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Salute @TKFG You are bringing great information and accountings of Lee's experiences. Being 60 yrs old I enjoy listening to you share the information I have and have stored for over 50 years. I also own the publications you've shared the excerpts from. Keep up the great work. 🍺💥
Awesome episode, really enjoyed hearing about the history of Lo Wei and Jackie Chan as I didn't know much about that. The 2 accounts of the incident in the screening room was also fascinating! Please get Andre Morgan on the pod, that would be amazing!!
Regarding to your proposal, I would strongly suggest to invite Andre Morgan for sure. Bruce’s beef with Lo Wei had always been one of the most talked gossips around in stardom. Above all, I just couldn’t believe 2024 is the 1st time which 3 of you went to HK together, I was definitely blessed for it, missed out any one of you would be incomplete & the photo of mine with the KFG trio will be framed in my room. Good day sifu & thanks for the vivid insights ! ❤
@@TheKungFuGenius I’m so glad you love it, my trip wouldn’t be what it was if it wasn’t for you, the greatest puzzle would be missed from my map. Keep up the good work, also kindly send my warmest regards to Dre & Mikey! Love from Malaysia.
Hey Alex! Maybe you covered this before: I came across this book 'Showdown in Oakland'. Surprising that they've dedicated an entire book to a just a backyard scrap! No comment, just found it interesting. Greetings to Dre, Mikey and Andrew!
Another great BL podcast!! I remember Linda's first book was much more candid than her second with Tom Bleecker (and after their divorce she had his name remove as co-author). A podcast comparing the 2 books could be very interesting...as well as Tom Bleecker's solo book UNSETTLED MATTERS. Tom even says in his solo book he got entire access to the "Bruce Lee Room" and cam across info and documents that he would like to include in the book he co-authored with Linda. But Linda wouldn't have it. And YES...try your best to get Andre Morgan...that would be sooo cool!
And very cool you got to see THE ORPHAN! The most sought out BL movie from his youth...which is also his last. Hopefully some day it will become available to the public outside of a screening I will (and most of us) will never get to.
I saw "The Orphan" a while back during a special screening at The Great Star Theater in San Francisco's Chinatown on Jackson Street. The main thing that really stuck out to me about the movie was...that fake rubber ear that gets sliced off of Bruce's head by the gangsters. (And then it, presumably, gets sewed back on by the end.) The melodrama with the new female teacher, the outreach worker who romances her and turns out to be Bruce's long lost dad separated during a Japanese bombing in World War II (spoiler!), well I found it all entertaining.😁 Because of the various stills of Bruce holding a knife in the classroom, I expected something along the lines of a Cantonese "Rebel Without A Cause" or "Blackboard Jungle." Instead, it's a Cantonese tearjerker. But, it's definitely not boring....
Ok! Hi KFG, I have heard that when he made his first 2 movies, The Triads where the lenders…after making his last movie, Bruce decided to start his own Filming Cie…The Triads had a major part in the Distributor Golden Harvest. They(triads) had a 30% cut on all Golden Harvest films. Bruce’s first 2 movies The Triads lent the money, and took a 30% cut on this particular deal. Triads would of loss hundreds of Millions each time Bruce would have made a new movie. You tell me, what you think about this story.👍😎💙🇺🇦
Wish the weather in Hong Kong would be cooler during your next tour. I just came back from Hong Kong Wednesday and I was like "glistening like Patrick Ewing in the 4th Quarter". I looked at other people in Central wearing dress shirts or suits and these people looked like they were fine. Inside the double decker bus was like heaven!! Superb air-conditioning.
Like you said Bruce there was.a before and after him, just like Elvis. They will never be another of those 2. They had something that no one has today or in the Future….👍😎💙🇺🇦
I always suspected Chang Cheh had triad ties. Alot of his films had triad themes. Chinatown Kid, Kid with the Golden Arm, 5 Element Ninjas, and of course 5 Deadly Venoms. I like to call him the Martin Scorsese of HK lol!😂
Saying someone works in the Hong Kong film industry and has Triad connections is basically a tautology. My first boss when I was 18 was a triad member from Hong Kong, and I currently know one relatively high-ranking triad who is a martial arts brother of mine. You can say I also have triad connections, but what does that even mean? The fantasies of this implication are often more fantastical than the reality.
