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Speaker 1: Welcome to tex Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio

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Speaker 1: and I love all things tech. And it is Friday,

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Speaker 1: which means it's time for another classic episode of text Stuff.

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Speaker 1: This episode originally published on January six, two thousand and fourteen.

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Speaker 1: That is the first part of a two part episode,

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Speaker 1: so we'll have part two next week. But this is

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Speaker 1: called text Stuff Bonds with Spy Tech Part one. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun looking back at the different types

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Speaker 1: of gear that has been featured both in spy films

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Speaker 1: and has actually played a part in espionage and various

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Speaker 1: secret agencies. It is a fascinating subject, one that is

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Speaker 1: filled with a lot of innovation, a lot of failed

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Speaker 1: innovation as well. Uh. The Spy Museum in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: Is absolutely fascinating to walk through if you have the time.

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Speaker 1: I recommend it. Once things are safe to go out

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Speaker 1: and about at museums again, and let us listen to

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Speaker 1: this classic episode. This is behind the curtain. Guys. We

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Speaker 1: had to go in and start deleting stuff because it

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Speaker 1: was so much We're like we can't do a five

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Speaker 1: part episode about James Bond. Yeah, yeah, I mean over

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Speaker 1: the course. Okay. So this is a phenomenon, a global

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Speaker 1: phenomenon that was based on a single n novel, Casino Royale,

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Speaker 1: written by Ian Fleming, who better known as, of course,

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Speaker 1: the creator of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Clearly he wrote

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Speaker 1: all of the all of the James Bond novels that

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Speaker 1: you know, he originally created from this Jamaican estate that

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Speaker 1: from there into the beautiful goofy thing that we have today.

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Speaker 1: And and there's you know, some arrows of James Bond

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Speaker 1: more years, the Roger Moore years in particular, guy goofy.

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Speaker 1: And and because there is a lot to cover, and

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Speaker 1: some of it we want to relate to actual real

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Speaker 1: and which ones aren't. Because there's so much, we are

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Speaker 1: going to do a two parter because it's just otherwise

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Speaker 1: would be really unsatisfying at least for us. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: but so yeah, a Bond himself gets most of his

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Speaker 1: standing for Quartermaster Branch. Yes, and so you often will

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Speaker 1: charge of giving out all of the weird gadgets, and

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Speaker 1: usually at some point in the rollout gives a little

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Speaker 1: a slap on the wrist saying could you please stop

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Speaker 1: blowing up the stuff I give you? Because all of

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Speaker 1: these wonderful things. I mean, we didn't list to the

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Speaker 1: he has blown up, but I mean it's safe to

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Speaker 1: say that it's most of them. Yeah, yeah, he's not

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Speaker 1: only not only as he blown up most of his gadgets.

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Speaker 1: I think at this point he's blown up most of Europe.

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Speaker 1: But no, no, that's that's that's accurate. I did want

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Speaker 1: and that It's been suggested that that because Fleming was

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Speaker 1: that that the character of James Bond was a highly

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Speaker 1: Like I can't imagine a spy walking into a casino

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Speaker 1: I mean military obviously would have had access to the

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Speaker 1: best of the best. It wasn't until the late nineties

429
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 1: that we started seeing that creep into markets. Where we

430
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 1: could make real useful um, like, we could really take

431
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 1: advantage of GPS, because before that it wasn't so accurate

432
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: that you could do like turn by turn directions. They

433
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 1: could tell you if you were in the general area,

434
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,679
Speaker 1: and that was the best at any rate. Homing beacons.

435
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 1: I mean, there are plenty of things that can give

436
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 1: off the signal that, depending upon how far way you are,

437
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: you can totally track it. So that's not that far fetched,

438
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 1: although of course the ones that appear in the Bond

439
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: movies tend to be smaller and more versatile than what

440
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 1: you actually get in real life. And for specifically in

441
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four, it was a pretty impressive, pretty impressive feat.

442
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,439
Speaker 1: Oh and also since we didn't delete this one, I

443
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 1: have to bring it up. It's not really a gadget,

444
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: but it is one of the early ridiculous examples of

445
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 1: Bond technology. Yeah, I'm talking about the the the camouflage wetsuit.

