WEBVTT - TechStuff Bonds With Spy Tech Part One 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.720 Get in test with technology with text stuff from stuff 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:15.440 works dot com. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to text Stuff. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.560 I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren vocal Ba Or So 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:24.400 you think we could be undercover, we could be secret agents. No, 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.960 we couldn't be. But we're going to talk about secret 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:32.159 agent tech specifically, we're coming to talk about James Bond technology. Yes, 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.879 we were so excited about this that we have possibly 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.159 compiled like ten pages. No, no, it's not possibly. We 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.200 did compile ten. In fact, we before we came into 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.440 the studio, we actually had to go in. This is 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.120 behind the curtain, guys. We had to go in and 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.960 start the leading stuff because it was so much. We're like, 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:53.000 we can't do a five part episode about James Bond. Yeah, yeah, 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.240 I mean over the course. Okay. So this is a phenomenon, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.240 a global phenomenon that was based on a single nine novel, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.120 Casino Royale, written by Ian Fleming. Yeah, who better known as, 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.399 of course, the creator of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Clearly, um, 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.559 he wrote all of the all of the James Bond 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.960 novels that you know, he originally created from this Jamaican 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.160 estate that he had called Golden Eye, and it all 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.200 branched out from there into the beautiful goofy thing that 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.959 we have today. Yep. And and there's you know, some 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.600 arrows of James Bond that were significantly more goofy than others. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.080 I think the more years, the Roger Moore years in particular, 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.800 guy goofy and silly. And because there is a lot 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.480 to cover and some of it we want to relate 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.000 to actual real world technology and kind of explain which 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.800 ones are realistic and which ones aren't. Because there's so much, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.280 we are going to do a two parter because it's 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.680 just otherwise we would have to just pick and choose 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.280 and it would be really unsatisfying at least for us. Yes, yes, 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.280 but so yeah, as a Bond himself gets most of 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.880 his gear from m I six and from specifically they're 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.240 Q standing for Quartermaster Branch. Yes, and so you often 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:06.880 will find that the various UH people that Bond ends 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.240 up interacting with at m I six go by a 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.560 specific letter Q or M being the two big ones 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.080 and UH and Q of course is the the person 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.960 in charge of giving out all of the weird gadgets, 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.880 and usually at some point in the rollout gives a 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.120 little gives a little, you know, Bond a little kind 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.080 of a slap on the wrist saying, could you please 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.520 stop blowing up the stuff I give you? Because all 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.040 of these wonderful things. I mean, we didn't list the 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.399 number of things that we're going to talk about that 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.400 he has blown up, but I mean it's safe to 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.440 say that it's most of them. Yeah. Yeah, he's not 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.400 only not only as he blown up most of his gadgets. 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.960 I think at this point he's blown up most of Europe. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.560 But no, no, that's that's that's accurate. I did want 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.880 to note that Fleming himself was in the naval intelligence 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.640 for the British Royal Naval Reserve in World War Two, 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.880 and that it's been suggested that that because Fleming was 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.639 doing a little bit of field work, you know, breaking 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.359 in and entering to photographs sensitive documents that sort of thing, um, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.399 that the character of James Bond was a highly romanticized 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.680 version of himself. Yeah. As it turns out, the stuff 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.400 that spies really do and the stuff that James Bond 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.360 does are not necessarily aligned. I mean, I don't know 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.639 that there are many spies who actually have these incredibly 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:19.320 flashy lives that bring a lot of attention to themselves. 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.680 Like I can't imagine a spy walking into a casino 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.600 and winning game after game after game, drawing attention to 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.480 him or herself, because that seems like it's antithetical productive, yeah, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.480 to being a spy, but at any rate. But but 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.200 some of the tech that James Bond uses is actually 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.360 very real world correlation. Sure, so let's start off with 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.600 one of the iconic pieces of technology that James Bond 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.120 depends upon in practically every movie. Now it's a little 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.560 different from the novels series and the movie series, but 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.920 in the movies he has a side arm, the Vaulter 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.600 or Walter p p K, which is the one he 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.600 carries in most of the movies. There is a point 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.920 where he switches for the p p K to the 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.560 P ninety nine that would be in the movie Tomorrow 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.440 Never Dies, and from there all the way through to 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.680 Casino Royale, that's what he's using. But then it goes 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.200 back to the p p K. Now, p p K 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.360 stands for Police Pistol Detective Model, and you might think, well, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.719 where does the K come from? It comes from the 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.880 German word which is oh, let's try this, okay, police, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:27.280 the police, I pistol criminal model. Oh boy, I know 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.080 I butchered that one. You're probably doing it better than 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:31.840 I would. And and in German it is in fact 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.440 pronounced Walter, yes, yes, but but in British and American 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.120 it's Walter dialect. It is spelled w A L T 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.200 h e R. But the Germans do not have a sound. 