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Oops, All Nicks · Cage Match: A Roundabout Way of Meeting Nicolas Cage

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Oh, God. Oh, my God. Well, I'm really happy to
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have you guys here. Got Nick. It was Nick joining
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us. Thank you again. Thanks. It's real inconvenient.
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Yeah, I know. I know. Well, inconveniencing you
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is primarily what gets me out of bed. I'm going
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to get yelled at for this. Yeah, thank you. Well,
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everything I can do to help. And then joining
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us today is also Nick. Nice to meet you, Nick.
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I'm here. Hey, shake hands. I haven't shaken
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your hand yet. That's nice. Yes. A round of handshakes
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all around. Shake you, shake you, shake, shake.
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Oh, just one shake? Yeah, just one. Okay, that's
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weird. Just a firm up -down. Just quick. So,
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okay, we know Nick, but Nick, what brings us,
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what brings you into this fold? That's a good
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question. I feel like, what was it, about two
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months ago, one month ago? It's like a text,
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like, hey, your name is Nick. We're doing an
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April Fool's episode to review Street Fighter.
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The movie from 1994, which just brought me down
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memory lane. I was like, oh, man, I remember
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that movie. I have a Street Fighter 2 cabinet
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arcade game. Awesome. Non -functional in my basement.
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Non -functional. You know, it's fine to look
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at. Yeah, it is. You know, I dream. I've had
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some girlfriends who were like that, too. Completely
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non -functional, but nice to look at. So, yeah,
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I think I missed out like twice being able to
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do it. And then I think we all missed out twice.
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So here we are in mid -May. Mid -May recording
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that April Fool's Day. Hey, joke's on you guys.
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We always follow through. Oh, that's awesome.
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So you're not even surprised that the movie is
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based off of Street Fighter 2, not Street Fighter
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1 then. No, I totally, I knew what I was getting
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into. Even as a, I don't know how old I was when
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I first watched it. Probably 12 maybe, I think.
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Might have been the last time I've seen it, but
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yeah. Oh man, I wish that was, I've definitely
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seen it a lot recently, but it's been a thing.
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I think every two years I probably get back into
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it. I must say, like, I expected to totally hate
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it. I was so into it. Oh, my God. So into it,
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you watched it weeks before. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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In preparation for a podcast that had nothing
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to do with. That's okay, though. You know, and
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I'm glad I did. It was worth my time. as good
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as I'll say about this. It was worth your time.
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You know, that's pretty high praise for this
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movie. It was worth the time I put into it. I
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like that. Okay, well, hey, I think we're all
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introduced. We've got Nick, recurring Nick. We've
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got new Nick. We've got me. It's old Nick. This
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is so cool. There's going to be zero further
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preambles. It's just Nick. um so nick how is
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it like being well what do i think about being
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nick um i think it's 80 sex and 30 dog and i
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like that a lot about it well with that i think
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it's really about time that i say hey everybody
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welcome to cage match a roundabout way of meeting
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nicholas cage on this podcast we only talk about
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nicholas cage movies except for today when we're
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doing oops all nicks and we're only talking about
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1994 street fighter cult classic no nicholas
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cage lots of john claude van damme that's who
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that guy was yeah oh dude i you know there's
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credits where they show the names yeah skip over
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that I'm not interested in history. This isn't
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a history lesson. Okay. Okay, so I didn't realize
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that was him. Okay, well, let's work through
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the cast. So we got Jean -Claude Van Damme as
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Guile. Traditionally tall, haired, blonde, cool,
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muscular, American soldier. American, yeah. Yeah,
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American. Let's go. Then who do we got? We got,
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obviously, Raul Julia as M. Bison. Bad ass. Like,
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oh my god, I loved his performance. He really
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fucking killed it. It was his last movie, right?
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It was, yeah. What? He filmed this while terminally
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ill with cancer. And he didn't tell anybody.
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He just filmed it, and then before it even came
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out, he passed away. I remember one thing from
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when it came out. It was like, this is his last
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movie, and my god, is it trash. From the reviews.
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I do not. Agree with that sentiment. Yeah, it's
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got critically panned. I think it sits at about
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like 10 % or something on Rotten Tomatoes. So
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pretty terrible, but beloved by nostalgia. It
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was not beloved in its time, I'm sure. It did
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well. It grossed well. There was a lot to love,
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honestly. Like, you know, being totally unaware
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of like the, you know, its release and all that.
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I guess it's not surprising, but honestly, it
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was just a badass action movie that had everything
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I would ever want in a badass action movie. Yeah.
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It had Mulan. Ming -Na Wen. She was Chun -Li.
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Oh, damn. Yeah. All right. I'm not going to lie
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to you, Nick. I'm going to tell it to you straight.
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That is rad, actually. Yeah? Yeah. And then,
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I think after that, it's a bunch of people that
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nobody cares about. Oh, yeah. Kylie Minogue.
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Kylie Minogue is in this, weirdly. I think this
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must have been right when she was kind of getting
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sort of popular and getting a little bit of an
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American presence. She was only 19, I think,
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when she filmed this. Wow. Yeah, that's weird.
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Yeah. Also weird that JCVD slept with her during
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production. Wait, what? Oh, yeah, no, like, so
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when this movie was going into production, he...
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He got a divorce from his third wife, and then
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before the ink was dry, he was getting married
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to his fourth wife, who turned out to be pregnant,
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and then during production, he had an affair
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with Kylie Minogue. God damn. Classic guy. What
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a life. Yeah. Well, I mean, allegedly, he was
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budgeting about $10 ,000 a week for cocaine.
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so this movie oh my god i think it makes a lot
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more sense now like yeah yeah i forgot about
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how much coke people were doing back then no
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yeah i was in the shower today just trying to
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like do some math thinking about like how much
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like today world cocaine is that and uh it's
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still a lot 100 grams a week i think is what
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i came up with that's a lot of cocaine i would
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imagine not a kilo that was just mathematically
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well i'm sure he's shared it i mean generally
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people with cocaine of that amount are pretty
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like insistent that everybody else does it too
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i got too much cocaine so that's your main cast
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and then there's people who play sagat vega e
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-honda balrog Well, obviously, Blanca's in there.
