CLASSIC: How James Bond Created a Mexican Dia de los Muertos Tradition

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🗓️ 28 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Day of the Dead is a longstanding traditional celebration in Mexico, and currently hundreds of thousands of people associate it with a gigantic parade -- you know, like the one they saw in the James Bond film "Spectre". There's just one strange twist about that parade: before the movie, the procession didn't exist. Join Ben and Noel as they trace the weird evolution of this event from fiction to the real world in this week's Classic episode.

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0:00.0	Ridic Ulysses historians, welcome back to our classic episode for this week.
0:06.1	We often talk about espionage.
0:09.7	We love it.
0:11.1	You love it too. That's Max Williams. That's Noel Brown. I'm then Boland. Hello. We get James Bond joining
0:20.4	us in tonight's conversation.
0:22.8	Bond, James Bond?
0:24.5	Yes, yeah.
0:25.3	Double 7?
0:26.3	Yeah, the guy who was such a crap spy
0:29.4	that he announces his real name in every situation.
0:33.8	Ah, Ben, I disagree.
0:35.8	I think it just indicates his extreme levels of confidence
0:39.2	in this ability to get the job done.
0:41.6	Brown. No. Brown.
0:43.0	It's sexy, man.
0:45.0	Martini, what is it?
0:46.0	Have you ever had a Vesper Martini?
0:47.0	It's illegal for you to ask me.
0:49.0	That's fair.
0:50.0	Well, okay, folks, if you ever want to try the Martini of choice for Mr James Brown it is the
0:54.3	Vesper and it is quite a light and refreshing cocktail if you're into it not the heavy
0:59.1	oliviness of a traditional martini it's a little bit more on the citrusy side but we're talking
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