S2E16.5: The Wind and The Lion
Gentlemen, Ladies, whatever else: It's time to finally return to Old Man Connery. This week, we're joined by Dr Arthur Asseraf, Lecturer in the history of France and the Francophone World at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Asseraf is a historian of North Africa, France, and the Mediterranean, which makes him perfectly suited to explain to us the terrible movie 'The Wind and The Lion', a vaguely true story about the time a Moroccan Sharif kidnapped an American guy in 1904 (Except in this version the Sharif is Sean Connery doing absolutely zero accent work, and the American is a stacked 10/10 baddie instead)
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Comments (17)
If I were to be a Patreon subscriber that gets mentioned in the jazz outro, it would be "Evil Fruit Ball"
i think it'd be fun to do a kjb episode on Cruising (1980) starring Al Pacino
34:05 Look, TR once gave a speech, was shot and continued giving the speech for another 45 minutes. I would definitely be standing at Rapt Attention as well.
Just as a heads up, I can’t seem to find y’all on Spotify. Don’t know if thats a problem on my end or y’all’s but you should probably know just in case.
There's a playlist that lists the first 30 episodes of their podcast, but clicking through to "view series" brings up an error; it seems they've been delisted somehow
13:40 lol you were doing what with the cat lol here we are listen to a pod and here dev haveing a punch up with a cat lol
Holy shit that guy at 1:15:35 does look exactly like Milo
Fringe gun, sink gun, lunch gun, sous vide'd boiler guns, Enjoying this ever growing subgenre of things that appear in these films
Very cool to see you got Dr Asseraf on - I met him at a piracy history conference in Glasgow in 2019 and he was great!
Re: Connery and Sheybal casting *clears throat* Enemies to brothers arc, thank you
you've sort of vanished from Spotify, I fell asleep listening to KJB and now all the episodes have the episode art and I can navigate by swiping left/right but you no longer appear on Spotify on my recent, favs or searches
Did Spotify fuck y'all over? I can't see KJB on there at all. It's like it doesn't exist.
I was wondering the same thing! Not sure what's happening
Come to America! We have lunchtime guns!
But what about second breakfast guns? What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper?
I only know about this movie because my high school marching band did some of the music from this movie as part of our halftime show one year. The other pieces on the show were from The Lion King and also Planet of the Apes
As Connery's other material gets mined the closer we get to the inevitable zardoz episode.