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February 15, 2023 • 41 mins

Let's Talk - Cobra Kai
Episode 132: Fan Appreciation - Vol. 07

Jason Connell and Sal Rodriguez thank all the Patreon supporters as well as the fans that have shared 5 Star Reviews on Apple Podcasts (Nov 2021 - mid-Nov 2022) and much more.

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Jason Connell (08:13:14):
Whoa, just curious. Welcome to this curious
media. This is let's talk CobraKai. I'm Jason Connell.

Sal Rodriguez (08:13:24):
And I'm Sal Rodriguez.

Jason Connell (08:13:26):
All right. So we are back for another episode.
And a very, very special one atthat.

Sal Rodriguez (08:13:34):
Yeah, because this is where we give thanks to
the people who have essentiallygiven us things they're given
us. Thanks. So we give themthanks back.

Jason Connell (08:13:42):
That is right, because this is fan
appreciation, volume seven. It'sbeen a while. We have some
catching up to do. So. Wefinished season five, literally
released it yesterday. TheYouTube came out earlier, but
the audio, you know, the podcastversion came out yesterday,

(08:14:04):
which was February 8 2023. Now,this blew me away when I found
this out today. Belovedmusician, Burt Bacharach passed
away yesterday rest in peace. 94years old. We referenced Burt
Bacharach and the episode thatreleased yesterday of all the

(08:14:27):
episodes to ever bring up BurtBacharach he passed away on the
same day like I don't know whatthat is. Let's just call it
special. What though world needsnow? Is Love? sweet love?

Sal Rodriguez (08:14:45):
The only thing there's just too little love.

Jason Connell (08:14:49):
I jumped in here the singer. I got inspired.

Sal Rodriguez (08:14:52):
No, no, I try. I tried. No, no, it's it's a sweet
song. It was a wonderfulsentiment that we all need right
now. We all need love right now.
And yeah, rest in peace, BurtBacharach and we happen to
mention him on Let's Talk CobraKai. Coincidentally, yeah,

Jason Connell (08:15:08):
I give you credit because you brought his name up
the first time because I got

Sal Rodriguez (08:15:13):
I refused. I confused Burt Bacharach with
Paul Anka. Sorry, sorry, it'ssorry to give

Jason Connell (08:15:19):
Burt Bacharach credit for my way

Sal Rodriguez (08:15:22):
I did I did it my way. Sorry,

Jason Connell (08:15:25):
Frankie. Sorry about oh, blue eyes Sinatra.
Anyway, so that happened. Ithought that was just really
special. But this is a specialepisode as well because we are
thinking our fans and let'sstart with the ones that have
been with this for quite a whilenot to say other fans haven't
but the ones we know about ourPatreon. It's our Patreon
supporters. And I'm going to rundown the list here. Some have

(08:15:49):
been with us for a long time,others less but hey, we love a
Patreon supporter. We call themsuperfans. And sometimes these
Patreon superfans pop up on theactual podcast, which is really
amazing. We've had like four onthus far. So gonna run down
these and you'll see the levelthat they're at because we came

(08:16:10):
up with the Karate Kid Cobra Kaitype level. So Lindsey Bebo
joined March 28 2021. And herlevel is strike first. And she
did strike first. She was thefirst the oh, gee, full credit
to Lindsay. She was fantastic.
She's actually been on. Let'stalk Cobra Kai, check out that
episode, if you haven't. Next,Brian Ron fola joined June

(08:16:33):
23 2021. His level is

Sal Rodriguez (08:16:40):
no mercy.
collinear favorites.
That's always so fun. It's likeeverybody should say no mercy.
You've got so much fun.

Jason Connell (08:16:51):
So and Brian has also been on Let's Talk Cobra
Kai. Fantastic. Great guy. Socheck that episode out. Then
Adam Oelrich joined October14 2021. His level

Sal Rodriguez (08:17:04):
is Black Belt.

Jason Connell (08:17:07):
Ooh, that sounds legit black. Next Level. Adams
also been on the show. So that'sthree super fans in a row. Boom,
boom, boom. Next we have one ofour super super fans from back
in the day from social media. Wediscovered this guy. He's
fantastic. And there's a specialthing coming here for him in
just a moment. But a Keto con atNicklaus, Vic strim joined

(08:17:32):
November 4 2021. The level isBlack Belt black belt now in
real life. The keto con ad is ablack belt. Nice, runs a dojo,
and he is a super fan slashpower fan. And he says that
sometimes and he's from Sweden.
And this I'm going to pipe thisin today because we're having a

(08:17:57):
lot of fun here and look behindmy shoulder and you will see
yes, our superfan. There he isat Vic's show Makita Kennedy and
he has our logo. Let's talkCobra Kai on his Volvo exceeding
90, which is a Swedish car, mindyou the same. That's him. That's

(08:18:19):
it right that awesome shout out.
He has made swag for us. We arelacking swag and merch. He did
it. He saved us the trouble.

