Shawn Ryan

He was the guy that I would go to.

And...

You know, the thing that happened with the Karate Kid, the thing that happened with that early MGM deal.

And he was the guy I would go to.

And then, of course, you know, when it when it came to Platoon and he advised against that as well is when I finally told him, I said, I got to I got to just I got I got to roll the dice on this one.

Yeah, I mean, it's not the worst advice in the world if you just break it down just into the credo that he was, you know, into just the noble essence of what he was trying to get me to do.

To pursue, you know, or to recognize, you know.

So, but yeah, that was a hard one to watch and, you know, go get eaten by a bear and then watch Ralph, you know.

You know, do with that.

But he still had a really respectable and terrific career and still does great work to this day.

But if you think of the Karate Kid, it's really difficult to picture anyone except him, even if you've just seen the first one.

I don't think I had the skills or the tools or the mindset or anything at that moment in time to pull off or bring to it what he was able to.

So I think the film would have been different or would have started with me and that it finally just went, yeah, you know what?

Let's go with that Italian kid that we had a couple of days ago.

So who knows?

Instead of the Spanish kid.

Just through stories and just through relatives and just I don't go on the pilgrimages like my brother Ramon does and Emilio and dad.

I guess I lean more into the Irish side of our roots, you know.

There's BP and there's AP.

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