Part Two: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Robert tells Ed about the Sun King's very sad death from butt rot and how his great grandson grew up raised by the insane party house of death that now controlled all of French politics.

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0:00.0	Callsor Media
0:02.8	Ah, we're back.
0:06.4	And, you know, we're talking about Versailles, me and my friend Ed Edward Zittron.
0:14.3	I've never called you Edward.
0:15.6	It feels wrong.
0:17.1	It's mostly what my mother calls me when I've done something.
0:19.3	Edward?
0:21.4	Edward, just Edward Benjamin Zittron. That me when I've done something. Edward?
0:23.3	Edward Benjamin Zittron.
0:25.7	That's when I know I'm in real trouble.
0:28.0	Edward Benjamin Zitron.
0:32.9	Yeah, that's when that's, yeah, that's when I'm about to really get yelled at.
0:35.7	Yeah, I feel like I need to punish you for something just hearing that.
0:37.3	Yeah, that's exactly it.
0:38.5	It's the punishment phrase.
0:41.4	So, Ed, a better off line.
0:46.0	We're talking about Versailles and the weird culture of oligarchy.
0:48.6	Well, it wasn't, I mean, it's an aristocracy, but whatever.
0:53.9	Like, we're talking about this weird subculture that Louis the 14th created to govern France. During that break between recording episodes, and either of you peed, right?
0:57.6	Because I'm not okay with that.
0:59.4	I wouldn't impeached on a plant.
1:01.6	What the French is going to do to me?
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