February 22, 2023 • 25 mins
Let's Talk - Cobra Kai
Episode 133: Better Off Dead (1985) - Scenes w/Yuji Okumoto
Jason Connell and Sal Rodriguez discuss Yuki Okumoto's memorable scenes from the classic movie, Better Off Dead.
* In Better Off Dead, Yuki Okumoto appears as Yee Sook Ree in 5 scenes rather than 3, as mistakenly mentioned in the episode.
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Jason Connell (08:13:52):
Whoa, just curious. Welcome to Just curious
media. This is let's talk CobraKai. I'm Jason Connell.
Sal Rodriguez (08:14:02):
And I'm Sal Rodriguez.
Jason Connell (08:14:03):
All right, Soule.
We're back for another episode,
Sal Rodriguez (08:14:08):
another special episode.
Jason Connell (08:14:10):
special episodes.
It's the season. And today thisis really a unique one a first,
because today we're talkingabout a movie very close to my
heart. Not the Karate Kid. Notthe Karate Kid. Part two, not
the Karate Kid. Part Three. Notthat no, I'll stop. It's better
off dead came out in 1985.
(08:14:31):
Because one of our cast membersfrom Cobra Kai is in it. And
although I knew it, I'dforgotten about it. And I
watched it the other day, andit's like, you gotta be kidding.
Wait, you just
Sal Rodriguez (08:14:42):
have to discover this.
Jason Connell (08:14:45):
Oh, yeah, yes, yes. Yes. Chosen? Is it it? Yugi
Okamoto is in this movie. And sowe're calling this episode
better off dead 1985 scenes withYuGiOh Komodo. I remember him
vividly now. Because I saw thismovie long before I saw the
Karate Kid part two because itpreceded it. But I also hadn't
(08:15:07):
revisited this movie in a longtime. And for let's talk movies.
I'm doing that more. Although Ihaven't covered this on that
podcast yet. But I should. But Istumbled on him as like, oh my
gosh, let's explore this here.
Let's look at the scenes he's inand just talk about it some. And
before we came on, you told mewhat about this movie? What's
your relationship with
Sal Rodriguez (08:15:27):
the movie better off dead? Well, my relationship
with this movie is I've neverseen it before. That's, that's
my relationships. I didn't havebefore you brought these scenes
to my attention and I love it.
And just the scenes I saw thismovie looks hilarious. I gotta
see it. And especially all themore reason now after knowing
that Yugi said it.
Jason Connell (08:15:45):
Exactly. That's gonna put on your radar for
sure. Um, hopefully some of ourfans who haven't seen it and
those who have seen it one willgo back now and be like, Oh my
God, he is in it. Now nicebecause it did come out in 85 in
1986 that Karate Kid Part Twocomes out. Yes. Which of course
has Yugi Okamoto has chosen toGucci now. Did this movie help
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him catapult him didn't hurt.
This is a pretty good comedyhigh profile comedy popular. I'm
sure it was a launching pointfor him. And this movie, though,
that we're talking about brieflybefore we get to the scenes It
Was Written and directed bySavage Steve Holland. And it
star John Kuzak. Now this isJohn Kuzak on that like, you
know super high trajectory thathe was on in the early 80s He
(08:16:30):
plays Lane Meyer lovable loser.
But you know salad between 83and 8619 8319 86. John Cusack
was in class. These are alllike, you know, great movies for
the day, and some better thanothers class 16 candles. John
Hughes Grandview USA the surething Rob Reiner great where we
(08:16:54):
stand by me also Rob Reiner. Heplays a bit part but he's really
good at summer.
Sal Rodriguez (08:17:01):
I'm sorry, Jason.
I do not play by me and I saw ita few times. He plays
Jason Connell (08:17:05):
chances older brother who dies he's in
flashback sequel. He plays the
Sal Rodriguez (08:17:10):
older football player brother who dies older
brother baseball god. Yeah,River Phoenix is no I'm sorry. I
wasn't River Phoenix. No, no, noWheaton older brother. Well, we
died. That was John Cusack.
Jason Connell (08:17:22):
And Marshall Bell plays the father. This is coming
full circle who we played at thefestival. A lot of his movies. I
got to know Marshall Bell. Wewere both honored in Tulsa on my
birthday. I got honored at theCircle Cinema and he got he
became Marshall Bell day on mybirthday. I got to know him. And
I'm like, Oh my God, you're thejerk dad, standing by me. Yeah,
(08:17:44):
so that was John Cusack. He wason this like a tear. Yes, yes.
And this is one of those moviesbecause he went from like class
16 candles. Grandview, USA islike, you know, just supporting,
and then he's the lead andbetter off dead. Yeah. So this
is that timeline.
Sal Rodriguez (08:18:01):
Well, hang on.
Also, also in this timeline,just for more of a frame of
reference, Jason, right at thisvery moment, as Yugi is on the
set of Better Off Dead marcheson the set of the outsiders.
Yes. Would that be around thistimeframe?
Jason Connell (08:18:13):
Now macho would have been on the set of The
Karate Kid.
Sal Rodriguez (08:18:16):
Oh, hello. Yes.
Okay. Outside. It was like 8082or 83. I
Jason Connell (08:18:21):
think when they made this movie Yeah, well, I
mean, maybe karate kid had roundNo,
Sal Rodriguez (08:18:24):
no, I got Yeah, I jumped a movie. Yeah.
Jason Connell (08:18:28):
So the synopsis for this movie because there's a
lot of other this there's verymemorable people in this movie.
Sal Rodriguez (08:18:34):
Okay, there just is like Curtis Armstrong. I love
them Curtis
Jason Connell (08:18:38):
Armstrong, you know, booger from Revenge of the
Nerds and he's in riskybusiness. And so a lot of you'll
go back and go oh my gosh, lookat this. I mean, there's a ton
there sprinkled all in thismovie and we're not doing a deep
dive in this movie. So I'mtrying to like you know, stop
myself from doing so like whatwe were doing let's talk movies.
But the synopsis for this moviejust to give people you know,
(08:18:58):
some information some backgroundafter his girlfriend ditch this
is all about Lane Meyer JohnCusack Okay, after his
girlfriend ditches him for aBorash ski Jack Lane decides
that suicide is the only answer.
It's called Better Off Dead.
