Speaker 1: Goldilocks. What a criminal for real bears. Absolutely, the bears
Speaker 1: were just for some reason leaving their breakfast on the table.
Speaker 1: It wasn't Papa's too hot and Mama's was too cold.
Speaker 1: So really, Papa's a dick because he was like, let's
Speaker 1: go take a walk. Mine's too hot, and Mama was
Speaker 1: like yeah. So when they get back, Mom is like, well,
Speaker 1: mine's gonna cold. Whatever. That's just I'm just used to that.
Speaker 1: Guess I'll just start cleaning. And then baby bear, you know,
Speaker 1: his was fine and now it's going to be too cold. Well,
Speaker 1: and it's gone, well, Okay. Papa could not have predicted that,
Speaker 1: but he could. He should have known mine will be
Speaker 1: perfect when we get back and everyone else's will be garbage.
Speaker 1: He should have thought about it. He should just blow
Speaker 1: on his spoon. He could just blow on his I
Speaker 1: think about that, Papa. Although who cooked? Who made this porridge?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I'm assuming the mama didn't.
Speaker 1: That is just because of how sexist of you of
Speaker 1: the time. I'm assuming. I'm assuming that they had a housekeeper. Wow,
Speaker 1: you think these are making their breakfast for them and
Speaker 1: I think they're made? Is a male a male bear
Speaker 1: because I'm built different, you know, I just I'm a
Speaker 1: little more open minded, I guess than some. That's where
Speaker 1: my brain immediately went. They have a staff. I would
Speaker 1: love I would love you to pen a children's tail.
Speaker 1: From the perspective of the Three Bears, male made, Yeah,
Speaker 1: is like I keep making porrid and it just keeps disappearing.
Speaker 1: The beds are unmade suddenly. His name is Gregory Gregory,
Speaker 1: and he's always trying to keep up the bear butler
Speaker 1: or is he a made? Uh? He kind of does everything. Honestly,
Speaker 1: they could probably use a second set of hands, but
Speaker 1: Gregory's holding it together, sort of an Alfred Um the Bears. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but here's the thing. Terrible cook because he can't get
Speaker 1: all the meals the same temperature. True, he's making three plates.
Speaker 1: It's not hard to have them all in the same temperature.
Speaker 1: How did he spoon mama bears porridge and then just
Speaker 1: like walk away for twenty minutes and come back and
Speaker 1: get You have to make them all separate portions. Seriously,
Speaker 1: Like while mamas is cooling, he has to make the
Speaker 1: babies and then he makes the Papa's last. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm confused about this household, how they run their households.
Speaker 1: Welcome and goodbye, new listeners, That's not what the show
Speaker 1: is about. Hey, everybody, like, I'm Diana. We're so excited
Speaker 1: to have you today as always. Oh yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: it is as always. I didn't. I didn't mean to
Speaker 1: imply that I wasn't excited at other times. Well, we're
Speaker 1: super excited today for very fun episode Royal Rumble, if
Speaker 1: you will, just a bunch of princesses and princes tripping
Speaker 1: over each other to try and get the hell out
Speaker 1: of royal life right. And honestly, I don't think I
Speaker 1: could blame him. I'm just thinking about like nights where
Speaker 1: we stay up till three am watching dumb YouTube videos
Speaker 1: and then sleep in until eleven and then get up
Speaker 1: and we're like, oh, ship, we're gonna be pretty late
Speaker 1: for work today and it doesn't matter, and obviously, like
Speaker 1: that is our own special little princess schedule that we have.
Speaker 1: But ain't nobody in the royal family doing that? I doubt,
Speaker 1: I doubt, I doubt. I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 1: they do do, but they do do their duty. They
Speaker 1: do do their duty, their duty, that's right. They do
Speaker 1: love charity for from what I can see, which makes sense, no,
Speaker 1: but it has been an interesting trend, like a lot
Speaker 1: of royals have kind of quit their duties, and a
Speaker 1: lot of them have done it for love, specifically um
Speaker 1: in the past couple of years, royal families of course,
Speaker 1: the British royal family, the royal family in Japan, and
Speaker 1: just recently a princess in Norway gave up her royal
Speaker 1: duties because people were criticizing her American fiancee. So just
Speaker 1: kind of got a little curious about like what happened here?
Speaker 1: Why do you have to quit your royal duties and
Speaker 1: make this whole you know, seen about it? And also
Speaker 1: like what exactly was given up? And what do they
Speaker 1: keep and how does it work now? Also what do
Speaker 1: you do after life in a palace? You go from here,
Speaker 1: let's find out? Hey there, French, come listen. Well, Elia
Speaker 1: and Diana got some stories to tell. There's no match making,
Speaker 1: no romantic tips. It's just about ridiculous relationships. I love.
Speaker 1: It might be any type of person at all, and
Speaker 1: abstract cons a don't a concrete wall. But if there's
Speaker 1: a story, were a second clinch, Ridiculous roles production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. All right, if you were a teenager
Speaker 1: or like a little older in the early two thousand,
Speaker 1: you probably were like me and saw a lot of
Speaker 1: pictures of Prince Harry Heartthrob in the teens scenes. Definitely
Speaker 1: pictures had a scotch taped all over my wall. I
Speaker 1: knew it. Prince Harry everyone, Yeah, I know. He was
Speaker 1: like a hot ginger and he had like a sweetness
Speaker 1: of manner and reminded every one of his mother, Princess Diana,
Speaker 1: the people's princess whom you were named after. I'll throw
Speaker 1: out there, that's true, very true. Um. Yeah, he had
Speaker 1: royal blood, royal bank account. He was like principled enough
Speaker 1: dude to serve in Afghanistan instead of just letting the
Speaker 1: norms do it, so he was like, let me do
Speaker 1: that too. I mean, he had freckles. What more do
Speaker 1: you want? This guy is a total package, checking all
Speaker 1: the boxes, all the boxes. Maybe that's a personal box.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I bet I'm not the only one. Now.
Speaker 1: Prince William was really hot stuff too at this time.
Speaker 1: I mean he had all the same similar qualities. But
Speaker 1: also he's going to be king one day, so it's
Speaker 1: you know, pretty compelling. Oh yeah, the reason to throughout
Speaker 1: yourself at it. Mother, he's got freckles, and there was
Speaker 1: something else I thought you'd like about him? What was it?
Speaker 1: What was it? What was it? Oh? Oh, he's going
Speaker 1: to be the King of England. Oh mine, mine, but
Speaker 1: Kenny Cook, I'm gonna guess no, yeah he can. He
Speaker 1: snaps his fingers and food appears. Oh well, hey, I
Speaker 1: didn't think about that. I didn't think about that. Smart.
Speaker 1: He's like, I've got a great trick. I always sounds
Speaker 1: like I've got a great trick. What does he sound
Speaker 1: like that? Go ahead? Thought King George was here, He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've got a Oh, I've got a great trick. You
Speaker 1: just still taste some onions and everybody thinks you made
Speaker 1: it well. Eventually, Prince William delighted the world by getting
Speaker 1: engaged to a woman named Katherine Middle And I don't,
Speaker 1: at least from over here on this side of the pond,
Speaker 1: it really felt like the Brits were thrilled by this decision.
Speaker 1: They were plenty of articles talking about you know, she's
Speaker 1: got it all. You know, she's she's beautiful, skinny, pretty
Speaker 1: well dressed, lovely, rich and nice to look at all
Speaker 1: of those different things. Why are we looking at skinny
Speaker 1: and no, but it was a lot about how pretty
Speaker 1: she was and elegance and her fashion sense and all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff like that. Anyway, so people just seemed
Speaker 1: really thrilled about it, and Willie made this fantastic choice
Speaker 1: and they're like, awesome, the queen is secure. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be happy with this. Now all eyes turned to Harry.
Speaker 1: They're like, who is the haughty second son going to
Speaker 1: bring home to Gussie up the family tree. Well, Harry
Speaker 1: made his choice soon after that. Of course, it was
Speaker 1: suits actress Megan Markele. Now, poor Megan didn't get the
Speaker 1: same love as William's choice for a bride. No, okay,
Speaker 1: let's break it down here. Maybe it's because Megan Markel
Speaker 1: is an American. Of course, long history of British royalty
Speaker 1: marrying Americans and it just totally blows everything up, bloody colonial,
Speaker 1: So it could be that. Or maybe it's because she's
Speaker 1: an actress, you know, not necessarily the most respected profession
Speaker 1: to all uh oft, equated with prostitution in some higher circles.
Speaker 1: Or maybe it's because she's actually previously divorced. That's scandalous.
Speaker 1: There have been problems in the past when a royal
Speaker 1: member liked a divorce lady, famously the guy who abdicated,
Speaker 1: So it could have been any number of these things.
