James Bonding - Bond and Star Wars with Pete The Retailer, Alex Robinson, James Bladon and Mark McConville

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

Alex and Pete from Star Wars Minute and Mark McConville and James Bladon join Matt and Matt to discuss which actors have been in both franchises, complete with Power Point presentation! Hosted on Acas...t. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:45 Matt and Matt and. James Bonding podcast. It's the James Bonding podcast. Welcome to James Bonding. I'm Matt. And I'm Matt. And today we've got a record six people in the room. Somehow we have enough microphones.
Starting point is 00:01:08 Gentlemen, say your name, how old you are, and your favorite. sexual position. What? Oh. This is, no. You don't have to say how old you are. Weirdest place you've ever made whoopee. Do I do the newlywed game?
Starting point is 00:01:25 Yes, of course. Don't worry about it. I'm going to start this one. Welcome to James Bonding. My name is Matt Corley. I'm Matt Myra. And today we've got six people in the room. Speaking of six, this is also my sixth podcast of the day, literally.
Starting point is 00:01:42 No joke, because we just did some Star Wars Minute episodes with Pete Bonavita and Pete the retailer. Whoa, you almost let that slip out. The world's going to find me. I know. It's all right. Alex Robinson from Star Wars Minute plus Jimmy Blades, Mark McConville. We're guesting on Star Wars Minute, guests of the show James Bonning. Then Matt shows up here today.
Starting point is 00:02:05 And now we're all doing this mega James Bonding episode where we're crossing over not only podcasts, but the subjects themselves. I'm as confused as everybody else. I'll explain it. We're going to do an episode on actors that appeared in James Bond movie somewhere and in Star Wars movies somewhere. There's a lot of them. Now, Pete, you're a bit of an expert on this. That's true.
Starting point is 00:02:27 It's the type of thing that, you know, I understand there's criticism where you can be like, oh, so what, it's a working actor. This guy's been in this and been in this, you know. But also it's just something that makes my brain tingle. I'm like, oh, that guy was this guy. Like, putting it together makes me really happy. Well, as we've discussed many times in this podcast, Pinewood Studios, essentially, I think, just kept dorms of the same actors and called them down and put them in different outfits.
Starting point is 00:02:51 It's like they had a repertory company because they keep showing up in Superman. Anything that was made in England in the 80s. I think it's too far. Oh, yeah. Has some of the ones afterwards. Like Gandhi has some of the same people. Definitely Force 10 from Navarone. Like all those.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Because World War II movies were so big in the late 70s. and, I mean, all the time after World War II. I mean, but especially in the 80s, like those World War II Commando movies. From 1973 to 1989, there were only 16 working actors in England. That's right. Most of the top secret is another one that has a ton of people, if you go back and look. Yeah. Peter Cushing.
Starting point is 00:03:29 Yeah. Well, a bunch of people from all this stuff. Yeah. There's like all the, and a lot of stuntmen that got to appear on screen, like, as themselves. Because they had the bone structure of a Mexican. Exactly. That's a big James Bond thing. That's right.
Starting point is 00:03:42 Gold finger. Yeah. The blue-eyed, blue-eyed Mexican with dark skin tan makeup on. Just cover them brown. You're Mexican. Great. It's the 60s.
Starting point is 00:03:52 So James, Mark, you guys are veterans of this podcast at this point. That's right. Yeah. I mean, you might... Octopussy strong. That's right. That's right. You know, last week we just did the new octopusy episode.
Starting point is 00:04:04 I was going to bring it up. Oh, I should have had you back. Well, we didn't want to... You didn't want to double up? Put you through that twice. I appreciate that. That's very nice of both of you. Well, we aim to please here.
Starting point is 00:04:15 And I don't think we went as long as the last Octopussy episode. Didn't we have to go plug meters nine times during that? You know, the common misconception, the braces, Jaws girlfriend wearing braces Mandela effect of that episode was that it was three hours long. But I think it was actually two hours long. So the cold opens episode we did with you, James, is I think the longest episode we've done. Wow. Yeah. Well done.
Starting point is 00:04:40 I'm going to start this over. Welcome to the James Bonding Podcast. My name is James Bladen. So Pete and Alex do this wonderful podcast that I've been on a handful of times where they break down basically every Star Wars movie in release order minute by minute. Every episode is a minute. Even if you're not a fan of Star Wars, these are just two great podcasters. So you're going to win either way.
Starting point is 00:05:06 Well, that's kind of you to say. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I'm the first to admit it's not necessarily for everybody. We do go pretty deep into stuff, but it's not, I think we like to... We're hardcore casual fans. That's kind of what we are.
Starting point is 00:05:17 We call ourselves lovers, not experts. Yeah. Yeah. I've been using that to... I've adapted that a little bit. It's good. For some stuff. What is your first exposure or experience to James Bond?
Starting point is 00:05:29 Do you remember? Do you have a formative origin story? I remember seeing For Your Eyes Only. It was on HBO when I first got HBO and, you know, so we were... I saw it like 55 times or something like that. And then my stepfather introduced us to some of the Sean Connery bombs after that. It's crazy how many people's first introduction to Bond was HBO in summer. Like it's lunacy.
Starting point is 00:05:52 Yeah. Like had they not done this, I think they wouldn't be making the movies anymore. You may be right, yeah. It would just died in the 90s had HBO not existed. It's like how the Russians fluoridated the water here and got us all socialists. Like that's basically what they did. Matt? What?
Starting point is 00:06:08 What? You guys aren't familiar? Anyway, that's why you're liberal. That's why this room is a bunch of Hollywood elites, because you've been fluoridated with communist floridation. Every time we come out here, we feel a little bit more, you know, socialist. That's right.
Starting point is 00:06:23 To New York, we just grumble about stuff. Oh, they only did in California. Yeah. It's different Florida. Actually, it's just L.A. County. Oh, I see. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:31 I live in Portland where they voted down fluoridation and they stopped fluoridating the water. Really? For precisely that reason. Well, actually, it was more like a hippie version because they were like, oh, we don't want toxins in the water and all that stuff. Well, we should mention Alex has no teeth. Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:46 Pete? It's the meth. I have teeth. Okay, good. I was trying to figure this out because I have a weird, speaking of octopussy. I had a weird kind of memory of, I think somebody took me to see octopusy in the theater when it was out. That's my first theater bond. But what year was that?
Starting point is 00:07:07 83. 83. So I was like eight And I mean I guess I don't know Things were different maybe but I like today I wouldn't take an eight year old to see well A to see A to see a movie that involves you know centered around kind of Killing an espionage but also it's called octopusy I'm gonna have to explain that to the eight year olds. There's a circus in it
Starting point is 00:07:25 That's all I remember Yeah I never stopped to think about that my dad 10 years old took me my dad who's 10 Took me to see octopusy and did I ever go I never asked and I I vaguely remember I remember saying, I don't think I should ask about that. Because I think I knew, because the way people talked about that title was like, I think that's something like sex related. So I'm too, I don't want to know the answer. I want to be embarrassed.
Starting point is 00:07:49 Yeah. You were in college. I saw Terminator 2 when I was seven in the theater. I don't understand this whole shielding children from things, guys. Look how I turned out. My dad took me to Apocalypse now and Animal House when I was less than 10 years old. Oh, my God. Wow.
Starting point is 00:08:06 This is a double feature? Yeah. I watched Godfather when I was a young, young kid, and I loved it. What was your first R-rated movie in a theater? In the theater? Yeah. Let me think. I know what mine is, well, Matt.
Starting point is 00:08:24 Yeah, please. Stripes. Oh, that's a great one. I got my dad to write me a note. That is two-thirds of a great one. Whoa. Is vacation art? Yeah, he wrote me a note.
