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June 10, 2025

The Karate Kid (1984): Mr. Miyagi, Cobra Kai and Underdog Glory

The Karate Kid (1984): Mr. Miyagi, Cobra Kai and Underdog Glory
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Henrique and David answer multiple listener requests with The Karate Kid (1984), John G. Avildsen’s coming-of-age martial-arts classic. Ralph Macchio stars as Daniel LaRusso, an angry but likable teenager uprooted from Newark to Reseda with his mother. A beach encounter with Ali Mills puts Daniel in the path of Johnny Lawrence and the Cobra Kai, whose escalating bullying exposes how little Daniel’s YMCA karate can protect him. Apartment handyman Mr. Miyagi intervenes—and recognizes a boy who needs direction as much as self-defense.
Pat Morita’s quietly layered Miyagi becomes the heart of the review. The hosts contrast his defensive philosophy with John Kreese’s no-mercy dojo, then unpack how waxing cars, sanding floors, painting fences and shaping bonsai trees build Daniel’s muscle memory, patience and pride. Elisabeth Shue’s Ali gives the teen drama warmth, while William Zabka’s Johnny develops beyond a one-note villain. The discussion argues that Miyagi’s greatest gift is time: his tournament agreement buys Daniel enough peace to make friends, date Ali and begin living in Los Angeles.
The episode follows the Halloween skeleton attack, Miyagi’s nine-second rescue, the All Valley tournament and Daniel choosing to fight after his leg is injured. The crane kick pays off a film built around discipline rather than revenge, and Johnny’s final show of respect completes an arc the hosts compare with Cobra Kai. They also debate Daniel versus Johnny, whether Part II rivals the original and alternate-casting stories involving Sean Penn and Charlie Sheen.
Production talk covers Robert Mark Kamen’s bullying-inspired screenplay, Avildsen’s Rocky-like command of training montages and Jerry Weintraub’s initial resistance to casting a comedian as Miyagi. The hosts praise Avildsen for protecting Miyagi’s emotional anniversary scene and discuss Pat Morita’s Oscar-nominated performance, the practical fly gag, the restored yellow car and the sequel scene once envisioned as the ending.
Personal memories of VHS, cable marathons and first encounters with the sequels lead into a wider conversation about saving special things, preparing for events that never happen and the lasting power of an adult mentor. Their recorded reaction to Karate Kid: Legends finds nostalgic fun but less emotional growth than the original. One host calls The Karate Kid an all-time favorite; the other gives it an emphatic buy-it verdict for its enduring lessons about becoming your best self.
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to ask, Do You even? Movie? Hosted by filmmaker Enrique

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Spoiler alert, Dave.

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There are no miracles. There's no miracles, no, and there's

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no mercy in this dojo.

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All there is is car repair bills. I did in

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case anybody wanted to help, because that's it was a

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very very I got a thirty seven hundred dollars car

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repair that was one hundred percent unexpected. Yeah, not like

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I've been hearing a sound and now it's time to whatever.

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When you said all your lights came on, the same

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thing had happened to me about a month ago, and

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it was just a fluke, like it literally just turned

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the car back off, turn it back on, and then nothing.

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So I was hoping that was the case for you.

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way way more complice. Well, no, it complicated too. No,

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that car has been very good to me. It's just

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this was horrible timing. If it happened like four months

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from now, it would be much better timing. So but

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if anybody wants to help out, you know, I'll accept

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a tip for doing the show. I set up a

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thing at Weeklyspooky dot com slash help. It's on PayPal,

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Weeklyspooky dot com slash help. I just mentioned it twice,

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but I'm not gonna harp on it because somebody already

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said something shitty in the Weekly Spooky. He deleted it

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before it it.

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Uh was it the mechanic comment or I missed it?

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No?

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No, somebody said like, well, while we're at it, how

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about I get six grand for my irs bill? And

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I literally went to reply and actually not be mean.

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I was just going to try and be nice, and

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he deleted it. I think he realized he was being

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an asshole. It's funny, though, because all I was thinking

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was like, look, I know that it's not like the

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coolest thing in the world to be like, hey, does

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anybody want to kick in? But you know what, Weekly

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two percent of our listenership, so I ask for very little.

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Well, and I think it's worth mentioning, and not not

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to toot your own horn, but I think it's worth

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mentioning too that you you don't have a paying job.

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You you are self and deployed to the sense of

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that you have to make everything happen.

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if it was two grand I wouldn't have even said anything. Yeah,

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it was just being thirty seven hundred dollars was just

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a was just a bit, a bit of a lot.

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but that all being said Weekly Spooky dot Com slash

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or yeah, Weekly Spooky dot Com slash help but whatever. Uh,

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by the time this airs, the sale will already be over.

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I think it'll be dropping Tuesday early Friday.

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off sale will be over.

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So how dare you dude? Fifty off?

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I can't run it that long because people are getting

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movies for like six dollars. Yeah, so, but I I'm

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happy to have the cash. But that all being said,

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this cigar that I am not even puffing on yet,

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it is a very special cigar to me. You'll make

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get my my zippo and my jacket, and so we

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could just don't you just have one of those like

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car lighter.

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Maybe I do still have one of those in my car.

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I mean, of course you do, But I don't have

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a cassette deck now working cassette deck.

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Bummer.

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That's literally I listened, but it's the only way I

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listened to my to my my phone. That's the only

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because I put it in through the adapter and everything

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for my casseette. Because I don't have FM hooked up,

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and I haven't had FM hooked up car FM radio

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when it when I bought the car, it was never

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hooked up, so I haven't done anything in the radio,

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so I haven't even touched it. And so that means

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even the transmitter thing doesn't work unless I get an

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AM one, which I don't even know.

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I don't think it wouldn't sound very good exactly.

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Yes, So I'm kind of up shit creek right now.

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Unless I can find someboddy to take care of that

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for me.

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I mean, you could put a new stereo and it

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won't be very expensive.

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Yeah, but with that car, I don't know if I

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really want to.

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Well, I mean, I mean, but if you if you

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just want a working stereo, you're talking thirty five bucks.

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Yeah, but I also have to get somebody to install it.

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I mean, like most of the I've bought stereos for

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for I had to buy one in from of old Swagen. Yeah,

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I'm pretty sure the installation was included if it was

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more than forty bucks.

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Where'd you get it from?

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Best By?

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Oh? Okay? I bought for Walmart and they didn't have

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anybody and saw it last night bought it and that

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would have been when I was in high school.

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So yeah, Well, installing a car stereo is surprisingly simple,

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and I bet it be even simpler because your cars holder.

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I not saying that you're that that's not true. I'm

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just telling you that when I had mine installed in

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my GIP last time we had a we had a

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huge fucking nightmare with it because one of the wires

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apparently looked identical to something had to do with the headlight.

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Because the radio was working, and then I turned the

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headlights on and the radio would turn off. So there

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was a whole thing we had to go through with that.

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So it wasn't like super difficult, but it was. That

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was like again also like over a decade ago.

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So I'm just saying, I remember when I got a

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stereo put in my old Volkswagen. Yeah, because I had

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a disc changer in the back and a tape deck

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and the tape deck had stopped working, which is how

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I was listening to my iPod at the time. Yeah,

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I ended up getting a new stereo and at that time,

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I got like a ninety dollars stereo. It was actually

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a gift. Yeah, but I got a ninety dollars stereo

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because I wanted because it had iPod like interactions, so

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was like extra. Yeah, but they installed it best buy,

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like you just had to pay for Like there might

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be something like they might have to buy a kit,

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you know, to make it fit. Yeah, so if that,

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if that has to be purchased, then you pay for that.

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Hey for that?

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Well yeah, but they tell you they'll be like, oh

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we'll need install kit for That'll be twenty bucks.

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If they still do that though, but I wouldn't be surprised.

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But all I know is that every time I've looked

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into a car steraria installation is generally simple and generally

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cheap to have done. Okay, But I just remember after

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I had it done, thinking wow, I should have done this,

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like three years into owning the car.

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I remember. See, the last time I bought the stereo

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was I got out at Walmart, like I said, and

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whoever had put it out I had put it in

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the wrong spot. So what I saw was like sixty

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five dollars. When I took it to the register, it

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was like one hundred and thirty something, and I was like,

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that's not what it said back there. So they went

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back in check and they're like, somebody put in the

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wrong spot. We got to honor that price. Oh I

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got it for like fifty dollars off.

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I'm just saying you might be surprised. Plus I feel

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like I feel like you just know people who probably

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work in installing shit.

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Yes I do. Do they live in Ohio? No, not

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anymore because the guy that I had install mine lives

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in Tennessee.

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Now road trip, but uh, without a stereo, you got

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well you you what were how are we listening in

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the cards? Oh well, I'm see CDs pay.

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Don't get it wrong. I have plenty of CDs and

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can and can spin them for hours and hours that

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I have them listen to the same thing if I

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if I chose to. But yeah, it's just a bummer

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because sometimes I'm mood for a certain song. No, I

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I get it. I had I had a tape deck break.

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one break and it was a very pain. I had

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a good year where I was putting cardboard on top

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of the tape transfer to get it to make the connection.

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Well. And what kills me too is it's it's not

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an easy fix, but it's an easy problem to identify,

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and it's the belt. So basically going in and taking

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it apart and replacing the belt on it, because it'll

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play one side, switch to the other side, and then

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it'll leject and say check the tape. That's what it

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keeps doing to everything. And I've also cleaned it.

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I mean, yeah, I would say opening it up to

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fix it would be more of a pain than just

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buying a new stereot Yeah. But uh, but that all

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being said, this cigar is special because it was one

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of the first cigars that I ever smoked and just

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went wow. And it is the Nika Puro. But it's

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fine to tell you this because we're not being promoted.

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And I'll tell you why it's not a promotion. They

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don't make them any They haven't for two or three

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years now, and.

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I think I have one left.

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I bought a box of them when it was announced,

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and I don't usually buy I mean, I'm starting to

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buy more boxes here and there, but I don't usually

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buy a box. I bought a box of them because

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I wanted to have twenty to enjoy as time goes on.

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I get you.

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But here's the funny thing. Cigars are a great metaphor

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for life because if I put them in their box,

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which is built to not only store them but age them,

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cigars will stay. If you keep them at a moderate

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temper at a decent humidity between basically between sixty and

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seventy percent, they will keep basically indefinitely. They will change

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some And that's why I'm saying they're like life. Because

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that box of Nica Puros that I haven't even opened,

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because this is one of maybe four I have that

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aren't in the box. When I do open it up

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and smoke them, none of them will be like the

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ones I had before. What they will really be is

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a reminder of something I really enjoyed, of a hobby

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that was growing at the time, and they'll probably be

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very good in different ways. They're very I'm not trying

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to make this all cigar. I'm actually trying to be

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I'm actually trying to be metaphorical. But this is a

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very potent cigar, very very strong and strong cigars age

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the best, So that's a nice thing. Yeah, But I'm

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saving them for you know, whatever may be a special

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occasion for the most party. Are you a big save

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something person or do you do you just kind of

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hork it down once you want it?

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I mean, it depends on what it is, if it

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if it comes to specifically two cigars. I have saved

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multiple cigars for special occasions. I actually had one backfire

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on me recently.

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Was it the one you left in your car?

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No?

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Do do you remember those those newspaper wrap cigars? We got

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a while his cigars apparently the one that our buddy

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gave me. I don't know if I didn't take care

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of it or if you are already given it to me.

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And it was a little dry. It was falling apart

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the moment I cut it, the moment I started smoking it,

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the leaf was just coming off.

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I don't know. It definitely sounds like a dried up well.

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But then I luckily had a Don Peppin blue so well.

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As I say, as I said earlier today, as I

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was smoking a cigar rewatching our film, Yeah, tonight, I

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was smoking a La Roma de Cuba especial, which I

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think is my favorite La Roma de Cuba so far,

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And as I was enjoying that, I actually had that

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moment where I was like, you know, luckily Don Peppine

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always has my back. He's the guy who rolls those

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cigars and blends them. But anyway, my point is is

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not specifically two cigars, like do you uh, do you

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save anything? Like do you savor anything? Like how are

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you with with things that you really love that maybe

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could go away?

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Uh? I mean it's a tough question for me because

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you've you've seen me eat unfortunately, so like you know

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that I sometimes don't even take a breath in while

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I consume my food, so I can be.

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Oh, I was positive you were breathing the food.

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So I mean, it's it depends, because it's like there's

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times that like I'll save a movie for like if

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I if I get a release of something and it's

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just like something I love. Like I've got a Jaws

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to four K I bought recently, and I'm saving that

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for a particular day. I don't know when yet, but

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there's gonna be a day that comes. It could be

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and it's probably gonna be night that I'm gonna get

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home or I'm gonna just be at the house and

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decide to grab a cigar, throw on Jaws two and

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enjoy myself. Saving stuff is difficult for me, more so

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when it comes to food items or even liquor items.

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I would say, like, I'm I'm not bad about like liquor.

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I can actually like make bottles last like a good

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while if I want to. But yeah, I would say,

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I would say, I'm mid on saving things, like I

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enjoy doing it. But sometimes it's way easier to treat

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yourself on a bad day. Well, of course, yeah see,

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and that's good for you, because I have been fighting

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for years with the problem of saving things for too long.

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Yeah, you know, I'll buy special candy like gourmet candy

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and it'll expire, or I'll buy I've had gourmet sodas

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that I was literally like, I'm gonna have this on

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a special movie night. They spoiled in the fridge. Because

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we're talking leaving years.

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I I just actually have something to add to that.

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So when my ex and I went to Jungle Gyms

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for our first it would have been I think it

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was our first aniversary trip. We went to General Gyms

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and like had like a spree and like you know,

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got some stuff and everything. We had gotten this glass

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skull that was for Sangria, like you made sangree and

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it had the mix in it and then you put

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the rum into it then cipher it out and whatnot.

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And I was like, I want to make that for

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my birthday when when the breakup it had happened last year

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and I didn't do it, and then I was like,

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I'm going to do that this year. So I took

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it out. I've got to prepare to my bar and

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then my friend comes over Monday and show or Sunday

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and she's she's like, hey, just by the way and

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shows me the tag and it expired in twenty twenty three.

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That's a long time ago, Inspire two.

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Which means I mean, well we did buy it like

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twenty twenty one.

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Yeah yeah, I mean that's still yeah yeah, yeah no.

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And that's kind of my point, is I do. I

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have a belief that I've been trying really hard to

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to hold too and I think I've done a good

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job for the last like four years or so, which

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is that you have to celebrate every victory, every moment,

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even if it's not certain, because if you wait until

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the time to celebrate is exactly right and perfect, you

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may simply never celebrate your entire life. Like, for instance,

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I'm working on something right now I can't talk about,

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but it's a it's a relatively big deal project for me,

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and it's been high stress like crazy. But after the

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first meeting where they said let's do it, I smoked

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one of my finest cigars and I said, hey, like,

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this is a good thing. It could have fallen through.

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Two days later. It almost did fall through when we

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had the contract dispute, just a poorly timed contract contract dispute.

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It would have only taken two hours to get through

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if it hadn't been on a Saturday. But that's kind

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of my point, is that it's good to celebrate and

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it's good to do the special thing. Absolutely, I've been

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trying extra aggressively for the last year year and a

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half to smoke the really great cigars, and I've slowly

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over time, I've collected a bunch. I don't know if

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I told you one of my buddies who I met

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at the lounge about two years ago, very generous dude.

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Love hanging out with him and him and his wife,

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and one day he was I was telling him like, oh, yeah,

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I'm having I was having a lagaretta and I love those.

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They're so good and I'm so glad I discovered those,

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and he was like, well, shoot, and he handed me one,

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and he gave Jeff one and he was like, enjoy him.

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I took it home and then I looked at it

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and I realized it was an anniversario. It was like

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fifty one dollars. Yeah, I thought he'd handed me an

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eleven dollars cigar, and I was very grateful for that

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eleven dollars cigar. But now it's on the top shelf

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of my aging human work. I don't know when I'll

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smoke that soon probably, But so it's funny how we

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can be that way. I'm but I'm really bad about that.

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And it took me a long time time of fighting

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that because now I'm at a point where if I

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have a memory that is sad, I'll celebrate it.

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I get the I totally get the you.

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Know, and not obviously it's not going to be like that,

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you know, that day I broke my foot or the

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day tragic thing happened, but celebrating the memory of why

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it was a tragedy. Yeah, And that's become a very

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common I would say anytime I'm smoking a cigar after

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one in the morning, it's because I I am burning

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tobacco in remembrance.

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And that's a good thing to do. Oh, it's an

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ancient I would say. Like to add two things to that,

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like morisit you're gonna think about it? There's there's two

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things that I can say. One is that I am

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extremely savory with movies, specifically with ones that I want

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to either revisit with someone or ones that like, you know,

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if I bought something and like I know you and

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I want to watch it, like I'll hold on to

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that and no, no offense to either of us. But

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sometimes those those can get to be like three years

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out and we would be like, oh shit, we forgot

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like about this and whatnot.

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We haven't had a chance to just sit down on

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a Sunday and watch like nine movies in a while

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a while.

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Yeah, but but yeah, I would say on top of that,

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I would also say that it's sometimes I save for

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events that never come.

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Oh do you care to expound on that?

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Or I don't.

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I don't want to.

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No, No, I mean it's it's not trying to pick

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at a wound. Yeah, I mean it's it's not it's

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not even a wound. It's it's more so just something

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that I came to terms with recently. Uh in uh,

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just assessing things. And mainly what I mean is that, uh,

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I love to collect things for occasions that never come,

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and that pertains largely to like that was largely part

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of like my cassette collection. Like I know that sounds weird,

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but like what it was was like the idea of

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getting getting like cassettes, like and they didn't have to

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be anything for specific really, it was more so just like,

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oh but if this happens then I'll have this. It's

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like I prepare for things that never happen, and therefore

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I overprepare, Like, yeah, I can't tell you the last

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time that I've gone on vacation and I haven't brought

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like at least six books with me. In case some

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magical thing happens to where I read the other three

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that I'm already planning to bring with me.

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I will like go on a cabin trip and bring

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fourteen you know, DVD blu rays, which is extra funny

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because it's not that I think I'll actually watch all

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of them, It's that I want choice. Fucking variety. Point

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is to leave behind this every day hustle of like

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what do I watch on Netflix or Prime or whatever?

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Because there's because having so many options can be really stressful. Yeah,

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I've been lately watching literally just I give myself eight

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options and that is it. Yeah, so if I go

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through them twice, it's like, all right, fucking pick one.

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There's forty movies currently on to buy my TV right now.

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Because I do stacks, so I have my my left

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side is my not scene stack, and then my right

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side is my revisit stack, and I cap those at

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twenty apiece that way, Basically, I have rioty. I've pulled

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these out for a reason, and I'm gonna watch them.

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And that's sometimes the only way I can get myself

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to watch them is by being like, no, you can't

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go to your shelves like you have to pick from these.

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Yeah. No, I mean it's a good thing. I'm very

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bad about the movies I buy it. I'm not a

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huge collector, but I will buy something and then I'll

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be like, I'm gonna watch soon, Like I got the

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A movie that is bizarrely nostalgic to me is The

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Bikini Car Wash Company, and one and two got a

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Blu ray release from MBD, and I was like, I

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loved when I was a kid. I would catch those

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really late at night on cable when I should not

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have been watching them. Yeah, and I very fond of them.

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I haven't watched it yet because I keep thinking like

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maybe I'll do a special thing, or maybe i'll and

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then I'm like, one of these nights I need to

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just pull the projector screen down and be like I'm

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having a screening of the Bikini Car Works.

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Legitimately, during Quarantine, I assembled all of Alan Rickman's movies

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for this marathon that I was crafting for myself because

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I was like, well, I'm home, you know, I haven't

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watched it eason a while. I should like go through

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his hohomography because I can't remember he may have passed

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around that. I think he may have passed around the time.

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I can't remember, but didn't watch a single fucking one.

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I have the picture on social media of the stack.

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I specifically ordered a Galaxy Quest truly, madly, deeply in

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a couple others didn't. That marathon never happened.

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Well at least you try.

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Yeah, I mean that's the thing is like I have

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all these great ideas sometimes and I just don't act

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on them. So what I've been trying to do lately

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is force myself to do that by either making that

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the only option or actually even setting up like a

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date for them.

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In that sense, I gotta say, there's a I try

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not to be one of those like aficionado types mm,

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but I do get a kick out of like learning

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the stuff tastes the cigar or whatever, Like this thing

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tastes to me like like cocoa, like not hot cocoa,

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but like cooking chocolate, cocoa, and like black pepper, like

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fresh crack black pepper and a little bit of leather.

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But you know, yeah, but those are called tasting notes, right,

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like like like wine or whiskey or whatever.

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I actually watched the guy do a whiskey tasting recently

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and I was like, I am never doing it that

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way because it is steps.

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But one of my one thing I do like on

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that though, is they have what is called You may

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have heard me reference this before the room the room

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note note, which is how it makes the space you're

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in smell to the non smoker. Yeah, and I have

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to say, I mean, are you enjoying one smells in particular,

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I'd say with good cigars, the room note is either

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pretty good or great. They're very seldom nasty.

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Well, it's like I had a couple I had a

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fire a couple of weeks ago and one of my

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friends you mean you had a bonfire, bonfire on fire. Sorry, sorry,

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you know it just sounded a little scary for a second.

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I had a bonfire a couple of weeks ago and

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it was me and I would say probably like at

465
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least six or seven friends that are on the fire

466
00:21:56.960 --> 00:22:00.160
and one of my friends. She saw me take my

467
00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.720
cigar and she's like, oh God, are you gonna smoke that?

468
00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:04.079
And I was like yeah, and she's like, oh, they stink.

469
00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:06.599
And I was like are you sure, and like literally

470
00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:08.000
like lit it, took a puff and blew it and

471
00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:09.960
she's like, oh, that actually doesn't smell too bad.

472
00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:14.039
Yeah. Yeah, I was smoking what may be a new

473
00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:18.720
favorite of mine. The I'm really into Grand Habano right now,

474
00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:21.480
and not just because I got to meet George Rico,

475
00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:24.000
who owns the company and he's a massive movie guy.

476
00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:27.160
We sat and talked about movies instead of cigars for

477
00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:29.759
an hour and it was really funicular. But his cigars

478
00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:32.480
is very interesting. They don't taste quite like most other cigars.

479
00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:36.319
They're very citrus and very floral. They're very different in

480
00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:39.759
that way. But I was smoking a Coroha number five

481
00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:43.480
last night while Rachel was playing a video game, and

482
00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:46.279
I literally, I've been doing this just to kind of

483
00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:49.720
see what while wafting the lit cigar toward me, just

484
00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:51.759
to cut because it's a different smell, the smoke coming

485
00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:54.960
off the front, and I remember going like, oh my god,

486
00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:56.440
and Rachel was like what And I was like, is

487
00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:59.359
this amazing to like smell while I'm smoking, and she's like, oh,

488
00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:02.279
it's really nice. It's really delightful. And I thought that

489
00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:04.519
was funny, Yeah, because I often tell people like it's

490
00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:06.759
a lot of times it's like she said, she was like,

491
00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:09.640
that just smells like incense. Sometimes they smell like incense

492
00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:11.720
kind of you know, they smell like kind of whatever.

493
00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:14.000
But that's again, I wasn't trying to make it all

494
00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:16.920
about cigars. It happens, but it's well, I love them

495
00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:18.960
and they're my one hobby, and you can say what

496
00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:21.799
about movies. Unfortunately it's my day job too, you know,

497
00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:24.240
talking about and appreciating movies isn't as much my day job,

498
00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:29.200
but they're all tied together a bit so. But the

499
00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:31.720
other thought that I wanted to point out is that

500
00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:37.960
the idea of the cigar changing, of saving it because

501
00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:40.440
you can't get any more that are fresh, and for

502
00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:41.920
all I know, in two or three years they could

503
00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:44.440
bring this back. I actually talked to the rep at

504
00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:48.160
Alec Bradley, and he said that it was a tragedy

505
00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:50.319
that they had to stop making these, but everybody loved them.

506
00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:52.319
And then they ran out of the tobaccos and they

507
00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:53.559
had to be off the market for a year and

508
00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:56.599
a half, and when they got them back, people didn't remember, Yeah,

509
00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:58.799
that'll happen. So he said, you never know, we might

510
00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:00.640
bring it back. It might be a different or it

511
00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:02.920
might come back entirely, or it might be limited whatever.

512
00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:07.279
But I think it's interesting to imagine how when I

513
00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:11.400
smoke the next one, which will likely be months, maybe

514
00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:14.839
a year from now, who knows. I literally, just as

515
00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:16.559
we were talking, I was like, wouldn't it be nice

516
00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:18.720
to just smoke this while we do the show? So

517
00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:22.160
I just grabbed it. Not only will the cigar be different,

518
00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:24.400
but I will be different.

519
00:24:24.440 --> 00:24:25.160
You will be different.

520
00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:28.720
And that's the other thing that fascinates me, and not

521
00:24:28.880 --> 00:24:33.079
just because like my tastes will change, my mindset will change.

522
00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:38.079
But we go through so many changes every day, you know.

523
00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:41.359
We become different people all the time. And it's one

524
00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:45.240
of the reasons revisiting these movies is interesting because a

525
00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:49.759
lot of times you'll have a very different opinion or

526
00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:53.119
it'll take you back, but it never takes you back

527
00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:55.599
the exact way it did originally, because that's just not possible.

528
00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:56.640
It just isn't.

529
00:24:56.799 --> 00:24:58.880
I mean, like a great example is the movie that

530
00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:02.079
we're talking about tonight was three and a half on Letterbox.

531
00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:05.039
When I last watched it was last year. This watch

532
00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:08.279
really to full four really well.

533
00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:11.000
What made me think to tie this all together is

534
00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:14.519
before we talk about that film, we watched its most

535
00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:16.720
recent legacy sequel.

536
00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:19.920
We did, I guess is a legacy is legacy? Yeah?

537
00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:23.440
And that is the Karate Kid Legends. We just saw

538
00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:26.000
that in the theater, starring Jackie Chan and not really

539
00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:26.759
Ralph maccio.

540
00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:29.839
It has the star and Joshua Jackson.

541
00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:31.599
Joshua Jackson was that the lead?

542
00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:33.440
He was noted the dad?

543
00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:34.920
Oh well he was great.

544
00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:36.599
He was great. Yeah, Ben Ben Wang is the lead.

545
00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:38.279
Okay, I was about to say Joshua jack Hey, I

546
00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:40.680
mean he has a very he also speaks English like

547
00:25:40.839 --> 00:25:44.720
he's you know, American, so I wouldn't have been surprised

548
00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:46.480
if he had like a non Asian name.

549
00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:48.519
First thing I want to say to start us off

550
00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:51.000
is ninety four minutes. I was not expecting that. I

551
00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:53.319
don't know why. I mean, the first movie is two

552
00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:55.599
hours and six months. The second one is like at

553
00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:58.200
least over two hours. I want to say, third one's

554
00:25:58.359 --> 00:26:00.559
probably like right on the cusp by I would imagine

555
00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:02.160
a next Karate Kid, I think is like write at

556
00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:03.079
like ninety years.

557
00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:04.759
I'd say, it's like right at ninety yeah, But like

558
00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:05.599
I was, I don't know.

559
00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:08.519
I was surprised because, like I just Jackie Chan's Karate

560
00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:09.920
Kid is like two hours and twenty minutes if I

561
00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:12.039
remember correctly. Really I feel like it.

562
00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:14.400
I saw it the once. It wasn't terrible, but it

563
00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:15.359
wasn't I watched.

564
00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:19.480
It last year for the first time. It was two

565
00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:20.920
hours and twenty minutes on the nose.

566
00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:24.799
Wow. Yeah, I did enjoy the scene where he like

567
00:26:24.920 --> 00:26:26.279
not beat up all those little kids.

568
00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:28.319
Oh the like there's there's a lot of great moments

569
00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.640
in that movie. It's just it was kind of that

570
00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:33.000
whole thing again where it was just like, you know,

571
00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:36.079
the story going into it, and it's it's got that

572
00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:37.880
remake fair to it and it, but it also does

573
00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:40.240
have some pretty solid fight scenes. But I just remember

574
00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:44.160
not caring much until we got like it brought about

575
00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:45.880
an hour into that sure, sure.

576
00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:49.559
Well, And that's the interesting thing. So this is a

577
00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:54.400
legacy sequel that's technically not technically literally a sequel to

578
00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:58.240
both the remake, Yeah, which was initially I believe completely

579
00:26:58.279 --> 00:26:58.880
not connected.

580
00:26:58.960 --> 00:26:59.880
Yeah, it was supposed to be.

581
00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:03.400
They reckcon some stuff to make to make there be

582
00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:07.000
a relation between Miyagi and uh and Jackie Chan's character.

583
00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:14.359
But then it had that tie in with LaRusso and

584
00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:17.799
you know, a reference to the Karate Kid the original.

585
00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:23.160
It was fun and I did enjoy it because it

586
00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:27.079
checked all of those nostalgic notes. It reminded me of

587
00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:30.680
something I loved very very much. It did not bring

588
00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:31.400
anything new.

589
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:34.799
It's it's purely a nostalgia piece. It's a lot of fun.

590
00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:37.200
It's got a very fast paced for a lot that

591
00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:39.039
happens in it, to be honest. I mean we're talking

592
00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:43.039
about there's loan sharks, there's a pizza place. There's a

593
00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:45.960
kid that moves from Okinawa to.

594
00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:51.200
What you said, Okinawa that's in Japan.

595
00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:54.039
Japan ship Yeah, well double racist, all right.

596
00:27:54.799 --> 00:28:00.440
I love that because he doubled down. But no, no, yeah, yeah.

597
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:02.400
And while I us from Beijing to New York and

598
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:05.079
is trying to basically has one role with his mom,

599
00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:07.799
which is that he can't fight and immediately gets into

600
00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:10.000
a fight once he gets there.

