Latest / My Third Place Pod / Episode 156 - Cobra Kai S1E6+7
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- 0:39Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, to the inaugural My
- 0:46Third Place podcast on my 3rd place network.
- 0:51I would like to apologize to everyone first hand.
- 0:54Of course. I know I should have said
- 0:56something two weeks ago or at least posted a throwback episode
- 1:00while I was gone, but you know, I had a little bit of downtime,
- 1:05took a road trip down to Texas, and now we're back with another
- 1:10awesome block of episodes. I am your host Evo and with me
- 1:15do by popular demand. She's been demanded by all these
- 1:20other people popularly. I don't know what I just said,
- 1:23my Co host Brandy. Hi.
- 1:28Hi. Thanks for having me back.
- 1:30Hey. You are very popular.
- 1:34You're very popular, ma'am, among people that wanted to hear
- 1:39you talk about Cobra Kai. Yes, I guess I'm loved by the
- 1:44public. And she agrees to it.
- 1:49So we are back with two awesome breakdowns of our we watch of
- 1:53season one of Cobra Kai episode 6 titled Quiver and episode 7
- 1:57titled All Valley. Before we get to the episode
- 2:02breakdown, as I mentioned on the trailer of the podcast earlier
- 2:05in the week, we are changing the name, but not what the podcast
- 2:12is about. I've had the name from under the
- 2:15apron for two years now and I'm in my third year and I figure
- 2:19it's time to move along. And not only am I talking about
- 2:24just wrestling though, but this podcast also talks about other
- 2:29stuff. Movies, TV shows, mental health
- 2:32issues, my diabetes, whatever the heck.
- 2:38Anything that I like to talk about.
- 2:39Horror movies mostly, comic book stuff, Everything, everything.
- 2:43So this podcast started out about wrestling and when it
- 2:47comes change, right? We need to evolve like we need
- 2:55to grow. So what better way than to move
- 2:59forward than by changing the name of it?
- 3:02This is my third place and the only way to describe this
- 3:06podcast. Brandy, do you know how to what
- 3:11how we would describe this podcast as now?
- 3:14A neat mess of yogurt. A neat mess of a yogurt due to
- 3:21everything. That was the what the breakdown
- 3:25that we had last episode 2 weeks ago.
- 3:29Yeah, no, it's been a little bit longer, but yeah, yeah.
- 3:32It's doing. More our last our last episode
- 3:35we reviewed yes, our. Last episode it was a neat mess
- 3:39of yogurt. But you know, like a little
- 3:42inside joke there on Cobra Kai. And you know what?
- 3:46We are a neat mess of yogurt. We have everything spilled into
- 3:51one little mess of a podcast. How does that sound to
- 3:57everybody? Would you like to listen to A
- 3:59neat mess of a Yogurt? Why?
- 4:03Why would you? Want to exactly?
- 4:05Well, you know, why wouldn't you want to listen to a neat mess of
- 4:08yogurt of a podcast? So here we are.
- 4:12And with that comes mail. We have mail.
- 4:19I need a sound board. You need.
- 4:20That you need that one sound. AOL Sound.
- 4:25You've got AOL Sound, we've got mail.
- 4:27We're gonna. Get that?
- 4:29We have two emails to read. The first one says E your Co
- 4:34host totally knocked it out of the park.
- 4:37Oh she was a bit stiff at first but by the end totally amazing.
- 4:41Look at that. You should totally have her
- 4:43more. Do more with you.
- 4:46I have added you to my YouTube sub list so I can keep track.
- 4:49I am not biased. You are parentheses.
- 4:52I don't know what that means but OK.
- 4:56That comes from micro. Thank you, Micro, for your
- 5:00honest opinion. And the second one comes from
- 5:07our favorite Dawn. She writes in Hi E, another
- 5:14fantastic episode on your podcast.
- 5:17Retract episode title 'cause We're gonna Change it.
- 5:20I enjoyed this one even more since I was caught up on the
- 5:23shows. You and Brandy discussed a few
- 5:25sings. Oh, she has a few sings.
- 5:28She has notes, ma'am. Let's let's read her.
- 5:31Let's read her notes. 1 California nor the West Coast
- 5:35does not take responsibility for the term joshing around or
- 5:39joshing you. OK, Good to know.
- 5:43I was just joshing about it, but all right, cool, cool, cool.
- 5:48However we do create, we do take credit for the word hella, in
- 5:53fact. Oh, she brought up the facts.
- 5:56Look at her. It originated in my current
- 5:58hometown of Oakland, California. Hey, hey, I I do know that it
- 6:04came from the Bay. Of course I have hella people
- 6:08from the Bay. You know what I mean?
- 6:10She'll know what that means. She'll Don will know what that
- 6:14means. Tell.
- 6:17Just tell me when to go. Don.
- 6:19Just tell me when to go. I see what I did there, the E45
- 6:24anyway. Anyway #2 she has more, she has
- 6:27more #2 Aisha. I love her.
- 6:29I can't wait to see how her character develop and it's used
- 6:32against the silly Mean Girls. I love that.
- 6:36I love that. Yeah, and #3 Cobra Kai is really
- 6:41getting good, so I am looking forward to watching more
- 6:43episodes and hearing more of your podcast with Brandy.
- 6:47Thank you for doing what you do Design Don ah Don, thank you
- 6:53very much. We really appreciate you.
- 6:55We love you, Don. We love Don thank you for
- 7:00sending me these two emails. She's going to get mad when she
- 7:03finds that we have a new e-mail address.
- 7:06Make sure you say it's slow I. This is the best thing she'll
- 7:12ever get to hear because I changed the name of the
- 7:16episodes. I changed the name of the
- 7:17podcast. I went ahead and changed all the
- 7:20socials. Now she doesn't have to worry
- 7:22about, hey, what's, what's your e-mail again?
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- 8:01OK, let's get on with Cobra Kai now.
- 8:04If you heard any of the past episode breakdowns in the past
- 8:08or if you're new, here we are massive Karate Kid and Cobra Kai
- 8:12fan. So we are going to break down
- 8:15the episode scene by scene and tell you how we thought about
- 8:17them. Right.
- 8:21Yes, let's go. I do sometimes tend to add in
- 8:25trivia or ask the questions for you to ponder over.
- 8:28It's what we do here. If you want to listen to past
- 8:30episodes of Cobra Kai and what we thought about them, I suggest
- 8:33you go back and listen to episode 154 and then continue on
- 8:39from there. This is Cobra Kai season one
- 8:43episode 6 on Netflix written by Joe Pierrely and Lowen Thomas
- 8:50who are team writers and they wrote for the Epic TV musical
- 8:532015 Galavant and the Tick. It was a record by Josh Held who
- 8:58is known for riding Hot Tub Time Machine and the sequel Hot Tub
- 9:02Time Machine 2. There's the sequel I didn't
- 9:07realize. OK Synopsis Johnny's Dojo
- 9:11attracts a group of misfits, while his son Robbie, who
- 9:15harbors ulterior mother's, lands a new job.
- 9:17Samantha makes a new friend in science class.
- 9:20Daniel inspires interest in karate from an unlikely person.
- 9:27OK The episode opens with a set of definitions.
- 9:30Quiver. Verb Tremble or shake with a
- 9:34slight rapid motion. Noun A slight trembling movement
- 9:38or sound especially caused by fear.
- 9:41Noun Obsolete. A group of cobras.
- 9:45So a quiver is a group of cobra. So if you see a group of cobra
- 9:50kite around, they're known as quiver.
- 9:55They're quivering around you and you know better.
- 10:01Get to a higher ground. Called Open to a flashback in
- 10:071979 in Encino Hills, California, 12 year old Johnny
- 10:10Lawrence puts on his state-of-the-art futuristic auto
- 10:13reverse Sony Walkman number WMF 7/7 that was introduced in 1986.
- 10:19Wow. Yes.
- 10:22The Walkman was introduced on July 1st 979 with the TPSL 2 and
- 10:26did not become available in the US until June 1980.
- 10:29Auto reverse would not have existed in Walkmans until 1992
- 10:32with the WM7. So it's kind of a goof that they
- 10:36did this, unless it's in Johnny's mind.
- 10:39He probably remembers it this way.
- 10:41You know, when somebody says 30 years ago they were doing this
- 10:46and blah, blah, blah, and they remember calling their friend on
- 10:48their cell phone and you're just like realizing, wait, 30 years
- 10:51ago cell phone didn't that's 30 years ago.
- 10:53Oops. Not how I remember it, buddy.
- 11:00OK, Johnny goes on a bike ride, listening to Boston's Don't Look
- 11:06Back, where he discovers the original Cobra Kai Dojo.
- 11:10He peeks through the window where younger Sansei Crease is
- 11:13teaching his students the way of the Cobra Kai and yelling the
- 11:16motto Strike first, Strike hard, No mercy.
- 11:22Johnny backs up and we see the Cobra Kai logo.
- 11:27Freaking Boston. Don't look Back already.
- 11:31He's he. That's there's this where his
- 11:33taste of music lies right there all the way back then.
- 11:36Right when he was 12 years old. Or even younger.
- 11:40He's all like, I don't listen to this badass music.
- 11:46What's? Badass music, It is.
- 11:48Badass music. It's still Yeah.
- 11:50It. It still is.
- 11:51Yeah. Don't look back.
- 11:55In the present day, he observes a new crop of students drawn to
- 11:58his Dojo. And still watching that
- 12:00cafeteria fight from the last episode.
- 12:03It's gone viral, so everybody's still watching it.
- 12:08Like, bro, how? How many times do you need to
- 12:11watch this fight? Like the OK, it's on YouTube.
- 12:17Demetri is reluctant to join, but Eli persuades him to try it
- 12:20out. After me, I'll beat up Kyler,
- 12:22Demetri says. It goes against anything he
- 12:25stands for. It's like going to gym class for
- 12:28no reason. He doesn't want to fight.
- 12:31Johnny quies them all down and walks over, 'cause I'm really
- 12:33killing them and denouncing them all as losers and nerds.
- 12:37Yeah, 'cause, you know, on your first day, I just want to learn
- 12:41how to fight. And you're calling me a nerd?
- 12:43No way, Sir. Meanwhile, Daniel has resumed
- 12:51his regular training routine. But you're in for someone to
- 12:53train with. He approaches Sam, who's
- 12:55relaxing near the swimming pool, but she is too dejected by
- 12:58having become the target of Yasmin's cyber bullying to
- 13:01participate. He makes his way back inside the
- 13:04house to the kitchen, where Yas, his wife, goes to spin class
- 13:07with her. Maybe she can spar with him in
- 13:10the Dojo, She laughed and asked. Sam said no.
- 13:13Amanda reminds him what happened 10 years ago, the last time they
- 13:16tried to do karate, and points to Anthony, who was playing
- 13:19video games. His adopted son.
- 13:23I'm just kidding. That's just our.
- 13:26I know. But it we don't know this for
- 13:28sure, That's just our. Theoretically.
- 13:34Yeah, it's it's our theory. Daniel walks over to where his
- 13:38son is playing video games and ask him to do karate with him,
- 13:40which again stating my theory, he hates his son.
