Miami Connection LIVE! w/ Chris Geere (HDTGM Matinee)

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Speaker 6 It's a movie about a band of ninjas.

Speaker 8 No, literally, like a music band of ninjas.

Speaker 11 Yeah, that have to defeat Miami drug lords so they can play at Orlando's number one music club.

Speaker 15 Fuck it, I've said too much. We saw Miami Connection, so you know what that means.

Speaker 16 Screaming!

Speaker 17 What's a nigga grow, baby, in his belly? Rock a rhinestone vest, while I'm whipping Justin DeKelly. A Medicia burlesque show with Hit Crow and take a bow with speed to hitting cruise control.

Speaker 17 J-Man, Big Paul, and the beautiful June. Gonna take you from the goof all the way to the room.
Random games of Street Fighter hope to blow off steam. Just to suck a punch to odd life of Timothy Green.

Speaker 17 Sharp natal to bird demic, how we stayin' alive. Been calling in the badass and he's on the line.
Cranking 88 minutes cause they cool as ice. Cause a bad Jim Barney looking kind and nice.

Speaker 17 Calling June getting literal. Jason is getting laid.
June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid. They judge a bunch of movies while they're making the grade.
Here's a real question for you.

Speaker 17 How did this get made?

Speaker 17 Hello, people of earth.

Speaker 17 Hello, people of Largo. We are live here in Los Angeles

Speaker 17 at Largo,

Speaker 11 our LA home, the amazing Largo at the Coronet, and we have a great show for you tonight.

Speaker 21 Continuing our fascination with ninjas,

Speaker 27 we are talking about Miami Connection, I would argue, the best movie with martial arts in it ever.

Speaker 25 Joining me, as always, are my two co-hosts.

Speaker 31 Please welcome Jason Manzoukas.

Speaker 31 What's up, Jerks?

Speaker 31 Wow.

Speaker 33 Welcome to the Holy.

Speaker 34 We really did it this time.

Speaker 35 You are welcome, America.

Speaker 38 For every piece of shit that we have made you watch,

Speaker 19 this is

Speaker 40 a triumph.

Speaker 25 We have just thrown you a scrap of real meat.

Speaker 43 I mean, enjoy it like a choice cut.

Speaker 27 I at first rented this movie, had to stop midway through, and then when I went back to the screen where it said, you want to continue the rental, I said, no, I want to fucking buy it.

Speaker 36 We should all own this movie.

Speaker 49 100%.

Speaker 50 Wow, we.

Speaker 15 So much fun.

Speaker 52 This is maybe one of the best movies we've ever done.

Speaker 7 And,

Speaker 38 you know,

Speaker 38 let's see how much we can get through to talk about.

Speaker 27 And there is so much to talk about.

Speaker 53 Oh, God, is there ever?

Speaker 13 Oh, God, there are

Speaker 13 vlogs.

Speaker 28 There are.

Speaker 34 There's so much in this movie.

Speaker 43 Not to mention legit, the greatest soundtrack of any movie

Speaker 43 I've ever heard.

Speaker 6 I want these songs playing now.

Speaker 4 The music is like legitimately fantastic and good.

Speaker 34 From the minute they're on stage these guys are undeniable

Speaker 34 it's just oats and it's great

Speaker 20 i will say that this movie is full of celebrity doppelgangers

Speaker 20 we'll get into all that

Speaker 58 uh joining me also as like i said my other is one of them giant michael phelps

Speaker 15 can we just call one of them them giant Michael Phelps?

Speaker 45 100%.

Speaker 60 I would request that we have.

Speaker 34 That is some sort of Michael Phelps Frankenstein action.

Speaker 20 To me, the bad guy also reminded me of that sleazy dude from Die Hard who was like, Bubby, bow.

Speaker 25 That guy, who's Elliot, who does the cocaine.

Speaker 62 So

Speaker 31 it's so good. Joining me also tonight, Miss June Diane Raphael.

Speaker 59 Careful, careful. Hello.

Speaker 35 Welcome.

Speaker 53 This would never fly.

Speaker 52 This is very dangerous.

Speaker 30 I know I meant to unplug it, but I got so excited with the pre-show.

Speaker 21 June.

Speaker 27 One of the things that upset me the most about this movie was I didn't get to watch it with you because we

Speaker 30 experienced a blackout last night.

Speaker 68 You guys drank to the point of unconsciousness.

Speaker 13 It's real Virginia Wolfe at our house.

Speaker 70 Wait, the movie, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

Speaker 13 No, Virginia Wolf. Virginia Wolf.
Yeah.

Speaker 62 Okay.

Speaker 63 I'm Virginia Wolf, she's Virginia Slim. And

Speaker 3 yeah, we watched it separately.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 I did feel watching it. Now, look, sometimes I have a hard time watching these movies.
I've said that before.

Speaker 54 I'll say it again.

Speaker 3 And this was one where I really felt I had a limited time to watch it. And I thought, you got to rewind.
You've missed something so important.

Speaker 3 And because usually I'll ask Paul, but you weren't there.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 75 I did rewind.

Speaker 3 And I.

Speaker 32 Did it help?

Speaker 28 Not at all.

Speaker 3 Not at all. And now I think after watching the trailer, I didn't miss a thing.
Yeah.

Speaker 72 I didn't miss a thing.

Speaker 3 No, I know.

Speaker 22 It's very confusing, but fantastically simple.

Speaker 21 Well, I would argue that the ratio of unimportant scenes are matched by important scenes.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 25 Like, there's an equal distribution of scenes that matter to the plot.

Speaker 22 There are multiple instances of, like, nine-plus-minute scenes.

Speaker 33 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 50 That's unheard of.

Speaker 65 Some very cutting-edge indie shit that we're watching.

Speaker 52 Oh, yeah, and there's a tremendous amount of ADR

Speaker 22 just trying to sew this movie together.

Speaker 30 I have a different take on it. I don't think that they had a good sound person.
I feel like they were like, oh, we shot this, we can't hear a word.

Speaker 8 Just come back in and do it all again.

Speaker 81 Well, we are very excited about our guest tonight.

Speaker 81 He is in the hit FX show, You're the Worst, which premieres September 6th.

Speaker 15 Please welcome Chris Gere.

Speaker 15 First ever.

Speaker 82 First ever costumed guest.

Speaker 79 I love this guy. For those listening at home,

Speaker 7 Chris is rocking the

Speaker 73 back.

Speaker 20 Oh, wow. The back says...

Speaker 84 Can you see that? Miami Dreaming.

Speaker 60 It says Miami Dream.

Speaker 69 Miami Dream.

Speaker 56 I wondered whether I was ever going to wear this.

Speaker 85 And then this opportunity came around.

Speaker 86 It's amazing.

Speaker 67 Headband, fingerless gloves, and we are so excited to talk to you.

Speaker 65 So, did you ever hear about this movie?

Speaker 85 I'd never heard about it. No.

Speaker 88 But I have to thank you for introducing me to what is.

Speaker 85 Like you say, a movie that I believe believe everyone should have yes

Speaker 77 yeah it it defies expectations

Speaker 85 at every step of the way we we will obviously get into it but the the the connection yeah to Miami is something that

Speaker 85 I can I can really relate to in that I have also

Speaker 85 I have also been there once

Speaker 90 for a short period early on.

Speaker 55 That was it.

Speaker 3 Why is this movie called Miami Connection? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Why indeed? What is being connected there?

Speaker 10 By the way, I would argue it doesn't need to be called Miami Connection because it takes place in Orlando.

Speaker 33 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 73 The entirety of this movie is in Orlando.

Speaker 51 The first scene is somewhere in Miami.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 90 Pointless drug scene.

Speaker 30 Yeah, the drug scene in which it was like the village people of bad guys.

Speaker 6 Every time.

Speaker 30 Cowboy hat bad guy. Like 80s bad guy.

Speaker 34 Biker bad guy.

Speaker 13 Yeah, it was Nina and ninjas, of course.

Speaker 86 Oh, yeah, and since when is there a guy who wears an all-white ninja outfit?

Speaker 43 Like, that guy I feel like would be super noticeable in the rafters of a building.

Speaker 43 They meet for that drug dealer. There's a dude in a straight-up white ninja's outfit.
That's the opposite of being a ninja.

Speaker 78 You're calling so much attention to that.

Speaker 22 Yes, that's like the height of ninja narcissism.

Speaker 34 It's like, no, I don't want to be silent.

Speaker 78 I'm an excuse.

Speaker 4 Well, it's funny because the beginning before we

Speaker 3 watched the movie, I said we watched probably about two minutes of it

Speaker 75 before the blackout.

Speaker 72 We watched two minutes together, and then there was.

Speaker 52 The story now seems like a lie.

Speaker 3 No, it's all true. There is a blackout.
It happened two minutes into our viewing, and I said to Paul, And I was very upset, I said, is this a ninja movie?

Speaker 54 So disappointed.

Speaker 18 Still feeling the pang of Ninja Terminator, Terminator.

Speaker 30 Which was another great one.

Speaker 3 What Ninja Terminator did to me was so...

Speaker 3 I'm not recovered. I feel I've been traumatized by that movie.
And

Speaker 3 once I realized, like, uh-oh, I think this has something to do with ninjas, I felt so triggered.

Speaker 3 And I felt my body going to that place of, like, I have to watch a million ninja fight scenes that I don't understand.

Speaker 74 I fucking hate ninjas.

Speaker 72 I hate them.

Speaker 3 And so to realize early on that it was a ninja movie, but then you told me it's not that kind of ninja movie.

Speaker 3 And to your credit, it wasn't that kind of a ninja movie.

Speaker 58 Very rarely do we get to see ninjas with extracurriculars.

