Good Job, Brain! - 178: Spy vs. Spy

Episode Date: March 31, 2016

Let's dart past sharks with frikkin' laser beams attached to their heads and break into the underground trivia lair that's all about espionage and spycraft! Listen to us flunk the pub trivia James Bon...d primer, AND the James Bond music quiz. Find out what kind of (tasty?) spy work Julia Child did for the US government, and test your espionage movie and show IQ. Infiltrate and retrieve the precious cargo in Chris' hidden word quiz, and we live in a mad, mad world of Spy vs. Spy - so are you on team White Spy or Black Spy? And of course. SPY. CATS. SPY-CATS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, animated androids and antelopes anxiously anticipating animal anecdotes and anatomy antics. This is good job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 100. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your snippy pinnipids causing a connip with snippets of catnip and parsnip. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.
Starting point is 00:00:44 That was a good one. Yeah. Do you guys know what pinnipeds are? They're seals. Oh, that's a good word. They're like the technical name for seals. All right. Without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot.
Starting point is 00:00:58 And here I have a random Trivial Pursuit card. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. And let's answer some questions. Here we go. This is from Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture 2. Okay. These are good for us. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:15 Blue Wedge for TV. What two words can producer JJ Abrams kids be heard saying after every episode of alias and lost? Colin. I believe that's bad robot. Yes. Bad robot. Bad robot productions. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:33 And then you see the little robot. All right. Pink Wedge for fad. What Kellogg's protein drink, despite its name, is thankfully devoid of toxic potassium oxide. Oh. Is it K-O-2 or special K-O-2 or something like that? I'm going to give it to you. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:58 Special K2O. Special K2O, of course. I've never heard of this. So special K plus H2O equals a big. But of course, K2O is potassium oxide. Which is. And if you drank a whole thing of it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder if they knew and then didn't care or they released it and they were like, oh, true.
Starting point is 00:02:19 They're like, the only people who won't buy this are like chemistry teachers. Right. Or maybe. They might because they might be like, oh, my God. is the best deal on potassium oxide I've ever seen. If I were a high school teacher I'd bring it and be like, look, they're trying to kill you.
Starting point is 00:02:33 Have you had this, Chris? No. No, I came up with that. Oh, that's fantastic. Wow. Good chemistry. Right. Potassium oxide K. Good thing. Yeah. Didn't know that. All right. Yellow Wedge for Buzz. Buzz.
Starting point is 00:02:47 Buzzworthy? Just buzz. Okay. I assume buzzworthy. What real life royal did Marvel Comics plan to raise from the dead for an X-Men spin-off until they got cold feet. Wow. I'm going to guess Princess Die. Yes.
Starting point is 00:03:06 Was it? Okay. Wow. That sounds like in horribly poor taste. That's not even cold feet. That's like until someone realized. What are you doing? Mercifully saved them from a disaster.
Starting point is 00:03:19 I wonder it's just going to be a zombie. I wonder what they were going to do. Yeah. I don't know. They do a lot of time travel. the X-Men, maybe they, I don't know. But that's raised from the dead. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:31 It's a vampire. I don't know. Yeah. That's weird. I think they made the wise choice there. Uh, Purple Wedge for music. Who's it, quote, hard out here for, according to 3-6 mafia's crunk hit. Chris.
Starting point is 00:03:48 A-pimp. Yes, A-pimp. Yeah. A-pimp. H-A-Pim. Oscar-winning. Oscar-winning. Oscar.
Starting point is 00:03:56 Yes, that's true. Oh, right. I'd say it's probably harder for his employees. That's my thought. Counterpoint. That was from hustle and flow, yes. Yes, was it? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:13 Green wedge for a movie. What film recreates Anthony Swifford's real-life tedium as a marine sniper in a cruise missile war? Interesting. I mean, yeah, it's the car can't be. current enough to be American sniper No And that guy's a different
Starting point is 00:04:30 That's a different His name Chris Chris something right here Right Right right Marine being the Is this a movie
Starting point is 00:04:37 That we When you say it We're all going to be like Oh yeah Oh really Oh No No it couldn't be
Starting point is 00:04:43 Could be Chris Jarhead It is Jarhead Oh yeah Good call Jarhead The Nicknip for Marines
Starting point is 00:04:51 Yeah Starring Jake Jillen Hall Yeah Hoolen-Hilae, I think that's how you're supposed to know that's being. Jake Hool-N-Hile. Last question, Orange, for sports and games.
Starting point is 00:05:07 What city renamed its minor league baseball team, the isotopes, in honor of a Simpsons episode where the local ball club nearly relocated there? Everybody. Springfield, Ohio? No, it's Albuquerque. Oh, it's Albuquerque? Yes. After the famous episode where they threatened to move, right?
Starting point is 00:05:29 Oh, interesting. It is Albuquerque. Oh, interesting. Oh, wow. Albuquerque isotopes. Huh. So the team still is called the isotopes? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Whoa. I thought it was just like a stunt, but now I'm rereading the question. It seems like it's like... Minor League baseball teams are... It's are known for big, kind of wacky publicity stunts like this. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. It's like a staple of minor league teams.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Maybe someday I'll do a segment on, like, best minor league. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah, minor league baseball, it's like a haven for just marketers. Yeah. Really? Well, because you got to drum up attention and it's, you know, yeah. Oh, I see. Oh, interesting.
Starting point is 00:06:03 They do lots of giveaways and stuff. Yep, absolutely. A lot of giveaways, theme days. They'll do crazy mascots. Yeah. Oh, good job, brains. So, Colin, this week, you chose this topic. Well, I was flipping through the channels a couple weeks ago, I think, when I put these topics
Starting point is 00:06:18 together. And I meant to spend five minutes watching and then ended up spending about four hours watching us James Bond Marathon on TV. So I was like, man, we haven't done
Starting point is 00:06:29 like a good just spy espionage kind of episode. So I thought spies, Spycraft would be a good
Starting point is 00:06:36 topic. So this week it's Spy versus Spy. Od's all you want to live to see tomorrow. Secret Asian man.
Starting point is 00:06:49 Secret Asian man. They're giving you a number I hadn't taken away your name All right I'll kick us up
Starting point is 00:07:00 So I think it's fair to say That most of what we know about spies Is from movies and TV shows? Is that true? Right That's all I'm legally allowed to say I actually am a deep cover offer Oh wait I'm sorry
Starting point is 00:07:12 Maybe I triggered That's a pretty sweet cover Yeah yeah yeah Oh it's a deep cover Right yeah I would agree with that Yeah it's movies and yeah general stories I don't think I've never met anybody who was a spy.
