1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 3 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry Roland, and this 4 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 1: is Stuff you should Know. I couldn't think of any um, 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: non problematic nicknames for us to use. Well, you could 6 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: probably just go, yeah, that's what I'm talking about? Is 7 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: that probably figure that? I'm sure yes, we would probably 8 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: here about the man that's uh. You watch any great 9 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: kung fu movie and they all make that great, great 10 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: sound after a good death punch. Did you ever take 11 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: kung fu when you were young or any kind of 12 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: martial arts? No, I'm notoriously have zero interested in martial arts, 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: and my biggest fears that my daughter is gonna want 14 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: to do it. I oh really, well, I mean, will 15 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: you tell her to sweep the leg at a tournament 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: as she ever does? Yeah? Sure, I mean I wanted 17 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: like to be able to protect herself, so that sounds 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: like a very selfish thing. But as far as like 19 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: going to martial arts tournaments kind of like uh, just 20 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: you know, kill me. Now, what you should get her 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: interested in, like, um, wielding a knife or something? It 22 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: would be really cool or just being a good person, 23 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: so people don't pick fights with her? Yeah, is that 24 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: how things work? No, not at all. So I'll tell 25 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: you somebody who liked to pick fights, not just would 26 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: get into fights and accept the challenge, would actually pick fights. 27 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: And it turns out that person also happens to be 28 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: the person we're talking about today, one Mr Bruce Lee. Yeah, 29 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: Bruce Lee. I mean, I'm sure, like me, you spent 30 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,559 Speaker 1: the past couple of days watching a lot of Bruce 31 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: Lee stuff. But my question is were you into this? 32 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: Did you watch kung fu movies and Bruce Lee movies 33 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: only in so far as like the whole nineties like 34 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: throwback thing. You know. I would have him on every 35 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: once a while and watch him, but I was never 36 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: super into my friends that were super into them. I remember, 37 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: of course, I underwent extensive ninja training under since a 38 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: Tommy Roper as a much younger person. This is in 39 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: the eighties. Um, but I was never really into kung 40 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: fu or or martial arts movies. Um. Outside of that, UM, 41 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: I will say though, watching Fist of Fury last night, UM, 42 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: I was just absolutely blown away like that. Yeah, the 43 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 1: whole things I think black Belt Karate Dot com pirate 44 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,839 Speaker 1: of the movie and put it on YouTube, the whole thing, 45 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: and it is just really good. Like the fighting in 46 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: there is astounding and it gives you, like a really 47 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: good like appreciation. It's hard not to appreciate what you're 48 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: seeing with Bruce Lee when you when you watch it. Yeah, 49 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: I have still not seen many of those movies. But 50 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: for a movie Crush episode, one of my guests, um uh, 51 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: Stuart Wellington of the flap House podcast, one of my 52 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: favorite other podcast on movies, he had me watch his 53 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: favorite movie, which is Ricky, Oh Colin the story of 54 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: Ricky and Dude. You have to see this movie. It 55 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: is the gory, over the top crazy martial arts movie 56 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: to beat all over the top gory crazy martial arts movies. 57 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: It is when was nuts? When was it made? Well 58 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: ninety one, but it seems like seventy eight. Um it's 59 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: it's amazing. Was there a shot where some guy jammed 60 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: his fingers into his opponents testicles and then they cut 61 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: to a view from inside his screwed them and you 62 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: see the fingers wiggling. Did that happened? Because I saw 63 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: a martial arts movie that had that and I was like, well, 64 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: there it is. But that is the thing I've ever seen. 65 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 1: It's got a lot of stuff like that. But I 66 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: don't think that was from Ricky. Oh, but it's You're 67 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: on the right track there, as far as you know. 68 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: It's not for everybody. I gotta check it out, man, 69 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: it's pretty fun. You had me. You're on the right 70 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 1: track there. Um. So, Bruce lee movies were not nearly 71 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: as violent, but for the time they were, they were 72 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: exceedingly violent, it seems like, and Bruce Lee laid the 73 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: foundation that people said, well, I want to top that. 74 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: I want to top that. Um. And while maybe Gore 75 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: there was plenty of like blood in in Fists of Fury, 76 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: at least in other movies that he made, but um, 77 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: it wasn't anything like what we just talked about. But 78 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: the I think the larger point for Bruce Lee is 79 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: that he laid this foundation, like he introduced the United 80 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: States in the West to the idea of not just 81 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: kung fu movie but of like Asians being heroes, like 82 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: like protagonists, like like tough. You know, because up to 83 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: that point, not necessarily exactly up to that point, but 84 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: awfully close to it. Um, especially in the West. Uh, 85 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: the people from China Japan seemed very docile, cerebral. I 86 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,839 Speaker 1: saw um not at all like Bruce Lee. And Bruce 87 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: Lee changed all of that basically singlehandedly, especially as far 88 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: as America is concerned with a single one inch punch. Basically. 89 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit about his early life, 90 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: because he had a pretty interesting background, uh, pretty interesting 91 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 1: genetic family tree. Um, because you know, we all think 92 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: of him as Chinese, and he was certainly, he certainly 93 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: was Chinese. But um, if you if you poke around 94 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: his lineage and you will learn that his maternal great 95 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: and father was Dutch Jewish, which is really interesting. He 96 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: was a merchant, his name was Moses with a z 97 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: hard dog Boseman, and he went to Hong Kong in 98 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: the eighteen fifties as part of the Dutch East India Company. 99 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:18,239 Speaker 1: Became the Dutch ambassador to Hong Kong, had six kids 100 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: with his concubine, and then one of those kids, one 101 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: of his sons, Ho Kam Tong. He became a very 102 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: rich man. He had a wife, thirteen concubines and a 103 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: British mistress, and then he had a daughter with a 104 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: British mistress, and that was Bruce Lee's mom. Yeah, that's 105 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: it sounds more convenient. Yeah. Yeah. So Bruce Lee was 106 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: part Jewish, part British, um and lots of Chinese mixed together. 