The Bond We Share: Recent Episodes
Adam Moffett, Allison Davis
Adam and Allison become cultural archaeologists to discover what each generation of Bond films has to say about the issues and ideas of its day and become better friends along the way.
Or Marianna Trench, or Sigourney Beaver, or...something. This week, get to know our Bond villain a little better!
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Just like last year and the year before that, we are in Allison's home for this quasi-live episode of The Bond We Share! We bring you the hottest news updates on the Bond franchises, Allison's thoughts on Black Bag, and Bonds' Bonds. All that and a sleeping baby!
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This week while planning our version of Bond 26, we batten down the hatches on what exactly this pirate themed reality tv show is going to be. Please enjoy lots of Survivor discussion and the sound of dice rolling (whoops, I will move those further away on my desk next time.)
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This week in our quest to produce a Bond movie for a new era, we cast the roles of M, Q, and Moneypenny. Who will support our hero, hand out the new tech, and flirt while filing?
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Not to brag, but this is one of the most fun episodes we've ever done. This time around we sketch out what scheme our Bond villain will undertake and who should play them. It's a silly one now, folks.
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This season on The Bond We Share, Adam and Allison are writing the next Bond movie! In honor of EON's departure from the franchise, we're going to put everything we've ever learned about Bond to good use and come up with our version of what Bond 26 should have been. Up first: who should even play James Bond this time around?
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It's the end of season 2! We discuss the highs and lows of our Bond AdJamescent season, plus the non-Bond careers of our favorite Bond actors.
Thanks for making it all the way through season 2 with us! We will be back soon with news about season 3 of the pod, and it's gonna be a wild one. See you then!
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More like The Eternal Movie
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Melissa McCarthy, Jude Law, and Jason Statham? What more could you ask for? Well, besides like 1000% more Jason Statham
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And now for something completely different! This year during our annual July 4th visit, Adam, Allison, and Alex took to the Davises' couch to discuss something very pressing: our favorite movies generally considered to be bad. Is it Bond Adjamescent? Not particularly, but it was fun anyways! There are some extremely hot takes in this one you don't want to miss.
(Editor's note: apologies for the recording quality, the live couch records are always tricky to set up and mix correctly. It's not up to my standards, but it's totally listenable.)
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We've returned with the second and last official Flint movie, 1967's In Like Flint! Relax, put some cucumbers over your eyes, and enjoy our trip to an ultra-feminist luxury spa/missile base?
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Allison (and the pod) returns with Daniel Craig's second appearance doing a country fried southern accent in 2019's Knives Out. He just really wants to do that, doesn't he?
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On the weekend of its release, Adam and guest co-host MJ discussed The Ministry of Ungentlemenly Warfare, Guy Ritchie's new James Bond origin story origin story. Dave Bautista last episode, Alan Ritchson this episode? Is this part 2 of a Giant Dudes miniseries?
This week we spend some time admiring Dave Bautista's enormous muscles as well as his performance in 2020's My Spy. It's like True Lies for kids! Or is it?
SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS
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I had to re-upload this episode because of a mistake and I don't remember what the description said. Something about Timothy Dalton and Brendan Fraser. Hey, the Looney Tunes are here! Anyways, won't happen again.
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Seth returns to introduce us to, and ultimately help us fall in love with, gentleman spy Derek Flint.
The Fault in Our Pedagogies
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Game over, man! Game over!
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This week we watched the first episode of the 1991 animated series James Bond Jr., a show about James Bond's brother, James Bond, sending his son, also James Bond, to school. A school for spies? We're not sure, but Jaws is there, so how bad could it be?
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We've returned to the OSS to see what our favorite child soldier super-spies have been up to, and it turns out it's mostly more melted plastic CGI monsters.
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In 1954, CBS aired the first ever James Bond adaptation: an hour-long live performance of the 1953 spy novel Casino Royale. It's the third time we've talked about Casino Royale on the podcast. And get this, "Card Sense Jimmy Bond" is an American...
