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The Fast and The Furious
How many miles do you live at a time? Take a drive into the past with us as we discuss the movie that started a billion dollar franchise! Never bet against Vin freaking Diesel!!
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Hello and welcome to the We Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch, and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse. I'm Jason. I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters. Not the mortgage, not the store, not my team, and all their bullshit. But those 10 seconds or less, I'm free. Cause this week we recommend the Fast and the Furious. Not to be confused with Fast and Furious. Too fast, too Furious.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no. I went looking for this movie on Pikachu. I put I immediately played Fast and Furious, not The Fast and The Furious.
SPEAKER_00:It's so annoying. Talk about just not having any idea how to title your face. But that was kind of before, because like think about it now. Like Marvel has made it to where all they do is like Thor, uh, what's the two dots? The two dots. Colon or whatever. Uh and then the the the title. Like Thor, Ragnarok, Thor, Love and Thunder, Captain America, the winter soldier. You know, instead of just saying like two Captain Two America or something like that. Which so now like most sequels kind of just do the way that Marvel did it because everything's universe building. Well, anyways, there's my discussion on that. Jason, what did you think of the Fast and Furious?
SPEAKER_02:So glad we got to watch this movie again. You're so glad?
SPEAKER_00:No. Oh, you're not glad. What do you mean? This movie fucking rules, Jason. I hate you. Oh my god. It's just like we used to make things in this country.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. That's all I can say. No, this movie just inspired so many people in my high school in 2001 to buy an eclipse.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Oh, I fucking love eclipses.
SPEAKER_02:They're so great. And this movie was so annoying even then. But I like I like the movie. I saw it twice in theaters. Once with my friends and once with my dad.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. It's amazing. It's it how can a movie so bad be so good?
SPEAKER_02:Well, let's get into it.
SPEAKER_00:There's so there's so much wrong and bad about this movie. And it's just like I watch it, I'm like, hell fucking yeah. Like when they're when they get to the car, like the first race, right? They play like six songs. Like as they're going through the crowd, I'm like, what are we doing here? They keep changing to like some sort of shitty rock, to some sort of shitty like pop to shitty rap. And it's like, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Every car is playing a different song.
SPEAKER_00:And like how crazy. The this movie has a so much representation in it, dude.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It's like this was like one of the first.
SPEAKER_02:It also calls the big race the race war.
SPEAKER_00:What? I have a I have a fun fact for you. They wanted to call the movie Race War. And they finally decided they actually took um uh they bought rights to the the title. No, they bought the rights to the Fast and the Furious. It was like a it was a car movie like way in the 50s or something, and they got the rights so they could name it.
SPEAKER_02:The Fast and the Furious. Did they destroy all copies of the other one? I'd never heard of it.
SPEAKER_00:That's the only way that works. They must have. How did this become a billion dollar franchise? When you look at this movie, you're like, yeah, it's a good one-off. Sure.
SPEAKER_02:There are a cool there are a few pivotal action sequences, I think, that like the racing of the cars and like the cars driving under the tractor trailer. So good. Never saw that before. That was cool as hell.
SPEAKER_00:Clark Griswold.
SPEAKER_02:Christmas vacation. I guess you're right.
SPEAKER_00:He's the OG fast imperial, sir.
SPEAKER_02:This is the sequel. This is rusty.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. But yeah, you're right. Because that that, especially the semi-truck at the end, it fucking rules. It looks good.
SPEAKER_02:Although I have a problem with why a semi-truck driver would be would want to um risk his life to save his VCRs and big tube TVs.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I can only assume uh well, just it's hard being a truck driver, dude. Well, you just pull over and say, take it. You're gonna probably be like fined for it. Like whoever the truck driver people are, they're gonna be like, You're fu you lost the cargo. They're under a lot of pressure just as truck drivers.
SPEAKER_02:But then they'll just say, Hey, can you take this other truck full of stuff? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And it it's also kind of wild that this movie, um, its big bad is a uh truck driver that we don't see his face at all. Fucking sawed off shotgun. Like after this movie, every single one has like the villain. It's like the big bad in this one was there's some guy in a truck. It's like it I think it does a really good job of making me like really dislike cops, truck drivers, and everything. Because the whole time I'm like, let Dom win, man. I was like, wow, this movie's like very anti-truck drivers and cops. Oh, I guess we do have to um uh talk about it a little bit. I mean, this is point break. This movie's point break. Yeah, it's point break with cars and uh DVD and VCR uh combos with TVs. Six million dollars. How much is in those fucking trucks?
SPEAKER_02:There's no possible unless those VCRs are full of cocaine.
SPEAKER_00:Unless it's I mean, it had to be like there were just VCR combos just stacked on top of each other, and the entire like truck is filled top to bottom all the way to the back. And that's the only thing I can explain to be six million dollars.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it is loud. Because DVDs were out at this point.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's like they had a few DVD players, but it was mainly the combos of TV and BCR. I miss those things.
SPEAKER_02:Those big old you have to wrap your arm whole arms around the TV to carry around.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I miss them. No, you don't. You just throw them at people. Someone ever came into your house trying to roll it, just like pick it up. It's like, here's a hundred pounds worth of stuff. Then you throw the dog. Yeah. Um, so are you a car guy? Are you a big car? No, never been. All right, so uh import cars or muscle cars? Uh-huh. America muscle. Prefer muscle. Me too. Like, you know, they got their their little cool looking green, very bright cars. And then like he And then the one that sticks out of the hood. Yeah. And then that's always good. And then he like opens up his garage, you're like, look at this fucking thing. And I was like, immediately part. I was like, man, nothing beats the look of just like it just looks mean and monstrous.
SPEAKER_02:All those cum gutters.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:My dad called his black uh charger as super B. I don't know if that means the exhaust thing sticking out of the hood.
SPEAKER_00:I think it just means super badass.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, maybe.
SPEAKER_01:Or he like drove really poorly and was a super bitch.
SPEAKER_02:Or I think B stood for B-E-E. Yeah. Like that's insect.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Well, yeah, maybe. Because that was like the type of something.
SPEAKER_00:And if you're a car person out there, let us know what a super B is. Go to our link in our description or our email at the bottom. That was really good, dude. Um, so uh, what are your feelings on Ven Diesel? I've always liked Vin Diesel. He is a bad actor that I want to do. He needs to be in every movie. Right? No. Yeah. No. Maybe. Maybe. Think about the two best movies that ever existed: The Fast and the Furious and Saving Private Ryan. He's in both of them.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, he was really good at those. I really like the fact that he was a nerd growing up.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, DD and all and all that. That is pretty cool. I also miss how like small he looked. You know, he he got every movie gets bigger and bigger, like in terms of muscular. And I was like I was like, dude, you looked fine in this. And then the Rock walked into the situation. He's like, shit. Get this man out of here and get me a dumbbell. You have any uh you got any friends that like pissed you off, but then you came back later and kissed the back of his head? Nope. Like stuff in this?
SPEAKER_02:I did kiss uh one guy on the on the lips uh just as a surprise one time. He didn't like it.
SPEAKER_00:You want me to edit that out or keep it in?
SPEAKER_02:It's cool. It's a good surprise. Yeah. He was dumb. Great surprise. Uh crazy surprise. It wasn't like sensual.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. It's randomly surprised, kissed on the lip.
SPEAKER_02:I thought it was funny. Jason. But if you watch sexual. No, no, no. If you watch old shows, like because I got the idea. New girl does it.
SPEAKER_00:Schmidtie does it to Nick. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But like it's just what buds do. Yeah. And there's this old western I used to watch with my grandmother.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And the main actor, can't remember his name, but his sidekick was a bald guy. And he would get uh like he would get up to piss him off. He would get up, take off his hat, kiss him on top of the head, and then put his hat back on. And it would make him so mad. I always thought that was the funniest shit.
SPEAKER_00:I guess his like maybe the guy, the actor in the movie wasn't even supposed to do it, but he's like his bald ass head, man. I gotta kiss it. Um so two more questions. Uh well, it's not really a question, it's uh just you know, R.I.P. Paul Walker, you know. Guy could barely that's kind of sad. Guy couldn't really act, but man, he was really good dude. He's in these movies, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:He spent a lot of his time with uh donating to charity and his time and money. And just like the most beautiful blue eyes.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So he just drove cars.
SPEAKER_00:I guess he really liked cars after this. Yeah. I mean, dude, if I got to do this and got to drive these cars, I'd be addicted. The only reason I'm not a car head is because I've never drove driven a car that, you know, can go really fast. I got a speed ticket one time.
SPEAKER_01:Ooh, bad.
SPEAKER_00:I've gotten pulled over in my Prius more than any other car. It's crazy. Wow. Yeah, people think that thing can go fast, but I'm like, you are not getting the right car. Okay. There is no knots. It's like I especially one time I got I like I made a turn and a truck passed me going way faster than me. And then it's like I maybe made the turn and it was like five seconds later, and then they're pulling me over after the truck went by. And I was like, they're like, Yeah, you're going like 50 miles per hour. I was like, my car doesn't go 50 miles per hour that fast. You're like, I'm sorry, you guys have the wrong person. He's like, this thing can go that fast. I'm like, dude, this is the small Prius. This is the Prius C, dude. It does not go fast. I try to go fast, it sounds like it's gonna explode. Um, also, one last thing. How many tank tops are too many tank tops to wear? Because Vince wears two tank tops a normal tank top and then a mesh tank top.
SPEAKER_02:I think two is enough. Too many. Tank tops. I could see how if you wear like a wife beater, like a white one, and then on top of that put something else that have like a kind of a two-tone. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It's just wild because I'm like, every time he's on screen, he's wearing two tank tops. I'm like, how many fucking tank tops this guy got in his closet? Um, so this movie had a budget of 38 million dollars, and it grossed 207 million dollars. So good job, guys. People fucking loved it. Car scene was like big back then. And you know, I remember how like we had Need for Speed and those games? Um I was just kind of thinking while I was watching it, I was like, holy shit, Need for Speed was like hot pursuit, and you're just like daytime trying to get away from cops and stuff. And then this movie came out, and then you get like Need for Speed Underground. Underground. It's all about like drag racing, drifting, cars, drifting, and then like all your all the cars look like the cars in these movies, and then you get like Midnight Club, which I don't know if you remember that game. I played it a little bit, and I was just like, man, this movie, we should have seen it coming at being a billion-dollar franchise, even though it became a billion-dollar franchise, because they're like, What if we were superheroes with cars? What if my car do it could punch?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, and I was just like, oh shit. I think also upgrading your car, constantly upgrading it with different things and styles, that was one of my favorite things to do.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, especially, oh, and that first need for speeding underground. My Miado is the fastest looking.
