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What's the deal with Bond, James Bond? · Stuff You Should Know

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  Speaker 1: Are you welcome to stuff you should know from HowStuffWorks
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  Speaker 2: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. Hi
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  Speaker 2: with me is Charles W Chuck Bryant.
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  Speaker 3: Bryant. Charles Bryant, How.
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  Speaker 2: Is it going? Chuck? It's an odd way to introduce yourself, didn't.
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  Speaker 3: You think not if you're a super spy?
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  Speaker 2: Are you a superspy? Actually?
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say James Bond was even a spy secret service?
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  Speaker 2: Is that a spy? Really? No, he was an assassin
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, just general plot disruptor.
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  Speaker 3: I would say he was a blunt instrument of the crown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you wanted the job done and you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: if you didn't have time to worry about you know,
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  Speaker 2: the politics or you know the diplomacy, that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: You just sent James Bond.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, get JB on the phone double seven. Yeah, he'll
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  Speaker 3: he'll take care of business. Like Elvis.
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  Speaker 2: You could call him on his car phone long before
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  Speaker 2: any car had a phone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah all right, Oh yeah, he was always pre dating technology. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there's a James Bond theory
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  Speaker 2: of entrepreneurial innovation.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that.
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  Speaker 2: And from Russia with Love nineteen sixty three. He talked
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember who he talked to, but he was
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  Speaker 2: in his car using the phone. Yeah, that was in
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  Speaker 2: his car, and audiences went nuts for it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they were like, oh my god, he's on
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  Speaker 3: the telephone right in a car.
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  Speaker 2: But that's what they sounded like in England though.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well sure that the actually Ghana right, So Josh,
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  Speaker 3: where do we start here? We can't, we can't not
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  Speaker 3: start with Ian Fleming.
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  Speaker 2: Ian Fleming, So where we gotta start? Let's do it? No,
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  Speaker 2: that was there was a colon after that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and I mean Colin was as everyone knows, and
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  Speaker 3: if you didn't, you need to get out from under
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  Speaker 3: your rock that you reside in right now. The creator
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  Speaker 3: of James Bond in novel form.
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  Speaker 2: He was also originally a journalist and a stockbroker. And
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  Speaker 2: World War Two starts to come around and he joins
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  Speaker 2: the Naval Naval Volunteer Royal Navy, Royal Navy, and he
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  Speaker 2: was actually Chuck did you know, assigned as a spy
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  Speaker 2: himself in Washington, DC.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sort of a spy, you could call it. He
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  Speaker 3: was in intelligence and he would occasionally he was an
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  Speaker 3: administrative guy, but sometimes they would send him out to
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  Speaker 3: do field work where he would take secret pictures of documents,
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  Speaker 3: just like in the movies.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know who was assigned to his spy unit.
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  Speaker 3: James Bond?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? No, there was a guy who was the inspiration
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  Speaker 2: for James Bond. His name was William Stevenson, aka Intrepid.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, one of many inspirations.
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  Speaker 2: Right. But in an interview in The Times in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: sixty two, Fleming said, you know, James Bond is this
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  Speaker 2: romanticized version of a spy. Bill Stevenson is the real thing.
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  Speaker 3: Right, well, in romantic version of himself.
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  Speaker 2: To an extenture, another member of that spy ring was
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  Speaker 2: a guy named Roald Dahl who wrote James and the
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  Speaker 2: Giant Peach and Charlie in the Chocolate Factory.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and a bunch of body books.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: He also had the non children's books that were a
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  Speaker 3: little racier. Yes, not many people know that.
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  Speaker 2: So, Chuck, let's talk a little bit more about Ian Fleming.
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  Speaker 3: Give it to us, buddy, Yeah, I mean, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: he was, he sort of James based James Bond on
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  Speaker 3: kind of I think who he wanted to be. He
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  Speaker 3: was a playboy. He was an island hopper, an adventurer,
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  Speaker 3: an adventurer, a skier. He dove with Jock Custeau and
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  Speaker 3: you know Snowski from the tops of mountains in Switzerland,
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  Speaker 3: and had a place in Jamaica where he actually wrote
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  Speaker 3: all these books.
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  Speaker 2: Right, he named the place GoldenEye. And every year he
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  Speaker 2: would go to Jamaica and write a book. And I
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  Speaker 2: just want to dig him up and throttle him for that,
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  Speaker 2: because I mean, what a life. Yeah, you know, yeah, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's time for me to go to my estate in
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  Speaker 2: Jamaica and write a book that's going to just make
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  Speaker 2: me millions more.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which he did. And he reportedly picked the name
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  Speaker 3: James Bond because he wanted the most boring name he
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  Speaker 3: could find for his super secret agent. I think he
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  Speaker 3: didn't want the name to compete with the actual character,
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  Speaker 3: Like why bother giving him some fancy name, just shame
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  Speaker 3: him James Bond and having kick.
