Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert Wade

Today in 1849, the US issued a patent for one of the smallest big ideas of the century: the safety pin. And a big factor behind that little invention was paying off a big debt. Plus: today in 1921, the birthday of Robert Wade, a chess master who once proved that even top notch players can have a bad day. Three Millennia of Safety Pins (The Atlantic)Worst chess defeat (Generalist Academy)Pin yourself to our Patreon page so you can support our show

Welcome to episode #64 of the Minnesota Music Shakedown! A podcast dedicated to spinning some of the best original Twin Cities (and beyond) area music. Featured this week is a conversation and new music from Robert Wade!

Ep #67 This week Rob Smith and I are back in the chair to discuss the minutes 73&74 of Casino Royale.  Also discussed, what did Bond screen writer Robert Wade have to say at a book talk in Chichester? Pete's take on the AMAZON V EON saga, and how on earth did Ringo pull Barbara Bach?  ROB IS ON: https://www.instagram.com/fetchamlad77 PETE IS ON: https://www.instagram.com/therewillbebond/   Shownotes and newsletter can be found on the blog: https://fromtailorswithlove.co.uk/newsletter If you want to support the show you can also buy me a Mountain Blue Coffee. ⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/therewillbebond⁠ Bless your hearts.

País Reino Unido Reino Unido Dirección Sam Mendes Guion Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan. Personaje: Ian Fleming Reparto Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem Música Thomas Newman. Canción principal: Adele. Tema principal: Monty Norman Fotografía Roger Deakins Sinopsis La lealtad de James Bond (Daniel Craig), el mejor agente de los servicios secretos británicos, por su superiora M (Judi Dench) se verá puesta a prueba cuando episodios del pasado de ella vuelven para atormentarla. Al mismo tiempo, el MI6 sufre un ataque, y 007 tendrá que localizar y destruir el grave peligro que representa el villano Silva (Javier Bardem). Para conseguirlo contará con la ayuda de la agente Eve (Naomie Harris).

The one about Deep Fake AI, Marketing by Numbers, Threads App and Casino Royale - TG102 00:00:00 Introduction Here are your hosts, Roger and Pascal. 00:03:43 In the News A selection of announcements and news releases from the world of marketing and technology that caught our attention. 00:17:43 Content Spotlights ROGER: Terrifying Ad Warns Parents Against Sharing Photos of Their Kids Online by Pesala Bandara: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/13/terrifying-ad-warns-parents-against-sharing-photos-of-their-kids-online/ PASCAL: Marketing in 2023: H1 by the numbers – by Sara Karlovitch Associate Editor and Jasmine Ye Han News Graphics Developer: https://www.marketingdive.com/news/marketing-data-2023/653372/ 00:32:00 This Week in History Our selection of historical events and anniversaries from the world of science, technology and popular culture. 00:39:48 Marketing Tech and Apps  ROGER: It's all about AI and social media Threads Ap: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id6446901002 Midjourney AI pictures: https://midjourney-app.com/ PASCAL: It's all about approaching AI tools the right way Flow GPT https://flowgpt.com/ a library of AI prompts, to be used wisely and sparingly to create your own library of instructions for your digital assistants LogicBalls https://logicballs.com/ discover a variety of free AI-powered apps and tools that can unlock your creative potential 00:52:48 Film Marketing Casino Royale (2006) Director: Martin Campbell Writers: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis Stars: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench, Mads Mikkelsen Synopsis: After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro. We look at the marketing of this reboot of the James Bond franchise. Massive changes in style and cinematography, and a much more rugged and physical approach to storytelling. There are product placement campaigns going on from film sponsors but is the campaign strong enough to support the reboot? About Two Geeks and A Marketing Podcast Hosted by the two geeks, Roger Edwards and Pascal Fintoni, to keep you up to date with the latest news, tech, content and wisdom from the world of marketing. Roger is a marketing speaker and consultant who's spent his whole career helping his customers keep their marketing simple but effective. He's the author of Cats, Mats and Marketing Plans and the creator of the RogVLOG video series. Pascal is a...

In light of global economic headwinds resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions, what does this mean for developing countries' growth prospects? Prof. Robert Wade of LSE weighs in on how countries could use industrial policy to spur economic development amid the challenging environment, and why free markets are not an automatic recipe for prosperity for the Global South. Prof. Wade is a speaker at the Malaysia Futures 2023 forum jointly organised by the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC) and Khazanah Research Institute (KRI).Image by: Shutterstock

This episode, focuses on Connie Matthews the Jamaican born, Denmark based, international coordinator of the BPP. In this episode we speak with Photographer and Connie's friend Robert Wade as well as Dr Ethelene Whitmire whose research into African Americans in Denmark during the 20th century led her discovering Connie. Connie Matthews voiced by Ffiondra Witter  Artwork by Elfreda Fayoka  Assata's Chant and Other Histories Installation at The Roundhouse until Dec 5th  https://www.nelloandthem.co.uk/ 

It is difficult to overstate China's rise in terms of economic development in the four decades - growing from one of the poorest countries to becoming the world's second-largest economy. China has also become an important geopolitical partner to many developing countries, and it is quite common to encounter talk of the ‘‘China model'' of development as being more suitable for many African countries that have struggled with economic transformation. Joining me on today's episode is political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang to unpack what China did during the reform years and the many ways that process is misunderstood. She has two excellent books (linked here) on China, and she is one of the most careful, thoughtful, and perceptive scholars I have read.TranscriptTobi; Welcome to Ideas Untrapped, and my guest today is Yuen Yuen Ang who is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. She has written two very important books on China. And I want to talk to her today about the first book, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Welcome, Yuen.Yuen; Well, thank you very much, Tobi, thank you for having me. And I very much appreciate your support.Tobi; In global development today, it's almost impossible not to talk about China. China has become so important both economically and geopolitically, and we know that the picture or the situation was quite different 40 years ago. Another thing with what China has done in the last four decades, I mean, two-thirds of the global reduction in poverty is in China and so many other amazing things, is that there's a lot of, should I say, content on China and in my experience, it feels a bit like quantum physics and that Feynman quote, which is the more you read on China, the less we understand. But, reading your book for me as being quite illuminating. Again, I want to thank you for writing it. So the first question I'll ask you is, very early in your first book you made what I think was an important distinction, which is the difference between market-creating institutions and market-preserving institutions. Can you elaborate more on that? And how China was able to take advantage of the former?Yuen; Sure. Well, first of all, I really love the quote that you used. And before I jump into the question that you just asked, I think it's useful to respond to your comments, which I think it's very insightful, which is that everyone is very interested in China. There's a lot of talk about it, but it feels confusing. And so at the outset, when I write my books, I think one of the things that I wanted to set out to do was to provide an integrative account of China's development since its market opening in 1978. And I stress the word integrative, because I think one of the sources of confusion that you alluded to comes from the fact that there are many, many accounts about China's development, but they tend to focus on only one aspect. So some will talk about trade, others might talk about economic policy, so there are so many different topics about China. But what people need is an integrative account that puts all of these different elements and variables together. I really put them on a timeline to help people to understand, sort of, the different factors that were salient at different points in time. And this is important for correcting the misconception that there is one China model, like some kind of blueprint that was created at the outset and designed to help China take off. So that was the kind of broader backdrop that motivated the way that I write my book, in particular, the first one. Let me now come back to your original question, which is the concept of market-building and market-preserving institutions. And the important thing to understand about institutions is that economists have all agreed that good institutions, such as rule of law, such as formal accountability, such as modern courts, that all of these good institutions are essential for growth. And you have famous books like Why Nations Fail pretty much making similar arguments. And that then translated into the good governance agenda that was advanced by International Development Agencies, such as the World Bank. So for about, I would say, 1990s to the present day or so, there was a great deal of attention and hope that if poor countries could get institutions, right, if they could have first-world institutions, then they will be able to have economic growth and become developed. And when I look at the China case, that obviously does not follow that formula, because if you look at the early parts of China's growth, and even until today, there are so many dimensions of China's institutional design - everything from the ownership of companies, to the property rights, to the design of bureaucracies that just don't conform with what we think first-world good institutions should look like. So why is it that China has been able to grow its economy without those first-world institutions that economists say are the preconditions for growth, and this has been a long-standing puzzle in political economy? So from my investigation, what I find is that the fallacy with the conventional wisdom is that it thinks that there is just one universal set of institutions that are necessary for growth, namely, the first-world rich country institutions. But in fact, what really happens in the course of development is that countries actually have to develop qualitatively different institutions for early and late stages of growth. And those institutions at early stages of growth, that can support the growth process can actually look very, very different from the first-world norms. They can look in ways that conventionally we would dismiss as dysfunctional or corrupt. But those institutions can actually work very well at early growth stages. And subsequently, however, when the economy takes off, and it enters into a more mature stage of development, and then you begin to see that, yes, you do need institutions that are more like fist-world institutions, such as formal regulations, private property rights, and so forth. So that is why I make a distinction between market-building institutions and market-preserving institutions.Tobi; I mean, one important thing that I also learnt from your first book, and you can please correct me if I'm getting this wrong, is that (it's interesting you alluded to economics accounts of China's rise) ever since the works of people like [Robert] Wade and [Alice] Amsden talking about the East Asian miracle, there has always been this importance for the role of the states. And then the discussion then polarizes into, do you use the State? Or do you use the markets? And policymakers in different developing countries choose what they see, you know, and some stressed the importance of state capitalism. But what I learned from your book was that it really doesn't matter the kind of political system you run. Every political system in history that has gone through that stage has used market-building institutions. One thing you also talked about quite early in the book is this concept of directed improvisation. What is that? And how did China use that?Yuen; Yes. The conventional wisdom when people look at China's case is to assume that the recipe for its economic growth must be centralized political control because it is an authoritarian regime. So when people talk about the China model today, it's reduced or dumbed down into, basically, authoritarianism, plus some elements of capitalism. And I question that conventional wisdom in my book. If the answer was simply authoritarianism and centralized control, then China would have prospered long ago, under the reign of Mao, where you had absolute centralized power under one leader, even more centralized back then than it was today. So it couldn't be that centralized political control or authoritarianism is the answer to China's development. Instead, what really happened is that the central government under Deng Xiaoping was the reformist leader who took over thus helping change the role of the central government from that of a dictator to a director. And what the director does is that it focuses its job on setting up conducive conditions for bottom-up innovation and bottom-up adaptation, primarily among local governments. So China is politically centralized, but it's economically and administratively decentralized. But in encouraging local governments to adapt and to find local solutions to local problems. The central government still plays a crucial role in terms of providing direction, setting up the rules of the game, defining what the goals and targets should be. So these were the ways in which the central government “directed” the process of adaptation. So directed improvisation simply means you have the merger of direction from above, with bottom-up adaptation among local governments. So in the first 30 years of reform, which most people call the reform period, which is up to 2012, what you can see in China is actually a diverse range of regional economic models, and not just one. And if you take even any county or city in China, and you trace the history of development over those 30 years, you'll find that the role of the government and the development strategies that that particular city undertook kept changing over time. So I think it is this highly adaptive element of the Chinese experience that is often neglected, or not understood in the global discourse about China because people are overly distracted by stereotypes about authoritarian control. But the point that I think is most valuable, and that China should talk about more is the adaptive element under the reformist Deng government and the amount of diversity that they were able to create despite being a formerly authoritarian state. Tobi; One distinction I'll also like you to elaborate [on] is control versus influence, which was something I also got from your book and found interesting. I remember reading Robert Bates, writing about the political economy of Africa. He talked about the importance of control regimes, you know, having a closed economy, price distortion, regulation of industrial outputs, regulation of markets, these were things that were also part of China's economy and policymaking during the Mao era, you know. But we also observed that during the reform years after 1978 policymaking also was not thrown into chaos, you know, like the opposite of control. So how did China manage that balance, particularly substituting influence for direct administrative control of policy?Yuen; I'm really glad that you raised this subtle point, but an important point. So let me give some theoretical background before I elaborate on the China case. If you look at the conventional thinking about politics and economics, it is really a literature that is obsessed with control. Right? So it's always about someone controlling someone, it's like the state controlling civil society, or politicians controlling bureaucracy, central governments controlling local governments. And this fixation with control is, I think, an extension of a mechanical intellectual paradigm. So if you look at the beginning of my book, I talked about how and why I use a complexity paradigm to interpret the Chinese development process. The conventional paradigm is a mechanical one. So things about how things work as if it functions as a machine. And indeed, the top economists do explicitly say that they think in machine mode. So when you think in machine mode, everything looks like a control problem. And so that's why you see the literature and Political Economy being so fixated on control. But what we don't talk about enough, or sometimes not at all, is the other element of human activity, which is, apart from trying to control we also adapt all the time, including in Nigeria, and we have very little understanding in the political economy context of how do people adapt? Why do they adapt? What are the conditions that make adaptation possible? What are the products of adaptation? These are the various questions that we don't ask in political economy. So once you move to the Chinese context, and you apply the lens of adaptation, it immediately opens up a very different story from the traditional one that was entirely about control. One of the things that is important to know when we think about China is that control is always an element present in the Chinese political context. And it's present in a big way because it is a top-down political system. So I'm not saying that there is no control in China. Of course, there is; such as censorship. But what I'm saying is that as the reformed leadership under Deng took over from Mao, it dramatically change the role of government as well as the mixture of control and adaptation. So on under Deng, of course, there were still policies of repression and control. The family planning policy, for instance, required a great deal of forceful implementation. But it also dramatically increase the amount of adaptive activity that the government carried out. So the distinction I make is that when you are fixated on control, what we conceptualize is that politicians want to control the outcome. So they already have a predetermined outcome or solution, and they're just trying to control everyone so that they can get there. Right? When I use the term influence, however, the assumption is that oftentimes, the leaders actually do not know what the best outcome should be. They don't have the solutions to the problems that they face. And this was absolutely evident in China's market transition process, because that was something that China had never tried before, it had never tried to move from communism to a market economy. So oftentimes, these leaders themselves do not actually know what is the best solution that they should create. And so what they did is instead of trying to control outcomes, which presumes that you have a lot of knowledge and know exactly what's best for you, they instead try to influence the process of coming up with solutions by, for example, encouraging local governments to come up with solutions that are tailored to local conditions, but at the same time setting up some guardrails in this process of experimentation. So that is what I mean by the difference between trying to control an outcome versus influencing the process of problem-solving.Tobi; One thing I so love about your first book, which you've also alluded to in your answer is appreciating that a society and the economy is a complex system. And you said that an alternative to control in complex systems is to influence the process of adaptation and change. So I want you to talk briefly about how these influence the design of the reform packages themselves in the China reform experience, particularly the three key mechanisms you talked about in the book, which were variation, selection, and niche creation. How did that work?Yuen; Yes, I'm happy to do that. Let me focus on the first two parts because of time, which are variation and selection. And these terms come from the well-established scientific literature about how adaptation happens. So adaptation begins with generating a variety of possible solutions. So that's why the first mechanism is variation. And this is followed by selection. So from the possible pool of solutions, you pick one, and you test it out, collect feedback and decide "do you want to continue with this solution? Do you want to share this solution with others, or perhaps you find out the solution I picked didn't actually work so well, so let's select another one."And niche creation is about creating differences among members of the units so that these members can coexist, instead of competing head-on with one another. So I use these mechanisms to organize different parts of the book in explicating what were the mechanisms that the central government designed in order to structure the process of adaptive governance in China.And on variation, I look specifically at the system of political communication in China. China is a top-down political system. So the way the top government sends commands - written directives to the local governments - is the primary and most important mechanism by which it commands, instructs, and guides the whole bureaucracy. And normally, this is a system that, frankly, almost nobody studies because it doesn't really seem interesting. It's a command system. So you think that, you know, whatever, if Beijing wants to send a command. But what I argue and actually show in the book is that the command system in China actually functions in ways much more interesting way can imagine. And specifically, what I show is that in the Chinese political system, the central government would send out three different types of signals. The first signal is what I call black signals. These are written directives, where the language is explicitly clear, saying, "yes, you can do this. Yes, the local governments all over China, you can do this." And the second type of directive is what I call red signals, which explicitly says, "no, you cannot do this." So, for example, "no, you cannot exceed the amount of water use by this amount." And then the most interesting one is the third category, which is the grey directives. So commands that are deliberately ambiguous. And there are a lot of ambiguous commands and instructions that occur in the Chinese political system. And they still do today. And I argue that what these ambiguous commands do is that they actually provide room for experimentation. Because from the perspective of the local officials when the command is vague and ambiguous, and broadly stated, it means that they are free to interpret how to implement that particular instruction. And when they experiment and try things out, it produces, generates a variety of possible solutions. And from these possible solutions, the regulators in Beijing can then take a look at these options, many of which they had never thought about before and then decide, "among these possible solutions, are there some really good ones that we should scale up to regional or national levels," or sometimes they might also realize, oh, some local experiments turn out to be not good. And we are going to change our commands from grey to red and say, No, I don't want you guys to try this anymore. So through this varied and dynamic system of commands, is one example of a mechanism by which the central government in China is able to calibrate the amount of discretion that it gives local officials, allowing them to experiment when the central government wants to experiment, and then also providing a mechanism for the central government to collect feedback to scale things up if they want to. And also to scale things down, if they decide that that is the right thing to do.Tobi; So it's really hard to talk about China, at least the way China is being written about generally, without talking about state capacity. Like you talked about in the early part of the discussion that analysts and scholars usually take one thing and focus on that when discussing China, and there is always this talk about state capacity being the be-all of how China was able to reform itself and become rich. You know.Some say it's the bureaucracy that was inherited from the communist regime, some talk about the 5000-year history of civilization, and so many other theories. But you've discussed this often on your Twitter feed, and in other appearances, that when we talk about the bureaucracy, we usually have the Weberian Western-type democracy in mind, and that the way scholars and people discuss this is like, it's the only way to achieve bureaucratic coordination. But you've also challenged the idea that there are other forms of bureaucracy. So I want to ask you, how did China achieve that bureaucratic coordination without feeding into the Weberian archetype? You know, so to speak, because the challenge with most developing countries like Nigeria, which I am familiar with, is that you often have pockets of effectiveness in different arms of the government, but it's usually difficult for one vision to be projected, you know, and be implemented. So how did China achieve this through its bureaucracy, what were the design elements?Yuen; I am very glad that you brought up this important point. It is a point that I keep making in my books and in other forms of speaking. It is also a point that many people find hard to accept. The reason for this is that for a very long time, the conventional wisdom has always subscribed to the view that there is only one standard for good institutions, for stake capacity, for good governance and that is to look like rich Western nations. Now, the conventional wisdom doesn't put it this way, but if you look at all of the global metrics that are created, regardless of the names that are coined for them, it's always the same countries that are ranked in the top 10. And it's always the same group of countries, including Nigeria, and sometimes China that's ranked at the bottom, right?And so this is very deeply entrenched in both academic and popular thinking that there is only one standard in this world for good governance and good institutions. And that we should only use that benchmark. And when we look at developing countries, their situation is only accessed in terms of their distance from this ideal type. So things in developing countries are not perceived as being qualitatively different, they are instead perceived as deficient because they don't comply with the standard expectation of how things should function. And so including in the discussion about state capacity, one of the core elements of state capacity is bureaucratic capacity. And so as you alluded to, everyone subscribes to the legal-rational model that Max Weber had portrayed 100 years ago. And it is assumed that the only kind of effective bureaucracies are the ones that have these Weberian qualities, and everything else must be corrupt or dysfunctional. And the reason that I questioned this conventional wisdom is that I think it is... first of all, it reflects a first-world bias that people are either unaware of or unwilling to admit. And second of all, it is limiting and distorting. Because when you assume that there is only one standard, you cannot see qualitative or categorical differences. Meaning that perhaps in this world, we are actually comparing apples, oranges, bananas and guavas. But when you say only the Apple is the legitimate fruit, and then you look at the banana, and you think, "Oh no, the banana is deficient, because it doesn't look like an apple," right? So that is why it becomes this very narrowing logic. And what I find from both my historical research and my field research, in the case of China, as a very good example is that the qualities of an effective bureaucracy were actually very different at the early and late growth stages. So the given example, I show that in the early 1980s, 1990s, when markets first opened in China, the country actually relied on bureaucracies that had non-Weberian characteristics. So they were not specialized. Local governments would mobilize every agency to go and recruit investors. And this defies Weber's rule of specialization and technocracy. They also create a mechanism where these bureaucrats were basically taking a cut from the investments they could bring in which in economics, we say high-powered incentives. And in Weberian bureaucracy, you're not supposed to provide high-powered incentives, you're supposed to have these very modest rule-abiding and somewhat boring bureaucrats in office. And the reason why these non-Weberian qualities work very well, in the beginning, is because they made the best use of what China had in the beginning, which is it had a communist apparatus and a communist apparatus [that] is good at mobilization. It made use of the personal connections of local government officials and these personal connections substituted for formal property rights, and so forth. And so even though these individual characteristics would appear to be wrong from the first-world perspective, they were actually functionally a good fit with the objectives of early development. However, as the process goes on, income rises, the markets become more complex, businesses grow and so forth, the society and the economy had different objectives, had different priorities about growth. They no longer wanted just any type of growth they wanted, instead, quality growth in states-selected priority sectors. And that's when you begin to see an evolution in the bureaucracy towards the more specialized and technocratic forms that we see in first-world countries today. So to sum it all up, there are two takeaways. The first takeaway is [that] the good institutions that are often touted as universally ideal institutions are actually good institutions suitable for advanced stages of growth. But early stages of growth may actually require functionally and qualitatively different institutions that make the best use of what low-income societies have. So that is the first takeaway. And the second takeaway is that we should drop this assumption that there is only one standard because that prevents us from seeing potentially creative solutions throughout the developing world.Tobi; So your second book, "China's Gilded Age: the paradox of economic boom and vast corruption," I would say, also slayed another dragon for me personally, only that the dragon is not China. So from my experience in Nigeria, when you talk about corruption, the almost - I should say, self-interested response you get from politicians is that there is corruption in other places. And from somebody coming from a civil society background or even an average citizen, that answer is unpalatable, because the way we have been made to think about corruption is usually about the overall level of corruption, the quantitative level of corruption. But in your book, you made it important that the qualitative aspect of corruption is also important. So can you please briefly explain the difference? How did you come about this insight of unbundling corruption, so to speak?Yuen; Yes. So the second book is called China's Gilded Age. And it is a sequel to my first where I zoom in on the relationship between corruption and capitalism. And the core argument of the second book is actually quite simple. What I argue is that corruption comes in different types. And different types of corruption have different forms of harm. And I focus on one particular type of corruption that I call access money: elite exchanges of power and wealth. And I show that in many contexts, not just in China, access money can actually encourage businesses to do more business; because politicians provide them with conducive conditions. But that this form of corruption results in indirect risk and harm that is nearly impossible to quantify. And so once we, in particular, zoom in on access money, we can understand why there are many economies that are prosperous, on the one hand, but on the other hand, have many structural distortions and risks. And in addition to China, the other country that fits this model is actually the United States. So whether you look at the United States in the late 19th century, the original Gilded Age, or whether you look at the United States during the 2008 financial crisis and today, you'll find that these are wealthy capitalist economies that produce rapid growth, but also [produce] inequality - a great deal of inequality and a great deal of policy distortions and systemic risk. And that is the kind of corruption that is neglected that people don't look at. The reason for this is that most people, when they think about corruption, they immediately think about the forms of illegal corruption that they encounter in their daily lives. So when a policeman stops you and extracts a bribe from you. Now that is obviously corrupt. It is an act of bribery, it is illegal, it is extortion. And so the focus is on this type of corruption. Whereas a lot of the popular discourse neglects the other type of corruption - access money - which has always been actually central to the history of capitalism.Tobi; I find that book very insightful. I'll give you a brief anecdote. The former president during one of his media appearances went on television and made, I would say, the error at the time of saying that corruption is different from stealing. And it happened to be one of the things that became a public relations nightmare for him. So I just want to ask you, for countries that are dominated by the destructive types of corruption, can they transition to access money types of corruption, and can they also avoid the inequalities that come with it? And I should say that you stressed in the book that corruption is not good, which is another wrong message that a lot of people take from the book.Yuen; So my book, China's Gilded Age, unfortunately, as you pointed out, is widely misunderstood. As soon as people see the story of corruption coexisting with growth, they take that argument out of context, and start screaming that, "oh, my god, she's saying corruption is good for growth, and she's saying we should do more corruption."And so there have been quite a lot of nonsensical reactions to the argument. So at the outset, let me stress that actually, I made clear throughout the book, and over and over again in my speaking that all corruption is bad. This is not an argument about corruption being good in any way. All corruption is bad, but the harm is expressed in different ways. And so that is why I use the analogy of drugs. I used the analogy of toxic drugs to refer to extortion and embezzlement. These types of corruption have absolutely no benefit, you immediately see the harm, and it immediately destroys the economy. And Nigeria is a good example of this type of highly destructive corruption. And the second type of corruption I call speed money, I refer to that as painkillers. So you can think about a business that pays a small bribe so that it can get a business license faster. And that corruption is a painkiller in the sense that it allows the business to buy some conveniences, gets rid of some headaches, but that doesn't actually help the business to make more money. Ultimately, for the business owner, it is a hassle. And it is a cost. So that's not good, either. And the last type of corruption, access money, I call it steroids. So steroids, as we know, is a kind of drug that dishonoured athletes use to help them grow muscles and perform superhuman feats. But if you keep using steroids, then ultimately it's really going to have a whole range of serious side effects that accumulate over time. And access money is a type of corruption that you find in high growth or wealthy, crony capitalist economies, right? So what people should take away from this book is not that corruption is good, or that countries should do more corruption, which obviously would be nonsensical. Instead, they should really think about the following issues. First of all, countries should take a look at what is the dominant type of corruption that exists in their country, and think about the appropriate methods to fight the dominant type of corruption. For instance, in the United States, extortion, petty bribery, these sometimes happen, but it's not common in the United States. But over there, the dominant type of corruption is legalized access money. So lobbying has become a gigantic industry. And so the United States would have to come up with very different ways of fighting the kind of corruption that dominates in their society. Conversely, when you look at Nigeria, it has all four types of corruption that I talk about and so in a country like Nigeria, there has to be a focus on fighting all of these four types of corruption, but particularly the toxic ones. So embezzlement, extortion, imposing petty bribes, and thuggery on people. These types of corruption have no benefits at all. They drain the economy and the burden falls most heavily on the poor. So countries have to think about what are the measures they can take to bring down this overtly, growth-dampening corruption. And if you look at the Chinese experience, what happens as it developed over time is that the structure of corruption changed, and it invested at least 20 years of efforts to really bring down extortion and embezzlement.And although I had an entire chapter devoted to that topic, a lot of people just ignore it. And instead, they run with the misleading conclusion that oh, we should do more corruption. They ignore my discussion about the 20 years of effort that China put into bringing down extortion and embezzlement. So for readers in Nigeria, start with the obvious things, things like extortion, embezzlement… of course, they're wrong; of course, they're terrible; of course, they're damaging, so do something about that first before you even attempt to think about how can we transition to more advanced forms of crony capitalism like we might see in some advanced economies. The other takeaway I would add... the third takeaway that I would emphasize is that the part about access money, it's not about how do we encourage more access money corruption… the way to think about that takeaway is how do countries like Nigeria, create incentives for government officials to have a personal stake in economic outcomes? Right.And so what happened in the Chinese case is the system that I call profit sharing. Meaning local officials have a stake in economic growth, which comes both in terms of their career, as well as in their financial payoffs. And that shows up as access money.It doesn't mean that other countries should have more of that kind of corruption. Instead, the real lesson is, if not this type of corruption, are there other less damaging ways in which we can create incentives for government officials to actually have a personal stake in economic development?Tobi; One final question, I know our time is gone. I know scholars usually, sometimes, shy away from making policy proposals but for countries that are also interested or ambitious about escaping the poverty trap, what… maybe theoretically speaking, or practically, what are the three things that you would recommend from your research on the China experience? Not necessarily copying China, we know that has pitfalls, so what would you recommend? Yuen; It's a good final question to wrap up. Um, I would sum up with three takeaways. The first takeaway is, really work hard on fighting the overtly growth damaging types of corruption. It is a simple takeaway, but a lot of people actually forget about it. So things like embezzlement, things like extortion. If Nigeria could bring down the level of these damaging types of corruption, of course, immediately, you will see the economic and social benefits. So work hard on that. And then the second takeaway is, how is it possible for government officials in Nigeria to have a personal stake in collective outcomes? I don't have the answer. But I think it is a question that Nigerians have to sit down and think about. One of the things that are often missing in developing countries is a discussion about incentives and also about a sense of personal ownership in shared outcomes. People prefer to invest their energies in criticizing politicians and so forth. But if you think about it from an institutional perspective, why should that particular politician care about the collective outcome? Right. So how can we create those incentives, which doesn't necessarily have to be monetary. It could also be non-monetary, it could be reputational, how do we make them care? Right? So that's the second thing to think about. The third thing I would emphasize is a principle that I call using what you have, and China illustrates that principle, richly. Using what you have means that every society, even one that is a low-income society has a lot of indigenous resources, they have human capital, they have creativity. So the first step of development is not to go and copy rich countries, it is also not to sell your oil resources, but to really make the best use of these indigenous resources. And so for those who know my first book, actually, in the conclusion, I have a chapter about Nollywood. And that's an excellent example whereby under desperate circumstances, the people in Nigeria actually created an industry from the bottom up using what Nigeria had at that particular time. And so there are so many instances throughout the developing world where there are actually a lot of indigenous resources, they are untapped, or they are ignored or they're dismissed. Because we are so used to thinking that the only right solution is to look like rich countries. And we have to drop that mindset. I think it's part of an extension of a colonial mindset as well. And developing countries have to develop a certain sense of intellectual independence, as well as confidence in seeing the potential that is already existent in every society, and make the best use of those resources to kickstart entrepreneurship and new industries.Tobi; Thank you very much, Yuen Yuen Ang, it's been fantastic talking to you.Yuen; Thank you very much. It's a real pleasure to speak with you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.ideasuntrapped.com/subscribe

