1.9: The Conclusioning of the Fast and the Furious

09/10/22 • 116 min

The Fast and the Furious. Our epic journey finally reaches its beginning.
RACE WARS! We end with the beginning. Somehow a franchise becomes celebrated for its multiculturalism while beginning with... a RACE WAR. Perhaps the most philosophically dense of the movies featuring meditations on the Duality of Ludacris, the Ur-Street Race, the three stages of a homophobic insult, and Letty's outfit providing the evolutionary missing link between the two types of Fast & Furious Women. Mike teaches us how to flirt while eating tuna fish & Brad offers up the Ballad of Lefty Krantz.
Lesson of the Episode: "Never blow your biscuit."

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1.8: Approaching the Dawn of Time: 2 Fast 2 Furious

2 Fast 2 Furious but no 2 Live Crew?
A Franchise writ in Etch a Sketch. As we near the end/beginning of this series, we are backing into simpler stories, lower stakes & Old School Hollywood racism. This movie is what happens when Miami Vice & Dukes of Hazzard have a sloppy, racially-charged one night stand. Van Morrison & Umberto Eco swing by the podcast.
This episode's lesson: "Why Jump the Shark when you can Jump the Yacht?"

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1.10 EMERGENCY EPISODE: Fast 10 Your Seatbelts!

Emergency Episode! As the relentless onslaught of Fast & Furious movies continues, we bring in special guest Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine to tell us what the heck happened in Fast X. Spoiler alert: It's the end of the world as we know it.