However, his increasingly ineptattempts bring him only more
(08:19:19):
agony and embarrassment filledwith the wildest teen
nightmares. So kind of clunky atthe end there, but that's what's
going on. He's got ditched byhis girlfriend Beth, and he'd
rather be dead right? And thenhe starts to kind of discover
himself and there's a there's anarc he goes from being a loser
(08:19:39):
to kind of super popular we lovethese tropes. We saw it a lot in
the 80s and although Eugene isnot like his best friend, but he
has a very memorable role inthis movie, one that I would
quote for years not wait beforeI knew who chose it. In fact,
when I saw credit card part two,I don't even know if I made the
(08:20:01):
connection initially, becausehe's such a bad guy such a
villain is chosen. Hate him. Soyeah, to get connected this way,
so ug Okamoto plays ye Sook ri,and I don't want to get too much
into it. But let's just say thathe plays an Asian character who
learned how to speak English bywatching the Wide World of
(08:20:23):
Sports and specifically HowardCosell. So that's how he learned
how to speak English. That's hischaracter. Now he's always with
his brother, who plays cin Riand that's played by Brian
imata. Now just a quick thing onhim because he won't say a word.
He's like a mute. He was in BigTrouble in Little China. John
Carpenter we both love thatmovie. We love John Carpenter.
(08:20:46):
He played wing Kung Hatchet Man.
So he's in some of those wildscenes. And he did a lot of
stunt work after that one ofwhich I wrote down they live
also John Carpenter I love theylive so kind of cool. But what
we're gonna do is look at thesethree scenes that really you
know, show and spotlight Yugiand talk about it but anything
(08:21:06):
else you want to talk aboutbefore we jump in?
Sal Rodriguez (08:21:10):
No, I love I love this concept of seeing where
people are like in space andtime right before that moment
and for our purposes of KarateKid, right before he's chosen.
This is ug before chosen. I lovethat.
Jason Connell (08:21:24):
The four he was chosen the Karate Kid part two.
Sal Rodriguez (08:21:28):
Wow. Hello.
Jason Connell (08:21:31):
What I do there.
Now if he's not in this movie,is the incarcerated party. If we
get chosen up on the show, wecan see maybe he was already on
board. You know, I was going tonot mention this. But just since
we're talking Yeah, the moviebefore this that he was in real
genius. Wow, Kilmer. Now heplayed a very big role in that.
(08:21:53):
And I nearly pulled that intothis same Yeah, episode. But I
was like, Yeah, let's save it. Ilove that movie, filmed at
Occidental College, very dear tomy heart as well. super
memorable sci fi comedy. A lotof those were happening back
then. But anyway, let's diveinto this. Let's look at these
hands. I gotta queue them up oneby one. You can talk over them
or we can talk in between them.
(08:22:16):
It doesn't matter.
Sal Rodriguez (08:22:16):
No, but I will say this, Jason because I'm
realizing this as you and I aregoing along and yes, we're about
to get to it is we've never donea show quite like this because
every time we cover some of ourstars, some of our stars of
Cobra Kai, and we go back intheir career, they're always
playing the same roles, right?
It's Martin Cove playing creaseand a commercial right? It's
Johnny Lauren's playing, winsafter playing playing Johnny
(08:22:38):
Lawrence in a commercial. Yeah,so this is like for example, one
of our listeners asked us to doLucille, what's Lucy's name?
actress who plays Lucille. Oh,Randy Heller, Randy Heller,
somebody asked us to go back andlike review a randy Heller
movie. And we're like, well, shewasn't playing Luciano. See her
on Mad Men. Okay, yeah. Oh,there we go. Yeah. So this so
(08:22:58):
now we're doing that now we'llopen up the door breaking new
ground. Oh, yeah. Yeah, lookingfor our review of Mad Men with
Randy Heller probably coming up.
Jason Connell (08:23:08):
I love madmen.
Well, before I go on to thescenes, I wanted to cue this up
too, because this I didn'trealize this. In the past I did.
But today I was like, Wow, checkthis out. The poster for better
off dead right over there. Myshoulder. That's what we're
looking at, folks. I took theleft side cover catalog and I
moved that aside for the betteroff dead poster
Sal Rodriguez (08:23:30):
for the listeners. Jason has a very
pleasant looking studio with abeautiful television screen
behind him. He doesn't have abunch of toys behind him as I
do.
Jason Connell (08:23:38):
Now, he does not now like I believe so there's
John Q. Zack, and that kid wasahead of the class. Yes, Curtis
Armstrong there's Beth hisgirlfriend. There's this new
love interest. She was also onBill and Ted's Excellent
Adventure, but I believe this ischosen Well,
Sal Rodriguez (08:23:53):
Yugi Yes, that's huge and the baluster
Jason Connell (08:23:56):
that's Yi Sook re he made the because he has such
a memorable role. He knows noone else in this movie, he only
has a connection with line andyou're about to see it. But he
made the poster. That's
Sal Rodriguez (08:24:07):
pretty cool that they considered that because
yeah, he's like, he's not a bigcharacter. He's just a memorable
character.
Jason Connell (08:24:13):
That's exactly right. Well, there's more to
that. So now I'm going to queuethese up. So give me a second
because I have to find them onmy version of Apple. Because I
own the movie now, which isgreat. There it is better off
dead. So I'm going to cue thefirst one up.
Sal Rodriguez (08:24:29):
Jason and I have argued about what ownership
means because he says I own themovie. I go, let me borrow it.
He goes I can't I go, but yousaid you own it. He goes I do. I
said let me borrow. And he saidI can't I'm like, like Abbott
and Costello here.
Jason Connell (08:24:41):
Even if I own the Blu Ray I wouldn't want to loan
it No, I'm just kidding. Therewe go he's
Media (08:24:55):
an awesome Spectre.
That's why once again he is anobstinate attempt to borrow some
Perry Ross equal and I love
Jason Connell (08:25:10):
that dish gloves
Media (08:25:12):
as well as light green
Sal Rodriguez (08:25:19):
so the cars are side by side and the basically
challenges them to a race iswhat he's doing. In effect.
Jason Connell (08:25:24):
Well then haircut you might recognize him from the
movie, the trilogy Porkins thatwas Porky. Okay.
Sal Rodriguez (08:25:33):
I never saw Porky's. I only heard about
Porky's. It was like, likeraunchy right? Wasn't pork is
like a raw Yeah,
Jason Connell (08:25:39):
it was raw. I wasn't even allowed to sit until
I was all really, but I gottasay not in today's standard.