Speaker 1: Or maybe, I don't know, maybe it's because she's a
Speaker 1: biracial woman. I mean, if you read the papers kind
Speaker 1: of kind of really starts to feel like because she's biracial,
Speaker 1: Or if you listen to any of the comments that
Speaker 1: the royal family made about her, it starts to really
Speaker 1: feel like it's because she's biracial. But if you listen
Speaker 1: to Megan and Harry talk about some of the ship
Speaker 1: that the royal family said to and about Meg and Markle,
Speaker 1: it really really really feels like it's because she's biracial.
Speaker 1: But you know, who knows. Maybe it's the other stuff.
Speaker 1: Hard to say, right, I mean, people will come out
Speaker 1: of the woodwork to say, no, actually it's cattle, she's
Speaker 1: stuck up bar like how she's mean or whatever. They
Speaker 1: have some opinion, but these two were like whatever, in
Speaker 1: the face of all the hatred and the face of
Speaker 1: all that, they were going to still give it a
Speaker 1: whirl and give it the old College dry and they
Speaker 1: started dating in ten And actually, when Harry went on
Speaker 1: the Late Late Show James Gordon, he was telling him
Speaker 1: that to date him was kind of a flipped experience.
Speaker 1: It was sort of backwards because you started out coming
Speaker 1: round to his place for a quiet dinner and then
Speaker 1: when things got serious, that's when you started to go
Speaker 1: out to rest and get coffee together and that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. So backwards. Yeah, it's like fully fully different
Speaker 1: than the proletariat. The proletariat day she calls up her
Speaker 1: best friend, She's like, oh, well, yes, of course. Obviously
Speaker 1: I met his mother on the first date. But last
Speaker 1: night he would be to the Olive Garden. Could you
Speaker 1: believe that things are really getting serious? Now? You're going
Speaker 1: to get a ring any day now. Imagine imagining Harry
Speaker 1: and Megan at the olive Garden. There's no way. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, I challenged them not to enjoy unlimited
Speaker 1: salad and bread sticks. You know who. Maybe after they
Speaker 1: left the Royal Family they started going to Olive Garden
Speaker 1: because they were like, we need a new family. When
Speaker 1: you're here, you're the Royal family. He's like, thank you.
Speaker 1: They never said that to me at the palace. Buckingham
Speaker 1: Palace should have just made that their house words when
Speaker 1: you're they were dating, and things did start to heat up,
Speaker 1: and they did start to visit a Starbucks together here
Speaker 1: and there and come out and hold hands in a
Speaker 1: park and all that kind of stuff, and so the
Speaker 1: paparazzi activity around them got so intense and so invasive
Speaker 1: that Harry had to put out an official statement to
Speaker 1: the press asking them to please lay the funk off
Speaker 1: his girlfriend. And then in seventeen they got engaged. Media
Speaker 1: went ballistic over all the details and who she was
Speaker 1: and who her family was and what's going on, and
Speaker 1: Harry had to put out an official statement asking the
Speaker 1: press to please lay the funk off his fiancee. Then
Speaker 1: they got married, beautiful royal wedding. Megan retired from acting
Speaker 1: to become royalty like Grace freaking Kelly before her. The
Speaker 1: media was going wild again, and Harry had to release
Speaker 1: an official statement to the press asking them to please,
Speaker 1: for God's sake, lay the funk off my wife quote
Speaker 1: he probably wished. That's probably his draft, and then you
Speaker 1: know they guessed it up for him. My Lord's are
Speaker 1: just a couple of edit spoil we cut of put
Speaker 1: the coat of arms on this. You dropped the f bomb,
Speaker 1: as they say, is seventeen times bringing the royal de fucco.
Speaker 1: That's a busy man, all of the proclamations and just
Speaker 1: takes the f's out and beautiful click. We'll be back
Speaker 1: in a week, Thank you now. Kate and William, of course,
Speaker 1: they had to ask the press to back off several
Speaker 1: times throughout their relationship to Kate and Megan, each of
Speaker 1: them had to take several news outlets to court for
Speaker 1: violations of privacy. But well, both of these women were
Speaker 1: constantly getting just besieged and harassed for photos and comments,
Speaker 1: like every time they walked out the door. Megan's coverage
Speaker 1: was noticeably nastier than Kate Middleton's. Friggs example, Actually, BuzzFeed
Speaker 1: put together this amazing collection of some headlines that compared
Speaker 1: coverage of the two of them, and we're gonna look
Speaker 1: at some of those now. From Daily Mail, not Long
Speaker 1: to Go Pregnant, Kate tenderly cradles her baby bump while
Speaker 1: wrapping up her royal duties ahead of maternity leave. Who
Speaker 1: I can't Megan Markle keep her hands on the bump?
Speaker 1: Is it pride, vanity acting or a new age bonding technique. Personally,
Speaker 1: I find cradling a bit like those signs in the
Speaker 1: backs of cars baby on board virtue signaling, as are
Speaker 1: the rest of us baron Harridans deserved to burn alive
Speaker 1: in our cars. Oh my god, O rageous. That is
Speaker 1: so crazy to say that if you're holding your baby bump,
Speaker 1: you're telling every woman out there that she may as
Speaker 1: well burn alive. Such a stretch. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: take this picture of a woman holding her belly who's
Speaker 1: like eight months pregnant and make it horrible. Tell me
Speaker 1: why it sucks? What kind of evil do you have
Speaker 1: to have in your heart? How about this one from
Speaker 1: the Express Kate's Morning Sickness Cure, Prince William gifted with
Speaker 1: an avocado for pregnant Duchess. Prince William was given one
Speaker 1: of the green fruit wrapped up in a bow by
Speaker 1: a little boy whose mother is suffering during her pregnancy.
Speaker 1: Too adorable. Megan Markle's beloved avocado linked to human rights
Speaker 1: abuse and drought, millennial shame, the pregnant Duchess of Sussex
Speaker 1: and so called avocado on toast Whisperer is wolfing down
Speaker 1: a fruit links to water shortages, illegal deforestation and all
Speaker 1: round general environmental devastation. Enough Megan Marcos singlehandedly causing climate change.
Speaker 1: She's she's taking water directly from the cupped hands of
Speaker 1: a child. Her specifically, everybody else's avocados are fine. I
Speaker 1: also love the idea of an avocado on toast whisperer, Like,
Speaker 1: who needs to whisper to that? That's not a thing
Speaker 1: that needs to be whisperer. If she likes avocado to
Speaker 1: her toast, it says we should all be eating more
Speaker 1: of it. It loves deforestation, it's laughing about the water
Speaker 1: it's stole from the thirsty children. Man. Avocados are diabolic avocados,
Speaker 1: pure evil. That's what makes them so delicious. Okay, here's
Speaker 1: another one from the Daily Mail. Kate and Wills Incorporated.
Speaker 1: Do can duchess secretly set up companies to protect their brand?
Speaker 1: Just like the Beckham's. Creating their own companies will allow
Speaker 1: William and Kate to bring out should they have a
Speaker 1: choose to mariad items of officially endorsed merchandise, from tea
Speaker 1: towels to coffee cups. Kensington Palace officials said they were
Speaker 1: doing the sensible thing in protecting the couple's rights. Alright,
Speaker 1: Royal cash in the Sussexes what to stab their name
Speaker 1: on dozens of products, including T shirts, hoodies, journals and
Speaker 1: gloves for their newly created foundations. Sussex Royal experts said
Speaker 1: Harry and Megan were actively preparing to quit the Royal
Speaker 1: Family months ago by filing trademark applications to commercially protect
Speaker 1: their brand. So again, what Kate and William can do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Megan and what's his name? Harry totally trash talked for
Speaker 1: it now rule for me, but not for the type ships. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: It's very weird, and I'm like, I can kind of
Speaker 1: say that the time that this came out might have
Speaker 1: affected the emotion around it, because they did announced their
Speaker 1: departures shortly after that, so they're like, oh, they're trying
Speaker 1: to cash in, they're trying to find nance their move,
Speaker 1: whereas Kate and William or not. But it's still the
Speaker 1: exact same action, and I kind of feel like Harry
Speaker 1: and Megan would have done it even without leaving the
Speaker 1: Royal family. Like everyone trademarks there stuff today, That's what
Speaker 1: I mean. So it's like into a kind of have
Speaker 1: to or someone else will get a website in your
Speaker 1: name and put really crazy shit on it, so you
Speaker 1: have to be careful about that. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if somebody verify themselves as you on Twitter, okay, and
Speaker 1: god knows what will happen. You could lose a lot
Speaker 1: of money on the stocking. Now, other headlines show that,
Speaker 1: like Kate and William missed Christmas with the Queen, but
Speaker 1: everybody understood and it was totally fine. Then Harry and
Speaker 1: Megan missed Christmas with the Queen and it caused sadness
Speaker 1: and frustration. Kate requested her favorite candles and cents in
Speaker 1: the abbey for her wedding, and they just like described
Speaker 1: all the lovely candles she was getting. Then Megan's similar
Speaker 1: requests to spray scent on the abbey was declined because
Speaker 1: quote a request of that nature had never been made before,
Speaker 1: which obviously it had just we just made it. So now,
Speaker 1: even in the safety of the palace, comments were made
Speaker 1: that Megan and Harry just could not stand. After Megan
Speaker 1: got pregnant, people within the palace had quote several conversations
Speaker 1: with Harry concerned about quote how dark his son's skin
Speaker 1: might be when he was born. Megan told Oprah in
Speaker 1: the now famous interview that they all had together. I
Speaker 1: guess it was then famous too. It was famous from
Speaker 1: the get yeah uh. And now Harry clarified that neither
Speaker 1: the Queen or Prince Philip were the ones who asked that.
