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Speaker 1: Hello everybody. Hey, y'all, how's it going. I am Eli,

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Speaker 1: I'm Diana. We're so excited for another episode of ridiculous

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Speaker 1: romance here on Valentine's Day or when you'll be hearing

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Speaker 1: this shortly after Valentine's Day. Yeah, but this is how

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Speaker 1: we're spending our Valentine's Day. We're not huge Valentine's people. No,

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Speaker 1: that's I was about to say. I don't really expect

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Speaker 1: much for Valentine's Day. Like I'm not trying to get like,

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Speaker 1: you know, chuck chuck some flowers and crazy jewelry or anything. Oh, ship,

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Speaker 1: call off the truck. No, I mean if there's a

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Speaker 1: truck on the way. Okay, Well, at least we've each

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Speaker 1: found each other who cares an equal amount about Valentine's Day, which, like,

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Speaker 1: it's nice. It's like like we said hello this morning,

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Speaker 1: you know, gave it a little like good morning, good

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Speaker 1: to see you again. Oh what a special day. Hands hands,

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Speaker 1: It's very formal. Nice, it's nice. It's nice to know

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Speaker 1: the magic's not totally fizzled out. No, we clebrated over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. We went and saw wild woods a glow

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Speaker 1: at Fernbank, just like a natural History Museum and they

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Speaker 1: had this whole like a really cool exhibit about color

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Speaker 1: and light. It was really cool. It's like this after

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Speaker 1: hours thing, adults only like seven to eleven, and they're like,

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Speaker 1: we got this outdoor light show you can go see

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Speaker 1: and you can buy drinks in the lobby under the

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Speaker 1: big dinosaur skeletons, and there's like a band that played

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Speaker 1: for a minute, and then the museum is yours to explore.

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Speaker 1: And I think we both learned that maybe PM with

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Speaker 1: a drink in your hand isn't when you particularly want

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Speaker 1: to be walking around a museum and reading a lot

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Speaker 1: of things on tiny cards. But it was still cool

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Speaker 1: to be in there. I definitely was like, I like

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Speaker 1: a natural history museum, but I'm just not interested in

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Speaker 1: learning right now. Shells and I was like whatever, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you were done around the show. I was done around.

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Speaker 1: I was like a collection, don't care. Because there was

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Speaker 1: also a lot of drunk people. Weirdly like people got

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Speaker 1: there and went hard early, or they were just like

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Speaker 1: walking by everything really fast. I know. It's yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: this whole sound bath and they're like mushroom Garden. You're

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Speaker 1: supposed to just like get lost in these these humming

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Speaker 1: it was beautiful. And then we're like what Jenny say?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well what Steve say? And I was like, dude,

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Speaker 1: we're in the sound bath. I don't want to be

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Speaker 1: based in your bro talk. Shut up, which I was

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Speaker 1: kind of laughing because I'm normally I'm a person who's like, well, whatever,

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Speaker 1: they're enjoying themselves, Like fine, it's kind of fun sometimes

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Speaker 1: to let snatches of other people's conversation come to your

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Speaker 1: like whatever you like. It's like speculation station out in

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Speaker 1: the wild. Yeah, but but yeah, for some reason, I

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Speaker 1: because I'm annoyed today it was an outdoor meditative exhibit

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Speaker 1: about sound. It was like, this is the worst place

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Speaker 1: to catch snippets of your absolutely insane conversation to the shells.

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Speaker 1: Did you listen? Did you hear that? In the shells room?

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Speaker 1: Was that girl yelling? She was talking to her friend

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Speaker 1: about like another friend of theirs, and like clearly they

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Speaker 1: were disagreeing about Palestine and like it was something very

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Speaker 1: like I just can't hang out with him. After what

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Speaker 1: he said about Palestine. I was like, what did he say?

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Speaker 1: I was I was like, so in their conversation, right,

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Speaker 1: how did it get to this here? It was very

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Speaker 1: another time. But the highlight of the weekend, I think

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Speaker 1: at the Plaza Theater and Improv show, The Improv show.

