Episode 112: Cobra Kai - Season 5 - First Look Photos

1:02PM Jan 18, 2023

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Jason Connell

Sal Rodriguez

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Whoa, just curious. Welcome to Just curious media. This is let's talk Cobra Kai. I'm Jason Connell.

And I'm Sal Rodriguez.

All right, Sal, we are back for another episode that came out of nowhere, by the way.

Yeah. Well, we're back here for our show. Let's talk Cobra Kai, but you are back on the East Coast. We are no longer in the same room.

No, we are not. I just got home from a three week vacation to Los Angeles where I hadn't been for almost two years. To be clear. I was Central Coast for a little bit of that for the last two weeks. And LA. And I saw you Sal Rodriguez in person three times. Yeah.

It was a three pack.

Three pack. Hadn't seen you since 2019. Since we recorded season two, episode nine and episode 10 of Let's Talk Cobra Kai covering those two episodes of the show. Hadn't seen you. But I see you all the time.

Yeah, it was kind of weird, because we'd see each other all the time. But we haven't seen each other in person. No, no, no. It's like a surreal experience.

And it's very surreal. So not only do we hang out twice, we recorded in studio once and what a special treat that was as we covered

The Next Karate Kid like we've been teasing all this time we finally did it.

We did it. Unbelievable. So that was so exciting. So I just got back. What yesterday, last night, like late last night. But as I was flying, you know, getting on the airplane stuff on about I started to get messages because so Cobra Kai Season Five first look, photos are upon us. And I didn't look I was like, Oh my gosh, of course this happens when I'm flying home. So I'm here and we're not doing son a video. So we're not doing like a reaction video. But we're gonna go through these photos in person. And just kind of have our our first takes our first takes the first look photos

is legit, because I have not seen these photos. Have you looked through the photos?

No, I just wanted to make sure I had the right information. Some of the things leaked out there was kind of this reveal which I was, but you can't help it. So you try to avoid everything and someone's gonna sneak in there. So I know a little bit, but we're gonna go through them just authentically. Now you know what this means? So this means a video is right around the corner. You know, Netflix is probably dropping love traditionally,

yes. Unless they flip the script. You know, they're always flipping the script. Who knows? But yeah, traditionally there would be a video next, which unfortunately, sometimes I think overshadows the photographs that we just talked about.

Yeah, but it's still a fun episode for us to explore and hopefully our fans will enjoy they're probably way ahead of us because we held back. But before we jump in sound let's give a word to our sponsor ready. Support for let's talk Cobra Kai is brought to you by manscaped who is the best and men's below the waist grooming and offers precision engineering tools for your family jewels. Join over 4 million men worldwide who trust manscaped. And with this exclusive offer, you'll get

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Perfect. Okay, so again, this is Cobra Kai Season Five first look photos, we've already seen sort of a trailer was the announcement. So we've already seen some things we know what's happening. But this is new. And this is kind of a usual thing for season three, season four. And now season five. However, Sal, it's usually People magazine that puts us on our radar. That's correct. Yes, yes. And this year, it's someone else completely

something I feel completely in the dark and out of the loop that I'm just hearing about this. This is very fresh to all our viewers and listeners, I'm not familiar with this platform that we're going to be talking about, nor have I seen any of these photos. So this is sort of a genuine reaction for me anyway, yeah, I

found out this platform, kind of a news platform. It's becoming a place that Netflix announces things and, and pushes their own show. So they can probably release things like this on their platform, although I found out came out last year. So it's news to me today, too. So what is the name of this platform?

It is called to do? And it's Netflix to do I guess it's a play on words of that sound? Don't Yeah, it's almost similar to that law and order, you know, the law and order thing. So you know, it's one of those sounds that's really recognizable and almost a meme itself.

Very true. So I read this, and this is how it's explained online. To Doom is the official companion site to Netflix helping find and fuel your fandom for TV shows and movies you love. On tandem. You'll find exclusive interviews behind the scenes content, bonus videos, and more. So I saw them all here. Now I went to People Magazine, and they had a little write up and a couple of the photos but not all 12 of these. So it makes me think that Netflix is kind of, Hey, you want to see our content. It's over here. We promoted over here starting to control, you know, the whole sphere, the whole cycle, all their stuff, if you will. So

it's like sending leads to themselves.

