Okay, we're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest, returning guest. His name is Robert Frederick. We spoke back in April 30th, 2021 about his excellent podcast, which you can see or broadcast you can see on YouTube. The title of that broadcast is The Hidden life is best and we spoke specifically about

sir francis bacon and the gnaistic english empire but today we're going to talk he reached out to me

and give me an update on some of the work he's been doing so i listened to the podcast that we're

going to kind of cover today which also covers covers bacon, but the specific title of that

is the tragedy of Macbeth. So I listened to his podcast. I also watched a really fascinating

version of Macbeth that you can find on YouTube that has Ian McKellen and Judy Denshinch in it.

And so I was going to watch the Polansky version too.

But his podcast and just watching again opened my eyes to a lot of things going on in this play that he can talk more about.

So Robert, Frederick, welcome back to the show.

How are you?

Hi, William.

Great to be with you again.

Awesome.

Well, thanks for agreeing.

Thanks for coming back and reaching out to me.

For people who may not have heard our last interview, can you talk about your background,

what led you to bacon and kind of your position on bacon and maybe just give people a brief or, you know, like, do you however you want to do it, a kind of overview of Sir Francis Bacon for

the audience, please.

I think my interest began just trying to understand why the world was such a mess when everyone I meet, 99% of people I meet are decent and seem to believe in fair play and,

you know, fairness and a good shake for the other guy.

And why is the world such a mess?

And I kept coming back to England.

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