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Speaker 1: Who I You know, if you don't know who he is,

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Speaker 1: he Kevin Cosner on Brooklyn nine nine and he's Shawn

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Speaker 1: the Demon in Good Place. He's really funny, so dry.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know who he is, you probably do

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Speaker 1: just look back like, oh yeah that guy very true

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Speaker 1: and uh yeah. It was really fun and we is

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Speaker 1: about us and our ridiculous romance. Y'all didn't tune in

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Speaker 1: for that. You turned in to hear this incredible story.

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Speaker 1: I love this one because today we want to tell

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Speaker 1: you about Agnes of Dunbar. She was married to Patrick,

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Speaker 1: the Earl of March, but Patrick was away from home

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Speaker 1: fighting for Scottish independence when British troops pulled up on

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Speaker 1: Agnes and tried to besiege her castle, but she held

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Speaker 1: has been passed down for centuries as a model example

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Speaker 1: Scottish politics, four different edwards, and how Agnes made herself

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Speaker 1: the star the story. Yes, let's go, Hey, their French

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Speaker 1: come listen. Well, Elia and Diana got some stories to tell.

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Speaker 1: There's no matchmaking a romantic tips, It's just about ridiculous relationships,

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Speaker 1: there's a story where the second plant ridiculous role lance

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Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio, all right, well, before we

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Speaker 1: get into Agnes of Dunbar, we do need a little

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Speaker 1: bit of background. That's true, and that means it's time

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Speaker 1: I promise. So Scotland was ruled by King Alexander the

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Speaker 1: We don't lose rulers like that anymore, like if George W.

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Speaker 1: our country. Unusual. So some Scots lords thirteen to be exact,

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Speaker 1: because Edward the First just kept pushing it. You know. First,

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Speaker 1: my valent Pine. So yeah, Robert the Bruce is fighting

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Speaker 1: He was the Earl of March and his dad was

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Speaker 1: one of the thirteen claimants to King Alexander's crown. If

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Speaker 1: article A Tale of Two Women and One Castle, because

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Speaker 1: For two weeks they would rain these big gas boulders

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00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: onto the castle, but brand spanking new, shiny and fortified

425
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,719
Speaker 1: as it was, these stones didn't really do as much

426
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 1: damage as Salisbury would have liked. And then, to add

427
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: insult to injury, when the English stopped for the day,

428
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: Agnes would come out with her ladies in waiting and

429
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: just sort of casually dust off the ramparts with their

430
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 1: handkerch its, like, oh, why are you boys on the

431
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: way so messy? Basically I can like they haven't done much,

432
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: but spread some dirt arounds to clean up this mess again. Uh,

433
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: buys down there, when you're playing with your toys tomorrow,

434
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: can you try and keep things a little more tid?

435
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: Can you clean up after yourselves? Next? Tame and yeah,

436
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: he must be like, oh, like, oh my god. But

437
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: the Salsbury's like, alright, alright, alright, let's bring out the

438
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: big guns. Let's show this lady who's buss And he

439
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: built a sow, which is this big movable siege engine

440
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: that allowed men to use a battering ram on the

441
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: castle doors while being protected from arrows or boiling oil

442
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 1: or whatever from above. Well, Agnes is like, uh, yeah,

443
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: that'll be using that sow because I'm about to catch

444
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: me a bunch of quote let's all anglish Peggy's. So

445
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: Salsbury's gets worked up again. He does not like how

446
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: she is just mocking him face very much. Sorry. It's

447
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: very much like the French night in Monty Python and

448
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,440
Speaker 1: the Holy Grail, like real taunting and insulting and just

449
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 1: belittling this man. He's like, hilarious, and she's like your

450
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: mother smells, except she's probably like your mother smells a

451
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: dog shite. I'm true. That's so she would not even bother.

