00:37:46 · John Coogan
[00:37:46] S1: Let's hear it for some advertisements There we we go. In other very very sad news, Hulk Hogan has passed away at age 70. 71. Cardiac arrest was what you said. Right, Jordi? I didn't actually delve into that. Looked a little bit more into, some of the history. I wanted to know a little bit more about his his story. There's a whole bunch of different profiles. There was at one point going to be a biopic about him. In a recent interview with Variety, director Todd Phillips revealed that his long gestating Hulk Hogan biopic will not progress. Unfortunately, it got canned. This was back in about a year ago today. I love what we were trying to do, but that's not gonna come together for me. Chris Hemsworth had signed on to play Hogan in early twenty nineteen with the Joker writer and director duo, Todd Phillips and Scott Silver attached to lead the charge. Film's producers, you got Phillips, Hogan, Hemsworth, Bradley Cooper, Michael Sugar Suger? Suger? I don't know. Stacked. And Hogan's long long time pal and and New World Order stable mate Eric Bischoff. In a July 2020 interview with Total Film, Hemsworth described the training he'd have to undergo to transform into the eighties WWE icon. As you can imagine, the preparation for the role will be insanely physical. I will have to put on more size than I ever have before, even more than I put on for Thor. There is this accent as well as the physicality of and the attitude Hemsworth said. The Hogan biopic would explore his rise to stardom in the early nineteen eighties. His WWF World Heavyweight Championship win over the Iron Sheik in 1980
00:39:28 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan, Alex Hawkinson
[00:39:28] S0: It's a role. You know that Hemsworth has a personal fitness training app I called Centr. [00:39:34] S1: I have heard of that. Is it good? [00:39:35] S0: Like, well, I'm really gonna have to use my app a lot for this role. [00:39:39] S1: Maybe we should start using his app. Get on the Hulk train. Become Hulkamaniacs as they call them. [00:39:46] S0: Did you grow up watching wrestling at all? [00:39:49] S1: I didn't. But I was aware of Hulk Hogan just through the lore because it was so dumb. [00:39:54] S0: Well, even I I feel like I would hear more about Hulk, Hulk Hogan in the context of the Gawker saga. [00:40:03] S1: Oh, yeah. We should go into that. I wanna I wanna pull up this Hulk Hogan video. I'll send it to the the team. There's some, like, great, like, rants. Where is it? There's one where he's where he's talking trash about something. Wow. Everything's just, like, RIP. But he was he was legendary at, like I don't what what do they call in UFC where you, like, are pre show pump up talking about the competition? I guess it's like a promo. Is that what it is? [00:40:38] S2: Makes [00:40:39] S1: sense. This one. Seek and destroy. We gotta watch this. I will put it in the tab so we can watch this. And then, yeah, we should talk about the Gawker fallout a little bit. Let me put that in there. The best promos. Hulk Hogan, Seek and Destroy. Let's pull that up. [00:40:56] S0: Hulk Hogan has recently been a founder. He has Here it is. A real American beer [00:41:03] S1: Oh, [00:41:03] S0: which yeah. He did with Okay. The Budweiser family.
00:41:03 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan, Tyler, Hulk Hogan
[00:41:03] S0: which yeah. He did with Okay. The Budweiser family. [00:41:07] S1: This is what we need to channel. We need to bring this energy to the show every day. [00:41:11] S3: Fully defending, but there are those right now that are questioning whether you can withstand the big man. [00:41:17] S4: I don't care about those people, man. I don't care about those people that aren't stark raven Hulkamaniacs. I could care less what they think. I'm fighting for life, brother. I'm fighting for all those people that have remolded their lives, man. Modeled after Hulkamania. Get their priorities in order, man. Walk around with a lot of pride. As far as those people that are on Andre the Giant's side, I wish they'd come on down too. I like to slap them around just for a warm up. But I've already gone through my transformation, man. I'm ready for Pontiac, Michigan. I'm not the Hulk anymore. I'm the Hulkster man. Look into my eyes, man. Oh, come That mountaintop, back off, little man. I'm on that mountaintop, and I'm waiting for you, Andre. And I'm guarding that mountain. And the Hulkster that's guarding has got a 32 inch neck, a 64 inch chest, the largest arms in the world. And I'm here to seek and destroy, seek and destroy the cancer of Andre the Giant, seek and destroy the Weasels empire. And what you're gonna do Andre in Pontiac, Michigan when Hulkamania destroys you. [00:42:27] S3: He is indeed absolutely livid. Going against the man that one time he looked up to and respected. Hulk Hogan to the fans.
