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Speaker 1: works dot com. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to text Stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren vocal Ba Or So

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Speaker 1: you think we could be undercover, we could be secret agents. No,

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Speaker 1: we couldn't be. But we're going to talk about secret

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Speaker 1: agent tech specifically, we're coming to talk about James Bond technology. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we were so excited about this that we have possibly

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Speaker 1: compiled like ten pages. No, no, it's not possibly. We

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Speaker 1: did compile ten. In fact, we before we came into

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Speaker 1: the studio, we actually had to go in. This is

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Speaker 1: behind the curtain, guys. We had to go in and

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Speaker 1: start the leading stuff because it was so much. We're like,

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Speaker 1: we can't do a five part episode about James Bond. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean over the course. Okay. So this is a phenomenon,

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Speaker 1: a global phenomenon that was based on a single nine novel,

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Speaker 1: Casino Royale, written by Ian Fleming. Yeah, who better known as,

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Speaker 1: of course, the creator of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Clearly, um,

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Speaker 1: he wrote all of the all of the James Bond

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

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Speaker 1: estate that he had called Golden Eye, and it all

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Speaker 1: branched out from there into the beautiful goofy thing that

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Speaker 1: we have today. Yep. And and there's you know, some

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Speaker 1: arrows of James Bond that were significantly more goofy than others.

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Speaker 1: I think the more years, the Roger Moore years in particular,

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Speaker 1: guy goofy and silly. And because there is a lot

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Speaker 1: to cover and some of it we want to relate

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Speaker 1: to actual real world technology and kind of explain which

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

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Speaker 1: we are going to do a two parter because it's

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Speaker 1: just otherwise we would have to just pick and choose

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

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

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Speaker 1: his gear from m I six and from specifically they're

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

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Speaker 1: will find that the various UH people that Bond ends

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Speaker 1: and UH and Q of course is the the person

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

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

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Speaker 1: little gives a little, you know, Bond a little kind

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: number of things that we're going to talk about that

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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: to note that Fleming himself was in the naval intelligence

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Speaker 1: for the British Royal Naval Reserve in World War Two,

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

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Speaker 1: doing a little bit of field work, you know, breaking

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Speaker 1: in and entering to photographs sensitive documents that sort of thing, um,

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

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Speaker 1: version of himself. Yeah. As it turns out, the stuff

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Speaker 1: that there are many spies who actually have these incredibly

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

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Speaker 1: him or herself, because that seems like it's antithetical productive, yeah,

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Speaker 1: one of the iconic pieces of technology that James Bond

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Speaker 1: Geoffrey um Our Jeffrey Boothroyd. I've clearly been watching too

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Speaker 1: much Game of Throne. Sorry, Um rode in and recommended

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Speaker 1: more appropriate weapons in nineteen fifty six, and Fleming went

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Speaker 1: But we can talk about that later on. UM. But

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Speaker 1: and it's called a Chekhov gun after Russian author Anton

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Speaker 1: Chekhov and his observation that and which, which relates to

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Speaker 1: stage play more so than movie play. But anyway, don't

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Speaker 1: So the first James Bond film to come out was

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Speaker 1: signal that, depending upon how far away you are, you

428
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 1: can totally track it, So that's not that far fetched,

429
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,439
Speaker 1: although of course the ones that appear in the bond

430
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 1: movies tend to be smaller and more versatile than what

431
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,919
Speaker 1: you actually get in real life, and for specifically nineteen

432
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 1: sixty four, it was a pretty impressive, pretty impressive feat.

433
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 1: Oh and also, since we didn't delete this one, I

434
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 1: have to bring it up. It's not really a gadget,

435
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 1: but it is one of the early ridiculous examples of

436
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 1: Bond technology. I'm talking about the the the camouflage wet suit.

