Kill James Bond! - S4E36.5: Q&A #14: The 5 Year Special

Episode Date: April 10, 2026

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Do do do do do do do to Hello and welcome to another episode of Kill James Bond That was pretty good, that's pretty good Hello, how you're doing? We should just do that for the Q&A's. I think so. I think so. It's a bonus episode.

It's a Q&A. This is my favorite part of doing this podcast and I have a lot of parts of this doing this podcast that I really enjoy but I really like hearing from the listeners and it's just nice to know there's someone out there isn't it yeah yeah oh but you're listening to these good good good wait a second people have been listening to the things I've been so my god we've just been putting these on the website career implications mm-hmm Jesus Christ what career implications well I mean you know never gonna get that clearance now am I yeah that's such a shame yeah it's difficult

It's difficult. In truth, by doing the podcast about James Bond, I've cheated myself out of the possibility of being James Bond. Well, we all had to kill the James Bond in the heart. I don't know if I have. Not just yet. Well, it's not just... We'll see what casting directors come calling after June.

It's not just a random Q&A episode that we're doing right here. We've actually been doing this podcast, you two and I, for five years. Oh, my God. Oh, crazy is God. Where did the time go? Early February 2. actually it's been five years and about two months maybe. That's incredible.

It's incredible. It was like a month after my public coming out, wasn't it? That's right. We were actually waiting for that to start the podcast. We were all like... Can this bitch hurry up already so we can start talking about James Bond? I want a James Bond. Can you please just come out?

No, it's been five fucking years. I can't believe it has gotten. I mean, well, you know, maybe I can't believe it's gotten this far. I guess I'm surprised that anyone still wants to work with me. Because of your sort of like strident political views. Nearly impossible to work with. Having worked with you, I'm not surprised. But it's been five years we're all looking suspiciously younger than we were when we started.

We all look. None of us can move our foreheads. Yeah. Which Biden you're rocking with, original or clone, you know? We're firmly in this sort of like clone wars era. I'm clone Biden. My ears do not attach it. anymore. People have noticed. People are going,

what's going on? Earth Rider. Thanks for the James Bond. Ooh, Earthrider. Whenever we have a milestone like this, we do like to do something a little parisocial, whether it's this or the James Bond's with no notes. But I think that a Q&A was

more appropriate this time, and not just because the upcoming no notes would be live and let die. I'm actually not looking forward to that one. I'm not looking forward to that one. So I thought we'd start us out with the traditional ice break. We've done on the last two, and I think it's nice to just get us talking.

What have we been watching? What have we been listening? What have we been reading since our last Q&A, which would have been December? Ooh, okay. Do we want to go person to person or do we want to go by field? Do we want to do what have we been watching each? And then what have we been listening to and then what have we been reading? Let's do that.

Let's do that. That's nice. Okay, sure. What have we been watching? What have you been watching, never? Ooh, that's a great question. Let me just pull up my letterbox here so I can fucking remember. I've seen a lot of really good movies recently, of which I think my favorite has been,

I saw the tragedy of Macbeth, the Apple TV one, which is Ethan Cohen. I want to say, no, Joe Cohen. I don't remember which of the Cohen brothers, but like with Denzo Washington. Oh, I love, oh, that's really good. Yeah, it was incredible. Like, it owes such a debt to, like, German Expressionist film. My less of Oxford review of it here is five stars, like, and, the phrase shapes are so cool

because it really does enjoy some shapes and some shadows and some use of light and shadows is tremendously effective speaking of Germanness and the German condition I saw the marriage of Maria Brown which is a real sort of like

daughter of the half century how West Germany sort of like climbed out of the ruins and made itself like this sort of capitalist hellscape girl boss situation and that that was really good as well. Nice.

I think the most fun I've had with a movie recently since the last one was the good, the bad, the weird, which is, it's a kimchi Western, right? It's a sort of Korean. I've had this recommended to me before, but I've never gotten around to it. How is it? Yeah. It's fantastic. It's like a Korean sort of like set in 30s, Manchuria take on the good, the bad and the ugly.

And it's just great fun. Oh, fuck yeah. If I'm sticking with the highbrow stuff as well, I saw Inherent Weiss as well, which was just magical. I think maybe my favorite PTA, I'm not sure. And again, just sort of has like high watermarks of the sort of hippie movement. But like it was great. Stuff I'm excited to watch soon. I'm really excited to watch The Secret Agent.

