The James Bond Complex

Bonjour cher auditoire!

Nous espérons sincèrement que vous avez apprécié notre épisode du mois dernier dans lequel nous avons fait connaissance du chaleureux et aventurier Agent Jean, membre du Club James Bond France, aile québécoise bien sûr. Et, vous êtes chanceux car sa voix de charmeur est de retour pour un deuxième mois consécutif!

Non, il n’a pas été ligoté et barré dans notre studio durant tout ce temps dans le simple but d’enregistrer un second podcast. En réalité, la discussion que nous avons eu a duré plusieurs heures dans le confort du salon d’Edgar, ce qui fait en sorte que ceci est la suite à ce que nous avons lancé an aout. La deuxième moitié de cet après-midi bien sympathique, quoi.

Maintenant que nous sommes familiers avec l’Agent Jean, il n’est point surprenant d’apprendre que ce dernier faisait parti des fans accros qui, en mai et juin dernier, ont participé aux célébrations du 50ede ‘’Au service secret de Sa Majesté’’. Jean nous tiendra compagnie alors ce mois-ci en révélant la panoplie d’activités et de surprises réservées aux chanceux qui ont fréquenté les plus beaux coins du Portugal et monté le fameux Piz Gloria!

Combien de martinis consommait-on par soir? Est-ce compliqué de rejouer une bagarre sur plage durant une tempête de sable? Jusqu’à quel point les toilettes à Piz Gloria sont-elles kaléidoscopiques?

Revivons les aventures de l’Agent Jean durant le 50ed’OHMSS pour terminer l’été en tout beauté!

Hello dear listeners!

A few weeks ago you listened to Mathieu and Edgar wax  about the long forgotten comic book story "Permission to Die" from writer-artist Mike Grell. What you may not have known is that the podcast was able to meet up with the man himself in early July during the Montreal Comic-Con. Grell was offering autographs and original art pieces to fans, and when we found out about his presence at the convention, it was clearly an opportunity not to be missed. 

Although Mike Grell was a super swell guy, Edgar was distracted by Wonder Woman and Supergirl cosplayers during the visit to the artist's booth, leaving Matt to handle interviewing duties. That's why this is a 2-man operation, folks!

So enjoy a briefer than usual episode, but no less interesting and engaging. Get ready to enter the mind of a man that birthed one of the most colourful and adored James Bond comic books stories ever published. 

Once the download is complete, you have our permission to listen!

Bond twenty fivv...* No. Not anymore!

Yes. After Months of speculations on the title of the next James Bond adventure it was just revealed. "No Time To Die" We also discuss the recent news about Chris Wright leaving JBR- James Bond Radio.  Sad but true.

On the positive we called Jason Kim, our third co-host,  to have his opinion on the new title.

Hello dear listeners!

Since the fall of 2015, 007 has been back in comic book and graphic novel form thanks to the talented people at Dynamite Entertainment. Just being able to ingest little nuggets of Bond goodness on a monthly basis has been heavenly, so much so that hosts Mathieu and Edgar have more than once spent time on the show reviewing some of the already fully published story arcs. Perhaps because Bond and comics don’t naturally go hand in hand, perhaps because of its dubious history, but it seems that to this day many Bond fans aren’t aware of the long association between 007 and the comic book page, an association that goes much further back than 2015.

This week, Matt and Edgar begin to shed some light on that very history as they delve deep into a forgotten chapter in 00 graphic novel history: writer-artist Mike Grell’s Permission to Die, published from 1989 through 1991. The book is a unique, one-off adventure that sees the world’s greatest secret agent extract a brilliant scientist’s niece from behind the Iron Curtain during the dying days of the Cold War. The boys set up the discussion by alluding to some of the other earlier comic book adventures (podcast foreshadowing for the win!) before digging through Mike Grell’s efforts with a finely toothed comb. Does this story put Roger Moore’s salacious exploits to shame? Does this story take place in the film’s franchise’s universe? Would the film adaptation star a Hoagy Carmichael look-a-like? Ever wonder what the female version of David Bowie would look like?...

So join in on the fun as we return to the world of comic books and Bond. The stakes are high, and the danger is higher, but this is No Time to Die, for only fate can give 007 Permission to Die!

Hello, dear listeners!

Welcome to the first ever official entry of the Detour series in which hosts Mathieu and Edgar spend a little bit of time outside the James Bond phenmnmnon to discuss films starring the 007 actors. This week, we get up close and personal with the one and only Pierce Brosnan. Call it ‘’The Brosnan Detour.’’

Mmm, yes, very up close and personal. We’ll be whisked away to a far off, sweaty central American country Panama, and late at night we’ll found ourselves in a gay club dancing chest to chest with the delightful Geoffrey Rush as the game of seduction…

Hold on, That’s not right. That not the plot of The Thomas Crown Affair, is it?

Just a second, folks.

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Ok everybody, nothing to worry, we’re back on track. Ah yes, Brosnan plays sophisticated venture capitalist and art lover Thomas Crown, and after having stolen a valuable painting in one of New York’s finest museums, insurance agent bounty hunter Rene Russo tracks him town to a sexy ball where they start dancing, their bodies glued together, the passion in their breaths palpable, sweaty…

Wait, wait wait. Are we sure these are different movies?!?