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They jammed them all in there, everyone. I say
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some words about 49 % evil Blanca. Oh my god,
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that was one of the coolest things ever. Right
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at the end, they toned it down. Gave them its
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humanity back. I love the bags of... Oh, yeah,
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mutagen and, like, the orange anabolic plasma.
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And the green. Lots of it. Yeah, the anabolic
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plasma for his hair. Because it's orange. And
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green for his skin. And as a Dhalsim fan from
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the game, I could not have been more. I think
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just about every character did a pretty good
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job of disappointing anybody who was ever a fan
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of the franchise. And that's pretty cool. Yeah,
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it's pretty cool to like really get out there
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and just be like, fuck y 'all. I think, Nick,
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why don't you go ahead and give us a quick summary
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of the movie? All right. Let me see if I can
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try for all the uneducated out there. M. Bison.
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Has taken over a South Asian country called...
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Do you guys remember what it was called? Oh,
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Shadaloo. Shadaloo. So that's actually in Street
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Fighter lore. We're going to do lore. The criminal
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organization that M. Bison runs. Hold on, is
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there actually lore to Street Fighter? Yeah,
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a weirdly absurd amount. Oh my god. If you go
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back and look at lore... the the character biographies
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sometimes it's like oh this person was a failed
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boxer and then the next one is like this person
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was a ninja whose second father was killed in
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the mountains of this and then this person is
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a cool cleaner it's like wow yeah very inconsistent
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i guess i realized as someone who played the
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game a lot as a kid That as characters came out
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as being, like, evil or good, I was just genuinely
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surprised. Like, I was like, oh, Vega, bad. E.
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Honda, good. Blanca kind of in the middle. I
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was like... Yeah, the original, like, bads were,
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what, Bison, Sagat, Vega, and... Dhalsim wasn't
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bad, but... God, there was somebody else. I can't
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remember now, though. And Ryu and Ken, not. douchebags
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as they kind of were. No. In written canon, Ryu
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and Ken were not hustlers who were trying to
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scam major terrorist cabals with tennis ball
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guns. Did they find meaning in the end, though,
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or whatever? I doubt it. I bet they went on to
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do shittier scams. They probably just scammed
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the U .S. government, which is the safest way
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to get money. Okay, so one thing I have been
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wondering about this movie, and if you know the
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cast, I'm curious about the voiceover lady for
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the computer. like in the game no in this movie
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it's one of my favorite parts it's like you know
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when she's all like you know danger you know
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increasing blah blah blah and you know it's all
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just standard warning things it's like it seems
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like a normal job and then one of her lines is
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all like hostage pit opening where am i working
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again somebody's in the voiceover booth just
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recording these and they're like Yeah, and there's
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a whole self -destruct sequence one, and it's
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all like, I guess, as long as I'm being paid.
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Yeah, this was way before you had a TikTok AI
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voice to cover these things for you. Yeah, and
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so I just kind of wonder, who was that person?
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I don't know. Let's see if it is uncovered in
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Nick's summary. It's not. Definitely not. Yeah,
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so... I forgot. Shadaloo? Shadaloo. Shadaloo
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is being opposed by a kind of quasi -UN led by
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Colonel Guile, really hopped up on cocaine just
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right from the get -go. Comes in, shows his muscle
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with his really stellar American flag tattoo
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and tells Bison to shove it. Are you ready for
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another interruption? Yes. So there were days
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that Jean -Claude wouldn't just go on set and
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his excuse was he was pumping his muscles. Like,
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not coming out right now. I'm pumping my muscles.
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What? Cocaine! This guy is freaking nuts. Oh
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my god. All right. So we got Guile's muscles.
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Guile's muscles. Hella pumped. We've got, like,
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a spunky, dedicated reporter for International
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News Corp, Chun -Li, you know, getting the story.
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And apparently, I don't know if we're jumping
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ahead, but apparently they had instant chemistry
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that I only became, like, aware of at the very
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end of the movie when, you know, Guile and Chun
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-Li, like... I don't think they had... anything
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between them it caught me completely off guard
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and all of a sudden at the end they like yeah
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I like I really like that because like throughout
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the whole movie Cammy's just like throwing herself
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yeah and then Cammy's just like oh you know she
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weeps at the end and he's like no I'm sorry Chun
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-Li I'm in love with you he's like there was
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tear gas on the escape yeah no I'm just dropping
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it in Chun -Li so it's Chun -Li and her crack
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oh yeah her crew like her whole news team of
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balrog balrog and ihonda hawaiian ihonda i mean
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it's what a great crew why the hawaiian choice
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i like whenever you could mismatch the like because
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another big part of street fighters like you
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take a plane it goes to a different part of the
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world and you're like oh i'm in japan ihonda
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is a sumo wrestler and they're like no let's
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let's go Let's go Hawaii for this guy. And I
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can't even remember, what was their backstory?
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They were all individually wronged by Bison.
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I think that's as deep as it gets. I think Chun
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-Li's the only one who gave it more than a sentence.
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Everybody else was like, ooh, I got beef. It's
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a line. Street beef. So yeah. And what does Bison
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want? Twenty... billion dollars the astounding
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oh my god amount of 20 billion dollars totally
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i love that he wants 20 billion dollars but then
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like he's explaining to dj in like a scene shortly
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later where it's like I'm going to pay you in
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bison bucks because each bison buck is going
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to be worth more than five pounds once I've kidnapped
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their queen and forced them to. So it's like,
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what's the 20 billion dollars going to be worth?
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I was thinking about that, but as you're operating
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your own government, you do need various foreign
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currencies so that you can maintain a valuable
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exchange. And I know as a future dictator wannabe,
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you have looked into this. Yeah, so it does actually
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make sense that he does need various world currencies
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in order to establish his reign of terror. Post
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-gold standard. nation state of bisonopolis i
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would live there though it looked cool man and
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honestly i had a sweet like sinister skull with
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wings kind of building like it seems like as
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long as you don't cross him he's not a bad boss
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either yeah i mean he's got that smoking jacket
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and the the nighttime like velour dictator hat
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that goes with it oh that's pretty sweet yeah
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the casual dictator All right, so we've got the
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reporting team. We know who they are. What do
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we got else? I feel like next we transition to,
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like, the underground fighting slash gambling
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circuit where it's like a cage fight. Might have
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been electrified. Vega is the hero. Yeah, I think
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the cage was electrified, yeah. I think, and
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to me, as a kid... I was most disappointed by
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the characters who, like, appear next being Ryu
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and Ken. I was just like, they were the coolest.
