The Fast and The Furious (1955)

We've reached our final destination and finale for Season 2! Go back in time with Drew and CJ as we watch and review The Fast and The Furious, of 1955! 

This movie has basically nothing to do with it's 2001 namesake, but we had a blast talking about it with special guest, comedian friend,  fellow podcaster, movie critic, and film buff, Matthew Blevins!

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Chapters

• 0:35 Welcome Back and Intro to Matthew Blevins
• 4:28 Fast & Furious Movie Overview
• 13:30 AI Plot Summary (1950's Radio Personality)
• 17:47 Bad Movie Reviews
• 21:24 Our Movie Review and Thoughts
• 31:12 Fast and Furious Trivia
• 32:35 2 Fast 2 Furious Movie Ratings
• 34:35 Drew's Best Bits
• 37:53 Outro and a Look Ahead!

Transcript

[Music]
Welcome back to the quarter mile podcast.
If you are here on this episode you have made it to our season 2 finale.
We have for the past friend episodes been reviewing fast and fierce adjacent films.
And we've reviewed really weird ones, CJ's haven't we?
We've had...
I've enjoyed it.
It's been a stretch.
We are show's all I did.
And for that I take full responsibility for all of your opinions on the show.
I enjoyed being under your tutelage.
Thank you.
I'm so excited for season 3 when we're back to good movies.
Well man, it's the movie's a bit bad man.
Well today we are reviewing the fast and the fierce and you aren't mistaken.
That is the correct name.
It is the 1954 fast and fierce.
And we're joined today with one of my favorite people and another comedian.
I feel like we're just bringing new comedians every week.
But in addition that is a movie, critic, film, buff,
old dude.
He is cool.
I'm happy to bring you guys Matthew Bleven's.
Listen Matthew, we're so excited to have you here.
I'm going to ask you the age old question and I say that at the year old question
that I've been asking all of our guests.
Tell us a little about yourself and most importantly tell us about your relationship
with the fast and the fierce.
And I guess in this case it can be with either the movie reviewer of you today
or the actual franchise God's favorite series.
My relationship with it.
I think we're just on good friend terms.
We're not taking it any further than that.
You know, but good as far as that good friends are.
Yeah, just platonic platonic.
Yeah, platonic.
I'm trying to respect its boundaries.
It respects my boundaries.
It's a range.
But I love that description.
That's a great answer.
Well, yeah, I'm Matthew Bleven's.
I'm a comedian kicking around on all of the stages in Nashville.
You might have seen me.
Most of you probably have not.
I've been a comic for about nine years now.
I started out in Omaha, Lincoln.
Prior to being a comic, I was actually a film critic for next projection out of Toronto.
We did a lot of stuff for the Tiff Bell light box.
I had series like the cult picks and trash flicks series where.
Yeah, I would review stuff like Roger Corman movies all the time.
Because me, this stuff is important.
It has a purpose.
And Roger Corman, he came to the party earlier than everybody else in just about every genre.
And he did it cheaper and more efficiently than anybody else.
And for that, I have nothing but respect for the guy.
Plus, he found all of these amazing talents.
So for me, I like this the fastest in the series movie.
It means more to me than any of the other fast in the furious movies.
That's why I picked this one to be on.
You did specifically your questions. You were maybe our first sign up for which movie is to do.
And you picked this one.
And now it makes so much sense.
But my first thought was like, really?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I like to hide in obscurity.
See, if you pick the most obscure titles, then you never have to worry about anyone seeing you.
So like a two miss land of mystery.
So this is our last episode for season two.
We do have a few later, a little filler episodes like an anime when you have the main storyline.
But then after a big plot point, it goes.
Yeah, it goes.
We got like three filler episodes.
I'll tell you guys that about that at the end of the show.
But I think that's what we all are here for is to talk about the fast and the furious.
Oh, fast and the best.
I mean, I didn't even realize that it was the fast and the furious until you really just said that I was like, whoa.
Yeah, it was very intentional.
When I started preparing for this season season two, my big plan was to in case I didn't want to go past two seasons.
I like the idea of ending with this movie review because then my first episode and my last episode would have had the same name.
Very good.
So yeah, circle, but we're gonna, we're just gonna keep going until we find a third fast.
We're still flavoring the circle.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, let's talk a little bit about the fast and furious.
First of all, just, well, connection this has with the actual franchise of Wendy's own all of them is when they made the 2001 the fast and the furious.
They actually bought the title rights to this the fast and the furious.
There's an interview where he with the director where I heard him talk about how like this is a rare moment where like movie directors and productions to do is actually got along and just did things to be nice.
So they reached out and they said, listen, you could try to name your movie this, but you there would be a lawsuit and you'd probably lose.
But we just want to give it to you.
And so yeah, it just worked out and so that's good.
There were several options in contention if I recall.
Yes, the best one was race wars.
Race wars.
Yeah, the red line was another race.
