1984 Is Alive On AM Radio
This afternoon I was listening to the John Moore Show on CFRB 1010. A popular show on a popular radio station. The host John Moore was interviewing Dee Snider and Mark Mendoza from the rock band Twisted Sister. You may remember them from the early ’80s with hits like We’re Not Gonna Take It and I Wanna Rock. They were in town promoting their new Christmas album.
The interview meandered, as interviews sometimes do, to how the band was influenced by Arnold Schwarzenegger and how he eventually used one of their songs in his campaigns. During this part of the interview, someone broke into an Arnold impersonation. Right in the middle of this impersonation I could hear some sounds in the background, muffled by not being right in front of a microphone. That is very uncommon on radio. The muffled voice was very masculine and I distinctly heard the word “brother.” It was Hulk Hogan! He was crashing the interview!
The Twisted Sister interview dissolved into a series of anecdotes about how Hulk Hogan and Twisted Sister first met. This was the best five minutes of radio I have ever heard. And I’ve heard myself on the radio talking up The Musical Box.
