May 19, 2025

Two Polite Porcupines: Marie Antoinette

Two Polite Porcupines: Marie Antoinette
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History often reduces Marie Antoinette to a single misattributed quote about cake and a guillotine blade, but the real woman behind the myth was far more complex and tragic. Born an Austrian archduchess and sent to France at just 14 years old to marry the future Louis XVI, she entered a world of suffocating court protocol, political intrigue, and a marriage that remained unconsummated for seven years (prompting her brother to jokingly call the royal couple "two polite porcupines").

While France descended into economic crisis after supporting the American Revolution, Marie sought refuge in fashion and private pleasures, unwittingly becoming the perfect scapegoat for a nation's frustrations. The young queen – described by her own mother as "the most beautiful and least clever" of her children – had no real political power, yet revolutionary propaganda portrayed her as a scheming foreign villain who wore diamonds while France burned. In reality, she was just a woman trying to find her place in a world that was rapidly crumbling around her.

From the Women's March on Versailles to the royal family's failed escape attempt and their eventual imprisonment, we trace Marie's journey from beloved princess to "Madame Deficit" to "the Widow Capet" facing execution. Her final moments reveal a dignity that had always existed beneath the powdered wigs and elaborate gowns – accidentally stepping on the executioner's foot, she apologized: "Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose." These words, not the fictional cake quote, perhaps best capture the essence of a queen who, despite her flaws, deserved better than history gave her.

What other historical figures have been unfairly maligned by the popular narrative? Join the conversation and let us know your thoughts by following us on social media or emailing us directly at historybuffoonspodcast@gmail.com.



Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey
https://www.amazon.com/Marie-Antoinette-Journey-Antonia-Fraser/dp/0385489498


Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion
https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Fashion-Marie-Antoinette-Revolution/dp/0312427344


Smithsonian Magazine, Met Museum, World History Encyclopedia
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/marie-antoinette-134629573/


Marie’s letters, court memoirs, and a LOT of scandalous pamphlets

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00:00 - Episode Introduction and Catch Up

13:13 - Summer Sue Beer Tasting

21:53 - Marie Antoinette Arrives at Versailles

36:15 - Seven Years of Marriage Without Consummation

48:32 - Marie As Queen & Fashion Controversies

01:04:15 - Economic Crisis and French Revolution Begins

01:19:30 - Storming the Bastille and Women's March

01:28:42 - Royal Family's Failed Escape Attempt

01:35:49 - Trial and Execution of Louis XVI

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oh, hey there, oh hey there.

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This is our third time starting.

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This is our third take on starting the episode on the oh hey there's.

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We had some technical difficulties, so hi kate hi how are you today?

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I'm I'm good.

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Who are we?

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kate and bradley or the history buffoons.

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Let's go with that one anyways.

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How are you today?

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I'm doing well.

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We had a nice like little thunderstorm come through, which is always pleasant yeah, that was uh short.

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It was very short, it was very short.

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I love thunderstorms that's my sound machine at night it is.

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You've told me that we had a storm come through yesterday too, and we got a bunch of hail for what may mid-may?

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Mid-may, mid-may and um the ides of may wait I think that's march well, that's caesar, we're talking about us anyways.

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Um, my kids were super excited because sarah went out and grabbed a couple of the.

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I sent you the picture the big chunks of hail, literally.

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One was almost the size of a mandarin orange.

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What are they?

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called the cuties.

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Yes, it was big, it was huge.

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Did any of your vehicles get damaged?

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Yeah, we got some dents, so it's what it is, but anyways, I found a new dent on my car this morning, another one, yep, come on, really yep.

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What is it?

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it looks like like a more broad type of like dent.

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Oh really, not a pinprick like my first one that I had earlier this month someone literally like opened their door into you.

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Yeah it this month someone literally like opened their door into you yeah, it looked like someone put like a pen on my door and then just like stamped.

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That's what my first one looked like.

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This one was a lot more broad and like this big, so it was kind of hard.

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You didn't really notice it, except for like the shadow effect.

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I, I guess, sure.

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Either way.

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How was your week?

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It was really long.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God, oh my.

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God it was so long.

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This is so long.

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Why was this week so long?

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I'm not sure.

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I feel like it's been a year since we've done this.

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I did get a new job.

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Congratulations.

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I'm so proud of you.

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Yes, it is at a chiropractic office.

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Yeah, which is exciting.

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I don't start until June End of June yeah.

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Yeah, because they're going on vacation and I'm going on vacation, so I'm transitioning out of the place that I'm currently working as an employee and moving to this chiropractic office as an employee as well.

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I'm excited for you because you get to like kind of curate your own kind of system if you will.

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Yeah, I get to create my own menu.

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Yeah, yeah, which is super cool.

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So I'm super proud of you and excited for you, so congratulations on the new endeavor, so I'm excited for you too.

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Okay, yes, beer or story first.

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Beer.

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Okay, good.

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Because I still have to tell you something.

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I've been waiting on, I know.

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That's why I was like do you want to tell the story first?

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Because you've been waiting.

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So a little context.

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We have had Toppling Goliath on our episodes before.

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Was that, oh boy?

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Two weeks ago we went to our favorite bar, the Brown Bear.

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Dano, one of our favorite bartenders was working.

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I well, normally we both always order the pseudo-sue from Topping Goliath.

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Hey man, I just got this new one in from them.

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Normally, we both always order the pseudo-sue from Topping Goliath.

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Hey man, I just got this new one in from them.

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It's called did you show the picture?

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The Summer Sue.

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It's a citrus ale and he's like and Sue, the dinosaur, is on it.

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Oh yeah, he's in Chicago.

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She is in Chicago.

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So he poured us each a sample of it.

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I'm like that is fucking good.

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But we only had a sample.

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So I went and looked for podcast beers for today and I came across the Six Pack.

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So we have full-blown 12-ounce cans Okay.

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So this is from Toppling Goliath Brewing Company and it is brewed in beautiful Decorah.

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Iowa.

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It literally says brewed in beautiful.

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They would do that.

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I'm a Nebraska fan and we were always, you know, against Iowa.

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But anyways, A refreshing citrus ale brimming with sweet tropical notes that are perfect for warm afternoons.

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Aromas of bright citrus bring a vibrant pop to this summertime ale how was it?

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It's good.

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It could be colder.

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Always.

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I thought I had it pretty cold.

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I brought it up from where I live.

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I had ice on it.

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We put it in the fridge for a bit.

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I thought it'd be colder.

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It's good though it's, because so obviously anyone who's listened to us past the first five seconds knows we try beverages.

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Pseudo sue is a very ipa beer.

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It's a pale ale.

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This is a citrus ale, so a little bit different.

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Um again, this is literally the second time we've had this in our life and we only had a sample for the first one.

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It's good quite different.

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It's really fucking good.

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It's quite different from their normal what we have.

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Basically.

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So thanks, dano, for uh, yeah, thanks, dano for the sample and um, I saw this and I'm like we're gonna have that so they have toppling and toppling.

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Goliath has the pseudo sue, and then they have king sue, which is a hazy ipa so this is summer, sue, I think.

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Yes, I think King Sue is a hazy double.

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It is pretty strong.

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It is strong.

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I love that one so much it's so good.

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But anyways, oh, what's the.

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The ABV 5.2 is all, oh, that's not bad, I don't, I guess.

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I don't remember what pseudo is, so either way, so you have a story and I've been waiting to hear it all day.

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It's not a long story, it's quite funny.

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So, as you know, I work pretty early in the morning.

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Yes, I get a phone call from the wife.

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I'm like what's going on?

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What time of day?

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Early morning, I'm assuming.

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But like what time?

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This was like at 7.10 this morning.

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This morning Okay, this morning Okay.

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Hey, I'm like what's up?

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Vesper wanted to call you.

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I'm like oh okay, oh my God.

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Shut off your fucking alarm.

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I can't do it with my phone.

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It should be off.

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I hit fucking mute.

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Is it coming from the computer?

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Yes, technical difficulties.

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Okay, that's good.

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Hey girlfriend.

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Okay, here we go.

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Okay, yes, so Vesper wanted to talk to you.

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So Vesper wanted Mama to to you.

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So Vesper wanted mama to call me.

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And she goes hey, vesper wanted me to call you.

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I'm like, okay, which is again.

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She's two fucking years old.

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She's so cute and it's funny, cause I'll try and talk to my son on the phone, who is nearly seven, a few months more, but nearly seven Barely can get any more than a meh out of him.

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Yeah, that's how I look at meh.

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You've heard him before, so you know Vesper gets on the phone.

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Hi Daddy, I can hear her like.

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It's like holy fuck.

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She's like in the room with me.

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It was amazing, because I'm just so used to xavier being like yeah, just kind of shy and he doesn't.

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I don't know how she's so comfortable on the phone, because he's not at all, which he doesn't use the phone a lot because.

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But neither does she, neither does she anyways.

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So she goes.

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Dad, I peed on the potty, like oh, good job, sweetheart.

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I peed yellow, like yeah, that's that's the right color and she's like good job, sweetheart, yeah.

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And then I hear Sarah in the background tell daddy what you got for your, because she gets a potty treat.

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Mm-hmm, what did you get?

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I got a yellow M&M.

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Huh, all right, awesome.

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That's so adorable.

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And then she's like all right, let's let Daddy get back to work.

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I love you, Daddy.

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It was so cute, so Mer.

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Mer daddy, it was so cute.

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So it was just, it was just super cute because she she's two, but I I could understand her.

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She has my heart, oh she, she loves auntie kate, so I love xavier too.

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I.

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I love your kids so much but vesper is yours she's my little buddy.

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She really is, and she loves you so much yeah, it's so funny because, like she always asks where's auntie kate?

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she always said is she taking care of her kitties?

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yeah, I'm taking care of my kitties so for a brief context, a lot of times kate will come down to record an episode with me at my house, and obviously we do it at her place too.

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Um, when she leaves, vess was like where's Kate?

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I'm like, well, she had to go home and take care of the kitties.

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So ever since I first said that, which was like a fucking year ago probably, it's been a while.

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Whether it was a year, it doesn't matter.

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And so every time she asked oh, she's at home.

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She had to take care of the kitties.

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Yep, that's what she's doing.

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No matter what you're doing, you're taking care of the kitties.

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That's so fucking cute it's just so cute.

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I love it.

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She's such a sweetheart.

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And then go ahead.

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Oh, I was going to say, and if you're tuning in for like the first time, at the very, very end of our episodes we talk about social medias and stuff.

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Yep, yep, yep.

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The very, very, very, very, very end is Vesper.

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So she's the one who says stop it, stop it, stop it.

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And the funny thing is, so she.

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So I call her two.

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She's going to be three in August.

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So I call her two.

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She's going to be three in August.

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That video was recorded not too far after she was one.

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Yeah, she talks a lot, a lot.

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It's great.

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I love it.

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I absolutely love it.

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Can't always understand her.

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We just got rid of her pacifier not that long ago.

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Thank God that's been helpful.

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But, holy fuck, she talks a lot and she's been talking for a long time because again, end of our episode.

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We do our little spiel and it's stop.

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It is vesper, so it's so cute she was talking to the dog because the dog was whining and she's like stop, stop it.

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So she was emulating daddy at the time.

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She, because I miss my dog, I do.

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He passed away last September.

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Well, we put him down, whatever, but he was a good boy.

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But he also was the bait of my existence and she's like well, daddy doesn't like when he makes that noise.

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I'm going to tell him to stop too.

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And Sarah happened to get a video of it and then I ripped the audio from it.

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So I'm like, and Kate's like, that'd be a great ending to it, to our podcast.

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I'm like, let's do it.

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If you can hear what's going on.

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Right now it's thundering outside, Aw, but it was so nice.

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But I understand he shut the window.

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From the window To the walls.

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We don't need all that stuff.

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Great story time.

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I love your kids.

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I know and they miss you and they say hello, hello, oh, okay.

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So I learned something.

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Oh, my Fucking god, that came from the doves Of hell.

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Holy shit, are you okay?

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Fucking God, that came from the doves Of hell.

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Holy shit, are you okay?

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Do you need my assistance?

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That's a Super Troopers reference and I say it to her all the time and she's like Do you need my?

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assistance Forva Anyways.

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So I learned something this week.

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Okay, I have to share with you.

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Please share, anyways.

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So I learned something this week.

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Okay.

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I have to share with you.

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Please share.

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You like the band, at least the song from the band, toto.

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Africa.

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Yes.

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I love the song Africa.

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Do you want to know what I learned?

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Tell me, it makes absolute no sense.

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None.

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None.

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It came after that song.

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That song came out in 1982.

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Tell me, it makes absolute no sense, none, none.

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It came after that song.

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That song came out in 1982.

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Okay, in 1986.

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Do you know, one year old, potentially, potentially.

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I mean it could have been.

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I could have been a month old.

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Or a year old Wait.

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I'm a year old.

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You said 86, not 85.

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I literally did.

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I don't math people Well at all.

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That's why I'm here.

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It does all of our stats.

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Anywho, 86.

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You like the France?

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Wow, I mixed up words together.

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You like the France?

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Wow, I mixed up words together.

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You like the song Africa?

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By Toto.

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By Toto yes, which came out in 1982.

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Two, I was three, you were a negative three, do you know?

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Again, not for that song.

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He came in 1986.

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Again, not for that song, he came in 1986.

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Do you know who the singer's dad when?

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he joined the band in 1986, that singer's dad is.

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I only know of the song.

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I know nothing about the band.

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That's fine.

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John fucking Williams.

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Huh, Do you not know who that is?

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Who?

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Yeah he's a famous composer for a lot of movies.

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And name some movies.

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Okay, jurassic Park, star Wars, Jaws, yep Jaws, some people say yaws, uh.

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Indiana jones yes, yes, oh, yeah, he's, yeah, he's very famous, multiple, multiple multiple fucking.

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Oh yeah, he's god, he's so god his son joined the band toto in 1986.

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I never fucking knew that.

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Interesting, but it was after Toto came out or after Africa came out.

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There it is.

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It was after Africa came out.

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Wait, wait, wait.

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I don't know, what got me into Africa, but it's chef's kiss, no, and that's fine.

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You can never do that again, that'd be fine.

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Kidding I.

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Chef's kiss, no, and that's fine.

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You can never do that again, that'd be fine.

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Um, kidding I.

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I heard that and I'm like are you fucking kidding me?

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As I I looked into it because I knew you liked that song and so then I looked it's like he joined the band in 1986.

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Like when did africa come up?

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Because I know you like that song.

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It was after the fact.

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I honestly don't know who the original singer is, but I thought I have to shit.

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I've been saving this for days To do this on the podcast.

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I just happened this morning I peed yellow.

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He's been waiting all day to tell me he's been waiting all day to tell me.

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I've been waiting all day to tell Kate because it was super cute and gross, but either way, kids two years.

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It's the bubbles man.

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It's the bubbles, the bubbles, I guess.

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I'm done.

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Anyways, I've been waiting for multiple days to tell Kate that I learned that the singer of Toto from 1986, if I remember reading right.

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I don't remember exactly the years.

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Holy fuck, I'm so sorry.

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Are you though?

00:17:22.432 --> 00:17:26.500
Yeah, he was from then I'm just giving you more ammo, sorry.

