NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING: A Spy Is Born

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Martinis shaken, not stirred. Fast cars and shiny shoes. Villain monologues and absurd gadgets. From shagadelic parodies to suave 007 and serialized stories, we’re taking aim at spy movies.

Guests: Actress Rose McIver (“Ghosts,” “iZombie”); writer/showrunner Raamla Mohamed (“Little Fires Everywhere,” “Reasonable Doubt,”); and writer/director Mark Anthony Green (“Opus”).

NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING is a production of The Black List, LAist Studios, and The Ankler.

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0:42.5	Martini's shaken, not stirred, an impeccably tailored Savile-Rose suit. Pulling up in an
0:48.0	Aston Martin with a blonde bombshell and a low-cut dress on my arm. No, I'm not talking about my
0:52.6	night at the Vanity Fair Oscars party. I'm talking,
0:55.2	of course, about spy movies. They grows billions at the box office. They unite us against
1:00.6	whatever foreign enemy is currently in vogue, and they're just a good old time. They panic us,
1:06.5	they entertain us, they make us want to vacation in Air Fu and Pang Ah. And where else would you find
1:12.5	hot, intelligent people in government these days? I admire your luck, Mr. Bon. James Bond.
1:22.6	Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to penetrate the highly secured archive inside
1:27.3	the Kremlin.
1:28.1	What's your angle?
1:29.2	Got a job for you.
1:30.4	There's only one job that you coppers would want me for.
1:33.4	Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne.
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