601
00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:12.839
Basically he gets his ass well, doesn't fight back that

602
00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:14.640
first time he doesn't know. Well, he didn't really get

603
00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:16.799
a chance. No, And then that's a very that's a

604
00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:19.240
cliche story of like I promised my mom I won't fight.

605
00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:22.519
I'm believing where I you know where I'm from because

606
00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:24.480
I get into too many fights. That's hinted at and

607
00:28:24.519 --> 00:28:26.200
the original Karate Kid is one of the reasons they

608
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:28.880
left Jersey was that he got into too many fights. Yeah,

609
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:34.039
so there's there's there's a lot to like Jackie chan Is.

610
00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:36.480
He's in a good amount of the movie, and he's

611
00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:39.279
painfully likable. The lead actor really good.

612
00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:39.599
Yep.

613
00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:40.880
I really was impressed.

614
00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:43.119
I thought all the characters were likable, even even even

615
00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:45.960
the bullies like had have that edge to them that

616
00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:48.200
was that was just like, oh no, like I'm supposed

617
00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:49.279
to not like you, and I don't.

618
00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:51.400
Yeah, they were payper thin though, Yeah, I mean they

619
00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:52.640
were just kind of it was kind of like he's

620
00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:55.319
my ex boyfriend, he's crazy ever since started karate the end, Yeah,

621
00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:56.400
he's beating things up now.

622
00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:58.079
That you know. He like really didn't really even have

623
00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:00.200
like a dialogue scene except for like a couple like

624
00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:02.720
exchanges Like no, yeah, he like really didn't And that

625
00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:04.319
was also one of my favorite things is like towards

626
00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:06.079
the end with like them getting ready for the final

627
00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:08.559
fight and everything, even the whole I'm going to talk

628
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:10.079
to your mom and get her to okay. This was

629
00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:13.759
done in a montage. No, it was all.

630
00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:16.519
It was very very high paced, but it was fun.

631
00:29:17.559 --> 00:29:23.000
It's just it is, I would say, the antithesis of

632
00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:25.720
Cobra Kai and what Cobra Kai was doing, which was

633
00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.759
bringing an entirely new element to that story while still

634
00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:31.400
honoring the.

635
00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:33.200
Story and did it better well.

636
00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:37.640
Cobra Kai was like I think about Cobra Kai a lot,

637
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:42.720
because it was not only an awesome The thing is,

638
00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:47.440
I appreciate the fan idea that like Johnny was actually

639
00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:49.599
the one being bullied and the Russo was the bully.

640
00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:53.079
Totally fine. I don't think that I think that that's

641
00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:57.119
not a revelation because I think that bullies just bullied

642
00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:59.920
and then get bullied, Like it's just the way it is.

643
00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.079
Both of them had troubled lives. Larusso's fathers nowhere to

644
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:06.400
be found. We find out Billy's backstory much more. We

645
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:08.079
get a lot of it in Part two as well,

646
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:11.400
though we get the sense that he's upon and increases,

647
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:13.839
you know, his his sense's game, and we talk about

648
00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:18.759
the original movie, but in Cobra Kai we basically find

649
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:22.680
out we just go even deeper into the ideas that

650
00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:27.680
they originally were trying to expand on in Karate Kid one, two,

651
00:30:27.720 --> 00:30:30.079
and three, and four. I wish they had referenced for

652
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:32.240
directly because I had a saucepuffore. It was always on

653
00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:33.960
cable when I was young. It's a lot of fun,

654
00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:39.759
but it's so my expectations. I didn't set them super

655
00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:42.240
high because I was like, well, you know, Cobra Kai

656
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:46.039
got like, what's five season, six seasons of great storytelling.

657
00:30:46.519 --> 00:30:49.000
It was basically a lot of the time to grassy

658
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:53.759
with incredible fight scenes. It constantly made me cry, I'm

659
00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:55.440
a big sucker. You're gonna find out as we talk

660
00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:59.119
about the main movie. For the idea of how powerful

661
00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:01.839
it is for an adult to take an interest in

662
00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:05.200
a child, that's something that the Karate Kid legends kind

663
00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:07.599
of didn't have. He just always it's just his uncle

664
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:08.000
and his mom.

665
00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:09.599
It was a stab, I mean, it was established with

666
00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:13.440
the family relationship already, and then Laruso being brought in

667
00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:15.799
was just kind of the extra element of Yagi.

668
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:19.960
It's just that this kid didn't need He already had

669
00:31:20.039 --> 00:31:23.599
this support system. He already had this interest that was,

670
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:28.680
you know, pulling for him. He didn't really need anybody

671
00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:33.359
necessarily to grow as a character. Because with Karate Kid,

672
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.599
if Laruso had lost, it wouldn't have mattered. The story

673
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:40.839
would still be great because he grew as a person.

674
00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:44.519
And we'll talk about that here in a second maybe,

675
00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:47.160
But no, So I did enjoy it, and I think

676
00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:49.759
it's worth your nostalgia money. I think you'll get a

677
00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:51.759
kick out of it. Like I said, Jackie Chan is

678
00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:54.119
just I can never get enough of him. The fight

679
00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:57.079
scenes are super fun. It's really fast and and and

680
00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:02.519
it moves at a lightning pace exactly so, but I

681
00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:04.519
enjoyed it. You know what I say. I would say,

682
00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:07.160
if you if you love Karate Kid and Cobra Kai, yeah,

683
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:07.880
go go catch it.

684
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:08.920
I would say, go catch it in the theater. I

685
00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:10.559
would say. I would say, if it's one that you

686
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:12.400
think would be fun in the theater, then definitely go

687
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:14.440
see it. If it's one that you think you can wait,

688
00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:18.279
you probably can wait to catch it on TV or whatever.

689
00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:21.440
Yeah, I would say, it's it's only special in that

690
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:26.480
it's like I was saying, it reminds you of the

691
00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:28.440
flavors that made you happy.

692
00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:30.640
Yeah, that's a good way to put it. It is

693
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:33.519
not new, no, and it is not old either. It

694
00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:35.559
doesn't bring anything new to the table.

695
00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:37.880
No, but it lets you have a chuckle one more

696
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:40.559
time and have a good time, had some good jokes,

697
00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:43.599
had some good moments, the training montages where I liked

698
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:47.240
them being so drastically different. Yeah, so yeah, it was.

699
00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:50.640
It was a fun one. But tonight's movie.

700
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:52.839
M H listener request month mind you.

701
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:54.599
Yes, uh do you have who?

702
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:57.720
This was requested multiple people. Patrick had requested this, Our

703
00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:00.640
friend Daniel had requested this, so we had moreultiple requests.

704
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:03.359
This was This was the highest requested title, along with

705
00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:05.720
one the Wall. So get to this week as well

706
00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:06.400
or this month.

707
00:33:06.599 --> 00:33:08.119
Yeah, and we want to mention if you want to

708
00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:10.240
recommend a movie for us to watch and talk about, yeah,

709
00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:12.079
you could send us an email at do you even

710
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.680
Movie pod at gmail dot com. We keep track of

711
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:20.880
the recommendations we do, and we love to watch something

712
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:22.759
that maybe we hadn't given a shot in a while,

713
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:25.640
or just be reminded of. There's so many great movies.

714
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:25.839
There really are.

715
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:29.640
But Karate Kid is a very special film to me,

716
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:32.839
and it's a movie that I think about all the time,

717
00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:36.640
and it's a movie so special to me that when

718
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:38.880
they when they announced Cobra Kai when it was a

719
00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:42.000
YouTube YouTube original, yeah, well that was before we were original.

720
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:46.599
When it was called Red, I cringed because I was like,

721
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:49.920
oh God, they're just gonna like they're just making a

722
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:51.559
property I love into something.

723
00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:54.160
I think that was the general consensus. I don't think

724
00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:55.519
a lot of people were just like, oh man, this

725
00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:57.119
is gonna be awesome. I think it just had that

726
00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:00.720
connotation to it immediately that it was just like, oh wow.

727
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:03.279
Okay, And I think that that didn't get broke. Well

728
00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:06.400
obviously that didn't get broken until Netflix took it and

729
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:08.119
was like, if we get enough people to watch it,

730
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:10.519
they'll see what they were doing. Was actually really interesting.

731
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:12.280
Because Red only got one season, right, I think so,

732
00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:15.199
and then season two went to Netflix. I'm almost certain yeah,

733
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:15.880
I thought so.

734
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:16.000
So.

735
00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.039
Yeah, it ended up being it ended up being more

736
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:21.719
of what I love. But at the time, I was like,

737
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:23.880
this is gonna be another show that just uses that

738
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.400
concept and maybe it'll be fine.

739
00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:26.039
Maybe it won't.

740
00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:28.119
I don't know. When it was on Netflix, I was like, hell, yeah,

741
00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:29.719
I'll watch because I already had that, but I wasn't

742
00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:31.480
going to like sign up for something to watch it.

743
00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:34.840
So but yeah, so tonight we're talking about the original

744
00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.719
Karate Kid. Yes we are, and it's a film that

745
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:43.239
just I believe is so important still important. So Dave,

746
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:44.639
you want to do your magic?

747
00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:48.039
The Karate Kid from nineteen eighty four two hours and

748
00:34:48.119 --> 00:34:52.400
six minutes, rated PG for martial arts, violence, bullying, language,

749
00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:53.480
and mild drug use.

750
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:56.679
Bullying. That must be a newer warning.

751
00:34:56.800 --> 00:35:00.880
Maybe David can piled this rating description because there isn't one.

752
00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:03.800
Oh okay, yeah, I went off of the remake a

753
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:04.719
little bit and tweaked it.

754
00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:05.679
I'll let you have that.

755
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:07.119
That's fine, will you?

756
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:07.199
No?

757
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:11.679
I AMDB synopsis says, recently relocated from New Jersey to

758
00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:14.519
La Daniel becomes the target of the gang of Cobra

759
00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:17.239
Kai students. When mister Miyagi saves him with his expert

760
00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:19.760
karate skills, Daniel convinces him to teach him to defend

761
00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:21.639
himself and put his bullies in their place.

762
00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:23.639
Pretty good, Pretty good description.

763
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:26.280
My synopsis. After moving to La a young boy must

764
00:35:26.599 --> 00:35:28.480
seek help from the caretaker of his building with the

765
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.559
request to be taught karate to beat the bullies at

766
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:31.039
his school.

767
00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:33.400
Yes, I think I think they're pretty equal.

768
00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:37.679
Yeah. Tag lines include only two this week. Oh, only

769
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:40.599
the old one could teach him the secrets of the masters,

770
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:45.360
and he taught him the secret to karate lies in

771
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:47.800
the mind and heart, not in the hands.

772
00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:49.920
I love that one. That's the one. That's the one, Yeah,

773
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:54.159
because I get the first one because emphasizing the martial

774
00:35:54.239 --> 00:35:55.920
arts element is how you're going to get asses in

775
00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:58.320
the seats. It's called absolutely it's called the Karate Kid.

776
00:35:58.360 --> 00:35:59.719
Not a kid makes the best friend.

777
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:07.480
Yeah, so mister Miyaki and me, I mean Tuesdays with Miyaki.

778
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:14.559
Oh my god. Uh uh so uh yeah, no, I

779
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:16.239
like that tagline. That second one's really good.

780
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:19.400
Uh. The Karate Kid currently available on Hulu, also rentable

781
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:21.360
on Prime and Fandango, but you can get it readily

782
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:24.079
available on Hulu, and there is a Blu Ray forte.

783
00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:26.920
Multiple packs of the sequels also included with that too,

784
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:28.840
So depending which when you get, there's not a bad

785
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:31.039
release of this, I will say, yeah, yeah, I would agree.

786
00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:33.800
Director on the film is John G. Albertson. He gets

787
00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:36.679
his start as director and editor in nineteen sixty nine

788
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:40.159
on Turn Onto Love, Yes, Yes, goes on to do

789
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:43.360
nineteen seventies. Guess what we learned in school today? Director

790
00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:46.920
and editor on cry Uncle in seventy one. Okay, Bill Well,

791
00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.360
cry Uncle was a Lloyd Kaufman. Yeah, joint pre Troma

792
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:51.480
Lloyd Coffmin. Yeah.

793
00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:55.199
If you want an interesting perspective on Avilson, read Lloyd's

794
00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:57.159
book Everything I Know about Filmmaking I learned from The

795
00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:58.800
Toxic Avenger Get a mat which I read that in

796
00:36:58.880 --> 00:36:59.280
high school.

797
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:00.920
If you not read that book, you really.

798
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:04.039
Ought to read it. It's it's really his best work. Lloyd.

799
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:04.559
You've said that.

800
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.400
Yeah, And but he talks a lot because Aveltson kind

801
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.679
of became his mentor, and he got obsessed with learning

802
00:37:11.239 --> 00:37:14.280
things from Aviltson about being a director, of being a storyteller,

803
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:17.559
like a lot. Because that's why Lloyd. Lloyd was just

804
00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:20.039
like loitering on the set of Rocky just because he

805
00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:22.000
wanted to see what was happening.

806
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:24.719
Funny side note on that, So I watched that documentary.

807
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:26.800
I sent you the picture of young Brian Usna in

808
00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:29.440
which was Stephen King's This Is Horror. Oh okay, I

809
00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:33.039
have extended Japanese laserdiscript of that that's like six and

810
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:34.679
a half hours long that I got out of con

811
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.639
years ago. Nice, but there is the I think I

812
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:39.840
want to say it was part three. They were on

813
00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:42.639
the set of Class in dukem High and Lloyd Coffin

814
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:45.599
was actually like kind of normal and like actually directing,

815
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:48.480
but also like really stressed out. But his interview was

816
00:37:48.519 --> 00:37:49.199
like decent.

817
00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:51.039
I think that was back when he and hers were

818
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:52.800
still co directing. Yeah, and I bet that took a

819
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:53.559
lot of the pressure off.

820
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:55.639
It was just weird to see him like, oh, normal

821
00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:57.679
and with facial hair. Well.

822
00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:02.360
He also it was the early nineties when he really

823
00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:05.239
built himself as a face to trauma.

824
00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:07.159
Yeah eighty five was in the documentary.

825
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:09.599
Yeah, that's really early. He really became a face in

826
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:11.920
the in the nineties to where you'd be like, oh,

827
00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:14.559
there's uncle Lloyd. You know it's doing this crazy thing

828
00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:17.000
and going off. I was very obsessed with Lloyd when

829
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:19.400
I was a teenager because he was so likable. Yeah,

830
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:23.400
and that has changed and me liking him or that

831
00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:27.360
he's likable, you'd be the Jeni, but no, but he

832
00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:30.800
had a great aura to him about like filmmaking his

833
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:33.639
art and just going out and making your own movie.

834
00:38:33.719 --> 00:38:35.800
His second book was make your own damn Movie. Not

835
00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:38.480
as great as everything I learned from filmmaking and learned

836
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:40.440
form The Toxic Avengery, but still a pretty good I

837
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:43.119
need to I have my copy somewhere signed. I got

838
00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:43.920
it signed by Lloyd.

839
00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:44.559
You should find that.

840
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:46.119
I'm sure it's around here, somewhere.

841
00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:48.760
Oh, I'm sure it is. So. He does Cry Uncle

842
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:51.679
in nineteen seventy one, then directs and edits Okay Bill,

843
00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:53.960
Slow Dancing in the Big City, A Night in Heaven

844
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:56.599
in eighty three, does The Karate Kid director and editor

845
00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:59.400
in eighty four, Karate Kid two in eighty six, for

846
00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:01.920
keeps An eight eight, Lean On Me in eighty nine.

847
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:03.639
He's also a director and editor on all these I'm

848
00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:04.599
naming right now. Yeah.

849
00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:09.440
I believe he might have even edited for Lloyd Early

850
00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:10.199
on It's.

851
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:13.519
Possible, Karate Kid Part Three in eighty nine, Rocky four

852
00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:16.360
in nineteen ninety, the Power of One with Stephen Dorf

853
00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:19.320
in ninety two. He also, in the meantime, directs Joe

854
00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:21.880
the Cannon Film in nineteen seventy with What's His Face,

855
00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:25.559
Peter Boyle, Save the Tiger WW and The Dixie Dance

856
00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:29.119
Kings four play Rocky in seventy six, he directs.

857
00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:31.599
Which is one of my favorite things about Karate Kid

858
00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:35.159
and Rocky is they're both two of the greatest movies

859
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:39.239
about trying to be your best. Yeah, I love them.

860
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:42.159
They're very similar movies, but they're also insanely.

861
00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:43.559
Different, sanmely different, especially with their endings.

862
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:46.679
Well yeah, I mean Rocky was trailblazing with that ending.

863
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:48.400
I could talk, Well, I have to. We have to

864
00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:50.480
cover Rocky at some point because I could talk for

865
00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:55.199
hours about just how much I appreciate that ending.

866
00:39:55.320 --> 00:40:00.519
You'll shock you. Sure, I've never seen it in one sitting.

867
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:02.480
I've seen it on TV all the time growing up

868
00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:05.400
at all. I've never actually sat down and watched Rocky

869
00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:06.159
from end to end.

870
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:08.000
That actually kind of hurts.

871
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:10.920
I'm sorry, No, because it's it's a really no, it's

872
00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:13.320
a fantastic movie, like I remember, like, because like I said,

873
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:16.039
it was always Rocky, Rocky two, and even Rocky four.

874
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:17.880
For some reason, Rocky three I had to catch on

875
00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:20.199
a VHS because Rocky three, like was never on TV.

876
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:22.480
But Rocky one, two, and four were always on either

877
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:25.239
AMC or TVs or something.

878
00:40:25.400 --> 00:40:28.760
Those the later Rockies were more fun. Yeah, so for

879
00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:32.239
a young young man or a young boy to watch,

880
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:34.079
because they were a little bit sillier. They were way

881
00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:38.559
more about the wild action because Rocky. The reason I

882
00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:43.920
love Rocky is Sylvester Stallone wrote that screen point. He

883
00:40:44.039 --> 00:40:46.360
was an unknown actor. He had done some bit parts

884
00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:48.360
in some movies. I think he'd done a couple of

885
00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:52.360
Corman's at that point, and he really wasn't going anywhere

886
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:53.119
very quickly.

887
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:55.199
Yeah, and he had.

888
00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:59.239
Been told your time has passed to become a big actor,

889
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:01.760
like you should get at another job and maybe act

890
00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:04.800
when you could get a gig here or there or whatever. Yeah, Well,

891
00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:09.559
he writes, so he doesn't agree, So he writes the script.

892
00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:12.679
And I don't remember the exact details. We'll go into

893
00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:14.719
it when we do talk about Rocky sometime. But I

894
00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:17.280
don't know if you knew this. But so, studios were

895
00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:19.559
offering him crazy money for that screenplay so they could

896
00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:21.760
go make it, and he was like, I'm starring in it.

897
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:27.320
That's my thing. So they immediately withdrew their offers. They

898
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:30.920
were like, Nope, you are not the star. So he

899
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:35.360
took the lowest bid. They paid the least amount of

900
00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:37.559
money because they were the ones who were willing to

901
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:42.719
let him play Rocky Balboa. And I love it because

902
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:47.039
the story can be about anything, because obviously to him

903
00:41:47.079 --> 00:41:49.320
it was about his dream of being an actor. But

904
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:51.599
in the movie he is told, like, you're too old

905
00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:54.760
to be a real fighting champion. You could box golden gloves,

906
00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:56.800
you could box regional here and there, maybe you'll even

907
00:41:56.840 --> 00:41:59.039
place a couple of times. You can keep it as

908
00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:01.360
a hobby to stay and shape, but you're really not

909
00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:04.119
that smart, You're really not that talented.

910
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:05.239
Whatever.

911
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:10.159
And the fact that the movie is truly about him

912
00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:13.800
trying to be the best in the beat beat the

913
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.119
best in the world. Yeah, that's That's what's incredible about

914
00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:19.880
is learning to believe in yourself and understanding that you

915
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:23.920
are that that It's not just are you capable, it's

916
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:27.599
are you willing to do it? No? Are you willing

917
00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:28.280
to fail?

918
00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:29.199
To fail? Yeah?

919
00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:34.840
Are you willing to give it everything you have and fail? Honestly?

920
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:38.719
And when you pick yourself up, you have you ask yourself,

921
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:43.679
did I give it everything? That's why Rocky's great.

922
00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:46.840
Oh, Rocky's Like, like I said, I've seen it multiple

923
00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:49.119
times on TV, but yeah, I've never actually, like in

924
00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.239
one whole sitting from start to finish, have seen it.

925
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:54.440
You you should, especially because you know now that you're

926
00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:58.039
middle aged. But no, but you you just you just

927
00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:01.440
bumped up in your thirties. Yeah, it's a movie that's

928
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:03.360
better as you get older, because as you get older,

929
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:07.079
you start to realize that that Rocky is really about.

930
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:09.480
It's not just about chasing your dreams. It's about living

931
00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:12.920
and growing up, which is actually a theme Karate Kid

932
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:16.119
has in spades, especially after rewatching it. And I rewatched

933
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:17.960
it today after one of the most I've had the

934
00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:20.559
most stressful five or six days that I've had in

935
00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:23.760
a while without there being like a personal tragedy. But

936
00:43:23.920 --> 00:43:27.079
I sat down with my cigar and I started watching it.

937
00:43:27.119 --> 00:43:29.079
Even though I had to check my goddamn phone, I

938
00:43:29.159 --> 00:43:32.039
had to for work. I would put it down and

939
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:35.480
just be like, man, this and then I do whatever.

940
00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:40.039
I'd be like, but man this so anyway, But so

941
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:44.000
my point just is that Avelson had proven with Rocky

942
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:49.199
that he could tell a story about the self and

943
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:51.800
do it well. And of course there's also, you know

944
00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:58.360
his use of montage was pretty new montage, although was

945
00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:01.360
it Rocky three? Where there they did one montage and

946
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:04.599
literally led to another montage. The song ended and then

947
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:07.039
he started another part of the advantage that is Rocky three.

948
00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:10.119
God love it so anyway, But no, So Aveltson is,

949
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:14.360
in my opinion, just for those two films forever remembered.

950
00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:16.519
So he directs, Yeah, he directs Rocky in seventy six,

951
00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:18.920
then goes on to do the Formula and eighty Neighbors

952
00:44:19.480 --> 00:44:22.840
Traveling hopefully eight seconds and Desert Heat in ninety nine

953
00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:24.440
on Claude Dan dam Oh.

954
00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:26.239
I need to watch that. I need to watch all

955
00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:28.119
of Aviltson's movies. I have not seen all of them.

956
00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:31.440
We unfortunately lost him back in twenty seventeen June sixteenth,

957
00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:34.480
at age eighty one to pancreatic cancer. That's awful.

958
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.239
Yeah, I remember when I was afraid I.

959
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:40.000
Had that that would yeah, that'd be bad. It was

960
00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:42.119
bad for you, Yeah, I remember.

961
00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:44.679
Yeah. You know, in hindsight, I would have kept it

962
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:46.079
to myself, but I was so scared.

963
00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:48.719
Yeah, and then I needed to have somebody to talk to.

964
00:44:48.840 --> 00:44:50.880
I get it. No, I will say one of his

965
00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:52.719
movies that I would really love to bring to the show.

966
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:55.079
Lean on Me from nineteen eight nine with Morgan Freeman.

967
00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:57.559
I think I have seen that it was great, such

968
00:44:57.559 --> 00:44:59.840
a good movie. We should we should do an averltson

969
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.000
month of only none the lesser knowns. I would love

970
00:45:04.039 --> 00:45:06.000
to do that. We should, we should do that. Maybe

971
00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:08.320
we'll do it in like a month that's hard to pick,

972
00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:11.719
like January. We'll just do like yeah, you know, we'll

973
00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:13.719
just do just the lesser known apults.

974
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:16.199
And then so our writer on the film is Robert

975
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:18.360
Mark Caaman. He gets to start as a writer in

976
00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:21.239
nineteen eighty one with Taps, goes on to do Split

977
00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:24.079
Image eighty two, writes The Karate Kid in eighty four,

978
00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:26.599
followed by The Karate Kid Part two, followed by The

979
00:45:26.679 --> 00:45:29.840
Karate Kid Part three, followed by Karate Kid the TV series,

980
00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:32.440
which could a character credit on. Then in ninety two

981
00:45:32.639 --> 00:45:35.239
he's a TV series, the Little Cartoon Series.

982
00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:37.039
Oh the cartoon. Oh, I remember the cartoon.

983
00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:39.719
Then in nineteen ninety two he does a movie called Gladiator,

984
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:41.159
which I wanted to take a second here because I

985
00:45:41.159 --> 00:45:44.239
actually just watched this over the weekend. Gladiator is a

986
00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:47.199
ninety two boxing movie with James Marshall who played James

987
00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:50.960
Hurley in Twin Peaks, Cuba Gooding Junior and their buddies

988
00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:54.880
that are in an illegal boxing circuit. Basically, James Marshall

989
00:45:55.239 --> 00:45:56.920
moves back and comes to this new town with his

990
00:45:56.920 --> 00:45:59.239
father played by John Hurd, who is a gambling addict

991
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:03.719
and running from the basically who isn't so he at

992
00:46:03.800 --> 00:46:06.559
James Marshall gets tied up with the likes of Brian

993
00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:11.480
Denahey and Robert Loja to get into a bear like

994
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:13.039
a bare knuckle box and he.

995
00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:16.320
Said ninety two, So they're like at my favorite time

996
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:17.159
of their careers.

997
00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:20.480
Gladiator is a movie that I cannot recommend enough. I'm

998
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:21.960
definitely gonna show it to you soon. But yeah, I

999
00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:23.800
just had to say that that's a lot of fun

1000
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:24.280
real quick.

1001
00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:26.320
I have we have to always whenever Denna he has

1002
00:46:26.360 --> 00:46:29.039
brought up, bring up my favorite story ever, which is

1003
00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:32.239
when Patton Oswald was at a event, a function, and

1004
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:34.039
it was at a they ran in a buffet line, yeah,

1005
00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:36.719
and Dennehy was just piling up the plates and he

1006
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:39.159
just turned to Patton Oswald and said, character actors, no

1007
00:46:39.199 --> 00:46:42.000
one gives a fuck if we get fat right my favorite,

1008
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:44.880
and that's that alone makes me. I wish he was

1009
00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:46.679
my I wish he was my dad, you know, like.

1010
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:49.880
Well, I mean and Dennah he uh, you know, everybody

1011
00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:51.880
knows him as Tommy Boy's dad, of course, and he's

1012
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:54.679
got those lovable roles. He is really good and I

1013
00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:57.119
think it's ninety two of them. Mistaken TV movie where

1014
00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:59.800
he played. Gacy called The Catch a killer that I

1015
00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:03.320
cannot recommend enough. I've heard that's good, fantastic movie. I

1016
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:05.639
got it on DVD recently because Umbrella put it out.

1017
00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:08.480
Oh okay, so, but the Power of One in ninety two,

1018
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:12.000
Lethal Weapon three in ninety two, gets character credit on

1019
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:13.800
the Next Karate Kid in ninety four, A Walk in

1020
00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:16.639
the Clouds, the Fifth Element in ninety seven, He writes

1021
00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:19.239
really Kiss of the Dragon in two thousand and one,

1022
00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:21.000
The Transporter in two thousand and.

1023
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:22.800
Two, A surely really like Kiss of the Dragon.

1024
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:23.639
Miss the Dragon's good?

1025
00:47:23.719 --> 00:47:26.239
Yeah, I must have just caught that on like Showtimers.

1026
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:27.960
Black Sash in two thousand and three, Transporter two in

1027
00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:30.519
two thousand and five, Bandidas in two thousand and six.

1028
00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:32.760
Then in two thousand and eight he pens a little

1029
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:37.119
film called Taken. The writer of Karate Kid also wrote Taken.

1030
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:39.000
I'm guessing in a team.

1031
00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:43.760
If it is, I didn't want out so Transporter three

1032
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:46.039
in two thousand and eight Karate Kid the Remake. He

1033
00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:49.400
gets a story credit on Colombiana. In twenty eleven Taken

1034
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:53.320
two and twenty twelve Transporter the TV series in er

1035
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:56.599
Get's character credit on Taken three and twenty fourteen, Transporter

1036
00:47:56.639 --> 00:47:59.119
Refuel gets character credit Taken the Series. He gets character

1037
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:02.360
credit Has Fallen. In twenty nineteen Cobra Kai he gets

1038
00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:05.760
character credit for Karate Kid Legends, he gets character credits for.

1039
00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:09.719
He also was the script continuity advisor on Lethal Weapon two,

1040
00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:14.719
The Punisher, under Siege, The Fugitive, The Devil's Own, The

1041
00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:18.000
Devil's Advocate, Deep Rising, and the one.

1042
00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:20.480
I just want to mention what I thought, which is

1043
00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:25.360
which is awesome? Robert Mark Kaiman wrote, Taken with Luke Passant, Okay, Yeah,

1044
00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:28.519
so that which is? That's we talk No One, god Man,

1045
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:30.880
No One to That movie's so great. Yeah, and no,

1046
00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:34.000
I love the fact that he was a script department person.

1047
00:48:34.159 --> 00:48:36.119
Oh yeah as well, although most of these were.

1048
00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:37.360
Script revisions revisions.

1049
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:40.559
Yeah, well, once you've had a hit, like a couple

1050
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:43.440
a bunch of hits, You're gonna definitely end up writing

1051
00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:45.159
on a lot of stuff.

1052
00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:47.119
Well, I mean he literally wrote on three of our favorites,

1053
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:49.920
Lethal Weapon two, Deep Rising in the Fugitive, I mean

1054
00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:51.400
not to mention under Siege, yeh.

1055
00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.079
Well, yeah, I mean death by microwave.

1056
00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:57.239
Moving on to our cinematographer is James Crave. He gets

1057
00:48:57.239 --> 00:48:59.159
his start as a DP in nineteen sixty two with

1058
00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:01.440
The Proper Time, follows it up with Everybody Loves It

1059
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:03.760
in sixty four, Shoots the Bold Men in sixty five,

1060
00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:06.960
Sole Survivor in nineteen seventy, Zigzag in nineteen.

