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USDN podcast is run by the USDN_Chairman and the Council of Nerds. We strive to bring you the all the latest news and rumors from the World of Nerds and consolidate it right here at USDN. USDN is for the people, by the people and of the people.
what is up everybody this is
the chairman of the united
states department of nerds
where we are for the people
by the people and of the people
Thanks for watching!
all right welcome back
everybody let me introduce
you to my co-host tonight I
have from the pop break and
the socially distanced
podcast ben murchison
welcome back my friend
what's going on man thanks
for having me back hey
anytime you are more than
welcome my friend I was
just telling you I'll come
back just for that intro
song all we need the dude
that I I can't tell
everybody that's probably
my my favorite thing about it
Um, so like I said,
you are from the socially
distance podcast.
What are you working on over
there right now?
Currently?
I I've been busy, uh,
but unfortunately with work
and not any of the fun stuff.
So I haven't gotten a chance
to really dig into too much.
Um,
we're in a few like small things that
I'm probably going to try
to publish as part of like
an end of year article, but, uh,
As of right now,
the only show that I'm really,
really looking forward to
that I know I'm going to
write and I'm going to make
sure I make the time to
write it is the Dexter prequel series.
And that's because everybody
on the PopRank and social
distance knows I'm obsessed
with Sarah Michelle Gellar.
So anything she's in,
I'm immediately going to do
the write-up on.
Yes.
I just seen she was coming to a con here.
Yeah.
She's at San Diego, I think.
She was just in Brazil.
Yeah.
And then I think she was
just in Ohio too as well at
the GalaxyCon there.
I believe is where I had
seen her just recently.
I need to research and
figure out what con I need
to go to if she's still
doing press because I would
definitely fly just about anywhere.
Yes.
But – Black in the house.
Appreciate you coming through, bro.
What's up?
So, as always,
we'll jump into a little
cold opening before we do
the deep dive into Cobra Kai tonight.
And we were talking some
fantasy football beforehand,
and you had six fantasy
teams currently going on.
Sis, how are you managing six teams?
Unfortunately,
I'm only managing four now
because two of them got
eliminated from playoffs.
Sadly,
I had some rough last weeks of the
season.
don't recommend starting
jayden reed when he only
gets one target and no
catches that cost me cost
me a playoff spot in two
leagues unfortunately but
uh but yeah I four is much
more manageable and I'll
focus on the one uh you
know that's that's with
this so the pop break
league we've got one that
we're in uh I was in first
place um majority of the
season I did lose the last
game of the season so I
ended up in this two seed but
Looking forward to going
against all the socially distanced guys.
Bill, Amanda, Al,
they're all still in the playoffs,
so we're about to all duke it out.
Yeah,
I forgot y'all had the big one going
over there with the pop break crew.
Yeah, we got one over here, too,
that we do every year on
the DFPN and the Smoke Pit.
I went from basically last
to a clinch playoffs.
I think last week.
You just got to get in.
Yeah, dude.
I went from
I think being oh and three
or something like that to win it.
I think I've won eight in a
row or something, nine in a row.
Get hot at the right time.
That's what you need.
Hopefully the bye weeks are over.
You just got to worry about
being like managing a team
that's not playing for
anything at the last game
of the season when it really,
really matters.
But, you know, you do what you can do.
What's what's your team name?
Is it something funny?
You got to punt off one of your players.
No, I literally just name it after myself.
I think it's like USDN in my name.
I'm,
I'm especially proud of my social
distance team name.
Well, one other one,
I have Jane Daniels in a lot of these,
because as we talked about,
I'm a commanders fan.
So my,
my team name in one of my leagues is
Dan Daniels,
which I love that one from
the little vine that went
really viral for a long time.
But in socially distance,
I'm the American psychos
because Alvin Camara is my best player.
And,
So I've got a little reprint
of the scene from American
Psycho where he's showing
off the Huey and the News CD case,
but it's replaced with
Alvin Kamara's picture.
Nice.
That's a good one for me.
All right, man.
You ready to jump into this?
Let's talk some Cobra Kai.
Yeah, man.
We're on Season Six, Part Two,
which is covering Episode Six through...
I believe.
Yes, six through ten.
We got some new character
introductions now that
we're at the actual tournament.
And I think it opens up with
all the teams at the Seketake.
Seketake.
Sekai Taika.
Sekai Taika.
You did not practice it
since the last time we talked, did you?
I practiced it while I was
waiting for you to come on,
and I still mispronounced it.
So, yeah.
We'll just go with that.
So all the teams are there.
And we see that Kreese, of course,
is back.
He went to Korea and got him
a new Cobra Kai.
And then we see a bunch of new teams.
And of the new teams,
it was the Russian team who
really stood out to me
because Dr. Britt Baker, DMD,
showed up from AEW,
which was really cool to see.
And then they introduced Louis Sistan,
character uh sensei wolf the
team leader of the iron
dragons and we'll discuss
their significance when we
hear in a couple of
episodes like two more
episodes I think is when we
get to that but um because
this it's really
interesting how they ended
up there and why they are
really ultimately there um
So on season six,
we get with the tournament underway,
a betrayal threatens to
throw Miyagi-Do off the
game and a dramatic first
event unleashes the element of surprise.
So the biggest thing here in this episode,
the tournament has started.
We're actually getting into
the actual tournament and
they're actually competing now.
What did you think of the
whole thing as it all came
together and you finally
see what the events were going to be?
Yeah, I like the way that it looks.
And I like that the events
weren't exactly what I was
expecting because I didn't
know if they were going to
come into it and it would
all be like one-on-one
fighting kind of like we've always seen.
It's definitely not like that at all.
I think the first event is no matter what,
just if your team captain goes down,
then you're out.
So that's kind of a cool thing.
You've got to go through and
protect your team.
Yeah.
And so they've got the whole
protect the egg strategy
that they like to do, obviously.
But yeah,
things don't exactly go their way
in that one.
But yeah,
I like the way that everything's
set up and the way that
it's all different.
Yeah.
First episode,
you've got a lot of the same
like infighting kind of
already popping up with, you know,
like you said, the betrayal.
So so Tori obviously showing
up for the Cobra Kai team.
Oh, yeah.
Tori.
I forgot about Tori, too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that just messes with Robbie's head,
like, continuously for several episodes.
At this point, they're still dating.
Yeah, I mean, they're still dating.
I mean,
almost everybody's dated everybody
on the show at some point.
Yeah.
But, yeah, they're in a relationship,
and so that throws him off of his game,
and that really messes with
the Miyagi-Do team as a whole.
But, yeah, fun events.
And it was interesting, like you said, too,
for them to bring on the Iron Dragons,
because...
We kind of come into it
thinking like all the other
teams are just, you know,
fodder or whatever.
They don't matter.
Yeah.
Because that's what you're used to.
Right.
With this.
