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This is one other bask in item. WWF early stuff right here the Irish son says uh what became once your preliminary response when Vince or whoever pitched the hog farmer persona did you are making an strive to give any change or withstand at all or did you honest correct wander with it oh smartly uh after we got our Walking Papers from WCW about three or four weeks later I had Harley Speed and Kevin Nash had.
Uh spoke for me called up north and spoke you realize correct words for me so in about three or four weeks I had a they got a build of me and Vince had wanted me to float as a lot as Stanford and I flew up and met with him and JJ Dylan and we talked three hours in Vince's space of business and he became once you realize asking me what I'd done and uh.
The attach I lived and I told him you realize within the nation and I I became once working at a Hos I labored at the smartly being center uh on the psych ground for about a years and uh then I acknowledged yeah we got a farm we elevate cows and you realize got a bunch of chickens and Hogs so he acknowledged hm he acknowledged what get you get with the Hogs I me what more or less stuff so I believed smartly.
we elevate pigs we casorate them we slop them and when I acknowledged slop them he became once bask in Bing the sunshine bulb went off so by the level I left I done had uh my name uh inside of a week they had a rough sketch of what they wanted me to connect on the.
Overalls the hat and uh the slot bucket and uh my name became once Henry orus Godwin which is Vince had give me the name of one among his I will't remember bask in an uncle or Granddad or dad is his name became once orpia so he gave me that name because he wanted Hogg after which when Phineas come he got.
The pig so as that's how that come about did you salvage the sketch from inventive Services you realize your entire I get and I in fact were procuring for it and a the distinctive and it became once on a big portion of paper and it had me and I comprise it had the yellow shirt or possibly a crimson shirt but I started out with the white shirt.
After which I repeatedly my trademark became once bask in the yellow shirt after which clearly we went they assign us within the Accomplice shirts which whenever you most likely did that now we'd all be killed canell yeah celled yeah yeah I take note that that became once uh that became once bask in post that became once post neck damage and you with the roue for the time being I appear to defend in thoughts.
Yeah yeah yeah um you realize I don't relate I've ever requested this someone forward of so clearly Vince offers you the pitch you order you realize you've done farming and the slop and form of goes from there salvage within the occupational mold of the 90s I imply you talked to Shane the day old to this he became once the instructor and you realize that more or less thing yeah if if it became once entirely as a lot as you.
What persona would you comprise portrayed or what name would you comprise given yourself or would you comprise honest correct been yourself I I imply I most traditional the Henry o Godwin pitch your entire thing I imply and I felt delighted with it because hell that's what I've been doing you realize my grandparents each sets had Farms so I became once repeatedly around that as a as a bit of one.
So it became once bask in secondhand to me so it became once straight forward to step into that persona uh honest correct looking to transition and painting that hog farmer took a bit of work but you realize sh McMahon had flew down and did all my videos my vignettes at a bit of farm in Tennessee I imply we went and this guy had bask in 20 Hogs running around.
So we pulled in and I acknowledged hello will we shoot a video right here from WWF you realize list the advise he became once honest correct an outmoded nation farmer and uh I comprise they paid him $300 to get it all day at his space so he became once cheerful to death he sat serve on the porch smoking a pipe honest correct staring at the total motion so it became once ravishing.
Chilly uh so Jean has written in and says uh what would he comprise extinct for his ring name if he hadn't if he didn't must wander with Vince's Henry o Godwin name so did were there any change names to salvage the um the Hogg get you remember no there became once uh know the single you realize Jr repeatedly called me.
Hank uh but that's the single variation off of that that became once ravishing a lot what Vince come up with that day he wanted uh he became once GNA wander with the very most inspiring one after which he went with the God one so I imply it labored out it's humorous too I repeatedly show this bask in in.
1997 uh we had got we extinct to salvage bask in fan mail within the space of business would give us some of it so we were invited out west to the Godwin reunion we were bask in genuinely looking to switch honest correct grasp out but uh yeah honest correct we extinct to salvage some crazy issues it correct time smartly on what.
Other more or less crazy issues did you salvage oh switch on k k so uh Fatherland who came up the fatherland then I'm sorry I genuinely must know the other reply but we've got a thing labored out so who came with the fatherland then the fatherland yeah.
Vince inventive uh bids Arkansas it's immense does it genuinely exist though you realize we couldn't get it except it's so puny it's no longer on nothing but I don't know we by no arrangement did get it sounds correct though oh it sounds extra special as as I repeatedly walk it I in fact comprise a weekly existing with Dutch.
Mantel and oil trough Texas became once repeatedly one among the most inspiring ones oh yeah it doesn't exist oil TR Texas yeah it doesn't exist I comprise there is one in bask in Alabama or one thing bask in that but there's no oil trough in in Texas uh one more thing one more thing because this bugged me for years at the same time as a boy who did the um on the uh tune on the entrance.
Song now the I did all that did you the sooie and come on Pig all that yeah that that became once me are you talking about hilly Jim tune no no um no no to your to your long-established entrance music the attach it's honest correct you realize bask in your entire lowkey banjo deliverance after which sorry suie no longer H yeah yeah that's yeah that's me yeah k correct I had a theory I believed it.
Was Todd Pat and gill who did it no it became once me
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Henry Godwinn on How Vince McMahon Created His Gimmick
