1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 2: Ralph Bocio right here, thank you to me. 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 3: Back home? 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 2: Well it is? Is it home? 5 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 3: It sound of feels like it with you guys. 6 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: I know that makes me feel New York is home. 7 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: So today's the big day. Karate Kid Legends is out today. 8 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,759 Speaker 1: But that doesn't make sense. I saw it out yesterday. 9 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 1: Uh huh, it came out. What does that mean if 10 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: it comes out to you? Why did it come out yesterday? 11 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 3: I think there's this new normal is the movie opens 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 3: on the Friday, but you can go see it on 13 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 3: the Thursday. I don't get it. But it's you know, 14 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 3: and then you start you start reading, Oh so and 15 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 3: so did x amount in previews, so they could call 16 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 3: it that four day weekend. It's everything. 17 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: Oh it's an accounting money. 18 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 3: That's kind of the bottom line. But I don't but 19 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 3: you know, the thirtieth is the release date. But you 20 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 3: know the popcorn bucket. No, but it looks cool. It 21 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 3: looks cool, right, It looks the way you got a 22 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 3: karate chopping in order to get champ and you get 23 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 3: to your popcorn, you have to work a little bit. 24 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, snack, there's gonna be a lawsuit here. Jackie Chan, 25 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: what a badass. He's amazing, still does his own stunts. 26 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 3: Everything does he does? He does everything. They say, how long, 27 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:15,759 Speaker 3: how long does it take you to training? He goes, 28 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 3: I don't need to train anymore. I'm doing a Jackie 29 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 3: Chan sixty four years And I, on the other hand, 30 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 3: need to train and need to stretch and need to 31 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 3: dive into injury prevention before the camera's roll. Ah. But 32 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 3: but my one of my favorite little moments. And I 33 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 3: don't wish ill on anyone, but I was pretty nervous 34 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 3: stepping onto the set with the you know, the master 35 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 3: and legendary Jackie Chan, who's broken like four hundred bones 36 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 3: and still is walking and has done his own stunts 37 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 3: forever is He did a move with with the wonderful 38 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 3: Ben Wong, who plays the kid in the film, and 39 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 3: he pulled his shoulder out and he winced and made 40 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 3: a sound of pain, and I half of my brain 41 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 3: is like, wow, I feel bad. In the other half 42 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 3: was like, yes, thank you, like I'm okay, Like you know, 43 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 3: he feels pain too. He's amazing. 44 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 2: I love this. 45 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: I did an interview the other day. I told everyone 46 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 1: how pleased I was it Jackie Chan felt pain? 47 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 3: That's right, he's one of us, but he really is. 48 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 3: It's really incredible. At his age seventy one, he's done everything. 49 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 3: I mean, he's fallen off buildings, crashed through window. He 50 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 3: just you know, he's a stuntman early part of his 51 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 3: career before he became Jackie Chan film star. And and 52 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 3: he's the first one on this he's the youngest kid 53 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 3: on the set. Wow, he's like he is. He's there early, 54 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 3: he leaves late, he'll hang lights, he'll set the microphone, 55 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 3: he'll do whatever he wants. He's he's happy in the 56 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 3: environment and just loves making movies. And I pride myself 57 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 3: on that, but he takes it to the next level. 58 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 3: So between the two of us, it was pretty damn fun. 59 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 2: Have you ever broken a bone on set? 60 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 3: I have not, So would you like I'll leave that 61 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 3: to Jackie. Okay, I've gotten like a splinter. 62 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 2: From the dropping of the wood. 63 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 64 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 4: Could Jackie Chan kick all of our asses in this room? 65 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 3: I think I think it's a pretty good shot. It's 66 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 3: good to know he'd know how to defend himself right 67 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 3: for sure, as I'd like to believe I would as well, how. 68 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 4: Advanced are you in martial arts. 69 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 3: That's gotten I've gotten my black belto took forty one years. 70 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 3: I mean maybe maybe if I, if I, if I 71 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 3: didn't stop training somewhere in the late nineties in the 72 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 3: mid early two thousands, would have gotten it earlier. No, 73 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 3: let's stunt this stunt guy on Cobra Kai. The stunt guy. 74 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 3: Let me put it this way. The fight coordinator Don Lee, 75 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 3: who's trained in the very classic okanaw and Miagias kind 76 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 3: of style of karate, was like, dude, you need your 77 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 3: black belt. You have the you have all the skills, 78 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 3: You've done it, you know. And it was just it 79 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 3: was really cool. I wound up doing it, testing for it, 80 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 3: you got the presented. It was a whole ceremonial thing. 