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Ralph Macchio · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: By Mario Lopez joining right now on Zoom from the
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  Speaker 2: new movie Karate Kid Legends.
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  Speaker 3: My man, mister Ralph Macchio, how are you, Ralph?
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  Speaker 1: That's up. I'm great. I'm great. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being in the family room when I get to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you. I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta say you were so cool and generous with
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  Speaker 2: your time. When I took two of my kids, my
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  Speaker 2: daughter gam my son Dominic to the Cobra Kai season premiere,
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  Speaker 2: it made their year. And my son has seen the
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  Speaker 2: series all the seasons three times.
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  Speaker 3: Well my daughters.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you got a lot of fans of Costa Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you again, your cool class ag brother.
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  Speaker 1: That was great. We were very excited to see you there. Man.
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  Speaker 1: That was the kind of the finale premiere of all
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  Speaker 1: sixty five episodes of that show that kind of kept
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  Speaker 1: us company through a pandemic and became everybody's comfort food. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And so to see your your fan, your kids so well,
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  Speaker 1: he so well behaved, respectful, it's like, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: I see that, it's you know, it reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: my upbringing. So kudos to you. Guys, and I'm really
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  Speaker 1: cool for us.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it was very nice. I got to meet
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  Speaker 3: your daughter too, that was very nice too.
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  Speaker 1: She was there a whole crew.
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  Speaker 2: And coming off the heels of the massive success of
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  Speaker 2: Cobra Kati, you're now starring in the sixth Karate Kid movie,
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  Speaker 2: Karate Kid Legends, which we're planning on checking out this
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  Speaker 2: weekend too, because I've been traveling.
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  Speaker 3: I told him to wait for me. How was it,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, man working with Jackie Chan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's pretty I mean, Jackie Chan's a legend
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  Speaker 1: of in the stunt world, in the movie world, and
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  Speaker 1: he's he's like the he says he's seventy one and
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  Speaker 1: he's the youngest kid on the set. He just loves
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  Speaker 1: being there, you know. It's really I pride myself on
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  Speaker 1: that as well. But to see him at his age
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  Speaker 1: be the first one there and the last to leave
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  Speaker 1: and hang the lights if you need him, and to
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  Speaker 1: help the dolly get the dolly. Guys like grabbing movie
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  Speaker 1: the camera and he hits a bump, Jackie's like jumps
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  Speaker 1: and grabs the back end of the dolly. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's that kind of spirit and uh, and I was
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  Speaker 1: a little nervous because you know, here's a guy who's
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  Speaker 1: can do anything. Yeah, and so on day one when
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  Speaker 1: I saw him tweak his shoulder a little bit, there
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit of a comfort like, Oh, he's
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  Speaker 1: like the rest of us.
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  Speaker 3: He's yeah, exactly, He's human.
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  Speaker 1: But it's great and a great a great father's day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, coming up is the perfect kind of movie.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the themes of mentorship, father son, you know,
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  Speaker 1: single parenting, all those all those themes are are woven
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  Speaker 1: into the Karate Kid fabric and and are laced throughout
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  Speaker 1: this film as well. And the kid is really wonderful too,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Woan really fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And does the film weave in uh storyline from Cobra Kai?
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  Speaker 2: Are they connected at all? Or is it standalone?
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  Speaker 1: There? There, it's in the same universe. There will be
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  Speaker 1: some surprises in Easter Eggs, which I know you will love, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it's not a continuation of Cobra Kai. It's
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  Speaker 1: its own I described it as its own ecosystem in
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  Speaker 1: the Grand Universe, and it does. It is in the
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  Speaker 1: same universe. It's just about three years later after the
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  Speaker 1: events from that, you know, season finale premiere you went to.
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  Speaker 1: It's so LaRusso My character is kind of landed in
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  Speaker 1: a place kind of where I believed he would land,
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  Speaker 1: especially after working everything out with Johnny Lawrence and then
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  Speaker 1: becoming besties even though they butt heads, right, and so
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  Speaker 1: he's become more more of a season since the more
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  Speaker 1: Miagi if you will, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Are you pleased with the way the series ended and
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  Speaker 2: do you feel there's still yet more stories to tell
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  Speaker 2: for Daniel LaRusso in the universe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know, I'm absolutely thrilled with how the
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  Speaker 1: finale of Cobra Kai. I really think they did a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful job of it feeling like a ka Kid movie
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  Speaker 1: seen through the lens of the Cobra Kai tonal fabric,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fabrics the wrong word, but that kind of
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  Speaker 1: it's through the lens of Cobra Kai. But it felt
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  Speaker 1: like a Karate Kid movie. You know, you felt like
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  Speaker 1: all those the best around came through and montages and
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  Speaker 1: me and Johnny Lawrence and you're driving down Ventura Boulevard
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  Speaker 1: and the forty seven Ford Convertible. It had all that
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  Speaker 1: fans service, but it it really landed in a good
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  Speaker 1: way and also thematically, Mario. It end in a way
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  Speaker 1: where you have these two guys. You look at the
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  Speaker 1: Cobra Guys series that could not get along. They were
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  Speaker 1: the worst of enemies and at the end of it
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  Speaker 1: became the best versions of themselves for the next generation.
