Oh, for the best, expect the worst, some preach and pain, some tiredness, the way of knowing which way it's going.

Oh, for the best, expect the worst.

Welcome to the commentary magazine, Taley Podcast.

Today is Monday, May 8, 2023.

I'm John Pudhord, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always, executive editor,

A Greenwald Hyde.

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Media commentary columnist, an American Enterprise Institute, senior fellow Christine

Rosen, high Christine.

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And also at AEI and our Washington commentary columnist Matthew Kuntnetti, high math.

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So there's a new king of England, third of his name, first of the Andals, whatever.

Anyway, I was struck watching the coronation on Saturday, which of course is only the first that we've had in 70 years, though there were, I guess, three in relatively quick succession,

or four in this century, right?

There was five word detention, Edward's Ascension after Victoria's death, his son's Ascension, then his son's Ascension, then the abdication and Elizabeth's father's Ascension, and then Elizabeth came in and so it's been 70 years.

And so the historical memory of the world of people who created kind of space operas, science fiction tropes, and things like that, we're very much informed by things like the behavior conduct and the official behavior of the royal family of England over the first half of the 20th century.

And so a lot of that terminology, when you see, you know, this is the Lord of the garden, this is the night of the ditch, this is the privy seals seal of the privy and all that, like you kind of get a sense of where it, where it all came from and how it now basically is all descended simply into kind of pop culture, draw us with some reason, I hate to be dismissive, but when Charles came out in that sort of pink, this urban gown.

With the long train and a purple wesket with Camilla next to him, all I could think of was bugs bunny coming out of the taking this night and going arise, Sir loin of beef and hitting him over the head.

With the staff because there is something I'm sorry just utterly ridiculous about what we watched on Saturday.

No, okay, I'm going to defend this because I'm not a royalist by any means, but we're a young country and our traditions, many of which were invented very, very recently in history cannot compare to and look, I get it, I get what you're saying and I'm chuckling along with it, but you know, he was on a throne that thanks to the amazing technology of high-deft television, we could see, you know, graffiti from schoolboys from a centuries ago, carved into this wooden throne.

A stone of destiny, you know, there's this huge rock they bring out, I mean, all those weird rituals to me, I have so much respect for the British people for still saying, you know what?

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