I'm sure you are aware that there were scenes cut from Bruce Lee's movie's but you probably didn't know that in Bruce Lee's second movie " fist of fury" the scene at the end of the film, when Bruce Lee's character ran toward the police and jumped in the air, that scene was cut in the original version Bruce Lee can be seen getting shot in mid air.
I wonder if Lee and Wei had any major disagreements regarding the "final brothel" scend from THE BIG BOSS. There is surprisingly very little statements from both or others about it. Lee claimed in an interview that he understood the scene, but it's anyone's guess how he truly felt about it.
Alex this Podcast is so true and brilliant!! Bruce had worked in America so he wasn’t going to take orders from Lo Wei. Lo Wei probably thought who is this little twerp telling me to come over to him. That’s what always frightened me when Bruce got superstar status in Hong Kong and became independent and did Way of the Dragon then Enter the Dragon. Lo Wei may have thought I’m losing my meal ticket. Sometimes it’s too much for somebody to handle. Like the woman who shot Selena. They feel if I cant have them no one else will. From what I’ve read Bruce was hardheaded and didn’t give a damn. Also way of the dragon was made right after the Godfather part one. I always felt Bruce filmed in Rome because he had been influenced by the Godfather. That’s my personal feeling. I liked Bruce in way of the dragon, but think about it. He’s in Rome. There’s Italians with guns all around him. This is right after the Godfather part 1 is a major hit in America. Return of the Dragon has a beautiful Italian hooker like Appolonia the girl Michael was in love with and married in The Godfather dealt with a lot of guns, the Godfather and Way of the Dragon. It’s so similar anyway I enjoyed this podcast. Thank you.!
Thanks sifu for explaining Bruce’s distaste for Mr. Wei. Mr Morgan would add more detail during this time period, but Mr. Inosanto would top any guest you might desire on your media.
Another excellent video, sir. On the subject of Chinese martial arts movie scripts, particularly those from the 1960s (the wuxia swordplay movies) and the 1970s (kung fu films), I noticed that perhaps culturally, character development, as in creating complex human characters, wasn't really "a thing," and wouldn't really become an aspect of Hong Kong action cinema until quite recently. I remember seeing the 2000 documentary on Hong Kong action cinema where Chor Yuen, Cheng Pei Pei, and others would discuss the motivations of the characters in Shaw Brothers movies, and the descriptions were always along the lines of "a good guy wanting to do good." Okay, but does that "good guy" (and for that matter, his or her nemesis) have any personality quirks, character flaws, or just "something" to make that character's personality unique, beyond being an archetype? That's an aspect of American script writing, but it wasn't really an aspect of Hong Kong scriptwriters' works (such as Shaws' I Kuang) until relatively recently. I think it's a cultural thing, carried over from the Chinese opera tradition, but since I'm an American-born Asian, I don't mind being corrected on that.😁
Tupac and Bruce Lee are my childhood heroes. Still watching the podcast but Suge and Raymond Chow are more alike than what you think. 1. Suge had nothing to do with Tupac’s passing except for having him around gangsters (Suge’s street security/homeboys). His killer is dead and his uncle will be going on trial soon. Like BL theres a lot of BS youtube channels (decreationtv is the beardy of Tupac)2. Suge didn’t take Tupac’s money as many think. Tupac had a bunch of legal problems ie lawyer fees and lawsuits. He was broke …point blank. Suge fronted Tupac money and bought his mom a house. Its been said that Tupacs cars and mansion was in Deathrows name (not Suges)to avoid taxes and he didnt have the credit. All music artist were taken advantage of before streaming. Prince, Mariah Carey, TLC ect ect. 3. Tupac would have been paid his royalties for AEOM in Sept/Oct of 1996. Bruce Lee’s financial situation is pretty much identical to Tupac’s. Suge did try to hold his goldmine at Deathrow records like Raymond did Bruce for the international stage. Bruce was definitely gone after ETD’s success. They both went into co-ownership of a company with their label head. Tupac had “Deathrow East” before passing away.
