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Tokyo Drift with R. ALAN INGALLS
We are drifting along in our Fast and Furious rewatch as we tackle the third installment, TOKYO DRIFT!
This month, Drew and Bailey are joined with their first ever special guest, the extraordinary and talented filmmaker and friend, R. ALAN INGALLS!
Thanks to Alan, our episode had a serious upgrade on mics and videos, so we hope you really enjoy our podcast episode as we chat all things Tokyo Drift related!
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[Music]
What's up gang and welcome back to the quarter mile podcast. We are so glad you're here with us episode three.
We're drifting along literally we're in Tokyo drift it's going to be a great episode. This is such a special episode.
This is like an upgrade on so many reasons. First of all you might notice we are not in Bailey's house in our guest room.
We are on a computer. We are in a garage. We are in one of the coolest places I never knew existed until this week actually.
We are in Jackson Tennessee at Rusty's car museum with lots of cars from lots of different movies.
So this is such a cool place and we're going to show up a bunch of clips later just showing you around.
If you're anywhere near Jackson and you like movie cars and right behind us you will see Paul Walker aka Brian O'Connor's car from Fast and Furious One.
It's just so much cool stuff here. Also this is a special episode because for the first time in quarter mile podcast history we have a special guest.
Hi mom.
Everybody give a hand.
Give it up for Alan and Angola.
Well I said let's hear that's the stand-up comedy.
Yeah.
There's literally no need.
In order for you to clap virtually you can like and share and comment on this podcast.
Thank you for your contributions.
There's actually a lot of people walking around the museum looking at cars while we're recording.
Yeah.
We have an audience.
We have a live audience and we have you guys who are alive in our audience.
But joining me in Bayley Day we have Alan.
Alan is a good friend of both of ours.
I feel like I've known you for over a decade.
For sure.
We met in comedy clubs, the South Street comedy club back in the day.
And we're going to give you a space to introduce yourself.
But I need to catch the audience up on something very important.
After our first episode, Alan sent me a message and I feel like I need to read the highlights of the message because it does pertain to our podcast episode.
So here's what Alan told me right from the beginning said, so you say you're the biggest fast and furious fan.
I said I just like that too.
Yeah.
In my head that's how I like.
I think not.
I challenge you for the title of the biggest fast and furious fan.
We can do a game show style quiz that Bayley can curate.
Do you accept my challenge?
Then you also said also I would love to be a special guest on episode three to explain why Tokyo drift is my favorite film of the entire franchise, which is an opinion.
And we're excited to hear it.
So first of all, yes, Alan, I do it to challenge to claim to who's the biggest fast and furious fan of all time.
But we're going to get to that quiz at the end of the episodes of Stick Around For That.
But first we did this in episode one, me and Bayley, but I would love to for you to introduce yourself and kind of talk about I guess your relationship with fast and furious.
And if you want to take the time to tell us why Tokyo drift is your favorite, we'd love to hear that too.
Yeah.
So I'm are Alan Ingalls.
I am a filmmaker photographer with a passion for music, mocky autos and just about anything with a motor.
And my that last one came from the fast and furious.
I saw magazines on magazine racks back when those existed that had cool cars on the front of them.
And I was like, oh, that's cool.
And it kind of peak mantras are like that neat.
But then the fast and furious came out and I was like, full on like, oh, this is like I want I got to get me one of those like Will Smith says and Independence Day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's when my my passion for cars came from that movie with just little seeds of magazines and other things and before that.
But I joined I got a car started fixing it up.
I joined a car club and when I'm actually started a car club, which was I didn't know what I was doing.
So it was terrible.
And then I joined a real car club called center.
Australian's right here in this town Jackson Tennessee.
And was hanging out with other car people when this third movie came out.
And I was like, we all went to the theater as a car club.
And I think part of my love for this film is not just the movie itself, but the time of my life that I was in and the people I was sharing experience with.
That makes a lot of sense.
Yeah.
All right.
So he gets a pass.
Okay.
He's a lot of the same fast and furious.
Tell you a drift is his favorite.
I have a question about your car club and car enthusiasm.
Yeah.
Life.
Have you personally ever tried like drifting like do you drift like?
I have tried.
I don't know if I would say I have drifted.
I have drifted accidentally multiple times.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, rain.
Yeah.
Need new tires that day on the old car.
I have put my hat into my name into the hat of many forms of automotive racing.
I won't go into what all ones.
I don't want to increment myself.
And I have one song.
I have lost some.
I've made money.
I've not made money.
I lost money.
But I got married pretty young and my wife was like, uh, uh, no more.
That's fair.
Because I was like, how you doing?
We had a great break.
Did you say that last part?
Yes.
And I will keep saying yes they did.
You know, we needed to buy a formula and I was like, I can go make a bug real quick.
And she was like, no.
And when I got a, I had a two-seater vehicle when we had our first child.
And I had to get rid of that vehicle and get something with the back seat, right?
And when I made that, when I sold my vehicle that I loved to get something to accommodate that child,
she knew like, okay, he's in this.
He's, he's going to be a good guy.
He's in this to win it, right?
Yeah.
And then I got that car and put, you know, modifications on it.
And then it was loud.
I put exhaust on it.
And I was like, how am I going to put some gnaws on this?
And that's what he was like.
Yes.
I know where this is going and no.
And so from that day forward, I have had really loud, really modified, really cool vehicles.
But I, and an air one of them had no naas anymore.
So it's just the first time.
So unfortunately.
Well, you don't need naas in racing when you have family.
That's right.
Well, you could just, you know, go to your local Walmart and buy some naas out of the fridge.
They would have family.
And they would have four kids and a wife, a dog and a cat.
So I'm, I got all the naas on it.
And Bailey, I feel like we, we, we haven't caught up with you yet.
What's, how's life been for the past month?
Well, it's been quite stressful.
My house has been flooding, but they have gotten that fixed out, you know?
So we're good on that one.
And I'm going to be filming my music video coming up here soon for a song called "Dear Diary"
and I'll be releasing it very soon.
So that's in the works.
That's probably going to be the next few months or so.
Yeah, that's awesome.
And well, when it comes out, we'll share it on all the things.
But just for you all right now, just know like it's coming up.
Yeah.
Two things to get excited about in life, fast 11 and Bailey's new music video.
Yeah.
Debateably the order might be reversed on that one.
Like I, I don't know.
I don't know.
It's, it's up to different tastes.
