WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.480 Before we dive in, here's another show you can enjoy 2 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:05.040 in the True Story FM Family of Entertainment podcast. 3 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:09.880 Hey, hey, apes, Hey, you see that snickers over there? 4 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:11.480 No one's looking. 5 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:13.759 You should just take it. 6 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:19.039 No, don't listen to him, my son, that would be stealing. 7 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:20.559 And stealing is. 8 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:24.679 A sin, Sinchman, it's a freaking snick as may you 9 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:27.640 deserve to have it? Sinning really satisfies you. 10 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:29.280 Repent my child. 11 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:33.640 Virtue is the only real snack with saving for that 12 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:37.799 candy body is merely a gateway to Nukeet dumas. 13 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:43.280 Has this ever happened to you? 14 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:45.560 Listening to the devil on one shoulder and an angel 15 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:47.439 on the other, and you're not sure what to think? 16 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:48.920 Then we're here to help. 17 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:50.399 I'm Pete Wright and. 18 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:53.159 I'm Tommy Mess and this season on all the Feelings, 19 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:55.840 we're examining the seven deadly sins. 20 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:57.799 You note, the fun ones. 21 00:00:57.840 --> 00:00:59.880 And the seven heavenly virtues. 22 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:03.759 Are also a thing. 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Our anxieties are okay, 40 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:50.439 and there's a lot. 41 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:51.519 Of jump scares and chade sauce. 42 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.680 Join us, Pete right, Tommy Met's the third, Kyle Wilson 43 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:58.400 and Kenan ds as we cut into the dark heart 44 00:01:58.439 --> 00:01:59.719 of horror cinema. 45 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:03.000 Every episode we explore a different facet of the genre, 46 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:06.920 from survival horror to home invasions, from zombies to birds. 47 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.280 We tickle the tropes, analyze the angles, and sharpen our 48 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:10.879 own access. 49 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:13.439 Along the way, we'll introduce you to the classics that 50 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:17.159 shaped the genre than the modern masterpieces that are pushing 51 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.840 the boundaries of terror sitting in the. 52 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:23.080 Dark as your guide to navigating the terrifying. 53 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:27.400 Thrilling, and sometimes hilariously bad world of horror movies. 54 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:30.560 We'll help you understand why we love to be scared 55 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:35.439 and maybe even convert you into a horror fan yourself. 56 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:44.719 So turn off the lights, close the basement door. Enjoina inca. 57 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:54.639 O. 58 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:58.240 Welcome to this episode of Superhero Ethics. My friends, the 59 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.439 long National Nightmare is over. What started as a dream, 60 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:03.719 what became a nightmare? What became a dream again? What 61 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:07.240 has gone on and on and on and on and on. 62 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:09.960 This is the last time you're gonna hear us do 63 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:14.280 a full episode on Cobra Kai, because Cobra Kai is done, 64 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:18.080 and so some of those repeating, contrived plot lines we're 65 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:20.199 only gonna get to complain about one more time. 66 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:23.280 In fact, tonight we're actually gonna be talking mostly. 67 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:25.800 About the actual ethical questions, because we're trying to move 68 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:30.000 away from just doing reviews of these shows. But we 69 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:32.879 have some ethical questions about some of the contrivances and 70 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:35.120 some things we actually quite liked about the last five 71 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:38.120 episodes of Cobra Kai. We are here with myself and 72 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:44.639 uh Taekwondo Master Martial arts knowledge extraordinary, the head of 73 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.639 the Ethical Panda Dojo, though I have not had to 74 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:50.599 kill anyone to allow him to take that position, either 75 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.960 here or in Korea. Mister Paul hoppy Paul, how are 76 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:55.479 we doing tonight? Uh? 77 00:03:55.599 --> 00:04:00.560 Doing pretty good tonight. Yeah. Happy to have completed watching 78 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:01.680 Cobra Kai. 79 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:04.280 You know, it was a journey and I'm glad we 80 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:05.199 want this journey. 