437
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 1: What makes it camouflage? It had a rubber duck on

438
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: top of it. Yeah, Bond kind of uh throws it

439
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,280
Speaker 1: away in disdain, but yes, it had It was a

440
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,439
Speaker 1: wet suit with a rubber duck on it. I did

441
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:53,200
Speaker 1: not delete that from our notes because, um, I felt

442
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 1: like it was really probably the most important of all

443
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 1: the technology that we will be talking about. It's fair,

444
00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 1: it's fair, it's early, but it's fair. We're moving on

445
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: to nineteen This is thunderball. Uh. There was some tech

446
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: in here that was definitely a little more far fetched,

447
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 1: particular from the time. Yeah, they had a homing pill,

448
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,199
Speaker 1: which was something that Bond could swallow, and it had

449
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: a homing device in it, being able to create a

450
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 1: pill that would have a device strong enough to admit

451
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: a frequency that you could pick up from any distance

452
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: is problematic because where do you get the power source, which,

453
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,120
Speaker 1: which is the problem with a lot of these very

454
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: small gadgets that we're that we're going to be talking about,

455
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: is really the power source capacity that even today we

456
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 1: don't fully have worked out. Yeah, we could miniaturize the electronics,

457
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,400
Speaker 1: but miniaturizing the power that battery technology has lagged well

458
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,719
Speaker 1: behind other technologies, and we all know this. It's one

459
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: of the big challenges with today's electronics is that we

460
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: can make incredibly powerful electronics, but often the battery has

461
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: trouble keeping up with the pace, So that would have

462
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: been a big issue. A lot of the sort of

463
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 1: stuff that you think of, like that the biomechanical type

464
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 1: pills that doctors are using today to track things and

465
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 1: experimental clinical trials are passive, and that you're using a

466
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: giant system that can track the pathway of the pill,

467
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: but it's because the giant system is sending in signals

468
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: that bounce off the pill, like ultrasound or something like that.

469
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 1: So little tricky. Uh. He also has a rocket belt

470
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: where he it's like a little jet pack and it

471
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,400
Speaker 1: allows him to escape after he kills a bad guy.

472
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: And um, here's the thing. It was a real jet pack.

473
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: It was actually based off of In fact, it was

474
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: a bell Aero Systems rocket belt, and that was something

475
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 1: that bell Aero Systems had developed for the U. S Army,

476
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 1: specifically to let people do really short John. So I'm

477
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,719
Speaker 1: talking about like twenty feet. You couldn't go very far

478
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 1: at all, you couldn't go very high, and you couldn't

479
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: go very far. Yeah. But but it used hydrogen peroxide

480
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: it's fuel, which was bizarre, and later ones used other

481
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: types of fuel as well, but they never were terribly useful.

482
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: It was very difficult to control their expensive Uh, there

483
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: was a you know, obviously, the was the risk of injury.

484
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: So it was never anything that was adopted widely, but

485
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 1: still kind of a cool sci fi thing to having

486
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: a Bond film. Sure. Other personal um motion systems involved

487
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: in this film included an underwater jet pack. Yep, let

488
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 1: him go through really fast. Yeah. Um, and you know,

489
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 1: the pack itself was still a little bit sci fi

490
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: at the time. I mean, we we we have personal

491
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,640
Speaker 1: diver jet packs. Yeah, well maybe not jet not jet packs,

492
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: but like little you know, those little motorized assistant things

493
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: that allow you to really zoom through yeah, packs. Yeah,

494
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: and we wouldn't have something quite that small until nineteen nine,

495
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: so it wasn't that far off, right. There was a

496
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 1: portable breather or actually an air supply is what they

497
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: called it in the film, that would give just a

498
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 1: short amount of air, like a couple of minutes worth

499
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 1: of air that could be used either underwater or if say,

500
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: you were in a room filled with poisonous gas. You

501
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: would actually see this in a call back in a

502
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: couple of other Bond movies as well as a Star

503
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,159
Speaker 1: Wars movie if I'm not mistaken. Um, But anyway, it

504
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: was one of those things where, uh, you know, the

505
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: actual spy agencies after they saw this, started asking, hey,

506
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: does this exist, because we would totally use one of those,

507
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: and it totally did not exist. Uh. This was a

508
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 1: request by the way, by David from Twitter, so David,

509
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: we totally wanted to cover it. But yeah, it's it

510
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: kind of looked like two little CEO two canisters like

511
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 1: you would see and if you ever saw one of

512
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: those slot cars that use the CEO two as the propulsion. Yeah, yeah,

513
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,960
Speaker 1: it's sort of like a like a cigar container shape. Yeah,

514
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: the two small ones and then they were they were

515
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: they meshed together with a little mouth piece thing that

516
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 1: you would just hole in your mouth, and there's just

517
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,679
Speaker 1: no easy way of handling that, Like the pressurized air,

518
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,479
Speaker 1: which was kind of it would it would not be pleasant.

