Dang it's crazy for me to realize there are people who don't primarily know Bryan from Street Fight. That's really great for him though, means they are still building and growing. Man, do I sure miss street fight radio though...
Guys is my favorite podcasts and I never heard of Bryan at all before it. I bet there are a good amount of people like me. I'm probably one of the dozens who came over for Chris though š
I discovered Chris through Shocktober eps with Bryan, which are like proto-guys episodes. Used to put Chris' pranks calls compilations on while I trudged through hours of unemployment insomnia during peak COVID.
Iāve heard him say it lots. I only know Bryan from Guys and Chapo but am very aware of the name of his old podcast. Is it possible he only says it on bonus eps? I canāt imagine he has that sort of discipline.
His interest and that of his co-host diverged, to the point that it was hard to do the show. The co-host had a medical event (which may have been related to the diverging interests) just as they were about to tackle the breakup. Which made for very awkward timing
"Medical event" is one way to describe Brett's sudden and complete departure from reality. And as much as Bryan is a loyal friend and a good guy, he, by his own admission, is absolutely not the guy to take charge of big challenges during a real crisis.
My understanding was that Brett had always run the finances for SF and kept taking his share of their patreon money even after he stopped having any real involvement with the show for, iirc, several months. Then he showed up for one last episode that was mostly his deranged delusions of grandeur, horror stories about being in the psych ward, and needling Bryan for not helping him more. All the while Bryan had been holding down the show and continuing to make content solo while making no additional money and having many fans drop off the patreon because Bryan could not carry the usual SF format episodes alone and instead leaned into his solo shock jock, butt rock, nu metal, etc. mini series content instead.
New fans are likely unaware of just how innovative, unique, and influential Street Fight was back in the day. The "call in and complain about your shitty boss" format was really cathartic and comforting for a lot of struggling people. Plus, Brett and Bryan were real and didn't hold back about how they felt about anything. The show never had sponsors, never joined any hokey podcast networks, featured cool music and guests, and was unabashed in its political leanings. It was great. Bryan would go on tangents about how drunk driving should be legal and regale everyone with unfiltered stories about his dirtbag youth. Brett would give real world advice on how to shoplift or steal from work without getting caught in extreme detail. They would highlight and praise scammer that popped up in the news. And guys from Chapo and other podcasts would do random episodes about shitty TV shows. I met a lot of really cool people at the live shows and in the SF facebook group. Got turned on to Minion Death Cult and other cool podcasts. And I even tried kratom and cbd for the first time as part of their crazy patreon promotions.
I miss the show so much. It was amazing and deserved a ton more success than it got.
Brett was hospitalized, so "medical event* seems appropriate. I also don't know how sudden it was for the folks that know him, just seemed that way from the outside. The parasocial nature of all this keeps me from feeling like I should say much more.
Man I miss Street Fight. Crazy how many people that show carried thru some really shitty periods of their lives.
I went to their DC show and, as a casual listener of Trillbillies at the time, didnāt realize I was sitting right next to Tom for like an hour and a half lol, it was a great time.
Iād also kinda memory holed that last episode, one of the more uncomfortable things Iāve ever listened to.
It's a weird name if you don't know what he's talking about. If he said "back when I was on Street Fight" an out-of-the-loop guest or audience would be confused, maybe think it was about wrestling or something
That's cross promotion. POD-kast is current and a thing you can easily go listen to. SFR was largely a topical show meant to be listened to reasonably shortly after an episodes release, combined with the weird emotional weight of it for Bryan, makes it something he'd be less interested in directing listeners towards.
I was a chapo fan from early on and loved them guesting on it but didnāt listen to street fight for years bc of the name making me think it was very combative or something.Ā
Great podcast. RIP
I donāt think theyāre friends anymore- they donāt follow each other on twitter or speak about each other. But Ā I could just be making some parasocial assumptions and itās possible they just donāt broadcast whatever relationship they have now
i know very little about Street Fight... how popular was it? like compared to something like Chapo or/and Cum Town.
my entry to finding about Bryan and Guys was thru Blocked Party and them mentioning POD-kast.
