James Bonding - Season 3 Fantasy Bond Draft (w/ James Bladon, Mark McConville)

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

James Bonding is back! And this time, the season opener is just that, a sporty season opener where we sit down with James Bladon and Mark McConville to draft our fantasy dream Bond team. Go to Twitter.com/JamesBondingPod to vote! Which of us will get which Bond, which Villain, gadget, lady, song, and more? Download and listen to find out. Plus, we talk a little 007 news and cover what we’ll be covering this season. Let’s get to work.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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My name is Matt. My name is also Matt. We're back, guys, season three, excited to be here. And it's not just a season opener for James Bonding. That's a relevant name, because what we're doing to today is so sports related, I don't know what we're doing. Well, look, we're back. It's February 19th. Pitchers and catchers have already reported to spring training, Matt, and I am just here to say, why not roll in all the sports fun

right into this here podcast with our very own, first of its kind, completely not thoroughly thought out, James Bond franchise fantasy draft. That's right. Now, when you approach me with this, this is a brilliant idea at first, I was like, have you gone crazy? Do you know who I am? But then when you explained it and how it's related to James Bond, I went, you're crazy like a fox friend. And I love this idea. And before we get to it, we're going to talk a little bit about the upcoming season. We're going to introduce our guests today. We're going to cover a tiny bit of Bond 25 news because it's starting to trickle in like a little rivulet of hope. We need to replace a washer. That's how slowly it's trickling in. That's true.

In fact, why don't we get to that first? Sure. And then we'll bring our boys in that we've got here today. Did we cover the big, big news of the passing of Danny Boyle? And by that, I mean, the torch. Oh, certainly. Certainly. And we even talked about Carrie Fuganaga taking over, but I don't believe we've yet covered the fact that the character of Madeline Swan will be returning for James Bond 25.

I mean, look, the fans demanded it. The broccoli's have answered. But doesn't this lead you down a road? The inevitable conclusion is they're going the On Her Majesty's Secret Service route. Is she going to be killed up top? Is she going to survive? I can't tell you because in my mind, this bond was already married to Tracy. Oh, this again.

Look, I hope they, here's the bummer. I would have liked them. I would have liked for a very on Her Majesty Secret Servicey kind of move. movie, which is sort of what they almost tried to sort of do with Spector. But by that I meant I wanted a somewhat healthy Mr. White, who now is helping James Bond out. As the Draco. Yeah. Hmm.

Interesting. You know, and I would have enjoyed. That's true. He is her father. I never made that connection. What? How did you not make that connection? I don't know.

It's the morning. But look, so what do we have? We have swans back. Yeah. I'm excited about that. I like a returning Bond girl. There was also that heavy rumor that went around that this movie was a soft remake of On Her Majesty Secret based on People, I think, seeing the script and that Danny Boyle developed something different, apparently parted because they wanted to kill Bond and he didn't like that.

And now that Fukunaga's returned, they're going back to the Purvis and Wade idea, which may be this On Her Majesty Secret Service idea again. Which would be... Are you saying that's the one where they killed Bond? Possibly. It's just very silly for them to do that. Well, but it would be a good way for Craig's, you know, tenure to end. And then they just reboot.

Another reboot, you're saying. Oh, well, they're probably going to do that anyway. I don't think you need to reboot with Bond. Look, I don't either, but it's a reboot world. That's what we're living, Matt. Yeah, but I think we're past the re-I think we're over the reboot hump. I'm not arguing for it. I'm just saying James Bond is rarely on the forefront of the trends.

Yeah. They do it well, but they usually borrow on what's going on at the time. Look, I think this really all hinges on whether or not men in black international makes money. It's a good point. Also, confirmed shooting locations are all but confirmed. Yeah. Italy and Norway. Excited about Norway.

Me too. Italy, been there, done that. Unless he's going to visit Vesper's grave. I assume he just buried her in Italy. No fanfare, no pomp, no circumstance. He just buried her in a basement in Venice. Yeah. The important thing is we will be here as this news trickles out to cover it on the spot, on location.

We're going to travel to wherever the news comes from, stand outside of it in a rain slicker and send it back your way. It doesn't matter if it's 100 degrees out and sunny. We'll be in that rain slicker ready to go. And we're glad to be back. Let's talk about the format of this show for this season. Yeah. I'm excited about it. We've got some special offering.

for those of you who are Stitcher Premium members. Highly recommend you sign up and use our promo code, which I'm sure you heard at the top of the show. Maybe not. I'm not sure. It's either bond or bonding. We're not. We'll look into it. We always say that every week and we don't.

But do use it. Audio commentary tracks. That's right. Full length, audio commentary tracks. We've been through the movies twice now on this podcast. This is a way to do it fresh, new, and interesting. We've already recorded two and we're having a blast doing it. It's very fun to not really remember the movie going into it and sort of experience it with you, the viewer.

Now, here was our quandary. We don't want ads in the audio commentary because that would break it up, right? But we also don't want to bury all the commentaries on the biweekly Stitcher Premium Paywall feed because we don't want to do that to the listener. So we're going to do a bit of half and half. And eventually they'll all end up there anyway because that's how the system works. but it's a really good time to subscribe to Stitcher Premium because we're going to go do all of the we're going to start with the six first films of each Bond actor so Dr. No, live and let die, living daylights, golden eye, casino royale and honor majesty's secret service.

Which we skipped. Yeah. But now we're there. That's right. Because that will also be on the next six which is the last of the we do that twice. Right. No, it's exciting. We think we have a way. We sync up the audio, we tell you when to hit play, and then you just listen to the two of us watch a James Bond movie together. So this being the first episode of the new season, the second episode will be the Dr. No commentary behind the paywall, but some of the other future commentaries will be in front of the paywall. However, when they are, we've got some great things for in-between episodes. We've got the London Podcast Festival Live show. Unbelievable. We've got the cocktail party season wrap of last season.

How do you cut nine hours of fun into an hour and a half of podcast? You'll find out. You don't. You just let it ride. We've got, what else? We had some other ideas. I forget what they were, but they're, boy, are they going to be good. They are. I mean, look, we're going to eventually have to figure out how the hell this fantasy draft is going to get scored. That could be one. We're talking about that. I guess that can translate, uh, transition us nicely into today's episodes. That's absolutely right. Should we introduce? Our guests have been in the cone of silence for the last six minutes,

kindly. They're James Bonding Staples. You know them, you love them. They're here today to do what they do best, and that is just be themselves. Mark McConville, James Bladen. Boys, it's good to have you back. Hello.

Hi, Mark. Hi, guys. Excited to have you back. You are in charge of running this here fantasy draft. Yeah, because I don't think I could participate. Yeah, well, you know, who else couldn't, participate, but is here anyway, because that's the kind of man he is? James Blighton, ladies and gentlemen.

That's me. Thank you for that kind introduction, Matt. I think you can participate. You doubting yourself. Well, I like to say, I've probably said this before, that I'm sort of the every man or the some men of your listeners. Yeah. In that, I mean, do you think your listeners know as much as you guys do about, or?

Some no more. I think some no more. But on average, do you feel like you're, that you're hmm that's a good question if you're downloading and listening to this podcast you must have some interest in bond you must yeah

and probably you've seen a lot of them or all of them I haven't seen all of the bond films I think a lot of what people get out of this podcast is just a just a nice refresher of the franchise I don't know if everyone who listens is as in depth as we are

I've certainly heard plenty of people say like, I haven't seen all the movies, but they just like to listen. And then there are plenty that really are here for that reason. Some people really came for Bond. Some people came from probably being listeners to our past shows. And then some people are in the sweet spot where they like both. And some people hate both. And then they still listen. And then they send feedback. Well, I think I represent maybe the middle of the spectrum. Great. And see, and I would say that I represent below that. We're all here that. This is great. Yeah. Everything's covered. And we're all represented. It's very diverse here. Well, we called James in to do the draft pick with us because he does have a fairly decent working knowledge of the Bond films. It's like he's saying, it's not super intense. And Mark, who has a lot of experience with fantasy sports. And he's going to run the snake draft while we pick. Now, snake draft, well, that's an interesting term. You might ask, what's that mean like I did? And that's why we have Mark here to explain it. So in a fantasy snake draft, if there were eight teams, team one would pick first.

and then Team 2 all the way down to 8, but then Team 8 gets a second pick, and it snakes backwards. So it would go 1 to 8, and then 8 back to 1, and then 1 would get two picks. So in this sense, let's say that James was picking first, James would pick, Matt Goreley would pick,

Matt Meyer would pick, and then Matt Meyer would pick again. So the middle guy in this case is always going to be in the middle. Yes, but it's a way to sort of let, it's an attempt to make it more fair. So that the first pick is going to be very valuable. So let's give the last guy in line a chance to sort of have that first pick in the second round. And then to keep it even the first guy. So if you were in the middle, yeah, you sort of are just picking every round in the same spot.

Especially because we're doing three people. Yeah. And it's an even spread of talent, though, for the middle person. That's the attempt is to try to get it so that everyone is sort of getting a chance at some prime picks. And just what are we picking, you might ask? Well, we're going to pick the best bond, and that means actor, right? And you may hear us trying to clarify some of these categories as we go. I'm already going to take one clarification.

Yeah. We were just prior to recording, we were discussing that we should be taking a specific bond from a specific movie. We were discussing that. Because like if you take a Roger Moore, does that mean that you get Roger Moore from live and let die all the way to view to a kill? It's the same thing as you. Do you pick Tom Brady versus whoever the Rams quarterback. You only get time for one season. Oh.

You don't get them forever. There are some problems with this. We were talking about this before the draft. And when it comes to fantasy sports, before anything ever happens, you choose players based on what you think they're going to do. And the problem here is we already know what Connery has accomplished as Bond. That's why this is just for fun. So I think this is a little...

Wait, I thought it was for $4,000. See, I'm worried if we don't come at this with a solid but simple format, we're going to get so many people screaming. Here's what I think we should do. Just to make it, I just want to simplify all of this. Because of...

This is exactly the Blofeld problem I discussed with you earlier. Yeah. Right? Or I said, well, if you take a Blofeld, this is off air, I discussed this. This is what we talk about when we're not podcasting. If I were to take Blofeld, Does that mean that I get all of the Blofelds?

No, but if you take one Blofeld actor. Yeah. But Blofeld has never been repeated. Right. Follow up to that. James Bond. Yeah. I'm saying to you, well, if you take Roger Moore and you were to get, I don't want to presume that I know what your pick will be, Matt.

Would you get live and let die Roger Moore or view to a kill Roger Moore? I think you get, I vote that. that you get the whole actor's tenure as bond. And if there has to be a way that if we, in fact, go forward with some scoring thing, which we're still not even, we may just be doing this for fun. If that's the case, then you average what the attribute they're going for is by the film. So it's the average number of different suits worn. That's our only scoring.

No, you're getting confusing. Well, let me say this. Yeah. If you were playing fantasy football, the game is designed in a way that, that football has a quarterback. So everybody would pick a quarterback. Football has a running back who's going to run with the ball and score touchdown. So you want to pick a running back that's going to get a lot of yards and a lot of touchdowns.

Wide receiver, tight end, defense kicker. That's generally football. And then you pick that based on what you think they're going to do. I think the best thing for us to do is just agree, you can't have a James Bond film without X. And we should pick one of each of those Xs. Make sense? Yeah, I agree. You can't have a Bond film without a Bond, so everyone is going to pick a Bond.

Yeah. Right? So we made a list. Would you want to just go down it and agree that these are the things we probably need for? I suppose, Mark. Yeah. All right. So I've got from the top, a James Bond, a villain.

