Best of the Bond Girls

0:11 Hello, everybody, Welcome back to another episode of the show. I can't tell you exactly which one it is because this is actually dropping on multiple podcasts at once. Don't worry, you are listening to the right show, whichever one you're trying to get. I am not your regular host, but I have a feeling your host is probably standing very close by. My name is David Wright. I'm also known as Deaf Dave, and there's a chance that you've at least heard of me if you're a regular follower of this show. We have a very special episode today. I've been asked to moderate a fantasy draft for Bond Girls, and so I have with me hosts from a film by podcast the Surely you Can't Be Serious podcasts on Her Majesty's Secret podcast.

0:59 I think I got that right, as well as the thirtysomething podcast. So I feel a little bit like more successful than Blow failed at taking over the world. I'm a guy with no podcast on my own, yet I have simultaneously hijacked four of them all at once, and I'm feeling pretty powerful. So anyway, this is going to be a fantasy draft of Bond Girls, and we'll have five rounds of these picks and then we'll leave it up to the audience to decide the winner. So let's get straight to introductions. First up, we have the host of a Film by Podcast, Jeff Johnson. Jeff, tell us about you, about your show and your Bond credentials.

1:40 Hello, Dave, thank you for joining us and doing this for us. My name's Jeff Johnson. I'm one of the co hosts for a Film by Podcast. Basically, what we do is we take our favorite directors. We take Hollywoods biggest directors, and we like to focus in on their underrated hits. You know, not necessarily things that you might have heard or might not have done well but the box office, but things that we feel you should definitely check out. And then we also have a couple of limited series. You know, we've done the nineteen eighty six series, which you know, Jason has been a part of, which you've been a part of. We're currently working on a one called a Film at forty five or a couple episodes deep into that. We're celebrating the forty fifth anniversary of movies that we're in nineteen seventy eight, so doing some fun stuff with that. As far as Bond goes in my connection. I still remember the day that my dad told me not to go outside to play because he wanted me to watch a movie.

2:29 I sit down in front of the TV and I'm immediately just unhappy because I see this is some old movie. What do I care? And then all of a sudden, I see this girl completely covered in gold and I was like, wait, what is this? And then you know I was hooked. Goldfinger was my first experience. My dad introduced me to James Bond later that year. We went to the movie theater to see A View to a Kill in nineteen eighty five. Again, I was a little confused when I saw Roger Moore's face. I leaned, Dad, that's not James Bond. No, it is James Bond. Just you know, it's a new but happy to say my dad has taken me to see every James Bond film since of You to a Kill. And the fun thing for me is at this point now as an adult, I'm taking him to go see him.

3:12 So we haven't missed one and I don't I don't plan for that to happen anytime soon. It's pretty awesome. So Jason Colvin tell us a little bit about your show and your bondage experiment, I mean bond experience. Well, my name's Jason Colvin and I co host the Shirley Can't Be Serious Podcast with my good buddy James D. Graves, and we are a podcast for the MTV generation. And what we do is we take two movies or albums or TV shows or you know, books, whatever, and we match them up against them themselves. And so we've done some pretty fun ones. Jeff with you, We've done Jobs the Revenge versus Superman four and that was kind of a fun one. Dave with you, we did License to Ill by the Beastie Boys versus Raisin Hell Run DMC. What we've got coming down the pipe.

3:59 We've got Raisin theres Zona versus The Big Lebowski. We're working on Summer of nineteen eighty eight, so we're doing Twins versus Big. We've got Long Cold Winner by Cinderella versus Zhu eight one two Van Halen, and we like to match those up and we go deep. We try to ferret out the stuff that other people don't find, and so some more trivial type of things or me my first bond experience happened in the summer of nineteen eighty one, and I contend that two weeks of June in nineteen eighty one were the best two weeks in eighties movie history. So you know, you've got Stripes, You've got Great Buppet Caper, You've got Four Your Eyes Only, You've got Raiders are Lost Dark, You've got Dragon Slayer, You've got all these great movies released all in the same two week periods, Clash of the Titans and yeah, actually I've got a tidbit on Clash the Titans here in a minute, because we'll be talking about probably Ursula Andrews at some point. Once I had seen Raiders of Lost Dark with my best friend at the time. He's like, man, we've got to go see four Your Eyes Only. It's the new James Bond movie. And I had never heard of James Bond.

4:56 I'm like, what are you talking about. He's like, well, if you like Raiders of the Lost Dark, you'll like For Your Eyes Onlie. And so we went to the movie theater and I was like, this is the greatest summer I've ever had because I just saw Raiders and now I'm watching James Bond and It was just awesome, and so that was my first experience awesome. Van, tell us about you, and at least tell us about your James Bond podcasts and your Bond, your relationship to Bond in the franchise. I am Van Allen Plexico. I run the White Rocket Entertainment Network, which has a number of different podcasts channels, but the one relevant here is on Her Majesty's Secret Podcast. When I came up with that name several years ago, I said, well, now I've got to have a show because that's too good of a name not to actually use. And so Alan J. Porter, the author of many books on James Bond, he and I do a occasional review. We're working our second way through the movies now.

5:44 The first time we just kind of did long reviews of them, discussing every aspect, every scene, every moment. This time we're doing kind of like categories, rating the girls, the gadgets, the villains and all that as we go through. So that's what we've been doing lately. But there are other folks on that show, including Raymond Benson authors. He comes on occasionally. We talk about Bond music, the scores and everything. So we have a lot of fun on on that series. It's that secret podcast dot Podbean dot com. As far as me, I think my first exposure to Bond was in the early seventies on like the ABC Sunday Night Movie when they would show either they kept switching back. Say I never had the Who's Bond thing, because they would one week they would show Diamonds or Forever, and then next week they would show Living Let Die, and they'd switched back and forth.

6:25 So I was getting Sean Connery and Roger Moore kind of in equal doses, and so I thought of them both as Bond. And then I saw I have a love hate relationship though in the mid seventies because we were in Florida on a vacation and there was Star Wars was out and I was dying to see Star Wars, and we went and saw The Spy Who Loved Me. So I've always hated The Spy Who Loved Me. Even though I'd acknowledged it's a good Bond film, I hate it because it kept me from seeing Star Wars for like four months. But but and as far as Bond goes, I really do like the idea of a secret agent that brought age side exactly. He's kind of his own guy. He's a really interesting character and charismatic and exciting, and he's held up for all these going on sixty years now. So yeah, if not more, yeah, so very good.

