Wax on. Wax off. Sweep the leg. Few films have left a bigger mark on pop culture than The Karate Kid, and in this episode we're stepping into the dojo to uncover the stories behind the classic.
Joining us is Sam, one of our fantastic Patrons, who chose this week's film. Together we dig into behind-the-scenes secrets, surprising casting stories, production trivia, martial arts myths, and the moments that turned this modest underdog movie into a worldwide phenomenon.
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The Karate Kid is a 1984 American martial arts drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by Robert Mark Kamen. It is the first film in The Karate Kid franchise. The film stars Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue and William Zabka.[3][4] The story follows Daniel LaRusso (Macchio), an Italian-American teenager from New Jersey who moves with his widowed mother to the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles. There, LaRusso encounters harassment from bullies, one of whom is Johnny Lawrence (Zabka), the ex-boyfriend of LaRusso's love interest, Ali Mills (Shue). LaRusso is taught karate by handyman and war veteran Mr. Miyagi (Morita) to help LaRusso defend himself and compete in a karate tournament against his bullies.
Hi guys.
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:In this show, we're looking at
Thomas, McQueen, Zabka, Heller,
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:Kove, Shu, Morita, and Macchio.
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:We're looking at 1984's Karate Kid.
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convinced an entire generation that
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sanding a deck were all perfectly
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the what is, uh, The Karate
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:Uh, it was a film that a very
close friend of mine, um, and
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Kai series, um, the, uh, ridiculous
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massive fan of Karate Kid to the
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know why, but I l- I ran to the
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playing IK+ on the ZX
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about- Okay … karate back in those days.
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relationship with this one.
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not as an adult until I watched it
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such a good time with it.
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actors as well, which I love.
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is your opinion of the characters
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be all and end all, but now I'm
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"Man, you're a bit of, bit of a prick."
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it going, "Man, I loved, uh…
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uh, if, if your opinion of the
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John, then I do recommend Cobra Kai.
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just mentioned, it…
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but I would say knowingly silly.
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it, um, kind of relooks at some
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spoilers, um, is quite interesting.
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ridiculous as a concept- Oh, yeah.
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expect nothing less.
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exact same thing purely because- Yeah
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and Johnny, and it says, "No, you
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that you watch this on YouTube 'cause
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in front of a live studio audience.
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where I'm at the, uh, at the Old, Old,
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I'm still in the temporary room.
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the oubliette . It's the, the room
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that I don't want anybody to see.
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:Uh, yeah, and, uh, my back
is too bad for me to lift it.
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let's get on with it, shall we?
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haven't seen the film.
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film, what you've been doing?
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$8 million, which sounds re-
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other than on this set behind me, which
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they've tidied it up a little bit.
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a full crowd, but the second
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actually competitions going on.
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on the studios at all, John?
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I've, I've pretty much been done it to
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he did all of these, every single
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which are good movies.
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actually does as a follow-up to something,
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Oceans movies, he produced all those.
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musicians, including John 'You can't
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Rocky and was nominated for a
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Sam, you prompted me to watch- Ah
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2, so I haven't got there yet.
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the back of that, so Billy Conn
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Rocky Balboa film so- Oh, right.
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original director for both Serpico and
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over disputes with the producers.
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he might have had if he hadn't
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New Jersey in September.
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Newark, New Jersey, not New York,
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for the heat, not the job.
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the place where Tom Cruise lives
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Yeah … where all those people
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happens, but all their clothes don't…
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they were harassing them and everything
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give them that, that bit just to stop
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a new life in California.
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that's because he has to spend days
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one side of the country to the other.
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Newark to Reseda, which will take
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driving according to Google Maps.
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Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu station
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I think you were talking about
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before we started recording, John.
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car, that car movie database thing.
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pi- picked on one car and I did
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car, and I know a couple of facts
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party tomorrow because, you know, we're in
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alive at this point- Oh, yes … I think.
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him, so mum sends him to speak with the
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gives him, uh, the directions.
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old lady was, the actor?
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I just didn't look it up, so I- It's, it's
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this Japanese gentleman, trying
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it's always like that, right?
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to a boy that you've never met coming
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the end of the film, couldn't it?
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was written by Buddy De Silva,
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we've done on this podcast … it was
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of the:
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on the beach with his new pals.
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song that I couldn't find anywhere.
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we, can we talk- Sorry, go for it,
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football on the beach just for a moment?
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podcast, but Americans, that's
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young men running after a ball.
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game lacked strategy, structure,
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aligned in a chaotic attack-heavy
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is not attributed to a single individual,
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Club in Glasgow, Scotland- Whoop whoop
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m-hmm … um, were founded in:
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known as the combination game.
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teams relied purely on physical
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in an England-Scotland game, which
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international soccer match, um, was
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teams took away the fact that
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news had not made it to Californ-I-A.
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is still being seen, uh, played
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little tiny baby Elisabeth Shue.
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her adventures in babysitting.
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know it's the kind of thing, isn't it,
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than boys, but she seems 30 whereas- Yeah
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like 12 or something.
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uh, no, two year between them.
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20 on release, uh, 21, and Ralph
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what it is that makes him look older.
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do the Karate Kid III- Mm-hmm … which
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Kid, the original Karate Kid, uh,
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the other day and now I've forgot
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was, I think, 11 years her senior.
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to be the love interest, and Ralph
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plot- … but retained his personal
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and Ali's giving him the eyes, so he
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get her attention, kicks a ball at her.
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come in on this point?
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something here about the danger
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children are gonna watch this film and
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you want to be romantically involved
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that that is not true.
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which are about to emerge in relation
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this film's assertion that toxic
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kick-ups for me is the real take home.
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course … out of your box then.
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:Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
469
:Yeah, forge- forget the toxic
masculinity No one's impressed.
470
:No one cares.
471
:Toxic keepy-uppies.
472
:Toxic keepy-uppies.
473
:Jesus Christ.
474
:They're all toxic when I try and do them.
475
:Uh, just then the Sons of
Anarchy arrive or something.
476
:I don't know what's going on.
477
:Uh, the main one's Johnny.
478
:Uh, it's the Lost Boys.
479
:The Lost Boys.
480
:It is very much- … the
Lost Boys, this, isn't it?
481
:Yeah.
482
:Uh, he's Ally's ex, and he sees her
playing kick-ups with Daniel, so he
483
:hassles Ally, but she's having none of it.
484
:Um, when he grabs her beatbox, that's when
Daniel finally- Oh … sticks up for her.
485
:You can hassle a woman all you
want, but do not mess- Yeah, don't-
486
:with her beatbox … don't
touch the ghetto blaster.
487
:Do not touch your ghetto blaster.
488
:And he gets a kicking for his troubles.
489
:Um, he's about a foot and a half shorter
than Johnny, by the way, I noticed.
490
:Um- Yeah … and he gets his ass kicked.
491
:Um, Ally's…
492
:Ally looks to help him, but he's
crying in the sand, question mark?
493
:Yeah.
494
:It's not a good look, Daniel.
495
:Yeah.
496
:It's not.
497
:If, if I cried in the sand in front
of a girl I liked- … come on.
498
:In front, in front of Mrs.
499
:Black when I met her, uh, she…
500
:we wouldn't be, I wouldn't
be where I am today.
501
:But also, how horrible are all her
fr- his friends that he's just made?
502
:You know- Leave him.
503
:Yeah
504
:o- on, on the face of it, he's
just moved to California and found
505
:some, uh, some guys who also like
playing football, um, and he's
506
:hanging out with them on the beach.
507
:The moment he gets beaten up,
they go, "Ha, what a loser."
508
:They s- they- "Let's laugh."
509
:They do.
510
:Where's the big guy?
511
:Yeah, they do.
512
:Where's the big fat guy?
513
:Yeah, they go straight against him.
514
:That's pretty bad, actually.
515
:I can't believe you got kicked
in by lads that are, are trained
516
:by some sort of Nazi dojo.
517
:The guy, some, some marine.
518
:Jesus.
519
:Yeah.
520
:We'll c- we'll come to him.
521
:We'll come to him.
522
:Uh, uh, the next morning, mom's
making the driest eggs in the world.
523
:The- Oh, Jesus
524
:driest.
525
:I…
526
:This is…
527
:These are the eggs that the little
lassie out of The Crow wouldn't eat.
528
:Aren't they?
529
:They…
530
:She doesn't like eggs because,
guys, ugh, they just look awful.
531
:They do.
532
:They don't look as bad as the eggs in
last week's, um, episode of Maximum
533
:Overdrive though, John, do they?
534
:Nah, true, true.
535
:Those eggs- He, he did use those en- eggs
to sand the, uh, wood later on, didn't he?
536
:Spoiler.
537
:Yeah.
538
:Yeah.
539
:Um, she spots Daniel's
face, massive black eye.
540
:Uh, he heads to school with the, with or
without the black eye, he's not bothered.
541
:Uh, Bananarama's "Cruel Summer" is
the, uh- Yeah … is, is the song here.
542
:Uh, hot, hot hit in 1983, gentlemen.
543
:Banger.
544
:Uh, number 40 in the stupid
sexy Flanders Ultrapop chart.
545
:Uh, 32 in the New Zealand present.
546
:Uh, 12 where, John?
547
:The, the Netherlands.
548
:I was just about to- Nearly
didn't do it … the Netherlands.
549
:Nearly didn't do it.
550
:Uh,
551
:eight here, uh, three in
the Sedetrica Praun chart.
552
:Uh, and, uh, one in a brand new
chart, John, a brand new chart
553
:that we've never done before.
554
:Mm-hmm.
555
:Luxembourg.
556
:Oh, that was an anticlimax.
557
:That was a bit of a- I thought,
I thought you were gonna do
558
:the Luxembourg accent, John.
559
:Yeah.
560
:Yeah.
561
:I ne- I nearly jumped in with
the Netherlands after, after
562
:already ruining your car thing.
563
:You what?
564
:Would've been brilliant.
565
:In for a penny.
566
:Destroy the podcast.
567
:Ruining John's morning.
568
:I need another job.
569
:He spent, he spends all week sitting
there furious that you've taken the piss.
570
:No, I haven't got anything for,
for Luxembourg, 'cause, like…
571
:Do you know what?
572
:It made me think, 'cause I was like, "I've
got to have a thing about Luxembourg.
573
:Got to have a thing about Luxembourg."
574
:Nothing.
575
:I feel like, like Wayne and
Garth, you know, when they're
576
:doing the Delaware thing.
577
:"We're in Delaware."
578
:Like- Uh.
579
:What is…
580
:There's nothing.
581
:I mean, what's it famous for?
582
:The capital of Luxembourg is Luxembourg?
583
:Oh, yeah, I guess.
584
:The capital, the capital city
is named after the country, or
585
:the country's named after the…
586
:Yeah, okay.
587
:That's- That's lazy planning.
588
:See also Mexico City, uh- Panama City
… Panama City, and- That's it, right?
589
:San Marino.
590
:The San Marino.
591
:Capital San Marino, San Marino.
592
:There you are.
593
:Yeah.
594
:No, that was about it.
595
:Okay, look, I'm putting them down as
sinks 'cause I think we're quite short.
596
:Uh, the s- the song that we were
talking about for the film, uh,
597
:it was ranked number 44 on VH1's
100 Greatest Songs of the '80s.
598
:Ooh.
599
:Billboard named the song number 13
on their list of the 100 Greatest
600
:Girl Group Songs of All Time,
a list I am not interested in.
601
:You love the Bangles.
602
:Shut up.
603
:I do.
604
:Oh, man, I do love the Bangles.
605
:Always wanted Legal Injection.
606
:The Go-Go's.
607
:Yeah.
608
:Oh, go on then.
609
:Maybe I am interested.
610
:It's probably, probably a decent playlist.
611
:Yeah, it probably is.
612
:Yeah, course it is.
613
:Uh, at sport, his friends spot him.
614
:"Hey, karate kid."
615
:Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.
616
:Dan, Dan Du.
617
:Fantastic.
618
:There you go.
619
:Uh, I, I think it's been quite a
few weeks since we've had a film
620
:that doesn't mention the title.
621
:Yeah.
622
:Yeah, we've been doing all right.
623
:Even when they desperately try and, like,
shoehorn it in, like Maximum Overdrive.
624
:Ali approaches him and explains she's
sorry about the eye, uh, but she
625
:has been practicing keepy-uppies.
626
:Yes.
627
:Good.
628
:And this comes back to my
founding problem with the film.
629
:Hey, I met that, I met that hot guy
with the weird walk the other day.
630
:I'm gonna- … uh, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna impress him, um, uh,
631
:when, by doing some keepy ups.
632
:Yeah.
633
:Um, speaking of- That's
a really good point.
634
:He, he does walk like he's
out of Goodfellas, doesn't he?
635
:So straight.
636
:The Ministry, the Ministry of Silly
Walks is one of the most famous
637
:and enduring sketches- … by the
British comedy troupe Monty Python.
638
:Um, originally aired on September
th,:
639
:Episode 1 of Monty Python's Flying
Circus, titled Face the Press.
640
:Um, uh, in 2014, the city of
Bodo, Norway officially installed
641
:a silly walk pedestrian crossing
sign, encouraging citizens to
642
:cross the street like John Cleese.
643
:Uh, the sketch was officially adapted
into a mobile phone game called Monty
644
:Python's The Ministry of Silly Walks,
where players navigate the streets
645
:of London using ridiculous strides.
646
:And in 2022, health researchers
actually calculated that traveling
647
:via the silly walk burns roughly
two and a half times more energy
648
:than normal walking, officially
classifying it as a high-intensri-
649
:intensity vigorous exercise.
650
:Wow.
651
:There you go.
652
:Wow.
653
:Yeah, John Cleese was
onto something there.
654
:Yeah.
655
:Uh, sidewalks for normal walking.
656
:Uh.
657
:Fantastic.
658
:That, that is not where I saw that
going, so I quite enjoyed that.
659
:Me neither.
660
:Uh, I love the fact that somewhere
in Norway they did that instead
661
:of a painting for the fjords gag.
662
:Ah.
663
:They could have done that.
664
:That would've made perfect sense to me.
665
:At keepy-uppies, by the way, gentlemen,
the official Guinness World Record
666
:for the longest continuous keepy-uppy
is held by Swedish TikToker,
667
:of course it is, Daniel Jakob.
668
:He kept the ball aloft for 28
hours, 21 minutes, and two seconds.
669
:Wow.
670
:What a long time.
671
:The female record's 10 hours, 22
minutes, and eight seconds, set by
672
:Brazil's Raquel Tachiti Benetti.
673
:All right, Raquel.
674
:And UK freestyle footballer, which
is not a thing, uh, Dan Magnus
675
:traveled 200 miles over 10 days whilst
continuously keeping a ball in the air.
676
:Wow.
677
:There you go.
678
:Uh, there's another scrap with
Johnny here, and Daniel storms off.
679
:Later that day at the apartment, Daniel's
practicing karate from a book when
680
:the old janitor comes to fix the tap.
681
:"What happened I?"
682
:"I fell off my bike."
683
:"Lucky you no hurt the hand."
684
:Again, it's funny.
685
:Uh, sometime later at school in
the canteen, Ali and Daniel meet.
686
:Um, three pounds, $3.75
687
:for two school dinners, by the way.
688
:Yeah.
689
:Yeah.
690
:I know we slag Reagan a lot, but that
son of a bitch got something right.
691
:Uh, Daniel heads to the Cobra Kai dojo.
692
:Um, and First Blood Part
II's Martin Kove, by the way.
693
:What movie is this guy in?
694
:Because it's not The Karate Kid.
695
:He's angry.
696
:He's an angry man.
697
:He- This guy, right, John Kreese.
698
:Mm-hmm.
699
:Um, he's even got his own cut-out
photo of him- Yeah … uh, there.
700
:Has he not?
701
:And a photo of him in the Army that
says, "US Army karate champion."
702
:It's what we all aspire to.
703
:Yeah, getting an ink cardboard cut out.
704
:But here's the thing, the picture
isn't even of him in his karate PJs.
705
:Like he's in front of a gun in Central
America hunting the Predator or something.
706
:What is going on in this photo?
707
:Uh, Daniel sees Johnny here and leaves.
708
:Uh, Dan goes to see his mum at her
job at the Orient Express restaurant.
709
:Yeah, tons of real.
710
:Yeah.
711
:Well, at one point it certainly was.
712
:Yeah.
713
:Uh, it no longer exists though.
