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Speaker 1: Let's paint a scene for you to begin this episode.

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Speaker 1: Shall we use a broad brush. Let us use a

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Speaker 1: broad brush, let us use several brushes. We're gonna need

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Speaker 1: a lot of black and white paint for this one. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think I see where you're going. So the world

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Speaker 1: renowned secret agent Double O seven himself, James Bond, gets

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Speaker 1: a message that leads him on an unauthorized mission into

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Speaker 1: Mexico City on the Day of the Dead. Hi, I'm

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Speaker 1: a Brown, Noel Brown. It's not bad. I don't know. No,

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Speaker 1: you're like again you I've already Yeah, okay, that'd be good.

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Speaker 1: I like I like that. I like the Connery, the

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Speaker 1: Connery Bond voice, spawn tramp spawn, like I don't even know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I am no old Brown. In fact, you may have

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Speaker 1: thought that someone else was here, that that that sounded different.

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Speaker 1: Not true. You know who else is here though, Noel Brown?

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Speaker 1: Oh boy do I are super producer Casey Pegram And

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Speaker 1: most importantly, we're so glad that you are here because

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Speaker 1: in today's episode we learned something very very strange. Noel,

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Speaker 1: could could you help me describe this opening scene from

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Speaker 1: the film Specter? Should we say spoilers? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it's not really it's it is. It is like the

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Speaker 1: he basically Bond is on a high speed foot chase,

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Speaker 1: kind of not really high speed, you know, running speed.

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Speaker 1: It's not like a yeah, he's in pursuit. He's in

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Speaker 1: pursuit hot pursuit of some sort of batty Again, don't

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Speaker 1: don't really remember the deeds of the plot. But he

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Speaker 1: ends up bobbing and weaving through this massive Dia Dellas

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Speaker 1: Muertos parade festival, surrounded by giant floats adorned with skeletons

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Speaker 1: with like puppet type rods attest to the hands. So

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Speaker 1: they're going no, no, no, and then you know sugar

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Speaker 1: skulls and yeah, one of the skeletons has like a

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Speaker 1: and it's you know, very festival. In streets are packed

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Speaker 1: Marty Graws level and their Bond is trying to stop

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Speaker 1: a terrorist bombing. God, So he's trying to find the

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Speaker 1: needle in the haystack here right now, it's coming back

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Speaker 1: to me and because this is the beginning of the movie.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to ruin it for any

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Speaker 1: of us out there when we say he survives. Yep,

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Speaker 1: it's not. It's it's not setting the record for the

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Speaker 1: shortest Bond movie. It's weird. This is he is. He's

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Speaker 1: sort of like a Doctor Who type situation that whenever

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Speaker 1: they're the new James Bond, is it like just like

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Speaker 1: acknowledges that the Bond has changed. It's like when they

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Speaker 1: recast a character in a sitcom and and it throws

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Speaker 1: me off, like the character and family matters when they

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Speaker 1: switched out which one, Kimmy it was the uh Judy Winslow,

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Speaker 1: I think, oh, that's right, okay, yea, I'm sorry. I

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Speaker 1: always confuse family matters in Full House. In my mind,

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Speaker 1: they had very similar themes songs, but you know, are

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Speaker 1: like in Rosanne whatever. We digress, however, because James Bond,

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Speaker 1: he did you know, he diffuses the terrorist bomb. But

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Speaker 1: here's the thing. This parade that he was a part

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Speaker 1: of in the streets of Mexico City not not a

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Speaker 1: thing does not exist, man manufactured did not exist. And

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Speaker 1: I just want to show you know, I think you'll

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Speaker 1: you think? Man? So how about this, Let's step back

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Speaker 1: a little and look at what the Day of the

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Speaker 1: So the Day of the Dead, in a sentence, is

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Speaker 1: a holiday that celebrated throughout Mexico, the Mexican diaspora, including

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Speaker 1: With these gifts, you will also leave possessions of the

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Speaker 1: It surrounds that this whole Day of the Dead tradition,

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Speaker 1: I think that's beautiful. When I've encountered this sort of

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Speaker 1: Dead has UNESCO Cultural Heritage designation. And I did not

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Speaker 1: The original month long festival paid tribute to the Lord

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Speaker 1: Land of the Dead. It's cool. It's very different from Catholicism,

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Speaker 1: it really is. And I think it's so cool the

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Speaker 1: you first. Well, there's some really cool stuff. Um. One

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Speaker 1: And the bandalero is the one that sticks the flags

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