SPEAKER_01

Hey everybody, this is Kara.

SPEAKER_00

And this is Deja.

Ed

And I think this is it.

unknown

We think.

Ed

And I'm going to go to the Here we go. Oh, wait, I got it. Um there we go.

SPEAKER_01

Love it. If anybody wants to know why I made Ed use that song instead of the other one. Uh, that is the Marriage of Figureau by Mozart, and that particular playslash opera was super popular during the French Revolution, and Napoleon Bonaparte even said that play is pretty much the French Revolution in a nutshell. So plus it's funny. It's funny.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, it's very royal.

SPEAKER_00

Especially when you play it in class and you're just watching the children work. Because I, you know, like we Kara and I have this uh playlist that's called Classical Bangers. Yes. And we play it randomly, you know, in class or whatever. Yep. And it's just great watching them just like do things. It's just this crazy it's it's awesome. It's great.

Ed

It's also fun too when I when I taught high school, like it would be a test, right? And every stick's test, it's like a unit exam, it's quiet in there for like 45 minutes, and then I'll let them know that the test is done when I crank up Phantom of the Opera. Oh, yeah. That organ, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. And then they know that it's done, but it's just it just wakes. Like, what is going on?

SPEAKER_00

Holy cow. No, I like that Karen and I did this a couple times. Yeah. Do. You just watch them kind of roam about the classroom. And they're not making like the best choices usually. So it makes it even better. They're like skipping. Yeah. Or like doing the gritty across the classroom. Or holding a chair above their head. Yeah.

Ed

Yep. Or just or the music encourages them to do that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Yeah. That's true.

Ed

Kind of like when we were playing the dodgeball thing last year. And I uh I was playing uh with certain students. Um I would play like the like this weird 1920s baseball music, and then I would do the uh like the voiceover and my up the bad is Maddie C. Ah, and she does kick the ball down to first base, but she is running off to the third. Oh no, now she is turning around and running towards the second base. We don't know why, but she uh look at her go.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, good times. We love it. Yeah, welcome back to part two of the French Revolution. Oh, yeah. And King Louis XVI, gotta love him. This is where a lot of people are gonna die.

SPEAKER_00

Yep. We're on the fun part. We are at the brutal not so I'm excited. I am too. Oh cow.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Uh before we get going, do do we have a trash can fire?

Ed

I know, but missing hamster.

SPEAKER_01

All right, let's hear it.

Ed

So we have a hamster in our class. We had a hamster in our class last semester. Um, his name was Scott. Uh, they wanted to name him Scott Sterling. Um from the YouTube. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah. Um, so we we had a little issue with this hamster, and I feel really bad because this hamster came from my wife's co-worker who couldn't keep the hamster anymore, so she kind of gave it to us, hoping that it would be safe and it wasn't secure. And uh, we had an issue once last semester where the hamster got out over the course of the night, and uh, we don't know how it got out. All I know is that I came in that morning and the lid was open and there was no hamster, and we lost track of that thing for like what, a week or two?

SPEAKER_01

No, it was like five days. Was it five days?

Ed

Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, five days, and then we had one kid sitting on our classroom couch and he farted.

SPEAKER_00

I know exactly what it is.

Ed

Yeah, this this this boy let one rip, and then all of a sudden, out from underneath the couch, you see this hamster. Scurry. Oh, just running out of there, probably on fire. And so, like, cool, we got the hamster back, and then we put it back in the cage, and then it was like a few weeks later, uh, I come in, and sure enough, the little lid was open on the tank, and no hamster.

SPEAKER_01

We didn't know where he went.

Ed

He's gone. We never actually did find it. I I did look on the cameras, and a lot of times our cleaning crew would come in, and they when they mop the floor in our room, they open up both the doors to let air in to help the room dry up quicker. And um probably got out that way. Yeah, probably ran out that way, and then our classroom faces this giant field, and uh that has bobcats jump over the floor. Bobcats and bunnies and and there's also a park over the cross uh on the other side of the wall, and on every single lamp or like you know, street light out there or whatnot, there's like a hawk of some sort. Yeah, yeah. So it it is if you are a hamster, it is straight up Mad Max out there, and you just don't know what's gonna get you. That or it buried a little hole and it's living its best life in a hole.

SPEAKER_00

So anything at all in the hole.

Ed

Or it ran into a hole with a snake in it, and then you know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that makes me sad. So I just got a hamster yesterday. Yeah, all the puffs. She looks Andrew. And I'm using the same page. So I'm actually gonna text home right now and make sure that the hamster's still there. Yeah. Because I don't want Scott 2.0.

Ed

Perfect. Well, yeah, and then you're skinwalker of a dog. You don't want it.

SPEAKER_00

He is so curious. All night he cried. I was knocked out, I didn't hear anything, but he cried all night and he keeps trying to sneak in. I'm like, get out of the room. Oh, dude. He's like, but I need a friend. I'm like, not this one.

Ed

Well, like I said, he's just upset that you're playing with something that looks like one of his squeaky toys.

SPEAKER_00

He doesn't like toys. I told you that. Oh. That's why one reason why I think he's a skinwalker is because he doesn't like treats very much. He doesn't like toys. He likes cheese.

Ed

Well, I mean, yeah, all dogs like cheese.

SPEAKER_00

That's his only treat, really. Strawberries and cheese and carrots.

Ed

Yeah, you gotta, you gotta pay the cheese tax when you go into the kitchen. Ours is an egg tax in our house. Ooh. Yeah. Right. That adds up.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, yeah.

Ed

Your dogs just eat the whole egg like shell and all. No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01

Just a little piece of scramble. Oh, oh, oh, okay.

Ed

Yeah, my dog, she'll uh she'll get like a whole carton of eggs and just eat the entire thing. Shells and all. Like, well, girls gotta go to calcium somehow.

SPEAKER_00

My old hound, there was one time uh we bought a German chocolate cake and we put it on top of the microwave that was on top of our counter. Pretty high up, you know. Not high enough. We came home and the dog was laying on the floor with a gurgling belly for three days and then explosive diarrhea outside. I don't know how sweet baby boy patches. I don't know how he did it.

Ed

There probably wasn't enough chocolate in there to really cause any harm.

SPEAKER_00

He uh it didn't matter what it was, he ate it and he was fine. He was resilient until he got bit by a black widow and died.

Ed

So there you go. Well, that's dramatic. That that uh that took a turn.

SPEAKER_00

On that note. So let's talk about other people dying. Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_01

Exactly. Sad segue. Uh I'm sorry.

Ed

Before we go into a bunch of humans dying, um, if you are listening to this episode, but you haven't listened to episode what is it, 35, I believe. Yeah, episode 35. Uh, that was part one of How to Lose Your Head. Um, part one, this is now part two of How to Lose Your Head.

