Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / Wicked Radio 7-25: RIP Hulk Hogan, Why All The Hulk Hate?, & Is The View Cancelled?!
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- 0:04Speaker 1: What you gonna do, brother? What an American weekend comes
- 0:08Speaker 1: for you? And we're almost there, but not without sad news.
- 0:12Speaker 1: What a week, good Lord, what a week for especially
- 0:15Speaker 1: this is true and this really kind of speaks to
- 0:17Speaker 1: gen X kids, kids of the eighties, a lot of you,
- 0:21Speaker 1: me all in that group. The losses we've had this week,
- 0:24Speaker 1: it's been a tough, tough week. Obviously the most recent
- 0:27Speaker 1: lose losing Hulk Hogan, the American legend. I'm gonna get
- 0:31Speaker 1: into something that really surprised me yesterday. I'm not a
- 0:33Speaker 1: big wrestling fan. I never really followed that, but you can't.
- 0:36Speaker 1: It doesn't a name and a personality like Hulk Hogan
- 0:39Speaker 1: transcend wrestling though. I mean, it's just you're at icon
- 0:43Speaker 1: status and losing him meant so much to so many people.
- 0:45Speaker 1: But the American if you want to call it, pop culture,
- 0:48Speaker 1: American culture, everything. It's a massive, massive loss. And of course,
- 0:53Speaker 1: the week we had coming off of losing Ozzie and
- 0:56Speaker 1: also speaking of the eighties, and we didn't even talk
- 0:58Speaker 1: about this seeing Malcolm Jamal Warner from The Cosby Show,
- 1:02Speaker 1: another eighties icon, and he really was from that show
- 1:07Speaker 1: at fifty four and not to mention. We also let
- 1:10Speaker 1: Chuck MANGIONI remember the trumpet Player. If you grow up
- 1:15Speaker 1: in the eighties and nineties, you couldn't avoid that song
- 1:18Speaker 1: in your house somewhere. So yeah, it's been tough for losses.
- 1:21Speaker 1: But you know what, I think the takeaway today is
- 1:24Speaker 1: never let anybody disparage who you consider a hero. Don't
- 1:28Speaker 1: let them. We'll get into that in a second. But
- 1:30Speaker 1: also it's a good reminder and I just got a
- 1:33Speaker 1: feeling after all of this, it's got everybody more interested
- 1:36Speaker 1: in bringing back icons again. Right. It's like when we
- 1:39Speaker 1: lost Ozzie, there was a call for and the searches
- 1:41Speaker 1: and the interest, according to Google trends, has never been
- 1:44Speaker 1: higher for metal music. The resurgence of the eighties and
- 1:47Speaker 1: nineties just may be coming as well, because, let's face it,
- 1:51Speaker 1: let's be completely honest, wasn't it better? Didn't I don't
- 1:53Speaker 1: want to be one of those back in the day guys,
- 1:55Speaker 1: but wasn't it better with all the stuff we had?
- 1:57Speaker 1: As cheesy as it was. Let's go back to that anyway,
- 2:00Speaker 1: Let's get to it. Thanks for finding me, Thanks for
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- 2:16Speaker 1: There you go. Well it it comes across every once
- 2:23Speaker 1: in a while as somebody that transcends whatever sport, genre
- 2:32Speaker 1: form of entertainment they do. And you can't deny that
- 2:34Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan was one of those personalities. I mean, the
- 2:38Speaker 1: first thing I thought of this was he even had
- 2:41Speaker 1: his own theme song. You remember this, remember, real American.
- 2:44Speaker 1: I know you've seen it, just I mean you if
- 2:54Speaker 1: you have your own theme song, and I guess that
- 2:56Speaker 1: became part of his wrestling intro to. But you saw
- 2:58Speaker 1: it everywhere and Hulks his name and his image were
- 3:01Speaker 1: on serial boxes and in movies. Remember he was Thunderlips
- 3:05Speaker 1: and Rocky three remember that one. In other people's music videos.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Of course, the wrestling career, but all of that launched.
