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I'm your host, Mike White.

On this episode, I am talking to Grady Hendrix and Chris Pogiali about their book,

These Fists Break Bricks,

how Kung Fu Movie swept America and changed the world. It is available from, it is available from Mondo Books, and I really can't recommend it enough. Check out the interview, and be sure

to pick up a copy at your local bookstore today.

Chris, I want to start with you. You and I've known each other for years and I'm trying to

remember how did we know each other? How did we get acquainted? I wrote to you when you were doing

cashiers de Cinemart and asked if we're taking submissions and you were. So I sent in one article and I think we traded.

We didn't trade zines because I wasn't doing a zine at the time.

I think I subscribed at one point and I also like beyond one article that I submitted.

And then I contributed to your, I think you had a Kickstarter

when you did the Impossible Funky book. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Also, we talked at one point because

you were doing an article on Fangoria. And so we talked on the phone about that because I had

I had written for Fangoria right before they stopped paying people. Right, right.

I think I got like the last check.

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