[00:00:01] This is the news on. You call that radio episode?
[00:00:06] No. Season. I don't know, I.
[00:00:11] It's been a. It's been a long summer. It's been a long summer.
[00:00:16] I'm sitting here with a broken foot.
[00:00:19] I can only hear it in one ear and I've got tinnitus in the other ear.
[00:00:24] I've been moving house.
[00:00:26] I have been festival season. Festival season pretty much.
[00:00:33] And yeah, the thought I thought would do is the news is still going up on the YouTube channel. If you don't know YouTube.com forward/call that radio. It's where I try and keep things a bit more updated, but I thought I would gather together three of the most recent news topics, throw them in and make something for you audio podcast listeners.
[00:00:58] So we're going to.
[00:01:00] What we're going to talk about today, we're going to talk about the Epstein Files, we are going to talk about the. The life and lies of Hulk Hogan.
[00:01:11] We are going to speak about the Coldplay Cheater couple and I might throw a wee bonus thing and at the end as well, I hope everybody's well.
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[00:02:11] I would like to say that we are playing our biggest gig in about 10 years in 31 August. Gyro babies, dreams Are Mental. The Glasgow Barrel and Ballroom Sunday 31st August is part of Soapy Fest, which also includes Mickey Nines, the twist dates, Colonel Mustard, the Dijon 5 and the Filthy Tongues. It'll be hosted by Bobby the Barman from Still Game, AKA Gavin Mitchell and Phil Jupiters will be spinning tunes in between.
[00:02:45] So I hope we can make that tickets available via Ticket Scotland.
[00:02:49] It would mean a lot if we could just sell that out. It's dedicated to our good friend Soapy, who sadly passed away earlier on in the year.
[00:02:57] And all proceeds go to the Beacon charity and Mary Curie as well.
[00:03:04] So two very good cancer charities that do good work.
[00:03:08] So just by sell out, have a night of music, love and color. Everyone's welcome.
[00:03:15] I hope you can make it. And this is the news on. You call that radio?
[00:03:23] Tv, this is.
[00:03:28] You call that radio. If you're one of those people who just realized this week that Donald Trump is on the Epstein list, then you may be feeling a little bit let down, angry, foolish even, especially if you voted for Trump.
[00:03:51] Or we're just a guy from Ayrshire who was vocal in social media about Donald Trump was going to take down the depraved elite.
[00:04:02] And now you've just realized there's the depraved elite.
[00:04:10] I just want to ask you, if you've watched I just want to ask everyone new south park episode.
[00:04:16] If you've not watched it, then you should.
[00:04:21] And after you've watched it, you'll agree it's time to get off the, the Trump train.
[00:04:28] You can still save some face.
[00:04:33] People do respect.
[00:04:37] People will disrespect people. People do genuinely respect people for changing their mind in the face of new evidence. And there's a lot of new evidence popping up. I mean, a lot of that evidence is actually old evidence. It was fairly well known.
[00:04:56] You know, there's more pictures of Trump and Epstein together than the rest of the Chuckle Brothers together.
[00:05:05] In fact, there's actually one picture of Trump, Epstein and one of the Chuckle Brothers together.
[00:05:12] But you could, you can make an argument now that you didn't know. I mean, now this week, you know that he's definitely on the list. I mean, everyone knows that he's. He's on the list.
[00:05:23] So you can just say, right, okay, I was wrong about Trump. Or you could just say, I don't know, just pretend that you were never into Trump. That's another way of doing it. That's just like, just pretend that you never said that you thought that Donald Trump had your interests at heart. Just pretend you never said that stuff. Pretend you never said Donald Trump will take the deep state down, even though he was present for four years before it didn't.
[00:05:53] But you could just pretend that all that stuff never, ever happened.
[00:05:59] Just pretend it never happened.
[00:06:03] Or just say, be honest and say, I didn't know that he was a mad pedo. Allegedly.
[00:06:10] This is me just finding it for the first time.
[00:06:14] And people will respect that. I think, I think, I think, I think they'll do that.
[00:06:23] What you can't do. What you can't do is you can't double down.
[00:06:27] You cannot double down and say stupid like Scotland or the UK needs someone like Trump, because nobody's ever going to look at you the same way again.
[00:06:41] Because it's now clear beyond a doubt that you will never written about the try to get rid of the deep state. You were never trying to save the women and save the children from predators.
[00:06:58] It was never about that. If you double down now and see that you're still pro Trump, it just makes you either a racist person or a idiot.
[00:07:10] Look, everyone has been very patient with you.
[00:07:15] It's a miracle you have any friends left, and I'm guessing you've lost a few by now.
[00:07:22] But friendships, family, relationships, stuff like that can be mended by accepting you were. You were duped. You were conned by a con man who was backed by billionaires and social media tech people like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. And, you know, you got lost in the social media algorithms and, you know, and the fact that Democrats wheeled out a man with dementia, like something that a Weekend at Bernie's every day to try and combat a daily onslaught of slanderous lies, ludicrous claims and childish insults.
[00:08:05] So, you know, you could, you can still save face here. You can still save face here.
[00:08:14] And maybe, maybe you meant well. Maybe you meant well. You're a good person, you meant well, but you just didn't think. Well, Trump was Epstein's pal for 15 years, invited him to his wedding.