1061
00:49:06.599 --> 00:49:07.719
Sex Shot Soul Survivor.

1062
00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:09.679
I don't think it's that one, okay, yeah, because that

1063
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:12.559
was the eighties. Yeah, yeah, you're right, Yeah yeah. Lost

1064
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:14.360
Flight in nineteen seventy, A Step out of Line in

1065
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:17.199
seventy one, Sweet Sweet Rachel in seventy one, All About

1066
00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:19.920
Alice in seventy two, The Honkers in seventy two.

1067
00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:21.800
Okay, I want to see that.

1068
00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:24.719
Great American Beauty Contest in seventy three, Save the Tiger

1069
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:28.119
in seventy three, Rhinoceros the Dead Don't Die ww and

1070
00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:31.239
the Dixie Dance Kings, The Entertainer, The Disappearance of Amy,

1071
00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:33.320
and then in nineteen seventy six he shoots a little

1072
00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:34.519
film called Rocky.

1073
00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:37.880
Uh, the one about I Don't Have a Joke.

1074
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:39.760
Follows it up with Sex Tet, then goes on to

1075
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:42.440
Thank God It's Friday in seventy eight, The China Syndrome

1076
00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:45.800
in seventy eight, Players in seventy nine, Baltimore Bullet, How

1077
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:47.840
to Beat the High Cost of Living in nineteen eighty,

1078
00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:51.039
the Formula the Letter, Night Shift in nineteen eighty two,

1079
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:55.000
No Way Two Kinds of Love in eighty three, Then

1080
00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:57.000
does the Karate Kid in eighty four, follows it up

1081
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.559
with paper Dolls, followed by Police Academy two in nineteen

1082
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:03.079
eighty five, their first assignment, The Hug A Bunch in

1083
00:50:03.119 --> 00:50:06.559
eighty five, Covenant in eighty five, Long Time, Goodbye and

1084
00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:09.800
eighty six, Karate Kid Part two in eighty six, When

1085
00:50:09.800 --> 00:50:12.320
the Bow Breaks at eighty six, Deadly Care in eighty seven,

1086
00:50:12.360 --> 00:50:14.880
Happy New Year in eighty seven, for Keeps in eighty eight,

1087
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.880
and Baby m in eighty eight. We unfortunately lost Him

1088
00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:20.280
in eighty nine, May Second at age fifty seven to

1089
00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:24.159
aids man. Yeah, but I mean, first off, the China

1090
00:50:24.199 --> 00:50:27.679
Syndrome amazing film, Rocky amazing film. Karate Kid won in

1091
00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:31.119
two amazing films, So I mean, the dude has a rest.

1092
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:36.159
Karate Kid two is so good that I forgot that

1093
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:38.840
the beginning of karate Kid two was not the ending

1094
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:39.760
of karate Kid one.

1095
00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:41.480
So it's not in my it's not in my trivia

1096
00:50:41.639 --> 00:50:43.880
for this part or a little touches on that a

1097
00:50:43.880 --> 00:50:46.119
little bit in trivia. But when I watched Karate Kid

1098
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:47.920
on TV they put that at the ending.

1099
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:50.679
Does that proven beyond you?

1100
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:53.000
I mean, I just I know for a fact it

1101
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:55.559
didn't go into Karate two Karate Kid too, because T two

1102
00:50:55.599 --> 00:50:56.760
was on after Karate Kid.

1103
00:50:57.440 --> 00:50:59.400
It's possible they did that on the TV mosion. But

1104
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:00.920
you haven't found a corroboration to that.

1105
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:03.119
I haven't looked for it, but yeah, I haven't seen anything.

1106
00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:04.880
I didn't I didn't, like look at the alternate versions

1107
00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:05.039
of it.

1108
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:06.880
I guess like, oh no, no, I mean, I mean, it

1109
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:10.159
wouldn't shock me. Was it fits to the time slot.

1110
00:51:10.199 --> 00:51:12.079
It was the intention originally they were gonna have that

1111
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:13.920
as the ending, and it actually is the ending in

1112
00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:15.559
the novelization, I do have that in the Trivia The

1113
00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:17.800
Look at Too. So moving on to our cast, we

1114
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:20.639
have mister Ralph Maccio who plays Daniel LaRusso in this film.

1115
00:51:20.679 --> 00:51:23.000
He gets to start in nineteen eighty on Up the Academy,

1116
00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:24.880
goes on to do Eight Is Enough in eighty one,

1117
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.519
Dangerous Company in eighty two, High Powder in eighty two,

1118
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:31.119
The Outsiders in eighty three, does The Karate Kid in

1119
00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:33.039
eighty four. Same year he does one of my favorite films,

1120
00:51:33.039 --> 00:51:35.320
Teachers in eighty four, follows up with another one of

1121
00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:38.039
my favorites, Crossroads in eighty six, The Karate Kid Part

1122
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:40.159
two in eighty six, Distant Thunder in eighty eight. Do

1123
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:41.800
you know about Distant Thunder? By the way, I haven't

1124
00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:43.599
watched it yet, but you're gonna love this synopsis when

1125
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:46.559
I give it to you. No. So, John Lithgow plays

1126
00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:48.559
his father that is a Vietnam vet that has come

1127
00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:52.400
back from home and is dealing with like a very

1128
00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:55.280
bad case of why can I think of it? What's

1129
00:51:55.320 --> 00:51:58.199
the shell shock? Oh?

1130
00:51:58.280 --> 00:51:58.679
Yeah, like.

1131
00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:03.960
Yeah yeah, And so he's trying to reconnect with his son,

1132
00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:06.039
but then there's also apparently these people that want to

1133
00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:08.519
kill him because he's like the crazy guye in Town.

1134
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:11.559
I've owned it in Voodoo for several years and have

1135
00:52:11.639 --> 00:52:13.159
not watched it yet, but it looks amazing.

1136
00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:15.320
I would dig watching that.

1137
00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:18.119
Yeah. Same. Then he does Karate Kid Part three in

1138
00:52:18.199 --> 00:52:20.880
eighty nine, Too Much, Son, My Cousin, Benny in ninety two,

1139
00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:23.239
Naked in New York in ninety three, Secret of the

1140
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:25.960
Nim two, The Outer Limits Can't Be Heaven twice in

1141
00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:29.719
a lifetime, The Office Party, good Night to Die, Entourage,

1142
00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:33.639
Beer League, Ugly Betty, The Whole Truth, Hitchcock in twenty twelve, A.

1143
00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:37.840
Right I love. He was cast so perfectly in Hitchcock.

1144
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:41.400
He played the screenwriter yep, who adapted the book, and

1145
00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:44.880
the way that they established him is so good. That

1146
00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:49.119
wasn't Block. Block wrote the novel Stefano right, Yes, funny.

1147
00:52:49.599 --> 00:52:52.440
When he's meeting him, he's like so total. He's literally

1148
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:54.440
Hitchcreck saing them with a cigar, just staring at him,

1149
00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:57.480
and he's like, he's like, I'm sorry I was late,

1150
00:52:57.559 --> 00:53:00.199
mister Hitchcock. I just I was trying to here as

1151
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:02.079
fast I could. I was at my therapist's office and

1152
00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:05.400
he's like, what could you possibly have to talk about

1153
00:53:05.519 --> 00:53:07.760
with a therapist for all of the you know, for

1154
00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:10.079
so much time that you would be late, and he's like,

1155
00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:14.320
oh god, you know money love my Mother, and then

1156
00:53:14.360 --> 00:53:17.719
he just smash cuts to Psycho written My It's just

1157
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:18.079
so good.

1158
00:53:18.079 --> 00:53:21.800
It's a perfect moment. Yeah. Holiday spending twenty twelve, Happily Divorced,

1159
00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:25.239
Robot Chicken, How I Met Your Mother, Psych, A Little Game, Psych,

1160
00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:29.559
the movie Kevin can Wait remember that show? No one

1161
00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:30.079
else does that.

1162
00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:32.159
They're okay, good good, I'm not alone.

1163
00:53:32.320 --> 00:53:35.079
The Deuce in twenty seventeen, Cobra Kai in twenty eighteen,

1164
00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:37.079
and then Karate Kid's Legends in twenty twenty five.

1165
00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:40.320
Yeah, and he really got to I'm so glad he

1166
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:43.639
got that. I mean more so Zabka, Yeah, because Zabka

1167
00:53:43.719 --> 00:53:45.679
had much more of like a B movie career. Yeah,

1168
00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:47.559
but I was so glad that they both got to

1169
00:53:47.599 --> 00:53:50.760
have such an awesome kind of not swan song. But

1170
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:52.199
you know, they're both put I mean, he's in his

1171
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:54.840
sixties and Zabka's pushing sixty. So to have them have

1172
00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:57.880
one really great hit series together where they got to

1173
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:00.800
act and act and act, yeah, I'm so glad that

1174
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:03.920
they'll be remembered for that forever.

1175
00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:06.199
No, it's pretty great. So moving down, we also have

1176
00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:08.800
Pat Marina in this who plays mister Miyagi one hundred

1177
00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:10.639
and seventy six credits on his He'll tell.

1178
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:15.599
You something about Pat Merita. Yeah, my mother loves Pat

1179
00:54:15.679 --> 00:54:19.000
Merita because she remembers everything he did before Karate Kid. Yeah,

1180
00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:20.719
and he was was he a stand up Was he

1181
00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:22.559
like I thought he was a literal stand up comedian?

1182
00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:23.599
Yeah, so he was.

1183
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:26.079
My mom knew him as just a guy who she

1184
00:54:26.360 --> 00:54:29.760
was laughing to the point of like crying. Yeah, like

1185
00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:32.639
her entire teens and twenties. Oh yeah, because he was

1186
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:33.519
so so funny.

1187
00:54:33.559 --> 00:54:35.280
No, he Uh. One of the movies that I'll talk

1188
00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:37.280
about on the resume here in a second is Night Patrol.

1189
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:39.679
And that was like I'd seen him in Karate Kid

1190
00:54:39.679 --> 00:54:41.239
obviously in Spy har were like the two things that

1191
00:54:41.280 --> 00:54:43.840
I remembered him from. But he plays like he plays

1192
00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:46.159
a rape victim in Night Patrol and like has the

1193
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:49.519
low Pat Marina, the little Pat Merita voice going and everything,

1194
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:52.480
talking about these horrendous things and it's really funny.

1195
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:55.320
Well, and his his real voice is totally different. Oh yeah,

1196
00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:57.639
which was the funny thing. The first time I watched

1197
00:54:57.800 --> 00:54:59.599
one of the Karate Kid movies, I don't remember which one,

1198
00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:01.159
like one of Really Really Young. It was on cable

1199
00:55:01.199 --> 00:55:03.760
or something, and my mom loved the movies, but she

1200
00:55:03.880 --> 00:55:05.960
was just like, she was like, that is not Pat Merita.

1201
00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:09.119
He's doing a voice. Yeah, that's my mom. She'll just

1202
00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:10.480
blurt out things like that.

1203
00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:12.320
So it gets a start in nineteen sixty seven with

1204
00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:14.599
Thoroughly Modern Milly goes on to do the Shakiest Gun

1205
00:55:14.599 --> 00:55:17.079
in the West in sixty eight, Courtship of Eddie's Father,

1206
00:55:17.239 --> 00:55:20.239
Green Acres, Roanan Martin's Laugh in The Odd Couple in

1207
00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:23.639
seventy two, Where does It Hurt? Colombo? Cancel My Reservation?

1208
00:55:23.880 --> 00:55:27.360
Love American Style, Hawaii five, Oh, Mash Punch, and Judy

1209
00:55:27.519 --> 00:55:30.480
Kung Fu Love America. I Wonder who's killing her now?

1210
00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:31.400
Which I love that title.

1211
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:32.199
That's a great title.

1212
00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:35.440
Yeah, Sanford and Son, Midway, Welcome Back, cotterr. Chico and

1213
00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:38.039
the Man the Love Boat when Time ran out. Full

1214
00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:39.039
Moon High in eighty one.

1215
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:43.400
I remember I remember seeing him in Full Moon High

1216
00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:48.320
m hm and being so confused because he's being funny

1217
00:55:48.320 --> 00:55:50.920
Pat Marita and I had not really seen him very

1218
00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:52.079
often as Funny Pat.

1219
00:55:51.920 --> 00:55:54.760
Merita, Jimmy the Kid Happy Days does The Karate Kid

1220
00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:56.639
in eighty four, Night Patrol in eighty four, So the

1221
00:55:56.679 --> 00:55:58.800
same year he does that, he does that back to back. Wow,

1222
00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:02.000
Alice in Wonderland, Karate Kid Part two, Babes and Toyland

1223
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:04.679
Karate Kid Part three, Collision Course with Jay Leno in

1224
00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:08.119
eighty nine, The Karate Kid at eighty nine, which is

1225
00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:11.039
the cartoon Strawberry Road, Harry and the Henderson series, Do

1226
00:56:11.199 --> 00:56:15.000
or Die in ninety one, Okay, Honeymoon in Vegas, Anti

1227
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:17.920
Lee's Meat Pie is in ninety two. Oh yeah, he's

1228
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:22.199
in that. Wow Yeah Wow, Space Rangers in ninety three,

1229
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:26.159
American Ninja five, Dave's World, The Next Karate Kid, time Starter,

1230
00:56:26.320 --> 00:56:29.679
Blood Sport two, Married with Children, Spy Hard in ninety six,

1231
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:33.039
then goes on to do Blood Sport three, Family Matters,

1232
00:56:33.079 --> 00:56:35.639
The Outer Limits, Moulan in ninety eight, which you played

1233
00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:38.960
the Emperor in Carolyn in the City, King Cobra, Desert

1234
00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:41.840
Heat gone to Maui Brother in two thousand, The Boys

1235
00:56:41.840 --> 00:56:45.559
of Sunset Ridge, Baywatch in One Body and Soul Mulan two,

1236
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:49.639
The Karate Dog Spymate Act, Your age and last performance

1237
00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:52.639
was Rice Girl in twenty fourteen. We actually lost him

1238
00:56:53.639 --> 00:56:56.119
November twenty fourth of I want to say, was it

1239
00:56:56.400 --> 00:56:58.960
twenty fifteen to twenty fifteen at age seventy three to

1240
00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:01.719
kidney failure Damn. Yeah, but a hell of a resume

1241
00:57:01.719 --> 00:57:02.960
one hundred and seventy six credits.

1242
00:57:03.079 --> 00:57:06.039
Yeah. And he was also not one of those guys

1243
00:57:06.039 --> 00:57:08.760
that like he was playing like late sixties yeah, from

1244
00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:09.559
like forty two.

1245
00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:12.159
He was also a voice in the Kingdom Hearts Video

1246
00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:15.599
Games really awesome. Yeah. And wrapping us up for our

1247
00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:17.800
cast is Elizabeth Shoe, who plays Allie Mills in the

1248
00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:19.840
film She Gets Her Started nineteen eighty two on Burger

1249
00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:23.519
King commercials all Right, have It Your Way, Somewhere Tomorrow

1250
00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:26.000
in eighty three, The Karate Kid in eighty four, followed

1251
00:57:26.039 --> 00:57:28.920
by Call to Glory Link in eighty six, I Do

1252
00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:32.280
Remember Her and Link Adventures in Babysitting Cocktail, Back to

1253
00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:34.599
the Future Part two, Back to the Future Part three,

1254
00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:38.039
The Marrying Man, Soap Dish, Dream On Heart and Souls,

1255
00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:41.320
Blind Justice, The Underneath Leaving Las Vegas in ninety five.

1256
00:57:41.400 --> 00:57:44.480
Great movie, but very sad movie. The Trigger Effect, The

1257
00:57:44.559 --> 00:57:49.039
Saint Deconstructing Harry pal Meadow, City of Angels, Molly hollow Man,

1258
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:52.400
Tuck Everlasting, Mysterious Skin, Hide and Seek in two thousand

1259
00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:55.519
and five, Dreamer Gracie Hamlet two in two thousand and eight.

1260
00:57:55.880 --> 00:57:57.960
One of my favorite performances of her because she plays

1261
00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:01.920
herself hmm. And one of my favorite lines in Hamlet

1262
00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:06.000
two with her in mind is Coogan is trying to

1263
00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:08.840
get his class to basically acknowledge who she is, because

1264
00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:10.199
he's like, you know, are you an actor or something?

1265
00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:11.679
And he's like, oh, you could have looked up the

1266
00:58:11.719 --> 00:58:16.719
Karate Kids. Steada Da Dreamer with the Fucking Horse. Yeah.

1267
00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:21.119
Don McKay in two thousand, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Pirana three

1268
00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:24.719
D and twenty ten. Janie Jones American Dad Hope Springs

1269
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:27.079
House to the end of the street, chasing Mavericks, behaving

1270
00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:30.039
badly CSI, Battle of the Sex is Death, Wishmak in

1271
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:33.679
twenty eighteen, Oh Yeah, Greyhound in twenty twenty, The Boys

1272
00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:37.159
in twenty twenty, Yes, Yes, Cobra Kai in twenty twenty one,

1273
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:40.360
From Now, Super Pumped, the Good Half, and most recently

1274
00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:41.920
Jen V in twenty twenty three.

1275
00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:44.360
So I have to say I double checked something while

1276
00:58:44.360 --> 00:58:47.199
you were talking. Yeah, I'm sad to say I checked

1277
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:49.960
William Zabka just to be safe. The guy plays Johnny Hum.

1278
00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:53.039
None of these people you mentioned were in Dark Justice,

1279
00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:56.559
And I'm kinda like or falcon Cress really shocks and

1280
00:58:56.599 --> 00:58:57.320
makes me depressed.

1281
00:58:57.320 --> 00:58:59.320
If anybody's gonna be a falcon Cress from The Karate Kid,

1282
00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:04.440
it's brobably gonna be Martin Cove. Well, yeah, so what

1283
00:59:04.599 --> 00:59:06.599
was your first time watching The Karate Kid?

1284
00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:09.119
If I knew, i'd tell you that's fair. But I

1285
00:59:09.599 --> 00:59:12.559
remember seeing it on cable many times. They would often

1286
00:59:12.599 --> 00:59:16.039
show one and two and three. Sometimes three got played

1287
00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:19.119
a lot more, as was the tradition back then, because

1288
00:59:19.320 --> 00:59:21.840
cable rights were cheaper for the later sequels and the

1289
00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:22.760
next Karate Kid.

1290
00:59:23.480 --> 00:59:23.719
I have.

1291
00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:25.400
I'm sure it only happened once or twice, but I

1292
00:59:25.440 --> 00:59:28.239
have a memory of so many sick at home from

1293
00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:31.800
school days or just summer days where I was at

1294
00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:34.480
home and it being on TV. Oh yeah, and me

1295
00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:37.360
being like, hell, yeah, gonna watch that again. And my

1296
00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:39.559
sister loved it because it was a girl. Yeah you

1297
00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:41.840
know so, I mean because Hillary Swank was amazing in it. Yeah,

1298
00:59:41.880 --> 00:59:44.320
And Honestly, I really don't think it gets the love

1299
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:46.360
it deserves because it's not a bad movie.

1300
00:59:46.440 --> 00:59:47.880
It's pretty insane, but it's a lot of fun.

1301
00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:52.199
And while it's a it is a remake, it is.

1302
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:52.920
But top tier.

1303
00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:55.360
Pat Marita, Oh yeah, you know, he's so good in it.

1304
00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:58.159
He's excellent in it. So I've always loved The Next

1305
00:59:58.239 --> 00:59:58.840
Karate Kid.

1306
00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:02.599
I have the distinct memory of being at my parents' shop,

1307
01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:04.719
and I don't know, I don't know why we all

1308
01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:06.320
were there. It may have been when the house was

1309
01:00:06.360 --> 01:00:08.039
being remodeled, or it may have just been they were

1310
01:00:08.039 --> 01:00:11.119
working late that night, but they brought in a VHS

1311
01:00:11.159 --> 01:00:13.239
of The Karate Kid that they had rented local library.

1312
01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:16.400
And I'm like six seven at this point, like had

1313
01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:18.920
no idea about this movie. If I did, it like

1314
01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:20.760
had gone through my brain and out the other side.

1315
01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:23.960
And I just remember putting this tape on and just

1316
01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:27.599
being sucked into this movie because it was just the

1317
01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:30.199
it's the fucking Karate Kid. I mean, it's there's so

1318
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:32.280
much to take in on a first go when you

1319
01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:34.360
have no idea or any of that nostalgi or anything

1320
01:00:34.360 --> 01:00:36.559
with it. So immediately I was just like, oh, this

1321
01:00:36.599 --> 01:00:40.360
movie Rocks and then multiple cable viewings later. I will

1322
01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:43.559
admit I did not see the sequels until last year

1323
01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:47.840
in their entirety wow again, watched them on TV never.

1324
01:00:48.440 --> 01:00:50.559
That's one thing with being a huge movie fan is

1325
01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:53.039
that when you grow up with cable in the sense

1326
01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:54.880
that you had you know, premium cable and I had

1327
01:00:54.920 --> 01:00:57.639
more so like the cable like USA and TBS and

1328
01:00:57.679 --> 01:01:00.480
TNT and all that, you watch movies, but you actually

1329
01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:03.159
don't ever realize if you've actually seen it, either uncut

1330
01:01:03.239 --> 01:01:05.559
or from start to finish for that matter. Sure, So

1331
01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:07.440
that's one of those things that has been kind of interesting,

1332
01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:09.760
even doing this show, but also just going back and

1333
01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:11.400
watching stuff. It was just like, oh yeah, I've actually

1334
01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:13.599
never sat down and watched this from beginning to end.

1335
01:01:13.719 --> 01:01:16.320
Well, And it's funny because with our age gap, but

1336
01:01:16.360 --> 01:01:18.480
it's not massive. It's like, but it's a few, a

1337
01:01:18.480 --> 01:01:22.480
few good years. I'm eight years older than you, not

1338
01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:26.079
quite no, no, no, we're eighty six six year or

1339
01:01:26.480 --> 01:01:29.840
yeah six six yeah, yeah, okay, I'm math. I'm great

1340
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:30.199
with math.

1341
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:32.159
It's all good. I'm math. I'm math.

1342
01:01:33.440 --> 01:01:35.119
But it's funny because a lot of the stuff that

1343
01:01:35.159 --> 01:01:37.199
you're like I watched it on USA and I watch whatever.

1344
01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:40.599
I'm like, I watched it on HBO because that's where

1345
01:01:40.639 --> 01:01:41.119
it goes first.

1346
01:01:41.199 --> 01:01:41.599
Yeah.

1347
01:01:41.719 --> 01:01:43.760
So it's just funny that a lot of times it'll

1348
01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:45.880
be like you saw it on on Basic cable and

1349
01:01:45.920 --> 01:01:48.320
I only saw it on premium cable or initially saw

1350
01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:50.440
it on premium cable, because it stays there first.

1351
01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:52.360
I mean, the only uncut channel I had growing up,

1352
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:54.960
like unless we have Liken, like in those weeks where

1353
01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:56.400
it was like here's a free week of Stars or

1354
01:01:56.440 --> 01:01:57.760
whatever weekend, Oh.

1355
01:01:57.760 --> 01:01:59.159
Yeah, it would start I remember those.

1356
01:01:59.239 --> 01:02:01.480
Yeah. The only channel we had on well, two channels

1357
01:02:01.480 --> 01:02:03.480
we had that run cut would have been Turner Classic Movies,

1358
01:02:03.599 --> 01:02:07.360
which sometimes would show some stuff that wouldn't normally be

1359
01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:09.679
shown in the daytime. I would say, and movie Plex.

1360
01:02:10.239 --> 01:02:15.719
Movie Plex is where I first saw Creep Show. Wow. Yeah,

1361
01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:20.719
but yeah, I think the Karate Kid the movies themselves

1362
01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:23.119
are like as a whole, with the sequels and everything.

1363
01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:26.239
It's a full experience, Like they are a lot of fun.

1364
01:02:26.639 --> 01:02:30.079
Yeah, and while three gets a little silly, it's a

1365
01:02:30.079 --> 01:02:32.800
lot silly. Yeah yeah, yeah, but one and two are

1366
01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:36.480
almost entirely cohesive. Yes, And I really love them. Yeah,

1367
01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:38.440
and then I really enjoy three. And I remember one

1368
01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:40.719
of my favorite things about watching Cobra Kai was when

1369
01:02:40.719 --> 01:02:43.880
they would pull the next thing from the movies and

1370
01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:45.960
canonize it, which is why I'm mad that they never

1371
01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:49.840
really referenced the next Karate Kid. I was literally we

1372
01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:52.519
were all waiting every season. I was like, where is

1373
01:02:52.599 --> 01:02:53.440
Hillary Swank?

1374
01:02:53.559 --> 01:02:55.800
Yeah? All right, so you're ready to get into the

1375
01:02:55.880 --> 01:02:56.599
Karate Kid.

1376
01:02:56.800 --> 01:02:59.840
This is gonna be interesting. It is because, well, first

1377
01:03:00.159 --> 01:03:02.039
because a lot of it is a teen drama, a

1378
01:03:02.159 --> 01:03:05.000
very slow build teen drama, So I don't think that

1379
01:03:05.079 --> 01:03:06.880
the breakdown is going to really be that intense.

1380
01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:09.239
There's genuinely not a lot that happens in this movie, honestly.

1381
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:09.719
No.

1382
01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:12.119
I mean people talk and and and but that's that's

1383
01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:14.159
I'll get into why I love that, yeah, and why

1384
01:03:14.199 --> 01:03:14.880
it's important.

1385
01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:18.000
So we open and it's nineteen eighty four and seventeen

1386
01:03:18.079 --> 01:03:20.800
year old Daniel LaRusso and his mother Lucille are moving

1387
01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:23.639
from Newark, New Jersey to receive a Los Angeles and

1388
01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:26.039
we're seeing that everybody's crowding around the car. They're all

1389
01:03:26.079 --> 01:03:29.239
saying goodbye, and they're running on down the road into

1390
01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:31.559
the car. They're going through Arizona. At one point they're

1391
01:03:31.559 --> 01:03:33.559
at a hotel and the car won't start. So I

1392
01:03:33.599 --> 01:03:37.199
love when they're pushing. That's the best because it actually

1393
01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:38.840
comes back in the movie several times.

1394
01:03:39.199 --> 01:03:40.400
Yeah, I love that.

1395
01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:43.039
So they eventually make it to Los Angeles and they

1396
01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:45.840
pull up to their apartment and you know, she's getting out,

1397
01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:48.519
and Daniel is not really looking forward to this movie.

1398
01:03:48.519 --> 01:03:50.000
He didn't want to move away from his friends. He

1399
01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:51.840
doesn't see why her job had to take her here,

1400
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:53.280
because that's what we find out is that she works

1401
01:03:53.280 --> 01:03:56.199
for a computer company and that's where she's been relocated at.

1402
01:03:56.519 --> 01:04:00.159
Yeah, but unfortunately she's definitely starting somewhat from scrap act

1403
01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:05.000
because they move into a very lower income area and

1404
01:04:05.039 --> 01:04:10.800
a very small apartment. But the apartment complex, while what

1405
01:04:10.880 --> 01:04:13.199
it lacks, and having a pool that's clean enough to

1406
01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:13.880
be near.

1407
01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:17.119
That's one of my favorite things is she keeps telling

1408
01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:18.880
him about the pool the entire time, and then when

1409
01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:20.960
we see the pool, it is completely empty except for

1410
01:04:21.039 --> 01:04:22.599
like a little puddle of water that a duck is

1411
01:04:22.639 --> 01:04:23.480
swimming in. Yeah.

1412
01:04:23.559 --> 01:04:25.320
Yeah, oh my god. And then the moment he sees

1413
01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:27.039
his mom after he's got his luggage up because he

1414
01:04:27.039 --> 01:04:28.880
meets a nice guy who's just chatting with him. Yeah,

1415
01:04:28.880 --> 01:04:32.039
and he realizes that, like people are generally friendly where

1416
01:04:32.039 --> 01:04:34.679
he's living. But when she walks in the first thing,

1417
01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:36.360
when he walks in the first thing, she says, I'll

1418
01:04:36.360 --> 01:04:38.000
call about the pool first thing in the morning.

1419
01:04:38.320 --> 01:04:40.159
I wish I could remember what his friend's name is. Is it?

1420
01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:40.960
It's not Freddy?

1421
01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:44.239
Is it? I don't remember because it's such a brief moment.

1422
01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:46.360
But but I like that because it does establish It

1423
01:04:46.360 --> 01:04:49.719
doesn't go for the easy of just everybody hates him.

1424
01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:52.559
It doesn't do that. It doesn't do it doesn't And

1425
01:04:52.599 --> 01:04:56.440
that's if maybe I'm insane for feeling this way. But

1426
01:04:56.519 --> 01:04:59.840
one thing I feel about Karate Kid is that it

1427
01:04:59.880 --> 01:05:03.639
is is nuanced and subtle. Yeah most of the time.

1428
01:05:03.800 --> 01:05:04.000
Yeah.

1429
01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:09.800
And we realized pretty early on that LaRusso has a temper,

1430
01:05:10.559 --> 01:05:11.960
that he's angry with his mom.

1431
01:05:12.039 --> 01:05:13.920
Well, the way that we meet the friend that he

1432
01:05:14.360 --> 01:05:16.480
befriends first is he kicks the door open and actually

1433
01:05:16.559 --> 01:05:19.000
kicks that guy to the ground by accident at the complex.

1434
01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:21.519
And then there are friends immediately, like he's got a

1435
01:05:21.559 --> 01:05:23.840
soccer ball. He shows them some tricks with it and everything,

1436
01:05:23.880 --> 01:05:25.079
and then they end up going to the beach the

1437
01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:28.519
next day, which I love that because the whole introduction

1438
01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:30.039
of him going to turn on the water. Oh the

1439
01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:32.679
water's broken, go find the handyman. So he goes downstairs

1440
01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:34.800
and we get the first look at mister Baggi and

1441
01:05:34.840 --> 01:05:36.400
what does he say that he'll be there tomorrow?

