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The Dave Chang Show

The Bad Movie Club: ‘Best of the Best’ (1989) With Mina Kimes

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.88.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dave and Chris Ying are joined by ESPN’s Mina Kimes to discuss the truly nonsensical martial arts film ‘Best of the Best,’ starring Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, and Sally Kirkland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer podcast network, presented by Major

0:14.8

Dome Media.

0:15.8

Thank you to Yolotango as always.

0:18.6

Hope everyone is staying safe, wearing masks, and watching best of the best.

0:27.2

The movie that came out in 1989.

0:31.0

We have talked about it quite a bit on this podcast because it was one of the movies that

0:36.4

I really did grow up watching.

0:37.9

I was probably what, 11 years old when it came out, I remember going to Aeros video store

0:42.5

in Vienna, Virginia.

0:44.4

And I think it was the most rented video in my youth.

0:49.0

And I forced the great Mina Kimes of ESPN and Chris Hing to watch it.

0:55.6

And we did a bad movie club review.

0:58.5

And I'm having Bill Simmons voice haunt me time and time again because he suggested we

1:05.0

never do this only as a 15 minute segment, not as a full podcast, but a stubborn as I

1:12.6

am.

1:13.6

We've continued to do so.

1:15.4

And listen, you should listen to this podcast before you watch the movie.

1:20.0

If you haven't watched it already, you can buy it online.

1:22.6

I know it's on iTunes.

1:25.3

You can rent it for like, I think like two bucks or something like that.

1:29.2

But it's a movie about karate technically, Takwondo, and we'll get into that in a second.

1:35.1

And it's something that I did a lot of as a kid.

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