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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of iHeartRadio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you, as always so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. Let's give a shout out to our

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Speaker 1: very own podcast Royalty superproducer mister Max Williams.

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Speaker 2: Huzza, tell you.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes.

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Speaker 1: Tickety boo indeed, and shout out, of course to mister

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Speaker 1: Noel Brown, they call.

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Speaker 4: Me Ben, and shout out to our UK listeners who

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Speaker 4: are cringing so hard right now.

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Speaker 2: We see you, we see you. I don't think you know.

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Speaker 1: I think it's all all well and good in terms

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Speaker 1: of gosh, what was I listening to earlier? I was

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Speaker 1: listening to U or there was a film where I

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Speaker 1: was watching a British actor doing a purposely bad American accent.

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Speaker 2: Oh, totally.

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Speaker 1: We are the ones with the accents, so we're very

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Speaker 1: conscious of that. We're we're returning to a subject of

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Speaker 1: continual fascination. You're on Ridiculous History, which is ridiculous royal deaths. Now,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to have listened to the earlier episodes.

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Speaker 2: There's some refs, there's some callback reps.

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Speaker 4: This is sort of an update, or at least an

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Speaker 4: escalation you know, but I think that one of the

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Speaker 4: reasons that it's so fascinating to look into these ridiculous

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Speaker 4: royal deaths because there were just so many more interesting

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Speaker 4: ways to die back then, you know, nowadays it's all

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Speaker 4: kind of vanilla for the most part, you know, but

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Speaker 4: like you know, heart attack in this old age, but

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Speaker 4: not in the days of your when anything could kill you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And as of November eighth last year, there were

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Speaker 1: officially eight billion plus people alive, and just from the statistics,

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Speaker 1: the brutal numbers Game of reality, we know that there

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Speaker 1: have been a lot of very strange deaths. We're focusing

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Speaker 1: on royals because people in those upper echelons of society

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Speaker 1: tend to have more documentation around about their lives. Also

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Speaker 1: there they're, you know, a relatively small percentage of the

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Speaker 1: overall population. And let's see, we're gonna just give you

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Speaker 1: a sense of this how did Max put it? In

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Speaker 1: this episode, We're gonna see an example of man versus ocean,

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Speaker 1: man versus arrow, and versus share my favorite man versus chair.

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Speaker 2: You know, no.

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Speaker 1: Spoilers, but one one walks.

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Speaker 2: Away the victor in that one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like it might not be well it's gonna

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Speaker 4: be you think, is it?

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Speaker 2: Who think it is? It is?

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Speaker 4: But yeah, like I said, there's just there were a

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Speaker 4: lot more options for for hilarious demises, you know, back

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Speaker 4: in the days.

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Speaker 2: Or the heyday, the glory days of royalty.

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Speaker 4: Now it's you know a little more than a big

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Speaker 4: old paycheck and fancy digs and you know, the occasional parade.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, there's a coronation coming up the

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Speaker 1: United Kingdom now and this okay, let's let's get into it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do something on the history of coronations in

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Speaker 1: the future in a timely manner. Perhaps no promises, but

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Speaker 1: we can promise you. Our first story is a doozy.

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Speaker 1: There's a guy named William the second, which I feel

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Speaker 1: like is a weird Why does it feel distinguished to

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Speaker 1: be the third? But kind of like juniory to be

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Speaker 4: really indicate stature necessarily, it's literally just order of birth.

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Speaker 4: But you're right, something about the third really does just

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Speaker 4: The Og William aka the Conqueror, as his name might imply,

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Speaker 4: And we've talked about this in the last episode. He exploded,

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Speaker 5: Right from the research, it wasn't the sound that was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because of the lamp rays that he was stuffed with.

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Speaker 2: Another first, you know, both of these fellas did not

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Speaker 1: Yeah, William the first King, Henry the first part of

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Speaker 1: heir to the throne, King William the second who went

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Speaker 1: out in a bit of a conspiracy. Okay, if you

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Speaker 1: you don't always call him William two. He also goes

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Speaker 1: by William Rufus, like you said, Nold. He's a son

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Speaker 1: He does some big stuff. He makes some moves, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a tyrant with an iron fist. And Rufus also

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Speaker 1: gets the name the Red not because he's super blood thirsty.

