It's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your host, historian Scott Michaels, and filmmaker Mike Dorsey.

Here we are, episode 20 of the Dearly Departed podcast.

Can you believe it's been 20 shows already?

And it seems like just yesterday.

Exactly.

So we're going to do James Bond.

Yeah, there is a lot of information. Yeah. So we're going to do James Bond. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, there is a lot of information.

When we started doing the research for James Bond, it was just a wormhole that, you know,

it got to be the different bonds, although there's only really one dead.

But the rest of them, it became the villains, it became the girls, and the girls are

some of the girls are villains and some of the monics.

So you call, you know, Grace Jones a bond girl, you really can't because she was not a love

interest.

I know, it's confusing.

So what Mike and I did was choose who we thought were most interesting.

So this is by no means a encyclopedic, you know,

rundown of every Bond and every movie and every person,

but the people we thought sort of like the greatest hits,

the most interesting of the stories.

Right, exactly.

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