446
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: What makes it camouflage? It had a rubber duck on

447
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: top of it. Yeah, Bond kind of throws it away

448
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: in disdain, but yes, it had. It was a wet

449
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:43,679
Speaker 1: suit with a rubber duck on it. I did not

450
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,399
Speaker 1: delete that from our notes, because um, I felt like

451
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: it was really probably the most important of all the

452
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: technology that we will be talking about. It's fair, it's fair,

453
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: it's early, but it's fair. Alright, We're moving on to

454
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,120
Speaker 1: nineteen six. This is Thunderball. Uh there was some tech

455
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 1: in here that was definitely a little more uh far fetched,

456
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: particular from the time. Yeah, they had a homing pill,

457
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: which was something that bond could swallow and it had

458
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: a homing device in it. Being able to create a

459
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: pill that would have a device strong enough to admit

460
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: a frequency that you could pick up from any distance

461
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: is problematic because where do you get the power source,

462
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: which which is the problem with a lot of these

463
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: very small gadgets that we're that we're going to be

464
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,120
Speaker 1: talking about, is really the power source capacity that even

465
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,880
Speaker 1: today we don't fully have worked out. Yeah, we could

466
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: miniaturize the electronics, but miniaturizing the power that battery technology

467
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,479
Speaker 1: has lagged well behind other technologies, and we all know this.

468
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 1: It's one of the big challenges with today's electronics is

469
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Speaker 1: that we can make incredibly powerful electronics, but often the

470
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Speaker 1: battery has trouble keeping up with the pace. So that

471
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Speaker 1: would have been a big issue. A lot of the

472
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Speaker 1: sort of stuff that you think of, like that the

473
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Speaker 1: biomechanical type pills that doctors are using today to track

474
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Speaker 1: things in experimental clinical trials are passive, and that you're

475
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Speaker 1: using a giants system that can track the pathway of

476
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Speaker 1: the pill. But it's because the giant system is sending

477
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Speaker 1: in signals that bounce off the pill, like ultrasound or

478
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 1: something like that. So little tricky. Uh. He also has

479
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: a rocket belt where he it's like a little jet

480
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: pack and it allows him to escape after he kills

481
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: a bad guy. And um, here's the thing. It was

482
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,959
Speaker 1: a real jet pack. It was actually based off of

483
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: In fact, it was a bell Aero Systems rocket belt,

484
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: and that was something that bell Aero Systems had developed

485
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 1: for the U. S. Army specifically to let people do

486
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,879
Speaker 1: really short John. So I'm talking about like twenty feet.

487
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: You couldn't go very far at all, You couldn't go

488
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,919
Speaker 1: very high, and you couldn't go very far. Yeah. But

489
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: but it used hydrogen peroxide its fuel, which was bizarre,

490
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: and later ones used other types of fuel as well,

491
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: but they never were terribly useful. It was very difficult

492
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: to control their expensive Uh, there was a you know,

493
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 1: obviously there was the risk of injury, so it was

494
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: never anything that was adopted widely, but still kind of

495
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,520
Speaker 1: a cool sci fi thing to having a Bond fail. Sure.

496
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: Other personal um motion systems involved in this film included

497
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: an underwater jet pack let him go through really fast? Yeah. Um,

498
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: and you know, the pack itself was still a little

499
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 1: bit sci fi at the time. I mean we we

500
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: we have personal diver jet packs. Yeah, well maybe not

501
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: jet not jet packs, but like little you know, those

502
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 1: little motorized assistant things that allow you to really zoom through.

503
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: Yeah packs. Yeah, And we wouldn't have something quite that

504
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: small until nine nine, so it wasn't that far off, right.

505
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: There was a portable breather or actually an air supply

506
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: is what they called it in the film, that would

507
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: give just a short amount of air, like a couple

508
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: of minutes worth of air that could be used either

509
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: underwater or if say you were in a room filled

510
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 1: with poisonous gas. You would actually see this in a

511
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: call back in a couple of other Bond movies as

512
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: well as a Star Wars movie if I'm not mistaken. Um,

513
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: But anyway, it was one of those things where um uh,

514
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: you know, the actual spy agencies after they saw this,

515
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: started asking hey does this exist, because we would totally

516
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: use one of those, and it totally did not exist. Uh.

