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The Tampon King Has Been Crowned
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The Queens check in on ole' chuck's coronation. #Merica.
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Introduction and the 'Tampon King'
00:00:06
Speaker
What's up, queens?
00:00:07
Speaker
Welcome to the Female Dating Strategy, the meanest female-only podcast on the internet.
00:00:10
Speaker
I'm Ro.
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Speaker
And I'm Savannah.
00:00:13
Speaker
And today, the tampon king has officially been crowned King of England.
00:00:20
Speaker
Oh, sausage fingers is king now.
00:00:25
Speaker
Yes, it's coronation day in England.
The Nature of the Coronation Ceremony
00:00:28
Speaker
And yeah, she's going to explain all this to me as an American because I have zero cultural reference for it other than I know that they take a hat and they put it on his head.
00:00:38
Speaker
So basically, Coronation Day doesn't actually technically have to happen because Charles obviously became king the minute Lizzie passed away back in September.
00:00:49
Speaker
So a coronation is basically some sort of like ceremonial like festival where it's like they get the power they have to reign directly from God.
00:01:01
Speaker
It's very, it's quite religious and
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Speaker
There's a lot of religious elements to it.
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Speaker
And it's basically like pomp and pageantry.
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Speaker
So oftentimes when you have a monarchy, they will ascend the throne.
00:01:12
Speaker
And then it's actually quite normal for there to be a gap between when they've ascended the throne and their coronation.
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Speaker
So sometimes it can be as much as two years.
00:01:21
Speaker
So I think Elizabeth's coronation was about a year.
00:01:24
Speaker
But in other monarchies, it can be two or three years until they actually have it.
00:01:28
Speaker
Because it doesn't technically need to happen.
00:01:31
Speaker
Why?
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Speaker
Why do they do that?
00:01:33
Speaker
It can happen for several reasons.
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It can be just because normally a coronation takes ages to plan.
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Speaker
One thing about Charles' coronation is that it was very, very scaled down, obviously because he's, I don't think he's that far from the morgue personally, but we'll get to that in a bit.
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LAUGHTER
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Because normally a coronation ceremony is hours long.
00:01:55
Speaker
All chucks in a box?
00:01:57
Speaker
Because normally a coronation ceremony is like the whole day, like hours long, but they really cut it down for this one.
00:02:03
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So I think it was like an hour.
00:02:05
Speaker
Obviously, King Charles is not a sprightly being anymore.
00:02:08
Speaker
He's in his 70s.
00:02:09
Speaker
So like when he knelt down to be crowned, I was thinking, is he actually gonna get back up?
00:02:15
Speaker
Was he struggling?
00:02:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:02:16
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He seems to be okay, but yeah, normally, like, planning a coronation, and also coronations are big, big events.
00:02:22
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Like, it's basically a way for the royal house to show off their pageantry, show off their wealth, and of course crown their monarch as well.
00:02:30
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So if you, you know, look in historical books like Queen Elizabeth's
00:02:35
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coronation was the most recent one that we had i think that was in 1953 i want to say or 52 but if you look at other coronations such as like the russians with their last czar in i want to say 1896 that was a big big grand affair and i think the one in russia that was like a week long of like parades and you know military demonstrations and they held street parties for the people that actually ended up with people getting trampled on but
00:03:01
Speaker
We will do an episode on the Romanovs in the coming weeks where we go through all that.
00:03:05
Speaker
So yeah, basically coronations are basically just a really fancy party.
00:03:09
Speaker
It's kind of like inauguration day here in the States.
00:03:11
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It's just the day where the person officially becomes the monarch.
00:03:16
Speaker
Although I guess it's different because here in the United States, we call them president-elect until they actually take the oath of office.
00:03:23
Speaker
Yes, exactly.
00:03:25
Speaker
Okay.
00:03:26
Speaker
Is there like a title change between un-coronated and coronated king?
00:03:30
Speaker
No, no.
00:03:31
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So in a monarchy, the minute the previous monarch dies, they become the monarch and have all the powers, everything like that.
00:03:38
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And they do take a coronation oath.
00:03:40
Speaker
But technically speaking, if the coronation didn't happen, they would still be monarch for whatever reason, you know.
00:03:45
Speaker
But I guess with the president, they take the oath of office on inauguration day.
00:03:49
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And that's when they actually become president.
00:03:52
Speaker
And the system is such where
00:03:53
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You know, there's an incumbent president until that day, if that makes sense.
00:03:57
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Whereas with the monarchy, the minute the previous one basically snuffs it, the new one takes place or takes... I see....ascends the throne, as they say.
00:04:05
Speaker
Snuffs it.
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Snuffs it.
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Speaker
Sometimes Savannah inserts these like random British phrases that I don't clock right away.
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Speaker
But then after it starts to like marinate my brain for a second or two, I'm like, wait, what?
00:04:17
Speaker
That's hilarious.
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Yeah, when they snuffs it.
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Yeah.
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Snuffs it.
00:04:22
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I do think that's a bit cold as well.
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Like...
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And I just find the whole thing a bit macabre.
00:04:26
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Like, you know that you won't become king until your parents are dead or your parent is dead.
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Like, I mean, unless they abdicate.
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Speaker
Like, some monarchs, they can and do abdicate
Perception of the Royal Family and the Meghan-Harry Saga
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due to old age and then they're still alive.
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But realistically speaking, you're not going to be like king or queen unless your parents are dead, which I just think is a bit cold.
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But that's just me anyway.
00:04:46
Speaker
So this particular coronation, King Charles, like, the thing is with...
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The monarchy now is obviously Queen Elizabeth has passed away.
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I can't believe it was like almost nine months ago that she's passed away.
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And there's just been this growing mood of apathy towards King Charles.
00:05:02
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Like people weren't really thrilled that Charles was going to be king anyway because he'd been Prince of Wales for like 60 years.
00:05:10
Speaker
He was getting on a bit.
00:05:11
Speaker
The whole debacle with him, Camilla and Diana really, really dented his popularity.
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Speaker
He just never seemed like he was all that...
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connected to the people in the way that Diana was.
00:05:22
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I mean, the thing with King Charles, especially as an American and our... I don't say we have a disdain for the monarchy, but we have an indifference.
00:05:30
Speaker
The only thing that was keeping Americans interested in the monarchy was at first Princess Diana and then back when the Windsors were hot, when the young Windsor sons were actually attractive.
00:05:43
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Before Diana snatched her jeans back.
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Speaker
Yeah.
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Pretty much.
00:05:47
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Before William started looking like Charles, he used to be on the cover of Vanity Fair.
00:05:52
Speaker
Really?
00:05:53
Speaker
That's so funny.
00:05:55
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Yeah, yeah.
00:05:56
Speaker
So when Harry and William were young, when they were in their late teens, early 20s, they were really filled as heartthrobs.
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And then also they had the tragic backstory of their mother passing away in this horrible accident.
00:06:09
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Eligible bachelors as well.
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Yeah.
00:06:11
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Back then.
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Exactly.
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But then they just got older and goofier looking.
00:06:15
Speaker
And then America pretty much unilaterally lost interest until Meghan Markle.
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Speaker
Meghan Markle.
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So that's why it's kind of like, that's why the whole thing is pretty funny because like when William and Kate came to visit some months back.
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No one cares.
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Yeah.
00:06:33
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They visited Boston and they asked some Boston Celtics players like about the visit from the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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And they were just like, yeah, they're just regular fans.
00:06:43
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Like they unilaterally did not care.
00:06:45
Speaker
They didn't give a shit.
00:06:47
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Nobody in Boston cared that they were there.
00:06:49
Speaker
I honestly think those basketball players, they would have been more excited seeing the Kardashians in the front row than William and Kate.
00:06:57
Speaker
Yeah, no, totally.
00:06:58
Speaker
Because like to us, they're just like old dusty diplomats.
00:07:02
Speaker
But they're not even celebrities.
00:07:03
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They're like politicians, diplomats.
00:07:05
Speaker
Like, and it was funny when there was a picture with LeBron, Kate and William, because in Britain, there's all this protocol around don't touch the royals.
00:07:13
Speaker
So obviously LeBron is more British.
00:07:16
Speaker
So you know how in America, when you take a picture, especially if you have a basketball player, like they'll put their hands around everyone in the photo.
00:07:23
Speaker
LeBron did that and then like people like the stush people in Britain were like that's not protocol and then the Americans were like oh yeah Kate did nothing wrong as in like she was the one who was being awkward not LeBron
00:07:38
Speaker
No, totally.
00:07:39
Speaker
Because I've seen that picture and she looks, yeah, she looks like way awkward.
00:07:42
Speaker
We're all like, what's wrong with this girl?
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Speaker
Like everybody was looking at a picture like what's wrong with this lady in particular?
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Speaker
Like it's LeBron, just, you know, be a regular person.
