James Bonding - For Your Eyes Only with Tom Lennon

Episode Date: May 3, 2023

Tom Lennon joins Matt and Matt to discuss the whimsy and wonder of Roger Moore's James Bond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Matt and Matt. Hey guys, welcome to James Bonding, episode 20-something. It's for your eyes only. Oh, my God, we've finally got here. I'm Matt Myra. That was where Matt Goreley was supposed to say, I'm Matt Goreley, but he's not here because he's going to Mississippi for some reason, probably some sort of secret mission I don't know about.
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Starting point is 00:03:35 They help us make this thing. And if you support them enough, Matt Goreley and I will probably think of other things to do with this podcast before we put it on ice after Spectre comes out. So fear not, ladies and gentlemen, for your eyes only, is right here. It actually, it sounded fine while it was working. And then it went out. And now I'm going to get your phone away from the microphone because it's causing so much interference. Well, we're going to need that later.
Starting point is 00:04:09 Listen, I'll drop it in in post. That's what we do here. Let's start with healthy cheers. We've got some red wine here. We're drinking wine. For the last of the bond movies. Yeah, this is a great way to celebrate the last of the standard bonds before we get the Specter. We've got a great guest.
Starting point is 00:04:24 In fact, we're in your home right now. You're in my residence. Well, you're in the back house. This is, yeah, we had to come around the back. Generally, the podcasting we do out in the back here. Yeah. You know, like, in the old plantation days in case of fire starts in the kitchen, they don't want. Like, I haven't even that sip of wine.
Starting point is 00:04:42 That's basically what the podcasts generally happen out here. Just so that, you know, the family doesn't have to always know, you know, what dad's doing back here. Have you ever fathered an illegitimate podcast child? Well, I think I did, and it was with Ricky Lindholm, and it happened right there where my sitting. It's Thomas Lennon, ladies and gentlemen. It was just an episode of her podcast, but it was, yeah. Sure. A lot of this might have been in my head.
Starting point is 00:05:10 What is that? Great to see you guys. How old is that baby now? That would be almost got to be five. Did it get written up in the AV Club at all? Hello, A.V. Club. You're also sitting where the Nerdist podcast started began. It's true. First episode recorded right here.
Starting point is 00:05:27 No kidding. What's the story there? We started a podcast and Harvick said, hey Tom, can you want to do the first episode? He said, hey, Tom, hey, you know the Super Bowl's on today, to which I said, oh, is it, sir? That's usually my response as well. I took a whole bunch of adult men who did not know or care the Super Bowl was on, and then we kind of got back here. We took our shirts off. It's podcast history.
Starting point is 00:05:50 740 episodes later, and we're sort of talking still. And I get a nice little check for every, really? That's not accurate. No. Not accurate. But I don't think. I think anyone does. I did the nerdist podcast and this guy didn't even show up.
Starting point is 00:06:05 Oh, you did? Yeah. Well, you had, there was a super ego podcast. Yeah, but still, you know, I always like to see you. Improvizations.
Starting point is 00:06:12 We're doing, this is serious naval gazing. We're talking podcasts about podcasts. Yeah. We might, white people might have overstayed our welcome and use. We just went clear. We went translucent.
Starting point is 00:06:23 Oh, for sure. Yeah. Guys, welcome back to James Bonding. We may have overstayed our use. You know, 40% of people in India don't have access to a toilet at all, but other podcasts that we've done have been really fun. I do four. The average third world person only has one podcast. I do four.
Starting point is 00:06:44 I do five. There's nine fucking podcasts between the two of us. Oh, my God. Do you do any, you don't do. No, he just guests on them. Yeah, you guessed on them. Yeah. I'm frequent.
Starting point is 00:06:53 I'm Paul Lind to the podcast. Yeah, you go on your family. If you want a podcast, take one of ours. Pick one of us. one you like and take it. Yeah. Anyone. You can have it.
Starting point is 00:07:02 Do you want nerdist? Take it. Please. So it's for your eyes only. Guys, it's the moment we've all been dreading, which is the last of the movies we have to get to before. Sector. Yeah. And I believe this, as the story goes, you said to Tom, do you want to do this?
Starting point is 00:07:17 And he said, this is the one I want. To me, there's no, it's not even a discussion. This is, for your eyes only, for me, is the... Excuse me. for the home audience. Your son is staring into the glass door of this backhouse.
Starting point is 00:07:37 Holding your tombstone, that holds my name on it. Well, let's tell the full arc of this. It's Halloween decoration. But it is very eerie as, it's eerie as far. Well, it's more eerie because he came in first and posted a little placard
Starting point is 00:07:49 hung it on the door that said, welcome friends. I just noticed that's gone, and then he's holding up a tombstone with your name on it. Yeah. You can have seen the shining, right? I have now.
Starting point is 00:07:58 We have that kind of relationship. Somebody's banking on those herbivoli loaded residuals. He's like, Dad, you're going to die. That's mine. He sits in my lap and I say, I would never, ever hurt you or mom, the way things go around here. But now, of course, that he's seen you out here podcasting, I got to go bury you out in the small. Okay. So let's get to it.
Starting point is 00:08:19 For your eyes only. And when Myra came to me and said, we're talking James Bond movies. I said, well, there's no discussion. for me. And there's a couple reasons why. Certainly the age I was when for euros only came out, which is I was 18181. I was 11
Starting point is 00:08:38 about to be 12. I was probably on the cross-off. Prime age. Prime age. Which is almost like if you were trying to make a Manchurian candidate, if you were like trying to imprint a boy, like to make like a soldier, like a like to corrupt a boy's
Starting point is 00:08:54 brain, you almost couldn't do better because still watching it and I watched it today to get back in the zone to talk about it. Back in the
Starting point is 00:09:07 FYOE talking zone? Sheena Easton comes up. Yeah she does. And throbbing bone. I mean there's just no way around it. It's the most, it has everything you want in a James Bond film. It does.
Starting point is 00:09:22 I'll also point out that I was at the age, here's what's interesting. This was the first time I was probably allowed to me and like my friend Dave Hedger could walk to the Lake Theater in Oak Park and we were allowed to go see this movie by like by ourselves. So that's a big turning point for a boy. Yeah. To speak to that though, that my film when I was 12 and could go see it by myself and it was a huge summer blockbuster was view to a kill. But it's powerful enough that it's one of my favorite movies as sucky as that film is.
Starting point is 00:09:53 By the way, actually, I really like a view to a kill. It's really good because it's got the giant horse stables. Thank you. Walking, it's got Grace Jones with the crazy butterflies. I think we're hitting on something here. My 11 or 12-year-old movie would have been Golden I.
Starting point is 00:10:08 Can I say what it is then? It's your Bond Mitzvah. Why has it taken us nearly 28 episodes to get to this? This is why generally you come to do the podcast here first. I asked you first, and this is the movie you chose, and I said, okay, see you in two years. This is the first time I was available. But it's a boy's bond mitzvah.
Starting point is 00:10:27 when you are no longer a little boy, and you're like a 12-year-old with a boner at the Lake Theater watching Sheena Easton, who I misremembered. In my memory, whenever people ask me about for your eyes only, I'm like, and Sheena Easton's naked in the main titles, which is not accurate. No.
Starting point is 00:10:44 But in my mind's eye, I filled in the blanks, and I convinced myself that was true. Yeah. She's naked adjacent. She's naked adjacent. She is leisurely, casually covering up her, bosoms,
Starting point is 00:10:58 while tons of nudity happens around. Have you mapped out her ariolas? Is it big? What's going on? Well, she's
Starting point is 00:11:05 got her arms sort of folded as she sings. They obviously said, In your mind's eye, when is she naked? Here's what happened. They said, Sheena,
Starting point is 00:11:12 so let's lose the top. And then we'll sit here at, just sit at the table, casual. And we're going to trek in, and then we're going to track out. Australian director.
Starting point is 00:11:22 And we're going to trek in and check out. And Kisley, and if you feel like moving your hands whatever, if one from Popka. But the title, for your bond dollar,
Starting point is 00:11:38 more erotic title sequence than for your eyes only? Tough to top. I mean, one recently where we were... Even gold and I was pretty neat. There was all this sort of rushing... Yeah. Yeah. Stuff. But you actually see nipples.
Starting point is 00:11:51 Yeah, that's what I've noticed in the Blu-ray versions of these, is that you were not meant to see certain things and now you can. and it's a whole different deal. I watched a regular DVD of Free Reyes-O-E-O. You still see very... Things not going, okay?
Starting point is 00:12:03 Do we need to get you a Blu-Rey player? Yeah, all other signs point to the fact that you should have a Blu-ray player here. I've got to be honest with you. The fact that you're in the other house? Is this like a vinyl thing that you're doing? No, I just... I own the one that I've owned for a long time.
Starting point is 00:12:17 Your vinyl is DVD. And, but there's... It starts on a very weird note. Well, it's... It starts, the film starts, interestingly, with the dead wife. Yes. With the cemetery visit. Call back to Tracy.
Starting point is 00:12:33 There's a reason for this. Bond, Roger Moore, who is always my bond. I, to be fair, when this film came out, which is one of my first Bond films, certainly my first co-by-yourself Bond films, I was not aware that there were other James Bonds. Oh, wow. The notion that, Dr. Noe and Sean Connery and that whole world didn't really exist to me. I can't imagine the beauty of that. because I imagine my dad was like here's the series of films let's just pick one but the fact that you saw that loved it and then went now there's at that point what like 13 more or something yeah and then I went and then I went and saw like the Sean Conner ones and I'm like this guy's really dry yeah what happened I'm like what happened to the guy with the sort of blow dry pompadour in the sandsabelt slacks doing light kung fu yeah just as likely to be wearing a like safari jacket yeah yeah it look around you there's a large
Starting point is 00:13:26 picture of me with highlights on the wall and mustache. Roger Moore is clearly my bond. Yeah. Like yeah. Roger Moore was something I could relate to. Certainly something I was... So that was this the first one you had seen or just the first one you saw in the theater
Starting point is 00:13:42 by your scene? Whether or not, I mean I must have seen, this was preceded by Moonwreckers. I must have seen that. But I don't know that I saw that in the movie theater. Yeah. Because I would have been like nine or eight. And I'm not sure if they would have allowed me to see. that certainly not by myself. Years later, I briefly dated
Starting point is 00:14:00 a stripper that Ben Garant referred to as Moon Raker. Sure. Okay, well, I'd like to know why. Let's peel this onion a little bit, and the reason was because she kind of looked like Jaws' love interest. Oh, yeah. All right. The pig tails.
Starting point is 00:14:16 Yeah, the kind of glasses. Fair enough. And, yeah, so briefly, I that was back in the era. This is, of course, young and single, and I was dating a stripper that my good friend and Ronnie Barton referred to as Moonraker. Moonwraker, if you're listening,
Starting point is 00:14:33 sorry I didn't work. Thanks for all the good times. Where were we? Yeah, first, so imagine not knowing, I didn't know about Sean Connery. You know, there was no, I didn't feel like Roger Moore was filling in for anybody.
