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The Dave Chang Show

The Bad Movie Club Redux: ‘Best of the Best’ (1989), With Teddy Zee

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.88.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Dave and Chris Ying invite film producer Teddy Zee to tell them everything they got wrong about the 1989 martial arts film. 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, and I work presented by Major

0:15.1

Domo Media, thanks to Yolotango as always.

0:18.8

I still after all these times saying that intro line have to really think about what the

0:23.6

fuck I'm saying, because it's never easy doing that.

0:27.6

You'd be surprised how many times I messed that up, but I am joined with my quarantine

0:33.2

partner, Chris Ying.

0:36.2

And how do we explain this podcast?

0:41.4

Well, we did a podcast a, what, like a week ago, two weeks ago with, with Mina Kimes.

0:46.7

Mina doesn't even know anything about this, by the way.

0:50.5

Mina, you know, I know Mina's on holiday or vacation.

0:53.2

And I want to leave her alone and I have no doubt that Mina would agree with everything

0:57.8

that we are talking about on this podcast.

1:00.2

But the day of the release of Best of the Best, which was a couple weeks ago, we got a scathing

1:09.4

email from producer Chinese American extraordinaire Teddy Z, who I've met on several occasions,

1:18.2

who sort of, this like, very important figure.

1:22.1

Every time I met him, they're like, that guy is important.

1:24.5

The one time I ever had lunch with Teddy Z, he showed up with Joan Chen.

1:30.5

And I was like, what the hell's going on here?

1:33.0

So he's legit for sure.

1:34.8

I mean, I was at a party once.

1:36.6

I don't know, this was years, like 10 years ago or so.

1:40.0

And it was very clear to me, he's the guy that everyone, it was like a bunch of Asian

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