Do Go On - 223 - Bruce Lee

Episode Date: January 29, 2020

Bruce Lee is the most famous martial artist of all time and had a profound influence on cinema, martial arts and pop culture. Born in America but raised in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee dreamt of making it big in Hollywood and after years of set backs this writer, director, choreographer, actor and founder of his own martial arts/philiosphy Jeet Kune Do looked poised to take on the world... that is before tragedy struck.We are back for another run of live shows in MELBOURNE for the International Comedy Festival (March 28, April 4,11,18)! Grab tickets (including a season pass which gets you 4 tix for the price of 3) here: https://www.trybooking.com/BHUVCMatt is performing his new stand up show MONKEY HOUSE in BRISBANE March 10-15 and MELBOURNE March 26-April 19, find more details/get tickets here: https://mattstewartcomedy.com/gigs (use the code 'podcast' for a special listener discount)Jess is performing her debut solo stand up show ALMOST in MELBOURNE March 26-April 19, get tickets here: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2020/shows/almostSupport the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodSubmit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/Submit-a-TopicTwitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasREFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:Bruce Lee, Pierre Burton Interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze_hfMw8JFgBruce Lee screen test and audition:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2BKNDc48N4Physics of the One Inch Punch:https://www.scmp.com/article/1004216/physics-behind-bruce-lees-one-inch-punchBruce Lee Biography Documentary:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLAuWb46Eykhttps://bruceleefoundation.org/jeetkunedo/

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.

Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates.

Hey team, Dave here at the top of the episode to tell you that we are doing four live podcasts as a part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. And they are on sale now for Saturdays at 2pm, 2.m. that is, at the European Beer Cafe, fantastic venue starting March 28th all the way until April 18th. So four Saturday afternoons. Tickets are flying out the door as we speak. You can buy season past. You can come to all four shows for the price of three. But those are limited. And we've already sold a bunch of them to the Patreon supporter.

So get on that if you are interested. Also, I should tell you that Jess and Matt have solo shows, stand-up shows. They're doing for three and a half weeks at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. And Matt is also doing a show in Brisbane. When's that, Matt? Brisbane Comedy Festival from the 10th of the 15th at the Powerhouse Hotel. No, not Hotel, we call it? Just the Powerhouse.

And what month are we talking? 10 to the 15th of? March. March. Fantastic. Otherwise known as the holy month. Absolutely agreed. It is now.

Thank you. And you can get a ticket via the links in the description of this episode for all of the shows I've just mentioned. Come to all of the shows. Yeah. If you don't, I will find you. Yeah. What's the point of a holy month if you're not there? Yeah.

All right, here we go. Hello and welcome to another episode. of Do Go On. My name is Dave Wonki and I'm sitting here with Matt Stewart and you guessed it. It's Jess Perkins. Oh, I was wondering who that was in the Hessian sack. Yeah, it's me. But you guessed it, right? I had a funny feeling. I wasn't going to put all my money on the table. What gave you the idea that it was me though? Was there any sort of clues? Yes. What were they? I was sort of a zest for life emanating out of the sack. Oh, yeah. Like a vibe. Yeah. It wasn't because I'd sprays.

painted the name Jess Perkins on the side of the sack. I thought that was to throw me off, but the double bluff didn't work. I said, hey Matt, it's me under this sack. Yeah, and I said, all right, mystery voice. I like your vibe. After all these years. Even though I don't know who you are. It doesn't know my voice or my name.

I'll never know. It's great to have you here, a sack lady. I'm not sure if Matt can read. I've seen no evidence of him reading. Hmm. Well, I agree to disagree. How are we, team? I'm pretty good.

Hey, I'm good too, Jess, but I think that you might be a little bit tired. Are you rushed off your feet at the moment with, we put a new t-shirt on sale. We were just talking about how it's lovely that people are buying them. And me and Matt love that, but you don't like it as much because you're the one who has to send them out. I absolutely love it. I just get stressed because I'm like, oh, God, you know, because I think that I have to be like a proper online store that ships it out the same day and it's just physically not possible but I'm doing my very best and it's great the people are buying buying a t-shirts and there's pins up there now as well

yeah you're selling you also write a a personalized letter don't you yeah I do is it from the heart thinking about just getting a stamp to be honest a whole letter on a stamp to whom it may concern it's a really big stamp yeah no I write a little note it's a lot of fun but yeah so You can head over to our merch. So on our website, you can click on Shop, I think. Yeah, that's funny. The shirts are yellow and all grey. Oh, two of my favourite colours.

Me too, actually. Yeah. The yellow one pops. We've got like five T-shirt options up at the moment and the pins. And, you know, more stuff will come eventually. So it's all good. Oh, shit. Yeah, there's a lot of good stuff.

It is happening. Yeah. I always wanted to get into retail. I mean, you're not, though, really are you? I'm retail adjacent. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah. We know someone who works in retail.

This makes it sound like you do all the work. We all have roles. No, no, no, yeah. That's just my only job. My role is to be retail adjacent. Yeah, and he's nailing it. And you fulfill that role. Matt, you could do a little better.

All right. Be more adjacent. Okay. There we go. At our live show, it's Jess, you are in charge of the merch as well there. And you set up a fantastic shop. It's always ignored all these things. And sometimes I have to attempt to help.

And I often feel like I'm the work experience student. I don't do a great job. But I'm, you know, I've never worked in retail. I'm having fun. You're doing a great job. Role playing, I call it. It's really not that hard, you know? Most people figure out, they just look at them and they figure out what they want and then you just take the money.

It's quite, it's pretty good. There's no upselling with this one, you know. But there's a lot of people going, what size do you think I am? And I don't know. Anyway, a array of sizes. Appreciate all the work you do there, Bob. Now, what we do here on this show is we sell merchandise because we do a podcast. And let me tell you what the podcast usually entails.

The three of us take it in turns to a report on a topic, usually suggested by one of the listeners. And this week it is my turn to do a report. Yay! Yeah, all right, yeah. I pause for a bit there. Didn't get anything, so all right. Yeah, we like it best because then Matt and I get to unleash.

And it's always best when Matt and I work as a team. When we work against each other, it's bad. People don't like that. Well, I don't like it. I don't like it. I hate it when we fight, Matt. I'm a team player. I hate it when we fight.

I mean, you can still work as a team even when... It's not me reporting, couldn't you? I mean, we could. Well, we've never figured out how. Yeah, God. Anyway, this is your first report in the studio for 2020, I reckon, Dave. Holy cow. Is that true?

I believe so, yes. I believe so also. Confirmed. The last one we recorded, that wasn't live for you, was in our hotel in London about the volcano. We had lost our minds, too. We were so tired. Yeah, it's got great feedback from that episode, though. Oh, an incredible story.

Mounts and Hellens is what we're talking about. if you haven't heard it. Yeah. Fascinating. Fascinating story, but yes, you're right. We were delirious at the end of our tour by that stage. Anyway, enough reminiscing. It was a weird...

No. No, not enough reminiscing, Matt. No, remember that living room we were in when we recorded? And it was a weird living room because it had a desk in the middle of the room that faced the couch. Yes. Like, it wasn't facing the wall or anything. It was in the middle of the room facing the rest of the room. But it also had a lamp on the, like a desk lamp on the floor.

Yeah. And like so much room to put a TV on a piece of furniture. but it was just sort of hanging off the wall a bit. I think it was an alien trying to look like they had a house. Yeah. Yeah, this is a humans. I mean, us humans decorate our apartments. But a desk in the middle.

So, you know, someone can hold meetings. Why would an alien rent out their apartment? Ah, good question. But what? Aliens don't need money, Dave. They don't need income? Well, don't you think they're watching us through the one-sided mirror? Well, there was actually a room that we wanted.

when I let it go in. Yeah, they're observing us. That's terrifying. Yep. My mattress was made in 1911, and it was not comfortable. You think it's terrifying that aliens observed us? I think that's exciting. Oh, what a thrill.

The truth is out there. I thought you're an X-Files head. I am. I want to believe. But you're more of a body. Gillian Welch more than a buddy David DeKov. Gillian Anderson. Any who.

Oh, on primates last week, I forgot Darth Vader's name and called him Darth Trooper. That's embarrassing. Oh, that's adorable. One of his early names. I'm like, wait, this is going to sound wrong. Is this wrong? Darth Trooper. That's wrong, isn't it?

Anyway, yeah, we talked about the Mandalorian. Real good nerd fest from some absolute Star Wars officinados. You got the whole gang there, Darth Trooper. C3. He said, you know, all the rest. Yeah. I haven't watched it, but boy, am I enjoying the Baby Yoda memes. Oh, yeah.

Oh, my God, he's so cute. When you watch the show, it doesn't let you down, Baby Yoda. Fuck, yeah. I thought I was, the expectations were so high and met him. Anyway. That's how I imagine people see me. Am I that cute? Yes.

Thank you. Enough of the reminiscing. Here we go. My question to get us on the topic this week is who is. Oh, a person. The person. Yes, person. Donald Glover.

It is. Jess, you want to have an early guess as well? It'd be so sweet if you got it. Donald Duck. Is it a Donald? Don Bradman. Don Trump. Donald Trump.

Imagine if he went by Don or Donnie. Don't Trump. Don't know. Donny Trump. Sorry, finish the question. Who is arguably the most famous martial artist in history? Bruce Lee. It's Bruce Lee.

I was going to say Jet Lee. I've decided to exclusively do biographies of people with a surname Lee from now. Christopher Lee last month. Wow. Bruce Lee this month. Right. And then who? Leamo.

Lee Sales. I call her Sales Lee. Why can I think of another Lee? Yeah. I mean. Brett Lee. There you go. Christmas Lee.

Christmas. Christmas. This topic was voted for by our Patreon supporters. I put up three biographies of three very. famous people and they voted for Bruce Lee. Awesome. Bruce is such a... Unanimously.

Don't you fucking lie to us? It was a high percentage. I'll catch your lie. But thanks everyone voted on Bruce Lee. Do you guys know much about the man? I mean, I know who Bruce Lee is, but I... Do you know who he isn't? Ah.

That's what we're here to talk about. That's the ultimate question. That'd be the easy one to answer who he isn't. Bruce Lee is not Brett Lee. Okay. I don't know him super well. I know he died young and he... Spoilers.

Spoilers. And he was portrayed, he was beaten up by Brad Pitt in that Quentin Tarantino movie last year. Yes, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and not a very favorable portrayal that one. He came across as very, very arrogant. Yeah. And then Brad Pitt kicked the shit out of him. Yeah, I didn't see it going down that way. Who played him?

Not sure. Hmm. There you go. Yeah, I can't say I know a lot about his actual. Life. One inch punch. Oh, we're going to talk about that. Are you trying to look up who playing him? Oh, Mike Mo.

Ah, yes. Mike Mo, great name. Ah, yes, Mike Moe. Oh, yes. But he was also Raiu in the web series, Street Fighter Assassin's Fist. Yeah, great. Assassin's Fist.

He's a Korean guy, and he plays Triton in the television series Marvel's Inhumans. Never heard of that. Death by Fist. There you go. Anyway, this topic was suggested by a few people. Dustin in British Columbia, Canada, Chris Chan in London, Aaron Wolf and Daytona Beach, Callum J. Burgess Wiley.

Oh, what a name. All of these names. In Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. And in the old, old, old hat, it was suggested once before we went digital, and people would just basically tell us suggestions we'd write them down. Gary Adair. Great to have a Gary suggesting. Great to have a Gary.

Hopefully Gary's still with us. Yeah, many years later. I meant listening, but. I guess I mean it in both ways. It wasn't decades ago. Over the weekend, I went away with some friends. And there's supposed to be four of us going. And then one had to bail because she had some family stuff on.

