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  Speaker 1: back to the show Ridiculous Historians. We sure hope you
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed Royals who Died Ridiculous. That's part one, because this
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  Speaker 1: is part two. So this is part two of a
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  Speaker 1: continuing series. So this is like part one, part two, Right,
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  Speaker 1: is this gonna be like idiomatic for the people? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well it'll be like a ongoing, serious, an occasional ongoing series.
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  Speaker 1: It's very just so it's my hands look huge. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as as we said previously, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to be taking the next week off to hang with
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  Speaker 1: some loved wins, get some R and R and um
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  Speaker 1: probably probably do some more research. Honestly, I'm really I'm
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  Speaker 1: really hyped about an upcoming episode called Leafblower, The Rise
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  Speaker 1: of a Supervillain. Uh, the Reckoning, the reckoning feature, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: leaf Blower Apart two, the blow it In. Uh. But
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  Speaker 1: you know what under appreciated use of a leaf blower
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  Speaker 1: is by the way, in special effects. If you ever
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  Speaker 1: see in movies that part where like someone gets sucked
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  Speaker 1: into a vortex or you know some mystical you know
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  Speaker 1: thing as a foot and their cheeks start, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that is usually a leafblower pointed directly at someone's mouth.
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  Speaker 1: That makes sense, That makes sense. We should do a
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  Speaker 1: history of fully work as well, because are all geniuses. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: because it used to be you know, that all started
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  Speaker 1: like I guess, in radio plays and when it was
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  Speaker 1: all done live, and then it's sort of like an
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  Speaker 1: art that has sort of continued over the years and
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  Speaker 1: not become irrelevant because you know, you can have canned
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  Speaker 1: you know, sound effects, like we we have library subscriptions here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the podcast network that we use for
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  Speaker 1: fiction type shows. But usually in you know, higher production
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  Speaker 1: films and television, it's somebody in a booth clippity clopping
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  Speaker 1: coconuts together while watching the horse galloping, making a metal
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  Speaker 1: sheet for that thunder sounds, or hanging out and what's
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  Speaker 1: called a fully pit, which is usually like a sandbox
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  Speaker 1: kind of situation for getting footsteps that might be pebbles
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  Speaker 1: in there or sand or whatever. It might be depending
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  Speaker 1: on the terrain. Uh. It's fascinating stuff and I have
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  Speaker 1: the delight once um as part of the Drawn the
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  Speaker 1: History of Animation podcast I did with Holly for Back
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  Speaker 1: in the Day to visit a real folly studio here
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and it was just a delight to see
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  Speaker 1: all the little trinkets and things that people like that
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  Speaker 1: have to amass over the years. Alex and Matt for
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  Speaker 1: some of the horror stories, big shout out to Twelve
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  Speaker 1: Ghosts of Christmas, the UM Christmas themed horror anthology, of
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  Speaker 1: which you wrote a wonderful story, ben Um for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the fully work they do, and our buddy
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  Speaker 1: Chris Child's has done on that series. Yes, Chris, if
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  Speaker 1: you were tuning in UM, you know I've always said
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  Speaker 1: for for those sorts of shows, sound design is another
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  Speaker 1: character show, you know, in the theater of the mind
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  Speaker 1: that is fiction. Audio weird can't be heavy handed, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be delicate. It has to serve the
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  Speaker 1: scene and not draw attention to itself, Otherwise it kind
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  Speaker 1: of defeats the purpose, you know. Yeah, like sesame oil
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  Speaker 1: or saffron and a little goes a long way, uh,
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  Speaker 1: And and this, Uh, this is a conversation that has
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  Speaker 1: absolutely thing to do with today's episode. We're always just
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  Speaker 1: when Yeah, you know, you never know. When the four
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  Speaker 1: of us get together, that means us and you listening
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  Speaker 1: at home. Uh, we inevitably end up pitching each other ideas.
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  Speaker 1: We have some of the most zany and off the
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  Speaker 1: rails pitch meetings. Uh. And this idea of royals who
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  Speaker 1: died ridiculous deaths came out of one of these conversations.
