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Speaker 1: Great per flick with Beno. Well, Ben, good morning, good

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Speaker 1: morning in a while since some karate chops, I guess

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Speaker 1: a kid. Yes, yeah, well like the original the original

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Speaker 1: Karate Kid movie I never know. It's the original Karate

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Speaker 1: Kid came out in nineteen eighty four. Yeah, Daniel LaRusso,

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Speaker 1: Daniel San played by Ralph Matchio, who at the time

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Speaker 1: was a young kid. He'd never really done martial arts before,

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Speaker 1: and so they gave him sort of a crash course

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Speaker 1: in rehearsal before the movie. But it was that's why

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Speaker 1: some of the moves, you know, he's doing a lot

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Speaker 1: of wax on waxoft and a lot of painting the fence.

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Speaker 1: He's not doing a lot of roundhouse tends. And they

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Speaker 1: were all these they were all the incredible, incredible karate

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Speaker 1: learning techniques imparted to him by mister Miyagi played by

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Speaker 1: Pat Marita, the late great Pat Marina rip And So,

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Speaker 1: if you were a kid like me who grew up

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Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties, I can promise you you were

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Speaker 1: in the playground of your primary school, you were doing

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Speaker 1: wax on wax off, you were paid of sense, and

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Speaker 1: you were one hundred percent Obviously, movie and you were

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent trying to do the crane kick, which

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Speaker 1: was the ultimate move that Daniel sn learned during the

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Speaker 1: movie in one really long bontage that you just thought,

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Speaker 1: I bet he's going to have to use that at

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Speaker 1: some point, And sure enough, he does. When he's in

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Speaker 1: the All Valley karate tournament at the end of the

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Speaker 1: movie and he's facing his nemesis from the Cobra Kai dojo, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: who's also the head bully of the group of kids

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Speaker 1: at school who was bullying Daniel San and the head

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Speaker 1: bully bully Chief, And there was an iconic scene whether

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Speaker 1: out trick or treating on Halloween, and Daniel and his

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Speaker 1: sweetheart are set upon by the Cobra Kai kids dressed

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Speaker 1: in skeleton sort of costumes, and they just absolutely whooped him.

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Speaker 1: And then and then in this karate tournament he had

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Speaker 1: to fight all of these kids one after another. And

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Speaker 1: then in the sort of penultimate fight, he gets his

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Speaker 1: leg hurt. It basically stuck on one leg and and

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Speaker 1: but even despite that, he's still beating Johnny in the

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Speaker 1: final and then the sense Cobra Kai Sense says to

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Speaker 1: Johnny the infamous line sweep the leg, and Johnny looks

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Speaker 1: conflicted because he knows it's not very ethical, but he said,

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Speaker 1: you know, you do what you said, do what I

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Speaker 1: told you to sweep the leg. And he's like, yes, sense,

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Speaker 1: and he goes out, sure enough, sweeps the leg. Daniels incapacitated.

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Speaker 1: You think he's out for all money, but no, he

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Speaker 1: can do the one legged crane kick. Think about it

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Speaker 1: should have been called the Flamingo. Who should because flamingos

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Speaker 1: are the ones that stand on one leg. Cranes have

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Speaker 1: two legs at the functional. Anyway, he does it, kicks

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Speaker 1: Johnny in the head, and he wins a tournament and

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Speaker 1: then also gets that kicked in the head. Obviously knocks

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Speaker 1: something straight in Johnny's mind because then he gives him

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Speaker 1: a begrudging respect. Good on your Daniels, you're not the

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Speaker 1: you lose that. I thought you weren't anyway.

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Speaker 2: So then they made two more movies after that, Sorry

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Speaker 2: for the Bully hit two more movies after that, and

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Speaker 2: then there was a fourth movie didn't have Ralph Macchio

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Speaker 2: and had a girl, Karate Kid still had still had

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Speaker 2: mister Miyagi.