Sal Rodriguez (08:18:33):
So I like that one of our superfans has merged
that we don't have we don't havethis

Jason Connell (08:18:39):
just printed out, but I love that he's done this.
And that's not it. There's more.
This is a Keto cons,workstation. And look at the
wide shot. There's the wide shotnow let's take the closer Oh,
wait, is this it? There's acloser shot. Look at that. He
has that our logo at hisworkstation. What's his
workstation? What is that? Well,we'll have to have mine to

(08:19:02):
figure that out. But I love andthere is a tighter shot of him
Akita. So, there's theworkstation. It looks like all
sorts of tools you got, youknow, like a craftsman would
have a love it, you know, acaulking gun. A clock, gotta
have a clock. And then you gottahave let's talk Cobra Kai. Very
cool. That's Thank you. acuerdocon shout out superfan. And

(08:19:26):
moving down we have two more.
Stephanie McClellan joinedNovember 10 2021. The level she
joined at no mercy. There it isagain, nailed it. And then Eric
Williams joined on a veryspecial day in our country, July

(08:19:48):
4 2022. And he is strike hard.
strike hard. I think we've runthe gamut. If you put those in
order, I think we have the end.
Thank you, Eric. But I think wehave them all. I think we have
strike for us strike card, nomercy and a black belt. I love
it. We've covered it. It'sawesome. So thank you all

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Patreon. Really, it means somuch to us. You know, if we're
giving $1 or more just to bewith this, just that little
incentive. It's just It helps ithelps offset some of our costs.
We'd love more patrons, butwe're not going to balk at the
ones we have, like, oh, we needmore. Now. We are so happy. And
we're going to invite more ofyou on if you can come on the

(08:20:32):
show as we open it up and havesome of those fun episodes,
which we will and those who wantto join us on Patreon. Sal, tell
them where to do that.

Sal Rodriguez (08:20:41):
Well hang on, you throw me for a loop. You're
saying that if anybody wants tojoin the Patreon for let's talk
Cobra Kai. Yep, I know you wouldstart at just curious media, I
would imagine

Jason Connell (08:20:51):
well, or you could just go to patreon.com and
type oh, let's talk Cobra Kai.

Sal Rodriguez (08:20:57):
Oh, just go to patreon. You don't have to go to
just curious meaning.

Jason Connell (08:21:00):
Generally, you don't. And you could also just
go to patreon.com backslash.
Let's talk Cobra Kai no spacesthat'll take you there are just
search for us on Patreon andyou'll find us so it's so
fantastic. It's amazing. Theyall found us Lindsay found us
when I didn't even know thething was operating correctly.
And there's some other funthings coming very soon. I gotta

(08:21:20):
say. I don't want to divulge itbecause I'm making some
decisions but Patreon are liveon. And there's some other cool
things I'm looking at doingmaybe early access to stuff,
premium content. Some fun thingsare coming because we are back
in studio and we're here keepingthe lights on I'm not moving
anytime again. Sal. So stayingput have built a new studio.

Sal Rodriguez (08:21:45):
Jason's movie, Jason's moving to Ireland next
as well.

Jason Connell (08:21:49):
I may visit my move I don't know. So I want to
give another shout out to is nota Patreon, but he's a superfan
as well. And he had his ownepisode one time because we took
his voicemail and we did thatreally fun episode and that is
well yes. Caster dinos

Sal Rodriguez (08:22:07):
Yes, yes. He's like Next Level Level his his
relationship with our show isalmost like next level, the next

Jason Connell (08:22:13):
level at a new level. And it's the caster level
and he was a contributor forseason five, he helped us put
some notes together and thingsyou know, because we go through
every episode, it was more likehelping with an outline. I still
had a ton of work to do trust meon that I still do my own thing.
But it was good to get someoneelse who was Oh yeah, I can help
you guys and it was very helpfulbecause what I was doing during

(08:22:34):
Season Five was just to nuts.
And so I want to give him ashout out and I've told him even
today I dropped him a linebecause he's an other side of
the country but said not thiscountry sorry, other side of the
world and said hey, we got tohave you on the show, not just
your voicemail so look for acost to episode at some point in
time to happen, which will be alot of fun.

Sal Rodriguez (08:22:57):
You know what makes me so excited as he's
literally like, invited us to govisit him. Yeah, yeah.

Jason Connell (08:23:02):
Well, Island, not you. So

Sal Rodriguez (08:23:06):
you just you.
I'll be here. I'll be here.
You'll be on the spot reporterYeah. That sounds so fantastic
that you and I are invited to govisit a Greek island. I know Oh,
so amazing. I want to take it upon a take him up on it.
Absolutely.

