 Did you hear about the guy who invented the knock-knock joke? Who? The guy who invented the knock-knock joke? No. Yeah, you just won the Nobel Prize? How long you been thinking about that one? About five minutes. Ha ha ha! Josh! The right-tour stupid reaction needs a corporate comment. It's the kind of comedy gold you get here. Comedy gold, my friends! Comedy gold! Uuuhm... Tickle your funny bone and your weeness. Do you know who Whitney Cummings is? I know that name but I don't know why I know that name. Oh, she's a famous comedian. She was on the show with me, with Chris Ilya, but, um, she, uh... Vir Das was on her podcast. She's a famous comedian, and she has a podcast, but now she has a podcast. Vir Das was on it, and apparently, he showed her, uh, Shabu Khan, and she had to look up who that was. Okay. And so this is their conversation. Their conversation about Shabu Khan. Introducing her. This is random. Ha ha ha! This is, this is far-reaching. Well, it's Vir Das. You know, Whitney Cummings is, and then she had this podcast, and then Vir Das was on, and they were talking about Shabu Khan. I think it's, it's funny because most Americans will have this exact same... Response. React to. React to. Because people, obviously Indians all the time, they're like, okay, biggest star in the world. Right. And I'm like, he could literally walk on the streets here, and no one would know who he was unless you're an Indian usually. Right. Yeah. And so it's, I mean, it's not his fault. No. It's just the way it is. In fact, I forgot who it was. If it was Rithik or somebody, and I'm sure there's several who feel this way who said one of the reasons they like coming to L.A. is because they get anonymity. Yeah. Yeah. They're just another person. They get to just be around and not be bombarded. Which is crazy. It's crazy. He could have like Rithik and... That a billion people on one side of the world know of and adore. Just walking around. Go to the other side of the planet and there's all these other doofuses going... Here we go. Alright, I'm googling Hollywood stars right now. Is this the guy you were just talking about? Is this the guy? That's like us three years ago. Like in terms of everything. In terms of fan base, in terms of reach, in terms of anything. That's fascinating. Like every Sunday he will have 10,000 people waiting outside his house. There's something fascinating about this because there's something very... Alpha is a word that I just think has lost its meaning. Much like genius and hilarious and all those brilliant and all those others. But there's something... You know why? Guys like him and girls like him. It's very rare for men and women to like the same man. And he's also just like a romantic leading man. Valentino, was that the guy? Yeah, Rudolph Valentino. The guy in the back of my movies, the... Casablanca? Nobody romances a woman... No, when he comes in... Romances a woman. It's something that you'll find people saying. Like he just knows how to do that on camera. No man romances a woman like... On screen reviews. Bernie Weinstein. Who is our... Him. There is no one here. There is none. There is none. There is none. There is none. Who's your big... Like a big... Someone that... I don't even... You guys don't know what comes. He's Davidson. Show me. Yeah. He's the off-screen version of Sherlock Holmes. He's Davidson. Yeah. He's Davidson. That guy has something going on. I don't know what it is. There's something there. But that's fascinating. But as a performer, someone like, you know... You hypnotize, you know... Maybe, you know... Billions. Thousands of people. Billions. Hundreds of millions. What is it? Is it Charisma? All of it. Yes? I think Charisma, I think also he's... His story is really good. Like he has a self-made, you know... Showed up in Mumbai with nothing but a suitcase. And kind of became king of the world story. And I think people, you know... Relate to that. Aspire to that. And just, yeah... Like I still... Like our version of the Oscars... I used to write jokes for that. And he used to host it. And like you'd be up in his house... Just like pitching jokes to the guy. And then he'd never listen to you. He'd go on and do his version of the joke. And he would always be better. And like nobody's ever done that. Like I've always written jokes for people. And then they go and do their own version. And it sucks. And I think you know that feeling as well. When they don't do the joke as you write it. But this guy would just go on and do the joke. And he would fucking be better. So you're just backstage in the wings. Like fuck. That was good. Wow. You know, he's that good. He's just that smart. And what... That's mind blowing. Yeah. Do you... This is the part of the podcast where I ask about your ancestral trauma. All right, cool. Is there any like... Like what is the... What do you carry? Like do you feel like you carry a belief system that is like rooted in any kind of like guilt, shame, need to entertain, need to be masculine, feminine? This podcast was also right after that big controversy of his. This occurred