7:17 And the last participant in our draft today is Pat Cantagallo from the thirty something podcast. Pat, tell us about your show, what you got going on and any relationship to Bond. Okay, so thirty something movie podcast, it's actually the show. The guy that ran the show starts the show is my friend John Ree, and he got a bunch of us together. We're all teachers. We would all sit when we'd have break time or blunch or whatever, we'd sit down and just talk about movies, all right, our friends Jeff, Dennis Bow, myself, and then we would just sit and talk movies. There were sometimes we'd we'd be sitting there and have entire conversations just using movie quotes. And sometimes that would just completely weird the other teachers, Like sometimes students wouldn't know where the you know, the smart students would always you know, pick up on what we were saying. And so finally John's like, you know, what I've always wanted to do a podcast. Let's put this all together and let's just talk about movies as a podcast. And so the way our show works is that we review movies that are coming up on their thirtieth anniversary. So right now, each year we do one movie a week from thirty years ago. So right now we're working through nineteen ninety three, and we just got done with the film. It's Quin Tarantino wrote the script, Christian Slater starting it. It's called True Romance, And like, it's been great because you know, I had never seen that movie before, and so like I was blown away with this and it's it's awesome going back and how did I miss this movie? And then all of a sudden,

8:48 like the next week we could be doing, for example, Jurassic Park. Okay, I've seen this movie. Is that really already thirty years old? Like where did that come from? And getting together and realizing, wow, I've had all these feelings about this movie that's thirty years old. So does everybody else, you know. So it's it's it's been a pretty cool, pretty cool experienced in the podcast. As far as when Bond started, I started watching Bond with my grandparents and my dad, those Sunday Night movies that you talk about. My grandmother was a huge James Bond fan, a huge Sean Connery fan. So yeah, I would grow up and, like you were saying, kind of got the Sean Connery and Roger Moore and equal doses. And that's kind of where it all where it all started, you know, I was raised. My grandma made sure that I understood that, you know, Sean Connery was the best Bond, but there were some other Bonds. And then it just kind of followed through the rest of my life every level, you know, all the way up through college, and there was always a group of people that were Bond fans. So I got to kind of like grow up with the series. Well, very good, if I could. I'll just share a little bit of my relationship with the Bond franchise because it sounds very similar to Jeff's. My dad graduated high school in nineteen sixty three, which I think is the year that Doctor Note was released in the United States, and so he was kind of the Bond generation through all that super spy craze in the sixties, and that was something that he and I shared. You know, he took me to my first Bond movie View to a Kill. When I was a freshman in high school, I must have been, and so that one was my first experience with James Bond, and I had a good time with my dad. So I don't hate that movie as much as most people seem to. But that became a tradition.

10:20 It's something my dad and I bonded over. We saw every James Bond movie that came out. That continued into my adulthood, and after I'd moved away there was a new Bond movie, I'd make the trip down to my hometown. We'd go see it together, and so that's always that's always been kind of special to me. He passed away after Casino Royale. That was the last one that I saw with him, and I have not haven't really been particularly in the mood to see a new release since then. I haven't. I don't know if if I will, to be honest, but I remained a casual Bond fan and I will still watch all the old ones occasionally. I'll go on a binge every once in a while. So I'm not a huge Bond fan. So when this topic came up, I didn't feel like I knew enough to be able to Heaven to conduct my own intelligent enough of a draft. So but I'm a casual fan. I'm not a hater of it for sure. So I'm excited to be able to help you all out with this today. And I think we're getting ready to get started.

11:11 We'll start drafting. We're gonna just go through fantasy football style snake draft. We're gonna do go snake style, but in each round we'll start with a different person, so I'll just keep as straight. We don't have to worry about it too much. So before we get started on drafting our Bond girls, I asked everyone to submit to me their own idea for a Bond Girl name, their own original Bond Girl name, and that I would use the quality of their puns to determine the draft order. And these guys do not know what I've decided. They don't even know what everybody else has even come up with. So here we go. I'm gonna start. So they're all great, They're all solid, all right, They're all absolutely usable. I could see them in a Bond movie. But I have to rank them, so I'm gonna go at number four. Is going to be van was the word so so what I try. I judge these based on like how much does this fit the convention of what the Bond movies do? Okay, So Van's entry was Gloria Climax. So that's good. Yeah, not not you know, not unfathomable that it might be used. Okay, but uh but um well, the only one I could think of that didn't it wasn't already a porn star. Yeah. They're all kind of used up right. Uh So the third one is gonna be Pat. Pat had a great sounding Bond name. It Fanny good Bottom. I uh. At first I was going

12:43 to deduct points for the use of Fanny, thinking it was a little bit of an old, old fashioned name. Then I remember that James Bond goes back the movies go back to nineteen sixty two, So I think you, uh, I think you get away with Fanny good Bottom. So I get find a tech Okay, so it's a quality name, but we got some we got some tough entries ahead of you. So number two is actually my favorite one. So number two is gonna be Jeff Johnson. So Jeff came up with a fantastic name. It is Nicata spits. Now. The reason why that is so good is well, those of us that speak Croatian already know how good of a name that is. But if you need Nicata translated into English, it is never Oh yes they okay, okay, so top shelf pun quality. But also I don't think the Bond movies make your work that hard for the punch line, so I put him in second place.

13:46 And Jason Colvin I think absolutely nails the spirit of the movies with Ophelia Melon's nicely. To start off, the draft order will be Jason, Jeff, Pat and Van and we'll go from there. My goal today was not to get in trouble with my wife or anybody at my church. I think I'm over too already. So yeah, all right, very good. Well, guys, I think we're ready to get started on drafting our Bond girls. So Jason Colvin, you are on the clock. Yes, okay, Well, this is the first pick out of the gate. Thank you very much, Dave. I know who I'm gonna take, and I'll tell you right off the bat. This is the girl who impacted me the most emotionally when I watched this movie. Okay, so she actually dies in the movie.

14:45 This, of course is Vesper Landa. I'm going Vesper right out of the gate from Casino Royale. She was she was playing Bond, but she actually fell in love with him, and then her death scene was just incredibly moving. And I love Casino Royale. So I'm taking Vesper right out of the gate. That would have probably been my first pick. Jason, Hey, can I just say that the thing I was thinking about strategy wise here is something I learned from fantasy football. You don't necessarily take the one you want the most or you like the most. You take the one that's going to be the hardest to get later. That's true. And if you hadn't taken her, I would have eventually. So yeah, that was a very good move. I think, thank you, thank you, all right, very good. No other thoughts on that. We'll move on ahead. Jeff, you're up, Well, I'll tell you like Van, Vesper definitely would have been my choice. So I've got my ranking system that I came up with, So I'm gonna go to my number two overall pick, which happens to be the very first Bond girl for me. Talking about Honor Blackman in nineteen sixty four, is Goldfinger playing pussy Galore. I must be dreaming. That's a good one. I mean, most people know her name. She's got that great bond name. Yeah, you know, she was thirty nine at the time of filming Goldfinger. She was the only Bond girl older than the bond actor until Monica Bellucci inspector. Wow. Yeah, I thought I thought

16:15 Monica had the record, but I didn't know. I didn't know Honor was that close. So older than Sean Connery, yeah, wow, And she was a I mean she was such a great character, like an actual strong part of that movie. And I mean, like, you know, she's a pilot too, which like immediately makes higher street creds. So yeah, very cool character. She's a lesbian and Sean Connery's bond is able to bring her over to the side, so that right there. You couldn't do that today, but whatever. Yeah. I love the fact that you know, she she's film fatale, you know, classic film fatale, because you know she she goes toe to toe with him. You know, she's not the damsel in distress that you typically see a Bond girl be so uh like like Pat was saying, she's definitely got strength. I love that her all right, So we'll keep going. So Pat, you're up next. You're on the clock. Van. You kind of foreshadowed where I was going with this.

