Redline Part II: 2 Red 2 Lines!

REDLINE PART II: The QMP OG's reunite virtually in this very special bonus episode where we learn how the movie REDLINE changed the life of our former videographer and frequent guest, Alan Ingalls, and led to him becoming a film director and movie maker!

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The Quarter Mile Podcast
Drew Davis
Bailey Jackson

R. Alan Ingalls
https://www.ralaningalls.com/
https://www.theattnco.com/

Chapters

• 0:33 Welcome Back to the O.G QMP Gang!
• 2:06 Catching up with Bailey and Alan
• 5:53 Redline Movie Review
• 11:36 Alan's Story of how Redline changed his life!
• 27:19 Outro

Transcript

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Welcome back to the quarter mile podcast and I say that not only in people listening and watching this podcast
but literally to my two guests last former regulars who were very excited about this very special bonus episode for the quarter mile podcast
this is if you're listening this is red line part two we spent an episode reviewing red line but we have a very special episode that we've known we were gonna do from back even in season one winner putting together season two
so I'm joined with my former co-host Bailey Jackson and I'm joined with my former season regular but also video auger for Alan Ingalls
just two of the coolest people to my favorite people the two people that I got this podcast started with
and they this is like that cool yeah the OGs this is the this is the original opportunity of the quarter mile podcast
so glad you guys are here this will be fun the main reason we got together is because when we're talking about episode for season two
Alan said we should do red line because it's based off of fast and fares one of those movies that kind of picked up the track from fast and furious
but then it's also like and it's the movie that made me want to become a film director and I was like there's so much more to that story that I don't want to hear yet
but I want to hear on the episode so I've and when in watching this movie I genuinely don't understand why I'm so excited to hear
and then when we got Alan we it was what it wasn't much of a hop skip to reach out to Bailey and see what she was doing tonight either so this is a fun little reunion glad you guys are here
before we jump into red line again tell me about tell me about like what's up what's new what what are you guys been up to since fast and furious 10 was last time we were together
ladies first that's not fair I mean I you know I've been just I've just been figuring out adult life and stuff is really the only thing
so shout out to my early 20s homies who we hear that realize that the world is really difficult right now
yeah that's actually everybody I understand that so we were when you said you've been figuring out life mostly an hour like did you figure it out can you tell us like what
right now the struggle is real. Oh bomber well darn okay well if you figured out before us let us know though
absolutely thank you I'm spaghetti though spaghetti tonight so that's what you wanted to know definitely not shells and cheese though
oh my gosh I have not I've not eaten yet tonight that's the immediately next thing that I'm doing and I think I'm I think it's a sandwich tonight
yeah don't get don't get great value shells and cheese it's like car cheesy cardboard it was not good
oh used to be good yeah bomber because yeah I was gonna say I've gotten that for anyway
how about you how's everything going your way fair I was running late so I had my daughter cook it and she's never cooked it before so that no it's bad now Alan I actually
experience no it's terrible no I agree so I just like to make it with cheap ingredients and then like the economy went to crap
they're like we got to make it with even cheaper ingredients now let's just actually use the cardboard box yeah yeah it's just it's like a bread
with the cardboard box yeah but uh the era is the same thing yeah oh yeah say say mo man I've just been you know shooting music videos and making movies and and just trying to
trying to make a dollar and raise some kids and keep this house going pet that dog you know all the things yeah that's awesome
love it that dog that that dog that sounds like beyond that sounds like Beyonce's next country song is little so it's got a little hip hop to it but then also like we got to bring in the dog it's a country song so right who let the dogs out
Bailey have you got a country in it yeah it's in my blood
yeah no there's no way I can't be no you could do it but like why why would I
for the same reason that kid rock and post Malone do I have a guns and roses shirt on right now come on let's say it's funny yeah and it is I have it and I made it into a wife theater
maybe that's the only way you possibly yeah no that's probably a redneck yeah that's the guns and roses effect it has to be a wife theater it has to be you're right and it doesn't it doesn't come that way you have to make it that way like it has to
otherwise you're a sellout if you bought it as a wife theater come on what not like no anyway that's pretty rock and roll to be a sellout so if it still has leaves people to ask you to name three songs yeah
but Bailey would crush it she likes three have up three albums in every song in order on the album I'm a
I would just rock shitting here I go so I just think this sounds nice oh do you do not actually listen to guns and roses oh I do I
definitely do okay cool I was gonna well I was gonna lose all respect for you but I would not cross that
