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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Ambulance And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ambulance is Michael Bay's latest action movie, and if you think you know exactly what you're going to get — you'd be correct. It's more than two hours of pure, unrelenting adrenaline featuring gun fights, explosions and dizzying camera work. The film stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jake Gyllenhaal as adoptive brothers who get caught up in a bank heist gone spectacularly wrong. And true to the title, it involves a high-speed ambulance chase.

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Ambulance is the latest Michael Bay action movie and if you think you know exactly what

0:08.8

you're going to get into because it's Michael Bay, well, you'd be correct.

0:13.1

It's two plus hours of pure, unrelenting adrenaline, gun fights, car chase, it's explosions,

0:19.2

and of course, dizzying camera work.

0:22.1

Ambulance stars Yaya Abdul-Mateen II and Jake Gyllenhaal as adoptive brothers who get

0:27.2

caught up in a bank heist gone spectacularly wrong and true to the title, it involves

0:32.9

a high speed, high stakes, ambulance chase.

0:36.1

I'm Stephen Thompson.

0:37.3

And I'm Aisha Harris and today we're talking about ambulance.

0:40.3

I'm happy to be out from MBR.

0:44.3

Joining me in Stephen today is Weekend Edition producer Danny Hensel.

0:47.6

Hi, Danny, welcome back.

0:49.3

Hi, thank you so much for having me to talk about ambulance because we have to emphasize

0:53.6

the LA.

0:54.6

Oh yes, that's true.

0:55.6

Also joining us is Daisy Rosario.

1:00.3

She's a podcast producer and storyteller who you may have heard on the Moth radio hour.

1:04.9

Welcome back to you too, Daisy.

1:06.6

Thank you.

1:07.6

I'm so excited to be here to talk about ambulance.

1:12.4

As people can tell, we're probably going to have a lot of fun talking about this movie.

1:17.0

So in ambulance, Yaya Abdul-Mateen II plays Will Sharp, a war vet with an infant and a wife

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