David Shoemaker
speaker
407 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
David Shoemaker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, you listen,
You and I are both writers who don't write a whole lot anymore.
But when I wrote about, I mean, obviously I've been writing about wrestling for 20 years and been writing about dead wrestlers from the very beginning and sort of what the wrestlers mean to me when they die.
When I wrote Hulk Hogan's obituary, I was just sort of floored thinking like, well, it was a lot to get out, but it was also a lot to think like, this is the last time I'm ever going to write about Hulk Hogan.
And so the idea came up to write a book.
Our friends at Harper, Sean Desmond, who's edited a bunch of Ringer books, who was willing to take a shot on this, and so just sort of cranked it out.
It was a lot of a... For me, it was like... Like, I think for a lot of wrestling fans, there's so much that he did late in his life that I just hated, you know, that, like, really just killed me.
But it killed me because of how much I loved him in the 80s, you know, how much he was... How meaningful he was to me.
And...
Uh, you know, the title I think is deliberately a little bit of provocative, just like in the reverse way that dead wrestler of the week was provocative back in the day.
Right.
Like people saw the title and they thought I was going to be offensive.
It's like, no, I'm talking about how much I love wrestlers.
And this is why.
And so why Hulk Hogan matters to me is both exploring why he's really meaningful to me.
And, you know, through much, so much of his career and, uh,
you know, kind of coming to grips with everything that happened in his post-wrestling life and what it means when like one of your idols can break your heart like that.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, he never, I think there's a lot of people who rightly believes he never really apologized for, you know, his racist, uh, um, you know, video, the video of him saying racist stuff, whatever.
And, and, um,
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