17:06 I've got to pick one of my favorite actresses of all time that when I found out she was going to be a Bond girl, Miss Monica Bellucci, I was like absolutely floored, and I so, I'm gonna go out of the gate. I'm gonna Luccia Skiara, And I gotta be honest. They always say like they had been careful with the fantasy draft. Don't just you know, pick from your favorite team or pick for your favorite you know, and all that. But I'm just gonna break that rule because I love everything that I've seen Monica Bellucci acting. And it's an understatement to say she's an incredibly attractive human being. But what I think is amazing is kind of what we were talking about with the actress that that was in the first Bond film. She was older than Daniel Craig at the time. You know, you start reading about this that so many you know that you cast like a fifty five year old dude with like a twenty year old gale and it's like, okay, well, you know, where is this all coming from you know, and but she gets on screen and I mean, she is incredibly attractive on screen. The hard part is that she has only a small part of the movie. But my gosh, what's done with that time? The scene where she's walking in in the movie Specter, the after the funeral scene, and she's just walking in and you see on her face like just resignation that she knows that she's going to be you know, assassinated next, and it's just the camera follows her and you're immediately captivated by the way she walks and just the most subtle facial expressions. And then when the assassins appear and you can see she resolution she knows what's coming next. Then surprise that when

18:37 Bond saves her, and then the anger it all flashes, and all it is it's just a couple of looks, you know, just a couple of like, you know, twitches here and there, a little eyebrow rays here. I mean, what she can communicate is pretty amazing. So that's going to be my first pick out of the gate. That's good. I've listened to thirties something enough to know that that was probably gonna be high on your list. Yeah, I would have failed myself if I didn't go there. So let's let's be let's be honest. I don't care what kind of lists we're putting it together. If Monica Baladuchi is not at the top of it, something's wrong, you know. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, well, then if it's my turn, let me address that. Actually, because here's what I did. I made a list the other day off the top of my head, right in the order I just off the top of my head thought. And then you guys sent out the list of the five traits to kind of grade them by, and I'm like, oh, which was beauty, talent, chemistry, importance, I guess to the movie, and X Factor. I reordered my entire list using a scale of one to ten for each of those things, and the order completely changed. Because there were Bond girls that I did not rate highly just on terms of how I feel about them, But when I categorized them by how they ranked in those things, I was like, WHOA. There were some that came way up and there were a few that went down. I will say this, the two highest on my draft board are still there. I got to pick which one of those I want to grab and you've each take I have four pages of Bond Girls, and you've taken one from page one, page two, and page three. So far, so interesting. All right, So I gotta like, I say, my rule of fantasy drafting is take the one

20:10 that's take the highest value when it's available, and so I am taking Solitaire. Jane seymour Oom. That's a good one. I'm glad she was there. I think she's my favorite Jane seymour She uh, she cast into a Bond film at just the right time of her career. I've been a big fan of Solitaire. Is it funny that she's in a Bond movie? In seventy three and five years later, Battlestar Galactica says, introducing Jane Seymour y, what she's a Bond girl? What are you talking about? Introducing to spaces Van. I'm it looks I'll tell you right now. That's my Solitaire was my number three. Overall. I'm not even sad about you taking her because I knew. I knew Jason's a big fan of her wardrobe in that show, in that movie. He says, I knew if you weren't taking her, he probably was, So yeah, great, pick Van. Did you know that she she did Playboy at age sixty seven and that's it?

21:22 Well, she could, I'm sure she can. He's incredible. Yeah, for the part of Solitaire. They actually were interested in Goldie han and Helen Mirren for that role. I did not know that about that. Wow, I think Helen seventy three, Helen Mirren. Yeah, that would have worked, Goldie Hawn. That's a that's an interesting choice. Yeah, you know she she's more of the wacky helper to Bond. I would think. Yeah, he's more good Night than Solitaire. Yeah, she's definitely good Night. She's more Denise Richards category. What don't be me? Yeah, fellow doubles, I mean, no one's drafting these Richards on my number two. Overall, she's on the board. But we don't get Christmas very good. All right, So we are going in a snake format, which means Van, you get to pick again. Oh. Now here's the here's the question.

22:26 Do I think number one I have now taken? I'm not taking number two off the board. I went ahead and took number two instead of number one off on my draft board because I thought that was the right pick. Now the question is if it's number one on my draft board. Do I think that they're gonna pop up again before I get to pick again? Maybe my number one, you see the strategy. Maybe my number one is just me? Or do I really want her so bad I gotta go ahead and spend that second pick. But honestly, oh my gosh, yeah, I think she's gonna still be there. I think she's gonna still be there. So I'm gonna go down the board a little bit and get another high powered banger.

23:07 This is a top five bond girl. I'm taking Molina have a lot, Carol Bouquet from For Your Eyes Only, Boom. I feel very good about that pick. Molina, have a lot. I like have a lot. Okay, yep, the Greek crossbow wielder, that's right, the steely blue eyes. I have a soft spot for her just because she was my first bond girl. Oh, there you go. She's something. And then later number five spokesgirl. Right, that's right, you can't go wrong there. Let's see if my number one overall is going to be there in five picks, I'm gonna be like putting bullets now. She auditioned for the role of doctor Goodhead, which came before eyes only, right, so she came back, try to get like her enough to bring her back. So how about that? And she would have been an odd choice for doctor goodhead.

24:03 That's I think they went the right. She's more exotic. Yeah there, very good. All right, So we're back to pet. So I've been sitting here like making notes and scratching out and trying to do that, you know, and all this kind of thing, and uh, you know, and then you brought up like the ranking system and this, and so you know, then I threw it all out the window, you know all that. So all right, so enough enough of this kind of threatening around over here. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Michelle. Yo. That was my number one on my board right there. Sorry, I'm sorry, I misspoke. I'm going with may Day. No, okay, So so I'm dude, I'm sorry. See now I feel bad and this is no that was my choice. I'm just saying she'll be there six picks from now.

