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Speaker 1: Welcome to Part Time Genius, the production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: I Guess what Will? What's that? So? I was looking

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Speaker 1: up facts about the Queen this week, and one of

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Speaker 1: the things I always forget is how fussy royals can

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Speaker 1: be about titles. So if the Queen were properly introduced

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Speaker 1: to you, her title would actually read Elizabeth the Second,

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Speaker 1: by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom, of

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Speaker 1: Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of her other realms

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Speaker 1: and territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's kind of a mouthful, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's a little clunky for a business card. And it's

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Speaker 1: funny because in all of that word salad, you'll notice

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Speaker 1: she doesn't actually use her last name. And that's partially

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Speaker 1: because the family has changed names over the years and

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Speaker 1: sort of picked up windsor because of the castle they own,

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Speaker 1: But you know, it could also be Mount Badden, because

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Speaker 1: that's Prince Philip's last name. It's a whole thing anyway. Now,

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Speaker 1: she's kind of like Madonna or Prince and she doesn't

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Speaker 1: need a last name to get by. But the other

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Speaker 1: thing I noticed is that even though she has quite

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Speaker 1: a lot of titles there. It's actually a much more

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Speaker 1: tasteful version compared to some other rulers. How do you mean?

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Speaker 1: So for comparison, I pulled the dictator idia means title

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Speaker 1: and you know dictators are not known for their subtlety,

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Speaker 1: and uh, this is how he insisted on being addressed.

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Speaker 1: It goes His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal all

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Speaker 1: the Earth and Fishes of the Seas, and conqueror of

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Speaker 1: the British Empire in Africa in general and Uganda in particular.

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Speaker 1: It's it's just a little more ostentatious. Plus the Queen,

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Speaker 1: you know, actually technically owns all the swans and fish

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Speaker 1: and dolphins off the coast of her lands, but she's

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Speaker 1: left that off her title. She totally should have kept

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Speaker 1: that one in there. I don't know I would have

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Speaker 1: included that if I owns. That is why you're not

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Speaker 1: queen anyway. Speaking of titles, today's show is all about

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Speaker 1: nine regal facts about British royals. It includes from the

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Speaker 1: weird ways they eat dessert to the unusual religions they've

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Speaker 1: inspired to the long lost American cousins who are trying

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Speaker 1: to get a piece of that throne. Why don't we

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Speaker 1: dive in hei their podcast listeners, Welcome to Part Time Genius.

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Speaker 1: I'm Will Pearson and it's always I'm joined by my

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Speaker 1: good friend man Guesto Ticketer and on the other side

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Speaker 1: of my computer screen wearing a lovely velvet hat. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I go, I feel like this would look right at

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Speaker 1: home in the Queen's collection. I mean it, it is

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Speaker 1: really really fancy. But that's our friend, the producer Lowell.

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Speaker 1: This is it is quite the half. You know. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this, what clar pastel? Would you say?

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Speaker 1: That is? Maga? Do you think it's like Robin's egg

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Speaker 1: blue or what? What? What would be your guest Robin's

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Speaker 1: egg That's what I've been thinking. Robin zag blue, maybe

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Speaker 1: a c foam. I I don't know. You're clearly better

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Speaker 1: at colors. Yeah, it's definitely robin zeg blue. But it

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Speaker 1: looks great whatever the exact color is. And of course

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Speaker 1: we've got our buddy Gabe in the third seed here

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Speaker 1: hatless unfortunately, but we're excited to have him back in

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Speaker 1: studio or whatever this is. Well, I'm thrilled to be here, guys,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me back. I missed the memo on

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Speaker 1: the hats, but still good to be there. Always good

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Speaker 1: to see if so today we're talking about British royals,

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Speaker 1: and partially because Mango and I were talking a few

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Speaker 1: weeks back about how long the Queen has rained. Now

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Speaker 1: apparently it was Her Majesty's ninety four birthday at the

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Speaker 1: start of COVID, but she was just twenty six years

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Speaker 1: old when she ascended the throne. So she's been on

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Speaker 1: the throne for sixty eight years, which is just insane

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Speaker 1: and in fact, most British people straight up weren't a

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Speaker 1: lot when Elizabeth the Second ascended the throne. The UK's

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Speaker 1: Office of Statistics did a report on this back in

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Speaker 1: I think it was two thousand seventeen, and according to

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Speaker 1: the data of current citizens have never known a monarch

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Speaker 1: besides the current Queen, which is just wild to think about.

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Speaker 1: But more than that, look at who she's outlasted. Fourteen

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Speaker 1: British Prime ministers have come and gone in that time,

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Speaker 1: many lifetimes, I mean her her reign. I looked this

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Speaker 1: maybe we'll let Gabe lead off. Today gave what is

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Speaker 1: the most important fact you have about the queen? So

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this qualifies as important per se,

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Speaker 1: but it is one of my favorites, and it's the

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Speaker 1: fact that Queen Elizabeth the Second was once the proud

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Speaker 1: owner of no fewer than six big mouth billy bass.

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Speaker 1: out there what a billy basses? Yeah? Sure, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's ridiculous for starters, and I guess for those of

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Speaker 1: you who somehow don't remember, the big mouth Billy bass

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Speaker 1: it would start singing in a really ridiculous, soulful voice.