81 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:08.000 And I could have skipped about two thirds of a journey, 82 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:09.759 but we got to the end and it was an 83 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:12.280 end of a journey, and there we are. I will 84 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.080 say that I am going to try and bring my 85 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:20.000 normal level of sedate calm attention to important detail. I 86 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:26.240 was under general anesthesia for a unfortunate procedure associated with 87 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:29.000 aging about two hours ago, so I am just a 88 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.560 little bit loopy. Not allowed to drive a car. I 89 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:33.360 feel fine, but it might affect this podcast. 90 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:33.920 Who knows. 91 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:37.920 We'll find out and drive a car and drive a podcast. 92 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.439 There we go, there we go, and if I drive 93 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:42.800 it into a wall, it means we don't go on 94 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:45.240 for two hours, so you know, there's some advantages there. 95 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.319 So with all that being said, we're talking obviously about 96 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:54.560 part three of season six, the last part of Cobra 97 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:59.600 Kai episodes eleven through fifteen, And if you're listening to this, 98 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:01.839 you may I watched it, you may not have. We 99 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.240 are going to spoil a lot of it, but really 100 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:06.519 it's not really about the plot as much. I think 101 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.480 it's just kind of like an overview of the of 102 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:10.360 the show and the questions it raised and how we 103 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:12.959 feel about it, both in the world of the show, 104 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.040 but also I feel like this show, like the creation 105 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:18.000 of it, had a lot to say, and we learned 106 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:21.240 a lot about what happens with shows these days and 107 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:23.600 how long they go on, and how the plots can 108 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:24.120 change and. 109 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:27.279 Morph and things like that. So we were talking about 110 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:27.839 both those things. 111 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.720 But first, Paul, why don't you just give like a 112 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.000 gen like a quick summary of what happened and kind 113 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:36.399 of your feelings on how this wrapped up the story. 114 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:41.680 Yeah, so I'll start, I guess with the overall summary, 115 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.680 which is that as we left it after season six 116 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:51.680 point two, Kwan had died and the tournament the Secai 117 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.920 Tai Kai had been canceled, and everybody went back to 118 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:59.279 their corners and of the world and resumed their lives. 119 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:04.040 And then due to some agitating I think by one 120 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:09.480 Terry Silver. The Sekai Tychai ended up being back on, 121 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:15.360 and the overall machinations to make that happen a lot 122 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.439 of them there, I think involved a lot of eye 123 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:22.639 rolling on my part. Once they actually got back into it, 124 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:27.600 I mostly enjoyed it. It was basically, you know a 125 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:32.079 series of fights where there was like who was supposed 126 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:35.879 to fight who, Like Samantha was supposed to fight Toy, 127 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:38.959 and then Samantha ended up being like, I'm gonna bow 128 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.360 out because I no longer fee Do you feel like 129 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:43.439 there's any conflict between you and me? 130 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:43.759 I don't. 131 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:47.800 Sorry, it's a gross, point blank reference, but basically they 132 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:52.199 had resolved their conflict as friends as people, and so 133 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:55.360 sam was just like, I don't feel like I need 134 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:58.319 to do this, and she was like, Dad, you're gonna 135 00:06:58.319 --> 00:06:59.759 be so mad. He's like, no, I'm proud of you. 136 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.839 You've basically learned the lesson of Miagi though, which is like, 137 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:09.040 you know, martial arts are for not needing to use them. Essentially, 138 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.439 It's like a big point, right, And that's real by 139 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:14.759 the way, in real life, like I've had experiences where 140 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.319 somebody kind of wanted to fight and then like within 141 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:20.720 a second or two they realized they didn't want to fight. 