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I won't talk anymore.

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So do you have a question for me?

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No, tell me, from 1986, he was from 86 to I don't remember what year, I apologize and then there was a gap and then he rejoined the band or whatever it was.

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I had no idea.

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That's literally John Williams fucking kid.

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Yeah, that's literally john williams fucking kid.

00:17:46.199 --> 00:17:52.530
Yeah, that's so cool who is uh, an amazing composer for huge, huge, fucking movies.

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Huge hits, huge hits, I mean star wars alone oh man, he's gonna be missed when he passes away because he's on the older side, I think he's early 90s, even if I'm not mistaken.

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I could be wrong, but he's so amazing.

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He's early 90s even.

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If I'm not mistaken, he's so great.

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He's so amazing, he's so talented.

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I like Hans Zimmerman too.

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I love me some Hans Zimmerman, he's fucking great.

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And then there's one other composer that's really great in movies, and I'm drawing a blank, I'm drawing a blank, I'm drawing a blank, um, unfortunately, but there.

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It's funny because I mentioned a previous co-worker to you earlier and she's a big fan of the composer I'm trying to think of oh no oh my god, what the fuck is his name?

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Now, it's irritating me.

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I can't think of it.

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I'd look at my phone, but it's recording me.

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Um, it's okay, oh damn it, I can't think of it.

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I'd look at my phone, but it's recording me, it's okay, ah, damn it, I can't think of it, it doesn't matter Either way.

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There's a few composers.

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I mean there's a lot of good composers, but there's a couple that just stand out, and to me it's John Williams, because I grew up on Star Wars.

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Jurassic Park.

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So good, so so amazing.

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Who did?

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was it Hans Zimmer that did Pirates of the Caribbean.

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Might have been Zimmerman.

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Might have been Hans Zimmerman.

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That might have been?

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Did he also do Van Helsing?

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I don't know where my telepahone is, but Telepahone it doesn't matter, we are hey, do you have a question for me?

00:19:24.307 --> 00:19:25.702
We, it doesn't matter.

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Do you have a question for me?

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We're on a fucking tangent.

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No, because this is a long build up, so we're just going to go into the story.

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I'm sorry.

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I really wanted to share those two things with you today.

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I love the story, so I'm just going to avoid the question and we'll just get right into it let's do it let's do it, cheers, cheers to summer, sue.

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Thanks Dano.

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Right into it, let's do it.

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Let's do it, let's do it.

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Cheers, cheers to Summer, sue.

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Thanks Dano.

00:19:49.351 --> 00:19:55.364
I should do a story on Sue, that'd be, great, let's go down to the.

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Field Museum in Chicago.

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I think it's the Field Museum, that's where it is.

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They have Sue the dinosaur.

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If you have a pseudo-Sue it says in association with or whatever it says, field Museum on the can for a pseudo-Sue.

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This one does too.

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Oh, there it is Field Museum.

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Look at that.

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I didn't turn the can.

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Sorry, actually Sue's origin story, not origin story.

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Sue's discovery story is actually pretty significant.

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Yeah, it's huge.

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Yeah, there's a documentary, I believe, on Netflix at one point.

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I don't know if it's still there.

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Okay.

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Dinosaur 21 or Dinosaur, and then a number I don't know if it's still there Dinosaur 21 or Dinosaur, and then a number I don't recall.

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This is just off my memory, so it's all wrong.

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Potentially.

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No.

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Anyway, not potentially.

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It's a great documentary if you can find it.

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Yeah, dinosaur and then a number, dinosaur number.

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I think it's called Dinosaur Number Hashtag.

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We used to call that a pound sign.

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We sure did.

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Fuck me up.

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We sure did.

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Oh, remember those analog phones.

00:21:14.325 --> 00:21:15.809
Anyway, okay, okay, I'm gonna try.

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Do you remember rotary phones?

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Yes, I loved going to my grandma's apartment and she had a rotary phone.

00:21:22.782 --> 00:21:27.055
I'm like I gotta dial my mom Anyway going to my grandma's apartment and she had a rotary phone.

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I'm like I got to dial my mom Anyway.

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So you don't have a question for me.

00:21:30.926 --> 00:21:33.516
No, let's get into it 1770.

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That's a long time ago 1770.

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I was four, 14 year old.

00:21:41.645 --> 00:21:44.982
Oh shit, marie Antoinette.

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Oh, let him eat cake Of Austria.

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Yeah, shows up at Versailles.

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Sure fucking does.

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To marry the future.

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Louis XVI Fucking ain't right.

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She was bright-eyed, bushy-tailed Absolutely, you've heard that before right.

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Is that an idiom?

00:22:04.803 --> 00:22:05.346
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed?

00:22:05.346 --> 00:22:06.031
Absolutely, you've heard she was.

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Is that an idiom?

00:22:06.375 --> 00:22:06.919
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed?

00:22:06.919 --> 00:22:12.951
Yeah, yeah, you should remember that I won't it's funny, the last episode you like.

00:22:12.951 --> 00:22:23.606
Read all these down, I'm like, yep, haven't done it yet maybe somebody out there will email us be like these are the three that you mentioned okay, I think we had more than three.

00:22:24.589 --> 00:22:25.432
Working on it.

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She was young, but she was super enthusiastic.

00:22:29.972 --> 00:22:32.147
She was very bright, she liked cake.

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I'll get to that.

00:22:36.265 --> 00:22:37.849
Okay, good, I will get to that.

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I will leave it be for now, then.

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And the French public, public, public.

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I've already had a couple to drink today.

00:22:48.148 --> 00:22:50.445
I had a two hour nap.

00:22:50.445 --> 00:22:54.987
I wasn't there for it, but apparently Nathan said I was snoring.

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I don't know.

00:22:56.339 --> 00:22:56.721
You were.

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I came over to record Kate's napping, so that was fun.

00:23:01.646 --> 00:23:04.701
I'm just chatting with Nathan.

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What's up, dude?

00:23:05.686 --> 00:23:07.378
We're chatting about whatever.

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Is that snoring?

00:23:08.611 --> 00:23:11.193
Is Kate sleeping, I think so.

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I thought I heard snoring.

00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:13.726
Yeah, you probably did.

00:23:15.965 --> 00:23:37.650
I love naps okay naps are your second favorite thing to sleeping naps are better than sleeping let's move on the french public loved her yes, they did yes very much, so yes, during a 1773 visit to paris.

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So versailles is about 20 miles away from paris.

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Oh it's not that far.

00:23:42.464 --> 00:23:45.192
No, okay, I guess I never realized I was that close.

00:23:45.271 --> 00:23:47.705
Same Until this research.

00:23:48.608 --> 00:23:49.371
Well, good for you.

00:23:49.740 --> 00:23:54.068
During a visit to Paris, she gushed to her mother through letters.

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She wrote a lot of letters to her mother.

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Okay, she said, quote the poor people, despite their taxes.

00:24:01.111 --> 00:24:08.356
So poor were transported with joy, despite their taxes, were transported with joy at seeing us.

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Aka, I'm so happy you saw me.

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That's how I took that.

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I'm so happy you got to see me.

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You're better for seeing me.

00:24:17.292 --> 00:24:23.286
Yeah, that's how I Wow, is that really how she thought?

00:24:24.490 --> 00:24:27.747
No, that's just how I interpreted that.

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The poor people, despite their taxes, were transported with joy at seeing us.

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Were they transported or transfixed?

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Transported, I like transfixed.

00:24:36.849 --> 00:24:40.057
Sure, yeah, we're going to edit that in Trans.

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I'm sorry.

00:24:40.681 --> 00:24:42.911
Okay, but the vibe shifted fairly quickly.

00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:46.467
Yeah, that's the thing with Marie.

00:24:47.347 --> 00:24:48.250
Antoinette.

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Antoinette, that's a meat cake, so court life was like high school oh so shitty.

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It was full of fucking gossip.

00:24:57.579 --> 00:24:59.748
Yeah, because that's like I said shitty.

00:25:00.181 --> 00:25:03.391
And powdered wigs, just like my high school.

00:25:03.391 --> 00:25:04.104
That was my high school too.

00:25:04.125 --> 00:25:05.534
Oh my God, there was like powdered wigs, just like my high school.

00:25:05.534 --> 00:25:06.178
That was my high school too.

00:25:06.178 --> 00:25:08.587
Oh my god, there was like powdered wigs everywhere.

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Left and right, everywhere, and there was like zero privacy.

00:25:12.169 --> 00:25:16.719
Marie Antoinette had like zero privacy for anything.

00:25:17.101 --> 00:25:19.106
I just thought you meant they didn't have doors in your bathroom.

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Every morning, every morning she didn't have privacy.

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She had to get dressed in front of a crowd.

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How many people?

00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:30.691
She said, quote I put on my rouge, which is blush.

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I put on my rouge, yes, and I washed my hands in front of the whole world End quote, but that's not accurate.

00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:41.125
But you know her world.

00:25:42.280 --> 00:25:57.744
One time she stood half naked and shivering while one of her handmaids actually a couple handmaids debated who had the right to hand her a sleeve did you get this from her handmaid's tale?

00:25:58.146 --> 00:26:01.182
no all right, sorry, I couldn't resist Sorry.

00:26:01.703 --> 00:26:02.847
Another summer, sue.

00:26:02.847 --> 00:26:11.153
But she and she wasn't even queen yet and they were all like already arguing like, oh my God, who can like, actually like, give her a sleeve.

00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:18.053
How long was she in courtship or whatever you want to call it with Louis?

00:26:18.053 --> 00:26:22.288
Was it a while, or was it pretty brief?

00:26:22.709 --> 00:26:23.351
It was brief.

00:26:23.351 --> 00:26:24.785
Okay, it was very brief.

00:26:25.080 --> 00:26:30.351
I guess I never really knew, so I was just curious if that came across any of your stuff.

00:26:31.321 --> 00:26:32.365
It was pretty brief.

00:26:32.365 --> 00:26:33.890
Okay, yes, fair enough.

00:26:33.890 --> 00:26:37.689
So she missed Vienna, which is where she lived.

00:26:37.828 --> 00:26:38.570
I miss Vienna too.

00:26:38.859 --> 00:26:43.608
She had a pug Really Named Mops Mops.

00:26:43.900 --> 00:26:44.944
That's so cute.

00:26:44.944 --> 00:26:47.163
I know I want a pug, babe.

00:26:47.163 --> 00:26:48.047
I really don't.

00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:53.224
And the court that she was like walking into was really hostile.

00:26:53.744 --> 00:26:54.066
Why.

00:26:54.826 --> 00:26:56.087
Well, so wait.

00:26:56.828 --> 00:26:57.608
She was from where?

00:26:58.069 --> 00:27:02.473
Austria, vienna, austria, okay, and she married into the French.

00:27:02.473 --> 00:27:03.736
The French, yes, yeah.

00:27:03.836 --> 00:27:09.666
Well, that tracks, yeah, into the French.

00:27:09.666 --> 00:27:10.789
The French, yes, yeah.

00:27:10.789 --> 00:27:11.431
Well that tracks.

00:27:11.431 --> 00:27:15.019
I mean because, like alliances and shit, keep doing that People don't know.

00:27:15.019 --> 00:27:23.449
I'm sorry, I am in a goofy fucking mood, so I am probably going to say dumb shit.

00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:25.707
Well, your daughter's pee was yellow, so what?

00:27:25.727 --> 00:27:27.394
I'm just your daughter's pee was yellow, so what?

00:27:27.413 --> 00:27:28.900
I'm just kidding, Okay so.

00:27:29.221 --> 00:27:30.125
Her pee was yellow.

00:27:30.125 --> 00:27:33.728
Daddy, I peed in the potty, it was yellow.

00:27:34.450 --> 00:27:35.010
So okay.

00:27:35.010 --> 00:27:40.512
Great sweetie Louis XV's mistress was named Madame du Barry.

00:27:41.102 --> 00:27:42.058
Madame du Barry.

00:27:42.441 --> 00:27:44.950
And she had the king's ear on everything.

00:27:44.950 --> 00:27:58.532
Not even the wife did, but the mistresses always had the king's ear Because they're betting the king right, they're in a vulnerable position and they are able to persuade the king on lots of stuff.

00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:02.550
Well, that's why, because the king was probably betting them and not the queen.

00:28:04.300 --> 00:28:08.247
And Madame du Barry was not exactly warm to Marie Antoinette.

00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:10.084
I've seen man in an Iron Mask.

00:28:11.426 --> 00:28:12.630
What's that about?

00:28:12.630 --> 00:28:16.066
I've seen it a long time ago.

00:28:16.086 --> 00:28:17.830
Do you remember who's in it?

00:28:18.259 --> 00:28:19.586
Leonardo DiCaprio.

00:28:22.446 --> 00:28:23.470
Leonardo DiCaprio.

00:28:23.549 --> 00:28:24.571
Sorry, am I drooling?

00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:28.428
Could you get a fucking towel shit.

00:28:28.428 --> 00:28:31.683
I'm gonna have to clean her microphones after this one.

00:28:31.743 --> 00:28:41.825
Anyways, continue, okay I was joking around, but clearly she was not she would call motor antoinette the austrian, like it was some kind of slur.

00:28:42.925 --> 00:28:49.392
Isn't it funny that it's like thanks for noticing my heritage, but you're using it as a slur?

00:28:49.412 --> 00:29:02.311
Yes, she was Fuck you, they did not get along Okay so you don't say Marie Antoinette's mother Empress Maria Teresa.

00:29:02.772 --> 00:29:04.095
Teresa Mm-hmm.

00:29:04.095 --> 00:29:04.234
Okay.

00:29:05.800 --> 00:29:08.863
What was she empress of, she was a Habsburg.

00:29:08.863 --> 00:29:10.186
Was she really?

00:29:10.186 --> 00:29:11.470
She was no shit.

00:29:11.470 --> 00:29:23.529
Yes, Okay, she had very Catholic views and she raised Marie to see royal mistresses like Madame du Barry as immoral parasites.

00:29:23.529 --> 00:29:28.169
Well, yeah, because A bug to be squished, if you will.

00:29:29.003 --> 00:29:42.527
She was basically having her look out for herself because these people are going to pop up, because that was the lifestyle for them, and she's like no, no, no, you're the queen, or whatever.

00:29:42.527 --> 00:29:46.749
At that point, these are, like you said, parasites.

00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:56.406
Yes, and Marie refused to speak to her, to her mom, no, to Madame du Barry the mistress, oh the mistress.

00:29:56.406 --> 00:29:57.964
Yes, she refused to speak to her.

00:29:57.964 --> 00:30:00.527
Yes, yes, I'm sorry the court was buzzing.

00:30:00.527 --> 00:30:02.508
Du Barry was furious.

00:30:02.508 --> 00:30:04.959
Louis XV was an amuse.

00:30:04.959 --> 00:30:06.643
Blah, blah, blah.

00:30:06.643 --> 00:30:08.165
How'd that go?

00:30:08.165 --> 00:30:09.327
Duberry was furious.

00:30:09.327 --> 00:30:11.531
Louis the 15th was an amused.

00:30:11.612 --> 00:30:22.991
I'm using that as a short, that too, but to avoid an incident in public.

00:30:23.712 --> 00:30:29.567
Marie antoinette finally went up to Madame du Barry and said painfully awkwardly Let me kick.