Need that, yeah. A Bond girl. Do you need it? You do. Yeah. It's in every film. It's in the DNA. Oh, definitely, yeah.

Yeah, that's a good way to think of it. It's like, what's in the DNA of a James Bond film? There's a henchman. Sure. There's an M. There's a Q. a Monty Penny some sort of car

Yeah Do you want to widen that to vehicle Or do you He is a car guy I suppose you could Like the tank in Golden Eye But I think it's more the car You've got the Aston Martin

The Lotus Yeah the tank's not super versatile The vehicle tie in Park it in Monaco To go to a casino I think his car is the thing Yeah Yeah

A secondary bond girl This is the thing That we were talking about beforehand That was a little contentious Yeah So let's just table that one for a second.

Okay. Every bond film has a song. Yeah. Yep. Felix. A Felix lighter, which is not in every bond film. But there's plenty of them. An ally mentor.

Yeah. Which I think is maybe in everyone. Ally slash mentor in most of them. It's in most of them. Right. Yeah. And then because it's fantasy, I like this. We said we should have a flex.

You should be able to pick one more of any of these category to strengthen your team. Maybe accept. bonds, right? Yeah, I think you're locked into one bond. Yeah. Because often in fantasy football, the quarterback is sort of this golden position that you don't, you don't get more than one. You could be like me.

I had Mahomes and I also took Stafford because, quite frankly, I needed someone for that one-off week, Mahomes. Oh, I had Dan Fouts and then I chose Dan Fouts and then I got another Dan Fouts because that's about the only football player, I know. Do you have gadget on there? I do. I do not have gadget on here. His grid is so perfectly designed.

Oh, yeah, this is really going to mess it up. Now, Matt, I know I'm up for outfit too, if you want. Well, I mean, I would, I would, I would have to say, I'd love an outfit, you know, a James Bond outfit. James, how do you feel about choosing one James Bond outfit? So it would, are you talking about these are the, the criteria that we would apply to the James Bond in order to score them? Well, were you saying that, no, right now we're just choosing our like personal preference. preference dream things. I think we shouldn't choose on what the performance would be as an actual fantasy game going forward. It should be, we should all pick your preference, like what you enjoy. That seems like the most fun. Like who's your favorite bond? Who's your favorite M? Yeah. Because this isn't predictive. It's history. Right. And some of your favorites are going to be chosen and you can't even get them. So you're going to be forced to choose your second or even third favorite, right? To which I would say on that note, Matt, we should really think about the specificity of which. bond, which bond and which movie we're getting.

I don't like a, like, for instance, I would take a, I would take a skyfall Craig over, say, a Specter Craig. But see, I think that isn't a good idea because we could end up with three Daniel Craigs. Like, I think it's more fun to be forced to choose a different bond so that our final selections ends up, end up more diverse. Because I agree. I mean, I was on the Octopusy episode, Octopusy Strong back in the day. Hashtack.

And boy, does he just look like an old man. He just looks so old. Not even his last film. I know. And he just, he looks, he's throwing these punches that take half an hour to throw. And if we, we agreed that if, if we can't decide, we'd throw it to a vote. So how about this? Yeah.

If you like Skyfall Craig. Sure. Craig's off the board. Ah, right? So you pick our bond and then tell us which movie. And what movie they're from. Fair enough. That's a good compromise.

Peak Connery, peak whoever. And then that bond is off the table. unavailable. Love it. So you could still do that with Blofeld, too. That's, right? Love it. You should probably just apply that to anybody who makes multiple appearances.

But it's interesting. So we're choosing the bonds based on the actor, but we're only allowing one Blofeld or the different actor blowfelds. I think we pull Blowfell off the table at that. Okay. Just one. So, for instance, if someone foolishly took Christoph Wals in their flex position, Blofeld's off the table. You never know.

So, yes, I like this. So when we choose our bond, we should say which movie we're getting that bond from. The great thing about this is that we can also do this again in the future because the snake pick, because do we draw for position? Well, I think for sake of ease and because of how the room, we are positioned in the room, and because James is your guest, I think you should give James the first pick. Yeah. Then go go goarly.

Yeah. And then myra, and then Myra goarly. Bladen, Bladen, Gordley. Right. Myra back and forth back and forth. But I'm just saying like, maybe sometime in the future we do this with six people. people because then everyone's forced to take a different bond and that would be really funny. Yeah.

And I think that there are people probably listening right now who have their own ideas of how to score this. There are probably people listening right now that are like, yeah, I already did this. And there are people listening right now even though this podcast hasn't even gone out. Whoa. What? Yeah. The Lord and Christ our Savior Jesus.

And there are some people not listening to this. Including maybe some people in this room. All right. I think we're clear on. We just, but we have to vote on. Matt took odds with secondary bond girl being in there because sometimes there's a hench person crossover. And so I was saying, well, like you've got Solange or Monica Balucci. They're not a hench person, but they're definitely fit that category.

So I think we need to vote on that. Like, it's like, is it a, is it a Jill Masterson or a. Tilly Masters? Jill and Tilly are both in Goldfinger. They're bond girls, secondary bond girls. Which one's the secondary? It's Jill, right? because she is the one of his paint of gold.

Right. So Strawberry Fields in a quantum would be the secondary bond girl. Right. I'm just like, I'm just a little, my confusion always lies with, well, are they the bond girl or the secondary bond girl? What does that, I always, that category is always wishy-washy to do. It's not a perfect category, but I do think it's in the bond DNA and I think it's well established. It's got some gray area, but I hear your point too. I just say we vote on it.

As long as you have a definitive opinion. on whether or not a person is a secondary bond girl, I will concede to you and say, okay. Okay, here, I have something that might help, because you brought up a good point. Zinia on a top. Is she a bond girl or a hench person? Let's say hench person trumps bond girl. So someone like Zini, or Fiona Volpe, if they could be considered a hench person, they go in that category.

Okay. And if they can't be considered a hench person, they go to secondary bond girl. So it's like taking a Donovan McNabb, but not getting any of his... I don't know what you mean. I don't know what you mean and I refuse to know. By the way, it's Super Bowl Sunday here, so this is very appropriate. Yeah. Nine years, nine years ago was the first Nerdist podcast.

Today? Today? We did Super Bowl Sunday nine years ago. Wow. Back when the Dan Fouts played the Dan Fouts? Yep, the Dan Fouts versus the Dan Fouts. Chargers were still in San Diego. Yeah, I think it was a Green Bay.

You guys were losing listeners. Rams were still in St. Louis? Yes. And we're losing podcasts. You have awesome. Okay, everybody, it's time for the first annual James Bond fantasy draft. Banana, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. Na, na, na, na, na, na, na.

All my rowdy friends are coming over. Do I need a pick clock? Ooh. Yeah, I think there should be a 60 second. It's not going to really take you. 60 second? No, I think, okay, but we can discuss the category before the pick. Yeah, you make the pick.

Okay. But you need, you know, you do need a. You can't just sit there in him and hawn and go over your list of villains. I think you should make for an hour. Make the pick and then tell us why you made the pick. Great. So, uh, this is the 2019 James Bond. Oh, but shouldn't we go over some of the options before we start three picking?

Like, like if we're going... Three picking? Like the three of us start picking. Like Felix. Like we might want to name the different Felixes before we all pick, you know? Because like just to clarify, clarify for James and stuff like that. Yeah, because I only know one, Felix.

You better take them first. I think you should take him, man. I mean, you only know one. Yeah. Well, I think in James's case, if there's a category that, inevitably there will be a hole in his lineup of just, well, I haven't taken a cue yet, and I don't know who's available to take. Okay.

I just think also for the listener, I think it's a good idea to just do a general overview of these. Like, Bond, we don't need to, obviously. But this is a lot like fantasy football in that some people, like me, do a ton of research. I make charts. I had a three ring binder at one point with different printouts. And then some guys go. Do you lock drafts?

Yeah. Yes. I do a lot of preparation. And then there's some guys that'll just show up and go like, uh, it's Ricky prol available. And he's retired. He's been retired for five years. So. But we're not playing for points necessarily.

I know. Yeah. But it's a part of it. There's a part of it where it's like, you sort of have to go like, well, I need to take somebody, so I guess that's your skill. Okay, fair enough. So let's just do it as we go. Yeah, and if you have an issue where you say, I don't know.

Yeah, then you can afford me a little more time. I don't think we need a timer. I think we'll use our internal knowledge of entertainment. Okay. Yeah, good point. And I think that the adjudicator of all serious questions should, if not throw into a vote, then it should go to Mark. Fair enough. He's running the draft.

But just so I'm clear. I also know the least about this stuff. On the first pick, James can pick from any category. Correct. He's not locked in. He doesn't have to go in order. Okay. And I think there's a strategy there of, let's say, the first two picks are bonds.

Well, suddenly, Maura doesn't have to choose his bond until the end because you're already, you've already picked. That's kind of the fun of a fantasy draft. So you guys know certain strategies on this that I might not know. That's good. I'm glad you told me that. Yeah. But that, I mean, that stuff factors in. Yeah.

So you're great. track if you have your list. Are you kidding? This is life or death. But earlier, Mark, you said it's, maybe this was off the air. It's unwise, and you concurred, Matt Myra, that to pick, like, say, your quarterback or in this case, Bond right off the top. If it were, if you were me in the first spot.

There's conflicting information because some people will say, you know, let's pretend you're a Green Bay Packers fan and you love Aaron Rogers. He's your favorite player. And maybe there's some wisdom that would say, that's dumb to. pick him first. Well, you're probably not getting him later. Because someone is going to take him soon. So you just have to go, you know what? I want this person in my bond franchise. And so that I'm taking them now. I mean, really, it's up to you. You go with your heart of your head. You know, if you're... Don't ask me to make that call, Matt. Really, I think the best way to do this, if I were in

your shoes, I would say, what's my, what's my favorite thing in a bond film? Person, Gad, car, whatever it is, I got to have that BMW. I got to have whatever car it is. Also, the way we're doing it, if there's only, there's relatively few bonds. Scarcity. You're talking about scarcity. You're talking about scarcity. Scarcity versus there's like 24 villains.

Right. Correct. Yeah, now you're getting it. Oh, you got it. So I'm going to go bond first. Can we start? Scarcity. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's time for the 2019.

James Bonding. James Bond franchise fans. Fantasy draft. Sponsored by we mattress.com. And the guy who's going to head off the picks, James Bladen, has the same initials as James Bond. So this is right. So James B. That's right.

That's right. Hi. And my voice is exactly the same. I'm so nervous. Why don't you go ahead, James, and make your first pick. Okay. Well, as I was implying before, I'm going to go with Bond first because there's a scarcity factor. I'm nervous. I'm nervous.

I don't know where you're going to go with this. Now, if I was doing this in some sort of gamesmanship way, just to make you, and I definitely know Matt, I'm not sure about Matt Mara, to make you upset. Yes. I would choose Craig, because I know that that's who you would choose as your bond. I'm pretty confident. I don't know. Okay. See, now you're playing with my head.

I'm gamesmanship in you. gamesmanship, me saying, well, I might go lazy. Here's the beauty of this. The third, like, I know that my personal, internal favorite bond will never be picked by anybody. Really? Think about it. Oh. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. You can have it. So I don't give a shit. I can go last. You're talking about. Pierce Bros. Jimmy Bond? Maybe.

Oh, Pierce Bros. So you were saying you might take Craig to screw Matt, but. Screw Matt. Matt. But let's deal with the heart, as Matt Meyer suggested. Yeah, I'm going heart, not head, by the way. Yeah. Okay. So I thought about this a lot.

