James Bonding - Q and A

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

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Hey, everybody. Welcome to a very special edition of James Bonding. I'm Matt. And I'm Matt Gourley. And good morning to you if you're listening to this. when it first comes out in the morning because we're certainly recording it first thing in the morning. We honestly both always wanted to do morning radio and this is our chance. I did. I really did.

What prompted you to want to do morning radio, Matt? Of all things, it was this local duo here in Los Angeles, Mark and Brian. Oh, sure. Mark and Brian are known throughout the country. Yeah. I don't know that they were ever, did they ever go national? I think they did get syndicated for a while and they even had a short-lived TV show. Oh, is this like the guy that you...

I was thinking of the guy that Paul Shear went to see a taping up. Remember that random radio personality that had a talk show in the early 80s that Paul Shear happened to see a taping of that we talked about on the theme park episode? No, that was me. Rick Dees? No, it wasn't Rick Dees. Oh, okay. Paul saw a different guy. Everyone who listens to the podcast can go back and listen to that story.

Yeah. But yeah, of course. As far as radio personalities with TV shows, Matt Goerley did go to a taping of Rick Dees and I believe participated in the television program. I won $500. That's still paying dividends to this day. How did you win the $500? It was a like Rube Goldberg-esque machine that I had that would like drop a ball down, blah, blah, blah.

And at the end, it would burn up a check for $500 if I didn't answer enough trivia questions in time. Oh, that's. actually kind of fun. Yeah, it was. I was the first person to beat it. Really? Yeah. Oh, man.

And I looked the part. I had these huge owl glasses and like a burgundy polo shirt, but like green plaid shorts and socks pulled up out of my loafers. It was a real, it was a real spectacle. This is a treat. Is this one of those things that you have like on a VHS tape that we stored away that like will never be released? It's in there with the day the clown cried. in Jerry Lewis's fault.

So they both owned by Harry Shear. Harry Shear has gold. Anyway, the point of all this is at 7.30 in the morning. Yeah. The schedule got a little tighter than we both thought it would this week. Things are crazy at work. We are also doing a live show tomorrow, which by the time you hear this will have already happened. So our normal time when we would have recorded,

I think is being taken up by doing a live show. That's right. We didn't want to deprive our regular listeners. We deliver. We deliver by sleet or snow, rain, or whatever. And sometimes when we deliver, we got sexy morning voice. Listen to that. Sam.

This is the deepest I've ever heard of. I am Optimus Prime. Oh, Peter Cullen's here, everybody. Sam Whitwicky. Shia LaBeouye. Sam Witwiki. Wow. You know why I say that?

Because it's easier to say in Opti... I Am Optimus Prime has a lot of vowels and you can't really hit the deep part, but Sam Witwiki. We had... We just had Peter Cullen record a promo for the Goldbergs. Oh, really? That I believe it is tonight.

So that's fun. But so here's the deal, guys. It's time for a little James Bond Q, wink, and a. Wink. We've asked you guys on Twitter to ask us your questions and or send us your comments. And quite frankly, more of you did so than I thought would. That's nice of you guys. It's very, very nice of you.

Here's how this works. We're going to take a gander. We're going to take a scroll through the old Twitter machine. and we're going to pose questions to both myself and Matt Gourley. And they all seem to be fairly James Bond related. I should hope so because so far we're four minutes in and haven't even barely said the name James Bond. Well, let's just get this out of the way.

Before I even asked for questions, someone sent me a question, which is related to this. And he asked random thought while catching up on the podcast. Does James Bond drink tea or coffee? Oh, I actually believe that's covered in the novel. I think he doesn't like tea, isn't that? That is absolutely correct.

That was asked to us by At Ben of Hope, and Benny despises tea drinkers. He finds that they take too much time. Yeah, he also doesn't trust a man in a wins or not, which I guess I understand. Well, he's not going to trust. me. I throw a half wins or on. That's fair. And I have to say, I have a couple of ties that I actually don't, I don't care, like, do a wins or not, but there are some ties that are so long you almost

have to. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Otherwise, you're going to end up with a length situation where the little bottom skinny parts hanging below the top fat part. Or you look like our goddamn president. Of style choices. That man has none. Well, Matt, I have another question for us. Okay, let's bring it on. All right, this is from listener at Robert Jackson 1. After Daniel Craig is done with Bond, who would you guys like to take the role besides the same ones

that the internet have been saying for years? Now, this is a question we get, I would say, very frequently. Yeah, it is. But they're limiting the popular choices. That's a new wrinkle in this. Yes. And I feel like I thought of someone the other day, I can't remember.