142 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:24.000 And if I hadn't had martial arts training, it wasn't 143 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.360 like I was like trying to demonstrate it. It was 144 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.839 just just there's I think something in the way you 145 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:31.800 carry yourself, in the way you react to some sort 146 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:37.920 of sort of implied physical threat, that is real, you know, And. 147 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.079 I want to bookmark that because I think there's We 148 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:44.120 already had the conversation a little bit in previous episodes 149 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:48.079 about the show, of which there have been many about 150 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:51.319 the difference between I am angry at you, I want 151 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:54.720 to use my body to inflict harm upon you, and 152 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:59.079 I am an athlete competing in a competition that involves 153 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:02.160 us performing this martial art which does involve hitting or 154 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:03.639 kicking you. But I'm not doing it because I don't 155 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:05.439 like you. I'm doing it because I want to participate 156 00:08:05.800 --> 00:08:09.040 in this sport. And yeah, I first really didn't like 157 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:11.319 what Samantha did, but then when I saw more how 158 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:13.319 it's framed, I liked it. So well, we'll kind of 159 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:15.399 bookmark that because I think that's an important ethical question 160 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:17.480 about violence versus competition. 161 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:19.360 But for sure, going on with the story itself. 162 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.959 Yeah, so so basically Tory is gonna fight Zari in 163 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:27.120 the final, except like there is no Cobra Kai kind of, 164 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:31.600 so it's like what's up with that? And then Robbie's 165 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:35.440 fighting Axel, the big you know, martial arts machine from 166 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:38.000 the Iron Dragons, who are the you know, the other 167 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:43.320 main basically they're the remaining villain because Cobra Kai kind 168 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:49.480 of has removed itself in terms of Master Kim killed 169 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:54.240 Grandmaster Kim and took back her dojang and so, but 170 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:56.559 like they're in the forest in Korea, so they no 171 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:58.200 longer really had it was. 172 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:00.080 Their student who died, and they kind of want no 173 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:01.039 more part of this. 174 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:05.960 Yeah, and Crease basically just wants Toy to compete because 175 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:09.759 he's like, you should compete. I'm sorry, but like you 176 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.159 don't have to accept my apology. Just know that, like 177 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.120 I'm sorry, basically, And there's a whole big thing with 178 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:17.840 Crease that I think is worth getting into. I'm mostly 179 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:21.519 summarizing the tournament, I think, because those are kind of 180 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:26.120 the biggest beats in like a turn, like structurally, I think, 181 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:27.960 you know, although I felt like the heart of this 182 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:32.440 season really was actually Crease going on like an apology tour. Yeah, 183 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:39.759 and so so where was right, So Robbie's fighting the 184 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.639 big dude and he's getting whooped, and then he's making 185 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:49.000 a comeback, and then the wolf, since a wolf who's 186 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:51.320 the head of that dojo, is like, you know, break 187 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.919 his leg basically, so he breaks his leg, and so 188 00:09:54.039 --> 00:10:00.159 Robbie's leg is broken, so he can't continue, and as 189 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.440 a result, you know, Miyagi Do isn't going to like 190 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:06.320 replace him as a fighter, and I kind of thought 191 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.080 that they were going to like have a replacement at 192 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.840 the last minute, but they didn't do that, and instead 193 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:16.840 Miyagi Do loses. They're eliminated from the tournament. And Iron 194 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:23.639 what are they their Iron Iron Dragon, right, They're they're 195 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:26.919 going They're there like presumptive winners. But then Johnny takes 196 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:31.200 back Cobra Kai brings Miguel over, and Miguel and Tory 197 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:35.879 both win their fights, but the overall score is hide. 198 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:42.039 So now Johnny has to fight sense a Wolf and 199 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:47.200 Feng Shao and like, and he wins, and you know, 200 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:50.679 basically everybody loves happy Happily ever after, except for Chrise 201 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:56.120 and Silver, who blow up on Silver's yacht because Chris 202 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:01.279 uses his cigar in a Merc Solis fashion. 203 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.240 Which is very very very very very foreshadowed. 204 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:12.559 Yeah, they really they're like there's yeah, and you know 205 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:16.559 there's there's smaller things like you know, Carbon has the 206 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:19.919 baby successfully without any more intervention from the writers. 207 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.679 And you know, Johnny proposes just before that, and they 208 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.879 get married by a former Cobra Kai member right from 209 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:33.559 the Karate Kid. And and you know it's Dimitri and 210 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:36.879 and Hawk like make up and they both go to 211 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:40.159 Caltech together. And this is the whole thing that's like 212 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:44.519 plot related but I didn't care for with computers and stuff, 213 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.440 but the fact that they kind of like got along lovely. 