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From Candy To Kung Fu: When Halloween Turns Into A Jackie Chan Appreciation Party

• Jesse AlXander • Season 1 • Episode 68

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A Halloween episode that trades jump scares for jaw‑dropping stunts—we swap costume nostalgia for a watch‑along deep dive into Jackie Chan’s legendary craft. From knives and fans to breakaway chairs and wire work, we peel back how choreography, timing, and smart camera choices turn low‑budget tricks into big‑screen magic. 
Hit play, ride the adrenaline, and tell us your most unforgettable Jackie Chan scene. If you’re vibing with the show, subscribe, share with a friend, and drop a review to help fellow action nerds find us.

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Equals all of us. We're all gonna be okay.

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Yay, baby, baby, baby. What's up, everybody? What's up, guys? Welcome back to Getting Out. We back. With my friend KDG, and Serge O'He. Yes, sir. We got the Oreo sandwich. Oreo! Let's go! Great. I love it. I love it too. Alright, so you know, it is actually um, this will be airing, I think, on Halloween, right? Yeah. So we got a Halloween episode right now. I'm sorry for the little new more noise, real quick. I'm just getting myself a little set up. Alright, but uh, yeah, so Halloween. So, for Halloween, guys, yeah. When you're a kid, what did you want to dress up as? What did you want to be? A mailman. No, you are not, Kevin.

SPEAKER_03:

What? You're gonna tell me. I'm being serious. I talked to my mama, talk my dad into the room. Oh, wait! We're good though. We're good. We're good, we're good.

SPEAKER_05:

That's how you know this ain't AI.

SPEAKER_03:

It's real.

SPEAKER_05:

We're good. We're real. We're real. Uh you're a good kid. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. We're getting used to this, folks. You can see a little different style of everyone.

SPEAKER_03:

But you wanted to be a postal service man, huh? Yeah. My dad was a mailman, and uh I I didn't want to get a costume, so I just got his uh Oh, that's great! That's a great idea. I did it all year round. I found something, I made something out of it. Bro, that's great. One time I was a black man. I didn't have to dress up for Halloween, you were a black man? Black man. Dude, you didn't have to dress up. I didn't have to dress up at all. Yo, that's the greatest. I just had to say yo.

SPEAKER_05:

Yo, man. I'm sorry, I'm still sick, dude. Yo, every October I get sick. Yo, I actually dressed up as who as a kid would dress up as Father Time.

SPEAKER_03:

What is father time?

SPEAKER_05:

Dude, I didn't even know. I was fucking like 10 years old. I dressed up with a beard and all this thing. Everyone's asked me what it was. I was like, father time. Oh, from uh because I had no idea what to do. I don't know what it was from. My mom made that my mom is so into Halloween. She would dress up as a vampire or a witch and do that. Dude, she did the makeup on me. I was a bumblebee in seventh grade. Get out of town. Yeah, I won best costume by just putting on a fucking small bumblebee.

SPEAKER_04:

You got the picture?

SPEAKER_05:

No. Oh, damn. This was like seventh grade, dude, because you didn't you can't really take pictures back then. Yeah, it sucks. That was that's the worst part. You can't we didn't have you couldn't save memories, right? Yeah, it was really hard to save memories, you know. That sucks.

SPEAKER_04:

We gotta make new memories. Yeah, that's what it is.

SPEAKER_05:

So uh yeah, so I was father time. I dressed us as the the classic hobo. Come on, you know the hobo is uh and then I did a pimp in high school. Okay, I was the pimp in high school, you know what I mean? I I had dude, I was so dressed up that no one people didn't even know who I was. Like I they had to pull the beard down and shit to see who I was. Okay, okay. I was killing some shit. But so also, I we all wanted to be ninjas at one point in our life. Come on.

SPEAKER_03:

I am a ninja, I'm black. Don't lie to me.

SPEAKER_05:

No, black people don't do karate, dude.

SPEAKER_03:

No, ninja. What's up, my ninja?

SPEAKER_05:

You see him over here, folks? He's doing great. He's great. I guess so. Dude, that is hilarious, bro. My brother dressed up as a condom. All he did was just like put a fucking big ass plastic bag over. What bro, my mom had to come pick him up because the school kicked him out.

SPEAKER_03:

They knew what he was. They knew he was a condom.

SPEAKER_05:

He dressed up as a fucking condom. Wide as hell.

SPEAKER_03:

I don't think that one will fit.

SPEAKER_05:

For you guys, it would fit. Maybe not me. Oh, not ours. Ours is too big. That's what I'm saying. It'll probably fit. It was a big size, so I did, but I yeah, I would need a little bit smaller. I would need uh uh the midget. The midget one.

SPEAKER_03:

No, the midget one.

SPEAKER_05:

You could be if a midget was a condom, I'll take that one. That was good.

SPEAKER_03:

Those are always the ones that break. I love them.

SPEAKER_05:

Kev's got kids running around out there.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm telling you, because when it breaks, then you get the real feeling.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, that's all yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

That's you, that's you, yeah. Come on. Like, oops, I'm not gonna go there. It's not funny, but you don't stop.

SPEAKER_05:

You just gotta be really good at the pullout.

SPEAKER_03:

Pull out. Maybe you don't want to pull out. I try.

SPEAKER_05:

I'm like, oh, that's what I'm saying. You gotta be really, really, really good with the pull-out. Like, no, exactly, like, even dude, I'm gonna get in there. Like, even like the pre the pre-comedy. Yeah, that's what's scary. You know what I'm saying? You gotta like, because it could drip.

SPEAKER_04:

It could drip drop at the right time. Yeah, man. It's scary. Halloween, everybody.

SPEAKER_03:

The thing that always sucks is I always get a screaming, but then I have to stop.

SPEAKER_04:

I never zoom.

