[laughs]

And then, uh [laughs] and then the, the producer Cale goes, "Trust me, you're gonna be perfect for it." And I looked up Dan Hibiki, and the description of the character was, "All confidence, no ability."

Andrew, what do you want people to take away?

Oh, I want them to be able to escape for two hours, you know? Like, I think there's just so much, like, existential doom in the world, it'd be great to provide that to people.

They go into the movie theater and kinda have that experience that we had.

And also there's just, like, this, the most beautiful time I think for us is the '90s.

It's like the last time before everything was on camera.

Yeah,

basically.

Actually, you know what's funny is what they said is, they're like, hey, we want you to be in Street Fighter.

And I was like, awesome.

Am I going to be Ryu or Ken? Like, naturally, you'd think.

I'm like, I've got to be one of these guys.

And then they're like, no, you're going to be Dan Hibiki.

Were you thinking the words or were you just thinking the character?

Oh, man.

The, uh...

No, the, the guy, I remember the [laughs]...

Kale, shout out Kale.

Kale goes, uh, "Listen, I have a role in this movie, Street Fighter.

I think you're gonna be perfect for it." And I'm like, "Okay." And naturally, your ego starts going like, "All right, am I Ken or am I, am I Ryu? Like, ugh, what am I gonna be in this?"

[laughs]

He did.

Okay.

Uh, old man, he's old.

He's old.

He's, like, 90s.

Him and his wife are downstairs, and I don't know what, if it was the weather or what they ate.

They're, but they're eating, like, some oysters or something like that, and she gets, uh, she starts to get horny.

The aphrodisiac.

The aphrodisiac kicks in.

You've made me think that it doesn't happen anymore.

I would never do it if I'm Andrew Tate, because the reality is Jake Paul is probably gonna beat you, and that's not saying that you're not an incredible fighter.

Clearly, he's a fucking kickboxing world champion.

Like, one of the best kickboxers of his time, there's no doubt, right? We know that for a fact.

You probably haven't kickboxed in years.

If you've done any training at all, you know that the instincts, not just the muscles atrophy, the instincts do.

The timing does.

Yeah.

That was actually his true whatever coming out.

Yeah, it almost benefits every podcaster to do stand-up once so you can say you're a comedian.

So you've got the comedian card? Yeah, just do it one time and then say you're a comedian and then just say more or less whatever you want.

Because comics were like...

How do I say it? It's like if you see somebody dressed in like a provocative manner.

Right.

And they're your school teacher.

But I do think that the simplest solution is individual people terrified about losing their job, looking out for themselves.

[laughs]

The top line five things, everybody knew.

Now I feel like with the algorithm, we're so divided up that, like, it's maybe only one thing, if it gets big enough-

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[laughs] He was in Australia for a month doing nothing but filming Street Fighter.

But as we all have all discussed, this was a set where people were going on days they weren't shooting.

So that, that is true.

There's, there's one thing that I realized though when you play the villain, and I r- didn't realize until this movie, and I should have, is that when you're, you're just on set when you're the number one, when you're the villain.

Oh, yeah

... is there, is there an appreciation of the heel? Maybe you're not speaking behind the scenes, but is there, is there, is there part of you that's going, "Okay, they're generating a lot of heat that is gonna allow me to deliver on that"? And is there, like, an unsaid thank you, or is it-

Yeah.

And I looked up Dan Hibiki, and the first description was, "All confidence, no ability." [laughs]

Yeah, cool

...

in the hallway scene.

And it's just Cody's walking down.

He's got a new descriptor for Ken's hair.

You know, like, and every single time we're talking, we're trying to pop each other, trying to break each other.

Correct.

How can you be the top G? It's not very top G to lose to Jake Paul.

Maybe it doesn't happen.

You've made me think that it doesn't happen.

I would never do it if I'm Andrew Tate, because the reality is Jake Paul is probably going to beat you.

And that's not saying that you're not an incredible fighter.

Clearly, he's a fucking kickboxing world champion, like one of the best kickboxers of his time.

Yeah.

Hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I would say.

So yeah, I defend him, but I also understand these brands.

They're looking out for themselves, right? They don't really care about him, they care about his audience.

And then once he becomes too radioactive for them to make money, why are they gonna keep giving him money? Now, he's gotta remember that next time he does business with a brand, 'cause if they come back later and he continues to have the biggest show and blows the fuck up, and let's say he becomes, you know, the, the Rogan.

