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Kill James Bond!

S2E16.5: The Wind and The Lion

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Gentlemen, Ladies, whatever else: It's time to finally return to Old Man Connery. This week, we're joined by Dr Arthur Asseraf, Lecturer in the history of France and the Francophone World at the University of Cambridge. Dr Asseraf is a historian of North Africa, France, and the Mediterranean, which makes him perfectly suited to explain to us the terrible movie 'The Wind and The Lion', a vaguely true story about the time a Moroccan Sharif kidnapped an American guy in 1904 (Except in this version the Sharif is Sean Connery doing absolutely zero accent work, and the American is a stacked 10/10 baddie instead) ------ THE WINTER OF CONTENT If you do feel you have money to spare, please consider supporting your local food banks with money or time!donate to the Trussell Trust here: https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/or the Independent food aid network here: https://www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/donate Additionally, please consider joining a renter's union like ACORN, as rising mortgage rates will surely result in rising rent, here: https://www.acorntheunion.org.uk/join ------ Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon!https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT*  Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/   Kill James Bond is hosted by Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com and https://twitter.com/killjamesbond

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let there be your hand. Let the swords run with the blood of the infidels.

0:04.5

We will all eat land and pass us.

0:20.7

Hello and welcome to the first episode of Kill James Bond of 2023.

0:25.6

I'm Alice Goldaulkelly and I'm joined as always by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon.

0:30.6

Hey.

0:31.6

How you doing?

0:32.6

And we have tricked a legitimate subject matter expert into slumming it with three podcast idiots.

0:41.9

We got Dr. Arthur Asarraf, Associate Professor in the History of France and the Francophone

0:45.6

world at the University of Cambridge on the podcast.

0:48.3

How's it going, Arthur?

0:49.3

Hi!

0:50.3

I'm illegitimate.

0:52.3

Thank you so much for coming on

0:54.7

We got you on to talk about a terrible movie

0:57.3

Because you did a Twitter thread about it

1:00.0

And I was like, yeah, this seems like

1:02.2

A cruel thing to make you recapitulate

1:05.4

You have made yourself known to the podcast

1:08.6

And we've immediately

1:09.5

Yeah, exactly

1:10.7

You guys must have watched something else Because I thought it whipped ass Oh, wow made yourself known to the podcast and we've immediately. Yeah, exactly.

1:13.4

You guys must have watched something else because I thought it whipped ass.

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