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  Speaker 1: You never know what we're gonna end up using. One
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  Speaker 1: of One of the things I wanted to ask you
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  Speaker 1: guys as a way to get into our first example
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  Speaker 1: of a royal who ended life in a weird way,
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  Speaker 1: was this. If you could have any sort of animal
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  Speaker 1: as a pet in the world, what would it be.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have an automatic pick helper monkey, cappibera chill
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  Speaker 1: helper monkey, useful? Productive? I like it. I like it.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a king, it's good to be king. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you can have your pick of the litter. Would comes
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  Speaker 1: to pets and animal companions, and you'll recall to we've
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  Speaker 1: done an episode. I mean, I think they's even more
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  Speaker 1: than one. On presidential pets. Some go more all in
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  Speaker 1: than others, you know, but they'll just admitted. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the president is kind of the King of America for
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  Speaker 1: all intents and purposes. So today the subtitle of today's story,
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  Speaker 1: or the first of today's stories is the King, his
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  Speaker 1: dog and a minky to to to say it in
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  Speaker 1: the style of a yeah, yeah, shocked the monkey whatever
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  Speaker 1: any other numerous monkey references that we could pull from.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about Alexander, the King of Greece born July
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  Speaker 1: eighteen ninety three. He reigned long may He reigned long
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  Speaker 1: long ish No, not really actually a couple of years
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen seventeen the nineteen twenty We're gonna see why
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  Speaker 1: it was. His reign was cut brutally short. He was
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  Speaker 1: the second son of King Constantine and Queen Sophia. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He became the king June twelfth of nineteen seventeen, when
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  Speaker 1: his dad was forced by the Allies during World War
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  Speaker 1: One to give up or abdicate his throne um and
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  Speaker 1: allow his country to join into the war. After Alexander's uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, succession, Eluthorios venez Zelos Okay, again once again
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  Speaker 1: doing the best we can do in our level best
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  Speaker 1: as non Greeks. Um. It's pronouncing some of these names.
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  Speaker 1: There's some little accent marks that I think I'm probably
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  Speaker 1: not doing quite Ramturre again. Eltharios venez Zelios, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's probably as close as I'm gonna get. He became
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  Speaker 1: a new position there in Greece, no longer the king,
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  Speaker 1: but the premier of Greece, and he essentially, you know,
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  Speaker 1: was the actual ruler, while Alexander was kind of just
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  Speaker 1: like the ruler in name or sort of more of
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  Speaker 1: a figure head, you know, kind of like the queen
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  Speaker 1: versus the prime minister. Right, And this guy pulls Greece
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  Speaker 1: into the war, also pulls them into global politics in
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  Speaker 1: a way that um was remarkably effective, right in comparison
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  Speaker 1: to what was happening previously. He has this he you know,
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  Speaker 1: he sends his crew to the peace conference, they've got
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  Speaker 1: some diplomatic triumphs, they get some new territory, which every
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  Speaker 1: country loves. They get specifically the territories of Smyrna. And
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  Speaker 1: that's not Smyrna, Georgia. It's a totally different Smyrna felt
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  Speaker 1: the same, though I think he felt the same. We'll
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  Speaker 1: let you guess which one came first, folks. Congratulations, you
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  Speaker 1: got it, uh, and then they get part of Turkey
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  Speaker 1: and Bulgaria. This gives Alexander the possibility, the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: expand Greece even further into Anatolia. But before he is
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  Speaker 1: able to make that ream a reality, his monkey betrays him,
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  Speaker 1: does his royal leafblower. Who's who's making an appearance in
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  Speaker 1: the podcasts, Yeah, Dulce tones, he's hot on the heels
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  Speaker 1: of the quister man. I'm telling you. Uh So, here's
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  Speaker 1: what happens. It's October two n Alexander, who is king
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  Speaker 1: and his relatively young is walking around Athens and he's
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  Speaker 1: a he's a pet guy. You know. He's got his dog, Fritz.
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  Speaker 1: He's also running into a monkey, and this monkey is
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  Speaker 1: not actually his It is the pet monkey of a servant, Fritz,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out, is not a fan of monkeys. Fritz
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  Speaker 1: and the monkey get beefed up and they start to like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're going at each other. Right. Um, it's
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  Speaker 1: a it's a straight on monkey dog fight. Alexander doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like it. He's a decent dude. He doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: see animals fighting unnecessarily. He jumps in the midst of this,
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  Speaker 1: this one on one match, the scuffle, and uh, the
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  Speaker 1: monkey is not holding back. He's like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I hate your dog, and if you're down with your dog,
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  Speaker 1: I hate you too, that's right. Rather than trying to
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  Speaker 1: stir the beef, Alexander is trying to squash the beef,
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  Speaker 1: and he uh sustains injuries as a result. Monkey bites,
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  Speaker 1: not the cute kind that that couples might do, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a little nibble. Uh, this is these are serious chomps
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  Speaker 1: that he receives, quite a few of them, in fact.
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  Speaker 1: But Alexander doesn't bristle at this. You know, He's like,
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  Speaker 1: it's fine, no big deal, exactly, very similar to our
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  Speaker 1: boy uh in the first episode, you know who got
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  Speaker 1: bit by the severed head. He's thinking, nah, this is nothing,
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  Speaker 1: I barely even noticed, right, So he just kind of
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  Speaker 1: went went about his merry way. But you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: the mouth of a human is pretty disgusting and often
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  Speaker 1: full of bacteria and uh, you know, and all other
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  Speaker 1: sorts of nasties. Monkeys don't brush their teeth last time
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  Speaker 1: I checked it. But it's not their natural thing, not
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  Speaker 1: their natural state. Um, so I'm going to make a
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  Speaker 1: wild conjecture here that this monkey's mouth was absolutely crawling
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  Speaker 1: with infectious bacteria. Dirty monkey mouth at a dirty old
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  Speaker 1: bunky mouth. Uh and uh, and Alexander's seemingly innocuous wounds
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  Speaker 1: became horribly infected. Yeah, sepsis. Uh. We want to thank
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times for a great recap of this.
