Shaun
Host
00:00
This is Off To Off Topic, a show where two men with the attention spans of a squirrel try and fail to stay on topic with today's subject. Where will their oral meanderings take us? Well, stick around and listen, because today's Off To Off Topic topic is… Vetus, or that tongue guy as he's sometimes known. He is apparently the last person in the world to know about him. You knew about him. Everybody I brought him up to knows about him, except for me. I just caught on to him just maybe about a week ago. Hey, interesting dude, I'm going to learn about him. I will interject. 

Nate
Host
00:31
Know about him. I won't go that far. Acknowledge he drew breath. Sure that will go there. 

Shaun
Host
00:37
That is still far further than I ever knew about him. 

Nate
Host
00:40
I mean I've seen he's popped up on random stuff that I've seen on, I think, tiktok. I read across them once and I've watched them for about 0.3 seconds. 

Shaun
Host
00:50
Yeah, people doing reactions to him and stuff like that, yeah. 

Nate
Host
00:53
I mean, it didn't. I never was like oh wow, this guy is just… Okay, sure that guy's weird. 

Shaun
Host
00:59
Yeah, he is an interesting dude, and the video everybody's talking about that they see him on is the song he's known as the seventh element, and he's performing at a New Year's party in Russia, dressed like an alien, flicking his tongue like it's nobody's business. And I saw that guy and I was like, hmm, I'm going to learn more about him, namely because, as I was watching the video, the next thing up was like hey, history of Vetus. I'm like, hey, look at that. 

Nate
Host
01:19
Okay, I was like instantly like I saw this man ahead, of no more. Yes. 

Shaun
Host
01:22
I had to know more. 

Nate
Host
01:23
Who is that glorious silver god you know what he kind of reminds me of when I first thought it. Like anything you say, you talk about it. You ever see, when Peter Dinklage was on SNL. 

Shaun
Host
01:35
Oh, Space Pants. 

Nate
Host
01:37
Yes. 

Shaun
Host
01:41
Can you see these pants? They're out of this world. Yes, it is very space pantsy kind of feeling, and also everybody makes fun of him too. But you know, if that same video was all the same but you put David Bowie in that outfit, people would be screaming it's art, he's a genius, it's David Bowie, right? Yeah, it's all in. Who's performing it? 

Nate
Host
02:01
Well, here's. The thing is like everyone was like, oh, let's make fun of him, Like, but dude, the guys from middle nowhere, I'm assuming middle nowhere, Russia and you're talking about him. I think it's a success. Yeah, we're going to find out how big of a success he is too, because I was kind of surprised. Oh, I'm sure I was pretty surprised as well. 

Shaun
Host
02:18
But oh, we're both going to learn. It'll be a journey of discovery and joy. So today we're going to learn about Vitaly Grachev, or Vitas as his stage name is known. So our story takes place back in February 19th 1979 in Soviet Latvia, which I'm pretty sure is where Dr Doom ruled back in the day back then. Yeah, it is. 

Nate
Host
02:38
No, it was Latvia, but still close, but close enough. 

Shaun
Host
02:40
But close enough. But when I saw them, like that. Dr Doom. Yes, so there he is, being ruled by Dr Doom. 

Nate
Host
02:45
We can only assume that maybe two days. I still think it's. I still think Latvia is being ruled by Dr Doom. Like, yeah, I see on the map of. 

Shaun
Host
02:51
Like oh yeah. Well, there's Latvia is made of, and then there's Latvia which isn't, which is confusing. I think that's how it works. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, I would like to think that Vitas was actually like Dr Doom's experiment to escape from the lab and just kind of like slither through the woods and found a child and assimilated them and forced parents unwillingly to raise it, like sort of like parasite. 

Nate
Host
03:12
Yeah, I'm sure there's some movie about that too. 

Shaun
Host
03:16
Yeah and the parents are just like. There's like some weird alien child and the parents are just raising it. Normally Everybody's like what's wrong with your kid? There's nothing wrong with my child, he's beautiful. Mother feed me. But that's not actually how he was born. He was born to his father Vladus, and his mother Lydia. His mother was a costume designer and his father was said to be a musician of sorts, but he was mainly an absentee father as he took off about the age of three and his father, vitas, doesn't know a lot about him and his mom doesn't talk a lot about him. 

Nate
Host
03:47
Vitas's grandfather, however, did step into the room you never would be described as people said he was Like people. That's not really clear. Like well, was he or wasn't he in one? Of the you know like that says something, when people were like oh yeah, it is said he was. 

Shaun
Host
04:02
It's said he is a musician, but there's a lot of things we could say about him. Before that His grandfather stepped up to fill the fatherly role and he had musical talent in the form of performing a military choir and knowing some instruments as well. Family life was normal right up into the family. He decided to flee Dr Doomsgrip and moved from Latvia to the city of Odessa in the Ukraine, and that's where Vitas would start his plans for world domination. Well, start at the age of six, when he attended music school and started working on his singing skills and become became a debt at playing the accordion of all things. I'd like to think he'd like saw weird out on tour and was like that's the guy right there, want to be that. 

Nate
Host
04:42
I mean, did that true? For, like most accordion players, I mean I know I'm making a huge assumption, but I mean I can't. Nowadays I can't imagine anyone even touch the accordion without like thinking weird out. 

Shaun
Host
04:52
Yeah, I would imagine Eastern Europe, Russia a lot different, because they got polka history over there and I mean there's also during Cold War two, so weird out was really over in Eastern Europe much. 

Nate
Host
05:03
Well, I mean not, obviously not physically over there, but you know his music, the blessed music of the weird out. 

Shaun
Host
05:12
Yeah, weird out has graced over there, my God. In this video he's singing about his fat, and he's fat in a costume too. High quality entertainment there. We love you. Weird out, we love you. We are amazing. Yep. At the age of nine he started taking jazz vocal lessons and started doing some comedic stage performances and some acting work around. This time he actually developed a pretty good Michael Jackson impression and could also do moonwalk and sing Michael Jackson songs. Yo, that kind of thing. 

Nate
Host
05:43
I mean, if Michael Jackson middle, they're weird out definitely. 

Shaun
Host
05:46
This is very true. Yeah, now that you mentioned it, if Michael Jackson can make it weird out, it can make it, which I mean that's kind of the way it worked in life, because Michael Jackson's not around Weird out is. 

Nate
Host
05:57
He won. 

Shaun
Host
05:57
Yep, he won all because of the power of the accordion. I was thinking more like Highlander. 

Nate
Host
06:07
Somewhere several years ago, weird out was holding that sword over his head while lightning struck everything around him. 

Shaun
Host
06:13
Chops off Michael Jackson's head and little fedora just goes rolling off scene. By the age of 14, he was writing and performing songs, and it was this time he dropped the name Vitaly and decided to go with Vitas, because it sounded better as a stage name. It flowed better. I agree with him on that. So he's going around performing, doing stage work, music, michael Jackson tributes and doing photography, and those are the ways he was basically making money, while living in abject poverty in the Ukraine, because a lot of people are poor over there. He was no exception Around this time. 