- 13:45Why would he have? Why else would he have asked him
- 13:49last? Like he goes to Sam 1st and then
- 13:52his wife and then looks over at freaking Anthony.
- 13:56Oh, playing video games. All right, let me.
- 13:58I guess I could ask him. Let me go check.
- 14:00Hey dude, do you want to go do some karate?
- 14:03No, Dad, karate's fake and boring.
- 14:06Whoa, fuck you. Give me your controller.
- 14:14And he says that karate is boring.
- 14:16Daniel tells him the game he's playing, Tekken, is actually
- 14:19karate. It is.
- 14:20Tekken is all forms of martial arts.
- 14:23And that is one of my favorite games, by the way.
- 14:26Just just saying. I've only played it once like.
- 14:31I like Tekken. A few years ago, the newest one
- 14:34that was from a few years ago, like I've only played it once,
- 14:37like I wasn't interested at the time.
- 14:41Tekken one, probably because of, yeah, it's too much like Mortal
- 14:46Kombat and Street Fighter, but you know, I already have these.
- 14:49I. Already have these games.
- 14:51Why do I want this game? Basically like I grew up on
- 14:53those two, but it was like I wasn't a Tekken guy, but it's
- 14:58like all right, fine. Anthony says the reason he's
- 15:02playing this one because it has fireballs.
- 15:04All right, I'll I'll take a look at it.
- 15:08So does the other ones. What are you talking about?
- 15:12Daniel takes the game console away.
- 15:14Anthony asks Alexa to order a new PS Vita.
- 15:17Daniel tries to tell Alexa to parental override but she
- 15:20ignores it. Anthony smirks and walks away,
- 15:22leaving Daniel to once again hate the kid.
- 15:24See what I mean? Fucking brat.
- 15:29Like parental override. Everything that Daniel tries
- 15:33telling them, telling Alexa, like, no, your kid is right, we
- 15:38don't want to do your stupid karate 'cause that, dad.
- 15:43And so Edmund just says let me get another PS Vita.
- 15:47I'm never going to see this game, this drinking console
- 15:49anymore. Dad, hook me up.
- 15:52No, I don't like you. Next scene, we're at Robbie's
- 15:59place and he's putting on his New York shirt, a black Larusso
- 16:03Luxury motors. OK, this scene right here where
- 16:07he puts it on, did you notice he was flexing or was it just me?
- 16:13He was flexing. He was flexing, right?
- 16:15Like like you. Can't think he was.
- 16:19He was flexing. Why, like every fucking guy
- 16:22saying it's like, put on a shirt, put on a new shirt.
- 16:26Flex. Oh, though.
- 16:27Well, how would I look like in this shirt?
- 16:29They let me flex. Oh, yeah.
- 16:31Has nothing to do with anything. That's all we do.
- 16:34Oh, new shirt. Let me see.
- 16:36All right, cool. Extra extra large double XL.
- 16:40Why do you guys do that? Why do you why do you do that?
- 16:43It's a habit. It's a thing we just do.
- 16:45Even if it's the smallest shirt and it doesn't fit us, like put
- 16:48it on. I was like, oh, hey, and then
- 16:50look in the mirror. Flex.
- 16:52If it ripped, our ego gets big. If it doesn't, it's like, oh, it
- 16:56fits cool. And like, we just want to say
- 16:58you're like if you're trying to pick something up and you know,
- 17:02from the ground, you want to see how you would look like if you
- 17:04were trying to pick something up and how the shirt would look.
- 17:08And if your muscles define, you know, like they're right there.
- 17:12So he sits there and he's like sitting there like, yeah, new
- 17:17shirt. So whenever you guys, whenever
- 17:21guys get a new shirt, we do that.
- 17:25It's a, it's a, it's, it's a new shirt flex kind of day,
- 17:29basically. OK.
- 17:32Guys, back me up. Isn't that what we do?
- 17:37Send me an e-mail. Let me know what you think.
- 17:40Is that what we? Isn't that what we do?
- 17:42Ask any guy. Ask any kid.
- 17:44They will tell you that. Even the kids do.
- 17:46It's like, oh, yeah, hey, you got a new shirt here.
- 17:49All right, there's do. They make do they?
- 17:54Do you guys make that noise too? They do.
- 17:57It's like the whole I don't think Robbie did because like,
- 18:03I'm like, all right, cool, but he mentally inside his head, he
- 18:06did the he. Did he did.
- 18:09Like, look at him like, so he's like, it's kind of day.
- 18:17All right, There's enough knock, just knock at the door.
- 18:22Robbie opens it and his two friends who he's been hanging
- 18:25out, It's Trey. And I don't think I even heard
- 18:28the other guy at all. His name, I'm just going to call
- 18:31him Mustache Kid 'cause you know, Jonny made fun of his
- 18:33mustache last episode. He did and.
- 18:36Then in this episode, he shaved it off.
- 18:38So even if he doesn't have the mustache, I'm still going to see
- 18:42a mustache kid. Like he, he fucked up and was
- 18:46like, oh man, somebody made fun of me.
- 18:48It's like, no, now you're going to be called a mustache kid even
- 18:51if you don't have one. Robbie needs to find new
- 18:54friends, I don't like them. Hey, Trey and Mustache kid are
- 18:59hard to find. They tell him they're trying to
- 19:03hit up an Amazon truck with Robbie but Robbie tells him he
- 19:06has to go to work at Larusso Auto.
- 19:08They ask him why and we find out the reason he applied there with
- 19:11because he wanted to upset his father.
- 19:15Here's the thing, his father doesn't even know that he's
- 19:19working there. But yeah, you.
- 19:22Should have told him like, hey, I'm gonna go work at Larusso.
- 19:25Like later on he just finds out, like, oh, you working there?
- 19:30OK, whatever. But right now it would have been
- 19:33like, perfect. It's like, oh, fuck you.
- 19:35What are you doing, kid? Nah, I just wanna draw your.
- 19:40I want the attention on me. You know, because I, I don't
- 19:45think that is the only reason he's doing it.
- 19:49He says it is, but I think there's something else there
- 19:54that he's doing it for. Her.
- 19:57All right, we'll see. Back in the Dojo, Johnny teaches
- 20:01his class the basics of karate just by doing the jab.
- 20:05During a training session, Johnny openly ridiculed Eli, who
- 20:10has an unsightly scar from a Clef lip surgery, which in turn
- 20:14draws an objection from his friend Dmitri.
- 20:19Johnny tells Eli if he can't handle someone making fun of
- 20:21him, how is he going to handle an elbow to the teeth?
- 20:24Dmitri says just he can just call the cops.
- 20:27Miguel tries to calm Dmitri down but Dmitri says they are all
- 20:30paying him, he works for them and it's like it's not like he
- 20:33can actually hurt them to with Johnny step forward and the
- 20:37music eerily changes. Miguel try to warn Dmitri.
- 20:41Everyone forms a circle and Johnny orders Dmitri to hit him
- 20:44and quickly flips him to the ground.
- 20:45As I lost to the other. Dmitri didn't quiz the Dojo,
- 20:49claiming that he felt like a hooker, giving him his money and
- 20:52still getting beat up or basically screw.
- 20:57He didn't tell me God that as long as his friend, he has
- 21:00friends with him, no one at school would bother him anyway.
- 21:03As if to demonstrate the point at Baton Rouge, Kyler approaches
- 21:06the pair, but meekly turns and walks the other direction.
- 21:08Kyler's ego is just freaking OK. I don't, I don't want to do
- 21:16this. I'm just going to walk the other
- 21:17way. He's still in shock.
- 21:20Like Rhea just beat my ass. I'm gonna go.
- 21:28I think that would be so awesome to have a friend that like, you
- 21:30can just like, you know, like everyone's afraid of them and
- 21:37you don't have to worry about anything.
- 21:38Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 21:40Just what you just look at. He just looks at you or
- 21:43whatever. And yeah, exactly what happened
- 21:45with with Kyler. Put that on and he's like, Nope.
- 21:51Biggest. Guy in the yard, just go up to
- 21:53like, hey, can we be friends? Yeah.
- 21:54OK, cool. He's my boy.
- 21:57What? So it's like that.
- 22:01There's your go. There you go.
- 22:04At the car dealership, Robbie has seemingly become a model
- 22:06employee, but Daniel's cousin Louie begins to haze it by
- 22:10suggesting he moved on to the one of the car in the crowded
- 22:13showroom closer to the front window as a favorite to Daniel.
- 22:17Robbie of Legend Lee enters the car and turns on the engine, but
- 22:20Daniel quickly reigns the cold with the regular act, causing
- 22:24Robbie to quit. Upon realizing the truth of the
- 22:27matter, Daniel goes after him to apologize by accidentally
- 22:29startled Robbie, prompting the boy to wheel around with his
- 22:32first rave. Daniel talks him down and
- 22:34corrects the flaw in Robbie's punching.
- 22:35This weekend, the two reconcile. Freaking Louie, man.
- 22:42It's like, hey, go ghost, ghost turn on the car.
- 22:46Like yeah, I did. I did it on my first day too.
- 22:48No worries, don't worry about it.
- 22:50So basically they just hazed him too when he first showed up.
- 22:54Probably a noose did it to him and he's doing it to Robbie and
- 22:58a news you saw like, oh, we only did it to you.
- 23:01Don't mean you have to do it to everybody else.
- 23:04Like what's what's that called? It's like not hazing, but
- 23:10hazing. No, like you know, in a
- 23:14fraternity when you. Yeah, hazing.
- 23:17Hazing Yeah or yeah Yeah, chasing the new kid.
- 23:22Hazing the new kid, yeah. At school, Sam finds herself
- 23:28without a partner in science lab, but Miguel volunteers to
- 23:30take her into his group with Dmitri.
- 23:33Sam thanks Miguel for standing up for her in the lunch room,
- 23:36but playfully points out a plot in his fighting technique, him
- 23:40telegraphing his suite. She tells him when he lifts up
- 23:42the foot, is she the weight to the back of the leg?
- 23:45More winds up, less power. Miguel sings her and they begin
- 23:49to bond. She pulls out two bananas out of
- 23:52her bag, explaining that they are still making fun of her.
- 23:55Miguel says that they call him Rhea.
- 23:56Sam says not anymore, he is getting massive respect now.
- 24:00All you had to do was punch Kyler in the face and I was
- 24:02like, everybody's all scared of him, Sam.
- 24:05All you got to do is just punch one girl in the face and you're
- 24:08good. That's all.
- 24:10That's it, That's it. Like get massive respect.
- 24:15Oh, we won't give you bananas anymore, we'll just give you
- 24:17flowers. Back at the Dojo, Johnny notices
- 24:24fewer, far fewer students than the day before, with many hey
- 24:26have been quit, including those he calls crater face, nose ring
- 24:30and slingshot. I'm really questioning the
- 24:35slingshot part. Possibly somebody getting hit
- 24:39with a slingshot. Oh man, OK.
- 24:42Miguel. Says yeah right, like what?
- 24:45What does his face look like? Miguel says he couldn't handle
- 24:49being degraded or him teaching style and insults.