Jason Connell (08:23:24):
If we get enough Patreon, we may just be able to,
if we do, yeah, we'll recordthere, I'll have a studio. So
now let's pivot to what I didn'teven give this away in the lead.
But we want to give a shout outto a lot, we have some catching
up to do our apple podcast, fivestar reviews, there was a point

(08:23:47):
in time in the season, when Igave a call out to our fans,
hey, please support us there ifyou can. And they listened and
responded. And I was so blownaway that I said this a few
months ago, we are going to do afan appreciation episode as soon
as we finish the season. Andhere we are true to form. But we

(08:24:07):
also have some from before thatcall out because we have not
done one of these in a whileperiod. So we're gonna do I
think 11. And we're gonna goback and forth. And just, you
know, these are great. There's afive star reviews, people took
the time and energy to writethis. They're also fans of the
show, they probably listen toevery episode, probably watch

(08:24:28):
some two on YouTube. So beforewe jump in our five star rating,
we have 169 ratings, and let'stalk Cobra Kai is holding a 4.8,
which is awesome. So kudos toall of you that vote. That's
just that simple, five starvoting. So we encourage all of
you to do that we need more, weneed more people to hit that

(08:24:50):
five star rating. That wouldhelp we know we have a lot more
listeners. But hey, more oftenthan not people don't you know,
they don't take the time. Butwe'd love it. If you do that.
The reviews next next level, ittakes a lot of time to write a
review. And these reviews aregoing to start from November
2021 and go up to mid November2022. Because we got so many in

(08:25:12):
November, we had to break it upNovember 2022. That's when I put
the call out called arms. SoI'll jump in, I'll start and
we'll ping pong back and forth,Sal and have a lot of fun with
this.

Sal Rodriguez (08:25:24):
You know, the thing of it is, I've been very
guilty as a YouTuber, of askingpeople to leave reviews and
leave likes and leave commentsand all. Yeah, but it does
affect the Creator, whoeveryou're a fan of. When you leave
reviews, when you leave positivereviews, when you leave five
stars, it affects the creator'salgorithm, it really does. We're

(08:25:46):
all at the mercy of thealgorithms today. So when you
leave five star reviews, it doesenhance your experience, our
experience, it puts us in abetter position.

Jason Connell (08:25:56):
Absolutely. And I didn't think this at first, you
know, but then you start to seethe difference and how you got
to stand out in the pack. Andeven during the pandemic I was
reading there was an all timehigh of brand new podcast
emerging. It's throttled back inthe last two years. So the
numbers have waned, which isgood for podcasters who are
staying the course. But thesereviews, five star the rating

(08:26:19):
the little hit the you know, thebutton rating. It's huge.
Otherwise, they don't know howto base anything off of it.
Except for downloads, which isalso good. But these mean a lot
to me personally, they give methat fuel to keep going on. I'm
just plugging away on notes andpost production and recording
episodes with you or on othershows. But this is a real treat

(08:26:41):
to go back and forth with theseand I'm ready to jump in. We'll
start with the name of becausethere's like a name a title then
the actual review. And then whowrote it that's kind of how
Apple lays it out. So we'regoing to change the order from
historic historically done so.
Best around. So good. What astart. Alright sow we are back
for another five star review. Ilove how Jason starts every

(08:27:06):
show, so I borrowed it. I likethat. I enjoy every episode. The
deep dives into the originalKarate Kid movies are fantastic.
The special episodes arehilarious and allow us fans to
geek out this podcast haseverything Cobra Kai fans need.
Wow. Love it. Love it. Love it.

(08:27:32):
I haven't like getting, youknow, using my intro which
slowly became my intro. BecauseI don't know why I'm a creature
of habit. And this comes to usby altra mod. I love it. Is it
ultra modern? I don't know. Ilove the name. I love the
review. Thank you. Thank youaltra mod.

Sal Rodriguez (08:27:55):
You know what's funny is every time we get a
positive review a wonderfulreview like this. I say to
Jason, do you know this person?
Like oh, is this like Is thisyour cousin? Yeah, I'm paying no
it's not your cousin. It's likepeople out there listening to
us. I can't

Jason Connell (08:28:09):
tell you how good it makes me feel. You know, it's
like wow a Is this thing onappeal. People listening Yes,
but they're also liking and thena lot of people can like
something, but to take the timeto write a review, create an
account all these barriers thatmake it hard for people. So I

(08:28:30):
greatly appreciate it Ultra mod.
And thank you and bye hope youkeep listening and enjoying as
we bring you more and morecontent.

Sal Rodriguez (08:28:39):
Yeah, thank you altra mod. What an interesting
name is that? They're like atransformer. I love Trump
Mottram second transformer name.

Jason Connell (08:28:47):
Okay, the next one, Sal is all yours, my
friend.

Sal Rodriguez (08:28:51):
It's titled it's five stars, and it's titled
phenomenal show. Hey, guys, youare so awesome to listen to. I
drive one hour and 15 minuteseach way to work every day. And
I listened to your show everyday. I enjoy you guys so much. I
will definitely check out yourother shows. Can't wait to get
involved in those shows. Thanksfor being there. By random

(08:29:14):
50000000. That's random January3 2022. Random zeros.