06:47
He also wrote one of his biggest songs ever, opera number two, and he was performing that on stage when he was approached by a Russian music producer. Producers pulled him aside and said hey, kid, you got loads of talent. Make your way to Moscow and I can get you into the entertainment career. And the business car was like meet me out there. So what do you do when you're 14 and some weird dude just tells you to go, move to the big city and check up at his place and he'll get you a job in the music industry? Well, you actually do it. So Vitas did, ran off to Moscow with the dude and, surprisingly did not get murdered and killed when raped out of the deal. Surprisingly, yeah, kind of. I would assume that you know, if you're like out into Ukraine in poverty and some dudes like, yeah, come back to the big city with me, I'll show you how things are, that usually doesn't end well, I don't think. 

Nate
Host
07:33
Yeah, I would assume not. 

Shaun
Host
07:35
Anyways, he winds up out in Moscow doing basically the same thing he was doing back in the Ukraine performing in nightclubs, other small venues, writing music, building his name, enjoying poverty in Moscow as opposed to the Ukraine, and things really weren't going great, but they weren't going bad. He was getting his jobs that the guy promised and, you know, slowly working his way around town. Then they decided to make a trip back to Odessa to visit his family and there he laid eyes on his future spouse. He went to a playhouse and backstage he met the love of his life. In fact, he even says that she was the love of his life. 

Nate
Host
08:11
Soon as he saw her. Yeah, that's what I was waiting for. I was waiting for her like a gender, a gender pronoun that I'd be like okay, and he met. 

Shaun
Host
08:21
It was in fact a she, and he fell head over heels, madly in love. In fact, it kind of sounds like he started like a wooing or right on the spot and it was like hey, I love you, I can't be without you for more than 10 seconds from me here on, come back to Moscow with me and we can start from our music career out there, which, I mean, that seems like all sorts of red flags, doesn't it? 

Nate
Host
08:40
Yeah, hey, come follow me to the other country. 

Shaun
Host
08:44
His words were to is like literally Soon. As I saw her, I knew I couldn't spend another moment without her in my life, and so he approached her with a prospect of running out to Moscow, like like the music producer did to him beforehand, and she agreed, apparently, that's the thing you want to do in the Ukraine is just run off to Moscow with random people who just show up and like hey, I'll take care of you. 

Nate
Host
09:05
I mean, let's be real. You know like, okay, which show do you want to be in? That's what. 

Shaun
Host
09:09
I mean, it's not like these people are living in high and Beverly Hills, you know, on top of their mansion. So Vita's did decide to do the right thing and approached the lady's mother and was like, hey, I want to woo your daughter away from you and take her off to Moscow and marry her and make her an honest woman, so on and so forth. And barely her mom just kind of shrugged and was like All right, whatever, go do it, I don't care. Probably one less mouth to feed or something Right. 

Nate
Host
09:38
It's Russia. Yeah, it's Russia. I mean, I'm not saying that Russians don't love their children, but it's Russia. 

Shaun
Host
09:45
Yeah, and Nelson pins out how many they have, because even around here I'm sure there's a lot of families like we can get rid of, like three of these kids. 

Nate
Host
09:53
Yeah, I mean, you hear those stories. I mean it's terrible, tragic stories, but you hear these stories back when stall one around, you know, and you know the corpse car would come around and they'd be putting living people in the corpse car because they're like, well, by the time you come around next time, because he came around every two weeks they're like, okay, he's going to die in that time. 

Shaun
Host
10:14
Yeah, we don't want to be stuck with this corpse until you come back, do you see this kind of moaning that's going on? This moaning only happens in the last 72 hours of life. Yeah, it is, I'm a professional moan whisperer. 

Nate
Host
10:25
A moan whisperer I can tell he's dude. 

Shaun
Host
10:29
See, that moment is from somebody dying. That moment is from somebody orgasming. That moment is also somebody dying. That was from both. Yeah, ha ha. Ha Decided to get one last quickie in before the corpse wagon came by and took her husband. That's also the. As far as getting ready kids, there was a story and this is like 10, 12 years ago where I guess Nebraska or North Dakota decided to allow parents to basically bring in their kids, to just give them to the fire department and be like I don't want these, as opposed to like abortion, just basically give up your kid to do adoption, no questions asked, deal. Well, they passed the law, but they actually legitimately forgot to put an age range on there. One family showed up and dropped off like six of their eight kids aged between like four and 16. They literally dropped them off at the government office. It was like they're yours now. Bye, we kept the good ones. 

Nate
Host
11:23
Wow, yeah, imagine just like you didn't make the cut. 

Shaun
Host
11:26
Yeah, right. Also, I wonder what the cut was. Was it like a talent show, intelligent show, or just put them all in a room and just fight, last one standing. You've had your chance. You've had your chance to be a huge joker and like, yeah. So as far as fleeing children and poor families, we assume Vitas and his soon-to-be-wife showed up at the Ukrainian-Russian border and that is when Vitas suddenly had to realize there was a huge flaw in his plan on taking the love of his life back to Moscow. You see, he had his paperwork, he had his visas and all that radio. All he had to do was walk up to the guards and be like, hey, I'm going through. They'd be like, yay, okay. But he realized it because everything kind of happened in a hurry. She had no paperwork, like none whatsoever with her and, compounding this problem too, he was 20 at the time and she was 15. 

Nate
Host
12:13
So in the eyes of the law. This was complete and utter kidnapping. Well, that kidnap, because the mom said it was cool. 

Shaun
Host
12:20
But, dude, they don't have paperwork saying that. Hey, my mom said it was okay. I mean, they're literally just it's their word against his. 

12:27
You know Well that's what they're saying, and if you're a border guard and they're like would you seriously have a dude come by and be like, oh yeah, the mom gave me permission, no paperwork or nothing, trust me. The mom said it's okay, though you think that's going to fly, probably not Like, trust me, yeah. So yeah, he just was rather stressed at that moment because, again, you know, the mom wasn't there to show him off. The mom was literally just take my kid away Bye. However, he managed to make it through this paperwork as expected and I guess the guards were just really bad at their job because there was a huge family going through about the same time they did and the guards just assumed the chick was with this giant family that was also going through at the same time. She just kind of got waved through with that huge family and everything. It sort of worked out. I can see that happening. 

Nate
Host
13:08
I mean going from at that time, which I'm assuming is your SSR time, you know, it was like 1994. 

Shaun
Host
13:19
It was just after your SSR, because that was 88 or something like that. Well wait, I don't know. Is that the same time the Berlin Wall fell because of what's-? 

Nate
Host
13:29
Yeah, the Berlin Wall falling was kind of like a round of the sea founded in 1922. I should know this, but no. 

Shaun
Host
13:36
Yeah, and that one dude brought ended communism. Remember he played, performed on the wall Knight Rider. 

Nate
Host
13:42
What's his name? 

Shaun
Host
13:43
Oh, okay, yeah, 1991 was when you a star went down, okay, so this was when he was 20. So this is 99. 

Nate
Host
13:49
So, yeah, okay, so it's a time in turmoil, however, oh yeah, it's not like oh, he was a star crumbled, that's all good now. 

Shaun
Host
13:58
Yeah, instantly everybody just like goes out skipping in the fields, everything. It's like that's Simpson's episode where it's like democracy has come to our country, or maybe that's family guy and literally the whole country just changes overnight. David Hasselhoff, that's who ended communism in Eastern Europe. 

Nate
Host
14:16
Oh, in Berlin. 