right after that? Okay. His self. Yeah. I think for me, feeling like I'm always two steps removed from poverty is one. Wow. So like never chilling long enough or never sitting long enough because I'm like, this could be gone any second. Now let's keep going, you know? So never really sitting back and enjoying anything because I'm like, on to the next, on to the next, have to keep this going. Not just for myself, but for the people that I work with. And that's one... Oh, okay. Well, cool. There you go. That's quite... That's how exactly we were, though. That's how most Americans are. No, like, imagine like if we could watch our... I mean, obviously we can because we can see our reactions, right? Yeah. But like, how we talk about like... Shah Rukh Khan. Shah Rukh Khan. That guy. Is he popular? Yeah. Yeah. A smidge? That guy. That's what it sounds like. It's like, oh wow, people really like this guy. Yeah. And he's liked by thousands and... Thousands of people, yeah. Totally thousands. That's the way we were. Thousands a minute, maybe? Yeah. Like, I don't... It does... That's how we were. It does show you what we've talked about repeatedly on the channel for like almost three years now that many in America just don't think there's anything going on in the world that is worth paying really close attention to other than what's going on here or what affects us here. Or we're told affects us here. Yeah. Just really don't... It's only recently that you're now getting things happening like a show like Squid Game because of Parasite. Yeah. Suddenly they're talking about South Korean stuff and people are watching movies with subtitles and actually talking about international movies. That wasn't happening except for people who loved film six years ago. Yeah. You know? Not even ten years ago. So it's broadening that we still have a long way to go. Yeah. Long way to go. When Vir Das was trying to get a comp for Shah Rukh Khan, we don't... There's not a... There isn't one. Outside of maybe old school of like... Who is his faith actually? Humph. He starts with an H, right? In Kazablanca. Humphry Bogart. Humphry Bogart. Yeah. But he wasn't really a romance all the time. He wasn't a romance guy all the time. No. Not at all. Who's the one in all the old... The old guy in all the like rom-coms now? No. Or at least in the 2000s. What was his name? He's like... The old guy? Yeah. In the rom-coms of the 2000s? Yeah. Rom-com... Oh, sorry. Tom Hanks did a couple of the great ones. No, not him. And one in particular I'm thinking of... No. No. Okay. These are females. That's not who I'm looking for. Yeah. There isn't one singular king of that genre here. Him. Oh, Richard Geer. Yeah, no. Well, I'm saying his time because he was known for... Pretty woman. Yeah, he was known for like... Romantic lead, right? Yeah, he was a romantic lead. Who's the other guy though? I mean, for a short period of time, there's been a lot of guys that were considered the romantic lead. Yeah, but... Brad Pitt was the romantic lead. Johnny Depp was the romantic lead. Any good-looking male actor in their 20s was a romantic lead and still is. Yeah, I don't know why. DeCaprio was the romantic lead. I don't know why I can't remember his name, but he's like... He's like older. He's like gray hair. But no, what we're talking about is box office success on the level of say, like when Schwarzenegger was king of the action films, that is a close comparison to the level of impact, and it's not a comparison. It's the closest you could find to an SRK. Yeah, there's none here that are... No, but that's the equivalent. If we were making an American equivalent, you'd have to leave the genre of romance. Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise. Like, what Tom Cruise, I guess, is to action. What Tom Cruise was in the days after Top Gun for about five, six years. Yeah. When it was that level of mania for him, SRK has maintained for 30 years. It's 10 times, because, you know, Tom Cruise never had 10,000 people outside of his house every day. No. And though he's an international star, he doesn't have an audience. I mean, just the very fact that we've got barely 300 million people here and there's over a billion in India. Yeah. So there's... That's the thing that we try to keep telling folks. Like, who is it I just told? It was Valerie. Oh yeah. When we were talking about Indian cinema and she was asking about the different regions that have the cinema and how many languages they're done in. And we just talked about basically the nine biggest ones that are doing what they do and that those nine produce about 2,000 films a year. Yeah. And she said, dang. Just that alone. Like, people don't even realize they don't, two things. They don't realize that there's that many films coming out and they also assume, like we did, that everything that comes out of India is just called Bollywood. Yeah. Yeah. And it's big. Yeah. Bubblegum. Yeah. It's the music. It's the old musical numbers that are, you know. So, yeah. We got a long way to go, kids. Americans are dumb, dumb. Got a long way to go to Edumacate.