So have you ever seen one of those old school kung fu movies?

Maybe you were into those or maybe caught a scene while you were channel surfing, but

either way you probably remember that they weren't filmed in English, which meant that

you saw them with really bad dubbing.

That dubbing used to be a staple of a certain kind of foreign film.

You know, the ones with the characters finish their sentences and their mouths keep moving.

But now I'm watching stuff that's dubbed and it's good, and I'm watching it on Netflix,

which takes dubbing really, really seriously.

It's a big part of their plan for the future.

So right now I'm going to call my colleague and co-host Ronnie Mola, who's going to help

us understand why that is.

Ronnie!

Hey, how are you doing?

It's awesome to see you.

It's weird to see you not in a podcast, Judy.

This is my new podcast studio.

It is my home.

So Ronnie, before you had a baby and before a pandemic stopped everything on one of our reporting

trips, we went to LA and you got to sit in on a Netflix dubbing session.

Yeah, I took like a little side trip and went to Culver City.

I went to see a dubbing session of Lakota Zanada, which is a crime thriller that was originally

in Spanish language.

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