[00:08:29] I mean, that one video of them dancing together and ogling the ladies, they were pals, man.
[00:08:37] They were always pals.
[00:08:40] I don't know how you, how he didn't see that. But that's not to say there won't be Democrats on the list, too. Of course there will be.
[00:08:49] There definitely will be. But Donald J. Trump will be at the top, in bold font, underlined.
[00:08:58] The Democrats, the Republicans, they're part of the same show.
[00:09:02] And this is, this is the point I'm trying to make, is, look, why on earth would you think that, like, an elderly white billionaire would make any decisions that would have a positive impact on the lives of normal working people? He's never been a normal working person. He probably doesn't know any normal working people.
[00:09:28] He doesn't care about the price of eggs.
[00:09:32] He wanted to become president again.
[00:09:37] You know, I want to become president again.
[00:09:41] Not just for the money and the power, but this time to keep himself out of jail.
[00:09:47] And he would say anything, absolutely anything you wanted to hear.
[00:09:55] The phrase con man comes from confidence man. He's a very confident man. He's the best confident man in the world.
[00:10:03] He is the best confidence.
[00:10:06] And the fact that he's an old man with a track record of delaying court cases with the best lawyers money can buy.
[00:10:16] It will never be held to account.
[00:10:19] He'll never go to jail or deal with any sort of real consequences such as his wealth and his connections.
[00:10:27] But that brings me to South Park.
[00:10:29] The craters Stone and Parker just brutalized as presidency and the most vicious and brutal way possible.
[00:10:42] And this will actually hurt him.
[00:10:46] This is all we've got. Really.
[00:10:49] This is all we've got is satire is pretty much dead because Trump's taking things so far.
[00:10:58] South park were ruthless.
[00:11:00] Trump's ego is frail.
[00:11:03] He will be furious, absolutely furious.
[00:11:08] And he'll be want to sue them.
[00:11:11] But the whole episode revolves around a president who goes around suing people.
[00:11:17] So it can't be slanderous if true. Is Donald Trump going to take South Bar to court, sue them and say here I don't sue people.
[00:11:29] I want Donald Trump to die knowing that he left this world a laughing stock and a failure.
[00:11:37] This guy's fell up his entire Life. He's in 34 felonies plus all the other shit that he's not actually been even got off with. It's never went to court.
[00:11:47] All the. He's in Scotland just now.
[00:11:51] The. The local people of Scotland that he bullied to build his golf courses.
[00:11:57] He's got away with murder. Probably literally. Mother. Allegedly.
[00:12:01] You know, Hogan died weirdly this week on the same day Epstein's lawyer died this week.
[00:12:09] Here I'm just throwing it out there based on nothing.
[00:12:12] Based on absolutely nothing. But it makes you think.
[00:12:16] Time will tell.
[00:12:19] Seems. And remember Epstein died on Donald Trump's watch as well.
[00:12:24] That's also worth mentioning I think.
[00:12:28] So a guy that's not actually going to face any real consequences if south park get the ball rolling and everyone just starts destroying and just laying into this guy.
[00:12:43] He dies knowing that he left this world a laughing stock.
[00:12:49] A failure after living a life of luxury.
[00:12:55] I think there's something that we can take from that.
[00:13:00] I would prefer him to go jail for his crimes.
[00:13:04] But rich and powerful people don't tend to go to jail for their crimes.
[00:13:11] It's different laws for different people.
[00:13:16] One exception that proves the the rule is Ghislaine Maxwell, second in command to Epstein's trafficking ring. Although maybe it was the other way around and Epstein was second in command. We don't actually know, we will likely never know.
[00:13:32] But because of this current situation, all she needs to do is say in court that Trump is innocent, and then Trump will give her a pardon and be released back into a life of luxury.
[00:13:48] This is how there is rules and laws for different people.
[00:13:53] And if that happens, and it looks like that's what's going to happen, if that happens, is your duty as a human being not to celebrate the release of an evil woman?
[00:14:07] Because just last year you thought she was an evil woman, just last week you thought she was an evil woman, and now you're starting to think maybe she's innocent or she was judged too harshly.
[00:14:18] I think if she says Trump is innocent, I think a lot of that would soothe the. The feelings that a lot of Trump fans are having just now.
[00:14:33] What you need to stop another thing is stop blaming the Matrix.
[00:14:38] It's a film. It's a film I've never seen, to be fair, I've never seen it. I don't know if it's any good, but I hear people saying that it's the Matrix fault, when actually what's happening is all the racist people you follow turn out to be perverts.
[00:14:55] What does that.
[00:14:57] What does the Matrix. What's the Matrix got to do with that?
[00:15:01] Is Andrew T. And Russell Brand and Tommy Robinson all being attacked by the Matrix?
[00:15:10] No.
[00:15:11] They're being blackmailed by billionaires to tell you how to think.
[00:15:16] And they want you to think that war is fine and immigration is the biggest issue on the planet right now.
[00:15:26] Not genocide, not austerity, not corporate greed.
[00:15:31] They want you to punch down rather than look up.
[00:15:37] And this is what Trump told you to care about, the Epstein files, and now he tells you that you are stupid for even bringing it up.
[00:15:52] He said that there was no files and then he says there was files, but the fake fails and now he's releasing the pedophiles rather than the Epstein files.
[00:16:02] He'd rather you.