- 24:52He points out Eli, whom he has nicknamed Lip due to the scar,
- 24:57but Wendy Boy objects his name. Johnny asking if he's one of
- 25:00those special kids. Eli says his mom was told he
- 25:03could be on the spectrum. Johnny tells him he doesn't know
- 25:06what that is, but get off of it pronto.
- 25:10Fucking hell. Add this to the many things
- 25:13Johnny doesn't know about in the 20th century it for.
- 25:18Johnny. 80s like what does like I feel like he's Captain America
- 25:25coming getting coming back from being on ice for all those years
- 25:30and him having a notepad of everything he needs to watch now
- 25:36it's this is Johnny right here. This is Captain America like,
- 25:39but you know, having a bad influence with Sensei crease and
- 25:46he has a little notebook that says like things you should not
- 25:50say, things you should say. Right.
- 25:52Well, that's better than Spectrum.
- 25:56That's better than my theory of him being in a coma for 20 years
- 25:59and just waking up fine. 30 years, probably that too.
- 26:04Like that freaking punch got him real good, but even then it's
- 26:11like him having the whole what the spectrum mean.
- 26:15Gonna go look it up. Adding it to the list of saying
- 26:20the combo would make sense though.
- 26:22Like he woke up just like five years ago or wait, how old is
- 26:32how old are these kids? How old is Sam?
- 26:36The new generation I She's 16, I believe.
- 26:39Yeah, 16. Sam is 16.
- 26:43And how old was Daniel and Johnny back in Karate Kid One?
- 26:47That's a good question, because I want to say that they were,
- 26:50weren't they? I don't know, Weren't they 17?
- 26:56Yeah, so they waited at least 15 years to have kids, both of them
- 27:03at the same time. Like for Joddy, I would have
- 27:07assumed, like he would have had like if he's this much of A
- 27:10loser, he would have had this kid like immediately after high
- 27:14school. Oh my gosh, That is that's.
- 27:17I didn't even think about that. That's funny that they both had
- 27:21kids at the same time because they're the same.
- 27:24Yeah, I didn't even think about that.
- 27:26That's crazy. When what year was Karate Kid
- 27:29won in like 1985 or something? 19841984 Karate Kid Yeah.
- 27:37So they waited 16 years to have a kid, both of them, 17 years,
- 27:43whatever. And even then, for Johnny, I
- 27:48would assume that he would have his kid right after high school
- 27:51and then, like, you know, not married a girl and the kid would
- 27:55grow up to be us. I could see that.
- 28:02And then Daniel was like, oh, I'm going to wait until I have a
- 28:04kid, blah, blah, blah. Oh, like until I'm married.
- 28:06I mean, and blah, blah, blah. And then like at least five
- 28:12years later, not 50, which would make them.
- 28:17But I get the holes like let's wait.
- 28:19Let's have this these kids to be around 16 years old in 2018.
- 28:26So they're now. So when you know the reason why
- 28:30Johnny, why Daniel waited, but because he wanted to have wanted
- 28:33to get married. He wanted to have a solid job.
- 28:35He wanted to have a solid career and then Sam was born and then
- 28:38accidentally brings in Anthony. Accidentally, I knew you were
- 28:42going to say that. He brings in Anthony.
- 28:46As for Johnny, like, what the hell was he doing in his life
- 28:52for the next 15 years? Sleeping, sleeping.
- 28:57He finally meets a girl like oops, I didn't oopsie, here's
- 29:05your oopsie. And he, he ends up, he ends up
- 29:10abandoning them. Like what?
- 29:12And then like years later, like, oh, I have a kid.
- 29:16Oh shit, he's working with my enemy.
- 29:18Oh no, like damn, dude. So yeah, Johnny not knowing what
- 29:32spectrum means weird. And Daniel knowing everything is
- 29:39like the totally total polar opposites of here and Johnny's
- 29:43not like in the know of anything.
- 29:45It's like, oh, I've been fucking clueless this entire time.
- 29:50Bitching, bitching are just different things.
- 29:56And Daniel, of course, is just like, hey, we'll learn karate.
- 30:00No, Dad. All right, fuck you then.
- 30:05Oh, OK. Well, you know, I, I like your
- 30:08theory that he was fucking on ice the entire time or he was in
- 30:13a coma for this entire time. The.
- 30:14Coma, yeah. Wakes up 15 years ago to have a
- 30:19kid and then like goes back to a coma.
- 30:21Be the loser. I'm calling Johnny a loser.
- 30:27He. Is what did he do the entire
- 30:32time? What was he doing for the last?
- 30:38Did he go to college? Why was he in college?
- 30:41He was finding himself. He was finding.
- 30:44He was finding himself for 15. Years he was finding himself for
- 30:48that 1520 years. In the 80s.
- 30:51In the 80s listening to really cool 80s music, driving us cool
- 30:55car. Badass music listening to badass
- 30:58music driving the same type of Thunderbird car.
- 31:04Mm hmm. Yeah, watching those 80s TV
- 31:07shows or movies. Oh.
- 31:10My God, those 80s, awesome 80s movies that he was in also.
- 31:18Hey, this guy from that one movie is pretty cool.
- 31:20It looked just like me, denim jacket and all.
- 31:25What do you call it? One of the boys, Yeah.
- 31:28Just one, just one of the guys. Just one of the guys, yeah.
- 31:31Just one of the guys. I love that movie.
- 31:34He has that same jacket. He does.
- 31:42All right, back to the episode. They're still talking to Eli.
- 31:47Johnny encourages Eli to flip the script and do something to
- 31:50take the focus away from his scar.
- 31:52Instead, Eli walks out in humiliation, and Miguel stands
- 31:55up for his friend by telling Johnny, You don't know what it's
- 31:58like to be us. Oh man, he doesn't know what
- 32:02it's like to be a you don't know what it's like to be a loser.
- 32:06Like oh man, save it, buddy. At Larusso Auto, Louis forced to
- 32:12apologize to Robbie for hating him.
- 32:14He said it was brought to his attention that what he said to
- 32:16him was not very professional. Robbie says OK.
- 32:20Amanda gives Robbie one of those great shirts with his name on it
- 32:22telling him it's official. He is now part of the Larusso
- 32:26Auto team. No family, no family.
- 32:30The I, I'm pretty sure, she said.
- 32:32Part of the Larusso family, maybe.
- 32:38Well, see, I think it was because that's, that's my whole
- 32:42thing. Like he wants to be part of a
- 32:44family. Look at his dad and look at his
- 32:45mom. They're both losers.
- 32:48He was saying, like you said earlier, he wanted, he wants to
- 32:51get back at his dad, but there's more there.
- 32:53He wants to be part of a family. He doesn't, he doesn't have a
- 32:56family. He.
- 32:58Doesn't have a family his. Family.
- 32:59I mean, he has a family, but he doesn't have a family.
- 33:02Right, right. His family abandoned.
- 33:05Pretty much. Well, the mom didn't, but she
- 33:07does because all she does is go out and yeah.
- 33:10And the dad left and yeah. Yeah.
- 33:14So he wants to be have that feeling of an actual family.
- 33:19He wants to have a feeling of, you know, being a part of a team
- 33:22being a part of a team being. Part of a family?
- 33:25Yes. Yes, exactly.
- 33:28Amanda leaves and Louie does the rest of the coffee machine stuff
- 33:31that Robbie was doing. Right before Robbie is about to
- 33:34leave, Louie asks if he's trying, still trying to score
- 33:36points with his cousin that advises him to take the yellow
- 33:39envelope with the hard copy of the sales report to his house.
- 33:42He's old school like that. Robbie asks if he's messing with
- 33:45him again. Louie says never mind, just
- 33:46forget about it. Robbie insists that he'll do it.
- 33:48Louie tells him the envelope is on the desk.
- 33:52Later that night, Johnny returned home with beer, picks
- 33:55up his Sony Walkman from 40 years ago that he communally
- 33:57still has just laying around and in the fucking bedroom like hey,
- 34:06it's here, still here. Wow, I still have it.
- 34:09It's not broken and it's not stolen.
- 34:13But didn't you say, didn't you, didn't you recently say you also
- 34:17still have your Walkman? It's not a Walkman, it's ACD.
- 34:23Oh. OK, CD Walkman.
- 34:26The disk Walkman OK, just. The disk man.
- 34:29Yeah, the disk man. It's like it still works, too.
- 34:35I didn't need to put the battery.
- 34:38It triggers him and it has a flashback to his childhood where
- 34:41you ask a stepfather if he can take karate lessons, only to be
- 34:45mocked and berated. Sid calls him a skinny little
- 34:47white kid and pokes one of the fact he wants to be the next
- 34:49Bruce Lee. Johnny's mom explained that he's
- 34:5212. They go through phases.
- 34:53This is not a phase mom, it's a lifestyle.
- 35:01I got your picture. Anyway, Sid gets annoyed and
- 35:04tells them he'll write the check and makes it out the garbage.
- 35:08That because that's where it's going to end up.
- 35:09Just like when Johnny wanted the drums, then roller skates and
- 35:13the magic kit because he wanted to be the next Doug Henning.
- 35:18Looked up who Doug Henning was. This was like, what?
- 35:23Possibly in the 70s. It was like this guy was a
- 35:26hippie. Straight up hippie doing magic.
- 35:30I do not trust people anymore. In the 70s.
- 35:35Wow, it's magic, man. Yeah.
- 35:40Wasn't he a magic trick bro Da da?
- 35:46Johnny's mom begins to argue with Sid.
- 35:47And at this moment right here brought back a lot of them
- 35:49wanted memories with my family as well.
- 35:52Like so Johnny puts on his headphones and listens to Boston
- 35:56going back again and he just gets lost and domed out.
- 36:00I did the same thing. Coming from the same type of
- 36:03childhood where both mom and stepdad would get into argument.
- 36:05I definitely could get lost in something I love and that was
- 36:09wrestling or video game. I would just lock myself in my
- 36:11room to start playing a game or read a comic book or just go to
- 36:15the next door neighbor's house again.
- 36:17Just wait out until later. So I think Johnny uses rock
- 36:21music to forget his troubles, forget his past, and is the
- 36:24reason he still listens to 80s music.
- 36:26And when he began back from that memory core, he's still sitting
- 36:29on his chair looking down at that walk in the time that he
- 36:32was happy listening to Boston and joining Cobra Kai.
- 36:36Yes, you were about to say something.
- 36:38Go for it. No, no, no, no.
- 36:42That's exactly what I was just gonna say.
- 36:44Like he does understand these kids.
- 36:47He understands. He understands what they're
- 36:49going through. Like that's where you get the
- 36:51whole. But he doesn't want to go back
- 36:54to them because he was a sad boy.
- 36:56He doesn't he he was going through a lot of trauma that we
- 37:01went that the kids went through. I went through it till and he
- 37:04got lost in Boston. He got lost in Cobra Kai.
- 37:07And at the time, like if this was, what was that one movie
- 37:12with the little kids in their head, the joy and all that
- 37:17stuff? Disney, it's a.