- 3:14Speaker 1: I don't know if I can think of anybody in
- 3:16Speaker 1: any form of entertainment that grabbed a better hold of
- 3:20Speaker 1: that image and took the reins of it and made
- 3:24Speaker 1: it what it was. I mean, just absolutely amazing. Sadly,
- 3:27Speaker 1: some of the details died at seventy one, shocking to
- 3:30Speaker 1: a lot of people. I guess the insiders and people
- 3:32Speaker 1: who knew him were saying that the health problems that
- 3:34Speaker 1: dogged him through the years were just horrific. I had
- 3:37Speaker 1: seen a Joe Rogan interview with Hull Cogan a couple
- 3:41Speaker 1: of months ago that was done the previous year, I think,
- 3:44Speaker 1: and he was talking about the injuries as you can
- 3:45Speaker 1: imagine through wrestling, but he also in a massive battle
- 3:49Speaker 1: with prescription drugs, Like he said, the doctors tried to
- 3:53Speaker 1: kill me with ventanyl and what he went through to
- 3:56Speaker 1: go over that, and of course the surgeries, the back surgery.
- 3:58Speaker 1: So that's all, you know, that's all part of his
- 4:00Speaker 1: personal life that everybody knows. But it's this public persona
- 4:04Speaker 1: that meant so much to people and still does obviously.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Just look at the memorials and people reaching out and
- 4:10Speaker 1: talking about that. Everybody from you know, any age group
- 4:14Speaker 1: you can imagine, and very famous people too, talking about
- 4:18Speaker 1: this guy being one of their first childhood heroes. He
- 4:21Speaker 1: was all of that and he did. It's not you know,
- 4:24Speaker 1: it sounds like you're overestimating it, but it does matter
- 4:28Speaker 1: to be in that public persona a hero to people.
- 4:32Speaker 1: What was it? You know, each your vitamins, prey, do
- 4:33Speaker 1: your homework, all that stuff. Now a lot to kids.
- 4:36Speaker 1: It still does all of that stuff, and that public
- 4:39Speaker 1: image private might have been a little bit different, obviously,
- 4:43Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you this is what shocked me
- 4:46Speaker 1: the most yesterday. Now I didn't follow wrestling. I've ever
- 4:49Speaker 1: been a big wrestling fan, you know, definitely aware of it.
- 4:53Speaker 1: I know all the personalities as far as what they
- 4:55Speaker 1: do and what they're about. I get that. I love
- 4:58Speaker 1: that the WWE stayed active and they didn't cancel any
- 5:01Speaker 1: events during COVID. I thought that was fantastic. WrestleMania is
- 5:06Speaker 1: like an event that's it's as big as the Super Bowl. Seriously,
- 5:10Speaker 1: that's how much money it brings in. So I understand
- 5:12Speaker 1: all of that. What I didn't get I I was
- 5:14Speaker 1: kind of sort of aware of the news stories and
- 5:16Speaker 1: talking about it back in the day on radio. But
- 5:20Speaker 1: what shocked me yesterday was not only the announcement that
- 5:24Speaker 1: that Hull Cogan had died at seventy one, but you know,
- 5:26Speaker 1: there's that and the memorials coming. You're like, oh my god,
- 5:29Speaker 1: this is just crazy. You know, it's I guess he
- 5:31Speaker 1: hadn't really hadn't been doing well, went off to do
- 5:33Speaker 1: some other stuff during my day, and I come back.
- 5:36Speaker 1: All you could see, all I could see and hear
- 5:40Speaker 1: was the hate coming for the guy in popular culture.