00:07:51
Speaker
I don't think anybody over here would have even known that it was protocol not to touch the Monarch.
00:07:56
Speaker
They don't care.
00:07:57
Speaker
Like, why would they care?
00:07:58
Speaker
Because even our presidents, I mean, because, well, and you have to remember American history that a lot of the way that we are, especially with our elected officials, is specifically because they hated the royals, right?
00:08:11
Speaker
There was a time when there was controversy about how to greet the president because they didn't want to do the whole, your majesty, you know, like curtsy and everything.
00:08:21
Speaker
And like walking backwards and stuff like that.
00:08:24
Speaker
Yeah.
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Speaker
Yeah.
00:08:25
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Yeah.
00:08:26
Speaker
So they were literally like a handshake is appropriate.
00:08:28
Speaker
So like from the very beginning, there was an expectation that you could touch our leaders like they were accessible to people because they were elected by us and therefore could be unelected by us.
00:08:38
Speaker
So then I don't think Americans
US vs UK Protocols and Royal Etiquette
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Speaker
have any concept of a person who's legitimately untouchable.
00:08:44
Speaker
Right.
00:08:45
Speaker
Okay.
00:08:45
Speaker
I don't think there's anybody here who we think of as like, oh, you can't touch them.
00:08:49
Speaker
Maybe Beyonce.
00:08:50
Speaker
But other than that, legitimately, Beyonce might be the only person that people might be pissed if people touch without warning.
00:08:59
Speaker
But that's only because she's the queen in theory, but also because she's a little bit... She's not as socially engaging as Rihanna, who just... She'll hang all over her fans and stuff.
00:09:09
Speaker
But it's just because Beyonce's a little bit uptight.
00:09:11
Speaker
But...
00:09:11
Speaker
I wouldn't even say uptight.
00:09:12
Speaker
Also, Beyonce has like... Yeah, that's her image, I guess.
00:09:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:09:16
Speaker
Yeah, her image is a certain way.
00:09:17
Speaker
And she has like much firmer boundaries with everyone.
00:09:19
Speaker
So everyone respects Beyonce's boundaries.
00:09:21
Speaker
And so when people don't respect Beyonce's boundaries, people... But it's not because they feel like she's untouchable legitimately.
00:09:26
Speaker
It's just like she's been famous for a long time.
00:09:28
Speaker
And so she doesn't like to be touched.
00:09:29
Speaker
Remember Michael Jackson, even.
00:09:31
Speaker
Michael Jackson, most famous person in the world for a while.
00:09:33
Speaker
And like people used to come up with him all the time, you know?
00:09:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:09:36
Speaker
Yeah, true.
00:09:38
Speaker
But yeah, the royals, like there's very much like, there is that barrier, that touch barrier.
00:09:43
Speaker
And there's all sorts of protocol, like curtsying, bowing, like, you know, if you approach the monarch, you have to step backwards, you can't turn around and walk out, because they're not supposed to see your back.
00:09:55
Speaker
There's all that sort of stuff.
00:09:56
Speaker
And as we know, unfortunately, Meghan had no clue what she was literally stepping into when she landed at Heathrow to marry Prince Harry.
00:10:05
Speaker
Because this is part of the issue, the cultural clash that she experienced.
00:10:09
Speaker
Because in America, like, I guess...
00:10:12
Speaker
If, say, she was marrying the president, you know, Jill Biden can speak about causes that are, you know, near and dear to her as the president's spouse.
00:10:22
Speaker
A British member of the royal family can't do that.
00:10:24
Speaker
So even commenting on things like Me Too, you can't do that as a British member of the royal family.
00:10:29
Speaker
Even before that, in the documentary, she said she met them at Frogmore Cottage and just gave William and Kate a hug each.
00:10:35
Speaker
And they were like both individually pissed.
00:10:37
Speaker
And she didn't even know.
00:10:38
Speaker
She was like, wait, what?
00:10:40
Speaker
She had no idea.
00:10:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:10:42
Speaker
Because like, realistically, Meghan is technically supposed to bow to Kate and I think Eugenie and Beatrice.
00:10:51
Speaker
because they have like an order of precedence.
00:10:53
Speaker
And even though they say that Meghan is a senior royal, technically she's not, because in that line of...
00:11:02
Speaker
precedence in terms of the women you would have the queen and then you'd have I think princess anne as princess royal and then kate depending on if she's with william or not and then usually and beatrice because they were born princesses then you'd have megan so she's actually quite at the back of the queue do you know what i mean in terms of the female's
00:11:25
Speaker
So we don't even know what that means, right?
00:11:27
Speaker
That's like the most we have as far as order of succession when it comes to our rulers is the order that they sit during ceremonies in like formal states, right?
00:11:38
Speaker
So like what usually when they have like an inauguration day or Memorial Day or some kind of like event at the Capitol, then they have
00:11:47
Speaker
like seating order in accordance to like your presidency secession.
00:11:51
Speaker
So the Bushes are always sitting next to the Obamas who are always sitting next to the Trumps and so on and so forth.
00:11:56
Speaker
But it's not like nobody there is like less hierarchical than the other.
00:12:00
Speaker
And even like the vice president, his wife, I guess they're a little bit like behind, but it's just, I don't know.
00:12:05
Speaker
It's so interesting to hear this because we have these things, but if someone breaks them, no one's like pissed off or weirded out.
00:12:11
Speaker
Oh, no, no, no.
00:12:13
Speaker
It's definitely a thing.
00:12:14
Speaker
Like when they were walking into, I want to say where they kept Elizabeth's body for the lying in state, they have a very, very strict order that they walk in to the chaplain because that basically represents, it basically represents the order of succession, basically.
00:12:32
Speaker
And so everybody is in their rightful, in quotation marks, place.
00:12:36
Speaker
And they take that really seriously.
00:12:37
Speaker
So even at the coronation today, you know, when they were saying, because the right wing media just basically mixing up shit, which I'll go on to, but they were saying how like Joe Biden was snubbed because Jill Biden was sat at the back.
00:12:50
Speaker
And it's like, well, no, but in the coronation, Jill Biden would be at the back because they would put the British royal family and then the European houses, like royal families, and then the US.
00:13:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:13:03
Speaker
And so in terms of the line of, I'd probably call it precedence because Jill Biden's not in the line of succession, she would be at the back.
00:13:11
Speaker
Like, that's just how they do it.
00:13:13
Speaker
So the coronation.
00:13:14
Speaker
So that was just a bit of preamble about general royal bullshit, I think.
00:13:19
Speaker
And so the coronation, there were
Coronation Costs Amidst Economic Crisis
00:13:20
Speaker
several angles to the coronation.
00:13:21
Speaker
So as we all know, are probably aware of, there is a cost of living crisis going on in the UK and around the world at the moment.
00:13:30
Speaker
Bearing in mind, the UK did just pay for Elizabeth's funeral less than nine months ago, which cost hundreds of millions of pounds.
00:13:38
Speaker
We were then asked to fork out for this coronation that also costs an estimated 250 million pounds.
00:13:44
Speaker
Throw the old lady in a box and be done.
00:13:47
Speaker
I'm kidding.
00:13:48
Speaker
No, but seriously, I agree.
00:13:51
Speaker
I just think it's absurd.
00:13:53
Speaker
It's interesting in the States because it's not super transparent about a lot of the ceremonies that we take place.
00:13:58
Speaker
Some of them are actually paid out of pocket by the family of whoever the...
00:14:04
Speaker
official is and some of it's paid by the government.
00:14:07
Speaker
So it's usually as lavish as like the extra money that a person of their family wants to put towards it.
00:14:14
Speaker
So it doesn't really like, yeah, I guess we're just a little bit less.
00:14:17
Speaker
We don't have royals.
00:14:18
Speaker
We have like, we have people who serve at our pleasure.
00:14:23
Speaker
America!
00:14:23
Speaker
Hashtag.
00:14:24
Speaker
We're dope.
00:14:25
Speaker
For a maximum of eight years and they're out.
00:14:27
Speaker
Nothing even happens if they die.
00:14:29
Speaker
Like, I mean, if they died in office, we'd probably have a couple of days moratorium.
00:14:33
Speaker
But when older presidents die, it's not like it's sad and they put on the news and they talk about their legacy, but it's not doesn't like stop everything.
00:14:41
Speaker
Okay, there's like ceremonious things like they'll fly the flags half-mast.
00:14:45
Speaker
It's really a big deal for like the military.
00:14:47
Speaker
So the military has a lot of protocols around it about how to guard and treat the foreign president's body.
00:14:52
Speaker
And the state houses will have, they'll fly the flag at half-mast and sometimes they'll take the day off, but it's just not the same.
00:14:59
Speaker
It's just not the same intensity.
00:15:02
Speaker
Do they practice like if a president, like what happens if a president dies?
00:15:06
Speaker
Because with here, with the monarch, the military and all the ceremonial like processions involved, they practice regularly for the monarch's death.