It's in his phone prior to being. I just made a little list of, oh, it's perfect. I didn't know. Don't show it. I saw who he's choosing for villain. You did? How did you read that from over there? Because I have glasses on my head. Are those, the clock is ticking on the pick?

X-ray specs. But entertainment tells me to keep going. Oh, yeah, put that on the table. Okay, my pick is going to be Sean Connery. Shron Connery. Prawn Connery. He's the Mad Magazine version. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. Yes, Sean Connery, and I'm going to go with Sean from, I mean, I don't know if there's a huge difference between the first couple films in his character, but I'll say from Russia with love, Sean Connery. That is the single best bond as far as I'm going to do. I think you've chosen what most people would pick. Like, that is a... You, high caliber. That is a good pick. First of all.

John Elway or a Dan Marino or a Stutz McGolo. I would have quit while you were a fan doubt. Or super hands. But no, what I like about that pick, James, is you're getting, quite frankly, a Sean Connery who's not only is he fit, still virile, very young, relatively. He fills out a suit like nobody's business. And this is pre-superer. rug. You know what I mean? Right. This is most of his real hair is there still. Matt Goreley, you're up with the second pick in the draft. Listen, you're right. I love Daniel Craig. He's probably

my, it is my favorite bond, right? But I have this need, like my desire, and I have not pre-chosen any of these, is to create my picks that would live well within the same family. You know what I mean? Interesting. And I don't know that Daniel Craig, you can pick much outside of Daniel Craig's world, and that's a more limited world. And I'm going hard. I'm picking Roger Moore for James Bond. You guys suck. And which film, Roger Moore?

Yes, which film? I'm glad you axed. I got to go with Live and Let Die. Of course. He just watched it. I mean, as we said in that audio commentary, what you'll hear on Steger Premium. Oh, that one might be free. Best he's ever looked.

Oh, so good. I mean, just... Speaking of that. The way he fills out a suit, the way he fills out three different bathrobes. That's right. At the same time. Three different bathrobes. One of them has J.B. initials, which I smell a Christmas gift.

It's like lemon yellow. You gotta get one. You got to. You simply must try it. Two bonds off the board. Third pick in the draft. Matt Myra. Yeah.

Well, guys, it's good to be here. Thank you so much for having me. And since none of you can take another bond, I am now going to dispense with my bond pick and save it for later. That's right. I must now immediately jump down to the next category, which is what on your grid? I have villain second, but I don't know that that's necessarily the second. I guess it's probably secondary at importance.

Look, call me crazy. You can't have a Batman without a Joker? Call me crazy. I am, because I have the next two picks, I am going to go ahead, jump in, and I am going to take the spy, who loved me as my song. Whoa. Nobody saw that coming. Marvin Hamlish,

Carly Simon. Nobody saw that coming. Do, do, do, do. So that is off the board. I'm sorry, everyone. I went all the way down to song because... You know, Matt, I will say, I didn't even know that song was going to be a category,

but in my private time before... Yeah. I thought to myself, if I were to choose a song, it would absolutely be that song. Oh, boy. It's the best song. You nailed it. It's the most melodic.

It's quite frankly. We got the first snake and the snake picks making a song. This is really great because there is a thing in fantasy football where you would be insane to take a kicker. Some of the conventional wisdom in fantasy football is like a kicker is a kicker. It doesn't really matter. And people will jump up like fifth pick, you know, fifth round. They'll be like, I got to get this kicker from my favorite team. And it's so stupid because.

A kickers, a kicker's a kicker. But with this, I feel like it really is just, what is your favorite thing about a Bond movie? Like, you got to take some stuff. That's the thing. I think what we should do is have people vote when we're done. Whose Bond movie would they most want to watch? I think that's what's going to happen. And that way we could redo this a few times.

First round is over. First round. We're on the second round. Matt Myra has the pick, and we're going to back the other way. First pick, everybody, Matt Myra, what's he doing? Well, I'll tell you what he's doing. He's going to zig when you think he's going to zag. Oh, snake draft.

That should be a sound cue. That should be a drop we have forever. Oh, snake draft. Okay. Now, I thought about jumping in and taken over my favorite car. But then I realized there's a few cars I really, really like. And there's only one money penny I like. Ladies and gentlemen, Lois Maxwell.

Taken by Matt Myra. Lois Maxwell. And I am taking live and let die Lois Maxwell. Because, you know, if I were to be in my flat with a lady and my boss were to come over, I would need a money penny to hide the woman for me so that my boss doesn't find it weird that I'm having sex with a French agent. I think that's a wise choice, Matt. Thank you. And the only one that I would think would vie for my affections of Lois is when the one is it,

Octopussy? The one where she's wearing the naval uniform. Oh. Oh, sure. You want a naval uniform. You only live twice. Which one is that? Diamonds are forever, right? Where she's at the kiosk? Oh, she's also wearing it. It's a man with the golden gun? You only live twice on the ship when the Admiral is in his uniform. Okay. Am is in an animal uniform. Don't tip your picks here, guys. No, because she's off the table. So I'm just saying...

Oh, right. Yeah, Lois Maxwell off the table. Lois Maxwell in that Navy. I mean, it's probably fair to say she'd be everybody's top pick. However, the MoneyPuddy category isn't as important to me as certain things. For instance, Matt, Gourley is up his pick in the second round. I'm, I'm very happy with this pick, not just because it's a big pick, because it's going to give us something we've truly never really seen. And that is Roger Moore versus Blofeld. Whoa. I can't believe you just took Floodeld on. This is villain. This is villain. So we see a semblance of that in For Your Eyes Only, but they don't name him by name,

and he's dispatched really quickly. Which Bluffield? Blofeld? Oh, oh, oh. I mean, I love Tally Savalas's Blochell, but I want, again, I want this Roger Moore film to work as a Roger Moore film, right? So that puts me in Charles Gray or Donald Pleasant's territory. And I think Donald Pleasance is the perfect mix of Sirius and Camp. I'm going, you only live twice. That's who you would put with your, with your Roger Moore. Rather than Charles Gray. Yeah. Yeah, Charles Gray's a little, a little. A little. little past peak blow felt for me. I like him, but you, I mean, come on, Donald Pleasance. I just like the idea of the Britishness of Charles Gray, seeping into a scene with, with charismatic Roger Moore. Yeah, I see what you're saying, but I've made my choice. Very good. Round two ends here with James Bladen's pick. Do I get two? You do, but we just will do one and then you'll get a second one after we discuss. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do I get two?

Two, two, Hey, is that how I sound? Do this pick as Casey Kzone, please. Coming in at number two. Coming in at my second number one. I'm going to go with Bond Lady. Ooh. Now, I've thought very carefully,

and I'm going to choose Tracy, otherwise known as Teresa de Vincenzo. Wow. Good pick. From On Her Majesty's Secret Service, service. Very good pain. And she writes, Dear Casey. Yeah. So I,

Tracy, to me, Diana Rigg is. I want to watch James' movie. I know. I know. So for I, yeah, she's to me is the ultimate just because of her her wit, her pluck. She's very, I mean, she's just, to me, she's the complete pack. She's beautiful, obviously. But also she's just got something in her

personality that I mean maybe it's informed from watching the Avengers as well but now just for my sake is this Tracy with an I or Tracy with a why why why got it and for those younger than I don't know let's see if I know it then anybody who's younger than 30 he doesn't mean watching the Avengers as in the movie he means the British the classic British spy show the Avengers yes so that's my that's my choice for man a rig off the board lady because i think that's a little better than bond girl in today's all right all right we now begin round three with another pick from james blighton okay as he casually puts his glasses on to only take them off to read this is all for effect so you guys think i look

smart when i post them off post pick yeah okay so i got to think about that okay i think i'm gonna go because i think villain matt i don't think matt myra is going to take the villain that i want I surreptitiously read it from across the... And he already took a villain. Right. And he didn't take the one I have. So I'm going to look at the henchman category. Oh, nice.

So far unpicked. Nobody's made a pick in the henchman category. And this one's tough because... By the way, just in the past 60 seconds, I've realized how seriously you have to strategize in this game. Oh, completely. Yeah. And get real concerned.

That's the duty of a snake draft. The fantasy football draft, a league that I played in for years, over a decade, we folded because everyone thought that draft was so fun, but then every single week you have to watch football and try how people do. And guys were just like, I have kids and I have a career and I just can't, I can't just spend a Sunday stressing over the results.

Like this is beautiful because you get the draft. You're building your fantasy franchise. And then, yeah, you just sort of look at it and go, that'd be a fun movie to watch. I've also painted myself into a corner trying to get everything in a Roger Moore world. Yeah, sure, which is a mistake. Yeah.

I'm not sure what you mean by that Exactly Don't worry about it Okay You'll see By the end hopefully You're talking henchmen James

Okay wait I'm actually going to pull an audible And not do a henchman Because I just realized Can you do that? Sure He's not made a pick yet He can do it totally do it Because I think that

Again with the henchman There's a lot to choose from But there's only a few M's And I'm going to of course choose Bernard Lee son of a bitch from you are

quite frankly building my dream movie over that thank you and which Bernard Lee are you going I'm not sure just so it's not

from Russia with love I'll say doctor no just because sure it's the first one he gives him the gun I love that one

because he's like dispensed with the usual pleasantries over the intercom He makes sure that he doesn't take his barretta with him. Exactly. I love it. It's in the Walter people.

It's good. That's very good. Round three, Matt Goreley's. Well, M was a strong choice. You had a good strategy there. And I'm playing the same strategy. He was happy to hear you're a choosing henchman because I do see that some categories have real slim pickings. This one among the most of them, I'm taking Desmond Llewellyn for Q.

Are you kidding me? That was, I was going back and forth. Look. Okay. And from which movie? Hold on. I guess Um

Hmm Goldfinger Because that's kind of first When you first see this crabbiness a little bit Let's talk about his hands in that one Matt Yeah What size would you say they are? I can't remember but I'll say

I believe if I remember correctly They're golden eye minus Yeah they probably Yeah Hey quick adjunct Sure When do they call it Because I know in the early ones

They say he's from Q branch Yeah When did they first call him Q as a name that they address him as Q? I'm not really sure. That's a good question. Because at first he's major Boothroid. I would guess if I had to like genuinely guess. He goes to the quartermaster and goldfinger.

I think he's called Q by name and you only lived twice when he delivers the baby. And they refer to him to a helicopter, Little Nelly. I think so. Little Nelly's father. Right. I thought that's my guess Okay Again, love her

Love or not an expert So you've taken Bernard Lee, Connery Tracy Matt Goreley You have Roger Moore And you have Bloisseld And now you have

Desmond Luellen Yeah As your cue Excellent Excellent picking friend Thank you I appreciate it I'm new to this

Matt Myers Picking the third round Yeah so look The third round is here. I'm excited about it. You're excited about it. Again, two picks. Thanks to the snake draft.

You don't have to feel left out for too long. Ladies and gentlemen, I feel like now is the time to announce that the Aston Martin DB5 is off the board. That makes sense. The Aston Martin DB5 is off the board, and I am choosing the Aston Martin DB5 from its appearance, of course, in Goldfinger. Unknown if it's just his personal car or what have you.

Now, Desmond Llewellyn taken probably would have been my pick. That concludes the third round. I have to juke. All right, sorry. Thank you. Third round is over. Strategy-wise, look, I feel like you guys are both playing a great game here.