It's kind of like American Pie.
Sal Rodriguez (08:25:45):
Okay, right.
Well, is it like, for the eraitself, right?
Jason Connell (08:25:48):
For the era itself. So what we saw was Lane
Meyer driving his familytruckster his station wagon, and
then he pulls up to a stoplight.
And then here it comes. I guesswe'll go by their stage names.
Ye su GRI and Chenery Chenerydoes the driving ye played by ug
Okamoto is doing all the talkingand they have speakers on top of
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their car and he's doing HowardCosell, you know, like Lane
Meyer are once he's doing this.
It's Wide World of Sports. Andthey're always challenging them
to racing. But then Lane Meyershad it in reverse, like in IDEO.
It's the car behind him. Andthey take that's the first
racing scene. There's one moreracing scene. And then there's
(08:26:36):
an ending scene which chosen Isay chosen. Listen to me once
Yugi reprises his role. So thisis number two.
Sal Rodriguez (08:26:43):
No, I was just gonna say Jason. The thing of it
is, is I love the scene. It's sofunny, but like he didn't need
the speakers because this is theera when he couldn't use Mr.
Microphone mirror. Mr.
Microphone, totally cutting.
Hey, girls, we'll be back topick you up later.
Jason Connell (08:26:56):
Yeah, that's right. That's right. Well,
that's a good image. It's a goodshot of the of this. You
Sal Rodriguez (08:27:00):
know what it's like, hang on. Animal House at
the end, right. Yeah. Wasn'tthere? Striders? On top of the
grade?
Jason Connell (08:27:06):
Yes. Yeah, that whole thing. So this is a great
sequence to because now there'speople in the car, the foreign
exchange students up front withhim who becomes a love interest.
And there's Ricky from head ofthe class. He's in the back and,
and that's who she lives with.
But he now explains therebreathers to them. Yes,
there's an audience gets moreYes, yes. So this is really good
(08:27:28):
information. So let me cue thisup. And we'll continue on
another red light. And here theyare. Oh, no, not now. By the
way. This is like 50 minuteslater in the movie. So it's like
oh, they're back.
Media (08:27:45):
What do they want? They want to race. Why my cat from
grandpa
Jason Connell (08:27:52):
they live in Glendale.
Media (08:27:53):
Here's a good example.
Two brothers one speaks noEnglish the other learned how to
speak English from watching theWide World of Sports. You tell
me which is better speak knowingwe should always be in Howard
Cosell. Swans great when. youmust obey the proper speed
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limits a car is not a toy.
Jason Connell (08:28:19):
Okay, so the girl punches the accelerator and then
going forward this time lane isgoing forward not in reverse.
Right great shots by the way ohnow there's none.
Sal Rodriguez (08:28:38):
Straight. Cannon well.
Jason Connell (08:28:45):
Not good avoids the nines. Does a 360 gets in
reverse. Oh no. ConstructionSite setting right here
Sal Rodriguez (08:28:55):
went backwards up a ramp into I thought it was
submit, but it's like a smallriver,
Jason Connell (08:29:00):
a small pond, pipe breaks or something so that
he's failed twice two encounterswith the rebreathers. And he's
lost both times. But that timewas closer. And it's funny and
viewers listeners check it out.
This is an inspiration to watchbetter off, Dan. Oh, it's
Sal Rodriguez (08:29:17):
hilarious. I love it. I really do. It looks so
stupid, silly.
Jason Connell (08:29:21):
So the first one was about eight, nine minutes in
the movie. The second one righthere was just over an hour and
now we're going to the end. Idon't want to give a spoiler for
the moment. This is the tail endof the movie and we're just
gonna go to the scene with you.
Yes, yes. So let me go therenow. No spoilers here.
Sal Rodriguez (08:29:37):
No spoilers.
Yeah, because I because it willbe a spoiler for me. I haven't
seen the movie yet.
Jason Connell (08:29:42):
I know. Here we go. Well, there's a little bit
of a spoiler but I will talkabout it. Everyone's cheering a
lot of chairs or chairs. ElaineMeyers who was on the ski slopes
he may or may not want to raceis Curtis Armstrong there's the
(08:30:03):
what they call a Porsche? Jock.
Oh yes, it's nurses exgirlfriend. It's always this was
a common thing in movies. The exwants you back the new girls
upset. This happened and TeenWolf.
Media (08:30:19):
We've been worried about you Monique. Went up here. Do
you know how long a drive it isto get here? Vicki Garrett ski
Come on. We're going home.
Jason Connell (08:30:27):
sets the stage
Media (08:30:28):
Excuse me. Boss is trolling us a blind man
amorphousness of the lane mine.
I think our crowds wereexpecting to say here and
probably mountain today. Well,these mountains perhaps show can
tell us what what Brahmam such aman championing accelerating
(08:30:50):
language lessons. Why wouldlessons inspired words from a
man who knows how to escape?
Jason Connell (08:31:02):
was okay, that was a that's such a grail.
Sal Rodriguez (08:31:05):
But you know what we learned there? I think but
that statement is that actuallyye Sook Reeves character is more
integral to the overallstoryline, right than I knew 20
minutes ago. Exact veryinteresting.
Jason Connell (08:31:19):
And what he's referring to his language
lessons was she was a Frenchforeign exchange student who
didn't like the home that shewas in so she would not speak
English to them. Yes. And onlyslowly she revealed that she
does know English and you know,she can you can hear her French
accent. And then that's kind ofwhere the insider thing was. But
I love that whole
Sal Rodriguez (08:31:40):
exchange. I was thinking when when he said
language lessons language loss.
How did you learn English byHoward Cosell? Well, you know,
the language like
Jason Connell (08:31:48):
it's very meta.
Yeah. It's no wonder that butyeah, he was referring to the
foreign exchange. Okay. Oh,yeah. It was just a coincidence.
So I can sequence there. It
Sal Rodriguez (08:31:58):
looks really funny. It's great.
Jason Connell (08:32:00):
It's a comedy that holds up. And so that was
the first time the rebreatherswere not in the car. They drove
to the mountain. They got thegold coat sock to get to land
they get oh yeah, they've alwaysgot the gold coats on what you
saw on the wide roll of thesports. Now, here's what I
learned before we did thisepisode. Here's some trivia,
because it sounds so much likeHoward Cosell. I figured it was
(08:32:22):
Howard Cosell. They kind ofsampled it our rich little
Sal Rodriguez (08:32:25):
because it was Howard.
