A podcast about Cobra Kai and a chance to process all your complicated feelings about the 1984 under 18 All-Valley Karate Championship. Strike first. Strike hard. No mercy.
We made it. The crowd is cheering. A champ is raised high in the air. And two weary podcasters stagger across the finish line of an emotional karate journey years in the making. JOIN US!
Kreese. Silver. A yacht. DENNIS. One or all of these things explode in the penultimate episode. Get us a body bag!
We are courtside (for the LAST TIME) at another seedy karate tournament! We are joined by "teens" of indeterminate age, Kreese, Silver, and Dream Miyagi back to emotionally wreck us.
On another very special Cobra Kai: tired friendships make a comeback! Tory might want to quit but stalker Sam won't let her, Robby's sensei is a robot, and Hawk considers a restraining order against Demetri. Anthony watches silently just off screen.
Sure, a man died by his own sword, but the tournament must go on! The teens muse about life after karate, Pod Daniel actually shows up to his job, and our DynaTox prince gets his dying wish.
In this episode, we finally get some overdue match ups: Daniel v. ChatGPT Miyagi, Kreese v. magic shank v. Silver's media team, and Kwon v. Kwon. JOIN US!
Silver is back and ready to drain the last of his offshore accounts for his dojo dreams! And we approve. It's time to get out of the hot tub and head to our four-hand massage appointment! JOIN US.
We have CHOZEN our adventure this episode...and it's tailing a bunch of wayward teens through Barcelona while Silver is reunited with his one true love (Kreese)! Oh and Iron Braid gets some...yay?
Who let the dogs out? Daniel, of course! RIP to the guys that died at Daniel's hand this episode. Will he ever be prosecuted for his crimes?!
We return from our hiatus to find Mom (Daniel) and Dad (Johnny) fighting at the big tournament, Tory going her own way, and Miyagi Do teens fucking FALLING APART. Join us!
Tory finally breaks bad and is back to fight on Team Kreese (with us! Or maybe, just one of us). Also along for the Barcelona Sekai Taikai ride: Aggro Miguel, Dejected Robby, Pissy Dmitri, and Sam, who's just here on a technicality. ¡Ole!
Sensei Barnes reports for duty...and this time he's NOT dangling teens and rare bonsais off a cliff. What happened to you, man?
Daniel's world is shattered when he discovers Miyagi's dusty box of salacious secrets. We're with you man - how dare this long dead old man have a life separate from his worst karate student?! JOIN US.
Sure, there's a prize in this episode - getting to watch Kreese knife an albino cobra in a cave! But the REAL prize was meeting the jocks that hazed us (and Kyler) along the way.
After many months away, we rejoin our haggard teens as they drag an unwilling Kenny back into the karate fold, Daniel pretends Miyagi-do is still a thing, and Chozen (cue the orchestra) tells us he's never leaving us/Casa LaRusso!
Travel back in time with us to the suburbs of Boston to witness Hilary's Swank's angsty misspent youth and Miyagi's last stand against a high school paramilitary group! You may not get Kreese or a plot, but you do get an aging paramilitary group and falcon shenanigans!
There comes a time when we must face our greatest foes and do battle....against false imprisonment, dojos with way too many students, and yes, even slow buffering surveillance footage. It's the season finale, and we're doing it OUR WAY.
Get into our limo for a wild night of Dungeons 'n' Dojos with a side of historical revisionism from resident grifter Chozen! Wherever you are Kumiko, RUN.
Another day, another karate tournament we're just now learning about, and there's no way Miyagi-Do is going to be left out even if they do no karate! Not on our watch. And definitely not on sketchy Gunther's watch!
This week: we go back into Terry Silver's mysterious back office to examine our souls/teen karate drama, Chozen spends money he doesn't have ($3.99) on a training exercise, and Prison Kreese tries to cut an honest deal with huckster Daniel LaRusso.
Miyagi-Do's child army reforms under Daniel to fight Terry Silver's hot new cabal of international ringers. Prison Kreese shanks his way towards some beautiful inner truths and we're all ready to give up our jello cups! JOIN US.
This week: our Millennial comrade/kept man Stingray returns, Amanda gets out of dodge, and Daniel's divorced energy hits a series peak. Join us (and Terry Silver) in the chimney!
This week: Johnny is drafted into the gig economy, agent of chaos Daniel and Terry Silver do a little bonsai-flirting at the auction, and we all hurtle down the water slide of life in a sabotaged inner tube!
Join us as we enter our own sensory deprivation pod to contemplate round 85 of the Sam/Miguel breakup cycle, the return of one Mike Barnes, and the best version of Terry Silver: Sauna Silver. Is it getting hot in here?
What's in the molé mix this episode? Robby willing to risk death by chili for his dad's love, 007 aka Chozen spends some quality time with Terry Silver, and Miguel's Mexico adventure draws to a close. Just like Hector Salazar, we regret nothing!
It's a post Miyagi-do era, and we're just over here trying to join Terry Silver's sweet new flagship dojo! Join us as we kick off season 5 with roadtrip hijinks, Miguel stalking potential dads, and Grifter Chozen living his best life at casa LaRusso.
Coming in hot: it's our second mailbag ep! We talk season 5 and answer the important questions of our time! What will become of Terry Silver's beautiful cobra kai franchise schemes? Who's helping Kreese with his prison break? And how many of these poor teens can truly call Mike Barnes DAD?!
