On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

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In this episode of Breaking Bond,we'll be talking about nineteen sixty nine on
Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring GeorgeLazenby as James Bond, Diana Riggs Countess
Tracy di Vicenzo, Talley Sabalis asErnst stavro Blofeld, Gabriel Frizetti as Draco,
Ilsa Steppett as Irma Bund, directedby Peter R. Hunt and the

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screenplay. We're back to Richard Maybaum, not Ral Doligan. Richard Mayball back
to him, But first a wordfrom our sponsor. Welcome into Breaking Bond
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pop culture icon and see what,if anything, we've been missing. My
name is David C. Robertson.Annie Robertson. Oh this movie, Oh
this movie. This was a goodone, I thought, I and yeah,

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I enjoyed it. It was finallylike a nice break from Sean Connery
that did not lead me astray likeCasino Royal, Yeah, where I thought,
oh, a nice break from Sean. Oh give me Sean back.
Okay, but what have you beenlooking for a break from Sean for real?

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For real? Or were you lookingfor a break from like the same
type of hum Yeah, that one, the second one. I don't have
anything against Sean Connery. Um.I was really excited to watch him in
Doctor No and thought he was sodreamy. Yeah, he was just so

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tall and handsome and shorty shorts anduh, I yeah, I think it's
I think it's just like the sameformula over and over again, with like
increasing sexism with each movie. AndI'm just tired of him. And you
know, ironically, Sean Connery saidlater, he's like, yeah, he

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looked talking about this movie. Hesays, that's the kind of one I
would have wanted to be in.Oh, that's the That's the kind of
Bond movie I would have wanted todo. So what else? Who did
the screenplay for this Maybom? Thesame guy did it before. I think
he did. He had a handin almost all the others, if not
all the others. So then whywhy couldn't he have written another one like

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this one? Mm? But youknow, I mean they did stick closer
to the book and in this onethan they did on any of the previous
movies. I mean I wonder likeif at this point they were getting tired
of doing the same formula. Um. I just wonder, like, I
mean there still was a little bitof a formula to this one. I

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mean there are still many of thesame elements to this one. Yeah,
yeah, Yeah, it's just better. Well, I think there's there's several
little things. Um. I thinkpart of that is going to be on
the part of the director, Peterour Hunt, who edited the last movie,
and he was an editor on theseries before that and had edited other
entries and had long been promised thedirector's chair. So when he did this

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one, this was like he wantedto be like he wanted it to uh
look and feel unlike any other Bondmovie. Yeah. And I think there's
there's something to be said for aguy who was directed, sorry, editing
up until this point, because itfeels like this film is shot to be

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edited, if that makes any sense. Yeah, Like the and he also
said, and we're getting a littlebit like some of this I'll skip in
trivia because I haven't written down.But um, Peter Hunt said that he
wanted the cinematography to be such thatit still looked good even when it was
cropped for television. Like, sohe just he had very he had dynamic

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angles. He had dynamic shots thathe filmed in a certain way that they
could be edited very dynamically, yeah, and really make it look great.
Like and you could tell that hesped up a lot of the action,
but it was it was not nearlyas obtrusive as say Thunderball, you know
what I mean, where it lookedlike, you know, half half a

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dozen guys who were you know,dreading the oncoming talkies, you know,
like yeah, yeah, Um,I mean maybe I think also a big
difference, um is just to me, I thought the fight scenes were so
much better. They were really awesome, especially the opening fight scene. You

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and I thought that was that wasreally great and that I mean part of
it might be just because it waschoreographed better. Um it might also maybe
it's a combination that like George Lasabehas a background in fighting, and I
don't know if maybe they thought,I mean, part of it could be

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like just up to the limitations oflike a stunt person. It's not necessarily
because Sean Connery doesn't have a backgroundin fighting. But I don't know,
maybe they thought, hey, theguy who is going to be bond in
this film has a background in fighting, let's take advantage of that. Yeah.
I you know, he wanted todo a lot of his own stunts

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and the insurance didn't really want tolet him do it. And then he
broke his arm doing one of thestunts. So yeah, But one of
the ways he got the role wasthey put him in, like they put
him in a fight to see howhe looked in action. Yeah, and
it was a real fight, buthe didn't know how to like pull his
punches and like beat the crap outof the sky. Oh, like broth

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this guy's nose, I think itwas. And they were like, yeah,
but he looks real good fighting.So one of the things about the
fight sequences and the choreography or justthe shots, I feel like it,
and it correct me if I'm wronganyone out there who knows what I'm talking
about. But in filmmaking, thereis a rule called the one hundred and

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eighty degree rule, and it's aguideline regarding the on screen spatial relationship between
a character and another character or objectwithin the scene, and the camera is
always supposed to be on one sideof an imaginary access between two characters,
and the first character is always frameright of the second character, and when
you cross that line, it justlooks it's very jarring. It's very very

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jarring to the audience. And alot of the times in the fight sequences,
there were a few parts where Iwas just like, oh, because
they crossed that line and they switchedit, and it was one of those
things that like, I would probablyhave a hard time visualizing it enough.
If I was directing something, Iknow I would screw it up and do

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it, but and then I wouldbe mad at myself an editing later,
I was like, why did Ido that? But uh, you know,
when Matt and I, and whenMatt and I and then later me
and Jason, we're doing by thetime I got to doing, when we
were doing like videos and stuff forYouTube. By the time I got to
Jason, I was more of aI was more into directing. But when
me and Matt were doing stuff likeI was more on the editing side of

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things a lot of times, andso I can kind of like I can
kind of get like you. It'ssort of like in Suicide Squad, how
they like hired that trailer house tocome in and edit the film, and
then like they crossed the one eightyrule, like they are that that invisible
access. Um, And it's justkind of uh jarring. But this when

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you when you were directing for editing, I guess that is a chance you
you run the risk up. Butanyway, sorry, that's boring. UM.
Mostly though, I think there areprobably a lot of people who were
not bored by that, not you, though you were super bored by it.

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Um. I was distracted, whichdoesn't equate bored. It does when
you were actively seeking things to bedistracted by. No. I I was
looking through my notes. I neededto find something. I needed to find
something for later. That is activelylooking for something to be something for later.

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Yes, that is. We're gonnastart recording this on Skype. You
can do it from your office andI'll be in the living room. That's
fine, we can buy another microphone. Yeah, all right, like we're
gonna have to do this. Arethe rooms you can't see me be bored

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by you also, I love you. I love you too. It has
nothing to do with loved here.Thank goodness, Thank goodness. Loving someone
doesn't mean you never have to bebored by them, you know. Is
it reminds me of or because huh. Shortly after Jason I started DC on

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screen, my sister Brittany had hadlistened to the Man of Steel Review or
started to, and she was like, I started to listen to the Man
of Steel Review. I was like, you started too, And she was
like, why are you guys talkingabout color grading for so long? If

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only she knew that was not theonly time that would happen, I don't
think she's ever listened to the show. She was like, yeah, I
just can't do it. You guysare talking about color grading. I just
can't anyway. But there's for surean audience for that. There is.

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I mean, just because it wasboring to Brittany and hard for her to
get through, I mean, I'msure you had plenty of people listening who
were like, yes, I couldlisten to this for hours. Ironically,
I'm not one of those, butit is easier, like it's less boring

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to talk about it. Yeah,when you're the one talking. Yeah.
Anyway, so it was a moviethat This is a movie that very much
looks like it was shot by aneditor and not like an actual director.
But I feel like I felt likeit gave it a lot of charm and

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speaking of color grading, I thinkit actually did look better than a lot
of movies or the last couple.Anyway, Yeah, it looked really great.
Um. Also, let's see didI write this down? Yeah?
It was shot in Switzerland, Englandand Portugal. M pretty cool. Yeah.
Shall we get to the synopsis.Let's do it all right. This

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is a synopsis that comes to usfrom Wikipedia, because I'm not gonna write
a synopsis. Why would you,It's already there. I know. Reinvent
the wheel, Oh, reinvent it. Unless you're like Michelin or something,
then you probably should. That's likeyours, yours, your bag, you
know, read it. Please.James Bond, agent Double O seven,

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saves a woman on the beach fromcommitting suicide by drowning, and later meets
her again in a casino. Thewoman, contessa Teresa Tracy di Vicenzo,
invites Bond to her hotel room tothank him, but when Bond arrives,
he is attacked by an unidentified manwho grunts. After subduing the man,

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Bond returns to his own room andfinds Tracy there, who claims she did
not know the attacker was there.The next morning, Bond is hidden app
by several men, including the onehe fought, who take him to meet
Draco, the head of the Europeancrime Syndicate Union Course, Draco reveals that
Tracy is his only daughter and tellsBond of her troubled past, offering Bond

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one million pounds if he will marryher. Bond refuses, but agrees to
continue romancing Tracy if Draco reveals thewhereabouts of Ernst stavro Blofeld, the head
of Specter. All right, sofirst of all, let's talk about this
opening sequence that we get here.Yes, it was great. Well,
I mean the credit sequence first offwas a little weird because of all the

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previous the footage of all the previousmovies, right to be like see this
is still James Bond. Like theyI felt like they were like really kind
of like pushing that agenda. Yeah, because they were just like we know
us not Connery, Yeah, agenda, but like the opening shots where he's

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like driving to the beach each andlike we're not seeing his face. Um.
I loved the cinematography. I lovethe shots. I love the color
grading. That's okay, Um,we don't have to have we won't have
a conversation with it. Help.We won't have a conversation about color grading

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on this podcast because I don't knowenough about color grading to have a dialogue
about it, right, Um,I'll just say that it was. Um,
I don't know much about it either. It was not as lush,
it was not as saturated as previousBond adventures. Um. It begins with

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I mean, what does it looklike, uh, dusk or dawn or
something like, it's one of theone of the So yeah it's a little
bit dark. Yeah it's. It'sbut it's like purposefully dark. Yeah it
is. The darks are not theshadows aren't as dark as you might imagine
they would be. Um, Idon't know, man, It just it

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has a very eerie feel to it. Um, And I just dug it.
I love it. They didn't showhis face for so long. Yeah.
I loved how like he's upper cuttingdude. It looks like Mortal Kombat.
He's like upper cutting dudes and they'relike flying backwards. Yeah, it
was. It was also just reallypretty it also, yeah, liked really
pretty. Um, Yeah, Ireally liked it. And then she she

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runs away from him. She takesoff and he looks at the camera for
the first time they break the fourthwall in a Bond franchise film. He
looks at the camera says, thisnever happened to the other fellow, How
did you feel about that, becauseI remember you looked at me like,
what the crap? Um. Iwas surprised by it, but also loved

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it. It was like, well, that's weird. Yeah, but I
liked it. I mean, Ithought it was funny. I you know,
at least they broke the fourth wallto acknowledge I'm I'm the same person,
but a different person playing him,right. I liked it. It
was very strange. It was strange. It was also weird to break the

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fourth wall. Well, I guessit's not that weird. In a Bond
film. They do a lot ofweird, cheesy stuff, makes some weird
jokes. Yeah, I think thewhat I liked about it is that it
when you they never break the fourthwall again. Really in this movie.
Yeah, but or it doesn't feellike they do. They reference things.