00:15:16
Speaker
So Elizabeth's death, like they do drills like in different countries, in different, in all sorts of weather, just in case like the monarch dies abroad, like they just drill all the time.
00:15:27
Speaker
So by the time the monarch does eventually die, like at Elizabeth's funeral, if you watch parts of it, it was very, very well executed because they're just always practicing.
00:15:37
Speaker
The only American funeral that I know much about was JFK's.
00:15:41
Speaker
And it seems like that was the first time it was an unusual event in that a president had literally been assassinated.
00:15:49
Speaker
I mean, it happened before with Lincoln, but in contemporary history.
00:15:52
Speaker
So they basically had like three days to put the funeral together.
00:15:56
Speaker
Yeah, it's, I mean, the military always has protocols for these types of things.
00:16:00
Speaker
And I think there are things that have become informal traditions, but it's not anything written, right?
00:16:05
Speaker
It's not like a, this has to be done this way, to my knowledge.
00:16:10
Speaker
I mean, I think, you know, they drape the casket with an American flag, they fly the flags half-mast.
00:16:16
Speaker
Depending on the severity, they might declare like a federal day of mourning.
00:16:19
Speaker
But people can and can observe that.
00:16:21
Speaker
Like sometimes...
00:16:22
Speaker
Federal day?
00:16:23
Speaker
We had like two fucking weeks.
00:16:25
Speaker
No, 10 days.
00:16:26
Speaker
Oh, no, nothing like that.
00:16:28
Speaker
Like there's... Okay, once again, America doesn't shut down for anything.
00:16:32
Speaker
Like we gotta beg to get a day off around here.
00:16:38
Speaker
That's part of it.
00:16:38
Speaker
There's usually like a funeral procession.
00:16:40
Speaker
So a lot of this, like the military does practice for sure, but it's not, I don't know.
00:16:45
Speaker
Is it like British practice?
00:16:46
Speaker
Is it like, it's your personal duty to be ready when the monarch drops dead sort of thing.
00:16:52
Speaker
Like it's just something.
00:16:53
Speaker
No, no, no, no.
00:16:54
Speaker
We're just more like, yeah.
00:16:58
Speaker
Half the country doesn't even like half our presidents.
00:17:00
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:17:01
Speaker
It's always awkward when a president that like one side legitimately hates passes away.
00:17:07
Speaker
Right.
00:17:08
Speaker
So I'm trying to remember, well, George Bush Sr. passed away and it's kind of, there's a lot of people who just didn't like George Bush Sr. as well as him being like a one-term president.
00:17:19
Speaker
So people's politics don't necessarily dissolve just because that person died.
00:17:23
Speaker
Like everybody gets a little bit of a glowy edit after their death.
00:17:26
Speaker
Same thing with like John McCain, for example.
00:17:29
Speaker
Suddenly he's a statesman and like he spent most of his career being like dragged by his own party.
00:17:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:17:35
Speaker
But at the same time, like people don't just like straight up pretend like they're a hero just because they're dead.
00:17:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:17:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:17:43
Speaker
Okay.
00:17:43
Speaker
That track.
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Speaker
So anyway, so yeah.
00:17:45
Speaker
So the coronation, the compromising quotation marks, and I do think this is partly to do with Charles's age, because if you compare it to Elizabeth's coronation back in when she became queen, I think it was in 1953, I want to say.
00:18:00
Speaker
So in terms of the coronation then, I guess part of the compromise, and I also think it was in recognition that Charles is an older monarch, was that they decided to make it a lot shorter.
00:18:12
Speaker
So a normal coronation ceremony was about three hours.
00:18:16
Speaker
So Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953, that was a very, very long ceremony.
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But obviously being crowned when you're, was it 27, is very different to being crowned when you're in your 70s.
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I'm just really glad she lived as long as she did.
00:18:29
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I love seeing Charles suffer and not have power.
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And so they scaled it back as well.
00:18:37
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Just the idea that he's only going to reign for a fraction of the time that she did.
00:18:40
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I mean, he's not going to make it 50 years, right?
00:18:42
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So he doesn't have 50 years.
00:18:45
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I would be surprised if he makes it 10.
00:18:47
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Like I've said before, if we look at Queen Victoria, who was previously the longest reigning sovereign in British history, after that was Edward VII.
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He was previously the longest serving Prince of Wales before Charles.
00:19:01
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You see where this is going.
00:19:02
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He only lasted about nine years.
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before he snuffed it.
00:19:05
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So 10 years max.
00:19:08
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And this is what people were saying was like, why are we doing all of this?
00:19:10
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But it's like in 10 years, we'll have to do it again.
00:19:14
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Just frisbee that hat on top of his head and keep it moving.
00:19:16
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Like...
00:19:19
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He's not going to be around much.
00:19:21
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And then also, obviously, we're also changing our money as well.
00:19:23
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And again, it's like... Oh my God, she reigned for 70 years.
00:19:27
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Oh my gosh.
00:19:28
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Yeah.
00:19:29
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Yeah, she reigned for a very, very long time.
00:19:31
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70 years.
00:19:32
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I thought it was 50.
00:19:33
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I didn't realize it was 70.
00:19:35
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Wow.
00:19:35
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Yeah, she reigned for 70 years.
00:19:38
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And yeah, Charles will be lucky to get... Oh, Charles is his life.
00:19:42
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Yeah, I guess I should have known that because Charles is like over 70.
00:19:44
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Yeah, duh.
00:19:45
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Yeah.
00:19:46
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Yeah, so he'd be lucky to get even 10 years, I think.
00:19:50
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I think if he gets to 10 years, he would have done very well because obviously everybody also talks about Charles' extremities and I'm no doctor, but that swelling does not look normal.
00:20:01
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If you see his hands, like they just don't look healthy.
00:20:04
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Yeah, I don't know what's going on with him.
00:20:06
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He just looks, um, how do I say this?
00:20:09
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Well, we've settled the science that, uh, long successions of- Just say it, Ro.
00:20:16
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Just say it.
00:20:17
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Yeah.
00:20:18
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Inbreeding causes deformities, mental illness.
00:20:22
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And all I'm going to say is, I mean, just looking at the man, he doesn't look like the picture of health.
00:20:28
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His ears aren't really like where they're supposed to be on a human being.
00:20:31
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His jaw just hasn't shown up ever.
00:20:34
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It's not quite Habsburg jaw.
00:20:36
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Have you seen that?
00:20:37
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It's just not there.
00:20:38
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Like he just hasn't got a jaw.
00:20:40
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But I mean, like he's not physically on the level of like a Habsburg.
00:20:43
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Like it's so inbred that like they look.
00:20:45
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No, no, no, no, no.
00:20:47
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Yeah.
00:20:48
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But the thing with Charles, it seems like independently, Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth were very attractive or fairly attractive people, right?
00:20:57
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But it just seems like their children just inherited the worst of their features.
00:21:01
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Yeah, I mean, once again, I feel as if that happens with each succession of inbreeding, right?
00:21:08
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So you just got to start to diversify the gene pool a little bit.
00:21:12
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I get that it's your, quote, special royal line and ordained by God to rule over his, quote, quote.
00:21:18
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But you're looking kind of like people who populate the backwoods of Appalachia in our country.
00:21:25
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You know what I mean?
00:21:28
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So it's like kind of weird looking at the royals because it's like they think they have a special magical bloodline.
00:21:34
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But like we have people like that here in the States and we kind of act like they don't exist.
00:21:42
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Like we know they exist, but like we don't really like celebrate the fact that they, I mean, technically they have like generations of the same purebred bloodline, but none of us are proud of them for that.
00:21:52
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And they shouldn't be proud of that.
00:21:54
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So it's sort of, man.
00:21:55
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Oh my gosh.
00:21:57
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To me, it's like watching them talk about their pure line is like watching someone from some rural part of Appalachia with like three teeth and cock eyes and weird hanging ears talking about how like blue skin because they have some weird genetic disorder that only runs in one family talk about how like they have this special pure bedline.
00:22:17
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And to be fair, there's a lot of people like that in the Klan here who they want the United States to become like a white ethnostate and they want to only breed with white people.
00:22:27
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And
00:22:27
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It's always the kind of people who nobody really wants to be part of their gene pool because it just doesn't look diversified.
00:22:34
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And it's kind of a running joke here in the States about that.
00:22:36
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So it's just weird.
00:22:38
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Like, it's just, once again, different perceptions about, like, bloodlines and the importance of bloodlines.
00:22:44
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Like, here, the only people talking about bloodlines in the States is the Ku Klux Klan.
00:22:50
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And I'm like...
00:22:52
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Honestly, it's literally the Ku Klux Klan because they're the only people that care about it being purebred.
00:22:59
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I don't know about that's clearly not the case for the monarch.
00:23:02
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So them bragging about that, like all of us over here are like, ew.