That was yeah, because race wars was a thing in the movie of race.
Of a way.
Yeah, but talk about the wrong message.
Yeah, absolutely. Can you imagine if two races, two wars, race war, Tokyo drift and race now that not just saying that although it might have gotten really popular recently.
Yeah, I'm like, really picked up, but I'm glad that they did not call it race wars.
Also, like I feel like we've talked about red line enough.
Oh, we have.
So that that that I'm glad that they didn't make it anyway.
They landed on the fast and the furious, but before there was the vindies, all fast and furious, there was the 1954 Justin furious, which was shot in nine days.
They shot this movie in nine days and like you're saying, Corbin, he only spent $50,000 on it and the movie ended up making $250,000.
Smart guy, smart guy.
And he did second unit direction on this, I guess.
And because of the work that he did with the camera and being behind the camera, he wanted to start directing movies because of this movie.
Really? Okay, that's really cool.
So this is the movie that did it for him.
This is his breakout.
The only two cast that I noted, although if you guys have more thoughts on the rest of the cat, you're more cast your more in the chair.
I could share about, but John Ireland was a Frank Webster and the other movie I had recognized as a Spartacus.
And that was about it. And then Dorothy Malone was Connie Adair. Yeah.
Correct character. We'll get into it. It was the most annoying to me for the entire movie.
And it would actually be a fun game or a fun poll to put out who is more annoying Connie in this movie or Jillian and the fast and the fears that.
I think that's Connie probably has less survival instincts.
Connie seemed to be trying to have herself killed.
I just couldn't understand her for the life of me. She was probably the most quintessential dumb ass in so much.
Getting into a codependent relationship with your captor one day into this.
Oh, yes, it's Christ. That was just really.
It got dark there. I mean, like, if you like, if people look at this as like a love story and like, that's romantic, I don't know.
I look at as like Stockholm syndrome.
Absolutely. Stockholm syndrome. My only question is why do they kiss so hard in the 50s?
Oh, that that kiss so hard.
First kiss where he kissed her before she was in love with them with a little awkward.
I felt like, hmm, I need to so much to call an authority.
What are those authorities going to do? The cops in this movie?
Or just, you know, they were so you.
You apparently, though, I would say that has been a running theme. Yeah, cops have never been good.
That fit that fit well with because in all the fast and the fears.
How you gonna ask this man? What are you doing? Is everything okay? What's going on?
You did it. You were speeding and your tail lights out. This woman seems to be disturbed.
But it looks like you're like, where the police instincts?
No, nobody had any instincts because during that time again, that's when women had no rights.
Right.
Is that your wife? No. Okay. He must be telling the truth.
He's telling the truth. Also, like, their big way to find the leads was like,
asking guys coming in and out of a coma. This seems like the way to.
I just don't understand why the main character looked so old.
Yeah, he looked like he was ready for retirement.
Yeah, he's supposed to be this young.
So, help me with what was, what did he do?
He looked like driving. Right. And then did he like someone? No, it was an accident.
Yeah. He was running his own truck driver business and the big, the man wanted to bring him down.
And so they were trying to run him off the road.
Yeah.
And so he kind of, you know, did some defensive driving and then ended up driving him.
I like how you said defense driving.
Yeah, absolutely. And apparently then chose to break out of jail because he figured they were definitely going to find him guilty.
Right. Nobody came to his like that is such a jump for an accidental workplace.
I mean, don't get me wrong. I feel for, but, you know, what must have been going on through his head when he accidentally killed a guy.
But like, he's a white man in the 19cy would have been fine.
Yeah. He would have been fine.
He did. They just let him into a car race all the way into Mexico because why not?
As long as a day mate driving, they were fine.
But the did so this is my thoughts of the whole movie because as I was watching this movie, my brain was like, how can I connect it to the system?
And here's here's my connection in the first fast and serious in 2001.
The issue was they were stealing DVDs from truck drivers.
And there was all these scenes where like they were fighting off the truck drivers were driving there.
Just doing their day job.
People were breaking into the, and they were like pulling out baseball bats and fighting off the, I would have loved for the first truck driver in the 2001 movie.
To be this guy, he got his life together.
He got back on the road when what happens, but Vin Diesel and his gang show up to TV.
Yeah.
FCR combo players, but he's delivering the ship.
He wouldn't know how to program them anyway.
Yeah.
This one was just, I just didn't understand because the way the way he, the way he broke out of jail was weed.
Did we ever see him break out of jail?
We just showed up at the time.
He just showed up at the diner. That's what I'm saying. It was weird. I couldn't understand like from that scene, from that one scene that he got, we got arrested too.
Now he's in the diner.
And I'm like, wait, what the fuck happened?
And he, did he get his phone call?
And everybody was suspicious of him the entire entire time.
And he was like, no.
I could understand.
And where in the hell did he get the ID from? Brian Myers. Where, where did that come from?