714
:Uh, filmed at f- uh, 5410 Wilshire
Boulevard, and later became the Korean
715
:Express Restaurant and Nightclub.
716
:Uh, she explains over dinner
they're putting her on this
717
:management program two days a week.
718
:Now she's having a whale of a
time here in California, and as a
719
:47-year-old man, I want to see her film.
720
:I wanna see her story.
721
:Mm.
722
:Yeah.
723
:That's much more interesting.
724
:She's having a great time.
725
:May- I don't know, maybe she has a little
bit of a thing with her boss, you know?
726
:Who knows what's going on.
727
:You know, like the mum
in The Lost Boys, John?
728
:Yeah.
729
:Mum in The Lost Boys.
730
:She's having a great time with her
boss, who turns out to be like the
731
:king of the vampires or whatever.
732
:And, and she gets to work in a video shop.
733
:Wasn't a video shop there?
734
:I know, yeah, exactly.
735
:Yeah.
736
:Could be that.
737
:And she's got- Although she is also
d- she was also doing management
738
:training so, um, you know, a bit
reductive to be honest with you.
739
:May- maybe she's the boss.
740
:Maybe she is, yeah.
741
:Oh, he says she was working with computers
and stuff like that earlier on, so.
742
:Yeah, he does, and she's not.
743
:She's in a restaurant.
744
:Like, won't someone got
fired for that blunder.
745
:Maybe it's a computer restaurant.
746
:Maybe.
747
:Maybe it's one of those
that's got all the- You know,
748
:what- They only serve chips.
749
:Hey.
750
:Oh.
751
:There it is.
752
:Well done.
753
:Well done.
754
:There it is.
755
:Cut, cut that, John.
756
:Get that.
757
:Get that cut.
758
:Yeah.
759
:That's the, that's the clip.
760
:Bates, bates that chip.
761
:Hey.
762
:Uh- She tells Daniel not to be a quitter,
that they couldn't afford karate lessons.
763
:Um, and she knows the new girl on the
scene is a blonde for some reason.
764
:Again, in her story, that
I think is interesting.
765
:She's just told him she's got a
promotion, and then he says, "Oh,
766
:I'm not gonna do a kara- do karate."
767
:And he says, "Oh," she says,
"Oh, we can't afford it anyway."
768
:Well, what you spending all
your money on then, Mum?
769
:I mean, you've just had a promotion.
770
:You've just dragged me all
the way from California.
771
:I reckon she's living
the life on the quiet.
772
:Yeah.
773
:Do you reckon?
774
:She's out on the night.
775
:Yeah, she's, she's up,
she's up to all sorts.
776
:She drops him off at the golf and
stuff, and she's knocking back,
777
:uh, shots at the strip club.
778
:Yeah.
779
:She tells- Well, she's in California.
780
:They, they gr- they're
all green, those shots.
781
:Um, she's, she's on, she's
on some sort of juice.
782
:Yeah, of course she is.
783
:And it costs her an absolute fortune,
but, but she's liv- she's living it up.
784
:But no karate lessons for you, sunshine.
785
:Uh, that night he's cy- Unless
they're free from a caricature.
786
:And, and indeed, and indeed they are.
787
:Uh, that night Daniel's cycling
home in the pitch black.
788
:How long was he eating his
dinner here, by the way?
789
:I did, I did question that.
790
:Like, how much food was she,
free food was she bringing him?
791
:Mm-hmm.
792
:Um, and the wild hogs arrive, and they
force him off the road and down a hill.
793
:Yeah.
794
:Much later, Mum's parking up at
the flat, and Daniel's dragging
795
:his broken bike to the bins.
796
:Uh, they have a huge heated Italian
American argument, of course.
797
:I hate you, bike.
798
:I hate you.
799
:I hate you.
800
:He hates the bike- Man
801
:and he hates her.
802
:He hates bikes.
803
:And he hates it here,
and he wants to go home.
804
:And then he's changed his
mind, "I've gotta take karate,
805
:Ma, at a proper school."
806
:Um, and she's a good mum.
807
:She's like, "We'll figure it out.
808
:We'll figure it out together."
809
:Uh, and they head off- He's, um- … and
they didn't notice us listening in
810
:it's a minor aside, he's ever
so highly strung, isn't he?
811
:Oh, yeah.
812
:Oh.
813
:Yeah.
814
:Well, he's Italian American-
Yeah … I assume they all are.
815
:Yeah.
816
:Assume they are.
817
:Too much provolone or
whatever's got Gabba McGool.
818
:He, he really does, uh, he really
does flit from one thing to another.
819
:Yeah.
820
:Um, anyway, sorry, that's
just- That's quite all right.
821
:But that's, that's not, that's not
a thing that we learned from…
822
:Well, it's a thing that we learned
from this film, but, um- … th- that
823
:one of the characters- Next thing
it's- … is very highly strung, yeah.
824
:Yeah.
825
:Well, there's a couple of
them I think are probably.
826
:Uh, Daniel meets Ali and her friend Susan.
827
:Now Susan's, Susan's not
really a character, but she
828
:is needed in a little while.
829
:They invite him to the
arcade- At the school…
830
:Sorry, sorry Go on … uh, when they,
when they, uh, set- setting the scene
831
:at the school, there's a big sign that
says, "Truth, liberty, and toleration"-
832
:Okay … um, which serves as a core
philosophical triad forming the
833
:structural foundation of modern liberal
political theory and open societies.
834
:Uh, historically, it open- it emerged
during the 16th and 17th centuries to
835
:resolve the violent religious conflicts
across Europe, um, and is now esta- a- a-
836
:and established how a state or community
can remain stable and free when its
837
:citizens hold deeply conflicting beliefs.
838
:The specific phrasing is immortalized
on historical plaques across America,
839
:most notably a historic plaque dedicated
to the Native Sons of the Golden West,
840
:which reads, "This building is dedicated
to truth, liberty, and toleration."
841
:I thought that was a cult.
842
:Sounds like a cult, doesn't it?
843
:It cer- certainly does.
844
:Oh, that's good.
845
:That- It sounds like the opposite of
what, of what the world is at the moment-
846
:Of what the world is … to be fair.
847
:Uh, that real life school is, uh,
Charles Evans Hughes Junior High School.
848
:Okay.
849
:Excellent.
850
:Thank you very much.
851
:He agrees to go with them to the arcade
till he sees Johnny and the Cobras.
852
:That's a good name for a band.
853
:Write that down.
854
:Uh, she accuses him of running away.
855
:I didn't know Zabka from anything, this
guy, William Zabka, that plays Johnny- No.
856
:No, no … as a thing.
857
:But John, we've actually done a
film that he's in on the podcast.
858
:What?
859
:Cool.
860
:1985's European Vacation, where
he plays Audrey's boyfriend, Jack.
861
:Jesus.
862
:Yeah.
863
:That's a good one.
864
:He's in that.
865
:He's in that.
866
:That's a good- Yeah … good callback.
867
:The, the National Lampoon.
868
:Yeah, yeah.
869
:Yeah, yeah.
870
:Oh my…
871
:This is…
872
:I, I, I might need to stop
and call my wife immediately.
873
:No, no, no, we'll carry…
874
:I'll do it later.
875
:I'll do it later.
876
:There's
877
:a connection there.
878
:There's absolutely a connection there.
879
:The, um- Houses of Parliament, Big Ben.
880
:Uh, that night, at home- Okay … his
bike is fixed at the top of the stair.
881
:Not only is it fixed, but it's
clean, and I think a different bike.
882
:I didn't think it was the same bike.
883
:It looks bigger.
884
:Yeah.
885
:The wheel's are definitely bigger.
886
:Uh, he heads to see the janitor
who shows him bonsai trees.
887
:Yeah.
888
:Um, and we learn he's from Okinawa.
889
:Okinawa.
890
:Anything, gentlemen?
891
:Uh, Okinawa, Japan.
892
:No, I've just got the fact that he
emigrated- It's good … just before
893
:the karate, events of Karate Kid.
894
:Okay.
895
:Uh, Okinawa, Sam, is the southernmost
and westernmost prefecture of Japan.
896
:It consists of three main island
groups, the Okinawa Islands, the S-
897
:Sakishima Islands, and the Daito Islands.
898
:Its capital is Naha Ha ha.
899
:Ha ha.
900
:You found it.
901
:Which I, I did have a, I did
have an Alan Partridge reference.
902
:Not that one.
903
:Um,
904
:but we'd have to reverse in the narrative.
905
:There's a point- I, uh,
we've no issue with that.
906
:There's a, there's a point on the
beach where, uh, Daniel, um, just sort
907
:of stands there with his hands on his
hips- … looking at, uh, Elizabeth Shue.
908
:Uh, and you'd expect him to say,
"Rrr," in a, uh- Rrr … in an
909
:Alan Partridge, "Rrr, ooh, sex."
910
:Or, um, or something like that is, uh,
is the- I'd like, I'd like to kiss her
911
:the interpretation I get.
912
:Exactly.
913
:It's, it's full accidental Partridge.
914
:Uh, love it.
915
:I, I didn't see if in the shorts or not
whether the, uh, the netting had perished.
916
:I wasn't entirely sure- … if
that had happened.
917
:I wasn't looking too close at
21-year-old Ralph Macchio's groin.
918
:The, the, the boys were
very much in the barracks.
919
:Indeed.
920
:Uh, Iriomote Island is home of one of
the world's rarest and most endangered
921
:cat species, the Iriomote cat, which
is a little tiny leopard-type thing.
922
:I don't know.
923
:Uh, the last census in 2020, the
population was 1,467,480 people.
924
:Uh, someone that was born there, uh, Ben
Shepherd of Soundgarden was born- Word
925
:in Okinawa.
926
:There you go.
927
:Uh, on the air force bases.
928
:I didn't even- It was all air force bases.
929
:I didn't know Ben Shepherd
was in Soundgarden.
930
:I thought he was- No, not that
one … just doing morning TV.
931
:Not that one.
932
:Not that one.
933
:He's-
934
:So many strings to that man's bow.
935
:I know, exactly.
936
:Not only was he the bassist in
Soundgarden, but he can decide which
937
:bit you drop your coin down and tip him.
938
:Yeah.
939
:Interesting fact about
Ben Shepherd off the cuff.
940
:Okay.
941
:Uh, Ben Shepherd and J- uh, comedian
Joel Dommett are- Mm-hmm … about
942
:to, um, release a skincare brand
which they've named Fore skin.
943
:No.
944
:No.
945
:Dommett's funny.
946
:Dommett's funny.
947
:He is.
948
:I like Dommett, yeah.
949
:I'm not so sure about the…
950
:Maybe Ben Shepherd's funny, or maybe
Dommett's doing all the work there.
951
:I would say- Well … Dommett's
doing the work on the comedy,
952
:and, uh, Ben Shepherd's doing
the, the, the- Presentation?
953
:… high performance and the
getting this out business.
954
:Yeah, probably.
955
:Absolutely.
956
:The old man tells him to close his
eyes and focus only on the bonsai tree.
957
:Uh, Mum arrives, and
Miyagi gifts her this tree.
958
:And r- these are really expensive, by
the way, if you want a bonsai tree- Yeah
959
:… 'cause I, I had one many, many years ago.
960
:Mm.
961
:They were quite dear then.
962
:I can't afford a bonsai tree now.
963
:I'd only end up killing it.
964
:No, I looked up the world's smallest
one, and the small- most smallest
965
:one is classified as a Kieshi.
966
:It's thumb size and measures 2.5
967
:centimeters.
968
:Mm.
969
:But it's nearly impossible-
Wow … to maintain.
970
:Yeah, course it is.
971
:It's not a tree.
972
:Tiny.
973
:Tiny-wee.
974
:It's a stick.
975
:Uh, he explains Daniel must
practice trimming Uh, later Miyagi's
976
:carved pumpkins for Halloween.
977
:Uh, Daniel isn't going
to the party at school.
978
:"I'll just hang here with you."
979
:"To make honey, bee need
young flower, not old prune."
980
:Come on, Miyagi, you filthy dog.
981
:Dirty.
982
:Oh my God.
983
:Miyagi was looking at the shorts.
984
:Miyagi was looking to see- Yeah,
trim that, trim that … if the
985
:boys were still in their barracks.
986
:Daniel says he'll only go if he was
the invisible man so no one can see
987
:him, and Miyagi comes up with the
greatest costume- Bloody good, innit?
988
:… I have ever seen for a Halloween thing.
989
:Mm-hmm.
990
:This, this weird little circle
of, um, of a shower curtain.
991
:It's good, innit?
992
:Yeah, it's good, innit?
993
:It's with the shower above,
with the little twinkle.
994
:Man, it's so good.
995
:Yeah, boy, they're good.
996
:Boy, they're good.
997
:So good.
998
:So according to, uh, House & Garden,
the popularity of shower cart- curtains
999
:has undergone a major shift, evolving
from a basic cheap necessity into a
:
00:35:23,126 --> 00:35:25,206
deliberate interior design statement.
:
00:35:25,446 --> 00:35:29,165
While glass shower doors dominated
luxury trends for decades, shower
:
00:35:29,435 --> 00:35:32,745
curtains are experiencing a massive
resurgence in modern home decor.
:
00:35:33,466 --> 00:35:34,046
Christ.
:
00:35:34,466 --> 00:35:34,886
Yeah.
:
00:35:34,886 --> 00:35:35,060
Fantastic.
:
00:35:35,060 --> 00:35:36,205
All right, Anna, well done.
:
00:35:36,265 --> 00:35:36,275
Uh,
:
00:35:38,716 --> 00:35:40,825
that's some, some great,
uh, housing stuff.
:
00:35:40,826 --> 00:35:44,196
Maybe you should, uh, maybe you should,
uh, you should do some housing journalism.
:
00:35:44,216 --> 00:35:45,315
Step on the toes of our friends.
:
00:35:47,936 --> 00:35:48,485
Uh, right.
:
00:35:48,485 --> 00:35:49,116
Oh, fantastic.
:
00:35:49,165 --> 00:35:49,325
Right.
:
00:35:49,326 --> 00:35:49,586
Okay.
:
00:35:50,006 --> 00:35:52,235
Uh, somewhere in the notes here
I've got something other than that.
:
00:35:52,326 --> 00:35:56,945
At the school Dan- Daniel, um, approaches
Ali's mates and, and Ali, Ali's mate is
:
00:35:56,945 --> 00:35:58,816
like, "Ugh, she must be into fungus."
:
00:35:58,856 --> 00:36:01,216
I'm like- Yeah, I, I didn't
get that … that's weird.
:
00:36:01,216 --> 00:36:01,646
I know.
:
00:36:03,125 --> 00:36:05,486
Uh, botanophilia, gentlemen, is
the general term used for a strong
:
00:36:05,486 --> 00:36:08,345
romantic or sexual attraction
to plants, not male plants.
:
00:36:08,375 --> 00:36:09,075
Ooh.
:
00:36:09,085 --> 00:36:12,605
Uh, which is sometimes used as a
broad catchall for flora and fungi.
:
00:36:13,125 --> 00:36:16,885
Um, there's this bit, it, it's,
"Help me, help me, my flower
:
00:36:16,885 --> 00:36:18,335
needs watered," she says.
:
00:36:18,385 --> 00:36:19,046
I was like, "Mr.
:
00:36:19,046 --> 00:36:20,086
Miyagi, is that you?"
:
00:36:22,615 --> 00:36:25,886
In the bathroom later, Johnny's
rolling a doob in the toilet cubicle.
:
00:36:26,025 --> 00:36:26,225
Nice.
:
00:36:26,225 --> 00:36:29,555
And Daniel grabs this hose,
puts it in, and turns it on.
:
00:36:30,095 --> 00:36:32,945
Um, and it's, it's great 'cause
not only does it, it drench
:
00:36:32,945 --> 00:36:34,565
him, but he slips on the floor.
:
00:36:34,565 --> 00:36:36,835
It's a good slip, and we
learn that they're all dressed
:
00:36:36,835 --> 00:36:38,245
as I think the Misfits.
:
00:36:38,306 --> 00:36:41,185
I don't really know why they're all
dressed- The Batman … as Skellingtons.
:
00:36:41,256 --> 00:36:44,896
Uh, but they're like a big, like the-
Sure … like the Skeleton League-
:
00:36:44,905 --> 00:36:45,565
Yeah … or something, aren't they?
:
00:36:45,565 --> 00:36:46,236
I don't know what's going on.