Jason Connell (08:29:25):
does say the day till the stuff that doesn't
matter. It's in between thatwindow of time. But yeah,
random. That's awesome. An hour15 each way two and a half hour
driving. You know what? Random,we need to make some more
content for you, don't we? Wecan't have gaps.

Sal Rodriguez (08:29:42):
No, you know, Jason, you and I have talked
about this because we've sharedJason I've shared how we consume
how we pod yourself. You know?
Yeah, how we how we deliverpodcasts how we consume
podcasts. And I tell Jason allthe time, like I like to listen
to a podcast undisturbed. Yeah,I want to be undisturbed. So I
want to be either driving alongway, or I want to be cleaning
put some earbuds in. That'd bevacuuming for two hours. Yeah,

(08:30:03):
like I want undisturbedlistening experience. So when I
hear that people can enjoy us ontheir drive. That's totally
cool. Because I totally relate.

Jason Connell (08:30:14):
I can totally relate to Yes, I listened on
walks, walks with my dog passedaway. But I was driving like you
say cleaning. It's a veryintimate thing. podcast, I
rarely listened to a podcastwith someone else unless I want
to have Sophia hear somethingjust really briefly. But it's
really just for us, whateverwe're consuming. And I get it

(08:30:37):
and they get used to our voicesand how we interact with one
another. And then we become kindof like their friends. Like I
have a connection to otherpodcasts that I listened to. And
same for you. So I am touchedthat we fit inside that we're
doing for others what we getfrom other shows as well. So it
means the world to us to both ofus. And random. There'll be more

(08:30:59):
we're creating more content. Idon't want to over deliver under
promise or over promise underdeliver sorry. Yeah, we hit kind
of patchy spell there. But nowwe're grounded and look for a
lot more shows to come out andlisten, check out other shows.
Like you just said, we havethat's a crime. Let's talk
movies. Now we have doggone andthose shows are hitting all

(08:31:20):
cylinders as well. So thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Randomfive. How many zeros is that? So

Sal Rodriguez (08:31:27):
123456 I think it's seven zeros. Random five,
seven zeros. Thank you.

Jason Connell (08:31:34):
Love it. Love it.
All right, the next one, andthey're all five star they are
but I wasn't saying that everytime. Amazing. I started
watching Cobra Kai and I'm onseason three episode two. I've
been watching these podcasts andunderstand better about Cobra
Kai and what they us think aboutthem this is just amazing. By

(08:31:55):
now this is hilarious. bores sMkDeez Nuts Is this your friend?
Do you know?

Sal Rodriguez (08:32:12):
I was in Hobby Lobby recently. And they have
these like, like stickers ofletters. And somebody somebody
put out deez nuts in hub hub.

Jason Connell (08:32:22):
It's always good.
Always good. And I wasn't tryingto say the first part because it
is broken up. It's B ORYSMKspace d easy. I know this part
space in UTS. But the first partI wasn't sure but also I should
mention from the UK loveinternational fans. Well done
level. So I also like that youknow deez nuts is into season

(08:32:45):
three episode two, but reallylike feels like learning from
us. Like watching the episodelistening and like getting a
little insight I liked I likedit. We can kind of help be a
roadmap because some peoplestart shows late. There's been
shows historically that Istarted late. I started breaking
bad late, not when it was over.

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But I think it was Season Fourwas winding down and I'm jumping
on the first one and everyone'salready talking about it. So
when you're playing catch up,it's kind of nice to Have
another like supplementalmaterial us. So I think it's
really cool. So thank you, Lord.
No, I

Sal Rodriguez (08:33:21):
think it's, I really do. It's another
perspective. It can be anotherperspective. I just listened to
a podcast you and I have coveredon Let's Talk movies. We've
covered An American Werewolf inLondon. Yes, we had I had the
pleasure. And I really mean thatI had the pleasure of listening
to two women cover and Americanworlds in London. And I was
like, Oh, wow, I never I neverthought of that. Like I'm

(08:33:42):
hearing all these things that Inever thought about you and I
never considered because we'retwo guys covering the movie.
These are two women covering themovie. They had all kinds of
opinions and slants I neverthought about I loved it. I
liked

Jason Connell (08:33:54):
it. Well, we could do Monty Python we could
act like women if we wanted todo a podcast I'm just kidding.
No, I'd like to check that out.
There was a several podcasts towomen I listened to they did
true crime. Before we were doingthat's a crime. So I liked that
combo are a guy girl doesn'tmatter if they're engaged,
entertaining, love what they'redoing. I'm invested. But it
would be good to hear aperspective of a movie that

(08:34:15):
we've covered. So I haven'theard yet particular episodes.
It

Sal Rodriguez (08:34:20):
was very interesting, because it was a
lot of stuff I'd neverconsidered before. I liked

Jason Connell (08:34:23):
that. I liked that a lot. Okay, so take it
away a longer one. Look out.

