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Mikey
There was a man named Willow.

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Rey
Oh, geez. Let's put a little visor on me, and I'm going to. I want this Michael real wet. Real wet.

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Rey
I wouldn't need a ton of Auto-Tune.

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Mikey
Are we ready to go here?

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Mikey
Welcome to what?

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Mikey
And are we supposed to say who we are? Is that what people do on podcasts?

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Rey
Sometimes they say who they are for that. Sometimes you know who you're listening to, right?

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Mikey
Nobody knows us.

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Rey
Nobody knows us. So I guess we have to figure out, do we want people to know us? We'll figure that out. You know, all it's going to it's the first episode. Are we allowed to say it's the first episode? I think.

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Mikey
You're. Yeah.

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Rey
Yeah. How about the year?

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Mikey
Why? Why wouldn't you be?

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Rey
We don't know if we're going to release this as a prequel or.

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Mikey
Mm hmm.

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Mikey
So what are we doing here?

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Rey
Oh, we're going to. We're going to check out the. The work of William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

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Mikey
And what do you know about that? So what's your experience with Hamlet?

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Rey
Hamlet? I think I ran to Hamlet my sophomore year in high school, but it was when it was after I got asked to leave the Catholic school I was in and then I was put into public school. So I think they threw me in in the middle of Hamlet, and I don't remember much about it, but I saw the Mel Gibson version.

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Rey
Mm hmm. Which I don't really remember either. And I was in this the castle that that was filmed in.

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Mikey
Yeah, well, where was that?

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Rey
It was somewhere in London on a trip that I went on, because my parents had paid for me to go on this trip to England. And then I was asked to leave the school. But they already paid for the trip. Mm hmm. So I got to go on the trip. Not as a student, and I got to be a complete asshole because nobody could tell me shit.

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Rey
Mm hmm. And, yeah, we were in that. We were in that castle. And I think we. How long ago is that? It's past the statute of limitations, right?

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Mikey
Yes. Yeah, probably. I mean, depends on the crime.

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Rey
I think it's an international crime, probably. Yeah.

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Mikey
And international law and maritime law.

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Rey
Maritime law? Yeah.

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Mikey
What do you do in the castle?

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Rey
We just smoked some weed in the basement.

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Mikey
Okay, so that's. That's what I'm working with here. That you smoked weed in the basement of the castle where the Mel Gibson version of Hamlet was filmed?

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Rey
Yep.

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Mikey
And you've never read the play?

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Rey
I never. I know.

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Mikey
No. What do you know about it? Do you know what the. You know where it takes place?

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Rey
No.

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Mikey
Denmark.

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Rey
Denmark. Now, here's the thing is it's Denmark. Not. It's not Denmark.

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Mikey
No, it's not. It's definitely not.

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Rey
Because I think I had a wallet that my mom got from Denmark and the what is a leather wallet and it says Denmark on it. And she got that from Denmark. Denmark.

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Mikey
Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if anybody calls it Denmark. We're going to have to look that up. But, you know, we could use the term Denmark.

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Rey
Denmark sounds better.

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Mikey
Because actually, like Shakespeare's play takes place in Denmark, supposedly, but it's it's historical. Right. Shakespeare wrote the play in 1600, but it's supposed to take place in this historical version of Denmark that never really existed. Right. There was never really a character named Hamlet. There was an old Danish legend about a guy. Hamlet.

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Rey
What's that? Hamlet.

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Mikey
Hamlet.

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Rey
Hamlet.

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Mikey
Hamlet. In Denmark.

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Rey
In Denmark.

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Mikey
They called their dude. Unless there is an old, I think, Danish sort of oral myth that maybe we'll talk about in a future episode.

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Rey
Hamlet.

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Mikey
But there was a story about a guy named unless Hamlet H And so Shakespeare kind of picked up some elements of this story, and he wrote his own play. So it takes place in a fictional version of Denmark that we will call Denmark. Denmark for now. Yeah, because it never really actually existed. And there isn't really a precise date when the play is supposed to take place.

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Mikey
It's supposed to take place, you know, in Shakespeare's sort of presentation. It takes place in olden times.

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Rey
Are there any mermaids in the play? No, because I know people in Denmark love mermaids. Do they? Yeah.

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Mikey
I didn't know that about.

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Rey
Yeah. Danes. Two things that my mom brought home from there was a little sculpture of of a topless kind of mermaid situation. And then also the wallet. Yeah.

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Mikey
Well, that also proves that people in Denmark like breasts.

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Rey
Yeah, but they're not into likes.

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Mikey
No, not.

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Mikey
Not.

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Mikey
Not as men, obviously.

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Rey
And then more into scales.

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Mikey
More into.

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Mikey
Scales and tip.

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Rey
Like scales. Nice scales on a woman and a tail that we call a fish.

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Mikey
Tails has a tail.

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Mikey
I read Hamlet a couple of times because I taught it for a number of years in college courses. I taught it to college freshmen and you know, it was never my favorite play. When I first read Hamlet, I first read it in college, and the play didn't make a lot of sense to me. I understand now why it didn't make a lot of sense to me, but it didn't make a lot of sense to me because the character doesn't make any sense.

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Mikey
The character of Hamlet seems like five different characters, like depending on what Senior in Hamlet has wildly different modes of behavior. And when I first read Hamlet, I was like, This play kind of doesn't make sense. And as I kept reading it and reading it, I started to really see a bigger sense to the play. It's one of those pieces of art that I think if you hear someone describe a piece of art like it contains the whole world.

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Rey
Yeah.

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Mikey
That's something I've heard people say about, like, a really good novel. Like, contains the world. Like, Hamlet kind of touches on everything. Familial love, betrayal, revenge, depression, you know?

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Rey
No mermaids, no mermaid.

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Mikey
Okay, you're right. It doesn't cover mermaids. But here's what I think anyone can find interesting about Hamlet. And listen to this, because this I don't think this is an exaggeration. And Hamlet is probably, apart from religious texts, the most influential work of literature that was ever written. And if that sounds like a big claim, it's at least on the short list.

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Mikey
Right. It's been translated into almost every language. It's been performed around the world for 400 years because Hamlet was first performed around like 1600 for 400 years. People have liked this play, which is kind of amazing when you think about it. It's not something that went away and was rediscovered. Ever since Hamlet was first made, it has been performed and been a living work of art for 400 years.

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Rey
It's a hit.

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Mikey
It's a hit. It's the biggest hit ever.

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Rey
Really.

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Mikey
One of the things I tell my students sometimes about Hamlet is that, you know, you go to the movies and every time you go to the movies, every couple of months, it's all new movies, right?

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Mikey
Uh huh.

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Mikey
Imagine if every time you went to the movies there was one movie, let's say Die Hard. Yeah, that was always there. Like, your choices were always the six newest movies. Or you could see Die Hard Die Hards always in the movie theater.

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Rey
But it's always the same Die Hard or it's new, new production. A Die Hard.

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Mikey
Oh, well, good question. There's been many, many different productions of Hamlet here. You know, over the years, people have staged Hamlet in wildly different ways, but it's always on the menu. Hamlet is that's kind of just my point is that Hamlet has been performed for 400 years, which makes it pretty much one of the biggest hits of storytelling that humanity has produced.

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Rey
Right. Did this pop off as soon like he made Hamlet and as just boom, it's a fucking hit, like and and that's it. Or did he, like, die, like poor and lonely? And then everybody was like, this is the best shit, you know, homeboy died and like, did you ever check out this thing? He did.

