Kill James Bond! - S4E29.5: KJB Q&A #12 [PREVIEW]

Episode Date: January 2, 2026

Kicking off the year, it's time for our twelfth ever Q&A! Topics on the docket this time: What we did on our holidays, The Great Man theory of history, Spy Kids Smell-o-vision, muppets and more! For the full episode, head to our reasonably-priced patreon!  ----- 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 episode of Kill James Bond, the first episode of Kill James Bond of the year 2026. Whoa. I am your host, November Kelly. I am joined, as always, by my friends, Abigail Thorne and Devin. Hello, listenness. Hello to the future.

Cowabunga. That's something I'm doing in 2026 I've decided. Okay. We can make that a thing. Newest resolution, Cowabunger. Yeah. That's the only one I've got so far, though. Become the kind of person who says cowabunger about things, and then nothing else.

The rest of the resolution list completely blank. Yeah, yeah. It's like dry January, except it's the January where you start saying that. And then, you know, everywhere around you has to. Calabunga January. I'm not having a dry January. I'll tell you that for it. Carabunga January, the guy from Point Break? I hope you all had a beautiful holiday season. We are recording this on the 29th of December. So it's still, we're still in the cursed year of 2025. But as a kind of end of term thing, having

It's like the Soviet time capsule we're putting together here. For those of you free of 2025 that will hear this. comrades descendants we address you who do not know what Charlie Kirk is we have decided to do a sort of like a dessert for our dessert because die hard was our sort of dessert

for the year and then our sort of like you know our post dessert coffee and liqueurs is a little bit of a Q&A as per usual as is our habit when we want to give ourselves an easy time and just chat and just hang out yes and as always I

I've put few questions out. As always, if your question is not included, how dare you ask me that? Yeah, it's because your question, all of us saw it and all of us hated it. And we also got your name as well. And so you've been added to a list. It's over the page from the, like, Cowabunga Resolution. And it's just, like, a list of people who are, like, enemies with us. Step one, Cowabonga. Step two.

Everyone who's wronged me. Kawabonga resolution sounds like some kind of like peace treaty between this was signed. The Security Council has approved the Kawabonga resolution. Yeah, yeah. They had to come up with that to stop the violence after the point break. Oh, you'd hate to have a UN resolution named after you specifically as well. Not just the Devon Report, the Devon Resolution? Britain is not hitting our shredding or our hanging ten, uh,

requirements after the Kalabunga resolution. We're falling well short. Absolutely. Because the thing is, you want to flatten the curve, which is the opposite of what surfers typically do. Big, big curve enthusiasts that they are. They're a huge curve enthusiast. They love a tunnel as well.

So one of their favorite shapes, I would say. Yes, absolutely. So, folks, let's go over the usual ice break, but no one asked me this. I'm sorry, I'm going to have a cough today. Hopefully Sam will catch all of them. If one gets through, comment, Sam, you fucked up. Usual ice break before us. No one asked this, but I did it the last two times.

There are so many Sam's, like, in the extended universe at this point, who listened to this. And who I know, we are one-shorting by mentioning them by name. It's a specific Sam I'm thinking of. What are we, what have we been reading, what have been watching, what have we been listening to? Our last Q&A was at the start of September. So since then, what have we been up? embarrassing if I hadn't consumed a single piece of sort of

culture and sense that. No media November? I could go first on this. I went to see one bottle after another in cinemas since the last Q&A. I went to see it with my parents too, which was fun. And to my surprise, my parents were both in their

70s, both I could got it and could follow it. And enjoyed it too. We had a really nice kind of, you know, parent-daughter day out of the cinema. We went in completely blind. I loved it. Non-fiction, I've been reading a lot of stuff about the history of conversion therapy for reasons that will become clear in a few months' time.

And then fiction-wise, I'm still reading Absolute Wonder Woman, still absolutely loving it. The latest issue was a crossover with Absolute Batman, which was fucking sick as fuck. Hell, yeah. Yeah, which Hazel Aest had read any good comics lately, and I thought of... Yes, so many. I read one of the Absolute series as well. I read Absolute Martian Manhunter. Oh, I hear it's good.

