S3E25.5: KJB Q&A #10
Added 2024-08-16 10:06:25 +0000 UTCRecorded just moments before our Johnny English Live Shows, we pull down the curtain and get a little bit real. Finally, we're breaking our silence on the following questions: Whats the best type of Dog? What's our fancast for a Zardoz remake? How did we feel about I Saw The TV Glow? And finally- What did James Bond dot to that guy?
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I just listened to a playlist of all the Bond theme songs in order and I’m pleased to find that November and I agree that For Your Eyes Only is the best one. I also think it’s the one you could most plausibly do a queer reading of.
lousullivan.bf
2025-01-14 12:30:37 +0000 UTCOn the topic of films that are out of our depth but would be excellent for this podcast: “Wadjda”, the first full length film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia AND the first female directed Saudi film, its a girl’s coming of age movie set in modern Saudi Arabia and has a lot to say about Saudi patriarchy and how it’s both reinforced and discretely dismantled. I watched it for my ME&NA Studies class and it’s honestly a really well done film and really insightful.
A Goblin
2025-01-02 20:46:11 +0000 UTCSpeaking as a person for whom KJB *was* my Pink Opaque, I have to say that my first step was pledging enough to get the bonus episodes, but not enough to be eligible to have my name in the credits. I knew I didn't want that (yet). I played it on repeat in my reverse-dysphoria woodworking dungeon. I replayed and re-replayed the episode that told me to just transition, so it could give me permission. It's been two and a half years since I came out, and as the machinery of the world aligns itself against us, I am understandably distraught and terrified, but only because I finally have a life I'm afraid to lose. I finally have a life worth living! And I can point directly to your podcast saving my life. Things will be more difficult this way, admittedly. But I'll be alive the entire time, and I've already received happiness, contentedness, joy, and love in abundance. So regardless of outcome, regardless of anything yet to be suffered in my future as a direct result of transphobia, I have already exceeded my hopes for a happy life, because up to that point I didn't truly know what happiness was, *at all*.
Maeve Victoria Roth
2024-11-27 21:11:32 +0000 UTCFor No Notes Only
RIP Officer DeeDee Megadoodoo
2024-08-30 10:21:40 +0000 UTCYou guys should do “Lucky Numbet Slevin” for heist season because it is fucking bizarre, has Lucy Liu, josh Hartlett, Morgan freeman and Ben Kingsley in it, and no one has watched it.
Charlie Banwell
2024-08-30 03:20:47 +0000 UTC1) oh my god Bound 1996 for heist season and 2) i'm a disability studies PhD student and I'm dying for some material about disability and trangression/deviance in a lot of the films you've discussed and have touched on re deformed bond villains. I do cultural studies/textual analysis/literary criticism about lesbians and pain and have definitely been considering some scenes/entire films you've covered in my dissertation. I'm biased, but the documentary code of the freaks is a really fun entry point to disability studies film criticism !!
corbin outlaw
2024-08-28 20:22:16 +0000 UTCLook forward to it, don't forget the stinger on the prequel, it's a small but dense capstone for what I think most spy movies have to say about ideology. Thanks for the show, it's nice to have a break from things and get a good laugh in.
Bilbro T. Baggins
2024-08-26 20:38:27 +0000 UTCKingsmen is a series of three movies, so we're holding it in reserve for potential live shows
Kill James Bond!
2024-08-26 15:45:15 +0000 UTCYou honestly might have saved my life with this one
Kill James Bond!
2024-08-26 15:40:52 +0000 UTCDevon, the letter Ain gave me trouble for a while cause I didn't understand the instructions I was being given ("like an A but you're being strangled"). The thing that finally clicked was realizing it's an Arnold Schwarzenegger noise, like one might do in an impression after "get to da choppa" or "come on, do it! Kill me!"
-Kris-
2024-08-26 00:34:37 +0000 UTCJust occurred to me that The Anderson Tapes is a heist movie. Stars Sean Connery and a strikingly young Christopher Walken.
TieDyeMike
2024-08-24 09:09:49 +0000 UTCOh, I didn't ask if a Trillbilly would ever be a guest
Andrew Dunn
2024-08-24 01:05:16 +0000 UTCFake fan. Princess Celestia has a flying chariot pulled by pagasi.
