Newcomers: Scorsese, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - Fast & Furious 6 (w/ Ryan Stanger)

Episode Date: August 31, 2021

Ryan Stanger (The Dumbbells, The ActionBoyz) joins Nicole and Gabrus to discuss the sixth film in the Fast & Furious Franchise—Fast & Furious 6 (2013).Follow Ryan on Instagram and Twitter and check out The Dumbbells on Headgum.Like the show? Rate Newcomers 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what franchise they should check out next.Advertise on Newcomers via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Original. So how's the life of a retired international criminal? I need your help, Dom. Last week, a team of highly coordinated drivers took down a military convoy. This most recent job graduated them to a whole new level. You're gonna help me catch the team responsible. Why is that, Hobbs? This was taken a week ago.

He's messing with your head. Lady's dead, Dom. I need to know for sure. Then I'm going with you. This equipment's way better than that trash in Rio. Way better. So now we work for the Hulk? Things changed.

Breathe with me! Our target's Owen Shaw, former major in the SAS, spec ops soldier. You help us get Letty, we'll get you, Shaw. But we need full pardons all the way around. And cars. Make sure they're fast. We talk vehicular warfare. I've never seen this before.

You believe in ghosts? You don't turn your back on family, even when they do. You really think you've won? This code you live by is about family. It's the very reason you weren't even in the game I gotta take all my airs! Buddy! Breathe with me! Thank you. Oh, wow, wow, wow, wow. Okay, it's a new episode of Newcomers.

It's me. It's John Gabrus. Hi. Hi, hi, hi. Lapkus is taking care of some business at home. TCB, baby. Not baby, but just TCB. Just TCB, hi. Lapkus is taking care of some business at home. TCB, baby. Not baby, but just TCB. Just TCB, baby, baby.

Okay. We watched Fast and Furious 6. Gotta say, the names of these movies, they're getting harder and harder. Because I bought all of them. So they're like out of order in my iTunes. It's just, it's difficult. Anyway, okay. This is the sixth episode of our fourth season.

We're watching all the Fast and Furious movies, 10 episodes. We're going to cover all nine movies plus Hobbs and Shaw. I was very confused during this one because I am introduced to shaw that i don't know so fast and furious 6 is available for a fee on amazon apple tv google play and voodoo guess what there's fucking spoilers this came out in 2013 we're in 2021 we're in the fucking future okay uh before i give him a thoughts let's just introduce our guest hell yeah gabrus do you want to do it sure i know this guy rather well. We talk about movies together for over four hours a week for the last five years. From the Dumbbells podcast, he co-hosts with Eugene Cordero right here on HeadGum.

And the Action Boys podcast, which he co-hosts with me and our mutual friend and work acquaintance, Ben Rogers. And work acquaintance. It's Ryan Rhinostanger. Boop, boop, boop. What up? What up? work acquaintance ben rogers it's ryan rhino stanger what up what up treat to be here guys treat thank you so much for doing this stanger can i ask you a question yeah what is your relationship to the fast and furious movies um well i mean i'm trying to think of i've been listening to some of your guys episode and what what would mine be that's unique to previous guests? I would say my kind of hot-ish take is that I really like the first three the most. Okay, that is a hot, steaming take.

It is, and I'm with you guys in the sense that something special happened with five and i think that that's the sum total of the four previous ones in that um it's kind of like they figured out what was great about all of them and then just put it into five and then we got that and it was really i i re-watched that one in preparation for what we're going to cover six um and so i was like oh man this is extra i did extra i did a lot of homework on this one I rewatched that one in preparation for what we're going to cover six. Um, and so I was like, Oh man, this is extra.

I did extra. I did a lot of homework on this one. I watched five hours worth of movies, homework, homework, homework. It was a nightmare. Um,

but I was thinking about it. What? So five, I feel like really soared because it's kind of like they're Ocean's Eleven. They're like, oh, let's lean into this heist concept. And they're still kind of underdogs in it. And to me, as they progress and as the stars and egos get bigger, as the cast gets older, I need to be an ageist. I just start to like them less like when you go when you go back

and you watch the first one they're all beautiful and young and kind of scrappy and um and it's it's kind of a youth movie you know and it's like oh i i want to hang with these people and do some street racing i'm interested in that and then you just get further and further and further and further away from that and then it's like they'll just dangle you know the original fast heads like myself a little bit like oh they'll just kind of do a playful race that's unrelated to anything just so there's your fucking race now back to hand-to-hand combat or whatever it is well you just this is what i like about six it's exactly what you said there. They did five was their oceans.

11 six is there like a justice league meets the anti-justice league. I think six is their expendables. And yes, I will say though, uh, six brings back more car driving, not racing, but because the elite mobile unit, anything that they're facing off Sean, his crew. But I also think this one features the best hand-to-hand of all the movies. And it has an abundance of hand-to-hand. A lot of hand-to-hand.

Also, this movie starts off by saying, if you haven't seen the first five, no worries. We got you covered. The intro to this is like a TV show. We will show you clips out of order from every movie before this. I couldn't believe it. But that's also what reminded me. I was like, oh, look at them.

They're so cute. Like all of them were like cute and young. And I just feel like the stakes were higher back then, oddly, even though there was a lot less going on. Like it's much more grounded. And that first one is a fucking I like that that it's kind of a point break ripoff, you know? It is, with cars, and it's kind of an indie. I love the first one. Me too. The first one was great on a rewatch.

You also just see why Vin and Paul can carry a $200 million movie. Because in 5 and 6, it's so fun that they're just both back in the same movie. It just makes it so strong to me. They are. You do kind of feel sad for everybody too, because this is their weird gilded cage in that they all got shots to kind of go on and do something. These were like huge movies.

They all deservedly so. They're stars in their own right, but they all just kind of keep having coming back to mama like they got they got like i'm gonna do my own shitty movies and they're like i better get back for another fast six and i know my bread is buttered because diesel kind of had he's a fascinating character in the sense that he had this crazy auspicious rise with a multifacial. Have you guys seen that? Oh yeah, baby. Yes.

Ooh, I love it. So I was riveted by him as a, you know, watching these movies and growing up as a kid, like multifacial, Saving Private Ryan, Fast and the Furious, Pitch Black. And then he did it. He left them. He started his own franchise with Triple X.

It was a hit. Triple X is like fast and the furious except without no i guess there's a team in that too yeah there's fake deaths remove cars and add kayaks or whatever oh there was one where a motorcycle turned into a jet ski and i said wow vin diesel what won't you do it's kind of How do you never know what we're talking about in Fast and the Furious, but you're doing these deep pulls from Triple X. It's crazy to me. It's ultimately what Fast became, right? Yeah.