:
00:36:46,715 --> 00:36:50,125
Uh, Johnny starts karating him,
and Johnny's about to finish him
:
00:36:50,465 --> 00:36:54,025
when Miyagi shows up and just
kicks the fuck out of these boys.
:
00:36:54,105 --> 00:36:54,455
Yeah.
:
00:36:54,455 --> 00:36:56,396
These, these, these minors, doesn't he?
:
00:36:56,675 --> 00:36:57,025
Mm-hmm.
:
00:36:57,935 --> 00:37:00,755
Uh, immigrant uses mystic arts
to batter rich white boys.
:
00:37:01,086 --> 00:37:02,036
Hmm, that's your headline.
:
00:37:04,226 --> 00:37:06,195
He, he would get iced in::
00:37:06,215 --> 00:37:07,246
He would get iced.
:
00:37:07,396 --> 00:37:08,445
Oh, good, yeah.
:
00:37:08,445 --> 00:37:08,455
Yeah.
:
00:37:10,010 --> 00:37:11,790
Uh, Miyagi carries
Daniel back to his lair.
:
00:37:11,930 --> 00:37:13,610
Um, "Where did Spider-Man go?"
:
00:37:13,930 --> 00:37:14,590
Uh, "Who?"
:
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:15,710
"The guy who bailed me out."
:
00:37:16,050 --> 00:37:16,640
"Oh, it was me."
:
00:37:16,650 --> 00:37:17,990
"No way was that was you."
:
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:18,510
"Why?
:
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:19,690
Because I am old man?"
:
00:37:20,060 --> 00:37:22,700
Uh, he says he learned karate
from his father, the fisherman.
:
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,129
Uh, he says karat- he, he says te means
hand, and karate means empty hand.
:
00:37:27,189 --> 00:37:29,020
Didn't know that, so I
learnt that, I guess.
:
00:37:29,429 --> 00:37:30,030
Yeah, me too.
:
00:37:30,849 --> 00:37:32,899
Uh, Daniel asked him to
teach him for revenge.
:
00:37:32,919 --> 00:37:35,079
He says, "Fighting is the
last answer to a problem."
:
00:37:35,859 --> 00:37:37,739
Uh, Daniel asked Miyagi what belt he has.
:
00:37:37,839 --> 00:37:39,833
Canvas, 3.75,
:
00:37:39,833 --> 00:37:39,886
JCPenney.
:
00:37:39,886 --> 00:37:40,309
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
:
00:37:40,359 --> 00:37:42,059
$34 now.
:
00:37:42,059 --> 00:37:42,589
All right.
:
00:37:42,689 --> 00:37:44,249
Bloody $34 for a belt?
:
00:37:44,249 --> 00:37:47,590
I had to actually, uh, go into a
VPN just to get the bloody price.
:
00:37:48,289 --> 00:37:48,979
They wouldn't tell me.
:
00:37:49,879 --> 00:37:54,939
Uh, in Okinawa, belt means man no need
rope to hold up pants, and it's good.
:
00:37:55,349 --> 00:37:56,489
It's good.
:
00:37:57,050 --> 00:38:01,130
Uh, Columbia Pictures was reluctant to
cast Pat Morita because audiences mainly
:
00:38:01,130 --> 00:38:02,449
knew him as Arnold from Happy Days.
:
00:38:03,039 --> 00:38:06,309
Uh, the director fought for
him, and that was fair because-
:
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,949
Mm-hmm … best support in role, uh,
at Oscar nominee, uh, Pat Morita.
:
00:38:09,949 --> 00:38:10,299
Yeah, yeah.
:
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,310
Now, I would've suggested he
should've won until I looked up
:
00:38:13,310 --> 00:38:15,479
the others, and he lost to Dr.
:
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:16,199
Hang S.
:
00:38:16,249 --> 00:38:19,599
Ngua for The Killing Fields, so you know,
it's a pretty good- Yeah … it's a pretty
:
00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:20,889
good film, and it's a pretty good role.
:
00:38:21,599 --> 00:38:24,850
It's arguably a little bit more
serious than The Karate Kid.
:
00:38:24,939 --> 00:38:25,429
Just about.
:
00:38:25,730 --> 00:38:25,820
Yeah.
:
00:38:25,820 --> 00:38:26,300
Just a tad.
:
00:38:26,959 --> 00:38:30,360
Uh, next day they head to the Cobra
Kai dojo, and they see, uh, the All
:
00:38:30,380 --> 00:38:32,280
Valley Karate Championship poster there.
:
00:38:32,529 --> 00:38:35,199
To be fair, this looks like child
abuse, what's going on in here.
:
00:38:35,199 --> 00:38:35,439
Mm-hmm.
:
00:38:35,439 --> 00:38:36,369
This looks like…
:
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,099
This is aw- this is awful.
:
00:38:38,370 --> 00:38:41,239
Uh, why would you, why would
you allow this man to treat
:
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:42,500
your children in this way?
:
00:38:43,710 --> 00:38:44,550
It was all this time.
:
00:38:45,030 --> 00:38:45,060
It's…
:
00:38:45,250 --> 00:38:46,679
Yeah, it's like indoctrination.
:
00:38:46,689 --> 00:38:48,089
You mentioned a cult earlier on, John.
:
00:38:48,090 --> 00:38:48,989
I think this is a cult.
:
00:38:49,469 --> 00:38:50,369
And a cult will work.
:
00:38:52,020 --> 00:38:55,380
It, it does, it does
seem that, um, your…
:
00:38:55,899 --> 00:39:00,799
When you take your kids to a club of any
description, you do kind of try and get
:
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,499
a sense of the person who's running it.
:
00:39:02,759 --> 00:39:05,550
Um- Yeah … and John Kreese
is not a man with a filter.
:
00:39:06,099 --> 00:39:06,159
No.
:
00:39:06,709 --> 00:39:10,510
So what is, what's, what's he saying
to the parents when they bring their
:
00:39:10,510 --> 00:39:13,909
child along- … saying, "I've got a kid
who's interested in learning karate."
:
00:39:14,079 --> 00:39:15,019
And he's like, "Okay.
:
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:18,669
Well, my philosophy is strike
hard, strike, strike first,
:
00:39:18,669 --> 00:39:20,010
strike hard, no mercy."
:
00:39:20,309 --> 00:39:23,990
"Um, so I'm basically gonna ta-
teach your, uh, little Terry
:
00:39:23,999 --> 00:39:26,390
here to be an absolute asshole."
:
00:39:26,990 --> 00:39:29,029
"Um, is that, is that kind
of what you're looking for?"
:
00:39:29,029 --> 00:39:29,039
Yeah.
:
00:39:29,039 --> 00:39:29,519
"Yeah, cool.
:
00:39:29,539 --> 00:39:32,080
Well, that's 10 bucks a
month 'cause it's only::
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,239
"So, uh, yeah, no, no worries."
:
00:39:34,539 --> 00:39:35,869
They're all rich kids though, aren't they?
:
00:39:35,869 --> 00:39:37,529
I think that's what the,
well, that's what they want.
:
00:39:37,630 --> 00:39:40,199
Yeah, that's what you get for- Give
them that little bit of, give them that
:
00:39:40,199 --> 00:39:44,169
little bit of, of harshness because
there's no way little Johnny is going
:
00:39:44,169 --> 00:39:47,480
into the military once he graduates,
so this is going to be- This is it
:
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,190
that military bit for him because,
you know, it's the LaRussos of
:
00:39:51,190 --> 00:39:53,710
this world that are ending up
in, on the frontline at Basra.
:
00:39:53,710 --> 00:39:54,309
Do you know what I mean?
:
00:39:54,770 --> 00:39:55,329
Not this guy.
:
00:39:56,852 --> 00:39:59,932
Uh, yeah, it's, it-- I heard you
jumped some of my students last night.
:
00:39:59,952 --> 00:40:01,782
He said, uh, "I've asked
you to leave the boy alone."
:
00:40:01,892 --> 00:40:04,252
Uh, "This is a karate dojo,
not a knitting class."
:
00:40:05,392 --> 00:40:07,781
Uh, Miyagi suggests they battle
at the tournament, but only if
:
00:40:07,782 --> 00:40:09,291
they leave Daniel to train alone.
:
00:40:09,771 --> 00:40:13,151
Uh, "But if you don't show,
it's open season on him."
:
00:40:14,271 --> 00:40:14,831
Jesus Christ.
:
00:40:15,241 --> 00:40:15,491
Oh, man.
:
00:40:15,791 --> 00:40:19,621
Never put this guy and Gary Busey
in the same room because that just,
:
00:40:19,841 --> 00:40:21,521
just, they would just explode.
:
00:40:22,181 --> 00:40:24,262
Um, but give him the Oscar.
:
00:40:24,292 --> 00:40:25,591
Give, give this guy the Oscar.
:
00:40:27,401 --> 00:40:28,101
Forget Miyagi.
:
00:40:28,441 --> 00:40:31,011
Uh, they head to Miyagi's house to
train, and he's got this fleet of classic
:
00:40:31,021 --> 00:40:33,241
cars that we've already talked about,
and Miyagi sets him to clean them.
:
00:40:34,291 --> 00:40:35,011
They make a pact.
:
00:40:35,021 --> 00:40:38,672
He says to Daniel, "No
question, no questions, and
:
00:40:38,672 --> 00:40:39,901
I will train you in karate."
:
00:40:40,381 --> 00:40:43,241
So we do wax on with the right
hand, wax off with the left hand.
:
00:40:43,881 --> 00:40:45,342
Uh, where did these cars come from?
:
00:40:45,611 --> 00:40:46,221
Detroit.
:
00:40:46,331 --> 00:40:46,881
Detroit.
:
00:40:47,011 --> 00:40:48,012
RoboCop country.
:
00:40:49,101 --> 00:40:51,712
I did expect John to have written
something like, uh, I don't
:
00:40:51,712 --> 00:40:53,131
know, is RoboCop's car here?
:
00:40:53,421 --> 00:40:54,521
So yeah, well done.
:
00:40:54,581 --> 00:40:56,121
You beat me to it.
:
00:40:56,121 --> 00:40:59,401
At its peak in the '50s, around 80% of all
cars in the world were built by American
:
00:40:59,401 --> 00:41:01,581
manufacturers, most of them in Detroit.
:
00:41:02,052 --> 00:41:05,151
Uh, more than 300 different car
companies once operated in Michigan.
:
00:41:05,202 --> 00:41:08,081
Today, only a handful
remain because capitalism.
:
00:41:09,092 --> 00:41:12,651
And the world's first moving automobile
assembly line was introduced by Henry Ford
:
00:41:12,651 --> 00:41:17,281
in:from over 12 hours to about 90 minutes.
:
00:41:17,702 --> 00:41:18,401
Pretty impressive.
:
00:41:18,482 --> 00:41:18,802
Mm.
:
00:41:19,141 --> 00:41:19,761
Pretty impressive.
:
00:41:19,772 --> 00:41:20,002
Robots.
:
00:41:20,002 --> 00:41:20,801
RoboCop doing it.
:
00:41:21,092 --> 00:41:21,512
Robots.
:
00:41:24,211 --> 00:41:25,971
Can you fly, Daniel-san?
:
00:41:27,141 --> 00:41:29,421
Uh, later, Daniel's finished
and heads in to see Miyagi
:
00:41:29,421 --> 00:41:30,841
meditating, and he leaves him to it.
:
00:41:31,941 --> 00:41:35,661
The next week at school, Daniel and Ali
are talking, uh, and they see the Cobras.
:
00:41:35,691 --> 00:41:37,692
Daniel knows they can't touch
him, so he winds them up about
:
00:41:37,692 --> 00:41:38,751
their injuries and walks off.
:
00:41:39,511 --> 00:41:42,902
Uh, one of them shouts, "Must be
take your worm for a walk week."
:
00:41:43,461 --> 00:41:47,291
So that's great, but everybody knows
take your worm for a walk week is
:
00:41:47,291 --> 00:41:49,352
famously March the 7th to the 13th, so
:
00:41:51,361 --> 00:41:52,191
this is bullshit.
:
00:41:52,191 --> 00:41:52,201
Bullshit.
:
00:41:53,888 --> 00:41:56,908
Uh, he asks Ally to go out on Saturday
night and the Cobras approach him again.
:
00:41:56,978 --> 00:42:00,198
He gets the teacher to try and
explain the Plains natives to them.
:
00:42:00,478 --> 00:42:02,558
That's not the word he used,
but I'm not using that word.
:
00:42:02,897 --> 00:42:06,438
Uh, he makes a dash for it, but Daniel
can't get away, uh, gets dragged
:
00:42:06,438 --> 00:42:07,948
by the teacher for another lesson.
:
00:42:07,998 --> 00:42:09,008
And it's quite funny.
:
00:42:09,017 --> 00:42:09,252
It's karma.
:
00:42:09,252 --> 00:42:09,977
I quite enjoyed that.
:
00:42:09,988 --> 00:42:10,448
It's karma.
:
00:42:10,938 --> 00:42:13,808
Uh, before arri- horses arrived,
gentlemen, many Plains tribes
:
00:42:13,808 --> 00:42:17,687
hunted bison on foot, sometimes
driving entire herds over cliffs,
:
00:42:17,848 --> 00:42:19,607
which is known as buffalo jumps.
:
00:42:21,018 --> 00:42:21,228
God.
:
00:42:22,068 --> 00:42:24,637
Uh, smoke signals were a,
a real way to communicate.
:
00:42:24,647 --> 00:42:28,158
Tribes also developed a remarkably
sophisticated Plains sign language,
:
00:42:28,187 --> 00:42:30,788
allowing people from different
nations to communicate despite
:
00:42:30,788 --> 00:42:31,997
speaking different languages.
:
00:42:32,327 --> 00:42:32,678
There you go.
:
00:42:33,097 --> 00:42:33,497
Universal translator.
:
00:42:33,498 --> 00:42:35,967
And, uh, yeah, and we, and
we just stole their land.
:
00:42:37,187 --> 00:42:40,997
It's Saturday night and mom drives
Daniel to this really big posh house.
:
00:42:41,007 --> 00:42:41,027
Yeah.
:
00:42:41,317 --> 00:42:44,558
And the parents are waspish and they
don't really like how common he is.
:
00:42:44,757 --> 00:42:46,927
There's this weird bit
about a broken brick.
:
00:42:47,318 --> 00:42:49,107
"I thought I told you
to fix that," he said.
:
00:42:49,247 --> 00:42:51,108
I thought somebody's gonna get
hit with that at some point.
:
00:42:51,108 --> 00:42:51,627
Dad shouts at the, the mom.
:
00:42:51,627 --> 00:42:51,887
It just, it looks like it's
setting up for somebody to get hit.
:
00:42:51,887 --> 00:42:51,967
Yeah, I thought, "What?"
:
00:42:51,967 --> 00:42:53,458
Is that- Innit?
:
00:42:53,537 --> 00:42:56,457
… is that the brick where the key
lives under when- Yeah … when
:
00:42:56,457 --> 00:42:57,497
they lose their keys?
:
00:42:57,507 --> 00:42:57,537
What?
:
00:42:57,537 --> 00:43:00,508
It's like that statue in- Nothing
… that statue in, um, Home Alone.
:
00:43:00,588 --> 00:43:03,167
What the f- was the point- Yeah … of
keeping that, that bloody statue?
:
00:43:04,637 --> 00:43:05,028
That's exactly right, yeah.
:
00:43:05,797 --> 00:43:06,017
Yeah.
:
00:43:06,297 --> 00:43:07,727
Uh, the car won't start, of course.
:
00:43:07,777 --> 00:43:10,518
Uh, she gets Ally to drive while
they jumpstart the thing noisily, and
:
00:43:10,518 --> 00:43:12,915
the parents look on in disgust Yeah.
:
00:43:13,006 --> 00:43:14,955
Uh, should we go to Golf N Stuff, lads?
:
00:43:15,006 --> 00:43:17,466
Man, I wanna go to Golf N Stuff.
:
00:43:17,886 --> 00:43:18,136
Yep.
:
00:43:18,185 --> 00:43:18,966
Well, you can.
:
00:43:19,176 --> 00:43:19,656
Oh, what?
:
00:43:20,366 --> 00:43:23,375
Because Golf N Stuff is
absolutely a real place.
:
00:43:23,435 --> 00:43:25,455
Opened in::
00:43:25,455 --> 00:43:25,886
Nice.