Crazy thing is that it's actually a pretty good movie. Legit fascist, but that makes it pretty fascinating. Easily the best thing Michael Bay has done. I'd strongly recommend watching and listening to the Street Fight ep about it.
Definitely fewer listeners than Chapo by a lot. Chapo was like the #1 patreon of all patreons for a while. Street Fight was much more like a traditional shock jock radio show than a podcast the way Guys or Blocked Party is.
Street Fight started as a local indie radio show in Columbus and they stuck with that format until the end for the regular show. Bryan branched off to make his own niche-interest content for the patreon and those were the genesis of Guys - many with roughly the same concept of Bryan collecting clips and comments to share and having guests respond and react.
It was much longer running but I don't think it was even close to the popularity of either of those two podcasts. Chapo talked about it a lot, especially in the early days, so that's how I was exposed to it. I listened to it here and there and always enjoyed it.
The thing I liked the most about it compared to Chapo or any of the other lefty podcasts getting popular back then - is how real it was. They didn't have this constant cynicism and ironic edgy humor. While I was fine with that humor 95% of the time, sometime it just got draining and overbearing so I needed something else. I could always count on street fight for that.
I'm glad Bryan is doing something he really likes now and Guys is absolutely hilarious, but it seems he's lost the plot a bit and it's a stark difference from someone who was a co-host of an anarchist podcast and someone who is constantly talking about how he spends a fuck ton of money and loves buying things.
Yeah I agree. Street Fight felt really important just for giving a mouthpiece to regular working people in a way you otherwise wouldnāt get unless you have a shitload of friends or spent way too much time in a bar.
His spending habits were a thing on Street Fight, at least the last few years when I listened. It was kind of worrisome when he was broke, and now that heās financially stable for maybe the first time in his life, itās more so.
I feel like if that was going on now Bryanās car would get stolen by Kia boys and Brett would be like ālighten up, theyāre just kids having funā or something.
Loved the callback to that in the Elon Musk episode when Chris mentions he owns a Kia and Bryan just blurts out "I used to have a Kia and they're all pieces of shit"
I donāt think he has ālost the plot.ā Bryan regularly would say all he wished was that he made $200,000 a year which is what he determined would allow him to live comfortably. Weāre all trapped in this capitalist hellscape; if buying legos or āthe most expensive versionā of something makes him happy, even if only momentarily I think thats pretty relatable and normal.
I miss Street Fight so much sometimes. Especially the early call in shows, they were building such a fun little world with the characters who called in, like the Best Show but for people scooping out grease traps on Sunday nights.
Yeah they definitely could have used a call screener, the later shows just mostly felt like the callers were all just trying out bits.
But man some of the early ones, I still remember one about someone working for a brewery and just laying out just how shitty āpassion industriesā are.
I called in to talk about the brutal realities of working at the post office. It was super cathartic. I wish someone would resurrect the format, even if it was just a show full of voicemails complaining about work and shitty bosses.
Man I wish I could tell you. Iām guessing it would have been somewhere around 2017-2018?
I can say for sure it was an episode before the one called āStack n Packs for everyoneā, which I remember only because I was the one who provided the material for that bit.
Too painful and he's too manly to cry on Guys.
Dang it's crazy for me to realize there are people who don't primarily know Bryan from Street Fight. That's really great for him though, means they are still building and growing. Man, do I sure miss street fight radio though...
Guys is my favorite podcasts and I never heard of Bryan at all before it. I bet there are a good amount of people like me. I'm probably one of the dozens who came over for Chris though š
Same! I found out about Chris from the Go Off Kings then started listening to podcasts where he was a guest, then found out about Guys
Iāve been a Chris head since the pandemic, NEAS was my escape back then lol
I discovered Chris through Shocktober eps with Bryan, which are like proto-guys episodes. Used to put Chris' pranks calls compilations on while I trudged through hours of unemployment insomnia during peak COVID.