SPEAKER_01

You should probably listen to that before you listen to that.

Ed

Yeah, yeah, especially if you don't really know anything about the French Revolution. This would be a good uh last episode would be a good way to start. And then after this, we're going to uh take a little listen uh to Deja. I know she's got she's working on uh Marie Antoinette. So that could be a one-to-two parter, and then I'm gonna finish off with Napoleon. It'll be like one full revolution, if you will. Yeah, we start off with a royalty and we end up with an emperor, and uh yeah, it's just it's great. The cycle of the French life.

SPEAKER_01

It's a good time, and then if you really, really feel adventurous after Napoleon, you can go listen to World War One.

SPEAKER_00

Ah, good time.

Ed

Yeah, that yeah, you can go back to Gallipoli for that one.

SPEAKER_00

You can honestly go back to France Fernand. Yeah, I was gonna say continue to go back and make your way up. Exactly. We're doing great.

SPEAKER_01

Um, so just a real recap. Um, King Louis XVI is making really terrible decisions, and he's really trying his best out there, but it's just not working out. Uh, his wife is looking at him like, Why are you making these terrible decisions? I know you're trying your best, but it's really not working out.

Ed

And like how his wife, who's a foreigner, can clearly see that like she sees it.

SPEAKER_00

She knows. Deja will tell us. Oh, she knows. She's like, bruh. What's going on here? Why are you doing that?

Ed

Um Nazi, oh, this looks bad.

SPEAKER_01

All right. So where we ended it, we ended it with this big magical meeting called the Estates General, where the Third Estate, the common people, decided to break from the estate system and say, we will handle this ourselves, goodbye. And King Louis comes back from mourning his dead son, uh, to a giant mess of a revolution. Essentially, that's it. And not not like a cool revolution like the American Revolution where Oh no, it's uh it was like a more like a British revolution where it was no blood was spilled yet. Documents are being created and estates are being broken peace uh peacefully. I would uncall it peacefully.

Ed

A lot of paperwork. It's a paperwork revolution.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, it really is. And even with all of the blood and stuff, it really is just a paperwork revolution. So here we go. Now remember King Louie is doing his best to win the favor of the people, but he also is trying to hold on to his absolute monarch type of power, which doesn't go together well. It's like oil and water. And after he kind of gives up on uh bringing the National Assembly into the estate system, he just says, fine, do whatever you want. And in July, he realizes this mistake and he orders 30,000 soldiers made up of German and Swiss soldiers, I believe they're Swiss, and they go to Paris, and he then decides to fire any royal minister who he feels was disloyal to the revolutionary cause. So on top of that, too, he dismisses our favorite Swiss banker and exiles him from Paris. And that is made public. And it is made public that soldiers, German soldiers, are coming to the city. But he didn't tell them that. So it was like surprise. He tells them he dismisses the banker. He does not tell them. Which the people love. Which the people love. He does not tell them that there are soldiers coming to um basically bring the revolution down.

Ed

Yeah, to stop the uprising. And you know what's really fascinating as I was kind of studying up on uh Napoleon.

SPEAKER_00

Napoleon.

Ed

Like at the height of the revolution, I keep saying the height, it's just the any point in the revolution. You could have like the French king be at war with, like, say, the Austrian king or the British king, or all these kings could go to war with each other. But if one of them, say like King Louis here, was being threatened with his life or the stability of the monarchy, uh, then like other countries would help to maintain that king's position because monarchies love monarchies, and like they don't want to see a republic in there.

SPEAKER_01

That's scary to them.

Ed

Yeah, yeah, because that you know, because the Austrian king would be like, okay, I don't know how the people of France are gonna react, but I know how the king of France is gonna react, or the king of England will react, or whatever. So it's I find it really funny is that one day you can have these two countries with kings in them be at war, but then when those kings' job is on the line, then the kings help each other out to maintain that status quo. And there was a lot of that that went down. Well, in this case, Germany.

SPEAKER_01

Well, in this case, it was more these are Louis's hired soldiers. Yeah, they weren't sent by the monarch of the Holy Roman Empire or anything like that. This was just basically mercenaries Louis's army made up of German soldiers.

Ed

Mercenaries that he can't pay.

SPEAKER_01

Correct.

Ed

Right.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

Ed

Yeah, that's it. It's really good to piss off tens of thousands of heavily armed, trained, killing machines because you can't pay them.

SPEAKER_01

I know you're joking, but we'll get to that.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, are these are these are these people like this useless like we'll get there.

SPEAKER_01

We'll get comes up in Napoleon, too.

Ed

Yeah, because that yeah, Napoleon had the same issue.

SPEAKER_01

So, our Swiss banker that the common people love so much, that is made public that he has been exiled from Paris. Now, this guy's pretty cool. What he does, even though he's exiled from Paris, he goes to I don't remember, a different country, and he writes to the bank and he says, Look, I put in two million dollars into this whole thing.

unknown

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01

Give that to the people. I don't need to see it anymore. It was originally for them, just keep it for them. I don't need it back.

Ed

Oh.

SPEAKER_01

That was pretty off. Like a stand-up guy, you know. I just wanted to throw that in there. It doesn't really matter.

Ed

But I mean, it's a no wonder why the French people liked him.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, he's a good dude. No, French people loved him. What happening in salons, uh one particular salon in Paris? We have a guy who stands up and he's really upset. He dismisses our Swiss banker, and the king needs to pay for this, and he m makes a big show of it. And he starts protesting down the streets of Paris. Pulling people in for his cause, yelling, and it starts to become a riot.

Ed

Would this be a uh Maximilian Robespierre?

SPEAKER_01

No. I forget this guy's name, but it's not Robespierre.

Ed

Oh. Oh, he probably dies anyways.

SPEAKER_01

Probably. They all die.

Ed

Well, but today they're all dead. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Facts. The boat sank.

SPEAKER_01

Um, honestly, truly, I don't remember this guy's name. I didn't even write this part down, but I thought it was important that it started in one salon by one guy who starts making a lot of noise in Paris, and they start taking to the streets. And so on July 14th, 1789, this group of Parisians, along with the National Assembly delegates, come to the idea that if they are going to start this revolution, they need some artillery.

SPEAKER_04

Nice.

SPEAKER_00

Sorry, I really need my adhaler.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, okay.

Ed

You find your lake your lack of faith disturbing.

SPEAKER_01

National Assembly delegates, as well as all of these common people, kind of start to blend together because the delegates decide that they need to get artillery, and all of the artillery happens to be in the Bastille. The Bastille is currently a symbol of monarch power. It's used, it was used back in the 13th century as a prison. And by the time we get here to 1789, it's still kind of used as a prison, but it's a prison for very rich white-collar people. And they're yeah, what they say, white-colored people?

