Matt and Friends Drink the Universe
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Matt and Friends Drink the Universe
James Bond Trivia With A Vespa Martini
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A martini this strong deserves equally strong trivia. Andy, Chris, Siobhan, and Rob join Matt to mix up a Vespa martini and put their James Bond knowledge on the line with our classic Think Or Drink trivia game.
We bounce through the Bond universe exploring iconic theme songs, unforgettable Bond girls, classic villains, and quotable lines that are either instant recognition or total brain wipe. GoldenEye gets its own moment of glory (and pain), then we shift into the stuff that makes Bond feel like Bond, the cars and gadgets, from Aston Martin lore to the Lotus Esprit that turns into a submarine.
We keep the conversation going with the big questions: who’s everyone’s favorite Bond, why Daniel Craig’s take hits differently, and what we’d actually want from the next era of 007. Should it be a brand new James Bond, a legacy handoff, or a totally fresh direction? Hit play, then share your Bond pick with us, subscribe so you don’t miss the next game night, and leave a review if you want more boozy trivia chaos.
The James Bond Vespa Martini
- 3 ounces gin
- 1 ounce vodka
- 1/2 ounce Lillet Blanc, or dry vermouth
- Lemon peel, for garnish
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Countdown And Welcome Aboard
MattTen, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. We have lift.
RobWelcome to Matt and Friend Drink the Universe!
MattHello, listeners, and welcome back to Matt and Friends Drink the Universe. Today we are going to be doing some banana. Sorry.
SiobhanBirch, Birch, Bond.
MattOkay. It is Bon Trivia. Are you thinking or you drinkin'? And joining me today for Bon Trivia, we have Andy.
SiobhanSiavon.
MattChris. And Rob. We're going to be
How Think Or Drink Works
Mattplaying some think or drink. Think or drink is our classic trivia game where players start with six points. The last person with points remaining wins. Correct answers let you choose someone to lose a point and drink, while incorrect answers will cause you to lose a point and drink. For difficult questions, you have two options. First, you can make it a double to get help from someone else. If your collective answer is correct, you can choose individually to gain a point or to make somebody else drink and lose a point. If you're wrong, both of you lose a point and drink. Or you can put it on their tab by selecting someone to answer for you. If they're right, you lose a point and drink. If they're wrong, you gain a point. Make sure to balance potential risk and reward when you put it on their tab. Everybody catch all that?
RobYeah, we just uh doing the the common two lifelines today, or do you have a I don't have a surprise third today.
MattWe're doing the common two. Alright, so it's a put it on your tab. The put it on your tab and make it a double. And make it a double. Nice. Taking it back to the risk. Since we all created the rules together, I would hope that we know the rules, but we didn't play the rules for them for two years ago. It's been a bit. They also change frequently. Yeah. Yes.
Vespa Martini Recipe And Reactions
MattBefore we dive into trivia, let's talk for a minute about this wonderful martini. What else could one drink when doing Bon trivia, but a martini? Ruth. There's so much excitement about this martini. It is so nervous.
SiobhanI will say I've already tried it.
AndyI gotta be honest, I don't think I've ever had a martini before.
SiobhanOh.
AndyWell, so this is gonna be a first.
SiobhanI feel like it might all be uphill for you from here.
RobI am not a gin drinker, so I am very nervous about this one.
MattBut this should be a vodka martini, right? Well, it actually this is the Vespa martini. This is the recipe that was found in the book. Vespa martini. Yes. Showed up in Casino Martini. Showed up in Casino Royale as well. So no, although there have been olives in Bon Martinis throughout, this does not. It is a big, big lemon peel, as the recipe called for. Indeed. Three shots of gin, one shot of vodka, and a half of Lilith.
RobI'll tell you, everybody has their own definition of big Matthew.
SiobhanWell, we knew you wouldn't like it, so that's why we tried to be nice too. Let's go for it.
ChrisUgh. Actually, spruce tips.
SiobhanI do not dislike it.
ChrisSo I don't hate it, actually. I'm a good martini.
SiobhanI I would probably prefer just a vodka martini, which is the other thing that he does drink a lot of in the books and the films, which is just vodka vermouth twists of lemon.
RobThat that I would probably prefer as well.
SiobhanWhich we can do that. Oh, yeah. In a bit.
MattIt's worth mentioning. How many Siobhan, you told me earlier how many martinis Bond drinks.
SiobhanOh my gosh. I think there was some piece of trivia online that said the way that they extrapolated how much he drinks over, I think that I think it was the novels, is that he drinks like 16 martinis a day, and it's like 92 something a week or something like that. No way shooting. And I'm like, what? Yeah, it's but that I I from what I was reading about, because as many listeners will know, whenever I'm thrown onto a trivia episode, I do a lot of prep work. But I was reading that the novels, he is way worse at drinking in the novels than when they made him into the film character. It's not nearly as lush, though he still obviously has signature drinks.
MattSo okay. Well, shall we dive? Yeah. And as I said earlier, the man drove a tank after 30 martinis, apparently.
SiobhanI might be able to drive one after this martini.
MattWe'll see how that goes. I'm driving one right now.
SiobhanYou might be surprised, they're not that hard to drive.
MattAndy having the inside track on that one.
AndyAh, track, tank joke, I get it.
MattSo, Andy, you made the last joke. What category would you like to start
Bond Theme Songs Kick Things Off
Mattwith? And remember music. Music is also an option.
AndyUh well, let's just get music out of the way first. Then we then we're what's on the paper. Let's go with music.
RobGoing music. I have a bad feeling about this.
MattIt's now a Star Wars episode. We do have a variety of topics. Salacious crumb, incoming. Um we do have a collection of topics. We're gonna do five questions per topic. So here's the first one out of music. Andy, I'm sorry, we're gonna do four out of each. Andy, what was the first James Bond theme song to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100? Is it Live and Let Die by McCartney and Wings? Nobody does it better by Carly Simon. A View to a Kill by Duran Duran, or Writings on the Wall by Sam Smith.