Starting point is 00:08:33 I don't think vacation is. Another HBO staple. Yeah. Mark, do you know, I'm a fan? My first R-rated movie in the theater? Honestly, it might be like Pulp Fiction. Really? Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:08:44 What? Late. My parents, Matt knows this. You've heard this. My parents didn't really go to the movies. They didn't really take us to the movies. And so I think I probably saw, right around the age that my friends started getting driver's licenses is when I would go to any movie.
Starting point is 00:09:01 I would see anything. But, yeah, before that in the theater, we just, we probably saw ET, Return of the Jedi. Just like the big movies. But I don't think we never went to, I don't think we ever went to an R-rated movie as a family. And I have two younger brothers too, so that also would have sort of mitigated my chances
Starting point is 00:09:23 of being able to see an R-rated movie. Mine was deep throat. That's weird. NC 17's then. Oh, you're right. Okay, I'll think again. It doesn't qualify it. It was probably like random.
Starting point is 00:09:36 Rambo or... First Blood? No, part two. Or Cobra? Well, yeah. Isn't Rambo 2 first blood two? Rambo? Rambo First Blood 2?
Starting point is 00:09:49 Rambo First Blood Part 2. Yeah. And then Rambo 3. And then Rambo 3. But Rambo First Blood Part 2 has Stephen Burkhoff from Octopussy. This is great. You got us back. Which, yeah, I'm with you on the HBO.
Starting point is 00:10:01 I certainly saw tons of R-rated movies on HBO. Sure. We just never went to the... theater. It's Cinemax. Yeah. Oh, buddy. All right.
Starting point is 00:10:10 So, Pete, now you were gracious enough on the plane to prepare a little something for this, which is the biggest gift to us. It's, uh, I don't know how rewarding it'll be, but... Wow, how did you bake?
Starting point is 00:10:24 On the plane? You know, can I use that little microwave oven? And they're like, oh, easy baking. It's a dump cake. So I made a PowerPoint. Which of James Bond, Star Wars Crossover. God. God, this is incredible.
Starting point is 00:10:36 And we can do it as kind of like a little free-for-all quiz, not keeping score, just, you know. Okay. Keep score at home? Send that's the results. You can keep score at home, sure. Yeah. But it's PowerPoint, which is good for podcasting. So visually, you guess I'll have to help explain some of the stuff, I think, to the listeners.
Starting point is 00:10:52 Okay. This is great. Well, right now it says James Bond slash Star Wars crossover stuff, and there's blurry picture of Dr. No and a new hope side by side. This is exciting. So it's actors that have been in both, have had roles in both franchises. and I put it into categories even, round one. It's big bads.
Starting point is 00:11:11 Easy stuff. This is great. This is great. You don't know how happy I am. Batting practice. We'll just kind of knock him out of the park. Obviously, you guys know who this guy was. Christopher Lee.
Starting point is 00:11:22 I can name him right now. Right. Nicknack, Tabasco. Yeah, Scaramanga, man with the Golden Gun. And then he's also Count Duku in Star Wars episode, too. Duoku. Kodoo. What was he?
Starting point is 00:11:32 I forget again. Darth what? Tyrannus. Thank you. Or Tyrannis? Tyrannis. Tyrannis. Who the hell is this one?
Starting point is 00:11:40 Julian Glover. Julian Glover. That's another thing you could do is Game of Thrones crossover. Yeah, sure. And Indiana Jones. Yeah. Julian Glover, who's Christados from, for your eyes only, and is also General of Years in Empire Strikesback.
Starting point is 00:11:56 He makes the Walker attack on Hoff Base. Yes. And she's the generator. The only competent Imperial officer. Right. That's right. He was the asker. I think there are many BT.
Starting point is 00:12:05 competent imperial officers. I mean, think about organizing the infrastructure, you know, deciding whether or not to put a shiny black floor in. Logistics. Figuring out which way the door is going to open.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Handrails? Handrails? No. No, you don't need them. It's a space station. Signage. Where's that going? Some maybe signage. We don't know. No. Probably one guy that was like
Starting point is 00:12:26 we should change the way this says tractor beam to English. That was George Lucas. He did that after. I thought it was reverse. Didn't they change it from... Oh, yes. That is reverse.
Starting point is 00:12:40 And they were like, what the hell it says? We can't read this? Yeah. Go get the Oribech gall in. Okay, who's next? Next one up. Are we... Wait, it's Blofeld from behind.
Starting point is 00:12:52 Which is... Oh, I know. It's the... The Vader shot. No. This is for your eyes only, Blofeld, but it's... It's Lobot.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Yes. It's... What's the John Hollis? Only is John Hollis. Lobot. Whoa. And Price strikes back. Yes.
Starting point is 00:13:08 Flash Gordon, right? But he's not even called Blofeld in for your eyes only because they don't have the rights to that character anymore, so they kill him off. And you never see his face. You just see his bald head. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:13:18 Do you think that's some of the stainless steel he had in the delicatessi? Which is now going to get lots of tariffs on it. That is my go-to-number-one Halloween costume. Should I ever need to do it? You got to do it. I know. I need to just get it.
Starting point is 00:13:33 You don't need to lobot it, man. you could fucking blowfeld it. I have blowfell it. Neck brace, wheelchair, blowfeld? No. With cat on your lap? Think about it. I did have a cat. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:43 Okay. Well. And a Neuru suit. It was incredible. Yeah. But this, I need to get the Lobot thing going. Yeah. It's just some beats headphones worn. He's also one of the big heads in Superman in the tribunal, right?
Starting point is 00:13:56 He's also the bass player for Bighead Todd and the Monsters. That's true. We should. All of this is true. If you can name if any of these people are in a Superman, or like other classic 80s movie, it's worth mentioning. Yeah, there's a handful that are also. Again, same thing.
Starting point is 00:14:12 This is like Christmas to me. All right, next two. Whole round for Octopusy. This is thrilling. I already know two that sits side by side. Do you want to guess ahead of time or you want to... I'll wait because I don't want to spoil it. Right there.
Starting point is 00:14:25 Right there. Okay. He doesn't really have an official name, but he's... Yeah, he's like American military guy, but he's in... U.S. aid. He's... He's don't frighten us with your sorcerer's ways. He's Tarkin's assembly room guy, right?
Starting point is 00:14:39 You want to... Oh. And how do you pronounce his last name? La Perrammeteer? La Parmentier? La Parmentier? La Parmentier? La Parmaintier?
Starting point is 00:14:48 I just call him La Parm. He's Le Parm. Dick La Parm. Dick Le Parm. I was at a restaurant once and his picture was framed on the wall. Oh, which from what movie? From Star Wars. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:58 Him in the... Not from Octopozy? No, no. And it said, like, to Roberto's, the stakes are better than on the Death Star. But so he's one of the, he's at the circus. He's at the circus. He's at the Octopusy Circus and he's sitting next to the general. Well, yeah, so that's, so he's Admiral Maddie.
Starting point is 00:15:21 Oh, Mottie, okay. And he's sitting next to you. That's him as the general, the like childlike general. And that's Hoff base commander. Yes, yes. I don't know his name. He's a solo. Oh my God, they worked it out.
Starting point is 00:15:37 General Reichen, who I always thought, and you guys can confirm, I guess it probably wasn't, that he was 80-yard because his voice was such a voiceovery kind of voice. No, but that's him. That's his actual voice. So, rebel uniforms for generals, you roll some sort of dice and whatever you roll is what you wear. It's the Purina, yeah. But look at those collars. Like he's basically wearing a neck pillow.
Starting point is 00:16:00 Oh, yeah. I don't love it. So they can just... Very comfortable. Is that a Bibb Fortuna that has the thing? Yeah, it is Bibbif. It kind of looks like that. I love the Hoth uniforms for Leia, for the soldiers, for everything.
