Bonus: Harry & Meghan (Finding Freedom Book Review with Merritt Beck)
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2020
⏱️ 175 minutes
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Summary
This week's bonus episode is a conversation with BTI5 royal correspondent Merritt Beck (@merrittbeck, The Style Scribe) about Omid Scobie's book that details Harry & Meghan's time in the spotlight, "Finding Freedom." They discuss what stood out to them in each phase of their relationship, from the courtship, engagement, wedding, and baby to ultimately stepping down as working royals. Did Kate & Merritt think it was an accurate portrayal? Did they need all these elaborate descriptions of food? Do they believe Meghan *really* wasn't involved in perhaps the most flattering book of all time?
Note: Kate decided to upload the long uncut version, so this is longer than usual, but she assumed more is more when it comes to royal enthusiasts. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Miss Danielle, host of the new podcast, Help a Human Out. |
| 0:05.0 | Let me do a person going through something nobody in their real life can relate to. |
| 0:09.0 | Our job is to find someone who has been there, who knows what that is like, an expert of sorts. |
| 0:15.0 | We're taking difficult, confusing, or isolating situations and normalizing them. |
| 0:20.0 | One person, one problem, one podcast episode at a time. |
| 0:24.0 | You can subscribe to help a human out wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm me, step by me, step by me, step by me, so darling, darling, stand by me, stand by me. |
| 0:49.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In Five Podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | This is a bonus episode. |
| 0:55.0 | We're not super bookish on this podcast, but occasionally I venture into literature, the classics, |
| 1:03.0 | only the important stuff. Jessica Simpson's memoir and the like looking forward to reading Mariah Carey's in the next couple weeks. |
| 1:10.0 | For today I have a discussion with our official Royal Correspondent Merit Beck of the Style Scribe. |
| 1:18.0 | You can find on Instagram, at Merit Beck, two Rs, two T's. |
| 1:21.0 | You're not laugh that this episode is almost three hours and please don't get mad at me. |
| 1:26.0 | Sometimes I edit it down in the interest of not turning people away, but when it's about a fandom or a niche topic that I know |
| 1:35.0 | it's only bringing people who are already invested. |
| 1:39.0 | This is one of the rare times I think more is better. |
| 1:41.0 | We're good friends so we can talk forever. |
| 1:45.0 | Initially I was going crazy trying to cut it down, but we went through every chapter of the book. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm like, well, if you haven't read it, maybe you do. |
| 1:55.0 | Anyways, I was torn. I don't want to be that person, but at the same time, whatever. |
| 2:00.0 | Save some for later. I love it to go box. |
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