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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too,

and that makes this a good old-fashioned episode of stuff you should know.

That's right. This is where we don't debate because we don't really do that.

We're going to talk about the merits of Richard III and the people that say that Richard the third was a lousy king and terrible person.

And other people will say, no, that was rewritten by people who didn't like him.

And he was actually a pretty great king.

And we'll get into all that right now.

Wow, that's a great intro.

So Richard III is that you may, his name may ring a bell if you're not already familiar with him

because there's a very, very famous play by Shakespeare called the tragedy of Richard III.

And in this play, Richard III has a hunchback.

He has a withered arm.

He has a horrible, dark soul at his core.

He's a terrible person, a murderer of children,

a usurper to the throne.

And because this is Shakespeare, you know Shakespeare.

That's how everybody's thought of Richard III publicly or popularly for hundreds of years.

Yeah.

Like Shakespeare wouldn't do a hit piece on somebody, right?

No way.

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