Starting point is 00:14:47 That's an interesting. You're even holding your microphone in a very Roger Moore way. I'm holding my microphone the same way when he chases jaws around through the pyramids. Yes, very, very. gingerly.
Starting point is 00:14:56 I love me. Do you remember how Gene Rayburn would hold his mic or Bob Eubanks? Like you've got a pinky up. You're sipping red wine. We're drinking out of typical wine glasses, and you've got like some kind of chalice or something. I got a little chalice.
Starting point is 00:15:10 Yeah. A little sailor's chalice or something. Like an Egyptian hieroglyph for the sun god raw. Pound for pound, what bond film has more varied better set pieces than for your eyes only? Oh boy, that's not a question we've answered before. I think it covers, there's so many styles of action set pieces.
Starting point is 00:15:37 I mean, there's motorcycles on Bob's what runs. Yeah, because you've got there's Winter Olympics and Tropical settings too. You've got shark attacks. You've got shark bites gentlemen in the crotch. Part of this is there's a reason for this. Go for that guy's jump. How that happened and what happened there, I don't. know, but that's a real ban in the
Starting point is 00:15:58 water with some kind of shark. Not anymore. Yeah. And the shirt bites the ball super hard. After Moonraker, they realized they'd gone way too far. And they said they got to get back to From Russia with Love and on Her Majesty's Secret Service. Does Moonwraker have a guy with the beard who's like
Starting point is 00:16:12 this? Yeah. He missed a bond. See, that some harm comes to him. He's basically Dr. Evil. Yeah. That's an interesting. And what's his plan? His plan is he's going to weaponize the moon? No, he's going to make a master race. Make a master race away from earth. He wants to kill the earth and then repopulate
Starting point is 00:16:28 with his beautiful people. Yeah. That's interesting. Because the one thing that's strange watching Free Rose Only is the plot, the ATAC machine, is very random. Well, it's also very from Russia
Starting point is 00:16:44 with love, like the lector machine. Here's a thing. Go get the thing. Yeah. It's pure McGuffin. Every amazing country in the world tied to a lady in just bikini bottoms. That is, but that's a thing. It's interesting that the Bond franchise is now this,
Starting point is 00:16:59 now we're into the second time the Bond franchise had to correct itself. Third, right? What do you think this is the other time? Well, I think... Does Dine or the Day clearly? Yes. Moonwrecked die another day, and I think even you only live twice. Korean guy with diamonds in his face that happens to be an albino.
Starting point is 00:17:15 Which one's this? Die another day? That's the last Pierce-Brasn one? I guess I haven't seen it. Well, you'd be all right if you had it. I guess I haven't seen it. Yeah, it's bonkers. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:25 It's nuts. So they didn't know the favorite The plot of Was it the second of last or the last Daniel Craig Was the guy from diving bell in the butterfly says Mr. Bond I'm going to overcharge the world Ever so slightly for Walter That's Quadmasalas
Starting point is 00:17:43 I'm like that's quantum solace which of course Greatest title of all time Yeah Like literally more pretentious than a police album title Like Zendiatamabata and Regatta Dublanque Quantum of Thalas But the premise of that film is He's going to slightly overcharge people for water
Starting point is 00:18:03 Well, I think that's very current now The way that we are He's like the CEO of Messley, that guy He's like Tom Selleck What to me This Friras only ticks The boxes of everything I want in a James Bond This is your one
Starting point is 00:18:17 This you'd say this is the best one I wouldn't even It's not even a discussion for me Like It has absolutely everything. It's got the beautiful, mysterious girl. It's got random hookups with the countess who's like a weird cockney girl. Who gets a run over by motherfuckers with dune buggy. And that stunt is brutal.
Starting point is 00:18:37 Doom buggy murders. Yeah. That's that one when was injured by that. Had to be. Yeah. It's on screen. It looks unintentionally terrible. That's Cubby Broccoli's philosophy. Put it on the screen. Well, you know, by the way, you know, that's generally true. If a stunt person dies, I believe the unspoken code of stunt people, you use that. As like a to honor them. To honor them. Well, they used the take where Tupel accidentally got shrapnel in his face.
Starting point is 00:19:00 That's right. Do you really? Yeah. For real? When they were doing the gunfight on the boat, yeah. He got it like right. He got it right in the face and he goes down.
Starting point is 00:19:07 And Twilight's on the movie, right? They use them. No. Yeah, they can see it all happen. No, they didn't use that. It's on the Blu-ray. Check out the Blu-ray. You guys wouldn't know.
Starting point is 00:19:18 What I love about the scene where Toble pulls up, they pull up in the sailboat, and they're all like, standing on the deck, eating pistachios. I love it. Two seconds later, they murder 50 men, which is so crazy. They're like, they're like casually coming up. They're like, okay, drop this saves. Topos, like, drop the sail, drop this air.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Okay, and then they're like, jump and murder everyone you see. There's no plan other than murder. He's so charming. He's great. Here's why another reason that I think, what other Bond films does Bond have a really good friend about 50% of it.
Starting point is 00:19:59 Really? Yeah, so this guy was a direct the kind of like, they wanted to take from Russia with Love who had, they had Karam Bay, who was this like Turkish connection, like a mentor figure. And they...
Starting point is 00:20:09 Right, and then he sometimes has Oscar, the... A Felix Lider. Yeah, and then Honor Her Majesty Secret Service. No plug for the odd couple. Coming back to CBS, for it. Monday nights at 2 p.m. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Then there's the guy from Honor Magistee's Secret Service, Tracy's dead, too, that's kind of like this. So they didn't think that Roger Moore was going to be in this. That's why they put that opening shot of him standing at the grave to kind of link it back to the story. And they screen tested James Brolin of all people for this film. American actor James Rowland. Yes. And you can see that online, too.
Starting point is 00:20:41 I think we've talked about this before. But he did come back and they still kept it in. Was he doing an accent? Of course. I think so. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think so. He works for the MI6, yeah?
Starting point is 00:20:51 Yeah. So remember If he is it something like this I hope Hi he's like Hello my name's Jane Brolin Left profile Right profile
Starting point is 00:21:00 Me mum's Barbara Streisand Consider yourself Me mum Me mum's mum Well something like that That's my bird man Oh right I'm thinking of Josh Brolin
Starting point is 00:21:14 That's me That's me I was just hoping I could get in On his film With me dad it's so funny I'm in a Josh Borland movie and I can't remember what it's called now he's got his face melted off a little bit
Starting point is 00:21:25 Western Oh Jonah Hex Jonah Hex Jonah Hex I was gonna go in that I am Presnickety telegraph customer Who comes in and Part of the reshoot Well maybe you haven't heard of my other podcast
Starting point is 00:21:38 I was there too where people talk about Small roles they played in great scenes Like Dark Night Yeah we gotta do that I'm in the entire rest of your pod news Let's do that I have 111 acting credits I'll come and
Starting point is 00:21:50 do the podcast backdoor. And we'll do it all over. Just roll my IMDB, my finger gets tired. He's like Christopher Lee. I've literally never said no to anything. Well, great. Does that include podcasts? No, no.
Starting point is 00:22:05 I said no, a lot of podcasts. Yeah, I understand that. So, yeah, let's talk about the opening, cold open. The cold open is of strange, misfire. Well, it's heavily meta. This was a slam on Kevin McClory who owned the rights to Blowfelt. That's why they kill him. It's, but it's so weirdly done.
Starting point is 00:22:23 And like the pat on the bald head out the window of the helicopter. Now, the other thing about it, though, is the helicopter work is incredible. Amazing. Yes. It is so astonishingly good and so scary. Once you've been in the movie business for a while and you know how scary it is, helicopters are dangerous stuff. Twilight Zone.
Starting point is 00:22:42 Flying through buildings and they're flipping upside down and they almost hit the ground 20 times. It's very impressive. Yeah. Then there's a dummy. That's right. There's a few sequences, like the rock climbing sequence, no music. Yeah. It's interesting, which because otherwise, Bill Conti is, like, really laying it on pretty heavily. It's pretty thick, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:59 Yeah. But the opening sequence, amazing helicopter work, the inside joke of killing off Blofeld, I never knew and never got. Inside joke of the, I'll buy you a delicatessen. And it's stainless steel. What? I can explain this. Does anyone know what that's supposed to name? Yes.
Starting point is 00:23:15 Here's Matt Goreley. Hi, this is Matt Goreley reporting for Podcast Central. Wow, you've been in this podcast for almost a half hour, but I'm glad to do. Thanks for introducing you. Yeah, by the way, yeah, thank you. It's great to be here. So what is that? I buy you a, this was apparently a mafia cliche of like, of a mafia person that would go like, yeah, I'm making an offer you can't refuse or or to like button them up or buy them up.
Starting point is 00:23:37 I'll buy your delicatessen, stainless steel, you know. I know. It doesn't, it does not read. No, it doesn't land at all, but they still put it in. I would have, if I was in the editing room, I would like, guys, terrific movie. When she's tied in the bikini bottoms and the shark bites the guys nuts. We're listening. We're going to find the thing and the pole and the bird.
Starting point is 00:23:54 Great. Okay. We're good. We're good. Thanks. What's up with a buy you a delicatessen, but Blofeld says. I would just say, guys, good news.
Starting point is 00:24:01 We don't need this ADR recorded. We don't know if that's all they brought it across that. We want to get this one extra line. And beep, beep, beep. I buy you a delicatessen. All stylist's deal. Is, I mean, that's an almost Blofeld, who is arguably the, The most important James Bond villain of all time,
Starting point is 00:24:21 that's his like second to last words are, I'll buy you a delicatess in stainless steel. That Blofeld, we were talking about this earlier, played by John Hollis, who played Lobot in Empire Strikes Back. His plan of, it is perhaps the most convoluted part of Arizona, which his plan is,
Starting point is 00:24:41 put him in the helicopter with my pilot, kill the pilot. Could have put a bomb in. Could have done a million of days. then have an easily accessible disconnect switch for the remote control I don't know if you know how helicopter wiring is you don't want to open up that dash
Starting point is 00:24:57 you're going to risk a lot of other things so just put it on the sun The other thing that you show in this movie is that this James Bond knows everything Yes literally he knows codes to doors That Q can't remember To the tune of the spy who love me Nobody does it better
Starting point is 00:25:11 He knows He also has like a photographic memory Of everything that's ever happened He can fly helicopters Also, given James Bond's memory, as we've made a track record for, it should not take them so long to get that guy's face on that dumb computer. Oh, because they do a passage of time thing. She comes in and replaces...
Starting point is 00:25:30 She replenishes for T's use. That is best. And then they end up with Warren Zivan. Yeah. Wow. That was the big, like... I actually think that guy basically looks like origin story of Slugworth. Oh, sure.