- 37:20Disney movie forgot what it was inside out and this was inside
- 37:23out. There's a bunch of little
- 37:24Johnnies right in there. Joy freaking a lot of fucking
- 37:30what's her name? Sadness cause depression is in
- 37:34there 'cause like he's all troubled.
- 37:37And then we see a little hippie music guy sitting there
- 37:42listening to Boston. It's like, oh hey, I like this
- 37:44song. Oh Cofra Kai that makes me
- 37:47happy. Oh, yeah, hey, can we do this
- 37:50all day and forget our troubles? Can we, can we just kick Sadness
- 37:54out? And they did.
- 37:57They did. They kicked Sadness out.
- 37:58And Sadness came back when he fucking got a kid.
- 38:07He got his girl pregnant. Oh, man, I'm depressed.
- 38:13Oh my God, but it's it's the memory core for him that he gets
- 38:18lost in all of this. And as a kid and even as an
- 38:22adult now, he's like, he feels it as a kid, like, oh, corporate
- 38:26Kaya and like nostalgia. I want to open it up again and,
- 38:30you know, help out the community, like the way they
- 38:32helped me when I was a kid and I was going through some shit.
- 38:35But now they're all these all these kids are a bunch of losers
- 38:39and I got to make them badass. It's like, oh, I wonder if Chris
- 38:42saw the same thing about me. And, you know, This is why I
- 38:46became badass. And it's, it's very, very
- 38:51different from 80s music to 2000 music.
- 38:56It's like, oh shit, Do you think I still have rock?
- 38:59Yeah, but it's different. It's called emo.
- 39:04We're all sad around here. We're like, you know, it's not a
- 39:08phase. It's just like we're sad, you
- 39:09know? It's it's not a phase, it's a
- 39:12lifestyle. It's a lifestyle, like a kid
- 39:16with their hair parted down joining Cobra Kai.
- 39:21I just want to defend myself man Emo Cobra Kai.
- 39:28Oh my goodness, you're going to make that a thing, aren't you?
- 39:30I am going to make that a thing. Emo Cobra Kai.
- 39:37Why not? It's not a thing, it's a
- 39:40lifestyle. I'm just going to like, put the
- 39:44hair parted down into the cobra, see what happens.
- 39:51All right, next scene, Robbie arrives and finds Daniel in the
- 39:54midst of a cat, a session which intrigues him.
- 39:57Robbie hands down in the sales report, I'm hoping, which Daniel
- 40:00opens up and shows to Robbie what it really was, just another
- 40:03prank by Louis. Inside the yellow envelope is a
- 40:06copy of Velvet Vixens. Oh God, if I die, please delete
- 40:12my search bar. Oh delete, delete everything.
- 40:21I looked into what the kind of magazine this was and we are
- 40:23learning more and more about Cousin Louis from Jersey.
- 40:26Basically, this is a fetish magazine.
- 40:31Oh boy. Yeah, it's all leather.
- 40:35Do I dare to ask what kind of fetish?
- 40:37It's all leather. Oh, nipple clamps.
- 40:43He is just like fucking Louie, dude.
- 40:45Why? Where did you get this magazine?
- 40:50And Daniel sitting there like, oh, where we went.
- 40:54Throw it away. Is the wife going to ask
- 40:56something? What if the kid gets to it?
- 40:58Anthony, be like dad, what's this Throw it out.
- 41:05Oh, Louie, that's. Your that's your, that's your
- 41:07real dad's magazine. Oh my God, there you go.
- 41:13Daniel invites Robbie to stay and learn about kata, which is
- 41:16the foundation of his karate. Daniel asked Robbie if he wants
- 41:20to stick around and learn if he sings and Robbie accepts.
- 41:22Daniel is excited and smiles. He finally has so excited.
- 41:28He finally has someone to do karate with.
- 41:30Yay. On the other hand, the fact that
- 41:37a grown man's excited that his underage employee wants to do
- 41:42karate with him. OK, stop.
- 41:46Don't ruin it. Don't ruin it.
- 41:48Fine, fine. I won't ruin it.
- 41:49But it's like, hey, why are you so excited?
- 41:52Let me have this moment. Fine, so I was like, my son
- 42:00doesn't want to do karate, but you.
- 42:01Do so excited it's not his real son.
- 42:05That's his real suck. The next day at Cobra Kai find
- 42:10The next day, the Cobra Kai finds a new even fewer students
- 42:13in attendance, which Johnny claimed is his fault, though he
- 42:16makes no apologies for his harsh methods.
- 42:18He tells the students that he used to be just like them, and
- 42:21that with training, Cobra Kai can help them find their true
- 42:25power. At that moment, Eli ran through
- 42:27the Dojo with a blue Mohawk and a cocky new attitude, saying
- 42:30that he's flipping the script, don't carry his approval, and a
- 42:34new nickname of Hawk. And that is my favorite scene of
- 42:39the whole episode. There it is like the the.
- 42:43Big. The big reveal after reciting
- 42:46the Kobrakai Kobrakai Creed, Johnny Rippers to lead his
- 42:49students in another training session.
- 42:51And which goes to favorite scene, like that was your
- 42:54favorite scene, The nickname, the whole entrance, the whole
- 42:58like I'm flipping. The script, that is my favorite
- 43:04line of the whole episode too. Yes.
- 43:09For real, for real. I want to say that the the intro
- 43:16to this was my favorite scene going back to Johnny's past.
- 43:23Like everything from there, like, oh shit, he, this is the
- 43:26reason why he's like this, because he can't, he can't go
- 43:30back to this. When Sid came to his part, his
- 43:33apartment, he, it triggered everything back inside and was
- 43:36like, what do you want Sid? You know, get the hell out of
- 43:40here. Go, go, go somewhere else.
- 43:41You're not welcome here. And you see why he was such a
- 43:44mean asshole towards him, towards this old man, 'cause you
- 43:47know, the old man was a Dick to him.
- 43:50And he got lost in the whole music.
- 43:54He got lost in the karate. He got lost doing whatever he
- 43:58wanted, dude, whatever made him happy.
- 44:00Mom wasn't happy and he wasn't happy because of this man.
- 44:04But he made, he helped himself in being happy.
- 44:08And that's part of it. It was like it, it basically it
- 44:12brought me back to me like, hey, you know what's?
- 44:15Going to say that you can relate with that.
- 44:17I can relate, yes, I can relate to that 'cause I was like, you
- 44:20know, same situation that he was in for real.
- 44:27What do you think of this episode?
- 44:32I I liked it not I know we're rating episodes too, but it's
- 44:40probably one of the more. What's the word calmer episodes,
- 44:47I guess we could say. So it's calmer.
- 44:50There's not a whole lot of drama, which I like.
- 44:54I feel like it builds up for the drama, let's just put it that
- 44:58way. So it was very calm.
- 45:00There wasn't a lot of drama going on, but there was a like
- 45:03going back to showing why Johnny acts the way he does, you know,
- 45:10with his stepdad and showing those flashbacks and things like
- 45:13that. So it's a calmer, more
- 45:15informative episode in my opinion.
- 45:17But but to go back to my favorite part at the end where
- 45:24Eli Hawk, or is Hawk now when he comes in.
- 45:28Fun fact about him, the actor Jacob Bernstrand, who plays Eli,
- 45:34his whole hair and makeup, I found out, takes 2 hours to
- 45:39apply every time. So one hour for his signature
- 45:43haircut to be applied, and then it takes at least 30 minutes.
- 45:47Oh, wait, we won't. I won't say that part 'cause
- 45:49they haven't showed it yet. But yeah, for his hair and
- 45:51makeup, two hours. OK.
- 45:53Yeah. So next episode then, right.
- 45:58Next episode, right next then. And like, whatever you were
- 46:01gonna say, possibly the next episode isn't the next episode
- 46:05like later on. I think it might be the episode
- 46:08after that actually. OK, all right.
- 46:13I loved it. I loved this episode.
- 46:15It like told you, it brought back some memories also.
- 46:20And I love the direction. The whole thing with the reveal
- 46:25at the very end was just like, oh, hell yeah.
- 46:28Like one of the kids with the script.
- 46:29We're going to find out soon what happens later, how it
- 46:32turned out, how it like, why he did it, for the reason he did it
- 46:39and all that. Question for this episode, what
- 46:45do you still own from your childhood?
- 46:51How far back childhood are we talking about?
- 46:55Whatever, that's like, considered retro.
- 46:57I mean, we have Johnny with his Walkman that wasn't around until
- 47:02the 80s, but he somehow got a special edition in 1979.
- 47:11Like that's how I remember the story, man.
- 47:13OK, I had a Walkman in on in 1979 even though it didn't come
- 47:17out till like the 80s. Yeah.
- 47:20I have a collection of cassette tapes still, and my cassette
- 47:26tapes are actually mixed tapes. So back then I used to take
- 47:33songs that I liked and I used to make my own mixtapes probably
- 47:38when I was like 1314 years old. Yes, recorded.
- 47:43That was one of my favorite pastime size riding.
- 47:48I used to do mixtapes. Love that mine is the Walkman of
- 47:55course and some comic book that I still have from my childhood.
- 48:00My mom sent it to me. She's all like, you know, nobody
- 48:03want, nobody's going to keep him here, so you might as well keep
- 48:06it. And I'm actually thinking of
- 48:08like half of them are going to my brother's house so he can
- 48:13like, do the whole thing that was done to us, to his son.
- 48:17So did you. Say comic books.
- 48:20Yeah. OK I also had I don't know if
- 48:25anybody out there even knows what these are but I have a
- 48:28collection of garbage pail kids carts.
- 48:30Oh my God I love Garbage pail kids.
- 48:33You know what those? Are.
- 48:35Yeah, like I used to. I used.
- 48:38To collect them collection, yeah.
- 48:40Like every time after school in elementary school, like I would
- 48:43just like walk to the store and like I see a bunch of them.
- 48:47No, I wouldn't buy them, but I just like I see a bunch of them
- 48:50just like so grotesque. There was a Garbage Pail movie
- 48:53if you remember that. Yes I do.
- 48:56I saw it. I wasn't the.
- 48:58Only one. I'm glad it wasn't the only one
- 49:00'cause that is like a core memory that I'm just like,
- 49:03there. There was a Garbage Pail movie,
- 49:06right? Just like there was a.
- 49:08There was a Garbage Pail movie 'cause I was so excited when
- 49:11that came. Yeah, like I was like I got.
- 49:15My garbage pail kid cards, I love those and I do still have
- 49:18some packed away. I was like, Oh my goodness,
- 49:21thought I was the only one that knew what Garbage Pail kids
- 49:23were. Oh my God, I thought I was the
- 49:26only one that freaking thought the movie was real.
- 49:28Like wait is this real or is this like some kind of Mandela
- 49:34effect? Was it ever?
- 49:36Was there ever a Garbage Pail movie?
- 49:38Yes, there was. I was the girl that, you know,
- 49:41everyone else was playing with Cabbage Patch Kids, and I liked
- 49:45Garbage Pail Kids. Yes, I would get Kodo's confused
- 49:51and be like, do you have Cabbage Patch Kids?
