WEBVTT - MINI: The Karate Kid

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<v Speaker 1>Carl Brager know you're listening to the Christian O Carl's

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<v Speaker 1>Show podcast. I asked Jack yesterday. Obviously very hard sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>sort of describing what the eighties was like to someone

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<v Speaker 1>who's under thirty five. It was a very strange decade

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<v Speaker 1>when you look back on it, But when we were

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<v Speaker 1>living in it and more excitingly growing up in it,

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<v Speaker 1>it was really exciting. It was amazing. It was a

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<v Speaker 1>changing world. And one of the big movies of the

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<v Speaker 1>eighties was The Karate Kid. And we're doing the letters

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<v Speaker 1>Jay and Kay in our eighties out of the eighties today.

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<v Speaker 1>I love The Karate Kid came out in nineteen eighty four, Patsy,

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<v Speaker 1>Did you go and see this at all? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>I loved it, loved it.

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<v Speaker 1>Did your brothers all practice the crane kick on each other?

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<v Speaker 2>Wax on, wax off?

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

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<v Speaker 1>make of nineteen eighty four's The Karate Kid?

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

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<v Speaker 3>there's a lot to like about The Karate Kid. Love

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<v Speaker 3>Larusso's relationship with Miagi.

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<v Speaker 1>That was a mentor that was great. You know, we

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<v Speaker 1>got nominated for Oscar Pat Moriarty was he actually played

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<v Speaker 1>mister Miyaki got nominated for an Oscar for that role.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh really, because actually one of my points against Karate

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<v Speaker 3>Kid was Miagi wasn't a great fighter. Him jumping the

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<v Speaker 3>fence to save Laruso and apparently kicking butt against all

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<v Speaker 3>the bad guys. He was so slow. He was such

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<v Speaker 3>a bad fighter.

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<v Speaker 1>What he was he was effective a fight comm ended

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<v Speaker 1>with one telling blow. It was the worst movement from

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<v Speaker 1>a karatea. Okay, he's an old dude as well, he's

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<v Speaker 1>a janitor. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>It was so unconvincing.

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

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<v Speaker 3>But even Yoda, I guess could use the force and

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<v Speaker 3>make things.

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<v Speaker 1>Like because he was a little green little fellow, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>he's not roundhousing people.

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<v Speaker 3>For the most part, I did like Miyagi though, love Miyagi,

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<v Speaker 3>loved Laruso. My problem with the film way way, way

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<v Speaker 3>too long. And I find this with a lot of

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<v Speaker 3>eighties films that you have me go back and watch.

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<v Speaker 3>They did not know how to edit.

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<v Speaker 1>Editors didn't come along to the late nineties. You go

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<v Speaker 1>back and watch an eighties moving now and find this

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<v Speaker 1>a lot when I go to my kids, it's like,

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<v Speaker 1>let's go back and watch it, and even I'm going,

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<v Speaker 1>but every scene goes on too long.

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<v Speaker 3>The first scene is four minutes. The opening titles is

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<v Speaker 3>four minutes of them.

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<v Speaker 1>How I reach you sound like you watch too much TikTok.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't concentrate for four minutes. If you just said

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<v Speaker 1>like twenty two minutes, four minutes isn't that long.

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

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<v Speaker 3>That's all shots of them along the.

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<v Speaker 1>Road we think is happening.

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<v Speaker 3>Come on, So I had to fast forward already in

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<v Speaker 3>the first four minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>And do you know what they should do? They should

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<v Speaker 1>do a millennial cuts of eighties because there's lots of

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<v Speaker 1>good stuff in the good stuff, but you're right, it's

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<v Speaker 1>padded out with a lot of just nonsense.

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<v Speaker 3>Full runtime, guess the full run time.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd say probably something like one fifty.

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<v Speaker 3>Two hours, seven minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that's all right, that no, that's agree on this

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<v Speaker 1>though you cannot. You cannot edit down the All Valley

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<v Speaker 1>Karate Tournament. O.

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<v Speaker 3>My number one place to edit was the tournament.

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<v Speaker 1>The show.

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<v Speaker 3>We know he's going to fight.

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<v Speaker 1>One of those chilling lines in a movie.

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<v Speaker 3>I agree. Great scene when we finally got there him

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<v Speaker 3>Verus Johnny Lawrence was great. We knew he was going

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<v Speaker 3>to fight him.

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<v Speaker 1>What about this tournament? Oh my god, just hearing that

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<v Speaker 1>makes me I'm the cinema going no.

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<v Speaker 3>No, I'm sweet te lict.

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<v Speaker 1>I got a problem with the problem with that.

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<v Speaker 3>Wait, I agree with you, Normous. The fight between LaRusso

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<v Speaker 3>and Lawrence is great. Why did we have to see

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<v Speaker 3>the whole tournament, the qualifying rounds, the semi final four

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<v Speaker 3>play just say, just make up a bit of dialogue

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<v Speaker 3>that says he got into the final. We didn't need

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<v Speaker 3>to see.

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<v Speaker 1>Every every cranking up is cranking up the tension, tension, tension. No,

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<v Speaker 1>he's going to fight at the Yeah, of course.

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<v Speaker 3>We know it.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's not just about the destination. What a journey.

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<v Speaker 3>It had a lot of potential. Karate kid just needed

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<v Speaker 3>to be a little more succinct and keep everybody in cage.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me ask you this. Did you like Daniel LaRussa.

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<v Speaker 1>I couldn't stand him. I hated him. Actually generally hoped

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<v Speaker 1>that he got beaten in the final.

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<v Speaker 3>I thought his jokes were lame, a whining little key

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<v Speaker 3>but I liked him.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh no, no, no, I couldn't stand him. I wanted Lawrence.

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<v Speaker 1>I want him to be beaten Mercisley at the end.

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<v Speaker 3>This is the last thing I realized watching Karate Kid.

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<v Speaker 3>I know you did Karate as a junior, Yes, idiot.

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<v Speaker 3>I always thought Christian like knows so much about Karate's

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<v Speaker 3>always telling me like, tay means hand and kara means

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<v Speaker 3>empty and it's the way of the empty hand. Everything

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<v Speaker 3>you've ever told me about Karate has lifted direct line

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<v Speaker 3>from line about the film.

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<v Speaker 1>It was an impressional more movie on me. I just

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<v Speaker 1>paid attention to the age of eleven to the Karate Kid.

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<v Speaker 1>So Mark's out of ten.

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<v Speaker 3>If it had been edited swiftly nine out of ten.

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<v Speaker 3>But sadly it's a four out of ten.

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<v Speaker 1>Woul you know it was too boring.

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<v Speaker 3>I kept getting up and doing other things and then coming.

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<v Speaker 1>Back to watch it, so you would have missed key scenes.

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<v Speaker 3>I could hear him in the background while I did

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<v Speaker 3>the dishes and that sort of thing my phone.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, you just Chris like Cobra Kai loves It

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<v Speaker 2>got me into it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's a good show, isn't it.

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<v Speaker 2>I love Johnny, the guy that plays Joey Lawrence. Johnny,

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<v Speaker 2>my wife got a crush on him. Yeah, he still

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<v Speaker 2>Isn't it very attractive?

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<v Speaker 1>Man?

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<v Speaker 3>I would try I probably would try Cobra Kai because

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

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<v Speaker 3>edit and make things compelling.

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<v Speaker 1>Viewing for each episode is seventeen seconds long. The Christian

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