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  Speaker 2: Butt, right, you know what the opposite of that is
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  Speaker 2: hex saw Jim Duggan.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he should have named him that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, then it would have competed with.
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  Speaker 3: The character Duggan. Hack saw Jim Duggan. I could hear that. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he wrote See the article says thirteen novels.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he wrote thirteen books.
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  Speaker 3: I got fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: What's the fourteenth?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've got twelve novels plus two short story collections
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  Speaker 3: right for your Eyes only, and Octopusy in the Living
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  Speaker 3: Daylights was another collection. Right, So it seems like it'd
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  Speaker 3: be easier to find this out. But I literally saw
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  Speaker 3: two different sets of information.
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  Speaker 2: Huh. So are we gonna go with fourteen? Because you
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  Speaker 2: are quite the sniffer, Let's.
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  Speaker 3: Go with fourteenth total?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, twelve novels, all right, But he wrote I think
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  Speaker 2: he wrote the novels first, maybe or did he write
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  Speaker 2: the short story books like in between?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were in between. They were toward the end.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, But so he was getting fat and lazy in Jamaica.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, interestingly though, or maybe it's not that interesting. They
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  Speaker 3: made the movies way out of order.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Now was the first, but that was the sixth novel.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But did you know that they originally the people
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  Speaker 2: who made the official Bond movies originally wanted to make
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  Speaker 2: Thunderball Thunderball was a story that Ian Fleming came up
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  Speaker 2: with with another guy who who wanted the rights to
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  Speaker 2: make a movie out of it. Oh really, that fell through,
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  Speaker 2: but Ian Fleming went ahead and wrote the story anyway
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  Speaker 2: that they came up with as Thunderball. The guy sued
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  Speaker 2: his pants off and actually gained custody gained the rights
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  Speaker 2: to the book Thunderball, which tied it up and made
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  Speaker 2: them op for Doctor Not to go first instead.
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  Speaker 3: There was a lot of litigation over the years in
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  Speaker 3: the Bond franchise.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there was.
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  Speaker 3: I guess when you have a franchise that long and
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  Speaker 3: that vast, there's going to be people suing people over something.
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  Speaker 2: Well, plus it's a legendary he's a legendary character, and
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  Speaker 2: you know he's made a lot of money for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. The other interesting thing I thought just before we
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  Speaker 3: move on, was that Moonraker was written in nineteen fifty five.
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  Speaker 3: That was a third novel that is insightful And of
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  Speaker 3: course there wasn't a space shuttle like they changed the
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  Speaker 3: setting and all that stuff, but it did involve like
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  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon, so you know, kind of odd. And
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  Speaker 3: the Man of the Golden Gun, which was the Roger
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  Speaker 3: Moore's second film was the final novel and it was
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  Speaker 3: released after his death. Huh, so it was way out
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  Speaker 3: of order.
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  Speaker 2: And in that one he predicted Harve Vashe, which nobody
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  Speaker 2: saw coming except Ian Fleming. Yeah you know right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's weird. Let's talk about James Bond.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit, the character James Bond.
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  Speaker 2: So it turns out James Bond had a Scottish father,
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  Speaker 2: which it didn't originally.
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  Speaker 3: Now that came about because of Sean Connedy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Ian Fleming was not a big fan of Sean
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  Speaker 2: Connery first, and then Sean Connery is like, check this out,
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  Speaker 2: and he made one peck go up while the other
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  Speaker 2: went down a bunch of times, and Ian Fleming just
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  Speaker 2: like clapped and squealed and that was that. Right. He
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  Speaker 2: was a big fan, and he said, you know what
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  Speaker 2: you are, James Bond. And he actually went back and
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  Speaker 2: changed James Bond's history, yeah, to kind of Matt Sean
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  Speaker 2: Connery a little bit because he came to see like,
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  Speaker 2: this guy is Bond, right, Yeah, So he gave James
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  Speaker 2: Bond a Scottish father, Andrew, and a Swiss mother Monique Delacroix,
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  Speaker 2: and nice. Yeah, and they both died mountain climbing. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, when little James was eleven years old, he went
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  Speaker 3: to the orphanage, and he went to an orphanage. He
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  Speaker 3: was supposedly born on November eleventh, nineteen twenty, but there
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  Speaker 3: are different accounts of his birthday and when he was born.
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  Speaker 3: And clearly when you have a franchise with Daniel Craig
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  Speaker 3: playing him in two thousand and eight, he can't be
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  Speaker 3: born in nineteen twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because body the exhibition wasn't showing in Miami in
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  Speaker 2: like nineteen fifty eight or anything.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, there's a sliding scale there obviously to make
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  Speaker 3: it viable. But James, much like his author namesake Ian Fleming,
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  Speaker 3: not namesake, and James Bond, much like the author Ian Fleming, was,
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  Speaker 3: went to the Royal Navy in World War Two, rose
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  Speaker 3: to the rank of commander.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: After the war, that's when he entered the sis known
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  Speaker 3: as m I six.