Starting point is 00:16:13 God, they're good. They're good. They should have to spend more time there. It's a shame that they're only there for a little bit. And then I have to go... Yeah, stupid empire chasing them away. Seems silly to stay after that base attack. There's a logic to that.
Starting point is 00:16:26 Yeah. Oh, and then this guy. Oh, wow. On Lenin. Okay, so this is the guy from Octopussy that's like the, is he like the art curator? Who is he in Octopus? I'm trying to remember. It's the Nazi bus car.
Starting point is 00:16:44 Is he on the train? We just watched it. Yeah, he might be on the train. I think he's a Russian, like, also general. Russian. But why it was? I think, and he's on the, that is the train. That is Octopus's a circus train car.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Oh, I didn't watch Octopus. He's the guy that handles the nuke. He's the guy with the nuke. Okay. That shows how to use it, right? With the little John Linen glasses. Yeah. But who is he in Star Wars?
Starting point is 00:17:06 I don't know who he is in Star Wars. Wait a minute. I have no idea. Can we have his name? Can we have his name? His name in Octopusy or the actor? His real name. All right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:16 It's, uh, there you go. Dermott Crowley. It's a great man. Camp. Camp. Camp or comp. Yeah. Definitely.
Starting point is 00:17:26 In octopusy. Comp. Oh, I feel like I'm going to kick myself when I see who this is. Oh, Hans Solo. Which movie is he? Which movie is he? In Star Wars? He's in Star Wars.
Starting point is 00:17:40 No, but in the Star Wars. Yeah. He's in Return of the Jedi. Oh. It's not Bibb Fortuna, is it? No. That's the guy from Warwolf in London, which I learned from your guys' podcast. That's right.
Starting point is 00:17:50 The premiere Mime of the Time. Okay, hold on. So this is... He's from Return of the Jedi. Mime of the Time. Do you see his face in Return of the Jedi? Yes. I think I know who it is.
Starting point is 00:18:00 Is he an alien? Is it general, Nadine? It is. Oh, he's just about to get there. Holy shit. Oh, my God, with his fake beard. This is the best podcast ever. I have in so much.
Starting point is 00:18:12 I wish this never ended. This type of thing really scratches an itch for me. He had a beard for something. Then when he showed up for Jedi, he was clean-shaven. When he auditioned, he had a beard. And they were like, why'd you shave off your beard? Here, where this felt. They couldn't get him a fake beard for Jedi.
Starting point is 00:18:26 They couldn't, like, push his scenes a month. Probably not. But also it's like, did they say your beard looks fake? Like you're in the casting process and you're, you've got to go immediately. We couldn't make a decision on General May Dean. We got this guy. He shamed his beard. You can't fucking push the schedule.
Starting point is 00:18:40 God damn it. When they put his fake beard on, did they say your beard looks so fake? We need to make your hair look more fake to disguise it. Just style around it. I like that guy. Yeah. He looks great. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Well, Jeremy Bullock, there you go. He was, we just talked about him as well in Star Wars Minute because he's in Revenge of the Sith as well. Yeah, right. He just came up. That's the same character. That's Boba Fett. The same guy who does that.
Starting point is 00:19:07 What's his name in Bond? He has a name like Smithers or Carruthers or something. Smithers. Oh, it's Smithers. It's Jeremy Bullock. Yeah. Also, of course, played Lieutenant Shekel. Shekel.
Starting point is 00:19:22 It's so weird that he played someone other than Boba Fett in a scene that Boba Fett's in. Yeah, yeah. That it's so weird. It's the magic of movie making. Yeah. yeah and of course bobafebette one of many actors to play bobafebh yeah i just saw that somebody else was bobafebette in another scene
Starting point is 00:19:38 while i was researching this i was like oh that guy played bobafebhett in one scene but i can't remember who it was yes how many boboffets are there it's just one clone i don't understand there's a lot wouldn't you clone a clone yeah is it truly well i subscribe to the multiplicity theory of cloning and sure by the fourth time he just likes pizza I'm pizza. That's Barbara Streisand's done.
Starting point is 00:20:01 Next up, Imperial Officers. Here we go. This is great. I have a lot of questions about Imperial officers. Come to the right place. I mean, I've come to the right place. I mean, I've come to the right place. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:20:10 You have. First, does this guy look familiar? Okay, hold on. For the listeners at home. Spy who love me, submarine guy? Stromberg one captain. Oh, no. It's the big ship that swallows the,
Starting point is 00:20:28 up? I don't know. That would be Stromberg one, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So he's a captain. He's a defector, obviously. He decided to sign up with the mercenary group of Schronberg.
Starting point is 00:20:39 George Rubesek. He really wanted to start World War III. So he hopped on board. I like how closely we're staring at this. I should have projected it. So he's definitely an imperial officer. I'm trying to remember. Imperial officer.
Starting point is 00:20:51 You know what I can tell from here? In the movie Star Wars. His water could have used in the movie Star Wars? Oh, is he the guy walking with Vader at the top of the film? in the Tantiv for
Starting point is 00:21:00 Holding her is dangerous. That guy? He's not holding her is dangerous but he's close He's part of that same thing Yeah He's the one who comes up
Starting point is 00:21:08 Oh he's holding He's holding her Is totally cool Watch his voices like this Right? He's like old platforms We're aboard Commander
Starting point is 00:21:16 But he's definitely Adiard Okay So Lieutenant Would outrank Would be Below a commander
Starting point is 00:21:24 Why is his Imperial Garb Just pure black What is the black to the green. The black to the green. I know you guys are lovers, not experts. But it's gray, too.
Starting point is 00:21:34 There's black, green and gray. Okay. And it doesn't seem to have, I think, like, after the fact they've gone to put in rhyme and reasons, especially the little chess plates that have the telephone button. Status bars. Yeah. But, um, I think it's maybe like Star Trek where there are different departments? Kind of.
Starting point is 00:21:50 I think. That's what they, they like, you're in the Navy, so you get to wear this. You're in the army. You get to wear this. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. James, if you shut your curtain too, the lights coming in here. Nope.
Starting point is 00:22:02 You guys are all missing it. It's on the door. Curtain. All right, I'll get it. Heavy curtain action. It doesn't go that way, Matt. Hang on. Continue.
Starting point is 00:22:14 Sexy. Is that enough? That's enough. Hey, that's enough. Hey, it's enough. This guy looks familiar. That guy looks like he's selling microwaves in the valley. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:27 It's just out on the car. like Fess Parker. Blurie. It's a very bigfoot kind of photo. Michael Cain's brother. Yes. Looks like Michael Cain. Does he not?
Starting point is 00:22:37 I have no idea who that is. He's also, he played another ball. So we'll throw that in there too. Does this guy look familiar? Oh, that's Thunderball. Yeah. He's the pilot. Is he the brother that gets Domino's brother that gets taken under the water?
Starting point is 00:22:51 I don't know. Yes. I know he's a Vulcan pilot. Vulcan co-pilot. And then he's also punching. Punting Man. What is Punting Man? From Russia with Love.
Starting point is 00:23:01 I don't know, but I loved the description. Punting Man. Vulcan. I love. We just watched. I know. Is he in a gondola or something? Or like...
Starting point is 00:23:08 I would assume like a... He's putting up punting for... Punting man. Bunting. Bunting? Bunting. But who is he in Star Wars? Michael Culver.
Starting point is 00:23:20 He's an imperial officer. Oh, right. He's an imperial officer. Again, this is going to get... I'm just guessing. It tends to get more and more obscure. It's going to be less and less, less rewarding goes you're going to be like oh yeah that guy in the background who said that one thing
Starting point is 00:23:31 by the way how many of these do you have total because i want to pace myself because i don't want this to end like i don't want to find that we've only got three left i think i did four rounds each this is round three yeah we're almost done no this is round two okay that's good i thought this was round three yeah there was something octopozy imperial officers this is imperial officers oh so there's only one more round. One more round after this. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, man.
