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🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld[1] (17 February 1821 – 17 January 1861), better known by the stage name Lola Montez (/moʊnˈtɛz/), was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan, and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Gräfin von Landsfeld (Countess of Landsfeld). At the start of the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states, she was forced to flee. She proceeded to the United States via Austria, Switzerland, France and London, to return to her work as an entertainer and lecturer.
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0:23.8 | Podcasts were choose a subject, read a single article about it on Wikipedia and pretend we're experts. |
0:29.4 | Because this is the internet and that's how it works now. |
0:31.7 | I'm Cecil and I'll be introducing our |
0:34.1 | dancers tonight we're joined by tap belly and ballroom Noah Eli and Tom I |
0:39.7 | bet Eli's less offended by being belly than he is by not being tap. |
0:43.4 | Yeah, it burns me again, no, it burns me once again. |
0:48.0 | I see, so it's less of a ballroom and more of a ball alcove. |
0:52.0 | Okay, it's like a ball niche. |
0:55.0 | Yeah. |
0:57.0 | Patrons, you put the swing in our step, |
1:00.0 | and if you'd like to learn how to join their ranks, |
1:02.0 | be sure to stick around until the end of the show. |
1:04.0 | And with that all the way, tell us, Tom, what person, place, thing, concept, phenomenon, or event, |
1:10.0 | would we be talking about today? |
1:12.0 | We'd be talking today about Lola |
1:13.6 | Montez. Oh, are you ready to increase your word count with an intro paragraph |
1:19.8 | anecdote for us? I am, Cecil, and I'll read it slowly to drag it. Perfect. I gotta go |
1:27.0 | like someone to drink, so it'll work out. And one of the things that I think about |
1:30.7 | likely rather more often than I should is what kind of legacy I will leave |
1:34.8 | when I'm gone what kind of life I will have lived and what I will accomplish and sometimes I |
1:39.7 | even imagine that I may be doing okay in this department but But every once in a while I run across the |
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