Sal Rodriguez (08:34:28):
This is a bigger one. Hang on. I'm losing it on
my screen. Hang on. I got

Jason Connell (08:34:31):
it. Yeah, you gotta get a bigger monitor for
this review.

Sal Rodriguez (08:34:34):
ere we go. Five Star Review. Love this show.
I've been remiss in not writingthis sooner. been listening for
quite a while now. And love thispodcast as well as other just
curious shows like thatsubscribe. That's very nice.
When Cobra Kai seasons arereleased, I try to watch one
episode per week so that I cantime each one to be a day or two

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before the breakdown provided byJason itself. But as Sal notes,
it's hard to avoid spoilers. Inany case, it's great to relive
it with these guys. I alwayspick up things I missed, or
learn more things that fans wantto know. When life is hard. It's
fun to watch Cobra Kai, and it'sa joy to listen to Jason and
Sal. And that is by Mindy signedMindy and her username. M M

(08:35:21):
2331. There we go. Got that outthere. Thank you so much, Mindy.
I totally get what you'resaying. Because you know,
sometimes in life we need Iguess we need escapes, right.
But we need to go into someother realm

Jason Connell (08:35:36):
he's now

Sal Rodriguez (08:35:38):
is love. sweet love. Yeah. So when Mindy says,
avoiding spoilers, yeah. Becauseyou want an episode. You gotta
watch out for spoilers. Yeah.
Totally. That's great.

Jason Connell (08:35:50):
Thank you for being a fan of the show, as
well, is that a crime and maybeothers. I love it. I love that.
Mindy also felt bad for notwriting sooner. So don't feel
bad. You wrote and love thisshow. What a great tag that is a
great title. And you know, it'sawesome. And I love that we can

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give it a little behind thescenes bring a little color,
maybe things they didn't seefrom before. So a little
perspective. I love it. I loveit. You enjoy our break downs,
there's more to come kind ofhard to watch an episode wait
for our break down. If itdoesn't come for a few weeks, we
get it. You got to binge theshow, and then come back around

(08:36:31):
and enjoy it with us some pointin time. Of course it's going to
end next season. Maybe sound Icould do an episode tit for tat.
Well, we don't get earlyreleases. Hey, who knows? Maybe
season six, we get them early? Idon't know. I can't wish

Sal Rodriguez (08:36:45):
early early because we would have them all
diners,

Jason Connell (08:36:48):
we would have all done and we could just go. But
thank you so much, Mandy. Itmeans a ton to us both and very
touched and honored.

Sal Rodriguez (08:36:58):
Jason, I just want to add, you know, it's one
thing that we have fans, that'sfantastic. I'm assuming there's
going to be guys along for theride, you know, but when I hear
that women I'm assuming Mindy'sa woman, I'm assuming that that
means a lot really It means alot that we have women listening
to our show. We're a couple ofguys talking about Cobra Kai,
which is, I don't know. I mean,although they are female

(08:37:20):
characters, all the leads aremales for the most part. So I'm
very honored when when I hearthat a female listens to our
show and enjoys our show. Ireally am honored by that.

Jason Connell (08:37:30):
Well, I am too but I'm honored if anybody likes
our show, so, way to go. I don'tcare. No judgement just we love
fans. We love them. Any moms outthere any dads. Parents
listening. All right. All right.
So the next one is again,they're all five star favorite
podcast. Love it. Chalk it up asneck. No. I have listened to

(08:37:51):
every episode three times sinceI found the channel two months
ago. The two of you guys areamazing. And by the way, there's
a lot of exclamation points onthis page. I love the chemistry
between you two. I'm addicted.
And thank you for motivating meto get back to martial arts and

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After over 30 years, also tellSal I'm an avid Toy Collector as
well. Smiley face times three.
Very cool bye for Oh, statewarrior. Thank you so much. I
think that might be OklahomaState.

Sal Rodriguez (08:38:35):
If so, I was gonna ask you is that like an
homage to something? Well

Jason Connell (08:38:38):
Oh state is Oklahoma State. Pretty much. It
could be Ohio State, but ohstates, usually Oklahoma State
so and I love warriors. And Iwent to Oklahoma State. Thank
you love. I love it. You listento every episode of ours.

Sal Rodriguez (08:38:51):
Jason I don't know if I've listened to each of
our episodes three times. Forsure. once, maybe twice, three
times on. This a true fan.

Jason Connell (08:39:04):
That's awesome. I yeah, maybe I have three times
but I'm doing post production. Ihear you more than I could even
ever admit when you're editing.
Sure. But fantastic. I love it.
You're addicted. Stay addictedto good things in life. Let's
talk Cobra Kai are all theofferings from just curious
media. And hey, Toy Collector.
Maybe this is a fan to bring onthe show and see what kind of

(08:39:25):
toys they have that would fitinside our universe who you
never know. So a toy off

Sal Rodriguez (08:39:30):
if they have Yeah, if they have Cobra Kai or
Karate Kid Toys. He'll help meget into that. In a future
episode. We're going to talkabout some of the Karate Kid
Cobra Kai collectibles. Yes. Andespecially some of those toys
that were available when theoriginal movies were released
because some of the toysrecently were from Cobra Kai.
Like I would call them new eratoys from Cobra Kai. But there

(08:39:50):
were original Karate Kid Toys.
So if you have some of thosedefinitely love to talk about
that. I love

Jason Connell (08:39:54):
it. Okay, do you have the next one.

