Ed Helms

Yeah.

Yeah, it's real aggressive.

Yeah, it is upsetting.

I think even, like, wherever you stand on the death penalty thing, like, did they deserve that in this moment?

But it was, I think, for the revolutionaries, such a symbolic gesture of, like—

death to not just these particular people.

It was death to monarchy as a concept.

We are removing this and of course we're just like nixing the bloodline.

We're making it permanent.

Death is permanent and

And yeah, it's but it's grisly.

And this is not me defending it.

I'm this is me just trying to get into the heads of these of the revolutionaries.

Of course, it also is a very slippery slope because this read to led to Robespierre's infamous reign of terror, where thousands of people were just like.

Unceremoniously beheaded.

I mean, at this point, don't we have a good grasp on like what works best?

Isn't the data in?

Actually, there's one last little epilogue here.

This is kind of fun, a little post-credit scene, if you will, because I know you're curious about the last big old dangling thread here.

What happened to our Swedish boy toy, Axel von Fersen?