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Hi, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

I have a very special guest, a returning guest.

His name is Robert Frederick, and he operates the Hidden Life is Best website and podcast.

That has excellent reviews, deservedly, high reviews, 4.7, 4.8.

And we've done two shows on past episodes that he's done research on. The first one was just the general Francis Bacon and the Gnostic English Empire.

And then we also covered the tragedy of Macbeth. But today we're going to talk about

one of the plays that I wasn't as familiar with in the

whole Shakespeare Corpus, and that is The Tempest, but I've been looking in and just kind of

in awe of the intelligence that is behind these plays. But I'm glad to have Robert back,

so he can talk more about that. So Robert Frederick, welcome back to the show.

Hello, William.

Nice to be back.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So for people who may not have heard our earlier two shows,

can you talk about your interest in Francis Bacon and Shakespeare and kind of what led you up to this particular play at The Tempest?

Well, I always had an interest in the English Empire as someone trying to understand history,

and I just kept sensing their involvement in all the big movements of history of the last few hundred years.

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