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lab. I read a story for american history to my friend, girth rattled. There's no due to talk to you about today will be stopped because, one's a different one. We're going to actually do it. Everyone we're going to reverse up Jesus talking about shooting your load. All right come on buckle up. Look at my phone here we go September. Fifth, it's my favorite day, nineteen, thirty, nine, nothing. This is the day that you were born before George Robert Lazenby was born in go burn New South Wales, Australia at the of vodka, private hospital to George, Edward lazily and Sheila, Joan wasn't aha, upload been married earlier that year, Sheila worked at forces, forces which is like a target and his father work on the railways, which is like a railway. We have those areas, are that's what that's just. Doesn't Australia

and by the way we should say we almost did this as a live. Reverse dollop, but we weren't sure how to go at three. Georgia has put in the hospital because he was having issues with his kidneys, as he would say, he was quote peeing backwards into them. What that's right after I just want to point out you're not supposed to do that. No, it's that's what that's what the doctor says! The doctor second thing is: there's a hell of a trick. it's. It's a party trick for my next one I'll go back in after multiple surgeries. He was left with half of the kidney. The doctors didn't think that George would live past twelve years old, so this made him decide he was going to live everyday to its fullest three mania. Remember this isn't very diagram, leaving us about always your thoughts The economy is gonna, build with blocks. All your ear are getting the beta, barely sleeping, ok What will tomorrow, how like bugs

Georgia is not an attentive student, he was bored by school. He felt that quote he. No use knowing where England was or where America was. I was in Australia, and I wasn't going to science who gives a shit about science love this guy. It's basically how my school mantra growing up and prove it. This attitude led to the headmaster, having trusting George and always blaming him for everything, bad that happened at school. Like one day I brought a snake into school and George was punished for it, even though there was no evidence that he did it, though yeah I knew that guy yeah well to be fair. It was George, but still there was no evidence showing Joey. It was your Joey mine. Europe and another day, someone brought in a bag full of bats and George. I prefer to wait. Wait, wait, wait. What are you bring it up, but bag full of bats? So I'm getting back well. Are they alive living, that's for sure, leaving to be fair creep here to bring in.

It sets back, that's like what Batman does but yeah, and it was George George brought in George before School, went and collected a bunch of bats in the back, and then he led them closer to school and for some reason he didn't graduate Highschool. I wonder why, and so he said: fuck it and Lazenby enlisted in the australian army. He will rose quickly to the rank of sergeant where he gained techniques in unarmed combat and how to maneuver his growing frame. He was now six feet tall, she's, big guy. Well, that's not that big, but tomatoes, I'm a little guy when you say growing frame. I just picture big man picture of what we say growing for I subscribed to growing frame magazine, so we're usually going for my I picture large Maga Trump Junior was on that, and so, when his spell of an a four months in the force, ended George moved to the australian capital. As you know, as. Camera Hombre just want to make sure that we finance it

where you took a variety of odd jobs before settling on becoming a car mechanic at twenty, so he's making dog shit money wise and as he sat in the cars getting greasy, he would watch the car salesmen across the lot with great envy. They seemed to have it made, they wear suits, they talked to girls, they got nice cars to drive and they made lots of money. Sir George told his boss that he wanted NE. He demanded to be a salesman. He said he knew he could do it and that the boss, man, wouldn't regret it. So the boss believed in George's confidence and promoted him. Sadly, the boss was an idiot because George sucked at closing deals he didn't sell any cars at all, so his boss sent him on a course called how to win friends and influence people now. This is a course that taught certain rules to follow in order to well

What exactly is a very it's a great title, because it sort of encapsulates exactly what ray course. Thank you, one of our sponsors. I've always said that yeah it was written in the course how to win friends and influence people was written in nineteen, thirty one by Dale, Carnegie or Carnegie, and has since inspired many people like the first two names that are on the Wikipedia page. One Warren Buffett quote took the Dale Carnegie Course on how to win friends and influence people when he was twenty years old and to this day has a diploma in his as or to Charles Fucking Idiot you're, Charles Manson, who used what he learned from the book in prison to manipulate women into killing a man. That's actually the sample, I'd use. So you you could see this.

It's the guy I would use. I would use Manson over Buffett and then we're different, we're different people. Okay and the course was transformative for George and what he took from it was to just shut up and listen when he was selling cars or selling himself or whatever. So now in Georgia selling cars, he would just spew back whatever the customer was interested in talking about and it worked and he began selling thirty used cars a month one a day. This got him promoted to the used car sales manager at age. Twenty four at the time, George, yes, already. Twenty four is pretty pretty good. He's a go. Getter you'll see he'll, see George began dating a girl named Belinda, whom he fell, madly in love with. However, she was the daughter of a wealthy and respected australian man who wanted her to marry up and George was poor, so he hated George so before they could get too serious. The father forced her to move to London and when she stopped writing George letters from England, he wanted to get her back, so he abruptly just decided I'm going to move to London yeah. Why not? So he packed up his things got on a boat that would take him to Tilbury. England, near Ex Sx FUCK, you dad what's not his dad, I know, but he called him dad yeah, ok again to somebody

Look, I don't think that's a guest on the boat George shared bunks, with some fellow Australians we'd, get to know very well, mainly because of the pope. The boats puzzling route to get out of the boat first went to Sydney. Might then De Melvin, and I followed by Adelaide Turban. I then to Perth dilemma than Singapore. My next to Delhi, then port side over to Africa, followed by ITALY, next Marseille, then they went to Gibraltar. How am I a man tilbury? So it's quite her out and by the time he got there, she had a new guy yeah products. Took forever the Ivy Sears, like he's dead. I haven't heard from these, not that our report and in the fucking world getting at is dead. If you want to run over with the person on the boat before I got it, I'm definitely like a ask questions second kind of person, but even that I like to think I'd, be able to flag and so didn't know

to do so. He got a job selling Mercedes Benz in London, sure and because of the relationship with the girl, was over so he's settling into his new job. Well had a little apartment and then one day when he's working, a photographer comes in and he's looking for a car and George helps him. Now this dairy Anthony was a day that would change the trajectory of George last name to name Darius whatever cause, you know very dairy, I know, but it's not a name that anyone has ever you that makes Dara Dara there at the Davao De Los. It makes no sense, and so this photographer wants to take picture him, because you see dairy George had become attractive over the years very easy on the eyes now he's tall he's six to cook he's got dark, hair he's handsome and the photographer is immediately taken aback by George's good looks and he wants to take some pictures of him. Now. George assumes that this is some sort of come on and he wasn't.