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Speaker 1: Here like King Joffrey about it. He's got a ruddy complexion.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of like a bit of a of

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Speaker 4: a backhanded nickname, wouldn't you say? I mean, the Conqueror

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Speaker 4: sounds intense and cool, you know, But the Red that's

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Speaker 4: snot boogie. You know how one day you have a

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Speaker 4: for the rest of your life. But you'd think a

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Speaker 4: But then I guess you don't really give yourself a nickname.

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Speaker 4: This is the nickname history gives you, or the people

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so, as was feudal custom at the time,

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Speaker 1: the eldest surviving son usually comes out on top in

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Speaker 1: inheritance games. So William the Conqueror bequeaths the Duchy of

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Speaker 1: Normandy to his eldest kid, Robert to Curtose, and Rufus

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Speaker 1: the Ruddy aka Rufus the Red gets kind of a

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Speaker 5: So funny story is William the Conqueror was from Normandy,

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Speaker 5: died riding his horse into battle, he was to go

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Speaker 2: Very big succession vibes.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, we obviously love these topics and talking

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Speaker 4: about the royal deaths and you know, royal stuff in general.

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Speaker 4: But I can never get good at, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: It's like it's like that fantastic Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel

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Speaker 1: One hundred Years of Solitude. A lot of people have

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Speaker 1: the same name the issue, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: That's why we need these street names. Oh which Willie

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Speaker 1: you're talking about talking about the Conqueror or the other guys.

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Speaker 2: Or the Ready or the rufous one. Yeah, exactly. So

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Speaker 4: We're thirsty for blood. So it's August second, eleven hundred.

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Speaker 4: William Rufus was asleep in a hunting lodge. His hunting

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Speaker 1: And we're getting a lot of this from Dominic Sandbrook

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Speaker 1: writing over a history extra. Let's just give you the quote. So,

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Speaker 2: This is super trippy.

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Speaker 1: No bleeding was considered a legit medical operation at the time, right,

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Speaker 2: It's so goth, dude, that is so goth. His blood

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Speaker 2: went to the sky. Yeah, I mean the sun. Well,

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Speaker 1: Maladies and treatments of the past are so in fascinating.

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Speaker 1: much blood. Yeah, let's let's balance out those humors.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, this dream, uh, he's having the old common

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Speaker 4: a geyser fourth to the heavens. But Ben and Maxim,

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Speaker 4: Okay, so this is like doomsday apocalyptic type vibes.

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Speaker 3: The world is ending because this guy's dying. No ego

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Speaker 4: Interpret that's really that's good. But there was another account

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Speaker 4: as well, right Ben, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, uh nol, I think you and I enjoyed this

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Speaker 1: because speaking of metal, William has a dream that I

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Speaker 1: teaching me the phrase actual facts. It just works so well.

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Speaker 1: The devil has some stuff to say to him, right,

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Speaker 4: Well, he says that he's gonna He says, I'll be

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Speaker 4: seeing you real soon, buddy. This doesn't bode well, and

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Speaker 4: uh oh, William Rufus just wakes with a shriek to

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Speaker 4: and perhaps beckoned by the dark Lord himself.

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Speaker 1: crazy person. Oh yeah, because you'll be like there were

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Speaker 2: It's a combo, but usually.

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Speaker 1: Thankfully, that kind of fugue state and that fear it

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Speaker 1: But but nothing was ever proven again, it's a mystery.

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Speaker 4: It's a it's a reasonable question, Ben, It is a

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Speaker 1: But we do know what happened next. William's entourage, the

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Speaker 1: He's in a think fast situation and he's thinking, Okay,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, I believe it was a little Kim who pointed

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Speaker 4: Yeah, heavy weighs the head that wears the crown and

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Speaker 4: In Hungarian custom, the crown is actually passed from brother

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Speaker 4: to brother based on seniority, and Bella was actually made

437
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Speaker 4: a duke and named the air.