107 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,559 Speaker 1: His father was Chinese Han Chinese um and his father 108 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: was born poor. But he actually worked his way up 109 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: to fairly sizeable celebrity in Hong Kong um or was 110 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: it China? I don't remember if if Bruce Lee, if 111 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee's father lived in Hong Kong or China. Well, 112 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: it was kind of both. He was a Cantonese opera 113 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: star and an actor. Uh and then I think of 114 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: visually they did settle in Hong Kong. Okay, all right, 115 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: so um, but he was like very well known, like 116 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: he was in movies, he was on TV, like he 117 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: was a pretty famous guy. He was probably I would 118 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: liken him to uh two, Jerry Orbach. He was the 119 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: Jerry or Bach of his time and place. No, but 120 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: he was like everywhere, he was in everything from dirty 121 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: dancing to murder. She wrote, you know, like he was 122 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: all over the place. And he was multi talented too. 123 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: Don't try to tell me Jerry Orbach is not multi talented, 124 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: because he is sure, but he was no opera star. 125 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: Do you don't know that you're right? You're right. I 126 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: could be I could be a martial arts expert. Jerry 127 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: Orbot could be an opera star. Right, we could be 128 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: whatever we want to be in our mind's eye. But 129 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: so Bruce Lee's father was the Jerry Orbach of his 130 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: time and place. That's right. So uh he was touring 131 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: the US when Bruce was born. He was born in 132 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: San Francisco in nineteen forty uh, and his parents named 133 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: him Lee June Faun and apparently a nurse said you 134 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: should call him Bruce for his English name. He said, 135 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 1: what what did you say exactly? Did you hear what 136 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: we named him? Originally? She's like, yeah, Bruce Len Bruce. Uh. 137 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: They moved back to Hong Kong when he was a baby, 138 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: and he grew up there, but he grew up with UM, 139 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: going to English schools, English language private schools. Yeah. So um. 140 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: He always kind of had this this UM I don't 141 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,439 Speaker 1: want to say split identity, but his his identity, a 142 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: sense of self was deaf and divided between America and UM. 143 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: I believe the UK to an extent, and also obviously 144 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: Hong Kong UM and then of course his ancestry in China. 145 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: Like he he he seemed to have UM not necessarily 146 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: like felt spread all over the place, but in in 147 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: a different sense, he was more open to influences wherever 148 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: he found them. I saw somebody somebody say that Bruce 149 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 1: Lee learned from everybody, everyone that he came in contact with, UM, 150 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: including people who he had to fight, who fought of 151 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 1: different styles. He he was always open to learning something 152 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: he didn't. He was very cocky, he was very arrogant 153 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: by a lot of people's estimations, but he also was 154 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: humble enough to want to learn wherever he thought he 155 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: could learn something new. Uh. And I think that that, 156 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: according at least UM to again named Matthew Polly, who's 157 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: known as one of his UM better biographers. Uh. That 158 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: that really kind of underscored that that UM, that his 159 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: personality just kind of being divided among different places around 160 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: the world and having different influences. Yeah. So well, we'll 161 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: take a little break here and we'll come back and 162 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: talk about UM some of the early formative years of 163 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: young Bruce Lee right after this and shock. Uh, alright, 164 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: So little Bruce was born not only in the Year 165 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: of the Dragon, but the Day of the Dragon, and 166 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 1: his nickname was Little Dragon. When he became a child actor, 167 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: if you only know Bruce Lee from his martial arts work, 168 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 1: his kind of short career in martial arts films, he 169 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 1: he was actually on screen as a baby. Um, but 170 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: his real first kind of role was I think when 171 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 1: he was like ten years old. Uh. Yeah, he was 172 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: in a movie called The Kid, Yeah, which I watched 173 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: some clips of this. I'm sure you did too. Um, 174 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: it's you know, it's a cute little Bruce Lee. He 175 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: does he kind of throw a lot of child abuse 176 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 1: and was it really Yeah, He's like, he offers he 177 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: has some money, so he offers to help his uncle out, 178 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: and his uncle just basically deafens him in one ear. Well, yeah, 179 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: I didn't see that clip. I would call that child abuse, chuck. No, two, 180 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: I didn't see that clip. You're like, yeah, well, I 181 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: guess if it's your definition of child No, No, not 182 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:39,839 Speaker 1: at all. I just didn't see that. When I just 183 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: saw the one where he was kind of did that 184 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: famous Bruce Lee sort of uh you know, thumb across 185 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 1: the nose and throw his little shirt open. I know 186 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: that's crazy that like he was that young ten years 187 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 1: old and he's already like laying the groundwork for the 188 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 1: things that we're going to make him famous in the future. Yeah, 189 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:59,839 Speaker 1: and he was a little guy. He um, I think, 190 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: you know, as a as a full grown adult. He 191 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: he reached five seven, about a hundred and thirty pounds. 192 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: He was not very big when he was a kid. 193 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,679 Speaker 1: He was very small. He was fairly weak because of 194 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: food rations because Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan 195 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: at the time and they were rationing food out there 196 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 1: was a cholera epidemic. He had one leg shorter than 197 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,079 Speaker 1: the other. He had an undescended testicle, which actually ended 198 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: up keeping him out of Vietnam. So a little bit 199 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,599 Speaker 1: of a silver lining there. Uh. He had glasses, he 200 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:37,079 Speaker 1: had acne. I think his biographer said that he and 201 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: this is the only person I really saw say that, 202 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: but he said he'd probably be diagnosed with a d 203 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: h D today. I looked for other places to find that, 204 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: and no one. I don't think he's on record of 205 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: saying that, but it did seem like that could be 206 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 1: possible because he was very active, had trouble with focus, 207 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: but could also hyper focus. Uh, and like he you know, 208 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: like you said, he would kind of picked fights with 209 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: people because he was a little kid, and that's a 210 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: lot of times little kids will do that if they 211 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: want to, you know, they want to prove that they're 212 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: strong and have value, they'll pick fights and try and 213 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 1: beat people up. Not not the way to do with 214 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: their kids, no, but I mean, like, like, he was 215 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,719 Speaker 1: well known in Hong Kong as being like this kind 216 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 1: of local tough who would start fights um and frequently 217 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: won them, but sometimes would lose them too. Um. But 218 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: there was one fight in particular that he lost around 219 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: the age of fifteen or sixteen UM to a kid 220 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: who had been studying h kung fu style called wing chun. Yeah, 221 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: wing chun um, And that is where his famous um 222 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: like one inch punch comes from. That style of fighting. 