1 00:00:09,876 --> 00:00:28,194 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:28,261 --> 00:00:29,896 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 3 00:00:29,963 --> 00:00:31,064 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:31,131 --> 00:00:32,532 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 5 00:00:32,599 --> 00:00:33,767 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 6 00:00:33,833 --> 00:00:35,368 I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANKS SO MUCH 7 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:36,603 FOR JOINING US. 8 00:00:36,669 --> 00:00:38,037 IT'S BEEN A BUSY WEEK. 9 00:00:38,104 --> 00:00:39,272 RUSSIA PULLED OUT OF KHERSON IN 10 00:00:39,339 --> 00:00:44,844 UKRAINE, AND TWITTER CONTINUED 11 00:00:44,911 --> 00:00:48,548 ITS VERY ENTERTAINING DEATH 12 00:00:48,615 --> 00:00:52,085 SPIRAL, BUT THE BIG NEWS WAS THE 13 00:00:52,152 --> 00:00:52,452 MIDTERM 14 00:00:52,519 --> 00:00:53,052 ELECTIONS, WHERE DEMOCRATS DID 15 00:00:53,119 --> 00:00:53,453 UNEXPECTEDLY WELL. 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:54,087 JOHN FETTERMAN, SEEN HERE IN A 17 00:00:54,154 --> 00:00:54,721 PHILLY TUXEDO, DEFEATED DR. OZ, 18 00:00:54,788 --> 00:00:55,188 SOMETHING PERHAPS BEST 19 00:00:55,255 --> 00:00:55,755 CELEBRATED BY PENNSLVANIA'S 20 00:00:55,822 --> 00:00:56,356 CURRENT DEMOCRATIC SENATOR BOB 21 00:00:56,423 --> 00:00:56,556 CASEY. 22 00:00:56,623 --> 00:00:57,123 AND, BEFORE I SHOW YOU THIS 23 00:00:57,190 --> 00:01:00,894 VIDEO, KNOW THERE ARE SOME 24 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:01,561 UNEXPECTED TWISTS IN IT. 25 00:01:01,628 --> 00:01:02,162 YOU'RE GOING TO HIT THE FIRST 26 00:01:02,228 --> 00:01:02,796 ONE AND THINK "OH, THAT'S WHAT 27 00:01:02,862 --> 00:01:03,530 HE WAS TALKING ABOUT," BUT IT'S 28 00:01:03,596 --> 00:01:04,497 NOT OVER YET. 29 00:01:04,564 --> 00:01:06,099 >> JOHN FETTERMAN WON THE SENATE 30 00:01:06,166 --> 00:01:09,169 RACE. 31 00:01:09,235 --> 00:01:16,543 THIS IS PITTSBURGH BEER. 32 00:01:16,609 --> 00:01:18,678 GOOD WORK, JOHN. 33 00:01:18,745 --> 00:01:20,213 YOU AND GISELE AND YOUR WHOLE 34 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:21,381 TEAM DID GREAT WORK. 35 00:01:21,448 --> 00:01:23,983 CONGRATULATIONS. 36 00:01:24,050 --> 00:01:29,122 ♪ ♪ 37 00:01:29,189 --> 00:01:30,190 I DON'T THINK I'M GOING TO SLEEP 38 00:01:30,256 --> 00:01:30,523 TONIGHT. 39 00:01:30,590 --> 00:01:33,226 I THINK I'M JUST GOING TO HOLD 40 00:01:33,293 --> 00:01:35,528 THIS BEER AND LOOK AT THAT MAP. 41 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:37,130 >> John: OKAY, FIRST, IF YOU'D 42 00:01:37,197 --> 00:01:38,298 GIVEN ME A MILLION GUESSES ABOUT 43 00:01:38,364 --> 00:01:39,599 THE GENRE OF MUSIC THAT WAS 44 00:01:39,666 --> 00:01:41,134 GOING TO RUN A FREIGHT TRAIN 45 00:01:41,201 --> 00:01:42,268 THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THAT CLIP, 46 00:01:42,335 --> 00:01:42,936 NOT A SINGLE ONE WOULD HAVE BEEN 47 00:01:43,002 --> 00:01:43,903 "RAP." 48 00:01:43,970 --> 00:01:45,972 SECOND, FINDING OUT THAT GUY'S 49 00:01:46,039 --> 00:01:47,106 GONNA SPEND THE REST OF HIS 50 00:01:47,173 --> 00:01:47,707 NIGHT STARING AT A MAP ISN'T 51 00:01:47,774 --> 00:01:49,108 REMOTELY SURPRISING. 52 00:01:49,175 --> 00:01:50,443 WE ALL KNOW A MAP GUY WHEN WE 53 00:01:50,510 --> 00:01:51,377 SEE ONE AND YOU SIR? 54 00:01:51,444 --> 00:01:53,346 MAP GUY. 55 00:01:53,413 --> 00:01:55,915 FINALLY, CONGRATULATIONS, JOHN 56 00:01:55,982 --> 00:01:57,517 FETTERMAN, YOU SURVIVED A STROKE 57 00:01:57,584 --> 00:01:58,117 AND AN INCREDIBLY UGLY CAMPAIGN 58 00:01:58,184 --> 00:02:01,154 RUN BY A SNAKE-OIL SALESMAN TO 59 00:02:01,221 --> 00:02:01,888 ONLY WIN SEVERAL YEARS WITH THE 60 00:02:01,955 --> 00:02:04,824 WORLD'S WEIRDEST NEW COWORKER. 61 00:02:04,891 --> 00:02:05,091 HAVE FUN! 62 00:02:05,158 --> 00:02:05,725 ALL IN ALL, TUESDAY WAS A PRETTY 63 00:02:05,792 --> 00:02:06,025 GOOD NIGHT. 64 00:02:06,092 --> 00:02:07,760 DEMOCRATS ALSO WON KEY 65 00:02:07,827 --> 00:02:09,195 GUBERNATORIAL RACES, PROGRESSIVE 66 00:02:09,262 --> 00:02:10,797 PROSECUTORS WON ELECTIONS IN 67 00:02:10,864 --> 00:02:12,065 PLACES LIKE DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS 68 00:02:12,131 --> 00:02:13,533 AND POLK COUNTY, IOWA, AND 69 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:14,234 VOTERS IN THESE FIVE STATES 70 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:15,201 OPTED TO SUPPORT OR DEFEND 71 00:02:15,268 --> 00:02:16,402 ABORTION ACCESS. 72 00:02:16,469 --> 00:02:18,638 AND WHILE IT'S RIDICULOUS THAT 73 00:02:18,705 --> 00:02:20,740 WE'RE HAVING TO FIGHT STATE BY 74 00:02:20,807 --> 00:02:21,674 STATE FOR RIGHTS PEOPLE HAD 75 00:02:21,741 --> 00:02:24,644 EARLIER THIS YEAR, HERE WE ARE. 76 00:02:24,711 --> 00:02:26,112 THERE WERE ALSO BIG LOSSES FOR 77 00:02:26,179 --> 00:02:28,948 SOME ALARMING CANDIDATES WE'VE 78 00:02:29,015 --> 00:02:29,849 FEATURED ON THIS SHOW, LIKE 79 00:02:29,916 --> 00:02:30,450 KRISTINA KARAMO IN MICHIGAN, 80 00:02:30,517 --> 00:02:32,485 DOUG MASTRIANO IN PENNSYLVANIA, 81 00:02:32,552 --> 00:02:33,186 AND BLAKE MASTERS IN ARIZONA. 82 00:02:33,253 --> 00:02:35,021 AND THOSE RESULTS WERE SOMETHING 83 00:02:35,088 --> 00:02:36,022 THAT SENT FOX NEWS PUNDITS 84 00:02:36,089 --> 00:02:43,263 SCRAMBLING FOR ANSWERS. 85 00:02:43,329 --> 00:02:45,665 >> SINGLE WOMEN ARE VOTING 86 00:02:45,732 --> 00:02:46,032 FOR -- 87 00:02:46,099 --> 00:02:46,366 >> 37 POINTS! 88 00:02:46,432 --> 00:02:47,200 AND IN URBAN AMERICA THEY'RE 89 00:02:47,267 --> 00:02:47,734 CLEANING OUR CLOCKS IN THE 90 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:48,001 CITIES. 91 00:02:48,067 --> 00:02:48,768 AND THE FACT THAT THESE YOUTH 92 00:02:48,835 --> 00:02:50,470 VOTERS ARE COMING IN SO STRONG 93 00:02:50,537 --> 00:02:51,571 ON AN OFF-YEAR IS VERY 94 00:02:51,638 --> 00:02:53,239 CONCERNING. 95 00:02:53,306 --> 00:02:54,807 >> THE DEMOCRATS WERE ALSO VERY 96 00:02:54,874 --> 00:02:56,376 DELIBERATE IN THEIR PITCH TO 97 00:02:56,442 --> 00:02:57,210 YOUNG PEOPLE. 98 00:02:57,277 --> 00:02:59,679 THEY OFFERED THEM DRUGS, 99 00:02:59,746 --> 00:03:00,146 RECREATIONAL DRUGS -- 100 00:03:00,213 --> 00:03:00,680 >> POT -- 101 00:03:00,747 --> 00:03:02,215 >> ABORTION, PAID OFF STUDENT 102 00:03:02,282 --> 00:03:02,782 LOANS. 103 00:03:02,849 --> 00:03:03,716 YEAH. 104 00:03:03,783 --> 00:03:05,184 SO, THERE WERE, AGAIN, 105 00:03:05,251 --> 00:03:06,586 ACTIONABLE POLICIES THAT THEY 106 00:03:06,653 --> 00:03:08,454 WERE PROMISING TO ADVANCE AND 107 00:03:08,521 --> 00:03:10,957 CLIMATE CHANGE. 108 00:03:11,024 --> 00:03:13,293 >> John: WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO 109 00:03:13,359 --> 00:03:15,094 GO INTO ALL THE WAYS THEY'RE 110 00:03:15,161 --> 00:03:15,728 TELLING ON THEMSELVES THERE -- 111 00:03:15,795 --> 00:03:16,496 FROM BEING APPALLED YOUNG PEOPLE 112 00:03:16,563 --> 00:03:18,164 WERE VOTING, TO ADMITTING THEY 113 00:03:18,231 --> 00:03:19,632 HAVE ZERO "ACTIONABLE POLICIES", 114 00:03:19,699 --> 00:03:20,433 BUT ADDING "OH, AND CLIMATE 115 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:21,935 CHANGE" AS A COMPLETE 116 00:03:22,001 --> 00:03:22,869 AFTERTHOUGHT IS A PRETTY FUN 117 00:03:22,936 --> 00:03:25,171 ONE. 118 00:03:25,238 --> 00:03:26,472 A NICE LITTLE CHERRY ON TOP OF A 119 00:03:26,539 --> 00:03:27,440 "WHAT THE FUCK HAVE WE DONE" 120 00:03:27,507 --> 00:03:29,008 SUNDAE. 121 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:32,545 BUT ONE PERSON CAME IN FOR A LOT 122 00:03:32,612 --> 00:03:33,179 OF THE BLAME, AND THAT'S DONALD 123 00:03:33,246 --> 00:03:34,080 TRUMP, AS KEY CANDIDATES HE 124 00:03:34,147 --> 00:03:36,082 SUPPORTED LOST. 125 00:03:36,149 --> 00:03:37,483 EVEN SOME ON FOX MADE IT CLEAR 126 00:03:37,550 --> 00:03:37,951 THEY HAD A NEW FAVORITE 127 00:03:38,017 --> 00:03:40,887 REPUBLICAN. 128 00:03:40,954 --> 00:03:41,521 >> RON DeSANTIS WON THE FLORIDA 129 00:03:41,588 --> 00:03:42,922 GOVERNOR'S RACE IN A LANDSLIDE. 130 00:03:42,989 --> 00:03:44,457 INEVITABLY, HE'S NOW SEEN AS A 131 00:03:44,524 --> 00:03:45,491 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. 132 00:03:45,558 --> 00:03:47,260 THAT IS NOT GOING DOWN WELL WITH 133 00:03:47,327 --> 00:03:48,728 DONALD TRUMP. 