519
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 1: Never put your mouth on a CEO two castor, is

520
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. For one thing, you're gonna freeze yourself.

521
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 1: For another thing, you're gonna suffocate. And for a third thing,

522
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 1: your eyes might pop out of your head because that's

523
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: a lot of it. That's a lot of gas going

524
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: into you all at once. Important safety tip. Thanks Jan,

525
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: You're welcome. So reminds me of that time when you

526
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: try to draw a hole in your head. So there's

527
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 1: also a cassette recorder hidden in a book, which is

528
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: totally legit. I mean, spies, like a big thing in

529
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: spy technology is all about surveillance and hiding things in

530
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: mundane objects, like hiding hiding equipment in mundane objects. So

531
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: not at all a stretch now, although again I'm not

532
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: sure if in nineteen sixty murder murd mur um whenever,

533
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: that that's thank you. I'm not sure if that if

534
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,239
Speaker 1: that level of miniaturization would have been possible. Yeah, so uh,

535
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: and also they had the skyhook system. Now this is

536
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,679
Speaker 1: super cool. This is the idea where James Bond has

537
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: this harness and it can hook up to a line

538
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: that's a tether. The other end of the tether is

539
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 1: attached to a weather balloon. Releasing the weather balloon goes up,

540
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 1: the balloon goes up into the air. It does not

541
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: it's not enough to lift James Bond. No, but Bond

542
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,959
Speaker 1: can then signal a local airplane and the airplane flies

543
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: by and it's got a hook on it that hooks

544
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: this tether and pulls James Bond off his feet, flying

545
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 1: up through the air. And actually in this case he's

546
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: got a lady with him. Um, which is not a

547
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: big surprise if you watch the Jay's Bond series and

548
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: you might think, well, that's kind of cool. And I've

549
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: seen that in other movies too. There were you know,

550
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: there are other examples. Who was uh in one of

551
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: the Batman films that was an example of this. Yeah,

552
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: and that's because it totally exists. Yeah, this was actually

553
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: invented by someone we've talked about before, Robert Edison. Fulton Jr. Now,

554
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: if that name sounds familiar, it's because you listened to

555
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: our flying car episode where we talked about how he

556
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,640
Speaker 1: was one of the early inventors of a flying car

557
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: that never got off the ground. Um. And at any rate,

558
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: I love it when you judge yourself for puns. So

559
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: he developed this particular technology for the c I A.

560
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: So it was actually built for spies. So cool that

561
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: it actually shows up in a movie and that it's,

562
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: you know, pretty much the way it works with some

563
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: some Uh, they took a few liberties, but more or

564
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: less it's the same concept. Then we get to you

565
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: only live twice uce in nineteen sixty seven. U, Now

566
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: we got the what I called in my notes the

567
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: killer cigarette thingy was the technical term. In fact, Yeah,

568
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: he's got a cigarette that has a projectile in it

569
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: that can fire via rocket and it is accurate up

570
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: to thirty yards. So I looked to see if I

571
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: could find anything like this. There are some similar technology

572
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: has but nothing quite to the level of this. Uh.

573
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty four, Nikolai Koklov, who was a sent

574
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: by the Soviet Union at that time to assassinate a

575
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: German anti communist agitator was carrying a very interesting weapon.

576
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: It was a weapon design designed to look like a

577
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: cigarette case. Um, but in fact it was actually a

578
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: a gun. It could fire. Depending upon which account you

579
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: read it, either it either fired cyanide tipped darts, cyanide bullets,

580
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,479
Speaker 1: or a puff of cyanide. But at any rate, um,

581
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: it's moot. Koklov decided not to assassinate the agitator. He

582
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: actually turned himself into German authorities, handed the pack of

583
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: the cigarette case over, the gun over and um sought asylum.

