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Badass Fest VIII - The Protector (2005)

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Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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CHAMPION. CHARISMA. CHARACTER. These are the qualities that make a badass. Badass Fest VIII goes live! Jim and A.Ron break down The Protector (2005), celebrating Tony Jaa's bone-crunching Muay Thai action, impossibly long fight sequences, and one of the most unforgettable joint-breaking finales ever put on film. Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior Hey there!  Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts! Join the Club! Join the discussion:  Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There is a orthopedic hospital in Sydney that's named after Tony Jock because they're still pinning these guys as joints back in place.

0:29.5

Hello everybody. Welcome back to the eighth annual Badass Fest live edition.

0:33.8

Say hi to the Bob New Community, everybody.

0:44.3

Wow. Say hi to the Baldwin Community, everybody. I'm your host, Aeron.

0:47.0

Oh, I'm Jim.

0:48.5

And we're here to talk about the 2006 action film,

0:53.1

The Protector, starring Tony Jha. And a lot of you probably are going

0:57.9

to be like, what the fuck, who the fuck? Jim showed this to me about 15 years ago. And they got to a point

1:07.1

in a third act where I laughed so hard, I couldn't catch my breath. And for my money, I was like, you know, and I know we can't go back to the Kung Fu well too much. Because we have, you know, out of the four live ones, we've done Jackie Chan now, Tony Jock, but this is just a, this is a really fun one. And also we've like a three-year run of doing 20th anniversaries.

1:30.6

I did not know that this is the 20th anniversary protector when we picked the film out, but that's also cool too.

1:37.5

Yeah, we introduced a lot of people to the magic of Tony Jha tonight.

1:43.4

But for unfortunate reasons, we'll talk about the magic somewhat

1:47.1

short-lived. So it's a Muhammad Ali situation where the man's prime got stolen from us. We'll talk

1:53.4

about that. Jim, you introduced me to the protector, so I'd like to let you introduce the protector

2:00.4

to everyone. How do I'd like to let you introduce the protector to everyone.

2:02.6

How do I do that?

2:04.1

You introduced it.

2:05.3

It's Tony Jaw film.

2:06.1

Tony Jha has done very few films, and none that most people would be familiar with.

2:11.3

But he started with, he kind of broke out with a movie called Unbock, which is the one right

2:15.1

before this.

2:17.4

And I saw that one, and I was blown away because I'd never seen like a Muay

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