223 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: It's really good for close quarters type fighting where your 224 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 1: opponents right in front of you and coming at you. 225 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: Wing chun is very good for that. So that was 226 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: the kind of dude that Bruce Lee was, even back 227 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: when he was a little hot shot fifteen year old, 228 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 1: he lost a fight to somebody and he wanted to 229 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 1: know how that person had beat him, So he went 230 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: and learned it and that UM actually formed the basis 231 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 1: for his UH. His formal education and martial arts was 232 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: entering into the Wing Chun school UM at age fifteen. Yeah, 233 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: and I looked a little more into Wing Chung to 234 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: see what it was kind of all about. And apparently 235 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: there's two sort of main tenants, which is the center 236 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: line theory and then stand and guard UH. And the 237 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: center line theory is basically, you draw a line from 238 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: the center of your body to your opponent's body and 239 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: that is the quickest route to strike. So if you've 240 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: got someone coming at you, like you know, if you 241 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: go throw a punch like American boxing style, like a haymaker, 242 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: you're going up and around towards the jaw, to the 243 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: side of the jaw. If you're practicing wing chun, you're 244 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: standing right in front of that person, and as you're 245 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: throwing your haymaker, you've gotten a very quick straight punch 246 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: to your solar plexus and you're like, what just happened? 247 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: That is basically the essence of Bruce Lee's as super 248 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: lightning fast would take advantage of you while you thought 249 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: you were about to strike him. He used that against you. 250 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: Whatever flaw there was, and what you were doing to 251 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: to hit or kick him or come at him, he 252 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: would he would take advantage of it and hit you 253 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: within that time. And and like if you watch any 254 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 1: of his movies, you can see it quite clearly. But 255 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: he'd been working on that. I didn't realize that was 256 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: necessarily wing Chun. I thought that was his own style. Um, 257 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: but it would make sense because again that was wing Chun. 258 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: Is the is the foundation for his style of kung 259 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: fu that he ended up coming up with. Right. So, Um, 260 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: Like we said, his dad was fairly famous. Bruce's in 261 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: the Jerry or box level famous. Don't forget Bruce's in 262 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: this movie when he was ten years old, called the 263 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: kid that was a big success. And then they said, hey, 264 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: let's sign this kid up to do some sequels. And 265 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: his dad said, no, no, no, no, no, My kid's 266 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: not gonna be an actor. He's going to be a 267 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: doctor or a lawyer or something like that. Um. And 268 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: he's always in trouble in school, so I'm not gonna 269 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: let him be in uh sign this contract. Uh. He 270 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: ended up being in some movies kind of off and on. 271 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: I think he ended up being in about twenty different 272 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: movies that before his kung fu movie days, but it 273 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: was never like he never turned into the big kids 274 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: star that they were trying to get him to be 275 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: with that first contract. I think, yeah, apparently he would 276 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 1: have been had his father not directly intervened to make 277 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: sure that didn't happen, which is pretty interesting. But he 278 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 1: can't sign a contract without daddy saying so and mommy 279 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 1: saying so. Well, yeah, you definitely need to have your 280 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: parents support like that for sure. Um. But so his 281 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: father like stepped in and said, no, you're gonna You're 282 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: gonna do something else. And um that was at age ten, 283 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: I don't know, I think at least eighteen at the latest. 284 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: But at some point he um had kind of gotten like, 285 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: like I said, he had a reputation as like local 286 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 1: tough street fighter in Hong Kong. Um, and I guess 287 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: he fought another kid and and beat him quite badly. 288 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: And the kid turned out to be the son of 289 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 1: a local mob boss. I don't know if he's a 290 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: boss or a connected mob guy, but it's a member 291 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: of the triad. It does sound like a movie. And um, 292 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: that between that and the Hong Kong police basically saying like, look, 293 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: your kid is totally on our radar and it's a 294 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 1: real problem and he's going to end up in jail 295 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: or dead if he keeps this stuff up. And by 296 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: the way, the local the local mob now wants to 297 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: kill him because he beat up one of the one 298 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: of the boss's sons. Um his father was said, you're 299 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: out of here. You're going to America. Um. Which again 300 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 1: this wasn't like a complete out of the blue place 301 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:53,679 Speaker 1: to send Bruce Lee. This was the land that he 302 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 1: was born. He was he had an American passport, he 303 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: was an American by birth, and he also had family 304 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 1: there too, But this is the first time that he 305 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: was living on his own. From what I saw, his 306 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: father gave him eight hundred dollars, which is pretty substantial 307 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,479 Speaker 1: back then, said here the addresses of some family in 308 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest. Head on out to San Francisco. And 309 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: he started in San Francisco and ended up in Seattle 310 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: pretty quickly, I believe, Yeah, Seattle in the um. In college, 311 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 1: he went to you dub and he you know that 312 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:27,959 Speaker 1: money obviously would run out, so he had to get 313 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: a job. He worked as a bus boy in a 314 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: Chinese restaurant, actually lived in the restaurant, kind of a 315 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: closet type of deal, and everyone started hearing about his 316 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: his martial arts skills and the fact that he was 317 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 1: pretty good at this stuff. So he started teaching a 318 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 1: little bit on the side in that Wing chun style, 319 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: and he met Linda there, who would go on to 320 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: be his wife. She was a fellow student of his. Um, 321 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: Linda got pregnant and they got married. They were very young, 322 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: they were still in college, and they had little Brandon Lee. 323 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 1: Uh well, we'll talk about him later on, and then 324 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: a daughter named Shannon. Yeah. Um, so, all of a sudden, 325 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: Bruce Lee, who is a bus boy at a Chinese 326 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,439 Speaker 1: restaurant and also teaching um kung fu on the side, 327 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: has a family, a wife, kid, then kids, and um 328 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: he's got He needs money now more than he ever 329 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: did before. And he has a pretty good idea he's 330 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: going to start opening of a franchise of martial arts studios. 331 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: Because martial arts was already known in the United States, 332 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: but typically it was kept within the whatever Asian community 333 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: that practiced it. Right, so like if it was kung fu, 334 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: you would find almost entirely Chinese people learning it UM 335 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: that you know, immigrants to the country, or they're the 336 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 1: children of immigrants. Um, it's taekwondo. It would be like 337 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: Korean families. UM. And Bruce Lee said, you know what, 338 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: I want to kind of explode that. There's a lot 339 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 1: of talk about whether he was the first person in 340 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,919 Speaker 1: the United States to come along and open up martial 341 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 1: arts to anybody who wanted to learn of any race, 342 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: any ethnicity, women, men. From what I saw, that's not 343 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: necessarily true, but they that is UM often credited as 344 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 1: UH as evidence of just kind of how UM cocky 345 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: and unconventional and and um disrespectful. I guess of norms 346 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: and traditions just for the fact, you know, or just 347 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: for norms and tradition's sake. UM. And And I don't 348 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: know if he was the first person to teach just 349 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 1: anybody who wanted to learn, UM, but it definitely fell 350 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: within his UH persona, his outlook of martial arts, which is, 351 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 1: you know, I'll take what I'll learn whatever I can 352 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: and put it in to my fighting style so that 353 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,159 Speaker 1: I survive. And UM, that would make sense to kind 354 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: of flip it on the on the other way and say, well, 355 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to teach his fighting style to 356 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: whoever wants to learn it. Yeah, and it turns out 357 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 1: it was just as he ended up learning Wing Chung 358 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: because of a fight he had early on. He also 359 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: expanded his fighting style because of another fight. Um, which 360 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 1: this sounds like it. I mean, I think there are 361 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: a lot of legends and tall tales around Bruce Lee 362 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,679 Speaker 1: as well. This story. The story sounds a little dubious, 363 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: but maybe it's true. It's it is. It's not dubious. 