Jackie Chan’s best movie is hard to name. He’s been leaping off rooftops since the 1960s, but six decades of big‑screen magic still haven’t revealed his most gripping story: his family. This week we meet the Chans. While Jackie shoots the documentary Traces of a Dragon, he discovers the astonishing truth about his parents, Chan Chi‑Long “Charles” and Chan Lee‑Lee “Lily”: a Nationalist spy‑turned‑Shanghai gang boss and a blue‑flower‑wearing opium smuggler whose gambling savvy made her an underworld legend. Their saga of drug runs, Japanese air‑raids, abandoned half‑siblings and a war‑torn China shows just how complicated love, life and family were for “The Spy Next Door.” Before that deep‑dive, Grant and Maia swap ADHD life‑hacks, TikTok doom‑scroll confessions and snack takes, then trace how screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen’s own dojo days birthed The Karate Kid. But the real blockbuster twist is the Chan family itself—proof that even cinema’s most fearless action hero can’t outshine the secrets that shaped him.
00:00:00 Catch-Up
00:20:54 Meet the Chans
00:30:22 The Karate Kid
00:49:38 A Modern Legend
01:04:53 The Jackie We Know
01:31:03 Truth Telling
01:46:39 Fang Daolang (Chan Chi Long "Charles")
02:01:09 Chan Lee-lee "Lily"
02:09:18 A Story Fit for the Screen
02:14:59 Legacy
02:18:21 Final Thoughts
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