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  Speaker 2: Right, which is the sixth branch of the Military Intelligence Directorate.
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  Speaker 2: You got that, buddy, right, and his first two assignments chuck, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're two taps.
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  Speaker 3: They assassinations right off the bat, so.
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  Speaker 2: He that's apparently you have to kill two people to
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  Speaker 2: get a double OW status, which is the license to kill.
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  Speaker 2: And he got them, like you say, right off the bat.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was the seventh dude to get him.
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  Speaker 3: So that's where double O seven comes from, right, the
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  Speaker 3: seventh agent. I shouldn't say dude, because they were were
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  Speaker 3: their female agents. Yeah, there were female agents. Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 3: pretty sure.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. And we should probably take the time here to
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  Speaker 2: explain I like James Bond. I know that you like
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  Speaker 2: James Bond movies too.
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  Speaker 3: Is this the disclaimer we're gonna get killed here?
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  Speaker 2: We are not members of James Bond fandom. I would say,
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  Speaker 2: all right, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen all the movies, but no, I haven't studied
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  Speaker 3: the books.
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  Speaker 2: I've never read any of the books. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I've seen all the movies, but I do like them
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  Speaker 2: in a very recreational manner. So that being said, we
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  Speaker 2: are not going to get every single thing right here.
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  Speaker 2: If we are going to walk right past information sure
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  Speaker 2: that we just don't know exists, so in a very
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  Speaker 2: friendly manner. If there is anything that you have to
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  Speaker 2: say that can round this podcast out even further, the
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  Speaker 2: more we love knowing new things that's so please let
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  Speaker 2: us know, I guess is what we're saying.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Oh, they'll let us know. They will, except for
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  Speaker 3: the three dudes that just turned it off into well,
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  Speaker 3: they have no business even attempting this there.
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  Speaker 2: And then they go give us a one star rating
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  Speaker 2: on iTunes.
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  Speaker 3: So back to Bond. He as we all know as
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  Speaker 3: a sharp dresser, and he loves fast cars, he loves
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  Speaker 3: his more martini shaking that stirred. He loves women.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And do you know if you shake a Martine
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  Speaker 2: instead of stirring it, you pretty much ruin it.
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  Speaker 3: I disagree. I shake all my martinis. Dude, how does
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  Speaker 3: it ruin it?
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  Speaker 2: It feathers it?
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  Speaker 3: I think, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: It means it's screwed up. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: I like a good dirty Martini myself.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you like him dirty?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, gross, I said word.
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  Speaker 2: I like my Martini's so light. It's basically the savodk rock.
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  Speaker 3: So you just like the remooth bottle, Just wave near
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  Speaker 3: the glass pretty much. I like just a little vermooth,
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  Speaker 3: little olive juice, but no olive.
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  Speaker 2: No olive juice. I'll put in all. I'll put three
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  Speaker 2: olives in usually. Really all right, but then I eat
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  Speaker 2: them so fast that they have no time to taint
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  Speaker 2: the Martini.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's why you're not a super spy. So Josh
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  Speaker 3: James Bond a couple of the other traits we should
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  Speaker 3: just mention. He is a martial artist. He's a gifted
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  Speaker 3: man with his fist and feet. Or if you're Roger Moore,
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  Speaker 3: a Roddy chop yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that was a
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  Speaker 3: big deal in the seventies. And he carried a famously
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  Speaker 3: carried a Walter PPK handgun thirty two caliber. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: that's the little guy. Have you ever seen him? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they're small.
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  Speaker 2: And I've played Golden nine, played best game. Yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: played Golden nine. It is a great game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know they're bringing that back for we
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  Speaker 3: I've heard Matt Frederick of coolelt Stuff on the Planet
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  Speaker 3: told us that they are bringing that back because it's
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  Speaker 3: still sort of the standard for first person shooters like
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  Speaker 3: fifteen years on. Yeah, it's still a great game. So
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  Speaker 3: they're bringing it back as is, like completely as it was,
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  Speaker 3: but with better graphics.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be fantastic for the Wii.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty exciting. Back to the real life of the
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  Speaker 3: fake Life of James Bond.
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  Speaker 2: That's how we should have titled this podcast.
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  Speaker 3: The Real Life of the Fake Life. Yeah, how about uh,
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  Speaker 3: let's talk about some of the enemies.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor No. He was the first one to appear in the.
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  Speaker 3: Films, Doctor Julius, now.
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  Speaker 2: Right, he's an atomic scientist.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was, clearly. Joseph Wiseman played him, and he
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  Speaker 3: was a great, great villain Goldfinger. You can't talk about
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  Speaker 3: Bond without talking about Goldfinger. Yeah he was. You don't
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  Speaker 3: like him, no, no, really, that was a big Goldfinger guy.