00:23:08
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Well, it should get better, though, as they start to marry outside of their immediate and extended gene pool.
00:23:17
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So that was just an aside.
00:23:19
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But yeah, I do think, and also, let's be real, like, being head of state, even though I don't think it's real work, work in the sense...
00:23:30
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that it's like the work that we would have to do to pay our bills, but it puts different stresses.
00:23:37
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And I'm just not sure, especially since Charles has probably led quite a comfortable life up until just imagine basically starting your first serious job at 74.
00:23:46
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Like it's just not going to work out.
00:23:48
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He's so woefully underqualified.
00:23:50
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Yeah.
00:23:51
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Oh my God.
00:23:52
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I didn't even think of that.
00:23:53
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Yeah.
00:23:53
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The man has never had a job until his seventies.
00:23:57
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Wow.
00:23:57
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I mean, he's done like as Prince of Wales, he's been like patron of charities, but I mean like doing like serious meeting ministers, you know, actually being head of state, like it's advanced age to come to that, you know, to have that level of responsibility.
00:24:13
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Like I remember what people were saying when Joe Biden, you know, ran for president and they were about the same age.
00:24:18
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Like it's a lot.
00:24:19
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See, it's scary with Biden because Biden actually has, like, real power.
00:24:24
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You know what I mean?
00:24:26
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And he actively has dementia.
00:24:28
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I don't care what anybody says.
00:24:30
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Everybody knows he has dementia.
00:24:32
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But Biden is funny, though, the way he just, like, confidently fucks things up.
00:24:36
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Like, when...
00:24:37
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It was like when Rishi Sunak was elected prime minister, the way he just said, like, it was like he said all the letters in Rishi Sunak's name, just in the wrong order.
00:24:48
Speaker
Like, he called him, like, Rashid Sanuk.
00:24:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:24:52
Speaker
The thing about Biden, he's always been known for his gaffes and people try to frame it as endearing.
00:24:59
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He says things that are sexist and racist, although he's sort of been managed.
00:25:04
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Oh my God.
00:25:05
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Google.
00:25:06
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He's another person that's been in office for like 40, 50 years.
00:25:10
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And over decades of evolution, the culture has changed.
00:25:16
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But he every once in a while says something that's like massively messed up to a group of minority people because he just doesn't
00:25:22
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doesn't.
00:25:22
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So he's known for his gaffes.
00:25:25
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Yeah.
00:25:26
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I feel like he is kind of evolving, but I also feel like they don't let him out as much unless they give him like pre written speeches that he can just read from a teleprompter.
00:25:35
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Cause I don't think the man a hundred percent always is there.
00:25:39
Speaker
Once again, dementia is a horrible disease and I'm not making fun of anybody with dementia.
00:25:42
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I'm just pointing out that our president more than likely
Transparency in Health Issues: US Presidents vs UK Monarchy
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has it.
00:25:45
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And everybody's kind of managing it because it's certainly better than Trump.
00:25:50
Speaker
And to be fair, it's not uncommon for like aging presidents to have like health issues, like the outgoing president of Nigeria, Buhari.
00:25:58
Speaker
Like, I swear, like every so often there would be a rumor that he's dead because he would just disappear with health issues for like months or years at a time.
00:26:07
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You just wouldn't see them because he would travel to the UK for medical treatment and he just disappeared.
00:26:13
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So it's quite common in aging men to have a litany of health problems.
00:26:18
Speaker
So, okay, you got to read one day you should download the physician to the president from the White House official medical report because they're required to do an annual medical physical.
00:26:28
Speaker
But is there ever been a time where they've actually told the public when the like the president's health was legitimately deteriorating, especially his mental health?
00:26:38
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I don't think so.
00:26:39
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I remember reading that when, in the 1960s, when JFK was running against Nixon, Nixon's camp tried to leak the fact that JFK had Addison's disease.
00:26:51
Speaker
And the treatment that was required at the time was basically sending JFK, like, insane, like,
00:26:57
Speaker
Like physicians at the time, they were basically giving him like horse tranquilizer to the point where it almost caused nuclear war.
00:27:03
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Because if you're taking medication, that's fucking with your judgment.
00:27:07
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And you are like on the brink of nuclear war.
00:27:09
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It's not great.
00:27:10
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So when they were running for president, like Nixon tried to leak that.
00:27:14
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But Kennedy's camp, they basically squashed it.
00:27:17
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And it only came out, I think, after Kennedy died that he had a lot of health issues that I'm sure if the public had known about it, they probably wouldn't have elected him.
00:27:26
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Yeah, I mean, it's a tough thing.
00:27:28
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I know that Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's apparently towards the end of his presidency, and they did a lot to cover that up as well.
00:27:34
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So it's just kind of tough.
00:27:36
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Yeah, there's been a lot of sick presidents and they definitely suppress it.
00:27:41
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Especially like the more left wing papers have been running interference about the dementia angle.
00:27:46
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But I just keep looking at it like, look at how sharp Bernie Sanders is versus how Joe Biden is.
00:27:52
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And they're around the same age.
00:27:53
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I think Bernie's older.
00:27:54
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I'm pretty sure Bernie's older, I think.
00:27:57
Speaker
Yeah, actually, you're right.
00:27:58
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So Bernie Sanders is a year older than Biden.
00:28:00
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And he's just infinitely more responsive, plugged in, and able to engage with people than Biden is at the same age.
00:28:09
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So sometimes I just feel like maybe it's not dementia, but he clearly is having a massive cognitive decline, probably on account of his age.
00:28:17
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And even comparing him to other octogenarians, he's...
00:28:20
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a little bit slow on the take.
00:28:22
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You know what I mean?
00:28:24
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Isn't it octogenarian so many is 100?
00:28:25
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No, octogenarian.
00:28:26
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Octo.
00:28:26
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80s.
00:28:26
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Oh, okay.
00:28:26
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I thought it was 100.
00:28:30
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I'm
00:28:35
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No, 100 would be like Centurion, I think.
00:28:38
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Oh, yeah, that's it, Centurion.
00:28:39
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Yeah, yeah.
00:28:40
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So, yeah, I mean, that's a very, very long-winded way of saying Charles has probably got a decade max and I would be surprised if he's still there.
00:28:48
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So that was the first axis was that, you know, how are we going to pay for this coronation?
00:28:52
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Apparently it's going to cost £250 million when there's a severe cost of living crisis.
00:28:56
Speaker
Like most people in the UK or many people are having to decide between heating or eating.
00:29:03
Speaker
The interest rates have...
00:29:04
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basically shot up.
00:29:05
Speaker
So there are some people that have to find a thousand pounds a month extra just to pay their mortgage.
00:29:12
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So we're in a bad way now.
00:29:14
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Question.
00:29:14
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So the interest rates in Britain, are they affected by when the United States government raises their interest rates?
00:29:22
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I don't actually know.
00:29:23
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I'm not really into the economy stuff.
00:29:26
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I'd imagine it would have some impact, but the extent to which I don't know, probably some impact, but I'm not sure the extent.
00:29:34
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And so, yeah, so obviously it's not great optics when you have the richest man, you know, one of the richest men in the world, basically wanting to crown himself with some fancy hat that literally costs two billion pounds whilst people are literally starving.
00:29:49
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And also ever since Elizabeth has passed away, so the Republican movement is basically people...
00:29:54
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who want to see the monarchy replaced with an elected head of state.
00:29:58
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So that's what I mean when I say Republican.
00:30:00
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When I talk online and I say I'm a Republican, people think I'm talking about US Republican, and that's not what I'm saying.
00:30:07
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I'm saying I'm anti-monarchy.
00:30:08
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I think we should have an elected head of state, because I think that's one of the few areas where America's ahead of Britain in this regard.
00:30:17
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Heck yeah.
00:30:18
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It's dope over here.
00:30:20
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In that anyone could theoretically become head of state.
00:30:23
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I think that's a good enough.
00:30:24
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Anybody, child.
00:30:25
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Okay.
00:30:26
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That has its drawbacks, though.
00:30:28
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I mean, I guess with you guys, like, if you don't like your monarch, there's really nothing you can do about it.
00:30:33
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Whereas, like, every four years, we're allowed to get rid of anybody we don't like.
00:30:38
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But it does mean that literally anybody, and I mean, anybody can become president.
00:30:43
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So you just have to be connected enough.
00:30:47
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Which is both inspiring and terrifying because some of these people are actively stupid.
00:30:51
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And terrifying.
00:30:53
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And it's funny because like, I feel like when I was younger, I saw elected office as like an aspirational role.
00:31:01
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And now the older I get, the more I'm like, oh, no, a lot of stupid ass people run for government and they work.
00:31:06
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in our government and they're very dumb and they get paid.
00:31:11
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Like this is probably the highest paid job they'll ever get because they're not good at anything else.