But so then he does his comedy. They become Bond movies more or less. Yeah. He does his family comedy with the pacifier. Another huge hit. And then he does Find Me Gu with sydney lamette and that was like he was like well reviewed so i'm like dude you got it now it's like whatever you want to do you want to be like a tom cruise or something and like he just couldn't like he's just i don't

know if he knows what's good about him but i guess he does because he's so fucking he does and the answer is dominic fucking teretto i mean that's good for him he's so good as dom i gotta say my favorite part of this movie was letty thanking the woman who was fucking him while she was fake dead and then dom being like you know you could stay here and she's like i have my own family and it's the police and i was, Dom, were you inviting this woman to like join your couple as a throuple? And she was just like, no thanks. It was wild. Here's what's crazy about it too.

All that worked for me. I was like, yeah, that's like, that's well handled across the board. I was like, I respected the lady from Brazil letting him go and like, hey, I would do the same. Brazil! Brazil! Brazil!

I respected Letty. I thought Don kind of handled it well. It's like, look, all my fucking cards are on the table. I'm fucking everybody. I could fuck both you guys. You want to take off and masturbate to your dead husband? He really did. I get it.

You want Brian to fuck you? Look, whatever, you know, we're all, you know, yeah. I gotta say, Brian's baby seemed like dumb. Like it didn't know where it was the whole time. It kept looking around. I was like, you're on a movie set, baby. Like, why don't you get it? You're 100% right.

Get that hat off the kid. Yeah, right? We don't need the hat in every frame. It's like they had the baby for 20 minutes. He's going to wear a hat the whole time or we don't play ball. I heard that there was beef between the hat in every frame. It's like they had the baby for 20 minutes. He's going to wear a hat the whole time or we don't play ball. I heard that there was beef between the baby and Vin Diesel. And Vin Diesel's like, I don't want this baby's bald head.

I'm the only bald guy. Yeah, I'm the bald one in these movies. He was making a huge stance. You know, maybe that's his real issue with The Rock. He was like, I really don't like another baldy. Also, The Rock was less sweaty in this one than the other one. So I feel like makeup got little fans for him or something. Because he's not dripping wet in every scene.

I think they had to. They were like, the oil is kind of crazy. I guarantee you. I like Tyrese calling it out. Yeah. Oh, and then what about him saying Tyrese has a big forehead? And clearly that's an improvised line because Ludacris narfs fucking soda in that scene. It's so awesome.

Wait, now, is it true that right before Bangarang gets on stage, you gather everyone around and say, let's do what we do best? Improvise. You've guessed it at shows. You know, both of you guys. Let's do what we do best. Improvise. The answer is drive, you fucking idiot. That is what we do best. Improvise. The answer is drive, you fucking

idiot. That is what you do best. You suck at improv. If the improvisation required no cars, you guys would all be jammed up. That's why you're involved in this whole movie is because you can fucking drive. That's the premise for Six is that you guys are driving.

Oh, so go ahead. Oh, no. I was going to do the Toretto Gazette. Oh, let's do it. Okay. Vin Diesel, this made me wet, teases a Dom Toretto spinoff. Of course.

In an interview with Vulture, Vin Diesel teased the possibility of a spinoff centered around Dom or the rest of the Toretto family, which makes me so excited. I will say that there's nothing that's off the table, he told Vulture in a Q&A, the possibility of a spinoff centered around Dom or the rest of the Toretto family, which makes me so excited. I will say that there's nothing that's off the table, he told Vulture in a Q&A. I think the Toretto storyline is what we've wanted to do and can always exist in the future. It's not something that's completely off the table.

When asked if the spinoff would be a prequel since audience have met young Dom, we've met young Dom. Oh, yeah, you said a nine. Diesel clearly responded, responded oh say there's nothing that is off the table my favorite thing is the only quote in this is there's nothing off the table we've learned nothing and also like oh the lead actor and executive producer is like look i'm down to do whatever movies society wants me to do is news on this show where it's like, Vin Diesel willing to work. Also, the main star and character in all of the movies

except three and two and three, I guess is like, hey, the next one's going to be a spinoff all about Toretto. It's like, it's been kind of about Toretto. What was six, seven, eight, nine? It was like... I dig it, though. I hope it's some kind of fake biopic

like where they just invent like a whole story and just have him all the way through his life I hope it's about him and Letty's son and he's an old man makeup the whole like the Irishman and he's walking around talking to old Dom and he's like we used to drive cars that weren't

electric that weren't electric we used to not have to plug them in. I would watch that in a heartbeat. And what's next for the series? Time travel? I mean, that's the only thing. It's not off...

Nothing's off the table. No. I mean, that is the only heightening from space, right? It's like... Wait, they go to space? Spoilers! In the ninth one, they go to space? in the ninth one they go to space oh we'll get that Hobbs and Shaw they they fight a cyborg yeah there's a mutant there's like a legit mutant kind of

and I fully I remember watching Hobbs and Shaw being like huh that seems wild I'll go with it I accept this this is fine you just kind of have to I i love the rock um you know his goatee was kind of stupid in five so it's tighter in this one like he's like all right i'm getting rid of the length in this one and i'm with you guys in the sense that um i don't think that he fits in these movies i love what he did for five but i feel like vin diesel is bringing it more. I feel like Vin Diesel's a better actor. I gotta say, for the level and energy of these movies, the vibe of these movies, The Rock doesn't fit at all. No. His screen time in six is the amount he should be in a movie like this.

Yes. Five, he's great. He kicks it up a notch. And then I love how little he's used in six, but we just don't need him at all. His shit bored me in six. I was like i don't care but like he's like two he's too fucking built like his outfit is stupid i'm like change your fucking outfit one time yeah it's like everybody else over your shit and yeah you gotta fast fast and furious him like give him the fucking boots and an inexplicable jacket. Everybody's always wearing jackets.

He's got to show the Under Armour sign because I think he had an Under Armour deal. For sure. Of course. You think there was a Corona deal or an Under Armour deal or any kind of car deals in these movies? And give us a little foreplay on his arms. They just are out with his arms from the beginning. They are just out. Tease us a little bit.

You've got to build to that. Then he's got to fucking pull the shirt off and then we can like showcase the arms but it's like man his arms are i'm like bored with his arms by the end and i shouldn't be it's a lot of work goes into those arms i gotta say mia i didn't like i'm so sorry i just want a correction i'm thinking his the amount of time he's in seven which i also watch because we're recording that later today the amount of time he's in seven is the right amount he's in six way too much he's in this including like leaping out of planes into jeeps at 335 pounds of muscle where you would just blow your acls clean off your body i loved how much there was

jumping from vehicle to vehicle and vin diesel they make make him seem, no, I mean, they want you to think he's like very light and can fly through the air. But I'm like, this man is a potato. Like he is thick. He is heavy. I do not buy it. But you know who's not a potato? Mia.