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It's very referential at times and asand at times very tongue in cheek.
But this never happened, and theother fellow is like perfect for the actual
storyline too, because Bond never fellin love before, right, not for
real, I mean, none ofthis happened. He never had that,
Like, he never cared, youknow, his longest running relationship with the

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woman who he has any kind offeelings for his moneypenny, and not even
necessarily romantic feelings. We just knowhe cares about her. Yeah, and
he'd never cried in a movie before. He cried in this one. Yeah.
This uh yeah, this movie gavehim a lot more humanity yeah than
the other ones. I really dugthat. Yeah. So anyway, I

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guess we'll head on with the plothere. Oh, let me say a
couple of nerdy, obsessive, compulsivethings. Oh okay, okay. This
movie is two and a half hourslong, making it the longest Bond anything
spoof film whatever that we have seenso far. Yea, um, I

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would have preferred it to be maybehalf an hour shorter. Two and a
half hours is just a really longtime. I won't say to watch a
movie because Hello, Lord of theRings, DC movies, Marvel movies.
I love the length of those films. Right, It's just I didn't think

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I really enjoyed this movie, butI didn't like it enough to sit through
comfortably two and a half hours withoutchecking to see how much further we had
to go. That's fair, Umokay. So and it came out in
nineteen sixty nine. George Lasambie wasthirty years old when he was playing Bond.
Yeah, that's it. That's prettyyoung. He was the youngest Bond.

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Yeah, and I actually thought helooked older than that, Like yeah,
I think they did too, yeahfor me, which is which is
also kind of weird, because hedid a little bit of modeling before he
did acting, or before he wascast in this film, at least,
I don't know, Like in themodeling world, you want people to look
as young as possible. Yeah,but I don't know. Maybe maybe in

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his twenties he did look a lotyounger. Who knows, But I mean
I thought he easily could have passedfor like forty. Maybe maybe I don't
think that, but maybe definitely lookedolder than thirty. Connery looks way older
than he was. Yeah, thatdoesn't really matter, it's just my opinion,
stated So Bond returns to London,and, after a brief argument with

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him at the British Secret Service headquarters, where Bond tries to resign, heads
for Draco's birthday party in Portugal.There, Bond and Tracy began a whirlwind
romance for two weeks roughly, andDraco directs the agent to a law firm
in Burne, Switzerland. Bond investigatesthe office of Swiss lawyer Gumbold and learns
that Blofeld is corresponding with London Collegeof Arms genealogists Sir Hilary Bray, attempting

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to claim the title Count Ba Balfazarde Blochchamp. Posing as Bray, Bond
goes to meet Blofeld, who wasestablished who has established a clinical allergy research
institute atop Peas Gloria in the SwissAlps. Bond meets twelve young women,
the Angels of Death, who arepatients at the institute's clinic, apparently cured

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of their allergies. At night,Bond goes to the room of one patient,
Ruby to seduce her. At Midnight, Bond sees that the twelve ladies
go into a sleep induced hypnotic statewhile Blowfeld gives them audio instructions for when
they return home. In fact,the women are being brainwashed to distribute to
bacteriological warfare agents throughout the world.Okay, that is diabolical, I know.

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And it was so cool. Yeahall right, so let's get into
some of this. Um. Itis off putting to me, not just
the the not just the recasting,but the fact that Blowfeld and Bond don't
recognize each other. But they stucktoo closely to the novel. And it's

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like one of the big continuity disturbancesin the franchise because he in the books,
this happened before You Only Live Twice, So this was Blowfeld's first time
meeting Bond. So maybe that's whyhe doesn't have a scar now. Yeah,
that's but I was wondering. Yeah, but and You Only Live Twice

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even because that movie was drastically changedfrom the book. He goes after Blowfeld
and for revenge about over Tracy.So help help. But I love love
Telly Savalas as Blowfeld. Yeah hewas good, love him. Um,

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so yeah, it's great and I'dlike to go back to Uh, when
Bond had his meeting with him andtried to resign but was asking pretty much
money. Penny just orchestrated all ofall of the good stuff. She was
amazing, and uh, I reallyliked that for her. Is this the

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last film that that lady is in? Who plays her? No? Okay?
Um? Does she have one more? Um? I don't know how
many she actually has left. Ihaven't to I haven't really paid attention to
it. I haven't gone jumped aheadbecause I didn't want it to. Like
I try to keep spoiler free asmuch as I can. Yeah, well,
yeah, so it was awesome.Uh yeah, Bond tries to retire.

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He asks Moneypenny to like write outa notice for him to give it
to Mum. She ends up turningit around to that he wants to take
vacation. He wants to what twoweeks vacation or something, and so Bond
is like, well, how didhe take it? And and you know,

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m is just like, oh,yeah, that's fine, that's fine.
You can just just take some vacationtime, blah blah blah, and
uh, I think Bond is actuallyrelieved that he can just take some vacation
time because he doesn't want to stopum doing that kind of work yet,
and then m ends up saying,oh, miss Moneypenny, thank you.

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We would I do without you?But then Bond says the same thing to
her, what would I do withoutyou? Both of them know exactly what
went down. Him knows that hequit yep, and she just lied about
it. Yep. Yeah. Thatwas fantastic, love absolutely and I enjoyed,
Like this is like one of apparentlytwo times that we see his actual

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office, like Bonds office. Yeah, and he goes to his desk and
pulls out like it was very disorientingfor me, yeah, and he like
it was just like, oh,I'm gonna pull out the garage wristwatch.
Oh yeah, yeah Russia and thenhere's the briefcase from Russia and here's the
h That was all cool. Thatwas that was just like, oh need

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okay, cool, Um, hereall my old memories. They are death
weapons. Yep. But I lovedwhen he got to uh, when he
got to Blowfeld's fortress or whatever.Yeah, the research Institute, yes,
yes, and everything thing leaning uplike uh um Bond and lady Tracy no,

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not Tracy the lady who was liketaking him there. But yeah,
um, all of that was amazing, just like traveling up the mountain and
oh, just all of that scenery. It was. It was great.
Yep, it was great. Thatwas really cool. Yeah, um,
I really liked I know, itwas cheesy. I liked all the different

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girls, sure, and how likeinto bond they were yep, um calling
him hilly. Yeah, I loveit though, Like the one girl like
wrote her room number on the insideof his thighs. Oh gosh, that
was really fun. Was so scandalous. That was scandalous. And then and
then they were like, what's wrongwith you? He's like, oh,

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just a bit of a stiffnest comingon. And then like the all of
the psychological crap where he's like readingto them all these weird things, you
know, the hypnotizing things like thatwas really creepy and it was interesting.
I enjoyed a Yeah. I lovedall of it. Like everything in that

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research institute, I loved all ofit. I loved like when they're all
in that big main room, whenall of the girls are in there,
um, I don't know, thecommon area whatever. That space was incredible.
I loved seeing that layout. Iloved seeing just how everything was furnished.

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I mean it was just also verysixties, and I loved it so
much. I loved seeing what allof the women were wearing, their different
hairstyles. Um and then yeah,just like the really super sixties, like
um, brainwashing kind of stuff.But it wasn't six though, either.

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It was like it was that likemagical cusp of the seventies look, where
like everything looked a little more mature. Yeah, everything looked a little more
growdy. Everything looked a little moredingy, yeah than it did in the
sixties. Like you still had likethe sixties color palette to some degree,

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but it was darker and dingier,as if it had become faded with time.
I don't know how to describe itexactly, other than like if you've
ever seen like the difference between StarTrek the original series and like Space nineteen
ninety nine, where it's just like, yeah, everything's just a little a

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little grosser, you know, likeit it's it's almost there in the in
the third season of the of theoriginal Star Trek series, where it's just
like everything's just a tad cheaper lookingsomehow. Yeah, even though like things
look a little more expensive. It'slike more expensive production models, less expense

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than extra creating the thing. Here'sgiant sideburns. By the way, everyone's
hair is a bit thicker than itshould be. Yeah, everyone you know
is a little you know, pudgierthan possibly they should have been at some
point like suddenly. I don't knowhow to describe it exactly, but that's
how it feels. Yeah, doyou So, here's just my irrational trying

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to figure out the logistics as thoughthis movie is real. So do you
think that structure, that building housetype thing the institute was it there and
then Blowfeld purchased it? Or doyou think he had it constructed? Because

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that must have been a butthole anda half. I mean, I think
some of it was constructed. Butthey said in the movie. Now I
don't know if it was real ornot, but they said in the movie
it was like I think it wasa resort that he converted. Me.
Oh, okay, that makes thatmakes sense because then they also had like
that tram or whatever leading up toit, and that I mean, I

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know, I know Blowfeld has themoney to fund all of that, but
yeah, I mean it's it's morethan just a matter of like getting the
permits you need to build a house, you know, like now you're getting
permission to like build something that onlyhas one way to get to it,
and then you have to build thething that takes. Yeah. I don't

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know. Yeah, I just,by the way, wrote some head cannon
and while you were saying that,when you were like, I know Blowfeld
has the money. I just heardlike maud Lebowski from The Big Lebowski be
like, oh, father has nomoney of his own. It's all mothers.
Which now really makes me want tosee, like if Blowfeld is married,

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I would love to see what kindof if he has. Yeah,
I want her to be like thereal power behind Specter. She's just like
Noah or his mom, and he'sjust like severely a mama's boy, right,
and Specter is like his way ofrebelling or something like, No,
I want to be a leader.I want to be because his mom's so

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mean to him. Right now,I'm head cannoning that that uh that Blowfeld's
mother is the head of Specter forreal, for real and has made various
clones of her of her son.Oh that's why some of them look different.

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Some of them have scars. Someof you I knew, some of
you I'm meeting for the first time, right right, But every Blowfeld is
just like such a genius that heneeds a nimbsis, so she keeps cloning
different James Bonds. Let's real dumblike M six is all in on it

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is up. They don't know.They don't know. They've all got the
little men in black flashers that theylike. This is James Bond. Okay,
cool, I remember that guy,No, you don't. Anyway,
back to the actual plot, Bondtries to trick Blowfeld into leaving Switzerland so
that M six can arrest him withoutviolating Swiss sovereignty. Blowfeld refuses, and

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Bond is eventually caught by henchwoman IrmaBunt. Blowfeld reveals that he identified Bond
after his attempt to lure him outof Switzerland and tells his henchman to take
the agent away. Bond eventually makeshis escape by skiing down his gloria while
Blowfeld and his men give chase.Arriving at the village of louder Bruning,
Bond finds Tracy and the escape Bundand her men. After a car chase.

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A blizzard forces them into a remotebarn, where Bond professes his love
to Tracy and proposes marriage, whichshe happily accepts. The next morning,
as the chase contain use, blowfieldsets off an avalanche, Tracy is captured
well Bond is buried but manages toescape. I really liked the barn scene.
Yeah. I don't like the chasesequences ever. I'm never interested in

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them. I just don't care.They always seem to last longer than necessary
they do. It's the same problemI have with like Jason Bourne movies.
I'm just like, it's like youjust had twenty minutes of shaky cam and
people running around in cars and things, and I just don't care. Yeah,
And in this case, it's likekind of shakey cam with like projections

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on and behind cars and I don'tcare. Yeah. Um, I also
thought the barn scene was cute.Yeah, I liked it. Yeah,
it did. I don't I don'tremember this part very well. I know,
like toward the end of it,so like they're sleeping separately, and

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then Bond like kicks whatever like structuredor like the platform or whatever. Right,
the thing falls that she rolls ontop of him. Yeah, did
they allude to, like them havingsex? I thought that was the indication.
Yeah, okay, well, um, I was going to say,
like all of that was just Iguess, like before the start, before

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the part where they start making outand likely having sex, all of it
just seemed like really sweet and innocentand not very uh Sean Connery Bond Yeah
esque because we have seen a differentkind of barn scene from him. M

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Yeah, I liked it. Itwas nice. Yeah, I mean James
Bond, so the seven is goingto go into the double low if you
know what I mean. Jeez.But they were like, oh, yes,
this is true love because he's likehe pretended for half a second and
they weren't going to sleep together.The longest he's ever gone without having sex.