584
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: So he's essentially defecting. It was. It was a huge

585
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: story at the time. Um um. And Okay, so I

586
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: mean they're there have also been single shot cigarettes, something

587
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: that holds like a twenty two caliber round that can

588
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: be fired when when an operative pulls a string with

589
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: his teeth. Yeah, pretty crazy, so so so it's realistic ish.

590
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: They also he had a gyro jet rocket gun, which

591
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: you might think, oh, well, there's no way this existed,

592
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: except this totally existed. It's a little handgun that could

593
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: actually fire projectiles that were rockets. It's not a bullet,

594
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: you know, a bullet. When you fire it, a striking

595
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: pin hits the back of the cartridge. It ignites the propellant.

596
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: The gases that expand push the bullet out of the

597
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: barrel and it flies through and it goes towards the target.

598
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: In this case, it's actually a little rocket that the

599
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: rocket fuel solid rocket fuel ignites and it takes off

600
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: from the gun. Now, these were developed both by the

601
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: Russians and the United States, UM, but never really became popular.

602
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: And part of the reason was that they were not

603
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: effective weapons at close range because they had very low

604
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: muzzle escape velocity. Right, They wouldn't really reach full speed

605
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: until they were about twenty five yards out of the gun. Right,

606
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: So unless your target was twenty five yards are further

607
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: away from you, the bullet was not going to strike

608
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: with the full impact. And you know, you can imagine this.

609
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: It's just imagine a like instead of a bullet fired

610
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: from a normal gun where it's losing velocity as soon

611
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: as the as soon as it starts to exit the barrel,

612
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: this is the different because its fuel is inside the

613
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: bullet itself. It's propelling forward. UM. But it was not

614
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: terribly accurate. It was not good at close quarters. So

615
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: I mean that that didn't mean that it was really

616
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: lightweight and had no recoil, which was pretty awesome. Yeah.

617
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: But but anyway, well we've got so much more to

618
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: talk about, but let's take a quick break to thank

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Speaker 1: our sponsor. And we're back. And someone's not back with us.

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Speaker 1: That would be Sean Connery. Oh yeah, because this is

621
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Speaker 1: the first film, first James Bond film too, that's officially

622
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: in the James Bond cannon that did not feature Sean Connery.

623
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Speaker 1: Yeah that This would be On Her Majesty's Secret Service

624
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: from nineteen with George Lasenby. And uh, the reason for

625
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: Connery's absence was because at this point he was becoming

626
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: a big film star and could demand higher salaries and

627
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: so yeah, and they said we'll go with someone else.

628
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: Uh So. Some of the gadgets in this film included

629
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: radioactive lint, which actually was kind of a brilliant idea

630
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: in away. It was Linda had been irradiated that could

631
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: be planted on a target's clothing, like in a pocket

632
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: or something, and because of the irradiation, they would be

633
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: able to track the movement of the target. Uh, they

634
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: don't ex lane how they I radiated the lent or

635
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: what kind of radiation it's giving off or whether or

636
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: not you've just doomed this person with cancer. Uh, none

637
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: of that, it's explained. But the idea of being able

638
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: to hide the tracking device in such a way that

639
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: it would just naturally feel like someone's like part of

640
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: someone's person. Yet. Yeah, that that that was what was

641
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: really kind of interesting. Um, they had a safe cracker device.

642
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: It was this kind of kind of like a chord,

643
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: had a little grappling thing that would grapple onto the

644
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: combination dial and slowly turn the dial and start to

645
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: judge through either mechanical stress or maybe even the sound

646
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: of the tumblers which numbers were the most likely to

647
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: be the right combination. And it takes a really long

648
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: time to to work in the film, But that's that's

649
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: probably fair. Um, this it was. It was one of

650
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: those combination devices and it also had a document copying

651
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: mechanism attached. Um. I mean clearly that's what I wanted

652
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: all of my safe cracking tools. Yeah, I hear that

653
00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: that version it was supposed to be like a lick

654
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: withold Ton or one, which would not have been terribly

655
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: useful in the field because if you tilted it, then

656
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: all this toxic toner liquid would come out of it.