Sal Rodriguez (08:39:57):
The title is review. It says love the show.
Keep up the good work and thatis by selling author, author co
ll th er selling author, fivestar review. Thank you.

Jason Connell (08:40:12):
I love it. Now this probably came out during
the mid if it's November areafter my call out my call to
arms for the fans. And so thankyou for taking the time. A five
star review means the world tous. Love it. You love the show.
We're absolutely going to keepup the good work. And shout out
to you for chiming in and takingthe time. It means a ton.

Sal Rodriguez (08:40:37):
Yes, thank you so much. And yeah, the future is
we've all heard the news thatseason six will be the final
season. So there's a lot to besaid for a while. What are we
gonna do after that? Well, we'regonna keep going, whatever that
means. Whatever that involves.
We are going to keep chuggingalong is what that means.

Jason Connell (08:40:51):
Because you know why Sal? Why? Because let's talk
Cobra Kai never dies.

Sal Rodriguez (08:40:57):
I have a tremendous say we're the best
around with

Jason Connell (08:41:02):
no, that's for you. That's all you. Okay, the
next one is love these guys.
He's talking about us. Fivestars, of course. I listened to
all caps, a lot of podcastreviewing movies and TV shows.
And this one is hands down. Myfave. If you guys are ever up in

(08:41:23):
the Seattle area, cougarsbanquets on me. Sal, it sounds
like we have a trip to go on.

Sal Rodriguez (08:41:36):
I'm totally a little further for me now.

Jason Connell (08:41:38):
Seattle.

Sal Rodriguez (08:41:39):
I wouldn't Yeah, exactly. It is a little bit
further for you. But I wouldlove to meet some of our fans
and have some corps banquets.
That sounds fantastic.

Jason Connell (08:41:46):
And maybe if we do that we could meet one Mike
Ola fat. Big time fan. He'sdefinitely chimed in before on
social media. Yeah, this is areview of five star review from
superfan Mike and muchappreciated man that's awesome.
Just even throw it out thereCoors banquet, of course that

(08:42:06):
would be great. There may be atime that Sal and I go on the
road and do shows on the road.
We might do a tour. So you neverknow man. You never know and it
could be whatever happens withCobra Kai whatever it morphs
into and some of our movies wecould do some of our let's talk
movies live. We could do somecrimes. We could really have a
whole we could get an RV soundjust hit the road man.

Sal Rodriguez (08:42:28):
Live the van life.

Jason Connell (08:42:30):
Just for a little tour. Just a little tour. But
thank you like that. You

Sal Rodriguez (08:42:33):
know? Just to be clear, I am more of a LORUSSO.
MacAllan 18 Guy me too. But Iwill happily have

Jason Connell (08:42:43):
my expiring so you know you gotta you gotta
keep it you know, lean because

Sal Rodriguez (08:42:47):
whatever Mike is buying, whatever Mike is buying.

Jason Connell (08:42:49):
I'll take a short Island. Nice to actually come to
think of it and you'll have awhite claw.

Sal Rodriguez (08:42:55):
No, yeah. 5% Alright, so I'll take the next
one. Five Star Review. Veryinformative exclamation mark. I
love listening to these guys.
Their format is a beat by beatreview of the show, which I
appreciate. They usuallyinterject facts, recite lines
from the show to help the storyand sometimes include their own
experiences. If a moment fromthe show is relatable to them, I

(08:43:17):
always look forward to the nextepisode slash review by Bo
96080. Either bill or Bo. II Ayou spell it 96080 Thank you so
much. Yeah, I one of the thingsI pride ourselves on when it
comes to Let's Talk Cobra Kai,is how our lives might

(08:43:37):
intertwine with karate kid mightintertwine with Cobra Kai, the
locations or the experiences.
It's not just that we're talkingabout Cobra, Kai and Karate Kid.
Sure. But we're trying tointertwine our own experiences
with this universe, our universewith their universe. And we're
definitely proud of that. Wehave visited many locations.

(08:43:59):
We've met people on the show,we've been kind of on the
sidelines of everything as itoccurs. So very proud to be
involved in this podcast and howit relates to the Karate Kid
corporate guy universe.

