps,ck both biceps were torn. >> so that moment is when you tore your biceps. >> yes. >> what about your back. >> i've got a big hole in my back from turningim him, but that. >> was that worth it? >> yes emma but it was a one-time deal for me. that moment changed my whole career. hauke hogan was off and running. that put me on a rocketship. >> when you were growing up, you didn't like contact sports. you shied away from them. >> not atst all.
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i didn't like any type of confrontation. >> how did you get into wrestling. >> i was ae fan. w i just loved it. i grew up watching it. >> but you never joined the wrestling team in high school. >> no. i had a really good band. right when we were getting ready to hit the road, one guy was getting married at one guyyo had a baby and nobody wanted to go. i said that's it, i'm going to be a wrestler. i went around campus telling everybody i was going to be a wrestler. the first day they took me- down there, they broke my leg on purpose. >> if wrestling were not fake would you have done it. >> at the time i didn't know it was predetermined back then. >> i guess when they break your leg that kind of confirmed that, but yet you don't like contact sports i don't understand that. >> i don't either. i just loved wrestling. i was in her twined in the society of americana. >> so why flip and become a bad guy.
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>> well, a lot of reasons. you have to reinvent yourself in the wrestling business. i wanted to be a bad guy because i thought i could make these good guys, i would get booed so much that i could give them, that's when i reinvented myself and i did all the training and the vitamins, i did it for the money. >> you fans can stick it brother, because if it wasn't for hulk hogan, you people wouldn't be here. >> i thought i'd be the ultimate bad guy, which i was. i'd be guys up and then beg for forgiveness and want to shake hands and give a cheap shot. the people cheered me and it backfired on me. i became hollywood hogan. people were cheering me. it was amazing. the lines had gotten blurred at the time. there was a big gray area of entertainment. the fans thought it was cool to cheer for the bad guy so i
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became bigger than ever again. >> kind of a statement about america, but all of a sudden the bad guy gets cheered. >> yes, sir. it's kind of scary. i've had 17 surgeries in the past ten years. >> what's not a original. >> the knees are fake, the hip is fake, my back is full of metal and part of my face has metal. ♪ thanks mom. here we are. look, right up to here.
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okay, i think i know what they are, but tell me. voila. these are my very, very, very, very, very last set of crutches. - your last set? - yeah. when i first sent my first picture to jennifer of me in the gym these are my very last set of crutches when first sent my urepict to jennifer, i was posing, showing my triceps, and behind me, there must've and 80 crutches because i saved all the crutches. t evenne since i've been with jennifer, i've had 17ac surgeries in the past ten years. my knees, i've had three or four surgeries on my knees. each knee before had him replace. >> what's not original.
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>> the knees are fake, the hips are fake, the back is full of metal, and part of my face is full metal. >> tell me about the injury. >> i didn't get the memo about the fake wrestling premise that part. it's predetermined, we know who will win or lose but it's very physical. back in the day, in the 70s when i first started, i haveru still have teeth marks on my finger. people were trying to bite my fingers. i had my eye reconstructed a couple times from getting hit in the face, my nose was broken 13 times, all these fake teeth have been knocked out six times, it's been a wild ride.i >> i remember reading things that you were six 6-foot seven or 6-foot 7" eight. you don't seem that tall. i don't know if there's a connection here.
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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? it's very common. when i was wrestling full time, all of us did. that was the norm to survive. it's 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. i've trained 20 years, 2 hours a day to look like i do. but things that i am not is i'm not a steroid abuser, and i do not use steroids.
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and actually when i said no, i wasn't on steroids at the time, so i was playing with words. knowing what you've 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 fly-plants hogan! oh, yeah. i'd 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 hime 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 didn't have an agent,
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never had done anything before. he goes, "i'll 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 didn't 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. it's the ultimate male, thunderlips. look at those lips. it helped you get laid. i'm talking about it helped me attract the opposite sex. good match. hey, why'd you get so crazy on me out there? that's the name of the game. you ended up on the cover of "sports illustrated." i can't get over that, because wrestlers weren't on that magazine. and to be on the cover, that must have been a moment for you. ah, it's never happened since. i've been the only wrestler ever to be on the cover.
