James Bonding - You Only Live Twice with Paul F. Tompkins

Episode Date: September 20, 2023

Three-timer's Club guest Paul F. Tompkins joins the Matts on a fun-filled journey to the east as they discuss Connery's fifth outing as 007. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I'm only doing Avatar references. Well, lucky for you, they're making nine more. I know. I think it's actually five. Four, right? Three, two, one. Welcome to James Bonding. I'm Matt. And I'm Matt as well. Today, you only live twice with our good friend

and third-time guest record, I think, right? No. For real? Yeah, I think so, Paul. I'm the first to three? Yeah. No, wait. You're tied.

Amanda and Maria. Oh. Who will win anyway? Who will win anyway? Who will win anyway? Who will win anyway? Wait, I was on for, you only live... No, you live and let die. Live and let die.

You're also our second guest, Dr. No. Dr. No, that's right. That's where we all figured out Sylvia Trench. That's right. That's right. The filthiest bond man without being done. Guys, thanks for having me back. Paul F. Tompkins, it's great to have you back.

We are doing a month of Paul's, and we didn't even know it. Yeah. It just worked out this way. Paul Vember, we're going. You only live twice. Have you seen this? When's the last time you had? I must have seen it when I was but a wee child.

So a long time. It's been a long time. Yes, long, long time. I haven't seen even a clip from it in all that time. Like, there was so much stuff that I forgot about this movie. and I don't think that it's good. Oh, that's... Yeah.

You're coming out of the gate, huh? Yeah, I don't think it's good. That's good. We should just disclaim, disclaim? Proclaim. Declaim. Declaim. Declaim.

Declaim. This is one that's always ranked low on my list. However, this time I liked it more. I will 100% agree with Matt Goreley on this. Liked it more than I have in the past. Yeah. I feel like this round through, I've been liking them more.

I wonder, because last time, we were coming in. Are we having, like, double nostalgia for something we were nostalgic for? We might be, but, you know, you and I started that podcast after a long, just personal bond trips, and so

maybe we were facing a little fatigue, and I kind of went away from Bond for a while after that podcast because I was really fatigued. Yeah, we both stopped. The dark times, we put it down. We'll see how we are. I bet you that by the end of this run of films,

whatever films they are, we'll suffer a little bit because, you know. We'll see. I mean, because you have both seen these so many times, right? Multiple times. And I think that you are bound to be looking at new things. There's probably stuff that strikes you as, you know, even though it's familiar, like, oh, that was actually really well done. You know, that was a good sequence. I think you're analyzing them subconsciously.

You're analyzing them in a different way than you would before. Yeah. This one's plot was better to me as just a detective mystery plot. I don't remember the misogyny being as heavy the last time I watched this one. There's a lot of just kind of real dated humor in this. Oh, yeah. And it's more so now. I know that's the case with Bond,

but this one specifically, that is not something that's stuck in my memory as much as watching it this time through. I think it's always, whenever you take a gander, I have the coffee mug of this movie because I just thought it was very funny to have Sean Connor. I have the coffee mug of this movie. I have the view to a kill. Yeah, I got Matt to do to a kill coffee mug.

I picked up this one. Which movie do you have the coffee mug of? Oh, I think, I got to get out of here. But it is, you know, I look at it many mornings and it's just James Bond being bathed by Japanese women. Yeah. Oh, that's what's on the mug? That's what's on the mug. Oh, is it really?

Yeah. That's the poster. That's the mug. Oh, wow. That was the poster? Yeah. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Wow.

Like you're saying in 1967, when they were marketing this movie to people. that was the only image on the poster or there was other stuff? Yeah, I don't know this posting. I think there's other stuff on the poster, but it's mainly that I'll show you the image and really wakes me up every morning to what the world was and what it should be.

Yeah, the misogyny in this movie, it crosses over from just, oh, that was of its time into gross. Yeah, there are a few moments of that for sure, yeah. Because it feels very, it feels very, pointed. It feels like let's get another one of those in here. Same with the racism. Like there's

there's time, there's time racism. And there's also real transcendent. Doesn't matter what it is the only thing on the poster. Wow. Oh, and he also stands there with a gun off to the side. So don't worry. Just to tell you there's some spy

craft. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, I went to Japan last year and this is the first time I've watched this movie since going to Japan. So there was a kind of, I don't know, like travelogue feel to it. And I went to Hemeji Castle where they do the ninja training with the traditional ninjas and the modern ninjas. Yes. Which I love.

You do really get quite a, you sort of, I do enjoy how much of Japan you get in this and how much of Japanese culture you're getting in it. So you're like, let's see a wedding. Yeah. Let's see a funeral. I don't think I remember that as well because usually he really globetrotts. Here he's just Hong Kong and Japan, right? And I think it's... Any tiny bit of...

No, because he's not even in England because they're on the submarine. Right. The whole thing takes place in Asia. The Orient. The Orient. The Mysterious Orient. Thank God he didn't get that pig face woman he was promised. Oh, God. I mean, that was a great prank.

I got it. As many problems as I had with this film, that was a hilarious joke on James Bond. You're going to have to marry a pig face lady and then it's no, she's beautiful after he's looking disgustedly at these two women who are less than drawings of women.

And are they pig face woman number one and pig face woman number two in the credit? I didn't check the credits for that. What script were they reading? We need to take a look. Close up. A withered old crone steps forward. She raises her head.

Bond is disgusted. Another crowed steps forward. Even more withered aligned with you and the last. Just when you thought the first one could not be out pig-faced. Ladies and gentlemen, we have

Roll Dolls with us. That is also a thing I always forget until I'm watching the opening credits is that Roll Doll wrote the screenplay for this movie. Oh, did he really? Yeah. That guy's problematic. Well, they traded. Ian Fleming wrote the screenplay to Chitty Chitty-Bang-Bang. Oh, sure. And Roll

doll wrote this screenplay. That's why Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is so much fun. I've never seen it. It's a children's movie that hates children. I think we should. We have to do it. We should see Chitty Chitty Bang. We're going to add it.

We'll cover it on this. Because it's crossover is huge. It's probes in it. Kett Adam did the production design. Fleming. And this is just from my childhood memory, it's not good. Isn't there a car called like the kid catcher or something like that? A car?

No. There's a character. The chitty-chitty bang-bang catcher. He, who scarred so many children, this dude is terrifying. Terrifying. And his title is his job. He goes out and he catches children. For the government?

I think. Are they wayward children, though, that are lost? Oh. I think it's any kid that's just loose in the streets. He will lure them with candy and cakes and pies. No. And then he will put them like a dog catcher in a cart. Is this Kurt Fro?

No. Oh, we are. This is a British actor. Oh, I hope I can remember this sequence. This guy, the actor, modeled his performance on Lawrence Olivier's Richard III, I think. Oh, okay. And Lawrence Olivier modeled his Richard the third on some other person.

There's this, like this great line of influence and performance. and performance, and I can't remember. But it's worth looking up if you can find the story. Or maybe I can do that now. Does it end up being like multiplicity where the fifth version of this person just licks pizza? Classic film multiplicity. Well, I don't want to spoil it for it. We'll be covering that on an off week as well.

Now, as there are some problematic issues with the script through Roddall, I think he did do a great job with the plot. This is a plot that is easy to follow. It is a clear plot. with a clear plan. I like the way it unfolds, too. Absolutely. And this is, I will say, of all of the Sean Connery Bond movies, this is the most, like, spyy bond that we get from him. That may be a doctor no I'd put up there with that, too.

Yes, but he assumes multiple identities in this one. Yeah. Where he does not do that in any other film. Yeah. And also, you can't, I really, really love the opening of this film. The fact that you get this great special effects space sequence that at the time must have blown. people away. Yeah. It doesn't look bad.

No, it doesn't look bad. I guess in the term would be it holds up knowing how old it is. But just seeing that in that time and then seeing Bond killed and then going straight to the opening titles, audiences must have just went, what's happened to my world. I don't know what's going on here.

Two things about the opening. The clearly British actors playing American astronauts. No astronaut. Hey, we're going outside a capsule now. Hey, it's great. We're in space. Get a lot of this, the moon. This capsule looks like Georgia.

And then the cut to James Bond is so abrupt. It's so abrupt. Editing was something crazy back then. And also Peter Hunt, the editor of these films, was known for his abrupt editing. But usually in action sequences. So it's strange when you have something that's not to just so quickly smash cut to something like that. It's sort of like, oh, I'm sorry, should we come back? Yeah.

I also love that all the McDonald's, I guess, is it McDonald's? I don't know, those space scientists have these uniforms, but then you cut to Hawaii, and they're just wearing like short-sleeved plaid shirts. You got to know where they are. You got to dress it up. Yeah, there was white skirts. Yeah, I will say I'm very... I'm definitely Hawaiian. As a fan of early American space travel, I did appreciate how accurate the Gemini capsule was, even though they call it a Jupiter capsule.

And the... So they wouldn't get sued. Yeah. That's to suit us. What did we do? The hand nozzle thing that he uses in the EVA is accurate to what... Then I have a question about this. Ed White used.

Yeah, go ahead. Because there's some design element in there that I just loved, and I couldn't find any practicality for it. So when they're in their seats, there are these, like, metal side pieces, but they have grommet holes and then just, like, shoe laces along the sides of them. And I couldn't think about what that would possibly be for other than Ken Adam just going, like, I saw this somewhere. I love the look of it. I think that was a Ken Adam spruce up. But yeah, who knows? I wonder if that really is.

