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Pete Smissen

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1434 total appearances

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Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

And you're just like, what are you-

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

Like, I can't imagine being- I mean, I guess they're the head of state, right, for Australia.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

I guess, right?

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

And we do have a closer history.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

We do have a closer history with them.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

But I can't imagine being, you know, say, as loyal or passionate about the Prime Minister of Great Britain, you know, giving a shit.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

I kind of do, don't you?

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

Like, in terms of- It's just- It's so- It feels to me like it is such a modernly unnatural way to run a country.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

And I guess most countries aren't being run by royal families.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

They're not.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

But at the same time, for it to even be around still when it is so redundant, it seems just so-

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

It just feels like a wank, right?

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

Like, it's kind of like you're keeping alive this tradition that was unfair and just, I don't know, somewhat disgusting in the past.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

Like, I guess you did it because it was probably the best way of running a country a thousand years ago and ensuring its survival.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

But it was incredibly unfair and the average person in the country probably didn't, you know, really benefit from it at all.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

If anything, they probably suffered.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

And it was so arbitrary, right?

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

It was just whoever took power and was the strongest, it was the king or queen or whatever.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

True.

Aussie English
REPLAY - The Goss: The Queen, the King, and Should Australia Now Become a Republic

Because I think- Would have been corrupt and it still would have been money going to the top.