Fast Trend Furious X 2/10: Rihanna, Super Bowl Halftime Show Rankings, Syria Sanctions, Movie Trailers

Chiefs versus the Philadelphia Eagles. Psych J k um It's like J K Rowling. We are going to talk about the halftime show because the only thing I care about to be it's also the last, to be honest, Like I mean, I guess there's been some iconic moments in game. But like I have, like up to before this season, been like a football fan ish like I play fantasy football, I follow the games. I listened to a sports podcaster or two, and even with that, the moments that really

stand out are the ads and the halftime show. That's that's what I remember from from the broadcast. We're visual people. We're visual. People were I'm really pop culture bitch at heart, and Rihanna is performing for the first time in seven years. I didn't realize that. Yes, that's why people were going crazy when they announced that she was going to be the performer, because they were like, oh really, I gotta go to the fucking super Old to see Rihanna live.

That is insane. Yeah, yeah, so I don't know. Another headline around her performance is she she will not be paid um, which is never like performers are never paid. Okay. I was like, was that by choice or two? I not know something that Justin Timberlake is paid, Tom Petty was paid, Partney was just ing just joking, but that would make sense. Uh no, it's I think the trend is a list performers including Beyonce, Bruno, Mars, Justin Timberlake,

and Lady Gaga didn't get paid. However, the effect of being the Super Bowl halftime show is pretty noticeable, like people track it. So this year the number of viewers is expected to top million. That doesn't shock me. I'm always skeptical about like the thing where people are like everybody is watching it around the world because when I talk to friends of mine who grew up in other

countries or you know, still live in other countries. They are generally like what, I don't I don't care at all, Like I don't I don't even know the rules of American football, And I feel like it's a thing we like to tell ourselves to just kind of it's an important part of the neolib myth of like means to be us baby. Yeah, it's like it's like that's how I view when I think of the NFL and football and things like that. It's like that is like peak

American marketing, capitalism culture. It's like it's like we like when you think of traditional America. Even though we're such a diverse country, there's so many different aspects of us. Like people are like football, NFL, like that is like textbook when I think they put in books, like they're like, this is America. You got football at the chaft time, you got ads, you got Madman Madman. Yeah. So when Lady Gaga took stage in seventeen, her song sales increased one.

That is a lot of I'm not great with math, but I think that's pretty good. Jennifer Lopez gained two point three million new followers across social media. Like during the course of her performance, Um, so, I mean it taught people that Jlo is a really incredible performer and can really fake singing. Yeah, really good, I'm faking it. Yeah,

she's a I don't know. Her performance and out of Sight is still one of my favorite film performances that ship down as someone who is Puerto Rican, I will say, you know, Jlo, she's a very controtable character in our community. But things people can't take away from her is that she can perform like she is a performer at heart. She may not she may steal people's music, you know, she may not be a nice person, but that bit she can get on a stage and give you a

performance for her life. She is lip singing for her life out there. Okay. So I will not have you call her a bitch because I've never heard anything but kind to everyone. And also I think the documentary about the Super Bowl really humanized her. Like I think a lot of people were like, wow, she's so difficult to work with, Like you know, she like doesn't let people look at her, and she really used the documentary. I was like almost like curved over was like, am I

a jailo stand out. Am I like out here being like no one will talk about Jo and then I remember she stole lots of black women's music, and then I knew so that I have to to get back and be like not one of our best. The inner struggle around j fandom. So just going back to like the truly timeless moments of the past super Bowls of our lifetime being halftime shows. The A V Club helpfully

as they do. I believe every year IS has has ranked the performances, and you know, I think there's some They put the last year's dre Snoop Kendrick, Mary J. Blige, Eminem halftime show at number four overall, which is pretty high. But I do think it was pretty good. I continue to think that they are underrating Katie Perry's performance. Think when she came out on that mechanical lion that that was a moment. Also Katy Perry and underrated performer. She's

an incredible performer. Her stage presence is amazing. That was yeah, But they have like you two and number so it goes Beyonce one Prince to team performance right, not her? What like cameo where cold Play was wisely, Like, I mean, we can't just do a cold play like we should do. Who else has done halftime shows that were good? Beyonce, Bruno, Mars did I think last year let's just bring out Yeah, they just brought back the people who had done it

very well. Uh recently so Beyonce and Prince one and two. I think those are the correct top two. Those are iconic moments. You two in two thousand two don't really remember it. I'm also not a YouTube fan, so I definitely didn't watch it. So I'm gonna say no, should not be number three. I't u drand Snoop at number four Michael Jackson, which I do remember. That was a moment He's like doing magic tricks and appearing all over the place. Lady gagat number six, I love that performance.

