#1848 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin

Konstantin Kisin (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Francis Foster (0:12)

What happened?

Joe Rogan (0:15)

First of all, gentlemen, welcome.

I've been enjoying your show. So it's nice to see you in real life and talk to you in person. It's cool.

Konstantin Kisin (0:23)

It's really great of you to have us, man. It's such a pleasure to meet you because all of us are inspired by what you started.

We all look up to you, so it's amazing being here.

Joe Rogan (0:34)

Oh, thank you. Well, it's nice to meet you guys too. I enjoy your conversations. I really think that people like you that are reasonable and intelligent and have legitimate opinions grounded in facts, it's very important.

Francis Foster (0:49)

Oh, it's tremendously important.

Joe Rogan (0:51)

Hold on a second.

Francis Foster (0:54)

See, this is another one.

Konstantin Kisin (0:55)

This is why I do most of the talking on our show, man.

Francis Foster (0:57)

This is how I'm getting fucking silenced.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

It's the goddamn government. We'll figure out what's up with them.

Konstantin Kisin (1:04)

Yeah, we were just shit talking about Joe Biden before we started, so that's probably what's happened there, man.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

But why would it only cancel yours? That Francis fellow's gotta go.

Francis Foster (1:13)

Get rid of him.

Konstantin Kisin (1:14)

There it is.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

There we go.

Konstantin Kisin (1:16)

The dulcet tones of Francis Foster.

Joe Rogan (1:18)

Now we're up and running.

Yeah, what is it like doing podcasts? How many podcasts are over in the UK? Is it a popular thing?

Francis Foster (1:27)

It is a popular thing, but like everything, it really started to get motoring during COVID, particularly in our space with comedians. When everything shut down and then comedians realized, hang on a second, we were just doing the comedy circuit and then wanting to be on TV.

And then that moment was a really eye-opening moment where they realized ratings on TV are collapsing. Nobody's watching TV in the ways that we'll get into through the podcast. So what else are you going to do?

And everybody started to get onto YouTube and podcasting. Because the thing is, Joe, like whatever happens in America, in the UK, we do it four or five years down the line. But not just that.

Konstantin Kisin (2:07)

Good and bad. Good and bad. We get your best stuff. We get all your shit as well, man.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

What's the shit that you guys are getting?

Konstantin Kisin (2:13)

Well, this cultural thing that we always talk about. You know, we import straight from you. And that's why we have conversations. Like during BLM, we had these protests in the centre of London with these protesters going, hands up, don't shoot, in front of cops who don't have guns.

Francis Foster (2:27)

There's so much of us just signalling.

Konstantin Kisin (2:32)

We just download your shit and just put it out as if it's our own, you know?

Francis Foster (2:36)

It's so funny, man. When Trump came in 2016, I think it was, or 2017, only 2017, there were mass protests. But when the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia came over, fresh from chopping up a journalist, no one protested, everyone was cool.

Joe Rogan (2:50)

That's strange, isn't it?

Konstantin Kisin (2:52)

It's the power of American culture, man. That's why everyone talks about it, because it affects everyone.

Joe Rogan (2:57)

Well, it's not balanced. The outrage is not balanced. Even the outrage about things you should be outraged about, like Jeffrey Epstein, that outrage was balanced, sort of. But what about the Catholic Church?

Why isn't everybody really freaking out about it? I was just in Italy. And one of the things that's nuts is the Vatican is a country.

It's a country filled with pedophiles. It's a country filled with pedophiles and stolen art. It's a small, like, 100-yard, what is it, 100 acres, I think? It's a 100-acre, rather, country inside of a city filled with pedophiles.

Francis Foster (3:34)

Yeah, absolutely.

Konstantin Kisin (3:35)

This is why I love America, man, because in the UK we have libel laws, so if you say something like that, and you then have to be able to prove it, otherwise you can get sued.

Joe Rogan (3:43)

Well, you can kind of prove that. That's one.

Francis Foster (3:48)

I read the other day that, I think it was until five, six years ago, the age of consent in the Vatican City was 12 years old.

Konstantin Kisin (3:57)

Is that true?

Francis Foster (3:57)

Yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah, and I was just like, wow.