1442
01:05:36.639 --> 01:05:38.440
I think he says like tomorrow, Yeah, tomorrow.

1443
01:05:39.079 --> 01:05:41.519
So but yeah, he got invited to the beach by

1444
01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:43.039
his friend. So the next day he's at the beach

1445
01:05:43.079 --> 01:05:44.960
with his buddies. They're kicking a soccer ball around and

1446
01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:47.119
that's when we get the first look of Elizabeth Shoop,

1447
01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:51.079
who is Hayley Era Ali excuse me, and he immediately

1448
01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:51.800
has the hots for her.

1449
01:05:52.119 --> 01:05:56.360
Well sure, she's like literally the nineteen eighty fourteen dream lady, and.

1450
01:05:56.320 --> 01:05:57.719
She's a cheerleader from Encino.

1451
01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:00.360
Of course, where else would a cheerlead be.

1452
01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:02.239
From, so naturally they kind of hit it off at first.

1453
01:06:02.239 --> 01:06:03.880
He's shown her some tricks of the soccer ball, and

1454
01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:08.840
then we meet Johnny Johnny Lawrence. Johnny Lawrence.

1455
01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:13.000
He is the and this is great because you get

1456
01:06:13.039 --> 01:06:15.880
a lot more from Cobra Kai obviously, but yeah, all

1457
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:18.320
we really know at this juncture is that he's kind

1458
01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:19.840
of a spoiled rich kid.

1459
01:06:19.960 --> 01:06:21.719
So you know something I picked up on this watch

1460
01:06:21.719 --> 01:06:23.639
that I hadn't before. What's up? When she kicks his

1461
01:06:23.719 --> 01:06:25.840
soccer ball? I think she's doing it to get him

1462
01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:27.880
away from her because Johnny's coming because she hears the

1463
01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:28.480
dirt bikes.

1464
01:06:28.480 --> 01:06:30.360
Oh yeah, no, she knows that he's trouble.

1465
01:06:30.440 --> 01:06:32.159
Yeah, because I never noticed that before, because like I

1466
01:06:32.199 --> 01:06:33.480
was like, well, wait, like she kind of bit a

1467
01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:35.719
dick move and like hit it like really far. And

1468
01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:37.519
then yeah, they come from behind. So Johnny and his

1469
01:06:37.519 --> 01:06:40.559
gang go down because he sees that Daniel is kind

1470
01:06:40.559 --> 01:06:42.639
of flirting with his girlfriend. But you also find out

1471
01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:44.199
that they've broken up recently.

1472
01:06:43.960 --> 01:06:46.079
Right, But but Billy doesn't see it that way.

1473
01:06:46.119 --> 01:06:48.760
He does not, So that is when he decides to

1474
01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:53.760
basically confront her and starts talking about Billy. Yes, sorry,

1475
01:06:54.239 --> 01:06:56.159
He starts confronting her about you know, talk to me

1476
01:06:56.199 --> 01:06:58.159
and everything, and she's got a radio. He turns the radio,

1477
01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:00.079
off ends up, throwing the radio down, and then and

1478
01:07:00.079 --> 01:07:03.199
that's when Daniel decides to get involved. And Daniel has

1479
01:07:03.360 --> 01:07:05.920
expressed that he knows some karate. But what he doesn't

1480
01:07:05.960 --> 01:07:07.920
know is that Johnny and his buddies belonged to Cobra

1481
01:07:08.039 --> 01:07:10.440
Kai and Johnny is about to whoop his ass.

1482
01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:10.679
Yeah.

1483
01:07:10.679 --> 01:07:13.800
He he literally had taken some karate classes at the

1484
01:07:13.960 --> 01:07:17.360
y Yeah, at the mc Newark.

1485
01:07:17.599 --> 01:07:21.039
Yeah. So Johnny uh starts just throwing punches, kicking, I mean,

1486
01:07:21.039 --> 01:07:23.320
and to go ahead and just say this, Now, there's

1487
01:07:23.320 --> 01:07:24.960
a lot of fighting in this movie. We can't describe

1488
01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:26.920
the fights one on you know, one step at a

1489
01:07:26.960 --> 01:07:29.679
time and everything. But Johnny kicks him. Johnny throws him

1490
01:07:29.679 --> 01:07:32.400
to the ground, and Daniel gets one punching and you're thinking, okay,

1491
01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:34.440
now he's gonna do it. Johnny lays him the fuck out.

1492
01:07:34.440 --> 01:07:36.679
Now they whoop his he whoops his ass. Yeah, and

1493
01:07:36.719 --> 01:07:37.719
that's and that is that.

1494
01:07:37.960 --> 01:07:39.639
And then his friends that he was, you know, hanging

1495
01:07:39.679 --> 01:07:41.320
out with on the beach are just like, oh man,

1496
01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:44.159
some karate kid and that's where the name comes from,

1497
01:07:44.199 --> 01:07:45.760
which I always thought that was funny that like the

1498
01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:47.960
actual title of the karate Kid was an insult from

1499
01:07:47.960 --> 01:07:48.480
the friends.

1500
01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:50.719
Oh yeah, no, it's a very clever concept and a

1501
01:07:50.719 --> 01:07:52.960
perfect title because he was the karate He was the

1502
01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:53.559
karate kid.

1503
01:07:53.599 --> 01:07:55.599
So now he's embarrassed. Even Ali comes to his aid

1504
01:07:55.639 --> 01:07:57.199
and he's just like, you know, leave me alone. So

1505
01:07:57.280 --> 01:07:59.920
then the next day they're all at school together and he's,

1506
01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:02.559
you know, his first day at the school and everything.

1507
01:08:02.599 --> 01:08:05.559
And that's when we see that they have soccer practice together.

1508
01:08:05.639 --> 01:08:07.719
Johnny and him get into it again, and Daniel's just like,

1509
01:08:07.760 --> 01:08:09.360
I hate the school. I hate everything about it.

1510
01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:12.199
Yeah, because they tackle him, yeah, and and just mess

1511
01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:14.360
with him in the soccer class, he start he stomps

1512
01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:17.119
off saying I hate this damn school because the teacher.

1513
01:08:16.920 --> 01:08:17.439
Kicks him out.

1514
01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:19.359
Yeah it was I think it was pe Yeah. Yeah,

1515
01:08:19.399 --> 01:08:23.279
they were just in gym class. And you're already starting

1516
01:08:23.279 --> 01:08:25.520
to see that LaRusso has a lot of anger. Yeah,

1517
01:08:25.560 --> 01:08:27.680
in general, he's angry about a lot of things, but

1518
01:08:27.800 --> 01:08:30.800
he's not That's not all he has going. He wants

1519
01:08:30.840 --> 01:08:34.239
to make friends, he wants to be social. He is charming. Yeah,

1520
01:08:34.279 --> 01:08:39.279
he's not a bad kid, but he doesn't handle. He

1521
01:08:39.319 --> 01:08:42.960
doesn't handle, you know, reverses very well, doesn't handle when

1522
01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:44.000
things don't go his way very no.

1523
01:08:44.199 --> 01:08:46.279
And he also adds to the fact too that like

1524
01:08:46.439 --> 01:08:48.079
since he got beat up, he's got a black eye

1525
01:08:48.079 --> 01:08:49.680
that his mom totally sees the next day that he's

1526
01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:51.119
trying to hide under a pair of sunglasses.

1527
01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:53.399
Well, and then she's like, oh great, so it's gonna

1528
01:08:53.439 --> 01:08:55.439
be just like where It's gonna be just like Newark

1529
01:08:55.520 --> 01:08:56.159
all over again.

1530
01:08:56.319 --> 01:08:58.840
Yeah. So Miagi ends up coming over the next day

1531
01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:01.840
and Daniel is the practicing karate and Miagi you know,

1532
01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:03.640
immediately like it's like, oh karate.

1533
01:09:03.880 --> 01:09:07.399
Yeah, he's he's practicing punches, reading a book. Yeah, he's

1534
01:09:07.439 --> 01:09:10.279
like karate from book. He's like, well, yeah, in the YMCA,

1535
01:09:10.479 --> 01:09:13.039
you know when it was when I was back in Jersey.

1536
01:09:13.279 --> 01:09:15.199
So he fixes the sink and that's basically all we

1537
01:09:15.239 --> 01:09:17.640
get in Miyagi for this time, and then, uh, you know,

1538
01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:20.520
some other things happen, and this all leads us basically

1539
01:09:20.560 --> 01:09:23.560
to a couple more times that Billy and or Johnny

1540
01:09:23.560 --> 01:09:25.920
and his buddy's just fuck with with Daniel. Like there's

1541
01:09:25.960 --> 01:09:28.960
the one serious one is he's riding his bike and

1542
01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:30.720
they come up along him on their dirt bikes and

1543
01:09:30.760 --> 01:09:32.760
they take his bike and throw him in the bike

1544
01:09:32.880 --> 01:09:34.359
over the side of a cliff and he or a

1545
01:09:34.439 --> 01:09:37.239
cliff up a hill and he rolls like he rolls

1546
01:09:37.239 --> 01:09:39.600
it and he takes at takes a hardball, so does

1547
01:09:39.600 --> 01:09:41.960
the bike, and then this leads him to go back home.

1548
01:09:42.039 --> 01:09:44.119
He's thrown his bike into the trash can. He's you know,

1549
01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:46.039
crying to his mom about why did we have to

1550
01:09:46.039 --> 01:09:48.199
move here and everything, and she just sees that her

1551
01:09:48.239 --> 01:09:49.880
son's completely disdropped by this point.

1552
01:09:50.039 --> 01:09:50.239
Right.

1553
01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:53.359
And also while this is happening, he's thrown his bike

1554
01:09:53.359 --> 01:09:55.520
away and somebody peeks around the corner from his little

1555
01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:57.079
hideaway and it's Miagi.

1556
01:09:57.239 --> 01:10:00.319
And Miagi had his he had perked up, Yeah, just

1557
01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:03.199
when he noticed that LaRusso was studying karate. Yeah, because

1558
01:10:03.560 --> 01:10:07.119
you get the sense that Miagi keeps to himself and

1559
01:10:07.159 --> 01:10:09.039
that he, you know, he likes to help people.

1560
01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:09.560
That's why.

1561
01:10:09.600 --> 01:10:12.159
Because he's just a handyman at a at a cheap

1562
01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:14.840
apartment building and he does come and like fix the water,

1563
01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:17.079
he does, he does the things that he's supposed to do.

1564
01:10:17.119 --> 01:10:19.159
He's trying to keep the place for being a slum. Yeah,

1565
01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:21.880
but yeah, he keeps to himself somewhat, but he's he's

1566
01:10:21.920 --> 01:10:23.920
noticing that this Laruso kid.

1567
01:10:24.479 --> 01:10:28.079
Is angry, angry, struggling.

1568
01:10:27.680 --> 01:10:30.800
But that he has this interest in karate, and Miagi's

1569
01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:33.840
probably not been around anybody who does karate in a

1570
01:10:33.920 --> 01:10:34.560
very long time.

1571
01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:34.760
No.

1572
01:10:34.840 --> 01:10:38.239
Absolutely. So this all leads to him fixing Daniel's bike secretly.

1573
01:10:38.279 --> 01:10:40.000
He comes home one day and sees it goes and

1574
01:10:40.039 --> 01:10:42.960
thanks him. And also we get a little take of

1575
01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:45.720
this point of the famous catching flies with chopstick scene.

1576
01:10:46.239 --> 01:10:49.399
Oh yeah, which Daniel does on his first try. Yeah.

1577
01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:52.199
Well that's a little bit later and it's hilarious, you know,

1578
01:10:52.439 --> 01:10:55.520
it's so good. Well, and that helps give Miagi some depth.

1579
01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:57.720
So he is the Bonzi tree the first thing.

1580
01:10:57.880 --> 01:11:00.960
The first thing is Bonzi. He's the catching of flies

1581
01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:02.479
after he's starting to be starting to train.

1582
01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:05.079
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, so he's cutting the Bonzeye tree,

1583
01:11:05.079 --> 01:11:07.279
which is a huge theme that goes throughout the entire movies.

1584
01:11:07.359 --> 01:11:09.119
I mean, I love the third one where they start

1585
01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:10.199
their Bonzie tree business.

1586
01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:12.880
Oh god, yes, such a good yea yeah, because the

1587
01:11:12.920 --> 01:11:16.039
Bonzeye tree, for those who don't know, it's a it's

1588
01:11:16.079 --> 01:11:20.800
a type of tree and you can encourage it to

1589
01:11:20.920 --> 01:11:24.880
grow a specific way and it can become beautiful. Yeah,

1590
01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:26.479
but it takes patience.

1591
01:11:26.039 --> 01:11:28.720
Patience and a lot of a lot of attention.

1592
01:11:29.199 --> 01:11:33.319
Attention to detail, and it allows you to it's really

1593
01:11:33.399 --> 01:11:35.920
then yea, for lack of a better term, it's very

1594
01:11:35.960 --> 01:11:37.159
mindful to do.

1595
01:11:37.520 --> 01:11:39.640
So while this is all going on, we've also had

1596
01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:42.119
a scene where Daniel goes to the Cobra Kai to

1597
01:11:42.199 --> 01:11:43.920
try and see if he wants to enroll, but he

1598
01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:46.039
realizes that Johnny and his buddies go there, and he

1599
01:11:46.079 --> 01:11:48.159
also gets a taste of Crease, who is an ex

1600
01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:50.720
Vietnam that and he is a hard ass.

1601
01:11:50.840 --> 01:11:53.640
Yeah. He wants to go learn karate to protect himself

1602
01:11:53.680 --> 01:11:56.439
and then realizes that's where all his bullies are and

1603
01:11:56.560 --> 01:12:00.800
that it doesn't seem like they came to being bullying

1604
01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:04.079
shitheads on their own because Crease himself is clearly an

1605
01:12:04.119 --> 01:12:04.760
adult bully.

1606
01:12:04.880 --> 01:12:06.760
Yeah, and while this is all happening, he's also trying

1607
01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:08.840
to get a little closer to Ali. But anytime he

1608
01:12:08.920 --> 01:12:11.880
sees Billy and his buddy or keeps now I'm saying it,

1609
01:12:12.000 --> 01:12:14.399
Johnny and his buddies, he walks the other way. And

1610
01:12:14.439 --> 01:12:15.720
even Alli gets to the point where she's like, you know,

1611
01:12:15.760 --> 01:12:16.920
you don't have to be afraid of them, and he's

1612
01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:18.600
just like, oh, I'm not, you know, this is just

1613
01:12:18.680 --> 01:12:21.520
you know, it's fine and wanders off. So this all

1614
01:12:21.600 --> 01:12:22.760
leads to the Halloween dance.

1615
01:12:22.920 --> 01:12:25.600
Yes, and this is one of the most iconic moments

1616
01:12:25.600 --> 01:12:28.479
that isn't him training with Miagi. This is one of

1617
01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:31.560
the only really memorable moments, I mean deeply memorable moments

1618
01:12:31.600 --> 01:12:34.720
that isn't you know wax amax off and the fights

1619
01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:37.199
and and everything. Yeah, because he decides he's going to

1620
01:12:37.279 --> 01:12:38.880
get revenge on them. Yeah.

1621
01:12:38.920 --> 01:12:40.720
But he also goes to the Halloween dance with a

1622
01:12:40.760 --> 01:12:43.399
great costume, which is he's a shower, He's a bathtub

1623
01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:44.840
as shower, and he's got a curtain around him, so

1624
01:12:44.840 --> 01:12:47.439
nobody really sees it where knows it's exactly Yeah. So

1625
01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:50.279
Ali gets into the costume with him, and he sees

1626
01:12:50.319 --> 01:12:52.119
at one point that Johnny and his buddies go off

1627
01:12:52.159 --> 01:12:55.000
to the bathroom and they're all dressed as skeletons, and

1628
01:12:55.079 --> 01:12:57.119
Johnny is in a stall rolling a joint. His buddy

1629
01:12:57.159 --> 01:12:58.239
even comes in and he's like, you know you got

1630
01:12:58.239 --> 01:12:59.800
that rolled yet, He's like, yeah, give me a minute.

1631
01:13:00.039 --> 01:13:02.760
So Daniel sneaks in, runs a hose right over the

1632
01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:05.319
top of the stall, turns the water on, basically ruining

1633
01:13:05.319 --> 01:13:08.359
the weed and the costume. Yeah, and Johnny is pissed

1634
01:13:08.359 --> 01:13:10.680
and well, and worse yet, embarrassing embarrassed.

1635
01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:14.279
Yeah, and these guys, I mean that even being embarrassed

1636
01:13:14.279 --> 01:13:17.119
in front of nobody, you know, is enough to make

1637
01:13:17.159 --> 01:13:17.920
them livid.

1638
01:13:17.960 --> 01:13:20.359
And they already have it out for Laruso O. So

1639
01:13:20.439 --> 01:13:23.359
LaRusso goes into a huge sprinting match through the gym.

1640
01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:25.920
Luckily Ali trips them at one point, so that gives

1641
01:13:25.960 --> 01:13:28.039
them some time, but trips the bad guys. And I

1642
01:13:28.039 --> 01:13:30.479
will also say that this is the part where I

1643
01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:32.279
lose a little bit of sympathy for Daniel because he

1644
01:13:32.319 --> 01:13:34.640
totally causes a car accident right outside of the dance.

1645
01:13:34.680 --> 01:13:37.680
No, Daniel is not He is a kid that is

1646
01:13:38.640 --> 01:13:41.880
get emotional, but like he is teetering on becoming a

1647
01:13:41.880 --> 01:13:46.159
really bad kid. Yeah, and which will become a bad man. Yeah,

1648
01:13:46.199 --> 01:13:47.560
and that's important.

1649
01:13:47.680 --> 01:13:49.560
Well. I also love this scene because it shows you

1650
01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:51.399
how close the school is to his apartment, which I

1651
01:13:51.399 --> 01:13:53.439
never picked up on either, which is basically like a

1652
01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:56.720
fence like away basically because they go running outside, he

1653
01:13:57.119 --> 01:13:59.279
jumps over a car car crashed into another one and

1654
01:13:59.359 --> 01:14:01.600
him and his buddies are closing in on Daniel. He

1655
01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:03.560
gets to the fence right where his apartment is on

1656
01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:05.399
the other side, and he's climbing the top of the fence,

1657
01:14:05.439 --> 01:14:07.119
but they get him, they pull him down, and they

1658
01:14:07.199 --> 01:14:08.800
just start beating the shit out of him.

1659
01:14:09.039 --> 01:14:12.279
And there's i mean five of them, five.

1660
01:14:11.600 --> 01:14:13.399
Until the point where one of the bobby is the

1661
01:14:13.399 --> 01:14:15.319
guy and he's just like he's he's had enough, man,

1662
01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:16.760
And he's just like, I'll tell him he's had enough.

1663
01:14:16.760 --> 01:14:18.960
You know, no mercy in this dojo. And they're getting

1664
01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:21.399
ready to spin kick Daniel like it's gonna it's gonna

1665
01:14:21.439 --> 01:14:23.399
really fuck him up if they don't stop. And then

1666
01:14:23.520 --> 01:14:25.680
right as this is happening, off in the corner of

1667
01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:27.520
the screen, we see somebody climbing over the fence as

1668
01:14:27.560 --> 01:14:31.399
Miyagi leaps into action. Nine seconds is all it takes

1669
01:14:31.399 --> 01:14:32.760
for these bullies to be down.

1670
01:14:32.600 --> 01:14:35.640
And and highly you know, it's important to point out

1671
01:14:35.680 --> 01:14:38.079
highly defensive defense. He's not just running and punching it

1672
01:14:38.199 --> 01:14:42.159
right face. He's dodging them, flipping, you know, us, using

1673
01:14:42.159 --> 01:14:44.840
their momentum against them, Yeah, getting them to hit each other,

1674
01:14:44.960 --> 01:14:47.800
getting them to fall over, getting them to hit the defenses.

1675
01:14:47.439 --> 01:14:49.760
And hurts them. I mean, but they're hurting themselves because he,

1676
01:14:49.800 --> 01:14:51.720
like I said, he's using their momentum, so like he

1677
01:14:51.760 --> 01:14:54.479
is not he's not really throwing punches. He's just completely like,

1678
01:14:54.520 --> 01:14:56.159
oh you want to do this, okay, well I'll throw

1679
01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:56.720
you right down.

1680
01:14:56.800 --> 01:15:00.840
Yeah. He's a virtuoso in fighting. And these kids, they're

1681
01:15:00.840 --> 01:15:04.439
not all the things we learn about Miyagi. They're just

1682
01:15:04.640 --> 01:15:07.479
throwing fists out of anger. They have some training, but

1683
01:15:07.479 --> 01:15:09.279
they don't have discipline, they don't have skill.

1684
01:15:09.439 --> 01:15:13.279
Yeah really yeah. So this all leads to Miyagi taking

1685
01:15:13.359 --> 01:15:15.760
Daniel back to his little little cubby thing at the

1686
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:18.640
hotel at the apartment and he you know, nurses him

1687
01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:20.880
a little bit, gives him some teet to sip, and

1688
01:15:20.880 --> 01:15:23.199
like makes like takes care of the wounds. And Daniel

1689
01:15:23.199 --> 01:15:24.520
wakes up and he's just like, you know, how'd you

1690
01:15:24.600 --> 01:15:26.119
learn all that? And he's just like, oh, you know,

1691
01:15:26.159 --> 01:15:27.760
I've been studying for a while. He's like, well, can

1692
01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:28.239
you teach me?

1693
01:15:28.399 --> 01:15:30.119
Well, I look about my first favorite lize is. I

1694
01:15:30.439 --> 01:15:33.600
didn't know, you know karate. He goes, you ever ask yeah,

1695
01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:35.760
which I which is really great because Miyagi is so

1696
01:15:35.880 --> 01:15:38.319
stoic and so to himself.

1697
01:15:38.359 --> 01:15:40.960
Yeah. Oh yeah. So that's when he basically asked him,

1698
01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:42.520
you know, can he teach him to fight, and he's like,

1699
01:15:43.119 --> 01:15:46.319
fighting doesn't solve anything. It's it's only good for defense, right,

1700
01:15:46.359 --> 01:15:48.319
And if you're just wanting to do this, then you

1701
01:15:48.359 --> 01:15:50.399
know it's not going to resolve the conflict. The best

1702
01:15:50.399 --> 01:15:54.159
way to resolve conflict is by talking. So Miyagi and

1703
01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:55.359
Daniel the next day.

1704
01:15:55.239 --> 01:15:58.520
Well, Daniel Miagi says to go to Cobra Kai dojo

1705
01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:00.880
and talk to them. Yeah, he asks me Aggi to

1706
01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:04.600
come with him, and Miagi reluctantly agrees agrees.

1707
01:16:04.279 --> 01:16:05.960
To do so, which one thing I did find out

1708
01:16:05.960 --> 01:16:07.840
in the trivia. So you know how they're walking across

1709
01:16:07.840 --> 01:16:10.039
the street and dodging traffic. They're really dodging traffic. They

1710
01:16:10.039 --> 01:16:11.079
didn't shut down the street.

1711
01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:15.159
Good old, good old nineteen eighties movie magic.

1712
01:16:15.279 --> 01:16:18.920
So they get to Cobra Kai and immediately Johnny sees

1713
01:16:18.960 --> 01:16:20.720
them and Crease is doing his class and everything, and

1714
01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:22.479
he calls Johnny attention. He's like, you know, what's got

1715
01:16:22.479 --> 01:16:25.039
you distracted? And he's like, oh, class, we have some visitors.

1716
01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:27.479
And he basically is like, I heard you attack some

1717
01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:29.119
of my students the other night. And he's just like, well,

1718
01:16:29.159 --> 01:16:31.439
five against one's not really fair, and he's like, well,

1719
01:16:31.439 --> 01:16:33.199
that's what we teach here and everything, and he's like,

1720
01:16:33.239 --> 01:16:35.560
you know, what's the best way to solve this And

1721
01:16:35.600 --> 01:16:37.840
he's like, let's fight now. And he's like no, He's like,

1722
01:16:37.920 --> 01:16:38.920
let me train the boy.

1723
01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:41.119
Well, he doesn't say no, let me train him. He

1724
01:16:41.159 --> 01:16:42.760
just says, no, a tournament.

1725
01:16:42.840 --> 01:16:43.239
Tournament.

1726
01:16:43.319 --> 01:16:47.079
He points at a poster for the All Valley. Yeah,

1727
01:16:46.199 --> 01:16:50.479
and I love this because it dawned on me.

1728
01:16:51.560 --> 01:16:53.319
Why why is that?

1729
01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:57.640
Well, I'll tell you later. No, just kidding, right, next episode,

1730
01:16:57.880 --> 01:16:59.880
on the next episode of do you even movie?

1731
01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:00.159
No.

1732
01:17:00.319 --> 01:17:03.039
But but when he says the tournament, if you take

1733
01:17:03.079 --> 01:17:06.359
it at face value, that is a strange move to

1734
01:17:06.399 --> 01:17:08.439
be like, I'm going to train you in multiple weeks

1735
01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:10.840
and then you're gonna fight in a in a like

1736
01:17:11.199 --> 01:17:14.319
a karate tournament, like a real tournament. It's a weird

1737
01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:19.039
choice unless you think about it from what happens because

1738
01:17:19.039 --> 01:17:22.399
of it, because Miyagi says, if we're gonna do this,

1739
01:17:23.279 --> 01:17:26.159
we're gonna do it there and until then leave him alone.

1740
01:17:26.199 --> 01:17:28.359
They have to leave him alone, let him train, let

1741
01:17:28.439 --> 01:17:32.880
him whatever, and Crease says, fair enough, you will leave

1742
01:17:32.920 --> 01:17:34.800
them alone. And it's great because they're you know, like, yes,

1743
01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:37.039
I'd say, like they they're they're terrified.

1744
01:17:36.720 --> 01:17:39.399
Love, You're you're a stubborn old cow, all right.

1745
01:17:40.199 --> 01:17:42.600
I like that. Yeah. Yeah, though there's there's an interesting

1746
01:17:43.439 --> 01:17:46.079
the way Miagi stands up to Crease. He does kind

1747
01:17:46.079 --> 01:17:48.840
of respect that. He's kind of like, ah, I appreciate

1748
01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:50.960
that you'd walk like I'm mad that you'd walk into

1749
01:17:50.960 --> 01:17:52.920
my dojo and talk to me like this, But also

1750
01:17:53.359 --> 01:17:55.279
that's some balls. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1751
01:17:55.319 --> 01:17:57.119
So they decide that they're gonna wait to the Old

1752
01:17:57.159 --> 01:17:59.760
Tournament and this is where we start the training. And

1753
01:18:00.039 --> 01:18:02.560
the training is tough, tire.

1754
01:18:02.520 --> 01:18:04.600
Well, and so I'll tell you now because I mean,

1755
01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:07.279
if you're listening to this, you must have seen the

1756
01:18:07.319 --> 01:18:09.920
karate I hope. So, yeah, I believe that the reason

1757
01:18:10.000 --> 01:18:14.600
he chose the All Valley was not necessarily so that

1758
01:18:14.760 --> 01:18:19.159
Daniel could go and win and become this karate champion.

1759
01:18:20.039 --> 01:18:25.079
He wanted to buy Daniel some peace so that Daniel

1760
01:18:25.119 --> 01:18:28.399
could start to live. That totally makes sense because when

1761
01:18:28.399 --> 01:18:31.479
I look at it, when you look at it, what happens. Yes,

1762
01:18:31.479 --> 01:18:34.439
he trains with Miagi, but he also goes on dates

1763
01:18:34.479 --> 01:18:38.960
with Ali. He also just gets to make friends. He

1764
01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:41.199
gets to kind of figure out where he fits in

1765
01:18:41.279 --> 01:18:42.039
this due place.

1766
01:18:42.119 --> 01:18:43.560
He also gets to test the bounds a little bit

1767
01:18:43.600 --> 01:18:45.840
because one of my all time favorite moments is when

1768
01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:47.920
they're in the courtyard of the school and that teacher

1769
01:18:47.960 --> 01:18:49.600
comes by and he's just like, hey, you know, my

1770
01:18:49.680 --> 01:18:51.680
friends and me wanted to hear about that story about

1771
01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:53.960
the Indian and the horse, and like all of Johnny's

1772
01:18:53.960 --> 01:18:55.439
buddies are just like, oh, well, I've got a classico.

1773
01:18:55.600 --> 01:18:57.279
And then teacher's like, oh yeah, come with me, Daniel,

1774
01:18:57.319 --> 01:18:58.720
and he's like, oh shit, this backfire.

1775
01:18:58.800 --> 01:18:58.960
Yah.

1776
01:18:59.000 --> 01:19:01.239
Yeah, man stuff because he was just trying not to

1777
01:19:01.239 --> 01:19:04.479
get whooped. Yeah, because he does antagonize them. Yeah, because

1778
01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:07.720
LaRusso is an angry kid. And I keep saying that

1779
01:19:07.760 --> 01:19:13.560
because that's important. It is because what Miyagi sees is

1780
01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:19.359
an unfocused boy, and a lot of kids get in

1781
01:19:19.439 --> 01:19:22.720
trouble when they don't have anything to do with their

1782
01:19:22.760 --> 01:19:25.600
free time or when they have a lot of energy

1783
01:19:25.680 --> 01:19:27.880
to burn off. It's kind of like, this is a

1784
01:19:28.039 --> 01:19:30.159
very this may be very controversial. Is having a really

1785
01:19:30.199 --> 01:19:33.000
good conversation with my friend Barb about this, talking about

1786
01:19:33.560 --> 01:19:36.880
how like in schools they'll say, like, you know, girls

1787
01:19:36.880 --> 01:19:42.239
should dress modestly because boys will whatever. I understand the argument, like,

1788
01:19:42.319 --> 01:19:45.800
well boys should learn to not do that. Yes, but

1789
01:19:45.840 --> 01:19:50.279
boys are different than men. Boys are being against their will,

1790
01:19:50.760 --> 01:19:54.560
pumped full of testosterone NonStop. They don't know when it'll start,

1791
01:19:54.560 --> 01:19:56.000
they don't know how much they're going to get because

1792
01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:59.279
that's puberty, so they're I'm not saying that they don't

1793
01:19:59.279 --> 01:20:00.640
deserve to be punished for doing bad things.