I don't know. I don't know if they got where that is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was probably a loose end that they did not tie up as my guest.
Right. I never could figure out like how do you get in the damn ways?
Yeah.
He got in.
I'm like, I said, it's nice.
Yeah.
Before as long as you're not a Dame, they'll let you drive to make it.
Sure that they make, hey, you know, you can't do it. It's too dangerous.
It's too dangerous today.
Yeah. And then she taught him how, Connie taught him how to be a better driver.
Which I give credit to the movie about and a better person because he turned himself in.
I will give credit to the movie about that. At least they acknowledge that women can drive.
Yeah.
At that time. That's true.
So he like even some of the monologue between other like, whoa, she's like, that's not cool.
Women are really good.
You're a bad ass.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, right from the very beginning, that opening scene where she pulls in and the other dude who eventually kind of kills up.
Oh no, he doesn't kill. He just knocks him out.
Yeah. He knocks him out, but the top show up makes he shot to the Galibats high and apple juice for another half an hour.
Right.
And then just let this guy lay on the floor, wait for an ambulance.
Yeah. Yeah. No, no checking in.
Shit, now I'm not gonna lie. She's probably my favorite character.
The waitress.
Yes. I'm not gonna lie.
I agree.
The waitress was my favorite character.
She was the, she was the smartest one in the, she could be in any movie today right now.
I tell you, like, I was looking at her.
I was like, this is a boondocks character to me.
She is a boondocks character.
Like, everything, like she is the woman that you want to meet on the street.
Like, is my hair good?
Okay, good.
She's the lipstick on with her.
I'm gonna take my picture.
I'm gonna take my picture.
How about?
I love everything about her.
I love.
I agree.
She was great.
I agree.
I agree.
I agree.
I agree.
INDURAGE
Very much so, very much so...
What was it? Where was the shut-in?
Awww I haven't had no idea.
Near Mexico.
Oh, yeah that's true.
You do it in the head of being a college.
Mexico or the '50s so it had to be a cop.
That's nice, yeah.
Yeah, that probably is true.
So before we share more about our thoughts, we do wanna, in case you're watching this-
are listening to this podcasting, like what movie are they talking about?
I didn't watch it before listening to the podcast episode about it.
We do an age-old tradition here in the By That I Mean a Year-Old tradition, where we
have an AI plot summary and our guest always gets the opportunity to read the plot summary.
For this week, our plot summary is coming from the perspective of someone who was existing
in the 1950s.
So just kinda some more of some old school language that we hope will be entertaining and Matthew
were so excited for you to read it for.
Are you gonna read it in the style of the old school radio?
It's what I'm hoping to do.
But we'll see what comes out of my head, you know?
To let it just flow.
Let it breathe, ganges, yeah.
Yeah, it could be in that flow state, so we'll give it a try here.
Alright.
Yeah, we're round, all you cool cats and hip chicks.
Because the 1955 lick, the Fast and the Furious, is ready to burn rubber and jazz up your
afternoon at the picture house.
It's a real doozy, bursting with more horsepower than a stampede at rodeo and a plot is twisty
as a sock hop dance floor.
Our tale kicks off with Frank Webster, a rough and tumble rebel who's on the lab accused
of a crime, he swears up and down, he didn't commit.
He's got more heat on his tail than a grilled cheese sandwich in a roadhouse diner.
With Johnny Law breathing down his neck, Frank goes full tilt and hijacks not just any
car, but the saucy little convertible belonging to Kanye Dair.
A gal with more gumption than a double scoop sundae.
As Kanye and Frank take their show on the road, it's not all smooth cruising.
Honey's got sass to spare, and Frank's temper runs hotter than a jelope who's a busted radiator.
Does it's a jelope?
Wouldn't you know it amidst the cat and mouse chases and roadside banter sparks start flying
faster than a fourth of July fireworks show?
Most dynamic duo finds themselves wrapped up in a high octane road, Rally heading straight
to Mexico, a head-away plan slicker than grease lightning.
Along the way they dodge cops, nosy Rally participants, and just for kicks the occasional
existential crisis.
Will Frank prove he's not the big bad wolf everyone's made him out to be, or will the
truth stall out like an old engine on a chilly morning?
With car chases that rattle your feelings and dialogues snappier than a finger-clicking
chest.
The fast and the furious roars through its runtime, leaving skid marks on your soul?
I'm sorry, skid marks on your soul.
I'm glad I didn't read this ahead of time.
Oh, that was a great line.
Skid marks on your soul.
It's a gas patio, and by the end you'll be rooting for love to cross the finish line before
the law shuts down the Olshabang.
So there you have it, a movie that's a little too the metal in every sense and guaranteed
to rev your motor.
Oh Lord.
I have mercy.
That's great, man.
You think he's a...
Wow.
I feel like I became something new.
Yes, I've been came out to my hotel at the same time.
And found a part of yourself that you never knew.
I am over here down left.
I can already tell.