00:31:15
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They were just able to convince some people that they could kind of know what they were talking about and enough for them to elect them to go to Washington.
00:31:22
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And I think Michelle Obama said as much more or less because people were like, oh, were you intimidated being like the first black woman in these rooms?
00:31:30
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And she was like, no, a lot of these people are dumb as hell.
00:31:32
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Let me find her exact quote so I can like paraphrase it.
00:31:35
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So this is our former first lady, and I feel like she's 100% correct.
00:31:40
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Michelle Obama had a great quote when asked about how she dealt with sitting with powerful and smart people during her time in the White House.
00:31:46
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She replied, you realize pretty quickly that a lot of them aren't that smart.
00:31:49
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I'm like, facts, right?
00:31:51
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We can watch these people.
00:31:53
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And it's funny because...
00:31:55
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When you look at how educated she is, and I mean, she's definitely a person who is probably used to being either the smartest person in the room or among other smart people because she went to Yale.
00:32:08
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She was a high-powered lawyer.
00:32:10
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It's like...
00:32:13
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She is dealing with people who fell off the turnip truck yesterday and got elected in some very small district trying to explain.
00:32:23
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And then they're talking to her and trying to explain things.
00:32:27
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That's just way out of their depth, right?
00:32:29
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Or trying to govern, but they're just way out of their depth.
00:32:31
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So it's interesting in these states because I don't feel...
00:32:36
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And I don't know if it's always been that way.
00:32:37
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Anybody who has been around a while in American politics, like correct me on this or not.
00:32:42
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But I felt like at some point in the country, we thought like elected officials were like not like smart or at least more conservative.
00:32:51
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elite than I think the perception is now.
00:32:54
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But I don't know if it's just like I've gotten older.
00:32:56
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And so I've now gotten closer to the age of a lot of people who are elected officials.
00:33:02
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So now my perception has changed.
00:33:05
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I'm like, oh, no, a lot of people are fucking stupid.
00:33:09
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But they seem smart to you when you're like 18, 19 years old and you don't know better.
00:33:13
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But like the closer I get on the other side of 30, it's like, oh, no, no, no, no.
00:33:18
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Oh, my God.
00:33:18
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Like, oh, my God.
00:33:19
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We have fucking clowns.
00:33:21
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We have fucking clowns in Washington.
00:33:22
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And I don't mean that in an abstract way.
00:33:24
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I mean, legit, some of these people, I feel like they have to remind themselves to breathe.
00:33:28
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Like, I don't know what's going on.
00:33:32
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Have you seen the drama surrounding George Santos?
00:33:35
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No.
00:33:35
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Fill me in.
00:33:37
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Okay.
00:33:37
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So he's like the first openly gay Republican to ever be elected to office, to be elected to Congress.
00:33:44
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And basically this man told an entire lie about his background from top to bottom.
00:33:50
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He lied that he graduated from college.
00:33:52
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He never graduated from college.
00:33:54
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He said he worked for Wall Street firm, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.
00:33:56
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He never did.
00:34:00
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He lied about being Jewish.
00:34:02
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First, he said he was Jewish.
00:34:04
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And then he said his maternal grandparents fled persecution in Ukraine and then in Belgium.
00:34:10
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And then he says he's Catholic and Jewish, but he's just like a regular Latino American.
00:34:18
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And then when he was confronted about it, he was like, oh, Americans don't care about my resume.
00:34:21
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So basically, he just came there, just wrote like just completely lied about his entire background and then got elected.
00:34:27
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Oh my gosh.
00:34:29
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That's just what happens sometimes.
00:34:30
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Sometimes we legit get insane people in office.
00:34:34
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Oh my gosh.
00:34:36
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Because all they have to do is just have someone sponsor their TV commercials and some people just vote party line or you can convince people you're a good dude in like 30 second ads.
00:34:46
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Oh my gosh.
00:34:47
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He also claimed to be descended of refugees from the Holocaust.
00:34:50
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Like this man is mental.
00:34:52
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Like my gosh.
00:34:54
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Why would you lie about being Jewish?
00:34:55
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Oh my gosh.
00:34:55
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I think he's just a pathological liar.
00:34:57
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Like, I think he just wants to feel like he's being persecuted and that he has like an interesting background.
00:35:02
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It's very weird.
00:35:03
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I don't know.
00:35:04
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But it's to the point where the Republicans are trying to get him to resign because he's actively insane.
00:35:08
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But that's the type of people that sometimes get
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into office because of our legal system, our system of government, which is imperfect, but for the people, by the people and of the people.
00:35:17
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Oh, my gosh.
00:35:19
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Moving on, swiftly on from American shit.
00:35:23
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An adult man who lies about the Holocaust, but okay, that's the level of scrutiny of our elected officials.
00:35:31
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Yeah, that's weird.
00:35:33
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And also having somebody who's gay in the Republican Party.
00:35:37
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I don't really understand the logic behind that, but gay.
00:35:40
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So the coronation.
00:35:42
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So then the other angle, obviously, is what is going on with Harry and Meghan.
00:35:47
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And the way that the coronation was...
00:35:51
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scheduled to take place on the day of Prince Archie's birthday, which I just thought that was really shitty.
00:35:57
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Like, let's be real.
00:35:58
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Like, again, the coronation doesn't have to happen by a certain date.
00:36:02
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So it could have literally been done next year.
00:36:05
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It could have been done in November.
00:36:06
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It could have been done in summer.
00:36:09
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And they chose Archie's birthday.
00:36:11
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Why?
00:36:26
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don't know why they picked this day in particular when there's literally like 52 other weekends they could have done it on but but it was today as well so there was this whole the british media are obsessed with megan there was this whole in the lead up to the coronation there was all this coverage about is megan gonna come i believe that megan was invited but she turned the invitation down and she stayed in california so harry came on his own and there was an issue around that as well basically saying that she snubbed the royal family but then if she'd showed up you know she'd be making it all
00:36:56
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about her.
00:36:56
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That's a no-win situation.
00:36:58
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I want to point that out.
00:36:59
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It's a no-win situation, yeah, exactly.
00:37:02
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They were going to give her a bad edit no matter what decision she made.
00:37:05
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But I applaud her for starving these people of her presence because they don't deserve...
00:37:11
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Well, yeah, exactly.
00:37:12
Speaker
And again, if she came here, she would just be assassinated by the press anyway, accused of making it all about her just for, you know, breathing in oxygen or daring to look nice.
00:37:23
Speaker
And so, yeah, so she stayed away.
00:37:24
Speaker
So Harry came on his own and it seemed like it was a flying visit because the coronation happened.
00:37:30
Speaker
I think it was done by two o'clock UK time.
00:37:33
Speaker
And he was literally back on the plane to California at three.
00:37:36
Speaker
So he didn't hang around.
00:37:38
Speaker
He's back in California or on his way back to California now.
00:37:41
Speaker
to be with his family.
00:37:42
Speaker
And he seemed like one of the only royals to actually look genuinely happy at the coronation, like smiling and all that jazz.
00:37:52
Speaker
So yeah, it was a flying visit for him.
00:37:54
Speaker
I'm kind of like that with my family because I don't have to deal with the bullshit on a day-to-day basis either.
00:37:59
Speaker
So when I go in for a family event, I'm all smiles as well because I know I'll be on the next flight out.
00:38:04
Speaker
Exactly.
00:38:05
Speaker
Like, you'll be out.
00:38:06
Speaker
Like, you're like, this is not my problem.
00:38:08
Speaker
But again, at the ceremony, they snubbed him again.
00:38:11
Speaker
So as the son of a king, he should have really been in like the full regalia, but he only wore a suit.
00:38:17
Speaker
And then when King Charles and Queen Camilla appeared on the balcony, they normally have their immediate family.
00:38:24
Speaker
So really it should, you know, Harry should have been there and he wasn't.
00:38:27
Speaker
But the children of...
00:38:30
Speaker
the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, who is King Charles III's younger.
00:38:35
Speaker
And so the Duke of Edinburgh is King Charles III's youngest brother, Edward.
00:38:40
Speaker
They were on the balcony, but it's like, but your own son wasn't.
00:38:43
Speaker
It's just shade.
00:38:44
Speaker
And I sort of, you know, with each passing day, I can see it makes sense...
00:38:51
Speaker
The claims that Harry and Meghan were making in the documentary and in the interview with Oprah, it makes sense because it seems like the royals are very passive aggressive.
00:39:00
Speaker
So they want to say that Harry was there, but they'll do little digs and slights to make out like, okay, you're here, but you can't sit with us sort of thing.
00:39:08
Speaker
That makes me feel bad for him.
00:39:10
Speaker
Because listen, I said this in a previous episode too.
00:39:14
Speaker
Yes, they're fabulously wealthy.
00:39:15
Speaker
And yes, they have privilege beyond all of us could possibly imagine.
00:39:19
Speaker
But for Harry, he's just a kid in an extremely toxic family, right?
