Kung Fu

Now show David Carradine.

Show David Carradine from Kung Fu.

Show David Carradine from Kung Fu.

Was he half Asian? No, he was half.

He had that look, but nah.

where you can only put up a parallelogram only a parallelogram can't put a fool like uh uh oh there

we go

okay no show his just his face show him in kung fu right there right see him so that's not he looks Asian

Did, did you at least-

Kung Fu.

Yeah, he did.

Yeah, have, have some fun-

Talent's decide.

And then just one year later in 1972, a show premieres on American television with an eerily identical premise, a show called Kung Fu.

The shadow of Kung Fu hangs heavily over this entire narrative.

It really is impossible to talk about Warrior without dissecting what happened with Kung Fu.

We have to get into it.

It premiered as a television movie of the week in 1972, and it was so incredibly successful, it ran as a weekly series until 1975.

Yes.

The big debate.

I couldn't help myself.

I was most taken by that film.

It was a great film.

Jack Nicholson.

Jack Tame came back and

said better use of the Chateau Tongariro is in fact a Wes Anderson film.

Right.

So do you have another trick or is this just going to repeat the same thing? Are you bored of Wes Anderson?

But what every entrepreneur really wants is a better life in the end.

When I was 18, I watched David Carradine on Kung Fu.

Yeah, I did too.

Whether I was 18, I don't know, but I did watch him.

in literature, there's a lot of Jesus figures, okay? Not only Jesus himself, but in many types of literature.

And back in my, my day, there was a show called Kung Fu with David Carradine, okay?

[laughs]

Now-

It was a great show and it, and it's-- I, I gotta, like, see if the movie...

It was actually a movie, and they turned it into a TV show.

And what it was is there was this Chinese monk, I think he was Chinese, and he grew up in Asia, probably China, and he was adopted into this monastery, and they taught him kung fu and meditation, and he had these-- There was this blind guy with a beard, you, you know, kinda hair like you, Don, with the, you know-

[laughs] Yeah

Michael Hutchins from In Excess.

Guy from Kung Fu, Grasshopper.

Yeah.

David Carradine.

Sure.

Why not? Episode 200, of course, was the live show.

Yep.

Surf Nazis Must Die.

Yeah.

We're tired.

Now we're just throwing out the concept of the show entirely.

No, we're

Yes.

But probably recognizing from the 70s, As Master Poe from Kung Fu.

Master Poe from Kung Fu.

Loved it.

Loved him.