Starting point is 00:07:27 That you know. That you've never met a bad spy. I met somebody who worked for the CIA as an analyst. It was a strange man. He talked about it a lot for a spy. I was actually like, whoa, I don't need to know this. But I'd say most of what I think I know about it comes from pop culture. Definitely.
Starting point is 00:07:47 So I have a quiz for you guys. So I went to IMDB and I looked up a bunch of spy movies and TV shows. and I picked the top two build cast from them. So I'll give you the actor and the roles that they played. Oh. And then you tell me what it was. Okay. And I think you'll be able to do it, especially the character name helps.
Starting point is 00:08:07 And sometimes it's just like, oh, I know who was in this movie or TV show. And this is a movie and TV show? Yeah, it's mixed. Okay. Oh, good. Okay. We'll start with the easiest softball. I know what the easiest are we buzzing in?
Starting point is 00:08:20 Okay. Yeah, you guys buzz in. All right. So, and I'm starting. Starting with the second most bill or the second build person and then going to the first build because usually the first build is like, oh, my God. Sean Connery. I know who that is. Got it.
Starting point is 00:08:34 All right. So first, this one's so easy. It's almost embarrassing. So this one, Angelina Jolie as Jane Smith and Brad Pitt as John Smith. I'm so glad you started with this one. Oh, Karen. Signoree, signorita Smith. That's a Spanish title.
Starting point is 00:08:50 Mr. and Mrs. Smith. just get us get our juices flowing here yeah yeah yeah I always watched that movie in because I was on a plane oh really I saw that movie on a plane as well and then the only version they had was like the dub Spanish version so I had to watch that you know what Karen you didn't miss a whole lot yeah I mean it's an action movie yeah it's an action movie and a lot of sexy glances yeah yeah there's a lot of tension that was yeah it translates it translates visually yeah Barbara Feldon is agent 99 and Dodd Adams as Maxwell Smart.
Starting point is 00:09:26 Colin? That's Get Smart, of course, the TV show. Yes. Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen Trasker and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry Trasker. Karen. True lies! Yes. The best movie.
Starting point is 00:09:42 Keanu Reeves as Johnny Utah and Patrick Swayze as Boady. Colin. A point break. Of course. Oh, the original, the original point, right. Yeah, that movie is. I love that name. Johnny Utah.
Starting point is 00:09:59 Christopher Gorham as Augie Anderson and Piper Parabo as Annie Walker. Oh, this is the show. You know. Oh, really? Or USA. One of those. Oh, Karen. Covert affairs.
Starting point is 00:10:12 Covert affairs. Wow. I was like, it's some super generic name. Yeah. Amazing, Karen. Good job, Brain. Yeah. Yes.
Starting point is 00:10:20 Mark DeRay as Rico and Anne Perilade as Nikita. Chris. La femme Nikita. Yes. Richard Anderson is Oscar Goldman and Lee Majors as Colonel Steve Austin. Oh. Chris. The $6 million man.
Starting point is 00:10:43 Yes. Did you say Richard Dean Anderson? No. Richard Anderson. That's why Richard Dean Anderson. has Dean Anderson, right, exactly. How about this? Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman
Starting point is 00:10:56 and Lindsay Wagner as Jamie Summers. That's the Bionic woman. Bionic. The Bionic, the Biontze woman. That's just a free idea for you, Hollywood. Bionic Bionic Biance. They had these spin off, of course, and I believe they married in the show as well.
Starting point is 00:11:15 I think they did. Yeah, I love those as a kid. So are they both Bionic or only she? They're both, they're both cyborgs to some extent. One is worth $6 million. The other is worth only 78% of it. Yeah, I never thought it out. I love the implication that they're like, you know what, we can't tell her how much her operation costs.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Like, let's call her something different. And they're like the $5.2 million. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How about Army Hammer as Ilya and Henry Cavill as Solo? Oh, I know those actors, but... Yeah, they... Oh, and it was like a period piece, right? Am I thinking of the right one?
Starting point is 00:11:56 Yes, yes, yes. Oh, period piece, yes. Is this like G-Men or something? No, okay, I'm thinking of the wrong movie. I believe there was a TV show also. Oh, man. Well, it is... So, what's the second building character?
Starting point is 00:12:11 Oh, Army Hammer. Oh, it's Army Hammer. Oh, I remember this show. It was not on for very long, right? He's on Lone Ranger. Yeah. He's in a big year, I'll say. The man from Uncle.
Starting point is 00:12:23 Oh, wow. That was way off. Okay. Not even close. Bill Cosby as Alexander Scott and Robert Culp as Kelly Robinson. That is I spy. I spy. Bruce Boxleitner as Lee Stetson and Kate Jackson as Mrs. Amanda King.
Starting point is 00:12:41 Oh. Wow. That is Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Yes. The Mrs. Amanda. Yeah, Amanda King was... You remember that show?
Starting point is 00:12:51 Nope. That was a hit. That was a hit show. I know Bruce Boxleetner from Tron and from Babylon 5. All right. This is one of my favorite movies, embarrassingly, or not embarrassingly. I just love this movie. Samuel L. Jackson as Mitch Hennessy and Gina Davis as Charlie Baltimore.
Starting point is 00:13:10 Karen. A long kiss, good night. Yes. Oh. She was a sleeper agent. She had amnesia. Yeah, she was a spy. And she kicked so much butt.
Starting point is 00:13:18 Yeah, that's a good soundtrack. How about Scott Glenn as Ezra Pramer and Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross? Oh, Colin. Oh, that must be the born, oh, geez, the born legacy? Yes, okay, all right. The born legacy. Yeah. Okay, last one, last one.
Starting point is 00:13:39 Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan and Sean Connery as Marco Rameas. Sorry, buzz too soon. That's okay. Hunt for the Red October. Yes. Close. The hunt for Red October. Well, we've already established that we'll give you the 98% at this point.
Starting point is 00:13:56 Karam was nice. The hunt? The hunt for Red October. The hunt for Red October. Not Hunt for the Red October. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know what you meant. Yeah, we know you know.
Starting point is 00:14:05 We know, yeah, yeah, yeah. Special K-02. Close enough for good job, brains. That's right. That's right. Good job, you guys. All right. How would you guys like to be spies for the next five?
Starting point is 00:14:18 minutes. I want to be a spy. Sure. Would you like to be word spies? Oh. It tricked me. I don't know. Oh.
Starting point is 00:14:26 Okay. What's up? What's up? Fun fact. Fun fact. You're a big nerd. What are you going to say? You know how earlier in the show, Chris, you joked about being undercover?
Starting point is 00:14:37 Yes. So your cover is. So I learned that your whole actual backstory and the printed documents and all of the The, quote, fake physical things to prove your cover is called a legend. Oh, it's called legend. So, yeah, your cover is your identity, but everything that supports, like, tangible and artifacts. The stuff they get documentation. It's called your legend.