00:30:29.567 --> 00:30:32.945
There are a lot of people at Versailles today.

00:30:32.945 --> 00:30:40.186
And that comes straight down, AKA Nice weather we're having right.

00:30:40.186 --> 00:30:42.346
That's what that felt like.

00:30:42.346 --> 00:30:44.227
Nice weather we're having.

00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:45.224
That was the olive branch.

00:30:45.224 --> 00:30:46.030
There's a lot of people at Versailles.

00:30:46.030 --> 00:30:47.199
That was the olive branch.

00:30:48.141 --> 00:30:51.045
There's a lot of people at Versailles today and that worked.

00:30:51.045 --> 00:30:55.026
It was an olive branch, that's all that matters.

00:30:55.026 --> 00:30:56.352
I fucking hate olives yeah.

00:30:57.217 --> 00:30:57.859
And their branches.

00:30:58.039 --> 00:31:16.390
But hovering over Maria and Louis XV, the King, and Madame de Berry, and blah, blah, blah, blah, empress Maria Theresa, okay, she is the only female ruler of the Habsburg Dominions.

00:31:16.390 --> 00:31:19.134
Marie, yes, okay, no, no, no, no, no.

00:31:19.134 --> 00:31:23.640
Her mother, oh, her mother, her mother, okay, maria Theresa, there's a lot of Marias, so many.

00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:25.141
Yeah, her mother, maria Teresa, there's a lot of Marias.

00:31:25.161 --> 00:31:25.421
So many?

00:31:25.421 --> 00:31:32.263
Yeah, maria Teresa is the female ruler of the Habsburg Dominions.

00:31:32.263 --> 00:31:34.585
She ruled for over 20 years.

00:31:34.585 --> 00:31:35.684
Holy shit, really.

00:31:35.684 --> 00:31:36.045
Yes.

00:31:36.806 --> 00:31:37.086
Wow.

00:31:37.826 --> 00:31:45.288
She was mom to 15 or 16, depending on the resources Can you say it that way again.

00:31:45.288 --> 00:31:48.509
She was mom to 15 or 16 children.

00:31:48.529 --> 00:31:50.070
15 or 16, depending on the resources.

00:31:50.070 --> 00:31:50.590
Can you say it that way?

00:31:50.590 --> 00:31:50.790
Again, she?

00:31:50.790 --> 00:31:55.532
Was mom to 15 or 16 children, 15 or 16.

00:31:55.532 --> 00:31:56.192
There it is, so some research.

00:31:56.192 --> 00:31:58.233
I read Holy shit, that's a lot of fucking kids.

00:31:58.874 --> 00:32:03.756
Some research I read said that Marie Antoinette was the last child.

00:32:03.756 --> 00:32:06.977
Oh really, so number 16.

00:32:06.997 --> 00:32:07.436
Would be Marie.

00:32:07.436 --> 00:32:08.017
Oh, really, so number 16.

00:32:08.017 --> 00:32:08.198
Would be.

00:32:08.218 --> 00:32:10.498
Marie, but they also called her number 15.

00:32:10.939 --> 00:32:12.881
How come Did you see?

00:32:12.901 --> 00:32:16.009
anything, because then they've also called her the second to last child.

00:32:17.040 --> 00:32:18.989
Which would make sense if she was 15.

00:32:19.539 --> 00:32:22.686
Yeah, so she's either 15 or 16.

00:32:22.686 --> 00:32:24.691
Unclear, unclear.

00:32:24.691 --> 00:32:28.989
Unclear okay, unclear, and I didn't care enough to like deep dive.

00:32:29.800 --> 00:32:31.345
I can tell by your body language.

00:32:31.484 --> 00:32:34.432
Yeah, okay, but Anne she was.

00:32:34.432 --> 00:32:40.329
And Mother Teresa, mother Teresa, maria Teresa, the Empress of the Habsburg.

00:32:40.329 --> 00:32:45.273
She was also a big believer in tough love.

00:32:45.273 --> 00:32:46.778
Tough love, yes, Okay.

00:32:46.778 --> 00:32:51.892
She once described Marie Antoinette as A super douche.

00:32:51.892 --> 00:32:58.298
Quote the most beautiful and the least clever of my children, Wow.

00:32:59.141 --> 00:33:01.029
What a douchey mom.

00:33:01.753 --> 00:33:08.705
Seriously yes, and actually it's true, mom, seriously yes, and actually it's true, marie Antoinette was not a very bright.

00:33:08.705 --> 00:33:12.730
She's bright, but she wasn't the smartest child.

00:33:12.730 --> 00:33:15.815
But she did really really well in the arts.

00:33:15.815 --> 00:33:21.359
She was a great singer, she played the harp, she danced.

00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:28.782
But as far as history, mathematics, arithmetic, whatever you want to call, it Okay.

00:33:28.803 --> 00:33:30.429
so you know, I'm very good at math.

00:33:30.779 --> 00:33:31.884
I know I'm really bad at it.

00:33:31.884 --> 00:33:32.948
I'm so glad you're better.

00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:38.872
Kind of just brought me down a peg by saying how bad you are, because maybe I'm not that good.

00:33:38.872 --> 00:33:41.306
You know, I'm very good at math.

00:33:41.306 --> 00:33:46.205
Yeah, I play the drums which you use, both sides of the brain.

00:33:46.205 --> 00:33:47.897
I think a yeah, I play the drums which you use both sides of the brain.

00:33:47.897 --> 00:33:52.705
Thank God I got those back finally, but it's when am I going here?

00:33:52.705 --> 00:34:01.624
It's funny because like for her to say that about her daughter, it's like she's not very talented.

00:34:01.624 --> 00:34:04.451
She's beautiful but not smart.

00:34:04.471 --> 00:34:06.176
Right and I'm not smart's beautiful, but not smart.

00:34:06.621 --> 00:34:14.289
Right, and I'm not smart or beautiful, but it's like I can do these things.

00:34:14.289 --> 00:34:17.623
It's like it'd be shooting me down for saying you can't do those.

00:34:17.623 --> 00:34:19.088
I'm like, oh yeah, I can.

00:34:19.088 --> 00:34:25.221
It's just funny that like obviously different times, because what year are we talking about again?

00:34:25.221 --> 00:34:29.152
1770-ish Give or take right.

00:34:29.152 --> 00:34:34.130
Yeah, it's like my daughter's stupid.

00:34:35.500 --> 00:34:37.047
Yeah, that's basically what she said.

00:34:37.067 --> 00:34:43.572
Basically, it's like why in God's name would you say that about your fucking daughter?

00:34:43.572 --> 00:34:44.648
It doesn't matter.

00:34:44.648 --> 00:34:45.467
If you think it, look at the time frame.

00:34:45.467 --> 00:34:45.867
Why would you say that about your fucking daughter?

00:34:45.867 --> 00:34:46.076
It doesn't matter if you think it.

00:34:46.076 --> 00:34:48.065
Look at the time frame.

00:34:48.065 --> 00:34:48.983
Why would you say?

00:34:49.003 --> 00:34:55.847
that you really don't have to say that out loud, no, just keep it to yourself, just literally like special.

00:34:57.514 --> 00:34:58.076
You know what I mean.

00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:05.193
So Maria Teresa the mother she micromanaged Marie Antoinette by mail, by mail.

00:35:05.193 --> 00:35:07.286
Oh yeah, lots of letters.

00:35:07.659 --> 00:35:09.086
So where did Teresa live?

00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:10.704
She lived in Austria.

00:35:11.300 --> 00:35:13.226
And Antoinette was in France at this time.

00:35:13.226 --> 00:35:14.250
Okay, I gotcha.

00:35:14.539 --> 00:35:21.893
So she said by mail be dignified, be serious, be pregnant.

00:35:21.893 --> 00:35:27.586
So she was After.

00:35:27.586 --> 00:35:44.451
After Louis and Marie Louis Got married in France, France, they didn't consummate their marriage for seven.

00:35:45.661 --> 00:35:47.807
Minutes Years, years.

00:35:50.581 --> 00:35:51.164
Seven years.

00:35:51.164 --> 00:35:53.989
They didn't touch each other for seven years.

00:35:54.500 --> 00:35:55.664
Did they not find each other?

00:35:55.704 --> 00:35:56.286
attractive.

00:35:56.286 --> 00:36:01.692
You know why he was literally 15 when she was 14.

00:36:03.380 --> 00:36:05.568
Oh, I did not know they were that young.

00:36:05.568 --> 00:36:09.460
They were young.

00:36:09.481 --> 00:36:10.262
Okay, yeah, that makes more sense.

00:36:10.262 --> 00:36:15.456
So louis was also really shy, he was awkward, and so was this more of an arranged marriage.

00:36:15.476 --> 00:36:21.467
It was an arranged marriage for the habsburgs oh, I never knew that well that.

00:36:21.467 --> 00:36:25.331
So they didn't really well, lack of a better term.

00:36:25.331 --> 00:36:26.873
Fuck, until they were.

00:36:26.873 --> 00:36:28.976
He was what 22 and she was 21?

00:36:28.996 --> 00:36:30.137
22 and she was 21.

00:36:30.137 --> 00:36:30.697
Yeah, oh, wow.

00:36:31.442 --> 00:36:32.246
I never knew that.

00:36:32.820 --> 00:36:38.110
He also potentially had a medical issue which made sex really uncomfortable for him.

00:36:40.594 --> 00:36:41.155
And what was that?

00:36:41.155 --> 00:36:49.670
I was trying to formulate it in my brain, but then I'm like I'm just going to ask I don't think I wrote it down, but there is a word for it.

00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:55.152
But it's basically meaning that when he has sex, it's actually pretty painful, really.

00:36:55.152 --> 00:36:57.005
Yeah, phyllism or something.

00:36:57.005 --> 00:36:59.608
P-h-i-l-s-m.

00:36:59.608 --> 00:37:01.393
Phyllism, something like that.

00:37:01.393 --> 00:37:09.610
I believe in you, but Maria described him as kind.

00:37:10.010 --> 00:37:10.331
Sure.

00:37:10.692 --> 00:37:16.570
But clumsy Okay, and their chemistry was a lot more friendly than steamy.

00:37:18.402 --> 00:37:24.634
So they were more or less it was an arranged marriage more or less friends than partners.

00:37:24.739 --> 00:37:36.329
Yeah, like he fell asleep on their wedding night, Like she was anticipating being bedded, essentially Right, and she was like so how are you?

00:37:36.329 --> 00:37:50.105
And he was like I mean never mind, but eventually Maria's brother, older brother, they're 16 children, potentially 15 or 16 children, Maria's brother.

00:37:50.860 --> 00:37:56.507
So many fucking children, oh my God, so many fucking children, holy shit.

00:37:58.141 --> 00:38:00.588
Brother, emperor Joseph II.

00:38:00.588 --> 00:38:01.800
What was he?

00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:03.869
The emperor of the Habsburgs.

00:38:07.001 --> 00:38:09.666
Is that a location now Instead of a person?

00:38:09.666 --> 00:38:10.903
I?

00:38:10.943 --> 00:38:12.130
didn't look into it.

00:38:12.130 --> 00:38:15.186
I didn't look into it.

00:38:15.186 --> 00:38:16.467
I love the fact.

00:38:16.467 --> 00:38:18.045
I think he's emperor of.

00:38:19.101 --> 00:38:19.422
Rome.

00:38:19.422 --> 00:38:20.467
Can you hold on a second?

00:38:20.467 --> 00:38:31.688
I love the fact that in the majority of our episodes I ask you a question and you're like what the fuck, brad?

00:38:31.688 --> 00:38:33.163
That was a.

00:38:33.163 --> 00:38:35.009
What the fuck Brad Lee?

00:38:35.009 --> 00:38:38.201
Like, don't ask me that question, please don't.

00:38:38.201 --> 00:38:39.885
You fucking asked me that question.

00:38:41.110 --> 00:38:43.405
I'm talking about Marie Antoinette, not Joseph II, but Cake.

00:38:43.405 --> 00:38:50.228
He had to come to Versailles.

00:38:50.228 --> 00:39:01.574
Yeah he did Wait what he had to come to Versailles and lecture to Louis and Marie like the world's most awkward, like sex ed teacher.

00:39:03.342 --> 00:39:05.367
And who did this again?

00:39:05.367 --> 00:39:05.869
Her?

00:39:05.929 --> 00:39:06.311
brother.

00:39:06.820 --> 00:39:14.108
Her brother came to Versailles and was like okay, guys, here's what's up, that's like if my brother Corey were like hey man, gotta talk to you about some sex.

00:39:14.108 --> 00:39:16.648
Yeah like super fucking awkward.

00:39:16.648 --> 00:39:18.025
How about you don't do that?

00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:23.119
Joseph joked that their marriage was like two polite porcupines.

00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:26.353
Ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha.

00:39:29.322 --> 00:39:31.007
Hmm, dude was like two polite porcupines.

00:39:31.007 --> 00:39:33.034
That is fucking fantastic.

00:39:33.034 --> 00:39:36.125
Sorry, I don't know why I find that so funny, but that is fucking amazing.

00:39:37.965 --> 00:39:38.849
Two polite porcupines.

00:39:40.362 --> 00:39:42.007
Oh my God, that's fantastic.

00:39:42.007 --> 00:39:44.664
Thank you for that one, Jesus Christ.

00:39:44.664 --> 00:39:48.489
Okay, so after seven years.

00:39:48.981 --> 00:39:52.791
I'm so talking After seven years.

00:39:52.791 --> 00:39:58.550
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah and potentially a medical intervention on Louie's part.

00:39:58.550 --> 00:40:02.481
Do tell it might have.

00:40:02.481 --> 00:40:08.527
This is like really specific, but it might have been a foreskin issue tell me about it.

00:40:08.527 --> 00:40:10.304
I really don't.

00:40:10.304 --> 00:40:19.690
But um so, so, seven years and perhaps a medical intervention, yeah, right, right, they finally consummated their relationship.

00:40:19.771 --> 00:40:20.918
Well, fork and twine.

00:40:20.918 --> 00:40:25.925
Yeah, they had cake then too, right but they, they eventually had four kids.

00:40:25.945 --> 00:40:27.170
Oh, did right, but they eventually had four kids.

00:40:27.170 --> 00:40:27.733
Oh, did they really?

00:40:27.753 --> 00:40:32.478
Yeah, they really did 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, I don't know.

00:40:33.902 --> 00:40:34.503
But Louis.

00:40:34.503 --> 00:40:40.969
To his credit, he never, ever took a mistress and he genuinely adored Marie Antoinette.

00:40:40.969 --> 00:40:55.309
Not according to Iron man and Iron Mask, but all right, but the court never stopped gossiping because, although seven years of not gossiping, of course there was gossip surrounded by tea.

00:40:57.646 --> 00:41:04.619
Kate likes tea, so back then though, the beverage, the beverage.

00:41:05.021 --> 00:41:06.748
I mean, I like gossip too, but whatever.

00:41:08.460 --> 00:41:12.460
I thought I was pretty clear on what I said, but I appreciate you clearing that up.

00:41:12.460 --> 00:41:16.309
But back then, though, that's what you had.

00:41:17.099 --> 00:41:18.204
Oh yeah, that was like your television.