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and at the time we had not deregulated wrestling, which means we didn't tell the people it was an actual exhibition and we know who's 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" didn't really have a choice. what was so crazy is when i went back and i wrestledthe 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 iran's bodyguard, he was the real deal. and i was doing all-american 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!
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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 wasn't the greatest technical wrestler, but i'd 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, you'd get through faster but then when you got to the gate, there'd be so much chaos because i'd stand next to-- "oh, is the plane on time?" and we'd get swarmed by so many people, the gate agent would go, "get him on the plane as soon as you can." harvey: that's funny. biggest drawback. biggest drawback, having to maintain and just really be cool and calm when it got extra, extra, extra, extra personal.
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they get me, like, caged in and i can't go nowhere. why can't they just calm down a little bit? because you're hulk hogan. i'm hulk hogie. when you're sitting therewith ys and you're eating dinner and, "oh, hk hogan, i want an autograph! i'm 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? - i'm trying. you just had to go, "i love you, brother. i'll take that picture and sign an autograph with you after i finish eating." 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 kinda hit me at the same time. so how'd you get out of that? i made friends with laila ali. laila ali in some ways saved your life. i really believe that, that if she hadn't called just to say hello... it might have changed.
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harvey: so, what's this? this is a card from my soulmate, jennifer. - harvey:your wife. - hulk:my wife. yes, my wife. and this is a letter she wrote me. - harvey:when was it written? - hulk:oh, my gosh. well, this letter was written 12-14-15. i've known jennifer almost ten years now. so, um, this on our fifth anniversary and here's has a really cool passage in here. "you are my best friend. i am very proud of you for how you've handled the different challenges that have come up. now i feel it's 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. i'm 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
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to high school with me here in florida. i just saw linda, was attracted to her. you know, she was a beautiful-looking lady and she was just alive with energy, you know. harvey: was she attracted to terry or hulk? i don't 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 don't think you can put those two together like that. - what's up? - i can't live like this, terry! every day, it's drama. it's just ridiculous. in case you can't tell, i've had it, okay? i'm spent. - i got it, i got it. - i don't want to make it work anymore. - i'm like over it! - well, i'm done with it. i knew that one of the problems in our marriage was linda, she said, "well, i've helped you all these years
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and you know, i didn't have a career." and i looked at the reality show as a calculated risk because my marriage was already starting to implode and things weren't 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, isn't that great? get a good show..." and it would just make things just channel in a different direction. that didn't happen. no, it didn't. it didn't. 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 that's how i ended up playing with a gun. so, how'd you get out of that?
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i made friends with laila ali and during the day i had several phone calls and i picked it up and said, "hey, i'm just checking on you, i wanna make sure everything's cool. you know, we haven't talked," because we were doing "american gladiators" together. - harvey:right. - i said, "everything's fine, everything's good." i'm 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 you're holding this gun. - yes. - wow. and just her saying hello to me and saying, "hey, we're just checking. i wanna make sure everything's 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 hadn't called just to say hello, you know... it might have changed. have you told her that? i can't remember if we've talked or not. so let's talk about jennifer. tell me how she changed your life. hulk: oh, my gosh. she just, um--
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we just kind of hit it off, and to be around somebody that was enlightened and real spiritual, which i didn't even understand. every single day now is a good day for me. i don't have good and bad days. i've got good days and i've got better days. what went through your mind when you first heard there was a sex tape out? i mean, you used the n-word in this sex tape. that was the nuclear bomb, right? yeah, it was. if this tape wasn't leaked, and suppose there was no gawker trial, you think you'd besing that word today, en you got angry you think you'd besing that word today, itthe power of nexium 24hr protection from frequent heartburn. all day, and all night. now packed into a pill so small, we call it mini. new clearminis from nexium 24hr. see heartburn differently.
