Donny Roelvink thinks Tim Hofman’s brothers really make him puke. He thinks it is absurd that they wished his father Dries Roelvink dead in their podcast. “It’s shocking.”
Tim Hofman has two brothers who make a reprehensible podcast: Brothers, in which they swear ‘k*nker’ countless times in every episode and talk about intimacy in an extremely adolescent way. The brothers in question, their names are Sam and Rijk Hofman, also wished the folk singer Dries Roelvink to death. The reason? They criticize his Instagram videos.
‘Not funny’
It is very sad, says his son Donny Roelvink. “I found it shocking. Look, I also sent Rijk a text. I told Rijk that he knows better than anyone what it’s like when something is said about you and that he would probably react the same as me. That’s in one ear and out the other,” he says The Telegraph.
He continues: “But I thought what Sam said was quite intense. Of course, he mixes it in some kind of joke, but I don’t think wishing death on each other is funny.”
‘Really has to die’
Donny listened back to the statements. “They were talking about my father, it was about meatballs and at one point they first said: ‘That Dries really needs to step into the Lego with his bare feet.’ Well, I thought that was funny, and then in one go a very quick contrast joke of: ‘He really has to die.’”
That has nothing to do with humor, Donny thinks. “Then I thought a bit: apparently they have that sense of humor, but I don’t find that very funny.”
Different level
Does Donny know those brothers personally? “Besides that, I don’t know them very well at all. Rijk once put a tattoo on my calf for an MTV item, so we have quite a close bond in that respect. Shame. Anyway, we’ll just leave it at that, because if that’s their level, then that’s their level and we have to be above that.”
It’s sad, Donny thinks. “We don’t wish death on other people. I expected Rijk, of all people, whose brother has been seriously threatened with death, with a gun and all that… I expected them not to make those kinds of jokes, but hey, if that’s their level, that their level, right?”
Strike back
When the Telegraaf reporter asks Donny if he doesn’t want to hit back a little harder, he answers: “We are neat, boy. We don’t do that. That is their level and our level is a different level.”