Jason Connell (08:44:10):
Absolutely. I couldn't have said it better
myself. But I'm gonna try. No,no, you've nailed it. Great job.
And bow if that's the rightsaying but wonderful. I love
that you illustrated some thingsin there that mean a lot to us.
We love our format. I think itworks for this show. And then we
do special episodes that are AnyWhich Way But Loose, but beat by
beat review. I love that youappreciate it. And we interject

(08:44:32):
facts of course. And we kind offell into reciting some lines
because there's so many keylines as the show grew. And of
course, they bring in guys likesilver and crease and they the
writers are fantastic. So whenwe're like doing notes, I'm
like, how do we not includethat? And now that we're at
season five, it's like you'rejust carrying so much more but
it's just a beautiful show. It'samazing to cover and so there

(08:44:54):
are more locations around thatwe're going to be hitting up I
mean I live very close to theLighthouse Point Judith
lighthouse that Johnnyreferences and Cobra I've been
by there many times I rode mybike there two weekends ago. I'm
going to do a live remote thereI'm going to send you over to
Miyagi his old house in CanogaPark that I've been by many
times that's no longer there butthat you know, the space is

(08:45:15):
there the spot is there theblock and do a remote from
there. I love those remotes.
They are the school that I usedto walk and eat go by all the
time that was in Karate Kid, youhave to do some more because the
credit card was filmed and yourstomping ground. So you have
that at your disposal. But yeah,anyway, I love it. Thank you for
the kind review. And so this isstill in the middle of November

(08:45:35):
because our fans stepped up tothe plate for us. And I don't
ask for much. But when we neededit, they were there to give us
more five star reviews. Yeah,

Sal Rodriguez (08:45:47):
that means so much is like you know lately in
my personal life, not to TMIovershare. But like, I'm really
learning the power of asking forhelp you ask you need help you
ask someone. We asked our fansfor help. Give us those five
star reviews how important theyare. And they delivered and I

(08:46:09):
could not believe it. I cannotbelieve it. Thank you so much.

Jason Connell (08:46:13):
Thank you. Okay, the next one. Love it. I love
how excited y'all get about theshow. Y'all get fired up. You
also have very interestinginsights helped by your
knowledge of the Karate Kidworld. Thanks for entertaining
me while I am working or doingdishes. So it says you like this

(08:46:35):
one.

Sal Rodriguez (08:46:37):
I don't like doing dishes I love I love doing
dishes.

Jason Connell (08:46:43):
And this one's by Tori LD 20. I love it. We do get
five times. Yeah, Tory, yeah.
Tory Nick Nichols. But thank youTori, it's we do get excited
sometimes, of course. And I lovethat you love our insights. And
we do have a lot of knowledge ofthe Karate Kid world, no doubt.
And I love how you take yourpodcast, how you take your

(08:47:05):
podcast, I'm working or doingdishes. That's great. That's how
I take my I'll take two podcastsago, please. I need that.
Fantastic. And thanks for takingthe time. This is not something
easy. Most people use Yelp, orGoogle reviews or or Google Maps
to go, where's that restaurant,but 90% of the people do not
leave a review after a greatexperience. If they have a bad

(08:47:28):
experience. They're more apt toleave a review. So if you love
something, it's like oh, yeah, Ilove it. And it's always there.
For me. This is how you help usand help the show.

Sal Rodriguez (08:47:40):
Jason, you know, let me just mention this. You
know, this goes back to like,when all of us first started
using the internet. I don't carehow old you were or whatever.
When you first got online,right? Yep. It's like, you're a
consumer. Right? But I and Ithink Jason feels the same way.
I'm going to put stuff on there.
Like I'm going to be aparticipant. I'm going to put my
voice on there and put my nameon there. I'm gonna put my

(08:48:03):
quotes on there. Like I'm goingto put stuff on the internet not
just absorb stuff on theinternet. So when it comes to
like, you say like, you know, weget fired up and we have our was
in the credit world, becausewe're trying to put stuff on the
internet. Yeah. And not just bea person who only past watches
the internet or uses theinternet like, oh, yeah, passive

(08:48:24):
user. Yeah, that's what it'll bea passive user of the internet
versus yours. Jason and I bothyears of putting stuff on the
internet. We want to becreators. We want to be
participants. We want to bebuilders of content is what
we're trying to do.

Jason Connell (08:48:38):
Yeah. And that's very true. So awesome. Thank
you. Thank you, Tori. Thank you,Tori.

Sal Rodriguez (08:48:45):
This is five star if you love this show, my son
and I love this show,exclamation mark by Romo. 24.
This r o m m o 24. Romo. 24. Myson, and I love the show. Thank
you so much.

Jason Connell (08:48:58):
I just asked if there's any dads out there and
our moms and parents and therewe go. I love it's a combo. I
liked. I liked the family.
Family Show.

Sal Rodriguez (08:49:08):
I'm not like Mr.
Family. But I liked that ourshow. Appeals can appeal to
family, and then everybody feelsafe to play our show, and have
our show involved in theirfamily life. I really appreciate
that.