- 49:54I was like, why? Why would I have that, you know?
- 49:56The gross one. I had a cabbage patch doll but I
- 50:00liked my garbage pail kids so. Exactly, exactly.
- 50:03You know the gross one. I was like, it was either the
- 50:05Mad magazine or the Garbage Pail kit and I was just like oh God,
- 50:08what type? What kind of garbage pail kit is
- 50:10going to be on this on the sticker then like it was?
- 50:14So exciting to open up that package and see the new cart.
- 50:18Yeah, I was weird. It's.
- 50:22Like I don't remember their name but I just know they were like
- 50:26some kind of crazy little grotesque booger or something
- 50:31out of their mouth or in the sewers and like this is
- 50:35disgusting but I love it. Such a kid sing.
- 50:38Yeah, I liked I was big in horror movies back then too.
- 50:42I think that's probably why. Oh yeah, yes, I love the word.
- 50:49We are going to take a short break.
- 50:50A friend of the podcast and one of the members of the M3P
- 50:53network started her podcast a few weeks ago.
- 50:56Her link is going to be in the show notes, but as a bonus, I'm
- 50:59going to include her five minute intro episode 0 right now in a
- 51:04few. So listen to this and then we
- 51:07will be. Back my name is Squirrely and
- 51:17welcome to just a nutty squirrel.
- 51:20Honestly, I'm pretty nervous about starting this, but I know
- 51:24this will not only be a great outlet, but also a great way to
- 51:28connect with people who also struggle with mental health.
- 51:31Let's be honest. Have you ever met someone who
- 51:33isn't dealing with something? No, not really.
- 51:37But what I have met is people who didn't know where to go, who
- 51:42to talk to, and how exactly to process it.
- 51:46My life has been, well, a journey, and I'm still trying to
- 51:50figure out where it's going. My goal is for one person to
- 51:54listen to this and feel as if they're not alone.
- 51:58And if I could do that, well, I'm happy.
- 52:02I once had a friend that said, wow, I think most people who
- 52:05have been through semi of what you've been through would
- 52:09eventually turn to drugs. It still sits with me because I
- 52:13don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.
- 52:16We don't get to choose the cards we have in life, but we do get
- 52:19to choose how we play them. So I will be going through what
- 52:23I've been through in upcoming episodes.
- 52:25So there will be some episodes that are hard to listen and I
- 52:29would try my best to do trigger warnings, but once again, I want
- 52:33people to know they're not alone.
- 52:35No one wants to listen to a sad podcast constantly though, so
- 52:40sometimes I will switch it up to light in the mood.
- 52:43Different things such as role models, games, movies, or even
- 52:48artists to give a podcast a fresh breath.
- 52:53But first, let's talk about the giant acorn in the room.
- 52:56I'm sure you've wondered why squirrels?
- 52:59Well, first of all, I am unhealthily obsessed with
- 53:03squirrels. It started with my high school
- 53:05criminal justice teacher. He also had a fascination about
- 53:09squirrels, and that class was my safe space.
- 53:13So whenever we saw squirrels, we would freak.
- 53:16And not only just the live ones, the figurines, the ornaments,
- 53:20the clothing, etcetera. It just became as equivalent as
- 53:25finding a dollar on the street. And well, it stuck.
- 53:29Ten years later and I found myself surrounded by all
- 53:32squirrel things. I don't know how it happened, I
- 53:35just blinked and suddenly they were everywhere.
- 53:39But let's also think about squirrels themselves.
- 53:43They're just a small species in the big scary world who are just
- 53:47trying to survive. They could be just like us.
- 53:50They go out everyday foraging and gathering for food and bring
- 53:54it back to their tiny place they call home and sleep.
- 53:58Fun fact, did you know squirrels sleep approximately 15 hours a
- 54:01day? I mean, if I'm being honest,
- 54:04when I have the time, I do it too.
- 54:06And it's comforting when we're living in the world we live in.
- 54:09I will say I do have a tendency to say I'm in the word and a lot
- 54:16and speak fast. So I will be working on that.
- 54:19But in the meantime, bear with me if you're interested in
- 54:23having an interview on my podcast, even if you just need
- 54:26to save space, I want to tell your story.
- 54:28Reach out and we can make that happen.
- 54:31I will have my Twitter listed on the page.
- 54:34Everyone's story is different, but as one of my favorite band
- 54:37says, it could have been much worse, but it should have been
- 54:42better. As in, of course there's worse
- 54:45things out there, but it shouldn't diminish what we've
- 54:48been through and make us feel any less.
- 54:51Shout out to Five Finger Death Punch, by the way.
- 54:54If you know, you know. I will attempt to upload once a
- 54:58week, maybe a bit faster in the beginning until I get a few
- 55:01episodes up, but I really hope you stick around and learn what
- 55:05entails in the squirrel's life. Hey, it's evil.
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- 56:24I'm Lisa. And I'm Dawn.
- 56:25And if you've ever watched a TV show and thought to yourself, Oh
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- 57:00We are still breaking down episodes scene by scene of Cobra
- 57:03Kai on Netflix. Up next, it's season one episode
- 57:077 titled All Valley written by Stacy Harmon who has written 9
- 57:12episodes of Cobra Kai, 16 episodes of The Goldbergs, and
- 57:14one episode of the series Why Women Kill.
- 57:18She also wrote for the movie Smurfs Lost Village, directed by
- 57:22Steve Pink, who is known for being a writer on two John
- 57:27Cusack movies, Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity, and has
- 57:31directed both Hot Tub Time Machine movies, 4 episodes of
- 57:35Santa Clarita Diet and three episodes of Cobra Kai.
- 57:38I love that in the last episode there were two writers for Hot
- 57:45Tub Time Machine and then in this episode the guy that
- 57:47directed Hot Tub Time Machine, like hey man, you want to go
- 57:50direct the show on Cobra Kai? Like, yeah.
- 57:52Oh, you know why? I just realized that.
- 57:57All right. What's his face?
- 58:01Plays Johnny. What's his name?
- 58:05William Zappa. He was in hot tub time machine.
- 58:09He was. Yeah, with the girl that plays
- 58:12his ex here. Ali.
- 58:16He yeah, he was. They were both on the Hot tub
- 58:19Time Machine movies. Well no, I may have to just
- 58:21watch it. I've never seen that movie.
- 58:24Exactly. I might have to watch it again
- 58:25because. I remember.
- 58:26We ZAP gun the first one. I didn't I didn't I didn't even
- 58:29watch the second one, but like if he's in the second one, then
- 58:32good for him. But the fact that Steve Pink is
- 58:36the director of Hot Tub Time Machine and then the writer, Hot
- 58:39Tub Time Machine, they're like, hey, come and do the show with
- 58:42us. Like, OK, yeah.
- 58:43Cool. So here they are.
- 58:45Like, I didn't realize that till now because like, just
- 58:48remembering Hot Tub Time Machine and like, huh.
- 58:51Who else was in that movie that was from the 80s?
- 59:00I'm going to have to watch it now.
- 59:02Right. That just made it interesting.
- 59:05Yeah, he's in. He's in just, he's in just the
- 59:08first movie. He's not in the second one.
- 59:12Oh, that's good 'cause I don't know if I'd want to watch the
- 59:14second one. 1st movie John Cusack, Rob Cory Craig Robinson,
- 59:19Clark Duke Who plays Young Adam, Jake Rose Young Lou young Nick.
- 59:30OK, I see it. Awesome.
- 59:33And director and writer Steve Pink, Josh Hield.
- 59:38That's so cool. Did you mention Santa Clarita
- 59:41diet? Yeah, on Netflix.
- 59:44I I I love that show. I thought I heard you say that.
- 59:48I love that show. I was disappointed when it got
- 59:51cancelled. Oh no, it got cancelled.
- 59:55Steve Pink, who also directed episode of Santa Clarita Diet.
- 1:00:01You're so. Cool, it's a good show.
- 1:00:03Have you seen it? No, I don't.
- 1:00:06Think I have. I think I've seen the 1st.
- 1:00:08Episode and I was like a zombie. Movie it's it's good.
- 1:00:12It's, it's not a zombie. Movie It's, it's good.
- 1:00:16It's not a zombie. Show at the time I was just done
- 1:00:19with zombies. You know when.
- 1:00:20It came out it's like I. Was a zombie just like OK.
- 1:00:26OK, well, we'll save this this disagreement for later, this
- 1:00:29discussion for later. Is Santa Clarita a diet a zombie
- 1:00:36show or not? That's we will.
- 1:00:41We'll stay this discussion for later.
- 1:00:43OK, fine, fine, fine. Daniel takes on teaching his new
- 1:00:48people using the unconventional techniques from Mr. Miyagi.
- 1:00:52Robbie is tempted to return to his delinquent ways.
- 1:00:54Johnny helped me go with his first date.
- 1:00:58The episode code opens with Robbie in a training montage
- 1:01:01with a classical music in the background as he performed
- 1:01:03various tasks around the virtual dealerships.
- 1:01:05You know, waxing cars, washing windows, sweeping floors,
- 1:01:08running the flag up the flagpole, and even stapling
- 1:01:12documents, all according to Daniel's personal instruction.
- 1:01:15What stapling documents? Do you wait?
- 1:01:18Did you know that that is the same music they used in Karate
- 1:01:22Kid when the classical music? That is the same music when Mr.
- 1:01:30Mia Yes, that is the first thing I noticed.
- 1:01:33Yes. I was trying to pinpoint because
- 1:01:37I know we are supposed to watch Karate Kid again and we haven't
- 1:01:39done that yet. But I was trying to pinpoint the
- 1:01:42exact scene that it was used. I wanna say it was when he was
- 1:01:49it wasn't it? It wasn't when he was doing the
- 1:01:52the washing and the cars and the the stuff like in The Karate
- 1:01:55Kid. I don't it was in I believe it
- 1:01:58was when he was they were on the beach the.
- 1:02:03Beach. Or was it the banquet when he
- 1:02:05was like trying to be a waiter and he was in?
- 1:02:08The no, no, no, no, no. It was when Mr. Miyagi was
- 1:02:11training him. But I, I think it, I want to say
- 1:02:14it was the, the beach scene, pretty sure when he was on like
- 1:02:18the pole or in the bowl. We have to watch it because that
- 1:02:25I, it is in one of those scenes. But it, it's, it's, yeah, it was
- 1:02:28when Mr. Miyagi was doing the doing training, the same thing
- 1:02:33that he's doing with Robbie that Daniel's doing with Robbie.
- 1:02:39So yes, we have to remember that.
- 1:02:41Jot that down, write that down. We have to remember this.
- 1:02:43OK, no problem. There are many long days of
- 1:02:48mental menial chores designed to teach him muscle memory.
- 1:02:51Robbie gets rusted after having learned nothing, much like
- 1:02:54Daniel felt with Mr. Miyagi. Robbie walks away.
- 1:02:58Amanda tells Daniel that he's enjoying this way too much.
- 1:03:01Daniel says that he loves this part, which in turn does a call
- 1:03:04back to the first karate could movie when Mr. Miyagi would have
- 1:03:07Daniel wax the car, sand the floor and paint the fence.
