The following is an archive podcast presented by the Branson and Hudson Foundation for Podcast Recovery.

This podcast is entitled The Royal Negotiation. It is the first and only episode of the podcast.

Welcome to episode one. Oh, this is such a nice day here in my castle. Yes, I am good King Grinstead, and everybody in the whole

southern kingdom loves me so much. The servants are all happily serving me, the court jesters

are all jesting, and all ten lords are a leaping just for me. Yes, in my kingdom we have the best

technology, the mightiest soldiers riding the

fastest steeds, a baker who once baked me the world's biggest pie, and one of the original

Merlins who invented lightning. Yes, we have the sharpest spears, the coolest teens, the stickiest

stones for getting sword stuck in, and all the best relics and

artifacts, and a whole menagerie of crazy animals that my legions of men have sourced from all

over the world just to amuse me for one moment. This kingdom is so prosperous, and it's all because

their wise king has instructed them to do good agriculture and become knights and merlins, and to conquer all the lesser kingdoms of foolish lesser kings.

This is probably the greatest society that has ever existed, because we took all the old stuff like the Roman aqueduct and we added beer in it.

And we took the old Roman Coliseum and we added a football to make it more fun,

but there's still lions in there who are trying to kill the football guys just so the fans never get bored.

And we also took all those old Greek and Roman statues and added cool guns in their hands.

And we even invented a new use for the alphabet called a book.

Yes, I can't imagine anybody is capable of messing with my great kingdom.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, what's that?

What's that?

It sounds like the sound of someone seaging my castle.

I better go take a look on my balcony.

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