Hello pod, I'm Chris Eward and welcome to the first but hopefully not the last in a brand

new series on the Ampour podcast, in which we celebrate the career of some of our favourite

film folk and listen back to our podcast encounters with them over the years. Ah, I'll

let's deep bath. The first in this occasional series is the great Karl Weathers, the man

who is Apollo Creed, the man who is Action Jackson, the man who is Dylan new son of a bitch,

the man who is Jubs Peterson and of course the man who is grief carga in the Mandalorian

and joining me to discuss Karl's career are three colleagues of such lethal cunning assembled

here today because some damn fool said they were the best. They are James Dyer. Hello Chris.

Hello James. This is a virtual mid air high five. They are Helena Harrah. Oh my God, your muscles

are all straining in that high five. It's crazy man. I've oiled myself up for this. I've

been preparing my whole life for this arm wrestle and they are of course empires editor

and chief bow your heads, a firt your eyes. It is the one the only Terry White.

It's all the damn toe. Oh my God. Hi.

Hi. Quick reminder that Terry is the editor and chief of Empire and is a responsible human being.

Yes. And it's mainly here to filibuster about Apollo Creed.

Yes. Well, you know, we've talked about this before Chris. I've seen Rocky for over 300 times.

So I knew my knowledge, my deep knowledge would come in handy one day. Here we are.

Here we are. Here we are. Long last. First though before Terry does because Terry's got to run

because Terry is obviously very, very important person that has to run for a very important

meeting soon. So Terry will filibuster about Apollo Creed in a few minutes. But first,

we're going to hear from Carl himself. He's been on the Empire podcast twice in our story

of history. And we're basically going to run excerpts from those interviews now for you to listen to.

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