25:02 Yeah, I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just well, I mean you probably could fill in the gaps too. I mean, awesome action star, awesome fighting skills, viable part of the movie excellent counterpoint to Bond as well as Pierce Brosnan. I love motorcycles and check that scene out. That's pretty a great scene, right, It's just great. You know the movies that I was seeing in the in the in the nineties. You know, I'm sure she had like a huge body of work beyond that, but I mean, like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It just you know, so we'd seen that seeing her in Bond, that that was awesome, and so like jumping in like as an actress, but then also as a character, like if I was going to go on a secret mission, like I would want her back in the up and so I yeah, I'm sorry, man, Van, why don't you jump in with your thought I'm feeling bad now, I'm feeling bad. No, no, no, no. I was my role in the dies. I just thought that, like the I just thought, like the hot Bonds and stuff would go first. And she is a kind of a tough action girl. Might hang around a little longer, but she's always been my number one Bond girl.

26:02 She's one of the two Bond characters other than Bond and Felix. She's one of the other two characters I want a solo series out of I want a Waylin series and a Tiger Tanaka series. Those two would kick butt and solo series, and they almost did it. They talked about doing a Michelle Yo spy series and they ended up not doing it because Ion always makes the wrong choice and things like that. Yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah, I've read that, and it's kind of like, how does that stuff not get made? When I try to deal with all the other how do you not do it? Yeah? He Van, I'll tell you if you've seen if if you guys have seen everything everywhere all at once, she could absolutely still be Waylin and do an action series. As far as i'm she was amazing in that she's she's amazing overall. Good pick Pat. I was familiar. I happened to be familiar with her through Jackie Chan movies, and so it's my impression at the time, and you tell me if I'm right or wrong, was that she really was like the first one to me that was more, was a lot more than just I Candy, and was like legitimately had the most agency of no pun intended of any Bond girl and was really a significant character in her own right in her own strength and all that kind of stuff.

27:14 Is that was that? Is that really kind of was she the new standard once that happened, once that movie came out to a degree. Yeah, my favorite story about her is she flew over from Hong Kong and she gets there and they're like, oh, you speak English. She says, yeah, I learned on the plane. All right. So we're back to Jeff. Well, I'll tell you something we're doing. We're doing this football style draft. And one thing I love about what Jason indeed you on Surely You Can't Be Serious podcast is the deep dive. They they're always giving us the fun facts and the stuff you never thought of. Right. I love it, and I'm expecting Jason. I'm expecting a lot of that from Jason today. But man, I would also get a little nervous because I'm afraid like when he says certain things, it's almost like I got a draft a running back and then the guy next you started talking about the running backs that are still available, and your your three picks away. So Jason, Jason Ray dropped this name, but uh, my number two pick is gonna be nineteen seventy nines. Holly Goodhead played by the lovely lowiest childs in uh Moonraker woman, Yes, yea one of the worst. Yeah woman, Yeah, and what very observant of you. From that point the rest of the movie.

28:38 She's just pissed off at him. I love that. Yeah. Yeah, They've got great chemistry in that and that one because because of that, you know, they really ratchet up the battle of the sexes in Moonraker and let's let's be honest again, not a damsel distress. She's the one flying the shuttle at the end of the you know, she's saving the day. I'm quickly realizing that I've I've now drafted two of the most notoriously named Bond girls in the franchise. Um, that was not part of my my agenda, I assure you. I have a question which movie had the more believable outer outer space scenes, Moonraker or Superman four? I think, Oh man, I just gave all the podcast like an idea for I'm going with the attempted re entry by Bond and movie. Yeah, I'll take I'll take good Head over the Quest for Peace any day, all right, So uh to in the first round, we're back to, We're back to Jason Colvin, Jason, what you got? Okay? My number two overall pick is still available. So I'm super excited. So I'm a guy. This is gonna get me in trouble too. I like the girls that like, she's either gonna kill me or I'm gonna have the greatest sex of my life. Right So so so I'm taking Zanya on the top Jansen from Golden Eye, who

30:15 had the killer thighs and wanted to kill Bond. But man, she was spoken in that mood so taken. Do you know that they wanted Courtney Cox for that role? How about that? Oh my gosh, I could I could see. I could see that with some of the stuff, you know, we we we we quickly always look at her as as Monica from Friends, but some of her roles, I could I could see that she could have done that. You know, I would have put her in a Terry Hatcher category. But yes, yes, yeah, but I think Pinky has that exotic flavor that's gonna make her a better Bond girl than than Courtney Cox, I think. But you know, I love Golden Eye. That was that was when it came out, it was immediately my favorite one I'd ever seen. But it was also it was on the top that would really made me go, oh, I need to be a pay attention to these girls.

31:02 Names like that one to come high, you know, come on here. And I was like, okay, you know, other than a couple of the obvious ones that Jeff's already drafted, a lot of the others had gotten past me, so so that one always stands out. I like Golden Alt No more trivia from the Shirley. You can't be serious, guy, No, no, keep going man. All right, so we're starting round two. We're gonna do another snake, but this time well it'll start and end with Jeff, Jeff, what you got. This is tough because I'm I'm kind of I'm seeing how some of the guys are going with you know, hey, not not at the top of my order, but I kind of wonder. So I'm gonna do that. This isn't my next overall pick, but I'm gonna dip down a little bit. I gotta I gotta take Honey Rider, uh miss the Lovely Ursula andres from Doctor No. Nineteen sixty two. Good for all the right reasons. Let's be honest. The bond girl. That's a thing because of Ursula Andrews. She's she's where it all started, you know, she coming out of that water and the white the white bikini with the dagger, you know. And I gotta say, even for I have to believe anyone that's even whether you're a hardcore fan, you know, or you're just the casual viewer, everybody knows that scene. Everyone knows that that look and they related to James Bond. So taking a taking honey Rider, Yeah, that's a great bake man. Some of those old sixties women, they seem a little bit like a young version of my grandmother or something. But Ursula Andres, her beauty, it's timeless, which I told you. I don't know if I told you this, Jeff. But researching these Bond girls, Ursula Andres had a love affair with Harry Hamlin on

32:37 the set of Clashing the Titans, and they had a son from that relationship, I was like, get out of town. Think about the genetics there. That's that's that's that's a great looking kid aphrodite. And so I mean that that shot of her walking out in the white bikini, you know, and being in the first movie, I think really icon in one of the defining moments that to kind of set the pace and the framework going forward, and I'm sure it was made a huge impact on American audiences in sixty three. It's, uh, you know, it's just one of those, I think on those iconic film moments that kind of let everybody know right away that this this whole franchise head legs. Well. They even copied it themselves later with halle Berry and then later with Daniel Craig. So it's like happened three times in the movies. Yeah, right right, remember the halle Berry homage there? All right, very good. So we're gonna go with Pat Pat, You're up next, Okay, So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Holoma from No Time to Die And that was played by Anna d'armis and Jason I think I'm off your Christmas card list now I love I love her and that yes, funny, yeah, amazing. And so so here's what I mean. You know, like, like I said, big fan, and when this film came out, it was you know, like getting back to the theaters after COVID and all this kind of thing. I'm like, okay, I am going back, and I don't care if I'm going by