- 5:44Speaker 1: It was just it was just amazing, and it actually
- 5:46Speaker 1: took me back. I'm like, this can't be. This has
- 5:48Speaker 1: to be fake news. That this why is somebody starting
- 5:51Speaker 1: a hate campaign against Hulkogan? And you look back and
- 5:54Speaker 1: I understand the reasons why and all this this other stuff.
- 5:59Speaker 2: But.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Apparently they're using that as as an excuse this. This
- 6:04Speaker 1: was a huge story back in the early twenty tens.
- 6:07Speaker 1: Let's call it that. I might remember this where there
- 6:09Speaker 1: was a hidden camera. It caught him in a sex
- 6:14Speaker 1: tape in a lascivious three way kind of situation with
- 6:18Speaker 1: Bubba the love Sponge and his wife and all this
- 6:20Speaker 1: other stuff. Hulk didn't know he was being recorded, and
- 6:22Speaker 1: that was bad. Wound up suing the Gawker publication for
- 6:27Speaker 1: hundreds of millions UT dollars, remember that, So that was
- 6:29Speaker 1: a big win after all that, But what came out
- 6:31Speaker 1: of that. Part of that recording that resurfaced later was
- 6:35Speaker 1: Hulk saying some racist stuff about who his daughter was dating.
- 6:40Speaker 1: So there was that, which is never good obviously, but
- 6:43Speaker 1: he also didn't know he's being recorded. I understand that,
- 6:45Speaker 1: but that gets to that separation between the public persona
- 6:48Speaker 1: and the private persona and what happened, but it dogged
- 6:51Speaker 1: him for years, and also some inside fights apparently in wrestling.
- 6:55Speaker 1: And here's the stuff I really didn't know about. Apparently
- 6:57Speaker 1: he you know, been an alpha character. You know, he's
- 7:01Speaker 1: a business person. He was trying to keep his name
- 7:04Speaker 1: on top. He stepped a lot of people along the way,
- 7:07Speaker 1: allegedly to do it. You'll find that in any business.
- 7:10Speaker 1: I get that. But what shocked me was just the
- 7:13Speaker 1: hate over this, even as in this is one I
- 7:16Speaker 1: wasn't aware of. Boot off the stage in LA in
- 7:20Speaker 1: January at a WrestleMania event. Well it was in l
- 7:24Speaker 1: a number one, but also it sounded like this. So
- 7:27Speaker 1: this sadly turned out to be Hulk Hogan's last wrestling
- 7:31Speaker 1: public appearance and they boot him. It's that's a that's
- 7:35Speaker 1: a real That was all over the headline. So people
- 7:50Speaker 1: felt the need to resurface that all day long yesterday,
- 7:52Speaker 1: and then I thought about it, and I'm like, not
- 7:54Speaker 1: a second first, this is something something's not adding up here,
- 7:57Speaker 1: you know, and you put the pieces together for somebody
- 7:59Speaker 1: who an American icon, even people who are controversial, always
- 8:05Speaker 1: at least takes a couple of days before anybody digs
- 8:07Speaker 1: up some dirt from their past or the hate they
- 8:09Speaker 1: have for him, or you know. I'm like, I'm thinking
- 8:12Speaker 1: about this and I'm like, oh my god, it's right
- 8:15Speaker 1: in front of my face. The hate came from you
- 8:19Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna say. You know exactly what it was.
- 8:22Speaker 1: He spoke at the r NC last year right before
- 8:25Speaker 1: the election. Any any stumped for Trump. Of course, that's
- 8:29Speaker 1: where they hates coming.
- 8:30Speaker 2: And they tried to kill the next president of the
- 8:33Speaker 2: United States.
- 8:36Speaker 1: Enough blaws, enough said.
- 8:40Speaker 2: Tamania ron while brother left Trump Omania rule again, left Tamania,
- 8:48Speaker 2: make Oma cry again.