Starting point is 00:25:47 It's basically Slugworth Origins. I really like that guy in this film. He's got one of those faces that just looks like, yeah. He's 93 that guy. But he, because today that would be some really, like, ripped person or a freaky looking person. He's just a normal looking creepy guy. The fact, his most real crimes in the world are perpetrated by sort of soft-looking white guys like him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:08 Podcasts. He's a real face of crime. Especially large crime. During the LA podcast festival, crime drops in Los Angeles. And a bunch of babies are born Nine months later So the scene where Malina's parents are strafed by that sea plan
Starting point is 00:26:25 That was meant to be the cold open That's why it ends on her eyes And it was supposed to go into the seasons A real long hold on her eyes That doesn't make a ton of sense It feels like it should cut into that she is She's a very attractive girl But something about her performance
Starting point is 00:26:41 Falls flat for me because she's dubbed And it's like French playing Greek But it just didn't I don't know, something about her. Did she dub herself? No. Someone else dubbed her.
Starting point is 00:26:49 I never knew that. And now that you say it, it makes so much sense because it is, it all sounds a little. Yeah, her voice is. She comes up and says, Tikanes, Mama, or something like that. By the way, here's the other thing about this movie. Even the woman that plays Molina's mother isn't wearing a brazier. Nobody is. No one's wearing a brazier.
Starting point is 00:27:10 There is this undercurrent of just casual sexiness. Yeah. that's endlessly happening in this movie. Which for a young boy, this was... That's exactly why you like it so much. It's a casually very sexy film. It's interesting, but what I like about this movie, too, with Roger Moore, is that he's sort of...
Starting point is 00:27:27 He's not... He hasn't hit the octopusy age of Roger Moore yet. This is the... I think this is the last Roger Moore movie where you're like, oh, yeah, that guy... His hair's a little long in this one, too, like coming up in the back, yeah. He's officially got the dry look for which advertised? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:44 Which is because it's a very wet water and snow movie, but he stays really dry. He's really blow-dried, honestly. Okay, so we should touch up. And then like BB, what's your name, BB? Yeah, BB. No, BB, the figure skater. Oh, yeah, Phoebe, I thought. No, BB.
Starting point is 00:27:59 At one point, she's like the first ever American apparel ad later. She's like doing bar work practice. Oh, yeah. She's just wearing a green. Yeah, I meant to ask you guys, were my feelings okay while I watched that? Here's the thing that's tough about that. No, no, no, she's an adult woman. But she's only a year younger than Carol Bouquet, who plays Molina.
Starting point is 00:28:20 Malina and Bond have the greatest age discrepancy of any film. Is that true? Yeah, it's like, I think it's like 23 years or something. More than Kim Bass. Or she's 23. I'm not sure about that. But. But.
Starting point is 00:28:33 She also kind of looks like my sister. So it's. Who, BB? A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. You know my sister. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:40 Oh, yeah. They're in the same sort of category. So that that was always a little bit of a bummer. who kind of killed some of the fun of that. But then Bebe comes in, and then there's the weird countess whose one boob comes out for a minute, who gets murdered by Dune Buggies. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Pierce Prousden's wife. That's right. Is that Mrs. Prousman? She brought him to set, and that's where they got the first taste of him. That's true. It's true. But so, Bebe is supposed to be young, and she's not really that young compared to Carol Bokey.
Starting point is 00:29:06 So I think they tried to make her dialogue, like a little rascal or something. Yeah, and she's like, well, mister, come on, golly. She basically seems like, I'm just a girl. You can't say no. Yeah. She could sing that at some point. She couldn't say no, though. It is funny.
Starting point is 00:29:22 She's over-sexualized to a point where it's really disturbing. Right. And is she, how many women does Bond meet in the canon of films, now that you know them all, that he does not make love to? It's a rare. It's a rare thing. It's a rare. It's a rare. When he gives you a pass.
Starting point is 00:29:37 Yeah. There's the main girl in Quantal of Solis. Right. He does not. to, he does not bed. Yeah. Because he's dealing with the water grids. And then Bebees, the figure.
Starting point is 00:29:46 And Solange and Casino Royale because he's on the mission. He goes on the mission. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right. But I have a little nugget for you guys. I love it. Drop the nugget. The woman that
Starting point is 00:29:57 is the florist when they're in like... I'm well aware that she's somebody's something because the longest, when they're in Cortina, there is a lingering shot of the blow-feathered here of a florist.
Starting point is 00:30:11 that is so oddly long It just goes One one thousand Two One thousand Three And it's just like too much screen time You know there's a reason
Starting point is 00:30:22 She won a contest She won a contest She was also Hold on I've got to bring this up She was it By the way She was the woman that James Bond
Starting point is 00:30:31 Mom moments later It says to Send them to the funeral Because that man is apparently dead That man is a corpse Yeah That stunt is unbelievable Google.
Starting point is 00:30:41 With a motorcycle I went on. I feel like I've fallen through plate to last twice this year. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:30:47 and I'm basically fine. And you weren't wearing leather in a moment. Yeah. That guy's fine. Okay. This woman's name
Starting point is 00:30:55 is Robin Young. Mm-hmm. She won a contest. She won a contest, but let me read to you her Twitter bio. Oh, my God. She's on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:31:04 Yes. Okay. This is word for word. I'm literally going to be on her right now. Robin Young. At Robin. underscore Young.
Starting point is 00:31:10 Hey, are you Sag after actress, comma, 007 James Bond Girl, comma 14 playboy pictorials, comma, model, comma, patriot, comma, single, comma Christian. Goals.
Starting point is 00:31:27 Comma, not single for long. Goals, author and motivational speaker. And that's funny. She's got a hashtag in her bio that I checked this yesterday when I watched the movie has since changed. Now it's has. Hashtag Jack is Black. Yesterday was hashtag no people about that app people that you can rate other human beings.
Starting point is 00:31:49 The one about rating people like Yelp. Yeah, boy. And her website link is orgasmicmedia.com, and that's where you can find out about her bio. She's a Christian. And a Patriot, then 14. And a Patriot. Yeah, and she lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. And she's a, oh, patriotism.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Shall I look her up next? Maybe invite her to the wedding. That's right. We've got a big congratulations. We should take a second floor, too. The last. Yeah. This comes up this.
Starting point is 00:32:13 This comes up this week. No, because the spec, the mission briefing comes out. By the time you hear this, Matt, you will be married. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:21 Congratulations. Or you'll be a fiery corpse and the black widow struck again. No. Probably not going to. The story of the Jewish black widow? Probably not. Right?
Starting point is 00:32:31 Probably not. Or you'll just be shacked up with Robin Young. It makes me think that there's a chance? No, it seems it's very likely. Very likely. Well, guys, this is the way to.
Starting point is 00:32:41 go out. Can I just get a print of your teeth before you mean? Because she's going to show me some at the record of the car. Yes, of course. And I encourage you to double check the records.
Starting point is 00:32:52 Not just against the one she provides. So many left-handed guitars without an owner. So much store credit to be had. It's always my last. Like, whenever I'm either like on a bumpy airplane ride
Starting point is 00:33:06 or, you know, whenever those mom's come over, you go, oh, this is it. Oh, what happens is all the guitar? I thought of a lot of time. What do we do with those? I think who's going to take my podcast?
Starting point is 00:33:16 Other soft white people. No, I want to diversify. They go with you. So let's see. We barely got through the opening sequence, which is the terrible blow-fell sequence. He sounds like Triumph, the insult comic doc. Very much so. And there's a really bad dummy shot in the middle.
Starting point is 00:33:31 When he pats the head, you almost say, like, I would love to, it almost undermines the credibility of the whole movie a little bit. because you've been flying through London, you've been doing these crazy stunts, the hell cop looks amazing, scooping the guy up, looks pretty good, pat, pat, pat on the head of the dummy. And it takes you a couple minutes to get back in the movie. Yeah, there's a bad dummy work all around on this, the guy that falls from the monastery.
Starting point is 00:33:55 Have you no respect for the day? That was nice there a bond. Do you think that the, do you think that the whole pat on the head was all sort of like? It's certainly supposed to be condescending. Yeah. But by the way, you've got to be careful because you're opening your movie with a sort of an F-off to something. I'm certainly viewing it just was like, oh, that's a really bad dummy.
Starting point is 00:34:20 And I don't get whatever the joke is for them. I'm not insulted. I'm embarrassed for you. Yeah. Inside joke and also so dismissive of killing Bond's arch nemesis. I know. The priest, quick work. The priest who blesses him as he goes.
Starting point is 00:34:38 Right. It's like, if I was off screen, I was to be like, let's tone it, Dan, a little bit. Now, you're our first Australian director, so maybe you don't get that we don't go for subtlety here. We don't even understand what you're saying at the time. I understand that I'm not Australian, now one of those pictures of Australian, we're shooting at Connerwood, and in Kulfu, bat. Not a word. It's all Greek. But he does, that priest does play it like he's going to pull a machine gun out.
Starting point is 00:35:06 It's so over the top. Come on, guy. Also, that Universal Exports logo on the side of the helicopter, I thought was a nice touch. Let's take a second to hear the original song that was going to be accompanying this film's opening. Not by Sheena Easton? By Blondie. There's also, if you look for it, there's a alternative version of For Your Eyes only by Sheena Easton that's not as catchy. And they went back to the drawing board on it.
Starting point is 00:35:32 And she's sitting at a table with her bosoms quietly resting behind her forearms? Yes. Okay. Uh, all right. Your bosoms being a little loud. Can we quiet that down? Just a little forearm. Sheena, we're hearing it.
Starting point is 00:35:45 You're getting a little bit of kick off your bosoms. So I'm going to put this nice piece of fanny pad there in between. Don't worry. Here we go. I really like the sound. It's easy to see why they went with what they went with, but I do like the same. I don't think it's terrible. I also don't think it's weird.
Starting point is 00:36:59 Here's the hook. It doesn't feel very broad. No, you know what? actually, especially when I get to the hook, I love it actually ended well. I'm a father, I'm a patriot, I'm a Christian, I've done some, certainly nude work.
Starting point is 00:37:32 The amount of time I've spent about, I frequently listen to Duran Duran's Buter Kill, the song, the fact that that that song is not called Dance in the Fire is a travesty. Right, yeah. It's insane. It almost is an actual lawsuit. On behalf of...
Starting point is 00:37:48 Like a class action lawsuit? Positively lawsuit. People that feel betrayed by a song that's called Dance Into the Fire. Yeah, that's true. Speaking of, like, when you saw... It's called Burying the League. Right. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:38:03 Blondie did more to inform my sexuality as a child than almost anyone I could think of. We agree to agree. And then I ended up meeting. Debbie Harry's in the state's Halloween special. So many hands. Bringing us some valvilline? What is this? My son's got some...
Starting point is 00:38:22 I think that's fog machine. I thought he's just three... Three pints of valvilline for us each to check. I don't know if it's well known in the podcast world, but the Lenins take Halloween... We don't mess around. To the next level. Really?
Starting point is 00:38:36 It's October 4... Sixth is we're recording. Yep. What is we today? Fifth? It is... Today's a fifth, yeah. And we have weeks of prep.
