Nick Hogan (family name: Bollea), 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan, was sentenced to eight months in a county jail in Florida, near the family home, for driving a Toyota Supra owned by Hulk Hogan into a palm tree at over 100 miles per hour. His passenger and best friend, John Graziano, a US Marine who had served in Iraq, suffered extensive brain damage which resulted in the removal of part of his frontal lobe (lobotomy) and the possibly permanent removal of a large part of the front of his skull. Hogan received minor injuries and was released from a hospital the same night of the crash. Both Hogan and Graziano had been drinking alcohol. Hogan has been cited at least twice before in Florida for driving at over 100 miles per hour on public streets. A law enforcement guest on CNN's Nancy Grace show this evening (6-2-08) said that Hogan was stopped twice in the same day on the same road for going over 100mph ... But his passenger talked officers out of writing tickets. His passenger was his father, Hulk Hogan. Nick Hogan once campaigned cars in "drift" events around the country. (Photo Above - Nick Hogan, right inset, and John Graziano and what was left of the Supra which, in Hogan's hands, ended any semblance of a normal life for his "best friend").
These tapes and transcripts (see below) of Hogan talking with his parents from jail surfaced today, June 1, 2008.
Click here for audio track 1 of 3 of Nick Hogan's jail cell calls...
Click here for audio track 2 of 3 of Nick Hogan's jail cell calls...
Click here for audio track 3 of 3 of Nick Hogan's jail cell calls ...
Their most shocking aspect, we thought, is that all three participants, Nick and his parents, seem
interested in just two things: Their bank accounts, and freeing Nick from jail and placed under "house arrest". Not only do they speak negatively about victim John Graziano, Linda Hogan, the mother, speaks disparagingly of the victim's mother. (Photo - Now, here's three guys who never used steroids, right? Hulk Hogan is flanked by, on the left, Sylvester Stallone and, right, WWE "Chairman" Vince McMahon).
My long-ago verdict on the Hogan family? Easy. Steroids.
"Hulk" has never denied using them because, he says, "they were legal" in his day. And the loud, obnoxious, ultra-selfish, arrogant, hyper-sexual, super-aggressive "side effects" which anabolic steroids cause seem to effect the entire Hogan clan, mom and dad, Nick and sis ... 'Ozzie and Harriett' it ain't. Nick's illegal street racing is a symptom, mom Linda seen in videos cheering him on as he does a burnout in front of the exclusive Ivy restaurant in West Hollywood while he's driving a Dodge Viper, has one thinking "drugs" about them both and the not-always-so soft-core porn which the sister and mother provide cameras at a moment's notice, and then take the entire life story of Hulk himself ... It all screams: STEROIDS!!! (Photo - Supra, owned by Hulk Hogan, after the over-100mph crash which occured at the hands of Nick Hogan; his police mugshot is seen at bottom of page).
And the family might have even more to look forward to; some of you might remember Oakland Raider football star Lyle Alzado confessing to steroid use and saying it caused the brain tumor which soon after killed him, in 1992, at age 43. Is that something else The Hulkster will bequeath his wife and kids? Or will kidney and/or liver damage do them in early?
America is in a fit of "Zero Tolerance" and host to a population eager for and in favor of biblical-based punishments (Sharia, anyone?), boot camps for 10-year olds, rogue cops who do 'whatever it takes to get the job done' and convicts, children tried as adults, phony victims, child molesters (NBC must be so proud of that series) ... Yet if it happens on TV, it seems that for many people, it's all somehow alright. Combined with the average American feeling that it is his/her RIGHT to be on TV, and we have a country with a large, sick mass; a cancer growing on the population. And the Hogans are not even the First Family in this battle to see who can be most disgusting.
From the Hogan family to the Osbournes to "Dr. Drew" Pinsky to cable TV's "Intervention" to racist Hawaii 
bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman and his family to motorcyclist Jesse James to the Gotti family ... and on and on ... American TV is filled with sick, twisted, tormented racists, drug addicts, Nazis, alcoholics, two-timers, "Cheaters" and on and on ... Then we have those who offer the "cure" of being on TV, including Dr. Phil and Jerry Springer evil spawn Steve Wilkos, Oprah and all those judges; Judy, Marilyn, Joe, Greg, Maria, Lynn, David, Glenda (the good witch?) and even the Mafia/Gotti lawyer, Bruce Cutler, has his own show, playing a judge with some phony cases presented before a three-person jury of C-list celebrities ... and of course, AI's Simon, Paula and Randy ... and all the rest ... All the TV judges distributing TV justice ... America's teeming and wretched White Trash ... and all others ... have no lack of TV teachers in how to live one's life ... And the importance of taking, like a proud, devout American, the righteous punishments dished-out by TV judges for the 'crime' of merely copying their favorite TV personalities.
Click below to read more comment and the transcripts of Nick Hogan's jail cell phone calls.
(Photo - This is why Nick Hogan was sentenced to the can for eight months; he'll serve less than four if he behaves).