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during the gawker trial, and what i did all day long was write. i just wrote all day long. were you following the trial with this? no, i wasn't following the trial. 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. i'd write-- you know, i'd 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, that's it." the allegations in that lawsuit state that approximately six years ago, the clems secretly videotaped mr. hogan having private, consensual, intimate relations
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in a private bedroom. in the beginning of the trial, my attorney david houston goan ema 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 must've 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, i've said it before and i'm not joking around. you know, as a wrestler, that was a great part of my life, but now that i understand why i'm here, wrestling was just set-up. it was just a set-up, a stepping stone for who i am
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and what i'm 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 n-word in this sex tape. in referring to brooke's 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 don't have to go forward. there's a huge amount of money being offered. this will never see the light of day." i went, "i can't do that." - why? - 'cause i'm 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 what's 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,
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they know who i am, you know, they know i'm not a racist, but i understand that people that didn't know me judge me, just from those words. that's all they had. if this tape wasn't leaked, and suppose there was no gawker trial, do you think you'd be using that word today when you got angry? - no. - why? no, i've tried to clean up my whole life, you know? i've made a whole switch, almost a shift, from being negative, or fighting, scratching, and clawing, 'cause i work hard and i move forward. i'm 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? what's so crazy is the black community has never backed away from me. as far as, you know, the black community and using the word, that's not part of who i am now. that's 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
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and ran around in south tampa it was just common knowledge 45, 50 years ago, but it's 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. ey said $143 million, i was like, "what?" it just blew me away. i just didn't 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. i'm 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 didn't. i-- when i heard this was going to happen, i called them on a thursday or friday, and i said, "there's 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.
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i didn't expect it. because the wwe knows who i am. i'm not that person. that's 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, there's-- i've been through a lot of highs and lows, when you look at a 40-year career. just... gone. now that time has passed, do you think they'll ever ask you to come back? i'm not sure, you know. would you come back if they asked? i don't 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.
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who, um, to this day is in a vegetative state after the car crashed. do you at all partly blame yourself? how much money do you think you'll need in retirement? i have no idea. more than i want to think about. choose wisely everyone. no cheating, no cheating. then we found out how many years that money would last them. nooooo! oh no. how did this happen? how long do you think we'll keep -- oooooohhh! you stopped! oh! you're gonna leave me back here at year 9? oh no-o-o. it turned out a lot of people fell short of even the average length of retirement. we have to think about not when we expect to live to,
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but when we could live to. we have to do something now to make sure we're set for then. let's plan for ince th lasts allears our y in r. prudential. bring your challenges. you imagine who i am. what i look like. where i live. but look past the things that won't make a difference to find someone who will. search for greatness. search indeed.
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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 we're standing up drinking beers, and we picked this thing up and went, "oh, this looks like the cro-magnon man." you know, we had a little beer buzz on. it looks like a skull, and we went, "that's 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, i've 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, here's 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 everything's okay,
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he gave me the rock back. so this is my gooluck rock. let's 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 doesn't come off till midnight sometimes. i think it was too fast, too much. it's probably a little bit our fault because they've been getting away with murder and we've 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 hogan's son. 17-year-old 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 air-lifted to a nearby hospital.
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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? i've learned to forgive myself, nick, everybody, part of the race team, everybody that lived in my house, everybody that was there and wasn't 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 graziano's dad did not. august 26, 2007. everything changed because of the senle reckle acts of nick bollea. what al-qaeda could not do to my son, nick bollea did in a matter of minutes. i can only imagine the things john could have accomplished
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with the rest of his life. thank you. harvey: it doesn't sound like he forgave. hulk: well, like i said, i've 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 don't know what-- i have my opinions, but i don't 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 spot-on right. not wrong, you'd be right. i do want to talk about the jailhouse tapes. you guys had talked about doing another reality show,
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making some money off of that. the point of it was, if you were in my shoes, and your 16-year-old son went to jail and they put him in an adult prison. they put you in the sh whicis a very small, small cell, when you're by yourself, isolated, and when you get a panicked phone call from your son, "oh, my gosh, dad, i can't see out, i can't-- i don't know where i'm at, duh duh duh duh duh, and you get calls from duane "the dog" chapman. that "you've gotta get him out of there. after four or five days he'll start chewing on his own tongue." sometimes, you know, they'll eat worse things, you know, their own feces if they don't 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 we'll get back in front of the camera and we'll turn this into a positive.