But he's sort of notorious for looking at the real things and putting it in there. I don't know. He did. Oh, man, there's a couple sets in this. There's, I mean. Detent to the detail. He's infamous for it. He's infamous for doing what a job description is.

This guy in charge of design is infamous for his design. I know. I know. Oh, and when the guy's lifeline gets severed, the astronaut. Yeah. And he just, like, immediately flies away. Where is the summit that the special councils are having in the snow where those geodesic domes are, like, that they all met in the Arctic to have a secret talk? I loved it.

I did too, but where, they don't even give you a little subtitle of somewhere in the Arctic. Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Drag that must have been. Why can we go to a warm place? And it seems like it would have been a little more pressing than to take the 24 hours travel time. Exactly. Exactly. And was that place just there already?

It's for that reason. The Emergency Summit camp. Between only three nations, right? Yeah. Is it only that was the UK, Russia and the United States? UK is the voice of reason of like, calm down, gentlemen. We've got our man. Slow your role, US.

I love that guy. That guy is so British. And I think the only reason he probably, I would wager that he didn't win the who's the most British because when you get to Charles Gray later. Oh, boy. Do you ever get to Charles Gray? Yeah, yeah. He may be the most British of the whole series, that character.

he's playing. Oh, wow. The knife in the back. So you're giving him one seat in our bracket. I'd have to think about it, but yeah, I mean, he just trails off at times. Even the way he gets stabbed in the back,

like, yeah, he just freezes British. He doesn't even look pain. He just freezes upper crust. His stiff upper lip becomes a whole stiff upper body. Well, I've had a good innings. Sure, oh, I love that. Why do Chinese girls taste different? Did we figure that out?

That's your first one where it's just... You mean the first line James Bond speaks? There's many things wrong with it. Across race lines, across gender lines, it's not good. Yeah. Excellent police response time in Hong Kong. Machine guns going off and 17 police officers storming. Dangerous Murphy bed that has a button that

is just eminently pressable by accident, just sitting there on a post beam. You don't want some Murphy bed that that's fast to be able to be accessed. Also, I love a Murphy bed that will, in no time, lift a 220 pounds, 6 foot two man with the bed. I like how she sprang into action. Like, as soon as she hit that button,

she's really selling the idea that we have a very limited amount of time to get this done. This guy could struggle. You could get out of that Murphy bed. I need to let these guys in immediately so they can shoot him. And they run in with great speed and I think even the film is in it

because it feels like they under crank the camera and everybody's running a little too quickly or something like really pressing. Also she could have just opened the door, I guess, and let them in and they could have shot him in the bed. Wait, here's my question. Who was in on it? Was she in and on it?

They do mention her later, yeah, because M says something about her or something later, like, yeah. She's in on it. And the cops have to be, or their guns were replaced with blanks? They had to be, wait a minute, here's something strange. Oh, is this a gloft? They can't be blanks.

This is a retro gloft. Because when they lower the Murphy bed, there are bullet holes in the wall behind him. Yes, I noticed that. And there's blood. And he's got no body armor on. He could have a, there could be a metal plate in that bed protecting him. But how did the bullets get through? The bullets don't go through him.

He has no exit wounds. But she would have had to make sure he's lined up exactly. Yes. That should have been the tip off. Wait a second. I don't think this guy's really dead. But he was bleeding, very red blood. Wait a minute.

This movie, this opening is a delight. I love it. It really is. After on the heels of skyfall, too, you really see the connection of just going to the titles on a cliffhanger of Is Bond alive? Like, well, we have a two-hour movie with no James Bond? Is it really going to happen? It's not going to happen. It will never happen.

We keep thinking it might happen. Let's talk about the opening sequence and song. Let's get into it. Nancy Sinatra. She does a great job with the song. She does, yeah. This is a really good bond theme, I think. I love the theme.

Yeah. It's so my wife, my wife was like, which movie is this? And I was like, wait for it. And then she just started singing the chorus. And she was like, I don't get it. I was like, it's you want to look twice. it's all you're the choice. This is the one that Amanda will sometimes sit down and watch a little bit because she loves Japan so much.

Oh, sure. Yeah. He is, uh, when he's walking through. I mean, that's somebody who loves Japan. If they're like, I'll even watch this. Yeah. It's a sure sign. It is, uh, it is fun to see how freakishly tall James Bond seems.

Even when he's hunched over. I know. Which makes it somehow worse. And they, they, they, I, in the, The wedding scene, not to jump ahead, but they clearly, like, rounded up the tallest Asian guys they could find. I can still. Please, please. Get more the tall guys in there.

This is it. And I swear there, even the men are wearing those wooden sandals that have the kind of lifts on them, too. They're really doing all they can to meet him halfway. Now, I have a question. They met him literally halfway. I have a question, and I'm glad Paul's here to help me with this. Sure. Is the cut of his suit so different, or is he just put on some weight?

He's put on some weight. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I was not asked. It's not like a late 60s cut that is like a little. No, I think throughout this whole thing, he looks thicker than he did previously. Okay.

Even in the face. Yeah, absolutely. He does. Yeah, he does. He does. He's much fuller of face. When his shirt's off, though, he doesn't seem. Well, he's not like.

I mean, I would kill for that bond. Sure. And I will. How old is he in this? He's a. 50. No. He's still likely in his 30s.

I know. That's the crazy part. What? Hold on. Let me check this out. In my head, everyone in movies from 1920 to 1970 is 45 years old. Still. Yeah.

Yeah. They've never aged. So this was 67, and he was born in 30. So he's 37 years. seven years old. Wow. There we go. Wow.

I should be so lucky. Okay, so the burial at sea, I think, is great. Yeah, love it. A lot of mystery as to what's happening, what's in there. I love that the guy has the newspaper next to him and is looking with binoculars to confirm that the man in the newspaper is dead. There's another skyfall thing where you see the obituary. Yeah. It's taken from the novel.

There's very few similarities to the novel in this movie, but one of them. is that he's dead and you get to read his obituary. And he gets married, I think, in Japan and goes under a different name. What do you think of the submarine M's office? I love it. And I love it. And I want to know, does Moneypenny go like, okay, we're relocating to a submarine and she'll go, all right, well, I need to take my two flower paintings.

Or does someone who's moving everything just move all their decor as well? Because M's model ship is in there. Well, it's interesting. I think that they're, I feel like docked, near the Thames is the M submarine. Ready to go. An M plane at an airfield

somewhere where all of these offices are already built ready to go. So you think that there are duplicate flower paintings and duplicate model ship? Yes, I do. Is that not a more likely explanation than they brought them? Probably.

It's much more likely that they said let's make these places, all of these places, as homey is possible. I want to feel like I, it's like Barbara Streisand with her dressing room writer. It's like it has to look exactly the same so that she always feels like. Well, I didn't know about this. Really?

I think it's Barbara Streisand. There's some weird, like it has to be any dressing room she goes into has to match these specific specifications. So she can always feel like, uh, it's the same. Oh, for fuck sake. Um, which look, hey, I get it. And if I had the power, I would do it. You would do it? Well, absolutely.

Absolutely. I would love it if every hotel room looked the same. Honestly. She might have that too. Like, are they painting the walls for her? Yeah. Yeah. For sure.

They're probably putting in false like mirror sets or whatever. But look, also, Barber Strise is playing nice places. She's not playing places like we play. She's not playing the grammar scene. I love the grammar scenes. Great. I think that's too much. I mean, come on.

These nice places presumably. have been very well designed, and so they have to take... Sure. Take some of that. Absolutely. I'd be better. I think it'd be cheaper just for her to travel with a portable, like, tiny house that's decorated the way she'll.

Maybe she's doing that by now. Now that tiny houses have become... So proliferated. We've finally cracked the technology of tiny houses. Trailer technology was what we needed, and it's finally here. There is. when she throws the book of instant Japanese at him and we get that lovely line of exposition.

You forget I took a first in Oriental languages. Did we need the insert shot of the little Japanese book? Wouldn't it have been enough for her to just hold up a book and say, hey, here's some Japanese for you. And he's like, I already know Japanese. Like I get why we needed to hear him say, I'm fluent in Japanese. There is a time when they hadn't discovered certain editing shortcuts and stuff.

I was watching, I love Lucy last night. And she's sitting there reading a mystery novel, dipping chips into a cheese dip, and she's at her vanity, and her cold cream is right next to it. And they're very clearly labeled, as you might imagine, like a prop master made them. And it's a medium shot, and you can easily read it.

And you know what's coming, and you're expecting it, but they still cut to a tight insert of it going into the cold food. and it just doesn't need to happen. Did the audience go? Oh, yeah, yeah, great. I've been going around a I love Lucy kick lately, and watching it just for the audience is a reason alone to watch because when she does something,

there are times when the audience isn't laughing, they are screaming. Like, yeah. I need the comedy right now. I've never seen comedy. like this. And I feel the same way. I know I've been revisiting the seven watch probably in 20 years and it's making me so

happy because it's both nostalgic. You've seen them all. Right. But a lot of it still holds up and then there's a lot of oddities where she'll just look to the camera and go, ooh, you know. I don't know. There are so many things going on. I love it.

You love Lucy. I do. There is, okay, so he arrives in Japan. And he's immediately being tailed by women with giant speakers in their back. Hey, hold on a second. I realize I don't know how they, how his death was faked. In the sense of. You mean what part, like how they got it out to the public?

