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Speaker 1: every single time. There's not a time that we do

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Speaker 1: But but not the visitors say that that's for sure,

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Speaker 1: but maybe, hopefully, maybe one day soon you can come

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Speaker 1: those emails coming demanding email your local I Heart Radio

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Speaker 1: every they might on every district. They're everywhere, everywhere. We

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Speaker 1: have fun with it. Yeah, as usual, we researched this

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Speaker 1: episode several months ago and took our time with it

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we waited because now there's like, there's new news. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is a present day, current person. We are we

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Speaker 1: don't have to go back too far in history to

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Speaker 1: of Thailand and we're risking um are are possible visit

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Speaker 1: to Thailand by talking about this, because they have such

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Speaker 1: strict lest laws, which is, of course you can't talk

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Speaker 1: would your longhorn, and he is a very controversial figure

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Speaker 1: because he has now got two queens. Um very unusual.

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Speaker 1: well be endangering a future trip to Thailand. So we're

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Speaker 1: going to get into polygamy, Thai politics, exile to Florida,

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Speaker 1: take a mail call awesome. We had this great letter

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Speaker 1: from Heather Probes High. Heather, she said, Hi, thanks for

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Speaker 1: doing an episode on Evelyn Nesbit. I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: She had such an intriguing life, her beauty and the

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Speaker 1: tragic circumstances around her. I have an old, beloved copy

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Speaker 1: of the drawings of Charles Dana Gibson that my mother

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Speaker 1: so that's cool. She has some of those drawings, she says,

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Speaker 1: growing up, I love to look at the drawings and

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Speaker 1: dresses and imagine life as it must have been then.

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Speaker 1: It really was a magical time, and I wish we

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Speaker 1: I had a little email exchange with Heather because I

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Speaker 1: wrote back to her and I was just like, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for your letter, you know, And I had

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Speaker 1: to admit I'm a pajama gal. I like loungewear, but

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Speaker 1: And she wrote back and said, did I say that,

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Speaker 1: Oh hell no, She just like, I was not thinking straight,

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Speaker 1: but they did look sharp, So I agree with that.

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Speaker 1: But she says she has a speculation station. She says,

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Speaker 1: I sort of wonder if the character Rose in Titanic

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Speaker 1: was inspired by Evelyn Nesbit, the chance Atlantic cruise, the

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Speaker 1: overbearing mother, and of course the asshole husband. Oh sure,

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Speaker 1: very true. And we meet Rose years later when she's

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Speaker 1: pretty good. Also, um, you know, and Evelyn Nesbitt, Definitely,

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Speaker 1: think that's great. I think that's that's awesome to to

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Speaker 1: James Cameron on Oh yeah. Asked him if he had

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Speaker 1: Um so yeah, go back and check that one out

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Speaker 1: because that's a wild story with lots of murder and

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Speaker 1: I had a good conversation with you. I like talking

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Speaker 1: it's time for king Maha. So I say we jump

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Speaker 1: right into it. Let's go, Hey there, French, come lo. Well,

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Speaker 1: Eli and Diana got some stories to tell. There's no matchmaking,

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Speaker 1: with the Second Glance Ridiculous Roles, a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Maha would your long corn is the oldest

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Speaker 1: king to be crowned in Thailand. He was sixty six

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Speaker 1: at his coronation in and that's because his father bumapon

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Speaker 1: A Dulia Day ruled for seventy years, which makes him

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Speaker 1: Who would know a little something about long reigning monarchs?

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Speaker 1: That's true, that's and not that much is known about Maha.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's quite a few headlines and everything, but

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Speaker 1: King Maha is particularly fond of enforcing the less state laws.

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Speaker 1: he's basically like the King is like, hey, that's that's

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Speaker 1: that's a good excuse the reason I have a big party.

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Speaker 1: We throw a big party every four years. So who

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Speaker 1: he's a busy guy. Gets around. This guy made headlines

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Speaker 1: Thai Airways, which is probably how they met because kick

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Speaker 1: Maha would just fly air busses and Boeing's like for fun.

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Speaker 1: I guess just commercial airline. Yeah, I'll just you know,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking and you're king.

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Speaker 1: If you want some peanuts before, if you talk shit,

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Speaker 1: any complaints about the flight today, No you don't like? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: is anybody in these planes? Or is he just like

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Speaker 1: a flight to like New York or something. It came

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Speaker 1: that would be so weird. I'm flyes today. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: So Thai politics have been chaotic for a while now.

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Speaker 1: me the president is said many times in this like

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Speaker 1: so you know that's a solution, Get me the President,

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Speaker 1: Get me the President. Screenplay is copyright you like banks,

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Speaker 1: So if you want to steal that idea, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: You gotta go sorry about that, all right? Back to Thailand? Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: so they've had twenty constitutions. Crazy situation, right and a.

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Speaker 1: Since around two thousand eight, there has been a pro

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Speaker 1: I guess they're not Star Trek fans, Okay, I thought

422
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: that's the exact same thought. Like I was like, do

423
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: not choose a red shirt. The red shirts will be

424
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: here forever. No, sorry, I like your passion. But and

425
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: they're often met with yellow shirts who are pro monarchy

426
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: at their protests. So they have like counter protests with

427
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,439
Speaker 1: pro monarchy yellow shirts. It's a nice, colorful event. I

428
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: like it. Apparently yellow is a color that Maha and

429
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: his father wore a lot. It's like that that's very

430
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: associated with the monarchy ure, and the diplomat says yellow

431
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: shirts are often tie elites and middle class ties who

432
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: don't want uneducated rural people to be able to vote.

