Episode 22: The Rock
Added 2021-12-07 22:38:00 +0000 UTCBefore cracking right on with the Craig years, We take a quick stop off to check in with what can be argued (and is, by us) to be Sean Connery's final Bond film- The Rock!
This 1996 Michael Bay movie features Connery playing a quipping british spy, imprisoned for three decades for stealing a microfilm containing, canonically, All the US Government's secrets (Tell me that isn't Bond. I fucking dare you. Pussy). As the only man to ever escape it, Bond must infiltrate Alcatraz along with Nicolas Cage and defuse Ed Harris' VX Gas missiles.
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Comments
007 this is a "craw dad"
Desmond Gonzalez
2025-04-20 17:14:42 +0000 UTCmisheard abi saying "cage and bond" as "cajun bond" about 5 separate times. i don't like this concept but now it's out there in the world i guess
God's Eepiest Soldier
2022-04-23 01:27:32 +0000 UTCI love the opening, especially as I listen to all KJB episodes at 1.5x or 2x speed :)
Penile_Sparing_Vaginoplasty
2021-12-12 19:39:15 +0000 UTCDid I hear correctly that they're not doing any more Connery movies? Does this mean no Russia House? Boooooo!
Brian Taulbee
2021-12-10 15:33:56 +0000 UTCanything with scenery-chewing gets a vote from me
SpookyPenguin
2021-12-10 04:15:24 +0000 UTCWhen you... move is the word I'm going to use here, move to doing Assigned Podcast At Birth, I'd like to put in a suggestion for watching the misunderstood classic, Split Second. It's full of Rutger Hauer hauering the FUCK out of the scenery, and would be a lot of fun to hear you rip apart one of my favorite movies that went absolutely nowhere and did absolutely nothing for anyone except me and my friends : )
Cyrus McEnnis
2021-12-10 02:53:24 +0000 UTCThey gotta watch Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
British Pterodactyl
2021-12-08 20:04:54 +0000 UTCI love that Alice's brain came up with the Unified Bond Theory. it means she's one of the few people that would listen to my 'Logan's Run is a sequel to Dr Strangelove' theory
2021-12-08 19:46:21 +0000 UTCpatreon loaded a bit weird so it refreshed just after abi said "TEN HUT" and then nothing and that was the funniest shit
Login
2021-12-08 16:34:48 +0000 UTCCall me an idiot, but I'm constantly getting Ed Harris and Peter Weller mixed up. Great episode as always, friends. Thanks for all the laughs, and take care.
khaliqtessi
2021-12-08 15:57:35 +0000 UTCa mainline episode for the rock, but not casino royale (1967)? or is that coming after you do the craig one
Christine Pizan
2021-12-08 14:32:32 +0000 UTCThat intro blew me away. I am by now acclimated to Alices and Devon's intros but MAN was that good lmao.
Meonlights
2021-12-08 14:11:20 +0000 UTCAs a quick aside, the thing about "His Wife" already being on the headstone before him being buried isn't entirely uncommon for headstones for family graves. At my old workplace there was a headstone that had a bunch of family and their death years, and one name that had "1977 -[BLANK]" on it, meaning the poor lad had to go see his parents grave and see his own headstone as well. So while it's definitely there for the audiences benefit, it's not entirely unrealistic
Ellie Hallgren
2021-12-08 12:16:56 +0000 UTCWell, that opening awakened something in me.
2021-12-08 10:21:44 +0000 UTCSwitching back and forth between wtyppod and kjb to be hated and then cared for
James Craft
2021-12-08 05:26:06 +0000 UTCThey could have just used the tunnel from the mainland is my hang up here.
James Cézanne-Taipale
2021-12-08 05:02:08 +0000 UTCYour "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
Mulloy
2021-12-08 04:52:58 +0000 UTCNic Cage is nuts for the Beatles which is why he references the Beatles classic "Rocket Man" when he... oh.
OvO Hoot
2021-12-08 02:57:57 +0000 UTCit's a real testament to Michael Bay's particular talents that he managed to take this plot and these actors and churn out a movie as dogshit as The Rock
Ignatius
2021-12-08 02:38:08 +0000 UTCDoing a bit where I try to convince the CIA that the Maduro government has a park full of cloned dinosaurs that they intend to let loose in American cities.
Violet
2021-12-08 01:02:17 +0000 UTCIf you have played Resident Evil 6, you will understand that there is an ancient ruins/mine under every US location of note.
Dormagio
2021-12-08 00:53:10 +0000 UTCHow do you spend 10 minutes in San Fransisco if you're not Catholic?
British Pterodactyl
2021-12-07 23:44:10 +0000 UTC"Lemme see your Soy Face!" "...Shir?" "You got a Soy Face? Aaaah! That's a Soy Face! Now let me see your Soy Face." "AAAHHH!"
David L
2021-12-07 22:51:09 +0000 UTCHell yes! This is the bridge to put National Treasure-verse in Bond-verse.
Keifru
2021-12-07 22:50:19 +0000 UTCOh fuck yeah
Ryin
2021-12-07 22:45:35 +0000 UTC