657
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: But at then you rate it was an interesting idea. Yeah, yeah,

658
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: and obviously I mean, well maybe maybe not obviously, depending

659
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: on how much you've read about Xerox Corporation. That kind

660
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: of tech had been patented back in the nineteen forties,

661
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: but as of the end of the sixties it was

662
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: still the huge office sized ones that I mean that

663
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: we still have around today. It wasn't something that you

664
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: could fit into not at all all right, so you all,

665
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: but something you could fit in an tash a case

666
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: was the tiny camera that bond us. Yes, um, it

667
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 1: wasn't even futuristic for the nineteen sixties. Walter Zapp designed

668
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,240
Speaker 1: a sub miniature camera in nineteen thirty six and helped

669
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: start up the Monox company to manufacture them. Um. It

670
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: was definitely in use in World War Two by spies.

671
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, it used to film about about a

672
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: quarter of the size of thirty five millimeter film. If

673
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: anyone listening still remembers what they're departing on the film

674
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: looks like, or even what film looks like. What's also

675
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: interesting is that this was originally that camera was originally

676
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: made for luxury. Uh vacations like it was meant for

677
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: rich people to take some put in their pocket and

678
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: and ended up being that spies were like, that is

679
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: something we want that one get us that one. Diamonds

680
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: are forever. So guess who's back with us now, Sean Connery. Yeah,

681
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: we missed him. So nineteen seventy one, diamonds are forever.

682
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: And now this one had some cool tech in it.

683
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: There was a biometric fingerprint scanner in this movie, which

684
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: today our iPhones have a screen lock. Yeah. Crazy that

685
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: the FBI would only start funding the development of the

686
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: real tech as of like ninety five. I think the

687
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: first wide use of the system was in Japan in

688
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties by the police force over there. But

689
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: so so this was this was a few years ahead

690
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: of its Yeah, it was actually predictive technology. And you know,

691
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: I have a laptop at home that has the little

692
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: fingerprint scanner where you can log on that way. So

693
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: it's tots a thing, y'all. All. So there was a

694
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: ring getting back into that, why are you grabbing so

695
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: much attention for yourself? Mr bond Q gave James a ring.

696
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: I like to call him James a ring that that

697
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: would allow him to. Yeah, it will allow him to

698
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: manipulate slot machines using electro magnets so that he would

699
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: always win, because that's exactly what you want from a

700
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 1: casino staff to to notice that you're anyway. I guess

701
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,720
Speaker 1: it was so that people would take a get attention

702
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: to him, so they come to him, so he doesn't

703
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: have to spend all that effort tracking them down, you know,

704
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: the way that every other spy in the world has

705
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,720
Speaker 1: to do. If I just make a big enough nuisance

706
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: of myself, they'll come to me. I just have to

707
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: escape five or six unescapable death traps and it's all good.

708
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: Aside aside from logistic reasons, why why would this not work? Okay, So,

709
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 1: the old electro mechanical ones, I can't imagine slot machines.

710
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: You mean, yeah, slot machines exactly, the old electro mechanical

711
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: slot machines. I can't imagine having an electro magnet being

712
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: able to stop it at a specific point. But furthermore,

713
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: today slot machines are using digital circuits to determine whether

714
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: you won or loss. So electro magnets, and you could

715
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: probably create electro magnets strong enough to disrupt the machine. Yeah,

716
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: you could probably mess up that screen real good, but

717
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: but it went, it wouldn't pay out. And also you

718
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: would have very large men with no necks wanting to

719
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: speak with you very shortly after you pulled that kind

720
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: of stuff. Um, moving on to the next film, Live

721
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: and Let Die. Okay, So Sean Connery is gone, and

722
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: now the greatest James Bond in all of cinematic history,

723
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: joins us. I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic or

724
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: not right now. And that's delicious Roger Moore, we're talking about.

725
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: He's the James Bond of my childhood. He was James

726
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 1: Bond when I was a kid growing up, so he is.

727
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: I don't really think he's the best James Bond. I

728
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: think I think the most of the Roger Moore films

729
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: are ludicrous, but I also enjoy them for that specific feature.