So we get down to check into our motel. And the lady checking us in was like, and there were four of you? And there's only three of us standing in front of her. And I just said, yes, she's no longer with us. That's what came out. And then my friends were just like desperately scrambling. like she just she just couldn't cut she's had stuff on this weekend and it definitely looked

like we'd killed her oh no she's in the boot she's no longer with us thank you so much for bringing it up we are mourning her and then you get a bottle of champagne in the room wait that's a bit more of a celebratory would you like the honeymoon sweet what's a what's a sad drink oh reasling of course oh i'm t marya yeah bloody mary stop bringing down the mood All right, Bruce Lee. Quite an amazing life. I'm hopefully going to recount with justice here. Bruce Lee was born on November 27th, 1940,

at the Jackson Street Hospital in San Francisco's Chinatown. According to the Chinese zodiac, he was born in the year of the dragon in the hour of the dragon. Oh. Some would say that this was a sign of his future greatness, so quite a specific time to be born. The dragon is the mightiest of the sign. and dragons reportedly show such character traits as dominance, ambition, authority, dignity and capacity.

Dragons prefer to live by their own rules and if left on their own are usually successful. What does capacity mean? It sounds like a stadium, you know? Well, I mean, one of the things you talk about in a stadium is its capacity. Yes, that's definitely true. Or a jug. And also, it's ambition. Oh, that's an ambitious stadium.

If left alone, they can do well. successful, yeah. And he was a bit of a lone wolf at times, Bruce Lee. I think I was born in the Year of the Horse. Yes, I was about to say Jess and I, you're at the horse. Matt, you are a pig. I thought, I knew I was one of the ones that didn't sound good. Pig or rat.

Rat pig. Yeah, horses are mighty. So the dragon is the mightiest of the signs, the pig, the least mighty of the sign. That feels right. I like pigs, though. Big pig head. Yeah, you don't have capacity, though. Oh, what have I got?

What do pigs have? Curly little tails. Yeah. Little snouts. They're very smart. They produce lots of different kinds of meat. Like, what is there, some sort of a magical animal? Yeah, you don't know off the top of your head what a pig can do.

No, I'm afraid I do not. Smarter than a dog. Pigs? Supposedly. I suppose it depends what kind of dog, doesn't it? I mean, could you teach a pig to roll over? Probably actually. Yeah.

What about could you teach a dog to herd shan? I'm probably actually. I teach a pig like babe. Yeah. Oh, I can't teach a dog to sing. Damn it. Pigs have got it all. Bruce was the fourth child in his family and was given the name Jun Fan at birth.

But a nurse at the Jackson Street Hospital gave the little baby the name Bruce. What do you mean a nurse gave him a name? I couldn't find any more, so many websites and different things just said, this lady gave him this name. And I was thinking, is it a nickname? Or is she just telling the parents? I can't remember June Fan. This kid's called Bruce. I'm going to just call him Bruce.

I'm writing down Bruce. You're saying Jun Fan, I'm writing down Bruce. Bruce? She sounds racist. I mean, Jun, that's nothing like Bruce. I've never heard that name. But Bruce, I've heard of. Was this an outback hospital?

But it was in Chinatown too. And there are a family from Hong Kong. You think that there would be at least some understanding of the name Jun Fan. But the lady, for whatever, called in Bruce, a name that the baby would begin to use when it grew up in secondary school. when studying English. So that's when Bruce started becoming called Bruce. I'll refer to him as Bruce throughout,

but it was only these teen years that his family and acquaintances were calling Bruce. Bruce's mother was Grace Ho, and his father was Lee Hoy Chun, a successful Cantonese opera singer and actor. Oh, wow. So baby Bruce had been born in San Francisco whilst his father was on tour with the opera there, and when Bruce was just three months old,

the family moved back to Hong Kong, where Bruce would stay for the first 18 years of his life. Oh, because I was thinking, thinking, when you said he was born San Francisco, I was like, what? I had no idea. Yeah, so dad's on tour, family goes along, pregnant mom, gives birth. He gets called Bruce by a lady who doesn't want to say Jun Fan, then after three months they leave. But they remember that name. Yeah. Remember Bruce.

That's a weird naming origin. If you're heavily pregnant, maybe don't go on the tour. Just stay at home, I reckon. Or they may have been there for many months. I'm not sure. So maybe even, like, not have been pregnant when they, Yeah, or maybe not known about it. Yeah, I'm not sure. Are you mum's spaining right now, Jess? Maybe she could have done whatever she wanted to.

Maybe she was a powerful woman who believed in herself. That is actually. She was strong, she was independent. That is absolutely true. I just sort of think if I'm ever pregnant, I'm just not, I'm not going to do anything. Honestly, I'm starting to get sick of being the only real feminists on this show. Yeah, I'm sick of it too. You're right, the episodes are best when you two get along.

So he lived in Hong Kong. During the war, Hong Kong was occupied by the Japanese and things weren't easy for the city, but Bruce's dad kept his acting work. Always employed. Bruce's father also got his son, Bruce, many child acting jobs, starting at just three months old when in 1941, Bruce served as the stand-in for an American baby

in the film Golden Gate Girl. Okay. He didn't have any lines. Interesting. Three months, no lines. He refused to remember them. professional this kid. Yeah, lame.

A real Bruce, if you know what I mean. So, but at three months they're probably playing a newborn, you know? You know when they hand a newborn baby to parents? And they've got a beard. Yeah, it's like, that's a fucking toddler. Like, who are you fooling? But then again, probably don't take a newborn off parents. Take a three month old.

Right. With a beard. With a beard, preferably. Who knows? Who knows what sort of disaster that baby left behind in the delivery. Yeah. I'm so punch. Imagine Bruce punched his way out.

One inch punch. That's where he learned it. He didn't have a lot of room in there. Bruce's father saw his son as a natural in front of the camera and throughout his childhood Bruce appeared in 20 films. Wow. He's a child actor. I did not know that.

No idea. A boisterous young lad, Bruce often got into fights as an adolescent. He fought against local gangs that dominated the city of Hong Kong and also against British students who taunted him over his Chinese background. Oh. In Hong Kong. In Hong Kong.

Because remember it was occupied by the British. Yeah, but I think there was a few Chinese people were knocking about as well, weren't there? So even then, white people are going, and these guys. When is, this is in the 50s? Yeah, when he's growing up here. In Hong Kong.

And he's getting teased for being Chinese. That is wild. It's amazing. Yeah. Amazing how quickly. things change. And it was a... I don't think, like for instance... I mean, I don't know, but

I don't think that would have happened today if Bruce Lee was holding his fist one inch from my face. I don't think I'd be given him any grief at all. No, me either. Maybe he wasn't, maybe he wasn't in fissing position. You got to be in fisting position. First position. Always be ready.

Always be ready to fist. He was a real philosopher I was discovering. That was one of his key phrases. This is a quote from Bruce Lee. talking to you Black Belt magazine years later about his childhood. Sounds a little bit violent. Quote, as a kid in Hong Kong, I was a punk and went looking for fights. We used chains and pens with knives hidden inside.

Then one day, I began to wonder what would happen if I didn't have my gang behind me when I got into a fight? Hmm. And then what do you go from there? That's a good amount of self-awareness of going, I'm only tough because there are some much tougher people standing behind me. So he got a bigger knife, I reckon. That's not a knife. That's not a pen knife. He got a bigger pen.

He's always over the novelty pen. His pen's a foot long. No, officer, it's just a pen. Starts going around with a quill. His parents began to worry for him as he was constantly fighting, especially after he fought and won a fight against the son of a local triad gang member. And his parents decided that Lee should learn some Chinese martial arts for self-defense. That was after he won a fight.

Yeah. They thought, you need some training here. win better. You've got to look cooler when you're winning, all right? Yeah. At the age of 13, Bruce was introduced to a master teacher of the Wing Chun style of Kung Fu, also known as Kung Fu in the West.

This teacher would have a profound impact on the young Lee and has one of the best names I've ever come across in the report. So prepare yourself, his name, Master Yip Man. Yip Man. Yip Man. And apparently he is very influential. into a very famous man in the Wing Chun style of Kung Fu. Yip man.

Yip. Master Yip man. I love it. Lee was instructed in the ways of discipline and self-control. Yip man. Love it. Yip man would describe part of Wing Chun as being able to maintain one's flexibility and softness all whilst keeping the strength to fight back, much like the flexible nature of bamboo.

Be the bamboo. Got a lot to learn from, you know, People don't look at trees and think, how do I be more like that? I don't think we get enough lessons out of our trees. Look at that gum over there. Look at it standing there up tall. I'm going to be more like that. I'm going to grow real tall.

I'm going to grow 20 metres into the sky. I'm going to be the biggest boy that's ever been. I'm going to let squirrels live inside me. I'm going to have a little hollowed out area and an owl can be in there. Hoot, hoot. That's going to be in my belly button. Yeah, I don't think we should do more of that. We should do more.

I didn't realize you had a copy of Yip Man's book. Yeah, yeah, I'm big Yip Man fan. Have you ever seen Matt's belly button? There's a little owl in there. I've never seen your belly button. Yeah, there's a little owl. A little owl. Really, yeah, a little guy.

You are 20 metres tall. I'm 20 meters tall. I never thought about. Ever trying to see me trying to get in under a doorway? I have to crouch. You wonder why that is? No. I bonged my head otherwise.

You bonk it, Dave. Makes a beautiful sound. It's good to be self-aware like brislet. Timber on timber sounds beautiful, but, you know, that's on the point. It hurts. I've got roots. Yeah. That's how I'm like a tree.

And I know how to use them. You try pushing me over, you can't. You can't. Because I'm so rooted into the ground. My beautiful balance. My, go on, try. Try and push me. Didn't ever move.

No. Oh, she's rooted. This one's rooted This one's rooted Mate you are rooted I shed my leaves in autumn I just drop them all on the ground Drop them for you to play in

I go all naked and free for a bit Tasteful eat Taste for noon It looks like I'm dead for three months of a year It's beautiful We should be more like treats I love the seasons How much do you hate us Dave?

No I'm evergreen I'm pretty cool with this. Yeah. We're more deciduous. Yeah, I'm a deciduous tree. Is that right of me? Isn't that right? Yeah.

Dave, too, go on. Just be like the bamboo. All right. Be like the bamboo and move the fuck on. Lee was a great student, trained very hard under Master Yip Man. But after a year, his classmates found out

that Bruce Lee had mixed-raced heritage. His mother being a Eurasian woman, and many of them refused to continue to fight and train with him. Sadly, Bruce Lee would experience a lot of racism throughout his life from both Asian and white societies. Oh, I didn't know that about him.

I don't really see race. Huh. But yeah, you do see that a little bit in like in film and television and stuff and people are not feeling accepted from either side. So they're kind of like, they feel quite displaced. So like, where do I belong then? I imagine that was similar for my Nana, who was both Swiss and Italian. Oh, my goodness.

Straddling each side of the border without any real home of her own. Yeah. And me, it's hard. They're famously brutal, though, Suez. My mum grew up in the country and my dad in the city. Where do I belong somewhere in between? Probably. By the motorway out of suburbs.

The outer urban edge. 16th of an acre. Your neighbour right there. Yeah. In the same house as you. Yeah. That's where you belong. Oh, in an apartment is what you mean.

Oh. Okay. So he's not fitting in with the Asian and all white societies in a lot of ways. However, Lee continued to prane privately with Yip Man, who was happy to help him. Did you just say praying privately? You said pray and privately. Happy to let's not make a big deal out of it. Yeah, let's not make a big deal.

Let's not sing about it. I think that was fun. I think it's fun and it's a shame that this has been edited out by dad. Let me have another go of that. However, Lee, continue to preying trivary. I knew you would do that. I do it. I did it.

I knew it and I still loved it. I was like, come on, Dave. It's so funny, my brain is like, no, I said it perfectly. Both times. Imagine if you were both just lying to me. It would be very funny. So he's preening trivately with Yip Yip Man. And apparently not many people actually got to prane privately one-on-one with Yip Man.

Right. Not many people got trivet praining. No, my God. You were lucky if you were trained in the privates by Yip Man. Yip Mano. And also they manored with another future kung fu-lang legend, Wong Shun Long. I'm not familiar with the name, but apparently in the circles, you know Wang Shunun. Right.

So he's learning a lot from the Master Yip Man, as well as being trained to be a killing machine. Bruce was also a great dancer, which helped his footwork with his fighting, and he also won the 1958 Char-Cha Championship. Chah-Chah-Championship. Wow. That is fantastic. He was a fantastic. He was the 1958 cha-cha champion. It sounds like you have a stutter.