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Speaker 1: So this is again a custom and the thing is

439
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Speaker 1: when you are at the top of an absolute monarchy,

440
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Speaker 1: you get to decide what the customs are. So while

441
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Speaker 1: they were away from Hungary, Bella's brother changed the rules

442
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 1: and says, I'm gonna nearitytypool. I'm I'm gonna name my

443
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Speaker 1: son the official heir. My son's only four years old,

444
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: but I don't know. He looks pretty smart to me.

445
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Speaker 1: How tough can it be to run a country. He'll

446
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: get the neck of it by the time he's you know, six,

447
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: maybe eight. So Bella doesn't like this.

448
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Speaker 4: Now.

449
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Speaker 1: Bella's like, I should be king after you, old man,

450
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 1: And so he gets together an army in Poland and

451
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Speaker 1: then goes into Hungary and says, we're going to keep

452
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Speaker 1: to the customs. It's the right thing to do, not

453
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Speaker 1: just because it's super awesome for me.

454
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Speaker 4: And there was a melee and the brother, who was

455
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Speaker 4: currently sitting on the throne was killed. Bella then, you know,

456
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Speaker 4: took his place on the throne and he was crowned.

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Speaker 1: And after he became king, there was an uprising. There

458
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Speaker 1: was a culture war, basically, and a large contingent of

459
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Speaker 1: people in the area said we're fed up with Christianity.

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Speaker 1: Christianity still kind of had new car smell in this

461
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Speaker 1: part of the world, because Christianity had only become the

462
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Speaker 1: official state religion a couple of decades earlier, and a

463
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Speaker 1: lot of people were vibing with it. They wanted a

464
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Speaker 1: return to paganism, returned to their pre Christian beliefs. And

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Speaker 1: Bella said, I hear you, And he raised an army

466
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: and he brutally crushed this rebellion. And then ten sixty

467
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: three he fights off a German invasion that's sent basically

468
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: by the Holy Roman Emperor, and he says, look, from

469
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: now on, Hungary is independent from foreign domination, be it

470
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:42,479
Speaker 1: political or religious. But amidst all these opponents and all

471
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: this intrigue, there was one assassin he just didn't see coming.

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Speaker 2: You never see it coming.

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Speaker 4: Well maybe maybe you have a split second of reaction time,

474
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 4: but you know, no one ever suspects the very seat

475
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 4: that you find yourself seated in. M you know, the symbol,

476
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 4: the very symbol of your power. I mean, you got

477
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 4: the crown too, but the throne is a big one,

478
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 4: and it was a big throne, and it wasn't I guess,

479
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 4: I guess it needed a little maintenance.

480
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 2: It hadn't been anchored properly or or whatever.

481
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's we don't want to be too like

482
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: gleefully ghoulish year. But it is kind of funny because

483
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: a lot of time has passed. It's September. It's a

484
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: nice September day. It's ten sixty three. Bellow one is

485
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Speaker 1: in his summer palace in a town called Domos. He's

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Speaker 1: got all his all his top team with him, all

487
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Speaker 1: his senior guys, you know, his entourage, his officials, his

488
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: hangars on. They're gathered before him. He's walking up, he's

489
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Speaker 1: about the old court. I'm walking like the king in

490
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Speaker 1: Hamilton now and he so imagine high pomp and circumstance,

491
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: max the most ridiculous eleventh century music we have. And

492
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: then he sits down and what happens next?

493
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the whole chair basically just collapsed in

494
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 4: on him, and he did, you know, he was injured

495
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 4: pretty badly, but he was not able to be treated,

496
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Speaker 4: you know, in a timely enough manner.

497
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Speaker 2: And he did die a bit later.

498
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: And the throne never went to jail, never saw a

499
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Speaker 1: day in court. And even now, furniture cannot be prosecuted.

500
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Speaker 1: It's a huge miscarriage of justice.

501
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 2: It is, it is.