AndyWell, I would have guessed Goldfinger, so there we go. That's not there. Um I gotta guess Live and Let Die. That one slaps.
MattIt's a really good one. This is a really good one. It is it is A View to a Kill by Duran Duran.
AndyWell, I stand by my answer.
MattYeah, I do too.
SiobhanBillboard doesn't know garbage, you know.
MattSiobhan, which legendary guitarist played the famous riff in the original James Bond theme song for Dr. No in 1962? Was it Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Vic Flick, or Brian May?
SiobhanWow, this is great. I didn't I don't know this.
MattUm, I know those guitar players at least, but uh lifelines available, although I don't see the resident guitar player with a hand hoisted for this one. I feel like He's saying no. He's got that no face going.
SiobhanDr. No in 1960. I'm sorry, remind me of the year?
Matt62.
SiobhanRight. So that's kind of early in the 60s. Let's go with Jimi Hendrix, all in.
ChrisIt's a solid guess.
SiobhanYeah, it's wrong.
ChrisIt's Vic Flick.
SiobhanOkay, nope.
ChrisSo the one I didn't recognize I would have gone with.
MattOkay.
AndyYeah, I don't know who's Vic Flick.
MattYeah. He played guitar in so many famous movies and did a lot of studio work. There's actually as weird as it sounds, there's a pawn star episode where he comes in to sell the guitar that he played the James Bond theme on.
RobAnd he like said, nobody recorded hundreds of thousands of songs using this guitar in the studio, and he winds up selling it to the pawn shop to yeah. I see, I've seen that one.
MattYeah, nice. He hands him a like a 30-page list and like this is half of everything I played on back.
SiobhanAre we keeping score?
RobUm, I should be.
SiobhanSo Andy lost one and so did I.
RobAndy is down one, Siobhan is down one.
SiobhanWell, that was fun.
RobIt's okay, it's been real. Yikes.
MattChris, which song performed by Cheryl Crow served as the theme for Tomorrow Never Dies? Was it A, Surrender, B, Die Another Day, C, Tomorrow Never Dies, or D, the World Is Not Enough? I think it's surrender. It is surrender. That is true.
SiobhanBecause the others are literal other bottom movies.
ChrisGot an easy one.
RobSo Chris does not lose a point. He can make someone else lose a point.
ChrisOh.
RobOh, geez. Right?
ChrisThat is correct. This is gonna be a quick episode. Uh let's go, Rob, since you haven't lost a point yet.
SiobhanWell, he didn't even go yet.
RobAh, it's fine.
SiobhanWell, music is probably a strong suit, so I mean, you knew who Vic Flick was.
RobNo, not in this context of the question. I would have I would have raised my hand and helped you. I would have guessed Brian May.
AndyThat would have been my guess, the British one. But but we all were with it.
RobBut then the 1962 of it threw me off because Brian May wouldn't have been no well, actually, none of them would have been prominent until the late 60s.
SiobhanWell, I was like 62, but telephine.
RobCould have gotten there.
MattGo on. Rob, what is the title of the song performed by Sam Smith for the movie Spectre in 2014? Is it Writings on the Wall? Yes. You just said that earlier. Thank you. Okay.
RobRight. Fair enough. Music category dead. Um, okay. Good job. Um, so I guess, Chris, life is unfair sometimes.
AndyYou wouldn't know.
RobWe're all we are all down to six points, six puntos. No, no lifelines have been used, and we are moving on to the next category, which I believe will be picked by Siobhan.
Bond Girls Trivia And Debates
RobYes.
SiobhanOh, perfect. Well, uh, I'm gonna go with Bond Girls.
MattGo on Bond Girls. Okay. Siobhan and Dr. No, where do we first meet Honey Rider?
SiobhanOn the beach.
MattOh, I knew that.
SiobhanShe's coming out at the beach, Ursula Andres with her bag of conch shells or whatever she has.
MattThis website has the answers way down below, so I have to spend it. Oh, well, I'll tell you that's the answer. That's the correct answer.
AndyIt is correct.
SiobhanIconic, iconic scene that Halle Berry attempted to replicate and die another day when she comes out of that. I mean, what?
AndyNailed it.
SiobhanOh, I yeah, sure. And probably better because I Ursula Andrew scene was an idiot in Doctor Now. So she's beautiful, don't get me wrong. But she's like, and I'm like, are you okay?
AndyAnd also her story makes no sense. Right. I'm on this island. That dude killed my dad, I think. Let's not talk about that for the rest of the movie.
SiobhanThis is classic Bond.
RobWho would you like to deduct a point from?
SiobhanLet me take Andy, because only one who hasn't been okay.
MattWe're playing very fair so far.
SiobhanSo far. Chris early.
MattYes. In Goldfinger. Honey Blackman plays Pussy Galore. What role does she fulfill within Goldfinger's organization? I thought Honey Blackman was the fake name.
SiobhanNo. Just when you thought.
MattDid I say honey? It's Honor. Sorry. Yeah. I was like, what?
SiobhanMaybe read it again.
MattYeah. In Goldfinger, Honor Blackman plays Pussy Galore. What role does she fulfill within Goldfinger's organization?
SiobhanIs there no choice? Oh wow.
MattNo, I'm watching Rob die over here.
SiobhanOh.
MattGreat. Is it pilot, chauffeur, assassin, or lawyer? Pilot.
ChrisYou don't have to scroll. That's the answer.
MattI know. We're all like 100% confident. Yeah, it's worth noting that Chris is a huge Bond fan.
SiobhanChris is Yeah.
MattIt's kind of Chivon Drink.
SiobhanWoo! Dang.
unknownOkay.
SiobhanCutthroat now.
MattRob, in Tomorrow Never Dies, Bond has a fling with an old flame. She is now the wife of the baddie, Elliot Carver. What is Mrs. Carver's first name? Is it Tunis, Vienna, Rome, or Paris? I believe it's Paris.
RobIt is Paris. That is correct. Good work. Woo! Uh Chris comes down to our level. Okay.