You know how when you think, oh, there's a gift I'd like for Christmas when my mom asks, but then she asks and you can never remember. You can't think of anything. Yes. You're like, even though I really would like Castle Grey Skull, it seems like a big thing to ask for. So let me ask for this little thing. Here's what I always say about James Bond. And quite frankly, I'm always wrong. It should be, I wanted to be someone who I've seen in a movie, but don't remember.

seeing in a movie. Oh, that you can look up and go, oh, that's right. They were nice. And that's kind of what Daniel Craig was for the most part. For sure. I think, you know, as far as famous bonds go, I mean, Connery became famous from James Bond. Roger Moore, I feel like he was fairly famous prior to taking over Roger Moore because he was on a television show, The Saint. Right. For a couple of years. And, you know, Timothy Dalton, I don't know. What? What did Timothy Dalton do before Bond, man? He had done a lot of, like, actual, like, respectable acting. He was in the great classic film, The Lion and Winter.

He had done a lot of theater and BBC stuff. So I'm sure he was known well enough to English people. Far and wide. Here's a... So, yeah, our answer is... We don't know who it will be, but I don't think it will be any of the people being bandy. about. Yeah, if not solely for the fact that by the time a new spot rolls around again, a lot of

those people are getting closer to being aged out. I guess not someone like, who's the Downton Abbey guy, Dan Stevens? He'll probably be of prime age. But, you know, I prefer my bonds not to be as pretty as that. Not that it matters exactly, but he's close to Brosnan in terms of so good look at gruffness to your I do yeah I like a little bluntness I feel like bond is should be more sinewy than a than a Daniel Craig is even so you think in like a Tom Hiddleston yeah a little bit just to to be how I read him you know in the book wise yeah I've said this before but I think Tom Hiddleston would be a great choice for a period bond for a 60s bond because he also he has a sort of gaunt withdrawn look that a man of that era, even though they're not of a certain age,

they look a certain age because they've smoked and drank their whole lives. And they're just, you know, got 10 years on them more than they should. We'd like it, James Bond, to look as though he's lived a hard life. Because he has. Yeah. Man, I have a very interesting question from a Twitter follower. I'm all ears. This is Mike Rothschild at Rothschild MD.

Here's his supposition. This is one of those questions that I feel like you or I would ask if we ever partook in kooky drugs, man. Okay, man. Ready? All right. If the Bond producers were killed in a 1967 plane crash while leaving Japan scouting for you only live twice, does the franchise go on and does Connery continue? Whoa. So let's see what would really happen was that a state would probably be willed to Saltzman and Broccoli's wives, I would imagine, because they were both still alive at the time.

So Don Jack. Yeah. And so I bet Dana Broccoli would be instrumental in finding, because Barbara would be too young. I think even Michael Wilson would be too young. They'd probably be involved, but I bet they would try to go find some new producer and like maybe a young Dino dealer. Loretus would have come along and ruined the whole franchise. Yeah, I do wonder, you know, if it truly, if it truly was just the fact that he, Connery couldn't stand being in a room with broccoli and saltsman.

Are you saying he sabotaged the plane? I'm saying there's something to look into. A lot of people are saying, Matt, many people are saying. thread breaking thread please read so you know

that's an interesting thing honestly I think that had because I always wonder he always says that it was

you know it was his dealings with the producers and I wonder had they paid up if Connery

would have continued because he was also like so fucking done right that famous

yeah well I'm sort of glad in a he didn't in the same way that like I'm glad my parents got divorced it was better for everyone they remained friends you know what I mean like not the cubby broccoli and connery remained friends but I don't

think a connery on Her Majesty's Secret Service would have been very good do you know so you know the broccoli cubby broccoli salt's been breakup yeah um I find you know it's so sad in that documentary I know everything or nothing yeah when they find finally see each other at that premiere? Yeah. And one of them has everything and one of them has nothing. Yes. I know.

It's like so depressing. But it also makes me wonder, is Cubby Broccoli the problem here? The problem? You mean with Connery? With Connery and Saltzman. I don't think so, to be honest. He seems like a genuinely good man. Saltzman seems like a real out there loose cannon.

and Connery seems kind of persnickety. And yeah, maybe he was a tightwad. Yeah. But it doesn't seem to be the case, especially since he continued on. And no one speaks ill of him except for Connery, really. In fact, if any people praise him, I don't know. I mean, that's just my read of it. I wasn't there.

You know, I'm going to let your read be the read of record. Okay. Great. Really? Wow. Thanks. Jeez, I would have prepared. Uh, here's a question from Stephen.

This is at Mr. Fast Horse, which is a decent Twitter handle. If the double O program were real, for which world events in the past 50 years would you have sent them in? Whoa. Well, definitely the Cuban Missile Crisis. Oh, that probably unfolded more behind telephones and such, but still. Boy, that, that, imagine that, that'd be a fun novel. It would, because it also has, it all just unfolded so quickly. Yeah.

