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Today, Explained

A cynic's guide to the royal wedding

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you might have heard that there’s a royal wedding happening this Saturday. (Even Sean’s mom is tuning in!) England’s Prince Harry is set to wed American actress Meghan Markle with great fanfare, to the ballpark cost of $43 million. Kristen Meinzer, co-host of the When Meghan met Harry podcast, tells Sean why he should care. ************************************************************** For more info on how British royals plan a wedding, check out Vox Video here: https://youtu.be/jNTyQPUoFHs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I know it's a little early, but I've already figured out my Halloween costume.

0:03.6

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0:08.5

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0:13.9

you can get 10% off a mattress. That offer lasts until June 5th, but I won't need the mattress until

0:20.4

October. Call your mother. It's time you had the talk. Hope she picks up. Hope the calls not dropped.

0:40.4

But you. Hey, mom. What are you doing Saturday?

0:45.1

Nothing.

0:46.0

Hmm, you sure? I think so.

0:50.0

You're not going to, are you going to watch anything on TV?

0:52.5

Huh, wedding. Of course. I'm watching at one o'clock in the morning.

0:57.1

Does that mean you're waking up or you're not going to sleep?

0:59.6

I'm not going to sleep, I guess.

1:01.6

And how long is it? How, how, how much are you committing here? You're starting at one.

1:05.6

What time are you out of this thing?

1:07.2

It's supposed to be seven hours.

1:10.7

What? Oh my god.

1:12.8

Yeah. Oh, how many royal weddings have you watched?

1:16.7

Dying and chaff, William. Maybe pinched us a little bit the second one.

1:22.7

And of course, Harry.

1:24.8

Why do you watch these things?

1:28.4

Well, my mom was a very, she followed royal family and those two kids are only one year older to

1:35.9

you and me. So you feel some sort of connection to those boys?

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