SiobhanWow.
RobOkay. I am actually in the lead by one.
AndyWhat?
RobOkay.
AndySo my turn.
RobAnd he has a question. Oh, yes, I'm sorry. One more.
MattComing back around. In Live and Let Die, the leading lady is Solitaire, played by Jane Seymour. What does she use to predict the future? Butts. Seymour butts.
SiobhanOkay.
RobTerror cards. It is tarot cards, yes.
SiobhanNice. Oh, I didn't know that.
AndyRush that round. I knew that one, yeah. Nice. Well done. Well done. Um, let's uh let's let's get more cutthroat. Schwan, it's coming to you. Oh no. Shots are getting fired.
SiobhanThat's okay.
RobWow. The first shot fired.
SiobhanSome of these are quotes as categories, and I would love to be out of this game by the time we hit that because I did not know stuff on that.
RobSo Chris, you will choose the next category.
Villains, Spectre, And Shark Tanks
RobWe are gonna go villains. Oh, I would have left if you went villain quotes. I know, right? I was waiting for you to do that.
SiobhanWell, too bad.
MattAll right, we're going villains, Matthew. Yeah, hit me. The plot in from Russian with Love is masterminded by Spectre. Spectre, operative number five, is Kronstein. Kronstin? Kronstein. Kronstein. Okay. At which game does Kronstein excel when he's not.
ChrisYes. Final answer. That is correct.
SiobhanHey. I thought he was gonna ask you what Spectre stands for.
RobUh, we're gonna go Andy. All right. Cheers to that. I'm ready to try to answer a question. All right. The main spectrum Andy loves the martini.
SiobhanYeah, it's really good. It's great. He's loving it.
RobReally into botanical flavors.
MattI'm not gonna lie, it's not really doing it for me either. I mean, it's not good, guys. Like we're just not martini people.
AndyI think those now come to you.
SiobhanI would like to be, but this is not the one.
AndyI'm not a gin person. I'm getting a lot of gin.
SiobhanWell, it's mostly gin, so that would be correct.
MattSo if you weren't, I'd be concerned.
SiobhanYeah, right.
MattRob, the main specter operative found in Thunderball is number two, Emilio Largo. He tries to kill Bond by trapping him in a pool of what? The jellyfish, piranha, electric eels, or sharks. I believe it is sharks. Frickin' laser beams.
SiobhanYeah.
MattIt is sharks. No freaking laser beams.
SiobhanThunderball is so much like Austin Powersy. All right. We were just we just watched it the other night. Really?
RobYeah. Join the rest of them at four points.
AndyI was planning to like marathon all the Bond movies leading up to this, and I failed utterly. I mean I made it through five. Partially because I got to Thunderball. I'm like, I just don't want to watch it. Yep. I don't want to rewatch it. I don't like that movie. What streaming service says all the Bond stuff? Uh Netflix. Netflix. Oh, okay.
ChrisThey just got they're not going to stay around forever, but they got them for an extended period of time, which is awesome. Okay. Did not know that. Yeah, they tend to jump streaming services. Yeah. Well, it's MGM, so they're doing whatever they have.
SiobhanAnyone owns all the Blu-rays? We have those.
ChrisYes.
MattIf anyone still uses Blu-rays. After the sharks question, Chris goes for a handful of goldfish. Just gonna throw that out there. Yep. Makes sense. Andy, in a view to a kill the main villain, Max Zoran dies when he falls from which U.S. landmark? Is it the Golden Gate Bridge? The Empire State Building? Mount Rushmore, or the Grand Canyon? I'm making it a double.
AndyChris, I'm tagging you in.
MattOh.
Sound effectOi! Balkey! Making a double!
ChrisThat would be the Golden Gate Bridge.
AndyYeah, I agree.
ChrisWhat is the Golden Gate Bridge?
SiobhanRight.
MattIt is the Golden Gate Bridge. Hooray!
SiobhanThat's Christopher Walkin for everyone. Which was made that villain.
AndyAnd Bethlehem.
SiobhanOh, the steel. Yeah.
AndyBethlehem Steel. Oh, for a Golden Gate Bridge, yeah. Golden Gate Bridge, yep. Oh, yes. Nice. I thought you meant like they feel.
RobAre you guys recouping a point? Yeah, I'm gonna take a point back.
AndyGive me a point.
SiobhanI would have for consumer.
RobOkay, very well. Is it over to Siobhan? It is Siobhan.
MattMe for Vilaines. All right. Villaines. Alec Trevelyan, played by Sean Bean, was the baddie in Goldeneye. Seen Bean. He is a former MI6 agent. What was his number? Double eight, double nine, double six, or double five?
SiobhanOh.
MattYou have lifelines and a smarting husband.
SiobhanI don't like Asky for Hell. Um I'm gonna go with 009. Just go with it.
MattIt is not double. What is it? It's 006.
SiobhanIt was six. That makes sense. That movie was And he died because he's Sean Bean.
unknownYep.
MattSean Bean died. That's what he does.
SiobhanHe does it very well.
MattYes. Boromir. Ned Stark.
SiobhanYep. Just name them all. Name them all. Literally. Sean Bean.
MattYeah.
SiobhanAlright.
MattIs it it will be Chris's turn to pick up? Huh? What?
SiobhanChris picked villains.
RobOh, now I have to pick a category.
GoldenEye Facts That Hurt
RobYep. Uh I'm gonna go with uh Goldeneye. Yes, I am with the cell.
SiobhanI just gave you a really mean face from over here, being like, quote.
RobNo, no, no, no. No, I was between that and the cars because we were we were talking about cars yesterday. Oh yeah.
MattSo, Rob, what were the first words spoken in the movie? Oh shit.
SiobhanCall me Ishmael.
MattHello, where is Alec? Hi, the bar is open. What are you doing? Beg your pardon, forgot to knock. This is good trivia.
RobI think it's beg your pardon, forgot to knock. It is beg your pardon, forgot to knock. Okay. Yep. Uh Chris. Okay. Because you are the advanced one here.