And I don't know if I'll do it for the whole episode, but I can already tell when I edit
this and I have you doing that.
I'm for the video part, it's going to be a black and white.
I'm good.
And now I'm wondering, should I make the entire thing?
Oh, absolutely.
Oh, yeah.
I feel like we should be smoking cigarettes in here and there should be someone playing
a trombone, Seth, the corner.
Am I even supposed to be here?
Whoa.
That's right.
I'm not going wrong right now.
She is a woman and I'm...
Oh my gosh.
It's not your age.
It's a great decade for you, but if we're in...
Man, I'm in a house.
Holy sh...
I actually...
I could probably call the police and have you kicked out.
I'm taking over this whole thing.
That's true.
And...
Oh, good.
So I wouldn't be far...
You're probably just like...
Yeah, you're good now.
And if 50's, you're good.
You're...
I've already assimilated you guys.
You're good.
We've been speaking so highly of this movie.
And I do want to eventually get back to our high thoughts of this movie.
Which maybe we were all high when we were watching the movie.
I don't know.
I would be remiss if I didn't share bad movie reviews of this movie.
I had a hard time getting a...
A pinion of this movie.
What?
Turns out the people in Fast and Furious Reddit had not seen the 19 or 25.
Someone even made fun of me.
Because I...
Because I'm like, I didn't know for the post where I was asking opinions is...
I put it the movie poster.
And which of course has the car and the two people in it.
Anything like this quote was like, wow.
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker were really different in this movie.
It was what I said.
And then some person comment, "Ha ha, so funny I forgot to laugh."
And I responded with, "I'll forgive you."
They came at you with a pee-wee Herman comeback.
Yeah, yeah.
There are the ones that are incorrect.
That's so funny I forgot to love.
I know you are, but what am I?
Hi.
Right, absolutely.
I can't say what you hear.
Here are some people that...
I don't love the movie.
So this first one says, crap, crap, crap, crap.
What old, black and white, black, insid eggs, great effects, instant cinematography.
Usually it makes up with pure, pure dialogue and storyline.
This one though, crap, summarizes it all.
And then this one says, "The only Fast and Furious I like and I'm pretty sure there's no race or car, gay, sex scenes in this."
So that's why I like this Fast and Furious.
I just want to say that if none of the franchise Fast and Furious Vindies or ones, or the ones even without Vindies, will have gay, sex scenes in this.
If you're watching a Fast and Furious movie that has a gay sex scene in it, it's like the Fast and Furious or something, like it's not.
I want gay sex.
They don't.
No, this person is like, "It doesn't have a gay sex scene, so I liked it."
I don't know.
Someone is just too uncomfortable with their own sexuality and Paul Walker did things to him that they weren't prepared for.
It's not his fault that he was probably the most beautiful man in the world.
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
This one says, "I'm still trying to find the logic of how hair can still look that good in the speeding car with the top down, talking about Connie.
Her hair never..."
Yeah, you write about that.
Yeah, I was just not about that.
Yeah, what products did they even have?
Oh, well...
"Lack of women writes..." When women don't have rights and freedoms in their hair, daydates, where the men told it had needed to stay.
We need...
...proper...
...everybody.
Every location has.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I did get messed up because she was doing like this at one point.
Oh, okay.
The more her opinions were mattering to the movie, the less her hair was.
You know what, shut up.
And then this is either best or worst movie review of all time.
I'm ready.
Literally sums up, you could put this in any movie, and it would be just as right in every movie.
I just think it's something that someone was like, "I'm gonna put this comment down."
It says, "If you like this kind of stuff, watch it.
If otherwise, don't."
Okay.
If you like this kind of stuff, watch it, and if otherwise, don't.
So just basically just...it is what it is.
Yeah, that's the new tagline for the podcast, by the way.
If you like this kind of stuff, watch it.
Watch it.
If you like this kind of stuff, watch it.
You know what I mean?
I love it.
I love it.
But advice is that someone took the time out of their day to write that down.
Well, look at my advice is that if you like this, we might have been on heavy edibles when they wrote that comment.
Yeah, I feel like they work.
It's just rude.
Yeah, what a weird comment.
Anyway, speaking of weird comments, what are the rest of Ark on?
What other thoughts and feelings and things did this movie bring up for you?
I felt like this was a movie about a woman who was on a quest for pineapple juice.
Just got sidetracked the entire time.
With no survival instincts, remember I must reiterate.
She falls in love with her captor.
He locks her in a building and her solution to this conundrum is to light that building on fire.
Fire on fire.
Yeah, go back to him.
It will back to him and help him out.
Go all the way to Mexico to try and help this man.
I don't know what happened in that building for that short amount of time, but it must have been magical.
Where's part? I've got her pineapple juice.
Did she get a chance to eat?
She ate like a tuna sandwich, which is another parallel between the vast and furious is 2001 and this one.