Starting point is 00:15:03 That's awesome. Oh, I like that word. Yeah. That is nothing to do with my quiz. This is, here is my quiz. Here is the spy game that I have concocted for everybody because I know you love word games. Or, excuse me, I know that I love. word games. And I know that you tolerate word games.
Starting point is 00:15:22 You are going to be spies sneaking under cover of night, infiltrating these sentences and obtaining the valuable item that I have hidden in the words of this sentence and absconding with it into the night. I have, inside each of these torturously constructed sentences that I have created are valuable items. Maybe they are gemstones. Maybe they are precious minutes. minerals of the sort, hidden within the words. Something worth stealing. A couple of words. Something worth stealing as a spy and bring it back to your country or whatever it is.
Starting point is 00:16:00 Sure, sure. Yes, so that I will give you the sentence and then hidden somewhere in there will be some sort of incredibly valuable item that you will want to steal and remove from the sentence. And you can tell me what it is. So, for example, because this was by far the worst one of these that I came up with, which was the sentence, and it is an incredulous question, which is, why would Bob Sapp hire a bodyguard? Saffire. Indeed, the word sapphire is hidden in the sentence. Why would Bob Sapp hire a bodyguard? S-A-P-P-U-N-N-N-N-N- who would know.
Starting point is 00:16:38 Yeah, exactly. So I will give you the sentence and you very much like finding Sapphire and that. that sentence will find whatever other valuable item I have hidden in there. Here we go. Go ask the guru by the river. Who, Dana. Ruby. Ruby, indeed.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Oh, guru by the guru. Yep. You can teach a new dog old tricks. You can teach a new dog old tricks. You, oh, uh, Colin? Uh, gold. Gold. You can teach a new dog gold tricks.
Starting point is 00:17:20 This is something you might type into Google. Okay. What are this year's top Aztec baby names? Topaztex. Yes, yes, Karen. Top Aztec baby names. 24, 2016. You want to get the current list.
Starting point is 00:17:42 Yeah, you don't look like a jerk with the old list. Some of these are just so dumb. I can't believe I'm going to read them. All right, here we go. I took my crayons and drew a splat in umber. Platinum. Yes. Platinum.
Starting point is 00:18:05 Umbar. Yeah. Splatineum. Umber. Mm-hmm. You say crayons weird. I do. say, I say crayons.
Starting point is 00:18:14 Wait, what did I say? You said like cranberry, like crayons. I think I do. Yeah, that's very, that's very, um, where I come from. We say crayons. Yeah, that's regional. Yeah. Okay, because I was like, I didn't, what is that word?
Starting point is 00:18:27 It is regional. Cranes. Yep. This is me talking about a recent recipe that I made. I added basil, very finely chopped. Oh, oh. I think we all got it at the same. I'm saying it, yes. Silver.
Starting point is 00:18:44 Silver, indeed, yes. His name is Philip, Phil to Pals. Dana. Lepis? No. Phil. His name is Philip, Phil to Pals. Oh. Oh, O'OPL!
Starting point is 00:19:06 O'Pell! Oh, man. You're looking at the Philip Phil, and it's really... There's a lot of red... There's, like, all the fill are red-haired. There's tons of red herrings, it's true. Yep, you got it, though. Okay, two more. All right.
Starting point is 00:19:18 My favorite name and pharmacy are Alex and Rite Aid, respectively. Alex. Alex and Wright. Collet? Is Alexandrite? Alexandrite is a birthstone, yeah. You come up with that sentence, I dare you. Alex.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Alex and Rite Aid, respectively. Yes. It gives you don't have a right aid in your area. They intentionally spell it wrong. R-I-T-E-A-D-A, yes. All right, finally, and this next sentence is absolutely a true story about me. I have a cold, and I am on Dayquil. Oh.
Starting point is 00:20:02 Dana. Wait, Diamond? No. Yes, Diamond. Diamond. Yeah. I have a cold, and I am on Dayquil. That is the
Starting point is 00:20:14 That's the best hidden one I think Of the ones that I wrote Oh you don't like Alex and write age That one that traverses a lot of words That does Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah it does it does It's one two three four five words
Starting point is 00:20:30 Wow Yeah yeah yeah yeah Gotta be a talented word spy to get in that many words I was trying to extend your metaphor I was trying to work Yeah boy do I appreciate it Carrying water for Chris's quiz here. Well, great job, WordSpice.
Starting point is 00:20:46 You're all TopWordspice. Great. Yay. Crack the code. So, of course, you guys know, but I don't know if our listeners know that my day job, I work for a company called Twitch, and we do streaming video games. And lately, we've been doing some cool marathons. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:07 So we did a Bob Ross Marathon. That was very. popular and uh recently most recently to celebrate our uh food streaming arm we marathoned uh julia child yes from her black and white show to to color awesome yeah it's super awesome julia child probably one of um probably i would say the the mother of cooking shows oh yeah definitely i mean there are other people who probably had cooking shows but she really made it a thing for sure she was a personality really a force and she was the one who brought the French cuisine to like the home cooks and home chefs and just with a very you can do it attitude yes yes not elitist and you know she
Starting point is 00:21:53 she's very she was quite the character so during this marathon I keep seeing in chat and elsewhere people keep spewing out this fact well before she was a chef she worked as a spy And I was like, okay, what did she do? So I researched more. So Julia Child joined the OSS Office of Strategic Services and began her career as a typist. So she wasn't like a spy, more of like a secretarial role. But because of her education and her experience, she was getting promoted and she was kind of brought into teams with more responsibility and being involved in a lot of research projects. So one of her research projects, she was an assistant to a bunch of scientists who were trying to develop a shark repellate.
Starting point is 00:22:45 She did a lot of projects, but this was her more well-known was on this team to develop a shark repellent. Really? Okay. All I could think of was like Batman with his bat shark repellent. I think about like, oh, and then her next project was attaching lasers to sharks. With their freaking heads. I'm just imagining day one and somebody sort of like pulls back a curtain
Starting point is 00:23:07 It's just a bat with a nail through it It was like, it was Mark 1 Shark repellent. Does this work? Yeah, yeah. I don't really understand shark repellent at all Like other than from the Batman shark repellent clip Or I mean, I didn't know that much about it.
Starting point is 00:23:25 I mean, they can smell really good, right? One would think you need shark repellent because you're stranded in the ocean, there's sharks around you. You need to like have shark repellents So sharks go away. Yes. Sure, that is a use.
