The tape opens with a bad music video montage of the Midnight Express circa 1987, as it is the Eaton and Stan Lane version of the group, and is nearly 10 minutes long.

The interview opens with the standard question of how he got started in the business. He was always a big sports fan and would go to the matches in Alabama every Friday night and got to know the promoter, Gus Gulas, who was the brother of the famous Tennessee promoter Nick Gulas. Gus eventually got him on the ring crew and, between setting up and match time, they’d work out in the ring doing all kinds of crazy moves. He starts making jokes about how bad the truck was that they used to transport the ring with. One night, he came to the arena and found that one of the wrestlers had no-showed. Since the guys knew he’d been working out in the ring, they asked him if he wanted to wrestle and he jumped at the opportunity. They eventually started booking him more often until he was booked every day of the week.

Who were his favorite wrestlers growing up? Jackie Fargo, Al Green, Don Green, Len Rossi, The Interns with Ken Ramey, etc., who were just guys who got pushed around that time. He explains the whole Interns gimmick, as he says Ramey would go to the ref for the pre-match instructions then go instruct his Interns to do the exact opposite of what he’d been told. He puts over Tojo Yamamoto as a guy who helped him out by teaching him psychology and says they became very good friends. He mentions that he’d have liked to be a football player as well as a wrestler, but things just didn’t work out and his wrestling career just took off.

What was the locker room atmosphere like? It was very secretive. No one ever dressed together, etc. because kayfabe was in full effect. Tojo had told him that if he ever did something to sacrifice the business, there were guys who’d seriously mess him up.

Were there a lot of old-school people who thought "It’s all going to end!" once kayfabe started dying? Yes, and even today he doesn’t like to sit down talking with his opponent laying out their match that night with a bunch of people watching.

Where was the territory where he got his first big push? Mid-South in Louisiana, as Bill Watts had brought in him, Dennis Condrey, Jim Cornette to manage them, and Bobby’s father-in-law Bill Dundee as a booker in exchange for sending Jim Neidhart, Rick Rude, and a few other people who weren’t worth too much back then to Jerry Jarrett in Memphis. Bobby, Dennis, and Cornette as a group helped draw some of the biggest crowds in Mid-South as the Midnight Express against both the Rock and Roll Express and the team of Bill Watts and Stagger Lee (Junkyard Dog under a mask). He says that Cornette went crazy down there because "those people in Louisiana were insane." He says that Watts didn’t say who was going to be the main event of his big Super Dome shows until the day of the show due to his TV airing on Saturdays. He feels that if the Midnights vs. Watts and Lee match had been promoted as that main event ahead of time, like most main events are these days, that they would have drawn even more money. (As it turned out, the Superdome was the only arena where the Midnight Express didn’t set the record gate because it BARELY missed the high mark set by the Junkyard Dog vs. Michael Hayes feud where the Freebirds "blinded" JYD with hair cream.)

Jim Cornette - He’d been a hanger-on in Louisville, where the Jarretts ran shows each week, and he eventually became a manager for them down in Memphis.

What were his early impressions of Dennis Condrey? It was a lot of fun working with him. They had a lot of chemistry and it showed in the ring. It made it easier for them to come up with ideas in the match when they worked together so well. They didn’t get on each others nerves by travelling together for so long because when they day was over, they’d both go to their homes and they wouldn’t hang out together. Dennis and Cornette had a LOT of arguments, though.

Bill Watts - Watts threw his hamstring out while kicking them when he came out of retirement to wrestle them. He got along with Watts’ sons very well. He doesn’t hold anything against Watts because he gave them a big push and it paid off VERY well. He jokes that he saved a lot of money there because he never had time to spend it, as Watts always had them on the road.  More...