364 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: It definitely happened, but there, it was close to the public, 365 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 1: and there were only three eyewitnesses there and to one 366 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: gives a conflicting report from the other two to a 367 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: large degree. But it's been so thoroughly studied and researched 368 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 1: by some people like that Matthew Pauly guy spent a 369 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: year just researching this fight alone. There was another guy 370 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: named m Charles Russo who wrote a book called Striking Distance. 371 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 1: He spent a decade on that book and he interviewed 372 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: a hundred people just for that to for that fight alone, 373 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: because it's the one of the most legendary fights that's 374 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: ever happened in the history of a world, and only 375 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 1: three people were there to see it besides the fighters. 376 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: Yet they interviewed a hundred people about what they heard 377 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 1: what happened. Basically, yeah, I mean, that's as close as 378 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: they could get, aside from the people who were there, 379 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,840 Speaker 1: who were again saying, you know, this is kind of conflicting. 380 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: But overall, what seems to be the ultimate upshot of 381 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 1: it is that it was at least a draw. It 382 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: seems like it was a draw. Yeah, he thought a 383 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 1: man named Wong jack Man, and apparently it was a 384 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: pretty brutal fight, like you were saying, very legendary and 385 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: uh yeah, conflicting reports. Let's just call it a draw. 386 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: Let's be magnanimous here. But at the end of this, 387 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: you know, the sort of upshot is it was that 388 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: Bruce was like, I have limits now with Wing Chun, 389 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 1: and I need to, uh like, I need to be 390 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 1: able to best larger opponents because I'm a small guy. 391 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: I need to I need to really kind of ramp 392 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 1: up my study if especially if I'm a teacher, and 393 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,199 Speaker 1: and kind of get better. Basically, so he came up 394 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: with his own jam and that's called Jeet Kun do 395 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,879 Speaker 1: the way of the intercepting fist, and this was a 396 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: little bit. He was a really really good boxer. I 397 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: don't think we've mentioned that yet. Um. If he had 398 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: only boxed and dedicated himself to being a boxer, he 399 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 1: probably could have been like a belt holding boxer, uh 400 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: and like an Olympic champion. Um. So he incorporated elements 401 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,199 Speaker 1: of boxing. He incorporated all the wing chun that he 402 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: had learned. Uh. And then fencing, which his older brother did, 403 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: which is you know, when you're lunging at your opponent, 404 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: but instead of a foil, he would use his fist. 405 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,679 Speaker 1: And if you, um, you know I mentioned that the 406 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 1: one inch punch earlier. Uh, there was also the six 407 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: inch punch. There's tons and tons of videos and breakdowns 408 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: of what that is. But that's what he was really 409 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: famous for, which is basically and then Tarantino kind of 410 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: you know, borrowed for the uh kill Bill movies. Um. 411 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: You know, you put your fingers on like the stern 412 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: um of a of a human and that's how far 413 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: you punch from. Like you don't rare back and swing 414 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 1: or anything. You just use your hips and your legs 415 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: and you focus your energy and all your momentum to 416 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: just very very quickly punch and push somebody. And and 417 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 1: even from one inch you can knock somebody backwards like 418 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: seven feet so and that's super helpful if you can 419 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: do that. But what that one fight UM with um 420 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: Uh Wong jack Man taught him. Wong Jackman kept moving 421 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 1: away from him. And if you're fighting style is entirely 422 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: about fighting in close quarters with your opponent coming at you. 423 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 1: If your opponent is getting away from you, you're just 424 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: kind of up up the creek. And that's what really 425 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,919 Speaker 1: kind of opened his eyes that he needed to expand it. 426 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: And so, like you said, he incorporated boxing and incorporated fencing. 427 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: He also realized that he needed grappling too. He didn't 428 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: have any grappling moves, and apparently that came um into 429 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: focus when he was on set for a TV show 430 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: that he would end up being on for a season 431 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:13,359 Speaker 1: called The Green Hornet. She'll talk about in a second, Um, 432 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: And apparently on the set of The Green Hornet, he 433 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,879 Speaker 1: would he was He became quickly known for actually beating 434 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: up the stunt doubles rather than you know, pulling his 435 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,959 Speaker 1: punch and just you know, not making contact or just 436 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: barely making contact. He was punching these guys and kicking 437 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 1: these guys and Um they apparently brought in a ringer 438 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 1: named Judo Geen LaBelle, who was a very tough stunt 439 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 1: man at two time Judoku champion UM and brought him 440 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,320 Speaker 1: and as a stuntman, and the first day on the set, 441 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,440 Speaker 1: he picked up Bruce Lee out of nowhere, put him 442 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: in a fireman carry like on his shoulder, and Bruce 443 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: Lee had he couldn't do anything. He was just so mad, 444 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: but there was nothing he could do to get out 445 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 1: of this. And he realized he needed to incorporate grappling, 446 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: and he ended up training with Jean LaBelle for a 447 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 1: year and expanded his fighting style even further. And that 448 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: fireman carry, that meeting, that fight, basically on the set 449 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: of The Green Hornet is what Quentin Tarantino was recreating 450 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 1: in that movie Once upon a Time in Hollywood when 451 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:20,199 Speaker 1: Cliff Robertson Um Brad Pitt fights Bruce Lee on the 452 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,919 Speaker 1: sound stage in the in the parking lot. Um and 453 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: a lot of people were very upset because he took 454 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: tremendous liberties with that fight, but it was based on 455 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: this kernel of history that had a much better outcome 456 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 1: than than what UM what Quentin Tarantino showed. Yeah, Cliff Booth, 457 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: by the way, Cliff Robertson was a real actor. Oh 458 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: was he? Yeah? The way I thought it was the 459 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: basis from Italica. No, that was close somebody else, I think, Okay, um, yeah, 460 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: I mean Tarantino, we we should kind of talk about 461 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: that for sect, because he was taken to task by 462 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,440 Speaker 1: a lot of people, um, certainly people from Bruce Lee's 463 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 1: own family for that scene, and they were like, this 464 