I just I can't I can't be put on the spot like that I'm not that human so that's fair let's talk about red line the movie
red line yeah so yeah so what did what did you guys think Bailey this was your first time seeing it and I know it's it changed your life
so I'd love to what what do we think about this movie overall I I think I actually enjoyed it I know that might have
thought the other ways in a way but I kind of enjoyed at least the aspects that it gave there were definitely
moments where I was like all that's interesting for sure but at the same time I felt like I was intrigued the entire movie
like I found myself where I paused it and I was like oh I'm already halfway through and if this is happening
right now in the middle of the moon oh okay that make that's cool that makes sense that's fine and then by the end of the movie
I was like okay yeah cool so I get it I get it the plotlines and stuff like that maybe might not be the best they might have some holes
and stuff like that or maybe a little bit of it yeah it definitely had some it definitely had some barrowing ideas
from a lot of different things including my homie that's from the Gilmore Girls that's on that movie he is he's like in the band
and he's one of the band guys he's one of the band guys which is really funny because in Gilmore Girls he's also one of the band guys
so yeah anyway that was one of my takes I was like oh I enjoyed that because I know this guy so I was just watching for Waldo the entire time
pretty much for that guy so yeah he didn't he was only in a little bit the band the band didn't have much how about that song really played
oh that was the best part of the film it was hilarious that part that part was hard
so here's the funny part right I loved that part of the movie and only that so I'm the exact opposite of both of you
and honestly it's a tongue-in-cheat you know funny song but it's like as a carga go as a carga who's like also into hot women I was like hey this song is about the two things that I really lie
I mean I kind of this is got a slamming this is fire slamming I'm telling you and then I'm ready for Natasha to be in every fast and furious movie going forward
I see I was she was my favorite part of the movie I mean yeah look okay looking at her was my favorite part of the movie the I can't remember the name of the Eddie Griffin's character but he has cheesy dialogue
it's hilarious to me infamous yeah yeah he was what a interesting name huh yeah but he he eventually like he have such a side character
was there for half the movie and then they just he moved on I still think it was definitely a thing that his name was infamous though for sure
it was a play on ludicrous yeah oh who was in the second fast the furious movie yeah yeah it was I feel like there was nothing about this movie that was original
they literally took the first two movies and was like hey how can we mash them together and they even remember they even were a noss
like it wasn't like like in the exact same fictional way that fast and furious does they couldn't find they thought hey we're gonna one up fast and furious instead of having a pretty boy
in all these beautiful women we're gonna make the pretty boy Brian Walker's character a pretty woman
I was okay with that that was awesome me too yeah it worked it worked I'd be cool with that like that's cool
so Bailey what did you think about all the classic two thousands like I think it was 2007 was this maybe came out all the like a misogyny and lot women and tight clothing
and literally being sold as property I think I was kind of on par for today I don't know honestly the world and everything is such a sickle cool little matter
so things come to light and then bad things happen again and then things can be light and bad things happen again and then more things and all that
so the entertainment business been the same way me and Drew had a conversation the other day or yesterday or whatever about stuff so
it's honestly that movie kind of shined a little bit of a line on that so it's not like it wasn't true that certain things do happen
absolutely people are owned actually yeah yeah
they because I in the act in the last episode were reviewed it with with CJ that was why I was like man how weird is it that they were I they literally sold a woman in a bet
and they're like they were underground street racer drug dealers who were racing for Viagra how is that not surprise yeah like I was like oh sorry I don't know
shame them in there in there yeah I shouldn't judge that culture is what I guess I did like the soundtrack the soundtrack was really dope
yeah I looked into that and it's not on Spotify so oh man somebody should do that for me thank you
if you're red line people if you're listening this make make your you know make it happen so the 2007 non-anime red line
yes yes that's right although apparently that are really really good
yeah you guys have to go listen to Andre my guest slash guest host talk about his passion for the other red line
that wasn't the movie we're covering on the podcast for the movie we're covering it was very weird
but it was great it was it made me want to go watch the other movie so Alan I'd love to hear what it wasn't about this movie that got you into film directing and creating and all that
it's not that great of a story it's not glamorous or inspirational or we literally dedicate an entire podcast
episode to it so better better start embellishing man better deliver let me let me provide you some context for this film
so was 2006 the year that Tokyo drift came out it would have been five or six yeah so it was like