I guess maybe he's already the Rogan of the UK, but let's say he has the biggest fucking platform, then Gymshark could come back and be like, "Hey, we'd really like sponsorship." And he can go, "Fuck yourself.

... looking out for themselves.

about Boston Lloyd last night.

Yeah, obviously people will use him as an outlier because his use of drugs was so extreme, and he often would neglect even getting diagnostics to assess things, and he just, I don't know.

Like, again, I don't have all the insight on exactly what he was doing or not doing, but it seemed... you know it was a lot of uh some mental issues around the the compulsion to take certain things that he knew was probably unhealthy but anyway the bodybuilders that are trying to live the lifestyle though and are eating copious amounts of foods taking the drugs they need to maintain the high body weights like it's just it's just unhealthy in general like there's nothing fitness or health conducive about it at the end of the day that in esports too dangerous yeah obviously magnitude is different in terms of danger but i mean like one is uh yeah physically and mentally pretty problematic and then the esports thing

It's like the act of actually preparing

is not necessarily unhealthy when you are in the middle of off-season, you're training hard, you're doing...

Hopefully getting a decent step count still, eating your macro and micronutrients, but it's just when you get to the super physiological range of muscle tissue that your body's supposed to hold and it's literally fighting back against you to try and not hold as much size.

You're using drugs that your body was never meant to process at the amounts you're injecting into yourself, but you're bypassing all the regulating feedback systems such as hammering yourself with super physiological amounts.

It's just...

Feelings do not give a single fuck about

the fact.

But he's like an autistic robot.

Like he doesn't understand.

He caught a great grift off like the Christians.

And now that he no longer has societal utility, he's like really struggling.

Like societal utility is oftentimes what can make people like really powerful.

It's like chickens roosting.

it

in a few years.

Yeah, I'm going to have to eat this in a few years.

So I'm probably wrong.

But two things that I pay attention to.

um that i don't think a lot of people do pay attention to well there's a couple one is i think just how bad modern medicine is i think people just put a lot more faith in modern medicine than is warranted like our best ideas for a lot of things are surgery just cutting things out right uh treating things that are extraneous like oh you don't really need a gallbladder you don't really need an appendix so you don't really need tonsils oh that's false surplus requirement human body is very very efficient all those things are needed um I think the state of modern medicine is still pretty bad.

We don't have many good explanatory theories in biology.

And so many

Correct.

How can you be the top G? It's not very top G to lose to Jake Paul.

Maybe it doesn't happen.

You've made me think that it doesn't happen.

I would never do it if I'm Andrew Tate, because the reality is Jake Paul is probably going to beat you.

And that's not saying that you're not an incredible fighter.

Clearly, he's a fucking kickboxing world champion, like one of the best kickboxers of his time.

Yeah.

That was actually as true whatever coming out.

yeah it almost benefits every podcaster to do stand up once so you can say you're a comedian so you've got the comedian card yeah just do it one time and then say you're a comedian and then just say more or less whatever you want because like comics were like how do I say it it's like if you see somebody dressed in like a provocative manner right and they're your school teacher you're like what the fuck But if you saw like a stripper dressed in that way, you'd be like, oh, she's really conservative when she's not stripping.

Right.

So I think that's what it's like being a comedian where it's like you expect me to say even crazier shit.

So if I made the joke that he made, nobody will give a fuck.

But I think with a lot with Brian, I think you expect him to be very serious.

Like, he's serious about a lot of shit, even though he's fucking hilarious.

Looking after themselves.

Correct.

How can you be the top G? It's not very top G to lose to Jake Paul.

Maybe it doesn't happen.

You've made me think that it doesn't happen.

I would never do it if I'm Andrew Tate, because the reality is Jake Paul is probably going to beat you.

And that's not saying that you're not an incredible fighter.

Clearly, he's a fucking kickboxing world champion, like one of the best kickboxers of his time.

Yeah.

That was actually as true whatever coming out.

Yeah, it almost benefits every podcaster to do stand-up once so you can say you're a comedian.

So you've got the comedian card? Yeah, just do it one time and then say you're a comedian and then just say more or less whatever you want.

Because comics were like... how do I say it it's like if you see somebody dressed in like a provocative manner right and they're your school teacher you're like what the fuck but if you saw like a stripper dressed in that way you'd be like oh she's really conservative when she's not stripping right so I think that's what it's like being a comedian where it's like you expect me to say even crazier shit so if I made the joke that he made nobody would give a fuck but I think with a lot with Brian I think you expect him to be very serious Like, he's serious about a lot of shit, even though he's fucking hilarious.