Jason Connell (08:32:28):
Well, first when I was a kid, it was a kid.
Howard Cosell shirt, but then Iquickly realized it's got to be
someone who can do cosell whichwas rich little in our day. He
was everywhere. He could doevery impression. Yeah.
Sal Rodriguez (08:32:42):
And we were like he was on all the shows. He's on
The Tonight Show all the showlike it did Clark hosted a show.
Show. Yeah, Clark. He was allover the place. Yeah.
Jason Connell (08:32:51):
So here's what I read. Here's some trivia. in
post production. It was decidedto bring in impressionist rich
little to overdub oak Amato'svoice with littles customary
cosell imitation without theAsian accent, says Okamoto, they
explained that they wanted tomake sure the audience
(08:33:12):
understood the dialogue. It wasa little disappointing. But hey,
it's their film. Well, so nowhe's in the movie, but his voice
isn't in the movie. So that'skind of a downer. So but he does
get good screen time. He'smemorable him and his brother.
Sure. And so I'm happy. I justwant to think that this had
something to do with catapultinghim into the Karate Kid. Part
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two.
Sal Rodriguez (08:33:34):
Well, I think no, I think it's great. I love
knowing where people are inspace and time. So here we are
in 1980. What do we say five?
Jason Connell (08:33:42):
Right? Yeah, the movie came out in 85. So they're
probably feminine, obviously. 94
Sal Rodriguez (08:33:46):
Okay, so I wonder if there was an in between here
was there an in between, betteroff dead in credit cut to
something in between there. orno?
Jason Connell (08:33:54):
I would have to look at his IMDB. Okay, but
after a movie like this that waspopular that had a rising John
Cusack
Sal Rodriguez (08:34:01):
it definitely I bet there wasn't anything big in
between.
Jason Connell (08:34:05):
He was an episode of TJ hooker. Oh, wow. And then
it was in the movie, the checkis in the mail, which I vaguely
remember. But they all came outin 86. Okay, so that means they
all could have been shotsimultaneously. I don't know.
Then right out to the credit cutbar to he was on an episode of
Simon and Simon. So he wasmaking the rounds. Those are big
shows back then.
Sal Rodriguez (08:34:25):
Sure. Oh, yeah, definitely. Well, when it comes
to being an actor, anything onIMDb is the theatrical releases
television or movies. Yes,right. Oh, no. If he did, like a
theater production, leading upto that, I don't we don't know.
Nobody knows. He would tell usYugi can tell us Oh, yeah. Come
on. Yeah. Yugi can say Yo, I wasin a theater production prior to
(08:34:47):
karate cut to two maybe thathelped me prepare for credit.
But you know, we don't knowthose things. All we know is
what we have here in front ofus. He
Jason Connell (08:34:54):
could have auditioned for the credit card
prior to before this move even.
Sal Rodriguez (08:34:58):
That's absolutely correct. Yeah. So what I love
it, I'd love to hear an absolutetimeline. Because I love to see
that your timeline. Yeah, I lovethat progression. You know, I
want to know where like Wherewas he when he got that phone
call for karate kid to you knowthat phone call from his agent?
Maybe? Right? Why credit to getthe old a sequel to credit him?
Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, it'slike that that moment. Oh, I
love that moment. Well,
Jason Connell (08:35:18):
I wish he still had the voicemail on his
answering machine and wasrecorded. Let me grab my
priceless stuff. But regardless,Yeah, amazing job. Yugi kills
it. Yeah. Very memorable. Fun.
So when you see the movie, agood 50 minutes goes by and then
he stops at a stoplight. Thiswill be so well put together for
the comedy that it is. Just thebeats are good. You can just
(08:35:40):
tell by the editing. But theycome rolling up. It's like Oh,
yeah. Then you're you know, it'slike you were kind of hoping
you'd see them again. And herethey are. That's the scenes mad
just enough to miss you. Andthen they brought him back three
times. So I that was justenough. There's probably
outtakes out of more of him plushis voice. Yeah, we never heard
his voice. So we want thosetakes.
Sal Rodriguez (08:36:03):
There was an extra recording. Yeah,
Jason Connell (08:36:05):
most of the times you get special features. But in
some movies just don't bother topackage it like a director's
commentary. And so if it evercomes out and they have a
commentary or deleted scenes, wemay come back and revisit this.
I would love it. I thought itwas a lot of fun. By the way,
I'm very close to this movie, asI mentioned from my youth. Yeah.
So when I lived in Los Angelesfor you know, the time that I
(08:36:26):
did almost 17 years. I at onepoint in time lived in Glendale,
really nice parts kind of by thehill. So I looked this up one
day, because you know, a lot ofmovies in the 80s didn't cheat
it. They shot in Los Angeles.
Sal Rodriguez (08:36:39):
Oh, really? Oh, well. So like when they when
they showed you a receipt. Itwas actually receipt? Yeah. When
they showed us Encino it wasactually Encino in movies. Is
that what you mean?
Jason Connell (08:36:49):
They shot some of the Skene scenes in Utah but
they shot in Glendale, they shotand lock in Jada, and I've been
to lane Myers house. And that isfor those interested 1636
Virginia Avenue, Glendale,California. I guess I could have
looked the zip code up to whenyou were
Sal Rodriguez (08:37:07):
out. You visited Leigh Meyers house when you were
out here because you knew themovie.
Jason Connell (08:37:11):
And I also used to live just a few miles from
it. 91202 zip code? Yeah. And Itook Nico by one day took photos
of the House took in theneighborhood because the foreign
exchange student lived acrossthe street like one over kind of
you know, they could look ateach other. I couldn't believe
it man. The house looked exactlythe same. So many scenes happen.
They're there in front of thehouse. Sometimes he's working on
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this car. So I encourage you togo by love it. I haven't been in
the house yet. I know where itis. And it just it just a time
warp. It took me back to themovie that I have loved for so
so many years.
Sal Rodriguez (08:37:45):
Yeah, that's great. Yeah. Thanks for bringing
this to my attention. I do lovethe movie looks really silly.
You know, and I like a goodsilly comedy I do.
Jason Connell (08:37:53):
It's silly, smart and holds up and there's a lot
of performances in there. You'regonna go oh my god. I know that
guy. I didn't want to get intoit. But sure, maybe we'll dive
into let's talk movies. Butyeah, there you go. There's our
Better Off Dead 1985 scenes withYugi Okamoto Yeah,
congratulations, Yugicongratulations,
Sal Rodriguez (08:38:11):
Eugene. Those are such memorable scenes really
fantastic. Great to see you.
