S4E12: The Transporter
Added 2025-04-18 16:15:09 +0000 UTCKill James Bond is setting our sights on the Fast and Furious movies, but we need to do a little genre research first.
We need to- NEED to- watch Mr 'acquitted on all charges' himself, Luc Besson's English-language French Statham Vehicle, The Transporter!
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Comments
Genuinely hoping that they do Drive.
Sean Drum
2025-07-02 18:52:01 +0000 UTCYou guys should watch the original Taxi movies or Le Boulet. They’re quite problematic by modern standards, but also incredibly ridiculous and a wild ride.
Tuur Verheyde
2025-06-17 18:35:36 +0000 UTCSay what you want about Jason Statham, he knows how to pick a hot wife
John
2025-05-31 15:40:05 +0000 UTCThe cinema sins Ding was so loud I genuinely thought some alarm had gone off in my car.
Josep C.
2025-05-27 19:39:26 +0000 UTCLmao here's a shoe company literally using Jason Statham's height to market their lifted shoes: https://www.chamaripashoes.com/jason-statham-height-elevator-shoes.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqgVO62c5h-oNY5eai5fdyepCRAIBPkLLOp6cSbhKMwyBiPRiEp
Bex
2025-05-22 13:43:40 +0000 UTCAbbie: if you're a man get in touch. Me: I thought I was but I'm having an interesting week 🥚
Damien Tonkin
2025-05-04 08:42:34 +0000 UTCwonderful episode but actually it's unwatchable because nova said the master was from fallout 2 instead of fallout ❤️
Roxie Rockatansky
2025-05-01 17:09:47 +0000 UTCIf the movie came out in 2002 it would have been well into production by 9/11/01. So I wouldn't consider this a post 911 movie.
Maxwell Burton
2025-04-28 17:15:21 +0000 UTCIt must be stated that the only reason Leon the Professional is not more pedophilic is because Jon Reno was actively resisting any acting cues that would hint torwards that.
Harrison Fuller
2025-04-26 18:07:31 +0000 UTCIs Fantastic Mr Fox a heist movie? Extra points for Clooney leading the crew
Carly
2025-04-25 10:09:39 +0000 UTC“Moderate wokeness of an infinite scale” sounds like a Milan Kundera novel.
Imitation_Vanilla
2025-04-22 02:20:51 +0000 UTCjason statham does a really good romcom lead in the meg, which is also shockingly fun and not terrible for the type of movie it is
alexandra
2025-04-21 21:57:10 +0000 UTCI'm now imagining the KJB Team operating a M4 Sherman in WWII . I'm thinking Abi is the gunner, Joe Kassabian is the commander, Nova is the loader, Devon is the driver, and Liam is the bow gunner. Rocz is a desantniki.
Kyle Clark
2025-04-19 08:20:31 +0000 UTCyou should get Victoria Scott on for one!
_elise.s_
2025-04-19 08:01:34 +0000 UTCAs a trans girl with car autism I'm so excited for this and F&F! this season is gonna be goated with the sauce fr fr :P
_elise.s_
2025-04-19 07:59:38 +0000 UTCJust on Luc Besson films, could ‘Fifth Element’ be considered a heist film? The good guys and various bad guys are all looking to heist the stones, all for various reasons. Could be fun
Mariana Trench
2025-04-19 07:40:30 +0000 UTCTaxi (1998) is the comedy rough draft for Transporter and actually a heist movie. It would be worth watching. Especially for non drivers; it’s a buddy cop story about a detective who can’t drive and a genius taxi driver.
Jacob King
2025-04-19 07:03:38 +0000 UTCThis movie made me learn how to bake madeleines. My main takeaway was being more French was cool.
James Cézanne-Taipale
2025-04-19 06:10:05 +0000 UTCThe scene prior to the car exploding - Frank gets 2 pepsis out of the vending machine meaning he has finally made the moral choice to save the cops then boom!
Lauri King
2025-04-19 05:54:56 +0000 UTCIt’s kinda shocking that the brief discussion of the film’s screenwriter Luc “Mr. Acquitted On All Counts” Besson didn’t mention The Fifth Element or La Femme Nikita as “things you may know this nonce from”
charles
2025-04-19 05:03:13 +0000 UTCIdea for an episode: Do Kelly's Heroes, and bring Joe Kassabian on to talk about tank stuff.
Kyle Clark
2025-04-19 03:38:00 +0000 UTCThat’s 3. I was right there with you…
Jacob King
2025-04-19 03:27:13 +0000 UTCthe jason statham tweeter you mention at about an hour in is on bluesky now at @jon-snow-420.bsky.social :)
Eve Bee
2025-04-19 03:01:07 +0000 UTCI watched in theaters whatever Transporter movie that is that has the Ukrainian woman with the face full of freckles and the eyeliner/shadow and the bob haircut and I was in love.
Andrew Dunn
2025-04-19 02:53:14 +0000 UTCAlso struggling to imagine Abi as a passenger princess 👸. Devon it makes total sense and I presume they're just an excelent road trip DJ. November obviously just rides everywhere in the trunk, no surprises there.
Evie K
2025-04-19 01:45:02 +0000 UTCSo looking forward to F&F reviewed by three people who can't drive 🤣🤣🤣 love it.
Evie K
2025-04-19 01:41:34 +0000 UTCWas really expecting Milo to guest on this one
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-04-19 01:37:00 +0000 UTCAbby's description of this movie. Really reminds me of a movie a friend made me watch a few years back. 2006's Lucky number Slevin. It's charming, problematic but way better than a Bruce Willis movie from that era should be.