But the photographer said he would buy a car from George if he would let him take pictures. I've done is. I would love to see this happen to you, Sir George agreed to take pictures, but in reality is my couldn't fathom why a guy would want to take pictures of another guy or him. So he blew the photographer off. Oh, my god, and when the guy comes back, he comes back to the place and he insists he's like you can be a model he's telling Georgie thanks. George can be a model, so George finally relents and he agrees and they go and they take George's first headshots. So through that George gets a call to go to a shoot. It's his first shoot. It was a last minute fill in because the original model had to quit because it was a shoot with a baby where he's kind of like holding a baby and the baby just kept pissing on the guy class

this is why I don't work with babies, yeah or have kids George, so George George is like I'll. Do it so he goes down. He says he doesn't mind baby piss he's, given the job he's getting pissed on and the shoot goes well. The photographer likes him the photographer's fairly popular, so it opens the door to more work quickly. So once George Lazenby got a UK based modeling agent, his career began to pick up and within a year of successful jobs, Lazenby became one of the highest paid models in Europe. He's twenty eight years old he's making forty thousand to forty thousand pounds as a full time model in nineteen sixty seven, so he quits his job selling cars within the first eighteen months. And and within the first eighteen months, is also hired as the European Marlborough man. I was up for there's a big tat. I wonder whether in another direction, pretty much Yeah, I'm always a comfortable with smoke between Europe's that's one thing. I say I was I was like: let's do sweatshirts

inlets and I wonder what will have a real guy wherein sweatshirts in high good he likes, I can pass and sweatshirts that's the deal less, that's more Griffith Park less. I just things very manly, yeah yeah. I know for sure, where sweaters and blocking is yells of people on Twitter. He sure does so George's career as a model is booming. His bizarre just posted on billboards all across the UK and Europe. He starred in a number of tv advertisements before trying his hand at acting a little, but he didn't feel like acting was for him. Modeling was just looks and he didn't feel right, saying lines. His only real film experience came from a walk on part in an italian James Bond spoof called espionage in ten years. Great movie, it's a spoof you've, never seen rate film, it's not a film, it's just like a short sketch, wonderful movie and nineteen sixty eight. He is making great money and he's making lots of sex. He is embracing the sixties and the sexual liberation.

Sometimes him in his room mate. A guy named can guarantee another model from Australia would play this drinking game called the devil's triangle. I'm kidding everyone come on this occasion. I can hear you similar, adjusted. Nobody, everybody does its energy could get me outta my booth it over here. So it was three since they were way down through the two of them. Would we have a couple of guys haven't sexual it a couple of guys having three sons with one way? Sometimes you slip in the do your browser. That seems pretty well now actually does seem hard happens. Yeah, ok,. Interesting so Georgia, as is you no fuckin way through London, he's up for commercial role as the Big FRY chocolate guy

Sure it was between he and another male model, and when the company offered the deal they said it would be thirty pounds a day and three hundred dollars for the contract and George said he didn't like those numbers and that he wanted three hundred a day and three thousand pounds for the contract and he was laughed off. But then later that day they called them and they hired him, he's doing his own negotiating eat in like a Bananas way like yes, absolutely yeah, and he just says it because he's like why not yeah he's got enough money, he doesn't care yeah and he's just so is like what might as well just give it a whirl. You know. So So does that and they Hiram answer, this sordid taught him always to look for a better deal in things. And the same thing happened with the wage gap between women and men in the industry. Women would make eight pounds a day and male models would make four pounds at a fucking bullshit, it's unbelievable but George told him, he wanted aid as well or he would stop doing it and wouldn't you know it. Male pay went up to eight pounds.

god damn right. Finally, men finally themselves. Finally, the Nef of women getting paid more, but it wasn't until he became the Big fry chocolate guy that gig he was talking about that. He actually became recognizable. So I'll show you now Dave a little bit of oh and the big Fried chocolate go okay! Let's do this. there is, he shows up that he basically got all that money to hold up chocolate, but he would basically, he would show off the whole thing. It'd be it'd, be like some party or something and then it'll be boring, and then he'd show up with a huge, huge crate of big fry chocolate, and then the party would go all right.

