Chuck

But the idea of their research and development and technology branch that produced someone like Q that we all who know the James Bond movies are familiar with, that actually came from them absorbing a rival agency that was developed in World War II that MI6 did not like one bit at first. The Special Operations Executive or the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

Well, yeah. I mean, they definitely did have their fun stuff curtailed because MI6 had a department called D-Section. And D stood for destruction. Like, they were supposedly perfectly capable of doing sabotage. I don't know enough about World War II British military history to understand why they felt a special operations executive was needed.

Well, yeah. I mean, they definitely did have their fun stuff curtailed because MI6 had a department called D-Section. And D stood for destruction. Like, they were supposedly perfectly capable of doing sabotage. I don't know enough about World War II British military history to understand why they felt a special operations executive was needed.

Well, yeah. I mean, they definitely did have their fun stuff curtailed because MI6 had a department called D-Section. And D stood for destruction. Like, they were supposedly perfectly capable of doing sabotage. I don't know enough about World War II British military history to understand why they felt a special operations executive was needed.

Or if somebody just managed to have enough power that they developed their own thing and it just became the SOE. I don't know. But eventually, MI6 prevailed, especially after World War II, and they absorbed the Special Operations Executive, including a lot of their really interesting, useful stuff, like their research and development group that produced people like Q.

Or if somebody just managed to have enough power that they developed their own thing and it just became the SOE. I don't know. But eventually, MI6 prevailed, especially after World War II, and they absorbed the Special Operations Executive, including a lot of their really interesting, useful stuff, like their research and development group that produced people like Q.

Or if somebody just managed to have enough power that they developed their own thing and it just became the SOE. I don't know. But eventually, MI6 prevailed, especially after World War II, and they absorbed the Special Operations Executive, including a lot of their really interesting, useful stuff, like their research and development group that produced people like Q.

Right. Everybody was waiting for that last part.

Right. Everybody was waiting for that last part.

Right. Everybody was waiting for that last part.

I'll bet it doesn't feel humdrum going in.

I'll bet it doesn't feel humdrum going in.

I'll bet it doesn't feel humdrum going in.

For sure. Yeah. So, I mean, there's a lot of what we understand about MI6 and like the movies and all that. It does apparently bear some resemblance because I don't know if we said or not, Ian Fleming worked for MI6 during World War II. So he had firsthand knowledge about all this stuff, which is why there are real life people who these characters were based on.

For sure. Yeah. So, I mean, there's a lot of what we understand about MI6 and like the movies and all that. It does apparently bear some resemblance because I don't know if we said or not, Ian Fleming worked for MI6 during World War II. So he had firsthand knowledge about all this stuff, which is why there are real life people who these characters were based on.

For sure. Yeah. So, I mean, there's a lot of what we understand about MI6 and like the movies and all that. It does apparently bear some resemblance because I don't know if we said or not, Ian Fleming worked for MI6 during World War II. So he had firsthand knowledge about all this stuff, which is why there are real life people who these characters were based on.

So our understanding of what MI6 does and has at its disposal and the way it runs is is not that far off. But one of the big differences I saw was the idea of a lone, loose cannon running his own operations out there is totally incorrect. It's just backwards. I've seen current employees say, like, that guy wouldn't even make it through the door.

So our understanding of what MI6 does and has at its disposal and the way it runs is is not that far off. But one of the big differences I saw was the idea of a lone, loose cannon running his own operations out there is totally incorrect. It's just backwards. I've seen current employees say, like, that guy wouldn't even make it through the door.

So our understanding of what MI6 does and has at its disposal and the way it runs is is not that far off. But one of the big differences I saw was the idea of a lone, loose cannon running his own operations out there is totally incorrect. It's just backwards. I've seen current employees say, like, that guy wouldn't even make it through the door.

Like, he would get voted out so quickly that he wouldn't even have a chance. You need somebody who's not a loose cannon. Yeah. Rather than solo missions, apparently it's all teamwork. And it's not one person coming up with one giant piece of information. Like there's a supervillain who's created a layer at the bottom of the sea that he's going to shoot nuclear missiles from.