Foxing around.
2025-04-19 01:27:03 +0000 UTC7 minutes in, already I want to point out that the guy who directed the timothy olyphant hitman movie is french and was besson's protégé. Here we have jokes about how besson movies always contain a hooker, chinese mobsters and a german car, a french movie critic on youtube even said that he got to go to the Lucy set and had like a solid second he managed to stare at the script and the first thing he could read out was "lucy turns back and sees that the Chinese are coming"
Ilian Petit
2025-04-19 00:42:31 +0000 UTCOH ALSO: abstruse nerd detail, Bob Odenkirk’s trainer for NOBODY was the star of the MST3K classic FUTURE WAR
John Leavitt
2025-04-18 23:26:16 +0000 UTCThe thing is I only ever saw random chunks of this movie and I assumed the titular transporter was played as a tightly wound gay guy
John Leavitt
2025-04-18 23:20:30 +0000 UTCOh Devon says that later, serves me right for commenting before they said it lmao
EliteErin
2025-04-18 21:53:06 +0000 UTC2 fun facts- number one is that Jason Statham did most of the driving and physical stunts and also his character was originally intended to be gay
EliteErin
2025-04-18 21:28:35 +0000 UTCThis remains the best Podcast known to humanity. The number of times I shouted "I love y'all" through howling laughter was easily over 20 occasions in this episode.
Knights Who Say Sledge
2025-04-18 21:24:03 +0000 UTCThis may or may not be my special interest lol
Alex
2025-04-18 21:11:33 +0000 UTCIn the US, Lighthouses that are no longer needed are “decommissioned” by the coast guard and are removed as active aids to navigation—taking them off charts and removing the automation.
Alex
2025-04-18 21:05:20 +0000 UTCWhen. THE FUCK. Are you gonna do SNATCH?
Patrick Lopez
2025-04-18 21:00:58 +0000 UTCstill manifesting First Reformed for the religion bonus sub-season
weronika mamuna
2025-04-18 20:54:30 +0000 UTCFrank thee transporter being trans makes everything make sense
MS
2025-04-18 20:42:39 +0000 UTCNova thinking the word "Goated" as a child actually proves she's an Innocence
LCB Meyneth
2025-04-18 20:35:05 +0000 UTCI think the perfect time for Noveber to talk about their Time Travel Epilepsy would be when and if they ever do The Butterfly Effect. That's basically the premise minus the Tramsgenderism and I believe a bit of homophbia (I think there's a bit where due to Time Travel Shenanigans Ashton Cutcher's turned himself gay, but I might be thinking of a diffrent movie that doesn't involve Time Travel. Not the Brendan Fraiser movie where he makes wishes with a demon and accidentally turned himself gay thanks to one of them (he had previously made himself a Colombian Drug Lord and a Impotent Basketball Star) in a effort to make a woman fall in love with him.)
Strike3
2025-04-18 20:33:39 +0000 UTCGreat EP! I don't think the S.C.U.M. administration has gone soft at all, it was very well measured given the text's tension with the performances in this case. While the pod is staying in Da Spiritual Zone for the paywalled eps, if you're interested in a sharp turn in mind of spirituality AND one of the most masculinely-influential movies of its time, might I recommend the pod look at 1989's Field of Dreams? It's a movie that is up on a pedestal but doesn't actually have a lot of coherent things to say, and yet still gets all the 25+ lads to tear up without fail every time, for reasons the lads can't seem to parse. Would relish the KJB perspective on this weird one.
Andrew Leite
2025-04-18 19:13:55 +0000 UTCI can’t wait to finally experience the F/F series through this lens.
2007 Christian Rock
2025-04-18 18:55:00 +0000 UTCRiding Bean minus the jawline and cool jacket
Rachel K
2025-04-18 18:44:57 +0000 UTCThe Master was the villain of the FIRST Fallout game, you philistine! /j 🤭
Lydia Scribe
2025-04-18 18:26:06 +0000 UTCI have to admit I'm dreading the 'Fast and the Furious' arc. I have no interest whatsoever in those films (even seeing them mocked) and the thought of endless weeks of my favourite podcast covering them is pretty depressing. :(
Ross Nolan
2025-04-18 18:20:15 +0000 UTCWhen Abby said “fuck you, actually” it really threw me. That’s a speech pattern characteristic to Tucker Carlson
Jermy
2025-04-18 18:14:21 +0000 UTCCool car. Professional transporter. Caught up in kidnapping. Uncomfortably and inappropriately sexualized. So... Riding Bean basically.
James Rule
2025-04-18 17:58:26 +0000 UTCI’m named Frank and listening at work and keep getting Activated by this.
ifthen
2025-04-18 17:10:14 +0000 UTCMark Strong's finest work.
Tariq Moustapha
2025-04-18 16:59:53 +0000 UTCVery excited for this one too, Will you be doing Leon the Proffesional as well in the future? Also I came across this film called Sleuth (1972) starring Micheal Caine and Laurance Olivier that's a murder mystery with very interesting class commentary that I thought the podcast would fine interesting with set designs by Ken Addams.
Chuck
2025-04-18 16:45:51 +0000 UTCSo stoked to listen to this one! A classic rewatchable b-movie. Complete with dated ethos.
Toby Martin
2025-04-18 16:31:17 +0000 UTC