Exactly. Hey, we just did this. What do you think? So let's just jump in, because unfortunately some of it leaked but I'll save that It's kind of the biggest reveal of the new season which we're excited to talk about. But let's start. Yeah, I know that kind of crept in there. But let's jump in on because there's not a lot of verbiage here. It really just starts with Cobra Kai comes in kicking with these new season five photos.

And by the way to any of our listeners, we went back and forth before we went live to doom to dumb but then you when you look at a Netflix promotional video, believe me all the top stars are all pronouncing it different ways. It seemed like they settled on to doom but even the rock was pronouncing it a different way. So all the top stars pronouncing in various ways, so don't feel bad if you don't pronounce it the official way. I'm not even 100% certain that it's to do. I think we've just settled on that for now.

Yeah, I was thinking is it like tear down? Like, and here we go. So yeah, we could be completely wrong, that's for sure. Alright, so what did we see photo one of 12 and there is sometimes a little thing it looks like you know, a little description and it says Cobra Kai on three. So what do we see here? So what are we looking at?

We see a lovely Asian woman in all black in a dojo getting ready to fight or spar with some students behind her cross legged. And it looks like she's about to spar two people It looks like about take on two with two folks seated cross legged behind her in like this really cool neon dojo, which was teased before for season five.

Yeah, this is definitely Cobra Kai dojo. You can see the person in the foreground here. On the right side. There's a little bit of a logo. There could be a cobra in the reddish you see that on the right side? Yes, but that looks like new recruits. I mean, Cobra Kai's are now at malls everywhere are you know, any and everywhere in the valley? So this is like a new crop a new beginning. Terry Silver's growing the dojo? Yeah.

And also, I think kind of a pivotal or interesting anyway. I mean, this is the first Asian woman we're seeing besides Kumiko.

Devin seems like he could be Asian as well. From which one, season four? Season Four, but she's all

she was on the debate team.

Eagle fan. Yes, yes. Yeah. But now it's making fun of me. I could do so. But yeah, this girl like good height, and it looks like ready to do action.

And she got nice ponytail braid. I really love pointing to braids like that Chun Li look.

Oh, yeah. So there you go. We know. The Dojo is

growing. Yeah. But again, we don't know who any of these people are. This young lady

and we're not doing cross reference and looking on IMDb. We're just taking these one at a time as fans. Okay, absolutely. Photo too.

Hey, nice cake. Oh, there she goes. Is that Devin?

Well, now just because Devon's in Eagle Fang is unless you switch sides. So this says practice makes perfect, which I completely agree with him having done martial arts for many years. And that's a great kick, side kick art can be a roundhouse hitting the targets that are kind of more you slap them and make a good sound, but they're easy to hit. And you know, you got trophies in the background course what's on the back wall there. So big

Cobra in the back. And is that Tori on the right. It kind of looks like her but I can't tell.

It could be it also may not be we don't know and the people behind now. I don't know if we recognize any of that. No,

I don't recognize any of these people here. I thought that was Devin. I don't think it is I thought that was Tori. I don't think it is

but we do know it's Cobra Kai and these trophies. I don't know if they're just on the wall. It's part of a video. It doesn't look like a mural. It's like they have videos going now big screens and screens, Logos interacting. Very cool. I mean Cobra Kai has gotten to the next level. Terry Silva has deep pockets.

It's good to have deep pockets.

It is good. All right, next photo photo three. Oh my gosh. Johnny Lawrence. Billy Zabka and Robbie Keane, Tanner Buchanan. Celebrate a victory and this out is hilarious.

Yeah, it looks like Stan and I'm gonna guess they're in Mexico here. Right? That's my guess. It looks like they are the only Anglo people in the forefront. Everyone around them seems Latino or Hispanic in the background. They are going to Mexico right to find Miguel's father, and then

this is part of the hygiene. So I'm trying to find Miguel, but they're excited about something right. Well, he's in some sort of milk drinking contest. Whoa,

what is that? It's a milk drinking contest. And Robbie has his hands raised like he's winning.