433
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: So they that's why they're like not into this pro democracy.

434
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: You're like, everything's working out great for me, so I

435
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: don't understand what the problem is. Meanwhile, more than eight

436
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: percent of the government's money is spent in Bangkok, in

437
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: the capital um and there's no investment in the provinces

438
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: or the farmlands. Or anything outside of where all the

439
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: rich people are, and the diplomat said only like ten

440
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: per cent of the money was invested outside the city

441
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:58,679
Speaker 1: until the pro democracy protests started in two nine, and

442
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: since then it's risen to which is a lot more,

443
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: but it's still not very much. Yeah, so they haven't

444
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: really been getting as far as they want to get.

445
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 1: The Red Shirts called for the current Prime Minister to resign.

446
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: He was the Army General of Thailand and architect of

447
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: the coup that put him into power, and the Red

448
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 1: Shirts say he rigged the election to win again in nineteen.

449
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: According to Reuters, they also want the current constitution that

450
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,239
Speaker 1: Chanocha and his government wrote to be rewritten. We were

451
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: going for number twenty one here. We want our constitution

452
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: to be able to drink America in America. I know why.

453
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 1: So they're going for number twenty one because, according to

454
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: The New York Times, this current constitution weakens democracy because

455
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: it allows for the Senate to be appointed instead of

456
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: voted on. Usually they're appointed from leading figures in business

457
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 1: and society, and it also ensures military control over the government.

458
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: So their protests signs say resign, you write reform, just

459
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: catching the three arts. I like it, you know, reading, writing, resign, reform, arithmetic, arithmetic.

460
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: And these guys also the Red Shirts, they used the

461
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: three finger salute made popular by the Hunger Games. Hey culture, Yeah,

462
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: coming in coming in hot. Yeah, there you go. Jennifer

463
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: Lawrence having an international impact, not even trying. She's great.

464
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: She's a good actress. Pregnant to congratulations Jennifer Lawrence A

465
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: long time listener. Listeners, Lawrence, hope you're doing well, doing well.

466
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: We've got all this pro democracy stuff going on. Maha

467
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: is kicking it in Bavaria when he should be at home,

468
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: so everyone's mad at him. They're all mad at him

469
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: about Sanitna and Setita and all his lady running around

470
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: because again he's supposed to be the moral, spiritual leader

471
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: of Thailand and he is doing all this crazy ship

472
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: like my mom would never let me do. Write. So

473
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: we talked a little about sin not already, but I

474
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: want to tell you more. She's thirty six years old.

475
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: She got her bachelor's degree in nursing, and she worked

476
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: as a nurse at several Army hospitals, and she completed

477
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: military training and parachuting jungle warfare. Royal bodyguarding, and she

478
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 1: got a private pilot's license, and she was named major

479
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: general in twenty nine when she was made Royal Consort.

480
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: So I guess it kind of went hand in hand.

481
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 1: It was sort of like, at the same time, you

482
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: get both these titles. Okay, so you're the royal consort

483
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: and you are automatically in the model of a modern

484
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: major general. Also in nineteen she was named deputy advisor

485
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: of a prison reform initiative called Sharing Happiness and Doing

486
00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: Good with Heart with the Department of Corrections. It's better

487
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: than be best. Okay, you got me there. I was

488
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: gonna say, the more flowery the names probably less the

489
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: work they're doing. What does this department do? I don't know.

490
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: Just keep adding words until it sounds like something. I

491
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,239
Speaker 1: was like, maybe in Thai it's like an acronym, like

492
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,959
Speaker 1: in like our bills. Sometimes they have these real convoluted

493
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: titles so they can call it a heroes or cares

494
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: or whatever. She was the first concert in Thailand and

495
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: almost a hundred years because previous monarchs were monogamous. Although

496
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: it does have a bit of a tradition in Thailand,

497
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: uh concert is basically a second wife. We talked about

498
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: that it's modeled after the Polygonist marriages, which is when

499
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: a man marries more than one woman, modeled after the

500
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: Polygonist marriages that served an important political function in old

501
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: times Thailand. I guess Tamra Lose, who's a PhD professor

502
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: of history and a studies at Cornell University, talked to

503
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: Rolling Stone about Maha and she was like, it usually

504
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: served to the normal thing with consorts. You're trying to

505
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: get some new settlements, some new territory. You get a consort,

506
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: you get another wife. Right now, you have ties to

507
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: that place or that tribe, that village or whatever, and

508
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: they're not going to come bothering you. I'm married this

509
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: lady from over here, so now we're united. But you

510
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: know what, hey, I didn't forget about you guys. I'll

511
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: take a woman from your neighborhood too, and now we're all.

512
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: Now we're all buddy, Buddy, send me a woman. I

513
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: won't attack you because her family lives there. So all

514
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: you have to do is keep paying me and I'll

515
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: be here. I'll be a great king for you right well,

516
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: And South Asia is a really big place, so it

517
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: makes sense. You know, you can't just go conquering the

518
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: whole place to take a representative life. They weren't. They

519
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: weren't about like elected representatives for local areas. Yet. They

520
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: were like, we'll just send him, We'll send him one

521
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: of our women, sending the wives. But Dr Lu says

522
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: that even if Maha was trying to argue that having

523
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: a consort was part of this Grand Thai tradition, he's

524
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: not really doing that because she's not serving that particular function.