[00:16:05] What he wants you to do is he wants you to get angry at trans women in sports or genderless toilets, or the fact that Coca Cola doesn't taste as good without cane sugar. Or the fact that a football team used to be called the Redskins and they should be called the Redskins again.
[00:16:26] Or the fact that you can't scream the N word in public anymore.
[00:16:33] Where is this freedom of speech narrative, though, when people with NiiCap shout Free Palestine in the UK right now, by using the word Palestine in action in the same banner, you can be arrested.
[00:16:54] That's not freedom of speech.
[00:16:57] Where is back to America though. Where is free speech when the president sues or threatens to arrest anyone who disagrees with him Whereas free speech when you, you have to leave your phone in the house if you want to visit the USA in case a meme you shared may may have upset the great leader, you could.
[00:17:28] There's no way I would try and go to the USA just now. There's no way tourism's tanking in the usa. Nobody wants to go, nobody wants to end up in a cell in El Salvador or Venezuela or something for saying, for sharing a meme that's not free speech that he just wants you to be what the right means by free speech is they want you to be free to use homophobic and racist slurs.
[00:17:58] And I suppose the question there is how much does that mean to you? Because it's quite obvious that, that he's not good at the economy, he's not good at protect saving the children. He's not good at getting rid of the deep state, he's not good at releasing the, the conspiracies.
[00:18:15] Any fails on any conspiracies. So, so what is he good at? He's good at letting you use hate speech. So you can, you can I suppose it's, it comes down to how important is using homophobic and racist slurs to you.
[00:18:31] If that is the most important thing to you, then stay on the Trump train. That's the guy for you because he'll let you do that. It just won't let you criticize anything that else you know, don't criticize anything else. He does obviously.
[00:18:51] But I don't know how these I don't know why you think the freedom to use a slur is going to help you or your family in any way. Is it going to help you buy food when the economy collapses and the earth that you live on gets turned into a wheelie bin in the name of profits for What? The top 1%.
[00:19:20] And you're worried about raising taxes because you think that you do you think you're ever going to get end up in the 1%?
[00:19:27] Is that how you imagine things going?
[00:19:30] That you're just going to end up in the top 1% and you don't want to pay more tax.
[00:19:38] As I record this, Donald Trump is in Scotland right now. He's granny with some store on the way.
[00:19:44] But generally everyone speak generally generally speaking everybody in Scotland despises the current we don't tend to fall for the rich guy con man although because Starmer is so unpopular while the SNP do nothing. In fact, the snp, I think are meeting Trump.
[00:20:09] There is a very strong chance that Nigel Farage could be our next prime minister.
[00:20:13] Another friend of Trump, Both funded by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. And coming up with us, make Europe great again. Push the same. The same thing.
[00:20:27] Who is that? Who was that? Trump's inauguration, The Facebook guy, the Amazon guy.
[00:20:33] Your algorithms have lied to you and it's time to fact check anything you see or hear before you blindly believe it. And what south park has done effortlessly is predicted how Trump will react to this.
[00:20:49] It might be enough to avoid a lawsuit and a cancellation because they've literally just predicted what's he going to do? He can't sue them for saying that he sues people.
[00:21:02] And as for the teeny weeny penis thing, what's he going to do?
[00:21:06] Get his boss written court?
[00:21:09] Paramount literally just signed a billion dollar deal with South Park.
[00:21:15] Paramount just paid Trump a lawsuit of $16 million.
[00:21:21] They've attacked South Parks, attacked the President and the people who pay their own TV shows wages.
[00:21:29] They've laid out exactly what Trump is and what he will do.
[00:21:36] And a well crafted piece of art that is easy to understand for everyone.
[00:21:42] South park have used their freedom of speech, they always have.
[00:21:47] And you laughed when the shoe was another foot and they were slagging the Democrats or the politically correct and all that stuff.
[00:21:55] They don't care who they offend.
[00:21:58] And if you're offended by this new episode, then you are a snowflake who is against freedom of speech.
[00:22:07] And the best part is, is that Trump just signed a bill saying that there is no consequences of using AI, which makes the finale of episode one of South park of season 27 even more hilarious.
[00:22:21] Trump loves AI. He should win. Last week a video of him arresting Obama and previously he shared a sickening video of him turning Palestine. And he's some sort of Trumpian party beach.
[00:22:34] So payback's a.
[00:22:37] South park used AI very well to show a naked overweight Trump falling about in the desert.
[00:22:45] And this is just episode one.
[00:22:47] Shout out to south park, the last bastion of self aware satire that we have.
[00:22:55] And if you agreed, then give us a.
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[00:23:10] If you disagree, then leave a comment and let me know why.
[00:23:15] Or just don't bother. Do what you want. You always do anyway. This is. You call that radio? This is the news.
[00:23:24] Okay, we're going to talk about the Coldplay guy.
[00:23:28] The Coldplay guy. The the millionaire or billionaire CEO that got caught cheating with his vice president at a Coldplay gig.
[00:23:39] This is the news on. You call that radio tv?
[00:23:43] You call that radio tv? First of all, let me be controversial by saying two things.
[00:23:49] Coldplay's first two albums were actually really good.
[00:23:55] I don't care what anyone says. They were actually good. The first two. The first two. The first two. But getting caught at a Coldplay gig is embarrassing on its own. Right?
