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Dearly Departed Podcast

Episode 24 - The Wizard of Oz

Dearly Departed Podcast

Mike Dorsey

True Crime, Film History, Tv & Film

4.9689 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" On this Election Day in the US, we escape to Oz and explore the fates of the actors from the most watched film of all time, 1939's The Wizard of Oz.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:19.7

Okay, welcome everybody.

0:21.7

It is crazy, crazy times.

0:24.5

So we figure here in America with the election and everything happening,

0:28.1

so we figured why not take a trip to the land of Oz.

0:32.4

Yeah, please, let's go, you know.

0:35.2

If there's ever a time when you want to be somewhere else and have a little escapism,

0:39.1

it's right now, I think.

0:40.6

So let's have, you know, the fantasy of the Wizard of Oswald.

0:45.4

So we are, just as a housekeeping note here, we are not going to do the kind of obituaries

0:52.1

of the week or deaths of the week that we normally do.

0:54.5

We are going to make those now our Patreon shows.

0:57.9

So if you want to subscribe to our Patreon, you can get all of that stuff.

1:01.9

We just recorded it.

1:02.8

We talked about Sean Conry and Eddie Van Halen and a bunch of other really cool people

1:08.2

that we unfortunately have lost over the past couple of months.

1:11.1

So that's over on our daily departed Patreon.

1:14.0

So we're going to focus more on just the main shows for our regular, you know, free show that we put out.

1:20.6

And but we do still have some general stuff to talk about before we get into our main topic.

1:25.8

So, Scott, you did something with Zach Begins recently. I saw you. I did. Yeah. Yeah.

1:33.4

We had, what can you say about it? I can say, well, actually, I could probably say anything.

1:37.0

It's the pictures that there would be a problem in any of the, any of the content. Uh, so yeah,

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