Kill James Bond! - S4E23.5: Q&A #12

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

It's our 12th-ever instance of a Q&A session, in which we have answered your questions. Thank you again for asking them. Get the whole episode on Patreon here! ----- Friend of the show Bella, a refugee evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021, is raising money for her gender confirmation surgery! Anything you can give would be hugely appreciated! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/team-bella ----- Check out friend of the show Mattie's new book Simplicity here, or wherever fine graphic novels are sold! ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. In our home, we talk a lot about how insane everything feels, and agonise constantly over what can be done to best help the Palestinians trapped in Gaza facing the full brunt of genocidal violence. My partner Rebecca has put together a list of four fundraisers you can contribute to- all of them are at work on the ground doing what they can. -Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine https://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotilla https://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla also https://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 -Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patches https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-thamra-cultivating-resilience-in-gaza ----- WEB DESIGN ALERT Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com , as well as on our Bluesky and X.com the every app account

Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of Kill James Bond. I am November Kelly. I am joined, as always, by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon. Hello. What's up? It's Q&A. 12, the 12th of its name. That's right. It's been just about

a half a year. So let's crack on, get a little parasocial. Let's pull the curtain back. Let you, the beautiful listener, see what we've been up to. Get to know us, your real friends. It's such a like school outside today episode for me whenever we do a Q&A

because I don't have to do anything. Dev's the quiz master. Exactly. So I just get to be, it's like seeing the big TV getting wheeled in. I'm just like, I'm sitting back. You know, I'm chilling. Yeah, whenever I get, we get so many questions, by the way. We got like 200 plus questions for this one, and cutting it down was, it's not a job. Like, if your question didn't get picked, it's not necessarily that it was a bad question.

That is certainly the case for some of you, but it's not necessarily the case for all of you. This is just, I went down the list and anything that sparked like a neuron. I was like, okay, I might just be that you're not hustling hard enough in your question asking this, you know? I'm genuinely curious what the, like, the questions were not being asked because they're too bad are. Like, I want to see what you're filtering out. Like, I want to see if people are asking like... Still there.

You can go look. Oh, shit. Where'd you put them? Because if somebody's asking, like, what colors that pissed this morning, playboy? I mean... What that dick do? Not much. Leave me alone.

Make me dysphoric for two days. The posts that I got the questions from is still up on the Patreon. Oh, okay. I need to log into the Patreon. I'll start out with the same questions we did last time because it's a good little icebreaker. what are we watching, you know, what are we listening to, what are we reading these days? Ooh, okay. So, reading is, well, I just finished Desolation Islands, the, like, Aubrey Matcher and that is due for Left on Red.

Nice. After that, I'm reading our good friend, Matty Lubchansky's newest book, Simplicity. Simplity is really fucking good. I need to get that. And I also have still Victor Surge's Unforgiving Years on the go, which I am going through painfully, painfully slowly. As for what I'm watching, I'm going through a lot of weird stuff, but I'm not a westerns

kick lately. So, yeah, watched some good westerns, watched some really bad westerns, the remake of The Magnificent Seven in particular, no good. I can recommend a good Western TV series if you want one. Yeah?

About a gay cowboy. So the harder they fall with Jonathan Majors, now cancelled, which is pretty good. Best film I've seen recently is probably Argentina 1985, which on a rewatch. Just really, really good. I love South American cinema.

Hell yeah. In terms of watching, best film I saw recently in cinemas was the new Superman, the new James Gunn one, which like, don't sleep on it. It's really fucking good. It's the first movie I've seen in a while, like a superhero movie that's like about something.

It's like about like Gaza, not in a sort of very direct way, but like in a way that like shows. And it's really, fucking good and powerful that made me feel very uplifted and hopeful. I honestly, I'm coming in on you, I agree 100%. I also just saw

the Superman. It's pretty good. I heard it was woke. I heard Superman was woke so when it checks out. It's woke now. It's woke. It's woke. And the whole time I was, I'm there and like I'm in the cinema and in front of me by three rows and off to the left, there's an aisle and then there's like a couple

of kids and these are like young kids that are there with their dad and they are locked the fuck in watching this. And that's, I'm looking and I'm going, that's the review that I care about. Hell yeah. Yeah, that's woke, stronger soldiers. They're going to grow up thinking

about these messages. And their messages are, you need to kill Benjamin Netanyahu. So, like, it's really good that that's getting put in there. Poor girl needs to drop him out of a fucking, yeah. And so I'm also, I'm watching castration movie part two,

which at time of release will just have come out. I'm three hours into it. It's a five-hour movie. So far, it's fucking incredible. I'll save my full thoughts for when I've seen all of it. In terms of reading, Superman kind of got me into comics. I went and I bought a bunch of...