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.919 It's a it's a hard T or or a D 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.360 sometimes depending upon what part of Germany. But at any rate, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.440 so this is a very small gun, which makes sense. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:55.040 It has to be concealable, right, So it's a small gun. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.760 It's semi automatic, it's double action, it's pretty reliable. Yeah, 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:03.240 it's a often used in various law enforcement agencies throughout 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.200 all of Europe. Both the the p p K and 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.440 the PIN were and so it's one of those that 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.359 um you find all over the place in Europe. So 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:16.680 it made sense. And in fact, in the novels, I 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.719 think he has a barretta. Originally in the first few 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.680 novels he was carrying a barretta until a fan named 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.920 Geoffrey um Our Jeffrey Boothroyd. I've clearly been watching too 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.680 much Game of Throne. Sorry, Um rode in and recommended 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.720 more appropriate weapons in nineteen fifty six, and Fleming went 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.400 in and made the switch, and then furthermore honor Jeffrey 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.000 by naming Q after him. The character of Q up 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.640 through UM up to the point when the original actor 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:46.599 passed away, I believe, was named Major Boy. So also, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.320 you know in in the Casino Royal Movie or Casino 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.240 Royal Movie with Daniel Craig Um the Jumping Way Ahead. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.320 But in that film, apparently he is convinced to hand 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.160 over his Barretta to trade up to the Vaulter cute. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.080 I don't remember that because I've more or less plucked 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:05.960 that film from my mind. I have not seen it. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.120 I know, I haven't seen any of the Daniel krass Man. 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.960 I enjoyed the at least I really liked the last one. Um. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.640 But we can talk about that later on. UM. But 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.159 before we get into our big list, because it is 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.840 very big, UM, I did want to mention that there 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.360 is a a term for the kind of plot device 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.040 that most of these James Bond gadgets are, because they 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.800 are not just devices, they are plot devices, UM. And 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.800 and it's called a Chekhov gun after Russian author Anton 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:39.240 Chekhov and his observation that and which, which relates to 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.920 stage play more so than movie play. But anyway, don't 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.800 put a rifle on the wall unless it's going to 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.840 go off, right, if you're going to if you're going 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.559 to put something in a conspicuous spot that the audience sees, 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:52.320 you cannot then deny the audience the payoff of of 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.240 using that. Right, You can't. You can't not use it. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.800 In fact, there are a lot of films that follow 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.320 the same sort of approach. At the first one that 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.560 jumps to my mind Shaun of the Dead. They look 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.599 at the Winchester on the wall and you know that 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.120 at some point they're gonna have to shoot that gun. Yeah, 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:13.360 that was in Slither by the way, right, Yes, that 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.560 is a good point. Yes, you can also play with 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.480 this by by reversing it. Every rule is made to 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.440 be broken. So let's dive in. Now. We're gonna go 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.560 chronologically as far as the films go, which means we're 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.360 gonna jump around a couple of different bonds. But I'll 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.040 explain a little bit of that when we hit there. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.840 So the first James Bond film to come out was 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.520 in nineteen sixty two, and it was Dr No. And 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.400 that was when you know they had our first James 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:41.280 was Sean Connery as a as Bond. Now Dr No 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:43.920 is one of the movies where you see James Bond 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.160 doing all of this spy stuff, but they're not really 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.040 all these crazy gadgets that a lot of us associate 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.960 with Bond based upon later films. Yeah. Yeah, there was 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.880 like one self destructor bag in that movie, I think, 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.520 and that was really the only standout tech that happened. Yeah, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.760 and in that case, the bad The purpose of the 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.800 bag was so that it would destroy any case notes 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.400 that were inside the bag, so that if Bond had 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.720 been captured, those notes could be destroyed and there would 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.760 be no evidence of what m I six did and 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.320 did not know. So it was purely defensive in that sense. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.040 It wasn't a weapon. It was just to destroy documents. 