Starting point is 00:23:37 But the main uses of shark repellent is so that sharks don't mess up your stuff. Oh. So this is in the 1940s when Julia Child was working the OSS for the shark repellent project. They're weapons targeting German submarines and U-boats. They're trying to find shark repellent so that sharks won't interfere, not saving people from sharks. Okay. But it's more saving sharks from messing up, you know, all the spy stuff. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:24:07 I read more about shark repellents, and that's true. A lot of the shark repellents is to save sharks, is not to save humans. You're trying to get the sharks away from a certain area. Dangerous things. Yeah, dangerous things. And then I fell into this research hole about shark repellents, and they're different types. Ah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:24:26 What is a sign that says, go away, sharks. That's Mark 2. It doesn't work out. Right, right, right. So guess what's the number one thing that sharks don't want to deal with? Oh, interesting. What do you think sharks don't want to deal with?
Starting point is 00:24:39 What is sharks like that? A killer whale. Killer whales. Sharks don't want to deal with dead sharks. When they sense a dead shark, smell, sense whatever. They just beat it. They're just like, nope, nope, nope, nope, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I got to get away. Right.
Starting point is 00:24:54 Because whatever killed that shark. It's going to kill me. Better save them sorry. So I know the zombies are coming as well. The zombie sharks. This is, yeah, this is exactly like what they do in Walking Dead. They coat themselves in, uh, zombie books. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:07 It's not a secret. Anybody who's involved in, like, fishing or whatever, no, that sharks don't really like dead sharks. Okay, okay, okay. However, finally after World War II, that's when people really researched more about it. But they're also different types of shark repellins. Sharks are, are really unique because they have how they sense things, is through sense of smell, but they also have electroreceptors.
Starting point is 00:25:32 And so a lot of shark repellents are magnetic or electrical, that kind of mess with, that mess with their electroreceptors that kind of like wards them off. And then you have the more chemical ones where they have now isolated the different compounds that make that dead shark smell. Yeah. So that's why a lot of shark conservation societies and groups use chemical shark repellents to try to save sharks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, man, don't go over to this place where they're trying to test out mines or whatever. But, yeah, and it doesn't hurt them, right? Because they smell dead charred.
Starting point is 00:26:09 They're like, I'm out of here. You don't have to, like, tase them or, you don't have to hurt them. Isn't it interesting? Sharks, sharks hate dead sharks. And this, and Julia Child then. Worked on it on a, early team. Oh, yeah. I thought she put it in her cocoa van.
Starting point is 00:26:26 I had always heard that factoid that, you know, she was a spy, But I don't think I ever bothered to look exactly how she was a spy. She's not going undercover. The fancy dinner party seducing the foreign minister. Thanks, Julia. Thanks, Julia. What you do is you have the dead sharks. Right in their face.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Well, so as I mentioned at the top of the show, the James Bond film franchise was sort of the inspiration for my suggesting the topic. And I think you guys will also agree that for whatever reason, just James Bond. James Bond is just really overrepresented at pub quiz questions. Like, I feel we get a lot of James Bond. It's one of our weakest, like, not weakest, but it's, it's one of those things in the camp where we're like, we really should know this. Yeah, yeah, I think so. We always were like, which one or how many? So I put together a high-level quiz for you guys about the James Bond franchise, mostly the movies, but some about the books as well.
Starting point is 00:27:27 I think out of all of us, you probably know James Bond the best. I think I know it the least. All right. Yeah. Well, we can use this as a study guide. Okay. This will be great. All right.
Starting point is 00:27:37 These are things which could quite plausibly show up at your pub quiz. So as you probably know, Jim Spond, the movies came from the novels written by Ian Fleming. There have been far more movies than novels. There have been 26 James Bond movies since Dr. No, including Dr. No. 24 of these are the Eon productions Sort of, you know, generally considered the official James Bond films. There were two others that are James Bond,
Starting point is 00:28:05 but sort of off to the side. And we will talk about those later. So over the course of those 26 James Bond movies, there have been seven actors portraying James Bond. Oh, man. So I need you guys to name for me, all seven. If any of you think you can do this yourselves, man, more power to you.
Starting point is 00:28:24 You guys can also break it up amongst your. There's a team effort, if you would like. Okay. Sean Connery. Seven actors. Dana claimed the easy one. Sean Connery, yes. Roger Moore, Sean Connery.
Starting point is 00:28:35 Timothy Dalton. Timothy Dalton. Pierce Brosnan. Yeah. Daniel Craig. Okay. You've got the easy ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:42 Okay. So you've got five of the seven. And now we're going to trick. What was the, you know, the casino royale was like a comedy, the first one. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Peer Sellers? Oh, you're so. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:52 He was, he was in the movie. Oh, he was. You have the movie right It was David Niven In Casino Royale Which Chris you are correct Was a done as a parody That was one of sort of the two
Starting point is 00:29:05 Non-mainstream James Bond movies Long story short They didn't feel they were Legally on solid enough ground To make it as a straight James Bond movie Oh god There's an Australian guy So there's one more
Starting point is 00:29:18 So there's one more And he was in one James Bond movie Officially He was in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. George. Uh-huh. Oh, Karen, it's in, it's in Karen's punch ball.
Starting point is 00:29:30 God, it's in the punch bowl. God, George. No. Lewis. Oh, I think it might be in D. Laysenby. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:37 Oh, yeah. Okay. Good team effort, guys. What is it, George Laysenby? Yeah. I've definitely heard that before. So, yeah. Sean Connery was in the first five Bond films.
Starting point is 00:29:47 Then George Laysenby, and by all accounts, not the best. So they basically lured Sean Connery back for one. for one more movie in the official run. And then it was Roger Moore. Then it was Roger Moore. Roger Moore actually did play James Bond more than any other actor. He was in seven movies. So I was at the movies the other day, and they had the before movies trivia.
Starting point is 00:30:11 And the question was, who was the shortest actor to play James Bond? Oh. Do you guys know? No, who would? Out of the seven. Oh, I guess. Timothy Dalton. Daniel Craig.
Starting point is 00:30:23 Daniel Craig. Oh, really? Yes. They can do a lot with C.G. He distracts you with muscles. So they say that actually David Niven, who played Sir James Bond in the parody Casino Royale movie from 67, he was said to be Ian Fleming's first choice when they were actually casting before they ended up with Sean Connery. Yeah, back in Dr. No. John Connery at then Ian Fleming thought he wasn't urbane enough.
Starting point is 00:30:50 He wasn't, he was a bit too rough, but then that was kind of the sex appeal. of Sean Carrey at that time, yeah. Right, yeah, it's funny. He very much, like, imagined Bond as, you know, he was dashing, but he was also kind of just plain. You know, he could blend into the crowd if need be. Ah, okay. All right, we have had this one probably three or four times, and I would venture we
Starting point is 00:31:09 get it right about half the time and wrong about half the time. All right. In which branch of the armed forces? Oh. Did James Bond, the character serve before becoming 007? Oh, wait, before becoming the... I... Chris.