Starting point is 00:24:02 Michael Colver. Can you tell us which movie? Not without looking ahead of slide, because I don't remember off the top of my head. He looks so different in those two pictures. Oh, I think... Well, one's clear. I think he's... I think he's an empire, if he's who I remember.
Starting point is 00:24:22 If I said, I would just be guessing. Okay, why don't you guess? Is it Captain Nita? Captain Nita. Lordth Nita. He doesn't even look at anything like he did in those James Pondon. I see him in the Thunderball. Wow, I didn't know he was the Thunderball guy.
Starting point is 00:24:38 The Millennium Falcon. The Empire is sad. Oh, he gets choked. Apology accepted. Apology accepted. Captain Nita. Apology accepted. Everybody.
Starting point is 00:24:48 All right. Next up is this guy. I know this guy. I know that. I know. Yeah. It's from living daylights. And he's the one.
Starting point is 00:24:56 that at the top of Return of the Jedi when they're Vader's shuttles coming in. He looks like a Thunderbirds puppet? Yes, he does. He looks like a Monty Python character. I think I even know his name. Is his last name? Oh, wow. His Imperial Officer last name or his actor last name?
Starting point is 00:25:13 His actor last name? Because I've tried to research him for I was there too. But no, I'm thinking of Neil McInnis or no, who am I thinking of Angus McGinnis, the guy who's gold leader. Yeah. Yeah. His name is Glyn John. Oh, Glyn Baker.
Starting point is 00:25:30 Sorry, Glyn Baker. Glenn Baker. Yeah. And he was 002, I guess, in the daylight. Yeah. Right in the openings. We lost a lot of good double O's that day. Lieutenant Endicott.
Starting point is 00:25:39 Right. Hmm. Endicott. He looks familiar. He looks familiar. Return of the Jedi, where he's, he lets them through the, uh... Do you think he's ever like, just call me Lieutenanticot? I wouldn't if I were him.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Yeah. He looks particularly snoddy there, too. Yeah, he does. He's got a good snouty face. Seems like a guy who would have a Lieutenantcott's green name. They've got to have screen names, right? Imperial Serenian. Yeah, they've got to be messaging each other. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:06 What did he say in the movie? This was in Empire? No, Jedi. Jedi. Jedi. What did he say in Jedi? It's nothing memorable. Judging by that photo?
Starting point is 00:26:17 Huh. Yeah. Yeah. Something like guys. He does look like he's about to make a snide remark out of the corner of his town. It's Lieutenantcott. Yeah, I think that was probably it. I think he's just like he's informing the people that, you know,
Starting point is 00:26:30 Vader Shuttle is here or whatever it is. Okay. Yeah. I can't remember his lines. He's right into the beginning. Guys, guys, guys, he's here. He's here. He may have, does he have the first line in the movie? He might. It could be. I think it's either him or the, who's the pilot of the shuttle, don't they? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:47 Frank. Frank. Frank. Yeah. Frank pilot. Frank pilot. All right, next up. Oh, look at that. Speaking of my earliest movie memories. Wait a-O-O-C, 00-9.
Starting point is 00:26:58 I think I know this one for me. I think we talked about it off the air. Oh, we didn't? Possibly. This is the guy who's the other double-O in Octopussy. That's the clown. Yeah, which is what made me think that Octopus was the first one that, like, I remember seeing this whole scene with the clown in the theater, and I was like, wait a minute, and Faberjeet eggs and this whole thing.
Starting point is 00:27:15 You mean a scene of a clown being chased through the woods by a man throwing knives stuck with you as a child? Strangely. Very strange. I can't imagine. something, you know, at eight years old it was just like, that's normal. Well, I have no idea who this is because it's impossible to tell what he looks like.
Starting point is 00:27:30 Yeah, it's tough because he's under makeup. Maybe he's... They get harder, too, that I forget to mention that. This is great. He is Andy Bradford. 009. It's 009 in Octopus. I was wrong, man.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Okay. I was wrong. Can you tell us which movie? I thought it was William Hootkins. Oh, no. But he's in Raiders. He got a lot of Raiders crossover, too. He's not never in a Bond movie?
Starting point is 00:27:52 No. I wanted to fit him in here. There's somebody that I else that I wanted to fit in here that I couldn't because it didn't fit a category and I had to be that way. Who is it? It's, I forgot the actor's name now, but Malakili, the Rancor Keeper is in. Oh. He's in one of the 80s ones. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:11 The guy that cries? Yeah. That's the guy that cries. I know who you're talking about. What one is he in? The man who cries. Whokins was also on flashcourt. and Batman
Starting point is 00:28:24 and Batman Yeah Okay So 209 Andy Bradford Also Pinewood Was Lieutenant Tammarice Oh yeah
Starting point is 00:28:32 In Star Wars The motion picture He looks like Michael Sheen there He's the one who goes up and tells Darth Vader That There's 30 How many rebel ships there are
Starting point is 00:28:45 Yeah There's like there's 30 rebel ships And then Vader gets all uppity about They're avoiding the turbo lasers And they're gonna have to go Get them ship to ship to ship this which film Star Wars Star Wars
Starting point is 00:28:56 A new hope Star Wars in the Star Wars universe The Imperial Fleet has a real problem With their turbo lasers And range Yeah Maybe if they stop you I feel like they're just like
Starting point is 00:29:10 Well boy They really got us this time We gotta send out these tie fighters Thank God we have these on board Like why even have the turbo lasers At this point Yeah That's what I'm saying
Starting point is 00:29:19 If you can drop out of hyperspace on a dime. Why have turbo lasers? Well, lasers are light. They go the speed of light. They don't need to be turbine injected. If you turn the turbo down, it would go a farther. I think it's the cooling is turbo.
Starting point is 00:29:33 Oh, that makes sense. All right. Reinstate the turbo lasers. Thank you. But also take them away because they're useless. Oh. Dude in masks is round four. This is my dream.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Which is going to be tough. You might recognize them in bond, but then it's just some dude in a mask. And so always. All right. And I think the first one, you have a leg up on, Matt, because it's, you recognize this guy. Anthony Forrest. That's right. Full-size Sam Levine?
Starting point is 00:30:05 He is, I didn't. Anthony Forrest was a, he was Palmer on the USS Ween in the spy who loved me. He's also this, this are not the droids, you're looking for a sand trooper. Yeah. What? How do you know that? Because he was on. You were there, too?
Starting point is 00:30:21 Yeah. That's right. Boy, oh boy. It's kind of cheating. He also played Fixer in the deleted scenes. Right. Fixer. Fixer.
Starting point is 00:30:29 Luke's friend, Fixer, Cammy, and Biggs is a little deleted secret. Who goes to visit him and is like, you've got to get out of this aunt and uncle hellhole. Biggs is in one of these, too. But he's such a blurry picture and he's such a background character that I didn't, I couldn't get him in there. I don't think I realized that. He's in, it could be Spy Who Love Me or one of these kind of right around the same era. But Garrag Hagen. is in there.
Starting point is 00:30:55 Next one up. You recognize this guy. The guy firing the boom box. Of course. That's something they're developing for the Americans. America's sweet part. Yeah. It's called a ghetto blaster.