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And I'm Sal Rodriguez.
Jason Connell (08:14:03):
All right, Soule.
We're back for another episode,
Sal Rodriguez (08:14:08):
another special episode.
Jason Connell (08:14:10):
special episodes.
It's the season. And today thisis really a unique one a first,
because today we're talkingabout a movie very close to my
heart. Not the Karate Kid. Notthe Karate Kid. Part two, not
the Karate Kid. Part Three. Notthat no, I'll stop. It's better
off dead came out in 1985.
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Because one of our cast membersfrom Cobra Kai is in it. And
although I knew it, I'dforgotten about it. And I
watched it the other day, andit's like, you gotta be kidding.
Wait, you just
Sal Rodriguez (08:14:42):
have to discover this.
Jason Connell (08:14:45):
Oh, yeah, yes, yes. Yes. Chosen? Is it it? Yugi
Okamoto is in this movie. And sowe're calling this episode
better off dead 1985 scenes withYuGiOh Komodo. I remember him
vividly now. Because I saw thismovie long before I saw the
Karate Kid part two because itpreceded it. But I also hadn't
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revisited this movie in a longtime. And for let's talk movies.
I'm doing that more. Although Ihaven't covered this on that
podcast yet. But I should. But Istumbled on him as like, oh my
gosh, let's explore this here.
Let's look at the scenes he's inand just talk about it some. And
before we came on, you told mewhat about this movie? What's
your relationship with
Sal Rodriguez (08:15:27):
the movie better off dead? Well, my relationship
with this movie is I've neverseen it before. That's, that's
my relationships. I didn't havebefore you brought these scenes
to my attention and I love it.
And just the scenes I saw thismovie looks hilarious. I gotta
see it. And especially all themore reason now after knowing
that Yugi said it.
Jason Connell (08:15:45):
Exactly. That's gonna put on your radar for
sure. Um, hopefully some of ourfans who haven't seen it and
those who have seen it one willgo back now and be like, Oh my
God, he is in it. Now nicebecause it did come out in 85 in
1986 that Karate Kid Part Twocomes out. Yes. Which of course
has Yugi Okamoto has chosen toGucci now. Did this movie help
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him catapult him didn't hurt.
This is a pretty good comedyhigh profile comedy popular. I'm
sure it was a launching pointfor him. And this movie, though,
that we're talking about brieflybefore we get to the scenes It
Was Written and directed bySavage Steve Holland. And it
star John Kuzak. Now this isJohn Kuzak on that like, you
know super high trajectory thathe was on in the early 80s He
(08:16:30):
plays Lane Meyer lovable loser.
But you know salad between 83and 8619 8319 86. John Cusack
was in class. These are alllike, you know, great movies for
the day, and some better thanothers class 16 candles. John
Hughes Grandview USA the surething Rob Reiner great where we
(08:16:54):
stand by me also Rob Reiner. Heplays a bit part but he's really
good at summer.
Sal Rodriguez (08:17:01):
I'm sorry, Jason.
I do not play by me and I saw ita few times. He plays
Jason Connell (08:17:05):
chances older brother who dies he's in
flashback sequel. He plays the
Sal Rodriguez (08:17:10):
older football player brother who dies older
brother baseball god. Yeah,River Phoenix is no I'm sorry. I
wasn't River Phoenix. No, no, noWheaton older brother. Well, we
died. That was John Cusack.
Jason Connell (08:17:22):
And Marshall Bell plays the father. This is coming
full circle who we played at thefestival. A lot of his movies. I
got to know Marshall Bell. Wewere both honored in Tulsa on my
birthday. I got honored at theCircle Cinema and he got he
became Marshall Bell day on mybirthday. I got to know him. And
I'm like, Oh my God, you're thejerk dad, standing by me. Yeah,
(08:17:44):
so that was John Cusack. He wason this like a tear. Yes, yes.
And this is one of those moviesbecause he went from like class
16 candles. Grandview, USA islike, you know, just supporting,
and then he's the lead andbetter off dead. Yeah. So this
is that timeline.
Sal Rodriguez (08:18:01):
Well, hang on.
Also, also in this timeline,just for more of a frame of
reference, Jason, right at thisvery moment, as Yugi is on the
set of Better Off Dead marcheson the set of the outsiders.
Yes. Would that be around thistimeframe?
Jason Connell (08:18:13):
Now macho would have been on the set of The
Karate Kid.
Sal Rodriguez (08:18:16):
Oh, hello. Yes.
Okay. Outside. It was like 8082or 83. I
Jason Connell (08:18:21):
think when they made this movie Yeah, well, I
mean, maybe karate kid had roundNo,
Sal Rodriguez (08:18:24):
no, I got Yeah, I jumped a movie. Yeah.
Jason Connell (08:18:28):
So the synopsis for this movie because there's a
lot of other this there's verymemorable people in this movie.
Sal Rodriguez (08:18:34):
Okay, there just is like Curtis Armstrong. I love
them Curtis
Jason Connell (08:18:38):
Armstrong, you know, booger from Revenge of the
Nerds and he's in riskybusiness. And so a lot of you'll
go back and go oh my gosh, lookat this. I mean, there's a ton
there sprinkled all in thismovie and we're not doing a deep
dive in this movie. So I'mtrying to like you know, stop
myself from doing so like whatwe were doing let's talk movies.
But the synopsis for this moviejust to give people you know,
(08:18:58):
some information some backgroundafter his girlfriend ditch this
is all about Lane Meyer JohnCusack Okay, after his
girlfriend ditches him for aBorash ski Jack Lane decides
that suicide is the only answer.
It's called Better Off Dead.
However, his increasingly ineptattempts bring him only more
(08:19:19):
agony and embarrassment filledwith the wildest teen
nightmares. So kind of clunky atthe end there, but that's what's
going on. He's got ditched byhis girlfriend Beth, and he'd
rather be dead right? And thenhe starts to kind of discover
himself and there's a there's anarc he goes from being a loser
(08:19:39):
to kind of super popular we lovethese tropes. We saw it a lot in
the 80s and although Eugene isnot like his best friend, but he
has a very memorable role inthis movie, one that I would
quote for years not wait beforeI knew who chose it. In fact,
when I saw credit card part two,I don't even know if I made the
(08:20:01):
connection initially, becausehe's such a bad guy such a
villain is chosen. Hate him. Soyeah, to get connected this way,
so ug Okamoto plays ye Sook ri,and I don't want to get too much
into it. But let's just say thathe plays an Asian character who
learned how to speak English bywatching the Wide World of
(08:20:23):
Sports and specifically HowardCosell. So that's how he learned
how to speak English. That's hischaracter. Now he's always with
his brother, who plays cin Riand that's played by Brian
imata. Now just a quick thing onhim because he won't say a word.