SPEAKER_03:

That was like five years ago, though.

SPEAKER_05:

You don't have to go into the microphone, you asshole.

SPEAKER_03:

Sorry, I love this microphone. Actually, let's do this. Okay, let's get back to business, guys. Sorry about that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, happy Halloween, everybody. Happy Halloween. When was the last time you guys dressed up?

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, it's been forever. Yeah? Yeah. Well, the thing the thing with me is I used to want to be Batman. Batman? Yeah, but my but my family was a guest Halloween. Oh, yeah. The Haitian, so they never celebrate Halloween. So I never had a chance. So I'll be the only person not wearing a costume.

SPEAKER_03:

No, you did. You're black. Okay, that's good. It's not a costume, guys. It could be.

SPEAKER_05:

It is not. For me, it's a costume.

SPEAKER_03:

Usher, you're Usher. There you go.

SPEAKER_05:

Usher for yeah, for now. If I were to paint myself black, well, that would be a whole other issue.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, yeah, you'll be you'll have everybody looking at you crazy. Like, what the hell is going on?

SPEAKER_05:

Bro, I'd be on CNN. I'd be on CNN like a white dude painted himself black. What a racist. First time ever. I don't think they'll call you vacists. Oh, absolutely, dude. Blackface is a big thing, dude. You can't blackface. What? Bro, there are celebrities that have gotten caught in blackface, and and they were outlawed. They were like, they were taken out. Taken out. I don't know. They were canceled. Oh, canceled? They probably came back. You know, everyone comes back from cancellation, but they were canceled for a little bit. They got the damn black.

SPEAKER_04:

You can't push blackface, dude.

SPEAKER_05:

If I painted my face black. That's the you guys are cool. So you guys don't understand like that's what like that's just like okay. It's like it's not if it's not if it's not done in a malicious way, you guys understand that it's okay to do that.

SPEAKER_03:

So if I paint my face black, it would be the same thing. What? If I paint my face black, it would be the same thing. No, because you would just be the same person.

SPEAKER_04:

It'd be darker. It's the same thing though. Well, what kind of black? You're like, because you're really brown. Like who would you Kente?

SPEAKER_05:

Because you're really brown, okay? I'm not brown. I'm black. Well, we yeah. But the color though. Oh, okay. You know what I mean? Because we can have there's there's a black dude. Like I'm talking about like black. Like black My brother took a picture with a bunch of black dudes from uh and we were in Aruba, right? And it was an old camera. So you look at the picture and it look I swear to god, dude, it looks like it's just my brother in it. But then if you literally look like the teeth outlines, like it looks like ghosts are in the picture, but you then you all of a sudden you notice there's just a bunch of black, like holding each other like this, like and the burden brothers in the front, you know what I mean? But all you see is the smiles and the eyes, that's all, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, bro, that's how black they were. That's crazy. You know what I mean? So if I painted myself that black, and you're coming at me, then people are gonna be coming at me, Kevin.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_05:

They call it blackface first.

SPEAKER_03:

That's called super vaces. That's super. Yeah, yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_04:

I'd leave it though. Yeah, you have a big target in your back. Yeah, absolutely. People are gonna come after you, right? You're like riots and all that. Absolutely. Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_03:

I don't know if I can save you that one.

SPEAKER_05:

I forget who did the last blackface, but yeah, it wasn't good, it wasn't good for them. No, it didn't have a good end.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, we don't want that then.

SPEAKER_05:

All we want are happy endings.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, yes, tell her that. Robert Downey Jr. Hell yeah, I do, bro. That was probably the last blackface.

SPEAKER_05:

Yep, and that was allowed. That was the last great comedy of our generation. And he did a great job on that for sure. That was amazing. I would like to watch that movie again.

SPEAKER_04:

Hell yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

Dude, and if any, if we were to have come out with a movie like that today, the outroar and out backlash that it would get would be tremendous. Like that's just people would not have any of that. Like, I don't know why. People are so sensitive to everything, dude.

SPEAKER_03:

Everybody is right, it's really sick. Even myself, I get emotional with myself. You do.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, we all we all do it with in our within our own personal, you know what I mean? We do it different ways. Yeah, but like everyone is you're we're sensitive to our emotions, I guess you're saying. But like when I'm talking about like people are just so sensitive to other people do, like, it doesn't affect if it's not affecting your world, yeah, then you should be fine.

SPEAKER_04:

Should be fine. What's the problem? I think they want it. I I don't know. I think they want it to be a problem.

SPEAKER_03:

They want it to be what they don't know.

SPEAKER_04:

That's what it seems like. They want to complain or something, or play the victim card, or why is he doing that?

SPEAKER_03:

You should do it that way. What the hell? Yeah, don't do it like the heck.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, they didn't have too much time on himself. I don't know. It just doesn't make sense. Doesn't make sense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

I always wanted to be a ninja. We were back to that. My ninja.

SPEAKER_03:

Cover your face.

SPEAKER_05:

Like, no, stop with the cover, can't cover our face, Kev.

SPEAKER_03:

Well, I meant the ninja mask. See the eyes and dude, what a COVID.

SPEAKER_05:

What ninja mask? You were you were a ninja during COVID, then you're wearing a mask. You had the mask on. You were a ninja, but it wasn't Halloween.

SPEAKER_03:

It wasn't a Halloween. But you didn't even know. I didn't know. Exactly. All of them. You couldn't see me.

SPEAKER_05:

Yo, the worst the worst is when you're driving on the highway or in the car and you see somebody in their car with the windows closed, wearing a mask.

SPEAKER_03:

That's scary.

SPEAKER_05:

That's the most retard. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03:

Scary. The most retarded thing I've ever heard in my life. Yeah, we see that for that. Yeah, it's like why are you wearing a mask?