Starting point is 00:31:23 The Navy. It was the Navy. Oh, okay. Yes, specifically, he was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. Right. Oh, okay. Yeah. The American Film Institute, their lists that they put together on their 100th anniversary are just a wellspring of public quiz material.
Starting point is 00:31:41 So the AFI's 100 years, 100 quotes, the top 100 movie quotes of all time, as determined by them. There are two quotes on this list from James. Bond. Yeah. For one, imaginary point each. All right. What are the two quotes
Starting point is 00:32:00 from James Bond? Dana. Shaken, not stirred? I will give that to you, yes. The fuller quote they have it is a martini shaken, not stirred. Bond.
Starting point is 00:32:11 Bond James Bond. And the correct, yes. And Bond James Bond. Those are respectively from Goldfinger and Dr. No, both spoken by Sean Connery. Yes. Oh, so Bond James Bond was in the first,
Starting point is 00:32:24 James Bond film. Gotcha. They get that one out of the gate right away. Right. Some variation of the word kill or die. Mm. Appears in the titles of five James Bond films. So again, you guys, feel free to tackle this as a team if you like.
Starting point is 00:32:43 Karen's very confident. Please tell me as many of these five as you can. Of you to kill. Correct. Die another day. Correct. Live and let die. Yes.
Starting point is 00:32:54 License to Kill Oh yeah, license to kill You only Oh no, that's not Yeah, that's no die nor can Wait, how many Five, so we've said A Live and Let Die, A View to a Kill
Starting point is 00:33:10 License to Kill And Die another day Tomorrow Never Dies Yes, Karen, absolutely incredible Yes, tomorrow never dies See, I know the 90s Bond titles, but yeah Yeah, two of those
Starting point is 00:33:24 were Roger Moore, live and let die, and Bue to a kill. We got one Timothy Dalton in there, licensed to kill, and then two of them were Pierce Brosman. Yeah, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Die Another Day. They really fixate on the... Yeah, of course, that was the Tomorrow Never Dies was an accident, because they were going back and forth between Tomorrow Never Dies and Tomorrow Never Lies,
Starting point is 00:33:44 and they decided on Tomorrow Never Lies, but then they accidentally typed Tomorrow Never Dies. Really? Oh, really? Yeah, mm-hmm. All right, last one here. After writing nine of the James Bond novels, author Ian Fleming switched gears to write this popular children's novel. Karen. Chitty,
Starting point is 00:34:02 Chitty, bang, bang. That is, chitty, chitty, bang, yes.
Starting point is 00:34:05 And sadly, I learned this. It was published just a few months after he died of a heart attack. And the really sad thing was it was like, you know, he had essentially written it, you know, it was suggested that he'd write a kid's book for his son.
Starting point is 00:34:19 It was very bittersweet, yeah. Oh, man. So he never lived to see it actually. you know be published and become a beloved hit but uh yes and then of course made into a movie famously with dick van dyke as well so all right that was just a little uh smorgasbord of potential james bond pub quiz pitfalls delicious you're right it is a well of trivia yeah it is a well it really is so many novels so many movies oh and sorry by the way i to fulfill my promise right
Starting point is 00:34:49 so casino royale was one of the two non-eon bond zones uh the other one was never say never again, which was starring Sean Connery, but was not produced in the mainstream of the Eon productions, right? Yeah. Isn't that Justin Beaver movie? His name was James Blob just to get around
Starting point is 00:35:08 to be. James Blonde? Blob, I said. James blob. Blob. James Blob. James Blob. All right, let's take a quick break. A word from our sponsor. Are you dreaming about becoming a
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Starting point is 00:37:30 I have a story about a real spy, or actually not really, but a man who was really accused of being a real spy. This man was accused by Fidel Castro of being a spy for the CIA. And this man's name was Antonio Prokias. He was a political cartoonist, born and raised in Cuba. And by the 1940s, he was basically one of Cuba's top political cartoonists writing for El Mundo, one of the best newspapers in Cuba and, you know, writing, drawing really these scathing political cartoons about figures of the day. And then Fidel Castro came to power in the 1950s, and he drew some scathing cartoons about how he didn't like Fidel Castro. And Fidel Castro was like, yeah, we don't really like you. And I'm going to accuse you of being a CIA spy.
Starting point is 00:38:22 Oh, spy for the U.S. For the U.S. Yeah, exactly. Or whatever, you know, just a spy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Antonio Prohias was like pretty much noped right out of Cuba at that point and headed to New York. I mean, basically where he was like unknown, right?
Starting point is 00:38:36 I mean, he was a very, he had received the National Association of Newspapers in Cuba like award for best political cartoon a couple of years in a row. He was very famous in Cuba, but it was like, I'm not getting out of here. Right. Went to New York City with his family. and just started knocking on doors trying to sell some of his cartoons now in America. And it was unlikely that he'd be able to... I mean, he spoke no English, so it was kind of difficult for him to do this. But he brought his 14-year-old daughter with him to the offices in New York City of Mad Magazine.
Starting point is 00:39:11 And he handed them some cartoons that he had drawn, and they were called Spy v. Spy. And this was a poke back at Fidel Castro for... for calling him a spy. He said later in life, the sweetest revenge has been to turn Fidel's accusation of me as a spy into a money-making venture.
Starting point is 00:39:34 These cartoons, which featured a couple of little pointy-nosed dudes who were the black spy and the white spy, and they... It's like they had zootsuit hats or something. They had black trench coats and pointy hats and pointy noses, and they would basically invent ways of
Starting point is 00:39:50 torturing each other or... You know, basically trying to kill each other. Wordlessly. Wordlessly, indeed. Everything was totally in pantomime, which was great because made total sense, because now he could do his comics, even though he didn't actually speak English and have them kind of translated for an American audience. Mad Magazine loved them and started running them. And that was the beginning of a beautiful relationship between Prohios and Mad Magazine.
Starting point is 00:40:16 And he drew Spy versus Spy until his retirement in 1987. Wow. You know, absolutely. It was in every issue. It was in every issue. One of the longest running features. Now, here's something really interesting. It was based on a character that Prohias had invented in Cuba called, this is great.
Starting point is 00:40:38 This almost sounds like something out of the Simpsons. The character was El Ombre Sinistrio or the Sinister Man. And it looked just like one of the spies. It had the pointed notes and the hat. I didn't know that. But the thing is, This guy would, he was just, he was just a jerk and just did horrible things to random people. And so to tone it down a little bit for Mad Magazine, he had two spies doing the same things to each other.