Let's get into, uh, just some fast and furious related stuff.
I said, that's why we're here, right?
So first before we get into Tokyo Drift, just a little response recap over a two fast, two furious from based off of our last episode,
much like the movie reviews back when it came out.
We've had some not great comments.
My, my favorite from one of my friends is now that I do this podcast and my friends they try to watch the movies and keep up with us.
One of my friends, Joe, he wrote me this message.
He said, gave it my best shot. It took three sittings and I could not finish the movie talking about two fast two fates.
Like I'm sorry.
I feel like a fair, I failed, but here's my high-coo review.
I did not like it.
I'm more of a male Brooks guy, much love and respect.
And you know, I understand that.
It's totally cool.
We understand that not every movie is for everyone.
And this whole podcast about just having a fun, having good time and you know watching things that make you happy.
And if that's not fast and furious, that's okay.
But we do now have a requirement for everyone who doesn't like fast and furious.
You have to send us high coup.
I think that's the rule.
Yeah, exactly.
Give us a high coup as to why you don't like a certain fast and furious.
You don't make them work for it.
Yeah.
It's not really disdain if there's not a high coup.
And we'll read it on our podcast and give you credit.
Yes, absolutely.
And then you'll be able to make a famous poet based off of the quarter mile podcast.
Like Robert Frost.
Absolutely good for you.
If he was still around, he would totally write our right car podcast.
He might be a fast, furious poet.
I think he would have been as good as he is.
He's definitely a, anyway, this next comment came from a random guy from TikTok.
It was on our, which is always the best comments of the random people from TikTok.
This was when we posted one of the, we posted a few videos,
it was reals about the event as we, we love it.
Yeah, she's, I'm a fan.
And I think I, I think my comment was something like, man, let us know at our wedding or whatever about this.
And he responded, she ain't gonna marry your creepy-looking self.
First of all, Ouch.
Secondly, let me have my dreams.
I don't know who you are, but a creepy-looking person can dream.
Also, I don't appreciate this double standard we've had on TikTok when episode one came out.
These same woman, like three times posted to Bailey,
she like, move the microphone so we can see your pretty-looking face on three different videos.
And I feel like these people are just telling me, move the microphone so we can see less of your creepy-looking face.
Is what I feel like, and I'm just not here for it.
Somebody compared me to I-spice though, so.
I would hope that's like entire, I don't know, was that a compliment?
I don't know, just a hair, I don't know if anything else.
I had to look up to remind myself who I-spice was before.
I was like, I don't know how to respond to this comment.
That's right, that's all I know about it.
Like, oh, she was sending behind Taylor at the Super Bowl.
Yeah.
That's the how I want to get my fame.
After your music video and then you're big, I'm just gonna stay in the back there.
I'll just become famous to be a local icon or something.
Yeah, that sounds good.
The last response that we got, this was kind of fun, but when we posted that real, with the theory about Brian and Roman,
Roman having a romance.
They were so mad.
Oh my gosh, we, I think we upset the entire straight male community behind Fast and Furious that, I mean, they were very defensive.
Like, no, and we're not gay either.
Yeah, it was, it was, it was, um,
And just so you haters, no, a theory, the definition of a theory means that it's not a proven fact.
Yeah.
So, and remember, this is about fictitious characters.
Literally.
This is not real life.
It's like, but I was one of those guys.
I was like, oh, no, you didn't.
Yeah, it's literally like anything.
Today, we're talking about Tokyo Drift.
Before we get into our wonderful AI summary that Alan is gonna read for us, just some brief details.
Tokyo Drift came out in 2006, which is the year I graduated high school.
Alan, what were you doing in 2006?
Um, I was working in IT, um, pretty much been in my entire paycheck on my car.
I was hanging out with the car club and my, uh, girlfriend at the time.
We weren't married yet.
And, uh, definitely enjoyed going to the theater, see this movie in theaters with, uh, 30 other car heads.
Yeah, I think that's so cool.
I did not know that about you that you were in a car club.
You were so into the cars and everything like that.
It's the only part of my life I haven't tried to monetize yet.
And then here we are.
Yeah.
And this is going to be what picks up.
So, um, it's the most expensive part of my life.
What was going on in 2006 for you, Bailey?
What do you think was going on here?
Were you five?
So she still hadn't seen Tokyo Drift yet.
I was drifting in my diapers or something.
You're doing something in my life.
So, but hey, maybe, maybe your parents saw it too.
I know you guys watched the podcast.
Thank you for your--
Yeah, my parents didn't really watch it.
Thank you, Karen and Rodney.
Rodney, yeah, I was gonna say Bailey's dad.
I don't know if they're okay with their names being disclosed, but--
Oh, whoops.
That may or may not be their names.
Yeah, also it could be Roger and Baron, so probably not.
Probably to hit the sensor button on the board.
Anyway, um, the cool thing about when this movie came out for me was this was the first--
like, when this movie came out, me and my friends started like binge watching, fast and furious every time I knew them.
It became--
Now it's called Furious Weekend because it took some--
It's a-- it's a-- it's a sleepover and a few high school guys that watched the first two that went and sold the third one.
That's good.
And then that became my thing every time the next day they came out.
I do that, yeah.
And so now it's become such a big deal where like the way it works with me--
I'm working to make it a national holiday.
In fact, my goal is for this podcast to become so big that we get enough money where we can--
You can actually purchase days to be holidays.
No kidding.
For a weekend it'd be about like $5,000.
That's all.
So I'm just saying that if we--
Yeah, it's not-- it's expensive for nothing, but--
Right.
It's achievable if you want to waste your money on something--
Go find me Link here.
[LAUGHTER]
But so now what we do is we watch all the movies when the new one comes out.
Then we go out to like a really nice dinner and then we go see the new one in theaters.
And it's-- and now it's become like a weekend thing.
And so especially when I was like a youth pastor, it was always on Easter weekend that new fast and furious movies come out.
And it was really kind of funny because on Easter we can all-- all my social media feeds, all my friends were like posting--
like minister of friendship posting like, you know, he is risen or Bible verses or God stuff.
And I'm like the rock just punched a torpedo and likes to--
[LAUGHTER]
So it was--
He is risen.
[LAUGHTER]
He's risen.
He's risen.
So, you know what else is rising?
There's all this testosterone from these car races.
Anyway.
Oh my god.
Yeah, so, but this was the movie that we started marathoning them.
So that's special.