- 1:03:11Before Daniel goes after Robbie, he says to himself that he loved
- 1:03:13the part. Obviously that night Daniel
- 1:03:16sparked with Robbie for the first time and shows him what he
- 1:03:19has truly learned. Robbie just realized that he
- 1:03:21just learned karate and they bowed each other.
- 1:03:24The Cobra Kai logo appears. OK, so apart from the classical
- 1:03:30music, I love how the music changes from that when Robbie's
- 1:03:33doing all the work to the the theme of The Karate Kid, the
- 1:03:37Japanese theme part wherein Robbie's starting to realize he
- 1:03:41is doing a lot of work like and then like you hear immediately,
- 1:03:47like imagine Mr. Miyagi's like, oh shit, we the vibe just
- 1:03:52changed. And when he says that he loved
- 1:03:56this part, he probably did this to Sam, which is why Sam is all
- 1:04:00like, no, dad, I don't want to do karate with you.
- 1:04:04I don't want to do any more chores.
- 1:04:06So like she is going to make her work.
- 1:04:08Sam probably is annoyed and asked PTSD for mowing, doing all
- 1:04:11the chores around the house. You know, wash the dish, wipe
- 1:04:15the dish, wash the dish, wipe the dish, wash dish, wipe dish,
- 1:04:21Show me, wash dish, show me, wipe dish now.
- 1:04:25Why don't they have anything with mowing the yard?
- 1:04:29They probably do. It's the same as the Jack in the
- 1:04:33car. Mow the yard, back up the mow.
- 1:04:41Mow the yard, back up the mow. What else?
- 1:04:47Trim the hedges that's. What I was going to say, trim
- 1:04:50the hedges, mow the yard, cut the trees.
- 1:04:53OK, I'm done. Yeah, I'm just kidding.
- 1:04:57My wrist, like I just, I just did all that over the weekend.
- 1:05:01I don't think there's muscle memory for that at the moment.
- 1:05:04That's probably why it came to me.
- 1:05:09Like, I just did all that. I don't think there's muscle
- 1:05:11memory for that. Like, oh, mow the yard, show me,
- 1:05:14mow the yard or like push what? OK.
- 1:05:18Oh, unless you're like, you know, grabbing the cord and.
- 1:05:22Yes, see that I could. I could be a karate teacher.
- 1:05:28Sensei, ma'am. Sensei, sorry, Sensei, sorry.
- 1:05:32Pulling the cord. That's that's a, that's a karate
- 1:05:35move. That has to be a karate move.
- 1:05:38Pulling the cord is a perfume. Show me pulling the cord.
- 1:05:47Show me washing the dish. Oh God, a neat mess of a yogurt,
- 1:05:54I'm telling you. OK, At the Cobra Kai Dojo,
- 1:06:02Johnny's ever today to discover that students are flinchers and
- 1:06:05orders Aisha to line them up and face punch them in the face
- 1:06:09before they leave to remedy their fear.
- 1:06:13Just imagine that getting punched in the face.
- 1:06:15Ouch in. His office.
- 1:06:17He flips through a karate magazine he seats and asks for
- 1:06:20the upcoming All Value Karate Tournament.
- 1:06:22Miguel then enters to seek Johnny's advice about a girl at
- 1:06:25school whom he likes. Johnny asked if he's hot, which
- 1:06:27is a big no no. You don't ask if a girl at
- 1:06:31school at a high school is hot. Johnny, no, why are you asking?
- 1:06:36It's like, please don't do this whole friggin Matthew
- 1:06:42McConaughey. Hey, man.
- 1:06:45All right, all right, all right. You know, like This is why
- 1:06:49they're like high ski girls, high school girls.
- 1:06:52No, I they stay the same age. They're like, no.
- 1:06:58No, you're not, Johnny. Johnny, you're a badass.
- 1:07:02Just don't, though. You just don't ask a girl that.
- 1:07:10Johnny, please don't. Johnny encourages him to pursue
- 1:07:12her, never to accept defeat, even if he tells her no.
- 1:07:16Miguel tells him he's pretty sure no means no.
- 1:07:18Jonny tells him that if things are getting physical, then no
- 1:07:21means no. That's where he draws a line.
- 1:07:24See, he's a badass. He, he, he, you know, he's into
- 1:07:28the whole saying about, you know, hey, I'm giving you
- 1:07:32cassette. No means no though.
- 1:07:35But he's only asking her out. And all the babes want to date
- 1:07:38of Cobra Kai. Do they?
- 1:07:43Fuck I don't think all the babes know what a Cobra Kai is at the
- 1:07:47moment. It's like what's a Cobra Kai?
- 1:07:50I don't understand but at the time did all the they really
- 1:07:55want to date a Cobra Kai? There was Ali who always dated 1
- 1:07:59Cobra Kai. Like, it'd be like one of those
- 1:08:04weirdest things if Ali and her friends were like dating the
- 1:08:10Cobra Kai's. Yeah, none of them.
- 1:08:13None of them were. It was just Ali, and that's
- 1:08:15until Daniel came along. Yeah, it was only Ally.
- 1:08:18Like who's your guys? Or no, she broke up with them
- 1:08:23before Daniel came along actually.
- 1:08:25So Daniel Daniel didn't steal him or Daniel did not steal Ally
- 1:08:30from from Johnny even though Johnny thinks so.
- 1:08:33They were broken up before they. Were broken up before but I
- 1:08:38didn't see the other guys in corporate Kai like hanging out
- 1:08:41with girls. At all, right?
- 1:08:43No, none of them were. They're hanging out with each
- 1:08:46other. Unless they were older than
- 1:08:49that. All right.
- 1:08:49Were they all in high school? They had to have been all in
- 1:08:53high school because remember the soccer scene?
- 1:08:55They're on the soccer team. All the other Cobra Kai guys.
- 1:09:00Yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure I'd except for that one bad ass one
- 1:09:05with the curly blonde hair, but the other ones were.
- 1:09:08Body bag guy. Oh, wait, no, I think they all
- 1:09:10were. Yeah, they all were.
- 1:09:13Get them a body bag. I think he wasn't.
- 1:09:15No, no, no, not him. The other one.
- 1:09:17There's another the I felt like he was like the worst out of all
- 1:09:21of them. He had the blonde hair.
- 1:09:23I don't remember his name but he was like the.
- 1:09:26I feel like he was like the meanest badass 1 all.
- 1:09:30Right. So yeah, we're going to get
- 1:09:32through season one. We're going to watch John Let's
- 1:09:36Karate Kid. We got to watch season.
- 1:09:38Two in season 2, that's when you're like, oh shit, well, like
- 1:09:43you know, differentiate with what happened between 1985 and
- 1:09:46now because you know something happened.
- 1:09:50If you guys haven't seen it, get ready for it.
- 1:09:53Spoiler and all that. If you haven't seen it, if you
- 1:09:55have, good for you. But do all the babe want to date
- 1:10:01a corporate Kai? Would you have wanted to date a
- 1:10:02corporate Kai? I mean.
- 1:10:08Someone to be there to help you correct?
- 1:10:11I don't know to be honest. OK Miguel notices the ad but
- 1:10:19Johnny says they are not yet ready for the tournament.
- 1:10:22Off screen while this whole conversation is happening, Aisha
- 1:10:25has heard grunting and punching everyone in the face, even
- 1:10:28calling one of them a pussy. Get faggot your pussy.
- 1:10:34Johnny and Miguel both watch as Hawk gets thrown on the mat and
- 1:10:37saying he just lost a tooth, which makes him more badass
- 1:10:41actually knowing that he lost the two.
- 1:10:48Back at Larusso's, Robbie's delinquent friend come to him
- 1:10:52write a proposal. They want Robbie to acquire the
- 1:10:54security code for dealership and they can strip the card for
- 1:10:57parts to sell. Robbie's resistant, but the
- 1:11:00thugs threaten him with violence if he does not comply.
- 1:11:03Later that day, Robbie secretly records Amanda inputting the
- 1:11:06security code for the door on his smartphone.
- 1:11:11At school, Miguel approaches Sam to ask her out, but after her
- 1:11:13experience with Kyler, she is not interested in dating anyone.
- 1:11:16Following Johnny's advice, Miguel refuses to take no for an
- 1:11:20answer, and Sam eventually agrees to a friendly outing.
- 1:11:24She asked for him to pick her up at 8:00, but she says she has he
- 1:11:28has a bike, so she agrees that she will pick him up at 8:00.
- 1:11:34I love. Daniel had a bike too in Karate
- 1:11:37Kid. Exactly.
- 1:11:39I was going to say that like like, but at least this car, it
- 1:11:47does work. Back in Karate Kid, he had a car
- 1:11:55that sucks. Well, it wasn't even his car.
- 1:11:57It was his mom's. His mom's car still.
- 1:12:00Is sucked, but they had to push it.
- 1:12:03They got, they had to push it. 40, Fuck it. 40 years later, he
- 1:12:07owns all the cars. I'm selling cars.
- 1:12:12Hey, I know what it's like to be able to be stranded and have
- 1:12:18your mom take you to the fucking place.
- 1:12:25Back at the Dojo, Johnny's on the phone trying to sign his
- 1:12:28Dojo up to the Old Valley Tournament.
- 1:12:30In the practice area, Miguel asked Ayesha and Eli where they
- 1:12:33should go, and Eli suggests a tattoo parlor before removing
- 1:12:36his Gee to reveal a storing hawk with a blue Mohawk E.
- 1:12:40There it is. Yes, that's that's it is this
- 1:12:44episode that took He has to sit there for 30 minutes while they
- 1:12:50paint that bad ass tattoo on him on his back.
- 1:12:56We only see it for this episode and I think the final episode
- 1:12:59and then do we see it at all in the future episode?
- 1:13:03I, I think so because I thought so.
- 1:13:06I don't know. Now I'm going to have to pay
- 1:13:07more attention. Yeah, we're going to have to pay
- 1:13:10more. I know we've.
- 1:13:11I know we've see it. We see it again.
- 1:13:13I know we do. I just don't know when.
- 1:13:17Aisha asked if his parents are OK with that.
- 1:13:19Eli says that they don't know. He will probably have to wear
- 1:13:22T-shirts until he's in college. Hi.
- 1:13:26Yichu, who's no longer friends with Sam, tells you know she
- 1:13:28likes chocolate and astronomy. There are conversationists that
- 1:13:31are interrupted when Johnny learns that Cobra Kai has been
- 1:13:34permanently banned from the All Value Tournament.
- 1:13:36Johnny earns to take his frustrations on the committee,
- 1:13:38but Miguel tells him there might be a smarter way to fight back.
- 1:13:44I love that. Relax.
- 1:13:46Relax, relax, relax. It's OK, Sensei.
- 1:13:49Yes, I love that. He, he, he's teaching him
- 1:13:52something there, Miguel teaches his son.
- 1:13:55Say something. Exactly.
- 1:13:58At the dealership, Robbie strengthens in bond with Daniel
- 1:14:01by helping to trim the bonsai trees.
- 1:14:04Amanda tells Daniel it's like third base for him.