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Speaker 4: Indeed, I said, I'm just trying to understand because maybe

503
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 4: you can help us with this. How do you get

504
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 4: so horrifically injured just by falling through a chair? Like

505
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 4: I think we've all maybe miscalculated slightly and and and

506
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 4: you know fallen off No maybe just me. No one's

507
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 4: fallen off a chair before or.

508
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 2: Fall off chairs. Okay, I broke a chair at Joe

509
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 2: McCormick's house. I did.

510
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 4: I've done that too, especially if they're like some some

511
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 4: of those like outside chairs.

512
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Speaker 2: There the elements right right for me.

513
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Speaker 3: So, guys, I think I know how to explain it.

514
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Speaker 5: There was one time this back when I was like

515
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 5: in high school, I had a few friends over and

516
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 5: my buddy Josh was sitting in this like you know,

517
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 5: like like poolside chairs that laid out and stuff you see,

518
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 5: had it in there, and but it was a little

519
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 5: higher up. It was a weird chair. It was like

520
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 5: higher up do you expect? But the middle of it collapsed.

521
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 5: He basically went like that with sandwich, sandwich, And that's

522
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Speaker 5: what I'm kind of expecting this to do.

523
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Speaker 3: But you know, it's like you know it.

524
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Speaker 2: Right the headboard.

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Speaker 4: Let's call it really high, really adorned. You know, it's

526
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Speaker 4: made of wood, but perhaps adorned with metal or other

527
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 4: you know, precious stones or whatever it might be. But yeah,

528
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Speaker 4: it could have been very tall, and that could have

529
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Speaker 4: collapsed in on him, and with the pressure on that fulkrum,

530
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Speaker 4: it could have kind of broken his back maybe or something.

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Speaker 2: I mean, again, we don't have exact details here.

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Speaker 5: I'm working off the assumption that he also might have

533
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Speaker 5: got impaled somewhere.

534
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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so these things are super heavy. It's actually

536
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: a little unfair for us to call it a chair

537
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: and not to make them look bad. But the whether

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Speaker 1: it be shoddy design or whether it be a lack

539
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: of maintenance. When heavy furniture falls, it can kill you.

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00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: People do die when furniture falls on them.

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Speaker 2: But if it happens in the forest and no one's around,

542
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Speaker 2: does it still make a noise?

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00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: You'd have to ask You'd have to ask our buddy

544
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: Walt with the arrows. Yes, if you shoot a king

545
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: in the forest and it's just you and the king,

546
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: is it an accident or an assassination?

547
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 2: Right?

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00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: So we are going to end today's episode on a

549
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: bit of a psa right straight from the twelfth century.

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00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: Here it's a PSA against operating a vehicle while inebriated.

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00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to sound all like Dad about it,

552
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: you know, or like a driving instructor in high school.

553
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: But this story, this, this story is one to remember.

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Speaker 1: We're going to introduce you to William the Atheling, which

555
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: so it sounds so Skyrim, you know, it sounds like

556
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: a it sounds like a character class in Skyrim.

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00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 4: The Atheling also referred to as Adeline, which I think

558
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 4: just accounts for a language, you know, the translation or

559
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 4: whatever you know from I think Gaelic. But yeah, this

560
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 4: is the heir and legitimate son, the only legitimate song

561
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 4: with the claim of the throne of King Henry the

562
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 4: First of England. And he was ding ding ding. The

563
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 4: Lamprey guy had too many, you know, of his sly, slippery,

564
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 4: slimy delicacy friends and did not farewell.

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00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: Especially considered everybody was constantly pointing out that he was

566
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: allergic to him. Anyways, to check out King Henry's story, Yeah,

567
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: very unfortunate family. Eighthleen, by the way, is an interesting

568
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: name for this guy, or Adeline, as you said, because

569
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Speaker 1: it means it literally means Anglo Saxon, prince or noble,

570
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: so he's he's like William the Prince anyway. He's Duke

571
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: of Normandy in his own right because his father fought

572
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,959
Speaker 1: these battles in France that forced the Norman barons to

573
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Speaker 1: recognize William as their duke. And William the eighth Leen,

574
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Speaker 1: as you can tell by his nickname, was pretty spoiled

575
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: as a kid, and folks thought he was such a

576
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: brat that he was going to be quote destined to

577
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: be food for the fire.