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Just the barn sequence in a barnyou know what's true love because they
both consent to kissing. You haveto have sex in a barn scene,
you know why? Because hey,oh my gosh, oh oh that is

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amazing and awful. Back in Londonat M's office, Bond is informed that
Blowfield intends to hold the world atransom by threatening to destroy his agriculture using
his brainwashed women, that's so ridiculous, demanding amnesty for all past crimes and

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that he'd be recognized as the currentCount de blochamp him tells Double seven that
the ransom will be paid and forbidshim to mount a rescue mission. Bond
then enlists Draco and forces to andhis forces to attack Blowfield's headquarters while also
rescuing Tracy from Blowfield's captivity. Thefacility is destroyed and Blowfeld escapes the destruction
alone in a bob slang while withBond pursuing him. The chase ends with

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Blowfeld when Blowfeld becomes snared in atree branch and injures his neck. Bond
and Tracy, merry and portable,then drive away in bonds Aston Martin.
When Bond pulls over to the roadsideto remove flowers from the car, Blowfeld,
wearing a neck embrace, and Buntcommit a drive by a shooting of
the couple's car. Bond survives,but Tracy is killed in the attack.

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How sad? How sad? SoI really loved I liked everything but Tracy
getting kidnapped, And apparently that wasn'ta thing that was in the novel,
But that was fine. That wasokay. I just I don't particularly love
the chasings, but I did enjoywatching that place get blown up. That

(34:08):
was sad for me. Oh yeah, yeah. The Bob Sled was a
bit much. The whole sequence wasa little that was too long. It
was and it was awful and veryunrealistic, unbelievable, but I loved it.
Yeah. It was so ridiculous.It was so completely ridiculous. It

(34:36):
was funny though, yeah, andit was oh god, it's just so
outlandish. Like when you think ofexactly what that was, it is a
man who was holding the world ransom. He was threatening the world, just
a norm McDonald jeremy to get towar with the world. Uh, he

(35:06):
had brainwashed these women, you know, like this whole plant. Okay,
so super duper bad guy head ofSpecter, a really bad organization. Isn't
a Bob Sled. But it's notjust him. It's Agent double O seven,
who's like maybe the best of thebest in his organization. He's also

(35:31):
on a bob Sled. Yeah,and and somehow like like ends up catching
up to blow feld enough. Yeah, like fighting and falling off of the
thing and hold. Yeah. Yeah, just hold it. Bond is like
holding onto the back of Blowfelds bobsled being dragged for a minute. And
yeah, oh my gosh. AndI just kept thinking of cool runnings the

(35:53):
whole time. Dude, I've seenOlympics rhythm. You can't everything. There's
no way you could do with allthat. Yeah, and I mean just
the just the part of like Bondcatching up to him. I mean,
you can go a little bit fasterdepending on like your weight and like how
you take each turn. Yeah,but I mean like you can't. I

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don't know that whole That whole thingwas ridiculous, but like I said,
at the same time, I kindof loved it. Yep. And just
like those weird cuts, I mean, like, what are you gonna show,
Like, Okay, let's cut toBlowfelds so we can remind the audience
what he's doing. Okay, he'sstill in a bobsled. Okay, let's
cut back to double O seven sowe can remind the audience what he's doing.

(36:36):
Okay, still in a bobsled.There's just not much you could do
there. It was interesting, Yeah, it was so weird, so the
wedding scene, but now I wantto ride in a bobsled. I don't,
but like not as fast. Idon't at all. I like,

(36:57):
I don't think I could get likeon the ground like that. It is
it is just like inches off theground. Yeah, okay. The wedding,
wedding, the wedding. Uh man, Moneypenny got me in the fields.
Oh well, she was like sadthat he was getting married, and
he like throws her the hat.Like for that alone, I wish Connery

(37:22):
had done this movie. Yeah.So are we to assume because we won't
really ever find out at this point, do you think Bond retired because he
got married or like, do youthink that's what his plan was, that
he was going to get married andprobably take some time off for his honeymoon
and to start his marriage, Anddo you think he was going to retire

(37:42):
after that? Yeah, and that'smaybe also why Moneypenny was crying partially.
Yeah, but you know, youget the idea that she always loved him
anyway, right Um? Yeah,man, I don't. Yeah, it
was pretty seemed pretty clear in thebarn and then subsequently in the car when
they were talking about how they hadall the time in the world, etc.

(38:04):
Yeah. Um, before she's she'skilled and then he keeps saying it
after she's Oh my gosh, thatwas rough. That was rough. That
was really sad, and again justhumanizes him so much more than the previous
films have. Um, but didhe no answered my own question and I'm
not even going to ask it now. Um, but yeah, that was

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that was really sad and good.Good for him for getting to a point
in his character where he fell inlove with a woman and proposed to her
and went through and actually married herand then was excited about being married to
someone and was heartbroken when she wasmurdered. Mum. Also, good for

(38:52):
him for turning down that money tomarry her and then he actually ended up
one to marry her anyway. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, these
are these are big these are bigsteps steps, buddy. I imagine they'll
all be a race with Roger Mooreprobably so like You're not so much a

(39:12):
sex maniac anymore, but only inthis film. Yeah, if if not
with Sean Connery in the next movie, then I imagine with Roger Moore at
the very least. Yeah. Allright, So do you think this is
a good introduction to James Bond?I do, Yeah, I really do,
especially like if this is the firstBond film you watch. Um,

(39:35):
uh, it's kind of gonna godownhill from here, um some degree.
I guess, depending babe, whichfilms you watched after this? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah this is If thisis the first one you watch, this
is a great start, I thoughtso. Yeah, And I assume based
on this movie you would want tokeep watching the franchise. Yes, good,
Yes, absolutely. Oh. Ialso wanted to say I enjoyed the

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theme uh and the score in thisfilm and shout out to Louis Armstrong.
Yeah. Yeah, we've got sometrivia about that guy. Okay. Um,
yeah, I really liked the musicin this one, and you've got
some trivia about the music. We'llget to. Um. Would you recommend
this movie to anyone you love?I sure would? Well? Good?

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Um, did you like uh,now, George Lazenby as Bond? I
did? Did you like everyone anybodyelse? Or what did you think of
Telly Sabellas I liked him. Didyou like him more than Donald pleasants?
I don't. I don't know.See the biggest difference for me is the
scar. I like Blowfield so muchmore with a scar, but that isn't

(40:43):
really dependent on an actor, right, UM, I don't know. I
don't know if I liked him better. I am really glad that they gave
that poor baby kittie a break inthis one. I imagine it would have
been a different cat anyway. Ihope, so, I hope they're not
just try aumatizing the same poor babyover and over again. They're spreading it
out. Do you have any favoritequotes? Um, we have already covered

(41:09):
some of my favorite quotes. Uh. In the beginning, when Lasenbie's Bond
says, well this, this didn'thappen to the other guy. Yeah,
that's never happened to the other fellow. Yeah, that was awesome. Uh.
And then just m and Bond bothsaying what would I do without you
to Moneypenny? See you write downstuff like what would I do without your

(41:30):
money? Penny? I write downstuff like guy gets pulled into us,
no blower spew's red blood and gotand Bond says he had a lot of
guts, dude. I laughed sohard. That was great, thought so
hard and clapped. Um. Iloved when Draco says, my apologies for

(41:51):
the way you were brought here.I wasn't sure you'd accept a formal invitation.
Bond says, there's always something formalabout the point of a pistol.
That's pretty great. I liked thatline of m I already talked about the
slight stiffness coming on now I see. I love this too. I love
this like you have a scene whereTracy is talking to Blowfeld and she says,

(42:13):
thy dawn, Oh master of theworld, Thy dawn for thee.
The sunlight creeps across the lawn forthee. The ships are drawn down to
the waves for the market's throng withmyriad slaves for thee. The hammer on
the anvil rings for thee. ThePoet of Begailment scenes and Peter Hunt had
brought screenwriter Simon Raven onto the projectto write scenes between Tracy and Blowfeld,

(42:39):
and apparently it was to make thedialogue better and sharper and more intellectual,
and he took the he adapted DoomPatrol. Nice. Sorry, I just
got a notification from TV Time onmy phone saying that Doom Patrol is starting
out season two. Ye. Sorry, anyway, So this Raven guy had

(43:05):
adapted a stanza from a play byJames Elroy Flecker from Hassan the story of
Hassan of Baghdad and how he cameto make the Golden Journey to Samarkand.
I love that you get that beautifullittle poem. But then you also have
Tracy in the same movie, afterher card getting a few rear incollisions,
goes, I hope my big endwill stand up to this. You can't

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either. That's just both sides ofme are being fed. Yeah, yeah,
that's awesome. I loved Blowfeld tellingTracy, now, if you're very,
very nice to me, I couldmake you my countess. She says,
but I'm already a countess, andhe says, whereas if you just
please me, I can promise youa very different estate. Oh girl,

(43:52):
girl, I love that. Ilove that. Tracy at some point tells
Bond, you're very sure of yourself. Farren't you suppose I were to kill
you for a thrill? Bond says, I can think of something more sociable
to do. I love that.Love that. Oh I did put down
that? Well, No I didn't, he says money. Bond says money,
pity. What would I do withoutyou? But she says, my

(44:13):
problem is that you never do anythingwith me. A great exchange. I
liked this one. Q says,Look, James, I know that we
haven't always seen exactly well anyway,don't forget if there's ever anything you need.
Bond says, thank you, Q. But this time I've got the
gadgets. And he looks at Tracyand says, and I know how to
use them. Oh nasty by um. And of course the last lines,

(44:44):
as Tracy's been shot, he says, it's all right, it's quite all
right. Really, she's having arest. We'll be going on soon.
There's no hurry, you see.We have all the time in the world.
And I love that shot. Ididn't talk about her. I love
that shot of the bullet hole throughthe wind. Though. Yeah, book
ending the film because at the beginningyou see you see you know, of

(45:06):
course the standard barrel of the gunshot, and then Bond turning and shooting,
and then to end it with thebullet through the glass having killed his wife.
That was yeah, that was great. That was putting in some drama
and emotion that has not been inthe other films. That was really good.