Yeah, are they're looking at something else. I'm not sure the other guy's throwing up. He just couldn't handle the milk coming out of the mills everything. Something funny some high jinks at play here, but

maybe hunger for tacos too. And it's nice to see these two working together. Yeah,

I like it. It is

I love peace. I love when there's peace in Cobra Kai, I really do.

Father and son back together again. I don't have to say their names. I was just reading it from here moving forward. We'll just say their character names. So All right now we're on to photo four of 12 We

have four there is no four.

Daniel Russo gets some r&r So he's making

like our size high or when he called the drinks those tropical drinks the umbrellas and he's got like a Hawaiian shirt. I wonder if he is I wonder if he's in Encino here or is in Hawaii or something?

We don't know can also be his backyard. We do not know but it's got a real try. He's got a pina colada or something fun. He's got the Hawaiian shirt. He's got some empty bottles over there could be water could I'm not sure but can't tell that sand or just the tiles around the pool, but he's looking good. He's chillin. And you don't see Daniel lay back that often. He's never really that relaxed. Do I like him? This?

He's never that he's more uptight. That's true. Yeah, he doesn't ever relax. And yeah, they're not giving us they're not telling us anything. We're just having to guess like, where is he? What's he doing? But he's definitely

Daniel Russo is in season five. And

there's a moment where he's happy. Yeah. And he's Double fisting drinks double festive.

Yeah, hopefully one is for Amanda, but we don't know. Well, you know what?

They will be really great if those were duct taped to his hands. I know you got like a gray,

stained grey style. Okay, photo five. And this reads the Cobra Kai Dojo prepares to dominate

the valley. And here we see a couple of familiar faces. Oh, yeah. Cuyler and young man in the middle. Geez. It escapes me. Kenny. Kenny. There we go. Yeah, Kenny in the center. Kyler to his right. And then right behind Kyler is a kid with red hair who I've seen before but I don't think he we know who he is yet or we haven't identified him. He's one of the supporting. I don't think he's ever had any lines but I see him and then anyone else. I do not recognize anybody else or online BS and they're all wearing black belts. Look at Kenny has a black belt on

is hey, there are black belts and they have a cool like mural or video in the background. Not your usual Dojo for Cobra Kai.

Look what that is on the screen. If you look closely, that's Terry silver on the screen and you see my guy. He put himself on the big screen in his own dough. Why not?

Why not? Terry silver karate. He's already changed it. So great stuff kind of looks very focused. So does Kenny Kenny looks like he might be leading class now. So I mean, this guy, he's come so far with Robbie's tutelage.

And I wonder with Kenny's new position, obviously he's quite prominent now how that will affect Anthony LORUSSO. Because they don't make any peace, right? They have no peace be tall

yet. Hopefully they do. Photo six of 12. And this is an anonymous phone call. Let's set the stage here.

Geez. You know what? I'm forgetting people's names. It's been so long since we've talked about all the characters. Amanda is on a telephone looking lovely in a tight red dress. And then Miguel's mother, Carmen, Carmen, there we go.

He's right there. They're both like dressed up kind of bent on the town, like to

a nightclub or something. Well, sometimes the four of them

go out. It's Daniel and Johnny and they go out. But it looks like an anonymous phone call. Sometimes that's John crease. You know, I don't know who's caught but Amanda looks concerned. She's looking off camera and they look concerned. There's a look of concern here.

They look concerned. I'm not looking at them in a concerned way they look but

it looks like there's a looser household. This looks like

the wrought iron gates and all that. To me. It looks

like you maybe they either went somewhere came home or had a party but it looks like their house. The house which had the home invasion.

Yeah. And it's good to see the two of them hanging out. I think traditionally they get along pretty well.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Very nice. Going on to photo seven. All mine. zone six. Oh, please go to seven. All right. So this reads Terry silver offers Amanda loso a drink. And this looks like his house or it could be a mutual place of function. You have the what the water feature in the background. And then just a couple people in the background. It could be a funeral. I don't know where they're at. But man looks great.

You know what it does sort of have a funeral. It has that that look. I mean, nobody's really like festive looking.