578
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Speaker 2: U Oh, that's like Luca Brassi sleeps with the fishes.

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Speaker 2: We don't know.

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Speaker 1: We will never know what his royal or geopolitical career

581
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: would have been like, because he died in an accident

582
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Speaker 1: when he was pretty young, and his death led to

583
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: absolute pandemonium in the country.

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00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 2: That's right.

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00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 4: In November of eleven twenty, after he made a visit

586
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Speaker 4: to France on royal business, there was a fleet of

587
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 4: ships that was being put together to ferry King Henry

588
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 4: and his court across the English Channel back to England.

589
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 4: He was seventeen years old at the time, and he

590
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 4: was meant to board the White Ship, which was like

591
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 4: the flagship of the English Navy, right, it was you know,

592
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 4: the most up to dates, you know, shiny and new

593
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 4: and very fast comparatively, you know, for the time.

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Speaker 3: It's like taking daz Camaro out exactly.

595
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's like taking the Camaro out if the

596
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 1: Camaro is the fastest jet in the country. So this

597
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: is a huge level of opulence. Willie is only seventeen

598
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:15,399
Speaker 1: and he he turns it into a party. He gets

599
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: down with the bros. They get stupid drunk with the

600
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: crew of this ship. It's one of those things where

601
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: they the way I picture it, they're about to leave.

602
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: The Captain's like, all right, where it's time to go

603
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: on the white ship? All aboard, and then William the

604
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: athleen is going, no, no, one more round, Let's all

605
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: have another round you first, mate, grab a drink with me,

606
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: tell me about the life of a peasant. And then

607
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: after they get very very like multiple sheets to the wind.

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00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: The Prince and his gang we're talking about three hundred

609
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: people now get on the ship and they're gonna sail

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00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: across at night.

611
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this is the same actually, the equivalent

612
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 4: of like you know, drunk fishing, you know, but like

613
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 4: with much higher consequences. They're like, you know, taking the

614
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 4: pontoon boat out on the lake, you know, with a

615
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 4: you know, but more like a yacht situation, let's call it.

616
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 4: And just you know, everyone's drunk, including the captain, right, yeah, yeah.

617
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: And King Henry had already sailed across several hours earlier,

618
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: so these guys are super drunk. They're hyping each other up,

619
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Speaker 1: these these very very wealthy people, and an actual ship's

620
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: crew decide they're gonna make a race of it. We

621
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Speaker 1: don't know exactly how that went out. William the Athleen

622
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: was the type of dude who would maybe command people

623
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Speaker 1: to race. Anyway, they're all on board. They say, we're gonna,

624
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna lap the King. We're gonna catch up, and

625
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna beat him to England. This is

626
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 1: the white ship, it is the fastest, and they decide

627
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 1: they're going to go for it, and they're rowing their

628
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: keaster's off and they're all just housing wine, and the

629
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: drunk Prince and his friends are doing moral support, cheerleading,

630
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: you know, row faster faster, yeah, frasher faster.

631
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Speaker 6: And.

632
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: Unfortunately the crew, which did pick up a lot of speed,

633
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: they spend so much time focusing on speed that they

634
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: didn't have a lookout. You definitely need a sober lookout.

635
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, you do, make a designated lookout. Sin them becomes

636
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 4: a bit of a Titanic situation. They run aground on

637
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 4: a particularly nasty rock that splits the hall and they.

638
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 2: You know, eventually sink.

639
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: Hundreds of people die as a result, and one of

640
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: the people who dies is the Prince William the Athleen

641
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: is the only legitimate male child. A succession war begins,

642
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: a crisis of the state eight. King Henry doesn't have

643
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 1: another son, and so he tries to get his daughter

644
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: to be the official heir, his daughter Matilda. The Barons

645
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: sort of agree, but you know, they're being insincere. They're

646
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: waiting for Henry to die.

647
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 3: Which he did when he decided to eat a bunch

648
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 3: of eels.

649
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right, it's all full circle circle of life.

650
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 2: So that he does die.