It's the 51st All Valley Karate Tournament and, like Carrie Underwood, we don't know how we got here but we're pumped! Join us as we go into sudden death overtime full of vicious betrayals, moments of truth, and even actual karate.
We love a comeback! Beloved fellow Millennial Stingray has been banished from Cobra Kai but no one is going to stop him from gate crashing dojos or...a high school prom. Also spotted at the party: peak Cocaine Silver, karate pys-op campaigns, and the resurgence of ...Wheel Technique?! You had to be there.
The wait is over: we get a peek into the secret inner life of Anthony and it's full of moody literature, Miyagi FOMO, and preteen angst. Who knew! (We did). Also in the minefields: passive aggressive former Nam' BFFs, Miyagi murder mystery plots, and Miguel drift.
This week, on a very special episode: Sam goes on a soul-searching journey to visit her most cherished childhood acquaintance, the dojos get thirsty for new recruits, and those scamps at the All Valley Committee throw out the rule book and let chaos reign. May god help us all.
We're ready to step into Terry's world and start asking the hard questions: Is Kreese dead weight? Does anyone in this one-horse town actually care about karate? Is Cocaine Silver the REAL Silver? Join us as we gatecrash Miyagi-Do and interrogate LaRusso karate privilege!
Heyyy, jealousy! This week: Daniel finds a new audience for his Miyagi-isms, Amanda may be in the market for a different karate daughter, and Carmen...continues to be the third wheel in her own relationship.
Get in, losers! We're doing a ride-along for Miyagi-Fang/Eagle-Do training montages, extracurricular karate bonding, and all the SILVER you can handle. And once again, we find ourselves at the edge of Daniel's koi pond, wondering what it all means.
Big episode for fans of #AnthonyWatch, simmering sexual tension while grocery shopping, and middle-school catfishing! And unlike Anthony's sad crew of child bullies, we are NOT phoning it in.
Reunited and it feels so good! Join us as we start our season 4 journey with old friends and bitter exes coming together to make each other crazy. This time, we're making some special new Silver memories! And if it gets wild, don't blame us. Blame the cocaine. (It was the 80's).
This week on the finale: All the height-appropriate fights break out at Casa LaRusso. People (Bert) get thrown through a window! The three dojo system collapses. And we finally see the origins of a beautiful new friendship forged amidst snake pits and fragging.
It's an Alli Mills world and we're just living in it, man. The greatest living legend of West Valley High pencils us into her extremely packed Christmas social calendar just in time to break everyone's hearts. Plus: snake stealing hijinks!
We're busting out to officially call the All Valley committee to order: three dojos duke it out with city government, Robby is straight outta juvie, and the music soars as we bear witness to Sam & Miguel part 2, Carmen & Johnny, and... the faint ballad of Robby/Tory?!
At long last, there's a hot new dojo on the scene! Unfortunately, we can't check it out because we're still trapped in a fishing boat with only Sam and Daniel's Miyagi memories for company. Save us, Kyler!
Who is Kreese? We may never know. But join us anyway for an exciting deep dive into origin stories, new Cobra Kai recruits, vintage Johnny internet action, and more LaRusso's dojo lease shenanigans!
This week, we bless the rains down in Okinawa: reformed sociopath Chozen zip-lines in to school Daniel, Miyagi continues to a withholding sensei from beyond the grave, finally, we see the glimmers of Darth Robby and Darth Sam!
After 30 years, we're heading back to Okinawa! Daniel is straight trippin over Kumiko, and Miyagi and Yuki's steamy sex transcripts finally see the light of day. Also: bitter accusations of being Team Robby are flung around irresponsibly. Don't miss out!
Finally, the car dealership corporate takeover fans clamoring for! Also this week: Miguel fundraising hits a fever pitch, Daniel is Tokyo-bound, and we get a glimpse of poor, jilted Robby through the juvie prison bars.
This time on the pod: Tory's got 99 problems, Johnny and Daniel hit the mean streets of Receda to hunt down their lame karate son, and we're given the rare and precious gift that is TEEN KREESE.
We're back and ready to process the fallout of the West Valley karate riot: the return of rock bottom Johnny, memory-lane enthusiast Daniel, and the start of our great national nightmare: Robby on the run!
Strap in for our inaugural mailbag episode where we play fast and loose with fan questions, internet theories, and edgy character arcs and backstories that may or may not come to pass in Season 3!
After one hot, typhoon-filled summer in Okinawa, we're finally back to cover the action-packed sequel that taught us everything we know about friendship, bonsai resale values, and REVENGE! Come for a pudgy Daniel and an extra zany Miyagi, but stay late at the dojo for Sensei/international plutonium merchant Terry Silver. Join us!
Reporting live from quarantine! The year is 1986 and Daniel is blowing his college fund to stalk Miyagi all the way to a curiously depopulated village in Okinawa. And if they're going, we're going. Join Lata and Nina as we sacrifice precious life force to discuss the ins and outs of KK2: ancient feuds, a random typhoon, and all the women Miyagi loved and eventually ghosted.
It's been a cruel, cruel summer, but we've survived long enough to witness Tory's epic fight face, an all out high-school brawl that leaves Lata's karate son Miguel is in the hospital, and the return of Kreese aka the Phantom of the Dojo! You've come this far with us, time to go all the way.
On the heels of season 2 finale, this episode brings all the pulpo! Join us as we discuss Tory and Sam's inexplicable training montages, Johnny/Daniel double dating up a storm, and yet another innocent teen party ruined by karate rivalries.