Speaker 13 Yeah. And motorbikes.

Speaker 11 Yeah, they were a motorcycle ninja band.

Speaker 3 In some ways, it was my kind of ninja movie.

Speaker 13 It also posits a world in which fucking Orlando is overrun with ninja gangs.

Speaker 39 That's what I'm trying to wrap my head in.

Speaker 13 I'm like, okay, maybe a city the size of Orlando has one prominent ninja gang.

Speaker 78 This has multiple ninja gangs, one of which is an aspiring new wave band

Speaker 33 who are legit great.

Speaker 43 Here's the thing guys, drop out of college, stop being ninjas, just focus on this band.

Speaker 10 They're trying, again, like I said in the opening, they're trying just to be a band.

Speaker 11 Yeah, these drug lords are after them, not for ninja stuff, they're just a band.

Speaker 40 That's true.

Speaker 74 Oh, it's just because why are the drug lords after the band?

Speaker 22 Just because the sister is dating giant Michael Phelps.

Speaker 3 But why does that matter?

Speaker 11 Why does that matter?

Speaker 52 Because the little hairy dude was like, no, no, no.

Speaker 32 By the way, he's not just hairy.

Speaker 3 This is like condensed hairy.

Speaker 3 There's hair at a density level.

Speaker 32 So upsetting.

Speaker 34 He is like a boiled wool sweater

Speaker 34 on his entire body.

Speaker 40 That's what he's doing.

Speaker 54 He's like a close-knit sweater.

Speaker 95 I was thinking of

Speaker 96 Captain Caveman from the old Flintstones, just shaved in a couple more places.

Speaker 43 Or if you took like,

Speaker 40 I'm trying to think of like a normal proportioned, tall, hairy man, but compacted.

Speaker 13 It's condensed so that he has more follicles per square inch of body you know what I mean like every honestly for every pore

Speaker 3 there or like a place where you could put one follicle for him there was like ten okay so you know how like a chia pet comes with the the thing what if you put all the seeds on a much smaller thing

Speaker 78 right it'd look pretty crazy that's what this guy is

Speaker 3 so he's just upset because his sister's dating someone?

Speaker 70 I think he's projecting his anger over being so hairy

Speaker 22 and so short onto the fact that his sister's with giant Michael Phelps.

Speaker 40 And their proportionality is all off.

Speaker 28 The scene with her walking, like, with his, he's, like, draped over her like an ill-fitting coat.

Speaker 25 What's going on? What's on?

Speaker 85 That's one of the only times where he's got his shirt on as well, rather than

Speaker 69 just like a towel around his neck.

Speaker 40 Got one of those very long trunks.

Speaker 18 I feel like he's wearing a trench coat in the scene where he picks her up, but he's so tall that the trench coat only comes up to his waist.

Speaker 70 What is going on with them sexual?

Speaker 85 You can see why she was so attracted to him due to his moves, you know, his moves when she's in the

Speaker 85 classroom and he comes in, he's doing all this

Speaker 103 winking and nodding.

Speaker 45 He also enters a very clouded classroom and he's like, hey, come here.

Speaker 78 Like, as if there's not a million,

Speaker 25 there's like a full classroom inside.

Speaker 94 Like, come here.

Speaker 28 Hey, here.

Speaker 40 And she thinks he's fucking hilarious.

Speaker 56 I mean, I get it.

Speaker 24 He's dynamite in the pool, but.

Speaker 3 By the way, that is a swimmer's body. Like, that's a body that belongs only in water.

Speaker 100 I've got to be honest, do we know for sure that's not Michael?

Speaker 91 I don't. I wouldn't say.
I wouldn't dare say that.

Speaker 98 I'm not sure.

Speaker 42 It may be.

Speaker 28 Prove me wrong, Michael.

Speaker 3 You know, she also, I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but she, to me, looked different in every scene.

Speaker 68 Especially early on.

Speaker 56 Especially early on.

Speaker 3 Didn't realize that this person was the same person.

Speaker 85 Band hair and a school hat.

Speaker 16 But was she different?

Speaker 21 Was she even, in the first scene, I felt like she was just a groupie for the band.

Speaker 13 and then in the next scene, she's a lead singer.

Speaker 3 By the way, the treatment of her as the female character in this movie throughout is problematic, to say the least.

Speaker 28 Very least.

Speaker 19 What are you talking about?

Speaker 3 So in the first scene, she doesn't play an instrument at all.

Speaker 72 She's just hopping around to make out.

Speaker 10 That's why I thought she was a groupie.

Speaker 58 I thought that she was brought up on stage by the lead singer to kind of...

Speaker 3 But why isn't she a part of this band and their aspirations and their

Speaker 54 ninja training?

Speaker 43 She's a lead singer at a certain point, but you're right, she has no function in the ninja portion.

Speaker 37 Wait a second, I can't.

Speaker 3 I think the conversations they have about how they want to build the band and go on a tour to all of the countries that their parents came from.

Speaker 13 That

Speaker 99 I could talk about that

Speaker 5 scene conservatively for three hours.

Speaker 13 I mean, this guy, this guy has only those lines

Speaker 35 in this scene talk not before and not after.

Speaker 87 I want to play this scene and I just had a realization of why these ninjas may actually be after this band.

Speaker 81 So if I forget,

Speaker 13 stick with us after the clip.

Speaker 104 So Mark, how do you feel about putting some board breaking into the act?

Speaker 41 Sure, why not?

Speaker 104 We could write another Taekwondo song, and after Tom does one of his guitar solos, we could all break boards. Jack could do a drum solo.
How about it, Jack?

Speaker 104 I'd love to help you write that song, John, but there's no way I'm going to break any boards in that club.

Speaker 105 I don't even want us to play there anymore.

Speaker 104 Why? Because that other man jumped us the other night?

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 105 Because of Jeff, too.

Speaker 84 He's in there every night, his damn gang, selling stupid cocaine.

Speaker 107 Don't worry about Jeff.

Speaker 104 If he bothers us anymore, I'll make sure he regrets it.

Speaker 45 What do you think about a tour?

Speaker 104 What kind of tour?

Speaker 105 It would be a world tour, but what would make it special is that we play in each other's countries, you know, like finding our roots.

Speaker 104 You mean we're gonna play in Ireland?

Speaker 106 Right.

Speaker 104 While we're in Europe, we'd visit Italy, you know, Tom's home country.

Speaker 105 We'd visit all the countries where our parents came from.

Speaker 106 Korea,

Speaker 105 Ireland, we'd play in Israel. That's where my parents are from.

Speaker 107 I didn't realize these people.

Speaker 12 Telesound is really an international band.

Speaker 104 Right.

Speaker 106 Wherever we'd go, we'd visit the local taekwondo schools. We'd promote peace and goodwill.

Speaker 104 Think we could take a little time out for dinner while we're trying to to save the world?

Speaker 75 Oh

Speaker 57 that scene is amazing.

Speaker 92 And they're very bad bookers for a world tour.

Speaker 51 I mean,

Speaker 5 some expensive flights.

Speaker 3 I don't even know where to begin with this. I mean, they make a big point in this movie over establishing that everybody in the band is an orphan.

Speaker 8 Yes. Oh, well, that's just dropped.

Speaker 24 That's dropped in a scene where the guy says he has a, he's looking for his father.

Speaker 49 And they're like, wait a second, we're all orphans.

Speaker 21 That doesn't mean that you don't have a father.

Speaker 3 But it is a strange thing because it seems as though that's how they found each other.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 4 Also.

Speaker 3 Through their orphan identity.

Speaker 4 Yes, and also, like, they all, I think, go to college together, right?

Speaker 59 Yeah,

Speaker 59 UCF.

Speaker 34 Okay, so that's a question then, too.

Speaker 22 Like, they put up a sign that said, looking for

Speaker 52 band members, bass, drums, keyboards, must like these bands and be an orphan.

Speaker 13 Like, must have no living.

Speaker 90 And no taekwondo.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 68 international.

Speaker 6 There's a lot of things that you need to know to be in this band.

Speaker 50 Because they've got a lot going on.

Speaker 3 There's an actor whose parents are from Israel.

Speaker 3 He truly seems like, I don't mean to be cruel, but it seems like he's acting under duress.

Speaker 72 Yeah. That something.

Speaker 83 And he's not a bad person.

Speaker 52 I would not be surprised to find out that he had been abducted and forced to make this movie.

Speaker 46 Well, let me just drop, like, throughout the podcast, I'll drop a little bit of knowledge about this movie on you.

Speaker 81 And one of the things about it is the lead actor, the director, the guy who is,

Speaker 66 you know.

Speaker 81 YK Kim. Yes.

Speaker 20 YK Kim.

Speaker 22 Mark, he plays Mark, right?

Speaker 69 Mark.

Speaker 50 He's also 45 years old.

Speaker 33 Mark is

Speaker 18 an amazing Taekwondo

Speaker 66 star.

Speaker 71 He came here from Korea, and they said that what he did to the United States was he like he made like the McDonald's of Taekwondo.

Speaker 49 Like he franchised out Taekwondo all around Florida, specifically Orlando.

Speaker 66 And when he was making this movie, one, he never had to get permits because everyone in Orlando loved him so much he could shoot wherever he wanted.

Speaker 84 And two, he used all of his students in the movie.

Speaker 90 So none of them are actors.

Speaker 12 They're just his students.

Speaker 14 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 86 So how did Giant Michael Phelps get in the movie?

Speaker 18 Well, I mean, Giant Michael Phelps is probably forced to, he's so good at swimming, you got to do an extracurricular to kind of bounce it out.

Speaker 40 How about Jim, though?