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Mikey
Shakespeare was pretty popular in his time, his playwriting company or his theater company, rather, which he owned a theater. He wrote the plays and he had a staff of actors. He was one of the owners of many, and they were called the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Later, they were called the King's Men because they got a commission by the king.

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Mikey
You know, the king sort of put his stamp of approval on them. And so they became the king's men. And so they owned this place called the Globe Theater. And it was Hamlet, when it was first produced, was a popular play. That's kind of there's something really interesting about how audiences have seen Hamlet, because people have seen different things in Hamlet over the years that are really, really interesting, like when it first came out, the first thing that made the play pop off was its description of mental illness.

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Mikey
Right. It was really, really out of the ordinary to have a main character in a play in 1600 and have a main character in a play who was mad. It was like, wow, what gritty psychological realism. There's a crazy guy in this play. So. So the fact that really turned on audiences because they hadn't seen plays this place that a crazy guy in it we kind of take it for granted.

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Mikey
But disturbed psychology was not something that theater really dealt with very much.

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Rey
And crazy.

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Mikey
Early critics liked its portrayal of madness. And after Hamlet, there was a lot of copycats. There were a lot of mad characters in drama around that time, sort of taking a piece from Hamlet after that, like in the late 17th century, critics started to see Hamlet as lacking unity. Like, it's gone through different critical appraisals. There was a period in the late 17th century where critics thought it didn't have unity, meaning it doesn't really make sense.

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Mikey
Remember when I was telling you that's kind of how it appeared to me when I first read it.

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Mikey
And.

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Mikey
Critics. I was at the level of critics in the late 17th century who were saying, well, the pieces don't fit. Then things kept changing even again. By the 18th century, critics saw Hamlet as a hero. He was just this brilliant guy who was cast into terrible circumstances. Then, in the mid-18th century, people started talking about psychological aspects, mystical aspects of the play.

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Mikey
They started really liking the idea that there was a ghost in it.

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Rey
No ghosts. It's like they had ghosts before, right? Yes.

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Mikey
Yeah, ghosts of ghosts have been around for as long as people have been dying, right?

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Rey
Yeah, but the Met but mad people. That was new.

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Mikey
Shakespeare was portraying madness in a new way. And that's been a big question over the years for viewers. Is Hamlet mad? Is he crazy? It's sort of a puzzle that the play presents to us because there's this character in the play who everybody in the play, as you're going to see, thinks he's crazy and he does some things that are kind of crazy, but you have this unparalleled access to his mind.

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Mikey
So it's going to be up to you as you learn about the play, try to figure it out. Do you think Hamlet's actually crazy.

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Rey
Or is he just. Is he faking it or is he just the douchebag?

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Mikey
Yeah. Or is he an asshole?

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Rey
Is Hamlet an asshole? Mark that down.

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Rey
Oh, man. I might have to start calling him gangs.

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Mikey
Yeah. You know, change this nickname.

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Rey
Yeah, I like Gandhi. All right, let's go.

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Mikey
Okay, before we go forward, I should mention that there are three different texts of this play called The First Quarto. The Second Quarto and the first Folio are the two courthouse were texts of the play that were put together during Shakespeare's life. The first Quarto. A lot of people call it the Bad Quarto because the language is really different and it's a lot shorter.

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Mikey
The second Quarto is the longest version, and the first Folio version was a version put together after Shakespeare died. That's probably the most well known. We're using the second Quarto text in the second Norton Critical Edition, which is edited by Robert Meola. If anybody wants to follow along at home and we're currently starting Act One, Scene One, which takes place at Elsinore Castle in Denmark or Denmark.

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Rey
Denmark, you'll.

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Mikey
Get a castle in Denmark. It's at midnight specifies and two guys come in. Bernardo and Francisco. I was thinking about this this morning. I think this is the only time Francisco's in the play. I think it's like a useless part. Like, I don't know why he comes on. He says Hi to Bernardo. Then Banana's like, okay, see you later.

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Mikey
And then he leaves. So we don't even need to worry about Francisco.

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Rey
That's it for Francisco. Yeah.

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Mikey
He's Francisco out. He doesn't even have any lines worth reading.

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Rey
He was just warming up. This is just, you know.

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Mikey
Bernardo was like his replacement or something. He's going home and Bernardo and he's like, Oh, great, Bernardo, you're here. See you.

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Rey
Later. Does he tie into another story maybe? No.

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Mikey
You mean like a different play?

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Rey
Yeah.

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Mikey
Like the. Like the Shakespearean universe?

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Rey
Yes. Be again for Bernardo.

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Mikey
Bernardo. No. You combine him, Francisco and Bernardo. They're both those.

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Rey
Yeah. It's like Francisco. Othello. Yeah. Oh, shit.

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Mikey
It's like a tomato sauce. Francisco, Bernardo.

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Rey
And you figure out that that's the.

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Mikey
Dude Italian herb.

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Rey
From the top of of Hamlet. And he's got his own spinoff. It's like The Jeffersons. Mm hmm. Wonderful.

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Mikey
So Francisco and Bernardo come in. Francisco says, okay, I'm going home. He leaves, and then Horacio and Marsellus come in, too. So you've got three guys actually there. You got Bernardo, Horacio and Marcellus. That's where they are. They all holla. They all say hello to each other and then we figure out like what they're doing there. QURESHI Is the guy who doesn't really belong here.

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Mikey
Horacio is a guy you're going to know a lot about. So this is I think he's one of the most important characters in the play right there. Marcellus is saying they saw a ghost and they brought it there. Right. Okay. Okay. So it's very simple. They saw a ghost and they brought Horatio to see the ghost because he says it's bullshit.

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Mikey
And they're like, Now, Horatio, come up on the wall, you're going to see that we.

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Rey
Trust Horatio because yeah, he's cool as shit.

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Mikey
So the ghost, after they have this conversation, the ghost comes into like the ghost comes on and they're standing there and they're like, Oh shit, the ghost and Bernardo says in the same figure, like, the king, that's dead. So the ghost looks like the king. And Marcellus says there are two scholars speak to it ratio. So ratios of scholars like ratio talk the fucking go.

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Rey
He's a ghost scholar.

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Mikey
Yeah. They just think Horatio knows a lot of shit. So he should be the.

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Rey
One who talks you. No. Come on. Yeah. So, guy.

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Mikey
Curious. You ask the ghost to talk to him. The ghost gets pissed off, Marcellus goes, it is offended. And then the ghost leads.

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Rey
So wait a minute. Everybody likes Horatio. But this ghosts.

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Mikey
Yeah, the ghost just left.

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Rey
That's not a good sign. The ratio.

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Mikey
Well, the ghost looks like the king. And like Marcellus, even they're all like. They have a little after conversation. Marcellus goes like, is it not like the king? And her issue goes, as thou art to thyself. Such was the very armor he had on when the ambitious Norway combated so frowned he once, when in an angry parle he smote the sled.

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Mikey
It Polacks on the ice. Well, so.

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Rey
Shots fired at.

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Mikey
Poland? Yeah. Wow. Like the heat. Basically the ghost that they saw had the same facial expression as the king did when he killed a bunch of Polish people. He had, like, a particular frown on his face as he murdered. And I think Shakespeare thinks Polish people travel on sleds is the implication. They sled around.

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Mikey
What? I don't know.

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Mikey
I don't know where that comes right.

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Mikey
I guess it's a little.

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Mikey
North.

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Rey
Raised like the Baltics. Okay. Okay. So as you think Shakespeare's been in Poland by this point in his life, you know, any anything about this?