SPEAKER_04:

You're in your car. Yeah. No one else is around. I feel and I feel like that's like the older people doing it.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, it's and you definitely, it's more Asian people. I love my Asians. Don't don't don't think I'm I love all the Asians. I love all the Asians.

SPEAKER_03:

I love the Mexicans. I love all of you guys. I love the food. Indians. I love all your food. I'm a dead ass. I'm not joking around. I love you guys. I love the food. You guys are awesome. No, I do.

SPEAKER_05:

Mexican food. You make me live.

SPEAKER_03:

Mexican food.

SPEAKER_05:

Mexican food's my favorite.

SPEAKER_03:

My mom's Mexican. Your mom's Mexican? Yeah, my mom's Mexican. I had no idea. Yep, my mom's Mexican.

SPEAKER_05:

Your mom is just the sweetest lady when I met her at the window. She is, yeah. So yeah, I would be I I wanted to be a ninja, and I'm sure a lot of other people want to be a ninja, right? And growing up, I like I think a lot of people, I didn't get to see my brother during my brother's generation, was Bruce Lee, right? Oh yeah. So we only got to hear of him and see little things here and there. Yeah, like we were only, yeah, now we can get to go back and watch clips. Yeah. Before we couldn't do that, we couldn't do that, yeah. My dude was Jackie Chan. Okay. So I was recently like browsing around because I remember when I was younger, me and my grandma loves Jackie. Love Jackie Chan. She passed away a while ago. But uh some people. She, me and her, she found this documentary, I don't know how, on like a DV, on a VHS, and we would watch it all the time. She bought it and we'd watch it all the time when I went to go sleep over her house, right? And I found it on YouTube. So, guys, this is a little bit of a long video, right? And I would suggest if you're listening, gotta listen. No, if you're listening and not watching, I would suggest to uh go over to our YouTube page if you're listening on the podcast. There you go. And watch this with us because this is gonna be a lot of fun. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so we're gonna we're gonna separate in two parts because it is a longer video, right? So if you want to continue, you know what I mean? We'll we'll watch a second part uh on another video, but we're gonna just see a little bit of what Jackie does and how he works. Yes, and it's so much fun. And we're just gonna just gonna have a good time because it's Halloween, that's what we want to do. We want to have a good time, right? Yeah, yeah. Good vibe. All right, so here's Jackie. Don't even start. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, oh Cobra Kai, motherfucker. Cobra Kai! All right, all right, that's what I do.

SPEAKER_03:

I think I pooped myself. Yeah, no, I think you gotta calm down a little bit. You're blowing the speakers out over here. Oh, damn, they had that one.

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Oh shit.

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Oh, good.

SPEAKER_00:

See? Cookie, right? From no knife until I get first knife, second knife, and third knife. At the end, I kick the guy out, back, boom. The most important is the pose. I design like a more art fighting, like a dancing. That's a much knife. It does, it's like a dancing. There's no violin. The knife, I never cut somebody. If I create this scene, maybe I just after boom. That is crazy. Go away. That means I don't want to fight anymore. I'm ready to win. I don't want to cut. I don't have to kill you. I already get your knife, but I throw it away, give you, give you back. If you fight me again, I I will steal your knife again.

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So you'll kill you, you just fuck your ass. Jackie and opponent Yun Biu show off the virtuoso physical skills they learned at a Chinese opera school. In Chinese opera, the performers execute on stage fight sequences in which they wield their weapons more like circus performers than martial artists. It is this sense of the theatrical that Jackie brought to the traditional kung fu movie genre.

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With a feet and bank.

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See? I I I I would use anything just stops. Like very pretty. See, after five. When I sit down, sit down. After kick, he go around. Because the the timing is so quick, you don't match. You cannot, you didn't know did I hit his toes or not? One more. Slow motion. Come, look. When slow motion, I just hit then he just does the reaction. The audience knows. Oh, it's not even under the third. Give him a kick. Then maybe after kick, I sit down, the very nice position. And the funny thing is in the modern day, of course, you use this kind of thing. This kind of face. I want to kill somebody. But in the old days, you can tell when we're fighting, uh, the the camera moved back a little bit. You can see the toes. Every every position, look, the toe, you must have the nice toes. And after fighting, no matter how you fight, pa! Even those kind of positions, it's a very important. It's more difficult than the more than they fight.

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When Jackie made his American debut in Battle Creek Brawl, he broke new ground by transposing the kind of action seen in the period Kung Fu films to a movie set in 1930 Chicago. At that time, Americans had no experience of this kind of on-screen combat. Jackie had to fly in two of his stunt men to stage a scene in which his character is challenged by rival martial arts masters. Though limited by the fact that he could not control the camera speed as he does on a Hong Kong movie set, Jackie still got some of his trademark style.

SPEAKER_00:

That's a chair. That's a chair. Of course, when we're doing some action, we have to I make the special chair. Usually the real chair, you cannot kick it. But I want to show the guy how powerful when I use those things.

SPEAKER_05:

See how cool the little tricks is that they do to make it look like it's little.

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Then we just put a little bit powder. Now I show you the how to how to editing and how to do the fighting scene with the broken chair. Okay, make it a simple. And he the camera I put in this side, he fight, kick, boom, bam. And I push, he kicked, cut.

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Because when we're talking about it, you see how his guy though is so on point with him? Like he he's on he's in sync, knows exactly what he didn't even this was not even choreographed before. Said, okay, let's just do a little thing. And he knew what Jackie was doing just because they're so in the first couple of seconds, the guy said they're all synced together. They've been working together for so long that they know when the right kick comes that he's usually gonna do this, or you know what I mean? He his guys are like just as good as he are, as he is, you know what I mean? Like he picked great, great stuntmen. He was a stuntman to start with.

