The Grill

EPISODE 220: What Hulk Hogan got wrong.

There’s a statistic from the new Share & Tell that I need to lead with here, because it’s astounding.

In the 1990s, the second-most purchased home appliance, after the television, was the George Foreman Grill.

That’s right: the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine.

An invention whose economic power — and cultural legacy — remains underestimated, somehow, in the present. Even though everyone I know has used it, at one point. And even though George Foreman died on March 21, 2025, sparking a wave of tributes to his distinguished boxing career.

So: one of the things that I wanted to do, while out in Los Angeles this past week (more on this adventure later), was invite Friends of PTFO Mina Kimes and Mike Golic Jr. to hear our new reporting into how the Grill really came to be.

It’s a narrative that had been seized, previously, by none other than Hulk Hogan.

But no longer.

(Also: GuyTok, Gaitok, Mike McCarthy, and exclusive rod content.)

YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:

*crack*,

Pablo