:
00:43:25,886 --> 00:43:31,645
Is located at:in- Ooh … Norwalk, California.
:
00:43:32,006 --> 00:43:32,026
Yeah.
:
00:43:32,036 --> 00:43:33,846
Uh, just southeast of Los Angeles.
:
00:43:34,176 --> 00:43:35,736
Um, still fully operational.
:
00:43:36,185 --> 00:43:39,155
Um, you can still play miniature
golf, crash into each other on
:
00:43:39,155 --> 00:43:43,145
the bumper boats, race go-karts,
and trade tokens in the arcade.
:
00:43:43,765 --> 00:43:47,625
Um- Nice … the park even embraces
its cinematic history by displaying
:
00:43:47,625 --> 00:43:51,505
a photo collage of Daniel and
Ali's date inside the arcade area.
:
00:43:51,825 --> 00:43:52,366
Oh, right.
:
00:43:52,366 --> 00:43:52,846
Okay.
:
00:43:52,855 --> 00:43:52,885
Nice.
:
00:43:53,175 --> 00:43:55,266
The only thing you won't find
is the Echo Pizza N Stuff.
:
00:43:55,395 --> 00:43:56,025
I looked that up.
:
00:43:58,475 --> 00:43:58,587
Turns out it wasn't- Oh.
:
00:43:58,587 --> 00:43:58,605
Ah.
:
00:43:58,605 --> 00:43:58,708
Echo Pizza far away, isn't it?
:
00:43:58,708 --> 00:44:01,795
And the, and the, and the big
water slide as well, which I don't
:
00:44:01,796 --> 00:44:05,265
seem to have written down when,
but that has since been destroyed.
:
00:44:05,506 --> 00:44:05,966
Okay.
:
00:44:06,245 --> 00:44:06,935
Probably for the best.
:
00:44:07,296 --> 00:44:11,765
Well, her house is located
at::
00:44:11,825 --> 00:44:14,075
Encino Hills in Los Angeles.
:
00:44:14,366 --> 00:44:14,735
Oh, she…
:
00:44:14,785 --> 00:44:17,016
So her dad's an actual
Encino Man, is what it says.
:
00:44:17,016 --> 00:44:17,925
Encino Man, exactly.
:
00:44:18,286 --> 00:44:19,085
California man.
:
00:44:19,765 --> 00:44:22,865
Um, so they do pho- they
do loads of amazing things.
:
00:44:22,875 --> 00:44:23,625
There's photo booth.
:
00:44:23,795 --> 00:44:24,616
They have a photo booth.
:
00:44:24,846 --> 00:44:25,036
Yep.
:
00:44:25,085 --> 00:44:27,935
Um, and these carts, like what
was going on with these carts?
:
00:44:28,145 --> 00:44:30,805
It looked like they were driving
Luke's speeder from A New Hope.
:
00:44:31,535 --> 00:44:31,655
Didn't they?
:
00:44:31,655 --> 00:44:33,556
In these strange cart
things that they were doing.
:
00:44:33,556 --> 00:44:36,385
Like they were off to Tashi
Station to pick up some power
:
00:44:36,386 --> 00:44:37,436
converters or something.
:
00:44:37,436 --> 00:44:38,986
I'm not entirely sure what that was about.
:
00:44:39,066 --> 00:44:42,255
Uh, and some rod, uh, table hockey,
which I don't know anything- Yeah.
:
00:44:42,255 --> 00:44:46,135
Yeah, that looks g- I, I'd love a go at
one of those, little like Subbuteo, but
:
00:44:46,136 --> 00:44:48,115
with- Yeah, yeah … um, with hockey men.
:
00:44:48,195 --> 00:44:48,415
Yeah.
:
00:44:48,455 --> 00:44:52,505
Invented in:Donald Munro in Toronto.
:
00:44:52,505 --> 00:44:53,195
Oh, a Scottish man.
:
00:44:53,825 --> 00:44:54,605
Aye, again.
:
00:44:54,655 --> 00:44:55,075
Gotta be.
:
00:44:55,285 --> 00:44:55,866
Where's your trousers?
:
00:44:57,225 --> 00:44:58,025
On the hockey table.
:
00:44:58,265 --> 00:45:00,865
And Daniel gets the hump 'cause all her
mates have got sports cars, and he's
:
00:45:00,875 --> 00:45:04,305
getting picked up off his mum, and he
takes it out on Ali because he's a prick.
:
00:45:04,695 --> 00:45:04,895
Yeah.
:
00:45:04,905 --> 00:45:04,915
Mm.
:
00:45:05,255 --> 00:45:07,456
I mean, I say that, but I'd be
awful to rich people as well.
:
00:45:07,465 --> 00:45:07,485
Yeah.
:
00:45:07,745 --> 00:45:11,176
Uh, there's this weird bit the next
morning at Miyagi's where he's in
:
00:45:11,185 --> 00:45:12,965
the garden, "Wow, this is beautiful."
:
00:45:12,995 --> 00:45:15,075
And I thought Chun-Li's
restaurant was nice.
:
00:45:15,615 --> 00:45:17,195
I was like, "Whoa, he looking."
:
00:45:17,785 --> 00:45:18,595
I mean- … what's the special?
:
00:45:18,605 --> 00:45:20,065
Sweet and sour spinning bird kick.
:
00:45:22,936 --> 00:45:23,015
That's, what?
:
00:45:23,015 --> 00:45:23,035
Chun-Li's restaurant.
:
00:45:23,035 --> 00:45:25,046
I was gonna say, Chun-Li
from Street Fighter.
:
00:45:25,235 --> 00:45:25,455
Yeah.
:
00:45:25,455 --> 00:45:25,835
Yeah.
:
00:45:26,106 --> 00:45:26,625
Yeah, yeah.
:
00:45:26,625 --> 00:45:27,385
That is so weird.
:
00:45:27,386 --> 00:45:29,345
Maybe that's, maybe that's
where they got the name from.
:
00:45:29,765 --> 00:45:31,185
Man, they nicked it from the karate kid.
:
00:45:31,186 --> 00:45:31,876
They did it.
:
00:45:31,876 --> 00:45:32,678
Well, obviously they got the outfit.
:
00:45:32,678 --> 00:45:33,766
Oh, of course.
:
00:45:33,785 --> 00:45:34,296
Yeah, yeah.
:
00:45:34,335 --> 00:45:36,555
And, um, Johnny Lawrence's mate, M.
:
00:45:36,576 --> 00:45:37,565
Bison, of course.
:
00:45:39,665 --> 00:45:40,505
That runs the, runs the place.
:
00:45:41,535 --> 00:45:41,875
Yeah.
:
00:45:41,875 --> 00:45:45,565
Um, and I think, I think- For you
it was the All Valley, but for me it
:
00:45:45,565 --> 00:45:50,266
was a Saturday … uh, when it comes,
when it comes to the bit where Mr.
:
00:45:50,266 --> 00:45:53,095
Miyagi talks about his wife,
I'm pretty sure her name was E.
:
00:45:53,095 --> 00:45:53,555
Honda.
:
00:45:54,225 --> 00:45:54,915
Ah.
:
00:45:57,115 --> 00:45:57,315
Esmeralda
:
00:45:59,895 --> 00:46:00,015
Honda, famously.
:
00:46:00,015 --> 00:46:00,105
Madeline Zann Gif.
:
00:46:01,710 --> 00:46:05,410
That's why he married her, 'cause
he, she had that 100 hand movement.
:
00:46:06,150 --> 00:46:06,530
Why wouldn't
:
00:46:08,750 --> 00:46:08,770
you?
:
00:46:08,780 --> 00:46:08,790
Oh.
:
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:09,230
Well done.
:
00:46:09,650 --> 00:46:09,750
Well done.
:
00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:11,920
Honda slap.
:
00:46:11,929 --> 00:46:12,370
Woo-hoo.
:
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,160
Um, he shows Daniel how
to sand the decking.
:
00:46:17,210 --> 00:46:18,969
Right circle, left circle, right?
:
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,689
And that's fine, but I think
decking's a death trap.
:
00:46:21,690 --> 00:46:23,780
Soon as it gets wet, you're- Oh,
it's bad … you're gonna, you're
:
00:46:23,780 --> 00:46:26,190
gonna go over and do your- Sand
it, sand it with ladders, isn't it?
:
00:46:26,190 --> 00:46:27,630
There's always, like, stuff under it.
:
00:46:27,679 --> 00:46:31,009
Yeah, there's all, like, animals live
under it, and yeah, it's d- decking, man.
:
00:46:31,470 --> 00:46:33,099
Uh, it's dark and late
by the time he's done.
:
00:46:33,229 --> 00:46:37,299
Miyagi tells him to come early tomorrow,
6:00, and Daniel's of course put out
:
00:46:37,329 --> 00:46:38,890
because we've still not done any karate.
:
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,160
Uh, when he arrives the next
day, Miyagi's try- trying to
:
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:43,939
catch a fly with chopsticks.
:
00:46:44,339 --> 00:46:47,040
Uh, man who catch fly with
chopsticks may achieve anything.
:
00:46:47,570 --> 00:46:49,659
And the lad picks up a pair
and catches it, like, within
:
00:46:49,660 --> 00:46:50,879
about 10 seconds, doesn't he?
:
00:46:50,879 --> 00:46:51,189
Yeah.
:
00:46:51,559 --> 00:46:53,820
He's absolutely- Legend … furious.
:
00:46:54,199 --> 00:46:55,430
"Beginner's luck," he says.
:
00:46:55,509 --> 00:46:57,089
"So I can accomplish anything, right?"
:
00:46:57,509 --> 00:46:59,699
"Yeah, but first you
accomplish painting the fence."
:
00:47:01,649 --> 00:47:01,879
Prick.
:
00:47:02,849 --> 00:47:05,609
Um, the fence, by the way,
is like the Great Wall.
:
00:47:05,649 --> 00:47:06,339
It's massive.
:
00:47:06,339 --> 00:47:07,190
It's massive, yeah.
:
00:47:07,190 --> 00:47:07,869
It's huge.
:
00:47:07,869 --> 00:47:11,960
Like, 'cause he lives in d- he lives the
other side of the tracks, doesn't he?
:
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,659
I think he lives in a junkyard,
but he's just built this fence
:
00:47:14,659 --> 00:47:15,739
around this junkyard thing.
:
00:47:16,169 --> 00:47:17,559
Um, he says, "I'm all finished.
:
00:47:17,559 --> 00:47:18,339
Looks pretty good, huh?"
:
00:47:18,369 --> 00:47:19,760
And he's like, "Yeah, both sides."
:
00:47:19,839 --> 00:47:20,039
Wah, wah.
:
00:47:20,039 --> 00:47:20,050
By
:
00:47:22,620 --> 00:47:23,529
that time, it's dark.
:
00:47:23,559 --> 00:47:27,759
Miyagi's off for the night, in this
floral shirt and Homer's fat guy hat.
:
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:28,590
Yeah.
:
00:47:30,229 --> 00:47:30,899
I loved this.
:
00:47:30,899 --> 00:47:30,959
It was a great, great outfit.
:
00:47:30,959 --> 00:47:33,119
It's, it's the granddad bit in the-
That he'd got on … Lost Boys, innit?
:
00:47:33,419 --> 00:47:33,759
Yeah.
:
00:47:33,820 --> 00:47:34,719
No, it was, yeah.
:
00:47:34,949 --> 00:47:36,699
Very much so, 'cause he's
also got a hot date- Got a hot
:
00:47:37,229 --> 00:47:38,086
date … with the widow Paulson.
:
00:47:38,086 --> 00:47:38,799
Oh, yeah.
:
00:47:39,619 --> 00:47:40,759
Oh, gonna get me a steak.
:
00:47:43,169 --> 00:47:44,519
Uh, next day, Daniel arrives.
:
00:47:44,519 --> 00:47:47,679
There's a note on the door, and
it just says, "Paint the house."
:
00:47:47,679 --> 00:47:48,119
Such a prick.
:
00:47:48,879 --> 00:47:50,819
Uh, he arrives, and he's been fishing.
:
00:47:51,180 --> 00:47:53,750
I've washed your car, I've painted
your fence, I've sanded your
:
00:47:53,750 --> 00:47:55,180
decks, and I've painted your house.
:
00:47:55,500 --> 00:47:56,819
Uh, but you are training.
:
00:47:56,939 --> 00:48:00,119
And I'm like, "This is
indentured servitude, Daniel."
:
00:48:00,269 --> 00:48:00,309
It is.
:
00:48:00,309 --> 00:48:01,049
"Don't do any more.
:
00:48:01,079 --> 00:48:01,849
Just don't do any more."
:
00:48:02,309 --> 00:48:04,259
But then Miyagi shows us, doesn't he?
:
00:48:04,329 --> 00:48:05,429
He shows us.
:
00:48:05,899 --> 00:48:09,199
He, he, he, he- Paint the fence
… shows us exactly what he was doing.
:
00:48:09,219 --> 00:48:09,419
The fence.
:
00:48:09,419 --> 00:48:11,839
The hands, then everything, and
then he rubs his hand together, and
:
00:48:11,839 --> 00:48:13,560
he fixes Daniel's sore shoulder.
:
00:48:14,079 --> 00:48:14,229
Yeah.
:
00:48:14,230 --> 00:48:19,352
And all of a sudden he's like-
Like little magic, little magic Mm
:
00:48:19,392 --> 00:48:20,012
Japanese man.
:
00:48:20,012 --> 00:48:21,072
He's a magic Japanese man.
:
00:48:21,082 --> 00:48:23,602
Uh, Reiki, therapeutic
touch, that's a real thing.
:
00:48:24,032 --> 00:48:24,562
All right.
:
00:48:24,672 --> 00:48:25,572
Phil Collins.
:
00:48:26,982 --> 00:48:28,112
No, that's the invisible one.
:
00:48:28,172 --> 00:48:28,842
Oh, right.
:
00:48:28,842 --> 00:48:28,992
I see.
:
00:48:28,992 --> 00:48:29,252
Okay.
:
00:48:29,252 --> 00:48:30,551
The shower curtain one, actually.
:
00:48:33,362 --> 00:48:34,871
All these were techniques for karate.
:
00:48:35,271 --> 00:48:35,521
Mm-hmm.
:
00:48:35,792 --> 00:48:36,242
Which…
:
00:48:36,812 --> 00:48:39,431
And they put it together as defensive
moves, and it's good, and he says,
:
00:48:39,431 --> 00:48:41,172
"Return tomorrow, and we'll do some more."
:
00:48:42,061 --> 00:48:43,992
When he does return tomorrow,
it's beach training.
:
00:48:44,192 --> 00:48:46,742
Uh, he has to kick in the
waves to help with balance.
:
00:48:47,282 --> 00:48:50,251
He's rubbish at it, but when he turns
around and looks at Miyagi, he's stood
:
00:48:50,252 --> 00:48:52,792
on this pole thing doing these kicks.
:
00:48:53,032 --> 00:48:53,322
Yep.
:
00:48:53,842 --> 00:48:54,231
Isn't he?
:
00:48:54,282 --> 00:48:54,861
It's quite impressive.
:
00:48:55,651 --> 00:48:56,762
Uh, they head back to
the c- It's really hard.
:
00:48:56,831 --> 00:48:57,851
I tried it the other day.
:
00:48:58,302 --> 00:48:58,381
Did you?
:
00:48:59,002 --> 00:48:59,642
Honestly.
:
00:49:00,261 --> 00:49:02,521
You're not even- Really, really
difficult … 52-year-old Pat Morita.
:
00:49:03,151 --> 00:49:07,302
Try, try standing on a pole and not even
doing the kick, just jumping from one
:
00:49:07,361 --> 00:49:08,046
foot- Just one foot … to the other.
:
00:49:08,046 --> 00:49:09,862
You're gonna do your ankle, I promise you.
:
00:49:09,911 --> 00:49:11,831
Uh, it's not your ankle you're
gonna do, right between your
:
00:49:11,831 --> 00:49:12,781
legs, that's gonna go innit?
:
00:49:12,791 --> 00:49:13,441
The whole lot.
:
00:49:13,712 --> 00:49:14,062
Yeah.
:
00:49:15,101 --> 00:49:18,201
Uh, we head back to the car, and
there's these two racists here,
:
00:49:18,802 --> 00:49:22,921
which in the credits are hilariously
named Yahoo One and Yahoo Two.
:
00:49:23,491 --> 00:49:24,391
Yahoo Serious.