What's crazy is that Fearless Hyena was one of the reasons people got in to Jackie in the 80s and early 90s thanks to UHF tv. While lots of people find the Seasonal Films superior, it was Hyena that put him over, since many of Jackie's films were not part of syndicated tv packages. It was the Lo Wei films at first thst introduced MOST people to JC at first because they were..well....cheap
I think you might’ve missed the context: the films that Jackie did for Seasonal were the films that made him a star in Hong Kong. How people were introduced to him in foreign countries varies and is mostly irrelevant to that part of the discussion. The success from those two films were the catalyst for him to leave LW and start doing things his own way.
@@TheKungFuGenius Alex...I love you dearly....but my point was merely an aside to the conversation, lol. I added it simply because, like myself at an early age, those lo wei films were what was shown on tv here, despite his short tenure at Seasonal producing two of his best early films. Understood the context. Just adding a little revelation that myself had thinking back.
That was sick. Went into it pretty deep. Those stories, his abilities, his various beefs, that was neat. Especially about #jackiechan I had no idea. They got payed squat. ☺️🤟🏼💯
I've always been curious as to why they've only been a few interviews with Bruce Lee's first student, Mr. Jessie Glover. I've read and several interviews with people who knew and worked with BL but very few with JG, which in my opinion would be the main person ANYONE would want to talk to. The first student, think of the stories he could have told about BL development over the years. Now I think I know why but I'll leave that to myself.
The late Jesse Glover was someone who eschewed media and promotion and so it wasn’t a matter of him not being asked, but rather mostly him turning it down. He was by all accounts the best fighter of all BL’s students and definitely the strongest in terms of his ability to apply forward intention with unrelenting pressure. Having said that he wasn’t the student who was with Bruce Lee the longest, in reality he just trained with Bruce for about three years. The stories from that period are very interesting, but so are the stories from Oakland and so are the stories from LA. Pretty much anyone can level the same argument in the various phases of Lee’s teaching career.
@TheKungFuGenius I have the book I just now forgot because that book had so much information about his life. Best book I think in detail about Bruce . So much information that it was hard for me to soak up, especially about the drugs, affairs ,training & MORE!!
Did you see The Orphan? Was it his last movie in HK? The one he played a troubled teenager and showed a bit of his cha cha skills? Been looking for ages, but couldn't find it
Good stuff. Altough i think most conspirasists, view Charles heung and sun yee on, as more propable culprit. Not less due to betty getting married him afterwards, and having extremely long process for getting her life back. Btw is it true, that jet li also were connected to lo wei, or was it some other guys. Hes agent zai ziming (if i spell wrong .sorry) got killed, so maybe i mistake whom the triad connected dudes were in hes case. Peace and god bless
Hi Kung fu genius, Chan Wai Man was featured on one of the magazine of Real kung fu or Secrets of kung fu I don't know which one it was. I saw your podcast, where you talked about the him. there were a few details you left out. the film Boss of the Toei film company, contacted Chan Wai Man they wanted him to find a replacement for Jackie Chan, Chan Wai Man suggested that he use Brandon Lee the boss was happy because Bruce Lee was still popular in Japan. Chan Wai Man brought Brandon Lee to Japan to meet with the boss Brandon Lee's the tire wasn't very neat. Chan Wai man said that Brandon Lee wasn't very polite, so Chan Wai Man slapped him. I think he really didn't it. I will
Thanks for that. Whenever discussing anything biographical one is bound to leave out tons of details. However, my main focus was the relationship with Bruce Lee not so much what came after it.
It was lo wei dumb idea to have Bruce do a scene in big boss where bruce punches a thug and the thug went through a wall like a cartoon and shape body mark on the wall as well as his idea on chinese connection to have bruce grab 2 guys and swing them around like rag dolls 🤣
@@johncarroll772 Funny that these men who were already tall by 1973 Hong Kong height statistics also wore platformers. They must have been giants walking down the street.