Starting point is 00:31:06 That's what it's called in the film. That's what they call it. That's just kind of what it was called at the time. It's not a boom box. No, no, no. It is what it is. Although, yeah. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:31:17 Matt ran away. There's a cat involved. Oh, okay. Margo has the answer? always do you know who this is in james bond because i feel like i know who it is in star wars i know who it is in i know who it is in james bond yeah i don't i don't think you get some real name that's in uh q division technician okay he sure looks like bib fortuna no it's not bib fortin no it's that in um that's stick two is that in clotu barata barata no not that close
Starting point is 00:31:45 Voodoo Kill? Is that Voodoo Kill? No, that's living daylight, I think. Close? Nick Doe's close? Not really. I mean, close in, it's a guy, it's a creature in a mask. They're developing the thing that Surge sells Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop 3. Except that had a microwave also.
Starting point is 00:32:05 Oh, wow. Wait, it was a boombox with a microwave? In Beverly Hillscove three, yeah, and a machine gun and a flamethrower. I'm just going to name some names, Squidhead. No. Reyes. No. Pruen.
Starting point is 00:32:15 No. Alan Harris? Nine No. Dengar. Yackface. No? No. IG 88. Getting warmer.
Starting point is 00:32:22 I G8. Zuckus? No. Bosque. Bosque. Oh. Alan Harris was the man in the mask. He must be pretty tall.
Starting point is 00:32:30 I got a solid IG 88 joke in the Goldberg's baseball's episode. Stay tuned, guys. Okay. You can't give us a sneak peek? It's something to the effect of Adam's just rattling off Star Wars facts because it's, His girlfriend's parents are talking about the Reagan initiative and not actually Star Wars, and then he just finally thinks he has something to talk to them about.
Starting point is 00:32:52 So he just starts, so we do a bunch of cuts, and it was, uh, uh, now while IG88 isn't a, isn't a, isn't a main character, he does get his own action figure. And he pulls out the action figure and he goes, showing that everyone in the galaxy is important. It's just a ridiculous thing that we, when that happens to the prop people, go on eBay and get an IG 88 action figure?
Starting point is 00:33:18 Did you get the small one or the big one? The big one. Wow. So, oh, how much, did they get the 90s one? We buy, everything's authentic on the show. So, how much did you have to pay for that?
Starting point is 00:33:29 Okay. Who also, you know, is a collector, or he makes the show buy it, and then he keeps it. So he got to keep an original issue, tall. Oh, guaranteed. Does he keep writing expensive toys into the show? I know.
Starting point is 00:33:42 Back by firing built with fun. Expensive toys. Vinyl Cape Jawa episode. I don't blame. If I ran a show, I would also write an expensive James Bond toys. You would just do watches and boots. Yep, watches and boots. And take so golly.
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Starting point is 00:34:42 Mad and Mad and James Bonding podcast Wait have you guys Have you guys Did I hear about that From you guys or did I That was right said Fred
Starting point is 00:34:52 Oh there you go Okay sorry Oh no There's a James Bond like hotel in Milan I don't think I know Wait what? In Milan there's a guy Who's just a huge James Bond fan
Starting point is 00:35:01 Who opened a hotel And he's been buying collectibles And so the whole place is stocked with bond collectibles And some of the rooms are themed I think to movies and stuff like that What are we doing? Let's go now. Road trip to Milan.
Starting point is 00:35:15 Wow. Let's go. We're going to look this up. We're going to move it as that. I'll take the view to a kill room, please. I'll take the Tomorrow Never Dies room. Sir, that's never been booked. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:35:26 In fact. Ironically, the view to a kill room has no view. You open the door and it's like it's literally just view to the worst street in Milan where people are often murdered. Yeah. It's authentic. It's authentic. All right, let's go. Next one, surprise.
Starting point is 00:35:43 It's impossible to get these by guessing, so this is, again, will be fun, but it would be fun to guess. And this one was new to me. You recognize this guy. Is he a gypsy in from Russia with Love? He is a gypsy in from Russia with Love. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:57 Gypsy from Rush with Love. Alf Mangan. Alf Mangan. Probably Alfred. Right, yeah. He didn't play Alph. Close. Not alien life form?
Starting point is 00:36:07 I don't think so. He does play and alien in life form. Oh. Is he someone in a canteena or his? He is somebody on a canteenina? Look at that. You're in the zone there. Moftak?
Starting point is 00:36:17 No. He's not Ponda Baba, is he? No. He's Rukta Baba. Ponda Vava 10. No. Is he a jizz dancer or whatever it is? He jizz, but not in the movie.
Starting point is 00:36:31 Okay. Is he one of the band? Not that movie anyway. Is he one of the band? No. The band, I think, was all the ILM, like the costume department. They just put them on themselves. Does he get his arm cut off?
Starting point is 00:36:42 No. I like that this turned into like true fault. He's not, um, uh, Bo Sheck, is he? No. No, he has, he has not the space suit guy, is he? No. Aren't the old spacesuits? In a sense.
Starting point is 00:36:56 Yeah, I guess. They're just called suits. Suites in space. Is it the guy with the white head with the little probiscus and the black, two black eyes? No. Oh, yeah. Like the sleastack looking guy? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:08 Yeah. What, he's not the big dick nose. elephant guy. No, not Gernan. He was, uh, we all, he, if we were talking about expensive toys before, he came up, he would have come up. Snagletooth? He played snagletooth.
Starting point is 00:37:21 Oh, wow. Which is, I didn't know anybody played snagletooth. And let alone then as I was looking, researching this, I was like, oh, I played snagletooth. And he was in a bunch of other stuff. What else was he in? Um, just a handful, you know, same kind of stuff. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:35 Yeah. I like that he basically has, uh, human pattern hair. Yeah. It's more relatable. It's basically a jaded. Red, curly hair. I think they just cut off somebody's hair and just like glued patches of it on there. I think they just had a wig lying around and they're like, let's do this.
Starting point is 00:37:50 Probably because the mask was at a big hole in it. Right. And then lastly, who's this guy? Daniel Craig. Oh, look at that. Guys, I know what he does. He talks out of a Storm Trooper helmet that he's not actually in. Skivin to Skubin.
Starting point is 00:38:05 And he played FN 1824. Oh. in the Star Wars. Great year. Good vintage. Yeah. That's all I got. Wow.
Starting point is 00:38:15 That was beautiful. That was really something. He plays Daisy Ridley. Imagine that. It's a lot of makeup. Are there any other major actors that we're missing? That we missing? Are we missing?
Starting point is 00:38:28 Are we missing? Are we missing? Let me look at what the... No, Gary. Not a major actor at all, the Malikili, what he was... Yeah. He plays like someone, like a diplomat or, like, a diplomat or, like, kind of a pat, he's like a goofball.
Starting point is 00:38:42 I can picture his face. He's in a suit. Yeah, there's a bunch of almost rounds in this folder now that I put that. It's a great folder to scan through it because it's just a bunch of pictures of background characters, background actors. Isn't Jake Lloyd in one of the Pierce-Prosden movie? Yeah, he plays M. It's for your eyes only. Look at that.
Starting point is 00:39:04 Here we got. That's why I haven't seen it in a long time. I can't. Speaking of that. Paul Brooke, Malikili. this guy and cleans up nice yeah that's it
Starting point is 00:39:14 he's got the weird eye he looks does he cry in that also I can't he looks like it he always reminds me of Mel Brooks's sidekick in those later movies
Starting point is 00:39:25 like high anxiety and oh Ron Carey yeah it's all crossover man I just watched this French show called Lamont about this female serial killer but Carol Bouquet
Starting point is 00:39:37 from four your eyes stars the guy from Sanford and son that's terrific I don't even have a point after that what was it wasn't that the name of the spin-off Lamont? What was the name of the Sanford and Sun spin-off
Starting point is 00:39:53 Was it just Red Fox? Sanford Arms Oh yeah Yes There you go Grady opened up their thing as a hotel They were like, boy Faulty Towers is great
Starting point is 00:40:05 What if Grady ran the Should that wasn't the Shining? A lot of shining Crossover. A shining Bond crossover. Yeah. So Barry Nelson is the guy that interviews Jack Nicholson and he was the first ever James Bond. As possibly the guy who maybe represents the every man here rather than the superfan or the dead.
