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Josh Widdicombe's Archive of Pop Culture

David Hasselhoff and the fall of the Berlin Wall (Part 4)

Josh Widdicombe's Archive of Pop Culture

Keep It Light Media

Comedy, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8956 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Episode 4: Baywatch and global domination In the final episode of this four part series we discuss his infamous Berlin Wall musical performance and finally set the record straight. Did he bring down the wall? And beyond that The Hoff is about to be the most watched man on TV on planet earth as the slow motion juggernaut that is Baywatch hits the shores and episodes are watched by a BILLION people globally... All episodes for this series are available to listen to now if you go to; ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://museumofpopculture.supportingcast.fm/⁠⁠⁠⁠ And join the Museum of Pop Culture fan club. If you want to get in touch with the show... Email: museumofpopculturepod@gmail.com Instagram: museumofpopculturepod New episodes are released twice weekly. Please subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word if nostalgic pop culture is your cup of tea!! A Keep It Light Media Production (Copyright 2026) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.5

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0:19.0

There's something I've got to tell you.

0:23.6

I had you on my monitor and I don't understand. This is your life, your program the same way I am.

0:26.6

I think of it this way.

0:28.6

Kit, there comes a time in your life,

0:30.6

just can't do anymore when all your energies have been used up.

0:34.6

Michael, I may not be flesh and blood, but I am a friend. And I wish you happiness, but I still don't understand.

0:41.3

In a way, neither do I.

0:48.3

So we find ourselves New Year's Eve, 1989.

0:56.9

David Hashoff has asked to perform on the Berlin Wall.

1:00.4

The end of an old era, the start of a new one.

1:03.0

Exactly.

1:03.9

Exactly.

1:04.7

What better, ma'am.

1:05.8

And the show do agree to this.

1:08.2

And then they have to get special permission from the Chancellor of Germany

1:11.0

Helmut Cole. I think that's a good idea. Yeah. If you're going to perform on the Berlin Wall, don't just rock up there on the day and hope it's going to be okay. So he doesn't perform directly on the wall. He's raised up on a crane above the wall. Yes. So a kind of, what are they called, they're kind of, not a fruit picker. Cherry picker. A cherry picker. Yeah. So that's the situation he finds himself in. Okay. Which I suppose it's quite a weird visual, isn't it? Yeah, but I think there's something about the kind of the pop star over the audience. Yes. You know, like there's something quite exciting about that.

1:46.1

Yeah, yeah.

1:47.3

So David Hussworth, I think the best way to view a lot of this is through his remembrance

1:52.5

of it.

1:53.1

Let's do it.

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