Speaker 85 Jim doesn't do taekwondo.

Speaker 27 Oh, so maybe Jim was one of the guys who got it through an audition.

Speaker 81 Jim was a straight-up audition.

Speaker 85 Straight-up audition. Guess who was the casting director on this movie? Who was it?

Speaker 69 It was YK Kim.

Speaker 13 Story by YK.

Speaker 60 Story by him.

Speaker 85 He was the casting director, writer, and producer, along with the other guys who were also associate producers, production supervisor, lyricists for all the songs.

Speaker 48 It was

Speaker 77 a one-man band, this movie.

Speaker 57 YK Kim also came in to direct the final scene of the film.

Speaker 35 Oh, he didn't direct it?

Speaker 30 He did not direct it.

Speaker 96 He just directed the final scene.

Speaker 3 The jungle sequence?

Speaker 80 No.

Speaker 28 The hospital scenes.

Speaker 73 Because

Speaker 47 when it's screened, and I want to make sure I get this right,

Speaker 47 when it's screened, I want to say in can.

Speaker 12 I see that that's wrong.

Speaker 34 When it's screened in can.

Speaker 35 When it won the palm d'oor.

Speaker 57 Yeah, when it screened in can in 1987.

Speaker 19 What's happening right now?

Speaker 34 Jim. What's going on?

Speaker 102 Did it just screen like I have more information to drop it?

Speaker 13 We'll move on.

Speaker 25 I will get get back to some.

Speaker 71 When the screen cancels me down, the ending was a bummer that Jim died.

Speaker 30 He's like, well, we got to reshoot the ending.

Speaker 51 So him and a very skeleton crew just went in there and shot that final scene where they took a young man and put some white tacopot

Speaker 7 and made him an older man.

Speaker 43 How crazy was that?

Speaker 11 All of them miraculously healed from

Speaker 89 the events of an hour ago.

Speaker 70 Jen found shirts.

Speaker 34 Jim's dad

Speaker 56 is is conservatively 15 years younger than Jim.

Speaker 98 You could not, the man playing Jim's dad is arguably 16 years old, wearing old man makeup.

Speaker 20 Whoa, Jason, I will again say, old man makeup is a

Speaker 13 gray in his hair.

Speaker 70 This is wild.

Speaker 67 This is the reshoot scene.

Speaker 41 Doctor, how was my son?

Speaker 107 Jim was extremely fortunate. The wounds weren't as deep as we initially thought.
He did lose a lot of blood, but there was very little internal damage. Oh, thank God.
When can we see him?

Speaker 107 I'll hear me y'all shortly. I'm going to leave him under your care tonight.
He needs plenty of rest, and if you have any problems, just give me a call.

Speaker 41 Thank you, Doctor. Telephone, please.

Speaker 107 Yo, being here has meant a lot to Jim.

Speaker 53 Shaking hands for so long.

Speaker 6 This guy was just stabbed in the gut, screamed, stabbed in the gut in such a violent way.

Speaker 19 He is being sent home on his own recognizance now like that branched you're not even sent home on the same day

Speaker 100 i i love this move

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Speaker 50 I want to talk about

Speaker 34 the bad guy gym

Speaker 52 where all the bad guys just lift weights.

Speaker 12 Oh, gym.

Speaker 43 Where it's like it's a like it looks like a gym that you might go and work out in except all the bad guys in town are there just working out.

Speaker 77 Well, let's just like maybe just for the lay of the land just go over all the different groupings, right?

Speaker 62 Okay, great.

Speaker 75 So you have

Speaker 20 the band band ninjas.

Speaker 51 Sound dragon.

Speaker 38 Right, you got sound dragon.

Speaker 18 Then you got the hairy guy and his team.

Speaker 43 Is his name Jeff?

Speaker 34 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Jeff.

Speaker 100 Okay, you've got Harry Jeff.

Speaker 22 Jeff, who is Jane's brother.

Speaker 4 Who's Jane's brother?

Speaker 81 They also have another sibling, but we'll get to that.

Speaker 13 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 30 They do? A lot of questions there.

Speaker 68 By the way, the story of what happened to their parents is in this.

Speaker 13 Yes, okay, that's it.

Speaker 85 Do you not know the siblings? Jeff, Jane, and Yoshito.

Speaker 13 I know them really well.

Speaker 3 What happened to their parents? So she says her dad left her mom when she was like seven years old.

Speaker 100 Giant Michael Phelps, who is her boyfriend, says to her, So what's a boyfriend?

Speaker 56 What's the family situation?

Speaker 34 What's that whole deal?

Speaker 27 Well, first of all, he calls her out of class in a very flirtatious way to be like, come on, come on, let's have fun. Hey, so we never talked about your family.

Speaker 95 Give me the lowdown. Like, that was the fun.

Speaker 85 I've actually transcribed that a little bit. June, do you want to read with me?

Speaker 60 Please.

Speaker 85 Right, so you play the part of Jane. I shall be John.
Great.

Speaker 3 I have a brother, as a matter of fact. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be going to this nice school or staying in this nice dorm I'm staying in.

Speaker 85 That's really nice of him.

Speaker 3 Except for one thing.

Speaker 3 I don't really like him.

Speaker 48 What?

Speaker 78 You don't like your own brother?

Speaker 13 Why?

Speaker 3 Well, I can't really explain it. I just don't like him.

Speaker 16 And

Speaker 111 scene.

Speaker 12 Remember, explain anything else. That's it.

Speaker 110 Brilliant. We're glad we cleared that up.

Speaker 110 I hear it, you guys.

Speaker 79 We would bring it.

Speaker 79 It's crazy.

Speaker 52 I would legit pay for a shot-for-shot remake of this movie starring the two of you.

Speaker 69 Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 So the way she describes what happened to her parents and how they're orphaned is that her dad left when she was seven.

Speaker 3 Her mom died immediately after he left and then immediately after that her dad died rough year rough

Speaker 50 year

Speaker 3 and it sounds just like wow that

Speaker 3 if you're that dad and you've left your

Speaker 3 if you've left your wife and kids and then she dies right away and then you die right away it's like wow i really hope it was worth it

Speaker 74 really hope it was worth it

Speaker 43 yeah for those final years to be just full of turmoil.

Speaker 37 Anyway.

Speaker 109 So, so we got, all right, so we got Jim, all right, so we got our band ninjas, we got our gym ninja, then we got.

Speaker 43 No, they're not ninjas, they're like the bikers.

Speaker 4 They're the hairy guys team?

Speaker 18 Yeah, they're bikers.

Speaker 34 They're bad ninjas.

Speaker 52 They're like thugs, I feel like.

Speaker 34 Okay, they're like just tough guys.

Speaker 84 And then there's the, then there's a group of also biker ninjas who are the higher guys.

Speaker 30 That's the guy who lives in Miami.

Speaker 81 They're the cocaine guys. They're the cocaine guys.

Speaker 38 So that's the other connection.

Speaker 18 And then there's there's another set of bad guys, which is another band that we've never seen play.

Speaker 28 Were they a band?

Speaker 40 I was confused by that.

Speaker 3 I don't understand this.

Speaker 50 Were they actually a band?

Speaker 11 Well, that guy, so one guy's the clip.

Speaker 42 The guy with the gun, right?

Speaker 27 The guy, it's my favorite scene in the whole movie.

Speaker 21 We don't have it as a clip, where two guys stand next to each other and are screaming at each other.

Speaker 7 From the moment one, you can see the spit flying out of their mouth.

Speaker 46 And so one of that guy, that guy's in a band.

Speaker 73 He's like, Hurry, did you not bust me in a band.

Speaker 48 I don't like your band anymore.

Speaker 54 Well, all right, well, no.

Speaker 14 Like,

Speaker 30 that's the whole scene.

Speaker 11 And so that guy, the guy who was in the band, goes to Jim and is like, go, Jeff.

Speaker 20 Jeff, hairy guy. Goes to hairy guy.

Speaker 61 He's like, kill that band.

Speaker 45 But Jeff was already doing it because

Speaker 34 Giant Michael Phelps is still called blasting his system.

Speaker 13 Yeah. And then if you do that, we'll give you all of our earnings.

Speaker 28 All of our earnings.

Speaker 34 Not a percentage.

Speaker 28 Not a percentage.

Speaker 13 All of it.

Speaker 39 So they're now working at...

Speaker 90 Let's not be around the bush in a bar

Speaker 5 for free. For free.

Speaker 3 But I'm sorry. So wait, but why does Jeff want to kill Michael Phelps?

Speaker 52 Because he's blasting his sister.

Speaker 3 But that's the only...

Speaker 83 So, God, what did happen between the two of them?

Speaker 27 Because Because Harry Guy was like, I don't want you dating this second-rate musician.

Speaker 45 He has, he's like, yeah, I fucking do drug deals on the side.

Speaker 71 I don't want you associating with musicians.

Speaker 53 He's looking out for his sister.

Speaker 22 He's like, you focus on school, do your classes, don't get distracted by this nonsense and this guy. Never see him again.

Speaker 63 There's school, by the way, which came in fourth place.

Speaker 15 And it's like, hey, good news, everybody.

Speaker 6 We came in fourth place.

Speaker 46 And then the computer teacher walks around the game.

Speaker 30 He's like, hey, good job, good job.

Speaker 20 Nice circle.

Speaker 91 Nice circle.

Speaker 33 Nice circle.

Speaker 3 I actually like how he was weirdly touching the women's shoulders as he walked by. That whole scene made me feel nauseous.

Speaker 61 Oh, so here's my theory on why I think they want to kill the band or why people get because the band is revealing plot points of the cartel.

Speaker 62 Because they, don't they sing the song?