00:39:25
Speaker
That actually makes me have sympathy for him.
00:39:27
Speaker
I otherwise wouldn't.
00:39:28
Speaker
He tragically lost his mother and his entire family is...
00:39:32
Speaker
the pinnacle of like narcissistic bullying.
00:39:35
Speaker
So he's just become like the black sheep of that family and they're going to keep treating him as such.
00:39:40
Speaker
And so there, I mean, there's, there's just volumes of books and videos and workshops and therapists who specialize in treating children who are the victims of narcissistic families or, you know, families for whom they become like the outcast.
00:39:58
Speaker
All the problems are just hanging on them from the time they're young.
00:40:01
Speaker
It's clear that relationship between his family and then also the press that he's had to live that his entire life.
00:40:07
Speaker
And it's just, I don't know, you never hear me really stick up for the Royals, but like, I just feel like it's kind of a fuck situation.
00:40:12
Speaker
So it's like, on one hand, no matter how cringy I feel like some of the things he says are and how much I don't particularly like, I don't really care about him as like an individual or what he represents.
00:40:23
Speaker
I feel bad for him as a person.
00:40:25
Speaker
right?
00:40:26
Speaker
As a person who has like a really dysfunctional family for which he's never really going to get the type of love, familiar support or nurturing that a child would need, especially a child who had a very tragic, lost a parent in a very tragic way.
00:40:40
Speaker
And so I feel like all of this stuff that he's been doing now is just him trying to find a way to get that for himself because it's very clear he's not going to get that from the royal family.
00:40:49
Speaker
So like just hearing that, like even on coronation day, they're just like dragging Harry and Meghan.
00:40:54
Speaker
It's like, man,
00:40:55
Speaker
Oh my gosh, like GB News, which is like the not so polished equivalent of like Fox News, they might as well rename themselves like Harry and Meghan News.
00:41:06
Speaker
Like the coverage on Harry and Meghan, considering Meghan wasn't even going in the past week and even on the day, has just been absolutely incessant.
00:41:15
Speaker
And contrast that with like Hunter Biden and the Trump voice, like Trump's sons.
00:41:20
Speaker
It's like they're complete and total fuck ups.
00:41:23
Speaker
Right.
00:41:23
Speaker
Hunter Biden's like crackhead, not speculative crackhead, a literal crackhead.
00:41:28
Speaker
A confirmed crackhead.
00:41:30
Speaker
A confirmed crackhead.
00:41:32
Speaker
Right.
00:41:32
Speaker
Who like spends half his money on prostitutes and probably child support.
00:41:37
Speaker
Right.
00:41:40
Speaker
Child support doesn't play as child support, probably sold estate secrets for crack, like legitimately.
00:41:47
Speaker
And the way that Joe Biden treats him in public is still very understanding, warm and loving.
00:41:54
Speaker
Right.
00:41:54
Speaker
Despite the fact that Hunter unequivocally does not deserve it.
00:41:58
Speaker
You know, I mean, like just contrast like how even Trump is kind of a narcissist, but even he treats his sons and his children, except for maybe his daughters, which he's a complete fucking creep about.
00:42:09
Speaker
But compared to what's happening with King Charles and the way that he treats his children.
00:42:14
Speaker
So just think about that.
00:42:15
Speaker
Like all Harry really wanted, it seems like, is a hug.
00:42:18
Speaker
It just seems like somebody should have hugged that kid a lot more when he was younger and had was dealing with his mom's tragic death and, you know, not treated him like he was expendable in the family because he, you know, he wasn't the next in line to secession, especially after William's kids were born.
00:42:35
Speaker
It is weird watching it on this side.
00:42:37
Speaker
It makes me feel bad for him because I'm like, yeah, at least on the American side, like a ton of people's families are dysfunctional.
00:42:43
Speaker
But like you see publicly.
00:42:45
Speaker
It's true.
00:42:46
Speaker
It's true.
00:42:47
Speaker
Look at the Kennedys though.
00:42:49
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:50
Speaker
At least...
00:42:51
Speaker
Kennedys are so messed up, but at least in the public, they are supportive of each other.
00:42:55
Speaker
Right.
00:42:56
Speaker
Even through like massive, unforgivable fuck ups.
00:42:59
Speaker
Right.
00:43:00
Speaker
Like the worst thing Harry did was the Nazi uniform, to my knowledge.
00:43:04
Speaker
Right.
00:43:04
Speaker
That's the only thing that's ever leaked to the press that everyone's like, this is unilaterally fucked up.
00:43:09
Speaker
But it's not like, oh, I accidentally killed a person like like anything.
00:43:13
Speaker
Was it Robert Kennedy?
00:43:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:16
Speaker
No, it was that Ted Kennedy chappacord and left her to die.
00:43:20
Speaker
I have like every week there's a new video of my penis and me getting slapped in the face with some prostitute's vagina because I'm cracked out and spending all the money on prostitutes and crack.
00:43:33
Speaker
So, or like whatever is going on for the Trump sons, like with their like many, many divorces and weird affairs and just crazy general demeanor.
00:43:44
Speaker
You see them still have like a public face of support.
00:43:46
Speaker
So just watching the family dynamics there that on like the most important day of probably Ken Charles's life, they couldn't just bury the hatchet a little bit and be a little bit warm towards their son actually makes me upset.
00:43:57
Speaker
and like not put it on Archie's birthday as well yeah what the fuck man like that's not really asking for a lot so and then also Megan was also dragged by GB News idiots because she didn't bring uh Lily Bette and Archie to the coronation and saying like oh they should be part of history I'm like well they're not going to remember it anyway like again you would have probably dragged her for that too like it's just
00:44:22
Speaker
There's still that ongoing obsession with Meghan.
00:44:24
Speaker
And I do feel like it was a shame that Meghan wasn't there.
00:44:26
Speaker
I completely respect her decision to stay away.
00:44:29
Speaker
But in terms of like just general aura and drippage, it was missing.
00:44:33
Speaker
And I think that that Markle sparkle was definitely missing from the coronation.
00:44:38
Speaker
Honestly, because no one cares.
00:44:39
Speaker
I didn't get up to watch that shit.
00:44:41
Speaker
Here on this side of the pond, we're all back to not caring.
00:44:44
Speaker
Well, yeah.
00:44:45
Speaker
And if, like, Megan was there, everybody, like, more people would have watched even her biggest attractors in the UK.
00:44:51
Speaker
I think it goes beyond hatred.
00:44:53
Speaker
They're, like, legitimately fascinated by Megan in a way they're not with Kate.
00:44:57
Speaker
Like, because Kate is quite, dare I say it, boring.
00:45:01
Speaker
She's quite...
00:45:02
Speaker
she follows the rules.
00:45:03
Speaker
Like, you know what you're getting with Kate kind of looks the same all the time.
00:45:06
Speaker
Whereas with Megan, it's just, you know, there is that fascination there that just isn't present with any of the other Royals.
00:45:13
Speaker
And I think that that was what was missing in the coronation because it was really mid and really flat otherwise, which leads, speaking of William and Kate, that was drama because they were late to the, to Westminster Abbey and Charles was pissed.
00:45:26
Speaker
Charles was pissed.
00:45:28
Speaker
So yeah,
00:45:29
Speaker
Obviously, we were talking about the order of precedents, but when there's a big event like a wedding or a coronation, obviously the main event walks in last, right?
00:45:40
Speaker
So Charles rocks up in his ridiculously expensive old carriage and William and Kate aren't there.
00:45:46
Speaker
So because William and Kate aren't there, he can't go into Westminster Abbey because they can't come after him.
00:45:52
Speaker
So they have to wait for five minutes and Charles looked pissed.
00:45:55
Speaker
William and Kate also, when they were walking into the church, they also looked like they had a massive argument on the way.
00:46:01
Speaker
And again, the tension was just there between the two of them.
00:46:04
Speaker
There's speculation that they are living apart, but I'm not sure if that's indicative of their marriage.
00:46:10
Speaker
I think generally in royal households, it's actually really common for royal couples to live separately.
00:46:16
Speaker
So a lot of people don't know this, but actually Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, they hadn't lived together for years.
00:46:22
Speaker
When he passed away, he was actually fully, fully
00:46:25
Speaker
living somewhere else do they take a lover in their spouse's absence i'm not sure if you've watched the crown but i know that prince philip wanted to sue because they heavily implied that he had several affairs and cheated on elizabeth several times during their marriage so it's anybody's guess but it's quite normal and commonplace for rural couples especially if they're senior to not live together like to not live even in the same like palace or apartment it's pretty common
00:46:54
Speaker
I'm trying to think if that was the case for any of our presidents.
00:46:57
Speaker
I know Jackie and JFK.
00:46:59
Speaker
Jackie and JFK had separate bedrooms.
00:47:02
Speaker
But they were still in the White House.