34:07 myself, I'm going to see this movie in the theaters. And so I got a chance to see it, and I loved the whole movie, and she was such a wonderful part of the movie and the thing that I loved. And it was like I was sitting in a theater almost wishing, like, man, I wish I was at home so I could like rewind and watch these scenes again, because what I found amazing is that it first, it started off in my mind like the stereotypical Bond girl, right, and like all of a sudden, it was like, okay, she's she seems a little bit bubbly, she seems a little out of place. I'm sure that Daniel Craig is going to have to bail her out. And then I started realizing kind of my own age, realizing, okay, I'm closer to Daniel craig age than I am to her age. So that kind of reshaped how I was looking at this character. And then when when the action, like you know, when when everything started dusting up and she was incredibly capable at handling herself, incredibly capable in a fight. I mean, was like an effective part of the team. I was just blown away with this because it was such a bait and switch. You were totally expecting that, Okay, this is gonna be a little She's gonna be out of storts and Bond's gonna have to help her out. And the other thing that it only occurred to me after and then I was rewatching, is you know, at first, Bond's kind of taken aback by her. She couldn't be less interested in him as a person or like as like an attractive thing. Like even when she's like, here, change clothes and he's just like, well, aren't you gonna and she goes, oh, you need me to turn around?

35:27 Like it it didn't even occur to her, and it was so great that, Okay, now you have a Bond girl. But they show and it was such an effective way to show the age was like, and that's kind of where I'm starting to feel closer Bond, Like he's not even on her radar, like in terms of like physical attraction. She is all about the mission. And I'm just like, how awesome is that? Like you got someone you were baited into thinking she's inexperience. She's so focused on the mission, so capable at executing the mission. I was like blown away with that character. I thought, I thought it was I thought it was awesome, and the way Anna Dharmas played it was was fantastic. She played Marilyn Monroe down the Road in a movie called Blonde. So the main character in Knives Out and I believe is that she Isn't she in the spinoff? She's about to do the spin off, the John Wick spinoff Ballerina. I thought, I haven't heard. Yes, she's there, I'm there. Yeah, had I gotta say, I'm, I'm I'm I'm tracking your list. And if there's if there's one word I could call it, I would say exotic.

36:29 There we go, There we go. They're both Craig movies, right, Two of two of the three are yeah, Yeah he took. He also took Michelle. Yeah, in case you forgot, you forgot. I don't think he forgot, so Van, you're on the clock, all right. So I was just looking at my draft board here, and of the fifth of my top fifteen, eight are gone, but there's seven left and I have four that are all tied. So my number five, six, seven, and eight are really just tied. For fifth. So I just gotta basically flip up roll of four sided die to figure out where I'm going here, because they're all totally tied and they're equally good. Yeah. Oh, by the way, talking about Daniel Craig, he is like a week younger than me. I don't have the mileage that he does, I don't think.

37:16 But I haven't done some of the things he's done, though, so I missed out on that part. But anyway, sure, yeah, all right, So I gotta make a choice here, and I've got five. I got four tied together to choose among and I mean, you really can't go wrong with any of these, So I'm gonna gonnagain. I'm using my strategy of high value target. And I look at these four, and one of them is I think a little more special, just a tiny bit more special, because she's the only one on the entire draft board. That is Missus James Bond. Oh yes, making Vincenzo better known as Tracy Bond.

38:10 Diana rigg from on her Majesty's secret service. I can't believe she's still here in round three. So I gotta jump, I gotta I have to jump on Diana Rigg if you'll excuse me, Yeah, Van, you're becoming that. You're becoming the guy that steals my picks now, like you're that guy Pat meanwhile, Pat? Okay, so not just me? Yeah? Very good. Well, speaking of ages, I figured out that I am right now the same age Sean Connery was in Never Say Never Again. Wow. You know, I'm not attracting com basing her types, but I think I'm doing pretty good for myself. All right. When I first saw Fore Your Eyes Only, you have that opening scene where he's visiting her grave, that's right, and so I was like, whoa, what is this? Like?

38:59 What what's story is being told here that I don't know? And so that kind of helped drive my interest in Bond. I had to find out who is Teresa Bond? You know, So there you go. That's great, and you know, I don't want to get too far off the track, but you know, it's funny on her Majesty's seecret service. I don't want to say was ignored, but it was always like Daniel or not Daniel, the Sean Connery and the Roger Moore Bonds like growing up and that's what my grandparents and it was only when I got to college that one of my friends was like, on Her Majesty's Secret Service is the best Bond film ever. This was this was like early nineties, and I'd like, really, and he goes the best ever watch, you know, and the only thing is, like he got the actor that por trade Bond. You know, he had a favorite, you know, I think he liked Sean Connery or whatnot. But yeah, then I watched on Her Majesty's Secret Service and I was blown away, and I thought, missus Bond like that. That movie is awesome and somehow in maybe now, I don't know how you guys are with it, but it almost kind of fell in the cracks growing up, you know, between all the other ones going out there. Well, the thing was they wouldn't show it on ABC like they did Live In like that and and the others, and it was not financially successful like the That's one of the reasons that he didn't return. The other reason was he quit because he got all bighead thinking he was the biggest start in the world. But the thing about that Jason you mentioned about Seeing the Grave, that movie was the only one where they just filmed the book Peter Hunt, the editor, was allowed to direct that one, and he said, I'm not gonna do some you know, take the book and mess it all up. We're just going to film the book, and they did, and it really doesn't fit into the series. In fact, Blowfeld is in that movie and he's never seen Bond before when he just fought Bond in the previous movie. It doesn't

40:30 fit in. And you could have just said it's like outside of continuity, except for for your eyes only brings it back into continuity, so you're stuck with it being Yeah, so it's very confusing, but yeah, that's absolutely It's easy for me as a casual fan to dismiss it. You know, it's easy to think to myself that one doesn't really count because it was just a one shot for Lazenbi. That's the movie that the real Bond connoisseurs consider the best in the series. By the way, it's the one the casual fans think is the worst and the Bond fans think is the best generally, because true us to the book. Okay, good, pick, good, pick, all right, So Jason, you get two in a row here, So Jason, what's your first one? Oh, I'm so excited that both of these people are still available. So Van, I think mentioned that the ABC movies being shown in the seventies and eighties, and that's kind of where I I caught on, I guess in the early eighties. So I watched The Spy Who Loved Me on ABC and absolutely fell in love. That's my favorite Roger Moore James Bond movie. It even surpasses for you, I was only which was on my first Love. So I love The Spy Who Love Me? And so I am taking Agent Triple X as my next pick.