And I'm really excited to watch. I got to get to that. Yeah, yeah. La Gracia, the Palos Sorrentino movie. which I'm so sad. Oh, is that the one within MacKillan? I don't believe so. It's, let me check,

because it's with the same guy he always uses. Oh, okay. I'm getting confused. Tony, Tony Seville. Messianus? Yeah, Tony Mercedes. Shellhoop. Tony Shellhoop.

Yeah. So LaGracia is like very firmly on my list. But that's, that's what I've been watching lately. Well, I have just finished five weeks of being in a place. eight times a week, lessness? So I have not watched a movie for fun in like several months. I simply have not had any fucking time. So we just finished the run of blink.

So the answer to what have I been watching lately is like nothing. However, I have been playing on my TV a lot of the outer worlds too, which I know that Nova, you kind of bounced off of. And I nearly bounced off of, but I'm finding that it is actually ramping up quite a lot in the kind of after you get off the first planet. Okay. So I'm actually really enjoying that. I'm putting a lot of us in the moment and being quite compelled by it.

Nice. Yeah, yeah. Being a gamer girl. I remember there's another movie. Sorry, very quickly. I saw, I saw La Chimera with Josh O'Connor. Beautiful, dreamy. Just an incredible, incredible film. Just watch it.

Go and blind. Don't read anything about it. Just watch it. Oh, yeah. God, I've not been watching much either. Well, we've been watching TV. Okay. So I've been watching Bones.

That's an honorable thing to do. Yeah. Well, that isn't. And because of Bones, I've seen David Boreanas and my beautiful partner, Rebecca, was like, oh, I watched Buffy when it was first airing. And I know David Boreana's plays Angel and that. So I watched all of Buffy. Had a great time with Buffy.

Totally on board. I now understand exactly why the pink opaque looks like it does. I saw a TV glow. That's Buffy, baby. And unfortunately, I've now been watching the spin-off from Buffy, Angel, which is different, not better, different, just different. Sort of a torchwood to Buffy's Doctor Who. But in terms of movies, I've actually only watched one good one for pleasure recently,

which is I saw One Carwai's in the Mood for Love, which is one of the best movies I've ever seen about. Yeah, I saw Chunking Express for the first time fairly recently. Yeah, that's on my list. It's just we need, we just need like, we're designating days to watch movies in a foreign language, because obviously we can't be doing anything else. We need to be stereotypical. Real yearners. Like,

the Lachimera also very much like that. Oh, also, I think we did the last Q&A before I watched Black Coal Thin Ice, which I have been raving about that film. I think it's the best film I saw last year because I saw it in December.

It's Chinese title is Daylight Fireworks Club, which is a better title. And it is I'm going to talk about it on Begay Solve Crimes this is a detective movie but I think it's one of the best film noir I've ever seen It's fantastic Me need to watch more fans more than I have been doing some good reading lately

Oh yeah talk to me you know what I You first you first sorry I read Efa Joyce Clemens novel Pisona which I really fucking enjoyed Listen to you know me I love some trans horror I love my Alison Rumpfitts and my Gretchen Falcomans Efa's novel is like kind of like those but like definitely a bit more creepy

it's about a trans woman who's a lonely shut in who discovers that a woman living in the tower block completely opposite her appears to be her exact doppelgagger and kind of it's really effective the way it runs down the list of possible explanations and just crosses them off like okay is it a long lost twin no it can't be because of this is it a hallucination

no it can't be a hallucination because of this is it like some kind of like time travel shenaghanagas no it can't be and it's like what the fuck is going on here and it just gets creepier and creepier and creepier. It's really, yeah, it's really, really effective. It's good. And I got a copy of it because I met Ifa when we were on the set of castration movie three, which I'm also allowed to say that I'm in.

And she gave me a free copy of a novel. So that's cool. And then the other thing I read is just last night, actually, I read volume one of a comic series called The Lumberjames, which is like an Eisner winning. Yeah, I've read Super. Yeah. New York Times bestselling comic. It's really, really good.

The art style reminded me a lot of our good friend and all three hosts of the podcast, Matchy Lipchansky, actually. Yeah. It's about five, five girls who go to like a supernatural summer camp for like, you know, it's like scouts or brownies or rainbows, basically. And it's also gay. It's gay as fuck and I really like it.

I finally found my list of movies I've watched since our last podcast. So I've watched Cosmopolis, which is fine. Is that the pre-fun? No. Yeah, which is the prequel to Megalopolis. It is indeed. Which I also saw. Megalopolis?