Shaun
Host
14:17
Yep, you've heard that story, haven't you? 

Nate
Host
14:19
No. 

Shaun
Host
14:20
Oh, you haven't, oh God. 

Nate
Host
14:22
Well, I know what's supposed to happen. I know in Germany it was supposed to happen. In Germany it was miscommunication. 

Shaun
Host
14:29
Like someone said yeah it was like One of the German guys was like hey, we're lifting the restrictions like in six months, but he forgot to add the in sixth months part. 

Nate
Host
14:36
Yeah, and then by that time everyone's like storming the wall, he's like, well, whatever. 

Shaun
Host
14:40
Yeah, well, whatever. And then David Hasselhoff was performing around there too, and he was actually performing on the Berlin Wall, and if you listen to interviews about it, he will tell you that his music was a soul thing that brought together East and West Germany, that the power of his music brought the people together and caused that wall to crumble. Oh, wow, and that was delusional things you will ever hear in your life. He literally just said, and he'd be like and then my energy went into the crowd and the crowd's energy swelled and we could feel communism dying because of my music. It's like no, you've heard his delusional rants, haven't you? Oh, I've heard several, I just forgot. 

Nate
Host
15:16
Yeah, like he's a night writer or whatever he talks about how they invented everything in night, right? 

Shaun
Host
15:21
He's like because of my show. We invented cell phones and fax machines and even the internet. He probably came up with that while he's eating a burger on the floor. 

Nate
Host
15:29
He probably did that like no man. The world is outside. 

Shaun
Host
15:34
There is more going on outside that man's got some narcissism going on because no matter what he's doing, he's always the greatest there ever was at it. I don't know. 

Nate
Host
15:43
I'm not a big fan of his no. 

Shaun
Host
15:44
I don't know if anybody is other than him. I think David has some. 

Nate
Host
15:48
No, he definitely is some fans, I mean yeah. 

Shaun
Host
15:52
But are they actually fans of his or are they more just like, hey, let's watch this idiot do this, do his thing? 

Nate
Host
15:57
I mean, not all of Germany does that. Yeah, that's true. Well then, was that David Hassoff was on Garza Galaxy 2? Because you know, he thought he was his dad and he was. Also he was in SpongeBob movie and the Spongebob movie is really weird. Like he was supposed, he saved SpongeBob and Patrick, but he like they get on his back and he's supposed to be swimming but he's more like a motorboat. I don't know, it's weird. 

Shaun
Host
16:21
Yeah, you're all more Joker parents than anything. Yeah, I haven't really seen. It would be like my God. Dude Hassoff is going to be in the new SpongeBob movie. That's why I'm going to go see this. It's more of a fun of hey Hassoff's in this. That's neat, I wonder. I'm surprised he's not dead, thank you. So for now don't know. They finally make it back to Moscow and Vitas is new woman. Her prize for making a cross border is several more years of abject poverty before he makes his big break. That big break would become when he is filming a video for his song opera number two. He shows off a very impressive vocal range with an amazing falsetto, and it's set to scenes of him being a fish man in a bathtub with a bunch of fish and buying fish from a fish Martin doing fishy things. It's a very odd video. He's a fish man with gills, however. 

Nate
Host
17:07
Oh yeah, it's Russian. Of course it was weird. It's like a prerequisite, like, oh, are you making a video in Russia? Well, guess what? 

Shaun
Host
17:16
We have these standards here. It has to be this weird. It has to be at least Japanese weird, but not quite French weird. Okay, we got hit that area right in between. 

Nate
Host
17:25
Well see, Japanese weird is fucking weird, but like it seems like a Russian weird is weird and dark. Yeah, I mean, no one most likely died of the filming of a Japanese thing. 

Shaun
Host
17:37
Yeah, the Russian thing is like this man made this show and then died eating a poison. Turnip afterwards or during it. 

Nate
Host
17:45
Yeah, and they filmed it, it was fine. 

Shaun
Host
17:46
Yeah, it was very strange and, like I said, it involves him having a fish gills in it, which, oddly enough, would start the rumor on why that is he has such a good falsetto was the fact that he is really a fish man and he has fish gills. Nate, he actually has fish gills, which you know, those stupid like the Maryland Manson rumors. It was one of those kinds of things, yeah, but of course Vitas was smart enough to kind of go along with that too. You know, do the Koi thing, like wearing, you know, his collars up or wearing turtlenecks, and not actually being like no, I don't have gills, I haven't been like, oh, look at me, I got a turtleneck on. Who was that? You know? 

Nate
Host
18:21
playing with I like how we're not touching the Maryland Manson rumors. He just dropped that and walked away. Yeah. 

Shaun
Host
18:26
Right, Well, also the other. Yeah, he had no problem. You know, toying around with the rumors he had gills, but when the rumors started that he was castrated to get that falsetto, he had no problem denying those rumors. Yeah. 

Nate
Host
18:36
Yeah, yeah, that's what you step in. It's like the gills, maybe, yeah. 

Shaun
Host
18:40
Oh no, I still got my testicles. Yeah, no, no, no, no, it's not going to go yet. That's song opera number two, number one song in Russia from 2001, 2003,. Though that's very impressive. That's pretty impressive. Yeah, 2001 comes around. Oh yeah, that song came out in 2001. 2001 was also in that performance. You just watched too, where he wears this little silver suit and goes that one. 

19:07
That was a show called the Little Blue Light, which was a Russian New Year program Like all those New Year programs is pre-recorded. All these people are pretending it's New Year's when it's like October. Oh yeah, all the show is built off of lies. 

Nate
Host
19:20
It still bums me out. I think about 2001 was 22 years ago. 

Shaun
Host
19:25
Yeah, it was, wasn't it? 

Nate
Host
19:26
Yeah, I mean because, hell, I still think the 90s was 10 years ago, like in my head. I mean I know, logically it's not. 

Shaun
Host
19:31
Yeah, 20 years ago. It feels like 1994. 

Nate
Host
19:34
Yeah, I'm not an idiot. I know it was like a longer than that, but just in my head it's like 1990s, 10 years ago 1999. 

Shaun
Host
19:42
Yeah, yeah. It's kind of weird for me when I see like cars are like brand new when we're in high school, like Lexuses and stuff that is kind of expensive, you know 40,000, $50,000 cars, and now they're all beat up and being driven by tweakers and druggies, right, it's like damn, that thing was a nice car back when I was in high school, back in 97. Now it's just dragging a muffler behind it, falling apart. 

Nate
Host
20:01
Back of my day. 

Shaun
Host
20:02
Yeah, back of my day. That was a great car. Go back to your bedroom, gramps. Okay, certain things that just make you feel odd and yeah, it's a bummer. 

20:15
Yeah, so that performance of Blue Light was recorded then, but it actually didn't take off until 2015,. But we'll get into that later. Can you give him his career resurgence too? Shortly after that video and okay, you're going to have to bear with me on this, because this is kind of a weird side note so shortly after that video, in 2002, let's see the World League made him an honorary board member of their Mind Free of Drugs Anti-Drug Program. That's called a Mind Free of Drugs. It's an anti-drug program that he has made an honorary board member of. In order to do this part of this process, he underwent a purification ceremony at the foot of the Sacred Mountain Tashdar, atah, where he was presented with a peace stone that was 350 million years old and, according to legend, had absorbed all the goodness in the world and the history of mankind, and he was soaked that shit and was awesome. God, I hope that's how that went, that's probably the first thing that popped into his mind. 