Starting point is 00:40:29 When these actors are asked by people, do you think they say, I'm an actor? Right. And then someone says, well, what were you in? Do you think they say Star Wars first or do you think they say James Bond? Probably Star Wars. Although I wonder where they are. Like, like, 009? He's kind of featured thing in that versus the guy who said one line.
Starting point is 00:40:51 That's the thing. If you're in London, they're probably going to be like James Bond. Yeah. Well, like the Malikili guy, I bet he go. I bet they all go as Star Wars and James Bond. Right. Like you might as well hit him. Yeah, and Superman.
Starting point is 00:41:03 They go through the whole deal. Yeah. Star Wars, James Bond, Raiders. Is there anybody in all three? There's got to be. I bet we can find one. Star Wars, Raiders, James Bond. I love the trouble.
Starting point is 00:41:13 Julian Glover. Julian Glover. Allison Dutie's a crossover. She's Elsa in Cross in... No, not Star Wars. But she's in View to a Kill and Last Crusade. Man, I don't feel like you're taking this seriously. La Pardm, too.
Starting point is 00:41:31 Richard La Permantee. Dick LeParm. Oh, yeah. He's in... He's in... let's see the reporter reporter reporter
Starting point is 00:41:42 wait a minute no not in Raiders sorry not in Empire not in Indiana Jones I started mixing Superman into that he's in Superman
Starting point is 00:41:48 he's in the Superman Superman 2 yeah is he in the White House oh no he's the the reporter that shows up when the villains first get to the town
Starting point is 00:41:58 Superman is has Clifton James playing basically the same character as the Bond films J.W. Pepper also um
Starting point is 00:42:07 Oh, there's something else I was thinking of. Oh, hell. Oh, hell. Oh, hell. Don't wait for me. Keep going. Keep going. So how many episodes in are you guys in Star Wars Minute?
Starting point is 00:42:22 Total? Yeah. Like 768 or something like that? No, it has to be an even number because we just finished. What would you, what would you, if you were going to talk to yourself, time machine-wise, but before you started the podcast, what would you say to each other? Hmm. Hmm.
Starting point is 00:42:39 it'd be tempting to do it, and I know this goes against everything that I stand for, but it'd be tempting to not do it in release order, to do it in episode order, because, much like George Lucas himself, once we were, as we were kind of finding our footing and figuring out what we were doing is when we were kind of striking gold with the movie. You know, Star Wars is the one that everybody kind of loves, and we did that one first when we didn't know, you know, we didn't know as many cool people as we do, and we didn't have the kind of equipment that we have now and all this other stuff. Yeah, we squandered
Starting point is 00:43:11 one of the best movies. Our episodes were like 10 minutes long. It's a piece of advice. Whatever you do, don't go back and redo it. We just wanted to just a couple of tweaks and change. We ran out of money. We just want to go back. I think you should. I'm Rick McCallel.
Starting point is 00:43:26 I don't know why they wouldn't go back and do it. We're also going to throw some new funnier scenes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, at least you got it right by attack of the clones because that's the one that really deserves the most you know. Yes. Is that the worst?
Starting point is 00:43:39 Yeah, I think so. Yeah. What are you thinking? Phantom Menace? I mean, Phantom Menace is dull. It's not bad. Well, it's bad, but it's also dull. Phantom Menace.
Starting point is 00:43:51 So, at least Attack of the Clones. No, I still can't. Especially after listening to your podcast on it, I didn't realize. Like, I knew I didn't love it, but I didn't realize how much was written on the fly and done kind of like as they were going. it. Why? Why was that the case? It's not like he had to kowtow to a studio. He could do his own timeline.
Starting point is 00:44:13 You'd think he would have gotten that stuff done. But they were really writing as they went, weren't they? They started shooting Revenge of the Sith before the whole thing was, the script was done. They were still working on the script while they started shooting. Right. Revenge of the Sith or Attack of the Clones? No, Revenge of the Sith.
Starting point is 00:44:29 Clones went, like, it was all, everything was backed up, I think, because he didn't realize how long it would take to do Phantom Menace and And how much was involved. He forgot the ropes. He forgot about how much render time would be involved. Yeah, really. Isn't there a clip of George Lucas behind the scenes saying, like, oh, he's looking at pictures
Starting point is 00:44:48 and he said, oh, they're building the sets. I got to write the script. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. But he's, like, joking kind of like, but he's not joking. But he's not. He's making a joke out of the fact that he's not finished. Have you seen the footage of him looking at the storyboards and deciding with, with
Starting point is 00:45:02 highlighters, what's fucking going to be a real set and what's going to be CG? Yeah. Yeah. It's that arbitrage. It's so haphazard. Yeah. He's playing God. So Matt, I asked the other Matt in the green room.
Starting point is 00:45:13 We have a new Star Wars movie now coming out every year. Would you want a similar thing with James Bond? No. You wouldn't watch it. No, I mean, I've seen what it did to Star Wars. It's oversaturation. It's like you used to want, like, the fact that we're getting a Star Wars, another Star Wars movie, months, five months.
Starting point is 00:45:32 One just came out while we were recording. Five months after. I got an alert on my phone. phone. Star Wars. It's out on video now. Projee's story. Crazy to me.
Starting point is 00:45:41 I also like, here's my thing. And I'm happy to talk Star Wars as I often do on this podcast. You know, it's such a, in many ways, it is restrictive storytelling because they're stuck with this conflict. They're stuck with this rebellion empire situation or rebellion first order situation, where you're just,
Starting point is 00:46:05 your characters are always. going to have to, your protagonists are always going to be a rag-tag group against this big bad. And, you know, it just gets to a point where like, well, what's the end game? The end game's always going to be the same thing. It's always going to be like, we have to find a way to stop the empire. And it's like a war, it's essentially, for me, it's like there's only so many World War II movies you can stomach before you're like, well, I think I've seen. I think I've seen everything. But Matt, couldn't you say that James Bond falls into that similar trap?
Starting point is 00:46:44 Well, you could, but no. For me, I think the beauty of the James Bond franchise is the formula they've established and they established it early, early on. Whereas with Star Wars, the formula, it's not like you're handing your protagonist. It's not like, hey, Luke Skywalker, go do this. there's this bad guy on that but I would be interested in that that I would watch because that would be different yeah like if it was like if it was like if they built up a world of like not following Luke Han Leia uh you know ray BBA you know if they were like okay well let's
Starting point is 00:47:27 actually just sort of like I really enjoyed the battlefront to story mode which was essentially you're... Ironverse hero. Yeah, and you're playing an elite, you're like, oh, I'm an elite imperial force, and I get to go to pull off these missions.
Starting point is 00:47:47 And I find that sort of storytelling interesting and at least not repetitive. So you want the Poe Dameron movie? I would watch a Poe. If they gave me four of them, where he's doing different missions and he's flying his X-Wing, like... What I'm just saying is...
Starting point is 00:48:03 I've yet to see him be a really good pilot, by the way. Couldn't you say that, Roger or I'm sorry James Bond is the rag tag small basically group that's going up
Starting point is 00:48:12 against whether it's the empire or a person hell bent on destroying the world it's similar it's like a person hell bent but it could be a different like you could basically take
Starting point is 00:48:23 the person who's running the empire that day you could substitute in the leader of Smersh or you know whoever for that that's a different person with different kind of goals
Starting point is 00:48:35 and ways of carrying out their evil. Right, but if it like, I mean, essentially, I feel like James Bond is always trying to prevent Star Wars from happening. Like, he's always trying to stop a world war. You know what I mean? Until it came out, and then he just copied it for Moonraker. So, you know, I feel like the difference is,
Starting point is 00:48:56 it's, I think there's just more freedom in it. Honestly, in a James Bond film, there's more freedom to tell a different story. I guess, but to me, it feels like you James Bond has to go up against someone who wants to destroy the world. I know, but the fatigue really set in for me during watching Last Jedi. The fatigue of Star Wars set in for me. But James Bond has a stricter formula.
