Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to listen to Les Filles talk about spies and espionage in movies and TV.

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Writing spies:

Bond. James Bond.

Russian Film:

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Avengers (The TV series, not the movies. Honestly.)

The Bourne Identity (et al)

Le Femme Nikita

Alias

The Americans

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Unspoken but still important: one of Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s posthumous films is A Most Wanted Man.

We’ll be back next month, same spy-time, same spy channel!

It’s time to reminisce about being a baby nerd and what we were obsessed with as Les Petite Filles. And also Le Petit Garçon, as we are joined by Made of Fail founder, executive producer and all around Starter of Things, Kevin!

There are some sound and editing issues, due to a lack of avocado sacrifice.

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Books:

Movies:

TV Shows:

Video Games:

Sonic

Fandom video to “We Didn’t Start The Fire” where originally posted with notes by the creators, Scribe and Fiercynn. Watch it, cry, it’s amazing.

The Dakota War of 1862, as mentioned during the discussion of the treatment of American Indians in the Little House books.

Things our listeners tweeted at us:

Happy nostalgia, everyone!

The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics just wrapped up, and we had some things to say. A lot of things. (We also had to deploy an Emergency Avocado. Which worked!)

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Medal Count! We are VERY proud of Team UK and their 4 medals! They did VERY well.

(Drinking game for this episode: take a shot every time Alina JUST HAPPENS to mention that Canada won the gold in both men and women’s hockey.)

Supporting LGBTQ athletes in Sochi and beyond: You Can Play Team.

Anonymous in Sochi, blog posts from an anonymous gay blogger who traveled to Sochi for this project. “The choice before me is a familiar one: Remain silent or speak for those who cannot.”

Jason Brown and the Hammer Shuffle. On Ice.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir 2010 gala performance.

Yuzuru Hanyu is cooler than you

The article positing that Ashley Wagner’s selection was based on what Marta Karolyi would have done.

Surveillance in the showers! Not the best PR move, Russia.

Breaking out of the bathroom!

Stats Canada Twitter. 100% of Canadians aren’t sorry right now.

The beer fridge that only opens with a Canadian passport.

The US sent Canada some Congratulatory Beer. It’s not crap beer, which was really nice of us!

Gus Kenworthy and his puppies!

NO REALLY LOOK AT THEM.

Team USA and their puppies.

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska founds a dog sanctuary for strays in Sochi because his dog he had as a kid was a stray. (No one give Will Graham any ideas, okay?)

This is Commonwealth Clyde. He is terrifying.

The Olympics will be back in 2 years in Rio and 4 years in PyongChang, and we’ll be back atcha next month with a Topic As Of Yet To Be Determined!

Greetings, listeners! Fear not, a proper episode is still coming to you in February, for we have many, many thoughts about the Olympics and some of them are even about topics other than the ranking order of Olympic figure skaters’ behinds.

Meanwhile, Hannibal season 2 has a premier date of February 28th. The fannibals are preparing to feast, the only question is will you be a dinner guest or will you be dinner?

You have 2 weeks to catch up on season 1, and to help convince you that you should, here is the episode we recorded last October with the ever-gracious Cleolinda as our guest.

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Click here to see the original show notes.

Season 2 trailers!

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