134 00:03:48,795 --> 00:03:50,096 HE ACTUALLY THREATENED TO REVEAL 135 00:03:50,163 --> 00:03:53,066 PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT 136 00:03:53,132 --> 00:03:53,900 GOVERNOR DeSANTIS IF HE RUNS FOR 137 00:03:53,967 --> 00:03:54,534 THE PRESIDENCY. 138 00:03:54,601 --> 00:03:57,070 BAD MOVE. 139 00:03:57,136 --> 00:04:01,274 TRUMP IS THE PAST. 140 00:04:01,341 --> 00:04:03,376 DeSANTIS, ACCORDING TO THE NEW 141 00:04:03,443 --> 00:04:04,210 YORK POST, IS "DE-FUTURE." 142 00:04:04,277 --> 00:04:05,445 >> John: I DON'T LIKE LIKE A 143 00:04:05,511 --> 00:04:06,112 SINGLE PART OF THAT. 144 00:04:06,179 --> 00:04:06,980 ESPECIALLY NOT WHEN STUART 145 00:04:07,046 --> 00:04:09,082 VARNEY SAID "DE-FUTURE" LIKE A 146 00:04:09,148 --> 00:04:13,353 CHICAGO ALDERMAN INTRODUCING THE 147 00:04:13,419 --> 00:04:14,354 MUSICAL GUEST ON "SNL". 148 00:04:14,420 --> 00:04:14,988 "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 149 00:04:15,054 --> 00:04:15,722 DE-FUTURE." 150 00:04:15,788 --> 00:04:18,491 AND LOOK, THE PROSPECT OF A 151 00:04:18,558 --> 00:04:19,158 PRESIDENT DeSANTIS IS JUST ONE 152 00:04:19,225 --> 00:04:20,693 OF THE WORRYING THINGS THAT CAME 153 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:21,260 UNDER ALL THE GOOD NEWS ON 154 00:04:21,327 --> 00:04:22,228 TUESDAY. 155 00:04:22,295 --> 00:04:24,130 THERE'S A CHANCE REPUBLICANS 156 00:04:24,197 --> 00:04:24,964 WILL RECAPTURE THE HOUSE, AND IF 157 00:04:25,031 --> 00:04:26,232 THEY DO, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO JAM 158 00:04:26,299 --> 00:04:27,533 UP BIDEN FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS, 159 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,369 WITH STUNTS LIKE HOLDING THE 160 00:04:29,435 --> 00:04:30,069 WHOLE COUNTRY HOSTAGE BY 161 00:04:30,136 --> 00:04:30,903 REFUSING TO RAISE THE DEBT 162 00:04:30,970 --> 00:04:32,305 CEILING, AND I DON'T KNOW, 163 00:04:32,372 --> 00:04:33,473 LAUNCHING AN INVESTIGATION INTO 164 00:04:33,539 --> 00:04:35,875 BIDEN'S PELOTON RIDE HISTORY. 165 00:04:35,942 --> 00:04:37,110 PLUS THERE'S THE SMALL MATTER OF 166 00:04:37,176 --> 00:04:38,645 GEORGIA'S RUNOFF ELECTION NEXT 167 00:04:38,711 --> 00:04:39,512 MONTH, WHICH COULD PUT HERSCHEL 168 00:04:39,579 --> 00:04:40,780 WALKER IN THE SENATE. 169 00:04:40,847 --> 00:04:42,415 SO DEMOCRATS STILL HAVE WORK TO 170 00:04:42,482 --> 00:04:43,449 DO. 171 00:04:43,516 --> 00:04:45,151 BUT FOR NOW, THEY CAN PAUSE FOR 172 00:04:45,218 --> 00:04:46,519 A VERY BRIEF CELEBRATION. 173 00:04:46,586 --> 00:04:47,520 MAY I SUGGEST SOMETHING LIKE 174 00:04:47,587 --> 00:04:51,190 THIS. 175 00:04:51,257 --> 00:04:54,994 ♪ ♪ 176 00:04:55,061 --> 00:04:55,261 [LAUGHTER] 177 00:04:55,328 --> 00:04:59,932 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 178 00:04:59,999 --> 00:05:00,500 >> John: I'M JUST GOING TO 179 00:05:00,566 --> 00:05:03,236 HOLD THE SPEAR AND LOOK AT THIS 180 00:05:03,302 --> 00:05:03,403 MAP. 181 00:05:03,469 --> 00:05:04,837 >> John: AND NOW, THIS. 182 00:05:04,904 --> 00:05:08,908 >> ANNOUNCER: AND NOW, 183 00:05:08,975 --> 00:05:10,910 STEVE CARNEGIE IS NEVER NOT AT 184 00:05:10,977 --> 00:05:11,277 THE BIG BOARD. 185 00:05:11,344 --> 00:05:16,349 >> IT'S ELE ELECTION DAY, STEVE 186 00:05:16,416 --> 00:05:19,018 CARNEGIE IS AT THE BIG BOARD. 187 00:05:19,085 --> 00:05:21,287 >> STEVE CARNEGIE AT THE BIG 188 00:05:21,354 --> 00:05:21,487 BOARD. 189 00:05:21,554 --> 00:05:24,691 >> STEVE CARNEGIE IN HIS NATURAL 190 00:05:24,757 --> 00:05:24,924 HABITAT. 191 00:05:24,991 --> 00:05:27,093 >> BIG BOY. 192 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:28,394 >> AT THE BIG BOARD. 193 00:05:28,461 --> 00:05:30,730 >> LET'S GO TO THE BIG BOARD. 194 00:05:30,797 --> 00:05:33,232 >> STEVE CARNEGIE AT THE BIG 195 00:05:33,299 --> 00:05:33,433 BOARD. 196 00:05:33,499 --> 00:05:35,368 >> BACK TO THE BIG BOY. 197 00:05:35,435 --> 00:05:37,704 >> THE GREAT STEVE CARNEGIE AT 198 00:05:37,770 --> 00:05:39,072 THE BIG BOARD. 199 00:05:39,138 --> 00:05:42,175 >> WE HAVE SEEN STANDING AT THE 200 00:05:42,241 --> 00:05:44,277 BIG BOARD AND I DON'T THINK THEY 201 00:05:44,343 --> 00:05:45,044 LET THEM LEAVE THE BIG BOARD. 202 00:05:45,111 --> 00:05:53,586 I THINK HE LIVES THERE NOW. 203 00:05:53,653 --> 00:05:53,786 ♪ ♪ 204 00:05:53,853 --> 00:05:54,287 [LAUGHTER] 205 00:05:54,353 --> 00:05:55,088 >> John: MOVING ON. 206 00:05:55,154 --> 00:05:55,788 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 207 00:05:55,855 --> 00:05:56,255 THE BRITISH MONARCHY. 208 00:05:56,322 --> 00:05:57,623 THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO 209 00:05:57,690 --> 00:05:58,257 WHITE ACTORS SINCE LITERALLY 210 00:05:58,324 --> 00:06:00,126 EVERYTHING ELSE. 211 00:06:00,193 --> 00:06:02,061 THE MONARCHY'S GIVEN THE WORLD 212 00:06:02,128 --> 00:06:10,303 ROYAL WEDDINGS, THE UNVEILING OF 213 00:06:10,369 --> 00:06:12,605 NEW ROYAL BABIES, AND, OF 214 00:06:12,672 --> 00:06:13,172 COURSE, MOMENTS LIKE THIS. 215 00:06:13,239 --> 00:06:13,740 >> HE MAY HAVE GROWN UP IN A 216 00:06:13,806 --> 00:06:14,273 PALACE, BUT TODAY, PRINCE 217 00:06:14,340 --> 00:06:14,874 CHARLES WAS DOING HIS BEST TO 218 00:06:14,941 --> 00:06:15,475 GET IN TOUCH WITH THE MOOD ON 219 00:06:15,541 --> 00:06:15,842 THE STREETS. 220 00:06:15,908 --> 00:06:16,609 >> AH, DIG THAT CRAZY 221 00:06:16,676 --> 00:06:21,347 RHYTHM! 222 00:06:21,414 --> 00:06:27,720 >> John: NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! 223 00:06:27,787 --> 00:06:28,788 THERE'S PERHAPS NOTHING MORE 224 00:06:28,855 --> 00:06:29,188 PATHETIC THAN THE 225 00:06:29,255 --> 00:06:29,789 WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS ADULT SON 226 00:06:29,856 --> 00:06:30,389 SAYING "DIG THAT CRAZY RHYTHM" 227 00:06:30,456 --> 00:06:31,023 WITH WHAT I CAN ONLY DESCRIBE AS 228 00:06:31,090 --> 00:06:31,424 "BIG NARC ENERGY." 229 00:06:31,491 --> 00:06:31,958 THE MONARCHY'S CLEARLY IN 230 00:06:32,024 --> 00:06:32,592 TRANSITION RIGHT NOW, FOLLOWING 231 00:06:32,658 --> 00:06:33,526 THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN -- AN 232 00:06:33,593 --> 00:06:34,227 EVENT THAT PROMPTED TEN DAYS OF 233 00:06:34,293 --> 00:06:35,094 PUBLIC MOURNING, WITH A MASSIVE 234 00:06:35,161 --> 00:06:35,828 LINE OF PEOPLE QUEUING FOR HOURS 235 00:06:35,895 --> 00:06:38,831 TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS. 236 00:06:38,898 --> 00:06:39,599 BUT WHILE SOME WERE DEVASTATED, 237 00:06:39,665 --> 00:06:41,067 OTHERS HAD MORE COMPLICATED 238 00:06:41,134 --> 00:06:43,336 FEELINGS. 239 00:06:43,402 --> 00:06:45,638 >> THE QUEEN, IT'S LIKE, I CARE 240 00:06:45,705 --> 00:06:46,773 BUT I DON'T. 241 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:48,841 THAT'S ME BEING REAL. 242 00:06:48,908 --> 00:06:50,176 >> SO TELL ME ABOUT THE CARE 243 00:06:50,243 --> 00:06:50,810 PART AND THEN TELL ME ABOUT THE 244 00:06:50,877 --> 00:06:51,444 DON'T CARE PART. 245 00:06:51,511 --> 00:06:52,445 >> I CARE BECAUSE IT'S OUR 246 00:06:52,512 --> 00:06:53,546 QUEEN. 247 00:06:53,613 --> 00:06:54,347 >> OUR QUEEN. 248 00:06:54,413 --> 00:06:55,248 IT'S A PER -- IT'S A -- OUR 249 00:06:55,314 --> 00:06:57,250 QUEEN IS A PERSON WHO DIED, 250 00:06:57,316 --> 00:06:57,750 LIKE, IT'S SAD, LIKE -- 251 00:06:57,817 --> 00:06:58,384 >> OKAY, AND THEN THE DON'T CARE 252 00:06:58,451 --> 00:06:59,018 PART. 253 00:06:59,085 --> 00:07:00,119 >> SHE AIN'T DONE NOTHING FOR 254 00:07:00,186 --> 00:07:02,255 US. 255 00:07:02,321 --> 00:07:03,356 >> John: YEAH, I GET THAT. 256 00:07:03,422 --> 00:07:04,824 I HAD A SIMILAR REACTION WHEN 257 00:07:04,891 --> 00:07:06,092 BIG DIED ON THE PELOTON. 258 00:07:06,159 --> 00:07:07,827 I DON'T CARE, BECAUSE BIG WAS 259 00:07:07,894 --> 00:07:08,661 POMPOUS, GOOD FOR NOTHING, AND 260 00:07:08,728 --> 00:07:09,295 -- LET'S BE HONEST -- VOTED FOR 261 00:07:09,362 --> 00:07:10,096 TRUMP. 262 00:07:10,163 --> 00:07:13,866 BUT I DO CARE A LITTLE BECAUSE I 263 00:07:13,933 --> 00:07:15,101 THAT KNOW CARRIE CARES. 264 00:07:15,168 --> 00:07:15,701 LOOK AT HER THERE IN HIS LAST 265 00:07:15,768 --> 00:07:16,702 MOMENTS, DEVASTATED, DOING 266 00:07:16,769 --> 00:07:19,605 ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 267 00:07:19,672 --> 00:07:21,641 BUT THEIR AMBIVALENCE SPEAKS TO 268 00:07:21,707 --> 00:07:22,208 THE FACT THAT -- TO A DEGREE 269 00:07:22,275 --> 00:07:23,142 AMERICANS MAY NOT REALIZE -- THE 270 00:07:23,209 --> 00:07:25,211 MONARCHY ISN'T A UNIVERSALLY 271 00:07:25,278 --> 00:07:26,479 BELOVED INSTITUTION. 