00:41:18.204 --> 00:41:18.987
It's like you know what.

00:41:19.619 --> 00:41:20.927
I can't scroll on YouTube.

00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:22.365
No, that's your television.

00:41:22.365 --> 00:41:23.784
I can't watch Netflix.

00:41:23.784 --> 00:41:24.628
The court is television.

00:41:24.628 --> 00:41:25.201
Yeah, I mean no, that's your television.

00:41:25.137 --> 00:41:25.684
I can't watch netflix television.

00:41:25.684 --> 00:41:26.344
Yeah, I mean, literally that's what it was.

00:41:26.344 --> 00:41:34.364
So it's like that was their entertainment social fucking media, which is the bane of our existence, uh, back then.

00:41:34.364 --> 00:41:41.521
So it's like they're like oh, he didn't better yet two years later, he didn't better yet.

00:41:41.521 --> 00:41:43.485
Let's keep talking some shit.

00:41:43.485 --> 00:41:46.112
So, yeah, yeah, that's going to happen.

00:41:46.172 --> 00:41:50.467
And you know how that rumor got spread Was because Not by her legs.

00:41:50.467 --> 00:41:57.670
Because her bed never had quote unquote blood in it.

00:41:58.621 --> 00:42:01.463
Do we know for a fact she was a virgin going into this.

00:42:01.463 --> 00:42:02.827
Yeah, okay, yeah.

00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:09.726
So, like every time, the bed maids would, yes, would come in and change the sheets, etc.

00:42:09.726 --> 00:42:10.126
They would.

00:42:10.306 --> 00:42:30.327
They would notice that like nothing ever happened, that was a huge way that they knew, because typically, when royalty or whatever, or even a royal, married whoever, they would consummate their marriage and there would be blood because they were supposed to be a virgin and that was a big thing back then.

00:42:30.327 --> 00:42:31.972
Obviously times have changed.

00:42:31.972 --> 00:42:39.300
But yeah, no, that makes sense, because if there was no blood, it's like didn't happen clearly they didn't fuck yet.

00:42:39.621 --> 00:42:40.963
Yeah, and they would change their bedding.

00:42:40.963 --> 00:42:42.364
Yeah, clearly didn't fuck, yet they changed their bedding.

00:42:42.364 --> 00:42:43.907
Yeah, clearly they didn't fuck yet they changed their bedding.

00:42:43.907 --> 00:42:44.288
So, yeah, same thing.

00:42:44.288 --> 00:42:47.574
Yeah, I get that Because it was just sign of the times.

00:42:47.574 --> 00:42:48.574
Yeah, yeah.

00:42:49.201 --> 00:42:52.896
So Louis XV died in 1774.

00:42:52.896 --> 00:42:55.708
Okay, and Marie became queen at 19.

00:42:55.708 --> 00:42:56.945
19 years old.

00:42:57.239 --> 00:42:58.706
So did she marry the 16th?

00:42:58.706 --> 00:43:01.164
Then she did, which was his brother.

00:43:02.407 --> 00:43:06.387
Grandson, louis XV's grandson.

00:43:06.387 --> 00:43:12.684
I actually meant to look up what happened to Louis XVI's father, but I forgot.

00:43:14.550 --> 00:43:16.445
But the grandfather is Louis.

00:43:16.467 --> 00:43:18.925
XV, the grandson is Louis XVI.

00:43:18.987 --> 00:43:19.809
Can you do me a favor?

00:43:19.809 --> 00:43:22.365
Was that not part of your research?

00:43:22.365 --> 00:43:26.199
Can you say it out loud?

00:43:26.199 --> 00:43:28.681
Say it better.

00:43:28.942 --> 00:43:30.063
It wasn't part of my research.

00:43:30.063 --> 00:43:30.623
Can you say it out loud?

00:43:30.643 --> 00:43:31.764
Say it better it wasn't part of my research.

00:43:31.784 --> 00:43:34.088
Thank you, Thank you, I actually so.

00:43:34.728 --> 00:43:36.849
You meant it to me, but it wasn't.

00:43:37.271 --> 00:43:38.150
My friend Sam.

00:43:38.150 --> 00:43:39.012
Yeah, if I.

00:43:39.012 --> 00:43:43.516
So we talk over Messenger, yeah, but if I text her, yeah.

00:43:43.516 --> 00:43:52.900
That's just for me to to remind myself of something you do that with me, yeah, yeah, yeah, so, and, but I didn't want to send it to you because I didn't want to give it away, which?

00:43:53.021 --> 00:43:53.641
I don't want either.

00:43:53.782 --> 00:44:01.635
Yes, so I texted her louis father, but did I look into it?

00:44:02.541 --> 00:44:03.826
no, so you did it.

00:44:03.826 --> 00:44:06.271
But then you're like this is where this dies.

00:44:06.271 --> 00:44:08.085
It dies on this hill.

00:44:08.085 --> 00:44:09.128
I don't care.

00:44:09.128 --> 00:44:09.963
Fuck.

00:44:09.963 --> 00:44:10.750
Brad's going to ask me.

00:44:11.260 --> 00:44:16.652
So Nathan and I also talk over Messenger, but then he'll text me like random measurements.

00:44:16.652 --> 00:44:18.585
I'm like what the fuck is he doing?

00:44:18.585 --> 00:44:19.530
Just to ruin it.

00:44:20.059 --> 00:44:23.670
He has literally told me, and I've been in his presence when he's done it.

00:44:23.670 --> 00:44:34.581
You guys mainly talk over messenger when he's like this is nine and three quarters text, kate, this is how I remember, because we I'm like, yeah, I got it.

00:44:34.581 --> 00:44:37.949
It's pretty funny because, but he's literally shown me that.

00:44:37.989 --> 00:44:39.853
So and for you and I.

00:44:39.893 --> 00:44:47.079
We always text but we over messenger messenger will send Idioms to remember or random other shit.

00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:51.889
So it's funny how we each all have our thing To try and remember shit.

00:44:52.222 --> 00:44:54.422
My cheeks hurt from smiling, do you?

00:44:55.083 --> 00:45:01.759
want to know the funny thing, what we always forget, yeah like in this case, especially Kate.

00:45:01.759 --> 00:45:07.706
No, no, no, don't gloss over this, especially Kateis number.

00:45:07.788 --> 00:45:10.181
Whatever number 15.

00:45:10.181 --> 00:45:11.864
He died in 1774.

00:45:11.864 --> 00:45:14.210
Maria became miss you 15.

00:45:14.210 --> 00:45:17.456
Maria became queen at 19 years old.

00:45:17.456 --> 00:45:18.501
Okay, is this one.

00:45:18.501 --> 00:45:24.751
She ate cake I'm kidding, keep going madame du barry, the mistress of Louis XV.

00:45:24.751 --> 00:45:26.014
She was banished.

00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:28.668
Well, are you surprised, though?

00:45:28.668 --> 00:45:31.487
It's like you've been banging my husband?

00:45:31.487 --> 00:45:32.965
Get the fuck out of here.

00:45:32.965 --> 00:45:34.847
I'm queen now, motherfucker.

00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:37.967
But queens really didn't have any real power.

00:45:38.289 --> 00:45:39.070
Not back then.

00:45:39.090 --> 00:45:39.130
No.

00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:49.710
Which is funny, because even in the 1700s, when we'll air, quote this, more progressive, still nothing.

00:45:49.710 --> 00:45:53.153
I mean, it was all about the king still.

00:45:53.313 --> 00:45:54.514
Yes, and the heirs?

00:45:54.514 --> 00:45:56.157
They just got lucky.

00:45:56.157 --> 00:46:00.952
Smile and produce heirs.

00:46:05.940 --> 00:46:07.213
That is a fucking short in the making.

00:46:07.213 --> 00:46:17.005
Basically, for them it was a benefit of where they were, who they were with.

00:46:17.005 --> 00:46:24.349
I should say not where they were, they had no fucking power, but yet they had power.

00:46:24.349 --> 00:46:30.628
But as soon as Louis was gone, oh fuck, what do I?

00:46:30.668 --> 00:46:33.501
do the mistress, you're talking about.

00:46:34.525 --> 00:46:35.047
Even Marie.

00:46:35.047 --> 00:46:37.750
Oh yeah, she had no power.

00:46:37.750 --> 00:46:43.027
She had power, but she had literally no power, not unless the king like listened to her Correct.

00:46:43.027 --> 00:46:48.628
Yeah, so it's wild that, like back then, it was so segregated in terms of.

00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:49.983
I'm sorry what.

00:46:51.646 --> 00:46:52.449
Segregated.

00:46:52.630 --> 00:46:53.492
Segregated.

00:46:53.492 --> 00:46:55.947
He's not segregated, segregated.

00:46:55.947 --> 00:47:02.664
You always make fun of me in my pronunciations.

00:47:02.664 --> 00:47:03.387
I'm allowed.

00:47:03.619 --> 00:47:06.981
I am going to repeat that in the recording.

00:47:07.842 --> 00:47:09.286
I said allowed.

00:47:09.286 --> 00:47:12.431
I am going to repeat that in the recording.

00:47:12.431 --> 00:47:17.699
I said segregated, segregated, sorry, okay, okay.

00:47:17.699 --> 00:47:22.510
So, marie, huh, what, yep, what, exactly what?

00:47:22.510 --> 00:47:23.393
What'd you do?

00:47:23.393 --> 00:47:24.536
What'd what?

00:47:24.536 --> 00:47:25.860
What'd you do?

00:47:25.860 --> 00:47:27.043
What'd you?

00:47:27.143 --> 00:47:27.443
do.

00:47:27.443 --> 00:47:28.268
What'd you do?

00:47:28.268 --> 00:47:29.902
I said look at that shirt.

00:47:29.902 --> 00:47:35.373
What Exactly?

00:47:35.373 --> 00:47:38.226
What Kate is saying is irrelevant.

00:47:39.990 --> 00:47:41.545
Rude, do you want me to continue?

00:47:41.565 --> 00:47:48.748
Yes, yes, because I would like to learn more about Marie fucking her grandson, or whatever.

00:47:48.748 --> 00:47:50.646
That's not.

00:47:50.646 --> 00:47:56.568
Whatever, I was joking, but anyway I'm glad I got you there.

00:47:57.601 --> 00:48:00.385
Okay, so Marie Antoinette was all about fashion.

00:48:01.730 --> 00:48:05.420
Yeah, she wore like elaborate gowns and whatever.

00:48:05.420 --> 00:48:07.005
So when she was in Austria.

00:48:07.425 --> 00:48:13.557
she was very minimalistic, literally, when she crossed the river into France they stripped her All of a sudden.

00:48:13.577 --> 00:48:14.039
It's like poof.

00:48:14.840 --> 00:48:21.070
Yeah, they literally stripped her, put her in French garb and then brought her to Louis for the first time.

00:48:21.070 --> 00:48:23.574
Oh really, like they immediate.

00:48:23.735 --> 00:48:26.438
Not the 15th, the future, louis Xth.

00:48:26.458 --> 00:48:29.382
The future Louis XVI, her future husband.

00:48:29.864 --> 00:48:33.402
Which was her second husband after 15.

00:48:34.246 --> 00:48:35.009
No, she didn't.

00:48:35.009 --> 00:48:39.731
Marie Antoinette only had one husband.

00:48:39.731 --> 00:48:41.382
His name was Louis XVI.

00:48:41.382 --> 00:48:43.724
Louis XV was his grandfather.

00:48:43.724 --> 00:48:48.251
Louis XV had a mistress named Madame du Barry and he died.

00:48:48.251 --> 00:48:51.443
And now Louis the 16th, the kid.

00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:55.889
I was just making sure you were there.

00:48:55.889 --> 00:48:57.608
I like fucking with Kate.

00:48:57.608 --> 00:49:04.509
If you never understood our podcast, I like to make sure she understands what she's talking about.

00:49:06.021 --> 00:49:13.213
With the help of fashion consultant, sewer designer what have you?

00:49:14.099 --> 00:49:16.628
Oh, I thought you meant the name was like sewer, but okay.

00:49:17.201 --> 00:49:18.364
Rose Bertin.

00:49:18.606 --> 00:49:19.068
Rose what.

00:49:19.420 --> 00:49:20.384
Rose Bertin.

00:49:20.644 --> 00:49:21.086
Bertin.

00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:25.324
She was the fashion person for Marie Antoinette.

00:49:25.324 --> 00:49:31.170
Really, she had a name in her own right because for Marie Antoinette Really she had a name in her own right because of Marie Luton.

00:49:31.190 --> 00:49:31.831
Her name was Rose Bertin.

00:49:32.130 --> 00:49:33.893
yeah, Literally a name in her own right and Leonard.

00:49:34.853 --> 00:49:36.394
What's Leonard Leonard?

00:49:36.394 --> 00:49:37.556
Is it kind of like a lanyard?

00:49:37.556 --> 00:49:43.485
He is the Michelangelo of wigs Powdered Mm-hmm.

00:49:43.485 --> 00:49:46.492
How much fucking baby powder do you need?

00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:47.423
I'm just kidding.

00:49:47.423 --> 00:49:56.800
Between Rose Burton, the fashion consultant, and Leonardo, the Michelangelo of wigs, she turned herself into like a fucking walking Pinterest board.

00:49:57.322 --> 00:50:06.068
Hold on besides you, who called him the Michelangelo of wigs?

00:50:06.068 --> 00:50:09.942
Was that all you?

00:50:09.961 --> 00:50:13.947
Yeah, yeah, I just.

00:50:20.786 --> 00:50:21.570
I had to know.

00:50:21.570 --> 00:50:23.079
Yeah, it was me.

00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:27.775
Oh my god, michelangelo, okay, for weeks.

00:50:28.199 --> 00:50:33.273
So Marie Antoinette had hair does up to three feet tall.

00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:35.788
That sounds more like a hair don't.

00:50:41.351 --> 00:50:41.759
Am I wrong?

00:50:41.759 --> 00:50:43.025
Okay, we need to move on.

00:50:43.025 --> 00:50:43.708
Am I wrong At one point?

00:50:43.748 --> 00:50:45.436
Seriously no, we need to take a.

00:50:45.436 --> 00:50:45.657
Am I wrong?

00:50:45.657 --> 00:50:50.050
Seriously no, we need to take a breather here and be like no.

00:50:50.860 --> 00:50:55.992
At one point she literally had a ship on her hair.

00:50:57.079 --> 00:50:58.744
Do you know who played her in a movie?

00:50:59.568 --> 00:51:00.230
Yes, I do.

00:51:00.230 --> 00:51:07.512
Okay, it's a movie called Marie Antoinette, and it's from Kirsten Dunst, it's not from she played her, yeah Anyway.

00:51:07.512 --> 00:51:09.985
So why was that so like?

00:51:10.961 --> 00:51:12.291
Why am I talking about this?

00:51:12.351 --> 00:51:15.487
Because I haven't seen it yet so I don't know how like real it is.

00:51:15.780 --> 00:51:17.005
I haven't seen it either.

00:51:17.005 --> 00:51:22.449
That wasn't my question, but thank you for that delicious entertainment.

00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:27.630
Fashion was Marie Antoinette's escape.

00:51:27.679 --> 00:51:30.469
Yes, she absolutely adored that.

