Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm Sca'm scared the podcast i'm your host madeline i'm your co-host david and today we're

doing something topical i am it's a little it's two weeks late it is too i i'm having my heel turn

i used to be a baby face.

Yeah, you're learning, these are words you just learned this morning, I'm guessing.

No, I, this is the, this is.

You know, you know these.

This is the extent of my knowledge because they are suffused into pop culture.

Okay. Got it.

But, I, and also Vince McMahon is a bad, bad man.

Yes.

I know that.

You know that.

I'm just saying words.

There's no reason that I'm talking like this.

This is how I always talk.

This is how David always talks and definitely is not because today we were going to talk about the W.W.E or in our generation, as it was known, the W.W.F.

Yes.

Hulk Hogan and unionization.

I mean, Hulk Hogan is a bull, right?

Yeah, I guess, yeah. And because he, and like, he's in the fetish community and the kink community. Is he? You know, this is what? This is like the, a part of the Peter Thiel origin story. Wait, what? No, I don't know anything about that. Well, it's technically not the Peter Thiel origin style. Wait, what? Okay, so this is how Gawker Media died. I know Gawker Media died, and we will talk about this a little bit, but not a lot. Just because they released a sex tape of Hulk Hogan having sex with somebody else's wife. With Bubba the Love Sponge's wife. Who is Baba Love Spunge? I believe he is a radio host.

Okay.

But earlier, Gawker Media had in their sort of like Valley report, like they used to do like a Silicon Valley like gossip column.

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