Yeah yeah real the area was happy. He appeared, Can we talk the ads partially because he was tall, but also because they would always higher smaller actors? Sometimes they re even higher little people. Do that to make him look you Why is this? Are you the idea for the poker up? It's not! It's, not a good idea for an auditory release. so yeah, so so he's killing it and then one day can the room mate he had who he would always have them. Just gonna triangle drinking games with asked a favor of George Kennedy, agreed to go out with an agent whose name was Maggie Abbott in London, but his girlfriend was coming to see him as well, so KEN was double booked, so he's in a panic, and he asked George to go in his stead and so George goes on a date with Maggie and he makes a good impression and clearly because a few weeks later, he's in Paris and Maggie somehow calls him and tray he's like doing. Is there for a job and he's at some girl's place? You know having sex or whatever. Whatever

whatever happens in the section between closed doors, don't say that or an look at me next time. Stop it and- and she says your tracks are not stretching on like this girl's house and she calls him and she's like I want you to come back down at the girl said. Basically she calls she knows, he's in Paris. So it's something like she calls a restaurant where she knew he Was she called a few restaurants, whatever somehow the guy some other guys? Yes, he was always, as is grounds ulitza to us, is that this is a great example of what we have to do. We have to do before of fires of up. Yeah. So so she says that she wants. Back to London right away. She thinks that there's there's something. There's a film part that he would be right for, and he really didn't know what to do because again he's like happy just modeling, he doesn't want to act. He doesn't really think the waitress for MM yeah, but this

ro. Mr Pepperoni, the movie made the pepper are so good. Big fry sergeant so eventually sits down Maggie Abbot and she insists that he listens to her and she says you know this could be a big deal. She told them that she thought he could land a role, a big role. A movie role, may be the biggest role ever Maggie Abbot, told George, that she thought he could the new James Bond. Yes, I agree. So you see shard country than the first for films and he made the franchise enormous, but he grown where the part in what came along with it and country found the plots to be redundant. I feel like the character of bond will never really grow or change come on and in general, the public's demands on Sean Connery and his privacy were getting old to him. So he called it quits after four. So here are the franchises and nineteen sixty eight bond. I always thought he should battle cancer, Sean Connery, no transport, oh yeah, I was going to say Sean Connery did that in Lorenzo's oil, so maybe,

I'm thinking of you, what do you know? Mr Bonde? I expect you just learning deteriorate without a noticeable cure. What do you mean are you say, Mr Bonde? This will slowly render your organs irrevocably repair mare. All we could shoot him We should evidently out of shooting. So oh so hearing here there are nineteen. Sixty eight apronless producer Albert Cubby, Broccoli tests Harry Salts man embarked on a frantic, searched The next nobody remembered airy as cubby Broccoli was to be brought I were I do wish cubby Broccoli came back in. That is a bit more of the silent partner. but it would they found. It was not easy to replace our country, so they were seeing

all these actors, but never coming up with their guy they'd, seen thousands of people they tested over three hundred, but, alas, no bond and Georgia shocked when Maggie told them this. He said he didn't think he could do it. He wasn't even in Sag Maggie said it was more of who he was rather than who he could beach. He really believed he could do it because of his arrogance. Bond was arrogant, like George, and she told him that she could not get them in for the audition told them just to go there and get in front of the casting director said he would try. So he goes in unannounced a couple of days later and there's an assistant who would not let him and without an appointment George keeps pressing her. She keeps rejecting em so eventually agreed to leave, but before he did, he looks around the room and he sees all these guys and suits who looked like they were all trying too hard. They were like stuffy improper and he was like that's not what they're looking for so George decided he would return, but not until he looked the part. So he knew a couple things about how Connery operated London from his car selling days. So he went to went to contrary got his hair cut down the street got the country like the material

Take out the concourse he knew where country goes Erika demonstrate yeah he's this is when London was at. Imagine it in one of the four hundred a magical land. We ve got one person in front of you by James Bonds of running you. So it goes and gets. Henri, and then he knew where Sean Connery went to get his way. Taylor around Chrissy did so it goes too far retailer and eyes, the suit they say it'll take six weeks and he says he doesn't have that time. They did, however, have one suit there that Sean Connery had never picked up so for a high price. They would sell it to George and George says: yes, they make a small adjustment suitcase and then just for safety. George bought a rolex, so this is for an audition.

Yeah. This is what I do yeah it's been like it for me or whatever everybody does why I gotta wear a shirt if they're like if they like, wear a blue shirt. I'm not going to this. I can't make it. It won't happen. What about your puppet yeah? It's not happening and and then so would that Lazenby showed up the office again without an appointment. But this time he waits for the girl behind the desk to sort of turn her back and do some busy work and when she does George just runs pastor and goes up to the casting love it. So he gets to the audition room and there sits casting director, Dyson, Lovell or Lovell, who the fuck are. These names coming. London baby is Lovato. Alright, so George stood in front of him and when Dyson looked up, he saw George with the bond haircut, the Connery suit the shiny. relax and George was nervous, but just said Cochlear Conway here you looking for the new James Bond, oh shit and so Dyson likes really see, so they start talking

and when he asked George, what movies does George simply lied by saying it worked on films in China, Hungary Russia and Ukraine where we do all the fish where ever you could come up with. That could not be corroborate. Bulgaria, the eggs actually yeah and he's also think his tactics that he learned from how to make friends and influence people to sell the product of George Lazenby. So Dyson is impressed with George, for whatever reason, just because he kind of looks the party's com is cocky, you know, and he before he has George read one line. He calls Harry Saltzman and he starts selling George to Harry Saltzman, one of the producers Cubby Broccoli, his partner and saltzman- says bring them over, so they go right over there and when George meets Harry Saltzman Harry Solomons got his feet up on the desk and Harry tells George to sit down but George, who again was just trying to kind of act better than everybody like bond said. No, he refused to sit down. He wouldn't sit down in front of Harry's feet. Harry was taken aback, so he asked George for his life story,

and Dyson's. Looking on, and at this point George is quote shitting myself. He just told all these lies and he didn't feel like repeating them for fear that he may slip up. He didn't even remember all the countries he said so he felt overwhelmed, and so here Harry has been like you know, what's your deal so he's like what am I actually doing so, instead of answering he points the dice on it. He goes let him and Harry could not believe the attitude of this so dice. Instead it's kind of going off and he's regurgitating all this stuff about what George has done to Harry and again it's all bs and by the end of the meeting, George was so noticeably different than everyone else. They'd seen that Harry wanted him to meet with the director Peter Hunt, who was location Scouting, so George still has not read a line these guys, you want a guy who's going to star in a movie to read a lie. It's true, I think that's fair. I think well because he worked in Hungary, true Russia, the great the big home empire,