525
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: She's not bringing in any territory. There was no unruled neighborhood,

526
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: but he had to bring into their Yeah, she's not

527
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: doing anything anything diplomatic or you know, political. It's just

528
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: like I like this lady and I want to suck her.

529
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: That's it. Well, there you, good for you. But that's

530
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: not you can't argue she's just like I just want

531
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: to be pedantic about it. Uh no, that's not what is.

532
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,719
Speaker 1: And back in when she was stripped of all her

533
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: titles because you know, she was like she was overdoing it,

534
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: you know, abusing her concert power or whatever. She disappeared

535
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: for a year and people thought that she was either

536
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: dead or maybe in prison. That's crazy that people thought, oh, yeah,

537
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: he would go that far. Sure. But then on August

538
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: at the Lao Yacht Women's Correctional Prison, they closed the

539
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: whole thing down to visitors for two days for what

540
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: they said was a big cleaning day. If they really

541
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: had to get the baseboards, if we're going to dust

542
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: the ceiling fans, we're going to get the windows, even

543
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 1: though no one's allowed to look out, Yeah, let scrub

544
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: those bars. They said it was a big cleaning day.

545
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: But King Wajer Longcorn's helicopter landed at the prison and

546
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: suddenly Sanina was back. So it's pretty clear that he

547
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: went and picked her up from prison, because after that

548
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: he restored all of her honors and everything. So it

549
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: was like it's all good now, so very obviously just

550
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: change changed my mind. I'm gonna go pick up my

551
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: second wife from prison real quick. You know what what

552
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: a flip flopper water under the bridge? You know. I

553
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: think we can both agree that this never happened, right, honey, Right,

554
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: Although I do wonder who who wanted her back more

555
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: Maha or Satia. Do you think sa was like man?

556
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: Sanina was really lit in a load around here. She

557
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: not only was she like this guy's a lot to handle,

558
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: so I could use a second wife. But also like

559
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 1: she was taking a lot of the heat too rue

560
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe so maybe she had something to do

561
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: with it. At least she has some insider perspective on

562
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 1: all that prison reform. She's supposed to do that, that's

563
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: so true. She's got an eyewitness and she's like, you know,

564
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: I did think of several things I would have done.

565
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: I would have liked to have been different when I

566
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: was there. Silk sheets, the food suck. Yeah, yeah, they

567
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: want one a private chef for every cell, and then

568
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: all the prison guards should have to slap themselves in

569
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: the face every morning. So Stita, I don't know. She

570
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: kind of strikes me as more quiet. She definitely is

571
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: not as bold as I think. She's a little more reserved. Um.

572
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: She's forty two years old. She had been Maja's consort

573
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 1: since um and, as the BBC phrased it, he decided

574
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 1: to promote her to queen by marrying her in before

575
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: right before his coronation. How do you think that performance

576
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: review went? Right? He's like, you've been doing great? Were

577
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: you're my wife? Okay? Is there a ra involved? Yes? Yes? Um,

578
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: she was placed as commander of Crown Prince would youiro

579
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: Longcorn's household guard in August because he wasn't king yet,

580
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: he was Crown Prince and she was romantically linked to him.

581
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: After his divorce from his third wife um In Seen,

582
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: she was named commander of the Special Operations Unit of

583
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: the King's Guard and made a general, and she also

584
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: completed jungle warfare and other military courses. She was the

585
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 1: first female officer to complete a nighttime parachuting course, according

586
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: to the Bangkok Post, which again it's the bank Cock Posts.

587
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,439
Speaker 1: They have to be pretty complimentary. Yeah that's fair, queen,

588
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: But I mean you can't just say she completed. Of

589
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 1: course she didn't complete. So I think she really did

590
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: do that, right, right? Could but I guess so. But

591
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: I think she really did it. Seems like she did. Yeah,

592
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: they'd just like a militate. He likes right, She's like, yeah,

593
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: I'm doing I'm doing my thing. So that's a little

594
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: intro to Setida and Sunny not. But he was married

595
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: three times before that. So if we want to look

596
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: at them, I say, we hop in our time machine

597
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: and we fly back in time to seven when he

598
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: married his first wife. I'm good yeah, all right, get

599
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,439
Speaker 1: your helmet on. I think we have to hold your breath. Um,

600
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: you have to crossed left leg over the right or

601
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: we'll turn inside out. Uh. And here we go searching

602
00:36:50,120 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 1: for connection zero. Welcome to nineteen seventy seven Thailand. It's

603
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: not that kind of nineteen So cut that music. We're

604
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: in Thailand and Maha was your longcorn has met Princess

605
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: so Sawali and they marry. She is his first cousin.

606
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 1: To clarify, that is his parents siblings child. Yeah, that's

607
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,439
Speaker 1: how close that relation is. But they got married when

608
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: she was nineteen. That's probably how they met. How did

609
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:31,240
Speaker 1: you all mean, Well, funny story. We just both happened

610
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: to be at the same family reunion. We bumped into

611
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: each other from across the room. So they did have

612
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: a child, only one. Her name is Princess pat Kafa

613
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: and she's currently a tai diplomat. So Sally is actually

614
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: still a member of the royal family. She was given

615
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: the title of the Princess mother of the King's first

616
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: grandchild when they divorced ninety one, so figure she's, you know,

617
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: the king's son's wife. They have a kid, they get

618
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 1: divorced and the king is like, you know MAHA's father,

619
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: It's like, well, you know, you're the mother of my

620
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: of my granddaughter. You know, we hang out all the time.