Cha-cha-champ. Yes, I am the cha-cha champion. Okay, of what? I'm the cha-cha champion. But what are you the champion of? The cha-cha champion, look, I would never point at a stutter, but what are he the champion of? The cha-cha. Yeah.

Champion. He really dedicated himself to dancing, which is demonstrated by the fact that he kept a notebook in which he had noted 100 and different, 108 different cha-cha steps. Oh, yeah. Who would have known there's that many? Well, there's the cha. Of course, then there's the cha-cha-cha. There's the cha-cha-cha-cha.

And then you can, you know, any sort of combination. You've got the cha-cha-cha-cha. The cha-cha-cha-cha-cha. Cha-cha-cha. How are you noting down dance moves? You know, how do you write that down? Well, char. Sorry, yeah.

Cha-cha. Now I get it. First position. Ready to fist. Yep. But basically what I'm trying to say is when it came to Bruce, if you got into something he was all in, he was a dedicated man, even when it was char charing.

I respect that because I'm a bit like half in, you know. I got a lot of ideas and not a lot of follow through. Yeah, you've only got 58 char char charmers. Yeah, that's pretty lame. Bruce also won an inter-school boxing championship against an English student in which the marquee of Queensbury rules were followed, and Bruce didn't use any of his kicks. So even when he was limited to punt,

punches, he's still won the fight. Wow. So he's a good dancer, he's a good fighter. He's a great lover. Oh. He'll discover. I thought he's a teenager. Well, Jesus.

Teenagers can love too. No, they can't. With all their heart. Teenagers are not capable of love. What? No, they're not. When do you learn love? When do you learn love?

The 21st birthday place. I cannot believe I have to explain this to you. Matt's still wondering. I'm just waiting for my time. When will I learn love? Mate, if you haven't already, it's too late for you. I'm over the heart of a tree. Cut me open, lots of rings.

Very old. And I steal rings. And I store them in my tummy. The owl galsy. You've been swallowing rings again? And the little owl looks, he protects them. And if somebody's trying to get the rings, he goes, who, who, who, and I know they're there. He's a lookout owl.

Look out, owl. He's a lookout owl. I'm so tired. Is he wearing the rings? Or does he put it in his stomach as well? He stands in front of the rings and he looks at him. Oh, okay. Because he can, because his head swivels.

He can stand in front of him and still see him behind him. Yeah, it's pretty sick. One of the cool things about being an owl. One of many. 270 degrees. As well as having ears on different sort of sides of their heads or something. Apparently, they're actually a bit dumb. No.

Well, I got the wrong guy looking after him. A ring? No, I mean, he could still swivel his head around, so he's still a good lookout. But, like, you know, if you want to feel like, Philosophical advice. Don't go to an owl. Sure. Yeah, security guards aren't always necessarily the most.

Philosophical? Philosophically intelligent people. Not necessarily. But they could be. They could be. I'm not saying I can't. A lot of our best listeners are security guards. And shout out to them.

Wasn't Descartes a security guard? Yes. Yes. At the nighttime he was, obviously in the day, he was cart. Something like that. Is that what he said? I guard there for you. Can you edit that bit out?

To make me seem smarter? Well, or less dumb. Or less shit. Sadly for Bruce's parents, their son's streetfighting continued and got more and more violent as he got older. One day when Bruce was removing his jacket, a man punched him in the face and gave him a swollen black heart. That is absolutely not funny, but it's a little bit funny.

To imagine, as you're removing your jacket. Bang. Bruce was incensed and chased the man down. breaking his arm, breaking a tooth, and then knocking him out in the process. Okay. So you got revenge. Yeah. I don't think you're ever more vulnerable than when you're taking off a jacket.

Yeah. Was he driving at the time? Because that is tough. Oh my God. That is so. And like, you're trying to do it at the red light and you're like, come on, come on, come on, come on. That is hard. And you've got the seatbelt off and you're like, God, if I die now, how awful with that?

And then, all of a sudden, you pass and your punches you in the face. You know what stresses me? You know how every now and then you'll be stopped at a red light and the driver of the car in front of you. will get out and like, I don't know, maybe the boots slightly open or something. But when they get out of the car, it starts to stress me out. I'm like, hurry! Oh, I think that you'll worry they're coming to kill you. Oh, no, I don't generally worry.

Nearly always, I'd say people with, they feel like they got a lot of time. Yeah. Everything slows down. I know, but they're not in a hurry. It stresses me out. And even if they're just like, oh, I just need to open and then reclose the boot and get back in the car, I've definitely got time. But I'm still, I don't know what they're doing.

Yeah. Could take ages. When they go into the milk bar. Get some milk A bag of smokes You are taking the piss You see them take their keys out Throw it down a drain

Walk away This is stressing me out You're running out of time You've only got 15 seconds To retrieve your keys And move your car Because I don't know how to go around you I don't know how

I never left to turn Go around So he copped it in the face And then he broke a guy's arm And knocked him out Sure The police became involved And approached Lee's parents

And warned them That if you got into another fight he'd probably be imprisoned. Oh no. That's bad. Oh, that's bad. So his parents made the tough choice in 1959 to send their 18-year-old

to stay with friends in the USA in the hopes of keeping him out of trouble. I just wanted to say sorry to anybody listening from prison. I know I said that's bad and look, it is, but I'm just saying like, it doesn't make you necessarily a bad person. Do you listen to a podcast in prison?

I don't know. To get the internet? Dave, I don't know, but I don't want to piss anyone off. Give us a tweet if you're in prison. and you have the internet. Honestly, in these bloody Australian prisons, or they probably give them everything. You know,

they're probably lying on a hammock right now from what I've heard. You're probably better off being in prison than out of prison the way they look after them these days. Yeah, I don't have a PlayStation 4 at my house, but they've got one. Sure, they go share it between 400 of them. Still better than me.

Well, I've got nothing. One and 400 chance? I've got none. None of 400 chance. Give me a 400 chance. I'd like a time share in a PS4, seeking 399 other people, just over a year until I get on my turn. Can't wait to play Grand Turismo.

People who complain about how good they have it in prison, they're never putting their hands up going, I want to go to prison. Do a big crime. You can be in there. Yeah, if you think it's so good, off your pup. Money where your mouth is. Murder someone then.

Yeah. Or at least do some fraud. Yeah, come out of... Don't murder anyone. If anyone's thinking about it, do some fraud. A lot of those people often have committed white-collar crime. In like the prisons that have stuff? No, no, the people that are like calling people out.

That's one of the weirdest generalisations I've ever heard. Those people who make that complain, often done white-collar crime. I can see Dave doing some kind of fraud. Oh, absolutely. And I also believe that prisons are a great place. Yeah. So I've just proved my own point there. I've done a lot of white-collar crime.

Just yesterday, Aidan was saying he wouldn't mind going to prison because he reckons it would give him a lot of time to work on his book. Oh, and abs. And I was like, I don't think the food's that good. And he goes, no, the food's all right. I'm not fussy. I was like, well, I do most of the cooking at home, so I can't help but be a little insult.

That is offensive to you. I was like, sorry for trying to get you eat vegetables, you big toddler. Bit of time to work on his book. So just work on your fucking book then. You don't have to do a crime. Just work on your book. Anyway, maybe I need to confiscate someone's put on a PlayStation.

I have a teenager is what I'm. Well, if he goes to prison, you know, where they're like that bloody, just give him a place station. Yeah, but he'll never work on that bloody book. Let me tell you that. 25 years later, he doesn't written a page.

Yeah, but he's like really good at, I don't know, fucking FIFA. No, really good. Yeah, professionally good. Like one of the best. I mean, if you're in prison and you've got a PS4 and you're not the best at FIFA,

what are you doing? Probably working on your book. Yeah. Put that down. The real money is in virtual games. Yeah, yeah. Whatever they're called. I actually love that,

because I'd love to challenge that many people at Mario Kart, because I'm very good at Mario. Really? Is that true? Yeah. Can you do that thing where you go around a corner and you get like extra drift? Yes. I can't do that. I can never do that.

I think I know what you mean. Like it goes orange behind your car and you get like in a little boost just from going around the corner. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Do you go toad? No. Oh, great. So you're not a cheat then.

That's a hack. Hack move. I hate peach. Who do you like? Who's you go? Mario. Oh, I love it. No one really gives Mario the love that he deserves.

I love Mario. He's so cute. Yeah. He's so cute. He's so cute. I like Yoshi. Yeah, Yoshi's all right. What, Bowser?

Well, Luigi goes, Wanoigi. And that's fun. Uh-huh. You know? Yeah. Anyway. Matt, do you know what we're talking about? Yeah, this is like your version of Pong, right?

Yes. Who's your favorite Pong character? Oh, Bat one. Bat one. You would go Bat one. Left Bat one. That's the toad. The toad of the Pong world.

Yeah, yeah. Of course, you always get the ball first. Well, is that all computer? And they never let me play that one. Body Pong one. So he's been told he's going to get a prison. And his parents are like, well, wouldn't he bloody like that? So they decided to send him to America.

And he's about 18. He's 18. He traveled back to his birth city, San Francisco, via a steamship with $100 in his pocket. A steamship. Pocket full of dreams, the other pocket. Speaking of San Francisco, sorry about, excuse. Yeah, sorry about all these detours. But this Monday, Australian time, San Francisco, my boys,

playing off in the Super Bowl. Oh! Against Kansas City. Yes. Potentially for their first win since 1995. But Kansas City hasn't been there for 50 years. Oh, wow. I'm hoping they went to.

Really looking forward to the match. That would be cool. I'm going to a pub to watch it at 9.30 a.m. I've blocked out the day. It's going to be real fun time. Sounds great. You have some. Wings.

Oh, yeah, they'll be, I'm sure there'll be hot wings and ordinary beers. That's the American way. No, America's got great craft beer, et cetera. I thought you meant like it won't be hot beer. Oh, no, it won't be hot beer. Yeah, ordinary, regular beer. Regular beer. Okay, cold.

One regular beer, please. No hot beer. No hot beer. Oh, I see what you're saying, yes. Ordinary beer. I was trying to, I was trying to zing him. But I was, yeah. But I missed it.

I fucked it up. Dave did go on. So you went to San Fran, but he tried. traveled to Seattle where a family friend named Ruby Chow had a restaurant and had promised Bruce a job in a place to say. Nice. By this time, Bruce had left his dreams of being an actor or a dancer back in Hong Kong and wanted to further his education. Okay. He's a child actor for a long time, gets into this fighting stuff.

Goes to America and now he's like, I'm going to try and knuckle down a bit and study. He finished the equivalent of a high school diploma and then enrolled at the University of Washington where he majored in philosophy. Wow. Philosophy in a way of living is a huge part of Kung Fu. So this study for Lee intensified his interest in the philosophical side of the martial arts. A lot of his university writings were tied back to Kung Fu. You didn't even mention he's a Chachar Champion. This guy's done so much stuff so young.

Oh yeah, Chachar champ. It's the second week in a row that our protagonist has studied philosophy. Philosophily at university. Jay from Friends of Rom did as well. Oh, yes, that's right. Well, some have since stated that Bruce Lee's academic record shows that he majored in drama, like the best of us do. All right, man. Oh, hang on.

Either way, he did some performing, he did some philosophizing. He all helped make him the man that he was to become. Did he, because you mentioned earlier when he was learning English. Did he come to go to America and learn English? Or he already spoke English? He already had some English, yeah. Hong Kong, like you were saying, it was an English character. Yeah, yeah.

So he was, and he was in his lifetime, a very fluent English speaker. Yeah, okay, okay. Just double-checking. As well as speaking Cantonese. Right. That was his native language. He kept himself afloat and paid his spills while studying by teaching kung fu. Oh, cool.

He had a small but dedicated circle of friends and students, so at first he taught for free, but they encouraged him to open up his own martial arts school. He named what he taught Junfan Kung Fu, literally Bruce Lee's Kung Fu, but Jun Fan being his birth name. It was at the school that a student caught his eye. The lady named Linda Emery. He asked her to go to the Space Needle in Seattle for dinner one night, and from there the two started dating.

