July 12, 2024

S3E23: Thunderball with No Notes

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This week we're taking another trip down memory lane as we attempt November's original concept for season two- Attempting to recall the Bond movies entirely based on having seen and discussed them several years ago. This week, we are forced to derive Thunderball from first principles.

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Comments (64)

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Claudia · September 23, 2024

Had to stop halfway through this and wrestle a live blackbird away from my cat.

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BitchyCatWizard · August 29, 2024

WHERE IS MILO?!!? SHOULD HE NOT BE HERE!?!

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Righteous Lazarus (Four Days Dead) · August 21, 2024

piss rocket -> gay felix is crazyyyyy

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Rae · August 8, 2024

Your no notes episodes are so surreal and I love them, please don't stop making them

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Sublight Monster · July 28, 2024

I think the difference in scores was that killing sharks got counted as unprovoked violence, and I think you forgot about what Bond does to the nurse at the spa.

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Knights Who Say Sledge · July 26, 2024

The three of you working your way thru the fog of James Bond films past is an absolute delight to listen to every time. I look forward to the next such vaguely recalled outing.

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-Kris- · July 23, 2024

Vargas is my most memorable moment from the original, specifically because of "Every man has his passions. What do you do?" "Vargas SIIIIIINGS!"

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Joysweeper · July 19, 2024

I'm not as into these as your other stuff but when they spiral into absurdity like "protogol klebs kronsteen" they're great.

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Rianne Werring · July 18, 2024

This was a great listen. Honestly I'd listen to you three banter while you read a 1980's telephone book and have a ball, but still. This was quite enjoyable. Many thanks

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Alex Scranton · July 17, 2024

I've finally caught up! I've been listening like mad starting in April since I got a 'podcast job'

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The Project Project · July 17, 2024

"PISSROCKET!!"

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Manuel Kiguel · July 17, 2024

You realize that Keith the Kid Starver being Abi's flatmate is now canon forever, right?

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Dr Grasshopper · July 16, 2024

Awyess! Jetpacks! My time to shine! The Bell Aerospace labs that supplied that was created after and in direct competition to Jet Propulsion Labs, whose main creator Jack Parsons was the head of a sex cult at time of filming this movie. Which is a hell of a run-on sentence I never thought anyone would ever say. But I am here to say that. It's my way of pointing out that in the 60's you were barely 3 degrees of separation from a sex cult at any time.

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Tripp · July 16, 2024

Thundernote with no balls.

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Aron Hellsten · July 16, 2024

The tradition of having Milo on anything thunderball related is broken

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juliette necro · July 16, 2024

I'm gonna be thinking about "getting my shit honked off with a mink glove" for the foreseeable future Furthermore, The Quick and the Dead (1995)

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Skate Bush · July 15, 2024

I swear all the episodes where Dev is like "is this listenable?" are the best episodes

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Liz and Ash at UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA!! · July 15, 2024

You can get mink gloves on Ebay, you just have to add 'massage' to the search term.

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scara b · July 15, 2024

I think they actually need an outline of the scenes just because they are confusing the moore movies THEY FORGOT THE SPECTRE SCENE THAT THEY JOKED ABOUT FOR LIKE 2 SEASONS

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scara b · July 15, 2024

they really won't know what vargo does now

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shadowcb · July 14, 2024

You should really open these episodes with a "previously on no notes" where you show how confident you were in describing the next Bond movie. For funsies 🙃

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Bones · July 14, 2024

keep making these because i am excited for the distant future of Moore No Notes

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Meekle Togas · July 14, 2024

My understanding of a mink glove is that the fur goes on the inside. As in like a fur lined leather glove? As in, he's getting honked by a leather glove, and the glove is nice and warm for the person wearing it? Am I wrong about this?

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Andrew Dunn · December 4, 2024

In the book, it's a trendy new massage item where you brush someone with a furry surface So the mink fur is definitely on the outside of the glove in this case

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Justine · July 13, 2024

This is the one where bond uses a woman as a meat shield

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Clare · July 13, 2024

Ah, another instance of me deciding to go for a nice walk while catching up on my favourite podcast, and immediately being dealt several psychic blows in the first minute

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sack full of molotovs · July 13, 2024

It is fun to listen to this one

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Rocktoberfest · July 13, 2024

I seem to remember "get some salt at least" was said last time as well

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Brian Danger Hicks · July 13, 2024

I'm just mad about Abi's roommate barging in like that. I know there are limited options out there but you deserve better than Keir Starmer

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Stormsdream · July 13, 2024

You three were so adorable trying to remember the movie. I loved it.

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ZAL · July 12, 2024

"En-lengthen a sausage of Plasticine" Great episode, I had a lot of fun listening to it.

