But it's been a bit of a wild ride, recently... Sarah and Mikaela (reunited and it feels so good) recount what's been happening in their real lives recently, then our Thunderball guest and cover artist Jenny Panush answers the question "Do you fancy Sean Connery?" ...at some length.

Stay tuned for our Thunderball episode in the next couple of weeks!

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Goldfinger was released in September 1964, following Sean Connery as James Bond through Miami, Switzerland and Kentucky, in hot pursuit of Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), with additional pleasure and peril from Harold Sakata's Oddjob and the inimitable Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman). Pleasing p-words are pertinent with our pal this week, Princess Paige!

Things We Mentioned:

The Best of Bond on Graham Norton Janelle Monáe performs Goldfinger at the White House Paige's Christravaganza on YouTube

Paige (she/her)  https://twitter.com/paigetheprncss  https://www.instagram.com/paigetheprncss/

Sarah (she/her)  https://twitter.com/sarahthescrivnr https://www.instagram.com/sarahthescrivnr/

Mikaela (she/her)  https://twitter.com/guysmiley22  https://www.instagram.com/mikaeladisnerd/

But if there was... in this expanded excerpt from our next full episode, guest Princess Paige asks Mikaela and Sarah an important and very confusing question.

Stay tuned for our full Goldfinger episode coming soon!

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Mikaela (she/her) https://twitter.com/guysmiley22 https://www.instagram.com/mikaeladisnerd/

Sarah (she/her) https://twitter.com/sarahthescrivnr https://www.instagram.com/sarahthescrivnr/

From Russia with Love was released in October 1963, with Sean Connery's James Bond due east for the first time. A mystery MacGuffin, a beautiful consulate clerk (Daniela Bianchi), a dashing assassin (Robert Shaw), and a queer chanteuse (Lotte Lenya), acting in the role of Rosa Klebb, S.P.E.C.T.R.E. lesbian? Duty calls, and Scott Niswander of NerdSync is with us to answer.

Things We Mentioned:

Scott's YouTube channel NerdSync The REAL Origin of the X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga, featuring the voice of Sarah James Brolin is James Bond, no, wait, Sam Neill is James Bond Scott and Tristan Johnson's podcast It's Probably (not) Aliens! on Apple Podcasts

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The James Bond films are currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

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Mikaela Moody (she/her) twitter.com/guysmiley22 instagram.com/mikaeladisnerd

Sarah the Scrivener (she/her) twitter.com/sarahthescrivnr instagram.com/sarahthescrivnr

Dr. No was released in October 1962, starring Sean Connery as James Bond, a British MI6 agent sent to Jamaica to investigate the death of a fellow spy. Something weird is going on, and all signs suggest that Dr. Julius No, (played by Joseph Wiseman), is behind it.

Things We Mentioned: The Princess and the Scrivener, Sarah’s YouTube channel Castle to Castle, Mikaela’s (quite old!) podcast Does the Dog Die Darby O’Gill and the Little People on Disney+

Sources: When Harry Met Cubby: The Story of the James Bond Producers, by Robert Sellers https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/249c60ba-e413-44f6-9d35-9ff2e08a11f3 Behind Dr. No - Marguerite LeWars interview, Really, 007! https://youtu.be/kAQQ7TAGGZs

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The James Bond films are currently streaming on Amazon Prime.

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This little-known TV-movie adaptation of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, came out just a year after the book. It premiered on the CBS anthology television show, Climax!, in 1954.

It stars Barry Nelson as an American James Bond, Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre, Linda Christian as Valerie Mathis (a combination of the characters René Mathis and Vesper Lynd), and Michael Pate as (the British) Clarence Leiter.

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You can watch Casino Royale (1954) on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ztsXWp0nj2c

And here's the Spy Command article on Jerry Goldsmith's involvement: https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/was-jerry-goldsmith-the-first-james-bond-composer/

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