SPEAKER_00

White collar. I'm like, I don't know if that's an oxygen.

SPEAKER_04

You've got white-collar, white-collared people.

SPEAKER_01

Um, okay, so the Bastille itself was more like a fancy hotel that you can't leave. So, you know, there were there was one one guy in there who was a prisoner, but he had a whole library in his room. There was up to 130 some some odd books in there that he would read all the time. His wife would go and get groceries for him. Like it was it was pretty nice. It was nice.

Ed

Um yeah, I can't remember his name, but he was like into the occult or something like that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, he was kind of a weird dude. There is a reason he's in the bus still. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

He's a visitor for a reason.

SPEAKER_01

It's cushy.

Ed

Yeah, yeah. Cause I mean, he he was doing like weird stuff with like underage children. It like it was creepy, but but when he died, he did have like a full library, he had like a little kitchen, like yeah, it was awesome. That was this prison. It wasn't a TV. I mean, holy cow! Yeah, even in the 1700s, he had a TV.

SPEAKER_01

So like even now, when you look at paintings from the time, the Bastille's always shown as like this big gothic, scary castress, like fortress type of thing. And it's it's not really, it's kind of small. And it was currently at this, not currently, but at this time it was holding about 250 pounds of artillery.

Ed

So the plan 250 pounds of artillery?

SPEAKER_01

Gunpowder.

Ed

Oh sorry, and then it had to be. That's like I didn't even a half a cannon.

SPEAKER_01

Sorry, no gunpowder. 250 pounds of gunpowder with cannons on the on the top walls.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

And the plan was, by the plan by the assembly delegates, was to go in there, take the gunpowder and whatever ammo you can find, release all the prisoners in there. The the sweeping amount of prisoners in this prisoner.

Ed

Yeah, because they're they're in prison. They want to get out, and whoever releases them, they'll fight for them.

SPEAKER_01

Right. And this giant prison, right? So that was the plan. As they were going to the Bastille, at the same time, this other guy who's coming out of the salon, hyping up the crowd behind them, they see these guys going to the Bastille. So they're like, oh, good idea. Let's go follow these people. So now we have a mob of people extremely upset about the dismissal of our French baker, or French, our Swiss baker banker friend. Banker. Banker, not baker. Yeah.

Ed

If you don't know why that's so funny to listen to the last episode.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you gotta gotta do it to get it.

Ed

Yep.

SPEAKER_01

So our plan is to go in there, uh, get our stuff, uh release all all these enormous amounts of prisoners in the in this this Ford Chris, the whole thing, right? And even during the time the Bastille had this this um reputation of being this dark, scary place. Uh but it wasn't, like I just said, it it was actually pretty nice. And there were only seven prisoners in in the Bastille at the time. Got it.

Ed

And they probably didn't want to come out. They're like, no, we're good. No, they're hanging out, like it's great. It's like I got a tea time this afternoon.

SPEAKER_01

And cricket at four. So the delegates get to the Bastille first. The crowd is following, and they come up to the governor of the Bastille and they're like, hey bro, can you let us inside so we can have all of your gunpowder and stuff? We won't do anything to you if you give us these things. And and the governor's like, sorry, man, I can't do it unless I hear back from Versailles, like, I don't want to lose my job, you know, kind of a delegate being like, Yeah, let me check with management.

Ed

Let me call the MOD.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and and that was kind of it. Like, that was the end of it. The delegates said, Okay, hey, no problem. We'll go back and we'll figure something else out. Well, the crowd right behind him didn't hear that conversation. And while this is going on, the governor goes back inside, pulls the drawbridge up, and from this this angry crowd coming up, they come up to the climb into the walls, and two, two guys who the delegate somehow missed. Two guys, see, they climb up the walls of the bastille, they cut the chain of the drawbridge, the drawbridge falls, like free falls down back onto the floor, killing another guy. Nice. The governor is believed to have opened the door for the crowd. The delegates aren't even really a part of this anymore. Now it's just the public who are angry. And they believe that the governor opened the door for them. And when they go into the Bastille, they're kind of like massive amounts of people at this point. Like just floods and floods of people are going into the courtyard of the Bastille.

Ed

Was it like thousands of people down there? Thousands, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Thousands of people were They're best. They're upset and they are going in there because they thought they were let in. The soldiers inside the bestial knew that there was no such thing as them being let in. Yeah. So now the soldiers are yelling at these people like, get back. I don't want to shoot you. Get back, get back, get back, right?

SPEAKER_00

You don't know me like that.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

unknown

Sorry.

SPEAKER_01

But somebody somewhere probably misheard something from a soldier. A different soldier, I don't know, we don't know, panicked and shot.

Ed

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_01

After that shot, chaos. People with guns who were coming from the streets, people with knives who were because as they were walking the streets, they were collecting knives and swords and guns or whatever they had.

Ed

Match and dumpster and here we go.

SPEAKER_01

Light fire. Absolute chaos between this giant crowd of people who are now surging into the Bastille and the soldiers. Well, the soldiers, they had better guns and they had cannons at the top. And they basically annihilated this big crowd of people because they're there. It's easy piggins, right? They annihilated all of these people. And at the same time, the delegates are still there. They're just kind of at the side and they're waving a white flag that nobody sees. They're like, we surrender.

unknown

We don't want to do this anymore. I don't like this.

SPEAKER_01

Cards filled with straw and poop.

Ed

It's a very French thing to do between the white flag.

SPEAKER_01

Whose poop? Like cow poop. Okay. Fertilizer. All right. So those cart's full of fertilizer and straw. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00

Setting it on fire.

SPEAKER_01

Well, that was set on fire. There's a few of them. Billy Madison. It's absolute just chaos. One officer had his hand chopped off, and that was paraded around the crowd. Like the crowd found the hand. They're like, oh, cool. They're parading around.

SPEAKER_00

Like my trail last night. There's the reference. There it is.

Ed

There's the hand that you released in the last episode.

SPEAKER_01

The mob of people pretty much took over the Bastille, even though that they were, you know, bulldozed. And they took the gunpowder, they released their seven prisoners.

Ed

Enough to turn the tide.

SPEAKER_01

And well, the sad thing is the governor of the Bastille, who felt that he failed his job by protecting the Bastille, was wrongly accused of letting these people in and leading them into a trap. So the mob believed that he opened the doors for them. And then they were shot. They were set up and they were shot at. Upset, the angry mob grabbed him, drug him through the streets of Paris. People were spitting on him, beating him up. So by the time that he got to the end of this mob, he was just like, just kill me now. And they did.

Ed

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_01

They did with knives and swords. Like he was stabbed to death. He wasn't shot. His body was shot after he was dead from being stabbed. Overkill at its finest. Yes. Angry mob.