00:51:30.469 --> 00:51:30.750
Yes.

00:51:31.059 --> 00:51:34.710
So it was her way to express her identity.

00:51:34.710 --> 00:51:38.588
Yes, yep, yep, because literally she couldn't do anything else.

00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:40.586
Well, she wasn't very talented.

00:51:40.980 --> 00:51:42.186
But it also backfired.

00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:43.764
Oh dear, how so.

00:51:44.721 --> 00:51:47.710
So people were obsessed with how much she spent.

00:51:49.561 --> 00:51:51.409
She was a bit of a spender.

00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:54.867
She didn't exactly wear the same dress twice.

00:51:55.811 --> 00:51:59.268
Oh really, I mean, even I do, and I don't wear dresses.

00:51:59.329 --> 00:52:08.128
so but there are plenty of royals who spent like this, but Maria was a foreigner, gasp.

00:52:08.710 --> 00:52:09.452
Austrian Born.

00:52:09.751 --> 00:52:11.844
Yes, so she got the blame.

00:52:13.268 --> 00:52:20.445
Isn't that funny Because, like there's been plenty of royalty.

00:52:20.445 --> 00:52:32.157
I mean they marry different legions, locales, other words that I can't come up with because I've had beers.

00:52:32.157 --> 00:52:35.648
Can you stop making that face?

00:52:35.648 --> 00:52:43.369
They did that on purpose, but yet you're a foreigner.

00:52:43.369 --> 00:52:44.713
Yeah, fuck.

00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:46.891
Yeah, they got together for alliances and they're still like, no, you're a foreigner.

00:52:46.891 --> 00:52:47.092
Yeah, fuck.

00:52:47.092 --> 00:52:49.722
Yeah, they got together for alliances and they're still like, no, you're a foreigner.

00:52:49.722 --> 00:52:57.704
Yeah to strengthen their but yeah, their ties, basically yeah, yeah but yet, oh my god, I can't believe she did that.

00:52:57.846 --> 00:52:58.567
She's a foreigner.

00:52:58.567 --> 00:53:01.193
It's like you did this all the time.

00:53:01.193 --> 00:53:04.126
It's better than fucking your, your brother, because they do too.

00:53:04.146 --> 00:53:08.565
I'm not saying Marie did, but I'm just saying that's happened.

00:53:09.027 --> 00:53:10.572
All of Game of Thrones.

00:53:12.264 --> 00:53:13.869
So on the grounds of Versailles.

00:53:14.721 --> 00:53:15.625
Back to Versailles.

00:53:15.625 --> 00:53:16.367
I love Versailles.

00:53:17.081 --> 00:53:34.077
They built a little tiny not really tiny a very large playhouse, if you will, for her, like a dollhouse, yeah, someplace where she could go and actually just be herself out of the public eye.

00:53:34.077 --> 00:53:34.559
Was she feeble-minded?

00:53:34.559 --> 00:53:39.188
It was a house on Versailles, but it was a place that she could just go to.

00:53:39.188 --> 00:53:46.170
She could wear muslin dresses and not be ousted, ousted, yeah.

00:53:49.380 --> 00:53:50.625
Was she feeble-minded?

00:53:51.347 --> 00:53:54.630
No, okay, no, but she wasn't like the super smartest.

00:53:54.710 --> 00:53:56.317
but that's fine.

00:53:56.317 --> 00:54:05.219
Neither am I Okay, but why does what you just said make it seem like she Short bus, all that I mean?

00:54:05.219 --> 00:54:05.675
I don't understand.

00:54:05.614 --> 00:54:06.231
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:54:06.231 --> 00:54:06.309
Short bus.

00:54:06.309 --> 00:54:07.003
All that I mean, I don't understand.

00:54:07.003 --> 00:54:08.480
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:20.135
So it would be like me in my house having an escape room where my but you do have one, wait what when my craft area is.

00:54:20.135 --> 00:54:21.945
Okay, that would be my escape.

00:54:21.945 --> 00:54:24.427
Sure, she had a separate house.

00:54:24.500 --> 00:54:31.471
So this was basically just her like I want to do this yes, oh, she yeah this was a place that she could go.

00:54:31.490 --> 00:54:43.505
I'm sorry and she could invite the people that was closest to her, that she trusted, and she could just be herself, okay, and she would wear I'm sorry, just sorry to interrupt.

00:54:43.545 --> 00:54:47.012
Yeah, I'm not saying you explained it wrong.

00:54:47.012 --> 00:54:48.585
I interpreted it wrong.

00:54:48.585 --> 00:54:52.568
It's just like what is happening here.

00:54:52.568 --> 00:54:54.311
That's on me.

00:54:54.311 --> 00:54:55.494
That's right, I apologize.

00:54:56.501 --> 00:54:59.030
But she wore a lot of muslin dresses out there.

00:55:00.143 --> 00:55:01.467
Can you explain what muslin is?

00:55:01.860 --> 00:55:06.445
It's a very like linen type fabric that's what I thought it wasn't like satin or silk.

00:55:06.445 --> 00:55:07.648
That is really queenly.

00:55:07.648 --> 00:55:12.670
Yeah, it was very homely almost kind of fabric peasant.

00:55:12.992 --> 00:55:15.277
Yes, yes, yes exactly.

00:55:15.297 --> 00:55:24.786
It was so comfortable, though, well and that was the place where she could wear those things and not be like okay in the public eye no, that makes sense, um sure.

00:55:24.786 --> 00:55:33.009
So, but some of the public who knew about this, yes, thought that she was mocking the poor people by wearing them.

00:55:33.722 --> 00:55:35.311
Oh, so they took it the wrong way.

00:55:35.311 --> 00:55:36.460
That's unfortunate.

00:55:36.581 --> 00:55:39.260
And that was really just her, like being herself.

00:55:39.764 --> 00:55:40.952
That was her being comfortable.

00:55:40.952 --> 00:55:45.826
Yeah, yeah Like you like to wear PJs all the time because you sleep all the time.

00:55:47.427 --> 00:55:47.668
Yeah.

00:55:48.088 --> 00:55:48.869
I mean, I'm not wrong.

00:55:49.050 --> 00:55:49.251
No.

00:55:52.014 --> 00:55:52.414
There it is.

00:55:52.414 --> 00:55:54.327
That was fucking amazing.

00:55:54.327 --> 00:55:55.425
That's going in the burp track.

00:55:58.905 --> 00:56:05.826
So she had a painting made, a painting commissioned, and it was of her in a muslin dress.

00:56:05.826 --> 00:56:10.990
Oh, and the public lost their minds.

00:56:11.179 --> 00:56:12.326
Like they thought it was so beautiful.

00:56:13.561 --> 00:56:18.471
No, they thought it was so insulting because they thought that she was mocking them.

00:56:19.492 --> 00:56:20.153
Isn't that funny?

00:56:20.153 --> 00:56:28.086
Because, like they didn't know better, they assumed, but it wasn't that was her comfort spot.

00:56:28.086 --> 00:56:30.847
Does this painting still exist?

00:56:30.847 --> 00:56:33.724
Not, to your knowledge.

00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:37.184
Copies yes, Original, I don't know.

00:56:37.365 --> 00:56:37.907
That's fine.

00:56:40.061 --> 00:56:41.246
We'll post a photo.

00:56:42.182 --> 00:56:45.248
If we can find that, let's put that in the episode.

00:56:47.300 --> 00:56:48.483
People lost their mind.

00:56:48.483 --> 00:56:50.507
They say she's in her underwear, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:56:50.507 --> 00:56:56.992
So she pulled the painting and recommissioned a new painting of her in like fucking france guards, or whatever.

00:56:56.992 --> 00:57:06.882
Yeah, yeah, yeah um, but she was trying to look relatable, but she looked tone deaf, essentially I hate being tone deaf but okay.

00:57:07.063 --> 00:57:29.532
So above all these extravagance, extravagance can you say the first one again, above all this extravagance France yes not doing so well, not so much well, this is cause like okay, I'll just go on before I say anything.

00:57:29.860 --> 00:57:33.530
There was an economic meltdown in France.

00:57:33.530 --> 00:57:36.009
Yeah, this is the revolution.

00:57:36.009 --> 00:57:37.806
France was broke Yep.

00:57:37.806 --> 00:57:41.949
They helped the American colonies win their revolution.

00:57:41.949 --> 00:57:42.711
Correct.

00:57:43.340 --> 00:57:48.106
Thanks, ben Franklin, the national debt he went over.

00:57:48.106 --> 00:57:49.911
Yeah, yeah, yeah, correct, thanks Ben Franklin.

00:57:49.911 --> 00:57:50.813
The national debt he went over.

00:57:50.813 --> 00:57:52.840
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, before lightning and shit yeah.

00:57:53.380 --> 00:57:56.786
Phil Sweetly went over there too when she met Ben Franklin.

00:57:56.786 --> 00:57:59.307
Remember, phil Sweetly, that episode.

00:57:59.307 --> 00:57:59.708
The poet.

00:58:00.420 --> 00:58:01.463
Can you not ever do that again?

00:58:01.463 --> 00:58:03.889
Yes, 1788.

00:58:03.889 --> 00:58:07.802
I'd like to say you didn't whistle, you didn't.

00:58:07.802 --> 00:58:11.422
That's not a whistle.

00:58:11.422 --> 00:58:14.585
Anyways, that's a callback to a previous episode.

00:58:15.047 --> 00:58:15.871
Anyways, continue.

00:58:15.871 --> 00:58:19.302
France was broke because of the American Revolution.

00:58:20.246 --> 00:58:21.123
Thank you, France.

00:58:21.447 --> 00:58:29.951
And the national debt exploded and in 1788, over half of France's income was going to pay interest.

00:58:30.210 --> 00:58:30.492
Yes.

00:58:31.072 --> 00:58:31.373
Okay.

00:58:31.900 --> 00:58:34.248
Welcome to a la American life.

00:58:34.701 --> 00:58:40.070
Food prices skyrocketed and in 1788 and 89, a loaf of bread.

00:58:40.150 --> 00:58:40.490
I'm sorry.

00:58:40.490 --> 00:58:42.045
Are you talking about today or back then?

00:58:42.126 --> 00:58:49.952
Because, holy fuck, a loaf of bread costs up to 90% of a worker's daily wages.

00:58:50.052 --> 00:58:51.614
Holy shit Really.

00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:53.882
Let them eat cake.

00:58:53.882 --> 00:58:55.608
I mean, I want cake.

00:58:55.608 --> 00:59:01.940
Okay, the quote from Marie Antoinette Let them eat cake, isn't that?

00:59:01.981 --> 00:59:03.786
from when she was beheaded?

00:59:04.288 --> 00:59:08.307
No, no, it was all false, really false, really.

00:59:08.307 --> 00:59:17.175
That saying let them eat cake yeah, was written in documents over a decade before she was even queen.

00:59:17.175 --> 00:59:20.762
Seriously, seriously, it was all false.

00:59:20.762 --> 00:59:24.208
She never said let them eat cake I.

00:59:24.409 --> 00:59:26.411
I feel betrayed by this world.

00:59:26.411 --> 00:59:28.961
Yep, because they sold me as that.

00:59:28.961 --> 00:59:31.347
She always said that and I've I.

00:59:31.347 --> 00:59:35.181
I hate this world more, even now than I did five minutes ago.

00:59:35.360 --> 00:59:36.684
Yeah, isn't that crazy.

00:59:36.704 --> 00:59:37.364
This world sucks.

00:59:37.364 --> 00:59:44.891
I wanted to eat cake, all because of marie, and now I can't because the world lied to me so the the queen, fuck.

00:59:45.393 --> 00:59:57.188
She's got feathers, she's got diamonds, she's got private chateaus to do her play cosplay, or whatever Cosplay they called her, madam Deficit.

00:59:57.980 --> 00:59:59.867
Because she caused so much deficit.

01:00:01.862 --> 01:00:04.190
Because she spent so much money.

01:00:05.724 --> 01:00:06.766
They called her Madam Deficit man.

01:00:06.786 --> 01:00:16.293
I stand by what I said, but yeah, okay so in this in the 1780s there was like a mini ice age.

01:00:16.293 --> 01:00:22.009
There was a lot of hailstorms, a lot of droughts, that like hailstorm hurt a lot of crops.

01:00:22.009 --> 01:00:30.659
In88, there was a wheat harvest that was one of the worst harvests in decades and it caused a massive famine.

01:00:30.659 --> 01:00:43.925
And then the riots over bread Peasants were furious because the courts were having parties and the public were starving.

01:00:43.925 --> 01:00:45.489
Yeah, I mean that's starting.

01:00:45.510 --> 01:00:48.038
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's very yeah.

01:00:48.239 --> 01:00:49.780
Yeah, yep, yep, yep.

01:00:49.780 --> 01:00:54.751
So there's also unfair taxes in a rigged system.

01:00:54.751 --> 01:00:55.833
Okay, oh, yeah.

01:00:55.833 --> 01:00:58.768
We have three estates in France.

01:00:58.768 --> 01:01:01.686
Okay, the first estate is the clergy.

01:01:02.108 --> 01:01:04.646
Yes, always number one back in those times.

01:01:04.668 --> 01:01:06.724
Yes, the second estate was the nobility.

01:01:06.724 --> 01:01:06.802
Yes, always number one back in those times.

01:01:06.802 --> 01:01:13.168
Yes, the second estate was the nobility Yep, okay, both paid little or no taxes.

01:01:14.161 --> 01:01:14.804
Typically yes.

01:01:15.543 --> 01:01:18.568
The third estate was everybody else.

01:01:18.568 --> 01:01:25.568
So you've got the peasants and the merchants and the artisans, and they paid for everything.

01:01:25.568 --> 01:01:32.291
People wanted reform, but the nobles and the monarchy dragged their heels.

01:01:32.291 --> 01:01:40.826
Okay, louis XVI was indecisive, he was bookish, he was terrible at public relations, he was shy, he didn't even bet his fucking wife.

01:01:40.826 --> 01:01:44.282
Marie Antoinette's influence was exaggerated.

01:01:44.282 --> 01:01:55.115
Marie Antoinette's influence was exaggerated, but the rumor mill painted her as a scheming foreigner from Austria who wore diamonds while France burned.

01:01:59.686 --> 01:02:00.690
Now, who does that sound?

01:02:00.731 --> 01:02:04.021
like Wore diamonds while France burned.

01:02:04.021 --> 01:02:05.384
I know you've got it in that brain.

01:02:06.286 --> 01:02:14.021
Oh my God, Nero, yeah, yes, yes Go, emperor Nero, yes, tell me more, tell me more.

01:02:14.021 --> 01:02:15.445
Well, he watched his-.

01:02:16.188 --> 01:02:16.690
Rome burn.

01:02:17.159 --> 01:02:20.409
City burn while he played his lyre.

01:02:20.750 --> 01:02:21.130
Lyre.

01:02:21.572 --> 01:02:22.092
Or lyre.

01:02:22.213 --> 01:02:26.065
Lyre yeah, yeah, so I heard that's false.

01:02:26.065 --> 01:02:26.949
Yes, yes, yes.

01:02:27.148 --> 01:02:29.469
Yes, Now that we've done that episode.

01:02:29.469 --> 01:02:31.099
I've heard that was actually.