It's like, it's limited. There's only like a couple of, couple of books of it, and it's just beautiful. It's absolutely fantastic. Heck yeah. I have to say, the only comic that I've read recently is simplicity by friend of the show and co-worker of the me, Matty Lubchanski. I love simplicity by friend of the show, Maddie Lubchanski. It's very good.

it's available. They're saying it's available wherever comic books are sold. It is. I've read it too. I enjoyed it. They say grabs you with both hands and goes, you're not watching it, you're here, you're part of it. You have to do something. What have I been reading? Well, I just finished watching the terror

again because as I stated, I've been convalescing for the last couple of days from the nephew blessing show, I would say. It's a shame. It really is a perfect season of television. Just one of the greatest of all time. Tobias Menzies, given everything he's gotten that bad boy.

Every other fucker that I don't remember is doing grid two. I'll tell you what else on TV terms, I've been, I've watched season one of Pluribus. I've been watching Pluribus. Oh, shit, I've been meaning to. It's been earnestly great. I've been watching it as well. Me and Gwen have, it's fantastic. Yeah.

You know, it's, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. I wish it was getting more. Diling back enthusiasm. It's, yeah, it's, I enjoyed it. I thought it was good. I wish it went. more into the kind of sci-fi. So listeners, if you're not familiar with the premise of pluribus,

everyone on earth except 12 people gets absorbed into a hive mind. And the protagonist, Carol, is like the worst, most selfish disaster lesbian in the world. And so she's one of the, she's one of the 12th who survive. I wish it lent more into the sci-fi stuff. But I mean, the most unhelpful feedback for any artist is always like, why didn't you make the show I wanted you to make, right? And it's, it's not a, it's not really a sci-fi show. It's a show about like individualism versus, and like, selfishness versus like learning to be cooperative. But I do, I'm like, ah, this is such good fucking sci-fi here.

And it could be really cool in a way that it's just like, no, we're doing something else. And I'm like, oh, okay, fine. Fine. What have, what have I been watching? What have I been reading? So I've been hanging out a lot more in cinemas lately. Hell I am.

And this has been really, really good for me. I just saw Marty Supreme literally yesterday. I got to see them. Really? It's, it's a solid. It's a solid four-star movie, very stressful watch, which is what you want going in. It's pretty good. My favorite thing that I've seen in the cinema lately was Jafar Panahi's latest film.

It was just an accident, which is incredibly, incredibly tense film about, I don't even want to spoil it, but it's an Iranian film that was made entirely illicitly, as far as I can tell. And it's really, it's like, you know the line, it's a show team, but the show hasn't been written for it yet. It's that but for a post-Islamic Republic Iran by a guy who was under house arrest in the course of making it. And I don't know how you do that, but it was incredibly done. My favorite film that I saw this year was black coal thin ice, which we will do at some point in 2026, just as a fantastic sort of almost experimentally shot detective film that isn't

really a detective film. It's very much like Disco Elysium. It's very much like memories of murder as well. Hugely, hugely endorsed that. Reading, I'm currently reading some Metallo Calvino short stories. But my favorite thing that I've read this year, accepting simplicity by a friend of the show and co-worker of Demy, et cetera, et cetera, is Manchukuo in 1987 by oomph of the show Yoshimi. and that was just a great novel genuinely that's going to be the next left on red and once I can get Riley to finish reading it and I have been trying to get him to do this for months

because it's fantastic I wept reading it so heartily heartily recommend I gotta check that I've been I've been reading I've been fucking eating books this year it's been phenomenal which isn't what you're supposed to do of them no you can do that that's gonna mess up your insides it's because I took like

Vonnegutts bookworms I took some Vonnegut to China with me I took the Man in the High Castle as well I've read Galapagos and Fahrenheit whatever it was 4 5 no it wasn't it was I haven't read Fahrenheit I read Slaughterhouse 5

different one entirely but I will read Fahrenheit it's on my desk and I can see it that's why I said the name of it I've been working through some of the classics I read Crime and Punishment I just finished it um fan fucking tastic book dense obviously but like it grabbed me like nothing else

so um I've got well Beck got me the brother's Karamazzo for Christmas so I'll be reading that I read Craman punishment back in January it's I found it surprisingly timely actually it's like yes Colnikov is like such a fucking insult he's like a proto groiper

yeah he would be a groiper right now he is like he would absolutely be a fucking groiper right now like yeah he's going at Charlie Kirk with an axe and then he's like trying to be a great man of history. And it's like, yeah, God, it was so... Yeah, yeah.