1794
01:20:00.680 --> 01:20:01.880
I'm just saying you have to look at you have

1795
01:20:01.920 --> 01:20:03.000
to expect.

1796
01:20:02.560 --> 01:20:06.279
Different things from young boys because they're literally being pumped

1797
01:20:06.319 --> 01:20:09.720
full of anabolic steroids, like and it makes them want

1798
01:20:09.760 --> 01:20:11.840
to do all kinds of things. I mean when puberty,

1799
01:20:11.840 --> 01:20:12.960
I don't know how it was for you, but like

1800
01:20:12.960 --> 01:20:14.760
when puberty started for me, I mean like I wanted

1801
01:20:14.800 --> 01:20:16.800
to scream, I wanted to fight, and I wanted to cry.

1802
01:20:16.920 --> 01:20:17.920
I was an angry young man.

1803
01:20:18.000 --> 01:20:20.279
I wasn't super well. I was depressed all the time.

1804
01:20:20.800 --> 01:20:25.199
I wasn't super like angry. I was angry alone. But

1805
01:20:25.199 --> 01:20:27.680
but my point is that, like, puberty is really hard,

1806
01:20:27.760 --> 01:20:29.920
and it's hard on women in other ways as well.

1807
01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:32.760
They feel awkward just like men do. They and puberty

1808
01:20:32.840 --> 01:20:34.319
is a rough thing for everybody.

1809
01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:34.760
Everybody.

1810
01:20:34.840 --> 01:20:38.800
Yeah, but with boys, like having something to focus on

1811
01:20:39.920 --> 01:20:42.640
is super valuable.

1812
01:20:42.159 --> 01:20:44.960
And again also gives meaning to the fact of having

1813
01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:48.079
a mentor like Meagi, Like anybody that has that person

1814
01:20:48.079 --> 01:20:50.159
that takes an interest, like you said, is going to

1815
01:20:50.239 --> 01:20:53.520
absolutely invest their time and hopefully I can change him.

1816
01:20:53.800 --> 01:20:57.479
Well, really, Miagi was an angry kid, and they allude

1817
01:20:57.479 --> 01:20:59.560
to it a tiny bit in this movie, but in

1818
01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:02.720
the first their lore between the movies and Cobra Kai,

1819
01:21:02.800 --> 01:21:04.840
especially in the movies because when they talk about what

1820
01:21:04.920 --> 01:21:08.640
he was like in Okinawa, you realize he was constantly

1821
01:21:08.680 --> 01:21:11.359
getting in trouble with his father, who he speaks of

1822
01:21:11.439 --> 01:21:15.520
with this incredible admiration and respect, you know, whenever he's like,

1823
01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:17.920
how did you learn this my father? How do you know?

1824
01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:19.960
How did you learn to do how'd you learn to

1825
01:21:19.960 --> 01:21:22.680
do the trees? My father? How'd you learn kroaate my father?

1826
01:21:22.960 --> 01:21:25.560
It's all about his dad and the time he spent

1827
01:21:25.600 --> 01:21:29.800
with him. But LaRusso, his father died when he was young,

1828
01:21:30.520 --> 01:21:34.560
and kids and boys without fathers tend to struggle with

1829
01:21:34.680 --> 01:21:40.960
finding their place. And I know very well so having

1830
01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:44.800
an adult, especially a man, look at your situation, look

1831
01:21:44.840 --> 01:21:48.359
at you and be like I remember being a boy

1832
01:21:49.199 --> 01:21:51.560
and not knowing what I wanted to do, but knowing

1833
01:21:51.600 --> 01:21:55.960
I was mad and I had no focus. You look

1834
01:21:56.000 --> 01:21:59.640
at him, and the Bonzie treat is a metaphor for

1835
01:21:59.680 --> 01:22:02.880
not just Laruso, but for your life. And that's the

1836
01:22:03.039 --> 01:22:05.359
that's the big thing because as the training starts, one

1837
01:22:05.359 --> 01:22:07.239
of the most famous things about this movie is that

1838
01:22:07.600 --> 01:22:10.600
he makes Laruso just do chores because he takes him

1839
01:22:10.600 --> 01:22:12.880
to this neat little house and you realize that Miagi

1840
01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:15.359
has a home, a full on house that he basically

1841
01:22:15.399 --> 01:22:17.840
never wants to be at. Yeah, because it reminds him

1842
01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:19.239
of his wife, who's got him.

1843
01:22:19.159 --> 01:22:22.039
In beautiful garden. He's got a boy an auto body

1844
01:22:22.920 --> 01:22:24.680
or yeah, I mean maybe he's got a garage. And

1845
01:22:24.720 --> 01:22:25.800
he's got a bunch of cars as well.

1846
01:22:25.840 --> 01:22:27.640
He's got a bunch of classic cars that he that

1847
01:22:27.640 --> 01:22:31.119
I restored, that he's restored because that's Miyagi's favorite thing.

1848
01:22:31.159 --> 01:22:36.359
He likes to fix things. Yeah, and with Daniel, Daniel's

1849
01:22:36.399 --> 01:22:39.720
another project. But if you look at how how the

1850
01:22:39.760 --> 01:22:43.840
training works, he's doing household chores. What do you need

1851
01:22:43.880 --> 01:22:47.399
to do when you're when you're a kid with your parents,

1852
01:22:47.439 --> 01:22:50.479
you have to do chores, right, So Miagi, I would

1853
01:22:50.479 --> 01:22:55.119
guarantee was taught karate by his dad saying like, you

1854
01:22:55.119 --> 01:22:56.560
have to clean this, you have to do this, you

1855
01:22:56.560 --> 01:22:57.920
have to take care of all these things.

1856
01:22:57.960 --> 01:23:00.680
Yeah, and you'll learn. Well, that's a beautiful thing about

1857
01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:03.239
the more that I watched this movie is the the

1858
01:23:03.279 --> 01:23:05.680
incorporation of the chores and what it all leads to

1859
01:23:05.800 --> 01:23:07.439
because we just we'll break down the chores because I mean,

1860
01:23:07.680 --> 01:23:08.960
we could talk about this part for a little bit,

1861
01:23:09.000 --> 01:23:10.640
but I mean mainly what it is is he's waxed.

1862
01:23:10.720 --> 01:23:13.960
He's waxing the floor, so wax on, wax off. He's

1863
01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:16.840
doing sanding, he's painting a fence, he's painting the house.

1864
01:23:17.319 --> 01:23:19.800
All of these things incorporate the movement to the point

1865
01:23:19.800 --> 01:23:22.319
where he's painting the house one day, like and he goes,

1866
01:23:22.479 --> 01:23:24.439
Daniel goes to the house, and Miyagi's left the note

1867
01:23:24.439 --> 01:23:27.079
because basically every time that he's gone so far, Miyagi's

1868
01:23:27.239 --> 01:23:29.000
shown him and then like, you know, hey do this,

1869
01:23:29.079 --> 01:23:31.199
and then all right, good job, come back early tomorrow.

1870
01:23:31.359 --> 01:23:33.880
We'll keep going. So he's been doing these chores for

1871
01:23:34.000 --> 01:23:35.840
I would guess probably about a week now.

1872
01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:37.239
Yeah, and I love the part where he's like I

1873
01:23:37.239 --> 01:23:39.960
painted the fence. He's like, both sides sides, and he's

1874
01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:42.920
like and he just gets back to painting the fence,

1875
01:23:42.920 --> 01:23:44.279
and there are a few times he gets frustrated. He's like,

1876
01:23:44.279 --> 01:23:45.960
why are you You're just making me clean up.

1877
01:23:46.039 --> 01:23:47.800
That's my favorite. That's that's one of my all time

1878
01:23:47.840 --> 01:23:50.720
favorite scenes because this is when he's painted the house

1879
01:23:50.800 --> 01:23:53.399
and Miagi has come back from fishing and Daniel sees

1880
01:23:53.439 --> 01:23:54.920
this and he's just like, wait, you went fishing and

1881
01:23:54.960 --> 01:23:56.560
he's like yes, and he's like, why don't you ask me?

1882
01:23:56.680 --> 01:23:58.000
He's like, well, you had work to do. And he's

1883
01:23:58.039 --> 01:24:00.479
like I'm no, I'm being your goddamn slave basically, and

1884
01:24:00.520 --> 01:24:02.840
goes off and like he's getting ready to storm off.

1885
01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:04.600
And that's when Yagi calls him back and he goes,

1886
01:24:04.680 --> 01:24:07.159
Daniel Son, go ahead and show me wax on and

1887
01:24:07.159 --> 01:24:08.560
I love it because he keeps wanting to drop to

1888
01:24:08.600 --> 01:24:11.359
his knees or and do it exactly. No, no, stand

1889
01:24:11.399 --> 01:24:13.000
and then that that's when you start incorporated.

1890
01:24:13.039 --> 01:24:14.640
And he shows him that, like when your hand moves

1891
01:24:14.680 --> 01:24:16.359
like that, I catch it. And when hand moves like that,

1892
01:24:16.399 --> 01:24:19.079
I catch it. Now do the fence stopping it? Stopping it?

1893
01:24:19.159 --> 01:24:22.439
And you realize that he's been learning motions and muscle memory.

1894
01:24:22.640 --> 01:24:26.199
But on top of that, he's been learning that if

1895
01:24:26.199 --> 01:24:29.840
you want to be a good man, you need to

1896
01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:33.680
have discipline to do the things you don't necessarily want

1897
01:24:33.720 --> 01:24:36.359
to do but that are constructive. And I think this

1898
01:24:36.520 --> 01:24:40.479
is important too. He needs to because they where do

1899
01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:43.239
they train? Mostly they train at this little.

1900
01:24:43.119 --> 01:24:45.079
Little house house where Daniel.

1901
01:24:44.800 --> 01:24:49.039
Is surrounded by the place looking better because he's done it,

1902
01:24:49.079 --> 01:24:51.720
because he did it, so he's getting he's giving himself

1903
01:24:51.800 --> 01:24:53.439
esteem and he doesn't even realize.

1904
01:24:53.079 --> 01:24:55.079
It, and giving him pride. And also with that pride's

1905
01:24:55.079 --> 01:24:58.439
the perfect word. He's keeping him away from the outside

1906
01:24:58.479 --> 01:25:00.800
elements of Johnny and any else they could get him

1907
01:25:00.800 --> 01:25:02.880
into trouble, because any any kid that's left to his

1908
01:25:02.920 --> 01:25:06.880
devices will find trouble even even if they've had this compromise.

1909
01:25:06.960 --> 01:25:09.600
I strongly believe that if Daniel would not have had this,

1910
01:25:09.680 --> 01:25:12.159
he would have gotten back into it with Johnny, no.

1911
01:25:12.039 --> 01:25:15.199
Doubt, and and and and obviously if he couldn't sand

1912
01:25:15.239 --> 01:25:17.920
the floors and paint offense, how is he gonna learn karate,

1913
01:25:18.359 --> 01:25:21.319
especially the type of karate that miyagi do. Is miyagi

1914
01:25:21.439 --> 01:25:27.000
do is for defense only. But that's that's why I

1915
01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:31.920
love this movie so much, because he just he gives

1916
01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:36.039
him something to do, somewhere to be, and something to

1917
01:25:36.119 --> 01:25:37.399
aspire to the bond.

1918
01:25:37.520 --> 01:25:40.600
The bond develops to a point of you really start

1919
01:25:40.640 --> 01:25:44.920
to see that Daniel Daniels always respected Yagi, but then

1920
01:25:44.960 --> 01:25:47.279
it becomes more of the father figure that he never had.

1921
01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:52.199
Well, Daniel's not a particularly disrespectful young man. No, that's

1922
01:25:52.319 --> 01:25:55.399
that's one thing he isn't. He gets in trouble with kids,

1923
01:25:55.800 --> 01:25:58.119
like he's not a few. He gets a little mad

1924
01:25:58.119 --> 01:26:00.640
at his mom, but he never like says like shut

1925
01:26:00.720 --> 01:26:04.159
up mom. He never like just disregards what she says.

1926
01:26:04.279 --> 01:26:07.119
He's just he's just full of anger. You know, he's

1927
01:26:07.199 --> 01:26:10.520
left his home. His mom is gone all the time. Again,

1928
01:26:11.359 --> 01:26:14.840
I lived that. I lived having you know, an empty

1929
01:26:14.840 --> 01:26:16.800
house to come home to a lot. And it wasn't

1930
01:26:16.800 --> 01:26:21.239
because you know, even I'm very I'm very fortunate that

1931
01:26:21.359 --> 01:26:23.439
when I was growing up, it was a it was

1932
01:26:23.479 --> 01:26:25.439
a negative and a positive. I was a very intelligent

1933
01:26:25.800 --> 01:26:30.039
young kid, and that's not a brag. I mean I

1934
01:26:30.079 --> 01:26:32.840
was very depressed and stuff like that, but I always

1935
01:26:32.920 --> 01:26:36.640
understood that my mother was doing things for us, so

1936
01:26:36.680 --> 01:26:39.079
I never resented her for being away a lot because

1937
01:26:39.079 --> 01:26:41.840
I knew that she was not out having fun. She

1938
01:26:42.239 --> 01:26:46.279
my mom worked for a long portion of my childhood

1939
01:26:46.279 --> 01:26:49.479
two jobs, and I mean two jobs. She worked an

1940
01:26:49.520 --> 01:26:51.399
office job till five and then she'd worked six to

1941
01:26:51.439 --> 01:26:53.199
eleven o'clock at night at the mall.

1942
01:26:54.600 --> 01:26:54.800
Yeah.

1943
01:26:54.960 --> 01:26:59.279
Yeah, And and I remember never resenting my mom. There

1944
01:26:59.359 --> 01:27:02.159
was a there was a little while back because we'd

1945
01:27:02.159 --> 01:27:04.239
try to eat lunch together, like every week, and we

1946
01:27:04.319 --> 01:27:06.439
talk a lot. I'm very close with my mother, but

1947
01:27:06.600 --> 01:27:11.680
like my mom one time was telling me how embarrassed

1948
01:27:12.600 --> 01:27:14.880
she was that I spent so many nights asleep at

1949
01:27:14.880 --> 01:27:16.760
my babysitter's house and my mom had to come and

1950
01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:18.760
get me at like ten or eleven o'clock at night. Yeah,

1951
01:27:18.800 --> 01:27:21.359
pick me up, put me in the car. And she

1952
01:27:21.439 --> 01:27:23.439
was always like, I'm sorry that you know that we

1953
01:27:23.479 --> 01:27:25.720
couldn't just be like everybody else, and like, you know,

1954
01:27:25.760 --> 01:27:27.520
I'd come home and I would just make you dinner.

1955
01:27:27.720 --> 01:27:29.479
We got there though, ye, because she was putting that

1956
01:27:29.520 --> 01:27:29.880
time in.

1957
01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:30.479
Yeah.

1958
01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:33.880
But it's funny because she would say like, I'm sorry,

1959
01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:36.880
and I would be like mom. Some of my fondest

1960
01:27:36.920 --> 01:27:39.680
memories of being a little boy, were you coming and

1961
01:27:39.680 --> 01:27:41.720
waking me up in the guest room at my babysitter,

1962
01:27:42.279 --> 01:27:44.000
picking me up, put me in the car.

1963
01:27:44.640 --> 01:27:46.079
Those are like they.

1964
01:27:45.960 --> 01:27:49.439
Make me so happy, Like I'm crying. These are very

1965
01:27:49.439 --> 01:27:52.319
happy tears. Yeah, because it was, like I still will

1966
01:27:52.359 --> 01:27:54.079
think about it because I used to fall asleep watching

1967
01:27:54.079 --> 01:27:56.880
out for Ditchcock presents and then Mom would pick me

1968
01:27:56.960 --> 01:28:00.000
up and I just to me it was good. Yeah,

1969
01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:02.720
it was wonderful. And then on the weekends she would

1970
01:28:02.720 --> 01:28:06.319
sell tupperware or mary Kay. And my first job, I

1971
01:28:06.359 --> 01:28:08.239
think I've told you this, My first job ever was

1972
01:28:08.399 --> 01:28:11.720
entertaining the other kids my mom had. We had an

1973
01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:15.479
old Nintendo, and my job was to get the kids

1974
01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:18.960
to play the Nintendo so she could get the moms

1975
01:28:19.000 --> 01:28:21.760
to buy some friggin foundation because look at your face,

1976
01:28:21.920 --> 01:28:24.399
like you could be so much prettier. But my mother

1977
01:28:24.439 --> 01:28:27.520
grew up with very little, and we started out with

1978
01:28:27.640 --> 01:28:31.439
very little. And my mother she never would admit this

1979
01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:36.319
because she's too sweet, honestly, but like she went without

1980
01:28:36.319 --> 01:28:38.800
a lot as a kid because her mother just didn't

1981
01:28:38.880 --> 01:28:42.479
care to work hard enough or to try to make

1982
01:28:42.520 --> 01:28:44.800
their situation better. She was just like, well, we're we

1983
01:28:44.880 --> 01:28:46.720
have a place to live, and you meet. Most of

1984
01:28:46.720 --> 01:28:49.800
the time. My mom had those stories about like wearing

1985
01:28:49.880 --> 01:28:52.399
the same clothes for days on end, and kids would

1986
01:28:52.439 --> 01:28:54.000
make fun of her because they would notice you were

1987
01:28:54.039 --> 01:28:56.000
wearing the same clothes. And my mom, you know, when

1988
01:28:56.000 --> 01:28:57.560
she was ten eleven years old, had to learn how

1989
01:28:57.600 --> 01:29:01.359
to make her own clothes so that she could have

1990
01:29:01.399 --> 01:29:03.960
something new to wear when she could scrounge up material

1991
01:29:04.039 --> 01:29:07.640
for it. I don't understand that because my mother would

1992
01:29:07.680 --> 01:29:11.159
sacrifice everything to make sure I had enough food and

1993
01:29:11.199 --> 01:29:14.640
I had food I liked, and that I she really

1994
01:29:14.760 --> 01:29:19.479
gave everything to me. It's just it, But this is

1995
01:29:19.520 --> 01:29:22.119
the kind of stuff I think about. Well, no, no,

1996
01:29:22.159 --> 01:29:25.119
it's it's uh, It's like again, these are happy tears.

1997
01:29:25.119 --> 01:29:27.520
I'm just I might not have cried, but I've had

1998
01:29:27.560 --> 01:29:30.359
a really long week. Yeah, and but no, these are

1999
01:29:30.359 --> 01:29:31.000
beautiful things.

2000
01:29:31.039 --> 01:29:32.359
You said You're gonna cry on the show last week.

2001
01:29:32.359 --> 01:29:35.680
Oh, because Karate Kid always makes me cry. And I'll

2002
01:29:35.680 --> 01:29:38.319
tell you why, because I'm already crying, right, so why not?

2003
01:29:39.159 --> 01:29:39.560
But uh?

2004
01:29:40.600 --> 01:29:44.199
When I was uh, so, my mom worked so hard

2005
01:29:44.439 --> 01:29:46.880
and her goal in life, the thing she wanted more

2006
01:29:46.960 --> 01:29:49.800
than anything in the entire world, was for us to

2007
01:29:49.840 --> 01:29:54.479
have a home, not an apartment, not a townhouse. She

2008
01:29:54.600 --> 01:29:57.479
wanted us to have something because she had never had anything.

2009
01:29:57.520 --> 01:29:58.359
She'd come close.

2010
01:29:58.680 --> 01:30:00.920
She had me in her thirty me when she was

2011
01:30:00.920 --> 01:30:03.640
about your age. Yeah, which is always blow my mind

2012
01:30:03.640 --> 01:30:05.800
because you know, when I would when I would, especially

2013
01:30:05.840 --> 01:30:07.439
when I first started making movies for a living, and

2014
01:30:07.479 --> 01:30:09.079
it was it was it's still hard, but it was

2015
01:30:09.319 --> 01:30:12.399
so hard in the beginning. I mean, like, sometimes I

2016
01:30:12.560 --> 01:30:14.800
have to stop and laugh at my problems because I'll

2017
01:30:14.840 --> 01:30:16.840
be like, I'll be like, man, this is so hard,

2018
01:30:16.880 --> 01:30:19.600
and I'll be like, dude, eight years ago, this was hard,

2019
01:30:19.680 --> 01:30:22.279
Like you were literally eating beans and rice and not

2020
01:30:22.359 --> 01:30:24.239
because you liked it, Yeah, you were, you know, you

2021
01:30:24.359 --> 01:30:31.000
were sacrificing a lot. And sometimes when I would get overwhelmed,

2022
01:30:31.119 --> 01:30:33.960
my mom would be like, well, just remember, like I

2023
01:30:34.159 --> 01:30:36.760
was a year older than you when I had you.

2024
01:30:38.199 --> 01:30:41.560
And that always gave me this incredible perspective because I'd

2025
01:30:41.600 --> 01:30:46.600
be like, man, my mom's life had barely started because

2026
01:30:46.680 --> 01:30:48.199
I was I was her second kid, so I mean

2027
01:30:48.279 --> 01:30:50.520
she'd had a life before that, but she'd been married

2028
01:30:50.960 --> 01:30:52.760
and you know, they got a house and then it

2029
01:30:52.800 --> 01:30:55.079
went bust, and then they got divorced, she went bankrupt

2030
01:30:55.359 --> 01:30:57.960
at one point before I was born. All of that

2031
01:30:58.039 --> 01:30:59.760
was before I was born. In fact, what I was

2032
01:30:59.760 --> 01:31:03.039
growing up in was her fixing all of the mistakes

2033
01:31:03.720 --> 01:31:06.720
and missteps of her whole life so that I didn't

2034
01:31:06.800 --> 01:31:10.199
have to live with them, which is wild to think about.

2035
01:31:10.359 --> 01:31:13.079
And you know, my stepdad was around but I and

2036
01:31:13.119 --> 01:31:15.159
I loved talking about him, but he wasn't around that much.

2037
01:31:15.880 --> 01:31:17.800
He would go away for long periods of time to

2038
01:31:17.880 --> 01:31:21.640
do work. Their relationship was rockier than I than I

2039
01:31:21.800 --> 01:31:23.920
was aware of, which was a testament to them. They

2040
01:31:24.039 --> 01:31:26.159
did not let me see that they were. I never

2041
01:31:26.319 --> 01:31:29.079
saw them fight, I never saw them argue. But every

2042
01:31:29.119 --> 01:31:31.960
now and then, you know, he'd be my stepdad'd be

2043
01:31:32.000 --> 01:31:34.760
a little quiet, and then he'd go back and work

2044
01:31:34.880 --> 01:31:37.159
in California or Alaska or one of those places. He'd

2045
01:31:37.199 --> 01:31:39.159
go and work for a while and he'd come back,

2046
01:31:39.199 --> 01:31:40.760
you know whatever months later, and things would be a

2047
01:31:40.760 --> 01:31:42.600
little bit better, you know, they gain some perspective. But

2048
01:31:42.640 --> 01:31:44.720
eventually he did one of those and when he came

2049
01:31:44.760 --> 01:31:47.760
back he moved out that that you know that eventually happened.

2050
01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:49.720
Yeah, so uh.

2051
01:31:50.920 --> 01:31:52.600
But to get back to my point about the actual

2052
01:31:52.640 --> 01:31:54.880
movie because I could talk about my mother for forever. No,

2053
01:31:54.920 --> 01:31:59.079
because she's my hero, the greatest, greatest human being. And uh,

2054
01:32:00.399 --> 01:32:03.680
when we got out of living a rough life, yeah,

2055
01:32:04.239 --> 01:32:08.319
well give or take, and we got our little piece

2056
01:32:08.359 --> 01:32:12.720
of the suburbs, I all of a sudden had a

2057
01:32:12.840 --> 01:32:16.119
substantially nicer life, like just the neighborhood. I could go

2058
01:32:16.159 --> 01:32:19.000
out and play, although it took my mom forever to

2059
01:32:19.039 --> 01:32:21.239
stop being afraid of me going outside because where we

2060
01:32:21.359 --> 01:32:24.239
lived before, you didn't want to do that that often.

2061
01:32:26.239 --> 01:32:32.880
And I remember I loved movies so much and the

2062
01:32:33.000 --> 01:32:35.039
only thing I wanted in the world was a camera.

2063
01:32:35.319 --> 01:32:37.159
And I think I've told the story on the show before,

2064
01:32:37.199 --> 01:32:39.119
but my mom put went on layaway for me because

2065
01:32:39.119 --> 01:32:42.119
we did not have a lot of money and the

2066
01:32:42.199 --> 01:32:44.720
house we bought needed a ton of work, which is

2067
01:32:44.800 --> 01:32:46.239
one of the things that always blows my mind when

2068
01:32:46.279 --> 01:32:47.920
people complain like I can't even buy a house, and

2069
01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:49.840
then it's like, oh, well that cheap house, like you

2070
01:32:49.880 --> 01:32:52.000
got to do a bunch of stuff, hey man?

2071
01:32:52.760 --> 01:32:55.159
Was I that was just life? Man?

2072
01:32:55.840 --> 01:32:56.000
You know?

2073
01:32:56.399 --> 01:32:58.640
We moved into a place with yellow wallpaper and shag

2074
01:32:58.840 --> 01:33:02.159
carpet and the roof wasn't quite good and yeah, so anyway,

2075
01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:04.760
but my mom saw I had an interest, and she

2076
01:33:04.880 --> 01:33:06.840
was always trying to get me to chase interests and

2077
01:33:06.960 --> 01:33:11.920
be a kid. And one day I ended up at

2078
01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:15.560
the Miami Valley Cable Council, which was our cable access place,

2079
01:33:15.600 --> 01:33:19.319
because I had seen it on TV, and I was like,

2080
01:33:19.439 --> 01:33:22.439
I want to learn. I want to be around this stuff,

2081
01:33:22.840 --> 01:33:24.840
which is very you know, telling, because I was twelve

2082
01:33:24.880 --> 01:33:26.119
years old, and I was like, all I want to

2083
01:33:26.159 --> 01:33:27.479
do is like learn how to use a camera. I

2084
01:33:27.520 --> 01:33:29.039
want to do all that stuff. And I'd been filming

2085
01:33:29.119 --> 01:33:31.199
everything and making little videos in my bedroom.

2086
01:33:31.279 --> 01:33:33.079
I would sit. I was talking about this lunch literally

2087
01:33:33.119 --> 01:33:34.520
last week. I asked her.

2088
01:33:34.560 --> 01:33:36.920
I was like, how did you feel about the fact

2089
01:33:36.960 --> 01:33:39.439
that I could go in my bedroom on a Saturday

2090
01:33:39.560 --> 01:33:41.760
after like filming the dog and stuff, and I would

2091
01:33:41.800 --> 01:33:44.319
sit and edit from a VCR to another VCR for

2092
01:33:44.479 --> 01:33:47.479
like six hours straight. I would just be that laser focused,

2093
01:33:47.479 --> 01:33:49.600
which is just not normal for little boys, you know,

2094
01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:51.640
they want to run and jump and skin their knees.

2095
01:33:51.680 --> 01:33:53.640
But I was like into this. But then when I

2096
01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:57.000
went to the Cable Council and I started learning these things,

2097
01:33:58.479 --> 01:34:05.159
I met Miamiagi. Yeah, yeah, you did, so this one's hard.

2098
01:34:06.239 --> 01:34:10.520
But there was a guy that worked that worked there

2099
01:34:11.119 --> 01:34:16.079
named Andy, and Andy saw this awkward kid with a

2100
01:34:16.119 --> 01:34:18.079
lot of person I was shy, believe it or not.

2101
01:34:18.239 --> 01:34:19.960
I was a pretty shy kid, I believe.

2102
01:34:20.279 --> 01:34:22.000
And you're the only one.

2103
01:34:23.720 --> 01:34:25.520
But Andy saw the shy kid who had like a

2104
01:34:25.600 --> 01:34:29.279
ton of interest. And it felt when I was watching this,

2105
01:34:29.359 --> 01:34:31.119
it was like, man, it was like him when I

2106
01:34:31.159 --> 01:34:32.960
would he you know, first saw me in the edit

2107
01:34:33.039 --> 01:34:36.159
bay and he sees me like trying to edit a scene,

2108
01:34:36.199 --> 01:34:38.560
and he's just like, it was like Miyagi seeing like

2109
01:34:38.600 --> 01:34:41.760
you're reading a book on karate. He was like he

2110
01:34:41.800 --> 01:34:43.960
would sit down and just be like, you know, if

2111
01:34:44.000 --> 01:34:46.680
you do this and you do this, it'll, you know,

2112
01:34:46.800 --> 01:34:50.000
it'll come together to be a scene. And he was

2113
01:34:50.079 --> 01:34:52.800
the only person that I knew had made a movie

2114
01:34:53.439 --> 01:34:56.159
he made. He was creative all the time, and he

2115
01:34:56.279 --> 01:34:59.960
took a major interest in and changed my entire life.

2116
01:35:00.880 --> 01:35:04.920
And that's one of the reasons I I really, I

2117
01:35:05.039 --> 01:35:07.079
really can't overstate how important it is.

2118
01:35:07.239 --> 01:35:07.920
And it's it's.

2119
01:35:09.439 --> 01:35:11.119
No shade to like a guy like you had who

2120
01:35:11.159 --> 01:35:13.840
had two parents who were freaking really great people, and

2121
01:35:13.960 --> 01:35:15.560
you had a dad around as much as he could be.

2122
01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:17.079
I mean, he was running a thriving business. But you're

2123
01:35:17.079 --> 01:35:19.359
still around, You're still doing this thing, you know, right,

2124
01:35:19.399 --> 01:35:20.319
I mean I don't want to know.