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  Speaker 3: He tried to laser the crotch of James Bond.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, pretty hardcore. It's like Max Scorpio
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  Speaker 2: in that Simpsons where oh yeah, up, going to work
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  Speaker 2: for the super villain, right, yeah, he's like, no, mister Bond,
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  Speaker 2: I expect you to die and be a very cheap funeral.
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  Speaker 3: Odd Job was one of my favorite, and he was
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  Speaker 3: one of Goldman's henchmen in the big Asian guy with
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  Speaker 3: the bowler hat that he could cut like the head
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  Speaker 3: off a statue his hat. Huge, Yeah, very big dude. Jaws.
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  Speaker 3: We grew up with Roger Moore, so you can't not
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  Speaker 3: talk about Jaws.
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  Speaker 2: No, he was great too. He was in two of them, right,
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  Speaker 2: he was in Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he might have been more than that, but
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  Speaker 3: he definitely.
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  Speaker 2: I looked it up.
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  Speaker 3: He was only in two two Really, I made quite
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  Speaker 3: an impression.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did.
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  Speaker 3: He found the girlfriend in moon Breaker, I think, right, falls.
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  Speaker 2: In love or something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the little like nerdy girl.
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  Speaker 2: And then he pops up again in Happy Gilmore. Was
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  Speaker 2: he in that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I didn't see that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was Happy Gilmour's boss, like on the construction
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  Speaker 2: site and ends up becoming a fan.
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  Speaker 3: And wow, did he have the teeth?
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  Speaker 2: No, he didn't have the piece for the movie, but
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  Speaker 2: he was a big guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Lately we've had more recent villains that I don't think
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  Speaker 3: the new villains compare personally.
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  Speaker 2: No, they kind of come and go. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: like in Casino Royale.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're okay, but they're all the villain
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  Speaker 3: was Yeah that that Like, they're all decent, but they're
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  Speaker 3: not like iconic characters like they used to be. Right like, Yeah, Well,
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  Speaker 3: Blofeld was the sort of legendary I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: many movies he was in, but He was played by
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  Speaker 3: like tell Donald Pleasance. Yeah, Donald Pleasants was my favorite version.
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  Speaker 2: He was good.
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  Speaker 3: And Max van Seado played him, I think, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: never say never again.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Max, he's a class act.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was, what did I watch the other day? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: Shutter Island. He's in that. And I told lean over
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  Speaker 3: to Emily. I was like, you know, I want to
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  Speaker 3: see Max van Seadel play like a kindly grandfather in
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  Speaker 3: a movie. I don't think anytime that dude pops up
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  Speaker 3: in the movie, you're like, oh, well, he's the evil doer.
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  Speaker 2: He's the villain, or so you think until Shutter Island
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  Speaker 2: falls apart at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Don't ruin it. So yes, that was Blofeld. He was
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  Speaker 3: the bald guy and he was the head of Specter,
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  Speaker 3: which was the Special executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great villainoist title there.
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  Speaker 2: That's not only like a great name, that's your mission statement. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all wrapped up in the one one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorites, Max Zorin, played by the great Christopher Walkin.
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  Speaker 2: He was he was the I know you love that movie,
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  Speaker 2: one of the best bomb movies ever.
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  Speaker 3: But that had the worst bond woman ever, Grace Jones. No,
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  Speaker 3: Tanya Roberts, I don't remember her. She was the bond girl.
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 3: She was the lady from the seventies show that was
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  Speaker 3: like one of the late Charlie's Angels replacements. Tanya Roberts.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, who cares. It was the eighties, nobody was
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  Speaker 2: paying that much attention.
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  Speaker 3: But it was a good song.
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  Speaker 2: It was and Christopher Walkin was in it. Grace Jones
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  Speaker 2: was in it.
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  Speaker 3: She was pretty scary in that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was excellent. Talk about a martial artist. But
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Max zorin Is did you know he was the product
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: of genetic experiments by Nazis. Walking was well not walking?