- 1:14:10No fuck, Daniel says. He just wants to teach him a few
- 1:14:16things. That was so out of pocket.
- 1:14:22What, he's a 16 year old kid? Amanda.
- 1:14:28Damn, who wrote this? Oh my God.
- 1:14:33I think only our minds think this stuff.
- 1:14:36I just want to like, not think about that, but the way.
- 1:14:39That chief says it's like. Third base for you.
- 1:14:42No, yeah, that's, Oh no, let's not think about that.
- 1:14:48And then the next fucking cop, Daniel says he just wants to
- 1:14:51teach him a few things. This whole thing would have been
- 1:14:57great without the third base comment.
- 1:14:58Basically like. Yeah, I don't know who thought
- 1:15:01of that one. Yeah, Amanda, thanks a lot.
- 1:15:05Amanda suggests not to lure him into opening his own bonsai tree
- 1:15:08store. Daniel says that Mister Miyagi's
- 1:15:11little tree was a solid business plan they just granted to some
- 1:15:13bad luck call back to The Karate Kid Three when Daniel tried to
- 1:15:17do the same thing with his college fund money, but then it
- 1:15:19got ripped by Mike Barnes. Oh, God.
- 1:15:24Your college fund money? Really.
- 1:15:29What did he say? Tuition or college fund?
- 1:15:33No, it's college. No, see, it's a good investment.
- 1:15:37It's a it's a good investment, Mr. Miyagi.
- 1:15:39No. It's.
- 1:15:40OK, Mr. Miyagi tells him that in Karate Kid too as well.
- 1:15:46When? Get rid of his money.
- 1:15:49No, yeah, but he tell he hands him the money he went and he
- 1:15:52says this is for college, this is for your college fund or
- 1:15:54college, this is for your college fund or something.
- 1:15:59Remember trying to continue. Yeah, another mistake he made in
- 1:16:02the past. Good job.
- 1:16:03The next shot is of Robbie trying to trim his own bonsai
- 1:16:12tree, but he can't get it. Daniel suggests that Mister
- 1:16:15Miyaga taught him how to close his eyes, visualize the tree and
- 1:16:18only the tree, and picture it in his mind what he wants to treat
- 1:16:21it looks like, and it makes it happen.
- 1:16:24Daniel just taught him to focus. He is the tree.
- 1:16:28Daniel leads Robbie loom to trimming and then gets a text
- 1:16:32message miss from As Johnny prepares to face the Yale Valley
- 1:16:36Committee, Miguel assures him that he's going to do great and
- 1:16:39if somebody pisses him off, just fall his hand into a fist, but
- 1:16:41don't punch the guy. Johnny asks where Miguel is
- 1:16:44taking Sam. He tells him to an observatory,
- 1:16:47Johnny suggests taking her where he took all of his babes, and we
- 1:16:53get a vertical flip to another callback of Karate Kid.
- 1:16:56One at the golf and stuff. Yeah.
- 1:16:58It's the golf and stuff. Miguel and Stan spent the
- 1:17:02evening in a montage set to Young Hearts by Commuter,
- 1:17:05mirroring Daniel and Ally back in 1984.
- 1:17:09Oh yeah, that's where he took all his babes.
- 1:17:20All his babes. So basically he took Ally there,
- 1:17:24and in turn, Ally took Daniel there.
- 1:17:29And then later on when Sam and saw like, yeah, my dad used to
- 1:17:33take us here all the time. Oh, I wonder why?
- 1:17:38Oh, I had fun with Ally over here.
- 1:17:41I should take you there too. Oh my God.
- 1:17:47At the meeting, Johnny asked to appeal a lifetime ban on his
- 1:17:50Dojo. Everyone in the committee
- 1:17:51doesn't know what he's talking about or didn't know they could
- 1:17:53ban a Dojo, so they asked him the name of the Dojo in which
- 1:17:57Daniel, who just walked into the door, answers Cobra Kai.
- 1:18:03Johnny's taken aback to find Daniel on the committee, but
- 1:18:05proceeds to make his case for Cobra Kai to compete.
- 1:18:11Flip to the night at the Larusso Auto Robbie's friends arrive,
- 1:18:16but Robbie refuses to give him the code.
- 1:18:18Unwilling to betray his new mentor's trust, Robbie defends
- 1:18:21himself using the fraud he had learned, but is eventually
- 1:18:24overwhelmed and cornered. He then points to a security
- 1:18:26camera above him, causing his attackers to flee.
- 1:18:30I love that. I was like oh shit.
- 1:18:31Realization that he just. He knows how to fight now.
- 1:18:34It's like really muscle memory. I wonder what stapling documents
- 1:18:42is? I was wondering that too.
- 1:18:46I I was trying to picture what move that was.
- 1:18:50Stuck to the face, it's like, or that one time in Karate Kid too,
- 1:18:58when he's when he's about to like punch him in the face, but
- 1:19:01he's instead he's like, that's probably it, but he doesn't do
- 1:19:05it anyway. Back at the hearing committee
- 1:19:12explains that Dojo was banned due to the unethical actions of
- 1:19:14John Creed, Terry Silver and Mike Barnes at the 1985 All
- 1:19:18Valley Tournament. So Karate Kid one was in 1984.
- 1:19:26Yeah. So Karate Kid Two was
- 1:19:31immediately after the tournament.
- 1:19:33It was immediately after. Yes, it it picked up immediately
- 1:19:37after the prom the. Prom, OK.
- 1:19:42Yes, because he's talking to Mr. Miyagi about taking Allie to the
- 1:19:47prom or whatever. Yeah, it was the prom night.
- 1:19:49He came with the his his blue tux.
- 1:19:52He. With Tux, they leave, he doesn't
- 1:19:56break up, and then they go to Japan.
- 1:19:59Break up? Yeah.
- 1:20:01From Japan, Karate get three. He shows up and comes back and
- 1:20:07this is 1945. Yeah, OK.
- 1:20:10Like wow, all that happened in the span of one year 1-2 and
- 1:20:15three happened in the span of one year.
- 1:20:17I love it. I'm going to go we're.
- 1:20:19Going to watch it again OK now yeah because was three in a span
- 1:20:23of a year but no because that would have had to been like the
- 1:20:25next year because he's coming back for.
- 1:20:29The next. Hit to the fall for the
- 1:20:32national, right? OK, yeah, that makes sense then.
- 1:20:35Yep. OK, yes, we're watching that.
- 1:20:39That again, 1-2 and three. That's right.
- 1:20:44Johnny has no knowledge of Silver or barns whatsoever and
- 1:20:48tells him that John Creed is dead.
- 1:20:50Everyone in the community showed the reconnaissance except for
- 1:20:52Danny, who seemed to be throwing a fit by not showing respect.
- 1:20:56He then explains the history of Cobra Kai and how he has PTSD
- 1:20:58from getting bullied by them. Meanwhile, Johnny balls his
- 1:21:02first into balls his hand into a fist, feeling overwhelmed and
- 1:21:05wanting to punch someone. Daniel explains to the committee
- 1:21:08how Johnny was their star pupil, he was the worst of them all,
- 1:21:11and they would be dishonoring their entire sport by rings
- 1:21:13dating Cobra Kai. So according to Daniel, Johnny
- 1:21:18was worse than Mike Barnes. Even though Johnny only wanted
- 1:21:24to bully him for a bit and get his girl back, that's all he
- 1:21:27wanted his girl back, you know? And Danny was in the way and
- 1:21:33Daniel did some heinous shit also.
- 1:21:35And Johnny was like, Oh yeah, you know what, We're done.
- 1:21:40I get that Johnny only pushed him off a hill and it didn't
- 1:21:43kill him though, but you know. Yeah, he did push him off that
- 1:21:46hill. The the whole, the whole theory
- 1:21:51is of this and I don't know, we've mentioned it before, but
- 1:21:54that Daniel was actually the real bully is what people are
- 1:21:58saying. Yeah, he was.
- 1:22:01Nah. See, I disagree with that.
- 1:22:04He was Echo bully. He was the one, like the whole
- 1:22:08thing at the Halloween dance. Yeah, OK.
- 1:22:13Yes, because he he flips back to they show that flashback him
- 1:22:17talking. Yeah, OK.
- 1:22:19Nothing was gone. They they would have just left
- 1:22:21him alone. OK, but no.
- 1:22:23Oh, OK. So if somebody had beat the shit
- 1:22:27out of you, would you really not want to do anything?
- 1:22:30I mean, if you had that opportunity, you wouldn't want
- 1:22:32to mess with him. I I get, I get, I get Daniel
- 1:22:35wanting to mess with him when he was in the bathroom.
- 1:22:38I mean, he should have granted, he should have left him alone.
- 1:22:41He was probably being stupid, but I can totally see him in
- 1:22:45that moment. Not against five guys that are.
- 1:22:48I know they're going to beat my ass again.
- 1:22:50Yeah, I'm just going to do one right.
- 1:22:53That's not right. Five against one is not right.
- 1:22:57That's not fair. It isn't.
- 1:23:00No, it's not. This only Johnny only wanted to
- 1:23:06push him off a hill and it didn't kill him but.
- 1:23:08Like he wanted to push him off a hill.
- 1:23:10That's. It he only pushed him off a
- 1:23:11hill, that's it. Not like he died or anything.
- 1:23:15Mike. Mike Barnes, on the other hand,
- 1:23:17Karate Kid part three, he did the whole if you don't agree to
- 1:23:20fight me for your championship, I'm going to throw you off this
- 1:23:23Cliff, OK? Yeah, he was.
- 1:23:27He was an evil person. That that was like this dude was
- 1:23:31a hit man. Like do it for this kind of
- 1:23:34money, any dollar. Well, that's because that's
- 1:23:36because Terry was even more evil.
- 1:23:39Terry and Johnny apologized at the end of Karate Kid, won and
- 1:23:43gave him like, you know, handed him the trophy.
- 1:23:46You're a man, you deserve it. I know what happened.
- 1:23:50Like so we're not going to like talk about that at all.
- 1:23:52Like and it just like over overstepped that like, all
- 1:23:57right, don't worry about that. That never happened to us.
- 1:23:59Instead, here's this even chosen and Karate kid wanted to kill
- 1:24:04him, but Johnny was just like, I'll behave.
- 1:24:09But Johnny is not the worst of them.
- 1:24:10Mike Barnes and chosen had a knife.
- 1:24:15He was ready to kill for his girl.
- 1:24:18Like I was ready to kill the girl, but Mike Barnes, like I
- 1:24:23was about to throw him off a Cliff.
- 1:24:26Well, the second one, the second one, they said it was fighting
- 1:24:31for. Fighting for?
- 1:24:33Is it honor or love? Was it fighting for his honor?
- 1:24:39Glory of. Love.
- 1:24:40No, no, no, no. The first one is whatever cause
- 1:24:46the third one is fighting for his life I believe or something
- 1:24:50or his. Now I'm gonna have to look it
- 1:24:52up. It was the first one is fighting
- 1:24:54for whatever, the second one I thought was fighting for honor
- 1:24:58or love, and then the third one fighting for something.