SPEAKER_00:

That's how we started out. Fast. Also, it's a Y angle. And also with the background dial, you cannot see it. The boom, you can't cannot see all the wire.

SPEAKER_05:

As soon as you kick cut, when you move the camera, see that's remember I told you how it's all about you can't you can't see the imperfections on it's on a camera. Okay, like close up, yeah, you can, but like whatever they're seeing on screen, they're not they don't know if this is like a plastic plant or if it's real. You know what I'm saying? Like stuff like that. It's like there, it's the same thing with him. He's trying to say, like, the camera can deceive. Like right now, I look like I'm fucking 240 pounds. Yeah, and actually 240 pounds. I mean 320 pounds, and I'm really like 280. Yeah, that's a big difference.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, you know what I mean? All muscle, all muscle.

SPEAKER_05:

Give me a break here.

SPEAKER_00:

Let's go. Then we do all over again. Then I show you the broken chair how we do it. Of course, not this one. Uh, we do the broken one.

SPEAKER_03:

You see with the powder? Yeah, makes it look like a broken broken. Oh, shoot. The strings will be.

SPEAKER_05:

And the string on it, so it kept it so it looked like it broke up a lot.

SPEAKER_00:

That's a trick. That's a trick. So that's how we make it. We can do that, but we do the hell yeah. In America, I believe right now they just do nothing. Boom, the guy kicked. They can do it on the computer. Boom. But this, but very expensive, I know. But this could is the cheap way we make our own movies. But anyway, it looks good, right?

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, it looks great. Compared to American movies, there are budgets of millions and millions of things like Chinese using those, but whatever he can to make.

SPEAKER_00:

A fan. A fan. And biggest Chinese fan everybody knows looks very pretty. Some of some of them more than million.

SPEAKER_03:

Because as another noises.

SPEAKER_00:

So when I catch the fan, I look around, you know, I try to how many movements, you know, like those. Okay.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

When you fight them, you just put the things. And of course, looks very easy. That's fine, but it's not easy at all. The most difficult thing is getting fast. When I throw the fan and coming back. What? For one shot. More than 120 sounds kind of thing. When you see it, or one second, if oh Jackie, good. It's not good. You can do it. Except, do you have the patience or not? Jackie, okay, one more time, one more time, until you're finished.

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Besides the fan, Kung Fu movies offer Jackie the chance to show off the skills needed to wield other classical Chinese Kung Fu weapons.

SPEAKER_00:

And you have to know the tempo and the movement. And every movement and when we're making a movie, isn't it? Dancing. Much careful, this kind of thing. This kind of things.

SPEAKER_05:

And also, uh, oh see, like how he just turned just turned in a dude and sends it. I don't even know what he's doing. Something's like, it's like a sign, yeah. It's like hatchab. It's like a throwing a sword, and they just knew. They knew what's crazy.

SPEAKER_00:

That's a lot of it. Right? The basic things.

SPEAKER_05:

Myself though, you know what I mean? Cheating.

SPEAKER_00:

Me and Sardin wanna hit something. Yeah when the fighting thing. You hold it because you cannot see it. So fast. And when the guy, boom, when he hits, see the hand? Oh, it looks like it hit him. And he got blood. You got that blood package. Point the camera. And then he sprays it outwards.

SPEAKER_05:

Shows it's just a blood capsule.

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Hong Kong stage blood is a combination of food coloring to give it the necessary redness. And coughs. In this classic swordplay film, an anonymous stunt man dies a horrible death using his handheld blood bag. Another technique called for a stunt.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh shit. Okay, I see that. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Savage Savage. That's a between low classes. Come on, it's Halloween.

SPEAKER_05:

There you go, Jack. Happy Halloween, Halloween.

SPEAKER_06:

What Jackie's film fights may waken blood in. He's like, let me clean it up. He is famous for choreographing encounters in which he deals with multiple foes at the same time.

SPEAKER_00:

See? Okay. Four people fighting, then there's one people fight with me. Bam, bam, bam, bam. Then the three people behind just like this. Yeah, they're just waiting. They're waiting, yeah. But that would never happen in real life. Then another one coming. Another one coming.

SPEAKER_05:

See, he does it the real way. Like yo, these motherfuckers are all gonna come out. Yeah, they come crazy.

SPEAKER_00:

Why not four people come together to find out? I'd rather stay there, punch, kick, boom. At least at the same time. They fight at the same time for one shot. Boom. Woo! Boom. Then and everybody have the yowling. Everybody yelling, then I know when are they coming? So like that's it. Because everybody yelling the same thing. I don't understand. So this is why he was yelling in front of me, they yell on the same thing. Okay. But when when he comes in, ah, then I know. Okay. See? That means a lot of people fighting me. Oh, he gave me a punch. One, two, three. See? Then they have sounds that they know what you're saying. Then I move easier that way. Camera. Be aware of the surroundings. Why are they done? Because the editing.

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Editing is one of the key elements of film fight programming. Jackie's style relies on a keen sense of camera movement, razor sharp editing, and the communication that exists between him and his studio.

SPEAKER_03:

Damn.

SPEAKER_02:

And so fast, too.

SPEAKER_00:

Watch the game, see? And it's becoming our own languages. Chow. Chow. Go. Lie is come. If my my own people know give me uh the stick. Chow! And he can he can give me very low and very short time. Chow! That's my own people.

SPEAKER_03:

What the fuck? That's his own.

SPEAKER_00:

Damn. They know him. My face. And also I'm scared. I'm really scared they they hit me. And be after fighting. See? My reaction was like this. Because that's the people I don't know. If I the people I know, see, I I don't care. If if they hit me, it's an accident.

SPEAKER_06:

Where American movies restrict their flying characters to Superman and Peter Pan, in Hong Kong swordplay films, anyone who knows martial arts can fly.

