Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
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The quintessential toddler query, what's that? The more sophisticated how and when questions, those developmentally arrive around three. And then between three and five, the deluge, the constant questions, the why questions. Why is salami so hard to stop eating? Why do people lie? If you can think back, you can probably remember this age, when your parents were like perfect search engines, capable of handling almost anything you threw at them. And you also might remember the few times they'd refuse. When you'd ask some question whose answer they weren't quite ready to share, and you'd get an, it's complicated, or maybe a, when you're older. I can remember, I swear, decades later, the frustration of that strange, invisible wall. In fact, I was reminded of that wall quite recently. A listener had a question about something that felt honestly very basic, very answerable, but it just wasn't. It was an unpatchable hole in my understanding of the world.
And the more we tried to answer it, the less it seemed like a fun lark, and the more it made me want to howl with rage. Made, actually, the entire staff here howl with rage. Why couldn't we know this? Why was it being kept from us? Check, check, check. It started in a stylishly appointed one-bedroom apartment not far from my house.
Hi. Hey, how's it going? How's it going? Welcome.
The listener whose home we just entered, his name was Chris. Chris sends me a lot of questions. They tend to be especially good. And the question he had this time was about the British royal family. Well, sort of.
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