WEBVTT - TechStuff Classic: TechStuff Bonds With Spy Tech Part One 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.800 Welcome to tex Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio. 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.040 Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.160 Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.800 and I love all things tech. And it is Friday, 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.840 which means it's time for another classic episode of text Stuff. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:31.680 This episode originally published on January six, two thousand and fourteen. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.080 That is the first part of a two part episode, 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:36.880 so we'll have part two next week. But this is 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:42.200 called text Stuff Bonds with Spy Tech Part one. There's 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.360 a lot of fun looking back at the different types 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.479 of gear that has been featured both in spy films 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:53.640 and has actually played a part in espionage and various 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:58.720 secret agencies. It is a fascinating subject, one that is 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.520 filled with a lot of innovation, a lot of failed 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.840 innovation as well. Uh. The Spy Museum in Washington, d C. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.800 Is absolutely fascinating to walk through if you have the time. 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:14.039 I recommend it. Once things are safe to go out 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.119 and about at museums again, and let us listen to 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:22.880 this classic episode. This is behind the curtain. Guys. We 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.319 had to go in and start deleting stuff because it 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.960 was so much We're like we can't do a five 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.119 part episode about James Bond. Yeah, yeah, I mean over 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.399 the course. Okay. So this is a phenomenon, a global 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:38.000 phenomenon that was based on a single n novel, Casino Royale, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.200 written by Ian Fleming, who better known as, of course, 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:46.639 the creator of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Clearly he wrote 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.920 all of the all of the James Bond novels that 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.120 you know, he originally created from this Jamaican estate that 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.440 he had called Golden Eye, and it all branched out 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.760 from there into the beautiful goofy thing that we have today. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.600 And and there's you know, some arrows of James Bond 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.440 that were significantly more goofy than others. I think the 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.160 more years, the Roger Moore years in particular, guy goofy. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.960 And and because there is a lot to cover, and 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.120 some of it we want to relate to actual real 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.520 world technology and kind of explain which ones are realistic 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:20.959 and which ones aren't. Because there's so much, we are 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.760 going to do a two parter because it's just otherwise 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:25.400 we would have to just pick and choose and it 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.840 would be really unsatisfying at least for us. Yes, yes, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.920 but so yeah, a Bond himself gets most of his 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.600 gear from m I six and from specifically they're Q 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:39.040 standing for Quartermaster Branch. Yes, and so you often will 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:44.640 find that the various UH people that Bond ends up 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.280 interacting with at m I six go by a specific 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.919 letter Q or M being the two big ones and 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.960 UH and Q of course is the the person in 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.640 charge of giving out all of the weird gadgets, and 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.880 usually at some point in the rollout gives a little 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:02.800 gives a little, you know, Bond a little kind of 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.880 a slap on the wrist saying could you please stop 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.160 blowing up the stuff I give you? Because all of 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.640 these wonderful things. I mean, we didn't list to the 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.959 number of things that we're going to talk about that 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.959 he has blown up, but I mean it's safe to 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.000 say that it's most of them. Yeah, yeah, he's not 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.000 only not only as he blown up most of his gadgets. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.520 I think at this point he's blown up most of Europe. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.120 But no, no, that's that's that's accurate. I did want 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.399 to note that Fleming himself was in the naval intelligence 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.200 for the British Royal Naval Reserve in World War Two, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.440 and that It's been suggested that that because Fleming was 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.200 doing a little bit of field work, you know, breaking 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.040 in and entering to photograph sensitive documents that sort of thing, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.240 that that the character of James Bond was a highly 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.840 romanticized version of himself. Yeah, As it turns out, the 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.680 stuff that spies really do and the stuff that James 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.800 Bond does are not necessarily aligned. I mean, I don't 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.600 know that there are many spies who actually have these 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.880 incredibly flashy lives that bring a lot of attention to themselves. