{"id":23045,"date":"2026-07-03T12:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/the-fast-furious-franchise-gets-an-official-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T10:15:23","slug":"the-fast-furious-franchise-gets-an-official-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=23045","title":{"rendered":"The Fast &#038; Furious franchise gets an official podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nine movies, a TV show and even a video game, <em>The Fast &#038; Furious<\/em> franchise gets an official podcast which is a rising trend. This is the first official <em>Fast &#038; Furious<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast will have nine episodes the first of which was released today, April 30. A fresh episode will come out every Friday featuring interviews from the cast and crew who will be sharing insights about their journey in <em>Fast &#038; Furious<\/em> so far.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode featured Vin Diesel, who plays Dominic Toretto in the saga.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;The whole world has this excitement about this movie coming out, but for those who have been with the franchise, it&#8217;s even more special,&#8221; Vin Diesel told hosts Derek Lawrence and Chanelle Berlin Johnson in the debut episode of <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">EW&#8217;s BINGE: The Fast Saga.<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;Because if you can remember the first movie, you are now going to go before the first movie and understand the first movie even more. That&#8217;s cool. I&#8217;m a <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">D&#038;D<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> head, so that&#8217;s like origin stuff. So to see family members you never thought you would have seen, it&#8217;s gonna kind of blow your mind. We&#8217;ve been wanting to know, where was Dom before he became Dom? Who were his influences? That&#8217;s going to be really rich with story, and a lot of fun to see,&#8221; he shared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The podcast also works as hype content as the latest addition to the franchise, <em>F9<\/em> gets closer to its May 19 world premiere in South Korea and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Lin is directing the film. He previously directed the third, fourth, fifth and sixth instalment of the franchise. <em>F9<\/em> will release on June 25, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"FAST &amp; FURIOUS 9 | Entertainment Weekly BINGE Podcast Series (Universal Pictures)\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" data-trx-lazyload-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/coKRLUybffs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nine movies, a TV show and even a video game, The Fast &#038; Furious franchise gets an official podcast which is a rising trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-23045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-fast-furious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}