2125
01:35:20.520 --> 01:35:23.359
I mean it was It's it's funny like the you

2126
01:35:23.520 --> 01:35:26.439
you talking about your miagi, because I I kind of

2127
01:35:26.479 --> 01:35:29.479
had my own too, and it wasn't necessarily my parents actually,

2128
01:35:29.640 --> 01:35:32.640
because the one that there's there's two things in my

2129
01:35:32.760 --> 01:35:35.560
life that I'm that I'm grateful for, and that is

2130
01:35:35.600 --> 01:35:36.960
the fact that I do have the relationship with my

2131
01:35:37.039 --> 01:35:40.760
parents that I do. But also yeah, but also that

2132
01:35:41.239 --> 01:35:45.279
I found another family in it to show me things

2133
01:35:45.359 --> 01:35:48.119
that that that my parents couldn't and and that were

2134
01:35:48.279 --> 01:35:50.079
that was the great people at around about books of

2135
01:35:50.159 --> 01:35:51.000
course know they're there.

2136
01:35:51.079 --> 01:35:52.800
They've been a massive part of your life for as

2137
01:35:52.800 --> 01:35:53.439
long as I've known.

2138
01:35:53.439 --> 01:35:56.960
Yeah, exactly. And they not only so like I would

2139
01:35:56.960 --> 01:35:58.680
stay with them when my parents would go out of

2140
01:35:58.680 --> 01:36:00.840
town like or so stuff like that sometimes too. But

2141
01:36:01.119 --> 01:36:04.119
more so than anything was there was a safety place

2142
01:36:04.159 --> 01:36:06.720
with that bookstore. So like if I was being harassed,

2143
01:36:06.760 --> 01:36:09.800
because I would walk home to the to the shop sometimes, right,

2144
01:36:10.199 --> 01:36:11.640
if I was being harassed, I could go in there

2145
01:36:11.680 --> 01:36:14.880
and I knew that I was completely safe. But also

2146
01:36:14.960 --> 01:36:17.600
on top of that, you say the thing about investing,

2147
01:36:18.479 --> 01:36:22.399
Mike invested into me as just being the kid who

2148
01:36:22.640 --> 01:36:24.079
came in and would talk movies with him for a

2149
01:36:24.159 --> 01:36:25.880
little bit and then you know, buy something and leave.

2150
01:36:26.359 --> 01:36:29.119
And then I remember, literally the one thing which ties

2151
01:36:29.199 --> 01:36:31.920
right into you and you're gonna love this was I'd

2152
01:36:31.960 --> 01:36:32.960
heard about horror Rama.

2153
01:36:33.199 --> 01:36:35.439
It was and Andy was one of the event organs exactly.

2154
01:36:35.640 --> 01:36:37.640
So I literally went into a round about books one

2155
01:36:37.680 --> 01:36:39.479
day and I was like, Hey, I know Horoma is

2156
01:36:39.520 --> 01:36:41.319
coming up. Do you guys care if I ride with you? Because,

2157
01:36:41.319 --> 01:36:42.960
like I was, I was like thirteen at this.

2158
01:36:43.000 --> 01:36:44.640
Point and my first horrorrama I was thirteen.

2159
01:36:44.840 --> 01:36:48.239
Yeah, so Mike was like, yeah, we could totally do that.

2160
01:36:48.479 --> 01:36:50.960
So like him and Dave took me to Horrama, and yeah,

2161
01:36:50.960 --> 01:36:53.079
I met Andy, I met Rick and then that like

2162
01:36:53.239 --> 01:36:56.680
meeting Andy that night, then you know, obviously went back

2163
01:36:56.720 --> 01:36:59.199
for hormas and whatnot. And then Andy started Independent Shadow Cinema,

2164
01:36:59.680 --> 01:37:02.640
So I got to spend time with Andy to a

2165
01:37:02.720 --> 01:37:05.039
point of that I can I wouldn't necessarily call him

2166
01:37:05.039 --> 01:37:07.079
a mentor to me, but like, but I mean, it

2167
01:37:07.199 --> 01:37:09.800
was just I got to see that side of him

2168
01:37:09.840 --> 01:37:11.319
that you're talking about, where it's just like he did

2169
01:37:11.520 --> 01:37:12.840
he did invest in people.

2170
01:37:12.640 --> 01:37:15.079
Well, and he was very so one of the reasons

2171
01:37:15.159 --> 01:37:18.479
I cry he's passed away. Yeah, and a little over

2172
01:37:18.560 --> 01:37:19.119
ten years ago.

2173
01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:21.560
I can't believe that, I know, I believe me, I know.

2174
01:37:23.840 --> 01:37:28.479
But he was so loved because he was so good

2175
01:37:28.560 --> 01:37:34.079
at finding misfits and yeah, and pushing them to be

2176
01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:37.760
social and to be excited about the things they cared

2177
01:37:37.760 --> 01:37:41.760
about and to open up their their worldview a little

2178
01:37:41.760 --> 01:37:44.359
bit to these things. And he was an odd guy,

2179
01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:47.680
a really odd guy. I mean the funny ironies. I mean,

2180
01:37:47.720 --> 01:37:50.319
I met you because you were at Andy's events. That's

2181
01:37:50.359 --> 01:37:52.760
literally how he became aware of each other's existence. Yeah,

2182
01:37:52.880 --> 01:37:55.479
and I think, you know, I'm not a religious person,

2183
01:37:55.520 --> 01:37:57.520
and I think if Andy could could watch, he'd be

2184
01:37:57.640 --> 01:37:58.680
so happy to.

2185
01:37:58.720 --> 01:38:00.720
See the way we go to the movies every Tuesday

2186
01:38:01.319 --> 01:38:02.319
and and stuff like that.

2187
01:38:02.560 --> 01:38:05.720
But to go back to being more like the karate kid,

2188
01:38:07.039 --> 01:38:10.079
it grew from oh yeah, edit this, to oh yeah

2189
01:38:10.079 --> 01:38:14.640
at this, to to like sitting down and then being like, so,

2190
01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:16.520
what are you up to? And then it would be like, oh,

2191
01:38:16.760 --> 01:38:19.800
you know this kid, you know shoved me into a

2192
01:38:19.840 --> 01:38:22.000
locker and bah, I'd be like, well, you know, like

2193
01:38:22.119 --> 01:38:23.520
at the end of the day, like they're you know,

2194
01:38:23.560 --> 01:38:25.199
they're going to shove you around. He went to a

2195
01:38:25.239 --> 01:38:27.359
really rough school, and he was like he was like,

2196
01:38:27.520 --> 01:38:28.960
he was like, if they're not pulling a knife on you,

2197
01:38:29.199 --> 01:38:30.880
just like you know, you got to go along to

2198
01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:32.560
get along. And all of a sudden, it was like

2199
01:38:33.479 --> 01:38:37.760
very naturally he was giving me advice on how to

2200
01:38:38.000 --> 01:38:40.000
grow up and how to be and how to be

2201
01:38:40.119 --> 01:38:43.439
a young man that I didn't even realize he was doing.

2202
01:38:43.520 --> 01:38:45.760
He was just listening and he really gave a shit

2203
01:38:46.319 --> 01:38:50.439
to hear it. And eventually he left that job and

2204
01:38:50.520 --> 01:38:53.199
moved to Tip City, which is up by you, And

2205
01:38:53.680 --> 01:38:55.439
I think that's when he really got tight with your

2206
01:38:55.600 --> 01:38:57.560
with your your friends that are around about books. Was

2207
01:38:57.600 --> 01:38:58.960
when he was up that way, because he will he

2208
01:38:59.079 --> 01:39:00.560
connected with Tip people real fast.

2209
01:39:01.119 --> 01:39:03.520
There were some really cool He basically told Mike and

2210
01:39:03.600 --> 01:39:06.399
Dave any class that he was teaching at the school

2211
01:39:06.520 --> 01:39:08.239
that they were welcome to come sit in anytime.

2212
01:39:08.279 --> 01:39:11.479
Oh yeah, I audited his Sinclair class on cult movies

2213
01:39:11.520 --> 01:39:15.520
one time. Andy was always up to something, and when

2214
01:39:15.560 --> 01:39:18.359
he moved up there, he gave me his phone number,

2215
01:39:18.520 --> 01:39:21.960
and he stayed a part of my life. He would

2216
01:39:22.039 --> 01:39:23.800
drive all the way from Tip to pick me up.

2217
01:39:24.279 --> 01:39:28.720
My mom liked him enough, and she really loved how

2218
01:39:28.800 --> 01:39:31.479
I just I never got in trouble. Yeah, I really didn't.

2219
01:39:31.800 --> 01:39:34.119
Like I mean, like, I really just didn't. It's weird

2220
01:39:34.119 --> 01:39:36.640
because I am a troublemaker in many ways, but I

2221
01:39:36.800 --> 01:39:39.039
just I wanted to make my little movies. I wanted

2222
01:39:39.039 --> 01:39:41.199
to watch movies. I wanted to talk about him, and

2223
01:39:41.399 --> 01:39:45.119
Andy gave me this outlet without ever being you know,

2224
01:39:45.319 --> 01:39:49.840
asked to do it. And I remember, and then we'll

2225
01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:50.600
get back to the movie.

2226
01:39:50.680 --> 01:39:51.319
But I remember.

2227
01:39:51.800 --> 01:39:54.239
I it kind of hit me when I was like

2228
01:39:54.319 --> 01:39:57.800
sixteen or so at seventeen that he had made such

2229
01:39:57.840 --> 01:40:01.159
a huge impact on my life already and I couldn't

2230
01:40:01.199 --> 01:40:04.880
tell him. So I wrote him a letter. I wrote

2231
01:40:04.960 --> 01:40:08.800
him a card and just told him like how much

2232
01:40:08.840 --> 01:40:11.760
of a difference he had made in my life. And

2233
01:40:11.960 --> 01:40:15.079
he wrote me an email back and he was like,

2234
01:40:15.279 --> 01:40:19.439
that's it's so weird because I never thought about it.

2235
01:40:20.520 --> 01:40:26.760
But like you, he Andy believed he had a lot

2236
01:40:26.800 --> 01:40:30.079
of problems himself, and he believed that he should never

2237
01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:33.920
have children and He followed that and he was, like

2238
01:40:34.159 --> 01:40:38.279
I was he said something just basically said like I

2239
01:40:39.399 --> 01:40:41.960
never thought I could do the things that were done

2240
01:40:42.039 --> 01:40:44.359
for me when I was young, when people took because

2241
01:40:44.359 --> 01:40:46.680
he his father wasn't around. You know that they had

2242
01:40:47.600 --> 01:40:49.439
in part of me. I never really realized that I

2243
01:40:49.439 --> 01:40:52.119
had done it to you. But I'm so glad I did,

2244
01:40:52.720 --> 01:40:57.279
and like, thank you for writing that. You're a very intelligent,

2245
01:40:57.880 --> 01:41:00.720
in an emotion and emotional young man and I'm proud

2246
01:41:00.720 --> 01:41:05.640
of you. Yeah, and uh, that was like everything. So

2247
01:41:06.479 --> 01:41:08.319
I don't want to make this all about Andy, but he,

2248
01:41:08.560 --> 01:41:10.760
I mean he I would not be where I am.

2249
01:41:10.800 --> 01:41:14.279
I don't know where I'd be professionally or personally. Yeah,

2250
01:41:14.560 --> 01:41:17.840
without a guy like Andy. And and that kind of

2251
01:41:17.880 --> 01:41:22.680
feeds into with Miagi. He's kind of becoming a confidant

2252
01:41:23.000 --> 01:41:23.880
and an example.

2253
01:41:24.079 --> 01:41:26.159
He opens up to Daniel. That's that's what I love

2254
01:41:26.279 --> 01:41:28.359
is he shares. He shares with Daniel about his life,

2255
01:41:28.399 --> 01:41:30.560
including that he had a loss of his wife and

2256
01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:34.239
his son and childbirth at the Menanzer Interminent Camp while

2257
01:41:34.279 --> 01:41:36.920
he was serving in the four hundred and forty second Infantry.

2258
01:41:37.079 --> 01:41:39.199
He was fighting for the US yeah and World War

2259
01:41:39.239 --> 01:41:39.600
War two.

2260
01:41:39.800 --> 01:41:41.960
Yeah, and that is where he received his Medal of

2261
01:41:42.000 --> 01:41:43.680
Honor as well. So we get that, we get the

2262
01:41:43.800 --> 01:41:45.640
side of him and this tragic side of it. And

2263
01:41:45.800 --> 01:41:48.920
this all starts with Daniel coming in and he's just drinking,

2264
01:41:49.079 --> 01:41:51.439
which is in such a great scene, such a great scene.

2265
01:41:51.439 --> 01:41:54.359
He's drinking, he's drunk, he's singing, he's looking at he's

2266
01:41:54.399 --> 01:41:57.960
wearing his Airman uniform. Yeah, and Daniel, you know, Daniel

2267
01:41:58.159 --> 01:42:00.520
immediately like goes to his side. He's just like and

2268
01:42:00.640 --> 01:42:02.680
and Miyagi's just like, ah, I have a drink with me,

2269
01:42:02.800 --> 01:42:05.600
and like, you see this this camaraderie that he's building

2270
01:42:05.640 --> 01:42:07.439
even with this tragedy. He's just like, I want to

2271
01:42:07.479 --> 01:42:11.079
share this with you because I can't describe it.

2272
01:42:11.399 --> 01:42:14.119
Like camaraderie is not a bad way to put it,

2273
01:42:14.159 --> 01:42:17.680
but I would say it was that Miagi was willing

2274
01:42:17.760 --> 01:42:21.960
to be vulnerable with Daniel and let Daniel see that again.

2275
01:42:22.920 --> 01:42:26.840
A good example for a kid is to see he's

2276
01:42:26.960 --> 01:42:30.760
not a perfect person. He hasn't had the easiest life.

2277
01:42:31.159 --> 01:42:34.520
See how kind he is, how thoughtful he is, even

2278
01:42:34.600 --> 01:42:36.399
as he every now and then he just needs to

2279
01:42:36.560 --> 01:42:38.920
mourn and grieve and laugh and be drunk and be

2280
01:42:39.000 --> 01:42:42.479
a little stupid because he's a human being.

2281
01:42:42.560 --> 01:42:45.079
Well, it's like one of my favorite training moments is

2282
01:42:45.119 --> 01:42:46.800
when he has him stand on the on the edge

2283
01:42:46.800 --> 01:42:50.199
of the boat because you know, as we we're kind

2284
01:42:50.199 --> 01:42:51.560
of talking about the training a little bit, but like

2285
01:42:51.720 --> 01:42:54.319
there's there's a whole scene with the infamous crane. He's

2286
01:42:54.359 --> 01:42:55.600
learning to stand in the crane thing.

2287
01:42:55.760 --> 01:42:57.520
Well, I love that too, because he's like he's like,

2288
01:42:57.600 --> 01:42:59.920
get up over to the boat to the get up.

2289
01:43:00.920 --> 01:43:04.319
And then he starts boat the boat so he has

2290
01:43:04.359 --> 01:43:06.279
him balance and then he rocks the boat back and forth,

2291
01:43:06.359 --> 01:43:08.279
laughing while he does it, and Daniel falls in starts

2292
01:43:08.319 --> 01:43:10.159
like freezing. So they go back to the They go

2293
01:43:10.279 --> 01:43:11.920
back to the shore, and that's when we have these

2294
01:43:11.960 --> 01:43:13.880
two drunk assholes, one of which is Larry Drake.

2295
01:43:14.079 --> 01:43:14.279
Yeah.

2296
01:43:14.359 --> 01:43:15.680
Yeah, very like baby Drake.

2297
01:43:15.760 --> 01:43:16.239
Baby Drake.

2298
01:43:16.279 --> 01:43:19.279
Buba didn't do it, Bubba did this. They were just

2299
01:43:19.359 --> 01:43:21.800
drinking next to Miagi's car and their empty beer bottles

2300
01:43:21.840 --> 01:43:24.199
are on the car. Yeah, and they make some racist

2301
01:43:24.319 --> 01:43:28.880
comment about Miagi, and Miagi does Miyagi it's it's you know, uh,

2302
01:43:29.000 --> 01:43:30.119
water off a duck's back.

2303
01:43:30.239 --> 01:43:34.159
One stepis move takes these bottles out well, first he

2304
01:43:34.359 --> 01:43:36.760
just politely asks them to move to take the bottles. Yeah,

2305
01:43:36.760 --> 01:43:39.000
And he doesn't even say like, hey, that's my goddamn car. Yeah.

2306
01:43:39.039 --> 01:43:40.920
He just says, the boy is very cold. I need

2307
01:43:41.000 --> 01:43:43.159
to take him home. Would you please, you know, clean

2308
01:43:43.279 --> 01:43:45.159
up your bottles. Yeah, And when they laugh about it, yeah,

2309
01:43:45.159 --> 01:43:48.000
he he just wants karate chops and cuts the bottles,

2310
01:43:48.079 --> 01:43:49.560
the tops of the bottles off. The guys pick it

2311
01:43:49.600 --> 01:43:50.880
all up, but he goes, how did you do that?

2312
01:43:50.920 --> 01:43:54.479
And they'll know, they'll know first time. And that's again

2313
01:43:54.600 --> 01:43:58.039
a great example of like you thought Miagi had every

2314
01:43:58.159 --> 01:44:01.000
single thing figured out that he was the person. Yeah,

2315
01:44:01.039 --> 01:44:04.600
And it's not that he has knowledge entirely. It s

2316
01:44:04.640 --> 01:44:05.880
that he has wisdom.

2317
01:44:05.560 --> 01:44:08.359
Wisdom, and they're different. And he also he gets he

2318
01:44:08.600 --> 01:44:11.079
uses the tools that he learns from Yagy with you know,

2319
01:44:11.199 --> 01:44:14.199
the selflessness and just getting into this wisdom and everything

2320
01:44:14.399 --> 01:44:16.399
to patch things up with Ali. And that's one thing

2321
01:44:16.439 --> 01:44:18.119
I picked up on watching it a couple of nights ago.

2322
01:44:18.199 --> 01:44:21.159
I was just like, their relationship is is just kind

2323
01:44:21.199 --> 01:44:22.880
of I don't want to say it's just in the movie,

2324
01:44:22.960 --> 01:44:25.439
but like it's it's not a it's not a very

2325
01:44:25.479 --> 01:44:27.479
big primary focus, because like they could they kind of

2326
01:44:27.600 --> 01:44:29.359
just do this scene that I'm going to, which is

2327
01:44:29.399 --> 01:44:32.119
where he runs into alliot an arcade and you know,

2328
01:44:32.239 --> 01:44:33.760
he's just like, hey, you know, I'm here, and she's like,

2329
01:44:33.800 --> 01:44:35.680
oh cool, that's fine, and like he immediately, like it,

2330
01:44:35.720 --> 01:44:37.960
starts apologizing to her and trying to explain everything and

2331
01:44:38.000 --> 01:44:41.039
wins her back because he had this calmness because he

2332
01:44:41.039 --> 01:44:42.479
could have been Laruso and been like, oh, okay, well

2333
01:44:42.520 --> 01:44:43.520
well fine, fuck you then.

2334
01:44:43.439 --> 01:44:46.199
But he realized that calmness is important. Yeah, and I

2335
01:44:46.239 --> 01:44:48.840
can't overstate like Miyagi being drunk and kind of dumb

2336
01:44:49.000 --> 01:44:52.279
and but laughing with LaRusso, yeah, that's an example that

2337
01:44:52.359 --> 01:44:54.479
he doesn't even realize he's setting. Because you know, of

2338
01:44:54.600 --> 01:44:56.479
all the examples you could have of how to deal

2339
01:44:56.560 --> 01:45:01.159
with grief and maybe anger or sadness, if the example

2340
01:45:01.199 --> 01:45:03.319
you have is just every now and then you get

2341
01:45:03.319 --> 01:45:05.800
a little drunk and get a little silly, that's not

2342
01:45:05.840 --> 01:45:07.399
a bad exams not about I mean, you know, there

2343
01:45:07.439 --> 01:45:09.840
are way worse things he could have, you know, gotten

2344
01:45:09.920 --> 01:45:11.880
drunk and shoved Larrousse away or something.

2345
01:45:11.680 --> 01:45:12.279
Like I hate you.

2346
01:45:12.319 --> 01:45:13.720
I don't even want to teach you. He doesn't do

2347
01:45:13.880 --> 01:45:16.479
that because he's a good example.

2348
01:45:16.560 --> 01:45:18.479
Yeah, he's a good example. And the one thing too

2349
01:45:18.520 --> 01:45:20.560
that I'll say with the whole thing of his stillness

2350
01:45:20.600 --> 01:45:23.840
with Ali is the main conflict they have is that

2351
01:45:23.840 --> 01:45:25.680
they're on opposite sides of the track. Ali is from

2352
01:45:25.680 --> 01:45:28.039
a rich family, has a bunch of you know, has

2353
01:45:28.279 --> 01:45:31.399
the country club and everything like that. Daniel literally goes

2354
01:45:31.399 --> 01:45:33.199
on a date with Ali and their mom is driving

2355
01:45:33.239 --> 01:45:34.439
them and they gets to the point where they get

2356
01:45:34.439 --> 01:45:35.760
to the house and they have to push the car

2357
01:45:35.880 --> 01:45:38.000
to get it to start. Yep. So there's this whole

2358
01:45:38.079 --> 01:45:39.960
thing of two sides of the track and that's kind

2359
01:45:40.000 --> 01:45:41.880
of the main thing. So when he patches things with Ali,

2360
01:45:42.000 --> 01:45:44.680
we get to his eighteenth birthday, then Miyagi gives him

2361
01:45:44.680 --> 01:45:46.960
a karate gee which is the Bonzi tree.

2362
01:45:47.279 --> 01:45:50.279
Well, so the patch he puts a patch on it. Yeah,

2363
01:45:50.359 --> 01:45:52.399
and he says like, wow, it's amazing. He says, missus

2364
01:45:52.520 --> 01:45:56.159
Miagi made that patch and he's like, I want you

2365
01:45:56.279 --> 01:45:58.439
to have it, and he tell and oh my god,

2366
01:45:59.119 --> 01:46:00.920
he says like, I just want you to know, I'll

2367
01:46:01.000 --> 01:46:04.439
understand if you ever want this back. Says, I know.

2368
01:46:06.880 --> 01:46:07.520
And that's that.

2369
01:46:07.680 --> 01:46:09.279
But just the fact that Myagi is like, no, I'm

2370
01:46:09.319 --> 01:46:12.520
giving this too because you you unders understand how important it.

2371
01:46:12.600 --> 01:46:14.399
Is to me, So I need you to have And

2372
01:46:14.520 --> 01:46:16.279
is this where they explain the Bonzi tree with the

2373
01:46:16.319 --> 01:46:17.479
two branches.

2374
01:46:17.840 --> 01:46:22.079
Basically, yeah, about Miyagi's fan the fishermen, Yeah, because all

2375
01:46:22.159 --> 01:46:27.439
Miagi's do no fish and fish and karate and he

2376
01:46:27.760 --> 01:46:30.239
was he was a fisherman and a karate man, and

2377
01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:31.319
he like saki.

2378
01:46:31.479 --> 01:46:35.319
Yeah, like saki. One night the fish were not biting,

2379
01:46:35.800 --> 01:46:39.039
but the saki strong. You wake up on the shore

2380
01:46:39.079 --> 01:46:42.720
of China. So the whole Bonzi tree concept is basically

2381
01:46:42.760 --> 01:46:46.720
two branches on the tree strengthen the stink, strengthen the

2382
01:46:46.760 --> 01:46:49.279
branch together. I'm trying to remember the phrasing of it exactly,

2383
01:46:50.000 --> 01:46:53.159
but it basically that you have You can't be one thing.

2384
01:46:53.560 --> 01:46:54.520
No person is one thing.

2385
01:46:54.720 --> 01:46:58.000
You have to let the multiple elements of yourself be

2386
01:46:58.319 --> 01:47:02.600
strong together. You're sometimes your weaknesses can become your strengths

2387
01:47:02.600 --> 01:47:04.800
if you cultivate, which is the entire point of a

2388
01:47:04.880 --> 01:47:06.520
Bondie tree. You sit and you cultivate it.

2389
01:47:07.279 --> 01:47:10.600
So now we have reached the tournament, Yes, we are

2390
01:47:10.640 --> 01:47:11.560
at the end of the film.

2391
01:47:11.680 --> 01:47:13.479
And there was one line I wanted to point out, Oh,

2392
01:47:13.600 --> 01:47:16.000
I forgot about it because I was getting all emotional.

2393
01:47:16.039 --> 01:47:18.520
But like when he signs up at the tournament, he says,

2394
01:47:18.560 --> 01:47:20.479
we're going to do the tournament right at the beginning,

2395
01:47:20.520 --> 01:47:22.399
and he says like, I'm gonna get my I'm gonna

2396
01:47:22.399 --> 01:47:24.640
get my. Uh, they're gonna kill me or whatever. They're

2397
01:47:24.640 --> 01:47:26.399
gonna beat the crap out of me. Yeah, he goes

2398
01:47:26.600 --> 01:47:29.760
going to beat the crap out of you. Anyway, It

2399
01:47:31.119 --> 01:47:33.640
was like, I just that's such a great part because

2400
01:47:33.680 --> 01:47:35.840
he says it so simply and stoically. He's just like, well,

2401
01:47:36.199 --> 01:47:37.000
they're going to beat you.

2402
01:47:37.079 --> 01:47:38.640
Well, then we've also got the great scene where they

2403
01:47:38.680 --> 01:47:42.199
straight up steal what is it that they take to

2404
01:47:42.399 --> 01:47:44.960
get into the tournament. I'm trying to remember a black belt, yeah.

2405
01:47:45.239 --> 01:47:47.720
Because they say brown belts are higher. So he says

2406
01:47:48.079 --> 01:47:52.000
he distracts them, and then he says he explains that

2407
01:47:52.039 --> 01:47:55.039
they misspelled his name and has Ali steal a black

2408
01:47:55.079 --> 01:47:56.560
belt from the bag right next to the guy who's

2409
01:47:56.560 --> 01:47:59.399
signing up with But we we almost forgot So Miagi,

2410
01:48:00.039 --> 01:48:01.640
I just want to because this is the last really

2411
01:48:01.720 --> 01:48:04.960
great moment. But beyond the ending, Miyagi gives him the

2412
01:48:05.000 --> 01:48:08.439
gee with that special. He gives him his own headband

2413
01:48:08.960 --> 01:48:09.920
that he wore fighting.

2414
01:48:10.039 --> 01:48:10.239
Yeah.

2415
01:48:10.319 --> 01:48:11.800
He also mentions a way he's like, I don't know

2416
01:48:11.800 --> 01:48:14.439
anything about tournaments. He's like, I know I fought. I

2417
01:48:14.520 --> 01:48:16.560
thought I did not I did not compete.

2418
01:48:16.720 --> 01:48:17.119
I fought.

2419
01:48:17.319 --> 01:48:19.359
And we find out, you know, and when they expand

2420
01:48:19.439 --> 01:48:21.840
ma AGI's stuff in later movies and TV series, we

2421
01:48:21.880 --> 01:48:24.119
find out that it's more. He wasn't very proud of

2422
01:48:24.159 --> 01:48:26.439
when he was fighting for Pride, so he didn't want

2423
01:48:26.479 --> 01:48:27.840
to talk about it very much because he was a

2424
01:48:27.920 --> 01:48:31.680
complex guy. But he gives him a birthday cake. And

2425
01:48:31.880 --> 01:48:35.800
then and this is why I love this movie. After

2426
01:48:36.079 --> 01:48:39.000
all of these wonderful things, Yeah, he looks at his clock.

2427
01:48:39.000 --> 01:48:40.840
He's like, oh my god, Like, I've got to go

2428
01:48:40.880 --> 01:48:43.119
because mom made me a cake. It's supposed to be surprised,

2429
01:48:43.119 --> 01:48:45.600
but I know she made me a cake. Miyagi's reaction is,

2430
01:48:45.680 --> 01:48:47.840
of course, like you need to be with your mother.

2431
01:48:47.920 --> 01:48:51.279
It's your birthday. And then he's like, last gift, and

2432
01:48:51.399 --> 01:48:54.000
he tells him to pick take a car, one of

2433
01:48:54.199 --> 01:48:56.920
those hot, those awesome old cars.

2434
01:48:56.720 --> 01:48:59.479
That Magi fixed up. That's his, that's his. Yeah, So

2435
01:48:59.560 --> 01:49:02.520
he picks the yellow car, which sticks with him pretty

2436
01:49:02.600 --> 01:49:04.600
much throughout the series because we even actually saw it

2437
01:49:04.720 --> 01:49:07.039
in Karate Kid Legends tonight. Oh yeah, which is such

2438
01:49:07.079 --> 01:49:07.720
a good little thing.

2439
01:49:07.840 --> 01:49:10.560
No, it's it's a wonderful a wonderful thing, and I

2440
01:49:10.600 --> 01:49:14.319
love what he says, Remember, license not as good as mine.

2441
01:49:15.680 --> 01:49:17.399
So they get to the tournament. They've stolen the black

2442
01:49:17.439 --> 01:49:19.319
belt by this point, they're in the tournament, and that

2443
01:49:19.560 --> 01:49:22.279
is when they Johnny advances to the finals after scoring

2444
01:49:22.359 --> 01:49:25.840
three unanswered points against Darryl Vidal, and Crease instructs his

2445
01:49:25.920 --> 01:49:28.840
second best student, Bobby Brown, who is going against LaRusso,

2446
01:49:29.720 --> 01:49:31.920
to injure him to a point.

2447
01:49:31.720 --> 01:49:34.479
Of no return to damage his legs so that he'll

2448
01:49:34.720 --> 01:49:37.600
he'll be disqualified with leg or at the very least

2449
01:49:37.680 --> 01:49:41.680
easy for Johnny to defeat. And this is a moment

2450
01:49:41.720 --> 01:49:43.960
that's pretty evil too, because when they're telling him to,

2451
01:49:44.119 --> 01:49:47.439
you know, sweep the leg when he does and he

2452
01:49:47.520 --> 01:49:48.720
really hurts LaRusso.