452
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: She'd just be like, actually, you also smell like dogs,

453
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 1: so I guess it runs in the family. So anyway,

454
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: he Salsbury immediately deploys the sal It gets close to

455
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: the castle walls and they start battering. But Agnes and

456
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: a few men that she had at her disposal had

457
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: been collecting those boulders that the English had been thrown

458
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 1: at them, so they simply tossed one over the castle

459
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: walls and completely crushed the south and Salburry' is like,

460
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: oh ship, and Agnes waves at him and she's like, oh,

461
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the ammunition. Appreciate it would

462
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: have been screwed without all these boulders. Incredible. So as

463
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: the survivors running back to the English line, she called out,

464
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: quote the whole the letter of English pigs scurrying. Salisbury's

465
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 1: dignity has taken a real hit because even the guards

466
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: got into it. One of Agnes's archers deliberately drew down

467
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: on Salisbury like he met his eye and he's like,

468
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: I'm about to kill you, then deliberately hit the guy

469
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: next to him and yelled out quote, Agnes has love

470
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: shafts go straight to the heart. Wow. Well, clearly Salisbury

471
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: was not very good at his job, and he had

472
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: to think of a new strategy. Patrick had fortified the

473
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: absolute shit out of the castle at Edward the Third's commands,

474
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: and Agnes was not scared enough to give in. So

475
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: Salisbury went up to the Scottish soldier who was guarding

476
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: the pork palis and he bribed him to leave the

477
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: gate unsecured, so so man, my men could storm the

478
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: castle and get inside. He's a shilling for your time,

479
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: and the guards like, oh shore bet got you up,

480
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: and he took Salisbury's money, and sure enough, a short

481
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: while later, the Portcullis creek open backstabbers trader Well, Salisbury

482
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: and his men went charging up, and one guy sort

483
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: of managed to get ahead of salisbury real eager soldier,

484
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: and he entered the gate first victory. We're inside, except

485
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: not because as soon as this eager little soldier got

486
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: inside the bailey or the outer wall of the castle,

487
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: the portcullis slammed shut, trapping him inside. The Scottish guard

488
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: had apparently happily taken Salisbury's money as a bride, but

489
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: then he went straight to Agnes with the story, and

490
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: she cooked up a little scheme to take Salisbury prisoner.

491
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: They were gonna try and trap him him inside the bailey,

492
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: leading Lady Dunbar, what do you believe this englishman thinks

493
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: that he can give me a shilling? Just do whatever

494
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: he says. We've got to come up with something funny.

495
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, no, we're going to use this, Oh

496
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 1: we're going to use this incredible Well, this eager little

497
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: soldier ruined it because they caught him instead. But even

498
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: though it didn't work, you know, our girl got the

499
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: last word. Of course, she called down to him. Quote

500
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: Farewell Montague, I intended that you should have slept with

501
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: us and assist us in defending the castle against the English.

502
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: She stood up, had a plate lad after you and

503
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: everything coming in. I thought you were coming in to

504
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: help out. Well, all right, I guess see you next time.

505
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 1: So Agnes is killing it. I mean she is not

506
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: only holding her for it, he is pissing him off

507
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: so hard, and she has not fired a single shot herself.

508
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: Salthburies get angry by the day. Months had gone by.

509
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: He could not get one castle out of the hands

510
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,719
Speaker 1: of a twenty six year old woman. So he's pasting

511
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: around his little war tent or whatever, and he's like,

512
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: what does this horrible woman love? What will make a

513
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: give in? And he realized that the English actually did

514
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: have something very precious to Agnes. Her brother John Randolph,

515
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: the Earl of Moray. Remember, he had been taken prisoner

516
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: a while back, and he and Agnes corresponded frequently while

517
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: he was I mean he was away. He was like

518
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: imprisoned for years. He went to like many different locations.