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  Speaker 1: And I think in that is a kind of message
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  Speaker 1: for the world, you know what I mean, if you're different,
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  Speaker 1: you could have your differences, but do for the greater
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  Speaker 1: good of the next generation. And the movie Legends does
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  Speaker 1: that as well. Know, it's really about you know, overcoming
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  Speaker 1: all those obstacles and somehow good over evil and and
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  Speaker 1: being the best version of yourself. I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: shortage of those kind of films for all agents, right.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was just so smart the way they
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  Speaker 2: approached it, and incredibly clever and well written, and you
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  Speaker 2: guys were great in the performances.
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  Speaker 3: I was very pleased as a fan.
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  Speaker 2: The other day, Uh, it was the forty fifth anniversary
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  Speaker 2: of the release of I believe it was your very
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  Speaker 2: first movie up.
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  Speaker 1: The Coup the Academy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Academy Crazy you play you played that's a great name.
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  Speaker 1: Who I mean he was the son of a mob guy.
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  Speaker 1: It was great and Robert Downey Sr. Directed that Wow,
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  Speaker 1: And Downey Downey was junior, was you know, fourteen on
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  Speaker 1: set Wow, and it was. So that's where it's just
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  Speaker 1: amazing to to have this kind of you know, listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's forty five years and so almays half a century.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean that was my first, my first,
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  Speaker 1: my first movie, and uh, it's it's it's pretty incredible
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  Speaker 1: to you know. When I saw that, I saw that post,
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  Speaker 1: I almost put it up and I just got sidetracked.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's, uh.
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  Speaker 3: You got to put it up.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. Yeah, yeah, it's a good one. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good one. And to answer, I know I never answered
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  Speaker 1: your question previous. Is there more room for Cobra Kai?
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  Speaker 1: Is there more room for other chapters? I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the guys who created Cobra Kai have a few balls
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  Speaker 1: in the air in that world. It's a matter of
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  Speaker 1: timing and finding it. You know. I think as long
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  Speaker 1: as it can be fresh and organic and genuinely truthful
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  Speaker 1: to these characters, I'll always listen. Is it at some
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  Speaker 1: point that it's time to put this to bed? I
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  Speaker 1: think the fans will will let us know that. But
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  Speaker 1: to this point, I'm feeling pretty good about putting that
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  Speaker 1: much positive and joy out to people.
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  Speaker 2: You know you should, and for some reason you ever
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  Speaker 2: go prequel style and they do. Daniel Russo back in Jersey,
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  Speaker 2: my son always gets told constantly he looks like a
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  Speaker 2: young Ralph Maccio.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just a little better. He's a little better looking,
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  Speaker 1: I will say.
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  Speaker 3: And he's an actor too. Three movies this year.
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  Speaker 1: Problem is telling you great, Well, you know what. That's
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  Speaker 1: the storyline that I when they asked me if there's
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  Speaker 1: anything that you haven't done yet in this world, what
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  Speaker 1: would that be? And I always say I would love
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  Speaker 1: to somehow see who this kid was the first fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years of his life. He never talked about his father
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  Speaker 1: really that much. It was always the Miyagi in the world. True,
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  Speaker 1: what is that for the first fifteen years of your life?
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  Speaker 1: Are so impressionable in your entire life? So I'm all
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  Speaker 1: about it. I'd love to direct an episode or something
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  Speaker 1: to find that. So I know who I'm calling first.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, my man, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey list last week because I loved that I saw
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  Speaker 2: you on social media. Somebody asks you something to think
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  Speaker 2: about Peschi. Your Peschi impression is really good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did a thing called Last Meals. He does
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  Speaker 1: a great job, this guy, Josh. It's a really yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I had I did my you know my Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's I go through all my Italian
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  Speaker 1: co stars and fortunately, yeah, I wound I wound up
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  Speaker 1: going from Pesci to de Niro and then it became
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  Speaker 1: Chris Walkin even without Monny.
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  Speaker 3: Because you worked at de Niro on stage, riding Cuban.
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  Speaker 1: On the stage and Cubero study very that was a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. Yeah, yeah, and I and I saw him recently.
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  Speaker 1: We were at Francis Ford Coppola's American Film Institute Lifetime
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  Speaker 1: Achievement event that's gonna hit TNT on the June eighteenth.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so I saw all those Uh it's it's nice
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  Speaker 1: to be associated with the narrative of someone like Francis Coppola.
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  Speaker 1: So it was it was super cool.
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  Speaker 3: I love it, man, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, brother, you know, I'm a huge fan, and thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much for taking the time. And hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to see in person soon. And listen, everyone, please
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  Speaker 2: be sure to catch Ralph in the new movie Karate Legends,
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  Speaker 2: which is in theaters right now.
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  Speaker 1: Nice catching upwome great, Mario, I appreciate it man. It's
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  Speaker 1: always great to see you too, buddy, and thanks in
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  Speaker 1: my family, I'll see you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, buddy, take your brother.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Draw with Mario Lopez