2453
01:49:48.359 --> 01:49:49.159
It's an a legal attack.

2454
01:49:49.199 --> 01:49:51.000
But one of my favorite things I never I mean

2455
01:49:51.000 --> 01:49:52.800
I knew it, but it really hit me this time

2456
01:49:52.840 --> 01:49:54.680
I was watching is the second he does it in

2457
01:49:56.319 --> 01:49:58.680
Sorry Daniel, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah, like the moment

2458
01:49:58.720 --> 01:49:59.960
he does it, he realizes.

2459
01:49:59.760 --> 01:50:01.800
Because this is where Crease really comes out to be

2460
01:50:01.880 --> 01:50:04.079
a ship because the most of the movie, of the

2461
01:50:04.119 --> 01:50:07.239
first movie especially, he's just he's just that asshole that

2462
01:50:07.279 --> 01:50:09.680
owns the dojo and and has that whole now mercy thing.

2463
01:50:09.760 --> 01:50:12.359
This is where he literally we're seeing how he uses

2464
01:50:12.439 --> 01:50:15.159
his students to enact his own revenge in assent and.

2465
01:50:15.239 --> 01:50:17.920
Because he's a bad example, yeah, of how you can

2466
01:50:18.079 --> 01:50:21.479
mold mines. Yeah, for your own ego and your own

2467
01:50:21.840 --> 01:50:24.680
because you don't value the right things. Yeah, and that's

2468
01:50:24.800 --> 01:50:26.640
so so important.

2469
01:50:26.720 --> 01:50:29.239
Yeah, I mean, he's he he is venomous to these

2470
01:50:29.319 --> 01:50:32.960
kids because even the entire thing with Johnny and his

2471
01:50:33.119 --> 01:50:35.520
gang is they are always talking about Cobra Kai and

2472
01:50:36.000 --> 01:50:38.000
you know, Chrese says no mercy and all this stuff,

2473
01:50:38.039 --> 01:50:39.640
like they have this instilled in him, and that's what

2474
01:50:39.720 --> 01:50:42.079
he's done to these students. So, yeah, he instructs him

2475
01:50:42.079 --> 01:50:44.239
to do an illegal attack to the knee and he

2476
01:50:44.359 --> 01:50:47.119
Bobby does it severely injuring Daniel, and this is also

2477
01:50:47.199 --> 01:50:50.159
gets Bobby disqualified for the illegal move. So Daniel's taken

2478
01:50:50.199 --> 01:50:52.520
to the locker room because he is He's in really bad.

2479
01:50:52.439 --> 01:50:54.279
Shit and he's going to be He's going to not

2480
01:50:54.359 --> 01:50:54.960
fight anymore.

2481
01:50:55.039 --> 01:50:56.560
Yeah. And this is also one thing we forgot to

2482
01:50:56.640 --> 01:50:59.560
mention is when Miagi was initially showing Daniel that the

2483
01:50:59.640 --> 01:51:02.239
chores have given him the defense movements, Daniel complains about

2484
01:51:02.279 --> 01:51:05.119
his shoulder and Miyagi rubs on it and actually frees

2485
01:51:05.199 --> 01:51:05.520
up the pain.

2486
01:51:05.640 --> 01:51:08.840
He basically does a kind of of Eastern touch healing.

2487
01:51:09.000 --> 01:51:09.199
Yeah.

2488
01:51:09.239 --> 01:51:12.359
I forget the name of it, but I always always

2489
01:51:12.399 --> 01:51:15.600
used to joke because not a huge fan of alternative

2490
01:51:15.640 --> 01:51:17.039
medicine practitioners never have a.

2491
01:51:17.119 --> 01:51:19.319
Favorite scenes and Man in the Moon, Oh my god.

2492
01:51:19.960 --> 01:51:22.319
Uh but I met a I met a reiki master

2493
01:51:22.479 --> 01:51:26.319
once at a at a at an event, and I

2494
01:51:26.520 --> 01:51:28.720
was like, and I remember just going, Wow, you've gotten

2495
01:51:28.720 --> 01:51:30.079
to a point where you don't even have to touch

2496
01:51:30.159 --> 01:51:32.720
the gross sick people. Huh, you just I'm not touching you.

2497
01:51:32.760 --> 01:51:34.720
I'm not touching you, Like this must have been invented

2498
01:51:34.760 --> 01:51:37.279
by like schoolyard bullies in third grade. I'm not touching you,

2499
01:51:37.359 --> 01:51:37.880
I'm not touching you.

2500
01:51:37.920 --> 01:51:38.960
Do you feel better? Give me money?

2501
01:51:39.760 --> 01:51:42.319
But so, yeah, he rubs his hands and just kind

2502
01:51:42.359 --> 01:51:46.079
of massages him, yeah, and helps so as LaRusso is

2503
01:51:46.119 --> 01:51:47.479
sitting there and his leg is really hurt.

2504
01:51:47.720 --> 01:51:49.119
He's still hurt too. Yeah.

2505
01:51:49.319 --> 01:51:52.159
He asked him like, can you do that to fix it?

2506
01:51:52.239 --> 01:51:54.600
And megis like, you don't need to fight, Yeah, you've

2507
01:51:54.640 --> 01:51:58.720
proven yourself. Yeah, and this is and Miyagi's right, Yeah,

2508
01:51:59.279 --> 01:52:04.479
because dave Daniel the tools to not have to win,

2509
01:52:05.039 --> 01:52:08.079
because now he has been able to, you know, get

2510
01:52:08.159 --> 01:52:11.399
the girl, but more importantly, have the confidence in himself

2511
01:52:11.640 --> 01:52:13.520
to have friends, to have a girlfriend.

2512
01:52:13.640 --> 01:52:16.199
Chriese had to cheat in order for him to win

2513
01:52:16.279 --> 01:52:18.600
in this. That's one thing I always that I've always

2514
01:52:18.600 --> 01:52:20.760
picked up on, is that Chris who you know, Oh yeah,

2515
01:52:20.760 --> 01:52:22.520
well we'll join you at the fight and everything. Then

2516
01:52:22.600 --> 01:52:24.840
the first chance he has to to sweep the leg,

2517
01:52:25.279 --> 01:52:25.920
does it well?

2518
01:52:25.960 --> 01:52:28.920
And I'll see that point, but I want to I

2519
01:52:28.960 --> 01:52:30.039
want to alter it a little bit.

2520
01:52:30.119 --> 01:52:31.640
Okay, it's not that Chris has to cheat.

2521
01:52:31.720 --> 01:52:32.840
Is that Chris cheat cheats?

2522
01:52:32.880 --> 01:52:34.399
He just is a cheat chee.

2523
01:52:34.520 --> 01:52:36.039
He is just that guy.

2524
01:52:36.199 --> 01:52:36.399
Yeah.

2525
01:52:36.600 --> 01:52:39.319
And and the fact that he's like, I don't want

2526
01:52:39.319 --> 01:52:41.439
to have I don't have confidence you can actually, you know,

2527
01:52:41.520 --> 01:52:43.479
beat him for sure. I want to make sure you

2528
01:52:43.640 --> 01:52:46.479
win because winning is all that matters, not being the

2529
01:52:46.560 --> 01:52:49.560
best you can be, which is the complete opposite of

2530
01:52:49.600 --> 01:52:51.239
what Miagi is teaching him.

2531
01:52:51.439 --> 01:52:52.119
So I love that more.

2532
01:52:52.199 --> 01:52:53.920
He says like, you don't have to fight anymore, because

2533
01:52:53.920 --> 01:52:56.640
he's right. But this is the big turning point because

2534
01:52:56.640 --> 01:53:00.359
he says, I want to fight. Miyagi slaps his hands

2535
01:53:01.159 --> 01:53:02.760
and then they come out and LaRusso is still going

2536
01:53:02.840 --> 01:53:03.039
to fight.

2537
01:53:03.119 --> 01:53:05.279
Yeah, and the reason I love this fight.

2538
01:53:06.359 --> 01:53:10.600
But think about the symbology of this. He just he

2539
01:53:10.720 --> 01:53:14.880
turned eighteen, Miagi gave him the car, Miagi celebrated him

2540
01:53:14.880 --> 01:53:17.600
becoming a man, and then Miagi treated him like a man.

2541
01:53:18.239 --> 01:53:20.680
At the end of the day, it was Larusso's choice

2542
01:53:21.520 --> 01:53:23.439
to go out there and fight even though he was hurt.

2543
01:53:23.960 --> 01:53:26.319
So whether or not the magic rubbing of the leg

2544
01:53:26.479 --> 01:53:29.720
actually makes a big difference, or if all LaRusso needed

2545
01:53:29.800 --> 01:53:32.399
was Miyagi saying like, I'm going to give you the

2546
01:53:32.520 --> 01:53:35.720
excuse to be as strong as you can possibly be.

2547
01:53:36.319 --> 01:53:37.159
That's up to debate.

2548
01:53:37.279 --> 01:53:37.760
Who cares.

2549
01:53:37.840 --> 01:53:40.359
Yeah, I mean it doesn't because it the point is

2550
01:53:40.399 --> 01:53:44.680
that he goes out there barely able to stand on

2551
01:53:44.960 --> 01:53:48.600
one leg. Yeah, he's basically on one leg. Johnny is

2552
01:53:48.760 --> 01:53:50.840
kind of pissed that he's not going to get to

2553
01:53:50.840 --> 01:53:54.520
fight LaRusso fair, but at the same time, Creases like,

2554
01:53:54.600 --> 01:53:57.119
you win, you win, that's what we do. We win,

2555
01:53:57.399 --> 01:53:59.479
and they and he he had won what to tow

2556
01:53:59.640 --> 01:54:02.600
or one or two of them previously. Yeah, so he's

2557
01:54:02.640 --> 01:54:05.880
already the reigning Valley All Valley champions, I mean.

2558
01:54:05.920 --> 01:54:09.479
And Johnny also, Johnny has such a great character arc,

2559
01:54:09.479 --> 01:54:11.439
which I mean goes to Cobra Kai obviously too, but

2560
01:54:11.600 --> 01:54:14.359
like this movie, especially for his for his introduction everything,

2561
01:54:14.800 --> 01:54:16.479
the whole like where we'll get to in a second,

2562
01:54:16.560 --> 01:54:19.359
but the whole, like you're all right, LaRusso, Johnny has

2563
01:54:19.439 --> 01:54:23.920
that whole, that whole realization that what he thought of

2564
01:54:24.039 --> 01:54:26.399
Crease and everything is not at all what he actually

2565
01:54:26.439 --> 01:54:28.920
wants to be, right, And I think that's that's really good.

2566
01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:31.520
So the matches, the matchres zooms, they they go back

2567
01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:33.159
and forth for a little bit and then it's halted

2568
01:54:33.239 --> 01:54:36.000
when Daniel uses a scissor leg technique to trip Johnny

2569
01:54:36.920 --> 01:54:38.359
and so this delivers a blow to the back of

2570
01:54:38.359 --> 01:54:40.960
the head, giving Johnny a nosebleed. That's when Crease tells

2571
01:54:41.039 --> 01:54:43.720
him no mercy and this and Johnny's like, no, I

2572
01:54:43.760 --> 01:54:44.960
can I can win this, Like I don't have to

2573
01:54:45.000 --> 01:54:46.800
do this unethical move, and he's like, no, go ahead

2574
01:54:46.800 --> 01:54:49.039
and do it. So they're tied to and two. By

2575
01:54:49.079 --> 01:54:53.079
this point, Johnny sees Daniel's leg and just takes an

2576
01:54:53.119 --> 01:54:55.520
elbow right to it, just right where it hurts. So

2577
01:54:55.600 --> 01:54:59.159
now and now Daniel is forced to do the infamous

2578
01:54:59.520 --> 01:55:00.000
crane plat.

2579
01:55:00.319 --> 01:55:04.800
And I love this not only because it's it pays

2580
01:55:04.880 --> 01:55:07.840
off to everything. Yeah, you know, because when he says, like,

2581
01:55:07.880 --> 01:55:09.279
can you teach me? Early on he says, can you

2582
01:55:09.319 --> 01:55:10.600
teach me to the crane kick? He's like, I have

2583
01:55:10.760 --> 01:55:12.520
to learn to run before you can fly.

2584
01:55:12.800 --> 01:55:12.960
Yep.

2585
01:55:13.800 --> 01:55:16.520
So he literally, you know, stands up with his bad

2586
01:55:16.600 --> 01:55:19.520
leg off the ground yep, and just waits for Johnny

2587
01:55:19.600 --> 01:55:22.960
to come to him. Miyagi do is for defense only only,

2588
01:55:23.319 --> 01:55:26.399
so there's no offense. And as Johnny runs up, ready

2589
01:55:26.439 --> 01:55:29.199
to just clobber him, one kick right one face.

2590
01:55:30.640 --> 01:55:31.359
And I do love that.

2591
01:55:31.479 --> 01:55:34.000
Throughout Cobra Kai, Johnny keeps went out, which was an

2592
01:55:34.039 --> 01:55:36.319
illegal legal We weren't allowed to kick me in the

2593
01:55:36.399 --> 01:55:38.840
head technically, you know, but they kind of let it go,

2594
01:55:39.079 --> 01:55:41.640
probably because of what had happened to Lariso before. Yeah,

2595
01:55:41.640 --> 01:55:43.119
and they were a little loose on the rules. They

2596
01:55:43.119 --> 01:55:45.199
were like, well he hit a winning kick.

2597
01:55:45.279 --> 01:55:47.279
Yeah, and we also have the infamous get him a

2598
01:55:47.399 --> 01:55:49.520
body beg a body bag.

2599
01:55:49.800 --> 01:55:53.039
No, it's it's it's such a memorable moment. But also

2600
01:55:53.560 --> 01:55:54.840
I wish I could remember the name of the guy.

2601
01:55:54.880 --> 01:55:56.800
But there was this I'm not an MMA guy, Yeah,

2602
01:55:56.920 --> 01:55:58.880
but I had heard that there was this interesting fighter

2603
01:55:58.920 --> 01:56:01.119
who was one of the very who karate was his

2604
01:56:01.279 --> 01:56:03.520
key thing. Yeah, and he won a match with the

2605
01:56:03.600 --> 01:56:06.159
crane kick by literally just standing.

2606
01:56:05.880 --> 01:56:07.640
Like that might be in my notes. Oh really, it

2607
01:56:07.760 --> 01:56:07.960
might be.

2608
01:56:08.039 --> 01:56:09.560
I'll check because I remember watching him.

2609
01:56:09.600 --> 01:56:11.319
Holy crap, that was just like the movie though, like

2610
01:56:11.399 --> 01:56:13.439
he didn't he didn't do it a million times, yeah,

2611
01:56:13.560 --> 01:56:15.199
but one time he did do it. That's fair.

2612
01:56:15.399 --> 01:56:17.119
So it was just a fascinating side note.

2613
01:56:17.239 --> 01:56:19.520
So, yeah, he scores the tournament winning point, becoming the

2614
01:56:19.560 --> 01:56:21.920
new champion. Johnny has now gained respect. We get the

2615
01:56:21.920 --> 01:56:24.000
whole year, all right, LaRusso and like he gives him

2616
01:56:24.000 --> 01:56:27.520
the trophy and Daniel was hoisted up. He tells Yagi,

2617
01:56:27.640 --> 01:56:29.439
we did it, mister Yagi, and we see the one

2618
01:56:29.600 --> 01:56:32.880
single tier fall from Yaggi's eye, and that is the

2619
01:56:32.960 --> 01:56:34.479
Karate Kid from nineteen eighty four.

2620
01:56:34.560 --> 01:56:38.279
Baby God damn right, and again, I because I'm so

2621
01:56:38.640 --> 01:56:42.319
karate kidded, I always thought that the end, the beginning

2622
01:56:42.359 --> 01:56:44.439
of part two was also in there because there's a

2623
01:56:44.439 --> 01:56:45.640
whole confrontation.

2624
01:56:45.279 --> 01:56:47.720
Which I'll talk about in a second. Yeah. So, Wow,

2625
01:56:48.199 --> 01:56:49.359
budget was eight million.

2626
01:56:50.079 --> 01:56:51.760
I mean that's decent for that time period.

2627
01:56:51.840 --> 01:56:56.000
Opening weekend takes in five million, thirty one dollars June

2628
01:56:56.000 --> 01:56:59.000
twenty fourth, nineteen eighty four. Not bad. Grossing in the

2629
01:56:59.119 --> 01:57:02.079
US and Canada ninety one million dollars.

2630
01:57:02.399 --> 01:57:04.039
They really were the best around.

2631
01:57:03.880 --> 01:57:07.600
Grossing worldwide one hundred and thirty million, holy shit, eight

2632
01:57:07.720 --> 01:57:09.920
million dollar budget, one hundred and thirty million dollars of

2633
01:57:10.000 --> 01:57:10.800
the box office.

2634
01:57:10.560 --> 01:57:15.199
And four three sequel sequels, one smash hit like five

2635
01:57:15.319 --> 01:57:16.479
six season series.

2636
01:57:16.239 --> 01:57:17.960
Ten the TV show. Well that's what I was talking about.

2637
01:57:18.039 --> 01:57:18.199
Yeah.

2638
01:57:18.479 --> 01:57:21.840
So filmed in Harrison, New Jersey, Los Angeles, California, as

2639
01:57:21.880 --> 01:57:23.920
well as Arizona. There's a really cool shot through this

2640
01:57:24.119 --> 01:57:26.960
drive through the canyons. Filming began October twenty fourth of

2641
01:57:27.039 --> 01:57:29.560
nineteen eighty three and ended on December eighth of nineteen

2642
01:57:29.600 --> 01:57:31.720
eighty three after forty five days of filming.

2643
01:57:32.479 --> 01:57:32.760
Wow.

2644
01:57:32.960 --> 01:57:36.640
Yeah, the idea for The Karate Kid came from producer

2645
01:57:36.760 --> 01:57:39.199
Jerry Weintraub, who heard a news report in nineteen eighty

2646
01:57:39.199 --> 01:57:41.279
three about a scrawny team being bullied who became a

2647
01:57:41.359 --> 01:57:43.760
martial artist. The story and movie is based on the

2648
01:57:43.800 --> 01:57:47.119
life of its screenwriter, Robert Mark Cayman. At age seventeen,

2649
01:57:47.159 --> 01:57:49.640
after the nineteen sixty four New York World's Fair, Cayman

2650
01:57:49.760 --> 01:57:51.800
was beaten up by a gang of bullies. He thus

2651
01:57:51.880 --> 01:57:54.039
began to study martial arts in order to defend himself.

2652
01:57:54.159 --> 01:57:56.640
Cayman was unhappy with his first teacher, who taught martial

2653
01:57:56.720 --> 01:57:58.800
arts as a tool for violence and revenge, so he

2654
01:57:58.880 --> 01:58:03.600
moved on to study okanaw goujiu. That's what it says.

2655
01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:06.520
Karate under a Japanese teacher who did not speak English

2656
01:58:06.560 --> 01:58:10.199
but had been a student of Chojun Miyagi. Really no

2657
01:58:10.359 --> 01:58:13.720
shit that I did not know. That's epic. The movie

2658
01:58:13.800 --> 01:58:16.239
was more or less shot in sequence, which is very unusual.

2659
01:58:16.760 --> 01:58:18.680
Yeah, but on a movie like that, I could see

2660
01:58:18.680 --> 01:58:20.199
how you could mostly do it.

2661
01:58:20.640 --> 01:58:23.039
Jerry wine Traup didn't want Pat Marina to audition for

2662
01:58:23.119 --> 01:58:25.359
Miyagi because he didn't think a comedian would be taken

2663
01:58:25.439 --> 01:58:28.960
seriously in the role. Marita wasn't even allowed to audition

2664
01:58:29.039 --> 01:58:31.359
at first, but wine Traub eventually relented after he was

2665
01:58:31.439 --> 01:58:33.800
unable to find anybody who he was satisfied with.

2666
01:58:34.279 --> 01:58:36.800
That's fascinating because I mean he became I mean, he

2667
01:58:36.960 --> 01:58:38.720
became that character so well.

2668
01:58:38.880 --> 01:58:40.840
In real life, Pat Marina did not talk with a

2669
01:58:41.239 --> 01:58:43.560
heavy Japanese accent that he uses in the film as

2670
01:58:43.640 --> 01:58:45.760
mister Biagi. He can be heard talking in his regular

2671
01:58:45.840 --> 01:58:49.439
voice on many of the DVD featurettes. Yeah, the role

2672
01:58:49.479 --> 01:58:52.600
of Daniel LaRusso was allegedly initially offered to Sean Penn.

2673
01:58:52.840 --> 01:58:54.720
Penn turned it down because he was trying to do

2674
01:58:54.880 --> 01:58:57.079
more adult roles. Penn later said in an interview that

2675
01:58:57.119 --> 01:58:59.439
he thought Ralph Machia was one of the greatest living.

2676
01:58:59.239 --> 01:59:03.199
Actors, especially for his age. I mean, to play such

2677
01:59:03.239 --> 01:59:04.880
a complex character so well.

2678
01:59:05.279 --> 01:59:07.600
Charlie Sheen turned down the role of Daniel LaRusso to

2679
01:59:07.680 --> 01:59:11.039
starring Grizzly Too. Revenge a film that started filming in

2680
01:59:11.119 --> 01:59:13.720
nineteen eighty three but didn't complete and release until twenty

2681
01:59:13.760 --> 01:59:17.159
twenty due to several production and financial issues and release.

2682
01:59:17.000 --> 01:59:18.920
Is a strong word on how it actually came out.

2683
01:59:19.039 --> 01:59:21.640
That was a that's a fascinating whole thing. Well, and

2684
01:59:21.720 --> 01:59:22.680
it's a fascinating story.

2685
01:59:22.760 --> 01:59:25.199
Oh yeah. Ralph Maccio was twenty two during filming. Some

2686
01:59:25.319 --> 01:59:27.039
of the cast did not believe him when they asked

2687
01:59:27.079 --> 01:59:29.760
him about his age. Elizabeth Sho was twenty, Rob Garrison

2688
01:59:29.800 --> 01:59:32.279
and Tonio Delhi were both twenty three, Chad McQueen and

2689
01:59:32.359 --> 01:59:34.439
Ron Thomas were twenty two, and William Zadka was the

2690
01:59:34.520 --> 01:59:36.560
only real teenager of the main cast and the youngest

2691
01:59:36.600 --> 01:59:37.720
at eighteen. Yeah.

2692
01:59:37.920 --> 01:59:41.119
No, he really, I mean I even in the later ones,

2693
01:59:41.199 --> 01:59:43.359
I still think he looks like he's very, very young.

2694
01:59:43.479 --> 01:59:46.399
Yeah. According to Pat Marina, he is credited with Noriyuki

2695
01:59:46.720 --> 01:59:49.840
Pat Merita because the producers wanted to promote his Japanese heritage.

2696
01:59:50.560 --> 01:59:51.840
I mean, I get it, because they wanted to be

2697
01:59:51.960 --> 01:59:53.680
They wanted to come across as authentic.

2698
01:59:53.840 --> 01:59:56.720
Yeah. Pat Marina's portrayal of mister Viagi was heavily influenced

2699
01:59:56.760 --> 01:59:59.960
by karate master Fumio du Mura. Marisa spent a lot

2700
02:00:00.119 --> 02:00:02.199
of time with Demira, who doubled for him in his

2701
02:00:02.279 --> 02:00:05.239
fight scenes and translated not only Dmra's attitude towards martial

2702
02:00:05.319 --> 02:00:07.880
arts of the character, but also his mannerisms and speech.

2703
02:00:08.279 --> 02:00:11.079
Oh wow, okay, that's awesome. When miss Miyagi is drunk

2704
02:00:11.119 --> 02:00:13.600
in celebrating anniversary, he reveals that he served in the

2705
02:00:13.720 --> 02:00:16.439
Army in the four hundred and forty second Regiment Combat Team.

2706
02:00:16.560 --> 02:00:19.159
The unit, composed mostly of Japanese Americans, many of whom

2707
02:00:19.159 --> 02:00:21.600
who had been in internment camps, fought in Europe during

2708
02:00:21.640 --> 02:00:24.239
World War II. It became the most highly decorated unit

2709
02:00:24.279 --> 02:00:27.079
in the history of the United States military. Wow. In

2710
02:00:27.159 --> 02:00:29.000
the opening scene, the kids chasing down the car the

2711
02:00:29.039 --> 02:00:31.359
street waving goodbye are all from the neighborhood. They were

2712
02:00:31.399 --> 02:00:33.600
hanging around the set and interfering with the shoot, so

2713
02:00:33.720 --> 02:00:35.399
the director offered to put them in the movie if

2714
02:00:35.399 --> 02:00:36.640
they would leave the crew alone.

2715
02:00:36.880 --> 02:00:38.720
Hey that works, Yeah, that works really well.

2716
02:00:38.920 --> 02:00:41.560
Director Albotson had to climb on top of a factory

2717
02:00:41.600 --> 02:00:43.800
in the opening shot to achieve the angle of Daniel

2718
02:00:43.840 --> 02:00:48.560
and his mother driving away. Pat Marita himself designed the

2719
02:00:48.600 --> 02:00:52.079
Bonzi logo that was sewn into Daniel's gee. Really yeah, Oh,

2720
02:00:52.159 --> 02:00:54.399
that's awesome. The fly in the scene was attached to

2721
02:00:54.479 --> 02:00:56.439
a fishing line and was being moved around by a

2722
02:00:56.520 --> 02:00:57.000
crew member.

2723
02:00:57.199 --> 02:00:59.079
Yeah, we forgot it. So when he catches the fly.

2724
02:00:59.239 --> 02:01:01.680
Oh yeah, he's been trying his whole life and LaRusso

2725
02:01:01.800 --> 02:01:04.079
just does it and he's a big good luck. And

2726
02:01:04.520 --> 02:01:07.119
that's another great little hint that he's a he's a guy.

2727
02:01:07.199 --> 02:01:07.399
Yeah.

2728
02:01:07.399 --> 02:01:07.560
You know.

2729
02:01:07.800 --> 02:01:10.399
The yellow Classic automobile that Daniel polishes and the famous

2730
02:01:10.479 --> 02:01:13.039
wax on wax off training scene, then later offered by

2731
02:01:13.119 --> 02:01:15.800
Miyagi as Daniel's birthday gift, was actually given to Ralph

2732
02:01:15.840 --> 02:01:18.000
Macchio by the producer and he still owns it. The

2733
02:01:18.079 --> 02:01:20.760
car is a nineteen forty eight Ford Super Deluxe.

2734
02:01:21.359 --> 02:01:23.800
That's fucking bitching. And you know, I just realized though,

2735
02:01:23.960 --> 02:01:25.560
and he picked the car that he put the work on.

2736
02:01:25.800 --> 02:01:27.279
Yeah, see it.

2737
02:01:27.720 --> 02:01:30.319
This is such a phenomenal piece of storytelling.

2738
02:01:30.479 --> 02:01:30.680
It is.

2739
02:01:31.159 --> 02:01:34.079
The skeleton fight endured numerous takes because the actors complain

2740
02:01:34.159 --> 02:01:37.600
that Fumio Dmira Marita stunt double was hitting them too hard,

2741
02:01:37.600 --> 02:01:39.479
which caused the scene to loose some of the choreography

2742
02:01:39.520 --> 02:01:42.079
and authenticity. Fumio told the director that if he could

2743
02:01:42.159 --> 02:01:43.920
use his own students, that would get the shot in

2744
02:01:44.000 --> 02:01:46.399
one take. The director agreed, and they shot the fight

2745
02:01:46.520 --> 02:01:48.720
scene successfully in one take. One of the doubles is

2746
02:01:48.800 --> 02:01:51.439
a descendant of the legendary King of the Frontier Davy Crockett.

2747
02:01:52.199 --> 02:01:54.239
Oh that's a hell of a piece of trivia right there.

2748
02:01:54.760 --> 02:01:56.760
The last spinkick that Daniel was hit with before he

2749
02:01:56.880 --> 02:01:59.279
is saved by mister Biagi actually hit Ralph Macchio. It

2750
02:01:59.359 --> 02:02:02.680
hurt him, I bet. According to the commentary track on

2751
02:02:02.720 --> 02:02:05.239
the home video versions of the movie, William Zadka came

2752
02:02:05.319 --> 02:02:07.800
with the loose backstory for Johnny Lawrence's character in order

2753
02:02:07.880 --> 02:02:10.039
to get a better feel for playing the character. He

2754
02:02:10.159 --> 02:02:12.520
states in the commentary that he envisioned Johnny as having

2755
02:02:12.600 --> 02:02:14.600
no father and that creases the closest thing to a

2756
02:02:14.680 --> 02:02:16.239
father figure he had in his life.

2757
02:02:16.039 --> 02:02:18.000
Which was pretty accurate to what they built on later.

2758
02:02:18.159 --> 02:02:21.199
Yep. William Zadka had no karate experience prior to being

2759
02:02:21.279 --> 02:02:23.520
cast of the film. However, he was an accomplished wrestler.

2760
02:02:23.680 --> 02:02:26.319
Zabka continued his karate training and became a second degree

2761
02:02:26.359 --> 02:02:30.439
green belt. Really yeah, Zabka still owns the red leather

2762
02:02:30.520 --> 02:02:31.640
jacket he wears in the film.

2763
02:02:31.960 --> 02:02:32.720
Well damn right.

2764
02:02:33.119 --> 02:02:35.920
According to williams Zabka, the director he portrays still irks

2765
02:02:35.960 --> 02:02:39.560
many people. According to William Zaca, the character he portrays

2766
02:02:39.560 --> 02:02:42.039
still irks many people. Some have tried to start fights

2767
02:02:42.079 --> 02:02:43.399
with him, and he's had to convince them that the

2768
02:02:43.479 --> 02:02:46.359
role was specifically written for the movie. Oh my god. Yeah,

2769
02:02:46.359 --> 02:02:47.079
people are stupid.