517
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: This was a request, by the way, by David from Twitter,

518
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 1: so David, we totally wanted to cover it. But yeah,

519
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 1: it's it kind of looked like two little CEO two

520
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: canisters like you would see and if you ever saw

521
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: one of those slot cars that use the CEO two

522
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 1: as the propulsion. Yeah, yeah, it's sort of like a

523
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: like a cigar container shape. Yeah, the two small ones,

524
00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: and then they were they were they meshed together with

525
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: a little mouth piece thing that you would just hole

526
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: in your mouth, and there's just no easy way of

527
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: handling that, like the pressurized air, which is kind of

528
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 1: it would it would not be pleasant. Never put your

529
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: mouth on a CEO two canister, is what I'm saying.

530
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: For one thing, you're gonna freeze yourself. For another thing,

531
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna suffocate, And for a third thing, your eyes

532
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: might pop out of your head because that's a lot

533
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,199
Speaker 1: of it. That's a lot of gas going into you

534
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,959
Speaker 1: all at once. Important safety tip. Thanks Jonathan, You're welcome.

535
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: Reminds me of that time when you try to draw

536
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: a hole in your head. So there's also a cassette

537
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: recorder hidden in a book, which is totally legit. I mean,

538
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: spies like a big thing in spite. Technology is all

539
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: about surveillance and hiding things in mundane objects, like hiding

540
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: hiding equipment in mundane objects. So not at all a stretch. Now,

541
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: although again I'm not sure if in nineteen sixty murder

542
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: murd mur Um whenever that second four thank you, I'm

543
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: not sure if that if that level of miniaturization would

544
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: have been possible. Yeah. So, and also they had the

545
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 1: skyhook system. Now this is super cool. This is the

546
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 1: idea where James Bond has this harness and it can

547
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: hook up to a line that's a tether. The other

548
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: end of the tether is attached to a weather balloon.

549
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: Releasing the weather balloon goes up. The balloon goes up

550
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: into the air. It does not it's not enough to

551
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: lift James Bond. No, but Bond can then signal a

552
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: local airplane and the airplane flies by and it's got

553
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: a hook on it that hooks this tether and pulls

554
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: James Bond off his feet, flying up through the air.

555
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: And actually in this case he's got a lady with him, um,

556
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: which is not a big surprise if you watch the

557
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: Jay's Bond series and you might think, well, that's kind

558
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: of cool. And I've seen that in other movies too.

559
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: There were you know, there are other examples. Was uh

560
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: in one of the Batman films that was an example this. Yeah,

561
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: and that's because it totally exists. Yeah, this was actually

562
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: invented by someone we've talked about before, Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

563
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: Now if that name sounds familiar, it's because you listened

564
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: to our flying Car episode where we talked about how

565
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: he was one of the early inventors of a flying

566
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:28,239
Speaker 1: car that never got off the ground. Um. And at

567
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 1: any rate, I love it when you judge yourself for puns.

568
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: So he developed this particular technology for the c I A,

569
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: so it was actually built for spies. So cool that

570
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: it actually shows up in a movie and that it's,

571
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: you know, pretty much the way it works with some

572
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 1: some uh, they took a few liberties, but more or

573
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: less it's the same concept. Then we get to you

574
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: only live twice. In nineteen sixty seven, Now we got

575
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: the what I called in my notes the killer cigarette thingy,

576
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: I believe that was the techn Colterman. Fact. Yeah, he's

577
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: got a cigarette that has a projectile and it that

578
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: can fire via rocket and it is accurate up to

579
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: thirty yards. So I look to see if I could

580
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: find anything like this. Um, there are some similar technology,

581
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: has been nothing quite to the level of this. Uh.

582
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty four, Nikolai Koklov, who was a sent

583
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 1: by the Soviet Union at that time to assassinate a

584
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: German anti communist agitator, was carrying a very interesting weapon.

585
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: It was a weapon design designed to look like a

586
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: cigarette case, UM, but in fact it was actually a gun.