SPEAKER_05:

See, I told you about the hidden crouching tiger, hidden dragon. They're all on those strings and shit.

SPEAKER_00:

That's the knuckle, how we do it. For us, you see, that's for us. You know how much cost? Less five dollar US.

SPEAKER_03:

Five dollar. Five dollar.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, two dollar US.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, not two dollar.

SPEAKER_00:

I spent a lot of money to buy America product. USA product. When I put it back, you know what they're doing? They still use the old things. I don't know why, but they've been doing like a 30, 40 years. When you say it, easy. When I give you those, you still don't know how to do it. If you don't know how to do it, it breaks right away. And sometimes more narrow than this, when we do those things, I have to say make sure. It's my own standard. All the strings that they pull it up on. Okay. I was like, wait, wait, what? Okay. Try. So while we touch this, what the?

SPEAKER_03:

What are you doing now?

SPEAKER_04:

What's that about? Up in the air.

SPEAKER_00:

But reverse it and it's him jumping. How I go. How can I jump like this? Cannot. So I have to make like a okay. Just not strong enough, but I do it. Oops.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, that's fragile.

SPEAKER_00:

But I try. I try. So if somebody chases me, then I just come here and look. Make sure you're two sides. Let the audience know. Wow. One look, two s then.

SPEAKER_01:

Yo. I just What?

SPEAKER_00:

Straight up, straight up. Are you kidding?

SPEAKER_01:

I love him.

SPEAKER_00:

At least I make this believable.

SPEAKER_03:

I feel like we can do that.

SPEAKER_05:

You don't understand how deep grounds are. It just gets so crazy of the start that he does.

SPEAKER_00:

I I like jumping.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh dope! I did never do that.

SPEAKER_05:

Breaking my fucking angle.

SPEAKER_00:

That's what I have to do. Something's ability.

SPEAKER_06:

Ability. When staging a high fall stand, now we're getting into it. Now we're getting into it.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh no, I didn't think it was like that. Before you jump, you still kill yourself three seconds. And mattresses.

SPEAKER_00:

First, you have to break second things, you have to know how to land. If not, you can very easily to hit in your mouth. That's always happened. The third thing is you have to trust your people who put those things down there. So I trust it. In America. They use a hairbag. But we cannot afford these kind of expensive things. We still use the cotton box and with the matches. Being used like more than 30 years. We use it again and again and again after one jump. We pull it back. Then we when you use it, we're coming back again. And right now it's the 90s, almost the 20th century. Strange. We still trust Apple Box.

SPEAKER_05:

Physical. And we just wind up using tools.

SPEAKER_06:

Body conditioning and the holding of the martial arts. Oh, that's all right.

SPEAKER_00:

Training for us, very important. If you're the lawyer, you have to train how to speak, if you're the secretary, you have to learn how to type. If you're students, you have to uh study very hard. Us physical stuntmen. So us, we have to train every day, every day. Because like if you're students, you have to study every day, every day until the extermination. And you you get uh A grade, B grade. Like us, we're training, training one day. You don't know which one. I said you. Well, either you, jump over, do this, that's jump over.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, the obvious falls and flips seen in the finished films may seem both spontaneous and painful. They are the result of countless hours of practice. Do you see what I'm talking about, dude?

SPEAKER_05:

These dudes are practicing for fucking hours on end, dude. Just to get it perfect. Just to make sure that it's perfect. And like people will complain about taking a couple hours or something like that to like do your if you love your craft and your passion, why aren't you doing it all the time? And that's why I beat myself up too. Because I know I should be doing more shit. You know? And look at these people doing it every day, putting in work, just full control tears, the pain on your body, right? Like a wrestler. Yeah, like wrestlers.

SPEAKER_04:

There you go. It's like a wrestler.

SPEAKER_05:

Okay, like I it it's it amazes me to say like when people are this dedicated to something, and it gives you motivation, you know, to be like, damn, like I want.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, it makes you believe. Yeah, like damn. If you put in the hard work, then everything will be. Everything works out. Everything works out.

SPEAKER_05:

And if people I don't think people understand that, it's a vision, you gotta like see it. Manifest. It's all about manifesting. What? Some people can't do that. Oh, yeah, absolutely, because they don't believe it's possible. Yeah. I've lived it. You know what I mean? I I I can't explain to you how many times where I ran into situations that cannot be explained by coincidence. You know? Where it was only like, wow, that was definitely something bigger than me. Yeah. Like, why did that happen now of all times? And like, you know, like with the whole when my dad had the stroke too, like, and I did that through AI, and I asked AI the question about why did I do that? Like, we just like you know what I mean? Out of nowhere. I was like, yo, I I was gonna let him go to sleep. And then I was like, wait, this just doesn't sound right. Let me ask. Saved his life. And bro, AI told me, was like, no, you need to get him to a hospital immediately. So, you know, it was like it's like it was helpful.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which they construct each new fight scene.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my god!

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, I remember doing that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. And then I'll probably do a push-up. We do have our ABC. We're gonna fill it. Even some decide uh we make that ourselves. We just sometimes just ask the stuff in. Show me some four. I don't like that four. Give me something, give me something. And now, okay. 360 180. Uh violent four. We we just make the of course we're talking about Chinese, okay? Now I'll take these. Oh, jump out.

SPEAKER_01:

I we used to do this as a kid.

SPEAKER_05:

Like this is like in my bedroom, you know, like winding up mattresses and jumping.

SPEAKER_01:

Look at these fucking bones. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

If he did that wrong and when it was on his neck, oh that's done. This is what I'm talking about. That kind of shit's crazy. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, toe what?

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, toe what? And they make it look like it's worse than it is, which is awesome. Like they exact oh my god He could have fucking died! This is what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_04:

Now we're at the moment. This is it, guys. That's the change, man.