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And they kind of, you know. They got really weak.
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Bop in and, you know, they're selling some guns
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to Sagat. Yeah. They thought they were tricking
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him in some way. You know, they had the guns
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hidden and they were going to walkie -talkie
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and tell him the location. he already knew it
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he already found the nerf guns and yeah you know
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he shows them uh by shooting them in the face
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what about ken's outfit the denim shirt with
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the tie and like the brown i don't know is that
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like a suede vest that he's wearing it's just
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joey from full house it's the whole it's all
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i thought the whole time i'm like oh no oh yeah
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yeah those guys come in looking like supreme
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dorks and like with everybody in this film like
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they're kind of like juiced up and big and like
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those two just look like guys yeah yeah i didn't
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even realize they were main characters like theoretically
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i don't know i always felt like they were kind
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of the main street fighter characters you know
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no i really thought like this was a story about
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guile and bison and Chun -Li for some reason.
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Well, the movie certainly. The movie, yeah. The
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games, Ryu is like the primary protagonist. Yeah,
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I should say, I played Street Fighter a few times,
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but not often. I wasn't allowed to, you know,
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growing up. Kind of develop bad habits. it. You'd
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be out there, like, throwing fireballs at people.
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Wish. Oh, man. That was my safe one. Like, my
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parents were like, oh, well, Street Fighter,
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that's okay. It's animated. It's that Mortal
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Kombat with just that intense gore that would
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warp your mind. That is true. That's the one
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I had to sneak. Yeah, Mortal Kombat is definitely
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full of Satan. Did you know that they made a
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video game based on the movie? So it was Street
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Fighter, the movie, the video game. I did know
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that. And they used Mortal Kombat technology
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to film the actors doing all this stuff. So it's
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just like... This is amazing. Jean -Claude Van
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Damme, yeah. It looked even... I kind of need
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to know. The video game has a higher rating on
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IMDb than the movie does by like 0 .2%. It's
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like 4 .2 to 4 .3 or something. Oh, that's so
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sad. Yeah. I felt like I did... I felt throughout
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this movie, there were two movies that I couldn't
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help just like think of. Like as I was going
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through first was the super Mario brothers movie.
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Oh yeah. Just like, cause it was from that era
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where like movies knew they wanted to make like
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video game adaptations, but they did not know
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like how to execute on that. To just like lean
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into like. And they were just kind of, yeah,
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they wouldn't lean in. And whereas Mortal Kombat,
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which is the other movie I thought about, just
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I felt like totally leaned in. And they're like,
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we need to show everyone's signature move. We
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need to make sure that we deliver on like everything.
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And still really, you know, cheesy and bad. Oh,
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that one was so bad. This one is just like, let's
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just, we'll get every character in, but we're
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just going to go fucking anywhere. When the newer
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Mortal Kombat movie came out, like during COVID.
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I went back and I tried re -watching the old
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ones. Holy shit. Those are so hard to look at.
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They're like, I don't think the graphics are
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like in any way better than the video game. It's
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rough. It's like real aggressively bad. That
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is a saving grace of Street Fighter. I feel like
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they did not have CGI. Early 90s CGI. At the
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end of the movie, Ryan was supposed to have a
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Hadouken. And you see a white flash on the screen.
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It's like, yeah, we had no post -production credit.
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They were like, maybe if we have a little money
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left over, we'll throw a little Hadouken in there.
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We'll just throw one white cell in there. And
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it's like, okay, great. One frame. I was wondering
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where that was supposed to come in. It was like
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the one thing that I was looking for. He does
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the move and it goes nowhere. That's all the
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flashiness. Not a sonic boom. Not a... No single
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move. No yoga flame. Oh, well, you did have M.
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Bison, like, doing his, like... Oh, that's true.
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Oh, God, I love that. He did have something like...
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He's, like, his lightning jetpack. Ember Palpatine
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situation going on. I love this jetpack move
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where he's just, like... upward fisting sideways.
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I love upward fisting. That's such a good move.
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One time I was watching this adult documentary
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and this chick was like just squatting next to
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a pool and then in slow motion a fist just came
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out. Bam. I was like, sure you can see a little
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dictator hat from off screen. You know, that's
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just to connect with what you were saying. He's
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all like, I'm going to levitate now. And then
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he's all like, I'll show you powers of superconductors.
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Yeah, he really leans into the power of superconductors.
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With no, no explanation. For no reason. Like
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there's no, that came out of nowhere. All of
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a sudden he's all like, check it out. I'm really
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into superconductors. I love that when he gets
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into that position, like when Guile puts him
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down. Spoiler for everybody. We haven't gotten
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to this yet. When Kyle puts him down in that
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last fight and then he's like checking in on
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the radio. And then in the background, there's
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just the M. Bison life support computer. And
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it's like, oh, applying CPR. His fucking chest
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starts going up and down. Electric shock. Adrenaline.
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It's pretty perfect. Oh, yeah, we had the street
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fights. Selling guns to Sagat. Jean -Claude Guile
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drives a tank with two giant missiles through
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the side of the illegal fighting rink and arrests
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everyone. What? Really badass. What kind of tank
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has just, like, fucking Sidewinder missiles or,
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like, ICBMs on the side of it? Like, those things
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were huge. They were the full length of the tank.
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I was impressed. They were bigger than the main
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cannon. Yeah, that was huge in the 80s, 90s.
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So many things were like even just getting TV
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shows because they could sell toys like He -Man.
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Totally tracks, but I didn't even just think
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of how the aesthetic of it was. Street Sharks
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was a great one. I'd buy so many Street Shark
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toys if I found them right now. Biker Mice from
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Mars. So many good shows out there. Dino Riders.
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Dino Riders, yep. Then they're all arrested.
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Uh -huh. And they all go to prison, you know.
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By all of them, I mean Ryu can bust in and, like,
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come out. He's just like, you are all under arrest.
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It's just the dumbest. Oh, my God. The fucking
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line readings in this. I love it when you have
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a cast of people whose, like, primary language
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isn't necessarily English, but they have to communicate.
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like on a chop as if like english is their native
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language and abandon all uh fucking accents uh
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the the scene in the main like planning room
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where it's guile talking to sawada i think was
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the character's name uh and it's just two guys
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definitely not like native english people giving
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lines and talking like this but what if When
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it happens, it sounds like this. It's just incredible.