SiobhanI am Whoa whoa, yeah, that's true.
MattOh Mr. Chris, I expect you to die. Uh Andy. When Bond was in the casino, what card game did he play with Xenia? Is it poker? Solitaire? Rummy? Or Baccarat? Or Baccharak. Sorry.
AndyCan't laugh and drink that. I want to say Baccarat's the one they're usually playing. So I'm gonna go with that.
MattIt is indeed.
SiobhanOh, that was a good thing. It felt like a too tricky one.
AndyI did read Casino Royale at one point. It's the first one. Yeah, like actually read the book. Can't say I enjoyed it. The movies are all much better.
SiobhanHave you seen the original Casino Royale movie? Heck yeah. Yeah. With the Tijuana grass theme. So good. Who's drinking? Oh, yeah, that's right. Uh Rob.
AndyLet's put it on yours.
RobMatt is okay. Matt hold for my coughing.
SiobhanJust breathe out. Sad frog noise. Wow. Alright.
unknownReady?
SiobhanHit me.
MattWho had a bit part as Valentine Zarkowski's mist mistress? Was it Emma Thompson? Minnie Driver, Kate Winslett, or Kate Blanchett?
SiobhanCan I make it a double and have Chris help me? Oh, he's making a face. No, maybe I won't. Um let's go with Kate Blanchett. Who is it?
MattSorry, it's Minnie Driver.
SiobhanOkay, cool.
MattMinnie Driver played the driver.
SiobhanAlright.
MattNo, I think she played one of the girls'.
SiobhanShe's a mistress.
MattWhen he yells, take a hike. The two of them singing stand by your man in bad restaurants.
SiobhanI haven't seen Goldeneye in a very long time, so bummer for me. Okay. Got it.
MattChris? According to Trevellon, how did Bond's parents die? Car accident? They didn't die in an accident. Skiing accident or climbing accident.
ChrisMan, is this different lore than from the other movie with Daniel Craig? I'm gonna go with skiing.
MattClose, it's climbing accident. This is right after Bond accused him of being a cossack. Oh.
AndyWas there a lore that it was skiing accident? Because that seems to be familiar.
SiobhanThat's why because they talk about it in the newer movies, I feel like, right?
RobIn the Daniel Craig stuff. Yeah. I would have gone with skiing too. Dang.
SiobhanAlright. Well, here we are.
RobAll right. So uh I didn't know it. Back to Andy. Uh I'm saddened that none of those questions were what did the Bond who was in Goldeneye also star in earlier in his career, aka Mrs. Doubtfire.
SiobhanOh, yeah. I was gonna say Remington Steel. Yeah.
RobDante's Peak.
SiobhanOh, Dante's Peak is so good.
RobAndy, it is your turn.
MattDid you go in that category already?
RobYeah, because I picked the category. Yeah, he went first. Oh shit. There we go.
MattDon't worry. I'm uh we're on top of it, Matt. Yep. Wow. Somebody's gotta be here. I blame the martini.
Villain Quotes And Lifeline Chaos
MattAll right, just for Siobhan, let's go to potent quotables.
SiobhanRight. Which one?
RobWhich ones? Villains or Bonds?
SiobhanUh villains.
RobYeah. Villain quotes.
SiobhanThanks. Just kidding. Felt like I had to have a reaction.
RobOh, real quick, I'll I'll do a quick recap. Andy at five, Chris at three, Siobhan at two, and myself at five.
MattIn the first part of the 1983 James Bond movie, a villain named Kamal Khan says, Spend the money quickly, Mr. Bond, after losing to 007 at a game at Batcammon. Can you identify this movie, which co-stars Maud Adams? Is it the man with a golden gun? The spy who loved me? Live and let die, or octopusy.
AndyUh I don't know. I'm gonna I'm gonna put it I'm gonna put it on Rob's tab. See him? Put it on their tab.
RobMy god. Uh I'm gonna go Octopussy. That is correct.
SiobhanOh, nicely done. I was like, that's the right time.
RobBecause I answered it correctly, Andy will lose the point. Yep. That is correct.
MattSaw that coming.
RobOkay. And Andy, you are now out of lifelines.
MattYep. Siobhan, in the beginning of a 1967 James Bond movie, 007 fakes his own death in Hong Kong. In order to have more freedom to investigate a possible plot by Spectre to cause World War III. After failing to kill James Bond in Hong Kong, which leader of Spectre later traps 007 and says, You only live twice, Mr. Bond. Was it Elliot Carter, Ernest Blofeld, Mr. Big, or Amelia Largo? You only live twice, Mr.
RobBond.
SiobhanI think Largo is dead already. So it's not him.
RobJust reminding you of both lifelines, I believe.
SiobhanAnd I only have two points. So make a face, Chris. I mean, why not, right? Because I don't know. So if our powers combined, can I make it a double, please?
RobYes, you can.
Sound effectOi! Bulky! Make it a double!
SiobhanDo you think it's Blofeld? Okay. Um as we say that together.
ChrisYeah. Yeah.
SiobhanI'm I'm like, that kind of makes sense.
Matt90% sure.
SiobhanSo all right, we're gonna go with Blofeld.
MattYou are thinking, not drinking. But who's gonna be drinking it? Are you taking points back? You're correct. No, I'm right. Holy shit. He said that real confused.
SiobhanUm, I'm taking points back because I've only have two. So now I have three. Well, do you get to do that?
unknownYeah.
SiobhanOh, cool. Yeah, yeah. Good, good, good. You're welcome.
ChrisYes, indeed.
SiobhanThank you for your help. So validate my thoughts. Now it's your turn.
MattChris, in the final scenes of the 1979 film Moonbreaker, which evil businessman tells James Bond, At least I shall have the pleasure of putting you out of your misery as he prepares to shoot Bond. Hugo Drax, Jaws, Holly Goodhead, or Chang? Drax. Could Jaws talk?
AndyOh well. Right. I don't remember Jaws talking. Who's Holly Goodhead?
ChrisThat is correct.