SPEAKER_02:The neon lights, like they when you and when you boost, they kind of like kind of like those movies.
SPEAKER_00:Oh shit, like uh the area around me is warping. It's like, I don't think that NOS does it.
SPEAKER_02:It happens.
SPEAKER_00:It's like I'm pretty sure in NASCAR they're not like which go way faster than this. Or just like, I mean, I don't know. It's crazy. It's wild. Like Formula One. It's it's such and I love like the night rays at the beginning, but it's like, man, CGI, CGI was rough. Rough. Um, so Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez were dating off screen during filming, just as they did on screen. It's it, because they got a tough guy chemistry. My favorite thing whenever um I know Michelle Rodriguez is in a movie. I always like turn to my wife, like, as soon as her character walks up, it's like, oh, well, we know she's not gonna be kind of a tomboy, tough acting character. Immediately in every movie, her first lines are usually like something super like tough. And I'm like, ah, damn, she is the scene.
SPEAKER_02:And I think she was in that DD movie where she's the Yeah, Dungeons and Dragons. She's the bar, she's the barbarian. Yeah, and the tough guy. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Well, yeah, but I mean, like, you know, she's good at playing that character though. Like she fucking rolls at it. I love her. It's like anytime she's in a fight scene, I'm like, yeah, she'd probably beat me up. I'd let her. She'd actually just she'd fucking destroy me. Um, but yeah, and uh the directors of that movie uh were the ones that directed game night. I don't think I ever said that last time. So sorry, I should have said that. You would have been like, oh, that's cool. Um, filmmakers asked owners of houses and backgrounds to repaint their houses with more muted colors to show off the colorful cars. And that is a big ass. Yeah, I know, right? But whenever you see, and like I got the facts and stuff first for watching it, and I look there's a shot of all these like suburban homes. I'm like, holy shit, they they all look exactly the same. It's like, and then the car pulls up, and I was like, the car looks good. I was like, it really fucking works. Um, during the uh uh great name of Race Wars, real life drivers, real life drivers brought their cars to participate in the huge scene. So yeah, and like a lot of the uh I'm sure they had a light out the fucking door. Yeah, no, they did. Like all those people there were all extras be and brought their own cars. Like and it was ghost night, dressed like a ghost knight. Yeah, yeah. Um, we got some uh fun, there's a lot of really good casting uh facts. So the role of Mia was originally written for Elijah Dushku. Uh that's a fun name to have. Do you know who that is? It's kind of like douche, dude. Have you ever seen uh that is a joke that's been made about her name plenty of times. You ever watched um Wrong Turn? Yeah, yeah, that's her. Um she was like a she was big then. Uh I think she's in bringing on. Yeah, she was big uh in the early 2000s in the teen movies. But she turned it down in addition to douche goo, Natalie Portman, Sarah Michelle Gella, Kristen Dunce, and Jessica Bill also auditioned for the role of Mia before Jordana Brewster was cast. Uh and honestly, probably the worst actress out of all those people. She was fine. Yeah. I mean, she didn't have a lot of lines. I mean, in in a movie where most people kind of are wooden and bad at acting, she was fine. Uh Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bill, and Eminem, Eminem were all considered for the role of Brian O'Connor. Wow. Before Paul Walker was cast. Eminem would have been crazy. That would have been great. I just, I don't know. He just I'm just like, I don't know. No. He ain't in the cops, dude. I'm sure he would have worked.
SPEAKER_02:And they saw Paul Walker and then they uh they heard Angels singing.
SPEAKER_00:And like Mark Wahlberry's ego would be too big. Christian Bell would have worked, but he was good. There wouldn't be a franchise. Paul Walker was kind of the perfect person. Um, Timothy Oliphant turned down the role of Dominic Toretto, thinking the film would be too similar to another car-related film he had just been in, gone in 60 seconds.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:You know Timothy Oliphant? I can't remember which one he is. He's like the sheriff uh in the Mandalorian, like when he goes to that town. Yeah. Yeah. And he's in uh Scream 2, and there's like a plenty. He's really uh Alien. He's one of the the father android guys. Yeah. Yeah. Uh he's a really good actor. Yeah, I love Timmy. Um not right for this role, though. There it just needs you can't have anyone outshine Vin Diesel.
SPEAKER_01:Well, he would have been Vin Diesel.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Well the thing is he's been too pretty. We need someone who looks dumb.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Dumb, but also has a lot of philosophy.
SPEAKER_02:And big muscles.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. That's the thing, because you know, like uh in the 80s, it's kind of a perfect uh like span of uh how Vin Diesel is kind of a perfect um action star for now. So in the 80s, you know, you had Sylvester Sloan, Arnold, they're doing these big like dumb meatheads doing action movies, and then it ended up becoming like uh Patrick Swayze, Kurt Russell, and then Keanu Reeves. The kings of romance. And that was kind of like a lot of like late 80s, early 90s and stuff, and then the it became more of like the special effects are kind of the action now. And then in this movie, it kind of all came together where it's like the special effects. Dom Touretto is a big meathead, but he's also like, you know, a guy that likes philosophy and has values. You know, like Patrick Swayze always like in Roadhouse, he's like a psych major, right? Yeah, no, and he does karate, yeah. And like so, Dom Toretto is kind of this character that we've been seeing in all these other past action movies, and now he's like kind of the mixture of it. And because for some fucking reason Vin Diesel is such a likable guy to see on your TV screen, it's like, oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02:He is pretty likable. It's weird. Um unless they put for some reason like Ezritic, I hate him with sunglasses on.
SPEAKER_00:Like with the wraparound sunglasses. Yeah, those are bad sunglasses. I feel like if you put like a decent pair of sunglasses on on, it'd be alright. Yeah, yeah. Um, so Rob Cohen, the director of this, original casting choices, what he wanted was Mario Lopez as Dom. No, Mark Paul Gossler as Brian, Dustin Diamond as Jesse. What? However, Studio Excess fear feared that their uh reteeming of Save by the Bell co-stars would confuse Honis's audiences. That'd been wild. That would have been terrible. Like, watch out. Jesse shows up. Here's the only thing. They uh they at least they were closer to the ages of all the characters in this. Like Dom's 34 playing a 24-year-old in this. Yeah. Um, I just thought that was wild.
SPEAKER_02:He's way too um I want to say mature to be playing a 24-year-old.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah, for real.
SPEAKER_02:In that uh I guess Mario Lopez would have been better, because I can't take him seriously.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Ever.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I can't really ever take John the Diesel seriously anymore.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, maybe you're right. Um so the Volkswagen wagon Jetta that Jesse drives in the movie was later purchased by Frankie Muniz. Oh no shit. Yeah. So what you can do with that Malcolm in the Middle money. I mean, he was pulling, he was getting more ass than the toilets. Yeah, right. Um so Jordana Brewster plays Mia. What did you think of her driving in this movie?
SPEAKER_02:When she's driving her little car, she's like, Yeah, she's not one of the team. She's just like the the team leader's brother or sister.
SPEAKER_00:Her driving didn't look natural because her and Michelle Rodriguez never had a driver's license.
SPEAKER_02:You don't know how to drive. Of course you don't. You don't have to when you live in a place that has public transportation. They literally got it for this film. They're like, oh, now we can drive. They got their licenses for the cards.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they had to learn how to drive so they could drive these cars.
SPEAKER_02:But if you're driving on set, you don't have.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know, bro. They got them for this movie.
SPEAKER_02:They could have just had them doing like the big wheel turning in front of the moving screen behind them.
SPEAKER_00:It wouldn't look realistic. It doesn't.
SPEAKER_02:That would have been kind of funny.
SPEAKER_00:Hey, cut some driving here. Um, and my last little fact so when Dom, Letty, Leon, and Vince attempt to pull off their heist on the semi-truck, it happens during the daytime. All the other heists in the movie took place at night, which is why there is no visible green neon under the Hiranda Civics. Unlike the other Hondas used in the nighttime heist, the scene was done during the daytime to make it easier to see everything that happened during the attempted heist, including the stunts and performed. Because I was like, all right, we're just doing this one during the daytime now. And then whenever they did it, I was like, oh, because it looks fucking sick.
SPEAKER_02:And I guess you could have to catch the truck.
SPEAKER_00:Gotta take a catch the truck. Because I mean, it just like they leave at night and they go and get the truck, and then it's all of a sudden it's daytime like we've been driving for 12 hours. I was like, what did what have y'all been waiting for, dude? At night makes more sense. Alright, Jason, you ready to get in the pot? Yeah, let's go. But before we do, Jason, I want you everybody at home to think about what's the point of the fast and the furious? Can't be that much, actually. But uh let us know what you think the point of the movie is. Um, and send us a little send us a little some fan mail about what you like and dislike about Fast and Furious. I'm like exhausted just putting my chihuahua down on the ground, Jesus. All right. Let's get into it. The Fast and the Furious 2001, baby. Um, this movie does not take place in 2001. The timeline for Fast and Furious is so fucked up because they constantly had to keep going and uh going back in time and stuff and forward in time and all these movies so that it uh chronologically makes sense because they just kept doing ridiculous stuff throughout the film. So this actually takes place in 2004, apparently. Nice. Um because you know, Tokyo Drift kind of messed up the whole time. All right. So Fast and the Furious, in the middle of the night on a highway in Los Angeles, three black modified 1995 Honda Civics follow a semi-trailer truck. One of the mass pursuers breaks a windshield with a crossbow and grapples himself to the seat. Wow. It sounds so ridiculous. It sounds so ridiculous, like saying it out loud.
SPEAKER_02:One driver shoots a harpoon gun and through the window and pulling up.
SPEAKER_00:He subdues the driver, and the civics commandeer the truck, managing to steal over six million in merchandise of TVs and electronics that were on the truck. Um, kind of love like it's how fun was it, you know, in the early 2000s when everybody had the loudest fucking Honda Civics driving around.
