This interview summary was sent to PWTorch.com by the Pain Clinic radio show on Hot Talk 1280 WHTK hosted by Rich Jones, The Artiste, Murphy, J.Z., and Dangerboy on Oct. 11, 2008. You can hear the interview at www.feelthepain.net.

Bret released his autobiography entitled "Hitman:My Real Life In the Cartoon World Of Wrestling" this past Wednesday, Oct. 8. He's on an 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 a lot 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 U.S. 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 turning 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 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 bringing Bret up recently on TV. He said he doesn't particularly like Shawn bringing it up but. He said he doesn't mind J.R. 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, N.Y. 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.

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