The James Bond Complex

The James Bond Complex

By Edgar Chaput, Matt Auclair, Jason Kim And Emery CormierComedy
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The James Bond Complex episodes

  • Christmas Special 2020 Part 2: Bond Expansion Vol 3!
    Hello ho ho ho again dear listeners,
    We hope you enjoyed last week's Christmas Special 2020 Part 1, which was our 3rd Bond Expansion volume.  It was quite entertaining, engaging, thought provoking, and sometimes outright hilarious listening to what the Bond community has in mind if they had control over the 007 intellectual property. 
    As hinted at last week, this year we received so many entries we chose to split the episode into two parts. Clearly the fantasy of making the big decisions for the 007 property stimulated and teased a lot of people. So here is yet another batch of armchair CEOs (including a little bit of local Québec flavour!) offering a plethora of inspired, thorough, and occasionally ludicrous ideas that are still in good fun. 
    Some come in the form of poems, other in the form of a Christmas carol, while others just want to sell off the franchise and live a quiet but very very rich retirement. Just like last week, there is something for everybody in this overflowing Bond Expansion Vol 3.
    Featured this week:
    -The boys from the Roger Moore's Cubby Hole podcast
    -Personal friend Mathieu Nadeau whom we met at Operation Double Bourbon
    -Personal friend Pierre-Olivier Bernier (who appeared on the Global Bond Day 2019 episode)
    -Jon Burn from Not Perfected Yet.
    -The Très Bond dirty devils
    -Lloyd Nance from The Bond Influence (we have people everywhere!)
    -Friend of the show and recurring guest Phil Poggiali
    -Danielle and Korey, the community's power couple, from Another James Bond Podcast
    -Christopher Morales from That One Bond Guy
    -Jocelyn Sia from Ladies Who Bond
    -Joe Darlington aka Head of Section aka  Being James Bond
    -David Zaritsky from The BOND Experience
    -Melanie Demers from Bird, James Bird.
    -and...Jason Kim, the International Man of Mystery. He hosts, he contributes, he travels, he can do it all.
    So sit back, enjoy the cozy fire while wearing a horrendous Christmas sweater and enjoy Part 2 of the 2020 Christmas Special.
    Also, it's an episode on a Monday! Merry Christmas!
    2 hr
  • Christmas Special 2020 Part 1: Bond Expansion Vol 3!
    Hello ho ho ho dear listeners!
    It’s that time of year again. Just as in 2018 and 2019, the boys from The James Bond Complex have decided to hand over the mics to their friends and listeners for another Christmas Special. After all, they have people everywhere so participants weren’t hard to find.
    As for the topic, Matt and Edgar were tickled pink with the success of the first two Bond Expansion episodes that it occurred to them to let everybody else take a shot at the game. The set up:
    You wake up early on Christmas morning and tip toe down the stairs while everyone else is still asleep. Upon approaching the Christmas tree, you notice a beautiful golden envelope with the 007 logo engraved on it. It’s a letter from Barbara and Michael handing over the entire 007 intellectual property.
    So many people and podcasts sent it audio contributions that for the first time ever, the Christmas Special is a 2-parter! Part 1 features: 
    Jake and Luke from Blunt Instruments 
    Edward Biddulph from Licence to Cook
    David Lowbridge Ellis from Licence to Queer
    Emery Cormier of the Intrepid 007 Podcast 
    The lads from The 00 Files 
    The OHMSpod Rogue Agents 
    Tom and the gang from Really, 007! 
    David Leigh from The James Bond Dossier (3rd time contributor!) 
    Jeff Phillips (jeff.5887 on Instagram)
    Donnie Waldron from Quantum of History
    and Carmine Ruscitto from Live and Let Drive on Instagram.
    So sit back, pour the eggnog and enjoy a candy cane and enjoy Part 1 of the Christmas Special 2020: Bond Expansion Vol 3!
    1 hr 50 min
  • "Die Hard" starring Bruce Willis
    Hello dear listeners!
    Oh the weather outside is frightful but fire is so delightful. What fire you say? The one burning Nakatomi Plaza to the ground!
    That’s right, in a pre-Christmas special warmup episode we take a look and dissect one of if not the greatest action film ever made, Die Hard from 1988. In fact, one of the hosts even claims it’s one of the best films ever, period.
    2 podcasts hosts aren’t enough to tackle all those terrorists, so Jason Kim joins in on the festivities. With so many reviews, analyses, and podcasts having previously discussed John McTiernan’s 80s classic, what is there possibly left to say?
    Ha! Just leave that to The James Bond Complex. Die Hard spurs a number of joyous topics like:
    Jason’s pain face, preparing for a podcast with actual notes, Jason’s availabilities for the ladies (ooh!), the cinema of Frank CRAPA, the believability found in incredulity, the OG lens flares, a drive by shooting of the 4 sequels, and a very, very special guest at the very end of the show to establish once and for all whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
    So sit back, grab a cup of hot cocoa with extra marshmallows and enjoy this week’s pre-Christmas special warmup. You had better, because we have a machine gun now HO HO HO!
    1 hr 49 min
  • Bond Beats Vol 3: the 80s
    Hello dear listeners!
    Like so many people at this time of year, Matt and Edgar get together to compile a ‘’best off’’ list.
    But with a twist.
    It’s time to go back to the 80s! That’s right, Matt and Edgar deliver another golden record hit of Bond Beats. This 3rdvolume goes through the entirety of the 1980s, from Bill Conti’s FYEO score, right up to and including Michael Kamen’s work on LTK. As with Volumes 1 and 2, the boys regale listeners not only with snippets of their top 3 favourite tracks from each score, but share the innermost thoughts and feelings those pieces inspire.
    This one gets a little wild in fact, with topics ranging from: their insistence that no money is earned with the podcast, a meat sandwich with Conti Barry and Kamen, feeling things deep inside them that last all night, dance moves you’ll never get to see because this is audio format only, femalocity, smelling bombs, Grace Jones creeping up from behind Edgar’s couch, Matt’s cozy Sunday mornings, substituting Patti LaBelle for Céline Dion, and a Michael G. Wilson cameo.
    So sit back, get some hot cocoa, put your earmuffs on and enjoy this latest episode of The James Bond Complex podcast. We promise a healthy dose of Dirty Love.
    1 hr 52 min
  • November 2020 Debriefing with guest Mike Reyes from Cinema Blend!
    Hello dear listeners,
    It's been a little while since our last Debriefing episode, but good things come to those who wait. Heh, and with respect to Bond fans we're very good at waiting!
    This week we invite a new friend to the show. Mike Reyes is a regular contributor to the Cinema Blend website which covers pop culture in all its shapes and forms, from films to video games and everything in between. Ooh!
    After establishing that Mike does NOT work for a café called Cinnamon Blend nor that he is a barista, we delve into a plethora of October and November topics that have got Bond fans perplexed, hopeful, and gleefully excited. From No Time to Die's most recent release date change, the possible implications Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO MAX might have on NTTD, and the new video game announcement.
    Enjoy and stay up to date...about a month late. 
    Follow Mike Reyes on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MrControversy83
    Actually stay up to date with pop culture at Cinema Blend here:  https://www.cinemablend.com
    Mike Reyes' author page: https://www.cinemablend.com/author/mike-reyes/
    1 hr 55 min
  • No Deals Mr. Bond By John Gardner (part two)