She has a nice dress on. And Terry's coming up with the two drinks. He's got two white wines. I don't know how this goes out. But I imagine it doesn't go well.

Why is this happening? Why is Terry silver offering Amanda a drink where or why is this happening?

Does it come up and say truce? What is he saying here? I don't know. I cannot wait for this scene to hold.

Amanda. We all know how she feels about John crease. Now she's looking at a man worse than John crease.

Yeah, the man that took down John Chris,

Is she aware of this?

I don't know. Sounds like I can only speculate. And we don't want to overly speculate. We're just sharing and taking this in.

But you know what? I'm gonna remember that. Make a note of that to our listeners and viewers. I'm going to be on board with thinking this might be a funeral. It kind of has that look to it. It's a smidge

somber. Right. There's this something there. Okay, now we're moving on to photo eight. The Miyagi dough crew squares up. And this is kind of a fun photo and it's nice to see the gang back together. So please describe.

Yeah, we have Eli on the far left. No, no Demetri sorry, Robbie. And then there's that third kid I think we've seen before. No, is that Anthony Russo?

Is that oh my gosh.

That's Anthony. Anthony.

It's Griffin center pH. Oh, my goodness. He's training so

oh my god. Wow. And we need to record we're so not used to seeing him in like this world. Like, who is that? Is that that it was Oh my god. And then do you have

well I don't think he I think he's back to being Eli as far as we know hawks on hold. And then you have what is that? buttface hiding back in the background there? Is that who that is?

Yeah. Penis breath. Peters penis. Yes, exactly. That's true. And

then of course, peanuts, bread lovers, so 2.0

Well, there's Russo 2.0 But then right behind her. I was Nathan. Nathan. There we go. Yeah, Nathan, and then Chris. There we go. Yeah, that's the whole whole lineup right.

And Mitch, his penis breath bomb it just Pena's once true well, at least one person's hidden behind Anthony O'Neill. I cannot make them there is

we see your red shoes. We cannot see.

I wouldn't see Miguel Miguel. What am I thinking Miguel isn't in Mexico. So he's not he's not here. So it's someone else? Very interesting.

Yeah. Great shot. And what a surprise. Maybe it's Bert. Probably Bert. Yeah. You know, what's interesting is the names are not rolling off my tongue. After all these months, you know, you did a

good job. But what do we see? They're all kind of bowing them in a lot of smiles and it's not a good

like a happy bowing like, like a funny bow.

And they're not wearing gifts. They're wearing like sports gear, right? They're just kind of hanging out. I really like this. It tells me a lot and Robbie's even here and he's like everyone's is good natured and ready to have some fun. They're about to play dodgeball or something that doesn't look like karate. It looks like they're just gonna go have a good time. Wait

a second. Why did this occur to me Robbie's there is Robbie and Miyagi don't know I mean things are happening in the valley. We didn't see anything in season four that said that right?

Well, no, because he walked out of the tournament. Yeah, right. Yes. And then disappeared and disappear. Talk to Tori which Tori Good luck. So I'm loving this.

It took me a second to realize that you what is Robbie doing there? Wow. Very interesting.

Photo nine of 12 and that caption reads winning isn't always easy. And this is awesome. You see Tori oh my god coming in dejected and what's in her hand so

the all Valley trophy is in her hand she's walking in I don't think Terry silver sees her yet. He's standing there with his back who's out of focus? Yeah, kind of learning that and she's walking in with her trophy in the hand. Oh my gosh.

She couldn't live with it Sal. She has a conscience she saw the ref get paid off by one Terry silver and she doesn't want this damn thing.

I remember wouldn't when we talked about that episode Cisco odd scenario to be in sort of a between a rock and a hard place you know? Yeah, like either way is no good if you say nothing it's no good if you do say something that's no good either way. I say sometimes in life you have to choose between two bad choices and there's no right choice.

Well this could lead to Terry Silva taking a page out of John creases handbook and tearing apart the trophy like in karate. Good for to see, gosh, it's gonna be fantastic way to go. Tori, way to go. Well,

Tory's growing on us Tories is getting into our hearts last season. She's becoming our friend. What's happened? She

sure is. All right. Photo 10 and the caption reads, there's always time to hit the pool and sell what we see here.