And we're getting these
really strong teams and not just,
you know, the Iron Dragons,
but like the Russian team
and the Irish team.
Yeah.
I think they just got a
bunch of kids out of a bar and told them,
hey, we're going to go.
Dude, that's exactly what I felt like.
Like, hey,
we're going to fly these kids
from Ireland over,
give them a couple of pints
and put them in some karate
gis and let them go.
All hopped up on Guinness.
Exactly.
Exactly.
But so, you know,
as we begin this tournament,
we get through the first
day of the tournament.
And then it's kind of like
they separate the kids.
The kids go out and they
kind of do a little tour of the town.
And then the adults are kind
of there meeting with
sponsors and that kind of stuff.
Because this is a big
opportunity for each of the
dojos there to get scholarship.
Well, yeah, scholarship money and just...
money in general for their dojos.
And this whole time, Johnny and Daniel,
of course,
are butting heads because
Daniel's always worried
that Johnny's going to be
the one that messes things up for him.
But it was not Johnny this time.
Chosen comes back from Japan
after he's all gung-ho,
ready to meet his girl and
confess his love to her and
some other guy comes to the
door so naturally that
Rhett's chosen and he flies
back to Barcelona and shows
up shit-faced very much so
just screaming the Miyagi-Do name
and uh so at this point you
know daniel's just like
well shit here I am talking
to johnny about this and
chosen comes through and
shit-faced hammered and
throwing flower vases
everywhere yeah uh you
would as you would expect
you would think johnny
would be the one to wreck
it and he kind of you know
isn't necessarily putting
his best foot forward
almost fighting uh wolf
over the last piece of steak but uh
But yeah, much,
much better comparison to Chosen,
who's just a wreck.
Yeah, that was surprising that it was,
of all people, Chosen,
who's been the number one
Miyagi-Do guy for the
entire series so far since
he made his appearance.
And man,
he's just shit-faced and upset
over a girl,
which is something that you
would expect from one of the kids.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
We've seen throughout the
show that adults are just
as bad as the kids with all
the infighting and just
lack of maturity almost
every single turn.
They almost seemingly never
make the right decision.
The Chosen Thing is funny to
me because my assumption,
just based off the way he
described the story,
to the younger guy is like
a relative or something or whatever.
Maybe she really wasn't
trying to reject him.
He already sent the drunk
phone voicemail thing and
now he shows up so yeah not
exactly not exactly doing
the right things but uh
we'll see how his whole you
know piece of it plays out
later I mean oh yeah yeah
he he I don't think he's
gonna be hurting the rest
of the show but um let's
jump into the next episode
because this one is really
where daniel kind of keeps
going off the deep end of
trying to figure out
the Miyagi, Mr. Miyagi secret,
and what really happened at
the Sekai Taikei.
I'm just going to let it go.
Yeah, please, because I'm never going to.
Off air, I could say this right all day,
but the moment we're live, man,
I'm never going to say this right.
Every time you're about to say it,
just do a point to me, and I'll be like,
Sekai Taikei.
There we go.
That's what I'm doing from now on.
So Daniel is still searching
for clues about Mr. Miyagi's pass.
And Daniel, of course,
takes some bad info.
And then there's also Miguel
raising doubts about Robbie's focus,
who he has not got his head
in this game at all.
Got a point.
Yeah.
And then Sam sees some bad
stuff go down with Sensei Wolf and Atzel.
is basically the premise of this.
But let's jump into this episode,
because Daniel literally
gets locked up in a kennel.
In a dog kennel.
In a dog kennel.
With dogs, of all things.
It got dark really fast.
Yeah, I mean,
we've followed this now for six, well,
now six and a half seasons,
and there's been some dark moments.
But nothing like this dark
where people are getting
kidnapped and put into dog cages.
Yeah, I mean,
the cab driver tried to warn him.
Nobody goes to this part of town.
What are you doing?
It seems super sketchy.
He was dead set on freaking
coming here and got himself
kidnapped in doing so.
And shoved in a dog kennel.
It's a good thing he bought the...
What did he get?
Was it a rosary or something
like that off of the kid?
It was, yeah,
just like a charm with Jesus on it.
Yeah.
So it's a good thing he bought that.
You know, it saved his butt.
It really did.
And then he figured out, you know,
or he thinks he's figured
out who has kidnapped him
and blames it on Cobra Kai, of course,
because the main antagonist
in this scene has a Cobra
Kai tattoo that you could
tell is really old.
Yeah.
So...
It would make sense to blame Kreese.
Obviously,
he's been a large percentage of
the problem throughout his life.
But yeah, we have a couple of twists.
Oh, yeah.
That's episode eight.
We'll get into the twists and turns.
But at least, do you know,
like in the episode,
so like all that's going on,
he misses the whole like second event.
Yeah, the second event.
Yeah, but his team's able to come through.
Did they win this one?
I thought they were down
until the last three events or something.
Maybe.
I can't remember if it was that one.
I don't remember which one it was,
the platform competition piece.
That's the one.
That's the one that helped
put them toward the top,
and I think that was the
second to last episode, I think.
I feel like Johnny rallied
them by saying basically
you should take the boast.
best parts of both like
dojos or whatever and helps
them get like one win while Danny's gone.
Yeah.
So this might've been it.
This might've been the one
win in the early stages to
kind of keep them in the tournament.
Yeah,
it wasn't flawless because obviously
Robbie still sucks because
every single time he's
fighting well and then for
some reason he just wants
to stare at Tori and then
he just loses focus and
gets kicked in the face or whatever.
Oh,
we did miss the part where he lost the
rooms in a bet with Quan
from Cobra Kai in the first
episode there.
Because I think Kwon kind of
like suckered him into taking that bet.
And then the rest of his team was like,
yeah, yeah, you got this.
No.
Kwon turns out had some ups.
He's still the coolest person there,
in my opinion,
even with the new guys coming in.
Kwon's still the badass.
Oh, yeah.
Kwon is the new Johnny, in my opinion.
Yeah.
At this point.
Yeah.
The only thing that was a
little weird for me is, like,
I wanted him to be, like,
the biggest badass, and he still has,
like, his moments or whatever.
But when they have the, you know,
the Iron Dragons, like,
Axel seems like this just
machine that nobody can touch.
He's a freaking beast of a dude.
So when you see him kind of
take down Quan pretty easily, it's like,
okay, I don't know what to think anymore.
Like, Quan's not even the biggest threat,
but... Exactly.
And Axel's just manhandling
Quan like he was a ragdoll.
Nobody touches him, so...
Even though he's basically mute.
He barely talks.
He has a lot of death stares.
It's a weird dynamic with him.
I think in this last... In part three,
hopefully we get a little
bit more of a dive into why
he is that way.
We see some of it in this
episode because we do see
Sensei Wolf in him training.
Sensei Wolf is just...
go into town on this poor guy.
Yeah.