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Mikey
I don't think so.

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Rey
He's just full and this together.

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Mikey
Yeah, I think he's like, yes, those people, they're on sleds, you know, their concept of like historical accuracy was different. Yeah. We talked a little bit about this last time like this. None of this happened. These are real people from history, but it's supposed to be like a Danish king. Polish people go on sleds.

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Rey
They're always on sleds. I swear to God. You know, if you're in Poland on a sled right now, please write us.

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Mikey
Yeah, send us a selfie.

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Mikey
Send us photos of people in Poland on sleds.

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Mikey
Oh, man, that's fun.

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Mikey
So these guys, after they finish talking about that, these guys sit down and they're just processing what happened and kind of talk. And Krysia says or sorry, Marcelo says this twice before and jump at this that our with marshal stock have he gone by our watch so we've seen this ghost two times Horatio says in what particular thought to work?

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Mikey
I know not. But in the growth and scope of mine opinion, this bodes some strange eruption to our state. So Horatio's opinion on the whole thing is if there's a ghost, there's some big shit going on. Ghosts don't come out, you know, in regular times there's going to be some kind of big political thing or, you know.

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Rey
He's seen it.

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Mikey
You know, he's seen it as an omen, basically. So Marcellus, he's got this question. This is kind of a long quote from Marcellus and a longer quote from Horatio. But this is we get into like solid plot right here. This is really important stuff for this subplot that were hardly going to talk about to the end of the play.

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Mikey
But Marcellus says, good, now sit down and tell me he that knows why this same strict and most observant watch so nightly toils the subject of the land. So why are we out here guarding? We're the watch. What are we doing up here? And then he says, And why such daily cost of brazen cannon and Foreign Mart for implements of war?

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Mikey
Right. So why are the bomb factories just running? You know, we're making all sorts of cannons and stuff. What's going.

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Rey
On? All that. That shit. They pour over the wall. They pour that shit over the wall.

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Mikey
You talking about, like, burning oil, Jerry?

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Rey
Just for this is like they put a poor burning oil on on the people going up to the wall and then what he got after that. You've used all of your arrows at that point.

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Mikey
Mm hmm.

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Mikey
Are we talking about, like, castle impregnation? Yes. Strategy? Yeah. So which side am I?

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Rey
You're on top of the.

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Mikey
Wall, so. And I just dumped the oil on them.

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Rey
Yeah, because I'm imagining by this point, you've already shot all your arrows and shit and taken out those people, and now you're dealing with the people they're about to put on the ladders. You burn those motherfuckers with the oil.

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Mikey
Yeah, okay. Yeah. The oil you set, you hold the oil back. And so you're like, now they're getting here.

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Rey
Are boom.

00:21:03:17 - 00:21:04:06
Mikey
Reset.

00:21:04:06 - 00:21:05:16
Rey
Them. Yeah, they are close.

00:21:07:08 - 00:21:08:14
Mikey
I think so the town strategy.

00:21:08:15 - 00:21:10:23
Rey
That's what's going on in the factories.

00:21:12:10 - 00:21:13:00
Mikey
I got I.

00:21:13:00 - 00:21:18:09
Mikey
Lost. Yeah. Basically, you know. So you're saying are they making the burning oil?

00:21:18:09 - 00:21:20:01
Rey
Yeah, they're talking about the factories or.

00:21:20:01 - 00:21:21:16
Mikey
They're making their crossbows.

00:21:21:16 - 00:21:21:22
Rey
All right.

00:21:22:05 - 00:21:34:03
Mikey
Right. I don't know what fucking weapon. It just says they're making weapons of war. I don't know what they made in Denmark, but they're fighting people on sleds usually. So I'm guessing it would be they're making some arrows and cannons.

00:21:34:09 - 00:21:36:04
Rey
They're preparing for a sled warfare, maybe.

00:21:36:04 - 00:21:37:21
Mikey
A couple Molotov cocktails.

00:21:38:02 - 00:21:43:17
Mikey
Right. Sorry. They I.

00:21:44:11 - 00:21:45:08
Mikey
Don't know exactly what they're.

00:21:45:08 - 00:21:45:16
Mikey
Making.

00:21:46:16 - 00:21:56:09
Mikey
They're making ships, he says. Why such impressive shipwrights you saw task does not divide the sun from the week, so the guys who are making boats are working 24 seven.

00:21:56:16 - 00:21:57:00
Rey
Right?

00:21:57:00 - 00:21:58:08
Mikey
They're just turning out boats.

00:21:58:09 - 00:21:58:19
Rey
Yeah.

00:21:59:08 - 00:22:28:01
Mikey
So he wants to know what's the deal? Why are we up here on the wall? We just saw ghost ratio says this ghost. It's probably bad news and Horatio knows the answer. Horatio's going to tell us what the you know, what the deal is here with you. At least the whisperer ghost. So our last king, whose image even now even put now appear to us, was, as you know, by Fort Ambrose of Norway.

00:22:28:14 - 00:22:49:05
Mikey
There too pricked on by a most amulet pride. He dared to the combat in which our valiant hamlet four so this side of our known world, esteemed him, did slay this fort. And Braz, who by a sealed compact, well ratified by law and heraldry, did forfeit with his life all these his lands which he stood seized up to the conqueror.

00:22:50:09 - 00:22:51:00
Mikey
Let me explain that.

00:22:51:11 - 00:22:52:14
Rey
Horatio said that.

00:22:52:14 - 00:22:58:10
Mikey
Ratio's at that. That's so our last. KING So the guy whose ghost they just saw.

00:22:58:10 - 00:22:58:17
Rey
Right.

00:22:59:00 - 00:23:03:05
Mikey
Was challenged by this guy, fought Ambrose of Norway, a king of Norway to combat.

00:23:03:18 - 00:23:04:20
Rey
Challenged by Norway.

00:23:04:21 - 00:23:20:01
Mikey
Right by Norway. And now this last king, to make things even more complicated, not only do we refer to the king as Denmark, we also refer to the king by his name, which happens to also be Hamlet. This is Hamlet's dad. This is not the hamlet the play is about.

00:23:20:04 - 00:23:22:02
Rey
Okay, this is Denmark.

00:23:22:02 - 00:23:33:13
Mikey
Denmark, right? The buried Denmark. The ghost is called Denmark and he's called the previous king. And he's also called our valiant Hamlet, because that was his name.

00:23:34:19 - 00:23:36:05
Rey
Denmark over here.

00:23:36:15 - 00:24:01:10
Mikey
Basically, the plot is Hamlet's dad, Hamlet and Fort and Broz of Norway had a duel. They fought in single combat and the loser had to give up a bunch of lands. So Hamlet's dad killed this guy, fought and bros. Now, this is going to be important because there's the major theme of this play is the death of fathers.

00:24:01:19 - 00:24:06:02
Mikey
Hmm. Right. When your dad dies, what does that put on you?

00:24:06:14 - 00:24:07:06
Rey
Right. Right.

00:24:07:06 - 00:24:10:16
Mikey
What do you inherit when injustice happened to your father?

00:24:10:16 - 00:24:11:10
Rey
Right.

00:24:11:10 - 00:24:17:07
Mikey
So Hamlet killed 14 brothers. Old Hamlet, the dead king.

00:24:18:03 - 00:24:18:18
Rey
Norway.

00:24:19:03 - 00:24:21:02
Mikey
Norway, correct. And now.

00:24:21:02 - 00:24:21:16
Rey
Norway.