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HAUNTER · July 12, 2024

Amazing intro, bravo

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Winson Paine · July 12, 2024

Vital Info Here: Star Trek Discovery canonically confirmed that Klingons in fact have TWO PENISES in an over under configuration like a genetic Beretta Pidgeon shotgun

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Winson Paine · July 12, 2024

THE MORE YOU KNOW

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TV · July 12, 2024

That opening was gold. When are TF and KJB going to do a Starmer-off btw?

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MCGameFAP · July 12, 2024

The first scene gives me an idea for a movie that someone else needs to write. A stock standard james-bond-ass spy thriller BUT in the first few scenes of the movie Bond has to dress up like a woman to infiltrate a yada-yada. They completes that part of the mission, but their egg starts cracking. It's just a James Bond movie but the agent is progressively questioning their gender identity the whole time until they finally come out as trans the moment they save the world.

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Chloe Lynch · July 14, 2024

This is unironically a subplot in the Horrible Histories offshoot Bill from 2015!

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Luné Mercové · July 12, 2024

glad that, unlike the hosts, I didn't sip something before hitting play. great episode thanks you.

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Alva Sol · July 12, 2024

the funniest no notes episode yet!

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Alva Sol · July 12, 2024

2 more and you'll invent whole new bond movies

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Ed · July 12, 2024

The ally who kills herself when she's captured (Paula) is played by Martine Beswick, who plays Mrs. Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde. It's a transgender ass movie that should absolutely be watched on this podcast at some point. Also, if she is the woman who's playing the one from Nassau, she's part Jamaican but I don't remember if they darkened her skin for the movie.

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Noblese Oblahaj · July 12, 2024

The Mink Glove of Indescribable Texture sounds like a Disco Elysium item

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Noblese Oblahaj · July 12, 2024

The most believable thing about this movie is the British government producing a car which leaks an ocean of fluids

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Bryan · July 12, 2024

Now we know why Abi was top of her class in uni, that memory is superhuman

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Non Binary Nerd Business · July 12, 2024

That cold open was a hell of a bit.

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Gwen and Nox · July 12, 2024

Odd thay milo didn't return but I'm glad mr starmer was still able to make it, those two usually travel together

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Buckeroo · July 12, 2024

I honestly thought they *had* got Milo back for the retread. Abi's Starmer impression has improved

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Prince Jade · July 12, 2024

This is dangerous to listen to while working, I had to go sit down thanks to the jelking bit

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Prince Jade · July 12, 2024

IT'S A PILL! IT'S A PILL!!!" I yell at the landscape like a lunatic. (The tracker. The tracker is a radioactive pill. I never watched this goddamn movie how do I remember this)

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Ben Schwabe · July 12, 2024

This episode is a fountain of great ideas. I'd watch a reality show with with Abi as the roommate of Sir Kier at 10 Downing Street. The hijinks and shennigans would be amazing. Mink glove soaked in semen left in a steam room overnight, becomes alive, does some Species type stuff.

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Pillbughug · July 12, 2024

One of the best episodes yet, thanks yall!

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Ember Puppytoys Aegle · July 12, 2024

The ending reminded me of the story where Jesus literally did become Japanese: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iY3cW_FVOyM/TrJlVW2MuMI/AAAAAAAAS1k/uGM3x1Zp8Q4/s1600/jesus-4.jpg

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Benjamin Simms · July 12, 2024

Brilliant, I sprinted to the comment section to make sure this was brought up!

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Andrew Dunn · July 12, 2024

I'm struggling myself, but they have missed the "pilot with my face" scene with the gas and the Italian man Interestingly, the Mink glove sex is consensual in the books. They have met each other, flirted, made plans to rendezvous outside of the club. They first meet when he saves her life. The books are less rapey but you get more of his internal monologue, which includes him calling women bitches constantly

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Alex Anderson · July 12, 2024

“What am I, going to faux j.o. someone?” —Personally, it’s critically important for me that the life of something was ended for the glove I am using to j someone o.

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Aalto Bowers · July 12, 2024

Absolutely this was good to listen to. All time banger

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AU Dark Brandon's Evil Twin [Good person] · July 12, 2024

"Is this good to listen to?" ca. min 11. Yeah, it fuckin owns. Everybody on this train car thinks I'm a lunatic.

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Public Universal Foe · July 12, 2024

Dude if you're listening to anything on speaker on the train i think you are a lunatic

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lousullivan.bf · July 12, 2024

In the 19th century they thought that an unusually long dick was a smoking gun that someone was a sodomite, because I guess the traction from the bussy elongated the dick like plasticine?

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God's Eepiest Soldier · July 12, 2024

95% sure i read somewhere they also thought it would become conical

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Naniwhat the 3rd · July 12, 2024

Thunder with no balls

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ThatIsNotHowThatWorks · July 12, 2024

But a long-ass dick

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P.A.L. · July 12, 2024

Can't believe you got Keir Starmer for that ad read, some real top level connections you have going there.

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Lay-Tex-Lips · July 12, 2024

5 seconds in and it’s already off the rails, this is gonna be a good week