She's a little, she's kind of thin in this one. She's scary thin in this. It's too much. I don't want to shame, but she's like, like she's supposed to be nine months pregnant and like yeah we're got we got like sharp jawline showing or something yeah I was I was like wow for a woman who just had a baby

she really pushed it out and that baby sucked her soul out I couldn't believe it when Vin soars through the air to catch uh Letty and land on the car I I showed Tiffany that clip and tiffany goes you know it's crazy but watching it i think it works like the fit and i was like you know what you're right

in this movie these physics make total sense she's like yeah he like aimed he lined it up right it's like and that's the rules they live by in this movie in these movies and that's what i like it so much where it's like yeah he can soar across the span of a bridge, catch and neither of them get hurt. Nobody got hurt and Letty was like how did you know a car would be there to break our fall and he was like

I didn't and she was like okay. Let's unpack that too. How did you know a car would be there to break our fall? Yeah it's like a car doesn't break your fall. It hurts just as much as concrete have a fucking mattress truck crash why not what the hell a bunch of mattresses just like spilling out the driver's like oh no i would like that real quick we have to take a break If you're wondering what a NordVPN is, I'll tell you. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network,

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Yeah, I had a lot of fun watching this. But I got to say, I was really confused as to who Shaw was the whole time. Because you've seen Hobbs and Shaw, but not any of these other movies. Which is really funny. Hobbs and Shaw but not any of these other movies which is really funny Hobbs and Shaw is Jason Statham but then in this movie he's a younger handsome man who I thought was in A Star is Born

but that's not the same English man it's a different English man but yeah I was like who is this Shaw Luke Evans is this Shaw I think about him a lot because he's really good in this movie i i enjoy him in this movie but then his brother who's never seen until the end is the guy who gets the spin-off and like all the other franchises like statham gets to come back a bunch but shaw is

just well spoilers but shaw is like you know he's gone after this and it's upsetting it's upsetting oh he's gone after this but he was the upsetting. It's upsetting. Oh, he's gone after this? But he was the main fucking bad guy. Oh, he comes back, but no one who's ever bad is truly bad to the bone. No one who's truly good is always good. Not in the Fast Furious franchise. Well, I liked when Riley, that mean-looking lady who fights Letty

when they fall down the stairs or whatever, at the end, when he's like, come on, she's like, I'd be glad to. And I was like, Hey, wow, wow.

We get it. You're bad. You're really telegraphing this lady. Yeah. Yeah. She's a terror. I love females fighting, especially two tough broads like Michelle Rodriguez and Gina Carano.

But that the entire, while we're talking about this, the entire subway fight scene, the fight between the two of them and the about this the entire subway fight scene the fight between the two of them and the fight where the one uh bad guy takes on han and roman and smokes them the entire time and roman's like we can't talk about this and i was like that's funny he's really funny in this one he he's and this is the beginning of his uh sort of runner that he's the meta guy and he like he gets to do the meta move

he's like big guy handsome dude like this they're us look they got their own teretto they got their own they got their own letty and it was like that's such a funny move to have that sequence in the movie where it's like we know they're doing it and then they just add that to the fucking movie it made me laugh oh this Gina Carino lady, she's an MMA fighter? She's got bad politics. Current turf. Oh, she got canceled, right, because she

likes Trump or something? Kind of. She got canceled. Oh, go ahead. Sorry, you go. Staying. No, I just was jerking off to her last night so I'm very familiar. So she, people like her a lot and she's been in some big franchise stuff and was in the Mandalorian.

And, um, and there was a lot of people that, um, like doing cosplay as her character. And then she was unwilling to, uh, to put her pronouns out.

And then she kind of like dug in on that. And other people were saying, just say what your pronouns are or don't say anything and then she kept going harder and harder and then i think when all that happened then she kind of leaned in and was embraced by the right and then eventually you know had some weird mask and vaccine stuff and then disney ultimately fucking fired her and now she's doing a movie with ben shapiro or something here's what wikipedia says so when she put her preferred gender pronouns on her twitter profile she put beep bop boop and people got mad at her which is understandably so wow what a wild woman and then here's the thing that drives me the most

crazy everyone's like it's bullshit that politics got her fired and it's like if she said nothing she could still be in the mandalorian yes but she had to say trans women aren't true women or whatever the fucking stupid turf jk rowling angle is that she was after and it's like all you have to do is say nothing say you're a millionaire and you get your she was destined to get a spin-off on the disney oh yeah yeah they loved her it's it's kind of sad i mean i can say this is like a cis white male you know who wasn't offended but you know she's not attacking me but i i i feel i do feel bad because i feel like the wrong side embraced her and i don't know. The dark side. Yeah, she's got a weird... That works because of Star Wars. Thank you.

You watch those movies in season one. You're an expert now, I hear. I understand the dark side, yes. There's something like sexy and vulnerable about her and obviously she can't really act because they don't have her say anything in this movie. But her hand-to to hand stuff looks great. It does look good.

Oh, she also she claimed voter fraud. Oh, she's doing it all. Yeah. Yeah. It's that classic cycle of like, oh, I have this one light belief that's kind of right wing and it's bad. And then all of a sudden it's like, fuck it. I'm going full hog. You know, let's you know, let's be absolute monster.

Stop. She also Wikipedia has it all. She also posted on Instagram. it i'm going full hog you know let's you know let's be absolute monster stop she also wikipedia has it all she also posted uh on instagram she compared hating someone for their political views to the persecution of jews during the holocaust so i guess she really was just like i'm gonna go hard in a direction that maybe he's not good how did i get fired maybe no one should talk about the holocaust if if you're not jewish just like just shut the fuck up don't compare anything to it yeah i gabriel i think you're on to something just don't bring it up like that might be good i i think she got a shitty death i

think she gets a shitty death in this movie though uh i i i wanted michelle rodriguez to like beat her in the fight same yeah she just gets like hit with a thing and then flies off the rock throws her a grab like there's a few moments in this movie where the rock does like a small setup to saving someone's life rather than just saving their life like he could have shot gina carano with the thing and saved letty for sure but instead he's like hey heads up and throws it to letty who then shoots it late he takes his time rescuing dom who's getting his fucking ass handed to him by klaus he's kind of like mosey's up and he's like i'm here brother and it's like you could have just hit this guy from behind or shot him and we would win he's trying to get his like rock stuff in this movie and but they're also paying off um the other cast so it's

all feels kind of like jammed in there it's like hell yeah seven bucks is involved my man we got to have a rock moment i get why vin diesel was just like no dude just fucking just speed up i do think though that there is issues with vin showing up on time and stuff and he always shows up right on time he's like santa claus he's gonna be there like clockwork oh you mean in production i mean behind the scenes oh i think he's making people wait and then i think rock is like i'm prepared i'm in perfect shape this should be my goddamn franchise and they're like dude it's just for whatever reason there's a magic that diesel brings to it and so let him fucking dance in his trailer and then show up whenever he shows up.