The gamesmanship is strong with all of you. I still have not. not chosen a bond. I could choose any one of four people. You're in no hurry. Exactly right. You got that is exactly right. I'm looking at my grid. Matt gorely and James Bladen's picks are all sort of in the top quadrant of the grid and all of Matt Myers are at the bottom. This is a very compelling story. This is the strategy. And I'll share the strategy with you, Mark, as long as they're not listening. They're not. I have the music that it's got to be. But um, but da da da, da, da, da, they're taking they're taking they're taking the cream of the crop up there

before I can even get to it right so my thought is like well why don't I just take all the best things from the bottom of the list but so many of those bottom lists they're doing stars and scrubs yeah and you're doing scrubs and stars yeah yeah you're exactly right yeah now here's the other problem I think I'm gonna have to go ahead it's time everybody for me to take my M okay okay Because this puts pressure on Matt Gourley, who has not chosen an M. Yeah. Well, the other problem is Matt and I share many of the same opinions regarding M's.

I can tell you with good authority that there is one M I don't think either of us would ever pick. Oh, we get an eyebrow judge. So that being said, look, I'm just going to go base purely on posture here. Oh, you bastard. I'm taking Ralph Fines or Ray Fines. posture. Yeah. Man stands so straight.

You've never, you could like honestly build a house using his back as a level. As a level. Yeah. Which film? Well, he really doesn't become M until Spector. I mean, he's the same. His Mallory.

Yeah, it's up to you. In Skyfall. Skyfall, though, they doesn't... He does become M. At the very end, correct? Yes. You're ready to get to work with pleasure, M with pleasure. Why am I helping you?

No, look, no problem. It's, uh, but it is Spector because the Scooby gang element of Spector is one of my favorite. This has got to be the only way Spector would end up on this board. Right? Yeah. All right. That concludes. Oh, no, this is, that's the first pick of the fourth round.

Yes. So now we're back to Matt Goreley. Oh, boy. So here, let me just go. Well, go ahead, Matt. No, go ahead. Well, it's not time to do it. We should, at the end of the, at the end of this round,

I'm going to just kind of go over what has and hasn't been picked. This is tough because... Again, he's trying to squeeze everything into a Roger Moore world. Kind of, at least in that family. What does that mean? I've been living in a Roger Moore world. This movie could be made. What do you mean?

Well, like, if you put Daniel Craig with Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, they don't feel like they're in the same universe, you know what I mean? I want my movie to feel like conceptually sound. You know what you're saying But isn't the point that you can take these disparate elements That wouldn't normally maybe not go together And make your own Frankenstein kind of creation Yeah, Frankenstein's monster

I'm on board with you James But people also are going to vote Thank you for which movie they want to see And it might just be the cohesiveness matters to some people But if you just create a Roger Moore that's, yeah I see they could have made that Where's the wow factor? Well, I'll tell you where it is.

It's Roger Moore facing off against Blofeld because we never got to see that. And a Donald Pleasant's Blofeld. I mean, some people say we never got to see that. I say Roger Moore faced off with Blofeld and dropped him down a giant chimney. Not satisfactorily. No way. With that, Matt. But you're working in the world of the plausible.

I'm working in the world of my preference, guys. Get off my back. Well, please don't. In a fantasy football draft, if you're a Detroit Lions fan and you want to pick all Detroit Lions, you're going to lose. Absolutely can do that. You're not going to win. It's less that I'm picking all Detroit Lions.

I'm picking all one feel. You're picking all AFC players. Whatever. I love that this, before we started everyone at home, Matt was arguing about the fact that some of the topics were subjective, how could we possibly score? And now he's just going entirely subjective

on his own gut feeling of like Roger. That's the only way to do this, right? Am I missing something? No, I think it is the only way to do it. I know those people are out there supporting me. I'm not saying you're wrong for what you're doing. I am. I'm thinking it.

Matt Goreley, you're picked. Yeah, that's a good question. That wasn't a question. That was a demand. I love this so much. Oh, boy. This is very fun. Okay, yeah, this is good.

All right, just give me just a second. So, Matt, just so I'm clear on your reasoning here, I don't think you're ever going to pick the Jack White Bond song. No. And under your rationale, though, you couldn't because Jack White wouldn't have been born yet during the era of this being made. His rationale is he couldn't imagine the feeling of watching Jack White lead into Roger Moore. Yeah, but maybe the Sam Smith song I could. Okay. So this isn't about, you know, you know.

if you were doing gadgets, Roger Moore wouldn't have some very modern, very high-tech gadget. Probably not. From a film in the 90s or the 2000s. But I'm going to be forced into some of that a little bit at some point. Yeah. Okay. I just want to try to kind of get my head around.

I see. What you're talking about. Okay. Take your time with a pick. This is why this is why fantasy sports drafts have a clock. Yeah. And also why a lot of them occur in Vegas. Okay.

We have a blackjack table. No windows. Come back. Hope I don't miss my spot. Okay. I think I'm going to do henchmen. Okay. And I mean that in the true sense of the word, henchmen.

Oh, he's taking it. I want Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. Oh, that's nice. We did discuss this beforehand that it is two people, but I think. Can I? Please, please explain the choice. Can I? They exist as an entity.

They are... You can't separate one from a... Yeah. It's like the head and the body. Yeah. But think about how much fun Roger Moore facing off against Mr. Winton, Mr. Kidd is.

Let me think about that. And Matt, for the stupid guy in the room that it doesn't know what film that's from. Diamonds are forever. Diamonds. Diamonds are forever. That's the first henchmen off the board. James Bladen, we come to you.

It's round four. The end of round four. Okay. Thank you, Mark, for everything that you're doing. No proper. Great job. You're doing a fabulous job. If I could pick you, I would.

I'm not in a Bond film. Okay. That's me off the hook. Okay. That's okay. It's really the hard part is picking the category because I feel like I'm, I don't know what's the best thing right now. Okay.

Because I don't think my henchmen is in danger. I don't think my villain's in danger. so maybe I have to go Q at this point because I only know one other Q well I don't know the name of the new Q but I do know John Cleese

Q slash R off the board I would have chosen him if I think and that's only die another day is that front it's only die another day only die another day only die another day he's in too but he only becomes Q

I think he becomes Q the moment Desmond alone disappears through a pool table. We all do. This is round four. So at this point, everyone has chosen, the categories that have, do not have a pick yet. Secondary Bond Girl, Felix,

Ally Mentor, Gadget, and Flex. An outfit. Are we doing outfit? We're not doing outfit. Could you say those one more time, please, Mark? We could flex in an outfit. Let's just have Flex be. Flex's outfit. Anything.

Okay, it's anything. It's anything. Yeah, if you want Terry Bradshaw to be in a James Bond film, you can pick them. So, again, it's unpicked categories are everything's on the board in secondary Bond Girl, Felix, Ally Mentor, Flex, and Gadget. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And gadget. All right. And just for my fun strategy, I feel like at this point in the draft, if we're going to kind of do a thing.

Matt Meyer is really in the catbird seat here because. there's a couple of categories where Matt Goreley and James Bladen have already picked and so Matt is free to sort of sit on those empty slots I'm a rover right now and pick the cream of the crop in some of the lesser categories as we discussed before you know but like he's he's boned out of some categories like Q right I mean I guess but I think

you think you know who you're going to valid human being yeah so with that we'll start round five. James Bladen. You're on the clock. I am going to, this, don't even, you don't need to start it as this be fast. I'm going to choose a song, and I'm going to choose the wonderful

skyfall. Ah, that's a good by Miss Adele. Good. And what film is that from? That is from... Diageways or forever. Yes. Well, so now that, I don't, I don't need to worry about a song for... Correct. This is going to end up happening to everyone. That's how it is. Yeah.

Right now, Matt Goreley doesn't need to pick a song or an M because there's a gap for him. I just need to mentally run through the films on something for a second. Talk amongst yourselves. I mean, you'd think he'd be prepared. You'd think he would just have this stuff.

Well, yeah. I have it. But he has to do the gut check with everything. Right. He's like, oh, could Roger Moore exist?

It's like in a fantasy football draft. I said, Talk amongst yourselves, not criticize. I really want a packer on my team? I don't like the packer. Should I even take a jet? I don't like the cowboys.

I don't want negative points. I don't want to take. Should we have a defense? Yeah. This is really fascinating. Matt has gone all the way away. He is in. Matt's sense of entertainment has been.

He's in the Netherlands right now. I believe you guys will cover the entertainment. All I do what I got to do. All right. I'm going gadget. Interesting. And I'm taking the briefcase from Frasch with love. Oh, that's good.

It's good. 20 gold sovereigns. First gadget off the board. On both sides. He's got 40 gold sores. Each side. The throwing knife. And it's also got talcumpoena.

See? It's a lot happening. Perfect gadget for the man on the go. That's a good gadget. Everything a guy needs. Great. We'll go to Matt Myra. Okay.

Now I'm going to check in with our draft board, owner of the board. Mark. Yep. Once again, the empty categories. Tell me one more time. What do we have? Where everything is available. Secondary Bond Girl, no one has made a pick.

Felix, no one's made a pick. Ally Mentor. No one's made a pick. And Flex. No one's made a pick. Your flex is probably going to be your last pick, right? Yeah. I mean, there's no reason.

Okay. So I'm going to go with a bond ally slash mentor. And I am taking, I think I'm going to take Vij. That's a good one. Taking Vijay. Because, I mean, not only does he have a nasty backhand. But quite frankly, I just hope that in my fantasy, he doesn't have as gruesome an outcome. Yeah.

So I've taken Vijay. VJ's off the board. He is Octopus. He's ally. per se. That's the end of round five, and we go right back to Matt and Matt Meyer to start round six. Round six, everybody. Fight. This is fun. Okay. This is really fun. I think we may have to do this more than once.

Now, again, that's the bond ally gone. Secondary Bond Girl is available for everybody. Secondary Bond Girl is available for everyone. Felix is available for everyone. And Flex. You know what? Flex and Felix. I'm going to take, I am taking, I'm going to go Felix Lighter right now. And I am taking Jack Lord off the table. I'm taking Jack Lord. Dr. Knows Felix Lighter, the first Felix.

And in my mind, he will always have ladies sunglasses on. Yep. Dutiful. Matt Goorley, we come back to you. I'm aware of that. You should know that that's happening and get ready. Yeah. Well, I'm still, I'm taking this.

Seriously. That was an implication that we are not. Well, if you were, you guys would probably try to get them all in a stylistically cohesive world like I'm doing. I think when I read my movie to you, you'll be like, oh, yeah, that would work. We'll see. Yeah. Okay. Oh, boy.

All right. I'm going to go with the Aston Martin from, on Her Majesty Secret Service. Is that the vantage? Mm-hmm. That's a good one. Yeah. That's the, yeah, the vantage. I don't know.

Was it a 68th vantage? No, it's, what do you mean the year? Yeah. No, no, he's talking about, wait, which movie? The, um, the wedding. Oh, Majesty Secret Service. Sorry, wedding car. I thought you said the other one.

Yeah. That's a fabulous one. Yeah. That's one of my favorites. I mean, it's really down to that, the Lotus or the Vanquish from Live Live and Let Die. No. No, the vanquish is in

Diner the Day. What's the live and let die one? That's the Lotus. Live and let die. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Living Daylights, I mean. Oh, Living Daylights, that's a Ashton Martin. That's a V8.

Vantage. Okay. And that's also. But I'm choosing On Hermantia Secret Service, that one. Yeah. I mean, the BMW. The car from. From Armaged Secret Service.

Got a wedding. That's a, I believe that's a DB6, right? But is it a vantage? I thought it was a vantage, but it could very well be... We all know which car Matt is talking about. Yes, we do. Okay. It is obviously not a Cube Branch issued car because it would have had bulletproof glass.

Right. Could have saved a lot of heartache. Yeah, that's true. I believe it to be a DB6. I will yield. DBS. That's what it is. Sorry.