I've been tested. This is a barley, would a Lester. Babies is the guy, Ok So so Harry tells George to come back Friday to meet the director, but at this point George is just freaking out. He feels very in over his head, so he just says he can and there like. Why can't you- and he says, I'm doing a film in pair It's yeah, he just wanted to go. He just wants to go, and Harry is furious at this point, because he's kind of fallen in love with him, so he tells him he's like whatever you're making on that gig I'll pay you that too, day in town. So can I stood wages its George five hundred pounds to not go You are, but he wasn't going anywhere. So, yes or Friday comes around any goes to me with the director Peter Hunt, who is irritated because he'd been busy in Switzerland location scouting. Oh my god, they flew in the

rector from the directors like getting ready to make the move. You know there are a lot of wheels are in motion because it's gotta be limits. Yes, so they bring him back and Hunt was a long time bond editor, but first time bond film, director and he's feeling a lot of pressure. So he feels like he's under the gun, and so when he's sitting down with George Peter wanted to know what George had done. Film was his resume and George is very intimidated at this point and he didn't know what to do so. He did something crazier than lie. He told the truth quote: meeting with Peter Hunt, and I told them I didn't tell the truth. I said I'd never acted before in my life and I was willing to walk away then and Peter just burst out laughing ran around the room holding his belly. You said you can't act quote Peter said you fool to us a ruthless men. I've ever met my life because sticky. Your story and I'll make you the next year exactly a crazy Hollywood. Yes, this average really really is. This is how

yeah they just wait till the end seems to be the Hollywood lesson. Just wait until the very end, and so when Harry finds out the truth, the GA is lying, he's livid. He wants George gone, but Peter liked George a lot and he insisted he wanted to test him. So George did a screen test. Then another screen test, then hundreds of more screen tests. He did around two hundred screen tests on. Oh, my god. Around four months there were stunts tests and George impressed everyone when they did like one his stunt yeah he's a fucking man he's good on horses yeah. He was so. He refuses to wait for a saddle they're like flying into Saturday's. Like not fucking saddle, he just gets up on the horse bareback and starts to ride again. Australian. We gotta remember that he did swim tests. He did ski tests that were acting tests. They were look tests. George even claim There was a sex test one day he's in his room. There like put him up in a hotel, the door thing and a guy shows up at the door and attractive girl.

And the guys like her. She would like to me you and Georgia's, like ok, Then they go into the room and Georgian this girl quickly start hooking up, minutes passed and then they're, just you know having sex. The man is just sitting in the coroner while George had sex with this girl and Georgia's like looking over there, what the hell is going on. But you know doesn't ask any questions and when it was over the she, the lady and the gentleman get their things together and they both just left that seems normal and he later found out that that was a test. Sure that he was not get. The studio had tried that over that's how you do it yeah. He was probably looking for his room. is it? Can I not guys me kid so too Is the end of the four months Georgia is getting very sick of it. George said quote: I got to the stage where it was tell me or fuck off. That's where I was at so then during a fight scene task, George accidentally hits and knocks out one of the

dont want good quote. Well, he stuck his chin out and I knocked him out. I was supposed to miss Harry Salts, been stepped over steps over the guy passed out stepped over him grab. My arm took me over the wall. It said we're going with you. George constantly replied it's about bloody time which made Harry Furious and Sir George quickly started thinking. It was like thank you think, I'm sorry that he's still trying to be cocky throughout and so George, you know, thinks he's good in the next James Bond with his mother, and he tells us that he the new James Bond and she said that was great and then she quickly will also had news cause. Your license has run out and he's like. Okay, so there's his actual driving license or is licensed to sell cars. His actual driver's license Jesus Christ. What's he going to do yeah? Well, I mean that's it. It's just that he calls

er and he's just like I'm James Bond license because she's she's grounded she has granted yeah and to the point that it's insane so would that it was on George Lazenby Chocolate Model, three way: sex lover. First time actor labradoodle, Daddy Australian, take my was to be the next James Bond in the film on her majesty's secret service, fuck yeah, so Harry and Peter the director Harry and the producer and Peter the director were surely taking a gamble, but George was cheaper. Lazenby took the gig for only fifty thousand dollars, which was a far cry from what Connery was pulling in for the role plus. They felt that GA is going to be surrounded by great actors like Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas, who are big names at the time, so go ahead. If you got a bad actor, just put some services around them and the guy just get little paper to make them look. Big and George understandably, could not believe what was happening and they told him to zip. It not say anything. The announcement was going to be made public on the cover of life magazine. So on October, seventh, nineteen sixty eight a press conference was held where George was suddenly being asked. Questions is that the reveal that he's bond and he's being asked questions

like what it's like to be a huge star, and so he takes it all in stride and he told them everything except how he lied to get the part he just pretended to be calm, while he drank smoked from the article quote: Lazenby Twirls, a gun beside a potential bond girl, Marie France, boy air, and when he's asked what excited him about the role he said quote: I'm really looking forward to being bond for the bread and the birds. Sadly, the Pope banned the pill that it's my my with that. As the cover know, what we got for pages on the inside Charles that thing is the Pope and in in James Bond, have always had a thing yes, no women. I expect you to figure out how to could see if a child without a pill, that's right, and so within two weeks, Georges off to Switzerland is to start shooting the film sure. The producers insisted that he had to get rid of his australian accent, so they brought a dialect coach who trained him by putting a jaw match in his mouth