Also about Tokyo Jeff the Stars, this movie's had a Lucas Black plane shot.
A Shad Moses aka Little Bowel, playing Twinkie.
Love him.
I really like that character.
I forgot he was in that movie.
Yeah, I was so lovable.
So lovable.
Yeah, he was just--
And he never did anything else of significance in the-- in the film industry.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Did he have a movie role that I forgot about or did he just straight up--
He was in one episode of Smallville.
I know that's not what he's doing.
I think he was in something else as well, but I had grown up watching, but I can't--
This was definitely his star.
This is it.
Once you do a fast and furious, you really don't need--
Oh, yeah.
I mean, that's the pinnacle of--
That's what we hope your first movie is, Bailey.
Hope they call you for a fast 12.
Oh, that would be awesome.
So.
Yeah, let's do it.
Vin Diesel, if you'll listen to this.
Yeah.
See if you can get my car feature in the movie.
I know.
Then I can go in this museum.
That would be great.
Also, we had Nathalie Kelly playing Nela Nela.
A, I don't know who she is.
I've been to say another actress that I don't think I have ever seen since or before.
No.
Like Sean Boswell, I mean, his Lucas Black was in--
Lucas Black.
He was in other stuff.
He was in other stuff.
He was in a couple things that he was known for, even before this, and got him recognized
by Justin Lin for this movie.
I think, and of course, Han was someone that Justin worked with before.
Yeah.
I'm sure we'll get into that.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's a cool fact.
But I don't think anybody else was-- they were all kind of unknowns.
Yeah.
So, but it was a good movie.
And finally, we had Brian T.
Is DK.
And then Sun King as Han, who of course came back for a lot of other movies.
Yeah.
Kind of like the star of-- it felt like to me, he ended up being like the star of the show in this movie.
Kind of thing.
It was-- it was like the first two movies.
There were many stars.
You know, there was-- there was-- Bawl really had a spotlight on him, and he really shined
to this movie, despite being kind of a sileness of side-cars, kind of not the main guy.
And yeah, I believe, yeah, Han was definitely-- and then of course, Lucas Black.
Those three characters really, really pushed the narrative into this movie.
I would have loved to see more about Bawl.
I don't know what more they could have done, but I think it would have fun, yeah.
I would have liked a little bit more--
I don't know that if it would have actually-- I'll say this.
I don't know if it would have helped or made the movie any better.
I'm just curious more about her world, her backstory, and what--
What do--
What do they actually--
Well, maybe getting that later, but what a weird backstory.
Yeah, I'm so confused.
Yeah.
Where are you from here?
Obviously not.
You know?
I'm like--
And then so most notably on this movie, this was the first time director for Fast and Furious,
it was Justin Lin, and of course he came back and directed--
So he directed three, four, five, six, seven, and nine.
So he ended up directing six of the movies.
Right.
And so he's a big reason as to why Fast and Furious is the way it is now,
and how it took off.
He kind of--
And this was one of his first directorial debuts, maybe his first one.
I don't know if it's exactly his first one, but he was definitely early on in directing.
And--
Yeah, his directorial debut was Better Look Tomorrow.
Yeah.
I think he made that as an indie film.
I don't think it was produced by a studio.
And that indie film is what got him noticed in the industry,
and got him this opportunity.
So this was the first studio back when we have, I believe, he did.
And he--
He did it.
We'll talk about it later, but love or hate this movie,
this movie saved the Fast and Furious series, which is pretty cool.
And the next one ruined it.
The next one was rough.
But you know what?
That's the next month.
Yeah.
That's the next month.
We're not there yet.
The VR is here at Rusty's Car Museum, talking about Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift,
and our special guest, Alan, first special guest ever for the quarter mile podcast,
has the honor of reading our AI hyperwright plot summary about Tokyo Drift.
So Alan, the floor is yours.
Are you gonna make every guest do this?
I think you should.
I think we should start the duration right here.
That would be five years.
I think that the guest has to read this.
That's the reading.
Yeah.
This thing is amazing.
Okay.
And the next one is the first one.
There's a lot of fun, but it's the first time we're in Tokyo, and this is the first time
I've ever seen a lot of fun in Tokyo.
And then we're gonna have a lot of fun, and that's the first time we're in Tokyo, and that's
the first time we're in Tokyo, and we're gonna have a lot of fun in Tokyo,
(laughing)
Or will he find himself a one-way trip to Crashville?
(laughing)
You'll have to watch The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift to find out.
But one thanks for sure, this movie takes the Fast and Furious series for a wild side winding spin
that'll leave you gripping your armrests like a steering wheel.
What's with this ultra?
Stay tuned, and remember folks, keep your cars on the road and your podcast in your ears.
Yeah, wait, what?
What?
What?
Let's ask was that a fragment?
No, that's it.
That's what it said.
That's it.
I think this is fun.
This is a summary of fun.
This was a good idea.
So what, all that happened, it writes it as if you're like, "Greano and Poccus," I'll say, like,
"I'll write me a fun and relatable plot summary for my podcast for Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift,"
and so it usually, it last week, it was like, "What's up podcast pals?"
It really, it really tries to do the whole job before us.
It sounds like a YouTube video, like from Watch Mojo or Loop Air or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's great.
I loved it.
Wow.
Thanks for letting me have the honor of you.
Thank you for doing that, Alan.
You were setting the bar so high for any of our future guests.
Did anybody know what X-Pat meant?
I thought that was a typo and that thing.
I didn't know what I did.
Okay, so I'm glad I'm not going to pretend that I actually knew.
I actually had to look it up because I wanted to make sure what I was saying was right.
X-Pat is short for X-Patriot, which is a word that describes a person who temporarily resides
outside their country of citizenship, citizenship, typically for work.
Okay, yeah.
But in this case, we learn later that Hawn has fleed the job.
Actually, doesn't he say in this movie that Tokyo is his, like, Sunson's role for the Sunson?
Yeah, he's interesting.
He says, he says, you know, in the movie, they get the girl.
Sometimes you don't get the girl.
This isn't.
He's like, he fleed or something like that.
Yeah.
Which is kind of interesting because before the rest of the movies, he definitely seems like he's related to the other movie, him and Justin Lin.
What was the name of it?
I've better look tomorrow.
Better look tomorrow.
Like, it seems like this is like the second part of his character.
Like, a lot of people say, if you watch that movie and you see Hawn and that, and his name is literally Hawn in that movie that he is, it's like this is like a chill and more mellow version of that character.
