Okay, we are alive. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest, returning guest. This will be his fourth episode with William Ramsey Investigates. His name is Robert Frederick, and his podcast is the Hidden Life is best. You've got to go check it out. Really great research. The subtitle of the podcast is Francis Bacon and the Gnostic English Empire.

And he's just put out two episodes recently about very important play.

Maybe one of the greatest plays ever written, Hamlet.

And all of the elements in there. And so I listened to his two episodes.

I kind of went through the Old Hamlet online on YouTube and just watch some clips and stuff,

just to kind of reacquaint myself.

It had been a while.

I haven't really watched it since I was in my early 20s, but, you know, I'm familiar with the line of it.

But there's a lot in there.

There's a lot of very interesting

stuff in this play. It's one of the longest plays written by Bacon Shakespeare, but oftentimes

it's edited down into a smaller watchable version, but like anything, and how complex these

plays are and how layered they are is really astonishing and how erudite they are

and there's a reason why there's still referenced these plays are referenced to this day

but robert frederick talk more about that so welcome back to the show robert hello william thanks

for having me on yeah my pleasure thanks for reaching out who haven't, didn't hear our other three talks.

Can you just do a overview how you got interested in the subject of Bacon as Shakespeare and what led you to up to handle?

Sure. Well, I was kind of zeroing in on the English Empire as the source of the world's ills after a lifetime of wondering,

why is the world so messed up? And then one day, I had this astonishing synchronicity around

Francis Bacon. I tell that story on episode seven or eight of the podcast, and I thought,

I've got to look into Francis Bacon. Synchronicity was so crazy. And I had heard, you know,

the rumors about Shakespeare, not being the author of the plays.

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