On this episode of The James Bond A-Z Podcast host Tom Butler is joined by George Aldridge of Cinema Savvy and Mark O'Connell, author of Catching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan to explore the characters and creatives behind the 007 films that fall under the letter P. Topics covered include: Paloma, the instantly iconic No Time To Die character played by Ana De Armas Pinewood Studios, the spiritual home of the James Bond movies since 1962's Dr No, and home of the 007 Stage Gary and Greg Powell who are part of a incredible family of 007 stunt performers General Pushkin, the memorable The Living Daylights character played by John Rhys-Davies Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the incumbent Bond screenwriters who have written every 007 film since 1999's The World Is Not Enough And Sheriff JW Pepper, the returning character played by Clifton James in Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun If you want to take part in our 60th anniversary special, record a clip of yourself talking about your favourite, under-appreciated Bond movie moment and email the audio file (under 2 minutes please) to podcast@jamesbondatoz.co.uk before 26 September, 2022. James Bond will return... in next week's James Bond's A-Z Podcast. Follow George Aldridge on Twitter: twitter.com/aldridge96_afc Subscribe to Cinema Savvy: youtube.com/cinemasavvy Follow Mark O'Connell on Twitter: twitter.com/Mark0Connell Buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/jamesbondatoz Shop James Bond A-Z t-shirts and merchandise: the-james-bond-a-z-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/jamesbondatoz Find us on Instagram: instagram.com/jamesbondatoz Email us on: podcast@jamesbondatoz.co.uk Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The one the NFT craze, recreating Ceefax, Riverside.fm and No Time To Die - TG63    00:00:00 Introduction   Here are your hosts, Roger and Pascal.      00:01:44 In the News   A selection of announcements and news releases from the world of marketing and technology that caught our attention.    00:10:22 Content Spotlights   ROGER: The NFT craze has stopped being funny – Ryan Cooper, The Week: https://theweek.com/culture/arts/1008539/the-nft-craze-has-stopped-being-funny (https://theweek.com/culture/arts/1008539/the-nft-craze-has-stopped-being-funny)  PASCAL: ‘Text appeal: Ceefax recreated by 20-year-old Northern Irish man' by Jim Waterson, Media Editor at The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/05/text-appeal-ceefax-recreated-by-20-year-old-northern-irish-man (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/05/text-appeal-ceefax-recreated-by-20-year-old-northern-irish-man)    00:28:22 Marketing Tech and Apps    ROGER: It's all about copywriting:  SlickWrite – proofreader and alternative to Grammarly: https://www.slickwrite.com/ (https://www.slickwrite.com/)  Readable – improving your copy: https://readable.com/ (https://readable.com/)  PASCAL: It's all about taking your video and audio series forward:  Riverside.fm - Your Online Recording Studio https://riverside.fm/home (https://riverside.fm/home) including separate audio tracks and quick video editor  The Podcast Font Website - https://podcastfont.com/ (https://podcastfont.com/) icons, logos, graphical buttons and links for your podcast episodes and webpages    00:35:03 This Week in History   Our selection of historical events and anniversaries from the world of science, technology and popular culture.    00:41:11 Creator Shout Outs   ROGER: Johnny Timpson for getting an OBE for his tireless work in financial services and Govt to help people with disabilities: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnny-timpson-obe-598987/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnny-timpson-obe-598987/)  PASCAL: James Ede, Audio Producer and Founder of Be Heard, creator of the Be Heard Guides & Resources Hub: https://www.beheard.org.uk/guides-resources (https://www.beheard.org.uk/guides-resources)    00:46:10 Film Marketing   No Time To Die (2021)  Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective, Maniac, The Alienist)  Writer: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge  Music By: Hans Zimmer  Starring: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Christoph Waltz, etc.  We've waited so long for Bond 25. The last of 5 outings with Daniel Craig. Delayed three times by the pandemic, No Time to Die was worth the wait. It's a great film in all respects. We celebrate the film making and the marketing of this latest outing for 007.    About Two Geeks and A Marketing Podcast     Hosted by the two geeks, Roger Edwards and Pascal Fintoni, to keep you up to date with the latest news, tech, content and wisdom from the world of marketing.   Roger is a man on a mission to keep marketing simple. He is the voice of the Marketing & Finance Podcast and the host of the RogVLOG series.    Pascal is also on a mission to demystify digital marketing. He's the host of the Content Marketing Studio video podcast and many other video series.   Every week we'll bring you the following segments.   In the News.   Content Spotlight   Marketing Tech and Apps   This Week in History   Creator Shout Outs   Film Marketing   Please subscribe and leave comments and suggestions in the usual...

Movies First with Alex FirstEpisode 960Answering the big question...should I see this movie? No Time To Die (Action, Adventure, Thriller) James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.DirectorCary Joji FukunagaWritersNeal Purvis (screenplay by); Robert Wade (screenplay by); Cary Joji Fukunaga (screenplay by)StarsDaniel Craig; Ana de Armas; Rami Malek– IMDbTrailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3903767321?playlistId=tt2382320&ref_=tt_pr_ov_vi New: To listen on your favourite app, your one click listen universal link: https://link.chtbl.com/moviesfirst Movies First RSS : https://www.spreaker.com/show/2648009/episodes/feed Stream podcast episodes on demand from https://www.bitesz.com/show/movies-first-reviews/ (mobile friendly). For more from Alex visit our new website: https://moviesfirstpodcast.com or www.bitesz.com Subscribe, rate and review Movies First at all good podcast apps, including Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, CastBox.FM, Podbean, Spreaker, etc.For more, follow Movies First on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube : Facebook - @moviesfirst Twitter - @MoviesFirst YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCatJQHaVabIvzCLqO16XvSQ If you're enjoying Movies First, please share and tell your friends. Your support would be appreciated...thank you. #movies #cinema #entertainment #podcast #reviews #moviesfirst https://bitesz.com

Starting big or taking small steps and how to build equity with Chris Roberts and Robert Wade.Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and TwitterFor more educational content, visit our website at www.diaryofanapartmentinvestor.comInterested in investing with Four Oaks Capital?  First step is to schedule a call with us. This episode originally aired on December 31st, 2021----Chris RobertsFounder and CEO of SterlingRhino Capital LLC., Chris Roberts has been a full-time entrepreneur and real estate investor since 2007. Chris specializes in investor relations, commercial debt, and managing financials. Chris started his real estate career by renovating, flipping, building, and renting dozens of single-family residences, in addition to running his own property management company that manages his smaller assets. Chris is currently focused on helping others create passive cash flow through investing in larger, 100+ unit multifamily apartment buildings. Chris is personally invested in over 2,900 apartment units nationwide and has led Sterling Rhino Capital to acquire and control 834 units across several assets in Virginia, Georgia and Texas with an estimated value of over $53MM. Chris has been a contributor on Bigger Pockets, is a member of the Forbes Real Estate Council and an Author. He is also the host of the Charging Forward Podcast where he interviews successful entrepreneurs to find out how they broke through mediocrity to become extraordinary. Chris is an Enterprise Partner with Feeding America and is passionate about teaching and giving back. Chris enjoys spending time with his wife Christina and traveling. They have been married for 11 years and have two dogs Bentley and Oliver.Visit his website https://www.sterlingrhinocapital.com/----Robert WadeRobert is an aspiring investor with interest in donating and supporting military supporting charities. Email rwade_1@charter.net----Your host, Brian Briscoe, is a co-founder and principal in the real estate investing firm Four Oaks Capital.  He and his team currently have 629 units worth $36 million in assets under management and are continuing to grow.  He will retire as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps in 2021. Learn more about him and the Four Oaks team at www.fouroakscapital.com  or contact him at brianbriscoe@fouroakscapital.com - be sure to let him know where you found him.Connect with him on LinkedIn or Facebook.vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv> Check out our multifamily investing community!> The Tribe of Titans> Get exclusive access to the Four Oaks Team!> Find it at https://www.thetribeoftitans.info^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

On this week's episode of the Northeast Newscast, we interview Father Christmas himself! We talk to Robert Wade about reindeer and other exotic animals, favorite Christmas activities in Kansas City, and all about his handmade costumes. *Spoiler Alert for kiddos who believe in Santa!*

CONTAINS SPOILERS: After the global success of No Time To Die, James King helms a final instalment of the Official James Bond Podcast to discuss the film and to dissect one of the most unexpected outcomes in movie history. Featuring round table discussions with Director Cary Joji Fukunaga, DoP Linus Sandgren, Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and other key crew members, King will gain exclusive insights into the many twists and turns of the top-grossing Hollywood film of the pandemic era. King will explore key scenes with the production crew, audience reactions to the film with the director and producers, culminating in a spoilerific discussion of that final scene and what it means for the franchise, joined by Daniel Craig himself. Featuring the official score of No Time To Die from Hans Zimmer by Decca Records.No Time To Die: The Official James Bond Podcast is produced by Somethin' Else in association with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Universal Pictures International, United Artists Releasing and EON Productions. Own No Time To Die on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD Collector's Editions from December 20, 2021. From EON Productions, Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) & Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.Watch the James Bond Collection – Available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital platforms worldwide. SHOW CONTRIBUTORSDaniel Craig Cary Joji Fukunaga Michael G. Wilson Barbara Broccoli Linus Sandgren Neal Purvis Robert Wade Phoebe Waller-bridge Chris Corbould Simon Hayes Véronique Melery See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In which the Mister joins me in reviewing NO TIME TO DIE (2021), the final installment in the Daniel Craig/James Bond/007 storyline. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, with a script by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge; the story follows James Bond (Daniel Craig) who is quietly living in Jamaica when he is visited by an old acquaintance Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) and is sucked back into his old life and encounters a some old enemies, his lost love (Léa Seydoux as Madeleine) and a mysterious villian who enacted a brilliant plot, took ou Spectre but then goes on to some more nefarious but unexplained shennaningans. Not my favorite Bond film but catch it if you're a Bonod devotee or like Craig. The film has a run time of 2 h 43 m and is rated PG-13. Please note there are SPOILERS in this review. Opening intro music: GOAT by Wayne Jones, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jokagoge/support

It's been a long road, filled with delays, but Daniel Craig's final portrayal as James Bond is out in Australia. Ashley, Ciaran and Dylan share their thoughts on the film, discuss Rami Malek's villain and his motivations and guess what is next for the James Bond franchise.The Road To No Time To Die - A Look Back At Daniel Craig's Era As James BondNO TIME TO DIE (2021)Directed by: Cary Joji FukunagaScreenplay by: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-BridgeStory by: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji FukunagaBased on James Bond by: Ian FlemingStarring: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ralph FiennesHosts:Ashley Hobley: https://twitter.com/ashleyhobleyDylan Blight: https://twitter.com/vivaladilCiaran Marchant: https://twitter.com/YaboyRingoFollow our Trakt:Ashley - https://trakt.tv/users/ashleyhobleyDylan - https://trakt.tv/users/vivaladilAll Episodes:https://explosionnetwork.com/what-do-you-wanna-watchSupport Us:https://explosionnetwork.com/supportus

Episode 154: No Time To Die (2021)Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga Written by: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-BridgeScore by: Hans Zimmer Budget: $250-300 millionGross: $450 millionCast: Daniel Craig as James BondRami Malek as Lyutsifer SafinLea Seydoux as Dr. Madeleine SwannLashana Lynch as NomiBen Whishaw as QNaomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny Jeffrey Wright as Felix LeiterChristoph Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld Ralph Fiennes as MTalking Points:How does No Time to Die by Billie Eilish compare to the other Craig Bond openings?  What are your overall non-spoiler thoughts?Spoiler-Talk: What were some of your favorite moments?Is this a fitting end to Craig's run?Final thoughts.Next Episode: Dune Stream A.R on Spotify or Apple Music!Find more Midnight Satire around the web!Donate to the Youth Mental Health Project!