So, and I mean, we still aren't like,
I'm guessing these kids are eighteen,
seventeen, eighteen years old.
Yeah, I would imagine.
In the show.
Yeah.
So, I mean,
this is basically blood sport
for teenagers.
I mean, essentially, yeah.
I mean, some of them are younger than that,
I guess.
What's the tournament's name?
Saikai, Saikai, but blood sport.
It's blood sport for teenagers.
Yeah.
This is the Kumite people.
Yep.
But yeah, I mean,
it's kind of cool to see
different people introduce
this late in the game.
But then I did kind of
almost wish that it focused on just like,
you know,
the Cobra Kai and getting to see
Quan more so.
Yeah,
because to be fair to everybody on
this show, Zara...
Her name is Raina
Valandingham is her real name.
She plays Zahra Malik.
And she is the badass of the show.
She stole the show.
This season,
this part of the season belonged to her.
It was her show.
Yeah,
she's obviously the best girl fighter
there from what you can kind of see.
And she's like a social media mogul.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah,
she's the stereotypical like mean
girl kind of making like
snide comments or whatever.
But, you know, you knew Tori,
if anybody was going to be
the one to probably try to
put her in her place when
it came down to it.
Yeah, she's fun to watch.
So, I mean, you do get, I mean,
you get three cool
characters to kind of to watch.
It's just there's so many
people on the show and so
many kids and like they
have to kind of make up.
We'll get to it, too.
They have to almost make up
excuses to go back to the
hometown to kind of see
some of these other
characters and bring some back in.
Because there's just too many people.
Yeah, it was.
How do I?
It was cool that I didn't
behind this tournament
being like the tournament
of tournament for these guys after the,
you know, the hometown, whatever.
these all Valley tournament valleys.
Yeah.
So it was kind of cool to see a different,
like, Hey, you win this.
You also have this chance of
going to this bigger
tournament in Europe or
wherever is hosting it.
Cause you never knew who's
going to host it.
But, um, it was definitely interesting.
And of course in this episode,
Daniel and Johnny are still
button heads over, you know,
Daniel basically missing the whole,
the whole day.
And, um,
He's obsessed with Miyagi,
which you can kind of get,
but at the same time, as an adult,
you should focus on the
task at hand and not go
running off and leaving your kids behind.
I mean, Mr. Miyagi was his childhood.
That was basically his
father figure growing up.
So, I mean, I understand it to some degree,
but I'm like, dude, your kid,
your kid is literally the
female captain for your team.
You just left her high and dry.
Like, hey, I'll be back in an hour.
Tournament's only a couple days, right?
I'm pretty sure you can go
meet with this mysterious
person that you need to
meet with and do some
research after that.
I'm like, dude,
you live in sunny California.
You own a car dealership.
Yeah.
You ain't hurting.
You can stay a couple extra
days in Europe if you want to.
For sure.
All right, dude.
Let's hit up episode eight,
Snakes on a Plane.
So we get the personal crisis, Chase,
Miguel, and Johnny.
chosen and a rival sensei
team up to find your
students but discover
something else instead what
do they discover oh we're
gonna get into that buddy
but uh so at this point you
know we're this is the
third episode so we were
due for a bad to happen but
we get two bads
and a right but um so
miguel's mom and johnny's
girlfriend same people by
the way uh what's her name
um carmen carmen is
currently preggers with
johnny's baby and they get
a message saying hey your
mom's in the hospital you
need to get home because
you know there's something with the baby
So immediately, Miguel and Johnny are,
boom, on a plane, gone.
And now they have to replace Miguel.
So they reach out to... No, no,
really not.
It took some convincing to
get Kenny on the plane.
I mean,
it took Daniel's wife and her son both...
going to visit him and
getting him to fly to Spain
and join in the tournament.
And of course, you know, Kenny,
which I don't blame him.
I've been like, no,
you're on your own after I
shit myself in the,
in the finale of part one or the,
not the finale,
but I think it was part of
six or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I'm just like, he's like, no.
So, you know,
What's her name?
What's his wife's name?
Amanda.
And his son's name is Anthony.
Yep.
Yeah.
They go to his house and convince him.
And Anthony, in all of his infinite wisdom,
is like, hey, dude, what do I got to do?
Shit myself?
Okay, cool.
A weird move considering he
wasn't even the person responsible.
Exactly.
Exactly.
but Kenny wasn't going to hear that, man.
Kenny was like, no, dude,
you caused me to shit myself.
It's your fault.
And then of course, you know,
his mom's like, Oh,
you've been bullying people.
That's that ass when we get home.
Yeah.
I mean, it brings about like,
obviously we know like
Devin was the one that was
actually responsible for it.
Uh,
so she's the same time I built up with
all this guilt.
Yeah.
And she's not performing well.
And so I think in her mind, she's like,
Yeah,
I wasn't ready to actually be a part
of this tournament.
I took somebody's spot that
should have been here.
So she's feeling bad.
So, yeah,
it's it's a lot of pressure on her.
Like she's going through a lot, obviously,
with this.
So it at least gives her a
chance when Kenny gets
there to try to apologize in person.
And he's already kind of
over it by the time he gets
there because it's a long flight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dude,
that that is a from California to Spain.
Yeah,
that's that's a good days of
traveling right there.
And you're not getting that
in a direct flight.
Which I'm a little concerned for.
I don't know who's paying for the flights.
Maybe the tournament paid for it.
I don't know.
But I don't think Johnny can
afford to fly back and then
fly back again.
And I'm guessing that was
out of Daniel's paycheck right there.
Yeah,
maybe LaRusso gave him a little
holiday bonus from the
dealership if he's still employed there.
I don't know.
God, is he?
He kind of is.
I can't remember if he's
still technically employed.
But, you know, it's the little Russos.
They're good people.
Of course, they're going to help them out,
you know,
with the kids being friends and all.
But... So,
Miguel and Johnny are on the plane.
And, of course, you know,
Johnny being Johnny and
Miguel being Miguel,
they're going to butt heads
on the way over,
which leads them to butt
heads with the passenger.
A drunk passenger, nonetheless.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know, like...
You know this wasn't real
life because if a passenger
was that drunk on a plane,
he wouldn't have got on the
plane these days.
Yeah,
probably would have been screened out
by somebody.
Flight attendant would have
gotten him pretty early,
but definitely wouldn't be
serving him any extra drinks,
that's for sure.
But Johnny should probably
be able to relate.
He's been the drunk guy in a
bad situation before.
But he's obviously on high
alert right now and stressed to the max.
Yeah, he is.
like I couldn't even imagine
what he was going through
in that moment and miguel
as well you know with that
being his mother you're
you're going there you're
on a plane but like you're
literally just having to
sit with your thoughts for
however long that flight is
plus hours yeah but um so
that's do it they get through it they do
They do.
They get there in time, which was,
you know, and then his mom's like,
what the fuck are y'all doing here?
