James Bonding - For Your Eyes Only with Tom Lennon
Episode Date: May 3, 2023Tom 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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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
while
tons of nudity
happens around.
Have you mapped out
her ariolas?
Is it big?
What's going on?
Well, she's
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,
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.
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,
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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
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
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...
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
With a motorcycle
I went on.
I feel like
I've fallen
through plate
to last twice
this year.
Yeah,
and I'm basically fine.
And you weren't
wearing leather
in a moment.
Yeah.
That guy's fine.
Okay.
This woman's name
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.
Yes.
Okay.
This is word for word.
I'm literally going to be on her
right now.
Robin Young.
At Robin.
underscore Young.
Hey, are you
Sag after actress, comma,
007 James Bond Girl,
comma 14 playboy pictorials,
comma, model,
comma, patriot, comma, single,
comma Christian.
Goals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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?
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.
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
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
several million dollars
in rubles.
The, uh...
All right, let me quit this.
Cancel that.
All right.
All right.
It's some awkward.
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.
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
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?
Assistant?
Cubal.
I heard Q ball.
That's all I made out of it.
Coupon.
Yeah?
Okay.
Okay.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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
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?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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,
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?
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...
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
Like Eastern European
No no I'm talking about the
I'm talking about
Introducing
Oh Christatos
Her
Yes her mentor
Or whatever
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
He's...
He's...
He's...
He's...
He says...
He says...
He said to the higher speed of my thing.
Because the KG...
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
We're a podcast.
Come on.
Come here.
Give your dad a kiss.
Hello.
Hello.
For real?
I'll come up in a minute.
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.
There we go.
So,
where are we at,
Bibi?
I don't know,
but he drew out the exit.
Yeah.
If you're listening,
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
A whole bunch of things happen.
No.
No.
No.
Another lotus.
Very, very loose.
Doom buggy murders.
Wait, wait, wait.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
went down.
The St.
George?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
The St. George.
The big...
The ship.
St. George?
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.
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,
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.
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?
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
contrary
because he's
so working
class.
He's shooting
people who
don't get
proper wages.
He's not
in the union
except a union
jack.
And the
and the
lackeys he
throws off the yard.
All the same
I'm still in love
with you.
No man
has any right
to buy a cell
to moon for
private men.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Bye.
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