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't remember that.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And one of the unintended side effects was he
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: was a complete psychopath.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna say one of the side
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: effects was his use of punctuation. You were, good man.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Everybody does walking.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I can't do it walking.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Let's hear it.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: My No, it's really just an altered John Travolta, Why
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: you so weird, dude? That's great, of course, Chuck, there's
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: double six Alec Trevlyn.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what was he? And that was one of the
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Pierce Broson ones, wasn't it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think yeah, it's I don't remember those. I
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: love Pierce Brosnon, like, oh he was good. The fact that,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: like he wasn't James Bond earlier. He's like, oh yeah,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: you're gonna cast Timothy Dalton, are you well, I'll go
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: beat Remington Steel jerks.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And then they tried to get him again, right,
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I think so, And he was committed to Remington Steele,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: which was sort of like James Bond for TV.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Oh so did he do Remington Steel first?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, he did Remington Steele. Well, it goes back
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: and forth. There was like Timothy Dalton was offered the
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: role before Roger Moore. Did you know that? No, I didn't.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: When he was twenty one years old. Really he was
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: gonna replace Sean Connery. Well, and Dalton said I'm too
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: young to play James Bond. And then he comes around
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: years later just like just like uh, Brosnon did.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, But I am glad that Pierce Broson went in.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I just happened to think that those his period of
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: movies were unfortunate.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: I thought they were pretty good.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I didn't like them now I'm really happy with Daniel
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: craigs stuff so far.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Well, you know my statement on that is that was
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: the only direction they could take that franchise after the
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Jason Bourne movies. You couldn't have a guy like winking
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: at the camera like Roger Moore and like slapstick sounds
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: and sound effects. You had to take him into like
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: a real bad, bad direction.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, you mean, like sim Ohaya bad. Yeah, So Double
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: six Alec Trevlyn, he is. I think he informs the
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: character Alex Krychek from X Files.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: You think so?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Sure, very nice, Josh.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: All right, So those are some of the villains, clearly,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: not all, but we should also talk about some of
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: the people that James Bond had working on his side
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: at m I six.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: All right, we will call from here on out the
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: superfluous characters.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: No, dude, they're great. M Q M was the head
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: of m I six and there were several ms. It
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: was just a title and m was the one that's
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: always frustrated with Bond. Yet he knows that he's the
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: blunt instrument of choice. You know, pretty much in every movie,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: r Q.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: You should say he or she for m true Dame
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Judy Dench took over.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, she's doing a great job too. Q is
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: the head of the Q branch.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Judy Dench, did you hear that? Chuck just said you
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: were doing a great job, So keep it up.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Keep it up. Danger. Dame Dame, Dame Dame, Yeah, she's
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: a dame. Q is the head of the Q branch.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: M I six is research and development branch, and Q,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: as you might know, is the guy who in all
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: the films gives James his gadgets. There's always that great
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: scene where James goes into the laboratory and starts messing
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: around with the gadgets and exasperates Q because he's burning
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: something or he's firing a missile inside and he shouldn't be.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: That's Q, right, And he's now been replaced by his
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: former assistant R.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Right now is R John Clees. Yeah, yeah, he's doing
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: a good job. But he's the new Q. He just
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: used to be R well because Q died right Llewellen, Yes, Chuck,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: that was the actor that played the original Q.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Or the Roger more Key that I loved?
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Who else we got?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Felix Leer who I like Jack Lord Jeffrey Wright both
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: played him agent. And there's another guy named Hayward Wade.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Was he Cia?
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: I thought they said they didn't know if he was
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Dea or Cia.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: He was around before the Dea was was he Yeah?
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And then you've got I think Jack Wade is his name.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: And he was actually played by a couple of people,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: including Joe Don Baker. Oh yeah, Pere's Brosnan Ones.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he had a couple of American counterparts. It's
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: a good point and.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Little known fact. Jo Don Baker was in Oh, I
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: can't remember the name of the movie, but it was
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: one of the greatest Mister Science Theater three thousands.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: Really yeah, bad movie. And then of course we have
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: to mention Moneypenny. He was M's personal assistant and Moneypenny.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: You always knew Moneypenny because James would come in and
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: flirt very much with her, and I always got the
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: sense that if James were to ever settle down with anyone,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: which he clearly won't, it would have been Moneypenny sure,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: or at least he made her think that. Right. Every
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: day was Secretary's day when James Bond was around. He
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: was always just so nice to her, bringing her things
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: from his travels, shot glasses and stuff.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Right, spoons, She had an extensive spoon collection, refrigerator, magnets, Chuck, Josh,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: let's talk about the movie show. Yeah, sure, well let's
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: talk about James Bond on screen because it wasn't necessarily
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: just relegated to the movies.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, good point.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: So James Bond first appears on screen on the small
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: screen on a CBS TV series called Climax with an
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: exclamation point really yeah wow, And he was first played
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: by a guy named Barry Nelson. Barry Nelson you may
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: recognize as mister Olman, the manager of the Overlook in
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Kubrick's The Shining who tells Jack Torres the ropes. That's
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: the first guy to ever play James Bond.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Wow? Was he English?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: No?
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: American?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, CBS TV series.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: So we've had a Scotsman's quite a few Englishmen, an
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: American and an Australian.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: And what what do you mean Australian?