No, no, no. Obviously to the public, they just say, hey, James Bond is dead. Bad news, gosh. But so they, did the people who were shooting him, did they know they were not killing him? Who were those people? I think those people, my, my. My read on the whole situation is that those people had no idea that they weren't actually killing him. Right.

And I do think that there were, there was some sort of protective metal plate or something in the Murphy bed. And I think that the bullet holes in the wall are just around his body and the plate. Probably, we'd have to relook at it. You're probably right. But, yeah, although what's weird is that those bandits you would think would be like. Bandits. Well, that you'd think they'd be bandits, but they're like military regulars. Yeah, they're wearing uniforms.

What's the story there? Yeah. She's definitely in on it. I think they say that later, but you don't know if those guys are. Yeah. So those guys, they think they've killed James Bond. Then there's other uniformed guys that come in. Yes.

Two seconds later. Did they pass each other at all on the porch? Wait a minute. It's Hong Kong, which would have been under colonial. British guns. So it's a command of like British Army, basically, to shoot James Bond, but they don't. No, they do know it's James Bond because they know he's dying. Yeah.

Who's commanding this and why are the troops going like, okay, we're going to kill James Bond? Because everybody knows who he is in the movie. It's a great. Well, everyone knows who he is until number 11 is surprised that that was James Bond. Yeah. After she says it was in all the papers and it was on the front fucking page with a picture too large for a military commander. Right, right. It was crazy.

Yeah. So your question was how? Yeah. Was it blanks? How did they explain away? Because I missed it somehow. It couldn't have been blanks. Because they show the bullets hitting.

Right. And they go through the Murphy bed to the back wall. Right. So the only explanation would be some metal plate right where he's lying. I guess what I'm saying, what I'm asking is, does anyone of the movie ever say, here's how we did it? No. No. Okay.

Okay. I thought, I thought I thought, did I have one of my spells? No. You know, I think what we needed for. is an insert of the paper that explains the plan. Yeah. Although that happens to me. You know, Bond movies at times are made for tuning out.

You know, usually around the third act is when you get a little fatigue, especially when they're getting heavy into the complicated plot. Yeah. Yeah. Why are they all so long? Because I feel like they're all two hours, right? Yeah. Most of the most of the least.

Yeah. There's only been a couple that have been under. And for that, for that time, too, that's insane, you know. And it's always, always, always, there's a point where, where you're like, what's happening now? Why is this still happening? Let's get to it. Yeah, there's a slug.

I mean, there are also, like, it does suffer from the lengthy sceneries. Yes. And because that was production value, you're getting your money's worth. And no one had been there. And, like, yeah, Thunderball really mastered that with the fascination of we can shoot underwater,

so let's do it for a good third of the film. Please don't. I feel like that will be our last movie we watch. Oh, that is. be tough to end on. I kind of want to get it over. You should start with that one. We should have.

You're absolutely right. You really sure. Oh, I can't even. Well, that's why I pulled a tomorrow never dies. I'm like, let's get this one out of the way. I don't understand. But maybe we'll like Thunderball more now that we've been kind of looking at him. You don't think so?

We won't. So even when they pull the thing, so they, he's had some sort of scuba apparatus to enable him to be in the coffin. Yeah. That went into the drink and then they pull that out. And he instantly wakes up. Yeah. Or was he just pretending to be unconscious? I think he was pretending for the audience's sake.

Like he, as Bond, was not. But it was sort of like, let's just have him be still. Maybe we still think he's dead. I also don't wonder. I don't wonder. I do wonder why he didn't you just use the Thunderball thing, which seems to be much more compact. And not. And he's not under there long.

Also, he does not go but 10 feet underwater when the scuba people are picking. him up, but you can see all the light, and it's like anybody looking overboard with you. They're stealing our guy. And what the people... The last part of the ceremony in on it, or were they really mourning this guy? Oh, that's a good question, too. Did you have relatives there? Yes.

No, it was only a military service, yeah. Wait, also, M's not even there. He's waiting from on the other end, obviously... Too emotional. in a submarine. And Moneypenny. Couldn't be bothered. Well, you know.

Q? Q? No. No, he didn't make it. The only three people he knows. I know. Don't forget Sylvia Trin. She's in two movies.

Yeah, well, she hasn't been back. She's in two movies. She wasn't there for Goldfinger or Thunderball, so clearly. She was cut out of Goldfinger, right? Yeah. Maybe so. So, but a bridge had been burned. But you think Felix Lider would have come.

Well, I mean, he's busy and Crabkey probably still. Highen up loose ends. Okay. This movie. You did enjoy this movie? You know, I had a good time, Paul. Let me take it to something that I love about it too, and that is the design. The places they go, that corporate building in Japan, Tanaka's lair.

That corporate building is beautiful. Oh, God, I love it. Also, in Tanaka's like, what do you call that? What's a bath? What's the bath thing? Isn't that his house? Yes, but he has that room that's, what are they called? Rokens, but isn't there, oh, an asan bath. He has that one, when they take the baths with the levees. Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure. Just the way that there's like a rock garden that's elevated off the ground with wood borders and stuff like that. Oh, man, that's so good looking. But it also made me realize that in many ways, James Bond is my least favorite human because he single-handedly destroys.

some of the greatest architectural achievements mankind has ever known. If these things are truly being built in the real world, Bond is blowing all of them up, essentially. Yeah. I don't know why everything has to be blown up. Yeah. Like, they could repurpose some of these structures. I think I'm catching scene elements like that are being repurposed.

Like, when he goes to the bar in that guy's business office, he's in there twice the night before and then the morning when he comes in, they open the bar and there's a black quilted leather pad that looks like exactly the same size as the one in Goldfinger's rumpus room and in his airplane. And I'm wondering, Wow, you're watching these very closely. I've got to look past the action sometimes. Maybe that's just a popular style of the day.

I think so, but it does make me realize I watch these films half just visually. Like, that's most of the joy I get from, not most of it, Well, I mean, it's there to be looked at for sure. You know, it's like that, I will say, the, the, visually this movie is so much fun to look at. There's a lot of really cool stuff.

And I really liked the, I like the action sequences. I like the fights, you know, I thought were really well done in a way that, I don't know, it's so different. It's not just that there's a lack of music, you know, that gives it an urgency. It's also the way it's cut. It's the way it's shot that, you know, you. you just don't really see much in modern cinema. Yeah. You know, where it feels very,

they're like acting the shit out of it. You know, all the fights in this movie, you know, his hand-to-hand fights with people. Particularly, I think, that fight, that fight in the office building. I never caught that before. I think that might be one of the best fights in a James Bond movie. I agree.

I was. Yes. And it really does. I know. It feels really kinetic. And it does feel like Connery's phoning it in on his acting in this film, but not the action. for some reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That fight is great. Well, isn't this, and I don't know if we

touched on it last time we talked about this movie, but isn't this sort of where he reached his breaking point with being James Bond? Because he was so harassed. Yeah, he could not go anywhere in Japan. This is the famous story of he went into a bathroom stall, and reporters were putting their cameras up over the stall to get a picture of him, and he... That's nuts. And Cubby Broccoli had to do a press conference where he berated the Japanese press saying, like, leave him alone, and that's when Connery quit. Yeah, he couldn't take it anymore. I mean, he sticks out like a sore thumb. He really does.

Even in the scenes, when he's walking through the streets, it's crazy. This film also commits one of the cardinal sins of movies, but is, I'm trying to think of what year this stopped happening, but it basically happens to every older film that does this. Whenever you see video footage in the movie of a hero having been filmed, it's the footage from the movie that we saw earlier. That shit drives me crazy. Yeah. And it's like when there's... photos of people on a TV show,

like a crime show, and it's the headshot? Yes. You know, it's like, we're looking for this person. It's like, no person, no average person just has a picture like that of themselves. And it also, I mean, the other thing, too, like, when he's watching

the usual reception for the car that's chasing them with the guns, when he's watching that on the little camera inside the Toyota, there's apparently another helicopter flying above the helicopter. to take the images to relay back to the Toyota. Early drone.

We're going to talk more about that fight in a minute, but we do have to talk about Tanaka and that wonderful, that wonderful Toyota. I love that Toyota. That car. The one that Aki drives? Yes. Yeah.

That car is just the bees knees. It's beautiful. It's gorgeous. It's a good car. Didn't one come up for sale recently? And it was like... Yeah, over a million dollars. they didn't make very many of them

and that was the only convertible ever made because they tried to put Sean Connery in it and his head would not fit in the car. Oh my God. So they had to cut the roof off. Is this a Japanese only car? Did they have it in the States? No, no, no. Oh, wow. What's it called? How tall is Connery in?

6.3? 6.3, but again, it's a Toyota sports car. So, I mean, it's like when, you know, a lot of the shorter cars, like the Ford GT famously, has those doors that when you open it, part of the roof comes out with the door. And then if you go to sit in it and you're over 6.3, it will cut your head off.

It will cut your head off. Steve Aegee bought a mini cooper and was driving a mini cooper for years. Those cars are surprisingly. They're very roomy. They are. They really are. You just have your seats lower than you think in there. Yeah.

And the roof's also very tall. Yes, that's true. From where the seat is. All right. I take it all back. This is welcome to Car Talk. I'm Clank. I think it was.

I'm Clark. I'm not a sound. I don't know much about cars. I think it was maybe it was a movie always. John Goodman worked on some Steven Spielberg film and then Steven Spielberg gave the cast

Miata's as like a gift. Was it meanna? Maybe not meada. So it's a car that sounds like that that's like kind of a cool sporty car. Oh, Maserati? Not a motel.