I woant have moved that one ahead. I would swap the Dre and Lady Gaga in my opinion. Interesting, Um, the Dre and Snoop one really seemed to have like people were just like man. That made me so happy. I haven't heard. I think it was a time in history where we were like we needed this, you know, I need this ship. Yeah, they like pretended to be outside, like the whole thing was happening on like porches and stuff. I was like, man, remember when we were like outside

and together in groups. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers was the ultimate man. They have some hits and I totally forgot that those were songs by them type performance. They got Bruno Mars at eight. I don't remember the Madonna. They have Bruce Bringsteen, which I don't know your mileage, maybe area Madonna and number ten, ahead of Katie Perry

at number eleven. I don't remember Madonna at all. I'm shocked based on all of the hoopla after the Shakira Jlo performance that it's number twelve on this list to be completed this a little higher. It was in top ten, and I really did love the performance like I thought it was. I really did believe that Jlo deserved it by herself, to be completely honest, not that's no hat to Shakira, like I just thought it would have been.

Maybe it didn't. I felt like it was a snub to like Latino artists in general, to be like, well, we can't just have one, you know. It's like though they have to share the stage. It's just I don't know. Towards the bottom of the list, we have things that you may have forgotten, like in Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye. Like, what, yeah, I don't. I didn't know that happened. I think everybody just tuned out.

It's like the UM, if you've been I don't. It's a Disney right, maybe it's a universal they have like a little performance stunt show, a little stunt show. They're like, what if we did the Miami Advice Boat stunt show for the halftime show. Um, anytime you go away from Tonic performer as your halftime show, it's a it's a bad idea. Um. The Black Eyed Peas were one that

got ranked very lowly. Some there there are some that were like celebration of soul, salsa and swing, and this is another one of those things where it's like they couldn't have just celebrated one Like it's like all of the poc types of music, We're going to give them one show. They didn't think Stevie Wonder could hold down a halftime show, so they had to bury him between Gloria Stephen and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Literally like Maroon five, also a low ranker on this yucks. So that's that's

that's what I'm here for. Though. In terms of the Super Bowl the halftime show, people's reaction at the halftime show, UM, feed it to me, daddy, nom nom nom nom. No. All I can say, literally, all I can say, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back. We'll talk about some news, we'll talk Syria, and then we've got some trailers to watch and we're back. And UM, so we did you know the rescue effort has been stalled in Turkey and Syria or just you know, frustratingly,

infuriatingly slow after the massive earthquake earlier this week. Um, and a lot of people are pointing out that US sanctions, which they say they've like temporarily lifted, they're doing like a six month sanctions exemption for all transactions related to providing disaster relief to Syria. But going against like US sanctions can really fuck a bank, like a financial actor, and so people are just going to be like, I'm not going to risk it. That's because capitalism is the

rules over humanity and that sucks. Yeah, So people are just pointing out like it's it's not good enough to do just a six month break because that's going to still cause people to die, and that is generally the case with U S sanctions in general. It's like a polite way to kill people, UM, and the the US

has been doing it for a long time. Another thing that is causing, you know, rescue efforts to stall or be inefficient is that the US controls the vast majority of oil in Syria and there's not enough fuel available to send aid and rescue convoys, which is fucking awful. And the death toll is increasing so much every day.

I mean, we just recorded it'll be out in a well weeks I think, but we did just record a deep dive on what's going on in Syria on ethnically Ambiguous UM because Shrine is Syrian, and she did an episode behind the Bastards like when it happened like the day of and the death hole had increased like tenfold just in that day that they had to like send an update, and then even from yesterday we were at twenty thousand and today we're at two. So it's just

it's really sad. Definitely fine ways to donate if you can and spread the awareness of what's going on, because it's just it's an absolutely horrible humanitarian situation and sanctions can be really awful and evil. Really all right, So two trailers dropped in the past couple of days, dropped into my sphere of attention. I don't know. These could have been out for months, but I found out about them. No, I'm pretty sure they both came out today. Okay, one

is little there, Becca. This is the latest directorial effort from one Mr Ben Affleck one Mr j lo One, Mr Mr Mr Lopez, Mr ben Affleck Lopez, and it is the story of the invention of the air Jordan's put the needles into my arm right now, put it into my baby. It looks really good. I'm actually very intrigued to watch it has been Affleck has mac Damon Viola Davis. As someone who used to live in Portland's. It has like a very like, you know, romantic sized,