Starting point is 00:49:20 So when you vary a little bit, it feels fresher. Star Wars has a very general, like, locked in thing that, huh? General. General of ears. Generals need a admiral. You know what? I can't talk. That's maybe the problem that it's trying to.
Starting point is 00:49:35 to stick to this kind of general repeating theme to... I guess in a way it's like sort of why I enjoyed Rogue One so much was that it was a very specific... But it's basically a Bond movie. Totally. Yeah, like a mission movie. And I think... Travelod with a bunch of, you know, characters that pop up and then it's, you don't necessarily
Starting point is 00:49:53 need to see them again. Yeah. And I think that that is, in a way, that's a little more freeing for me than having to like, I guess my main problem with the Star Wars franchise as it exists. right now is that I always feel like we need these, why do I need these sweeping three movie stories that are essentially, it's the same story told over three films. But is it, did Star Wars kind of invent the trilogy? I know it was going off of serials, but was, it kind of did, huh? Like, that is the standard set of sequels now as you do a trilogy. Indiana Jones, Harry Potter did a few
Starting point is 00:50:32 Trilogies. Matrix. Yeah. Lord of the Rings. Was there ever a trilogy with one story I guess arcing through the whole thing?
Starting point is 00:50:39 Godfather, but that came later, yeah. You know like they did too and then they were like, a trilogy is there a thing now? Oh yeah. And it wasn't, that wasn't the plan.
Starting point is 00:50:47 Coppola was not planning out of it. He was going to make... It is kind of a Star Wars thing, though. There's no third French connection. That's my problem. There's probably some straight to video.
Starting point is 00:50:56 I guess also Bond is kind of free because you don't really have to worry about backstory and like, oh, what's going to happen? You know, they're all self-contained units where if you dendal a little bit of backstory, then everybody gets excited.
Starting point is 00:51:09 That's what I'm saying. Like, you vary it a tiny bit, and it goes a long way. Also, the problem, too, with the main movies being two years apart, right? Is it two years? Are they how many years apart? Two years. So, you know, you have, and now we exist in internet culture, where we have two years to sort of just sit there and speculate.
Starting point is 00:51:30 speculating on what we think the movie is. And then like the internet reaches some sort of consensus as to like, oh, okay, Ray, Ray's a Canobi and, you know, fucking, what's his face? Gold robe. Andy Circus. Gold robe.
Starting point is 00:51:46 Yeah, gold robe. Snoke. Snope. Snope. No, it's Snopes. No, it's Snopes. Snopes. He's verifying information when he's not trying to conquer the universe. Right. So there's like that whole thing of like, oh, he's dartsidious or whatever. So like the internet like finds these theories and like they go to it every which way and then when it's not what they think it was going to be,
Starting point is 00:52:07 then the internet gets angry about it. But it's part of what I enjoyed about Rain. Nice shoes, bro. Do you guys think that there's maybe some Hollywood business here in that people want some job security out of it? Meaning, you know, these worlds, Bond, I think Bond, we were talking about this before we started recording. a friend of ours had brought up Captain Jack Sparrow and that they could make a million of these movies because Johnny Depp, you know what you're getting out of Sparrow.
Starting point is 00:52:35 He's a drunk, brave, brash maniac who doesn't fear death and just takes his ship to a new adventure every single movie. And then they had to go and build a world around it. And so now he has these constraints story-wise, whereas if you were to pull those and just let him sail off into the next adventure, you have sort of an unlimited string and eventually we'll tire of it. But also with that that works too is like one movie can be bad, but the next can be good because you're not dependent on that. And so Bond and Star Wars both are dependent on it, but I feel like maybe Bond, that mission-based bond thing, like it would behoove Bond to sort of shed an overarching trilogy thing.
Starting point is 00:53:16 Yeah. But somebody like Christoph Waltz at his career, Hollywood-wise, business-wise, he's probably not interested in playing an iconic character like that with the idea. that he would only do one movie. Quite the opposite, in fact. Oh, is that right? He is not coming back as Blofeld. He's not, no. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:35 So, but that does happen in these movies, right? Well, I think business-wise, actors, actors, especially. I mean, studio-wise now, it's a, you know, we're watching, it's happening before our very eyes where the Bond franchise is trying to pull a Marvelverse situation where everything is connected in some way, which is just foolish.
Starting point is 00:53:54 Well, we often say we want Bond back to it. his roots just going on single missions. And I mean, to that point, like, what do you want Star Wars back to? Right. Well, I think the original Han Solo novels are totally what I wanted out of this new Han Solo movie, but it's not going to be that. The Han Solo books by Brian Daley were just like, oh, here's Hans Solo. And a little bit before Star Wars, he just went on this adventure and did a thing.
Starting point is 00:54:16 Yeah. Was that the Star's End or Legacy? On Solo, Stars End, Hans Solo and the Lost Legacy. Lost Legacy. And Han Solo's Revenge. And Landau. in the Lando novels. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:29 Well, it looks like they did well by their Lando casting. That seems to look great. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I really, have we seen this Han Solo speak yet? Does he say a word in the trailer? He says, trust me and or something or, uh, he does a playback to, how are you? I'm fine. He just comes out.
Starting point is 00:54:47 He's like, trust me. It'll be all right. It'll be all right. I do a great job. Trust me. I like that actor. I hope the movie. Can't wait for him to confusively say Boba Fett and look around.
Starting point is 00:54:56 Is James Bond, is James Bond big internet-wise? Yeah. I mean, obviously Star Wars. Well, I would argue not nearly the size. No, I don't think anything is as big as Star Wars. I mean, you look at like just the fucking fact that like Star Wars theory on YouTube has a million subscribers. It's like it's bananas. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:16 No, but it's big. And I'm sure you guys know doing a podcast about a franchise, you know, people have a real ownership of it. So you really hear when people, people, people don't share your opinions or you get something wrong. For instance, corrections department last week, I meant to say South Africa, but I said South America and I really pissed some people off. Oh, man. Yeah, because that's one of the places Bond has not gone in the films.
Starting point is 00:55:40 Which South Africa? Oh, but he does go to South. I mean, the movie takes the movies. The movie, but he's never been there. That's not what we're talking about. Well, I think they do because that wasn't filmed in South Africa. Like, they want to travel log, like, go to the location. Australia, Canada, and South Africa.
Starting point is 00:55:57 I wasn't aware of what they wanted. I thought we were just talking about what we were talking. He's never been to Canada? He is in the books, I think, but not in the movies, no. It's too hot to be filmed for the screen. Too exciting. Books they can get away with it. Did you guys watch the Oscars when they did the in-memorium and showed Roger
Starting point is 00:56:17 Moore? I got, I wasn't, I had forgotten. And when it came up, I just got, like, my heart melted when I saw Roger. Moore come up there. Did he wink? No, but he, they took a clip from For Your Eyes Only that just said Bond, James Bond. Yeah, we were talking about that, like, we know he's James Bond. Like, you could have had him say something a little bit more clever, but it was nice to.
Starting point is 00:56:37 Yeah. Star Wars. Yeah. Yeah. I should have taken it, shown his scene from Cannonball Run too. What was his name, Seymour or something? Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:50 Oh, man, but that's what we really, I really, both of them to do a, Cannibal Run style Han Solo movie. You know what I mean? Like you could have all these supporting characters show up in it. Maybe it is. Who knows? I don't know. It seems way too tied to everything.