SPEAKER_02:It's like and people would modify their mufflers to make them louder.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I never understood it until like, you know, I watched all the fastest, like kind of grew up and I was like, oh, because they took the shittiest, cheapest cars and made them go fast and loud. Yes.
SPEAKER_02:And they want to get people's attention. I think that's the whole point.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm really upset that I didn't have that.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So we meet Brian who is practicing going fast and furious and eventually spinning out because he was too furious and fast. So furious. He drives to the Toretto sandwich shop. Don't know what the fuck happened to the sandwich shots in the series, but uh no longer shows up after this movie.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It's like I thought that was the garage slash sandwich shop. Yeah. But no. And then he's drive up in a red truck with like Harry's like the uh something edge or whatever. He goes in and flirts with Mia and orders tuna sandwich, that is bad. He's focused on Dom in the back, who is just he's just hanging out in the back, just like not show. It's like He's doing the accounting.
SPEAKER_01:You will not see the front of my face. I'm gonna constantly walk awkwardly around the back of this area so no one sees. Is there all the awesome powers strikes?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. He's walking, there's like pineapple on the face. Um and uh my favorite thing about this uh little section that I just read is that he orders his sandwich with the the crust cut off. Yeah, because he's a big baby blue app boy. God, but his eyes pop so hard in this scene. It's insane. It's like, damn, Paul Walker, you're a handsome motherfucker. So approachable. Yeah. And then uh uh club's trouble, because some of Dom's crew, uh led by Dom subs. Yeah, you got you got Vince, Letty, Jesse, and uh wait, what was the other fucking guy's name? I forgot to put it. I don't know. Uh what was it? Uh uh Leon, you know, the guy that uh disappears from the series immediately after this. Uh Vince, who likes Mia, gets in Brian's face and starts a fight. Such a tough guy. What's up with this fools? He's sandwich crazy.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. Ladies and gentlemen. The fast and the furious.
SPEAKER_00:I'm gonna beat the shit out of this sandwich crazy guy. Everybody else around him, when they uh Brian and Vince start fighting, they're like, Dom, you gotta get out here and break this up. I'm like, there's five of you. There's a lot of you guys. But what we don't know is I like Dom is God in this movie. All right, everybody respects and loves him. Dom comes out, breaks up the fight, and tells Brian he is fired from Harry's. It's like, hey man, he was in my face. Yeah, well, I'm in your face. It's like, why are you so fucking mad at this guy? Your dude like screwed up here. He takes his uh the wallet out and he like learns, he says, Oh, Brian Earl Spilmer. Sounds like a serial killer name. I was like, just sounds like a name. Yeah. Takes a chill pill. Yeah, so uh then yeah, cuts. He gets uh he says he's uh because Don runs this car underworld here, uh, he's fired, but he goes back to Brian goes back to Harry's uh at Racer's Edge is the place called. He gets he uh Harry gets Don to keep uh um Harry gets Don to agree to let him to keep Brian to continue to work there. I'm like going a hundred miles an hour with my face. I'm going a quarter mile at a time. You're like, I go a little bit.
SPEAKER_02:When he literally likes two seconds at a time, the other full day is horrible. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um Harry's super stressed, and we don't know why yet. Um Brian says he needs Noss for a race, and he needs that shit now. And he wants as much as he can put on. I want to go fast. Noss. Using Noss is such cheating. Is it? I mean, it doesn't matter in street racing. I mean, I guess there's technically, there's like a um a technique to it, as we'll learn, because you know, like Tran later says like too early. Johnny Tran, what a name.
unknown:God.
SPEAKER_00:That guy's rad as hell, though. That dude's faces. I'm like, this guy should be like in every action movie. Probably is, we just haven't noticed. Yeah, probably just yeah. So that night, everybody shows up with their tricked out cards to race. A character named Hector introduces himself to Brian. Um, it's like, my name's Hector. I got a last name too, just don't know how to pronounce it. I was like, that's hilarious. Um, Edwin shows up, Jaw Rule, baby. Yeah, uh, and like Brian's like, uh he is like, is this your car? He's like, Yeah, I'm standing next to it. It's like it's not about how you stand by your car, it's how you race your car. It was like, hell yeah. It's a good line though. And Jaw Rule says it, but he says it like a little different. Uh, but like the one he said, I'm like, hell yeah, Jaw Rule's so cool. Um, too bad what happens to him a little later. Over the whole like uh Fire Island thing?
SPEAKER_04:Nah, yay!
SPEAKER_00:Oh no, and also the Fire Island thing. Man, you remember when there's two documentaries out at the exact same time of that? And everybody had to be like, ooh, which one was your favorite? It forced everybody to learn about this twice because everybody always had to compare it. My favorite one was when the guy was like, uh, and the guy was like, I will give you a blowjump. And I was like, I wasn't in the other one. He was so ready to he's like, I will, I will do it. Anyways, Dom and the gang shows up to race. People love Dom. He showed, I mean, he is a god, dude. Like, I'm lucky, like, men and women didn't throw their underwear at him. He's like the guy. And I put in my notes, girls want to fuck him, and the guys also want to fuck. They want to kiss his head. His shady head. Um, so they're gonna have a race. It's gonna be winner takes all. It's 2G buy-in. Brian comes up and puts his pink slips for his car. He loses his car if he loses, but if he wins, he gets the money and respect. No, he's like, and respect. And everybody's like, uh-huh. And then he looks at Dom and he's like, some people like think that's more important than the rest of it. And then Dom's like, okay. Yep, okay.
SPEAKER_02:I love the idea of winning respect. Like everyone is now forced to respect you. Well, like you can just not, though.
SPEAKER_00:Disrespect you in terms of racing, I guess. But like to me, it's like that's how Dom got to the top. The thing is, because it's just straight shots, right? Yeah, there's no turning left. There's no turning or anything. So it's pretty much just who had who put enough money into their car to go the fastest.
SPEAKER_02:I can't imagine that there's as much skill comparatively to driving in current.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, there is like granny clutching, double clutching. I don't know what don't worry about that. I got the fucking I don't know how to do those things. Uh so uh cars assemble all over the place. Guys trying to deliver pizza. The guy's like, hey, pizza boy, get Out here. That was the director playing the pizza guy, by the way. Um, it's absolutely insane. I'm like, nobody in LA is like driving around here just being like, hey, I don't know if you know. Um, people are preparing for a race war here.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Didn't they need pizza for the race?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So the race is about to begin. Brian is a little on edge and overshoots the starting line. Everybody looks at him like, you motherfucker. You dumb ass.
SPEAKER_01:You dub son of a beast.
SPEAKER_00:Stupid fuck. Your blue eyes are so pretty, but you so dumb, boy. Edwin gets to touch a girl's boob and is promised her and her friend if he wins. It's like, what? It's like this one's yours, and so is this one. And I'll be with you whether you win or lose. But if you win, you get my friend too. And then it leads to the great thing when he starts to drive, he's like, Menage! Charles, so fucking cool. Um, but yeah, I guess uh he they only get the boots, and the thing is he comes in comes in last. So yeah, he doesn't get any boots. That's why he gets uh uh and then the white girl says didn't wear towards him. So yikes, race wars. So the race begins and Brian is in last. Race has already started. I love, I wish the effects were better in this scene because this scene rules if it just had better effects. Um, but like whenever it goes like into whenever they're like clutching and like it goes through like the engine and stuff and like the fire, it's like that's always fun. That's right. Um and then uh Brian hits his NOS and uh gets in first place while the uh world around him is warping.
SPEAKER_02:And you can do it 88 miles per hour. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It's like Dom would Dom and Brian would have no problem going back in time. It's like, why didn't why didn't they invest a little bit of money in that DeLorean to make it go faster? You know, it went back to 1965. It had no problems. Um, so yeah, Brian's in first place, but and he only hit the first NOS. Um his computer warns him of his malfunctions. I love this part. It's like, warning, your car is gonna explode. Shut up! It's like he can't hear you. Um, and then he's like, fuck it, doing it anyways. NOS is a second time. Brian Duda's like in knowledge and racing, fires too much nitrous oxide, and he pressures the eclipse's engine because he's driving an eclipse, one of my favorite cars, in need for speed underground. Yeah, yeah. Um, frying it, resulting in the car automatically spinning out, with which also causes Brian to lose Dominic's to Dominic's modified 1993 Mazda RX 7.
SPEAKER_02:His computer laughs at him.
SPEAKER_00:But it's like I just wanted to love you, Brian. I'm not gonna say I told you so. You are lucky, your eyes are so beautiful. Just learned how to love. Yeah, damn, carry making me sad. I'm in love with this guy. Too bad uh I got uh I prefer Dom Toretto's sister. I don't know why. I should have descended it after I already said my funny bit, but so after the race, Brian is all smiles and tells Dom, I almost had you. Dom, you almost had me. You never had your car. Oh, wait, no, wait, let me do it right. Because I think Dom uh Vin Diesel crushes a scene. Like he's so charismatic and just so into the scene. And I don't know, you just makes me believe it. It's like, you almost had me? You never had me, you never had your car, granny shifting, not double clutching like you should. You're lucky that a hundred shot of Noths didn't blow the uh weld on the intake. You almost had me. Um, all the extras, you tell him, Tom Nick, get out of here. Now me get technical, Dom. Yeah. Me and the mad sinist got to rip apart the block and replace the picks piston rings you fired. Ask any racer, any real racer. It don't matter if you win by an intra mile winnings, winning, and everybody there's like, yeah. This is the smartest man I have ever met in my life. He's so cool. I wish he would have sex with everybody in my family. He will. Yeah. Um, I don't know. Just like this movie's lame, right? Like, I get like a lot of the stuff are like this whole thing is kind of people like, you never had me, you never had your car. People make fun of that a lot, but Vin Diesel crushes the scene. And I'm like, when I watch it, I'm like, this isn't lame, this is fun. Especially when he goes into like granny shift and not double clutching like he should. Like the way he rattles it off is I don't know, it's just good acting. Bad actor acting good. Yeah, I guess so. Then the cops show up and everybody scatters, and they're all going in different directions. Cops are coming around passing other drivers, and it's like, are y'all gonna get any of these people? No, nope. They're just like driving through, not even attempting to pull anybody over. I'm like, you're passing all these people you could be arrested. That's kind of fun. Yeah. And dangerous. I do love in movies like this when you know cops show up and everybody's got scattered. Scattered. It's always classic and great. Um, Dom hides his car in a garage and gets out to walk off, but a cop spots him and Dom runs. Why? You're a good driver. You could outdrive any of these cops. No, just drive. Like that was not smart.