We got Robbie wearing swim trunks are they're all at the pool. He's he's wearing some trucks, no shirt. And then we have Miguel. Yep. So I guess he found me gal. Is that a spoiler?

Yeah, this looks like they could be back in Los Angeles or the valley. I mean, they could be Mexico, but it looks like they're hanging out. And yeah, also, what is Miguel wearing?

Miguel is wearing a t shirt with sunglasses on his collar and then some sort of swimming trunks. And there's a lifeguard wearing all red in between them. Yeah. And we don't know who this who this guy is.

Well, they don't look mad. But they are giving each other a look. Yeah, long stare. Like they just ran into each other here. Maybe there was an event here. It's like, did they come together? I don't know. I know they meet and hang out in Mexico. But they're pulling Johnny and Daniel was my sense of the season. They get along for a second and they argue for two seconds. And I don't know. So we'll see. But it's good to see these guys on screen. It's good that Mexico we didn't lose Miguel to Mexico, I should say I'm glad they found him and brought him back.

Sure. And also Mexico was an interesting choice in the first place because I think his father is not Mexican but Ecuadorian. Right, Ecuador, but yet there he was up in Mexico. I wonder if that was just to make shooting easier or if there was a particular reason why an Ecuadorian man would particularly be in Mexico. Now we shall see question

and again, I still want to know who plays his father. There's lots of speculation on my front and others. I'll just let it play out for now. Unless I get fired up in a future episode, but I am dying to see who McGill's father is. Yeah,

I like I liked your choices we shall see.

So now we go to photo 11 And this is

the whole thing In this time, Shawn Canaan returns as Mike Barnes of the credit kid three fame. Put your dukes up. Oh my god. And there he is our black suit, you know, get ready to throw down focused as ever. I have no idea where he is though. This backdrop

looks like maybe a restaurant or lounge of sorts.

Yeah. And things are going down and he's wearing all black like

the rest of the Cobra Kai's that has me to believe maybe he's on board with the Cobra guys because there was I think I read a little teaser article speculation about like, what if Mike burns joins Miyagi dough against heavy silver? Who knows but this he's wearing all black and the Cobra cars and the previous photos of wearing all black so I'm gonna assume by the photos I'm gonna assume we all know what happens when you assume I'm gonna assume that he's on board with Cobra Kai and he looks angry. The old Mike bars I cannot believe this. Why

is this one of those scenes where it comes up like chosen? And he acts like he's gonna kill Daniel. And then he just was like, I don't know what to expect. Yeah,

you know what he should come up with like a paper like sign the contract sign the form sign the form? Yeah, he

was all about money in the credit card three. All about money. He wanted a higher percentage,

his hard negotiation to get a piece of the dojos. Yeah,

95%. And he wasn't going to take anything less. And I'll turn it over like that. So I assume silver is around the table and a part of this scene, but we shall see. I cannot wait. And finally it was a season late, Sal. But it finally happened. We knew it. We all knew it. But we talked about it. And I put my guessing reputation which I don't like to speculate. I was so sure Mike Barnes is going to be in season four. But hey, it happened. That's awesome.

Well, because of Terry silver. We all piggyback on Terry silver. If there were no Terry silver, we wouldn't have assumed Mike Bartlett wouldn't get back. We assume Mike Barnes. Yeah. And there he is. Man. This is big. This is huge. This picture is huge.

This sets up one more person on my list for sure. So yeah, I'm not I'm not saying season five. I'm just saying at some point in time. So who is that?

At some point? Oh, hello, Julie. peers from The Next Karate Kid? Yes. Hello. Exactly.

Wow. Now that just takes one more thing down or, or puts one more action figure out there I should say to relate it to you. Or we're one away from getting that cycle and any other character we can think of. But definitely now we're moving towards jewelry pairs but a jewelry box and figure wow, I hope that Barnes is part of the series the fabric of the show and doesn't just do a cameo he could write that could happen. But I hope he's more like a chosen and he plays a pivotal role because Terry Silver's running the dojo alone he needs help. He said that and well. We know creases most likely behind bars at least for some of this season.

