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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you missed in history class from how

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hello, welcome to the podcast and

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Speaker 1: I've traded and UH. Today we will be covering another

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Speaker 1: mentally ill royal because listeners love them so much, and

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Speaker 1: this one is from a country we haven't talked about

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Speaker 1: them a lot, which is Sweden, and it actually people

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Speaker 1: will probably notice some parallels between this story and UH

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Speaker 1: the podcast we covered on Korea's Prince Sotto. There are

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Speaker 1: some similar themes that run father issues madness slowly developing.

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Speaker 1: This one is not quite as creatively gruesome, however, which

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Speaker 1: is a nice little break perhaps. And we're gonna actually

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Speaker 1: build this one up kind of in layers, so we're

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Speaker 1: not going to go chronologically. We're gonna cover various aspects

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about out, you know, his romantic interests, will

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Speaker 1: then his sort of mental state and how it broke

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Speaker 1: down throughout all of this. So many of these things

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Speaker 1: each their own time in the spotlight. And so the

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Speaker 1: person we're talking about today is Eric the fourteenth of Sweden,

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Speaker 1: and he was not the only member of his family

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Speaker 1: his reign. So first we actually have to talk about

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Speaker 1: his father. His father was Gustave First. Gustav was crowned

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Speaker 1: king of Sweden in three and similarly to the story

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Speaker 1: suspected that he may have had some degree of mental

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Speaker 1: kind of echo again later in his son in kind

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Speaker 1: of even a creepier way. Probably the most important legacy

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Speaker 1: committed so many terrible atrocities. But in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 1: Certainly would not ever want to diminish the loss of life, uh,

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Speaker 1: but it is also tragic that people suffer with mental

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Speaker 1: And I'm not uh keep saying, you know, oh, no,

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Speaker 1: poor guy, I mean, yes, poor guy that he was suffering.

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Speaker 1: Also horrible guy stopped doing that. So so, um, that's

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Speaker 1: the scoop on Eric the fourteenth of Sweden. Hopefully we'll

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Speaker 1: and all of that area, because they haven't gotten a

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Speaker 1: lot of play on the podcast historically. Um. If you

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Speaker 1: also have some whistener mail for us, I do. This

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Speaker 1: footbinding episode. She says, Hello, thank you for the recent

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Speaker 1: the feet of every woman, is not simply ended in

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Speaker 1: a day, so one cannot point to a single catalyzing event.

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Speaker 1: In my history classes, we were taught a heavier influence

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Speaker 1: people view mau Zdong and the rise of the communist

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Speaker 1: traditional practices, but the wind started blowing that way in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eleven. The Cultural Revolution certainly codified and violently enforced

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Speaker 1: this change in views, but the fall of the Shan

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Speaker 1: dynasty was the major divining point for the social and

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Speaker 1: cultural norm of foot finding. Thank you for an interesting,

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Speaker 1: a thought provoking podcast. I didn't talk a whole lot

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Speaker 1: focus on the culture. And truthfully, I um probably would

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Speaker 1: not have put it so eloquently as Chelsea did and cleanly.

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Speaker 1: And I've also had the Cultural Revolution on my Like

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Speaker 1: Ideas wish list for episodes much since we came onto

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Speaker 1: the podcast, and it's just so enormous. That's the thing

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Speaker 1: I have that moment of I can never include all

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Speaker 1: of the its. It's so enormous and there are so

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Speaker 1: many factors and how it came about and the you know,

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Speaker 1: what it influenced, and the effects that it had. That

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Speaker 1: attempting to mention it in the context of another thing

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Speaker 1: the sort of opens up this giant can of worms

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Speaker 1: and then it becomes a sick part podcast. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: not always a good thing. I still have the Cup

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Speaker 1: for Revolution on the wish list is very very big, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's such good stuff to talk about and

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Speaker 1: it's such a rich, uh sort of kettle of information,

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Speaker 1: but it is hard to break it down into digestible pieces.

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Speaker 1: But again, Chelsea put it very um cleanly and succinctly

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Speaker 1: in a way that I would not have Thank you, Chelsea. UH.

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