2001 was the first one 2003 maybe was the second one and then like five or six was a third
well I'm not sure there was much influence from three in this one because it might have this might have already been production maybe
but maybe not but the first you know the biggest three movies well I guess they up to that point there was only three so you know
these these three films that came out that from his franchise they decided to hop on at bandwagon they got this Natasha you know character who ever played her who's you know
very beautiful and then they got instead of getting you know ludicrous to had to get you know so they got you know any griffin instead
and Michael that character so he actually played a very somewhat similar character because all the characters in the soul are kind of like Michael in soul three which came out like a year two before this
I was a fan of the soul franchise and saw that he was in it and then saw any griffin was in I thought it was funny and you know I'm like this is a car movie I was like okay
so I don't know if I rented it I'm pretty sure it's like maybe I just rip the DVD from a friend or I don't know how maybe it's the days and apps during a downloaded who knows
master align wire it at that way yeah exactly I'm in so at this point in my life my wife and I had gotten together and we had one child
and we were living out of a single bedroom in her grandparents house all three of us me her and the baby and I don't think I was working at Walmart or something working kind of maybe like Joe Muggs
remember that it was like the cafe and books a million like slinging coffee or whatever so like didn't have my life together had a kid I was responsible for and I was like oh I got a I got to get my stuff together and be
responsible and be a husband and a father and so one prepared for that though so kind of got that going a little later after the kids
I was like oh I need to get it together now once he was here that just changes your perspective as a as a as a human you're just like okay nothing else matters now but providing for for these people
and so I was like okay what am I going to do what am I good at because I can't just keep slinging express or you know stocking shelves at Walmart or you know at the time I had an IT degree but I was kind of burnt out on it I wasn't really
interested in doing that for as a career and I can always kind of tell it wasn't really what I was passionate about and so in some ways I maybe self sabotage my career because of that maybe I didn't do it on purpose
but I didn't I had a lot of great opportunities that I squandered because it just wasn't really into it the only reason I liked computers or new computers was because I used them to be creative
and you kind of had to figure out how to fix your dad's computer that you were messing around to make logos with before he got home I had to do his quick books for his business so you be real
trouble so I got good at working on computers just out of sheer necessity not necessarily out of interest but I have always been curious about technology and camera gear from like a like what I can do with it standpoint
and I use my grandmother's VHS camera when I was a kid to make like little home movies and I bought a digital camera like the one megapixel digital camera from Hewlett Packard you could or Dale that you could get as a bonus with your computer when you bought it back in the day and I took all kinds of pictures of flowers and cats with that thing you know nothing to write home about but I definitely had an eye and an interest in a bug for doing things creative visually from logo to the camera
creative visually from logo designs to photography and in video and when this film came out we had just had our child and my wife's dad my father and all probably gave us one of the coolest baby shower gifts that you could give someone at that time before cell phones were good recording video and photos and he gave us a DVD home video camera to be able to record our son's first moments and stuff and preserve those home videos
and growing up with the grandmother who you know did that for me when I was a kid and always had the thing on her shoulder it was massive you know and she hit record and then say thanks give in 1993 and start recording narrate the whole thing you know how it goes I started doing that but I also started kind of tinkering with it and like making little videos with my highly creative and ambitious brother and all little skits comedy videos whatever just being goofing off
and at this time I know I need to do something different and you do something that I'm passionate about because if you do they say you don't work a day in your life if you do you know what you really love well I must not love is very much because I'm working a bunch but I digress I I was I just need an escape from everything I just needed to like sit on the couch veg out one night after the baby gone to bed wife gone to bed I was you know tired from working I'm just I'm just I'm just
I'm a veg out and watch a movie and I heard about this movie so pulled it up started watching it and in my opinion like I said earlier it's kind of a I was like this is crap but I watch the whole thing because I was curious where this roller coaster was going chaotic roller coaster and when it got to the end I was like all right that was pretty cliche and predictable and kind of a malgumation of all the action movies that come out before it and whatever but I'm sitting there watching the credit scroll and I'm like that didn't really do its job of getting me out of the funk