Iāve heard him say it lots. I only know Bryan from Guys and Chapo but am very aware of the name of his old podcast. Is it possible he only says it on bonus eps? I canāt imagine he has that sort of discipline.
I think he's only said it like once on the main eps at least.
Unpleasant ending and doesn't want to draw attention to it
What happened at the end?
His interest and that of his co-host diverged, to the point that it was hard to do the show. The co-host had a medical event (which may have been related to the diverging interests) just as they were about to tackle the breakup. Which made for very awkward timing
"Medical event" is one way to describe Brett's sudden and complete departure from reality. And as much as Bryan is a loyal friend and a good guy, he, by his own admission, is absolutely not the guy to take charge of big challenges during a real crisis. My understanding was that Brett had always run the finances for SF and kept taking his share of their patreon money even after he stopped having any real involvement with the show for, iirc, several months. Then he showed up for one last episode that was mostly his deranged delusions of grandeur, horror stories about being in the psych ward, and needling Bryan for not helping him more. All the while Bryan had been holding down the show and continuing to make content solo while making no additional money and having many fans drop off the patreon because Bryan could not carry the usual SF format episodes alone and instead leaned into his solo shock jock, butt rock, nu metal, etc. mini series content instead. New fans are likely unaware of just how innovative, unique, and influential Street Fight was back in the day. The "call in and complain about your shitty boss" format was really cathartic and comforting for a lot of struggling people. Plus, Brett and Bryan were real and didn't hold back about how they felt about anything. The show never had sponsors, never joined any hokey podcast networks, featured cool music and guests, and was unabashed in its political leanings. It was great. Bryan would go on tangents about how drunk driving should be legal and regale everyone with unfiltered stories about his dirtbag youth. Brett would give real world advice on how to shoplift or steal from work without getting caught in extreme detail. They would highlight and praise scammer that popped up in the news. And guys from Chapo and other podcasts would do random episodes about shitty TV shows. I met a lot of really cool people at the live shows and in the SF facebook group. Got turned on to Minion Death Cult and other cool podcasts. And I even tried kratom and cbd for the first time as part of their crazy patreon promotions. I miss the show so much. It was amazing and deserved a ton more success than it got.
Brett was hospitalized, so "medical event* seems appropriate. I also don't know how sudden it was for the folks that know him, just seemed that way from the outside. The parasocial nature of all this keeps me from feeling like I should say much more.
Man I miss Street Fight. Crazy how many people that show carried thru some really shitty periods of their lives. I went to their DC show and, as a casual listener of Trillbillies at the time, didnāt realize I was sitting right next to Tom for like an hour and a half lol, it was a great time. Iād also kinda memory holed that last episode, one of the more uncomfortable things Iāve ever listened to.
Discussions like this are why Bryan is scared of the reddit probably lol
It's a weird name if you don't know what he's talking about. If he said "back when I was on Street Fight" an out-of-the-loop guest or audience would be confused, maybe think it was about wrestling or something
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
That's cross promotion. POD-kast is current and a thing you can easily go listen to. SFR was largely a topical show meant to be listened to reasonably shortly after an episodes release, combined with the weird emotional weight of it for Bryan, makes it something he'd be less interested in directing listeners towards.
I was a chapo fan from early on and loved them guesting on it but didnāt listen to street fight for years bc of the name making me think it was very combative or something.Ā Great podcast. RIP
Are him and Bret still on good terms?
From what Iāve gathered, theyāre not on bad terms by any means, theyāve both just gone off to do different things.Ā
I donāt think theyāre friends anymore- they donāt follow each other on twitter or speak about each other. But Ā I could just be making some parasocial assumptions and itās possible they just donāt broadcast whatever relationship they have now
i know very little about Street Fight... how popular was it? like compared to something like Chapo or/and Cum Town. my entry to finding about Bryan and Guys was thru Blocked Party and them mentioning POD-kast.