yeah, so we had to talk with just the match like in jaws. Take the Ozzie out. That's how we talk yeah. No, that's how the Ozzy's target is in English, they're trying to get them they're, not even trying to get them english they're, just trying to get them notes, Iowa, bloody and in a day. So instead he's just sort of like If our toilet, there's a mountain in my mouth and I didn't have a limit, it would take an urge to Yeah, I I I I I remember a chick. I feel a jagged. I feel, like the accent coach, doesn't know what he's doing. I'm from HK. you'd have no remorse it got an ethic yeah, so it is the first day shooting he rolls up on a motorcycle. The security guard didn't know who he was did not believe he was James Bond, would not let him in and who rolls up and sister James Bond, the fat guy doesn't just let him Nobody does that. Well, I really got their roles evidences of James Bond, part of the funding. They re getting part of the thing that was saying was because he was on a motorcycle too. Like he's on me, just like a shitty motorcycle? What ended up

putting was they were like you can't write a motorcycle anymore, so they buy em, they buy em like an asked and partners. The horse is dead they're. Just like he's like now, you refused to give the motorcycle, but then it will give us the mighty like, though, that threaten trash avian. I don't care and so there's a ton of pressure on him. But George decides that he's just going to try to be calm and enjoy it. People keep pushing him to be like Sean Connery, but George insisted on being himself. George also felt like he was being asked to do more than Connery, so he kept saying quote. I bet the other guy didn't have to do this quote some days. I was doing Oh god, that's good quote some days. I was doing stunts for nearly sixteen hours going from first year to second unit and I kept giving him that line and they were just filming in Portugal, Peter Hunt came over and he said say that line of yours, so at the beginning of on her majesty's secret service bond is saving this woman. drowning and he fights of these three men with oars and anchors and as he finished the fight he says this never happened.

Other fellow Americans Gabriel, I just gave him constantly like saying that I'd say he was right them. He was asked. He was asked to do a lot more than chunk of lower colors. Do a lot more stunts way more than shown country and the reason why was because Harry Salts man knew that nobody had ever seen. George. So if George died, they could just replace them with someone else and start over the loss would merely be fine. actual so they're like having him do all the studies. The camera shots in the movie is raising literally think if he dies there like if he dies making the movie nobody's. We like Shaw, gunnery, die there. like this guy, you never heard of guide and though just get another guy to play, what a beautiful human be Hollywood baby. So so Peter Hunt, meanwhile, is so busy running to carry on its full time that Georgia is acting almost became secondary in the film. This lead to rumours that hunt and George stop getting long. But what really happened was hunt thought that,

Which was better when he was irritated, so the more that I ignore, George, the more intense his performance would get so Hunt was trying to get the best performance out of the first time actor by telling people quote the longer we stay away from George, the meaner, he looks and it works for the film George remembers. That quote so he told everyone not to talk to me not to hang out with me. It made me angry and very uptight exactly, but apparently is good. George also didn't get a lot takes What are you gonna quote? What nearly every seat in the movie was one take. He gave you one take. You would tell. See that- and I would do the best that I could it was another way it was another one of his ways of increasing the intensity. For me, it's just trying to money. Rivets got it's gotta. I mean that boy you're. Not so many, not you ve, never acted. Yes, it's like you, probably know how to objects almost and they're they're, making a fake windy city heat Moby like it's like a mountain radically means it's very mean they want take at some point, George, probably

Like amazingly, is an elaborate poorer egg, I may we we did more than one take on merit. That ethnic agree three takes is like not enough. Now that's kind of where you are. If your work, I'm like a cable, show your Rita forty times, but it, but by really you need a, but you really you need one just to be like. Oh it's this, these other parts that sock that's right, you know, and but instead he's just doing one Andy's not talk to the director of the directors pretty much. You know, It sounds like you're supposed to make movies. Sir George was definitely meanwhile offset enjoying the perks. He took private jets around Europe to socialize while shooting he claims. He drank a bottle of vodka a day. He smoked lots of pot. He had tons of sex, he barely slept. He was also getting offered money to just show up at parties, but the thing with that was that grew tired, because deep down, George knew that those parties they didn't want him there. They just wanted the new James Bond and

in the film spoiler Diana Riggs Character is killed. Oh my god they've you. Why would you do that? It'd be shocking that they killed bond, walking, ruin girls and so, while they're filming GA so caught up in this kind of death scene, where she's dead and he's kind of holding her in her arms that he actually starts crying and giving like a real performance. Oh and he's it's happening, the emotion is there he's proud of it and halfway through the scene, the director yelled cut Peter HUD script cut James Bond I cry, and then he resets vets right, and so he was like really do. Yeah James Bond doesn't cry yeah, but if you're, if you're, if you've, never acted impressive with a big fry chocolate, Guy look will have good at shut up. Don't do that either, but yeah James Bond doesn't cry, let's be on the trip and all in all the film was pretty good for a bond film. You know, George, wasn't the best actor, but then again he wasn't an actor. He was good with all the action like I said he did all those crazy stunts. He was also forced to dub a lot of

mine's after the film was shot which may be happy with. doing. Only white, hey, I dont in retrospect, maybe not the blasts of holes in nineteen sixty nine weight. It came out in nineteen. Sixty nine on her majesty's secret service was getting ready for wide relief. As the premier was approaching, everyone seems to be very happy with George and they knew they had their future bond. However, somehow George shot the whole film without signing a contract for anymore and united artist. Want that one of that taken care of immediately. The truth is they wanted to see how we did when it was all put together and when they did they liked him and when they liked him, they needed him. So this job,

getting them to sign. A contract fell on the shoulders of Harry Saltzman. So Harry was relentlessly pursuing George to sign what is known as a slave contract contract. Tells you how you can act, how you can dress where you can go, not just what you're, not just for the movies. They wanted them to sign up for the next six bond films totally worth it. But George said he wanted fifty k a pop, but George said he wanted to think about it which shocked them. You see. George Was deep into being a hippie after he was done, shooting he grew his hair longer and he started sporting, a beard, fuck, yeah and Lee. Had it leading up to the premiere and it helped him not get recognized this ruffled, some feathers with the studio and the producers. He was told to not attend the premiere if he a beard. They were like they were so like James Bond does not have a beard what's right,