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: I mean someone from Australia. That was George Lazamy was Australian?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Was it? You know what happened to him?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Well, he wasn't much of an actor.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't just that he after the success of
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: his Bond movie. I mean he played James Bond and
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: it was you know, filmed and produced.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: And released on Her Majesty's Secret Service.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Right, he was like, Holy Colm, James Bond, and I'm
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: going to buy a boat and sail around the world
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: for a while. And he came back and his star
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: had already faded because he did one thing and that
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: was that. Oh really, yeah, he kind of blew it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: He wasn't much of an actor either.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: It wasn't but it wasn't just that. It was Yeah,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: it was a combination of those two things.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: He was a bad dude though, Like he he got
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: the role apparently because he impressed Ian Fleming because he
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: had a faux fight scene with a wrestler for his
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: audition and he actually punched the guy, like got mad
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: and punched him, and Fleming's like, this is hard, dude. Wow.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because Fleming wrote the Bond character is much darker.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the novel character for sure, Like.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Roger Moore took it in a very awful direction, pacific direction.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: You know that was not the least bit like how
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Ian Fleming had written them.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: You're the ultimate Roger Moore apologist. I love he's good
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: in The Saint and that's why I got the role,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I think. Okay, the TV show The.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Saint, all right, So Chuck, let's get back to the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: beginning again. So we talked about Barry Nelson and on
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the big screen, the first Bond ever was Sean Connery.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, well they did. They did a pilot though
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: on TV as well.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: That's the Barry Nelson one.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, it was called Casino Royale though.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: No, right, it was based on Casino Royal or Gotcha Climax, okay,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: which I think. You know how they used to do,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: like they would have the name of the series, but
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: then there'd be like different like like Wonderful World of Disney. Yeah,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: it was like the name of the series, but then
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: there were different like documentaries or gotcha tunes or whatever.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, I think it was like that, and that flopped.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: And I didn't know what they were doing with TV
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: back in the day.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: They had no idea. So yeah, you're right, Doctor I
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: was the first film in nineteen sixty two and there's
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: been twenty two in total. No, yes, and we're waiting,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: and that's official Bond films. Because they parodied him and
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: other things. What he Allen played him for Heaven's sake.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and in the parody he did of Casino Royale.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: There's also a an unofficial Bond film with an official Bond, right,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: let's hear it, Never Say Never Again.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was Connrie's that was also fraught with the lawsuits.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: You know, that was based on the Thunderball lawsuit.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they remade Thunderball, right, and they named.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: It Never Say Never Again because Conrie had said after
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one that he'd never play Bond again because
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: he played Bond what for the first like six movies
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: something like that, one, two.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Three, four, five, and then George Lazenby then he came
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: back and did Diamonds or Forever.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: And then after that came Roger Moore. Yes, and then
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Roger Moore had a pretty good run. So Sean Connery
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: stops playing Bond. George Lazenby comes along, does it once leaves,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Sean Connery has to come back another time. After Sean Connery,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: they get Roger Moore. In the midst of Roger Moore's run,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Sean Connery makes another Bond film, That's The Kid. Twelve
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: years after the last one he'd made.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, and yeah, Ken Beasinger was the bonche and
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: that one she was.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: And they called it never Say Never Again because he'd
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: said that he would never play Bond again.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Never Trebek, That's what he said, right, Timothy Dalton, I
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: guess we might as well venture into his years.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw those when they first came out, like
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: in the theaters, and I didn't think anything of them.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they were over my head or whatever,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: but I didn't like them.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: They were pretty good living daylights and licensed to kill.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: They were both.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Are they good? Really?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean they were. It was definitely a more
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: novelistic Bond, like he was darker and a little more
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: bad dude, and that, I mean it might have had
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: something to do with it was coming off the heels
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: of Roger Moore in his vaudeville act that he brought
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: to Bond and Dalton had a two picture run and
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: then was replaced by who everyone thought should have been
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Bond before Dalton, Pierce Brosnan for one, two, three, four films, right,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: and then they went the inevitable direction with a blonde
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Bond with Daniel Craig. Is that inevitable, you think, well,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I meant the inevitable way of making him a tough dude.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: But yeah, his blindness was not inevitable. You know.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: You make fun of Roger Moore, but he had a
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: seven picture stint as James Bond.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and that was our childhood, trust me, dude.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: At the time, I loved it. But then when I
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: got older, I revisited all of the Sean Conneries, and
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: then I saw the butt kickingness of Timothy Dalton and
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: now Daniel Craig, And now I'm kind of like Roger
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: World was kind of a joke to me. No, you
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: still stand by it, I do, all right.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I like Roger Moore.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Sam Neil was considered at one point.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I could see him as James Bond.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: He would have been mad.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: He was great and dead calm.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a good movie.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know that this even qualifies as
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: a podcast.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: People can be like you guys are just kind of
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: chit chatting, schuck.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: There's also theories, tons of them. Best one, actually, the
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: only one I could find really is the code name Theories.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Have you heard this? I have not cracked. I got
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of publicity for it by. It's a fan
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: theory that basically says, James Bond is a it's a
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: name that goes along with double O seven, and there's
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: each actor was playing an actual different person who had
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: assumed this undercover name James Bond. Really, which explains the
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: changes in personality. Yeah, it explains why Sean Connery was
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: so suave and Roger Moore was so goofy. Sure, it
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: explains why Daniel Craig and Timothy Dalton were so violent.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: It explains a lot of stuff. Actually explains George Lazenby's
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: departure because his wife, the only time James Bond has
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: ever been married, died in that one honor her Majesty's
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Secret Service.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he had a wife most people don't know, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: she was.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Killed by Blofeld. Right, so he leaves after that. That
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: explains that, right, absolutely. There's actually holes in that theory.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Do you know them?