00:24:22:04 - 00:24:26:22
Mikey
Horatio goes on, he says, Now, sir, young Fortenberry brass. Now we're talking about Norway's son.

00:24:27:00 - 00:24:27:20
Rey
Oh, jeez. Yeah.

00:24:27:20 - 00:24:34:14
Mikey
How confusing is this? You've got to Fort Ambrose's and two. Hamlet's an old one and a young one.

00:24:35:07 - 00:24:36:09
Rey
That sounds like a party, right?

00:24:36:09 - 00:24:54:17
Mikey
Yeah. So old Hamlet killed old Fort Ambrose. Now young Fort Ambrose, he says of unimproved metal, hot and full hat in the skirts of Norway. Here in there marked up a list of lawless resoluteness for food and diet to some enterprise that had the stomach in it.

00:24:55:09 - 00:24:56:01
Rey
Now lost.

00:24:56:06 - 00:25:20:10
Mikey
Okay, he says. Young fort and brass of unimproved metal, hot and full. So he's young. He's full of piss and vinegar of unimproved. He's hot and full. Great. He's ready to go hat in the skirts of Norway here and there, shacked up a list of lawless resoluteness. So a lawless, resolute are people that he's gathering. He's getting some like mercenaries, some some down and dirty dudes.

00:25:20:14 - 00:25:21:13
Mikey
They're lawless.

00:25:21:16 - 00:25:24:18
Rey
Some are Steven Seagal types. Yeah. Great.

00:25:25:02 - 00:26:03:12
Mikey
Yeah. So he's getting basically a he's barking up a list. He's getting basically a mercenary army and it says for food and he's checking them up for food and diet. Right. That's what he's paying them. He's just got to feed them and they're going with them to some enterprise guys that have a stomach in it. So young Fort and Barras, whose dad was killed is getting an army of and then he explains what they're probably doing, which is no other as it doth well appear onto our state, but to recover of us by strong hand and terms compulsory those for said lands so by his father lost so young Fort Ambrose.

00:26:03:13 - 00:26:09:17
Mikey
This is that theme of the death of fathers young fort and Bryce has to come back and get the lands that his dad lost.

00:26:09:17 - 00:26:10:01
Rey
All right.

00:26:10:16 - 00:26:19:10
Mikey
Old Fort Ambrose was killed by old Hamlet. Old Hamlet won a bunch of lands. And now young Fort Brass is getting up this like mercenary army.

00:26:20:01 - 00:26:27:13
Rey
This is an Inigo Montoya style situation. Yes. Yeah. You killed my father. Prepared to die.

00:26:27:16 - 00:26:40:03
Mikey
This whole play is an Inigo Montoya situation. You're going to find there's multiple characters in this play whose father was killed. And the play is about what you do when somebody kills your dad.

00:26:40:08 - 00:26:46:07
Rey
So this is this is why this is why Mel Gibson is obsessed with this type of thing. He's a revenge guy.

00:26:46:18 - 00:26:50:05
Mikey
It's a revenge plot. Yeah. This is the original John Wick.

00:26:50:18 - 00:26:52:07
Rey
Yeah, this is. Yeah.

00:26:52:19 - 00:27:00:02
Mikey
And not only is this revenge, imagine if you had a John Wick where you had three different characters in the same story trying to get revenge.

00:27:00:15 - 00:27:06:10
Rey
Oh, wow. So this is intergenerational revenge.

00:27:06:11 - 00:27:29:18
Mikey
Yes. Wow. So intergenerational revenge is going to be a big theme here. You just got the lay of the land and then you're sitting watching a play and the armored ghost kind of walks back onto the stage and Horatio says, Stay illusion. And I love this. Horatio asks the ghost three questions that prove to me that the rules of ghosts have not changed since 1600.

00:27:29:20 - 00:27:44:14
Mikey
Okay, so he says stay illusion if that has any sound or use of voice, speak to me. This is around line 130. And then here's his questions for it. He says, if there be any good thing to be done, that of the do ease and grace to me, speak to me.

00:27:45:08 - 00:27:48:11
Rey
Do you have any is there any bets? Can you help me with bets?

00:27:48:16 - 00:27:51:03
Mikey
Not yet. We're not where he's going to ask about bets, but you.

00:27:51:03 - 00:27:52:22
Rey
Know who's going to win the super Bowl kind of thing.

00:27:53:04 - 00:28:11:08
Mikey
That's the next one. Okay. He says if they are privy to their country's fate, which happily for knowing may avoid speak. So if you know the future. Yeah, tell me this first one where he says if there be any good thing to be done that mater the do ease and grace to me he's asking like, do we need to bury your body right?

00:28:11:08 - 00:28:16:05
Mikey
Do you like them? Why are you walking? You know that old rule that like, if there's a ghost, there's some unfinished business.

00:28:16:05 - 00:28:20:11
Rey
Yeah, you're. You're uneasy. And that's why you're not moving on to the next level.

00:28:20:17 - 00:28:35:08
Mikey
Yeah. So he's like, what can. What can I do for you? It's going to be grace on me. It's a good deed, and it's going to help give you ease. Can I help you? Go lie in your grave like you're supposed to. Okay, then the second thing, if you're privy to that country's fate, which happily for knowing may avoid.

00:28:35:08 - 00:28:57:14
Mikey
Oh, speak. Right. So, do you know the future? Yeah, good question. And here's my favorite. So the Rules of Ghost. So far they're walking because there's something undone, right? They might know the future. They're beyond life. Right. And our third thing, or if thou hast supported in thy life, extorted treasure in the womb of earth, for which they say your spirits off the walking dead.

00:28:58:04 - 00:29:00:17
Mikey
Speak of it right. Do you have any buried treasure?

00:29:00:17 - 00:29:09:09
Rey
Yeah, I'm trying. Yeah, I'd like to put some money down on something. Yeah. Do you know the future? And do you happen to have that money? But I can put down.

00:29:09:22 - 00:29:13:03
Mikey
On on that bet. Yeah. Yeah. Can you, can you, do you want.

00:29:13:03 - 00:29:13:13
Mikey
To back.

00:29:13:13 - 00:29:17:01
Mikey
Me on this play. This is interesting. Yeah.

00:29:17:01 - 00:29:21:08
Mikey
So he wants buried treasure, knowledge of the future, and you'll help you out.

00:29:21:10 - 00:29:21:17
Mikey
Yeah.

00:29:22:14 - 00:29:45:02
Mikey
Horatio is no dummy. But then what happens is the cock crows cock a doodle do, and Marcellus and Bernardo are like, Stop it. The ghost starts to leave, and they try to strike it right? And it just goes away and this is pretty much the end of Act One, scene one at the very end. You know, they talk a little bit about what had happened to them.

00:29:45:02 - 00:30:11:16
Mikey
And at the very end, Horatio suggests, he says, break, we are watch up. And by my advice, let us impart what we have seen tonight onto young Hamlet for upon my life. That's the spirit dumb to us will speak to him. Right. That's line 171. So Horatio is saying, okay, we have to tell young Hamlet that his dad is walking around on the guard tower at night, and I bet this ghost will talk to its son.

00:30:12:08 - 00:30:20:22
Mikey
Right? Right. So we've got to get his son here to find out what the ghost wants and then exhumed. Everybody leaves the stage scene one over. That's our setup.

00:30:20:22 - 00:30:23:10
Rey
All right. And we take a little break for commercial.

00:30:52:16 - 00:30:53:15
Mikey
And we're back.