00:42:27 · Tyler, John Coogan, Jordi Hays
[00:42:27] S3: He is indeed absolutely livid. Going against the man that one time he looked up to and respected. Hulk Hogan to the fans. [00:42:35] S1: That's the energy I want, Sundar Pichai to bring to Google. I got 85,000,000,000 of CapEx. I grew 50% top line. I know I'm coming for Sam Altman. They're coming for me. I'm coming for I'm coming They're coming for me. I'm coming for them. I got 450,000,000 MAUs on the Gemini app. The search overviews are going great. They're monetizing just as well as regular search results. Come here to Mountain View. Catcher. Get down to Mountain View. And if you're riding with if you're riding with the the Andre the Giant, like, you gotta be a Stark Raven Hulkamaniac. That's so good. I love it. Chris Hemsworth signed on to play Thor from Thor, signed on to play Hogan in early twenty nineteen. He said he had to put on a lot of size. The biopic would have explored his rise to stardom in the early nineteen eighties, and then Hulkamania takeover that ruled the wrestling world well into the nineteen nineties. Phillips' take on Hulkamania was going to stay away from Hogan's recent controversies instead focus solely on the early years. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are currently developing a film titled Killing Gawker that will explore Hogan's campaign against the media empire in the wake of an explosive home video. [00:43:54] S0: Hulk Hogan was six foot seven which is why [00:43:58] S1: Pretty close. [00:43:58] S0: You'd able to heightmog him. [00:43:59] S1: Pretty close to me. He's crazy. [00:44:02] S0: He's got you on next He's next for sure.
00:44:02 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[00:44:02] S0: He's got you on next He's next for sure. [00:44:06] S1: For sure. And I think I will be staying away from his supplement stack. Hopefully hoping hoping to make [00:44:11] S0: it Yeah. Longer. Really sad though. [00:44:15] S1: Yeah. Very sad. What a what a career and what a fantastic The Hulk the Hulk Hogan theme song, I am a real American. Such a good song. Such a great rallying [00:44:24] S0: name of his beer, Real American Beer. [00:44:27] S1: Yeah. Fight for the rights of every man. Such a good song. Light, crisp, crushable. So, is a there is a reflective piece in the New Yorker about Hulk Hogan's Gawker lawsuit that we can go through. But first, let me tell you about Linear. Linear is a purpose built tool for planning and building products. Meet the modern Meet the system for modern software development, streamline issues, projects and product road maps. Go to linear app homepage. And, you know, if Hogan's selling beer, you gotta get you on numeralhq.com, sales tax on autopilot. Spend less than five minutes per month on sales tax compliance. [00:45:07] S0: Friend of mine is was business partners with with No way. Hogan on that. That's crazy. Yeah. [00:45:15] S1: So we have Zak Kukoff joining at noon to break down the AI day yesterday in Washington DC. The besties met up with the [00:45:24] S0: They crushed it.
00:45:24 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[00:45:24] S0: They crushed it. [00:45:24] S1: Hill and Valley crew. Honestly crushed it. We have a bunch of great posts that we can run through. First, let's go through a little bit of the Hulk Hogan loss Gawker lawsuit. This is from 2016, well before we actually saw the the results from all this. But, on Monday afternoon, a Florida jury added $25,000,000 in punitive damages to the $115,000,000 it had awarded Hulk Hogan on Friday in his invasion of privacy case against Gawker media. Hogan sued Gawker for posting portions of a sex tape it received from an anonymous sender. It's a shocking amount, not least because it's $40,000,000 more than Hogan, whose real name is Tade de la la, had demanded. Verdicts of this size can pose an existential risk to media to a media company. That's what happened to Gawker. Gawker has reported that it earned $44,000,000 in revenue in 2014. In in January, Gawker's owner Nick Denton announced that he had sold a portion of his company to investors in order to fund this case. Gawker will certainly appeal the verdict as it should after it pays a bond of up to $50,000,000 arguing that the jury was unreasonable in finding that Hogan's right to privacy outweighed Gawker's right to publish the material, which it believes was of public interest which is a very yeah. It's [00:46:38] S0: it's Strange defense. [00:46:40] S1: It is. It is. It is hard to to argue. He is a public figure but this is a very personal thing. [00:46:46] S0: I mean, if they had just posted that it existed and they had seen it.