Nate
Host
21:14
We're going to clean you up for, like the whole no drugs program. I hear a smoke there. 

Shaun
Host
21:19
He's just had a bit of gyrogyny, he's just like just trying to cram it into free. Basie Piper, I was about to go. No, no. So other notable board members that he joined the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tina Turner. 

Nate
Host
21:34
The Dalai Lama. You hear about the Dalai Lama, what he did Like, the reason why he's like everyone's kind of give him the side eye. 

Shaun
Host
21:39
now, which one? The tongue sucking thing, yes, Like yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's, yeah, that's weird. 

Nate
Host
21:48
I mean to be fair. Okay, look, I'm not beautest, I have. No, I have no interest. Not interest, is that as in, like you know, no interest in Dalai Lama's tongue? Well, no, I'm not interested in. I mean, when I say interest, I'm not talking about, like you know, interested, I'm talking like no investment. I should use that. I have no investment in the Dalai Lama being a good or bad person. It's just chalk him up right next to Gandhi sleeping with little girls and and giving him enemas. 

22:13
We're giving it and then also a mother Teresa being a total horrible person. 

Shaun
Host
22:17
Yeah, you know, just die in pain and then just, yeah, I mean walking them basically. 

Nate
Host
22:21
It just yeah, it's just, it's a bummer. You know, I guess, if you'll go even further, like you know, bill Cosby is like oh yeah, bill Cosby he was. You know, he was this hilarious guy very clean comedy, by the way. He's a wariness, like well, crap. 

Shaun
Host
22:36
We can't have heroes, Right? I find it weird that Tina Turner was on that anti drug board too. Cause Tina Turner for what. You didn't hear that? That was the very last name I said Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tina Turner and Kofi Anon. 

Nate
Host
22:52
Well, I was Tina. I don't know I realized why first Tina Turner. I know who Trinity Turner is, by the way, but I heard first our Trinity Turner for some reason. I brought up my brain, but I wouldn't Houston, and they are not the same person. 

Shaun
Host
23:03
No, although I have done the exact same thing and in my mind they yeah, I'm with you. 

Nate
Host
23:09
So wait. So Because I did that I. That's why I immediately dismissed. It was Tina Turner big drug, I don't. I don't know that much about Tina Turner. 

Shaun
Host
23:17
Her and I did a lot of coke back in the day and beat each other or make sense on her a lot. 

Nate
Host
23:21
Yeah, makes total sense. I mean, I believe it. And again, I don't know a lot about Tina Turner, but just what I do. 

Shaun
Host
23:26
Yeah, sure, I mean honestly, she might have been clean when she got the, got the honorary mention or whatever. Oh yeah, and a tash star, a ta the man. It was a man made mountain that he was presented in front of now, apparently. So this whole mind, free of drug Sing, is basically like a weird cult. They give you this heavy rock and they tell you to take it to the top of this mountain and apply this rock and leave this rock up there and they say it's been done so many times. 

23:54
There is a man made mountain that is massive on the top of this hill from all the people who have gotten clean doing this process, and it's in Kyrgyzstan, of all places, and it's actually part of the Kyrgyzstan. Come to see what we have for tourism board. So they'll talk about this giant man made mountain of rocks that has been built up there and like it's some great thing. But I actually found an actual picture of the hill of rocks. It's not that impressive. Hold on, I'll send it to you real quick Because there were. It's like this man made mountain, this epic mountain that you know, but every angle I've seen from like their website and stuff, it shows us as being like a basically look like an actual mountain. You know it's like low, high up angles, but then I don't know if you can actually see the picture that I sent you. 

Nate
Host
24:39
It's really small. Oh, yeah, that's, I mean, it's big enough. No, that's, that is like nothing. 

Shaun
Host
24:44
Yeah, you had to go like far, far away from that place's website in order to find a picture of the rock that didn't make it look massive, because almost all of them is like people kneeling next to it with like somebody laying on the ground taking an upward shot. So, yeah, I just decided to take time to shit on this. 

Nate
Host
24:58
We have course, if you if you're travel way out there to make some kind of like big mountain, you know, you show up, you're like oh, this is a mountain, it's a mound at best. 

Shaun
Host
25:06
Yeah, and they make sound cool by calling it a man made mountain. 

Nate
Host
25:11
Well, yeah, I believe it? 

Shaun
Host
25:12
That's me. It's tiny. What? Yeah, it's a man made hill. So after he got his giant world stone of peace that he free based, he released two more albums after that and his popularity started to skyrocket enough that he actually was invited to perform at the Kremlin for Putin in 2003. And at the time he was the youngest performer ever to perform solo at the Kremlin. Also kind of impressive, this was impressive. 

25:37
Yeah, we now started touring all over Russia and Europe and North America and he wasn't like killing it in North America. But you know, he did tour of North America and he was building a fan base, kind of building up his name to back in Russia. However, this first tour wasn't known as being very profitable. Got his name out, but it wasn't making a ton of money yet. He also did do some duets with some famous Russian singers, including some opera singers, and when I gather, being a pop singer, duetting with Russian opera singers is kind of a big deal in their country because Russia takes our opera really seriously, it's one of those things they do well. So they don't really like mixing and mingling their opera singers with, like you know, quote unquote lowly pop stars, or at least that's the impression I got, because this dude's Wikipedia isn't very good. So I kind of like go read Russian fan sites. So my work computer has a lot ofru sites on it. 

Nate
Host
26:26
Now the FBI is looking at it like what's kind of asking a lot of Russian stuff, right, it's all about this Vita guy, what the hell? Yeah, meanwhile, it's like you know both domestic and foreign terrorists are using the website. It's like smuggle stuff. Meanwhile, here you guys kind of walk into it. 

Shaun
Host
26:44
It's completely oblivious what's this. 

Nate
Host
26:46
You can't read Russian, so it's like whatever Right. 

Shaun
Host
26:50
I'm just like blah, blah, blah rubles. Huh, interesting, click on the wrong link. And also I just get some weird packages mailed to me in the middle of the night. 2004, a recent release the album A Kiss as Long as the Eternity. It sold 2 million albums in six months. So as you can see, he's getting album sales too. I assume 2 million albums in six months is pretty good. I didn't bother to compare it to anything, but that is 2 million more albums than I have ever sold. 2 million, 2 million albums in six months Damn not bad. Yeah, that seems like a lot. 

27:20
2006, two things happened for Vitas. He finally gets married to the woman that he loved all his life and almost got busted at the border with, and the Chinese government gave him a call. Turns out they were throwing a hootenanny in Beijing called the Year of Russia in China, and it was basically you know, hey, russia and China, we're getting along, let's do performances together, some of our artists. So Russia sent over Vitas and he performed a couple of songs on stage and he killed it. China actually fell in head over heels in love with him. He became far bigger in China than anywhere else. He would go there to her and just completely sell out stadiums left and right. 

28:01
He was on TV shows. He was on a bunch of movies too, including big Chinese government movies like Mulan, founder of the party, become famous overnight, and the master's last secret, which a founder of the party in Mulan I remember hearing about his big Chinese movies. Founder of the party was like the government propaganda one that was like ooh China, great what. Sorry, I'm making a propaganda movie. Right, I know, as long as good old America doesn't do anything like that, we're a love making propaganda. 