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  Speaker 1: He is weakening, his body is failing, his pulse is
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  Speaker 1: becoming fainter and fainter. He's having difficulty breathing, and his
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  Speaker 1: doctors eventually keep in mind, this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most important men in Greece. His doctors go, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if we could save this one. And so it
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  Speaker 1: came to pass that on October, King Alexander of Greece died.
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  Speaker 1: And just like our friend from episode one who died
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  Speaker 1: of over indulgence, who died of over eating, Alexander's death
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  Speaker 1: affected the political spectrum of Greece. It had far reaching consequences,
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  Speaker 1: just a chain of events that led to disaster in
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  Speaker 1: the military field. Uh. Winston Churchill eventually remarked because the
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  Speaker 1: Winston Churchill right, not a perfect dude by any means, right, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: death could turn a phrase, though he sure could you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like Madam tomorrow, I will be sober and you'll
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  Speaker 1: still be ugly. That's our boy, Winston, he says stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that, and so he quipped, is perhaps no exaggeration
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  Speaker 1: to remark that the quota of a million persons died
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  Speaker 1: of these monkeys bites once again, shout out saw the
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  Speaker 1: UK listeners out there, who who tied us on our
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  Speaker 1: British accents. I love it. That's my point. Can I
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  Speaker 1: say that's the point we we go extra cartoonist with
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  Speaker 1: them as not to offend any modern day Brits. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: unless we attempt to actually impersonate what you know they
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  Speaker 1: sound like to this day. So we do over the
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  Speaker 1: top absurd you know, go pick a pocket or to
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  Speaker 1: my love type of accents. For that very reason, wanted
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  Speaker 1: to point point that out there again. Also we're the
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  Speaker 1: ones with the accents. We're aware of that also true,
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  Speaker 1: you know, correct, correct, And I will say kudos to
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  Speaker 1: you Brits British actors for being fabulous at doing American
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  Speaker 1: accents while the opposites is just not the case. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how that works, but shots fired by me
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  Speaker 1: at American actors, you never really see them being cast
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  Speaker 1: as British characters. But man, I'm always shocked when I
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  Speaker 1: see behind the scenes interviews and I'm like, he's British
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  Speaker 1: Lewis the whole time. Christian Dale also Kauto Eieves is
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  Speaker 1: counter example. I was I was rewatching Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula,
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  Speaker 1: which I was so bad comic book come to life.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, and and we love counter Reeves. He
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  Speaker 1: seems like a really awesome person, but uh not with
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  Speaker 1: the Boston sleeps is just no no that. And also like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's it, uh Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves ol,
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  Speaker 1: He just kind of drifts in and out of an
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  Speaker 1: already lackluster British accent sometimes doesn't even bother with it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that's the one for the books for sure. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: indeed Churchill got it right. This monkey bite really are
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  Speaker 1: these monkey bites plural really did cause a serious amount
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  Speaker 1: of of suffering in the country, and to the tune
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  Speaker 1: of a quarter of a million deaths. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: far reaching monkey bite right there. Yeah, he went out
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  Speaker 1: with a bite, unlike our next example of ridiculous royal death,
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  Speaker 1: William the Conqueror, who went out with a bang. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about street names in episode one, those sort of
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  Speaker 1: uh royal monikers you get. Uh. Sometimes they're very complimentary,
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  Speaker 1: like Alexander the Great or William the Conqueror. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they're you know, historical dishes, you know, like Tony the Midling.
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  Speaker 1: That's just that's just an example which I love. If
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  Speaker 1: there is a Tony the Midling, I'm sorry, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you came by it. Honestly, William the Bastard
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  Speaker 1: was it was it was a choice one that he had. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, usually they have kind of like a smattering
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  Speaker 1: of names and then usually imagine they'll go with the
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  Speaker 1: one that's the most flattering, uh, William of Normandy, sort
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  Speaker 1: of the innocuous name, just sort of a descriptive. William
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  Speaker 1: the Conqueror probably the one that he liked the best.
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  Speaker 1: William the Bastard probably was upset when people called him that.