214 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:51.480 You know, Moon gets back with Demitri, Okay, fine, everybody 215 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:54.360 can be happy. Chosen gets together with like Master Kim 216 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:55.879 okay cool. 217 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:59.360 And they hate I know this, but Moon is with Hawk, Yes, 218 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.080 mean is with Dimitri? 219 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:08.519 Yeah, my bad. I thought I might be watching that. 220 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:08.639 The part you were most dialed in on. 221 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:12.120 I'm if I could have chosen to get any one 222 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:15.519 part of that wrong, it would have been that there 223 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.759 are not you know, like Chosen's name and and then 224 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:26.120 like Miguel and and uh Deman Sam are going to 225 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:31.320 like schools on you know, twelve hour flight apart, but 226 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:34.919 there's like a nice you know, no, I want what's 227 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:36.720 best for you. I want you to do what you 228 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:38.679 think is not like oh, stay here for me kind 229 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:40.600 of thing, or oh, I'll go with you, and you know, 230 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:42.639 it's like, no, I'll go with you to visit and 231 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:44.840 then I'll come home and go to my school. 232 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:47.080 And let's kind of start there. 233 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:49.759 Because and this is more on the review side, but 234 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:51.519 I think it's kind of a lot of what the 235 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:54.200 conversation on Cobra Kai has been has been a conversation 236 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.919 about how you make shows. And I feel like in 237 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:01.759 this last half they kind of pulled themselves back from 238 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:05.240 a lot of the really bad tropy holes and poor 239 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:07.039 decision making in the writing room. I thought that had 240 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.519 been happening for a while now. And one of the 241 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:12.840 first is that there's an awful lot of like low 242 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:17.000 hanging fruit of cliches and tropes and stuff that they 243 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:21.320 chose to break, and especially ones that you and I 244 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:23.480 have talked about that are not just like annoying but 245 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:28.440 are actually kind of like problematic and not great. One 246 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:33.320 of those being like every pregnancy has like massive complications. 247 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:35.440 You know, someone who's a pregnant spouse. I really didn't 248 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:36.039 want to see that. 249 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.559 But another is this idea that, like, I like high 250 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:43.960 school romances. I think they're fun to watch, I think 251 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:47.039 they're interesting and can say a lot, But often there's 252 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:49.799 this sort of contrivance of oh, therefore, like they fell 253 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:53.000 in love in high school and they survived the plot 254 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:55.559 problems that this movie or TV show threw at them, 255 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:57.960 so they must be true love who will go on to. 256 00:13:57.919 --> 00:13:58.720 Be together forever. 257 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:02.559 And like I liked that this show never did Like 258 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:05.559 I liked the show both at the very beginning and 259 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:08.200 at the very end, Like it had Danny starts with 260 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:10.960 a wife who is not the girl who was the 261 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:12.759 girlfriend from the original movie. 262 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:17.120 Yeah you know, although Karate Kid too did that. But 263 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:19.159 but yeah, yeah, but like it could have it could have. Yeah, 264 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:19.759 they could have been. 265 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:21.519 Like, he was a love interest in all three movies, 266 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:22.559 so it could have been any of those. 267 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:24.919 Yeah, exactly, but they didn't. They're like, no, he met 268 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:26.840 someone off camera, yea, And. 269 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:30.039 Yeah, Chosen actually goes after the love interest from the 270 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:31.559 second movie, and that's a whole other thing. 271 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:34.960 Yeah, but then that doesn't work out either, right, But yeah, 272 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:35.720 and I think. 