He revealed that he helped repair the Hubble and was a Navy pilot before he retired 15 years ago.
“My wife would often say, ‘That’s no good.
You should be on there, John.’
I’d say, ‘Yeah, I should.'”
“They thought that might work.
Since then, it’s been a go-to for him whenever he does karaoke which is often.
“I did Elvis Presley and I did Ricky Martin,” he remembers.
“Not very well.”
Now, he can count more than fellow cruise attendees as fans.
“Simon Cowell sort of adopted me,” Hetlinger says.
“[Heidi Klum] gave me nose, but I like Heidi anyway,” he laughs.
“I told her, I think she may be the only one with good taste.”
The video has also racked up close to 3 million views on YouTube as of this story’s publication.
Despite what Klum thinks, Drowning Pool themselves definitely approve.
“I was blown away,” guitarist C.J.
“He would be proud, that’s for sure.”
The band reached out to Hetlinger on Facebook and suggested performing together.
“I said I would be exceedingly excited to do that,” Hetlinger says.
“It would begreat.”