Doing yeah, and I mean, even if you see he's not that it's not like he like, grew like a Sharman beard. He probably he probably meant to them. He went from like James Bond to the spin doctor yeah, and this is six sixty eight or whenever this is like they're there there. S He is like a gang. I see a hint of Hippy automatic on that note, I would get the stage Ebby off so Oh, he was told to not attend the premier. He thought that was ridiculous and he still showed up with his beard, and I did not. A studio was not happy with this violation and they cancel the publicity door tore that there were about to send him on

due to the beard yeah. They represent them all across the country, and Georgia is live at by the way this one there is in in England for even up until recently, there is always a weird thing about beards. I think it's gone now but like when the ones with Zach Galifianakis went to England in one like this recent recently, like the two thousand somebody was like. What's with the fucking beard, man like yeah, it's just a weird is yeah. Even when english people grow a beard, it's not like the kind of beard that guys like you and I grow, though like it's a movie is trim it rim. It looks like a professor, and so they canceled his press tour. So George is pissed. because he was very excited to see the. U S like that was you know one of the main reasons he was pumped up, and so he he takes himself on oppressed. So he pays paces when to go across the country. On his own press tour,

so he would just show up at like local news studio and he would pitch himself knock on the door and ability lazily, I'm new James Bond, and since there is no pr behind him, it led to some fun headlines like George Lassen, be the new James Bond says he has taken quote a beautiful trip on LSD. I, the australian star of on her majesty's secret service, tried the hallucinatory drug, because quote my curiosity was getting the better of me. but he added that he was under medical supervision. At the time quote, I realized the harmful effects of it. But to me it was a beautiful trip. He said earlier. He said earlier in the day Mr Larsson be admitted to four hundred youngsters that he had smoke marijuana so he's just you Ro, the worst nightmare he's gone represent over any spool on hippy. He is now a full on. happy and really not bond.

It was really not it's not back now. So when the film is released on her majesty's secret service, as you asked did get released, it is found that is released. He is yes, the film is raised. It was pretty big, it huge had actually it broke UK and U S Box office records, ok and people again like they were Like you know, even if you watch bond movies like it is a serviceable role, it really is more about like the action and like yet it always. You know their later view, tropes like they all that shit, so so that everyone's happy there like they replace James Bond. So this puts the studio in an even more frenzied state to get him to signed the contract. So there this united artist is breathing down. Harry salts means Neck and Harry's anxious, so he keeps telling short sighted keeps I George to sign it until eventually he just tells George. He will straight up give him a million dollars to sign it off the books under the table ass a meal

now. Amazing, but George see love. Dealing fucking loves his beard. You know what to do. A third loves his beard, man. He was still by my fucking beard. He was still very bad, yeah what had gone on. There's beard gate the slave contract, the amount of ownership that it would take over his life on the one takes one takes yes all by the director, not talking to you, it's all bad, but the truth is he also had a manager who, let's just say, was not a genius Ronan, o Re Healy, was his name, which is a great name to say, a whole radially railway. He'll erode and rare. So his manager, Ronan Kerr Healy, told George, that he didn't think bond was going to have stated quote. I had run RO. I had grown it early meet me at the time.

I am an Ronan says, quote: Clint Eastwood is making five hundred thousand dollars a Western in ITALY. You can do to those and make a million forget about it suggested films at the time like easy rider and the very hip it's coming on strong that James Bond looked very dated, got so with all is weighing on George. He knew what he had to do your cut loose and he passed on doing anymore. It's right, fuck Bob, it's fucking, a shitty, ancient France, as is clearly going down the shit. You noticed staying power, western yeah. It's begin. Western, as we all know, and the producers, the studio, the press, the public and basically anyone else who knew what the deal was

a stunt just doing one James Bond film was totally a shocking decision that I was fuckin mine. So shortly after George, who was still confident is, is decision was quoted as saying quote: I'm terribly unprecedented, hopper I'd like to work for him. I also like Arthur PAN, John, less injure and Peter Yeats. What I'm going to do is look for a great Director first, a good screenplay second gear, so even then, like you can hear in there that he, like it's easy ride, like easy rider was like the hippie movie and like he, and this manager are like that's the wave of the first many writers like twelve hours or something the original cut. The original cut yeah there's a cut of each That just like than somebody's literally I believe that it is not that easy. I just them riding motorcycles, It's my people should be allowed to do as they make movies. I mean I play

I dont disagree with you. I can't fully sign off on. So so, meanwhile, like everyone is like what are you doing, you know, but he claims he has no regrets on leaving the barn franchise quote, better money, doing commercials and its much more reward.

yeah? No, you get to carry a big credit chocolate around yeah hold up, chocolate, bars and headline quote: Lazenby quits Double o seven quote Monday: George Lazenby, the twenty nine year old Australian chosen to succeed, Sean Connery as the screen James Bond says he is quitting after his first tableau, seven film Lazenby, who first drew attention with his appearance. In a british television chocolate commercial was picked from five hundred hope hopefuls for the plum bond part in the movie on her majesty's secret service. Now Lazenby has stunned the filmmakers by saying he is not interested in making any more films quote. They disregard everything I suggested simply because I hadn't been in the film business like them. For about one thousand years, his co star, Miss Diana Rigg. Former Avengers STAR is quoted. As saying quote, I can no longer cater for his obsession with himself. He is utterly unbelievably bloody impossible. They fucked. Actually they did. They actually did date a little bit and she said she was like. If we're going to date, you cannot sleep with anyone.