621
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: You're always at family reunions. I'm not gonna I'm not

622
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: gonna kick you out. You're still I'm gonna give you

623
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 1: a title and you can still hang even though you

624
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: guys divorced. My son is a real dick anyway, So

625
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: you know, I like you better. Maybe she has been

626
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: the leading force behind a lot of programs related to

627
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: public health and social welfare, particularly AIDS and mother to

628
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: newborn AIDS infections. It's a good cause. It is a

629
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: very good cause. And uh, that kind of caught my

630
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: eye because there's this wiki leaks cable report and they

631
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: were and it was saying that Maha is rumored to

632
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: have some kind of quote blood related medical condition. Varying

633
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: sources claim he is either HIV positive, has a hepatitis C,

634
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: is afflicted by a rare blood cancer, or some combination

635
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: which leads him to require blood transfusions. And that's why

636
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,280
Speaker 1: he's so often at that medical spaw in Germany, because

637
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: he's that he's actually getting treatments while he's there. Okay,

638
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: so this is a speculation station out of Thailand. Yeah,

639
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: basically because again you're not allowed to know anything about

640
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: I guess he wouldn't tell you he's sick. He didn't

641
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: want anyone to know that. So rumors abound, and Wiki

642
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: leaks is like, hey, here's what they're saying. Yeah, And

643
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: it just kind of caught my eye that she did

644
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: a lot of work with AIDS and that maybe he

645
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: might have rumored. And I mean this, this cable, this

646
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: Wiki leaks thing is from like two thousand nine, so

647
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: he would have had to have HIV for a very

648
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: long time. Okay, yea, if if that's what that prompted

649
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: her her to get into it. So I'm not I'm

650
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: not entirely sure. I don't think that I'm cornked about that.

651
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: That's entirely possible now or for someone to have HIV

652
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: for many years. But if we're saying the nineties early nineties, yeah,

653
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:02,479
Speaker 1: less likely if he had it then, Yeah, but maybe

654
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: he's very rich, and he's very rich and he's getten

655
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: as many blood transfusions as he wants. I don't know

656
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: how the science of AIDS medicine works, that's for sure. Well, anyway,

657
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: So she she got interested in that for whatever reason.

658
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: That's just my own speculation station I guess um. And

659
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: it's doing a lot of good work in that in

660
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: that area, so that's really good. That's a very good thing.

661
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: And yeah, maybe they couldn't banish her because she's the

662
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: niece of the queen, so she was like, well kind

663
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: of already in the royal family. So it's like a

664
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: less measure day paradox. Yes, probably we can't banish you

665
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: because the law says we have to respect you. It's

666
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: the snake eating itself. Well okay, but that was wife

667
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: number one, so not too bad. They were together for

668
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: a good length of time, they had a kid together,

669
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: seemed to be a pretty normal divorce, nothing acrimonious about it.

670
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: Kind of a maybe he was too young to know

671
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: what he wanted and a wife at that point. I

672
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 1: don't know if she was like, you know what, I

673
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: don't want to be married with my cousin anymore. I'm good.

674
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, when they divorced, and then and

675
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: she's totally chilling now and she's a fine, no problems,

676
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: they're doing great. However, let's meet his second wife, Sir,

677
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: Rajanie we Wakara Wong say they were together from nineteen

678
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: seventy nine to six. Remember that Princess sum Swally was

679
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 1: married to him from nineteen seventy seven to This is

680
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: a concurrent a big relationship, big overlap. If the diagram

681
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 1: is basically two circles, it started to two years after

682
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: his first marriage and it ended five years after his

683
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: first marriage. She got a little more time in a

684
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: little bit. She was a tie actress who performed in

685
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: film and TV in nineteen seventy eight until she announced

686
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 1: her retirement in seventy nine. I can't imagine why she retired.

687
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because she was dating the prince if t

688
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,760
Speaker 1: Land didn't have to work anymore. She gave him four

689
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: sons and a daughter between August of nineteen seventy nine,

690
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: when she was only sixteen years old BT dubs and

691
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: January of nine seven. They were only married from nine

692
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: four to nine, and then he accused her of cheating

693
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 1: on him with a sixty year old air marshal that's

694
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: six zero according to Reuter's. He announced he was divorcing

695
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: her in by covering the palace in posters of her,

696
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: ordering her to be banished from Thailand for adultery, fraud,

697
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: and abusing their daughter. That's that's a breakup right there.

698
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: I've never been broken up with publicly, but I can't

699
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: imagine someone. I can't imagine doing anything where someone would

700
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: get posters. I mean the king is putting up posters.

701
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a wanted poster at this point,

702
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 1: do you think, like, how scary, terrifying? And then extreme

703
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: right and then saying a bunch of ships mean not

704
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: even true. Like I don't know about I don't know

705
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: for sure, but it probably isn't. It's I mean, the

706
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: way he behaves, it seems kind of made up. He

707
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: disowned all of those children. Goodbye kids. Sorry, I don't

708
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: like your mom anymore, So you're gone. And she and

709
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: her children fled because obviously there's posters in the palace

710
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,399
Speaker 1: ordering my banishment. I would flee to and she went

711
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: to Britain first and then to the United States. The

712
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: wiki Leaks cable from two thousand nine says that his

713
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: oldest son, Chota Vadra, had lived in Florida for ten years,

714
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: and the rumor was he'd gotten his pilot license and

715
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: started flying for Tie Airways, just like dear old dad

716
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: used to do. Maybe he was like, it's a great

717
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: way to meet flight attendants. I know that. And apparently

718
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 1: they had like a happy second family reunion together at

719
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: some point. Um, so they kind of have They do

720
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 1: have a relationship now, at least this oldest son has

721
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: some kind of relationship with my um. But the palace

722
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: had not acknowledged his presence at all, so it was

723
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: it's no official government position there or heir to the

724
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: throne or anything like that. But at least he's like,

725
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: I know you're related to me, so I guess I'll

726
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: be like halfway decent, right, I could use a pilot.