272 00:07:26,546 --> 00:07:27,580 AND THEY WERE BEING VERY NICE 273 00:07:27,647 --> 00:07:29,015 ABOUT IT. 274 00:07:29,081 --> 00:07:30,483 OTHERS HAVE BEEN LESS KIND. 275 00:07:30,550 --> 00:07:32,018 IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE QUEEN'S 276 00:07:32,084 --> 00:07:33,953 DEATH, MANY SPORTING EVENTS HELD 277 00:07:34,020 --> 00:07:35,154 A "MINUTE OF SILENCE." 278 00:07:35,221 --> 00:07:36,389 BUT SOME CROWDS -- PARTICULARLY 279 00:07:36,455 --> 00:07:38,224 IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND -- WENT 280 00:07:38,291 --> 00:07:39,826 A DIFFERENT WAY, WITH THIS SONG 281 00:07:39,892 --> 00:07:42,061 PROVING PARTICULARLY POPULAR. 282 00:07:42,128 --> 00:07:42,962 >> [CROWD SINGING "LIZZIE'S IN A 283 00:07:43,029 --> 00:07:54,240 BOX"] 284 00:07:54,307 --> 00:07:55,541 >> John: YEAH, "LIZZIE'S IN A 285 00:07:55,608 --> 00:07:56,442 BOX." 286 00:07:56,509 --> 00:07:58,077 WHICH I KNOW SOUNDS INSENSITIVE, 287 00:07:58,144 --> 00:07:59,779 BUT I'D ARGUE OF ALL THE PLACES 288 00:07:59,846 --> 00:08:01,581 THEY COULD HAVE CHANTED SHE WAS 289 00:08:01,647 --> 00:08:02,448 IN, "BOX" IS ACTUALLY PRETTY 290 00:08:02,515 --> 00:08:04,450 GENEROUS. 291 00:08:04,517 --> 00:08:06,152 AND LOOK, YOU CAN MAKE THE CASE 292 00:08:06,219 --> 00:08:07,086 THAT'S IN BAD TASTE. 293 00:08:07,153 --> 00:08:07,854 YOU CAN ALSO MAKE THE CASE IT'S 294 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:08,588 VERY FUNNY. 295 00:08:08,654 --> 00:08:10,122 TWO THINGS CAN BE TRUE. 296 00:08:10,189 --> 00:08:12,358 EVEN WE GOT IN TROUBLE WHEN 297 00:08:12,425 --> 00:08:14,460 SKY TV IN THE UK CUT A COUPLE OF 298 00:08:14,527 --> 00:08:15,695 FAIRLY BENIGN JOKES WE DID THE 299 00:08:15,761 --> 00:08:17,063 WEEK SHE DIED. 300 00:08:17,129 --> 00:08:19,131 WHO KNOWS IF THIS SEGMENT WILL 301 00:08:19,198 --> 00:08:21,634 EVEN AIR ON TV OVER THERE? 302 00:08:21,701 --> 00:08:22,301 JUST IN CASE THEY REFUSE, WE'VE 303 00:08:22,368 --> 00:08:23,903 ACTUALLY PREPARED AN ALTERNATE 304 00:08:23,970 --> 00:08:25,104 SHOW FOR THEM, WHERE THIS STORY 305 00:08:25,171 --> 00:08:26,472 IS REPLACED WITH A 25-MINUTE 306 00:08:26,539 --> 00:08:29,008 LOOP OF THIS VIDEO OF WINSTON 307 00:08:29,075 --> 00:08:31,477 CHURCHILL GOING BACKWARDS DOWN A 308 00:08:31,544 --> 00:08:32,044 WATERSLIDE, SET TO THE BENNY 309 00:08:32,111 --> 00:08:32,345 HILL THEME. 310 00:08:32,411 --> 00:08:35,414 SO THEY WON'T HAVE NOTHING. 311 00:08:35,481 --> 00:08:37,383 BUT IN THE UK, THE ARGUMENT WAS 312 00:08:37,450 --> 00:08:38,251 THAT, IN THE WAKE OF THE QUEEN'S 313 00:08:38,317 --> 00:08:39,952 DEATH, IT JUST WASN'T THE TIME 314 00:08:40,019 --> 00:08:41,921 FOR CRITICISM OF HER OR THE 315 00:08:41,988 --> 00:08:45,892 MONARCHY IN GENERAL. 316 00:08:45,958 --> 00:08:46,726 IT WOULD BE IMPOLITE. 317 00:08:46,792 --> 00:08:47,693 BUT IT'S BEEN TWO MONTHS SINCE 318 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:48,794 THEN, AND CHARLES IS KING NOW. 319 00:08:48,861 --> 00:08:49,729 AND WHILE, FOR MANY, THE CHARM 320 00:08:49,795 --> 00:08:50,563 OF HIS MOTHER WAS IN HER 321 00:08:50,630 --> 00:08:51,163 LONGEVITY. 322 00:08:51,230 --> 00:08:53,332 SHE WAS THE ONLY SOVEREIGN MOST 323 00:08:53,399 --> 00:08:54,734 BRITONS HAD EVER KNOWN, AND HER 324 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,369 TENDENCY TOWARD SILENCE, YOU 325 00:08:56,435 --> 00:08:57,703 NEVER KNEW WHAT SHE THOUGHT 326 00:08:57,770 --> 00:08:59,138 ABOUT ANYTHING. 327 00:08:59,205 --> 00:09:00,907 NEITHER OF THOSE THINGS ARE TRUE 328 00:09:00,973 --> 00:09:01,908 OF HER SON. 329 00:09:01,974 --> 00:09:03,609 BECAUSE CHARLES -- A MAN WHOSE 330 00:09:03,676 --> 00:09:04,443 FACE ANSWERS THE QUESTION "WHAT 331 00:09:04,510 --> 00:09:05,878 IF TWO COUSINS HAD A KID" -- IS 332 00:09:05,945 --> 00:09:11,851 TAKING THE THRONE AT THE RIPE 333 00:09:11,918 --> 00:09:12,385 AGE OF 73, HE HAD TO PUT IT 334 00:09:12,451 --> 00:09:13,052 MILDLY, AN INCREDIBLY MESSY 335 00:09:13,119 --> 00:09:13,986 DIVORCE, AND HAS BEEN OUTSPOKEN 336 00:09:14,053 --> 00:09:14,820 ON A RANGE OF TOPICS, FROM 337 00:09:14,887 --> 00:09:15,454 ARCHITECTURE, TO THE 338 00:09:15,521 --> 00:09:19,425 ENVIRONMENT, TO HIS BELIEF IN 339 00:09:19,492 --> 00:09:20,459 HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE, INCLUDING 340 00:09:20,526 --> 00:09:20,993 SUPPORTING A CONTROVERSIAL 341 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:21,861 CANCER TREATMENT WHICH INVOLVES 342 00:09:21,928 --> 00:09:23,195 13 FRUIT JUICES A DAY, COFFEE 343 00:09:23,262 --> 00:09:24,463 ENEMAS, AND WEEKLY INJECTIONS OF 344 00:09:24,530 --> 00:09:25,631 VITAMINS. 345 00:09:25,698 --> 00:09:27,033 THE POINT IS, HE DOESN'T HAVE 346 00:09:27,099 --> 00:09:29,135 THE INSCRUTABILITY OF HIS 347 00:09:29,201 --> 00:09:30,469 MOTHER, OR ENJOY HER LEVEL OF 348 00:09:30,536 --> 00:09:31,404 PUBLIC AFFECTION. 349 00:09:31,470 --> 00:09:33,673 AND HIS ASCENT TO THE THRONE 350 00:09:33,739 --> 00:09:34,206 COMES AS THE UK'S FACING A 351 00:09:34,273 --> 00:09:36,208 COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS. 352 00:09:36,275 --> 00:09:38,244 ONE MAN EVEN CONFRONTED CHARLES 353 00:09:38,311 --> 00:09:39,378 DIRECTLY ABOUT THIS. 354 00:09:39,445 --> 00:09:40,880 >> CHARLES! 355 00:09:40,947 --> 00:09:42,214 WHILE WE STRUGGLE TO HEAT OUR 356 00:09:42,281 --> 00:09:43,015 HOMES, WE HAVE TO PAY FOR YOUR 357 00:09:43,082 --> 00:09:44,116 PARADE. 358 00:09:44,183 --> 00:09:45,217 >> OH... 359 00:09:45,284 --> 00:09:46,752 >> THE TAXPAYER PAYS 360 00:09:46,819 --> 00:09:49,121 $100 MILLION FOR YOU, WHAT FOR? 361 00:09:49,188 --> 00:09:50,222 >> John: WOW. 362 00:09:50,289 --> 00:09:52,124 THAT BEFUDDLED "OH" FROM HIM 363 00:09:52,191 --> 00:09:55,628 PRETTY MUCH SAYS IT ALL THERE. 364 00:09:55,695 --> 00:09:56,629 BUT THAT WASN'T THE ONLY RECENT 365 00:09:56,696 --> 00:09:56,862 PROTEST. 366 00:09:56,929 --> 00:09:57,463 JUST THIS WEEK, A MAN THREW 367 00:09:57,530 --> 00:09:58,130 MULTIPLE EGGS AT CHARLES ON THE 368 00:09:58,197 --> 00:09:59,198 STREET. 369 00:09:59,265 --> 00:10:00,800 AND WHEN THEY CAUGHT HIM, HE 370 00:10:00,866 --> 00:10:01,834 DIDN'T SEEM THAT SORRY, GIVEN 371 00:10:01,901 --> 00:10:03,202 THIS WAS THE PHOTO FROM HIS 372 00:10:03,269 --> 00:10:05,037 ARREST. 373 00:10:05,104 --> 00:10:06,372 HE WAS RELEASED ON BAIL, WITH 374 00:10:06,439 --> 00:10:07,840 CONDITIONS INCLUDING -- AND THIS 375 00:10:07,907 --> 00:10:09,275 IS TRUE -- NOT BEING ALLOWED TO 376 00:10:09,342 --> 00:10:11,177 BE WITHIN 500 METERS OF THE 377 00:10:11,243 --> 00:10:13,179 KING, AND NOT BEING ALLOWED TO 378 00:10:13,245 --> 00:10:14,013 POSSESS ANY EGGS IN A PUBLIC 379 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:15,448 PLACE. 380 00:10:15,514 --> 00:10:17,416 WHICH REALLY SHOWS JUST HOW FAR 381 00:10:17,483 --> 00:10:18,017 THE POWER OF THE MONARCHY HAS 382 00:10:18,084 --> 00:10:18,651 FALLEN. 383 00:10:18,718 --> 00:10:20,286 A FEW HUNDRED YEARS AGO, IT 384 00:10:20,353 --> 00:10:20,886 WOULD HAVE BEEN INSTANT 385 00:10:20,953 --> 00:10:21,921 BEHEADING. 386 00:10:21,988 --> 00:10:23,055 NOW THE PUNISHMENT IS "BE 387 00:10:23,122 --> 00:10:23,622 CAREFUL IN THE REFRIGERATED 388 00:10:23,689 --> 00:10:25,458 AISLE." 389 00:10:25,524 --> 00:10:26,892 SO GIVEN THAT CHARLES IS NOW 390 00:10:26,959 --> 00:10:28,260 KING, AND WILL ACTUALLY HAVE A 391 00:10:28,327 --> 00:10:30,363 FORMAL CORONATION NEXT MAY, TO 392 00:10:30,429 --> 00:10:32,665 BE BEAMED BY CAMERAS ALL AROUND 393 00:10:32,732 --> 00:10:34,467 THE WORLD, BEFORE THAT HAPPENS, 394 00:10:34,533 --> 00:10:36,535 WE THOUGHT TONIGHT, IT'D BE 395 00:10:36,602 --> 00:10:42,108 WORTH LOOKING AT THE BRITISH 396 00:10:42,174 --> 00:10:42,708 MONARCHY SPECIFICALLY, TO ASK 397 00:10:42,775 --> 00:10:43,309 WHAT THE POINT OF IT IS, FIRST 398 00:10:43,376 --> 00:10:43,843 IN THE UK, AND THEN IN THE 399 00:10:43,909 --> 00:10:44,477 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD WHERE 400 00:10:44,543 --> 00:10:45,077 THE MONARCH STILL SERVES AS A 401 00:10:45,144 --> 00:10:45,378 FIGUREHEAD. 402 00:10:45,444 --> 00:10:47,113 AND LET'S START WITH THE BASIC 403 00:10:47,179 --> 00:10:48,547 QUESTION OF, "WHAT DOES THE 404 00:10:48,614 --> 00:10:50,316 ROYAL FAMILY DO?" 405 00:10:50,383 --> 00:10:51,751 IT'S SOMETHING THAT EVEN THEY'VE 406 00:10:51,817 --> 00:10:52,685 HAD TROUBLE DEFINING IN THE 407 00:10:52,752 --> 00:10:53,986 PAST, AS THIS CLIP OF 408 00:10:54,053 --> 00:10:54,954 PRINCE PHILIP FROM 1968 409 00:10:55,021 --> 00:10:56,489 DEMONSTRATES. 