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: is not what Bruce Lee was like, his daughter especially, 465 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 1: It's like, this is not what my dad was like. 466 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: He was not cocky, he was not arrogant. He was confident, 467 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: and he was a good teacher. But you know, Tarantino 468 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: then fired back in some interviews like he was arrogant 469 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: and cocky, he was known as this guy, and apparently 470 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: the people closest to him said he wasn't at all. 471 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: This is a misconception by white people, and uh, Tarantino 472 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 1: took a lot of grief and sort of argued back, 473 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: and then she finally, in uh an interview in Variety magazine, 474 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: was like, he should just kind of shut up about 475 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: this and and say I'm making fictionalized movies and not 476 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 1: purport to know what my dad was like. Yeah, when 477 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 1: it's coming from the daughter, it seems like you should 478 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: probably just shut up for sure. Probably so, and we'll 479 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,120 Speaker 1: probably get an email from her two because you said 480 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: he was cocky and arrogant. Yeah right, yeah, I was 481 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: thinking back to that flashing back, um. And one I 482 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: guess one thing I saw too kind of that gives 483 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,640 Speaker 1: weight to the idea that he had a certain amount 484 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: of arrogance or cockiness or I can understand how some 485 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: people would take him that way or portray him that way. Um. 486 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: Is he was well known for going around publicly insulting 487 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: established martial arts schools. Like one of the first things 488 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: he did where he made a name for himself among 489 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: the martial arts community, especially in the Bay Area, that 490 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: some people say led to that fight between him and 491 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: Um Wong jack Man was to insult basically every established 492 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: martial arts school in America and say that these were, um, 493 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: they were taught by old tigers with no teeth, basically 494 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: if they were misguided, um, and that they were, they 495 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: were just wrong, and that his way was the right way. Um. 496 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: And it wasn't that he had it out for like 497 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: the old establishment just because they were the old establishment. 498 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:54,479 Speaker 1: But what he had decided, um with Jeekee Kundo is 499 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:59,480 Speaker 1: that it was it didn't make any sense to train 500 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: and train and train to know exactly where your feet 501 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: are going to go and exactly where to put your 502 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: fists or that kind of thing, because all that stuff 503 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: dissolved in a real fight. And so to Bruce Lee 504 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,959 Speaker 1: and his fighting style, the whole point is to survive 505 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: the fight, and so you use whatever you can get 506 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: your hands on, whatever technique, whatever style is going to work. 507 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: And that that really doesn't jibe with the idea of 508 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: us an established, rigid school. So he certainly ran a 509 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: foul of, um, of some of the established martial art groups. Um. 510 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: And I think that that has kind of contributed to 511 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: this idea that he was cocky in real life. I'm 512 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: not his daughter, so I certainly can't say, but you know, um, 513 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: that's that's what I was basing my interpretation on. Yeah, 514 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: my read is that he was a business person and 515 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,440 Speaker 1: that he was trying to make some money because his 516 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 1: idea was that he wanted to open up a chain 517 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: of kung fu schools. Um. He goes back to l 518 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: A to give a demonstration at a karate tournament to 519 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: try and you know, make a little headway there with 520 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: maybe getting investors or getting people interested, and it worked. 521 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: He met a TV producer there and that is how 522 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: he got the role on The Green Hornet, which, like 523 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: you said, ran for a single season. And he stayed 524 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: in Hollywood though, and he really got the acting bug. 525 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: I think he was in a few, um, kind of 526 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: smaller parts over the next few years. He played Winslow 527 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: Wong in the movie Marlo in nineteen nine, and then 528 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: he like you mentioned, kind of at the beginning, it 529 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 1: was he was trying to do something that didn't exist yet, 530 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: which was become an Asian uh and at least an 531 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: Asian American hero, because they just didn't do that. They 532 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: were like, you can play this kind of role. Um, 533 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: you're probably gonna come in as the bad guy or something. 534 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 1: You're gonna show off some of your kung fu skills, 535 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: but you're not going to be the star of the movie. 536 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: And he said, all right, I'll hang around here. I'll 537 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 1: start making a ton of money teaching the Hollywood elite 538 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: uh my fighting style and ended up making making some 539 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: really really close friends, uh, notably James Koburn and Steve 540 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: McQueen ended up being two of his closest friends over 541 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: the years until his death. Yeah, along with um Chuck 542 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: Morris of course. Yeah, he was a ball bear. Also 543 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: saw Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate were two of his 544 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: students too. Yeah, Roman Polanski tried to sleep with him. No, 545 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: he Bruce Lee lost his glasses. Roman Polanski found some 546 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 1: glasses like his at the murder scene, and Roman Polanski 547 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: was very suspicious of that, and apparently he went so 548 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: far as to um take Bruce Lee to get a 549 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: prescription made to replace the glasses that were broken, and 550 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 1: then wanted to get his hands on that prescription and 551 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: compare him, and apparently they didn't match, so he, you know, 552 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: he backed off. He suspected Bruce Lee and the Manson 553 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: family murders. He the TB. I don't wanna, I don't 554 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: want to put any words in Roman Polanski's mouth, but 555 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: I'm telling you what happened, which is that he found 556 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: these glasses and had him checked out. Wow, that's a 557 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: Hollywood nugget, Chuck, that you just put that jewel in 558 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: your crown right there. Well, I didn't discover it. I mean, 559 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 1: I just read it. Yeah, but I mean, I mean 560 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: it's well known. Okay, well whatever, you can wear the 561 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: crown around me and I'll just be like I totally earned. Uh. 562 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: He got really into health and fitness. Um, this was 563 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: the time in the nineteen sixties, kind of before the 564 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 1: big exercise and weight lifting boom and stuff that happened. 565 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: He was he was eating protein shakes and lifting weights 566 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: kind of before a lot of people were. And you know, 567 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: he wanted to get his body in the best shape possible. 