Nate
Host
28:28
Did you hear about that one movie that China produced like the catch of country? It was an animation. They put tons of money in and finally when it came out it was like South Park quality animation. 

Shaun
Host
28:40
They were so pissed. 

Nate
Host
28:41
We gave you guys literally like millions of dollars, and this is what you bring us. 

Shaun
Host
28:46
I mean, especially, and whoever's in charge of that project, just like, loaded up his car and just took off and sold it overnight. 

Nate
Host
28:52
Oh yeah, I mean because you know this is China. I've actually seen recent Chinese anime so they do pretty good, but I had the time I didn't know. I don't know if China was doing that, but like Japan was, you know, and they're right there. So I mean, it's not like they didn't have access to talent. Now, I am aware China and Japan aren't exactly buddies, but you know, I know there are some kind of working relationships up there. I mean, they're not actively at war. Again, I acknowledge there is. 

Shaun
Host
29:21
There's feelings there. Yeah, there's a lot of feelings between those two. 

Nate
Host
29:27
There's a little animosity between the two countries. What I mean? Let's be fair, it's probably like that they're going to. Japan and Korea are probably aren't exactly best friends either. I mean, now, South Korea might be maybe, you know, but definitely Northland and Japan, China. I mean, let's just look, let's just all acknowledge if it's close to Japan, someone probably pissed at them. There was a little bit of time they decided like, hey, let's just take over everybody. 

Shaun
Host
29:58
Yeah, we're going to go out there and rattle our sabers a little bit and see what happens. 

Nate
Host
30:02
People don't forget it never really like. I never really got that because, look, Japan, as powerful as their army was, they're small. Let's pretend they were the best army in the world and they did take over China. Then what? They can't produce enough people. 

Shaun
Host
30:22
Right, because we have one Japanese person to guard all 3,000 Chinese. They're a whole new world. It's even bigger ratio. 

Nate
Host
30:28
Yeah, it just wouldn't work. And there was that one show that came out a while ago. It was oh man, I've always seen like the first several episodes. Was it man in the High Tower? Do you know what I'm talking about? 

Shaun
Host
30:39
The High Tower, the big tall dude from Police Academy. 

Nate
Host
30:42
No, no, no, it was a TV show. Anyway, the premise was it was alternate reality where America lost in Germany and Japan took over America and split America. So Germany took over one part of America and Japan took over the other part of America. But I'm just like I don't know how there literally isn't enough bodies that Japan could produce that would be able to hold the country, especially as big as America. So they're probably like I don't know, australia or something. It just doesn't make sense. They would need to recruit other countries. It would be the whole, like Alexander the Great thing, where they would conquer a country and absorb them, just the army. But in modern times I can't imagine like, oh yeah, especially. 

Shaun
Host
31:25
I always raised this. They would use Satanism to brainwash Americans, and then Americans would enslave each other, right, because hey, that's what communists do they have satanic powers of mind control people. 

Nate
Host
31:37
They have no more sense. And that still didn't make sense More recent than it is One stupid head cutting off scene. 

Shaun
Host
31:44
I swear to God, that was so dumb. That was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. We have this one shot, Grab his head out of the middle of the air and just go flying it back on a drone. 

Nate
Host
31:55
Oh God they could have gone and then they attach his head. 

Shaun
Host
32:00
What? Like 18 hours later he's just right around like look, I'm fine, he's totally fine. Didn't you like have sex at right after? Yes? 

Nate
Host
32:09
That's the thing, and it's never mentioned again. It's like they did a Darth Maul thing. We're like, oh yeah, he's in a robot body, by the way. Never mind, it's all fine. 

Shaun
Host
32:15
Yeah, I'm sorry, dude, but if I see your head get cut off and then, like next day, you're fine, I'm going to have a lot of questions, dude. I'm going to be like ask you nonstop questions. 

Nate
Host
32:24
It was like immediate. They had the body at the ready. 

Shaun
Host
32:27
Yeah right, it probably be like hey, if it's that easy, why don't we just like I'll get our heads cut off and try it out? Sounds like fun it wasn't like surgical. 

Nate
Host
32:34
They didn't take care. 

Shaun
Host
32:36
The dude got his head chopped off with a sword, I'm going to get my head cut off. It was not a precision cut. 

Nate
Host
32:44
Okay, we've heard off topic from bearing up topic. It's so stupid though. Oh my God, I mean it was fun. I mean I would go around shooting things. It was fun. Yeah, the game itself was fun. 

Shaun
Host
32:56
Yeah, that part was fun and the game didn't take itself too serious, but they could have done a million better ways of writing that scene. 

Nate
Host
33:01
Well, there were times they did, Like when he ran to his dad and that whole dramatic scene. You know that was. You know they are trying to interject some drama in there, but it is still just like he's a robot with it, Like there's no difference, Like no one can tell the difference as you've walking through. I mean, there's not even like bolts in his neck, like Frankenstein is, just every day. 

Shaun
Host
33:23
So we turn your microwave on? He pees his pants just because of interference. 

Nate
Host
33:26
I mean at the very least. I mean again I know it's a video game, but if he's got a robot body, give him robot hands, give him a machine gun and arm. You know, give me Barrett. So what's going on? Why? 

Shaun
Host
33:37
is he still running? That would be kind of disappointing and be like well, we reattached your head to a robotic version of your body. Oh, did you make improvements? Nope, it's exactly like it was. Like damn it, even the zits and stuff Yep Down to last detail, beginning the end of the vaccine thing. Yeah, yeah, couldn't you at least fixed a couple of things, shaved off a few pounds? Nope, that's not how it works. Like son of a bitch, you're like treads for feet instead or something. So anyways, vitas starring in movies like Mulan and founder of the party Everybody loves man China. They even gave him the nicknames Lord of the Dolphins and Space Nightingale, which those sound like really lame comic book hearers from like the fifties, those old golden key comics, those kind of things where it's like Space Nightingale teams up with little lotto on this adventure. Yeah, you know which comics I'm talking about. 

Nate
Host
34:26
No, apparently you don't know I'm trying to who. Sorry, I got lost and I was trying to, I got. I got quiet because I was searching my memory. 

Shaun
Host
34:33
Oh gotcha. No, I was just saying that the nicknames that they gave Vitas sounded like old comic book heroes, lame comic book heroes. 

Nate
Host
34:40
Yeah, I was just trying to play certain, like you know, the wiz, the wizard, now you know, because that was just some unfortunate ones that probably worked back in the day that don't work now. 

Shaun
Host
34:50
Yeah, the Golden Glove or whatever weird name. 

Nate
Host
34:53
Yeah, oh. 

Shaun
Host
34:55
I can think of stuff like Casper and little lotto and oh okay, you're going that route. 

Nate
Host
34:59
Okay, I'm going to go back to the real comics, but, like Casper and those comics also had like, really lame superheroes in them, though Trust me. 

Shaun
Host
35:07
I know I had some most comics back in the day, did you yeah? 