Ed

Yeah. We'll see that with Napoleon when he took over Toulon. Like just hundreds of people dying unnecessarily because they thought that miscommunication. Yeah, misunderstanding, miscommunication. And so instead of talking it out and trying to work it out, let's just kill him.

SPEAKER_00

So as we do during the trip. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. So all of this to say the plan was to go in there and get gunpowder and release large amounts of prisoners. We got 250 pounds of gunpowder and seven prisoners, two of which are mad. Louis, in the meantime, was notified of the storming and famously he asked his messenger or the courier or whoever, is there a revolt? thinking it all of these riots. And he goes, No, sir, it's a revolution. And that is essentially the start of the French Revolution, depending on who you talk to. That's the famous date that we have. However, you know, there are other dates that we have.

Ed

Yeah, there was like nobody else there that could corroborate that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but it's a good line, and I like it. It's good for drama. So in response to this, Louis calls off all the strips, all of those troops that he hired, because people are panicking. There's 30,000 troops coming to Paris. He calls them off. He reinstates our Swiss banker. But all people are dead. It's kind of too late, but yeah. And the next day, July 15th, Louis and Marie greeted a crowd at the top of a balcony at Versailles. And while they were there, the Marquis de Lafayette. Our guy.

Ed

Yep. Fresh from fresh from America.

SPEAKER_01

What he did is he can't, he's coming back from America. He's here to support Louis. And he's like, okay, look, look, guys. Because they're now what they're doing is they're they're talking to this angry crowd. And he's like, it was it was a mistake. The king was misled. He was ill-advised. His advisors suck. Like, I'm so sorry. It's not the king's fault. It's not the queen's fault. We're gonna figure this out. And it it it calmed out a little bit after that. It kind of calmed down. Um Lafayette was then uh assigned as I think like an official mayor, and he got the National Guard.

Ed

And he was all and he was considered a hero from coming back.

SPEAKER_01

Like they they Oh, he's the most one of the most famous people in France at this time.

Ed

Yeah, and and they kind of viewed him as like one of the guys that helped defeat the British.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we gotta listen to this guy because he's great. So, not too long after, a couple weeks after, on the night of August the 4th, the National Assembly drafted a slew of decrees which abolished feudalism. They also passed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, which is essentially their declaration of independence. I know I'm skipping a lot of things, but I'm oversimplifying it. It's fine. They drafted that up, they released it. Um, so in August, Louis sees these two things go through for the National Assembly, and he's like, nah, we're not doing this. And he is still the king, so he's trying to put his foot down, and he's trying to keep whatever power he still has left. But it in in all reality, this this just made it worse.

Ed

Is this one of these situations where there's absolutely nothing that could have been said or done by the monarchy to like stop? To stop, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, at this point, we we have a declaration of independence, it's been signed.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Every every sign points to there's going to be a constitutional monarchy. So at this point, the goal of all of the revolutionists is to have a constitutional monarchy set up like Britain.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That's what they wanted. They didn't want a republic that was too extreme. They didn't want a democracy, that's too extreme. They wanted something like what Britain has. Yeah. And I want to make that very clear because when you talk to somebody about the French Revolution, they always immediately think of the reign of terror, Robespierre, and Republic. That's not right.

Ed

Oh, so that that would actually kind of explain why, you know, after Louis and all these people were put to death, that the the the common folks of of France, they were okay making Napoleon an emperor or their king, because it's like, okay, that's that's fine, we can have a king, but let's have that parliament side of things as well.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they wanted truly, they wanted a constitutional monarchy. Like with Britain. Louis's like, no, we're not doing this and we're not reforming. Unfortunately, when he did that, thousands of Parisian women, market women, actually, fish women, people who women who sold things, they marched to Versailles. They were upset.

Ed

And wait, they marched to Versailles from Paris? Yep. Dude, that's like a four or five-hour walk.

SPEAKER_01

So the interesting thing is it's generally speaking, they have a tradition where all the women will march to Versailles and they will give flowers to the queen.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

They used this tradition and turned it into a protest. Because in France, during this time, it was the women's job to put food on the table. It was the women's job to provide food for their families. So it's the women who are extremely upset with the food shortages and what's going on. Yeah. They can't feed their families.

Ed

Because then they're being held accountable by their husbands and children. Like, why is there no food here? Or why am I eating the same little potato for a week straight?

SPEAKER_01

Correct. So when Louis says no, we are going to still have this estate system that you so do not want, and we are going to trash your declaration, which I can read to you, but I'm not going to. It's great. Read it. Read it. Anyway, he's like, we're not doing that, which makes them upset. Like he's still kind of he has influence because they still want that constitutional monarchy, but he just keeps screwing it up. Golly. So he makes this, he he says this publicly, and then of course, the rumor mill and the power of the press, it goes ham. These women are very upset. They go through the streets of Paris, they go to Versailles, and their plan is to go to Versailles, go to the king, and either complain or whatever, and it's turned into this big like parade. So yes, they're angry, but they they're dressed up. Uh, there's famously a woman who dresses up in like a red overcoat, and she is just equipped to the brim with like swords and guns and all kinds of things. And it's it's like crazy. And they're they're it's almost an excitement that they have. So they're they're on their way to Versailles, and the closer they get, they have people who are joining the crowd as they're walking. So men are starting to join, they're picking up weapons as they're starting to go, they're bringing things from home, and they're not they're angry, but they're not mutinous yet.

SPEAKER_00

They're like liberated.

SPEAKER_01

They're yeah, they're more so liberated and excited. Um, now at this point, like I said, Lafayette is now the general of the National Guard, right? The National Guardsmen who are technically under Lafayette see this big, excited, liberating parade going by, and his men want to join them. His men who are currently not being paid by the king join this liberated parade of people. And Lafayette is trying to catch up with him, and he's like, Wait, wait, where are you going? So now we have National Guardsmen who are marching to Versailles. So I know I know that was a joke. But here we are. It's not a joke, it's not a joke. So the crowd finally gets to Versailles. Lafayette caught up with him, and he requests an audience with the king. So he's he what he was able to do is get in front of this crowd and he intercepts the crowd and he gets to the king and he's like, Look, we have a crowd of people here, they're extremely angry with you. Can you just you need to leave? You need to leave Versailles and you need to go to Paris now. And the king's like, Okay, okay, okay, but I gotta talk to my wife.

Ed

Hey, honey, we're going on a trip to Paris.

SPEAKER_01

He's like, Yeah, he's like, I gotta talk to my wife, but she's asleep. So can it wait till morning? I can't imagine Lafayette's face, like, oh, no, go wake her up, please.

