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Speaker 1: Carl Brager know you're listening to the Christian O Carl's

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Speaker 1: Show podcast. I asked Jack yesterday. Obviously very hard sometimes

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Speaker 1: sort of describing what the eighties was like to someone

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Speaker 1: who's under thirty five. It was a very strange decade

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Speaker 1: when you look back on it, But when we were

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Speaker 1: living in it and more excitingly growing up in it,

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Speaker 1: it was really exciting. It was amazing. It was a

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Speaker 1: changing world. And one of the big movies of the

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Speaker 1: eighties was The Karate Kid. And we're doing the letters

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Speaker 1: Jay and Kay in our eighties out of the eighties today.

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Speaker 1: I love The Karate Kid came out in nineteen eighty four, Patsy,

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Speaker 1: Did you go and see this at all? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I loved it, loved it.

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Speaker 1: Did your brothers all practice the crane kick on each other?

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Speaker 2: Wax on, wax off?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's get into it. What did you

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Speaker 1: make of nineteen eighty four's The Karate Kid?

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Speaker 3: Jack, There's a lot to like about The Karate Kid. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot to like about The Karate Kid. Love

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Speaker 3: Larusso's relationship with Miagi.

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Speaker 1: That was a mentor that was great. You know, we

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Speaker 1: got nominated for Oscar Pat Moriarty was he actually played

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Speaker 1: mister Miyaki got nominated for an Oscar for that role.

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Speaker 3: Oh really, because actually one of my points against Karate

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Speaker 3: Kid was Miagi wasn't a great fighter. Him jumping the

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Speaker 3: fence to save Laruso and apparently kicking butt against all

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Speaker 3: the bad guys. He was so slow. He was such

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Speaker 3: a bad fighter.

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Speaker 1: What he was he was effective a fight comm ended

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Speaker 1: with one telling blow. It was the worst movement from

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Speaker 1: a karatea. Okay, he's an old dude as well, he's

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Speaker 1: a janitor. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It was so unconvincing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, it's a yoga character. This is mental.

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Speaker 3: But even Yoda, I guess could use the force and

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Speaker 3: make things.

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Speaker 1: Like because he was a little green little fellow, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's not roundhousing people.

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Speaker 3: For the most part, I did like Miyagi though, love Miyagi,

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Speaker 3: loved Laruso. My problem with the film way way, way

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Speaker 3: too long. And I find this with a lot of

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Speaker 3: eighties films that you have me go back and watch.

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Speaker 3: They did not know how to edit.

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Speaker 1: Editors didn't come along to the late nineties. You go

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Speaker 1: back and watch an eighties moving now and find this

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Speaker 1: a lot when I go to my kids, it's like,

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Speaker 1: let's go back and watch it, and even I'm going,

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Speaker 1: but every scene goes on too long.

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Speaker 3: The first scene is four minutes. The opening titles is

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Speaker 3: four minutes of them.

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Speaker 1: How I reach you sound like you watch too much TikTok.

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Speaker 1: You can't concentrate for four minutes. If you just said

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Speaker 1: like twenty two minutes, four minutes isn't that long.

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Speaker 3: It's four minutes of them driving from New Jersey to California.

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Speaker 3: That's all shots of them along the.

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Speaker 1: Road we think is happening.

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Speaker 3: Come on, So I had to fast forward already in

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Speaker 3: the first four minutes.

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Speaker 1: And do you know what they should do? They should

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Speaker 1: do a millennial cuts of eighties because there's lots of

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Speaker 1: good stuff in the good stuff, but you're right, it's

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Speaker 1: padded out with a lot of just nonsense.

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Speaker 3: Full runtime, guess the full run time.

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Speaker 1: I'd say probably something like one fifty.

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Speaker 3: Two hours, seven minutes.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's all right, that no, that's agree on this

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Speaker 1: though you cannot. You cannot edit down the All Valley

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Speaker 1: Karate Tournament. O.

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Speaker 3: My number one place to edit was the tournament.

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Speaker 1: The show.

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Speaker 3: We know he's going to fight.

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Speaker 1: One of those chilling lines in a movie.

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Speaker 3: I agree. Great scene when we finally got there him

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Speaker 3: Verus Johnny Lawrence was great. We knew he was going

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Speaker 3: to fight him.

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Speaker 1: What about this tournament? Oh my god, just hearing that

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Speaker 1: makes me I'm the cinema going no.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm sweet te lict.

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Speaker 1: I got a problem with the problem with that.

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Speaker 3: Wait, I agree with you, Normous. The fight between LaRusso

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Speaker 3: and Lawrence is great. Why did we have to see

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Speaker 3: the whole tournament, the qualifying rounds, the semi final four

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Speaker 3: play just say, just make up a bit of dialogue

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Speaker 3: that says he got into the final. We didn't need

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Speaker 3: to see.

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Speaker 1: Every every cranking up is cranking up the tension, tension, tension. No,

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Speaker 1: he's going to fight at the Yeah, of course.

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Speaker 3: We know it.

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Speaker 1: But it's not just about the destination. What a journey.

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Speaker 3: It had a lot of potential. Karate kid just needed

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Speaker 3: to be a little more succinct and keep everybody in cage.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Did you like Daniel LaRussa.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't stand him. I hated him. Actually generally hoped

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Speaker 1: that he got beaten in the final.

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Speaker 3: I thought his jokes were lame, a whining little key

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Speaker 3: but I liked him.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, I couldn't stand him. I wanted Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: I want him to be beaten Mercisley at the end.

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Speaker 3: This is the last thing I realized watching Karate Kid.

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Speaker 3: I know you did Karate as a junior, Yes, idiot.

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Speaker 3: I always thought Christian like knows so much about Karate's

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Speaker 3: always telling me like, tay means hand and kara means

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Speaker 3: empty and it's the way of the empty hand. Everything

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Speaker 3: you've ever told me about Karate has lifted direct line

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Speaker 3: from line about the film.

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Speaker 1: It was an impressional more movie on me. I just

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Speaker 1: paid attention to the age of eleven to the Karate Kid.

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Speaker 1: So Mark's out of ten.

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Speaker 3: If it had been edited swiftly nine out of ten.

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Speaker 3: But sadly it's a four out of ten.

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Speaker 1: Woul you know it was too boring.

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Speaker 3: I kept getting up and doing other things and then coming.

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Speaker 1: Back to watch it, so you would have missed key scenes.

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Speaker 3: I could hear him in the background while I did

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Speaker 3: the dishes and that sort of thing my phone.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you just Chris like Cobra Kai loves It

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Speaker 2: got me into it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good show, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I love Johnny, the guy that plays Joey Lawrence. Johnny,

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Speaker 2: my wife got a crush on him. Yeah, he still

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Speaker 2: Isn't it very attractive?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 3: I would try I probably would try Cobra Kai because

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Speaker 3: it's recent, you'd like it, and they've learned how to

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Speaker 3: edit and make things compelling.

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Speaker 1: Viewing for each episode is seventeen seconds long. The Christian

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