:
00:49:25,381 --> 00:49:26,321
Which is brilliant.
:
00:49:27,201 --> 00:49:30,792
The one that talks, John, this
is gonna blow you away, is Larry
:
00:49:30,792 --> 00:49:33,021
Drake, the baddie from Darkman.
:
00:49:33,411 --> 00:49:34,801
Yeah, I bloody knew it.
:
00:49:34,801 --> 00:49:35,341
You know, you can see it.
:
00:49:35,341 --> 00:49:35,961
I knew, yeah.
:
00:49:35,981 --> 00:49:37,036
Yeah, yeah.
:
00:49:37,036 --> 00:49:37,241
Yeah.
:
00:49:37,241 --> 00:49:37,921
Um, he's…
:
00:49:38,532 --> 00:49:41,661
Miyagi's lucky he doesn't lose a finger to
the cigar snipper from Darkman, isn't he?
:
00:49:41,661 --> 00:49:42,521
Yeah, exactly.
:
00:49:42,521 --> 00:49:43,031
Yeah, yeah.
:
00:49:43,351 --> 00:49:46,341
Uh, he karate chops these bottles,
and Daniel's like, "That's amazing.
:
00:49:46,341 --> 00:49:47,522
Where did you learn to do that?"
:
00:49:47,522 --> 00:49:48,301
That was the first time.
:
00:49:48,591 --> 00:49:50,121
Uh, apparently it can be done.
:
00:49:50,261 --> 00:49:51,661
I was looking it up, and you can do it.
:
00:49:51,661 --> 00:49:54,481
It's, um, more about precision
rather than more power.
:
00:49:54,822 --> 00:49:55,212
Okay.
:
00:49:55,612 --> 00:49:57,771
Uh, later at school, Daniel
and Ali are playing football.
:
00:49:57,801 --> 00:50:01,171
Uh, she asks him to meet him at the
country club at 9:30 on Saturday.
:
00:50:02,171 --> 00:50:03,702
Miyagi and Daniel are in a rowing boat.
:
00:50:03,761 --> 00:50:06,922
The old man's fishing, and he's
balancing, and he says ba- balance is key.
:
00:50:07,721 --> 00:50:09,451
Uh, Miyagi explains he hates fighting.
:
00:50:09,481 --> 00:50:10,951
Karate is so he doesn't have to fight.
:
00:50:11,642 --> 00:50:12,641
The old guy rocks the boat.
:
00:50:12,651 --> 00:50:16,261
Daniel falls in, and Miyagi thinks
this is the funniest thing he's ever
:
00:50:16,261 --> 00:50:17,881
done, that any human has ever done.
:
00:50:18,131 --> 00:50:18,421
Right.
:
00:50:18,431 --> 00:50:18,451
No.
:
00:50:18,481 --> 00:50:21,011
Apparently the reaction was real 'cause
the water was literally frozen cold.
:
00:50:21,072 --> 00:50:21,851
Oh, really cold.
:
00:50:21,851 --> 00:50:22,741
That was done near, near December.
:
00:50:25,806 --> 00:50:28,486
At the country club, Daddy's
annoyed that Ali's dating Daniel.
:
00:50:29,226 --> 00:50:31,456
Johnny cuts in for a dance,
and he wants a truce.
:
00:50:32,286 --> 00:50:34,716
Outside, Daniel, for some
reason, is dressed like Rodney
:
00:50:34,716 --> 00:50:35,016
Dangerfield in Caddy Shack.
:
00:50:35,016 --> 00:50:36,086
Like a, like a valet.
:
00:50:36,246 --> 00:50:37,245
Like, looks like a valet.
:
00:50:37,246 --> 00:50:40,146
Looks like something out of
bloody- With his baggier mister.
:
00:50:41,226 --> 00:50:42,626
Well, and, and also…
:
00:50:43,246 --> 00:50:45,385
Sorry, I'm, I'm jumping slightly ahead.
:
00:50:45,435 --> 00:50:45,582
Go for it.
:
00:50:45,582 --> 00:50:49,425
But he decides rather than wait outside
for the person who he's arranged
:
00:50:49,425 --> 00:50:51,965
to meet outside- Mm-hmm … he's
gonna sneak through the kitchen.
:
00:50:52,525 --> 00:50:53,056
Breakin', yep.
:
00:50:53,255 --> 00:50:54,636
He, he, he goes through the
kitchen- Does the, the- … l-
:
00:50:55,466 --> 00:50:57,995
like, like that bit in Goodfellas.
:
00:50:58,036 --> 00:51:01,486
We're just missing, like, The Ronettes
and a steady cam, and it's that bit where
:
00:51:01,486 --> 00:51:02,725
they go into the club through the kitchen.
:
00:51:02,876 --> 00:51:04,105
What is he doing?
:
00:51:04,725 --> 00:51:05,595
Sneaky, sneaky.
:
00:51:06,675 --> 00:51:08,516
Like, uh- Yeah … he spots Johnny
and Ali dancing, doesn't he?
:
00:51:08,525 --> 00:51:08,545
Yeah.
:
00:51:08,646 --> 00:51:11,306
And when Johnny sees, uh,
he goes in for this kiss.
:
00:51:11,315 --> 00:51:12,305
She fights him off.
:
00:51:12,695 --> 00:51:15,175
There's a crash in the kitchen,
and he's just, in this white
:
00:51:15,175 --> 00:51:17,595
suit, he's just covered in,
like- Covered … sauce, tomato.
:
00:51:17,615 --> 00:51:17,635
Yeah.
:
00:51:17,945 --> 00:51:19,185
They've just thrown some tomato at him.
:
00:51:19,556 --> 00:51:20,665
Uh, they all laugh.
:
00:51:20,685 --> 00:51:24,096
The, the way everybody laughs
is like Miyagi's overreactionary
:
00:51:24,096 --> 00:51:25,165
laugh from the last scene.
:
00:51:25,165 --> 00:51:25,555
Yeah.
:
00:51:25,556 --> 00:51:25,925
It's like something from Carrie, innit?
:
00:51:25,925 --> 00:51:27,244
It's absolutely, "Ha ha ha ha."
:
00:51:27,244 --> 00:51:27,691
Punishing laugh.
:
00:51:27,691 --> 00:51:29,030
He is very much like Carrie.
:
00:51:29,030 --> 00:51:29,922
Like a crude man.
:
00:51:29,922 --> 00:51:30,595
What the hell?
:
00:51:30,765 --> 00:51:30,875
Let's eat the rich.
:
00:51:32,155 --> 00:51:32,906
Let's eat the rich.
:
00:51:34,015 --> 00:51:34,605
Well, that is…
:
00:51:34,666 --> 00:51:35,995
Yeah, the, the…
:
00:51:36,695 --> 00:51:39,316
Some, some poor boy's just
walked into some waiter.
:
00:51:39,475 --> 00:51:41,165
Everyone finds it hilarious.
:
00:51:41,165 --> 00:51:41,175
Yeah.
:
00:51:41,175 --> 00:51:42,175
Yeah, because he's poor.
:
00:51:42,255 --> 00:51:42,785
That's why.
:
00:51:42,795 --> 00:51:43,065
Yeah.
:
00:51:43,065 --> 00:51:43,355
Yeah.
:
00:51:44,085 --> 00:51:45,445
And he's dressed like out
of Saturday Night Fever.
:
00:51:46,495 --> 00:51:48,355
White Goodman, that's
what he's dressed like.
:
00:51:48,365 --> 00:51:50,355
White Goodman in Dodgeball,
that's what he's dressed like.
:
00:51:52,145 --> 00:51:53,725
And it was there, and
it was- It was there.
:
00:51:53,905 --> 00:51:54,555
You were waiting for it.
:
00:51:54,975 --> 00:51:59,775
Daniel heads to see Miyagi, and he is
hammered, looking at a picture wearing
:
00:51:59,776 --> 00:52:03,605
an army uniform, uh, singing, singing the
Japanese blues and shouting, "Banzai."
:
00:52:03,605 --> 00:52:03,615
Uh,
:
00:52:05,945 --> 00:52:07,395
it would've been his anniversary with E.
:
00:52:07,395 --> 00:52:08,645
Honda, sadly.
:
00:52:09,085 --> 00:52:11,605
He shows Daniel a picture of
him and his pregnant wife.
:
00:52:11,695 --> 00:52:15,766
Uh, and he's doing this thing about his
wife's childbirth complications at- Yeah
:
00:52:16,056 --> 00:52:17,995
at Manzanar, and he falls asleep.
:
00:52:18,015 --> 00:52:20,766
Daniel reads these paper cuttings, a
letter saying she died in childbirth
:
00:52:20,806 --> 00:52:24,405
nd,::
00:52:24,655 --> 00:52:28,905
Uh, people that didn't die in
nd,::
00:52:28,905 --> 00:52:31,875
uh, Keith Emerson, English keyboardist
with Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
:
00:52:32,535 --> 00:52:32,665
Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
:
00:52:32,955 --> 00:52:33,155
Yeah.
:
00:52:33,215 --> 00:52:37,245
And Michael Buffer, the, uh,
"Let's get ready to rumble" bloke.
:
00:52:37,245 --> 00:52:37,423
Yeah.
:
00:52:37,423 --> 00:52:37,955
There you go.
:
00:52:37,955 --> 00:52:38,195
Yeah.
:
00:52:38,485 --> 00:52:39,306
That's gonna cost you.
:
00:52:39,306 --> 00:52:40,175
Yeah.
:
00:52:40,175 --> 00:52:40,575
Yeah.
:
00:52:40,746 --> 00:52:41,165
Oh, shit.
:
00:52:41,166 --> 00:52:41,246
Yeah.
:
00:52:41,786 --> 00:52:41,816
Okay.
:
00:52:41,816 --> 00:52:42,322
Oh, God.
:
00:52:42,322 --> 00:52:42,576
Yeah.
:
00:52:42,576 --> 00:52:42,586
Oh.
:
00:52:42,856 --> 00:52:43,825
Oh, no, that…
:
00:52:44,085 --> 00:52:46,085
No, it, it was out in Dec 1.
:
00:52:46,085 --> 00:52:46,145
It was out in Dec 1.
:
00:52:46,145 --> 00:52:48,176
I've seen it.
:
00:52:48,176 --> 00:52:49,325
I think we spell it different.
:
00:52:51,076 --> 00:52:51,765
Oh, man.
:
00:52:51,765 --> 00:52:55,275
Yeah, he, he, he's, he's
famously, uh, litigious, isn't he?
:
00:52:55,276 --> 00:52:55,756
Buffer.
:
00:52:55,945 --> 00:52:57,436
'Cause that's literally all he's got.
:
00:52:58,350 --> 00:53:00,910
That's literally all he's got
Right, he needs Uh, right.
:
00:53:00,940 --> 00:53:03,069
Anyway, look, comedy podcast
goes grim for a minute or two
:
00:53:03,069 --> 00:53:04,410
while we do the Japanese stuff.
:
00:53:04,529 --> 00:53:08,540
Um, after the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor, a h- between 120,000 to
:
00:53:08,540 --> 00:53:12,220
125,000 people of Japanese ancestry
were forcibly removed from their homes.
:
00:53:12,580 --> 00:53:17,729
Around 70,000 were American citizens by
birth, and nearly two-thirds of which,
:
00:53:17,770 --> 00:53:26,359
um, people incarcerated were, um, US
citizens, and over 15,000 children were
:
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:29,910
put in these internment camps because
they, quote-unquote, "May have been
:
00:53:29,910 --> 00:53:32,059
spies," may have been Japanese spies.
:
00:53:33,100 --> 00:53:37,339
Um, at Manzanar in December:police opened fire during protests.
:
00:53:37,339 --> 00:53:39,709
Two Japanese Americans were
killed, and around 10 others were
:
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:41,959
wounded, including a 17-year-old.
:
00:53:43,219 --> 00:53:46,470
Uh, George Takai, uh, was five years
old when his family was imprisoned,
:
00:53:46,499 --> 00:53:48,720
and Pat Morita was also in a camp.
:
00:53:49,499 --> 00:53:52,699
In:signed the Civil Liberties Act.
:
00:53:53,029 --> 00:53:55,440
Surviving former prisoners
each received $20,000 in
:
00:53:56,049 --> 00:53:58,439
compensation and a formal apology.
:
00:53:58,779 --> 00:53:58,880
There you go.
:
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,148
Jesus Right.
:
00:54:01,218 --> 00:54:02,148
Anyone got any jokes?
:
00:54:03,708 --> 00:54:04,298
No after that.
:
00:54:04,298 --> 00:54:04,658
Hmm.
:
00:54:04,658 --> 00:54:05,428
Got a magic trick.
:
00:54:05,438 --> 00:54:10,918
As the sun comes up, Daniel's
practicing his kicks on the pole and
:
00:54:10,918 --> 00:54:12,187
his balance on the boat on his own.
:
00:54:12,727 --> 00:54:15,838
Uh, we get a birthday for
Daniel, a cake, and Miyagi's
:
00:54:15,887 --> 00:54:18,047
old karate pajamas, uh- Mm-hmm
:
00:54:18,048 --> 00:54:18,428
which Mrs.
:
00:54:18,428 --> 00:54:19,758
Miyagi made back in the day.
:
00:54:20,148 --> 00:54:21,367
Yeah, he designed that logo.
:
00:54:21,847 --> 00:54:22,408
Did he really?
:
00:54:22,408 --> 00:54:22,687
That was he, yeah.
:
00:54:22,687 --> 00:54:23,407
Oh, wow.
:
00:54:23,407 --> 00:54:23,857
Right.
:
00:54:24,097 --> 00:54:24,577
That's pretty good.
:
00:54:25,218 --> 00:54:27,257
Uh, he also- How, how do
they fit both of them?
:
00:54:27,487 --> 00:54:28,568
Yeah, that's a- Exactly.
:
00:54:28,958 --> 00:54:29,967
But Daniel's a very little fella.
:
00:54:29,967 --> 00:54:31,578
Daniel's a very, very little fella.
:
00:54:32,918 --> 00:54:34,357
Uh, he gets his driver's license.
:
00:54:34,358 --> 00:54:37,567
He shows Miyagi, but the photo of
him and Ali falls out of the wallet.
:
00:54:37,918 --> 00:54:38,897
Uh, "You look good together.
:
00:54:38,937 --> 00:54:39,897
Different but same."
:
00:54:40,047 --> 00:54:40,788
It's a bit racist, Mr.
:
00:54:40,788 --> 00:54:41,518
Miyagi, but okay.
:
00:54:42,047 --> 00:54:44,687
Uh, no, "Different but different."
:
00:54:44,757 --> 00:54:46,427
Uh, is this where Mr.
:
00:54:46,657 --> 00:54:50,158
Miyagi understands the difference
between a male and a female?
:
00:54:50,177 --> 00:54:51,778
Is this where it finally happens?
:
00:54:51,837 --> 00:54:52,538
Ah, get you.
:
00:54:52,577 --> 00:54:54,167
"He's got long hair,
you've got short hair.
:
00:54:54,517 --> 00:54:55,117
What is that?"
:
00:54:55,347 --> 00:54:57,497
Uh, Daniel heads off to leave,
but Miyagi wants to give him
:
00:54:57,497 --> 00:54:59,957
another present, and this is where
he gets the choice of the cars.
:
00:55:00,687 --> 00:55:00,807
Yeah.
:
00:55:00,837 --> 00:55:03,027
Which, John, you were probably
about to tell us, but Sam
:
00:55:03,027 --> 00:55:03,782
already beat you to it, so.
:
00:55:03,782 --> 00:55:04,407
Yeah, yeah, bit of a gaffe.
:
00:55:04,407 --> 00:55:04,947
Bit of a gaffe.
:
00:55:06,308 --> 00:55:09,087
Uh, just remember, license never
replace eyes, ears, and brain.
:
00:55:09,278 --> 00:55:11,178
Uh, Daniel says he's
afraid for the tournament.
:
00:55:11,617 --> 00:55:13,057
"Remember the lesson about the balance?
:
00:55:13,247 --> 00:55:14,827
Whole life is about balance.
:
00:55:14,827 --> 00:55:15,647
Do you understand?"
:
00:55:16,257 --> 00:55:16,998
And he says, "Mr.
:
00:55:16,998 --> 00:55:19,057
Miyagi, you're the best
friend I ever had."
:
00:55:19,567 --> 00:55:20,908
And he goes, "You're okay, too.