Apparition
2024-08-22 22:18:59 +0000 UTCAlso please I beg of you please watch the musical Spies are Forever at some point 🙏
Squash fei
2024-08-22 06:44:52 +0000 UTCOk first of all putting a fish in a submarine is not like prison it’s like a car or a train or something. And second of all sharks are little darlings who have been stereotyped but are relatively docile compared to, I don’t know, pregnant detecting dolphins and boat eating orcas.
Squash fei
2024-08-22 06:44:05 +0000 UTCgod AND a blindsight mention... truly this q&a is for me
alexandra
2024-08-21 17:59:30 +0000 UTCOh that’s very true
James
2024-08-21 09:26:29 +0000 UTCabsolutely hooting and hollering about a sci fi season. kjb if you cover the abyss my life IS yours
alexandra
2024-08-21 04:43:19 +0000 UTCA very obscure suggestion but for heist season I'd love to see you tackle the near forgotten (even here in Ireland) 1997 flick 'How to Cheat In the Leaving Certificate'. It's a indie dark heist comedy made for about ten quid that still managed to get a national release in Irish cinemas and got complained about by the government. Graham Jones who made it posted the entire thing for free on YouTube a few years ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Od5clyN0M)
Ross Nolan
2024-08-21 00:06:57 +0000 UTCMuch as I like it I think 'Hot Fuzz' is 100% a cop movie and best saved for a police/detective season.
Ross Nolan
2024-08-20 23:59:57 +0000 UTCI would absolutely love to know if The Fifth Element counts as a heist movie? (And, secondarily, would you cover it?)
Leo Curtis
2024-08-20 17:27:40 +0000 UTCAlso, would hot fuzz count as heist season? I’d argue it’s at least heist adjacent
James
2024-08-20 16:18:13 +0000 UTCNova if you like small marsupials, would recommend Australia tree kangaroo. Funky and very rare tiny little guy. Once saw one in northern Queensland
James
2024-08-20 16:17:28 +0000 UTCLooking forwards to Now You See Me in heist season and watching the crew get increasingly irate at the blatant wizardry.
Erik Levandowski
2024-08-20 14:24:47 +0000 UTCYes, pease and thank you!
Doug King
2024-08-19 15:27:11 +0000 UTCWe meet at dawn! Choose your weapon!
Doug King
2024-08-19 15:26:14 +0000 UTCOur cat is named Singham after that very movie
Liz and Ash in Florida. It's very hot! Climate change will kill us all.
2024-08-19 14:50:13 +0000 UTCThe end of I Saw The TV Glow is that I, the viewer, transitioned. I've watched so many trans stories that didn't resonate because they were about the euphoria of transition. It took the movie about the unending hell of repression for it to finally click.
Upthorn
2024-08-19 13:12:19 +0000 UTCWas the "what did James Bond do to that guy?" From Octopussy? I thought it was Dr No, but they might have done it twice.
Damien Tonkin
2024-08-19 12:49:32 +0000 UTCI know you might want to move on from the 1950s and 1960s but there's some banger French robbery movies in there like Le Cercle Rouge and Rififi.
Antti Helin
2024-08-19 12:01:32 +0000 UTCSAMOYED SUPREMACY! Brushing a Samoyed daily is good - and Necessary- for the dog, and its good for you as a bonding activity; When you bring a Sammi into your daily routine you can use the time when brushing as meditation time! Also this allows for your Sammi to be exposed to being tumbled around as you brush legs, belly and withers without reacting badly, which is good for vets and when they are due for their barber visits 😆 But as November said, as with all Dogs, it takes alot of care for such a dog, but I fully believe its worth it!
Parent, Child, Adult, Babe, It is our duty to give Palestine aid!
2024-08-19 08:30:46 +0000 UTCKelly's Heroes and Three Kings would be a GREAT Robbery season double bill! (with a bonus crossover into War season)
Moray Macdonald
2024-08-19 07:55:35 +0000 UTCKelly's Heroes is a great shout, I'd love to see it compared and contrasted to Three Kings
Moray Macdonald
2024-08-19 07:51:23 +0000 UTCSecond, if you are still looking for film recs, I hope we cover the Mission: Impossible films this season (very heisty and a spy franchise you haven't covered yet). I also want to see To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything on a bonus episode
Jazz Fox-Canning
2024-08-19 00:46:05 +0000 UTCFirst of all, while Princess Celestia does have wings, she is shown to ride in a ceremonial chariot, which I agree should be called Mare Horse One.