587
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: It could fire. Depending upon which account you read it,

588
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: either it either fired cyanide tipped darts, cyanide bullets, or

589
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: a puff of cyanide. But at any rate, UM it's mood.

590
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 1: Kokolov decided not to assassinate the agitator. He actually turned

591
00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: himself into German authorities, handed the pack, the cigarette case over,

592
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 1: the gun over and UM sought asylum, So he was

593
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: essentially defecting. It was was a huge story at the time, um,

594
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: Um And okay, so I mean they're there have also

595
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: been single shot cigarettes, something that holds like a two

596
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: caliber round that can be fired when when an operative

597
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: pulls a string with his teeth. Yeah. Crazy, so so

598
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: so it's realistic ish. They also he had a gyro

599
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: jet rocket gun, which you might think, oh, well, there's

600
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: no way this existed, Except this totally existed. It's a

601
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: little handgun that could actually fire projectiles that were rockets.

602
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: It's not a bullet, you know, a bullet. When you

603
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: fire it, a striking pin hits the back of the cartridge,

604
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: it ignites the propellant. The gases that expand push the

605
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: bullet out of the barrel and it flies through and

606
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: it goes towards the target. In this case, it's actually

607
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: a little rocket that the rocket fuel solid rocket fuel,

608
00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: ignites and it takes off from the gun. Now, these

609
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: were developed both by the Russians and the United States

610
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: UM but never really became popular. And part of the

611
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: reason was that they were not effective weapons at close

612
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: range because they had very low muzzle escape velocity. Right,

613
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: they wouldn't really reach full speed until they were about

614
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: twenty five yards out of the gun. Right, So unless

615
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: your target was twenty five yards are further away from you.

616
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: The bullet was not going to strike with the full impact.

617
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: And you know, you can imagine this. It's just to

618
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: mention a like, instead of a bullet fired from a

619
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Speaker 1: normal gun where it's losing velocity as soon as the

620
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: as soon as it starts to exit the barrel, this

621
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: is the different because it's fuel is inside the bullet itself.

622
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: It's propelling forward. Um. But it was not terribly accurate.

623
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: It was not good at close quarters, so I mean

624
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: that that didn't mean that it was really lightweight and

625
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: had no recoil, which was pretty awesome. We'll be back

626
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: with some more spy technology in just a moment after

627
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: this quick break. And we're back, and someone's not back

628
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: with us. That would be Sean Connery. Oh yeah, because

629
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Speaker 1: this is the first film, first James Bond film too

630
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Speaker 1: that's officially in the James Bond Cannon that did not

631
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: feature Sean Connery. Yeah. That This would be on Her

632
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: Majesty's Secret Service from nineteen with George lassen By. And uh.

633
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: The reason for Connery's absence was because at this point

634
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: he was becoming a big film star and could demand

635
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: higher salaries and so he did. Yeah, and they said

636
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: we'll go with someone else. Uh So some of the

637
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: gadgets in this film included radioactive lint, which actually was

638
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: kind of a brilliant idea in Away. It was Linda

639
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: had been irradiated that could be planted on a target's clothing,

640
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: like in a pocket or something, and because of the irradiation,

641
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: they would be able to track the movement of the target. Uh.

642
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: They don't explain how they irradiated the it, or what

643
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: kind of radiation it's giving off, or whether or not

644
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: you've just doomed this person with cancer. Uh, none of

645
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: that's explained. But the idea of being able to hide

646
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: the tracking device in such a way that it would

647
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,959
Speaker 1: just naturally feel like someone's like part of someone's person yet. Yeah,

648
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: that that that was what was really kind of interesting. Um,

649
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: they had a safe cracker device. It was this kind

650
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: of look kind of like a chord that had a

651
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 1: little grappling thing that would grapple onto the combination dial

652
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: and slowly turn the dial and start to judge through

653
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: either mechanical stress or maybe even the sound of the

654
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 1: tumblers which numbers were the most likely to be the

655
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: right combination. And it takes a really long time to

656
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: to work in the film, but that's that's probably fair. Um,

657
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: this it was. It was one of those combination devices

658
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 1: and it also had a document copying mechanism attached. Um,

659
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: I mean clearly that's what I wanted all of my

