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Pete Smissen

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1434 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

Yeah, he's been the heir to the throne for 70 years.

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

Did you see those lines, the jokes that was like, man, 72 finally gets job?

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

And she took it very seriously, right?

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

The oath where she was never going to give the throne up whilst alive.

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

No, she did.

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

She was like, this is to death.

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

I do have a lot of respect for her in that I know very little about her and her family and the royalty in general, but I do know that she worked, you know, incredibly hard at her job.

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

Oh, into her 90s.

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

Yeah.

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

And she never retired.

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

Like, she was going hard in her entire life.

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

Yeah.

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

With no- Like, my grandparents retired shortly- Well, my grandfather, when he was an engineer, retired- I remember maybe a few times picking him up from the station after work when I was a tiny kid with my grandmother.

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

And then after that, he was retired.

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

So, for my entire life- And he's about the queen's age, maybe a few years younger.

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

He's been retired and she was still obviously smashing out work and showing up and travelling.

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

And yeah, I can't imagine being-

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

The younger you are, the more I feel like you wish you were like a prince or why wasn't I born into a family that was rich and famous and blah, blah, blah.

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

Rich and famous is one thing.

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

And the older you get, you're kind of like, fuck that.