41:50 I'm yeah, I'm a silva missus ringo star played by Barbara Bach. Her dress was captivating as a man so to say the least, Jason, I, I appreciate her. Again, I hate the movie for personal reasons. She is not my favorite Bond girl in that movie. Oh what, yeah, my gosh, wow, it's interesting. This is interesting. It's such a subjective thing, right, It's all a subjective thing. It's that's what's so cool. Yeah. Do you know that she recommended Grace Jones for a view to a kill? Oh wow, I thought that was an interesting tidbit. So and yarn good recommendation. Heck, yeah, okay, So am I back to back here yep, back to about you get your second pick? All right, all right, I am taking the thirty eight year old beautiful bod Adams as octopusy otos yeah ye. Even though technically she should be on the board twice, she should be well two different characters. I feel like her chemistry with Roger were because they are both similar ages that I believed it a lot more than him chasing some of these younger girls or no baby throwing herself at him and that type of thing. So alone, Beab's on my board, but not highly yeah so uh. I think we're all

43:23 comic book fans here. Um. When the last time I did a Little Bond marathon over the weekend, I was struck by Maud Adams just by how similar she looked to a John Busema drawing. I think, h he's one of the best artists when it comes to drawing women, and he has a distinct style. And I think Maud Adams, especially in this movie, looks like a John Busma drawing brought to I'm seeing it. I am absolutely seeing that now. Wow, So she makes an impression on me. She has to go high on my board too. All right, very good? Well, uh, Jeff, I'm afraid Jason took one of your one of your you know, juice your names off the board for you. I couldn't take them, all right. When I was at the movie there, I was just gonna show, let's say this. In nineteen eighty three, I went to the movie there with my dad, and the guy came out and said, the last screening for octopusy has been sold out. And these teenagers behind me, they're like, Octor what oct What? My dad was like, did you ever act that way in public? I'll kill you? Did you just turn around and watch Never Say Never again? Instead? I think I watched Super Band three. Actually, all right, so let's keep it going, and it's a tragedy story from all right, Van, you're back on the flock. It's back to you. Well, of my top seven on the board, two are still available, so and then two of my top two more in the top top ten, so to four available here. Let me see, I still got three of those that are equally ranked, and

44:55 I I gotta figure out which one of them is the most gets the most valid value. I'll put it this way. I got a Connery, a Craig, and a Brasening. I haven't picked a Craig yet. I don't think you still got girls left in the Spider Loved Me. I just reminding you this is true. I do, I do. But she's pretty far down though. But you know what, I'm gonna have to go with this the classic. I gotta go with just the Clares. The thing that's cool about two of them is like neat, but this is just the classic. I would be remiss not to take her when she's there. We just had a Russian agent taked I'm taking another Russian agent, Tatiana Romanova Daniella Beyanti from Russia with Love Nice. Yeah. I mean, she doesn't do a whole lot in that movie, dang, but she does a lot a lot for you. She's arguably the most beautiful of all the Bond girls. I would argue, I think if you had it, if you had just a beauty contest, I think she might be number one. That's why the k selected her. Yeah, right, And I'm sorry, what was the character's name, Tatiana Romanova related to Black Widow? I was gonna say every Russian agent apparently his named Romanoff. It is all royalty bizarre. All right, very good, let's keep it going. Pat, you'rerope, You're on the clock.

46:23 I was actually until you made that pick, I was kind of like torn between the next two. But this, this is this is that. Just say okay, it takes one of my picks off the board. There. Um, I'm gonna go with the movie Thunderball and Fiona Volpai. Oh there you golay Yeah, And uh so Thunderball was I remember seeing all the Bond movies growing up as a kid, but Thunderball was the one that really stuck in my mind because I love the water. I love the ocean, I love the swimming, I love all of that, and so as a kid, I love boats. I loved water, and that summed it all up. And what I liked about the Fiona character was that she was tough.

47:12 I mean, I know, she was like, you know, on the bad guy side, but I mean like she was like capable and I'm just reading kind of like one of the bio she has no issue killing anyone who gets in her way or screws up the mission, and like, you know, like I mean to say that, you know, killing anyone, but I mean, like We've all had days like that where it's just like, Okay, if anybody screws up the mission, they're going to deal with my bad side, you know. So I really I just I appreciated that that, you know, like she just came out and I'm repeating myself from some of the other characters, but it was just like super focused, super professional, and dangerous because she was on the bad guy side, right but for the bad guy side, super effective. So it was just fun watching her on screen. And she just has to you know, you know, check her six when Bond swirls her around with the dam you know. I would hope that if they reshot this movie today, they would do everything the same, but as opposed to getting like shot in the back, there would be some epic fight scene like in uh, you know, like in some of the Mission Impossible movies or something like, you know, like they did like there would just that would be awesome. But anyways, I digress.

48:22 That's that's my that's my What was that fourth pick um? It would be Fiona Volpe from Thunderball. She has one of my favorite Connery moments of all time. She's in the bathtub and he comes in and He's just sitting there talking to her and she's got to get up, and she says, would you hand me something to wear? And he hands her shoes. So correct, I love it. Can I borrow your towel? My cards? Just in a water buffalo? Okay? So to finish up the round, we have Jeff on the clock. Well Van earlier mentioned. We're talking about how we are ranking, how we came up with our rankings, and you know, you immediately want to go with your favorites, right, and then you start using you know, the clever ranking system and then you figure out, wait, this person wasn't even on my radar, and you know she's my six pick. She's my six overall, which is surprising to me, but I mean I gotta go with the best overall at this point. So, talking about nineteen eighty nine License to Kill Pam Bouvier, the Lovely Carry Lowell, this is one of those things where I was like, wait, how did she get How was she so highly ranked on my list? And I mean she's a freelance pilot for the CIA. That's here, X factor shot

49:52 through the roof on that. You know, great chemistry with Dalton so and you know pretty integral to the story. You know, she's the she. You know she's informing on the on the bad guy. So surprisingly she was high on the list, and I was I'm happy to see that she was still there. So I'm taking Pam Bouvier one of my least favorite Bond movies. I was. I will say, do you have any Dalton haters here? Because I actually I actually liked the Dalton movies. I love Dalton, I love him as a character. I liked Living Daylights. But I'm not a fan of License to Kill. No, No, it's probably my It's in my bottom three, along with a View to a Kill and maybe Octopusy. Honestly, so, Wayne Newton does not strike fear into your heart. No, she's one of the best things about it. Though I agree, I can't. I can't see Wayne Newton striking fear, especially after the the Andrew dice Clay movie. You know, Newton's the bad guy. Come on, we could do better. Wayne Newton's best cinematic appearance was when Ferris Bueler lip sync to him in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I don't need him as a Bond villain. Okay, guys, so we're picking five girls each today and everyone has made four picks. Yes, so we're down to the home stretch. It's going to go Pat is up next and then it'll be Van, Jason and Jeff will close this out. So don't you do it?