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Zero pacing. Yeah. The lack of pacing. Yeah.
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I mean, I gotta say, though, I mean, I enjoyed
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this movie so much. I know. It's so fun. It was
25:42
great. I thought I was going to hate it. I put
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the hostage pit. Nick loves a hostage pit. It's
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actually a really good strategy. Now, after seeing
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their hostage pit, did you actually make any
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modifications to your own hostage pit? I don't
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own property. I can't afford that. I mean, you
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don't have to own to install. I don't ask my
26:07
landlord for fucking shit. Yeah. But I modify
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the fuck out of his place. I think I would need
26:14
to be on a ground floor apartment so that I could.
26:18
It does make pits better. Yeah. Unless you can,
26:20
like, block off your downstairs neighbor's place
26:24
and then they become a hostage. First hostage
26:26
in the pit. It's not even that illegal, actually.
26:32
Yeah, I'm sure it's not. Okay, so once you've
26:36
got your first hostage in the pit, though, at
26:39
this moment, I'm assuming it's your downstairs
26:40
neighbor. Yeah. Who's second hostage? Like, who's
26:43
your first, like, they're a hostage hostage?
26:47
The first person that knocks on the downstairs
26:50
neighbor's store. Oh, yeah. Do you have, like,
26:52
some kind of cool vacuum machine that, like,
26:54
pulls them in? No. Do you have one of those,
26:57
like, funhouse, like, tunnels where it fills
27:00
up and it's, like, you have to push through a
27:02
vagina and then, like, you can't go backwards
27:05
because there's probably thorns? Oh, yeah. One
27:08
of the... Oh, you do have that. Okay, cool. That's
27:11
a starting point. Really quick. But yeah, so
27:15
you start getting hostages. I think at some point
27:18
you need to get the word out that you have the
27:20
hostages, though. So that's what M. Bison was
27:23
doing. Yeah, for $20 billion. Yeah, I guess you
27:28
need soldiers at that point to defend. It helps.
27:31
What was up with the forced narrative that Bison
27:36
is like a drug kingpin? They're like terrorists
27:41
and drug... Overlord, M. Bison. It's like, why
27:46
is he talking about drugs? I know it's cool to
27:48
hate on drugs. That might have been how he got
27:51
the start of this empire, I would think. I don't
27:54
know. It just feels like it was unnecessary to
27:56
shoehorn drugs into this movie. I mean, Van Damme
27:59
did enough of that. I mean, he had to get to
28:03
power somehow, and it might have been like an
28:05
established drug empire. I don't remember that
28:08
on my Super Nintendo. I just remember in the
28:11
arcade, always. don't do drugs before Street
28:14
Fighter even started. Maybe that was a Capcom
28:17
request. Was Bison a good character in Street
28:22
Fighter? Was he playable? Yeah. Oh, he was great
28:26
to play. He was the cheapest character, I think.
28:29
Yeah. Easiest to win. Unless, except in Street
28:36
Fighter 2, is it Turbo? Where you get the secret
28:41
character, what's his name, Akumi? Oh, yeah.
28:44
He's, like, the alternate, like, end boss and
28:47
is, like, hands down the most powerful character
28:50
in the game. Even the dumbed -down player version
28:54
of him is, like, he's, like, banned in tournaments.
28:58
A sad non -inclusion in the movie. I mean, they'd
29:01
already, like, Nighthawk or Nighthawk. T -Hawk.
29:05
Yeah, T -Hawk, T -Hawk, yeah. Who are some of
29:08
the other weird ones? I don't know. They had
29:10
a bunch of the nobodies. I like DJ's expanded
29:14
role. DJ, the Jamaican musician. Evil tech. Yeah.
29:22
Who has a line about, you know, I'm going to
29:25
try to go back and work at Microsoft after this
29:28
or something like that, which I was wondering
29:30
was the earliest Microsoft reference. That is
29:34
probably the best. I wouldn't work at Microsoft
29:37
if I could work with folk like that. He seems
29:40
rad, actually. The old days. Okay, so we've arrested
29:47
everybody. I'm going to try to... I know I'm
29:51
going to interrupt, so I'll just jump in. So
29:54
everybody gets arrested. They're thrown into
29:58
cells. At this point, what, like... Chun -Li
30:03
breaks in to figure out where this other homing
30:07
beacon is coming from. And oh my god, it's Guile
30:11
in the morgue. Oh wait, no, I jumped some stuff.
30:13
So they hire Ken and Ryu to get themselves shoehorned
30:21
or forced into Sagat's crew. And to do it, they're
30:24
like, oh, we'll orchestrate this escape. They
30:28
don't tell you any of this. You'll shoot. Guile,
30:32
and they'll be so overwhelmed with joy that you're
30:35
in, and then you'll help give us the bad guys.
30:38
So all that happens. Guile's in a morgue. Chun
30:42
-Li shows up, and it's like, oh, you're still
30:44
alive. And he's like, I wouldn't give you an
30:46
interview when I was alive. Why would I do it
30:48
when I'm dead? Pan to the camera. Such a stupid
30:53
scene. God, I hated that one. Well, you've got
30:56
to develop that chemistry, you know, scene by
30:58
scene. And then Guile's like, get her out of
31:01
here, and some soldiers take her away. From there,
31:04
we start... Oh, we go to the Sagat bison world.
31:14
So I really liked this area, because bison...
31:18
chooses to celebrate everything that's going
31:21
on by having some kind of weird terrorist carnival
31:24
where it's just people like selling guns and
31:27
shit out front and then you've got like a Cirque
31:29
du Soleil thing happening inside. It seemed like
31:32
a cool party, honestly. Yeah. Oh my God. All
31:35
the fucking gun runners get together and watch
31:39
an aerialist. Cool. That's a lot of fun. I would
31:43
hang out with. you know bison he he would have
31:46
won me over on that shit i mean he won you over
31:50
well before so lo and behold the the aerialist
31:56
turns out to be chung lee and like her whole
31:58
crew is there and they're trying to do some shit
32:01
to stop bison and uh they they get in there and
32:05
it's like oh we're gonna blow up all your weapons
32:07
and so they set that all up and In the lead up
32:12
to that, when she's on TV being like, Bison,
32:15
I'm going to fuck you over. Ken and Ryu are like
32:19
getting found out for like being like, oh, there's
32:24
traitors or whatever. And they're like, oh, we're
32:25
going to take you guys. And they're like, oh,
32:28
well, we're not the traitors. They're over there
32:31
and like sell out Chun -Li and all of them. So
32:34
that just makes them even more Bison troopers.
