Hobbs & Shaw
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. In this week’s episode, Forrest Wickman and Sam Adams discuss the first ever Fast & Furious spin-off, Hobbs & Shaw. Are Hobbs and Shaw really that different? Exactly how many tow trucks equal one helicopter? Why did The Rock need someone to throw him a t-shirt before the final fight scene?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:06.4 | I see dead people. |
| 0:09.5 | Silent green is people. |
| 0:13.3 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:16.7 | Oh, Rushberg. |
| 0:23.6 | What's in the box? What's in the box? You maniac! You blow it up! Damn, you all the hell! |
| 0:32.6 | Hello, and welcome to another Slate Spoiler Special. I'm Slate's culture editor, Forrest Wickman, and I'm on the line with the Hobbs to my Shaw, or maybe it's the other way around, Slate Senior Editor Sam Adams. How's going, Sam? Very well. I actually spent some time trying to figure out which of us was which, and I felt like I was the Shaw, but if you want to be the shot that's fine with me |
| 0:54.1 | I mean we we both want to be the Hobbs I assume I I sort of do but I don't really feel like |
| 1:01.0 | I could pull that off like I feel like I could maybe I have a Shaw potential I'm not I don't |
| 1:07.8 | I don't know that I really have a Hobbs in me anywhere. Yeah, you're taller, neither of us is |
| 1:13.2 | British. I think the point of this movie, as we'll get into, is there's not actually that |
| 1:17.1 | much difference between Hobbs and Shaw, and I can't claim there's really that much difference |
| 1:21.6 | between either of us. So, as you have gathered, we're here to spoil the ninth movie in the |
| 1:26.6 | Fast and Furious franchise, which is also the first spin-off. |
| 1:31.3 | As the title of the podcast suggests, we will be spoiling everything that's in the movie. |
| 1:36.3 | I don't know how much there really is to spoil because pretty much everything was in the trailer. |
| 1:40.4 | But if you don't want to find out about who the A-list comedians are who are randomly in this movie who are not advertised or how many tow trucks it takes to win a tug of war with a helicopter, come back and listen after you've seen the movie. |
| 1:56.6 | Sam, I feel like we should start by just laying out our histories with the franchise and maybe |
| 2:01.4 | how we see this movie as fitting in, you know, pro or con, best of the franchise versus the |
| 2:06.9 | franchise. So you're a completist. Is that right? Yes, that is correct. I can't claim to have |
| 2:11.8 | seen all them in order. But I, you know, I think around the time of the third or the fourth, |
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