This week on TBWS, we settle into the nostalgia of a beloved childhood classic, but wait! One of your hosts hasn't actually seen Spy Kids before. Find out who it is and what they think of Robert Rodriguez's 2001 foray into the spy genre on this week's episode!
This week on TBWS, Adam and Allison look back at the TV show that got Roger Moore the Bond gig. We watched the season 2 episode "Luella" because it had some familiar faces, but it may not have been the best first impression...
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MJ from Let's Jaws For a Minute returns to discuss Daniel Craig's unhinged performance as Joe Bang in 2017's Logan Lucky. Race down to the track and crack open an ice cold Sodey on this week's The Bond We Share!
Let's Jaws For a Minute
Reel Perspective
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Friend of the show Katt returns to discuss the final Austin Powers movie, Goldmember! Buckle up for a bucket of tangents and some buckwild rankings.
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The original James Bond is back! Kind of! This week Adam and Allison talk about Michael Bay's 1996 film The Rock and get to discuss Sean Connery for the first time in months. Break back into Alcatraz with us!
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Live from Allison's living room, it's The Bourne Identity, featuring a return appearance from Allison's husband Alex! Is this the best movie we've ever covered? Should Jason Bourne have woken up from a dream and rejoined the CIA? Did the dog die? All this and more!
Friend of the show Seth Weesner (The Fault In Our Pedagogies) returns to the podcast to discuss one of his favorite movies, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Adam and Allison remain...guarded on Mr. Powers and his hijinks, but we hope that you will join us as we continue through these spy spoofs.
The Fault In Our Pedagogies
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On the weekend of Dead Reckoning Part 1's release, we decided to record a bonus episode pitting James Bond and Ethan Hunt against each other. Give it a listen if you want to know what Tom Cruise's deal is, if Allison speaks Fronch, or what our M:I rankings are!
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A year to the day we recorded our last non-EON Bond commentary, we got together to watch Casino Royale (1967) and finish out the last Bond movie! Watch along with Adam, Allison, and guest Alex to fully experience all their bewilderment and confusion at this contemporary Bond spoof.
(Excuse our slightly scuffed audio; different recording setups are hard.)
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There were a looooot of Bond parodies well before Mike Myers' misbehaving super agent hit the scene, so today we're covering an original Bond contemporary: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine! Thanks to @jrwells82 on Twitter for the suggestion!
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Did you know that before Pierce Brosnan played Irish-American architect Sam Carmichael he made multiple appearances in a long-running British film series known as James Bond? Unfortunately, he didn't sing in those movies.
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The Bond We Share is back! Welcome to Season 2 of TBWS, and Adam and Allison have returned to discuss and review as many James Bond adjacent movies as we possibly can. In the first episode of season 2, we're talking about the biggest spoof of them all, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Did Austin Powers single-handedly put classic Bond in the ground? Does this movie have a message? Is there any way Murder Mystery 2 could connect to the Bond franchise? Listen and find out!
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In this episode, we say goodbye to the 25 movies that make up Eon Productions' James Bond series. Allison and Adam discuss what's made this franchise so enduring and rank their favorite Bonds, lairs, gadgets, and more!
This is not the final episode of the podcast, so listen to the end to find out what's happening next!
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Now that we've finally seen all 5 Daniel Craig Bond movies and all 25 Eon productions, we got to pit our bests and worsts from each era against each other!
More like Dr. Noh.
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Past guest and current husband Alex rejoin us on this episode to discuss 2015's Spectre. Your hosts' vibes on this movie range from extremely onboard with, opposed to, and undecided. See how long it takes to guess which host is which!
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Hello, Adam here. Having a weird week, so the episode is late; my apologies. Otherwise, the episode is good and very funny so please listen to it.
Our friend Seth rejoins us to talk about 2012's Skyfall! Is this the peak of Daniel Craig's run? What is Miss Moneypenny's middle name? How do we feel about the Dark Knight-ification of Bond? All these questions (and more) shall be answered!
Listen to Seth talk about music theory and education here:
The Theory Behind It
The Fault in Our Pedagogies
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We welcome our friend Katt back to discuss 2008's Quantum of Solace! Is Quant a sophomore slump? A fitting sequel to Casino Royale? Can there be such a thing as too much shaky cam?