TJ & Alec Hoelker rejoin to once again talk about James Bond. This time it is Daniel Craigs final outing as Bond, the long awaited No Time To Die. The film was written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.Guest: Alec HoelkerINSTACART LINK:https://instacart.oloiyb.net/TJhttps://tjmartino.com/FIND MY PODCAST:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tj-martino-podcast/id1471246174Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5pEKghD6gLhQuvMdg7Bo8n?si=dWdV_AdVR86zD9GkHJat2AStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-tj-martino-podcastFOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA:Twitter: https://twitter.com/tjmartinoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetjmartinopodcast/Snapchat: tjmartinoApple Music: tjmartinoSoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/artino10#Podcast #007 #jamesbond #notimetodie #bond #tjpod #New #Stream #TJMARTINO

 Episode 153: Spectre (2015)Find us around the web and subscribe on your favorite podcast player! Directed by: Sam MendesWritten by: John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade & Jez ButterworthScore by: Thomas NewmanBudget: $245-300 millionGross: $880.7 millionCast:Daniel Craig as James BondChristoph Waltz as Ernst Stavro BlofeldLea Seydoux as Madeleine SwannBen Whishaw as QNaomie Harris as Eve MoneypennyDave Bautista as Mr. HinxTalking Points:How do Sam Smith's Writing's on the Wall and Radiohead's unused Spectre compare to the other Craig Bond themes?What are your overall non-spoiler thoughts on this viewing?Spoiler-Talk: What were some of your favorite moments?Final thoughts. Plugs:Next EP: No Time to Die Stream A.R on Spotify or Apple Music!Find more Midnight Satire around the web!Donate to the Youth Mental Health Project!

James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

Spoiler Review! Chris and Taylor suit up for a special double review of the Apple TV+ documentary "Being James Bond: The Daniel Craig Story" directed by Bailie Walsh and "No Time To Die" written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Carey Juji Fukunaga with Fukunaga directing. Marking the final film of Daniel Craig's tenure as James Bond, after retiring from MI6, Bond is recruited by the CIA to help track a kidnapped scientist which leads to a showdown with a powerful adversary. The film stars Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz and Ralph Fiennes.

The Bloody Awesome Movie Podcast focuses on a single film per episode, usually a new release (hopefully theatrically at some point) giving a spoiler-free review. Then Matt Hudson (@wiwt_uk) from What I Watched Tonight and Jonathan Berk (@berkreviews) from Berkreviews.com will introduce a variety of movies or pop-culture-related topics in a series of segments. However, for this week we are covering the Tribeca Film Festival so we are rapidly discussing spoiler-free reviews of the films we saw from it. Review of No Time to Die (2021) Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga Written by Neal Purvis (screenplay by), Robert Wade(screenplay by), and Cary Joji Fukunaga (screenplay by) Starring Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, and Naomie Harris. IMDb.com Synopsis: James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology. 84% RT critic, 70 Metascore, 7.6 IMDb user score, and 3.6/5 on Letterboxd RELEASE location / DATE: Theaters Chuffed Headlines Movie/Pop culture news that caught our attention Matt's Headline: Christopher Nolan's Next Movie Title, Release Date & Star Revealed Jon's Headline: Scream first look: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette join franchise newbies (and Ghostface) in fifth film Media Consumption Movies, TV, Video Games, Music, Podcasts (not ours), etc that we use to pass the time Matt's others: What If? (Movie), Jakob's Wife, Halloween Kills Squid Game Jon's others Blank Check - Prince of Darkness, Bonus episode Elvis TV movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3-7, King Kong (1933), Red Eye, Night of the Demon, and Mimic What If, What we do in the Shadows BAMP on Twitter | BAMP on Instagram | TeePublic Merchandise Jon on Twitter | Jon on IG | Jon on Letterboxd.com Matt on Twitter | Matt on IG | Matt on Letterboxd.com Berkreviews.com | WhatIWatchedTonight.co.uk --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bloody-awesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bloody-awesome/support

Robert Winfree and Mark Radulich present their No Time to Die 2021 Review, the final installment of the Daniel Craig James Bond series! No Time to Die is a 2021 spy film and the 25th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It stars Daniel Craig in his fifth and final outing as the fictional British MI6 agent James Bond. It is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Rory Kinnear and Ralph Fiennes reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik and Dali Benssalah also starring. In this film, Bond, who has left active service with MI6, is recruited by the CIA to rescue a kidnapped scientist, which leads to a showdown with a powerful adversary. Grammarly Ad: 1:52:45 Amazon Music Ad: 1:23:15 For a 30 Day Free Trial of Amazon Music Unlimited head to http://getamazonmusic.com/w2mnetwork. Amazon Music is free. Amazon Music Unlimited is not. And for the Grammarly special offer, go to http://getgrammarly.com/w2mnetwork. Check us out on the player of your choice https://linktr.ee/markkind76

Robert Winfree and Mark Radulich present their No Time to Die 2021 Review, the final installment of the Daniel Craig James Bond series! No Time to Die is a 2021 spy film and the 25th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It stars Daniel Craig in his fifth and final outing as the fictional British MI6 agent James Bond. It is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Rory Kinnear and Ralph Fiennes reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik and Dali Benssalah also starring. In this film, Bond, who has left active service with MI6, is recruited by the CIA to rescue a kidnapped scientist, which leads to a showdown with a powerful adversary. Grammarly Ad: 1:52:45 Amazon Music Ad: 1:23:15 For a 30 Day Free Trial of Amazon Music Unlimited head to http://getamazonmusic.com/w2mnetwork. Amazon Music is free. Amazon Music Unlimited is not. And for the Grammarly special offer, go to http://getgrammarly.com/w2mnetwork. Check us out on the player of your choice https://linktr.ee/markkind76

On tonight's episode of the Talkin' TV podcast, we return, LIVE, for a true cinematic event. People, that's right, we're discussing the return of James Bond, 007 himself, in Daniel Craig's swan song "No Time to Die." The 25th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It stars Daniel Craig in his fifth and final outing as the fictional British MI6 agent James Bond. It is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Rory Kinnear and Ralph Fiennes reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik and Dali Benssalah also starring. In this film, Bond, who has left active service with MI6, is recruited by the CIA to rescue a kidnapped scientist, which leads to a showdown with a powerful adversary. Development began in 2016. It is the first Bond film distributed by Universal Pictures, which acquired the international distribution rights following the expiration of Sony Pictures' contract after the release of Spectre in 2015. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer subsidiary United Artists Releasing holds the rights for North America, as well as worldwide digital and television rights; Universal also holds the worldwide rights for physical home media. Danny Boyle was originally attached to direct and co-write the screenplay with John Hodge. Both left due to creative differences in August 2018, and Fukunaga was announced as Boyle's replacement a month later. Most of the cast had signed on by April 2019. Principal photography was from April to October 2019 under the working title Bond 25. The final title was announced in August 2019. Dom & Chris discuss the history of the franchise, what they each thought of it, whether Chris thinks it's a stand out in the action pantheon, and how it stands out amongst the meriad of mediocrity we've dealt with so far in 2021. It all happens here, on the #talkintvpodcast #jamesbond #jamesbondmovie #jamesbondfranchise #jamesbond25 #bond25 #notimetodie #ramimalek #christophwaltz #leaseydoux #felixleiter #ernststavroblofeld #carijojifukunaga #cars #gadgets #m #q --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/talkintvpodcastgmailcom/support

Episode 152: Skyfall (2012)Find us around the web and subscribe on your favorite podcast player! Directed by: Sam MendesWritten by: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John LoganScore by: Thomas NewmanBudget: $150-200 millionGross: $1.109 billionCast: Daniel Craig as James BondJudi Dench as MJavier Bardem as Raoul SilvaRalph Fiennes as Gareth MalloryNaomie Harris as Eve MoneypennyBérénice Marlohe as SévérineAlbert Finney as KincadeBen Whishaw as QRory Kinnear as Bill TannerOla Rapace as PatriceHelen McCrory as Clair Dowar MPTalking Points:Brian, what is your experience with the Bond franchise? How does Skyfall by Adele compare to the two previous Bond openings?  What are your overall non-spoiler thoughts on this viewing?Spoiler-Talk: What were some of your favorite moments?Final thoughts.Next Episode: Spectre Stream A.R on Spotify or Apple Music!Find more Midnight Satire around the web!Donate to the Youth Mental Health Project!

No Time to Die was directed by Cary Fukunaga and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Pheobe Waller-Bridge. The film stars Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ana de Armas, and Rami Malek. It marks the end of Daniel Craig's 15 year run as James Bond and his fifth film as 007. Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.Links Instagram Twitter Facebook Our Website

RYJ reviews No Time to Die Starring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Billy Magnussen, Ana De Armas and Ralph FiennesDirected by Cory Joji FukunagaWritten by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge Follow me on IG, and twitter - @ohitsbigron Show Art by Katie Helm, follow her on IG - @katieladybug3 Theme Music by Breakmaster Cylinder (Check out Time Well Spent, another podcast from ohitsBigRon studios) (Check out Solvable, another podcast hosted by Ronald from Pushkin Industries)4 of 5 stars

 Christian, Devin and give their thoughts on the latest film that hit theaters this past weekend No Time To Die with friends on the show Griffin Schiller from Film Speak and Ryan Mcquade from Insession Film Awards Watch. Thanks for listening to the Film Optix Podcast! If you enjoyed the show, we'd greatly appreciate it if you could leave us a review. Follow us on Twitter & Instagram @filmoptix to stay in the know. This is the way.Director: Cary Joji FukunagaWriters: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Cary Joji FukunagaStars: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas and Rami MalekPlot: James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.Rotten Tomatoes: https://bit.ly/3mAzbCG IMDB: https://imdb.to/3oGMBji  Social MediaTwitter: https://twitter.com/FilmOptix​​​​​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/filmoptix/​​​​​ Griffin: https://twitter.com/griffschiller Ryan: https://twitter.com/ryanmcquade77 Websites To VisitFilm Speak: https://www.griffinschiller.com/Insession Film: https://insessionfilm.com/Awards Watch: https://awardswatch.com/

Hey everyone, the 25th James Bond movie, NO TIME TO DIE has FINALLY HIT CINEMAS across the globe. As most of you should probably know by now, this has been my most anticipated movie for the last 2 years now and after 4 delays (one even before the pandemic started), its finally here. Does NO TIME TO DIE close out Daniel Craig's tenure as Bond on a high note? Find out in this Spoiler-Free review. No Time to Die: Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga Screenplay by: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge Story by: Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga Characters based on novels by: Ian Fleming Music by: Hans Zimmer Cinematography by: Linus Sandgren Film Editing by: Tom Cross, Elliot Graham Casting by: Debbie McWilliams Production Design by: Mark Tildesly Starring: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, Ana de Armas, Billy Magnussen, Rory Kinnear, David Dencik, Dali Benssalah Synopsis: In No Time To Die, Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology. - https://www.007.com/no-time-to-die/

This is my review of No Time To Die. First half is spoiler free, second half gets into spoilers (with a fair warning beforehand). No Time to Die is a 2021 spy film and the 25th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It stars Daniel Craig in his fifth and final outing as the fictional British MI6 agent James Bond. It is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Rory Kinnear and Ralph Fiennes reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik and Dali Benssalah also starring. In this film, Bond, who has left active service with MI6, is recruited by the CIA to rescue a kidnapped scientist, which leads to a showdown with a powerful adversary. Listen to my thoughts and afterward, please share your opinions or questions. RESOURCES/LINKS: -Coach or Consultant Services: https://philsvitek.com/lets-work-together/ -Podcast Services: http://philsvitek.com/podcastservices -Love Market Film (available now): https://www.amazon.com/Love-Market-Amy-Cassandra-Martinez/dp/B09DFS3FTZ/ref=sr_1_14 -Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philsvitek -Merchandise: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/phil-svitek---360-creative-coach/ -Instagram: http://instagram.com/philsvitek -Facebook: http://facebook.com/philippsvitek -Twitter: http://twitter.com/philsvitek -Financially Fit Foundation: http://financiallyfitfoundation.org -Master Mental Fortitude Book: http://mastermentalfortitude.com -Elan, Elan Book: http://philsvitek.com/elan-elan -In Search of Sunrise Film: http://philsvitek.com/in-search-of-sunrise

Episode 150: Casino Royale & Quantum of Solace (2006/2008)Youtube Link Tree copy/pastaFind us around the web and subscribe on your favorite podcast player! Casino Royale (2006)Directed by: Martin CampbellWritten by: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade & Paul HaggisScore by: David ArnoldBudget: $150 millionGross: $616.5 millionCast:Daniel Craig as James BondEva Green as Vesper LyndMads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre Giancarlo Giannini as Rene MathisJesper Christensen as Mr. WhiteJudi Dench as MTobias Menzies as VilliersIsaach de Bankole as Steven ObannoTalking Points:What is your past experience with the Bond franchise? Title sequence talkWhat are your overall non-spoiler thoughts on this viewing?Spoiler-Talk: What were some of your favorite moments?Final thoughtsStream A.R on Spotify or Apple Music!Find more Midnight Satire around the web!Donate to the Youth Mental Health Project!

Charlie Noble is the Visual Effects Supervisor for the latest James Bond film No Time to Die. He has over 30 years experience in the visual effects industry and is one of the co-founders of DNEG.No Time to Die is the 25th in the James Bond series. It stars Daniel Craig in his fifth outing as the fictional British MI6 agent. Development began in 2016 and it is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Principal photography was from April to October 2019 under the working title Bond 25. The final title No Time to Die was announced in August 2019.Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Rory Kinnear, and Ralph Fiennes reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, Billy Magnussen, and David Dencik joining the cast as new characters.

No Time to Die is a 2021 spy film and the 25th in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It stars Daniel Craig in his fifth and final outing as the fictional British MI6 agent. It is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Rory Kinnear and Ralph Fiennes reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik and Dali Benssalah joining the cast as new characters. Development began in 2016. It is the first Bond film distributed by Universal Pictures, which acquired the international distribution rights following the expiration of Sony Pictures' contract after the release of Spectre in 2015. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer subsidiary United Artists Releasing holds the rights for North America, including worldwide digital and television rights. Universal also holds the rights for physical home media worldwide. Danny Boyle was originally attached to direct and co-write the screenplay with John Hodge. Both left due to creative differences in August 2018, and Fukunaga was announced as Boyle's replacement a month later. Most of the cast had signed on by April 2019. Principal photography was from April to October 2019 under the working title Bond 25. The final title was announced in August 2019. No Time to Die had its world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 28 September 2021, and was released in cinemas on 30 September 2021 in the United Kingdom and it is set to be released in the United States on 8 October 2021, after being delayed by Boyle's departure and later by the COVID-19 pandemic. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/popcorn-junkies/message

We can't say this movie came out in no time. After 6 years of delays and false starts, Daniel Craig's final mission as James Bond culminates in this nearly 3-hour 007 sequel directed and co-written by Cary Joji Fukunaga and also written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. This is a spoiler-free review of the movie, but at 00:54:30, we will give a fairly lengthy spoiler warning and begin talking about the ending of the movie and what we think might happen with the future of the Bond franchise. Intro music: “GoldenEye N64" by Brandon Wiebe Links: Follow us on Twitter: Jon Negroni, Will Ashton Check out our Cinemaholics Merch! Leave us a voicemail using The “Swell” App. We post new prompts every week or so. Check out our Patreon to support Cinemaholics! Email your feedback to cinemaholicspodcast [at] gmail.com. Connect with Cinemaholics on Facebook and Twitter. Support our show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cinemaholics See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join David And Craig as they do a completely non spoiler review of Daniel Craigs last outing as James Bond in ‘No Time To Die'. After a brief overview on the history of 007, some chat about Daniel Craigs time in the franchise so far and the potential next James Bond the guys dive head first into their review. Director - Cary Joji Fukunaga Written By- Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge Staring -Daniel Craig - James Bond Rami Malik- Lyutsifer Safin Lea Seydoux- Madeline Swann Lashana Lynch- Nomi Ralph Fiennes- M Cristoph Waltz- Blofeld Ben Whishaw- QNaomie Harris- Eve Moneypenny Jeffrey Wright- Felix Leiter 

Join us on The Road to No Time To Die as we review Daniel Craig's Era as James Bond.On this episode Ashley, Dylan and Ciaran discuss Daniel Craig's fourth outing as 007, Spectre. Listen to hear their thoughts on the film, the introduction of Madeline Swan and the use of Spectre and Christoph Waltz's character.Spectre (2015)Directed by: Sam MendesScreenplay by: John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Jez ButterworthStory by: John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert WadeBased on James Bond by: Ian FlemingStarring: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci, Andrew Scott, Ralph FiennesHosts:Ashley Hobley: https://twitter.com/ashleyhobleyDylan Blight: https://twitter.com/vivaladilCiaran Marchant: https://twitter.com/YaboyRingoFollow our Trakt:Ashley - https://trakt.tv/users/ashleyhobleyDylan - https://trakt.tv/users/vivaladilAll Episodes:https://explosionnetwork.com/what-do-you-wanna-watchSupport Us:http://www.ko-fi.com/explosion

No Time To Die – Movie Review 163 Minutes, Rated PG-13 Written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Cary Joji Fukunaga Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga Synopsis: In No Time To Die, Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter […]

Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film.  In this first episode, Rich and Cat are talking about the fizzing central relationship in Martin Campbell's Casino Royale from the year 2006. With a screenplay by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, this marked Daniel Craig's debut as the nation's favourite MI6 agent. Rich and Cat will be raising their vodka martinis to James, played by Daniel Craig and Vesper, played by Eva Green. Did this love leave Bond shaken or stirred? And do we look like we give a damn? Follow Don't You Want Me on Twitter @DYWMpodcast, Instagram @dywmpodcast and Facebook @DYWMpodcast  Recorded in May 2021. Edited by Rich Nelson Additional material written by Catrin Lowe  Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Twitter @Pablovich) Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a_k_e) Rich can be found on Twitter @fantana275 Cat can be found on Twitter @KittyCostanza -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For regular updates on future episodes of the podcast, guest appearances and events, subscribe to our monthly newsletter here https://www.getrevue.co/profile/dywmpodcast 

Join us on The Road to No Time To Die as we review Daniel Craig's Era as James Bond.On this episode Ashley, Dylan and Ciaran discuss Daniel Craig's third outing as 007, Skyfall. Listen to hear their thoughts on the film, the introduction of Moneypenny and Q and Javier Bardem's performance as Raoul Silva.Skyfall (2012)Directed by: Sam MendesWritten by: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade. John LoganBased on James Bond by: Ian FlemingStarring: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe, Albert Finney, Ben Whishaw, Judi DenchHosts:Ashley Hobley: https://twitter.com/ashleyhobleyDylan Blight: https://twitter.com/vivaladilCiaran Marchant: https://twitter.com/YaboyRingoFollow our Trakt:Ashley - https://trakt.tv/users/ashleyhobleyDylan - https://trakt.tv/users/vivaladilAll Episodes:https://explosionnetwork.com/what-do-you-wanna-watchSupport Us:http://www.ko-fi.com/explosion

The Bond films have always tapped into the anxieties and dreams of audiences. From Cold War powerplay to media power and intrusion, cyberterrorism to globalised businesses fronting international crime networks, the films have always reflected the zeitgeist. We'll discuss how a character who first appeared in print in 1953 remains relevant to modern audiences and uncover the secret to Bond's eternal appeal with contributors such as producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, writers Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and of course, Daniel Craig himself. We'll also hear from the producers discussing the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent delays in releasing No Time To Die. You can also be the first to hear exclusive score from Hans Zimmer released by Decca Records. No Time To Die is in cinemas from September 30th. No Time To Die: The Official James Bond Podcast is produced by Somethin' Else in association with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Universal Pictures International, United Artists Releasing and EON Productions. Watch the James Bond Collection – Available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital platforms worldwide. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join us on The Road to No Time To Die as we review Daniel Craig's Era as James Bond.On this episode Ashley, Dylan and Ciaran discuss Daniel Craig's first film as 007, Casino Royale. Listen to hear their thoughts on the film, the initial backlash to Daniel Craig's casting and how Eva Green is the best Bond girl.Casino Royale (2006)Directed by: Martin CampbellScreenplay by: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul HaggisBased on Casino Royale by: Ian FlemingStarring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Jesper Christensen, Judi DenchHosts:Ashley Hobley: https://twitter.com/ashleyhobleyDylan Blight: https://twitter.com/vivaladilCiaran Marchant: https://twitter.com/YaboyRingoFollow our Trakt:Ashley - https://trakt.tv/users/ashleyhobleyDylan - https://trakt.tv/users/vivaladilAll Episodes:https://explosionnetwork.com/what-do-you-wanna-watchSupport Us:http://www.ko-fi.com/explosion

