The Karate Kid

Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, James and Jon are covering The Karate Kid (2010), directed by Harald Zwart, screenplay by Christopher Murphey, story by Robert Mark Kamen, starring Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, and Taraji P. Henson. Together, they discuss their personal experiences with karate, the way the Karate Kid franchise resembles the Child's Play franchise's continuity, whether or not John Voight's going to save Hollywood, where this film fell in the trajectory of Jaden Smith's acting career, Bray's rollercoaster reaction to the film, why Jada Pinkett Smith didn't play the Taraji P. Henson role, sponge metaphors, just how brutal these twelve-year-olds get with each other, off-shoring of the auto industry, and much, much more!

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0:00.0	Have you ever taken martial arts?
0:09.2	I was in a taekwondo class for maybe three or four weeks when I was in
0:14.8	elementary school.
0:18.0	And three or four weeks?
0:19.0	Is it once a week?
0:20.5	It was once a week. So three or four weeks. Is it once a week? It was once a week.
0:21.6	So three or four classes?
0:24.7	Three or four classes in elementary school.
0:28.3	I left because one class, I was a little tired in the class.
0:33.6	I can't remember why.
0:34.6	Like maybe, you know, we just came out of school or whatever.
0:37.5	And the instructor was like, I can't remember why. Like, maybe, you know, we just came out of school or whatever. And the instructor was like, I thought you said you weren't a baby.
0:44.8	I was like, I don't like this man.
0:46.6	Get this man out of my face.
0:48.5	Yes.
0:48.9	I ain't coming back.
0:49.5	I ain't doing this.
0:50.5	I ain't doing this.
0:52.3	You should understand that I'm tired today. I'm doing
0:55.3	the work. I'm up here. I'm still standing here. I ain't sitting down. Am I sitting down? No.
1:00.4	Do you know what I mean? It was like, it was like he was just getting, he was assaulting my,
1:04.9	he was assaulting my existence. He wasn't, he wasn't, it wasn't like I was like, I can't and I don't want to. I was actively trying to do it.
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