568 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 1: And if you've ever seen Bruce Lee's body, then he 569 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 1: you know, he did exactly that. Yeah, Mischief accomplished for sure. 570 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: And I mean again, he was a little guy, like 571 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 1: he weighed a hundred and thirty pounds, but he was 572 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: just as lean as they come and totally chiseled like 573 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,479 Speaker 1: he he was very very strong for his his size 574 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,960 Speaker 1: and stature. Um, and just lightning fast too. But none 575 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: of this was amounting to anything as far as his 576 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 1: film career was concerned. He was going quite far as 577 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: a martial artist martial arts instructor for sure, but clearly 578 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 1: he UM, I don't know if his he felt like 579 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: his calling was always you know, the movies or TV 580 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: or something like that. Okay, well, then that would explain it. 581 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,640 Speaker 1: I had the impression that, you know, he just knew 582 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: that that was something he could do. Um, which he 583 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 1: apparently was starting to accumulate some debt, and at one point, 584 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: to keep his UH, to keep his his chain of 585 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: um of martial arts studios open, he decided to go 586 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: to Hong Kong and do some acting rather quickly and 587 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 1: pick up some some fast money. So I didn't know 588 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 1: if he considered that like a step towards stardom or 589 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 1: if that was just he knew he could go make 590 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 1: some money acting and come back and pour it back 591 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 1: into the studios to keep them open. Do you know. 592 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: I mean, I think the studios were making his living. 593 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,839 Speaker 1: But I think since he was ten years old, he 594 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,759 Speaker 1: was bitten by the acting bug, which is why he 595 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: went on to be in twenty more movies over the 596 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,800 Speaker 1: next eight years. And I think that was his true 597 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 1: like I think the Kung Fu studios, in my reading, 598 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: was the means to get to where he wanted to be, 599 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,279 Speaker 1: which was a big Hollywood superstar. Well it actually it 600 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 1: worked that trip Um Like I was saying, he was 601 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: just going for some money to keep the studios or 602 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,920 Speaker 1: his his studios afloat Um or open Um. But it 603 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,800 Speaker 1: turned out to be the greatest move that any actor 604 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 1: has ever undertaken, just going to Hong Kong and trying 605 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:54,040 Speaker 1: to pick up some parts and martial arts films, and 606 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 1: that's exactly what he did, and he blew up as 607 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: a result. That's right, So stake our final break here 608 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: and then we'll come back and wrap it up and 609 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: spanking on the bottom right after this shock shock Alright, 610 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: So Bruce Lee goes to Hong Kong to make some movies, 611 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: make a little dough and he goes to Hong Kong 612 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,760 Speaker 1: and signs a two picture movie deal with Golden Harvest 613 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: Studios and signs on for his first movie, a little 614 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:49,240 Speaker 1: movie called The Big Boss, which originally in the United 615 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 1: States was called Fist of Fury. A little confusing because 616 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 1: then there was a movie called Fist of Fury that 617 00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:01,760 Speaker 1: also had an alternate title, uh to Chinese, the Chinese connection, 618 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,000 Speaker 1: but the Big Boss a k A in America at first. 619 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,279 Speaker 1: The Fist se Fury or Fist of Fury was his 620 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 1: first sort of foray into those movies, and it was 621 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 1: a big, big hit. It was it's it's hard to 622 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 1: explain what happened that that first movie, The Big Boss 623 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,880 Speaker 1: came out and basically made Bruce Lee an overnight sensation 624 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 1: in Asia as far as martial arts is concerned, not 625 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 1: just Hong Kong Asia. He just became an absolute superstar. 626 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:33,560 Speaker 1: The Big Boss shattered the box office record. The previous 627 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: Hong Kong box office record was held by the Sound 628 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,360 Speaker 1: of Music, and it had made something like eight hundred 629 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:43,280 Speaker 1: thousand Hong Kong dollars um. The Big Boss made something 630 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 1: like four times that in its box office run um. 631 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:51,080 Speaker 1: And then as more Bruce Lee movies came out over 632 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 1: the next couple of years, each one shattered the record 633 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,839 Speaker 1: of the previous Bruce Lee movie. So when something like 634 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:03,360 Speaker 1: that happens, you know you have something once in a 635 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,280 Speaker 1: lifetime basically on your hands. And he was right smack 636 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,360 Speaker 1: dab in the in the middle of that once in 637 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 1: a lifetime thing. Yeah, And not only were these movies 638 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,279 Speaker 1: making a lot of money, they were really cheap to make, 639 00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,160 Speaker 1: which was like he was like the Golden Boy, because 640 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:21,959 Speaker 1: I think Fist of Fury, the second movie, cost about 641 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: a hundred thousand dollars to make and made a hundred 642 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:29,280 Speaker 1: million I think the um The Way of the Dragon 643 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 1: made a hundred and thirty million and cost about a 644 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,360 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand, So he was making like huge, 645 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 1: huge money. I mean not personally, but the studios were 646 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,239 Speaker 1: making huge, huge money on very little investment. And Um, 647 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,600 Speaker 1: the thing with Bruce Lee was he was, like you said, 648 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 1: he was selling these fights better than anyone ever had. 649 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,799 Speaker 1: And his speed was really the key to it. Um 650 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,880 Speaker 1: and a lot of if you watch a lot of 651 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: older kung fu movies and it looks like the action 652 00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 1: is sped up, it's because it is. They would speed 653 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,080 Speaker 1: at the camera or actually slow down the camera to 654 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,800 Speaker 1: make the action appear faster, to make it more exciting. 655 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,560 Speaker 1: But Bruce Lee was so naturally fast they had to 656 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 1: tell him to slow down just so the camera could 657 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:16,080 Speaker 1: like record stuff accurately. So there were a few legends 658 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:20,600 Speaker 1: that grew up around his speed. One speed and strength. 659 00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,879 Speaker 1: One that he could steal a dime off of your hand, 660 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,560 Speaker 1: like if you're holding it in the palm of your 661 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,880 Speaker 1: hand before you could just close your hand. Uh, he 662 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: could catch a rice green that that he you would 663 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,440 Speaker 1: throw at him with chopsticks. And these are all, you know, 664 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 1: maybe true or not, but I just love these legends. Wait, 665 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,319 Speaker 1: you would use chopsticks to throw a rice green at 666 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:41,759 Speaker 1: no, no no, no, you would throw a rice green at 667 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,279 Speaker 1: him and he would catch it with chopsticks. That's way 668 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,160 Speaker 1: more impressive. So and then the last one was that 669 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,440 Speaker 1: he could he could punch a hole through a can 670 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:54,600 Speaker 1: of coke with his finger. And I hope these are 671 00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 1: true because they're so great. Well, if they're not true, 672 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,239 Speaker 1: that's okay. Like you're not the first person to fall 673 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,680 Speaker 1: for some of the exaggerations, like I saw Matthew PAULI 674 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,520 Speaker 1: was kind of not called out, but somebody made mention 675 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,960 Speaker 1: the fact that this is one of those top biographers, 676 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,040 Speaker 1: like one of the best biographers of Bruce Lee still said, 677 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,719 Speaker 1: you know, somebody got punched and they flew back six 678 00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,200 Speaker 1: ft in the air and it's almost certainly not correct, 679 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,360 Speaker 1: Like six ft is probably an exaggeration. But the fact 680 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:27,360 Speaker 1: that things like that get repeated and like like smart 681 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,960 Speaker 1: people like say like this, like this is what he 682 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,640 Speaker 1: was capable of, like it at the very least goes 683 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:39,759 Speaker 1: to underscore his abilities. That they were so mind boggling 684 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 1: that this is it's possible that that's true. You know 685 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,239 Speaker 1: what I mean, it's not like, oh, that's ridiculous. It's like, no, 686 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,480 