Was and he's like, okay and then, like literally the next day, he sleeping with some girl and like the stunt coordinator, opens at ten to show her him in mid coitus and she's like okay. Well, this is over, but she's. Also like she's, like an actress like Jeremy likes over her she's, like oh yeah, but for him he's just like matter. What a party era is a great body, yeah he's still the girl who's. Just looking for the most cool thing to do. Yeah I mean he's. It really is like it's just got to be mind bending. So, despite the controversy brewing in the bond world, Lazenby was nominated for a golden globe for his performance. In majesty's an image on her majesty's secret services called the time that a band has been nominated for a golden globe and with that the search was on for the new bond again, so they went with this guy named Sean Connery. That's right, Connery came back for his fifth and final bond. Film diamonds are forever because Connery was probably doing it the whole time to get to get a bump, and so they went through the fucking rigmarole. The

well yeah. I will show you what they also. Probably. There is also probably an element of being like. We can't just have a new bond, every felt yeah. You know like and there's some consistency there. It seems less weird to reset after another country, but also he was convinced, come back for the role for one point to five million plus twelve point five percent of total gross, which resulted in around six million dollars total, which is the highest salary for any actor at the time, and Georgian at fifty that you got vertical fats and almost and that was that Georgia's out country was back in during one interview shortly after saying no George was ass quote, which would you prefer to be a stereotyped James bond or a car salesman like you used to be short, smiles and says car salesman like I used to be

I get the craziest thing about the story. Is it's still the fact that William Buffett has that thing on his? What Warren Buffett yeah warrant Williams his little brother, very little boy, so George waited for his new hippy roles that him and Healy were waiting on yeah. This is the thing that is managed and taken account is. Is that he he wasn't a hippie on screen yeah, so they so they never come ye and nineteen. Seventy one George decides he's going to follow up with a role as Riker in the film universal soldier, but his attempt at a more serious. action- failed at the Box office where Universe a soldier was a more serious production here. Yeah, a dramatic turn shows how cartooning bondage, and I will do so. The grounded like we're robot soldier coming, that's not bananas, something that I can really sick. My teeth into bond is just that

what a grounded character it'll be like a half man, half robot kind of be Riker. The half man, half robot, who goes a little evil, is that cool so we're just blackboard in the? U S. In the UK five years later, his career in western Cinema Cinema is seemingly over without any prospect of licence Let me let me follow up on that. Actually, that's actually a tea that I didn't cross. I apologize. I should have done that yeah and so without any prospects of work. George headed to Hong Kong in the nineteen seventies and starred in Kung FU adventure film. Fuck? Yes and I'd? Much rather do this to be some bullshit James Bond thing yeah, I fucking Hong Kong Kung fu. He is such a hustler too. Like he's just like you know, I mean dude, wasn't even an actor.

and this is four years later three years later and he's just like whatever I'm just trying to make money and have fun yeah, and so with that George saw away with with the the Kung Fu Cinema George Selway, to make his name back in nineteen. Seventy three Bruce Lee was a huge star, so George Lazenby did what George Lazenby does he charted a flight to Singapore to meet Bruce Lee without any arrangements having been made, so he gets in with this pr girl that he meets at the Hyatt and she tells him to go to home. Calling that's were brutally was, which is amazing, to not do that amount of research that is normal cannot just go to. a poor and then be like where's Bruce late. But what can I do? This know, Google there's no, the research that is meeting a pr girl who I thought I thought about this, and I do think there would have been away too like we lived in Hong Kong, I feel that you could find that maybe not

anyway, so yeah, he James Bonds, it and he talked to this girl and she tells Maria. So he takes a bus to Hong Kong and he gets the office of Bruce Lee and he walks in, and he talks to a producer who told Bruce the George Lazenby was there to see him the and Bruce sent away yeah. He had no interest, so George George is down and out walking around. I'm calling during it and I were the worst personally story that ever happened. He said down and out walking. In Hong Kong during you to diversely, you gotta, listen, what have saying or the Turkey is walking around during a typhoon he's like depend. Walking around. In my view, this is the sad I read the story you walk around in that typhoon, so then a Mercedes Benz pulls up and it's Bruce Lee and Bruce Lee tells them to get in, and so he kind of saved them from. an army and they go to dinner and they headed off right away.

And by the end of the meal, Bruce decided that he and George would indeed make a film together yeah. This is Bruce, told his manager to give George ten thousand years this. This is seventy three, oh boy. Okay, he tells George, he tells his manager to get George ten thousand dollars, get him a new suit. The next day they set George up with a bank account, and he and Bruce Lee are talking nonstop about what the film would be Bruce. Lee is calling him at like three in the morning, they're discussing characters and then sadly, Bruce Lee died five days later. That's what I asked.

That's why, of the year cause Bruce Lee died that it feels like that's. One of those feels like there was no punctuation at the end, it's like a double typhoon hit us yeah talk about yeah, he's walking around and two typhoons in one week. George is now the grim reaper yeah. He might have to use the cooler and so over the years over the years since that movie didn't happen, that movie did not happen on account of the death of personality, exactly yeah and over the years since George has become a bit of a punchline in ways, but he still thinks it was the right thing to do. He doesn't regret passing on six more bond. Films quote to have any regrets only when I was broke, but I did a bond film and that's all you have to do after that. When I was broke a couple of times, I thought shit. I should have done another bond movie, it's so inherently australian, yeah yeah. I mean it really.