00:30:55:05 - 00:30:56:18
Rey
So where we're we had this thing.

00:30:56:22 - 00:31:22:17
Mikey
So we're we're jumping in now act one, scene two, we're inside the castle. So that was we opened up up on the guard tower. And we've got a bunch of characters coming in. Now, the only really important character from that first scene is Horatio. Fuck Bernardo and Marcello, San Francisco, totally minor characters. Horatio's going to be important. So now, though, we're going to get a whole bunch of important characters at once.

00:31:23:02 - 00:31:31:06
Mikey
Hold on. All right, everybody walks in. You're looking at basically a king holding court. So you have Claudius. He's the king of Denmark.

00:31:31:13 - 00:31:31:21
Mikey
Mm hmm.

00:31:32:13 - 00:31:37:11
Mikey
He also is Hamlet's uncle. Okay, because Hamlet's dad is dead.

00:31:38:00 - 00:31:41:22
Rey
All right? That's that's like junior soprano, right?

00:31:42:14 - 00:31:44:17
Mikey
Then you have Gertrude, Hamlet's mom.

00:31:45:12 - 00:31:45:21
Rey
Okay?

00:31:46:04 - 00:31:59:10
Mikey
She's the queen now, Hamlet's uncle and Hamlet's mom. We're going to learn in this first little bit of of dialog are now married his mom married his uncle right after his dad died.

00:32:00:19 - 00:32:03:20
Rey
Wow. So how soon are they saying how soon we're.

00:32:03:20 - 00:32:07:16
Mikey
Going to get to that? Okay. And I think Hamlet says they married about a month after his dad.

00:32:07:19 - 00:32:09:09
Rey
Oh, jeez. Yeah. Oh.

00:32:09:16 - 00:32:10:23
Mikey
And Hamlet is pissed off about it.

00:32:11:05 - 00:32:15:09
Rey
Yeah. Because then you got questions you like. Was this going on earlier? Like, what's going on here? Come on.

00:32:15:10 - 00:32:31:03
Mikey
That's a good question. I've wondered about that myself a lot. When I read the play. I don't think the play gives us an answer. But were Gertrude and Claudius kind of getting cozy before Old King Hamlet died? We don't know.

00:32:31:09 - 00:32:31:22
Rey
You know. No.

00:32:32:11 - 00:32:44:12
Mikey
We also have an important three characters. We have Polonius. Polonius is like a court counselor, right? He's a government man. Think of him as a senator. He's fucking Rand Paul or something.

00:32:44:13 - 00:32:45:22
Mikey
Rand. He's just.

00:32:46:09 - 00:32:47:09
Mikey
He's sitting there.

00:32:47:09 - 00:32:51:20
Rey
Polonius, Polonius and Polonius.

00:32:51:20 - 00:32:58:23
Mikey
Great. Polonius is like a government official. All right? And we got with him his son Laertes.

00:33:00:10 - 00:33:04:00
Rey
And wait a minute. Rand Paul is the son of Ron Paul.

00:33:05:01 - 00:33:05:17
Mikey
Yeah.

00:33:05:18 - 00:33:06:05
Rey
Okay. Okay.

00:33:06:05 - 00:33:06:17
Mikey
Yeah, I believe.

00:33:06:19 - 00:33:08:00
Rey
They're just trying to do that.

00:33:08:07 - 00:33:16:21
Mikey
So so actually then Polonius is too if we want to make this right, Polonius should be Ron Paul, right, and Laertes should be Rand Paul.

00:33:16:21 - 00:33:17:09
Rey
Okay.

00:33:18:08 - 00:33:34:05
Mikey
So but we've got Polonius, he's a government counselor, we've got Laertes, who is his son. We have Hamlet now, our main character. He's standing there. He's in the back. I want you to know he's dressed all in black, okay? And he looks really pissed off and sad.

00:33:34:14 - 00:33:43:19
Rey
Oh, I'm sorry. So. So you got Ron and Rand, you got Mom, and there you got Hamlet. He's dressed up and he's goth out.

00:33:43:20 - 00:33:44:18
Mikey
Yeah, he's very goth.

00:33:44:21 - 00:33:45:06
Mikey
Who?

00:33:46:08 - 00:34:01:06
Mikey
You're going to see how I got that out in a second. So wonderful. So at the very beginning of Act One, scene two. So the king is going to give us a little bit of a rundown of the situation I just told you about. He says, though, yet of Hamlet, our dear brother's death, the memory be green, right?

00:34:01:06 - 00:34:24:23
Mikey
So his green memory, he just died and that it us befitted to bare our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow of woe, yet so far have discretion fought with nature that we with wisest sorrow, think on him to together with remembrance of ourselves. So we're not only thinking of our dead brother, we're thinking of ourselves too.

00:34:25:08 - 00:34:53:03
Mikey
Because he then says, therefore our sometimes now our queen, the imperial joint trips to this war like state have we, as it were, with the defeated joy, with an auspicious and a dropping I with mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, in equal scale weighing delight and dole taken to wife. So when he says with mirth and funeral and with dirge in marriage, he's obviously saying, Well, it's a sad time and it's a happy time.

00:34:53:17 - 00:34:55:15
Mikey
My brother died, but I marry his wife.

00:34:55:17 - 00:35:07:11
Rey
Hey, everybody's getting together. Any any ventures. The term green yearly there. So we've been calling shit that's new green. Yeah. Forever. Yeah. Wonderful.

00:35:07:11 - 00:35:09:12
Mikey
Well, it comes from the natural world, right? Like a plant.

00:35:09:15 - 00:35:10:10
Rey
And.

00:35:10:14 - 00:35:12:05
Mikey
The new green shoots.

00:35:12:08 - 00:35:16:16
Rey
It ain't easy being green, huh? Right. That's great.

00:35:16:22 - 00:35:47:21
Mikey
Yeah. Later on, we're. I think actually, we're going to see I think Polonius later calls his daughter a green girl undefeated in such perilous circumstance. But we'll get to that. He explains the plot a little bit. He says now follows that, you know, young fought and brothers holding a weak supposedly of our worth or thinking by our late dear brother's death, our state to be disjoint and out of frame colleagues with this dream of his advantage, he had not failed to pass through us with the message importing the surrender of those lands lost by his father.

00:35:48:07 - 00:36:05:11
Mikey
Right. So he's just mentioning what we just talked about. Fort Ambrose wants his dad's lands back and he thinks now's the opportunity because the state might be able to join right. Because the king just died. Right now, Claudius is the new kings and now might be the time to strike, basically, he explains, I'm just going to summarize this.

00:36:05:11 - 00:36:28:06
Mikey
This is what Cornelius and Voltage Monitor doing there. He's got a letter and he's going to write to Fort Ambrose's uncle Fernand brothers. Uncle is the one who's actually in charge over in Norway, but he says he's impotent and bedridden. He doesn't even know what his nephew is doing. So he's going to send a letter to Fort Ambrose saying, hey, your nephew is trying to get lands back that we own, right?

00:36:28:06 - 00:36:41:02
Mikey
We got them by, right, right in this duel. What's going on? So Cornelius and Volt, man, get sent away. That's not important. That's kind of a subplot. Second thing. So now remember the King's holding court in a room. He's got a bunch of business to take care of.

00:36:41:03 - 00:36:41:10
Rey
All right.