They are? Are you sure? Final answer? Ok, if you say so…

We hope the listeners enjoy our new Detour series. As an old friend of James once said, this one’s very sexiful. So sexy in fact that doing it on a cold marble floor is smmmmmmoking!

Bonjour, cher auditoire!

Un nouveau mois, un nouvel épisode de James Bond : Mission Déclassifiée pour les amateurs de l’agent 007 qui préfèrent la langue de Molière. 

En parlant d’amateurs de la meilleure série sans équivoque de toute l’histoire du cinéma, nous avons un épisode très spécial pour vous puisque, contrairement à l’habitude, notre invité n’est pas un novice. En fait, c’est l’agent Jean, aussi connu sous le nom de Jean Goyette, un québécois membre du très impressionnant Club James Bond France. 

Mais il est beaucoup plus qu’un simple fan comme les animateurs Mathieu et Edgar. Jean a une panoplie d’histoires à partager avec nous puisque, comme tout bon agent, il a fait maintes voyages à travers le monde pour faire la rencontre d’une multitude de gens qui ont participer à la réalisation des films! Présentations uniques avec des acteurs, séances d’autographes, les premières de plusieurs films, l’agent Jean a accompli des missions dont rêves les nouveaux venus comme Matt et Edgar.

Nous croyons sincèrement que l’auditoire raffolera de ce dernier volet de Mission Déclassifiée. Comment ne le pourra-t-il pas avec des sujets aussi divers que : Roger Moore aurait-il pu faire carrière comme humoriste? Quels sont les bénéfices les plus cools de se déplacer pour les évènements dédiés à la série? Comment le parcours comme fan pour quelqu’un aussi futé que Jean a-t-il débuté? Quelle actrice a l’accent le plus séduisant lorsqu’elle parle en français? Guy Hamilton parlait le français?!?

Dégustez et, comme toujours, merci d’être à l’écoute.

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Tout comme James Bond : Mission Déclassifiée, l’agent Jean sera de retour!

Hello, dear listeners!

Ah, the 1980s. What a decade! The music, the clothing styles, the cumbersome technology that we all thought was so cool at the time…Oh, speaking of glorious 80s technology, hosts Mathieu and Edgar take the first of many, many steps into the world of John Gardner’s literary 007. Yes friends, the hosts are in it to win it with Mr. Gardner, although they don’t really have choice since he wrote a billion novels and they have self-acquitted themselves with the goal of discussing Fleming, the films, and everything in between. The first book is Licence Renewed.

It’s time to get ready and embrace new allies, new villains, new adventures, and most critically, a new writing style. True enough, not everyone can be as wonderfully florid as the great Ian Fleming, but that doesn’t mean other authors can’t conjure up some thrilling missions for everybody’s favourite super spy to embark on. While we won’t reveal just yet what the hosts thought of the book, suffice to say that Licence Reneweddefinitely inspired a laundry list of hot topics: Who do the hosts imagine as James Bond when reading? Do we have another amorphous blob on our hands? Why would Licence Renewedmake anybody think of the film She’s All That? Could there be another, albeit tenuous literary Bond link our Belle Province? Did we just witness the greatest gun-c*ck analogy ever? And what is up with all the tech talk?

We hope you like John Gardner. Heh, we really, really, really hope you like John Gardner because he’ll be hanging around for a while! Rest assured, even if you much prefer the efforts of Ian Fleming, Matt and Edgar will keep you enthralled. They’re ready and pumped to discover Gardner. Time to go nuclear!

 Hello, dear listeners!  

A year removed from the Montreal Comic Con, Mathieu and Edgar returned to the scene of the crime, but this time they didn’t go in alone.   Another significant distinction from their 2018 convention experience, they actually came prepared to deliver both audio and video versions of the presentation itself! Q branch came through this time! This week, we begin with the audio version for your wonderfully receptive ears.   So Blofeld’s cat is finally out of the bag. In case you were not present on the morning of July 007th 2019, Mathieu, Edgar, special agent Jeff Wybo from James Bond Canada faced a keen audience to highlight 4 films celebrating anniversaries in 2019: OHMSS, MR, LKT, and TWINE, all of which are notorious for some controversy…at least that’s what the layman believes. Nay, with a dose of 00 confidence, the trio of panellists take the criticisms of each movie and give them a positive spin. What’s more, a 4th, secret panelist operating in the shadows came aboard for the Q&A afterwards: friend of the show Jean Goyette from Club James Bond France.  So sit back, close your eyes and imagine yourself at the Palais des Congrès in downtown Montreal, cooling off from a sweltering summer morning as the quartet of lads regale you in the delights of OHMSS, MR, LTK, TWINE and more little tidbits and opinions through the post-panel Q&A with the audience. 

*  Think of this as the audio book of the novelization of the video that will soon be released. That makes sense, right?

**  *Fair warning: while presentation is in English, some of the post-panel Q&A was done in French. After all, the Comic Con was held in Station MC, Montreal Canada.  

**Who cares. We still need more time to deliver a good video version of the presentation. 

Enjoy-okay-bye!