Speaker 1: But with all the paparazzi stuff and the nasty press coverage,
Speaker 1: and Megan's estranged family also stirring up shit as much
Speaker 1: as they could, it's maybe not surprising that in the
Speaker 1: couple announced that they would be renouncing their royal titles,
Speaker 1: stepping away from royal duties and moving to the colonies
Speaker 1: to I'm America. Escape to America, where they would live
Speaker 1: like you know, normal extremely rich and famous people instead
Speaker 1: of royal extremely rich and famous people would like to
Speaker 1: be American aristocracy. It's a lot less rule, I know.
Speaker 1: Right when the American paparazzi is less aggressive, you know
Speaker 1: you've got a problem. I wonder if it's different since
Speaker 1: their public figures like celebrities, are still private citizens, so
Speaker 1: they have different protections. I I that's the only thing
Speaker 1: I can think. But it's got to be something weird,
Speaker 1: like or Megan and Harry aside do they kind of
Speaker 1: like it? They love it. They don't take my picture please,
Speaker 1: that's me as as a snobby prince. No, leave me alone.
Speaker 1: Don't get my good side over here. I'd love to
Speaker 1: see your prince run around. He's a bit of attendee.
Speaker 1: He's a macaroni, a maccaroni like Yankee doodle. It's just
Speaker 1: been a dandy, you know that. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: he stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni.
Speaker 1: But apparently macaroni just meant you were a dandy. You
Speaker 1: liked fashion, stuck a feather in his hat and they
Speaker 1: called him a macaroni. Oh well, call me a macaroni then,
Speaker 1: because I like to look good. So they're living in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. They're fancy rich famous people, but they're not
Speaker 1: royal rich famous people. And basically this means you don't
Speaker 1: have to call him Prince Harry anymore. Just Harry is fine.
Speaker 1: I think i'd call him Mr Windsor. I mean what,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you what is your last name? England?
Speaker 1: Mr England. Now he is still in the line of succession.
Speaker 1: This is interesting. They're still styled your Royal highness. But
Speaker 1: you don't have to say that when you talk to
Speaker 1: them anymore. The beefeaters aren't going to come up and
Speaker 1: haul you away if you accidentally forget um unlike me,
Speaker 1: doubt you, Dad refers to me as anything but your
Speaker 1: Royal Highness, or I'll have those beef it is, hold
Speaker 1: you away to the dungeons, goodness, take you up to
Speaker 1: the tower. Well, you're a real terror. This is no good.
Speaker 1: He's definitely going to get his head taken at some point.
Speaker 1: Bring back that Gietta. And then the other thing with
Speaker 1: Harry and Megan is they are not getting any more
Speaker 1: money to support themselves from the Royal Family or the
Speaker 1: British people. Tax sellars, no tax sellars. However, will they survive?
Speaker 1: Who knows now. Of course, the press liked the fact
Speaker 1: that they left the Royal family even less than they
Speaker 1: liked that she entered it. Megan was accused of being
Speaker 1: like a manipulative bully, brainwashing Harry, you know, making him
Speaker 1: do this, dragging him out. But Harry's explanation makes a
Speaker 1: lot more sense to me. He was just a kid
Speaker 1: when his own mother, Princess Diana, was constantly hounded by
Speaker 1: the press when she married into it. She was being
Speaker 1: chased by a paparazzo and her car crashed and she died.
Speaker 1: So Harry has spoken out several times in the past
Speaker 1: about how traumatic it was to witnessed the treatment of
Speaker 1: his mother in the press while she was alive, and
Speaker 1: of course it was very traumatic to have her die
Speaker 1: and when he was just a young boy as a
Speaker 1: result of that, and William publicly has agreed with those
Speaker 1: sentiments as well. Both men brought it up when they
Speaker 1: were officially asking the press to please leave their ladies alone,
Speaker 1: and Harry said, quote, my father and brother are stuck.
Speaker 1: They don't have a choice. But as the second son,
Speaker 1: he does have a choice. So he straight up sat
Speaker 1: down with Megan and was like, what kind of life
Speaker 1: do we want to lead? And they decided it should
Speaker 1: not be in the palace and they dipped. So the
Speaker 1: couple moved to Los Angeles, as you said. Now they
Speaker 1: run an organization called arch Well and that encompasses a
Speaker 1: charitable foundation as well as their creative projects with Spotify
Speaker 1: and Netflix, and they've come out with books. His his
Speaker 1: his book just came out called Spare Everyone freaked out
Speaker 1: about that title because of their spright old name. I
Speaker 1: would I would push back on Harry and say that
Speaker 1: William could do something about it once he ascends the throne.
Speaker 1: He could simply dissolve the monarchy, just saying, if anybody
Speaker 1: can as the king, I would simply dissolve, simply dissolve
Speaker 1: the monarchy if I was that's it. Monarchy. Your prince
Speaker 1: would never do that. No, he wouldn't. Mind wouldn't, Which
Speaker 1: is why someone needs to step up and do it.
Speaker 1: You know, we're all eyes on you, William. Yeah, be
Speaker 1: noble and have sir. But look, Megan and Harry were
Speaker 1: not the first nor the last royals to give up
Speaker 1: their titles and privileges for love. Only a year after
Speaker 1: these two quit, the quality Princess Mako in Japan did
Speaker 1: the same thing, and we're going to hear more about
Speaker 1: that right after this break. Welcome back to the Shoe.
Speaker 1: Princess Mako of Akashino, who was the niece the Emperor
Speaker 1: of Japan, was born in nineteen and she became an
Speaker 1: Internet icon in two thousand four, and then in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eleven she came of age and started serving
Speaker 1: her royal duties, which included official visits to several countries,
Speaker 1: charitable appearances, you know, royal stuff. We can all relate.
Speaker 1: After the tsunami in two thousand eleven, she volunteered with
Speaker 1: affected communities without revealing her royal status. Imagine she wore
Speaker 1: a little mask. She wore the little the jasmine marketplace,
Speaker 1: rode shroud over her head. No one who me. And
Speaker 1: of course she went to school. She went to Tokyo's
Speaker 1: International Christian University and during a study abroad event at
Speaker 1: a Tokyo restaurant, she met a fellow classmate named k. Komoro,
Speaker 1: who was studying to be a lawyer. She said she
Speaker 1: was quote first attracted by his right smile. They started
Speaker 1: dating and in December of Kay proposed over dinner. But
Speaker 1: first their relationship went long distance because Marco studied for
Speaker 1: her master's degree in Edinburgh and England. Ultimately, she graduated
Speaker 1: with a degree in Art, Museum and Gallery Studies in
Speaker 1: January of they've been together for a long time already, um,
Speaker 1: and it seems to me that they're like, we just
Speaker 1: want to get out of school, you know, graduately, be
Speaker 1: adult age and then be married. But they're pretty devoted.
Speaker 1: So with her degree in hand. She and Kay announced
Speaker 1: their engagement, and they met with the press in September
Speaker 1: to talk about their wedding plans. They said the ceremony
Speaker 1: would be in November. But Kay is a commoner, and
Speaker 1: any women in the Imperial family who married commoners are
Speaker 1: required to abdicate and leave the royal family. They are
Speaker 1: given a one point three million dollar payments on their
Speaker 1: marriage to help them start a new life outside the palace.
Speaker 1: You know, there's just not much I wouldn't quit for
Speaker 1: a million dollars. I've quit things for free before, so
Speaker 1: I've lost money in quitting things. And yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: like Marco would be the first Japanese royal member to
Speaker 1: do this kind of thing. Her grandmother and her aunt
Speaker 1: did this, and in Japan only a man can inherit
Speaker 1: the throne, so it's not like she'd ever be in charge,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's not like that threw any any
Speaker 1: succession plans and to disarray or something like that. But
Speaker 1: of course, the media is not that different in Japan
Speaker 1: than it is anywhere else, and these two ended up
Speaker 1: running quite an obstacle course to get to the altar.