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I know a couple like, for example, George Lazenbee recognized
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: gadgets that were debuted during Sean Connery's tenure. He was
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: a new person. He would it would be new to him.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: He'd be like, what's his start gun?
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Right, exactly right. And I think The Spy who Loved
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Me Roger Moore is recognized from his college days at
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Cambridge as James Bond, which would mean that he was
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: using the name before then. But it's still a pretty
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: cool theory. If you want any cool theory shot down,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I recommend you go to Commander Bond dot net, am
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I six dot co dot uk or James Bondwiki dot
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: com as are some good sites.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna retrack my Roger Moore bashing a little bit.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I actually liked like four out of seven of his films.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, see, so you're right.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I forget sometimes I forget about the awesomeness of Live
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: and Let Die and Man with a Golden Gun for
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Your Eyes Only. Those were all pretty good. It was
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: like octopusy Moonraker was really silly, does not age well
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: at all. And if you do a kill, I just
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: can't get behind him.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: You do a kill is awesome. What about The Spy
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: who Loved Me? That's the one with the Greater Water lotus?
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, great, great movie.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: And I have one last fact. Are you ready?
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: The legendary Bond producer co producer Albert cubby broccoli. Yeah,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: his family invented broccoli. They crossed cauliflower with rabe and
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: invented broccoli. And he actually left the family farm to
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: go to Hollywood to pursue his fortune when he was.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Like eighteen, are you making this? I am not. He
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: invented broccoli.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: His family did his like parents, grandparents.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: That's a pretty good fact.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Broccoley.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Very cool. Good for him. They're in trouble now though,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: because MGM is in trouble.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're saying like it's just a blip on
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: the radar. If you listen to any anybuddy who's attached
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: to the Bond twenty three.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, it'll happen at some point.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: But they're like this, it's fine.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's being delayed big time though, because MGM's and
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: over their heads financially.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: If you know anything about MGM, if you're an insider
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: at MGM, we want to hear from you. Let us
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: know what's going on with Bond.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: That's funny, we should. We got to talk about Bond girls.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: That's one of the hallmarks of Bond films, and usually
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: there's two Bond girls at least there's like a hot
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: villain and like a hot an aid that helps him
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: out in some way. Sometimes she turns out to be
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: a villain. But there's usually two Bond girls and he's
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: equally attracted to both.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Like Grace Jones.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's attracted to her for some reason. They are
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: fem fatales. Like I said, Bond cannot help but fall
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: for them, even though they it might mean he has
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: to eventually kill them after he makes sweet love to them. Right,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna go ahead and ask you what your
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: favorite Bond girl is.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I just recently realized that Carrie Lowell was a Bond
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: girl and I used to have the biggest crush on
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: her when I would watch Wild Record No Law and
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Order reruns on A. Yeah, they used to show like
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Law and Order for like eight hour blocks on A
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: and E, and I'd be like, I'm not going to
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: class today, I'm just gonna watch Law and Order. And
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: she was on a lot of them. Yeah, she she
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: would be my favorite Bond girl.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I'm going with Ursula Andres. Yeah, she was hot dude
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: back in the day. She played honey Rider. And that's
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: another hallmark of the Bond women is they usually had
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: really awful names that hinted it sexual innu window, Yeah,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: you know, plenty o Tool, Honey Rider, pussy Galore, actually Solitaire,
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Jane Seymour. She was pretty good in Living Let Die
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  Speaker 3: like that. She was actually a really good actor, Okay.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: Moonraker of course had a Holly gooodhead and a view
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: to a kill. I had Tanya Rhart's as Stacy Sutton.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: They didn't even give her a cool name.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: So, Chuck, what's the best Bond theme song? Well, let
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: me take a wild guess.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Live and Let Die is probably my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Because I would have put the thousand dollars on that.
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  Speaker 3: Or what's her name? Carly Simon spy who loved me?
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  Speaker 3: Nobody does it better? Love that song?
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  Speaker 2: Best fond theme song if it's not You Kill, Okay,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: if it's not that, it is Nancy Sinatra singing You
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  Speaker 2: Only Live Twice?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was awesome. Yes it was Shirley Bassie. Just
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: another little factoid.
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  Speaker 2: She did.
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  Speaker 3: No, she did more than that. She did a gold Finger,
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: she did Diamonds or Forever, she did Moon Raker, Moon
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Raker's that's three total. I was also a big fan
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: of she and a Easton's For Your eyes Only, Yes,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: she did and read a Coolidge all time high from Octopussy.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Didn't Tom Jones do Thunderball or something?