Get your asses back into the plane.
Maybe they needed a little
bit more dialogue.
Yeah.
It's like,
get back on the plane and go finish this.
But, you know, all that's taking place.
Win one for the Gipper speech, you know?
Yep, exactly.
It's not Cobra Kai or any
other karate movie until
you get one of those speeches.
Don't come back without a trophy, man.
Yeah, come back.
Come back a winner.
Come back on your shield.
Yeah.
Hey,
we get a little Sparta at the end of
this thing.
Exactly.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah,
that's going to be a fun one to talk
about when we get there.
So let's talk about Chosen.
And what's her name?
Kim, I think.
Pretty sure it's Kim.
Yeah, Master Kim.
Yep.
Kim Dae-yoon.
There we go.
Who is a play by Alicia Hannah Kim,
who is actually really a Korean actress.
I really like her.
I do too.
She doesn't show up in a lot of stuff,
but when she does show up, it's,
it's like immediate impact, you know?
Yeah.
And she's not like, I mean,
she's been on the show for a while.
Um,
she's never dipped too hard into the
villain stance.
Like she's kind of towing the line,
I guess a lot, but then, you know,
she shows like a lot
lighter side of herself, obviously with,
you know,
but she's away from her
grandfather in this.
So that helps it out a lot.
It helps a lot.
True.
And,
She's like with Kreese,
but like is fully aware
that Kreese is a scumbag.
She fully knows.
Yeah.
And she knew that from the
start and she really
couldn't understand why her
grandfather would agree to that.
So that's really like her
biggest thing is.
Like,
I have to keep these kids safe from
Kreese,
then also keep everybody else safe
from Kreese as well.
Yeah.
But her and Chosen,
the kids sneak out to go partying.
like kids will do when, you know,
when the legal drinking age is eighteen.
Yep.
And in the entirety of Europe,
if you can see above the bar,
you are more than happy to have a pint.
So they seek out finding
their their children's because, you know,
you put Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do together.
Shit's going to get violent
and get violent fast.
And you don't really want
that happening in a foreign country.
Because for some reason,
nobody seems to get in much
trouble when they're at
home in the Valley.
But I don't think anybody
else in another country is
going to take it lightly.
And plus,
they could lose their spot in
the... Sakai Taikai.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ben.
That would have been tragic
to lose their spot in
the... Sakai Taikai.
Or a point.
We make a great team, Ben.
Yes, sir.
But...
So they eventually,
they find their kids and
they're safe and they get them home.
But then they get into a fight themselves.
As you know, they probably do.
So they get into their little bar fight,
but they track down their students.
And then there is a,
let's call it an excursion on the beach.
Yep.
And then once again in the morning,
there was another excursion on the beach.
And then followed by coffee.
Right.
And then the whole classic
conversation of like, this was a mistake.
We can never do this again.
We're here for the tournament.
You know,
everybody comes to their senses
pretty quick.
Oh, yeah.
Good for Chosen and Kim.
I think they make a nice
little couple in the moment.
They were a great team while it lasted,
and we also see them team up again later.
So it was kind of like, yeah,
this is awkward, but hey, maybe,
maybe not.
We'll see where it goes.
It also,
as we get further into this
episode and Daniel's
unraveling some more
mysteries of Mr. Miyagi,
But in doing so,
I think they played this
episode where they played
the prank on Kreese and
they steal his dagger.
Yeah, at some point.
I think it was this episode.
It's if that or it's in the finale.
Essentially,
they try to go through and
make it seem like it was.
Well, no,
we definitely haven't gotten
there because we haven't
even talked about the large
elephant in the spa yet.
Well, yeah,
that's that's that's that's
where we're leading up to
right now is the big elephant in the spa,
who, by the way,
seems to never be able to stay in jail.
Nobody does.
That's that's the thing.
I think Robbie spent more
time in juvenile detention
than any of these adults have spent,
like in an actual jail cell
for attempted murder.
So this is a true point for Robbie, man,
for all deals all around.
And oh, by the way,
his dad is Johnny Lawrence.
Yeah.
I mean, also, yeah, it's tough.
I mean,
And oh, by the way,
Johnny is engaged to Carmen,
who is Miguel's mom.
Yeah.
And then, yeah, you've got the tension,
obviously,
that's come from the fact that
Robbie can't keep his head
on the tournament.
So you got Miguel basically
saying that he should be, you know,
the leader.
So he should be the leader, you know,
have the coolest headband
and be the one leading them
guys so they can go through
and actually try to win the tournament.
Yeah, but.
Robbie's not giving it up at the time,
you know, but he, I don't know.
It's,
I definitely see Miguel's point right
before, you know,
everything happens with Carmen.
He has to leave anyway.
He was essentially saying like,
either get your head in this or like,
you know, turn over the responsibility.
Cause you're not helping us,
which he definitely wasn't.
So I think everybody kind of
gets recentered obviously
by the time we get towards the last fight,
but, but yeah, just a lot,
a lot of complications and
a lot of tensions all around.
It's the same,
For the most part,
it's kind of the same
recycled infighting that
happens throughout every season.
Nothing really stays buried.
It's kind of like everybody
smooths it over enough to
make it cool to be around
each other for five minutes.
Yeah, to get through the Nets big thing.
Yeah, but as soon as things go bad again,
they start turning on each other.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, you remember that one time?
Yeah.
Where he kicked me off of a
staircase and almost killed me?
Yes, I remember that pretty well.
But let's address the
elephant in the room.
So this is the episode where
Silver makes his big return
to the series.
And of all places we had to see him,
was in a jacuzzi with his goons.
Smoking a cigar as always.
Yep.
And we learned that Sensei
Wolf and the other Asian
guy with the Cobra Kai
tattoo is a part of his crew.
They kidnapped Daniel.
Yep.
Yeah, they're behind kind of everything.
Everything that's bad that's
happened up until this
point has been Kreese and
Kreese's master plan to
ruin Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai.
Because he can't just let it
lie and nor can he stay in jail.
Yeah,
Silver's obviously against Kreese and
he's against Daniel and
he's against Johnny.
He's just against everybody.
It's kind of, in his mind,
sort of destroyed his life to an extent.
But, yeah.
Nothing to lose.
Definitely a dangerous guy.
Still has means, has money to go through.
And he was able to get, I think,
what was it?
Iron Dragons is what he bought that dojo.
Yeah, he bought the dojo because,
was it Marco's?
What's the trainer?
Or not the trainer.
Sensei Wolf.
Sensei Wolf.
So yeah, he essentially had lost his dojo.
So he offered basically,
go embarrass these kids at
this tournament and I'll
give you your dojo back.
So struck up a deal with them.