Love it. The Space Needle. She tells the story I've seen an interview. She's like, one day that they were doing their martial arts training, I think that maybe they'd both fallen on the ground, and he said, oh, would you like to go to the Space Needle? And she said, oh, what, the whole group? And he said, no, just you and me.

I love that. So nice. He's like, where everyone here? He's like, no. No, shut up. Stop playing. Why are you whispering in my ear if you want everyone to go? Hey, guys.

I don't. Space needle, Bruce is buying. Oh, shit. Imagine having Bruce Lee is your teacher. And these people at the time, just university friends. So, like, for the rest of your life, once he gets big, you're like, yeah, I studied Kung Fu under Bruce Lee. Yeah.

But at the time, Linda's parents were not pleased with her choice of an Asian partner and doubted that this philosophy student could provide for their daughter. It's so funny now that we know him as one of the most famous people of the 20th century. Yeah, that's so good. But Bruce found out about this doubt from Linda's mother and gay... Punched her in the case. So you dealt with it the other way. He knew how.

Any questions, Mrs. Emery? Don't think I can provide? Provide a punch. and it made him even more determined to work hard to basically prove this lady wrong. Bruce and Linda married the following year in 1964 and Bruce and Linda moved to Oakland, California to open a second martial arts school together.

Bruce was happy to teach anyone that wanted to be taught and was one of the first to teach the secrets of martial arts to people from non-Asian backgrounds. But not everyone was happy with this. Some Chinese martial arts legends thought that Bruce shouldn't be teaching non-Asian people and they started trouble for Bruce Lee. A group of senior martial artists in the area issued Lee an ultimatum

to stop teaching Caucasian people or face the consequences. Namely, he'd have to fight their top guy. Oh, yes. Beat the boss. It's a movie script. It's kind of cool, isn't it? It's like, what are you going to have to? What will I have to do?

You'll have to fight our guy. He's like, cool, I've been training my whole life for this. Bruce never shying away from a challenge or a fight for that matter, chose to take on their top guy. The rules were that if Bruce lost, he would agree to stop teaching non-Chinese students. They're basically playing for pinks. They are playing for pinks here.

The story is contested with only a few witnesses being there and not many people wanting to talk about it publicly. The most commonly told story is that the fight only lasted three minutes and in that time, Lee pinned their top man to the floor and forced him to yell, I give up, I give up. I have heard it or seen it written

about that apparently Bruce was seemed to be taking a lot more seriously than the other guy with a couple of groin shots going straight for the guy's face and the guy's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing? Wait, so why wasn't that guy taking it seriously? That was weird. They were the ones who made the challenge. Yeah, don't put that guy on it.

It looked like that Bruce was ready to kill that man and the other guy was like, man, I'm just happy to show off my sweet moves. Yeah, yeah, let's just spar a little bit, that'll be okay. Well, not my dick, Jesus. Not my dick, my precious dick! Oh, fuck, I've only got one of them. I've got two legs, kick them.

I imagine that's how you are about your dicks. Yeah. Very precious. Shit, not my precious dick. No, no. Not the goods. My precious dick. I don't know why I find that so funny.

But I really do. Hey, it's precious. It's a finite resource. Only one. Only one. Per man. You lose. You lose it.

You don't get a replacement. We're not bloody geckos or whatever. You can regrow their dicks. 50 dicks. 50 dicks in a lifetime. Yeah. The first 47, you're laughing. You get to 47, you think, all right, I've got to start taking it to seriously.

I cannot risk the last three dicks. Like in Jumanji of their last life. Like Jammanyu Biltz. You get it? Am I connecting with the youth? Now I get it. Just got to ration out these last three dicks. I might live for another 40 years.

Oh, fuck. That's an average of 12.16 digs a year. Or 12.16 years per dick. Fuck. Get the ratio right. That's stressful. Why do you lose so many dicks? dick so quickly.

I was young and foolish. What are you doing to? Helicopters. Helicopters. I'm doing helicopters in the helicopters. Saw a fan, thought, I don't have to put pants on. I should have put pants on. Let's see how cool I can get my dick.

Oh, no. Like when you're speaking to a fan, it makes a funny noise. Did that with my dick. My precious dick. That was too good, Matt. Man of a thousand noises. Dick being eaten by a fan. What number is that one again?

I think that's 287. Wow. One of my favorites. Specific but accurate. Yeah. So he won the fight. Amazing. He punched the guy's dick.

But Lee was annoyed that he wasn't able to take out the guy in seconds. Remember, it took him three minutes. And he decided to train even harder from that day on. Oh, my God. He also found that his style of martial arts wasn't as practical in a real fight as he'd hoped. He found that punching his opponent's head hurt his hands. and they got swollen the more he punched him. You know how it is.

So he decided to take what did work and refine it and make his own martial art based around his own philosophy. Eventually it would be called Jit Kundo, which translates from Cantonese as The Way of the Intercepting Fist. Catchy. It sounds freaking cool. The way of the intercepting fist.

Jit Kundo. It was named after the Wing Chun concept of interception or attacking when one's opponent is about to attack, the intercepting fist. Sure. Jekundo's practitioners believe in minimal effort with maximum effect and extreme speed, so often you'll use their move against them.

Yes, they're moving one way and you make it so their hand, oh, you got you, that kind of thing. Oh, got you. And you have to yell that out, it's part of it. It's a important part of it. Otherwise, I don't know. Oh, I got that.

Oh, did you? Oh, yeah, you did. Oh, over here. Up, I'm over here. All we're standing in the same spot? Haven't moved. Oh, still over here. They're like, how quick is he moving?

I'm not even seeing it. Oh, he must have done a full lap around the earth. Bruce developed it over many years and combined different elements of fighting and training, including boxing, kung fu, Wing Chun and many more. Lee's system was based around, quote, practicality, flexibility, speed and efficiency. To be honest, I found it a little hard to grasp on a base level. It seems like something you don't get for a long time and then hopefully one day, it snaps into place and suddenly you get it.

Yeah. That's what I hope. Like your beard. One day, it'll work. It'll snap in a place. And I'll get it. The beard. Yeah.

Oh, I've got one. Bang. I love your beard, Dave. Took 28 years. Still snapping into place. Ali described it as, this is what I mean by, see if this makes sense to you.

Quote, the style of no style. Yeah. The main idea behind the form was using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation. get it. It sounds great. Do you think it sounds? Sounds great.

I'm not exactly sure. I am. I'm exactly sure. But don't worry, Deb. One day I'll snap into place. One day I'll get having no... That speaks to me. That snapped right in a place.

Having no limitation as... Yeah. I feel like a couple of pieces of Lego just... Yeah. I actually feel connected. I feel complete. Well, for the people that aren't getting it, I'll give the best explanation I found, which is on Bruce Lee Foundation.com.

They write, the idea of interception is, is key to Jet Kindu, whether it be the interception of your opponent's technique or his intent. The basic guiding principles are simplicity, directness and freedom. Again, the form of having no form. Love that. Now we get it. It sounds like you're describing how I dance.

Form having no form? Free. Intercepting your partner? Yeah. Punching someone in the face? Yes. Not on purpose, but that does happen. This is why we will not dance with me.

that anymore. Evertoe one's kicked someone in the head on a dance floor accidentally. How did your foot? I don't think you have told us that. What happened? So hang on. Hang on. Your foot is at the bottom of your body.

And a head is at the top of a body. Were they on the floor and you were stumping? Yeah. How did you? Were you lying dancing on someone's head? I sort of, I had a, I came up with a new sort of style of dance. I called it boot dancing. The way of the intercepting boot.

Which I think, you know, I took a few different sort of classic styles and I put my own spin on them. Basically, I'd just be, you know, thumbs in the belt buckle and then just kicking out as high as you could. Okay. And yeah, one of those boots at the Torquay Hotel. Made contact. When I was 18. Who to kick?

Unfortunately positioned woman, who I don't know. Oh, no. So you kicked a woman in the head and what happened from there? Were you asked to leave? Later I was, but... Not right then. Not right then. Not for kicking a woman in the head.

Well, it was an accident. What did you do later to get kicked out that was worse than kicking someone in the head? I don't. I'll go in. I don't need to go into that, but... It was bad. Did you kick another woman in the head? Well, no, I just, I...

It was a bit spewy. It's a spewy explanation. Yeah. Not everyone likes to hear that. No. But they can skip ahead. So what happened? Was this reenacted at your 21st?

Yes. All right. I told that part of the story before somewhere. Anyway, good times. So Bruce would develop all of this Jit Kandu over the next few years, and in 1964 he was still running his martial arts schools, but he was struggling financially. He always dreamt big and wasn't where he wanted to be.

Like with many things, he just needed to be seen by the right people. And in Lee's case, he needed to be seen by the right hairdresser. Okay. In August of 1964, Ed Parker, who was referred to as the father of American Ken Poe, another type of martial arts, invited Bruce to Long Beach, California, to give a demonstration at his first international karate tournament.

In the demonstration, Bruce wowed the crowd by performing push-ups one-handed with only his thumb and index finger. No, thank you. It's pretty impressive. That's badass. But his most impressive feat was the one-inch punch. Bruce Lee learned the technique from his Wing Chun training in Hong Kong. Lee then demonstrated the technique,

Where at a distance of only one inch away, he was able to knock volunteer Bob Barker flying across the state. Bob Barker from the Price is Right. Yes. Holy shit. I don't think so. Could have been. He was around back then. One inch away.

Holy shit. Bob Barker. Come on down. Is he the same guy? I don't know. It's the only Bob Barker I've ever heard of. Price is wrong, bitch. One of his classic lines.

It looks like it is one of the same Bob Barker. That's great. Basically, they're in Turpy. They're John, baby Birches. Baby John Burgess. Oh, sorry, baby John. Yeah, there you go. Can you explain the one-inch punch again to me, please?

Oh, let me. I've got full detail here. Okay, great. I actually couldn't understand it. I don't get it. So without retracting his arm and holding it only two and a half centimetres of one inch from Barker's chest, Lee delivered a punch, sending him backwards and flying into a chair. So he's just standing in front of him, but with his arm already out?

Arm is already out. And then, so, but a couple of centimetres away, like I'm from Matt, and then punch him. Punch him into the chest. And it's even funny now I know it's the plus his right house because apparently he got up and said to Bruce, you shouldn't demonstrate that anymore. That really hurt. So it's amazing and almost unbelievable. So the physics of the punch is explained in an article written by the South China Post that I will link to in the show notes in our quote now.

The one inch punch uses the mathematical principle that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. compared to the typical roundhouse punch we're coming sort of in a round which is thrown in an arc towards an opponent Wing Chun's basic punch is propelled along a straight line in delivering the punch the wrist is never bent it is held straight so that the bones in the back of the hand are aligned with those in the wrist in the forearm

allowing for the greatest impact supported by the arm the torso and the legs and when you've already got a really really strong punch you're a strong man like him amazingly you are able to move another grown man Wow. That's crazy. Who knew that maths and violence could come together in such a beautiful display?

I reckon Dave found that out in school, but... Do you get heaps of wedgies, nerd? I didn't. I was amazingly, I've said this before, amazingly not bully. They had a lot of things, a lot of things they could have called for. Dave was cool. It was in a scar band. Thank you.

Well, I wasn't Scar band. I was a little bit cool. I was punk. All right, man. What's cool than Scar? Get rid of bat, bat, ow. That's cool. That right there is very cool.

That is cool. That is cool. Was that scat? Scart. It's a little hybrid I've come up with. So just picture horns underneath. A meaty horn. Talking about your dick again?

You only got one. Your precious dick. That was a review on Listener Now. We read a cold chisel review that described one of the songs as having a meaty horn. And we found that very amusing. A meaty horn. That's so weird. They knew what they were doing.

They knew what you did. You cheeky bugger. So he's able to knock people out with a one inch punch or knock people over. Can I also quickly point out that Bruce was only 5'7 and a half, or 172 centimeters, which is only a couple of centimetres taller than I am. And me? He's not very tall. He also only weight at this time.

Wait, how tall are you, Dave? You're tall than 5'7. I'm 170? Yeah, I'm sad. What? How tall are you? Like 182? Blink 182.