Starting point is 00:38:44 And it feels like autumn today. It's so nice. Yeah, it is great. And Tom's beautiful white. Jenny was just spraying something on the ghost to make the sheet look better. One thing we use is we use
Starting point is 00:38:57 actual ghosts. Yeah, of course. When you get to a certain tax status, you just want some actual... You just order them from like Russia and stuff. Oh, that's great. Yeah, they just come. Is there a website for that? What did that come? Yeah, it comes as like just moisture or vapor,
Starting point is 00:39:13 but then you sort of read... You just open it up and leave the house. Kind of like a bug mom. Next amazing sequence that we need to talk about is the Cuban hitman's the way he hangs out in Spain which is by the way more clearly
Starting point is 00:39:27 the island of Corfu than any place in the entire world and I was only in Corfu for 24 hours and I blacked out but the Cuban hitman who murders Malena's parents with his pop-up machine gun under his seaplane
Starting point is 00:39:45 then we see just how he rolls in life He rolls large, guys. He rolls huge. He throws wads stacks of cash. Doesn't matter. His names, I don't think he notes. One of them, a man, this is the infamous scene where there was one of the first transsexuals ever.
Starting point is 00:40:02 One of those women in a bathing suit is a man. And no one knew it at the time. Fun? Yeah. I just watched an interview today with John Glenn talking about the director of the movie. And he goes, it's all right. She was probably the most beautiful woman there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:13 She just happened to be a bloke. There's also, it's worth, I won't have to point it out. If you want to see the worst. dancing a human being has ever done. There's a gentleman in a speedo who just gets I know what you're panning by him. He's only on the screen for about three and a half seconds. But one more second.
Starting point is 00:40:30 The boner that you've had from the main titles of this film, if you're wondering when it goes away, it happens right as they pan across this dude who's sort of just go-go dancing with a young lady in the background. Everybody's in Speedos. No one's on drugs. It feels like it's about 9.45 in the morning. It's like brunch time.
Starting point is 00:40:49 I guess this is the way Cuban assassins hang out in Spain. It has to be. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's documented. It has to be. Matt's now actually looking just around. Oh, you just pat, one pat. Okay.
Starting point is 00:41:06 There's a gentleman dancing. Okay, she starts making out with this security guard. Yeah, that was funny. Like, I'm just a sexy lady, so I always like sense. 20 minutes and 36 seconds. Swimsuit goes off the diving board. He's a very nice dog. Red bikini.
Starting point is 00:41:24 That's the man, I believe, right there. No, the one walking towards Canada. Oh, sure. He's next to a tree that kind of has a face. Then he's next to a different tree. And then people are playing Teddy Mall, paddle bomb. That powder, blues, short, spend drugs. But the... He used to him, I think.
Starting point is 00:41:53 Oh, well, we're playing this down. There you go. Great. And he throws... He throws money at the women and... So, yeah. For murdering her parents, he got what looks like
Starting point is 00:42:06 several million dollars in rubles. The, uh... All right, let me quit this. Cancel that. All right. All right. It's some awkward.
Starting point is 00:42:18 dancing. Yeah. I'll bring this whole thing. Do you think that all of the extras were pitched the entire premise of the film for this sequence? You felled in on everything? I really hope so.
Starting point is 00:42:30 So guys, here's where we are. Oh, could I hear the Australian director tell us what's going on? You guys are dancing, and you're the sort of dancing, and you're Langeon. I don't understand him. Bond is going to come creeping. It comes up through the trees. It's got sort of a swide
Starting point is 00:42:43 jump up, like, like, I don't. What's this? Swaying? What's this a sway? All right. I'm just wearing a speedo, that's what I'll do. This man here is the highest paid Cuban assistant in the world. What do you say?
Starting point is 00:42:55 Assistant? Cubal. I heard Q ball. That's all I made out of it. Coupon. Yeah? Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:43:00 So James Bond. By the way, why do they do the transaction out in front of a bunch of like weird people? No way to know. I think it's just, you know, safety precaution. He doesn't want anyone.
Starting point is 00:43:09 You want to make sure you're out. You know what I mean? Exactly. So you make sure you do a million-dollar murder deals in front of all your, like party guests. He, I mean, he probably just told them, I'll come over for a party.
Starting point is 00:43:23 I've just signed with a major league baseball team. Signing bonus is coming. I just want to make sure everything's cool. All right, guys? This then leads to wonderful car chase. Here comes some wine. That's the sound of... That was a silent toy.
Starting point is 00:43:36 That could not have. It was the quietest fully of wine. Oh, that was good. Great chase through, obviously, the island of Corfu. I love that change. Yeah, by the way, when they said we made a tiny Greek town look like Spain, I said, no, you didn't. No, you didn't. No, tiny Greek town look exactly like Greece.
Starting point is 00:43:57 I know. This whole movie, as far as I knew, it was almost an adult even. I was like, this whole movie is Greece. Same here, this is the first time I ever caught that it was in Spain. And it's like, you're going to find him in his place in Spain. And like, well, that's just something you said because he's in Corfu. So, okay. So this guy.
Starting point is 00:44:18 It's a tale of revenge, I guess, is what this boils down to, right? She wants to get revenge. Oh, and that's great. And then she shoots him with the arrow. She wants to get revenge on him, you know, killing the parents. So she kills the guy that killed the parents. She kind of goes all like hunger gamesy on. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:30 And then, yeah, this is a... She's an active, proactive, proactive Bond hero in which, despite what they all say about their own characters, this is one of the only few that really... She murders people with a bone arrow. Yeah. Which I would say is pretty impressive. This is from one of the short stories of Ian Fleming.
Starting point is 00:44:46 This is the first time they went to the short story. stories for a title and for the subject. Yeah, they were. They had to dive in. It's so funny that when they're running out of materials, when they go to the books. Well, we're going to have to go to the books.
Starting point is 00:44:58 We thought of everything we could think of sitting here. So now explain to me how we end up at the... Where is the... Cortina? Well, I've never been good with the plots of these films. You know that. Yeah. They never distinctly...
Starting point is 00:45:13 It's never literally said that it's at an Olympics. And the man... with the crazy name and the Van Dyke they're going to meet him Christophos Christophos Christatos. They're going to meet him
Starting point is 00:45:27 they know that Locke well they think that Locke is in Cortina Yes, that's where they go there That's when we meet We'll send you to meet our men Ferrar
Starting point is 00:45:38 By the way it has the most useless Q invention of the world Which is the fake arm cast That smashes the head of someone standing Do you know who's wearing that? That's for the record That's not the most useless. Okay, that's not the most useless?
Starting point is 00:45:50 The umbrella that kills you when it rains? Also not the most useless. Well, it doesn't really. It just kind of comes close to you. It comes close to killing you. That guy with the cast is another Empire Strikes Back alum. That's Boba Fett. Jeremy Bullock right there.
Starting point is 00:46:02 You're blowing everyone the mind. This is what I'm here for. Open. Oh, my mouth, insert. And you got two Game of Thrones people, at least in this. Charles Dance and Christatos. Who does Christos playing? He plays Grand Master Paisel, the old...
Starting point is 00:46:19 Oh, my God. Yeah. And Tywin Lannister, of course, is in this season. No, no, but he's the old... Yeah. Yeah. That's... That actually just put my life in perspective for the first time.
Starting point is 00:46:32 This is what it took. Because he's so old on the throne. Yeah. And here he's a dashing young buck. Yeah. He was once considered for James Bond. He's eight years younger than Roger Moore in this film, believe it or not. No, he doesn't look at it.
Starting point is 00:46:45 No. He's also... an Empire Strikes Back 2. That's right. He's General Veers. He's the Adak Commander. Holy shit. Oh, that's right. He's like, um, no problem. And he looks through, yeah, yeah. He looks down, he pulls down the like a sort of telescope. Yes, that's right. Yeah. God damn.
Starting point is 00:46:59 He's in everything that shot at Pinewood. They all are. They all are. They look at the, like, it's a true repertory company over there. Uh, I just wanted to hear the discussion from, uh, everyone about James using the machine that sucks. Well, get cracking, double a step. Oh, most British. Here's the British.
Starting point is 00:47:16 off right here. He wins this guy. Smithers, how's he are? Coming along very nice here, thank you, sir. That's fine, that's. That's Bobafet. That's Bobafet. That's Bobafet. That's Bobafet. There's such terrible posture. And hair.
Starting point is 00:47:37 It is, umbrella that... It's activated by rain. Well, like two seconds of rain. Faulty because it's going to be raining when you take it out in the first time. Good point. That's not funny Wally 7. I see you managed to get the notice back together again. I disregard these jibes about our equipment,
Starting point is 00:47:57 I wanted a Lotus so bad at this movie. Why is this thing in a secret room? I guess it's probably right now of 4-1981 Lotus. You could, yeah. I mean, you're driving Tesla, which started as a Lotus. You know, the original Tesla Sports. It kind of looked like that. The Tesla S was built.
Starting point is 00:48:14 It was built out of a Lotus body. Can we end this podcast with you purchasing a Lotus online? Yes, I will. That's a car. Let's do it. I'm going to start looking at CarMax that shit And let's get you a lotus
Starting point is 00:48:27 No matter what the condition You're talking I'm already doing Oh my God I'm not I'm not even half joking I'm gonna in the background He's the lead on a hit CBS sitcom That's like four and a half minutes of work for him
Starting point is 00:48:39 All right Let's up at 10 lotuses Lotus for sale Price You're just regurgling Lotus for sale I'm sorting price High to low Because that's how
Starting point is 00:48:52 That's how you find quality. It's up at the top. You want a lotus? You want a lotus a spree. Curse for sale. Don't worry about it. 1981. This is a great moment.
Starting point is 00:49:05 Okay. Bond, all Bond has to go on because the assassin was killed by a bow and arrow, or rather a crossbow, is the face of the man who is paying off the killer. Warren Z, Vaughn's Yvonne. So he has to go identify Warren Zee. So instead of using the traditional routes of taking maybe two hours with a police sketch artist, they decide to take 12 and a half hours. At least, we don't even know how they could have been in their days.
Starting point is 00:49:35 This could be 8 o'clock in the morning, and they might be wrapping up at 11 o'clock at night. We don't know. Let's assume. Let's say, all right, conservative estimate, 16 hours instead of two hours with a guy who can draw. and the guy's face gets printed out on a dot matrix picture and uh by the way the weird thing about it is it basically looked like warrens yvonne from the beginning on the computer it really did and it looks a tiny bit more yeah yeah the glasses i'm going to resort price low to high okay some of those lowest price plus shipping shipping shipping the cheapest load as i can get right now
Starting point is 00:50:13 is 12 grand do it full of trigger you got that you've got that you've got that You've got that on you. You're probably spending as much for Halloween. Every year, you're wasting a lotus on Halloween. I'll tell you what. I'll pitch you in a grand. Okay, if I get it two days of the month. Okay, I think here's the one I want.