Speaker 1: Yes scandal hit when ka Comero's mother got embroiled in
Speaker 1: some dispute with her former fiance. He had given her
Speaker 1: around thirty thousand dollars. Some of this went towards Kay's
Speaker 1: tuition at the university. Now, the press took this little
Speaker 1: dispute and they just ran with it. They heaped piles
Speaker 1: of disapproval on the couple, said Marco's marriage would bring
Speaker 1: dishonor to the royal family or sully their image. They
Speaker 1: said a commoner son of a single mom was no
Speaker 1: match for a princess. They even called k An untrustworthy,
Speaker 1: gold digger damn and the royal family not exactly rushing
Speaker 1: into their defense here, they also had doubts. So their
Speaker 1: marriage got postponed from a three year postponem is crazy,
Speaker 1: that's so much. And this is probably in the hope
Speaker 1: that the scandal would just die down and they could
Speaker 1: just have a regular royal wedding like they intended. Everybody
Speaker 1: would have forgotten all about Kay's mom fighting with her
Speaker 1: old buddy or whatever. Right. But yeah, this scandal, however
Speaker 1: little it seems to us, was big enough to them
Speaker 1: that it just did not die down. The Guardian spoke
Speaker 1: with a professor at Tokyo University who specializes in media
Speaker 1: and journalism studies named Kaoi Hayashi, who told them quote,
Speaker 1: weekly magazines and daytime TV shows are reporting frantically on
Speaker 1: this because it helps their sales and viewing figures. They
Speaker 1: are particularly critical of the Comodos because they are not
Speaker 1: fully protected by Imperial Household Agency. So, first of all,
Speaker 1: to the first point, it's the media everywhere. They got
Speaker 1: to make money and get them clicks. To the second point,
Speaker 1: he ain't royal, so it's open season on him. I
Speaker 1: guess what they're saying like that, you can say whatever
Speaker 1: you want about this guy and his mom Marco. You
Speaker 1: had to be a little more careful, I guess, because
Speaker 1: she is in the family and they might come after you.
Speaker 1: But this guy, we could say anything, but Marco was
Speaker 1: not immune. Don't don't take that to say that she
Speaker 1: left they left her out or anything. Because the speculation
Speaker 1: and opinions were just constant. Their wedding got postponed again
Speaker 1: and that just riled the press up even more. Oh
Speaker 1: my God, true love. Indeed, I guess he's going through
Speaker 1: a gauntlet. Finally, the announcement came in September that they
Speaker 1: were gonna do it. They were gonna get married for real.
Speaker 1: Wedding was happening for real real. Kay lived in New York,
Speaker 1: where he earned his law degree, and according to the Guardian,
Speaker 1: he was chased through the streets of New York City
Speaker 1: by Japanese reporters and as soon as his plane touchdown
Speaker 1: in Tokyo, he was just completely overrun over a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty reporters at the airport and they all snapping
Speaker 1: pictures and shouting questions, and they're writing stuff down in
Speaker 1: their papers. They complained about everything from his body language
Speaker 1: to his hair. Kay had grown his hair out. He's
Speaker 1: wearing it in this like cool little short ponytail. And
Speaker 1: apparently they ran pictures with every possible angle of his ponytail.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's drone, Like did a three sixty
Speaker 1: shot at this guy's, Like go to our website and
Speaker 1: you can see a three D rendering of ponytail clipping
Speaker 1: out for this interactive map of his head. Probably they're
Speaker 1: like examining all the dents in it, like that means
Speaker 1: he's a hunter's Some of them compared his ponytail to
Speaker 1: a samuraized not but others said, no, princess's groom should
Speaker 1: ever have a ponytail. Disgraceful long haired hippies coming up
Speaker 1: in here. This guy ended up having to chop off
Speaker 1: his offending ponytail before the wedding. He also released a
Speaker 1: twenty eight page explanation of the financial dispute between his
Speaker 1: mom and her former fiance, where he said that his
Speaker 1: mom had mistakenly thought that the money was a gift,
Speaker 1: not alone, so that's where all the discrepancies came from.
Speaker 1: And Kay even offered to pay it back himself. I mean,
Speaker 1: twenty eight pages. I would have been like, buddy, write
Speaker 1: a page and a half and then just like Laura,
Speaker 1: ips some the rest of it because I'm going to
Speaker 1: get bored and stop very early. Glad it happen whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's probably accurate. Like if they
Speaker 1: were engaged and he gave her some money, right, I
Speaker 1: feel like she would have thought that's a gift, and
Speaker 1: then after they were no longer engaged, the former fiance
Speaker 1: was like, well, now it's alone, and there was like
Speaker 1: a misunderstanding there about what gets kept and what gets
Speaker 1: not kept after the breakup. But that feels again like
Speaker 1: a very small personal issue that has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with k I'm coming for all the money I ever
Speaker 1: gave you at the end of this Oh no, five
Speaker 1: dollars tops. Yeah, but yeah. Even his offered to pay
Speaker 1: back the money, his letter, his explanation, whatever. None of
Speaker 1: that worked, The scrutiny continued. They did have some support
Speaker 1: from the general population, but lots of people even took
Speaker 1: to the streets to protest their marriage. They were carrying
Speaker 1: signs that said stop cursed marriage. The Guardian reported that
Speaker 1: one poll was conducted by a Japanese newspaper that found
Speaker 1: that thirty eight percent of respondents supported the marriage, opposed it,
Speaker 1: and twenty expressed no interest. Another weekly magazine poll found
Speaker 1: that just five percent of respondents felt like celebrating the marriage,
Speaker 1: while said quote they were in no mood to share
Speaker 1: in the couple's joy. Rude, unbelievably, and all this took
Speaker 1: its toll. The Palace announced that Maco was diagnosed with
Speaker 1: complex PTSD. After the years of slurs and speculation and
Speaker 1: the doubts about whether or not she'd be able to
Speaker 1: marry Kay, the man she loved. Her psychiatrist told the
Speaker 1: media that she quote feels pessimistic and finds it difficult
Speaker 1: to be happy due to the persistent fear of her
Speaker 1: life being destroyed, which I get. Your wedding has been
Speaker 1: put off for three years already over the most dumb
Speaker 1: ship I ever heard of, And she's not the only
Speaker 1: one that this has happened to. Ap News notes that
Speaker 1: her grandmother, Empress Emerita Michiko, was the first commoner to
Speaker 1: marry a monarch in modern history, and she quote collapsed
Speaker 1: and temporarily lost her voice in following persistent negative coverage.
Speaker 1: An Empress Masako, who is a Harvard educated former diplomat,
Speaker 1: has had quote a stress induced mental condition for nearly
Speaker 1: twenty years, in part because of criticism over not producing
Speaker 1: a male air. Some critics say Marco's marriage highlights the
Speaker 1: difficulties faced by women in the Japanese Imperial household. Ladies
Speaker 1: gained control over your chromosomes? Please okay? So In October
Speaker 1: of one, Maco and Kay held a press conference where
Speaker 1: they apologized for the strife their engagement was causing the
Speaker 1: country and said they were quote horrified that all this
Speaker 1: misinformation about them was out there and being taken as fact.
Speaker 1: In Marco's statement, which we found on CNN, she explained,
Speaker 1: quote to me, Kay is a very important, indispensable existence.
Speaker 1: She even announced that she would be declining the one
Speaker 1: point three million dollar payment that she was entitled to
Speaker 1: since that money comes from taxpayers, so hopefully that would
Speaker 1: appease people anyone critical of her choice. At least they
Speaker 1: couldn't say, like, and you're taking my money to go
Speaker 1: berry this asshole or whatever, which I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I've never lived in a monarchy, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of feel weird that they're just like getting
Speaker 1: all this cash. It feels weird when all our politicians
Speaker 1: get cash after they started be done with their jobs.
Speaker 1: So I get it. I kind of get it. But
Speaker 1: also giving up that one plus million dollars hopefully would
Speaker 1: lay to rest those gold digging allegations about k too
Speaker 1: write like he's not doing it for that money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this makes her the first Imperial Family member to not
Speaker 1: get the payments since World War Two. For his part,
Speaker 1: ka Comro said quote, I love miss Marco. This is
Speaker 1: a life lived only once, and I would like to
Speaker 1: spend my life but the person I love in happiness Maco,
Speaker 1: and I would like to build a warm, nice family.