273 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:37.879 One of the to me, one of the dumbest things 274 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:40.559 people can do. And like, if any seventeen year older 275 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:42.440 are listening to this and you're getting ready to go 276 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:44.360 to the same college you's your sweetheart, forgive me if 277 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:46.480 I'm calling you dumb, but I'm calling you a little dumb. 278 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:50.960 Like the number of people I think who go off 279 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.720 to college with their sweetheart with everything. They're like, oh, 280 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:56.240 I'm gonna put aside everything to go be with where 281 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:58.679 this person wants to be, Like, you cut yourself off 282 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:00.559 from a lot. Like I mean, you don't have to 283 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:02.639 go to college. There's all sorts of different directions people 284 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:05.440 can go. And you know he's staying. You and I 285 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.720 are best friends from high school who have stayed really close. 286 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:09.519 Yeah, and who didn't go to the same high school 287 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:10.200 even yeah. 288 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:11.519 We didn't the same high school and we definitely didn't 289 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:13.600 go to the same college. Yeah you went to college, 290 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:18.600 like trying to visit it there, But like the point 291 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:20.639 being that, like I think it's one of the worst cliches. 292 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:26.200 And I like got viscerally angry when Miguel showed up 293 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.639 at the airport where Sammy was getting ready to go 294 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:29.360 to Okinawa. 295 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:31.799 But then he was like, no, no, no, I'm not transferring. 296 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:33.600 I'm going to Stanford, which has been my dream. 297 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:36.799 I'm but I'm just gonna go with you to like 298 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:39.039 help you settle in and spend a couple more weeks. 299 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.159 And what I thought was there was a lot of 300 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.320 really bad writing in this season, but in one of 301 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.159 my thought the best lines, you know, he said, like, 302 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:47.919 you know, I know we have to break up soon, 303 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:49.720 but like not or we have to. 304 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:50.679 Like I don't think he said that. 305 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:53.639 What he said something about something about the words soon 306 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:55.480 of like you know that like soon we're gonna be 307 00:15:55.480 --> 00:15:57.559 a part for a long while, right, And what she 308 00:15:57.679 --> 00:15:59.200 says is but soon can. 309 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:00.559 Wait a little bit longer, exactly. 310 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:02.440 Yeah, it's like that, Like you know, it's like, yeah, 311 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:04.879 we're gonna not be up together this whole time, but 312 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:08.120 that's fine. And where it's having Dmitri and Hawk decide 313 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:10.039 to do it because they're best friends who are working 314 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:14.960 on this business model, which, let me just ask you, 315 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:17.879 in a martial arts fight, my impression has always been 316 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:25.799 that split second decision making is fairly important. So if 317 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:28.679 there was a computer watching the moves of your opponent 318 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.720 calculating it through it like a lightning fast algorithm and 319 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.759 then you heard a recording in your voice saying left kick, 320 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:39.879 Like whatever, how do you think that would affect your 321 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:41.039 combat abilities? 322 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:49.720 Yeah, I mean it's it's I mean making it's like 323 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:58.159 actual unconscious competence of like instinctive reaction. That is most 324 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:01.840 of what actual mark s Art's performance is, you know, 325 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:07.000 actual fighting. Not that there isn't strategy that that can 326 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:10.960 be composed over a somewhat longer timeframe, you know, but 327 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:17.720 but yeah, having a useful AI would be something like 328 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:21.039 and this is speaks to the coaching that didn't really 329 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:24.000 exist during the tournament, where they're more like, let's just 330 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:27.759 do locker room speeches because kind of a central tenet 331 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:31.279 of Cobra Kai seems to be, you know, the inspiration 332 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:33.640 and the speech that you give someone is like, what's 333 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:35.960 going to make them a better fighter? Not like they're 334 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:39.680 dropping their right arm, you know, right or like, I mean, 335 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:42.440 the most useful thing I ever got from a coach 336 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:45.240 in a fight, which was between rounds because you can't 337 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:49.559 really do much during rounds, was you know, try skipping sidekick, 338 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.920 backkick