- 8:52Speaker 1: I remember that, Remember the scene in the crowd and
- 8:54Speaker 1: then they then they flashed Trump and He's like he
- 8:57Speaker 1: just absolutely loved it, you know, the promoter being what
- 8:59Speaker 1: he is, base loved it. And I remember saying this
- 9:02Speaker 1: at the time, and I think everybody agreed don't discount
- 9:06Speaker 1: how valuable an endorsement to the magabase somebody like hul
- 9:09Speaker 1: Cogan was it is. You know, that was a massive,
- 9:13Speaker 1: massive thing reaching out to that base. It was absolutely huge.
- 9:18Speaker 1: So here's what I'm getting at, this shocking hate that
- 9:23Speaker 1: came out for Hulkogan yesterday out of every corner of
- 9:26Speaker 1: the universe, and there was a lot of it. You
- 9:28Speaker 1: can still see it today, don't fool yourself. I think
- 9:32Speaker 1: what we can learn here is, despite the controversies of
- 9:35Speaker 1: the past, whatever he said or did that was caught
- 9:38Speaker 1: on a hidden video before, maybe not well liked in
- 9:41Speaker 1: his own industry, among his peers, whatever, all of that stuff,
- 9:45Speaker 1: none of that would have surfaced and brought out and
- 9:47Speaker 1: bubbled out the hate that came out yesterday for this
- 9:51Speaker 1: guy if he hadn't done just that. This is what
- 9:55Speaker 1: this is where politics are so fricking gross. Right, If
- 9:59Speaker 1: hulk Hogan had done the DNC and campaign for Kamala
- 10:04Speaker 1: and still had those controversies in his back, in his background,
- 10:07Speaker 1: the hidden audio videootape controversies, blah blah blah, whatever it was.
- 10:14Speaker 1: You think we're really seeing and feeling and hearing all
- 10:16Speaker 1: this hate for this guy today. There is an absolutely
- 10:19Speaker 1: no way, no. I will never believe that. I didn't
- 10:23Speaker 1: even think of it at first, that that may be
- 10:24Speaker 1: the reason why. But it's still staring at us right
- 10:27Speaker 1: in the face. They always could because he dared to
- 10:32Speaker 1: stump and politic and campaign and endorse Trump at the
- 10:35Speaker 1: Republican National Convention. That's where all this resurfaced hate came from.
- 10:39Speaker 1: Instead of taking a beat for a second and just saying, wow,
- 10:42Speaker 1: lost an American icon. Yeah, that's what it is. That's
- 10:44Speaker 1: exactly what it is, no matter how you feel about
- 10:46Speaker 1: the guy. But I'll never believe that this wasn't related
- 10:49Speaker 1: to that. Of course it was absolutely was, But there's
- 10:53Speaker 1: that the takeaway. You gotta be able to separate a
- 10:57Speaker 1: public image from a private image. And if that guy's status,
- 11:02Speaker 1: if that guy's image meant something to you and your
- 11:05Speaker 1: childhood or now or your kids, don't let anybody knock
- 11:08Speaker 1: that off. Don't let anybody try to convince you who
- 11:10Speaker 1: your idols are. You believe what you believe. Believable. God,
- 11:15Speaker 1: it was such a shame. I mean, I honestly thought
- 11:18Speaker 1: I thought there would be after the Ozzie Laws, another
- 11:20Speaker 1: one this week. I thought there would be like hate
- 11:22Speaker 1: people saying he's a devil worshiper. I didn't even see that.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Like people who believe that. Even they took a beat
- 11:28Speaker 1: because Ozzy wasn't in politics. There's your perfect example. But
- 11:31Speaker 1: Hulk finally came out of the woodwork and he did
- 11:34Speaker 1: jump into support Trump. That's where the hate's coming from.
- 11:38Speaker 1: Don't fool yourself, of course, that's where it's coming from.