It's okay. Oh, wait. Uh-oh. 69. S. Yeah. Hold on. I already wrote it.

down. So it's on the... DBS. That's a badass car. DBS. Okay, great. One of the best looking. James Blaine,

we go to you. Okay, round six, your pick. So cars have been chosen. Mark is a great fucking draft leader. He is good. Thank you. Very good league commissioner.

So, yeah, I'm a little stumped on the ally thing, because I can't pull those up in my head very quickly who are Ali allies. And I think if you were in a fantasy football draft at this point,

you would consult your magazine or your printout from your website and just kind of go down the list and go, I don't know, I guess I'll take, I guess I'll take Eric Ebron. Oh, okay, yeah, sure. Right. I don't know if I even need to pick it right now. So, oh, wait a second. Yeah, I got an idea. James just got excited.

He got an idea. What's your idea, James? I'll just go with it. Well, okay, I'm going to save this because I don't think anyone else will pick it. Um, um, uh, did I miss your,

did, did you do another pick that I missed? Nope. No. Okay. Um, okay. Just to keep it moving,

I will say, I'm going to choose an ally and I'm going to choose Sir Godfrey Tibb, tip, that is a very good pick. Patrick McNee. Yeah. Also from the Avengers.

The Avengers. So we're going to have a little reunion. I love it. Of the original of the Avengers. Uh, who was this person? Say it again. He's in view to a kill.

You're, say you're picking it. Godfrey, what? Tibbitt. Sir Godfrey Tibbitt. All right. He's been knighted. Sinjian Smyth. End of round six. Have you been listening to Unspooled?

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Okay. All right. Okay, I'm just going to, for the hell of it, I'm going to go villain as well. Now this is sort of leaning into Matt territory because I'm choosing something from another movie that I've already chosen it from. So it's all in the same world. But I'm going to go with Max Zorin.

I don't have a problem with that at all. I think that's actually a very good move. Christopher Walken, I think, is the villain I would like to see more of just because of his odd quirkiness. The fact that he laughs when he's dying is one of my favorite Bond villain moments ever.

I would think that's one of the best choices. And that film is Vuto A Kill. Max Zoran. Good pick. I like that pick also. Great. Matt Gourley, we come to you.

Round seven, I believe. Yep. Okay. I think I'm going Bond Girl. I'm really torn between three here. I didn't realize. Don't forget, you could flex another girl in.

Oh, that's true. Oh, that's a good point. This is serious. Sort of a third girl, because you have your secondary bond girl, and then you can do a third and really get some female stuff going on in this fantasy film. I'm going to now pick this girl based on some of the other choices I've made and see, like, how would she fit into this world? world. There it is. Like, this is shaping up to be a nice...

Production designing this thing. Nice Guy Hamilton Bond movie here. Oh, you've picked your director? Well, it's kind of lean in that way. Let's see. Oh, man. Man. Do you think like the ladies in... On a Majesty Secret Surfers? Honor Majesty Secret Service. So many emails on that server. Microsoft's a cream product. That's what happens at Westminster. It's a WPS two password. What about her emails? Blofeld's ladies

up at the Pizzgloria, are they one group? I mean, would that be, could you choose all of them? No. No, that's a heck. Well, Mr. Winton, Mr. Kidd or one? That's a different thing.

Oh, whatever suits him is really what we're going. Yeah, I call foul on that, gorely. A lot of fouls. You can't, you're, your rationale was, oh, you can't have one without the other. But you could have Ruby without the others. You can have Ruby without the others.

I will. I'll take her. I love Ruby. In fact, I'm glad he reminded me. Is that who you're taking? No. If you were to take all of them, James, it would be a lot of separate foods you'd have to cook. That is true. Going right. Ooh, I am torn right now between two bond girls.

Cue this on. Well, there's only one bond girl off the board at the moment. Yeah, so maybe it doesn't behoove me to pick. It could make my choice for me. Ooh. Yeah, you just. This is, again, it's about scarcity. Is there something on, is there an empty spot on your list?

Well, one of my bond girls could theoretically be taken. That's what I'm, and they, ah. See, this is where you sort of, another element of fantasy sports drafting is tears. Yeah. Where you sort of, T-I-E-R-S, where you sort of say, well, in this slot, I'm happy with any of these five. Uh-huh. So you just, you tear out, you sort of rank them. say, you know, if I don't get my top thing, then I'm happy with the next eight.

So it doesn't really matter. But if there's something that you've, this is the part of a fantasy sports draft, in my opinion, this middle area where you start to have to go, if there's a thing I want, I'm going to have to start taking it. Yeah. But I'd be happy with either of these bond girls. And yet, there's no other category I can see where I feel forced to make a choice. I feel like I've got tiered options

So this is best player available for you right here Meaning I should just choose which bond girl I like You should pick the thing you like This is the problem I don't know If you're willing to pass on that category Then you better pick somebody This is a bit of a head versus heart decision For me

Hasn't it all been Yeah Okay I'm just gonna follow my heart Do it Bond girl Don't do it man Let me have Tracy What are you want

It's Halliberry is Once you say it I'm going Maud Adams From which movie From Octopussy Golden Gun, come on View to a kill She's in it

She is? She's in the background Yeah Okay, so Mott Adams is off the board So you are taking octopusy A question about Octopusy Matt Gourley

Yeah. Is she a bond ally? She kind of is. Yeah. Interesting. Okay. We only regret this far into the draft is that I'm not keeping track of the chronological picks. I guess someone will be able to go back and say,

Oh, which round who took one in? The number one pick was this. The number 30 pick was this. It'd be nice to have a list. We should have been recording this. Yeah. If only. Matt Myra, it's your pick.

All right, guys. It's time to take a gander. Any round that has. has nothing yet. Secondary bond girl and flex. Secondary bond girl has nothing. Well, I feel like the secondary bond girl is going to have

to have something. And I think that I am going to take Sylvia Trench. What were you? Was that your other one? You were sitting, Matt Gourley, was sitting in his chair just looking down at the ground with a look I've seen before in fantasy sports

drafts where it's just like, He better not take. The player I want is coming off the board here. I just know it. No, and I didn't do it, though. I didn't take her. Although you said her when I just thought of her. Yeah.

Yeah, now that I think about it, I'm amazed at your choice for Bond Girl. Over not choosing Vesper? Yeah. Well, I'm sticking true to my cohesive theory. This is what I want to do. And that's your own. If we play this again, I may go Daniel Craig World.

Great. Okay. Or I may try. I mean, I will say by the time we're done, you two are going to have this world that tonally ends up making you live in a Brosnan movie of seriousness and campiness. Well, I might be forced into a Brosnan movie

just by virtue of you assholes. It's Matt Myers' pick in round eight. This will be fun with six people. This will be really fun. It's not fun you now, but it would be fun to six. Okay, we're round eight. Right one, two, three. Who made the last pick you did?

It seems like Yeah, I just did Sylvia Trench This is round eight This is your pick in round eight And uh Flex is the only Hensman has one Henschman has one

And Gadgett has one That's it Correct Okay So I think it's time to take a henchman for me And since Matt Took two henchmen for the price of one I am going to have to go ahead

and take... Ooh, this is... It's a toss-up between these two. But I think it's going to have to be... Yeah, it's Whisper. Everybody, I'm taking Whisper. Who is Whisper? Whispur is the large, quiet man

in Live and Let Die, who drives the pimper. Mobile. Yeah, my team. It sits on the couch that gets blown up by. Oh, of course. His name is whispered. Yeah.

Pretends to be a waiter. Oh, that's good. I mean, come on. Beautiful. Round eight, Matt Gourley. Okay, I'm just running a last check here. Yeah. Systems analyst.

Matt Gourley. Yeah. What category are you looking at? Well, don't worry. No, I'm worried because I feel like I need to steer you back into sanity. Because no one's going to want to vote for your movie. I'm just putting that out there. That's not true.

I think you're going to find this is going to be the sleeper hit of the 2019. Sleeper is right. We'll see. This was an experiment. Okay. Hold on, all on, a lot,

da, da, da, da, da da da da, da, da, da,

I like how he hasn't filled out these picks with like, all right, I have three categories left. These are who I want in these categories. Yeah. And he isn't just going with those people. Look, he's still thinking.

You do you. All right. So I know we said that if a secondary bond girl is a henchman, she becomes a henchman. So you can't then choose them or can you choose them if no one else has chosen? I don't think you can choose them. You took it off the board. I was arguing against this very thing, Matt. I don't know why you've got to yell at me.

Just because you guys are also jealous of my picks. God, he saw through me. This is amazing. I've never seen a person who's never touched a fantasy draft to get so focused on a fantasy draft It's pretty amazing I do think fantasy sports is a gateway to sports fandom for people Oh for sure

Because you're just cheering for Houston Texans somehow The teams you'd never watch it a million years You're suddenly You really getting familiar with a secondary Because you need those points Oh my God Okay

Oh there's the timer Matt we need you pick shit. Okay. Okay. Oh, God. I guess I'll go. I'm taking David Hedison as my feelings. David Hedison. Which David Hedison are you taking? Live and let die. You're taking Live and let die, Edison? No, so Matt, this is what's going to happen now. I mean, James is going to make a pick, then he's going to make another pick. Then it'll be your picking again. Okay, I just want to make sure. I'm not. We go to James Blaine.

Sorry for taking this so seriously. Thank you for what you've been doing here. Which part of the movie? Yeah, when he has all his legs? No, I'm taking live and let die, not licensed to kill. Oh, I see. Yeah. All right.

I'm not forced into this category because they've already been chosen by the other two opponents. But I'm going to go for henchmen. And I'm going to go with Nickknack. Oh, that is a good get. No, James, may I say this? Yeah. You're saying I'm not forced into this because they've already picked. But this is where flex comes in, I think.

They could take that person. They certainly could use that flex to take a second henchman from you. Right, right, right. This is a thing where it's, there is that slot. There's a wild card. Right. But I like the pick. Thank you.

And I'm going to say that, you know, Matt, a minute ago was saying, Matt Goreley was saying a minute ago that he was, you know, talking about mixing serious with comic, and that would result in a Pierce Brousen-type movie. Okay, but I'm embracing that idea, because I feel like I'm trying to balance out my cast for when this goes into production, that I want, I've got Sean Connery and kind of the lightheartedness that a knick-knack brings. You tell me, Max Zoren is hiring knick-knack. That's exactly what I'm telling you.

If I decree it, the feel higher him. He could be convinced as such. Matt, I'm signing the checks. He'll do whatever the hell I want. No way. Round nine begins with a pick from James Blade. I think in the end, people are going to find that my movie works and that yours, both of yours is like, who, what kind of random monkey robot generator made this movie? Well, we'll discuss once we make all the picks.

James Blade, we're on you. It's round nine. Okay. I'm thinking big picture, big picture. Big picture. I'm going to close my eyes. And point two. Okay, I'm going to choose, again, I'm going to choose my car, I guess, because using Mark's thing that it could be.

Don't sleep on a thing that someone could take in a flex car. I have to choose the Lotus is Spree from Spiolove Me. I think like that's the most gadgety coolest. The other cars you guys chose are very cool cars. No doubt. They're probably, and they're worth more. Say your pick again. The Lotus is spree.

from from the spy love me this is the one that goes underwater there are two lotuses yeah in a and uh Elon Musk owns the submarine version yes that's true he wants to make it a practical submarine

but I believe that car to be I said this on that I think I did the spy I love me I think again that's my favorite great it's not a bad pick Gorley we go to you round nine wave of the future wave of the future wave of the future wave of the future I think I'm going to invoke my flex.