(45:30):
Dug it. I mean, wewe all had to assume that something
would happen because James Bond just Idon't think of him having a wife for
a long amount of time, youknow, I mean, like I figured
something was going to happen, butthey still did a really good job.
What was your favorite scene? Okay, my favorite scene, um was like

(45:53):
anything in the research Institute. Okay, just always. Your favorite scene is
anything a secret layer is favorite.Maybe it should have been like an architect
or something. Yeah, but maybe, but yeah, like I I just
I loved all of that, LikeI discussed it before. I Yeah,

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I just I loved just seeing thelayout. Um, just the furniture,
the design, the different hairstyles andclothing and all of that was awesome.
Yeah, I loved it. Myfavorite scene was the first scene, the
main the beach, yeah, fight, the car, the just everything.
The cinematography was gorgeous. I lovedall of that. I thought it was

(46:38):
really cool. What was your leastfavorite scene? Um, my least favorite
scene was, um, the skichase. Yeah, me too. It
was just so long. It wasvery long, and it was the worst
of the chase sequences. Like,yeah, it was weird, man,
you know, like at least withthe Bob sled chase. It was funny.

(47:00):
That one was also too long andit was completely ridiculous, but it
was still funny because they're in adank bob sled but just skiing down a
mountain. M Yeah, I don'tcare. What do you hope to see
going forward? Um? What Iwould have loved to have seen is more

(47:20):
Lasenby as Bond. Yeah, metoo, but I mean, going into
it, he already knew that hejust wanted to do this one thing,
right, Yeah, yeah, thereis some stuff going on, okay,
Okay, Um, I don't know. Maybe maybe I've cleansed to my palette
a little bit. Maybe I willfeel better about watching the next Connery the

(47:40):
next What is the next one thatwe're watching? Diamonds Are Forever? Okay?
Is that Connery's last one for awhile? Is his last one until
eighty three? Okay? All right, well that'll probably help a put.
I don't know anything about that one, guys, so I don't I don't
know if it's your favorite one.I don't know if it's your least favorite
one. I don't know. Idon't know what. I don't know anything

(48:05):
about what to expect with that one. Um, I can only hope that
it's better than UM, Thunderball andsome of our other less favorite films.
Um. I don't know what.Also, what I would like to see
going forward is more steps away fromthe formula, yeah, which I don't
think we're going to get. Honestly, I don't either. I think we're

(48:28):
going to get deeper into the formula. UM. But yeah, I would
have liked to have seen more Liasand be honestly yeah, uh yeah,
I don't think he was a badactor. We we had some feedback saying
he was wooden. I don't agree. I thought he did pretty well.
Yeah. Uh, you know,so I thought he had there seemed to
be more ticking behind his eyes thanwhat I've seen with connering a lot of

(48:50):
it. Yeah, well, italmost seems like Connery became comfortable with the
formula, and so it just almostseems some times like he's just going through
the motions because he knows what's happening, you know, like he wasn't really
pushed or challenged. After a while, it was just like the same old
thing. It was just like yougo into work and you know that,

(49:13):
like like, Okay, when Iworked at Subway, I got really sick
of just doing the same thing everysingle day, like all right, well,
I know that this is gonna happenat eight am. Yeah, I
know this is gonna happen at nine. I know we're gonna have a rush,
and then probably around two thirty,I'm gonna restock the chips, and
then we're gonna bake more bread andthen I'm gonna leave, you know.

(49:34):
Like it was just it was justalmost like the exact same thing every day
at the same time, and itjust it just almost seems sometimes like that's
what Connery is doing, like allright, Well. He also developed a
pretty contentious relationship with the producers.Yeah, so what rating are you going
to give this movie? I givethis one three point five Bob flood chases

(49:57):
out of five. I give itthree point five golden balls out of fire.
That's right. We didn't talk aboutthat. Dude, does he have
three balls? Four balls? That'sright? So I think, yes,
that is the indication that they gave. It's really weird. It is,
oh Hill, Now, Bret Bretton our Facebook group, our Breaking Bond

(50:21):
Facebook group, you can come andjoin us, and there's a lot of
conversation going on some without us.Honestly, because we just we can't do
it all, um, please joinus our yeah, our it has I
feel like it is like I wasgoing to make an announcement this this week
and say I'm sorry if we didn'tget to your feedback. There's a lot
of feedback. And we're not likewe don't have like a huge listener base,

(50:43):
but we get a lot of feedbackand it's awesome. And yes,
I love that there is conversation thatdoesn't even involve us. Yeah, so
thank you to everyone who was apart of that group, and thank you
for leaving feedback, for asking questions. Just you know, I think it's
great. Absolutely, So uh let'stalk about our ranking. Okay, yes,

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because brere Brett over in the faceit does. Brere Brett says prediction,
if the next movie doesn't become yourfavorite, it will become your second
favorite. And I struggled. Yeah, I really struggled because I was like,
do I like it better than Doctor? No? Do I like it
better than Goldfinger? And I justI fought I and I and it was

(51:27):
a tussle it. I struggled withdo I like it better than Goldfinger?
I knew that I definitely did notlike it better than Doctor No. Well,
I didn't consider Doctor No. Atfirst. I was just like,
oh no, that one's gonna thatone's gonna stay. And the further I
got away from having watched it,the more I was like thinking back on
it more and more positively, andI was like, you know, maybe,

(51:55):
so here's where I landed. Okay, Doctor No is still number one
for me. Yeah, and thebig upset is on Her Majesty's Secret Service
now replaces Goldfinger. I know Goldfinger. Doctor No and Goldfinger have been number
one and two for a long timethey have, so congratulations Lasin Behou and

(52:15):
Peter our Hunt so. And thennumber three is Goldfinger. Four from Russia
with Love, five, You OnlyLive Twice, six Thunderball, and of
course number seven do Royal Casino Royalsixty seven. Um mine is really similar

(52:37):
and it Yeah, Brett, Brett, you called it. And even when
I read your prediction, I waslike, it's not my favorite or my
second favorite. But no, dude, you're you're right. It has become
a second favorite. So doctor Nois number one, number two on Her
Majesty's Secret Service, Number three,Goldfinger, number four. I'm gonna say

(53:00):
you only live twice, okay,and number five is from Russia. Six
Thunderball seven Dodo Royale. You couldjust call it Casino Royal. You don't
have to call it Dudo Royale.I have to be true to my character,
David. This is who I amin real life. You know I
say this. I know you do. And then I'll just keep watching shows

(53:24):
like river Crap Stop. It's justlike, well, back to the salt
mines. I gotta watch Riverdale again. All right, let's get into some
trivia. I watch crap Spot.Gotta watch crap List. That's blind Spot
and Blacklist. Yeah, I don'tlike either show, but I've already invested

(53:45):
so much that I've got to keepwatching. I think you could probably invest
in figuring out some more clever titlesinstead of just saying doodoo and crap in
front of everything. That's my brand. I'm inconsistent. Oh, I could
bring in CoA. That might shakethings up a little bit. All right,

(54:08):
you are looking at me like youlove me and hate me, or
maybe it was your facial expression ismore of like a sense of all and
wonder of like how do I keeploving her? And I can't stop loving
her? That no? Oh,Okay, not that part, not that

(54:30):
how can I stop? No?I love you very much, but you
knew this about me before we gotmarried, about it years. You didn't
spring anything on I mean, isthere I don't even know if after dating

(54:50):
for that long, if there wasanything we could have even sprung on each
other. There weren't many secrets thatwe discovered anyway. All right, let's
get some trivia. This movie.They lowered the budget from nine million to
seven million, seven million. Itmade eighty two million, so the net
profit margin was ninety one point fourto six percent. The net profit was

(55:15):
seventy five million, profit percentage onethousand and seventy one point forty three percent,
so still a pretty great profit,but not as high as the other
ones. And I guess I'll talka little bit about it in a little
bit, but this movie was consideredto be a flop at the time.
Wow, it totally was. Itmade like over ten percent, sorry,

(55:37):
over ten times what their budget was. Like it was not a flop.
But it's just like, it's interestingto see that the same thing was happening
the same like skewed perception was happeningback then, that's happening now. Like
if a superhero movie doesn't make abillion dollars, doesn't make like in game
level money, everyone's like it werethe flop? Yeah, or or if

(56:00):
people just uh dare I bring upBatman versus Superman? Yeah? Yeah,
just because people didn't like it likemovie people didn't. Yeah, some people
like me think it is their favoritesuperhero movie. I liked it. I
also liked it. Um and I'lleven say this, which is a very

(56:22):
unpopular opinion that people will not appreciate. I will I liked BVS better than
I liked Civil War. I did, and I'm not. I also always
say, like, I get frustratedwhen people are constantly comparing Marvel to DC
movies and vice versa. Um,I guess I'm just using that comparison because

(56:46):
both movies had a lot of similarqualities. Yes, and they came out
very close to each other. Um, so that's why I'm saying that.
But yeah, um oh yeah,I was like, why did I bring
this up in the first place?Um, just because a lot of people
don't like a movie doesn't mean youcan just say that it was a flop.

(57:08):
Yeah, Like it made lots andlots of money. M hm.
So anyway. Yeah, So duringfilming at his Gloria, the cast and
crew received their pre deems in cash, and Telly Savalas saw George Lazenbie with
a suitcase full of cash, andhe invited him to a late night poker

(57:29):
game, Oh my god, thathe regularly held with crew members and oh
it wasn't very very yeah, veryquickly relieved Lazenbie of having to carry so
much extra week. Oh no.And upon hearing this, producer Harry Staltzman
or Saltzman, visited the location,joined the game over Sebalis's protests, and
one back lizense Be's money, andthen told Sebalis in no inn certain terms

(57:52):
that he was not to victimize hisboy again. That's awesome. Yeah,
that's great, says. There aremany reasons why Lasenby only made one appearance
as James Bond, according to theDVD documentary. Here's some of the main
reasons. One Lazenby's youthful cockiness rankledAlbert R. BROCCOLI's nerves. One incident

(58:15):
mentioned is Lazenby skiing down the slopeson his own and that resulted in him
breaking his arm and a moment ofarrogance on Lazenbie's part of the Spoiled a
cast and crew party two, thenotoriously harsh British tabloids writing up unfavorable stories
about Lasmby and how he fails tomeasure up to Connery, there by swaying
public opinion against the movie before itwas released. Yeah that'll really discourage a

(58:37):
person YEP. One incident cited byLazenby was during an interview with a reporter
in The Commissary, in which DianaRigg that was Tracy jokingly yelled from across
the room, I'm having garlic forlunch, Darling. I hope you are
too. This led to an articlewhere they claimed that Rigg hated Lasenby so
much that she eats garlic before lovescenes. Oh geez. Three. La

(59:00):
believed that the Bond film franchise wasover in the wake of more sophisticated movies
like The Graduate and Easy Writer andThe tuxedo Clad Secret Agent was out of
touch with the newly liberated nineteen seventies. He mentioned to his agent that he
wasn't sure if he wanted to playBond again. Even before this movie was
released. The producers heard this,and we're none too pleased. Lasenby had

(59:21):
been offered a seven movie deal andhad signed a letter of intent to star
in Diamonds Are Forever. He hadeven been paid an initial fee installment,
which he later refunded. And someclaim this movie was a box office failure,
but it was in fact a hugehit yea ten times as cost so
Jez Who was the second highest grossingmovie of the year at the worldwide box

(59:45):
office. I wonder how things wouldhave been different if Lasaby would have gone
through with the seven movies. Wewe wouldn't have had Roger Moore. That's
we wouldn't have had. There's well, I can tell you some we would
have. Peter our Hunt would havecome back to direct the sequel, because
before Lazenbee quit, it like theyplanned on ending this movie with him driving

(01:00:08):
off Tracy and that's hit and thenthe next movie was going to begin with
Blowfeld and Bunt oh gosh, killingTracy the same way they did in this
movie, and then him going afterthem. So but because he left,
Peter our Hunt left. Yeah,you know, there's some alternate universe where

(01:00:28):
he did go through with all ofthose films. Oh yeah, And I
want I would want to see whatthose films are like compared to the ones
that we have in this universe.Me too. Lazenby suggested to see where
bon skis off of a cliff andopens a parachute that was scrapped because they
didn't have the resources to pull itoff, but they used it as the

(01:00:49):
opening for The Spy Who Loved Mein nineteen seventy seven. Oh Night,
that sounds cool. Probably would havemade it a little less boring, so
Asby or Bond passes a janitor inDraco's headquarters and the janitor is whistling the
goldfinger thing. Nice I didn't noticethat. Yep, that's super. This

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is one of the most faithful adaptationsof any Inflaming novel. Virtually everything in
the book occurs in the movie.Staying so close to the source actually caused
some continuity problems due to the differentorder of the movies. For example,
in this movie, James Bond andBlowfield seemed to be meeting for the first
time despite having met face to facein the movie version of You Only Live
Twice, some details are different.Count Blowville has changed to Count blow Shop,

(01:01:32):
and Ruby Windsor became Ruby Bart.Sorry, Ruby Barrett. The situations
of Bond's taking a leave of absenceand his discovery of Blowfield are different.
Tracy is not kidnapped. Blowfield iscompletely different in appearance from Telly Savalas,
being described as having long, silverywhite hair. What is an aquiline?
What is that word? Aqua lineknows? I don't know, aqua line.