519
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: She always wrote to him, and he always wrote back,

520
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: so that he's like, oh, she must be really fond

521
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: of him. I know exactly what to do. So Southbury's like,

522
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: get John out here, and he brings John up to

523
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: the gate, throws a noose around his neck, and it

524
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: calls out to Agnes, surrender or I will execute your

525
00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 1: beloved baby brother right in front of you. Well, what

526
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: do you think happened? Agnes gave in and the story

527
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: is over. No, just kidding. Agnes just laughed in his face,

528
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: and she told him to go for it. She said,

529
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: you'll be doing me a favor. Actually, I'm John's air,

530
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: so if he dies, I will be the Countess of Moray,

531
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: which was a title that she already felt belonged to

532
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: her because she was the eldest child, thank you very much,

533
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: who cares about gender? So she's like all his land

534
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: and property would come to me. So I'll watch happily

535
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:34,959
Speaker 1: go ahead. And Salisbury was left looking really stupid because

536
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: he never planned to kill John. He couldn't. John was

537
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: a really important hostit so Agnes totally called his bluff

538
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: and he just had to like take the rope off

539
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: with John's neck and be like, okay, well back back

540
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: to prison with you, I guess, oh my god, embarrassing

541
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: him like getting so angry, he got tarred and feathered.

542
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: He goes up to grab the door knob and the

543
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: blowtoard hits him on that at yes, exactly, And I

544
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: like to think that John knew that Agnes was just

545
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: I hope he was standing like He's probably like a

546
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: bold strategy that a sister way to call his bluff,

547
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: and she's like, yeah, call his bluff. That's what I

548
00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: was doing. Well, So Agnes is still firmly in control

549
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: of Castle Dunbar and Salisbury is red as hell in

550
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: the face. But he did come up with a new strategy,

551
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: and that was just to starve her out. We will

552
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: find out how successful he was right after this break.

553
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: Welcome back Millard's and ladies. So to catch us up,

554
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: Salisbury had shown up at Dunbar in January. His boulders

555
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: had been returned to him, his bribe were unsuccessful, and

556
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: his attempt to murder her family was just laughed at. Well,

557
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: now it was summertime and Salisbury knew the Agnes and

558
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: her people were already rationing their food and water, so

559
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: he decided to set up a blockade and starve her

560
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: out of the castle. With his twenty thousand men, he

561
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: cut off all the roads and he paid Genoise galleys

562
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: to block the ports so no support could come in

563
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: from the sea, and then he cut off all communication

564
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: with the outside world. Damn, so she can call for help.

565
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: He cut the phone lines, blocked out the satellites. It

566
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,839
Speaker 1: really looked like Agnes's goose was truly cooked this time.

567
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: But fortunately for her, Patrick's old friend, Sir Alexander Ramsey

568
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: learned about agnes Is entrapment and he never wasted an

569
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: opportunity to scur around with these British eddiotts. So he

570
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: left Edinburgh and approached the castle under the cover of

571
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: night with forty of his best guys who were ready

572
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: for a fight. And he also snuck in food for

573
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: the people of Dunbar. So the next day Salisbury was

574
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: twice surprised. First when Agnes sent him a freshly baked

575
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: loaf of bread to show him she had provisions to

576
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: last all summer. She had to trolling that she is

577
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: doing all sandwitches. He loved a bit pickish out here.

578
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: I love like she would do killer on Twitter if

579
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 1: she'd be roasting constantly such a poster and say, I

580
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: mean seriously. So Salesbury's like, oh, he like rips up

581
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: the bread and he decides to strike quickly before Agnes

582
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: and her people get to you know, fed up and

583
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: strong again. So he launched a fresh assault on the castle,

584
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: and that's when he was surprised for the second time

585
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: as Ramsey and his hardened Scott's veterans came running out

586
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: of the castle and easily pushed this giant army all

587
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: the way back to their w This is like a

588
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: artist situation where they had like three hundred dudes. They

589
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: had even less than that, and they still were like, ah,

590
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 1: we gotta get out of it. So Agnes had held

591
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 1: the castle on her own for five months and Salisbury

592
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: was a laughing stock. His seed had cost the English

593
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: crown six thousand pounds and had gotten them nowhere. They

594
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: had gotten nothing. They got a worse reputation. I mean basically,

595
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 1: I feel like how how many Scots were like super

596
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: emboldened by the story, you know, like, Okay, all you

597
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: gotta do is play with their dignity defeat themselves. So

598
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: Salisbury was forced to admit defeat. He lifted the seed

599
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: and left for England on June tenth. Now, eventually, thanks

600
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: to his hundred years War with France and the Black

601
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 1: Plague hitting England pretty hard, Edward the Third had to

602
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: negotiate a truce with Scotland had too much other ship

603
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: going on, so the Treaty of Berwick was signed in seven.