Oh, boy. I like it. And it's for a hench person. May Day. Mayday? Yeah. And who's that? Remind me who that is.

Who's that, Grace Jones? Oh, okay, okay. Oh, my God. I'm sorry. Mayday, think about it. Like, when they're traveling, I think Mayday and Nicknack are going to have to be in close quarters. Well, they're not in the same movie.

They are in mine. Mine's in a real movie. Which movie is Mayday? A view to a kill. Okay. Great. Round nine, Matt Myra. Flex.

Flex is going. Once you broke the dam and now the flex flood is coming. The flex flood is coming. And here's the situation. My parents went away on a week's vacation. Please inform me because normally if we were in a draft, everybody. This would be on a large board that we'd all be having... You'd all be able to see. So what I'd like to know right now,

I'm free to show, I'll show this to you. Draft Commissioner. I've got it here too. Okay. Draft Commissioner, please tell me, Matt Gourley. What has Matt Gourley yet to pick? MacGroly has not chosen an M, a Monty Penny, a secondary bond girl. That's funny you say that. You know, my flex was going to be, Dame Judy Dench and it still will be Dame Judy Dench is my flex pick. Fine.

I get two M's on my team. Bond is going to have to go rogue. I think they're just going to argue. Yeah, exactly. And from what film? Does it matter? You know, it's interesting you say that. I'm actually going to take Judy Dench from,

I'm going to take Tomorrow Never Dies Judy Dench. He just woofed at me. No, that's all right. The movie, she's good, the movie. She's great in it. You know what I like about that one, Mark? It's that Judy gets to drive around in the back of a car drinking a tumbler of scotch while telling Bond what his orders are. So, come on.

You can't get any better than that. And so I'm, that's the end of round, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, save. So now we're on round 11 and it's your pick again, Matt. Yeah. And again, what hasn't Matt goarly picked? Why are you, hey, hey, hang on, it's his gamesmanship. Am money, money, pick? Personal Venge. Secondary Bond Girl or Song or Ally Mentor.

Sure. And James Bladen. What has James Bladen not picked? James hasn't picked a Monty Penny, a secondary bond girl, a Felix, and a gadget. Okay. All of those are sort of willy-nilly off the board. For me, I don't really... Both of you guys, I think, are safe. I'm not going to try to take either of your peoples. But I will now... Hmm. Oh, boy, I wonder what we're most anxious about. most anxious about which bond I'm picking,

or is it which, I mean, we think we know which cue I'm picking. We can't flex another bond, is that right? We've decided you cannot. We cannot do that. It's the only thing you can't put. Everything else is on the table. Yeah.

Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to take Ben Wischaw as my cue, mostly because I guess that's really all I would have been left with. And I didn't want anyone to snake him. Could you tell me, please, who is Ben Wichaw? He's the new Q. He's the new Q. Okay. Okay. And I'm taking Specter's Ben Wichow.

Whoa. Wonderful. He finally has a workshop set up by this time. You know what I mean? I can't take him in the first one. Right, because he just hands a... Yeah. Radio.

Yeah. Come on. Matt Goorley. Yeah. That's me. All right. I'm going to go with... I'm going to do Secondary Bond Girl.

Secondary Bond Girl. Come on, girl. And God damn it. You know, there's part of me that wants to choose Mod Adam for this, too, and she's in it twice. I don't hate that plan. I don't hate that plan. She can live twice. No, I'm choosing Ruby from On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

I get it. I love her. I don't find her attractive at all. Look at her again. Like, unpermed the hair. She's got a Meg Ryan thing going on. She's just so, like, I don't know. just so vivacious and alive.

I'll have what Matt's having. I'm going to check the fantasy draft rules. Can we unperm hair? I don't see why not. All right. If he hires the hair dresser. Go to James Bladen. You know what?

I'll take it permed. I'm not complaining. I'm just saying for you. For me. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to... What was my category?

I'm going to do here. I believe I'm going to go to gadgetry. Mm-hmm. And I'm going to to choose the Rolex Submariner from Live and Let Die, which has the magnetic attractant and the spinny saw thing. It does indeed have a spinny saw and a magnetic attractor that can take spoons and inflation pellets.

Move a bullet also. Yeah. No, it's not the bullet, right? It's the inflating. But it'll draw a bullet to the gun. done. Like, you can change the course of a bullet, right? Isn't that one of the things?

But do you want, you don't want to change the course of the bullet to your wrist? No, no, you can get it away from you, away from your face. But it would come right to your wrist. Not if it was a shot bullet, I think. You're just looking to change its course so it doesn't go on target, right? Yes, it's better than your head, I guess. And with that, we move into the next round. James Blaine, you get another pick.

Mark, would you get off my back? You got it. We're rounding into the home stretch. It is, the home stretch. Okay. Everyone should have four picks remaining. Whoa. Okay.

So what? I don't have a Felix. I don't have a... You don't have a Felix, a Monty Penny. You don't have a film. You don't have a cohesion film. Oh, damn. I can hear the audience out there turning against Matt.

Mara. Because he's being mean. Myra. And Matt Mara. Whoever he may be. God rest his soul. Sorry, Mark. You are lacking a Monty penny.

Monty. That's my nickname in my family. Money penny. A secondary bond girl, a Felix, and a flex position. Okay. I'm going to go to secondary bond lady because I just see that here. This is probably no one else would choose this, but I'm going to choose Naomi. Anybody know who that is?

Who that is? Naomi. Naomi from I'm choosing Naomi Does anyone know Ring my bells Is it from Naomi

Is she from Judd? Naomi Judd? Is she what? Who's she? She is played by Caroline Monroe Oh, oh right Oh man that's a good Pick wait

She's a hench person Sorry That's why I thought of her She's in the helicopter firing machine guns. She's not a secondary bond lady? No, because he also doesn't sleep with her. I'm sorry. It's a tough cat.

Will you want to put it in the flex? Wait, he has to sleep with it? Well, no, but that is, if he doesn't sleep with her, she sure shouldn't be shooting guns at him. Secondary Bond. I should just flexed in as a second girl. I could flex her in as a henchman. You could, absolutely.

As a henchman. Wait, no, you flexed already. No, he didn't. I flexed. You flexed. I want to see it again? Whoa. That's crazy.

When did the... When did the ultimate warrior get here? Why do you have a top rope to shake? Do you want to flex, Naomi, since this is being shit on by Matt? Yes, I'll... Shit on. I mean, I think righteously protected as an institution. I mean, I could have just another full-fledged bond lady.

As you're supposed to do that. Right. Interesting choice. But you're doubling... I like the move of putting a secondary bond girl who's apparently also a henchman. Yeah, that's true. true. You're getting a sort of a Swiss Army utility player.

Because you don't want two two bond primary bond girls. That's too much script to add. This is the idea of like taking a utility infielder in a fantasy. That's the way I was looking at. Pass catching running back. This is great.

All right. I'll take a James White, if you will. Sure. I'll use her as my flex, Mark. She's from the Spy Who Love Me. Naomi. Yeah. She flies the helicopter and is very attractive.

Wonderful. and that's... Was that your first pick of this round, or there's second? That was my first. So you get two, right? Yeah, it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, Gadget.

I chose the Rolex. You chose the Rolex. Oh, yeah. So we're back to Matt Corley. Okay, I'm doing Moneypenny, and I'm going with, I think, what is my only Brosnan pick, Samantha Bond. That's a good pick. She's a...

Yeah. Which movie? I'm going to go... Because I actually think that there is a correct answer to this. Yeah, die another day, right? Oh. With the virtual reality thing? Sure.

What do you think? If that's the one you want rolling around. I think she's actually most competent in Tomorrow NeverDy. Oh, but I'm not looking for competent. I'm looking for Roger Moore entertainment level. Die in other days, which you're saying. Yeah. You know, if that's your, if that's your category,

if you're grading it on that, then that's a beautiful pick. Yeah. Beautiful pick, man. We go over to Matt Myro. Uh, guys, it's time to get my gadget out of the way here. And I wonder if this really... Does this count? All right.

I'm going to ask the board of trustees here if the following counts as a gadget. Underwater crocodile submarine. Oh, I'm good with that. Yeah, yeah, I'll accept that. Because it's not a car. Right, yeah. And it's just a way of conveyance in a swampy area

so that you may disguise your entrance into... A tuxedo. A tuxedo. All right. So, yeah, you're saying that's a gadget and not a vehicle. Yeah, I'm taking the crocodile. We were bobbing and hop into the crocodile, sup. Yeah.

All right. All right, Matt Myra has another pick here. And I think it is time to choose my bond girl. And you have not chosen a bond yet. I have not chosen a bond yet. Yeah. But because the bond cannot be flexed out, there's no need. This is, again, why the six-person draft is ideal, because then you're really, somebody's getting stuck with somebody.

This is the V-1 of this, you know. Yeah, but I like it. Okay. Okay. So, a lot of questions I have when choosing a Bond girl. Do I want one who's also a spy, who's like James Bond's equal? Do I want one who made an impact on the franchise that lasted, you know, 40 years? Do I want someone who would compete well with who I think my bond is going to be?

So look, the answer to that, everybody, is kind of got to go with my heart. My heart's telling me that I am taking. Pussy galore. Oh, that's good. She was my second pick as well. Yeah. Yeah. That's great late draft value, Matt Myra.

Yeah, thank you very much, Mark. Yes, that's a very good one. Great. Honor Blackman. Honor Blackman. Another Avengers. Alumni, yeah. Alumnus.

Honor Blackman and off her white woman. Matt Gourley. Time for you to make a pick. Who came up out of his contemplation there to make a little joke. I always will. Okay, hold on. Just for the listeners, Matt Gourley has not picked an M, a song, or an ally mentor. Those are the three categories.

M is interesting because I am the only one that needs to choose, and there's only one option. So, I don't know. That might be your last pick then, I would assume. But I'm also fine with that. But you're also safe in the other categories. Everyone. Because everyone's flexed. Everyone's flexed.

Everyone is flexed and there's no holes in this. Good point. Grid. Oh, okay. So nothing I want can be taken at this point. Correct. Then I'm just going to go, Robert. Brown for M because that's my only choice.

And I'm fine with that because that's Roger Moore appropriate era-specific. Yeah. You know, we've seen him on the screen with him. I'll say, I'm going to put him view to a kill because he's kind of in it a bit more going off to the races and all that. Or as I'm writing it down, AvTack. Or is it just view to a kill?

Is it A view to a kill? Yeah. AvTac. AvTac. Bladen, we go to you. All right, thank you,

Mark. You're welcome. Thanks for all you're doing. Sorry, Matt, Myra, you have not chosen a secondary bond girl?

Or James? James has not chosen Monty Penny secondary bond girl because of the Naomi controversy of 2019 and Felix.

So please remind me of what a secondary bond girl is. Give me an example of a secondary bond girl. Salonge and Casino Royale. He keeps saying this. Karin.

in Moonraker, the one that gets killed by the dogs? Yeah, I'll take her. Yeah, she has a second chance. So, can I wrap it up for you? Yeah, please, it's a gift. Yes, I like Corinne, you called it for me, from Moonraker. Unfortunately, her death, you know, is pretty awful.

But you can change that in your film. You can, she can play a different sort of, yeah, she will not come. to that end. Though she does have to be a secondary bond girl. That's fine. Yeah. Because he still sleeps with her.

And he doesn't, yeah, she doesn't need to die horrible death. I guess what I'm trying to say. And James, we come to you for one more pick. What else have I got, Mark? You need a Monty Penny. Who is Monty Penny? Isn't that? Money, penny.