I have some clips for you guys I want to show you. How much do you think the fight off camera between the two of them was Corona versus Terramana placement in the fast forward? Gotta be Corona. It's gotta be Terramana. Cheat meal day. hey it's gotta be terramana cheat meal day i i think that like um i heard this guy brian koppelman who has an annoying podcast he created the show billions and he's kind of annoying but he's podcast yeah yeah he's he's cool he's done some good he did like the he did great interviews yeah he did the rounders movie which was good and he did knock around guys and that was like he had

all the success from rounders and then he got to do this movie did knock around guys. And that was like, he had all this success from rounders. And then he got to do this movie called knock around guys, which is all these sons of mobsters. And it's got like Scott con, I think in Vin Diesel, Giovanni Rabisi. Right. And so Vin Diesel on set there,

this is their first directing movie. And they're like, this guy's fucking our movie up. Like, I don't get what he's doing. It doesn't work. He's screwing us up. We're fucked. And so there, it's this big acrimonious fight they're battling and then they ultimately start cutting the movie and he was like holy shit this is the best fucking part of this movie i

don't know whatever he was doing and i want him to expound on that more because i want to know what it was or what he saw but he's like look this guy just fucking has something like i don't know what it was or what he saw but he's like look this guy just fucking has something like i don't know what i thought on the day it wasn't gonna work and i'm sure i'm sure the rock is thinking that too like i'm in perfect shape my man i was up at 3 a.m i'm here early the crew loves me tacos for everybody it's wednesday and like you know diesel go wednesday diesel's doing whatever he's doing vin diesel gives you levels that maybe you you don't think you need yeah but he's very good at grounding shit yeah he's super melodramatic it i i think i've said this before on the podcast but he has extreme like football player taking the musical

production super seriously like that's his energy on these movies and i i think and you'll in fast nine there's like legit abstract tone poem sequence featuring vin diesel which i think we'll get to i would love to unpack that but he brings like theater kid energy to these movies that are super macho but then it's like love is all that matters salute me familia and it's like he brings this kind of compassion that you don't expect From Dom Toretto And he leans into it So hard that it's corny But then it goes

Full circle of my book Corny to genuine And it hits me in a way Like I feel so strongly Towards Brian O'Connor In these movies Because Vin Diesel Makes me feel that way

Yes Dom loves Brian I love Paul Walker When we talk about Seven I'm gonna be to be fucking crying, and it's all Vin's fault. Vin's got me so attached to this motherfucker. I'm watching his other movies. I watch Takers. I'm watching random Paul Walker shit because Vin Diesel's got me so passionate about him. Into the blue.

I want to show you guys. I know we're going way way long can i show you guys something of course oh so you did more prep work than anyone please yeah truly show us something so this is like in in the world of like um loving vin diesel i'm fascinated by his online presence and like what he does what he does for his fans and how his fans kind of support him. So this is like, this isn't great. I'll just play this one for a second.

This isn't great for the, um, for the audio medium, but this is Vin dancing to Beyonce in his house. I want you guys to see this and I want to hear your take on it. Wearing a wife eater tank top, of course. He doesn't own anything else.

Oh, these are the longest shorts I've ever seen. This wasn't a stolen video. He posted this. He posted this? He's barely dancing. Ooh, he's really feeling himself.

He started out as a dancer, right? He was a great dancer, I think, early on in his career. I mean, can't you tell? Those shorts are comically long. They're so long. This is wild because he's not... Oh, no. Oh, no. This is like a surveillance video.

Yes, yeah. I'd like to draw your attention to the microphone and amp in the background. Well, because he loves karaoke. It's funny you mentioned karaoke because I have something else I want to show you. You got Rihanna. Stay!

Do you want to hear Stay With Me by Sam Smith or Stay by Rihanna? Stay by Rihanna. It's a classic. Okay. This is for somebody's birthday, I think. He's got some birthday shout outs at the beginning. This is for, unbeknownst to me, my birthday.

Happy birthday. All along, there was a fever. He's perfect. It's funny that he can't get the karaoke version. Yeah, he's got to sing along to real. I think you can afford it. This is where his baritone comes in. I do not hate it. I'm so embarrassed. He's kind of good.

Yeah, I know. I like it. You know, you just want to sing with him. It's just funny because it's like he's like in corner of his house, and someone is shooting this for real. There's two cameras. And those eyes are closed. Oh, he's feeling himself. I want you to stay.

Yes, Ben! Listen to the high pitch here. It's not about you. It's about you. High pitch here. I'd like to see The Rock try this shit. Yeah. He's perfect.

I love him so much. He can do no wrong. He had the great outfit he had on the classic like dress shirt no tie suit jacket and like shredded diesel jeans christian albinger or whatever the fuck his name is he's oh the man behind uh von dutch no what am i thinking of ed hardy oh ed hardy yeah that's that's the better one i fucking love ed hardy I was wearing an Ed Hardy shirt, and I had my mullet wig on. I was walking my dog, and this man got so excited, he gave me a thumbs up.

And I was like, I don't know if that's good or bad. Okay, let's get into this plot summary. So at the beginning of this movie, everybody's living peacefully around the world. Roman has a fucking jet with women in it. Going to Macau. Macau, yeah. Which is so crazy.

It's so funny. Good voucher joke there. And they give one of these ladies, the voucher joke was funny, they gave one of the ladies a line and she like fucked it up. I can't remember what she said, but I was like,

you did bad. You did really bad. We're going to gamble? It's where your sad card, you gotta do it come on it was so bad and then brian and mia have their baby jack uh giselle and hon are together and they're thinking about putting roots down at tokyo still teasing that tokyo it is so fucking funny that they just throw these casually in the movies where they're like yeah we're gonna go to tokyo and then later he's like i have to go to tokyo just a reminder

tokyo has not happened yet if you're remember the third movie it was mentioned three times in this movie yeah it made me laugh so hard uh because the least amount of people have seen Tokyo Drift. So it's like you're overcompensating for who? Nobody watched it. It's the least successful of all of them, yeah. Doesn't this movie also feature ties to Braga? Yeah. We see Braga. We see Braga, and then we see Shea Whigham again,

and he breaks his nose against the wall again. And he said, again? Yeah, the movie does it. They're like, just in case this isn't enough of an Easter egg. This was an Easter egg. Thumbs up to the camera. So, okay. Hobbes comes with that pretty lady.

