The Josh Innes Show - Hulkster Snubbed At The Emmy's

Episode Date: September 16, 2025

Hulk Hogan's ex-wife believes he was left out of the Emmy's In Memoriam because he was a Trump supporter. I mean, she's probably not wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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First off, it is important to note that while Hulk Hogan is not a scripted television series star, Hulk Hogan has been a fixture on television in some way or another for like the last 40-something years until the day he died he was a television star. Whether it's on wrestling, which there was a time that the most popular show on television was wrestling and he was part of that. Oh, and there was Thunder in Paradise. The guy has actually been the star of a primetime television show. Yes, it was on like TNT, but he was.

So, yeah, like 100%. I haven't even read what Linda Hogan has to say, but to not put Hulk Hogan in an in-memorium about television is a joke. Because I don't know who was in the in-memorium, but I guarantee you there was somebody that was included in this that did not have as big of an impact on television as Holkogen. Over the number of decades that he did, Hulk Hogan was there for wrestling in the 80s.

Then in the 90s, when wrestling was the hottest commodity out there with Raw and Nitro, he was part of that. He's been on The Tonight Show. He's been on Thunder and Paradise. He's been on T&A wrestling. He's been back on WWE again. to not put Hulk Hogan in the in-memorium, and I haven't even read the story

or what her commentary was, 100% is bullshit. And if you want to say it was, I got a buddy of mine that was like, they didn't honor Charlie Kirk at the Emmys. I'm like, what the fuck did you expect them to do? It's the Emmys. You got Hannah Einbinder up there,

like, fuck ice and go birds and all this shit. So like, what did you think was going to happen? Like, you can't expect to have walked in there and been like, Guys, I'm really expecting to see that Charlie Kirk in memoriam in front of Seth Rogan, which apparently that Seth Rogan show is the studio won like a ton of awards and I'm like, dude, I thought it was a good show, right? I laughed. I enjoyed watching it. I like, like, for whatever reason, I inexplicably still like Seth Rogan, even though I know he'd hate me.

He'd hate all of you. He seems like a real cockbag now. but for whatever reason I enjoy him and I think it's part of it just I loved like the Apatow era movies that Seth Rogen was part of will always be brilliant and funny even though all of the people who made them

are cockbags now but like knocked up I saw seven times at the theater when it was out that was one of those movies that you went to see it and then like you heard that one of your buddies hadn't seen it and you're like shit

I'll go see it again and before you know you've seen it four times in a week because you want to go see it because it's just fucking funny it is a great movie. Seth Rogen has made great, funny. Neighbors is a funny movie.

They're just really good Seth Rogen movies that you laugh your balls off at. And it's Super Bad. As I've told you, I think Super Bad and Wedding Crashers are the two movies that I saw in the theater the most. But he hadn't seen it. We're going to see Wedding Crashers again. Or, boy, we're going to see Super Bad again.

Super bad out of all of those, and I love Wedding Crashers, Super Bad may be my favorite comedy of that era. Like I love a lot of comedies from different eras. But like that, like my early 20s, going to the movies with my buddies, taking girlfriends to the movies, seeing two or three movies a week, Superbad may have been the funniest movie from that era for me. And there were others. Borat was great.

Like there were so many. And I don't even mean to go down this path. And I don't want to sound like, you know, old man yells at Cloud or remember when guy. But movies were just funnier back then. because there seemed to be no there were no preconceived notions there was nothing it was just funny shit there's nothing political

about super bad it was just fucking funny there was nothing political about knocked up it was just fucking funny there was nothing political about wedding crashes it was just fucking funny there was nothing political about just friends it was just fucking funny

there was nothing honestly forgetting Sarah Marshall may look every time I think of a new movie I think, no, that was actually the funniest movie from that era. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I got dumped around the time that movie was out. I'm laughing my dick off at this movie. I'm going, I did all this shit. Like, it was such a good movie.

Borat. You just look at all of these movies, and you're like, every one of them is fucking hysterical and great, and you laugh your balls off at them. And I know we do this show once every couple weeks. I cannot think of the last time I went to the movies. And I'm like, I just fucking liked that. I laughed my ass off. Like, I went to see this new spinal tap last week just to say.

see something. And it was fine. You know, it's nostalgia and it's fine. And there's a couple of funny lines. But I'll be real with you. The funniest thing in the movie actually wasn't even in the movie. It was in the trailer, or not even the trailer, but like the coming attractions, they did a commercial for Asper Cream with the dudes from Spinal Tap. And I thought that was funnier than anything that was in the movie. Like, I love mockumentaries. And I'm watching this. And I'm like, I laughed a couple times. But I'm like, eh. Yeah, it kind of is what it is. It felt like some guys that were way past their prime doing this shit.

It wasn't that great. But it was fine. But I just don't go to the movies and laugh my balls off. And I've told you this and I truly believe that this is the biggest part of why we don't laugh our balls off at the movies anymore. Well, A, because they're just not as funny as they used to be. They're not as fun. Like the subject matter is dumb. Even comedies have to be powerful and it's lame and whatever.