32:38
Which gets us more of my favorite character in
32:41
this, and that's Zangief. We haven't talked about
32:43
Zangief the whole time. Oh, Zangief was the other
32:45
bad guy that we forgot to mention earlier. He
32:48
is awesome. I love everything about this guy,
32:51
from his eyes that are too close together to
32:54
the stupid sideways thumb thing, because he doesn't
32:58
understand thumbs up or thumbs down. Doesn't
33:01
understand that he's a bad guy. That's the biggest
33:05
twist, I feel. He's just so stupid. He's my favorite.
33:11
I just was constantly confused as to what...
33:15
I know this sounds ridiculous. What the motives
33:18
of Ryu and Ken were. They seemed to just kind
33:22
of change sides. And I couldn't tell if they
33:25
were, like, being sneaky, like, oh, like, let's
33:27
just, like, get in their good graces more by
33:29
selling out Chun -Li and E -Honda and whatever.
33:31
They mentioned selling about, like, losing their
33:33
passports or something. I'm trying to remember.
33:36
Oh, yeah, they keep... Oh, yeah. Guile keeps,
33:38
like, withholding their passports. Which, I mean,
33:41
like, whatever. Yeah. No, I think they were definitely
33:45
trying to keep from getting killed. So they were
33:51
just doing whatever they could. to not get found
33:55
out yeah and then also like repeatedly going
33:59
back and be like hey guys we're still cool right
34:01
like they go into after this try to break out
34:05
e -honda and uh balrog and oh then they get choked
34:09
out and there's funny miscommunication with choking
34:12
and remember at this point my um like i watched
34:16
this two nights ago my daughter margo nine -year
34:20
-old like She likes to run downstairs, you know,
34:24
if she knows we're watching a movie, especially
34:25
one that she considered to be violent. And she
34:27
got to see a lot of shooting. She's very excited
34:30
about it. But then she's kind of sitting there
34:31
bored. And like Chun -Li strikes M. Bison in
34:35
some way that's like somewhat hurtful to him
34:37
by like blowing something up. And she was like,
34:40
oh, my God, I've been waiting so long for them
34:43
to blow up a car. And they finally did it. Yeah,
34:46
that must be when they blew up all those. But
34:49
I still can't remember what strike did Chun -Li,
34:52
like, you know, inflict upon M. Bice. Just blew
34:55
up some bombs or something like that. Yeah, they
34:59
put a bomb in their, like, circus truck and,
35:01
like, rolled it down and, like, blew up all of
35:03
the weapons he was trying to sell. Oh, yeah.
35:05
It's like, oh, we're going to blow up your weapons.
35:08
But my favorite line in this whole movie. And
35:12
the one that I remember, but like I thought it
35:15
was from like a history book or something like
35:17
that or like some like it's to me, it's like
35:21
such a good line when like Chun -Li has been
35:24
captured by M. Bison and she explains how M.
35:28
Bison came to her village and, you know, her
35:31
dad rallied the farmers and M. Bison, you know,
35:34
had him hung and destroyed. And, you know, it's
35:37
her reason for, you know, hating him. And he's
35:39
like, do you? When M. Bison visited your village,
35:44
that was the most important day in your life.
35:47
To me, it was just Tuesday. Such a baller line.
35:53
It's by a magnitude of 10, the best line in the
35:58
whole. I think that line, along with the majority
36:02
of his performance, but really that line is what
36:05
just kills it for most people with this film
36:08
and with Raul Julia's character and performance.
36:11
is like the fucking just straightforward way
36:15
he's like no i swore that was like a well i like
36:18
well -known line i talked to my partner megan
36:20
i was like hey you know this line right you know
36:22
to me it was just tuesday she's like no i've
36:25
never heard that line before i'm like i swear
36:27
that's the famous cinematic like you know i feel
36:32
like i know it in my bones yeah it was definitely
36:35
like this movie this movie has this line in it.
36:39
No, it's a, there's gotta be nothing more culturally
36:42
important. Oh, let's see. We have got everybody
36:47
together. We're in Chattaloo. Oh my God. I forgot
36:49
this thing's keeping going. Yeah. Oh, we haven't
36:52
even talked about the Blanca's of it all. Yeah.
36:55
This is a subplot in the entire, like beginning,
36:58
uh, like the very beginning, we've got this whole
37:03
hostage situation where Bison's got, uh, fucking
37:07
guile's buddy carlos blanca and when he finds
37:10
out it's guile's friend he's like oh we're gonna
37:12
do this guy like dirty so take him down to the
37:17
science lab and that's where they like give him
37:20
over to dalcim and dalcim uh like an enslaved
37:24
scientist or whatever you know he's enslaved
37:26
because he's got his giant manacles and shack
37:29
like shackles and everything uh and chains and
37:33
whatnot it's very hot and then uh god damn what
37:38
we've all got a type um i like stretchy boys
37:43
uh prisoners prisoners that's my type i love
37:49
it when i don't have to crush their will it's
37:51
just done for me uh we're not gonna cut that
37:55
and so like the whole science thing is like they're
37:59
gonna fucking reverse Clockwork Orange Jim by
38:02
putting some goggles on him and showing him like
38:04
horrible shit. It's just like, it's just like
38:08
the most stupidly edited together, like orange
38:11
flames and like, like maybe face melting scream
38:14
guy and then a burning building and this and
38:17
that is like, this is going to teach him to be
38:19
like super aggressive and angry. And later when
38:22
Dhalsim gets his, his chance to try to reverse
38:26
it. He's just showing him like weddings and puppies
38:29
and shit. And it's like, this is going to fix
38:31
him. But at that point, he's already like the
38:33
biggest foreheaded green guy with his stupid
38:36
orange, like a fucking Sideshow Bob hair or whatever.
38:41
It's... And, like, every three minutes his muscle
38:46
mass would go up by 1%. Oh, yeah. Muscle mass.