And they got to investigate the destruction of a Russian military convoy led by Owen Shaw. And let me tell you, I didn't really understand this setup. They were just like,oy led by Owen Shaw. And let me tell you, I didn't really understand this setup. They were just like, we gotta get Shaw. And I was like, why do you gotta get Shaw? I was like, why is there military stuff? It was very confusing. Okay, I'd like to take, to place,

I like to place these movies in their series. This is the last one they rob a corrupt Brazil. Yes. This is the first one where they're working with the government. For the good, like with the Brazil. Yes. This is the first one where they're working with the government. For the good, like with the government. Okay.

This is the first of three to seven question mark movies that feature an insane piece of technology that will change. Like literally by the ninth movie,

it's like if they get both halves, they'll be able to burn the world down. It's like everything is like the God's eye is in seven. Like they keep creating these bigger and bigger like apps that to burn the world down it's like everything is like uh the god's eye is in seven like they keep creating these bigger and bigger like apps that will take the world rabbits foots mcguffins i this is where they lose me too because i don't like them as good guys like i don't like

them either i like the government bad i liked hobbs chasing them yeah and the bad guy i liked have like two bad guys chasing them. But Hobbs is like, you're going to beg me to take this mission. Cause he shows him that picture of Letty. Who's like magically still alive. Turns out she wasn't shot. He shot the car. She flew from the explosion and tumbled down a Hill,

ended up in the hospital. And then the man who tried to kill her, visit her at the hospital. I was like, you don't remember nothing. Perfect. I was like, wait don't remember nothing. Perfect. I was like, wait, what? Very flimsy. And it's also what inextricably ties him to Toretto and gives it's his weakness.

And he's the precision guy. Like, why on earth would he have somebody that has fucking amnesia on his team? He's obsessed with precision. I know he has like nine elite British soldiers on his squad. And then a divvy bitch who can't remember nothing. And then one street racer who's got a... The power of Michelle Rodriguez. She can't smell or taste.

You're in charge of eliminating our biggest threat, Dominique Toretto. I don't know about the behind the scenes on this, but I feel like she wanted out of the franchise, gets killed off, and of the franchise gets killed off. And then the franchise starts popping off again. For sure. They tag that thing at five where Eva Mendez from two is now working with the rock gas gives the picture. Michelle Rodriguez alive.

Do you picture a writer's room full of like millionaire people all sitting in a circle going, okay, here's the original shot of us killing Letty. How can we cheat? And then you remember that the Letty killing was visualized by Tom Toretto. Yes, by Vin Diesel, so it's not real.

Right, so it could be wrong. And it's like, oh my God, they unlocked it. It's like winning a fight with your spouse, but in the dumbest way possible. You're like, actually, you did say I could drive the car. And it's like, oh, fine. I think that's a stroke of genius on the part of Justin Lin. I think he might have foresaw this kind of playing out in this way.

Because it's like, they may have had footage of her meeting her end. But the fact that it's nebulous and then they kind of pay that off is cool you don't know why laz alonzo like does he have a weak moment when they show the flashback he's gonna blow her head off but then he just is like i can't fucking shoot her directly but i can shoot her indirect is that his plan he's not trying to keep her alive no no i think that's like maybe i shouldn't shoot a woman who's like crawling with her head yeah like i don't he was a real baddie though. You know,

he's so bad in the movie. It doesn't make any sense why he doesn't shoot her point blank. Yeah. It doesn't make sense in this movie. Why? A lot of the good guys don't just shoot bad guys. Like even the rock is eventually like, you are like legally allowed to shoot some of these criminals.

Just shoot them. Stop. Stop. Like I got to get inside that plane and start fist fighting them. It's like, just. Just shoot them. Stop. Stop. I got to get inside that plane and start fist fighting them. It's like, just fucking shoot at them. I hate to be the American

screaming, use guns. But he's the head of Homeland Security. You hate to be... Come on. No, you love being the American. You're wearing a literal bandana

on your head. It's a blue bandana. Yeah, for Americaica you're probably wearing some red on the bottom i'm with shaw's hideout but it's a decoy and then he's like performing some other heist and then he's got cars that flip other cars i was like wait what how is this a thing what is this used for other than like racing in the street and flipping cars. Right. Well, that's the beauty of this series is that they're just like, well, can we just create another crew of people who are good with cars? It's like, well, we got to give them weird cars.

All right. Yeah, we got it. We'll figure it out. It's also like Formula One racers meet spatulas that they can just like flip cars over their head. Yes, it was a car spatula. I'm a huge fan of ramps and things that are portable. So putting those together, I was like, of ramps and things that are portable so putting those together i was like portable ramps you got stanger oh boy i wanted to say just quick sidebar too i i

asked my wife like i would i'm doing this fast and the furious um podcast what do you think what comes to mind with fast and the furious and all all she said was Megan Fox um which I thought was really funny and I was like nope not many of them not even close not yet not yet to be honest she might she might be in that 10 10 and 10 and a half if she comes if she ends up being like an international superstar in any capacity Vin will roll her into the franchise in a heartbeat he is not above it we see everyone and then i asked my 10 year old son fast and the furious what comes to mind and he's like no interest like zero interest that could not he for him it's like he likes um he wants to see free guy really bad and scary movies so like conjuring like that kind of shit but fast and

the furious but one of my clients that i train she has this really attractive family friend who's maybe like 20 years old from long island super hot crazy crazy accent one time i asked her what she's doing for spring break and she's like i'm going to bahamas and i was like bahamas what is bahamas she was saying bahamas yeah she was making fun of her brother-in-law her sister's husband because he watches a lot of disney plus and i was like she's like put it this way he watches a lot of disney plus and i said well what about you what are you into and she's like the fast saga and so i was like she's pretty cool and sexy and she's all about the fast saga so there i

mean there obviously is a huge demo because they're immensely successful. There are some dumpy older men who are very into the franchise as well. People love it. I love it. I'm here for it. It's fun. So, okay, we learn that Letty has fucking amnesia. Dom challenges Letty to a street race to help her remember.

This was sexy. It was sexy. I loved him pulling up and just not challenging her. Just like, hey, let's race, you know, and just kind of like. He's got a good look. He gives her a great look and an even better look when he wins. And then he like goes backwards or whatever. And Letty's like, this guy's crazy. And I was like, oh, my God. I was like, Oh my God.

It was just a perfect line read. I couldn't believe it. And then she fucking wait. Is this when she shoots him? No, that's earlier. That's later. Oh,

that's earlier. Yeah. That's her. He, he, she catches him in the shoulder and then he late, like then he, then he knows it's like her face to face.