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  Speaker 1: Probably one that was more you know, done in hushed tones,
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  Speaker 1: you know, um and yeah. And in French, let's see,
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  Speaker 1: we'll make casey pegram, ashamed, gull, conquer con or gooya
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  Speaker 1: or good Sorry Guillaume, it's Guillaume. I'm saying it right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's Guillaume de Normandy Uh. He was born in ten
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  Speaker 1: eight in uh Falaise, Uh, Normandy, France. They're famous for
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  Speaker 1: their their milk uh and their cows, the quality of
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  Speaker 1: their cows, which is why I believe Normandy has really
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  Speaker 1: really famous crapes. They're really known for the because the
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  Speaker 1: course of the quality of the milk and then all
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  Speaker 1: that good stuff. So he was the Duke of Normandy
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  Speaker 1: from ten thirty five and then became King of England
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  Speaker 1: from ten sixty six, and he was considered a very
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  Speaker 1: very uh qualified and capable soldier and one of the
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  Speaker 1: better rulers of the Middle Ages, which is the time
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  Speaker 1: that was lousy with with terrible rulers, absolute pills you
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  Speaker 1: know that really didn't give two shakes for human life. Yeah, yeah, Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: it's true, and he did change the Court of England's history.
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  Speaker 1: He left this fundamental mark on both Normandy and England.
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  Speaker 1: He had a lot of drive and tenacity and will,
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  Speaker 1: and he also had a lot of luck. Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 1: He was able to survive chaos in his youth in
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  Speaker 1: Normandy and he brought this place to uh a remarkable
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  Speaker 1: state of regional power. He also supported some crucial reforms
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  Speaker 1: to the monastic system. He made good with church leaders,
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  Speaker 1: you could say, which furthered his influence, and he adopted
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  Speaker 1: a number of Anglo Saxon institutions. Uh, he continued some
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  Speaker 1: trends that had begun before his time. But like said
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  Speaker 1: an episode one man, you can do a hundred good things.
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  Speaker 1: And if you do, if you if you have one
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  Speaker 1: misstep and it happens to be ridiculous, than sometimes that's
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  Speaker 1: how history remembers you. We could go on and on
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  Speaker 1: about William the Conqueror, but instead of telling you about
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  Speaker 1: his life, let's explore his death. Now. No, he died
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  Speaker 1: after a battle right in ten s That's right, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: And uh you'll recall my reference to Mr Creosote, the
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  Speaker 1: Monty Python character who explodes due to over eating. And
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  Speaker 1: then we had a kingly overindulger who didn't explode but
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  Speaker 1: ate himself to death in episode one, essentially after you
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  Speaker 1: know already overdoing it and then you know, eating one
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  Speaker 1: thing too many that led to intestinal rupture to some
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  Speaker 1: degree or the very least digestive failure um that led
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  Speaker 1: to his his untimely demise. And uh, this one doesn't
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  Speaker 1: involve reading in the moment, but I think there's probably
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  Speaker 1: some over eating and over indulgence that preceded this event.
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  Speaker 1: Because um William the Conqueror was is known for his
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  Speaker 1: his portly stature. We've got a couple of accounts as
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  Speaker 1: to what happened during this battle that led to his death.
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  Speaker 1: The first one goes like this, William suffered something along
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  Speaker 1: the lines of a stroke while fighting in the battle.
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  Speaker 1: That's sort of the like less ridiculous version. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna lean on that one. Let's go with
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  Speaker 1: the most ridiculous version. The second story says that he
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  Speaker 1: was impaled by a wooden pommel, which I think is
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  Speaker 1: like the handle of a sword or a handle of
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  Speaker 1: of of of a spear of some kind, but I
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  Speaker 1: believe in this case it is the wooden pommel of
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  Speaker 1: his saddle. Which they can go from being like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of small, as in like you know, writing situations
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  Speaker 1: that we might know today, that little nub that you
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  Speaker 1: kind of grab onto joystick correctly correct two more ornate
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps uh large and protruding. So the story goes
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  Speaker 1: that he took a tumble of some kind and was
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  Speaker 1: impaled in the guts on this this wooden pommel, and
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  Speaker 1: this ruptured his intestines. That ain't kill him and kill
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  Speaker 1: him right away? No, no, Unfortunately was a slow death,
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  Speaker 1: quite painful. We imagine he passed away as a result
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  Speaker 1: of these wounds. Whichever story you believe. On September nine, however,
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  Speaker 1: fellow ridiculous historians, you may be saying, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: why should this guy make the list. That just sounds tragic.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't sound ridiculous. We're here to talk about what
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  Speaker 1: happened after you see. It is his funeral that makes
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  Speaker 1: his death so ridiculous. This comes to us from a
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  Speaker 1: benedicting monk named Order Rick Vitalis. His name does sound
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  Speaker 1: like a Harry Potter spell, We get it. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: uh so he is in state. He's going to be buried.
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  Speaker 1: Many people come to see the body of the king.