Like, so like, it kind of is not canon, but it kind of could be.
But then I think actually Justin Lin said it's, he considers it canon as an actual canonical, what's it called, backstory of Hawn?
And what's interesting and better look tomorrow, many plays, literally plays the same character.
He's like a criminal, right?
And or becomes one in the movie.
And he's a chain smoker in that movie.
But do you know this?
Yeah.
In the Fast and Furious franchise, there was someone decided, I'm not sure who made this decision, but they were like, yeah, we can't have him chain smoking.
So they replaced the chain smoking with constant snack eating.
That's what that was.
Yeah, and it's almost like, well, that works because if he quit smoking, you would replace that with another side.
I like that.
And specifically something with a mouth, people like Chugam or do something that, because they used to have an assigurant.
So yeah, I thought that was a really clever tidbit.
Yeah.
That is really clever.
So what were our impressions?
What do we think?
What are some thoughts that come to mind for Tokyo drift?
I mean, it wasn't a good nor bad movie.
It was a movie.
To me, it was just, I don't know, sometimes it does, it seemed like it was a little bit slower than it being called a Fast and Furious movie.
Because there were literally scenes where they had interjected slow-mo effects into those scenes specifically for slow-mo action, but not really much action.
There wasn't much action going on until the last 30 minutes of the movie.
Absolutely.
There was that big last drift race.
Yeah.
And then there was the first one, which was kind of early on a movie where the first time he goes down in the season,
that's when he even has a terrible.
But it was all about drifting.
So at least it stayed to its title.
Yeah.
And so.
Yeah, the first race.
So I'm assuming Tabasco paid for that placement.
Yeah.
So they had to put that in there.
They're like, how are we going to put this in?
Oh, I know, way.
But also, like in a song where you have your moments of the song that kind of dip low and then it makes the explosion of the chorus or something, even that much more impactful.
So some of those slow-motion moments were that to me, specifically the Tabasco shot.
I thought that was kind of cool.
And then he finishes the roll.
I was like, oh, you're a jarred back into it, right?
That's almost like what having a car crash is like when you're in that specific scenario.
Yeah.
You can probably tell us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've wrecked and rolled a lot of cars.
Yeah.
Is it like, does everything slow down to you or is it happened so fast?
It happens so fast, but then like right after it, you're kind of like the shock of it all.
Like I remember, I had a big wreck one time where I ended up spinning and then rolling off a bridge and down a hill and then upside down.
And I just like Vin Diesel, I walked out of him, unharmed.
But I remember the wreck part happened so quickly, but then once I was there, I was so, this is so weird, I was like in shock.
And I was the one thing I was thinking about was like, where's my cell phone?
Like, my car was literally about to explode.
Like I had out before I had to.
It felt like two hours for your phone when it was literally just a few minutes.
Yeah.
Because people came up afterwards and helped me get out, but it was weird.
So don't get in car ex people.
That's a good PSA.
Right.
And the drifting scene through Tokyo, where they split the crowd.
Yes.
I think the slow motion worked there.
You know, that was like a really cool one.
Yeah.
That's the best scene.
Or is it even in slow motion?
Or is it kind of real time?
Well, slow, maybe.
So it was speedy and then it had like that.
Yeah.
And it went to like the slow motion to where like the girl was like, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.
And then they didn't hit the, you know, the people.
Yeah.
So then it's bed right back up.
Which I thought that was a creative way of for us, the audience to see how much better Sean had gotten at driving.
Yeah.
Because like what the kind of the pretext behind that is, I mean, I know it's a fast and furious movie.
And like the odds of that happening exactly like that would be impossible.
But like the idea is like he is so good at drifting at that point that he did not hit a single by a standard.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you compare that to the first race.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The first several races that he was in in the film.
Yeah.
Be honest.
I think.
And all the practicing he did and kept hitting the track.
He kept hitting everything.
So here's my thing about this movie.
I decided at this rewatch that I hate this movie way less than I thought I did.
I did. I did a lot of soul searching and self-discovered to why I'm so bothered by this movie.
The good thing I'll say about it is the character development up until now with fast and furious.
We haven't seen like any strong character development.
No.
I would argue that fast and furious one and two like when you put them together, you see Paul Walker's character development.
Yeah.
Both as an actor and as Brian O'Connor.
Yeah.
But separately, there's no like growth of the character from the beginning of the one movie to the end.
Except in this one, we see huge character development with Sean's character.
And so what I realized in this rewatch is the reason I've had so many problems with this movie all comes down to the cold opening.
I hate the first, I don't know like 10 minutes of that movie because at that point, I hate every single character that's been introduced.
I'll paint the picture for you all.
I'll wait for you.
But it opens in some random school in Alabama that is either really ritty because there's fancy cars and or it's really poor because they have metal detectors.
And then you get the, you know, you see Sean's character and he is just so unlikable like I know, which is what he's supposed to be.
Yeah.
And then you meet a Brad from home improvement is his rival.
Why?
And then what's your name?
Actually, you want to talk about character development.
And then what's your name?
Yeah, I'm like, well, you're an idiot, right?
Yeah, I was like, this is not going well.
I'm not going to talk about it.
The thing to me is that she says where you from and she says here.
And when she says here, she says it with an Australian accent.
Literally that word is one of those words that's very, you know, that brings that accent out.
And as the backstory continues, when DK is talking to her and he says, "Oh yeah, my father," whatever said, "You were the greatest trick."
And I'm talking to you.
And you're dating?
Got her? I'm not sure that was a good move.
But the whole thing is like, if she was raised by Yakuza in Japan, why does she have an Australian accent?
What did she move?
Well, it is all very cute.
I'll tell you who you are.
Yeah.
Well, leave it to a man to tell the woman her.
She's very mysterious throughout the whole movie.
And I think that's part of the allure of her and kind of her character.
She's doesn't ever give away too much.
But also, it could just be because the writers are like, "It doesn't matter."
It doesn't matter.
Yeah, exactly.
It's a little bit short.
It was probably the same writer that was like, "Yeah, let's beat up a Mexican Indian."
And that was like, "Here's the idea for a backstory."
What is?
And they're like, "Sam, we need to get you help, man."
You just, I don't know if it's the same Sam, but it sounds like a Sam move.
I don't know.
So it took one too many cold pills.
The whole movie is about outsiders.
Yes.
