Well, it was inevitable. A trawl through Neil's favourite Bond movie results in an unprecedented level of pedantry, fact-checking and conversational rabbit-holes, as we lean particularly hard into the uncomfortable elements of the movie, including inappropriate remarks in the workplace, the enigma of Boris, and unconvincing love stories.

There's plenty to celebrate though, as your presenters explore their respective histories with the Bond series, the novels, and the GoldenEye 007 game on the Nintendo 64. Dan wants a laser pistol, Neil wants to talk physics, everyone reminisces about trying to connect to the internet in the 1990s, and for a change there are some valuable insights from the director's commentary.

It's a time for heroes, as Dan's tonsillitis battles through our longest-ever recording session, and Neil somehow manages to edit over three hours of material into a sub-2hr podcast. (If you've got a well-stocked liquor cabinet, the original tapes are available on request.)

References:

• Neil's 11 pages of notes about GoldenEye
• James Bonding podcast
• YouTube: Diamonds Are Forever - Mr Wint and Mr Kidd's "Bombe Surprise"
• 2 Minute Terminator podcast
• Star Wars Minute podcast
• YouTube: GoldenEye 007 N64 trailer
• YouTube: GoldenEye 007 N64 soundtrack
• YouTube: The Office - Gareth "You will never win"
• YouTube: Adele - Skyfall
• YouTube: Sheryl Crow - Tomorrow Never Dies
• YouTube: Garbage - The World Is Not Enough
• YouTube: Chris Cornell - You Know My Name
• YouTube: Jack White & Alicia Keys - Another Way To Die
• YouTube: Bono - GoldenEye (demo)
• YouTube: U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
• YouTube: Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen - Theme from Mission Impossible
• YouTube: A View To A Kill - Beach Boys on the soundtrack
• Wikipedia: Contra Dam, Switzerland
• Contra Dam bungee jump experience
• YouTube: Casino Royale parkour sequence
• BBC: Amazing Bond stunt wins top award (Sky Movies 2002 movie stunt poll)
• YouTube: The Man With The Golden Gun - car stunt with terrible sound effects
• YouTube: The best (and worst) of Sheriff J W Pepper
• YouTube: Sean Bean death montage (spoilers for everything)
• Leavesden Studios (Warner Bros)
• YouTube: The Spy Who Loved Me - ski chase and parachute
• YouTube: Fast and Furious 6 Runway Length calculation (from a fellow pedant)
• YouTube: GoldenEye opening credits
• GIF of the moment the Aston Martin and Ferrari collided (at the end of this clip)
• Wikipedia: Baccarat
• Amazon.co.uk: Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
• Wikipedia: Eurocopter Tiger
• Wikipedia: Derek Meddings
• Malwarebytes: Goldeneye ransomware - the Petya/Mischa combination rebranded
• Wikipedia: Risk analysis
• YouTube: GoldenEye - Scene between M and Bond ("sexist, misogynist dinosaur")
• YouTube: Skyfall - Q meets Bond (exploding pen callback)
• YouTube: Desmond Llewellyn's final scene in The World Is Not Enough
• Twitter: GoldenEye - GIF of the police car which gets crushed, but everyone survives
• YouTube: Batman v Superman Dropbox reference
• Nene Valley Railway filming history
• Bluebell Line filming history
• YouTube: GoldenEye - Deleted scene of Ouromov and Boris: "I crush bugs"
• YouTube: The Simpsons - Inanimate carbon rod
• YouTube: GoldenEye - final fist-fight with the villain
• Entertainment Weekly article about "Hello to Jason Isaacs"

YouTube trailers for films and TV shows mentioned:

• Spectre
• Live and Let Die
• A View To A Kill
• Octopussy
• For Your Eyes Only
• From Russia With Love
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• Casino Royale (Daniel Craig version)
• Goldfinger
• Diamonds Are Forever
• Remington Steele
• The Living Daylights
• Licence To Kill
• The Man With The Golden Gun
• Sharpe - Sean Bean saying "bastard" a lot
• First Knight
• 24: Live Another Day (set in London)
• Tomorrow Never Dies
• The Day Today
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle
• X-Men
• Taken
• Hudson Hawk
• Krull
• The World Is Not Enough
• The Death of Stalin
• The Thick of It
• Veep
• Leon: The Professional
• The Bourne Identity
• Blade Runner 2049

We'll be back in a fortnight for a much shorter episode about SHAUN OF THE DEAD, hope you'll join us then!

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Intro music: Tina Turner - GoldenEye Outro music: Eric Serra - Experience of Love