Starting point is 00:57:07 Like everything you've heard about on solo, it's in here. Like they took the Wikipedia and they just made a movie you around that. It's so like one of the best things I've seen in a while too is the red letter media where they sit down and predict terrible things to go into these new movies. And they sit down and like talk about what they think. what would be the worst things to put into the Han Solo movie? And everything they're saying is like, oh, that's definitely going to happen. They're definitely putting that in the movie.
Starting point is 00:57:34 Guys, we'll see that Kessel run. Yeah, you goddamn right. We will. And we'll see some moof milking. If only. Well, you four tell us where you're at and what you're up to and what, you know, how are things? What are you eating these? Who are you wearing?
Starting point is 00:57:52 James? Vera Wang. Okay. Which one, which answer is that? You can find James at Vera Wang. He's eating Vera Wang. Yes. And he's wearing.
Starting point is 00:58:06 I'm wearing there. And yes. What am I? What was the question? Twitter at James Blaine. Oh, like, give it. Yes, Twitter at James Bladen. Do you know who you are?
Starting point is 00:58:21 Do you know what your Twitter handle is? Do you know where we are? It's just my name, I think. At Twitter. That right? Yeah, go to at Twitter. Yes, James will be tweeting from the at Twitter handle. It's James Bladen.
Starting point is 00:58:34 At James Bladen, right? It's at James Bladet. Believe it. B-L-A-D-O-N. That's right. There we go. Yeah. Mark?
Starting point is 00:58:42 You can find me at Mark McConville on Instagram and Twitter. And Maddie, you and I are going to be doing some Pistol Shrimms radio. It's coming back. Coming up. It's going to be here before we know it. Do you know when that starts? April. And I don't know if it's.
Starting point is 00:58:53 April 1st or April 30th. You know what I mean? I don't know where in April, but it'll be a Tuesday in April. It's in that window. Okay. Nice. And then we'll just do it until the season is done. All right.
Starting point is 00:59:05 Pete? Be careful if they tell you it's April 1st because it might not show up and it'll just be those kids. You with some like a bucket of water or something. We'll be there and they'll call a softball game. Great prank. Great prank. They organized the whole softball game.
Starting point is 00:59:20 You just sit there and you set up by the permanent exercise equipment and you're just like commentating on these people that are throwing a medicine ball back and forth well first let me first thank you guys because I wanted to
Starting point is 00:59:37 I've been in a a bond kind of kick lately it's combination of you your new season and then on the epics channels they were kind of on again and they were on demand and stuff so I was going through which ones have like really hit your sweet spot I just go back
Starting point is 00:59:53 to the same one. I'm in a weird, I haven't seen any of the new ones. The Daniel Craig ones? I haven't seen any Daniel Craig James Bond. And I know everybody tells me they're good and I have them, you know, I can put them one day I'll get to this and it'll be great. But mainly I just kind of go back to, you know, a lot of Roger Moore stuff. Some of the, usually whatever's on and
Starting point is 01:00:11 I think there's only one Daniel Craig one that's ever in there. But I wanted to kind of, you know, I'm going to save that for when I watch them. Yeah, I do too. Yeah, I think. So then whatever comes up. Like I watched Octopusy a bunch of times when it was up, and Moon Raker was always on for a while. But it's enhanced my enjoyment.
Starting point is 01:00:30 And so thanks, thanks guys. Well, we're glad you could do here. Enhanced your enjoyment of James Bond. Yeah. But yeah, then if you want to find me, I'm Peter B. Taylor on Twitter. And I'm on Instagram under my real name. Good luck finding it, even though just listen to the opening of this.
Starting point is 01:00:47 I, in addition to hosting Star Wars, co-hosting Star Wars Minutes, sorry, Pete. I also co-host the Godfather Minute, which me and my brother go through the entire Godfather movie and possibly all three of them. We only do one minute a week, though, so it's going to take us a long, long time. Oh, my God, yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:06 So, how many, have you calculated in how many weeks it will take to get through the first movie? Or how many years, I should say? Do you remember offhand how many minutes it is, be? One hundred and, it's about three hours. Yeah. So, 180. weeks, which would be about
Starting point is 01:01:19 almost four years. Three and three quarter years about that. Well, assuming they never do another Godfather movie, it'll cover you for life if you do the video game. Yeah, and the... That video game was so stupid. Was it? I never got to... Oh, yeah. It was tough.
Starting point is 01:01:35 And you can do the freshmen. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And like, didn't they do like a TV movie by Mario Puzo starring Richard Grieco or something? Oh, wow. Yeah, they, that was actually a book that had the Corleone's in it. The Last Dawn? I don't know if it was the
Starting point is 01:01:50 Sicilian. Oh, right. It was called. Last Don was another Mario Puso one. But they basically took all the references to the Corleons out of it. It just made it a straight up movie that had nothing. Because Paramount owned the rights to the... Wait, so those books are in the Corleone universe? Some of them are, yeah. I got to read those. Yeah. Then they did a couple of them that were like
Starting point is 01:02:09 the Godfather's revenge, which are with Mario Puzzo with someone who did most of the work, I'm sure. Oh, dear. But I have to read through those the show. I call it when I have some bad pasta, you know? Godfather's revenge. So people can find you at... My website is comicbook Alex.com.
Starting point is 01:02:30 You're also a very talented comic book artist. I am. This is true. Yeah, it's first and foremost, I think. Increasingly, you're a podcaster, but how I met you is you're an award-winning cartoonist. Yeah. That's amazing.
Starting point is 01:02:42 Yeah, I'm more famous now as a pilot. It was like a seesaw. For a while, I was more famous as a... cartoonist, well, famous, but, you know. Yeah. Thanks for having me on. We are so glad to have had you here. As announced last episode, you can find the print of the Live and Let Die stunt spectacular poster art.
Starting point is 01:03:03 I think if you just go to my Instagram at Matt Goreley, it's now available, and there will be a post there or a link or something like that. You land on a paper stock you like? Yeah, I'm going to go with this luster. I recommend the luster. 20 inches or greater. That's the best printing quality I could find. I spend a shit goddamn ton of money just having them send me samples because so many were crap.
Starting point is 01:03:27 Did it make you pay for the samples? Yeah, you get them at cost. But still. So they cost a lot. Yeah. But there's a lot of them weren't good. And like I wanted framing options, but for the best printing, that doesn't exist. And anyway, I'm still searching.
Starting point is 01:03:42 It's a journey. Let people frame it themselves. But it's a beautiful moment. And I think everyone, uh, I think everyone, uh, could make a nice home for it. I want to do a series. I got an idea for Thunderball on Our Majesty's Secret Service maybe,
Starting point is 01:03:54 and we'll see. I think I told you that Thunderball was the, my daughter when she was, you know, I think two or maybe three at the time. Ended up watching some Thunderball because it was on and it was epic, the same type of thing.
Starting point is 01:04:08 It was just on for a few minutes. Then we went out. And then a couple days later, she was just kind of like, hey, look, can we watch that movie with the, I forgot how she explained it, basically. and the blue people fighting.
Starting point is 01:04:18 I was like, what? She's like underwater. I was like, you're talking about Thunderball? And she was like, yeah, can we watch that? And I was like, oh, man, no. I thought you were going to say, can we watch that movie where that man forces that woman into a massage? Right.
Starting point is 01:04:34 Matt? You can find me here every week on the James Bonding podcast, wherever podcasts are sold. That's right. Stay tuned because next week we're talking Specter. We sure are. It's going to be a hoot? The organization. The movie.
Starting point is 01:04:49 The movie producer. Yeah. Someday we're going to get to the bottom of that organization. It's going to take some time. But until then, James Bonding will return. James Bondi podcast. Hey, I'm Hari Kondobolu. And I'm a show, Kandabola.
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