Speaker 3 It's like through song.

Speaker 65 Bikers by day, ninjas by night, steal all your cocaine.

Speaker 79 Wasn't that

Speaker 79 like...

Speaker 85 Oh no, they found us out.

Speaker 91 Yeah.

Speaker 13 They're penning you there.

Speaker 43 They're writing like social issue documentary

Speaker 52 songs that are

Speaker 52 exposing the crime syndicate.

Speaker 73 That would be.

Speaker 47 I mean, there's songs where we're pretty much exposing the underbelly of Miami.

Speaker 3 Are we going to talk about the beach scene, the beach sequence?

Speaker 86 How many times do people walk up to other people and just walk up to strangers and say, can I get a kiss?

Speaker 36 User, I have a quick question.

Speaker 40 Can you do that?

Speaker 85 Do you think there were any release forms involved when the camera just went round the beach filming anyone?

Speaker 22 I think this falls under

Speaker 22 YK Kim can do anything in Orlando.

Speaker 58 Yeah, you got but here's what I found most disturbing about that montage.

Speaker 65 It starts off, you know, the band is driving on the beach and they're like gawking at girls.

Speaker 27 girls like, you know, it's like girls in bikinis, girls in bikinis, girls in bikinis.

Speaker 49 Old person on a scooter.

Speaker 12 Child.

Speaker 28 Child.

Speaker 82 The images become more.

Speaker 73 And

Speaker 52 when you juxtapose the obviously meant to be sexualized kind of buns and boobs on the beach with just shots of children,

Speaker 28 you're like,

Speaker 40 what is going on?

Speaker 3 I couldn't believe also that they set up our good guys this way.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 39 Oh, just

Speaker 54 predators.

Speaker 34 Walks up to a girl and is like, hey, can I get a kiss?

Speaker 86 He is pushed to the ground where he lands in another girl's cleavage, then rolls around on a bunch of girls who appear to just have a tickle fight with him.

Speaker 72 So upsetting.

Speaker 40 And that is his punishment for being a creep.

Speaker 3 The most upsetting shot, though, was when I think one of the girls is a girl in a bikini is like biking or roller skating past, I think, one of our guys, and he's sitting down with a like a water gun.

Speaker 72 I don't remember. Anybody else remember this?

Speaker 79 Like a Uzi water gun.

Speaker 74 This is Grace Water.

Speaker 80 This is the show where they

Speaker 34 was it. We just saw it.

Speaker 35 Yeah, I don't think that's one of our guys though.

Speaker 13 By the way, Paul, can you rewind a little bit?

Speaker 35 Like, here we are.

Speaker 19 Here we are. Yeah.

Speaker 50 Okay.

Speaker 100 Oh, here we are.

Speaker 111 Summer.

Speaker 52 Summer having a crazy time.

Speaker 111 We're just friends.

Speaker 7 Just friends.

Speaker 34 Buns and brews down at the beach.

Speaker 99 This guy's wearing a hat.

Speaker 39 Just oats.

Speaker 7 Buns and friends.

Speaker 111 Buns and friends. Plus a creep.

Speaker 78 Driving down the boardwalk.

Speaker 28 Kids alone.

Speaker 56 Kids alone at the beach.

Speaker 111 These kids are lost.

Speaker 78 Kids are selling their bodies.

Speaker 111 What's wrong?

Speaker 68 Just guys hanging out.

Speaker 22 Attacking women sexually.

Speaker 40 Just Oates wants a kiss.

Speaker 24 Pushed into ladies' boobs.

Speaker 40 This movie's amazing.

Speaker 78 The other movie about the kids living under the pier, though?

Speaker 54 That's a sad movie.

Speaker 3 By the way, don't put a shot after those shots of grown women in bikinis. How dare you cut to a shot of a little girl also in a bikini showering.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 54 That's really disturbing.

Speaker 57 Oh, it was, it took me by saying it was like...

Speaker 37 None of those children have parents.

Speaker 28 It's an orphan beach.

Speaker 12 You get to orphan orphan beach.

Speaker 4 That's true.

Speaker 43 This might just be orphan beach.

Speaker 9 You're right.

Speaker 13 That's smart. It's a theme.

Speaker 7 When this guy falls on the girls, he exists on those girls for

Speaker 108 such a long time.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he knew exactly what he was doing. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 34 Even with giant Michael Phelps tries to pull him off, he is like flailing around as if he's still being attacked.

Speaker 3 Well, because he's pretending that he is.

Speaker 81 I guess so.

Speaker 110 Also,

Speaker 85 when you get to the credits later on and they're showing each character individually,

Speaker 85 that's the bit that they show for that character.

Speaker 62 Him just being slapped by them.

Speaker 85 That was his only.

Speaker 113 Now, as disturbing as everything we just described was, none of it comes close to how the beach scene ends.

Speaker 30 Which is

Speaker 24 our two

Speaker 66 lovers in this film

Speaker 67 in a beach chair in the ocean.

Speaker 68 So good.

Speaker 7 Slow kissing as if they've never kissed before.

Speaker 13 No, not as if they've never kissed each other, as if they've never had a kiss.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 45 It's just a quick peck, though, isn't it?

Speaker 91 Oh, no.

Speaker 81 We don't even need sound for it.

Speaker 66 We just see

Speaker 69 just a slow.

Speaker 28 It's like short

Speaker 72 short kisses.

Speaker 73 There's like

Speaker 73 What are they opening?

Speaker 52 They never open the mouth and get into any kind of rhythm. It's just like...

Speaker 3 No, it's like these hard, fast, slow.

Speaker 13 It's like they're passing a gumball.

Speaker 91 It's a quick.

Speaker 57 And it feels like when you put peanut butter

Speaker 18 on a horse's tongue to make them talk in a movie or something like that.

Speaker 14 They both have

Speaker 67 the peanut butter out of their own mouths.

Speaker 77 The thing that I think about that scene too is clearly they're like, oh, we want to do like a from here to eternity kind of scene.

Speaker 8 Like you're rolling around on the beach.

Speaker 103 That didn't work for whatever reason.

Speaker 82 Like let's put the beach chair in the ocean and you'll just kind of be jumping up out of the like it's the most I've never seen that ever.

Speaker 85 It's like YK Kim as well said

Speaker 85 you know, we've got it from one side, got it from one angle.

Speaker 89 I don't think we've got enough in that nine seconds.

Speaker 115 We'll flip to the other side so we can get another perspective.

Speaker 5 It

Speaker 35 It's a weird man.

Speaker 34 He's, you know, like I said, a giant, and she's teeny tiny.

Speaker 43 So there's a lot of it that's really weird.

Speaker 53 I just didn't care for it physically.

Speaker 69 Oh.

Speaker 13 Well,

Speaker 52 there's also, in the clip we were playing before where they're driving down the boardwalk and Just Oates is posing and stuff, there is somebody who has the line,

Speaker 12 hold on.

Speaker 52 He goes, they don't make buns like that down at the bakery.

Speaker 13 To me, made me really excited.

Speaker 4 To me,

Speaker 58 the ad-libs or the things that kept the scenes alive were my favorite part because it was like just these little moments where it would be almost a repetition of it.

Speaker 27 Like there's one moment where they're getting excited about something in the apartment that they all live in.

Speaker 5 I want to talk about that for one year.

Speaker 33 And he goes, the band apartment.

Speaker 49 He's like, hey, hey, quiet down.

Speaker 103 You're going to wake the neighbors.

Speaker 96 And then it switches and goes, hey, you're going to wake the neighbors.

Speaker 33 It was almost like.

Speaker 3 They do that thing. I feel like this happens in the room, too, where every character has to have a response to something.
Like when Jim is opening his letter from the Defense Department

Speaker 3 and

Speaker 3 he's taking a while to open it, every character is like, open it, you should open your letter. This is the letter you should open.
But really, open the letter.

Speaker 72 This is a letter.

Speaker 3 We want to hear what is in that letter. Like everyone has something to say about this moment.

Speaker 99 And it's testament to that they are such good friends and they're invested in each other's lives.

Speaker 22 And they're also doing that thing that we all do when we're hanging out with our friends at home as we take our shirts off and put a towel over our shoulder.

Speaker 34 Throughout the movie, all of them are shirtless with a shoulder towel.

Speaker 13 Like, that's a dude's shit.

Speaker 60 And Jim has never zipped up his flies.

Speaker 20 Jim's pants are always slightly undone at any given point.

Speaker 57 I also like when they got in the mail another time and

Speaker 51 and Hall or was it Hall or Oates? Which one is it again?

Speaker 13 Oates Oates.

Speaker 62 Oates is like all right what we got here?

Speaker 20 This is a piece of mail

Speaker 20 and this is a piece of mail

Speaker 86 and this is a piece of no and nothing is necessary in that scene.

Speaker 20 It is like watching a person hand out mail that has no consequence to anyone.

Speaker 99 As if he doesn't understand conceptually how mail works.

Speaker 78 That each of those is for one of the people in the house.

Speaker 64 It is not just Q, it just arrived for the home, the home's mail.

Speaker 5 Holy cow.

Speaker 70 The first...

Speaker 52 Okay,

Speaker 52 I'm just going to dive straight into

Speaker 5 Jim's story looking for his father.

Speaker 49 An Oscar-winning performance.

Speaker 59 This is

Speaker 35 a staggering monologue

Speaker 35 that I found to be hypnotic.

Speaker 33 I watched it.

Speaker 43 I watched it many times.

Speaker 78 I found a clip of it on YouTube just so I could watch it only a bunch.

Speaker 35 Well, it's phenomenal.

Speaker 18 Jason, you want to take a crack at it and then we can see how you stack up?