01:02:31.159 --> 01:02:32.603
But it kind of like huh.

01:02:32.603 --> 01:02:36.867
That reminds me of Emperor Nero, when they said that he played the liar while Rome burned.

01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:40.730
But he also was the architect of that where she was not.

01:02:40.809 --> 01:02:40.909
No.

01:02:41.559 --> 01:02:43.021
So either way.

01:02:43.282 --> 01:02:49.811
So again around the time of Let them Eat Cake, she never fucking said those words.

01:02:49.811 --> 01:02:52.775
We don't know where it came from, it just it came from me.

01:02:52.860 --> 01:02:59.110
I really want cake tonight, okay, or molasses cookies, ooh, anyways.

01:02:59.311 --> 01:03:01.155
Molasses cookies Frosting on top.

01:03:01.155 --> 01:03:03.385
I have to pee.

01:03:04.460 --> 01:03:11.425
All right, let's take a break and go and we're back.

01:03:12.509 --> 01:03:21.876
Thank, you for letting me pee okay, so yes, 1775, there's a grain shortage a grain shortage.

01:03:21.876 --> 01:03:35.331
Yes, marie antoinette expressed concern for the poor by writing to her mother quote it is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well, despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work.

01:03:35.331 --> 01:03:35.952
End quote.

01:03:35.952 --> 01:03:39.887
She's a compassionate woman.

01:03:39.920 --> 01:03:44.389
I mean, it sounds that way, yeah, and she was liked at a point oh for sure.

01:03:44.699 --> 01:04:02.454
Yeah, but she was really drowned out by the sensational rumors spreading through cafes and marketplaces about her and her husband and then her extravagant spending, and there was even like pornographic cartoons coming out and pamphlets over her.

01:04:02.454 --> 01:04:03.097
Yeah, Wow.

01:04:03.097 --> 01:04:07.972
And they even portrayed her as a saying a word.

01:04:07.972 --> 01:04:12.867
It's a pun, meaning the Austrian woman, but also bitch at the same time.

01:04:12.867 --> 01:04:15.331
Oh, and it's called Never knew that La.

01:04:15.331 --> 01:04:19.588
Trichotchen, la Trichon, really La Trichon.

01:04:20.132 --> 01:04:21.159
Yes, I never knew that.

01:04:21.159 --> 01:04:23.983
The Austrian bitch essentially the Austrian bitch.

01:04:23.983 --> 01:04:25.949
Yeah, wow, yeah, okay, I never heard that before.

01:04:26.559 --> 01:04:31.844
It was basically a woman who seduced and sent France into ruin.

01:04:32.326 --> 01:04:35.929
See, that's really harsh because she didn't do that.

01:04:35.929 --> 01:04:40.893
They blamed her, but it wasn't just on her.

01:04:41.195 --> 01:04:43.476
She was absolutely a scapegoat.

01:04:43.476 --> 01:04:45.518
I got some more beers after I peed.

01:04:45.518 --> 01:04:49.306
Yeah, cheers, cheers, cheers, cheers to you.

01:04:49.306 --> 01:04:50.007
Yes, cheers.

01:04:50.007 --> 01:04:53.525
Okay yeah, so there were also philosophers at this time.

01:04:53.525 --> 01:04:54.411
You will probably recognize their names.

01:04:54.411 --> 01:04:55.619
I, okay, yeah, so there were also philosophers at this time.

01:04:55.619 --> 01:04:58.007
You will probably recognize their names.

01:04:58.228 --> 01:04:58.548
I'm sure.

01:04:58.900 --> 01:05:01.355
Voltaire and Rousseau.

01:05:01.355 --> 01:05:05.768
Yeah, there were others, but these are the prominent ones you've heard of.

01:05:05.789 --> 01:05:06.391
Those are the main ones.

01:05:07.360 --> 01:05:12.032
They were writing that the monarchy excuse me, they wrote about the monarchy.

01:05:12.032 --> 01:05:16.967
They wrote about religion, they wrote about inequality into like fucking bestsellers at the time.

01:05:17.608 --> 01:05:18.612
Bestsellers Wow.

01:05:19.320 --> 01:05:23.791
They had these new ideas about equality, democracy, the rights of man.

01:05:23.811 --> 01:05:27.608
Yeah, and the right to burp.

01:05:27.608 --> 01:05:28.391
Yes.

01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:33.452
But people started asking why do we have kings again?

01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:38.172
That was one of the biggest things about the French Revolution, right?

01:05:38.260 --> 01:05:53.693
It was like we need to stop this and they're like no Fuck this guy and like Louis XVI, he was just so demure, Just very simple.

01:05:54.034 --> 01:05:54.795
Let's go with that word.

01:05:54.795 --> 01:05:58.817
Your word was better than mine.

01:05:59.460 --> 01:06:13.668
In 1789, louis XVI called the Estates General for the first time in 175 years to deal with this crisis.

01:06:13.668 --> 01:06:19.206
Okay, he opened a Pandora's box, so that's an idiom.

01:06:19.641 --> 01:06:20.846
I know it's on the list.

01:06:21.320 --> 01:06:22.063
France was broke.

01:06:22.063 --> 01:06:23.007
You have it on the list.

01:06:23.007 --> 01:06:24.222
Yeah, great.

01:06:24.804 --> 01:06:26.048
Wonderful Look at me go.

01:06:27.221 --> 01:06:28.123
France was broke.

01:06:28.666 --> 01:06:28.887
Yes.

01:06:31.501 --> 01:06:34.327
Like maxed out credit cards broke.

01:06:35.181 --> 01:06:36.543
Is this when D'Artagnan comes in?

01:06:36.543 --> 01:06:37.907
Who D'Artagnan?

01:06:37.907 --> 01:06:42.766
Come on, you don't know who D'Artagnan is.

01:06:42.766 --> 01:06:43.809
I've never heard of that.

01:06:43.809 --> 01:06:44.891
Three Musketeers.

01:06:46.063 --> 01:06:46.730
Now I've seen it.

01:06:47.260 --> 01:06:48.565
You've seen man in the Iron Mask?

01:06:49.619 --> 01:06:52.530
Like when it first came out in like what 1992?

01:06:53.521 --> 01:06:57.338
Or 8th, but whatever, is that my fault?

01:06:57.338 --> 01:07:00.905
You literally don't know who D'Artagnan is, mm-mm.

01:07:04.572 --> 01:07:05.114
Moving on.

01:07:05.960 --> 01:07:07.467
What are we even doing here?

01:07:09.603 --> 01:07:11.489
Louis XVI tried cutting spending.

01:07:11.489 --> 01:07:22.539
Yes, he fired finance ministers who said things like maybe we should tax like the nobles he's like fuck that and louis the 16th was like nah, how about you're fired?

01:07:22.539 --> 01:07:35.489
So, in desperation, he called the estates general a meeting of representatives from three estates of french society okay, like prominent estates basically.

01:07:35.489 --> 01:07:42.987
So the first estate was the clergy, which was less than 1% of the population, with tax exemptions.

01:07:42.987 --> 01:07:54.362
The second estate was the nobility, which is about 1.5% of the public, which is also very anti-tax Of course.

01:07:54.443 --> 01:07:58.733
Third, they wanted to make money without spending money, basically.

01:07:58.916 --> 01:08:00.905
Third estate is literally everybody else.

01:08:00.905 --> 01:08:01.527
Correct.

01:08:01.527 --> 01:08:04.916
Okay, they are 98% of France.

01:08:04.916 --> 01:08:06.784
Yeah, here's the kicker.

01:08:06.784 --> 01:08:10.402
Three estates, oh dear.

01:08:10.402 --> 01:08:14.664
Each estate got one vote.

01:08:15.025 --> 01:08:17.582
Oh, come on, really, that's how that works.

01:08:17.582 --> 01:08:18.291
What does that mean?

01:08:18.291 --> 01:08:19.501
Not good.

01:08:20.947 --> 01:08:29.523
It means the third estate, the public, the peasants, were constantly outvoted, of course.

01:08:29.523 --> 01:08:31.338
Two to one, yeah, every time.

01:08:31.661 --> 01:08:33.908
Because the other two are always going to vote in favor of the king.

01:08:33.908 --> 01:08:43.189
Vote in favor of the king Because in favor of the king, no matter what the peasants, whatever you want to call them, I don't like that.

01:08:43.189 --> 01:08:45.613
We're going to vote the other way, like it doesn't matter.

01:08:45.613 --> 01:08:50.211
It doesn't matter Because the other two are always going to vote in favor of the king.

01:08:50.720 --> 01:08:52.402
I mean the third estate.

01:08:52.402 --> 01:08:54.725
They played nice, they showed up.

01:08:54.725 --> 01:09:02.716
They made their speeches, but they were only one vote, despite being 98% of the population.

01:09:02.716 --> 01:09:09.340
Meanwhile, the rich and the religious kept voting as a block to protect their tax-free lives.

01:09:09.541 --> 01:09:10.746
That is so sad.

01:09:11.440 --> 01:09:13.284
So the third estate was like.

01:09:14.027 --> 01:09:14.688
Not so much.

01:09:14.688 --> 01:09:17.375
We're done, we're good, we're fucking done.

01:09:17.375 --> 01:09:18.984
We need a change.

01:09:18.984 --> 01:09:20.529
Fuck your cake.

01:09:21.140 --> 01:09:28.310
On June 17th 1789, they declared themselves the National Assembly.

01:09:28.310 --> 01:09:32.667
Oh really, okay, Meaning we represent France.

01:09:32.667 --> 01:09:38.693
Not the crown, not the nobles, not father fucking whomever in the front row.

01:09:38.693 --> 01:09:43.131
We are France.

01:09:44.162 --> 01:09:45.287
Don't you kind of wish they wouldn't?

01:09:45.287 --> 01:09:48.229
We represent the Lollipop.

01:09:48.309 --> 01:09:51.967
Guild, the Lollipop Guild, the Lollipop Guild.

01:09:51.967 --> 01:10:05.515
Okay, so literally, this statement we are the National Assembly is a direct political challenge to King Louis XVI's authority.

01:10:05.515 --> 01:10:09.046
Right, okay, respect my fucking authority.

01:10:09.046 --> 01:10:16.277
Even a few members of the first and second estates even defected and joined the National Assembly.

01:10:16.277 --> 01:10:17.279
Really, yes, Holy shit.

01:10:17.699 --> 01:10:20.476
That had to be a loss for him.

01:10:21.240 --> 01:10:29.340
On June 20th, the National Assembly showed up in a meeting hall, okay, and it happened to be at Versailles.

01:10:29.340 --> 01:10:32.949
There's just a big meeting hall at Versailles and that's where they showed up.

01:10:32.949 --> 01:10:34.423
Yeah, the doors were locked.

01:10:35.127 --> 01:10:35.528
Oh dear.

01:10:36.520 --> 01:10:48.096
Louis XVI, in a move that screamed quote I am not handling this well tried to stop them by shutting the building down for repairs.

01:10:48.359 --> 01:10:50.788
Yeah, that's not going to bode well.

01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:52.927
So you know what the National Assembly did.

01:10:52.927 --> 01:10:54.926
They walked down the street.

01:10:54.926 --> 01:10:57.565
They found a tennis court.

01:10:58.509 --> 01:10:59.251
And played tennis.

01:10:59.840 --> 01:11:01.207
No, that's where they had their meeting.

01:11:01.207 --> 01:11:03.533
They called it the tennis court oath.

01:11:03.533 --> 01:11:09.164
The tennis court, can you say it without laughing?

01:11:09.164 --> 01:11:18.738
The tennis court oath they swore not to disband until they had written a new constitution for France.

01:11:18.738 --> 01:11:23.800
Okay, you can lock the doors, but you can't stop this revolution.

01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:29.412
It was like one of the first moments of this French Revolution, right, okay?

01:11:30.020 --> 01:11:34.932
It was more or less a catalyst for what was to come, kind of thing.

01:11:35.199 --> 01:11:37.809
King Louis lost control.

01:11:39.101 --> 01:11:39.865
Lost his shit.

01:11:40.740 --> 01:11:49.711
People smelled weakness and when rulers look weak in a breadless country, guillotines.

01:11:50.171 --> 01:11:52.694
Guillotines, guillotines.

01:11:52.694 --> 01:11:55.146
So how do you properly say it?

01:11:55.146 --> 01:11:55.989
Is it guillotine?

01:11:55.989 --> 01:11:56.872
Because I've heard both.

01:11:56.872 --> 01:11:57.756
I've heard both.

01:11:57.756 --> 01:12:00.206
I don't know if it's guillotine or guillotine.

01:12:00.988 --> 01:12:04.005
Yeah, I've heard both Maybe it's between American and French.

01:12:04.005 --> 01:12:09.746
French French, I feel like that's.

01:12:09.746 --> 01:12:12.087
Do you want some French for your French?

01:12:12.148 --> 01:12:12.588
French.

01:12:12.588 --> 01:12:15.367
That was fucking amazing.

01:12:15.367 --> 01:12:18.206
I'm going to write that down.

01:12:18.206 --> 01:12:29.489
I'm going to try and move along from that French French, so I can't even focus anymore.

01:12:32.421 --> 01:12:33.363
Shall, we move on.

01:12:34.969 --> 01:12:38.467
I want to say what I was going to say, but I'm at a loss for French.

01:12:38.467 --> 01:12:42.447
Yeah, move along.

01:12:43.702 --> 01:12:52.985
If I remember, all fine, okay so, the people of France, french, they stormed the Bastille.

01:12:52.985 --> 01:12:55.442
Yes, do you know of this?

01:12:55.442 --> 01:12:56.023
I do.

01:12:56.323 --> 01:12:57.083
Oh, wonderful.

01:12:57.585 --> 01:13:01.488
So it happened on July 14th 1789.

01:13:02.069 --> 01:13:02.310
Yes.

01:13:03.411 --> 01:13:14.583
The Bastille was a medieval fortress in Paris, correct, mostly used for storing weapons, and at that time, seven prisoners.

01:13:14.925 --> 01:13:16.947
Yes, who were the seven prisoners?

01:13:17.186 --> 01:13:19.489
I don't know, but one of them thought he was Julius Caesar.

01:13:19.489 --> 01:13:20.831
Wait what?

01:13:20.831 --> 01:13:23.073
Yeah, he thought it was Julius Caesar.

01:13:23.634 --> 01:13:25.815
What kind of fucking LSD do you think yeah?

01:13:25.815 --> 01:13:33.377
But the real reason that it was stormed was it was a symbol.

01:13:33.377 --> 01:13:33.739
Yes, Bradley.

01:13:36.828 --> 01:13:37.371
No, you're just Tom.

01:13:37.371 --> 01:13:37.932
No, you're just Tom.

01:13:37.932 --> 01:13:39.597
No, you're not Julie, you're just Tom.

01:13:39.597 --> 01:13:40.020
Wait what?

01:13:40.020 --> 01:13:45.528
Okay, so they stormed the Bastille because, one, it was a symbol, but two, they had gunpowder.

01:13:45.528 --> 01:13:51.703
Oh dear, I feel like the gunpowder plot is coming out.

01:13:52.005 --> 01:13:57.819
I wasn't going to say it, but I'm glad you did 900 Parisians surrounded the Bastille.