38:50
50%. Meanwhile, he's, like, screaming in agony,
38:56
which I just freaking love. Yeah. I assume it's
39:01
very painful to be watching weddings all the
39:05
time. But it's also part of, like, a theatric,
39:08
like, plot. to kind of dramatically murder the
39:12
hostages by not just kind of like machine gunning
39:16
them but like oh you strip away their humanity
39:18
blanca up to like go go isn't that the plan at
39:22
the end i feel like he's like he's supposed to
39:25
be like a super soldier yeah oh yeah yeah they
39:28
were gonna kill the hostages by releasing blanca
39:30
in there and then they lift it up and like guile
39:33
comes like Doing that cool flying kick. Flying
39:38
kick. Then takes out his gun and fails to shoot.
39:42
Oh, man. Yeah, he looked so coked out, too, in
39:48
that shot. This, like, knowledge about his cocaine
39:51
use, which I didn't have previous to this, just
39:54
explains. And it's funny because, like, the one
39:56
piece of, like, Jean -Claude, like, media that
40:01
I turned to, I was like, you know what I really
40:03
want to see? I was like, I want to see that Volvo
40:06
commercial of him doing the splits. Oh, yeah,
40:10
between the two trucks. With Enya playing. I
40:12
was like, oh, man. He's in such a better place
40:15
now. Yeah, he did clean up after this. So that's
40:18
probably for the best. Eventually, yeah. I think
40:21
everybody gets one Street Fighter and then you
40:23
have to clean up. Oh, shouldn't have done that.
40:27
I can't wait for my Street Fighter. I hope this
40:29
podcast isn't my Street Fighter. Oh, shit. That
40:33
silence says a lot. So, we've got Blanca. He's
40:38
gonna be the bad, like, killer of the hostages.
40:41
Everything is like, we're in a full -on, like,
40:43
battle. We've got a stealth boat that came up
40:46
and brought... Okay. It wasn't that stealth,
40:50
right? Who sends a supersonic, like, stealth
40:53
boat with a giant wake behind it? Stealth boat.
40:58
Activate stealth mode. Take out... machine gun
41:01
turrets and just mow down the radar uh sensors
41:06
not in any way like discreet no it's like why
41:11
do you need to take out all the radar if you're
41:13
stealthed that should be doing it for you i'm
41:16
sorry can we back up a little bit because like
41:19
i there's i want to say this happens after my
41:22
favorite scene of this entire thing and it's
41:26
where like You got like the A .N. representative,
41:30
the political guy. The dork. The dork. And he's
41:34
all like, you got to tell your men we struck
41:38
a deal. And, you know, the war is off. And then
41:42
and then Guile is all like, you know. Fuck you,
41:47
man. I'm going rogue. I'm taking my band of soldiers
41:52
and we're going to disregard all the chain of
41:55
command shit. He just got fired, so there's no
41:59
chain of command for him. We're going to do our
42:01
own thing. And I just absolutely love the idea
42:05
of just bands of soldiers going rogue and doing
42:09
whatever they want. I mean, that's really...
42:11
And they try to promote this as a good thing.
42:13
Like, we're fighting for justice. Yeah. Meanwhile,
42:17
full anarchy. I love that later when the dork's
42:22
on the phone with his boss and he's like, are
42:26
there any soldiers left? And he's like, some.
42:28
And it's just a cook sitting there. Boiling shoes
42:33
or whatever. That's where I'd rather be, frankly.
42:35
I'm not going into war. No way. Not even if you
42:39
could ride in a stealth boat. So, you know, they
42:44
had the stealth boat added in later on because
42:48
Thailand refused to let them have airspace. So
42:52
they weren't allowed to fly planes for an aerial
42:55
assault. So they're like, I don't know, fucking
42:58
stealth boat? Okay, stealth boat. Did you guys
43:02
pick up on the arcade? machine that M. Bison
43:06
used to slowly release water mines to blow up
43:13
the sailboat. That was so awesome. That was a
43:16
nice touch. Yeah, it was a nice nod. I liked
43:18
that a lot. So we get full -on assault. We get
43:24
Chun -Li fighting Bison at some point, I think.
43:29
But it's mostly Guile. This is really the Guile
43:33
-Bison showdown. It happens on platforms. I really
43:39
like when Guile's up on that platform and all
43:41
those soldiers, those Bison soldiers show up
43:43
and he just pulls out his knife and they all
43:45
back away and he's like, yeah, I'm real fucking
43:47
tough. And it's like, no, he's got a bunch of
43:50
soldiers behind him. He's like, you really thought
43:54
they were afraid of you with a single knife,
43:56
a fixed blade knife? Awesome. Cocaine. that was
44:01
such a stupid scene though because like like
44:03
up until that moment like everything he did was
44:05
totally badass yeah yeah i mean yeah badass but
44:11
goofy as fuck yeah like i think everything has
44:13
a little little shine of goofiness on it in this
44:17
movie and that i mean yeah that's the charm of
44:20
it all it's like it's a bad movie but it's done
44:23
knowing that it's not great i think So then he
44:26
starts going on about superconductors for no
44:29
reason. So we have a fight, and then it gets
44:31
scientific, and in the end, everything explodes.
44:38
So what is this? Self -destruct? Yeah, there's
44:41
a self -destruct. So Bison self -destructs everything?
44:44
I kind of forget. No, it's in the fight. Somebody
44:47
gets knocked over onto the controller, I think,
44:49
and it just... Really? Yeah, remember there was
44:52
the plunger that brought them up to, like, yellow
44:54
alert. And then somebody gets, like, punched
44:57
into it, and when they fall on it, I think that's
44:59
what switches it to self -destruct. If they don't
45:01
turn on the actual self -destruct, someone's
45:03
punched into it. There's absolutely no way that
45:05
there's no safeguards for, like, the fortress
45:07
self -destructing. You know how, like, you got,
45:11
like, the two keys on either side of the console
45:14
that are too far apart? Not necessary. This comes
45:17
after you've had $20 billion to invest in a second
45:21
keyhole. God freaking dang it. That's a really
45:28
fast self -destruct thing. I mean, it did give
45:33
them a lot of time. I think we also skipped over
45:37
maybe the darkest scene in the movie, which is
45:42
while he's in his stealth boat, Guile looks at
45:48
a little video of him and Lieutenant Blanco.