Speaker 100 Let's see how we let's, yeah, I feel like we all have it.

Speaker 51 Let's give it a share you with

Speaker 49 a whirl.

Speaker 13 Oh, boy. Okay.

Speaker 83 June, do you have yours there?

Speaker 12 I've got it, I've got it.

Speaker 52 So, so, okay, so wait a second.

Speaker 35 YK Kim says, wait, I thought we were all orphans, right?

Speaker 84 Yes.

Speaker 111 And then Jim goes, that's my father.

Speaker 87 He walks out of the scene, yeah.

Speaker 14 We get a spotlight.

Speaker 12 We should be the other three.

Speaker 78 And bearing in mind that the three

Speaker 85 in the background is the fine line between trying to cry and trying not to laugh.

Speaker 14 That's what I did.

Speaker 78 My mother was Korean and my father was black American.

Speaker 43 She gave me this picture when she was real sick.

Speaker 4 I was only nine years old.

Speaker 13 They say that they loved each other and were real loyal

Speaker 13 and real happy.

Speaker 70 But then when he finished military duty, he left.

Speaker 34 And we never saw him again.

Speaker 5 She told me to find find him, but I didn't like him because he left us.

Speaker 13 But I knew one day when I grew up I'd find him,

Speaker 13 whether he was dead or alive.

Speaker 100 I sent a couple letters to the Defense Department.

Speaker 7 And nothing happened.

Speaker 101 And the scene.

Speaker 101 Oh, my God.

Speaker 101 Now,

Speaker 85 that was a one-oh, wasn't it? It was a one-take.

Speaker 69 I can't follow that.

Speaker 54 I mean, that's good.

Speaker 3 He was really deliberate, though.

Speaker 54 Oh, Chris.

Speaker 4 He steps forward into a spotlight.

Speaker 20 Well, by the way, I'm going to say this.

Speaker 58 I think he just found his light.

Speaker 30 There are scenes in this movie where people are reading books in the complete dark.

Speaker 96 Lighting in this movie was a mystery.

Speaker 8 Like

Speaker 101 the man who shot fire out of his hands and then never returned in the credits.

Speaker 40 In the credits of the movie, he shoots fire from his hands.

Speaker 20 We never see that again.

Speaker 38 Okay, I thought for sure that, yeah, well, at the end, they'll shoot fire.

Speaker 84 We'll just take a taste of how Jim does it.

Speaker 101 But this looks like your brother.

Speaker 13 I didn't know you had a brother.

Speaker 41 It's my father. What?

Speaker 107 This is

Speaker 104 your father?

Speaker 41 Yes, it is. You sure?

Speaker 41 I didn't know.

Speaker 104 You had a father.

Speaker 41 I thought we are all orphans.

Speaker 101 Bring up the Vernon wearing shirts.

Speaker 41 My mother was Korean.

Speaker 41 And my father was black American.

Speaker 101 She gave me this picture when she was real sick.

Speaker 44 I was only nine years old.

Speaker 41 They say that they loved each other and they were real loyal.

Speaker 106 But then when he finished military duty, he left.

Speaker 41 And we never saw him again.

Speaker 41 She told me to find him.

Speaker 41 But I didn't like him because he left us.

Speaker 41 But I knew one day when I grew up, I'd find him.

Speaker 41 Whether he was dead or alive.

Speaker 41 I sent a couple

Speaker 41 letters to the Defense Department.

Speaker 41 Nothing happened.

Speaker 41 I love

Speaker 41 can't be the real thing.

Speaker 62 YK Kim in the last minute just kind of creeps really slowly behind him, like completely masked.

Speaker 100 YK Kim's character throughout the movie is learning stuff about his friends at every turn.

Speaker 22 In the previous scene, he learns that the other, the drummer, is of Israeli heritage.

Speaker 13 He's like, I didn't know that.

Speaker 86 Like, he doesn't know anything about these people.

Speaker 85 Now he knows that they all like grapes.

Speaker 69 Yep.

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Speaker 3 by the way though so we're how many minutes into this podcast uh we've done a lot

Speaker 3 what is this movie about

Speaker 54 wow what is it about what's about following your dreams and and and your heart

Speaker 66 and then you know sometimes people want to stop you uh with force and you have to be strong enough to get out there and you you can't be under the thumb of your drug-uh-dealing brother.

Speaker 66 You gotta make your own decisions, and that's it.

Speaker 85 And also, only through the elimination of violence

Speaker 12 can we achieve world peace, despite the movie being solely violent.

Speaker 101 The heroes of the movie.

Speaker 13 After a 20-minute fight scene in the juggle, the heroes of the movie are murderers.

Speaker 73 Murderers are unrepentant.

Speaker 13 Michael Phelps kills his girlfriend's brother and she's like, nah, that's okay.

Speaker 28 Yeah.

Speaker 43 And he basically chalks it up to like, my bad?

Speaker 13 Actually,

Speaker 90 I've transcribed that one as well.

Speaker 64 Oh,

Speaker 72 fantastic.

Speaker 85 I'll be John.

Speaker 108 You'll be Jane. Yeah.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 81 I'm so sorry about what happened.

Speaker 90 I felt so bad about that. Bear in mind, he's talking about killing her brother,

Speaker 85 which happened just a few hours ago.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's not your fault, I understand.

Speaker 12 See,

Speaker 85 we had to do it, we had no choice.

Speaker 3 I understand, it's all over now.

Speaker 115 That's true.

Speaker 3 It's okay, we're happy for Jim.

Speaker 93 Brilliant.

Speaker 90 So sure, we'll have to

Speaker 101 low-maintenance girlfriend.

Speaker 67 She's not going to make it about her.

Speaker 43 You know her friends are like, Jane, what are you doing?

Speaker 78 You have to dump him.

Speaker 42 He killed your brother.

Speaker 13 He and his friends are murderers.

Speaker 100 And yeah, their tunes are banging.

Speaker 50 But again,

Speaker 33 he killed your brother.

Speaker 5 Do you think she's like out of school now?

Speaker 3 I'm pretty sure that her brother was molesting her from the age of

Speaker 3 like 15 to 15. Yeah, like there's that's the only thing that makes sense.

Speaker 53 Well, he's very jealous.

Speaker 70 He's like jealous.

Speaker 72 He's very jealous and controlling.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 53 A lover.

Speaker 52 He's a jealous brother lover.

Speaker 3 And that's the reason why she's not upset that he's dead.

Speaker 3 If anything, I think she feels relieved.

Speaker 100 Well, she did say early on, she sets the stage for this.

Speaker 78 She says, I don't like him.

Speaker 44 Right.

Speaker 101 Which makes it cool to be killed.

Speaker 27 And I also, I think what really gave me insight to her relationship with her brother is in flashback, it's the most innocuous, like, they have this, like, thing, and you see a flashback of her and her brother, and it's like him just like an inconsequential light flashback of you like, oh, my brother, and it's just like them in front of the school.

Speaker 79 Like,

Speaker 21 it's like a flash, like, that was the only moment.

Speaker 49 She's like, oh, yeah, I remember him.

Speaker 101 Right, yeah, he was the hairy guy.

Speaker 64 All right, it's a cool, it's cool.

Speaker 5 By the way, if Jim's sword wound did not kill him, dragging him through a stagnant pond

Speaker 35 is certainly gonna do it.

Speaker 42 It's gonna get in the pond.

Speaker 43 Oh, he would have lived, but like, apparently, all of the bacteria was shoved into his body when you said dragged him through stagnants.

Speaker 5 Jay's, I'm gonna say, you fucking morons.

Speaker 18 Little do you know about the suits that they make in Orlando.

Speaker 30 They are swamp resistant.

Speaker 66 And so when you got a nice Orlando suit, suit you can fall right off one of those gator boats and you'll be fine

Speaker 52 we haven't talked about the train yard fight we haven't talked about the

Speaker 100 b-roll of bikers

Speaker 49 bikers were all real and paid in beer yeah

Speaker 52 truth bikers all real paid in beer also I read in the little trivia section that Jane's real boyfriend was just oates

Speaker 52 and in the movie her boyfriend is giant Michael Phelps and so whenever whenever they had to do makeout scenes, they would send Just Oates out for beer.

Speaker 43 They'd be like, hey, Just Oates, go get us some beers, will you?

Speaker 52 And he'd come back and they'd be like, your girlfriend just made out with giant Michael Phelps.

Speaker 5 You idiot, you fell for it.

Speaker 62 What are you guys shooting today?

Speaker 85 Oh, just the scene at the beach in the sea.

Speaker 83 Don't worry about it.

Speaker 110 Go get some beers.

Speaker 30 He's like, I'll make it up.

Speaker 63 I'll just roll on women.

Speaker 99 Also, how about the fact that there is a scene, I love the scene where

Speaker 22 Jeff's gang of biker biker thugs were tailing Sound Dragon in a white Volvo

Speaker 35 Like the bad guy's car was just a boxy safe white Volvo

Speaker 43 I was like they just are doing like oh well my mom's got a car.

Speaker 94 We'll do it Bring it by the way speaking of this every time there was a fight in this movie I thought June this is actually a great movie for you because I think you finally get your answer to what's a street fighter because every time in this movie it would seem like a bunch of people would get in the street and fight they would always just like block a thoroughfare, and seemingly like 40 people without any stunt coordination just went.

Speaker 97 Just go into town on each other.

Speaker 36 Just attacked each other.

Speaker 3 People like standing in convertibles, like going like this, just like raising one arm over and over.

Speaker 43 There was a lot of like...

Speaker 52 Sound Dragon is vastly outnumbered.

Speaker 43 And then they kick ass, like, poorly. Yes.