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Salute @TKFG You are bringing great information and accountings of Lee's experiences. Being 60 yrs old I enjoy listening to you share the information I have and have stored for over 50 years. I also own the publications you've shared the excerpts from. Keep up the great work. 🍺💥
Andre Morgan as a guest would be great. Good luck with that if you decide to go for it 👍
Awesome episode, really enjoyed hearing about the history of Lo Wei and Jackie Chan as I didn't know much about that. The 2 accounts of the incident in the screening room was also fascinating! Please get Andre Morgan on the pod, that would be amazing!!
Ive listened to this episode a few times. Listening to this again right now. Salute!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@TheKungFuGenius Always do. I generally watch your videos in the morning as I get ready for work. Just puts me in a good mood.
Regarding to your proposal, I would strongly suggest to invite Andre Morgan for sure. Bruce’s beef with Lo Wei had always been one of the most talked gossips around in stardom.
Above all, I just couldn’t believe 2024 is the 1st time which 3 of you went to HK together, I was definitely blessed for it, missed out any one of you would be incomplete & the photo of mine with the KFG trio will be framed in my room. Good day sifu & thanks for the vivid insights ! ❤
It was very cool to meet you in Hong Kong! Thanks for your great words on the postcard!
@@TheKungFuGenius I’m so glad you love it, my trip wouldn’t be what it was if it wasn’t for you, the greatest puzzle would be missed from my map. Keep up the good work, also kindly send my warmest regards to Dre & Mikey! Love from Malaysia.
Incredibly fascinating episode! Keep up the great work!
Hey Alex! Maybe you covered this before: I came across this book 'Showdown in Oakland'. Surprising that they've dedicated an entire book to a just a backyard scrap! No comment, just found it interesting. Greetings to Dre, Mikey and Andrew!
Another great BL podcast!! I remember Linda's first book was much more candid than her second with Tom Bleecker (and after their divorce she had his name remove as co-author). A podcast comparing the 2 books could be very interesting...as well as Tom Bleecker's solo book UNSETTLED MATTERS. Tom even says in his solo book he got entire access to the "Bruce Lee Room" and cam across info and documents that he would like to include in the book he co-authored with Linda. But Linda wouldn't have it. And YES...try your best to get Andre Morgan...that would be sooo cool!
And very cool you got to see THE ORPHAN! The most sought out BL movie from his youth...which is also his last. Hopefully some day it will become available to the public outside of a screening I will (and most of us) will never get to.
I saw "The Orphan" a while back during a special screening at The Great Star Theater in San Francisco's Chinatown on Jackson Street.
The main thing that really stuck out to me about the movie was...that fake rubber ear that gets sliced off of Bruce's head by the gangsters. (And then it, presumably, gets sewed back on by the end.)
The melodrama with the new female teacher, the outreach worker who romances her and turns out to be Bruce's long lost dad separated during a Japanese bombing in World War II (spoiler!), well I found it all entertaining.😁
Because of the various stills of Bruce holding a knife in the classroom, I expected something along the lines of a Cantonese "Rebel Without A Cause" or "Blackboard Jungle."
Instead, it's a Cantonese tearjerker.
But, it's definitely not boring....
Interesting stuff! :)
Can you interview Bruce Lee's The Big Boss co stars James Tein and Tony Liu as they are still alive.
Although it clearly takes more than simply being alive to be interviewed, it’s definitely a good start! 😄
Another great episode, and yes, we do want an interview with Andre Morgan. 🙂
That was very insightful and excellent storytelling. Definitely try to get Andrea Morgan to do a podcast.
Working on it!
Ok! Hi KFG, I have heard that when he made his first 2 movies, The Triads where the lenders…after making his last movie, Bruce decided to start his own Filming Cie…The Triads had a major part in the Distributor Golden Harvest. They(triads) had a 30% cut on all Golden Harvest films. Bruce’s first 2 movies The Triads lent the money, and took a 30% cut on this particular deal. Triads would of loss hundreds of Millions each time Bruce would have made a new movie. You tell me, what you think about this story.👍😎💙🇺🇦
Wish the weather in Hong Kong would be cooler during your next tour. I just came back from Hong Kong Wednesday and I was like "glistening like Patrick Ewing in the 4th Quarter". I looked at other people in Central wearing dress shirts or suits and these people looked like they were fine. Inside the double decker bus was like heaven!! Superb air-conditioning.