81 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 3: And then when I went up to Karate Legends, which 82 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 3: was the next day, literally after wrapping Cobra Kai, I 83 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 3: was like, all right, Jackie Chan, I have a black belt. 84 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 3: I'm cool. 85 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 4: Nice so you could kick all our asses too. 86 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: It's just like a C certificate, you know what I mean. 87 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 5: You have the. 88 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 2: Area or to be a favorite. This guy is scary, my proser, 89 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 2: come kick his ass. I have a question about the movie. 90 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 3: So, is it like a Marvel movie where you're supposed 91 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,679 Speaker 3: to stay for the credits because there's like a scene 92 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 3: that tells us something very possibly You're very possibly not, 93 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 3: but you should stay. You should stick around. Okay, stick around. 94 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 3: It's always good to stick around with anything that has 95 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 3: a universe as large as the Karate Kid cinematic universe. Okay, good. 96 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: By the way, just turning us on Ralph Mancio is here. 97 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: Karate Kid Legends is out today, of course, with Ralph 98 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: and the legendary Jackie Chan. 99 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 3: Oh. 100 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: By the way, I was looking at the map coordinates 101 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: in Hollywood, Your Hollywood stars right around the corner from mine. 102 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 3: How about that? Well, I gotta do it, you know 103 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 3: one stop shopping next time I'm out there. Do you 104 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,279 Speaker 3: ever check on it? Because his head but water gun? 105 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 3: I had a clean you know. I saw someone posted 106 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 3: the other day on Instagram. Uh, you know their pictures say, 107 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 3: I must have tagged me. So it came up in 108 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 3: my thing and I was swiping through all these different 109 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 3: stars like Paul McCartney. It was big name and all 110 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 3: their stars were like glistening. Mine had like tar. It 111 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 3: was just it was just you know. I mean, I 112 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 3: just got it November. I mean, let's get like a 113 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 3: little buffer and clean. 114 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 2: That up now. 115 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm gonna go down next time in 116 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 3: La you know, sneak in. I'm sure Pat Marita is 117 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 3: right next to mine, is absolutely pristine. 118 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 2: That's cool, he's right next to you. 119 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really cool. We make it easy for those 120 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 3: karate kid fans. 121 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: My stars outside the door of the club called Avalon, 122 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: so they all. 123 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 2: Wait in line. 124 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you know, we were happy helping our 125 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: friend Wendy Williams get her star when she was out there. 126 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 1: Hers is right across from the Hustler Club. So you 127 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: can't read too deep on Hollywood. 128 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 3: You really can't because you don't have you don't have 129 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 3: much of a shot of being next to like the 130 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: Plaza right now. 131 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 2: Let's talk about Ralph, Let's talk about Hollywood. 132 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: Let's talk about the film industry and making movies now 133 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: compared to way back in the day, it's a whole 134 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 1: different world now. 135 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 3: It's completely different, it really is. You know, there's such 136 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 3: studio and listen, there's always studio fingerprints on everything. But 137 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 3: now that opening weekend and I'm you know, we're at 138 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 3: it right now. For Karate Kid Legends, it's about that opening. 139 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 3: It's so that word of mouth sleeper that kind of builds. 140 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 3: Those are really rare. It's it's about, you know, grabbing 141 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 3: that real estate before the competition does, and keeping those 142 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 3: kids from looking at their phones or are grabbing their remotes. 143 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 3: It's you know, so it's it's challenging and you and 144 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 3: the editorial aspect of it. You know, you feel like 145 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 3: you're cutting films for the TikTok generation, you know. 146 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: Where you are in part I mean, but also we 147 00:06:57,880 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: were talking about social media. Social media of course not 148 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: as thing back in that voice when Karate Kid first 149 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: came out. 150 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, and Karate Kid in that time in nineteen eighty four, 151 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 3: you either you know, you you went to the beach 152 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 3: or you saw a movie you know that was summer. 