SiobhanShe's a good person. She's not a she's a Bond girl.
ChrisShe's the Bond girl from that from Moonrager.
SiobhanYeah.
ChrisThat is Carons does say something at one point, and I can't remember what he says. I'm gonna make Robert.
AndyPut it on the ring. Put it on the ring.
ChrisAndy and I thought that was great, guys. Yeah, he says something like go now or something like that at the end of the day.
SiobhanThat would be good to check out.
MattWe're getting sleepy. Rob, in the living daylights, which corrupt military man tells Soviet general Lenoid Pushkin in Tangier has always been man's main occupation. Was it Grigory Koskov, Brad Whitaker, Saunders, or Kara Milvoy?
RobI would like to make it a double.
MattOkay.
RobWith Chris.
SiobhanOh, Chris is breaking it in.
Sound effectBulky! Making it double.
AndyChris is just over here like, who the hell am I going to use my make it a double?
RobYou Mitakers know nothing. It'll be me.
AndyIt's Whitaker?
unknownYeah.
RobBrad Whitaker. Forrest Whitaker.
SiobhanIt's because I looked stuff up before this, so he'd probably do it then.
AndySo stupidly. Forest Whitaker eye.
RobYeah. Bam. We're taking forest Whitaker eyes. I'm taking points. Chris, you are also taking points.
SiobhanLook at this. Okay.
RobOkay. At the end of this round, Chris and I with five, Andy with four, Siobhan with three. Look out. Chris with both of his lifelines. Siobhan and I have a put it on their tab, and Andy out of lifelines.
MattAnd picking the category this time.
SiobhanMe, I think, right? You think?
Bond Cars, Lotus Submarine Included
SiobhanAll right. Let's do cars.
RobYeah.
SiobhanI don't think this is going to be in my favor, but I feel like it's good trivia. So let's go with it.
RobThe answer is Lightning McQueen.
SiobhanOh.
RobPretty sure that's not the answer.
SiobhanWow. Wow. Dr. Kachan. Wow. Oh.
unknownGod, Dr. Kachau.
AndyDr. Kachang. I love it.
MattSiobhan, out of the cars listed below, what is the first car we see James Bond driving in Dr. No? Is it an Aston Martin DB5? Is it an MGB? A Triumph TR4? Or is Sunbean Alpine?
SiobhanOh, I feel Aston Martin feels too easy. Oh, I don't remember any of the other ones. Uh let's just go with it. I don't care, man.
MattYou're going with the Aston Martin?
SiobhanYeah, get me out of the Bond quotes that somebody's gonna inevitably pick. So Aston Martin.
MattIt was the Sunbean Alpine.
SiobhanNice.
MattHe was being chased by Jamaican baddies driving a hearse.
SiobhanOh, the Jamaica. Yeah, it's all dark.
MattSanka, you're dead, man.
SiobhanAmazing.
AndyTriple nice.
ChrisThis is my least favorite category because last night I said to Rob, no, like all of them are Aston Martins, right? Like not all of them, but like most of them. So many cars. And then we looked into it, and it's like 5% of them aren't Aston Martins.
SiobhanThough they do make an appearance quite often.
ChrisYeah, of course.
MattBut Chris in on Her Majesty's Secret Service. Bond gets married, but is soon made a widower as his wife is murdered as they drive away from the wedding. What kind of car was he driving? But is it an Aston Martin DBS, a Lotus Spirit, Aston Martin DB5, or a Bentley Continental?
ChrisI'm pretty sure it's the Lotus, right?
MattPlease. You're going with Lotus? Yeah. It was the Aston Martin DBS.
SiobhanOh, different Aston Martin Disney.
MattI should have put it on someone else's tab, David.
SiobhanYeah, you should have. But I mean, I guess not at all. Woo, alright.
MattRob? Yes. In Goldeneye, Bond gets involved in a road race in the hills above Monte Carlo. Bond is driving an Aston Martin DB5, but what kind of car is he racing? Is it a Lamborghini Diablo? Is the TVR Tuscan? A Porsche 911, or a Ferrari 355?
RobI believe it's a Porsche 911.
MattIt is not a Porsche 911, it's the Ferrari 355.
SiobhanPoop. That should have been mine.
MattPoop. And how are we looking for points? Should be uh everyone has four except for Siobhan, who has two. Andy, what is special about the lotus spirit used in the Spy Who Loved Me? It can transform into a hovercraft, it can transform into an airplane, it can transform into a submarine, or it can transform into a boat.
AndyUm I do remember one transforming into a sub. I'm gonna go with the submarine. Correct answer. Well done.
SiobhanIsn't that one called Wet Nelly? I literally think it literally is called like Wet Nelly, like the name of the actual car. Someone look it up and write us a comment. They're like, this is the Lotus Esprit, Wet Nelly. And I'm like, that's weird.
MattYeah, it doesn't necessarily say that, but the the producer's name was Cubby Broccoli.
SiobhanWell, that's Alfred Broccoli. And that was his nickname.
MattCubby?
SiobhanYeah.
MattInteresting.
SiobhanThis is what happens, you guys, when I look shit up. Okay. Who would you like? Who's dranking? To drink. Go ahead, Rob.
AndyOkay.
SiobhanChris's pick, right? Of category now.
ChrisIt is indeed. Oh shit. All right. Matt is.
Goldfinger As A Choose Your Move
ChrisNope. Oh, wait, no, I'll go goldfinger. I was gonna say, is it the new casino rail or the Rachel Casino rail?
SiobhanWho knows?
ChrisGoldfinger questions, please. Goldfinger questions, okay?
SiobhanGoldfinger.
ChrisShirley Basie.
SiobhanShe's here. Goldfinger. Man with the murderest touch.
MattSo these are all these particular questions are as if you were Bond. As you enter a noisy lab, Q greets you with as usual morning 0007 this way, please. He informs you that you won't be using a Bentley this time, but an Aston Martin DB5 with some modifications. Which of the following are not one of the modifications Q describes? Not. Left and right, front wing machine guns, bulletproof windshield and windows, invisibility mode, or an injector seat.