Whatever happened to, "We love you son, but you made a big mistake, you did some very stupid things, and now you have to experience the punishment. And your mother and I know that you understand that. That's how we raised you. Of course we'll do everything and anything we can to have you home as soon as possible, but in the meantime, use this gift of time to improve yourself ... study, read, work-out, pray, see if you can get involved in somehow helping some other people in there with you. As far as John and his family, well, we'll all deal with that when you get home. But Nick, we love you and we want you home. Don't ever forget that."
Instead, we get the following. We got these transcripts of the Hogan jail phone calls from the CNN website. Here they are, unedited:
HULK HOGAN, NICK'S FATHER: I don`t know what type of person John was or what he did to get himself in the situation. I know he was pretty aggressive and used to yell at people and used to do stuff. For some reason, man, God laid some heavy (DELETED) on that kid, man. I don`t know what he was into.
NICK BOLLEA: John was a negative person.
HULK HOGAN: He was what?
NICK BOLLEA: He was a negative person.
LINDA, NICK'S MOTHER (speaking about John Graziano's mother): She`s not sad, she`s just acting angry like she just wants the money. John never meant anything to her or Ed. It`s just sad because I really appreciated you kids, and I just miss John and I miss you, too. And it`s, like, she`s not suffering. I am! I have the loss. She could give two (DELETED).
NICK BOLLEA: I`m going to ask them, at least, because I`m in -- I`m in maximum, I`m going to ask them to at least put me in a cell with, you know, like, maybe something with, you know, some bars where I could see some people or something.
HULK HOGAN: OK. All right. Don`t freak out.
NICK BOLLEA: I don`t know. Like, if you could -- if she could call the judge or something, just please ask
them to put me on house arrest just so I can get out of here because this is the only place I can be in is here. (Photo - Linda Hogan, Nick's mother).
HULK HOGAN: OK, Bubba. I`m trying, all right? I`m trying.
NICK BOLLEA: Will you work on that reality deal for me and get that thing lined up so the minute I walk out of wherever I walk out of, it`s there, boom?
HULK HOGAN: Can you do it while you`re on probation?
NICK BOLLEA: Yes. Of course.
HULK HOGAN: Yes. OK. You want to do it with Pink Sneakers or someone else?
NICK BOLLEA: I want to do it where I`ll make the most money.
HULK HOGAN: Well, then, you need to do it with me, Jason and Eric.
NICK BOLLEA: OK.
HULK HOGAN: You know, if I`m producing the show, I won`t screw you. You know that?
NICK BOLLEA: Yes. Of course.
HULK HOGAN: I`ll get you everything. I`ll make you an owner.
NICK BOLLEA: Yes.
HULK HOGAN: You`d own the show.
NICK BOLLEA: Yes.
HULK HOGAN: So let me get to work on that with Eric. It`s a lot easier, too.
NICK BOLLEA: OK. Cool.
HULK HOGAN: So dude, we can get that pulled off, dude.
NICK BOLLEA: Reality.
HULK HOGAN: "The New Nick." We`ll call it "The New Nick" or something.
NICK BOLLEA: "New Nick."
HULK HOGAN: Or something. We`ll have to come up with a good name. Think of a good name.
NICK BOLLEA: I`ll be thinking of a good name. It would be reality -- How I`m getting back on my feet, and how I`m recovering after this. Celebrity out of jail. (Photo - Passenger-side seat of the car Hogan wrecked; his best friend was in that seat and he's now in a "semi-conscious state" from which he's not expected to recover).
NICK BOLLEA: They put me in a room, like, all the way down at the end of this long hall with no guard at the end. And the room, when it closes, it`s really dark inside and there`s no lights in it.
HULK HOGAN: Yes.
NICK BOLLEA: When the door closes, there`s no windows at all. I can`t see out or anything. So if I knock on the door, I don`t know if anyone can hear me or anything. I`m, like, I`m really freaking out.
NICK BOLLEA: I`m just sitting there, counting the minutes on my hand -- fingers -- just trying to...
LINDA: I just feel so bad you`re there because, truthfully, Nicky, you don`t deserve to be there. And ultimately, John doesn`t need to be where he is. But you know what? You guys were best friends. I knew you (ph) better than his own mother knew him. Would you agree on that?
NICK BOLLEA: Yes.
LINDA: I mean, and anybody would agree. And she has no other recourse other than to be nasty and vindictive now, you know, because if she really knew you, if she really knew the relationship between you and John and Danny, she`d be sad right now. She wouldn`t be mad, you know, she`d just be devastated, like I am.
NICK BOLLEA: I miss going to the Sandpearl with you.
LINDA: I know! I`m at the beach all by myself! It`s not the same!
NICK BOLLEA: I miss sitting out on the water on the boat with you. I miss just getting into the Escalade and going to Orlando.
LINDA: I know, baby! We`re going to do all of that, OK? We`re going to do everything, but...
NICK BOLLEA: I wrote down...
LINDA: ... we`re not going to do it here in (DELETED) Florida!
Speaking for everyone in Southern California, let me be the first to say this to the Hogan family: STAY OUT! We have enough mentally-ill people here already, from Tom Cruise and his robotic wife and David Beckham and whatever it is he does for a living ... But please ... Stay in Florida! Please!
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