What else? I think Nakatomi Plaza. Oh, that's actually an even more interesting question. Could you send James Bond into any movie? Oh, yeah, in any fictional event. Where would you send him, I guess, is my question. Like, where would you most? like to see what would you most like to see an actual James Bond movie that was an action movie of some

kind? Well, I think it's more like, for instance, you brought up, tweaking all these questions to what we want them to be. You brought up, that's what makes a good podcast, man. We're just, we're just flowing. We're just flowing and vibing. The Nakatomi Plaza of it all, like, it'd be interesting. What would diehard have been like if it was James Bond in that office building? And would it have been a James Bond movie from that era? So it would have been Timothy Dalton? what would that have been like yeah that would have been interesting would he how would he have dispatched with everything what do you have done it any differently than than john mclean he wouldn't have handled the comedy as well that's very true he also like i wonder if if uh james bond would

have written ho ho ho i have a gun now on a guy's sweatshirt and set him down the elevator no he would have put a pun on there and i think that's even what diehard the whole thing was setting itself up against those type of things. But now here's something interesting. I can't believe they never did a James Bond diehard type movie because those were so popular, you know? Oh yeah. Like he's trapped in MI6 or something like that? Something. But I guess they were always like, well, he's got to go globe trotting. That's part of it. But still, that's really interesting. But I think, yeah, if I wonder how James Bond would deal with everything. Like I wonder how James Bond would have dealt with The Terminator.

Yeah. I'm sure that's a comic book. Probably. Sure, that's a comic book. By the way, I read the comic book that you and I are in by Abraham Mustafa, the Solstice comic book. Wonderful job. Wonderful job. How many double O's would you give it?

Seven. I give it eight. Oh, 008. I put a throw in an extra double O. Does that mean he's a more senior member of the double O staff or does that just mean the emeritus? The number he was signed. Yeah, either way.

Do you think James Bond is the seventh 00-O? Ever or just... Ever. Now, that is one thing that I think going with this code name theory. I do think once a 004 dies, they probably replace...

Yeah. I'll be fine with that. So do you think that he replaced 007 who died in like... Yeah. French and Indian War? Or do you think... Probably, yeah.

also they have to get replaced because by now there'd be no like 001 through 9s left right there'd certainly be like they'd be at like 073 yeah we've never done this before i think we've talked about it but i would like to know which double o's get killed and like which numbers in the movies are available yeah or and who has like there is probably like a double o eight that has lived through the whole thing who could very easily just have his own franchise as well but bond got got out there first do you think he is uh he's m i rather i guess my question is do you think m is a former double o like double o one yeah yeah i wonder about that that's do you think m is licensed to kill i don't well he might be licensed to kill but i don't think he was a former double o he's still got

enough bureaucrat in him that he feels like maybe he was probably a desk jockey intelligence officer or something like that. Well, he's an admiral, right? He is, yeah. And Bond's a commander. I mean, he reports to the Ministry of Defense. Right. And so he reports to the Minister of Defense and then the Prime Minister. Those are his report to his, right? Yeah. So he's above everybody else. He was probably went to officer school, was an officer and, you know, a gentleman well that's right now would you like to see bond in an officer and a gentleman oh would I ever I know I know you can fill out that naval uniform that's for sure and the song would be I had the time of my life wasn't that from that movie no that one is um what am I thinking of is that dirty dancing

we just had it on the fucking that is that dirty dancing yes what is he carrying Deborah winger to It's love lifts us up where we belong. Yes, that's right. It's kind of like an octopus-esque spy who love me, Bond title. That's funny. Yeah, let's put Bond into different movies. That would be an interesting thing to do. Which actually brings us to the next question, Maguire.

I'm all ears again. This is from Gareth Poole. He says, if you had to recast the six bonds with the six Batmans and vice versa, Oh, I've done this. Who would you swap? Of course you've done this. I've done this. Have he does on a podcast or just in life?

I did it on Twitter. Someone asked me. And I think it's actually pretty clear. Let me see if I can remember it. So obviously Christian Bale is Daniel Craig. He has allowed, he has given us the following starter, which is that Adam West and Roger Moore obviously must be swapped. Yeah, that's clear.

And I think Christian Bale and Daniel Craig, because their movies are so similar. or Yeah. Okay. And then Michael Well, Clooney is

Brosnan because they're both pretty boys. Yeah. And their films are respected by no one. I don't know.

Val Kilmer is Dalton. Val Kilmer is Timothy Dalton. And you're so, so you understand that we're swapping, right?

I forgot about Ben Affleck in this. Well, Keaton is Connery. just by default. Keaton is Connery. I agree with that statement. 100%.

So if Michael Keaton is Sean Connery, then I now have to put Sean Connery into the role of Batman 89. Quite frankly, that is a weird thing to see, but I'm into it. Yeah. I do. Although that's like, that was Connery's Renaissance. You know, he was doing things like, Last Crusade.

Untouchables, Last Crusade, yeah. Okay. So if Michael, Keaton. Okay, then Val Kilmer. The Val Kilmer of it all, I don't know. I don't... He's either Lazy & B or Dalton. I don't mind his performance, but I do find it... You know what? I'm going to put him as Lazy's because they both have an attitude like they're better than the films and they were notoriously difficult to work with. Okay, but what about the chin dimple? You know? Well, that's a technicality. Klooney's got the chin dimple, which really

belongs to Lazy's. Yeah, but I think Clooney's Brodden because they were both kind of pretty heart throbs. Yeah, but that makes Affleck Dalton. Clooney's also had peace with the whole franchise, with him having destroyed the franchise. He apologized for it at a comiccom. Well, so is Brosnan. Is he? I am.