730
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: So Live and Let Die had a couple of different

731
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: weird gadgets in it. There was a Rolex sub Mariner

732
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: watch that had an electro magnet in it. Now, this

733
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: electro magnet didn't let James Bond win it at a

734
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: slot machine and let him deflect bullets in theory. Although

735
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: James Bond immediately says, this is totally not gonna work.

736
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: And you know it totally wouldn't work. You would not

737
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: be able to create First of all, you would never

738
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: be able to pack in enough power for an electro

739
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: magnet in watch format to do anything to change the

740
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: trajectory of a bullet fast moving projectile. Yeah, it's not.

741
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: It's basically just not ever going to be Wonder Woman's

742
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: wrist bracelets. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry too,

743
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: because well, as long as I can still have my

744
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: Lasso of truth, that's all I really want. Uh. Then, Also,

745
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: the watch was capable of acting as a buzz saw,

746
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: which could cut through cable, and both of these things

747
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: would require so much power that again, where do you

748
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: get the power where you where do you fit a

749
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: power source in something that's small? They could do this

750
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: because if you're talking about a buzz saw, you need

751
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: torque and need to make that effective, right, And and

752
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: that's and that's a physics issue, I think, not a

753
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: miniaturization issue the way that we've been talking about with

754
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: some of these Yeah. Yeah, I mean you could put

755
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: a saw blade on the side of a watch face.

756
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: I just can't imagine you being able to to turn

757
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: it fast manually stuff with it. Right, that's true that

758
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: they also had a special clothing brush that hit a

759
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 1: radio inside of it. Um, which again not a big

760
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 1: surprise surveillance. Again, radio transmitters that are disguised as other things,

761
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: that's totally a real spy thing. Um. They had a

762
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: shark gun that shot pellets that expelled air at high pressure,

763
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 1: which would make targets explode. I I don't know how

764
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,720
Speaker 1: that would work this, Yeah, this is another physics issue.

765
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that that's how How could

766
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: you create a pellet that that's small enough to be

767
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: fired by a gun and yet hold enough pressurized gas

768
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 1: so that it could blow up a target and yet

769
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 1: not explode when you fire the gun, Like even if

770
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: you were able to pack compress air that tightly into

771
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: that small of a package, if it's supposed to explode

772
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 1: upon impact or not even impact, if it's supposed to

773
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: embed into a target and then explode, I just don't

774
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: see how it would work. Maybe maybe if it has

775
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: if it contains a as small portal to another dimension

776
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: like a wormhole, and that that dimension is just filled

777
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: with highly pressurized gas. All objections are lifted. Thank you,

778
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: Lauren uh. And there was also in that film, the

779
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: Deadly Cadillac El Dorado. It fired poisoned darts out of

780
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: its side mirrors. Yeah, there was one of the bad

781
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: guys cars. I would like to think that that's exactly

782
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: the El Dorado you would have won in Glengarry glen

783
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: Ross if you had made the most sales that month.

784
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: First prize is in El Dorado that shoots poisoned darts.

785
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: I um, I don't know. I think I could use

786
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,919
Speaker 1: one of those in Atlanta traffic. I think I would

787
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: enjoy it. I'll just remember there are places you're fired.

788
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: The Man with the Golden Gun nineteen seventy for Yeah,

789
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: this this is the Golden Gun is one of those

790
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: again sort of those iconic things that you think about

791
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: in the James Bond series if you're a fan of

792
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: the full series. The Golden Gun. It was a super

793
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 1: cool concept, and of course the bad guy in this

794
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: film was such a great marksman that it didn't matter

795
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: that the gun could only hold one bullet at a time.

796
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 1: You had to reload after every shot. The gun itself

797
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: could be disassembled, and each part of the gun was

798
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: disguised to look like something else. The guns barrel looks

799
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: like it's a pen, the handle looks like it's a

800
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: cigarette case. The chamber the firing chamber is a cigarette lighter,

801
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: and the trigger is a cufflink. So you know, you

802
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: take it all apart and suddenly it looks like regular stuff.

803
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: This man of gold also his belt buckle held bullets.