:
00:55:20,977 --> 00:55:22,348
Now go find the balance."
:
00:55:22,348 --> 00:55:23,718
Mm-hmm.
:
00:55:23,718 --> 00:55:25,739
It's so brutal- Yeah, they're
both- … that, isn't it?
:
00:55:25,739 --> 00:55:25,787
I know.
:
00:55:25,787 --> 00:55:26,577
Cheese and ham, innit?
:
00:55:26,617 --> 00:55:27,187
Cheese and ham.
:
00:55:27,977 --> 00:55:29,688
"You- you're okay, too."
:
00:55:29,988 --> 00:55:32,167
Man, Miyagi, you're such a prick.
:
00:55:33,357 --> 00:55:35,338
Such a awful, awful man.
:
00:55:35,378 --> 00:55:36,307
That kid is just…
:
00:55:36,668 --> 00:55:39,447
You are the father figure this child
has never had, and you're like- Mm-hmm
:
00:55:39,467 --> 00:55:41,738
"Uh, yeah, yeah."
:
00:55:41,907 --> 00:55:42,628
No, you're anything.
:
00:55:43,017 --> 00:55:43,527
If you want.
:
00:55:44,117 --> 00:55:46,277
Uh, Daniel is drawn to the parking lot-
I mean, it, it could have, it could
:
00:55:46,277 --> 00:55:47,877
have been more brutal, to be fair.
:
00:55:47,907 --> 00:55:50,017
He could have said, "That's a bit weird.
:
00:55:50,567 --> 00:55:52,377
Why don't you go and make
some friends your own age?"
:
00:55:53,378 --> 00:55:54,517
You're a creepy man.
:
00:55:55,347 --> 00:55:55,577
That's the theater business.
:
00:55:55,577 --> 00:55:56,617
You're absolutely- You're a weird kid.
:
00:55:56,967 --> 00:55:57,147
Yeah.
:
00:55:59,197 --> 00:56:00,207
One of them will fix your bike.
:
00:56:03,577 --> 00:56:04,512
Glad I'm not your dad.
:
00:56:04,512 --> 00:56:04,937
You're not my real sensei.
:
00:56:04,937 --> 00:56:04,977
Oh, man.
:
00:56:04,987 --> 00:56:05,237
Yeah.
:
00:56:05,287 --> 00:56:08,117
Although I am secretly shagging
your mom, and that's why, why I
:
00:56:08,117 --> 00:56:10,538
keep- Oh, man- … bothering you
so much … that's the story.
:
00:56:10,538 --> 00:56:10,598
That's it.
:
00:56:10,808 --> 00:56:11,058
Yeah.
:
00:56:11,058 --> 00:56:11,788
That's the story.
:
00:56:11,788 --> 00:56:12,727
That's why- Fix your faucet.
:
00:56:12,727 --> 00:56:13,498
Fix your faucet.
:
00:56:14,577 --> 00:56:18,567
That's why he spends all that time
painting the fence while he's, he's in
:
00:56:18,568 --> 00:56:20,397
the back room at the Orient Express.
:
00:56:20,397 --> 00:56:21,558
That's, that's why her eggs are dry.
:
00:56:23,307 --> 00:56:24,407
Jesus, John.
:
00:56:25,208 --> 00:56:25,798
Come on.
:
00:56:28,898 --> 00:56:29,088
Shattered.
:
00:56:29,137 --> 00:56:29,667
Not anymore.
:
00:56:31,517 --> 00:56:34,477
He spots Ali inside playing this
light gun game, and he's here to
:
00:56:34,477 --> 00:56:36,367
apologize, but she's having none of it.
:
00:56:36,988 --> 00:56:38,977
Uh, it makes sense she walloped
Johnny after the attack.
:
00:56:39,017 --> 00:56:40,857
But why, what shouldn't,
why didn't she say anything?
:
00:56:40,997 --> 00:56:42,227
She shouldn't have to.
:
00:56:42,568 --> 00:56:43,747
I mean, she should- Hey,
look, she had, uh- … but it
:
00:56:43,747 --> 00:56:45,117
would really help this movie.
:
00:56:45,547 --> 00:56:49,458
It would really cut the, you know,
cut us 10 minutes if, if she had.
:
00:56:50,387 --> 00:56:52,388
Outside, he admits that he's
a jerk, and he asks her to
:
00:56:52,477 --> 00:56:53,417
come along and cheer for her.
:
00:56:54,247 --> 00:56:58,114
They kiss, and he lets her drive
home At the tournament, Daniel
:
00:56:58,114 --> 00:57:01,244
needs a belt to compete, and
Miyagi says it's a black belt.
:
00:57:01,674 --> 00:57:05,654
He grabs her hand and puts
it down to steal the guy that
:
00:57:05,664 --> 00:57:07,344
they're registering from's belt.
:
00:57:07,563 --> 00:57:08,194
Yeah, yeah.
:
00:57:08,684 --> 00:57:13,084
Could I, um, could, could I t- take
this opportunity to do my big reveal?
:
00:57:13,294 --> 00:57:13,864
Oh, yeah.
:
00:57:13,864 --> 00:57:14,183
Please do.
:
00:57:14,183 --> 00:57:14,753
Yes, please.
:
00:57:14,894 --> 00:57:14,984
Okay.
:
00:57:15,413 --> 00:57:20,872
So It takes quite a long time to get
a black belt in karate Do you not just
:
00:57:20,872 --> 00:57:22,282
get Elizabeth Shue and nick it for you?
:
00:57:22,362 --> 00:57:23,022
Or die it.
:
00:57:23,532 --> 00:57:27,932
You absolutely don't, and I can
tell you that because I've actually
:
00:57:27,932 --> 00:57:29,142
done a spot of karate myself.
:
00:57:29,142 --> 00:57:30,412
Oh, look at this.
:
00:57:30,412 --> 00:57:30,542
What?
:
00:57:30,542 --> 00:57:30,561
What?
:
00:57:30,561 --> 00:57:32,372
Um, and so these are my belts.
:
00:57:32,412 --> 00:57:33,382
None of them are black.
:
00:57:33,801 --> 00:57:34,061
Okay.
:
00:57:34,282 --> 00:57:34,432
Oh.
:
00:57:34,942 --> 00:57:40,721
Um, however, uh, in order to get
to first dan black belt in karate,
:
00:57:40,961 --> 00:57:44,661
uh, typically takes, t- typically
takes between three and five years
:
00:57:44,682 --> 00:57:47,071
of consistent continuous training.
:
00:57:47,371 --> 00:57:47,401
What?
:
00:57:47,492 --> 00:57:50,402
Uh, that timeline does vary
greatly depending on your training
:
00:57:50,422 --> 00:57:54,101
frequency, the specific style of
karate, and the dojo standards.
:
00:57:54,422 --> 00:57:58,831
However, as someone who has done some
karate training over the last few years,
:
00:57:59,071 --> 00:58:04,981
I don't think sanding and washing cars
necessarily, um, counts towards that.
:
00:58:05,212 --> 00:58:09,562
So two to three structured classes
per week, you could potentially…
:
00:58:09,602 --> 00:58:11,182
And Daniel is a good age for it.
:
00:58:11,201 --> 00:58:15,972
Speaking to, uh, to my sensei, um,
that kind of 16 years old is a really
:
00:58:15,972 --> 00:58:18,021
good t- time to start, um, for boys.
:
00:58:18,021 --> 00:58:19,992
Interestingly, a bit
younger for girls works.
:
00:58:20,321 --> 00:58:25,721
Um, uh, but if you attend fewer than
one to two times a week, like me,
:
00:58:25,961 --> 00:58:29,882
um, that can stretch the timeline
to more like seven to 10 years.
:
00:58:30,192 --> 00:58:30,572
Wow.
:
00:58:30,611 --> 00:58:31,021
What?
:
00:58:31,092 --> 00:58:31,942
Jesus.
:
00:58:32,372 --> 00:58:32,652
Well done, though.
:
00:58:32,652 --> 00:58:33,132
To get your…
:
00:58:33,181 --> 00:58:36,871
A- and I do know, I, I know people
who've done, who, who have failed
:
00:58:36,891 --> 00:58:41,431
their, uh, their, their first dan,
um, test, but this is where I get
:
00:58:41,442 --> 00:58:46,442
into potentially less of 100 things
we learned from film and 100 things
:
00:58:46,442 --> 00:58:47,962
that this film got wrong about karate.
:
00:58:48,622 --> 00:58:49,621
So, uh- No, we like that.
:
00:58:49,651 --> 00:58:52,611
We like when films like- There's, there's
a few, there's a few more to come.
:
00:58:53,251 --> 00:58:53,581
Okay.
:
00:58:53,581 --> 00:58:54,641
No, no, that's, uh…
:
00:58:54,771 --> 00:58:56,531
Yeah, 'cause we're
getting to that bit now.
:
00:58:56,601 --> 00:58:58,981
This is where, where that is
going to be very, very important.
:
00:58:58,982 --> 00:59:00,391
Did you try and sand on, Sam?
:
00:59:00,401 --> 00:59:00,922
Did you try?
:
00:59:01,341 --> 00:59:02,321
Did you have a go?
:
00:59:03,391 --> 00:59:03,801
It's not…
:
00:59:04,031 --> 00:59:08,652
I mean, um, I'm not saying The Karate
Kid never gets mentioned, um, at karate
:
00:59:08,681 --> 00:59:13,861
lessons, um, but, um, at training,
but, um, but it's not necessarily,
:
00:59:13,901 --> 00:59:16,042
um, as strict as, as, uh, as Mr.
:
00:59:16,042 --> 00:59:17,112
Miyagi is around that.
:
00:59:17,361 --> 00:59:22,092
Can I just say, so in terms of that
particular scene where he basically turns
:
00:59:22,092 --> 00:59:27,171
up and says, yeah, he's gonna go and
fight as a black belt, um, in order to go
:
00:59:27,191 --> 00:59:31,061
into a karate competition, and I am aware
that there's different codes and there's
:
00:59:31,062 --> 00:59:35,051
different ways of doing these things,
but in the Japanese Karate Association
:
00:59:35,051 --> 00:59:39,911
of England, you need your little Japanese
Karate Association passport in which
:
00:59:40,081 --> 00:59:45,081
you, uh, you have to be registered,
um, my hands are lethal weapons.
:
00:59:45,401 --> 00:59:50,221
Um, and, uh, you get your little,
your little stamps for when
:
00:59:50,221 --> 00:59:53,181
you've got your belts and, um,
when you're entering tournaments.
:
00:59:53,361 --> 00:59:56,312
If you forget that book,
you're not in that tournament.
:
00:59:56,491 --> 00:59:56,691
Wow.
:
00:59:56,691 --> 00:59:59,451
So the idea that you can just turn up
and say, "Oh yeah, he's a black belt,"
:
00:59:59,681 --> 01:00:03,242
um, is, let's say, spurious at best.
:
01:00:03,401 --> 01:00:05,901
You went really all in, in the
revision for this film, haven't you?
:
01:00:05,941 --> 01:00:06,271
Jesus.
:
01:00:06,271 --> 01:00:08,551
I started four years ago, mate.
:
01:00:08,551 --> 01:00:08,941
So much so, yeah.
:
01:00:10,531 --> 01:00:11,992
You only suggested it five years ago.
:
01:00:13,624 --> 01:00:15,954
Have you, have you won one of
these massive trophies that Daniel
:
01:00:15,954 --> 01:00:16,934
gets at the end of this movie?
:
01:00:17,794 --> 01:00:21,224
Well, look, I, I wasn't gonna go
on about it, but what I have won
:
01:00:21,264 --> 01:00:27,124
is, um, so this is my bronze medal
from the, uh, kumite at last year's,
:
01:00:27,194 --> 01:00:30,244
uh, JKA, uh, International Open.
:
01:00:30,253 --> 01:00:30,273
Wow.
:
01:00:30,704 --> 01:00:35,883
Uh, this is my, uh, silver
medal from the team kata at last
:
01:00:35,883 --> 01:00:38,823
year's, uh, JKA UK Championships.
:
01:00:38,833 --> 01:00:38,853
Wow.
:
01:00:39,124 --> 01:00:44,244
Um, and this is my, uh, gold medal
from the, uh, kata competition.
:
01:00:44,553 --> 01:00:44,913
Um- Wow.
:
01:00:45,883 --> 01:00:47,593
Well done … which
sounds impressive so far.
:
01:00:48,434 --> 01:00:52,424
This is the trophy that I got for
being what the, uh, Americans would
:
01:00:52,424 --> 01:00:54,923
call the winningest member of, um- Oh
:
01:00:54,923 --> 01:00:58,403
the karate club, um, in
Colchester last year.
:
01:00:58,974 --> 01:01:03,724
Um, the caveat, and it's a hefty one,
which goes across all of the top of
:
01:01:03,724 --> 01:01:07,183
this, is at my level in my age bracket.
:
01:01:07,463 --> 01:01:09,844
So- Right, okay … let's just, uh Ah.
:
01:01:10,364 --> 01:01:16,904
So, so I am an international karate
champion within a very, very fine remit.
:
01:01:17,313 --> 01:01:17,633
Right.
:
01:01:17,684 --> 01:01:18,114
Okay.
:
01:01:18,114 --> 01:01:18,533
That works though.
:
01:01:18,533 --> 01:01:18,793
Great.
:
01:01:18,843 --> 01:01:22,073
Hey, I can't get off the sofa without
groaning, so you know, that's…
:
01:01:22,114 --> 01:01:23,825
You've got that going for you.
:
01:01:23,825 --> 01:01:26,694
Can, can I also just say, the reason
I chose the film is not so that I
:
01:01:26,694 --> 01:01:28,072
could show the internet my medals.
:
01:01:28,072 --> 01:01:28,617
Yeah, whatever.
:
01:01:28,617 --> 01:01:28,890
Whatever.
:
01:01:28,890 --> 01:01:29,163
Yeah.
:
01:01:29,163 --> 01:01:29,708
Yeah, yeah.
:
01:01:29,708 --> 01:01:36,014
See if you, see if you've got a lightsaber
in it, I'm going to go crazy, man.
:
01:01:36,014 --> 01:01:38,143
In the dressing room, the
Cobras are hassling Daniel.
:
01:01:38,463 --> 01:01:40,624
Uh, "Points or no points,
you're dead meat."
:
01:01:40,684 --> 01:01:42,564
And the ref comes in and
breaks it up for some reason.
:
01:01:43,224 --> 01:01:44,543
She puts the belt on him.
:
01:01:44,663 --> 01:01:45,663
Where did we get this?
:
01:01:45,904 --> 01:01:47,023
Buddha provides.
:
01:01:47,573 --> 01:01:48,433
It's good, it's a good one.
:
01:01:48,923 --> 01:01:50,044
Uh- Also- The judge won't…
:
01:01:50,044 --> 01:01:52,883
Go on … how does she know, how does
she know how to tie a karate belt?
:
01:01:52,883 --> 01:01:52,923
It's just a belt.
:
01:01:52,923 --> 01:01:53,013
Costume.
:
01:01:53,233 --> 01:01:54,884
Which is necessarily straightforward.
:
01:01:54,893 --> 01:01:55,173
Yeah, yeah.
:
01:01:55,193 --> 01:01:55,253
Costume.
:
01:01:55,253 --> 01:01:55,813
Oh, no, no.
:
01:01:55,853 --> 01:01:59,163
They're, they're really long, and you have
to do, like, a whole thing where you start
:
01:01:59,163 --> 01:02:01,643
at the front- Mm-hmm … and go around
the back and loop it under and stuff.
:
01:02:01,794 --> 01:02:02,223
Ah, right.
:
01:02:02,233 --> 01:02:02,933
Um, there you go.
:
01:02:02,934 --> 01:02:03,934
There's a, there's a thing.
:
01:02:04,103 --> 01:02:04,943
It's a, uh…
:
01:02:05,033 --> 01:02:07,093
There is a specific way
to tie a karate belt.
:
01:02:07,133 --> 01:02:07,373
Okay.
:
01:02:07,373 --> 01:02:07,486
There you go.
:
01:02:07,486 --> 01:02:11,943
And also, sh- how is she the only person
who knows the rules of the competition?
:
01:02:12,013 --> 01:02:14,083
Yeah, that's, yeah, that's really weird.
:
01:02:14,193 --> 01:02:14,523
Yeah.