01:13:57.819 --> 01:13:58.984
Those are people from Paris.

01:14:00.940 --> 01:14:03.953
Scared that the king would crack down on the National Assembly.

01:14:03.953 --> 01:14:11.805
Okay, so, after hours of tension outside the Bastille, the situation popped off like an overcooked souffle.

01:14:13.170 --> 01:14:15.417
Suddenly, Okay, okay.

01:14:17.002 --> 01:14:28.935
Okay, these, let me tell you, these Parisians are like husbands, laborers, artisans, merchants, even a few soldiers who have gone rogue.

01:14:29.275 --> 01:14:30.039
Are they a fortune?

01:14:30.579 --> 01:14:37.405
They demanded the governor Like the governor?

01:14:37.405 --> 01:14:41.430
Yeah, are they a fortune?

01:14:41.430 --> 01:14:44.492
They demanded the governor Bernard.

01:14:44.511 --> 01:14:44.712
René de.

01:14:44.792 --> 01:14:49.256
Lune hand over the gunpowder stored inside the Bastille.

01:14:49.256 --> 01:14:55.007
Gotcha, he stalled, negotiated, lied a little bit.

01:14:55.007 --> 01:14:56.220
People are not impressed.

01:14:56.220 --> 01:15:03.449
Someone dragged him out of the Bastille, someone fired a shot.

01:15:03.449 --> 01:15:05.923
To this day no one knows who.

01:15:05.923 --> 01:15:10.219
But once that happened, the game is on the attackers.

01:15:10.219 --> 01:15:11.876
So shit hit the fan.

01:15:11.876 --> 01:15:13.706
Basically, that's another idiom.

01:15:13.706 --> 01:15:14.940
Shit hit the fan basically, that's another idiom.

01:15:14.940 --> 01:15:15.240
Shit hit the fan.

01:15:15.240 --> 01:15:16.746
The.

01:15:16.746 --> 01:15:21.140
These merchants had cannons which they had stolen earlier in the morning.

01:15:21.140 --> 01:15:43.274
After a few hours of shooting and chaos and losing around a hundred revolutionaries, the defenders mostly retired soldiers and a few Swiss guards were completely overwhelmed and Governor de Lugnet realized he was out of options and surrendered.

01:15:45.082 --> 01:15:51.765
I mean, he probably thought we're good, Until if he was a fan.

01:15:51.765 --> 01:15:57.054
He was like I think I'm over my head here.

01:15:57.939 --> 01:16:04.988
DeLunier thought that he would be arrested, maybe exiled but no, Well, I mean religion.

01:16:04.988 --> 01:16:07.851
He was being marched towards City Hall.

01:16:07.851 --> 01:16:09.645
Oh shit, the people yelling.

01:16:09.645 --> 01:16:12.332
Okay, someone stabbed him.

01:16:12.351 --> 01:16:13.458
Seriously Seriously.

01:16:14.220 --> 01:16:24.113
And then another person stabbed him Seriously, and then another person stabbed him, and then a third person cut off his head With what?

01:16:24.380 --> 01:16:24.541
And then?

01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:26.445
someone put it on a spike.

01:16:26.445 --> 01:16:27.911
Well, that was common.

01:16:27.911 --> 01:16:32.551
And then it was paraded around Paris like a party favor.

01:16:33.100 --> 01:16:34.686
That was common practice back then.

01:16:34.686 --> 01:16:36.743
I know Put a head in a pike.

01:16:37.164 --> 01:16:37.787
I know.

01:16:38.208 --> 01:16:41.506
I mean, them were the days.

01:16:41.506 --> 01:16:44.505
I remember them well.

01:16:44.505 --> 01:16:48.889
Yes, that's fucked up, that's wild.

01:16:49.260 --> 01:16:57.368
He was like the first major victim of mob violence in the revolutionary, or excuse mob violence in the Revolutionary, or, excuse me, in the Revolution the modern.

01:16:57.368 --> 01:17:03.332
And it was the start of the revolution's head on the spike type of aesthetic, yeah, yeah.

01:17:03.332 --> 01:17:19.648
So the storming of the Bastille became a big, flashy message to the monarchy, as in, we're fucking done, even though the building had minimalistic strategic value it was just a symbol.

01:17:19.648 --> 01:17:28.511
The revolution kicked into overdrive and to this day, july 14th is France's national holiday.

01:17:30.201 --> 01:17:33.890
So they consider that their independence day?

01:17:33.890 --> 01:17:34.471
I think so.

01:17:34.471 --> 01:17:35.703
Yeah, for lack of a better word.

01:17:35.703 --> 01:17:37.550
Yeah, okay, yeah, gotcha.

01:17:37.979 --> 01:17:39.345
So we're only halfway through.

01:17:39.345 --> 01:17:43.667
That's how much we've been talking in between.

01:17:45.202 --> 01:17:46.284
Are you fucking serious?

01:17:46.284 --> 01:17:47.550
No, holy shit.

01:17:49.180 --> 01:17:54.512
To give you context, I have 14 pages.

01:17:56.541 --> 01:17:58.528
And what are we on Seven?

01:17:58.528 --> 01:17:59.390
Oh, my God.

01:17:59.860 --> 01:18:01.887
I thought we had less than that.

01:18:01.887 --> 01:18:07.206
We need to go get our pizza because they close at 9 and they're going to call us, so we need to take a breather.

01:18:12.347 --> 01:18:13.149
To this day.

01:18:13.149 --> 01:18:24.217
July 14th is France's national holiday, so my parents always used to go to Bastille Days in Milwaukee.

01:18:25.326 --> 01:18:26.411
Have you ever been?

01:18:26.411 --> 01:18:29.431
No, I did not know of such a thing.

01:18:29.431 --> 01:18:30.234
I don't.

01:18:32.911 --> 01:18:35.356
I want to say they've taken me in the past.

01:18:35.356 --> 01:18:43.095
I don't recall, though I'm almost positive I've gone with them, but it's been a long, long, long time.

01:18:43.095 --> 01:18:54.511
I don't recall it French-based, obviously, so you think it is about this?

01:18:55.867 --> 01:19:24.282
It sounds similarish yeah but I always remember my mom and dad, always like like going to bastille days, which is french, so anyways sorry so then, yes, on october 5th and 6th in 1789 october 5th and 6th in 1789, there was a rumor that was spread that the royal family was hoarding grain.

01:19:24.282 --> 01:19:31.454
They were keeping it from the peasant folk, Mm-hmm oh shit, and Marie Antoinette was still throwing parties at this time.

01:19:31.744 --> 01:19:32.748
Yeah, they're not going to be favorable to that.

01:19:32.748 --> 01:19:37.064
A crowd of mostly working-class women had had enough, I'm sure this time, yeah, they're not gonna be favorable to that.

01:19:37.324 --> 01:19:40.211
A crowd of mostly working class women had had enough.

01:19:40.551 --> 01:19:40.993
I'm sure.

01:19:41.747 --> 01:19:51.967
And on the morning of October 5th, thousands of women armed with kitchen knives oh shit Spikes and potentially pitchforks.

01:19:51.967 --> 01:19:54.108
We're gonna go there and torches.

01:19:54.108 --> 01:19:55.485
They march, exactly.

01:19:55.485 --> 01:19:59.413
They march the 12 miles through the rain from Paris to Versailles.

01:19:59.413 --> 01:20:00.216
I thought it was 20.

01:20:00.216 --> 01:20:01.359
My bad, it's 12.

01:20:02.447 --> 01:20:05.054
I mean I'm going to hold a SU for the rest of your life, but it's okay yeah.

01:20:06.024 --> 01:20:08.693
So it's 12 miles from Paris to Versailles.

01:20:08.693 --> 01:20:09.215
What do you mean?

01:20:09.215 --> 01:20:18.444
Probably Some men joined, yeah, they.

01:20:18.444 --> 01:20:19.547
Some men joined, yeah, they brought cannons.

01:20:19.547 --> 01:20:20.551
It was miserable, but they were motivated.

01:20:20.992 --> 01:20:22.555
I mean, can you blame them?

01:20:25.284 --> 01:20:29.104
They stormed into the palace grounds they demanded bread.

01:20:29.104 --> 01:20:34.940
Okay, and constitutional monarchy, oh shit.

01:20:34.940 --> 01:20:47.457
All right, that seems drastic and that the king come back to Paris the 12 miles, okay and see what the hell is happening under his quote unquote control, his tutelage.

01:20:47.457 --> 01:20:48.097
Yeah.

01:20:48.097 --> 01:20:51.815
Like let's see what's actually happening underneath your rule.

01:20:53.987 --> 01:20:54.510
I'm going to go with.

01:20:54.510 --> 01:20:55.173
It doesn't bode well.

01:20:55.173 --> 01:20:57.829
I mean, I know what happens to him, but it's not going to bode well.

01:20:58.746 --> 01:21:00.332
The mob broke into the palace.

01:21:00.332 --> 01:21:02.426
Yeah, killed a couple of guards.

01:21:02.685 --> 01:21:03.145
Oh dear.

01:21:03.506 --> 01:21:06.189
And tried to reach Marie Antoinette in her bedroom.

01:21:06.529 --> 01:21:07.529
They killed D'Artagnan.

01:21:08.109 --> 01:21:08.449
What.

01:21:08.710 --> 01:21:10.811
Nothing, huh D'Artagnan.

01:21:10.811 --> 01:21:12.712
Huh, three Musketeers.

01:21:12.712 --> 01:21:16.275
Come on, you know the Three Musketeers.

01:21:16.595 --> 01:21:21.460
I've never seen it never read it, never have done anything about it.

01:21:21.460 --> 01:21:23.201
But we're talking about Marie Antoinette here.

01:21:23.201 --> 01:21:25.382
Are you confused?

01:21:26.466 --> 01:21:35.979
No, I was literally talking about French shit with you in accordance to this fucking episode, but I feel like the one who's confused is Carry on.

01:21:37.105 --> 01:21:40.851
She barely escaped into another room with the help of her guards.

01:21:40.851 --> 01:22:02.453
Yeah, and one of the more famous moments she actually stepped out onto the balcony, completely exposed to everybody below her, and the mob was like screaming for her head and instead of panicking she stared them all down like individually yeah, individually, that's right.

01:22:02.453 --> 01:22:06.690
And then Louis XVI gave in.

01:22:06.690 --> 01:22:16.314
He agreed to move the royal family to Paris, specifically to to Lurie's agree to move the rural family to Paris.

01:22:16.314 --> 01:22:23.409
Okay, specifically to Toulouris Palace, toulouris Palace.

01:22:24.533 --> 01:22:25.889
Hold on, let me move my family.

01:22:25.909 --> 01:22:27.856
Toulouris Palace.

01:22:27.978 --> 01:22:29.869
Let me move my family to another palace.

01:22:29.869 --> 01:22:32.338
Hold please, it sounds terrible.

01:22:32.439 --> 01:22:35.739
Essentially it was like a fancy prison with curtains, yeah.

01:22:37.265 --> 01:22:42.757
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure he didn't think that way, but ultimately it looks that way.

01:22:42.778 --> 01:22:46.715
yes, the marchers made him ride back with them.

01:22:46.734 --> 01:22:47.317
Okay.

01:22:48.166 --> 01:22:56.634
Along with a wagon Wagon, a wagon of flour, which they found in Versailles.

01:22:56.634 --> 01:23:02.248
Aka, they were hoarding a little bit, well, okay.

01:23:04.033 --> 01:23:04.536
No shit.

01:23:04.536 --> 01:23:07.752
I mean, it's the king.

01:23:07.752 --> 01:23:12.836
He's going to get more than the peasants, yes.

01:23:12.836 --> 01:23:20.391
So of course he's going to hoard some shit because he wants to get fed For sure, More than he wants his subjects to get fed.

01:23:20.712 --> 01:23:21.014
His what.

01:23:24.104 --> 01:23:27.771
Subjects is what I said, anywho, yeah.

01:23:28.845 --> 01:23:30.832
In June 1791,.

01:23:30.851 --> 01:23:31.975
That's a good year.

01:23:32.625 --> 01:23:40.417
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette tried to flee Paris with their kids and a few loyal servants.

01:23:40.417 --> 01:23:41.838
Yes, Bradley.

01:23:42.166 --> 01:23:43.109
What are the kids' names?

01:23:45.346 --> 01:23:47.534
They each have like four or five names long.

01:23:47.534 --> 01:23:50.009
I'm not going to go into it.

01:23:50.752 --> 01:23:51.373
Do you have them?

01:23:51.734 --> 01:24:01.644
No, okay, so that's, but their goal is to make it to the border, link up with royalist troops and rally support to take back control of the country.

01:24:01.644 --> 01:24:03.930
Okay, but it went terribly.

01:24:03.930 --> 01:24:15.784
The royal family had been basically under house arrest in the palace since the Women's March and Louis had reluctantly accepted the constitutional monarchy.

01:24:15.784 --> 01:24:20.756
But he was not on board with this whole power to the people thing.

01:24:21.145 --> 01:24:40.322
Well, and this whole thing is, this is the whole French Revolution, which is huge, I mean very pivotal in history really, because it overthrew the monarchy, put in a democracy, basically, and he was the last one, and they kick.

01:24:42.247 --> 01:24:48.631
Marie was secretly writing to her relatives in Austria begging for military help.

01:24:48.631 --> 01:24:50.291
Yeah like hey.

01:24:50.291 --> 01:24:56.632
She and Louis believed that once they reached safety they could overturn the revolution.

01:24:56.904 --> 01:24:57.728
Yeah, they were.

01:24:57.728 --> 01:24:59.233
What were you going to say?

01:24:59.233 --> 01:24:59.875
100% wrong.

01:25:00.604 --> 01:25:03.630
So the plan Mission Ridiculous.

01:25:03.630 --> 01:25:09.698
They decided to go into disguise by dressing as commoners.

01:25:09.979 --> 01:25:10.159
Okay.

01:25:12.625 --> 01:25:17.436
And Louis pretended to be a servant and the queen a governess.

01:25:17.436 --> 01:25:22.957
Maria brought a lot of luggage because of course she did.

01:25:23.426 --> 01:25:26.775
I feel like that would give away your secret.

01:25:27.564 --> 01:25:33.838
Not only that, but they used a giant royal coach to travel.

01:25:34.626 --> 01:25:36.393
You're trying to be incognito.

01:25:36.393 --> 01:25:38.533
Why would you do that?

01:25:39.024 --> 01:25:42.716
They meet at about 150 miles northeast of Paris.

01:25:43.328 --> 01:25:44.645
That's actually pretty impressive.

01:25:44.904 --> 01:25:52.418
And they were recognized by a postmaster who happened to know that Louis' face is on a fucking coin.

01:25:52.418 --> 01:25:57.076
Dude, you look like the guy on this coin that I have.

01:25:57.725 --> 01:25:58.046
He's like.

01:25:58.984 --> 01:26:01.230
Dude, this is like your profile man.

01:26:01.230 --> 01:26:02.234
That's you man.

01:26:02.234 --> 01:26:03.797
Can I use your autograph?

01:26:03.797 --> 01:26:08.752
So the public felt super betrayed.

01:26:09.707 --> 01:26:10.514
Can you blame them?