Yes, I’m always curious how the locals wear suits and I’m dying in shorts and a tank top.
Keep up the great work
Like you said Bruce there was.a before and after him, just like Elvis. They will never be another of those 2. They had something that no one has today or in the Future….👍😎💙🇺🇦
This was totally awesome 👌
Big Boss - Fist of fury - What should have came next/ -The little dragon - RIP- Lo Wei. Sadly missed- great Show
I always suspected Chang Cheh had triad ties.
Alot of his films had triad themes.
Chinatown Kid, Kid with the Golden Arm, 5 Element Ninjas, and of course 5 Deadly Venoms.
I like to call him the Martin Scorsese of HK lol!😂
Saying someone works in the Hong Kong film industry and has Triad connections is basically a tautology. My first boss when I was 18 was a triad member from Hong Kong, and I currently know one relatively high-ranking triad who is a martial arts brother of mine.
You can say I also have triad connections, but what does that even mean? The fantasies of this implication are often more fantastical than the reality.
Chen Kuan Tai was also supposed to be in "The Big Boss" but he let with the original director.
KFG please bring on Morgan, great podcast by the way ❤️
Amazing content cant wait to hear more
Ah man Andrea M is one of the best Bruce associates, such a straight talker I could listen to his stories all day please get him on!
Try to get an interview with Andre Morgan and Bey Logan back on the channel.
We recorded another one with Bey in Hong Kong last month (should be out soon). Andre Morgan is being worked on!
@@TheKungFuGenius Great! I look forward to those
Thank you very much for the episode KFG!! Btw the shirt you had on for this episode looks one Bruce Lee wore on the Big Boss 😂
It is!
I'm sure you are aware that there were scenes cut from Bruce Lee's movie's
but you probably didn't know that in Bruce Lee's second movie
" fist of fury" the scene at the end of the film, when Bruce Lee's character
ran toward the police and jumped in the air, that scene was cut
in the original version Bruce Lee can be seen getting shot
in mid air.
I wonder if Lee and Wei had any major disagreements regarding the "final brothel" scend from THE BIG BOSS. There is surprisingly very little statements from both or others about it. Lee claimed in an interview that he understood the scene, but it's anyone's guess how he truly felt about it.
Alex this Podcast is so true and brilliant!! Bruce had worked in America so he wasn’t going to take orders from Lo Wei. Lo Wei probably thought who is this little twerp telling me to come over to him. That’s what always frightened me when Bruce got superstar status in Hong Kong and became independent and did Way of the Dragon then Enter the Dragon. Lo Wei may have thought I’m losing my meal ticket. Sometimes it’s too much for somebody to handle. Like the woman who shot Selena. They feel if I cant have them no one else will. From what I’ve read Bruce was hardheaded and didn’t give a damn. Also way of the dragon was made right after the Godfather part one. I always felt Bruce filmed in Rome because he had been influenced by the Godfather. That’s my personal feeling. I liked Bruce in way of the dragon, but think about it. He’s in Rome. There’s Italians with guns all around him. This is right after the Godfather part 1 is a major hit in America. Return of the Dragon has a beautiful Italian hooker like Appolonia the girl Michael was in love with and married in The Godfather dealt with a lot of guns, the Godfather and Way of the Dragon. It’s so similar anyway I enjoyed this podcast. Thank you.!
Thanks sifu for explaining Bruce’s distaste for Mr. Wei.
Mr Morgan would add more detail during this time period, but Mr. Inosanto would top any guest you might desire on your media.
Another excellent video, sir.
On the subject of Chinese martial arts movie scripts, particularly those from the 1960s (the wuxia swordplay movies) and the 1970s (kung fu films), I noticed that perhaps culturally, character development, as in creating complex human characters, wasn't really "a thing," and wouldn't really become an aspect of Hong Kong action cinema until quite recently.