727
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: And the daughter also went back to Thailand. Eventually she

728
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: got her bachelor's in design and she presented her own

729
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: fashion show. She actually designed a dress worn by the

730
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: Thai entrant to the Missy Universe pageant, and a YouTuber

731
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: was threatened with Leed's Maji Stay laws for calling the

732
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: dress ugly. A YouTuber man, we are definitely not going

733
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: to be allowed there. We're going to get a whole

734
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:56,760
Speaker 1: season desisted letter for the whole country. Man's um. That's intense.

735
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the dress. I haven't either, so maybe

736
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: it is hideous. I don't know. But well, and that's

737
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: what's crazy to me is she was disowned and is

738
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: not acknowledged as being his child by the palace, and

739
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: yet you still can't talk about her, right They're like

740
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: that still reflects badly on us. So hell no, that's

741
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: very true. Can you imagine going from a palace in

742
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: Thailand to Florida? They both have a lot of bugs,

743
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 1: that's true. I guess this Thailand of a lot of books.

744
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: I guess, well, it's human, so I'm assuming they have

745
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,800
Speaker 1: a lot of bugs. I don't know that. I guess

746
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: at this point, I just assume everywhere has a lot

747
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 1: of bugs. I'm going to move to Iceland. I think

748
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: they don't have any bugs. Yeah, Iceland don't have any bugs, right, Yeah, anyone,

749
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: anyone listening in Iceland, please right in bugs and send

750
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: a couple of plane tickets. We'll be right there. Yeah,

751
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: we love to go. If not, if you don't have bugs,

752
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: all right, We've got one more wife to get through here. Right,

753
00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: So he's got swam Swally and Saragny going on at

754
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: the same time, basically overlap and then say booted, taste away,

755
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 1: fully exiled, fled. He had a huge temper tantrum. Posters everywhere,

756
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: so rude, I mean, insane, it's cruel, just crazy. So

757
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 1: he takes some time off. Yeah he has a little

758
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: me time. I'm sure he was still be somebody. Yeah

759
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: he's auditioning. It's like, maybe I won't get married this time.

760
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: How I can take it easy for a second, and

761
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: we're gonna jump forward in our little time machine here

762
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: real quick, quick, buckle up. You almost fell out of

763
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: the time board text there. Oh no, I don't hang

764
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: out with thor Hey, there's no guarantee. Yeah, moving on.

765
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: So in two thousand one, he marries his third wife,

766
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: should Rashmi Suwati, and the cut says she was a

767
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: former lady in waiting at the palace. So that is

768
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: probably how they met. Pretty certain, bumped into each other

769
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: and the pallets you to me, Well, she worked for me.

770
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: I always wonder how a king meets people. Yeah, and

771
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: then they have to be your first cousin, I guess,

772
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: or work at the palace or something I don't know.

773
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,919
Speaker 1: Or she's an actress that you just random we met.

774
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, you know, there's always actors hanging

775
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: out at the White House and stuff. Right, that's true. Yeah,

776
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: he was just like, she's pretty give me your phone number. Well,

777
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where I always you know,

778
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: you look at the old movies and you're like a

779
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 1: king goes into the throne room and sits down on

780
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,839
Speaker 1: his throne and he listens to subjects all day and

781
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: that's it, and he's working very hard all the time.

782
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: And I don't think it was hardly ever like that.

783
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: Not this gang slash Crown Prince, he did much of

784
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: that at all. Listening to subjects doesn't seem to be

785
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,839
Speaker 1: a strong suit of his. I don't think he puts

786
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: a lot of time. He's like into it. He's like,

787
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 1: I have subjects, Germany. I didn't sign up for this.

788
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: I'm just to be supposed to be born into mass

789
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: wealth and power. I don't have to worry about anybody.

790
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: Don't talk shit. Won't be no ship, right exactly. You

791
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: won't have any ship. That's that's it, right, you don't

792
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: have any ship, and you don't talk any ship, and

793
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: I won't give you any ship, okay, and I have

794
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: all the other ship works out, great real ship show here.

795
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 1: She rushed me, sparked controversy in two thousand seven, when

796
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: more photos releaked of this big party that they threw

797
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: for their fluffy white poodle, Foo Foo. She rushed me,

798
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: was hand feeding the dog wearing nothing but a G string.

799
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:54,320
Speaker 1: Hand feeding the dog outrageous. You're gonna get that dog

800
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 1: very bad manners. You know. It was probably this more

801
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: less than New City and more the surrounding opulence that

802
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: people were objecting to. They were like looking around their

803
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: own house, like, wait a minute, right, if she'd been

804
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: crate training the dog in a G string in a

805
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: normal house, nobody would have had a problem with no

806
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: big deal, what is it string? I'm also I'm only

807
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: assuming that true Rashmi is the one wearing the G string.

808
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: Maybe food Fu was string. Well, that shouldn't spark any controversy.

809
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:35,959
Speaker 1: That should be a TikTok trap adorable calendar you do string. Yeah,

810
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: apparently he fought with his mom a lot about these

811
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: nude photos that came out. That sounds relatable, that's relatable

812
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 1: to me. Which side of the fight was he on?