Yeah. Why am I saying Monty Penny? I love it. I brought it up earlier. And it just kind of flew by. Some words I don't say correctly. Rally? Really I do

Here he come now saying Monet Penny Monet Monet Penny Okay sorry Sorry I have not chosen a What Don't maybe say it again You haven't picked a Felix

Felix No idea who the other ones are And money Money Penny Do you want a little rundown? So in Thunderball there's kind of like A Surfer Beachy Felix guy In a Hawaiian shirt

Cool looking kind of more The Jack Lord mode But not quite as cool Goldfinger has C slender who's more of like an Ernest Borgne type. Yeah. Felix. Then you've got Jeffrey Wright in the Daniel Craig ones,

the coolest Felix of all. Black guy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. There's also... Felix in Living Daylights. I'm going to choose the Thunderball guy. Okay. What's his name?

Hawaiian Steve. Is Rick something, I think? Felix. He's Rick Van Nutter. Rick Van Nutter is... You said he was cool. Absolutely his name. Sucker.

You also could have had Norman Burton. He's a real wet noodle. From Diamonds or Forever. Oh, right. Yeah. He's pretty good. Rick Van Nutter. My personal favorite who is not canonical is Never Say Never.

Oh, Bernie Casey. Yeah, we didn't even... Oh, Bernie Casey, yeah. Say if we could pull in from Never Say Never or 67 Casino... Well, Matt, you'll be able to do that. choose from any number of songs and ally mentors on your pick here in the second to last round of the 2019 fantasy James Bonding franchise draft. This is tough because I'm in no danger, so I'm going to talk through my choices here.

Yeah. I'm an ally mentor. The way I want to go is I love Karen Bay, but I don't think he's appropriate for this film. But I love, I got Colombo Struthers, Tiger Tanaka, and. Robbie, what's Robbie Coltrane's name in the Bond movie, the Brosnan ones? Cobby Roll Train. Cabby Roll Train. He is, God, I'm looking at his caviar right now.

Yeah, it was a Russian. He's in two of them. He's in Golden Eye and the world's not enough. Don't tell me. Don't tell me. Don't tell me. Zikovsky. Fuck you.

Why'd you tell me? Well, don't worry. I'm not choosing him. You're not choosing them. No. Who are you choosing? I think from, oh, this is tough. Tiger Tanako.

Tanaka, Columbo or Struthers. I'm going to go Tiger Tanaka. Now, who's Tiger Tanaka? Solid, solid, solid pick. He's in, you only live twice. Ah, Bonson. Okay. In Japan.

Japan, men come first. Men come first. Did you, have you done your, you did your mentor? Vijay, yeah. Yeah, Vijay. He's not a mentor. He's a Bondi. No one picked Quarrel.

Before we do, before we start doing that, I think at the end of the draft, we're going to sort of assess our top free agents. Meaning what is that? Who we haven't picked. Who we haven't picked? Who's left? Who's left? So we go to Matt Myra here for his second to last pick. I don't know what that means.

Yeah, so I need to do a villain. A villain and a bond. And a bond. Hmm. So I've left, I've left these two for last. And, uh, you know, I think that it is with some hesitation that I have to land on just one villain. There's so many great villains left.

you know, a lot of people out there probably thinking I would say Jonathan Price from Tomorrow Never Dies because I believe in his plan. But that's not the way I'm going, guys. I think it is important to remember your roots. Remember where you came from. Yeah, that's wise. And that is why my choice for villain is Dr. No. Whoa. You just lost this game. what film was he from? Or having some fun. This is good.

When did Matt become so mean? When you did today, you were attacking me personally. Dr. Julius no. Yeah. There is an element of fantasy sports that can divide friends. Oh, totally. Well, you just, I just felt so like. There's also an element of fantasy sports that can fog a room.

Look at the windows in here. There's a lot of heat, a lot of heat in here. It's raining outside as well. You know, I think Matt's, where Matt sort of started to get me rubbed the wrong way was his, his just out of the gate, just stealing Roger Moore, really sort of threw me off. You wanted, you, I'm sorry, go ahead. You wanted Roger Moore as well? I would have taken Roger Moore also.

I was sure you both would be vying over Craig. Yeah. Well, let's find out what is going to happen here. It's Matt Meyer's last pick in the draft. And it is going to be Daniel Craig on my team. I'm taking Daniel Craig, and I'm taking Sky Falls Daniel Craig, ladies and gentlemen. I'm taking Daniel Craig from Skyfall. Why Sky Falls, Daniel Craig?

Yeah, why Skyfall? Because in the, here's the problem. I think in Casino Royale, he's underbaked, just as a double O, just his first time out of the gate. He's carrying a lot of emotional baggage. I think in Spector, he looks like he doesn't want to be there. And in Skyfall, I just feel like it's sort of, he's over. He put the Vesper thing to bed in quantum.

So all of his emotional baggage was gone. And then, you know, he gets a nice relaxing break. Well, people think he's dead. And then he comes back to save the world after Wolf Blitzer tells him about an explosion. Okay. You don't want your hero having emotions. I want him to be focused on the mission at hand. You want him to have learned from his experiences.

Yeah. And I don't want to be inexperienced or. carrying any sort of emotional baggage that could interfere with the mission. That concludes Matt Myro's team. Matt Gourley, we go to you. Time to pick a song. So I'm looking at all my picks and I want to fit the song to this film. Jesus Christ.

Yeah, I am very much like Jesus Christ and that I care about mankind. And I want to deliver the best bond film possible. So I'm looking at my picks and it's down to Goldfinger with just the strength as a song, live and let die, and a view to a kill to fit my Roger Moore film. This is a tough one. Those, I mean, two of the, three of, they're three, those are three great bonds. Yeah, I'm aware. How do you choose?

Woo. You flip a three-sided coin. I think I'm going to take a view to a kill off the table because my Roger Moore film is skewing early Roger Moore. And I think that's a little too modern, a little too rock and roll. If I'm being honest. Now you don't even want to take from different Roger Moore eras. You don't think we could have anyone do an arrangement that would suit your needs for that.

Oh, is that on the table? It's not as produced. Look, I'm saying it is. I think it is. It's whatever you need is. I think it's as produced. Yeah, me too. What was your third?

Vito Kill. Goldfinger. Live and let die. Oh. I know what I'd choose. I do too. I know what you would choose. Yeah.

We're on the same page on this. Are we, though? Yeah. Well, I can't let that influence me. Well, you should. You know, this is a collaborative art, Matt. I understand. Listen, I understand the obvious choices live and let die.

It's a Moore film. It fits the style a bit, but I also, I do want a little bit of variance from the Moore formula. I want to make an original. Suddenly. Listen, I want it to work in that world, but I want it to also feel new, fresh, and original. And God damn it, that's where I'm going with Goldfinger for the song. and I want to say that before I change my mind.

Wow. So you're open to it making some money. Yeah. I have... Also, and I'm choosing Goldfinger from Goldfinger. I'm having some fun now. There's a buddy of mine I just commissioned to do some artwork, like a painting for me,

and he's amazing at drawing pop culture stuff, like painting it. And I was just thinking what might be amazing is if we had him do movie posters for these movies. Of these movies. These three films. Well, this is a question I have for. you guys.

After we do this. Let's do it. Let's do James' final pick. And remind me of what I... It's a Monty Penny. Monty Penny. Monty. Mooney puny.

Is he got to double down on his Naomi's? So yeah, I don't know. What's the newest one is Naomi Harris? Naomi Harris. And there's also the... There's also the Dalton. The Living Daylights, Money Penny. Which one is she?

Carolyn Bliss. She's in Living Daylights and License to Kill. She's pretty... I considered her. hair. Big red glasses. Right. Gorgeous. Kind of a school marm look.

Blonde lady. Oh, yeah. Glasses on because she's money penny. Who's the, which is the movie where there's a second money penny sitting in? Oh. A who? It sounds like you're saying money penny to be. Money penny.

Money penny. Penelopee Smallbone. Is that it? Yeah. They're both in the office. They have desks. She's not a money penny. She's not a many penny.

I know that, Matt. Jesus. This is Carolyn Bliss As Monty Penny right here Nope I like her Again you can put her with Ruby in a room And you can go nuts

Who will it be? Maybe give her a perm Like Ruby Yeah You guys will be the first in line To see my movie I'll take Because I don't

Because I like To spread it out Over the Big mistake Over the years Well who's what movie am I watching What is this What?

Is that an impression of your listener? Not after they've seen my movie. I didn't mean to make that singular. I'll take Naomi from the most recent films as my money penny. She's going to bring in the kids. Skyfall is respected. He's going to bring in the kids. Do you want out in the...

I guess the question is, do you want out in the field? Yeah, or desk jockey money. Or desk jockey money. Monty, penny. Monty Pony. Wait, which one is which? Which one is out of the field? Spector's desk job, Skyfall's in the field.

I'll take Skyfall. Okay. Skyfall money. Although she does go in the field inspector as well. What? Look, Spector, you get Scooby gang. Oh, right. Yeah.

Look, you know... I have my choices of Tanner's, Robinson's, and so on, but we'll get to that in other episode. Okay, here's my final question. Before we finish this, I have something that I think we need to add on and it can be done one of two ways. You look at your choices and then pick which film would they go into or you make up a new title.

Yeah. Say that again? We each have to pick an existing bond film that all of these things go into, essentially, which will be hard because some of the villains, like they don't line up, but basically, it's more like you're picking the title. or do we make up a title for our new film, our new Bond? Well, should we go around and review the final list of everything for everybody's film? I think you make up a new title that's sort of a portmanteau of other titles.

Nice. Okay. Yeah. And then the listeners will now all vote on the title of your movie with these particulars. Yep. This is going to be big. All right. This is how you do podcasting. It's interactive. It's fresh. new. It's got two shitty options and one great one. This is... Hey, thank you. I guess everybody should maybe elevator pitch their... Okay, so let's take a second to choose a title. And then we'll...

Okay, so in that, let me just say, thanks for having me run the fantasy franchise James bonding draft. It's been a pleasure. You are fantastic. I'm glad to have done it. While you're looking it over, I'm just going to... having very little bond knowledge. I'm just going to go over some notable free agents that are available.

So available still is George Lasonby, Daniel, no, not Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan. None of these are available. And Timothy Dalton, they would be available. Should your bond be injured in the filming of your film? You'd have to pick up another bond. That's who you'd pick up. That Jonathan Price that Matt Myra mentioned is a villain. There's a lot of villains left on the board.

a lot of bond girls. I would say maybe the top free agent bond girl for me is Vesper, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Do we have to give a plot summary? Yes. Sure. Certainly do.

Let's see, henchmen. I'm shocked that there's a Jaws and an odd job. Job and Jaws still on the table. Yeah, that's tough. And those didn't get flexed. That's a little stunning to me. Surprising, yeah. I can't speak to M much.

M or Q. Those seem to be. a very limited field. Yeah. All the M's and Q's got taken. What about the money pennies? Carolyn Bliss is the only one left. Yeah.

Poor girl. Any cars? How about that? If we ever did a six-person situation, I think we would then need to open it up to... Never seen it. You'd have to have a... You can pick your bond,

and that goes across all the movies they're in, but then everybody else, you have to, like, sort of pick the movie because there aren't enough money pennies to go around. Well, if you put, is there money penny and never say never again? Yes. Why can't I place her? You know what you would have to do, I think.

Yeah, you're right, though. You'd do a way more prep on a six-person bond fantasy draft, and you would have an agreed-upon list of here's all the people that are on the board that you can take. I think a real glaring omission here is Pierce Brosden's remote control car that you can drive from the backseat. Be MW750. I'll. Welcome to it.