[00:24:05] Also, shout out to Coldplay for giving 10% of all their proceeds to the the grassroots music venue Trust, whatever they're called. Again, second of all, any smidging or tiny little bit of sympathy of this guy being exposed as a lying rat on such a public level vanishes as soon as you see his carefully written statement, which assume was carefully written by chat GPT and. And then edited by Alan Partridge or something.
[00:24:40] Right? Here's the video in question where Chris Martin actually calls it live. He probably thought he was joking, but it turns out it was bang on the money.
[00:24:52] Yeah. Oh, look at these two. All right, come on. You're okay. Oh. What?
[00:24:59] Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy.
[00:25:05] I'm not quite sure I think this is real, but Coldplay have released a statement saying, starting with our next show, we're introducing camera free audience sections for people and their side pieces.
[00:25:23] The reason this has went so viral and captured the public's imagination is he's allegedly a billionaire, or at the very least a millionaire, and people are sick of their shit.
[00:25:38] Also, I think he works in AI.
[00:25:41] I'm not sure if he wants an AI, but I'll just fact check that in a second. And not only is AI stealing all our jobs in a world where governments are trying to kill, demean and exploit the unemployed, but we're just sick of hearing about robots, sick of dealing with chatbots, sick of being offered the new AI friend to help us send a fucking email.
[00:26:06] Let me double check what's in AI before I go any further. It looks like the kind of guy who does.
[00:26:13] Okay. Astronomer is a data infrastructure company that provides tools to help organizations manage and streamline complex data workflows. At its core is Astro, a data orchestration and observability platform powered by the open source tool Apache Airflow.
[00:26:39] Now, if I'm going to be really honest, I don't know what any of those words mean to me.
[00:26:45] You may as well say that he's programming robot dogs to shoot lasers at Palestine activists.
[00:26:53] But anyway, his former colleague says he's A cun.
[00:26:57] And it's been good for the memes.
[00:27:01] In fact, before we do that, let's. Before we look at the memes, let's look at the actual statement, which is the best meme out of them all.
[00:27:09] Like I said, it looks like he's either paid a slick PR company that writes the same press release statements for everybody, or he's used ChatGPT and it's been edited by Alan Partridges or someone like that.
[00:27:23] I'm not going to read it all, but look up for yourself or read it on the screen. Just know if you're watching it in YouTube because it's an absolute load of shite.
[00:27:32] And it's just what you'd expect for a billionaire who get caught cheating with his vice president at a Coldplay gig. But the best bit is the way that he kind of says he's going to take some time away to reflect, and then he blames it in Coldplay because he didn't consent.
[00:27:51] So he's going to take his time to reflect, but he also blames it all in Coldplay.
[00:27:56] What a roaster, man. Absolute grade A roaster.
[00:28:01] And it also ends with. I think a wise man once said, lights will guide me, I will try to fix you.
[00:28:07] In quotes, one of the cheesier Coldplay songs. And there's a few to choose from and that genre. But let's get to the memes because it's inspired some good, good memes. So let's go to them. Who says getting caught having an affair with an executive at a Coldplay concert gotta be top five whitest things in history.
[00:28:29] You've got to agree with that.
[00:28:31] Pretty, pretty white for a.
[00:28:34] For an AI guy.
[00:28:38] Next. What we got Next. Pop Base says Astronomer CEO Andy Byron's wife removes his last name from her Facebook profile following viral video of his alleged affair.
[00:28:50] That there has got a divorce lawyer has rubbing his hands. The divorce lawyer has already been called.
[00:28:56] Divorce lawyer is rubbing his hands, hoping that he can get Chris Martin to testify in court.
[00:29:04] It's got to go. He's got to go out of court settlement. He's got to give 90% of what he owns.
[00:29:10] And this one's interesting from Chevy, the embarrassed girly next to him. So you see in the video that there's a Lassie that's got this big smile and she's. She's got a red. She's got a red face. She's mortified. But she's also having the time of her life as well. She's laughing.
[00:29:27] Apparently she got promoted to head of PR just a week ago, probably because she knew there was an affair. And then you've got another guy who's with him who's just jumping up and down for joy, celebrating the absolute cinema of it all.
[00:29:44] And Ryan Peterson says Board should give him a raise. Without this viral moment, I'd have never known that Astronomer is used by Enterprise clients to manage Apache airflow and achieve 70% higher uptime than self managed airflow.
[00:29:59] I didn't know that either. Once again, I cannot understand each individual word, but not in a sentence like that. I'm sure they're making robot dogs for the Israeli government.
[00:30:16] What? Retired? I says married CEOs can't even hug and romantically sway with their married head of HR during a Coldplay concert anymore because of woke.
[00:30:27] It's a woke thing, guys.
[00:30:30] The world's got too woke to cheat on your wife at a Coldplay and okay, we'll do one more. We'll do one more, we'll do, we'll do do one more.
[00:30:40] String says worst part about this is, you know it's going to lead to him posting on LinkedIn something like I got caught cheating at a Coldplay concert. He here's what it taught me about business to business sales.
[00:30:54] And that's probably a very accurate prediction because these kind of people, these kind of ball bags, they always fall up the way.
[00:31:04] He'll probably write a book, do the podcast, do the right wing podcast routine and yeah, and make himself the victim.