like this was a crappy movie is didn't work but I'm watching the just sitting there slumped on the couch watching the credits roll and I thought to myself hey wait a minute all of the first of all I can make a better movie than that number one number two all of these people whose names are scrolling on my screen on my TV and friendship Tennessee right now got paid in one way or another to be involved in actually making a movie that in my opinion wasn't that great
so if I can make a better movie maybe I also can get paid maybe even more than some of them did to make a better movie and I saw like maybe that's something I should pursue and I was literally in the middle of editing little comedy skits that my brother law did coincidentally YouTube started that year so you know our first videos were on my space we posted stuff on my space skits and little short films and stuff and then
I made some short films and posted them on YouTube in response to some film competitions from some YouTube channels that talked about how to you know do movies and stuff and do effects and did camera reviews and things like that and that short film that I made actually ended up I made myself a website and I put the short film on it and just kept grinding at it and rough country in 2015
was needing somebody to do video commercials for them and they actually found me through a car club member our car club was mainly fast and furious style cars but all of us were respectful of all types of vehicles regardless of the making model as his dom says and he he was he followed rough country on Facebook
and he saw a post for you know hey we need a video guy and he knew I did it and so he tagged me in the Facebook post and the chief marketing officer the marketing director saw my name tagged in the post went and looked me up got to my website watch the short film and called me and was like hey you want to come talk to us about doing video full time as a full time career
and I was an IT at the time this time I had kind of got my life together I got a house for me and the kids and the wife and and had had another couple more kids at that point and you know but I was still an IT kind of doing mindless solace job that I wasn't super interested in and for the company I was working for I was creating commercials and ads for us I was trying to do that anyway
and so when he called I was like you're going to pay me more money to come do what I really want to do and make you two videos for a living not only that but of lifted trucks and jeeps sign me up
and it got me into video and it got me into making you know movies and stuff like that but it also you know coincidentally resulted in the career that I have now making video ads and shooting product photography of you know lift kits and big old trucks and jeeps and stuff.
So it's crazy how just a time it's like a butterfly effect you know tiny little wing flap set my life into motion and and had I not watch that movie and come to that realization my life could look so different right now maybe I would have got there from it you know through a different path but still though crazy just to watch like you're if you watch the really good movie and then I think I should like I could never do that and then you never have anything right right
yeah but that's that's it really so to answer your question in a shorter form what what about this movie maybe want to get into into making films and making music videos stuff the credits.
I love that.
I get it is funny I jokingly I think I told someone because I was telling them about this it was probably the last podcast recording and I was telling them like yeah I'm going to get this other episode and
because I was like yeah apparently this movie let him to into wanting to make films and then CJ was like how.
No I think I joking was like maybe he saw the credits and was like I could do better than that guy and so that's exactly what it was.
That's great.
You know what I don't I think you think it's important as creative often we eventually sooner or later have to give our self permission to like try
or give our self permission to be like this is what I want to do or this is what I want to try I I feel like in part of my own experience of you make doing comedy as a profession there was a point where I was watching
just scrolling through Netflix and seeing all the different comedy specials because they have like six trillion it feels like but a few of the names I was like oh I have that person's cell phone number that's like a real person that I know.
And I remember when I was the yeah I'll be sure this I remember when they're headlining South Street comedy club and in in South Jackson Tennessee you know like I remember all probably recorded recorded them at South Street like right.
Part of the journey.
And so I that was part of my process of like well the good part is like if these people can do this then you know so can I and I think that's that's that's a good natural thing so.
And to be fair like also as creatives I I never want to shit on other people's work because while this movie didn't connect with me and it obviously wasn't a box office smash so the numbers don't lie all those sometimes the numbers you know there's been films that have become cult classics after the actual release that picked up and found their their audience later but this is a came out in 2007 so I think it's safe to say this is not one of those.
But at the same time they got a multi-million dollar movie made and I still haven't so yeah you know they did something right I knew somebody or somehow they did get something right her name was not yet whatever.