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.400 But then we move on to nineteen sixty three two 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.560 from Russia with Love and Boy. We got a very 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.200 earnest request from a co worker about a particular gadget 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.880 that shows up in this movie. So earnest um Robert 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.120 Over on Stuff to blow your mind wrote us in 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.040 on both Twitter and Tumbler, where we had we had 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.480 posted a query on Twitter, Tumbler and Facebook to ask 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.680 ask people to write in and tell us their favorite 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.920 Bond gadget and why, and Robert responded in not one 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.120 but two places. Yes, he said, you've got to talk 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.680 about the briefcase and from Russia with love. Which is 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.640 interesting because this is what a lot of people think 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.719 of as the first James Bond gadget. Now, first of all, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.440 inside this briefcase, James Bond caried a rifle that had 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.880 an infrared scope in it. So that's pretty gadgety all 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.440 by itself. But then the briefcase itself has so many 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.520 hidden compartments and cool things that you immediately want one. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.880 So aside from the part that I'm pretty sure that 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.440 the weight limitations would start to be an issue, but 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.360 it'd probably be a little weighty. It's probably a little heavy, Okay, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.000 So you've got a rifle in it, so that's that's 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.480 some weight. Right. That also has at least one, if 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.560 not two knives in it, right, um tubes for ammunition. Right, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.040 So these these brass tubes that carry bullets in them, 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.240 they're not they don't shoot bullets, but it's a way 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.120 to carry ammunition inside a place without someone seeing that 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.360 you're carrying lots of ammunition. Write some some belts of 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:47.280 gold coins. Fifty gold sovereigns is exactly how many were 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.640 in that briefcase. Fifty that's a lot of gold coin. Um. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:56.000 Each gold coin was well technically worth a pound sterling, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.000 but everyone used it as bullying. So then you've got 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.160 the poisonous gas that's also inside the briefcase because it 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:04.680 had that trick lid, and if you didn't know the 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.920 trick to opening it, then it would go off and 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.640 gas you. Yeah, so yeah, this is a This is 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.200 a pretty cool thing. And one of those I actually 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.960 saw a video online of a fan who created a 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.840 replica of this briefcase using plastic stuff for all the weapons, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.520 so like you know, little thing bullets and plastic. But 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:27.120 it was it was incredibly faithful to the original design. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.240 It was really amazing. I'll see if I can find 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.800 that video and link it when we put this live. Awesome. See. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.320 They also had a both a radio phone in the 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.760 car and a pager for bond right, both of which 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.600 were technologies that existed at the time. But we're really 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.520 only used for like very high paid doctors, um state 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.000 officials kind of stuff like that. Pages had only been 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.560 around for a little while, maybe maybe about five years 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.400 when when that came out, so it was still a 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.040 very new thing to most people. They also used a 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.520 bug detector. Now this was not the only time that 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.000 a bug detector is shown in a Jay's bond field, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.600 but we're not going to cover all of them, just 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.600 to say that this is very much spy tech. This 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.600 is you know, when you can put something that's designed 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.880 to get a surveillance from a specific area, whether it's 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.000 a microphone or a camera or whatever. Bug detectors are 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.440 a real thing. They detect different stuff like you might 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.400 have an E M F detector looking for electromagnetic fields. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:24.200 You might have a broadband radio scanner to pick up 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:28.440 any radio signations. So this is totally something that happens 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:33.800 in spy business, happening for for i'd say since at 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.080 least World War two. Yeah, and and and in fact, 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.480 you'll you'll hear us. In fact, I'm sure we've talked 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.520 about it. Perhaps it was in uh I think it 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.600 was our skunk Works episode where we talked about how 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.319 lockey E Barton would have these meetings with the government 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.560 and they would actually sweep the room for bugs in 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.320 a hotel. You know, it would be a hotel that 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.000 no one knew what the location was going to be 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.440 until it happened, and so this is stuff that happens 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.559 today all the time. Um. Then they had a special 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.520 camera that hid a tape recorder inside of it so 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:07.480 that Bond could, uh could clandestinely record conversations. It's funny 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:09.920 because now our phones do this. They have both the 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:11.640 you know, you can get an app that lets you 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.600 record stuff, you can take pictures. So a lot of 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.880 the technology back then was you know, like, let's combine 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.000 these two crazy things to make another even more crazy thing, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:22.920 and tonight we have it. Yeah, and a lot of 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.319 sci fi style miniaturization was going on in these films too. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.160 You know. At the time, the idea of a tape 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.120 recorder that could fit into a camera was pretty wild, 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.120 especially to consumers for whom um a tracks were kind 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.280 of the new big thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.800 looking at the regular reel to reel, uh, the tape recorders, 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.800 which were enormous, like the size of like a small 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.160 television set. I mean, these are these were big pieces 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:48.960 of equipment, so to have a mantorized version of that 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:53.240 was pretty incredible. Yeah. As for weapons, special gadget weapons, 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.199 some of the bad guys had some cool ones. There 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.079 was one had a shoe that had a dagger hidden 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.720 inside of it, a little shootout dagger I guess, not 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.320 shoot out but retractable, kind of like a switchblade for 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.600 your foot, which seems like just a terrible idea of her. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.319 As clumsy as I am, I would injure myself. That's 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.760 so quickly and easily. Lauren accidentally brutally stabbed herself forty 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.360 seven times while walking up the stairs. I know it 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:20.320 would happen. Then one of the bad guys had a watch, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.839 a watch that had a wire wrapped around the watch 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.560 face so that you could you could pull it out, like, yeah, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.040 it would just it would just be long enough that 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.400 you could strangle the heck out of somebody. And the 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.600 bad guy tries to do that on Bond, but spoiler alert, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.520 it doesn't work. Okay, I can't believe you just told 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.200 us that. I know. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:46.319 but uh, nothing about the garage watch was particularly like unusual. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.640 I do think that if you were going to try 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.840 and hide a wire on yourself, you probably could find 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.480 a better place than on your watch. I think you 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.240 could easily sew it into the garments that you could 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.600 easily you know, whip it out of there or whatever, 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.120 like you just had a little secret pocket or something. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:06.280 But hey, it's not as cinematic, so maybe that's the 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.400 whole reason. Yeah. Yeah. And actually the shoe dagger thing, um, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.400 the shoes that Michael Jackson designed to do that um 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.199 that deep lean yeah, the one in a smooth and 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.239 smooth criminal right, um had sort of a similar mechanism 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.920 of I mean, you know, not for it didn't shoot 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.880 a dagger into the stage to hold him up, but 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:27.760 but it did shoot out a little you could you 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.040 could trigger a little hitch that would that would pop 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:34.600 down from the heels into the stag. Yeah. Yeah, cool. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.000 So so he wasn't doing that all on his own, 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.400 no wonder. I broke my nose four times trying to 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.600 do that move. Yeah, he was a professional, hold a 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.800 patent and everything. If only a known then. So moving on, 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.520 in nineteen sixty four, we get one of the most 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.560 famous James Bond films. That's one of the ones. This, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:52.960 this is the one I always think of when I 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.720 think of James Bond is gold Finger. Yeah, yeah, Sean 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.040 Connery is still with us, Yes, he's still the Bond. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.360 In fact, you know, Connery does some jump and around. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.440 But we'll get into it that a little bit later. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.720 But yeah, this is this is the of course, the 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.680 famous scene in this one with the big industrial laser 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.960 that's slowly going to bisect James Bond. Um and uh, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.280 the gold Finger says, you know, James Bons says, do 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.240 you expect me to talk to But no, Mr Bond, 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.800 I expect you to die. It's my favorite line in 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.440 all of cinema. I think way up there that one. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.880 Leave the gun, take the cannoli. That's another big one. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.320 But there you know that's obviously not James Bond movie. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.800 So do we have industrial lasers that will bisect Superspy? 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.640 We have industrial lasers that could buy exact a Superspy. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.320 I don't know that any have been put to that 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.960 specific use. There may be some crazy villain out there 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.080 who has in fact used it on a person, but 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.360 we certainly have lasers that are powerful enough to do 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.840 physical harm to a person at the time. I don't 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.760 know that anyone to create a laser quite that powerful, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.840 but they do exist today. It's but we use them 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.200 for things like cutting steel, right, like using for for 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:05.280 cutting cutting industrial uses. I mean it's an industrial laser. Well, 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.160 if it could cut steel, I'm I'm pretty sure it 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.480 could cut James Bond James, yeah, I mean the guys 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.600 he does have, he does have abs of steel. He 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.960 is a tough dude. It's a gold Finger was the 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:19.120 premiere of one of these iconic James Bond items. Yes, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.920 are you talking about his vehicle? Yes, his vehicle, I said, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:27.360 an Aston Martin Aston Martin D B five to be specific. 