I remember seeing the 2000 documentary on Hong Kong action cinema where Chor Yuen, Cheng Pei Pei, and others would discuss the motivations of the characters in Shaw Brothers movies, and the descriptions were always along the lines of "a good guy wanting to do good."
Okay, but does that "good guy" (and for that matter, his or her nemesis) have any personality quirks, character flaws, or just "something" to make that character's personality unique, beyond being an archetype?
That's an aspect of American script writing, but it wasn't really an aspect of Hong Kong scriptwriters' works (such as Shaws' I Kuang) until relatively recently.
I think it's a cultural thing, carried over from the Chinese opera tradition, but since I'm an American-born Asian, I don't mind being corrected on that.😁
You've seen The Orphan? I really want to see that.
Hey Alex I thought I heard you mention you will be doing a video on Tom Bleecker book unsettled matters? I hope so looking forward to your take.
We shot a 2 or 3 part series on that absurd book. Coming soon.
@@TheKungFuGenius Looking forward to that!! Post soon!!
Tupac and Bruce Lee are my childhood heroes. Still watching the podcast but Suge and Raymond Chow are more alike than what you think. 1. Suge had nothing to do with Tupac’s passing except for having him around gangsters (Suge’s street security/homeboys). His killer is dead and his uncle will be going on trial soon. Like BL theres a lot of BS youtube channels (decreationtv is the beardy of Tupac)2. Suge didn’t take Tupac’s money as many think. Tupac had a bunch of legal problems ie lawyer fees and lawsuits. He was broke …point blank. Suge fronted Tupac money and bought his mom a house. Its been said that Tupacs cars and mansion was in Deathrows name (not Suges)to avoid taxes and he didnt have the credit. All music artist were taken advantage of before streaming. Prince, Mariah Carey, TLC ect ect. 3. Tupac would have been paid his royalties for AEOM in Sept/Oct of 1996. Bruce Lee’s financial situation is pretty much identical to Tupac’s. Suge did try to hold his goldmine at Deathrow records like Raymond did Bruce for the international stage. Bruce was definitely gone after ETD’s success. They both went into co-ownership of a company with their label head. Tupac had “Deathrow East” before passing away.
Great content as usual! Everything makes sense as to why they didn’t get along.
Is that the big boss t-shirt?? Nice
Yup - Lee Kung Man!
@@TheKungFuGenius awesome
@TheKungFuGenius I'm months behind man. Catching up on all of the episodes. Great work as usual
Andre Morgan! Hell yeah!! Get him on!!
KFG, please try to get Andre Morgan on your podcast. Thank you. 🙏☯️✌️😎👍
Bruce accusing someone else of being a fame lover 😊, you gotta love Bruces sense of humour.
Bring Andre Morgan, lets hear him.
What's crazy is that Fearless Hyena was one of the reasons people got in to Jackie in the 80s and early 90s thanks to UHF tv. While lots of people find the Seasonal Films superior, it was Hyena that put him over, since many of Jackie's films were not part of syndicated tv packages. It was the Lo Wei films at first thst introduced MOST people to JC at first because they were..well....cheap
I think you might’ve missed the context: the films that Jackie did for Seasonal were the films that made him a star in Hong Kong. How people were introduced to him in foreign countries varies and is mostly irrelevant to that part of the discussion. The success from those two films were the catalyst for him to leave LW and start doing things his own way.
@@TheKungFuGenius Alex...I love you dearly....but my point was merely an aside to the conversation, lol. I added it simply because, like myself at an early age, those lo wei films were what was shown on tv here, despite his short tenure at Seasonal producing two of his best early films. Understood the context. Just adding a little revelation that myself had thinking back.
That was sick. Went into it pretty deep. Those stories, his abilities, his various beefs, that was neat. Especially about #jackiechan I had no idea. They got payed squat. ☺️🤟🏼💯
Good content sifu
Feel better, Dre. Luckily the KFG got you the top tier health insurance 🔥🤌🏻😄
I've always been curious as to why they've only been a few interviews with Bruce Lee's first student, Mr. Jessie Glover. I've read and several interviews with people who knew and worked with BL but very few with JG, which in my opinion would be the main person ANYONE would want to talk to. The first student, think of the stories he could have told about BL development over the years. Now I think I know why but I'll leave that to myself.