He's like a mute. He was in BigTrouble in Little China. John
Carpenter we both love thatmovie. We love John Carpenter.
(08:20:46):
He played wing Kung Hatchet Man.
So he's in some of those wildscenes. And he did a lot of
stunt work after that one ofwhich I wrote down they live
also John Carpenter I love theylive so kind of cool. But what
we're gonna do is look at thesethree scenes that really you
know, show and spotlight Yugiand talk about it but anything
(08:21:06):
else you want to talk aboutbefore we jump in?
Sal Rodriguez (08:21:10):
No, I love I love this concept of seeing where
people are like in space andtime right before that moment
and for our purposes of KarateKid, right before he's chosen.
This is ug before chosen. I lovethat.
Jason Connell (08:21:24):
The four he was chosen the Karate Kid part two.
Sal Rodriguez (08:21:28):
Wow. Hello.
Jason Connell (08:21:31):
What I do there.
Now if he's not in this movie,is the incarcerated party. If we
get chosen up on the show, wecan see maybe he was already on
board. You know, I was going tonot mention this. But just since
we're talking Yeah, the moviebefore this that he was in real
genius. Wow, Kilmer. Now heplayed a very big role in that.
(08:21:53):
And I nearly pulled that intothis same Yeah, episode. But I
was like, Yeah, let's save it. Ilove that movie, filmed at
Occidental College, very dear tomy heart as well. super
memorable sci fi comedy. A lotof those were happening back
then. But anyway, let's diveinto this. Let's look at these
hands. I gotta queue them up oneby one. You can talk over them
or we can talk in between them.
(08:22:16):
It doesn't matter.
Sal Rodriguez (08:22:16):
No, but I will say this, Jason because I'm
realizing this as you and I aregoing along and yes, we're about
to get to it is we've never donea show quite like this because
every time we cover some of ourstars, some of our stars of
Cobra Kai, and we go back intheir career, they're always
playing the same roles, right?
It's Martin Cove playing creaseand a commercial right? It's
Johnny Lauren's playing, winsafter playing playing Johnny
(08:22:38):
Lawrence in a commercial. Yeah,so this is like for example, one
of our listeners asked us to doLucille, what's Lucy's name?
actress who plays Lucille. Oh,Randy Heller, Randy Heller,
somebody asked us to go back andlike review a randy Heller
movie. And we're like, well, shewasn't playing Luciano. See her
on Mad Men. Okay, yeah. Oh,there we go. Yeah. So this so
(08:22:58):
now we're doing that now we'llopen up the door breaking new
ground. Oh, yeah. Yeah, lookingfor our review of Mad Men with
Randy Heller probably coming up.
Jason Connell (08:23:08):
I love madmen.
Well, before I go on to thescenes, I wanted to cue this up
too, because this I didn'trealize this. In the past I did.
But today I was like, Wow, checkthis out. The poster for better
off dead right over there. Myshoulder. That's what we're
looking at, folks. I took theleft side cover catalog and I
moved that aside for the betteroff dead poster
Sal Rodriguez (08:23:30):
for the listeners. Jason has a very
pleasant looking studio with abeautiful television screen
behind him. He doesn't have abunch of toys behind him as I
do.
Jason Connell (08:23:38):
Now, he does not now like I believe so there's
John Q. Zack, and that kid wasahead of the class. Yes, Curtis
Armstrong there's Beth hisgirlfriend. There's this new
love interest. She was also onBill and Ted's Excellent
Adventure, but I believe this ischosen Well,
Sal Rodriguez (08:23:53):
Yugi Yes, that's huge and the baluster
Jason Connell (08:23:56):
that's Yi Sook re he made the because he has such
a memorable role. He knows noone else in this movie, he only
has a connection with line andyou're about to see it. But he
made the poster. That's
Sal Rodriguez (08:24:07):
pretty cool that they considered that because
yeah, he's like, he's not a bigcharacter. He's just a memorable
character.
Jason Connell (08:24:13):
That's exactly right. Well, there's more to
that. So now I'm going to queuethese up. So give me a second
because I have to find them onmy version of Apple. Because I
own the movie now, which isgreat. There it is better off
dead. So I'm going to cue thefirst one up.
Sal Rodriguez (08:24:29):
Jason and I have argued about what ownership
means because he says I own themovie. I go, let me borrow it.
He goes I can't I go, but yousaid you own it. He goes I do. I
said let me borrow. And he saidI can't I'm like, like Abbott
and Costello here.
Jason Connell (08:24:41):
Even if I own the Blu Ray I wouldn't want to loan
it No, I'm just kidding. Therewe go he's
Media (08:24:55):
an awesome Spectre.
That's why once again he is anobstinate attempt to borrow some
Perry Ross equal and I love
Jason Connell (08:25:10):
that dish gloves
Media (08:25:12):
as well as light green
Sal Rodriguez (08:25:19):
so the cars are side by side and the basically
challenges them to a race iswhat he's doing. In effect.
Jason Connell (08:25:24):
Well then haircut you might recognize him from the
movie, the trilogy Porkins thatwas Porky. Okay.
Sal Rodriguez (08:25:33):
I never saw Porky's. I only heard about
Porky's. It was like, likeraunchy right? Wasn't pork is
like a raw Yeah,
Jason Connell (08:25:39):
it was raw. I wasn't even allowed to sit until
I was all really, but I gottasay not in today's standard.
It's kind of like American Pie.
Sal Rodriguez (08:25:45):
Okay, right.
Well, is it like, for the eraitself, right?
Jason Connell (08:25:48):
For the era itself. So what we saw was Lane
Meyer driving his familytruckster his station wagon, and
then he pulls up to a stoplight.
And then here it comes. I guesswe'll go by their stage names.
Ye su GRI and Chenery Chenerydoes the driving ye played by ug
Okamoto is doing all the talkingand they have speakers on top of
(08:26:13):
their car and he's doing HowardCosell, you know, like Lane
Meyer are once he's doing this.