SPEAKER_02:Well, if you take off in a car, like they're gonna keep chasing you until forever.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he's got Nas. They're never gonna catch him. You go like 180 miles an hour in that car.
SPEAKER_02:But he the the cops cars have like Corvette engines. Yeah, they don't got Dom. They don't that's true.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I just think it's like you're specifically known for being an excellent, like the best driver in town, and it's like you're not gonna drive to get away. That makes no sense. Um, I get it, it's plot convenience, but whatever. Yeah, so the cops spots him, Dom runs, but luckily Dom is picked up by Brian, who finds him. Brian shows off his skills and evades the cops. It's like what he was pregnant.
SPEAKER_02:Get in, I'm not a cop.
SPEAKER_00:It's like you had me at your blue eyes.
SPEAKER_02:He says no at first, but your his body says yes. Like, you look like a husky and I like it.
SPEAKER_00:Aww. They talk while driving, and apparently Dom looked up Brian, who spent two years in jail. You can find anything on the internet.
SPEAKER_01:Anything.
SPEAKER_00:That is true, Dom. You can't Dom tells him he spent two years in prison as well, and he will die before he goes back. Damn, two years, huh?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It's a hard time. And well, what you see when you see what he did to the guy, it's like, you sure you didn't need five to ten? Oh, for revenge for his papa. Yeah, which they uh show in F9, by the way. They do the backstory with it, and that's how it comes in. They waited till nine?
SPEAKER_03:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00:Wow. They're like tapping out on our ideas here. So as they flee from the scene, Dominic and Brian accidentally venture into Southern California's little Saigon, encountering Dominic's rival Johnny Tran. Along with his cousin Lance um and his gang, Lance wearing hella sexy snakeskin leather pants. And they specifically show his butt, and it's like, yeah, they're doing it to show that he's got like a uh oozy or whatever, but it's just like can you put him in jeans next time? And because Vin says it's a quarter off that. And that guy over there in the snake skin pants. I feel like Vin saw that and was like, I have to say something about that. Or is this in the script? So they tell him he is not allowed on their turf. Uh it's a weird interaction. They drive off, but come back and open fire with submachine guns, rupturing a nitrous tank and destroying the eclipse and resulting explosion, and Brian and Dominic leave. Noss! Hold on, run. So this was this scene's wild, right? So they drive off, yeah, and then Brian says, What was that all about? Dom says, too, it's a long story, too long to tell. They come back, they shoot his car, it's this crazy insane explosion. Hell yeah. Cut to hilarious cut to Brian again asking, What the hell was that all about? And then Dom saying, It's too long to tell you. He's got no time. In the span of 20 seconds, they repeated the exact lines. What? He has no time. That wasn't to talk to you about backstory. Just in terms of like movie-wise, like, what? It worked the first time. Why even say it the first time? Just wait till the car explodes. Like, you didn't need that line there.
SPEAKER_02:If you say it after the second thing, then he won't, he'll be confused about what you're talking about. I guess. You gotta say it both times.
SPEAKER_00:But that was out when I watched it, I just I laughed out loud. I was like, what? They did it twice? He just keeps saying it. It was just the entire walk home. What was that all about? What was that all about? What was that all about? It's just wild. I've I've never noticed it. Even my wife, who who's probably seen this movie a billion times, is like on a regular rotation. She was like, I've never noticed that. And I was like, that was hilarious. It was just a wild transition and everything. It was insane. I don't know. It's like maybe they forgot that they filmed that part already. Yeah, right. I don't the editor was uh smoking or drinking a little bit too much that day. So um, and then we learned that uh Dom slept uh had a business arrangement go bad, and he also slept with his sister. This movie is big on sleeping with sisters. Dom slept with his sister? Trans sister, yeah. Oh, with transfer. Johnny Tran, yeah. Not Dom's sister. Yeah, no, he didn't sleep with his own sister. That'd be weird. That's what Brian's gonna do. Me, yeah. It's a movie of sister loving. Oh. But like the okay version. So later on, they he uh Dom and Brian get back to the house. He says goodbye, but Dom's like, hey, I'm about to piss off everybody, so come inside. Um, where we encounter Dominic's friends, they're all there. Dom is pissed at all of them for not coming and finding him. There's oh Dom, we're about to come and get you.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, we were all drinking beers, getting ready to come.
SPEAKER_00:Dom takes Vince's beer and gives it to Brian. Um, and you know, Vince is like, I am literally about to kill this guy. This is the wrong person to do.
SPEAKER_02:What if Brian would have been like, no thanks, I'll take an unopened beer, please?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's like, nah, I don't that guy wears two tank tops. I told myself, once after I drank after a guy wore two tank tops and got herpes, I said I'd never do it again. Um uh then what is it? Yeah, uh yeah. So Vince is like, what's bus? What's that buster doing here? The buster kept me out of hand quad!
SPEAKER_02:You know how to baby by Buster.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. You can have any brew you want as long as it's corona. That's actually a Henry Ford quote. Uh you can have any car you want as long as it's black.
SPEAKER_02:That's uh Henry Ford? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Because he made the car guy? Yeah. He's a bad dude. Uh just wait till you hear about the director of this movie.
SPEAKER_02:Oh no. Get ready for what's age. Probably not as bad as Henry Ford, though. We'll see. Doug.
SPEAKER_00:Bruh. Rob Cohen is not a good guy. Don't know anything. Yeah. Um, but this is a classics early 2000s, cool guy party. You got like two women kissing, every guys all just making out with the girls. Uh by some Michelle Rodriguez playing two PlayStation 1, Jesse kissing a girl, and Dom because I take her upstairs. It's easier to do maybe it's without the hood on, or something like that. What are they playing on PS1 you think? It was a racing game. I think it was like either Gran Turismo or Need for Speed. Oh, I was hoping you could say like Tony Hawk. Oh, that would be pretty cool. Like Michelle Rodriguez. I actually hate cars. I I wanted to do skateboarding, but uh got in this group. Uh Vince and Dom get a skate. Vince and Dom get heated because Vince doesn't like Brian. Letty tells him he needs to go upstairs and give her a massage. Uh Dom tells Brian he owes him a 10-second car. Um, so Mia goes off uh with Brian because Vince is being uh just a dick. He's just ready to beat the shit off of Brian. Yeah. Well, two times. The tank tops go straight to your muscles and heads.
SPEAKER_02:They cutting off all boxes to your brain.
SPEAKER_00:I love this because Mia's Mia goes up, let's go get me a cold drink. And then Brian Brian's like, what do you want? Brings her a Snapple.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that's what she wants out.
SPEAKER_00:Here's the thing. Don't bring somebody a Snapple if they didn't specifically say, go get me a Snapple. Yeah. If so if someone brought me a Snap, I'll be like, You don't got anything else? Okay, brought me a Snapple Two. This is wild. But I think like the idea is that she's underage. Uh under the age of 21, not under the age of 18. That makes sense. Because like she's a younger sister, so maybe she's not 21. Yeah. But why? I mean, Brian probably doesn't know. Who cares? Yeah, who cares? So um, and then like you know, he gets up next to her, they're kind of flirting a little bit, and she's like, he's like, take me, or she says, I'll take you home. Um, so the next day, Brian gets pulled over and arrested by Buffalo Bill. Really? That's Buffalo Bill. Yeah, from there. What are you real big fat person? It puts the lotion out of the car. Um, he's a great actor, though. Every time he's in something, I'm like, it's Buffalo Kelly. It's wild when he just looks normal.
SPEAKER_01:I'd fuck me. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So they go to a fancy LA house that apparently belonged to Elizabeth Taylor. Um, nice. The twist is he's a cop. He's a cap. He's a cop. So they talk about the case over some decaf ice cappuccinos. What the fuck? This was this movie, just has some of like the wildest little things, right? Because it's uh Ted Levine who's just like, oh all right, let's discuss this case over uh how about you get us some iced cappuccinos? They go to walk away, the guy's like, caffeinated or decaffeinated, and he turns and it's just this weird shot of he's like uh decaffeinated. And then he turns around. I'm like, why did we suppose why? Because it's late. Why, Jason?
SPEAKER_02:You don't want to stay up all night. Specifically hard cops don't drink black coffee in here.
SPEAKER_00:Here's what you do I'd like an iced cappuccino. Then you cut the scene to the next scene. What's this extra added decap shit? It doesn't do anything for the plot. I think we're supp I mean maybe we're just supposed to be like, wow, these some bougie ass cops.
SPEAKER_02:It kind of reminded me of that scene in uh Boondock Saints when he gives his coffee order to the bitch cop. I think he's just like making him his bitch a little bit.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know. It just I don't know. It just seems like these cops are all kind of goofy and bad at being cops. Like I it just to me, it feels like none of these cops actually want to find the criminals. They just want to keep hanging out in this very luxurious house. That's it's pretty cool. It's like we have a cappuccino maker, we are not finishing this case. We will go as long as we can. Let me know when you who you when you know who it is. We're gonna wait last second to tell the bosses, okay? So the case isn't moving fast enough and the budget of the operation is growing. We learn that the truckers may start taking matters into their own hands. Brian doesn't think it's Dom who does the robberies, but the sergeant thinks it's him, Sergeant Tanner. He asks for a 10-second car, and uh the other guy who's like an FBI agent, uh the black guy hit the black guy, his name is Billkins. Yeah, um uh love him in this movie. He's a great character. Yeah, he's great. I love that actor. Um yeah, he asks for another 10-second car. So the next day, Brian delivers a total of 1994 Toyota Subar. Right. Super Super? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Well the thing about Toyota, like, is a Camry, right? Super Oh, Supra.
SPEAKER_00:Supra, whatever that is. I don't think they make that anymore, obviously.
SPEAKER_02:No, yeah, I don't know. Alright. Yeah, they are supposed to be really good. Uh as far as video games go.
SPEAKER_00:In our world of video games, we know a lot about cars. I know it's a fun word to say. We know that uh they have bars next to them and some are faster and then some are slower.
SPEAKER_02:I did learn from video games too that cam like Toyota Camries, they're so well balanced cars, they're perfect for drifting.