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Speaker 1: I love that you just explained what this was for,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know how you could take me to

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Speaker 1: the river and it was one of those things. I

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Speaker 1: think it was the quickest thing that went from funny

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Speaker 1: I mean it that novelty war then pretty quickly. But

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Speaker 1: did Billy Beast sing any other songs? I was actually

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Speaker 1: trying to remember. Yeah, just one other, which was don't

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Speaker 1: worry be Happy. That's right, I remember this actually now

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Speaker 1: that you say that, that's really funny. So so tell

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Speaker 1: us how did this end up in like her Majesty's hand, Like,

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Speaker 1: how did she fall in love with it? Yeah? Good questions. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess the Princess Royal is the one

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Speaker 1: the Queen Elizabeth fell in love with her big mouth

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Speaker 1: I mean we also know, thankfully that the Queen was

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Speaker 1: given a Rocky the Singing Lobster for her birthday that

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Speaker 1: Singing Lobster. Rocky was like Billie's crustacean cousin, I guess

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Speaker 1: the best part is the Queen apparently loved to sting

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Speaker 1: makes me like her more. I mean, it's just such

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Speaker 1: a great fact. I also kind of like to imagine

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Speaker 1: of six billies, Like, does that mean she's ditched her

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Speaker 1: has been twenty years, so I'm thinking the odds are that,

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Speaker 1: you know, her big mouth Billy's eventually wound up in

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Speaker 1: why is that? Well, there are a lot of rules

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Speaker 1: about giving gifts to the Royal family, and one of

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Speaker 1: them is that they don't actually own the gifts you

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Speaker 1: the actual items are considered part of the royal collection.

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Speaker 1: So since Rocky the Lobster was a birthday present, the

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Speaker 1: of him wouldn't really be her call. To make I

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Speaker 1: feel like this fact just keeps getting better, Like I

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Speaker 1: love the Queen may be forced to own a singing

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Speaker 1: lobster and perpetuity this is it's just too good game. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, from what I read, she has a great

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Speaker 1: sense of humor, which makes sense with the story, and

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Speaker 1: apparently she's pretty good at impressions too, so one of

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Speaker 1: her former chaplains told the Associated Press that quote the

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Speaker 1: Queen imitating the landing of a concord jet is one

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Speaker 1: of the funniest things you could ever see. Sounds right

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Speaker 1: to me, right, and it doesn't sound dated at all.

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Speaker 1: I honestly loved the idea of the queen doing comedy

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Speaker 1: side and it's like completely relatable jokes from the eighties

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Speaker 1: about riding the concord and like what happens when your

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Speaker 1: something I just learned. The Royal family has an elaborate

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Speaker 1: Actually this is weird, but it was just recently. I

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Speaker 1: was thinking about that episode of Seinfeld where George starts

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Speaker 1: I totally do. I Mean the weird thing is there's

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Speaker 1: is ridiculous. Or for bananas, you cut off both ends

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Speaker 1: the middle, from end to end, and then you spread

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Speaker 1: It is really really easy, guys. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: we're not all eating fruit like that. No, no, that

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Speaker 1: that's that's actually how how I mind bananas. I don't

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Speaker 1: even understand how you'd eat them any other way? Is

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Speaker 1: there another way? So I have to tell you, guys

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Speaker 1: about this weird tradition that I was reading about. Every year,

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Speaker 1: the Royal family gathers for a big Christmas dinner at

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Speaker 1: their estate in Norfolk, and if a family member wants

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Speaker 1: to eat that night, they have to indulge the Queen

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Speaker 1: in this odd activity first. And it's gonna sound weird,

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Speaker 1: but the Queen asked each guest to weigh themselves twice

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Speaker 1: that they are. But according to Cosmo, the tradition goes

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Speaker 1: famine and as a result, the king was concerned about

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Speaker 1: were getting enough to eat on Christmas. So every year

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Speaker 1: he would drag out a pair of antique scales and

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Speaker 1: make sure they've been fed well. And obviously food shortages

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Speaker 1: rejoice all citizens of this great nation called Great Britain,

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Speaker 1: for the legend was not a myth, but was indeed

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Speaker 1: men of the West are now returning and now is

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Speaker 1: the time of the return of the king. So I

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Speaker 1: and like let her eat his cheese, and like, what's

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Speaker 1: going on? I mean, if it's convincing enough, I guess.

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Speaker 1: But according to the ad, he was giving legal notice

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Speaker 1: in thirty days, along with all the land, assets and

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Speaker 1: titles due to him. However, he did not intend to

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Speaker 1: claim the throne right away due to his you know,

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Speaker 1: which I say, that's kind of a classy move. So

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Speaker 1: what happened after he gave her this notice? You're gonna

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Speaker 1: be shocked. But but nothing happened, and so Buckingham Palace

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Speaker 1: appointed King of wheat Ridge. It's almost as good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's almost as good. Um, but we did a guy's

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Speaker 1: nine pretty good royal facts and and I I think

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Speaker 1: it's time to crown a winner. So for my part,

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Speaker 1: I like that Will managed to sneak a little America

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Speaker 1: undo our episode. But you know, gives big mouth Billy

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Speaker 1: bassa run there, really take it over. Yeah, you good

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Speaker 1: with giving him the trophy? No, I'm definitely good with that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there was any question. I think there

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Speaker 1: would have been a revolt among our listeners if we've

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Speaker 1: given it to anybody else this week. All right, well,

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Speaker 1: thanks guys. I couldn't have done it, of course without

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Speaker 1: Prince Philip praised be his name. All right, well that's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for today's Part Time Genius from Mangush,

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Speaker 1: Gabe Lowell and myself. Thanks so much for listening, and

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