It's Wide World of Sports. Andthey're always challenging them
to racing. But then Lane Meyershad it in reverse, like in IDEO.
It's the car behind him. Andthey take that's the first
racing scene. There's one moreracing scene. And then there's
(08:26:36):
an ending scene which chosen Isay chosen. Listen to me once
Yugi reprises his role. So thisis number two.
Sal Rodriguez (08:26:43):
No, I was just gonna say Jason. The thing of it
is, is I love the scene. It's sofunny, but like he didn't need
the speakers because this is theera when he couldn't use Mr.
Microphone mirror. Mr.
Microphone, totally cutting.
Hey, girls, we'll be back topick you up later.
Jason Connell (08:26:56):
Yeah, that's right. That's right. Well,
that's a good image. It's a goodshot of the of this. You
Sal Rodriguez (08:27:00):
know what it's like, hang on. Animal House at
the end, right. Yeah. Wasn'tthere? Striders? On top of the
grade?
Jason Connell (08:27:06):
Yes. Yeah, that whole thing. So this is a great
sequence to because now there'speople in the car, the foreign
exchange students up front withhim who becomes a love interest.
And there's Ricky from head ofthe class. He's in the back and,
and that's who she lives with.
But he now explains therebreathers to them. Yes,
there's an audience gets moreYes, yes. So this is really good
(08:27:28):
information. So let me cue thisup. And we'll continue on
another red light. And here theyare. Oh, no, not now. By the
way. This is like 50 minuteslater in the movie. So it's like
oh, they're back.
Media (08:27:45):
What do they want? They want to race. Why my cat from
grandpa
Jason Connell (08:27:52):
they live in Glendale.
Media (08:27:53):
Here's a good example.
Two brothers one speaks noEnglish the other learned how to
speak English from watching theWide World of Sports. You tell
me which is better speak knowingwe should always be in Howard
Cosell. Swans great when. youmust obey the proper speed
(08:28:13):
limits a car is not a toy.
Jason Connell (08:28:19):
Okay, so the girl punches the accelerator and then
going forward this time lane isgoing forward not in reverse.
Right great shots by the way ohnow there's none.
Sal Rodriguez (08:28:38):
Straight. Cannon well.
Jason Connell (08:28:45):
Not good avoids the nines. Does a 360 gets in
reverse. Oh no. ConstructionSite setting right here
Sal Rodriguez (08:28:55):
went backwards up a ramp into I thought it was
submit, but it's like a smallriver,
Jason Connell (08:29:00):
a small pond, pipe breaks or something so that
he's failed twice two encounterswith the rebreathers. And he's
lost both times. But that timewas closer. And it's funny and
viewers listeners check it out.
This is an inspiration to watchbetter off, Dan. Oh, it's
Sal Rodriguez (08:29:17):
hilarious. I love it. I really do. It looks so
stupid, silly.
Jason Connell (08:29:21):
So the first one was about eight, nine minutes in
the movie. The second one righthere was just over an hour and
now we're going to the end. Idon't want to give a spoiler for
the moment. This is the tail endof the movie and we're just
gonna go to the scene with you.
Yes, yes. So let me go therenow. No spoilers here.
Sal Rodriguez (08:29:37):
No spoilers.
Yeah, because I because it willbe a spoiler for me. I haven't
seen the movie yet.
Jason Connell (08:29:42):
I know. Here we go. Well, there's a little bit
of a spoiler but I will talkabout it. Everyone's cheering a
lot of chairs or chairs. ElaineMeyers who was on the ski slopes
he may or may not want to raceis Curtis Armstrong there's the
(08:30:03):
what they call a Porsche? Jock.
Oh yes, it's nurses exgirlfriend. It's always this was
a common thing in movies. The exwants you back the new girls
upset. This happened and TeenWolf.
Media (08:30:19):
We've been worried about you Monique. Went up here. Do
you know how long a drive it isto get here? Vicki Garrett ski
Come on. We're going home.
Jason Connell (08:30:27):
sets the stage
Media (08:30:28):
Excuse me. Boss is trolling us a blind man
amorphousness of the lane mine.
I think our crowds wereexpecting to say here and
probably mountain today. Well,these mountains perhaps show can
tell us what what Brahmam such aman championing accelerating
(08:30:50):
language lessons. Why wouldlessons inspired words from a
man who knows how to escape?
Jason Connell (08:31:02):
was okay, that was a that's such a grail.
Sal Rodriguez (08:31:05):
But you know what we learned there? I think but
that statement is that actuallyye Sook Reeves character is more
integral to the overallstoryline, right than I knew 20
minutes ago. Exact veryinteresting.
Jason Connell (08:31:19):
And what he's referring to his language
lessons was she was a Frenchforeign exchange student who
didn't like the home that shewas in so she would not speak
English to them. Yes. And onlyslowly she revealed that she
does know English and you know,she can you can hear her French
accent. And then that's kind ofwhere the insider thing was. But
I love that whole
Sal Rodriguez (08:31:40):
exchange. I was thinking when when he said
language lessons language loss.
How did you learn English byHoward Cosell? Well, you know,
the language like
Jason Connell (08:31:48):
it's very meta.
Yeah. It's no wonder that butyeah, he was referring to the
foreign exchange. Okay. Oh,yeah. It was just a coincidence.
So I can sequence there. It
Sal Rodriguez (08:31:58):
looks really funny. It's great.
Jason Connell (08:32:00):
It's a comedy that holds up. And so that was
the first time the rebreatherswere not in the car. They drove
to the mountain. They got thegold coat sock to get to land
they get oh yeah, they've alwaysgot the gold coats on what you
saw on the wide roll of thesports. Now, here's what I
learned before we did thisepisode. Here's some trivia,
because it sounds so much likeHoward Cosell. I figured it was
(08:32:22):
Howard Cosell. They kind ofsampled it our rich little
Sal Rodriguez (08:32:25):
because it was Howard.
Jason Connell (08:32:28):
Well, first when I was a kid, it was a kid.
Howard Cosell shirt, but then Iquickly realized it's got to be
someone who can do cosell whichwas rich little in our day. He
was everywhere. He could doevery impression. Yeah.
Sal Rodriguez (08:32:42):
And we were like he was on all the shows. He's on
The Tonight Show all the showlike it did Clark hosted a show.