Speaker 39 And defeat, like, people who sometimes have guns.

Speaker 3 Well, that's what's so weird about the statement you read at the end of the movie about world peace and not using violence.

Speaker 3 You never see them struggle to not fight.

Speaker 53 They never try and turn down a fight. No.

Speaker 3 Which isn't that the whole thing about martial arts that you learn how to fight so that you don't have to? Yeah.

Speaker 103 No, they just go for it.

Speaker 85 But if you have the ability to hold someone's nose with your toe, you're going to want to do that.

Speaker 110 Then you're going to use that, aren't you?

Speaker 74 I totally as much as you can.

Speaker 65 There was one funny moment in that scene where

Speaker 66 they get stopped in the street of downtown Orlando.

Speaker 69 Miami.

Speaker 69 Oh, no, Orlando.

Speaker 28 No, Orlando, yeah.

Speaker 47 Where one of the characters comes over and is going to pour beer on all their heads.

Speaker 62 Oh, yeah. So

Speaker 57 he can get YK Kim because he's right by him, but he really can't reach Michael Phelps.

Speaker 108 So Michael Phelps leans in

Speaker 101 to get the beer poured on his

Speaker 28 head.

Speaker 43 I loved that the bad guys were like, hey, Jerry, get over here, do you, do it, or whatever.

Speaker 34 And like, there's like dozens of bad guys

Speaker 13 with guns, right? With guns.

Speaker 43 This guy comes in, like, oh, and you think, oh, he's got to be their most badass guy.

Speaker 34 All he does is pour beer on their heads.

Speaker 28 That's his big move, which is crazy.

Speaker 43 There's a tough guys

Speaker 43 song in this movie.

Speaker 99 Do you have the tough guys song, Paul?

Speaker 60 Bet. By the way, it was.

Speaker 73 Fuck yes.

Speaker 78 This is some next level shit.

Speaker 34 Let's all fuck to this tonight.

Speaker 13 Tough guys.

Speaker 13 Do it.

Speaker 43 Do it, people.

Speaker 60 That is tough, guys.

Speaker 70 We missed the best.

Speaker 22 My favorite part of it is when he goes into the bar and kisses the bartender.

Speaker 69 Yes.

Speaker 13 I was like, what?

Speaker 58 That bar, that scene is crazy because it has two of the main bad guys there. They get at the bar and then they have a conversation where the mics are not on.

Speaker 47 And it's kind of like, it's like a moment where they're kind of meeting up to talk about something big.

Speaker 38 It's like, yeah, so, and you don't hear what they're talking about.

Speaker 50 It's like, that should be a huge plot point in the movie.

Speaker 49 Not like a a montage roll over the scene oh oh my gosh this movie is great

Speaker 53 i think you guys are lucky

Speaker 84 so much good stuff well let me tell you a little bit about about the movie just a little bit more and then we'll talk to the audience so um

Speaker 11 long story short uh

Speaker 84 they get a distribution company to purchase this film for a hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 18 It opens in eight theaters in Orlando.

Speaker 51 That was the release plan.

Speaker 84 It had a very poor critical reception, and it ended after three weeks.

Speaker 21 Never to be heard from a.

Speaker 43 Sorry, what year is this? 87. Okay.

Speaker 84 Then, in 2009, a programmer at the Alamo Draft House was on eBay and saw the listing for a 35-millimeter print of the film for $35.

Speaker 77 And in 2010, screened the film.

Speaker 42 People went nuts.

Speaker 21 and the draft house was like holy shit we found like the room of the 80s

Speaker 65 the Tommy Wizo room not the Brie Larson room and

Speaker 34 some of these people might have been forced into acting in this movie in a room scenario

Speaker 94 so so basically then they call YK Kim and they're like we want to release your movie hangs up on them multiple times they he thinks it's a prank

Speaker 103 and then they're no, we really want it.

Speaker 67 And he's like, really?

Speaker 71 And they go, yeah, they re-released this movie in 2012.

Speaker 87 It was missing.

Speaker 63 No one saw it.

Speaker 10 It wasn't available from 87 to 2012.

Speaker 27 And it just is a, it's a recent find that Alamo Draft House happened to find because someone was on eBay and found this thing and then screened it.

Speaker 87 It would never, it would have, it would have only been those eight theaters in Orlando

Speaker 49 for that run.

Speaker 71 And so now the movie has become

Speaker 65 a big success and there's been money made from it, the million dollar budget.

Speaker 51 And just to show you, well, we'll get into that at the end. But yeah, so that is it.

Speaker 13 Amazing.

Speaker 84 Yeah, it's pretty amazing.

Speaker 30 And just deserved.

Speaker 49 Yeah, it came back.

Speaker 12 I love that as a...

Speaker 78 Like, I love that it's lost for all of those years.

Speaker 71 And then came out of nowhere, and now, you know, he's getting some success off of it.

Speaker 20 And he's still alive.

Speaker 22 Has he made a second one yet?

Speaker 46 By the way, he should.

Speaker 103 That would be amazing.

Speaker 4 Yes!

Speaker 60 With the same cast.

Speaker 12 The Orlando Collection shot in Miami.

Speaker 4 And plus.

Speaker 100 Plus Phelps can probably finance it now.

Speaker 108 Well,

Speaker 27 let's go into the crowd and see if you guys have anything to bring up that we might have missed.

Speaker 18 Anything at all?

Speaker 92 All right, sir. How are you?

Speaker 46 What's your name?

Speaker 102 What's your question?

Speaker 88 My name is Casey, and I wanted to acknowledge during the train yard fight, one of the henchmen who I nicknamed Kid Rock Crock Top,

Speaker 44 who

Speaker 88 did like, he like kind of humped like the mound of dirt while Giant Michael Phelps was fighting other guys, and then he just danced for him,

Speaker 102 and then Giant Michael Phelps punched him out.

Speaker 78 Yeah, there was a lot of pretty weird vignettes in that train yard fight.

Speaker 84 All right, here we go. Let's see what's going on.

Speaker 42 Yeah, there were three, there were three people.

Speaker 89 He made some air, though, didn't he, once he got kicked.

Speaker 59 Yeah.

Speaker 52 There were three bad guys that I found very funny and compelling.

Speaker 100 That guy, the little, also the little methy kind of skinny guy with him, and the big guy.

Speaker 52 Anyway, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 66 Alright, ma'am, your name, your question.

Speaker 3 My name's Jodi, and my question is, in the final scene, when they're all sort of

Speaker 3 samurai scimitaring each other, who are the people on the bridge? Are they just like

Speaker 86 observers?

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 13 I feel like those are people that were like Orlando locals who heard like, hey, they're shooting a movie down by the bridge.

Speaker 25 Can we watch?

Speaker 46 And then YK was like, yeah, you could even be in it, really.

Speaker 95 It doesn't make a difference.

Speaker 3 Watching people die, like getting.

Speaker 15 They're not in it.

Speaker 77 They're not in it. They're just watching to see how it all goes down.

Speaker 13 But if you think about it.

Speaker 57 If there are ninjas in your town, you would go out to see them too.

Speaker 39 That positive.

Speaker 85 It's a world, though, in which like ordinary people out for a walk in the park witness a ninja fight that ends in multiple murders i also i also noticed that and and and questioned it but i was too distracted by what was going on with yoshito

Speaker 85 when he was fighting very clearly was not yoshito no

Speaker 4 it was the man had a mustache

Speaker 85 i think i think it was dead jeff

Speaker 85 actor dead jeff had come back to play yoshito in the thing you could it's very very i believe that was a reshoot and you're 100 right.

Speaker 47 Yeah, that was.

Speaker 71 They have to make do with what they had.

Speaker 20 Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 Your name and your question.

Speaker 43 My name's Kevin.

Speaker 97 And I'm wondering, if you're a ninja and you're trying to be all stealthy, would you pull up in your loud-ass motorcycle everywhere?

Speaker 73 Totally true.

Speaker 28 Totally true.

Speaker 3 I mean, what do these ninjas do?

Speaker 3 What are they up to otherwise? Like, what are...

Speaker 3 Aside from...

Speaker 85 That's in a lyric somewhere in one of the songs, isn't it?

Speaker 85 That they're ninjas by night.

Speaker 62 What is it they do during the day?

Speaker 27 They're bikers by day.

Speaker 12 Bikers by day.

Speaker 25 Ninjas by night.

Speaker 13 But how are they earning money?

Speaker 102 Bikers get in the same shit, you know?

Speaker 25 It really is.

Speaker 43 Like, it's the duality of life.

Speaker 19 You know?

Speaker 78 The loud bike during the day and the quiet stealth of the ninjas.

Speaker 80 You know, it's the yin yin-yang of the night.

Speaker 85 You got like two outfits in your wardrobe.

Speaker 13 You got your leathers.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 85 And then your full taekwondo gear.

Speaker 86 Yeah.

Speaker 77 You know what I liked about him too?

Speaker 27 Like when he was riding that motorcycle, he didn't look fully comfortable on it. Like he, in the tough guy song, he's supposed to be like, I'm a tough guy.

Speaker 25 And it looks like bugs are flying into his face. He's like trying to avoid the bugs a little bit as it's coming out.

Speaker 102 Yes, sir, your name, your question.

Speaker 26 My name is Frank, and I really want to know

Speaker 26 are we going to address the crazy family tree between the snow ninja and Harry Little Jeff?

Speaker 110 Yeah, well, with Yoshito.

Speaker 90 Right, well, Jane, Jeff, and Yoshito.

Speaker 62 Obviously,

Speaker 85 I had to re-watch this scene a few times because I thought, do you think it was a typo in the script or a misdelivery by the actor when he went, I'm so sorry, but your brother Jeff is dead?