660
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: safe cracking tools. Yeah. I hear that that version it

661
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: was supposed to be like a liquid tone or one,

662
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: which wouldn't have been terribly useful in the field because

663
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,240
Speaker 1: if you tilted it then all this toxic toner liquid

664
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: would come out of it. But at any rate, it

665
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: was an interesting idea. Yeah. Yeah, And obviously, I mean,

666
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: well maybe maybe not obviously depending on how much you've

667
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: read about Xerox Corporation. That kind of tech had been

668
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: patented back in the nineteen forties, but as of the

669
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 1: end of the sixties it was still the huge office

670
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: sized ones that I mean that we still have around today.

671
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: It wasn't something that you could fit into not at

672
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: all all right, so you all, but something you could

673
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: fit in an tash a case. Was the tiny camera

674
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: that Bond used. Yes, Um, it wasn't even futuristic for

675
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties. Walter Zapp designed a sub miniature camera

676
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,240
Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty six and helped start up the Monox

677
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: company to manufacture them. Um, it was definitely in use

678
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: in World War Two by spies and uh yeah, it

679
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 1: used to film about about a quarter of the size

680
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: of thirty five millimeter film. If anyone listening still remembers

681
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: what they're film looks like or even what film looks like.

682
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 1: What's also in thing is that this was originally that

683
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: camera was originally made for luxury uh vacations, Like it

684
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: was meant for rich people to take some put in

685
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: their pocket and and ended up being that spies were like,

686
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: that is something we want that one get us that one.

687
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: Diamonds are Forever. So guess who's back with us now,

688
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: Sean Connery. Yeah we missed him. So nineteen one diamonds

689
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 1: are Forever. And now this one had some cool tech

690
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,240
Speaker 1: in it. There was a biometric fingerprint scanner in this movie,

691
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: which today our iPhones have as a screen lock. Yeah.

692
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: Crazy that the FBI would only start funding the development

693
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: of the real tech as of like ninetive. I think

694
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: the first wide use of the system was in Japan

695
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties by the police force over there.

696
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: But so so this was this was a few years

697
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: ahead of its Yeah, and it was actually predictive technology.

698
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: And you know, I have a laptop at home that

699
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: has the little fingerprint scanner where you can log on

700
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: that way, so it's tots a thing, y'all. Also, there

701
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: was a ring getting back into that, why are you

702
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: grabbing so much attention for yourself? Mr bond Q gave

703
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: James a ring I like to call him James a

704
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 1: ring that that would allow him. Yeah, it will allow

705
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: him to manipulate slot machines using electro magnets so that

706
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: he would always win, because that's exactly what you want

707
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: from a casino staff to to notice that you're anyway,

708
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: I guess it was so that people would take it

709
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: get attention to him, so they come to him, so

710
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to spend all that effort tracking them down,

711
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, the way that every other spy in the

712
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: world has to do. If I just make a big

713
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: enough nuisance of myself, they'll come to me. I just

714
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: have to escape five or six unescapable death traps. And

715
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: that's all good aside aside from logistic reasons, why why

716
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 1: would this not work? Okay, so the old electro mechanical ones,

717
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 1: I can't imagine slot machines. You mean, yeah, slot machines exactly,

718
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,919
Speaker 1: the old electro mechanical slot machines. I can't imagine having

719
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: an electro magnet being able to stop it at a

720
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: specific point. But furthermore, today slot machines are using digital

721
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 1: circuits to determine whether you won or loss, So electro magnets,

722
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 1: and you could probably create electro magnets strong enough to

723
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: disrupt the machine. Yeah, you could probably mess up that

724
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: screen real good. But but it went, it wouldn't pay out.

725
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: And also you would have very large men with no

726
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: necks wanting to speak with you very shortly after you

727
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: pulled that kind of stuff. Um, moving on to the

728
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: next film, Live and Let Die. Okay, So Sean Connery

729
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: is gone and now the greatest James Bond in all

730
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: of cinematic history, joins us. I'm not sure whether you're

731
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: being sarcastic or not right now. And that's delicious, Roger Moore,

732
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: we're talking about He's the James Bond of my childhood.