Starting point is 00:50:38 I want the 1990 Lotus of Spree Turbo. Let's see. How much we pitch it? Let's time share this lotus. Hang on, hang on. Let's time share a lotus. If we split it, if we split this lotus for a month, like each month. I'll do four grand.
Starting point is 00:50:51 To rotate every third month. If we do four grand each, there's 30 days in a month, we each get it for 10 days. The problem is what you want is it has to be a 1980 lotus, because that's what would be in this film. Yeah. This would be a 1980 low-brain. Would this be the world's first-time share lotus? You know, it's funny. It's my buddy John bought a lotus with the explicit intent of renting it out.
Starting point is 00:51:16 The fact is 1980 Lotus does not exist on eBay. 81 or 82. Any of those come up? Yeah, because this film is 81. The film is 81, which must have been a 1980. Hang on a second, guys. The Tesla thing makes even more since now. You know who owns the Lotus submarine? Who? Elon Musk. Really?
Starting point is 00:51:35 Guy loves lotuses. He does. He's hoarding all the world's lotuses so he can up the price for them, like water. Those are all... Every lotus you buy on eBay? It's chips from Elon Musk. Personally. It's just, it's Tesla fan 49.
Starting point is 00:51:55 Hand addressed. Oh, man, we got so close. Oh, right. We almost had a Lotus here. Well, let's at least buy a citron. I think we should, we can handle that, right? Yeah. Although a collector-grade citron probably cost us at least a thousand each.
Starting point is 00:52:07 I love that little yellow citron in this thing. It is nice to see Bond driving around in something tiny and not cool. And gets broken really fast. Yeah. Everything gets broken really fast. By the way, I do want to just make a point. Worst anti-f theft system ever? Or best.
Starting point is 00:52:25 Best. Worst. But there was a reason they did that. What a school? Break a window. You could be kids at school. This was another meta thing. What if you're playing stick ball out by a lotus?
Starting point is 00:52:36 Little Jimmy throws it too hard. You kill nine children. It's, but at the time, I remember at the Lake Theater in O'Park Illinois. Here we go again. Everybody laughed. Yeah. That was a great joke. That was a big moment. Glenn was saying John Glenn, the director, the Australian director,
Starting point is 00:52:58 was saying that when it screened in New York, there was a big problem at the time with car theft in New York City and when it screened in New York, the audience applauded. That may have happened even when I saw it. I remember there being a giant reaction. There's also their way of saying we're going to get rid of that crazy gadget moonraker world and put him Lofi. That's why they put him in the Citron after that to kind of get back to basics. He uses no gadgets in this film, to my knowledge, does he?
Starting point is 00:53:27 Is there a gadget of any kind? Only his watch, which is his communicator, which a pair he uses. That's right. And the Warren Zyvine computer. His dick gets a little bit of a workout. With everybody except for BB. Yeah, that's at least appropriate. That count as Liesel von Schloff, though, and they're just a...
Starting point is 00:53:44 Her right boot does an amazing performance on the beach right before she's murdered by dune buggy. By Charles Dantz and a dune buggy? Or is it Locke or Charles Dance that runs her down? Locke runs her over with a dune buggy. Yeah. And smashes her head against the window. There is a large of it.
Starting point is 00:54:00 I don't like hearing that somebody got hurt doing that. No, I know. There is good anger. I don't like that comes out of Roger Moore at that point. He sure is. By the way, he also almost kills Locke with the bullet misses and vice millimeters. But also when we were jumping ahead, but when he kicks the car that locks in at the end over, that was a big point of contention where he was arguing my bond wouldn't do that.
Starting point is 00:54:21 And John Glenn said, let's shoot it both ways. We'll deal with it later. And they used the part with him kicking it. And I think it's so great. Oh, I think it's very James Bondi. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. They were going to have it just be the pin that he throws in, the dove pin,
Starting point is 00:54:37 was going to tip the weight enough that the thing fell over. And instead they went with him kicking. Yeah. That is also kind of cool. You know, six of one, half dozen the other. But I do like him kicking it over. Yeah, it's a good moment. Because you don't expect it from Roger Moore.
Starting point is 00:54:51 It's a nice turn. His hair is so beautiful blow-dried. Boy, is it? It's gorgeous. Every second of this movie, there's great hair. Yeah, incredible. The Bond Girl has amazing hair. Roger Moore, obviously amazing hair.
Starting point is 00:55:02 Desmond Lewellyn's comb over looks great. B.B's got those little pigtails. Oh, she does. She ever. Jumping around on a green leotard at one point, which is kind of weird. So they track him down, they track down Warren Zivan to the Olympics. Cortina. Yes.
Starting point is 00:55:18 It's not the Olympics. It's just the winter time in Cortina. Right, but it does feel, but Lake Placid Olympics were big at the time. And as Bond movies do, they're seizing on whatever's popular. Bob sled tank. Yeah. Yeah. A guy died in the bobsled thing.
Starting point is 00:55:31 Filming that? Yeah. I didn't want to hear that. I know. This movie is pretty rough. I mean, people die making movies a lot, but that's a real bummer. Yeah. Did you notice when they get to Cortina and Bond and Luigi are walking through the snow?
Starting point is 00:55:45 Fed out of. Yeah. And Bonn sees Locke, and he basically goes, like, I've got to go. Like, he grabs Luigi by the arm and he says, I've got to go. Like, in this really tense way. And Luigi's response is, okay. Because he's playing the lazy Italian. Like, no sense of what sort of thing is bothering you right now.
Starting point is 00:56:07 Massified. Hey, Mr. Bonn, you know, I'll be dead in a couple of minutes anyway. Massifying. I know, he totally feels that way. I don't even get it. I'm kind of comic relief, kind of sympathetic sidekick. I pretty much die pretty soon.
Starting point is 00:56:23 Yeah, and then he does. Yeah. You will go over there. I die. We don't know how he dies. He's dead in the car. His throat is slit. It looks like his throat is slit by those hockeymen.
Starting point is 00:56:31 The hockeyman. The hockey sequence is not necessary. No, it's weird. The hockey sequence is if we were to do a revisionist history of for your eyes only, I almost think you could lose it. I think you should. Well, then you wouldn't see that James Bond scores three goals. It's a hat trick.
Starting point is 00:56:48 That's when it gets... It gets too wacky. And there's a guy in a goal. Yep. And then another guy. Like, the only thing that could be dumb is if, like, the Hawaiian punch, the Hey, Kool-Aid guy came running out. And Fat Albert or Fat Albert or something. Even Roger Moore, who was known to be on the lighter side, said he didn't like the whole parrot giving them the clue and the Margaret Thatcher ending.
Starting point is 00:57:14 thought that was too broad for the tone of this movie. The Argus Thatcher ending is bananas. It's weird. Yeah. It feels like it should be post credits. It's like the first post-credit sting that was misplaced. It's like Ronald Reagan in the cafe 80s and Back to the Future. Do you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:57:29 Oh, yeah, yeah. What? Yeah. Why? Why are we doing this? Yeah. And that's, that's, I don't even know. It doesn't.
Starting point is 00:57:37 It would fit Moonraker, but yeah, I mean, plus I think that comedian was very known for doing that. Impression of her That Thatcher? Yeah Sure sure That that's impression The thatch Okay
Starting point is 00:57:49 So we meet our first of two Greek Folks The first being the Caretaker of BB Oh is she I thought she was Russian Or something She is
Starting point is 00:58:02 Like Eastern European No no I'm talking about the I'm talking about Introducing Oh Christatos Her Yes her mentor Or whatever
Starting point is 00:58:08 Yeah And Topol Yes Whose name I don't remember Topal's name Is what is Topol's character's name in this movie? The second comes on screen, I'm like, Topol.
Starting point is 00:58:19 Because we're like, oh, it's famous. Yeah, one named guy. Yeah, Topal. What is his name in this movie? Christopher. The other guys, you're going to meet. He's a smuggler, and his name is... Topel.
Starting point is 00:58:35 There's invariably an IMDB moment for every podcast we do. Well, okay. Anyway, guys, I'll continue through the plot of this movie for our listeners at home. Okay, so we meet the ice skating. The ice skating subplot, by the way, makes no sense. It doesn't have to be in the movie all.
Starting point is 00:58:55 I believe that girl happens to be a great ice skater. She was, because she's from ice castles. Do you remember that film with Robbie Benson? You've never seen it? She's blind, ice skater, and they were partners. She goes blind, and then they fall in love and still skate, even though she's blind. I think you're thinking of the Mighty Ducks.
Starting point is 00:59:15 Nope. Does she wear that little little? I'm almost positive she does, yeah. And that's basically all she did, I think, those two films. She was big. That was a huge movie. Being in two films is very part. You don't, you don't remember that movie that's...
Starting point is 00:59:27 That was like a huge... That was like a huge... But, you know, I'm aware of it, but it wasn't not a thing that where I come from, men didn't see those kinds of films. Well, where I come from... I have a lot of Irish uncles who... I see. It hit you with us. I was raised and babysat by women, and I was forced to watch a lot of that stuff.
Starting point is 00:59:44 You got over here. No. I was basically... put in a leotard at a young age Okay Okay, so the ice skating subplod Not really necessary He goes there to track down
Starting point is 00:59:55 Warned his mom. It is Have you guys done a length Check of Bond films? Because mine is hockey This one is about the right time You're right With hawks This is a hair over two hours
Starting point is 01:00:05 It's a little too long This is a hundred and twenty seven minutes Milos Columbo Is Topol's name Colombo Colombo Colombo And that's the story of how By this time Tomato
Starting point is 01:00:16 Topol was cast, was Cubby and Dana Brockley, ran into him at a party, and Dana Broccoli goes, Topal, he should play Colombo. Look how good Warren Zivon looks in this film. This is Michael Gothard who plays Locke. But look at that picture. Those octagonal glasses are just... I mean, that's really doing it for me.
Starting point is 01:00:38 It's literally the only reason that the computer program exists. I know. To draw fictional octagonal glasses, because those don't exist. Do yourself a favor. Look up Michael Gauthored, who played Locke. Oh, Lou. The late, great Michael Gauthored, Zevon. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:54 Died in 92. And his picture on IMDB is just, I don't know, it's super cool. It's a picture from this movie that we're all watching right now. Is it? Yeah. Okay. So, we meet Dolph Lundgren's brother, I'll call him, the German gentleman. He's Rocky from the Rocky World Picture Show, basically.
Starting point is 01:01:16 Yeah. And he's like the Red Grant figure, yeah. Yeah. And he is furious. He loves the Biathlon and hates capitalism? He is right, the right side of his jaw is working so hard in this movie. It's almost distracted. What's working hard, right breast of Cassandra Harris or right jaw?
Starting point is 01:01:33 The Countess? Yeah. Or the right cheek jawbone of that dude. And what is his, what does he do? No way to know. In the movie. No way to know. At all.
Starting point is 01:01:45 Oh, he's Kijib. He's Kijib. He's KGB because he's a defund who's actually from East Germany. There is always a point and it usually is around the 55 minute mark where I go, I don't pay attention to the plot at these movies anymore. But he is... He's a KGB agent. Okay.