The full conversation with Ricardo Hausmann - now with Transcript. This is a subscriber-only post.TranscriptOpening musicYou are listening to ideas Untrapped with Tobi Lawson. Tobi Lawson (intro) Welcome to another episode of ideas Untrapped and my guest today is Ricardo Hausmann, who is a professor of economic development at Harvard University, he is a former director of centre for International Development, and is currently the Director of the center's growth lab. Ricardo pioneered an approach of looking at economic development called economic complexity. My brief synopsis of the central idea is that an economy only grows and develop by learning to do many things by expanding its productive capabilities. I start by asking Ricardo, what we can learn, particularly from the East Asian experience, and what has happened in economic development over the last few decades. Thank you for always listening to the show and I hope you enjoy this one. Tobi Lawson You've been one of the most important thinkers in economic development throughout my adult life. So, it's a pleasure to speak to you. Ricardo Hausmann Pleasure to be with you. Tobi LawsonFrom Around 1990, when the results of the economic trajectory of East Asia became apparent, so many policy propositions have been developed by scholars. But, in your opinion, what do you think has been the most important lesson from that East Asian growth episode? Ricardo Hausmann I think the general experience of development is really, that development is about the growth of productive capabilities In a society, it's what our society is capable of doing and, what a society is capable of doing depends a little bit on, what are the tools and machines it has available to do things nd what are the recipes and formulas and routines and protocols it's aware of, but it's mostly about what is the know-how that it's people have and this idea of know-how is not just, you know, low and high. It's mostly How different is what each member of society knows. Because if everybody knows a lot of the same thing, the whole doesn't know much more than each individual. But if each individual knows different than the whole can know a lot, even if each individual doesn't know that much. So this division of know how in society allows for individuals to specialise and society to diversify, that a society is able to do more, because it's individuals are all different. I am originally from Venezuela, and we're Nigeria. And we all think that we are rich because we have¹ oil. And then something bad happened to explain why, given that we're rich, we're not so rich, but we're rich, because we have our, our society is rich, not because of what it has. But because of what it knows how to do. And the growth and development of a society is the growth and development of what it knows how to do well. That's the core of things. And so if you ask about East Asia, well, they started in agriculture, they move to garments, then they move to textiles, then they move to electronics, then they move to cars, and move to chemicals and shapes, and so on. So, if you look at what they have been good at, that is something that has been very rapidly changing. They become good at more things. And they can become sufficiently good at those things that they can sell them outside of the country. And if you look at their export baskets, they have been evolving dramatically. In the directions I just mentioned, if you look at the export basket of Nigeria, or the export basket or Venezuela, the only thing you'll find there is oil. But when you look at the amount of oil we're talking about, it's really peanuts. It's really, so it's not that we have a lot of oil, it's that it's the only game in town. You know, Nigeria is a society of about 200 million people, cruises about 2 million barrels of oil a day. That's like a 100th of a barrel of oil per capita. That's 100th of a $60. That's 60 cents. That's not much money that's coming out of here, right? So it's not that you have a lot of oil, it's that it's the only game in town. And that's a reflection of how little The company has got more things with the possible exception of Nollywood. Tobi Lawson You've finished Nigeria, I wouldn't just say Nollywood, sectors like telecommunications have been booming in the last 20 years. But looking broadly.... Ricardo Hausmann Wait, one second, one second, one second, that has allowed Nigerians to call each other. But that opens an enormous opportunity now, because one of the things that COVID has taught us is that many things that we used to do in the office, we can do from home. But anything that can be done from home, can be done from abroad. So there are many, many tasks that are currently done in rich countries. But that could be done by zoom in poor countries, in less developed countries. And that opens up new avenues for diversification, it will open up, you know, the possibility to participate in value chains that were unthinkable before, because people thought that, you know, the people doing those tasks had to live there. Now, we know that they don't have to live there. So you know, one message for all the youth in Nigeria, is that there's plenty of work in platforms like Upwork, and other such platforms where you can find jobs to do on the web. And that's thanks to the fact that you have you know, ICT information communication technology that has diffuse, but so far, that  diffusion has not changed what Nigeria is able to sell abroad. And that's, I think, where we have to aim, I mean, forms of livelihood, for Nigerians in Nigeria, by selling to people in the rest of the world Tobi Lawson Looking at your economic complexity approach to development, from your writings, and the writings of other scholars in that school, a society that knows how to do many things will grow rich, but how do we square that with the works of people like Robert Wade, who stressed the importance of manufacturing and industrialization in achieving growth and development? How should policymakers think about the knowledge we are getting from the sub discipline of economic developmentRicardo Hausmann Manufacturing was a very, very important stepping stone, for many of the societies that became rich, it was a very important stepping stone, because manufacturing require relatively low skilled labour. So it was easy to take people out of agriculture, with little education, put them in manufacturing, and manufacturing was, you know, generating much higher levels of productivity in agriculture at the time, and the levels of productivity manufacturing worldwide. So, for East Asia, this movement of people from agriculture to manufacturing was a very important stepping stone in the process of development. Some people think that manufacturing has become less unskilled labour intensive, it has become more skill intensive and more capital intensive. So it doesn't necessarily generate as many jobs as before and there aren't that many sort of like entry level jobs as as before. But I think they're still there. They're still there. So I think that, you know, a prosperous Nigeria would have much more manufacturing than it has today and creating the ecosystem for that manufacturing to happen is very important. And for that, I think that creating the ecosystem means what? It means that needs spaces where people can locate their factories, say, so that workers can go in and out efficiently and not spend two hours going there and two hours back home, that the materials can get in and out that you're relatively close to an efficient port, where you can bring materials from the rest of the world or send materials to the rest of the world, that you can participate in global value chain so that you give up on this idea that everything that you want to manufacture has to be manufactured with locally available raw materials, which is one of the most destructive ideas that is very popular in Africa that you want to, as you say, what's the term that you use there "beneficiate" your raw materials locally, and that that's like the angle of development. We can elaborate but that's a very, very dangerous and counterproductive idea. So you will need you know, a place that has electricity, water, security. So creating those spaces where manufacturing can thrive definitely is a path going forward and I would I would put the less attention to some of the things that goes by the older industrial policy name, and more attention to just making sure that you create spaces where a Nigerian manufacturer can be very, very productive. Tobi Lawson Let's talk a bit about the political economy of this. What exactly is the role of the state because what mostly obtains in countries like Nigeria, and the rest is heavy state involvement in trying to industrialise and doing industrial policy, allocate resources and credit and, there isn't more emphasis on the role of the private sector and even in the market. So how important is the state in this process, and what exactly is the role of the state in nurturing a growing economy? Ricardo Hausmann So, I think that the role of the state is huge. But it has to be smart, it has to be complimentary, it has to enhance the possibilities of the rest of society and not substitute the possibilities of the rest of society. So let me give you an example. Every technology you can imagine, is a combination of some things that you can buy in the market, and some things that cannot be purchased in the market that either they are provided by the state, or they're not provided. So you know, there is a market for cars, and you can go out and buy a car and different kinds of cars. There's no market for roads, or for traffic lights, or for driving rules, or for traffic police. So a car is a private good, it exists in a universe full of public goods. If the state does not provide the roads, the cars are not very useful, right? That's what I mean by the state complementing the rest of society. So society can organise some things and not others. So it's very important that the state be very good at providing the things that cannot be provided by markets. And those are quite a few. So for example, electricity penetration in Nigeria is still very low and remains a very, very significant obstacle to progress in spite of massive investments in that area. So electricity, you know, an efficient port system and efficient road system, and efficient urban transportation system, public education, you know no public health, there are so many so many tasks. Now in learning, things that can be done by markets, there's also a lot that can be done, let me tell you a little bit of a secret of the US success. If you look at Silicon Valley, for example, well, let's look first at the US as a whole, the US as a whole 14% of the population of the US is foreign born. But, if you look at the entrepreneurs in the US, 29% are foreign born. So the foreign born represent you know double the share of the entrepreneurs, than they represent the share of the population. If you look in Silicon Valley, and everybody's trying to imitate Silicon Valley, 54% of the science, technology, engineering and math workers of Silicon Valley, the stem workers 54% are foreign born, and the other 46% were not born in California, even though California is a state that has 40 million people. So the secret of Silicon Valley, is not that they have fantastic school systems and fantastic universities, and so on and so forth. It is really that they're able to attract global talent and one of the things that Africa has done in general, is that it has closed itself to the attraction of foreign talent. In many countries, it's very hard to get a visa to become a permanent resident or work permit. There is no path to citizenship. There are restrictions in how many foreigners a firm can hire, etc, etc. So, you know, in Africa, many countries cannot stop their citizens from going and working abroad. But the countries are very effective in preventing foreigners to come in, except at the very low end. So, one of the things that you want to think about in order to industrialise and to get into other things is to be able to attract talent, global talent that is capable of enhancing the capabilities you have. There's no shame in doing that. That's how it's being done in the in the rich countries. You know, everybody wants to become Singapore. But they don't know that Singapore is 45% foreign born. Singapore is what it is because it's able to attract global talent. So, you know, a lot of the improvements in the South African financial system is because they were able to attract all the Zimbabweans that were leaving Mugabe and get jobs, you know, all the educated Zimbabweans moved to South Africa. And that was very good for South Africa. So there's a lot in terms of attracting new know-how that can be done by trying to attract foreign talent. Another thing that you can do is to leverage your diaspora. Most African countries have a very significant diaspora. Much of that diaspora is in richer countries more developed countries and that diaspora is being exposed to new ways of doing business, to new industries, to new ideas, they can become a very, very important source of diversification of progress that has been documented by analysts at cellion, for the case of Taiwan, for the case of India, for the case of Israel, for many instances in which diasporas were very important in transforming the opportunities of the country. So, you want to leverage all of these things that can allow society to become more productive, more capable, more able to do more things. And no, the role of the government is in some sense not to prevent that from happening, to complement that with all the things that cannot be organised through markets, through private firms, and then, you know, maybe here and there, there's an additional space for, you know, focusing things, you know, just if there were good industrial zones, well connected by infrastructure ports, were supplied by electricity and water, well connected to places where workers live through an urban transport system, and so on. I'm sure that a lot of people would look into doing manufacturing in Nigeria. Tobi LawsonI want to get more from your answer by extending that question to state capacity. So many scholars have argued that state capacity is even the secret sauce, so to speak, of the success of East Asia, including China, and you get the impression that a state has to have fully formed capacity to deliver on so many things before it can then nurture growth and development. But you have argued in one of your lectures that I just saw that there is a coevolution, that happens between the state and the economy in terms of capabilities. So how does this co evolution work in practice, as opposed to the standard view of a fully formed capable state? Ricardo Hausmann Some people would like to say, Well, you know, first you have to have a capable state, and then you can have development. But until you get a capable state, you cannot get development. So focus on getting a capable state. But then you ask yourself the question, and how is that capable state going to rise? What's going to find that capable state if it's not a society that is able to pay the taxes and so on to feed that capable state. So So in fact, what you ended up having is a society that needs to develop in order to feed a more capable state, and a more capable state that is able to help society continuous development process. So at every point in time, you have states of very different capacities. And as a consequence, societies have a certain level of capacity consistent with that capacity of the state. So what you end up having is, the more society develops, the more resources can be put available to the state for it to do its thing. And the more the state does its thing, the more the society can develop. So these things are growing at the same time, or they're growing together. But a very important important question that you have to ask yourself, when you're thinking about the state, you're thinking about the Nigerian state. Now, what does it mean to be Nigerian? Who is Nigerian? Who is included in being Nigerian? When the state acts on behalf of Nigerians? It acts on behalf of whom? Is that on behalf of the Hausa? Does it act on behalf of the Yoruba? Does it act on behalf of the ibo? What does it mean to be Ibo and Nigerian or Hausa and Nigeria? How many things do you want to be decided in Abuja? And how many things we want to have decided at the different states, state government? So you have a relatively federal structure in Nigeria? Is that because you think that people have stronger regional identities than they have for a national identity? When you talk about Japan, or you talk about Korea, you're talking about societies that are internally very homogeneous. A Japanese person is somebody who speaks Japanese. A Korean person is somebody who speaks Korean. How many languages are spoken in Nigeria? Tobi Lawson (interjects) About 500… Ricardo Hausmann So obviously, it's not having a state is somebody's state, whose state is it? So I think one of the things that is a challenge is the construction of a Nigerian identity that can support the state. Right? Because the state is underpinned by a certain sense of us. The state is our state, it is done for us. It is how we do things collectively and it's Very important to clarify what do we mean by that we, who is inside the way, who's not inside the we, who is us, who's not us and those things are what makes often no state development difficult. Because, you know, if some people think that the state is going to be favouring some other group, then you would rather have a weak state than a state controlled by somebody who's not you and those things makes statecraft harder. Tobi LawsonI mean, devolution of powers from the centre is one of the conversations that Nigeria is having right now, especially in the light of the recent insecurity, issues and poverty, we would see how that works. But let me quickly pick up on another theme. Politicians usually valourize the role of small businesses in our economy, but in one of your essays that has made a very big impression on me. You took a different approach by looking at the role of big businesses in nurturing development and enrichment. Can you expatiate a bit on the role of big businesses in an economy. Ricardo HausmannSo I think when you have a very developed society, you tend to have, you know, markets for every possible input you want. You want electricity, somebody sells electricity, you want to photocopy or you want to print this stuff, there is a store that prints stuff for you, you want to design a campaign ad or television ad or cover it, you know, there's some people that design that. So you can start a business and buy everything else from the stuff that people produce around you. Right, so all of your possible inputs are things that other firms can do for you. So you can start small, and buy everything you need from everybody else. When you start in a less developed society. Many of those things that you wish you could buy from everybody else are just not there. And maybe you have to self provide your own electricity, maybe you'll have to print your own stuff, maybe you'll have to design your own covers, maybe we'll have to have all of these things done inside the company, because there are no reliable suppliers outside the company. So as a consequence, you know, modern firms tend to start bigger in less developed countries than in more developed countries, in more developed countries, you can just rely on other people doing stuff for you. As a consequence, no existing Corporation, or in some sense, organisations that have developed the capacity to provide internally things that markets cannot do for them. So once they exist, they have typically financial capital, they have a managerial capital, they have a reputational capital, that allows them to make it much easier for them to start a new line of business. You know, the Silicon Valley way to start a new line of business is that you create a startup, a startup is very easy to create in Silicon Valley, or in a very advanced place, because everything that the startup needs they can buy out there. But in the place where you cannot buy everything out there. You cannot start that small. But a corporation, a conglomerate, if it were to decide to diversify into more line of business, it could just reallocate some of its managers, it could reallocate some of its cash flows. It could because of its reputation, it could do joint ventures with other companies, maybe some foreign company or something that can bring in some technology and they can do things as a group that a startup cannot do. So that's why I wrote this piece saying, you know, a conglomerates can be and war in the case of Japan and Korea, a fundamental story of the growth process. Japan and Korea diversified because Toyota, Mitsubishi, di Woo, Samsung diversified internally as conglomerates. Right? It's not that just more companies appeared, it's that those companies diversified. So, I think that it's an important avenue for growth that a country should consider, but,  conglomerates can come You know, can be a force for good or they can be a force for bad either. conglomerates can just become you know, monopolist in one industry move to the next industry and become a monopolist there move to next industry and become a monopolist there and then suddenly become a huge barrier to entry for other people. It's very important that the conglomerates do well and this was the case of Japan and Korea, They are exporters, you tolerate conglomerates because they are exporters', a conglomerate that only sells domestically. It's like one of the local football teams. A conglomerate that exports is like the the national team. It's like the one that's playing at the World Cup. It's facing massive competition from other companies in other countries. So it deserves all the support of society. But a conglomerate that only sells domestically, you know, it has the danger of just becoming the local monopolist and stifling everybody else from competing against them. So, conglomerates can be a stepping stone, can be an avenue for growth, but they have to be good conglomerates. Tobi Lawson Let's talk about trade and I will set the scenario this way, a little over a year ago, about a year and a half. Nigeria closed its borders to all forms of trade. The justification was that the country is far too much of a dumping ground, especially for agricultural products, which we can actually produce locally. They were extreme measures to prevent imports of some of these products and the result, some would argue, as they argued against the move at the time, has been disastrous. Food inflation is through the roof, people became poorer. People are having to spend more on food than anything else, mostly vulnerable households. But you still hear people, either policymakers or even intellectuals, say that these are necessary sacrifices that developing countries have to make in order to industrialise. You have people like Ha Joon Chang, who provide intellectual guidance for this view, and that the West in its own process of industrialization went through much of the same thing, as a scholar who has also done a lot of work on trade for a poor developing country. What is the right way to think about trade policy? Ricardo HausmannOkay, first of all, let's separate trade from just macro-economic mismanagement. Because a lot of the problem of Nigeria comes not from trade mismanagement, but from the trade consequences of macro-economic mismanagement, you have exchange controls, dual exchange rate regimes, etc. That's not because you want to have an industrial policy. That's because you have messed up your macro policies. That is you have a government that has a deficit that is insufficiently finance. So it has to print money to finance it. As it prints the money, the dollar goes through the roof, the naira tanks, right. And then the government doesn't like that, And it wants to say that, you know, it's running out of foreign exchange. So it puts exchange controls, it tries to limit people's access to dollars, and so on. And in that context, it creates an environment where it's very hard for companies to get tools and machines from abroad, it's very hard for them to get raw materials, intermediate inputs, spare parts from abroad and it just makes them extremely unproductive and as a consequence, they have uncompetitive products that they cannot sell anywhere else, but in Nigeria, through enormous protection. Now, trying to do things without importing the tools, the raw materials, the intermediate inputs, the spare parts, is just trying to do things in a very, very difficult way. It's trying to, you know, as my father likes to say, "Why make things difficult if you can make them impossible," the way the world works, is that you don't have to make everything yourself. You just have to do some steps that add value to the things that they that you're going to put together. I remember having a conversation with Governor Fashola in Legos. And he's saying, you know, we want to have a furniture industry. So we want to prohibit the imports of foreign wood for furniture, we want it done with Nigerian wood, and said, You know, you're the governor of Lagos, not all furniture has to be made out of wood, could be made out of metals, it could be made out of plastics, it could be made out of other materials, right and all of the materials you want for furniture industry, or as far as the Lagos sport. So if you want a furniture industry, by all means have a furniture industry, but don't dump on the furniture industry the responsibility of only making furniture by buying inputs in Nigeria, because that's a recipe for disaster. If for some reason your inputs you couldn't buy in Nigeria for x or y or you could buy some inputs and not the others. Like you can buy two legs of the chair but not the other two legs. Well, then that's not a chair. So focus on making sure that your units of production have what it takes for them to succeed and that often implies access to the raw materials that intermediate inputs, the tools, spare parts that no Nigeria doesn't currently make. But that's fine. That's how East Asia did it. If you look at, you know, they started exporting garments, they weren't making the textiles, and they weren't making the fibres, and they weren't making the cotton. They started cutting and sewing and then they move from cutting and sewing to designing the shirts and so on, then they move to making the textiles then they move to maybe making the artificial threads that went into new forms of textiles and they did that gradually. But they did not start by closing themselves off from all the inputs that the world produces, and that you could use to make stuff in Nigeria. So I would say the problem in Nigeria, is that you have a fiscal problem that is being solved by printing too much money that generates an exchange rate mess, that exchange rate mess, creates an environment that makes it very difficult for companies to operate. And in that process, it generates an overvalued exchange rate, which makes manufacturing artificially uncompetitive, and you get less of it, not more of it, less of it because you want, you know, you're constraining the exchange rate at which they could be exporting. And you're constraining their access to raw materials and intermediate inputs. So if anything, you're hurting the chances for growth, not helping them. Tobi Lawson Part of the reasons asscribed to countries like Nigeria, finding it impossible to industrialise, or even diversify their sources of income is the "resource curse" hypothesis. First of all,  is this a real thing, are countries like Venezuela and Nigeria poor because of the so called Dutch disease? And secondly, how do countries that are also resource rich like Norway and Australia, who are rich and highly developed? How did they manage to break out of the "resource curse." Ricardo Hausmann So there are different interpretations of the resource curse when the Dutch disease was coined. It was coined because there was a boom in the Netherlands of a natural gas exports. And those natural gas exports meant that they were exporting a lot, generating a lot of foreign exchange, and their local currency strengthened and that strengthening of the local currency made the rest of the economy uncompetitive. So, if that were the problem, then that would have been a problem in 2007 In Nigeria when the price of oil reached $140 a barrel. But then it goes away as a problem now after 2014 when the price of oil went under $40. Right. So that's no longer the problem, right? I mean, Nigeria's exports of oil are coming down, oil production is stagnant, domestic oil consumption is up. So oil exports are going nowhere, and the price of oil is now lower than it was 10 years ago. Okay. So excess of foreign exchange that used to be called the Dutch disease is no longer a problem. I wrote a paper with my colleague Roberto Rigobon, saying that the problem may not be just how much foreign exchange your oil makes, but just the fact that it's a very volatile amount. Now that it goes up in some years down another year. So the exchange rate as a consequence is very unstable and unpredictable and it makes business in the country, very risky, because you don't know what is the exchange rate or you're going to face and that's not so much because you have a lot of oil, it's just because oil income is very volatile. So that's a separate problem. And that one typically has to be addressed by having some mechanism that stabilises government finances. So you have to run a government that has unstable income and wants to have stable spending programmes. So you want kids to be able to go to school every year. You want roads cleaned and repaired every year. You want to have the hospitals open every year. You want to police services every year but your income is going up and down. How do you do that? That's a problem of stabilising the government accounts and that's a different kind of problem of living with oil. A third problem of living with oil is something that they call rent-seeking. That is, all the money is in the government, then people who are very entrepreneurial, instead of setting up businesses may dedicate themselves to trying to grab the money that the government has. And so it distorts the incentives of society from, you know, doing things that are productive to doing things that are unproductive but profitable in just trying to seek the rents that the state has. I honestly, don't think that that's that big of a problem in Nigeria, given how small our oil revenues, vis a vis, the size of the society. So I think the big puzzle in Nigeria is why the country has not diversified more, given how little oil it has, you know, in a country like Kuwait or in a country like the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, you know, you can ask yourself a question, Well, why would they diversify, they have so much foreign exchange that they don't know what to do with it? The question in Nigeria is why have you not diversified in spite of the fact that oil is generating so little revenue these days? Tobi LawsonI'll just ask you a few off the cuff question, what is your opinion on on the so called Washington Consensus, has it failed In Africa or Latin America? Is it misunderstood? Do developing countries need to think beyond macroeconomic stability and all the other recipes proposed by the IMF? What was the way to think about this? Ricardo Hausmann Okay, so the Washington Consensus is a term that was coined by John Williamson who just passed away a week or two ago in a seminar in 1989 or 1990. I think it was 1990, a seminar that was called 'Latin American adjustment, how much has happened?' So it was really a Latin American question. Latin America was in a debt crisis, the debt crisis was associated with the fact that during the oil boom of the 1970s, it had borrowed too much money, then it was unable to pay that money and it was mired in, in a debt crisis and the question is, how do you get out of there and john Williamson said, there are these 10 things that sort of like Washington institutions agree, would be good to sort of like get out of the Latin American debt crisis. But then these 10 things became like the 10 commandments. You can take them to Eastern Europe, you can take them to sub Saharan Africa, you can take them to North Africa and the Middle East. You take them out of context, and they're supposed to work marvels no matter what. It's, it's it, in my mind, policies have to be solutions to problems. Tell me the problem, let's design a solution. It's not here are 10 solutions. You haven't told me what the problem is. So I think that policies have to be problem driven, and not solution driven and Washington Consensus is a set of solutions without a problem. So in my mind, it ended up creating an environment in which people stopped thinking about what are the policies that they need to adopt, and just as to whether they have or haven't adopted the 10 policies in the list, even if those 10 policies in the list wouldn't solve the problem that we're trying to solve? Because, you know, you haven't even asked the question, what is the problem you're trying to solve? So that's why, with my colleagues, Andres Velasco and Dani Rodrik, we develop this idea of growth diagnostics, that the first thing you have to do is to try to understand what the problem is and once you have a clear idea of what the nature of the problem is, then let's explore the solution space and most likely, you're not going to end in the Washington Consensus, because you know, it will be a coincidence that you do. So from a certain point of view, the worst thing that was delivered by the Washington Consensus, is that it encouraged people to stop thinking of what the right policies are and just assuming that they have an implemented as list of policies that may not be the right ones. Tobi LawsonYou've also been in government in Venezuela. So I'll ask you, what you think holds up the use of knowledge by policymakers? Or should I say what prevents the right diagnosis of the problems that some poor countries have? Because, what you find is that and Nigeria is also a good example of this. What you find is that a lot of these countries, even though different administrations different political actors, they come into power and repeat the same policies that have been tried in the past and failed. So, what prevents the diffusion of knowledge at a governmental level? Ricardo HausmannWell, I mean, I think that people do not act on the basis of how they see the world on the ideas that they have in their heads, and on the interpretations they make of the world. So ideas can change the world, if they change how people think about the world, how people interpret the world, how, how those ideas, help them to think how to act on the world. And I'm an optimist in the sense that I've tried to develop ideas, diffuse ideas, train people, educate people, work with governments, try to help them think through issues that they face. That's why I created the growth lab, the growth lab is a group of about 50 people, and we not only do fundamental research on the issues of economic development and growth. But, we also work with countries around the world, trying to help them think through these issues and we also you know, teach and educate them, and so on. So, I think ideas have a complicated way of diffusing. I think a lot of the problems in the world are related to the diffusion or the popularity of some bad ideas and if I didn't believe that I wouldn't be in the business of trying to produce new ideas, diffuse good ideas, and so on, or what I think are good ideas. So for example, I think that the Washington Consensus has been pretty much superseded by the idea that policies have to be solutions to problems and not solutions in search of a problem and that you don't start by assuming that you know, what the solution is, before you clarify what the nature of the problem is and I think those ideas have permeated even, you know, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and so on, with difficulty, because the alternative paradigm is still popular. I mean, this whole idea of best practices, very dangerous idea, it supposes that people know how to do things, like here's the right the right way to do things, which presumes something like, you know, there is the perfect suit and you know, there's no such thing as a perfect suit, there's only a perfectly tailored suit, and everybody has a different body. So you have to tailor the suit differently and there's a lot of detail in the tailoring. So one thing is how do you defuse better ideas? And the other thing is, is it a problem of politicians not wanting to know, because the ideas they have, are an expression more of their interests than not their knowledge? It's like they like the idea because it advances their interests? Or is it just that they are wrong, or they have the wrong view of the world and you know, there's a big debate on whether its interests or whether it's ideas, the nature of the problem. I'm an optimist in the sense that I think that a lot of the things that happen in the world can be fixed by proving the ideas with which people see the world, analyse the world, interpret the world, think about the world and that's why I'm in the business of, you know, research, and teaching, you know, researching better ideas and teaching about them and by the way, Nigeria is one of the countries that sends more people to our executive education courses at the Harvard Kennedy School. There's, there's a huge community of people who have had some connection with the Harvard Kennedy School in Nigeria and you know, these are the ideas that will teach. So I'm hoping that the, you know, the reason why you have a podcast, the reason why you are trying to promote these discussions is because you also believe that the nature of the ideas with which people think the world is important for progress. That's why you do what you do. Tobi Lawson Thank you. I have a question, the relationship between democracy and development is also one that comes up regularly. I know there is a Acemoglu and Naidu paper that more or less, infer that democracy is good for growth. But lots of people, I will see people with other interests, but that's speculative, would say, Oh, well look at China. China is an authoritarian one party state and look at all the growth they have, what are the nuances on these relationships between democracy and growth or any political system? Ricardo Hausmann So I like very much the ideas about this that have been, you know, growing in a certain political economy literature, where people like Hans Rosling or Mounk or Yascha Mounk, or Dani Rodrik have been proposing, and that's that you really want to distinguish between three different rights. Okay, One is the right of the majority to make decisions about democracy. Right. So, you know, the governments are decided by a majority of people. So that's, you know, making sure that the government represents a significant swath of the population. That's, that's one idea, call that democracy. A second idea, is the idea of some kind of universal rights, that they yes, no, you might be in the minority. But that doesn't mean that the majority can kill, you can expropriate, you can harm you and torture you. Right, that there are some inalienable rights that are protected for everybody, whether you're in the majority or in the minority. And that's different. That's an idea that is often associated with liberalism. So the idea of liberal democracy is this funny balance between the majority rules, but everybody has some guarantees, right and then there is the third problem. So this second problem is called individual rights, it's very important if you're going to have something like a market economy, because if property is going to be poorly distributed as as it is everywhere, then if the majority decides to expropriate the minority, then the minority is not going to play ball and if they are the ones that have dropped the knowledge, their capacity to organise businesses and so on, they don't play ball, then there's no development. So you have to balance this individual rights with these with the idea of majority rule and on top of that, you may have other rights, a social rights that that people might want to have protected, you know, the majority might be a Muslim, and and there's a Christian minority or vice versa, do the social rights of the minority, are they protected? So there's like individual rights, social rights and majority rule and when we say democracy, we don't necessarily make these distinctions. But, what I will tell you is that the protection of individual rights is fundamental. That majority rule is also important, that these two things making them compatible is difficult and what makes it difficult to make it compatible is that somebody has to tell the majority, the elected government, the majority of society, you cannot do these things to the others and who's that thing? Well, it's suppose it's, it's an independent judiciary, something that is not under majority rule and those are the things that these populists like to destroy.  These checks and balances, that are in the system to defend the rights of the individual or the rights of minorities. So I will tell you that democracy if it's majority rule, that does not protect the rights of the individual is not going to be good for development and a lot of the development of the 19th century in Europe, happen in liberal governments, that is governments that protected individual rights, that were not democratic. So I would, instead of asking the question, you know, democracy, good or bad, I would ask the question, majority rule, individual rights, minority social rights, are they being protected? And obviously, it's great if you have all three. But let's not assume that just because you have majority rule you have all three. Tobi LawsonWhat about the issue of globalisation? I know your colleague, Dani Rodrik has written about this, he has this famous trilemma. How much should developing countries worry about things like the globalisation of capital, the level of interconnectedness of the economies with the developed countries and other parts of the world and some of the risk that may come with that, like the global financial crisis of 2008. So how should developing countries think about this, we also have the Asian Financial currency crisis of 1997 as a backdrop. Ricardo  Hausmann So as a backdrop, so the way I think about it is that, you know, Nigeria is a country of 200 million people give or take, that give or take is about 3% of the world population. If ideas were one per capita, then 97% of the ideas are outside of Nigeria and you want to use all of the ideas available to create progress in Nigeria. So you want Nigeria to connect to this global social brain. So inserting Nigeria in the flow of these ideas, these know-hows, these technologies, these ways of doing things is very important for Nigeria's development and this quote unquote, 'globalisation' this interconnection. Now people emphasize a lot, on capital flows and, or maybe goods and services. But I want to emphasise insertion of Nigeria into other flows into the flows of people Nigerians abroad and how they connect back home that they asked for, or foreigners in Nigeria? How can they bring in stuff? ideas? Know how there was not there before? How do you connect your universities abroad? How you connect your research centres with the rest of the world, etc. So how interconnected are your possibilities with, you know, all the advances of the world. So from that point of view, I will say that globalisation is a force for good. I think that, as I mentioned before, one of the key developments going forward is going to be the fact that a lot of the tasks in the world can be done from anywhere and that creates an opportunity for Nigerians to be able to perform tasks, sell their their ideas, do stuff for the rest of the world, through zoom, or, you know, Microsoft Teams, or whatever. So, you know, right now, we are producing a podcast, you're in Nigeria, I'm in the US, we didn't ask permission for anybody to do this, we're producing something jointly and you wouldn't want a world where this becomes illegal or becomes regulated or restricted. So I think that these opportunities are probably more valuable for developing countries and therefore developed countries, it's a very important stepping stone forward. So I hope the world remains sufficiently open, so that the countries in the global south are able to tap into the flows of progress that are happening elsewhere in the world. Now, that doesn't mean that you have to renounce national sovereignty too much. But it's very important to understand that there are two competing goals. One goal is to have sovereign policy. So every polity, every political community can decide more or less what it is that they want to do and that's a good thing. The other good thing is to have common policies that, you know, if we can agree on, you know, whether computers are going to run 120 volts, or 240 volts, doesn't really matter. They can work equally well, at 120, or 240. But if we have a standard, it's easier for everybody, so my stuff can work in your country and your stuff can work in my country. So having common policies is also good, and to the extent that a lot of the human interactions are happening between people who belong to different political jurisdictions, you know, people who are in different countries, then the value of common rules becomes that much more important. I like to say that sovereign state can be half a bridge over say, the river that separates it from the neighbouring country, but the other half of the bridge has to be built by the other country and on half a bridge, you don't get half the traffic, you get zero. So there is some value of having common rules. I think part of the tension that is at the core of this is that there is a good thing of having sovereign national rules that the local political community can agree on, and have in common rules, rules that are respected both by us and by people in the rest of the world that are interacting with us and that that tension is a little bit what the world is trying to figure out. But, the forces that are favouring deeper globalisation, I think are technological in nature and they're very powerful they are not, it used to be the decline in the cost of transportation. Now, it's incredible expansion of the ability to move information around and you know, you just see by the magnitude of just the number of things that are available online for you to watch whether it's Netflix or Amazon Prime, 500 different television channels, and the news of the world, etc. You would want every society to have access to COVID-19 vaccines, you wouldn't want every society to have to produce its own vaccine. So there's enormous benefits from a world where international interactions are deeper, we just need to figure out what's the political arrangements that makes that as compatible as possible with local preferences. Tobi Lawson What about inequality, which is also a very topical issue now, whether it's on TV or Davos, talking, everybody's worried about inequality issue. Is the optimal point for poor countries or developing countries to start seeing these as a problem. So what I'm saying is, do countries need to concentrate on growth first, is there a trade off, because most of the remedies to inequality at least the policy proposals involve redistribution and poor economies may not have the fiscal capacity, some attempt it, but they may not have the capacity to do the kind of redistribution that some politicians are proposing to deal with the problem. So how do you think about this? Ricardo Hausmann So I think it's very important to finish the sentence, inequality of what, because if we don't specify the what we don't know what we're talking about, and I think that a lot of the discussion presumes a what we are concerned about what inequality we're concerned about and a lot of the discussion is what you might want to call the inequality of income and the idea out there is that there's sort of like a national pie, and some people are getting very big slices of the national pie and other people are getting small slices of the national pie. And then as you say, maybe can we redistribute how people are slicing the national pie. But an alternative way of thinking about this is that there is really no national pie. There are different pies that are being baked by different organisations, by companies or firms of a different size, and so on and so in reality, what you have is an enormous inequality in the sizes of the pies that different parts of society are baking. Okay, so it's inequality in the sizes of the pie, not in the way each pie is being sliced. Imagine that each pie is a corporation, it's a company or an organisation of some kind. Well, we know some of them are informal family, micro enterprises, and some are, you know, bigger companies, and so on. So, and inside each one of them, there is a division of, of the pie in slices. But what would strike you is enormous inequality in the sizes of these pies, to call it by another name, there is enormous inequality in productivity. There are some parts of society that are operating at very low levels of productivity, you know, I drove from Abuja to Kaduna and then on to Kano, and I stopped in a bunch of rural villages, and I looked at the farms and how they were farming and how much corn they were getting per hectare, and how many hectares they had to produce, and how they were doing things. Amazingly low productivity farms, where, you know, farmers would be able working very, very hard to tender to one or two hectares, and at very low productivity and very low incomes. So one thing I really worry a lot about is what can we do to reduce the inequality in productivities and I think that the inequalities in productivities, are very large, because there's many people who are excluded from access to the things that will make them more productive to the networks of energy, or transportation, of labour markets, of knowledge, of agricultural extension services, of value chains, of storage facilities, of logistics, and so on, that would allow their work to be much more productive. So to me, a strategy of inclusion, so as to make everybody's work more productive, especially the ones that are operating at the lowest level of productivity gains, that would be good for growth, because growth has to do with how productive are people and you're able to make them more productive, output will be higher. So it's a strategy for growth. But because we're focusing on the least productive and making them more productive, you're also reducing income inequality. So our strategy for inclusion is a win-win strategy. It's a strategy that makes everybody better off and it would reduce inequality to strategy for growth. It's a strategy that would reduce inequality, a strategy of redistribution. It's sort of like compensating people for their exclusion, saying, Well, given that, you know, you have to operate in a place where there's no electricity, there's no irrigation, or no good roads, there's no storage facilities, there's no logistics, you know, so there's nobody to take your crop when it's time and it's starting to run. So you have to sell it at whatever price you can get. So we live in an environment that is very unproductive and because of that, here's a check, or here's some money. Well, that's compensating them for the fact that they cannot operate in a more productive environment, and that that's a very, very secondary improvement. These people would be much happier. If instead of compensating them for their exclusion, you would stop excluding them and focus on including them and that can be as expensive or more expensive from a fiscal space point of view than redistribution. But it implies a completely different way to think about the problem and to allocate resources. So I think that what less developed societies need is a strategy for inclusion because it's Win win and because it's better. Tobi Lawson Africa is currently at about 50% urbanisation and that's projected to reach about 75% by the middle of the century. We are quite worried about our cities, overpopulation, infrastructure, and so many other things. What do you think of new ideas and development that are coming up, like charter cities, these was first proposed by Paul Romer, a little over a decade ago, but it's gaining some traction in some circles. I know there are experiments in Honduras, and some other places, what's your opinion about fancy ideas or  radical ideas like this?Ricardo HausmannSo first of all, I think the fact that Africa is urbanising is potentially a very good thing. You're mentioning that, you know, it's dangerous, because it might require more infrastructure and so on. Well, the truth is, it's cheaper to provide infrastructure and public services in urban areas than in rural areas. So it just makes, you know, the lack of provision of infrastructure more visible maybe. But it's cheaper to provide that infrastructure in urban areas than it is in rural areas. So in principle, urbanisation can be a good thing. Unfortunately, Africa has figured out ways, and Latin America too, to make cities that are poor, and that are disastrous, and that suddenly, you might get the increases in crime and insecurity and other sorts of problems that were not there in rural life. So it's very important to get urbanisation right and I think that a critical determinant of whether a city is successful or is not successful, is one of the things that can be done in the city, and sold outside of the city, or to people who live outside of the city, every place in the country and every place in the world is dependent on being able to buy things that it doesn't make and the way to buy things that you don't make is to trade for them and for that, you have to make things that are bought by people outside of their place. So whether it's a village, whether it's a state, whether it's a city or a country, it's very, very important that you have things that you can sell to people who live outside of your place. So you can trade for the things that your place doesn't do and what we found is many cities just don't develop those things and they end up for example, one of the reasons why capital cities are so big, it's because the way they get money is by taxing the rest of the country and spending the money. But it's not that the city itself is a source of activity and wealth and production and so on. So that's why it's so important that we get cities that are competitive in a line of things that can be sold outside the city. That's the critical thing. I am not particularly enamoured by the idea that charter city is a solution for something. The idea that Paul Romer deservedly won the Nobel Prize for making us understand how difficult it is to explain growth and he has a theory of, you know, what does it take to explain global growth, that is growth at the technological frontier of the world. He doesn't really have a theory of what explains why some countries catch up and other countries don't catch up. What explains the distance that countries have relative to the technological frontier? It's a country like Singapore, with a income per capita, say of 60,000? Why are countries at $1,000 or $2,000 so? What can you do to get to $60,000? Paul Romer's contribution to economics doesn't answer that question. It asks, What determines the rate of growth of countries that are at $60,000? So he, in some sense, borrowed the idea of the problem why countries are not at $60,000 the things that prevent you from being at the technological frontier. He thinks that the reason why countries don't approach the technological frontier is because they have bad institutions. That's his explanation. That they have bad institutions and, and charter cities are a way of like buying good institutions, important, good institutions and that's his interpretation of what happened in Hong Kong. Hong Kong because of, you know, the settlement of the wars with China, it was given to Britain and it was run by Britain and it was British rules that led to the growth of Hong Kong. So he's saying why can't we make other places like Hong Kong, I will put it to you that the reason why countries don't approach the technological frontier is not necessarily institutions that you can import. It's technology itself. Technology has trouble diffusing. So the distance with technological frontiers is of technological distance and the reason why you don't catch up in that technological distance is because of the nature of technology itself. The kinds of institutions that you can import are not the only thing there was because you know, after all, the British Empire had a bunch of charter cities under British rule. That didn't make Ghana or Bangladesh or Sri Lanka rich, right. So I don't necessarily think that that technological gap can be fixed by the kind of importing of institutions by chartering your city to somebody who knows how to run things. It might be in some sense, a way of importing government technology if you want to put it in my language. So I think that the problem is really trying to understand how technology diffuses, I think the future is a lot in the hands of people that it's much easier to move brains than it is to move know how into brains. That's why I emphasise before migration diasporas promoting foreign direct investment, maybe having your conglomerates internationalise and connect your country to the rest of the world, that it is through these channels that technology flows, and it's those channels that we need to focus on. Tobi Lawson One of my final question will be going further on that note, again, last couple of years, we've seen the rise of the use of RCT in economics research, particularly development economics, built on the work of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, and, I'm Michael Kremer, who are Nobel winners and you can see the idea gained a lot of traction where you have nonprofit organisations like Givewell adopting a lot of the findings from the research from these new school of thought so to speak. What are your impressions of this turn in development economics research, generally, especially the influence on policy? I'll give you an example. Nigeria, for example has been trying we have this national policy of lifting a 100 million people out of poverty. But when you change the proposal, what you will find is this basket of proposals that have been lifted from RCTs, you know, social interventions, cash transfers and they haven't really worked and you will find that international aid organisations and policymakers love them. So, what is your impression of this turn in development economics, have we given up on growth, is that it? Ricardo Hausmann So I think that, you know, randomised controlled trials, RCTs are a tool and, you know, they are very good to answer some questions, they are useless to answer other questions. So for example, if you want to know if it's better, to give money to farmers at the time of harvesting, or give money to farmers at the time of sowing, and in terms of you know, the impact on their well being, and so on, maybe you find that it's better to give farmers money at the time of sowing because then they can use that money to sow and if you give them the money at time of harvesting, then they already have money. So giving them more money at the time when they already have money is not the ideal time to give them money. So so maybe that's something you can answer with a randomised control trial. What kind of structure should a country have? What Social Security structure should a country have? What infrastructure plan should a country have? What exchange rate regime should a country have? What, even educational system should a country have, those things you cannot do RCT on? You know, they're just not the instrument to answer those questions. So if you only do things for which you can do an RCT, you are going to be doing some kinds of things just because, you know, as they say, you look for the keys under the lamppost, not because you lost the keys on the lamppost, it's because it's the only place where you can see something. RCTs I think, have twisted the development agenda away from policies that are probably the most impactful, but for which you cannot do RCTs and into something that my good friend Lance Pritchard likes to call kinky development policies, that they are kinky in the sense that they want to do a small kink. So for example, you can do an RCT and whether putting flip charts in a school improves learning, or whether giving tablets to kids in a school improves learning, or whether taking a picture of teachers when they attend school improves teacher attendance and consequently, student learning. So all of these things you can do an RCT on, you can take a bunch of schools, you do it in some schools or another schools, and you see if it made a difference. But those are answers to super small questions to small kinks, in if you want in the way you do things. They don't go to answer more fundamental questions as to how to organise many, many aspects of society. So in my mind, the idea, by the way, and the answer much less than the promise, for example, they can tell you that if you do it this way, it works better than if you do it that way. If you give micronutrients to children in Guatemala, that it improves their learning. Okay, it doesn't answer two questions. The first question is, how does it do it? Does it do it? Because it improves their nutrition? Does it do it because we connected the family to a set of services that had other benefits for other reasons. For example, you can do an RCT, give half a million people, we force them to smoke and the other half a million people you force them not to smoke and then we look at the difference in cancer rates to see if smoking causes cancer. But, it doesn't tell you what about smoking causes cancer. What is the substance in smoking that triggers the cancer? We learn nothing about the biology of the process, the mechanism of the process and secondly, if you say give macronutrients in Guatemala, and it works, you don't know if it would work in Nigeria or if it would work in Norway, or in Singapore because maybe in other places kids don't have those deficiencies. You can do an RCT to find that, you know, whether if you give tablets to kids in school, you want to know if they can improve learning or not and you find out that it didn't improve learning. What have you learned? Well, you've already learned that that tablet used in that particular way, with that particular teaching materials in the tablet, by teachers trained in that particular way, didn't make much difference. But it doesn't answer the question. If you were to try to improve education in the school, and one of the elements would be the tablet, how should we use the tablet? What teaching materials should the tablet include? How should the teacher use those teaching materials? What should students be expected to do with those teaching materials? and so on? So it doesn't answer any of those questions? It just tells you, you did x, do some didn't have some effect or not have that effect. And as a consequence, I think one of the bad things that the RCT revolution has done is it has tended to put donors and a lot of attention to these small questions that can be answered by RCTs away from the really important questions that may not be answerable to RCTs. Tobi Lawson Do you think that economists should be more involved or influential in the politics in developing economies, for example, it's impossible to know this, but I want to pose the hypothetical anyway. How would Venezuela have fared if you were the president instead of the economic Minister? Ricardo Hausmann So, I think for economics to do its work? Well, it should be a science that answers questions. But that politics should be decided not only on the basis of technical solutions to questions, but also in terms of social preferences of what people want done, what priorities people have, what's more important for them, what do they want? And so I think that science cannot be a substitute of the political process. I think science should participate in the political process. I don't like when people say, you know, government should do what scientists tells them to do. Science doesn't answer the questions that many political systems need to address. For example, science can tell you if there is contagion, or there is a contagion in schools or how much contagion in schools varies. It might help you understand how are people getting infected and how they get