- 11:40Speaker 1: But there were all kinds of dedications, including from one
- 11:43Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis. Yesterday, so he had some I don't even
- 11:46Speaker 1: know where it was in one of the sixty seven
- 11:48Speaker 1: Florida counties. Yesterday. He was speaking at some public event
- 11:50Speaker 1: and he had just heard the news about Hulk Hogan,
- 11:53Speaker 1: and this is ironic. He starts talking about what an
- 11:57Speaker 1: icon Hulk Hogan was to him through childhood and through
- 12:01Speaker 1: the nineties and even today and his kids and I
- 12:03Speaker 1: guess the family had met hulcub several times whatever. So
- 12:06Speaker 1: he was in the middle of his speech, he started
- 12:09Speaker 1: to tell some Hulk stories, well kind of sorta related
- 12:12Speaker 1: to that. He had a protester, a Heckler in the crowd,
- 12:16Speaker 1: and this is a great takeaway for all of us,
- 12:19Speaker 1: and how to handle being faced with being heckled publicly.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Desantus is getting really good at this. He used to
- 12:26Speaker 1: not be, but he is. He just kept on rolling. Ironically,
- 12:30Speaker 1: he was in the middle of talking about Hulk Hogan
- 12:32Speaker 1: at the time when he faced this hate in the crowd.
- 12:34Speaker 1: But this is exactly what happened. There's a couple of
- 12:37Speaker 1: f bombs in here from the heckler, from the loser
- 12:39Speaker 1: in the crowd. I'll try to like talk over that,
- 12:41Speaker 1: but you may hear it anyway.
- 12:42Speaker 3: So and so, like the first few WrestleManias I think
- 12:44Speaker 3: were like that. And I remember WrestleMania three, he was up, hey, stop, stop, stop,
- 12:49Speaker 3: I'm get out of here, get out of here, Get
- 12:54Speaker 3: out of here, Get out of here, get out of here,
- 12:57Speaker 3: get out of here now.
- 12:59Speaker 1: So we used to have the closed circuit, so you
- 13:04Speaker 1: would go and you would and then he went on
- 13:06Speaker 1: and he just started talking back about WrestleMania Hall Cogan stories. Great.
- 13:12Speaker 1: He just kept on rolling. I will tell you, if
- 13:14Speaker 1: you've ever done any public speaking in any kind of
- 13:16Speaker 1: a crowd and see including a hostile crowd, man', that's
- 13:19Speaker 1: a skill to learn and it's really valuable. And now
- 13:23Speaker 1: this has it while ironically he's talking about hul Cogan.
- 13:26Speaker 1: He gets heckled by this guy who I think he was.
- 13:30Speaker 1: I don't know what I heard in there too. Was
- 13:32Speaker 1: he talking about Alligator Ally? Trump? It gets to the
- 13:35Speaker 1: point where the protesters you don't even know what they're
- 13:37Speaker 1: angry about anymore. So the lesson is from DeSantis, and
- 13:40Speaker 1: he did a great job with this. Just keep on Roland,
- 13:43Speaker 1: keep on talking. Happened to be talking about hull Cogan
- 13:46Speaker 1: at the time, so he continued on with that message.
- 13:49Speaker 1: But he could have been talking about anything else, policy,
- 13:51Speaker 1: alligator ally, property taxes, who the hell knows. But good
- 13:56Speaker 1: job there by DeSantis. That's going to really help when
- 14:00Speaker 1: he does run for president again, because you know that's
- 14:02Speaker 1: gonna happen. All right. I got to clear up some
- 14:04Speaker 1: fake news that I got excited about to yesterday. I
- 14:06Speaker 1: was all excited and I heard it mostly from others
- 14:09Speaker 1: people's reaction. But the reaction I think is the news
- 14:15Speaker 1: story here. So the disgusting albatross's on the view, of course,
- 14:21Speaker 1: which is you want to talk about hate, that's where
- 14:22Speaker 1: most of the hate just comes from. That's their whole
- 14:24Speaker 1: business model. Joy Bayhart gets on there and she said
- 14:28Speaker 1: something that got everybody all excited. What she said was
- 14:31Speaker 1: this and before we go.