You've made peace. You've certainly made peace. I think Affleck makes a compelling Dalton, both, you know, kind of reluctant a little bit. Okay. Yeah. I'll allow it. Okay, thanks. Daniel Craig.

Okay. I think we've done a great job. Yeah. I like that corollary. I wish there were more of those to do. I wish that there were, imagine if there had been 24 or 25 Batman movies. Yeah. That'd be interesting.

Yeah. I guess. All right. This question comes from Ryan Scott Wright. At Ryan Scott writes. What? would you like to see in a James Bond TV show? Hmm.

Well, I feel like it'd be better served to do a spinoff thing because... So you're saying, not with our main characters. Yeah, I'd say maybe like a Felix Leiter show. What would put about you? You're just watching a CIA show. And like, that's kind of dull to me. A show that takes place in the double O's, sure. Okay, yeah, yeah.

Now you're talking. Yeah. Maybe our central character has a lot of dealings with M and Money Penny. Yeah. Oh, I've got it. Okay. I'm listening. It's an anthology season.

So it's one season one story, right? It's the same crisis. But every episode, there are nine episodes. Every episode is from a different double O's perspective in what they did on a single single. mission. They are all working together on a mission, but they didn't even know it some of them. And at the end, by the time you see all the perspectives, you understand what's happening. A Roshaman style, James Bond, crisis moment, starring all your favorite double-Os. Matt, that's great.

Come on, call us up, HBO. That is really terrific. I'm already seeing it in my head. I'm already seeing Idris Elba doing what he's doing as 005. Oh, yeah. Yeah, see, then you could. take all these actors that want to do the role but don't want to get locked into it, especially if it's HBO. Who are we casting as M?

Like, are we going to have Ray Fines in there? Fuck yeah, bro. Okay, great. I love it. Fuck, yes. That's fun. And so who's, like, who's a female double O? Let's cast a female double O.

I wish that we didn't just stab Rosamund Pike through the chest with the art of war on a previous episode. You can bring her back. I can bring her back? Yes. as a different character. They've done it. There's certainly a history of it.

Oh, what was I watching? Yesterday I was watching that BBC show, I Claudius. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, what a trip that is, and I'm loving it. But boy, is it take its time. And then yet kills people right away. Sure. And I keep hearing this voice like this, talking, you know, Augustus, you will listen to me.

I won't leave my wife. And I'm like, why do I specifically know that voice? And it's the guy who plays Hillary Bray in Honor Her Majesty's Secret Service. But I think of Lazy's. I kept thinking of Lazyzby because they done them with that voice. Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah.

What's his name? George Baker. Very good ear. Yeah. So what's front of that down? A good female, double O, good female, double O that hasn't been used. Who would be? And are all, are all double O's supposed to?

Let's get Swarcy. Sarsi Ronan in there. Oh, young double-O, huh? Yeah, Brooklyn's... Brooklyn is what I'm... Lady Bird. I'm two years behind her career. Hannah.

Well, that's right. She does have presidents and Hannah. That movie's amazing. I'd like to get Eric Bonner in there, too. Would you? Yeah, I always liked him. I'll let that go. Oh, I'm going to say bring in Paul Gross to the Canadian actor.

There's a Canadian double-O. They're part of the Majesty's... Oh, okay. I love that guy. I think if the queen's on the money, they're coming in. Okay, good. Yeah. But let's get a couple of, who are the kick-ass females right now?

I mean, you could go Galgadoo or Charlie's there, and even though she basically just did a Bond movie, I'm told. I want, but I want British people. Yeah, right. Okay. Rosamond Pike is a good one. Rosamke would be so, she was so, she acted, she took that role seriously. Yeah.

I died another day when it had no right to be serious. Yeah. I know. Yeah. Wait. Oh. I'm trying to think of current day British movies. I don't watch new movies anymore.

That's my problem. Could we get Gigi from Zumbos Just desserts? Okay, guys, you got 10 minutes, everyone. Okay, okay, hurry up. Okay, here we go. Ten minutes. Okay, come on, guys. Come on.

Oh, God, that show. We haven't talked about that on air, but we've both been watching Zimbos just desserts. We have had a time. What a zoo. We're talking about a morning zoo. If you want to see Australians just baking their hearts out. And one Brazilian yelling at everybody for about two seconds per episode. Who has no discernible role in the show other than to keep Zumbos interactions with the contestants to a minimum. Yes, because clearly he doesn't want to.

And he's got a smile on his face like he is high as a kite the entire time. I swear to God, he makes, he makes edibles. That's all he does. That's probably true. That's what he's baking. Like, you know, his things are like eight layers. The seventh layer is always THC. If you come to James Bonding for Zumbos just desserts.

Off brand week. Yeah. You got it. You are in luck, my friend. Okay. I am now going to pull this up. I'm going to pull this list up here. I'm going to look right now into the dark web here and figure out, oh, you know who'd be good as a, like a 007 sort of counterpart?