Starting point is 00:41:05 Some of the spy versus spy comics, and he basically just like redrew the El Ombray Sinestrio like plots. Oh, interesting. But it was only known in Cuba at the time. And so basically it was the two spies doing bad things to each other rather than like randos on the street. just like gleefully murdering them. Yeah. And toward the later years, right, they brought in, sometimes it would be spy versus spy versus spy. Yes, the gray spy.
Starting point is 00:41:30 Oh, I didn't know that. The lady, the lady spy. A green M&M spy? Yeah, who represented sort of this sort of anarchic force that jumped in between the black spy and the white spy. And she often won. And the both of them would try their tactics of blowing each other up. But then she would kind of come in and upset the apple cart. as it were. But yeah, I mean, you know, everybody remembers this. If you read Mad Magazine, you know, during that entire, I mean, just 60s, 70s, 80s, did tons of them. You know, again, he signed his name in Morse code on every strip, you know, just as another little dig about how he was a spy, you know. And yet he retired in 87. His health was declining. And, I mean, at that point, it was taken over by other artists and writers. And, I mean, it still runs in mad to this day the feature. Yeah. So, I mean, they never stopped doing spy versus spy.
Starting point is 00:42:21 just kept doing it after uh after his retirement and after his eventual passing 10 years later like that is it's so synonymous with mad magazine um i mean they made video games out of it yeah they animated spy versus spy on mad tv it was the feature of mad magazine that like you know kind of move to other mediums uh more it's it's been parodied into a third you know levels of things yeah yeah proeus occasionally did other stuff for mad magazine but it was basically just spy versus spy. He lived his life as a, he was an exile, and I mean, he could not, um, all the Mad Magazine artists would, like, go on vacations together, like to other countries.
Starting point is 00:42:58 He couldn't go. He couldn't go. Because if he, if he left, he, uh, wasn't entirely certain that he'd be able to come back to him. Right. Yeah. It's interesting that he, uh, was able to kind of parlay that terrible experience into a money, mimicking.
Starting point is 00:43:14 Yeah. Yeah. So we've established I love spy. and you guys already know that I love cats. True. So I think you see where this is going. So I want to share one of my absolute favorite trivia anecdote stories with you guys. And I have to say, as much as I love the story, I need to tell you right at front, it does not have a particularly happy ending.
Starting point is 00:43:37 No. But it is my duty as a good job brainer to share these stories with our favorite listeners. So speaking of the Cold War tensions there, Chris, let's. Let's stay in the Cold War era. So travel back with me to the 1960s at the height of the Cold War between the U.S. and the feared communists in the Soviet Union. In an effort to stay one step ahead of the Soviets, of course, agents at the CIA were always busy developing new modes of spycraft, right? You know, from the pretty straightforward to the, frankly, bananas.
Starting point is 00:44:15 There are a lot of bananas. Man, it's, I think it's like when you combine virtually unlimited funds with super imaginative, super paranoid people, I mean, you can do incredible things. You got to cover all the bases. Yeah, really. You really got to cover all the bases. So I want to tell you guys about a, this is a CIA project that unfolded over the course of several years to the tune anywhere from $10 to $20 million invested in this project. called Project Acoustic Kitty
Starting point is 00:44:51 and that is the name. Official name. This was a plan to turn cats into spies. Yes. And I don't mean like the you know the fedora and trench coat and you know handgun variety.
Starting point is 00:45:05 I mean more like more like a mobile. That's so cute though. Yeah, a little tiny little kitty trench coat. No, this is more like they wanted to turn cats into mobile eavesdropping. Like drones basically. Yes. Yes, like a ground-based drone, right?
Starting point is 00:45:20 It's making ground-based drone in 1960s era, right. Be crazy not to. Yeah, right. Well, because, I mean, like, really, when you think about it, what animal is easier to work with than cats? Yeah. If you're going to, you know, if you're going to put $10 to $20 million into something. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:38 So, as I say, so really what the CIA had in mind is they needed a way to spy on Russians living in Washington, D.C., right? So this would be, you know, people like working at the embassy, foreign service officials, people who they're around and they reasonably suspect there could be connected with the spying apparatus going on at the time. So they developed a plan, right? You know, this is I say early mid-60s. They wanted to surgically implant listening devices and transmitters into cats, okay, to use
Starting point is 00:46:14 them, as you say, a fairly low-controlled drone. It's exactly what I just said. They would, they developed a plan to surgically implant a radio transmitter, very tiny little radio transmitter. I would go at the base of the cat's skull. They implanted a microphone in the cat's ear canal, and they would run a transmitting wire, basically out the cat's body along the cat's body up into the tail, which makes sense. You know, if you're going to use the transmitter, use the tail, use what you have. Batteries, of course, to power the whole system. Which were shoved up the cat's pot. You know, like the thing is now I'm thinking, I was like, oh, I bet you can do like actual really micro, like tech.
Starting point is 00:46:54 Oh, yeah. Right, right. This is like, oh, yeah. It's like a little backpack on a tape recorder. Yeah. The cat has to have, like, training wheels to hold it. Like a rectangular cat. It's like they've embedded the world's smartest, smallest computer.
Starting point is 00:47:14 into this ordinary little steaming cat. Making like wers and ticks. It's like two feet tall. No, I'm actually glad that you say that though, Karen, because it's like, yeah, it seems like, oh, today would be no problem. I mean, like, we microchip our own pets. My cats have microchips, literally microchips in their skin. Your cats, your literal cats are bionic cats with microchips.
Starting point is 00:47:35 You could use them to spy on your enemies. It was, it was a challenge, yeah, to come up with a system that was small enough it could fit in the cat and wouldn't you know like irritate the cat enough that the cat's like pawing at it
Starting point is 00:47:49 or scratching at it yeah tense leading to the popular expression yeah but can it fit in a cat this is a cat sides walk man that's why it's that's not they're so flexible
Starting point is 00:48:01 and they right right right yeah again right let's choose an animal that once a day covers its entire body head to toe right
Starting point is 00:48:10 with its tongue so this is the plan right Okay, so we'll get the tech in the cat, and then we will train these cats to basically go to a specified location and just kind of park themselves and just act as a movable bug. Just act natural. Just act natural. Right. So the plan actually worked, I can't believe I'm saying this. I can't believe I'm saying this, but the plan actually looked like it was working pretty well in the early test.
