The James Bond Complex

Welcome back to Crab Key!  Avoid the poisonous spiders, armed guards, mechanical dragon and radioactive waste! In this episode we rediscover the very first James Bond adventure, recount some of our experience watching the film and the perspective of Matt's sister on Sean Connery's original cinematic outing as 007.   Is the film still a classic ? Could Cary Grant have been a great Bond? L...

Back in the summer of 2019, before my face to face meeting with Matt and Edgar at Bar George in downtown Montreal, I had just completed a very personal mission; visiting Camp-X. But before we talk about the site, we have to talk about the history. Here is a brief story of Camp-X. 

Hello dear listeners, After much hoopla and anticipation, the time has finally arrived to start our Fleming Second Edition series! We'll we re-reading and discussing each of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and short story collections along with a guest each time. We begin with, what else, 1953's "Casino Royale." Long time friend of the show Bill Koenig of the Spy Command blog joins us.  Talking ab...

This week Emery dives deep into Fleming, explaining how to play baccarat and its relation to blackjack. He even gets help from Très Bond!

We pay our (belated) tribute to Yaphet Kotto, talk Project 007 and dig into the recent offerings of the 007 store with Jason Kim.

The CIA is by far the farthest reaching and most present spy agency in both the real world and in fiction. From Fleming to film and indeed, everything in between. They assist MI6 and their famous agent 007 via the very capable and charming mop of straw colored hair that is Felix Leiter, and in the same breath, hunt down former agent and possible defector Jason Bourne. But who are they?

Hello dear listeners! The wait is finally over. Ian Fleming returns to the podcast! Yes, we ask you the listeners to take a round world trip with us this week, from Hong Kong to Honolulu to Berlin. Fleming was a man of the world, and Matt and Edgar would like to think of themselves as such too. However, given the unfortunate situation with the…’’you know what’’ afflicting the world currently, the...

Back in 2019 Emery of Intrepid fame did his first interview within the Bond community, taking time to talk to Edward Biddulph, author of Licence to Cook. The cookbook is unique in that it breaks down food from the novels and boy does 007 like to eat. Hope you all enjoy this delicious throwback.

Hello dear listeners! We know you want Moore! Much, much Moore! So we'll give you Moore! It's time for another Roger Moore Detour: Spice World!!!! Just remember, the paper bag that carries nothing in it cannot be said to useless, unless of course the snowflake of destiny should brush upon it. Oh, and most importantly, when the duckling begins to bark, then you know it is finally time to put your f...

Welcome dear listeners to the 2021 Autism Awareness Campaign. On April 2nd, join us in raising awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorder and supporting organisations that provide services to those in need. It's as easy as wearing your best blue Bond outfit and using the hashtags #Bondinblue and #autismawareness, as well as tagging us in your posts. Check out https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism fo...

Hello dear listeners! James Bond lore is replete with missed opportunities, "what ifs", and close calls. If only someone had the wherewithal to research, investigate, and collect all of those glorious potential stories into a single compendium.  There is such a person in fact! This week on the show we welcome filmmaker, documentarian, writer Mark Edlitz, who in late 2020 published "The Lost Advent...

Welcome to the Intrepid 007 Podcast on The James Bond Complex. To start things off, we've got a new, historical series examining the world of espionage. In both the real world and in fiction, MI6 is the United Kingdoms foreign intelligence service. Discover its roots, conncetions to Fleming and its history with 007. 

In this 40 minute thriller, the offices of the James Bond Complex are taken over by INTREPID! Well, actually he's just being welcomed with open arms by his friends of the James Bond Complex. Longtime contributor and co-conspirator Emery Cormier joins the host ranks of the podcast! Bringing with him stuff she said and historical knowledge of intrepid quality. Join us in welcoming Emery into the fol...

Hello dear viewers, It's spring time; a moment of rebirth for nature as our days get longer, the weather nice and the snow slowly melts away here in Montreal. The perfect time to get in shape, change your wardrobe, learn new skills.  To achieve these new goals, Bond fans of the sixties had "The Book Of Bond". A book written by Bill Tanner himself that gives wannabe secret agents the essential...

Hello dear listeners, We got our mind on our money and our money and our mind. It's all about that marketing money, baby! We're back this week with the conclusion to our conversation with David Zaritsky from The Bond Experience about how the 007 brand has been sold to fans and casuals alike over the decades. In Part 2 we cover AVTAK, GE, DAD, SF and NTTD. Frankly, Matt and Edgar are but pupils whe...

Hello dear listeners, It feels like it's been ages since we've discussed any products on the 007 store, or a new poster or trailer in a Debriefing episode. Those were the days, weren't they? Days when we basked in the glory or saw our tails sag in shame at how the Bond brand was being marketed.  Well those days are back...at least for two weeks. Matt and Edgar are joined by the number one per...

Hello dear listeners! What value do novelizations have? How good can they be given that they are, after all, but the book equivalent of their filmic counterpart? Oh, heady stuff on this week’s episode of the show, as Matt and Edgar are back with a return to the world of Christopher Wood’s James Bond. As some listeners may recall last summer we sat down to read and discuss Wood’s Spy Who Loved Me n...

Hello dear listeners! We fear that the battle for mutant and humankind is far from over. While last week’s discussion of 2000’s X-Men film had Matt, Edgar, and the listeners enter the Xhilirating, Xciting and Xtraordinary world of mutants, it only laid the groundwork for more to come. Yes, we’re back this week with more mutant madness, this time discussing the immediate sequel, X2: X-Men United fr...

Hello brothers and sisters! Today is a great day for the mutant cause. Here on this episode we will discuss the first cinematic adapation of the foolish group of so-called "super-heroes" called The X-men. The director, Bryan Singer and his recent legal troubles, the making of the 2000 film and it's legacy. The nature of the comics, the costumes, make-up tribulations and legacy of this film and it'...

Hello dear listeners. In this adventure. James Bond teams up with a rogue assassin to take on a madman that assembled all of the world's most powerful leaders secrets in a black box computer. The country that gets this machine could become the dominant power for ecades to come... Plus Bond is being hunted down by a hulking brute with a fetish for death masks.

Hello dear listeners, We’re back this week to continue our very special Detour mission, a deep dive into the Mission: Impossible 60s tv show with special agent Bill Koenig from the Spy Command blog. There was simply too much suspense, too much action, too many twists and turns, too many masks for the conversation to be limited to a single episode, and so here we go with Part 2. And there’s no ques...

Hello dear listeners, When we prepare our content, we like to think that our listeners should expect the unexpected. To expect…the impossible! The debate, perhaps annoyingly so, that has been raging in recent years is which film franchise is serving the masses better: James Bond or Mission: Impossible? The podcast answers: why can’t we love both? While Matt and Edgar will inevitably go through the...

Hello dear listeners. Welcome to the Republic Of Isthmus!  Some of the sights you can expect to see; the beautiful Casino De Isthmus where you can play a high-stakes game of Blackjack , the El Presidente' Hotel and it's  beautiful hornate elevator, Professor Joe Butcher's Olympatec Meditation Institute, and the beautiful Paso del Diablo. Just stay away from the  exploding  coca...

Hello dear listeners, We begin 2021 with the second and last Timothy Dalton  film, 1989's Licence To Kill.   A film that to this day still is controversial and generates passionate discussions in the circle of Bond fans. Is 007's miami vice inspired tale of drugs, revenge and broken loyalties on of the franchise better entries or a uninspired  Lethal Weapon rip-off? You'll have to l...

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 a...