(01:01:58):
I have to know what this word. I meant to look it up
earlier and I didn't. I ama crappy host hey like an eagle.
Oh, I've never heard that wordbefore me either. Man. That is
such hooked curved a nicer way ofsaying bird nose anyway, So birdlike nose,

(01:02:21):
A wrinkled forehead, a slender body, a nostril that has been eaten
away by tertiary syphilis, oh mygods. And no earlobes. Oh jeez.
Sobalis's Blowfeld has none of these features. He doesn't even have a European
accent. However, his nostrils haven'tbeen eaten away by syphilis, and he

(01:02:45):
doesn't even have an accent. However, his earlobes were clipped back to serve
a plot element the producers originally intendedto explain the change of lead actors in
this movie by saying that Bond hadundergone plastic surgery because his old face was
now two well known by foreign spiesand terrorists for him to go undercover.
But they then decided not to referto the change at all, and thus

(01:03:06):
hopefully to thus hopefully minimize and minimize, minimize the public attention being paid to
Lazenbes replacing of Connery. However,of course, then then after the opening
sequence he openly addresses it to theaudience. So what was the point.
Yeah, give him plastic surgery.Yeah, I think that would have been

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cool and make sense. Yep.The theme we Have all the Time in
the World was the last thing thatLouis Armstrong ever recorded. He died two
years later. It was also thefirst theme song in the film franchise not
to include the movie's title as partof the lyrics. Connery later said he
would have preferred to do a Bondmovie like this one as opposed to you
only lived twice. Oh you know, that's also really sorry. That's also

(01:03:52):
really eerie that the theme is wehave all the time in the world.
And then yeah, of course hedied two years later. This is the
last time that John Barry's original DoctorNo arrangement of the James Bond theme would
be used on screen. It would, however, continue to be used in
trailers, etc. As laid asLicense to Kill An eighty nine. According
to Lasenby, he and a crewmember played a prank on Angela Scowler,

(01:04:15):
who played Ruby, the Bond girlwho writes her room number on the inside
of James Bond's bare thigh. Thecrew member warmed a sausage and they put
it under Bond's kilt. When sheput her hand into the kilt, she
is ever the professional and hardly reacts, oh my gosh, that's disgusting.
Ye cancel. Lazenby having secured asuit ordered but uncollected by Sir Sean Connery

(01:04:42):
and getting a rolex and haircut likehim, George Lasby talked his way into
a meeting with producer Albert R.Broccoli, producer Harry Saltzman, and director
Peter R. Hunt. After bluffinghis way through the meeting and falsely claiming
he had wide acting credits, hesecured a screen test. Lazenby then confess
to Hunt that he had made itall up and that he wasn't an actor.

(01:05:04):
Hunt laughed and told him, youjust strolled in here and managed to
fool two of the most ruthless bastardsin the business. You're an actor.
Wow. He did have a littlebit of acting experience, according to IMDBM
he, I mean he had donesome commercials, Yeah, I AMDB says

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his only film experience was a bitpart in a nineteen sixty five Italian made
Bond spoof, which I'm really interestedin checking out. Yeah, have any
of you guys watched it? Doyou know what that is? What the
Italian made Bond spoof is? Yeah, I'm curious. I'd like to watch
it just to see him in it. That sounds interesting unless it's like Casino

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Royale. I don't want to seethat kind of Bond spoof ever. Again.
M well, yeah, that's greatman. So, I mean,
it sounds like he really wanted thatrole and like he was fighting for it.
Yep. He apparently he went tothe same Taylor and barber that worked
with Connery, so when he showedup at Broccoli and Saltzman's production offices,

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he looked more like Connery and Broccoliwas even president at the barbershop. When
Lazabi showed up for the haircut.Yeah. Coincidentally, but yeah, totally
got him the role. That's great. While cracking open a safe in the
Swiss lawyer's office, James Bond readsa copy of Playboy magazine. This is
a nod to the fact that OnHer Majesty's Secret Service first appeared in Playboy.

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It was the first of Ian Fleming'sJames Bond novels to be serialized in
the magazine, appearing in the Maynineteen sixty three issue. It was followed
by a serialized, shortened version ofthe novel You Only Lived Twice in the
April nineteen sixty four issue. Interestingso, certain filming techniques appeared in the
James Bond film franchise for the firsttime. In this movie slow Motion,

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when Bond is knocked out in hisbedroom, flashback Bond remembering Tracy being captured
and breaking the fourth wall. Yeah. Though it seems to be a self
referential remark, is it also hasa meaning in the context of the story,
which I liked. The title wasa corruption of a very familiar phrase
known to most British people for manydecades. All correspondent sent from government departments

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the Tax Office, Social Services,etc. Arrived in envelopes which did not
have a stamp but had the wordson her and is when there was a
male monarch Majesty's service printed on theenvelope meat yep. And one of our
listeners wrote in that same piece oftrivia, whose name I don't David Waye

(01:07:38):
yep. I think it was DavidWayne. I'm pretty sure it was.
Yeah. The motto orbius non sufficitgiven to Bond when he researches his own
coat of arms before impersonating Hilary Brayis Latin for the world is not Enough,
which was used as a Bond movietitle. In nineteen ninety nine.
Let Timothy Dalton was offered the partof James Bond, but turned it down,
feeling that at twenty two he wastoo young and relatively inexperienced to take

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the role. Dalton played Bond inThe Living Daylights in eighty seven and License
to Kill in eighty nine. Wow, twenty two that is oh, um,
tell our listeners who you would liketo see play James Bond. You
just told me this week. Doyou remember Quentin Lance, Oh, Paul
Blackthorne from Arrow? Yeah, Yeah, he's British or of some sort of

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English sounding language. Yeah, thatwould be cool down for that. Yeah,
I'd be down with it obviously.Elsa Steppitt's only English language role was
as Irma Bunt in this movie.She was not able to enjoy her new
success. She died of a heartattack less than a week after the release
of the movie. Oh My Gosh. The character of Irma Bunt was intended
to return in the release Sorry inthe next James Bond movie, Diamonds Are

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Forever, but because of her deathshe did not. Oh Wow. Connery
was offered a then very large salaryof one million dollars to make this movie,
but he declined the movie one milliondollars. That would have been one
seventh of the entire budget. That'scrazy, yep, that is a huge
amount compared to the full budget.This movie performed admirably, out grossing its

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nearest competitor almost two to one ofthe US box office, where according to
Variety, it was the most popularmovie in the world for four solid weeks.
It generated enough rentals at the boxoffice to claim ninth position on the
box office chart for nineteen seventy.The persistent belief that it was a flopper
rises from early from its earnings incomparison to the previous three Sean Connery movies,

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all of which made more than onehundred million dollars worldwide, whereas this
movie grows to eighty seven million dollarsworldwide. Yeah, so that's what I
was talking about earlier too. DonaldPleasance was replaced as Ernst Stavro Blowfield because
producer Albert R. Broccoli and directorPeter R. Huntfeld he was unsuited to

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the more physical side of the role. Come on physical, what a Bob's
led? Yep. Lazenby said heexperienced difficulties during shooting, not receiving any
coaching despite his lack of acting experience, and with director Peter R. Hunt
never addressing him directly, only throughhis assistant. Lazenby also declared that Hunt

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also asked the rest of the crewto keep a distance from him, as
Peter thought the more I was alone, the better I would be as James
Bond. Yep where ads for Youonly Live twice loudly touted Sean Connery is
James Bond. The marketing for thismovie downplayed the name of the replacement actor
completely. This is the last timethat the name of the actor playing Bond

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appears below the title, and inseveral of the ads for the movie,
there is an image of a facelessBond. Since George Lazenby was a virtual
unknown when he was cast as Bond, initial teaser advertising for the movie emphasized
the Bond character rather than the actorplaying him. United artists would later say
that this marketing strategy was a mistakewhich hurt the movie's performance at the box

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office. Willie Bogner performed some spectacularskiing feats for the filming of chase sequences
for this movie. These included skiingbackwards downhill with a handheld camera, sometimes
placing it between his legs, andbeing towed behind a bob slid along the
course. Man, that's awesome,someone I should have filmed that. Yep,

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see Lazmbie or Bond tells Draco regardingTeresa or Tracy, her price is
far above rubies or even your millionpounds. The first six words are from
Proverbs thirty one ten, which describesa worthy woman. That's awesome. Yeah.
Adam West, a personal friend ofAlbert Broccoli, was offered the part
of James Bond. West said thathe was very tempted, but he ultimately

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turned it down, feeling that therole should be played by an English actor.
That would have been interesting. Thatwould have been respect Sorry, I
respect his reason for turning it downthough. Yeah, but that would have
been great to see. Yeah,I would have liked to have seen it.
Yeah. The sequence where James Bondfinds Tracy waiting for him in his
hotel suite has been used as anaudition scene for actors trying for the role

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of James Bond, just like whenWhat's her Face shows up in from Russia
with love in his hotel room.Oh yeah. This was once the longest
Bond movie at two hours and twentytwo minutes, holding the record for about
thirty seven years until the release ofCasino Royal in two thousand and six,
which ran for about two to fourminutes longer. Specter then became the longest

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running Bond movie, running four minuteslonger than Casino Royal. However, at
one hundred and sixty three minutes,No Time to Die is now the longest
running Bond movie of all time.All right, well, this gives me
a little bit of home for thenext several At the next thirty seven years
worth of movies. But the thingabout like, I don't know, but
Casino Royale was pretty great from whatI remember. So yeah, sorry,

(01:12:57):
my throat is messed up, y'all. I don't know what's going on.
A drink? Can I have somehome? Bring your own? I did,
but it's just water. You havesoaked? Du I have diet mountain
dew ah, bring your own?An't Tessa hate she's touching my face?