51:14 Okay? So I'm starting to look at this and uh, you know, looking at okay, I'm constructing a team right now, like it's going to accomplish a mission, right like, and how do I balance out the team? You know in my fantasy world that like any one of these characters would follow me anywhere. But the other thing I look at too, is I sometimes and if you listen to the podcast, like the thirty something podcast, like h sometimes I'd just like to tick people off, just to kind of do it and change things up or throwing a hey have you thought about this play Devil's Advocate and all that. And so for my final choice, I'm going to go again with No Time to Die, I'm gonna go with the female Double O seven character of Nomi played by Lashawna Lynch. And I thought that was I thought it was great. I thought that part of the movie was great. I thought the way she played it was great. I thought the way she gave Daniel Craig a hard time, or James Bond, not Daniel Craig. But when she gave James Bond a hard time like I'm gonna kick you in the knee the one that works, I'm just like, oh my gosh, that's awesome. And then what was great was that that in a way we were watching movie within a movie and she was the new Double O seven on the mission for m I six, and that that could have been like a whole Bond, like that could have been what Daniel Craig was in Casino Royale, and I thought that she played that so well. I think it was awesome to see a black woman playing the Double O seventh role.

52:49 And I mean, obviously this isn't the nature of the of what this episode's about, but you know, whenever you change things up, there gets to be controversy, right. I remember when Daniel Craig was cast and everyone was shreaking out because he was blind, and I you know, like you can't have a blond James Bond, like what the heck? But I thought they did such a great job of Okay, well, no, this is Double O seven, but it's not James Bond and just seeing the interplay and needless to say, she's, you know, an m I six double, so you know, she's incredibly effective. So if I'm looking at my team here, I would definitely want to have her on the team. And now I'm looking at this thinking, man, this would make an excellent movie. So I'm gonna say I'm gonna stay well SHAWNA Lynch to me from No Time to Die? Okay, can I say something? Absolutely? Yes? Okay, everybody, everybody back up just a second, because Pat just selected Mutt on a Best Indiana Jones list. Oh why am not? I was not a fan of that turn in No Time to Die? Giving the hollow double O seven number to anyone else, I was like, what are you doing?

53:52 No, that belongs to Bond, and I understand why they did it in the movie stuff, but I um kind of hard time swallowing that. I wish you would told up a little bit. I wish you had told me he had picked Mutt before I agreed to moderate this episode. I'm just playing. I actually I revisited Crystal Skull like recently, and I actually don't hate it as much as I did before. That's not to say that I don't hate it, but it's got some redeeming value there that I hadn't noticed before. But that's a different episode. All right, We ready to keep going, Yes, let's keep it. All right, we're on our final pick for van Van. How are you gonna round out your team? Well, um, Pat, you've pretty much cleaned out the Daniel Craig files now, right, kind it was kind of weighted towards those. It was, it was except for the one that you didn't right in all fairness, In all fairness, I mean, I didn't have any exclamations of awe. But like basically all of my like ones from the earlier movies were taken Octopussy, Anya Amasova and and then you grabbed Daniello Bianchi that and that was between her and the other one. So I did have some earlier ones there on my list, but but you guys got to them first. But I'm not I'm not complaining because I just the Michelle Yo thing. I'm still I'm gonna watch my back leaving the podcast probably smart. Well, I think we're gonna pick the one we would take from another roster, and I think everybody knows which

55:22 one I'm gonna take from the roster, all right. So if the top seven on my board, there's only one left. But I'm not sure I want her. If I go buy numbers, you know what I mean. If I go buy numbers, that's who's there. But I don't I with my last pick. I don't. I might want to go with my heart a little bit, you know what I'm saying. So I've got two that are rated higher, and then I got one that's more in my heart. I want the Bond folks to look at my list and go, man, he cleaned up, right, But I also kind of want to be able to feel good about it myself. Call here, h gosh, you got four solids, right up? I mean you got you got a strong roster. I feel I feel very good about my about my team. But I mean, you know, I gotta I've got I've got only about ten of them that are ranked in the forties and there's three left that are in the forties here, and I gotta decide which one of those to take. I'm you know, I gonna have to just pull the trigger here, No pun intended with Bond. I think, yeah, you know what I'm gonna go with my heart, especially since I didn't get way Lynn. I'm gonna get Aki from you only Live twice. I like that she's the other Asian fighting character. That's that's cool, so we'll go with her. That's she was the third though, So there's two I still have above and I'm I may kick myself later, but we'll see. Hey, as long as one of them is at Kissi Suzuki, I think you're okay. She was the other

56:55 one. I mean, she's there. She she and Aki are pretty close together. But I think for me, but what you know in the books Kissi Suzuki has bonds kid, Yeah, yeah, but I went with Aki just because I love She's got the cool wool white Honda or whatever that she rolls around in, and she outsmarts Bond a couple of times, tricks him to go down in the layer of Tiger Tanaka, and clearly she's Tiger's first choice for agent. He kind of goes to Kissy when Aki's unfortunately killed. So I really like Aki a lot, so I'm gonna go with Icky. When I was a kid, her her death scene was another one that I was like, oh no, not no. I love hockey. Yeah, good all right, So Jason, you're on the clock for your final pick.

57:36 Okay, Before I make my final pick, I've got this nugget that I want to throw out there. It came across this and I hope I'm not stealing just thunder here. But Tiffany Case who was played by Jill Saint John and Diamonds Are Forever and plenty Old Tool who was played by Lana Wood and Diamonds Are Forever. I found this very interesting. Those two women absolutely hate each other, like they can't be in the same room together. So this is the interesting thing. So Laana Wood is the younger sister to Natalie Wood. Okay, and of course she was married to Robert Wagner and her death was this very controversial thing. A lot of people think Robert Wagner had something to do with it. Well, Jill Saint John actually married Robert Wagner and they've been married for like fifty years or whatever. And so Lana Wood still thinks that Robert Wagner killed her sister, and Jill Saint John is obviously married to Robert Wagner, so they can't even they couldn't do a Diamonds Are Forever a photo shoot ever again, because it can't mean Wow. Okay, I think there's probably a lot of people that think that Robert Wagner is married to Stephanie Powers. But that's a whole other agent. That's a deep pool right there. That's good, all right. So my number five and my number seven are still on the board. And then I've got Olga Carolynko, who I'm absolutely in love with. She's like my Monica Belluchief for Pat.

58:57 Anytime I see Olga Carolynko, I'm like, oh my gosh, that woman who majors. But I gotta leave her off. I'm not. I'm going to choose something better with my head, I think. But the whole reason we started this discussion is I think I told Jeff that Electric King, played by Sophie Marceau, was a first rounder. Ye. Yes, but but I'm not going to take her. Okay, she will be my sixth pick. Okay. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go off board. I'm gonna give Pat a chance to kill me because I just torched him for his pick. I am taking a woman that I probably would guess is not on anyone's list, and I'm not taking money body and I'm not taking Une Easton. I'm taking Fatima Blush, played by Barbara Carrera, who was from Never Say Never Again, Never Never Never Again. She's actually the same character that Fiona Volpe plays in Thunderball. Character that's right and very good character. Bond actually kills her with the bazooka gun right while she's making him sign a confession.