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: He did?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: He did Thunderball. And since we're talking about the songs
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: that have really gotten lame in recent years, like the
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Chris Cornellen and Garbage, you probably didn't even remember they
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: did songs.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Garbage did the one for World is Not Enough?
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, Pierce Brosnan, Yeah, and Sheryl Crowe did one,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: did she really?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: And Madonna did one and and now it's gotten to
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: the point where they're just like, like the last one,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: they put Jack White with Alicia Keys.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Up next is Miley Cyrus. Oh God, say it ain't
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: so Bond twenty three?
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Uh, what else do we have here?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: This is the podcast that won't die. No, I do
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: have this Like James Bond, it just goes on.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: I do have a couple more facts. Okay, Well, first
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: of all, before you move on, if we're going to
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: talk about the songs, we need to talk about the
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: opening sequences, the title sequences. When you're a young Baptist
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: boy and there are naked, silhouetted women jumping on trampolines, Yeah,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: it's very titillating and arousing and arousing for a young
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: boy named Chuck.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I'm titillated and aroused.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: And then the opening sequence of the films typically is
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: some awesome action scene, and then the title sequence comes up.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: There'll be like a seven minute action scene.
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  Speaker 2: Right. They call it a cold opening, Buddy.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: A cold opening.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: That's very nice. And I just got a couple of
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: more facts for you, Josh, and then I'll let you
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: put this to bed all right with what would you
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: say is the highest grossing Bond film of all time
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: adjusted gross adjusted gross?
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: I would say Casino Royale No.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Top two all time Thunderball and gold Finger. You're a
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: liar adjusted gross, you know.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Casino Royale worldwide netted like almost six hundred million dollars
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: so far.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: A bunch of money. Thunderball and Goldfinger did more, did
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: they really?
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Thunderball and nineteen sixty five dude, gross to one hundred
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: and forty one million dollars?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: What and is that worldwide or US?
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: That's worldwide? And that is close to what Licensed to
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Kill gross in nineteen eighty nine, that grows like one
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty something. And Thunderball you know, thirty years
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: more grossed one hundred and forty.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: One million, right, But what I'm saying is Casino Royale
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: gross six hundred million.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, yeah, that's not an adjusted gross though you.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Can't compare, you're figuring inflation.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what it's called an adjusted gross. And that's
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: about it. I mean, we could say the cars he
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: used real quickly, the Aston Martin obviously, my favorite is
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: the Lotus, The Lotus, the Alpha Romeo, and then that
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: new Audi. That's pretty cool.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Do you like the Audi?
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks awesome, Okay, but I do miss the
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Lotus and the fact that it could also be a submarine. Right.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: And lastly, Chuck, I would like to say to all
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: the kids of our generation, if you ever noticed the
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: similarity between Inspector Gadget and James Bond, you were dead on.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah you think so?
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah? All right, So that's about it. If you want
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: to know more about James Bond, Like I said, there
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: are three, at least three really good websites for all
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: things Bond fans, you can check out our website by
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: taping James Bond brings up a bunch of stuff in
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: the handy search bar and now, if you can believe it,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: it is time for listener mail.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, Josh, I'm gonna call this samurai stuff from Thomas Guys.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I'm a total samurai geek. I practiced Japanese sword based
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: martial arts kindo and ayido. I've read all this material
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: about samurai and your podcast was a very good introduction,
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: and I thank you for it. However, I am kind
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: of surprised you did not mention the greatest Samurai of
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: all time, Miyamoto Musashi. This guy was the epitome of
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: everything samurai were supposed to be. A dedicated soyvant, a poet,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: a painter, a calligrapher, philosopher, a general, and an all
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: round butt kicking killer. Not only did he write the
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: Book of Five Rings, he also killed sixty men in
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: single combat before age forty, not to mention all the
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: guys he killed in warfare. At one point in your
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: podcast you talked about the wooden katana called kung in Japanese. Yes,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: it was a practice sword, Josh, but it was also
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: a weapon in its own right. Because Japan is such
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: a wet climate, swords were sometimes destroyed by rust. Bucan
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: were cheap and easy to replace, and Musashi was famous
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: for winning some of his greatest battles with the wooden sword.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Ow I know, can you imagine.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Dude ow Go being smacked to death?
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Well, he says instead of cutting someone's heads off, he
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: would brain them, which I guess means like you crack
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: their skull, yeah, until their brains come out. Also, he
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: was a big fan of using two swords at one time,
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: sometimes two katana, sometimes the short and the long. Whatever
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: it took to do the job. You guys, Rocket love
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: your show. I'm grateful for the Samurai show from Thomas.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you Thomas for the extra information. As I said,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: we are always interested in knowing everything we possibly can
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: about a subject. So if you have anything to tell
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: us about James Bond that we missed, that we got wrong,
• 38:55
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• 38:58
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• 39:01
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• 39:04
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