SPEAKER_05:

Hit a vase. The dude fell and hit a vase. Watch this.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh damn.

SPEAKER_05:

These folks were crazy. Yeah. Yeah, right here. Oh, that was a handy night. Oh my god. Yeah, I think it's right there. Oh what? Yeah, because they made it divorce. Yeah, that's what I said. This one he could have fucking died. Yeah, like literally, that's me how people die. Oh, if your neck hits that, then done. But he hadn't hit his back. Oh, oh. This one coming up dude is ridiculous. This one. Yeah, that one. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Look at that. Look at this. He's back in his head in the gym. Dude, what the fuck? I don't know about that one, K. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05:

But yo, did you see? If you check, like, look, those were all apple boxes that he fell onto. Apple boxes. Oh, that was a little bit more.

SPEAKER_04:

Remember how we were saying apple boxes? Oh, okay. So you've been using that.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, watch. He was all that he like that was all apple boxes. Oh, wait, what did I do? Okay. Oh, I can go back this way? Oh, sweet. Didn't even know that. Learn a new trick. No. Look, look at the apple boxes. Boom! Let me see it.

SPEAKER_03:

Twist. Dude. Oh, that must have been a bad man.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my God, dude.

SPEAKER_05:

Your spine. I bounced wrong on a trampoline, right? Like, you know how you get popcorned up on a trampoline. I my dad popcorned me, and I I just because I was in a certain position, I landed wrong on a trampoline. And I fucked my back up. Like still to this day. Like one leg is like a centimeter longer than the other just because my spine is fucked up. That's what crap. But my dad did that, like he didn't, it wasn't on purpose. It was an accident. But I fell wrong. I just fell wrong on a trampoline that has is meant to be bounced on. And these people are falling out of fucking windows, landing on concrete.

SPEAKER_03:

That was me when I was young. They called me Crazy K.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, Crazy K was dude, lunch tables being thrown, everything. I miss it. You're in that name. You're in that name. You absolutely right, sir. Yeah. Oh my a moving car. But you see how they put the sand on it to make it look like that.

SPEAKER_00:

Dangerous.

SPEAKER_05:

It is dangerous, dude. Oh, this is why that whole right there.

SPEAKER_06:

The first film in which a stunt team really showed me to do it. Bro with Jackie and the story in different areas of stunt work.

SPEAKER_05:

Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh action scene. This is the one. There's two ways. Either is a easy one, either it's a difficult one. Like police story part two. There's a guard in front of the door. How can I cross the street? In my mind, I think yes, I think I should do some difficult things like standing in front of the door. I came from the second floor to jump to the other bus, another truck, and jump over. I always can do the easy things. I just walk over, but I just don't want to do that. What I like to do is perfect time. Different than some other movies. Uh like when I on the bus, when I see something, like I see the sideboard, then ah, then I put the sideboard low a little bit. The difficult thing is from the trap jump to the bus. If there's something wrong, you just flip over. There's nothing to protect you.

SPEAKER_05:

There's nothing to protect you, except the way you just fall. Watch this, dude. Oh, oh, over, under, wow. Through glass. Are you kidding me? Now that was a fuck up.

SPEAKER_00:

That was real glassy too. Then I cut my hand. The skin, the skin goes, and then I see my boat. What? But it doesn't matter, I make it.

SPEAKER_05:

But it doesn't matter. He doesn't give a shit about it. He doesn't give a shit about getting hurt. He's so passionate about it.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, man. He just like second nature.

SPEAKER_05:

Look at a from a with an umbrella. Umbrella hanging from a bus. That's moving. My friend jumped off the back of a pickup truck that was moving four miles an hour. He split his whole gooch from the back of his balls to his asshole.

SPEAKER_03:

To his asshole.

SPEAKER_05:

To his asshole. Ripped it open. Had to get stitches and everything. Because he jumped, fell, and landed on his ass, and split his gooch wide open. So he had so he was really a trans. I might get nightmares after that. He was really a trans. Oh yeah, he was. Because he had a vague and a dick. And a dick. Dude, he split the gooch open. He made another orifice. Oh, he's a female. Bro, he made another orifice for his body by jumping off a pickle trip. This is four miles an hour. So you guys may be looking at it and be like, oh, but the car's not moving that fast. You tried. Yeah. You tried with an umbrella, too. My ass with the umbrella wouldn't have been able to even hold my ass. It would have just been fucked down.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. I would have just jumped off and slid on the. I'd done it before. Oh, yeah. Oh, I know you. But you how fucked up did you get? Oh, it felt like rolled ass.

SPEAKER_05:

Bro, you still I see the marks on you from when you did it. You don't go nowhere. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03:

You don't go nowhere.

SPEAKER_05:

They heal, those are scars. That's what to remind you. Hey, I'm not gonna do this shit again. Again. Because it was a stupid decision to jump out of a moving vehicle. Yeah, that was stupid.

SPEAKER_04:

But it's a good story to tell, you know?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a good story to tell. Don't get emotional. But let's not do it again. Yeah, you go. But that's what I'm saying. Like, people will see this and be like, yeah, car's not moving fast. But yeah, but if he falls, he's getting fucked up.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_03:

Fucked up. How that's going pretty fast too. And it's still going like 10, 15 miles an hour, maybe more. Oh, his legs? Well, look at him go. But he broke it.

SPEAKER_05:

From a fucking Oh, he missed it. A sky fucking with cars underneath if he falls and all of a sudden car runs over.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you do. That's great. That's a not uh normal embarrow. That's a metal. That's a metal.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay, metal. Oh cool, that's a kid. I'm gonna get when you need it.

SPEAKER_01:

That's a wood embarrass. That's a metal embarrass. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00:

So metal. Okay. So hold on yourself. All tight. Oh my god, dude. See how he knows how to roll though? Before I change the buttons up, there's a sloop. This is the one. Oh, what's this?

