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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

Multiculturalism at Its Best

Action stops in DC, Atlanta, and Miami, eats in the hottest restaurant in the country, samples true southern BBQ, and learns how to make a new bay scallop and papaya dish.

Episode 2

New Friends in Strange Places

Driven by a need for freshest salmon, most grass-fed lamb, and legal weed, Action makes a pit-stop in the Pacific Northwest enroute to a concert in Vancouver.

Episode 3

Culinary Athleticism

Handball court pizza parties, Guyanese juice spots, the best falafel in NYC and a flute performance at a Pakistani restaurant make this the best episode of food television in NYC.

Episode 4

The Foundation

With hyper-local meat centric dining in the UK, deli sandwiches in East New York, and Thai food in Amsterdam, FTD proves it is in a league of it's own.

Episode 5

The Showdown in Lamb Alley

Action and crew decide to head to Morocco. Inspired by lamb and leather, they head out to the markets to find the most succulent tagines, artisinal giraffe dolls, and instruments.

Episode 6

Sidelined in the Yukon

A concert in Alaska, fly fishing, eating with an Eskimo, and buying as much Carhartt gear as possible. Also some emergency surgery.

Episode 7

Long Time Friends

After a lifetime of eating Jamaican food in Queens, it's time for the real thing. Action and Meyhem go to Jamaica for the jerk chicken and a music video for Meyhem's new single.

Episode 8

Can't Forget Paris

The season ends with two sold out shows in Paris, between which Action and company visit a cultural heritage site, fly in a wind tunnel, and eat the best veggie burger in the world.

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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