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The Canon

Casino Royale

The Canon

The Canon

Tv & Film

4.2588 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

James Bond expert and I Was There Too host Matt Gourley joins Devin & Amy this week to nominate his pick for the only Bond film in the canon: 2006’s Casino Royale. Is Daniel Craig a better Bond than Sean Connery? Is Vesper the ultimate Bond girl? Should there be more nifty 007 gadgets? Tune in for the discussion on this post Bourne-era Bond film -- and head to the forums on Wolfpop to cast the deciding vote!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Canon, the show where every single week we argue about whether or not a movie belongs in the canon of the greats to live on in immortality.

0:12.4

I am Devin Farachi of Badass Digest.com, and I am joined as always by Amy Nicholson of the LA Weekly.

0:19.5

Today we have a guest, but before we get to the exciting

0:22.1

guest business, we have a little bit of housekeeping to do. Last week, you and I both agreed

0:27.5

that there's something about Mary belongs in the canon, and as always we left it up to the whim of

0:33.2

the audience to make the final decision. Which way did the whim blow?

0:37.7

Finally, we have a comedy in the canon. I can't believe it took this long. I'm very happy, and I want to make the final decision. Which way did the wind blow? Finally, we have a comedy in the canon. I can't believe it took this long. I'm very happy. And I want to make more comedies in the canon a priority. All right. Well, you know what? The people have spoken, as they always do. And this week, they're going to have something really cool to speak about. We're going to be finally tackling James Bond in the canon. I haven't really made up my mind yet. Is this going to be the only bond that we're going to be finally tackling James Bond in the canon. I haven't really made it

0:55.3

my mind yet. Is this going to be the only bond that we're going to do? Like, is this going to be the bond that stands in for all the bonds? Or perhaps down the road, are we going to, like, maybe like, modulate it and allow different era bonds in? Yeah, I'm very close to making this a tough one and saying let's just only do one bond.

1:10.2

And this is the bond.

1:11.1

This is the bond.

1:11.6

All right.

1:12.0

Well, we'll see what happens.

1:12.9

Our guest this is the bond.

1:11.1

This is the bond.

1:11.7

All right.

1:12.0

Well, we'll see what happens.

1:12.9

Our guest this week is Mr. Matt Goreley of Super Ego. And also, I was there too, which is like the coolest podcast idea ever. and I have to say off the bat before anything else,

1:25.4

I'm sitting here at the table because of Matt Goerley

1:27.5

because it was his idea to come talk to me about doing a show with Wolf Pop.

1:32.3

You were my one show that I brought into Wolf Pop.

1:35.3

And I'm super happy because I just goddamn love your show.

1:39.0

Well, thank you.

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