Podcast #545: Coldplay, the WNBA, and the American Dream
Drunk Ex-Pastors
Christian Kingery
4.7 • 565 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
After paying tribute to Hulk Hogan we revisit some old report cards from elementary school. We discuss Coldplay-Gate and the responses to it on social media, and then we turn our attention to the shirts the players wore at the WNBA All-Star Game. We play a TikTok about the death of the American dream, and hear from a caller with strong opinions on our coverage of AI.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, homeskillet? |
| 0:03.4 | Yo man, rest in peace to Hulk Hogan. |
| 0:06.0 | Yeah, I know. |
| 0:07.0 | I just saw that right before it was actually, I turned on the TV so I can, that's where I put |
| 0:11.4 | your face. |
| 0:12.1 | And right before that, like, news was on before it flashed to the computer and it said that |
| 0:17.2 | he had just died at 71. |
| 0:19.2 | Yeah, it was funny. |
| 0:20.2 | I wrote a, um, it's hilarious. Well, I wrote a Facebook post that... I didn't know Hulk Hogan was going to die, you know, but I wrote a Facebook post that said... Because two other people died, you know? It was like, who was it? I forget. Malcolm Jamal Warner and Ozzy Osbourne. Yeah, so I I said first Theo Huxable, now Ozzy Osbourne. |
| 0:38.1 | Who's next? |
| 0:38.6 | Wolf Blitzer. Right. Because I was just trying to think of like the most like dissimilar trio of people. Yeah. But I could have easily put Hulk Hogan and it would have worked. And then he died. What if you had said Holt had Hogan? Had said Hulk Hogan. Wow. Had said Hulk Hogan, that's hard. |
| 0:54.6 | Okay. |
| 0:55.3 | I remember when Rocky 3 came out because he was thunderlips in that. Yeah. I remember not knowing, like when they would say his name, at first I thought they were saying Holkogen. Like his name is like H-O-L-E-C-O-G-A-N, Hulk Hogan. |
| 1:13.0 | But it's like Hulk Hogan. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.7 | Rest in peace, Hulk, Hulkster. |
| 1:17.1 | Well, speaking of Rocky 3, because that's one that had Mr. T in it. |
| 1:23.4 | And I just read this whole thing the day about how Mr. T wasn't even an actor. |
| 1:28.1 | He was a he was a bouncer or something. |
| 1:31.9 | And like Sylvester Stallone like met him and insisted that he play, what was his name in that? |
| 1:39.2 | Clubber Lang. |
| 1:40.0 | Clubber Lang, yeah. |
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