Follow and watch Katt at twitch.tv/kattburglar
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Daniel Craig takes us back to the beginning of a brand new Bond. MJ (from Let's Jaws For A Minute and Reel Perspective) joins Adam and Allison to discuss this gritty reboot to the franchise.
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A bonus episode for you before we get into the Daniel Craig era! Casino Royale reboots the franchise for the first time ever, so ahead of our episode about it Adam wanted to talk about the behind the scenes decision-making that led to that moment. Plus, Adam and Allison share how they would have rebooted Bond in 2004 and compare it to what actually happened.
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We've finished the entirety of the 90s (and tip of the 00s) Bonds, so we discussed our favorite and least favorite bits of the four Pierce Brosnan films. Check in to hear our running tally of all the best villains, best sidekicks, and best theme songs so far! Oh, and all our worsts too.
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Adam's friend and other co-podcaster Seth joins us to discuss 2002's Die Another Day. It's pretty clear: this is a bad movie. The question really comes down to how much enjoyment you can get out of this bad movie, and that's something your hosts disagree wildly on.
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Merry Christmas (Jones).
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To celebrate your TBWS hosts being all together for the weekend, we decided to record a very special live commentary for one of the two non-Eon Bond movies. Featuring both the return of Sean Connery and the podcast debut of Allison's husband Alex, this episode is (ideally) best enjoyed while watching 1983's Never Say Never Again along with us. Alternatively, you could just watch Thunderball with this commentary and see what happens. Maybe this episode is our Dark Side of the Moon that way.
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The one where the news does a war.
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It's a new era. No Soviet Union, a lady M, Bond drives a BMW. Is Brosnan a reaction to purists complaining about Timothy Dalton, or is he a continuation in updating the series for a new decade? Is the Nintendo 64 game even that good? Join us to find out what other hot takes we have on 1995's Goldeneye!
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This week we say goodbye to our favorite Bond to date, Timothy Dalton. In honor of his abbreviated legacy, we try to figure out which other movies his Bond would have been a good fit in, and we swap around the other 3 Bonds we've seen so far too. After that, Adam and Allison compare their highlights and lowlights of this two movie stretch and how it stacks up against the rest of the series.
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James Bond will literally avenge his best friend's wife's killer and ruin the economy of a Central American nation instead of going to therapy.
My main man T-Dalts has finally arrived to save the Bond franchise from silly, campy nonsense. Except wait: this movie is also very silly, but only in good ways. It's 1987's The Living Daylights! We're here to ingest opium and talk about how much this movie rocks, and we're all out of opium.
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This week we take a bird's eye view of the entire Roger Moore era of Bond and stack up our favs and least favs from the movies. Where does Rog rank against the other Bonds? Who's the worst villain? Does any henchman hold a candle to Jaws? Listen to our bests and worsts from this batch of Bond, and tell us what yours are @BondWeShareCast on Twitter!
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This episode is a bit longer than average, but it's because we were having too much dang fun talking about this movie! Well, we talked about a lot of stuff that wasn't this movie, but we were having fun either way. It's 1985's A View to A Kill, and it's Roger Moore's final outing as 007. Join us to hear about Christopher Walken, the plot of Goldfinger, and honestly, more Christopher Walken.
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I don't really feel like writing a description this week. In this episode, we talk about the 13th James Bond film, Octopussy. It's not great.
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TBWS zooms into a new decade this week with 1981's For Your Eyes Only. New director John Glen introduces us to his take on Bond, and Roger Moore is still here. Sharks, pistachios, hockey, and delicatessens await you in this, the thirteenth EON Bond movie.
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This week we welcome special guest MJ Smith, host of Let's Jaws for a Minute, to discuss a Jaws-centric Bond film! James Bond (and Jaws) go to space! And fight Nazis in space! A pigeon does a double take! Join us for this slightly more scattered than usual discussion, and stay for Allison's darkest admission!