    This week we are back with Emery Cormier of "The Intrepid 007 Podcast" https://anchor.fm/the-intrepid-007-podcast to conclude our discussion/ review of John Gardner's 6th James Bond continuation novel " No Deals Mr. Bond". We analyze Bond Girl: Ebbie Heritage's enthusiasm and characterization and a speculative adaptation. We also explore Bond's violent battle against a four men death squad as well as the importance of ...Semen?

    Is this 1987 adventure a deal the panelist recommend? Listen to find out!


    1 hr 5 min
  • No Deals Mr. Bond By John Gardner (part one)

    M has assigned 007 to an off the books assignment. He's put in charge of saving the lives of the last surviving members of "Operation Creamcake", an honeypot scheme that was aborted 5 years earlier and it's former members are now tracked by a KGB hit team. Worst. It seems that a double agent has infiltrated the operation!

    To discuss another Gardner book, our last one of 2020. We felt the ideal way was to bring back one of our oldest friends; Emery Cormier of the 007 Intrepid podcast. This was a long recording where alot of this books elements we're discussed; Bond's salad dressing,  Gardner not writing in the same style as Fleming, the history of Blades and strentgh and weaknesses of the author.




    1 hr 6 min
  • Friday The 13th (Halloween 2020 special)

    Dear listeners... do you enjoy 80's r-rated horror movies ? Hopefully you do as this week we take you on another detour...

    Welcome To Crystal Lake!

    Yes this year we are taking on another Iconic horror franchise. Last year we took on the Halloween Franchise because of it's connection to the Bond franchise through Donald Pleasance. 

    For Jason Voorhees and James Bond, well it's a little different...

    In this episode you'll discover Matt's love for trashy (or is just trash) 80's movie soundtrack. You'll also dicover his appreciation ofevery film in the series.  You'll get some plausible aswers for the enternal question: How does Jason keep coming back? While Edgar enjoyed the original 1980 film, does he enjoy 1986's sixth sequel Jason Lives? 

    We are truly streching the definition of "From Fleming To Film & Everything In-Between" with this episode. But it's all in good fun.

    Happy Halloween!

    2 hr
  • "Live & Let Die" Reloaded

    Hello dear listeners!

    Just in time for Halloween (there is an actual Halloween special coming too!) Matt and Edgar are visiting the island of San Monique to dance with the man who cannot die, the spirit from another world, Baron Samedi himself! Yes friends it’s time for Live and Let Die Reloaded. The boys visited a Taro card reader and the voodoo gods themselves ordained it, and who can argue with them?

    It’s certainly not because this is the second time the lads discuss Roger Moore’s first outing as Bond that they have nothing to talk about. Heavens no. In fact, they go wild with a plethora of ideas and backstories that all relate to the film, both from a personal level and regarding the movie’s production itself. Among the subjects the Taro cards commanded they broach:

    The picture quality of the Google Movies stream of LALD and that from Apple TV, HD projectors, discovering “Vivre et laisser mourir” as younglings, the joy one gets from writing dumb sheriff characters for screenplays, more of Matt’s amazing fanfiction character backstories, the exteeeeeeeended boat chase on the Louisiana bayou, colourful supporting villains (zing!), giant coffee grinders as death traps, and how much Paul McCartney sucks, apparently.

    We hope you enjoy this 2nd visit to LALD. So just ease in, listeners. Relaaaaaax. Mr. Big wants to see you

    1 hr 34 min

About The James Bond Complex

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The James Bond Complex is hosted by Edgar Chaput, Mathieu Auclair, Jason Kim and the Intrepid Emery Cormier. From Fleming to the films and everything in between. Ooh!