Speaker 1: this is Bruce Lee we're talking about. I think I 687 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,080 Speaker 1: can explain the six ft thing. If he's it might 688 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,880 Speaker 1: be an exaggeration that someone literally didn't touch the ground 689 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,080 Speaker 1: for six ft, But if you look at demonstrations of 690 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:02,280 Speaker 1: his of the one finger munch, he can knock someone 691 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,279 Speaker 1: back six to eight feet very easily until they can 692 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,839 Speaker 1: like regain their composure. Like people are flying back six 693 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:14,440 Speaker 1: ft but not necessarily not touching the ground in between, 694 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,840 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I think this was quote 695 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,680 Speaker 1: flying through the air. It sounds like the air little 696 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:24,040 Speaker 1: writers flourish. Yeah. Maybe, but I mean again, it comes 697 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,160 Speaker 1: like people are like, oh that's cool. It's crazy because 698 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,200 Speaker 1: we're talking about Bruce Lee. If if like my biographer 699 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,319 Speaker 1: said that, everyone would be like, stop the pressus, whoa 700 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,840 Speaker 1: you got a biographer? I question every I will eventually, 701 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,760 Speaker 1: I assume. But if people would be like I questioned 702 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,319 Speaker 1: everything that's in this book now Bruce Lee, it's like, yeah, 703 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,400 Speaker 1: totally buy that. You know. So Bruce Lee is uh 704 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,000 Speaker 1: made a name for himself. Now. He is drive around 705 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,560 Speaker 1: sports cars, he's wearing for coats, he is a big, 706 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,839 Speaker 1: big pothead, which is something that yeah, I forgot about 707 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,879 Speaker 1: that you don't hear about a lot. But apparently after yeah, 708 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,040 Speaker 1: but after Bruce Lee's training sessions, he would uh. He 709 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,160 Speaker 1: apparently had this wooden box just full of joints, also 710 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,880 Speaker 1: smoked hash and got really into this sort of hippie lifestyle, 711 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,399 Speaker 1: kind of grew his hair along for a little while, 712 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,000 Speaker 1: and I think it was wrapped up in this Hollywood 713 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,080 Speaker 1: hippie thing of the time, understandable. Uh, and his careers 714 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,640 Speaker 1: go along great, and it all culminates with a movie 715 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 1: called Enter the Dragon in nineteen three. Big movie. Yeah, 716 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,560 Speaker 1: it was a huge movie. I think he wrote and 717 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,920 Speaker 1: directed that one, and I think the first one he 718 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,360 Speaker 1: wrote and directed was Way of the Dragon. But like 719 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,920 Speaker 1: by this time on his third movie, he was now 720 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,160 Speaker 1: writing and directing it, and certainly by his fourth one 721 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,279 Speaker 1: he wrote and directed it. I saw that the Way 722 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,200 Speaker 1: of the Dragon, a quarter of the script was just 723 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,680 Speaker 1: a couple of like just a couple of fight scenes. 724 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,879 Speaker 1: Choreography took up like a quarter of the script. Um. 725 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,960 Speaker 1: And it was this was the one that put him 726 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,720 Speaker 1: on the map as an overnight sensation in the United 727 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,319 Speaker 1: States in the West. Like the other two, the first 728 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,080 Speaker 1: two or three. Um yea, his first three had made 729 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,680 Speaker 1: him an overnight sensation in Asia. This was the one 730 00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,680 Speaker 1: that taught America what a kung fu movie was because 731 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:11,560 Speaker 1: we hadn't heard of it before, and now all of 732 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,560 Speaker 1: a sudden, we couldn't get enough of Bruce Lee. Unfortunately, 733 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,239 Speaker 1: Bruce Lee had died a month before in one of 734 00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:22,240 Speaker 1: the great ironic tragedies as far as like Hollywood stardom goes. Yeah, 735 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,600 Speaker 1: only thirty two years old. Um, if you look up 736 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,719 Speaker 1: Bruce Lee death, there's a lot of different stories and 737 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,720 Speaker 1: theories out there. Um he was. He had a mistress 738 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:36,680 Speaker 1: at the time named Betty ting Pie, and apparently he 739 00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,800 Speaker 1: had been on and this is the way Chuck Norris 740 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,600 Speaker 1: told it too. Apparently he had been on back medication 741 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,600 Speaker 1: for a while because of a back injury, so pain 742 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:49,080 Speaker 1: meds for his back. Came home to his apartment in 743 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:53,520 Speaker 1: Hong Kong with his mitress mistress, and complained of a headache. 744 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,320 Speaker 1: She gave him, I think a different kind of pain reliever, 745 00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:01,480 Speaker 1: although Chuck Norris said it was Ah, what's I'm blanking? Now? 746 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,920 Speaker 1: What's the thing you take to fight an infection? And uh, 747 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,880 Speaker 1: antibiotic anty biotic, which I think he just must spoke 748 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,000 Speaker 1: because that wouldn't make any sense. But um, that's what 749 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,000 Speaker 1: Chuck North said. Uh. So it took another pain reliever, 750 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,000 Speaker 1: went down for a nap, and died never woke up. 751 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,000 Speaker 1: Uh he um. You know, there are all kinds of 752 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,279 Speaker 1: speculation about what happened. It seems like it was just 753 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,600 Speaker 1: a reaction of these medications. Uh. Some people say, including 754 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,719 Speaker 1: the biographer, it was also had to do with a 755 00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:35,520 Speaker 1: heat stroke because because he'd had one ten weeks before, right, Yeah, 756 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,520 Speaker 1: and he also um a few months before he died, 757 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,520 Speaker 1: had he used to be very embarrassed about his under 758 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,680 Speaker 1: armed sweat, so he had the sweat glands removed from 759 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,600 Speaker 1: his underarms. What and so apparently they said that could 760 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,560 Speaker 1: have contributed to the You know, his body wasn't shedding 761 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,719 Speaker 1: sweat like it should and that could have led to 762 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,840 Speaker 1: a heat stroke. I had not heard that before that. 763 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,719 Speaker 1: That definitely crosses a couple of tease that I had 764 00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,840 Speaker 1: anotherwise seen. May be, but I think it was like 765 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,640 Speaker 1: ten weeks before he died, he collapsed when he was 766 00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,520 Speaker 1: dubbing a movie in an on an room without air conditioning. 767 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,239 Speaker 1: It was really hot got that heat stroke. Uh, and 768 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,839 Speaker 1: some people are saying this all contributed with these medications 769 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:17,040 Speaker 1: to a brain edema. Yeah, but again, I mean the 770 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,480 Speaker 1: fact that he died mysteriously. This guy who's like one 771 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,680 Speaker 1: of the fittest people on the planets just dies after 772 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,120 Speaker 1: saying he has a headache and lies down and wakes up. 773 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,960 Speaker 1: That's just conspiracy theory fodder for eon. Sure it's still 774 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,320 Speaker 1: going on today. Like apparently that he had a break 775 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,399 Speaker 1: with the director low Way, who directed the first two 776 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,720 Speaker 1: Bruce Lee films, um, the first two kung fu films 777 00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:40,920 Speaker 1: he was in. He pulled a knife on him because 778 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,239 Speaker 1: the guy the director had been taunting him and Bruce 779 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,600 Speaker 1: Lee was Uh. There was a legend that like low 780 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:50,080 Speaker 1: Way had had him assassinated by ninja or something like that. 781 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:54,080 Speaker 1: But the upshot of it is, however he died. Um, 782 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:59,040 Speaker 1: he died like a month before he became extra like 783 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,840 Speaker 1: world famous, and he's still world famous today. Like everyone 784 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: knows Bruce Lee. He's one of the most famous people 785 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,880 Speaker 1: to ever lived, and he died a month before that happened. 