Couldn't have two nicer
people joining forces.
yeah exactly I mean he is
scorpion's grandson great
great grandson after all
this is this is true all
right that's my that's my
mortal kombat reference I
won't do it again I had to
get it in there somewhere
and that was a good spot I
thought I like him in that
yeah yeah I like yeah he's
actually good uh what's
this here's another show
I'll have to look it up it
was on like netflix I think
uh they had like two or
three seasons or maybe it was movies even
He's in something else, essentially.
I have to look it up because
the first thing I ever seen
him in was the Mortal Kombat movie.
Yeah,
I think that was where I saw him first,
too.
But he was going to pull it
up right now because I got
IMDb and IMDb is awesome.
Woo Assassins.
OK, yeah, I did see that.
Yeah.
So those there's like a
series and then the movies, I think, too.
So, yeah, that was that was fun.
And that was actually pretty good.
Like it was it was better
than it should have been.
Right.
yeah all right yeah a lot of
uh a lot of bad guys
working together and now
it's kind of turns
everything on its head
again because you've got
you know now crease is
reeling a little bit
because he was supposed to
be the biggest asshole in
the room and now he's not
he's not even like the biggest one period
barely relevant at this point.
Exactly.
Now it's like, okay,
are we going to get a team
up with Cobra Kai and
Miyagi-Do to take down
Kreese once and for all?
Or what are we going to get here?
Because that's how it feels
for a moment there where
Kreese and Daniel are both like,
what in the hell?
But it was Stingray's fault
that Silver didn't spend a day in jail.
Yeah.
Oh, good old Stingray.
Good old Stingray.
Who I think we see briefly in the... No,
that was toward the end
of... It was the first part.
It was the very first episode, I think.
It was part six, essentially.
When he had the fake Cobra
Kai in the woods.
He's training Cobra Kai with
a bunch of seven-year-olds in the woods.
Yeah.
So let's jump into episode nine, Blood In,
Blood Out.
And this is basically the
elimination round of the tournament.
And who will actually go home,
Miyagi-Do or Cobra Kai?
And then we finally learn
the truth that kind of puts
Daniel in a bad spot, essentially.
Yeah.
Because I think he knew,
but he didn't know the real
extent of kind of what
happened with Mr. Miyagi in
the tournament.
So let's jump into this one, man.
so in this episode we
learned it was this episode
actually is where we
learned about how silver
got out of jail and how he
met a sensei wolf and how
he bought the dojo and the
biggest thing was just
crushing my yagi dough and
cobra kai and um this is when when
Silver was meeting with his
lawyer who said the only reason,
this is where we learned it
was Stingray's fault that
Silver isn't in jail no more.
Essentially, I think what happened,
if I remember right,
is Silver paid off Stingray.
And that's how he ended up.
Stingray was just not a reliable source.
Yeah,
might not have been a credible witness.
Yeah, credible witness, yes.
Because, I mean, dude,
you're fighting with teenagers, dude.
I can't imagine.
But, um,
so this was when the tag team
tournament with, uh,
and where Cobra Kai gets
knocked out of the tournament at toward,
I think it was toward the end of the, um,
the episode.
Yeah.
Another cool format for, it really was.
And then there was,
I think it was in episode eight or no,
it was the one previous.
It was seven where it was
the balance and beam, uh,
where they were balanced on the,
They just couldn't pull off the beam.
Yeah.
I thought that was a really cool one, too.
Yeah,
the platform might have been my
favorite just because, you know,
elevated and essentially,
I think you're two V two.
And then when somebody gets, you know,
knocked off,
somebody else can kind of go
up and start the fight.
It started out as a two V two.
Yeah, that was in episode ten.
I believe it was.
Yeah.
But so Cobra Kai gets
eliminated and we're thinking, all right,
cool.
Miyagi-Do is still in the tournament.
They're good to go.
They don't have to worry about Cobra Kai.
Their biggest,
they're really their biggest
threat at this point is
still the iron dragons.
Yeah.
Everybody's biggest threat.
Cause they're not losing at all.
No, there's no way.
I mean, they got the best male,
female fighter period in the tournament.
And, um,
also we learned here from is
that crease actually gave
Daniel the kind of like the
damning information, if you will,
that Mr. Miyagi did in fact
kill his opponent in the
tournament and actually
gave him the reference of the, from the,
um, actual tournament archives.
Yeah.
Silver silver is like trying to, um,
essentially get in everybody's head.
So he tried it with, try it with Kenny, uh,
who got brought into the tournament.
Um,
try to see if, like, basically tell them,
like,
nobody's cared about you this entire
time.
They didn't even want you here.
Like, why don't you fight for us instead?
Kenny flipped in the bird, which was cool.
When he won that round in
the tattoo tournament, yeah.
And there was the whole, like, it was,
like, a weird piece of the fight, too,
where, like, when Kenny gets there and,
like,
Dimitri plants in everybody's head
that he must have been, like, a plant by,
you know,
Silver once they found out that
he was there.
Of course.
Dimitri being Dimitri, man.
Dimitri might be my least
favorite character at this point.
Everybody here.
Like Dimitri is like, why are you here,
dude?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Probably.
He's obviously one of the
lesser fighters of the group there.
Yeah.
And then just, you know,
almost messes things up.
But luckily, you know,
Robbie did listen to him
and was able to go through
and help them get,
get Cobra Kai eliminated.
Thanks to Kenny coming
through in the clutch and.
Definitely came through in the,
in the clutch.
Yeah.
But you're right.
So Silver tries to get into
Daniel's head by, you know, telling him,
you know,
essentially the Mr. Miyagi
killed somebody in the,
tournament which kind of I
think that's where our
heads were probably at when
you had the blood on the
the headband yeah um you
kind of maybe thought that
it was going to go that way
especially after like the
weird uh dream that daniel
had yeah that's uh the
lead-in of uh episode ten I
believe but um but yeah
daniel does go to gunter
who is the head of the
of the sorry there we go
also the former head coach
of the mighty ducks
opponent in the olympics I
think dude you're right
yeah yeah I was trying to
remember where I like knew
him from because I was like
super familiar face uh then
yeah I think he was like
iceland's coach he was
iceland's coach you were
yeah dude yep yeah that is
dude now I gotta go watch
mighty ducks yeah I mean I
hadn't even thought about
the mighty ducks in a long
time now I gotta go
Now I got to watch it, man.
Thanks.
But Gunther does, you know, say, hey, yeah,
this is authentic.
This did happen,
but it hasn't happened
basically since then.
Yeah,
it used to be a little bit more dangerous,
less regulated, I guess.
Yeah.
And they added, I mean, yeah, I mean,
it's the Kumite for teenagers.