What was amazing about the sandwich that she did get to eat was that these people are carrying like Batman utility belts
worth of stuff underneath of their shirts.
He pulls out a thermos full of soup sandwich. She's got keys hidden in hers.
Yeah, I didn't know that like that's why women's clothes didn't have pockets this whole time.
No, no, no, no, we always carry because you got the utility.
Because in our garment belt.
Yeah, you got to.
Yeah, that's what a garment belt is called.
You have to.
So when did she, when do you guys think she officially fell in love with the criminal?
I think it was when he pulled the gun on her the second time.
Yeah, or the first time.
What was it about that that made her think this is the one?
It was just the way she did him like this.
All right.
I like you.
She will kill me, but you haven't yet.
What is she like to dangerous man?
She likes this. I don't know what she like.
She like because when he was like,
she did it so quick and she just.
That to me, that was her mommy right there.
That was it.
That was it.
That's just me.
For me, it was right when they left the diner, got into the car.
It was 1954 to, you know,
you got a man and a woman writing in a car together.
I think once you made the third turn, you're technically in like a common law marriage.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
I forgot.
I was writing around with a man.
Yeah. Give him like six nose before it was like, all right, I like you.
Yeah.
That's the, that's the rule.
Or maybe her whole plan was like, well, this guy kidnapped me, but I still got a race to get to.
Right.
You're going to work this around.
You know, you could get away from the cops if you wanted and did this race.
That would be very quiet.
Even though she was trying to escape.
You know, like he just kindly went around there to the, to the bathroom to see her coming out the window.
That was hilarious.
And it's like if she makes it out of here, that's going to there was there's no movie left.
That's it.
Yeah.
Well, in somewhere, I guess not.
Oh, thank you.
And there was no like trying to tell the, you know, the guy.
No, why would I tell him I'm kidnapped?
No, no, no.
When she met her friends at the race, she said, or didn't know, no, no, one did they say, hey, this new guy.
Meet me.
Meet her.
And then when she came, birdied up to get some mountainous as car, looking like she was very disheveled.
Are you sure you're okay?
I'll tell you about it later.
All right.
It makes sense that this movie is black and white because they saw none of those red flags.
They, they, it was like, yeah.
Also, one of my favorite quotes was this man, the man Frank, when he got her, he's like, you are more troubled than you're worth.
Why, why do I keep you?
It's like, why do you keep her?
You are on the run, sir.
You do not need this woman.
That's a good question.
Why do I keep you?
That's, why did you take me to begin with?
That's the better question.
Yeah.
It's the better.
Well, why am I here?
I never got my pineapple juice to this day.
Okay.
I hope that waitress is running behind them with the two cans of pineapple juice.
You guys forgot this.
You forgot your pineapple juice.
Yeah, I forgot your pineapple juice.
And I would have loved for her to be at the end.
Yeah.
Here's your pineapple juice.
And do you, like, do you need us to get the cops now?
I said it was a jalapie.
She was my favorite.
I don't care what I mean, it's jalapie.
She was the hero.
Like, now I see why my grandmother said those words jalapie and culture house because those words, like, like, I know, those words were real.
Like, that's the picture house.
I, this is the first time I've heard jalapie in like a context that wasn't like an older person telling me about their car.
I, I love that word jalapie.
It makes me think of jalato and then I get disappointed in this.
What?
When I hear jalapie, I think, oh, yeah, I could go for some jalato, right?
So degrees of separation from an ice cream product of some kind in this line.
No, it is an absolute piece of nothing car.
Now, I did like the fact that it was a lot of jags in this band boy.
We're so cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That rolls Royce that that one fell a...
That was a nice car, but you could tell why Connie wants a more dangerous man if the kind of idiots that are trying to...
Yeah.
Yeah.
They were like, okay, go with him.
I have no questions.
Yeah.
Yeah, go with him.
He's no race car driver.
This movie is still had more racing than the last like five fast and furious movies.
I mean, Royce, it was like what?
I mean, it looks like Royce were at least like three minutes worth of the movie.
Yeah.
And there was an exciting crash scene where...
Hey, yo.
Okay.
We were talking about that for a minute.
I'm sorry.
I thought that was a Michael Bay type of crash because I...
The crash...
I was like, dude, dude, dude, I was like, whoa.
Now, that is how you crash.
Yeah, that's good.
Now, somebody died in the audience that day.
And then...
I think that they were...
They were probably...
If they didn't die in the crash, they died when Frank Raddold them out.
He had to say, "Get him up."
Oh my god.
Those crashes were...
They were so fast.
What about you?
Yeah.
No, it was so fast.
I enjoyed those crashes.
I was...
It was...
It was...
I was...
It was...
It was...
It was so fast.
It was so fast.
I enjoyed those crashes.
It was...
It was so fast.
It was...
It was so fast.
It was so fast.
It was so fast.
I enjoyed those crashes.
It was so fast.
It was so fast.
It was so fast.
It was so fast.