Speaker 1: At the same time, I would like to do the
Speaker 1: best I can to support Maco. Happy times unhappy times,
Speaker 1: We would like to be together and we will be
Speaker 1: indispensable to each other, which is like the sweetest thing
Speaker 1: you could say about right now. And I guess like
Speaker 1: the years they've been together, the years they've been waiting
Speaker 1: to get married, and just let them have it. Good ward,
Speaker 1: poor kids. Shortly after this press conference, Maco and Kay
Speaker 1: were finally married on October. They had no royal pomp
Speaker 1: or circumstance with their marriage at all um, but she
Speaker 1: was seen bowing to her parents and hugging her sister,
Speaker 1: so everything cool between them, at least at home UM,
Speaker 1: and then she left with Kay. The couple moved to
Speaker 1: New York City, and Kay works as a paralegal for
Speaker 1: a pretty prestigious law firm. Maco is working as an
Speaker 1: unpaid volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art UM in
Speaker 1: their Asian art collection. According to People magazine, Quote specifically
Speaker 1: been involved in preparing an exhibition of paintings inspired by
Speaker 1: the life of a thirteenth century monk who traveled through
Speaker 1: Japan as he introduced Buddhism, just putting that degree to
Speaker 1: some great use. The article also says that The couple's
Speaker 1: luxury apartment is only a ten minute drive from the
Speaker 1: METS iconic Fifth Avenue location, so they definitely got some
Speaker 1: money to live on. I don't know where it's coming
Speaker 1: from or who's given it to him, but they are
Speaker 1: doing okay. I mean, you know, you don't leave a
Speaker 1: royal family and and up slumming it. But okay. The
Speaker 1: real reason that we want to do this episode today
Speaker 1: is because our last and most recent story about Norway's
Speaker 1: Princess Marta Louise, and she's got the most ridiculous story
Speaker 1: of all. So we will get back to that right
Speaker 1: after these words. Welcome back, y'all. Just last week on November,
Speaker 1: Princess Marta Louise of Norway announced that she would be
Speaker 1: giving up her royal duties because of criticism of her
Speaker 1: relationship with her you guessed it, American fiance Derek Verett.
Speaker 1: Now these two have a bit of a different story
Speaker 1: than our other couples because Marta Louise was already a
Speaker 1: bit notorious in the Norwegian press because she believes that
Speaker 1: she has clairvoyant abilities. If you remember from our d
Speaker 1: and Lorraine Warren episode, clairvoyance is the ability to see
Speaker 1: things that other people can't, kind of piercing the veil
Speaker 1: and seeing through space and time in ways the rest
Speaker 1: of us aren't able to. They call her the Princess
Speaker 1: of the Paranormal New York Times Rights quote. Since she
Speaker 1: was a child, she had seen people's feelings, and through
Speaker 1: her communication with horses and other animals, she said she
Speaker 1: had started talking to angels too. Oh okay now. She
Speaker 1: co founded a spiritual center in Away fifteen years ago
Speaker 1: which was called Angel School and it is now called
Speaker 1: Soul Spring, where she tells her students to make contact
Speaker 1: quote with the angels and the divine universe. I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is a Norwegian um. She once instructed
Speaker 1: her students to quote, ask your guardian angel if there's
Speaker 1: anything it wants to tell you, which I wonder if
Speaker 1: we've all got a guardian angel that at the end
Speaker 1: of our life is going to be like, well, you
Speaker 1: never asked? Well what he said? I saw you floundering,
Speaker 1: struggling your way through life, but you never asked. Or
Speaker 1: they show you like a video of your life where
Speaker 1: you can see them and they're like, hello, there's a
Speaker 1: car coming. How frustrating to your guardian angel. But no
Speaker 1: one can hear you. It feels like me and you sometimes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm always telling you, like, here's what you should be doing,
Speaker 1: and you're just like, blah blah blah. Is that you
Speaker 1: hate a minute? Well, I don't feel that. You don't
Speaker 1: listen to me. Maybe what I'm saying isn't quote useful
Speaker 1: or helpful. He still don't listen to a word of it. Well,
Speaker 1: I know that's so true. Well, these beliefs about clairvoyance
Speaker 1: and speaking to angels and stuff like that, so some
Speaker 1: people believe that too, um, but they're not for everyone.
Speaker 1: But Norway on the most for the most part, seems
Speaker 1: to have been pretty ambivalent about it. They're like, sure,
Speaker 1: Princess Martha, go for it, whatever you want. Before meeting
Speaker 1: her boyfriend Derek. Kind of the biggest scandal around her
Speaker 1: seems to have happened in Soul Spring. Let a woman
Speaker 1: named Lisa Williams do a lecture there, and Lisa Williams
Speaker 1: claim to fame is that she can talk to dead people,
Speaker 1: and people in Norway were like, Nah, that is not real.
Speaker 1: You can't talk to dead people. I don't think you
Speaker 1: should be telling people could do that. A bishop came
Speaker 1: out and was like, well, talking to angels is one thing,
Speaker 1: but dead people, that's crazy somewhere for real. So Martha
Speaker 1: had to come out and like quickly distance soul Spring
Speaker 1: from Lisa Williams. She's like, we have different practices, and
Speaker 1: she wasn't talking about that, and we had soul Spring.
Speaker 1: Don't even know why you talk to dead people when
Speaker 1: you can be talking to angels, so well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of saying not me. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: she made headlines again in ten when she and her
Speaker 1: then husband announced that they were divorcing. But other than that,
Speaker 1: they kind of didn't really care about this paranormal stuff.
Speaker 1: They're like, be be yourself, girl, a little bit of
Speaker 1: Shirley McLean, just like do your thing whatever. Why not.
Speaker 1: But then she met Derek in Los Angeles. They were
Speaker 1: immediately drawn to each other. She calls him her twin flame.
Speaker 1: But then he and Martha started doing a touring act
Speaker 1: called The Princess and the Shaman, and that got to
Speaker 1: be a little too much for the people of Norway.
Speaker 1: This guy, Direk Verett was born Derek Verrett and he
Speaker 1: claims to be a shaman, which I us is what
Speaker 1: mystically changed the e to a you in his name. Yes,
Speaker 1: which a shaman, by the way, is like a magical
Speaker 1: kind of healer character. But I suppose it's that's sort
Speaker 1: of its old meaning, whereas today you have shamans at
Speaker 1: like hotels. They have shamans some hotels and stuff, and
Speaker 1: it's just like we do meditation. Okay. And Derek has
Speaker 1: a lot of claims to be honest, but we'll start
Speaker 1: with what can be verified about this guy. He was
Speaker 1: born in nineteen seventy four. That's undisputed, and it seems
Speaker 1: like a concrete fact. He grew up in the San
Speaker 1: Francisco Bay area. Now. Not long ago, he told a
Speaker 1: Norwegian podcast that when he was sixteen years old, he
Speaker 1: threw a party in an abandoned house and some older
Speaker 1: teenagers showed up and they poured alcohol all over the
Speaker 1: stuff in the house and lit it on fire, which
Speaker 1: spread and engulf the entire house, which burned out, and
Speaker 1: that led to Direct being arrested and serving a year
Speaker 1: in prison. Oh, to me, sounds like a story you
Speaker 1: would tell. It's like, oh, no, some random teenagers came up,
Speaker 1: Oh why do I smell like booze? While they dumped
Speaker 1: alcohol everywhere, and we were just sitting around playing part cheesy.
Speaker 1: You know, we were eating popcorn and just have a
Speaker 1: normal teenager times, right, just regular yahsi over here. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It also sounds like something older teenagers
Speaker 1: would do, seniors crashing the junior's party or yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: in two thousand five, he married a twenty one year
Speaker 1: old woman of Czech nationality, and three years later he
Speaker 1: reported her to immigration authorities as an illegal resident, so
Speaker 1: she was then jailed and then deported. They divorced in
Speaker 1: two thousand nine, and he told Norwegian press that he
Speaker 1: did it because well, she exploited him for a green card,
Speaker 1: so naturally, you know it's time to take action and
Speaker 1: get this arrested and deported. A little confused about this story,
Speaker 1: because once you're married, don't you get it anyway. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I couldn't speak that because I don't really
Speaker 1: know about it. But I was a little confused by that. Still,
Speaker 1: it's pretty harsh. That's a cold, cold treatment. While he
Speaker 1: was married, he was also in a relationship with a
Speaker 1: mes sur named Hank Greenberg. Starting in two thousand seven.
Speaker 1: They had a company called Heaven on Earth where they
Speaker 1: did wellness sessions. They hosted a radio show together and
Speaker 1: they were engaged, but they broke it off, and now
Speaker 1: Hank is giving interviews saying that Derek was manipulative, that
Speaker 1: he brainwashes his followers. He told a Norwegian paper called
Speaker 1: Netavisen quote, I was completely brainwashed. It was so bad
Speaker 1: that my parents told me several times that they didn't recognize.
Speaker 1: He also said Derek once quote strangled me and threw
Speaker 1: me across the room. And Derek has had nothing but
Speaker 1: nice things to say. For his part, he told a
Speaker 1: Norwegian paper called doug Ladette quote, it was a wonderful
Speaker 1: experience and I will always love him. But he only
Speaker 1: wanted to be with men. That's fine, But for me,
Speaker 1: it's the unconditional love that's important. So it didn't work.