No, no, no. I feel like it was... Those are sporty cars. Yeah, that's funny that that's... Because I think they were new at the time. They were big, yeah. And John Goon said, I feel like a bear in a shoe. That's beautiful.

The name of the model is the 2000 GT. Front engine, rear-wheel drive, two-seat, hard top coupe grand tour. There were 351 of them made. Wow. Yeah. Do you find that when Aki and Bond get together, like it is probably one of the most awkward transitions from just agent helping a guy out to suddenly they kiss out of nowhere.

It just doesn't feel like they've had any chemistry. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And she's really, I feel like she got kind of shafted in this movie and she's not given much to do and she's not given much of a chance to show personality, to show, you know, to become a real character. You know what I mean?

she's, it was a drag. It was kind of a drag. Let me ask you this, because originally those, Kissy Suzuki, who plays his wife, that's the character of the wife in Aki, the actresses were switched. And they switched them before they started because I think the one playing Kissy

couldn't handle the English very well. And it was, like, there's a dark story about it that she was going to commit suicide. She was so dishonored. Oh my God. Or something. Like, I should really read up on this. But that's essentially the story.

And so they switched roles. But neither of them really get a chance to become anything more than just, you know, here's this girl that's, you know, you go run over there. Yeah. And I believe they're both dubbed too anyway, so you're only getting half their performance. I mean, so much the dubbing is in the opening credits. Who, like the head of dubbing. Yeah. It's an opening credit.

And Tiger is so clearly a Western man during Japanese. I know. Bon son. Oh, he sounds like Sala from Raiders of the Lost Star. The, I mean, I suppose it's time to talk about the most British man in this film. Let's get to it. I love this scene. He wax him on the leg with the cane really hard, the fake leg.

That's presumptuous. That's presumptuous. Yeah, I think that's the whole point. It's also, you know, like maybe ask. Or say, I'm going to hit your leg right now. Do you mind if I, this is just procedure. But he's living in one of these traditional Japanese, I guess, is that a Rio? I don't know.

Anyway, but he's brought the comforts of the West with him, like a full canopy bed and some antiques. And yet he's still wearing a kimono. I just love that mash up. He also asks that you forgive the mashup of styles. Yes. It's just the most British thing to say ever. I do apologize. The death, his death is great.

Yeah. It's great. Yeah. It's great. Because I didn't remember that it was extremely well, it was fun and cool. Yeah. Yeah. It was really well done.

And that's what I like about this plot is that there's a lot of one thing happening leading to the next. So that happens. He follows that assassin, gets in his clothes. It ends up at this place he otherwise never would have. I mean, the way he. He just crashes through that fucking paper wall. Yeah. But then he ends up at this building, and he wouldn't have otherwise gotten there, you know.

Yeah. Just feels like a spy. He does some crack spy work here. He knocks that guy down, takes his terrible shoes, which just is like, all right, you're going to wear those shoes for two scenes. That's crazy. They're very distracting. I'd forgotten that he took them and I saw them and I went, is that what he's normally wearing? No.

Yeah. When the fight happens, I didn't really notice the shoes. I'm like, do you have spats on? Yeah. He sure does. Fight spats. Fight spats. Combat spats.

Spats. But it's, you know, very quick thinking of him to act injured and to be hunched over, to conceal his size. And just, then he gets that building and has what I think is just a terrific fight. Yeah. It's good. It's great. It's really good. It's visceral.

It's very. it seems to be kinetic in the sense that they're using everything around them for the fight. With a man who's clearly Samoan and not Japanese. You know, you work with what you have, Matt.

You have access to all you need. You possibly could have found someone. Yes. Now we have way more Japanese people now than we did then. That's right. There were 40 Japanese people back to them. And those 40 were already in the film. That's right. Most of them were sumer wrestlers.

That's right. And a lot of them, too, had to be dressed up as Ninja Commandos. Modern-day Ninja Commandos. That's right. Yeah, so this fight, I just, the use of the couch has always been something that's stuck with me because the couch has to be light enough to be wielded by both of them, yet hard enough to affect each of them when hit with them. Right.

Well, it felt like, I bought it because it felt like more of a, you know, I'm putting you off balance. I'm keeping you at your distance, you know, as opposed to I'm going to like swing this like a baseball bat. You know what I mean? Yeah. But it is, I mean, it's very, it really grabs your attention when it happens. When he picks up that couch and jumps it at the guy like, wow.

It's got a precursor to what Jackie Chan and Jason Bourne would do later, which is use the objects around. Yeah, absolutely. You don't get much back then. Yes. Yeah. There's so much of that. It's a really good fight.

And then at the end, when he, after he hits him with that statue and breaks it, and then he very carefully puts the stacupac and I think gives it like a little pat or something He does, he does It's almost like a thanks Nice working with you, stashew I'm curious if these Bond films

are the first to really Actually make something out of a fight Because prior to this They're always a means to an end Like you just have to vanquish a foe In this they're taking time to Especially Peter Hunt in the editing Is really taking time

To make this a moment to sit and watch Especially in Framasha with Love with that train fight Yeah. If this is the one time I'm going to call out to the listeners to actually tweet at me some fact. Come on, guys. Whoa. If there's a fight that you think proceeds from Russia with love in that sense that was really there to be a good fight on film.

Like a set piece. Yeah. Yeah. Send it like a hand-to-hand fight. Wow. Send it to Matt Myra. Well, wait, no. Oh, Matt, you're soliciting tweets, but for me.

Yes. The moment he drags the body into the bar area. and takes the drink, I just think, is so wonderfully James Bond. And I could see Daniel Craig doing that now. Yeah. Like, it's just such a character trait. Same thing with busting through the paper wall. Like, there are just a lot of these brute force kind of things.

I don't like they need to make sure like the guy was all tucked in. Kick those feet over there, all right? Tidy, leave a place better than you left it. What kind of vodka was it that he was so disgusted by? Yeah, what was it? Russian. No, no. No, it wasn't Russian.

It was something else. Was it Japanese? I feel like it was Chinese or something. Yeah, what was it? It's the most disgust he's ever expressed on his face. It really is. So there's a million bottles there. You know, how about mix it up?

Have a scotch. It's just the fact that it's in there. It's tempting the whole collection. What do you guys think about Helga Brandt? She passed away like a week or two ago. She plays number 11. And I always remember her being, she never quite did it like after what's her name, Fiona Volpe and Thunderball, who I think is.

so great and they're kind of similar types, but I liked her more in this one. She's just kind of dower and I don't know. Wait, is this the red lady? The red lady? Is this the red lady? I thought the red lady was pretty. You're thinking of the matrix. I like red lady. I want a red lady for myself. Red lady. Red lady. She's better than I remember. She's pretty stoic, but I think I remember her. I don't remember her as much. She wasn't as memorable to me, but maybe it's just knowing that she passed away. I have a little... Well, she's a real trooper for putting him with that first scene.

I'm trying to remember this. Where it's like, you know, smoking is not good for your chest, and then he likes a healthy chest and all that stuff. Oh, right. It was like that... My mind immediately goes to, you know, they have to light that scene, position the camera, you know, all that stuff.

She's got to stand there, at least for the first, you know, set up and then... All right, we got to turn around. Everyone take 20. Yeah. No, lower... I think lower... Lower the camera.

Except you, red lady. Second team, except Red Lady. Red Lady stands in for everyone. Oh, boy. That is... There's a lot of... There's a lot of anti-smoking messages in this movie. But it also seems like it's leading up because there's twice...

But it's all bad guys. Yes. You shouldn't smoke. Even Tanaka says like you shouldn't smoke. Yeah. And then yet his... cigarette is the DeSX Machina that saves the whole day in the end. But it does seem like all of it is intentional, but I don't know what the message is.

Like it is okay. It's like Roa Dahl saying everybody complains that I shouldn't be smoking, but look how smoking saves life. Literally, it saved his life. Like fucking Blofeld is like, hey, look, you know, smoking's not great for you. I wish you wouldn't, but go ahead. That's what's also not great for you. If you must. Here's what's not great for the world either.

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Mad and. I love the set piece gag of him fighting a ton of thugs on the dock all in one giant helicopter shot only to have him blackjacked in the end. Yeah, that was worth it because I laughed out loud when there was that crazy wide shot of him just running on the roof. Like, what's happening? And he's just so late with me. Yeah, exactly.

Hey, guys, let's get some laps in. The best part is watching the thugs who are probably going, I'm in a James Bond movie, giving it, they're all. And they can't run at full speed because they'll catch up to them too soon. So they're kind of doing like an energetic body but slow movement double take. It's the equalizer run. What's that? I think I told you about the TV show The Equalizer?

Yes, Edward Woodward, the Equalizer, who was an older actor. Oh, it really is. I thought this was some like dance or like exercise thing. Like do the equalizer run, where you use all the energy you can, but you run it twice or half the speed. Because he was older when he would chase after the criminals, the actors portraying the criminals were always told they had to run in a way that looked like they were hauling ass but really practically running in place. How do you do it? Well, I mean, I'll try to demonstrate it. Okay.

Hold on. It was demonstrated for me. Take some video of this. All right. This is important. Okay. So, okay. So the equalizer is chasing me.

All right. So here we go. And you just, so you just slowly move forward, right? And then this old man is running at top speed. The equalizer run. The equalizer run. Yeah, they all, and also I wonder how many times they had to do that, like if they got three or four helicopter sweeps with that scene.