Yeah. Female-wise? Uh-huh. Kate Winslet. Yeah. Right now, especially. She'd be great up against Craig or... Yeah, she'd be great.

I think a lot of people would say Michelle Dockery from Downton Abbey, but I don't know. You know, by... I'm convinced. I'm not convinced, I say. Yeah, I think she's great. Yeah, Kate wins that would be great. She would be like in an action-y thing. Yeah, no kidding.

I feel like she's never been in one. That would be great. What if there's a lot of action in Titanic? That's true. Kieran Knightley, she did what was at Domino. That was kind of an action show. Oh, Karen. Karen, would be great.

Karen Gillen. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's a good one to throw in there. Yeah, that'd be good. All right. Hiddleston would be obviously great. And let's see.

Oh, would you like an Andrew Garfield throw it in there? Maybe is the young double-O that gets killed pretty quickly, And that's nothing against him, but just like if you want one storyline of the young... Sounds like it's pretty much a personal grudge. No, I like him. I think he's great. But, yeah, you do... I don't know.

I like my double-o's to have a little heft, a little experience behind him, you know, a little glaze behind their eyes. You know, we can't make anything British without Eddie Redmayne in it now. That's the rule. Oh, that's true. That's true. Well, I could see. He'd be another type of Q of some kind, maybe.

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Matt and Matt and Matt and If you were Q what gadget would you make for bond that comes from at Screden S-C-R-E-A-D-N You know what I think I'd do I'd fully develop something that when I was in seventh grade

I was really into building gadgets because of James Bond and also because of data from Goonies. Sure. And so I built a little motorized sawblade. And for some reason, my mom had this travel soap dish, which was kind of like almost like hard Tupperware. And you would open it like a case. You'd put soap in there.

I remember that. And so I made that a belt buckle. And when I opened it, this little sawblade was spring loaded and would turn on and pop out of the belt buckle. and I wore it to school. Oh my God. Okay. And I think it serves no purpose unless you're tied up at the waist.

Well, you try it at the waist. You want to cut some dicks off? I mean, it's just ready. That's right. Yeah, I want to cut some dicks off. It's for the moyal on the go. For the man who wants to cut some dicks off. For the man who has everything.

or nothing. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's about as useful as some of Bond's actual gadgets or as specific. Well, I mean, I think we've completely agreed that they're all written after the fact. Yeah. As they write the situations, they go, how will it get out of this? Okay, what if you had this? Great.

Let's throw that in the Q scene. Right. Right. I think if I were Q, I would make Bond. I would, you know, I have a problem with the car, the inconsistency in all of the James Bond car is bulletproofedness. Interesting. You know, I would try to set at least some sort of standard. So it might be a bureaucratic thing I do at Q Branch where I just, I just want to get some standards and best practices here.

So what's, what have you noticed? I don't think I've noticed that. Well, you know, sometimes the windows go out real easy, James Bond car. sometimes they're fired at point blank and nothing happens like a say a BMW 750 IL. Okay. You know, and an Aston Martin that has a, say, a defibrillator in it and a, and what else did he have in there? A gun. Yeah.

And an EpiPen. I feel like that was sort of inconsistent as well. Hmm. Right. And the bulletproof screen on the back of the DB5 featured in, uh, I mean, I guess they really use a screen in Thunderball. Yeah, I think so. That one seems to do its job.

But then if you go back in time to say a gold finger, they're firing at the glass, and I think that it breaks through the glass at some point. Does it not? Yeah, you'd think, I can't remember, but you'd think that bulletproof glass would come standard on all double O cars. Right.

That's not an optional extra. Well, this is part of what I'd like to do at Q Branch. That's smart thinking. Thanks, buddy. You got it. All right, Gareth Poole asks, what's your favorite of the non-movie, non-Fleming Bond stuff?

And this could include comics, Young Bond, and computer games. I will actually say my favorite thing is probably Agent Under Fire. What's that? Which is a video game that they released. It was one of those in-betweeners. It was post-world is not enough.

Hmm. It was like GameCube era. Hmm. And it's quite frankly one of the most enjoyable James Bond games I've played. Wow. Okay. Actually, I just looked it up just to see if I was crazy, but it is 72%

positive and 74% on Metacritic. And that, it came out in November of 2001, Matt. Hmm. It is a first person shooter based on the James Bond franchise. It's the fourth Bond video game, which is not based on a film or a book in the James Bond series. Oh. The story art continues in the following sequel, Nightfire,

released a year later. previously Bonds, which used the likenesses of then current actor Pierce Brasen, Agent Under Fire used the voice of Adam Blackwood and the likeness of English actor Andrew Bicknell for Bond.

Oh. Zoe Nightshade is the CIA Mall. Oh my God. That's taken me back. That's really taken me back. Wow, I didn't know anything about that. Yeah, so that's my favorite. That's my answer to that question. Okay, I'm I'm trying to find the name of the book I read, because I haven't, you know, I haven't read

ton of the non-Flemming stuff. And I remember reading two of the later novels that came out recently, but I was looking up Jeffrey Deaver, but it went to Jeffrey Dahmer's Wikipedia page. And I've got to tell you, I guarantee you, I would pay, I would bet anyone in the world right now, $100,000. Matt's computer has been to that web page before. To Jeffrey Dahmer? Yeah.