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.240 Like I can't imagine a spy walking into a casino 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.200 and winning game after game after game, drawing attention to 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:08.040 him or herself, because that seems like it's antithetically yeah 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.040 to being a spy, but at any rate. But but 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.800 some of the tech that James Bond uses is actually 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.960 very real world correlation. Sure, so let's start off with 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.160 one of the iconic pieces of technology that James Bond 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.680 depends upon in practically every movie. Now it's a little 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.159 different from the novels series and the movie series, but 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.480 in the movies he has a side arm, the Vaulter 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.159 or Walter p p K, which is the one he 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.240 carries in most of the movies. There is a point 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.520 where he switches from the p p K to the 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.160 P ninety nine that would be in the movie Tomorrow 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.000 Never Dies and from there all the way through to 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.240 Casino Royale, that's what he's using. But then it goes 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.760 back to the p p K. Now p p K 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.920 stands for police pistol detective model. And you might think, well, 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.320 where does the K come from? It comes from the 0:04:55.320 --> 0:05:00.040 German word, which is, let's try this, okay, police, the 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:05.000 police I pistol criminal model. Oh boy, I know I 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.080 butchered that one. You're probably doing it better than I would. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.279 And and in German it is in fact pronounced Walter, yes, yes, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.320 but but in British and American it's Walter dialect. What 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.720 it is spelled w A L T h e R. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.080 But the Germans do not have a sound. It's a 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.360 it's a hard T or or a D sometimes depending 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.400 upon what part of Germany. But at any rate, so 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.159 this is a very small gun, which makes sense. It 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.600 has to be concealable, right, So it's a small gun. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.359 It's semi automatic, it's double action, it's pretty reliable. Yeah, 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.960 it's often used in various law enforcement agencies throughout all 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.919 of Europe. Both the the p p K and the 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.400 Pine were, and so it's one of those that um 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.000 you find all over the place in Europe. So it 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.479 made sense, and in fact, in the novels, I think 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.680 he has a barretta. Originally in the first few novels 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.920 he was carrying a barretta until a fan named Geoffrey 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.720 um Our Jeffrey Boothroyd, I've clearly been watching too much 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.560 Game of Throne. Sorry, Um road in and recommended more 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.520 appropriate weapons in ninety six, and Fleming went in and 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.400 made the switch, and then furthermore honored Jeffrey by naming 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.560 Q after him. The character of Q up through Um 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.159 up to the point when the original actor passed away, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:24.880 I believe, was named Major Boy. So also, you know 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.600 in in the Casino Royal Movie or Casino Royal Movie 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.480 with Daniel Craig Um the Jumping Way Ahead. But in 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.400 that film, apparently he is convinced to hand over his 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.000 baretta to trade up to the Vaulter cute. I don't 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.080 remember that because I've more or less plucked that film 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.680 from my mind. I have not seen it. I know, 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.360 I haven't seen any of the Daniel krass Man. I 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.520 enjoyed the at least I really liked the last one. Um. 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.599 But we can talk about that later on. But before 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.880 we get into our big list, because it is very big, um, 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.040 I did want to mention that there is a a 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.440 term for the kind of plot device that most of 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.960 these James Bond gadgets are, because they are not just devices, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.640 they are plot devices, um. And and it's called a 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:14.320 Chekhov gun after Russian author Anton Chekhov and his observation 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.720 that and which which relates to stage play more so 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.160 than movie play. But anyway, don't put a rifle on 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.400 the wall unless it's going to go off, right, if 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.080 you're going to if you're going to put something in 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.280 a conspicuous spot that the audience sees, you cannot then 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.680 deny the audience the payoff of of using that, right, 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.920 You can't. You can't not use it. In fact, there 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.400 are a lot of films that follow the same sort 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.600 of approach. The first one that jumps to my mind 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.080 Shaun of the Dead. They look at the Winchester on 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.120 the wall and you know that at some point they're 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.320 going to have to shoot that gun. Yeah, Yeah, that 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:51.120 was in slither by the way right. Yes, that is 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.280 a good point. Yes, you can also play with this 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.800 by by reversing it. Every rule is made to be broken. Yes, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.240 so let's dive in. Now. We're gonna go chronologically as 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.640 far as the films go, which means we're gonna jump 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.280 around a couple of different Bonds. But I'll explain a 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.080 little bit of that when we hit there. So, the 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.000 first James Bond film to come out was in nineteen 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.360 sixty two and it was Dr No. And that was 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.880 when you know they had our first James was shut 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:19.800 and Connery as a as Bond. Now. Dr No is 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.680 one of the movies where you see James Bond doing 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.120 all of his spy stuff, but they're not really all 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.800 these crazy gadgets that a lot of us associate with 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.640 Bond based upon later films. Yeah. Yeah, there was like 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.520 one self destructor bag in that movie, I think, and 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.080 that was really the only standout tech that happened. Yeah, 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.320 And in that case, the bag, the purpose of the 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.360 bag was so that it would destroy any case notes 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.959 that were inside the bag, so that if Bond had 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.280 been captured, those notes could be destroyed and there would 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.360 be no evidence of what M I six did and 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.880 did not know, So it was purely defensive in that sense. 