SPEAKER_05:

Oh no, say this is still ridiculous. Oh, yeah, it's a catchy. He runs down this dude.

unknown:

Oh.

SPEAKER_00:

How can a fast as the butt just butt going go straight down like a turnaround around?

SPEAKER_01:

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_00:

So after round down this slope, there's a quiet fall away. And and that time, I really don't know what again what's the scare. I just want to finish it completely the movie. I want to finish it. We're just on the location, but I'm not gonna show you again with myself. With the ball. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03:

It's the ball. Now with the ball.

SPEAKER_00:

Really, there's no house, no buildings, everything's empty. Um and all even the tree. Wow. It's about that high. But now it's more higher, more high, and more high. And uh the dangerous thing is when I running down the sloop, I thought it's about that deep. But when you more go, like the second one, it's more deeper. So it's it's all my deeper, yeah. It's down there with all the maps. So he has to run down that hill. I know if I'm falling down Happy Halloween, I would like to nine stop. This is like a ball. So so this is why I want to show you. Look, if something happens.

SPEAKER_05:

I wonder what the ball does.

SPEAKER_03:

I spoon bam bam.

SPEAKER_04:

What?

SPEAKER_03:

What he's dead.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah. So then he ran down there now.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, he's dead. Now the second one. Oh my god. Wow. How does he slide? Enter the roll. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_00:

See? Nun stop. Nun stop. But if it really happened to me, it won't die but definitely mess.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00:

As I point a gun, the bus won't stop because uh there's a bad guy up there. So a boom, one shot. Oh boom. Then the bus hit the brake. I won't use a stun guy to go through the window, hit the car falling down.

SPEAKER_03:

What's going on? Why is he doing this?

SPEAKER_00:

There's a two more stun guy up there and go through another two windows. One stun guy, hit here, another stun guy, hit here.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh, good, then he dies.

SPEAKER_01:

Completely action.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Something wrong. Oh, something happened. And you know what happened? Because the bus is not like a normal car in the classes stop. They have an air brake, like zzz, zzz, zom.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh yeah, but they have air brakes, they don't have the regular disc brakes.

SPEAKER_00:

When the stun guys, when they first break, the stun guys tried to go shh. But the car going back. Is it like a zzz?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, because the car goes to balance. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Okay.

SPEAKER_05:

I love it. See how it gives the end before it stops? But they gave they were trying to go forward, forward, backwards. So instead of them being able to jump through it, the car went forward while they were, you know what I mean? So they jumped in the car when it goes whoop, and now it's going forward so that it goes more. So they didn't get the distance that they needed. Because of that jump, that little hiccup fucked up as this. Three people just not land on nothing. So they didn't hit the car, they have nothing to land on, they land straight on the fucking floor, bro.

SPEAKER_00:

Wow, behind me about two inches. Right behind me. I didn't hear any s you know the car sound, the hoot sound, the hoop. You didn't hear any sound. I hear something. Yep, lost the dress.

SPEAKER_05:

How many stunts?

SPEAKER_00:

So this guy I punch a stun guy, then he'd just go down, uh, down, uh, down.

SPEAKER_05:

Can we just say like your R.I.P. malls? Like rest in peace, the malls? Like I miss 'em. They're like, please don't go away. Yeah, please. There's a lot of them that closed. Yeah. You get you you guys are normal people. Mom and mall? Yeah, yeah. Bro, that was when we met each other. It was the free old mall. That's where the first time we searched met. Yes, we free the Oreo. We made the Oreo. Hell yeah, I'll bring that shit out. I got the Oreo. We gotta do a remake. Hell yeah. You know? I'll put the re I'll put the Oreo up. I gotta find it.

SPEAKER_04:

Maybe we could do it tomorrow. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, we'll show you the Oreo tomorrow and the squirrels and shit. We got some more shit to show you. We're gonna be back. We're gonna be on a lot. So Friday, not just Fridays, you know. We're gonna try to do some uh other videos at the same time. But you know, we're doing everything, we're hitting all topics, folks. So if you like what you're watching, you might hear another video. I guess I mean if you don't like what you watch, we might find another one that you do like it. Just stick with us, you know what I mean? Try and enjoy it.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, whatever you like, we'll have to do it.

SPEAKER_00:

The shooting day comes up. Can I stop the escalator to do without moving? Oh, okay. So we tried it first. Okay. Then we'll tell my boys to catch me. Listen.

SPEAKER_05:

That shit hurts. Those end of those metal steps. Those are that's a that corner is straight pain. Like, bro, it's like all rough 90-degree angle turns of metal. It's like all lines of metal that come to a point and they end on a 90-degree, so it's all like it, like it's a fucking point that you can scrape yourself on it. And he's gonna land on this shit. It's metal. He loves saying metal. He loves metal. Whoa, I wasn't ready for that. That hurt me.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, you break a bonus. Yeah, I felt that.

SPEAKER_00:

Then give it a kick. Then why we not go this way and go this one? Because this one's going down. Yeah, I mean, but this one is more dangerous. It's quite good. So we decide to go with this one, and after going down and bouncing, bow, bam, bow. Hurt a little bit. A little bit, a little bit, a little bit. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_05:

Alright, so this is the one we're gonna end on, and then we'll continue after this. But this is the the big starting that starts everything.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my gosh. Nobody up there just by myself. I'm just thinking, then I just uh Jackie, I can do it, Jackie, I can do it. Then suddenly I hear rolling. Ah, I said, what? Rolling? I hear 12 camera, you know, with the high speed. Then I say, Oh, I'm gonna die. Then suddenly on this on the screen, you can see I'm yelling. Up that yell. Ah Watch dude.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh yeah, yeah. All light electricity. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my god. Watch what he says. Right now I'm standing here, I look back. I don't know how I do it. Really. But he did it.