00:47:03
Speaker
I think the last couple that I know in recent memory that one of them wasn't living in the White House, I think Melania all but left the White House.
00:47:10
Speaker
In fact, I don't think Trump even wanted to be at the White House because he thinks the White House is poor.
00:47:14
Speaker
It's like poverty.
00:47:16
Speaker
He basically walked in the White House like, what is this dump compared to his level of wealth?
00:47:20
Speaker
But I do remember hearing Melania wasn't living at the White House, that she basically shows up for state dinners or whatever.
00:47:27
Speaker
Because yeah, again, poor compared to the lavish digs they were used to living in.
00:47:31
Speaker
But that's interesting.
00:47:32
Speaker
But it's weird here.
00:47:34
Speaker
But yeah, that was allegedly, but yeah, they walked in, did their thing, arrives a bit late.
00:47:39
Speaker
Charles was not happy.
00:47:40
Speaker
Obviously these things, again, they are very, very choreographed and they are literally down to the minute.
00:47:46
Speaker
So if you look at the procession timetable, it will say something like King leaves Buckingham Palace at 11.53pm, arrives at Westminster Abbey at 12.04pm.
00:47:57
Speaker
It's literally time down to the minute.
00:47:59
Speaker
So I can't imagine the stress that William and Kate would have been under if they were late because it fucks the whole thing up.
00:48:06
Speaker
And obviously the King's not happy.
00:48:08
Speaker
So we have, yes, that was a ceremony, but obviously the main, I think almost like the, I don't want to say the main event, but I guess like the full circle moment was seeing Camilla crowned as queen and how they did this was actually very, very insidious.
00:48:26
Speaker
My theory is that the minute, you know, Diana was out of the way, you know, she, you know, died and been buried and Charles and Camilla started dating.
00:48:36
Speaker
I think the plan was always for Camilla to be queen consort slash queen, because like if a woman marries a king, she's queen consort, but they normally just call her queen.
00:48:45
Speaker
So she'll be queen Camilla, queen Alexandra, queen Mary, but they're queen consort.
00:48:50
Speaker
But I think that was always the original plan, right?
00:48:52
Speaker
But when they married in 2005, Camilla's reputation hadn't fully recovered yet, you know, and it hasn't really.
00:49:01
Speaker
So the reason why Camilla was known as the Duchess of Cornwall and not the Princess of Wales was because that title was heavily associated with Diana.
00:49:10
Speaker
And they knew there would be outrage if Camilla was known as Camilla Princess of Wales, even though that was technically her title.
00:49:18
Speaker
because Diana relinquished the title upon her death.
00:49:21
Speaker
So when Charles and Camilla get married, the palace issue a statement several years later saying, when Charles ascends to the throne, she won't be known as Queen Consort, but Princess Consort.
Queen Camilla: Title Controversy
00:49:33
Speaker
So I think everybody was like, okay, yeah, because in everybody's mind, right, Diana should have been crowned today.
00:49:38
Speaker
Diana is the queen of, or should have been the queen of England.
00:49:41
Speaker
And how that played out, it still leaves a sore taste in a lot of people's mouths.
00:49:45
Speaker
Even people like myself who aren't pro-monarchy, but the way they treated Diana was just piss poor.
00:49:52
Speaker
And everyone was like, okay, fine, Princess Consort, that recognises the bullshit and the fact that Camilla was the mistress and basically ruined Diana's life or, you know, whatever, right?
00:50:01
Speaker
It recognises that she's the mistress, basically.
00:50:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:04
Speaker
That's so interesting.
00:50:05
Speaker
So they can just tell her she can't have the title?
00:50:08
Speaker
Yeah, they can.
00:50:09
Speaker
I mean, you know, the title is at the monarch's discretion, but I think the plan was for Camilla to always be queen.
00:50:15
Speaker
But the palace knew they couldn't say that because that would have been deeply unpopular.
00:50:20
Speaker
So what they did was last year at the Jubilee, at Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee celebrating 70 years, Queen Elizabeth released a statement saying, it is my dearest wish that my daughter-in-law shall be known as queen upon my passing.
00:50:34
Speaker
That was deliberate because that was when support for the monarchy was higher.
00:50:38
Speaker
And that was when everybody had goodwill.
00:50:40
Speaker
So they were able to basically slip that in, that this whole princess consort thing was bullshit and they want Camilla to be known as Queen.
00:50:49
Speaker
And so, yeah, they basically played the public like a fiddle because I don't believe for a second that they were planning to make Camilla Princess Contour because Princess Contour hasn't been a thing as well.
00:50:59
Speaker
Like every sovereign who's been married, their spouse has been known as Queen as well.
00:51:04
Speaker
So I wasn't convinced.
00:51:06
Speaker
Your tweet went viral, by the way.
00:51:08
Speaker
I just realized.
00:51:09
Speaker
Oh, the one about Diana.
00:51:11
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:51:12
Speaker
So 37,000 likes for this tweet about Diana.
00:51:19
Speaker
Yeah, because I basically said the royal family don't get anywhere near enough smoke for essentially using a teenager as a breeding mule and ruining her life.
00:51:29
Speaker
Bearing in mind Diana was only, well, she was 16 when she met Charles.
00:51:32
Speaker
She was 19 when she got engaged.
00:51:34
Speaker
And the royal family and her own family, I didn't expand on this in the tweet, but it's true.
00:51:39
Speaker
People are pointing out her own family basically pushed her into it.
00:51:42
Speaker
Diana wanted to drop out at one point.
00:51:44
Speaker
She wanted to back out of the engagement, but her sisters and her mum basically said, you have to go through with it because your face is now on the tea towels.
00:51:51
Speaker
So it's too late.
00:51:52
Speaker
Gross.
00:51:53
Speaker
And her friends were pushing her into it as well.
00:51:56
Speaker
So she really had nowhere to go.
00:51:57
Speaker
And as a 19 year old, she was still astute enough to know that this marriage is going to be bad, but she didn't have anybody there to support her in getting out.
00:52:07
Speaker
And she was just told to just get on with it.
00:52:09
Speaker
And yeah, look how it ended up.
00:52:12
Speaker
So there was lots of tweets about Diana during the round today, because I think within Britain, again, somebody who's not supportive of the monarchy, but I do feel like things might have been different had Diana been crowned queen.
00:52:24
Speaker
It just feels like a massive injustice.
00:52:26
Speaker
Yeah, we'd all care about it.
00:52:27
Speaker
I guess I just don't understand.
00:52:29
Speaker
What I don't understand about the monarchy here, and I guess you kind of explained it, is that a lot of what they do is PR.
00:52:35
Speaker
Charles doesn't seem like he does anything to make himself endearing to the public.
00:52:40
Speaker
Has he ever done anything that makes anybody care?
00:52:43
Speaker
Do you know what?
00:52:44
Speaker
I think it's sort of like, because I was speaking to somebody who was very senior in marketing and they were saying that women tend to make the best people in marketing or the best people in marketing tend to be women because they have empathy.
00:52:57
Speaker
They can put themselves in the position of other people to understand how messages will be perceived.
00:53:02
Speaker
And that is one thing I'll give about Queen Elizabeth is that she understood this.
00:53:06
Speaker
So she knew what to do to make herself appear to be likable, even though she did so much heinous shit, like all that stuff, you know, with Diana, the queen was a huge part of that, you know, that entire mess as well.
00:53:20
Speaker
But she knew how to curate her image.
00:53:22
Speaker
So she was seen as this, you know, cuddly matriarch, as opposed to a woman who tried to use, you know, funds that were ring fence to provide energy to schools that had no money to heat one of her palaces.
00:53:35
Speaker
And that was actually a thing.
00:53:37
Speaker
But the Labour government at the time said no, because it would look so bad.
00:53:41
Speaker
But yeah, Charles hasn't really had to do anything.
00:53:44
Speaker
I mean, they do try these odd pockets of publicity stunts, but it comes across as so forced and unnatural because they just don't really seem to know how to relate to common people in a way that's genuine.
00:53:55
Speaker
So yeah, I don't think Charles has really done a lot to make himself...
00:54:00
Speaker
appear to be likable to the general public anyway.
00:54:03
Speaker
I think he's still riding off the last vestiges of goodwill that was extended towards his mum and that respect for Elizabeth that's still there, but that will dwindle in the months and years to come as he progresses in his reign.
00:54:17
Speaker
And like his own household has basically said he's a lazy piece of shit.
00:54:23
Speaker
Like he doesn't put toothpaste on his toothbrush.
00:54:26
Speaker
And one of his butlers, and they basically told a story where he like dropped a piece of paper.
00:54:31
Speaker
So imagine you dropped a piece of paper, like...
00:54:33
Speaker
You're off your desk onto the floor.
00:54:35
Speaker
And he actually called a servant from the other side of the palace to come and pick it up.