And the whole time you're watching it, you think that that's hawn, potentially, obviously,
shawwn, obviously, Nila, obviously, Twinkie.
And by the end, I feel like that DK is actually the outsider in the whole film, especially that group.
That was kind of my next person.
Like, how do we feel about him as a villain or as a character?
Like, did you feel for him by the end of the movie?
Did you, like, the whole movie just not like him or whatever?
No, he was just a punk, the whole movie.
Yeah.
Somebody really wanted punch in the face.
And I would have done that way before I would have agreed to a drift race.
Now, especially after the dude punched you.
Yeah.
Or with, wait, yeah, DK punched shawwn.
Yeah, shawwn.
And let him get, let him get beat up there.
Fishing dog.
But that also, I think that was showing us a little bit of his character, but he knew.
He held back.
He knew that he was commutal in with his girlfriend's last sister.
Also, he's not trying to get, he wants to worry about himself and not get all the people standing
around and trouble too, because he knows if he fought like, fought back that DK's goons would
have jumped in as well.
Yeah.
That would have put hawn and Twinkie and everybody having to jump in to save shawwn.
Yeah.
Like, you know what?
I'm just going to eat these because I did it.
I was so happy though, like, after, after Han died and they got, like, any dead go over and
punch him, like, at that point, you've built so much resentment towards this character that
you're like, yeah, get him.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Get him, bannable boy.
Yeah, they did a really good job of making this villain in this movie, Unlikable.
Yeah.
But there's no arc, there's no reason to root for him.
There's no feeling sorry for him.
Like again, I think the story arc and the character arc of, of Clay in the beginning.
Yeah.
I feel for him when he's tearing up and he's about to crash his car with his girl.
Is this the secret high school boy?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like, but like, and then DK is supposed to be, he's supposed to be out of high school.
He's an adult and he's, he just running, he thinks he's playing gangster in his little,
well, there was a shawnt, or what does Han say?
He's playing gangster in his story, you know?
Yeah.
And that's ultimately, I think he's, he's the, he's the outside of the movie.
Yeah.
He is, he is absolute.
And that's, that's interesting.
He's an out of, literally.
Yeah.
I want, I want to know what happens to him, like maybe he'll come back in fast 11.
Right.
To be an America.
I also want to know what happens if he just like, where did he go?
Yeah.
And like, if he just like, waltzes back into Tokyo for a business meeting or go to McDonald's
or something, like what, does he, he shot on side?
Tokyo mafia gets him.
That, that, that, that, that's on a mean statement.
They're literally the gangsters in the movie.
That's true.
That's true.
Well, they say that in the movie.
Yeah.
This is the first time the word is family use, the word family is used to describe doms, true.
And this is at the very end of the movie when we get, we get a Vin Diesel game, you know?
And they're like, how do you know?
Han is like, he was part of the family.
I say what you will about Tokyo drift.
This is the first time we have it to thank for the family memes for fast and furious.
So this is, this is maybe one of my favorite Tokyo drift facts.
This is the thing that I've been telling people all month when the topic of Tokyo drift
comes up.
During the movie, there's a scene that wasn't given a permit and it was that really cool
drift scene where with this little motion or whatever, where they had the image not hit
a single person with their cars, how impressive that in real life.
And so then they didn't have a permit and since this is highly illegal to do it without
a permit, they actually hired a fake director to be the guy that, when the police came to
the, who's director, they brought up the fake director and he actually had to spend a
night in jail.
Oh, my gosh.
And it was all part of their plan because they knew that after, you know, when they were
talking to the guy that gave him about 20 more minutes to finish the scene and stuff like
that.
And as a thank you, they later let the man do a cameo and like that sauna scene with the
big fat guy with the, the park on his, yeah.
And so when you, and I couldn't figure out which one he was, but like when you look at
the line of different men in the sauna, one of them is the fake guy who is hired to go
to jail for the director.
That's awesome.
Right?
Like go for him.
Yeah.
Do you think that the, the one scene in the movie was a big enough thank you for a night in
jail?
Like I don't know.
Would you do that?
Would you be in a fat, would you go to jail for a night to be in the scene in the first
of years?
I think wasn't he also like a crew member?
Like he was getting paid.
He probably got paid for the cameo.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, baby.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's do it.
Good enough.
Big movie.
And then this is another really interesting fact about this movie.
Very important just with overall fast and furious knowledge.
So Vin Diesel agreed to do a cameo as Dom Torreto in the film's closing moment as
part of a trade off with Universal Studios to get the rights to pitch black and his
riddic character.
Because that was his main thing like that was what he wanted to get that was his big thing.
But then he also added to it.
He wanted a producer role for any other fast and furious movies.
And so by doing that little cameo which at the time they didn't know whether it was going
to really go and do a fast and furious for there just like it'd be fun to give it
like a suggestion by a grain of do that he got himself in the leadership of the putting
together the movies.
And then a lot of his vision along with Justin Lin is what kept the movies going.
So it was just and it was such like a side thing he was just like well I guess I'll do it
if you give me a producer credit.
Yeah, because up until this one he'd only done three, he just did the first one.
Yeah.
And he was thinking that riddic was going to be his franchise, his star, shining star.
So that's why he wanted the rights to that.
Yeah.
That's interesting that how it ended up working out and he shifted the.
Yeah.
And he was being dominant to red over the rest of his career.
People like even when they interview him sometimes call him dumb instead of in he just answers.
He just goes I mean you kind of have to with that point.
I have a hard time telling the difference between them.
I do that.
I do it with Brian O'Connor Paul Walker all the time.
Like what?
The same person to me.
But yeah, those are just kind of interesting facts.
And now the reason everyone is listening to this podcast this particular episode is they
want to know who's the bigger fast and furious fan myself or Alan.
And I think it's time we put all the questions to rest.
I think it's time we figure it out.
So Bailey, what you got for us?
All right.
I got my Pokemon diary journal notebook.
I got it books million.
It's beautiful.
Perfect.
I'm sure y'all can see it.
But y'all are not allowed to look over here.
Oh, okay.
So this quiz is going to be.
We're going to pass off.
I'm going to see you fight.
Okay.
I'm going to ask you a short answer.
There's no multiple question because if you're apparently a fan of something, then you
should know.
Oh, okay.
You shouldn't have the choice.
I'm feeling like she's throwing shade at us too.
I'm a fan, but I have bad memory, okay?
I do too.
So I get up.
All right.
So.
Let's get up.
So how are we going to do this?
