Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The rest is entertainment is presented by Octopus Energy. Now, celebrity culture has a way of taking very small preferences and promoting them until they require a lot of paperwork.
Chapter 2: What are Richard and Marina's thoughts on celebrity culture?
Yeah, it's like the first time you ever go on a show and you say, oh, I could have some sparkling water. And then like forever, it's like, oh, you have to have sparkling water. You must have sparkling water. It's very, very important. And that's what we call the rider.
The rider. Right. In some cases, the rider didn't stay sort of practical for long. You know, it started as a wish list and then it sort of strayed into a kind of a hostage note from the ego. There was a point in JLo's ego where she was having like, you know, you know, the white drapes, the white candles, the white, absolutely everything, white flowers, white, you know, sofas, everything.
Most people don't actually need a rider in this life of ours, however, but there is something reassuring about not having to specify everything twice in
This is one of my absolute favorite things about Octopus Energy. If you ring them about anything, your number is recognized and you'll go through to a team who deals with you and have dealt with you before. So yeah, you have a team, they recognize your number and you go through to people who you don't have to explain the same thing to 15 times.
Hello and welcome to this episode of the Restless Entertainment Questions and Answers Edition. I'm Marina Hyde.
And I'm Richard Osman. Hello, everyone. Hello, Marina.
Hello, Richard. How are you?
I'm not bad. I think this whole episode last week, I said as a joke, let's call it Marina is wrong about the best bomb theme. But I was. And we've had an awful lot of people.
And they're right. Richard, they're right.
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Chapter 3: What is the best James Bond theme according to David Arnold?
I didn't know what to do, honestly.
As we've established, I'm wrong about all of these things. But Goldfinger, Shirley Bassey, there's something about that Goldfinger that I just think is, maybe that is, and it's almost, it's such the sort of quintessential Bond theme in some ways.
Okay. And then suddenly, just seconds after David Arnold says how much he loves You Only Live Twice, by the way, he says, it's not the best. No, I know he says that. But you're saying it is.
I'm not going to say he's incorrect. So you're saying he's wrong. I've lost the chance to say anything about anything about these things. But yeah, those would be my, I don't know, I didn't want to play favourites with any of those three, to be perfectly honest, but those are my three favourites. What about you?
I don't say this often, but you are absolutely all over the place. Sorry about that. I mean, that is quite something. Well, listen, it doesn't matter what I think because our listeners have been giving their opinion. We've been asking them to vote on the best ever Bond theme. So shall we do that? We'll start with, I'll do the whole top 10.
We've got Tide for 9th, No Time to Die, Billie Eilish, which you said last week was one of your favourites, and A View to a Kill, Duran Duran. They're both Tide 9th. Eighth, we have all the time in the world, Louis Armstrong. Not an official Bond theme, but was at the end of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which in David Arnold's opinion is the very, very best.
Seventh, you know my name, Chris Cornell from Casino Royale. No. Okay. Sixth, this is even more controversial, I would say, Goldeneye, Tina Turner.
Again?
Nope. Fifth, Diamonds Are Forever, Shirley Bassey. Fair enough.
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Chapter 4: How is Strictly Come Dancing changing its format this season?
Okay. Just listeners, just so you know, the scorn that I'm seeing from... I love the song.
I just don't think it's a... It's like a classic Bond theme.
Okay. Number two, Nobody Does It Better, Carly Simon. I love that song, but that's not a classic Bond theme.
No. Hasn't even got it in the title. But that's okay. It's got the words in it. Spy Who Loved Me is in the lyrics, but it's not.
Yes.
Yeah.
Number one, I would say far above number two, Skyfall, Adele. How about that? So listen, at least we are brought together a little bit towards the end of this absolute mess. Do you want to know what the worst Bond theme is? Number 25 out of 25? What? Moonraker, Shirley Bassey. So there you go. Moonraker is bottom.
The Man with the Golden Gun, Thunderball, Die Another Day, and Another Way to Die are at the bottom there.
Die Another Day is dreadful.
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Chapter 5: What do streaming platforms learn from viewer data?
But criminal masterminds with elaborate schemes, really, really elaborate schemes, because obviously in real life crime is very sloppy and it's often financially motivated and impulsive. Amnesia for me is a big one. I think that doesn't happen nearly as much as it does in fiction. There's a lot of medical ones.
Being unconscious for a really long time and then waking up and just sort of being fine, like, oh, hi, you know, I'm back in the room after. You would have a massive brain injury at that point. And it's just like, it doesn't work like that. Enemies to lovers. A lot of these things are just done to make stories work and it's really interesting.
It doesn't mean that people don't want to see those things because there's something very satisfying about Enemies to Lovers and we love the kind of sparring and then when they get together. We really like it but I just don't think it happens that much in real life, I have to say. But it's very, very fictionally satisfying.
So you can see also conflict makes stories work and maybe that's the satisfaction of it all. But surprise evidence happening in court. Yes, people running into court. Any kind of gotcha evidence that happens in court. I mean, actually people crying and breaking down and completely contradicting their witness statement because of that also.
Once you're there, you tend to just, in my experience, and I've covered various court cases, people don't tend to...
kind of get broken down and fall to pieces and then just sort of confess to everything they kind of stick with what they went with in their witness statement we all know the cost of characters flats and houses and all of those someone on that bank people being able to afford things out of their income bracket is like beyond oh like the flats in thursday murder club Yeah. Oh my God.
I remember thinking that I said to you when you sent me the first picture of himself, I was like, and that's Cooper's Chase, is it? Wow. Okay. Remind me to retire that.
I mean, with respect, Spielberg couldn't afford the flats.
Unbelievable. Remind me to retire to that Cooper's Chase.
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Chapter 6: Why do some films portray unrealistic scenarios?
It all matters so much less than it ever did. It's a nice to have, isn't it? I don't think he particularly cares. The FT have, you know, endorsed the Lib Dems, Tories, whatever. I remember the, and in terms of how it's done, by the way, lots of these people just don't want to be left behind.
They don't want to, if they think that the pack has moved or the herd has moved or whatever it is, and that's the, you know, like you knew that New Labour were going to win in 1997. Do you want to be the person saying, oh, vote for the tired old Tories? There's always a thing where they actually slightly want to reflect what's, happened, rather than they lead everyone by the nose.
Forget thinking they lead anyone by the nose anymore, that is dead. The Guardian is different, they have an editorial conference to decide who is backed.
Oh my god, that must be one of the worst mornings of the year.
Can you imagine that meeting? I haven't attended it for a while, but they have a long discussion about it. I mean, I think, you know, this time lots of people will want Green to be endorsed. And there are different ways of everyone doing this.
Either it's so obvious it comes from the proprietor or there's a sort of tacit agreement anyway that some of those papers, as I say, will back reform because they think that's where their readership's going. And they don't want to look off the pace, basically. And they are off the pace, as we already know that the media organisations have changed so much.
So I do think, I mean, it was when Jeff Bezos set up, well, why do we even have to have a leader saying who we support in this election? Even though I don't sympathise with him on almost anything, I sort of agree with the Washington Post. I mean, nobody wants that sort of nonsense, patrician instruction. They can kind of work out which side you're on anyway. And for me, it's always embarrassing.
Always. always embarrassing. It tends to be a top-down thing, and occasionally the Guardian will let everybody decide.
But certainly if an editor and an owner were to disagree, then the owner would win that argument.
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