Schaub catches Callen out for not voting on TFATK 1236

Bryan Callen spent the first segment of The Fighter and The Kid Episode 1236 arguing midterm politics, term limits and congressional stock trading. Then Brendan Schaub asked him if he voted. He had not.

Callen's reason was that he was on a plane. That was enough for Schaub, who stopped the whole political conversation to work the hypocrisy angle for the rest of the stretch. "You didn't even vote, dude. You didn't [ __ ] attempt to vote, dude," Schaub said, before landing on the line that actually stuck, that if voting mattered to Callen he would have found a way to get it done.

Callen folded

The interesting part is that Callen did not dig in. He admitted he had skipped it on purpose, saying he thought something along the lines of forget all this, and then agreed with Schaub outright. "It was very irresponsible of me. I should have voted," he said. Not a fight so much as a friend getting caught and taking the L.

Which makes the earlier confidence funnier. Callen had already told Schaub he knew a blue wave was coming because he follows this stuff. He follows it closely enough to call the result and not closely enough to fill out a ballot.

The rest of the segment

Before the trap sprung, Callen was on corruption, arguing for term limits and for banning members of Congress from trading on information they get while passing legislation. Schaub brought up the Epstein files and called them the first thing the left and the right have agreed on. Callen said the files were a major factor.

Schaub also told Callen to get involved because politics is already involved with him, which is a decent line to deploy on a man who just admitted he did nothing. Chin added that he has voted exactly once in his life, and that the one time he went all in and joined the Ron Paul campaign.

The episode wanders well past the voting fight. Schaub tells a story about Rick Glassman posting a long form clip and then revealing he had never actually been on Rogan and was making the whole thing up. There is a stretch on AI voices, where Callen is unconvinced the chat bots sound natural, and a bit about a wedding DJ switching the first dance song about 30 seconds in.

But the segment people will clip is the simple one. Full political theory, zero ballots cast, and a co-host who noticed.