ChrisInvisibility mode. Yeah. Yeah, that is correct. Dude, the injector seats. Injector seats so good. Y'all are crazy.
AndyWas it Doctor or um I think it was Thunderball was the first time they used it, and like the the the bad guy just No, that's it's Goldfinger.
ChrisIs it Goldfinger? Yeah, yeah. And he like he looks at the guy like two or three times, and the and the guy holding a gun on him is like, Why are you looking at me like this?
unknownRob?
ChrisOh, I gotta tell someone. Andy, drink. Oh, sure.
MattYes. You are enjoying a massage in a luxurious Miami hotel when you receive orders from M to keep an eye on or Goldfinger. Who is staying in the same hotel as you are? Felix Leader points him out to you, a man playing gin against somebody else. You notice someone is giving Goldfinger instructions from the balcony of his room, helping him cheat. What do you do next? You break into his room and find out who's helping him. You go back to your massage, deciding to spy on Goldfinger later. Do you let him win, then go over and introduce yourself with the classic Bond James Bond, or do you interrupt his game and accuse him of cheating?
RobOh god, I haven't seen this in so long. Uh I'm gonna go with uh interrupt and Bond James Bond.
MattInterrupt and Bond James Bond? That is incorrect. You break into his room like an angry Viking and try to find out who's helping him.
ChrisWell Viking. Like a British spy, then. That's Mr. Goldfinger's suite. I know.
SiobhanOkay, Chris.
MattAfter Jill's death, you are looking forward to any opportunity to humiliate Goldfinger. Soon you find yourself playing golf against him, and you notice he's cheating again by placing a new golf ball to a better position. You decide to use your famous James Bond wit to teach Goldfinger a lesson. What do you do? Do you bribe his servant, Abjob, to place Goldfinger's ball in a worse position? You place your own golf ball to a better position when he's not looking. Do you replace his golf ball with a different one, causing him to lose the game in the end? Or do you hide his golf club, forcing him to use an unsuitable one?
AndyUh I want to say it's the switching the old golf ball. Switching the old golf ball.
MattYou replace his golf ball with a different one, causing him to lose the game in the end. Hey. Right. You play a Slashenger one, don't you?
SiobhanThis is good, Chris. You just need to quote with every every like fun trivia thing.
AndyUh, let's make Siobhan drink on that one. Ah, we're talking.
ChrisI forget what the caddy says. The caddy says something like, You slide dog or something like that. Son of a bitch.
RobOkay, Siobhan will get the last question about Goldfinger.
MattWhile you're spying on Goldfinger, you notice a woman trying to take a shot at him. She misses and quickly gets into her car using one of Q's clever gadgets to drive her car off the street. You rush to her side as though you have no idea what happened. What who does the woman turn out to be? Jill Masterson's mother, Jill Masterson's sister, Goldfinger's wife, Goldfinger's sister.
SiobhanI'm putting this on Chris's tab.
SpeakerSee them? Put it on their tab.
MattIt's the sister. It's the sister? Said that way too quickly was entirely. Of course he knew. I mean, that's just it is Jill Masterson's sister.
SiobhanSo that means I'm out. It does. Woo! I'll go out on that. You're welcome, Chris.
MattThat's a rare out overall. Okay.
RobSo Siobhan's now out.
SiobhanI don't need to be in Cassino Royale.
RobChris in the lead with four, Andy with three, myself with two. Chris has both of his lifelines. I can still put it on someone's tab. And uh I will now select the next category of Bond
Bond One Liners Quote Round
Robquotes. Yay.
SiobhanRIP Siobhan, do the quote thing. Yay.
MattIn which film would you hear this quote? Woman says to Bond, you're all wet. He responds, Yes, but my martini is still dry. Is it never say never? A view to a kill? Octopussy, or for your eyes only? I'm just gonna stick with octopusy. Seems to be your goal go-to answer.
SiobhanI mean, it's a good one.
MattIt is never say never again. Son of a bitch again.
SiobhanSon of a bitch again.
MattBy Fatima Blush, played by Barbara Carrera.
SiobhanNever say never again. What a time. The movie's good.
MattOkay. Andy. In which film would you hear this exchange? Woman, are you looking for shells? Bond? No, I'm just looking. Dr. No, Goldfinger, from Russia with Love, or Thunderball.
AndyThank you for the easy one. I will take Dr. No finally. Appreciate it.
RobThe question is, Andy, when you become right, will you take Chris down a point or remove me from the game?
AndyI feel like I have to take you out.
MattOkay.
AndyI'm sorry, Rob. Goldeneye style.
MattGoldeneye style. Andy with three points. Chris with four points. Confirm he was right. He was right. Okay. He was right.
RobOkay.
MattHe was right.
SiobhanReally? That's what we had for the Bond quotes that I was like, I don't want to be in, and it was the sh get out of here. I gotta calm down. I'll do an Angelogi Aretana.
RobThe question now goes back to Chris if you're gonna stay in this category.
MattWe are Chris, in which film would you hear this? Introduction? Plenty. I'm Plenty, Bond. Of course you are. Plenty replies, Plenty O'Tool, Bond, named after your father, perhaps? This the man with a golden gun, Live and Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever, or on Her Majesty's Secret Service. Shit.
SiobhanOh the master.
RobGive me the answers again. Now do remember you can put it on a tab or make it a double. Oh shit, I can. Can can we make it a double with dead players and they can get back in? Sure, why not?
AndyOkay. Who know? You only die twice, Mr. Staley.
MattThere you go.
AndyThat's true.
MattSo, Chris, is it the man with the golden gun? Live and let die. Diamonds are forever, or on her majesty's secret service. Do you want the quote again? I'm gonna go live and let die. Live and let die. I don't think it's right necessarily, but it is Diamonds Are Forever.
SiobhanOh, I recognize the name.
MattThe Redhead. That's also because I'm Irish.
SiobhanHe's a redhead, plenty of tools. Token is.