733
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: He was James Bond when I was a kid growing up,

734
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: so he is. I don't really think he's the best

735
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: James Bond. I think I think the most of the

736
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: Roger Moore films are ludicrous, but I also enjoy them

737
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: for that specific feature. So Live and Let Die had

738
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: a couple of different weird jets in it. There was

739
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: a Rolex sub Mariner watch that had an electro magnet

740
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: in it. Now, this electro magnet didn't let James Bond

741
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 1: win it at a slot machine and let him deflect

742
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: bullets in theory, although James Bond immediately says this is

743
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: totally not gonna work, and you know it totally wouldn't work.

744
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: You would not be able to create First of all,

745
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: you would never be able to pack in enough power

746
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 1: for an electro magnet in watch format to do anything

747
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: to change the trajectory of a bullet tast moving projectile. Yeah,

748
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: it's not. It's basically just not ever going to be

749
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: Wonder Woman's wrist bracelets. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm

750
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: sorry too, because well, as long as I can still

751
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: have my Lasso of Truth, that's all I really want. Then, also,

752
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: the watch was capable of acting as a buzz saw,

753
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: which could cut through cable, and both of these things

754
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: would require so much power that again, where do you

755
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 1: get the power? Where do you where do you fit

756
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: a power source in something that's small. They could do

757
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: this because if you're talking about a buzz saw, you

758
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 1: need torque and speed to make that effective, right, So

759
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: and and that's and that's a physics issue, I think,

760
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: not a miniaturization issue the way that we've been talking

761
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: about with Yeah. Yeah, I mean you could put a

762
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: saw blade on the side of a watch face. I

763
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: just can't imagine you being able to to turn it

764
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: fast manually stuff with it. R. That's true that they

765
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: also had a special clothing brush that hit a radio

766
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 1: inside of it. Um, which again not a big surprise.

767
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:30,439
Speaker 1: Surveillance Again, radio transmitters that are disguised as other things,

768
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: that's totally a real spy thing. Um. They had a

769
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: shark gun that shot pellets that expelled air at high pressure,

770
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:44,399
Speaker 1: which would make targets explode. I I don't know how

771
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,240
Speaker 1: that would work this, Yeah, this is another physics issue.

772
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that that's how How could

773
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: you create a pellet that that's small enough to be

774
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: fired by a gun and yet hold enough pressurized gas

775
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: so that it could blow up a target and yet

776
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: not explode when you fire the gun, Like even if

777
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 1: you were able to pack compress air that tightly into

778
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: that small of a package. If it's supposed to explode

779
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: upon impact or not even impact, if it's supposed to

780
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: embed into a target and then explode, I just don't

781
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: see how it would work. But maybe if it has,

782
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: if it contains as small portal to another dimension like

783
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: a wormhole, and that that dimension is just filled with

784
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: highly pressurized gas, all objections are lifted. Thank you, Lauren. Uh.

785
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: And there was also in that film, the Deadly Cadillac

786
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: El Dorado. It fired poison darts out of its side mirrors. Yeah,

787
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: there was one of the bad guys cars. I would

788
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: like to think that that's exactly the El Dorado you

789
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: would have won in Glengarry, glen Ross if you had

790
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: made the most sales that month. First prizes in El

791
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: Dorado that shoots poisoned darts. I um, I don't know.

792
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: I think I could use one of those in Atlanta traffic.

793
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: I think I would enjoy it. I'll just remember there

794
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: are places you're fired. The Man with the Golden Gun

795
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, still too more. Yeah, this this is

796
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: the Golden Gun is one of those again, sort of

797
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 1: those iconic things that you think about in the James

798
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: Bond series if you're a fan of the full series.

799
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: The Golden Gun, it was a super cool concept, and

800
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: of course the bad guy in this film was such

801
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: a great marksman that it didn't matter that the gun

802
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: could only hold one bullet at a time you had

803
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: to reload after every shot. The gun itself could be disassembled,

804
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: and each part of the gun was disguised to look

805
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: like something else. The guns barrel looks like it's a pen,

806
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: the handle looks like it's a cigarette case, the chamber

807
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: the firing chamber is a cigarette lighter, and the trigger

808
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: is a cuff link. So you know, you take it

809
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: all apart and suddenly it looks like regular stuff. This

810
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:48,320
Speaker 1: man of Gold also his belt buckle held bullets. That's

811
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:55,479
Speaker 1: that's both fashionable and yeah, um so this particular type

812
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 1: of gun, I mean, obviously these parts you could in

813
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 1: theory machine parts that look like this sort of stuff,

814
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: and a lot of guns are meant to be disassembled.