153 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 3: Right now, there's so much content, there's so many things 154 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 3: that that that distract. But in fairness, you know, with 155 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 3: with Karate Kid Legends, since it's you know, topical and 156 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: it's now, there is an element that that is very 157 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 3: entertaining for the next generation that still still ties into 158 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 3: all the themes from that original film and they and 159 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 3: the connective tissue of that franchise, and that's something I've 160 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 3: fought for throughout, you know, to make sure we still 161 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 3: try to land those those themes. Fish out of Water, 162 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 3: a kid overcoming obstacles, mentorship, single parenting, you know, dealing 163 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 3: with loss in the case of the original film, Daniel 164 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 3: Russo's father. In the case of this film, uh Le 165 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 3: Fong's brother. You know. So those relatable, huge human themes 166 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 3: are still in this movie, albeit cut for the kids 167 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 3: of today and the families of today. 168 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 4: So, speaking of kids overcoming struggles, when Karate Kid came out, 169 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 4: you were. 170 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 3: How old twenty two when it came out? Yeah, you're 171 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 3: twenty two. Yeah, Yeah, I got the Manchio curve. Okay, 172 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 3: I played sixteen for thirty seven years. 173 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 4: Okay, but that's still that's still right around the age 174 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 4: where a lot of younger people, when they're in the industry, 175 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 4: they get this massive amount of fame. And then after 176 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 4: that it was my cousin Vinny. 177 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,479 Speaker 3: Right, yes, yes, And then you pause. 178 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 2: For a while. 179 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I paused longer than I expected. 180 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 2: But how did you? 181 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 4: Because I'm currently watching a show called Hollywood Demons. In 182 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 4: the last episode was about child stars who find this 183 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 4: massive fame and then when they paused, they a spiral 184 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 4: out of control. What did you do to keep yourself 185 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 4: from that? 186 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 3: Yeah? Today today, I don't know how they do it 187 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 3: because you can't escape. It's so everything's instant. Everyone with 188 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 3: the phone is as a paparazzi, and you know, so 189 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 3: you could document anyone any time. It's really scary, but 190 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 3: it is what it is for me. I mean, I 191 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 3: think partly my sensibilities, my upbringings. So I got to, 192 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 3: you know, give props to my parents, my girlfriend now 193 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 3: wife at the time, give give props to the New 194 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:16,959 Speaker 3: York Mets who were playing well, and I wanted to 195 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,719 Speaker 3: get back home to see some games, you know what 196 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 3: I mean. So like I always kept one foot in 197 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 3: and one foot out. I and of Hollywood, if you will. 198 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 3: And there is a downside to that when I if 199 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 3: I was a little bit more diligent in it, maybe 200 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 3: that pause would have not have lasted as long. But 201 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 3: I think so it wasn't by design, But uh, that's 202 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 3: kind of when we started having kids, my wife and I, 203 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 3: and we raised the family, and so I got to 204 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 3: kind of be at all of that and still be 205 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 3: creative in my way, keep it working. But not necessarily 206 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 3: at that heightened level. And but I also knew that 207 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 3: I was planning this big resurgence a couple of years 208 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 3: later that that no, I'm it. 209 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 2: Was always in the plan. 210 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 3: So it's I I got pretty lucky. But I think 211 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 3: I was just the seduction of all that I did feel, 212 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 3: that void I did have down, you know, darker times 213 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 3: where I just you know, it's just like when I 214 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 3: stayed away from Hollywood, just being there was just so daunting, 215 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 3: and you know, you you would drive on the studio 216 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 3: lot and the guy would wave. And now you get 217 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 3: to the studio a lot and they want your name 218 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 3: and they asked you to spell it for them, and 219 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 3: you're waiting in line, and they used to just go 220 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,559 Speaker 3: right through that. You know that plays as someone in 221 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 3: insecure of mind that that starts playing. Or the billboards 222 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 3: are way bigger when other people's movies are on them. 223 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 3: They extend that twenty feet in east direction. 224 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 4: Wow, Well, knowing what you know now and having been 225 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,079 Speaker 4: through it, would you let your kids get into my. 226 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 3: Daughter, isn't it? But she's not a kid any anymore. 