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Lad with sixty Dad, did you
ever worry that your power wasn't enough?

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Every general day the world leeds yours
to become something more. It's actually kind

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of cool. Biting monsters. It's
just I'm not very good at it.

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Come on very as Oh my god, not good. Wer you could package

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ken. She thinks you are a
living Okay, it's okay. No,

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no, she has acids. Babies
get acid refused? Great, I how

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do you do it? Juggle everything? Your job, kid, Honestly,

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it's not easy. Like the monsters
sometimes do your job. I'm doing Yeah,

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finally and bring it back alive.
Roder yaf im six forty. It's

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later with Mo Kelly. We are
live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app if you

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like me. You were first introduced
to Tamla Tameda in The Karate Kid Part

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two as Kumiko. I'm stupid but
no, no, not at all.

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What are you doing? Oh?
I was just practicing some moves. What

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out moves? Well, it's like
a update. I'm trying to figure this

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thing out here looks like a Von
dance. Well, I must be doing

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something wrong, doing something right?
Fuck, A role she reprised in the

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Netflix series Cobra Kai I did Where's
Chosen? He had the TAC class.

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Hopefully it goes a little easier on
them than he did on me. I

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hope you both learned something from me
time, and I think so. I

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guess that was your plan, huh. Or maybe you fell in love with

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her with the Joy Luck Club.
The next week, I brought Rich to

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Mom's birthday dinner, sort of a
surprise present. I figured she was going

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to have to accept Rich, like
it or not. Rich. This is

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my father and Mom, this is
Rich regardless. She is beloved the world

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over. Now you can hear her
as the voice of Imico and the AI

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module Mina co starring in Netflix's animated
feature Ultraman Rising, premiering globally Friday,

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June fourteenth. And it's my pleasure
to welcome Tamblin to me to later with

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Mo Kelly right now, this TMITA. Thank you for coming on today.

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How are you very well? Thank
you so very much, and yo Mo,

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and thank you so much to all
the iHeartRadio fans out there, thank

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you for listening. In what you
are. You are so humble in how

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you present yourself in and as a
kid growing up in Los Angeles. You

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and me both. You went to
Granada Hills High School. You went to

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UCLA. Weren't you supposed to become
a history teacher? How did I was?

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I was? I was asked to
participate in what was called the audition

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process, the open call process for
Karate Kid Part two. And I was

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studying history at UCLA in order to
become a history teacher. And I just

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this was the summer of nighteen eighty
four, and I said, or nineteen

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eighty five, And I said,
yeah, why not? And so I

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auditioned and somehow I impressed the director
and he said, want to come in

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and meet the producers and da da
da da da, and down the line

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and you get to meet Ralph Macho
And I go, what? And so

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I jumped through all those hoops and
I landed the role of Kumiko in the

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summer of eighty five, and we
filmed it and it released in nineteen eighty

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six. And here we are in
twenty twenty four, still talking about Coomi

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Coo. I love it. And
speaking of growing up, I grew up

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watching the original Ultraman television series,
which debuted in the mid sixties, but

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I saw it in the early seventies. Ultraman is one of the highest grossing

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media franchises of all time. How
did you and when did you come across

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Ultimately? Do you remember how you
were watching Ultraman? Was it on PBS

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or was it on the Japanese American
channel or was it on some kind of

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Japanese movie house, because I remember
seeing it very very sporadically because it wasn't

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on American tele You had to watch
the UHF or the VHF panels, right,

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club titles, right, we had
to watch slub titles. So knowing

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that that, you know it was
a super cool superhero and it had all

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this other worldliness because being Japanese American
but not growing up in Japan, it's

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like, what is this other world? And so it kind of opened it

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up for so many kids to watch
this new superhero that wasn't Superman or wasn't

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the Hulk or any of the other
American superheroes that we saw, and it

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was a It just blew my mind. So to be here at Ultraman rising

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through Netflix is like, is that
kind of reiteration that a good story will

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last forever and that we're just so
happy and thrilled and honored to be a

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part of this new franchise. Are
you all right? See for yourselves?

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And you really are high on that
life? Of course I'm high on that

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and nobody else? Is that clear? Keptain? Has the monster been destroyed?

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Destroyed to a man out of this
guy, a man from space to

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today? It's too bad we can't
thank him for all he's done for us?

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Who saved you when you're crashing to
the monster? Yes, hey,

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just a minute, you're talking.
You know all the answers. So tell

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me what the man is called?
He hasn't got a name, he doesn't

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they listen? I bet he does. Now, what is it? I'll

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think of one. Does Ultraman sound
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but not only a good story.
You can add to a different chapters,

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add more chapters to that story,
and an Ultraman rising. He tells the

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story of Kenji Sato, a superstar
baseball player who returns to Japan to take

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on the mantle of Ultraman because the
rise and Kaiju attacks on Tokyo. In

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your character is Kenji's mother, and
there's an la tie in for both of

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those characters. Who is Kenji and
how is his mom so important to him?