I love it. That is probably the top free agent car. Sure. What about that? What about that train with a crane on it? That Daniel Craig climbs up. You're just going to call that a vehicle?

Sure. He just knocks down a bunch of Volkswagen with. That's from Skyfall. Secondary Bond Girl. Oh, Monica Balucci on that one. I mean, that's maybe the most modern Secondary Bond Girl. I would have taken May Day.

I can't believe that Live and Let Die. She's a henchman. You can't have her. I disagree. She gets turned at the end. Live and Let Die is still on the board for song. She gets turned in the same way that... Yeah, I know.

She gets turned in the same way Pussy Galore does. Well, May Day is not available. Mayday got flexed. But we didn't make that categorization for Bond Girl that she, you know, that Trump... A bond girl trumps henchman. Hinchman trumps secondary bond girl. This has just been known since the day Jesus walked the earth. You've been referencing Jesus quite a bit this morning. He is your Lord and Savior.

He's among us. Record a podcast with him on a Sunday. And then let me just, what's the top gadget still? Gadget-wise, there's so many still available. I guess you know what's shocking to me is that a weapon hasn't really been. Well, I think we're all standard issued. He's just getting the Walter PPCK. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, and then whatever he picks up on the go. Sure. He might kick a machine gun up to himself, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, et cetera. I've got a name already for my movie. I do too. Okay, so if we're ready to go, maybe we go in reverse draft order.

Sure. We start with me. Okay. Is that all right? Absolutely. So let's walk me through your film. Let's recap my, recap my team. Or you could recap it while.

Do it while pitching. Well pitch. Yeah. Okay, guys, this is a quite possibly the most exciting adventure James Bond has ever had. Okay. It takes place on each continent. It is quite a travel heavy James Bond movie. And...

Can't wait to get to Antarctica. Judy Dench. A bunch of penguins. And Ralph finds... Judy Dench and Ray Fines. They're going to have to learn to work together in this one, okay? A lot of paper pushing To make sure that Bond

Is doing right by them Okay Here's what it is Look I just I think we should I don't think we should recap I think you should recap the whole team And then I tell you want to do that

Then you can You don't have to tell us the entire plot of the movie Right because I was going to start This is like a trailer version It's a log line Just recap what? I was already starting with the first act right there Okay so the log line for this movie is

James Bond must Hang on James Bond must join forces With members Wait, hang on I'm trying to think of an actual log line James Bond James Bond's past may have finally caught up with him

This time The only one who can save him May not be himself The film's title is everything or nothing. Okay. Eon Productions. EON Productions. Everything or nothing. That is a movie that has Daniel Craig is James Bond.

M. is Ray Fines. Money Penny. Lois Maxwell. Q is Ben Wisha. At some point when he travels to the continent of Asia, VJ will be there. Pussy Galore, she still flies planes, right? Aston Martin, DB5 is the car of choice. at one point he'll be in a tropic area that needs a crocodile to be his disguise

the song is of course going to be the spy who love me the villain will be a villain he thought he dispensed long ago Dr. No his bond girl is Sylvia Trench who's his main squeeze back at the at home

Jack Lord of course is the Felix Leiter who's going to help him out here Whisper is involved somehow Dr. No has enlisted Whisper and the person from his past he's going to need help from is Judy Dench.

There you go. Everything or nothing. Everything or nothing. In theaters, October 21st. The year is 1973. After an unsuccessful go-at-Bond with George Laysenby, Sean Connery comes back to try it one more time, but it just seems like the magic's gone. What about that young fellow from the saint and the persuaders that we'd always had our eye on?

Let's get Roger Moore in here. This is not a log line. This is the genesis. And we won our lawsuit so we can, not only can we continue on with the Blofeld story, we can finally give it the resolution it deserves. Donald Pleasance is back. Roger Moore, as Bond, is facing off against Blofeld to finally get the vengeance we've never really seen for Blofeld killing his wife, Tracy. And he does just that all while being helped by a wonderfully elegant and once again Bond Girl worthy of the stature of pairing up with Bond, Mod Adams. But that doesn't mean we can't have some fun because who are these two henchmen coming in? Just prancing in Mr. Witt and Mr. Kidd. Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.

Robert Brown is back as M because we're keeping continuity going even though this is his first time in the role, but he'll be here for a while. Oh, we can't, we can't have a Bond film without Desmond Llewellyn. Any other Bond film without Desmond Llewellyn is practically not a bond film, except no substitutes. You may find there are a couple of Bond films out there coming out this year that don't have Desmond Llewellyn. Well, I ask you, is that a Bond film? Oh, but we brought in someone new, and speaking of Bond, it's Samantha Bond for Moneypenny. She's a great new kid. She's the one that gets it in her franchise. Not only is Bond driving in Aston Martin, we've just really modern Ashton Martin for 1973. It's the DBS. It's beautiful.

It really hums at Purs. He would bring him back his briefcase gadget. It's got, it's multi-use gadget. This is going to be great. Oh, but he's going to have a little bit of a lark affair with Ruby. She's fun. She's got a new perm. And the song, Shirley Bassie's singing the song. It's the only Bond film you're going to find with Shirley Bassie singing the song. It's called Goldfinger. That's not the title of the movie, but it's great. David Hedison, classic Moore era Felix. Tiger Tanaka is helping out, which means we may go to the Orient. It's going to be amazing.

And wow, we've got a new avant-garde musical artist May Day to come into this and kick some ass. We tested some film titles. We were going to call it Thunderfall. We were going to call it Dr. Pussy, but we didn't. We went with You Only Live and Let Die. Because you have to let your wife die To live again to find your new true love, Mod Adams You only live and let die twice.

Either one. In theaters, Bond is back, 1973. A bit of a mess, but we go to James. What? What? I loved it, man. I'd watch it. I'm very confused by the Mod Adams,

but everything else I was on board for. We should have to pitch all of these. There we go. Oh, wow. That's right. Production value is back. Ladies and gentlemen, although some lesser Bond films, the off-brand,

would have you believe that Tracy is dead. Oh, no, she's not. She's very much alive. And she and James Bond are back in the hit new film Wait, I'm going to pause this Wait, I should keep it going for the title For the hit new film coming this summer

You only live another day I have it written down, I didn't steal part of your idea I like that title It makes it seem like it's the last year of James life I'm just saying you don't got long You better hurry if you only live another day That's exactly right And that's what's so fresh about this new film, Matt.

Thank you for leading me down. You know, a lot of bonds. The evil... That's right. Thank you, Matt, Myra. The evil Zoran, played by the wonderful Christopher Walken, and his little sidekick knick-knack, who he's sent with some leftover syringes he had from view to a kill.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. To sneak into the submarine lotus. occupied by Tracy and James having a little fun little jaunt out on underwater jaunt. Nicknack injects James with a poison that enables him to only live a single more day. A single more day! Now the clock is ticking as Matt so well pointed out. He's only got his allies like the wonderful John Cleese.

remember him from Monty Python. I do. Some of you younger fans remember him from the Pink Panther films. But also, a lot of you kids will remember Bernard Lee as the wonderful M. All you kids. Who played. You remember him from the third man film. The man who came in from the cold is five.

Was there a second man film? I don't know, Mark. And all the fun watch gadgets are back with the rollout. Submariner. If you need something attracted to it, Sean Connery has got the timepiece that will do it. And I don't want to give away, I don't want to spoil it with what happens,

but you're going to bet that there's going to be the lovely Corinne, who will not die from dogs chasing or killing it. That's on the poster. The whimsical Tibbet, who will have an exchange with Teresa, Diana Ridd, He'll say something like, hey, Tracy, we're needed,

which is a throwback to the Avengers if you want to do a little digging. And that's going to really pay off for about three people in the crowd. I love it. Of the movie. So all I can say is look up, look down, look out. This is the biggest bond ever,

if you can name what film that is from. That is from Thunderball. Okay, because I have a whole quiz here that we probably don't have time to get to of tag lines. Put that right here. Anyway, guys, I think you're all going to agree that they save the best for last, and its name is what I said earlier.

You only live another day. That's right. Starring Rick Van Nutter. Rolls off the time. That's right. This is amazing. All right. So go to Jamesbonding.

on Twitter or on Instagram and we'll probably have some list at some point after this comes out, not long after, because we're going to probably need someone to make a list. But the titles are Matt Myris, Everything or Nothing, Matt Goorleys, You Only Live and Let Die or James Bladens, you only live another day with Rick Bandnutter, starring Rick Van Nutter. That's gold. I do think this is a really fun way to sort of take your favorite parts of bond fails, but then you all, you get hamstrung along the way.

This is great. This will be on Twitter. Let's say it's just on Twitter because you can't, can you do a poll on Instagram? No. You can't do a poll on Instagram now. We'll do it just on Twitter. You can take a picture of a poll, but I genuinely felt good about my team as I was drafting it. And then once the draft was completed and I looked at the entire team, I do think my team is a hodgepodge, massive bullshit.

I feel solid about my team. Mine is a Bond movie. I feel even more solid than Matt does. about my team. There's no way. It's impossible. It's, oh, I got to tell you, here's the places I think I messed up. I think putting Whisper in, I shouldn't have really gone with my heart there. I should have gone with someone who has a little more screen presence, who I could actually see in a scenario with Dr. No.

And I feel like my gadget of the crocodile submarine really, really strung me up for a, for a swamp. Yeah. But you said he was traveling all over the world. He is, he is. You can't have a crocodile sub and, say, Paris. Right. That's... Unless he has to bring into a zoo. Sure.

And look, I love the Sylvia Trench. I'm happy with Pussy Galora Sylvia Trench. It's just my brain now, though, as Matt has said from the get-go, he was trying to make a cohesive picture. My brain is short-circuiting when I try to imagine Pussy Goulor and Daniel Craig. Yeah, you're screwed. No. You're out of luck. You're out of luck.

Listen, you go to James Bonding Pod after this... you've heard this, we'll put up a list so you can review the choices and a poll. It'll be there. If it isn't there immediately, it'll be there soon. I truly have no idea who's going to win this thing. Oh, I can tell you with good authority that I will be in last place. I don't think so. I think there's something here for everyone to love and hate. That's what's so fun about this. This is what this game should be, is you try to draft the best team and then see your movie. Yeah, and pitch the movie and see Who Wins. This turned out to be one of my favorite episodes. It's only the season opener. We're just getting started. Only downhill from here. Mark, James, thank you for doing this. We hope that you'll

return again to do this with us. I think if we do it again, it should be six people and there should be a big board. We'll do it right. Listing. And it should be a live show. Right. Probably. Oh, God. But that'll be like two plus maybe three hours. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. Podcast people hate long episodes. You're right. You're certainly right. That's why you put a clock on it. Yeah. That's why you do, yeah. You need an actual draft.

So you do this one we would come in prepared. Yeah. Like this one we sort of invented the game 12 seconds before we hit record. Yeah. So maybe this should be the season closer because we're doing 20 episodes of the season. This should be? Oh, the second. The next one.

Yeah, sure. Or maybe we'll do two more, like one in the middle and one at the end. I love it. Okay. Next episode is the commentary for Dr. No. It'll be behind the pay wall. But again, we'll bring some commentaries out. but please do subscribe and use the promo code.

Go with bonding. I don't know if it's our choice. I tried to look it up and I can't find it. I'm really annoyed that I don't know it. Where would that be? Did you get an email about it? I tried looking at that too. Yeah, I don't know.

Well, it's good that we worry about this on. Well, what are the choices? Bond or bonding, right? It's going to be one of the two. Oh, here it is, guys. It's bond. It is. It is bond.

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