Ed

The Jean-Luc Picard gif that I always share where he just does the uh face palm, just like, oh yeah.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So Lafayette's like, all right, all right, all right. I will try to keep these people calm. I will hang out in the palace, keeping these people outside. And he is up till about five o'clock, and then he kind of takes a cat nap for a half an hour or so. Well, while he's taking his catnap, the mob breaks into the palace and they break into the palace, they're running through the palace, and at this point, they're so angry. They're calling for the queen's head. They want to rip her open and like do crazy things with her intestines or whatever. Like they're yelling all of these things about what they're going to do to her. She's in her chambers and she hears them coming. If you can imagine, oh crap, she was in bed. So no shoes on, probably in her nightgown. She leaves her chamber and she's hearing this loud crowd, like that they're raining. They're storming through. So she's running as fast as she can to the king's chambers because you know Where else are you gonna go? Where else are you gonna go? So she's like, you know, knock, knock, knocking on his door. He finally opens the door and she gets inside just in the nick of time. Because what happens is after she runs to go to the king's chamber, crowd finds her chamber and they find her bodyguards there. I think she took a back door, but they find her bodyguards there and they decapitate them and murder them looking for the queen.

Ed

That could have been that doesn't scream foreshadowing. I don't know what yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, and during this, actually, it was before this. I think it was the Revolution des Parlement, I just remembered. There was another one where they went they went by a wax shop and they went into the wax shop, like a like a wax museum. They went to the wax museum and they found the heads of some people, like wax people. And there was a a girl, a little apprentice. Her name was um Toussaud. So that's our our wax muse uh Madame Toussaud's wax museum. That was her shop. And they they took the heads off the wax and they they paraded the wax heads around. Um, that was a little bit ago, but I thought I'd mention that because it's interesting. It's fascinating. Full circle. Yeah, full circle here. A revolution. Lots of heads anyway. So Marie Antoinette is now hiding in the chambers with the king. Lafayette obviously wakes up from his catnap, rushes to the king's chambers, and he finds the queen there with the king and their bodyguards, and they're all like basically hiding. And Lafayette is able to get them to calm down. He exits and he's able to somehow, I don't know, get the crowd to chill out. He gets them outside, and he tells the king and the queen, you have to make an appearance now, and you have to go to Paris right now. Yeah, like you don't have a choice. So they do, and the king comes outside, and the queen, she's probably extremely traumatized by this, and I'm sure Daisy will talk about it, but she doesn't want to go outside. No, she doesn't want to talk to these people. No, these people are crazy, they're asking for my head.

Ed

Yeah, and my intestines. And my intestines is like kind of fond of both of them.

SPEAKER_01

It's ridiculous. I need those. But Lafayette, the great man he is, he assists he his sister and help her go the he helps her go outside. And she's standing there, she like has the kids outside with her to try to make this royal appearance and try to calm this crowd down. And all Lafayette has to do is kneel in front of the queen and kiss her hand. That's all he had to do. And then the crowd is like, Long live the queen, blah blah blah. So that that was turned around.

Ed

But they didn't see that guy is more interesting than I thought.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, Lafayette's pretty cool. Yeah. So Lafayette. Lafayette. So he was able to win, right? He was able to get them to calm down, turn that whole thing around. But the royal family does.

Ed

He turned that frown upside down.

SPEAKER_01

Oh god. The royal family does end up going to Paris, and they're kept basically they're kept prisoners at a palace down there, and they were taken down on October 6th, 1789. So they were now in a palace in Paris that they can't leave. I'm going to call it the prison palace for now. Between 1790 and 1799, while the royal family was in Paris in their prison palace, the National Assembly also moved to Paris from Versailles. So they kind of followed.

Ed

You know, you know you're a monarch when you have palaces for every situation, including for one when you're in prison. It's true.

SPEAKER_00

Prison palace, food palace, Versailles. Food palace.

SPEAKER_01

Where's that beep button?

Ed

Say that again?

SPEAKER_00

Palace.

SPEAKER_01

Oh anyways. But yes, you're right. Now, during this transition, the National Assembly is beginning to fracture. All right. So we have this issue with the monarchy and we have this issue with the royal family, but outside of that, the National Assembly and their ideologies are starting to fracture. And we're getting younger members who are more extreme than those who wanted the constitutional monarchy. Now we have extremists who want straight-up republics. And this extreme, extreme version of a, at least for them, like like this is extreme for them.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Version of a government created a club for them to all hang out at. And this club was called the Jacobin or the Jacobites. Uh led by Robespierre. And their ideology was rather interesting. So they wanted a republic. They didn't call it a republic, but everything that they wanted was basically a republic. So I'm just gonna call it a republic. Anyway, their original intent was to make the republic, and they were going to do it through fear, intimidation, and violence. It works every time. Every time.

Ed

Yeah, because they came up with like what would have been known as the directory and all that stuff. And and Napoleon had uh he had a brother that was a part of um Robespierre's little inner circle, and that's one of the ways that Napoleon was able to climb so fast so high.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

Ed

Well or so high so fast.

SPEAKER_01

Just know that they're brewing over here, working on their whole republic government situation. Meanwhile, in the prison palace, Louis started to become really desperate. He came up with an escape plan, and he thought it would be a really good idea to try to get to Austria because that's where his wife's family is from. The revolutionaries were in complete control, madness began to ensue in his view. He was even advised to give up his power, to retire, accept a new constitution and all that.

Ed

Like abdicate the throne, and yeah.

SPEAKER_01

He was given the option.

Ed

Do you think if he went out there and it's like, hey, I'm I'm stepping down, clearly you guys don't want me here anymore. Let me and my wife pack up and we're we'll go someplace else.

SPEAKER_01

I don't think it would have worked as successfully as he wanted it to. I think it could have smoothed things over and it would have would not have escalated as far as it did. But the way he did this was just, oh my god. Okay, so he didn't want to give up his power. Instead, he decided he would take his family, escape to Austria, under the protection of his wife's family. Okay, like her brother is um the Archduke of Austria or whatever, he's the big man in charge. So he would then gather an army while he was there, come back stronger, and take his country back, right? It's foolproof. E in the bag, easy.

Ed

We heard that before. Oh, yeah, this is gonna be great.

SPEAKER_01

Foolproof.

Ed

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

In the middle of the night, the family left for Paris under they they disguised themselves like they're at least they tried their appearance, and they got all the way to a small border town in France, near the Austrian-Franco border. And they were stopped by a National Guard member who is now, you know, for the Republic. And uh they got stopped, and the guy was like, Hey, aren't you the guy on the money? He's like, No, what do you mean? No, yeah, you're the guy on the money. That's crazy. Where are you going?

Ed

You know, so you're the guy on the money that nobody has, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or you're the guy on the bill that has no value.