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Spectre Talk Starts 6:44Welcome to the Film Democracy, a live interactive movie review series where The People choose the films to talk about. For this session, The People have selected the 2015 James Bond film, Spectre. The film was written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade & Jez Butterworth and directed by Sam Mendes. Guest: Alec HoelkerINSTACART LINK:https://instacart.oloiyb.net/TJhttps://tjmartino.com/#Podcast #Movies #Spectre #007 #JamesBond #New #Stream #TJMARTINOFIND MY PODCAST:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tj-martino-podcast/id1471246174Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5pEKghD6gLhQuvMdg7Bo8n?si=dWdV_AdVR86zD9GkHJat2AStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-tj-martino-podcastFOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA:Twitter: https://twitter.com/tjmartinoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetjmartinopodcast/Snapchat: tjmartinoApple Music: tjmartinoSoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/artino10

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'Let's Go to the Movies' next episode is a review of "Skyfall" a 2012 spy film and the twenty-third in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. The film is the third to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond and features Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the villain, and Judi Dench as M. Credit: Genre: Action / Adventure Cast: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench Director: Sam Mendes Screenplay By: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan Join this brand new community with Videos every Friday! Get in touch with us: letsgo@momusmedia.com ‘Let’s Go to the Movies’ is a weekly podcast produced by Momus Media LLC featuring Duke Pierce and Oliver Boon. The show features Pierce and Boon discussing Entertainment news and classic movies with a special guest. For more information: Production: www.momusmedia.com Oliver Boon: https://www.instagram.com/oeboon/ Duke Pierce: https://www.instagram.com/duke_p_1999/ Intro and Outro Song Movies, by Barley Waking Up Again ℗ 2013 Barley Released on: 2013-11-05

Host James King explores how the James Bond movies have kept fresh and relevant with some very special guests.The Bond films have always tapped into the anxieties and dreams of audiences. From Cold War powerplay to media power and intrusion, cyberterrorism to globalised businesses fronting international crime networks, the films have always reflected the zeitgeist. We’ll discuss how a character who first appeared in print in 1953 remains relevant to modern audiences and uncover the secret to Bond’s eternal appeal with contributors such as producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and of course Daniel Craig himself. You can also be the first to hear an exclusive score from Hans Zimmer. No Time To Die is in cinemas from November. No Time To Die: The Official James Bond Podcast is produced by Somethin’ Else in association with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Universal Pictures International, United Artists Releasing and EON Productions. Watch the James Bond Collection – Available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital platforms worldwide. SHOW CONTRIBUTORSDaniel CraigCary Joji FukunagaMichael G. WilsonBarbara BroccoliNeal PurvisRobert WadeLéa SeydouxLashana LynchNaomie HarrisRory Kinnear See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Bond - Spectre - The movie Susan manages to catch people as they leave the Gaumont Cinema in Toulouse, after James Bond - Spectre - The movie. A cryptic message from the past leads James Bond (Daniel Craig) to Mexico City and Rome, where he meets the beautiful widow (Monica Bellucci) of an infamous criminal. After infiltrating a secret meeting, 007 uncovers the existence of the sinister organization SPECTRE. Needing the help of the daughter of an old nemesis, he embarks on a mission to find her. As Bond ventures toward the heart of SPECTRE, he discovers a chilling connection between himself and the enemy (Christoph Waltz) he seeks. James Bond - Spectre - The movie (2015) is the twenty-fourth James Bond film produced by Eon Productions. It features Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond, and Christoph Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with the film marking the character's re-introduction into the series. It was directed by Sam Mendes as his second James Bond film following Skyfall, and was written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth. It is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures. With a budget around $245 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made. The story features James Bond's first encounter with the global criminal organisation Spectre, marking the group's first appearance in an Eon Productions film since 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, and tying Craig's series of films together with an overarching storyline. Several recurring James Bond characters, including M, Q and Eve Moneypenny return, with the new additions of Léa Seydoux as Dr. Madeleine Swann, Dave Bautista as Mr. Hinx, Andrew Scott as Max Denbigh and Monica Bellucci as Lucia Sciarra. James Bond - Spectre - The movie was released on 26 October 2015 in the United Kingdom on the same night as the world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London, followed by a worldwide release. It was released in the United States on 6 November 2015. It became the second James Bond film to be screened in IMAX venues after Skyfall, although it was not filmed with IMAX cameras. James Bond - Spectre - The movie generally received mixed reviews from critics in comparison to its predecessor, being criticised for its length and writing, but received praise for the cast's acting, the direction and score. As of 17 November 2015Spectre has grossed $548 million.

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We are back to one of our regular discussion episodes this week, this time taking a look at ‘Casino Royale'. The film was intended to be a complete reboot of the James Bond franchise so we read the screenplay in that light, comparing it to Ian Fleming's 1952 novel of the same name, which first introduced the character of international secret agent James Bond to the world. There is plenty to talk about here, including how to write an ending to a screenplay when you intend it to be the first part of a series of films or a franchise, finding out what exactly is interesting about a character like James Bond, who is so prone to parody, and what needed to be done in order to reinvent him for the twenty-first century. *** Want to comment, get news and join episode discussions? Join the community on Syncify: https://syncify.fm/podcast/the-21st-rewrite. Instagram: @the21strewrite. Website contact page: https://www.the21strewrite.com/contact

Géneros|Comedia y acción. Películas mencionadas: Golfus Jack Seis en la sombra. 2019| Dirige Michael Bay . Escrita por Rhett Reese y Paul Wernick. Deadpool. 2016|Tim Miller. Escrita por Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick. Jhonny English. 2003|Peter Howitt. Escrita por Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, William Davies y Peter Howitt. Agente contrainteligente. 2016|Louis Leterrier. Escrita por Sacha Baron Cohen y Phil Johnston. Hora punta. 1998| Brett Ratner. Escrita por Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna. Fuerzas desarmadas. 2007| C.B. Harding. Escrita por Bear Aderhold y Tom Sullivan. Películas mencionadas: Julio Alejandro Los hermanos sisters. 2018|Jacques Audiard. Escrita por Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain (Novela: Patrick Dewitt) Los hombres que miraban fijamente a las cabras. 2009|Grant Heslov. Escrita por Peter Straughan (Libro: Jon Ronson) Películas mencionadas por Enric Llauradó: 0 Esperamos que nuestro reptiliano favorito vuelva pronto con su sección La review. Email del podcast para cualquier cosilla sobre cine y tv que os molaría que habláramos: funnyindependent@gmail.com