Starting point is 01:01:58 Right? Yes. Is the subplot of the ice skating simply in existence so that she can explain that he's really good on skis and shooting guns? Yes. Wait, he's KGB. Is Christado's KGB? No. No, because Donos is a freelance.
Starting point is 01:02:18 He's... He's... He's... He's... He says... He says... He said to the higher speed of my thing. Because the KG...
Starting point is 01:02:23 Remember at the beginning of the movie? No. The head of the KGB says, I will call our normal man in Greece. Okay. The head of the KGB... Yeah, you think it's... Now we're going down a rabbit hole,
Starting point is 01:02:33 but people are getting a tune-out. When we get too deep into the pot. Well, that's the problem is I... Like, listeners, no, I just do not pay attention to apply these things. I love the trivia, but not the plot. They're designed for you not really to pay attention. They really are. Yeah, you're just supposed to be transported.
Starting point is 01:02:45 Exotic locale. Remember Octopus? It was 11-year-old boy with a boner watching this movie. That's the stuff. I could follow every moment of it. Yes. Never threw me for a second. You got the point.
Starting point is 01:02:55 And at the time, I wished it was seven hours long. I was like, I don't want to go home. I just want to stay here in Corfu. What a terrible movie that would be. Seven hours long of this bullshit. Hockey would be an entire game. Four hours of hockey. Hockey really, really doesn't work.
Starting point is 01:03:11 No. It could easily be cut. There's no problem. But it was solely based on. that set pieces Lake Placid Russian American thing where it was like that was only a year
Starting point is 01:03:20 in the zeit guys they were probably shooting it has to be months after that because that was 1980 yeah so oh right yeah that was like winning the Cold War that moment
Starting point is 01:03:31 that was everything so that was basically they were shooting this while that was happening probably yeah like the news was coming in there like what are we doing tomorrow change the schedule
Starting point is 01:03:40 let's bring some hockey players I've got a hockey scene I like to add I'm gonna he's it again to you We're going to get some hooky gone with that end. Dan and Brisbane, we play a lot of hockey. A lot of hockey gaming.
Starting point is 01:03:53 What he's going to do is he's going to take three of them. He's going to get a hit trick. He's going to get him. It's going to hit him. They're going to fall into the golf. And we're going to see the scoreboard. You get a point there. So we got three points.
Starting point is 01:04:09 It's a head trick. And James Ngo's the fucks the countess. You know what I'll tell you what I love? Dune buggy matter, dune buggy matter, you know. You know, like Chikov said, can't introduce a dune buggy. No, I got a cousin. I got a cousin. A young lady in a bikini.
Starting point is 01:04:27 I got a cousin who's got a dune buggy company and says we can get them for real cheap. It's very reasonable. It's the problem with Death Race 2000 as they put dune buggies in and they never specifically murdered anyone with them. Yeah, don't introduce it. If you're not going to use it, dune buggy. We got in this. And madda, madda, madder, madder. I'll tell you what I love those motorcycles with the spike tires
Starting point is 01:04:48 That was one of those things We're like how has this not been done before Maybe it was It's probably been done before They probably stole it Well we asked Martin and Diner the day has spiky tires Yeah The chase down the hillside is astonishing
Starting point is 01:05:01 It's really good But that's set purely to disco music Bill Conti It is if you want to hear If this movie was a John Barry score It would probably be One of my favorites. They also very casually
Starting point is 01:05:15 go to the undersea world of Atlantis in this movie without ever No one ever mentions They're like This is part of I'm really excited for Specter To get back to the snow
Starting point is 01:05:33 It's been a long time coming Wait was the truck guy Yeah That was the three It's the third and last They had to truck it in They had to truck it in Clearly this is an unused take
Starting point is 01:05:53 from Rocky. This music. Some days you're just like, what else you got? Yeah. This is lame, but I want to watch this whole thing. So if you're at home, just watch the whole... Yeah. Otherwise, I think the big sequence would probably
Starting point is 01:06:19 why I'm sitting in some small way. Are you? This is wide about when I started in Midwest in Wisconsin. That's a not amazing here. But I remember the very famous Bondi to be able to see well, and I think the man had to be there. My dad had me skiing at a young age, and the only thing kept me going is Bond because I didn't enjoy it. No, it's a...
Starting point is 01:06:42 For me, it was better up to get, but I won't ski the K-12. This is terrible music. That one... And this is after the big Detroit Disco is dead situation. Imagine if this was James Bond music. Yeah. Well, you know... Look how little snow there is next to the Bob's up there.
Starting point is 01:07:02 There's none. There's no snow there at all. Oh, boy, yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. It's pure dirt. Just dirt. I wonder why those bobsledders passed.
Starting point is 01:07:10 Just hit a stump. Oh, man. All right, guys, you're going to hit the dirt? You're going to hit the dirt? You're going to hit the dirt? You're going to do dry land bobsledding? Try to look like it's not. Trying to look surprised.
Starting point is 01:07:24 Like we do in Perth. Just be a very surprise. You're going to say, this snows, bram. And we'll eat brown snow. Somebody died shooting that sequence. Yeah. Are you for sure?
Starting point is 01:07:36 Yeah. Well, according to IMDB, so I'm 30% sure. I'm 30% sure, yeah. Okay, so to sort of speed into the plot and through the plot of this movie, speed the plot. We find out that bad guy from Last Crusade is, in fact, the bad guy in this movie as well. Right. Christophos.
Starting point is 01:08:00 Christavos. He wants to drink from the cup of a carpenter. He also wants to really support. support a young figure skater. A little too much. Yeah. Yeah. And is the subtext there that he's just doing it because he wants to...
Starting point is 01:08:14 They got a real sort of... Because at the end of... Sugar daddy relationship. Yeah. You know, on his part, I don't actually get that vibe. On her part, I feel like, yeah, she probably would. Or was bitter about it, or she has. You're too old for me.
Starting point is 01:08:27 He's eight years younger than Roger Moore. It doesn't matter. And she is in Roger Moore's bit. She's in there dangling a towel. It's a weird moment. It's a great. The performance reminds me a little bit of Constanza in Amadeus. Amadez.
Starting point is 01:08:42 Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's got that kind of voice, Wolfie. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think they tried to age her down with her, like, vernacular as, you know. We're going to take a quick little break where my son comes into second. Sure. Oh, this is great. Hey, buddy, come here.
Starting point is 01:08:55 We're a podcast. Come on. Come here. Give your dad a kiss. Hello. Hello. For real? I'll come up in a minute.
Starting point is 01:09:11 We can pause. way you find Lilo. No, that's okay. Lilo's definitely Lilo is the dog and she's definitely where you think she is. I'll see in a second.
Starting point is 01:09:23 There we go. So, where are we at, Bibi? I don't know, but he drew out the exit. Yeah. If you're listening,
Starting point is 01:09:33 call him right now. Yeah. It's probably requires a little bit of time travel. I've met her. Yeah? Yeah. What's her name?
Starting point is 01:09:40 Lynn Holly Johnson. You've met so many Bond. She's sort of a notable Orbitals. Yeah. And skater. She was a real skater, obviously.
Starting point is 01:09:51 Lynn, she was sweet as pie. Yeah. Was there a screening for your eyes only you went to? No, it was at that celebration of the music of Bond
Starting point is 01:09:59 where I also met Britt Eckland and Maud Adams. Yeah, yeah. Brett Eklund was a tempest in a teapot. Oh, Lynn Halle Johnson's been a rat. She's been tons of things.
Starting point is 01:10:10 Yeah. The, uh, for his only ice castles, the watch her in the woods. Oh, so many things. She seems like she'd be at one of those, uh, airport ramadas at a Hollywood autograph convention where I could maybe hope she would be
Starting point is 01:10:24 It's worth watching, but they did a remake of ice castles, but like a Christian version. Oh dear. It's really something. We'd have to. Which one should we see first? Probably the original. The 974 U.S. Figures getting championships.
Starting point is 01:10:37 Yeah, that's no small feat. Gave up in 77 to join the Ice Capades. Oh, wow. The Ice Capades. That's not still going, is it? Oh, it's got to still be going. Well, there's different things on Ice. Disney on Ice.
Starting point is 01:10:47 But not the ice case. They probably have the Avengers on us. You know? Special Iron Man's suit. You know how, you know, how something predates a pun? Like, I learned what Escapade was after I learned what Ice Capades was. And it's only now that I'm putting the two together. Ice Capades was more present in my life than the word Escapade.
Starting point is 01:11:10 You know, it was maybe 10 years ago that I figured out that cigarette was small cigar. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And Cigarillo? I don't know what that is. I mean, I know what Cigarillo's are, but what is the word? What's the breakdown of that word? Is it?
Starting point is 01:11:24 Rillo? It's got to be. Is it? I don't know. Jumping ahead, the guy gets the shark bites the guy in the balls. See the guy? The shark bite in the balls? Well, that's what we're jumping with.
Starting point is 01:11:33 A whole bunch of things happen. No. No. No. Another lotus. Very, very loose. Doom buggy murders. Wait, wait, wait.
Starting point is 01:11:41 We jumped right ahead of Doom buggy murders. Well, I thought we wanted to see Shark Ball bite. Sure. While you're looking for that, it's a shark ball. A shark ball. Wait, way, way later. It's in the climax when they're tied together. Are you guys aware of the close-ups on Carol Bouquet underwater that she had a sinus infection?
Starting point is 01:11:56 No. So they shot it in slow motion with a fan and then superimposed Alka-Seltzer bubbles. Because she couldn't go underwater at all. And you would never know. Yeah. It's amazing. It looks so simple and so good. Kind of looked really good.
Starting point is 01:12:08 Then they climbed that crazy building. Oh, here, that was it. You just passed it. Here it is. Oh, my gosh. That guy gets. That stuntman got, gets shark-balled. Like, you know the old expression?
Starting point is 01:12:21 You've been shark-balled. You've been shark-balled. What? Sorry, you just got shark-balled. I find this whole sequence very, but it's a very like S&M. They're tied together. She doesn't have a pants on.
Starting point is 01:12:35 But this is from the book. This is from the Living Let Die Knopf. This exact way of Bond trying, attempting to kill Bond by tying him and dragging him across course. What they just showed was shot Not underwater Watch this guy's balls, everybody At 141.09
Starting point is 01:12:55 This guy is gonna go... Yep, that's his junk. That's just... That's his junk. That's his junk. That guy. One bobs letter and two balls lost on this phone.