45:52
Like having a barbecue with their wives, you
45:55
know, back in, you know, Texas or wherever. And
45:58
then kind of, you know, looks wistfully and then
46:01
gets there, finds, you know, Blanca, the monster.
46:06
It's like, what did they do to you, man? It's
46:09
like, help me. He's like, I will. And he just
46:11
like puts a gun to his head. He's like, waits
46:15
for a really long time, but he's planning to
46:17
just kill his friend. There's nothing to try
46:20
here. I've tried everything. So I'm exhausted
46:23
all options. No, wait. I gave him 51 % good.
46:30
I gave him the puppies for like. A solid hour.
46:35
One second longer than the murder shit. He's
46:38
like, all right, all right. Okay, cool. I won't
46:40
kill my best friend. That's a good point. Thank
46:42
you. But you have to take him. Yeah. I can't
46:44
deal with him. He's fucking ugly now. Really.
46:47
I honestly thought his future was just going
46:49
to be a puppy murderer. Oh, yeah. He has capacity
46:52
for good and evil. Like, okay. If we ever get
46:57
Street Fighter the movie to... Same cast. Yeah,
47:01
same cast. But based on Street Fighter 3. Well,
47:05
because this one was based on Street Fighter
47:08
2. Street Fighter the movie based on Street Fighter
47:10
2 the game. So Street Fighter 2 the movie has
47:13
to be based on like 3? 4? What's different in
47:18
3? I don't remember. I mean 2 is the best one.
47:23
It's the only one I know. Because it also had
47:27
like 7 different releases. Everyone's just sprinkling
47:32
in a new character here and there, but nothing
47:34
else really changed. Maybe a couple graphics
47:36
updates, but yeah. So he attempts to just fucking
47:41
murk Blanka and gets shut down by Dhalsim. Did
47:46
we even ever see... Yeah, Dhalsim does stretch
47:48
at one point. Does he? No. He did not have a
47:52
single stretch? I thought he had a stretch. I
47:54
thought there was some... I didn't even know
47:56
he was an actual... I guess if we couldn't have
47:59
a Hadouken, we probably can't have a Stretch
48:01
Armstrong. There was an E. Honda slap scene at
48:05
some point, I feel like. I mean, because as a
48:08
kid, that's what you're just like, give me their
48:11
moves. I just want a sequence of scenes leading
48:14
to people doing the moves. Yeah, that's what
48:16
I wanted this week. Yeah, honestly, I was a little
48:19
disappointed. But it did make up for it in a
48:22
lot of ways, yeah. So Fortress starts self -destructing
48:25
because somebody just knocked over an elbow and
48:30
hit the self -destruct button. So Fortress self
48:35
-destructs. DJ and Sagat run off with their chest
48:38
full of money, which once they're on a boat turns
48:42
out to be bison bucks, so kind of screwed there.
48:45
Five British pounds each. For probably the lot
48:48
of it. all the allied nation soldiers get together
48:53
and they're all like oh guile didn't make it
48:56
but then he comes out after an explosion like
48:59
classic uh cammy was crying because she's horny
49:03
and nobody else cared i think they hugged and
49:07
then they all like posed oh my gosh they really
49:13
did hit that pose at the end they really did
49:15
did you see the after credits scene uh at some
49:21
point, probably, but I haven't cared. Amazon
49:24
switched me off immediately and started playing
49:27
Major Pain. You got Major Pain? That's what it
49:32
suggested would be the best follow -up. This
49:35
one was so friggin' stupid, and I absolutely
49:38
love it. So, like, okay, credits roll, and then
49:41
you meet, like, some, like, underground ruins,
49:48
basically, just absolute rubble. And then, you
49:52
know, it's like basically a very slow powering
49:56
on of Bison's systems. It's all like, and then
49:59
it starts, you know, rejuvenating him, doing
50:02
the whole, you know, thing. And then he's all
50:05
like, I'm back online. What do I do now? And
50:08
then it's like, it shows his options on the computer
50:12
screen. And it's like. file open save undo world
50:18
domination oh my god i freaking love that i yeah
50:27
that is that is it is a crime there was no sequel
50:32
yeah i mean boy that's rough like even if there
50:36
was enough hype about this movie to get a sequel
50:40
Just like knowing, well, you just teased that
50:43
there could be more bison, but there can be no
50:46
bison. Yeah. He was amazing in that. No, he was
50:52
great. Yeah. Terrific actor. There's so many
50:55
different things that happen in the movie and
50:57
they're so kind of just disconnected. They just
51:00
kind of happen in sequence. I was like trying
51:04
to follow it for a while and then kind of realized
51:06
actually just shut up. It's mostly a let it go.
51:11
There's some weird things that are in this film
51:13
that like I noticed and like would have to like
51:16
kind of look up like in the Bison Chung Lee cocktail
51:21
scene when it pans across this room and there's
51:24
that clown dictator painting. It's like a direct.
51:29
like, homage to Gacy's Pogo the Clown, the way
51:32
it's painted, but in M. Bison clothing. Oh, damn.
51:37
Just, uh, that's weird. Weird reference. Yeah.
51:42
I enjoy that, uh, Bison is an ableist and makes
51:47
fun of Sagat's missing eye. I really... Yeah,
51:50
he went hard. Yeah, he's like a real dickhead.
51:52
He's like, oh, you didn't see that? But it's
51:56
so mean. It's like, you didn't see it. It's like,
51:59
really driving it home. Yeah. And, uh, I mean,
52:03
like, I could justify this, but, like, in Washington,
52:07
it's like, why the fuck is there a giant bell
52:09
inside of Bison's command center? Like, twice
52:12
they throw somebody into it, so you get the,
52:14
like, head gonging sound. It's like, okay, sure,
52:16
it was a temple once upon a time, but, like,
52:19
that's fucking weird. Yeah. Like, if I was setting
52:21
up a, like, command center, that's a lot of real
52:24
estate. I'd get that out of here. question though
52:27
what was the floating platform for i mean it
52:31
seemed like they spent a lot of money on that
52:33
floating platform i don't know if it had a reason
52:36
other than to kind of i think it was just really
52:38
into superconductors yeah floating doctors it
52:41
is really cool i think it's like he was getting
52:44
a little sidetracked from his world domination
52:46
thing and it's like you know what i bet i could
52:48
do i bet i could make superconductors work and
52:52
make them make me fly I don't know. I figure
52:55
if you're going to be a top -tier dictator and
53:00
world dominator, you need something to set you
53:04
apart early on. What's better than floating above
53:08
your troops and yelling down at them with your
53:12
joystick commands and everything? I mean, look
53:15
at everybody else who's ever had it. Eggman or
53:18
Professor whatever from Sonic. He had a floating
53:21
platform. He did. He had a floating platform.