Roscolykov would have cleaned up on Discord. I think we can say that. Could transition have saved her? No. No, I don't think so. No, I think Christ did at the end of it. Yeah, at the end of the book, Spoilers for a book that's been out for decades and decades. He does the crime.

He gets punished. But the punishment is mostly psychological. It's really good. Porphyry. Oh, my boy, everything is fantastic. Read the book. One of my favorite tweets is a joke about crime and punishment. I won't be able to credit it because I don't remember off the top of my head as it was,

but it's the like prison guards diving after a prisoner reading crime and punishment before he can experience like beatific redemption. And then he does and the warden's like, fuck! God, that's such a good fucking tweet. I love that one. I can't remember it either. I'll find it and retweet it. I will have retweeted it at some point on the 29th of December so you can go back and look, you know.

So he's going to find a greater help. I'm going to get through War and Peace. My sister read War and Peace a couple of years ago, and I'm going to read it now because it'll help me feel closer to her as well. Beck got me Journey to the West as well in a beautiful edition. So I'm going to read a shitload going forward. I haven't watched anything else really. I watched a lot of nature documentaries.

I have TV recommendations. Oh, yeah. So, so me and a couple of partners now are heavily fucking with for all mankind, right? Which is Apple TV's less successful tent pole. Oh, I've heard of this. I know it's a very huge show. Yeah. It's like alternate history space.

It's if you get emotional about space, which as we know I do, it's a good show for that. It gets a lot sillier as they have to spool things out over like four seasons. And I think my favorite part of it is, it's a very riffable show. It's the kind of thing where I can watch it and I can just kind of joke around with it. And it's still good, it's still got like emotions to it, but it's like a nice communal experience for me. It kind of bookends my week a bit. And my favorite thing about it by far, reprehensible use of aging makeup.

Because they fuck themselves, they got like a core cast. and then they kept time skipping forward and if you want to see Joel Kinnaman in some incredible old man makeup I highly recommend making your way through for all mankind it is peak fun fantastic there's a bunch of like real

quite nice questions to start us out with it so Remy asks did you do anything over the holidays you'd want to tell the hogs about no yeah I hung out with my family yeah that was what I did it was great I did Christmas, Christmas with my brother and his family, which was wonderful. I ate some incredibly delicious food and was on anti-duty for a lot of it, which I love doing. Oh, I am uncmoding now at Christmases. It's great. I love it so much.

My little niece, who I won't say the name of, I think that's a reasonable thing to say. Yeah, I think that's reasonable. My niece is just so fucking sweet. She's being raised basically with no screens. She's about two years old now, and she's like. Wow. It's like, it's crazy. It's like a real child. They still make those, turns out. My nephews in law are also wonderful. They've had screens, obviously, but like they're also wonderful. They're so sweet. Not as good. And not as closely related to me as well, which does make them a little bit further down in my estimation. This is like A rank, you know, like not S rank.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm ranking these. They're going to have to fight each other for my love over the course of their lives for sure. I got my nieces a gift that they really wanted and really loved I got them some walkie-talkies and my eldest niece was like I don't know where she learned kind of good microphone and walkie-talkie discipline but she's got like good comms she's like tactical she's a fucking she's so real for that we went we went to the park and we were like walkie-talking each other and like she'd already picked out call signs

I was using the same call sign I used to use back in cadets so I was like back on the fucking comms I was just like come in this is werewolf like it was really hell yes it was so cool um

werewolf werewolf was my yeah it was my yeah it was that's really funny yeah we all had we all had different

like monster once so there was I was warwolf because of the time I was very hairy and then there was there was like people had like

there was like mummy and Dracula and swamp thing and then what the mummy sorry yeah That's something a bit sublimated. Yeah.

Well, there was something, no, we weren't one for sublimation because Pido John's call sign was Pido. That's bad obsequent, Pito John. For fuck sake. Like, people are going to know who you are by your call sign. It shouldn't be something that identified. It should be your first name. No, exactly. It shouldn't be something characteristic of you, you know?

It's just bad, bad communications. All right. drill. If you want to get a hold of the rest of this episode, you are going to have to cross my palm with silver, and you have to head to patreon.com slash kill James Bond, all one word, and that's where you can cross my palm with silver. That's the service that we use that allows you to cross my palm with silver.