I think of it, I'm like, that's exhausting. I don't want to do that. But there's no clues in it. It's either Connery is so disenchanted that that's the first take and that's all you're going to get from him, or what you're seeing is the fifth take. Yeah. My favorite move in that whole fight is him throwing a stick at four people and them really being taken it back by that stick.

Right. That's what nearly gets them away. Yeah. He really does. Because you think you're going to see some amazing hand-to-hand combat

some sort of Robin Hood type staff battle and then he's like he runs in a door. And the music when he jumps under those mattresses to is a

beo also why is no one following him? They clearly see that this works. There's many things wrong with this. The decision

to land on your back on an unknown surface, I'm going to assume that's awesome. Isn't that the safest way to do it though? No. If you know what stuff is, sure. If you know that it's a pad,

you know what I mean? That you're going to land on, which it was, then sure. But if you're jumping on just some crates, how do you know if it's soft? Bags of wheat or something like that.

Yeah, but they're not. You don't know that. The second one for sure was boxes. And all I could think was How do you know what's in those boxes? Yeah, it could be like shipped ninja stars. Because we know they're using it. It could be shipped ninja stars.

It's a common thing to come out of that port. Well, they're using them in hordes there. But they watch, like the first box he goes down and they just watch him like, well, that's that. And then the second one, he really takes his time where he's like, oh, that was smart. Okay, let's, oh, there's another one. All right. Not a one of them. decides to follow the man who clearly landed on soft happiness.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he really blazed the trail. They were shipping mattress components. The Japanese pillow. Pillow industry. The Hullo pillow. I also noticed something else, and I think this is an official gloft, goarly look out for this.

Helga Brandt is wearing an engagement and wedding ring. Oh, so she's off the market. Yeah. She's sleeping with Bond. Who's her husband? It's not the business guy, right? Like, they're not married. What was his name?

Osato. Oh, no. That's the bad guy from Karate Kid 3. Sato. You're right. I should have known that. Karate Kid 3. Sato.

What is his name? Osaka. Isn't it like Osato? Osato? Osato? Is it? Ron? Ron?

Ron? Ron? White man? What would do it? Hold on. I don't know why this is important. I'll look it up too. Everyone, take a moment.

Get your phones out. Sam sent me equalizer run on my phone. I'm doing a good job. It's Osato. I hope people will appreciate this when they see it. Is she married to Osato? Thank you, Sanchez. Is she married to Osato?

I didn't get that. I thought that he was just her special. That's number 11. Yeah. 11 is Osato or an item? Is that what you're telling me? Hi, I'm 11 Osado. Are there any calls for me?

But I just want to know. She has a husband, which just feels like does she go home to him at the end of the day? And like, I'm here. Cook him dinner, right? My guess is. Sure. If it makes it better for us, yes. Is he in crime or does she keep it from him?

Oh, the husband. If it's not Osato. Right. Does he know? It can't be Osato because he treats her just like a secretary and kills her. I mean, it could be. Wait, you're not putting that past this movie for you to treat your wife like a secretary in the 60s? I think the real bad guy here is whoever was in charge of the wardrobe department and did not tell that actress to take her rings off.

Yeah, but also gave her like a bat girl cowl when she jumps out of the airplane. Did you notice that? Her goggles have like a head. Did I love the way she slowly backs off the wing? It's like, oh. And did he not? Like this crazily elaborate. Like, it's a, it's a, it's a parody at this point, you know, but it's like, why did that ever have to be the way to do this?

This movie has the biggest egregious example of that and one that actually thinks very, works very well. When he got into that plane with her, did he not go like, why do you have a full parachute on? We're just going on a little, and why don't I? It's a great question. But I will say that I think that the poison down the thread is it actually a great spy assassin. Yes, absolutely. For sure. Yes.

And that one is not elaborate. You could see it. It makes sense. It doesn't rely on crazy circumstances. It's effective. It's stealthy. I love that one. What's so fun about these movies is the arbitrary decision to be stealthy or not stealthy.

Yes. Like, why? What tracks are they covering with the poison thread? Do you know what I mean? Like, is there going to be some formal inquest into this guy's death? And hadn't they already tried during the night? To kill him in the ninja training grounds? Was that before or after?

That was B. That was before. Yeah, because he wasn't Japanese yet. He was Japanese by the time of the poison spread, right? And boy, was he Japanese. Oh, I can't wait to talk about that. Well, should we?

Well, we should talk about Tiger Tanaka. Yeah. We should talk about his M train. He's got a train, which he then says, I assume your M has a similar arrangement to which Bond feels that he can't say that he doesn't. So he says, yes, of course. Yeah.

doesn't want to embarrass his boss. Exactly. But, you know, I love the efficiency with which the Japanese Secret Service is operating here. Yeah. I love how quickly that image is blown up. I love how. Also, he starts it by saying, we have this, we blew this up, we could see this writing here, and then everything else is like, they didn't think to look any more closely at the picture.

James Bond's like, what's that over there? Blow that up. There's like five different details that they were just like, that's all we have. Well, how about this? Oh, whoa. Hey, he's right. Should we check on that ship? I think we should check on that ship.

It's got a name and a registry. We should check on it. No. No, bon son. And I also love the negative having, on it, the fact that it was who took the picture that they were killed

as a precaution. Wait, I'm spacing on this. That's right. It's written as like a fucking watermark on the negative. It's crazy. Yeah. When they took it to the drugstore

to have it developed. Make sure they write this. Also, kill the drugstore developer. We'll take it to a different drugstore. Put that on there. Yeah. Yeah.

But I do, I do enjoy The train. The train's great. I love all the little nods to Japanese efficiency, like when Bonn shows up and he's told he's three minutes early. Oh, yes. For the appointment. You're three and a half minutes early.

Yeah. Yeah. I love the X-ray chair in Osato's office. It's all of these touches. That office is great. Yeah. It was hilarious to me how far apart they were sitting. It had to be.

Because he doesn't want to get radiated by the X-ray machine. Yeah, exactly. Bonn is sitting in that dare. He's so far away. So far away. But I loved that reflective surface, you know, where you can see Sean Connery in the reflection. That was a great shot. Like stuff like that is, there's a lot of that in this movie that is really nice touches like that.

And this is Louis Gilbert's first Bond film, too. So he's, I don't know what else he did before and after much, but he really nailed it for the one similar formula. He did three Bond films that are pretty much the same story. story. So this and which other ones? Spy Who Love Me and Moonraker. And they all begin with a vehicle or vessel being stolen. And they all end in a similar way where Bond is joined by an army of some kind to fight another army of some kind in a giant layer or in that end case space.

And people just indiscriminately throwing grenades. Yes. No shit. We have not had a James Bond movie in quite a while where an army joins him in his fight. Yeah. I think is this the first one? one since we restarted? Well, the closest we have to it is the Marines showing up in Golden Eye at the very end,

but he's already dispatched everyone. That quite doesn't count, yeah. But it is an army willing to help. That's true. Let's talk about Little Nelly. Let's talk about Little Nelly and her father. That's right. I love his, make sure Little Nelly brings her father.

Repeat, Little Nelly. She acquitted herself quite honorable. I don't know why I'm doing. That's a toy, Bond. You can't possibly ride this toy. Use my helicopter. I'm going to put Q's hands at a Golden Eye minus 2. I thought these were actually a Golden Eye minus 3.

Possibly. They seem a bit smaller. No, he doesn't know about this. His hands are enormous. No. Desmond Lawland's hands are enormous. And I first noticed this on our first film, GoldenEye. So we're ranking that as the baseline.

They swell throughout the years. But this one, he, you know, You see his forearms. I say your hands, it's like your, what, your nose, your ears, and your hands, never stop growing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, his nose and ears are fine, but his hands is doing all the work.

It is. His forearms are giant. They're like gorilla forearms. I did not notice it. He picks up a 12-inch sub in Golden Eye, and that's really where it's super noticeable. Does he really? Yes, he does. Because it's the, it's the button on the scene.

It's the comedic blow to the cue scene. is James Bond asking what this does, and he grabs it and says, don't touch this, that's my lunch. And it looks like an olive garden breadstick in his hand. It does. It looks so small. Yeah.

But it's quite a large sandwich. Yeah. What's unfunnier? That joke or the joke that James Bond is making? Yeah. Like in real life. In real life, right? So this secret agent points at this sandwich.

what's that do? And he does that every time, basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or his joke. What's it going to be? That's that actually, that's a beautiful question. I think it's, I think the unfunnier thing is the secret agent doing it. Absolutely.

Yeah. Yes. I pass my test. Yeah. Thank you, Paul. Then I'll answer that as well. Oh, oh, okay. I thought you were going to do it.

No, I'm saying the same answer. Well, say it, though. The secret agent doing that joke. You have passed my test. I hope so. If you at home have passed Paul's test, please tweet Matt Gordley. We want to hear from you. Get out your phones.

Text us one for yes, two for one. Also, draw a pirate turtle or other thing to see if you have the skills to be an artist. The pirate is the hardest. Is this the only James Bond movie with time lapse photography, where they show little Nellie just being assembled on its own? that's a time lapse A montage? Okay, yeah. But yes, I think it is.

It is kind of fun. Say you don't know you're watching it for the first time. You've no idea. Little Nellie's this tiny personal helicopter with a bunch of machine guns. I love that it comes in like alligator skin trunks too.

With travel stamps on it. Like Q has to tell everyone where he's been with this. And a man per case. All dressed in this kind of you know, we're out in the east. so we get to wear shorts kind of thing. I...

