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Ep. 3401 How Hulk Hogan Awakened MAGA and SAVED America!!! · Turley Talks

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The liberal globalist order is on its brink and awakening a new conservative age.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Steve Turley joined me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the re-bondalization of conservative civilization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Turley Talks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you've all heard by now, but Terry Jean Balea, aka Hulk Hogan, passed away today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was seventy-one, apparently it was a heart attack.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This was following neck surgery that he reportedly had back in May.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I actually saw him at the Liberty Ball in DC for the inauguration back in January.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't get to chat with him, but I saw him from afar and he was walking with a cane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He looked physically frail up to the extent that someone of his magnet is physical magnitude could look, but he was walking very gingerly, clearly relying on the cane, you know, I don't know any of that's related, but regardless, we have the passing of another cultural icon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what I want to reflect on with you in this video is how Hulk Hogan and Hulk
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  [SPEAKER_00]: really were MAGA before MAGA.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe better Hulk Mania was a prelude to the awakening of MAGA all across the nation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know a lot of you were rather shocked to find out that I'm a big, heavy metal fan.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I did a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne earlier this week, talked about the significance of Ozzy and his fashioning, a distinctively archio-modern, neo-traditional aesthetic in hard rock that was very influential at me and my guitar playing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm going to shock you again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I am a bonafide WWE fan.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My boys and I have seen three events at the Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a pretty awesome seat to boot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, our best seats that we had, not quite ringside, but close was for a live broadcast of Monday night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So this ain't this ain't a bunch of book learning for your prof here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've I've been fascinated with the WWE for years now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've actually read a number of academic and sociological studies on the undeniable phenomenon of WWE.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the number of those studies are drawn parallels between the WWE and MAGA and particularly Trump rallies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So there have actually been scholars who studied the WWE and have written about how the WWE is really in many respects the ultimate populist event.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe better to say it's the pen ultimate populist event next to President Trump's MAGA rallies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But those of you who've watched WWE know
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that it casts certain characters as heroes of the people, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So when we were into it, my boys are grown up now, but in our time, there was the five foot, eight Daniel Bryan.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You remember Daniel?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, yes, Bryan, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, he actually became a million villain.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think for a time, but that's the soap opera of WWE, but actually long before someone like Daniel Bryan, this populist element of WWE, where characters become the heroes of the people, we all know goes back to who.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It all goes back to none other than the one and only Hulk Hogan, who was in many respects your quintessential populace.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He was a hurty lay-in defender of the people with a loyal following of Hulk Maniacs, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And guess who is the most famous Hulk Maniac of them all?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, going back to the day, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was none other than Donald J. Trump.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have to remember that both WrestleMania four and five were held at Trump Plaza in Atlantic City and Trump was actually inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame after his battle with a billionaires appearance at WrestleMania twenty three.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is back in two thousand and seven when he bought his lamb Vince McMahon was awesome.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's so interesting because scholars have seen this relationship between Trump and the WWE as really the beginning of Trump's populist appeal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So if you think it through the twenty sixteen election and Trump's battle with the DC swamp was seen by many
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  [SPEAKER_00]: as the ultimate grudge match, where you had a combination of Trump's taunting rhetoric along with his amazing circus-like rallies, and these combined to create precisely the kind of effective factory, a multi-sensory spectacle comparable to a WWE event.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you've ever been to a Trump rally, it's just amazing in terms of the excitement, the camaraderie experiences sense along with tens of thousands of other people that
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, wow, we really are the majority.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We really are winning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We really are going to take our country back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're moving and sweeping the nation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is awesome.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's that kind of excitement that multi-sense respectacle that signifies this crossover between Trump rallies and the WWE.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And of course,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The crossover doesn't just involve a champion of the people, it also involves villains, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Cricket Hillary, but lie in Ted, the fake news media, Poco Haontis, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So this is partly what made Hillary's
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  [SPEAKER_00]: disastrous comment back in twenty sixteen about Trump supporters being deplorable so back so good of deplorable this is what made it so horrific she she she played right in the Trump's hands she became the Vince McMahon villain she became the establishment villain the dishonest elite who rig everything in their favor and against the people she became worthy being booed by tens of millions of voters and of course that's exactly
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What happened?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So WWE is a perfect format for expressing real, legitimate social critique.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And to close the loop here, the one who really awake in this glorious embodiment of America first in MAGA in the WWE arena was the one and only Hulk Hogan in Hulk Amadia.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What's a steam song?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What was Hogan's steam song?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You guys know it, put it in the chat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Real American.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the title of his theme.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So whenever he entered into the arena, the lyrics proclaim, I am a real American fight for the rights of every man, just like when Trump when he enters in arena, it's to I'm proud to be an American.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sound familiar?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You see, this wasn't just entertainment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This was populist nationalism decades before Trump descended that golden escalator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not to get too nerdy here, but sociological research shows as the populist movements need cultural symbols before political leaders.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and Hulk Hogan provided that symbol.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He defeated foreign villains, like the Iron Cheek and Nikolai Molkov, he abodied Reagan era American strength when our nation craved heroes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you think it through a Hogan maniac created the cultural template, strong leadership, patriotic messaging, and standing up to domestic villains and foreign threats, Trump simply awakened what Hogan
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  [SPEAKER_00]: had planted so many millions of American hearts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hoke Hogan didn't just entertain.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He prepared America for Trump.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He showed us what real Americans look like decades before Trump reminded us what greatness meant.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then fast forward to July of twenty twenty four.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This very same Hulk Hogan walked into the Milwaukee conventions that are to the cheers of tens of thousands of adoring fans ripped off his shirt and classical extra fashion and he declared to the entire world let Trump a mania run wide.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Gang that wasn't coincidence, just days after Trump miraculously survived that assassination attempt that wasn't coincidence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That was destiny, with a magnificently fitting end for Hulk Hogan.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The share and the spotlight are the very nagging movement he helped awaken.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hogan Mania ran wild, so maga could run free.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless Terry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for listening this episode of the Charlie Talks podcast.
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