S07.47: Bodyguards

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

It’s Bodyguard Romance week, which feels impossible, honestly, considering we’ve definitely done this before, haven’t we? According to Eric and also the internet, we haven’t, which means we get to talk for the first time in seven seasons about why Bodyguards work so well for so many romance readers, including us! We talk about the basics – the innate joy of having an Exasperated Man™️ willing to put himself in front of a bullet for you, the absolute delight of the books that turn the whole thing on its head and make the protector the protected, and yes, Whitney Houston. Also, Jen makes a brilliant observation on surveillance culture and how it’s impacting romance. We’re keeping you safe from the baddies this week.

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Notes

In a recent interview Kevin Costner talked about his feelings about Whitney Houston. Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston’s versions of I Will Always Love You, Whitney’s isolated vocals on How Will I Know, and Whitney sang the Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl in 1991 and the New Yorker article about it.
Caroline has created a bodyguard collection featuring books across subgenres.
The Big Easy is a movie with Dennis Quaid (he’s crazy now) and Ellen Barkin where he is a cop who uncovers corruption on the force.
Everyone, it looks like this thing about not needing a PI license in the state of Wyoming is legit, go forth and spread the news.

Books

Princess by Galen Foley
Hans by SJ Tilly
Wyoming Bodyguard by Danielle Haas
The Wilde Ways Series by Cynthia Eden

Transcript

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0:00.0	I read this thing yesterday about Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner and how Kevin Costner is so, like, was so obsessed with her.
0:11.3	And I mean, same.
0:12.9	Like, who wouldn't, I mean.
0:14.2	I mean, it just shows the man has common sense.
0:16.2	If Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner got together, Kevin Costner would be marrying up, let's just say.
0:21.1	By like a million.
0:22.5	Yeah.
0:22.8	A factor of a million.
0:24.2	But it was like this whole thing about how like when she died, he was like a wreck.
0:31.9	And well, he didn't protect her.
0:34.0	She really, this is a woman.
0:35.4	I mean, it was right there in the title of the movie and he did not do the job.
0:40.1	I know.
0:41.4	Kevin, we blame you.
0:43.6	I'm glad we got to the bottom of that.
0:46.6	Clearly it was your fault.
0:48.3	I mean, it's interesting, right?
0:50.3	Because I feel like the bodyguard was a seminal text for us. So everybody, you have
0:57.7	cleverly discerned, but we are about to do a bodyguard episode. Which, first of all, unreal that
1:04.0	we haven't done one. Unreal. I keep checking. Yeah. Oh yeah. Like it's going to magically appear.
1:09.9	Because you know our producer
1:11.8	has said to us for about a year, you should do a bodyguard episode. And every time he does,
	...

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