410 00:10:56,555 --> 00:10:58,958 >> COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT IS 411 00:10:59,025 --> 00:11:02,595 YOUR JOB IN YOUR OWN MIND? 412 00:11:02,661 --> 00:11:03,429 >> WELL, I HAVEN'T GOT ONE. 413 00:11:03,496 --> 00:11:05,564 I'M SELF-EMPLOYED. 414 00:11:05,631 --> 00:11:06,599 >> BUT SURELY, YOU MUST HAVE 415 00:11:06,665 --> 00:11:10,102 SOME CLEAR IDEA OF WHAT ROLE YOU 416 00:11:10,169 --> 00:11:14,907 FULFILL IN MODERN SOCIETY. 417 00:11:14,974 --> 00:11:16,275 >> REALLY DIFFICULT TO ANSWER. 418 00:11:16,342 --> 00:11:17,943 >> John: WOW. 419 00:11:18,010 --> 00:11:20,146 IT'S AMAZING TO WATCH HIM 420 00:11:20,212 --> 00:11:21,180 INITIALLY LAUGH THAT OFF BEFORE 421 00:11:21,247 --> 00:11:22,114 CONSIDERING THE QUESTION AND 422 00:11:22,181 --> 00:11:22,948 FACING SOMETHING OF AN 423 00:11:23,015 --> 00:11:25,751 EXISTENTIAL CRISIS. 424 00:11:25,818 --> 00:11:26,719 BUT SINCE THAT QUESTION SEEMED 425 00:11:26,786 --> 00:11:27,520 TO STUMP HIM, PERHAPS WE CAN 426 00:11:27,586 --> 00:11:28,220 HELP. 427 00:11:28,287 --> 00:11:29,789 UNLIKE IN THE U.S., WHERE THE 428 00:11:29,855 --> 00:11:30,489 HEAD OF GOVERNMENT AND THE HEAD 429 00:11:30,556 --> 00:11:33,092 OF STATE ARE THE SAME PERSON, IN 430 00:11:33,159 --> 00:11:33,659 THE UK, THOSE ARE TWO VERY 431 00:11:33,726 --> 00:11:35,394 DIFFERENT ROLES. 432 00:11:35,461 --> 00:11:36,462 BECAUSE WHILE, FOR CENTURIES, 433 00:11:36,529 --> 00:11:37,863 THE BRITISH MONARCH HAD HUGE 434 00:11:37,930 --> 00:11:39,698 POLITICAL POWER, IT WAS 435 00:11:39,765 --> 00:11:41,434 GRADUALLY STRIPPED AWAY, TO THE 436 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:42,668 POINT THAT THE POSITION'S NOW 437 00:11:42,735 --> 00:11:44,603 LARGELY SYMBOLIC. 438 00:11:44,670 --> 00:11:45,704 THE MONARCH'S MAIN ROLE, AS HEAD 439 00:11:45,771 --> 00:11:47,006 OF STATE, IS TO RECEIVE INCOMING 440 00:11:47,073 --> 00:11:48,074 AND OUTGOING AMBASSADORS AND 441 00:11:48,140 --> 00:11:49,341 VISITING HEADS OF STATE, AND TO 442 00:11:49,408 --> 00:11:50,910 MAKE VISITS ABROAD. 443 00:11:50,976 --> 00:11:52,812 HERE'S THE QUEEN MEETING 444 00:11:52,878 --> 00:11:53,546 NARENDRA MODI, HERE SHE IS 445 00:11:53,612 --> 00:11:54,613 TAKING A CARRIAGE RIDE WITH 446 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:56,549 VLADIMIR PUTIN, AND HERE SHE IS 447 00:11:56,615 --> 00:11:57,650 WITH FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. 448 00:11:57,716 --> 00:11:58,984 JUST TWO PEOPLE DELIGHTED TO BE 449 00:11:59,051 --> 00:12:01,821 THERE. 450 00:12:01,887 --> 00:12:02,788 YOU DON'T USUALLY SEE A PAIR SO 451 00:12:02,855 --> 00:12:04,090 UNHAPPY WHILE WEARING FANCY 452 00:12:04,156 --> 00:12:05,224 COSTUMES OUTSIDE OF CATS ON 453 00:12:05,291 --> 00:12:07,226 HALLOWEEN. 454 00:12:07,293 --> 00:12:08,294 THERE ARE ALSO SMALLER 455 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,496 RESPONSIBILITIES, LIKE VISITING 456 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:12,531 FACTORIES AND OPENING THINGS, 457 00:12:12,598 --> 00:12:13,165 AND ALSO -- AND THIS IS TRUE -- 458 00:12:13,232 --> 00:12:14,300 SENDING PEOPLE BIRTHDAY CARDS 459 00:12:14,366 --> 00:12:15,067 WHEN THEY TURN 100. 460 00:12:15,134 --> 00:12:17,103 BASICALLY, THINK OF THE ROYALS 461 00:12:17,169 --> 00:12:17,870 AS MICKEY AND MINNIE AT 462 00:12:17,937 --> 00:12:18,771 DISNEYLAND. 463 00:12:18,838 --> 00:12:20,139 THEY'RE NOT RUNNING THE RIDES, 464 00:12:20,206 --> 00:12:21,707 BUT THEY'RE A MASCOT FOR THE 465 00:12:21,774 --> 00:12:23,843 WHOLE OPERATION, AND PEOPLE LIKE 466 00:12:23,909 --> 00:12:25,878 HAVING PICTURES TAKEN WITH THEM. 467 00:12:25,945 --> 00:12:27,546 AND THE FAMILY'S DEFENDERS WILL 468 00:12:27,613 --> 00:12:28,280 SAY THAT THE CEREMONIAL ASPECT 469 00:12:28,347 --> 00:12:30,182 OF THE MONARCHY IS THE WHOLE 470 00:12:30,249 --> 00:12:30,950 POINT. 471 00:12:31,016 --> 00:12:31,817 IN FACT, THE ROYAL FAMILY'S 472 00:12:31,884 --> 00:12:33,452 OFFICIAL WEBSITE DESCRIBES THE 473 00:12:33,519 --> 00:12:36,655 ROLE OF SOVEREIGN AS A FOCUS FOR 474 00:12:36,722 --> 00:12:37,256 NATIONAL IDENTITY, UNITY, AND 475 00:12:37,323 --> 00:12:38,390 PRIDE, AND THAT IT GIVES A SENSE 476 00:12:38,457 --> 00:12:40,292 OF STABILITY AND CONTINUITY. 477 00:12:40,359 --> 00:12:42,027 BUT THAT COMES AT A PRICE. 478 00:12:42,094 --> 00:12:44,630 AS YOU HEARD THAT MAN YELL 479 00:12:44,697 --> 00:12:45,965 EARLIER, BRITONS PAY MILLIONS OF 480 00:12:46,031 --> 00:12:47,600 POUNDS, EVERY YEAR, TO SUPPORT 481 00:12:47,666 --> 00:12:48,234 THE ROYALS. 482 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:50,102 ALTHOUGH SOME ARGUE, IT'S MONEY 483 00:12:50,169 --> 00:12:51,137 WELL SPENT. 484 00:12:51,203 --> 00:12:52,938 >> INTERESTINGLY, THE BRITISH 485 00:12:53,005 --> 00:12:55,508 STATE GIVES, OR THE GOVERNMENT 486 00:12:55,574 --> 00:12:56,675 GIVES THE ROYAL FAMILY 487 00:12:56,742 --> 00:12:57,376 £100 MILLION PER YEAR, ROUGHLY. 488 00:12:57,443 --> 00:12:58,777 IT'S CALLED THE SOVEREIGN GRANT 489 00:12:58,844 --> 00:13:01,647 TO PAY FOR UPKEEP. 490 00:13:01,714 --> 00:13:03,215 BUT TOURISM GENERATED BY THE 491 00:13:03,282 --> 00:13:04,517 ROYAL FAMILY GENERATES ABOUT 500 492 00:13:04,583 --> 00:13:10,489 MILLION A YEAR. 493 00:13:10,556 --> 00:13:10,856 SO, THAT'S 5-1. 494 00:13:10,923 --> 00:13:11,423 I WOULD TAKE -- I WOULD TAKE 495 00:13:11,490 --> 00:13:12,024 THAT INVESTMENT RETURN. 496 00:13:12,091 --> 00:13:12,625 >> John: YES, DEFENDERS ARGUE 497 00:13:12,691 --> 00:13:13,259 WHATEVER MONEY THE ROYAL FAMILY 498 00:13:13,325 --> 00:13:13,993 COSTS IS VASTLY OUTWEIGHED BY 499 00:13:14,059 --> 00:13:15,027 WHAT THEY BRING IN. 500 00:13:15,094 --> 00:13:16,061 IT'S THE SAME ARGUMENT THOUSANDS 501 00:13:16,128 --> 00:13:17,463 OF MEN HAVE MADE TO THEIR WIVES 502 00:13:17,530 --> 00:13:18,864 ABOUT INVESTING IN CRYPTO. 503 00:13:18,931 --> 00:13:20,366 AND IT'S GOING REALLY WELL FOR 504 00:13:20,432 --> 00:13:21,767 THEM RIGHT NOW! 505 00:13:21,834 --> 00:13:22,902 BUT A FEW THINGS. 506 00:13:22,968 --> 00:13:25,104 FIRST, THE CLAIM THEY BRING IN 507 00:13:25,171 --> 00:13:27,473 $500 MILLION A YEAR IN TOURISM 508 00:13:27,540 --> 00:13:28,040 IS HEAVILY DISPUTED. 509 00:13:28,107 --> 00:13:29,975 AND IT'S NOT LIKE THAT GOES AWAY 510 00:13:30,042 --> 00:13:30,743 IF THE ROYAL FAMILY DOES. 511 00:13:30,809 --> 00:13:32,578 YOU CAN STILL VISIT A PALACE IF 512 00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:34,146 NOBODY LIVES INSIDE IT. 513 00:13:34,213 --> 00:13:36,015 NOBODY SHOWS UP TO VERSAILLES 514 00:13:36,081 --> 00:13:37,149 AND SAYS, "WAIT, NO ONE LIVES 515 00:13:37,216 --> 00:13:39,485 HERE? 516 00:13:39,552 --> 00:13:40,786 IT'S A HARD PASS FOR ME." 517 00:13:40,853 --> 00:13:41,587 AND THE NOTION THAT "THE 518 00:13:41,654 --> 00:13:43,222 MONARCHY ONLY COSTS $100 MILLION 519 00:13:43,289 --> 00:13:44,823 POUNDS" ALSO HAS SOME MAJOR 520 00:13:44,890 --> 00:13:45,691 ASTERISKS ON IT. 521 00:13:45,758 --> 00:13:47,226 BECAUSE WHILE IT'S TRUE THAT, AS 522 00:13:47,293 --> 00:13:48,294 IS OFTEN SAID, THE "SOVEREIGN 523 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:54,400 GRANT" AMOUNTS TO JUST OVER A 524 00:13:54,466 --> 00:13:55,034 POUND A PERSON IN THE UK, IT'S 525 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:55,601 BY NO MEANS THE ROYALS' ONLY 526 00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:56,035 SOURCE OF INCOME. 527 00:13:56,101 --> 00:13:56,635 >> THE NEW KING NOW HAS THREE 528 00:13:56,702 --> 00:13:58,237 MAIN SOURCES OF WEALTH, THE 529 00:13:58,304 --> 00:13:59,838 SOVEREIGN GRANT, MONEY THE UK 530 00:13:59,905 --> 00:14:00,673 TREASURY GIVES THE CROWN TO 531 00:14:00,739 --> 00:14:02,308 FULFILL ITS ROYAL DUTIES. 532 00:14:02,374 --> 00:14:03,842 THE FAMILY'S PRIVATE WEALTH, THE 533 00:14:03,909 --> 00:14:05,511 FULL EXTENT A CLOSELY GUARDED 534 00:14:05,578 --> 00:14:07,079 SECRET. 535 00:14:07,146 --> 00:14:08,681 THEN THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER, A 536 00:14:08,747 --> 00:14:11,150 PRIVATE ESTATE OF LAND PROPERTY 537 00:14:11,217 --> 00:14:12,585 AND ASSETS, THE MONARCH RECEIVES 538 00:14:12,651 --> 00:14:14,053 ITS ANNUAL PROFITS. 