And then later he challenges. They have to get the cars first before he can race. Oh, yeah. And getting the cars was wild because they got it from that man who like racially profiled them. And then they made him take off all his clothes. I like shit like this. If you're making a diverse movie, put a white racist in it. Yeah.

Fucking shame the fuck out of them. Put a white racist in it and fucking shame the fuck out of them. And you know Ludacris is a billionaire because they just did a huge heist one movie ago. So you're like, this is so funny. And also, Ludacris, yes, not white. Dude looks wealthy AF. He does look rich. He's got good skin. He dresses well.

He looks like money. Yeah, he does not look like he works anywhere. He dresses well. Yes. He looks like money. Yeah. He does not look like he works anywhere. He doesn't look like he works. He's Tej, baby. This guy's take on the wealthy white racist was great, too. Like, he's just really. But my shirt wouldn't fit.

And they're like, we don't care. Tee hee hee. And the pants. Rock's got a great moment with the foxers with the wink too you know now the pants and winks great um okay so then there's like a spanish nato base that's shaw's next target and i'm like fucking why why military bases and then everyone at the spanish nato base speaks english and i said, that's fine. Doesn't the rock say, like, we are headed to España?

Or is it like one of them says it? You're like, guys, just shoot the fucking movie. We're headed to España. Okay. So then Shaw's crew steals a computer chip from a military convoy to complete his device. Shaw and Letty commandeer a tank and destroy cars in its path. And then. Let's talk to the tank set piece because that's a big set piece in the movie.

It's a lot of fun. So it's on a dual bridge. And the guys are driving. The fast crew are driving old cars because they need cars without computers because they have those hockey pucks. What is that? A hockey puck? They have hockey pucks that shut down your computer. Yeah, that fry your car.

So they got to go old school. It's like Italian job. They're all driving like weird old minis and shit like that. And it looks cool. And then the bad guys are driving a fucking tank that's working. A whole ass tank. It's being transported loaded with ammunition somehow. That's not how you

transport a tank. And then it shoots out the fucking... To be fair to them, Gabrus, you're going to save time and space if you just load it. You're going to transport the bullets separate. Just put them in the tank. Load the tank. Also, this is a great shot of like Letty is now a comms expert on tanks.

She's like, check this. Like fucking with the dials and shit. Stop explaining how people know how to do stuff in this movie. Like the last movie, they were like, I had a life before this. But now they're just like, whatever. Who gives a shit? She knows how to do all this shit. So they're like shooting.

Or no. So the tank runs over Roman's car. Roman climbs out of his car. He jumps onto Brian's car and he's like, woohoo. Yeah, I did it. I'm not dead.

And then they were like, let me get on top of the tank and figure out how to cut this car loose. And let he's like, yup, that's in my wheelhouse. So then for whatever reason, like the car flips the tank letty shoots out into the sky dom sees it dom because brian brian drives he makes it an anchor yes yes yes yes that's like

another layer to this fucking thing where it's like we gotta bump this over the side brian make Brian, make it an anchor. Great. Good call. Yeah. Truly so wild. It's insane that in the moment they're like, we know exactly what we need to do to stop a full fledged tank. And they do it. It looks great. It looks cool. It's very fun cars.

They do a good job in this sequence to have like not a bunch of innocent people are dying. Don't worry. Keep showing them running away from their cars. Honestly honestly they did not tell the extras what to do or they did not speak the same language as the extras because there was times where like someone was like looking around being like well where is it coming from is it behind us or in front of us and then they like just kind of start walk running as if you couldn't hear a tank crunching through cars. You're so right. It's I think this movie suffers a little bit, too, from I mean, and this is just what has

to happen in making the logical progression is that they can't set them all in like the, you know, in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro or the Dominican Republic. And so London is not as visually interesting to me. It really isn't. It's too dark. So when they get to Madrid, it's better because it's more brightly colored. And also they're delivering on more action and spectacle,

but it makes the stuff go on for too long. So you just get a little numb. Whereas I feel like Five, they threaded the needle really well. And this one, every chase and fight is always about 20% too long. And this one clocks in over two hours. And it's just like,

oh man, it's just, by the time we get to that plane thing at night, it's just like, you're like, all right, you know, I guess you're like,

it's been a long 48 hours. Yeah. Like, and that's a lot of action that these guys and Vin Diesel's healed from his bullet. Like everyone is healed. Absolutely. He takes the bullet out himself. He never goes to the hospital he doesn't need it well because it's so important to figure out where the gun came from when the guy just says i don't know where she is they're

like he got the bullet we find the guy the guy's like i don't know and that's the end of that so fucking hobbs takes shaw but then brings sh Shaw to the crew to reveal that Mia has been kidnapped by Shaw's henchmen. And in this sequence, we see her give the baby away to Elena, but then they're both fine. So it's like, why did you give the baby? What is happening? I don't know.

Just run away. What does she see that makes her run back to the house? It's nuts. So then Hobbes is forced to release Shaw. And I was like, this couldn't have been a phone call? Why did you bring Shaw all the way to them to be like,

you got something to tell you? To have that fucking huge neck-breaking turn where it goes, honey, you coming with? Oh, yeah. I thought you would never ask. Thanks for popping in, Gina. Her one line in the whole movie is just kind of like, oh, she talks?

And she's bad? And she fucked it up. So then Letty stays with Dom. And then, okay, so now Shaw's group's boarding this fucking airplane. Yeah, this Bruce goose. This is wild. So Dom, Letty, and brian chase after them board the plane uh brian that's not a plane that's a planet one of like tyrese's three per movie and i was not

blank oh boy blank that's that was bad i was like this one was bad this one could have been edited out um that was written too all the stuff he improvises his goal just let him go just let him rip let him go fucking shitty let him write. Let him go. Fucking shitty joke in there. Chris Morgan. So this whole sequence was a little confusing to me. I was like, okay,

so they think shooting these things into the wings of the plane is going to anchor this plane down. This is a very big plane and these are little cars. So this is the thing that drives me crazy about this sequence. You're right. Why do they think that? More importantly, why does each car have that technology in it when they didn't know a plane was coming

because they're surprised by it? So they all just were like, look, we stole these grappling hooks from those guys, so we might as well each have one with a NOS tank hooked up to it. And they were like, yeah, we should put one in each car while we drive out there.

Like they're packing the car to go on this chase or whatever. And more importantly, how is this nighttime airplane battle going to top the tank thing in Madrid? Right. It's so similar. You had your in. They are very, very similar. And the tank one was better.