SPEAKER_01

The guy on the IOU. So they take him and the family back to Paris immediately. In terms of the revolution and the revolutionary cause, this was disastrous for Louis. He was getting by, by that I mean staying alive, by having the reputation of being misled, ill-advised, kind of stupid. But now, with this attempt, it didn't look good because it was shown that he planned this.

Ed

Yeah, it's kind of like uh uh like those criminals that plead insanity for a murder charge, and oh, I was crazy, and then they clearly show in court that they aren't crazy, yeah, that they planned it all out. This is methodical. Like, I feel like that's kind of like like Louis could have made that work. Um but trying to claim ignance when in reality you are actively trying to get out of this, that doesn't scream ignorance.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna make it worse.

Ed

Oh, good.

SPEAKER_00

We love that here at the deserve survivor.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, there's more. What I didn't tell you is that when he left for Austria, this guy who never writes anything down, oh no, left a manifesto. Oh yeah, as they do. With all of his intentions, his repulsion for the revolution and disagreements he had. And mind you, this uh Jacobite movement is really gaining some speed here.

Ed

On top of him like gonna go to Austria, build up an army, and then take a that was written down.

SPEAKER_01

In the words of my students, legend, he's cooked.

Ed

He's uh that's what that means. Yeah, yeah. When you're cooked, that means you're like you're you're a goner.

SPEAKER_00

I thought it meant like let me talk.

SPEAKER_01

No, I don't know anymore. I just guess. With the capture of the king and his true intentions public, revolutionaries called for his immediate removal, and now they didn't want a constitutional monarchy anymore. This was really the thing that did it. They wanted a republic, they didn't want a monarchy anymore. This guy screwed us over, we gave him all of the chances in the world, and still he wanted to come back and fight and put us back into the estate system the estate system, which we so hate. In the meantime, feudalism is officially dead, disintegrated. The church, even, was no longer a major partner of the state. The revolutionaries stacked the churches and the monasteries because they have money.

Ed

Yeah. Yeah. That's where the gold and silver and that's exactly what Henry VIII was. All the tithies are, and so that's what they did.

SPEAKER_01

Slavery. This is an interesting note. Slavery was abolished on the mainland in France. But they kept the practice going in the colonies. Yes. Because that's how they made money. Yeah. That's crazy, right?

SPEAKER_00

Sounds familiar. Yeah. Yeah.

Ed

Wow, slavery made a select few people very wealthy.

SPEAKER_00

And then they said they were gonna get rid of it, and they actually kind of did it.

Ed

That made it even worse? Like, right? Wow, what is humanity gone to?

SPEAKER_01

Craziness. So Marie and Louis were sent back to the palace prison in Paris. Throughout the fall, in the winter of 1791 and into 92, they continued to hope the Austrians were going to rescue them. So they're back in this prison palace. Now they're writing to Big Brother over in Austria. They knew that Louis's brothers were trying to gather an army over in Austria on top of Marie's brother, who is the Emperor Leopold II.

Ed

Did it ever occur to these people or to Louis and Antoinette that whatever they write is not going to be in like confidential?

SPEAKER_01

Louis, no, Antoinette, maybe.

Ed

Okay, because like whatever they write, the population's gonna get it, they're gonna read it, and probably get even more pissed.

SPEAKER_00

Well, the thing is, Louis never wrote anything interesting enough for people to get and then continue with it.

SPEAKER_04

Until it really matters. Maybe that was a ploy all along. Like nobody'll want to read my legends.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02

Shouldn't have done that.

SPEAKER_01

So they they're writing to family in other countries, particularly in Austria, Austria, and the French knew this. They knew this, and eventually, yeah, they can agree, and eventually they did call for a war between Austria and Prussia in April of 1792. And that gave Louis and Marie Antwinna even more hope that they were going to be rescued, thinking that okay, well, maybe if they go to war with them officially, then then then there's a chance that we could win and we'll be rescued, right? So the Prisians, however, didn't like this idea, they didn't find that very hopeful. They didn't like this at all. They were worried that the Austrians and the Prussians would come in, take over, and then they'd put the monarchy back into place.

Ed

Yeah. Well, which is probably what they would have done.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. So in response to this, they stormed the prison palace on August 10th, 1792. So Louis ran away. Uh but he was arrested three days later. And I believe Marie Antoinette was arrested that same day. And they were taken to a prison fortress called the Temple, which is like France's big prison, I guess. Meanwhile, on September 21st, 1792. How many years? 200 years in one day before my birthday. Sorry, I just thought I was like the assembly declared France an official republic. So we now have the Jacobites in charge of the National Assembly, and they are calling it an official republic now. All of Louis's titles would be stripped legally. He is now known as Citizen Louis Capet. He is no longer King Louis XVI. After Louis's arrest, this is great. Private letters were found in a chest, probably going back and forth to Austria. They were considered incriminating enough to charge him with treason in December. He was found guilty by the assembly and sentenced to death in January of 1793. His own cousin, the Duke of Orleans, even voted for his death. Oh man.

unknown

Poor guy.

SPEAKER_01

This is bad. On January 20th. On January 20th. Louis was given time to say goodbye to his wife and children. He promised Marie that he would visit her the next morning before his execution, but he never did. It's possible that he just couldn't bear it, and he was like, I just can't do it. The next morning at 6 a.m., Louis received communion and had his wedding ring given to his wife and his signet given to his son. He climbed the scaffold to the guillotine at the Plaza de Revolution. I hope I said that right. I don't know if we're going with it. Just before his death, in front of roughly two and thousand people, he said I die innocent of all crimes of which I have been charged. I pardon those who have brought about my death, and I pray for the blood you are about to shed may never be required of Francis And he we we don't know what he said because the sound of the drums started to roll. He was cut off by the drums. He was cut off by the drums, and then eventually his head was cut off by the guillotine. Louis was 38 years old.

Ed

And unfortunately, I don't know if you go into it, but like the media just ran with it and reported that he was screaming and crying and kicking and cowardice. When in reality he got out of that carriage and they were getting ready to tie his hands behind his back, and he's like, No, I'm a king. I think I can walk up a flight of stairs. And it and he was very stoic about it, and he kind of had he still had this dignity about him, and he was not gonna go down as um somebody that was gonna face his death like a sissy.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, but I mean the media just tore up tore them apart. Tore them up. It was so many so many it was terrible rough.

SPEAKER_01

So Louis's head was paraded throughout Paris.

unknown

Good God.

SPEAKER_01

With the crowd chanting Vive les Republic! And in September of that same year, so eight months later, Robespierre would spur the terror, bringing in a violent and bloody new stage of the revolution. The terror was started, according to Robespierre, in response to the foreign armies marching towards France. Thank you, Louis, for calling Austria, but also thank you, Revolution. At the same time, Robespierre and a committee of 12 men who called themselves the Committee of Public Safety. Right. Oh my god. Right.