The late Jesse Glover was someone who eschewed media and promotion and so it wasn’t a matter of him not being asked, but rather mostly him turning it down. He was by all accounts the best fighter of all BL’s students and definitely the strongest in terms of his ability to apply forward intention with unrelenting pressure.
Having said that he wasn’t the student who was with Bruce Lee the longest, in reality he just trained with Bruce for about three years. The stories from that period are very interesting, but so are the stories from Oakland and so are the stories from LA. Pretty much anyone can level the same argument in the various phases of Lee’s teaching career.
@TheKungFuGenius I agree but it's something about that first student that could reveal so much insight and BL evolving skills and philosophy
I thought Bruce was rich from the start of Big Boss!! Thanks for clarifying that! I always think when a person is famous that they are RICH!!
You should read Matt Polly’s bio on Bruce for more info on Bruce’s finances.
@TheKungFuGenius I have the book I just now forgot because that book had so much information about his life. Best book I think in detail about Bruce . So much information that it was hard for me to soak up, especially about the drugs, affairs ,training & MORE!!
@ramondiaz2851 I guess this is why I have a podcast: I read the same books as everyone else I just remember what’s in them!
I add my voice to interview the great producer Andre Morgan.
Did you see The Orphan? Was it his last movie in HK? The one he played a troubled teenager and showed a bit of his cha cha skills? Been looking for ages, but couldn't find it
I have a bad dvd print of it somewhere
@@TheKungFuGenius Cool! Mind sharing 😉
Hi everyone! ☺️
What was the western, Bruce was in
Good stuff. Altough i think most conspirasists, view Charles heung and sun yee on, as more propable culprit. Not less due to betty getting married him afterwards, and having extremely long process for getting her life back.
Btw is it true, that jet li also were connected to lo wei, or was it some other guys. Hes agent zai ziming (if i spell wrong .sorry) got killed, so maybe i mistake whom the triad connected dudes were in hes case.
Peace and god bless
Hi Kung fu genius, Chan Wai Man was featured on one of the magazine
of Real kung fu or Secrets of kung fu I don't know which one it was.
I saw your podcast, where you talked about the him.
there were a few details you left out. the film Boss
of the Toei film company, contacted Chan Wai Man
they wanted him to find a replacement for Jackie Chan,
Chan Wai Man suggested that he use Brandon Lee
the boss was happy because Bruce Lee was still
popular in Japan. Chan Wai Man brought
Brandon Lee to Japan to meet with the boss
Brandon Lee's the tire wasn't very neat.
Chan Wai man said that Brandon Lee
wasn't very polite, so Chan Wai Man
slapped him. I think he really didn't it. I will
Thanks for that. Whenever discussing anything biographical one is bound to leave out tons of details. However, my main focus was the relationship with Bruce Lee not so much what came after it.
Excellent Insight Man Good Stuff Why are you sporting Bruce Big Boss T-Shirt 😂
Like Beerdy Hahaha 😂😂😂
Bruce Lee vs Steven Seagal, fkn epic
Love how good Alex is great at explaining things but not making accusations that other people do for likes and their own egos!
Lo Wei, no way!!
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Hi KFG, 15,000$US in todays market is about $111,951,09 more than what I though, see you guys👍😎💙🇺🇦
It was lo wei dumb idea to have Bruce do a scene in big boss where bruce punches a thug and the thug went through a wall like a cartoon and shape body mark on the wall as well as his idea on chinese connection to have bruce grab 2 guys and swing them around like rag dolls 🤣
The KFG prefers the original Coca Cola formulation (with the perfect blend of cocaine), just like Bruce!
Hahaha
I once was a Gu Wak Chai but luckily never join the Haak Sei Wui 😉
Haha
Wow, JWY dwarfs Bruce Lee in photos.
He wore bigger platform shoes than Bruce
@@johncarroll772 Funny that these men who were already tall by 1973 Hong Kong height statistics also wore platformers. They must have been giants walking down the street.
THIS CO-HOST FREAKING SUCKS
ALL CAPS ARE FUNNY
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