:
01:02:14,843 --> 01:02:18,862
B- Because she basically tells us-
Nails them … that if you get,
:
01:02:18,862 --> 01:02:20,502
like, you get a point for this-
Yep … and a point for that.
:
01:02:20,772 --> 01:02:21,882
One for the balls, two for the face.
:
01:02:21,892 --> 01:02:21,912
Yeah.
:
01:02:21,922 --> 01:02:23,482
One for the balls, two for the face.
:
01:02:23,482 --> 01:02:26,122
And the judge won't let her
stay at the mat until they claim
:
01:02:26,122 --> 01:02:27,682
she's translating for Miyagi.
:
01:02:28,012 --> 01:02:30,552
Uh, and there's this great bit
where J- what, what did he say?
:
01:02:30,592 --> 01:02:33,391
Oh, he says he's got a, an, an
uncle in Japan who looks like you.
:
01:02:33,562 --> 01:02:34,252
Oh, thank you.
:
01:02:34,361 --> 01:02:35,102
You're welcome.
:
01:02:35,812 --> 01:02:36,432
They look so similar.
:
01:02:37,111 --> 01:02:38,671
It's a great, another brilliant
Great Escape bit, isn't it?
:
01:02:38,671 --> 01:02:39,307
I do like it.
:
01:02:39,307 --> 01:02:39,943
I do like it.
:
01:02:39,943 --> 01:02:43,421
Uh- Um, in karate you do actually
get more points for a head kick.
:
01:02:43,452 --> 01:02:47,331
Part of the, um, part of the thing when
you're doing that, uh, competitive,
:
01:02:47,341 --> 01:02:52,216
the kumite element, is that, um, you
do want to score points, but you also
:
01:02:52,216 --> 01:02:53,622
basically get points for showing off.
:
01:02:53,842 --> 01:02:58,252
So if you- Oh, right … uh, kick
someone in their, uh, sternum, then you
:
01:02:58,342 --> 01:03:00,562
would get, you would get fewer points
than if you kick them in the head.
:
01:03:01,081 --> 01:03:01,872
Okay, great.
:
01:03:01,982 --> 01:03:02,072
Cool.
:
01:03:02,752 --> 01:03:04,732
The first fight- Points for
showing off is what attracted me.
:
01:03:05,552 --> 01:03:07,542
Yeah, well, I'm not surprised.
:
01:03:07,542 --> 01:03:07,841
I'm not surprised.
:
01:03:07,841 --> 01:03:10,652
The first fight, Daniel kicks and
knocks this guy out, and she shouts,
:
01:03:10,701 --> 01:03:12,591
"Whoa, Daniel, you're the best."
:
01:03:13,241 --> 01:03:13,281
Hooray.
:
01:03:13,291 --> 01:03:13,751
Oh.
:
01:03:13,761 --> 01:03:18,602
Which then throws us into this montage
to You're The Best, uh, performed by
:
01:03:18,611 --> 01:03:22,732
Joe Esposito, and written by Bill Conti,
John, as you mentioned before- Hey
:
01:03:22,791 --> 01:03:26,022
uh, for the music, and Ali
W- Ali Willis for the lyrics.
:
01:03:26,312 --> 01:03:29,832
Uh, Conti we know from, as you say,
all of those, uh- Rocky … but
:
01:03:29,842 --> 01:03:31,152
also Master of the Universe.
:
01:03:31,191 --> 01:03:31,702
Yeah, yeah.
:
01:03:31,702 --> 01:03:32,692
Which we did a couple of months ago.
:
01:03:33,552 --> 01:03:36,411
Uh, but, um, Willis is
even better in my opinion.
:
01:03:36,461 --> 01:03:37,441
Uh, this is great.
:
01:03:37,511 --> 01:03:42,431
She co-wrote, uh, hit songs including
September and Boogie Wonderland for
:
01:03:42,431 --> 01:03:44,012
Earth, Wind & Fire, both great songs.
:
01:03:44,141 --> 01:03:44,301
Nice.
:
01:03:44,361 --> 01:03:45,912
And What Have I Done to Deserve This?,
:
01:03:45,921 --> 01:03:46,891
for Pet Shop Boys.
:
01:03:47,101 --> 01:03:47,481
What?
:
01:03:47,721 --> 01:03:48,061
Dusty Springfield.
:
01:03:48,101 --> 01:03:48,621
Wow.
:
01:03:48,671 --> 01:03:49,481
I love that.
:
01:03:49,791 --> 01:03:49,901
It's an absolute banger.
:
01:03:49,901 --> 01:03:50,052
No, it's good.
:
01:03:50,331 --> 01:03:50,811
Yeah, it's good.
:
01:03:50,912 --> 01:03:51,262
Yeah.
:
01:03:51,561 --> 01:03:55,471
She won two Grammys for Beverly
Hills Cop and Color Purple themes.
:
01:03:55,842 --> 01:04:00,611
Um, and the latter was nominated for
a Tony Award, and this is my personal
:
01:04:00,611 --> 01:04:03,841
fact of the show, she was also
nominated for an Emmy for (I'll Be
:
01:04:03,842 --> 01:04:05,941
There 4U), the theme tune to Friends.
:
01:04:06,522 --> 01:04:06,912
Wow.
:
01:04:07,302 --> 01:04:07,532
Bloody hell.
:
01:04:07,582 --> 01:04:07,992
Jesus.
:
01:04:08,011 --> 01:04:08,241
Hmm.
:
01:04:08,552 --> 01:04:09,211
How good is that?
:
01:04:09,351 --> 01:04:09,881
Impressive.
:
01:04:10,171 --> 01:04:12,521
Um- I don't particularly like
Friends, but you know, you can't,
:
01:04:12,581 --> 01:04:13,651
you can't deny that's a totem.
:
01:04:13,651 --> 01:04:13,902
Mm-hmm.
:
01:04:14,951 --> 01:04:20,261
The song The Best- Mm-hmm … features the
lyric, "History repeats itself", which is,
:
01:04:20,331 --> 01:04:23,861
uh, something which has been criticized
by fans and critics, uh, because it
:
01:04:23,861 --> 01:04:27,251
doesn't make enough sense for the f-
for the scene, as it was Daniel's very
:
01:04:27,251 --> 01:04:28,521
first time competing in the tournament.
:
01:04:28,521 --> 01:04:29,101
Oh, of course.
:
01:04:29,291 --> 01:04:29,311
Yeah.
:
01:04:29,731 --> 01:04:30,011
True.
:
01:04:30,091 --> 01:04:35,052
Um, now this is borne out potentially
by the fact that the song itself was
:
01:04:35,052 --> 01:04:41,171
rejected for Rocky III, um, in favor
of, uh, Eye of the Tiger by Survivor.
:
01:04:41,171 --> 01:04:41,391
Oh, wow.
:
01:04:41,391 --> 01:04:46,501
It was also then pitched for Flashdance,
but lost out to Maniac, before finally
:
01:04:46,531 --> 01:04:48,281
finding its home in The Karate Kid.
:
01:04:48,291 --> 01:04:48,571
Head.
:
01:04:48,871 --> 01:04:48,971
Nice.
:
01:04:48,971 --> 01:04:50,011
Better song, Maniac.
:
01:04:50,011 --> 01:04:50,682
Better song.
:
01:04:50,912 --> 01:04:56,242
Joe, uh, Joe Esposito, who sings the
song, um, was the preferred vocalist for
:
01:04:56,302 --> 01:04:59,062
a lot of, um, other soundtrack films.
:
01:04:59,062 --> 01:05:03,321
He sang Lady, Lady, Lady in Flashdance-
Mm-hmm … uh, Come Into My Life in
:
01:05:03,321 --> 01:05:08,201
Coming to America, uh, Just Imagine, Way
Beyond Fai- Fear in Thief of Hearts, also
:
01:05:08,201 --> 01:05:13,641
from:Men, and Diamond Lizzy in Scarface.
:
01:05:13,912 --> 01:05:19,018
Ooh Um, he also collaborated a
lot with Donna Summer later on
:
01:05:19,018 --> 01:05:20,508
in, uh, earlier on in his career.
:
01:05:20,508 --> 01:05:22,388
So there's a disco theme
going through with- Yeah.
:
01:05:22,728 --> 01:05:24,478
Oh, absolutely … both
Joe Esposito and Ali Wells.
:
01:05:24,888 --> 01:05:27,408
I didn't know that he did,
um, Coming to America.
:
01:05:27,408 --> 01:05:28,107
Is he, is he Sexual Chocolate?
:
01:05:28,107 --> 01:05:28,907
Sexual Chocolate.
:
01:05:28,927 --> 01:05:29,617
Sexual Chocolate.
:
01:05:31,778 --> 01:05:32,087
Randy
:
01:05:34,188 --> 01:05:34,658
Jackson.
:
01:05:35,118 --> 01:05:35,258
All the children of Randy Jackson.
:
01:05:35,258 --> 01:05:35,488
They're all good.
:
01:05:36,837 --> 01:05:37,757
Yeah, so we get all that.
:
01:05:38,087 --> 01:05:40,687
Uh, Daniel makes his way through
these goons, including a Cobra.
:
01:05:40,817 --> 01:05:44,368
Uh, there's a break for Miyagi to
patch him up before the semifinal.
:
01:05:44,647 --> 01:05:46,287
Uh, Johnny fights his semi and wins.
:
01:05:46,378 --> 01:05:46,857
Or semi.
:
01:05:46,857 --> 01:05:47,487
Mm-hmm.
:
01:05:47,487 --> 01:05:48,397
Uh, Daniel has Bobby Brown Cobra to fight.
:
01:05:48,397 --> 01:05:48,437
Not that Bobby Brown.
:
01:05:48,437 --> 01:05:48,447
Yeah.
:
01:05:48,447 --> 01:05:49,137
Uh, and Martin Kove tells Brown
:
01:05:54,147 --> 01:05:57,157
to take him out in any way he
can, and he kicks him in the knee.
:
01:05:57,188 --> 01:05:58,887
Oh, it's a solid- It's a bad 'un.
:
01:05:58,887 --> 01:05:59,487
It's a bad 'un.
:
01:05:59,737 --> 01:06:04,028
So just to, again, this is not
particularly a technical point, but
:
01:06:04,747 --> 01:06:08,857
even as a, as a novice watching that, he
should have got out the way of that kick.
:
01:06:09,237 --> 01:06:09,577
Yeah.
:
01:06:09,577 --> 01:06:09,797
Oh, yeah.
:
01:06:09,797 --> 01:06:11,357
He really, he really telegraphed it.
:
01:06:11,407 --> 01:06:14,277
He, he basically jumped up in the air
and landed on his leg, and he let him.
:
01:06:14,677 --> 01:06:16,717
Um, it was a poor stance as well.
:
01:06:16,727 --> 01:06:16,747
Yeah.
:
01:06:16,747 --> 01:06:18,587
He should be, should have been
stronger on his front foot.
:
01:06:19,247 --> 01:06:19,697
I agree.
:
01:06:19,747 --> 01:06:20,338
I couldn't agree more.
:
01:06:20,338 --> 01:06:20,348
Mm.
:
01:06:21,338 --> 01:06:23,957
Uh, in the changing rooms, the
doctor leaves, and he goes,
:
01:06:23,978 --> 01:06:25,217
"I'll inform the judges."
:
01:06:25,457 --> 01:06:26,997
I was like, "Wait, is Daniel dead?"
:
01:06:27,007 --> 01:06:29,118
That's how it felt here.
:
01:06:29,708 --> 01:06:31,497
Johnny be a- Is this the end of the champ?
:
01:06:31,497 --> 01:06:32,567
What if this is- Oh, no.
:
01:06:33,207 --> 01:06:33,777
Oh, go on, man.
:
01:06:33,917 --> 01:06:35,037
Oh, oh, champ.
:
01:06:35,107 --> 01:06:35,547
Oh, champ.
:
01:06:35,588 --> 01:06:36,397
Wake up, champ.
:
01:06:36,908 --> 01:06:37,507
Um, "Mr.
:
01:06:37,807 --> 01:06:39,238
Miyagi, do you think I
had a chance at winning?"
:
01:06:39,307 --> 01:06:40,497
"You had good chance."
:
01:06:40,577 --> 01:06:43,938
Uh, he asks him to magically fix
his leg using the reiki that John
:
01:06:43,938 --> 01:06:47,707
mentioned, and rubs his hands together,
and then we smash to him walking out.
:
01:06:47,868 --> 01:06:52,738
"Daniel LaRusso's going to fight,"
the guy shouts for no reason at all.
:
01:06:52,738 --> 01:06:56,638
For, for those of you who haven't
seen Cobra Kai yet, and I hate
:
01:06:56,638 --> 01:07:00,447
spoilers- Yeah … but I will tell
you that there is a phenomenal
:
01:07:00,467 --> 01:07:04,657
callback to- Yeah … reiki that takes
place- Okay … in, in Cobra Kai.
:
01:07:04,938 --> 01:07:06,968
Um, I mean, Cobra Kai is a callback show.
:
01:07:06,978 --> 01:07:06,988
Mm.
:
01:07:07,268 --> 01:07:10,537
Uh, but it, uh, there is,
there's one moment which is just
:
01:07:10,567 --> 01:07:11,967
absolutely f- it's, it's brilliant.
:
01:07:12,027 --> 01:07:12,507
It's brilliant.
:
01:07:12,507 --> 01:07:12,517
Yeah.
:
01:07:12,517 --> 01:07:13,548
It's one of the funniest- Looking
forward to seeing it … things
:
01:07:13,548 --> 01:07:14,647
that happens in that series.
:
01:07:14,947 --> 01:07:15,878
I'm looking forward to seeing it.
:
01:07:16,068 --> 01:07:16,548
Fantastic.
:
01:07:17,017 --> 01:07:18,207
Uh, Johnny versus Daniel.
:
01:07:18,247 --> 01:07:19,827
He's limping, but he's ready to go.
:
01:07:20,438 --> 01:07:23,807
Uh, Zabka had zero karate
training before being cast.
:
01:07:23,817 --> 01:07:25,997
Uh, but- He was a wrestler though.
:
01:07:25,997 --> 01:07:26,250
Oh, he was a wrestler?
:
01:07:26,250 --> 01:07:26,326
Oh, right, okay.
:
01:07:26,326 --> 01:07:27,027
He was a wrestler, eh?
:
01:07:27,027 --> 01:07:27,477
Yeah, yeah.
:
01:07:27,618 --> 01:07:30,827
Uh, Macchio had previous training in
dance and some martial arts movement,
:
01:07:31,157 --> 01:07:32,638
which meant he was well suited for it.
:
01:07:32,638 --> 01:07:33,087
He could move.
:
01:07:33,217 --> 01:07:33,237
Yeah.
:
01:07:33,278 --> 01:07:35,078
He could, he couldn't, he couldn't
dodge a bloody kick, but he could move.
:
01:07:35,078 --> 01:07:37,497
Yeah, which explains why he's
doing all that dancing earlier on,
:
01:07:37,497 --> 01:07:39,797
and Miyagi shouts at him for it.
:
01:07:39,817 --> 01:07:39,827
Mm.
:
01:07:39,846 --> 01:07:42,357
Uh, Johnny comes at him, but his
first point to Dan, and then he gets
:
01:07:42,357 --> 01:07:43,968
another point with this brilliant drop.
:
01:07:44,267 --> 01:07:46,027
Martin Kove's like, "I sweep the leg."
:
01:07:46,067 --> 01:07:47,377
"You got a problem with that?"
:
01:07:47,596 --> 01:07:52,198
I'm like, Martin Kove, please just take
it down just a notch or two, please.
:
01:07:52,207 --> 01:07:52,697
Yeah.
:
01:07:52,927 --> 01:07:53,207
Yeah.
:
01:07:53,517 --> 01:07:54,346
Um- His reaction's genuine.
:
01:07:54,346 --> 01:07:56,596
Apparently he was meant to say it
softer, but he actually said- Oh,
:
01:07:56,737 --> 01:08:00,247
I, I don't think this man's ever
said anything softly in his life.
:
01:08:00,987 --> 01:08:01,387
My God.
:
01:08:01,387 --> 01:08:01,957
He just gets to bed.
:
01:08:03,577 --> 01:08:04,367
Exactly.
:
01:08:05,338 --> 01:08:09,748
He gets him with a leg sweep, and then a
second, and it's 2-2 Um, and it's a good
:
01:08:09,748 --> 01:08:11,488
fight except for the punch to the face.