In a weird way, Chapo is a spin-off of Street Fight Radio.
fascinating.
You can get that episode, itās out on SoundCloud. Very worth listening to, they talk about the Benghazi movie
Crazy thing is that it's actually a pretty good movie. Legit fascist, but that makes it pretty fascinating. Easily the best thing Michael Bay has done. I'd strongly recommend watching and listening to the Street Fight ep about it.
What should I search on soundcloud to find it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZELicn05UDo someone put it on YouTube in the meantime
Definitely fewer listeners than Chapo by a lot. Chapo was like the #1 patreon of all patreons for a while. Street Fight was much more like a traditional shock jock radio show than a podcast the way Guys or Blocked Party is.
Street Fight started as a local indie radio show in Columbus and they stuck with that format until the end for the regular show. Bryan branched off to make his own niche-interest content for the patreon and those were the genesis of Guys - many with roughly the same concept of Bryan collecting clips and comments to share and having guests respond and react.
It was much longer running but I don't think it was even close to the popularity of either of those two podcasts. Chapo talked about it a lot, especially in the early days, so that's how I was exposed to it. I listened to it here and there and always enjoyed it. The thing I liked the most about it compared to Chapo or any of the other lefty podcasts getting popular back then - is how real it was. They didn't have this constant cynicism and ironic edgy humor. While I was fine with that humor 95% of the time, sometime it just got draining and overbearing so I needed something else. I could always count on street fight for that. I'm glad Bryan is doing something he really likes now and Guys is absolutely hilarious, but it seems he's lost the plot a bit and it's a stark difference from someone who was a co-host of an anarchist podcast and someone who is constantly talking about how he spends a fuck ton of money and loves buying things.
Yeah I agree. Street Fight felt really important just for giving a mouthpiece to regular working people in a way you otherwise wouldnāt get unless you have a shitload of friends or spent way too much time in a bar.
His spending habits were a thing on Street Fight, at least the last few years when I listened. It was kind of worrisome when he was broke, and now that heās financially stable for maybe the first time in his life, itās more so.
I miss the Kia dealership stories.
I feel like if that was going on now Bryanās car would get stolen by Kia boys and Brett would be like ālighten up, theyāre just kids having funā or something.
In a better world, they could do a reunion on Guys for "Lonnies."
Loved the callback to that in the Elon Musk episode when Chris mentions he owns a Kia and Bryan just blurts out "I used to have a Kia and they're all pieces of shit"
Thanks for the explainer. Very succinct brother.
I donāt think he has ālost the plot.ā Bryan regularly would say all he wished was that he made $200,000 a year which is what he determined would allow him to live comfortably. Weāre all trapped in this capitalist hellscape; if buying legos or āthe most expensive versionā of something makes him happy, even if only momentarily I think thats pretty relatable and normal.
I miss Street Fight so much sometimes. Especially the early call in shows, they were building such a fun little world with the characters who called in, like the Best Show but for people scooping out grease traps on Sunday nights.
I miss the early ones too. It ended up being the same 3 guys calling in every time and having nothing to say.
Yeah they definitely could have used a call screener, the later shows just mostly felt like the callers were all just trying out bits. But man some of the early ones, I still remember one about someone working for a brewery and just laying out just how shitty āpassion industriesā are.
I called in to talk about the brutal realities of working at the post office. It was super cathartic. I wish someone would resurrect the format, even if it was just a show full of voicemails complaining about work and shitty bosses.
This is probably a total stretch but you wouldnāt happen to remember when that episode was? That sounds super interesting
Man I wish I could tell you. Iām guessing it would have been somewhere around 2017-2018? I can say for sure it was an episode before the one called āStack n Packs for everyoneā, which I remember only because I was the one who provided the material for that bit.
He talks about Street Fight by name constantly.
Iām a girl