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00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 4: In eleven thirty five, and the barons flip flopped and

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Speaker 4: decided instead of backing Matilda to back his nephew, you know,

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Speaker 4: because of the whole him being a man thing and Missostrate. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it was pretty big at the time. Yeah, for sure,

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Speaker 4: Stephen of bloih bloyse bloh b l o I s

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say bloy, but it might be blah blaws bloss.

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Speaker 2: That's a very odd name. Let us yeah, blow eye.

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Speaker 2: Who knows.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure there's a way, but we're gonna just go

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Speaker 4: with all of those potential options. And he did, in

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Speaker 4: fact succeed and claiming the crown because he was the

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Speaker 4: eldest male relative of the of the king Blueaw.

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Speaker 2: Can you believe it? It's Blueaw? Is it really? Uh? Huh? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: well done.

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Speaker 4: The more the more he know. But you know, we

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Speaker 4: talked about Mozilda kind of being in the game or

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Speaker 4: in play, and so Mazilda was like, no, that's not cool.

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Speaker 4: I will I challenge you.

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Speaker 1: You guys, Dad said, this is the uh is the energy.

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Speaker 1: But uh but also yeah, Matilda sees this clear enormous opportunity.

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Speaker 1: This is of course you're going to fight for this.

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Speaker 1: It is good to be in charge, right, And this

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Speaker 1: conflict between Stephen and Matilda leads to almost twenty years

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Speaker 1: of civil war. It's now collectively known as the anarchy.

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Speaker 1: It only ends when they reach a compromise, Stephen being

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Speaker 1: recognized this king says Okay, Matilda, your son will be my.

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Speaker 2: Heir, and yeah, compromise, Yeah, could have been worse.

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Speaker 1: I mean sure, yeah, there's that. And so uh Matilda's

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Speaker 1: son ascends to the throne eventually and is crowned Henry

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Speaker 1: the Second when Stephen dies in eleven fifty three and

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Speaker 1: founds a dynasty which would go on to rule England

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Speaker 1: for centuries, all because of an ill advised drunken boat race.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, the dull drunken boat race thing

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Speaker 4: really does feel very succession, very on brand for just

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Speaker 4: kind of modern debauchery. Like I said, it just the

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Speaker 4: idea of like absolutely we've seen The've seen the film

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Speaker 4: Triangle of Sadness, Ben I have, Yeah, yeah, yeah, just

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Speaker 4: you know, drunken, opulent boat Shenanigans abound on that in

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Speaker 4: that particular film. Highly recommend it. I I haven't seen it.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of fun also to have a cocktail on

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Speaker 1: a boat, you know, I'm not above it, but never

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Speaker 1: when you are driving.

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Speaker 2: Never when you are driving or piloting the boat.

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Speaker 1: Right, you sit in the back, watch the sunset, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe see a dolphin, sip a cocktail and stay away

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Speaker 1: from the helm.

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Speaker 4: Definitely do unlock yourself in a cabin and start spouting

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Speaker 4: communist manifesto shenanigans over the intercom.

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Speaker 2: Maybe read the room, you know, read the boat.

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Speaker 1: And with this we are going to call it a

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Speaker 1: day on another episode of Ridiculous Royal Deaths. Shout out

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Speaker 1: to our super producer, mister Max Williams. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: our resident opponent Jonathan Strickland, who once back in the day,

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, years.

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Speaker 2: Ago, would appear on our show.

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Speaker 4: It's true and I do believe that will come in

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Speaker 4: time when he will appear again. This would have been

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Speaker 4: a good opportunity.

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Speaker 2: He loves, he loves royalties, he likes he likes doing

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Speaker 2: arch voices too.

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Speaker 4: He's a big fan, but also hughes Thanks Chris for

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Speaker 4: uciotis here in spirit he was Jeff co man Max Williams,

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Speaker 4: who did the research on this episode and also is

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Speaker 4: our super producer, extraordinary.

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Speaker 1: And shout out to any Royalty present or future who

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Speaker 1: is tuning in today.

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Speaker 2: Let's see you next time, folks.

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