815
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: You'd take them apart, especially if you want to clean

816
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: them that kind of thing. So it's not like this

817
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: is unheard of. However, you know, you wouldn't really be

818
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: able to use these things, like they wouldn't have any

819
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: utility outside of being a gun, because you couldn't build

820
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,439
Speaker 1: all that stuff in and it would be very very

821
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: difficult at any rate. I can't I can't imagine. And

822
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: you'd have to use materials that could withstand the pressure

823
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: of a bullet, you know. I mean, you're talking about

824
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: that rapidly expanding gas that propels a bullet, So whatever

825
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: you're using has to be strong enough to contain that.

826
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: It's actually a terrible choice for that sort of thing. Yeah,

827
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: it would have to like gold plating. It couldn't be

828
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,320
Speaker 1: made of gold. It would be a bad, bad choice.

829
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: But but even even if if this golden gun could

830
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: not exist, that kind of gun that is disguised as

831
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: another object, like I was talking about that that single

832
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: shot cigarette gun earlier, I also saw a single shot

833
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: lipstick guns that were popular with Russian spies. And also

834
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: there was there's great when the both Russians and United

835
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: States developed guns that were in the shape of pipes,

836
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: like the kind that you smoke smoking pipes, and you

837
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: would just take the little pipe stem off and with

838
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 1: a quick twist of the pipe that shoots the one

839
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: bullet and uh, yeah, it had to be really close

840
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: for it to work, um, because it didn't have very

841
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: good accuracy. Yeah. Yeah, I'm suddenly even even more afraid

842
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: of Matt Frederick than I have been previously. It's that's understandable.

843
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: So then there is the solex agitator. This was a

844
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: device that was part of the doomsday machine in The

845
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: Man with the Golden Gun. In this case, it was

846
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: a tiny little thing that could somehow harness huge amounts

847
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 1: of the Sun's power and then devoted to something else,

848
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: whether it's for energy or say a heat ray or laser. So, yeah,

849
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: the soil x agitator is one of those things that

850
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 1: I wish we had. I wish our our solar technology was, Yeah,

851
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: that would be that would be really nice. Wanted to

852
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: blow stuff up, mind you, I just wanted to to

853
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Speaker 1: provide innern Jonathan, don't don't maybe blow a few things up,

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Speaker 1: all right. Then there was the a m C Metador car,

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Speaker 1: which converted into a flying car with wings and jets. Uh.

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Speaker 1: For more information on that, just listen to our flying

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Speaker 1: car episode and we'll talk about all about how problems

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Speaker 1: with flying cars. That brings us to the last movie

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Speaker 1: on our our list for part one The Spy Who

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Speaker 1: Loved Me that was film with Roger Moore. Yet again yep,

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Speaker 1: and this one is the one that, uh that kind

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Speaker 1: of inspired us to talk about this episode when when

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Speaker 1: the news broke this year about a particular vehicle that's

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Speaker 1: featured in this movie. Uh, there were a lot of

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Speaker 1: people who wrote in and said we should cover this topic.

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Speaker 1: And so the Lotus Spree was the car in the

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Speaker 1: film that was able to convert into a submarine. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I believe this was the first time that the Lotus

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Speaker 1: was used in a James Bond film, and it would

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Speaker 1: continue to be their their marketing partner for the next couple. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it shows up at least one more, if not more

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Speaker 1: than that. Although Lotus has never created a model that

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Speaker 1: is convertible to a submarine, didn't stop Elon Musk from

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Speaker 1: buying it though. He bought it and said that as

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Speaker 1: a boy growing up in South Africa, it absolutely captured

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Speaker 1: his imagination to see this vehicle turned into a submarine.

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Speaker 1: It also had torpedoes, land mines, machine guns and missiles.

