Episode 152 – The Karate Kid (1:16:19)

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Pain does not exist in this dojo. We hijack Halloween with a tangentially related movie, the Karate Kid. We wax on and wax philosophical on this coming of age flick with the wondrous Raylene Lightheart of Blastoff! With Johnny Rocket. She is the co-host with the most as we have a very easy-going, yet deep discussion about one of her childhood crush movies on this one.

Strike first.  Strike hard. No mercy.

Self-ownership means taking responsibility for your actions. This requires that you have situational awareness and make sure you keep yourself out of threatening conditions. You don’t go down the dark alley. You don’t taunt and provoke to instigate as you can’t know what another individual’s subjective tolerance is for not responding physically.  As Miyagi says, fighting is always the last answer.


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The Karate Kid

Daniel (Ralph Macchio) moves to Southern California with his mother, Lucille (Randee Heller), but quickly finds himself the target of a group of bullies who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki “Pat” Morita), an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate and preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.


Our guest is Raylene Lightheart of Blastoff! with Johnny Rocket. She is an activist in the libertarian movement. She is a dedicated wife and home school mom of five. She is passionate about self-ownership, free association community, and unfettered liberty.

Here is her most recent appearance on “Free Man Beyond the Wall”:  http://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-327

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Postcards from Somalia” with Sherry Voluntary and Alan Mosely

Nice Guys Finish Free” with Alex Merced

Sounds Like Liberty” with Nicky P and Lizzie

And our alter-ego version of our show, “The Last Nighters

As she mentioned, they interviewed the great Ron Paul on their 50th episode, which you can find here:

Blast Off! With Johnny Rocket Episode #50: R3VOLUTION! (w/Ron Paul)

And they had Daniel Elwood (me!) on as a guest for episode 5:

Blast Off! With Johnny Rocket Episode #5: The Last Nighter! (w/ Daniel Elwood)

We will be sure to invite Raylene back again sometime in the near future, perhaps for “Wayne’s World” as she mentioned during our recording session.


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Show notes for this include:

Pat Morita on being cast: https://youtu.be/MoBeHY1Rvs0

Audition for Daniel and Miyagi: https://youtu.be/YPFOHCmtEZI

Here is Daniel-san as the bully:  https://youtu.be/C_Gz_iTuRMM

And be sure to check out the continuing story on the made for YouTube series: “Cobra Kai”:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9DTWmhhxeKyYHL4mldGcA

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We’ll be back next week to talk “Waterworld” with our pal, Pete Quinones AKA “Mance Rayder” of the Free Man Beyond the Wall Podcast and the Libertarian Institute, among other projects.  The man is a force for liberty and we know we’ll have a great discussion.

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