It's a David Cronenberg movie where Robert Pattinson is a billionaire just driving around in his car all day talking to people and it sounds worse than it is. It sounds great. Paul Giamatti's in it. He's Paul Giamadding hard as hell. I've watched Bring Her Back, which is an Australian horror film that is really good. There's one scene in particular that fucks me up badly. He's like chewing on a knife.

I watched Together, which is another horror movie. about love, which I adored. I watched, and here's some for you, for you bros, I watched the conversation. Yes. Yes. Perfect fucking movie. With the saxophone. Yeah.

Movies. And I watched Lawrence of Arabia. I finally sat down and watched the long fucking Lawrence Arabia on the biggest screen I could find perfect masterpiece. Weird guy, masterpiece. Speaking of Gene Hackman, I saw the French connection

for the first time of years. a couple of weeks ago. That's a great movie. Check out movies, guys. In terms of reading, I've only read one book in between when we last spoke, and I've been reading it the whole fucking time. I'm about 100 pages from the end of the brothers Karamazov. That's nearly fucking that. Amazing.

Incredible book, I would recommend to say anyone. Two brothers. You have to look in three brothers. The most tenuous connection, one of my favorite calligraphy inks that I use is named after that novel. Oh, nice. What color is the ink? It's a nice mixture of red with a kind of green shimmer overlay.

Mm. Okay. It's nice. It's really, really, like, strange-looking. I love it. Yeah. At time of recording, I'm halfway through the prosecutor's opening remarks on Dimitri. Nice.

Wonderful fucking book. I also have not been reading as much as I should. This is partially because Riley will not finish reading Manchupo in 1987 so we can do left on red. otherwise we'll be doing more left on red but I am currently working on Julian Jackson's biography of Charles de Gaulle a certain idea of France

because I read France on trial which is his book about the trial of Marshall Petin I thought it was very very good and like I you know this is sort of very well regarded biography so I have that I have some like Borges I

want to read Adam Mars Jones as Box Hill, which is the book that Pellion is based on. Nice. So that's been sitting on my shelf. And, yeah, just I have a lot of stuff that I want to read. And I have ADHD, so it's quite difficult to, like, sit down and just open a new book. They just kind of sit there taunting me. That's reasonable. You know, but.

Well, I've been hoovering up Hurtzog documentaries as well. I watched Burden of Dreams just recently because I know we're doing Fitzcarraldo. There's blank. Yeah. Let's fucking go. But in the dream is, yeah, yeah. Perfect. I might actually insist that if you haven't seen that,

you want to YouTube watch that as well. So we can talk about Fitzgerald though more. Absolutely. We can sort of fold it in so it's functionally like a double episode. It's part of this. Yeah, it's like it makes it. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It's so worth it. Yeah, no, I haven't read anything else. I haven't watched anything else. No, I think that's it for me. That's what I've been consuming since last time we spoke. Have you out?

No. Anyone got anything left to say, or shall we? I've been gaming a little bit. I've been heavily into it. Oh, I can talk about gaming. Yeah, yeah. I've sort of heavily informed truck season by getting heavily addicted to Snow Runner, the most frustrating game in the world, driving through, like, mud and ice of five miles an hour,

and then the thing slowly flips over, and I think very strongly about harming things around me, and then I all therefore, and then I reload the game, and then I fix all of it, and it takes me hours. I have a fantastic time. Okay, this does look wonderful. PVE, like, truck simulator. Yes, yeah, it's wonderful. If you want to have, just like you can just lock in, put on a podcast. I've been listening to Tranigalismo, Victoria Scouts podcast.

Check out. And I just, I learn about the cars and I roll a truck sideways down a ditch, and I just get very, very angry. And that's wonderful. That's kind of how I decompressed, basically. I enjoyed texting you, like, two weeks after we got Victoria in the podcast, and I'm just going, oh, the Grand Turismo! Oh, yeah!

I get it now. That's funny. I've also been fucking around with a little like pixel art fishing game called cast and chill. So I'm really in like my sort of old age now, you know? Whoa, whoa, hold on now, hold on now. Listen, I know, I know you're only trying to listen to our beautiful five-year anniversary parasyal extravaganza where you really get to find out once and for all who we are as people, what our wants and needs are. And you could really easily put together a sort of a document for seducing any one of us from this episode.

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