[00:31:13] Anyway, join us. I enjoyed that. I enjoyed that. Join us next week where we'll be talking about how the President is a pedo allegedly.
[00:31:22] And if you can't release the Epstein files, then at least release the Coldplay files.
[00:31:28] Someone who can release the secret information. Though, as the gyro babies, our new single the Secret Information is out now on all platforms. Check it out. Like subscribe, leave a comment. In fact, do what you like. You always do. Anyway, bye.
[00:31:59] The booze rang out as Hulk Hogan made his final public appearance in the WWE promoting his Real American Beer in front of what should have been an adoring audience.
[00:32:13] This is an organization and a form of entertainment he almost single handedly popularized alongside Vince McMahon.
[00:32:22] Two months later he was dead and nobody seems to have a a good word to say about him.
[00:32:30] Why does everyone hate Hulk Hogan?
[00:32:34] You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead.
[00:32:37] I know that.
[00:32:38] But if you're a bad person when you're alive, then you're probably not going to be charming and in the afterlife.
[00:32:46] But as the heat excessive, is it all necessary?
[00:32:50] Was Hogan as bad as everyone is making it?
[00:32:54] Or is everyone being a wee bit harsh?
[00:32:58] Let's find out. This is the news on. You call that radio?
[00:33:04] It would have been early 90s before the Hulkster and Hulkamania would appear in my radar.
[00:33:13] He was everywhere, appearing on all the chat shows, cameos and sitcoms.
[00:33:21] Later Hollywood movies like Mr. Nanny.
[00:33:25] At this point we didn't have Sky TV or cable or anything like that.
[00:33:31] Yes, this is even before the Internet. Well then on existed, but it didn't serve any real purpose.
[00:33:38] Now it may be wrong, but I feel like I might have even had an action figure of Hulk Hogan before I even saw the current wrestle.
[00:33:47] That's how big the height was.
[00:33:49] I think the first time I saw Hogan actually fight would have been against Ultimate Warrior at a friend's house.
[00:33:56] My friend was an Ultimate Warrior fan. I had no idea who he was, so I wanted Hogan to win, even though I didn't know.
[00:34:06] Then we moved to a scheme where it was kind of like in a cable area.
[00:34:11] My dad managed to tune a few channels in.
[00:34:14] Not sure if we were supposed to get them or not, but we had Sky 1 for the wrestling and Star Trek the Next Generation Alster as well for Preston, Cell Blockage, WCW and maybe a few German channels like Vox, which had weird Europop music like Scatman John and the occasional Boob.
[00:34:41] You could also get a few very grainy Cartoon Network and sometimes the football.
[00:34:48] This was old school. This was tiny screwdriver and a telly with an aerial booster. Kind of old school.
[00:34:56] But with sky one we got WWF Superstars and I think man Owen recorded other shows because she actually had legitimate sky so. Or cable. It was cable.
[00:35:10] So she would record like WWF Challenge and the bigger shows that the Americans called Pay Per View, which I thought was Pay Per View, but it was Pay Purview.
[00:35:23] And yeah, I got right into it.
[00:35:28] Probably just until about that at Chidera Ish. And then my dad sat me down and told me it was time to grow up and I just.
[00:35:39] Just got more into football and he recorded over my VHS wrestling tapes. We couldn't Eastwood movies and stuff like that.
[00:35:49] But before that there was probably six or seven years of obsessively watching wrestling as Hulk Hogan was in his prime at the time. So I feel like I know enough to have an opinion worth sharing.
[00:36:05] My band also got booed off stage by a thousand wrestling fans at the classic grand during ICW's annual square go. So I think that's got to count for something.
[00:36:16] I've also watched hours and hours worth of documentaries and shoot interviews where wrestlers slag other wrestlers in my older age as I try to make sense of wrestling as a thing.
[00:36:32] Now, you may not watch wrestling, but I recommend the documentaries and the shooting reviews and stuff like that because the rock and roll industry cannot hold a candle compared to the drugs, tragedy, comedy and infighting that goes on in professional wrestling.
[00:36:50] And while I might not watch the actual wrestling anymore, I find the stories behind it riveting.
[00:36:56] And you know, I mean riveting because I've never once said the word riveting before.
[00:37:05] So why does everyone hate Hulk Hogan?
[00:37:09] Well, there's the racist stuff, obviously. He said things I don't want to repeat. He was caught with one of those hot mic incidents where he never knew he was being recorded and it's nasty stuff he was saying and you can look that up yourself. He also sided with Trump and as as Trump's second term implodes over the Epstein files, history's not going to look back and fondness with anyone who helped that guy get re elected. And that goes for all the the comedy podcast people as well. I maybe do a separate, separate show on that.
[00:37:49] But while it may be easy, it's not the Trump thing. It's that made the wrestling fans because I mean half the wrestling fans are Trump fans.
[00:38:00] That's not why you get booed. They get booed for the racist stuff and the lies.
[00:38:06] And it may be easy to look the other way when a Highland granny says something not particularly PC, but racism like that stems from ignorance. And here is a man who traveled the world and worked with people of all colors. So ignorance is no excuse.
[00:38:23] And I don't like people that judge others based on their skin color. Simple as that.
[00:38:31] I'm sure he was nice to some of his white friends and his white family, but evidence suggests otherwise in that front too. I mean, if you listen to the racist stuff, it's a lot of it's regarding his daughter's boyfriend at the time.