227 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 3: She's my kid, but she's an adult. Yeah, do as 228 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 3: I say, not as I do does not work, but 229 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 3: she's super talented. She did some episodes in the Cobra 230 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 3: Kai series, she played uh, the Jennifer Beals role in 231 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 3: the national tour of flash Stance uh, and did in 232 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 3: New Zealand. So she's she has a career. I wouldn't 233 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 3: advise it. It's it's a tough what's happened to me 234 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 3: is a like a bazillion to want. I mean you 235 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 3: think of you know, coming into the Outsiders at the 236 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 3: on set, and then the Karate Kid exploding that way, 237 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 3: and my cousin Vinnie, and and then now the Cobra 238 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 3: Kai the last eight years of that, and then back 239 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 3: on the big screen with the movie that kind of 240 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 3: launched it all for me. There's not many examples of that. 241 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 3: My cousin Vinnie, Let's go back, Let's go back. Yeah, 242 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 3: so you did say that a little talk you're having 243 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 3: conversations about a reboot. Yeah, I think that is kind 244 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 3: of that was that came up. It's come up a 245 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 3: few times. Joe pectually had some ideas he in the 246 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 3: studios of talking about it, but it never came to fruition. 247 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,719 Speaker 3: You know, you never say never, but but it's really 248 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 3: got be right, And I worked with Cobra kai As. 249 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 3: Those those writers are such big Karate Kid fans. They 250 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 3: they cared so much to not let go of the 251 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 3: the origin and the source. And that's that's why it 252 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 3: It worked for six and you know six seasons. 253 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: Well, way, I have a call that wants to connect 254 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 1: with you, and I'm gonna do that in a second. 255 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: But as you listen to this Ralph Montio speaking, doesn't 256 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:25,719 Speaker 1: he sound a little like Joe Pesci. 257 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 3: To you know what you're talking about? 258 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 2: Has anyone ever said that to you? Ever? 259 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 3: So? Not not too often, but I do. You know, 260 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 3: I like to do Joe impersonations. It's fun, you know, 261 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 3: he's like, he's like even just like when I first 262 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 3: did my cousin Vinny uh he was. He brought a 263 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 3: bottle of wine. It was a Shasanya Montrochet. He liked 264 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 3: the French, you know, Burgundy white Burgundy's, which are essentially 265 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 3: Sharonay and he and we like have one glass and 266 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,079 Speaker 3: for dinner, and then we have another glass. He goes. 267 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 3: I said, you know, just wine makes me tired. And 268 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 3: I have since really become a fan and wines of 269 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:07,839 Speaker 3: a hobby of mine, tasting great wines and he goes, 270 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 3: he goes. It makes you tired. It's a depressant, Dan, 271 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:17,319 Speaker 3: it's a stimulant, which is basically you're gonna fall asleep 272 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 3: and wake up at two o'clock in the morning and 273 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 3: you know it. 274 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:22,199 Speaker 2: Joe passion is all right. 275 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: Uh Jennifer, Hi, Jennifer, are you still there? 276 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 5: Yes, I'm here. Hello, just over. 277 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're also on with Ralph Maccio Say hello. 278 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 3: Hey, Jennifer, how are you? 279 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 2: Jennifer? Is it true Ralph your number one crush in 280 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 2: the in the eighties. 281 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,439 Speaker 5: It's true. I mean I basically had Ralph Mattia wallpaper 282 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 5: in my bedroom. It's true. 283 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 2: Did your own line of wallpaper? I don't think. 284 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 3: I don't think it was the actual wallpaper. I think 285 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 3: it may have a bunch of sixteen magazine tape taped together, 286 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 3: but the Ralph Montreal wallpaper would be imagine me like like, 287 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 3: this is the product I want to push. 288 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 4: Now in all the different poses. 289 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 3: Different movies. 290 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 5: No, it was pretty crazy. I mean I remember like 291 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 5: me and my friend's going to the store. We would 292 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:13,319 Speaker 5: buy all those teen books and you were the first 293 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 5: picture that we would pull out and just hang up 294 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 5: like I was. I just just love. I was convinced 295 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 5: we were going to be married. Basically, what, Daniel. 296 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 3: Whatever did you make out with the poster? 297 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 2: And come on? 298 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 5: I did not? 299 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 3: I good good, that's not that's not the whole broken way. 300 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 5: It's not. We don't. We don't go like that, Hoboken. 301 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 5: We don't have. 302 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 2: Daniel used to make out with posters? Oh yes I did. 303 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: I had my Greg Evagan from b J and the 304 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: Bear post. 305 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 3: Okay, wound up with a little rip in his mouth 306 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 3: because how he kissed it all the time. 307 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 4: You kissed it, I did. 308 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 3: Let's not go there. He went there? 