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  Speaker 1: But his corpse has bloated, and his corpse has been
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  Speaker 1: put in a sarcophagus that's too small. His body exploded
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  Speaker 1: during the funeral. His bowels burst. It was the worst
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  Speaker 1: part ever. Mr Creosote style. That's wow, Ben, you really
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  Speaker 1: you put some stank on that one. Literally, Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: why I brought up Mr Creosote again because our our
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  Speaker 1: previous king did not in fact explode. Um this king,
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  Speaker 1: you know, by this account and the account of this
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  Speaker 1: particular Benedictine monk, did in fact explode, leading to an
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  Speaker 1: absolutely foul smell. I'm going to quote from the Benedictine
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: monks account that the swollen bowels burst and an intolerable
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: stench assailed the nostrils of the bystanders and the whole crowd,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: causing the mourners to flee, to flee the stench. And
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and obviously, I mean, I don't know it was the
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: lid closed the time, was he laying there in state
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to be viewed, That's what I'm picturing. And then it
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: just like, you know, it just went boom. I'm pretty
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: sure they were forcing the body and they were like
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: pushing it and yeah yeah, so they still, the priest
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: are trying to maintain some vestige of decorum, and so
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: they continue on, or they try to while this miasthma
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: is hitting them. And uh, you know, this is the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: time where I regretfully have to mention the scientific fact
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: that smell and taste to relate it. So whenever you're
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: smelling something, you're tasting a little bit of it. Uh
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and they I think I mentioned once that I saw
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: like a meme, you remember, I don't remember exactly where
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: it happened, but there's this meme format where it's like
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: skeletor telling you something unpleasant and then and I and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and I know, and then he runs away and and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: this one was like, if you're smelling of fart, you're
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: also probably you've already tasted it a little bit. Yeah yeah. So,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: uh so these priests, you know, they're they're doing their
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: best to do their duty, and nothing can match the stench,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: which is why William the Conqueror conquered one last thing
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: his funeral. Yeah. Man, he was basically like a human
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: bomb you know, that went off and then and caused
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: everyone to run for I mean, this really is like
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: a Mr. Creasote. Since I'm sorry keep bringing that up,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: but uh, you know, in in that episode or that
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: sketch and Meaning of Life, everyone runs and ducks for cover,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: and that is kind of what's happening here. I'm picturing
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you know this or flying willy nilly, you know, in
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: all directions, it probably wasn't as cartoony as as we
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: might be picturing it. But it's fun to do. It's funny. Yeah.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: This let's stay with this family because unfortunately, there is
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: a a descendant of William the Conqueror who also makes
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: our list today. His name King Henry the First. Uh.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: He knew about how his father passed, and uh, he
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: had no idea that he would meet an equally ridiculous death. Uh.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: If you have any squeamishness about seafood, this this might
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: not be the one for you. Yeah, for sure, I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: know definitely a lot of people do. Don't like the text, Sure,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I don't like the smell. Um just doesn't do it
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: for him. And again, huge credit where credit is most
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: certainly due to Kalina Fraga for this article on All
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that is Interesting dot com. Um that that that outlines
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of these tragic, gory and ridiculous royal deaths.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: This one comes from that list as well. We're talking
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: about King Henry the First, who was the youngest son
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of William the Conqueror. Um, who was painfully aware of
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the undignified circumstances of his pop's funeral. Yeah he Uh.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: The race for the throne begins right as the patriarch
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: passes away, Henry is doing some political maneuvering another one
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of his brothers who could have been air dies and
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: so Henry takes the throne in eleven hundred CE. He
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: wants to revamp the royal justice system. He wants to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: build a nice abbey, and he wants to ball out.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: He wants to live the high life. You know, his
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: idea of luxury lamb praise. He eats lamb praise. Look
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: up a picture, folks. But this is why we warned
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: you about the squeamishness of seafood. There's the thing, though,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: he loves lamb praise, but he's allergic to him. Every
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: time he eats them, he gets sick. It reminds me
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: of a of a good friend of mine who once
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: upon a time told me that he is both allergic
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to cheese and beef. And once a year he dopes
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: himself up and he eats a cheeseburger. And I've been
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: with him when he ate a cheeseburger, and it was
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable how much he enjoyed it. That discomfort paled in
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: comparison to the consequences. Sometimes we want what we know
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: we shouldn't have, and this is the case with Henry
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and the Lamprey, Henry and the Lamprey. It sounds like
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: a parable or like a band of the Pacific Northwest.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: You know, dude, that's nailed. Uh. Lamprey is. By the way,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I'm sure most people aware this are a type of
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you know, wriggly, slimy eel, and I think they were
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: often consumed live. I think it was certainly a medieval delicacy.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And it's become something of like an old English kind
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: of cliche, like if you've ever seen The Mighty Bush,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: there's a character played by Noel Fielding who's like this
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: kind of Cockney you know, demon green face, kind of
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: witchy warlock kind of fellow, and he's all about eels.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: He has a whole song about eels and is conjuring
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: these eels and you know, eating them alive and all