01:26:10.514 --> 01:26:18.412
Yeah, I mean, they're in the middle of a fucking revolution and he's like no man, I ain't that guy.

01:26:19.372 --> 01:26:21.296
The trust in the monarchy collapsed.

01:26:21.296 --> 01:26:30.185
It became clear that Louis wasn't just incompetent, he was now pretty much an enemy of the people.

01:26:30.185 --> 01:26:34.613
So from this point forward, calls to abolish the monarchy altogether grew a lot louder.

01:26:34.613 --> 01:26:37.225
It was a major turning point in the revolution.

01:26:37.225 --> 01:26:45.390
Yeah, and by summer night 1792 things started spiraling okay the royal family was imprisoned at the palace under tight guard.

01:26:45.390 --> 01:26:51.146
Yeah, the people were furious about them, high, like leaving the palace and like trying to like.

01:26:51.226 --> 01:26:54.770
Well, right, yeah it was a bad love Trying to escape it, basically.

01:26:55.511 --> 01:27:02.739
Madame Antoinette was nicknamed Madame Deficit and it turned into Madame Vito.

01:27:02.739 --> 01:27:10.814
Okay, and everyone suspected that she was secretly colluding with Austria to crush the revolution.

01:27:10.835 --> 01:27:11.695
I hate colluding.

01:27:11.695 --> 01:27:15.889
But she like was Well, yeah, she was, they weren't wrong.

01:27:15.889 --> 01:27:17.073
No they weren't wrong yeah.

01:27:18.225 --> 01:27:24.980
France had declared war on Austria and Prussia, oh dear, in April 1792, and it was going terribly.

01:27:25.583 --> 01:27:25.765
Yeah.

01:27:26.345 --> 01:27:37.280
Hungry, angry citizens, outside threats, suspicion that the king was a traitor all equaled boom revolution.

01:27:37.280 --> 01:27:38.884
Like boom boom, boom, boom boom.

01:27:41.229 --> 01:27:44.377
It was already going on, but it's like fuck yeah.

01:27:45.006 --> 01:27:45.989
It was like kaboom.

01:27:46.284 --> 01:27:48.573
Yeah, this is we are doing this shit.

01:27:48.573 --> 01:27:50.490
Yes, because they were sick of it.

01:27:50.752 --> 01:27:52.569
Yes, On August 10th.

01:27:52.791 --> 01:27:53.011
Yeah.

01:27:53.784 --> 01:28:04.880
Two, nope, 20,000 revolutionaries, including the National Guard and radical Parisians, stormed the palace.

01:28:04.880 --> 01:28:08.354
Okay, this Toulouse, whatever palace.

01:28:08.354 --> 01:28:17.417
And Louis had fled again, this time to a nearby legislative assembly, thinking they'd protect him.

01:28:17.417 --> 01:28:18.319
Not so much.

01:28:18.319 --> 01:28:28.154
But the Swiss guards, who were loyal to the king, were slaughtered, bodies everywhere, heads on spikes.

01:28:28.154 --> 01:28:32.057
It was the best deal to Ponyo, but like bloodier oh boy.

01:28:32.057 --> 01:28:36.654
Okay, louis and his family were formally arrested and taken to the temple prison.

01:28:36.654 --> 01:28:37.476
Oh, shit.

01:28:37.725 --> 01:28:39.592
On August 13th, he was stripped of his title.

01:28:39.592 --> 01:28:41.186
So no more like Louis XIII.

01:28:41.186 --> 01:28:45.033
Yeah, okay, 16th, 16th, sorry, what did I say?

01:28:45.033 --> 01:28:46.617
13th, really?

01:28:46.617 --> 01:28:48.881
Yeah, damn, I suck.

01:28:48.881 --> 01:28:54.936
The legislative assembly was dissolved and replaced by the national convention.

01:28:54.936 --> 01:28:55.485
Okay.

01:28:55.485 --> 01:29:02.019
On August 21st, the convention declared, quote there is no longer a monarchy in France.

01:29:03.106 --> 01:29:07.255
Isn't that wild that like these people got together and were like you know what?

01:29:07.255 --> 01:29:08.756
No, yeah.

01:29:08.756 --> 01:29:11.489
No, we're, we're, we're no.

01:29:11.489 --> 01:29:14.185
I mean, they basically went to democracy, right.

01:29:14.204 --> 01:29:20.759
Yeah, they're like, this is no longer a thing, king Silly, what was that?

01:29:22.905 --> 01:29:24.431
I can't recreate it.

01:29:24.431 --> 01:29:25.134
I wish you wouldn't make me.

01:29:25.134 --> 01:29:33.939
But no, it's like it's mind boggling.

01:29:33.939 --> 01:29:36.875
It's like, no, we just we don't agree with this.

01:29:36.875 --> 01:29:40.890
You are no longer in power, and they've been in power for.

01:29:41.545 --> 01:29:44.890
Thousands of years, kings have been in power.

01:29:44.989 --> 01:29:50.431
thousands of years there Between England, france, all in between, whatever.

01:29:50.431 --> 01:29:55.176
They're like nope, we don't recognize your power here anymore, and it's like I was king today.

01:29:55.176 --> 01:29:59.452
Nope, we don't recognize your power here anymore, and it's like I was king today.

01:29:59.452 --> 01:30:01.818
Tomorrow not so much.

01:30:01.818 --> 01:30:03.912
And it's like holy fuck.

01:30:04.966 --> 01:30:18.354
So after the monarchy was abolished, in August 1792, louis went from your majesty to Louis Capet or Capet to Louis Capet or Capay Capay.

01:30:18.354 --> 01:30:21.904
So basically you're just Joe Schmo Capay.

01:30:21.904 --> 01:30:27.671
He was put on trial in December 1792 by the National Convention charged with treason.

01:30:27.671 --> 01:30:29.752
See so why?

01:30:29.752 --> 01:30:38.791
Or conspiring with foreign powers, true-ish, fleeing the Okay, sorry, conspiring with foreign powers, okay.

01:30:38.810 --> 01:30:38.990
True-ish.

01:30:39.011 --> 01:30:40.594
Ish Fleeing the country.

01:30:40.594 --> 01:30:46.020
Very true, True-ish yeah, and undermining the revolution at every turn.

01:30:48.845 --> 01:30:49.547
It's like do you blame him?

01:30:49.547 --> 01:30:49.769
Though?

01:30:49.769 --> 01:30:50.912
He wasn't undermining the revolution.

01:30:50.912 --> 01:30:57.475
He was trying to stop it because he was king, yes, and the revolution was to stop him from being king yes.

01:30:57.475 --> 01:31:00.716
So he wasn't really undermining, he was trying to fucking, just nope.

01:31:01.140 --> 01:31:04.373
Yeah, nope, okay, but this part's interesting, so focus.

01:31:04.685 --> 01:31:06.136
I mean all of it is but.

01:31:07.063 --> 01:31:15.323
Listen, the National Convention had 749 deputies 749.

01:31:15.323 --> 01:31:21.055
A simple majority was needed to pass any resolution.

01:31:21.055 --> 01:31:21.997
Oh, 100%.

01:31:21.997 --> 01:31:38.685
So the threshold for a binding decision like executing a king yes, half of that would be of 7 would be 375 if you round up 375.

01:31:39.009 --> 01:31:40.104
Because it's not an even number.

01:31:40.305 --> 01:31:41.412
Yep votes are needed.

01:31:41.412 --> 01:31:43.552
Okay, here's a twist.

01:31:43.552 --> 01:31:51.130
Not everybody voted In every single aspect of this vote, so so is.

01:31:51.130 --> 01:32:01.118
By the time of the final Execution vote, only 721 deputies casted valid votes.

01:32:01.626 --> 01:32:02.811
Out of the 749.

01:32:02.984 --> 01:32:04.492
Yep, so 721.

01:32:04.492 --> 01:32:13.604
Half of 721 is 361, majority 361, you're rounded up 361.

01:32:13.604 --> 01:32:15.971
361 is the majority.

01:32:15.971 --> 01:32:17.988
Yes, 361 is the majority.

01:32:17.988 --> 01:32:21.197
Each deputy had to stand up and speak their vote aloud.

01:32:21.197 --> 01:32:29.858
The vote to execute Louis XVI 361.

01:32:30.738 --> 01:32:31.079
Oh shit.

01:32:31.079 --> 01:32:43.636
One vote was between life and death 's amazing one really wow and he's like did I make it?

01:32:45.510 --> 01:32:54.051
wow that's wild, yeah, okay marie's downfall took a little bit longer yeah but it still happened.

01:32:54.051 --> 01:33:05.076
She was now known as the widow capay, thrown into a dank cell alone, watched constantly.

01:33:05.076 --> 01:33:07.500
Her health deteriorated apparently she.

01:33:07.500 --> 01:33:15.537
Her hair turned white oh really yeah, like it wasn't that far difference in time frame.

01:33:15.537 --> 01:33:16.819
What color was her hair?

01:33:16.819 --> 01:33:17.960
It was blonde.

01:33:18.244 --> 01:33:19.832
It was kind of a darker blonde.

01:33:20.206 --> 01:33:24.252
He was a little bit lighter blonde, so like the, Kirsten Dunst.

01:33:24.985 --> 01:33:26.192
She was too blonde for it.

01:33:26.192 --> 01:33:28.069
Well, I mean, but she was blonde.

01:33:28.792 --> 01:33:34.351
She was Anyways and her children were taken from her.

01:33:34.351 --> 01:33:38.576
Her child began on October 14th 1793.

01:33:38.576 --> 01:33:43.417
Her charges were treason, incest.

01:33:44.064 --> 01:33:45.889
Which I feel okay.

01:33:45.889 --> 01:33:49.818
I mean go back to Henry VIII and all that stuff.

01:33:49.818 --> 01:33:56.197
Different country obviously, but I feel like they just throw their shit on there.

01:33:56.778 --> 01:34:01.595
Oh yeah, they said incest with her own son.

01:34:01.595 --> 01:34:05.949
Do you want to tell the folks what you're drinking?

01:34:07.073 --> 01:34:07.775
Gin and tonic.

01:34:07.775 --> 01:34:10.291
I'm feeling supersonic.

01:34:10.291 --> 01:34:13.770
You could have it all, but how much do you want it?

01:34:13.904 --> 01:34:21.052
Of course she didn't actually partake in incest, no, no, they just made that shit up to Shock the public.

01:34:21.113 --> 01:34:21.858
Shock the public.

01:34:21.858 --> 01:34:22.765
That's basically what they did.

01:34:22.765 --> 01:34:30.817
Pile charges on whatever you want to call it, but fuck, that's just like Anne Boleyn fucking her brother.

01:34:31.158 --> 01:34:35.247
Mm-hmm, so Marie's verdict guilty, of course.

01:34:35.247 --> 01:34:40.112
Sentence death by guillotine, guilt, guillotine, whatever Guillotine.

01:34:40.511 --> 01:34:42.073
I like guillotine, let's go with guillotine.

01:34:42.354 --> 01:34:43.354
Her final moment.

01:34:43.354 --> 01:34:48.960
On October 16th, she wrote a farewell letter to her sister-in-law, which was never delivered.

01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:51.641
Oh, she dressed in a plain white gown.

01:34:51.641 --> 01:34:56.376
Okay, white was the color of royal mourning at that time in France.

01:34:56.676 --> 01:34:57.056
Gotcha.

01:34:57.506 --> 01:35:03.595
So it was kind of like a subtle jab, but she rode to her execution in an open cart.

01:35:04.036 --> 01:35:04.256
Okay.

01:35:04.824 --> 01:35:05.988
Louis got a carriage.

01:35:06.850 --> 01:35:08.735
Oh Pansy.

01:35:09.525 --> 01:35:15.097
She stood tall, poised, pale, thin, but whatever.

01:35:15.097 --> 01:35:16.298
But whatever.

01:35:16.298 --> 01:35:26.359
She climbed the scaffold and accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot and famously said quote pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose.

01:35:26.359 --> 01:35:36.274
End quote At 12.15, the blade fell, the crowd cheered and the monarchy was officially dead and buried.

01:35:36.274 --> 01:35:44.784
Louis died conflicted, confused and probably still thinking that something could have been worked out.

01:35:44.784 --> 01:35:46.452
Yeah, he's like.

01:35:46.452 --> 01:35:46.873
What did I?

01:35:46.894 --> 01:35:47.416
do wrong man.

01:35:48.145 --> 01:35:54.118
And Maria died defiant, elegant and tragically misunderstood.

01:35:54.805 --> 01:35:58.877
So I heard the whole let them eat cake thing was actually a myth.

01:35:59.546 --> 01:36:00.591
You did hear that.

01:36:00.712 --> 01:36:02.564
Yeah, yeah, is that true?

01:36:03.145 --> 01:36:04.570
Yeah, it's a myth.

01:36:04.832 --> 01:36:04.993
Yeah.

01:36:06.006 --> 01:36:11.604
It was written in the books years prior to her ever being queen Right.

01:36:12.306 --> 01:36:14.072
So why was that like a thing?

01:36:14.393 --> 01:36:15.416
I don't know how it happened.

01:36:15.416 --> 01:36:18.453
No, okay, but yeah, that's the story of Marie Antoinette.

01:36:19.485 --> 01:36:27.996
It's crazy because I mean, what a time you think you're going to be like I'm queen of France and all that shit and whatever.

01:36:27.996 --> 01:36:40.444
And they're like, yeah, we don't want a king and a queen anymore, so you're going to have to go and oh, I think by that means we're going to kill you, yeah.

01:36:40.444 --> 01:36:46.293
And I'm going to go by Kate's words by a guillotine, Guillotine, Guillotine.

01:36:46.293 --> 01:36:49.439
I like guillotine, but you know what I mean.

01:36:49.439 --> 01:36:50.971
It's like wait what?

01:36:51.865 --> 01:36:53.953
How did you like the summer stew?

01:36:53.953 --> 01:36:55.610
Did you like it?

01:36:56.206 --> 01:36:56.627
I did.

01:36:56.627 --> 01:37:01.140
It could have been a bit colder, personally that's our bad, but that was our bad.

01:37:01.261 --> 01:37:06.324
No, but the drink is good, I like it so, dano, did we mention this earlier?

01:37:07.654 --> 01:37:09.125
he gave us that sample.

01:37:09.125 --> 01:37:10.623
It was fucking delicious.

01:37:10.623 --> 01:37:23.439
So I was looking for a podcast beer for us for today and and I'm like, ooh, we tried it but we haven't had it per se.

01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:32.788
So I got us that and, yes, I'm currently drinking a cocktail, but whatever, sorry, pseudo, it's delicious, I like it.

01:37:32.788 --> 01:37:36.386
Sorry, pseudo, it's delicious, I like it.

01:37:36.386 --> 01:37:41.493
It's quite different from just regular pseudo-sue, obviously, but no, it was good.

01:37:41.493 --> 01:37:41.773
What?

01:37:41.792 --> 01:37:42.373
did you think of it?

01:37:42.373 --> 01:37:43.194
I liked it a lot.

01:37:43.194 --> 01:37:44.136
Yeah, Good yeah.

01:37:45.597 --> 01:37:47.860
Welp, I suppose.

01:37:47.860 --> 01:37:50.010
All right, buffoons.

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That's it for today's episode.

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