539 00:14:14,119 --> 00:14:15,921 THE QUEEN RECEIVED $27 MILLION 540 00:14:15,988 --> 00:14:17,656 FROM IT LAST YEAR. 541 00:14:17,723 --> 00:14:18,457 >> John: IT'S TRUE. 542 00:14:18,524 --> 00:14:20,659 THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER IS A 543 00:14:20,726 --> 00:14:22,361 MASSIVE PROPERTY PORTFOLIO, 544 00:14:22,428 --> 00:14:22,895 CONTAINING LAND THAT -- 545 00:14:22,962 --> 00:14:24,163 INCIDENTALLY -- WAS SEIZED BY 546 00:14:24,230 --> 00:14:25,431 THE MONARCHY BACK IN THE 13TH 547 00:14:25,497 --> 00:14:26,732 CENTURY, AND FROM WHICH THEY 548 00:14:26,799 --> 00:14:27,366 CONTINUE TO DRAW PERSONAL 549 00:14:27,433 --> 00:14:29,702 PROFITS TO THIS DAY. 550 00:14:29,768 --> 00:14:30,803 SO, AS KING, CHARLES GETS MONEY 551 00:14:30,869 --> 00:14:31,604 FROM THE GOVERNMENT, MONEY 552 00:14:31,670 --> 00:14:33,472 PASSED DOWN THROUGH HIS FAMILY 553 00:14:33,539 --> 00:14:34,039 AND MONEY FROM THE DUCHY OF 554 00:14:34,106 --> 00:14:34,640 LANCASTER. 555 00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:36,275 AND NONE OF THAT INCLUDES THE 556 00:14:36,342 --> 00:14:37,243 DUCHY OF CORNWALL, HELD BY 557 00:14:37,309 --> 00:14:39,578 WHOEVER HOLDS THE TITLE OF 558 00:14:39,645 --> 00:14:40,846 PRINCE OF WALES -- NOW PRINCE 559 00:14:40,913 --> 00:14:42,181 WILLIAM. 560 00:14:42,248 --> 00:14:43,882 THAT'S A SEPARATE BILLION-DOLLAR 561 00:14:43,949 --> 00:14:46,418 REAL ESTATE PORTFOLIO NEARLY THE 562 00:14:46,485 --> 00:14:47,720 SIZE OF CHICAGO, BY THE WAY, 563 00:14:47,786 --> 00:14:49,388 WHICH INCLUDES SEASIDE VACATION 564 00:14:49,455 --> 00:14:50,589 RENTALS, OFFICE SPACE IN LONDON 565 00:14:50,656 --> 00:14:52,024 AND A SUBURBAN SUPERMARKET 566 00:14:52,091 --> 00:14:53,692 DEPOT. 567 00:14:53,759 --> 00:14:58,897 THAT ALONE BROUGHT IN MORE THAN 568 00:14:58,964 --> 00:14:59,531 $56 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL INCOME 569 00:14:59,598 --> 00:15:00,165 FOR THE FAMILY LAST YEAR SO THE 570 00:15:00,232 --> 00:15:01,233 ROYAL FAMILY'S WEALTH -- UNLIKE 571 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:02,768 THEIR GENE POOL -- IS MASSIVE. 572 00:15:02,835 --> 00:15:03,869 AND WHILE, IN 1993, IN RESPONSE 573 00:15:03,936 --> 00:15:06,872 TO PUBLIC ANGER OVER THEIR 574 00:15:06,939 --> 00:15:08,040 SPENDING, BOTH THE QUEEN AND 575 00:15:08,107 --> 00:15:10,109 CHARLES AGREED TO PAY 576 00:15:10,175 --> 00:15:11,076 "VOLUNTARY" INCOME TAXES, THAT 577 00:15:11,143 --> 00:15:11,677 ARRANGEMENT ISN'T NECESSARILY 578 00:15:11,744 --> 00:15:13,412 PERMANENT. 579 00:15:13,479 --> 00:15:14,947 MEANWHILE, THE TWO DUCHIES ARE 580 00:15:15,014 --> 00:15:16,982 COMPLETELY EXEMPT FROM 581 00:15:17,049 --> 00:15:18,017 CORPORATION TAXES, AND CHARLES 582 00:15:18,083 --> 00:15:19,585 DOESN'T HAVE TO PAY ANY 583 00:15:19,652 --> 00:15:20,719 INHERITANCE TAX ON WHATEVER THE 584 00:15:20,786 --> 00:15:21,620 QUEEN PASSED ON TO HIM. 585 00:15:21,687 --> 00:15:24,423 AND WHEN YOU FACTOR ALL THAT IN 586 00:15:24,490 --> 00:15:25,057 IT SURE STARTS TO FEEL LIKE 587 00:15:25,124 --> 00:15:26,258 THEY'RE COSTING A HELL OF A LOT 588 00:15:26,325 --> 00:15:27,226 MORE THAN JUST A POUND PER 589 00:15:27,293 --> 00:15:28,260 PERSON. 590 00:15:28,327 --> 00:15:29,662 SO, IS IT WORTH IT? 591 00:15:29,728 --> 00:15:32,831 WELL, I THINK MY POSITION ON THE 592 00:15:32,898 --> 00:15:33,966 ROYAL FAMILY IS PRETTY 593 00:15:34,033 --> 00:15:35,567 WELL-DOCUMENTED. 594 00:15:35,634 --> 00:15:36,168 TO ME, THEY'RE LIKE A HUMAN 595 00:15:36,235 --> 00:15:37,102 APPENDIX. 596 00:15:37,169 --> 00:15:38,604 WE'VE LONG EVOLVED PAST NEEDING 597 00:15:38,671 --> 00:15:39,838 THEM, AND THERE'S A COMPELLING 598 00:15:39,905 --> 00:15:42,675 CASE FOR THEIR SURGICAL REMOVAL. 599 00:15:42,741 --> 00:15:44,977 BUT I ADMIT, I'M IN THE MINORITY 600 00:15:45,044 --> 00:15:47,046 WHEN IT COMES TO BRITISH PEOPLE. 601 00:15:47,112 --> 00:15:47,613 MANY FEEL EXACTLY LIKE THIS 602 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,381 WOMAN DOES. 603 00:15:49,448 --> 00:15:50,649 >> I JUST THINK IT'S NICE THAT 604 00:15:50,716 --> 00:15:51,517 WE HAVE IT, AND IT MAKES US A 605 00:15:51,583 --> 00:15:52,284 BIT UNUSUAL. 606 00:15:52,351 --> 00:15:52,518 UNIQUE. 607 00:15:52,584 --> 00:15:54,453 YEAH. 608 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:55,554 I MEAN, IT'S NICE THAT WE HAVE 609 00:15:55,621 --> 00:15:56,689 IT. 610 00:15:56,755 --> 00:15:58,691 IT'S A BRITISH THING, ISN'T IT? 611 00:15:58,757 --> 00:16:00,526 AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE 612 00:16:00,592 --> 00:16:02,428 WOULD LIKE WHAT WE HAVE. 613 00:16:02,494 --> 00:16:04,029 >> John: OKAY, BUT "IT'S NICE 614 00:16:04,096 --> 00:16:05,564 THAT WE HAVE IT" ISN'T WHAT YOU 615 00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:07,066 SAY ABOUT A FREE-LOADING 616 00:16:07,132 --> 00:16:08,467 MULTIMILLIONAIRE FAMILY EXEMPT 617 00:16:08,534 --> 00:16:09,501 FROM PAYING MOST TAXES, IT'S 618 00:16:09,568 --> 00:16:11,103 WHAT YOU SAY ABOUT A WATER 619 00:16:11,170 --> 00:16:13,572 DISPENSER IN YOUR FRIDGE. 620 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:14,873 AS FOR BEING "A BRITISH THING," 621 00:16:14,940 --> 00:16:16,175 THAT'S NOT A GREAT 622 00:16:16,241 --> 00:16:16,875 JUSTIFICATION, EITHER. 623 00:16:16,942 --> 00:16:17,743 YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS A BRITISH 624 00:16:17,810 --> 00:16:18,344 THING? 625 00:16:18,410 --> 00:16:20,079 MUSHY PEAS. 626 00:16:20,145 --> 00:16:21,413 IF YOU'VE NEVER HAD THE 627 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:22,781 PLEASURE, IMAGINE EMOTIONALLY 628 00:16:22,848 --> 00:16:24,983 UNAVAILABLE GUACAMOLE. 629 00:16:25,050 --> 00:16:26,185 THEY'RE LIKE IF MASHED POTATOES 630 00:16:26,251 --> 00:16:32,458 KILLED THEMSELVES. 631 00:16:32,524 --> 00:16:32,958 BUT THE FACT IS, 67% OF 632 00:16:33,025 --> 00:16:33,559 PEOPLE IN THE UK FEEL THAT THE 633 00:16:33,625 --> 00:16:34,426 MONARCHY SHOULD REMAIN. 634 00:16:34,493 --> 00:16:36,362 SO FOR NOW, IT SEEMS SECURE 635 00:16:36,428 --> 00:16:36,895 THERE. 636 00:16:36,962 --> 00:16:38,430 BUT THAT BRINGS US TO THE SECOND 637 00:16:38,497 --> 00:16:39,164 PART OF THIS STORY. 638 00:16:39,231 --> 00:16:40,532 BECAUSE ABROAD, THEIR ROLE IS A 639 00:16:40,599 --> 00:16:42,301 MUCH MORE OPEN QUESTION. 640 00:16:42,368 --> 00:16:46,071 CHARLES IS NOW HEAD OF THE 641 00:16:46,138 --> 00:16:47,005 COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS, A 642 00:16:47,072 --> 00:16:47,940 LOOSE ALLIANCE LARGELY COMPOSED 643 00:16:48,006 --> 00:16:49,074 OF FORMER BRITISH COLONIES, 644 00:16:49,141 --> 00:16:50,776 FOURTEEN OF WHICH STILL HAVE THE 645 00:16:50,843 --> 00:16:52,010 BRITISH MONARCH AS THEIR TITULAR 646 00:16:52,077 --> 00:16:53,979 HEAD OF STATE, IN SPITE OF BEING 647 00:16:54,046 --> 00:16:55,180 SELF-RULING NATIONS. 648 00:16:55,247 --> 00:16:57,182 THESE ARE THOSE COUNTRIES. 649 00:16:57,249 --> 00:16:58,217 AND DEBATES HAVE BEEN RAGING FOR 650 00:16:58,283 --> 00:17:00,152 A WHILE IN MANY OF THEM ABOUT 651 00:17:00,219 --> 00:17:01,186 WHAT THE CROWN REPRESENTS. 652 00:17:01,253 --> 00:17:02,421 AS WE MENTIONED BACK IN MARCH, 653 00:17:02,488 --> 00:17:03,555 WILLIAM AND KATE HAD TO CANCEL 654 00:17:03,622 --> 00:17:05,591 THE FIRST STOP ON THEIR ROYAL 655 00:17:05,657 --> 00:17:07,559 TOUR THROUGH THE CARIBBEAN, DUE 656 00:17:07,626 --> 00:17:08,427 TO OVERWHELMING LOCAL PROTESTS. 657 00:17:08,494 --> 00:17:09,928 AND IN AUSTRALIA, IN THE WAKE OF 658 00:17:09,995 --> 00:17:11,597 THE QUEEN'S DEATH, THE WOMEN'S 659 00:17:11,663 --> 00:17:12,664 AUSSIE-RULES FOOTBALL LEAGUE 660 00:17:12,731 --> 00:17:14,166 HELD A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR 661 00:17:14,233 --> 00:17:15,334 HER, BUT -- GIVEN THEY WERE, BY 662 00:17:15,401 --> 00:17:17,469 COINCIDENCE, IN THE MIDST OF A 663 00:17:17,536 --> 00:17:19,104 TEN-DAY TRIBUTE TO INDIGENOUS 664 00:17:19,171 --> 00:17:21,206 PLAYERS -- THEY OPTED TO NOT DO 665 00:17:21,273 --> 00:17:21,740 THAT FOR THE REST OF THE 666 00:17:21,807 --> 00:17:23,108 MOURNING PERIOD, PROMPTING THIS 667 00:17:23,175 --> 00:17:25,544 MAN TO FREAK OUT. 668 00:17:25,611 --> 00:17:26,812 >> WHAT A DISGRACE. 