Recap of Bret Hart on The Pain Clinic
    Submitted by PainLord on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 10:20 AM EST



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    Hosts: Rich "Cashman" Jones, The Artiste, Murph, JZ and Dangerboy
    Date: 10/11/08
    Time: 10am

    Bret released his autobiography entitled "Hitman:My Real Life In the Cartoon
    World Of Wrestling" this past Wednesday October 8th. He's on a east
    coast book signing tour.

    Bret was scheduled to join us before one of his book signings this day.
    Bret Hart joins the Pain Clinic and we immediately talk about his tour and
    how it's going. He likes seeing fans that he remembers allot of the fans
    that he's seeing at the signings.

    Bret talks about how his stroke in 2002 affected his writing of the book.
    He explains how the writing changes through the book due to the stroke.

    Bret talks about WWE's interest in distributing the book and because of their
    review process, the book was delayed in the US by a year over the
    Canadian release. Eventually Bret decided to not go with the WWE because
    they would want to edit some things in the book.

    Bret talks about how the "Wrestling with Shadows" movie came about. He
    always felt the life of a wrestler needed to be documented and it was luck
    that the film crew was there for the "Montreal Screw Job."

    Bret talks about the time it took for him to write the book. He started before
    Owen died and he wrote through that time and it was hard seeing many of
    his fellow wrestlers dying.

    Bret give his thoughts on the "Montreal Screw Job" creating of the "Mr. McMahon"
    character as a result. In an odd way it helped turn the WWE around. He
    talks about the character being a bit more of the real Vince, the real cut throat
    wicked promoter. He says working there was always about "what have you
    done for me lately" it was never about "what you did for them today or yesterday".

    Bret talks about Vince wrestling and if he thought that is where he was headed
    when he was in the WWE. Bret said he's in a "live and let live" relationship with
    Vince. He said they are both tired of taking shots at each other. Rich said
    "as long as he doesn't rehash the 'screw job' anymore, fans are getting tired
    of it already and Bret said "yeah I think so, I was tired of it the night they did it".

    Bret comments on Sting and Shawn Michaels bring Bret up recently on TV and
    he doesn't particularly like Shawn bring it up but, he doesn't mind JR mentioning
    him and he wants fans to remember him. "When I punched Vince I thought I lost
    that forever." The DVD was a handshake and it buried the hatchet.

    The recent episodes of WWE Presents Madison Square Garden Classics on the
    MSG Network featured classic Bret matches and he talks about always giving his
    best in the ring and he never looked past the first row of fans whether it was in
    Rochester, NY or in front of 93,000 in the Pontiac Michigan.

    Bret gives his thoughts on wrestling today. He has a tough time watching long
    promos. He talks about his niece Natalya Neidhart and his nephew Harry Smith.

    Bret gives a shout out to his old fans from Rochester and We let him go soon
    afterwards. Bret's autobiography entitled "Hitman:My Real Life In the Cartoon World
    Of Wrestling" is available at all book stores and online at amazon.com

    You can hear the interview at http://www.feelthepain.net

    Rich "Cashman" Jones
    Producer/Host
    The Pain Clinic
    Hot Talk 1280 WHTK
    http://www.feelthepain.net




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