So when I ask the question, I guess I can, you know, do like a, like a countdown after
I ask it.
Okay.
And you know, ask if y'all have y'all's answers and then I'll be like three, two, one, you
know, give me your answer if you want to do that.
Or do you want to, because if I do one at a time, I don't want somebody to give me the right
answer than the other person will be like, oh, yeah, that was it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, three, two, one's great because we literally have three sets to come to the answer.
And if we don't know, we're just like down.
We're not real fans if we don't know.
Okay.
I'm so terrified that I'm not going to know, but that's me too.
So you only want three seconds to figure it out.
Three, five, four, five.
I only need, I live my life a quarter by the time.
I only need those three seconds.
I feel like if we don't know it in three seconds, we're not going to do that.
Okay.
So question number one, what does Twinkie's character hand Sean when they're entering into
the first race into the garage right before they get there?
And he says something very, very off the wall and appropriate.
He does.
It was like a, in a window.
I know it.
Yeah.
I do not know it.
All right.
Three, two, one.
He hands up a box of clean eggs and says, it's for when you blow your wall.
That's right.
That's right.
I did not know that but now I remember it.
Yeah.
As soon as that happens, I was like, that's the question right there.
That's a good one.
Yeah.
Good one.
Question number two, what does Guazin mean?
I got it.
Let me do.
Three, two, one.
I'm sadder.
Yeah.
All right.
So that's tied.
So you got one, you know, you got two, you got one.
All right.
And then three, what color is the first car he races in?
The very first car and the very first scene when he's at an America still.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You ready?
Three, two, one.
Why?
What did you say?
It's a paint primer, it's like a light gray tan color.
Yeah, tan.
Okay.
I like how you're like, yes, tan, that's a guy like, okay, cool.
That was a very good answer.
That is the, you put a base primer on.
Yeah.
It's like not shiny.
Yeah.
And then you, that makes it stick to the car and you put the paint on top of that and then
put the clear coat.
Yeah.
I mean, that was my next answer.
Obviously.
So I don't even know if you want a tiebreaker or not because technically, Ellen, could do it.
Let's do the tiebreaker.
This is the easiest actually.
I did the tiebreaker so that y'all can do it the quickest.
So as soon as I say the question, please answer as soon as possible.
Okay.
Who was the one that showed up at the end of the movie?
Vin Diesel, Dominic Treto, boom.
We got three points.
I went.
And Joller probably tied that last question technically, but I think Ellen might have
done it.
I think we'll get that one down because I definitely won.
I would have said tan and not primer.
I think you should get a bonus point for saying what actually would have been right though.
I did say tan, but you said white.
I did.
Yeah.
So which, I mean, you could argue to a colorblind person with a speck in their eye at a dimly
lit room.
No visor in their car.
Maybe if they have a cataract.
Yeah.
I could argue that a hotdog is a sandwich, but you'd be wrong.
I knew I was going to win from the gikgo, right?
I mean, obviously I said it in the email.
Yeah.
And then I got a correspondence later.
He has to own up to what he was saying.
Yeah, but my thing is I'm curious, and this is not a slight, I'm just really curious.
You're not a car guy.
I'm not.
But you really, really, really, really enjoy these movies like actually.
Yeah.
Do you want to know what you want to know?
I'm curious about that.
It's a good, it's a weird answer.
Because I don't know if I wasn't a car guy, if I would be as into these movies as I
am.
I mean, I like to the races.
I like the cars.
I like to talk the cool, cool stuff of it too, but the big thing for me for the fast and
furious, we talked about this a little bit, but like the motif of your family that's
not related to you.
Like I love when you see how close they get as a community.
I mean, that's really been a big thing.
Like my friends have been like my family.
And like every, every time in the later movies, when you see like that barbecue scene at the
end of the movie, yeah, I envision someday when I have like a really nice house, whatever
that like I'm doing that with my friends like there's like a, like an end.
That's the goal, right?
Yeah, it is.
You can pull barbecue party with the people that you love the most.
Yeah.
The memories that attaches their food to you first has to pray.
That's right.
And pray to the car, God.
The next time the next movie comes out, I'm going to go with you guys.
You got that?
How did that happen?
How did that happen?
Are you doing it in Nashville?
Well, we'll figure it out.
We'll just do it in Nashville.
You said it's Easter, right?
Yeah, it's usually a Easter and it won't be this year, but probably next year.
Okay.
So if it's warm weather, I'll put the top down on the car and I'll make that two hour trip
to Nashville for a fast and furious movie.
That would be a cool experience.
That would be a fun mayor.
I at least call it, I tell my friends, it's like a super party, a super bowl party, but
we're actually watching something that's good.
Yeah.
Because we do, we do all the other things like the snacks and the way out there crazy,
but like, you some wounds.
Oh, yeah.
Of course.
Bonus swings for sure.
They're easier to eat.
Right.
It's more chicken grown up chicken nuggets.
Yes.
Hey, no one complains about chicken nuggets.
They're the, so, staple.
Well, that was a good quiz.
That was, I, I accept defeat.
Thank you.
You are the bigger fast and furious fan.
You also drive cooler cars.
I mean, you're just a better person.
I accept, if anything else, this podcast interview has let us see.
Okay.
So Bailey's best bits for those of you that this is your first time with us.
Here's the way it works.
Bailey picks three scenes in the movie.
That are her best.
Now, here's the thing.
She's like, qualifies what's the best is.
So in our first episode, she did like her favorite scenes in the movie.
In the second episode, she did a funniest scene.
So we don't know what her qualification is, except we actually do because she told you
actually, these are the cringiest moments.
Tringiest moments in Tokyo drift.
So here's the way it's gonna work since we have a guest.
This is, so we already had to settle our conflict on and it settled.
We're good.
Our belief has been squashed.
We've been bailed out.
We're bailing out.
We're the villain that now has become an ally.
Yeah.
I hate when that happens to those stories.
And that's why.
I'll be, I'll accept that.
Or maybe I am.
I don't know.
Am I the villain that becomes the ally?
I am the guest.
We're all the hero in our own story.
There we go.
Yeah.
But, but in this case, me and Bailey are currently tied one to one.
And since we have an extra person, you're gonna be on my team.
So she's gonna give us our, her three scenes.
And then we're gonna both pick what we think is her best cringiest moment of the
movie.
Now, literally, and the villain that has become the villain.
Exactly.
Yeah.