- 14:33Speaker 2: On hiatus, will only have one more show after this.
- 14:35Speaker 1: I'm allowed to say that ry.
- 14:37Speaker 2: Too late now, so it doesn't really matter.
- 14:40Speaker 1: Yeah, before we go I want And they went into
- 14:43Speaker 1: talking about more Trump hate and Trump arrangement syndrome which
- 14:46Speaker 1: she is infected by, and all this other stuff. All right,
- 14:48Speaker 1: what she said, we only have one more show that
- 14:50Speaker 1: got everybody all excited. Me too, I'm guilty as well.
- 14:55Speaker 1: They're not being canceled. It's just a scheduled hia hiatus.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Apparently so much so the reaction, and this is the
- 15:02Speaker 1: interesting part. The reaction built up so quickly in trending
- 15:06Speaker 1: news about the View being canceled that ABC had to
- 15:10Speaker 1: come out with a statement saying, no, they're just on
- 15:11Speaker 1: a scheduled hiatus, one more pre recorded show before that.
- 15:15Speaker 1: Heatis that's all it is, all right, So that's disappointing.
- 15:18Speaker 1: So that turned out to be a little bit of
- 15:19Speaker 1: fake news. They're not being canceled. Here's the story. Don't
- 15:23Speaker 1: look past it. We're in a world now after Colebart
- 15:28Speaker 1: getting canceled, where it's totally plausible for those Hags to
- 15:32Speaker 1: go away totally plausible. In fact, when she said that,
- 15:37Speaker 1: it was so plausible that everybody thought that's what she meant,
- 15:41Speaker 1: and and there was so much celebration over this that
- 15:45Speaker 1: it actually got to the heads and the PR department
- 15:47Speaker 1: of ABC and they had to release a statement. That's
- 15:50Speaker 1: the good news. So even if you're disappointed that the
- 15:52Speaker 1: view is still going to exist, God, I hate it
- 15:55Speaker 1: even playing the sound of her today, it's just that awful.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Good news is there's a lot of interest in that
- 16:03Speaker 1: thing going away. Couldn't you see that thing getting canceled
- 16:05Speaker 1: like soon? And the other propaganda late night hosts who
- 16:09Speaker 1: aren't even comedians anymore, they're just talk boxes for one
- 16:12Speaker 1: particular political party. Couldn't you see them going away soon? Too?
- 16:16Speaker 1: Absolutely you could, and believe me, these producers and these
- 16:20Speaker 1: networks know that as well. It could happen. So the
- 16:24Speaker 1: next time we actually are talking about here on the
- 16:26Speaker 1: live stream in the podcast, the view getting canceled, it's
- 16:31Speaker 1: not gonna be shocking at all, but we will celebrate
- 16:35Speaker 1: and celebrate you should. You know, a tough week Eric
- 16:39Speaker 1: losing all these icons, especially for anybody else in gen X.
- 16:42Speaker 1: If you grew up in the eighties and nineties, all
- 16:43Speaker 1: these all these classic heroes, Ozzy, Hulk, Hogan, even Malcolm
- 16:49Speaker 1: Jamal Warner from The Cosby Show. Losing him too just awful,
- 16:52Speaker 1: just sad news. But here's the takeaway. Here's what you
- 16:56Speaker 1: gotta do. You gotta celebrate what they brought, either the
- 17:00Speaker 1: music or the on stage entertainment or the TV show
- 17:05Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. And don't ever ever let
- 17:08Speaker 1: anybody disparage your heroes just because the haters didn't like
- 17:12Speaker 1: their politics. That's just ridiculous. All right, next week's going
- 17:16Speaker 1: to be better. We had a lot of bad news
- 17:18Speaker 1: this week, so it's going to be better. And also
- 17:20Speaker 1: here let's start it off with this. Here's the first
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