Fuck you. I don't remember. Is he 12 centimetres tall than us? That doesn't seem right. Yeah, no, that's why I don't reckon you're 170. I reckon you're taller than that. Well, I hope I'm 172 because then I'd be Bruce Lee's height. He's only a couple of centimetres tall than I am, as I just said.

And he only weighed 58 kilos or 130 pounds at this time. What do you mean? Yeah. How? He bulked up a few kilos later on. When he died, he was only, and he was at peak feet. getting as 62 kilos. Wow.

What was your comedy weight again? My comedy weight's 52, but I actually weigh about 57 or 58 now. I'm the same weight as Bruce Lee, me, and he can knock people across the stage. Whoa. With a one inch punch, crazy, crazy, amazing. That's sick. Oh, sorry, I'm 20 metres tall. Got an owl in my belly button.

He's only 59 kilos. He's a little ale with my belly button. He's looking after my gold. It's also in my belly button. So I keep everything in there. I really should buy a bag or something. It's really, poor my stuff here. Is this what you were talking about the night you were kicked out of that hotel?

Yeah. No, you shouldn't let it kick me out. I've got gold in there. I can share some with you. Those are owl in my belly button. Help me. Show on the bounce of lint. Look at that little gold.

I love little bits of gold in the belly. All right, man. Okay, mate. All right. On the way home. Off we go. Anyway, I mentioned our famous hairdresser or a more accurately famous hairstylist, Jay Sebring, who was in the audience at the demonstration and was very impressed.

We've mentioned Jay Sebring on the show before, but in tragic circumstances. He was later after this murdered by the Manson family, along with his ex-girlfriend Sharon Tate, and three others. So he was in Sharon Tate's house tonight that they were all murdered. Shit. This was sort of explored kind of in a long... Once upon a time. Hollywood. Yes, and J.C.

Bring is in that film. Right. I haven't seen it. One actor is, yeah. Tragic, obviously, but in 1964, he witnessed Bruce Lee and was so impressed he suggested him to one of his clients, TV producer William Dozier, who was sufficiently intrigued and invited Lee over for a screen test in L.A. Huh.

Dosier wanted an Asian actor to star in a TV show he was developing about the Charlie Chan Mysteries. The screen test is on YouTube, and again, I'll link it in the notes, and it's awesome. Bruce Lee is 24 at the time and speaks of the recent birth of his first child, a son named Brandon Lee, who Bruce would also teach Kung Fu from a very young age and would go on to be an actor in his own right. Anyway, in the screen test, after speaking a bit, they asked Bruce to demonstrate some of the Kung Fu.

And despite wearing a lovely black suit, a tie and dress shoes, he instantly transforms and his moves are awesome. Wow. He demos them solo at first and then to make it look a bit more accurate, they get one of the crew to stand in, and his accuracy is crazy. He pulls all these moves that are like so fast that land about half a centimeter away from the guy's face

and the whole time the guy is just standing there silently shitting himself. Bruce even says, this guy looks a little scared. Oh, my God. It's awesome. Yeah, just half a centimeter from your face, that is... It's hard not to flinch. It is. Oh, the guy is sort of standing there, but you can see him sort of flinching a little bit.

And he does these moves and he goes, now hit him in the stomach, now hit his guts. You know, he does all these different, like, different spots and it's like, holy crap, even one of those, you'd just be all over. Yeah. Sadly, the Charlie Chan TV show never went ahead as Dozier was getting ready to launch his new TV show, Batman, starring Adam West. But he promised to keep Bruce Lee in mind for future work. It was a bit tricky at the time for Bruce as he's moved his whole family to LA to be part of the show.

But now he found himself without work. Oh, shit. Do you know what the Charlie Chan mystery? Is that a real story? I believe they're all. old stories, yeah. Maybe there was a radio show and thing. Ah, great.

Six novels. Oh, okay. Wow. Starting in the 1920s. So it was like, it was like it was going ahead. He's moved the family over and then that show fell through. Yeah, so they were pretty confident it was going to happen. Jeez.

That sucks. Suddenly he's out of work in a new city. Luckily for Lee, he didn't have to wait too long because Batman was a huge hit. And Dozier started work on a new job. TV show, The Green Hornet, based on the radio show of the 1930s. Bruce Lee was cast as Cato, the driver and sidekick to the masked superhero, the Green Hornet. Oh, cool.

It was Lee's first major adult role in the prime time TV show introduced him to an American audience. He was finally getting paid well and at the same time he could show off his moves in the show's fight scenes. Oh, sick. For the fans of the show, he was a very popular character and received more fan mail than the series lead. Van Williams.

Ah. He got more fan mail. More fan mail, despite being the... The sidekick. Yeah. That's interesting. Second banana. That's awesome.

Van Williams. Yeah, I haven't heard of Van Williams. We haven't even done it do go on about him, so... Cop it, Van. Van Wilder played the Green Hornet later, didn't you? Ryan Reynolds? Yeah. Van Wilder.

Going from Van Williams to Van Wilder. Yeah. What are the chances? There are no coincidences. I think not. No. I think that was very much on purpose. purpose. Lee was proud to play the character of Cato and avoided Chinese stereotypes with his betrayal.

However, Lee also had to make concessions for the role. They found that he moved too fast for the TV cameras, and they had to get him to slow down his kung fu for it to come across on film. That's cool. Can't you slow it down in post? No, he can't just slow it down. Usually you just tape a bunch of cats together, but it just didn't work out. I just got a cold sweat. I think Van Wilder played a different green superhero. Green Lantern. Maybe. Anyway, whatever it is, don't at me.

Oh, did the Green Hornet was Seth Rogen? That was Seth Rogen, yeah. Oh. So the coincidence is even bigger. Van Wilder played a different green superhero. And you're telling me that's a coincidence? I don't believe in the coincidence. I don't think so.

No. I'm going to chase this all the way to the top. Yeah. Obama. Oh. Dick Cheney. Yeah. Taking this all the way to Dick Cheney.

I can't remember Mike Pence. Who's the other one? Doesn't matter. There's two vice president? Who was Obama? Joe Biden. Huh? Look at that.

Doing well. I just needed the last three. Vice President of America. Where's the three? Oh, yeah, you did say. Yeah, Dick Cheney. Sorry to this man. Sadly, the show struggled to find an audience and a crossover with a more popular Batman.

They did three crossover episodes. That couldn't save it. And the Green Hornet was cancelled after just one season. Lee and his family's financial future was again in limbo He'd made lots of friends in the industry And gotten valuable experience But for a time found that he was only able to pick up small guest parts Unable to get work in front of the camera

He paid the bills by acting as a fight coordinator on other films Oh yeah Unsure what to do going forward Bruce's friend and a greenholder producer Suggested that he make ends meet By teaching Kung Fu to Hollywood elites in their own homes Sort of a mobile personal trainer but for Kung Fu Love that

We're talking like a Luminati Hollywood elites Yeah, is it an Illuminati? No, even more elite No, less elite the Illuminati Not quite lizards No, like small lizards Geckos

Yeah The ones with heaps of dicks Yeah So many dicks Bruce Lee was just kept kicking him He's like They just keep growing back That would be frustrating

They were like I hide you Bruce Lee kicked my dick off I'd come to my home You come here You kick my dick off 48 times You kick my dick off

Under my roof I imagine it would be quite satisfying to kick a dick off. Oh, yeah. Clean off. And then it just grows back and you're like, oh, all that work for nothing. I just kicked a dick off.

You know, you got to go again. And it's no coincidence that someone who didn't play the Green Hornet would go on to play Deadpool where things grow back. Oh, my God. All the way to the top, baby. Van Wilder. He did both. There are no coincidences.

Get yourself a guy I can do both. Van Wilder. Van Wilder and whichever green he was. Landon. Lantern and also the other one. Deadpool. Yeah. He does it all except the Green Hornet.

But Bruce took up the offer and he tried it and soon he had an amazing list of students. Many of him were or would become his close friends including Steve McQueen, James Coburn, James Garner and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Oh, who maybe has the best name of all time. Great name. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. That's cool. So he's just like teaching kung fu now. Yeah.

Well, I mean, he's done that for ages, but I mean, like, to celebs. To celebs, and they're obviously paying a bit better than these students who are paying, what, $15 a lesson or whatever. For a time, everything was going well again. These ones that the celebrities are paying 18. Whoa. Yeah, they pay a premium. So everything's going well again, especially after the arrival of his daughter, Shannon in 1969. He was reportedly enamored.

Summer of Love. Yeah. He was reportedly enamored with her. Bloody good on him. That's nice. Seen a documentary? He liked his kid. He was a numbered by his daughter.

Oh, God. What a bloody softy. Oh, I loved your kid. Linda, the mum, described him as her having wrapped around, who's her little baby finger? Oh, bloody daddy's girl, is it? Oh, he's a girl. Meanwhile, Brandon's in the corner. Bloody karate chopping blocks the wood.

He's like, you're old news, mate. Yeah, I'm over it, Brandon. Come on. Karate chop something I could, I can't. Come and look at how cute your sister is. Look at this. Unbelievable how cute she is. She's karate chopped to my heart.

into a million tiny little pieces. Brandon, you're karate chopping. I do Jitkin do. I don't do karate. That's embarrassing. Yeah, you're bringing shame to this family. I just wanted to try something different. Oh, okay.

How about I try not loving you anymore? How about that? Oh, succeeding. Oh, look at we go. I love your sister more. All right. How about trying something different and impressing me? Nah, but I'm happy for Bruce that he likes his daughter.

That's very nice. That does sound like the biggest tragedy that will happen to Brandon in his life. Yeah. His sister's birth. My brother would say the same of my bed. I just wanted to mention that he had a daughter and it was just, yeah. It was a nice moment watching the mother describe their relationship. I hadn't heard of her, but obviously Brandon being going on to fame.

So it is interesting that he had a daughter as well. Yeah, Shannon. She's still kicking? We'll find out. Oh. Yes. We find out in a second I meant. I just cut out the time.

of me saying in a second. I just said it. So, 1969, a good year. 1970, not so much. Oh, no. Bruce had a vigorous training routine and he always pushed his body. One morning in 1970 without warming up. Take note. Always warm up.

Bruce did what he usually did and that was pick up a 125 pound barbell and did a quote, good morning exercise. But this time he severely injured his back, damaging a nerve. The good morning exercise. obviously having a little bit of a wang. With it into a barbell. Put your back into it. That is a good morning.

Oh, my back! Let me finish. Doctors told him in no uncertain terms that he would never be able to do Kung Fu again. Oh shit. He really, really messed it up. At the edge of 30. Yeah. Fuck.

Bruce Lee isn't the kind of guy you say you can't do something. Could he still chachar? What about the ch chah? He was a chacha champion. He was forced to stay in bed. for six months to recover. Oh, no. And whilst doing so, the dream.

I cannot wait to get it. Well, I've heard that your technique's pretty shithouse, Matt, so I reckon you might do your nerve. Well, obviously the back pain. Chronic bad back pain sounds like one of the worst things ever. I have had the thought a few times of like, what if I just got just sick enough to stay in bed for a long time? You know, just a little injury,

but an excuse to get out of everything. And that is depression. Oh. Yeah. You have that kind of thought, maybe have a chat. That is the episode of The Simpsons where Homer wears a mumo. Yes. The test is if you rub your food on paper and you can't see through it,

it's not fair enough. It's not bad enough. Do better. So he's in bed for six months. Whilst doing so, he worked on the philosophical side of Cheekundo writing ferociously. Oh, yeah. He's a thinker as well as a doing. He's a one-inch rider as well.

He wrote one inch away from the page. Yeah. It's crazy. The ink was just dripping. Into perfect calligraphy. It's amazing. It's magic to watch, really. One day he took one of his business cards.

Yes, he's got business cards. And he wrote the words, walk on on the back and placed it where he could see it as a constant reminder that he should always keep moving forward. This became one of his mantras, walk on. Several months went by and he was slowly able to walk. This progress continued, and by the end of the year,

he had recovered and was back to training using an exhausting daily fitness routine. Crazy. He did 2,000 punches a day, 1,000 kicks a day. He ran three miles and then biked 15 miles. Not bad for a man who was told he would never be able to train again. I love those kind of stats like, oh, I do a thousand punches a day.