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I don't. I don't know ifthat look on her face is you are
a chair and I love you,or if the look on her face says
you will die swiftly this night.No, the look on my face was
I love you. Keep reading?Fair enough, Let's continue fair enough.

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This was originally going to be thefourth Bond movie, however, Thunderball was
filmed instead after the ongoing rights disputeover the novel We're Settled between Fleming and
McClory. It was due to followthat, but problems with a warm Swiss
winter and inadequate snow cover led tothe producers postponing the movie again, favoring
production of You Only Lived Twice MakesSense. Lazabie made only one James Bond

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movie. Despite being offered a sevenmovie contract. He made two appearances as
Bond. This was the first.The second was in the Return of The
Man from Uncle the fifteen years lateraffair, where he helped Napoleon Solo,
who was another Flaming creation, andIlya Nikovich Koyakin Okay in a street fight
from his car. Admittedly, heis uncredited as James Bond in favor of

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an abbreviation JB, but his performanceis so obviously Bondish that it's impossible for
him to not be James Bond.No, it's possible. All of the
elements are there, A tuxedo,Walter PBK, cool equipped persona, and
Aston Martin. Only the girl ismissing. I think I might watch The
Man from Uncle. I mean,if we can find it, I'll watch

(01:14:56):
it. Yeah, you know,one of the I don't know. I
can't remember if I have this oneor not. I'm looking over there and
it's obscured by a joker cup.But you know, they did um a
crossover with The Man from Uncle.No, I don't think I have that
one. I do, then Ihave it on my wish list. There's
a The Batman is Batman sixty sixMeets the Man from Uncle crossover. Yeah,

(01:15:19):
that's really cool comic book series ina trade paperback, I've got sixty
six Meets the Green Hornet And yeah, they did a bunch of things,
but I really liked it when ThePunisher was in an issue of Archie Comics.
Yep, all right, but butbut but during filming, by the

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way, that Return of the Manfrom Uncle bit uh. David Wayne,
I think posted it on our Facebookgroup. Oh cool, So you guys
can go there and request membership andI'll let you in and you can see
that. That's kind of stuff youget in that group. I'm just saying.
Who During filming, George Lazenby wasfooling around on horseback and caused Bernard

(01:16:01):
Lee to fall into a fence andtear his leg open. Oh gee,
that's the guy played him. Asno doctor was available, the local vets
dished up the gash. Oh mygosh, they didn't they didn't have a
medic n Oh geez. Kevin McCloryconsidered casting George Lazenby as James Bond and
Never Say Never Again, but Lasenbywas dropped from consideration when Sean Connery confirmed
that he wanted to do it.Peter R. Hunt originally wanted to direct

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You Only Lived Twice, but whenthat assignment was given to Lewis Gilbert,
he walked off the franchise and wenton in a Round the World trip.
Ironically, he was in Tokyo whenhe bumped into Albert Broccoli and Gilbert,
who were prepping You Only Live Twice. Broccoli asked Hunt to direct the second
unit on that movie, with thepromise of directing this movie. That's interesting,
which is, yeah, that's interestingbecause previously other trivia has said that

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they were so impressed with his quickeredit of the last movie that they gave
him this movie to direct. Soyeah, Ryan Asault, who knows between
the resignation of Connery at the beginningof filming He Only Lived Twice? In
its release, Producer Saltzman had plannedto adapt to The Man with the Golden

(01:17:10):
Gun in Cambodia and used Sir RogerMoore as the next Bond, but political
instability meant the location was ruled out, and more signed up for another season
of The Saint. I like howlike they've they've It's just like the same
staple of guys they keep looking atit's like, oh, we might do
you know, David Nevin, nomSean Connery, we might do u.

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Roger Moore there, you know,I'll believe him. He's the saying,
you know, I can't do thesame. How about Timothy Dalton. Yeah,
this has just been the same leggroup of guys. It seems like
forever. Yeah, Peter Hunt wantedto direct Diamonds or forever and what have
I actually talked about this? SoI'll skip it. Cameraman John Jordan developed

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a special helicopter harness for filming aerialshots of the mountain slopes and the action
sequences. He hung eighteen feet belowthe chopper from a large, round metal
support apparatus. No thank you,no sir. This is the only James
Bond movie where he goes to Portugal, and that's where Ian Fleming was inspired
by Casino do Esto reel to createCasino Royal, the first Bond novels Very

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Cool. Director Peter Hunt was reportedto always enter the set carrying an annotated
copy of the novel. This isthe final time until for Your Eyes Only
in nineteen eighty one, that JamesBond would be seen tossing his hat He
does it twice in this movie,the ritualistic one in Miss Moneypenny's office and
again at the wedding ceremony to MissMoneypenny. There was originally a foot chase

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in this movie. Bond was tosee one of Blowfeld's hingemen spying on his
meeting with Sir Hilary Bray and pursehim across. I guess that's supposed to
pursue him across the rooftops of London, eventually catching up to him and beating
him to death. That sounds awesome, Like, why can't they keep that
chase? Saying due to time constraintsand delays, it was ever filmed.

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God, I'd love to say that. According to a DVD documentary, during
filming, the producers wanted to knowhow George Lazenby looked in action. Yeah,
I talked to you. I toldyou about this. Hunt director Peter
Hunt asked stunt arranger George Leech totest his action. During the fight sequence,
lasin Be fought with the stunt manfor real. He had not learned

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how to withhold the punch and injureda Russian wrestler by busting his nose open.
The crew were impressed with the actionsequence, John Barry opten to use
more electrical instruments and more aggressive soundin the music. He says, I
have to stick my oar in themusical area double strong to make the audience

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try and forget that they don't havesean to be Bondian beyond Bondian yep.
For the cinematography, Peter Hunt aimedfor a simple but glamorous like the nineteen
fifties Hollywood films I grew up with, as well as something realistic where the
sets don't look like sets. Ithink he succeeded in that. Yes,
I do us. I want tolive in the research instituo. I do

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too, but not not the skislopes part. I don't want to have
to. I wanted to be onthe ground. Yeah, and in America.
I mean, I wouldn't mind.Living in Switzerland is great. I
just can't imagine there being a Walmartaround yep. We needs the Walmarts YEP

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and chick fil a YEP. ProducerAlbert Broccolie wanted to cast Jeremy Brett is
James Bond after seeing him in MyFair Lady. Brett ultimately declined the role,
saying It's the sort of role youcannot afford to turn down. But
I think it would have spoiled mylife if I had got it. Wow.
Oh. Lazimbi is the last Bondactor to perform the gun barrel sequence

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with a hat, although Diamonds areforever reused the gun barrel sequence from Thunderball
and You Only Live Twice due toSean Connery's return in the role, the
sequence would soon be filmed with nohat when Roger Moore took over the role
in Live and Let Die. Sothe alternate title in China Norway seven sees
the snow mountain castle like that thatis awesome while shooting director Peter r Hunt

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one of the most interesting framings possible, which would also look good after being
crops for Television talked about that ina Little Bit. Bond's courtship of Tracy,
as well as the mountain setting formuch of the action, inspired elements
of the first appearance of rayshaw Gulin Batman's in Batman Comics and Daughter of
the Demon from Batman two thirty two. Rayshaw Gul kidnaps Robin in order to

(01:21:34):
force Batman to help rescue his daughterTalia from kidnappers. The story's climax features
a chase in the snow similar tothat of On Her Majesty's Secret Service,
albeit with the action move to theHimalayas. This movie is also one of
Dark Knight Trilogy director Christopher Nolan's favoritefilms. Cool and an admitted influence on
the climatic battle and inception. AndI've got a piece of trivia that's interesting

(01:21:58):
that I know David Wayne asked meabout. David Wayne asked me about it.
Oh, yeah, the Telly Savalishas Blowfield inspired uh Pauldini and Bruce
tim to base their version of LexLuthor and Superman the animated series the way
they did like Clancy Brown did thevoice of that version, And it really
is it's just Telly Savalis has Blowfieldin a lot of ways, which is

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a lot of fun. Yeah,that's really cool. We got a little
bit of listener feedback from last week, and by a little bit, I
mean five pages where watch out Marvel'sCinematic Ers podcast. Yeah, we're gonna
start doing an hour and a halflong episodes of just feedback. No we're
not. We're gonna start cutting backon feedback, all right, so on

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Her Majesty's Secret Service. David Waynesays, uh, well, he mentioned
Telly Savalas, so I just talkedabout that, and he does want to
know what you thought of the LexLU four because I told him I showed
you. Oh yeah, I couldtotally see the resemblance. Um. Also,
I sincerely mean this in a complimentaryway. Congratulations to you Dave and

(01:23:13):
to you David for being such nerdsthat you both knew that that's not an
consult at all. Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome that you guys knew.
If you don't know, if youguys out there don't know this, I
do a show called DC on Screen, UM. And David Wayne listens to
the DC on Screen and said,do you know the thing that would that
really ties this show and DC onScreen together? And I totally did.

(01:23:38):
I'm like, oh yeah that.You were like, I don't mean,
I don't really know what he couldbe talking about unless he's talking about the
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And then you said that, and
David Wayange was like, Yep,that was it. Yeah, it's not
Lex Luthor in general, it's justthe Superman the animated series version um and

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he says, you'll probably find thisin Trivia yourself, but this is such
a quaint fact that it bears repeatingon her. Majesty's Secret Service is the
only Bond film that's both set entirelyin Europe and filmed entirely in Europe.
For your eyes only came close.The plot was set in Britain, Italy
or Albania and Greece, but theunderwater diving scenes were filmed in the Bahamas.
So yeah, no, I didn'tinclude that in the Trivia because I

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knew you had told us about it. There you go and there you be.
As they say, Joe Fornarado says, why did they think these movies
needed to be two hours and twentyminutes long? They're not entertaining enough for
that, and there is some goodstuff in this one, but it's too
slow. Ironically, the fight's beingsped up as obnoxious too. But if

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they weren't, it'd be two hoursand thirty minutes. I agree. I
have already said that towards the beginningof this episode. I agree, And
as you have heard, we bothreally liked this movie, and yes it
was too long. Yeah, Iwas sure it was, and I thought
this fight's being sped up looked prettygood. Honestly, like I thought they

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were. They were better than theprevious attempts to do such things. Matthew
salvatory at Pure Genius Lego. Matthewis awesome. By the way, Matthew's
a you know, a really greatlistener and makes these cool little stop motion
lego animation films like so yeah,go check go check him out. Pure
Genius Lego says, your show ispodcasting gold. Hey, that's awesome.

