Join hosts Carl Wonders and Thad Hait as they discuss movies in and around the James Bond franchise, as well as anything else that pops into their heads.
We discuss “A Stitch in Crime,” an episode of Columbo that both Thad and Carl really enjoyed, and not just because Spock, er, Leonard Nimoy is the murderer-of-the-week. Does no one keep track of morphine or coffee at this hospital? Who built the death-trap that is Dr. Mayfield’s house? And what does it take to make Columbo angry? We discuss these questions and much more, including quite possibly the coolest person to ever check their email.
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4 Sept 2026
Two Fingers of Brown Listerine
In this episode, Thad and Carl talk about “Requiem for a Falling Star” starring Anne Baxter, Mel Ferrer, and Kevin McCarthy (no, not that one). We have our usual questions about things like gasoline fumes, whether anyone in this episode knows how to park, and what exactly is in those decanters on Anne Baxter’s bar.
We also go down a long (even by our standards) rathole about television shows and movies of questionable moral character and turn to the experts at “Focus on the Family” to help us out. If you just want us to get on with it, feel free to skip from one “…and Kevin McCarthy” chapter to the next.
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28 Aug 2026
One British-ism After Another
Apologies for the delay, but we somehow lost our luggage in Heathrow Airport. In this episode, Columbo inexplicably finds himself in London, England and has to navigate every British cliché the writers can throw at him and find out whether or not it’s true that “the butler did it.”
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