1:00:00 She's the greatest woman he's ever been with. Yep, I forgot about that, Oh my god. And his response is, well, there was this girl in Philadelphia, but I just absolutely loved her. I know a lot of people hate Never Say Never Again, but she is such a great fim fatalel and she's beautiful. I'm taking her Fatima Blush. God, I totally forgot about Never Say Never Again. That's that's good. And I'm surprised you didn't go kim basing her when you went over to Never Say Never Again. So it was tempted. I know. Interesting, good, Pat, I feel bad about about land Based and you just meant to go. I'm sorry, I don't invite you in at the last second. Then I rip your pick. I'm sorry, that's fine, man, I'm just looking at my picks, you know. You better watch out because they're gonna you know, they can come take care of business before you even know what's going on.

1:00:49 That's true. That's true. So next up will be Jeff for the final pick of this draft. When he's done, we'll have everybody go through and kind of announced the raw are real quick to remind everybody of who they ended up with, and then we're going to do a round of where everyone gets to pick from someone else's roster. If you could take one Bond girl from somebody else that they drafted, who would you take so that you could have her on your team? All right? So Jeff take away for us your final pick in the draft. Very honored to have the final pick, and I'm loving the fact that my eighth overall is still on the board. Look, Jason Van, you guys are talking and Never Say Never Again, and you know, I know it's divisive with the Bond fans because of Thunderball, but I'm happy to say that my final pick will be Domino Patachi aka Kim Basinger in Never Say Never Again. Never. Wow. Right there, you can see it. I'm on the list. I was waiting, and I honestly I thought I thought this will be my this will be my curveball because non Cannon Bond you know, depending on who you talk to, and you know, it's is it Thunderball, is it not Thunderball. There's such a whole history with these two movies, so I but it's one of my one of the things, one of the ones I liked a lot when I was growing up. I still remember the cool thing he did with his watch with a laser, you know, when they're I think they're somewhere in Afghanistan or something like that, or create the interesting fact here, this is nineteen eighty three Kim Basinger. They had went after her several times to play a

1:02:22 Bond girl. She turned down. She had turned it down, but she turned it out twice. I know Moonraker was one of the ones she turned down. She wanted to be taken as a serious actress, so at this point in her career it wasn't happening. She finally says, you know what, I'll do it, and rest is history. Because you know, we talk, you know in van you know you've probably have talked about this maybe on your podcast, about the what they call the Bond Girl curse. I would say it worked out for her for sure. Final Pig, Domino, the lovely Kim Basinger, good one, right, good one. All right, guys, how do you all feel about your teams? I love my roster. Yeah, all right, So just to recap and remind everybody, let's let's list announce and rosters. Everybody know exactly who you ended up with, and we'll go in the original draft order. So, Jason, who do you got? So? I got vesper Land, Zenia on the top, Agent, Triple X, Octopussy and Fatima Blush excellent, and Jeff quite a quite a round up round up here. I've got Pussy Galore, Holly Goodhead, Honey Ryder, Pam Bouvier, and Domino Patachi that's strong, strong, And then Pat with the with the strike team. Who do you have there? I've got Luccia, Skia, Way, Lynn, Holoma, Fiona Vulpe and No Me tough job, good job, very nice work, Pat and Van. I've got Solitaire, Melina have a lock, Tracy Bond, Tatiana Romanova and Aki. All right, so let's go ahead and get into

1:03:58 the round of of stealing a pick from somebody else's roster. If you could do that, uh, Jeff from I'll let you go first that you're at the top of the screen here for me, what's what's the name that was picked today that you wish you could have drafted? Absolutely I would have went with vesper Lynd right out the gate if I had the shot. All right. Yeah, that scene in the train car when her and Bond go back and forth like figuring each other out. Man, that is incredible, like just you're a and she just he goes right down the list and then he's and she says, okay, well let me go, you know, and she just nails all the things. I mean, that's just great, awesome, awesome acting scene, but then awesome like character development for who she was, you know, talking character development and matching wits and all that with with Bond. Casino Royal also has one of my favorite scenes in the Bond movies and probably one of my more favorite scenes in Casino Royals. After he dispatches a couple guys finds her in the shower, clearly traumatized. Yeah, that that tender moment. I mean, it was probably the last time you saw Bond care so deeply about a woman. Was probably on her Majesty's secret service.

1:05:08 I love that that soft, tender moment that they share, and that's where you're like, you know what, She's not going to be just another notch on the bedpost. She's he's into her, you know. So Yeah, I love Vesper. Yeah, awesome, Dason, what pick would you steal? Okay, the highest girl on my list that is not on my roster is Solitaire from Live and Let Die. A young, beautiful Jane Seymour, and she, you know, she's impacting the story and then of course the whole thing of her losing her powers to bond because he steals her purity whatever. Solitaire is just a personal favorite of mine and Jane seymore. How can you how can you lose so excellent? Van? I think we all know what you're gonna say. But well, my number one on the board was way Lean at forty six points by the way I tap points. My number two was Solitaire at forty five, but my number three was Vesper at four four. But using my value theory of drafting, I probably would have picked Vesper with the first pick. I ended up with my second choice, so because both one and three were gone, I believe by the time it was my choice but I got number two, so I was happy with that.

1:06:13 But I had to take way N because I absolutely love Michelle Yo. I love wait Lynd. She does such cool stuff in that movie. She's way cooler than Bond, and that's my favorite Bond too brising, and yet she's out she out cools my favorite Bond. So yeah, awesome and pat, which when would you pick? I would go from the spy who loved me. I would go with a major Anya Amasolvo. We already talked about, you know how awesome the character was and just such a great foil for Bond and on a personal mission as well as a professional mission. Yeah, awesome, excellent. All right, well, gentlemen, that's gonna do it for our Bond Girl draft. Thank you very much for getting together for this.

1:06:53 It was tons of fun for me. I feel like we had a bit of an Avengers All Star matchup here with all favorite podcast of getting together on one spot. And thank you very much for allowing me the honor being able to moderate it. We are publishing this episode on April thirteenth, and that is significant because it is actually the seventieth anniversary of the original James Bond novel Casino Royale, and so to kind of mark that event, we decided to get these guys together and have a little James Bond discussion. I hope everybody enjoyed it as much as I did. Now we've drafted these teams, but who won, well, that is up to you. Be on the lookout for all these guys their social media accounts and you will see an opportunity to kind of review the rosters and then vote on who you think was the winner. And if you just follow follow any of these guys on social media, you will you'll see how it all turns out. Thank you guys for being here. I had tons of fun. We got to do this again sometime and talk about other things, so appreciate you guys be willing to do this on Saturday afternoon, James Bond will return. Jaturn all right, Thank you,