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.880 There there are other Aston Martins that appear in the 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.160 James Bond franchise, and there are also other types of cars, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.320 but I mean some of them are most of them 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:40.360 are ones that James Bond, you know, gets borrows. Let's 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.400 say for a short while, the Aston Martin is always 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.080 associated as being James Bond's car, like it's something that 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.280 was developed by Q and he drives it. I believe 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.560 that they entered into some kind of like marketing agreement 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.120 with the company in the nineteen sixties, right, around this 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.080 film say, and well, you know, and the Aston Martin 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.640 is a luxury car company out of England. Art you 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.560 they are gorgeous cars. And the company itself, for a 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.840 brief while was a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, but 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.639 that was that was much later than the nineties, uh, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.800 for for like a few years, and then it was 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:16.720 bought back that some some uh financiers purchased most of 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.840 the ownership of the company back from Ford, which now 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.879 I think owns a tiny share in comparison to what 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.679 it used to have. But with all of the switching around, Um, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.520 has it ever had an objector seat? Uh? Yes, yes, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.879 the aspid Martin very well known. Lots of lots of 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.800 gadgets on this thing, including the famous objector seat that 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:41.120 is used in gold Finger. Um. Also machine guns behind 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.600 had lights, Yeah that's another big one. Tire slashing, hub caps, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.960 revolving license plates, uh, smoke and oil slick defense tools. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.720 So if you've ever played the old arcade game Spy Hunter, 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.480 which had all of these sort of things and either 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:59.040 on its car or enemy cars, it owes everything to 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.480 this to this movie. Also also Mario Kart, I think 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.359 I mean it didn't have any banana peals or turtle shells. No, No, 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.879 I mean, if only they had had a couple of 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.680 red turtle shells, Bond would have just sailed right through 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.760 all those problems. Um that that flipping license plate thing, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.720 by the way, is a real thing in China, as if. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.080 Two thousand eight Chinese police reported they were having a 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.520 problem with with a lot of people installing these remote 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.600 controlled plate changers that that only cost about like one 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.119 four hundred bucks at the time, So that way they 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.639 can they can drive under a fake license plate and 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.000 then switch it over to a real one or something. Yeah, 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.560 it's interesting to to avoid getting tickets. And also there 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.720 was a you know, the acid Martin. Although we do 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.399 identify that very strongly with Bond in the books, it 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.240 was a different type of luxury car that was used 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.120 in most of the novels which were Bentley's. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.680 definitely for the first few Um, I'm not sure. I'm 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.879 not sure if if if it's stuck with that for 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:54.560 the whole thing. Yeah, but for the first like four 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.560 or five I think, yeah, certainly before they started getting 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.880 upgrades to him, because again in the early books as well, 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.560 they weren't so tech heavy. Yeah, that's true. Uh and Bentley, 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.359 by the way, also British car company, so it's not 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.040 a big surprise there. Yeah, also gorgeous, it's not just 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:13.760 like oh only Bentley. Also about this specifically. Listener Mike 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.920 Goldenberg on Twitter asked if any cars with weaponry and 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:21.000 objector seats exist in real life, And okay, so the 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.359 MythBusters did create a car with an ejector seat. They 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.520 cut a hole out of the roof of a car, 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.800 they built the ejector seat, they put Buster in it. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.639 The whole rig weighed about three d pounds. They calculated 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:34.800 how much rocket power was going to be needed to 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.440 eject it, and they put the rockets into the seat 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.480 and they tested it, and uh and Buster flew out. 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.639 So everything's awesome, right, It works perfectly, aside from the 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.159 part where it filled the entire cabin of the car 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.560 with flames. Yeah, as it turns out, it probably would 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.360 um burn you pretty badly. Now, granted, if you came 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.879 up with some other objector method, like you had built 0:19:54.960 --> 0:20:00.240 some sort of super powerful air catapult, or if you 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:05.240 had just a really uh strong spring that was held 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.280 into place with latches that you could un latch you 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.520 might be able to eject someone from a car without 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:17.200 filling the car also with deadly flames. But that's I'd 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.440 say it's probably a bad decision. Yeah, let's just say 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.719 that it's not something you're gonna commonly find in vehicles, 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.639 and spies do not usually drive around cars that have that. 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.399 It's spies, by the way, usually don't drive around incredibly 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.920 flashy sports cars. Yeah, it turns it out those get 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.479 attention just like just like you know, always winning at 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.600 the casinos. So but all right, so there are other 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.280 some other gadgets and gold gold Finger that we should 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:44.280 talk about. There's the homing beacons, which these are a thing. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.360