and act kick combination. And I did, and I 339 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:55.200 hit the dude in the face multiple times and then 340 00:17:55.240 --> 00:18:00.799 the mat was bloody and like that, like because my coach, 341 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:04.720 who'd had decades more experience than me, recognized that, like, yeah, 342 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:07.119 that's something that'll probably work here. It might not work, 343 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:09.240 but it's not like, oh do this do that you know, 344 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:12.400 like or like this like big inspirational thing. You know, 345 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:16.400 it's like it's you. You can observe things and then 346 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:20.440 make suggestions, but like, you know, unless it's like this 347 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:22.599 is the counter that we're going to be working out. Okay, 348 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:24.920 we're going to be throwing a back kick, right, it's 349 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:30.359 like now, you know, if I do think it's possible 350 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:34.000 to like receive some signal, some external signal that's like 351 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:36.759 this is the time to do the thing, but it's 352 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:40.200 not time to explain what the thing is, right and 353 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:42.799 have you do the thing like in time for it 354 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:46.640 to be Sighting a bunch of like mid air cartwheels 355 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:50.559 or like like flips isn't generally that useful in fights either, 356 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:51.480 which you. 357 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:54.720 Know, especially because like the idea of the technology they 358 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:58.079 built is that it allows one person to fight like 359 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:00.839 someone else, so that a person it's kind of like 360 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:03.759 being able to like, Okay, I want my batting practice 361 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:05.960 picture to throw exactly like Greg Matic, so I can 362 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:06.640 practice batting. 363 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:07.400 It's gragmatics. 364 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:10.720 Yeah, yeah, the problem is your batting practice picture doesn't 365 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:13.799 have the muscle control and memory to know. And so 366 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:16.279 the idea first of all that Miguel who's wearing this thing, 367 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:20.240 could like change his own instincts. But also yeah, now 368 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:22.319 do those things that you can't do what Axel can 369 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:22.839 do anyway? 370 00:19:22.920 --> 00:19:26.119 Yeah, and like his limbs aren't the same, right, and 371 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:30.079 you know, so yeah, yeah, no, that was preposterous. That 372 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:34.440 was definitely preposterous. You know. Was it more of a 373 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:39.359 contrivance than the fact that just about every storyline wrapped 374 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:41.720 up in a nice bow and everybody lived happily ever 375 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:44.200 after unless they blew up on a yacht or murdered 376 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:49.240 by their granddaughter. Not really, but it's more obviously like 377 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:52.119 a well, that literally couldn't happen, as opposed to like, 378 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:54.680 I guess that could happen, you know, I mean. 379 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:57.319 Have you ever been to a tournament? Have you ever 380 00:19:57.400 --> 00:19:58.759 heard of a tournament. 381 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:03.160 Where if the students get end in a tie, the 382 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:04.559 senses have to fight each other. 383 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.359 I have not, I have not heard of such a thing. 384 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:14.119 You know, there are tournaments where the instructors will also 385 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:16.799 be competing, you know, And I mean I've done that. 386 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:20.880 I've competed at a tournament that my students were competing at. 387 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:23.920 It was very uncomfortable. Like in general, it's a very 388 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:26.799 awkward kind of thing, you know. Yeah, it's weird. Also 389 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:30.359 when teachers fight each other. I remember fighting the teacher 390 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:33.880 from another school and you know, we were fighting and 391 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:35.319 like there were some of our students are there, and 392 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:37.759 it's like it was weird. You know, you can't see it. 393 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:41.359 Well, yeah, like I'm sure that like a lot of 394 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:43.920 people are coaches because they're not Like I'm sure some 395 00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:45.759 coaches are still very much in the prime of their 396 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:48.920 physical abilities, but some are also like, yeah, no, I 397 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:51.039 tell you how to do that because my back hurts 398 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:52.759 a lot now, my knees are shot. 399 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:58.440 Yeah, Or like I mean, having trained with multiple gold 400 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:05.799 medalists in Korea and like when they're in taekwondo competing shape, Yeah, 401 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:11.400