Jazz Fox-Canning
2024-08-19 00:44:24 +0000 UTCI feel the urge again to lobby for two french films for Robbery Season : Max et les ferrailleurs (1971) by Claude Sautet, it's about entrapment, with great performances from Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider. A lot of Guys in there and a lot to talk about. The other is The Trouble With You (2018, fr: En liberté!), a rare action comedy with Adèle Haenel in the lead role, very horny in a fun way. Matches your respective freaks or so I hope. Thanks for the podcast ❤️
spunups
2024-08-18 14:18:57 +0000 UTCBig fan of HotD. More Abby beating the shit out of polish royalty, please.
Jon W
2024-08-18 12:54:44 +0000 UTCI don't know if you guys are still taking suggestions for movies to cover but I'd really love to see you guys cover Kill Bill (vol 1 and 2)
Jasper Robbins
2024-08-18 01:23:16 +0000 UTCI'm also currently reading Cuckoo. I agree that it's a much different story and slower of a burn than Manhunt, but it definitely feels like Gretchen Felker-Martin is getting quite proficient in writing many unique characters at once in the same story, I'm enjoying it a lot
Valerie's Gradual Futchification
2024-08-17 20:21:29 +0000 UTCOpossums are clearly the best marsupial
Ophelia Beatrice de Sica
2024-08-17 18:19:58 +0000 UTCAlso Devon, if you can get one cheap, get a Jobo Processor for color dev at home. Needs water supply, but I also jerryrig mine to the sink, so that’s actually not that much of a problem.
Nys
2024-08-17 17:24:35 +0000 UTCIf nothing else that movie is the most accurate depiction of how American city politics works on the ground - uncanny
John Leavitt
2024-08-17 17:19:39 +0000 UTCActually met someone a few weeks ago, who does air freight management as a job and he told me about flying horses, which is apparently pretty awkward to do. The more you know🌈
Nys
2024-08-17 17:12:34 +0000 UTCApocalypse season. Please :)-
Miriam Hoffman
2024-08-17 16:24:53 +0000 UTCRE: the ending of I Saw The TV Glow I went with a bunch of trans people and my *whole row* watched until the lights came up as we NEEDED it to be a fakeout
Chloe Lynch
2024-08-17 14:50:54 +0000 UTC“ Dog day afternoon “ Please 🙏 💜
Hannah Reid
2024-08-17 11:51:16 +0000 UTCSuggestion for heist season: Widows (2017, directed by Steve McQueen, starring Viola Davis)
Beach Boy Sammy
2024-08-17 07:58:32 +0000 UTCCan’t wait for the Hudson Hawk episode.
James Cézanne-Taipale
2024-08-17 07:03:35 +0000 UTCPart of the sub-species cop movie
Public Universal Foe
2024-08-17 05:32:08 +0000 UTCMuppet rock
William Chamberlain
2024-08-17 04:17:41 +0000 UTC_Star Wars_ and _Rogue Onei_ are in heist season, for the stolen plans.
William Chamberlain
2024-08-17 04:17:14 +0000 UTCThrowing in a suggestion as tangentially a heist movie: “Jackie Brown”
Consider Q-ing up TrashFuture’s Operation Clippy
2024-08-17 03:39:45 +0000 UTCAlso, MASSIVE yes for Four Lions and Inside Man!
Lauren Shear
2024-08-17 02:55:43 +0000 UTCI literally did pause the podcast to go watch I Saw the TV Glow and I died
talkingsoup
2024-08-17 02:49:37 +0000 UTCFrom fundraising for a Gaza family to standing against bigotry on your home turf, I heartily salute you Devon!
Lauren Shear
2024-08-17 01:23:20 +0000 UTCDid anyone else think Abi was saying that Devon was her favourite marsupial?
Michael Tonus
2024-08-17 01:22:49 +0000 UTCIf they don't do The Great Mouse Detective for heist season I will be so sad. I think there would be soooo much material there. Especially as a follow up to Flushed Away but like as an actually good movie.
talkingsoup
2024-08-17 00:56:15 +0000 UTCNovember said L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat was from the 20s. I’d like to have her state issued cinephile license revoked.