old timey view of Portland's, which I love. But also as a former w K employee, which to them the regular listener as you should know or shouldn't know because it's silly. Uh. They are the place that created the Joe Dua slogan. W K being one in Kennedy the ad agency, which is based out of Portland's it's very

insider baseball. I'm gonna get here for a second. But as someone who to work there, when you on board, it's like big legacy that they give you a big deep dive in their history with Nike and like you know, they've been Nike's official agency of record for like over thirty years. Um. So it was funny to watch the trailer as someone want to use to work there because it very much cuts out the agency part of the storytelling,

which I wouldn't expect it to include it. But it was just so funny, this like romanticized view of like Phil Knight like coming up with uh, you know Air Jordan's with his like Nike salesperson that is recruiting Michael Jordan, which is like not at all, Like I mean, part of that is true, but as someone who had to watch like documentaries and documentaries on like how Nick stuff got made, it's like cutting out a huge part of like Dan Widen and David Kennedy like working with Phil

Knight to build the Nick Air Jordan brand. So I find it funny, but I think it's gonna be a a really incredible movie. Yeah, they like collapse twenty different people and departments into the person. Yeah, Phil Knight and Sonny Vacaro, who is like a legendary basketball mover and shaker. Uh yeah, somebody that. Yeah, uh so Sonny Bacaro played by Matt Damon, which is interesting. They don't really resemble one another at all.

Ben Affleck though, looks exactly like Phil Knight, like, yes, they did do a good job, I mean nailed it and yeah, and there there's just a lot of So my big question was, Okay, this is going to be ruined the second they cut to Michael Jordan's played by someone who's not Michael Jordan's the most iconic human being of my lifetime, you know, like the most iconic, Like you can't and so immediately looked at who they got played Michael Jordan because there is like a one moment

shot in the trailer where you see him from behind, and they apparently anticipated, my, oh, this is going to be ruined when they when you have somebody who's not Michael Jordan's being like and here he is Michael Jordan and he's like not Michael Jordan. Um, they don't have

anyone playing Michael Jordan. It's just like the whole thing takes place around the magnetic persona of this person that they're just like, oh you it's like we we don't like take a take time to like focus the camera on the sun when we're doing you know, like you just know it's there, you know he's there, which I

mean's smart. I'm excited for that reason because it's really going to be about the story of building out to you know, the air Jordan's versus like Michael Jordan's by biopic almost you know, yes, um anyways, and then the big movie we're all talking about we're all thinking of yes, Like I don't know if I'm ready to talk about it yet. It's in my heart. My heart is digesting

it but fast ix um. So. At one point during this trailer, Vin Diesel opens his eyes wide like he's scared of what he's seeing, and it is like Olivier has stepped into the screen because Vin Diesel has expertly been underplaying every emotion for the last twenty years of this Yeah, like that you reveal that he has a kid, and he like just like doesn't even do like a single tear rolls down his stone face and this time he opens his eyes and I'm like, it's all been

leading up to this, or they taught him how to move his face finally, but it really is affecting. It's just it's everything we expect from from a Best and Furious movie. It was. The trailer is approximately two and a half hours long, which is long for a trailer. It rhet cons I think. I don't think Jason Momo was in the Fast five, which for me is really the first Fast and Furious movie. Um, I saw Too Fast, Too Furious in theaters. I did not see the first,

or the third or the fourth. Um. And then Fast five came out and I was like, well, this is a this is a new alchemy that they've created. They they've they've done something here, and this kind of returns to that as the orr text of the film, where like the origin of the bad guy is that he is you know, he was there in the background of Fast five, and like, is the brother of the bad guy from Fast five? And I think that's smart. I think that that is truly the heart of your franchise

at this point. Is Fast five or you think they brought him in because as Dwayne the Rock Johnson refuses to do any more Fast movies. Yeah, it's like dating dating someone who is like, you know, will make your ex jealous by being like he's which I don't think he's a bad edition. I do think Bree Larson is a weird ad to the franchise. She's just she just shows up and they're treating her in this like she's part of the Yeah, one of the old family members.