00:36:42:06 - 00:37:05:18
Mikey
Now we talk to this guy Laertes. Remember, Laertes is Rand Paul. Laertes is Polonius son, right? Claudius says, what? What's thou have, Laertes? And Laertes says, My dread Lord, your leave and favor to return to France, from whence the willingly. I came to Denmark to show my duty in your coronation. Yet now I must confess that that duty done my thoughts and wishes bend again toward France.

00:37:06:05 - 00:37:09:19
Mikey
Laertes wants to go back to school in France. That's where he goes to college.

00:37:09:19 - 00:37:10:04
Rey
All right.

00:37:10:11 - 00:37:15:13
Mikey
He came here just for the the wedding and the funeral and everything.

00:37:15:15 - 00:37:18:17
Rey
A wedding in every way. Okay. Yes, yes, yes.

00:37:19:04 - 00:37:39:18
Mikey
And the king says having your fathers leave. What says Polonius, right? Ask your dad. What's your dad say about it? Polonius says, Yeah, yeah. My son can go back. He twisted my arm. Let's let him go back to France. And now he turns his attention to Hamlet. Here's where it gets interesting, he says. But now my cousin Hamlet and my son, he refers to them right there.

00:37:39:18 - 00:37:47:20
Mikey
He's like my cousin and my son, Hamlet. And this is our first line from Hamlet. And I want to dig into this a little bit.

00:37:48:06 - 00:37:49:15
Rey
My cousin and my son.

00:37:49:15 - 00:38:03:23
Mikey
Yeah, it's a little weird, right? Come on. It's meant to make you a little uncomfortable. I think Hamlet has this line that's traditionally read as an aside, you know, when an side is. Yeah. So he's traditionally just saying this to the audience is like a nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

00:38:04:03 - 00:38:05:13
Rey
Ferris Bueller moment. Right.

00:38:05:23 - 00:38:10:06
Mikey
Hamlet says a little more than kin and less than kind. Mm.

00:38:10:10 - 00:38:10:20
Rey
Dig.

00:38:11:00 - 00:38:31:01
Mikey
Yeah, there's a dig there. This is going to introduce you to how Hamlet talks. Whenever Hamlet speaks, there's a whole bunch of layers of meaning, usually sarcastic and critical in what he's saying. So when he says a little more than kin and less than kind, he's saying, number one, a little more than kin. Right? You used to be my uncle.

00:38:31:01 - 00:38:32:17
Mikey
We were kin. But now you're my dad.

00:38:32:18 - 00:38:33:02
Rey
Yeah.

00:38:33:09 - 00:38:39:09
Mikey
So a little more than kin, but less than kind. That could be. You're not nice. You're not kind.

00:38:39:22 - 00:38:40:13
Rey
Of a douche.

00:38:40:16 - 00:38:45:06
Mikey
It could be less than kind. Meaning you're not the same kind of person as me.

00:38:45:10 - 00:38:45:21
Rey
Oh, well.

00:38:46:12 - 00:38:54:00
Mikey
Right. And also little more than kin. You're the king. But less than kind. You're not the same kind of king as my dad was.

00:38:54:13 - 00:38:54:20
Rey
Right?

00:38:54:23 - 00:38:59:09
Mikey
So there's just these. Every time he talks, there's these layers of meaning.

00:38:59:18 - 00:39:13:21
Rey
Man is killing it, right now. He's killing it. He's got triple entendres, shit going on there. He's like, fucking. I only look at I got nuzzling going on there and maybe Jay-Z thing going on. Yeah that's beautiful.

00:39:14:06 - 00:39:28:19
Mikey
Yeah. Everything he says. Yeah this is going to be the character you're going to notice. He everything he says is going to have like these barbs double meaning. So like everything Hamlet says, the people around him aren't even going to understand. He's going to be ahead of everybody. Oh, wow.

00:39:29:06 - 00:39:33:17
Rey
Oh, that's more more MF Doom than than a yeah.

00:39:33:17 - 00:39:55:04
Mikey
He's a little ahead of his time. Ooh. So the king says and this is around 66, the king is asking Hamlet. He says, How is it that the clouds still hang on you? And Hamlet says, Not so much, my lord, I'm too much in the sun. I mean, like, I don't know, I'm getting a lot of sun, no clouds here.

00:39:55:04 - 00:39:57:02
Rey
Okay, so that's about to the uncle Dad.

00:39:57:03 - 00:40:18:01
Mikey
Right now we're talking to the Uncle Dad. Like now I'm fine. Then the queen is Mom says good Hamlet cast thine knighted color off and lit Then I look like a friend on Denmark Do not forever with thy valid lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust Thou knowest his common All that lives must die Passing through nature to eternity.

00:40:19:00 - 00:40:22:22
Mikey
Right. So don't be sad about your dad dying. Everything dies. Hmm?

00:40:23:11 - 00:40:25:12
Rey
She's saying it's in front of everybody, right?

00:40:26:12 - 00:40:54:05
Mikey
Yeah. Hamlet says I'm a damn. It is common. And the queen says if it be, why? Seems it's so particular with thee. And I love this moment. This is Hamlet being the total goth bratty douchebag that he is. So his mom says why seems it's so particular with v and he goes Seems madam nay it is I know not seems right so it doesn't I don't seem said mom, I myself.

00:40:54:10 - 00:40:55:07
Rey
Am sad.

00:40:55:09 - 00:41:18:07
Mikey
Right? And then he goes through the whole list of things that can't capture how sad he is. He says She's not alone. My inky cloak cold mother, nor customary suits of solemn black, nor when desperation of worst breath. Right. So it's not my size? No. Nor the fruitful river in the eye. It's not my tears, nor the dejected, heavier of the visage.

00:41:18:07 - 00:41:37:08
Mikey
It's not my sad face together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief that can denote me. Truly. These indeed seem for their actions that a man might play, but I have that within which passes show these. But the trappings in the suits of woe. So he's saying It's not my black clothes, it's not my crying, it's not my sighing.

00:41:37:08 - 00:41:49:18
Mikey
I am doing these things. But none of these can capture how truly, deeply sad I am. And I always think that this is a bratty like which is like seems madam nay I know not seems.

00:41:50:06 - 00:41:54:07
Rey
And this is all happening in front of lots of people. This isn't just like, yeah.

00:41:54:18 - 00:41:57:07
Mikey
This is this is a public moment between this family.

00:41:57:12 - 00:41:59:21
Rey
Yeah, this is a Kardashian thing.

00:42:00:15 - 00:42:14:02
Mikey
Now I want you to be the king. Claudius is going to talk to Hamlet a little bit here, and he's going to say some important shit. And I want you to think about how you would feel if this is the guy who just married your mom. Think about how you would feel.

00:42:14:09 - 00:42:15:13
Rey
Claudius.

00:42:15:13 - 00:42:16:03
Mikey
Claudius.

00:42:16:05 - 00:42:18:06
Rey
Last. Claudius.

00:42:18:17 - 00:42:42:10
Mikey
He says the king Claudius online, 87. And we're still in Act One. Scene two, he says, Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, to give these morning duties to your father. But you must know your father lost the father. That father lost, lost his and the survivor bound in filial obligation for some term to do obsequious sorrow.

00:42:42:10 - 00:42:59:22
Mikey
Right. So everybody loses their dad. Everybody's got to grieve. But to persevere in obstinate condolence is a course of impious stubbornness. Right? So to grieve too long is impious, it's unholy and it's stubborn. And then he says, Tis unmanly grief. You're not acting like a fucking man.

00:42:59:22 - 00:43:11:03
Rey
Oh. First of all, don't tell me how to grieve, man. And don't judge my grief, you son of a bitch. Claudius. Yeah. Fucking Claudius.