813
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: I know his mom's like, you gotta boot this chick.

814
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: She's got nude photos, and he's like, what I like mood? Photos.

815
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:57,720
Speaker 1: I love him. I took him. What's the problem? Who cares?

816
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: She's hot and everybody knows it what she's supposed to wear.

817
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: She's feeding the dog. I guess that would be weirder

818
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: if she's like on the floor hand feeding a dog

819
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: and like a Gucci suit, right. I think he would

820
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: be like, wow, I can't even afford a Gucci suit,

821
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: let alone lay on the floor in suit. So they

822
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: divorced and she now lives quietly in her hometown, which

823
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: is outside of Bangkok. According to the diplomat, she was

824
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: offered about six million dollars in compensation for the divorce,

825
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: and she left her then nine year old son, Prince

826
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: di Hancorn Ramotti, in the sole care of the palace.

827
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: Well that's nice. She gets some money, and I guess

828
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: it sucks she had her send behind right right, But

829
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 1: you know she's like, he's going to have a good life.

830
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: It's true. Hen up a prince. He's obviously a prince.

831
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: He'sn't he's called the prince, so he's the air. So

832
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: the pal day there, yeah, and the palace was like,

833
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: you know, we know this is hard, hey for you

834
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: to go. We love this watch you leave here's six

835
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 1: million dollars, So maybe maybe King Maha didn't do so

836
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: bad by her, but but but then but then then again,

837
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: he had a bunch of her relatives arrested for corruption

838
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 1: and less, including her own parents and her uncle and

839
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: three brothers. They are still in prison right now. Damn.

840
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:26,800
Speaker 1: The diplomat suggests that he divorced her because he knew

841
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 1: his father would die soon, so he was going to

842
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: become king. And he said Tai elites would never prostrate

843
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 1: in front of a former bar girl, so he was

844
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: cleaning house right before he ascended the throne. These class problems,

845
00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: ty elites. Do you know what I'm saying. I'm gonna

846
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: hang out, I'm gonna marry this girl, I'm gonna have

847
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 1: a kid with her, and then oh, I just got

848
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: a promotion, so this doesn't look at anymore. By also,

849
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm having your whole family arrested. No, I'm like, I

850
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: guess she got out unscathed, but her whole family stufford

851
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: which is like almost more tortuous, I guess is the

852
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: idea like a family in Bangkok outside Bangkok, like not

853
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,919
Speaker 1: be mad about it? So pretty brutal to go after

854
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:16,280
Speaker 1: your ex wife's family on some sort of like whatever

855
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: kind of petty bullshit kick. So that brings us to

856
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: when he met Setita, the woman he's married to today,

857
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: and it also brings us to a commercial break. So

858
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: we will be all right back and welcome back. We're

859
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: here with King Maha. Is your long karn. We're here

860
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,280
Speaker 1: with him. He's he's here with us to talk about

861
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: what a piece of shit he is to arrest us

862
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: and take he's here with the type police decided to

863
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: hold us away. And why don't you go back to

864
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:49,760
Speaker 1: your own country, man, right? They need you, they're asking

865
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: for you. They want to have a word. Yeah. So

866
00:52:55,200 --> 00:53:00,080
Speaker 1: it's he's met Setita. She's his commander, and he is

867
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: going to marry her right before his coronation. All that

868
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: he's going to have Senina installed as his consorts shortly

869
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: after all that weird prison ship's going to happen. And

870
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: so that takes us to December, when more than four

871
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 1: hundred selfies of Senina were leaked to the public, and

872
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 1: a lot of these pictures were sexually explicit or intimate

873
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: in nature. Oh my goodness, some of them just look

874
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: like your classic Graham pictures. Was she in a g

875
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: string feeding a dog. I mean, it seems to happen

876
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: a lot around here. He was like, you know what,

877
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,919
Speaker 1: that worked out so well the first time. It's believed

878
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: by like tie sources that probably pro democracy activists did

879
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: it as like a revenge porn thing, which is super gross.

880
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: That's not that's not your problem. She is not your problem.

881
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: Is your problem? Yeah, No matter who your problem is,

882
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: you don't break into their phone and release their I

883
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: at photos right right? Ain't your business gross plenty to

884
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: judge these people on exactly. I mean, come on, that's

885
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 1: very gross. Um. But I guess it was meant to

886
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: be like a statement about like, look at these pleasure

887
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: loving you know, yeah, palace dwellers. They don't know anything

888
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: what's going on. Yeah, she's so like silly with all

889
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 1: her little selfies, like she's somebody and she's not doing

890
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: anything whatever. Um or some other sources said that they

891
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 1: were thinking that it was Queen Sutida's supporters that did

892
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: it because they were like, we don't want sendin out

893
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: back in the palace causing a bunch of dramas. So

894
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: they're not entirely sure who leaked these photos, but it

895
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,879
Speaker 1: caused a whole rigamar role that they were leaked and

896
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,720
Speaker 1: that some of them were very sexy and risque. Um,

897
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: and it's just horrible. How dare anyone have the body?

898
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: I mean, she's like a general in the army. She

899
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 1: probably is super hot. Yeah, I guess I like a

900
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:04,720
Speaker 1: picture of my body while it's hot. One day we'll

901
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:10,400
Speaker 1: all be old anyway. So yeah, so it's a big rigamarole,

902
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: and Maha decides to solve the controversy I guess essentially

903
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: by crowning her the second Queen in January as her

904
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: birthday gift for her thirty six birthday. This will fix everything.