Nate
Host
35:11
Archies, you know, and Archie never really like. I never liked Archie because first of all, I don't know, they made him look like some kind of you know, obviously some freckled ginger and you he has like two bombshells just wanting him and I'm like what? And he's like, oh, I can't pick between the two. Like man, come on, you know, this is so stupid. On that note, the first time I felt like tingles, like I fell in love. When I was a kid there was an Archie live action TV show, like when they were adults and the whoever they hired. I can't find it. I tried to file online and I don't know, for some reason like the pictures. I probably did the actual show but like my memory has changed her. But whoever played Betty dude, I fell in love. 

Shaun
Host
35:58
I was like, oh my God, I really got your eyes like whoopie, whoopie out in front of you. 

Nate
Host
36:03
Your heart is like fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa it was. I was all about it. I mean, I don't even remember the show, I just remember like staring at her and yeah, that's what I knew. That's also when I finally just acknowledged myself what kind of a guy I was and I'm like, okay, you know it's, I know what I like on a woman, yeah. 

Shaun
Host
36:22
Yeah, well, there we go. 

Nate
Host
36:24
She's got two of them and they are amazing. 

Shaun
Host
36:29
So gold key comics. I Googled real quick to look up what kind of heroes they had back in the day. They were home of such things like Green Hornet, space Family, robinson, turok, son of Stone, degar, the Invincible, the Time Tunnel, johnny Quest, tiger, girl, cave Kids yeah, they ran between like little cheesy kid cartoons to like really lame superheroes from like the owl. 

Nate
Host
36:55
Johnny Quest really jumped out at me and even then the most I know about Johnny Quest are like the, like the making fun of it, you know, like Underdog. Yeah, I remember underdog. 

Shaun
Host
37:04
Yeah, it's just so. Back to Vitas Now with his new nicknames, lord of the Dolphins and Space Nightingale, freshly given to him from the Chinese. He also had a three meter statue erected to him in 2009. And the Chinese government also gave him the honored artist award and he received that in front of 100,000 people and millions of people watching on TV. Get it as well. And 2011 he also won Performer of the Year in China. So again, the Chinese love this dude. He is massive there. 

Nate
Host
37:33
Why. 

Shaun
Host
37:34
I mean, I guess Honestly I couldn't tell you. I guess Chinese just like weird white stuff, I don't know, although then again you know the Chinese were like hey, come over here. I'm so stamed I, you know hard to say, not that I don't think it's China really, it's just like I don't like want wars to start me being stuck in a foreign country like that. 

Nate
Host
37:51
Here's the thing and I understand, it's also me being a dumb American Like we forget sometimes that the world is bigger than us, particularly with entertainment, you know, like, maybe not like with politics, but talk about it specifically with entertainment, like, no, there are massive movie stars out there who we have. 

Shaun
Host
38:11
Yeah, there's some Bollywood stars who have put out one more Oscars and we can even fathom. 

Nate
Host
38:15
Yeah. It's like he's the biggest actor in the world. 

Shaun
Host
38:20
I've never heard of this guy. 

Nate
Host
38:21
You know Jackie Chan. You took a while before he came over here and got big, but he was like a huge movie star and even still like Jackie Chan is more of a novelty name over here yeah. 

Shaun
Host
38:31
He's over the foreign markets. He's very serious and taken very well respected. 

Nate
Host
38:35
Yeah, you can still run to people who don't know who Jackie Chan is. Yeah, because if they're not in the action movies, they just don't know who he is. You know, maybe they've seen our rush hour but it was kind of forgettable, but they don't know too much about him until. But then you go to those markets and it's like you can't. You can't not run to someone who doesn't know who Jackie Chan is. I saw a really kind of like you know, sweet emotional thing with Jackie Chan. They were he was doing some award I think it's probably in China, most likely in China, and like he was standing there with all his stunt people behind him and like up on the video, like his original stunt people were like doing a tribute to him and while he was watching that, they all came up behind him and it was like he's all burst into tears. He's like all emotional, like, oh, it's so awesome. 

Shaun
Host
39:17
Yeah, and then I'll stomach like you owe us money. Dude, this is a summons for court. We're trying to track you down. This is your summons, jackie. I'll say 2011. 

Nate
Host
39:30
Go ahead. I was going to continue with Jackie Chan, but he I'm like, do it. No, continue Jackie Chan, I'm done. I was just going to say, just think about all the stuff he would do in terms of, like, what made him be him so big and just amazing, still alive. I mean all those, you know, all those stunts that went wrong. 

Shaun
Host
39:45
you know, yeah, and then he had like continued to do the entire movie with the broken leg Right. 

Nate
Host
39:50
I mean, and they would show like at the end of his, at the end of the thing, like their credits, like oh yeah, by the way, here's when everything went terribly wrong. 

Shaun
Host
39:56
Yeah, there is some controversy on whether or not he's actually done all his stunts. However, oh really, yeah, actually, I went down a rabbit hole like a year or two ago and yeah, there are some scenes that was movies. Very does not look like him doing those stunts. I mean, it's in the minority, but there's a couple times like like it'd be like scenes where he's like jumping between two buildings and like as he jumps off, it's obviously him, as he lands, it's obviously him. But like the in between scenes, it's kind of like they did like four shots of the scene and like he they didn't use him for the entire clip, kind of deal. 

Nate
Host
40:30
Gotcha, there's always someone going to be doubting. You're like no, he can't, there's no way he can do that. There's a shenanigans, yeah, I mean. But I mean he was a stunt man, like he did that for Bruce Lee. You know, what movie was he in? Where it was like Bruce Lee ran almost exactly what you just said where Bruce Lee went to go jump and the person flying through the air was Jackie Chan and then the actual kick was Bruce Lee. Yeah, what movie was that? 

40:56
Was that in the Dragon? No, the Dragon Bruce Lee movie, to be honest. Well, you know, I wasn't going to give you a ton of crap for that, but whatever, I mean, it's not like you have to. I've only seen a couple of them. Yeah, I've seen any of the Dragon, because you know if you were going to see a Bruce Lee movie, then that's probably what you saw, and I've seen a couple other ones. Just, you know offhand, but I mean honestly, the other thing is I wonder if you know what that came from the Dragon, I mean, I'm not. Oh, and the tower or faces of whatever I saw another tower of the faces of death. 

41:33
No, I mean, I've basically had several movies can mean, and they none of them were right, but there was the one we're hitting up a tower. It's the one where they made not, no, not, but but they took his outfit on Kill Bill. 

Shaun
Host
41:46
It was the yellow. Oh, it's that one. 

Nate
Host
41:47
You're right, cream, edd, dual Jabbar too, yes, and he also said that Everyone like it's give it a hassle off. 

41:55
No white guy. Oh, chuck, chuck, chuck Norris, chuck Norris. Yeah, chuck Norris. And and man, talk about people who went bad. Chuck Norris, like he is a job. Yeah, he got kicked one too many times ahead, like you, I don't know. I never. I never like those jokes either where it's like oh, a snake, big Chuck, big, chuck Norris. And after six days of excruciating pain, the snake finally died. Yeah, I mean I've I've never seen Chuck Norris as that much of a badass. I just haven't, you know. Yeah, he was fine. I mean, he did some action movies back in the eighties, you know. 

Shaun
Host
42:32
But I mean so it's still left alone Bruce Lee at like a tournament or something in a no, he never beat. 