Professor and DJ are back to talk about billion-year-old seaweed found in China. This seaweed is older than the combined ages of all our listeners, but doesn't complain when you say "OK Boomer". It also has no thoughts on how you should live your life. Not many thoughts on anything, really, it's extinct. Professor summarises the development of life to DJ, but since DJ is a robot, he just doesn't get it.Activision are trying some legal tactics to close some leaks while ignoring their own incompetence revealing the new Warzone game mode to the world without the efforts of a leaker. Are they just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic: Modern Zombies Ops 8?This week it's DJ's turn to rant about a missing voice actor. #NOTMYOPTIMUS. A new Transformers series without Michael Bay is in the works from the same people who made the recent Godzilla anime trilogy. Who joins the ranks of the NA wall of wasted cast?Of course, the Nerds talk about games and have some remembrances for some big names this week, Katherine Johnson and Kazuhisa Hashimoto.Stay healthy, and we'll be back next week.Oldest green plant fossil ever found…..billion year old seaweed found in China-https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-25/billion-year-old-chinese-seaweed-discovered-by-scientists/11998720?fbclid=IwAR2MYKIY8PyA_3uPFz1TBtIk3kpa7NM9k6Sq4HIROEu95VDNU5jLttBwNUoActivision’s modern warfare tactic….DMCA takedown-https://torrentfreak.com/activision-subpoenas-reddit-to-identify-call-of-duty-warzone-image-200221/New Transformer anime series coming soon on Netflix- https://ew.com/tv/2020/02/22/transformers-war-for-cybertron-trailer-netflix-anime/-https://comicbook.com/anime/2020/02/25/netflix-transformers-war-for-cybertron-trilogy-siege-plot-synopsis/Games PlayedDJ– Genesis - https://www.genesismoba.com/Rating – 3.5/5Professor– Kingdom - https://store.steampowered.com/app/368230/Kingdom_Classic/Rating – 3/5Other topics discussedWhy programmers hate time (Reddit Link)- https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/5x5ql0/this_is_why_programmers_hate_time/Dugong’s diet (When eating they ingest the whole plant, including the roots. Although almost completely herbivorous, they will occasionally eat invertebrates such as jellyfish,sea squirts, and shellfish.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugong#FeedingWakame (a species of edible seaweed, a type of marine algae, and a sea vegetable. It has a subtly sweet, but distinctive and strong flavour and texture. It is most often served in soups and salads.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WakameSea Lettuce (The sea lettuces comprise the genus Ulva, a group of edible green algae that is widely distributed along the coasts of the world's oceans.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_lettuceCyanobacteria (also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum consisting of free-living photosynthetic bacteria and the endosymbiotic plastids, a sister group to Gloeomargarita, that are present in some eukaryotes.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanobacteriaGreat Oxidation Event (sometimes also called the Great Oxygenation Event, Oxygen Catastrophe, Oxygen Crisis, Oxygen Holocaust, or Oxygen Revolution, was a time period when the Earth's atmosphere and the shallow ocean experienced a rise in oxygen, approximately 2.4 billion years ago (2.4 Ga) to 2.1–2.0 Ga during the Paleoproterozoic era.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_EventTimeline of the evolutionary history of life (This timeline of the evolutionary history of life represents the current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life on planet Earth. In biology,evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Life_timelineOxygen Cycle (The oxygen cycle is the biogeochemical transitions of oxygen atoms between different oxidation states in ions, oxides, and molecules through redox reactions within and between the spheres/reservoirs of the planet Earth)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_cycleStromatolite (layered mounds, columns, and sheet-like sedimentary rocks that were originally formed by the growth of layer upon layer of cyanobacteria, a single-celled photosynthesizing microbe.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StromatoliteCyanobacteria found in Australia- https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanofr.htmlPrototype iPhone left in a bar- https://appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/19/prototype_iphone_was_left_at_bar_by_apple_software_engineerRob Cantor – "Shia LaBeouf" Live- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCILaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner - HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaBeouf,_Rönkkö_%26_Turner#HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US,_2017_%E2%80%93_presentCNN vs Reddit over Trump meme- https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.htmlDecepticon (main antagonists in the fictional universes of the Transformers multimedia franchise.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DecepticonRoosterteeth Shows- Camp Camp - https://roosterteeth.com/series/camp-camp- RWBY - https://roosterteeth.com/series/rwby- Gen:Lock - https://roosterteeth.com/series/gen-lock- Haunter - https://roosterteeth.com/series/achievement-haunterCybertron (Cybertron is the home planet of the Transformers and (usually) the body of their creator, Primus.)- https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_(planet)Vector Prime (Vector Prime is Primus's appointed guardian of time and space.)- https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Vector_PrimeCrocubot (Crocubot is a superhero and a member of The Vindicators. Crocubot is basically part crocodile and part robot, which technically makes him a cyborg.)- https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/CrocubotSwitchBlade (5v5 vehicle game)- https://www.switchbladegame.com/Greed (The Greed are the grey, faceless creatures who swarm and attack the Kingdom at night.)- https://kingdomthegame.fandom.com/wiki/Category:GreedOther Kingdom gamesKingdom: New Lands - https://kingdomthegame.fandom.com/wiki/Kingdom:_New_LandsKingdom: Two Crowns - https://kingdomthegame.fandom.com/wiki/Kingdom:_Two_CrownsKonami Code (cheat code that appears in many Konami video games, and some non-Konami games.)↑↑↓↓←→←→BA- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_CodeJohnny English (2003 spy action comedy film directed by Peter Howitt and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and William Davies.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_EnglishAum Shinrikyo in Banjawarn station- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-10/doomsday-cult-aum-shinrikyo-sarin-gas-tests-at-banjawarn-wa/9401216Aum Shinrikyo Anime Recruitment Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UIyKJwRgaIScared Shitless (TNC Podcast)- https://thatsnotcanon.com/scaredshitlesspodcastShout Outs24 February 2020 – Katherine Johnson passes away - https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/24/us/katherine-johnson-death-scn-trnd/index.htmlKatherine Johnson, an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. During her 35-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist." Johnson's work included calculating trajectories, launch windows and emergency return paths for Project Mercury spaceflights, including those for astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American in orbit, and rendezvous paths for the ApolloLunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon. Her calculations were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, and she worked on plans for a mission to Mars. In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson as a lead character in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. In 2019, Johnson was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Johnson died at a retirement home in Newport News, at age 101. Following her death, Jim Bridenstine, NASA's administrator, described her as "an American hero" and stated that "her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten."25 February 2020 – Kazuhisa Hashimoto, Japanese video game developer, best known for having created the Konami Code passed away – https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/26/tech/kazuhisa-hashimoto-konami-code-dead/index.htmlHashimoto is best known for inventing the ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A hack found in multiple video games that has become a geek touchstone in the gaming community. The cheat code gives you different perks, depending on the game. Hashimoto had inadvertently created it while bringing the arcade version of Gradius to the NES in 1986. Hashimoto knew the arcade version of the game was hard and he would likely not finish it, so he added a sequence of button presses that he could easily remember that gave the ship he controlled in the game the full range of power-ups so that he could easily complete the game for in-house testing purposes. He had intended to remove the programming code for that sequence before the game was shipped, but the game had shipped with the code included. Since then, the Konami code is not only used across other video games from other developers and publishers in similar manners, but as Easter eggs in other forms of media. His death reported by both Konami and by Hashimoto's friend Yuji Takenouchi , a composer and video game sound designer, who tweeted that the code creator died.22 February 2020 – 81 year old man became the oldest man to sail around the world - https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-22/bill-hatfield-oldest-person-to-sail-solo-around-the-world/11991436?fbclid=IwAR0r50t6ZI5eHnBuMxqkmgfPTlUiarwhHzVFFPZo5OrKRR4aI95ezGw6Ll0After four attempts, Bill Hatfield has become the oldest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. The 81-year-old completed his eight-month journey on Saturday morning, sailing into The Spit on the Gold Coast in his 38-foot yacht L'Eau Commotion. The former fisherman from Bundaberg said he'd been dreaming of this achievement since he was seven years old. Mr Hatfield said he lived on strict rations while at sea. "For fresh water I had a desalinator that pumps through a membrane, and my daily diet was a third of a tin of beans, a tin of tuna, 100 grams of rice and flour and oats, and 150 grams of milk powder." The achievement is all the more impressive considering he sailed west, battling against the prevailing winds and currents.22 February 2020 – Michael Hughes popularly known as "Mad" Mike Hughes passed away - https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-22/bill-hatfield-oldest-person-to-sail-solo-around-the-world/11991436?fbclid=IwAR0r50t6ZI5eHnBuMxqkmgfPTlUiarwhHzVFFPZo5OrKRR4aI95ezGw6Ll0Hughes, a self-styled daredevil, flat-Earth theorist and limousine-jumping stuntman, died Saturday when his crudely built contraption propelled him on a column of steam, spiraled through the air and cratered into the sagebrush. The rocket’s green parachute tore away moments after takeoff, sending the crowd of 50 or so people into a panic. In March 2018, Mr Hughes propelled himself almost 600m into the air before a hard landing in the Mojave Desert. After professing his belief in a flat Earth later that year, Hughes gained support within the flat-Earth community. His post-flat-Earth fundraising campaign made its $7,875 goal. He had said he intended to make multiple rocket journeys, culminating in a flight to outer space, where he believed he would be able to take a picture of the entire Earth as a flat disc. He died in Barstow, California at the age of 64.Remembrances27 February 1887 – Alexander Borodin -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_BorodinAlexander Porfiryevich Borodin, Russian chemist and Romantic musical composer of Georgian ancestry. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as "The Mighty Handful", a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of classical music, rather than imitating earlier Western European models. A doctor and chemist by profession, Borodin made important early contributions to organic chemistry. Although he is presently known better as a composer, during his lifetime, he regarded medicine and science as his primary occupations, only practising music and composition in his spare time or when he was ill. As a chemist, Borodin is known best for his work concerning organic synthesis, including being among the first chemists to demonstrate nucleophilic substitution, as well as being the co-discoverer of the aldol reaction. Borodin was a promoter of education in Russia and founded the School of Medicine for Women in Saint Petersburg, where he taught until 1885. He died from heart attack at the age of 54 in Saint Petersburg.27 February 1936 – Ivan Pavlov - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_PavlovRussian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. Inspired by the progressive ideas which D. I. Pisarev, the most eminent of the Russian literary critics of the 1860s, and I. M. Sechenov, the father of Russian physiology, were spreading, Pavlov abandoned his religious career and devoted his life to science. Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904, becoming the first Russian Nobel laureate. Pavlov's principles of classical conditioning have been found to operate across a variety of behavior therapies and in experimental and clinical settings, such as educational classrooms and even reducing phobias with systematic desensitization. Pavlov also contributed to many areas of physiology and neurological sciences. Most of his work involved research in temperament,conditioning and involuntary reflex actions. This research served as a base for broad research on the digestive system. He died from natural causes at the age of 86 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR.27 February 1980 – George Tobias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_TobiasAmerican film and television actor. He had character parts in several major films of Hollywood's Golden Age, but today he is probably best known for his role as Abner Kravitz on the TV sitcom Bewitched. He came to Hollywood in the late Thirties and quickly became a fixture in films of all genres, primarily at Warner Bros. He was a frequent foil for James Cagney and played everything from comedies to dramas and musicals. He died from bladder cancer at the age of 78 in in Los Angeles, California.Famous Birthdays27 February 272 – Constantine the Great – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_GreatKnown as Constantine I, was a Roman Emperor who ruled between AD 306 and 337. As emperor, Constantine enacted administrative, financial, social and military reforms to strengthen the empire. He restructured the government, separating civil and military authorities. To combat inflation he introduced the solidus, a new gold coin that became the standard for Byzantine and European currencies for more than a thousand years. The Roman army was reorganised to consist of mobile units (comitatenses) and garrison troops (limitanei) capable of countering internal threats and barbarian invasions. Constantine pursued successful campaigns against the tribes on the Roman frontiers—the Franks, the Alamanni, the Goths and the Sarmatians—even resettling territories abandoned by his predecessors during the Crisis of the Third Century. Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He has historically been referred to as the "First Christian Emperor" and he did favour the Christian Church. He was born in Naissus, Moesia Superior.27 February 1869 – Alice Hamilton – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_HamiltonAmerican physician, research scientist, and author who is best known as a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology. Her scientific research focused on the study of occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds. Hamilton's best-known research included her studies on carbon monoxide poisoning among American steelworkers, mercury poisoning of hatters, and "a debilitating hand condition developed by workers using jackhammers." In addition to her scientific work, Hamilton was a social-welfare reformer, humanitarian, peace activist, and a resident-volunteer at Hull House in Chicago. She was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, most notably the Albert Lasker Public Service Award for her public-service contributions. She was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York.27 February 1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_LongfellowAmerican poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841). Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized by some, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses. He was born in Portland, Maine.Events of Interest27 February 1980 – “I Will Survive” wins first and last Grammy for Best Disco Recording- https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/i-will-survive-wins-the-firstand-lastgrammy-ever-awarded-for-best-disco-recordingThe National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave disco their stamp of approval, deciding to give a Grammy award for Best Disco Recording, just as the musical style was preparing to die. As popular as the music was on the radio and in the clubs, disco had failed to produce many of the kind of dependable, multi-platinum acts that the industry depended on for its biggest profits. The Best Disco Recording category, recognized by the Grammys for the first time, was summarily eliminated from the following year’s awards.27 February 1994 – TekLab was aired - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111387/On this day in 1994, TekLab aired as one of the telefilms launching William Shatner's TekWar SciFi series. The film starred Greg Evigan and Eugene Clark, and here's the plot summary compliments of IMDB.com: "The actual sword of Excalibur has been stolen in London, and futuristic detectives Jake Cardigan and Sid Gomez are assigned to track it down and to find out who is trying to block the British reign from its rightful heir.".27 February 2004 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack#Aum/Aleph_todayAsahara was sentenced to death by hanging on 27 February 2004, but lawyers immediately appealed the ruling. The Tokyo High Court postponed its decision on the appeal until results were obtained from a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation, which was issued to determine whether Asahara was fit to stand trial. Asahara and twelve other Aum cultists were finally executed by hanging in July, 2018, after all appeals were exhausted. The group reportedly still has about 2,100 members, and continues to recruit new members under the name "Aleph" as well as other names. Though the group has renounced its violent past, it still continues to follow Asahara's spiritual teachings. Members operate several businesses, though boycotts of known Aleph-related businesses, in addition to searches, confiscations of possible evidence and picketing by protest groups, have resulted in closures.Follow us onFacebook- Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/- Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rssInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/General EnquiriesEmail - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comRate & Review us on Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/nerds-amalgamated-623195

A selection of chilled electronic beats [Downtempo, House] to inspire, focus, motivate or relax you. ✨ Art: Paul Volkmer More Sublab Selection Episodes iTunes https://itunes.apple.com//podcast/sublab-selection/id1349403700?mt=2 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjE88mb9kmN-C-SkIiFmSgSuSCDbpxmrU Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/sublabmusic/sets/sublab-selection Mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/sublab/ Follow Sublab Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/3tjRdPCZTpme7vslZJYtJx Apple Music https://itunes.apple.com/de/artist/sublab/1249839518 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sublabmusic/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sublabmusic/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/sublab Bandcamp https://sublab.bandcamp.com Twitter https://twitter.com/sublabmusic Homepage https://sublabmusic.com Tracklist: 00:00 Durante & Elliot Toller - Floorboards 01:30 Brame, Hamo - Lamaj 05:00 Powel - Aburaya 08:04 Chopstick & Johnjon - What a Day 12:09 Oliver Koletzki - Planetarium (Short Edit) 15:45 Paul Ursin - Secret Sun 17:30 Ross from Friends - High Energy 21:40 Powel - Black Hole 27:10 Kora - Ovo 31:50 Damian Lazarus & The Ancient Moons - All I Need to Get High (Emanuel Satie Remix) 35:30 Danny Daze - Fall Away From Love 39:20 Dayne S - Blind 43:50 Silence Path - Illusion (Powel Remix) 49:15 Powel - Kalophain 52:05 Powel - Johannesburg 55:40 Powel - Highway Love (feat. Robert Wade) 1:01:20 Stefan Kaye - Phoenix Moment 1:05:50 Roy Rosenfeld - The Biggest Heart 1:13:20 Mark Alow - Golden Tiger 1:15:10 Alexandr Mar & Daniel De Roma - Sisyph 1:17:20 Powel - The Grand Opening 1:21:40 Tiger Stripes - Sneaking Hotdogs into People's Pockets 1:25:50 Seth Schwarz & Be Svendsen - The Bar Tender 1:31:30 Bedouin - Flight of Birds 1:38:50 Shai T - Fauda 1:45:10 Bedouin - Now or Never 1:50:50 Bookwood - Cali 1:54:20 Marsh & Wassu - Like You 1:59:40 Niko Schwind - Prima Lux (Hidden Empire Remix) 2:04:25 Jex Opolis - Earth Boy Want to get featured in the next episode? Send your demos to: contact@sublabmusic.com Big thank you to everyone supporting! ❤️

Download the Stardust app and follow us at gschiller! https://stardust.app.link/InviteDust off that tux because Episode 17 of The Words Are Not Enough is coming at you in FULL FORCE!In this episode Griffin (@griffschiller) and Brody (@brodyserravalli) discuss the following:Tomorrow Never Lies* Cary Fukunaga is announced as the new director of #Bond25 * After the unexpected departure of director Danny Boyle from Bond 25, EON and co. have been on the hunt for a replacement and it seems as though they've finally found one * Earlier today, Sept. 20th, they put out an official statement regarding who will be directing the next Bond film. The statement says the following: * Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig announced today that #Bond25 will begin filming at Pinewood Studios on 4 March 2019 under the helm of director, Cary Joji Fukunaga with a worldwide release date of 14 February 2020. “We are delighted to be working with Cary. His versatility and innovation make him an excellent choice for our next James Bond adventure," said Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. * So it seems the True Detective Season 1 and Beasts of No Nation Director Cary Fukunaga will be taking over for Danny Boyle and using the script penned by Neil Purvis and Robert Wade, a story we'll get to in a moment. * Thoughts on this choice and what it could possibly mean for Bond 25?* Neil Purvis and Robert Wade will be taking over screenwriting duties for John Hodge * Following the departure of Danny Boyle from the next Bond installment, John Hodge exited the project as screenwriter. * Apparently Hodge's treatment was a re-tooling of the original Purvis & Wade script that had already been approved by Broccoli and Wilson prior to Boyle and Hodge coming onto the project * Now according to Baz Bamigboye from The Daily Mail and the James Bond news site MI6-HQ.com, Purvis & Wade will be returning to Bond 25. * The writing duo are supposedly touching up the script with changes that reflect the wishes of the producers and Daniel Craig * According to Bamigboye, “There's a keenness for women to be more front-and-centre in Bond 25…" * What do we make of all this and now hearing that Hodge's script was a retooling of Purvis & Wade's does that make us more confident in the overall story they are going for?* Dave Bautista wants back into the Bond franchise * The last we saw of Dave Bautista's henchmen Mr. Hinx in Spectre, he was getting pulled off a speeding train in Morocco, presumed to be killed, thought many fans speculated it might not be the end for the character. * Well, it turns out Dave Bautista himself also believes in the character's survival. * During the press tour for his latest film "Final Score”, which coincidentally also stars former Bond Pierce Brosnan, Bautista commented on the potential return of Mr. Hinx in Bond 25 saying the following: * "We had hopes, and…they had mentioned it. But yeah still have kinda hopes…I hear it's been pushed, so maybe there's a…chance" * He then went on to say, "Yeah I want to be in Bond 25. I've been very open and political about it. Like I've pursued this role. I would love to revive Hinx in Bond 25. I wanna be a part of it because it's a historical film. There's a huge part of me that wants the bragging rights of being that henchman who came back twice, because there hasn't been many. And I wanna be that guy, I wanna be historical, y'know." * With Richard Kiel's Jaws being the only Bond henchman thus far to return in the franchise, playing a part in both The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, Bautista would certainly be making Bond history. * Thoughts on the return of Mr. Hinx in Bond 25 and what are the chances the character ACTUALLY... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-words-are-not-enough/support

Chris and Casey are hit with a deluge of geekiness that they couldn't help but share with you Towelites. This episode is filled with Mar-Vellous news, TITAN-ic happenings, and Solo stuff. Get ready for an episode of the ages! Intro Marvel Captain Marvel trailer Venom PG-13 DC Cavill/WB fake news First look at Joker aka Arthur Fleck. Brett Cullen cast as Thomas Wayne Elizabeth Tulloch (Grimm) cast as Lois Lane in Arrowverse Cassandra Jean Amell cast as Nora Fries for CW x-over DC Universe Launch - thoughts? Rumor: Batgirl series on its way to DCU Jason Todd Titans clip Commercial EE Comics Batman Damned #1 - first DC Black Label out   TV Aaron Paul joins Westworld Teaser for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina American Gods continues its showrunner issues Live action Avatar Last Airbender Netflix Movies IMAX wants to turn Netflix releases into theatrical events Patrick Stewart joins Charlie’s Angels as Bosley Mary Poppins Returns trailer Little Mermaid horror trailer Neal Purvis and Robert Wade back on Bond? Bryan Singer rumored for Red Sonya Apostle trailer   Gaming Nintendo Switch gets Final Fantasy VII, IX, X, X-2, XII: The Zodiac Age and XV Pocket Edition HD. SW Comic adaptation reveals Luke’s last thoughts “And so it ends as it began. By the light of two suns. Before stepping into a larger world.” ‘Ages of SW’ 24 issue maxi-series details at NYCC Solo extras Adam Driver to host SNL premiere. Return of Matt the Radar Tech? POP JLU figures available on DCU Captain Marvel movie Marvel Legends tease Mezco Fall Exclusive? Closing We’re now available on RadioPublic, a fantastic service thats going offer our listeners the best way to access the podcast and show notes! Each time you listen to the show from their web stream or via their app gives us direct financial support every time you hear an episode. You can also check out our other great podcasts: Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.Thanks for listening and Don’t Forget a Towel!  

Chris and Casey are hit with a deluge of geekiness that they couldn't help but share with you Towelites. This episode is filled with Mar-Vellous news, TITAN-ic happenings, and Solo stuff. Get ready for an episode of the ages! Intro Marvel Captain Marvel trailer Venom PG-13 DC Cavill/WB fake news First look at Joker aka Arthur Fleck. Brett Cullen cast as Thomas Wayne Elizabeth Tulloch (Grimm) cast as Lois Lane in Arrowverse Cassandra Jean Amell cast as Nora Fries for CW x-over DC Universe Launch - thoughts? Rumor: Batgirl series on its way to DCU Jason Todd Titans clip Commercial EE Comics Batman Damned #1 - first DC Black Label out   TV Aaron Paul joins Westworld Teaser for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina American Gods continues its showrunner issues Live action Avatar Last Airbender Netflix Movies IMAX wants to turn Netflix releases into theatrical events Patrick Stewart joins Charlie’s Angels as Bosley Mary Poppins Returns trailer Little Mermaid horror trailer Neal Purvis and Robert Wade back on Bond? Bryan Singer rumored for Red Sonya Apostle trailer   Gaming Nintendo Switch gets Final Fantasy VII, IX, X, X-2, XII: The Zodiac Age and XV Pocket Edition HD. SW Comic adaptation reveals Luke’s last thoughts “And so it ends as it began. By the light of two suns. Before stepping into a larger world.” ‘Ages of SW’ 24 issue maxi-series details at NYCC Solo extras Adam Driver to host SNL premiere. Return of Matt the Radar Tech? POP JLU figures available on DCU Captain Marvel movie Marvel Legends tease Mezco Fall Exclusive? Closing We’re now available on RadioPublic, a fantastic service thats going offer our listeners the best way to access the podcast and show notes! Each time you listen to the show from their web stream or via their app gives us direct financial support every time you hear an episode. You can also check out our other great podcasts: Gourmet Scum Radio, and the Pursuit of Plastic. If you wanna interact with us you can follow @dfatowel on Twitter and Instagram.Thanks for listening and Don’t Forget a Towel!  