Like, he was hilarious on our part.

I don't know if you saw our episode, but that motherfucker's funny.

So, yeah, it's a shame, man.

But I do think that the simplest solution is individual people terrified about losing their job, looking out for themselves.

Like, if

you do a show in the main room, you can, I mean, you can do it.

No, no, no.

What I mean, spot pay.

So, like, there was a time in L.A. when I would come here back in the day, and it was like, you make $10, $50, $7, $50, $10 for these just little spots.

Not headlining a show.

Doing 15 minutes.

they're starting to get it they still you know you talk to Norman you talk to Soder they're like we shouldn't have to do social media but we do it

... about the facts.

But he's, like, an autistic robot.

Like, he doesn't understand.

He, like, he caught a great grift off, like, the Christians, and now that he l- no longer has societal utility, he's, like, really struggling.

Like, societal utility is oftentimes what can make people, like, really powerful, and he rose to fame at a time where, like, conservatives felt, like, really scrutinized just for their beliefs.

And a lot of them just didn't have the arguments to defend their positions, right? They grew up in cities and states where it was normal to be a conservative, and then all of a sudden they're in these other places where they're like, "Can I even share this? Can I say I'm a conservative?" It's, like, really radioactive to be conservative.

Then all of a sudden, he's, like, this, like, really obviously smart, Harvard-educated arguer.

Mm-hmm.

What do you think is currently ignored by the media, but will be studied by historians? You're

asking me that question right now? What do I think is ignored by the media, but will be studied by historians? Well, I mean, the media is only focused on us.

very timely things, right? So it depends if you want to talk about timely or timeless, right? But as a simple example, if I just look at things that maybe the next five or 10 years that are going to make a massive difference that people are not focused enough on, And I think within two years, this will be obvious.

So like I'm making a prediction, predictions are tough.

And you're going to have to eat it in a few years.

Yeah, I'm going to have to eat this in a few years.

So I'm probably wrong.

And so many

they decide what

to cut, what to keep? That's a great question.

You know, I'm sure that they have their, everybody has their like list of what is right and wrong.

And I think that list is so malleable.

And I think that's, for me, that's the most fun part of standup is I like finding the divisive topic and then seeing if there's like one kernel that we can all agree on.

And sometimes that thing that we all agree on is the opposite of what everybody would like to present themselves as.

So like, Like I'm trying to think of even, I know I had a bit about abortion in the special, but I'm even thinking about like abortion right now, which is a very divisive topic, right? I don't know how you feel about it, but I've been like really thinking, I'm like, what is like the truth on how people feel about abortion? And I think I've gotten to it, which is, okay, everybody has a number of abortions where if you go past that, it's too many, right? So it's not really, even if you're liberal, it's not really your body, your choice.

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[laughs]

There's a, my dad has, uh, dementia and, uh, which is, you know, obviously very sad.

He's my hero and, you know.

He's, he introduces me in the special.

And, um, but, like, during this time where Em and I were trying to get pregnant, I would go over every week to see him, and, uh, he'd be like, "How are things going?" And I'm like, "Uh, ah, it's, you know, rough trying to get, um, I'm just trying to get pregnant and it's just not really going that well." And he would go, uh, he goes, "Well, if you need some help, you know, I could, I could help you."

... well the next day.

I will say it, it does kind of expose, like, uh, your true character in a lot of times.

And, uh, one of the cool rewarding things about it is just, like, seeing what, like, a good human my dad is.

You'd be like-

Oh, what's your story? Don't you dare be sour.

Clap for Stephanie and feel the power.

My wife's coming tonight, actually.

Yeah.

That's the one they built afterwards.

But I went to one as like, I mean, I'm talking about, like, young young, and, uh, this is like way...

I, I'm trying to think how old I was.

Mm-hmm.

They just didn't like what was happening, and I think the way that the current administration was campaigning, they were basically kind of saying, "Hey, everything's good.

We're gonna kind of keep doing this." I think a lot of Americans were like, "I don't really feel like it's good, so I'm gonna go for anything but this." But I think the idea of Trump is always, he's a populist, so if you vote for him, it means you love him, and you're obsessed with him, and you're MAGA till you die.

Where I think a lot of it is really just rejection.

In the same way that when people voted for Biden-

Mm-hmm.

What I found is, is like when you make fun of people based on things that they're proud of or they haven't realized about themselves, they don't feel offended.

They feel kind of seen.