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Our take
We’re still writing this one up. In the meantime, hear what we said below.
Official synopsis
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.
Every time we said “Speed Racer”
- Adam: “well today we're going to talk about speed racer from 2008 so”Ep 1
- William: “…and this is this whole thing is completely my idea because I don't think you'd ever heard of Speed Racer.”Ep 1
- Adam: “I think I'd heard of Speed Racer a couple of times, but I didn't know what it was about.”Ep 1
- Adam: “…but like, I think there was a different racing movie that I was like, I thought that was Speed Racer, but I don't remember what it was.”Ep 1
- William: “To be fair, it is kind of a generic name, Speed Racer.”Ep 1
- William: “okay well well i don't i don't trust rotten tomatoes because of its score for speed racer but in any case my hot take my hot take and this is like the the one i…”Ep 1
- Adam: “Speed Racer. Speed Racer.”Ep 1
- Adam: “really and that's essentially what you gave me um for for context speed racer is william gill's favorite movie would you say that it's at least one of your”Ep 1
- Adam: “yeah and so he was like you need to see speed racer i'd never heard of it and so he described to me the plot of speed racer um and…”Ep 1
- Adam: “I've only seen Speed Racer.”Ep 1
- Adam: “But what do you think about Speed Racer?”Ep 1
- Adam: “speed racer did Netflix make no they should”Ep 1
- William: “…10 second kind of plot line so the famous racer family's middle son speed yes his name is speed racer first name speed last name racer and the”Ep 1
- William: “okay so that's that's like the 10 second full line but basically so speed racer his older brother rex racer and”Ep 1
- Adam: “…names sound a little bit corny the harbinger of boom inspector detector those are also names from a speed racer his father what's his name pops his name is his mom Mom Racer.”Ep 1
- William: “Speed Racer the middle.”Ep 1
- Adam: “Speed Racer, it shows a lot of his flashbacks throughout the movie, and he's just like some doofus kid who's…”Ep 1
- Adam: “…it is very tragic he must be dead everyone's like oh no rex racer has died and so speed racer he has to grow up and he wants to race because he loves his brother and he loves…”Ep 1
- Adam: “is like speed racer says later in the movie like uh racing is like a religion and big companies are like the…”Ep 1
- William: “…especially who he says it too we'll introduce mr rollton in a minute but yeah rex racer dies speed racer grows up and his legacy is to like become the greatest”Ep 1
- Adam: “Also, if you're watching this episode, you clicked on an episode called Speed Racer, you've probably seen the movie.”Ep 1
- William: “speed racer and his family um after this this race the introduction they get a knock on the door one…”Ep 1
- Adam: “i want you to race for me speed racer and then he eats the family's pancakes and raves about how good they are and he gave speed…”Ep 1
- Adam: “trying to do any method he can get to get speed racer to sign”Ep 1
- Adam: “eventually speed racer goes back and says sorry like my family has our own little racing little race your motors sort…”Ep 1
- William: “And he starts like describing what's going to happen to Speed Racer after this point.”Ep 1
- Adam: “Speed Racer plays a lot with time.”Ep 1
- Adam: “so all of this happens and it's very tragic now there's a shift after that because speed racer feels very disheartened after he's like oh turns out that the big businesses can just do whatever they…”Ep 1
- Adam: “And Speed Racer, his racing, he's so passionate about it and he's so intricate and wonderful with it that it's like…”Ep 1
- William: “So after mom has this conversation, mom racer, with Speed Racer, they get a knock on the doll, and it's the harbinger of boom.”Ep 1
- Adam: “And Taijo is like, I want Racer X and I want Speed Racer.”Ep 1
- Adam: “say anything and then speed racer talks to his girlfriend tricks afterward and he's like i i have to race this race like i…”Ep 1
- Adam: “to prove that the little guy can win and we can show everything And so Speed Racer joins without his family's permission.”Ep 1
- Adam: “But then he sees Speed Racer on the television.”Ep 1
- Adam: “and then they win the race congratulations there was a lot of crazy things Speed Racer gets thrown off a cliff at one point he's about to die he's like oh no just like…”Ep 1
- William: “And Speed Racer was like, this is it.”Ep 1
- Adam: “So Mr. Royalton's like, a million dollars and whoever kills Speed Racer stops”Ep 1
- Adam: “And then Speed Racer does a launch up, shows the bottom of their cars.”Ep 1
- William: “and then speed racer finds out how to like show everyone that he's cheating”Ep 1
- Adam: “electrifying like it legitimately like everything builds up there's you start speed racer starts driving faster and faster toward the finish like nothing can stop him and as he's doing it…”Ep 1
- Adam: “And that's the movie Speed Racer. Yep.”Ep 1
- Adam: “Maybe it really is coming more in, but I hear more people talking about Speed Racer nowadays.”Ep 1
- Adam: “This random podcast about Speed Racer will become the most trending podcast.”Ep 1
- William: “We've been planning this for literally two years before anyone started talking about Speed Racer.”Ep 1
- Adam: “Let's give our final review for Speed Racer.”Ep 1
- Adam: “So, so one speed racer out of 10 is worth three normal out of 10.”Ep 1
- William: “I hope that you have been inspired to watch Speed Racer.”Ep 1
- Adam: “And I hope that everyone will go and watch Speed Racer and they will be inspired to race themselves.”Ep 1
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