But you know it the movie does look good it's well shot there was any you know technical aspects or issues of it that I just think that the and also it's we may we don't know the story I wish I kind of had a bird's eye view or a behind the scenes peak of like what the original idea was because you know how like sometimes a movie is original ideas like all that's awesome.
And by the time it gets filmed and there's production issues and then it gets like even in pre-production things go wrong have to be changed and then it gets to the editing bay and it gets you can make a break a film in the editing bay.
Absolutely.
I wish I had access to the actual entire footage because there have been times where I've watched a movie and gone man if I had access to every take and I set down for you know it might be by myself it might take a whole year.
But I feel like I could cut a better movie together director cut or editors cut or something it because there's there's something there and I just wonder if some things.
For whatever reason had to be left on the on the editing editing cutting floor.
And it just it took away a room to piece of the movie that kind of puts a you know paints a bad light across the whole film or something like that so I respect everyone that worked on that film the actors the director everybody.
And again I haven't I haven't made a feature film so you know who out of to you know talk about how good or bad someone's movie is but I'm in the same time.
I'm positive too.
Yeah.
Like someone might enjoy that movie and have a good time watching it.
But have I first I was enjoying it because I was laughing at it but midway into the movie I was like I'm actually invested in this plot what happens to this guy.
What do they go.
Yeah wow.
I think that my view of it is good because of this this was the movie that sparked the idea of me becoming a filmmaker and a cinematographer and I think part of me has some resentment built into this movie just because I wish I could say a better movie is what got me.
Because there's people who are like oh yeah Shawshank prediction got me into movies or the Jurassic Park got me into movies and I'm just like yeah we're red light red light.
But I wish I wish like the people that made the movie heard that story though because like they might be thinking this is a really crappy movie or maybe like it was maybe they made way better since then and they look back and like oh that was a you know whatever.
But then if you should yeah maybe I should own this like if I ever do make a feature film and like I'm being interviewed on the.
You know it.
And late night TV I'm going to be like so what got you to make a movie red line when you when you have it yeah you shouldn't.
It's your Emmy award winning or whatever.
Yeah speech.
Thank thanks to my family line.
Thank you red line.
I think that would be great.
I'm willing to.
They're going to be watching the movies the people are going to be watching the movies that made it going to be like wait wait what.
Well think think I almost like through myself out here.
Thank you so much for that story I appreciate it and it's exactly what I mean like.
I love how creativity in any form motivates us to do better to do a branch out into our own thing.
And that's like that is one of the beautiful things about movies we watch music will listen to things we do art in general is it moves us.
So that's a really cool story and I appreciate you sharing it.
I really appreciate you guys coming on the show and what I appreciate so much is that the whole idea of my brand came from our podcast.
It specifically came from our episode three when we covered Tokyo drift was the first time we had Alan that really helped shape the podcast that kind of is one of the main episodes of the podcast for the viably have something we got on episode three was Alan gave us this little clapper thing.
Yeah.
Yeah cool.
And I've been keeping it but what's really cool and Bailey knows is when I when we start working on my brand quarter mile entertainment and we're coming up with graphics and logos.
Yeah we decided to go with a film clapper because it was a reminder of our experience in working with Alan and doing that episode Tokyo drift which was just a wonderful time of creatives working together creating something fun with friends.
And so this team right here is absolutely part of the motivation to the brand that I start now which is about encouraging other creatives and what they do so that maybe one day they can make a red line that inspires a different creative.
And so I just really I want to thank you guys for being part of that for helping me with what I'm doing and inspire me.
It wasn't a movie with a hot woman was a film clapper thing so that was inspirational.
And other than that our next episode is going to be hops and Shaw which ends it's like the last real fast and furious type movie in our podcast after we've beaten the dead horse of fast and furious so much by turbo charge prequel low scandal areas of 10 movies movies that reference fast and furious literally once.
So the next week it's like this is the actual end of the fast and furious part but then we'll still do three just like fast and furious will still do a few more movies.
We stop a fast and furious but we are we are faster moving moving along so yeah so but this is like the people's elbow to the dead horse that we've not dead so.
But anyway thank you guys so much for coming out in also is a fun my favorite people and everyone who's listening here thanks for being here hope you have fun go watch a cheesy movie enjoy it create something and live your life a quarter mile at a time.
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