309 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 2: Well, Jennifer, do you remember when you first saw Ralph? 310 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 2: Of course? Which film did you think? 311 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 5: I believe it was the Outside of Okay, what a 312 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 5: great film. Like to this day, I still watch those 313 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 5: movies as an adult. I'm fifteen now. I still enjoy 314 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 5: those films so much. And I have to say about 315 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 5: like those movies tied to my teeniors, Like I remember 316 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 5: my mom, she's passed away. She passed away in twenty twelve, 317 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 5: and we used to watch those movies together all the time. 318 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 5: Karate Kid, The Outsider, and there's just so many great 319 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 5: memories I tied to you and those films. And it's 320 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 5: not to say thank you for those movies because they 321 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 5: were just great. 322 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 3: Thank you man. That's so that never gets old to 323 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 3: hear that, and that's uh, those films, films, movie, a 324 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 3: cinema can do that. You know, storytelling. It touches people. 325 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 3: You remember, you remember experiencing something, especially when you lose 326 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 3: someone you you know, that movie comes on again, we 327 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 3: see it and we go back. That's that's nostalgia right there. 328 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 3: But those films bring up, you know, kind of positive 329 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 3: feelings and certainly you know, the Karate Kid is always 330 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 3: been that because you know, you share that kind of 331 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 3: wish for film and aspirational kind of storytelling. So that's 332 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 3: what we're you know, we're planning to do with the 333 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 3: next generation as well. Thanks for sharing that. 334 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 2: Thank you, Jennifer, and. 335 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 5: Not only you're welcome, and not only to Queity Kid, 336 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 5: like you've been in so many great things, my cousins. 337 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 5: Any one of the greatest comedies I love exactly right. 338 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 3: It's Late for Dinner movie. If it's on you just 339 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 3: I love it. 340 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 5: No, Jennifer, thank you, my favorite, my favorite show. Everyone 341 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 5: at Cobakai fabulous show. Anybody who hasn't seen that show 342 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 5: has to watch. You are great in that show, William 343 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 5: on our show. I love it. 344 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 3: That's awesome you are You are my cheerleader and I 345 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 3: appreciate it and uh and uh yeah keep rocking it. 346 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 3: And it's so nice to vocally meet you. 347 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 2: Thank you, Jennifer. 348 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, mom, thanks you a plan. 349 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: You know, you know our show. This show has been 350 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: on for about thirty years. I'm doing mornings here in 351 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: New York and so people we have people come up 352 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: and say they grew up listening to us. 353 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 2: Now their grandkids in senators. 354 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: It's crazy, but you know, to be in this, I 355 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: guess this club of being around for a while, being 356 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,679 Speaker 1: there to be a voice in people's lives or an 357 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: actor or a character in people's lives back in the day. 358 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 1: And they still go back to those days and the 359 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: feelings they had then because of you when they see 360 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:22,919 Speaker 1: you today. 361 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. 362 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 3: It's amazing. It's amazing. And in a world not to 363 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 3: get too dark and deep that doesn't bring a lot 364 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 3: of joy on a daily basis, it's nice to be 365 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 3: on that side of it, you know. And that's that's 366 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 3: like people ask me about you know, this Daniel LaRusso 367 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 3: character that has become a piece of pop culture and 368 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 3: a piece of people's childhoods Now, I have ten year 369 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 3: old kids that are running up to me like they're 370 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 3: meeting Santa Claus, know who mister Miyagi is and think 371 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 3: he's cool. It's kind of and they'll talk about watching 372 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 3: the movie the movies with their parents, are watching the 373 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 3: Cobra Kai series and this was an inspirational story from 374 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 3: my brother who had a difficult time in high school 375 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 3: or whatever. Now it's like, you know what, why not 376 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 3: talk about? Why not celebrate that? And now you know, 377 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 3: with the new movie, you have a whole new generation 378 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 3: of kids that'll back themselves into that entire franchise, and 379 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 3: it's kind of a good at my age that feels 380 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 3: like a good thing to do. 381 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: Karate Kid Legends is out today and we love it. 382 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 1: When you come visit us, Ralph, thank you for the 383 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: entire