804
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: That's uh, that's both fashionable and yeah. Um so this

805
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: particular type of gun, I mean, obviously these parts you

806
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: could in theory sheen parts that look like this sort

807
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: of stuff, and a lot of guns are meant to

808
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: be disassembled. You'd take them apart, especially if you want

809
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: to clean them, that kind of thing, So it's not

810
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: like this is unheard of. However, you know, you wouldn't

811
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 1: really be able to use these things, like, they wouldn't

812
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: have any utility outside of being a gun, because you

813
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: couldn't build all that stuff in and it would be

814
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: very very difficult at any rate. I can't I can't imagine,

815
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 1: and you'd have to use materials that could withstand the

816
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: pressure of a bullet, you know, I mean, you're talking

817
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: about that rapidly expanding gas that propels a bullet, So

818
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: whatever you're using has to be strong enough to contain that.

819
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: It was actually a terrible choice for that sort of thing. Yeah,

820
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: it would have to be like gold plating. It couldn't

821
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 1: be made of gold. It would be a bad, bad choice.

822
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: But but even even if if this golden gun could

823
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: not exist, that kind of gun that is disguised as

824
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: another object, Like I was talking about that that single

825
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: shot cigarette gun earlier, I also saw a single shot

826
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 1: lipstick guns that were popular with Russian spies. And also,

827
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: uh there was there was great when the both Russians

828
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: and United States developed guns that were in the shape

829
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 1: of pipes, like the kind that you smoke smoking pipes,

830
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: and you would just take the little pipe stem off

831
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: and with a quick twist of the pipe, that shoots

832
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: the one bullet. And uh yeah, it had to be

833
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: really close for it to work. Um, because it didn't

834
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: have very good accuracy. Yeah. Yeah, I'm suddenly even even

835
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,320
Speaker 1: more afraid of Matt Frederick than I have been previously.

836
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: It's that's understandable. So then there is the Solex agitator.

837
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 1: This was a device that was part of the doomsday

838
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: machine in the Man with the Golden Gun in this case,

839
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: it was a tiny little thing that could somehow harness

840
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: huge amounts of the Sun's power and then devoted to

841
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 1: something else, whether it's for energy or say a heat

842
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: ray or laser. So, yeah, the silex agitator is one

843
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: of those things that I wish we had. I wish

844
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: our our solar technology was. Yeah, that would be that

845
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: would be really nice. I get to work on that.

846
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want it to blow stuff up, mind you.

847
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: I just wanted to to provide nurny Jonathan, don't don't

848
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: maybe blow a few things up, all right. Then there

849
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: was the a m C Metador car which converted into

850
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: a flying car with wings and jets. Uh. For more

851
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: information on that, just listen to our flying car episode

852
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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about all about how problems with flying cars.

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Speaker 1: That brings us to the last movie on our our

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Speaker 1: list for part one, The Spy Who Loved Me. That

855
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Speaker 1: was film with Roger Moore yet again. Yep, and this

856
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Speaker 1: one is the one that, uh that kind of inspired

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Speaker 1: us to talk about this episode. When when the news

858
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Speaker 1: broke this year about a particular vehicle that's featured in

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Speaker 1: this movie. Uh, there were a lot of people who

860
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Speaker 1: wrote in and said we should cover this topic. And

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

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

863
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Speaker 1: believe this was the first time that the Lotus was

864
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Speaker 1: used in a James Bond film and it would continue

865
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Speaker 1: to be their their marketing partner for the next couple. Yeah. Yeah,

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

867
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Speaker 1: than that. Um. Although Lotus has never created a model

868
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 1: that is convertible to a submarine, didn't stop Elon Musk

869
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: from buying it though. He he bought it and said

870
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: that as a boy growing up in South Africa, it

871
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: absolutely captured his imagination to see this vehicle turned into

872
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: a submarine. It also had torpedoes, land mines, machine guns

873
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: and missiles. It could also blast out cement that could

874
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 1: act as either a smoke screen underwater or completely coat

875
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: the wind screens of other vehicles and obscure their view.

876
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Speaker 1: And uh so the nickname for the car is what Nilly?

877
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Speaker 1: Do you know? How much he spent nine hundred nineties

878
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars just under one million bucks a problem.

