Thunderball - “A Fleshy Mechanism”Summary: Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. This week, we follow the fun of “Goldfinger” with a Caribbean Crusade as James attempts to dominate Domino while finding Largo’s cargo in “Thunderball”.

* Viewer Fatigue sets in with yet another “Is Bond dead” pre-titles sequence, before we decide that Jones ain’t no Bassey.* Matt gushes about the design of SPECTRE’s meeting room.* Bond’s bath-house battle with Lippe is bookended by a bad back-and-forth between Bond and his physio.* We are generally impressed by Largo’s plan to steal the atomic weapons.* Our look at the MI6 meeting room affirms SPECTRE’s status as the Industry Leader.* We follow James to Nassau, where Ryan marvels at Bond’s impressive effort at the casino, before revealing Connery’s flawed Shark-Safety System..* Off to Junkanoo (“The Festival of the Pissing Dog”) for a mystifying escape by Bond.* James and Domino engage in scuba sex session, before Bond’s victory over Vargas.* We do our best to push through what must be the longest underwater fight sequence ever recorded.* Bond saves the day - refusing to let the world’s worst bluescreening get in his way - before being skyhooked to safety!

Official SPECTRE etc Theory (OffSeT) #4: Pants on? Research. No pants? Not research. A very important in-house rule is set in stone when Cam declares that anything done online while pantsless is not able to be counted as research. Bad news for Col; good news for Ryan!

And of course, keep checking back for a link to our petition to get those jetpacks onto Amazon!

Worst Impersonation Trophy: While he was not technically impersonating a character, Col’s attempt to “hum” the way the title song uses elements of the Bond theme was definitely this episode’s worthy WIT winner! Col may do a pretty good Connery, but it appears he should stay away from impersonating musical instruments.

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