Leno: “My next guest is a champion wrestler, starring in the movie, Three Ninjas High Noon at Mega Mountain, nominated 11 Academy Awards, please welcome our buddy, Hulk Hogan!”
(Hogan plays to the crowd, they love him!)
Leno: “Hey buddy!”
Hogan: “Wow! Wow! Unbelievable!”
Leno: “Good to see you, have a seat buddy!”
Hogan: “Let’s clear one thing up. Newt didn’t want no part of Hollywood because he knows I would have body slammed him just like I did to Andre the Giant and everybody in here would know that I’m the only man really qualified to run this country!”
Leno: “There you go! Yeah that’s right! Good to see you buddy.”
Hogan: “Good to see you.”
Leno: “How have you been? God I haven’t seen you in a while. How are your folks doing? How’s your dad?”
Hogan: “There home in Tampa, Florida watching the show right now, so hi mom, hi dad.”
Leno: “Now how old are…how old are your folks, they’re getting up there.”
Hogan: “Yeah they’re getting up there. My dad’s 83, my mom’s right around the corner, 79.”
Leno: “Oh hey, that’s good. Now do they still come to the matches? They get into the whole thing?”
Hogan: “Yeah, they do. They’re just going through a little transition period here. When Hulk was the good guy for all those years, they were up springing their feet. ‘Oh my god! Are you going to get beat again? Are you going to be hurt?’ So I have to take my dad and calm him down and take him backstage and say ‘Hey dad here’s the wrestlers just take it easy, everything’s going to be okay’. But they’re really into it and they’re loving life, having a great time.”
Leno: “Now what did they expect you to do as a young man, ‘You know our son Hulk…’”
Hogan: “Well, I went to the University of South Florida and I majored in finance management.”
Leno: “Oh good, they must be thrilled that you’ve chosen wrestling as your profession. Well you make a lot more money doing this than you can in some stupid financing.”
Hogan: “That’s true. You know it’s kind of tough. After I went to school for all those years and I really didn’t get a job, my dad would come home from work and I’d be sleeping in bed and he’d come home from work and he’d go ‘What are you doing with your education? Why are you laying in bed all day?’ I’m getting beat up all day by these wrestlers trying to get into the business and he couldn’t understand why somebody who went to school would want to wrestle. But it turned out great, though.”
Leno: “Yeah it turned okay, now you have a son, how old’s your boy?”
Hogan: “Nick.”
Leno: “Now is he athletic? Is he…”
Hogan: “Yeah Nick is seven years old, my daughter Brooke is nine. They’re both really into the ice stuff, because when I grew up, all we had was baseball and football. Now my son, they just won the Florida state championship, the Tampa Bay Lightning Junior Mites. He’s a right wing and he’s in love with the goalie, Stephanie…”
Leno: “Boy, times have sure changed haven’t they?”
Hogan: “That’s right partner!”
Leno: “In my day if you were in love with the goalie, they’d throw you right out of the…”
Hogan: “No, but it’s really cool because my daughter, she’s into the figure skating, so I watch my son, they’re not supposed to check, but I watch him go for the puck and be real aggressive, and I watch my daughter float around out there, like I did in Mr. Nanny…”
Leno: “Coulda been the other way around. Luck of the draw, pal. Luck of the draw! Gotta love’m either way”
Hogan: “I never thought about it.”
Leno: “That’s right pal. Now how about…your daughter’s nine, so what six, seven more years he’ll be dating, she’ll be going out with guys, ‘So long pop’. Are you a strict dad?”
Hogan: “She’s never going to date.”
Leno: “Never dating?”
Hogan: “Never dating. I’m going to be with her every morning, noon, and night. You know she’s…I mean these kids grow up so fast. We’re on vacation and my wife and her were playing on the beach and she’s about the same size as my wife and she’s nine years old! I’m going oh my god! You know the new generation is getting bigger and bigger. ‘That’s Hulk’s daughter out there.’ I don’t think that we’re going to have a problem with dating (punching his fist)!”
Leno: “Now tell us about the movie. What is the movie about?”
Hogan: “Okay, this is about the 3 Ninjas, of course…”
Leno: “The 3 Ninjas, of course from the Shakespeare play.”
Hogan: “I play Dave…I play…this is the perfect part for me…I play Dave Dragon, the 40 year old burn out super hero. And they put, I’ve got more hair than you in this movie, they put a full wig on my head and I got my last appearance on Mega Mountain, and when the 3…the 3 ninjas come and see me because I’m their idle. They watch me do my stunt show. Loni Anderson, who plays a great bad guy…just ask Burt…and Jim Varney.
Leno: “Owww…”
Hogan: “I’m just joking! I’m just joking! And Jim Varney, Loni and Jim Varney, they come to take over the whole music park and hold everyone up for a bunch of money and the three ninjas and Dave Dragon come to the rescue.”
Leno: “Well there you go. Sounds terrific. Hey, always good seeing you. Say hi to your folks for me. Hulk Hogan!”