Jason Connell (08:49:18):
Yeah, absolutely.
So this will be the last one.
For this fan appreciationepisode. There'll be another fan
appreciation episode sooner thanlater. So trust me on that we
have to catch up. We're still onthat November that when we just
got overwhelmed. It's like, youget all these letters to Santa.
And I gotta open them all up.
You know, that's how I feltlike, oh my gosh, and this is

(08:49:39):
ketchup time. So this one is ofcourse five star. Really fun.
Good start. This show completelyfeels like you're hanging out
with your two buddies chattingabout a great show. And all
things involved in the KarateKid Cobra Kai universe. I can
relate to the host a lot andenjoy the show a lot. I look

(08:50:04):
forward to every episode. Checkout I love this promoting us.
Check out their other podcast onjust curious media and go to
manscape.com and use their codeCobra Kai at checkout to help
Jason and Sal out. Are youshouted Do you buy this one? I
love I swear to God, Jase. I

Sal Rodriguez (08:50:29):
swear to God, I manscaped the other day and I
shouldn't be thinking of youwhen I'm asked, but I

Jason Connell (08:50:33):
don't think

Sal Rodriguez (08:50:36):
are we still involved with manscaped?

Jason Connell (08:50:39):
And this is by I'm just going to spell it
WYOUSSE F if you want to take ashot at pronouncing it. Go for
it, Sal. Well, I

Sal Rodriguez (08:50:49):
think it'd be w Yousef.

Jason Connell (08:50:51):
There you go. I didn't want to let you bias W
Yousef. Yeah, thank you. Yes,what that is, I love it. And I
love the promo. Sometimes yourfans can be your greatest
evangelist. It's very true whenI would go to film festivals
when I was with my own films.
And typically my early filmswhen you're just so green, and
I'm not a guy that would gobecause when you go to a film
festival sell like one that'smulti day, multi venue and your

(08:51:14):
because my festivals, I neverreally competed against myself
that much. But a lot of timesyou go to a bigger level where
there's like lots more money inlogistics, but you have a choice
of seeing five or six differentmovies at one time, right? So
you're competing against othermovies in the festival. So
you're always like at an eventmeeting other filmmakers, people

(08:51:37):
handing your card out like your,your postcard of your movie. And
I just had a very hard time withthat. It's like they'll read it
about it in the program. They'llhear about it, they'll come see
it. But when I took people inone of my documentaries,
certainly background comes tomind. And we would go to like
the Newport Beach Film Festival.

(08:51:58):
Well, they will go around and bejust, it didn't bother them at
all unfazed, they'd walk aroundand promote and some people are
hardwired for it. But your fansare like, Oh no, you got to see
this movie. It's fantastic. Letthem sell you, not you sell
yourself. And this is what fansdo. Because this is now on the
internet, as you were justtalking about others will see it

(08:52:19):
and they're singing yourpraises. Believe you me when I
go look at a new podcast, Icheck out the numbers. And if I
see a bunch of one or two starcomments one after the other to
the other, it speaks volumes. Iwill skip that show all
together. So if all they see isa bunch of fives you're like
well, okay, there's something tothis. So this is what we need we

(08:52:40):
need and we need more. But thisis incredible. So thank you w
Yousef and also love the plugs.
They're gonna just cast me Lucky

Sal Rodriguez (08:52:51):
another shows Yeah, cuz there's a lot of love
it. You know, just curious mediais let's talk Cobra Kai. Yep.
And other shows. We've got awhole bunch of other shows.
Unfortunately, they're not allinvolving Sal Rodriguez some are
just Jason Connell. If you loveJason Connell, you're gonna love
the some of the other shows. I'mon some of them. I as a guest,

(08:53:11):
Jason is kind enough to let meget on some of the show as a
guest but He's primarily incharge of the other shows. So
yeah, it's it's definitely ifyou love podcasts, you got to
tune in to just curious media.
Really. It's not just that ifyou just love, let's talk Cobra
Kai, you just love Cobra Kai.
That's fantastic. But there'sother stuff there. There's
there. We're launching new showslots of great stuff happening

(08:53:33):
with just curious media, I woulddefinitely recommend it as a
destination to podcast lovers.

Jason Connell (08:53:37):
Absolutely. Thank you. So thanks for singing our
praises. I love it very kind ofyou and thank you, all of you
for leaving five star reviewslike you did incredible. Thank
you to Patreon. Thank you to ourcontributors. And thank you to
you. So thank you to you. You'rethe other half of let's talk
over KY much appreciate it.
Thank you, Jason. So thank youso much for listening and please

(08:54:01):
be sure to subscribe to thelet's talk Cobra Kai podcast and
the let's talk Cobra Kai YouTubeLive Channel. You can also
really help us by giving theshow a five star rating on Apple
podcasts and you may just windup on an episode or two.

Sal Rodriguez (08:54:17):
And for all your listeners that enjoy sharing
your thoughts you can leave us areview on Apple podcasts. Send
us a direct message or post acomment on any let's talk Cobra
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Jason Connell (08:54:28):
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