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: that stuff and feeling them wriggle around and his guts
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and stuff. So it has become something of a you know,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: kind of a medieval hallmark, you know, of of a
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: disgusting delicacy, right, yeah, And we want to thank the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: medieval historian Mark Morris. The doctors of the day had
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: warned Henry the first several times. They had said hey, bud,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: these lamb praise man, They're not good for you. I
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: know they taste great, but they're not great for you.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Be gone with ye men of science. I am a
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: man of luxury, and I I know my body, and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I will I will consume these lamp preis. Come hello, Hi, water,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I am your king. Fetch me the eel, Fetch me
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the lamprey pi. Uh. Yeah. So we know that he
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: went hunting in Normandy in eleven. He's done hunting right,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and he's had a long day, so he wants to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: kick up his feet and have a nash on his
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: favorite snack, and uh, it doesn't work out. We've got
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: a great description from a chronicler around that time, Henry
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: of Huntington's Yeah yeah, yeah. This guy was older too,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: he was he was up there in age um. And
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: this is described thus lee by Henry of huntingdon Um quote.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: This meal brought on a most destructive humor and violently
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: stimulated similar symptoms, producing a deadly chill in his aged
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: body and a sudden and extreme convulsion against this. Nature
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: reacted as it does by stirring up an acute fever
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to dissolve the inflammation with very heavy sweating. Yeah, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: he passes away and doesn't make it through the this
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: reaction this time. It's just it's too much for him,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and doctors assigned a cause of death which remains ridiculous today. Indeed,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: um and r I P. That's a king, Henry r
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I P to all of these folks that we're talking
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: about today. Um. You know, we're obviously the approaching this
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: with a tongue firmly planted in cheek. But as you
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: mentioned at the top of episode one, all deaths are
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: a sad thing, so we're not meaning to diminish the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: lives of these individuals by h dunking on their absurd
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: deaths just a little bit. Yeah, yeah, a surfeit of
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: lamb praise the official cause of death for what is
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: a surfeits? We should all learn a new word together today. Yes,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a surfeit is uh too much, an excessive amount, which
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: is weird because for some reason it sounds like it
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: would be a dearth right lack a lack of But
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: a surf eight is too much. It's just too much.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It's the same cause of death as our buddy A
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Adolph Frederick right, he had a surfeit of everything, all
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the things, and you know, and that that was just
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: pushed right over the cliff by those delightful little creamy
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: doughnut things hot milk. That's the detail that really bugs me.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe you would have made it if it
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: weren't it was maybe the Raisins that didn't. Guys, that's
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: my theory, sort of like the wel are thin uh
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: little disc you know in in the Mr Mr Creuso.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Those raisins, man, they're bad news. Yeah, And uh, here's
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: something that I think is instructive. This is a good
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: one for us to end on. Here. Let's imagine ourselves
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: going east of Europe, or you can take the long
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: way around and just go completely west, you know. Uh,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: and scenic crowd, scenic crowd. There we go, and you
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: end up in the amazing Middle Kingdom, a great seed
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: of civilization, ancient China. If you are anywhere in the
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: world an emperor or a king ruler of some sort,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: then eventually you run into the one thing you cannot buy,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: steel or conquer, and that is time. Right, So your
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: biggest flex ever is to become immortal. And our last
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: story is about a guy named qing Chi Huangdi again,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: we're not native speakers who died in to ten b c.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Because he wanted to live forever. He had not heard
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the warnings from Freddie Mercury. Is that that was Queen? Right,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: who wants to live forever? I think so, Yeah, I'm
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: not as familiar with that. It wasn't that for my
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: movie ors I now, I don't think so. I never mind.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I did get my kid for an early Christmas present
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Queen's Greatest Hits on vinyl Target edition. Oh good and
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: limited colored vinyls. Thanks Target. Um. But yeah, man, love
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: love the music of Queen. But indeed we're talking about
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: can she hanged uh to ten BC E of the
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Chenn dynasty, and he was the first emperor to rule
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: over a unified China because as we know, China, you know,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: prior to to this unification was sort of a collection
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: of you know, into sort of independent kingdoms. I guess
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: how would you describe been this? I know this is
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: really your wheelhouse? Oh yeah. So China is such an
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: ancient place that as you get far enough back into
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the historical record, you see it becomes almost mythic. Right,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: So this guy has a mythological status because he brought
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: all these other kind of think of almost like nation
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: states brought them together the same way. Our boy unified
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: norway right, but way way before that center, three centuries
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: before that, and everybody was trying to kill him. Basically,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: that's part of this. Yeah, yeah, exactly not a popular thing,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: you know, when people are used to again for generations,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: you know, be independent, this idea one person's unifier as
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: another person's conqueror, and that is definitely how this was
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: seen by the vast majority of of of these an
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: independent you know kingdoms. Yeah, everybody likes the idea of