00:54:39
Speaker
I mean, I knew he had to be like that when in public, he got visibly like flustered and angry because a pen was too close to his hand.
00:54:48
Speaker
I was like, this is, that's pretty insane.
00:54:51
Speaker
So that's the sort of king that we're dealing with.
00:54:54
Speaker
See, what's crazy is like you guys have to pretend like he's important, I guess.
00:54:58
Speaker
I guess when we had Trump in office, a lot of us just basically said, fuck this guy.
00:55:02
Speaker
And that was just the extent of our interaction with him.
00:55:05
Speaker
How does it work with Britain?
00:55:06
Speaker
Because you kind of have to go on with the pomp and circumstance, even if the king is an active idiot.
00:55:13
Speaker
I think with Elizabeth, people felt a bit less able to be like, I don't give a shit because obviously they curated that image of the Queen as like the Queen of England, this matriarch.
00:55:23
Speaker
She's ruled for so long, done so well, served her country.
00:55:26
Speaker
But I think with the coronation today, there were so many people who just didn't give a shit.
00:55:30
Speaker
And there were more people at Elizabeth's funeral than at the coronation in terms of crowds.
00:55:35
Speaker
So, you know, we are starting to see people almost treating the British monarch like the American president, which hasn't really happened before.
Public Apathy Towards the Monarchy
00:55:44
Speaker
And just being quite apathetic or just outright hostile.
00:55:47
Speaker
Because another thing as well is that this morning, the police actually arrested people who were planning to protest.
00:55:54
Speaker
even before they were protesting, you know, which is quite scary because in any democracy, the right to protest, especially an unelected head of state should be there.
00:56:02
Speaker
So I think it's what's great is like learning all of these nuances of British culture, especially how they relate to the monarchs and then completely understanding why our American founding fathers noped the fuck out.
00:56:13
Speaker
We're like, nah, I'm not.
00:56:14
Speaker
Now y'all can keep that because so much of what's in our constitution is legitimately like directly anti-monarchy.
00:56:22
Speaker
So it's funny listening to you say this.
00:56:24
Speaker
Yeah, I can see why.
00:56:27
Speaker
And then now realizing like, oh, this is why we do this.
00:56:29
Speaker
And this is why we have that.
00:56:30
Speaker
And this is why we don't do that.
00:56:31
Speaker
Because like listening to all the things you guys do, it's like, oh yeah, our founding fathers probably were like, this is some dumb shit.
00:56:38
Speaker
We don't want to listen to this crazy person.
00:56:39
Speaker
And then decided we would craft American culture a certain way.
00:56:44
Speaker
It's almost like crafted to be the antithesis of what the monarchy was, like to the letter.
00:56:50
Speaker
And I can see why as well, because ultimately it's just a very, very, very, very expensive and quite archaic way for extremely wealthy people to appear to be this divine bloodline, but are scraping passes in education and to have underdeveloped jaws due to inbreeding to make out like they're better than the rest of us.
00:57:13
Speaker
Yeah, man, y'all can keep that.
00:57:14
Speaker
That's all I'm saying.
00:57:20
Speaker
USA, USA.
00:57:21
Speaker
Every time I hear about this, I'm like proud as hell to be an American.
00:57:24
Speaker
And proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free.
00:57:30
Speaker
And I won't forget the man who died.
00:57:33
Speaker
Okay.
00:57:35
Speaker
And I think people are like staring down the fact that, yeah, we're stuck with Charles and then we're going to get William.
00:57:42
Speaker
So we're not going to see like a female matriarch monarch for probably quite some time, if ever, depending on if the monarchy lasts between the next 50 years, because most of the support from the monarchy comes from the older population.
00:57:55
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I'm not even British and I think I'd be outraged because it's...
00:57:59
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It would be confusing to us because like we have to the extent that the Americans still have a fascination with Princess Diana, it's because of the Princess of Wales association with that, with her.
00:58:09
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That support for the monarchy will drop even more.
00:58:12
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Yeah, the boomers are dragging it, man.
00:58:14
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Yeah.
00:58:16
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Silent generation, boomer generation, they just won't get out of our face.
00:58:21
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I'm very happy we've increased our medical technology that people are living longer, healthier lives.
00:58:25
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But it is very frustrating for the rest of us to just watch these relics.
00:58:30
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And it's not even just that they're older.
00:58:32
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It's that the way that they want to structure societies based on this very rigid hierarchical structure that is increasingly not existing because of technology, right?
00:58:43
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Like social media, etc.
00:58:44
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All the mysteries gone...
00:58:46
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Nobody believes you're special just because you were born, you know, in a special bloodline, I suppose.
00:58:51
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No one, like, thinks you have anything other than you're a person who lucked out by divine birth, or, like, by birthright.
00:58:59
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And not even sometimes by birthright, by, like, having an affair, by shagging the wrong person.
00:59:04
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That's how Queen Elizabeth became queen, because Edward VIII, he ran off with Wallace Simpson.
00:59:10
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An American, by the way.
00:59:14
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Honestly, deserved.
00:59:17
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I don't blame them.
00:59:19
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So the British monarchy is just, I feel like it's in its death throes at the moment.
00:59:26
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We'll see with Charles just how much he manages to bring it all crashing down.
00:59:31
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But I don't think anybody's really gagging for him to rule.
00:59:36
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just because of the factors we've stated in this episode.
00:59:39
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So you guys might have healthcare and employment rights and generally a culture that supports workers, but at least we don't have a king.
00:59:48
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That generally supports, I don't know, like life as well.
00:59:51
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Life and health and happiness, but we ain't got a king, so we're better.
01:00:00
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I will admit that is one thing Americans have done correctly is that presidential system.
01:00:06
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We just have a bunch of random idiots that decide all these things for us because they got paid by corporations to make those decisions a certain way to make sure nobody gets anything.
01:00:14
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So that's what we got.
01:00:15
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We don't have a monarchy, but we do have an oligarchy.
01:00:19
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I think for me, like the tipping point is, at least with a bad president, A, you can limit them to maximum two terms of damage, or you can just vote them out.
01:00:27
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Because just imagine if, say, Prince Andrew was the eldest son, he would now be king and exempt from any sort of prosecution or like any of the laws in the UK.
01:00:37
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Can you imagine?
01:00:39
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I mean, right now we're figuring out for the first time if our president is actually exempt from the laws, because up until now, when presidents committed crimes, the new president just pardoned them to just speed and hasten the process.
01:00:51
Speaker
Really?
01:00:52
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Yeah.
01:00:52
Speaker
I thought presidents could be impeached.
01:00:55
Speaker
No, they can be impeached, but it doesn't really mean anything unless you're removed from office.
01:00:59
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It's just like a sanction, more or less, but it's like a strongly worded condemnation.
01:01:06
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But being impeached is like the first step to a long succession of other votes that have to happen if you want to remove that person from office.
01:01:13
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And so far, we've had a couple of presidents impeached, but none of them removed from office, which means impeachment is almost like relatively toothless.
01:01:22
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So even, you know, President Trump was impeached, President Clinton was impeached, and there's been other presidents have been impeached, but they weren't removed from office.
01:01:30
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I think Nixon like resigned, etc.
01:01:32
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But Trump didn't resign.
01:01:33
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Bill Clinton didn't resign and basically just kept going.
01:01:36
Speaker
And it's only since President Trump has left office that they've started to prosecute him for things that were actually prior to him being in office even.
01:01:44
Speaker
But even then, there was stuff that he did that was like technically criminal, but
01:01:47
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I think Robert Mueller, if I'm not mistaken, came back and said there's just no protocol like prosecuting an active sitting president for crimes.
01:01:55
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So there's just been like this whole thing now.
01:01:58
Speaker
Just hope they don't commit a crime, basically.
01:02:01
Speaker
Exactly.
01:02:02
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Because basically Trump is an interesting test case and the limits of restraining presidential powers or what to do when a president just breaks all the rules just because he can.
Impeachment in the US: A Futile Exercise?
01:02:13
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We just sort of realized like, well, nothing happens really.
01:02:15
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Because like, I think when they wrote the constitution, nobody predicted that we would have a person this fucking clowny in office or it requires like a such a large majority, like two thirds of the vote and our party lines are split almost exactly 50 50 that it's impossible.
01:02:30
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Like everyone acts upon partisan lines.
01:02:32
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And so it's impossible to do.
01:02:34
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make government work the way it's supposed to because of how heavily each of these have government monies and interest on both sides of the political aisles.
01:02:42
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So it's just an interesting thing because like technically we can remove people from office, but it's just as difficult in a lot of ways to the point where everyone just lets their term expire and then just doesn't elect them again if they're trash.
01:02:55
Speaker
And that's our show.
01:02:56
Speaker
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01:03:08
Speaker
Thanks for listening, queens.
01:03:10
Speaker
And the tampon king has been crowned.
01:03:13
Speaker
Dimey, bye.