You are, you are a cipher or Jason Satan or DK doesn't come back.
So not him.
No.
So if either of us get a point, it goes to my score.
And then if, which neither one of us will be mistaken, but if either one of us don't get
it, Bailey gets a point.
So this is a, this is a special two point episode.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is like a bonus round because like, even if you, if you're like, I'm, I'm, I'm,
if you're like, I don't know, and I get it, it saves you.
It saves me.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
But, but, but also this is the first thing how condescending she was.
Yeah.
At the beginning of the, or at the beginning of the quiz, I'm ready.
Let's go.
Let's do it.
So give us the scenes, Bailey.
Ready.
So the first race where it's not actually the first race, but it's the first race in
Tokyo, actually, wherever he destroys his car while attempting and drifting.
So where he's constantly like, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh.
Yeah.
So there's that.
That's the first scene.
The second scene, the scene where Sean and Nila are drifting on, I believe it's the mountain.
Yeah.
That he was later you're on.
And that entire scene for about three to four minutes was just slow mo and senseless
talking.
And then you've got careful.
She likes to mess with us.
Yeah.
Don't.
Oh, I noticed that in the last episode.
She got you.
The D.K.s slow mo car wreck scene, I guess they're all just slow mo stuff.
It's really getting on my nerves.
She hates slow mo.
It's the way that they put this in here because that slow mo with them, you know, before
the crowd, before they hit the crowd, that was impressive.
But there's certain ones.
Yeah.
So the slow mo scene where D.K. had literally fawn off the cliff where we had seen him
at the top of the wall and then, you know, Sean had like sped up down further down and
then he's like, right here.
He's like, uh, uh, and then he goes, so it's like you could see.
Yeah.
His stupid face.
Before he hits the ground.
He does it.
He has a bunch of her face.
His face is so punchable.
Yeah.
All right.
Like, it's amazing.
Yeah.
So I'll put away my Pokemon journal.
Gotta catch him off.
Yeah.
We'll get to figure this out.
Would you like to go first out?
So which one is the cringiest one?
That's the one.
Which one is the cringiest scene?
Two more.
Who's it?
The slow mo first race in Tokyo.
Was it the shoot?
I already forgot.
We should get a point for that, right?
Right.
No, I think, but I think she's messy with this.
I think she knows.
We've seen who are Sean and the girl are drifting or the scene where DK's dying and gets
kicked out.
I'm going to say the scene where Nila and Sean are drifting.
Is that what you're failing?
I'm feeling that one, too.
Okay.
So here's the deal.
If, so is this the rules?
If you get it right and I get it right, that's two points for him, right?
And if we, and but if we both get wrong, then she gets two points and I already know with
her facial reaction, we got to write him because she doesn't want to admit that she's about
taking the last three to one.
Okay.
But here's the thing.
Do we need to read a one?
I'll watch a lot of the challenge on MTV.
Got to think strategically here.
Do we need to pick a different answer so that we, this is, I'm confident.
I mean, do I need to pick a different one from you to give us a better chance at one
of us getting it right?
I kind of, I kind of, this is my survivor.
Okay.
So I appreciate your concern.
I'm going to leave that up to you with what you do.
I'm sticking with number two.
So I'm very confident it's number two because a out of the three scenes, that to me was the
only one worth.
Right.
But, but if you want to be considered, you can pick a different scene, but please do.
I feel like it's, that's the one that has to be the other scenes were not that bad.
But, but I'm also, here's what I'm concerned about.
Bailey's a smart looking.
She's a, she's a special unit.
And she tricked you last time.
And I think she expects you.
Oh, yeah.
Do you know what I'm saying?
I don't know.
I've, final answer.
I'm tired.
Who wants to be a matter of number two?
Number two, yeah.
And then you know number two.
Let me two.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, you're right.
That's right.
Awesome.
I mean, I can just try to do the exact same thing that I did last time anyways to try to, you
know what I'm saying?
Was it a number two last time, too?
Hmm.
Was it the middle option?
I don't know.
I'm going to go back to the wall.
Now if it's been the middle option, every time.
Thank you for having our podcast better than we do.
Maybe that's what she's like.
Back to the deal with us.
I'm just doing the middle, so.
Okay, so let's talk about our rankings of these movies.
Oh.
The two things that we do is we talk about the villains and then we talk about the movie
overall.
And Bailey, I think this is when we're going to deviate.
I think so far we've been on exactly the same track.
I think so.
But I think this is when our two paths that were driving go in separate ways.
So, Alan, would you like to start by telling us in consideration to the third movie, the
second and the first movie, how would you rank the villains and then how would you
rank the movies overall?
Okay, so the villains definitely agree with you guys last time that.
Because we're right.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's a Carter?
Carter Verone is a despicable, devious, terrible person.
Definitely.
But so well played.
He is definitely a hideous human being.
He'd be number one at the top of the list of these three.
And then I would put clay as number two.
No.
No, no, no, no.
Sandy.
You know, I, I think that I would put a DK, a little over Johnny Tran, who you keep calling
Danny Tran.
Okay.
Here's the story behind that.
I do.
And named Danny Tran, Danny Tran, who's a comedian.
I was gonna say I remember hearing that name and I think I was really is now like, why does
that happen to me?
But also so wrong.
As soon as I said that, I sent him a message like, hey, I don't mean to call you a villain.
It's free promo.
Yeah.
There we go.
But anyway, so I know I actually on the way here, I was like, okay, it's Johnny Tran.
But do you want to know my movie listings or do you guys want to do your villains first?
Yeah, definitely.
Okay.
I'll tell you what drift is number one for me.
And I think too fast, too furious is number two.
And then the first one is if I rank it as far as like my favorite movie, the first one
to be last of these three.
Cause it, I mean, it's okay.
I really watched it with my kids two weeks ago.
I was like, oh, I forgot.
I didn't realize how bad this movie was.
Yeah.
But my son was still enjoying it.
And I saw myself in him because I watched it for the first time when I was about his
age.
But if we're, but if we're ranking it in terms of like importance and stuff, obviously the
first one, we wouldn't have any of the rest of them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And all of these have had such a tremendous impact on car culture and car shows and racing
that I think a lot of people are down for and understand.
And there's a whole community of people that are like upset that that's what exploded
in the last 20 years, but you can't deny that it hasn't had a lot of people.
It's fun though.
Yeah.
And it was, when they made the first one, that was their original intention is he read race
wars or racer, racer, racer acts.