It is still weird that they
would have like a bunch of,
underage it's like fighting
in this tournament even
yeah I guess but I I
suppose people were going
off to fight wars at so you
know I mean still can but I
guess you could have I mean
yeah even mr miyagi served
I mean that's how he got
out of okinawa went to the
u.s immediately enlisted
and went to to war so I
mean yeah got it maybe that
prompted him to enlist I'm
not sure like the timeline
essentially but I think it
was the way it seems to me
is that immediately after
this tournament is when he
left Okinawa and went to
the US and immediately like
enlisted it's kind of how
it plays off because we
know he comes back and he
has the the Batson he was
at the Batson gym for a
little bit and then he
opened up Miyagi yeah yeah yeah
yeah just basically running
away from his past
essentially and then never
talking about it ever again
yeah and to me that's like
like dude something tragic
like that happens to you
yeah because I'm sure you
know it's mr miyagi I don't
think he set out to
intentionally kill old dude
in the tournament so so you
know there's still more to
learn you know at some
point hopefully in the next
part part three but we're on episode ten
And the name of it is Yoon Jang Do.
And Daniel and Johnny are
using Barcelona as a
training ground for their
captains because the last
round is the captains battle.
And then a cheap shot in the
televised semifinal spark a
brawl to end all brawls.
I mean,
we've seen some brawls in in the
All Valley Tournament in
school in the mall.
Yeah,
the school brawl was probably the
best one.
But so at the start of this,
Johnny opens up and I'm not Johnny,
but Daniel opens up and he
is dreaming that he is the
fighter fighting Mr. Miyagi
in the Saikai Taika.
And they're basically
chanting Miyagi and Miyagi
delivers the final final blow.
But he didn't realize that
blow was going to be the one that killed,
in this case, Daniel in his dreams.
He didn't hit it with one of those honk.
Yeah,
he didn't do the honk honk like
Daniel did in Okinawa in the tournament.
But also at this time, you know,
we learn when, you know,
we're seeing them all kind
of meeting up before the
final tournament.
And then Gunter comes out and he's like,
hey, I have an announcement to make.
He announces that basically
the Russian team was using PEDS.
And Cobra Kai is back in the
tournament now because they
were the next.
So, you know,
team with the that was
basically had the most points,
so they were immediately
eligible to be in the tournament still.
Yeah.
So, yeah, that got back in the mix.
So just as soon as we think, you know, oh,
great, you know, it's kind of weird,
but Cobra Kai is out, which.
Yeah.
I'm like,
the name of the show was Cobra Kai.
So, okay, but Miyagi-Do is still in this.
We're good to go.
The main guys are there.
Johnny and Daniel are still in this.
There's still a chance that
Miyagi-Do can pull this out.
But no,
those pesky Russians and their
doping scams, scandals.
Which is funny because you have...
Dr. Britt Baker, DMD, who, by the way,
is a real dentist.
Involved in a ped scandal.
Well, and I mean,
performance enhancing drugs, y'all.
Not the other thing.
So, you know, naturally, you know,
those coaches are going to be pissed.
Like, oh, no, no, we're not.
We're not doping.
We're not doing this and that.
But they were very pissed.
Yeah.
Either way, they're done.
They're done.
So now we move into the captain's.
tournament and the captains
basically battle it out
until um there's a winner
yeah I can't remember if it
was um I think it was like
a true on bracket style
where these captains face
these captains these
captains and these captains
in the final four type of
deal yeah I think that's
the the idea and of course
uh unfortunately for robbie he uh
draws basically the Carl Drago of,
of this thing gets Axel in
the first round.
Yes.
Of the iron, iron dragons, man.
He basically gets, yeah,
it's definitely a Rocky,
Rocky story with this one calls.
He was like double the size of, uh,
of him.
Yeah.
Um, and we should mention,
I guess in the context too,
is this is going on.
Like we've,
we've got a little bit of
actual backstory from, um,
essentially Sam, like seeing him,
get essentially beat on by
his sensei but then he kind
of immediately develops a
crush you know for Sam
because she shows like any
interest in him whatsoever
like shows a little empathy
yeah I mean she did feel
sympathy and empathy toward
him because she had seen
you know sensei wolf you
know beating on him so we
do get some backstory there
and we also get um we never
really get anything on vala
Or Zara, I'm sorry.
Her name is Zara.
Yeah,
so far she's got a great social media
star.
She has a thing for Robbie.
Yeah,
I think either has a thing for Robbie
or just wanted to get at Tori.
Probably more so get at Tori.
Yeah.
With, you know,
trying to make it look like
they were hooking up.
Which, you know,
Tori did catch them kissing
in the hallway.
So that obviously causes
some tension at this point.
Yeah, and I think that dude was like...
that dude was hammered.
There's no way he, yeah.
I mean, he was on rum and Cokes, uh,
after he thought double rum and Cokes,
double rum and Cokes.
Yeah.
You're right.
Uh, essentially, you know,
cause there was a little bit of tension,
obviously between him and Tori.
And then of course, uh,
Cobra Kai is getting in his head.
So you got that tension going on.
You've got, you know,
and that's Kwan essentially
trying to get into his head.
And then you've got the
tension going on because, uh,
Axel essentially has a thing for Sam.
And then,
it's not until like right at
the end there that Miguel
even finds out that that
whole thing happens.
He was like, the hell did this come from?
And why is he looking at me weird?
So you got,
you got a lot of tensions
boiling over at the same
time that you've got, you know,
crease essentially on a
mission at this point where
it looks like he just wants
to straight up murder.
He wants to murder silver.
To murder silver.
That's without a doubt.
Like that was his intent,
but before any of that can happen,
The Russian coach blindsides
Gunther with an attack and
lots of cold out, like clean out.
And that leads us to the
brawl of all brawls.
Yeah, Gunther was trying to, you know,
keep control because I
think Kwon kind of cheap
shot at Robbie in the ribs.
He did, yep.
Robbie was, for the most part, not,
he was trying to hold his
own in his initial fight,
but he was mostly just playing defense.
He couldn't really get any kicks in,
and then he gets kind of
slung into the Quan, and Quan gives him,
like, a rib punch or something,
and then Miguel comes to
try to defend him, and then, of course,
you get Axel stepping in
because he's like,
I don't like you because you're with Sam,
and then just everybody
starts kicking the shit out of everybody.
Gunther gets knocked unconscious,
and there's, like,
There's no cooler heads prevailing.
No adults are able to
situation because
everybody's adults were in on it.
Yeah.
I mean, they were there.
They're fighting, you know,
the other adults where the
kids are fighting kids.
So it's, it's insane.
It goes on for the majority
of the episode.
It's probably wide of a
fifteen minute brawl.
I think.
Yeah.
And it's all being live
streamed because it's the
finale of the tournament.
So everybody's watching this
go off at home.
The entirety of the rest of
Miyagi-Do is basically
sitting at Daniel LaRusso's
house watching this whole
thing take place.
And they're all into it.
They're like, oh, damn, yeah.
Nobody can cut the stream.
Yeah, it gets crazy.
But you get to see some...
you know, alliances form again,
like Sam and Tori, you know,
are together trying to, you know,
defend each other.
And then you also see Chosen
and Master Kim team up again.
