WEBVTT - What's the Correct Way for a Queen to Eat a Banana? 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.200 Welcome to Part Time Genius, the production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.160 I Guess what Will? What's that? So? I was looking 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.119 up facts about the Queen this week, and one of 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.080 the things I always forget is how fussy royals can 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.120 be about titles. So if the Queen were properly introduced 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.200 to you, her title would actually read Elizabeth the Second, 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.639 by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom, of 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.680 Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of her other realms 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.880 and territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.280 I feel like that's kind of a mouthful, yeah, I mean, 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:41.680 it's a little clunky for a business card. And it's 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.560 funny because in all of that word salad, you'll notice 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.479 she doesn't actually use her last name. And that's partially 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.559 because the family has changed names over the years and 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.240 sort of picked up windsor because of the castle they own, 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.120 But you know, it could also be Mount Badden, because 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.440 that's Prince Philip's last name. It's a whole thing anyway. Now, 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.520 she's kind of like Madonna or Prince and she doesn't 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.080 need a last name to get by. But the other 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.320 thing I noticed is that even though she has quite 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.720 a lot of titles there. It's actually a much more 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.920 tasteful version compared to some other rulers. How do you mean? 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.160 So for comparison, I pulled the dictator idia means title 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.560 and you know dictators are not known for their subtlety, 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.640 and uh, this is how he insisted on being addressed. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:26.560 It goes His Excellency President for Life Field Marshal all 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.440 Hajji dr DA mean data V C D s O 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.160 M c cb E, Lord of all the Beasts of 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.280 the Earth and Fishes of the Seas, and conqueror of 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.600 the British Empire in Africa in general and Uganda in particular. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:44.600 It's it's just a little more ostentatious. Plus the Queen, 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.319 you know, actually technically owns all the swans and fish 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.800 and dolphins off the coast of her lands, but she's 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.240 left that off her title. She totally should have kept 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:53.720 that one in there. I don't know I would have 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.760 included that if I owns. That is why you're not 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:01.360 queen anyway. Speaking of titles, today's show is all about 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.880 nine regal facts about British royals. It includes from the 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.360 weird ways they eat dessert to the unusual religions they've 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.400 inspired to the long lost American cousins who are trying 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.480 to get a piece of that throne. Why don't we 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:37.000 dive in hei their podcast listeners, Welcome to Part Time Genius. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.240 I'm Will Pearson and it's always I'm joined by my 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.800 good friend man Guesto Ticketer and on the other side 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.440 of my computer screen wearing a lovely velvet hat. Honestly, 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.480 I go, I feel like this would look right at 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.000 home in the Queen's collection. I mean it, it is 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.560 really really fancy. But that's our friend, the producer Lowell. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:57.560 This is it is quite the half. You know. Actually, 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.760 I was thinking about this, what clar pastel? Would you say? 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.040 That is? Maga? Do you think it's like Robin's egg 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.480 blue or what? What? What would be your guest Robin's 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:09.760 egg That's what I've been thinking. Robin zag blue, maybe 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.320 a c foam. I I don't know. You're clearly better 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.359 at colors. Yeah, it's definitely robin zeg blue. But it 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.720 looks great whatever the exact color is. And of course 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.919 we've got our buddy Gabe in the third seed here 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.040 hatless unfortunately, but we're excited to have him back in 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:29.040 studio or whatever this is. Well, I'm thrilled to be here, guys, 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.520 thanks for having me back. I missed the memo on 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.839 the hats, but still good to be there. Always good 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.080 to see if so today we're talking about British royals, 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.560 and partially because Mango and I were talking a few 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.080 weeks back about how long the Queen has rained. Now 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.080 apparently it was Her Majesty's ninety four birthday at the 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.080 start of COVID, but she was just twenty six years 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.880 old when she ascended the throne. So she's been on 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:56.760 the throne for sixty eight years, which is just insane 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.680 and in fact, most British people straight up weren't a 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.320 lot when Elizabeth the Second ascended the throne. The UK's 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.960 Office of Statistics did a report on this back in 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.800 I think it was two thousand seventeen, and according to 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:13.160 the data of current citizens have never known a monarch 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.839 besides the current Queen, which is just wild to think about. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.600 But more than that, look at who she's outlasted. Fourteen 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.159 British Prime ministers have come and gone in that time, 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.880 and thirteen different US presidents. I mean, that is insane 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.560 and and maybe she'll see fourteen, depending on how our 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.640 November election goes, which you know, it feels like so 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.880 many lifetimes, I mean her her reign. I looked this 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:42.120 up actually starts with Truman in office. But uh uh, 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.039 maybe we'll let Gabe lead off. Today gave what is 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.400 the most important fact you have about the queen? So 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.400 I don't know if this qualifies as important per se, 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.839 but it is one of my favorites, and it's the 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.840 fact that Queen Elizabeth the Second was once the proud 0:04:55.920 --> 0:05:00.800 owner of no fewer than six big mouth billy bass. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.640 Can you guys believe it? I love I I really 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.599 love that. That's where you're starting. And I actually knew 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.920 that she had one billy bass, but I don't think 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.360 I realized she had six. But maybe remind the listeners 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.640 out there what a billy basses? Yeah? Sure, I mean 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.560 it's ridiculous for starters, and I guess for those of 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.000 you who somehow don't remember, the big mouth Billy bass 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.680 was a novelty wall mounted fish and uh you you 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.640 put it on your wall like a trophy, and it 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.120 had some sort of you know, light sensor in or 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.520 motion sensor, so when you walked by. It would turn 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.040 its head off the mountain and face you, and then 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.840 it would start singing in a really ridiculous, soulful voice. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.280 I love that you just explained what this was for, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:52.000 but I don't know how you could take me to 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.599 the river and it was one of those things. I 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.320 think it was the quickest thing that went from funny 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.520 to so unfunny by the second time that you saw it. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.359 I mean it that novelty war then pretty quickly. But 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.839 did Billy Beast sing any other songs? I was actually 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.480 trying to remember. Yeah, just one other, which was don't 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:16.560 worry be Happy. That's right, I remember this actually now 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.800 that you say that, that's really funny. So so tell 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.000 us how did this end up in like her Majesty's hand, Like, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.240 how did she fall in love with it? Yeah? Good questions. So, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.840 I mean, I guess the Princess Royal is the one 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.479 to blame for this. She uh introduced them to the 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.240 Queen back into thousand and uh. It was reported to 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.799 the Queen Elizabeth fell in love with her big mouth 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:43.599 Billy Bass immediately, and soon after she had six of 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.880 her own installed at Balmoral Castle, including one that she 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.839 actually had mounted on top of the grand piano. And 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.599 I mean we also know, thankfully that the Queen was 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.000 given a Rocky the Singing Lobster for her birthday that 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.280 year too, so quite a menagerie. What is Rocky the 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.360 Singing Lobster. Rocky was like Billie's crustacean cousin, I guess 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:12.160 you could say, so basically same deal, singing lobster. His 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.480 repertoire included rock the boat and uh that do a 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.600 did He song, which I know you guys. Yeah. And 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.640 the best part is the Queen apparently loved to sting 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.840 along with them. I know we've talked about how annoying 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.680 this thing was, but for some weird reason, this actually 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.480 makes me like her more. I mean, it's just such 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.920 a great fact. I also kind of like to imagine 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.640 that she sets them all off at once, like Rocky 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.080 the Lobster, all six billies, and then she just basking 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.880 all this chaos, Like it's just so fun to imagine. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.400 I I want to go back for a second, because 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.760 I think you said she was once the proud owner 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.760 of six billies, Like, does that mean she's ditched her 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.680 collection over the years or what what's happened to them? Yeah, 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.800 I guess we can't say for sure, right, but it 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.600 has been twenty years, so I'm thinking the odds are that, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.160 you know, her big mouth Billy's eventually wound up in 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.640 the trash with you know, everybody else's. There is a 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.520 chance the fish and Rocky are still with her, though, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.200 why is that? Well, there are a lot of rules 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.320 about giving gifts to the Royal family, and one of 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.360 them is that they don't actually own the gifts you 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.480 give them. They can wear them or use them, but 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.000 the actual items are considered part of the royal collection. 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.840 So since Rocky the Lobster was a birthday present, the 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:35.240 Queen was technically holding him in trust, so getting rid 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.080 of him wouldn't really be her call. To make I 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.360 feel like this fact just keeps getting better, Like I 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.600 love the Queen may be forced to own a singing 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:47.920 lobster and perpetuity this is it's just too good game. Well, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.800 I mean, from what I read, she has a great 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.439 sense of humor, which makes sense with the story, and 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.320 apparently she's pretty good at impressions too, so one of 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.680 her former chaplains told the Associated Press that quote the 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.560 Queen imitating the landing of a concord jet is one 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:08.040 of the funniest things you could ever see. Sounds right 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:12.560 to me, right, and it doesn't sound dated at all. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.840 I honestly loved the idea of the queen doing comedy 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.600 side and it's like completely relatable jokes from the eighties 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.360 about riding the concord and like what happens when your 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:28.040 butler brings that you're the wrong type of caviar or something. Um. So, 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:29.760 speaking of things that would be fun to watch, here's 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.400 something I just learned. The Royal family has an elaborate 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:36.280 protocol for when they eat fruit at formal events. So 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.319 this is according to a chef who worked at Buckingham 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.360 Palace for years, no food served at a royal banquet 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:45.680 should ever be eaten by hand, including apples, bananas, and grapes. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.920 Actually this is weird, but it was just recently. I 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.400 was thinking about that episode of Seinfeld where George starts 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.200 eating candy bars with cutlery and then people start eating 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.120 Eminem's with a spoon. Do you remember this episode? Yeah, 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.560 I totally do. I Mean the weird thing is there's 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.560 a particular way every fruit should be cut and eaten 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.920 according to the Royals, like um with a pair. The 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.040 Royal ways to slice off the top and then use 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.000 a teaspoon to eat it like a boiled egg, which 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.600 is ridiculous. Or for bananas, you cut off both ends 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.560 of the banana and then you slice the peel down 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.960 the middle, from end to end, and then you spread 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.480 the peel apart with your utensils and like slice the 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.520 fruit into tiny circles you can fork into your mouth. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.120 It is really really easy, guys. I don't know why 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.000 we're not all eating fruit like that. No, no, that 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.000 that's that's actually how how I mind bananas. I don't 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.440 even understand how you'd eat them any other way? Is 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.200 there another way? So I have to tell you, guys 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.000 about this weird tradition that I was reading about. Every year, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.080 the Royal family gathers for a big Christmas dinner at 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.480 their estate in Norfolk, and if a family member wants 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.120 to eat that night, they have to indulge the Queen 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.080 in this odd activity first. And it's gonna sound weird, 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.760 but the Queen asked each guest to weigh themselves twice 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.439 during the evening, both before and after the dinner. But 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.679 it's like, you're right, that does sound weird, and I mean, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.080 what are they like using like super fragile Victorian dining 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:12.440 chairs or something like why aren't they weighing themselves? Actually, 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.840 I think the chairs are pretty sturdy. I'm just guessing 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.480 that they are. But according to Cosmo, the tradition goes 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.440 all the way back to King Edward the Seven. So 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.800 in the early nineteen hundreds there's been a lot of 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.520 famine and as a result, the king was concerned about 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.679 the health of his guests and whether or not they 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.680 were getting enough to eat on Christmas. So every year 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.120 he would drag out a pair of antique scales and 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:38.080 have each guest weighed before and after dinner, just to 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.559 make sure they've been fed well. And obviously food shortages 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.439 haven't been you know, much of an issue during the 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.120 Queen's reign. But she apparently loves this weird tradition. I mean, 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.160 she just gets weirder and weirder, which is great, but 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.400 she still insists that her family step on those same 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.600 old scales each Christmas, which I guess is a small 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.559 price to pay for what's probably an amazing spread. That's 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.839 a good point, and honestly, you know, whatever's on the menu, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.439 it goes without saying that most people need an invite 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.080 if you want to dine at the royal table. But 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.320 there's actually one person for whom that rule does not apply, 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.960 or at least that's what he thought. Because back in 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.440 two there was a British painter named Michael Fagan and 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:25.880 he successfully broke into Buckingham Palace not once, but twice. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.400 And during his first break in, Fagan managed to evade 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.760 security and he climbed up a drain pipe and went 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.559 into the palace through an unlocked window. He then proceeded 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.120 to make himself at home for the next half hour. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.280 So he helped himself to some cheddar cheese and crackers. 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.640 He admired a few portraits. He even sat on the 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:52.280 Queen's throne and like down to half a bottle of wine. Yeah, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.960 and at some point he just decided, you know, it's 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.520 time to leave, and he did and so he just 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.600 like got away with us. Yeah, that's right. It. The 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.040 success made Fagan a little cocky because a few months 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.960 later he couldn't help but return for a second visit. 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.520 So once again he scaled the fourteen foot high wall 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.320 outside the palace and then he climbed up a drain 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.560 pipe and right in through the window. And it was 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.160 early morning this time, and by seven fifteen Fagan had 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.760 found his way to the queen's own bedroom, and so 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.720 he later described the scene saying, quote, I walked past 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.559 her bed and it looks too small to be the queen, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.440 so I go over and draw the curtain back just 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:38.480 to make sure. Suddenly and suddenly she sat up and said, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:43.160 what are you doing here? And at that point, Fagan says, 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.680 the queen jumped out of bed, bolted out of the room. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.920 Quote her little bear feet running across the floor, which 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:54.680 sounds terrifying for the queen, but also like cute, like 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:59.640 she seems really fast. From that description, I can't believe 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.440 the poler security is so lax though, Like I'm guessing 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.120 we know the story because because he eventually got caught. Yeah, 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.439 that's right, he got caught that time. But the capture 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.960 probably didn't go as you'd expect. According to Fagan, a 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.160 footman came to the queen's bedroom and escorted him to 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.320 a pantry, where he was given some whiskey and told 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.600 to wait for the police to arrive. But here's the 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:26.360 weirdest part. Fagin's trespassing was considered a civil wrong rather 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.600 than a criminal offense. And that's because in England, for 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.120 breaking and entering to be a crime, you have to 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.440 prove that the perpetrator did so with the intent to 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.280 do something else illegal, like you broke in to kill 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.600 someone or to steal something. But in this case, there 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.680 was no evidence that Fagan had entered the palace with 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:50.600 the intention of harming or stealing anything, so technically he 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.720 hadn't committed a crime. We actually, you said he stole cheese, 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.920 And why if somebody breaks in my house and steals 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:02.440 cheese for have some, You can't steal my cheese. Then 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.520 you say he stole it. Yeah right, yeah, And and 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.240 Fagan actually was charged with theft because of that, But 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.400 he didn't break into Buckingham Palace with the goal of 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.120 stealing wine and cheese. That was a spur the moment 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:20.160 kind of thing, so it couldn't like retroactively make his 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.120 trespassing a crime. So in the end, the theft charges 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.360 were dropped and instead of jail time, Fagan was ordered 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:32.000 to undergo psychiatric evaluation, which I'm fair enough, and uh, 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.400 I should note that even though it took another twenty 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.480 five years. The law was eventually changed in two thousand seven. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.680 So so now it is a crime to break into 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.240 Buckingham Palace, guys. So okay, that's a good it's a 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.760 good service note for our our listeners out there. All right, 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.920 we've got four facts left to go. Let's take a 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.800 quick break and then we'll get right back to it. 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.120 Welcome back to Part Time Genius, where we're sharing some 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:11.440 of our favorite facts about British royalty. And uh will 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.080 I I think maybe you're up next. I feel like 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.680 I'm so distracted this whole episode by the all the 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.760 billy bass facts like I feel like Gay actually used 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.320 like three or four facts in one, which I think 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.440 is cheating, but either way, it was jealous good stuff. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.640 So all right, Well, I thought we'd give the Queen 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.000 a break for a minute and and talk instead about 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.920 her husband, Prince Philip. And as we all know, members 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.320 of the royal family draw a lot of attention from 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.360 the public, and some people can be a little I 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.240 don't know, you might say intense about their admiration for 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.480 the royals. You've probably noticed this before, but as far 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.920 as I know, Prince Philip is the only royal who's 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:52.680 inspired an actual cult devoted to their worship. So it's pretty, uh, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.960 pretty interesting. But I think we talked a little bit 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.000 about cargo colts on the show before, so I won't 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.000 get too deep into those. But basically, a cargo cult 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.440 is a tribal society that becomes fixated on the material 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.600 goods or cargo of another culture. So, for instance, during 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.840 World War Two, hundreds of thousands of American and Japanese 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.600 soldiers visited islands in the Pacific, and they left behind 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.560 all kinds of mass produced goods, like everything from radios 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.320 to can openers to candy and coca cola, and the 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.520 islanders had no concept of how these items were made 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:29.000 or how they functioned, so they started to believe that 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.400 this stuff must have been divinely made, like gifts from 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.280 the gods or something. So pretty soon entire religions sprang 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.679 up around these centered on this idea that if you 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.240 worship the leader of these other societies, then your community 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.760 would be rewarded with more of these divine gifts. And 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.280 so how did Prince Philip get mixed up in that, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:52.000 Like one of the tribes just started worship again one day, yeah, 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.240 and believe it or not. They still do. So most 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.280 cargo cults lost faith during the post war years when 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.520 these frequent cargo shipments started to dry up. But the 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.560 so called Prince Philip movement is actually still going strong 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.119 today in the South Pacific island of Tanna. So members 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.679 of this island's cast On tribe became convinced of Prince 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.239 Philip's divinity after seeing his portrait in the nineteen sixties. So, 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.080 according to them, the Prince was the fulfillment of an 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.760 ancient prophecy that the son of a mountain spirit would 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.880 take the form of a pale skinned man who would 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.840 marry a powerful woman and one day visit the Tanna Island. 