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Speaker 1: And then there was a long break and then they

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Speaker 1: made a new Karate Kid a couple a few years ago,

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Speaker 1: now ten years ago, maybe starring Will Smith's kid Jaden Smith,

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Speaker 1: and it was set in China, and instead of mister Miyagi,

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Speaker 1: they had Jackie Chan playing Hahn, a kung fu master,

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Speaker 1: so it was more of a kung fu kid than

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Speaker 1: a karate kid anyway. And then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: now comes a new karate kid movie called Karate Kid Legends,

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Speaker 1: which technically is a standalone sequel to the Jackie Chan

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Speaker 1: Karate Kid movie because he's back. Jackie Chan is back,

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Speaker 1: and Ralph Macchio, the original karate Kid, is back, and

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Speaker 1: so you have a situation where you have Ralph Maccio

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Speaker 1: is now a karate sense Jackie Chan is obviously kung

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Speaker 1: fu sense. They joined forces to train a new karate

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Speaker 1: kid played by Ben Wang, who's name of the film

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Speaker 1: is Lee Fong, who's a kid who, like the original movie,

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Speaker 1: is a fish out of water. He's the new kid

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Speaker 1: in town, going from Beijing to New York City. Basically

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Speaker 1: it's the same storyline as the first movie. He is

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Speaker 1: he gets a little sweetheart who he's very very lamored of.

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Speaker 1: There's some bullies and the only way to get respect

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Speaker 1: is to go in a city wide, city wide karate tournament.

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Speaker 1: So it's basically very similar plot, and that side of

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Speaker 1: it is actually very fun. Ben Wang. The difference between

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Speaker 1: him and Ralph Macchio when he was a kid, Ben

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Speaker 1: Wang the young actor is actually amazing. He knows stuff.

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Speaker 2: He knows stuff.

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Speaker 1: So the fighting now fighting sequences are through the roof.

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Speaker 1: Instead of the crane kick, which literally any kid in

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Speaker 1: the playground could do back in the eighties, Ben Wang's

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Speaker 1: character does a dragon kick, which is a spinning, twisting

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Speaker 1: roundhouse kick, which he can actually do in real life.

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Speaker 1: And I promise you there is no kid in the

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Speaker 1: play any kid that attempts this. You know, parents got

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Speaker 1: the ambulance on Speeddalob Yeah. Yeah. And so there's a

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Speaker 1: great scene where he is, you know, training montage with

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Speaker 1: Jackie Chan and Ralph Mattio and Ben where he just gets,

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Speaker 1: you know, just just absolutely butt kicked by two legends,

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Speaker 1: and that's pretty fun. There's a side plot involving Joshua Jackson,

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Speaker 1: who's the dad of the girl, Pacy Creek, who is

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Speaker 1: he put a former champion boxer, and then bizally in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the film, he gets his own montage

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Speaker 1: for his own boxing tournament switch off, which is egregiously

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Speaker 1: unnecessary and probably it's a little fun, but it takes

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Speaker 1: away from the film. And if you can imagine, this

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Speaker 1: film had a very tough path to being successful. It

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Speaker 1: had to kind of pand it to the nostalgia trip

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Speaker 1: for the fans of the original movie. It also had

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Speaker 1: to peel to kids these days, and it's done that

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Speaker 1: by slick editing and kind of a you know, Spider

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Speaker 1: Man into the Spider Verse graphics on the screen, which

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Speaker 1: the fans from the nineteen eighties will be like, what

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Speaker 1: the heck am I watching right now? So it's trying

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Speaker 1: to be everything to everyone. It does a pretty good job,

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Speaker 1: surprisingly good job, just because mostly Jackie chan is just

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Speaker 1: so hilarious. Channer a god, he's fantastic. Ralph Macchio, who

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Speaker 1: actually interviewed for this movie, he's pretty good as well.

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Speaker 1: He looks like he's having a great time. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: so go into this don't expecting it to be amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's not terrible though, it's much better than the last

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Speaker 1: Jaden Smith Karate Kid movie, and like, I think young

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Speaker 1: kids will like it all right, Well, how many not?

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Speaker 1: Everybody was kung fu fightings, are you, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: give this three three very good brilliants.

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Speaker 2: Good to see man,