[00:38:49] However, the main reason that the wrestlers don't like him is because he told a lot of lies. And a lot of lies are actually really funny. Some really funny lies I want to share with you in a minute. But probably the main reason that not too many wrestlers jumped up and, you know, gave the man his flowers when he, when he passed away last week is the fact that he never wanted to lose cleaning. You know, you always had to beat him by cheating.
[00:39:20] So is the phrase is putting someone over because he didn't we want to pass when the torch or put people over it made them very unlikable in the eyes of many of his peers and many wrestling fans.
[00:39:34] And probably the worst move he made was grassing up or telling tales on Jesse Ventura when he tried. Jesse Ventura was trying to unionize the wrestlers so they could get better pay and health benefits.
[00:39:49] And the Hulkster told Vince McMahon quickly put an end to any plans or dreams of of a fairer, more equal federation.
[00:40:03] So Hogan was a multi millionaire and good friends with Vince. So as long as he was alright, he didn't really care about the rest of the guys in the locker room whether they were being treated right or not by a billion dollar corporation.
[00:40:16] And this is a company that's making billions of pounds on the blood, sweat and death of these athletes.
[00:40:25] And when they get injured they were treated like a horse with a broken leg at a grand national.
[00:40:33] I can't claim to know the huckster personally, although a few friends in my primary school came up to me one day and told me some very exciting news that Hulk Hogan, Rowdy Roddy Piper and the British Bulldog were going to be visiting my primary school.
[00:40:53] I was absolutely buzzing all day or for most of the day until I was told that it was an April Fool's joke.
[00:41:01] I've never trusted anyone ever since.
[00:41:06] And nobody ever trusted Hogan because the guy spouted some amount of shite.
[00:41:12] Let's look at some of his biggest lies here.
[00:41:15] It blows my mind that a world famous muscle bound multi millionaire would have to make up so much stuff to impress people.
[00:41:25] And I think these statements he made should be studied.
[00:41:29] Let's start with the Metallica one.
[00:41:32] Hulk Hogan claimed the Metallica asked him to play bass guitar on a world tour with the band.
[00:41:39] The band confirmed that this conversation never happened.
[00:41:43] It seems outrageous that one of the biggest bands in the world would offer him this gig.
[00:41:50] Especially since the only evidence I've seen of Hulk Hogan playing bass guitar was a really weird video of a maiming bass guitar with Vince McMahon singing Check that out. But I think he did play in a cover band before the wrestling fame.
[00:42:06] And he did have a musical career of sorts.
[00:42:09] Although it was mostly wrestling themed songs.
[00:42:13] I think he had a fairly big hit charted anyway was when he covered Gary Glitter, the Gary Glitter song Leader of the Gang with a band called Green Jelly. Not really sure why that happened, but it happened.
[00:42:30] And the song that sticks out for me was the. The B side. It was called Hulkster in Heaven and it was Cheese and toast bowed.
[00:42:42] That I can quote verbatim.
[00:42:45] It went. I read it in the paper, I saw it on tv.
[00:42:50] I guess there'll be one more empty seat. When I wrestled at Wembley, I used to tear my shirt but now you tore my heart.
[00:42:58] I knew you were a Hulkamaniac right from the very start.
[00:43:03] Now that song stands out to me because it was shite. And even though I was a child, I knew it was shite.
[00:43:10] But then when you hear the backstory, it kind of makes you feel a bit guilty for thinking it's shite.
[00:43:15] It's actually the story behind it was quite touching.
[00:43:18] It was a bit about a sick child, a Make a Wish foundation child.
[00:43:24] He got free tickets to his match at Wembley Stadium, but the kid died during the show and he had to fight on, looking over at that empty seat in the front row.
[00:43:38] But the meaning, the song changes considerably when you find out he never wrestled at Wembley Stadium. He never, ever wrestled at Wembley Stadium.
[00:43:50] And the sick child never existed.
[00:43:55] I reckon Simon Cowell wrote that.
[00:43:58] No, no, he wrote. Simon Cowell wrote Slam Jam, which I believe was the first ever cassette I got with my pocket money.
[00:44:11] So I'm just being honest. I'm trying to be honest. I'm trying not to do a Hulk Hogan here. I actually bought that cassette.
[00:44:17] His good friend, the Mouth of the South, Jimmy Hart, co wrote the Hulkster In Heaven.
[00:44:25] So that was a weird song. It's even weirder because later on he claimed the song was written about and dedicated to James Boger, which is. It's wild.
[00:44:37] And then there's a song that he didn't write after he was dissed by Macho Man, Randy Savage. Oh yeah, dig it.
[00:44:45] With a song called Be A Man Hogan. Actually quite a good tune, to be fair to the Macho Man. It's a good diss track.
[00:44:52] And Hogan never replied.
[00:44:56] He never replied that he shot it. From the Macho Man's Be A Man Hogan song.
[00:45:02] It's also widely thought that the Macho man gave him a black eye right before his big return at WrestleMania.
[00:45:10] He'd been away for a few years, he came back and he beat Yokozuna. And it was. It was a surprise that he came back, but it was also a surprise he had a black eye and stitches.
[00:45:22] And it was claimed he was punched because the Macho man accused him of cheating on him with his then wife Elizabeth.