Ed

What a way to sugarcoat that was.

SPEAKER_01

In theory, the terror was based on fear. If you don't follow our way, then you die. If you're counter-revolutionary, you're a goner. Any hint of counter-revolutionary anything. We don't like you. It was a way to fight against spies and anybody who did not want this republic to be into place. Paranoia. They were really feeding off of the fear of the people. The Committee of Public Safety passed a string of draconian laws that gave the Jacobites any kind of excuse to arrest Parisians for counter-revolutionary actions, comments, or beliefs. It could be anything. It could have been like I don't feel like doing that today. You don't nope, nope, nope. You're arrested. Like every anything and everything.

Ed

Well, and there was like there was like hardly any, there was like no judge, jury. It was just the executioner. And Robespierre, I mean, well, I mean, he got caught up in this.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna touch on it.

Ed

Yeah, so like he uh um they were accusing him eventually of just like you could just point your finger at anybody and have him executed. Like, how is that any different than the monarchy before? And yeah, and and it's one of those things where it even got to the point, because even Napoleon brought this up, it got to the point where it's just like, okay, you can have a political party, you can be a part of that political party, but at this time, if you were in the revolutionary side, if you're a Jacobite, you had to agree with it 100%. So if the Jacobites said, Oh yeah, taxes need to be, say, like 8%, and you're like, Well, does it have to be that high? Could it be 7.5%? You could be sent off to the gallows.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

Ed

Out off by the head, pretty much. Yeah, it's just ridiculous, like how crazy this went.

SPEAKER_01

Very extreme. Um, Maria Antoinette, meanwhile, was kept prisoner until October. She was executed for treason by guillotine on October 16th, 1793. Like I said, I'm not gonna go too far into that because I know Deja's gonna talk about it. And I'm just kind of I know I'm speeding through the terror. Like, this is what everybody wants to hear, but I'm speeding through it. I'm sorry. But it it is what it is. Anyway, anywhere between 300,000 and 500,000 people were arrested in this 10 months period. The terror lasted 10 months, and we have half a million people who were arrested. In that 10 months' time, all under the control of Robespierre until the very end, we have 14,000 to 40,000 people dead by execution, primarily by the guillotine. Uh essentially, I'm fast-forwarding to a lot, but it ended with the beheading of Robespierre himself, which is rather poetic.

Ed

After he got shot in the jaw.

SPEAKER_01

Correct. Even with the terror over, however, France found themselves facing foreign powers that were intimidated by the revolution and the terror. They were scared. And now they're kind of leaderless, like I don't know what's happening. And in 1795, the Jacobites, the remaining of them at least, passed a new constitution. It was enacted, and four years later, a new leader came to bat for France and its governmental ideas. And I'm going to leave it there so Ed can take it up after that. Anyway, I know it's that one's a little bit shorter, but but it was fun because there was so much murder.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, Kara. The one who's like everyone should just be happy. It's like that one was fun because everyone got murdered pretty bad. Right. I know.

SPEAKER_01

My my natural state is confrontation gives me anxiety.

Ed

Yeah, no, but I find this so fascinating. I kind of got a sensor. Like, it's fascinating to read, but then to talk about because like there were there was that saying, like, the streets ran red with blood. That yeah, that literally happened. And like the guillotine, um there was one comment that I read back in 1750 um that stated that the guillotine was the machine that ran all day and all night. Oh yeah. And it was just one right after another. Um the guy who discovered oxygen, the element oxygen, because the periodic table was kind of uh was kind of forming. Um, and he was his name is escaping me, but he he discovered oxygen as like the eighth element on the periodic table. But he was arrested by the Jacobites, and he was sentenced to death just because he took money from the king years ago to like do his research. And uh he was really famous for uh he told his assistant, because this guy was a scientist to the end, he told his assistant, like, okay, they're gonna chop off my head, and I'm gonna start blinking. And I need you to keep track of how many times and for how long am I blinking uh before I finally die with my my head cut off. Joseph Priestley. Hmm? Joseph Priestley. Yes, yes, that sounds yeah, that sounds about right. Uh, and so he told his assistant, and sure enough, he goes up there and he gets his head cut off, and the assistant runs up there and holds his head, and the assistant reported that he blinked for about a dozen times, which really shed light on the fact that oh, maybe the guillotine isn't this quick, instantaneous, painless death. Like, there's 12 seconds of pure terror, and then they later on discovered that even with the head cut off, because they they found this out in like you know, like the desert storm and uh the Iraqi freedom thing and all that, like the soldiers would get blown up or get decapitated, and they discovered like their hearing would still be receptive for minutes after. So, yeah, like it was quickly it was discovered during that time that oh, maybe getting your head cut off isn't as humane as we thought. And Guillotine himself got his head cut off.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's all every I mean everyone.

SPEAKER_01

Everybody got that really I think there's only one, I don't remember his name. There's like one guy.

Ed

It's like yeah, if you had any affiliation with the king in any way, if if you received a Christmas invite from him two decades ago, you were screwed.

SPEAKER_00

Cut off.

Ed

Yeah, it's just wild.

SPEAKER_00

What a good not a good time, but what a great story. Thank you. I worked really hard on it. I I see that it's it is fascinating because I'm I'm doing a different point of view. Point of view. My perspective is very similar, but so different at the same time of what I'm reading because Antoinette's like views were a little bit different. And you actually could read her views and you can understand, and like it's just it, it's a really it is a they're just really it's really I would not want to be them. No, that is not a life. That sounds like no wonder he had so much anxiety.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it really sucks too, because like every time he tried to do something, to put a plan in place, to fix something, it wouldn't work, yeah, and it would blow up in his face every single time he tried to do anything.

Ed

Well, yeah, it one, the guy couldn't make up his mind on a great deal of things. He always had to find the middle ground, which, like I said before, that's not necessarily a bad thing trying to find a compromise. But I think he just inherited a country that was just too far gone.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I think it's safe to say that the revolution was gonna happen no matter what. Yeah, it's just the way it happened is what made it so crazy. So crazy.

Ed

Yeah, and I and I just don't think that there would have been anything that he could have said or done that would kept him from going to the guillotine. Uh but I I wonder if he didn't write those letters asking for relatives to send him a freaking army. Uh I wonder if that if that could have kept him.

SPEAKER_00

The only time he wants to write.

Ed

Yeah, the only time he writes is like, hey, help me overthrow this rebel.

SPEAKER_00

Right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

If he just abdicated the throne, he probably could have just If he had just said let's do the constitutional monarchy thing, it we would have dodged a lot of blades.

