I'm Time OntoGuit and I'm the host of Calling Bullshit, the first podcast about

Purposewashing, where we dig into the difference between what companies say they stand for

and the actions that they're taking. Join us as we investigate organizations like

NUME and Spotify. Let's call BS on companies that deserve it, but also make some suggestions

for cleaning that BS up. Listen to the Calling Bullshit podcast on the iHeart Radio app,

or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to Noeple Blood, a production of iHeart

Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky, listener discretion advised.

On September 8th, 2022, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth

Realms died at her summer residence, Ball Moral in Scotland at age 96. She had reigned for seven

decades, the queen through the space race and the dawn of the information age, the fall of the

Soviet Union and the rise of the internet. She hosted the Kennedys at Buckingham Palace,

rode horses with Reagan and sent Dwight Eisenhower a recipe for scones. 15 Prime Ministers formed

governments in her name, including Winston Churchill. 70 years on the throne, for most people around

the world, she was the only monarch in memory, a constant presence both physically on money and on

stamps, but also in the popular imagination, through jokes, references, songs, and through every

mother who had ever corrected the table manners of their child by saying, would you chew with your

mouth open if you were having dinner with the queen? The monarchy itself is a strange and antiquated

institution. If you've listened to this podcast, you understand how odd it is when vast political

power is arbitrarily inherited and inherited by well people, who for all the pomp and ceremony that

tries to turn them into deities remain at the end of the day just people with the normal

jealousies, insecurities, vanities, and mistakes that people make. The death of the queen, though,

isn't just the death of an individual. It's the death of a symbol. Because in the 21st century

...