[00:45:32] And Macho man was also commentating. And he was making a few sly digs as well during that.
[00:45:40] But Macho man was as mad as A box of frogs too. So there's a suggestion that to give him the benefit of the doubt here, it could have been Macho Man's intense paranoia caused by copious amounts of cocaine use.
[00:45:53] But him getting scalped with him getting scalped by Savage makes more sense than a speedboat hitting him in the eye at 80 miles per hour, which is what Hulk Hogan would claim happened. He just said that he was in the water and a speedboat 80 miles an hour right in the eye.
[00:46:13] And that's because the black eye.
[00:46:16] So we don't know, we don't know for sure. Maybe, maybe that that's what happened.
[00:46:24] But he's never sort of claims if we're going to give him the benefit of doubt for that one. Maybe he didn't get punched in the eye. Maybe a speedboat did hit him in the eye.
[00:46:34] What about this one? The George Foreman Grill. The famous George Foreman Grill.
[00:46:40] Apparently it was meant to be the Hulk Hogan Grill, but he missed a phone call.
[00:46:45] He went for a walk. The phone rang while he was at the house and he didn't get the call.
[00:46:51] So the people, the grill people decided to give the gig to George Foreman instead.
[00:46:57] And that seems very unlikely to me.
[00:47:02] You know, you try, you want, you want to make the Hulk Hogan Grill and you try phone him once, he doesn't answer the phone and you go, what about George Foreman?
[00:47:14] But it seems unlikely to me.
[00:47:18] But not as unlikely as his claim that Elvis Presley was a self confessed Hulkamaniac. Apparently Elvis was a massive fan of what Hulk Hogan did and what Hulk Hogan stood for.
[00:47:29] The only problem is that Elvis Presley died in 1979 in the early Hulkamania area.
[00:47:38] Hulkamania era began in 1985, so there was a six year gap in times there.
[00:47:48] So it seems unlikely that Elvis had a Hulk Hogan action figure. And hopefully you're seeing a pattern.
[00:47:55] It's usually the ones that you can definitively prove. There's this big time gaps like the.
[00:48:03] He claimed that he was the first and only person to body slam Andre the Giant. That's not true. I think even Hulk Hogan had slammed him before off camera. But this was back in the kayfab era when people talked fibs about stuff like that.
[00:48:18] So that's fine. If he wants to claim he was the first and only person to slam Andre the Giant despite the large evidence that he wasn't, that's fine.
[00:48:28] But what is quite disturbing is he claimed that Andre the Giant died a few days later due to the injuries of said body slam rather than the Reality of him dying seven years later due to heart failure.
[00:48:45] Another time gap issue is he claimed that he out drank John Belushi five years after John Belushi had passed away.
[00:48:56] He said that he saved British the Barber Beefcake's life when he didn't he.
[00:49:02] And he claimed that the undertaker broke his neck when in fact the undertaker performed the move safely and Hulk Hogan's neck was absolutely fine.
[00:49:14] And then there was a steroids lie.
[00:49:17] Now, I don't actually think that's bad.
[00:49:22] I think that's a fine to lie about.
[00:49:24] It was quite obviously on steroids. They were all on steroids. They're all on steroids and coke. Look up these interviews. Look up Hulk Hogan, Macho man, the Mega Maniacs with Mean Gene Oakland.
[00:49:35] You can see they're all on steroids and cocaine. And you can't admit to that though obviously if you're a baby face and you're trying to be a role model, you can't admit that. So I think that one's fine, that that's a normal lie.
[00:49:49] I understand why you have to lie in that scenario, but the rest of it makes no sense at all.
[00:49:56] The fact just.
[00:49:58] It's a bit sad, I suppose. I don't know if it's sad the amount of insecurity there or, or it may just be funny. I mean, see, if you take away all the, the racist stuff, the, the Trump stuff and the fact that it was a union scab that failed his peers, it actually seems like it was quite a good laugh.
[00:50:22] And it's also worth pointing out that Hogan died on the same day as Epstein's lawyer.
[00:50:28] And I'm just going to leave that there.
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[00:50:47] Kneecap have been dropped from the Transmit Festival due to inverted commas.
[00:50:53] Safety concerns.
[00:50:56] Safety concerns from the police Scotland and possibly is likely due to the fact that the Orange Walk is in town the very next day.
[00:51:08] So I'm obviously disappointed but not surprised that police Scotland have no safety concerns over sectarian marches.
[00:51:18] I'm disappointed in First Minister John Swinney and the Scottish government for applying pressure on the festival.
[00:51:26] And I'm obviously disappointed in Live Nation for folding like a deck chair under a bit of pressure at this stage. Details are still very sketchy.
[00:51:40] BBC claims that NI Cap have pulled out but that would be appear to be a complete and blatant lie.
[00:51:48] So nothing new there from the British Broadcasting Corporation but has the council actually threatened to withdraw the license for the festival.
[00:52:01] I would say that's the only way that Live Nation can walk this back.
[00:52:06] Right now there's going to be thousands of people demanding refunds and there's going to be a major social media backlash.
[00:52:14] So considering Live Nation only care about profit, then if I was just a hazard, I guess I would say that the festival was in jeopardy if they continued with Kneecap on the bill.
[00:52:27] It all feels very sinister and could be the beginning of censorship of the arts on a whole new scale I've never seen before in my lifetime.