879
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money. So that's a whole bunch

880
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: of money. Um, if you're Elon Musk and you've just

881
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: bought a famous movie car that in the movies can

882
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: convert into a submarine, but in reality can convert into

883
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Speaker 1: a submarine, what do you say, Um, screw it, I'm

884
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: turning this into a submarine. That's exactly what he said.

885
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: He said, you know what, I am a rich man

886
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: with lots and lots of of of ambition. I Am

887
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 1: going to turn this into a for real submarine if

888
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: that is at all possible. And I'm going to replace

889
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: the drive train with a Tesla Motor drive train, so

890
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Speaker 1: it's going to be an electric vehicle. Um. Top Gear

891
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: actually totally built out a replica Lotus and and it

892
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: in fact worked underwater in that it moved under its

893
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Speaker 1: own power and did not drown the driver for a

894
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 1: very short period of time while it was in testing mode. Um,

895
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: there there's a really I'll link it on on social

896
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: there's a really terrific video. There's water actually coming out

897
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Speaker 1: of the key ignition into the cabinet. It's not a

898
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 1: good sign. And listener Thomas on Facebook road in about

899
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: this one, and uh and said, well, who doesn't want

900
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Speaker 1: to be able to change to submarine when the Californian

901
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: traffic gets too stressful. So a couple of other little

902
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: things that happened in this movie. There was one point

903
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: where James Bond uses a ski pole that ends up

904
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Speaker 1: being a gun that can fire multiple shots from the handle.

905
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Speaker 1: I look at the pictures of this because I don't remember.

906
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen this movie, but it's been so

907
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: long I don't remember it. Uh, this particular scene, but

908
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: all the shots looked really awkward, like it would have

909
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: been really hard to aim that particular gun. Skiing confuses

910
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: and terrifies me to begin with, so I don't think

911
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: it's a very good plan. Yeah. They also had a

912
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 1: special Saco Courts watch that had a teletape printer. Paco

913
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 1: another big marketing partner with the James Bond series. At

914
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Speaker 1: this point in time. It looked like labels, like a

915
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: label maker. That's the kind of paper that came out.

916
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: It wasn't really paper, look more like a label maker,

917
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Speaker 1: like a little not quite ticker tape the way that

918
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: it probably would have been. More like more like you know,

919
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 1: where the letters have been stamped, so they're raised up

920
00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, like that kind of a

921
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: will make it even that's even more. You wonder how

922
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Speaker 1: how much paper could have watched hold and if and

923
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: if it's raised, I mean, if it's actually embossed, then

924
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: I mean that that requires a stamping. I mean that

925
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: requires some kind of swing. And clearly Roger Moore's uh

926
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Speaker 1: left arm is hollow and has all the working technology

927
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Speaker 1: necessary to print on this stuff. They never explored in

928
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Speaker 1: the movies. They don't tell you about that. It's just clean,

929
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,919
Speaker 1: good subtext. Uh and um. Also, there's a sued agent

930
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Speaker 1: who had a cigarette that you could blow through and

931
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: stun gas would come out of it. I love that

932
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: there's like just this knockout gas that apparently all it

933
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,959
Speaker 1: does is render you unconscious, completely harmless other than making

934
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Speaker 1: you briefly unconscious. Yeah, all right, Well that wraps up

935
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Speaker 1: part one of the James Bond franchise. There's so many

936
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Speaker 1: more movies. I mean, they're more than twenty films, so

937
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Speaker 1: clearly it's taking us a while to get through these,

938
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Speaker 1: but we'll be back to talk about more of those

939
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Speaker 1: in our next episode. In the meantime, if you guys

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Speaker 1: have any suggestions for future episodes topics, you should let

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946
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Speaker 1: socially with you guys when when possible. We were enjoying

947
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Speaker 1: doing this and we always love hearing what you have

948
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Speaker 1: to say when we chat out questions like this. That's

949
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Speaker 1: fun because it gives us a little more direction. And

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Speaker 1: we're not we're not just you know, there's this huge

951
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Speaker 1: topic and we're going to tackle this three percent of

952
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Speaker 1: it because we think we know what they want to hear.

953
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Speaker 1: This way, we know what you want to hear. You

954
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Speaker 1: to hear anyway. Yeah, take part in the conversation, guys,

956
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Speaker 1: and Lauren and I will talk to you again really

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