He's in none of these photos.

Meanwhile, He's in no photos.

Is he even in season five? We don't know yet. We don't know.

And this leads us to any failure. This will be like the 12 the one but it wasn't was the laptop this? Here is 12 of 12. There we go. And it's Johnny Lawrence, Daniel Russo and chosen to Gucci together at

last well and there's a bunch of people behind them who kind of look like business folk.

Absolutely. Well, that one guy looks like Obama a little bit

of Obama look alike.

I don't know who those five people are. You have for man, one woman I'm not sure. But it is great to know that Johnny and chosen have met they obviously get along. They all have like tracksuits on right the three of them

well, the three of them have tracksuits on it yet the people behind them have like almost business or casual

business. Yeah, all business. But what we do see is Johnny, Daniel and chosen just to go in order, they all look very focused on something especially chosen. Like they're taking in some news of some sort. I don't know if it's a tournament being discussed or something. I'm not sure but they're locked and loaded. And they have a united front and I love this. I mean, we're seeing Johnny and Daniel working together sounds fantastic. And now chosen. There's the three of them he'll help cut out to be asked between them too as well.

Yeah, I would imagine so he could be a nice mediator. This is not the Three Stooges chosen chosen know what chosen had a little fun in Okinawa with Daniel so that was it though he had a laugh, but he's no nonsense. He's a no nonsense guy.

Oh, he'll joke to joke but he's not going to put up with Bs like, you know, fighting for no good reason. He's here to help Daniel, right the wrong of the valley and get Miyagi dough. Karate in the hands of the youth trained in karate training martial arts for the right reasons. It's not just to go and win tournaments and black belts and all that stuff and hurt people and be a bully. So I love that it's coming from a good place and this is really exciting. I mean, this season, so I don't know man, just fireworks.

This is one of those seasons just by these photographs, where I'm thinking how I got season six top this and the only way season six Kotov were being teased for season five is if we do get Julie Pierce, and then once we get Julie Pierce, I think they could not that I want them to, but I think they could maybe wrap it a bow. Yeah, I think so that would be the best way to wrap up the series after Mike Barnes after chosen would be Julie Pierce. I do agree with that.

Well, maybe Alpha league will come in for a quick appearance.

Michael Ironside, he's he's still alive. Yeah, I'm probably if he's still alive. Great. Well, then, who knows? Who knows?

He should have been a maverick, actually, because he was in Topcon. He was yeah, why wasn't it? I don't know. But anyway, so that is it. Those are the first look photos from

too dumb, or to do

to don't to do to do. And that is a great look at Cobra Kai Season Five first look photos. I know a video will probably drop as soon as we finish this episode. Tomorrow, it's already out. And we'll take that in. And we'll come back and we'll talk about that. But right now, I'm super stoked about this excited for this upcoming season. It's coming very facile. I mean, we are month away, it's coming, man. Are you excited,

I'm more excited. Now after seeing these photographs. It gave me like a little, a little kick in the gut, like, Oh, we're almost there.

And that's the purpose of this is to tease us to kind of like you said, you're looking at the names going. And we have to kind of get re familiar with it. It's been a little while. And then we get all excited. And we freaking bench it and we go crazy. So super great. I'm glad those popped out. We held off all the fans that were telling us about them. Thank you. Although I ignored the messages because I was in flight and getting home. I don't want to know I don't want to know. But we'll do this again. And maybe for the video. We'll do it in real time. We'll do like a first look. Take our live reactions. Our reaction to the video because it's coming. I know at some point in time it's coming. There could be a few of them coming for all with

at least one maybe two. Yeah. Yeah, this is big time. Exciting. Jason. Thanks for bringing this to my attention and thank you to our listeners and our viewers that let you know about this. Here you are just minding your own business on a plane and you're floating your phone is blowing up from all the mess

I forgot I had a life doing some other things. As I always say, I got it back in Cobra Kai mode. But yeah, thank you to everybody. And thank you so much for listening and please be sure to subscribe to the let's talk Cobra Kai podcast, as well as the Letsa Cobra Kai YouTube Live Channel. You can also really help us by giving this show a five star rating on Apple podcast

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