It's well lit. Fucking Dom saves Letty fucking dramatically. But in this, you have Wonder woman sacrificing herself to save han that's true uh you have the plane crashing uh as dom drives a car out of the exploding plane you're right and then lands behind the plane and then walks through the flames unscathed. Not even limping. Credit where credit is due, Nicole. You're right. The plane jizzes Vin out as a huge cum blast,

shooting out the first sperm. It's Vin Diesel in his muscle car. I got that plane to bust the nut. Watching this movie, Knowing han dies in three and then you watch his girlfriend die and you're like oh this poor tragic guy this is too much i texted you i was like this is too much for han i cannot believe this they give her a good death i gotta give her that i like i like uh but i was like is she dead i said that to Cause I was like, I haven't finished it yet, but I was like,

she dies in a way where she goes into this like abyss. She could be rolling around in a field somewhere, you know, spinning around into wonder woman does those movies comes back. And she's Giselle again. Hey, I tell you what, man,

she does a couple of more of those imagined videos and, you know, has a one or two that don't do that. Well, she's coming back. It's just, I'm not going to lie. I would not put it past the fucking franchise just to pay her and bring her and has one or two that don't do that well, she's coming back as Giselle. I'm not going to lie.

She might. I would not put it past the fucking franchise. Just to pay her and bring her back. Yeah, truly. Truly, because that would be such fan service. I mean, she's in flashbacks and later movies, too, so she gets an extra paycheck. But I do believe we never saw her dead, and that's something that comes up in whatever studio writers.

And I would like to see her and Han together, do believe we never saw her dead and that's something that comes up in like whatever studio writers her and han together because i i grew to really like this relationship same i'm saying i love i love han i know you guys like him too and he's maybe one of my favorites of the whole series great yeah han is incredible it's so wild that like his small part in tokyo drift blossomed into this like he's great like i i would not want to watch these movies without him which is funny because i did i watched one in seven he's not in seven yeah i'm the guy they don't ever give him enough to do in my opinion but the actor is so enigmatic and uh he brings that's the sat word what's that enigmatic enigmatic he brings an enigma

yeah he brings something special that you you know he's got like a full life and he's always kind of like watching and thinking and you're always like what's what's on his mind he excels in the if he's in a scene with just him or with one other person not everyone else in this movie can handle like holding the camera by themselves but sung kang can totally like here's something he's fully enriched in this character and i think justin lin and him are old buddies yeah they did justin lin's yeah that his first kind of big hit they were that he put him in that and they were they were great together that's a cool movie too yeah let's think better off tomorrow it was like the first mtv film i

remember when it came out maybe done a short or something before that and that kind of got him in the conversation and then he started doing big movies um and really found himself with fast and furious because he did tokyo drift and then he did like annapolis and some other kind of like um chintzy big budget action all you know neil maritz produces all these movies and all his stuff has a cheap pastiche to me you you know, which I guess kind of works for these. But like he's he did stealth and movies like that where you're like, oh, yeah, I guess I can kind of see that this is, you know, it's marketing minded, you know. I just think it's so wild that he did Tokyo Drift and they were like, all right, you can do more because Tokyo Drift was not good. you can do more because tokyo drift was not good yeah it didn't it didn't make money but i guess he just sold them on his vision because you know too fast too furious was a hit like it made good money wait was that a justin lynn one no that was singleton oh yeah i like too fast too fierce

but it did it was very music video for me and i very love it just deviated from the first one i love it i think it's why five was so good. Because there's obviously Roman and Luda, and there's elements of that one that they brought into five, which makes five the best in the series, in my opinion. I wanted to talk to you guys, as we're running out of time, that they don't ever soar to the levels of horniness that one and two did they're one and two are real male gazey horny sexy and they try to do that in all the other ones but they all feel

like a like a font of commercial or yeah it's always like the sex the sexuality in this movie is always 25 seconds of butt cheeks and dancer b-roll before a street race yeah it's always it's like the ricky martin she bangs video or something like the way it's they're lit or they're like a sony like a sony i don't know whatever a phone is it's not an iphone like one of their commercials like where they show like a rooftop party or something you know you're like this is this is the sexiest thing you can show you know and it's just so funny how frequently there are huge parties filled with underdressed women dancing and men sitting around drinking it's like how many of these exist in

every country because these guys find them all and how are they not sexy somehow i don't know what it's still it's too sterile or something i don't know it is very sterile also the way letty sits in dom's lap is sterile he doesn't know what to do with his hands and i'm like this is the woman you've been with she doesn't remember you she said it feels like home uh but like you you can touch her like i think she's allowing you to touch her in a way that you used to go back to one when you guys fucked in the garage together. That was so hot. Ooh, I love that scene. They're all greasy and dirty and it's dark.

Yeah, as these movies get bigger and that they're looking to just make money overseas, they're like, remove sexuality, add fucking bigger explosions, add stuff that you don't need to speak English to enjoy. Just big spectacles and it'll just sell globally and crush it. And it's, it's a bummer because those little hardcore, like not hardcore sex, but like the little relationships that are in there, like the Dom and Brian, the Dom and Letty, the Giselle and Han, like those are what make the Roman and Brian, like these are what make these movies strong is these like little romantic.

And I think when it's actual romance, like intimacy romance, they got to show more. They got to show Letty passionately kissing. Yeah. I want it. I want it. Me too.

She's still dealing with amnesia in seven. Spoiler alert. She's still struggling with her amnesia. Wait, she is? Yes, but it's's it gets resolved in the best way and i look forward to talking about that with you in a couple hours okay so hobbs agrees to pardon them dom he's like what do you want and he's like 13 27 and that's the old house in la and they they're back there. They're having a barbecue. And Paul Walker, Brian, is just like to his baby.

He's like, the air quality is bad. The traffic's bad. But you have your own garage. And I was like, what? Okay, cool. Legal weed. And the kid's dressed like a monk again or something. He's got like some weird gown on and the fucking beans.