[00:52:41] And I don't even know how the refunds are going to work because I know with festivals it usually says in a small print that bands and times are subject to change, but they'll be even bigger backlash if they don't refund the people.
[00:52:56] And another thing I want to just bring up is everyone clutching their perils at Kneecap lyrics.
[00:53:03] These are usually people that like to talk about freedom of speech and they appear on Glasgow Live comment threads talking about how you would get more jail time for saying hurty words.
[00:53:15] Where is the hurty words gang at today?
[00:53:19] They're nowhere to be found with regards to this.
[00:53:24] And then the other irony is that 50 cent is still on the bill, a man who's made a career out of doing songs about gun violence, drug dealing and misogyny since the late 90s.
[00:53:39] And I'm not for one second saying we should ban 50 cent.
[00:53:43] But if I was to. If I were to play a game and compare lyrics, you would say, you know, if you compare 50 Cent's lyrics with kneecap lyrics, what 50 Cent says is definitely much worse.
[00:53:56] But nobody cares because it will never say Free Palestine on stage.
[00:54:02] And it doesn't really get political, apart from the occasional pro Trump Instagram post.
[00:54:09] I love the Get Richer, Die trying, which is $0.50 breakout album.
[00:54:16] It was. It was a great album. I loved it. I kind of went off him by the time the Massacre came out, because I feel like I was. This is back in the days where you paid 15 pound for a CD.
[00:54:28] I feel like the next album he was just sort of boasting about how much money I had and I was skin. So I was like, why, why? Why am I paying 15 pounds to listen to a guy boast about how much money he's got? So I kind of went off him.
[00:54:41] And apart from the fact that he trolls Diddy and Rick Ross, which can be quite funny, I have not listened to his music in a long, long time.
[00:54:54] But he says Bad things. Do the people of Glasgow need protected against songs about drug dealing and pimping and shooting people?
[00:55:07] And you go on and on. But it's not about the lyrics, it's about the safety concern.
[00:55:10] 50 Cent get shot nine times.
[00:55:13] Surely being shot is a safety concern.
[00:55:17] No, they're not going to ban 50 Cent, obviously.
[00:55:25] Would they ban Kanye West?
[00:55:27] Would Live Nation and the council ban Kan us who just made a song about Hitler?
[00:55:34] Do you know, I don't think they would because it's not about anti Semitism, it's about being anti genocide.
[00:55:43] 50 Cent talks about selling crack, shooting people and glamorizing the occupation of being a pimp.
[00:55:51] I don't think it glamorizes the lifestyle in general.
[00:55:55] Rather it reflects his experiences, which is what an artist is supposed to do. It's the same thing Kneecap are doing.
[00:56:03] So surely Scotland can't just ban people because they say something you don't like, Especially when the thing you don't like is being anti genocide.
[00:56:15] So people are upset about an anti genocide statement.
[00:56:19] People are more upset about someone being anti genocide than they are of the actual genocide.
[00:56:26] None of this makes any sense, man. Doesn't he?
[00:56:29] Being against the killing of innocence is now can get you banned from playing a music festival.
[00:56:37] Just what we said that the last show. And you call that radio. Imagine John Swinney made his own festival. Imagine how boring and dull that would be.
[00:56:48] No politics and music.
[00:56:49] Let's not have any politics.
[00:56:52] Imagine, please. Scotland were in charge of throwing a party. Imagine how shite that would be. You know, Remember all this drama started because Ni Cap had a Free Palestine banner at Coachella. And since then there's been a concerted effort to blackball the band ever since.
[00:57:12] And it disgusts me that the council, the First Minister or the Polish can dictate who or doesn't play.
[00:57:22] And Kneecap will still play Glasgow now on the 8th of July at the Academy.
[00:57:27] It will sell out rapid. I expect him to add a couple more dates to that because what you're witnessing is the Barbara Streisand effect in real time. The more you try to ban a band, the more people want to see them.
[00:57:41] And Yeah, I expect NiiCap to go from strength to strength and I expect Transmit to have some major problems this year.
[00:57:51] It could destroy the festival.
[00:57:54] And then the Scottish government's got to look at. They've just destroyed their biggest festival in Scotland and reflect on that.
[00:58:05] There should be a lot of reflecting done.
[00:58:07] Bang. Your order and tickets are on sale. I'll put a link to to get the pre sale tickets for Kneecap. I expect that to sell out rapid and. Yeah, let me know if you agree. What do you think about this?
[00:58:22] This is mental to me. Absolutely mental.
[00:58:25] No, it's also mental.
[00:58:27] Dreams Are Mental.
[00:58:29] Dreams Are Mental is the new album from the Gyro Babies. That's my band.
[00:58:35] We released it on Band Camp at the end of March. Only in Band Camp there's been a few singles on all platforms, but I think by the time you listen to this, Dreams Are Mental should be available on all the platforms.
[00:58:49] We thought we'd release it in August before the big gig in 31 August at the Glasgow Barrow and Ballroom would make mean the world if you could come to the gig and check it out.
[00:59:01] And if you want a vinyl or CD or a digital download, it's available in Bandcamp. And probably roughly by the time you listen to this, it should be on all other platforms. It's called Dreams Are Mental.
[00:59:12] Tickets for the Barras gig are available via Ticket Scotland. If you want to support you call that radio, then you can do
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