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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Brendan Schaub On Almost Fighting Brock Lesnar, Comedy, Joe Rogan, UFC

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.93.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Brendan Schaub is a retired mixed martial artist, comedian, podcaster and the host of “The Fighter And The Kid” with Bryan Callen. He joins Chris Van Vliet in Hollywood to talk about his path that led him to becoming a UFC Fighter, being on The Ultimate Fighter with Kimbo Slice, his fights against legendary opponents like Gabriel Gonzaga, Mirko CroCop, Antonio Nogueira and Andrei Arlovski, how he thinks the fight would have gone if he faced Brock Lesnar, becoming a podcaster through a chance meeting with Bryan Callen, starting his career as a standup comedian, the intervention that Joe Rogan had with him about his UFC career, his thoughts on a possible fight between Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg and much more! You can find Ketone-IQ at http://hvmn.com and use promo code CVV at checkout to save 20% Use the code CVV to get your first month of BlueChew for FREE at http://bluechew.com Quote I'm thinking about: What you do every day is far more important than what you do once in a while. For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are coming.

0:01.0

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris VanVee!

0:07.0

Well, how are we doing?

0:09.1

Welcome back to another one here on InSight.

0:11.9

I'm C-V-V.

0:12.9

Chris VanVee.

0:13.9

I'm Fleet.

0:14.9

It's episode 4-94 today with Brendan Shaw, but which, oh man, that means we're just six

0:20.0

episodes away from episode number 500 and if I'm being completely honest with you.

0:27.0

And I'm always 100% honest with you, but if I'm being completely honest, I don't have

0:32.6

everything totally solidified yet for what we're doing for episode number 500.

0:38.3

I've got some big ideas here.

0:40.4

I've got some big thoughts, but it's not completely locked up here.

0:44.7

So if you have any ideas, shoot me a DM, send me a tweet and let me know.

0:50.8

But such a great conversation today with, I mean, Brendan Shaw's story is just, it's

0:55.0

so interesting.

0:56.2

I mean, when you look at this as a whole, he went from wanting to play football to MMA,

1:02.5

finding him or him finding MMA, whichever way you want to look at that, making a big

1:06.6

name for himself in the ultimate fighter and then, you know, some big wins against

1:11.5

guys like Gabriel Gonzaga, that massive knockout against Mirko Krokov.

1:15.6

I mean, a legend and go watch that knockout if you haven't seen it in a while.

1:20.6

Crazy.

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