I adore. I adore Desmond Llewellyn in this. He really is just... And when he's going through the paces and he's talking about how it fires heat-seeking stinger missiles at a rate of 60 per minute when there's clearly two on the helicopter.

He's just like, man, if we have the space, I mean, fire 60. 60 per minute. It's... insane. Little Nelly is one of those Bond gadgets

that is much like the jet pack, a practical thing that existed in life. Or the jet in octopuses. Yeah, or the jet in octopuses

that is that is used in a James Bond movie. I can't believe they haven't used one of those ridiculous water cannon jet packs,

you know, like Leonardo DiCaprio floats around. You can't, he's just, he's your poster boy for the water powered To me, it will always be that news blooper of the guy, like the big buildup,

take it away, and then he just instantly falls into the water. That's right. And until the early part of this century, I always associated crushing wine with your feet as Lucy and Vivian Vance. However, now it's been overtaken by the news lady. I'm going to have to revisit these. You'll be glad you did You'll be glad you did

You'll be glad you did In this world Take the joy where you can I got another gloft When they showed the Russian rocket Taking off Yeah It's clearly America

Because they've got palm trees And a road sign down low That says slippery when wet Oh hilarious I did not notice that That is a great gloft The missile Hits a bald eagle

also I have to say this whole re-entry of this spacecraft landing in the in the volcano so far beyond any technology until very recently with these SpaceX. They're only now just figuring that out. Yeah. And also I have to say, again, as a early space of early space travel, fan of early space travel, there is no way that this rocket has enough fuel in the staging that it has. It's just... But no one knew that. Why am I complaining? No one cares. It's all right. No one cared then?

I went to this castle, Hameji Castle, when I was in Japan, and Amanda, like, humored me because she's, well, let's go see this thing. It's in the James Bond movie. We'll take a picture. It was the hottest day. It was so hot. On record? Yeah. Love saying that.

For me in Japan. For that week, it was the hottest day on record. And we walked this long walk to get there, and we got there. And the tickets, we bought tickets for whatever, like the grand tour, like see it all. Yeah. We got in the gates, huge line to get up in this thing. And we went, let's get out of here. We went out front, took the best possible picture we could to connect with one of the scenes from You Only Live Twice.

But that's it. I never saw the inside. You know. You should have gone to Hal's Moving Castle like I told you to. I would. Why would you go to a castle that's just sitting there? Calli Osco Castle. Leaping.

I do. I am endlessly fascinated by, for some reason, locations that were in movies. I am too, yeah. Like, it's still... Even the in name, like, I want to know where the street is, where those two little women with the speakers in their purse, the microphones in their purse are. Yeah. And how that's changed.

You know, there's a great... I'll plug it. I saw it on... I had seen it as... on a Reddit post, and I think you could find it pretty easily on YouTube. There's a travel video a guy did of Tokyo at night. And it is... He doesn't talk.

He's simply shooting it with a beautiful camera. It's Tokyo at night and he's walking through. You're just walking through Tokyo. And I have never felt more like I was in a place than when I watched this video. Current day, Tokyo? Yes. Oh, wow. And it's like, he's like walking through and he'll poke his camera in one of the small sushi stands or one of the small ramen stands.

And he just, it's beautiful. And I highly recommend it. I'll find it. I'll find it. And I will tweet out the link. Great. Great. Great.

Agreed. Kids, you're going to go to Japan from your computer. When he does show up at Hemeji Castle and he sees Tanaka again and Aki, and they've already spent the night together. They sure have, man. And he gives her such a cursory, douche nod, like, just, you know, she's kind of looking at him with a smile and he just, Tiger, and it looks at her and kind of just does a, you know, like a barely any recognition.

Yeah, I remember. I fucked you. Yeah. I just felt like even out of character for Bond, it was too much, you know. Give the girl some acknowledgement. that he shared some intimacy. Intismacy. Intismacy. Really having trouble with my words most days, but especially today.

This is the first day we've been able to record in the AM hours. On a Saturday. It's unbelievable. Here I am not feeling like my brain's working. We're going to get there. Next week for the final Paul and Paul Vember. Have we talked to sheer yet? We got to call Paul. We need a Paul.

There's got to be another Paul. Do you know any other Pauls? Oh, I know all of them. Oh, great. Yes. Let's get Paul Gleason. Paul, who are the other famous Pauls? Jamadi.

Paul Giamati. Who are the other famous balls? Paul. McCartney. Sure. Good one. He'd be a good guy. He's involved.

He did the theme song. We'll do a redoubt die. He did. Yeah. Yeah. It was cool. It was really cool. It was far.

We had a great time. I can't do anything right today. I am having such a struggle this morning. I thought we were. We're going to just hit it out of the park with you today. I know. I'm just a muddle of a white. We totally had the great time.

You had a great time. Oh, we had that great time, my bottom of God. Fab Faux is playing tonight at the Wiltern. Jimmy Vivino's Beatles cover band, which is phenomenal. Jimmy Vivino. From the Conan O'Brien band. Oh, right. So who does he play?

Well, it's not a Beatles impersonation band. It's a cover band. Take it easy. It's a cover band. I'm sorry. But they play everything in-house as it's recorded live. So, you know, everything from, you know, if there's a sit-tar in the song, that'll be on stage at the same time going. Wait, same time as what?

The same time as the rest of the music is being played. Okay, that's usually how it's done. So, for instance, let's say your... Am I not understanding what you're saying or are you saying things in a weird way? They would have overdue in the studio, but they're doing it live. They're doing it live. Right. Without the live show, I would hope they would do it at the same time.

Because when you go see, like, a rain. or a, or a 1964, The Tribute, for instance. These are all Beatles impersonation bands. When you go see one of those.

One of them is called 1964, the tribute? Yes, because they do the Ed Sullivan set, essentially, and then they'll go in

and do the rest of it. That's why they're called that. Guys, the point is, it starts with the reenactment of the Kennedy assassination. Just to set

where America was at that point. We were ready to embrace something. That's right. And now we're going cut to a scene in Vietnam where American advisors are going

through the Mekong Delta. Welcome to the best exotic marigotal tale. I am Paul McCartney. I can't do anything right today. Should you need anything? Oh my God.

Ask me to do an impression right now. Let's see how to come up. Well, let's see if maybe you could go away and Ian Fleming could drop in. I don't even have faith in that, but let's see what happens. I do have to pee. Walter PPP. Hallio.

Hallio. Hallio. I'm iron flaming. No, it's not there. No. Hallio. I see. Whatever.

There he goes. He's got it now, boy, fireworks and all that. Crackle, crackle. Do you watch the network crackle for Robotechly runs? Do you, Sam? Sam. Wait. Ian.

Is that what you're doing? My favorite networks are crackle. Yeah. Verve. Oh, poor Cizzo. True TV. I love impractical jokers. Don't you know?

I love it. But I must be going. Well, take care. Well, I'm back. Oh, no. He can't get it back. Christ. Rough morning.

Rough morning. Let's go back to my notes. Oh, I got one. Bond's outfit at one point when he's at Hedgy Castle is a pink button-up, like Oxford shirt, business slacks, and like Birkenstock sandals. Did you notice this? No. Yeah. Open-toed, barefoot, burk and stock sandals.

That's the worst kind. Yeah, pretty good. Do you think we'll ever see James Bond in Crocs? God, no. Unless he has to be a chef for some sort of. We've seen him in a crocodile. Yes, we have. That's the closest we'll get.

We've seen him on an alligator. Yeah. We've seen him in alligator's shoes. Can I just say on the subject of crocs, I bought a pair of crocs to complete a cake boss costume? Crocs are extremely comfortable. There had to be something to them, right? It was crazy. Like I put them on.

They just. they just feel good. It's like an air cushion, right? Yeah, it's really weird. It's really weird. Heels that are covered on both sides, or are they kind of open-heeled? I think they're open.

Those I have trouble with. I wonder if these are form-fitting enough because I have some slippers that are those... Well, they do have, if I correct me if I'm wrong, Paul. No, I will. Your crocs may have a strap that goes back of the heel. There's a strap. I can't do open-heeled things.

They fall off. I kick them off. Like when I walk, they fly off my feet. Now, I think with the strap, you're going to be okay. Yeah. I don't like any shoe like that. Like I don't like flip flops.

I don't like slide sandals. You know what I mean? Because I feel like it's all about trying to keep them on my feet. Yeah, I don't want to flex my foot to keep footwear. I don't want to flex my foot. I don't want to do it anymore. I'm tired of it. I will not flex my foot.

Paul McCarty? Oh, hello. How do you do? Thumbs up, thumbs up. My wife, Linda, wrote the reggae part of. live and let die. Oh, that's why it's not as good.

It is good. The reggae part, the reggae breakdown. It fits in with the movie. I love that song. I love that song. It's one of the best. I never thought about that. It's the second best.

It's the second best. Yeah. Are they in Jamaica? Yeah. They sure as fuck are. Oh, that's Jamaica. Yeah. All right.

Fine. You've changed my opinion on this song. I've held for 30-some on you. Cheers. I did it. No, I think it's the second best. Nobody does it better is my favorite. You only live twice. Guys, come on. That's your, interesting. Interesting. Anyway, when he becomes Japanese, what a bunch of bullshit. It is time to talk about that. Yes. When I, in my, so I remembered that he undergoes this procedure. But I forgot what was involved, which is a bunch of women standing around their underwear.