I don't know, but yeah, I wouldn't put it past me. Let me see. Hold on. Who wrote the latest? Hold on, hold on. Please talk. No, okay. So in the move, in the video game, which I'm sure a lot of you remember, Age Under Fire,

James Bond used his his BMW R8 from the world is not enough Let's see John Cleese

interesting Before going further in development The studio's original plan Was to bring back Roger Moore To prize his role As Bond In the end however

The behaviors Between Moore's interpretation Of the character And the one in the game shared identical attitudes. However, his casting was not widely reported. A video game released. Okay, so, John Cleese was supposed to reprise his role as R.

And, oh, 007 Racing, I have no recollection of that game. I vaguely remember that game. I never played it. Age Under Fire was pretty popular. It sold 1.5 million copies and earned $58 million in the United States. States. The 30th highest-selling game launched for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, or GameCube between January 2000 and July of 2006.

Matt, do you have your information? I think so. The thing is, there's been like four, they did like four novels that kind of continued on in the Fleming tradition. And actually, at least one of them was a period piece. It takes place after the events of Goldfinger. It's called Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz. And I remember hating that name.

But I think I liked the book. But then there's another one I read. And I think it was the Jeffrey Deaver one, which I don't know that I liked. I think that was carte blanche. That's a good title. I don't, you don't like the name Trigger Mortis? No, it's too punny. Too punny for you.

Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. But then I'm positive I read, Devil, My Care. I just know that there's one. One of these, and these are like more serious Fleming novels, but one of them, the villain has like a monkey's hand. Uh-huh.

Like he has some condition where he has a hairy hand, but everybody says it's like a monkey hand. Oh boy. This has not been an easy question to answer. Yeah, but no, but like his actual hand is like a hairy monkey hand. Okay, so it's not like the monkey's paw from that monkeys episode. Remember when they get bad luck from that monkey's paw? That's right, I do. Yeah.

And the Edgar Allen Poe Monkees pop. Kids, if you've never watched the monkeys television show. Highly, highly recommended. I'm a Peter Torque, man. Oh, yeah? He was your go-to fun guy on that? Yeah, like, I feel like he was the George Harrison, and I always gravitate towards those, you know, in the shadows guys.

So who do you think Magnusmith was? I'd say he's Lenin. Interesting. And don't you think Davy Jones is Paul McCartney? Yeah, and Mickey Dolan's is Ringo. That's by virtue of the fact that they both play drums. Okay. And their goof-offs, yeah. The goof-em-offs, yeah, that's true. Yeah. That is true. Okay. Here's another question. Okay. After Dale Craig leaves, would you be up for a 50s, 60s set period film?

Yes, yes, I've been saying it. forever. I would prefer that. Yes, I do. I think it would be a good way to be able to sort of reboot it without, I think it's going to be weird to reboot a similar type of James Bond. Do you think they'll reboot it or do you think they'll continue on like they used to? Like, this is the same James Bond.

God. You know, I hope they don't do another origin story. I hope they just continue. Well, here's what I fear. I fear that they have been so keen to hit their reboot button in Hollywood. Yeah. That they'll end up doing it again.

I know, I'm worried about that too. But if they're going to, wouldn't you like to see a period thing? Because then also, you could get away from all these like smart blood gadgets and, you know. Well, didn't the man from Uncle not do well? I think it did okay. And I really liked it. I haven't seen it. I liked it.

But that was period, correct? Yeah. Yeah. What do you think of Henry Cavill? I like him. Army Hammer. Now, he'd be a good bond. He's real pretty, but he's got it where it counts.

Let me ask the following question. Have you seen the Justice League film yet? No, I have not. Me either. All right. Glad to cover that. Here's a question. Female main villains are rare in bond.

Do you think it would be interesting to revisit the concept for Craig's last hurrah? I definitely do. Especially if they went, let's see, I have an idea. Yeah, go ahead. You know, there's been a lot of speculation about will this be Blofeld because, you know, Christoph Waltz has said he's not coming back. Maybe you do a quick, you get Blofeld Irma Bunt, but she's really pulling the strings. And I don't mean like in a twist way like Elector King, but like maybe even Blowfeld gets killed in the cold open.

And Irma Bunt is, you know, out for vengeance or whatever the case. be. And in that case, who would play a good Irma Bunt? Tilda Swinton. Oh, yeah. Done. Yeah. Yeah, she'd be good. Done. What about Kate Winslet? Not old enough for me for that role. But she's, I think she's older. She is older than Tilda Swinton. But Tilda Swinton is more. Yeah, she's got a presence that is like a immortal. Yeah. That's how I want to say, I told us women. Yeah.

And I'd like to see this one, it should be written by a female because I think the big mistake with female villains is they kind of write them like men, you know, and or they write them into the bond formula for a villain which is inherently sort of masculine. And I would love to just see some really different take.