Speaker 1: I do not define myself as gay or bisexual. I
Speaker 1: only relate to one thing, and that is love. But
Speaker 1: then in the net of Eastern article, Hank says that
Speaker 1: he has a new girlfriend and they're planning their wedding,
Speaker 1: So I'm not That seems confusing. It could be a
Speaker 1: translation issue, though, so I will throw that out there.
Speaker 1: I had to Google translate the whole article. Who knows now.
Speaker 1: At some point Direc was living with his former manager,
Speaker 1: Tiana Grigo for six years. She has since come out
Speaker 1: and told a celebrity magazine called say Here or something
Speaker 1: like that in Norwegian, uh quote, Direc controlled my whole life.
Speaker 1: It was as if he became jealous of anything that
Speaker 1: stole his attention. I was not allowed to start a
Speaker 1: serious romantic relationship or raise my son. It was all
Speaker 1: about Derek. As far as we can tell, Derek hasn't
Speaker 1: responded to those allegations at all. So no, yeah, nothing
Speaker 1: to to say on his part for that now. Apparently
Speaker 1: early on in his career directed some modeling work and
Speaker 1: he appeared on several TV shows, which is how he
Speaker 1: got in with all these like celebrities, And according to
Speaker 1: New York Times, he's worked with and endorsed by all
Speaker 1: kinds of names like Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosario Dawson, Salma Blair,
Speaker 1: Billy Corgan, Nina Dobrev, Chris Pine, and a guy named
Speaker 1: Dave Astbury who's clean coffee brand Bulletproof, is the only
Speaker 1: coffee direct will drink. Otherwise he doesn't do caffeine well.
Speaker 1: When you got names like Gwyneth Paltrow and Billy Corgan
Speaker 1: backing you up. You know, it just screams trustworthy to me.
Speaker 1: I will say that there are some articles that kind
Speaker 1: of described some of like they witnessed some of his
Speaker 1: treatments I guess or whatever, and they saw people like
Speaker 1: shaking and vomiting and drumming their feet and had like
Speaker 1: having really crazy experience. I know. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it sounds great, you know, but I guess he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be pulling negative energy from you or something. So
Speaker 1: that's all coming out and then you feel amazing afterward.
Speaker 1: Maybe is ayahuascar? Because I know that will make you puke.
Speaker 1: Now this is my question. I was like, what's you
Speaker 1: given him to drink or eat that's making them like
Speaker 1: project out vomit and stuff. This is last week's chili.
Speaker 1: It will really clear the evil out of your hearts
Speaker 1: and stomachs and bowels. So that's what we can verify.
Speaker 1: That's why it seems to be pretty clear and present fact.
Speaker 1: But now we must welcome you to Derek Vere. It's
Speaker 1: unverifiable tidbits because as we said, he has a lot
Speaker 1: of claims and they're all amazing. Let us so let
Speaker 1: us look at them. These are including, but not limited to,
Speaker 1: He is a sixth generation shaman, born to a lineage
Speaker 1: of both Haitian voodoo magic and indigenous Norwegian medicine. His
Speaker 1: mother was a psychic who foresaw his marriage to Norwegian royalty,
Speaker 1: and his dad trained as a shaman but ran a
Speaker 1: construction business. Derek also claims that he is a reincarnated
Speaker 1: pharaoh from Egypt, and that he and Martha actually lived
Speaker 1: together at that time. So it's like a hawkman hawk
Speaker 1: girl kind of thing where you just keep reincarnating and
Speaker 1: finding each other. He told People Magazine, quote, I have
Speaker 1: memories of us in Egypt, and she was my queen.
Speaker 1: This is why when they met, they felt like they
Speaker 1: remembered each other, as they said, that's why they were
Speaker 1: immediately drawn, Which I mean, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: how things work. Maybe maybe they shared a past limit
Speaker 1: you know, Uh, you haven't watched The Fountain yet. We've
Speaker 1: been talking about watching that. Or I think it's Cloud
Speaker 1: Atlas is similar where it's like the same people living
Speaker 1: in different timelines. Look, all I'm saying is who knows.
Speaker 1: But when it's stacked up with some of these other claims,
Speaker 1: that's when it really becomes kind of kooky. Another one
Speaker 1: is he says he was spiritually initiated by one of
Speaker 1: his grandmother and an American woman who calls herself Princess
Speaker 1: Susannah Vondis of Croatia, but a Norwegian fact checking website
Speaker 1: called van True said that his grandmother died before Derek
Speaker 1: was born, and that Susannah is quote a fraud who
Speaker 1: claims to be a princess, because apparently Croatia has not
Speaker 1: had a native king since the twelfth century, So if
Speaker 1: she's claiming Croatian royal heritage somewhere in her line, They're like,
Speaker 1: there's no way it is impossible to trace that anyone
Speaker 1: could say they were descended from Croatian royalty. If actually,
Speaker 1: now that you mentioned that, I've been meaning to tell you,
Speaker 1: Prince Ivo is that. He also claims that he worked
Speaker 1: at a hospital in Israel healing children sick with cancer,
Speaker 1: but the hospital told that publication that as he had
Speaker 1: never worked there. How weird to make claims that are
Speaker 1: so obviously and they're so quickly. He might do some
Speaker 1: research first, seriously, make up hospital at least make it
Speaker 1: hard to track. In his twenty eighteen book Spirit Hacking,
Speaker 1: Derek claims that when he was twenty seven, he died
Speaker 1: for four minutes and twenty five seconds from hypertension. His
Speaker 1: organs shut down. The hospital wanted to take him off
Speaker 1: a life support, but his sister donated a kidney to him,
Speaker 1: and he woke up after a month in a coma.
Speaker 1: He told The New York Times, quote, I flatlined. I
Speaker 1: went to the other side. I got all the information
Speaker 1: on the other side. I came back. During this time,
Speaker 1: he says he foresaw the attacks on nine eleven, but
Speaker 1: said that quote, everyone must accept their destiny and it
Speaker 1: wasn't his role to intervene. Okay, now, okay, a couple
Speaker 1: of things. I got a few things to say, oddly enough.
Speaker 1: Um one of them. Sure, I mean, if his sister
Speaker 1: gave him a kidney, great, good for them. Glad he's better. Uh.
Speaker 1: Number two, Damn, he was dead for four minutes and
Speaker 1: twenty seven seconds, and he got all the formation on
Speaker 1: the other side during that time. There's not that much information.
Speaker 1: Very If I died for four minutes and then at
Speaker 1: the end, you know, some angel was like and that's
Speaker 1: all there is to know, I'd be like, damn, y'all
Speaker 1: got have written that down. This is not that complex.
Speaker 1: You can leave a voicemail everything I need. You finished
Speaker 1: up with God about all the answers of the universe,
Speaker 1: and you're like, this could have been an email. Third
Speaker 1: of all, wow, you knew about nine eleven and did
Speaker 1: nothing to prevent it. Nothing, because well, who am I
Speaker 1: to say something? Which also, had he said something, obviously
Speaker 1: everyone would have said he was crazy. But then if
Speaker 1: it happened, and then he's got some credibility, you would
Speaker 1: have had. I feel like he should have done it,
Speaker 1: but I don't know he's like or he would have
Speaker 1: looked like a suspect. Well, okay, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. How did you know this was going to happen? Well,
Speaker 1: I died for four minutes and God told me, all right,
Speaker 1: and you're going to Guantanama back all right. Derek also
Speaker 1: believes that cancer is a choice. He wrote in his
Speaker 1: book that he went to hospitals and asked cancer patients,
Speaker 1: including young children, quote, why do you want this cancer?
Speaker 1: And he said that relationship problems could be a potential
Speaker 1: cause for cancer. He said, you don't like your mom
Speaker 1: and dad, or you don't have a good relationship with
Speaker 1: your husband. Do you chose to have cancer? About it?
Speaker 1: Good God. He also wrote that doctors only prescribed chemotherapy
Speaker 1: because they want to get a big pay up for it.
Speaker 1: And what it sounds to me is like this guy
Speaker 1: doesn't know anyone who's suffered from cancer. Yeah, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm having a lot of members of my family suffered
Speaker 1: from cancer. Yeah. I have to say this one really
Speaker 1: pissed me off. And as you see, they're getting a
Speaker 1: little weirder everywhere you go. I'm like, you can say
Speaker 1: all day you're descended from Haitian voodoo magic or whatever.
Speaker 1: If you're doing meditation and wellness and making people feel good,
Speaker 1: I really don't care. But now we're getting to a
Speaker 1: point where you're telling people not to trust science about
Speaker 1: their cancer and that they can just not want it
Speaker 1: anymore and it will go away. Like that's not that's
Speaker 1: a little far uh. And then also to like mistreat
Speaker 1: their chemo there like mistrust and chemotherapy is like no.