SPEAKER_00:Really? That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02:If you put I mean, you can't drift them because they're slow, but if you put stuff in it.
SPEAKER_00:Man, I really want to like dust off my PS2 and drive somewhere until I find me for speed underground right now. So badly. Um, but yeah, he brings their car to Dominic's shop and offers his talents as a driver to repay the debt incurred from losing the race. They don't want the car until they pop the hood. This is where we learn about race wars. I wanted a 10-second car, not a 10-minute car. Everybody's like, oh damn. You're so funny. Give me your head, let me kiss it. They're all just kissing it all at once. And then as they um, so after they see what's underneath the um hood, they're all like, oh shit, Brian, that's fucking epic. And then they all join, they're like, you're a part of the gang, and then Mia's like, he owns you, and it's like, excuse me. You're a slave. I can't just like walk out of here. I think what she's meaning though, it's like, ah no, you're under his magnetic pool now. You're like you're sucked in it like everybody else is like. Yeah. The original Riz God. Brian and Jesse, not me, but someone else, talk about the specs of his car. And this is where we learned uh Jesse has that, oh, I don't know, uh, what's it called? ADHD. And working on cars calms him down. It's like, what? Like, I feel like you're acting more autistic than ADHD. I don't know, just the way he's acting.
SPEAKER_01:I could see how it would work.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Um, Jesse's a weird character. Sure. He uh makes rash decisions. I guess that's the ADHD.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I don't know why you thought racing the bad guy of the movie was a good idea.
SPEAKER_02:Hey, aren't you the bad guy?
SPEAKER_00:They kind of pink slips. I guess like everybody kind of does it. It's a classic action movie troll. There's no way I could lose. It's kind of like fighting movies, whenever it's like the best friend's like, oh, I can beat him up and then he dies. He gets killed so bad. And he's like, oh, dude, that dude punched your heart out. Did see that one coming.
SPEAKER_02:He's known for punching hearts out.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Local heart puncher, uh, once again, kill somebody by poking punching heart out. He's just got a hole in his chest. It's like, oh no, local heart puncher faces uh roadhouse throat ripper. That's right. Who who who would uh who would win in a fight? Patrick Swayze or a guy who punches heart out? They like both. When hits his heart comes out at the same time he rips his throat. It's like they both die and it's sad. It's like thankfully, a little girl nearby to hospital needed a new throat and heart. Is that our best bit? I think that's our best bit in the podcast ever. Hell yeah, dude. We're all fucking fired right now, Jason. Um, so later, Dom throws a barbecue. Vince leaves when Brian shows up. He's like, You got all the help you need. I'm not appreciated. Oh, here's the thing. Vince, asshole. Yeah. Correct. Vince also correct the entire movie. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they could have just listened to him. He'd been all right the whole time. Nah, he sucks. Yeah. Wear a t-shirt, Vince. Maybe that'll help. Just one? Yeah, maybe just one tank top. Or wear a tank top underneath your shirt if you have to feel it. That way you can see the outlines. It's really cool. Do you see it comes up in a shirt? He has like 15 tank tops underneath it. I couldn't choose which one I wore them all. See if I get hit by the heart puncher, it won't hurt. It's too soft. Uh so they all gather at the table, and Jesse has to say grace because he first grabbed the food. He does a little cute little prayer, and it's all about cars, and it's funny, and Dom's laughing. And you're like, shit, I like these group of people. Yeah, they're fun friends. I mean, once Vince is out of here, it's like, I like all these guys. I mean, Leon can go, and he will eventually. So suddenly Vince shows back up wearing his usual double tank top. He kisses uh Dom's uh the back of Dom's head. Um, it's fucking like the godfather. Yeah, it kind of is. It's like he just might as well just came up and kissed his a ring or something.
SPEAKER_02:The day of my daughter's wedding.
SPEAKER_00:It's like, you know, like so the thing with Vin Diesel in these movies, kind of like had a big ego with them. That's why he doesn't like The Rock. And he was like super pissed off when he learned that they were doing Hobbes and Shaw. Like, that's why The Rock and Vin don't like each other. Oh, really? Vin's like, you're not in the gang. You should not uh you shouldn't be billed too high and stuff like that. And then whenever Fast Five comes up, and that's considered the best Fast and the Furious movie. Oh wow, and that's the one The Rock comes in, and so he like even made him more pissed because like shit, this made the most money. And how does The Rock even fit in a car? Uh have you seen Fast Five? No, he doesn't drive normal cars, he drives big old cars. He has to. Yeah, it wouldn't make much sense with his bowl just sticking out the windows. Like, we might just do the entire series next year. Just saying. We have to get to Fast Five. It's amazing. Fast Five, oh Jesus Christ. Cinco to Faster. Yeah. So uh Brian helps Mia with the dishes because he's a good boy. Oh husky. He's a mama's boy. Yes, Mia out, but she doesn't date Dom's friends until Vince comes in and starts being an asshole who can't use a microwave, apparently. He's like, hey Brian, uh, this was a great. I was like, hell yeah, Mia, you fucking roll here. He's like, Vince, uh, where did you want to take me? Wasn't it that like uh Columbian like place? And then he tells it, he's like, ah, yes, Brian, you want to go to on a date with me there? And it's like, hell yeah, Mia? That's cool. Looking great. But kind of awesome. Like, I feel bad for uh her character throughout the movies because they always kind of sideline her quite a bit. They finally brought her back in like fast nine and stuff, especially after Was she like 45 by then?
SPEAKER_02:I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:But like, you know, Furious Seven because um Paul Walker died during that one, and they're like, Oh, the rest of these movies, Mia, you're living with Brian somewhere else. So you're not in the movies anymore. They just killed her off. Yeah, well they didn't kill her, they're just like, you're taking care of kids with your husband. And then they bring her back for F9, which is great. Uh if someone leaves this movie, they come back, don't worry.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Um, so except Leon. He never fucking comes back.
SPEAKER_02:He just drops off the face of the play.
SPEAKER_00:Sorry, my guy. Um, so Hector comes in to Harry's while Brian is working and orders a lot of parts uh for some cars. Like, I need three of everything. Um, and then he's like, hey, look at this. It's a lot of money, making Brian think maybe they stole the cars. So that night, Brian is checking Hector's garage, hoping to find the civics. Just as he was leaving, it he doesn't find anything, um, but he finds some like souped up cars. And then some Because he was checking the tires to make sure that they were the right tires and they're not. Uh so just as he was leaving without finding anything, he's knocked out by Vince. It's like, fuck off, Vince. He's and then he gets drugged to Dom who comes out of the shadows and like, it's a bad man. He asked Brian to reason uh to um give a reason why he was doing all this at gunpoint. Uh Brian lies saying at the racer's edge, Hector, the man who organized the race the other night, ordered three modified engines, leaving him in a false suspicion that he is planning something big for race wars. He tells Dom he can't lose again. Every time you say it. Yeah, it's great. Uh but yeah, he's just like, you know I can't lose again. It's like, why? Tree game. Yeah, then you can just race again. He'll die. If Dom is your muscles will shrink. Dom's your buddy. You can literally do whatever you want in this town now. Um, Vince is convinced Brian's a cop. He's like, move like a cop. What? Yeah. Just the way you know, like he holds the flashlight and the way he's like sneaking in. It's like, because you know, like most people would just hold a flashlight down here, but he's like up top. Yeah. That's me trying to put reason to the spot.
SPEAKER_02:I think they've changed it now. I think you're supposed to hold it to where you don't want to get shot.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I think you're supposed to just beat everybody in the head first, yeah, and then arrest them.
SPEAKER_02:Just kidding.
SPEAKER_00:So Dom takes him to Little Saigon where they raid another garage. Uh Johnny Trans. Inside, they discover there are no engines inside the cars. But Brian's. What's this supposed to run our hopes and dreams? Well, they're gonna put fucking dinosaurs in here like it's footstones. Come on. They're gonna use the feet. Come on, dude. No respect, no family in here. Also, um the only people in this movie that say family are the cops and the Johnny Tran gang. And it's so funny.
SPEAKER_02:Everybody's uh the Oh, what do we call that? What? This is syndrome. You think someone said a thing, or you think somebody was in a movie they weren't.
SPEAKER_00:He when he comes back, they say family every movie. But it's just like funny that it's Dom's known as a character that's like all about them. I thought for sure he said it in this movie. And but he never said it in this movie. It's so wild. Because I was like, I was like, he are we ever gonna say because I expected it to be at the barbecue. I was like, they didn't say family once. I was like, okay. Now I'm just thinking of all the other, I guess, movies. I don't know. It's wild. Um, but it's funny. Oh, inside they discovered there are no engines inside the cars, but Brian notices a shipment of VCR and TV combos in the garage. Damn, it's like what tech shit? Shit, what are there like 10 in here? That's at least a quarter of a million dollars. It's like uh I think these are$500 a piece. If that, I don't think it's a quarter of a million dollars.
SPEAKER_02:Well, we can watch seven seasons of Friends at the same time.
SPEAKER_00:That's wild. I can't wait till we get to that. It's it's just so weird. So they hide as Tran and Lance arrive, torturing a mechanic to give him the engines they requested, poor Ted. Uh they managed to escape without being seen, though. It's like they're just fucking um waterboarding this guy with oil. That sucks. It's fucking brutal. Remember when they did that in Three Kings? Ah, I've never seen that movie. I want I want to. They make him drink of like a whole quart of oil. That sucks. That's like about the war.
SPEAKER_02:Aren't they like that? Yeah, they're in they're in Kuwait. It's Mark Wahlberg and or is it George Clooney?
SPEAKER_00:George Clooney. I can't remember. Oh no, Jamie Fox. I can't remember. All I know is a director of hearts in him. So that this convinces Brian that trans crew is behind the hijacks and lets Sergeant Tanner uh and the FBI specialist Billkins know. Billkins is convinced it's him. Brian wants more time to find evidence. Tanner still thinks it's Dom, and he also doesn't want to leave the house. Brian says he needs a few more days. Can't leave my cappuccino machine. Can we at least take it? Dominic invites Brian to his house showing um oh yeah, they're like we see that they've been working on the car, and it's like oh um, and then like Dominic's like, hey, come here, Brian, I gotta show you something. And he shows him a 1970 Dodge Charger, which he has built with his father. The scene's like so out of nowhere. Yeah. And like he comes in, it's just it's this info dump about his past, and they're like, All right, well, I told you my life story. See you later.