Although, you know, I think they did a pretty good job with Electric King. I think that's one saving grace of that movie. I also don't mind the idea. I actually think it's an interesting concept that you bring up. What if it was Irma Bunt this whole time? Yeah.

Yeah. You know, because if we're operating in a world where JK everyone, Blowfell is behind all of these movies, then, quite frankly, we can do another double switch. Yeah, I mean, who cares at this point? Go another layer deeper. No one. And then you find they have a child and the child is pulling all the strings.

Oh, I love it. Like, literally. Like, he has him, he's like obsessive marionettes. Let's say he's seven or eight years old. And, uh, somehow. He'd also be James Bond's adopted nephew. Oh, God. It's so dumb.

It's so dumb. Yeah. Maybe they should abandon that whole timeline. Just give us a one off. Uh, Tarek at the Tarek M asks, Honor Majesty's Secret Service, he says, well, this is his statement. He says, Honor Majesty Secret Service is sadly let down by George Laysenby. Which Bond would have made it perfect, Connery, or someone else?

I do tend to agree. I think, although I like a lot of what Lays and B's doing, it is the weaker part of the film. Do you think it's let down, though, by Lays and B's post-Bond comments and behavior? No, I think it's, there is something about Laysenby that's great, but there is something about him that's not right. And it's not that I think he does a horrible job. I think he does an admirable job. But there's just something, you know, like the key to bond is seeming cold, but still having some actual charisma.

And I don't know that Lazy's B really draws me in. That's interesting. He is very wooden. Yeah. as far as performances go. Yeah, maybe that's it. So would it be putting any bond in their prime in that film?

Is that kind of where we're going? Well, I'd put Craig in there. I think he's suited for that film. I'd put Connery in there. And Connery's prime, I think, instead of actually his prime, I think we get Connery the year we would have gotten him. Oh, but look at how he was phoning it in on Diamonds or Forever, and he had a couple years to rest.

Well, Diamond's or Forever was phoned in because he had gotten a million dollars and decided well. I don't know. I'd put, like, from Russia with love area, Eric Conner in there. We were owed to that, I think. We were owed... Not that we were owed.

We don't really... We're not owed anything by these people, but I'm going to... Let's go cash that in at Barbara Broccoli's doorstep. Barbara, could you go back in time, please, and make sure that Sound Carter doesn't leave the franchise? They could still do it. but it would have been nice to this character that we've just seen in four or five movies anyway yeah

I mean theoretically yes I would love that but I don't think realistically we would have gotten a great film because he would have had a lot of input on the script too and I think they would have camped it up even more a little because he was heading that way right I don't know that's interesting would it have taken a different tone with definitely. It's definitely. Also, imagine that age of Connery sliding on the ice being pulled by a cable. Oh, I love it.

I would have, I would pay to see that. What is the most gruesome way Bond is almost killed by a villain? Oh, that's interesting. So had it worked, had the villain's plan to kill Bond slowly, worked, whose plan is the most cruiser. Well, the cocaine chopper, even though that's Dario, comes to mind. Yeah. But yeah, Goldfinger's balls, laser to the balls, would have been pretty awful. Yeah, because it would move so slowly and he would have been alive for so much of it. Yeah, that was pretty risque for that time when you think about it. I try not to. Yeah, what else is there? Um, well, they try to. Crocodile death.

Yes. Again, I think that's over quicker than a... Yeah, I think the laser to the balls is pretty bad. Gold laser cutting. Boy, what if... How did they try to kill him in the movie we just watched, Diamond's or Forever? You mean, like... I guess they just were taking the moments that they had him and were just trying to...

Yeah. I'm thinking... I think, like, I'm thinking... there are more bonds trapped in a death situation than there are. There aren't that many. It's more of a 60s Batman cliffhanger. Yeah. There's a few, but not a ton.

Bond never had to use a shark repellent. Would you ever want to see a period piece... You used a shark bullet. Go ahead. Sorry. Do you ever want to see a period piece Bond movie set and say the 70s or 80s? Yeah. that's what I'm saying.

You reboot with a five-picture deal. You started in the late 60. Oh, I'd love to see. You know what? You start in the early 60s, and throughout those five films, you go early 60s, late 60s, early 70s, late 70s, early 80s. Yeah. Or you know what? Do one in the 90s, too.

Like basically honor all the path to bonds. That's, man, that's a lot of work. That's 15 years out of some people. lives trying to make these period bond movies that only Mac Gourley asked for. But Craig will have eventually done about 15 years. That's true. He's very true. He's already 11 years in and it's not coming out for another two years.

Can you believe that? I know. When we got him, do you think we were going to get, did you think we were going to get him for five movies? No, I didn't. That is quite a surprise. And if I did, I would have thought they would have come quicker because, you know, Casino Rural was such a hit.

that they were like, let's do one every two years, and they did that with quantum, but then everything fell apart. Yeah, and then the world sort of changed. The world of movies changed. Yeah. Okay. Period piece.

