Part Two: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
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What are the origins of Versailles' culture?
Ah, we're back, and, you know, we're talking about Versailles, me and my friend Ed, Edward Zitron. I've never called you Edward, it feels wrong.
It's mostly what my mother calls me when I've done something. Edward? Like... Edward Benjamin Zitron. That's when I know I'm in real trouble.
Edward Benjamin Zitron.
Wow. Yeah, that's when I'm about to really get yelled at.
Yeah, I feel like I need to punish you for something just hearing that. Yeah, that's exactly it. It's the punishment phrase. So, Ed... Of Better Offline, we're talking about Versailles and the weird culture of oligarchy. Well, it wasn't. I mean, it's an aristocracy, but whatever. We're talking about this weird subculture that Louis XIV created to govern France.
During that break between recording episodes, neither of you peed, right? Because I'm not okay with that.
I pissed on a plant. What are the French going to do to me?
Behead you. Behead you. It's done.
No, lock you in a fortress. Honestly, though, it'd be pretty cool if I just got to live in a fortress forever. I would not mind a nice fortress stay.
But don't pee.
As long as it's like a nice fortress. I drink so many Diet Cokes, I would be beheaded. Yeah, you would not have lasted a minute in Versailles. Me, I'm great at holding my pee. I'd have been the fucking king's best friend. We'd have gotten wasted together.
Fort Knox of piss.
We'd have been gambling. It is funny to me that like all of these royals. Gambling as well. Every night, gambling constantly, losing and making fortunes. Like while the country, a big part of like why people get increasingly angry in the period from here up to 1789 when the revolution happens is is like every day in these like newspapers that are getting smuggled into France and, you know, these other different like kind of news delivering methods. We'll talk about that whole news ecosystem in Paris in a little bit. But every day people are reading stories about like who lost how much money in Versailles. So they're like, oh, the price of bread just tripled. My family's going to starve and die. And the Duke d'Orléans gambled away 700,000 livres. Yeah. like just burnt it for nothing. Kind of pissed about that. Yeah. Or not as the case may be. Yeah, right. I would dare not be pissed about it in front of the king.
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