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A movie with a ski chase will never let you down. A ski chase plus Jaws? Baby, now you got yourself a stew going. For some, The Spy Who Loved Me is the Moore 007 film; for others, it is the Bond film overall. Buckle up as we dive into (this is a joke from the movie) the 1977 classic!
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This episode is a dire one for the TBWS duo. Roger Moore is back, and he will be until the heat death of the universe. The racist sheriff is back. Women existing for the sole purpose of being humiliated are back. We hope you enjoy listening to this more than we did watching it.
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On this episode of TBWS, we welcomed @Kattburglar to discuss the blaxploitation inspired 1973 film Live and Let Die. This is the most heated conversation on the pod to date, and it has nothing to do with the questionable quality of the movie itself. Join us to hear about the weighty issues of race and sexual ethics, but also the lighter points of wigs, Felix 5, tarot readings, Sheriff JW Pepper, and more!
Listen to Katt on her podcast Souler Scouts here!
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We've come to another stopping point in the saga, so this week we discuss in further detail how George Lazenby and Sean Connery got the role of James Bond in Majesty's and Diamonds respectively. It turns out things were very much in flux as the series came to this fork in the road. Plus, we recap our best and worsts from this fuzzy era and stack them up with our best and worsts for the entire series so far!
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Look who came crawling back. Uh...by that I mean the producers handing Sean Connery a record-breaking check to return to the role of James Bond in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever. Has Sean aged gracefully? Has Bond? Has the film? Join us this week to hear our answers to these questions and more. Talking points include: questionable representation, drag Blofeld, butt diamonds, and the very concept of brothers.
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New Bond, who dis? Also, new Blofeld, who dis? Oh, and new director, who dis too? We're out of the Connery era and looking forward to the bright, shining future of the George Lazenby era. Take off your skis, learn to love chicken, and let Louis Armstrong serenade you into our recap and review of this 1969 Bond film.
After making it all the way through the Connery Bonds (not really), we stop and make time to think about what we've seen. Is Bond...likeable? Who's the best villain? Which movie should you start somebody on? We talk about our impressions of Connery's Bond, then run a lightning round of our bests and worsts of the era. Tweet at @bondwesharecast to tell us how smart and insightful we are (or yell at us).
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Welcome to Japan! Sean Connery makes one final* appearance as James Bond to track down the head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and stop him from eating any more spaceships. No really, that's the plan. Join us this week to hear our thoughts on the proper temperature of sake, ninja school, and the end of the original batch of Bonds.
(*not his final appearance)
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Nazi gold. Lasers. Heroin flavored bananas. Colonel Sanders. Goldfinger has it all. This week, we're covering possibly the most iconic Bond movie ever. It's the gold standard, if you will. Join us for the good, the bad, and the boring (spoiler alert: Adam writes these descriptions) of the third James Bond movie.
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It's the second Bond movie and we're gonna immediately toss the formula out the window. Well, Adam and Allison aren't, but this is a very different kind of Bond movie than Dr. No. SPECTRE kicks off some good old fashioned espionage, and James Bond has to show up and not get murdered for 2 hours. Sit back and enjoy listening to us rave about watching a movie that's actually fun!
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On the week of its release, Adam and Allison watched the 25th Bond film, No Time to Die, and discussed their gut reactions and impressions of the film. This is a spoiler-free discussion, so don't be afraid to take a peek (listen). There's a brief section at the end with more details, but nothing major and it's heavily warned ahead of time.
We'll fully review and recap this movie when we get to it on our watch-through, but until then reach out to us at @bondwesharecast on twitter to let us know your thoughts and takes!
Hey, it's the first James Bond movie! Adam and Allison crack open the series debut and ask the tough questions:
Is Honey Ryder a queen? (yes) Is Strangways a good character name? (not really) Is Dr. No a good movie? (well...spoilers)
(Don't worry, Allison has messed with some microphone settings and won't always sound like this.)
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Welcome to The Bond We Share! In this preview episode, we talk about the idea for the show, why we're doing the show, and what the goal of the show is.
Join us next week for discussion about the first ever James Bond movie, Dr. No!