Harold Gottfried
2024-08-17 00:26:46 +0000 UTCThe gasp when Devon mentioned I Saw The TV Glow. So worth it.
ComicTF
2024-08-16 22:50:17 +0000 UTCI’ve already recommended How to Steal a Million for Heist Season, but I’d also like to recommend The Great Muppet Caper. It’s the best Muppet movie (yes, better than Christmas Carol) and is legit hilarious.
Brian Taulbee
2024-08-16 22:09:14 +0000 UTCThere was one episode where snog marry avoid basically detransitioned someone. In like you're going to stop wearing makeup and only wear boy clothes from now on
Angel-of-Deadlifts
2024-08-16 20:52:57 +0000 UTCIf you’re looking for Egyptian Spy movies, Boy from Heaven could be really interesting to talk about I think
Theodore Hall
2024-08-16 20:22:44 +0000 UTCRE: Robbery season; start with Heat, Fast and Furious as your long runner, Ocean's as your live show series. Watching the three of y'all on stage talking about some of my all-time favorite films? Yeah, I need that.
Serenity Holbrook
2024-08-16 20:08:13 +0000 UTCJust b/c his name was dropped in the recording: What does Tim Walz say about masculinity?
ARL & JP
2024-08-16 20:03:12 +0000 UTCIf you do a Wong Kar Wai season I can help organise a live show in Hong Kong.. maybe Chung King Mansion!
Maloria
2024-08-16 19:28:13 +0000 UTCThe best dogs are Swedish Vallhunds which are the husky corgi ones but they're actually their own thing not a Corgi X!
Angel-of-Deadlifts
2024-08-16 19:19:31 +0000 UTCPlease ruin us on Iranian movies! Give us A Taste of Cherries and Marmoulak and and and! (Can consult if desired)
Final Bond Girl
2024-08-16 19:19:08 +0000 UTCFWIW, it should be possible to get I Saw the TV Glow via most places that sell VODs, so you don't need to see it in theater (not sure if that's different in international markets). As of like last week, it was announced as coming to Max (guess I'm a commercial now...), so that's another way it would be possible to see it. No, I'm not just sharing this because I dream of a bonus episode on it so you can get into the meat of the film... Just mostly. But I also get being afraid of it hitting too close to home. I was, too. And in a few places, it did.
Violet
2024-08-16 19:10:14 +0000 UTCFake fans, Princess Celestia has a chariot pulled by four pegasi.
Sammi
2024-08-16 17:37:40 +0000 UTCStill hoping for the Kingsmen series. Or at least just an episode on the stinger after the credits of series prequel The King's Man(2021)(ww1, spy), that stinger had me Citizen Kane clapping and yearning for thier ww2 movie
Bilbro T. Baggins
2024-08-16 17:26:43 +0000 UTCIt has long been one of my favorite heist films. It is underappreciated in the genre.
Doug King
2024-08-16 17:21:30 +0000 UTCI just opened my phone to drop a Kelly's Heroes mention. You are doing the lords work
Bilbro T. Baggins
2024-08-16 17:16:18 +0000 UTCHoly shit! My question was answered!
Doug King
2024-08-16 17:06:55 +0000 UTCKelly's Heroes is a two for. Heist and war movie. I would die happy if they did a Fast and Furious season. Fast Five is an actual heist movie. Heists are not the center of most of the other pictures, especially Tokyo Drift. I'll volunteer my services as SME for the Fast franchise.
Doug King
2024-08-16 16:47:54 +0000 UTCSamoyedwave mentioned
Ineloquent Reverie
2024-08-16 16:33:33 +0000 UTCIs Goodfellas a heist movie?
Skate Bush
2024-08-16 16:01:03 +0000 UTCPlease, please do Thief (1981).