RobOkay, so I suppose that the last category now will be Casino Royale, a deadlock at three with the two remaining players. Chris still has two of his lifelines available.
Casino Royale Ends The Match
MattYes, he does. Coming down the home stretch here. Somebody's not gonna make it. Andy, after Bon acquires his double O status, we see him and another agent staking out a man whom they are supposed to apprehend. This man is part of a crowd watching and betting on a contest between two animals. What animals are involved in the contest? Is it a snake and a mongoose? Two roosters, a dog and some rats, or two human animals kickboxing?
AndyAnd I should, because I don't know who would. I both watched and read this one. Um I'm gonna go with the roosters.
MattGoing with the roosters. It's not the roosters, it was a snake and a monger. That would have been my guess.
AndyThat's what I was thinking, but yeah.
ChrisI wasn't certain about that one either.
MattYikes. Chris, hit me. Le Sharif provides banking services to terrorist organizations. He takes care of their money and makes it accessible to them anywhere in the world. Le Sharif has an unusual physical characteristic. What is it? He has a pronounced limp of his right leg, he has six fingers on his right hand, he stutters, or he weeps blood from his left eye. He weeps blood from his eye.
SiobhanIt's also Le Chyfre. That's it. Yes, Le Chyfre is his name. It's Mads Mickelson and Mads. Or Mass, I think you say Mass. Yes.
RobWell, I think you have to remove a point there. Yes. Okay.
MattIt is getting close, ladies and gentlemen. Andy? After winning all of his money in a beautiful car in a poker game, Bon takes Demetrios' wife, Solange, back to his cabin for a possible romantic interlude. Chris, how badly did I butcher the name? Chris. Solange? Sure. Is it Beyonce's sister?
SiobhanYeah.
MattWhat is Solange doing?
SiobhanBeating the shit out of that guy in the elevator.
MattWhat is Solange doing when she first when Bon first notices her? Beating the shit out of a guy in the elevator. Walking into a hotel lobby.
SiobhanI saw TMZ. I know the answer.
MattWalking into the hotel lobby, riding a white horse on the beach, waiting to be picked in what she thinks is her husband's car, sunbathing on a yacht. I don't remember. I'm going with the yacht. It's not the yacht.
RobIt's the classic white horse on the beach. It's not a yacht. The yacht it is not.
SiobhanAnd that is the game, it seems.
RobThat is the game.
SiobhanHmm. Chris.
MattSnap. Snap. Did any of us not see that coming? Not to diminish from your victory.
SiobhanYou never know with the points and the and the take on the book.
AndyI mean, to be fair, we could we could have been jerks about it and we could have all attacked Chris.
SiobhanRight.
AndyYeah. Vindication. We let him play.
SiobhanWe let him play this time. Ugh. Yeah. Which that was a whole
Martini Verdict And Favorite Bonds
Siobhantime.
MattSo Chris, for your victory, and perhaps not exactly this martini.
ChrisStellar said.
MattGood job.
ChrisI'll say it again. I was not offended by this. I thought the martini would have been way worse, and I was okay with it.
AndyI've had worse things.
ChrisYeah, exactly.
AndyIt's not the worst.
MattI don't like gin. It's just very strong. Very strong. Just very strong.
SiobhanYeah.
MattI I mean I've had martinis. I've had strong Manhattans. Actually. Like very strong Manhattans in this.
SiobhanWell, apparently he likes bourbon.
MattLe chiffre.
SiobhanJames Bond, le chiffre. Le chiffre. He likes bourbon more than he even likes these. Like vodka martinis and stuff, apparently, according to the lore.
AndyI I will say about halfway through, I like rubbed the orange peel or the lemon peel around the rim of the glass a bit more, and that that did put some more lemon in it and make it taste better.
SiobhanI do, yeah, the vermouth helps, I think, with a regular vodka martini a bit too.
RobI was also totally waiting for like questions about how many films each actor may have portrayed Bond.
SiobhanYep. And in fact, one of the things that I read was there were more actors that portrayed Blofeld than there are that have portrayed James Bond. Who's everybody's favorite bond? Oh, controversial.
ChrisGeorge Lazenby, 100%.
AndyI'll say the I'll say the wrong answer, Timothy Jones. I am aware it's the wrong answer, but that's the first one. Listen, if it's what you like I watched, you know. So that kind of locked in.
RobI'm gonna go with Pierce as well because it's the bond I grew up on, and and it's it's the bond that changed my video gaming life. Sure.
AndyYeah, the the one I actually like the most is Sean Connery, but Pierce is still like that's the iconic bond to me, which I know is wrong.
MattThat's andy wrong, I'm right there with you. I Pierce for that reason. That's the bond I grew up with. That's his blocky head was in golden eye that you're trying to shoot at. Nice, and but I also agree Sean Connery would be number two for me, absolutely.
SiobhanI guys, I really like Daniel Craig, and I think that's because he's done more of the like visceral, sort of like human, like really rough kind of raw stuff with James Bond. And I like the like pre, like, oh, I'm an emotional person as well as like this womanizer. And like I just really love, even though he freaking hated it for the last half of being James Bond, he's just such a damn good actor that like that's what I would want for this. And I understand that wasn't sort of the the character from the beginning, but like I really just love his take on like the rawness of who James Bond is, and I feel like the polar opposite is my second favorite, and that's Roger Moore. Because like he is the like er cuckoo, like jumping off the cliff with the the you know, union jack on his parachute, like hello ladies. Like he's so like the opposite of that, but he's just also iconic.
AndyI had a conversation with some because I do not like Daniel Craig at all. Yeah, like actively don't well. I mean, I like him, I don't like him as James Bond.
SiobhanYeah, okay.
AndyAnd I had a conversation with somebody about it recently, and I realized it's because he's more Jason Bourne than he is James Bond to me. Oh, okay.