(01:25:30):
H Matthew listens to DC on screenas well, so cool. Well,
thanks for listening to us, Matthew, good fellow. Then Joe Fararado again
says at David c. Roberson talkingto me on Twitter, be honest,
are you regretting starting Breaking Bond becausethe movies aren't good as I as good

(01:25:54):
as I expected. I'm enjoying thepodcast way more than the movies. Thanks.
That does not speak well of themovie, but thank you so much.
Then he goes on, Okay,so when I wrote that earlier,
I had to stop about an hourin the movie. The final hour in
twenty minutes was excellent. I'm reallydisappointed we don't get another Lives and b
movie now. Yes, he saysit's slow at times, but I definitely

(01:26:14):
enjoyed this particular one more than Iexpected. Yeah, I agree, I
agree, And that's cool that youwatched on Her Majesty's Secret Service for the
first time. Recently, m absolutelyover to you only live twice. David
Wayne says, I wonder what Blowfieldwas saying in Japanese when he barked at
the Japanese volcano tech guy and hiscat was clawing out his arm. Okay,

(01:26:36):
So I sent this clip to yoursister Christie and was like, what
does Blowfield saying in Japanese? Shesays. I listened over and over and
it doesn't sound like actual Japanese unlessmaybe he's trying to say doko nemo,
which means nowhere. I don't knowhow that would make sense. No.
She also asked if we had captionsfor it, and I didn't have captions

(01:26:57):
for it. So that was wherewe left that conversation. Poor kitty,
poor sweet baby. Oh for therecord, let's go back to was it
Joe Fornarado? Okay, his questiondo you regret starting breaking bond? You
did not answer that. I didn't, I don't think so. Oh,
yes, No, I don't regretstarting breaking Bond. I think they have

(01:27:21):
been better than I expected them tobe. Yeah, I don't regret it
at all. And Um, forevery bad movie we watch, that just
puts us one step closer to watchingbetter ones. I think. So,
I'm really I'm looking forward to seeingUM just for the sake of comparison,

(01:27:41):
like just seeing how each different actorplays BONDUM. And I feel like I'm
really looking forward to Daniel Craig's moviesjust because they're the newest. So I
feel like, because they're the newest, surely they will be the best,
right Like they That's how my brainis trained, lating that because it will
have the newest technology, it'll havethe newest special effects technology, It'll have

(01:28:06):
like hopefully it'll be less sexist.I feel like, hopefully the storylines will
be better. Maybe they're I'm reallyhoping that they're going to break that formula
at some point. I know Ihave, well, they will largely break
some of that in Casino Royale.I feel like, yeah, but it's
been two thousand and six since I'veseen that, And also, you know,

(01:28:30):
I haven't kept up but I knowI've seen people complain on Twitter about
someone getting fridged in one of thecurrent ones. I don't care about that
generally though. If your protagonist isa man, yeah, sometimes you got
a frigi lady to advance his character. And if the protagonist is a female,

(01:28:50):
sometimes you got a fridgi guy tolook. Have you ever seen Alias,
Like I haven't, Okay, Aliasis. I haven't seen Alias except
for the first episode. The firstepisode, like she's a secret agent and
it's Jennifer Garner. I can't standJennifer Garner. I can't stand there.
But the first episode she has thislike husband or fiance or something, and

(01:29:14):
she's like gonna quit the thing.And then she or maybe she is,
I can't remember, but her husbandor whatever gets killed, like they kill
them, and that's like her wholecharacter motivation is like this fridged husband.
So I you know, I don'tI don't really care. I just don't.
Like I'm all for women being protagonistsin movies and fridging men if you
need to. It doesn't bother me. You know, if you gotta,

(01:29:38):
you gotta person fridge them if yougot if if they have like you know,
if they If you need to needto motivate a character and you don't
know how to do it, killingsomebody's a great way to motivate them,
just like you. It's just likelike there's a there's a thing, there's
like a trope in sitcoms, allright where you all off the parents,

(01:30:01):
Party of five, Party of five? Um, I mean, what was
the facts of life? Didn't theydo that? Weren't they weren't they all
like orphans or something? I don'tthink. I think they were just at
a boarding school for that. Whatwas the what was the one where everybody
was had where we're like orphans andthey were with that red headed lady or
I don't know, different strokes.Maybe I don't know. I don't know.

(01:30:24):
I'm sorry, yeah, I don'tknow. But there are lots of
sitcoms where the parents are dead,okay, and I the first thing that
came to mind was Hogan Family,but that started off as Valerie and that
doesn't count because it started out withboth parents and then there was this contract
dispute and they were like Valley BurtonElli or whatever her name was, is

(01:30:44):
like, you can't do the showwithout me, And they were like watch
me yikes. Uh and the showwent for like They're like, we'll get
Sandy Duncan and we still got JasonBateman. So that's the guy. Anyway,
It wasn't Valley Burton, Elly BurtonLady. I can't say that name
either. It wasn't her. Idon't think it was um lady from Rhoda

(01:31:08):
like roo, yeah, oh name, I'll look it up, okay.
Anyway, the reason I'm going offon tangents the reason that they start shows
off by with parents being dead,mothers or fathers or parents. Full House,
Oh, Valerie Harper, Harper,that was the name I was trying
to find. Harper. Oh yeah, full House and Fuller House. Oh

(01:31:30):
yeah yeah. But the reason theydo that is because to get an audience
to like the protagonist, you haveto start them out in a position where
the protagonist has gone through, hasexperienced and survived the audience's greatest fear.
The death of a parent is oneof the greatest fears. Yeah uh,

(01:31:53):
that that people have. So itmakes the protagonist instantly more likable. Yeah.
Shows that do that are instantly morewait, much more likely to succeed
in the long run. So plusyou get um like emotions involved right at
the start. I mean, especiallywith Party of Five. And I'm just

(01:32:14):
I'm just naming that one because Iwatched that entire series a few years ago,
so it was it's sort of fresh. But yeah, I mean,
like it starts out with like Charlieor as we like to call him,
got Charlie, the oldest sibling,just like seriously struggling to take care of

(01:32:38):
the rest of his brothers and sisters. Yeah. Yeah, so I mean,
like you just and and they're allstill mourning the loss of their parents.
I think it happened pretty recently whenthe show starts. Yeah, so
like they're none of them are overit yet. Yeah, they're just trying
to, like the writers and producersare trying to manipulate you emotion to get

(01:33:00):
your money, to get your getyour viewership. They got it. And
then throughout throughout the entire rest ofthe series what I think it was like
five seasons long. Yeah, um, and then then that also sets up
a storyline where that is something theycan always refer back to throughout the entire
series, especially because all of thekids were so young when it happened,

(01:33:20):
It's going to affect each of themdifferently, um, and so like for
Claudia and Julia, you know,they can always say things like maybe that's
why Julia has certain relationships that don'twork out very well, because she misses
her dad so much that she justneeds some kind of male presence in her

(01:33:43):
life. Right, So yeah,that I understand that, Like I remember
being a gold digger. She wasn'ta gold digger. She was just like
I need presents from males. Ineed presents from you. Did that thing
with the word yep I show did. But anyway, I mean that you
look at like the Death Wish movies. It's just like they're like whole you

(01:34:03):
know, cemeteries in that universe thatare just like the and they don't even
have gravestones, they just have refrigerators. Wow. Because everybody that the Charles
Bronson comes into contact with is likehas to be murdered so he can go
on some sort of killing spree.They're not even trying. By the end
of the series. It's like,you know, when his third cousin's neighbor's

(01:34:25):
dog gets hit by mafia car.Oh and I just just recently, like
as of yesterday, finished the entireseries of Monk all eight seasons. Yep.
I mean anyone who has watched anyMonk, not even the whole show.
Yeah, you know that Trudy Monk'slate wife is heavily, heavily involved

(01:34:50):
in that show. I mean justabout every episode he mentions Trudy, and
her death was even more significant.And when she was alive, I think
like he just yeah, that justimpacts him so so so much. Yep,
and it makes a sympathetic towards him. Yep. And she I believe

(01:35:13):
when the show starts, she haddied four years prior to the pilot,
so it wasn't like a super recentthing, but she had already she had
already been killed a few years before. Yeah. Anyway, anyway, all
right, Ohola, thank you forpointing it now, David Wayne, says
Bethany a bit of feedback. I'msurprised that wasn't read aloud on air,

(01:35:38):
which I don't remember the feedback showingup anywhere else. I'm sorry. What
do you, David and your sistermake of those camera footage of the helicopter
picking up the car with a magnetand later the rocket footage, both achievable
in universe only by floating cameras inair and in outer space. The final
self destruct moment was the censure forme. They're making a lot of outer

(01:36:00):
space footage already, so why don'tthey mount the cameras on Spector's Bird one
rocket filming the American rocket they intendto swallow up, then have the rocket
explode in space and cut back tobond in the room and the camera feed
gone static because it all blew up. Um yeah, I didn't notice honestly
that, like there was actually noway for us to be like they didn't.

(01:36:24):
There was no way for them tohave had cameras where they were like
stationed where how with the angle andstuff, so it would have to be
fake. Um yeah, I didn't. Yeah, I'm I'm a dullard.
I'm a dullard. I didn't notice. But I do notice stuff like in

(01:36:45):
like Star Trek three, whereas likethey go to like look at the security
footage and it's like perfect, likethe just like the automatic security cameras like
just know how to do perfect cinematographyfrom Wrath of Collin and you know,
it was like, oh, lookthey're cutting between like there is cutting to
like sequentially tell a story, Likethose are really supposedicate to security cameras.

(01:37:09):
That's that's a really dope AI thatthe Enterprise computers the security cameras of God.
Yeah, alright, um. BretBrett says, one thing nobody notices
about this film wouldn't make more senseto steal space capsules from just one country.
Then it looks a lot less obviousthan it's a that is a third
party just still the American ones,so stupid. Yeah, And I know

(01:37:32):
that you and David and some ofthe people had a whole conversation about this.
And my feeling is generally that someof these James Bond movies feel a
little bloated, like they just wantto make it more complicated than it needs
to be. But you know,I guess, yeah, Spector did want

(01:37:54):
to just take over everything, SoI don't know. Um. Over to
Casino Royal sixty seven, Sherman Smithsays, just heard the Casino Royal spoof
episode. This comedy was the worstcomedy I've seen since Soul Plane. Soul
Plane, I never I never sawa soul Plane myself, never made it

(01:38:23):
to that one. The trailer mademade me want to die a little bit.
It was just so bad and uh, yeah, I don't know,
he says, looking forward to biggerand better things. Though, God,
I hope so. Yeah, onher Majesty's Secret Service is pretty great.