669 00:17:26,879 --> 00:17:28,347 SERIOUSLY, I MEAN THAT ANY 670 00:17:28,414 --> 00:17:29,848 SPORTING ORGANIZATION IN THIS 671 00:17:29,915 --> 00:17:31,950 COUNTRY WOULD THINK THERE IS ANY 672 00:17:32,017 --> 00:17:33,719 REASON NOT TO HONOR THE QUEEN IS 673 00:17:33,786 --> 00:17:35,354 A JOKE. 674 00:17:35,421 --> 00:17:37,122 AND WHY CAN'T THEY HAVE A 675 00:17:37,189 --> 00:17:38,424 MINUTE'S SILENCE IN INDIGENOUS 676 00:17:38,490 --> 00:17:40,726 WEEK ANYWAY? 677 00:17:40,793 --> 00:17:41,827 I MEAN, YOU KNOW, INDIGENOUS 678 00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:44,463 PEOPLE ARE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE. 679 00:17:44,530 --> 00:17:47,900 THEY WERE SUBJECTS OF HER 680 00:17:47,966 --> 00:17:48,367 MAJESTY THE QUEEN. 681 00:17:48,434 --> 00:17:49,268 AND YOU CAN 682 00:17:49,334 --> 00:17:50,669 HAVE YOUR ARGUMENTS ABOUT 683 00:17:50,736 --> 00:17:51,637 COLONIALISM OR WHATEVER, BUT THE 684 00:17:51,703 --> 00:17:53,639 QUEEN IN THIS COUNTRY AND FOR 685 00:17:53,705 --> 00:17:55,374 THE WORLD WAS A FORCE FOR GOOD. 686 00:17:55,441 --> 00:17:56,608 >> John: WHAT? 687 00:17:56,675 --> 00:17:58,477 YOU CAN'T JUST GLOSS OVER THE 688 00:17:58,544 --> 00:18:00,145 ENTIRE HISTORY OF COLONIALISM 689 00:18:00,212 --> 00:18:01,313 THERE. 690 00:18:01,380 --> 00:18:02,381 ITS LIKE SAYING, "HAVE ALL THE 691 00:18:02,448 --> 00:18:03,882 ARGUMENTS ABOUT MURDER OR 692 00:18:03,949 --> 00:18:05,818 WHATEVER, BUT AT THE END OF THE 693 00:18:05,884 --> 00:18:07,119 DAY, CHARLES MANSON WAS A FAMILY 694 00:18:07,186 --> 00:18:09,588 MAN." 695 00:18:09,655 --> 00:18:10,789 AND LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT 696 00:18:10,856 --> 00:18:13,025 HISTORY, STARTING IN AUSTRALIA, 697 00:18:13,091 --> 00:18:15,327 WHERE THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION 698 00:18:15,394 --> 00:18:15,961 SUFFERED GREATLY UNDER COLONIAL 699 00:18:16,028 --> 00:18:17,229 RULE. 700 00:18:17,296 --> 00:18:18,931 RESEARCHERS FOUND EVIDENCE FOR, 701 00:18:18,997 --> 00:18:20,165 CONSERVATIVELY, NEARLY 200 702 00:18:20,232 --> 00:18:21,700 MASSACRES OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE 703 00:18:21,767 --> 00:18:23,101 AT THE HANDS OF THE BRITISH 704 00:18:23,168 --> 00:18:24,703 MILITARY AND COLONIAL POLICE, 705 00:18:24,770 --> 00:18:26,338 AND HUNDREDS MORE BY COLONISTS. 706 00:18:26,405 --> 00:18:28,574 AND WHEN THE QUEEN HERSELF FIRST 707 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,142 VISITED AUSTRALIA IN 1954, FIRST 708 00:18:30,209 --> 00:18:31,643 NATIONS PEOPLE WERE NOT COUNTED 709 00:18:31,710 --> 00:18:33,278 AS PART OF THE POPULATION, AND 710 00:18:33,345 --> 00:18:34,880 CHILDREN WERE STILL BEING 711 00:18:34,947 --> 00:18:36,615 FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM THEIR 712 00:18:36,682 --> 00:18:37,583 FAMILIES TO BE ASSIMILATED INTO 713 00:18:37,649 --> 00:18:39,084 WHITE HOUSEHOLDS. 714 00:18:39,151 --> 00:18:42,087 SO, "HAVE YOUR ARGUMENTS ABOUT 715 00:18:42,154 --> 00:18:43,622 COLONIALISM OR WHATEVER" IS VERY 716 00:18:43,689 --> 00:18:45,524 MUCH WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING, 717 00:18:45,591 --> 00:18:47,292 NOT GLOSSING OVER IT, AND 718 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:48,794 FORCING PEOPLE TO MOURN A SYMBOL 719 00:18:48,861 --> 00:18:49,928 OF A PAINFUL PAST. 720 00:18:49,995 --> 00:18:51,697 AND THAT'S JUST AUSTRALIA. 721 00:18:51,763 --> 00:18:53,065 IF YOU REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT 722 00:18:53,131 --> 00:18:55,167 "COLONIALISM OR WHATEVER," OR 723 00:18:55,234 --> 00:18:56,635 LITIGATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE 724 00:18:56,702 --> 00:18:57,569 QUEEN, OR THE MONARCHY IN 725 00:18:57,636 --> 00:18:59,304 GENERAL, HAS BEEN A GLOBAL FORCE 726 00:18:59,371 --> 00:19:01,039 FOR GOOD, LET'S DO THAT. 727 00:19:01,106 --> 00:19:03,108 AND LET'S START WITH THE FULL 728 00:19:03,175 --> 00:19:05,511 EXTENT TO WHICH THE MONARCHY WAS 729 00:19:05,577 --> 00:19:06,712 INTRICATELY INVOLVED IN THE 730 00:19:06,778 --> 00:19:08,413 TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. 731 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:09,848 >> AFTER BRITAIN INVADED JAMAICA 732 00:19:09,915 --> 00:19:11,083 IN 1655, THE ROYAL AFRICAN 733 00:19:11,149 --> 00:19:13,919 COMPANY WAS SET UP BY ROYAL 734 00:19:13,986 --> 00:19:16,722 CHARTER UNDER KING CHARLES II. 735 00:19:16,788 --> 00:19:18,056 THE RAC WENT ON TO TRANSPORT 736 00:19:18,123 --> 00:19:19,992 MORE ENSLAVED AFRICANS TO THE 737 00:19:20,058 --> 00:19:23,595 AMERICAS THAN ANY OTHER SINGLE 738 00:19:23,662 --> 00:19:25,030 INSTITUTION EVER, LINING THE 739 00:19:25,097 --> 00:19:26,665 POCKETS OF THE STUART MONARCHS. 740 00:19:26,732 --> 00:19:28,967 MANY OF THOSE TRAFFICKED WERE 741 00:19:29,034 --> 00:19:31,236 BRANDED WITH THE INITIALS DY, AS 742 00:19:31,303 --> 00:19:32,771 IN THE DUKE OF YORK, WHO LED THE 743 00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:34,473 COMPANY AND LATER BECAME KING 744 00:19:34,540 --> 00:19:37,809 JAMES II. 745 00:19:37,876 --> 00:19:38,310 >> John: THAT'S TRUE. 746 00:19:38,377 --> 00:19:38,944 THE DIRECT ANCESTORS OF TODAY'S 747 00:19:39,011 --> 00:19:40,979 ROYAL FAMILY WERE INVESTORS IN 748 00:19:41,046 --> 00:19:42,648 THE "ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY" AND 749 00:19:42,714 --> 00:19:45,884 HAD THEIR INITIALS LITERALLY 750 00:19:45,951 --> 00:19:47,185 BRANDED INTO PEOPLE'S SKIN. 751 00:19:47,252 --> 00:19:48,554 AND BOTH THE TRADE OF ENSLAVED 752 00:19:48,620 --> 00:19:49,788 PEOPLE AND THE HIGH-DEMAND 753 00:19:49,855 --> 00:19:50,622 PRODUCTS THEY PRODUCED, LIKE 754 00:19:50,689 --> 00:19:52,224 SUGAR AND TOBACCO, WENT TO 755 00:19:52,291 --> 00:19:55,994 ENRICHING BRITAIN, STRENGTHENING 756 00:19:56,061 --> 00:19:56,828 ITS EMPIRE, AND BY EXTENSION, 757 00:19:56,895 --> 00:19:57,329 FILLING ROYAL COFFERS. 758 00:19:57,396 --> 00:19:57,963 AND I GET THAT PEOPLE SHOULDN'T 759 00:19:58,030 --> 00:19:58,630 BE HELD PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE 760 00:19:58,697 --> 00:20:00,499 FOR WHATEVER THEIR ANCESTORS 761 00:20:00,566 --> 00:20:01,833 DID, BUT TRYING TO TALK ABOUT 762 00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:03,168 THE BRITISH ROLE IN THE SLAVE 763 00:20:03,235 --> 00:20:04,870 TRADE WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT THE 764 00:20:04,937 --> 00:20:07,139 MONARCHY IS SORT OF LIKE TRYING 765 00:20:07,205 --> 00:20:08,941 TO TALK ABOUT JEFFREY EPSTEIN 766 00:20:09,007 --> 00:20:09,474 WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT THE 767 00:20:09,541 --> 00:20:10,676 MONARCHY. 768 00:20:10,742 --> 00:20:12,844 THEY ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED, 769 00:20:12,911 --> 00:20:14,880 HOWEVER UNCOMFORTABLE THEY MIGHT 770 00:20:14,947 --> 00:20:17,115 FIND THAT FACT. 771 00:20:17,182 --> 00:20:18,016 YET DESPITE ALL THAT, NO ONE IN 772 00:20:18,083 --> 00:20:19,718 THE ROYAL FAMILY HAS EVER 773 00:20:19,785 --> 00:20:20,586 APOLOGIZED ON BEHALF OF THE 774 00:20:20,652 --> 00:20:21,153 CROWN. 775 00:20:21,219 --> 00:20:22,955 INSTEAD THEY'VE TIPTOED AROUND 776 00:20:23,021 --> 00:20:24,189 CULPABILITY WITH PASSIVE-VOICE 777 00:20:24,256 --> 00:20:25,824 STATEMENTS LIKE PRINCE WILLIAM 778 00:20:25,891 --> 00:20:28,060 SAYING "SLAVERY WAS ABHORRENT," 779 00:20:28,126 --> 00:20:29,261 OR PRINCE CHARLES GOING TO GHANA 780 00:20:29,328 --> 00:20:30,362 AND SAYING THIS. 781 00:20:30,429 --> 00:20:32,164 >> THE APPALLING ATROCITY OF THE 782 00:20:32,230 --> 00:20:36,001 SLAVE TRADE AND THE UNIMAGINABLE 783 00:20:36,068 --> 00:20:38,937 SUFFERING IT CAUSED LEFT AN 784 00:20:39,004 --> 00:20:41,740 INDELIBLE STAIN ON THE HISTORY 785 00:20:41,807 --> 00:20:44,443 OF OUR WORLD. 786 00:20:44,509 --> 00:20:45,677 WHILE BRITAIN COULD BE PROUD 787 00:20:45,744 --> 00:20:47,980 THAT IT LATER LED THE WAY IN THE 788 00:20:48,046 --> 00:20:49,648 ABOLITION OF THIS SHAMEFUL 789 00:20:49,715 --> 00:20:52,284 TRADE, WE HAVE SHARED A 790 00:20:52,351 --> 00:20:55,287 RESPONSIBILITY-WE HAVE A SHARED 791 00:20:55,354 --> 00:20:57,289 RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT 792 00:20:57,356 --> 00:20:58,423 THE ABJECT HORROR OF SLAVERY IS 793 00:20:58,490 --> 00:21:02,761 NEVER FORGOTTEN. 794 00:21:02,828 --> 00:21:03,929 >> John: BUT LISTEN TO THAT, HE 795 00:21:03,996 --> 00:21:05,764 CAN'T EVEN MENTION HOW AWFUL THE 796 00:21:05,831 --> 00:21:06,698 SLAVE TRADE WAS WITHOUT IN THE 797 00:21:06,765 --> 00:21:08,467 SAME BREATH MENTIONING THAT 798 00:21:08,533 --> 00:21:09,801 BRITAIN "LED THE WAY" IN 799 00:21:09,868 --> 00:21:13,038 ABOLISHING IT. 800 00:21:13,105 --> 00:21:13,639 BRITISH PEOPLE LOVE TO TALK 801 00:21:13,705 --> 00:21:14,773 ABOUT THEIR ROLE IN ABOLITION. 