2 Fast 2 Forever: The Fast and Furious Podcast

We've long seen Furious 7 as a movie in transition, but our guest on this episode has us thinking about it in a whole new way. Before we get there, though, we get a very detailed update about Before the 90 Days and catch a ride with Mia as we leave the Cha Cha Cha (and learn some devastating news about its fate). Then, we welcome in Jeff Legaspi (@j_legs) to talk about one of his favorite movies i...

After an intro segment where we talk about ways to "fix" Rotten Tomatoes and join Brian and Mia as they continue their date at Cha Cha Cha, we continue our week of "original versions of early 2000s car movie reboots." (There's gotta be a better name.) Is the original version of Gone in 60 Seconds as good as the original version of The Italian Job? How does it compare to the remake? We talk about E...

We've previously talked about Deckard Shaw's origins as Handsome Rob in the 2003 remake of The Italian Job, but today we're going back in time to the original. After getting some listener confirmation that Sean's dad is a screw-up, we finally make our way to Cha Cha Cha. Then, we get out of prison and drive through the Alps en route to our next big score, as we talk all about The Italian Job: its...

If you're looking to quantify how influential American Graffiti was in the history of cinema, look at just about any other movie we've covered this lap. While we've seen more than a few elements shared from one movie to the next, the influence of American Graffiti can be directly felt in nearly every car movie (or teen movie, or hangout movie, or...) that came after it. In this episode, we place a...

After our #family watch party of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, we were supercharged to talk about this movie once again. After we usher new members into the Gallo 12, hear the beginning of a story about Dom's dad, and posit a wild theory about the interconnectedness of the Fastiverse, we're joined by Dan Hamamura (Pajiba) to drift our way through another episode. Did the Family bring thei...

Before this lap became all about classic car movies, another way that we planned to "kick it old school" was to do a deep dive into The Fast and the Furious. That hadn't happened, so we're taking a detour for a deep dive into all sorts of background material about the first movie. After we talk about Chrissy Teigen's starring role in Tokyo Drift, the original ending to Furious 7, and break the new...

As we continue to kick it old school and work our way through classic car movies (and, not so coincidentally, Quentin Tarantino's rolodex of movie references), our next stop is 1981's The Cannonball Run. After an overstuffed first half, including a minute where Brian takes a swing at Muse, we dive into patron The Cannonball Run, chosen by Alex Elonen on Patreon. We talk about the star-studded cast...

We're headed back to the all or nothing days, the Dirty Mary Crazy Larry days, when real cars crashed into real cars and real dumb people drove 'em. Today, we continue to kick it old school and we continue to dive deep into the well of Quentin Tarantino references by talking about Dirty Mary Crazy Larry. After catching up on the NFL Draft, cracking open the mailbag, and heading back to the LAPD sa...

Once again, we're joined by our ridealong partner taking the slowest and most roundabout lap, Brian Rodriguez (High School Slumber Party), and this time we're talking about Fast & Furious 6. After an opening segment where Joey has a depressing realization about Rock the Vote and a Fast & Furious minute where our (hopefully) soon-to-be BFF Beau Holden gets waterboarded with oil by Johnny Tran, Bria...

After gunning it from Denver to California in Vanishing Point, we're rocketing toward modern day to cover its spiritual successor: Death Proof. After a Fast and Furious minute where the Family may be facing some imminent danger, we borrow a 1970 Dodge Challenger to play Ship's Mast and talk about all the classic car movie connections (as well as Fastnections) that Quentin Tarantino laced throughou...

We're continuing to kick it old school and launching into our Dodge Challenger week, which spans from Vanishing Point to its spiritual successor, Death Proof. After an opening segment with trash TV and streaming baseball updates, as well as a Fast and Furious minute that sort of leaves of scratching our heads, we hit the road to deliver this Challenger to San Francisco by Sunday at 3pm. In this ep...

We've found ourselves stuck in the mud in Alabama in a car without positraction, which means there's no better time to talk about My Cousin Vinny. After talking about the Fast and the Furious Minute (#50), in which we get narrative momentum without much new to look at, we turn out focus to My Cousin Vinny to laugh at nearly everything Marisa Tomei says, while also running down the Fastnections we'...

In our longest episode yet, we're joined by Roxana Hadadi (@roxana_hadadi | Pajiba, The AV Club) to talk about all things Fast Five. But first, our Fast and Furious minute tells us what Brian does like a cop, and we wonder why Dom is hanging out in the shadows in an abandoned alleyway. Then, Roxana joins us to discuss the filmmakers' innate ability to retcon Han's story, an alternate reality theor...