He's got a picture Napoleon or something like that. What? Pretty strict. Three. 998. 999. Yeah, fighting machine. There are 1,000 air punches a day.

500 air kicks. I do like a billion sit-ups. Yeah, I can use a both staff. That's so great. But he's back. But he's back, baby. He feels like, he sounds like, he would be a nightmare to be married to. Yeah.

You know, like. A lot of get up and go. An incredible person, but very intense. Like, you could never just be. like let's just get pizzas and watch a movie. Sunday night movie. I love a Sunday night movie. I'll be right with you. Just punching the air out the back. I just found some of air that hasn't been punched.

Do you want me to chop up the pizza? With my hands. Oh, he's made a mess again. Come on. Bruce. I bought a little pizza cutter. Can you just use it, please? Sounds like a nightmare. He's trying to karate chop the grime off the shower. Just clean it. And he doesn't even do karate again. Bruce. Stop. Once he was better in 1971,

Bruce decided to travel back to his family's homeland of Hong Kong and try his hand at acting over there. He hoped to get noticed and then work his way back to Hollywood that way. Once back home, Bruce was surprised to find himself being constantly recognised and even mobbed in the streets. What he hadn't realised was the Green Hornet had been a huge hit in Hong Kong.

That is such a wild idea that you could be famous without knowing it in a different country. So funny. So famous to the point that it was marketed as the Cato show. Because they were stoked to see an Asian actor on screen. So they were like, yes, the Cato show. Named after the character that he played, of course. So he was already a huge star there.

And the top Asian producer Raymond Chow offered Lee the chance to star in his own film, which he accepted even knocking back apart on a US network TV show to do it. He's like, I could do a supporting role on TV there. No, I'm going to be my own star here first. So Lee's first starring role in Hong Kong was in a film called The Big Boss. Love it. Marketed in the US as Fists of Fury. As well as starring, Lee co-wrote the film and with the director, Low Why.

The film featured Lee as the factory worker hero who was sworn off fighting, yet enters combat to confront a murderous drug smuggling operation with sexy results. Oh! Sounds like Homer Simpson wrote this. According to Bruce's website, brusley.com, Cilley's official website, quote the still, it's now. The working conditions were difficult and the production quality substandard. But Bruce was able to show off his charisma and fighting choreography.

At the premiere, Linda and Bruce went along and they were worried that the crowd hated it when at the conclusion of the film, the usually very vocal Hong Kong audience, Linda also said about this, that they were known if they didn't like something to slash the chairs in the same. cinema. What? What? And yell out throughout the whole film. So it got to the end and that was silent and Bruce was like, oh no, they hate it.

They hate it. Well, at least you're not hearing any slashing. Why the fuck would you take it out of the chair? What did the chairs do? Oh, okay. They're passionate. How often are they having to replace chairs? Too often.

But the silence was soon. Imagine being an upholsterer in, I'm so sorry, Dave. Keep going. The silence was soon broken by huge applause. They bloody loved. They were just not used to this style of film. Right. They were gobsmack.

They were absolutely gobsmapped. Which would have, that's one of his key moves. It was smacking gobs. The gobsmacker. You got the dick punch, the gobsmack. He does it all. The shower karate shop. So the film was a huge hit.

Breaking Box Office Records in Hong Kong was the highest-grossing film ever in Hong Kong. Wow. He became a huge, huge star in Asia and was on his way back to Hollywood. Remember that's his plan. His next film, Fist of Fury, the last one in Iraq was Fist of Fury, very confusing, came out the next year and Lee worked even harder. In this film, Lee introduced the Nunchaku, aka the Nunchucks.

Michelangelo's favoured weapon. Yes, but before this it had never been seen on film before. Oh, wow. So he did introduce it. Wow. Never been seen in a martial arts film. The choreography was even more intense, and upon release, Fist of Fury again broke box office records,

so broke the record in Hong Kong that his film had just set just before. that. Wow. Around this time, Bruce Lee also pitched to Warner the idea for a TV show called The Warrior,

a Western-type show, but with a man who knows Kung Fu. Warner Brothers were interested in the idea, but despite his growing popularity, they didn't want Lee to star

because of his ethnicity and his voice. Bruce's wife, Linda, later stated that they used the idea for a TV show called Kung Fu without giving Lee any credit.

They used another actor without any credit. Although, Water Brothers claimed they were already developing coming through. Oh yeah, that's, yep. They call that a dog act. That is a dog, eh?

Official? Yes. That's dog. I don't know. Bruce. When they say they had an issue with his voice, why? Oh, because he had an Asian accent. They wanted an American accent.

I was imagining more like he had a squeaky voice. You're like, oh, I don't like it. He had to start a cha-cha champion. Well, they didn't realize this. That was just a misunderstanding. Yeah. Hilarious. Bruce spoke about this in an interview being rejected

which I'll also link to which to be honest is a bit infuriating to watch because it's the only known interview with Bruce Lee and it goes for about 20 minutes he speaks so eloquently and very philosophically unlike that throughout the interview with Pierre Burton who just keeps interrupting in the YouTube comments are amazing they're like would that idiot just shut the fuck up and let Bruce Lee speak Oh they're like YouTube comments for our show

Yeah um and if you listen to this on on YouTube, let me get in early and say, fuck you. Anyway, Bruce Lee spoke about the producers not being confident on this Hong Kong man starring in his own network TV show on the US. Quote, they think that business-wise, it's a risk. I don't blame them. If the situation were reversed and an American star would have come to Hong Kong and I was the man with the money, I would have my own concerns as to whether the

acceptance would be there, end quote. So he's kind of taking the racism quite well. Crazily, in April 2019, decades later, a TV show called Warrior, based on Lee's idea, debuted on Cinemax in the US, and one of the executive producers is Lee's daughter, Shannon Lee. So the idea made it. Sick. Just a long, long time later. That's nice.

That's awesome. Good job, Shannon. Good only Shannon, keeping the idea alive. Despite the racism he faced, Lee did have many film offers after the success of his first films in Hong Kong, but decided to stay loyal to producer Raymond Chow and signed another deal with Chow, but this time the two would be equal partners. The next film, which is possibly Lee's most acclaimed film, was 1972's The Way of the Dragon. Lee had complete control of the film, and I mean complete.

He was the writer, director, star, choreographer of the fight scenes and he even played percussion on the soundtrack. And catering. And the choreographer of the Chah Chaw Scenes as well, obviously. Of course. He was a cha-cha champion. Being a cha-cha champion. So he's a drummer too.

When I came to this film, yeah. Holy shit. Is there anything you can't do? Doesn't sound like it. Take no for an answer. Yeah. Fuck, yeah, Dave, that's so good. Yeah, that's like my only strength, a weakness.

Yeah. I have too many strengths. I care too much. I work too hard. Yeah. I'm too empathetic. I'm too horny. I mean, I work too hard.

Horny for knowledge. Oh, no. I'm horny for the right. The right answer. What job is this you're going for? Primary school teacher. Slash primary school teacher. I mean the...

Playing a primary school teacher in a porn. The job was very confusing. Here's my degree as a teacher. You realise that we don't need an actual teacher. This is a porn film. Oh, in that case, here's my other D. D. Degree in sexology. Nah, he just flopped it.

All right. We got it. Flop the chop. Dave, you don't have to act it out for real. Stop it. Put it away. You only live once, but you get 47 of these. It was his directorial debut,

and despite this, he was a perfectionist, often filming scenes over and over and over again. Again and again. Even the Jiminy Jilica's scenes. Again and again and again and again and again. I said Jimini Jilica so many times. The worst of laugh or many. The film,

Way of the Dragon has an epic 10 minute fight scene in the Coliseum between Lee and his friend and former training partner a certain Chuck Norris Oh Chuck, that's right In his debut on screen roll I say 10 scenes the first two minutes is then warming up And just cracking every bone in their entire body Whilst looking at each other and a cat is watching on

I haven't seen this film I've heard it's a classic. It's action. It's also comedy. That's comedy there. It's funny. That's funny. But also drama.

It's a dramedy martial arts movie. Love it. It's got everything. I love a slapy. Is there any romance? Well, I don't know. There's romance between Chuck Norris and the hairy, hairy chest that he has on display. Also, he's very, very hairy shoulders.

Right. Lee even ripped some of it off at one point. That's funny. He goes, ooh, off the chest. What's this? Again, the film was a huge success, and this is the third film in a row now to break Hong Kong box office records.

He's a huge star in Hong Kong, huge. That's amazing. In the fall of 1972, Bruce began filming the next movie, The Game of Death, so he just goes, film, film, film, so he's working, some would say, a little too hard. A film that he again wrote and directed and starred in, the film co-starred Lee's friend and former student,

NBA legend, and record. order for most points ever scored in the league, Karim Abdul-Jabbar, who was nearly half a metre taller than him. The fight scene is awesome. That is actually, in that film, Bruce is wearing a yellow track suit with black lines, much like Uma Thurman.

Ah, yes. Now, Quinta Tarantin is a massive film fan, always shouting out to different movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where that comes from. Oh, cool. And he's fighting Karim Abdul-Jabar, and it looks amazing,

because it's quite a relatively short man fighting a very, very tall man. Yeah. Well, yeah, well, Bruce learned a lot about living from bamboo. Obviously, Kareem. He weren't more of his stuff from the ghost gums, those tall, beautiful trees of the Australian bush. Whispering in the night.

I'm a ghost gum. I'm a ghost gum. Let's shoot some hoops. They love to shoot hoops. They started filming the Game of Death and filmed about 100 minutes of footage before filming was interrupted when Hollywood finally came a knocking.

Bruce Lee was offered his first starring role in an American film called Enter the Dragon. Lee co-produced the film with Raymond Chow, but didn't write or direct this one, and it would be his final film. Bruce Lee had finally achieved his goal of being a Hollywood film star. He started working and training seven days a week and pushed himself harder than ever to achieve the dream that he'd been striving for his whole life. So no Sunday night movie night. No.

Oh, absolutely not. Sunday night, eat a bowl of fish, rice and broccoli, and then go and punch a punching bag 2,000 times. Also, a lot of milk, apparently. I was reading about his diet. A lot of milk. When Hollywood came knocking, did they use a one-inch knock? That was bad.

Thank you. The door went flying across the stage. On May 10th, 1973, whilst editing Enter the Dragon in Hong Kong, Bruce suddenly became dizzy and collapsed. He was rushed to hospital where he suffered from seizures and doctors were worried that he might die. Despite an array of tests, they couldn't work out what was wrong with him. He was eventually diagnosed with cerebral edema,

a condition in which excess fluid in the brain causes swelling and pain. Not a good thing. No. He was treated and recovered and was able to return to finish Enter the Dragon and whilst awaiting the film's release in August, he immediately returned to finish Game of Death with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. So he'd had this thing, they treated it, but they weren't exactly sure what had caused it. Yeah.

Or if it would come back. Yeah. A bit of a worry. Sadly, Bruce would never see the premiere of either film, especially Enter the Dragon, which is seen by many to be his best film and one of the greatest martial arts films of all time. Wow. So those, that run that he got on sounds like I've heard of all of them. I haven't seen any of them, but they're all.

iconic titles. Yeah, yeah, great titles. Very influential. Apparently one of his big influences was he wanted the fight scenes despite being highly choreographed and between like people that aren't average. He wanted them to look believable. Apparently at this time a lot of martial arts films

they'd be like flying horses and, you know, someone would punch a cow or something and would go flying. That sounds all. It does sound fun. Not awesome. Don't punch cows. But kind of funny. But pretty fun actually.

It sounds fun and like, you know, people would like leap from the ground up onto a roof that's like three metres tall and sort of stuff that's amazing to watch, but not that believable. But he wanted his choreography to look like what he could do it because he could. Yeah. So that was that was what he was and that's what he brought to the table and what his influence was and still is. But on July 20th, 1973, Bruce again came down with another minor headache. It had an active morning meeting with producer Raymond Chow and was his. excited to continue on with the movie. Apparently he was acting out scenes with him, very excited, a lot of energy.