ChrisHe's a covert agent, not the secret agent. Right. And and what we grew up like understanding a secret agent is they can talk their way out of anything, they fool their enemies into thinking that the the the they have the upper hand, whereas the secret agent actually has the upper hand. They can do anything, right? They can shoot anybody from any distance with a magic bullet type style thing. Like that's a secret agent. And Daniel Craig fails a lot, he gets injured a lot.
SiobhanBut I love that. Yeah, yeah. Like that's what I think. That's what I those.
AndyMovies and put a different name on them. Sure. Yeah.
SiobhanI would love to bond to me. That's that's very fair. So yeah.
ChrisHe's definitely not a womanizer, right? And that is the character.
SiobhanWell, as the only woman in the room.
AndyYou can't bond if you don't hit the woman at least once in the world. Okay, whoa. I won't thank you.
ChrisBut yeah. Yeah. Also, very, very problematic in the first time.
SiobhanEven more problematic in the novels. Apparently, again, they they like because apparently Sean Connery did what he did, but they made him like tone it down. Well, I don't know if he toned it down.
ChrisGoldfinger is bad. Well, there is the scene, the the scene in Goldfinger, really bad.
SiobhanI'm not sure who has 16 martinis a day and doesn't go, hey bitch!
MattShut up, might be horrible. Alright, ready lightning
Casting The Next Bond Debate
Mattround. If you could pick the next James Bond, who would it be? I'm going first, Idris Elba.
SiobhanThat's everybody's pick recently.
ChrisI don't really have somebody that like I can put off the tip of my tongue.
AndyI don't have either. I like the idea of Idris Elba just because he's phenomenal. But I think the next Bond movie, uh this is gonna be controversial. I think it should be.
SiobhanShe already said Pierce Brosen, just go with it. Yeah, yeah.
AndyWe should go back to Pierce. Old Pierce Brosen.
SiobhanRichard here.
VariousNo. No.
AndyNo, I I think it should be. From my walker with love hands. The passing of the title. So it's a new bond, but it's not James Bond. Right? So like it's James Bond passing the title. Jimmy Bond. There there was a thing. I would be down for a female bond or you just tell about going with a black bond. But I think it's gotta be an active, like, this is a different character. This is not the same character.
ChrisYeah, they talked about in the final Daniel Craig movie that the money penny character was turning into an agent. Uh and the idea being like Well wasn't she didn't she have a double O number too?
SiobhanAnd like she was not a double O. There was some double O.
ChrisSo there's the idea that like we're getting rid of the double O, which has been a trope in a few movies. Like they're getting rid of the double O's. And so that's the trope is like, oh, well, she'll pick up as the new secret agent, but she won't have a double O number. And so we don't have to think of it like that. But MI6 is still around, maybe, or whatever the case may be. Yeah, I agree. I I I would like a the the way they ended the series with Daniel Craig dying. Sorry, spoiler alert, but it's called No Time to Die.
SiobhanHe had a lot of time. It's an epic death, though, too.
ChrisI mean, he's exactly a cruise missile. And I feel like that is a that was a good way to never bring the character back. Or at least not bring it back for a very, very long time, you know, because stuff comes in cycles. So like in 30 years, when somebody wants to pick that story back up, okay, fine, but like do something else for a while. But this is we're we're in a uh cultural society of like we've got to do the same thing of people right, you know, stuff people love movies, yeah.
MattYeah.
unknownYep.
MattWell, Chris, congratulations again on achieving trivia double O status. Oh, I thank you. Hang on one moment.
SiobhanYeah, there's other people that need to weigh in.
RobDid anybody else give their bond pick?
unknownOh.
RobMatt's like, I've given mine, goodbye.
SiobhanWell, no, Andy said that he great episode, Taco. Bye-bye.
AndyDid you say a person?
SiobhanNo, he just said he thinks it needs to change.
AndyI just think it should be not a white dude. I think they should go in a different direction. Yeah. But with the asterisk of it's not specifically James Bond. This is just kind of carrying on his legacy.
RobYou know who I think in saying not a white dude, I think who could do a really great job? Henry Golding. He is uh Asian American, I believe, and he's the guy from Crazy Rich Asians. Um he's in Snake Eyes. Okay.
AndyYeah. Okay.
RobI don't know.
SiobhanI could see that. Yeah, that's cool. Different. I feel like a woman would be cool.
AndyI thought you were about to go with Henry Cavill. I'm like, I'm here for it.
SiobhanIt's not gonna work too big.
AndyOh my god, he's just too big.
SiobhanYeah, that's not that would be cool. Well, his smaller but also tall version that that has been floated is Jacob Alordy, right? Who is like an incredible actor, he's up and coming, but he's younger, and so like that immediately makes me feel like I don't know if that's who has like a bond look to them, Matt Bomber from what is he, from suits or whatever. Yep, yep. He's in a couple things. Yeah, he he would be cool. Yeah, I feel like all those are options, and like I mean, I would I would love even though she's already like Avengers included, Florence Pugh would be a sick bond.
AndyYeah, or like I think that might just be too close to her character.
ChrisWell, right, like and I because she's so in that universe, I feel like it's like I don't need to take this on too and like for them to do like a spin-off of like, oh, this is you the daughter that James didn't know he had, right? And she becomes like it'd be a super easy thing to write, um, and then pick like a really solid actress.
SiobhanAnd it equally it can't be Scarlett Johansson for that reason. You know what I mean? Like it's like you're already an assassin spot space character. So like people need to see something new. Who knows? Maybe there's someone out there we're not even thinking of. If anyone wants to tell us, tell us who we're not thinking of that you want to be Bond. Oh, Shamalama, whatever. He doesn't like opera now, so get him out of here.
unknownWow.
AndyIt would just be hilarious to have him have to sit through a ballet in the movie.
MattYour pick for the next James Bond would be somewhere in the comments, or use that, send us a text link. And uh Shameless Plug, if you want to go anywhere that's in any of the Bond movies called Poppins Travel. That was a short one.
SiobhanYeah.
MattPierce Brosnan, listen to our podcast.
SiobhanOh God. Or Daniel Craig. Yay. Okay, bye, everybody.
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