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i did everything i could to keep my son from mentally defecting and losing him mentally. how's he doing now? he's doing great. he's on track. he got a degree in mixing and mastering, so he does a lot of deejaying stuff, and he's 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, doesn't she? hulk: yeah, brooke's been beating it up. i'm telling you, she's been on the path for quite a long time. four years in nashville as a songwriter. now she's 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. she's out beating those streets, trying to find the bridge. what's 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.
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hogans. [inaudible] >> this is these rhythm from the grand opening when we opened hogans beach shop in orlando and wittig crazy crowd out front with tons of hulk maniacs and could see it for miles. this was the ribbon that we cut the grand opening. harvey: did you ever wonder when he stepped away from wrestling that will continue because there's a lot of people who have forgotten when he retired. hu: i was wondering but i've been around so long and the public knows me so well and i said that's my way in and some people call me the babe ruth of wrestling. it's cool to say those things about me. harvey: do you miss wrestling? hulk: tremendously. harvey: what do you miss about it? a good workout and once you get done
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working out and had a good sweat and it makes my day. sometimes when you wake up in the morning and you don't feel good and i don't feel like working out but a few train, all right, i'm ready. it is that times ten. harvey: do you enjoy it more now when people come up and i saw this outside your shop where you walked in and everyone not on is that kind of thrill and it may not be 20000 people but sometimes the team can do the trick. hulk: it is really just an hulk: it is really just an affirmation that makes me feel that everything i did meant something to all of the fans. harvey: you said something a couple of years ago that may meet wonder that the next thing could be politics. you said i'm ready to beat trump's running mate. [inaudible]
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harvey: why did you say it. hulk: probably because i was craz it wasow popular you were and i thought i i had a legitime chance back in the day of running. harvey: but when you said that about trump. hulk: like i said, i was on my mind. >> maybe you're looking at the future mayor. [laughter] harvey: would you ever think about running inre clearwater or in orlando or somewhere around here? is that interesting to you. hulk: i have thought about it about clearwater mayor in clearwater and governor of florida but it's just a thought. harvey: your life and your career have been defined by huge incredibleth highs and a lot of
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lows. why did people stick with you through the highs in the lows and through these decades? hulk: because everyone has scars on them. young boyco young girls high school college, older adult, if parents were alcoholics, scar. boyfriend broke up with me, scar. dui, scar. there are so many people out there just likeat me that has scars. harvey: things you said that you shouldn't. hulk: exactly. scar. i didn't call myself a hero and i didn't call myself a role model but my fans did and i think they relate to me because i have so many scars on me and i'm still standing. it is not about how hard you get hit but it's about getting hit and getting back on and before like stallone said. harvey: what is the one thing you want to do before going into the sunset? hulk: the one thing i want to do before i go into the sunset --
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i'm tampa now. that's a good one. harvey: i made holcombe and tap out. i love that. hulk: you got me. life is good and i couldn't even answer the question life is so good. >> live from los angeles the next revolution will be televised. fighting republicans over healthcare. fighting for a tax plan and even fighting steve bannon in the alabama senate race. we will break down present drums. we cut. plus, all the tech giants getting dangerously big and powerful. we meet the man who wants to cut them down to size. the google boss who crushed a critic. we expose how big tech big money can sink tanks into corporate student. steve: welcome to the next lu
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