I know. It's got like some weird gown on and the fucking beanie. I know. It's very weird. I think they could not get a human child on set like legally or something and they had to like dress up a bag of ferrets as a baby or something because it's like, it doesn't make a lot of sense

why the kid is in so many shots and looks so unusual. A bag of ferrets. Just keep honey on your finger. They'll go after the honey. Good, good, good. I missed this, but there's a mid-credits scene where Han is involved in a car chase

and is suddenly hit by an oncoming car. So I assume this is Tokyo Drift. So yeah, I could talk us through this because it's pretty crazy. The end mid-credits sequence in this movie is a full-on sequence from Tokyo Drift, like where they drift through the crowd of people. Remember that from 3? And it ends, and remember Han dies

and his car flips. In this mid-credit sequence, it's the car flips and Jason Statham is the guy who drove and crashed into him. He gets out. He's Shaw's brother, calls Dominic Toretto and says, Toretto, it's me, Shaw's brother, and I

just killed someone. And then he throws his cross onto Han, onto the thing. Oh my God. Then we see Vin Diesel show up, which we saw at the end of Tokyo Drift when he goes, and he knows Han. Then we see them over on the side talking, and he's like, Han had this, and it's the necklace. And it's like, this is so shoehorned in, but it really pushes the whole movie forward and inspires why you want, why Statham's the bad guy in

Seven. It's tough to buy Statham drifting in Tokyo against a bunch of kids, though. Yeah, that's the thing you have to remember. Han is hanging out with high school kids. He's young. They're babies. He's a full-grown adult. Well, yeah, he's lived five lives, according to the kids. He's young. And he's a full grown adult. Well, yeah, he's lived five lives

according to the franchise. He's like 41. He should be like 40 something hanging out with 16 year olds. I'm here in Tokyo drifting nine year olds. Do you know what I mean? Toretto, do you know what I mean?

Real quick, we have to take another break. Okay, we're back. Real quick, this film, it won awards. Best Action or Adventure Film at the Saturn Awards. Best On-Screen Duo at the MTV Movie Awards, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Yeah, I get that because the stunts are fucking wild. They are. There should be Oscars for stunts. I think we've screamed it

on this podcast before. I truly think they're incredible. And all that shit is practical. That's cool. It is. I have two quick thoughts I want to leave you guys before we have to wrap this up because it's i'd be remiss if

i didn't tell i got a fast and the furious insider story um and it it it works when did when do we lose uh paul walker seven for seven seven okay so it dovetails in nicely to your next episode he um so he unfortunately wasn't able to finish the movie. And it was a big story that Universal cast his twin brother and maybe his other brother to kind of fill out the role for him. It's nice. It's what they should have done. I had a friend of mine that worked with or that knows the actor double that they hired.

Because the reality of it is it'd be great if it was his brother with whatever he's doing in his life to come out there and finish. But it's a lot of heavy lifting because he has to be on screen with the actors and act the part. And they need to emote and have moments together. So they cast an actual actor that fit Paul Walker's dimensions. And so this guy has also done other shows. I won't say his name because I don't think Universal did, but this guy has done other shows and movies. He's got an okay career, but he came on this movie. He did a really great job.

He finished this thing and he said it was so fucking surreal because they had stopped down on the movie and then started back up. And he said, I was ostensibly the A-team. I was there with the leads of the movie. I got treated the exact same way they did i had moments they would you know for to use my body as like a composite or whatever they would i would have close-ups i acted with everybody i had my trailer i did first class travel

international i'm i'm babied and protected i'm there with vin diesel all of them and he said then the movie ends. I completely walk away from it. I'm not in it. It's not me up there at all. I get no credit and it's the last time I'll ever have that experience. So he said it was very fucking surreal to be like, that must be insane.

You are the fucking star of this, but then really like, but then you're not. Yeah. Shit, dude. That's like uh dan lippard in son of zorn yeah yeah real deep cut but yes and then my second thing i wanted to ask you guys what for a while during the tram ride at universal they had this weird thing with fast and the furious cars where they would just kind of bounce around on hydraulics like you saw jaws you saw this you saw k saw this, you saw Kong,

and then you saw these Fast and the Furious cars. And it was when the franchise was in not in the best shape that it's in now. And I thought, is Universal leaving something on the table by not doing a Radiator Springs for Fast and the Furious? You know the cars right at Disneyland? Yeah. Why not do that for Fast and the Furious

at Universal Studios? It's crazy that there's not even like know the cars right at disneyland yeah why not do that for fast and the furious at universal studios it's crazy that there's not even like the shitty transformers uh all spark like just like one of those video based rides like you could do a fast and the furious one so quickly i thought of it when i it was the tunnel part in fast and furious where they're zipping through the tunnel and it's really like whoa it'd be so cool if they did something on a track, obviously, to be the coolest. But I'm with you, Gabrus. Like, how are they not? This is a billion dollars.

It's pretty much all they got, you know, as far as. It's their biggest thing. The dark universe ain't panning out to them. It's just the fast saga that's working out right now. Yeah. I feel like that would drive revenue to the parks big time. Real quick. This movie, the budget was was 160 million and it made

789 million 160 mil is a huge investment and then they just fucking blow the doors i mean how wild yeah god damn that's so crazy that's so much trivia so duane johnson the rock improvised the you better hide that big ass forehead. So the reaction of ludicrous spinning out his drink is real. The tank chase originally planned was to be created via CGI, but then Justin Lin was like, it has to be done practically with some post-production enhancements. The tank ran over approximately 250 cars during filming.

Oh, awesome. I mean, there's like 150 on camera camera i'm assuming some of them got but there's some of them cars being crushed yeah uh in the scene in london when dom is racing letty there's a small boy who's watching the race from a classic london double decker red street bus the same kid is shown watching dom and brian as they pull in uh pull in the safe in the previous movie fast five the young boy is justin lynn's son and i'll tell you something didn't clock this kid at all me either i have no idea what this trivia is about i love he got the kids cute though that's i mean this is like in the two hour and 40 minute movie featuring over 1 million explosions you missed the the cutaway shot of a child on a bus i missed

that little kid understandably baby uh singer do you have anything that you want to plug uh just uh you know i got a head gum podcast dumbbells with uh the wonderful eugene cordero people should check that out and then action Action Boys with Gabrus. It's a lot more of this type of shit. Just us screaming, screaming about movie shit and then, you know, having inane theories and all that kind of shit. I love it.

I highly recommend Action Boys. Dumbbells is great, but I highly recommend the one that gets me paid as well. Well, we'll be back literally in a, I mean, truly this will come out next week, but we're recording this in a couple hours. Furious 7, baby. And if you want us to read your review, you can write us a review and we'll read it in the right end.

Oh boy. Not my name. LOL is what this person wrote for their name. Fast and totally furious. So the one thing I completely tell my friends that talk about this movie series is it's a total male soap opera. From dead people coming back to life to cars to drug lords to more cars. Now we're going to space. A total male soap opera.

Keep up the laughs. Thank you very much. Night. Vroom, vroom. Ian. Ian 776 said, good pod.room! Uh, Lan, uh, oh, Ian, Ian776 said, good pod. Good pod. Thank you, Ian. Thank you,

Ian, you know, as long as it's five stars, you can write whatever dumb shit you want in there. Super appreciated by me. Ray's a regular Mark Twain with that. You humorist. Brevity is the soul of wit. Alright, that's it. I gotta go watch Furious 7.

Let's do what we do best. Improvise! Thank you. That was a Hidgum Original.