Show. Yeah, Clark. He was allover the place. Yeah.
Jason Connell (08:32:51):
So here's what I read. Here's some trivia. in
post production. It was decidedto bring in impressionist rich
little to overdub oak Amato'svoice with littles customary
cosell imitation without theAsian accent, says Okamoto, they
explained that they wanted tomake sure the audience
(08:33:12):
understood the dialogue. It wasa little disappointing. But hey,
it's their film. Well, so nowhe's in the movie, but his voice
isn't in the movie. So that'skind of a downer. So but he does
get good screen time. He'smemorable him and his brother.
Sure. And so I'm happy. I justwant to think that this had
something to do with catapultinghim into the Karate Kid. Part
(08:33:34):
two.
Sal Rodriguez (08:33:34):
Well, I think no, I think it's great. I love
knowing where people are inspace and time. So here we are
in 1980. What do we say five?
Jason Connell (08:33:42):
Right? Yeah, the movie came out in 85. So they're
probably feminine, obviously. 94
Sal Rodriguez (08:33:46):
Okay, so I wonder if there was an in between here
was there an in between, betteroff dead in credit cut to
something in between there. orno?
Jason Connell (08:33:54):
I would have to look at his IMDB. Okay, but
after a movie like this that waspopular that had a rising John
Cusack
Sal Rodriguez (08:34:01):
it definitely I bet there wasn't anything big in
between.
Jason Connell (08:34:05):
He was an episode of TJ hooker. Oh, wow. And then
it was in the movie, the checkis in the mail, which I vaguely
remember. But they all came outin 86. Okay, so that means they
all could have been shotsimultaneously. I don't know.
Then right out to the credit cutbar to he was on an episode of
Simon and Simon. So he wasmaking the rounds. Those are big
shows back then.
Sal Rodriguez (08:34:25):
Sure. Oh, yeah, definitely. Well, when it comes
to being an actor, anything onIMDb is the theatrical releases
television or movies. Yes,right. Oh, no. If he did, like a
theater production, leading upto that, I don't we don't know.
Nobody knows. He would tell usYugi can tell us Oh, yeah. Come
on. Yeah. Yugi can say Yo, I wasin a theater production prior to
(08:34:47):
karate cut to two maybe thathelped me prepare for credit.
But you know, we don't knowthose things. All we know is
what we have here in front ofus. He
Jason Connell (08:34:54):
could have auditioned for the credit card
prior to before this move even.
Sal Rodriguez (08:34:58):
That's absolutely correct. Yeah. So what I love
it, I'd love to hear an absolutetimeline. Because I love to see
that your timeline. Yeah, I lovethat progression. You know, I
want to know where like Wherewas he when he got that phone
call for karate kid to you knowthat phone call from his agent?
Maybe? Right? Why credit to getthe old a sequel to credit him?
Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, it'slike that that moment. Oh, I
love that moment. Well,
Jason Connell (08:35:18):
I wish he still had the voicemail on his
answering machine and wasrecorded. Let me grab my
priceless stuff. But regardless,Yeah, amazing job. Yugi kills
it. Yeah. Very memorable. Fun.
So when you see the movie, agood 50 minutes goes by and then
he stops at a stoplight. Thiswill be so well put together for
the comedy that it is. Just thebeats are good. You can just
(08:35:40):
tell by the editing. But theycome rolling up. It's like Oh,
yeah. Then you're you know, it'slike you were kind of hoping
you'd see them again. And herethey are. That's the scenes mad
just enough to miss you. Andthen they brought him back three
times. So I that was justenough. There's probably
outtakes out of more of him plushis voice. Yeah, we never heard
his voice. So we want thosetakes.
Sal Rodriguez (08:36:03):
There was an extra recording. Yeah,
Jason Connell (08:36:05):
most of the times you get special features. But in
some movies just don't bother topackage it like a director's
commentary. And so if it evercomes out and they have a
commentary or deleted scenes, wemay come back and revisit this.
I would love it. I thought itwas a lot of fun. By the way,
I'm very close to this movie, asI mentioned from my youth. Yeah.
So when I lived in Los Angelesfor you know, the time that I
(08:36:26):
did almost 17 years. I at onepoint in time lived in Glendale,
really nice parts kind of by thehill. So I looked this up one
day, because you know, a lot ofmovies in the 80s didn't cheat
it. They shot in Los Angeles.
Sal Rodriguez (08:36:39):
Oh, really? Oh, well. So like when they when
they showed you a receipt. Itwas actually receipt? Yeah. When
they showed us Encino it wasactually Encino in movies. Is
that what you mean?
Jason Connell (08:36:49):
They shot some of the Skene scenes in Utah but
they shot in Glendale, they shotand lock in Jada, and I've been
to lane Myers house. And that isfor those interested 1636
Virginia Avenue, Glendale,California. I guess I could have
looked the zip code up to whenyou were
Sal Rodriguez (08:37:07):
out. You visited Leigh Meyers house when you were
out here because you knew themovie.
Jason Connell (08:37:11):
And I also used to live just a few miles from
it. 91202 zip code? Yeah. And Itook Nico by one day took photos
of the House took in theneighborhood because the foreign
exchange student lived acrossthe street like one over kind of
you know, they could look ateach other. I couldn't believe
it man. The house looked exactlythe same. So many scenes happen.
They're there in front of thehouse. Sometimes he's working on
(08:37:33):
this car. So I encourage you togo by love it. I haven't been in
the house yet. I know where itis. And it just it just a time
warp. It took me back to themovie that I have loved for so
so many years.
Sal Rodriguez (08:37:45):
Yeah, that's great. Yeah. Thanks for bringing
this to my attention. I do lovethe movie looks really silly.
You know, and I like a goodsilly comedy I do.
Jason Connell (08:37:53):
It's silly, smart and holds up and there's a lot
of performances in there. You'regonna go oh my god. I know that
guy. I didn't want to get intoit. But sure, maybe we'll dive
into let's talk movies. Butyeah, there you go. There's our
Better Off Dead 1985 scenes withYugi Okamoto Yeah,
congratulations, Yugicongratulations,
Sal Rodriguez (08:38:11):
Eugene. Those are such memorable scenes really
fantastic. Great to see you.
Jason Connell (08:38:15):
Absolutely. So thank you so much for listening
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Sal Rodriguez (08:38:29):
And for all your listeners that enjoy sharing
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Sal Rodriguez (08:38:50):
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