905
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: I'll just make it okay. So he married her, He

906
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: married her. Yeah, she's now the second Queen. I mean

907
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,760
Speaker 1: she kind of technically again was his second wife already

908
00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: when she was consort, but now he's elevated her to

909
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 1: the level of sutida, which is what she had wanted

910
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 1: when he stripped her prison. So everything has been working

911
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 1: out pretty well for Sa Nina. And that's why I

912
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: want to pull in a speculation station and ask did

913
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: she leave her own nudes? Because then she could be like,

914
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: you know, Maha, if I were queen, no one could

915
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: talk about my leaked photos because of all the you

916
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: know les, majesty laws. I just I'm saying, that's just

917
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 1: something that occurred to me today earlier. I'm gonna just

918
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: prostrate myself before you for a few minutes while to

919
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:18,360
Speaker 1: let that sink in bite me in the ass again. Well,

920
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: Satida's not gonna like it, but I don't care what

921
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: anybody thinks about anything ever, So yeah, I'll make you

922
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 1: queen whose feelings matter mine and mine. That's uh, I

923
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: don't know, but that would be a crazy thing to do,

924
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: to leak your own nudes. Yeah, but I was also

925
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: like just the abount of photos, Like maybe it was

926
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: like burying the lead a little bit. Maybe maybe Maha

927
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 1: did it himself speculation Station to try and make her

928
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: a second queen. Because also when MAHA's own sister, Princess

929
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: Sir Endhorn, questioned him about elevating her to the second Queen,

930
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,760
Speaker 1: they got into an argument and he knocked her down

931
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,800
Speaker 1: and broke her ankles, his own fucking sister Jesus, he

932
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: missed and knocked her down some like stairs. How do

933
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: you break both your ankles from being knocked? What was

934
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 1: she wearing? You know? She wearing some crazy heels you

935
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: know that might have done it or or you know whatever.

936
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. And at any rate, he it was

937
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: something he was very passionate about and didn't want to

938
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: be questioned about. So maybe he set it up. MM

939
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: I didn't think of that. I don't know. Maybe I

940
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: don't spend a lot of time in speculation station on

941
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: this episode. Well you have to, because they won't tell

942
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: you anything. Isn't it interesting that, like the most speculation

943
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:38,240
Speaker 1: station is the most recent story, very modern story is

944
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: the one we have to I guess because the historians

945
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: haven't written anything about it yet. Yeah, I guess that's

946
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: gonna be true, because yeah, people are currently actively hiding

947
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:51,480
Speaker 1: things or keeping things the secret or whatever. Just wait

948
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: until my full ninety minutes speculation station about what's going

949
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: on with Tilda Swinton, because I got ideas those are

950
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: called fantasy has been. That's a very different ninety minute Okay,

951
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: okaycast you know she's sixty six zero, not six, although

952
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: I believe either character she played, well, if that's sixty

953
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 1: year old Air Marshall looked like Tilda Swinton, then I

954
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: understand why Serodyne might have had an affair. Wow, Well

955
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:28,360
Speaker 1: that's pretty wild that this and that this story is

956
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 1: still going on today. I mean since we researched this

957
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: and we're recording it today. We've had to add stuff

958
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: because this story has been you know, so fiery and

959
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: intense over there for so long. Yeah, they're still having

960
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: a lot of protests. Obviously, it's still a pandemic everywhere. Um.

961
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: I hate to say after the or during the pandemic,

962
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: like it's over right, yeah, But but of course now

963
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: they're in a deep recession, economic recession that the coronavirus

964
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,919
Speaker 1: put a huge toll in their tourism industry obviously, which

965
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: is a huge economic d ever there. And another huge

966
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 1: burden on their tourism ministry is that we're not going

967
00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: to be allowed to go I know, right, you also

968
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,640
Speaker 1: really like, let's come over. We will spend some money.

969
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: We don't have a lot, but we'll spend it all

970
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: spend it and it goes a long way, I have

971
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 1: to say, so we probably would spend more than we

972
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: we expected. Anyway, I hope we get to go to time.

973
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: I just see us, you know, going having a great time,

974
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: spending four or five days. They're having an amazing time,

975
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: and then just going to the airport to head home

976
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,439
Speaker 1: and we like put our bags down and then someone

977
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: comes taps on the shoulders like you need to come

978
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: with us, like excuse me, but they say, you know,

979
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: in tie, so we don't know what they're saying. They

980
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: just like lead us to a room and then we're

981
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: in a tie prison for three to fifteen years per infraction.

982
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 1: So for each time to be there for a little time, y'all,

983
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: if we end up in a tipe prison, please contact

984
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: the American government to get us out. I don't want

985
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: to be that story. But I also don't want to

986
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: be in a type prison or in America or any

987
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 1: prison except maybe a Swiss prison. Yeah those are pretty good, Yeah,

988
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think yeah, the fancy Ikea furniture.

989
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking a lot about Bridget jones diary Edge

990
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: of Reason, because she goes to a type prison for

991
01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 1: a little period of time from a misunderstanding. Not great,

992
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: but she wins over all the inmates by singing all

993
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 1: the words to Madonna's Essential Collection. So just remember that

994
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: in a type prison, just saying Madonna's Essential Collection. I

995
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 1: know I could do. I could do like a surgeon

996
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: the weird al version. I could at least sing that,

997
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 1: and like, I could sing the chorus to Don't Cry

998
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 1: for Me Argentina, by which I mean just the line

999
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: don't cry for Me Argentina. That's all I know. You

1000
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 1: don't know, Lucky Star, not not all the words. You

1001
01:00:55,480 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 1: know what I could do? Um? What is that La

1002
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: Casa Bonita? And winsones? Yes, I think it's called like

1003
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: Casa Bonita. I don't think it's Casa Bonita. That's the

1004
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: Mexican restaurant in Colorado. No a lot east la Bonitas Bonita?