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: an absolute monarchy so long as they're the monarch, right,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: that's the that's the that's the catch. You know. It's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: like flying cars. Flying cars are a terrible idea unless
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: you're the only one with a flying car, that it's great,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: exactly exactly. So this guy had a bit of a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: death fetish, yeah, because he had so many close calls.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: You can't trust anyone, right if you're the emperor, and
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: he became convinced that death was just around the corner,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: so he upped his security at an unprecedented level and
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: he tried everything to avoid dying. Okay, so maybe let's
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: of a fetish and more of an aversion, a very
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: obsessive preoccupation to avoiding death. Um. And you know this
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: can lead to a life not particularly well lived. You
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: know what I mean exactly? Yeah? He uh, he has
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: private roads. His security is super tight. No one can
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: know his location. If you share his location without permission,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: you are put to death. He also starts saying, well,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: what if I get in front of this problem. I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: can't just keep building a fortress every time I want
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: to go somewhere. Uh, what if I could find some
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: kind of medicine, some sort of postional licksa that would
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: push me past the bounds of mortality? And he thought
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: he found one. Yeah, this is the tail as old
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: as time, isn't it? The search for immortality? You know,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: it's something we hear about now on our other show,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: talk about a lot on stuff they don't want you
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: to know. The idea of life extension technology for the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: super super rich. You know, we hear about royals and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: and uh and and wealthy types bathing in the blood
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: of you know, children or whatever virgins, whatever it might be,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: in order to extend their life or or make them
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: appear more youthful. Etcetera, youth and and more. And immortality
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: has been an obsession as long as people have been
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: alive and had access to kind of you know, self
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: awareness and uh resources. Yeah, and this, this story is
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: really interesting. Uh. This guy, this emperor, Uh, he falls
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: prey to a lot of snake oil. He buys finances
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a ton of elixirs that are absolute con jobs. They
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: don't work, and the people selling them know they don't work. Uh,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and they just have to try to skip down and
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: stay alive. So he even sends uh, he sends hundreds
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: of people to a place called Chiful Islands to search
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: for a thousand year old magician who might be able
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: to help him out. Uh. And he even burns a
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: bunch of books in China, every like, almost everything except
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: for alchemical works. And some historians have said that he
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: was burning all the other sources of knowledge because he
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: wanted the best and brightest focused on giving making his
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: life potion a thing. Ben, do you think that there
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: were folks that cracked this code throughout history, this idea
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: of a thousand year old wizard or whatever. We hear
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: about people like Methuselah and you know, you know, throughout
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Biblical tales and all of us. Do you think this
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: is there is anybody that figured out how to cheat death?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Or does is all just become kind of an example
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: of uh talking a good game and and um and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: being able to kind of spin a yarn and convince
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: people that you know what this stuff is all about.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: I wanted to be true. You know, I'm fox bolder
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: over here. I want to believe. Look, if you were
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: thousands of years old. First off, thank you for tuning
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: into our show and being so generous with your time. Uh. Secondly,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: reach out and touch space. You know you don't have
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: to tell us your secrets, but we would love to
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: interview you. Uh. You know, even if you think you're
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: a thousand plus years old, even if you can't prove it,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: let us know. It feels like you'd be a heck
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: of a conversation, right. I love the idea. What do
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: you think? No, I'm a little skeptical, but I want
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to believe. I'm with you there. I would say I
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: fall pretty squarely on the probably not side, as I
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: think you do too. But you know, we're also fans
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: of of of fantasy and science fiction and all of
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: that stuff, So there is a kind of belief gene
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: in in us that that that causes us to be like,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: well maybe, but probably not. Well, you know, it's you
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: never asked a magician their age, you know, in polite society, right.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I think that's from an etiquette book somewhere, right, lest
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: they turn you into a tune. Yes, yes, So look,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: this guy was alive so long ago, and he was
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: so secretive at times that, uh, his exact cause of
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: death is unknown, but the generally agreed upon explanation is
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: quite ridiculous. So he's searching for all these potions, right,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: searching for these thousand year old magicians helped me live forever,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the one thing I could not conquer. Time. Along the way,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: amid all this advice he's getting, someone tells him, Hey,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: you know it's cool mercury. Yeah, I bet, I bet
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: if you drink mercury, you know you'll you'll be great.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Let me look at it. It's clearly a mystical element,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and the way it rolls around needs up, and it
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: looks like it's made of magic. Just guzzle that stuff, man,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: give it a gus down the old down the old throat. Shoot, yes, yes,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: which is the medical term. So he either took pill
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: containing mercury, or he may have drank wine that was
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: laced with honey and mercury and thought, well, we've cracked it.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna live forever. I'm way less stressed now. But
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: you know, there's a reason you're not supposed to break