Nate
Host
42:38
Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee Handly headed to his ass every single time he was. Bruce Lee's pupil, I guess, where I heard someone like he like did him as a draw on one of the Olympics or something, but I could be wrong on that I mean now, I mean you're right, but from the beginning I think, like Bruce Lee, bruce Lee taught him and like Bruce Lee, like there's no. 

Shaun
Host
42:58
Have you ever heard? 

Nate
Host
42:59
of students surpassing the master. Yeah, but I'm sorry, man, I've seen Bruce Lee fight and I've seen Chuck Norris fight and there's, there's no question, bruce Lee, handily headed, handed his ass to him. Bruce Lee was so much faster and, just based on the like his build and his muscle tone, probably stronger. And I've seen Chuck Norris fight. He is in the lead and this is Bruce Lee. I just he. Bruce Lee. You see, you should watch his movies. They're not sped up. If anything, this slowed some of his moves down, like he is insanely fast. So I know I definitely did that during the Green Hornet series. They had to slow him down on those during that because the action was going too fast. And so, yeah, I mean, bruce Lee was amazing and I'm sorry, chuck Norris isn't, he's fine, he's great. You know he, he had his beard. 

Shaun
Host
43:50
I'm glad you're seeing that it's because you hate gingers, isn't it? It's Chuck Norris a ginger, isn't he? Red haired? 

Nate
Host
43:57
Maybe he's not ginger, maybe he's just like I think it was blondish, like a sewer blonde or sandy blonde or regular blonde, the last missing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. 

Shaun
Host
44:08
I'm sewer blonde. I'm like the sewer surfer of Shaw. Behold my powers of being sewer blonde. I'm just going to turn myself bleach blonde whenever I want. Well, on tour to speaking of, like martial artists uh, where it is while he is on tour, adam and Paul. He actually became an honorary Tibetan monk because of his interest in Eastern philosophy and she also be noted, apparently, steven Segal also is an honorary Tibetan monk. So I think it's kind of a BS title? 

Nate
Host
44:40
Yeah, I mean, is it one of those things where, like, you're walking out of the gift shop and you spend oh, you spent a? 

Shaun
Host
44:44
hundred thousand dollars on it. You just gotta know the right monk and be like hey man, I'm going to donate to your cause. You want your own international airport outside of your temple. 

Nate
Host
44:54
Or it's one of those things like you just walk up to a random dude and he's like hey, can I be honoring monk? It's like do you? 

Shaun
Host
45:00
like what we have to say Like yeah, right. You can. 

Nate
Host
45:02
Exactly, and here's a, here's a mini sand rake thing when they. 

Shaun
Host
45:10
and here's your bonsai tree. Take good care of it, right. 

Nate
Host
45:15
What are they called? There's a lot of people. Zen garden, thank you? 

Shaun
Host
45:18
Yeah, that's good. I'm crazy, especially since you probably have one in your house somewhere we don't we have. 

Nate
Host
45:24
Jenny has one out of our office Got you? Yes, do we own one? Yes, isn't our house no? 

Shaun
Host
45:30
We had to set it free. It was just cruel to keep it inside. 

Nate
Host
45:34
Well, she has on her desk because you know, um, not you know people listening, don't know, but she's a, she's a therapist, a mental health therapist. So yeah, sometimes she you know she'll have that kind of feeling. Yeah, I mean it's, it is a relaxing thing to do. I've never really found a relaxing, though, because I always want to try to get the lines, just so, and I never can, because, if you even like, deviate a little bit, or even if you go over where the lines, the lines are never perfect. 

Shaun
Host
46:00
There's always some. Is that? What is that? Is there an actual goal? 

Nate
Host
46:03
for the thing Nope. 

Shaun
Host
46:03
The goal is the. That's me. I make it Okay, I was about to say because I sure wouldn't try doing that I just like, whatever you were doing, you were doing it right. I just except for you and your son. I'm not having you just staring at me like you, son of a bitch, I'm trying to hurt you. 

Nate
Host
46:20
Perfect patterns. I'm trying to make perfect patterns in there and I could never get quite right. But again, that's just me like again, whatever you did in there, uh, okay, let's, if you took a you will still judge me for what I do with that Zen garden, though, as long as we were using the tools there and not like adding things to like poop, then I'm not going to be a pickle garden. 

Shaun
Host
46:48
And finally, in 2011, vitas also got the best foreign artist from MTV Asia because of his multilingual work. He's released songs in Russian, chinese, romanian uh, russian Chinese. We have Romanian, romanian, polish and English, so quite multilingual. 

Nate
Host
47:04
Well, time out, though, does he speak those languages? That's the thing I mean, because you could either speak those languages or know what's the word. What are my favorite actors? And, like, I get mad respect for him as Ron Perlman. He made a whole movie in French. Um, what was it? Uh, the city of lost children. The entire movie, and I mean it sounded fine to me, and, from what I understand, a lot of other French people really appreciated what he said. He doesn't speak a word of French. He did. He just learned his lines phonetically, and he went out there and reproduced it. So it's just now. To be fair, he wasn't making any monologues, so let me, let me know he's not that. 

Shaun
Host
47:42
they're doing Hamlet in his non-native language. Yeah. 

Nate
Host
47:44
Yeah, he was. He was a quiet giant, you know type person, so he was around, but he did. 

Shaun
Host
47:50
His whole line was like could I get the Ruben? 

Nate
Host
47:52
sandwich in French. Yeah, it just it wasn't anything extensive, but I mean. That being said, Ron Perlman does speak multiple languages. 

Shaun
Host
48:00
I think he speaks like English, Spanish, German, you know, I don't know I got how much does he speak of each one, though? Just a couple words or no? He's, I mean from what I think he's like I'm not enough. 

Nate
Host
48:11
Yeah, I probably not too like a native person. He's like, oh, wow, it's like it'd be like someone coming over here from Japan who's never actually had conversation in English. And so they come over here and they start Okay, oh, I mean all A's on my English test and I try to have conversations, and we're like, oh, you're close, you're close enough I can understand you, but you're still a little off. It's probably like him over in these countries, most likely. I mean you know what, though? I mean you know you're just full interpreter if you want to be. I don't know that much about Ron Perlman. I'll be honest with you. I appreciate what I like. I like him as an actor and from what I've heard of him like, for instance, the you know his language skills I appreciate that. But if someone like writes in and says, no, ron Perlman, but actually he doesn't know any of his languages, it's all that. I'd be like okay, you know, I have no way to dispute that other than it's like to our listeners. 

Shaun
Host
49:05
What is Ron Perlman? But he's like, hey you know. 

Nate
Host
49:09
you know, I'm a little bit of a fan of Ron Perlmancom. 

Shaun
Host
49:12
And let's also acknowledge I can do this research myself. 

Nate
Host
49:16
but let's also acknowledge I'm not going to. Yes, this is true, I could always research Ron Perlman one of these days. 

Shaun
Host
49:19
I mean that very will could be a subject that would come up one time, but as of right now, nope, yeah, no, I can think of better things Is a 2011 thing started to slow down for him a little bit? He is still touring, making his money but, you know, not really like that. He was drunk driving and hit a lady on a bike. The cops showed up and he basically tried to start screaming at the cops, trying to pick a fight. It got recorded. People laughed, made it the news. He got thrown in. Yeah, it was forced to pay a fine and apologize and got his license revoked for a couple of years and while the media was investigating this whole thing, it turns out prior years he'd gotten a lot of drunk driving citations and lost his license a few times, managing basically to pay all the money, that's. 