SPEAKER_05:

But he did it. But he find out, they found out too when they ran that that the fucking they didn't turn off the electricity. Like the like real electricity. That shit was all on. He got shocked. He got fucked up. All his hands were fucked up. Damn. That's why he said he heard rolling and he just jumped. Like they weren't. Bad times. I'm telling you. So now who am I? Gets even because he gets bigger with each movie. He tries going bigger and bigger and bigger with each movie.

SPEAKER_04:

So the difference does.

SPEAKER_05:

The next one, like, dude, I'm telling you, he jumps off a fucking skyscraper. Oh, really? Like there's a skyscraper that's like tilted. Oh, he slides down? He slides down the fucking skyscraper and puts himself at the edge where he's standing up looking over. He's like Tom Cruise without the wires. Wow. Because Tom Cruise does all of the stunts, but he's always wired up and shit. Because for insurance purposes, no insurance company will even back him. Bro, he's gonna be a good one. Yeah, because he's doing it. They're not gonna give you the covering. Hell no, he's getting hurt. Everyone's getting hurt every day. So no one's gonna file these dude. How many workmen comp? He went out of file, dude. Are you kidding me? She gotta resent now, too. The people that are working for him, they don't have any of the insurance. Nothing like that, but they're still doing it. Getting beating up and battered. Yeah. For the love of their craft. Much respect.

SPEAKER_03:

That's like wrestling too. There's a lot of wrestlers that really, really love their job and they don't know how to do it.

SPEAKER_05:

Every single one of them, I think, are like is like that. Because how do you even get into a profession like that if you're not like I love this, this is my thing. Because you're getting smashed with chairs, you're getting thrown on like this, you're getting beaten up, you're getting it's like, yeah, I mean, the rush of going out on stage, I'm sure, is like is an addiction within itself. Yeah. But like, dude, they're on the road all the time, they're always working out every day. You know what I mean? Like, imagine trying to have a family and do that. Like Cody Rhodes, like how he has a family, and don't like I think they're mostly into wrestling, right? All the wrestlers. The wife, yeah, it's easier that way, because I mean they all do it, but imagine having a family that's like yeah, you're away all the time. It's a tough fucking thing.

SPEAKER_04:

It's called sacrifice.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, and I mean I mean, I mean that's why you find out a lot of these guys cheat on their wives and stuff. It's because or the wives cheated on the husband, it's because they've been gone away for so long. You know what I mean? It's like it's common, very common. So, like, I just respect my man Jackie so much. Oh, I definitely instead of getting some blood and gore, we got some action and uh ninjas because Cobra Kai, they're about to watch, they've been watching Cobra Kai.

SPEAKER_04:

We up to season two. Yes.

SPEAKER_05:

Two, two, I'm at the last season. Oh, okay. Very last season interesting. I think they're what four six? Yeah, I think there's six. Six, really? No. I don't know. Maybe four or five. I think there's four. Yeah, four. I'll say four or something like that. That's right. Four or five. But uh, but then they also have the movie that just came out with my man Jackie. So that's why I wanna. We gotta see. Yeah, the the legend. It's with it's the with the people from Cobra Kai, uh, with Jackie Chan and this new Chinese kid who's really good at Kung Fu. It's a movie. It's called the Cobra Kai Legends. You didn't see it, it's on Netflix, just came out. I did not see it. I guess we gotta watch it. I guess we have to watch it. Did you know how you the the the karate kid was like uh uh wash on, wash off. Was it Lost Man's son? That was the remake. Oh, okay. That was the remake.

SPEAKER_04:

Remember the first one? Yeah, the first one.

SPEAKER_05:

The first one was with the guy from Cobra Kai. Yeah, yeah. That's why when they do all the flashbacks, like that's him. That's him, yeah. You know what I mean? So that's all them. So Jackie Chan plays the dude who does the wash on, wash off in the new movie. So I saw that, yeah. The kid is also in it as a grown-up. There's a black kid with Will Smith's kid. No, that's the fucking remake from man long ago. Oh, okay. Yes, you're always in 1941. I am, I'm old. So this one is like brand new. It's a Netflix thing. It's like based off the it's it's still the karate kid, but it's like going off of Cobra Kai. Okay. So you got continuation as well it's another, it's a side story. Think of it. Like the guy from Cobra Kai who teaches his daughter, who has the daughter, he's the main, he was the kid in the b in the first karate kid, right? He goes to China or Japan and meets up with one of his old teachers, teachers, which is Jackie Chan. And Jackie Chan has this kid who's really good at kung fu, and he wants to teach him martial arts or something like that. And they want to do it in like two weeks to compete in a contest. So that's why Jackie Chan and the other dude work together to train this kid to beat the tournament.

SPEAKER_04:

That's all two weeks.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, like a two-week thing, or like yeah, he's like, Oh, you got like two months or two weeks, something like that. He's like, You think you can learn an FS? But then he sees what the kid can do. He's like, All right, I think we've got it. I think we can work with this. Yeah, definitely. He's like, I think we can work with this. He's really fucking fire.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, I want to see that.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, no, it's so it's Jack and it's Jackie Chan choreography. So, like, you know, it's gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_04:

It's gonna be legit.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, so that's why I had to put this on, dude. So I when I found this, this is a this is a this is a good find. Yeah, this is a great footage right here. Yeah, right. This is old, like you couldn't. I'm glad that they put this up. Yeah, I'll link the uh I'll link the video in uh in the description below. But uh, thank you everybody for tuning in. Happy Halloween part two. You can click on it, it will be coming soon, if not already up by the time you watch this. So, thank you very much. Happy Halloween. We love you. Goodbye, people. Love you guys. Be safe. Yeah, be safe, definitely be safe. Happy Halloween.

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