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: open those old school thermometers. There's a reason that you
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: don't see mercury sold uh in the in the toy
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: aisles with ghack. There't remember ghack? What about floam? Oh yeah,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: I forgot. That was sort of the successor to gags.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I always like ghack because it came in those containers
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: that sort of held a shape, you know, of like
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: a splat, and then you just pull it out and
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: it would have inevitably get filthy and disgusting, but it
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: looks so cool on the shelf. And then floam was
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: kind of the like beated little little uh like styrofoam,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: you know, held together with kind of glue. And now
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the kids are making slime. You can make your own. God,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: what a what a new lease on life for the
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Elmer's company. The essentially repackaged their glue um as like
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: slime make in kids. Whoever came up with that idea
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and that pitch meeting. I hope they got a bonus,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, or they may have just wanted a
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: bonus in uh glue by products, right, they said, just
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: pay me and ghak. And another another example of mercury
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: bad um is that you know, we we've said this before,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: of course, but the expression matt as a hatter because
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: mercury used to be used to treat the felt in
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: hats by hat makers and they were handling it a lot,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: and it would you know, not it wasn't enough to
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: kill them or poison them, because they were just handling
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: little bits of it enough that over time it would
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: cause them to have some mental decline. Yeah, mercuryus nitrate
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: used to cure felt um. Yeah, it's it's It's strange
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: because only decades after do people begin to put together
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the long term consequences of some of the things they've
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: been messing with, Like think about think about that fascinating
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: theory regarding lad in the environment and later spikes and
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: crime intergenerationally. Look, the Emperor doesn't know about all this
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: at all. He just he wants to live forever. He
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: thinks mercury is cool. He's down in this stuff. He's
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: popping these pills. He's living the high life for a second,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: because he died because you can't drink mercury. Yeah, yeah,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a bad idea. He died relatively quickly,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I mean he really was just for about a minute.
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  Speaker 1: And once again, you know, um, this absurd death led
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  Speaker 1: to an unraveling of a lot of the progress that
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  Speaker 1: had been made because again he was the first ruler
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  Speaker 1: of unified China, and we know there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of pushback against this. So while this
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  Speaker 1: was ultimately potentially a good thing that would cause some
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  Speaker 1: you know, standardization and and could lead to some positive
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  Speaker 1: change for some of the inhabitants of this part of
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  Speaker 1: the world, all of this stuff kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the stroke of a of a thermometer, came undone
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  Speaker 1: and caused China to quickly fall into bloody civil war. Yes, yep,
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  Speaker 1: again consequences to quote that uh Ken Peel sketch, which
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to the three people who remember that. But this
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  Speaker 1: has been such a wild ride. Here we are at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year, and as we said, uh
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  Speaker 1: Max Snolan, yours truly we're gonna we're gonna take a
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  Speaker 1: little time for some R and R for some weird,
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous research. We hope you get some stands for there
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  Speaker 1: it is, yes, just so we hope you get some
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  Speaker 1: time uh to relax with your loved ones. Enjoy uh
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  Speaker 1: the last of two and we'll see you very soon
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  Speaker 1: in twenty three. Uh wow, another year, another year. Indeed, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know the stuff in this episode, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty uncontroversial, fun dinner table fodder. Maybe not the exploding
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  Speaker 1: fart guts one, but we have kind of the cliche of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the holidays being a time of great division
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to folks from different you know, generations
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  Speaker 1: coming together maybe don't see each other all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and all of the divisive conversation topics that can come
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  Speaker 1: up over the old you know, honey honey baked ham
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  Speaker 1: or the lamp right be exactly the lamp right pie,
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  Speaker 1: which is definitely a thing that's still popular in the States.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, all of these things and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff we talked about on the show. I
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  Speaker 1: think for the most part, we try to stay pretty
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  Speaker 1: politically neutral. Army yourself with this and and be be
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  Speaker 1: the change you want to see at the dinner table. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you it's also uh, if you're looking for some reading,
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  Speaker 1: why not pick up the stuff they Don't want you
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  Speaker 1: to know? Book on which Noel and our writer die
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  Speaker 1: Mr Matt Frederick and I worked on with some excellent art.
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  Speaker 1: It's a coffee table gift. And uh with that, big,
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  Speaker 1: big thanks to the one and only Mr Max Williams.
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  Speaker 1: First of his name, we can say, right, you're the
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  Speaker 1: only Max Williams for us. Bro Oh, I am the
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  Speaker 1: first and the only Maximus William Williamson. Yes, that's what
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  Speaker 1: I call it. When he's not around, hey, hey, hey,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: when he's When he's around, I'm alious of thenuls of
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  Speaker 1: people I believe maybe something along those lines, but no,
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  Speaker 1: huge thanks to you, Max, Huge thanks to your brother
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: and brother in arms of the show. Um, Alex Williams
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  Speaker 1: who composed this theme. Um, all of our pals in
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: the Ridiculous Universe. We've got Zarin and Elizabeth of the
• 43:40
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• 43:44
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  Speaker 1: week from those is for you to check out as well.
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  Speaker 1: So we really do have ourselves a bit of an
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