604
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: So partly in thanks to this badass very literally holding

605
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: down the fort, the Scots got their independence and Agnes

606
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: became a legend. There was even a ballad written about

607
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: her from silly Salisbury's point of view. So let's go

608
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: down or three corner and here as she makes a

609
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: stir and tower and trench, that brawling, boisterous Scottish wench came,

610
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: I Arlie came, I late. I found Agnes at the gate. Amazing.

611
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: He's like I showed up early in the morning. You

612
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: know at night that bitch was standing there. When the

613
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: bards write songs about you, this isn't what you want

614
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: from Salisbury, I know, okay, Well they wrote songs about me,

615
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: talking about what loser I was. Well. Patrick Dunbar would

616
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: continue to fight the British until that treaty in thirteen

617
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: fifty seven, and he fought alongside John Randolph until he

618
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: was killed in the Battle of Neville's Cross, and that

619
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: meant that his title reverted to the crown. Because he

620
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: had no children, but Agnes didn't agree. She just started

621
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: using the title Countess of Moray and no one dared

622
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: to question her about it. That's right, Like she's she

623
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: already thought it was her. Even her husband Patrick Dunbar

624
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: started using it and he's like, I'm the Count of

625
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: more thanks to my wife. Now. Eventually the title went

626
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: to her nephew. When the Treaty of Berwick was being

627
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: discussed and the war in thirteen fifty seven, Patrick was

628
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: one of the lords who went along to discuss the

629
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: release of King David the Second from the English prison

630
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: he was in. Remember that was the toddler who was

631
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: crowned king and Patrick was the regent for him, that's right.

632
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: And then as he was growing up, he spent a

633
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: lot of time in exile in France, and he joined

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Speaker 1: the war and then he captured you know, it's like

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Speaker 1: a whole thing with King David the Second and Patrick

636
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: ended up being a hostage that England kept us collateral

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Speaker 1: until King David the Seconds ransom was paid, but Patrick

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00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: wasn't kept under lock and key, so after the first

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Speaker 1: payment was made, he just went on his merry way,

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Speaker 1: which turns out to be maybe a bad idea because

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00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: King David never did pay his whole rant. He embezzled

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Speaker 1: a lot of money from the Scottish tech payers in

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Speaker 1: order to do so. It made him very unpopular, but

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Speaker 1: he never actually did finish paying off well. Agnes and

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00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: Patrick ended up having no children together, but they did

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Speaker 1: have Award, who was probably Agnes's sister's daughter, her niece

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Speaker 1: uh and her name was also Agnes Dunbar. She would

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Speaker 1: become the mistress of King David the second. So they

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Speaker 1: kept it in the family because they like they do

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00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:55,439
Speaker 1: they like they get papal dispensations to do. Agnes died

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Speaker 1: in and Patrick died just a few months later. Now

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Speaker 1: I found this story, I guess probably a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago or something, and I was so into it

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Speaker 1: because I was just like, this lady is such a

655
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,760
Speaker 1: ship poster, basically, like she's so funny, it's just hilarious.

656
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: And I was like, I want to do this story.

657
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: And Eli told me not to do it because he

658
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: thinks it's not a ridiculous romance because it's just about

659
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Speaker 1: like this wife. Sometimes we stretch into I would say,

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Speaker 1: particularly women's history, because these stories are so interesting and

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00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: typically untold. So during our research. Sometimes we come across

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Speaker 1: one and we're like, we gotta do this episode. How

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Speaker 1: can we wedge it into being a story about a relationship.

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Speaker 1: But mainly because like, especially in medieval times, they didn't

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Speaker 1: write about women, you know what I mean, Like the

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Speaker 1: most you ever got recorded was if you had a

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Speaker 1: baby or not, and even if when you died, they

668
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: didn't bother to write it down. You know. It's just

669
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: like your life and accomplishments and the things you do

670
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: don't matter to anybody. They don't matter for posterity the

671
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: way men's actions do or whatever. So I think it

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Speaker 1: is really important when a wife eclipses her husband, I

673
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: guess because it's so unusual. If there's not a man

674
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: in the story, how am I supposed to relate? No,

675
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Speaker 1: I've come around since we read it and started doing it.

