#2024 - Hulk Hogan

Joe Rogan (0:12)

Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, the great and powerful Tony Hinchcliffe, the biggest pro wrestling fan in the world. Totally appropriate that he's here today because we have the king.

Hulk Hogan (0:21)

Whoa.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

We share a birthday, we share four letters of our last name. The fucking man, Hulk Hogan.

Hulk Hogan (0:26)

Do I need these things, brother?

Joe Rogan (0:28)

You don't have to. I like them, I like them, they lock everybody in.

They look great when you do rag.

Hulk Hogan (0:34)

Can't even hear you, man.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

You can't?

Hulk Hogan (0:37)

Is it not on? A little cracker.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Chest test test. Here we go.

Hulk Hogan (0:42)

Strong, brother. Thank you for having me here.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

Please, it's an honor. Great to see you, man.

Hulk Hogan (0:48)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

What's cracking? We were talking about back surgeries before this. I can't believe how many you've gone through.

Hulk Hogan (0:54)

Let me wake you up here. I need to do the Hulk Hogan thing real quick. Okay.

Well, you know something, Joe Rogan, when I walked into this place, that was the perfect style for me, dude. The paintings, the mug shots, all the people that I beat up, I knew this was the place to be, man. So what you gonna do when Rogan and Hogan run wild on you, brother?

Joe Rogan (1:15)

That's a good question. I'm a childhood boner.

Tony Hinchcliffe (1:19)

And an adult boner, too.

Hulk Hogan (1:22)

I'm good now.

Good. The coffee's great, thank you.

Joe Rogan (1:28)

My pleasure. It's great to see you. And thanks for, you have a cannabis company now. Tell us about this.

Hulk Hogan (1:35)

Well, I got hooked up with Mike Tyson, Flair, and all those...

Joe Rogan (1:40)

Ah, same company.

Hulk Hogan (1:41)

Yeah, guys. And our buddy Chad put the whole deal together. And there's kind of like, it's like the Italians, you know. There's an open lane, there's more room at the table for one more to eat.

And it was a situation we started talking about the CBD stuff, the energy, and the sleep stuff, and the whole nicotine thing. And there's a way to wind backwards from all the crazy, crazy bad stuff that a lot of us have participated in over the years.

Joe Rogan (2:06)

Yeah.

Hulk Hogan (2:07)

And so it just made sense to move in that direction.

And my brand's been around for so long, there's a lot of people that we really think we can help out with this stuff. So that's why we're going down that road, because a lot of my boys, from the pharmaceutical side of things, made a lot of missteps. And aren't around today where I think this could have been a situation that might have helped them wind down from that crazy high they were on from the crowds and the lifestyle and everything to be able to settle back and become who they really are.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

Also pain management.

Hulk Hogan (2:42)

Yeah, that's a whole nother trip, brother, because I've had 25 surgeries in the last ten years.

So when people say the wrestling's fake, it goes right up my ass. Because at the end of the day, it's predetermined. If you and I are wrestling, it's gonna tell us who's gonna win or lose. But all that stuff that happens in the middle, it hurts. I mean, and it's a rough way to go.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I think you guys have literally the hardest job in all show business. Because you're out there on the road.

How many days a year nd you're primed?

Hulk Hogan (3:16)

Well, we were talking earlier. When I was doing this full time before the John Cena and the Rock and these guys came around, I was really flying 300 days a year.

Joe Rogan (3:26)

300 days a year?

Hulk Hogan (3:27)

And I was wrestling 400 to 450 times a year.

I would wrestle twice Wednesday, like a Saturday morning, I'd sell out the Philadelphia Spectrum at 1 o'clock and then that night be in Madison Square Garden. Then Sunday and one in the afternoon, I'd be in the Boston Garden, and then Sunday night, I'd be at the LA Forum. So it was a pretty good stretch.

Joe Rogan (3:49)

That's an insane amount of work and an insane amount of punishment on your body.

Especially knowing what you did and the way you would fucking drop down. I mean, how many of those impacts-

Hulk Hogan (4:00)