1005
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: You have you happy? I was like, I think it

1006
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 1: needs something Bonita, No alat East la Bonita. Yes, that's

1007
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 1: a real one. Anyway, I don't know the words to

1008
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: that either. Clearly, obviously you're gonna be in the type

1009
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: prison will be like what the fund is Casa Bonita

1010
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: and beat the ship out of you? Also, I will

1011
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: say that might be specifically for women's prison. I'm not

1012
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:41,280
Speaker 1: sure it would work in a men's prison. Who knows.

1013
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 1: I would love to have a bunch of male prison

1014
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: guards singing along to What Could I Do for Him? Um?

1015
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: The Hamilton's soundtrack. That would probably work today. Honestly, Madonna

1016
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: is probably too dated. I'd have to go to something else,

1017
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 1: Carly Rae or something. Maybe. I don't know what they

1018
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 1: listened to in Thailand. What are they like? The one

1019
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: thing we need to research before we got to Thailand

1020
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 1: is what to sing to the pristial guards to make

1021
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: friends in the Thai prison. Oh Man, Well, there's not

1022
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 1: much more to say about the King of Thailand because

1023
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:22,160
Speaker 1: we got pretty much to today. They did recently, Parliament

1024
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:26,240
Speaker 1: put through legislation to change election laws, and what they

1025
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: did was to make it easier for big parties to

1026
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 1: get seats at the expense of small parties. We don't

1027
01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 1: know enough about Thai pologis to say whether that's good

1028
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 1: or bad. But I mean, if i'm since we spent

1029
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:40,440
Speaker 1: most of our time in speculation station, I'll go ahead

1030
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: and say it sounds bad for the big powerful parties

1031
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 1: to not let little parties do anything. Sometimes little parties

1032
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 1: are nuts. It's true, that's so true. It cannot be overstated.

1033
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: It's so weird in our country because there's only ever

1034
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: two parties and if you ever the other ones are

1035
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: just so toothless. But you should have them right. I mean,

1036
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 1: it feels like we should have them more so it

1037
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: feels strange too. Yeah, I think it might be like

1038
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:13,960
Speaker 1: an anti democratic move right, but it's yeah, it's true

1039
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 1: that we don't know for sure, son, and you can

1040
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 1: tell us without getting in trouble with the laws. Anytime

1041
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 1: you're like, the big guy needs more power over the

1042
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:27,880
Speaker 1: little guy, I feel like that's rarely a good move.

1043
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 1: It's true, I agree, unless, of course, like, yeah, the

1044
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:35,919
Speaker 1: big guy is a normal guy and the little guy's

1045
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 1: a Nazi, then you know, yes, give him a big

1046
01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 1: boot to stomp on him with. But obviously obviously, obviously well,

1047
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: that catches us up to present day Thailand and the

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Speaker 1: mess of King Mahaves your longcorn and all of his

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Speaker 1: many wives um in varying states right now, like some

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Speaker 1: of them exiled, one of them is in Florida, one

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Speaker 1: of them is right now. Maybe she's listening. Maybe if

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Speaker 1: you are all our all our best to you, man,

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Speaker 1: but we are more than happy to do a corrections

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Speaker 1: corner if you've got anything to say, right, if you'd

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Speaker 1: like to come forward, since you're safe here in America,

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Speaker 1: we would love to talk to you surrogeny um, and

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Speaker 1: of course to hear from anybody. Yeah, you guys can

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Speaker 1: shoot us an email, of course. Romance at i heeart

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Speaker 1: media dot com is the email address. You type that

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Speaker 1: into the two bar like your email, and it'll whatever

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Speaker 1: you write will come to us. Thank you for that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just if you guys need a little catch up on

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Speaker 1: how do sendmail works? Uh, that's very helpful, very very helpful.

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Speaker 1: Or you can use social media, which are these very

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Speaker 1: exciting new application I'm just kidding Instagram, Twitter, I'm at

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Speaker 1: dianamite boom, I'm at Oh great, it's eli. The show

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Speaker 1: is at ridic Romance and that's this episode. It sure is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean yeah, it's weird because if it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: this like def you know, we'll end with when they died.

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Speaker 1: Usually it'll be like, oh, and then the second of

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Speaker 1: these spouses died tragically. We've we've told you how much

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Speaker 1: to love them for the last night, and now here's

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Speaker 1: how they died, miserable and alone. Oh god, as we

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Speaker 1: all will you know, or like here's their legacy now whatever,

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Speaker 1: but we don't know his leg certainly do not. Um,

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Speaker 1: we can only hope that it's as minimal as possible.

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Speaker 1: We'll try to keep up, but put a Google alert

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Speaker 1: from my deer longcorn and then we can try to

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Speaker 1: update as if things change or something that they are

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Speaker 1: a change in over there they are doing sh anytime. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you all for tuning in. We love having you

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Speaker 1: and we'll have another exciting episode coming up later this week.

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Speaker 1: Until then, bye bye bye, so long friends, it's time

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Speaker 1: to go. Thanks so listening to our show. Tell your

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Speaker 1: friends neighbor's uncle San dance to listen to a show

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