676
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: But next time I'm going to do a story just

677
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Speaker 1: about a husband eclipsing his wife. Oh it'll be so

678
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: hard to find a story about that. Oh my god.

679
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Speaker 1: And liken us but the unknown George Washington, Yeah, Washington,

680
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: I don't. I just think about it, guys more famous.

681
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Speaker 1: I mean, we've done it, George Lucas, you know, like

682
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: you've seen it happen. Marcia deserved that episode, damn it well.

683
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Speaker 1: And I think we even talked about this when we

684
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: were talking about doing this show at all, because I

685
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: was like, I think it's really narrow to have to

686
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: do couples, like to have to do people who were together,

687
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: because a lot of women only succeeded because they were

688
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: able to get away from their husbands or not get

689
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: married or live you know what I mean. A lot

690
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: of a lot of the episodes we have done have

691
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: been very much about, you know, these partnerships between two people,

692
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: not even always a man and a woman, but where

693
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Speaker 1: one person who's who's not the sis mail in that

694
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: partnership doesn't really get the attention that they deserve in history, right, Um,

695
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Speaker 1: And that's led to some really cool episodes for us. Yeah.

696
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Speaker 1: I think that's kind kind of what opened me up

697
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 1: or whatever when we started sort of making our giant

698
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: list of possible subjects and I was like, actually, people

699
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: have been fucking for a long time, exactly exactly, So, Um,

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00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: there's so much history that you can cover through the

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Speaker 1: lens of a couple or an affair or whatever, as

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00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: we have done. But I think this is just one

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Speaker 1: of those. To me, I think it's yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and honestly, after we read through it, that's I mean, yes,

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00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: that's what I think too. Yeah. Well, whatever we think

706
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: or whatever you think, we're really excited to tell this

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Speaker 1: story of Agnes of Dunbar, one of the few women

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Speaker 1: in history who eclipsed her husband by being sassy and

709
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: defiance and trolling the ship at some English dude. She's

710
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: incredible and totally like hitting him in the face. The

711
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: paint can hilarious metaphorical Scottish paint can I'm glad paint,

712
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: you know, like in the cartoons, and it was already

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Speaker 1: patterned paint and paint all over our Salsbury. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if it's still standing Castle Dunbar, because I would love

715
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Speaker 1: to go see it. I feel like it must be right.

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Speaker 1: Who could bring it down? Fortress was a long ast

717
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Speaker 1: time ago, so who knows. Hey, Scottish friends, you have

718
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:58,919
Speaker 1: two things to tell us. One our accents offensive to too.

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Speaker 1: Is Castle Dunbar still round? Um? Well, I hate to

720
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Speaker 1: tell you, is it not. There's some ruins? Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I thought so, it's it. That's the long ast time ago. Yeah,

722
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Speaker 1: the last of the castle was damaged in fifteen sixty seven,

723
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Speaker 1: apparently deliberately to reduce its value as a military target.

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Speaker 1: So probably very similar to what Edward the Third was

725
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: trying to do when he was like, don't bring it

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00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: down so it can't be used against me. Yeah, she

727
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: had a long run the fifteen sixties. That's longer than that,

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Speaker 1: older than America, I know, but even longer than that

729
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 1: because Patrick's mom defended it, so it was already standing. Yeah,

730
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Speaker 1: it was built in the seventh century. Oh wow, yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for tuning in today, y'all. Yes,

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Speaker 1: let us know what you think about Agnes of Dunbar

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Speaker 1: and Patrick and this whole story. Um, I hope you

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Speaker 1: loved it as much as we did. You can reach

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Speaker 1: us through emails at ridic Romance at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's right. You can find us on Twitter and Instagram.

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Speaker 1: and the show is at ridict Romance and you can

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Speaker 1: find us on TikTok at Ridiculous Romance. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. You can't wait to bring you the

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