SPEAKER_02:Come in here. I want to tell you about my dead dog.
SPEAKER_00:But Dom tells him that his dad was a stock car driver. One day his father was forced into a wall by another racer racer. He met the driver a week later and beat him up with a 3-4 stork wrench. This caused Dom to have a record, and he was forbidden to return to the track for life.
SPEAKER_02:Just the stock car track, right? Yeah, that's NASCAR.
SPEAKER_00:I actually made him really big in the night, night, night racing scene. Dom, that's my dad. He was uh he was coming. He was a car. He was his dabe was Mater. He towed people around. Yes. I love it. That's that's my dad. He was coming up in the pro stock circuit last race of the season. He was coming into the final turn with a driver named Kenny Linder, tapped his bumper and put him into the wall at 120 miles an hour, watched my fur father burn to de fada. He actually says fada. Fada fada burned to death. I can still remember him screaming. The people who were there said my father died long before the tanks blew. They said it was me that was screaming. Oh. I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Again?
unknown:No.
SPEAKER_00:Is this the second time? No, this is the first time. Live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else mattered. Not the mortgage, not the store, not my team. Not any human being. I have qualms with this line. I'm about to after I finish it, I will yell. And all their bullshit. For those 10 seconds or less, I'm free. Dom, you just yelled at your damn crew for not coming and getting you. And then you just said, fuck my team and they're bullshit.
SPEAKER_02:I don't give a shit about those guys.
SPEAKER_00:It's not about family at all. The most popular quote in the movie says, fuck his family, essentially. I'd say the F word too much. I'm sorry. Anyways, love that. Love that line though. It's so good. I live my whole life a quarter of my lifetime. Put that, I want that put on my bot, the my back. Don't say body. Okay. I want it lower back. No, that's the actually, I want Johnny Trans uh face on my lower back, and then I call it my trans stamp. You could call it your Dom stamp. Dom stamp. I go and I like I meet Vin D'So, Vin. Check it out. Sign the lower of my back. Sign my ass crack. Sign it onto your bold head. So on his first date with Mia, he gets intel on Dom's gang. Vince grew up with Dom. Uh Letty loved cars and was obsessed with Dom. And then when Letty turned 16, Dom was obsessed with her. Funny how that works. Uh Jesse just showed up one day. Uh they flirt a bit. Miya said, uh Brian's like, it's like you're just here because you like Dom. It's like, actually, I'm here because I like you. And then Mia's like, it's nice to come first. Wanna go for a drive? I think they're insinuating that they're gonna have sex. Yeah. Um, and then uh they drive, and uh Jordan.
SPEAKER_02:Every guy I mean just wants to fuck my brother. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um and then like they go for a drive. Uh Mia's uh good at it, but looks bad at it. Yeah, for sure. Um then we see the Hondas, they're out hijacking again, and then we cut to Brian, he gets a call from Tanner asking if they can move in on Tran. He's like, say yes if you agree. And he's like, Yes. Mia wakes up and we see that they bowed. Um and then she's like, Who was that? It's like wrong number. It's like, then why'd you say yeah? And then they have sex again. Slice circle yes or no. What if she was just like, so they asked if this they called and asked if this was the wrong number and you just said yeah? It's like, yeah. Like, well, that's a weird problem. It's definitely the wrong number when you're about to have sex. And then they have sex again. Way to go, Brian. They seem like a cute couple. So the SWAT team, along with Brian, raids trans house and arrests him and his cousin Lance. But also we see Dom and Letty have sex, and Dom motorboats her. That's awesome. Good for you, Dom. Jason, why were those two things put together? Does it matter? Why do we see the raid happening? But then Vin Diesel motorboating.
SPEAKER_02:Vin Diesel's like, hey, check this out, director.
SPEAKER_00:Do you think Michelle Rodriguez is like, what are we doing here? I bet she thought it was hilarious. She's probably like, oh, this is probably gonna be an intimate, like, sex scene, and we get to see, like, you know, two different sides of Vin and my character, and then they put it up, it's like, do you think they got do you think they got the motorboating scene in one take?
SPEAKER_02:Because she probably would have cracked up laughing.
SPEAKER_00:I actually heard like the first time Vin sneezed in her boobs. Sorry, I live my life one motorboat at a time.
SPEAKER_01:That's amazing. That's what I want on my transcript. Is this wild that I was just like, see, what?
SPEAKER_00:Like, why are this movie's just weirdly edited together? And then it's just like, I wonder whose idea it was. Was it the director's like, hey dime, motor motor tits? We got our cameras rolling. We're gonna we're gonna do this a few more times.
SPEAKER_01:It's like, what's that? I really know about cars. I've never heard of a boat.
SPEAKER_00:So, but it's uh um, but it's showing up that the electronics are legally bought and that the only charges against them is minor parking tickets and unpaid speeding fines, forcing them to set them free as their ransom is paid. Uh, first of all, there's like a really great part of this where uh Johnny Tran's dad like smacks him in the face, and I was like, I actually want to see this family's I there's a very interesting movie with the Johnny Tran family. Yeah, I think so. When they exit, when they enter their place, I was like, I where's our where's this movie at? Asian parents put a lot of pressure on it. Yeah, it was just like there seemed to be like so much just in this, like their lives. I'm like, I want the motorcycled Asian gang guy.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, he seems like the only person with a family. Yeah. Like an actual family.
SPEAKER_00:He's the only other person that's his family in this, other than uh the cops. Um also, why did they have so many TV VCR combos in the garage? It's like, I got 75 VCR combos, legally bought babies.
SPEAKER_02:So you can play uh so you can play Goldeneye without screenwatching.
SPEAKER_00:I don't like maybe it was like maybe this all happened around like November, and there's like, oh, I got them as Christmas gifts for my gang. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you gotta set up a counter-strike.
SPEAKER_00:It's just like it's like if it if they went into the other room in the garage, there's actually like 75 leather uh snakes, snakeskin pants that they're like, this was actually for my cousin. Anyway, so Billkins and Tanner, Brian's superiors, return to their original theory that Dominic and his crew are the perpetrators. Bilkins is like, this is all your fault, Brian. He's like, I told you it wasn't them. I told you give me more time. It's like, yeah, okay. Tanner warns Brian not to let his feelings for Mia or his friendship with Dominic cloud his judgment and lead them too far from the case. And Billkins, angers about the situation, gives Brian only 36 hours to break the case, or he will be sacked from the job and lose his entire career. Meanwhile, with the super now fully prepped to race, they go out for a test drive and race a Ferrari. Hell yeah. He's like, what is that? How much is that? It's like more than you can afford. And it's like, hey, guy in the Ferrari, your car is faster. Don't agree to race the guy who obviously put a shit ton of money to make the like a Toyota go as fast as possible.
SPEAKER_02:No, but I feel like a Ferrari would still be faster if you know how to drive it correctly.
SPEAKER_00:I have no, I don't know much about Ferraris. So, but how is it well? I mean, not if they got fucking NOS in their tanks and their things go 180 miles an hour. I don't know enough about it. If I pulled up next to their car and they're like, your car fast, they'd be like, probably not as fast as yours because you obviously made your car look fast.
SPEAKER_02:And you have a hot lady in your car, so that means it's fast.
SPEAKER_00:Um, so uh yeah, they obviously beat the brakes off that guy. Uh they stopped to get some food because it's tough racing. Uh Brian asked Dominance for information regarding his income, citing that the shop alone wouldn't pay for all the racing expenditures, and that he wants to be in whatever he is doing. A lot of bad acting in this scene. Uh feels like he's pushing a little too quickly because he's just like, he gets there and Brian looks a little upset. He's like, What's wrong, Brian? He's like, Sometimes I have my bad days, man. You know, kind of huskies are tipper middle. Um, but then he's just like, damn it, Dom. I know you're not getting it's like, hey, whoa, whoa, uh, why are you We're best friends now? Why are you just starting to yell at me all of a sudden for absolutely no reason? You know, this is not a normal way to have this conversation out of nowhere. My cop boss put a lot of pressure on me. I would just be like, All right, you know what? Keep your get out of my business. All right, never mind. You're obviously a psycho. Get out of here.
SPEAKER_02:Obviously, a police officer. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Um, instead of telling him what he does, uh, Dominic gives Brian an invitation to race wars. Uh a massive uh street fight where all the races get together and beat each other up, I guess. Yes. I love it. And then the cops come in and it's race wars jokes. I don't know. Uh it felt wrong to keep going, but I said it. Whatever.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I like the idea of a street fighter gate, like with just with cars slamming into each other. Yeah, I guess that's demolition dirty. It should have been that. They don't go fast enough.
SPEAKER_00:Honestly, race wars you could call Mad Max Race Wars.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. I will.
SPEAKER_00:Have you seen the new movie Racehorse?
SPEAKER_02:Seen the new race war.
SPEAKER_00:Um, a massive street racing event held in the desert and informs him that they will talk once Bryan says proven his worth on the strip. Get ready. It's racehorse time. Yay! Dom's crew has uh uh are set up in an insane tent. I don't know if you noticed his tent. It looked like it wasn't properly put up. It was very flowing. It's like, this is not a good tent. Uh Letty Windy out there. Letty races and easily wins a race. Uh Jesse wanting to press his dad in gel, and Dom gets his modified 1995 Volkswagen, Jetta A3, and Trans. Is it Honda S2000? Yeah. And Tran bets his modified 1999, Honda S2000. Yeah. Jesse loses and panics and flees the track, prompting Tran to confront Dominic and demand that he retrieves the car for him. Jesse, what the hell are you doing? He doesn't want to lose his baby. It's like, first of all, we haven't seen you drive in this movie. Yeah, you apparently can't. Racing. And it's like, they have to have a sign-up sheet on who you're facing and be like, who am I going against? Oh, him. Oh, the rich guy with the big fancy car? Yeah, you know what? Never mind. I'm good. Um, Dominic refuses, and Tran accuses him of being a narc, causing him to be humiliated in front of his entire family. In response, Dominic Lee, Dominic brutally beats Tran and is pulled off by Vince and two security guards. It's like, I mean, I'm just not on Dom's side. Are they trans security guards? Tran. Johnny trans. Trans trauma. Tran and security guards. No.