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Kenji's Santo is the superstar of the
La Dodgers, and so shout out

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to show hew Otani, and I
think it's just serendipitous that we see that

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Ultraman Rising is the film is the
film's titled from Netflix, Ultraman Rising,

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but that just in March of this
year that Robert Varga, is a very

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famous Los Angeles muralist, painted the
Otani mural in Little Tokyo and it's called

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La Rising. So it's like that
kind of connection of a Japanese American baseball

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hero, where Shohotani is a Japanese
baseball guy who plays for the Dodgers,

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where's Kenji Sato's now playing for the
yomi Uri Giants. Emiko is that mother

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to Kenji, and she is that
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to be sacrificing and loving and caring
for her son, knowing that he can

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only do the best that he can
and to be a superhero at the same

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time he's being a baseball hero is
a mighty big plate to fill or plates

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to fill, and she does her
best. And in the iteration of what

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you see is the ai in Mina. She's just the continuation of what it

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means to be a mother who loves
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mother. I am not feel for
this. I've got a life, a

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title. Poen you do something nice
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We've got to get it out of
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we take her? Ken? Oh? Oh oh, We'll take her to

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Kaiju Island. Unfortunately, Ken,
no one knows where to find it,

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either your parents nor the Katif we're
ever able to locate the island, Ken,

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it would be very bad if you
change back. Right now. My

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guest right now is actress Tamlin Tamita. You know her from the Karate Kid

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Too, and she's reprised her role
as Kumiko on Cobra Kai and you know

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her from The Joy Luck Club and
more. But today she is sharing and

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previewing her starring role in Netflix's Ultraman
Rising, streaming nationwide this Friday, June

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fourteenth. It's Later with mo Kelly, More with Tamlin to media in just

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a moment. You're listening to Later
with Moe Kelly on demand from KFI AM

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six forty and right now I'm joined
by venerable actress and LA's own Tamlin to

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Meda. We all first met Tamida
as Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part two.

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We remember her as Waverley in The
Joy Luck Club, and we loved

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seeing her once again as Kumiko in
Netflix's Cobra Kai. But speaking of Netflix,

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this Friday, June fourteenth marks the
global streaming premiere of the highly anticipated

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animated feature Ultraman Rising, in which
to Meeta stars as both Imiko and the

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Ai module Mina double duty for Tamlin
to Meda. But Tamlin in the last

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segment we talked about how Ellie is
a prominently featured character as you had he

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plays for the Dodgers. There are
shout outs to show hey Otani, and

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there's even and there's also a Digiti
animated hologram version of Dodger Stadium. Tell

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me about why La is such a
good and prominent character for this. You

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know what, mo, You live
here in La. You know that it's

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on the west coast, the best
coast, and it's literally a bridge between

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the US of A and Japan.
It is literally has been the gateway to

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what it means to be Japanese American. But I think what it means also

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to be an American of Japanese assent. So it's a kind of a switch

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in our brains is that we as
Americans all come from somewhere else. You

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know, we're either brought here like
African Americans. We're either immigrants here or

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we're indigenous here. So let's rectify
that idea of what it means to be

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American and what it means to be
a superhero. Superheroes can really come from

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everywhere, because superheroes care for everyone. And so just because Ultraman traditionally came

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from Japan, it is like in
Netflix's Arms, he becomes the superhero of

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the world. And I think that's
it's such an eye opening, a brain

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opening, and a heart opening experience
to be part of this new iteration of

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ultra Man. It's Dad, you're
mad at me. I get it.

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I know it wasn't an easy choice, leaving your life behind La the Dodgers,

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millions of adoring fans. But what
I'm asking is bigger than baseball.

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The world needs you to become something
more. Sorry, your mom was better

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at this anyway, I'm around for
the last few weeks, one name has

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dominated the headlines and what is sure
to be a historic moment in baseball.

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In just three days, Giants fans
will welcome a legend to the new Tokyo

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door as Ken Sazo returns to the
land of his birth. Please show me

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I can subtle, folks. I
love your enthusiasm, but tell me if

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I'm reading something into this that's not
fair given just your own personal history of

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being born in Okinawa, didn't grow
up there, but you still have ties

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to your heritage that just kind of
fit into your own life. Yeah.

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Absolutely, there's aspects of it that
fit in because it's like, what am

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I going to claim as an American
of Japanese, Okinawa and Filipino descent.

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I'm going to pull the best things
from all of those cultures and live here

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in America and share it with America
because I think these wonderful qualities are present

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in every culture, are present in
every society around the world. That's the

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blessing of what it means to be
here in America is that we get to

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pull from all the other world cultures
and say we're going to be here and

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we're going to live and do it
together. My time is growing short with

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you, so let me ask you
this Ultraman Rising. I've had the opportunity

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to see it. There's some twists, there's some turns, but it is

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it is a very nice iteration on
the character, and I've seen it grow

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and evolve over years. Do we
know? Do we know what the future

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may hold for the Ultraman franchise?
Do we get Can we say whether this

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is company something coming more in the
future. I think, as with every

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family, we can only hope for
the best, and with every family,

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we know that every good family grows. All right, speaking, good family

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grows? Before I let you go, any thoughts on Copra Kai last season.

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I know that's the last season.
Just finished filming and I talked to

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Yuji Okamoto just the other day and
he says it's going to be a slam

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banging season. Netflix love the smell
of karate in the afternoon. No,

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mercy, get your asses ready,
We're not keeping up without a fighting Cobra

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Kai is back. Well, all
I can say is I cannot wait.

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I've already seen Ultraman Rising. It
premieres globally June fourteenth, Do not miss

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it and of course, Cobra Kaby
right there. For it tendly to me

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that it has been always been a
dream for me to have a conversation with

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you. Oh you're so sweet.
Oh my god, I love you.

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Thank you so very much, and
go la. It's Later with bo Kelly

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camp I AM six forty. We're
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