Turns out copyright owners actually own their copyrights and aren't afraid to execute on them. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade back on board to “rescue” Bond 25 post-Boyle.  Pete's Trailer: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Steve's Trailer: Wildlife THE LIST! Great final battles! Steve's List Kingdom of Heaven Gladiator The Last Starfighter Pete's List The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Mad Max: Fury Road Rambo

Turns out copyright owners actually own their copyrights and aren't afraid to execute on them. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade back on board to “rescue” Bond 25 post-Boyle.  Pete's Trailer: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Steve's Trailer: Wildlife THE LIST! Great final battles! Steve's List Kingdom of Heaven Gladiator The Last Starfighter Pete's List The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Mad Max: Fury Road Rambo

Turns out copyright owners actually own their copyrights and aren’t afraid to execute on them. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade back on board to “rescue” Bond 25 post-Boyle.  Pete’s Trailer: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Steve’s Trailer: Wildlife THE LIST! Great final battles! Steve’s List Kingdom of Heaven Gladiator The Last Starfighter Pete’s List The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Mad Max: Fury Road Rambo

Turns out copyright owners actually own their copyrights and aren’t afraid to execute on them. Neal Purvis and Robert Wade back on board to “rescue” Bond 25 post-Boyle.  Pete’s Trailer: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Steve’s Trailer: Wildlife THE LIST! Great final battles! Steve’s List Kingdom of Heaven Gladiator The Last Starfighter Pete’s List The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Mad Max: Fury Road Rambo

País Reino Unido Dirección Michael Apted Guion Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Bruce Feirstein (Personaje: Ian Fleming) Música David Arnold Fotografía Adrian Biddle Reparto Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards, Robert Carlyle, Judi Dench, María Grazia Cucinotta, Desmond Llewelyn, Robbie Coltrane, John Cleese, Serena Scott Thomas, Samantha Bond, Ulrich Thomsen, Colin Salmon, Michael Kitchen, Goldie, Patrick Malahide, Omid Djalili, Justus von Dohnányi, David Calder Sinopsis Tras la muerte del magnate británico del petróleo Sir Robert King en un atentado en el cuartel general del MI6, su hija Elektra hereda sus fabulosos yacimientos petrolíferos del mar Caspio. El agente 007, que se siente culpable de la muerte de King, se convierte en el guardaespaldas de Elektra. Su astronómica fortuna atrae no sólo la atención de la prensa internacional, sino también la del asesino, un hombre con una bala alojada en el cerebro que le impide sentir dolor físico y cuya única obsesión es la venganza.

País Reino Unido Dirección Sam Mendes Guion John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Jez Butterworth (Personajes: Ian Fleming) Música Thomas Newman Fotografía Hoyte van Hoytema Reparto Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Monica Bellucci, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Ben Whishaw, Dave Bautista, Andrew Scott, Jesper Christensen, Stephanie Sigman Sinopsis James Bond recibe un críptico mensaje del pasado que le confía una misión secreta que lo lleva a México D.F. y a Roma, donde conoce a Lucía Sciarra, la hermosa viuda de un infame criminal. Bond se infiltra en una reunión secreta y descubre la existencia de una siniestra organización conocida como SPECTRE. Mientras tanto, en Londres, el nuevo director del Centro para la Seguridad Nacional cuestiona las acciones de Bond y pone en duda la importancia del MI6, encabezado por M. De modo encubierto Bond recluta a dos colaboradores para que le ayuden a encontrar a Madeleine Swann, la hija de su gran enemigo, el Sr. White, pues quizá tenga la clave para desentrañar el misterio de SPECTRE. A medida que Bond avanza en su investigación, descubre una estremecedora conexión entre él y el enemigo que busca. (

Once again, join Dave "The Klone", Gomez (Not Addams), Ahmed Z. Kahn and a whole host of new guests on this "Part 2" edition of "What Am I Watching?!"...The podcast searching for the eternal truth found somewhere between the channels you surf as you struggle to fall asleep at night. This episode, the gang watched the 2012 entry into the James Bond 007 Franchise, "Skyfall". Directed by Sam Mendes, written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan, starring Daniel Craig, Judy Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Feinnes, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe and Albert Finney. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers Featuring: -Dave "The Klone" Maresca -James "Not Bond" Moccia -Chris Ripka (Saloon 7 Studios - https://www.youtube.com/user/ripka17) -Drew Carson (Terror Firma Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-terror-firma-podcast/id1194019478?mt=2) -Gomez (Not Addams) -Ahmed Z. Kahn -*Samson Lancaster -*Spike Lancaster -*Devin Steele *aka Strength In Gaming (aka STR Cast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/str-cast-video-game-podcast-for-adults-strength-cast/id698012276?mt=2) http://hollow9ine.podomatic.com/ E-mail: Hollow9inePodcast@gmail.com Follow: @Hollow9ineCast Visit our store on RedBubble!! http://www.redbubble.com/people/Hollow9ine Also make sure to check out FanGirlZone.com and The awesome animations of Felix Thoo: http://www.felixthoo.com/ https://vimeo.com/141305937

Join Dave "The Klone", Gomez (Not Addams), Ahmed Z. Kahn and a whole host of new guests on this edition of "What Am I Watching?!"...The podcast searching for the eternal truth found somewhere between the channels you surf as you struggle to fall asleep at night. This episode, the gang watched the 2012 entry into the James Bond 007 Franchise, "Skyfall". Directed by Sam Mendes, written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan, starring Daniel Craig, Judy Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Feinnes, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe and Albert Finney. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_wr#writers Featuring: -Dave "The Klone" Maresca -Chris Ripka (Saloon 7 Studios - https://www.youtube.com/user/ripka17) -Drew Carson (Terror Firma Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-terror-firma-podcast/id1194019478?mt=2) -Gomez (Not Addams) -Ahmed Z. Kahn -*Samson Lancaster -*Spike Lancaster -*Devin Steele *aka Strength In Gaming (aka STR Cast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/str-cast-video-game-podcast-for-adults-strength-cast/id698012276?mt=2) http://hollow9ine.podomatic.com/ E-mail: Hollow9inePodcast@gmail.com Follow: @Hollow9ineCast Visit our store on RedBubble!! http://www.redbubble.com/people/Hollow9ine Also make sure to check out FanGirlZone.com and The awesome animations of Felix Thoo: http://www.felixthoo.com/ https://vimeo.com/141305937

Gary Barlow has written his first musical with his long-time friend, the screenwriter Tim Firth. The Girls, like the film Calendar Girls, charts the true life story of a group of friends who meet at the Burnsall Women's Institute and decide to pose for a nude calendar to raise money for charity. Gary and Tim discuss stage nudity and body confidence, and meeting the real Yorkshire 'girls'.The new five-part TV drama series SS-GB imagines the UK under Nazi occupation in 1941 after the Germans won The Battle of Britain. The writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who wrote the last six James Bond films, discuss this adaptation of the 1978 Len Deighton thriller, and their approach to re-imagining history. Famous for his paintings of Ned Kelly, Sidney Nolan is often seen as the most prominent Australian painter of the 20th century. Yet he spent most of his life in Britain recreating the landscapes of his birth country from his imagination. Art critic Richard Cork reviews Transferences, a new exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, which kicks off a year of events marking the centenary of the artist's birth.Veteran director Zhang Yimou and Hollywood star Matt Damon have teamed up to create The Great Wall, a film spectacular set in ancient China, which sees European mercenaries and Chinese soldiers working together to defeat a mythical horde of ravening beasts. It's the largest Hollywood co-production to be filmed entirely on location in China. Film critic Angie Errigo reviews.Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Angie Nehring.

Join Dave "The Klone", and Gomez (Not Addams) and Ahmed Z. Kahn on this edition of "What Am I Watching?!"...The podcast searching for the eternal truth found somewhere between the channels you surf as you struggle to fall asleep at night. This episode, the gang watched the 2008 sophomore installment of James Bond 007 franchise reboot "Quantum of Solace", directed by Marc Forester and starring Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench; featuring Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright, David Harbour and Jesper Christensen as Mr. White. Written by Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0830515/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Featuring: -Dave "The Klone" -Gomez (Not Addams) -Ahmed Z. Kahn http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/?ref_=nv_sr_1 http://hollow9ine.podomatic.com/ E-mail: Hollow9inePodcast@gmail.com Follow: @Hollow9ineCast Visit our store on RedBubble!! http://www.redbubble.com/people/Hollow9ine Also make sure to check out FanGirlZone.com and The awesome animations of Felix Thoo: http://www.felixthoo.com/ https://vimeo.com/141305937

Join Dave "The Klone", and Johnny Mo on this edition of "What Am I Watching?!"...The podcast searching for the eternal truth found somewhere between the channels you surf as you struggle to fall asleep at night. This episode, the gang watched the 2006 James Bond 007 franchise reboot "Casino Royale", starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelson, Judy Dench and Jefferey Wright. Directed by Martin Campbell, and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis and Ian Flemming, based on his novel. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381061/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt Featuring: -Dave "The Klone" -Johnny Mo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/?ref_=nv_sr_1 http://hollow9ine.podomatic.com/ E-mail: Hollow9inePodcast@gmail.com Follow: @Hollow9ineCast Visit our store on RedBubble!! http://www.redbubble.com/people/Hollow9ine Also make sure to check out FanGirlZone.com and The awesome animations of Felix Thoo: http://www.felixthoo.com/ https://vimeo.com/141305937

In this IPR Public Lecture, Professor Robert H. Wade - Professor of Political Economy at the LSE - builds on Supreme Court judge Louis Brandeis' dictum "We must make our choice. We may have democracy or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both". Professor Wade reports on recent evidence on the degree of income concentration at the top of OECD countries and the political costs of inequality, and asks: how should social democratic movements appeal for public support in the context of the representational bias in favour of the wealthy? This IPR Public Lecture took place on 19 November 2013

“I would ask you if you could remain emotionally detached, but I don't think that's your problem. Is it, Bond?”The Next Reel's Speakeasy is a new ongoing series of ours in which we invite an industry guest to join us and bring along one of their favorite movies to talk about. In this month's episode, visual effects supervisor and director Matthew Gratzner joins us to talk about one of his faves, Martin Campbell's reboot of the James Bond franchise that introduced us to Daniel Craig's 007, “Casino Royale.” We talk about Craig and the rest of the cast, including Dame Judy Dench, Eva Green and Mads Mikkelsen, and look at what they bring to the table. We discuss the story and its origins, from Ian Fleming's original novel and the rights to the book, to where the franchise had been with Pierce Brosnan as the previous Bond, and finally to the screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis and what they delivered here. We chat about Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and how they've worked so hard as a driving force to keep the franchise alive, consistent and relevant. And we chat effects, from the amazing stuntwork and the incredibly limited CGI to the model work. It's a fantastic movie in a franchise we all love and we have a great time talking about it, so grab a drink and join us in the Speakeasy!About Matthew Gratzner  @MatthewGratznerMatthew Gratzner is a triple threat talent who balances directing, design and technology fluidly when creating content. Matthew has a pioneering spirit and is always willing to create with new tools while remaining grounded in story and character.Best known for his visual effects work on the biggest feature films over the last decade as Visual Effects Supervisor and co-founder New Deal Studios, Matthew is also an accomplished director. He has two feature films in post, several commercials, huge visual effects sequences, digital shorts and is now pioneering cinematic virtual reality content. He was the first to direct a cinematic live action virtual reality short called The Mission. He has directed live sports VR for the NHL. HIs Music Video for Galvanized Souls for the song “New Generation” that has been hugely popular this summer. His latest is virtual reality short is Mutiny for Nokia and their OZO camera.  New Deal Studios @MatthewGratzner Galvanized Souls Video (360VR) Film Sundries Watch this film: iTunes • Amazon Script Transcript Original theatrical trailer Original poster artwork Art of the Title Casino Royale — by Ian Flemming Flickchart Visit our ORIGINALS PAGE to buy books, comics, plays, or other source material for the movies we've talked about on the show. By doing so, you get to find your next book to dig into and help us out in the process as a portion comes back our way. Enjoy!Star your own podcast journey with the best host in the business. Try Transistor today!Join the conversation with movie lovers from around the world on The Next Reel's Discord channel!Here's where you can find us around the internet: The Web Letterboxd Check out poster artwork for movies we've discussed on our Pinterest page Pete Andy We spend hours every week putting this show together for you, our dear listener, and it would sure mean a lot to us if you considered becoming a member. When you do, you get early access to shows, ad-free episodes, and a TON of bonus content. To those who already support the show, thank you. To those who don't yet: what are you waiting for?Become a Member here: $5 monthly or $55 annuallyWhat are some other ways you can support us and show your love? Glad you asked! You can buy TNR apparel, stickers, mugs and more from our MERCH PAGE. Or buy or rent movies we've discussed on the show from our WATCH PAGE. Or buy books, plays, etc. that was the source for movies we've discussed on the show from our ORIGINALS PAGE. Or renew or sign up for a Letterboxd Pro or Patron account with our LETTERBOXD MEMBERSHIP DISCOUNT. Or sign up for AUDIBLE.

“I would ask you if you could remain emotionally detached, but I don’t think that’s your problem. Is it, Bond?” The Next Reel’s Speakeasy is a new ongoing series of ours in which we invite an industry guest to join us and bring along one of their favorite movies to talk about. In this month’s episode, visual effects supervisor and director Matthew Gratzner joins us to talk about one of his faves, Martin Campbell’s reboot of the James Bond franchise that introduced us to Daniel Craig’s 007, “Casino Royale.” We talk about Craig and the rest of the cast, including Dame Judy Dench, Eva Green and Mads Mikkelsen, and look at what they bring to the table. We discuss the story and its origins, from Ian Fleming’s original novel and the rights to the book, to where the franchise had been with Pierce Brosnan as the previous Bond, and finally to the screenwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis and what they delivered here. We chat about Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and how they’ve worked so hard as a driving force to keep the franchise alive, consistent and relevant. And we chat effects, from the amazing stuntwork and the incredibly limited CGI to the model work. It’s a fantastic movie in a franchise we all love and we have a great time talking about it, so grab a drink and join us in the Speakeasy! About Matthew Gratzner @MatthewGratzner Matthew Gratzner is a triple threat talent who balances directing, design and technology fluidly when creating content. Matthew has a pioneering spirit and is always willing to create with new tools while remaining grounded in story and character. Best known for his visual effects work on the biggest feature films over the last decade as Visual Effects Supervisor and co-founder New Deal Studios, Matthew is also an accomplished director. He has two feature films in post, several commercials, huge visual effects sequences, digital shorts and is now pioneering cinematic virtual reality content. He was the first to direct a cinematic live action virtual reality short called The Mission. He has directed live sports VR for the NHL. HIs Music Video for Galvanized Souls for the song “New Generation” that has been hugely popular this summer. His latest is virtual reality short is Mutiny for Nokia and their OZO camera.  New Deal Studios @MatthewGratzner Galvanized Souls Video (360VR) Film Sundries Watch this film: iTunes • Amazon Script Transcript Original theatrical trailer Original poster artwork Art of the Title Casino Royale — by Ian Flemming Flickchart

Chris and Hunter deploy their Licenses To Critique to review Spectre. Chris shakes and stirs things up with a wheat ale that's sure to please both IPA and wheat beer lovers. In Special Features, the Dudes discuss the future of the James Bond series, and who they want to see don the tux post-Daniel Craig in For Your Ears Only. *PLUS* Hunter may be a medium to the spirit world!

Título original Casino Royale (James Bond 21) Año 2006 Duración 144 min. País Reino Unido Reino Unido Director Martin Campbell Guión Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis (Personaje: Ian Fleming) Música David Arnold Fotografía Phil Meheux Reparto Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench, Caterina Murino, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Isaach De Bankolé, Jesper Christensen, Ivana Milicevic, Sebastien Foucan Productora Coproducción GB-USA-República Checa; EON Productions / MGM / Columbia Pictures Género Acción | James Bond. Espionaje. Póker Web oficial http://www.casinoroyalemovie.com Sinopsis La primera misión del agente británico James Bond (Daniel Craig) como agente 007 lo lleva hasta Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banquero de los terroristas de todo el mundo. Para detenerlo y desmantelar la red terrorista, Bond debe derrotarlo en una arriesgada partida de póquer en el Casino Royale. Al principio a Bond le disgusta Vesper Lynd (Eva Green), la hermosa oficial del Tesoro que debe vigilar el dinero del gobierno. Pero, a medida que Bond y Vesper se ven obligados a defenderse juntos de los mortales ataques de Le Chiffre y sus secuaces, nace entre ellos una atracción mutua.

Appearing on this week's Empire Podcast are Kick-Ass and Wanted creator Mark Millar - and now head honcho of Fox's Marvel properties - and Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. As well as those two interviews, there are discussions of actors that will put you off watching a movie entirely and the recent arrival of the trailer for World War Z. For all that and a whole lot more, click play or download or just subscribe to our RSS feed...

‘Skyfall’ directed by the super talented Sam Mendes gives us a very different James Bond. Yes, he’s still the charismatic, super macho male that loves sex, hot women, hot cars, gambling and kicking butt. But this time around, he’s also vulnerable, slightly worn out and much more human. And that’s what makes this film one of the best of the Bond’s. Don’t want to spoil the fun, so I’ll just talk about the plot with broad strokes. The film begins in Instabul where Bond (Daniel Craig) finds fellow MI6 agent Ronson, critically wounded and the hard drive of a laptop missing. Bond goes after the thief, hitman, Patrice (Ola Rapace) and we have the standard exciting car chase, motorbike chase and finally the two men wind up fighting on the top of a moving train. At the same time, fellow spy, Eve (Naomie Harris) who has the bad guy in the cross hairs is ordered by M (Judi Dench) to take the shot. Eve doesn’t want to for fear of hitting Bond. But M is adamant…TAKE THE SHOT. She does…hits Bond who falls into a raging river. That’s right folks, Bond is dead…Well not really, but everyone thinks he is. And James likes it like that. Why shouldn’t he. He’s on an island somewhere in bed with a hot babe. However when he finds out that there’s been an explosion at headquarters, he decides it’s time for him to resurface. And it’s a good thing too. Seems the Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, Gareth Mallory (Ralph Fiennes) has informed M that the stolen computer disc contained the list of every undercover NATO agent embeded in terrorist organizations around the world and they are being killed.. He tells her that she showed poor judgement in handling the situation and it’s time for her to retire. Yeah, like that’s going to happen. ‘Skyfall’ is basically a film about revenge. And no one does revenge better than Javier Bardem. He’s absolutely fantastic as Raoul Silva the man determined to bring down M and her organization. Rounding out the cast is Albert Finney, Ben Whishaw as Q and Berenice Marloe. ‘Skyfall’ which opens Friday November 9, 2012, written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan is an intelligent, exciting and in the end, surprising film that won’t disappoint fans or those new to the genre. I loved this film and gave it 4 1/2 bagels out of 5. Check out our video to see John’s bagel rating and for more of our thoughts.