SPEAKER_02:Are they transsexual security guards?
SPEAKER_00:I'm talking a little too fast and I'm loose with my S's. Fast and loose. Damn. Damn, girl, you look a little loose with your S's. Jesse, uh, don't date her. She's loose with S's. Anyways. Take this red pill. Uh later, Brian notices Dominic and his crew leaving the race warp. Brian realizes that Dominic is the hijacker and confesses to Mia his status as an undercover cop. This has happened fast. There is a lot of like wild decisions towards this section of the movie. Yeah. With Jesse doing what he's doing, the way Brian confronts Dom. Don of Brian going to Mia, be like, hey, where's your where you know about the trucks? I'm a cop. And he's like, what the fuck? You're acting weird today.
SPEAKER_02:Does Mia know about the trucks? Uh, I would assume so. I feel like that's something you want to keep from your little sister.
SPEAKER_00:Well, she definitely knows.
SPEAKER_02:She tells him Is that why they did she? Did Dom have her take him out on a date so they could rob the cars? Because he knew he was a cop. No. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:She just knows what he does. Um so Brian realizes that Dominic is a hijacker, confesses his that uh to Mia the status of undercover cop. She's angry at Brian, but he says to her that everything that he says said to her about their relationship is true and convinces her to come with him to save her brother and his friends from armed truck drivers. And they leave on Highway 65 outside LA to catch up with Dominic and the rest of the group. Meanwhile, the gang prepares to hijack the cars. The whole gang, in classic action movie high scenario, says this doesn't feel right and that they shouldn't do it. But Dom just like point break. Yeah. We have to get those VCRs. We're gonna do it. I need my VCRs. I'm gonna get a billion dollars for VCRs.
SPEAKER_02:You want one VCR for every VH type. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So during the attempted hijacking, it goes wrong when the truck driver fights back, five fucks back, fights back with a shotgun, causing Letty and Vince severe injuries. Like um That was kind of awesome. Yeah, dude. Uh apparently this movie was R-rated until they cut a lot of the uh violence done to Vince's arm when the cable's wrapped up. Apparently, it was more gruesome originally. Because that is another thing when I watched it this time, I was like, bro, that's like a steel cable. Yeah, it works like that. Yeah, like your arm's gonna and the way you're flying around, you're probably gonna lose that arm and your skin at that point. Yeah. So I uh but then uh I read in the uh facts. I was like, oh, they actually had a very brutal scene. That's a bummer. Um Brian attacks, uh, tracks their location by triangulating Dom's cell phone signal and works with Mia to get Vince off the truck, who is hanging off the truck with his arm wrapped in cable bleeding. Brian, realizing that Vince is in a critical condition, makes a difficult decision to blow his cover to the crew by phoning in for a medvac, revealing to Dominic that he is a police officer. Dom's like, oh he's like, wait a second, all the sides were there, but I didn't know.
SPEAKER_02:And how dare you call an ambulance for my friend, you cop. How could you?
SPEAKER_00:The revelation enrages Dominic, but he contains himself and flees with Leon, Letty, and Mia as the med back arrives for Vince. Great action scene.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it was bad.
SPEAKER_00:Like the shooting out the thing, then the truck driver shooting the scene, like the tenseness of the truck driver still trying to drive and put the shells in.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it was awesome when he shoots him, he shoots the gun at at the door and it causes the door to swing open real wide. That's fucking sick.
SPEAKER_00:And it's just funny because like when you go to further look at the further movies of the Fast and Furious, it's insane. They're driving a safe throughout an entire town. Yeah, how it's got tires on it? 10,000 pounds. Uh no, cars. Jason, cars do everything in here. I thought you said they're driving a safe. No, they are driving a safe uh a safe attached to their cars through an entire town. Oh, uh city.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that's fun. Yeah, it's rat. This is like slamming in the store.
SPEAKER_00:Furious seven, they're jumping across buildings with their cars. Yes.
SPEAKER_02:Can't wait. Cannot wait. Can't wait to wait. I can't believe I never saw the rest of them. You haven't? Oh, so I've never seen any other Fast and Furious. Um, just real quick.
SPEAKER_00:First Fast and Furious, good. Two Fast, Two Furious, hilarious and good. Tokyo Drift, surprisingly pretty good. Uh Fast and Furious 4. I don't know. I don't remember a single thing about it. I think something happens to Letty. That's about all I can remember. All right. Uh I think they're like trying to that's when Vin comes back. By five, they have spider man powers. No, five, that's when like the that's when the action really starts to ramp up. Oh, wow. Yeah. No pun intended. Bro. Yeah. And that's where the rock comes in and there's like this whole police situation. This is blowing my mouth. Six is where um it's Jason Satham's not in it yet, but um it's like the the really broad Jason's character. Jason Satham's character's uh brother is in it. I don't really remember too much about that one, so that one's like me. Uh seven, that's where in a street, in a street fight, the street always wins. And they also do and the rock of flexes out of a cast. Yeah, and they drive on buildings. Ronda Rousey's there and fights Letty. Uh eight, not good, one of my least favorites of it. Um, but they have like uh they go zombie car mode, and that's an amazing. They also drive on ice. That's I don't I think there's like a I think they're like there's like a uh spiky wheels.
SPEAKER_02:There's a submarine or do they ever put like uh 007 style like traps in their cars, like oil slicks and caltraps and smoke screens, stuff like that?
SPEAKER_00:I truthfully can't remember. Uh but Dom does sling himself out of a car, catches Letty, and then lands on another car and nobody gets hurt. Yes. Going like 140 miles an hour. That's incredible. So we'll continue. Um, Brian follows Dominic to his house and holds him at gunpoint to prevent him from fleeing, but Dominic explains that he is going to look for Jesse before Tran finds him. Just when Dominic points his shotgun to him, Jesse arrives apologizing for his actions at Race Wars. Sorry, I got a little I got a little too racy there. And he pleads for Dominic's help. Moments later, Tran and Lance arrive on their bikes and perform a drive-by shooting. It's a drive-by fruiting. Drive-by fruiting? Killing Jesse. Oh, poor Jesse. Just throwing pomegranates at him. Brian and Dominic chase him, uh, leaving Mia with a dead body on her lawn. Mia's like, what do I do? Do I drag him in? Do I leave him out here? Do I call the cops? It's just, I'm just like, I'm going back inside. Just shut the door. I'm going back inside, locking the door, and be like, ah, I just thought to play needs for speed. Kids were playing with firecrackers. I don't know. Um. So yeah, they chase them. Uh, Dom and his charger, he forces Lance motorcycle off the road, severely injuring him, while Brian, after a short chase, managed to shoot and kill Tran. R.I.P. Tran. Afterwards, Brian and Dominic, Dominic engage in a drag race where Dom used to race in high school. The strip is a quarter mile.
SPEAKER_02:It's got a train at the end. It's great. It's like a quarter mile to the train track.
SPEAKER_00:You're gonna wait for the train. Um, so they drive. It's just it's awesome. That's the charger is great. Yeah, uh terrible slow motion for some reason. The car looks cool as hell. I was just like, how about this? Just don't make it slow motion and just make the drive longer. Yeah. Um, but yeah, and then they just make it just past except for the charger that hits the train. Well, no, he hits like a truck and then he flips it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Um, I thought he caught the front of the train and flipped.
SPEAKER_00:No, I thought he like hit some a truck. I can't fucking remember. Who cares?
SPEAKER_02:He jumps the train.
SPEAKER_00:But Brian won. Did he though? He's slightly ahead of him. Brian's a better driver.
SPEAKER_02:Well, respect.
SPEAKER_00:Import over America Muscle. Let's go. Fuck you. Um, but yeah, oh yeah, because Dominic crashes into a semi-truck and rolls his car twice. He's like, Well, I got to fucking drive it once, I guess. It's like game night. At least I got to drive it for 10 minutes.
SPEAKER_02:No, I had a friend who did this exact thing. Well, not hit not the exact thing. He built a car, he spent like a year building the car, it was super quick and beautiful car. First night he drove it within an hour. He totaled it. That fucking. Because it was too much for him to handle it.
SPEAKER_00:Too much. You didn't. Once you just have something so fast and like just awesome, you're just immediately like, well, I've lost all ability to think clearly. Time to go fast. Should we take a training round? No, man. That's how I feel like with people with crotch rockets, right? Those motor, those motorcycles where it's like as soon as you get on it and you start going fast, like, well, I lost all ability to have rational decisions. Time to go as fast as I can and almost died. What if I just went on an interstate and drove through all the traffic? And don't worry, on my truck, I have watch for motorcycles. I'm sorry, I have so many bad experiences with people on motorcycles. Like, they're like, there's so many times where I'm like, dude, you almost made me fucking wreck. And then every time I see like, watch out for motorcycles, I'm like, uh, I'm sorry. I like I get it because they're small and they're on, you know, it's hard to see them. They're weak. But it's like they never are people that are driving safely. They're always driving like idiots. It's just like unlike people like Harley Davidson's, they're usually um, their biggest issue is they drive in packs and they take up the uh they're usually weaving in and out of like the double lanes. And I'm like, hey, you don't have to drive three next to each other. It's very scary. You can drive like a little, you don't have to be right next to each other. It's not even like how else are they gonna hold hands? I'm sorry, man. I just I just got some interests. I'm a car not a motorcycle guy. So uh Brian pulls out Dom, and Dom assuming that he will be apprehended, but instead of arresting him, Brian hands over the keys to the Subra uh and lets him escape, making good on his promise to deliver a 10-second car. Dom escapes in Brian's car, and Brian walks off. It's like, what are you gonna say, Brian? You completely ruined this mission. Terrible. He's gonna be fired, right? He's the worst police officer you've ever seen in your life. Did he quit the force after this movie? Uh no. Okay. Yep. Uh because he kind of fucked everything up. Yeah, he didn't catch anything. I can't remember how too fast Too Furious goes, actually. Maybe he's not with the cops.
SPEAKER_02:So he's just as bad of a cop as Keanu Reeves was in Point Break. No, maybe no, no, not nearly as bad.
SPEAKER_00:I would actually say they're pretty much on the same level.
SPEAKER_02:No.
SPEAKER_00:I will say uh probably I'd say Brian's worse.
SPEAKER_02:He never got out of his car to shoot at the sky.