00:43:11:03 - 00:43:14:02
Mikey
JUSTINE Yeah. We don't. We don't want to like. Claudius What do you.

00:43:14:09 - 00:43:16:19
Rey
Mean, Claudius piece? All right. I'm sorry.

00:43:17:07 - 00:43:30:14
Mikey
Claudius is going to be the main villain of the play, but he's introducing here this theme. We're going to come to you again and again of another theme in the play, not only death of fathers, but manliness. What does it mean to be a man?

00:43:30:20 - 00:43:35:21
Rey
So so he's he's saying, Hamlet, you're you're acting like a bit of a bitch.

00:43:35:23 - 00:43:36:12
Mikey
Correct.

00:43:36:17 - 00:43:38:10
Rey
In front of everybody, right?

00:43:38:15 - 00:44:03:13
Mikey
Correct. Claudius And Hamlet kind of is right. And he goes on, he's explaining why it's unmanly. He says it shows a will most incorrect to heaven, a heart on fortified or mind, impatient and understanding, simple and unschooled for what we know must be and is as common as any of the most vulgar thing to sense. Why should we, in our peevish opposition, take it to heart?

00:44:03:17 - 00:44:26:15
Mikey
Peevish, peevish. VI. Tis a fall to heaven. A fault against the dead, a fault in nature to reason most absurd Whose common theme is death of fathers? He's saying the theme of nature is the death of fathers. That's kind of clever because the theme of the play is the death of fathers. Tick. All right. Are you saying if you live in this planet or live on this planet, your dad is going to die?

00:44:26:15 - 00:44:47:12
Mikey
Yeah. So and then at the end of this speech, he just says Hamlet wants to go back to college to now Laertes. He's went to college in France. Hamlet went to college in Wittenberg, which I believe is in Germany. And King Claudius says, You know what, Hamlet? I'm not letting you go back to Wittenberg yet. Right. I want you to stay here with me and the queen.

00:44:47:22 - 00:45:10:06
Mikey
So, Laertes got permission to go back to France, but Hamlet did not. And that's kind of the end of the king's business. It says Flourish isn't all but Hamlet. So King is like business done. Let's go. Everybody leaves and we see Hamlet left on the stage. And we're going to get now at the very end of the scene, our first from Hamlet.

00:45:10:11 - 00:45:30:16
Mikey
SWEET So the soliloquies are important in the play because the soliloquies are going to give us Hamlet's inner monologue, right? This is what he's thinking. All right. That's kind of what a soliloquy represented in Shakespearean theater is. You know, the thought that was the thought bubble, the cartoon thought bubble of the character. And so now what's Hamlet thinking?

00:45:31:10 - 00:45:42:22
Mikey
Hamlet like around line one 3129 Everybody goes, he's left alone the stage. Right, he's quiet. He's just got fucking called a bitch by Claudius.

00:45:42:22 - 00:45:44:02
Rey
In front of everybody. In front.

00:45:44:02 - 00:46:10:03
Mikey
Of everybody. Yeah. And Hamlet says, oh, that this two, two solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a do rate. Like I wish I would just melt into nothing. Or that the everlasting had not fixed his cannon against self slaughter. Right. That means he wishes that God the Everlasting hadn't made it illegal to kill yourself. He fixed cannon against self slaughter.

00:46:10:16 - 00:46:25:09
Mikey
You're not allowed to kill yourself. This play's coming from like a Catholic framework where if you kill yourself, you go to hell right here. And then Hamlet says, Oh, God, how weary, still flatten, unprofitable, seem to be all the uses of this world, right? Everything.

00:46:25:09 - 00:46:26:21
Rey
So everything fucking blows.

00:46:26:21 - 00:46:27:03
Mikey
Yeah.

00:46:27:03 - 00:46:44:16
Mikey
And Fie on it. I fi tizen unweighted garden the gross to seed things, rank and gross in nature possess it merely so. The world, he says, is a garden to seed, which means nobody's tending it. It's just grown over. It's ugly, it's fucking chaos. You're not getting any good vegetables out of it.

00:46:45:10 - 00:46:48:20
Rey
It fruitless. It's all fruitless.

00:46:48:21 - 00:47:13:03
Mikey
Exactly. This is where he gives you your answer. Remember you were asking before how long is his dad been dead? Okay. He says that it should come thus. But two months dead. Nay, not so much. Not to so excellent a king. That was to this hyperion to a satyr by he means Claudius. He's he's saying his dad is Hyperion like the Titan God.

00:47:13:18 - 00:47:19:17
Mikey
And Claudius is a satyr, which you know what a satyr is right now. Go, boy.

00:47:20:04 - 00:47:21:00
Rey
Goat boy.

00:47:21:00 - 00:47:22:04
Mikey
Remember, goat boy.

00:47:22:22 - 00:47:24:06
Rey
He call them cowboy.

00:47:24:06 - 00:47:37:15
Mikey
Yeah, he call them go boy. I say a satyr. I don't know how you say that. Satyr or satyr in Greek mythology is one of those little guys with gilt legs who plays the flute and drinks wine. Yeah, he's saying he's making a comparison here. His dad is Hyperion.

00:47:38:07 - 00:47:39:12
Rey
It's like a fancy troll.

00:47:40:03 - 00:47:47:13
Mikey
Fancy troll in control. It's a and they like to fuck satyrs. They have, like, you know, they're lecherous, like to have sex. They like to drink wine.

00:47:47:16 - 00:47:48:01
Rey
The bottom.

00:47:48:01 - 00:48:08:13
Mikey
Half. Yeah, because the bottom half to go, they're animal. Yeah, they're part animal. So he's saying two months basically so excellent. A king that was to this Claudius Hyperion to a sader. So he's talking about his mom, his dad now he says so loving to my mother that he might not, between the winds of heaven, visit her face to roughly.

00:48:09:03 - 00:48:26:20
Mikey
That's how loving his dad was. He didn't want the wind to hit his mom too hard and heaven and earth must I remember why she would hang on him, as if increase of appetite have grown by what it fed on. Right. So his mom used to hang on. His dad like she was hungry and hungrier and hungrier for his love.

00:48:27:11 - 00:48:35:07
Mikey
And then he says, and yet within a month, let me not think on it. Frailty, thy name is woman.

00:48:35:07 - 00:48:37:13
Rey
Frailty, thy name is woman.

00:48:37:14 - 00:48:58:00
Mikey
Right. This is the beginning of Hamlet's misogyny. Hmm. We're going to see Hamlet over the course of this play. We're going to see him turn into an utter fucking douchebag, and we see where all his douchebag arie comes from. So right now, he's he's going to we're going to see later he's going to be a real bad misogynist.

00:48:58:12 - 00:49:17:04
Mikey
And we see it's because he saw his mom jump right into bed with Claudius and he's like, well, this must be what just what women do, right? Women just they're fickle, right? They just jump into bed with whoever. They don't have any loyalty. They don't they don't care. Right. Whatever's in front of them. The fuck. That's basically what he's saying.

00:49:17:04 - 00:49:22:12
Mikey
He's, he's going to that old kind of stereotype that women are fickle frailty. Thy name is woman.

00:49:22:16 - 00:49:27:05
Rey
Frailty, thy name is woman. That's grace. So come on, go on.

00:49:28:09 - 00:49:45:16
Mikey
So he says a little months wear ere those shoes were old, with which she followed my poor father's body, like Niobe, all tears. So Niobe is a, you know, mythical figure that I think turned into a weeping stone. So when his dad died, she was all crying crocodile.