Nate
Host
50:05
that's one of those things like um, apparently it's from Final Fantasy, a Final Fantasy game, where it's like if you, if a was if a law if the punishment for a law is a fine, then that's it. 

50:20
Yes, the palms of law for fine it's, it's a. Basically it's against poor people, not rich, yeah. So yeah there's. I heard some story about some guy who was just like um. He always was a guy who was his best partner legally and then, um, they would tow his car but then he would just pick it up for two hundred dollars and it wasn't a big deal and they're a lot. 

Shaun
Host
50:42
That sounds like a job thing. 

Nate
Host
50:44
Yeah, it's like oh, whatever, you know what it's like, it's just two hundred dollars. What's your problem? Like no man, that's two hundred dollars. Like that's that's make or break me eating or not. 

Shaun
Host
50:54
Yeah right. For some people, two hundred bucks is what they wiped their ass with. 2013,. Hit somebody on a bike, then you know. It's like at least, uh, in the western world. 2015 is when that video we watched earlier pops up. It shows up on Reddit and that leads to a second resurgence of Vitas in America and, uh, that video has gotten a hundred and a second resurgence in America. 

Nate
Host
51:17
Well, I guess it was his first resurgence. 

Shaun
Host
51:19
I guess I should say his second, his second tour in Europe or in America, I was like time out, time out, time out. 

Nate
Host
51:25
Like did I? Did I miss the? 

Shaun
Host
51:27
first time he was big in America. Yeah, what the hell was I now? Sorry, yeah, I guess I wrote his resurgence of Vitas in parts of parts of the world, alright, yeah, not much was happening until 2015, when the world would be reintroduced Vitas via that one video on Reddit, the seventh element of video, millions and millions of views and uh brought back into the spotlight a little bit worldwide, made people wonder how much it was and how much happened after that until uh 2018, when he had another lapse in judgment. He was in a very, very ritzy part of uh Russia it's basically it's like the Beverly Hills of Russia where he lives and he decided, for whatever reason, it'd be a good idea just to stand in his backyard and start shooting a starter pistol over and over and over again. All day long, cops showed up and told him to open the door and come out and talk to him. 

52:25
He said no cops came out and told me yeah, yes, Okay, sure, sorry, yeah, I know right now I'm gonna cops Come on out. No, no, no, we're coming in. No, no, no. Alright, fine, just have a good day, sir. I mean, that probably happens some places sometimes, but if they're rich enough. So last we heard about Vitas shooting a starter pistol. Not much has happened since then. No music released. He kind of disappeared that during COVID and it's just sort of become a recluse. 

Nate
Host
52:52
Uh, actually, what about the wife? 

Shaun
Host
52:55
Did he still around or Yep, yeah, that's pretty much it. There you go, yeah. Yeah, most of his info was that front loaded stuff. After that it was kind of like, well, he did his thing and then, from man like 2000 and on, he's just sort of been kind of on cruise control. 

Nate
Host
53:14
I mean, as long as he did blow all his money, fair enough, man. 

Shaun
Host
53:16
I mean, far as I can tell, he still has good money, he's still got his family, yeah. 

Nate
Host
53:21
I honestly so if you, if you get really, really famous and then like, then you lose that but you still have your money, then you're you won, You're a winner. It's I don't see, there's no problem. That was one thing I've never watched. The always bug with this movie. Did you ever see what was it? Oh man, the is anime movie. I can't believe I had. I see it in my head. We just watched it like the other night. It is for Dr Seuss, it's the Lorax, lorax, thank you. Yeah, you got that in one. Yay, I don't know how I got that. 

54:03
But I don't either. But you know what I'll roll it. So you have the Lorax. So the premise of the Lorax, of course it's kind of a environmental movie and you know it matches my politics, that's fine. 

54:13
But you know it did it definitely pissed off some right wingers, but at the end, like so the premise is, you know they, he's making these completely stupid, like clothing, whatever, and he uses the leaves of these trees. Well, his family comes to cut the trees down because it's faster. So he ends up cutting all the trees down, like he, they wipe out every tree in the area. So, and they apply this only treat like all the trees ever. But you know, because their world is a span of like I don't know 10 mile radius. But so he cut down the last tree and he's immediately bankrupt, immediately, immediately. What Like? Bankrupt. Like the next day he's destitute. And I'm like what was your business practices Is like he was like a billionaire, like they are implying, like this dude, he has a huge factory with all this stuff. I mean, this guy is hooked on. 

55:12
Fabergé eggs yeah, business mogul. And then like next, seriously, like the moment the last tree falls, he loses everything. It's like what were you doing? Like what? But like I can't imagine anyone's fall would be so fast. Like just, it's so funny because of the whole. You know you suspend your disbelief, especially for cartoons and but especially cartoons. I mean they have flying, you know, wheel mobiles or whatever. 

55:42
I mean it was completely ridiculous, but that was the that pulled me out of the movie and I know it was probably just me, but that pulled me out of the movie how quickly he went from being the richest man in in their world to a nobody who lives in the outskirts of town. In fact, like not only did he lose everything, he lived out in the outskirts of town in a shack that nobody knew who he was. So he went from the richest man ever that everybody knew who he was in fast forward. Like what? Maybe 10 years and nobody's heard of him and he is just that has nothing. 

56:17
So I mean everyone, like if Bill Gates lost everything, yeah, if Bill Gates lost everything right now, let's see just suddenly, just everything dropped out and he's like he went from billions dollars and negative billion dollars just, and he went off to live in a cabin somewhere. We would all still know who he was. Yeah, that would be a story to tell. Oh yeah, bill Gates, he lost everything. But in this movie he's like he lost everything and just vanished from everyone's consciousness as well. It's just pulled me out of the movie. 

Shaun
Host
56:47
And then what's that? Having you stuck foot the table over and screamed I am not staying in this room to watch this movie. This movie makes a joke of economics and finances. 

Nate
Host
56:56
Well, no, I just, you know, made my voice known and you know, my kids laugh, and the kids are like sit down, dad, we don't care, you will care when you're my age. 

57:05
Oh, my middle child, ivy. She has definitely picked that up for me, like if it's a movie I have seen before, I do tend to like mock and like I'll make comments and stuff like that and she and she'll do the same thing. Yeah, she really does. To the, to the noise of my wife, yeah, she, she's actually said several times like please stop your, your ruining the movie. I'm like okay, I'm sorry. 

Shaun
Host
57:30
You're like I can't. I wish I could, but I can't. You just start crying, I can't please fix me. But the logic, the logic doesn't work. Chetty, it burns my mind. The lack of logic burns my mind, just like they're just wailing at TV. The pain, the pain from it all. 

Nate
Host
57:52
Well, I mean, I'm fine, Like as long as they the movie. I don't need a movie to follow all the rules, exactly because I mean it's a movie. So yeah, you know, you only enjoy it by suspending your disbelief. I, you know, I understand all that. Just when you get to the point, though, where it just defies any logic at all, that's where you stick. That's where I get stuck. The end. 

Shaun
Host
58:18
This is where the ending jingle goes. This is where the ending jingle goes. I don't know if we need one. I don't know if we'll get one, but if we do, then here is where it goes. 

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