Or it's some shitty remake of like Ghostbusters or something, whatever. But the biggest reason is how often do you go see? a movie, particularly a comedy, where it's a full house at the theater. And I'm telling you and you know this, when you're laughing and you're in a group of other people that are laughing, it becomes contagious and it makes things that are not all that funny, funny, and it takes things that are already funny and makes them hilarious. I know we've had this talk before, but I vividly remember being a young dude watching scary movie at the theater. Me and Dad went to see it. It was in 2000. We went to see it at the movie theater that was,

on the Universal City Walk in L.A., dad was there doing a movie or something, Scooby thing. And I remember going to see this movie, and it was just me and my dad and just a bunch of black folks. And they're laughing their fucking balls off, and we're laughing our balls off. And it's just the same way, like, it's like going to a baseball game with 40,000 people versus going to a game where there's 10,000 people. It's just a different vibe. It's a different energy. It's a different oomph, right? Like, something about Mary is another example of that.

I remember sitting in the theater with my dad, which again sounds odd to say, hey, I was like 10 years old. My dad took me to see something about Mary. But when she gets the jizz in her hair and listening to the reaction of the people when her hair's sticking up, it's like you don't get that at home. That's why I hope movies never die. And that's why I always try to go to the movies as often as I can because I am a big believer that you cannot replace the movie going experience. No matter how big your TV is, no matter how comfortable your chair is. you cannot replicate the feeling of sitting in a room with a bunch of strangers that who knows may have they may plug your ass you don't know you know now granted i mean if you're in st louis it's just a bunch of old people on their phones under blankets and shit that are yelling at the screen but it's just a different thing man like action movies aren't the same with it thrillers aren't the scary movies are as you get the jump scares and stuff but i miss that like i miss that world of like a pack theater opening night, you're laughing your dick off, funny fucking movie. You just don't get that

kind of stuff anymore. But anyway, back to Hulk Hogan. That's what this was supposed to be about. Linda Hogan has accused the Television Academy of deliberately omitting her late ex-husband, Hulk Hogan, from the televised end-memorium segment at the 2025 Emmy Awards due to his political alignments. Hulk Hogan, who died July 24th at age 71, is included in the Academy's online memorial, but not in the broadcast segment. Linda acknowledges she cannot prove motivations, but said her ex's public support of Donald Trump and a speech at the 24 Republican National Convention may have influenced the decision. Academy representatives have not responded publicly to the claim. I buy that. Part of it is they probably don't take him

seriously because he's a wrestler. And I don't know what other people they did put in or what other people they left out because I didn't watch the Emmys because I'm not going to watch the Emmys because it's not for me. But I can see that being the case. like if they had the pick and choose like which people they want to put on they probably view Hulk Hogan as a divisive figure whether that's fair or not whatever but they probably view Hogan as a divisive figure he's a right wing figure he has said the N word before I would imagine they're like nah fuck him and they probably just view him as some hacky wrestler and who doesn't is not worthy of the time on the televised in memoriam but I am tickled by who they include and who they

don't include in these things. Because, like, basically, if they include you, you're more important than someone else. And that's kind of dickish, is it not? But I buy that. I buy Linda McMahon's point there. I can see it. Like, that's their sandbox. So, like, again, I told you, I had a buddy of mine that was like, why didn't they honor Charlie Kirk at the Emmys? I don't know, because it's 99.9.9% liberal. And then Sidney, who might sort of kind of be a right-wing person, maybe possibly. So there's 99.9% of the people that are at least outwardly liberal people, whether they vote that way in real life or not, who knows.

And if they do, they'll never fucking say it. So you've got 99.9% liberal folks and Sidney's two titties that might be slightly right wing. What do you think they're going to do? Who do you think is the audience of the Emmys? Do you think there's some guy who's pissed off at Kalin DeBore in Alabama that's like, you know what I'm going to do tonight? I got to see if hacks takes home a couple of statutes.

Actually not. So they just play to their audience. That's what more people should do. That's why I always find it funny when people try to force things into situations that don't make sense. Like we got to make sure where we include more women on ESPN or something like that, right? Well, most of the people watching ESPN are dudes. They don't give a shit. Like, they don't need you to have a woman, man or whatever.

Just give me someone that knows some fucking ball and put them on TV, someone that's entertainment. They don't want you to force feed them a woman on there just because she's a woman. The audience doesn't want that. The audience at Cracker Barrel didn't want your new fucking hipster Cracker Barrel. They just wanted Cracker Barrel. Sometimes it's okay to just give the, like the breakfast club doesn't need Josh Ennis on there offering my white guy thoughts on shit. Hannity and Colms didn't need Combs. It just needed Hannity because the audience doesn't give a shit what a liberal has to say about anything.

Sometimes it's just okay to play to an audience of what you want and what the audience is. Nine out of ten dudes when they see Mina Kimes on TV, they're probably like, I don't get the fuck what Mina Kimes has to say. Whether that's fair or not, I'm not trying to rip Mina Kimes. I have no qualms with her having a job. But like, most dudes, when they flip that on, are probably like, I don't give a fuck. What does she know? You know? Like, it's okay.

Like when you hear stories like, well, there's an all-female space. sports bar. Okay. Like, best of luck. We're going to show all women's sports. Cool. Best of luck. I hope you make it. You probably won't. But best of luck to you. But sometimes just playing to the right, like play to the right audience. Again, like I had a buddy of mine who was overqualified to be a program director. And he once didn't get a job at a place because he was a white guy and it was a black station. Like sometimes you just play to the audience.

It probably would have been a great look to have a white guy running the black station. I mean, that's just the way these things go sometimes. And if you're the Emmys, why are you out there like, hey, Hulk Cogan, Hulkomaniacs? Like, no, our audience doesn't want that. Anybody who's watching, anybody, I wouldn't need a Venn diagram of people who watch the Emmys and people who subscribe to Keith Oberman's YouTube channel. Like, I imagine they overlap pretty strongly.