- 1:25:01Yeah. I'm gonna look it up, so when we
- 1:25:04come back, I'll have these. OK, so basically in the span of
- 1:25:11one year, he was almost killed by three people.
- 1:25:13It's like, damn hard. Hard.
- 1:25:17Daniel. Hard Daniel's like kid, he has a
- 1:25:22there's a value on his name and poor kid who just wants to
- 1:25:25frigging practice karate. And and he watched three girls
- 1:25:30in the span of that year, too, in the.
- 1:25:32Span of three in the span three girl Ali, a girl from Japan and
- 1:25:37then Okinawa and then I don't even remember the 3rd girl like
- 1:25:42she was deserved for like a minute.
- 1:25:44Her name's Robin. Robin something she's in the
- 1:25:48teen or she's in Teen Witch, but I can't think of what her name
- 1:25:51was on there on on the movie. I can't think of her name.
- 1:25:56That's sad. She said she was there for a
- 1:26:01minute but I can't remember her name.
- 1:26:04I don't remember her at all. I just.
- 1:26:05Remember her? I don't remember her name.
- 1:26:07Beating her and then like she got scared because the whole
- 1:26:11Mike Barnes thing and she almost died too, went to Cliff.
- 1:26:15Yep, just. Like Daniel, you have problems.
- 1:26:19You're a red flag. I'm out.
- 1:26:22Yeah, just realized that, Daniel.
- 1:26:25I mean, that even happened in the in the second one too.
- 1:26:27Oh. Daniel's fault?
- 1:26:32Don't. Don't fall for Daniel.
- 1:26:34He'll make it. Yeah.
- 1:26:37Oh God, all right. Johnny explains how his new
- 1:26:41Cooper Kai, different from the old his sensei didn't always
- 1:26:45play it by rules and that is why he left.
- 1:26:48Now he is teaching bully kids to become more confident in their
- 1:26:51everyday life while improving his own.
- 1:26:54Everyone's inspired by Johnny's words, but Daniel's has nothing.
- 1:26:56Called it horseshit. He's blinded by the actions of
- 1:27:02the past. Young Daniel is still upset that
- 1:27:05this man, the old Johnny that used to bully him, is still
- 1:27:08walking around with no repercussions at all.
- 1:27:11He says he was the biggest bully in his high school.
- 1:27:13He hasn't changed and he could prove it.
- 1:27:15How do you prove it? Yeah.
- 1:27:17How do you prove it? Come on.
- 1:27:18Come on, Daniel, prove it. Just, you know.
- 1:27:23That's what I was wondering too. Prove it.
- 1:27:27It's like, how can you prove it? It's like, all right, I'm gonna
- 1:27:29mess with him some more and then here he comes.
- 1:27:32I I am very proud of Johnny though, in that moment when he
- 1:27:36did, he did. He did what Miguel told him to
- 1:27:40do and he was calm and he breathed and made the fist and
- 1:27:45did not punch anybody. I was proud.
- 1:27:48Meanwhile, here comes fucking Daniel Drop kicking the boba
- 1:27:54from Cole's hand. I think Daniel has an anger
- 1:27:59problem too. Daniel has anger problems now.
- 1:28:03Johnny's all like, all right, calm now.
- 1:28:05What would Mr. Miyagi do? Or would son say crease do?
- 1:28:14Oh my gosh. Don't do that.
- 1:28:16I cannot stand him. Oh.
- 1:28:19You can't wait for him. Never mind, he's dead, isn't he?
- 1:28:23Yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm kind of like our
- 1:28:29reaction towards the fucking last episode I guess.
- 1:28:32Got to say it all right. The committee asked Johnny to
- 1:28:35wait outside while they vote on the outcome of the Dojo, but he
- 1:28:38stated after a night of fun, Miguel demonstrates some of his
- 1:28:41karate skills on Sam, who easily turns a table on him and pins
- 1:28:45into the ground. There's a kiss.
- 1:28:49Sam pulled some next level experience karate by doing some
- 1:28:52type of move and then mounts on top of him.
- 1:28:56Great job there Sam, to prove her.
- 1:28:58Dominance, Sam. Yeah, calling herself Sensei
- 1:29:01Sam. OK.
- 1:29:03Sam only again, they could have done without the whole mounting
- 1:29:07on top of him. Like like what?
- 1:29:13OK, wow, how old were they? She was.
- 1:29:16Taking control. OK, what?
- 1:29:20Situation. Back at the committee, despite
- 1:29:25Daniel's adamant objections, the committee votes to reinstate
- 1:29:28Corporate Kai in a three to two vote.
- 1:29:30He walks through the doors in the fit and says congratulations
- 1:29:33Johnny and then walks away. Yeah, he sounded very petty
- 1:29:38there. Congratulations, Johnny.
- 1:29:43Oh, that is not very. Sports Miyagi.
- 1:29:48Saying right, What would Mr. Miyagi say?
- 1:29:52Like he went in there like I don't care.
- 1:29:55He was not channeling his Mr. Miyagi.
- 1:29:58Johnny smirks, but then realized he got a Dojo of the tournament.
- 1:30:01He had that little moment of just like, Daniel's mad and
- 1:30:08they're like, oh shit, my dojo's in the tournament, yeah, let's
- 1:30:10go. But it's like his little victory
- 1:30:14of just beating Daniel for the first time.
- 1:30:20It's the first time, like, oh, yeah, Oh, yeah, hey, I got.
- 1:30:24I got in cool. Afterwards, Jonny and Miguel
- 1:30:27meet up with Dojo to celebrate their respective victories with
- 1:30:29a toast and champagne. Even dope Miguel underage.
- 1:30:32Great job there. All right, writer of the fucking
- 1:30:36show. What the Hell's wrong with you?
- 1:30:40Jonny tells him to drink it. It would put hair in his balls.
- 1:30:43Miguel asks if that's a good thing.
- 1:30:48Yeah, yeah, Miguel. Yeah, I think it's a good thing.
- 1:30:53The toast. The toast to cover Kai and never
- 1:30:55accepting defeat. The camera zooms in.
- 1:30:57As opposed to the Yellow Valley tournament that Johnny just hung
- 1:31:00up and episode and oh, man, I love this.
- 1:31:10Everything about this favorite scene.
- 1:31:15I have a couple, the 1st the opening the the scene.
- 1:31:19I love the fact that they use the whole same thing they did
- 1:31:24with Mr. Miyagi's techniques in the beginning and Danielle did
- 1:31:27it to did it to Robbie. I love that.
- 1:31:31I love that they had the same music.
- 1:31:33It's in there somewhere. I can't remember yet, but it's
- 1:31:36in there. It's the same music.
- 1:31:37They he did almost the same techniques, but threw in some
- 1:31:41new ones like that car and the stapler thing and then him
- 1:31:46saying this is my I love this part.
- 1:31:49I just I love that. I love that beginning part.
- 1:31:51That was awesome. And then I think, oh also, so at
- 1:31:57the golf and stuff, they used the exact same music as they did
- 1:32:02in The Karate Kid. Did you know that?
- 1:32:04Yes, OK, I'll just say so twice in this episode, they bring back
- 1:32:09the same music, which I really like.
- 1:32:12I love that. I love when they bring that
- 1:32:14stuff back like that. I yeah, I like that part.
- 1:32:18And I also like the part where he was listening to Miguel and
- 1:32:22holding his anger in. I like that one too.
- 1:32:26So those are my parts. Lots of callbacks, lots of
- 1:32:30Easter eggs. Of course.
- 1:32:32The episode started with Callback, the 1st movie.
- 1:32:34From the classical music to the Zen transitioning into the old
- 1:32:36Japanese theme of Mr. Miyagi training young Daniel, we get a
- 1:32:40mirror image of Miguel and say I'm having fun just like Daniel
- 1:32:43and Ali. Even playing the same song like
- 1:32:46montage. I enjoyed the ending so much.
- 1:32:49Just putting emphasis that Daniel may have been the hero in
- 1:32:52the movies, but him getting sour was something that was done in
- 1:32:55the past and not accepting that people might have changed was
- 1:32:58grand. And somebody in the committee
- 1:33:00thought that was petty so he decided to go against it.
- 1:33:06We don't like you. We don't like you in this
- 1:33:08committee, so I'm just going to go against what you say.
- 1:33:10Three of them actually 2. To three.
- 1:33:16So the question for this these two episodes and the question
- 1:33:18for this one as well, what do you still own from your
- 1:33:20childhood? And the question for this one,
- 1:33:23if you had a bully in high school and they said they have
- 1:33:25changed, would you believe them or would you still hold a
- 1:33:27grudge? Since we already had that
- 1:33:31earlier. Oh, but we already said about
- 1:33:34the whole from my childhood thing, so.
- 1:33:38Yeah, it's for the question, for the audience.
- 1:33:41Oh, OK, You're not asking me. OK, good.
- 1:33:43Like not but high school bullies and yeah.
- 1:33:48I never had a high school bully, so I guess I can't really say
- 1:33:54it, but in theory, I guess if I had a high school bully, I don't
- 1:33:59know. I don't know if I'd be able to.
- 1:34:03I don't know. I guess people do change.
- 1:34:05People do change. Yes, I believe that.
- 1:34:08I don't know about the whole. I mean they always say you can
- 1:34:11forgive but you can't forget. So that probably would be my
- 1:34:15thing. If I had a bully I could
- 1:34:17probably forgive, but I would never be able to forget type
- 1:34:19thing if they've changed. Like the same thing.
- 1:34:28The same thing now that I believe, like be petty about it
- 1:34:31and like don't bully back. But it's like, you know, you
- 1:34:35don't need to talk to them anymore.
- 1:34:36You don't need to interact with them.
- 1:34:39But the same. Oh yeah, I was not.
- 1:34:41Gonna do that. Oh, you know, make sure that
- 1:34:43they know that you are winning instead of holding back a grudge
- 1:34:48like, oh, I see that you like my stuff, but I don't care.
- 1:34:52I'm not gonna talk to you. I see that you commented on my
- 1:34:55stuff, but I'm not gonna acknowledge you don't
- 1:34:57acknowledge them. Just like know that you're
- 1:34:59winning them, like even your police, like you kind of like
- 1:35:04like I wouldn't hold a grudge. Like it happened years ago.
- 1:35:08Like I'm so much better than you right now.
- 1:35:10Just show them how much better you are.
- 1:35:12Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
- 1:35:14Yeah, showing them how much better you are.
- 1:35:18All right for these questions, what do you still own from your
- 1:35:20childhood? And if you had a bully in high
- 1:35:22school and they said they have changed, would you believe them
- 1:35:24or would you still hold a grudge?
- 1:35:26e-mail me your answers at M3P Network.
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- 1:35:43your, your, what you think of this, what you thought of the
- 1:35:47episode, what you thought of that.
- 1:35:49Answer the question, let us know.
- 1:35:51I would love to hear some of those answers.
- 1:35:53So I hope that people I, I really would like to hear other
- 1:35:57people's answers about the childhood, what they still have
- 1:36:00and and the bully one would be interesting too.
- 1:36:03Exactly. That is going to do it for this
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