Starting point is 00:48:42 They could, in fact, train the cats to go a short specified distance away and then sit down. And that's, I mean, if you've lived with cats, that's impressive. That's impressive, right. And not only that, but they had to work with, as I say, getting the system in the cat and stay, you know, not getting irritated, staying focused. They found that as they started. Yeah, there's like squirrels and stuff. They found that as they graduated to more and more real-world test, the cats would get distracted
Starting point is 00:49:09 or be hungry. So I've been unable to find the exact details on this, but multiple sources report that they perform another operation on the cat, basically to control its hunger, to make it easier to train and stay on task. So they chose for their prime, you know, Agent Zero, they chose a shaggy hair, kind of a longer-haired cat, so they could weave the antenna into the fur. Okay. So, yeah, yes. Quick question. So I assume that the benefits of having. having a cat is that they're quiet, they're sneaky.
Starting point is 00:49:43 Yeah. But it's not like the machinery is dependent on their sense of hearing or anything, right? No, absolutely not. It's just that they're stealthy. It's that they're stealthy and maybe not so obvious because if, you know, honestly, you're thinking who in their right mind would send a cat as a bug? This can't be. Well, who in their right mind would, like, let a feral cat into their house or they're having a private meeting?
Starting point is 00:50:05 Or they're just outside. Well, that's a good point, Dana. And I should be clear, these weren't like they weren't going to. to send them into the embassy. The idea was that they could stake out public locations where these assumed spies might be sitting and they would send the cat over to basically harvest some data so they don't need to know ahead of time where they're going to be meeting. Again, I can't believe I'm saying it. It advanced far enough to actual field tests. Like they were confident enough with the lab test. They could get the cat to go and sit. They had the batteries,
Starting point is 00:50:35 the transmitter, everything. It was wired up. Kitty's ready to go. They're like, all right. So we're going to a park, public park, in Washington, D.C. Oh, no. So they've got the ban. They got everything wired up. And so their plan is they're going to send the cat over to a bench where two sort of marks are sitting and just see how it goes. So they pull up.
Starting point is 00:50:53 They're all stealthy. CIA. They open the door. The cat hops out, starts ahead across the street, hit by a taxi. Oh, my God. Immediately killed. Oh, poor cat. Poor kitty.
Starting point is 00:51:06 Yeah. And I say, I warned you there was not a half. happy ending of the story. Why they put it in the street? They treat it to do everything except for to watch out for. Avoiding cars. Right. Right.
Starting point is 00:51:20 So, yeah. So this is bad, right? Because first of all, this is your, you know, your plan is not unfolding the way you need it. But now you've also got all this technology. So they had to wait until it was, they could sort of discreetly. Yeah, to go retrieve poor dead kitty with all the equipment inside. because, yeah, you don't want, you know, the Russians finding this gear out in the street.
Starting point is 00:51:43 Yeah, on roadkill. Yeah. So now, I should say that at least one former official disputes this part of the project. He says, according to him, Project Acoustic Kitty, no, he's like, they just discontinued the program. It wasn't very feasible. We took the equipment out, sewed the cat back up, and everyone lived happily after. No. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:05 Knowing the CIA, I kind of doubt that personally. So we have so hilariously to me, some redacted CIA documents that were released confirmed that this actually happened. This was an actual government plan. I'm reading from a PDF here of these CIA redacted documents. This is views on trained cats. Our final examination of trained cats convinced us that the program would not lend itself in a practical sense to our highly specialized needs. You can't do that on the first day. Not a lot of cat owners.
Starting point is 00:52:42 Yes. And they talk about how, you know, the training was actually pretty good. And then it says, you know, this is in itself a remarkable scientific achievement, knowing that cats can indeed be trained to move short distances and approach targets. Short. Wow. Yes. Yes. The program was dismantled not long after the failed field test.
Starting point is 00:53:05 I was hoping we would have something on this episode about, like, you know, crazy spy equipment. Yep, yep. That's some crazy spy. Yeah, I got what I wish for, apparently. Hey. Yeah. Your parents' tax dollars at work. Oh, my God.
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Starting point is 00:53:45 into a short, entertaining explanation, jam-packed with science facts and terrible puns. Subscribe to Minute Earth wherever you like to listen. All right, my last segment. I have a music quiz. We had Collins James Bond quiz and one of the more iconic and memorable things. things about James Bond movies is the theme song. Oh, yes, of course. Almost every, almost every single James Bond movie has a theme song that's usually sung by a famous person at that time.
Starting point is 00:54:19 They all have a spy feeling, and there's been, like you said, 20-some James Bond movies. And so we know a couple of a recent hits. Like Sam Smith just won the Oscar for his James Bond song. Yeah, and Adele also won an Oscar for her. James Bond song, Skyfall, and then the Sam Smith one was for Specter. Right. Not all of the James Bond themes are hits. Not all of them can be live or let die.
Starting point is 00:54:46 Yeah. Of course, many people know that Shirley Bassie is kind of the classic James Bond theme song singer. She's done three. Goldfinger. Goldfinger. Which is probably the most James Bondy, like, classic. It's just from that era. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:03 Yeah. So here I have a music quiz. I have picked a couple of these James Bond theme song singles. All of them are by famous artists. Okay. So these five songs are sung by famous performers. I need you guys to write down, number one, who the artist is. And they're all famous.
Starting point is 00:55:26 Okay. They're all famous. I need you guys to write down what movie was it for. Okay. And I purposely edited the song so that it doesn't say it's not like Adele Singh, Skyfall, and like, oh, what movie is that from? Here we go. Number one. And love is a stranger who'll beck a new one.
Starting point is 00:56:01 Don't think of the day. danger for the stranger is gone this dream is for you so it's a famous performer and maybe it gave you a hint to what era based on the quality
Starting point is 00:56:31 of the recording. Fun fact. In fact, this is the first time an American performed the theme song. Huh. I'm going to be so bad at this quiz, I think. All right. All right. Answers up, Colin.
Starting point is 00:56:48 I've got Nancy Sinatra from Russia with love. I put Dusty Springfield, Die Another Day. I put Pat Benatar. Yeah. But then die another day. Isn't Die Another Day a later one? I don't know. She said the word day, and that was...
Starting point is 00:57:05 Die Another Day is a Pierce Bros. That is a later one. Whose song, Die Another Day, is Madonna. Oh, really? Okay. Well, that it's not that. My very, very first thought was Madonna, but then the era didn't sound right. Okay.
Starting point is 00:57:18 So what is it? It is Nancy Sinatra. And you only live twice. Okay. Okay. She is the first American singer of the James Bond. Oh, okay. Yeah, because Shirley Bassi is.
Starting point is 00:57:33 Welsh and other the other singers before her were also UK. Another fun fact about you only lived twice Rule doll, not Rule doll, rule doll, wrote the screenplay. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:49 He and Ian Fleming actually were kind of cut from the same cloth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. All right, next James Bond theme. Dunah, dunna. and the headlights fade away 100,000 changes, everything's the same.