I've ordered a graphic novel of the new new gods. Ravi's run on a new gods, which I'm looking forward to reading. And I've just finished absolute Wonder Woman issues one through seven. I remember you showing me this because we met up and you like pulled a Wonder Woman comic out of your bag, and it's like... It's so fucking good.

so listeners first comic I'd like really read or gotten into you can get the first six or seven issues as a graphic novel and like the absolute series in DC is like it's taking a darker interpretation of the characters so in this version

Wonder Woman is not raised on the aisle of the Amazon's she is sent to hell as a baby she is assigned to hell at birth if you will she's also everyone is forbidden from saying the word Amazon except her which is the word that unlocks her true power

and so she has to kind of like figure out internally as a teenager and then an adult that she's in Amazon and then claim the power of the Amazons and then fights giant monsters with a big sword and like it's it's kind I don't well the author like is is woke and I think uh I'm not sure how deliberate it is but like it's kind of like Loki transcoded and uh the comic is also just fucking sick I really loved it I love the new costume designer Wonder Woman I love the character it's also really having now read a bunch of Wonder Woman comics you can really tell when Wonder Woman is being written by a man.

I've read a bunch of other Wonder Woman comics where they keep introducing other characters who are men. It's about Diana's brothers or no, but her father is secretly this. And I'm just like, I don't care about men.

Like, please. Just show me the woman. When it's written by a woman, it's like, A, about Wonder Woman and B, when they introduce new characters, like some of them are women sometimes.

So like, go and check it out. Absolute Wonder Woman. Fucking sick comic. Can't wait for the rest. It's still coming out. That's funny. Yeah, no, Wonder Woman, it's a shame they never made any live-action adaptations of Wonder Woman, yeah. But, like, I think there's some real potential there, if they were to try.

You know, there really is, there really is some good potential for that. And I'm like, if DC's woke, and I'm just like, D.C.'s woke now? I'm pretty sure the script for Wonder Woman will probably already have been written, and they won't be adapting the absolute Wonder Woman series. But I'm just like, if you guys can just hold off on casting that until June 2026, then you just got the chance to do something really funny. That's so good.

I've not been reading much recently. If I'm honest, I self-critique here. I should be reading a lot more. Fortunately, by time that you hear this, I will have been on holiday for about three weeks, and I'm taking a bunch of books with me. I've got The Man in the High Castle. I've got...

I'm going to reread the Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, and Lost World books because I love those. Nice. What else are I got? I'm bringing friend of the show, Garif Dennis's book, How the Railways Will Fix the Future, which is fantastic.

I got a little bit into it and I was like, no, I'm going to fucking wait until I'm somewhere else where I can't touch the Western internet and I want to just fucking lock in and read this. Reading that on a Chinese train that is going at like 350 miles an hour. That's the point.

I got two of those journeys coming up next month and it's going to be fantastic. Oh, yeah. I'm going to be on a high-speed train looking at the Chinese country side going by and being like, wouldn't it be cool if the country I lived in was trying to be a real country?

You're going to get to do the Chinese century. You'll be able to do Thing China. Yes, exactly. Practicing how to say, I am a refugee from the century of British humiliation. Do you know where I can get some fish and chips? Hopefully, I'll have that on lock by the time I get back.

Queer Celeste asks, do you feel like there has been any change in your movie taste due to the podcast? That's interesting. I think that has. I think my beautiful friend November has introduced me to many films that I would not have sought out

on my own. So is my beautiful friend, Devin. I've just got to fucking say. No, I wasn't. I wasn't going to say. Well, in particular, like, you've shown me a lot of the things like Seven Samurai and, like, classics and stuff like that

that I would have, like, you know, gotten around to maybe eventually. but like the film has the podcast has really prompted me to kind of advance my taste. Like both of you do come out with like curveball shit that I wouldn't normally have like sort out and has, you know, has encouraged me to be more adventurous with my film choice. Like so yeah, it's it's gotten better. Yeah, it's definitely I'm now much less likely to just be like, I don't really want to watch that.

Like that's not the kind of movie that I want to watch because we've watched so many different genres and styles and like ages of movie, different decades, different. they're pretty good. They're pretty good movies. I watched Sisson Kane recently. You know, you spend a lot of time you hear that this is the best movie ever made, right? And you're like, how could they possibly have made the best movie ever in, you know, 1943? That seems pretty early to have made the best movie ever. But you go back and watch and you're like, oh yeah, no, actually, they kind of did. Yeah, turns out. They weren't fucking with you at all. It is the best movie ever made. Wow. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

I might bring it to a podcast at some point. Yeah. I've seen a lot of films that I wouldn't have otherwise seen. I've gotten the ability to enjoy a worse film, I would say. Like, I watched back to back to back all three Equalizer films and all two accountant films on a kind of dad cinema adventure. And the whole time, because like, before I started doing this, I would not have had the tulpers of my beautiful friends in my head.

providing me with the ability to have fun watching a movie because I'm like, oh, here's the bit we would do about this, right? And now I do. Now I have a kind of like eternal Statler and Waldorf thing going on, which I'm, you know, extremely grateful for. And, yeah, it got me through maybe the funniest opening scene of any movie, which is the opening of the Equalizer, too. And I don't want to spoil that for you.

Just look it up in your own time. I haven't seen that, yeah. I'll take a look at that at some point. We'll talk about it. You're telling me there's three Equalizer movies. Oh, interesting. I'm thinking about the Equalizer a lot.