786 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,319 Speaker 1: Which is you know, you say that and you read 787 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,880 Speaker 1: it and you think it's it just doesn't quite sink 788 00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,439 Speaker 1: in and when it does, you're like, that is astounding 789 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,520 Speaker 1: that that happened, just the timing of all that. Yeah, 790 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,040 Speaker 1: And then you know, many years later, his son, Brandon 791 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,000 Speaker 1: Lee would die very tragically on the set of a 792 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:27,840 Speaker 1: film because of an accident with a um, a blank bullet, 793 00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:32,120 Speaker 1: um actually shooting a slug out of a gun on 794 00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:38,239 Speaker 1: set of of The Crow, right yeah, um yeah. He 795 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,680 Speaker 1: think he was twenty eight, and his father had died 796 00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,359 Speaker 1: when he was thirty two. So a lot of people 797 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,480 Speaker 1: are like, well, there's clearly the Lee family is cursed, right, 798 00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:50,239 Speaker 1: which is nonsense. I think you should probably just shut 799 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,480 Speaker 1: up about that, probably so, but um, one of the 800 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,720 Speaker 1: things that it's hard to overstate like the cultural legacy 801 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,920 Speaker 1: that he left, Like he introduced the West to a 802 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:06,200 Speaker 1: completely different concept of Asian people, like like, oh, they 803 00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:10,520 Speaker 1: can actually like stars, action heroes, like they're they're not 804 00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,600 Speaker 1: like you know, valets or servants or whatever. Like it 805 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:19,759 Speaker 1: just completely altered americans understanding of Asian people. Like it's 806 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,279 Speaker 1: really hard to understate that. And then the other thing 807 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:23,960 Speaker 1: too is you know, we were kind of talking about 808 00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,880 Speaker 1: whether he was um, you know, whether he was an 809 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,239 Speaker 1: actor or martial artist, and a lot of people are like, 810 00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,080 Speaker 1: would is Bruce Lee? Would he actually was he really 811 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,080 Speaker 1: a good fighter? Or was he like a movie fighter 812 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,200 Speaker 1: like Jean Claude van Dam or Steven Seagal, who like 813 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:39,920 Speaker 1: in a real life fight that we would just be 814 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:45,440 Speaker 1: hopelessly lost, you know. And um, because Bruce Lee died 815 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:47,840 Speaker 1: at such a young age, like there's there's not this 816 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,800 Speaker 1: we don't know or a lot of people don't know. 817 00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,080 Speaker 1: But if you talk to the people who trained with him, 818 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,800 Speaker 1: who worked with him, who were there who actually physically 819 00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:02,480 Speaker 1: interacted with him, like it seems like completely understandable that 820 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:05,560 Speaker 1: he was as everything you saw in film, he could 821 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,000 Speaker 1: do for real in real life. And you would never 822 00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:10,239 Speaker 1: have wanted to fight Bruce Lee. So he wasn't just 823 00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,360 Speaker 1: a fake movie martial artists. He was the real deal, 824 00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,239 Speaker 1: and in a lot of ways largely self taught, which 825 00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,880 Speaker 1: makes them all the more impressive. That's right, You got 826 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,359 Speaker 1: anything else about Mr Bruce Lee? Chuck and got nothing else? 827 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:26,880 Speaker 1: And maybe watch the classic two farcical comedy they call 828 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,960 Speaker 1: Me Bruce. Oh yeah, okay, I will check that out. 829 00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,560 Speaker 1: That one more thing, that his death is untimely death 830 00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:39,279 Speaker 1: led to a whole genre of movies called Bruce Floitation, 831 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,400 Speaker 1: which was basically fake Bruce Lee movies. They're trying to 832 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,520 Speaker 1: cash in on his fame. Yeah. I think he had 833 00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,440 Speaker 1: a movie, another movie released after his tattoo, didn't he 834 00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,800 Speaker 1: That they compiled like footage and stuff for I believe 835 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,920 Speaker 1: they were filming it when he died, and they didn't 836 00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,200 Speaker 1: release it for another five years. Game of Death, that's 837 00:47:56,239 --> 00:48:01,120 Speaker 1: the one where he fights Kareem's actually, and Chuck Norris 838 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,000 Speaker 1: is in it too. Game of Death. Yeah, that that 839 00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,880 Speaker 1: fight with Kareem was pretty awesome because to see a 840 00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,400 Speaker 1: man that tall, be that lithe and that quick was 841 00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,560 Speaker 1: pretty impressive. And he was one of Bruce Lee's like 842 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,120 Speaker 1: genuine students, one of his long time students. And he 843 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,880 Speaker 1: credits Bruce Lee with his his longevity and the n 844 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:21,359 Speaker 1: B a UM. Yeah. So if you want to more 845 00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,720 Speaker 1: about Bruce Lee, just go out and start watching movies 846 00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,279 Speaker 1: and videos and demonstrations of Bruce Lee. There's a lot 847 00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,719 Speaker 1: worse things you can do with your time and thank 848 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:30,799 Speaker 1: us later. And since I said thank us later, it's 849 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:35,560 Speaker 1: time for listener mail. Yeah. I'm gonna call this return 850 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,480 Speaker 1: of Noah from Scotland. I'm pretty sure I read this 851 00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,160 Speaker 1: on the air, but I told Noah to rite in 852 00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:44,000 Speaker 1: once a year. Um, and here's the follow up. Because 853 00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,279 Speaker 1: you know, Sarah, the amazing eleven year old fan is 854 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,719 Speaker 1: now probably in college and has long since forgotten about us. 855 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,680 Speaker 1: So we miss Sarah. We've we've been ghosted. We've have 856 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,600 Speaker 1: been ghosted years ago. But this is our new friend Noah. Hey, 857 00:48:56,719 --> 00:49:00,000 Speaker 1: it's me Noah from Scotland. You told me to write 858 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,759 Speaker 1: in once a year, so this is my annual letter 859 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,719 Speaker 1: in case you don't remember me. I've been listening since 860 00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,960 Speaker 1: I was four and writing you a letter every year 861 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,680 Speaker 1: since I was five. I still live in Scotland and 862 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,839 Speaker 1: for most of the last year my mom's been home 863 00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,719 Speaker 1: schooling me because of the coronavirus. It's not always great, 864 00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,399 Speaker 1: but when I'm doing my own topics, I can choose 865 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:20,160 Speaker 1: them based on your episodes. My favorite was space weather, 866 00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,600 Speaker 1: because I didn't know there was weather in space. My 867 00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,560 Speaker 1: favorite fact that I found out was the most powerful 868 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:30,320 Speaker 1: northern lights can generate over one trillion lots of power, 869 00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,759 Speaker 1: which is I think about three million solar panels. Uh. 870 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,640 Speaker 1: It was a hard sum, but I think it's right. Uh. 871 00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:39,520 Speaker 1: I don't you're if you're asking us about math, and 872 00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,399 Speaker 1: no we're just gonna say yes, you got it right. 873 00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,000 Speaker 1: You just ran a circle around this. I don't want 874 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,080 Speaker 1: to be an engineer anymore. By the way, I really 875 00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:49,600 Speaker 1: like chemistry now. I think the periodic table is interesting 876 00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:51,720 Speaker 1: and I want to find a way to stop global 877 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:56,040 Speaker 1: warming using science. I love it. I've asked for your 878 00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,960 Speaker 1: book for my ninth birthday in May, and I hope 879 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,319 Speaker 1: to get it because I think it be interesting. I'm 880 00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:05,960 Speaker 1: glad you're still podcasting. Love from Noah and this was 881 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,720 Speaker 1: sent through his mom's Rachel's email, of course as always, 882 00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:11,839 Speaker 1: and she added a very sweet note as well, so 883 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:16,000 Speaker 1: much love to the to Noah's family there. Yeah, thank 884 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,319 Speaker 1: you very much Rachel and knowing the whole fam for 885 00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:22,879 Speaker 1: writing to us from beloved Scotland. Keep us updated. Noah, 886 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:26,960 Speaker 1: We're pretty your progress is just fascinating. Yes, we love it, 887 00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,720 Speaker 1: um and uh, happy early birthday too, from Josh and Chuck. 888 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:33,680 Speaker 1: If you want to get in touch with this, like 889 00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:35,960 Speaker 1: Noah did, you can give it your best shot. 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