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.520 So you look at Prince Philip and it's like chack, chack, chack, 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.520 he's all of these he's pale skin and he's married 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.359 to the queen. And in nineteen seventy four, his royal 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:41.439 yacht actually visited the island, and so that cemented Prince 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:45.119 Philip's status as the cults one true messiah. And they 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.639 have been worshiping this guy ever since. And because I 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.120 know you're wondering, yes, Prince Philip is aware of all 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.440 of this, and the tribe has corresponded with Buckingham Palace 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.639 over the years, and even sent Prince Philip a traditional 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.760 pig hunting club as a token of their esteem. And 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.399 it's not a one way street either, So according to 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.560 the Telegraph, Prince Philip returned the gesture by sending the 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:12.040 tribe a portrait of himself holding the pig club. I mean, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.520 I suppose he's just being nice, but also what a 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.919 weird gift, especially when he could actually do things for 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.920 them that would actually help them out. So my next 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.200 fact is about shampoo. Prior to the late eighteenth century, 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.000 the Western world used to be pretty bad at hair washing. 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.600 Most people use soap to do the job, if they 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.320 used anything at all, But that started to change when 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:36.040 an Indian man named shake Dean Mohammed introduced London's high 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:39.840 society to this old cultural practice from India. For centuries, 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.960 Indians used to have these cleansing scout massages using special 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.880 oils called chumpy. In fact, in India, when you get 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:47.920 a haircut off in the barbera will massage your head 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.679 at the end of the haircut as as just a 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.840 part of the haircut. So when Mohammed started offering this 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.119 treatment at his luxury spa in Brighton. It actually didn't 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.280 take that long for Londoners to see the appeals. Soon 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.960 the classiest folks in town were lining up at Mohammed's 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.800 spa to treat themselves to this head massage and the 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:11.520 name got ankle sized from chumpy to shampoo. But here's 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.840 the interesting part. So Mohammed started building his shampoos as 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.320 a cure all like he claimed to cancure anything from 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:20.160 gout to the sprained ankle, And then it started picking 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.679 up even more steam. But the truth is, all of 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.960 this probably would have been just another passing fad if 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.879 it hadn't been for the royal family. As these medical 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.720 shampoo's got more and more popular, King George the Fourth 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.280 wanted to see what the hubbub was about and invited 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.439 Mohammed to the palace to massage his royal head and 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.199 the treatment was such a hit with his majesty that 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.840 he actually appointed Mohammed to be the official shampooing surgeon 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.960 to the king. And when George the Fourth was succeeded 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.840 by his brother, King William the Fourth, Mohammed became his 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.960 shampoo surgeon too. And from they're all people from like 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.880 all sorts of social classes started following the King's lead 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.760 and scrubbing up with shampoo, and it quickly became the 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.680 world's go to way to clean your hair. All right, well, 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.560 my next spect is about a British king who was 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.440 less concerned with keeping himself clean than he was in 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.120 just keeping himself alive. And uh, that's Henry the Eighth, 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:12.960 who is mostly remembered today for, you know, being a 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:16.040 bully who executed his enemies, not to mention two of 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:20.080 his six wives. And you know something that's less widely 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.560 known about him, though, is that he was also a 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:28.000 major hypochondriac. He had his royal physicians examine him almost daily, 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:31.760 and any hint of illness at his court would reportedly 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.960 send him into a panic. But the king wasn't only 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:39.040 worried about getting sick. He was also deathly afraid of 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:42.159 being poisoned. And we've all heard about how kings have 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.040 food tasters to test their meals for them to make 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.880 sure it hasn't been tampered with. Well, Henry the Eighth 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:51.400 took this precaution and extended it to his bedroom too. 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.360 He had this idea that one of his servants might 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:57.560 coat his bed sheets with some kind of toxin while 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.400 making his bed each morning. So to prove that they 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.920 hadn't done that, the king made them kiss every part 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:08.200 of the sheets, pillows, and blankets that they touched. That 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:11.879 that was just part of his daily morning routine, like 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:16.000 watch the servants make out with the bedding, and also 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.119 just seems like really time consuming and I'm curious that 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:21.479 why why stop at the Lenen's. I mean, couldn't somebody 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:25.160