Speaker 1: In on his podcast Ancient Wisdom Today, Derek and his
Speaker 1: guest Dave Asbury, who's the Bulletproof Coffee guy, they talk
Speaker 1: about how they don't ejaculate because it robs men of
Speaker 1: their spiritual energy and give them a quote ejaculation hangover.
Speaker 1: He's one of those. You would have been making that silverware.
Speaker 1: We did an episode if you haven't heard about the
Speaker 1: Oneida Compound, which was this whole cult way back in
Speaker 1: the day that that basically thought that that men should
Speaker 1: never ejaculate except to impregnated woman, and even then only
Speaker 1: with approval of the cult leader. That's right, so go
Speaker 1: back and check that out. In a previous interview with
Speaker 1: an Irish outlet, Derek said, quote, there are certain marks
Speaker 1: that women get on the inside of the vagina when
Speaker 1: they've had too many sex partners. They need to get
Speaker 1: that cleaned out, and I offer exercises for that which
Speaker 1: let me get in there and clean out the marks
Speaker 1: and your vagina, ma'am. It's for your spiritual health. They
Speaker 1: might be like key goals or something. Another outlet expands
Speaker 1: on this claim, saying he wrote in his book that
Speaker 1: casual sex attracts subterranean spirits that make impressions inside women.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what it's all about, what these demons about.
Speaker 1: It just sounds like split shaming to me because he's like, yes,
Speaker 1: you're having too much sex, so now you have you
Speaker 1: let the demons in now. This claim caused a Norwegian
Speaker 1: sexologist to say that he was quote well into fantasy
Speaker 1: land more politely, and The Times writes, quote what he
Speaker 1: actually said about the vagina. Mr Verrett said is that
Speaker 1: him in our absorbers meaning of negative energy after a
Speaker 1: trauma doesn't explain it. No, it doesn't. First of all,
Speaker 1: you talk about spirits, not trauma and energy. Secondly, why
Speaker 1: do you think sex isn't requires trauma? I don't know
Speaker 1: where that comes from. In an Instagram post recently, Derik
Speaker 1: shared a quote picture that read quote the reptiles are
Speaker 1: here to help humanity find true liberation, and in the
Speaker 1: caption wrote quote, I'm a hybrid species of reptilian and Andromeda,
Speaker 1: and I also hold the energies of the ancient spirits
Speaker 1: from the old world. There have been lies told about
Speaker 1: our species that I want to address. We are a
Speaker 1: cluster of beings. That means that we've come here to
Speaker 1: create structures that help people come into liberation. Reptilians are
Speaker 1: here to shake up the system in a big way. Look,
Speaker 1: this is not too far off from David huggins experience
Speaker 1: with aliens and from even more specifically our episode about
Speaker 1: Simon Parks who had sex with aliens and knew all
Speaker 1: about their hierarchies and all the different species and the
Speaker 1: reptilians that we're here to kind of miss everything up
Speaker 1: in the and it's like, you know, there's enough of
Speaker 1: them that sometimes I'm like, maybe maybe maybe all the
Speaker 1: aliens are gonna show up and be like, yeah, we've
Speaker 1: been manipulating you all along, to which point I'm gonna say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you want me to say? Great,
Speaker 1: you fooled me. This post was later deleted according to
Speaker 1: the but screenshots were published in the Norwegian press. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't can't anything from the internet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking of he did go on to say that there
Speaker 1: were malevolent entities called the Gray Ones who actually run
Speaker 1: the world, and the enslaved people by disrupting our frequencies
Speaker 1: with five g guy, Oh my god. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. The Gray Ones here do differentiate from Simon
Speaker 1: Parks and David Huggins because those guys both said the
Speaker 1: Grays were pretty hands off and chill. Oh that's right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. So this is a different alien story or
Speaker 1: I guess it's not even aliens, like a reptilian he's
Speaker 1: talking about. I don't either, But people were like really
Speaker 1: hated this post because of course it's a little it
Speaker 1: was really out there, but also the reptilian theory, especially
Speaker 1: when you combine it with five G conspiracy um, comes
Speaker 1: from David I. It's very anti Semitic. He has tried
Speaker 1: very hard to align himself with far right groups and stuff,
Speaker 1: and so it's like, all right, you know, this is
Speaker 1: a little we're getting to be hostile. We're getting to
Speaker 1: be in some territory that's really upsetting. In another Instagram video,
Speaker 1: he said that when he got COVID he realized it
Speaker 1: was because he was a workaholic and that he quote
Speaker 1: needed to take time to do his breathwork and listen
Speaker 1: to the ancestors. Which I'm like, that sounds like a
Speaker 1: great way to say, stay home from work and like
Speaker 1: don't do anything, which is what you're supposed to do
Speaker 1: when you get covid um. But then he said that
Speaker 1: his White light Bringer amulets healed his COVID and got
Speaker 1: quote the poisons out of my system. He has several
Speaker 1: amulets and Netta Vic and commissioned scientists to examine these
Speaker 1: amulets that he sells. The results say they were mainly
Speaker 1: plastic quote with only one die separating the light Bringer
Speaker 1: and the Ancient Truth amulets. And by the way, his
Speaker 1: spirit optimized. Our amulet is for sale on his website
Speaker 1: for two hundred and twenty two dollars. So these are
Speaker 1: not cheap little chokes. No, well they heal you like you, hey,
Speaker 1: where this if you have COVID and within seven to
Speaker 1: fourteen days you'll feel all better. I betact it works well.
Speaker 1: And you know that if you ask like Gwyneth Paltrow
Speaker 1: about this, she'd be like, it's not about what the
Speaker 1: amulets made up. It's the energy that he puts in
Speaker 1: it or some ship. And it's like, all right, you
Speaker 1: can't be saved people. You throw them a million preservers you. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I for one invite Gwyneth Paltrow to come on the
Speaker 1: show and talk to us about how that's different. You know,
Speaker 1: please do we would love to hear story. Honestly, Her
Speaker 1: conscious uncoupling with Chris Martin is on the list there somewhere,
Speaker 1: so talk about them well. In June two, Martha announced
Speaker 1: her engagement to Direct, which is really what kicked off
Speaker 1: the media storm of articles looking into his past and
Speaker 1: all his various claims. For their part, Marta and Direct
Speaker 1: think that most of the backlash is due to, first off,
Speaker 1: how the media always reacts for a royal engagement, which
Speaker 1: we've seen many examples of course, and also racism. Now
Speaker 1: Direct tells a news outlet VG that many in Norway
Speaker 1: quote don't want a black man in the royal family,
Speaker 1: and that quote I never experienced so much racism as
Speaker 1: when I came to Norway, you know, a great point,
Speaker 1: perfectly fair. Yeah, yeah, we're we already talked about Megan
Speaker 1: Markle experiencing him pretty insane racism in in a country
Speaker 1: that's more diverse than Norway. So I imagine, you know,
Speaker 1: he might actually feel like very out of place and
Speaker 1: get all kinds of weird comments and stuff. Who knows well,
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously he's got some people saying some
Speaker 1: pretty bad things about him in his past right, that
Speaker 1: he was manipulative and controlling and violent. Um, there can
Speaker 1: be people who are worthy of criticism that you know,
Speaker 1: either overtly racist or just systemically racist. News agencies and
Speaker 1: people in general will also treat racistly, you know, like
Speaker 1: they will be racist about their commentary. Even if he's
Speaker 1: got valid things about him that are worthy of criticism,
Speaker 1: they're also going to get racist about it. And that's
Speaker 1: of course, that's very true. But Derek also compared himself
Speaker 1: to quote geniuses like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, and the
Speaker 1: Wright Brothers and Helen Keller. Notably none of them are black.
Speaker 1: I have to say, it's weird to be like talking
Speaker 1: about racism and then compare yourself to a lot of
Speaker 1: white folks. That Some people have pushed back on the
Speaker 1: claims of racism, saying that he's just trying to distract
Speaker 1: people from his weird conspiracy theories, including a black comedian
Speaker 1: from Norway called Yonah's Dome who told nedavis In that
Speaker 1: people don't like direc because quote, he is a con
Speaker 1: man who says horrible things. So again, he's the guy
Speaker 1: is worthy of criticism clearly, and it could be both that.
Speaker 1: I think it's probably both. It could be both. Like
Speaker 1: if Derek was like a normal, quiet dude and he
Speaker 1: was getting similar treatment, it would be easier to believe.
Speaker 1: But he does have a lot of reasons to criticize him,
Speaker 1: and a lot of reasons why people would be like,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't want this guy in the royal family.