Oh, man. That afternoon, he went around to his co-star, Betty Ting Pay's house to work on the film. It was also later revealed that the two were lovers. So we went around to work on the film, hang out, whatever. Secret affair? Secret affair. It was at her house that Lee came down with a headache, and Pay gave him a painkiller called Equagesic,

a prescription medicine that he hadn't had a script for, but she said take this. Equijizic contains aspirin and also the tranquilizer Meprobomate. Lee then went for a liar down about 7.30 and when he didn't come down for dinner, Betty went to check on Bruce and she found him unresponsive. She called producer Raymond Chow who came around and also couldn't wake up Bruce Lee, who looked very, very pale. So he was rushed to hospital in an ambulance where he was declared dead on arrival.

Oh shit. He was just 32 years old. Shit. The world went into shock. a man who epitomized fitness, good living and eating, and he just died at the peak of his health, age 32, and it wasn't a car accident or a drug overdose or anything super obvious. So it wasn't the drugs.

Well, there was and has been wild speculation over the years about what really killed Bruce Lee that day. Some have suggested he was taken out by Asian gang members, and it was a hit, it was a murder. Had he been killed by a curse imposed by other martial artists for sharing the secrets with white people? Oh, a curse. People are saying it could be a curse.

prominent... That makes sense to me. That makes the most sense so far. Yep. There was, of course, an autopsy, which found that he died from cerebral edema, again swelling of the brain, this time caused or exacerbated by an allergic reaction

to the medication that was given to him. Oh, shit. Any trace of curse? Yeah, did they find a trace of curse in the autopsy? No. Well, let me read from bruceley.com. A nine-day coroner's inquest was held with testimony given by renowned pathologists flown in from around the world.

The determination was that Bruce had a hypersensitive reaction to an ingredient in the pain medication that had caused swelling of the fluid on the brain, resulting in a coma and then death. That's the official word. Jeez, his partner must, that would be hard. Yeah, apparently she was called and told to go to the hospital when she got there. she was a bit like, what's the, is it, you know, bad news? And I'm like, yep, fuck, he's done, he's gone. That's all.

You know, that day he'd been rushing around healthy. Yeah, I feel, yeah, something about not taking prescription drugs, not prescribary. Yeah. But I'm sure, I would have done that before, I'm sure someone goes, oh, this is proper headache stuff. I probably would have gone, cheers. Yeah. so I'll try and remember this next stuff. Yeah.

Bruce Lee was buried in Seattle, Washington, where he first met his wife, sort of started their life together. The poor bearers at his funeral included friends and celebrity. Steve McQueen, James Coburn and his brother, Robert Lee. 20,000 mourners crowded the streets of Hong Kong to pay their respects to his open coffin as well. Wow.

It wasn't open until he one-inch punched the lid off. Just his way out. Enter the Dragon premiered just a month after his death and was a huge hit around the world it went on to gross $90 million worldwide which is equivalent these days to $518 million when adjusted for inflation

Not bad when its budget was less than $1 million grossed more than 90 times That's insane Sadly people tried to cash in after Lee's death by continuing his film a game of death The one he's making with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar they ended up with only something like 12 minutes of usable footage of the 100 minutes they'd shot. So they had to shoot the rest with stand-ins or even cardboard cutouts,

which many felt were unconvincing and not upholding of Lee's legacy. Remember, he loves accuracy. And in one scene, it's just like a still face of a cardboard cut out of Lee. And they didn't think that was very convincing, a cardboard cutout. It also incorporated footage of Lee, I haven't seen this, but footage of Lee's actual funeral, which many felt was a bit in poor taste. Yeah, I would agree. It was critically panned when it was released five years after his death.

That's how long it took to make the rest of the movie. Despite this, it was still a huge financial success in a 1981. A sequel followed, this time with Clips of Lee's other films just spliced in. That's so weird and dumb. Why did they do that? I don't remember he, I thought he died differently. How did you think he died? But now...

Well, let me tell you... Yep. Yep. I wish I could tell you that the tragedy for Lee's widow, Linda, ended with her husband unexpectedly dying at the age of 32 and leaving two basically toddlers around. I wish I could tell you the tragedy and therefore. Brandon Lee, Bruce's only son followed in his father's footsteps and was a martial artist training since he could walk. After small roles in some moderately successful films, Brandon looks like he was on the cusp of making it when at age 28, he was cast as the lead role in the superhero film, The Crow. With only eight days left in filming and most of the film in the can,

one of the final scenes caused for Brandon's character to get shot with a magnum gun. Of course, they were meant to use dummy bullets. But rather than using a dummy gun, the prop department created their own blanks by pulling the bullets from live rounds, dumping the powder charge and then reinserting the blank bullets. So basically, it was supposed to just make the noise without shooting any metal out of it. So it was a real gun, but it's got fake bullets essentially in it.

Sadly, they failed to notice that a bullet had been previously caught in the barrel of the gun. Oh my God. And it was still just sitting there inside the gun. And when the blank was fired, it forced this bit of bullet out of the gun at nearly the same pace as a regular bullet. The bullet pierced through Brandon Lee's abdomen and ended up near his spine and he died of his injuries. Fuck. See, that's what I was thinking of. Crazy. Absolutely.

Fuck. 28. Crazy accident. So he was buried next to his father in Seattle. So his mom had to put him in the grand ex with his dad. Awful. Father and son both tragically dying young when they were just about to make it in Hollywood.

It seemed pretty unusual and people have since talked about whether both men were cursed. Now usually I love a good curse. Love a good curse. Yeah. Curse of the mummy. Curse of the Otsey. Love it. But I've seen Bruce's widow.

and Branda's mother, Linda, comment on this, dismissing it and basically saying there's a little bit offensive to their memory. Yeah, of course. You would say it was a curse. There were two pretty bad accidents, the first one that Bruce was given something that he shouldn't have, and the second one, that someone should have checked the fucking gun. Yeah.

Just use a fake gun. I know that often they would, but not in the circumstance. Why? So dumb. Poor lady, absolutely tragic for Linda. She's still alive at the time of recording now in her 70s. She remarried twice, all the whilst, continuing to promote Bruce Lee's martial art

Jit Kundu throughout the rest of it throughout her life. Bruce's daughter Shannon is still alive age now 50. Cool. And producing. There's a podcast that she hosts. I think they ask, you know,

it's about Bruce Lee and his legacy, so that's pretty cool. That's nice. Awesome. Bruce Lee was named by Time Magazine as one of the most 100 influential people of the 20th century and continues to be a cultural icon

with statues of him around the world. He only appears. He appeared in leading roles in three films in his lifetime, but in his short 32 years on earth, he redefined martial arts and action films forever. I will finish with an inspirational quote from The Great Man, of which there are many. Many.

He says, Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Yeah, which is inspiring, but also, I think I would just prefer an easy life. Yeah, I want to take it. Take the easy way. That's all right, yeah.

But Bruce never took the easy way out. Oh, what a legend. Oh, I didn't know much of that at all. I didn't know, yeah, basically none of that. What an amazing life. I love hearing stories of people who just fight. They, and just, it feels like there'd be a bunch of times where you'd be like, the world's against me. Fuck everything.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he just, every time he took it as a way to like work harder and stuff. Yeah. Pretty inspiring. Pretty amazing work ethic. Yeah, crazily inspiring. Work ethic. And also, it's just also tragic to think that, you know,

he only felt like he was only just making it or about to make it. And he would never would know the cultural impact that he had. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Yeah, I was thinking of his son's death as his death. So then I was like, well, no, he's not going to, he'll live through this brain thing. And then. Are you waiting for him to be shot, sadly?

That was his son. But Dave, fantastic report. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. And yeah, there are links in the episode description. If you want to check out some of the... And I'll probably post some on social media over the week, too. The...

It's worth checking out the screen test and also the only interview. Because, yeah, he spoke very well. I will say the guy who I've already forgotten his name that played him in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, nailed the voice. Oh, really? Yeah. Cool.

Watching it... Because I'd never heard Bruce Lee speak before. Yeah. And in the interview, I was like, oh, yeah, that's the same voice as the guy. fighting against Brad Pitt. That's clever. I mean, that's his job, isn't it? Yes, he was a good actor.

I will say that the script probably made him look like more of a dick than I think he was. Right. Right. Yeah, well, that was, that whole movie was sort of reimagining history. Really painted Charles Manson in a bad way too. He came across as a bit of a dick. Yeah, a bit creepy.

Yeah. You know, and it's like, oh, lighten up. Yeah. Yeah, apparently quite a few people in the first. film, I think the character that the Australian actor, what's her name? Margot Robbie? Yeah, apparently Sharon Tate. Sharon Tate came across very differently in that than some remember her.

So, but I imagine that's sort of what it is, right? I haven't seen the film, but somebody there on the comment was that like, they barely gave Margot Robbie any lines. It was for quite a while in the, it was like halfway through the film. You see her a bit and she didn't say anything. but she's quite a good actor very good she's great you could let her speak I reckon

yeah oh yeah if you want to I mean that's a If she wants to If she wants to Don't put words into her mouth Yeah Okay If she wants to speak let her speak

But anyway Whether it's in the script or not But that does bring us Matt To everyone's favourite section of the show Everyone's favourite part Fact quote Or question This is the section of the show

where people who support the show on Patreon at patreon.com slash do go on pod on the Sydney-Sharnberg deluxe memorial, rest and peace level, can give us a fact, a quote or a question. There's many different rewards you can get from supporters and this is but one of them. And this week we have another two fantastic fact quotes or questions.

Firstly, we have Tim La Fuente Tim. Tim. Yeah, we've got Tim. And he's given himself the title, as you're allowed to do in this level of the patron.

He's given himself the title of El Jaffe de Sheffé possibly not he. El Hefei. Oh, El Hefe de Sheffey. What does that mean, Dave? Jeffie the Sheffey. Ah, that's what I would have guessed. That would have made my second guess.

And he's given us a fact. And his fact is, Austin has bats, lots of bats. The population under the Congress Avenue Bridge grew to be the largest urban bat colony in North America. I thought baseball bats until... Okay. You thought, why they're putting all these bats under a bridge?

How are the cars getting through? It was all the way through. All the water. kind of bridge it is. Bats in a colour. Oh, honestly. It goes on to say, with up to 1.5 million bats spiraling into the summer skies, Austin now has one of the most unusual and fascinating attractions.

To top off how dumb it was that I thought these were baseball bats, I've been to Austin and seen these bats. No. Yes. And were they made of wood? Yes. Wooden bats. Yeah, I was there for a few days.

And that was, yeah, that was one of the things that people said, you've got to go check out the bats. I'm like, Bill Wright. That's pretty cool. That's cool. Austin was sick. I loved Austin so much. Love to go back there.

Thank you so much. Tim, what a great fact. And which I'd entirely forgotten about. I didn't know the number 1.5 million. Yeah, that's a lot of bats. Spirling bats. And secondly, I'd love to thank Jackson Bland. He's giving himself the title,

Executor of the Will of City. Shinberg. It's a very big task. Yeah, it's a huge responsibility. Don't fuck it up. Don't fuck it up. And your quote is, it's a longish one. I always remind people that I don't read them until I read them on the show.

And here it is. Since Sydney Shineberg has passed, he promoted me from the junior vice intern of Sydney, Schaumburg, to the executor of the will of Sydney, Scheinberg. Now I must present the video, Will of Sydney, Schoenberg. Please have Dave read this next part as Sydney. Okay. That was in brackets. Edit that bit out.

But it's an important note. Okay, where am I reading here? Okay, hey, how we doing? Okay, yeah, just in case I need to record a wheel, one, two, one, two, this thing on. Okay, yeah, you get that? All right, now let me press play on the video. Okay.

Have you seen this, that this means that I, Sydney, J. Scheinberg, have kicked the bucket. Yeah, I'm dead. Okay, okay. Establish that fact. As my state, I leave to my dear wife, Lorraine. Yes, my collection of Keith's Lorraine. And also, all of my land, who cares about that,

and my vast collection of $2 bills. I've got 15 of those. To my children, John and Bill, I leave my vast collection of seashells. Also got $15,000. Seven for John and for Bill. Okay. To match, Jewett.