Starting point is 00:58:17 I've been way long for one of us to say the same. The same time is to let it never fade away. It was very 80s It's If you were to guess A band who is So 80s
Starting point is 00:58:42 Who has another song Which is the 80s anthem What band would you put down? Oh, geez Oh, it's interesting I think it might be right For the wrong reason maybe Well, we'll find out
Starting point is 00:58:54 Or I'm wrong for the Also don't forget The movie As well 80s James Bond Film And Who knows
Starting point is 00:59:03 And, you know, 80s, James Bond is a little hard, too. It's a little bit of a black hole of knowledge. I don't know. Like, this song doesn't even sound James Bondy at all. Yeah, this is like, hey, who's being in the 80s? Let's get them. Answers up. Colin.
Starting point is 00:59:22 Duran Duran for View to a Kill. So you said 80s, and I was like, flock of seagulls, kill another seagull. So that's your movie title. I have no movie title, but I just put men at work. It is, aha. Oh, yes.
Starting point is 00:59:43 Turns out they had another song other than take on me. Yeah, no. What movie was that? This was for, um, The Living Day Life. Yes, yes. Which is the name of the song as well. Wow.
Starting point is 00:59:56 I didn't know that was a movie. Right. Yeah, me neither. Until I did the research. I was like, oh. And Colin, Duran, Durand, Rand did do a James Bond theme Yeah
Starting point is 01:00:06 And it was a view to a kill I think it was a view to a kill Also extremely 80s sounding Yeah Yeah Next one Performer and also The James Bond movie
Starting point is 01:00:16 Here we go I'm yourself Because no one else I'll save you And I'll be betrayed you And I will replace you I would say this is probably my favorite I'm never for fear of you
Starting point is 01:00:38 I have got rid of you I've got radio I've got radio head and quantum of solace. I'm okay, Dana Soundgarden. And then I don't, I couldn't guess. Chris? I put Huey Lewis and the News in a license to kill.
Starting point is 01:01:08 I mean, maybe you'll hit the combination. Maybe. It is, well, Dana's the closest. It is Chris Cornell. Yeah. The singer of Soundgarden. Oh. But this is just him from Casino Royale.
Starting point is 01:01:22 Oh, okay. I knew it was one of the first, the modern ones. The modern ones. Yeah, okay. Yes. It makes sense, actually. Yeah. If I thought about it, it would have been like, oh, it has to be.
Starting point is 01:01:33 They had a great intro sequence. It had like the cards and then the poker. Very cool. All right. Kind of driving. Yeah. Next James Bond theme. He knows the meaning of success.
Starting point is 01:01:55 His needs are more. So he gives less They call him the winner All right Answers up Colin, you said Speaking of Welsh entertainers, I put Tom Jones and Thunderball Dana
Starting point is 01:02:20 I put Tom Jones And then I fast her pussycat Is that a thing? It is a thing, but it's not a James Bond thing. Chris? I put Isaac Hayes an octopussy You're like
Starting point is 01:02:32 your punch ball you're just dry random thing whatever throwing it against the wall it is Tom Jones yeah
Starting point is 01:02:40 Thunderball oh okay good job good job I'll take it that's is that a future sport like pyramid I put pussy cat
Starting point is 01:02:51 because Tom Jones has because Tom Jones yeah also octopussy pussy cat right right That James Bond is so gross.
Starting point is 01:03:00 That's why I don't watch it. Last James Bond theme, here we go. Artist, there's two names for the artist and also the movie. Here we go. Another gun thrown down is a friend that took away to me. Another man that he stands right behind you looking in the field. I love you're hoping A woman walking by
Starting point is 01:03:29 A drop in the water A look in the eyes A phone on a table A man on your side Or someone that you think that you can trust Two singers This is a weird one Because I had no idea
Starting point is 01:03:45 This song came out I had no idea These are two singers Two singers A random pairing Chris Answers up I put Avril Levine and meatloaf
Starting point is 01:03:56 from Quantum of Salas. You got the movie right. It's the model of solace. It is not a board. It's not April Levine. One out of ten points. That's really good. That's good.
Starting point is 01:04:12 I'm impressed. All right, Dana, what did you put? I was like, Beyonce did a song. Was this the Beyonce song? Maybe I'm misremembering this. And Lenny Crave. Lenny Crave? Those are two smart guesses from the, yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:23 No. At first, I had Pink and Shakira, but then I'm committing myself to Pink and Christina Aguilera from Quantum of Salas. It is Quantum Salas. It is Alicia Keys. I was going to put that as a joke, and then I went with that rule of being. Okay. Okay. And Jack White.
Starting point is 01:04:45 Oh. That beat makes sense. Yeah. That's a very Jack White. I had no idea they came together for, to, because, you know, usually the, the, that the James Bond theme songs, they at least will, like, the video or they'll drum up some. Right, right. And in the Pierce-Brosden one, all of them were like big hits.
Starting point is 01:05:05 But this one just, it missed my radar somehow. It's like, Jack Wrenner, Alicia Keys, when? When? No one knew that this happened. That is a good. But I had to get Quantum of Salas because by process of elimination, you know, we know it's not Skyfall, it's not Spector, and it's not the new casino rail. Right. Right.
Starting point is 01:05:21 If I had 20 minutes to think about it, I would have come to the same conclusion. To really think about it That was good That was good Good job you guys So yeah These are not the two famous ones But these are also not the
Starting point is 01:05:34 These are the ones like where the artist Like at the end of the year They get the royalty check And they're like oh yeah I did that Yeah Chris Cornell Chris Cornell going out to the mailbox What is it?
Starting point is 01:05:45 Oh it was for that Bond thing Right That was a fun afternoon Yeah Oh James Bond I'm surprised no Carly Simon I mean maybe you consider that to be
Starting point is 01:05:54 too famous? Yeah. Gotcha. The spy who loved me, right? Which is in the lyrics of the song. And that, you know, but that was the good example of one. I feel like that crossed over into just a full on legitimate early hit. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:06 And it's on all her greatest hits, whatever. Yeah. Did Beyonce do a song? Oh, is that for Austin Powers? Yeah. Beyonce did do for Austin Powers. Right. And Pink Panther.
Starting point is 01:06:18 Okay. But not. Not for Bond. James Bond. Yeah. Yet. Yeah. I mean, it's probably going to happen.
Starting point is 01:06:24 I don't know. anything, yeah, I don't know what. Probably. And that's our show. Thank you guys for joining me and thank you guys, listeners, for listening and hope you'll learn a lot of stuff about espionage, about training cats, about Bond James Bond, and more.
Starting point is 01:06:41 And you can find our show on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Spotify, and on our website, good job, brain.com. And thanks to our sponsor, Squarespace, and we'll see you guys next week. Bye. Bye. Spy.
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