I enjoyed those crashes.
I remember it was so fast.
It was so fast.
I do, like you said, CJ, I did really like that crashing,
and that was a good scene for me to go back.
I want to see Oh my God,
I know that you can see it, it's there.
But, excuse me, what I really liked was,
when he went back, that was
when you saw character development in him
that was, I remember right.
- I agree.
- My little personal notes, as I was watching,
was like I like that scene,
that show, this is the first likable thing
that this man did.
And then like if we're going with this whole stupid,
they fell in love and it made him a better person storyline,
then that's like,
this is the guy and then that's kind of
when he was choosing to turn himself in.
- You're innocent.
- Oh, we needed two,
the last two,
furious, 1955 edition where like we figure out,
did he get a fair trial?
Like is he okay?
- But he was gonna like you said,
he was going to turn himself in,
'cause they're gonna make it a better day tomorrow.
They're gonna be,
- Yeah, yeah.
- So what if she's in?
- I love that this went straight to the end
with no real resolution.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We don't know.
We don't know if he got arrested.
- Yeah, he ended this day.
- She was like, you could have left.
- He got arrested.
She didn't want to be with a man in prison.
So she left him for the race card, did.
- The corny one?
- Yeah, the corny one.
- Yeah, that's the start of the day.
- What are you, her keeper?
(laughing)
- That guy was weird.
- Yeah, he was eternally driving around
the friend zone in his Rolls Royce.
- Oh, okay, well, such the friend.
- I, I saw the friend zone.
(laughing)
- Drew's in there.
- Bro has been there.
- I get it, I get it, man.
You just, you're holding out.
You're like, maybe after the next race,
you'll see that I'm the one that's still here.
She never will.
- No, never, no.
- Move on.
- Never burn a house down while she's in it for you.
- No.
(laughing)
- That's love or psychotic.
- You know what, it's exciting to me.
I grew up in a real toxic family.
So it's like, am I in love with this?
- Yeah, it's what we wish you are.
- If you're not burning the houses down,
then you're probably not in love.
- That's a good point.
- It's, Roger Korman, like I said,
I respect the guy in his body of work,
even though it's, it's really sporadic.
He's like, launched the careers of so many amazing people.
You wouldn't have Jack Nicholson,
unless he had appeared in the Little Shop of Horrors movie
that Korman did.
You don't have like James Cameron.
- Oh.
- Yeah, that, battle beyond the stars.
James Cameron worked on that movie,
but as far as like even car movies that Roger Korman did,
this isn't even in my team.
- Off-car movies that Roger Korman did.
For that, I'd have to go to Death Race 2000
with David Caridine.
That is an awesome car movie.
- Okay.
- Does it compare to Fast and Furious Death Race with,
- Yeah, that remake.
- Oh, DM, oh, the, no, this was, Jason Statham,
I guess they did a Death Race.
- There we go.
- The real Death Races are worth watching.
- DMX movie.
- Well, CJ asked me, you know, we can't say it's a...
DMX is worth watching that movie and not so.
- I love DMX.
- Yes.
- So I only found one in subservia.
- Okay.
- You guys have any other things that you know,
this would love to hear it because I couldn't find much,
except I know that's a shocker with this movie
that I didn't find much, but I didn't.
But here's, so Roger Korman doubled as one
of the race drivers and got so caught up in the race
that he forgot that he was supposed to,
he wasn't supposed to win it.
He wound up beating Star John Ireland
across the finish line, resulting in another take being shot
in which Ireland won the race.
- Oh, he just got off.
- He just got off.
- He's like, I wanna race.
- Yes, he go got, so out of control
that he blew his own shot though.
- Yeah.
- I mean, that's, that's crazy behavior.
That's, that's interesting.
- That's fun, right?
Like that's, that's, you know, weird, but.
- Well, not necessarily about this movie in particular,
but because of this movie,
and because of the money that he made on it,
he made another movie called Eat My Dust
with a young,
I'm blanking on, oh, Ron Howard.
So Ron Howard wanted to be a director,
and so Roger Korman allowed him to direct Grand Theft Auto
if he would appear in Eat My Soft.
- Oh, nice.
That's fun, that's cool.
- Yeah, that's the stuff that rolls around him.
I have all the time.
- I love it, you're, share that.
That's a, that's a fun thing.
- Yeah.
- Well, no, Ron Howard.
- Yep.
- Too fast, too furious, movie rating.
What do we got?
What are we given this?
Too fast, loved it, fast, you liked it,
a furious, you didn't like it,
or you didn't really care, too furious,
you hated it, and maybe your life's less than because of it.
- Oh, cool.
- I will start, I will go with just, I liked it.
- Okay, it's okay.
- I gotta go furious on this one.
It's like, it's trending on apathy
because, you know, Roger Corman made better movies,
but this was an important piece in the creation
of this guy's career, so that's kind of cool,
but with a 73 minute runtime,
it still felt like the longest of all of the past
in various movies.
