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Speaker 1: Happy Saturday. One of the TV shows I have enjoyed

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Speaker 1: watching on TV is Supergirl, which has just ended its run,

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Speaker 1: and in one of the last episodes, I saw something familiar,

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Speaker 1: and that was the tomb of Innesta Castro, which is

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Speaker 1: an Alcabasa Portugal. When I saw this on the screen,

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Speaker 1: we would share it for anybody who watch a Supergirl

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Speaker 1: watch Supergirl, of course, it is an interesting episode on

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Speaker 1: its own. You don't have to be into Supergirl to

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. And this episode originally came out on January

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Speaker 1: and was a little bit of an early Valentine's Day episode,

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Speaker 1: So enjoy Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class,

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Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio, Hello, and Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Punk Gusty and I'm Tracy Wilson. Tracy. Valentine's Day

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Speaker 1: is coming up. I know it's um not a holiday

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Speaker 1: I usually have like the standard associations with It's always

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Speaker 1: more of like a friends and family holiday to me.

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Speaker 1: But people sometimes like some themed stuff, so I didn't

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Speaker 1: want to be too on the nose, where a little

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Speaker 1: ahead of Valentine's Day. Uh, you know, various romantic topics

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Speaker 1: have been suggested, but I don't always like to be

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Speaker 1: literal and happy because I'm just contrary. Um. And a

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Speaker 1: lot of the stories that we have done around Valentine's

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Speaker 1: Day have been relatively tragic in their love story nous,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking Abillard and Hellouise. Yeah. Uh. And thankfully our

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Speaker 1: And while this one can definitely be categorized as romantic,

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Speaker 1: there's also some deception. There's some cheating, a little bit

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Speaker 1: us in the crowd who like darker fare. We're talking

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Speaker 1: the story of her love affair with Prince Pedro, who

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Speaker 1: later became Padrew the first puts Romeo and Juliet to

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Speaker 1: in fact been rumored that these two fourteenth century lovers

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Speaker 1: were the inspiration for Shakespeare's tale, and this is one

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Speaker 1: It is uh such a good story in terms of

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Speaker 1: But first we'll give you the basic story, and that

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Speaker 1: story starts out with Pedro, sometimes known as Peter, who

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Speaker 1: Fonso the Fourth and his consort Beatrice of Castile had

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Speaker 1: Pedro found Constanza's lady in waiting and As de Castro

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Speaker 1: So Afonso, to deal with this issue, consulted with his

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Speaker 1: visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you

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Speaker 1: listen to your favorite shows,