We've still got nothin' but time, so we're once again hitting the NOS boost (sorry, N-O-S boost) and diving deep into three consecutive Fast & Furious minutes. In this episode, we continue to decipher Hector's role in buying parts, find ourselves surprised by the size and scale of Hector's role within the community, and finally solve "The Hector Dilemma" (which only opens more rabbit holes filled...

We're cruisin' and spending one more night at Tubby's Drive-In before it gets razed, and we've got just enough time to talk about The Hollywood Knights! In this episode, we run down the latest news and rumors about the Fastiverse, crack open an overflowing mailbag, and run down one of the wildest Fast & Furious minutes in recent history. Then, we head back in time so that Joe can finally tell his...

When we worked our way through the Brian O'Conner lap, we realized that Paul Walker essentially played a version of Brian in every movie he was cast. How much Dominic Toretto can we find in Vin Diesel's portrayal of Bloodshot? It turns out: a whole lot! In this episode, we talk about the Dom/Madame M team-up (and why there should be way more of it), the film's other Fastnections, and whether or no...

How would a crossover between Fast & Furious and the world of Harry Potter work? We're diving into the mailbag, putting on our sorting hats, and figuring out into which house the family members belongs. Then, we're headed back to Los Angeles for Fast & Furious with special guest Liz. We learn her history with the franchise, kind of freak her out with our obsessive and intimate knowledge of the mov...

As we all try to figure out how to spend our days as we settle into the "new normal," we decided to release bonus episodes of 2 Fast 2 Forever each Friday. First up: we're hitting another NOS Boost to dive deep, Fast and Furious Minute-style, into three minutes from the original movie! We almost couldn't have asked for a better three-minute stretch, either, as this NOS Boost propels us to buying n...

Ever since we first heard Suki call Brian "Bullitt" in 2 Fast 2 Furious, we knew we'd one day cover this movie. We continue to kick it old school (in a 1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2 Fastback) as we head to San Francisco to talk about Steve McQueen's timeless cool in Bullitt. In the intro, we try to make sense of a world gone mad and dive deep into one of the best Fast and Furious minutes we've had...

We’re continuing to kick it old school this lap as we hunt for cars not adorned in neon on the streets of Miami in 2 Fast 2 Furious! We’re joined by Nate Milton of the Rocky Maivia Picture Show and The Kings of Sport to talk about a movie with a decided lack of Dwayne Johnson. What this movie *does* have is a whole lot of Roman and Tej, and Nate helps us break down their introductions in this movi...

Universal just delayed Fast & Furious 9 (or F9, or Fast 9, or whatever it's called) to April 2021. Here's what that means for Lap 6 and 2 Fast 2 Forever. Email us: family@cageclub.me Visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/2fast2forever. Extra special shout-out to Ben Milliman, Jake Freer, Alex Elonen, and Nick Burris for joining at the “Interpol’s Most Wanted” level or above! Intro music by Nico Va...

As we continue to kick it old school this lap, we're taking our first detour to a pit stop with 1971's Two-Lane Blacktop, a movie picked for us by Ben Milliman over on our Patreon! If you've never seen this cult classic (watch it! it's a Criterion release!), you could think about Two-Lane Blacktop as, in a way, Race Wars: The Movie. (Except, also, not at all.) In this episode, we follow James Tayl...

We're kicking it old school as we kick off Lap 6 on 2 Fast 2 Forever, and we're heading back to Toretto's Market and Cafe for The Fast and the Furious. Joining us to talk about all things F&F are Marines Alvarez and Nicole Sweeney, the co-hosts of the Snark Squad and Cooler Than Homework podcasts! In this episode, we learn about Nicole and Mari's wildly different histories with the franchise, thei...

Partly to ensure we can properly celebrate our one hundredth episode in style, partly to do some work on The Fast and the Furious Minute document that we've been putting off, we're reaching over and cranking the NOS this week with our first-ever NOS Boost episode. We're just about one-third of the way through the first movie in the franchise, so we're taking time to look back, seeing what we've le...

Where will Eli Toretto's journey take her in this chapter of You Are My Life Span? In this chapter, the role of Mia is played by Cara Gael O'Regan. Email us: family@cageclub.me Visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/2fast2forever. Extra special shout-out to Ben Milliman, Jake Freer, Alex Elonen, and Nick Burris for joining at the “Interpol’s Most Wanted” level or above! Intro music by Nico Vasilo....