- Like that, no, no, no, yeah, what are you doing with it?
- Thank you, but a furious.
I didn't like it, and I,
I didn't enjoy watching it, I didn't have fun with it,
and, but I didn't like, I don't wanna give it,
it didn't give me a too furious, but I feel like it was like
in between, between furious and too furious.
- Yeah, I like it.
- I watched worse movies in the era, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, so, so it was, but I'll tell ya,
I kind of have more of appreciation
after this conversation of this movie,
so that, I love it when that happens,
and this podcast is when you talk about it,
maybe the learner, I see things through other people's
perspective.
So, like, I think my honest answer is furious,
but it's more of the don't care where it's meant
that don't like, so, definitely a weird movie
to end our season two on, like it,
we started with Point Break, and then we did this one,
and it's like, well, so if you're, like, listen,
if you're watching and listening to us,
keep going for season three,
we're gonna bring back some good movies.
- Yeah, we are, we are, we really are.
- What about this one is you can go watch it on YouTube
right now, and yeah,
and I would like to see in the comments,
I wanna see everybody's best pineapple gal impression.
- Unfortunately.
- She was the best.
- He was.
- So, we are at the point of the show
where it's Drew's best bits.
This is a very important episode for this little
mini game that me and CJ have.
To catch everyone up, we've been doing this
every episode for season two.
This is the last episode of season two,
so there will be a winner at the end of season two.
- I have to win.
- Apparently, the score is nine-drew,
eight, CJ.
The way this works, Matt, is I'm gonna give three,
three of my best bits or best scenes in the movies.
I'll tell you the qualifier,
but every week we pick a different qualifier
and different, you know, it could be like,
this is our favorite scene,
the worst scene, the funniest or whatever.
- I won the last time.
- And she did win the last time, so,
but you have to win your point and Matt's point,
to actually win.
- Actually win.
- If one of you fixing,
I'm gonna be right back directly, I win, so I love it already.
So I'm gonna be three scenes,
so this top picture this week is,
I didn't come up with a catchy name for it,
but basically sexist things, Frank said.
I picked my top three favorite sexist things that he said.
And so here's the three things.
- And the qualifier is, this is what you think is the most?
- I think the correct answer is yes is the most,
I was gonna say most funny to me,
but that also ties in with most sexist as well.
- Okay.
- So yeah, yes, but also in my head it was like,
this was the one I laughed at the most because.
- Okay, I'm with that.
- Okay, so I feel like these were all pretty early on
in the movie, the first thing he said was like,
literally his first quote to Terry was,
I like my women, why it?
- You don't say that?
- And then when they were talking about food,
or he's trying to get food for someone else,
he's like, she's always hungry.
- He's always hungry.
- That was a good one.
And then the last option is one point where she's like,
complaining about moving,
it's like exercise is good for your figure.
- He did say that.
- So all three of them,
great gym stones of terrible sexism in the 50s,
but only one can be the best bit by my standards.
What do you think?
- I gotta go with exercise because it may be left out loud
when you said it again.
In a lot of these lines,
I remember laughing out loud
watching this movie.
- Yeah.
- I haven't.
- We're all the wrong reasons.
- I'm gonna go with that one.
- We're gonna go with that one.
So that means you're either winning or you lost
because you guys are going the same one.
- Yeah.
- You have to,
'cause what choice did you have if I'm wrong, you lose anyway?
- Yeah, I would.
- I would.
- I would.
- I would, but it called good strategy.
- But yeah, that was the one that stood out to me.
- Well, for the first time in quarter mile podcast history,
I've lost.
- My parents can see us.
That was the one.
CJ wins 10 to nine.
And she has called it from episode one
that she was gonna win.
So what?
- So fast.
- Only fast.
- All right.
- So fast.
- No, no.
- She's live tweeting her victory.
- I'm not lying to you.
I'm not lying.
No, no, no, no, I gotta find it.
'Cause Drew is not gonna believe it.
So, I don't know.
- Leave it.
I mean, I was here.
(baby crying)
Okay, there we go.
I love it.
- I just had that ready just so that she knew
when she was in the season.
- You brought that just for this episode.
- Yeah.
- Download that app just for this morning.
- You spent $1.99.
- Yeah.
- Of the Jamaican Airhorn.
- Thank you guys so much for being with us
for all these episodes.
We've been doing for season two.
We've reviewed some good movies.
We've reviewed some many movies.
We've reviewed some terrible movies,
but you stuck with us all around.
And so most importantly,
thank you to everyone who's been watching the reels,
the episodes, the participating in all the things.
This podcast, the most fun part is interacting with everyone
we interact with online.
- Thank you to everybody who sponsored and spotlight.
And we've given spotlights too.
- Yeah, absolutely.
And we'd love to do that more.
So if you're interested in being spot lit,
it's gonna be spot lit.
In our podcast, we'd love to have you.