And he was like, I want to bring awareness to this community.
By the way, my son pointed out that race wars was a terrible name.
No.
The first time I said it.
He looked at me and was like, Dad, what are we watching?
What's, yeah, I was like, no, no, no, this is like 2001, bro.
So I'm down.
This is, he means like a, a wars where you race and stuff.
It's funny because that was actually Bailey's first suggestion for the name of this podcast.
So shut up.
It wasn't really her side of Joe.
No, it was a joke.
Come on.
Come on.
Really?
That was a joke, Bailey.
Whatever.
Just recommends me to these, you know, film people put Bailey in your movie.
No, let's assume she thinks of this terrible idea.
He didn't tell you which films he was recommending you for.
Yeah.
Just put me in the killer one of the movie.
Part two.
I'm making a mouse movie.
I'm sure enough.
So Bailey, what are your villain?
Yeah, I'm actually curious.
I feel like, I feel like having a guest on the show that I have trumped.
You haven't talked as much and I've kind of, that's fine.
Oh, okay.
I feel like I've talked too much and not let you talk, which I'm doing right now.
I'm sorry.
So be able to, will be able to catch up on me.
I think I like the, yeah, the Too Fast 2 Furious is my first choice.
So it's two, three and then one.
Okay.
So technically, it would probably be based off of, like, soundtrack, the funny ha-ha's.
Too Fast 2 Furious was definitely a lot fun, you know?
The cars, the type of action, but also, like, the cinema, like, the way that it looks,
and just like the overall vibes of the movie.
Because Tokyo Drift, I could probably just sit there on my couch and drink wine and watch
it and be chill.
Sounds like a great Saturday.
Yeah, it's like, it's almost like a nice little scenery-looking movie, you know?
You just put it on in the background, mute it, and it just looks pretty.
Yeah, like a photo or like, just wall display, just having-
Like when your TV goes to the screen-savor, and it's like that metropolitan area or like
a city-scape or like a beach or whatever, like, that's Tokyo Drift.
Yeah, the Tokyo Drift soundtrack.
And also, the soundtrack in Tokyo Drift reminds me of like, the computer games I used to play
when I was a kid, like those fighting computer games, like those stick-figure fighting computer
games that they would have like that, doodoo, doodoo, doodoo, doodoo, doodoo, doodoo, doodoo, doodoo, doodoo.
I'm curious what you-which movie you think is funnier, Tokyo Drift, which one's the fastest
you've ever seen?
Ah, too fast you've seen the fastest, most likely.
Yeah, I think there was more humor in that one than any other movie.
Yeah, I think that's because that one had Tyreece.
I mean, he brings humor to the series, I feel like-
I mean, I mean, I mean, probably good writing too, but like, I mean, every-
Oh, almost like he gets to the point when he comes into movies, like, almost everything
he says has me laughing.
Yeah.
It's comical relief, yeah.
Yeah, and I mean, this is so much bigger in the rest of the movies that it's-
Yeah, I got to-
I didn't think this villain was really mounting to anything to me either, so-
Yeah.
I kind of put him- he's probably tied with the first villain.
Okay, honestly.
So-
Are we gonna- are we gonna do Tyreece?
Are we gonna be like, make a claim, 'cause-
I don't know, I don't know if I can make a claim right now with that, because he just didn't
do anything.
Okay.
So basically her bottom two.
Bottom two, where are they?
He really is.
They both did about the same crap, you know?
Absolutely, yeah.
Like, they both were like, "Oh, I'm upset because you did something with a girl, and I'm
gonna punch you."
Yeah.
And then that's it.
Yeah.
What does that say about the movie, sorry, Drew?
What does that say about the movie that the villains aren't that good, but the movie's
still good?
Is it- is the heroes or the action just-
Because that's not about the villain, I guess, without the action, yeah.
And it's just to give a little bit more of a storyline to maybe further it out.
Because if you didn't have a villain, then you don't have a continuation of a storyline
most likely.
Yeah.
It's like, what are you doing now?
I'm eating my Cheerios and I'm sitting down on my Sunday afternoon.
Yeah.
What are you gonna do the next day?
I don't know.
Having a casual conversation as I'm drifting a high-car ride-a-mountain like it's nothing.
Yeah, exactly.
So what's next?
But it was interesting with both of- just talking about those villains being ranked on the
same kind of level.
In the first movie, the villain wasn't even that big of a deal.
It was more about the dynamic between Paul Walker and Vin Diesel.
And you could almost argue that Dominic-
That's how they felt this time around.
Yeah.
And then the reason was that the dynamic wasn't so much about his beef with the villain.
I mean, he had like inner beef with just learning to own up to his own stuff and then you're
just trying to, you know, be- he cared mostly about just drifting and being a good racer.
Yeah.
The whole like issues with the mob almost seemed like sideline, except for Han.
That was a pretty big deal for him when he said.
But my- I actually think we're still- wait, I might be wrong.
I think- now they say a lot I'm wrong.
Two, three, one.
Yeah, my rankings are two, one, three.
Oh.
And so I- here's the thing- the here's the thing that I decided is why like one better than
three.
And then he came out, if you took three out of the series completely, you wouldn't miss
much of the overall storyline.
I mean, there we some, but it is- it could be a standalone movie until like- and I still have
to- I still get cringey when I watch that first scene that it just makes me want to just
get in a car and wreck it myself.
It's rough.
Yeah, it's rough.
And-
That's actually one of the reasons I like the movie is because it stands so well on its
own compared to any of the others, especially too fast to fear.
If you-
It's fair, different.
Yeah, I think that one without having watched the first one first.
Thank goodness for that turbocharged prequel.
Oh, yeah.
That meant-
That meant the dots so well.
My dream- my dream for a comedy special is just to have an opening scene that's based
off of the two turbocharged prequel where it's just me driving a different comedy places.
And then it goes, "Start in the live special."
With those same John Singleton style and-
Absolutely.
Have me eating at different Arby's or whatever.
You're a map jumping.
Yeah.
It's gonna happen one day.
We're gonna do it.
Sounds great.
That's a good- I'm holding on to that idea for something.
And then my villain ranking is I would do- I would do Carter's number two- like the first
one.
Yeah, Carter's number one.
But as we've seen so far.
And then I honestly- I would put DK over Johnny Tran because we did get to see more DK.
Yeah.
And it's like we're saying very punchable face.
We didn't see you a little bit more.
We're not liking him.
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