And then you see,
I think it was Master Kim.
Daniel are, you know,
obviously trying to help each other out.
Is it,
I'm trying to remember now because
it's been a minute,
but I know Kreese
essentially is fighting Silver.
Yeah, so Kreese is actually, no,
Johnny left Daniel.
And track down Silver.
Because Silver's already at
this point kind of beat Kreese.
And the dagger is now...
Because Kreese had the dagger.
And the dagger has been
knocked out and it's rolled
into the tournament area
where everybody else is
basically brawling.
Yeah.
Not good to have a weapon on
the floor amongst a bunch
of hot-headed teenagers.
No, no.
And they've proven hot-headed.
I mean, the Irish were the first ones.
As soon as Gunter went down,
the Irish were like,
we just finished a pint.
It's time to brawl.
A lot of stereotypes coming
into play here.
But yeah, of course, it's the Irish.
They're the first ones to just say,
fuck it.
Yeah, I'd love to fight.
Yeah.
I mean, they were looking for a fight.
Everybody was pissed that
they got eliminated.
Like,
I don't know why they had the teams
that had already been, like, beaten, like,
even there.
Yeah.
Like, why were they even still there?
I thought, because, like,
Cobra Kai was getting ready.
They had their luggage.
Like, they were getting ready to leave.
Yeah.
But then you see, like,
we're in the finals in the
captain's battle.
And it's like, everybody's there.
Like, what are y'all doing there?
I guess all the other teams were, like,
allowed to still be there.
But you probably don't want
to have them just circling
around the mats.
Like, you're just.
looking for something bad to
happen so uh yeah that's
exactly what I think
that'll be a new role in
the next years stay in the
same stands we need like
some plexiglass in between
you and the actual exactly
but um so this fight I mean
it was literally the
majority of the episode and
we we do see johnny finally
get his hands on uh silver
and um the entire time I
mean the kids are brawling I think um
Quan turns his attention to Atzel.
At this point,
Atzel and Quan are kind of
going at it and they're fighting.
And as we had mentioned earlier,
the dagger did roll into
the tournament area.
And Atzel had thrown Quan, I believe.
Yeah, I think he threw Quan, uh,
Basically, he got knocked down.
I remember Quan got knocked
to the floor right next to the camera.
So his face is like right in
the camera that everybody's watching.
And you can just see in his eyes, he gets,
you know, pissed off.
He was humiliated, dude.
Like he... He's already lost like to,
you know, Robbie before.
And then, you know, he was already angry.
And then, yeah, unfortunately,
he's the one to pick up the
dagger at that point.
Yep.
So the dagger is now in play
and he has every intention of...
shanking I guess absolute is
who he his target was still
yeah uh yeah essentially
like goes at him and you
know they're fighting and
uh it's kind of that
classic thing where you
know that you see daniel is
trying to like he sees
what's happening so he's
trying to get over there
but can't just way fast
enough it wasn't just
daniel it seemed like you
know there was other people
who were trying to get
there as well but daniel I
think was the main one
because I thought it was
going to be end up being daniel yeah
Oh,
you thought Daniel was going to be the
one to get stabbed?
Yeah, I mean, like, at this point, like,
Daniel's head has not been
completely focused and in the game,
period.
So I'm like,
it's going to end up being Daniel,
and Johnny wasn't there to have his back,
and none of the other, you know,
coaches are going to have his back,
because why would they?
They're too busy fighting each other.
Yeah.
But Atzel does end up
I want to say it was like a
fucking ram kick or some
shit when Quan jumped to hit him.
Yeah.
So as they kind of collide,
like you don't really,
you just hear like kind of
a scream and you're not really sure like,
well,
who got stabbed or essentially what
happened exactly.
But then of course she's,
The camera, of course, goes right to it,
and he's laying down on his stomach,
and you can't see the dagger,
but you can see his hand is
underneath him.
So you're like, oh, damn,
did he land on this?
Because at that point,
you really didn't know.
Did he drop it?
Did something else happen?
Did Atsu just happen to kick
him so hard it knocked him out?
You really don't know until
you see the pool of blood, and Johnny,
of course, is...
Not Johnny.
I'm sorry.
Daniel.
Daniel.
Yeah.
It's kind of like, oh, shit.
And then finally, at this point,
Gunter is back up.
He's conscious.
He's yelling from the cut to feed,
cut to feed,
cut to feed for like five minutes,
I guess.
But he did get his revenge
on the Russian coach.
Yeah.
He did return the favor.
so yeah but we did lose kwan
in the tournament yeah and
this is the first one since
I think the guy that miyagi
accidentally killed yeah I
mean yeah that's it's kind
of the truth yeah like it
hasn't happened you know it
doesn't happen anymore it
used to be different but
then of course in this one
um yeah we lose somebody
which is I think the
as much violence as kind of
the show has had.
And like,
there's been some absurd fights
and people always end up in
the hospital and whatnot.
Like nobody's actually lost
their life before.
Uh, so this is, you know,
definitely like a, a tragedy.
Um, you know,
Quan got kind of molded a little bit,
you know, or a lot of it by Chris.
Yeah.
Chris put it into his head, man.
He manipulated him a lot.
So like,
I'm sure Quan had some redeeming
qualities misunderstood,
like everybody else, you know,
could have come around,
but he was the male version of Tori.
Yeah, I think so too.
He just had a hot-headed moment,
lost his cool, was making a bad decision,
and unfortunately pays for it.
We will assume his life.
I mean,
I guess nobody seemed rushing over
to try to help him,
but that could have been
the dramatic piece.
Yeah, and the show does...
Like that was it.
It was that moment.
You know,
all the kids that are still in
California at the LaRusso
house are all kind of like stunned,
but then it just cuts.
And that's when the season
comes to a close.
And now we're, you know,
waiting for part three to come out to go.
Okay.
Is he still alive?
Is he alive?
Were they able to save him?
Because, I mean,
they didn't quite... I
don't think they really
showed it penetrating him.
He was just kind of laying there.
Nobody was really rushing over to help.
They were kind of just
staring at each other.
Daniel was trying to get there.
That was the last thing we
really seen was Daniel
trying to prevent this from happening.
Yeah.
So... It'll be interesting
to see where they try to go from here.
Because, I mean, can you still...
have the tournament from
that point there's just
been like complete and
utter chaos do they just
like cancel the rest of it
you know and uh because I
mean we're in the middle
were we in the finals it's
the finals it's the
captain's battle yeah it
was the very first fight of
the captain's battle so
okay that's right a lot of
it to go yeah so it's still
we still got the the the
men's and women's captains
battle so okay I couldn't
like the show come out
november fifteenth I think
It was the release.
And I know I was trying to
like get us all together to
do it like the week or two after.
And we were all just like
swamped with everything.
Yeah.
Which is where Rob is tonight.
Yeah.
Rob was trying to complete a
move in the middle of all this as well.