Speaker 85 Was it like originally scripted, brother,

Speaker 85 I've got to tell you that Jeff is dead.

Speaker 56 And

Speaker 22 it's now turned and you're going, hang on, Jeff, Jane and Yoshito all grew up together?

Speaker 37 Do you?

Speaker 3 Well, I am remembering that their parents, so the dad who died very shortly after the mom, that dad, I'm pretty sure left

Speaker 3 them and married someone else or left for another woman. So maybe that woman.
Maybe it's a half. Maybe, maybe Yoshido's a half.

Speaker 40 But he seems the oldest.

Speaker 24 Also, also, Jane and Jeff do not look alike at all.

Speaker 54 He is...

Speaker 54 Ugh.

Speaker 3 I think it's hard to know. Yeah, that's the thing.
I think it's so hard to know without that amount of hair if they look alike or not. I think there's no way to tell.

Speaker 34 But

Speaker 43 I guess I assumed that Yoshito was not a blood brother, but was like a brother to him.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like a friend.

Speaker 42 Did you even mention Yoshito?

Speaker 79 No, no mention of him.

Speaker 13 Boy.

Speaker 45 Yoshido also has very lax

Speaker 81 entrance policies in the temple.

Speaker 96 Like, people just kind of barge in on him when he seems to have all the ninjas in a kneeling position and talking.

Speaker 30 When the ninjas in the beginning of the movie, I forgot about this, when they go to grab the cocaine, they grab a handful of it and let it sift through their fingers as if that's some sort of indication of like, that's the cocaine.

Speaker 67 Like, you know, normally you like you wipe some on your gums or whatever, but they just seem like to scoop up a handful and then run.

Speaker 78 And leaving also bags of cocaine, fully fully intact bags of cocaine there.

Speaker 30 These are bad ninjas.

Speaker 84 Great bikers. Great bikers.

Speaker 70 What was the ninjas'

Speaker 35 plan?

Speaker 100 Did we know what they were fighting for?

Speaker 3 No idea.

Speaker 12 Coke?

Speaker 100 Did they want the Coke trade?

Speaker 84 I thought that he was, I don't know, he was just bringing them in.

Speaker 53 I mean, I don't want to steiny us all here, but like.

Speaker 38 Does anyone have a clear idea of what the ninjas are fighting for?

Speaker 66 Oh, wait, Miami, Kim.

Speaker 27 I'm going to come over in here.

Speaker 8 You seem to really feel like you got it.

Speaker 52 If it's YKK, I'm going to freak out.

Speaker 61 Can you come over here just a little bit?

Speaker 51 All right, here we go.

Speaker 84 All right, tell me what your theory is.

Speaker 113 All right, so the Miami Connection is Yoshito, he's the plug. He's the drug dealer in Miami that brings the drugs to Orlando.
That's the Miami Connection.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 12 That's all they wanted.

Speaker 104 That's all they want.

Speaker 52 So they're not siblings, really?

Speaker 68 Well,

Speaker 3 I didn't answer that necessarily.

Speaker 18 He said it, though, so emphatically, I bought it.

Speaker 81 Yeah, but what it does answer.

Speaker 111 And it does bring up other questions.

Speaker 3 It does answer the Miami connection of it.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I like that. Which I appreciate.

Speaker 26 All right, ma'am, your name, your question.

Speaker 3 My name is Megan, and my question is, how much is the band getting paid because they're all driving around in one car, which the convertible top doesn't seem to work because it's raining?

Speaker 91 I want to talk about

Speaker 90 just enough to buy grapes.

Speaker 47 Well, there's a couple things I want to say.

Speaker 18 First of all, they are spending all their money on the pyrotechnics in the small club.

Speaker 47 That's no way for a big arena.

Speaker 18 But I love that they got in that convertible, and if you watch that scene, they have trouble getting into that car.

Speaker 11 I counted at least two people.

Speaker 58 Like, it was not a graceful jump, and it was as if you, like, they didn't know how to navigate it at all.

Speaker 5 Yeah, they're also like, all of them are physically bizarre.

Speaker 4 Yeah, they all look like,

Speaker 3 you know, those crazy drawings that people do of you at fairs and stuff?

Speaker 73 Caricatures.

Speaker 83 They are all caricatures.

Speaker 3 They sort of look like caricatures.

Speaker 56 Big giant heads riding tiny skateboards.

Speaker 12 Holding a tennis.

Speaker 85 Especially when they're moving around on the stage

Speaker 85 during the songs. I don't know whether any of you noticed, but none of the instruments are plugged in.

Speaker 83 None.

Speaker 39 And they're all playing guitar.

Speaker 34 They're all playing guitar.

Speaker 62 Three guitars.

Speaker 27 YK Kim's doing his very best.

Speaker 62 Like this.

Speaker 12 But gliding between one note.

Speaker 59 Even still, the songs are fucking great.

Speaker 70 Amazing.

Speaker 51 The songs are great. They nailed it.

Speaker 31 Now it's time for a second opinion.

Speaker 3 It's just that your opinion on this movie is no good and you really didn't watch it in the context that you should. My opinion might be second, but beside it, I have stood.

Speaker 3 I'd give this movie all five stars and six stars if I could.

Speaker 91 Yes, Alyssa!

Speaker 48 You can go right there. You can go back.

Speaker 108 You can go. Go ahead for Alyssa.

Speaker 27 And Alyssa, Kumite is with, what's your name, sir?

Speaker 50 Cash.

Speaker 19 Cash.

Speaker 108 Now it's time for a second opinion.

Speaker 97 My, oh my, now what can you do when having one opinion just won't do? We thought the movie bad, but we could be wrong. Let's check out some reviews from Amazon.

Speaker 97 Some reviews from people that hold this movie dear. Read with passion by my man, Paul Scheer.
We gotta take a second look. This movie couldn't have been a failure.

Speaker 97 There's a decapitation in the motherfucking trailer.

Speaker 42 Yes!

Speaker 42 Amazing. Thank you so much.
That was a name. Great job.
Wow.

Speaker 42 Stellar.

Speaker 2 Stellar, stellar, stellar stuff.

Speaker 48 Amazing.

Speaker 9 Oh, wow. They're in the same row, too.

Speaker 77 Alright, so obviously, like I said, the second opinions here, they really aren't.

Speaker 15 They're not...

Speaker 92 They're not great because they love the movie,

Speaker 20 but I'll read them anyway.

Speaker 18 Okay, this one is from Jamie Gross, written November 13th, 2014.

Speaker 35 Tetchy tunes, sweet action moves,

Speaker 66 and an important underlying message about the importance of family, whether it be by blood or other bonds.

Speaker 114 Five stars.

Speaker 18 And then this one right here, this is from just an Amazon customer.

Speaker 30 It's titled, I Can't Help It.

Speaker 38 I really like this movie.

Speaker 21 The songs from the band stick in your head.

Speaker 27 I live about 50 miles away from Orlando.

Speaker 114 Five stars.

Speaker 8 Just laying down some facts.

Speaker 62 I don't know if.

Speaker 52 Just as if to say, I could go see Sound Dragon if I wanted to.

Speaker 63 And then finally,

Speaker 2 this one from Andrew Rodellis, and it says like this.

Speaker 66 Miami Connection is the epitome of movies that happen to combine Florida, ninjas, martial arts, and music into one thing.

Speaker 66 Between the interesting facets of dragon sound, the escalation of violence in the movie, it reminds me a bit of the original Mad Max,

Speaker 66 oddly enough, especially considering the biker gangs, and the character of Jane, who echoes some of the feminist ideas since her character arc is sort of all about doing what she wants and not obeying Jeff.

Speaker 26 There are some things that emerge here about Miami Connection that suggests it's not merely a brainless action flick.

Speaker 114 Five stars.

Speaker 114 Wow.

Speaker 30 So that is, those are some very sincere, sincere Jin.

Speaker 3 No, I love this movie. I really do.
It's just so crazy.

Speaker 86 It's so crazy.

Speaker 52 Can we play some of these songs?

Speaker 10 Well, I want to play the songs, but I have two treats here.

Speaker 27 Oh, yeah. The first being this.

Speaker 84 This is the original end.

Speaker 30 Okay, so it...

Speaker 19 The one that screened the etc.

Speaker 61 The one that's, yeah.

Speaker 65 This is what the audiences in France saw.

Speaker 30 Alright, so let's see.

Speaker 73 Jim!

Speaker 73 Don't die, Jim! What is your poor father?

Speaker 73 Come on, hang on!

Speaker 16 Where's your t-shirt, bro? Let's see what's

Speaker 16 Peace.

Speaker 104 You're alive.

Speaker 16 Peace.

Speaker 104 Jim, hang on till we get to the hospital.

Speaker 73 You need to die.

Speaker 73 You need to see your father.

Speaker 26 Hang on.

Speaker 48 Jim, your father is coming now.

Speaker 48 Oh, no.

Speaker 93 Jim's father's on that plane.

Speaker 93 Wow!

Speaker 61 Jim dies in the back of the car just as his father's plane lands in Orlando.

Speaker 7 He flies right over them.

Speaker 100 Flies literally right over them.

Speaker 27 Which makes sense why they stopped the car when Jim was dying.

Speaker 5 On a fly path.

Speaker 5 They're on a fly path.

Speaker 13 And how did he know he was on that plane?

Speaker 12 The plane comes in every five minutes.

Speaker 77 I did know.

Speaker 30 I did forget that one detail that I loved is that Jim's tie is also cut in half when he is stabbed.

Speaker 87 That is a dark ending.

Speaker 66 and they went for it.

