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Up to SpeedUp to Speed

Filmmaker Richard Linklater, best known for his movies “Bernie” “School of Rock,” "Waking Life," and Oscar-nominated “Before Sunset,” has created a new historical travel show for Hulu called “Up to Speed.” Each week "Up to Speed" follows tour guide, historian and flaneur Timothy “Speed” Levitch (“The Cruise”) as he visits the monumentally ignored monuments of America's cities, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.more

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Episode 1

San Francisco: A City Shaped by Earthquakes

Speed takes us on a tour of renowned objects in San Francisco – a city shaped by earthquakes that makes a point of attacking the status quo and appreciating the beauty in the unexpected.

Episode 2

Chicago: To Conjure a Lost Neighborhood

Speed spends a day steeped in the history of working class Chicago – a city of blue collar labor constantly fighting back against the status quo of their corporate overlords.

Episode 3

Kansas & Missouri: In the Middle of the Middle of the Midwest

Speed explores the idea of borders and boundaries in Lawrence, Kansas – a city straddling the line between opposing sides during the American Civil War.

Episode 4

Virginia: The Many Flavors of Thomas Jefferson

Speed sifts through the many flavors of Thomas Jefferson in Monticello and the University of Virginia – two historic landmarks representing the many sides of America’s most complicated founding father.

Episode 5

New York City: The Beauty of Randomness

Speed wanders through the chaos of New York City – a metropolitan hub teeming with simultaneous bouts of randomness and synchronicity.

Episode 6

The Tour Guide Convention

Speed goes on adventures with other tour guides across the nation.

Go Cart Tours

Restroom Breaks

Statue of William Seward

Subway Grate

The Lap Desk

The Revolving Service Door of Monticello

Founder's Rock

State Line

Chicago's Work Ethic

Hobo College Then and Now

All We Need Is a Quarter

The Great-Grandmother of San Francisco

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Up to Speed

Filmmaker Richard Linklater, best known for his movies “Bernie” “School of Rock,” "Waking Life," and Oscar-nominated “Before Sunset,” has created a new historical travel show for Hulu called “Up to Speed.” Each week "Up to Speed" follows tour guide, historian and flaneur Timothy “Speed” Levitch (“The Cruise”) as he visits the monumentally ignored monuments of America's cities, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.

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