And then Matthew, thank you for being on our show.
- He was an honor.
This was so much fun.
I just breathed right by.
And I think that this probably went quicker
than the 73 minute runtime of the past.
- Absolutely.
That is so much better than our season one season finale
where we for some reason thought it was a good idea
to make a two hour episode on the 10th Fast and Furious.
- Oh wow.
- Yeah, I don't know why I didn't edit more on that one,
but it exists.
It's out there now.
- So?
- Did someone still watching it to this day?
- Absolutely.
But is there anything you'd like to promote or shout
or give a lot of your social media on an action?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- I'm afraid of, well, all of the shows
that I've got are probably gonna be before this episode
comes out in the next few weeks.
But find me on the road.
You can check me out at blevo.comity on Instagram threads
and X if that's your thing.
Otherwise, come check me out at a show
or check out the movie wars podcast.
- Yeah.
- Also a frequent contributor on.
So I think you had Kyle Castro in here for,
- Yeah, oh yeah.
- I've been on the movie wars and all that movie wars.
- That's a good, that's like a friend podcast.
I don't know how I, to the quarter mile, I don't know.
- Absolutely.
And then, you know, I'm also co-hosting
deliciously nothing podcast the season as well.
- Yes, you are.
- For we talk about known mathematics,
Drew Davis, one time.
- That has been a recurring joke.
- I've heard on that.
Yeah, you didn't know that,
but I'm a no-methatic, according to deliciously nothing.
- Yeah, they said that Drew doesn't have an
edarkness to him.
I'm like, he's a secret method.
- I'm a third of that two years ago,
it's been going ever since.
- And everyone does it.
Someone literally went up to me
and asked me how I was doing one time.
He's dealing with your math and I was like,
- Yeah, keep an eye on him, you guys.
He's not going to be somebody of,
what about my brother?
- He's not going to make it without your support.
- Yeah, I need it.
- In my Drew bear alone.
- That's great.
And you guys will have to get a time machine
and go back in time,
but Matthew's literally performing on one of my shows tomorrow.
So I think you were there.
We had fun.
I did great, so.
- He said I did great.
It was a great time.
- Great time.
- All right, as we close, remember,
we do have three filler episodes coming up next week.
We will, it's a random Zoom episode,
I did a while back where we're focusing on Mark Wahlberg
with one of my friends, Gavin Eddings,
who's a different friend.
- That's right, Mark Wahlberg.
- Yeah, the, the, the,
- Is there a Wahlberg restaurant?
- Or Burger Restaurant.
- Yeah.
- What's a burger restaurant now?
- Found a Alabama.
- And I'm going to, there next time in there.
- Got a, I bought a shirt.
- That's awesome.
I did not know that.
Okay, so unfortunately,
we didn't cover the Wahlberg restaurant,
but now we did, so you're caught up.
And then the episode after that,
we're bringing in a good friend of ours from Nardhurst
and we're having a fast,
another fast and furious interview.
- Fast and furious.
- 'Cause what is this podcast
if we don't talk about fast and furious?
- No, I mean, I'm just.
- So it's got a thread in there occasionally.
And then I'm super excited about the last episode
before we start season three.
- What is it?
- That's the one where CJ is in charge of everything.
And she picks the movie and--
- I already picked the movie.
- What movie do we go?
- Right, did, did I tell you last night?
- You told me last night, but I,
100% forgot.
It's not that bad.
- It's a really, really bad movie.
Probably the worst movie that has been made ever
and I need to see Drew's face.
Are you ready for this?
- Small.
- Ooh, my man.
- Ooh, my man.
- Ooh, my man.
- You see that in that?
- I can't say that I have.
Is, are we talking like 70s, my exploitation?
Okay.
- I was not black exploitation.
It's a superhero.
- Oh, it's a superhero.
- It's about a superhero.
- I'm already on board.
- It's a superhero.
But it's definitely what you think it is.
- Okay, okay.
- Yeah, that's the way we're watching World of Man.
And I'm gonna have a reaction to it.
- There's gonna open up doors in his mind.
- What if it becomes like my favorite movie?
- Like, what if I'm like,
I've now made this podcast only Boomer Manor.
- I can guarantee it will not be,
it's, I can guarantee you're gonna be like,
CJ, I don't want you on my podcast anymore because
I feel, it's gonna, it's gonna, it's gonna bring a friendship.
- I think the Drew might take to Nashville streets
as Pooma Man and get in,
(laughs)
- Fightin' 'Cron.
- I think you should watch it in like,
Paulie and like, while we're on the podcast,
- Alright, I will definitely watch it.
- Absolutely, that's awesome.
- But that's just coming up.
We're so glad you guys are here.
Spend this week watching some good movies,
watch a bad movie, go watch a 1955 movie, everyone.
- Watch Little Shop of Horse.
- Little Shop of Horse.
So thank you so much, I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your week
and as always, live your life a quarter mile at a time.