So he's like, dude,
I'm still trying to get settled.
I'm just like, dude, it's all good, man.
We'll get you next time, man.
Yeah.
So hopefully by the time more,
Part three rolls around,
which is rumored for February,
twenty twenty five.
Of course,
Netflix has pulled that
information off the website
and off of Netflix as well.
They were just like, oh, no,
we were just kidding.
It's not going to be
February twenty twenty five.
So, yeah, see,
they originally had February
thirteen is the first episode release.
Yep.
who knows when they do it.
And I know they've got the movie too,
that they're pushing
probably after the conclusion.
So, yep, that was, um,
so we're probably conclude
in February or finish in March, I guess,
the writers have promised
no cliffhangers whatsoever.
This is it.
They're done.
And then if we get karate kid legends, uh,
With Ralph Macchio, of course,
and Jackie Chan.
That's scheduled May
thirtieth of twenty twenty five.
But I'm not sure of how much
time between this ending and.
Karate Kid Legends happening,
I don't know that time frame,
is it a year, is it three years,
six years?
Because it would make sense if.
They're bringing Ralph
Macchio into this as Daniel LaRusso,
that his kids are no longer
living at home in their own
people because why would he
be coaching another kid?
You know what I'm saying?
True.
Yeah,
and I don't think any – at least they
haven't announced any other
cast that's going to be included.
It's kind of completely separate.
But, yeah, then that's in May,
so it's not long after the show ends.
But you could come up with
any time frame you want for
how much time.
Yeah, you could say, oh,
it's six years later or what have you.
Which, I mean,
they're already eighteen ish
or whatever for the most part.
So, I mean, they're.
Yeah.
I mean, the only other kid that, you know,
Daniel would have his son
who's in high school as well.
But I think they skip it
ahead where his son's out
of school at this point.
That's what would make sense.
But let's jump into fire.
Final shots and thoughts.
Ben,
what's your final thoughts on Cobra Kai,
bro?
I mean, it stayed true to, like,
kind of its tone the entire way through.
It's, you know, it's absurd what, you know,
what these kids get away with and, like,
the violent fights that they have and,
like, just the, I guess, I mean,
it's very real, I suppose, within,
you know,
young people probably forever just,
you know,
making immature choices and whatnot.
It's just so much that all
these kids happen to know karate,
so it plays out more validly than most.
But, yeah, I mean,
the tone's always been fun.
You kind of just,
Let the absurdity of it roll
off of you and just enjoy
it and soak it up.
And this last portion of it.
That's been the perfect part about this,
right?
You just turn it off and
just let these little
delinquents do their thing, man.
Yeah.
And it has been very much
that throwback that you wanted.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think, I mean, it's evolved a lot,
I think, from, you know, the first season,
you know,
when it was like YouTube still
technically.
First two seasons for YouTube.
Lower budget, like smaller, you know,
number of cast members and whatnot.
It just kind of gradually
got bigger and bigger as it went along.
But yeah, I mean, we've talked about it.
The adults are just as
immature as the kids.
Everybody's got the same, you know,
feuds coming back all the time.
None of these villains can
ever find themselves in
jail for very long.
Nope.
It's a,
it's exactly what it's always been.
And it's always been fun.
So I'm happy, you know,
with what we got with this past, you know,
part.
And I,
I'm excited to see what they do with
part three to, to wrap it up.
You know, do they stay,
do they stay there?
Do they have the tournament
or does that get called off?
And it's just like, you know,
we got to go back to our
roots back to the all
Valley tournament again for Cobra Kai and,
and Miyagi Dota square off one last time.
Really, you know,
where do we take it from here?
So.
No,
it's going to be definitely interesting
to see what happens when
part three rolls out.
But again, like, like I said,
the writers have said, this is it.
We're done.
And I've never known Netflix
to do anything for a season seven.
So this is the first show
that I can think of off the
top of my head that got a
season six or the first one
to get a part five for that matter.
Season five.
Yeah.
I mean, it's,
it's super long running and it's,
you know,
it's at least like her main
quality the whole time.
And,
They don't have an insane
amount of time in between
the seasons coming out to
re-forget everything that's going on.
Luckily,
it's not like a Stranger Things
situation or whatever.
I can't even recall what
happened last on that one.
I'm literally going to have
to watch it over from
season one when the last
season drops just to even
have a thought and be up to
what's going on in Stranger
Things anymore because it's been so long.
Which is sad.
If it would have kept at the
pace like Cobra Kai did,
it would have been perfect.
Yeah,
then you don't have the teenagers
aging out entirely.
Kenny was the only funny one
because he went from being
literally looking like a
small kid to all of a
sudden he was bigger than a
lot of the other kids.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah,
most of them at least stayed
looking about the same age,
so it wasn't a huge deal.
It's not like they're thirty
and married with children now,
like on Stranger Things.
Yeah, I mean,
that's the problem when you
film stories with kids, man.
They get old fast.
They grow tall fast.
Literally every single one of them,
except for that one kid on
Stranger Things who still
looks like a kid.
But for the most part,
like the girl who plays
Eleven is married and
everything else now.
And it's kind of like, when the hell?
Like, she's still Eleven to me, you know?
Yeah.
They're in high school.
But I mean, hey,
we're going back to our
roots because if you remember like back,
you know, in the day,
every teenage show was, you know,
twenty five year old actors
like on nine to two and over.
So it's the same.
It's had receded hairlines in high school,
bro.
Exactly.
So we're just going back to our roots.
Dude, I love it, though.
That's that's the that's the
good stuff right there.
All right, Ben,
what's coming up for you
and where can people find you?
Yeah, so, I mean, social media,
it's at BDMercison, keeping it simple,
you know, on X and on Instagram.
You can follow my adorable
Star Wars named dog, TK-Fortwoowoof,
also on Instagram.
I love it.
Got, you know,
I'll pop up on socially
distanced podcasts, you know,
periodically when they
invite me on to talk about some stuff.
Same.
probably get maybe another
one in you know before the
end of the year here as
they talk through some of
these christmas topics uh
or I'm sure there'll be
something to come up on
soon um and yeah like I
said I gotta write about
the uh the dexter um you
know prequel series that's
that's coming out later
this month super excited
about that one um that
might be the first thing
that I write I've I've got
some other stuff I'm not
sure if I'll have anything
come out but uh like I said we've been
I've been watching a lot of
football and I haven't had
as much time for streaming
some of these great shows
that have been out.
So I'm looking forward to it.
Dude, and there's so many.
And next,
twenty twenty five opens up with
a plethora of really good shows.
It's ridiculous.
It's overwhelming in a good
way because whenever I have a little,
you know, football season is going to end,
you know, in another month or two.
And then I'm going to have
nothing else to watch.
So I'm going to go back.
You get to go and binge all the good stuff,
man.
Exactly.
but, um, appreciate you being all right,
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