Starting point is 01:13:06 What happened to that dude? Why is this not... Yeah, why isn't that in the IMB notes? Why is this kind of like... On the guy and you know all knew me? you know me I got shark bold I was in few eyes out of me
Starting point is 01:13:19 I just can never get over her in like the black bikini bottoms and they're tied together and it's great really yeah you know she's she's gorgeous she's gorgeous
Starting point is 01:13:31 and I do I love that very much from the mind of Fleming dragging bond across corals and his back gets cut up so sharks will swim in the water do you remember was it like a Mabeline commercial
Starting point is 01:13:43 she was the face of one like like or makeup or something cover girl yeah and i remember those commercials where she would like unfurl her hair like i'm with it if you take off a motorcycle helmet and say like oh it was incredible it was great that's way later no no i'm pretty sure that was her she loved team mobile uh okay so the long and the short of this is topel we find out is the good guy you know basically you tell you that pretty early one yeah and that's very satisfying you're He wanted him to be. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:14:15 He's like, oh, this guy's way enjoyable. Yeah. Yeah. He gives Bond his gun or a gun exactly like his gun back. Is he still alive? Topol's a lot. God, I want to know him. You know?
Starting point is 01:14:26 Should we just, should we invite him over? All right. Topel, if you're listening, please call it. He's got to be great. There's no question of my mind that that man is a fun hang. Topal. Oh, he's got to be the best. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:14:38 He's got to be the best. I found a lot of people from Tel Aviv are a fun hang. Yeah. I mean, he's Tevia for, crying out loud. I'm sorry? Tevia from Fiddler on the room. Tauple? I know him as a person.
Starting point is 01:14:50 I only know of his first. I only know. Yeah, I want to know the story of how he goes by the one name moniker Topol. That sounds like a denture cream or something. Because his last name was probably Gijo and he didn't taste. It was called Topol. When I was a kid, they were like, imagine. If you smoke a pack a day, every day, imagine what it would do to your teeth, at which point my mother would scream, imagine what it would do to your lungs.
Starting point is 01:15:10 I then went on to smoke three packs of a day. So that's where I, that's, that's, that's, where I'm getting that from. My son's coming in again. Yeah, baby. You found later. You go good dinner. You read his mind.
Starting point is 01:15:37 You're a mind reader. This is unbelievable. His whispering secrets is probably about Topol. Yeah. What if Topol's in the house and they're not even telling us? What if Topal's here, ready to surprise us
Starting point is 01:15:46 and they're not even telling us? Where do you think Topal lives? Topal, I guarantee you, Topal lives. Paris? Do you know that for a fact? No, but I said it with authority. No, I feel like Tolpo is kind of
Starting point is 01:15:57 He lives in Paris because he's... Can you think Topol's got a Twitter account? No. No. He doesn't have a Twitter account because he lives in Paris. Yeah. And he's too busy having unbelievable lunches with people. Yeah. Topol's lunches are legendary.
Starting point is 01:16:10 Topol's lunches. I am looking up Topal to see if he has an Instagram account. Because if he does, I'm going to friend him right now and try to DM them. No, Topal for sure. Topal? I'm going to move us on to the monastery. incredible sequence it's great real place
Starting point is 01:16:29 yeah and the monks semi real well the monks that lived there did not want to shoot this film that was all violent so they put sheets and shit out on their roofs to make it so that the film couldn't shoot there
Starting point is 01:16:42 but then didn't work out did it no the fuck you monks the state stepped in and went you can't do that you can control your interior but you can't control the exterior take it down monks
Starting point is 01:16:53 take it down monks monks ton it down monks once again larger than life you know he lives right down the street does he really a couple times let's get him over
Starting point is 01:17:07 he uh forgets forgets that we know each other like three to five times a year uh is it uh is it any sort of hint of recognition when you wave hello to him or does he just think does he just think you're just a regular neighbor
Starting point is 01:17:21 does he not know him the bit does he come by for Halloween I think you just think so I'm a fan he doesn't like bring a kid over for Halloween or anything? No. Do you guys do a big kind of haunted house thing? They do here.
Starting point is 01:17:31 It's a really big scene here. Really? Yeah. It's a pretty big deal. Yeah. I'm going to have a kid just to bring them over. That's what we did. Yep.
Starting point is 01:17:38 Yeah. All right. Working on it right now. I'd like to also say that I covet James Bond's outfit in this mountain climbing sequence. The sweater and the vest. You want a barber vest? Is it like a sort of a leathery kind of, it's a tactical vest.
Starting point is 01:17:51 No, it's a blue, it's a blue. Like a quilted parker. It's like a quilted vest with, with corduroy shoulders. And then like a knit sweater. Yeah, a knit sweater. I mean,
Starting point is 01:18:03 that's, and by the way, his hiking boots are great, his climbing. Everything about it. By the way, when he first ends up with Topol on Topol's yacht,
Starting point is 01:18:13 they throw him clothes. And the clothes that they throw him are like a beautiful, like navy blue turtle neck. Obviously he's designed to fit a man who's six foot two inches off. Everybody in this final sequence. We know what kind of general thing you're into.
Starting point is 01:18:30 So here's a perfect... Your reputation precedes you. Here's a navy blue turtleneck. Everybody on this monastery cliff is wearing, like, amazing p-coats and adventure wear. Everybody looks great. It's just like if you knew this is the big day, this is the day we're finally exchanging the thing with the KGB. I want to look my best for the environment I'm in. I'd put on a really great coat.
Starting point is 01:18:50 Probably some cool booths. Have a good time. Sure. Why not? I don't see why. That's so weird. No, it isn't. all right
Starting point is 01:18:57 glad we discovered that let's talk about the climbing scene it's amazing harrowing yeah it's one of those James Bond stunts where you're like oh man somebody probably died
Starting point is 01:19:09 guy out there now he didn't die sadly not sad I mean no no wonderfully he's a lot wonderfully he's a lot yeah
Starting point is 01:19:17 is he the one that also got fired from James Bond movies for for free base jumping the Eiffel Tower no his buddy that he brought on You're thinking of, what's his name? B.J. Armstrong? Somebody bas-jumped the other day?
Starting point is 01:19:30 Is that new thing you? Yeah. He brought a buddy. Imagine how good that felt. That day you did that, though. And then got fired. Yeah, you got fired. Well, he was like, I got to do it. I'm never going to be able to do this again.
Starting point is 01:19:40 Because he wasn't. They weren't going to do a second take, and he was going to get to do the second take, and they said, we got it and won, and he kind of went, look, I didn't come here for nothing. I'm a base jumper by trade. Goodbye. Here I go. See you later. See you in Paris.
Starting point is 01:19:53 Catch me on the ground. Yep. and I know that down there is kind of hard to get around real fast. I'll probably be on the ground at some part of Paris. You won't find me anyway. And then I ducked down the catacombs. Yours goodbye. The end.
Starting point is 01:20:08 Except you caught me right away. Did they actually get right away? Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah. They got in a lot of trouble like they were going to have their permits pulled the whole film. Yeah, that's right. I do that.
Starting point is 01:20:18 What you do? You go straight down. And then I rip. If you hire me to base jump, yeah, I'll tell me. And I am considering doing it. Of course what I do. The second thing that I'm going to do is you think I'm going to land somewhere around Notre Dame. No, I'm ripping my shoe.
Starting point is 01:20:33 Uh-huh. And I'm free-dropping the last 200 feet into the Senate. So you don't even, you open, but just to slow you down. I opened only to slow myself enough so that I'll survive the 200, 180 foot fall. Okay. That's a hell of a leap, by the way. What's your move then? By the way, after that?
Starting point is 01:20:52 Yeah. How do you leap that far laterally? I'm falling. It's a free fall. Straight into the same? Yeah. That's not my understanding of the geography. He's clearing it. He's clearing it. He's cleared it. Then he cuts the shoot.
Starting point is 01:21:04 I've cut the shoot 175 feet above the sense. Okay. How do you get that far out? He's just a butt. He's dead above it. Is it that close? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh, that's an easy. But the, but the top of the tower.
Starting point is 01:21:17 I want to do this just to show you guys. But the base of the tower is so far, you would have to clear that. What do you mean? The base of the tower is. The Alton Tower is really, really tall. I know, but the base is way... The base is not super wide. Oh, my God, you've got to shoot.
Starting point is 01:21:31 You could come down, you could come down at Monmartre. You could come down at the entrance to the channel. Not a problem. That's not accurate. Not a problem. No. You could do that. No.
Starting point is 01:21:41 Yeah. Alps, done. You could come down at the Port La Chappelle station. You could come down to David Lachapel's apartment. There's no way. Probably. He's probably in Paris somewhere with Madonna. He probably is.
Starting point is 01:21:53 Yeah. what he does. Dressing around like snow white or something. Let's take a picture of this. What if you're a Disney character? That's fun. Wait a minute.
Starting point is 01:22:00 Hold on. I should mention that I am on my back on the floor right now and I'm looking at a skylight and there is a printed sign that says, Home of a Thespian. The Huskies.
Starting point is 01:22:14 What is the... Does in fact say that. Somebody sent me that from Oak Park, which is, that's my high school. In what city? They got a strong theater pride Oh, that must be nice. Not my school.
Starting point is 01:22:27 Oh, there must be slightly overweight girls, bone and everybody over there. What city was this in? Thank you. That's in Oak Park, Illinois, my hometown. Wow. Home of the Huskies, Thespians. What was your mascot?
Starting point is 01:22:41 That theater to watch movies? Oh, without a dad. The lake? Yeah. Have you not seen it? The marquee of the lake theaters above the TV in the movie? Oh, I have seen that.
Starting point is 01:22:47 Your dad made that for you. My dad made me a miniature... The lake theater that you saw before your eyes only is? That's exactly right. But instead of the saying The only, it has time is a flat circle, you guys. Well, it's essentially just a watch. A watch is also a flat circle.
Starting point is 01:23:04 Where were we? Okay, we were discussing Tom's base jumping plans. He's dropping 175 feet into the river. Then? I'm going to drop so high that people will think I'm dead. Because I'm Hans grubering it, because they don't look for you when they think that you're dead. So I hit the river. But Hans Gruber did die. Well, yeah.
Starting point is 01:23:27 But right before, his plan is to have everybody think he's dead. Okay, yeah. So I'm dropping into the river, and I got tourists. Everybody's looking. And they're like, there's no way he'll survive that free drop into the scent. Right. This guy kind of shoot too early. That's what they're too early. That was crazy. Looks like
Starting point is 01:23:43 a mistake. Yeah. Now, they don't know. It was a plan entire time. I love that we're just back to view to a kill here. That's the great. That's the one where they picture. Is that one similar sequence when she gets out the crazy Butterfly sticks. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's right before that.
Starting point is 01:23:57 The only efficient way to kill someone. This is the only way you can do it in that circumstance. They researched it and they're like, this is the only way we can do it. We'll never kill them with anything else. No, there's no way. Do you want to try that? Super silent sniper. We got to put this in our picture.
Starting point is 01:24:12 You know it. All right. Okay. Are we all the mountain climbing? Yeah, a bunch of basket people go up into a thing and throw knives. A bunch of people go in a basket. I got really a nice. I got really a nice.
Starting point is 01:24:22 annoyed when they cut Malena. Malina? Melina. They cut her out of the weird rubber underwater suit she's been wearing, but they cut away from it. Like a guy comes over and you think he's going to stab her? Yeah. And then you just cuts open her, like... I don't remember this.