Speaker 13 And now, because

Speaker 51 I think we're all a little bit interested,

Speaker 66 this is a documentary, and this is kind of the best of

Speaker 66 this documentary.

Speaker 71 So, we get to see where these people are right now.

Speaker 30 So, take a quick look at

Speaker 51 them

Speaker 51 now. It's short, but here we go.

Speaker 106 My mother was Korean,

Speaker 106 and my father was black American.

Speaker 117 That was very intense.

Speaker 106 I was boohoo crying.

Speaker 117 And it took about two hours for that last,

Speaker 117 what you see on the movie, for that scene to be done. We're putting onion under my eyes and eye drops.
And finally, I just recalled something from the past and got a little bit out.

Speaker 117 But the first cut, the first cut that they didn't take,

Speaker 117 that was a good one.

Speaker 104 You were fine, your father.

Speaker 118 It did come out funny.

Speaker 118 I always thought it was a good film. You know, it had a nice little story.

Speaker 118 Not perfect, much little quirky things.

Speaker 73 And oh my god, oh my god! Oh my god!

Speaker 12 Told me.

Speaker 117 I mean that's just, it is what it is.

Speaker 105 The musical force behind Dragon Sound was the lead singer and the guitar player, Angelo and Kathy. They were actual musicians and they wrote the songs.

Speaker 105 They also help us in terms of getting the musical instruments, instruments, getting drums, getting all the equipment, coaching us on how to look on camera,

Speaker 105 playing air guitar and things like that.

Speaker 12 I have a little rhythm.

Speaker 13 I have a little rhythm. But look,

Speaker 106 I did well, I thought,

Speaker 12 for a non-artist.

Speaker 105 It was that kind of new wavish

Speaker 105 time and period. And I believe the songs that Angelo and Kathy wrote really reflected the spirit and the feeling that happened in that club.
So it was very realistic from that perspective.

Speaker 118 Against the ninja, I believe we may have done that in one day. We went in on a Tuesday.

Speaker 118 I don't know if we came, I think we came back the next night with a demo because we had a four-track studio, so put it together and he loved it.

Speaker 69 A little.

Speaker 85 I want a Dragon Sound t-shirt.

Speaker 13 They're available.

Speaker 22 I think you could have one made pretty easy.

Speaker 102 By the way, we should make, that should be our next How Did This Get Made shirt, a Dragon Town.

Speaker 9 Oh, he's wearing one right there.

Speaker 28 Woo!

Speaker 12 And did you get that?

Speaker 48 That's awesome. I love it.

Speaker 12 No sleeves on that shirt. That looks amazing.

Speaker 73 Wow.

Speaker 3 I feel like we could do a whole episode on those like two minutes.

Speaker 51 What is going on?

Speaker 43 We did a whole second episode just on the music.

Speaker 71 Oh,

Speaker 71 it really is great.

Speaker 66 Is there anything as we are winding down here that we didn't talk about that anyone wants to bring up before we find out if you'd recommend it?

Speaker 3 Although I feel like that's forgotten about that all-lace suit,

Speaker 3 the all-lace white suit. So just want to talk about it for a second.

Speaker 3 I've never seen lace pants.

Speaker 2 It would seem to me really hard to keep in shape, like physical shape, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I wanted a close-up so I could see how they lay

Speaker 3 because I couldn't understand what they were. I mean that outfit was just amazing.

Speaker 90 I wanted to talk about the grapes last time.

Speaker 85 Right, so I don't know whether you remember, there's a scene where

Speaker 85 okay, Kim goes around all the other characters, and he doesn't have any dialogue in that scene, so he's obviously saying to himself, what can I do?

Speaker 83 What can I do in this scene?

Speaker 115 So he grabs a bunch of grapes and just feeds them to all his friends and then goes to the next one and just keeps going around like four or five grapes.

Speaker 42 Here's

Speaker 85 this homoerotic kind of thing.

Speaker 78 Are you seeing it as a Christ allegory?

Speaker 100 Eat of this grape, it is my flesh.

Speaker 33 Right?

Speaker 100 He's definitely like the Christ of this movie, like hey, Kim.

Speaker 85 Yeah, I can't remember what happened in the scene. I I can't imagine it being that important what happened in the scene.

Speaker 62 Well, I mean there are those scenes.

Speaker 77 There's those scenes that make no sense.

Speaker 27 There was a scene where they just all eat and the chef just looks at them and is like, good job.

Speaker 69 Oh, wait a minute.

Speaker 39 I had a question about that scene.

Speaker 91 When they get there to that restaurant, when the owner is being beat up, right?

Speaker 3 And he's wearing a Mickey and Minnie Mouse apron. Right.

Speaker 100 What is his relate?

Speaker 22 Is he just also being hassled independent?

Speaker 115 Yes.

Speaker 60 That guy.

Speaker 85 What's that? Was that his only scene?

Speaker 27 He has two scenes.

Speaker 66 One where he's watching them eat, and he just stands at the front of the table and smiles.

Speaker 35 Yeah.

Speaker 18 And then the next scene, they reference, like, oh, he's having a hard time, too.

Speaker 65 And then, like, that gang is there, and they're like, this food's shit.

Speaker 73 And they're not going to walk for this.

Speaker 30 Yeah, and they walk out.

Speaker 35 Yeah, after seemingly enjoying it.

Speaker 52 Well, yeah, because I was like, is he tied into something with them as well?

Speaker 100 Like,

Speaker 22 are the people that are hassling them now expanding to hassle?

Speaker 53 This guy, I couldn't.

Speaker 30 I feel like that guy provided craft service for them, and they were like, we got to put him in the movie.

Speaker 86 I feel like, yeah, yeah, maybe.

Speaker 36 Oh, I just

Speaker 83 remembered.

Speaker 56 He's Mark's uncle?

Speaker 13 In the movie.

Speaker 78 He's not YK Kim's uncle.

Speaker 37 He's Mark's uncle.

Speaker 85 Oh, one more thing that just came to mind, actually. You know, when Jane introduces Michael Phelps to her brother,

Speaker 85 she said, oh, this is my friend.

Speaker 59 And the brother goes, a friend?

Speaker 44 Really?

Speaker 72 Super loud.

Speaker 28 And

Speaker 43 giant Michael Phelps goes like, hey, Jeff, nice to meet you.

Speaker 24 I've heard a lot about you.

Speaker 34 And the height, if you can imagine the height discrepancy between Jane and Giant Michael Phelps,

Speaker 24 she towers above Jeff.

Speaker 100 Jeff could fit in Giant Michael Phelps' fanny pack.

Speaker 18 Well, I'll go around and ask.

Speaker 78 I mean, it's a dumb question, but Jason, do you recommend this movie? Oh, 100% yes.

Speaker 24 I would urge our listeners to

Speaker 22 buy this movie immediately

Speaker 22 and watch it with someone that they care about.

Speaker 71 I bought it on iTunes and there's a special documentary about the music on iTunes, but I believe there's also a DVD edition that's called Stupid Cocaine Edition, and that has a little documentary on it and stuff like that as well.

Speaker 63 June, do you recommend this movie?

Speaker 115 Yes, of course.

Speaker 71 And you said earlier it is your type of ninja movie.

Speaker 3 It is my kind of ninja movie, for sure.

Speaker 83 Chris, do you recommend this movie?

Speaker 69 Hey, come on.

Speaker 83 We are friends through eternity.

Speaker 56 There's loyalty, there's honesty.

Speaker 85 We're going to be together through thick and thin.

Speaker 30 Ninjas Day. Prince Forever.

Speaker 61 Bikers by day, Ninjas by night.

Speaker 51 Still the cocaine.

Speaker 90 100%.

Speaker 60 What a movie.

Speaker 20 I also concur by this movie.

Speaker 30 It's great.

Speaker 81 And before we go out, we have to talk about plugs.

Speaker 27 You're the worst coming back this this September, early September.

Speaker 81 Very excited.

Speaker 84 Is there anything you can even tell us about it?

Speaker 60 Yeah, it's season four.

Speaker 85 Season three finished.

Speaker 85 Tiny bit of a spoiler, but the two are now separated. And this season is a fun, jam-packed kind of selection of awful ways that they attempt to get back together.

Speaker 51 But

Speaker 85 it's funnier and sillier and darker than ever.

Speaker 51 It's great. I'm very excited.

Speaker 83 September 6th.

Speaker 52 Thank you, everyone.

Speaker 52 There we go.

Speaker 82 Jason June, what do you got?

Speaker 93 Anything?

Speaker 86 I got nothing. I'm good.

Speaker 3 I will plug an amazing way you can contact your representatives if you want to, which is through something called ResistBot, which maybe people know about, maybe they don't.

Speaker 3 But it's literally, you put the number in your phone, you text Resist to the number, and you can,

Speaker 3 they will fax for you. It's run all by volunteers.
Any questions, concerns you have to your representatives, you put in your zip code. It's amazing.
It's super easy, but I really recommend it.

Speaker 80 It's unbelievable.

Speaker 30 And I will just say, I have nothing that really lays it down.

Speaker 66 I have two things you can watch on Netflix, which is you can watch this movie Opening Night.

Speaker 27 There's two.

Speaker 18 Look at the picture and think of the one that I would probably be in and pick that one and then the other one is a wet hot American summer 10 years later my character Dave comes back again

Speaker 81 for a couple episodes

Speaker 27 Thank you all for coming give it up for Chris

Speaker 82 big thanks to Avery Highly for finding all these amazing clips Nick Kylie for doing all this research Kelly Alta for pulling it all together Awesome awesome.

Speaker 46 Thank you. Thank you July TS the boost everybody here in Largo.

Speaker 23 Thank you

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Bye for now.

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