802 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:15,974 BUT CHARLES LEFT A LOT OUT 803 00:21:16,041 --> 00:21:17,009 THERE, INCLUDING THAT, WHILE, 804 00:21:17,075 --> 00:21:19,044 YES, THE BRITISH DID ABOLISH THE 805 00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:20,879 SLAVE "TRADE" IN 1807, IT 806 00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:23,215 ALLOWED PLANTATION SLAVERY TO 807 00:21:23,281 --> 00:21:24,549 PERSIST IN COLONIES FOR DECADES 808 00:21:24,616 --> 00:21:26,151 AFTER, MEANING FULL ABOLITION 809 00:21:26,218 --> 00:21:26,885 DIDN'T FOLLOW FOR ANOTHER 810 00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:27,819 GENERATION. 811 00:21:27,886 --> 00:21:29,921 BUT THE LARGER POINT IS, YOU 812 00:21:29,988 --> 00:21:30,889 CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. 813 00:21:30,956 --> 00:21:32,524 YOU DON'T GET TO TAKE THE CREDIT 814 00:21:32,591 --> 00:21:33,959 FOR ABOLITION WITHOUT TAKING THE 815 00:21:34,026 --> 00:21:35,861 BLAME FOR WHAT LED UP TO IT. 816 00:21:35,927 --> 00:21:37,596 IF SOMEONE INTENTIONALLY SET 817 00:21:37,663 --> 00:21:39,064 FIRE TO A QUIZNOS, THEN HOURS 818 00:21:39,131 --> 00:21:41,633 LATER PUT THAT FIRE OUT, THEY 819 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:44,670 WOULDN'T GET TO POST A PICTURE 820 00:21:44,736 --> 00:21:45,237 OF THEMSELVES HOLDING A HOSE 821 00:21:45,303 --> 00:21:45,837 WITH THE CAPTION, "SO I DID A 822 00:21:45,904 --> 00:21:46,204 THING!" 823 00:21:46,271 --> 00:21:50,609 THAT'S NOT THE FULL STORY! 824 00:21:50,676 --> 00:21:51,643 ALSO, FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, THE 825 00:21:51,710 --> 00:21:52,611 EFFECT OF SLAVERY CLEARLY ISN'T 826 00:21:52,678 --> 00:21:54,546 JUST IN THE PAST. 827 00:21:54,613 --> 00:21:55,947 THE UK WAS PAYING FOR IT -- IN A 828 00:21:56,014 --> 00:21:57,015 VERY LITERAL SENSE -- INCREDIBLY 829 00:21:57,082 --> 00:21:58,684 RECENTLY. 830 00:21:58,750 --> 00:21:59,718 BECAUSE WHEN BRITAIN FINALLY 831 00:21:59,785 --> 00:22:01,286 ABOLISHED SLAVERY IN ITS 832 00:22:01,353 --> 00:22:03,422 COLONIES IN THE 1830S, IT TOOK 833 00:22:03,488 --> 00:22:05,157 OUT A LOAN OF 20 MILLION POUNDS 834 00:22:05,223 --> 00:22:08,560 TO COMPENSATE NOT ENSLAVED 835 00:22:08,627 --> 00:22:11,229 PEOPLE, BUT SLAVE OWNERS, FOR 836 00:22:11,296 --> 00:22:19,571 THE "CONFISCATION OF THEIR 837 00:22:19,638 --> 00:22:20,205 INCOME FROM THEIR PROPERTIES" -- 838 00:22:20,272 --> 00:22:20,639 WHICH, TO BE CLEAR, 839 00:22:20,706 --> 00:22:20,939 WAS PEOPLE. 840 00:22:21,006 --> 00:22:21,573 THAT'S ABOUT 17 BILLION POUNDS 841 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:22,207 IN TODAY'S MONEY, AND UP UNTIL 842 00:22:22,274 --> 00:22:22,841 2015 THE BRITISH STATE WAS STILL 843 00:22:22,908 --> 00:22:23,408 PAYING OFF THE DEBT. 844 00:22:23,475 --> 00:22:24,810 AMAZINGLY, MANY LEARNED ABOUT 845 00:22:24,876 --> 00:22:25,844 THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN, A 846 00:22:25,911 --> 00:22:26,945 FEW YEARS AGO, THE BRITISH 847 00:22:27,012 --> 00:22:30,816 TREASURY TWEETED, "HERE'S 848 00:22:30,882 --> 00:22:31,483 TODAY'S SURPRISING #FRIDAYFACT 849 00:22:31,550 --> 00:22:32,784 MILLIONS OF YOU HELPED END THE 850 00:22:32,851 --> 00:22:34,186 SLAVE TRADE THROUGH YOUR TAXES." 851 00:22:34,252 --> 00:22:35,487 AND SORRY, BUT THAT'S JUST NOT A 852 00:22:35,554 --> 00:22:37,789 GOOD FRIDAY FACT. 853 00:22:37,856 --> 00:22:39,157 "THE AVERAGE PERSON FARTS 854 00:22:39,224 --> 00:22:39,858 BETWEEN 10 AND 20 TIMES PER 855 00:22:39,925 --> 00:22:42,127 DAY?" 856 00:22:42,194 --> 00:22:42,594 THAT IS PRETTY GOOD. 857 00:22:42,661 --> 00:22:42,994 "FISH CAN COUGH?" 858 00:22:43,061 --> 00:22:44,930 NOW WE'RE TALKING. 859 00:22:44,996 --> 00:22:45,497 "SURPRISE, I KNOW TIMES ARE 860 00:22:45,564 --> 00:22:46,631 TOUGH BUT YOU JUST HELPED PAY 861 00:22:46,698 --> 00:22:47,866 OFF THE FAMILIES OF DEAD 862 00:22:47,933 --> 00:22:51,770 ENSLAVERS?" 863 00:22:51,837 --> 00:22:52,404 NO, ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT. 864 00:22:52,471 --> 00:22:53,171 SAVE THAT SHIT FOR MONDAY, YA 865 00:22:53,238 --> 00:22:54,573 BUZZKILL. 866 00:22:54,639 --> 00:22:56,007 AND FOR ANYONE THINKING, "WELL, 867 00:22:56,074 --> 00:22:57,509 THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN ON THE WATCH 868 00:22:57,576 --> 00:22:58,677 OF THE MODERN MONARCHY," IT'S 869 00:22:58,744 --> 00:23:00,612 WORTH KNOWING, ONE OF THE MOST 870 00:23:00,679 --> 00:23:01,413 BRUTAL ATROCITIES CARRIED OUT BY 871 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,782 THE BRITISH ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN 872 00:23:03,849 --> 00:23:05,383 THE FIRST EIGHT YEARS OF 873 00:23:05,450 --> 00:23:06,485 ELIZABETH'S REIGN, AND WHEN 874 00:23:06,551 --> 00:23:08,053 CHARLES WAS ALIVE. 875 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:09,454 BECAUSE IN THE 1950S, WHILE 876 00:23:09,521 --> 00:23:10,989 KENYA WAS STILL A BRITISH 877 00:23:11,056 --> 00:23:12,424 COLONY, AN ARMED REBELLION WAS 878 00:23:12,491 --> 00:23:13,959 LAUNCHED BY THE KIKUYU PEOPLE 879 00:23:14,025 --> 00:23:15,026 WHO HAD LOST LAND TO WHITE 880 00:23:15,093 --> 00:23:16,128 SETTLERS, AND FOUND THEMSELVES 881 00:23:16,194 --> 00:23:17,362 LOCKED INTO A FORMAL RACIAL 882 00:23:17,429 --> 00:23:19,231 HIERARCHY THAT PLACED EUROPEANS 883 00:23:19,297 --> 00:23:20,065 ON TOP AND AFRICANS AT THE 884 00:23:20,132 --> 00:23:21,166 BOTTOM. 885 00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:22,467 THE BRITISH SENT ARMY 886 00:23:22,534 --> 00:23:25,971 REINFORCEMENTS TO PUT DOWN THE 887 00:23:26,037 --> 00:23:27,572 SO CALLED "MAU MAU UPRISING," A 888 00:23:27,639 --> 00:23:29,808 DECISION IT DESCRIBED TO THE 889 00:23:29,875 --> 00:23:30,342 WORLD BACK THEN LIKE THIS. 890 00:23:30,408 --> 00:23:31,042 >> AGITATORS URGE SOME OF THE 891 00:23:31,109 --> 00:23:32,477 AFRICANS TO FREE THEIR COUNTRY 892 00:23:32,544 --> 00:23:33,578 OF THE WHITE MAN. 893 00:23:33,645 --> 00:23:35,080 THERE IS LITTLE RELIABLE 894 00:23:35,147 --> 00:23:36,314 INFORMATION ABOUT THE SET-UP OF 895 00:23:36,381 --> 00:23:37,983 THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION FOR 896 00:23:38,049 --> 00:23:39,684 FEW MEMBERS EVEN KNOW FROM WHOM 897 00:23:39,751 --> 00:23:41,019 THEY TAKE THEIR ORDERS. 898 00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:43,288 THEY OBEY BLINDLY, SAVAGELY 899 00:23:43,355 --> 00:23:45,090 ATTACKING THE DEFENSELESS. 900 00:23:45,157 --> 00:23:47,859 BURNING, LOOTING, MURDERING. 901 00:23:47,926 --> 00:23:49,461 KENYA IS A BATTLEFIELD OF A 902 00:23:49,528 --> 00:23:51,396 CONFLICT THAT CANNOT END UNTIL 903 00:23:51,463 --> 00:23:53,131 THE MAU MAU IS DISSOLVED 904 00:23:53,198 --> 00:23:54,399 FOREVER. 905 00:23:54,466 --> 00:23:56,168 >> John: "OH RIGHT-O! 906 00:23:56,234 --> 00:23:57,435 THE TROUBLE IN KEEN-YA COMES NOT 907 00:23:57,502 --> 00:23:58,336 FROM THE BRITISH WHO TOOK OVER 908 00:23:58,403 --> 00:24:00,038 AND STOLE LAND BUT FROM THE 909 00:24:00,105 --> 00:24:02,941 PEOPLE WHOSE LAND WAS STOLEN! 910 00:24:03,008 --> 00:24:03,775 NOW IS THERE MORE TO THIS STORY? 911 00:24:03,842 --> 00:24:04,309 SURELY! 912 00:24:04,376 --> 00:24:04,943 BUT WILL YOU HEAR IT COME FROM A 913 00:24:05,010 --> 00:24:06,812 VOICE THAT SOUNDS LIKE THIS? 914 00:24:06,878 --> 00:24:10,916 I SAY NEVER!" 915 00:24:10,982 --> 00:24:11,416 NEVER I SAY! 916 00:24:11,483 --> 00:24:12,017 IN CRUSHING THE UPRISING, THE 917 00:24:12,083 --> 00:24:12,617 BRITISH INSTITUTED A SYSTEM OF 918 00:24:12,684 --> 00:24:14,886 DETENTION CAMPS, AND 90,000 919 00:24:14,953 --> 00:24:17,722 KENYANS WERE EXECUTED, TORTURED 920 00:24:17,789 --> 00:24:18,557 OR MAIMED DURING THE CRACKDOWN, 921 00:24:18,623 --> 00:24:19,291 AND AN ESTIMATED 160,000 WERE 922 00:24:19,357 --> 00:24:19,858 DETAINED IN APPALLING 923 00:24:19,925 --> 00:24:22,060 CONDITIONS. 924 00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:25,130 FOR A LONG TIME THE BRITISH MET 925 00:24:25,197 --> 00:24:26,298 OUTCRY OVER THIS WITH A MIXTURE 926 00:24:26,364 --> 00:24:27,766 OF DENIAL AND DEFENSIVENESS. 