Naturally. Surgical underwear. But are they actually performing us? Are we supposed to believe they're performing a surgery on him? Or are we supposed to believe because there's a wig there? Not a surgery. It seems to be just a makeup situation. But he's on a surgical table. Yes.

It's the whole, like, why did he need, he needs to be lying down because they're going to put makeup on him. But he doesn't look, he doesn't look any different at all. Is he asleep? No. For some reason, I'm picturing him. No, he makes a joke. That's right. He makes a joke.

We just cover the pods. The don't show or the show. Just cover the parts, that's her. Oh, right. Why don't you just cover the parts? Why don't you just cover the parts that's sure? They somehow managed to make him less Japanese as a Japanese person. Yeah.

Or more like, he looks more like Franklangella, like middle-aged Frankangela. He does. He does. I will say, though, that I think his Japanese wig is better than his American toupee. American, British toupee, sorry. He can swim in it? Yeah. It's really.

It won't come off. They do a great job with that. But this posture he strikes, he just looks not only older than his Japanese bribe, but he truly looks like her father. Like he's walking around with him and looks like. He looks infirm. Yes, he does. And also he's so listless.

You can tell it's hot because everyone's sweating in these scenes. And he's just so tired. This is when the energy of the film gets sucked out for me and then I lose it a little bit. Yeah. And it does sort of stay at that level. I think from the point of him arriving on that, island to the point of him breaking the astronauts out of the volcano layer. That section of the movie, I wish they could just lift it and put a title card.

Oh, there's so much, it's just not justified. You know what I mean? Like that, they really, the whole wedding, all of that stuff, the idea that he has to get married, all of that they could have lifted out. That's what I wonder if they're just putting that in there for some reason, for the first time ever having some loyalty to the book because he just retires in Japan for a while in this book. Well, it's

because it's in the book, it's because it's production value. You know, you're seeing this ceremony. It's another girl that they're getting in there. You know what he mean? So it's like it's a bunch of things that are not necessary at all. And his prosthetic eyelids go away. Yes, they do. They do. They do.

Because at one point, after it doesn't have the wig anymore, I'm like, wait, does he still have the eyes or no? No, I guess he doesn't. I guess they're just gone. Yeah, and they're gone after that makeup scene. They're never there. They're not there for the wedding or anything like that. He doesn't have them on. Aren't there a little bit for the wedding?

No, I think they're there a little bit for the wedding. I don't know. But when he noticed his doors that I don't notice. I'm going to have to say Matt might be right here. I could be wrong, though. When he kneels down and you first see the Japanese priest? What does it be? Say his first little bit.

Connery gives this look like such like Western racism where he's just going to rolls is like, here we go. But is he... This gobbledy goof language. Is he not prepping himself for the pig face? Whatever. No, this is after the pig face. Oh, it's post-pig face. He's there with

pig face. Because first he's standing there, and he really looks hungover. Yeah. Like where he's, he's, when it's the fake out of the women, the parade of bridesmaids or whatever, and then he sees her. And then yeah, so then it's the beginning of the marriage ceremony where

Boy, oh boy. I did want to very briefly touch on one thing in that in the plane scene with Helga Brandt. The structure of the plane is such that that wood has nowhere to be hiding. It would have been outside. The wood is hanging outside of the plane. That's like an R2D2 in some of those prequel ships is just his head's sticking out and it's in a wing this thick. And also that's the thing? That's the mechanism.

Also wood? Yeah, it's not like clamps on his wrist or something or metal. It's just like a weird cutting board. It's a writing desk. It's like a sheet of pine. We're done with that cheese tray. Now it's time for you to be trapped. Maybe that's what it normally is.

That would be justified. Is it normally a cheese tray? It would be justified. I'd eat a cheese tray right now. I'd love to have a flying cheese plate. I'd love it. The best kind. Retractable cheese plate?

That's the next thing more. With a brie and maybe a sharp cheddar? If that came out of a wall. Retractable cheese plate, you're bringing me down. Why you gotta do me so wrong. Not gonna eat any of the dates. I'd put one of those in my house. You know what I also want?

Is a little monorail just to go around the proper. That monorail is the shoddy. I'm talking about the Blofeld monorail. The blow felt monorail is so shoddy. It's adorable. At the end when he goes to, he knows where that rock is. You know, open up a rock. And it's like shaking all around.

Oh, it's so funny. It shutters to a stop. And essentially it looks like it's always on and he's lifting the break off of it. That's why I want one at, like, you know, imagine just a neighborhood suburban house, but one that goes around the perimeter that you would not need. You could sooner walk across it quicker than being in a house. Just to have one of those. It is when Connery is going to hide in it, I feared for it toppling over. Yeah.

Yeah. It doesn't seem super stable. I just don't. The other thing I love in this is the astronauts, the conversation the astronauts are having when he's about to bust them out. Oh, yeah. What are they talking about? You know, we're called cosmonauts in our country.

They were just getting around. They were like, just getting around. Just sharing war stories of being astronauts. The line right before that is like, I wish you'd stop calling me astronaut. Yeah. Like, I've been putting it up with it for three weeks. weeks. I'm tired. I'm fucking sick of it. How you doing over there, fellow astronaut? Also, why wouldn't they already know their names? Why wouldn't they just be calling each other by their

names? They would absolutely know who each other were. Oh my God. For sure. There's not like so many people in space. They were like, who are you again? Yeah. Oh, you're also a space guy. Oh yeah, me too. What a coincidence. You were orbiting the earth at a high rate of speed? Oh, yeah, I'm Buzz Aldrin. Hi. Oh, it's you. Oh, shit. I'm sorry. God. God. I mean, you know, those Gemini capsules were like, it was like, it was like Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell were in one mission together. And like Ed White and Gus Grissom, like all these super famous cover of Life magazine astronauts.

Hey, Buzz, get a lot of that. It's a real comet. It's a bit of sky. I wish they would have caught one that just had a dog or a chimpanzee in it, too. Yeah, they captured a monkey. And Bond had to bust him out, like he would run along with him in the battle. Also, the other delightful thing about it, so, so Bond spy movie is that he busts open the door with an explosion. And then he stands back while the correct number of bad guys enters the room.

So they each get one. Oh, yeah. Yes. They each get one to knock out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very important. You know, I know that in these movies, it's like you suspend your disbelief for you know certain things you know matters of convenience

or whatever but when he changes into the human fly thing to to go to go into the volcano there's he's not even carrying a bag that's what when i saw him do that i thought i must have missed something no no it comes from absolutely nowhere she he's like go tell the other men that the i need help down here. And then, so, like, we see her running away. Then it comes back to putting the outfit on. Like, that absolutely came from nowhere. Yeah.

Nowhere. Go back to Tanaka. Tell him to bring everyone you got. Is that a cut scene? I don't know, because he's up there in his casual disguise clothes, right? Yeah. Yeah. His fisherman outfit.

Yeah. Hmm. I was, by the way, delighted by how real that fake metal water looked. It looks great. Yeah. This set, I mean, this set is, it's great. It's incredible. I also noticed something for the first time.

There is an old-timey red farmer tractor right in the middle of it that pulls a little cart. But it's just a bright red, you know the old tractors that weren't huge, but they have the big back tires and then a little engine up front. But you sit on that little saddle seat. Just one of those parked in there for no reason. It seems so out of place because it's so quaint. The explosion of this place when it finally goes up. Completely unnecessary. when it finally

when this beautiful architecture marvel is blown up waste of real estate it just blow up and then lava's pouring out of it right like it makes this volcano active again

they managed to keep the volcano at bay with the construction of this gigantic face it is it is they sacrifice people

to the piranha actually before we get to the explosion it's glowing piranha by the way before we get to the explosion I do want to talk

about Donald Pleasance I think that this makeup is great. Yeah, it is. It's really, really good. For sure. And I like him.

I like him. Yeah, he's terrific. He's doing a great job. And, you know, the cat, there's so many fucking shots of this cat. When, what's your name, gets eaten by the piranhas?

And the hymn is sort of him petting the cat. And he's just petting the cat faster. Yeah. Yeah. He does, his, his mood reflects on how he pets the cat. It happens later, too. I want to know the story of this actual cat.

And I think we may have talked about this before, but was it a pet? Or was it, Like just one of those movie cats that lives in a cage its whole life. Was it one cat? Was it more than one cat? There's the famous picture of Giff of it. And you see it in the movie when it's freaking out.

And Donald Pleasance is like basically... Oh, I haven't seen that. I'll look at him. I haven't seen that. He's trying to wrangle that cat, and it is not going well. Like, I guarantee Donald Pleasant's skin was broken by this cat. It is... This is the movie that introduces all of the tropes of James Bond as

far as your volcano layers and your your your flesh eating fish danger you're your your go away bridges that will that are not stable to begin with oh this is the gif Paul's reaction that cat doesn't look real I know it looks it looks it looks it looks like an insane puppet well it looks traumatized and abused and not just in this moment doesn't look happy no that's true that's true yeah um wait what talking about the tropes, the bridge. Yes, yes, yes. Which is so flimsy.

Like, I feel like in the movie they should have used two bridges. They should have used one for the scene where they're dropping the thing out. Oh, the bridge over the piranhas. The bridge over the piranhas. Because it is so, when they are running across it, it is so bouncy. Yeah, yeah. When she gets. Nails her head.

She hits so hard. What? Oh, I didn't notice that. She lands so hard on her ass and it looks like, oh, did she break her back? Yeah. Does she have permanent spine damage? And it looks like a clear concussion. It's a hard hit. It looks like a clear concussion.