But I don't. She's not in any of the other movie. She wasn't even a Fast name. And they bring her in and she's a good guy right away, which I that's not how this works. Unfortunately, Tom is always very like hesitant to let anybody in, like you have to fight, you have to be the bad guy. And then he's a when you over and flip you to this one Dom's brother. What's the John Cena is the good guy now like but after being the bad guy? Yes, formerly bad guy, now good guy? Uh that that is the

gestation cycle of a Fast family member. And Charlie Sarone still bad guy. Charlie Stone is the fight at the end right yes, yes, yes, yeah so that she she's still bad. I feel like she switched over for like fifteen minutes of one of the movies and helped them and then trying to kill them. So I have watched, growing up sporadically some of these movies. My dad is a really big car guy, and I feel like growing up he took me to a few of them, but as a child, I was like, I can't do this,

and I stopped going. And then I started dating my partner, and my partner is obsessed with Fastly Furious is his favorite movie franchise ever. So then you guys were for Halloween. Yeah, and so we decided, Okay, we'll have a fast franchise, you know, rewatch, and we're going to really deep dive because I had already done the Newcover's podcast where they deep dive the Fast and Furious franchise, and I was like,

this was really funny. I should just start over. And I will say the first one I loved because it was like gritty and all the wrong ways and you're just like, it takes itself so seriously. It's like trying to establish itself and it's goofy, but they weren't intending to be goofy, which is what I like about it. And I like that it's the shortest one because they just keep getting longer as you go. It adds two hours to your life every time you watch. But the

second one is my favorite. I hated Tokyo Drift. Hated Tokyo Drifts the worst one, and we're talking about because Tokyo Drift leads White guy from that one comes back and I think he first comes back and went one of the last two, and they've just given him a new character, like he's now like so much in that they're like, remember this guy, he's like kind of a Matthew mcgiver junkyard scientists and people are like, no, that's

not what he was, and I'm like, sure he was. Anyways, that's we needed one of those, and so we're bringing him back. Like Han outshined him so hard that they were like, we're just going to start building the plot around Han, Like he was only in this movie for like fifteen minutes, but we're gonna now create four other movies around his plot before we let him die and

then come back. Here's a um a skill of driving that happens in these movies, Like what driving means in these movies that you see it in the one where they go to space and they're like somehow being able to drive into space. It's like a control. It's being able to control with sheer like force of will a

car's movement through space and time. Like in in this trailer, there is a moment where Vin Diesel is like wills his car to not be lifted off the ground by a helicopter, like just he defies, just defied, just like somehow he just like makes gravity like hold him to the ground and he like pulls the helicopters together and they explode, and it's it doesn't make sense, but like it's a thing he's been doing throughout like there in in Fast five or six, I forget like he's able

to just like I don't know, it's like drive so hard that he doesn't get killed when a building collapses on him. It's just Yeah, I stopped at the seventh one. That's the last one I watched, and I haven't been able to catch up. And now I feel reinvigorated to start my journey back again. At eight. Maybe I'll watch tonight and in it I think it was bad, maybe

more fun. Five was great, Five is transcendent. Six I think was very good seven, and I really liked not I thought nine was pretty fun that I think nine was the one with the Yeah. It had a sequence that like fun with magnets and John Cena created. There's this character Michael Swain always pitched it correct that we never had the budget to do, but it was perpetual zipliner. Uh,

like a guy who's just always ziplining everywhere he goes. Um. And that happens in this where John Cena is just ziplining like across the city, like NonStop, like in a way that doesn't make any sense. Um. And my favorite thing, my last thing about Past franchise is that when Donald goes anywhere, the people of that country or area love him. He may not speak that language, but the people of that country, they said, he's our robin Hood, he that

is our man. Don Torretto. I love when they go to the Dominican Republic and all the people are just like dancing salsa and they're just like dumb, and it's like he doesn't speak a liquor Spanish, like no Spanish. Letty doesn't even speak Spanish in the movie, and they love him. They love him. In Brazil, they loved him at the end of Tokyo, they were like, let's get this race, Like it's just so fun that everywhere he

goes he's just beloved by all. I think there's a moment in the trailer where he says, let's race for some reason, like I was expecting a different word there, and it feels weird. Well because as the movies progress, it's less about racing and it's more about high crime. Well, it's really about family and it's it's your family, and it's really about family and that the family is who you make it found family, families, your friends. That's what

every TV writer says their show is about. At Rita Marito, what why is she in this movie? She's like the matrioch r Yeah, but like was not in anything. Well, Becca, we could talk about this three more hours. But the daily is like, guys, really in the end is about family, the family that you find along the way. You know, you choose your family sometimes that's true. So thank you for being a small part of mine. Where can people

find you? Follow you? You can find me and follow me at Beck's B E, C C S Robos on all platforms and if you go to Instagram you can see my Dom torto Letty costume. Yeah, one of the greats. You can find me on Twitter, Jack Underscore O'Brien. That is going to do it for us this afternoon. We are back on Monday with the whole last episode of the show, The Greatest Hits that drops tomorrow from this week's shows, And yeah, we'll talk to you all then.

Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all on Monday three