Starting point is 01:24:39 Undersea suit. Well, when she comes up from the... When they come up with the A-Tac. I should mention my cat vomited during this movie, and I think this was the part. Oh, it was right. This is a good part. Yeah. And then they tie them up and they're like, Mr. Bonds, you're going to... Is your cat okay? Yeah, she just eats too much.
Starting point is 01:24:56 If we even get into that, it's dangerous. Let's move on. Okay, so they go down to the city of Atlantis. Which is never mentioned. No, I know. What is that? She's vacuumed and sand off of the most beautiful tile work you've ever seen. Yes, I don't know if any Greek ruins underwater. Yeah, it has to be. The civilization that taught us all about pyramids has now been covered by water. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:25:23 So she discovers Atlantis. Talk about Barry in the lead. But we, I did, while watching this movie, forget about the scuba tank being left there. But while I was watching the movie going, why would she just leave her scuba tank there? That's a ridiculous thing to do. It's a really. It is. But, man, I remember seeing that his kid going, that's brilliant.
Starting point is 01:25:39 It's amazing. That's amazing. How do they know that? And they just happened to be in that spot. In the same part of Atlantis. Well, her dad was looking around Atlantis because that was very close to where the St. St. St. Scherger's, um. Say again?
Starting point is 01:25:51 went down. The St. George? Oh, yeah, yeah. The St. George. The big... The ship. St. George?
Starting point is 01:25:59 St. George. St. George. Say St. George in Australia. St. George and Australia. Sharks, it's the best. Boy, well, that's it. We wrapped it up. Sharks, it's the best.
Starting point is 01:26:09 That actually sums up. We did. That sums up for your eyes only, I think. Sharks, it's the best. I do like that the ending is, let's destroy this thing. And it's like, detunt. And ultimately, the message is,
Starting point is 01:26:21 fuck these. dependence, America and Russia, like, if it's not going to be us, let's destroy it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a fair statement. At this point, dude, does that guy knows that's James Bond, right? The head of the KGB knows that's James Bond.
Starting point is 01:26:38 Oh, totally. He's met that guy before, right? Yes, in many movies. Yeah. Yeah, the guy who worked with the secretary at the beginning and worked in a big, crazy, empty office inside the crumbus. But also, why would, I love that he just, for some reason, is just like, hey? Because I think... Like, you're just going to give it to me?
Starting point is 01:26:53 That's what I think. They're like, look, we don't get along, but who's this upstart coming in trying to do this shit? Let's destroy it and have a laugh about it. At least nobody wins, but nobody loses. Yeah. It's a nice ending. It is a nice ending. It's a different bond ending.
Starting point is 01:27:09 Until they keep going. And the Margaret Thatcher talking to a parent, see it happens. Swing and a miss. The hockey stuff's pretty weird, too. Swing and them Two strikes but not No third First of all
Starting point is 01:27:26 That's clearly A legal high sticking Bond would be penalized for that Yeah So I would rank this movie Number What's your number one? What's your number one bomb?
Starting point is 01:27:40 From Russia with Love Mind me what happened Second Sean Connery movie He also played James Bond at something Earlier on Yeah he played James Bond And he has to go to get the Russian, there's a lectern machine, a decoding machine that he has to get. I have seen it.
Starting point is 01:28:02 And a Russian spy pretends to be in love with James Bond and wants to defect and give him this machine. And they think, oh, this is so fantastical. You've got to go see what happens anyway. This is probably not what's happening. We probably think they're going to be double-cross. Go anyway. Train fight. Robert Shaw.
Starting point is 01:28:19 I was in it. Of course. Amazing, amazing. The only appearance of James Bond's Green Bentley, as mentioned in the Ian Fleming novels. He's got a car phone in there. Sylvia Trench is back
Starting point is 01:28:33 for the second time. That's right. A lot, a lot about that movie I really enjoy. That's my number one. Mine's Casino Royale, believe it or not. The new one. I do believe it.
Starting point is 01:28:41 That's my number two. It was quite good. I'd love it. I really, really enjoyed it. Dale Craig, I think he's got a future, guys. Well, this brings to a close all of the classic Bond movies. We've covered them all.
Starting point is 01:28:54 This is big for us. This is a milestone. We thought we might never do it. I think we always knew. We always knew we'd get here. We started this thing two years ago. Yeah. We started this before Spector was even written.
Starting point is 01:29:11 Oh, well before. Skyfall had just come out. Yeah. We went on our first date to see Skyfall together. We sure did. the IMAX at the Universal City. And now you remind me. Marrying another woman.
Starting point is 01:29:21 And watch the... Skyfall is the poster who's got the machine gun or what was he doing? Nope. That's, uh, that's a, that's a... Quantum of Salas. No, that's Casino Rao. Yeah. Quantum of Salas is...
Starting point is 01:29:32 Oh, oh, Skyfall is the one that's, uh, the whole third act is... Home La La. Yes. Yeah. We saw it and then we stood in the rain and watched the weather girls. Not even its rain and men. It was the Weather Girls apparently had a Christmas hit. I don't know if Paul Schaefer also.
Starting point is 01:29:47 wrote that. It's snow and men. We stood out there and we watched it. Yeah. And that was when we knew we should do a podcast. That's right. And here we are wrapping it up until the new edition comes out. Yeah. What's like I'm on? November 5th. Oh, that's really soon. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:30:02 Very soon. We're very excited. Yeah. We're looking forward to it. Sam Smith does the song? He sure does. Yeah. I know. He really falsettoes the fuck out of it. That video came out today. Yeah, I didn't watch it. I have no interest. Wow. You guys have a James Bond podcast?
Starting point is 01:30:17 You did not watch it. I watched it. I'm pulling for this guy. I liked him as a choice. I just don't feel like the song really fits. Oh, the song could be, how do you not? A lot better. That came up, uh, Phil Noble Jr. How would you know? Yeah, come on. You, shit, if you're going to go sad, why would you not go Morrissey? If you're going to go, if you're going to go. Yeah, why not? Why not? It'd be so much better.
Starting point is 01:30:38 Are you fucking crazy? It'd be the greatest thing ever. It'd be one of the great things for time. Now, I know we're both Billy Bragg fans. We are. How would you like a Billy Bragg? rag jam sponsor. It's totally
Starting point is 01:30:48 contrary because he's so working class. He's shooting people who don't get proper wages.
Starting point is 01:30:56 He's not in the union except a union jack. And the and the lackeys he throws off the yard.
Starting point is 01:31:09 All the same I'm still in love with you. No man has any right to buy a cell to moon for private men.
Starting point is 01:31:21 In 1981 to St. George's Hill. The guy from Moonraker with his beard came to shoot draws into space. They defied the landlords. And with the girl with pig tails. Oh my God.
Starting point is 01:31:37 And James Bond got on his spaceship and that's the end. I would watch a whole evening of this. It's Billy Bragg spoofing the bonds. And I can spoof all of the bonds until we get to Christopher Walken and his name was Zoltan
Starting point is 01:31:53 Zorin And he's got a blame And you didn't know that this meeting was happening Ain't a blame Thomas Lennon Thank you for joining us Would you like to plug anything? I'm a
Starting point is 01:32:12 Halloween Just the holiday of Halloween I'm part of America's wallpaper What would I possibly I'm on the on couple on CBS There you go job. Joe Keenan's still over there?
Starting point is 01:32:23 I'm the neat one. Is Joe Keenan's still over there? Yes, time to time. He's my favorite Frazier writer. Time to time. He needs a hand over there. There's another podcast. He drops a script off.
Starting point is 01:32:33 And you know what they do it? And it's probably the greatest thing ever. He's great. Also, Matthew Keary's very funny on that program. It's a big hit. If I remember correctly, Bob Daly runs that show. Bob Daly's fantastic.
Starting point is 01:32:47 Bob Daly is fantastic. Hey, or nine. I see all. Cup, oh. But I will say the... You know, I've hung out with Billy Bragg, right? It was the weirdest thing. No.
Starting point is 01:32:57 Yeah, I didn't know this. We sang, you and I sang Billy Bragg songs together, and you never even brought this up. Yeah. When? I'm real, real nervous. I don't get nervous around too many people, but I got nervous. I would be too.
Starting point is 01:33:08 What was the circumstance of this? He did the monologues at Ascat one night. What? And I knew he was going to do him, so I went out. When was it in New York or L.A.? He was back here. Maybe four or five years ago. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 01:33:19 Yeah. I told you, time I saw him two nights in a row in concert. And his, his, um, like, ad-libbed patter was so brilliant as I always love it. And then the second night,
Starting point is 01:33:28 it was exactly the same like he was making it up on the spot. It was somehow it was, it was about show business left. I know. You just saw it. You just pulled back the curtain. I know. It hurt me a little.
Starting point is 01:33:38 We're all doing. James Bond. Shagging women. For your eyes only. It, uh, it's, Work for the Tories. Weird to say, but James Bonding will return.
Starting point is 01:33:57 With Spector. Now, we've got some grand plans for this. Let's see if it happens. Yep. Guys, look for many hours of podcasting based around this movie that hopefully is awesome. We've already got our tickets. I'll tell you what. I think in likelihood, I think it's going to be good.
Starting point is 01:34:11 I hope so. I'll tell you what, I didn't even tell you this. We've got, you know, we got our tickets to go see it November 5th. Yeah. I bought some extras just in case people want to come along. Oh. You want to join us? Yeah, where?
Starting point is 01:34:22 Orklae, obviously? No, I pick in Pasadena. That's pretty far, yeah. That's another side of time. Tom actually blows up if he goes past Studio City. I do. Yeah. I understand.
Starting point is 01:34:34 I understand. If he goes past the CBS lot into the Valley, it's all over. It's all over. Yeah. Any part of the Valley, I'm in there has to be fictional. Just for your kind of thing. Thank you, Tom. We'll be back.
Starting point is 01:34:50 Bye. Now leavingnerdist.com. Hey, this is Arnie Necamp from the Improft Fantasy podcast. Hello from the Magic Tavern. I fell through a dimensional portal behind a Burger King in Chicago into the magical land of food. And I started a podcast. Season three has just begun with a brand new adventure to defeat the dark lord. If you're a new listener or you've fallen behind season three is a great jumping on point.
Starting point is 01:35:18 And we've got great guests like Justin McElroy. I sound like a fancy call. College professor. Hate Nats. Rachel Bloom. You all see my collection of men, corpses, and one woman. Felicia Day and Colton Dunn.
Starting point is 01:35:32 You've seen me have intercourse with a variety of species. It's a bummer. Andy Daly. You have the members of Genesis listed, but Phil Collins has crossed out and then Circle did he cross out again. Yes, I have killed Phil Collins twice. Thomas Middletch. Jesus, I mean, Jarsos.
Starting point is 01:35:49 Ruler of the Eighth Circle. And that's just the beginning. 3 of ALO from the Magic Tavern is out now. Listen in Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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