I've got to say a lot of people are into the knick-neck Tabasco T-shirt. We've seen a few designs coming here. I'm off social media, but occasionally I'll check on my desktop in the morning, and I saw a lot of those. Maybe we should do that. We should do that, by the way. Should we have the live audience vote on designs tomorrow?

Sure. Now, speaking of designs tomorrow, did you get that goldfinger suit? Are we wearing these things? I have not yet figured out how to retrieve that, as I am someone who works far too much. So are you saying this isn't going to happen, or it won't have happened, or will it be a surprise?

I'm sure it'll be brought to you at the theater. Yes, I think that's what I'm going to have to do. But my problem is I don't know what time I'm going to be able to get to the theater. Okay. Well, I leave it up to you. I'm going to try. If I can get it, yes, we're doing it. Let's just say we're doing it.

Oh, boy. I mean, why not? Why not? Well, I just don't have any, by the time. I don't have any gold slippers. That's the problem. That's not. that's yeah

I'm gonna have to get some gold slippers somehow like an Amazon one day one also I hope it's not too cold in that theater

we're both gonna be chills but we're gonna catch our death of cold well should we just bring parkas as though we're like on set but sitting off to the side

all right well should we do one last question uh oh man we got some good ones in here uh the thing of Woodward

asked some good stuff about odd job. I'm going to like sort of say to you what they are and you tell me which one you think we should answer. Okay. Okay.

So we've got, we've got questions about odd job crushing cars. We've got questions about the next Bond song. Hmm.

We've got questions about J.W. Pepper. Oh. we've got questions about who of James Bond's partners in crime throughout the series would we like to be our own life partner in crime? You know, like would we like a Tiger Tanaka by our side in life or et cetera, et cetera? And we've got questions about torture techniques. And now of all those things.

Which one peaked your interest the most, man? What was the second one? I think it was about the song. Yeah, maybe that one. Okay. Who should do the next song? Elliot Kassanke at Elliott's World asks, Who are your top artists for the next Bond song?

Mine, he says, would be either Florence Welsh, Alt-J or Arctic Monkeys. Alchay's recent song in cold blood even sounds like a Bond song to me. That's from Elliot Kazansky. Kosanky. I'm starting to think that a big mistake of the Bond franchise is choosing bands before their time. And I think Adele is maybe the only exception to that. Before their time.

Well, like aha, right? I don't hate that song. I actually kind of like it. but I feel like you should go with a classic time-tested artist, but one that's also never been necessarily, I don't know, a household name or something. Like, I don't know. I feel like it was still.

I think what you're asking for is three radio hits before you get it bombed. Maybe I don't know what I'm saying right now. It's still so early. And then I was just about to say I still want to hear our future islands bonds. That's crazy. That's tough. That's a tough one. Because they themselves, it's almost like choosing a bond actor, they got to have some gravitas.

I know we never really talked about the radio head submission. It didn't do much for me. Yeah. So you never know. Just because you get an established artist doesn't mean you're necessarily going to get the right song. God. Oh, boy. You're really tied up with this question right now.

Yeah. Well, I don't know how many of you guys know the band Midlake, but I would love it. love to hear what they did with a bond song. Oh, boy. I, uh, you know, my, my pitch on this. What? Is, uh, broken bells. I don't know them. It's, uh, James Mercer from the shins. I just wore myself out. It's too early. You just got to wait them out, guys. It's like a toddler. Um, broken bells is, uh, James Mercer from the shins. Oh, oh, right.

Yeah. And Danger Mouse. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The shins could do something interesting. Yeah. I love James Mercer's lyrics. Yeah, he's good.

As I often discuss with people who care to listen, which is not many people. What about Portugal the man? I don't know Portugal, the man. Well, they have that big summertime hit, feel it still. Do you know that? No. Do you know, Matt? I'm a rebel just for kicks now.

I've been feeling it's in 1986 now. Oh, I think I've heard that song. But look, I've got a dog in that fight. His last name is goarly. Oh, well, I mean, you can't not support him. I know. And we've since become friends since. Oh, my God.

Because are we related? Who knows? But I love that music. But I love that music. 23 and me could tell you. Okay, here's my. here's my fun fact

about myself regarding Los Angeles radio okay I've never in my entire life living here I've been here for 10 years

I've never tuned my radio to anything what's to tune to it's been dead here forever yeah you're not missing anything believe about that especially since podcast came out my wife's always on like

an NPR station I had never heard heard of, you know, she's music stations she knows about that, I don't know. KCRW or KPCC. There you go. Yeah. Well, you know, we began with an L.A. radio discussion,

and we ended with an L.A. radio discussion, just like you asked for in your questions on Twitter for this, the question episode of James Bonding. That's how you fucking do it, guys. That's right. Thank you to everybody who participated and sent in questions. This literally was asked of everybody. last night at about 9.30 p.m.

And you had less than 12 hours. You had 10 hours to do it. And you gave us plenty of great questions. We couldn't even get to them all. I'm excited. Thank you. Thank you. We have the best listeners in the business. That's true.

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