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.600 It wasn't a weapon. It was just to destroy documents. 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.959 But then we move on to nineteen sixty three two 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:03.120 From Russia with Love, and boy, we got a very 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.880 earnest request from a coworker about a particular gadget that 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.720 shows up in this movie. So earnest um, Robert over 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.960 on Stuff to blow your mind, wrote us in on 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.960 both Twitter and Tumbler, where we had we had posted 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.280 a query on Twitter, Tumbler and Facebook to ask ask 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.520 people to write in and tell us their favorite Bond 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.600 gadget and why, And Robert responded in not one but 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.040 two places. Yes, he said, you've got to talk about 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.600 the briefcase and From Russia with Love. Which is interesting 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.320 because this is what a lot of people think of 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.280 as the first James Bond gadget. Now, first of all, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.000 inside this briefcase, James Bond carried a rifle that had 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.439 an infrared scope in it. So that's pretty gadgety all 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.960 by itself. But then the briefcase itself has so many 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:49.120 hidden compartments and cool things that you immediately want one. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.440 So aside from the part that I'm pretty sure that 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.000 the weight limitations would start to be an issue. But 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.920 it's probably a little weighty. It's probably a little heavy, Okay, 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.560 so you got a rifle on it, so that's that's 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:03.040 some weight. Right. That also has at least one, if 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:07.120 not two knives in it, right, Um tubes for ammunition. Right, 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.600 So these these brass tubes that carry bullets in them. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.839 They're not they don't shoot bullets, but it's a way 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.680 to carry immunition inside a place without someone seeing that 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.920 you're carrying lots of ammunition. Write some some belts of 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:24.800 gold coins. Fifty gold sovereigns is exactly how many were 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.200 in that briefcase. Fifty. That's a lot of gold coin. Um. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:33.560 Each gold coin was well technically worth a pound sterling, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.560 but everyone used it as bullying. So then you've got 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.720 the poisonous gas that's also inside the briefcase because it 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:42.240 had that trick lid, and if it didn't know the 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.679 trick to opening it, then it would go off. And yeah, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.120 so yeah, this is a this is a pretty cool thing. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.520 And in one of those I actually saw a video 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.959 online of a fan who created a replica of this briefcase. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.959 Using plastic stuff for all the weapons, so like you know, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.720 a little thing bullets and plastic, but it was it 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:05.760 was incredibly faithful to the original design. That was really amazing. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.480 I'll see if I can find that video and a 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.520 link it when we put this live. Awesome. See. They 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.240 also had a both a radio phone in the car 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.720 and a pager for bond, right, both of which were 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.400 technologies that existed at the time. But we're really only 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.080 in US for like very high paid doctors, um state 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.560 officials kind of stuff like that. Pages have only been 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:28.120 around for a little while, maybe maybe about five years 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.000 when when that came out, so it was still a 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.600 very new thing to most people. They also used a 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.080 bug detector. Now this was not the only time that 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.600 a bug detector is shown in a Jay's Bond film, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.160 but we're not going to cover all of them, just 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.160 to say that this is very much spy tech. This 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.200 is you know, when you can put something that's designed 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:49.440 to get a surveillance from a specific area, whether it's 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.560 a microphone or a camera or whatever. Bug detectors are 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.000 a real thing. They detect different stuff, like you might 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.960 have an e m F detector looking for electromagnetic fields, 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.600 you might have a broad band radio scanner to pick 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.600 up any radio signations. So this is totally something that 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:11.280 happens in spy business, happening for for I'd say since 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.400 at least World War two. Yeah, and and and in 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.800 fact you'll you'll hear us. In fact, I'm sure we've 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.000 talked about it. Perhaps it was in UH. I think 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.040 it was our skunk Works episode where we talked about 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.480 how Locke and Barton would have these meetings with the 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.160 government and they would actually sweep the room for bugs 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:27.760 in a hotel. You know, it would be a hotel 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.480 that no one knew what the location was going to 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.640 be until it happened, and so this is stuff that 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.079 happens today all the time. Um. Then they had a 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.840 special camera that hid a tape recorder inside of it 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:45.040 so that Bond could uh could clandestinely records. It's funny 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.480 because now our phones do this. They have both the 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.200 you know, you can get an app that let's you 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.160 record stuff, you can take pictures. So a lot of 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.480 the technology back then was, you know, like, let's combine 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.560 these two crazy things to make another even more crazy thing. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.720 And tonight we have it and a lot of sci 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.880 fi style miniaturization was going on in these films too. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:05.720 You know, at the time, the idea of a tape 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.640 recorder that could fit into it a camera was pretty wild, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.760 especially to consumers for whom a tracks were kind of 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.120 the new big thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, if you're looking 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:19.920 at the regular reel to reel tape recorders, which were enormous, 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.400 like the size of like a small television set. I mean, 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.400 these are these were big pieces of equipment, So to 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.920 have a manatorized version of that was pretty incredible. Yeah. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.320 As for weapons, special gadget weapons, some of the bad 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.880 guys had some cool ones. There was one had a 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.280 shoe that had a dagger hidden inside of it, a 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.800 little shootout dagger I guess, not shootout but retractable. You 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.880 kind of like a switchblade for your foot, which seems 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.840 like just a terrible idea of here, as clumsy as 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.319 I am, I would injure myself. That's so quickly and easily. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.439 Lauren accidentally brutally stabbed herself forty seven times while walking 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.559 up the stairs. I know what would happen. Then one 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.800 of the bad guys had a watch watch that had 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.320 a wire wrapped around the watch face. So that you 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.240 could you could pull it out like like, yeah, it 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:06.720 would just it would just be long enough that you 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.160 could strangle the heck out of somebody. And the bad 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.160 guy tries to do that on Bond, but spoiler alert, 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.080 it doesn't work. Okay, I can't believe you just told 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.760 us that. I know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:23.880 but uh, nothing about the garage watch was particularly like unusual. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.240 I do think that if you were going to try 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.400 and hide a wire on yourself, you probably could find 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.040 a better place than on your watch. I think you 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.640 could easily sew it into a garment so that you 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.200 could easily you know, whip it out of there or whatever, 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.680 like you just had a little secret pocket or something. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.840 But hey, it's not as cinematic, so maybe that's the 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.000 whole reason. Yeah. Yeah, And actually the shoe dagger thing, um, 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:51.360 the shoes that Michael Jackson designed to do that um 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.040 that deep lean, Yeah, the one in a smooth smooth 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:59.160 criminal right, um had sort of a similar mechanism of 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.560 I mean, you know, not for it didn't shoot a 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.760 dagger into the stage to hold him up, but but 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.520 it did shoot out a little you could you could 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.880 trigger a little hitch that would that would pop down 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.560 from the heels I see hook into the stage. Yeah yeah, 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.160 oh cool. So so he wasn't doing that all on 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.600 his own, no wonder. I broke my nose four times 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.320 trying to do that move. Yeah, he was a professional 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.720 hold patent and everything. If only a known then. So 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.800 moving on in ninety four, we get one of the 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.800 most famous James Bond films. That's one of the one 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.440 this this is the one I always think of when 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.720 I think of James Bond is gold Finger. Yeah. Yeah, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.600 Sean Connery is still with us, Yes, he's still the Bond. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.000 In fact, you know, Connerie does some jumping around. But 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.480 we'll get into him that a little bit later. But yeah, 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.240 this is this is the of course, the famous scene 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.200 in this one with the big industrial laser that's slowly 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:51.360 going to bisect James Bond um and the gold Finger says, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.400 you know, James Bons says, do you expect me to 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.280 talk to this? What? No, Mr Bond, I expect you 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.240 to die. It's my favorite line in all of cinema. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.800 I think way up there that one. Leave the gun, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.960 take the Cannoli. That's another big one. But there you 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.320 know that's obviously not James Bond movie. So do we 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:10.600 have industrial lasers that will bisect superspy? We have industrial 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.720 lasers that could buy exact a superspy. I don't know 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.640 that any have been put to that specific use. There 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.200 may be some crazy villain out there who has in 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.720 fact used it on a person. But we certainly have 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.200 lasers that are powerful enough to do physical harm to 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.160 a person at the time. I don't know that anyone 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.400 to create a laser quite that powerful, but they do 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.880 exist today. It's but we use them for things like 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.960 cutting steel, right, like using for for cutting cutting industrial uses. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.280 I mean it's an industrial laser. Well, if it could 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.000 cut steel, I'm I'm pretty sure it could cut James 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.000 Bond James, Yeah, I mean the guys he does. He 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.040 does have abs of steel. He is a tough dude. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.960 We'll be right back with more from this classic episode 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.400 of Tech Stuff Bonds with Spy Tech Part one in 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:08.560 just a moment. It's a gold Finger was the premiere 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.160 of of one of these iconic James Bond items. Yes, 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.000 are you talking about his vehicle? His vehicle, I said, 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.440 an Aston Martin Masson Martin d B five to be specific. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.960 There there are other Aston Martins that appear in the 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.200 James Bond franchise, and there are also other types of cars, 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.399 but I mean some of them are most of them 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:33.680 are ones that James Bond, you know, gets borrows. Let's say, 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.000 for a short while. The Aston Martin is always associated 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.320 as being James Bond's car, like it's something that was 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.399 heloped by Q and he drives it. I believe that 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.720 they entered into some kind of like marketing agreement with 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.560 the company in the nineteen sixties right around this film 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.440 say and well, you know, and the Aston Martin is 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.800 a luxury car company out of England. They are gorgeous cars. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.760 And the company itself for a brief while was a 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.720 subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, but was that was much 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.120 later than in the nineties, for for like a few years, 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.520 and then it was bought back that some some uh 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:11.680 financiers purchased most of the ownership of the company back 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.000 from Ford, which now I think owns a tiny share 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.359 in comparison to what it used to have. But with 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.800 all of the switching around, um, has it ever had 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:25.800 an objector seat? Uh? Yes, yes, the Acid Martin very 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:27.840 well known lots and lots of gadgets on this thing, 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.240 including the famous objector seat that is used in gold Finger. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.600 Um also machine guns behind had life. Yeah that's another 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:40.199 big one. Tire slashing, hub caps, revolving license plates, uh, 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.680 smoke and oil slick defense tools. So if you've ever 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.880 played the old arcade game Spy Hunter, which had all 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.520 of these sort of things and either on its car 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:53.639 or enemy cars, it owes everything to this to this movie. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.120 Also also Mario Kart I think, I mean it didn't 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.800 have any banana peals their turtle shells. No, no, I 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.000 mean if only they had a couple of red turtle shells, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.720 Bond would have just sailed right through all those problems. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.320 Um that that flipping license plate thing, by the way, 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.439 is a real thing in China, as if two thousand eight, 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.360 Chinese police reported they were having a problem with with 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:16.160 a lot of people installing these remote controlled plate changers 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.000 that that only cost about like one four hundred bucks 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:20.840 at the time, So that way they could they can 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.280 drive under a fake license plate and then switch it 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.760 over to a real one or something. Yeah, it's interesting 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.920 to to avoid getting tickets. And also there was a 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:33.000 you know the Acid Martin. Although we do identify that 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.359 very strongly with Bond in the books, it was a 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.760 different type of luxury car that was used in most 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.760 of the novels, which were Bentley's. Yeah. Yeah, definitely for 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.080 the first few. Um, I'm not sure. I'm not sure 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.680 if if if it's stuck with that for the whole thing. Yeah, 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.840 but for the first like four or five I think, yeah, 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.720 certainly before they started getting upgrades to them, because again 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.000 in the early books as well, they weren't so tech heavy. Yeah, 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.840 that's true. Uh. And Bentley, by the way, also British 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.720 car companies. Not a big surprise, is there. Yeah. Also gorgeous, 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.960 it's not just like oh only Eventley also about this specifically. 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.439 Listener Mike Goldenberg on Twitter asked if any cars with 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.680 weaponry and objector seats exist in real life, and Okay, 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.119 so the MythBusters did create a car with an ejector seat. 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.640 They cut a hole out of the roof of a car, 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:21.919 they built the ejector seat, they put Buster in it. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.920 The whole rig weighed about three pounds. They calculated how 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.679 much rocket power was going to be needed to eject it, 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.560 and they put the rockets into the seat and they 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.679 tested it and uh and Buster flew out. So everything's awesome, right, 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.760 It works perfectly, aside from the part where it filled 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.280 the entire cabin of the car with flames. Yeah, as 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.000 it turns out, it probably would burn you pretty badly. Now, granted, 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.240 if you came up with some other objector method, like 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:52.080 you had built some sort of super powerful air catapult, 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:56.800 or if you had just a really uh strong spring 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.000 that was held into place with latches that you could 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.880 on latch, you might be able to eject someone from 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:07.760 a car without filling the car also with deadly flames. 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:12.720