(01:38:43):
I mean everything has been better thanCasino Royale. Now I kind of want
to watch Soul Plane to see ifit's better. Maybe just watch a trailer,
and I've seen the trailer. Iknow it looks bad. I know
it looks bad. Um. Anyway, over to Thunderball, Kyoki Young says,
thanks for inviting me to the group. I've been enjoying the podcast,

(01:39:04):
to which I came from the StarTrek Universe podcast. Hey, that's mine
too, having come from the MCUpodcast That's not mine. It's interesting for
me to hear opinions about the Bondfilms from new viewers, as I've been
watching them faithfully since childhood. ThoughThunderball is not necessarily one of my favorites,
I felt your review of it wasa bit harsh. Like any movie

(01:39:25):
solo, it is best considered inthe context of its time. Send them
A. Pacing has sped up markedlyin the past several decades. The original
Star Wars, for example, seemssomewhat slow these days. When it was
first released. However, it wasquite thrilling and a smash hit, not
unlike Thunderball. As for the nowtedious underwater scenes, keep in mind that
Thunderball introduced underwater cameras to the mainstream, so for many viewers it was their

(01:39:47):
first experience seeing underwater video footage.Understandably, then, the filmmakers wanted to
showcase as much of the expensive newtechnology as possible. I concede that Thunderball
may not have aged well although sorry, along with the sexism of the early
Bonds, but when regarded as apiece of cinema history, I feel it's
not all that bad in any case. Thanks for the podcast, Thanks for

(01:40:09):
writing in man, Thank you.Yeah, I know old cinema is slower
paced, but I don't think that'sthe issue necessarily. Like you know,
Citizen Kane is one of my favoritemovies of all time. Cool Hand Luke
is one of my favorite movies ofall time. No Time for Sergeants like
you could if you came to myhouse, you would see several black and

(01:40:30):
white blue raising DVDs on my shelf, including what you refer to a Star
Trek, the motionless picture So andthat's not black and white but it is
very, very slow, but Ilike it a lot. I don't mind
the slow pacing of that film necessarily, so um, I don't think that's
the problem. I think it's justthe underwater sequences, like I couldn't tell

(01:40:53):
what was going on, And tobe fair, if I can't tell really
what's going on, it bores thecrap out of me. Yeah. The
perfect example of something that's like supermodernand super fast spaced and I just can't
tell us going on, and I'msuper bored by it. The Transformers movies
because when they're all transforming and shiftingaround and fighting, I'm just like,
it just looks like piles of robotpoop hitting each other. And I don't

(01:41:20):
it's just like undulating metal crap.I don't know what it means. So
in that in that vein, I'mlike, I don't need ten minutes of
like completely covered up scuba people likeslowly swimming around, moving around pieces of
machinery that I don't understand, andswimming past, you know, freaking coral

(01:41:43):
nets or something. I don't.I don't care, and I don't it's
not the pacing, man, it'snot. Yeah, I mean it was
a little bit, but it's alsojust boring. Yeah, like congratulations,
congratulations to um the crew for usingunderwater cameras and for doing things that were

(01:42:06):
new. Yeah, and like groundbreakingfor the time. That's that's awesome.
Um. Perhaps if we had watchedthis in the sixties, it would have
blown our minds more. Well maybe, but there were several you can find
several contemporary podcasts that podcasts, it'scontemporary reviews that complained about the underwater sequences

(01:42:28):
being very, very slow and nonsensicalbecause you can't tell who is who.
It's just like a bunch of peoplein scuba gear shooting harpoons at each other.
And because it's underwater, it feelslike it's slow motion. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, So I'm sorry. I know, I know. I
don't mean to be a philistine oror you know, not one of these

(01:42:51):
people who's like you still be modernor I can't watch it. That's absolutely
not true of me. I loveslow place stuff like I love it.
I don't mind it at all.Like I've often said, do we have
to have so much fighting in thesemovies? Can't we do dinner with Andrea
instead, where it's just like twocharacters sitting around talking about philosophy or something,

(01:43:13):
or not even philosophy, dating,you know, or you know a
movie, the a fictional movie thatthey both saw. I don't know.
Pop Culture Maven at pop Culture Zaron Twitter says, I have heard the
Thunderball podcast. From what I remember, the remake was better, So you
have that to look forward to.Maybe so maybe what year was the remake?

(01:43:38):
Eighty three? Okay? Well,I mean I love the eighties like
almost unconditionally. Uh huh, Well, I have what I have to look
forward to, and I feel somewhatbad for saying this somewhat. I don't
know why. I feel like I'vebeen trained to feel this way. But
one thing I'm looking forward to inthat movie is Kim Basinger being the Bond

(01:44:00):
Girl, because you know, shewas Vicky Vail when I was six years
old in uh in the first Batmaneighty nine Batman movie, and she may
have jumped started puberty for me alittle bit, like I was a kid
and I was just going, Hey, you can't make an omelet without breaking
a few eggs. Oh that doesn'twork for that, you know, I'm

(01:44:30):
not sure, Like I know alot of people like to ask the question
of who was your first celebrity crush? Yeah, and things like that.
I would have to think for awhile who mine was, because I feel
like I was different from a lotof uh normal people. Uh Like I
mean I can I can remember justbeing five or six years old and just

(01:44:54):
like literally having a crush on everymail. Yeah, just like in my
life, not just celebrity wise,just like, uh like my mom's best
friend's husband Craig, who was apilot. Totally had a crush on that
guy. And I mean like Ijust had a crush, like I have
a crush on every boy. Yeah, I really from uh I don't remember

(01:45:18):
those skits. I know it wasfrom Strong Bad Yeah, teen Girl Squad.
Yeah yeah, yeah I really did. So I know, like the
most common thing from um my generationis to say uncle Jesse. I for
sure had a crush on Uncle Jesse. But I mean I don't think he
was my first anyway. Yeah seeI don't. I was not I was

(01:45:41):
six years old, so I wasnot in a I was not any capacity
uh really crushing. Yeah, Ijust felt weird. Yeah I didn't know
what it meant. I was justlike this feels weird and it doesn't help.
The Batman eighty nine has some freakingweird dialogue that like, when I
was a kid, I thought itmeant something dirty and then and then it

(01:46:01):
turns out it doesn't mean anything atall. It was just weird, Like
there was like, you know abit where Joker looks at the picture of
Vicky Vale and he goes, I'mof a mind to make some mookie.
What does that mean? I thoughtit meant something really dirty when I was
a kid, could be dirt,And then now I'm just like, no,

(01:46:24):
that still doesn't mean anything I doneto my knowledge, And I figured,
like I actually excitedly listened to theFatman. I'm Batman with Kevin Smith.
You know where they're talking about Batmaneight nine. I'm gonna because if
anybody knows what the dirty thing means, it's gonna be Kevin Smith. And
he was like what does that mean? And I was like, thank you,

(01:46:47):
Okay, it wasn't just me.Nobody knows what that means. Um.
So they were just like weird littlethings. And but there was something
like I knew I liked her hair, and you know, certain things she
did made me feel weird and uncomfortable. Yeah, and then like later,
I'm like, oh, because Ithought she was hot. Well, I

(01:47:13):
just within the last couple of dayslistened to an episode of ear Biscuits that's
Rhet and Link from Good Mythical MorningThat's on their podcast, and they were
both talking about their first celebrity crush, and Link said that his first celebrity
crush do you remember the I havenever watched this, but I've seen enough

(01:47:35):
YouTube videos and like commentary lists andstuff that mentioned an eighties sitcom called Small
Wonder where the lead role, thedaughter, was a robot. No,
I don't remember that at all.That was Link's first celebrity crush, not
the girl who played the robot.The robot girl like the character it was

(01:47:59):
a robot. And I just thinkthat is so awesome and precious. That
is so amazing weird man, Godbless him for admitting that. I mean,
I love it. Those guys havemade fools of themselves. I love
it so much. I've really gottaI'm also a laugh for I would say
that, and it really it's gonnabug me. I'm like, seriously going

(01:48:26):
to have to think about who myfirst celebrity crushes were. I know,
this just doesn't really have anything todo with James Bonds or on Her Majesty's
Secret Service. We've gone onto aweird rabbit trail here. But yeah,
I don't know. I feel likeI feel like I want to think about
that and think about who my firstcelebrity crushes were. I mean, I

(01:48:47):
can remember, I can remember thingsthat I watched. I guess maybe in
the late eighties, you know,like I definitely watched all of the like
TGIF shows, um full How,definitely watched Family Matters, step by Step,
Perfect Strangers, right, all ofthose things. I don't know anyway,
Oh, I know I totally hada crush on Sam from Clarissa explains

(01:49:11):
it all. Yeah, that guywas gross. I really liked Sam.
Oh, I really really liked seea lot of it for me was like
the hair cut, and I willI will describe a couple of guys so
you'll kind of understand. I don'tknow what that he had an awful bowl
cut. Yeah, I loved hishair. I loved his style, and
that that is still true to likewho I am today. It's really weird.

(01:49:35):
But like one of the styles thatI won't necessarily say I find attractive.
It just has a weird like chemicalconnection with me where I'm just like,
oh, well, he kind oflooks like a hobos me. Um

(01:49:55):
okay, yeah, so it wasSam. I absolutely had a crush on
Um. I don't remember his name. The guy from Erie Indiana who was
also the main guy in hocus PocusOkay, definitely had a crush on him.
Was like season one, not likethe Next Dimension or whatever round.
Oh yeah, nobody even watched that, Um I did. I mean I've

(01:50:19):
watched it. Also, I waslike alternate reality sequel series, yes please,
and it was terrible. A kidlike similar haircut, Um I didn't
really did not have a similar haircutto Sam. Well. It's also like
the kind of like, uh,Sean Hunter from Boy Meat's World. I
didn't really have a crush. Kidsfrom Erie Indiana had total like totally had

(01:50:43):
like a John q Sack high fidelityhaircut. Yeah, Like Sean Hunter had
like let me part my hair downthe middle and looked like a dufus with
a helmet head. Uh And Samfrom Clarissa had like mushroom head. Okay.
The guy who I'm talking about fromErie Indiana and hocus Pocus is omricts

(01:51:04):
Okay, um, because I'm surethere are just thousands of people at this
point who heard his name and went, oh, but see what I'm Anyway,
when I'm hearing though from you andyou're like, yeah, the hair
they had the similar hair, I'mlike, no, they just had hair,
but I love those are totally kindof like your longer hair where there

(01:51:29):
they didn't really have bangs, butit was just like the side of their
hair was like kind of in theirface a little talk. You're talking about
Eric Matthew's hair. Oh yeah,totally absolutely, yeah, And I'm not
you know, as much as BoyMeets World, as much as I love
that show, I mean, it'slike definitely one of my top ten favorite
shows of all time. Um,I don't think I ever had a crush

(01:51:50):
on anyone in that show. Ijust absolutely loved that show. But yes,
absolutely the Eric Matthews haircut. Yeah, that that is what usually uh
made like made me have a crushon someone. YEA. Anyway, all
right, wow, who what now? Next episode we'll be discussing nineteen seventy

(01:52:15):
ones Diamonds Are Forever, starring SeanConnery as James Bond, Jill Saint John
Is Tiffany case, Charles Gray asBlowfield another Blowfield? Is this the third
person? I don't know any atleast I don't know anymore. Jimmie Dean
as Willard White. Yeah, that'sthe sausage guy, Jimmie Dean. I
looked it up. He was youknow, he was a musician back then.

(01:52:38):
Oh wow, um yeah, JimmyDean. Wow. Willard White.
There, Bruce Glover and Putter Smithas mister Wint and mister Kidd. This
one's gonna be directed by guy GuyHamilton, the guy that did Goldfinger.
Oh okay, cool. Do youknow where this takes place? I wonder.
Don't worry, guys, I'll lookthat up. The next line is

(01:53:02):
literally the last line of the show. I've got to I've got to close
the show out. Okay, welllook up the thing rest as short,
audience, I will look it up. You want me to close it out
without telling me? Sure? Allright? Until next time, Diamonds,
maybe forever, but hopefully we'll releasingthe next episode sooner than that. Thanks
for listening. It's in Las Vegas. Oh. I don't want Las Vegas.

(01:53:34):
It's not gonna be pretty. Wejust saw Switzerland, man, I
don't want to see casinos again andslot machines. I want to watch Dudle
Royale. I don't think it'll bethe same. I hope not. I

(01:53:56):
mean it's probably, I don't know. Maybe it's different for us because as
we live in America, I justdon't like that. I'm just like you,
just like, oh my gosh,so much stuff takes place in Vegas.
Yeah, but I don't know.Maybe it'll be different because it's Vegas
in the early seventies, all abunch of gambling and heists and crap.

(01:54:27):
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