Ed

Or just not written those letters. Yeah. If he didn't write those letters and he just abdicated, and then they probably would have exiled him to Austria. And then while you're over there, put together an army and then come back and try to take it over.

SPEAKER_00

Do things quietly. Yeah. Don't tell people and don't write it down.

Ed

Yeah, the last thing you need is everything in writing. Yeah, the one time he decided to write something meaningful.

SPEAKER_01

Uh-huh. It's a manifesto. It it's uh yeah, it's good. It's good. Well, awesome. Yeah. Great, great. Did it? I'm saving this so I can teach it in class.

Ed

Yeah. Yeah, we might as well tell our students to come listen to this.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Yeah. Be like, all right. So But then they have to actually write about it. Sorry, guys. Well, you know, tell them your homework is to give us views on the podcast and listen to the these two episodes. Review, like and subscribe. Yeah, like subscribe. Like, subscribe for extra credit. Yeah. Yeah. You get three extra points each each form. Perfect. And um, sure. You gotta show you.

Ed

I told my daughter, because my my daughter, yeah, she recorded with me the last time. And uh she's like, yeah, I've ever never I've never actually listened to the podcast. I'm like, cool. Yes, my own daughter doesn't even listen to it. So then I I told her uh I told her via the podcast, I'm like, this is what you do. If you guess somebody's interested in the podcast, I did this literally this morning to the lady who gave me a haircut. Uh she asked me what I was gonna do today. I'm like, oh, I plan on recording a bunch of stuff, and that immediately starts the conversation of what it is, what it's about. So I went and like, here, give me your phone. Like, you give me, give me your cell phone. Do you go you use Spotify? That's what most people do, or iTunes or whatnot. So I physically go onto her phone and and audience. Uh, you can do the same thing. You can go to friends and family and hairstylists and demand their phone.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, just say, hey, let me have your phone. Give me your phone.

Ed

And I'm gonna point you in in the direction of something pretty epic, even your dentist, because your dentist has got both hands used. So just grab their phone, go to wherever you know the podcast is at because we we're everywhere, and then find it for them. And then there was one lady that we used to work with, she's no longer there, she didn't last too long. Uh, I when I got a hold of her phone to help her find the podcast, I went on to like Amazon and iTunes and Google, and I yeah, um, you know, pod addict. I I I went on everything and I basically hit subscribe and notifications on everything and download. So I bet you anything every two weeks, she's getting like 18 episodes downloaded, and they're all the same episode. I'm sure she's really excited about that. Uh, she probably has no idea even how we love that. She's like, what's a podcast?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I got you.

Ed

Here we go.

SPEAKER_00

My family's made up of 7,000 people, um, just from my grandmother. And I'm gonna put in my 20-person group chat. Hey guys, don't forget, like subscribe if you actually love me. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There you go. Like there's gonna be another. We'll get maybe like 65 out of the 7,000. But you know what? We're growing.

Ed

Yeah, yeah. We get to use the whole guilt thing. Like, yeah, if if you actually want me to be a part of your life in this family, you need to sign up for this.

SPEAKER_00

I thought you loved me.

Ed

Right?

SPEAKER_00

Don't you love me? Then you'll actually listen.

Ed

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, if you don't listen, Kara only has two siblings. And they listen to me. Already listen. Yeah. I'm just gonna stars. It's fine.

Ed

Well, uh, I know your mom listens. Yep. And we always joke that it's Kara's mom. She's probably using a VPN and not knowing that she's using a VPN, and that's where we get our British guy from. There we go. One British listener.

unknown

There we go.

Ed

She's just like, your mom's like in England and is not even aware.

SPEAKER_00

That's awesome. That's awesome. Correct. All right. Any uh any housekeeping?

SPEAKER_01

Um, yeah. So if you want to contact us to send us a trash can fire, send us an email, tell us how good we're doing, or if you have some very kind, nice critiques that you want us to make. Uh, you can message us on Instagram at thedaysdumpster fire. You can email us at thedaysdumpsterfire at gmail.com, or you can go to our website, thedaysdumpsterfire.com, and send us a message there. I also know that Ed's got a Patreon all worked out, so we just got to get the link up there once we do that. We are just kindly asking for donations, um, nothing extra or anything like that. So if you want to support us, you can totally do that. If you want to support us another way that doesn't involve money, you can leave a review on whatever you're listening on, give us a like or a follow. That really helps out as well. So either way, it doesn't matter, no pressure.

Ed

But uh there's also uh text messages too. So I found out because because we use Buzz Sprout, um, you there is this ability where you can go on to our website and you click on this link, and what it does is it actually sends us a text message to our um you know to our account. So like it won't like it's not gonna show like my personal cell number on there or anything like that. But what it is, it's like you're basically leaving us a text message, then I can go on and I could like bring up our account. I can see people who've messaged us, and then I can reply back and all that kind of stuff. In case if you don't want to type up, you know, a big old long email. Um, I did get one piece of advice. Uh somebody was like, Yeah, get rid of that guy.

SPEAKER_00

Well, we love Eddie, he's not going anywhere. Yeah, he's very helpful.

Ed

I like uh gotta be me.

SPEAKER_00

So no, it's actually me. I just uh yeah it's yeah, it yeah, it's like nobody sounds that bad.

Ed

No woman sounds so bad they sound like me. So yeah, I got that one piece of advice. But yeah, you there's that feature which is which is kind of cool. And um yeah, don't yeah, don't be afraid to like reach out. Reach out, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And then I will also be uploading, doing a mass upload of a bunch of different really cool things on the Instagram. Um, we have some really cool ideas that we are hopefully going to be getting uh the ball rolling on here shortly. We are updating some stuff because little Miss Me is nowhere to be found. That's fine. It's fine, it's totally fine. You're doing great. You're doing great.

Ed

You're you're held hostage for a while.

SPEAKER_00

You know, we're here now and we're working on it. But you know, um, yeah.

Ed

Oh, what about Kara's artwork?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, Kara's artwork is going to be, I'm I'm hoping that she gives me uh the okay to put the link in on the on Instagram so that we can have that in the bio because I think that she does a lot of really cool stuff. She just shared her portfolio with us, and there were things on there that I was like, why didn't she show me this before? Right. Um, she did some really cool, really, really cool drawings of some like episodes that we've done also that she just shared with us, which are freaking rad, and I'm super excited to put on my wall in my room. Yep. So thank you for watching.

Ed

If we were to try to eventually get it set up so you can order prints.

SPEAKER_00

Yep. Yep. So yeah, I think that's for us, right? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thanks for listening, everybody. Yeah, thank you. And uh don't do these things.

Ed

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, ever.

Ed

Make sure you stick around for Marie Antoinette because she's coming up next.

SPEAKER_00

And it's a storm. All right, goodbye, everyone. Bye.