Zeroisanumber
2024-08-16 15:33:29 +0000 UTCI think it would be possible to fold kidnapping season into robbery season! Like this you could potentially talk about Rush Hour and get some good kung-fu on either the main feed or the bonus. It's also a good entrypoint into buddy-cop films! Once again I am on my knees, presenting my sword as allegiance to you three. But the sword is actually a copy of C.R.A.Z.Y. by Jean-Marc Vallée on DVD. It follows the story of Zach through his childhood and adult years, fighting against his homosexuality and struggling to find acceptance in himself and his family. But it's also so much more!! I'm straight-up willing to buy a copy and mail it to a KJB po box if need be, it's a good film I promise
Prince Jade
2024-08-16 15:21:21 +0000 UTCFor heist season I would like to suggest The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I know it sounds like a joke but they are definitely heists. They assemble teams, they make elaborate plans, they execute the plans (which go wrong), and they show the aftermath of their heists. In the case of LotR it's a reverse heist too which I think is fairly novel.
mark bondioli
2024-08-16 15:12:06 +0000 UTCSuggesting for romance season - Tootsie! Gender AND acting!
Ros Ballinger
2024-08-16 14:48:37 +0000 UTCAlas it is not available here
Gilded Dragon
2024-08-16 14:14:21 +0000 UTCIt's absolutely a heist movie, I second that.
I'm not reading this name.
2024-08-16 14:14:17 +0000 UTCHeist movie suggestion: The Great Muppet Caper.
EMC
2024-08-16 14:09:15 +0000 UTCCan we get KJB does nostalgic kids films - I want to hear you all talk about Don Bluth films and what it has to say about masculinity, and the live shows become ALL the Land Before Time films.
Matthew Maddock
2024-08-16 13:07:31 +0000 UTCIs Ghost in the Shell (1995) a Spy Season pick?
Frank Leonard
2024-08-16 12:47:12 +0000 UTCThrowing Gattaca (1997) into the ring for a somewhat sideways robbery season pick (you can steal an identity right?) - has a lot of topics to discuss including some interesting trans and masculinity takes; also a fantastic performance from Ethan Hawke!
Willow Morris
2024-08-16 12:42:40 +0000 UTCI now require Nova to show up to the next liveshow in a shark costume.
Camoose
2024-08-16 12:38:13 +0000 UTCThe first time I ever listened to this pod, I skipped the q&a's, and then months later I finally came back and listened to them and discovered that they were the source of a decent amount of the shows lore, including the first mention of Uncle chops and the spray bottle.
Andrew Dunn
2024-08-16 12:23:56 +0000 UTCAlso, my god, I Saw the TV Glow. What a masterpiece.
Antichrist Against Fascism
2024-08-16 12:07:23 +0000 UTCfor heist season can you guys watch Snatch please
Ysa
2024-08-16 12:06:31 +0000 UTCI asked a ska question and I'm a little sad that they didn't PICK IT UP PICK IT UP PICK IT UP.
Saint Muerte
2024-08-16 11:27:12 +0000 UTCLast episode of Robbery Season as it leads into War Season: ✨Three Kings✨
Lukeaqueer
2024-08-16 11:19:48 +0000 UTCFor heist season, I'd love it if you watched The Town with Ben Affleck
overlord105
2024-08-16 11:15:42 +0000 UTCI've never watched Snog, Marry, Avoid, but with your description I now need Milo's Kier Starmer to narrate a segment on dressing respectfully
shadowcb
2024-08-16 11:06:47 +0000 UTCI think the real question is "WHY did James Bond do to that guy?"
BarFly
2024-08-16 11:01:58 +0000 UTCCarol (2015) mentioned! Really looking forward to it.
neoncity
2024-08-16 11:00:56 +0000 UTCA good odd ball robbery season pick would be Sexy Beast
Dean Sartorel
2024-08-16 10:56:17 +0000 UTCIt doesn't explain Everything but tbh it explains enough that youse were dog kids
chronicles of girldick
2024-08-16 10:37:41 +0000 UTCalso to be clear this isn't even parasocial I just love talking about Japan and Japanese cinema
Alex de Winter
2024-08-16 10:29:48 +0000 UTCI maintain - if y'all ever need a legit Japanese studies correspondent, hit me up! I'm a Japanese politics specialist who works largely in anthropology but also does (and did) both contemporary and more historical Japanese history - I can show off my degree and also my student ID at a legit Japanese university too (plus I speak Japanese)
Alex de Winter
2024-08-16 10:28:57 +0000 UTCNova turning into Frank Reynolds in the intro - “Hi ladies, I’m Frak- SHIT”
Jack Connell
2024-08-16 10:09:28 +0000 UTCReady to get parasocial!
Antichrist Against Fascism
2024-08-16 10:08:38 +0000 UTC