SPEAKER_00:At least at least Keanu Reeves character chased Patrick Swayze for a little bit.
SPEAKER_02:That's true.
SPEAKER_00:That's true. You know what? Shut up, Jason.
SPEAKER_02:He was a little gun loose with his gun, as I would say.
SPEAKER_00:Did you say after the credits? No. There's an after-credits scene. What? We see Don uh Mexico doing his quarter mile at a time speech while driving off.
SPEAKER_02:Gotta say it again. Love it, but phrase so nice he can say it twice.
SPEAKER_00:Everybody at home listening to this is like, I wish Jesse would say that 17 more times. And you know what? Before we get to the point, I just want to say it one more time. Race for race for there's no other time I can say it and not mean a bad thing.
SPEAKER_02:Does he he drives for a quarter mile and then stops and forgets how to drive? Yeah.
unknown:I forgot.
SPEAKER_02:I forgot how to think past this situation.
SPEAKER_00:This is as far as I've ever made it in a car. It's like memento. Yeah. Every quarter mile he says. Where the fuck am I? Jason, what's the point of the movie, baby?
SPEAKER_02:Um if you're not doing what you love, you're dead in space. What you love's gonna do you. In Russia, sometimes the cars drive you.
SPEAKER_00:Um, one of the my points, I said sometimes ripping off another successful movie will result in a billion-dollar franchise. Hell yeah, man. Um, also that sometimes the relationships you build with people are more important than the laws, and that everyone else and that everyone has a past that they aren't proud of. Sometimes people need a break. Even though that doesn't really work in this, because Dom's still and like giving PTSD to truckers. There is really no point to this movie. Nope. It's just fun action. That's it. All it is is that hey, if you meet someone charismatic, they're most likely stealing something, but who fucking cares?
SPEAKER_02:Give them your VCR. It's not worth it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. So we're gonna hit our next category: the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. The good, where we discussed something that we enjoyed about the movie, a scene, characters, whatever. The bad, something we didn't like, the ugly, something that didn't age well, the fine, something that did age well. Jason, my good is cars. Cars go fast. I love movies with car chases and cars. I know nothing about cars, but when I see one, I'm like, vroom.
SPEAKER_02:I know I had to turn the movie off while watching it because the people around me were turning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It hit the stop button. Yeah. They're like, can you turn us down? Like, what? He's vrooming. You just start talking to everybody in the house up the car.
SPEAKER_00:Your dog starts growling at you, vroom at it. I also put Vin, baby Vin. Yeah. He's crazy. He's so good.
SPEAKER_02:I don't know. I can't watch him in anything. The good part about it is you can turn your brain off completely. You don't even have to breathe or think.
SPEAKER_00:Here's the thing. This movie's a good movie to think about because it's fucking hilarious.
SPEAKER_02:It is when you do think about it.
SPEAKER_00:It's a great like smoke something, drink something, it's a good movie.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you're right. When you don't because trying to follow the plot is impossible.
SPEAKER_00:It was funny because I was I was drinking wine and smoking a little bit, and so like my brain was just like, duh. Cars go. And so as I was watching it, I just kept like reacting to it. Like it was the first time I saw it, and I was like, this movie fucking like when Dom flips his car, I just go, oh, and Natalie's like, You've seen this. I'm like, I know, I've seen it like 30 times. It still gets me. Oh yeah. It's mainly just like, damn, that that amazing car.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, that car is amazing.
SPEAKER_00:That is cool. Yeah. So uh what do you got for the bad? I put the acting and editing in kind of the whole movie, but it also rules. Yes, all and above. And the CGI is terrible during that night race. So bad.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Okay, I just gonna agree with you. Yeah, it kind of runs.
SPEAKER_00:He kind of encapsulated the whole movie's bad, but it's also good. So who who knows here? All right. You ready to uh for me to bring this whole podcast down on the ugly?
SPEAKER_02:I think calling it the race wars is kind of ugly.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that can be that can I let you have that one. I'll let you have the softball. So, Rob Cohen and the controversy with him. Oh, yay! Director Rob Cohen has faced multiple allegations of sexual assault and child molestation to several women. Including his daughter and actress Asia Argento, Cohen has vehemently denied all accusations. So, the power primary controversies surrounding Rob Cohen, best known for directing The Fast and the Furious in Triple X, include accusations by his daughter, Valkyrie Weather. In February 2019, his eldest child, a transgender woman, publicly accused him of molesting her when she was a toddler and assaulty assault she claims her mother witnessed. Weather also alleged that Cohen took her to visit sex workers in other countries when she was a younger teenager. Cohen denied these claims, calling them categorically untrue. Accusations by anonymous women. Uh Jane Doe's. In September 2019, a woman identified only as Jane in a Huff Post report accused Cohen of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan hotel in 2015 after a business meeting. She claimed he encouraged her to drink heavily and that she regained consciousness during the assault. Medical records reviewed by Hu Huff Post confirmed she thought treatment for sexual assault after the incident, Cohen's lawyer, Martin Singer, denied the allegations and called the story an outrageous defamatory hit piece. Um accusations by Asia Argento. In January 2021, actress and director Asia Argento accused Cohen of drugging her with uh with GHP and sexually assaulting her with while filming Triple X uh in 2002. Argento included these allegations in her autobiography and stated she came forward after hearing the other accusations against him. A sh spokesperson from Cohen called the claims categorically false and bewildering. That's how you know they're not false because they keep using the same term terminology to call it false. Oh, there's more. No. Oh, good lord, man. Is this guy running for president? I could have looked up more, but I was like, man, I just had fun watching. I can't. I can't do it. And he directed Triple X too. Yeah. That's why that's why Vin left this movie uh franchise to go d make his own franchise with Triple X. And once that movie was not as big of a hit, it came back to Fast and Furious. Fucking shit, dude. What a piece of shit. Yeah. So pretty ugly. Yeah, man.
SPEAKER_02:Is he one of the Cohen brothers? No. Okay. No. Good. Thank God. He can't ruin everything for me.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, Rob Cohen. I wonder if he's related to the Cohen Brothers. And then I was looking at notes, I was like, oh, he's not. Okay. And then I looked up, like, it's I just tapped on the controversy thing next to his name. And I was like, I'm so glad. I'd be like, hell yeah. And then I was like immediately like, well, this is gonna be rough to watch now.
SPEAKER_02:After this podcast, when I go home and tell my wife about this, she's gonna be like, that makes sense. That was a bad movie.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, just don't tell her, man.
SPEAKER_02:I have to. I can't keep this information inside of me.
SPEAKER_00:I'd have to yell it at the top of a mountain. All right, let's get to the end of the here. Um, what's what do you find Aegis best? What a change of change of pace, man.
SPEAKER_02:Movies uh all about car chases, I think. I put the series as a whole, god dang it. Oh, yeah, God bless America. The series. But I think if you when you find something as cool as car chases and make a whole franchise about it and do it well, I guess, uh that's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_00:It's stupid but good. It's stupid good. I love stupid good movies. All right, we're gonna hit our next category called Double Feature. It's where we recommend a movie to go alongside the Fast and the Furious. God damn it. What did you got anything? Transporter. Transporter. It's like the seventh time you've recommended. You've recommended transporter, I think, like three times.
SPEAKER_02:I want to be inside Jason State.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, well. I put gone in 60 seconds, baby.
SPEAKER_02:Nice.
SPEAKER_00:As long as the cops are in here and you're out there, you're gonna stay out there, aren't you?
SPEAKER_02:Did you know I was gonna say transporter?
SPEAKER_00:No, I did not. But as soon as you said it, I was like, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02:It wasn't until you mentioned that Jason Stytham is in this franchise. No, I get it. No, dude. Is he also the transporter in this franchise? Did they merge?
SPEAKER_00:He doesn't transport. He kills.
SPEAKER_02:Oh. Um Gone in Sixty Seconds. Well, he does in the transporter movies, he also just kills a bunch. Yeah. But he also drives, he's a delivery man.
SPEAKER_00:You know, maybe there are some similarities.
SPEAKER_02:He just Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Have you seen Gone in Sixty Seconds?
SPEAKER_02:Yes. Maybe if I can run it.
SPEAKER_00:Of course I have. It's really cool. It's so good. But he tries to steal the one car and he can't ever. Yeah, and you know what's really good? The awkward sex scene with him and Angelina Jolie in the car where she's like, Yeah, you like driving cars.
SPEAKER_02:Cars are a bad place to have sex in.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:They're small. They're small. I guess if you're small like them, it might be easier. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I'm a big boy. Well, she just like gets between the uh gear shifter and just like starts. She's changing gears with her hips. This is written by a man.
SPEAKER_02:All right. Or they're blowing the cocaine out the back of or like off the ground. That means.
SPEAKER_00:Baby has such a good cast though. Timothy Oliphant, Giovanni Rabizzi. So good. Angelina Jolie? Nick Cage? Hell yeah. She's always in it. I can't remember. Yeah. Um, Jason. That's the conclusion. Oh, The Fast. Oh, what a wild ride. The fierce that was. That was good. This might be our best episode yet. This had point vibes, point break vibes. So we're gonna we're gonna tone down. We're gonna tone down the dumbness for next week's episode, and we're gonna uh we're gonna we're gonna be smart. We're gonna we're gonna I'm gonna keep saying we're gonna um we're gonna do knives out, baby. Yay! Hell yeah. The new one's coming out soon. It's sweater season, which that movie is all about sweater season. You've never seen Knives Out, it's a fantastic movie. I started it. I didn't watch the whole week. Dude, it's so good. Um so join us next week for Knives Out. Ryan Johnson, baby. He's good at filmmaking. They canceled Pokerface. Fuck everything. Um, so yeah, join us next week for Knives Out. Thank you for joining us. Please leave us a review. Send us some fan mail. Uh you can do that by going in our description. There's a link at the top. The emails at the bottom. We recommend mailbag at gmail.com. Seriously, please leave us reviews and tell your friends to follow us. And if you're not following us, but you listen to us, follow us because that like helps us in algorithms or whatever robot decides what's popular now. He's the robot cards. Um, please do that. Uh thank you, Joey Prosser, for intro and outro music. You can follow him on X at Mr. Joey Proster. Uh, and dammit, this has been the We Recommend Podcast. I'm Jesse. I'm Chase.
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