Yeah, she hits hard on her ass and then her head on the back of the thing. And then she slides into the water. It's really, it's hard. Yeah. It's a hard hit. Yeah. Yeah. It's another pretty good fight with, what's that guy's name?

Who's the henchman? Does he even name? Oh, yeah. The big blonde dude. Yeah. And he never speaks, right? No. No, no doubt.

He, I feel like it's like Hans. I think it's literally Hans. Is it his name? about right. Same as the guy from Tomorrow Never Dies? Isn't his name

Hans? Oh no, his name is Hans. Hans. I'm going to look here. What is? His name is in here.

Yeah, it's Hans. Ronald Rich played Hans. Then what's the other guy's name? His name has like Lack. Oh, what's it matter? Han Lick.

Han Lick. He is six feet eight. What? Too tall. Jeez. What's that guy's name and tomorrow never dies? It's going to drive me crazy.

I don't need this information in my head. Wait, tomorrow never dies is a stomper. Stomper. Stomper. Stomper. The beginning of that fight is not great because James Bond just walks up to the guy and gets punched in the face. Yeah. Also like, what was that opening?

I would love a super cut. Let's say how hard this guy can hit. I'm asking for a super cut. All right. Now I know what I'm dealing with. I would love a super cut of James Bond furiously punching henchman and the look of him realizing it has had no effects. So if you can collect that for me, I would appreciate it.

We'll send you a signed poster if you're the first to make that. I love this now that we have things to offer. Oh, yeah, pretty soon look in the merch store, Podswagg.com slash bond. That will be signed James Bonding posters done by the wonderful Kyle Steve. The artwork is fantastic. It's the most beautiful thing ever. And I noticed... Good call to action.

I noticed... On the poster, which I had not noticed until I was signing this morning that he correctly put my watch on my right hand. I wear my watch on my right hand, too, when I wear a watch. I'm a lefty, so I wear it on the opposite hand of most people. I'm a righty. You're just a weirdo. Yeah. You're not supposed to do that.

But why? Why are you not? Yeah, I've never quite understood it. I don't know why. It just naturally my inclination was to put it on this hand. I still don't understand that. I think it's so you can have your dominant hand free to do things. and also check the time.

Oh, I see. Correct me if I'm wrong. That's the first time it's ever made sense to me. Yeah. Paul wears his on his correct. I wear mine on my correct all the way around. He is on his correct. It goes over here and topwise.

And then I look at it and I say, uh-huh. You always agree with the time. You never disagree. Here's the thing. I'm always guessing what time it is. And you're always right. I look at my watch for confirmation. I'm always right.

Is it a give or take 30 seconds or are you just spot on? Spot on. Japanese efficiency. Polif Tonkins is right about the time, 247,000 times a day. Okay, so let's now, I feel like now we can really just dig into Pleasance's performance. I think they play him without being seen until he asks Hans to move over so he can see. But it implies the whole time he's not been in the movie as someone's been in his way. Yeah.

Intentionally. He's been there, though. We just haven't seen him. Are we going to get my close-up? Could you move? You made a fatal error. You only live twice, Mr. Bond. You brought your air conditioning unit into the space.

I do love Donald Pleasins and almost everything I've seen him in. He starts legit. He's in this, the great escape, and he gets really campy and Halloween and stuff, but he's just great. And then the other carpenter movies, like, Escape from New York and what's the church one? Escape from Church? That's, no, that's my life. Right? Poignant.

What is it? Prince of Darkness. Oh, yeah, which I've never seen. Oh, yeah. Did you go to the Carpenter performance when he was playing? No, but I did go to a screening of that movie at that church in downtown L.A. Wow. That's very cool.

Shout out to Jay Chiel. Friend who made it happen. Get your shoutouts. Shout out. Guys, I don't want to be a party pooper. No, you must. But my time is drawing short. No, I think it's time to wrap this up anyway.

Beautifully, we are near the end of the film. We have two things we've got to do to wrap it up, and that is... Cut this part out where I said that, so I don't look like a jerk. You know what, we're not going to. We're going to let everyone know... Fair enough! We have to get going too, Paul. What would you rate this on a zero to a zero-zero, zero-seven, zero-seven being the best...

That's how we rate the James Bond films. And then Matt will grace us with his choice for next movie. I'm going to give this a double-o-two. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just for interest, what would you give live and let die and Dr. Noe since we've done those on here before? Live and let die, I'm going to give a 006. Oh, wow.

Dr. No, I would give a 006. And Dr. No. Because I think, you know, I cut a lot of slack for being the first. Yeah. And introducing a lot of fun stuff and, you know. Okay. This one I just felt like it felt very airless to me. I agree.

You know what I mean? It was slow and it was not. fun. He clearly wasn't having a good time. And, you know, the, the, the stuff that was good was really good. But there's a lot of stuff in between where it's just like, you know, we're spinning our wheels here. That's interesting. I, I do think even though that this one, this one suffers from being middle of the road, which is the greatest sin for a Bond film for me. As we know, I don't like that. But I do give it credit for the greatest virtue of the music that you like. That's right. That's right. putting that together. That's what they used to call yacht rock, right? It used to be called

middle of the road. Yeah, I'm all right. Yeah, I love it. I mean, even my favorite bond songs, some of them are like that like all-time high by Rita Coolidge. What a dismissive term? Middle of the road, yeah.

What genre of music do you do? Nothing special. It's not great. It's not terrible. Don't worry about it. Point is, you won't have a strong feeling either way. It created some big, big, choose to fill for the rest of the Bond films.

I don't know about that. that. I like the plot. I'm going to go strictly middle of the road 3.5. That is 100% correct. This is, as far as I'm concerned. Right or wrong. I didn't know. This is, this is defined, this defines the genre of middle of the road James Bond movie. Yeah. This one is no Thunderball, which is for me, bottom. This is no gold finger, which is like, great job. This is. It's also the first to, to bloat the biggest, to get to the extreme of the bubble before it goes back. Yes. You got, you only have twice, moon raker.

Completely. What's next after this? Well, on Her Majesty's Secret. Oh, okay. That's the next film. Which is relatively down to earth in terms of a movie like that. And just a beautiful story. Well, glad I got to do this one.

So, well, we, you couldn't be back. That would keep us in our palm months. We're doing them in no order, Paul. We won't make you. We're just, we're just picking what. Although, you heard with that guy on Instagram told me. You should have been watching on her as your service ball. You're so stupid.

Okay. So I did the last thing I wanted to point out about the movie was the explosion scene. If you're watching on a Blu-ray, pay close attention to the miniature that's a blowing up as you will watch tiny miniature humans bounce up and down stiff as a board. Oh, I wish I noticed that. As it's blowing up. That's a Myra's lookout for this. Wow. I'm loved.

Now, okay, we have one, we have now done a Connery. We've hit everybody, except for one man. Wait, you're going to do it already? I thought we were saving that for Christmas. We're saving it. Well, isn't it going to be Christmas by the time we're doing that? I guess it's the season. Yeah, that's fair.

Well, then I'll change it up right now. Well, hold on. It's your choice. I don't want to take your choice. This will come out on the 21st, and then that would mean the next. It would be December 5th would be our next. film. Okay, and then we won't have another film until essentially December 21st. No, 19th. We could literally save it. Okay, so we should save it for around there. Yeah. If that's the case,

then I think the next film that we're going to watch. Oh, boy. You got to say it. This is the toughest part. It is always the toughest part. We always think about it beforehand, and then we put on the spot and we change our minds. Is there any order to this? No, no order whatsoever. It's just, we trade preference. It's just dealer's choice. Yeah. Are you the dealer this time? This time I am the dealer. Matt chose this. Oh, boy. Do you want to cut? Here it is. Here it is. Here it is. Oh, Paul. If you need to go, go. I got to see what this is going to be. It's die another day. I love it. Oh, wait a minute. We can announce this. Let's do that for our live on the 7th. But that show will live in infamy? But that show goes behind Stitcher. That goes, that's behind

the paywall. That's behind the paywall. That's behind the paywall. So I don't want to do it. So we're going to do a real. All right. No. So diner the day. I'm looking forward to this. North Korea is in the news right now.

I figure why not. Fun. Is it? Paul, thank you very much. Where can people find you and what can they find you doing? I am at P.F. Tompkins on all the social platforms. I have my own podcast, Spontaney Nation that comes out every Monday on the Earwolf Network. And very excited to be returning to Sketchfest, San Francisco, January,

12th and 13th so far. I'm doing a bunch of shows including Spontane Nation Live and work to use improv. And of course, Super Ego Forgotten Classics, the second time we've ever done it live. We had a great time doing it in New York. Proof

of concept. That's right. And is it fair to say we know the title now? Should we announce it? You tell me? I think so. Yeah? What is it going to be? Lady Chatterley's lover. There we go. Lady Chatterley's lover. This is a James Bonding exclusive. And so, yeah, tickets, you can get tickets for all the shows that I'm doing at Paul F. Tompkins.com slash live. Thank you, Paul.

Look for Matt and I, also, that weekend. There we go. That's right. Oh, is it going to happen? I think it's going to, I think I'm going to fly to New York from San Francisco. Is it going behind the paywall, though? No. Do whatever it wants.

It does whatever. We're contractually obligated for it to do. Okay. Thank you, everybody. James Bonding. We'll return. His Bonding podcast. Earwolf is now on the Amazon.

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