00:49:45:22 - 00:49:46:04
Rey
Right?

00:49:46:12 - 00:50:12:11
Mikey
Why she. Oh, God. A beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer married with my uncle, my father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules within a month. You're yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her gullet eyes she married and I love this line, he says. Oh, most wicked speed to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets.

00:50:13:20 - 00:50:19:05
Mikey
That's pretty fucking fast to be jumping into an incestuous relationship with my uncle.

00:50:19:12 - 00:50:21:22
Rey
Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know.

00:50:22:15 - 00:50:46:08
Mikey
After Hamlet says that, you know, oh, most wicked speed to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets. It is not nor it cannot come to good but break my heart, for I must hold my tongue. Horacio, Marcellus and Bernardo, our guys from the Watchtower come in and again, everybody loves Horatio. Hamlet says, I'm glad to see you. Well, Horatio, where do I forget myself?

00:50:46:08 - 00:50:59:13
Mikey
Right. Is your name Horatio? And Horatio says the same, my Lord and your poor servant ever. And Hamlet says, Sir, my good friend, I'll change that name with you. Right? Like I'll be your poor servant. I love you, Horatio. Everybody loves Horatio.

00:50:59:13 - 00:51:01:16
Rey
Everybody loves Horatio.

00:51:01:22 - 00:51:23:21
Mikey
And it turns out that him and Horatio went to school together in Wittenberg. Mm hmm. Because he asks. Hamlet, asks him on line, like, one six, eight. But what in faith make you from Wittenberg? So why are you here? Horatio says a truant disposition. Good, my lord. He's making a little joke there. Like a truant from school. And then, you know, they go back and forth.

00:51:23:21 - 00:51:50:05
Mikey
They talk about, like, there being school chums a little bit. And Horatio says around line 176, My Lord, I came to see your father's funeral, Hamlet says, I pretty do not mock me, fellow student. I think it was to see my mother's wedding, right? And then Horatio gives this little comment. He says, Indeed, my Lord, it followed hard upon so that the wedding was pretty to a funeral.

00:51:50:05 - 00:51:53:10
Rey
Yeah. You know, I was in town and, you know, for the.

00:51:53:10 - 00:51:53:21
Mikey
Funeral.

00:51:53:21 - 00:51:58:13
Rey
It's all might as well stick around because the wedding. Yeah, the wedding and all.

00:51:58:16 - 00:52:13:11
Mikey
Yeah. So they're kind of dancing around it. But Hamlet makes this joke. Hamlet goes thrift. Thrift. Horatio, the funeral baked meats did coldly furnished for the marriage tables. They saved a little money using the leftovers from the funeral at the wedding.

00:52:13:13 - 00:52:14:21
Mikey
Oh, man.

00:52:15:09 - 00:52:16:14
Rey
Oh, jeez.

00:52:17:13 - 00:52:18:01
Mikey
They're kind of.

00:52:18:21 - 00:52:20:20
Rey
You saved on the flight because, you know.

00:52:20:20 - 00:52:21:03
Mikey
Yeah.

00:52:21:10 - 00:52:23:11
Rey
You would have to come into town twice, right?

00:52:25:07 - 00:52:45:06
Mikey
So they're joking around it. And Hamlet, he's, like, putting his hand to his head and he says, My father. And he thinks, I see my father. And there's a little joke here, because, of course, Horatio just did see his dad. Right? Right, Horatio, because where Lord and Hamlet is in my mind's eye, Horatio mean. So I see him in my head.

00:52:46:00 - 00:52:51:11
Mikey
And then a little bit later, Horatio says, My Lord, I think I saw him. Yes. Tonight.

00:52:52:07 - 00:52:56:11
Rey
Yester night is cool. Yeah. Never said that in my life. Yes. Tonight.

00:52:56:23 - 00:52:57:05
Mikey
Yeah.

00:52:57:21 - 00:52:58:12
Mikey
Yes, tonight.

00:52:58:16 - 00:53:03:06
Rey
Yes. Tonight is also like that's a nice superhero name I think.

00:53:03:06 - 00:53:05:05
Mikey
Yes, tonight would be like a super team.

00:53:05:16 - 00:53:08:16
Rey
Yeah. But what if it's with a K? Yes. Tonight.

00:53:08:16 - 00:53:19:09
Mikey
Oh yeah. The yester night the sometime time manipulation powers of yesterday. Yes. Tonight can like unspoiled your milk too.

00:53:19:09 - 00:53:20:06
Rey
That's sick.

00:53:20:22 - 00:53:23:20
Mikey
That's fact.

00:53:23:20 - 00:53:25:09
Rey
This milk went we just.

00:53:25:09 - 00:53:27:15
Mikey
Got this yesterday. No we just went.

00:53:27:15 - 00:53:31:04
Rey
This said I was working yesterday. It was around here.

00:53:31:08 - 00:53:35:23
Mikey
Yes. Like you're late on your bills. Get yes. Tonight we'll fucking get Verizon to turn your phone back on.

00:53:36:00 - 00:53:42:03
Rey
Oh, my God. I could really use yesterday. Right now.

00:53:42:03 - 00:54:10:21
Mikey
So Horatio says analyst says you saw who and Horacio says, my lord, the king, your father. And then Horatio tells Hamlet about what happened. Now, I'll just summarize this, that we've seen your dad walking up on the guard tower like his ghost walking on the ramparts. And then Hamlet at the end of this scene says we're we're skipping ahead a little bit around to like line 243.

00:54:12:09 - 00:54:43:03
Mikey
Or actually it's like 242. Hamlet says, I will watch tonight perchance to a walk again. Horatio says, I warrant it will. And Hamlet says, If it assume my noble fathers person, I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape and bid me hold my peace. I pray you all If you have hitherto concealed this sight, let it be tenable in your silence still write Don't tell anybody about this and whatsoever else shall have tonight given an understanding but no tongue, right?

00:54:43:03 - 00:54:47:18
Mikey
So you've seen my father's ghost. I'm going to go there tonight to see what the ghost has to say to me.

00:54:47:19 - 00:54:48:10
Rey
I'm going back.

00:54:48:13 - 00:55:14:15
Mikey
And don't tell anybody about this. All right? Right. So this is pretty much the end of the scene. Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo leave. And Hamlet says your love's as mine. You farewell. And then they're gone. And he says, My father's spirit in arms all is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night come till then? Sit still, my soul Foul deeds will rise to all the earth overwhelm them to men's eyes.

00:55:15:00 - 00:55:20:12
Mikey
So Hamlet is saying here like something is wrong if my dad's ghost is appearing.

00:55:20:15 - 00:55:23:11
Rey
Right and he's not showing up in pajamas.

00:55:23:11 - 00:55:24:15
Mikey
Right? He's shown up in armor.

00:55:24:15 - 00:55:26:15
Rey
Little fucking nighty cap and shit, right?

00:55:26:15 - 00:55:28:20
Mikey
He's not happy. He's shown up armored for war.

00:55:28:21 - 00:55:33:17
Rey
Yeah, that's like. Yeah, like in modern times, it's like he comes back.

00:55:34:11 - 00:55:36:10
Mikey
You know, in a tactical vest.

00:55:36:18 - 00:55:42:16
Rey
Zombie soldier. Yeah. Like the look. It's like chess.

00:55:42:16 - 00:56:28:20
Mikey
Is that like Call of Duty zombies?