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Speaker 1: It could also blast out cement that could act as

879
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Speaker 1: either a smoke screen underwater or completely coat the wind

880
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: screens of other vehicles and obscure their view. And uh

881
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Speaker 1: so the nickname for the car is wet Nilly. Do

882
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: you know how much he spent? Nine hundred nineties seven

883
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: thousand dollars just under one million bucks. That's a problem.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of money. So that's a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of money. Um, if you're Elon Musk and you've just

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Speaker 1: bought a famous movie car that in the movies can

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Speaker 1: convert into a submarine, but in reality cannot convert into

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Speaker 1: a submarine, what do you say, Um, screw it, I'm

889
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Speaker 1: turning this into a submarine. That's exactly what he said.

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Speaker 1: He said, you know what, I am a rich man

891
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Speaker 1: with lots and lots of of ambition. I Am going

892
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Speaker 1: to turn this into a for real submarine, if that

893
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Speaker 1: is at all possible. And I'm going to replace the

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Speaker 1: drive train with a Tesla motor drive train, so it's

895
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Speaker 1: going to be an electric vehicle. Um. Top Gear actually

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Speaker 1: totally built out a replica Lotus and and it in

897
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 1: fact worked underwater in that it moved under its own

898
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Speaker 1: power and did not drown the driver for a very

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Speaker 1: short period of time while it was in testing mode. Um,

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Speaker 1: there's a really I'll link it on on social there's

901
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 1: a really terrific video. There's water actually coming out of

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Speaker 1: the key ignition into the cabinet. It's not a good sign.

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Speaker 1: And listener Thomas on Facebook road in about this one

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Speaker 1: and uh and said, well, who doesn't want to be

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Speaker 1: able to change to submarine when the Californian traffic gets

906
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: too stressful? I agree. So a couple of other little

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00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 1: things that happened in this movie. There was one point

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Speaker 1: where James Bond uses a ski pole that ends up

909
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Speaker 1: being a gun that can fire multiple shots from the handle.

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Speaker 1: I look at the pictures of this because I I

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Speaker 1: don't remember. I mean, I've seen this movie, but it's

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Speaker 1: been so long, I don't remember it this particular scene,

913
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Speaker 1: but all the shots looked really awkward, like it would

914
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Speaker 1: have been really hard to aim that particular gun. Skiing

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Speaker 1: confuses and terrifies me to begin with, So I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's a very good plan. Yeah. They also had

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Speaker 1: a special Saco Courts watch that had a teletape printer.

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Speaker 1: Paco another big marketing partner with the James Bond series.

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Speaker 1: At this point in time, it looked like labels like

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Speaker 1: a label maker. That's the kind of paper that came out.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't only paper, look more like a label maker,

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Speaker 1: like a little not quite ticker tape the way that

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Speaker 1: it probably would have been. More like more like you

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Speaker 1: know where the letters have been stamped, so they're raised

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Speaker 1: up a little bit, you know, like that kind of

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Speaker 1: old label makers. Even that's even more you wonder how

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Speaker 1: how much paper could have watched hold and and if

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Speaker 1: and if it's raised I mean, if it's actually embossed,

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Speaker 1: then I mean that that requires a stamping. I mean

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Speaker 1: that requires some kind of swing and purely Roger Moore's uh,

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Speaker 1: left arm is hollow and has all the working technology

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Speaker 1: necessary to print on this stuff. They never explored in

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Speaker 1: the movies. They don't tell you about that. It's just

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Speaker 1: as clear, I mean good subtext. Uh and um. Also,

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Speaker 1: there's a sud agent who had a cigarette that you

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Speaker 1: could blow through and stun gas would come out of it.

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Speaker 1: I love that there's like just this knockout gas that

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Speaker 1: apparently all it does is render you unconscious, completely harmless

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Speaker 1: other than making you briefly unconscious. That wraps up part

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Speaker 1: one of tech stuff bonds with spy technology, we will

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Speaker 1: visit part two next week. Hope you guys enjoyed. If

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Speaker 1: you have any suggestions for topic session tackle on future episodes.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you think I need to take another look at

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Speaker 1: spy technology, maybe there's something totally different, Well let me no.

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