2770
02:02:47.279 --> 02:02:49.520
Well, you know, but you got to remember the time

2771
02:02:49.600 --> 02:02:52.159
period two movies were still kind of mysterious. Yeah, and

2772
02:02:52.279 --> 02:02:55.399
people still kind of believed in a weird way.

2773
02:02:55.680 --> 02:02:59.560
The climactic karate tournament involved over five hundred extras. Extras

2774
02:02:59.600 --> 02:03:01.239
were so caught up in the tournament scene that they

2775
02:03:01.279 --> 02:03:04.159
would boo William Zadka even when the cameras were not rolling.

2776
02:03:04.319 --> 02:03:06.279
Zabka's mother was in the crowd and kept trying to

2777
02:03:06.319 --> 02:03:08.600
tell people that he's actually very nice in real life.

2778
02:03:09.279 --> 02:03:12.760
That would be my mother, What my mom would do too.

2779
02:03:12.880 --> 02:03:15.000
The referee in the final match is Pat E. Johnson,

2780
02:03:15.000 --> 02:03:17.279
a karate expert and former student of Chuck Norris. He

2781
02:03:17.319 --> 02:03:20.439
instructed many moves of many movie stars in karate. He

2782
02:03:20.520 --> 02:03:23.439
is credited as the fight instructor a choreographer for the film.

2783
02:03:23.680 --> 02:03:25.840
He choreographed all the fights in the tournament. Some of

2784
02:03:25.880 --> 02:03:28.079
the movies he taught actors were beyond their normal skill

2785
02:03:28.199 --> 02:03:30.239
or moves he taught actors are beyond their normal skill,

2786
02:03:30.640 --> 02:03:32.960
so he asked to remain close by in case he

2787
02:03:33.000 --> 02:03:34.920
had to adjust or at worse, stop the scene. The

2788
02:03:35.000 --> 02:03:38.920
producers made him the referee. Nice yeah. William Zach had

2789
02:03:38.960 --> 02:03:41.800
revealed in an interview that during rehearsals, Martin Cove delivered

2790
02:03:41.800 --> 02:03:43.640
the sweep the leg line in a calm manner, but

2791
02:03:43.680 --> 02:03:45.119
when they filmed it, he said it in such a

2792
02:03:45.199 --> 02:03:48.760
cold voice, which shocked everyone, including Zapka, who shocked expression

2793
02:03:48.800 --> 02:03:50.399
on screen was genuine. Yeah.

2794
02:03:50.479 --> 02:03:53.159
Cove is a goddamn amazing actor.

2795
02:03:53.239 --> 02:03:55.680
He is, according to Martin Cove and the DVD commentary.

2796
02:03:56.119 --> 02:03:58.319
He had gotten a call from John g Alpason stating

2797
02:03:58.359 --> 02:03:59.920
that they wanted him to audition for Crease, but he

2798
02:04:00.000 --> 02:04:02.159
he was told to wait. Cove wanted the role so

2799
02:04:02.239 --> 02:04:04.159
much that he turned down other prospects in order to

2800
02:04:04.199 --> 02:04:06.159
get his part, but when the waiting dragged out for

2801
02:04:06.199 --> 02:04:08.399
a few weeks, Cove became annoyed as he kept turning

2802
02:04:08.439 --> 02:04:11.600
down the parts. Finally, Abdson called Cove into audition, and

2803
02:04:11.680 --> 02:04:14.239
Cove was so annoyed with Avidson that he berated the

2804
02:04:14.279 --> 02:04:17.399
director and channeled his anger into an intense audition. Ultimately,

2805
02:04:17.520 --> 02:04:18.920
that intensity got him the role.

2806
02:04:19.159 --> 02:04:20.720
I believe that that's awesome.

2807
02:04:20.920 --> 02:04:22.640
The scene where Daniel was dumped into the water on

2808
02:04:22.680 --> 02:04:25.000
the boat by mister Biagi was filmed in late December

2809
02:04:25.079 --> 02:04:28.000
in Chatsworth, California. The water was so cold that Ralph

2810
02:04:28.039 --> 02:04:30.319
Macchio didn't need to act when he portrayed how freezing

2811
02:04:30.399 --> 02:04:33.800
he was when he got out of the water. In

2812
02:04:34.000 --> 02:04:36.800
years since the film's release, the iconic crane kick came

2813
02:04:36.880 --> 02:04:39.239
to be mocked as an implausible and unrealistic It's a

2814
02:04:39.319 --> 02:04:41.479
jump kick, and even the second film had Daniel try

2815
02:04:41.520 --> 02:04:44.359
it against a new opponent who was able to defeat it. Then,

2816
02:04:44.479 --> 02:04:49.079
at UFC one twenty nine, Leido Makita knocked Randy Kature

2817
02:04:49.279 --> 02:04:52.199
clean out with what was effectively a crane kick. Makita

2818
02:04:52.319 --> 02:04:54.760
didn't lead into it theatrically raising his hands above his

2819
02:04:54.800 --> 02:04:56.840
head and balancing one leg, but he hopped off the

2820
02:04:56.880 --> 02:04:59.479
ground after faking with his left and smashed Katuur's face

2821
02:04:59.560 --> 02:05:02.359
with a front kick from his right. The commentator shouted

2822
02:05:02.359 --> 02:05:04.399
out the movie and even the match record lists the

2823
02:05:04.439 --> 02:05:09.239
finishing move as crane kick. In the opening scene of

2824
02:05:09.239 --> 02:05:11.199
The Karate Kid two was meant to be the ending

2825
02:05:11.279 --> 02:05:13.199
to this film, although it was shot until After the

2826
02:05:13.239 --> 02:05:15.800
second film's production began, and it Crease attacks Johnny for

2827
02:05:15.840 --> 02:05:19.600
losing the tournament. Miagi confronts Crease, who passively immobilizes him,

2828
02:05:19.640 --> 02:05:21.800
and Miagi threatens to strike a deadly blow, but instead

2829
02:05:21.880 --> 02:05:24.920
comically tweaks Cresee's nose and walks away. Members of the

2830
02:05:24.960 --> 02:05:27.640
Cobra Kai then drop their belts around Crease. Both bebe

2831
02:05:27.720 --> 02:05:29.720
Hiller's novelization of the film, and early copies of the

2832
02:05:29.760 --> 02:05:32.920
script have this as the ending. Okay On How I

2833
02:05:33.000 --> 02:05:35.119
Met Your Mother in two thousand and five, Barney insists

2834
02:05:35.119 --> 02:05:37.680
that Johnny is the real karate kid and his personal hero.

2835
02:05:38.199 --> 02:05:40.279
A real life fan theory states that Daniel is the

2836
02:05:40.319 --> 02:05:42.840
real bully while Johnny is the real karate kid. The

2837
02:05:43.000 --> 02:05:45.479
argument includes the fact that Johnny only uses his skills

2838
02:05:45.520 --> 02:05:48.399
for defense or de escalation, while Daniel was always the attacker.

2839
02:05:48.800 --> 02:05:51.239
It also suggests that Daniel wanted to learn karate not

2840
02:05:51.399 --> 02:05:53.880
just to compete with Johnny, but to take revenge. Daniel

2841
02:05:53.920 --> 02:05:55.920
even states that he wants to learn karate for revenge

2842
02:05:55.960 --> 02:05:59.479
until Miagi criticizes the view. This theory conveniently ignores Johnny's

2843
02:05:59.479 --> 02:06:01.920
more villainous aspects, of course, including the treatment of Alley.

2844
02:06:02.279 --> 02:06:04.199
Well, yeah, no, but I but I do. I mean,

2845
02:06:04.319 --> 02:06:07.079
Johnny is definitely a victim as well. That's that's kind

2846
02:06:07.119 --> 02:06:08.680
of the how real.

2847
02:06:08.760 --> 02:06:10.720
Have you seen that scene in How I Met Your Brother?

2848
02:06:10.920 --> 02:06:10.960
No?

2849
02:06:11.159 --> 02:06:13.479
Oh god? So it's great. So Barney is having his

2850
02:06:13.560 --> 02:06:15.239
birthday party and the one thing that he wants is

2851
02:06:15.279 --> 02:06:17.880
a visit from the Karate Kid. So Ralph Maccio does

2852
02:06:17.960 --> 02:06:20.560
stop by along with some other people, which includes this

2853
02:06:20.640 --> 02:06:22.880
one clown, and at the very end he's just like,

2854
02:06:22.920 --> 02:06:24.640
you know, I'm sorry, Machio, like you're not. The karate

2855
02:06:24.760 --> 02:06:26.760
Kid goes into this whole Zabka like you know what

2856
02:06:26.880 --> 02:06:29.239
I just said, And Zabka is the clown. So he

2857
02:06:29.319 --> 02:06:33.359
starts taking his fun makeup off and I'll show.

2858
02:06:33.159 --> 02:06:33.359
It to you.

2859
02:06:33.520 --> 02:06:34.119
We're off the show.

2860
02:06:34.239 --> 02:06:35.000
That's so funny.

2861
02:06:35.279 --> 02:06:37.680
The studio wanted to drop the drunk Biaggi scene, feeling

2862
02:06:37.720 --> 02:06:40.520
it slowed the pace down. Director John G. Alvinson argued

2863
02:06:40.560 --> 02:06:42.039
for it, and he has felt that the scene was

2864
02:06:42.079 --> 02:06:44.479
what got Pat Marita nominated for an Oscar, even though

2865
02:06:44.520 --> 02:06:45.039
he did not win.

2866
02:06:45.279 --> 02:06:47.359
I mean, I believe that one thing I was very

2867
02:06:47.359 --> 02:06:50.439
impressed by rewatching the movie is the pacing is brilliant

2868
02:06:50.560 --> 02:06:54.079
to really make you believe the transformation is happening. Yeah,

2869
02:06:54.239 --> 02:06:56.399
so I love that it's two hours and six minutes long.

2870
02:06:56.560 --> 02:06:58.880
The film was also a commercial success, grossing over one

2871
02:06:58.960 --> 02:07:00.880
hundred and thirty million world wide, making it one of

2872
02:07:00.920 --> 02:07:03.039
the highest grossing films of nineteen eighty four and the

2873
02:07:03.119 --> 02:07:05.479
Hollywood's biggest sleeper hit of the year. It was the

2874
02:07:05.520 --> 02:07:09.039
top video rental of nineteen eighty five, and lastly, Ralph

2875
02:07:09.079 --> 02:07:11.640
Macchio paid tribute to the late Pat Marita by calling

2876
02:07:11.760 --> 02:07:16.640
him my sense during his uology eulogy Uology you blew it,

2877
02:07:16.760 --> 02:07:17.720
You blew it eulogy.

2878
02:07:17.840 --> 02:07:19.119
No, that's that's wonderful.

2879
02:07:19.319 --> 02:07:21.840
So what are your final thoughts on nineteen eighty four?

2880
02:07:21.880 --> 02:07:22.479
Is Karate? Yeah?

2881
02:07:22.720 --> 02:07:23.079
Stream it?

2882
02:07:23.279 --> 02:07:23.319
No.

2883
02:07:23.880 --> 02:07:26.680
I mean, it's one of my favorite movies of all time.

2884
02:07:26.720 --> 02:07:29.319
I think it's a really important film that teaches you

2885
02:07:29.439 --> 02:07:33.279
how to be so many better versions of yourself. Yeah,

2886
02:07:33.680 --> 02:07:35.760
And I think it's a it's a movie about trying

2887
02:07:35.800 --> 02:07:37.800
to be your best. It's a movie about how pretty

2888
02:07:37.880 --> 02:07:40.039
much everybody's flawed. I mean, you could say, like it's

2889
02:07:40.079 --> 02:07:43.039
hard to sometimes Ali, it's hard to sympathize with Ali

2890
02:07:43.119 --> 02:07:45.399
because she makes weird choices. They're all just teenagers. Yeah,

2891
02:07:45.399 --> 02:07:49.079
the characters are just teenagers, so they're all stupid. Yeah,

2892
02:07:49.079 --> 02:07:52.079
they're all figuring things out and making dumb choices. That's

2893
02:07:52.279 --> 02:07:55.239
just that's that's just life, basic life. Yeah, it's a

2894
02:07:55.359 --> 02:07:56.199
it's a buy it for me.

2895
02:07:56.840 --> 02:07:59.800
This movie is so important in the pop culture. It's

2896
02:07:59.840 --> 02:08:01.800
in important with a lot of the themes it has,

2897
02:08:01.920 --> 02:08:03.880
and also it just still has a staying power to

2898
02:08:03.960 --> 02:08:06.039
this day that's still relevant even though it's an eighty

2899
02:08:06.119 --> 02:08:06.600
four movie.

2900
02:08:06.760 --> 02:08:08.239
I would agree one thousand percent.

2901
02:08:08.319 --> 02:08:11.800
I mean, it is the number one movie that when

2902
02:08:11.800 --> 02:08:13.640
you think of a martial arts film, this is the

2903
02:08:13.680 --> 02:08:15.760
one that comes to mind. Obviously. Yeah, god it.

2904
02:08:16.000 --> 02:08:18.000
I mean it's just a perfect piece.

2905
02:08:18.199 --> 02:08:20.279
So since we've talked about how we felt, should we

2906
02:08:20.359 --> 02:08:22.119
check in with our friends Ciskel and Ebert to see

2907
02:08:22.119 --> 02:08:23.039
what they think about the movie.

2908
02:08:23.079 --> 02:08:24.439
I mean, I didn't know we were on like a

2909
02:08:24.520 --> 02:08:27.680
first name basisrhythm, but we can check that out. So

2910
02:08:28.079 --> 02:08:31.359
this is Ciskel and Ebert talking about Karate Kid.

2911
02:08:31.560 --> 02:08:33.479
Boy and Pat and Marita. There is the Old Man

2912
02:08:33.640 --> 02:08:36.600
and also Randy Heller is Daniel's mother. She's very good

2913
02:08:36.680 --> 02:08:41.279
portraying she is a single parent. Under pressure. The performances

2914
02:08:41.359 --> 02:08:44.159
go a long way toward making this predictable story interesting.

2915
02:08:44.319 --> 02:08:45.960
But there is one big problem with the movie. For me,

2916
02:08:46.039 --> 02:08:48.159
it's just too long, maybe by twenty or thirty minutes.

2917
02:08:48.159 --> 02:08:49.720
There's no reason for a film like this to run

2918
02:08:49.760 --> 02:08:52.920
who semi doesn't have that much to say, and it

2919
02:08:53.000 --> 02:08:56.000
says it too slowly. That criticism aside, though, the Karate

2920
02:08:56.159 --> 02:08:58.720
Kid works because it sees the problems of the new

2921
02:08:58.840 --> 02:09:01.199
kid in school quite well and I think quite accurately.

2922
02:09:01.560 --> 02:09:05.039
And Ralfmacho is quite winning as Daniel, So marginal thumbs

2923
02:09:05.119 --> 02:09:05.479
up for me.

2924
02:09:05.760 --> 02:09:10.439
Somebody pat Marita is that Japanese American janitor is going

2925
02:09:10.520 --> 02:09:12.640
to teach him all the moves. I thought it was

2926
02:09:12.760 --> 02:09:15.520
a great performance, and I didn't think that the training

2927
02:09:15.560 --> 02:09:18.279
scenes were predictable. In fact, just the opposite I've seen

2928
02:09:19.439 --> 02:09:22.119
predict In other words, most of the movie isn't predictable.

2929
02:09:22.159 --> 02:09:24.880
I think most of it is the training relationship with

2930
02:09:24.920 --> 02:09:25.199
that guy.

2931
02:09:25.279 --> 02:09:27.520
I think most of the movie is predictable, predictable that

2932
02:09:27.600 --> 02:09:29.520
they will have a karate fight, and I don't want

2933
02:09:29.560 --> 02:09:30.079
to go beyond that.

2934
02:09:30.159 --> 02:09:32.079
Well, we know this is the director of Rocky. That

2935
02:09:32.199 --> 02:09:34.319
might help you to kind of guess what's going to happen.

2936
02:09:34.359 --> 02:09:37.439
But the fact is when karate, he does it in

2937
02:09:37.520 --> 02:09:39.880
so many different ways. Polish the car, paint the fence,

2938
02:09:39.960 --> 02:09:42.880
paint the house, work out on the boat, and so forth.

2939
02:09:43.159 --> 02:09:45.279
And this is the first karate movie I've seen where

2940
02:09:45.319 --> 02:09:48.199
the philosophy of this karate, instead of just being a

2941
02:09:48.319 --> 02:09:51.439
fighting technique, it becomes a whole place of life really

2942
02:09:51.520 --> 02:09:53.319
kind of was part of the whole thing that was

2943
02:09:53.359 --> 02:09:53.600
going on.

2944
02:09:53.800 --> 02:09:56.199
Well, that's sort of I think that's sort of predictable.

2945
02:09:56.239 --> 02:09:58.319
I mean, even the TV show, you know, with the

2946
02:09:58.479 --> 02:10:00.760
Carroty had a little bit of the karate is more

2947
02:10:00.840 --> 02:10:03.680
than just a kung fu what I like the individual

2948
02:10:03.840 --> 02:10:05.439
characters in the time. I think that's very well.

2949
02:10:05.439 --> 02:10:08.199
I just would have he's a movie critic. I like this.

2950
02:10:08.319 --> 02:10:10.199
Okay, we're more or less than Greened Pat Marita. I

2951
02:10:10.279 --> 02:10:12.720
think if possible for an Oscar nomination, if the movie

2952
02:10:12.760 --> 02:10:14.720
does it at the back, come that's right, okay, I'll

2953
02:10:14.720 --> 02:10:14.960
see you.

2954
02:10:15.239 --> 02:10:20.479
I'll hey, you know what, at least he had opinions.

2955
02:10:20.560 --> 02:10:22.560
Now there is that. Yeah, we always like that in

2956
02:10:22.640 --> 02:10:24.800
the show. With a couple of recommendations, of course, and

2957
02:10:24.920 --> 02:10:27.800
I have two this week, starting with nineteen ninety two

2958
02:10:27.880 --> 02:10:30.640
s Three Ninjas, currently rentable on Prime and fan Dango.

2959
02:10:31.039 --> 02:10:33.640
Each year, three brothers visit their grandfather for the summer.

2960
02:10:33.760 --> 02:10:36.000
He is highly skilled in niu jitsu and for years

2961
02:10:36.039 --> 02:10:37.800
he has trained the boys and techniques, which come in

2962
02:10:37.840 --> 02:10:40.039
handy when they have to face an organized crime ring.

2963
02:10:40.520 --> 02:10:41.319
Ridiculous movie.

2964
02:10:41.520 --> 02:10:43.239
I mean, I'm more of a high newon on Mega

2965
02:10:43.279 --> 02:10:43.840
Mountain guy.

2966
02:10:43.920 --> 02:10:45.920
But yeah, you like you like hul Cochon being suchually

2967
02:10:45.920 --> 02:10:47.279
assault constantly.

2968
02:10:47.479 --> 02:10:49.880
Yeah, I mean, honestly, that's pretty much a five star

2969
02:10:49.960 --> 02:10:50.640
for me anytime.

2970
02:10:51.079 --> 02:10:53.600
The other one, I'm gonna go with going with more So,

2971
02:10:54.159 --> 02:10:55.840
first off, it's the same year that this came out,

2972
02:10:55.880 --> 02:10:58.560
but also kind of goes into that childhood element of

2973
02:10:59.039 --> 02:11:01.520
maturing and also like having a mentor, and that's going

2974
02:11:01.600 --> 02:11:04.479
to be nineteen eighty four's Cloak and Dagger, currently available

2975
02:11:04.520 --> 02:11:07.199
on Prime and are currently rentable on Prime and Fandango.

2976
02:11:07.319 --> 02:11:09.319
A young boy and his imaginary friend end up on

2977
02:11:09.359 --> 02:11:11.760
the run while in possession of a top secret spy gadget.

2978
02:11:12.119 --> 02:11:14.119
I was so thrilled to show this movie too, Child

2979
02:11:14.159 --> 02:11:15.279
Fight Club, Child Fight Club.

2980
02:11:15.600 --> 02:11:18.680
So it's a fascinatingly weird and great movie.

2981
02:11:18.840 --> 02:11:20.319
It is, so, what's your pick this week?

2982
02:11:20.479 --> 02:11:23.760
So there was another film that had a big effect

2983
02:11:23.840 --> 02:11:25.840
on me when I was younger that I've always felt

2984
02:11:25.920 --> 02:11:28.520
did not get the do it deserved. And it is

2985
02:11:29.319 --> 02:11:32.439
a karate kid knockoff to an extent. Yeah, and that

2986
02:11:32.680 --> 02:11:37.279
is nineteen ninety two's Sidekicks Go Damn Right, starring Jonathan

2987
02:11:37.359 --> 02:11:42.680
Brandis and Chuck Norris. And the description is a bullied

2988
02:11:42.720 --> 02:11:46.159
teen who fantasizes about being Chuck Norris's sidekick, trains in

2989
02:11:46.279 --> 02:11:49.920
martial arts to fulfill his dreams. And one of the

2990
02:11:50.039 --> 02:11:52.560
things I think is incredible. First of all, it's available

2991
02:11:52.600 --> 02:11:56.199
on Prime and Fowsome, maybe a few other spots that I'm.

2992
02:11:56.079 --> 02:11:58.760
Not currently a beautiful four K from Vincent as well.

2993
02:11:58.880 --> 02:12:01.640
It's on TV the Roku channel. Yeah, I highly recommend

2994
02:12:01.680 --> 02:12:04.119
watching it. It was unavailable for so long that I

2995
02:12:04.239 --> 02:12:05.359
used to watch my tape of it.

2996
02:12:05.479 --> 02:12:06.920
Yeah, I don't. I don't think it ever got a

2997
02:12:07.000 --> 02:12:07.600
DVD release.

2998
02:12:07.600 --> 02:12:09.880
It ever went straight to Blu Ray. Yeah, and uh,

2999
02:12:10.560 --> 02:12:12.960
straight to by Way of like twenty years years. But

3000
02:12:13.319 --> 02:12:15.880
while there is a lot of cheesiness to it, the

3001
02:12:16.000 --> 02:12:19.920
idea that he has that there's this kid who has asthma.

3002
02:12:20.279 --> 02:12:23.359
He has no he has no confidence. He's being raised

3003
02:12:23.399 --> 02:12:27.000
by a single dad who is just trying his best. Yeah,

3004
02:12:27.079 --> 02:12:30.920
and he really is played by bow Bridges beautifully. It's it.

3005
02:12:31.439 --> 02:12:35.079
Brandis is perfect in it, and his sense is a

3006
02:12:35.159 --> 02:12:39.960
little bit more. He's played by Mako, thank you, who

3007
02:12:40.039 --> 02:12:42.880
plays mister Lee. He is a Chinese American immigrant who

3008
02:12:42.960 --> 02:12:46.920
is running a restaurant in Houston. I believe texas he

3009
02:12:47.199 --> 02:12:52.119
teaches Brandis not to really fight, but first to believe

3010
02:12:52.159 --> 02:12:54.239
in himself. And there's a line in it that I

3011
02:12:54.279 --> 02:12:56.720
couldn't believe when I rewatched it with you guys recently,

3012
02:12:57.119 --> 02:13:01.119
where he taught points to a liquor bodily, this is

3013
02:13:01.199 --> 02:13:04.800
either a crutch or a thief. You have to decide which.

3014
02:13:05.199 --> 02:13:07.640
And then he points to his asthma inhaler because earlier

3015
02:13:07.680 --> 02:13:10.159
there's a reference to the scarring and his lungs is

3016
02:13:10.199 --> 02:13:12.600
barely there, and it seems like whenever he gets anxious

3017
02:13:12.600 --> 02:13:14.479
he has an asthma attack. Yeah, he says, we got

3018
02:13:14.520 --> 02:13:17.199
We're going to figure out if that is a liar

3019
02:13:17.359 --> 02:13:20.720
or a crutch. And I think about that and think

3020
02:13:20.720 --> 02:13:23.720
about that and the way Mako teaches him by throwing

3021
02:13:23.800 --> 02:13:25.920
dumplings at him until he learns to catch them and

3022
02:13:27.079 --> 02:13:29.359
he's got this great he's a lot more sardonic.

3023
02:13:29.920 --> 02:13:32.640
I think the movie gets an unfair rep because of

3024
02:13:32.760 --> 02:13:35.640
Chuck Norris with it, like because I feel like it's

3025
02:13:35.680 --> 02:13:37.359
easy to be like, oh, it's a Chuck Norris movie,

3026
02:13:37.399 --> 02:13:39.159
like a Chuck Norris kids movie, but like there's a

3027
02:13:39.319 --> 02:13:42.039
lot of really great themes and elements of that film.

3028
02:13:42.119 --> 02:13:44.159
Yeah, No, it's it's a great movie about and it's

3029
02:13:44.199 --> 02:13:47.199
again it's just about believing in yourself and that film.

3030
02:13:47.640 --> 02:13:49.680
One thing I think it does very different from Karate

3031
02:13:49.800 --> 02:13:52.159
Kid that makes it very interesting is it really isn't

3032
02:13:52.239 --> 02:13:56.520
about beating the kid spoiler alert. The ending is not

3033
02:13:56.800 --> 02:14:00.520
them fighting face off. Yeah, it's not. It's it's it's

3034
02:14:00.560 --> 02:14:06.079
all about Brandis's character really understanding his potential as a

3035
02:14:06.159 --> 02:14:10.640
person and realizing that if you work hard and you

3036
02:14:10.800 --> 02:14:15.439
believe incredible things that you'll never you could never imagine

3037
02:14:16.199 --> 02:14:19.319
will happen to you. So, while it is a I

3038
02:14:19.399 --> 02:14:22.439
think I would not say it's not a Karate Kid knockoff,

3039
02:14:23.399 --> 02:14:26.800
it has a lot to say that's different, and I

3040
02:14:27.079 --> 02:14:31.239
identify a lot more with Brandis's character personally than I

3041
02:14:31.359 --> 02:14:33.880
do with Ralph machio because I wasn't getting into fights

3042
02:14:33.920 --> 02:14:37.760
and stuff. I was getting beat up, and I didn't

3043
02:14:37.960 --> 02:14:40.560
have a lot of confidence, and I did daydream a lot,

3044
02:14:40.640 --> 02:14:41.960
and I lived in the movies.

3045
02:14:42.560 --> 02:14:44.760
So all of those things. But you were John Connor

3046
02:14:44.800 --> 02:14:45.239
every time.

3047
02:14:45.880 --> 02:14:48.039
You're goddamn right, I was, I'll lead the Resistance.

3048
02:14:49.800 --> 02:14:50.000
But no.

3049
02:14:50.159 --> 02:14:52.279
So Sidekicks from nineteen ninety two, Oh my god, if

3050
02:14:52.319 --> 02:14:54.239
you haven't seen it, please just fucking watch it.

3051
02:14:54.319 --> 02:14:55.560
And I think it goes to that saying. We've said

3052
02:14:55.560 --> 02:14:57.600
it numerous times in this episode already. The Karate Kid

3053
02:14:57.680 --> 02:15:00.560
sequels are all worth a watch. Oh, definitely, one hundred percent,

3054
02:15:00.600 --> 02:15:03.960
even even the Jackie Chan remake and Legends definitely worth

3055
02:15:04.000 --> 02:15:07.039
a watch if you are into the movies. Two, I

3056
02:15:07.319 --> 02:15:10.000
cannot overstate enough is just a fucking perfect film.

3057
02:15:10.079 --> 02:15:12.960
It's so good and and Cobra Kai TV series is

3058
02:15:13.039 --> 02:15:13.520
just amazing.

3059
02:15:13.800 --> 02:15:14.960
So do we have an emails this week?

3060
02:15:15.279 --> 02:15:17.880
I'll double check. We didn't last I checked, Oh, no,

3061
02:15:17.960 --> 02:15:22.159
one likes us. Also that Nica Porro whooped by bit

3062
02:15:22.279 --> 02:15:25.319
but with nicotine. I guess it hadn't melowed up that

3063
02:15:25.399 --> 02:15:28.880
much after all, and neither have I. We no emails today,

3064
02:15:29.359 --> 02:15:32.479
so we're not loved this week, and that's fair enough.

3065
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That's okay. Maybe we'll be loved next week as we

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continue listener Request Month with one that has been requested

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multiple times again, we are going to play a game

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with twenty nineteen's Ready or Not?

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What a great what a great film, and what a

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great surprise came to the theaters, what a great time.

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So yeah, we'll be talking about that next week. And

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if you want to email us, we do love to

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02:15:54.000 --> 02:15:56.479
hear from you. This do you even Movie pod at

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gmail dot com. It's in the show notes of the description.

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You can also go to dooeven movie dot com for

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Leave a comment.

3079
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We'd love to read those, yes, And if you're listening

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and leave us a five star rating on Spotify or

3082
02:16:14.520 --> 02:16:17.000
Apple Podcasts. Absolutely, it makes a really big difference. And

3083
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if you don't, I'll just cry some more on the

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show and we'll see how you feel about that.

3085
02:16:20.239 --> 02:16:21.520
That's fair, I mean we can. We had definitely a

3086
02:16:21.520 --> 02:16:23.239
lots more sad movies for both of us.

3087
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Start Sad, I cry it happy movies, man.

3088
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I think I think the episode so far that we

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have both cried together on was just another Christmas and

3090
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I think that's been the only episode we've cried together.

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Yeah, that's a hell of a film.

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The hell of a film. But yeah, we're gonna talking

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about Ready or Not next week on the show currently

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available rentable on Prime and Fandango and has a sequel

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coming out soon. So yeah, I think, like the summer,

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Ready or Not and here I come, so good, great, great.

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I cannot wait for that.

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So we'll be back next week with that.

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So until next time, I guess all that's left to

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say is, uh, you next sweep the leg?

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Johnnie body Man saghm