Speaker 1: Seems like he's going to tell people not to believe
Speaker 1: in medical science and to take an amulet for every
Speaker 1: cold or whatever. Well, and racism is tricky because you know,
Speaker 1: people often don't know that they're being racists. They don't
Speaker 1: know the things they're saying are rooted in racism. And
Speaker 1: oftentimes people in reasons where there are no people of color, Uh,
Speaker 1: it is, it's very easy for them to unknowingly be
Speaker 1: racist because they just don't have, you know, the experience
Speaker 1: of the education and the prize. You see someone that
Speaker 1: looks different, you know, so yeah, but it is, it is.
Speaker 1: You know. I don't like to discount his claims of
Speaker 1: that because that's his that's his personal experience. I could
Speaker 1: never say one way or the other. If he walks
Speaker 1: around feeling uncomfortable, that's that's that's his personal life or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I did have a friend um who went to
Speaker 1: Amsterdam and he said, He's like, we were walking around
Speaker 1: the red light district and the prostitutes wouldn't even talk
Speaker 1: to me. They were like, not you anyone but you
Speaker 1: he was like, it was really crazy. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: and the Amsterdam is a different place in Norway, but
Speaker 1: you know, I was just thinking about his experience when
Speaker 1: I was looking into this, and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe he's got a point. So with all this rigamarole
Speaker 1: around direct and and march Uh and all their pseudoscience
Speaker 1: and alternative medicine stuff. On November, the Royal Family announced
Speaker 1: that Marta and Derrek quote are seeking to distinguish more
Speaker 1: clearly between their activities and the Royal House of Norway.
Speaker 1: So that's why she chose to do this. Basically, it
Speaker 1: was just they were like, let us just separate what
Speaker 1: you're doing with what we're doing. People won't feel like
Speaker 1: you're influencing policy or something. So Marta will retain her
Speaker 1: title of Princess, but the couple quote will not indicate
Speaker 1: an association with the Royal House of Norway in their
Speaker 1: social media channels. So no more like Princess and the
Speaker 1: Shaman Wellness Tours. According to The New York Times, Marta
Speaker 1: also said in an Instagram video that she quote believed
Speaker 1: in scientifically proven healthcare, but quote acupuncture, yoga, meditation crystals
Speaker 1: could also help that makes me feel like they were like,
Speaker 1: can you also just say that you believe in chemo
Speaker 1: or something? Can you just throw in there like you
Speaker 1: don't think that you could cut your COVID with an amulet?
Speaker 1: And that's reasonable? I think so. I think you could
Speaker 1: totally look to other forms of healthcare that are healthful
Speaker 1: without discounting like proven medicines. Yeah, that's it's It's just
Speaker 1: as bad for western medicine, for lack of a better word,
Speaker 1: to discount traditionally, you know, alternative holistic medicine as it
Speaker 1: is for holistic medicine to say we don't have any
Speaker 1: use for that, because I'm like, yeah, we had St.
Speaker 1: John's work a long time ago, and guess what, we
Speaker 1: developed something else as well for a reason. So, now
Speaker 1: that she has backed off her royal duties and they've
Speaker 1: announced their engagement and they're planning their wedding, my big
Speaker 1: question are they going to move to America like everybody else? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You've got Harry and Megan are in
Speaker 1: l a and Maco and k are in New York.
Speaker 1: So these two are gonna have to go to Chicago.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm going to say, come to Atlanta put
Speaker 1: them in Nebraska. Wouldn't it be funny if they just
Speaker 1: like went just again, not to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Baby. Actually,
Speaker 1: I will say that their plan was to move to America.
Speaker 1: So at some point we're America. We're just going to
Speaker 1: be chuck full of news. To be right, former you
Speaker 1: don't have to call him that. Thanks lord, my lord,
Speaker 1: thank you, my lord. Wow. A bunch of crazy stories here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's Those are our royals that have dipped in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years and said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I keep it. That's pretty exciting, you know, good for them,
Speaker 1: you know. And at the end of this episode, it's
Speaker 1: kind of funny hearing about all these royals and their
Speaker 1: strife and they're changing up, getting out of the royal families,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I shouldn't say this, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't send one of our episodes. Damn well, you
Speaker 1: know they're all fine, right. It is incredibly rich people problems,
Speaker 1: it is. I do find it an interesting thread the
Speaker 1: press all throughout um and how and how crazy it
Speaker 1: is with your lack of privacy and how much people
Speaker 1: like you said, we don't have a monarch here. We've
Speaker 1: never grown up in a monarchy, but how much people feel,
Speaker 1: um some ownership over that royal family. I think it's
Speaker 1: just something I'll never really be able to understand, but
Speaker 1: it's clearly a big deal. And it's like a weird,
Speaker 1: heavy weighted blanket over all these royals, and you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm suffocating your love and also hate, right, And I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, more sympathetically. I remember kind of coming to
Speaker 1: the realization here, you know, as a younger person that
Speaker 1: celebrities are human beings that have day to day lives
Speaker 1: and cook their own dinners and have children they care about,
Speaker 1: you know, like that there it's easy to dehumanize uh,
Speaker 1: wealthy famous people yea. And in some ways obviously, of
Speaker 1: course they they're not real people in the same way,
Speaker 1: you know, very different problems, but in a lot of
Speaker 1: ways they are. You know, having worked on set in
Speaker 1: TV and movies and stuff, and I met a few people,
Speaker 1: uh that are just like lovely normal people that probably have,
Speaker 1: you know, partly a heinous existence of just constant attention
Speaker 1: and cameras on them at all times. Everything they do
Speaker 1: is judged, and that sucks for anyone, like it sucks.
Speaker 1: I never had a princess poll. I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't want it. That seems like a lot
Speaker 1: people want to tell you who to who to get
Speaker 1: married to, but also they have just everything you do
Speaker 1: is so scrutinized. I'm like, when I go to the
Speaker 1: grocery store and I see someone that I know, I'm
Speaker 1: afraid they're gonna see me, like duck behind that, you know,
Speaker 1: an impulse shell for something like don't see me. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine every time you step out of house, it's
Speaker 1: just cameras constantly. It would be really hard. Another interesting
Speaker 1: thing here with the attacks, it's like, obviously if we
Speaker 1: look at Harry Megan for just the most prime example,
Speaker 1: racism massively at play right, but also a huge part
Speaker 1: of it. I think it's classism too, because it's you're
Speaker 1: literally in the highest class of people there is if
Speaker 1: you're a royal person, and literally you grew up with
Speaker 1: generations before you believing and teaching you you are better
Speaker 1: than everyone else. Everyone else is a step down um
Speaker 1: and the people average every day non royal people believe
Speaker 1: that too. And I think in a lot of monarchies, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just so embedded in the culture and the right.
Speaker 1: So there is this sort of like, wait, you're not
Speaker 1: as special as I thought you were. If you're just
Speaker 1: dating a regular person. That makes me feel like everything's
Speaker 1: a lie and now I don't understand my exists and
Speaker 1: so my brain is melting. Well, yeah, when when marco
Speaker 1: was Uh found out that she was working as an
Speaker 1: unpaid volunteer, there were a lot of headlines about that
Speaker 1: and not that was, you know, a dignified position for
Speaker 1: her to be in and all this stuff, and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, you know again, it's really hard to
Speaker 1: grasp it because I don't have I'm like these I
Speaker 1: have the sense of these are people who live their
Speaker 1: lives and they need to be able to live their lives.
Speaker 1: That's my opinion. And also the country that we live
Speaker 1: in is opinion as little as we practice it. That
Speaker 1: is how we grow up. That's the mindset we're in.
Speaker 1: So to me, I'm like, you should be able to
Speaker 1: snap your fingers and say I'd do what I was
Speaker 1: my life. You know. Um, I don't feel that burden
Speaker 1: of responsibility that they must feel. It must be really
Speaker 1: hard to step away in this way, and I feel
Speaker 1: like a disappointment or feel like you're not living up
Speaker 1: for people or whatever. So I kind of admire it,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll say I admire all these folks for saying,
Speaker 1: you know what you get one life? You know, this
Speaker 1: is how I want to live it. I I want
Speaker 1: to make my own way. Well, my message to all
Speaker 1: the monarchs out there, all the royals, as you come
Speaker 1: into power, as you as you succeed the throne, uh,
Speaker 1: go ahead and dissolve your monarchy. I really think that's
Speaker 1: just the that's the simple solution here. Get rid of
Speaker 1: it no more. Everyone will love it, Yeah, I will.
Speaker 1: Then you come on the show and tell us all
Speaker 1: about it. If you'd like to come on the show
Speaker 1: and you're a royal, please shoot us an email and
Speaker 1: would love you. Hey if you if you're not a royal,
Speaker 1: has it come on anyway? I would love to have you.
Speaker 1: We would love to hear from you. Anyway. Let us
Speaker 1: know what your thought of these royals and the ideas
Speaker 1: you have your future episodes. You just want to say, hi, Yeah,
Speaker 1: why don't you shoot us an email. We're ridic Romance
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