PJ Vogt

So it's not like this is the leg machine from like King whatever the fourth and it was liberated in this war.

It's like that part of the palace...

breaks the rules of everything is Buckingham Palace in Buckingham Palace.

Yes.

Our research found that apparently, in 1970, Buckingham Palace was registered as a grade one building, a designation meant to preserve buildings of, quote, exceptional architectural, historical, or national significance.

The provision would, among other things, prevent some future mad king from tearing out Buckingham's Corinthian columns to make room for a jacuzzi or a nice flat screen.

Everything had to be kept more or less as it was.

including the swimming pool, which was not very old or beautiful.

After the Nazis bombed it, it had been rebuilt sometime in the 1950s.

And in 1970, when the grade one listing was issued, it froze in time an unremarkable municipal swimming pool with an attached gym.

Like, if you wanted to fancy gym, I'd go down to the Equinox or something.

Yeah, we have Equinox here.

Yeah, if you wanted a fancy gym, go there.

It's so funny, my friend who's so curious about this pool, he has a pool in his apartment building, which I've seen.

His pool's probably better than the Buckingham Palace pool.

Is it New York, right?

Yeah, New York, like a nice New York apartment building.

Yeah, New York, he's probably got a nicer pool than the Buckingham Palace pool, yeah.

The invisible wall had fallen.

We could finally see what was on the other side.