53:25
Koopa had a floating platform. Emperor Palpatine
53:29
floating platform. Everybody in the Senate did.
53:32
I do like to lord over people. I see the appeal.
53:36
Exactly. Float over a hostage pit. It feels good.
53:41
You want some food down there? Just drop it on
53:44
them. Sprinkles like they're pigeons. Pigeons
53:48
who've had their... White feathers clipped. You
53:52
guys, you know how much it made? I don't know
53:56
shit about any of this. They fucking made this
53:58
movie for $35 million. What? Seems like a lot.
54:01
That's so much money. $35 million, 1994 dollars.
54:06
That's a poor choice on your part. It did gross,
54:09
like globally, 99 .4. So, it pulled in a lot
54:14
of money. Nobody liked it, but it made a lot
54:17
of money. uh would you kind of like uh i guess
54:20
made everybody believe that yeah we can make
54:23
movies about comic books and uh video games and
54:27
all these other little franchises there's a there's
54:30
a market out there when did the mortal kombat
54:33
movie come out in really like was this same year
54:36
or like one year later so this was the uh the
54:40
impetus the inciting incident that's pretty cool
54:44
Is this actually like the first video game movie
54:47
or something? Probably not like the first, but
54:50
it was the first like big one that I can remember.
54:55
Or Mario, like when did Mario? Oh, Mario came
54:58
out later. Okay. Yeah, you know, I think we've
55:03
got it. The only thing I really noted otherwise,
55:07
aside from, I guess, once the actors found out
55:11
about like the... massage parlors in the area.
55:16
A lot of actors were taking off multiple times
55:18
a day to go get work done. Oh my god. So that
55:21
became a problem. There were a lot of production
55:23
problems between cocaine and... This is amazing.
55:25
Like, hand jobs. I need a new career. And adultery,
55:28
and... What have I been doing with my life? Yeah.
55:32
He was just pumping his muscles. I don't know
55:35
what he was doing. Probably just cocaine. Pumping
55:37
his muscles, yeah. Yeah. Cocaine. Whacking off.
55:41
Kylie Minogue. I mean, take your pick. His fucking
55:44
fourth wife, the one he just married and was
55:48
having a kid with, is also in the movie. She's
55:52
in a scene. Whoa. Like, I can't remember if it's
55:54
the little, like, movie that they pop in. Like,
55:58
why the fuck is there a cassette player inside
56:01
of the... Oh, in the... It's not a cassette player,
56:03
but like a... In the stealth boat, yeah, yeah.
56:05
In the boat, and that's the perfect time to just
56:08
toss it. It's like, I don't have a lot to do
56:10
right now. But his wife's in like a cafe scene
56:13
or something, like seated there with some other
56:15
characters. And it's like, ugh. How many wives
56:17
has Jean -Claude Van Damme had in his romantic?
56:20
I mean, if the over -under was four and a half,
56:23
I'd say over. I would definitely say over. I
56:26
would definitely say fourth was not. Wow, what
56:28
a life. Last, yeah. Yeah, I don't think that
56:30
one made it too far. Fourth wife, third kid.
56:33
I looked up Jean -Claude Van Damme. Never played
56:37
a character named Nick. Raul Julia played somebody
56:41
named Nick in Street Kill. Ming -Na Wen, never
56:44
played in Nick. Damien Chapa, Ken, played in
56:49
Nick in Enemy Within and Love, Hate, and Security.
56:53
Ryu, never in Nick. Kami, she was in a music
56:58
video with Nick Cave. That's pretty Nick adjacent.
57:01
That's close. Sorry, in the cave. Yeah. Cigar,
57:07
basically. He played a Nick in an episode of
57:10
something called Launchpad and something called
57:11
The Roof, which was a short. DJ was a Nick in
57:16
a movie called Clue. C -L -E -W. Wow. Yeah, I
57:21
don't know what that's about. Oh, Balrog. Do
57:26
you know what his, like, the actor's name is?
57:29
His name is Grand L. Bush. What? Yes. That is
57:35
amazing. Oh, man. He played a Nick once in something
57:38
called Hagen. And Blanca was a Nick in Satisfaction.
57:42
So we've got quite a few extra Nicks in here,
57:44
too. And I just thought it was important to look
57:46
that up. Or oops, I'll mix. Just that they had
57:49
so many other roles besides this. The fact that
57:54
they got it. That additional work. I'd make a
58:01
movie like this if they would let me. I would
58:04
let you. I don't have $35 million, but I might
58:07
have $35. It's a start. Awesome. Let's just do
58:12
the... If you can add in the cocaine and massage
58:17
parlors, I can swing that. Well, they're getting
58:21
pretty hard on the massage parlors here in Seattle
58:23
right now. They've been busting a lot of them,
58:25
but... Busting. But I don't know, maybe like
58:33
$35 worth of cocaine, that's not going to get
58:35
us too far either. Maybe I can get you a bump
58:39
and a handy, but... Good enough. All right, let's
58:43
film it. So this has been my dream of talking
58:48
about Street Fighter with a bunch of Knicks.
58:50
I really enjoyed having all these Knicks with
58:52
me. Nick, thank you for coming. My pleasure.
58:55
I was talking to Nick. I'm sorry. I was looking
58:58
at you, but I was talking to Nick. Nick, thank
58:59
you. Yeah, I'm glad I made the time. Yeah, and
59:03
we're really pleased to have you here, Nick.
59:06
Your time's done. okay but yeah it was a total
59:13
pleasure i mean any chance to revisit street
59:16
fighter yeah always gotta take it awesome so
59:19
closing word everybody we uh how do you feel
59:22
about this movie i think everybody loves it shockingly
59:25
good i i had a really good time with it awesome
59:30
well me too more people need to do cocaine yeah
59:36
in their films. So, yeah. I think that's a stance
59:39
that this podcast has been very firmly, like,
59:42
on. It's like... Yeah. In general, yeah. Yeah.
59:50
Bye. Bye.