:
01:08:11,528 --> 01:08:12,538
It's next point winner.
:
01:08:13,337 --> 01:08:15,587
Uh, Daniel goes down under
another kick to the knee.
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01:08:15,678 --> 01:08:19,577
Um, Daniel lines up a crane kick
and wallops him, doesn't he?
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Absolutely wallops him.
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01:08:20,888 --> 01:08:22,238
Crane k- is it a thing, Sam?
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01:08:22,327 --> 01:08:24,098
Is it, is it something
that you do in karate?
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01:08:24,336 --> 01:08:25,778
Uh, it's not something
I've done in karate.
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01:08:25,778 --> 01:08:27,268
Maybe when you get to higher levels.
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01:08:27,657 --> 01:08:33,228
Um, it is, it is as much discussed,
uh, later on, an illegal kick.
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01:08:33,417 --> 01:08:38,067
And again, depending on, uh, style
of karate, then there are very
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01:08:38,067 --> 01:08:42,727
different approaches to, uh, how
you actually, um, conduct yourself
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01:08:42,767 --> 01:08:44,398
in, in that kind of context.
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01:08:44,437 --> 01:08:46,488
So couple of other things on here.
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In-- Mr.
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01:08:48,428 --> 01:08:52,638
Miyagi is very, uh, determined that
they make eye contact while they bow.
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01:08:52,738 --> 01:08:52,988
Mm.
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01:08:53,117 --> 01:08:55,497
Um, that's not consistent
across every style of karate.
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01:08:55,787 --> 01:08:59,997
Um, and in, uh, Shotokan karate, you
bow and look at the floor, not at your
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01:08:59,997 --> 01:09:02,017
opponent when you, when you do the bow.
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01:09:02,277 --> 01:09:06,596
There's another issue, um, on, in
relation to the match area itself,
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01:09:07,077 --> 01:09:12,437
um, which is unusually small here,
and in the practice dojo earlier on.
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01:09:12,758 --> 01:09:17,528
Um, a, uh, match area is eight meters
by eight meters, which is the match
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01:09:17,528 --> 01:09:20,947
area itself, and then there is the
safety area, which is a two-meter wide
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01:09:20,947 --> 01:09:24,258
perimeter that completely surrounds
the match area to protect athletes
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01:09:24,258 --> 01:09:25,886
who step or fall out of bounds.
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01:09:26,457 --> 01:09:26,767
Okay.
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01:09:27,086 --> 01:09:27,577
Fantastic.
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01:09:27,827 --> 01:09:32,368
He wins, of course, and, uh,
Johnny's line, which feels kind of
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01:09:32,368 --> 01:09:34,517
just thrown in at the last minute,
"You're right, you're right, LaRusso.
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01:09:34,548 --> 01:09:35,117
Good match."
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01:09:36,993 --> 01:09:37,714
Uh, we did it, Mr.
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01:09:37,714 --> 01:09:38,113
Miyagi.
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01:09:38,113 --> 01:09:38,684
We did it.
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01:09:38,684 --> 01:09:41,084
And it's the second time
I cried watching the film.
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01:09:41,084 --> 01:09:44,613
Uh, as obviously I cried at the bit where
he was telling us about his dead wife.
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01:09:44,674 --> 01:09:45,563
That was heartbreaking.
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01:09:45,783 --> 01:09:45,973
Mm.
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01:09:46,024 --> 01:09:47,174
Uh, but yeah, this is nice.
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01:09:47,202 --> 01:09:48,243
It's a nice happy ending.
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01:09:48,243 --> 01:09:48,604
I love it.
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01:09:49,224 --> 01:09:49,464
Cool.
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01:09:49,724 --> 01:09:50,433
Uh, yeah.
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01:09:50,484 --> 01:09:52,823
Uh, that's, um, uh, that's all I…
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01:09:52,874 --> 01:09:54,064
One, one more thing I've got.
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01:09:54,073 --> 01:09:56,814
Jerry Weintraub got the idea after
hearing about a bullied teenager who
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01:09:56,814 --> 01:09:58,414
learned martial arts to defend himself.
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01:09:58,454 --> 01:09:58,943
Mm-hmm.
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01:09:58,943 --> 01:09:59,054
Yeah.
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01:09:59,063 --> 01:10:01,124
I mean, that sounds-
Yeah … like every school.
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01:10:01,323 --> 01:10:01,952
I don't know.
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01:10:01,952 --> 01:10:03,984
I don't know how much of that
I believe, but yeah, apparently
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01:10:03,984 --> 01:10:04,613
that's on the internet.
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01:10:05,193 --> 01:10:06,183
Uh, right.
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01:10:06,184 --> 01:10:06,574
Okay.
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01:10:06,574 --> 01:10:08,294
Let's, um, let's, let's go.
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01:10:08,313 --> 01:10:08,693
Let's…
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01:10:08,894 --> 01:10:12,373
John, John, I know you need to go
very, very shortly, so we may not get
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01:10:12,374 --> 01:10:14,034
a, we may not get a goodbye from John.
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01:10:14,043 --> 01:10:14,963
He may just leave.
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01:10:15,354 --> 01:10:16,484
Uh, but Sam, have you got any…
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01:10:16,534 --> 01:10:18,603
We'll get John to go through
any facts he might have left.
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01:10:18,674 --> 01:10:19,127
Uh, the iconic, uh, Serg's
apartment is located in::
01:10:19,127 --> 01:10:19,195
uh, Citgo Street in Reseda.
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01:10:19,195 --> 01:10:19,236
It's a real…
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01:10:19,236 --> 01:10:19,834
It's a 37-unit, uh,
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01:10:28,174 --> 01:10:32,593
h, two-story complex built in:and mini golf, or crazy golf as
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01:10:32,593 --> 01:10:36,033
it's known in the UK, evolved from
early putting games, uh, invented in
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01:10:36,034 --> 01:10:37,504
Scotland in the late 19th century.
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01:10:37,943 --> 01:10:38,214
There you go.
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01:10:38,214 --> 01:10:38,383
Fantastic.
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01:10:38,383 --> 01:10:38,893
There you go.
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01:10:39,403 --> 01:10:39,793
Okay.
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01:10:39,924 --> 01:10:40,733
Sam, anything more?
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01:10:41,043 --> 01:10:43,934
Uh, one more geeky kara-
karate fact, if I may.
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01:10:44,013 --> 01:10:44,173
Love it.
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01:10:44,284 --> 01:10:45,423
Uh, when Mr.
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01:10:45,424 --> 01:10:49,383
Miyagi teach, teaches
Daniel to punch- Yeah
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01:10:49,413 --> 01:10:52,813
he teaches him to kiai,
which is the, uh…
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01:10:53,013 --> 01:10:57,914
Which is not the sound you make, but is
when you punch someone, you do a kiai,
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01:10:58,104 --> 01:11:03,663
uh, which is made up of two Japanese
words: ki, um, which means, uh, internal
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01:11:03,663 --> 01:11:10,263
life energy or spirit, and ai, meaning
to join, unify, unify or harmonize.
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01:11:10,593 --> 01:11:15,834
Um, so put together it means an outward
explosion of unified body and spirit.
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01:11:15,843 --> 01:11:15,853
Ooh.
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01:11:16,333 --> 01:11:19,013
I have more on the kiai, but
if John needs to go soon, I'll
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01:11:19,013 --> 01:11:20,244
save that for another time.
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01:11:20,613 --> 01:11:21,893
I'll save that for The Karate Kid two.
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01:11:21,894 --> 01:11:23,973
Is that, is that not
the rapper, the rapper?
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01:11:25,963 --> 01:11:27,183
Punching for the eye.
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01:11:27,193 --> 01:11:29,334
Uh, this, this made the top five.
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01:11:29,343 --> 01:11:31,273
It's, it's- Sorry, go on, Sam … S-
sorry, I was just gonna say, it's
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01:11:31,284 --> 01:11:34,383
something which, when you actually
do k- karate, it's something
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01:11:34,383 --> 01:11:35,554
which is really focused on.
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01:11:35,563 --> 01:11:39,683
Your kiai is important, um, because it
shows the spirit and energy that you're
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01:11:39,702 --> 01:11:41,983
bringing to, um, to what you're doing.
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01:11:42,193 --> 01:11:46,934
And, uh, whilst as, as someone who did
it, I was never the, never gonna be the
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01:11:46,934 --> 01:11:49,943
fastest in the room, never gonna be the
strongest in the room, but there was
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01:11:49,943 --> 01:11:51,493
a good chance I could be the loudest.
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01:11:51,733 --> 01:11:54,223
So I really enjoyed that
element of karate personally.
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01:11:54,723 --> 01:11:54,934
Good stuff.
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01:11:54,934 --> 01:11:55,304
Kiai.
:
01:11:55,874 --> 01:12:00,513
Uh, top five box office in:Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and
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01:12:00,514 --> 01:12:02,574
the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, and this.
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01:12:03,083 --> 01:12:03,452
There you go.
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01:12:03,493 --> 01:12:05,244
So it did, uh, it did pretty well.
:
01:12:05,574 --> 01:12:07,004
Uh, right, Sam, I'm gonna top them up.
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01:12:07,004 --> 01:12:08,202
Do you wanna have a
guess at how many we got?
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01:12:08,893 --> 01:12:10,793
I mean, John's gonna be better
at guessing this than me.
:
01:12:10,964 --> 01:12:13,043
I'm just gonna go for 100 bang on.
:
01:12:13,264 --> 01:12:15,164
Oh, John, can you go higher than 100?
:
01:12:15,553 --> 01:12:16,523
113.
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01:12:16,824 --> 01:12:17,474
Oh.
:
01:12:17,493 --> 01:12:19,153
Sam, can you go higher than 113?
:
01:12:19,968 --> 01:12:26,178
Uh, 117 Oh, John, higher 132 Oh, 125.
:
01:12:26,918 --> 01:12:28,147
125, Sam- Not bad … that's
impressive stuff.
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01:12:28,258 --> 01:12:28,277
Yeah.
:
01:12:28,277 --> 01:12:28,798
That was all you.
:
01:12:28,807 --> 01:12:29,518
Very impressive stuff.
:
01:12:29,838 --> 01:12:30,637
Yeah, exactly.
:
01:12:30,637 --> 01:12:32,257
We, uh, probably wouldn't
have got 100 without you.
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01:12:33,938 --> 01:12:35,468
Uh, fantastic.
:
01:12:35,468 --> 01:12:35,557
Ki, ki, ki, ay.
:
01:12:35,557 --> 01:12:37,027
Sam, anything to plug?
:
01:12:37,047 --> 01:12:37,688
Probably not.
:
01:12:39,287 --> 01:12:39,507
No.
:
01:12:39,508 --> 01:12:41,097
Your, your dojo, your own personal dojo?
:
01:12:41,537 --> 01:12:42,177
Yeah, no, absolutely.
:
01:12:42,177 --> 01:12:43,348
Where you scream at kids.
:
01:12:46,207 --> 01:12:48,218
Um, no, everyone go and watch Cobra Kai.
:
01:12:48,617 --> 01:12:48,958
Yeah.
:
01:12:48,958 --> 01:12:49,058
Yeah.
:
01:12:49,178 --> 01:12:49,777
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
:
01:12:50,288 --> 01:12:51,757
No, it's, it's a nice, definitely
a nice- Definitely gonna do that.
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01:12:51,777 --> 01:12:54,738
John, just in case you drop off,
do you wanna, uh, thank the lovely
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01:12:54,738 --> 01:12:55,647
people before I do the patrons?
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01:12:55,657 --> 01:12:57,051
No, thank you, and thank you, Sam.
:
01:12:57,051 --> 01:12:59,537
That was, that was interesting,
and that's maybe what I watch,
:
01:12:59,618 --> 01:13:01,857
um- … Cobra Kai even more.
:
01:13:01,897 --> 01:13:02,358
I've, I've been…
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01:13:02,397 --> 01:13:04,077
It's been recommended- Yeah … but
I'm definitely gonna watch it.
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01:13:04,087 --> 01:13:04,668
Thank you so much.
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01:13:04,707 --> 01:13:04,997
Great.
:
01:13:05,317 --> 01:13:05,917
Fantastic.
:
01:13:06,137 --> 01:13:09,537
Uh, those patrons including Sam,
uh, the people that give us the,
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01:13:09,567 --> 01:13:14,087
uh, cashola, uh, are somewhere
on this list that will not load.
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01:13:14,137 --> 01:13:15,437
Uh, so that's really good, isn't it?
:
01:13:15,737 --> 01:13:18,677
Uh, yeah, so you can do so at
100thingswelearntfrom.co.uk
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01:13:18,677 --> 01:13:20,707
or patreon.com/100things
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01:13:21,777 --> 01:13:22,217
uh, film.
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01:13:22,438 --> 01:13:27,568
We have got Phil Fairish, Rachel
Plant, Gadget, Stig, Josh Wilson,
:
01:13:27,928 --> 01:13:33,858
Gav and Dan Belson, Gav McGill,
Ian Graham, Mono and Kira, Biggie.
:
01:13:33,947 --> 01:13:39,918
Uh, we have got Joe Higgins, Aaron
Huggett, Nigel Davies, Ian McComish,
:
01:13:40,717 --> 01:13:46,367
Maria, Ali, Dale, and Megan, Jen
Stewards, uh, lovely Rob Jones, Kieran,
:
01:13:46,707 --> 01:13:50,668
uh, Corrigan, Oodles, Candy, James.
:
01:13:50,987 --> 01:13:53,597
I've got a couple of repeats
here for some strange reason.
:
01:13:53,598 --> 01:13:54,707
I don't entirely know why that is.
:
01:13:55,007 --> 01:14:02,798
Uh, we've got, uh, Angry Kurt,
Dean, David Lim, uh, Luke, uh, Kyle.
:
01:14:02,807 --> 01:14:05,057
I don't know why all these
people are on here that have
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01:14:05,057 --> 01:14:06,158
not paid for a long, long time.
:
01:14:06,497 --> 01:14:08,508
Uh, Benicio Derek Sanchez.
:
01:14:08,517 --> 01:14:08,647
Yes.
:
01:14:08,657 --> 01:14:12,928
Uh, David Lim, and, uh, that gentleman
there that you're, uh, looking at
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01:14:12,937 --> 01:14:14,348
if you're watching on YouTube, Sam.
:
01:14:14,937 --> 01:14:18,987
Uh, so thank you so, so much, uh, to
those people that support the podcast
:
01:14:19,028 --> 01:14:22,207
'cause it helps us pay for all of
this hosting, all of that nonsense,
:
01:14:22,217 --> 01:14:26,587
and, um, whatever ch- goes towards
whatever charity stupidity we're doing.
:
01:14:26,617 --> 01:14:28,711
I think we'll do another charity thing,
John- Yeah, definitely … so we need to
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01:14:28,711 --> 01:14:29,117
figure out what that's gonna be this year.
:
01:14:29,117 --> 01:14:29,748
No, definitely.
:
01:14:30,147 --> 01:14:32,867
Uh, it won't be a walk,
uh, until I fix my back.
:
01:14:32,947 --> 01:14:36,877
Uh, but again, Sam, thank you so,
so much for making us laugh- Thank
:
01:14:36,877 --> 01:14:38,397
you for having me … uh- Yeah,
it was good … helping us learn.
:
01:14:38,757 --> 01:14:44,117
Um, and, um, he's been Sam, he's
been John, and this has been,
:
01:14:44,267 --> 01:14:48,797
um, inexplicably 125 things that
we learned from The Karate Kid.
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01:14:49,888 --> 01:14:50,308
See ya.
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01:14:51,287 --> 01:14:51,697
See ya.
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01:14:52,358 --> 01:14:53,358
Oh, what was that?
:
01:14:53,358 --> 01:14:53,368
Ki!
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01:14:53,368 --> 01:14:54,267
All right.
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01:14:54,487 --> 01:14:54,797
Great.
:
01:14:55,057 --> 01:14:55,597
Oh, there it is.
:
01:14:55,827 --> 01:14:56,337
There's the noise.
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01:14:56,337 --> 01:14:56,567
There's the ki noise.
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01:14:56,567 --> 01:14:56,587
Ki!
:
01:14:58,108 --> 01:14:58,208
Wow.
:
01:14:59,017 --> 01:15:00,798
Oh, I can't do that 'cause that's my back.
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01:15:00,878 --> 01:15:02,118
See you guys.
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01:15:02,347 --> 01:15:02,867
See you guys.