Oh, this guy. See, reading stuff in my world? Okay. Okay. Don't go off script, Sydney. Hand to hand down. I've got to produce a movie today. Do you and I leave the bones of Einstein?

The dog from Back to the Future that I incorrectly changed from a chimpanzee. I incorrectly. Who wrote this shit? I'm not getting a word of this. I may never forget that even though he is immortal death comes for everyone. Okay, including me, I guess. Kick the bucket. Okay.

And one more thing, to Jess Poikins. I acquit 50 copies of Hello Baby, the best. of the Big Bapa on Compact this. Yeah, I got 50 copies just in case one wears out, and then I'll only have 49 copies left. Okay. And to Dave Warnik. Dave Wernick, are you listening to that?

Okay, I leave the secret underground bunker I had built in Sydney, Australia, aka the Sydney Shine bunker. Yes, I am very clever with words. You get this in the Sydney Shine bunker. Yeah, see you with this. See you after the apocalypse. Okay. And as for the rest of my belongings, they shall be packed into a spaceship with me and sent to Pluto so that I may be the very first spaceman from Pluto. Of course, a great name for the film that didn't get picked, but I still think that's a mistake.

Okay. Ariridhargy, much love, Sidney, Jay Steinberg, the first. I don't have a son yet, but there's still time. No, you're dead. And there are sons. I'm talking to a fucking tape. Oh, we're doing a video tape. We've lost it. Oh, Dave's back in the room. Dave, you've just inherited a bunker.

Really? Why? That's a good question. And what are you going to do with a bunker? I don't know. What can you do with it? I mean, you can get in it. Fill it with baked beans, I reckon.

Oh, yeah. I'd love the apocalypse. Bake beans? You got to eat baked beans all day long. No one judges you. Powdered milk. Your two favorite kinds of foods? I love a long-life milk.

Yeah. God, it's creamy. It's creamier. I don't think I've ever had a long life milk. To you too. I don't think I've heard Sydney talk for that long in a row before. I didn't get any of it. I heard bunker, so that's good.

He did well, Sydney, speaking as himself for that long. Yeah, an incredible effort to speak that way forever. That's actually what finished him off in the end. It's fun of words. My voice. Well, that brings us to everyone's second favorite section of the show, which is where we thank a few of our other Patreon supporters. And Jess, you normally give us a little game here to...

I was thinking we name their martial arts film. Oh, yes, I like this. Fantastic. Are they all going to be dragon-related? No. Fist the dragon. They're not all going to be dragon-related. You've got to use your imagination.

All right, well, I will do that. Can I kick it off? Yes. Well, I would love to thank firstly and also foremostly from London. I would love to thank Kaylee Noakes. Kaylee Noakes. Okay, you think of a word, Jess, I'll set you up. Okay.

Enter the... Dragon. Okay, take two. Matt, enter the... Nose. That's pretty good. Go again, go again, go again. Enter the...

Sandman. Okay, that could be, that's a movie title. Yeah, I love a movie that, you know, there's already references a song. You've done half the work of writing a film. Yeah, I mean, there's our theme song done. Enter the Sandman. Yeah, well, you know. Kaylee plays the Sandman.

Ah. Sandman. And she leaves little bits of sand everywhere she goes. You know, when you go to the beach and you just got sand everywhere? Yeah. I feel like that all the time. It's the worst part of the beach. Yeah.

The sand. What's the best part? The beautiful view. I like the friendship. Oh, okay. Really? Oh, actually, no. Changed my answer to it.

I love the salty air. Oh. I like the ice cream kiosk. Yes. Oh, yes. There need to be more ice cream kiosks, I think. Anyway, thank you to Kaley. Kaylee nooks.

I'd also love to thank from Yate in England. Hannah Hemsley Brown. H.H.B. Oh, that's good, isn't it? Yeah. All right. Dave, what do you got? Okay.

I'll set you up again. Okay. Way of the houseboat. Oh, that's pretty good. Way of the houseboat. Kind of goes with the flow. Yeah. Slow and steady, but, you know, reliable.

That's every houseboat I've ever been on. Very reliable. Roof over your head. Yeah, I love that. I think that was good. I haven't been on a houseboat in a very long time. I've never been on a houseboat. I've never been on a houseback.

I was only as a kid. I went on one. Really? Yeah. Did you sleep on it or you just for the day? Did we sleep on it? I think so. Weird.

Anyway. I mean, they're just a boat really, aren't they? Yeah. They're just like a little barge kind of thing. I don't fucking know. It's just a house. HHB, thank you. Can I thank some people as well?

I would love that more than life itself. Can I please thank from Cork in Ireland? Oh, yes. I would love to thank. Is that the Subcity one? Cork? I always get confused. No, limerick, I think.

Limerick is, yes. I would love to thank John Collins. Oh, John Collins. He's, that's a famous thing. Is that a drink? John Collins? Tom Collins. Okay.

Is that a drink's brother? Yes. What was that tall glass of water? That's my brother. Tom Collins. And hello, my name's John. Okay, so what could John's film be called? Okay, the big drink of water.

That's pretty good. The big drink, the big drink. Oh, the big drink. Oh, that's good. That's even better. Thank you. Efficiency. That's key.

Yes. The big drink. I like that a lot. Good on you, John. Thank you very much. And I'd also like to thank a little closer to home from West Footscray. I would love to thank Maria Corotikik. Hmm.

Anyone else want to have a go there? Let me bring up this fender than that. Westfoot's great. Beautiful neck of the woods. Okay. Do you know it's Maria Karot Kik? Yes, Karot Kik. Oh, Kik is perfectly apt for this.

Kroat Kik. Sorry, Maria, but I reckon Dave probably did pretty well there. How about, in the face of... Karot kick. In the face of boots. Oh, in the face of boots. In the face of boots. Yeah, because she kicks.

In the face of boots. Like you do, Matt. Hmm. That's more boots in the face. Boots in the face of. Boots in the face of. Or just boots in the face. Boots in the face? Boot face.

Face, boot. Yeah. Boot face. Boot face. Boot face. Boot face. Boat face. Okay, we got there.

Boot face. What is that? What is the thing I just said, Dave? What does it mean? Butchus, butchreys gali. Yep. And that's a person? Place.

I know it's a person. Egyptian man who was in charge of the UN. Yes. That's what I meant. Very fun stuff. Very fun stuff. That's a good reference. Thank you very much, Maria.

Thanks, Maria. I would like to thank a couple of people, if I may, to bring us home now all the way from Catonsville, Maryland, in the United States of America. I think that's actually Mary Lance. I always mispronounce that. I apologize to Kevin Olban.

Kevin. Kevin. Kevin, Alman. Oh, sorry, Kevin. Here we go. Kevin Olband. Let me, the game of. Swing.

Bada-Batta. Is it a baseball movie? Yes. No. Baseball martial arts movie. Baseball fighting. Oh, great. Do they fight with bats?

No. No, no, that's the one rule. They fight with balls. It's kind of a porn too. Damn right, they fight with balls. They don't bash their balls sacks into each other. I just said they bash their ball sacks into each other. That sounds like porn.

Hot porn. That's hot porn. What kind of porn? Hot porn. Let me tell you. This ain't no. Lukewarm porn. No.

This is hot porn. This is NS. Not safe. FW. W. Not safe. Thank you so much, Kevin. Kevin, Allban.

Thank you so much. And finally, to bring us home now all the way from Auckland. Beautiful place. I love New Zealand. And Z. I would like to thank Meredith Van Bikhusen. Oh, my God. That's a all-time great now.

Having a real crack of this. Merida, the fan, B-K's on. I can you do pretty well? Can I set it up? Can I set it up? Okay, yep. I haven't set one up. Okay, either of that.

No, no, you go. You set it up. So Dave and lock it down. He really hogged the same. Oh, I just used real Bruce Lee films and let you guys fill in the thing. Honestly, hogged it. I was going to make one up, like an actual creative person. Oh, okay.

A leap of duck. Boy. A leap of duck boy. We have a, my parents have a neighbour who we christened Duck Boy. Yeah. Because one time there was a duck on our front nature strip because there's a park across the road. Yeah. And we said, oh, should we take the duck back to the park?

And then our neighbour ran over and took over. So we just called him Duck Boy for a long time. Duck Boy, no, duck boy's got it. Cop it duck boy. I've also got ducks on my front nature strip at times. Yeah. Ducks are crazy, man. Are we been overrun by ducks?

I think you're now the duck boy of your street. If you don't know who the duck boy in your street is. Look to your left. Oh, no. It's you. You're the duck boy. I am duck boy. I was wondering what my webbed feet were all about.

Yep, you're a duck boy. I wonder if Meredith Van Beak-Huisen knows her duck boy. Beak. She's got beak in her name. Perfect. We could not have done this any better. We did it. We did everybody.

Let's get out of here while we're on top. I reckon Bruce Lee would be proud. Her part will be played by James Vanderpike. He plays himself in Don't Trust the Bee in Apartment 23 and he's very funny. That's a funny guy. Very funny. Very funny man. Anyway.

He plays himself in Jameson and Bob struck back. Is he maybe not a good actor? I mean, have you seen Dawson Lerie? No, because I feel like I was too young for that show. Well, give it a crack. It still exists. I don't think I want to. It's one of those things.

Sometimes you say this, but you also talk about hearing the Beatles. You know what I mean? I have heard the Beatles. It is possible to have seen things and heard things from before. Yeah, that's true. I'm sure you've seen him cry. I just got school, but God can he cry. God can he cry.

You're watching the OC at the moment. I stopped. It sucks. It's so bad. It's horrendous. Ryan only looks at people from a side odd. I think he's a bird. That's what brooding is.

And then there's this part early on in the show where he's having some dramas and nobody believes him and he talks to Sandy and then Sandy goes, talk to me. I'm here. It's like, he just fucking did Sandy.

That's how good Sandy is. Sandy is amazing, thanks. He's a good listener. That's great. Did you get to the Woggleham with the OC bitch? Of course, isn't the first episode.

So you got to the end of the first episode? Yeah, I did. I've done pretty well. First season is a masterpiece. Probably the best piece of television. It's absolute fucking trash. It's embarrassing how bad it is.

I reckon you'd love Dawson's Creek. Yeah. I saw an episode. That was how. hard to watch. Dawson. Dawson's Creek. Yeah.

But I did try, I do remember OC Funnily. I pretty much watched the whole first season. I think I watched it in like three sittings. Right. So I watched it like eight episodes at a time. Yeah. I was at uni. Okay.

My youngest sister was taping it off, like on a VHS. Taping it off the TV. Yeah. Oh, I miss doing that. And then when you're watching it back, you'd have to fast forward through the ads. And when you're watching it over and over, it was just like, so people, are sleeping and I'm up at like 4 a.m.

And it just felt like the theme was playing constantly. Are they ever going to get to fucking California? Do you know the Will and Grace theme? It's just like a really loud, intricate piano bit young. My neighbours are watching that incredibly loud at 3am the other day. I was like, oh, they're watching Will and Grace and having an argument. I love these new neighbours.

First day they'd moved in. That's great. It's a stressful time, moving. Have a fine. You know what? I think moving, I'm always like, ugh. You know what I mean? Yeah, I do.

You turn away. You turn out well and grace. Pressure just melts away. I did try and watch the O.C. again last year, and it was, it does not hold up. It's not good. But at the time, or soon after the time, whenever I watched it, what a show. But anyway, let's get. It was fresh for like two years.

We don't have to talk about the O.C. Okay. We don't have to talk about anything anymore. Sandy Cohen. Dave, wrap it up. What a man. We have to go.

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I hope you mean telling us. I love American culture. But you're the way he hates poo you. Well, you know, I don't think about what I don't say when I'm doing it. Stop saying it. Well, I normally say it when I'm rolling a dice in a board game or something. I like, oh, I need a drop a douce if I need two. Well, you can say that as...

To get to Trivia Pursuit, pie square. How often do you're playing board games? I played Trivue Pursuit twice this week. How'd you go? I bought this shit version of it. That's from the 2000s, and they try to reinvent it.

That's fucking the worst. Anyway, you play it twice. Why don't you say that instead of later's today? It's the fucking worst. No. I drop a doce. Yeah, so you have a new favorite catchphrase. Okay.

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