It's like he's just like a small town is. I think that is the thing he thought in his mind was he was like worst case scenario. I go back to go back to what I was doing, which it wasn't the worst thing in the world and during the eighties and nineties Lazenby was on general hospital. He was on another soap, opera called rituals, which I know you loved. He was a general hospital yeah fastener yeah. He signed a contract to do general hospital and then he even took a role on an episode of Baywatch, where he may have actually played like he did stuff where he would like, like he did commercials where he would play bond like for a vcr yeah. So it's kind of like this. I don't want to say sad, but it's like you know here he rejected the role of James Bond, but he would still do it for like commercials, but he didn't have to live like they wanted him to live

if they want to be a different person, and that really is like even the stuff that his manager said like to him. It was more like I don't like what they're doing to me. He was like rejected their system, a little bit and so yeah, so he did. He did all those things he married twice he's back in Australia. Now he he kind of went back and forth, but basically lived

layman, like, oh god, yeah he married twice and a anything you know he lived in Asia for awhile as well. He had two kids. He developed a bit of a drinking issue which made him less than a stellar family man. He even discovered he had a daughter that he didn't know about until she was in her twenties when she contacted him and he right away was like well. Let's meet and George does take solace over the whole bond thing and in a meeting that he had with Shirley Maclaine George's son was sick and would eventually pass away and they couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. So Mcclain said quote: take them to a psychic, so George went to the psychic that she recommended and while they couldn't figure out, the psychic couldn't figure out what his son's disease was. She did quote analyze my life and when I said I gave up James Bond, she said quote just as well:

why she said. You'd have probably had three wives in Beverly Hills in different houses and you would be a drug addict and I thought quote wow it's a good thing. I did give it up, then you put it like that. It definitely like one a day or something like that and and George still I'm done waiting as recently still alive yeah. It's the life yeah yeah he's he's like in his seventies, but he's still like he's so actually still around. He will still act he's still around. I mean he doesn't he's, definitely not a full time actor. He ended up like for years riding dirt bikes like he really just kind of likes. What else are we going? Gonna do yeah, so we like competitively rode dirt bikes, like I said he did commercials. You know anybody trace Ill, like you, sailed for like fifteen months at one point or something like that kind of living the life in a lot of ways. I mean what, when you think about the trade off you have to be bought like that, is your life.

I think his life would never be, I think, Gmail being James Bond. Besides the money, I think that life sucks the slave contract thing is a sub contract, but also just being that famous sucks the amount of time that that, on her majesty's secret service to shot for nine months, I mean these move.

It should be for the no they shot for like almost a year, the safe here s, the thing, except, if you're doing six, if you sign up for six, I mean you're time I'd like the next ten years of your life, fully defined as barman. You know it's been six up it George cells and done waiting. He says quote: I'm still waiting for the right, perfect role to set things right, I'd really loved the chance. So I learned of this story from my friend Josh Green bounds. Documentary called becoming bond which people can watch and a number of places. It is a great way to sort of hear it from George what he thinks what he went through. There is also this really kind of you know. A lot of his life was kind of driven by a girl who got away at the end of the dock. Latvia's asked what he hopes. People remember about his life. He takes a beat and simply says quote I'd like to know that you can define what is expected of you and write your own story and George lazily did just that. Yeah.

It's a fucking, really good story, I mean he's good. Looking dude looks like a bond yeah, but but yeah you, the people who walk away from shit and those that are the quality of life. I mean there that the people don't get Hollywood Hollywood to play the game and to be in that circuit and to live that life to me is intolerable. Like literally On that level I mean, even when you see like, would you know obviously both probably know. Some people were extremely faint, that that existence is. Difficult very difficult, as Sars like having her own life. certainly it like money money, is absolutely something that when people say money is like money takes away. A lot of your stress money eliminates a lot of worry money. Does a lot of that stuff, but it still there is a compromise you make. If you are like, I will be the biggest star in the world with you everywhere, you go every every place

being watched, you're, never not being watched. Yeah I'd. Imagine imagine imagine if yeah I mean how many people would turn down the opportunity to be James Bond, there's just not allowed, even if you're getting even if you have a manager telling that he he just was like fuck your system, yeah one hundred percent and my friend Josh also told me that if I want to hang out with them, I probably can so yeah for sure I want that to happen yeah. So that is that and and when I heard this story like I was not sure if you'd, because I'm like you would think that you would know like he's just like forgotten, even in their choice bond franchise totally, because then I made a move. We, he was a James bond. You hear about like even I mean I wasn't alive for, like you know some of the other bonds

Roger more like it if they receive no Rhino Timothy Dalton, I know Roger more. I know she caught, you know the who they ever think of Roger more hadn't come along and really taken over that role. I think that then it would be more one. One want to men, you'd know him more yet because he rolled with and they black velvet, and they were like that, it might have raised Hollywood. So great.

Makes you want to be a cubby broccoli? Sometimes yeah would have caused the cubby Broccoli story, yeah. Okay, now I recognize him as an older guy yeah. I've seen them yeah and he's still like he. You know he still gets like yeah he's he's still upset like you know, he'll be at award, shows in Australia every now and then and stuff like that. But it's such a it is it's hard like the feeling I get from our strange at times like when you when I read their history, so this is a fucking guy, that's very Australia! Yes, truly he I mean yeah. He I mean he really is like a small town. Kid like even there there's a story about when he loses her virginity. That he loses his virginity and when he ejaculates he thought his dick blew up. Yeah yeah I've done this, so he has sex for the first time and he literally finishes, and then he tells the girl is in a car

and he tells the girl I'll be right back any runs over and he expects to see his penises. I feel that there is like ok and then he desired like a well did. You know I did but can repeat. Explosion takes a lead to explore determinedly much like a gadget. The queue would give him use Hey James. If you use your prick, it will blow up well with the Christmas story. So now, let's go to the land of him tonight or tomorrow or even tonight. Alright, alright, then carry on as you were. Come to shows in Australia do a podcast dot com thanks, bye, bye.