927 00:24:27,833 --> 00:24:29,000 JUST WATCH THIS INTERVIEW WITH A 928 00:24:29,067 --> 00:24:30,235 FORMER BRITISH COLONIAL OFFICER, 929 00:24:30,302 --> 00:24:31,403 WHO'D BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR AT 930 00:24:31,469 --> 00:24:33,171 LEAST SIX OF THOSE DETENTION 931 00:24:33,238 --> 00:24:34,039 CAMPS. 932 00:24:34,105 --> 00:24:35,340 WHEN ASKED ABOUT REPORTS THAT 933 00:24:35,407 --> 00:24:38,176 SOLDIERS HAD PUT THEIR FEET ON 934 00:24:38,243 --> 00:24:38,877 THE NECKS OF DETAINEES UNTIL 935 00:24:38,944 --> 00:24:39,678 THEY SCREAMED, HE HAS AN 936 00:24:39,744 --> 00:24:40,312 ESCALATING EXCHANGE CULMINATING 937 00:24:40,378 --> 00:24:41,847 IN THE LONGEST PAUSE YOU'LL EVER 938 00:24:41,913 --> 00:24:44,082 SEE ON TELEVISION. 939 00:24:44,149 --> 00:24:44,916 I'LL WARN YOU -- HOWEVER LONG 940 00:24:44,983 --> 00:24:46,017 YOU THINK THIS PAUSE IS GOING TO 941 00:24:46,084 --> 00:24:50,922 BE, IT'S MUCH LONGER. 942 00:24:50,989 --> 00:24:51,590 >> DID YOU HAVE CAUSE TO GIVE 943 00:24:51,656 --> 00:24:52,424 THE ORDER TO OR YOURSELF PUT 944 00:24:52,490 --> 00:24:55,160 YOUR BOOT ON THEIR NECK OF THESE 945 00:24:55,227 --> 00:24:55,894 RESISTERS, THE ONES THAT WERE 946 00:24:55,961 --> 00:25:04,002 HOWLING? 947 00:25:04,069 --> 00:25:05,070 >> UMM, CAN WE STOP TALKING FOR 948 00:25:05,136 --> 00:25:05,337 A MOMENT? 949 00:25:05,403 --> 00:25:06,004 >> NO, 'CAUSE I'D QUITE LIKE YOU 950 00:25:06,071 --> 00:25:06,471 TO ANSWER THAT. 951 00:25:06,538 --> 00:25:07,105 >> I WILL ANSWER IT WHEN I HAVE 952 00:25:07,172 --> 00:25:10,609 STOPPED TALKING FOR A MOMENT. 953 00:25:10,675 --> 00:25:11,977 I'M SORRY, BUT I -- I -- 954 00:25:12,043 --> 00:25:13,345 >> WELL, DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM 955 00:25:13,411 --> 00:25:14,212 WITH THAT QUESTION? 956 00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:18,917 >> NO, IT'S -- IT'S A 957 00:25:18,984 --> 00:25:20,285 HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION. 958 00:25:20,352 --> 00:25:20,819 >> NO, IT'S NOT. 959 00:25:20,886 --> 00:25:22,153 IT'S A VERY PRECISE QUESTION. 960 00:25:22,220 --> 00:25:24,556 >> YOU'VE ASKED ME, "DID I PUT 961 00:25:24,623 --> 00:25:25,957 MY FOOT ON ANYBODY'S NECK?" 962 00:25:26,024 --> 00:25:26,791 NO. 963 00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:27,459 >> DID YOU CAUSE THE ORDER TO BE 964 00:25:27,525 --> 00:25:27,659 GIVEN? 965 00:25:27,726 --> 00:25:28,260 DID YOU GIVE THE ORDER TO DO 966 00:25:28,326 --> 00:25:52,083 THAT? 967 00:25:52,150 --> 00:25:53,351 ARE YOU NOT GOING TO ANSWER THE 968 00:25:53,418 --> 00:25:53,718 QUESTION? 969 00:25:53,785 --> 00:25:56,788 >> NO, I AM LOOKING AT YOU WITH 970 00:25:56,855 --> 00:25:59,491 CERTAIN THOUGHTS IN MY MIND. 971 00:25:59,557 --> 00:26:00,926 >> John: HOLY SHIT! 972 00:26:00,992 --> 00:26:02,494 IF YOU'RE TRYING TO CONCEAL YOUR 973 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,163 ROLE IN SUPERVISING TORTURE, 974 00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:05,997 HERE'S A FEW TIPS: DON'T RESPOND 975 00:26:06,064 --> 00:26:07,632 TO A SIMPLE QUESTION BY TAKING A 976 00:26:07,699 --> 00:26:09,367 FULL 23 SECONDS TO ANSWER. 977 00:26:09,434 --> 00:26:10,335 DON'T THEN ISSUE A VAGUE THREAT 978 00:26:10,402 --> 00:26:12,337 LIKE SOME CARTOON VILLAIN. 979 00:26:12,404 --> 00:26:14,205 AND FINALLY, TRY NOT TO GLARE 980 00:26:14,272 --> 00:26:15,307 MALEVOLENTLY AT THE INTERVIEWER 981 00:26:15,373 --> 00:26:16,274 WITH WHAT I CAN ONLY DESCRIBE AS 982 00:26:16,341 --> 00:26:19,177 "WAR CRIME EYES." 983 00:26:19,244 --> 00:26:21,413 AND JUST TO BE CLEAR, WE DON'T 984 00:26:21,479 --> 00:26:22,447 KNOW WHAT THE QUEEN KNEW. 985 00:26:22,514 --> 00:26:24,015 WHAT SHE'S BRIEFED ON IS KEPT 986 00:26:24,082 --> 00:26:25,617 SECRET, CONVENIENTLY. 987 00:26:25,684 --> 00:26:27,052 BUT WE DO KNOW WHAT WAS DONE IN 988 00:26:27,118 --> 00:26:29,387 HER NAME, BY HER GOVERNMENT. 989 00:26:29,454 --> 00:26:30,822 HER FACE WAS ON THE MONEY IN 990 00:26:30,889 --> 00:26:32,023 KENYA. 991 00:26:32,090 --> 00:26:33,692 WHEN KENYANS' CAPTORS SANG THEIR 992 00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:34,726 NATIONAL ANTHEM, IT WAS A HYMN 993 00:26:34,793 --> 00:26:36,061 TO HER PROTECTION. 994 00:26:36,127 --> 00:26:37,529 AND WE DO KNOW SHE WAS NOT ONLY 995 00:26:37,595 --> 00:26:41,733 CHARACTERISTICALLY SILENT ABOUT 996 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,236 THOSE ATROCITIES 997 00:26:45,303 --> 00:26:45,570 YOU KNOW, IN 998 00:26:45,637 --> 00:26:46,438 THAT CHARMING STYLE EVERYBODY 999 00:26:46,504 --> 00:26:50,909 LOVED -- BUT SHE ALSO AWARDED 1000 00:26:50,976 --> 00:26:51,476 THAT MAN AN MBE, ONE OF THE 1001 00:26:51,543 --> 00:26:52,010 COUNTRY'S HIGHEST HONORS. 1002 00:26:52,077 --> 00:26:52,644 WHICH IS APPALLING, UNLESS THE 1003 00:26:52,711 --> 00:26:54,012 "MBE" STANDS FOR "MESSIEST BITCH 1004 00:26:54,079 --> 00:26:54,612 EVER," IN WHICH CASE, I GUESS 1005 00:26:54,679 --> 00:26:57,082 THAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE. 1006 00:26:57,148 --> 00:26:57,782 AND THAT'S THE THING, IF 1007 00:26:57,849 --> 00:26:59,384 YOU'RE THE SYMBOL OF A COUNTRY, 1008 00:26:59,451 --> 00:27:01,619 YOU REPRESENT WHAT IT DOES. 1009 00:27:01,686 --> 00:27:02,253 AND IT'S REVEALING THAT, EVEN 1010 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:03,621 DECADES LATER, WHEN THE BRITISH 1011 00:27:03,688 --> 00:27:08,259 FINALLY AGREED TO PAY 1012 00:27:08,326 --> 00:27:08,860 COMPENSATION TO A FRACTION OF 1013 00:27:08,927 --> 00:27:09,594 THOSE WHO SUFFERED IN KENYA, 1014 00:27:09,661 --> 00:27:11,096 THIS WOMAN WAS CLEAR ABOUT WHO 1015 00:27:11,162 --> 00:27:13,365 SHE WANTED TO HEAR FROM. 1016 00:27:13,431 --> 00:27:14,466 >> MUTHONI MATHENGE IS ONE OF 1017 00:27:14,532 --> 00:27:15,767 THE FEW SURVIVING MAU MAU 1018 00:27:15,834 --> 00:27:17,902 INDEPENDENCE FIGHTERS IN KENYA. 1019 00:27:17,969 --> 00:27:19,337 BRITAIN HAS APOLOGIZED FOR SOME 1020 00:27:19,404 --> 00:27:21,840 ABUSES, BUT MATHENGE DID NOT GET 1021 00:27:21,906 --> 00:27:24,042 A COMPENSATION PAID TO OTHER 1022 00:27:24,109 --> 00:27:24,709 REBELS. 1023 00:27:24,776 --> 00:27:27,012 SHE IS CALLING ON THE QUEEN FOR 1024 00:27:27,078 --> 00:27:29,914 HELP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. 1025 00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:31,483 >> LET ELIZABETH BRING WHAT 1026 00:27:31,549 --> 00:27:32,150 BELONGS TO ME. 1027 00:27:32,217 --> 00:27:33,218 THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO SAY. 1028 00:27:33,284 --> 00:27:36,087 NO MIDDLEMEN IN BETWEEN. 1029 00:27:36,154 --> 00:27:37,989 LET THE COMPENSATION COME 1030 00:27:38,056 --> 00:27:38,890 DIRECTLY TO ME. 1031 00:27:38,957 --> 00:27:40,658 SHE SHOULD LOOK FOR A SENSIBLE 1032 00:27:40,725 --> 00:27:42,127 PERSON AND SEND IT HERE. 1033 00:27:42,193 --> 00:27:45,597 >> John: YEAH, THAT'S 1034 00:27:45,663 --> 00:27:46,164 COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLE. 1035 00:27:46,231 --> 00:27:46,664 PARTICULARLY THE "SEND A 1036 00:27:46,731 --> 00:27:47,332 SENSIBLE PERSON" POINT. 1037 00:27:47,399 --> 00:27:48,333 BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH 1038 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,834 THE ROYAL FAMILY, IT'S WORTH 1039 00:27:49,901 --> 00:27:50,769 REMEMBER THAT UNLESS YOU 1040 00:27:50,835 --> 00:27:52,003 STIPULATE OTHERWISE, YOU COULD 1041 00:27:52,070 --> 00:27:53,271 END UP BEING SENT SOMEONE LIKE 1042 00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:55,206 THIS. 1043 00:27:55,273 --> 00:27:56,074 >> AH! 1044 00:27:56,141 --> 00:27:57,375 DIG THAT CRAZY RHYTHM! 1045 00:27:57,442 --> 00:28:02,547 >> John: EXACTLY. 1046 00:28:02,614 --> 00:28:05,083 AND NOBODY WANTS THAT, NOBODY! 1047 00:28:05,150 --> 00:28:05,650 YOU CAN'T SAY YOU'RE JUST A 1048 00:28:05,717 --> 00:28:06,084 SYMBOL AND BEAR NO 1049 00:28:06,151 --> 00:28:06,851 RESPONSIBILITY FOR HOW THE 1050 00:28:06,918 --> 00:28:08,286 INSTITUTIONS YOU'RE THE HEAD OF 1051 00:28:08,353 --> 00:28:09,387 BEHAVE. 1052 00:28:09,454 --> 00:28:10,822 TAKE THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, OF 1053 00:28:10,889 --> 00:28:12,090 WHICH THE MONARCH IS THE HEAD. 1054 00:28:12,157 --> 00:28:13,525 IN CANADA, IT PLAYED A ROLE IN 1055 00:28:13,591 --> 00:28:14,592 THEIR SYSTEM OF RESIDENTIAL 1056 00:28:14,659 --> 00:28:16,227 SCHOOLS FOR INDIGENOUS CHILDREN, 1057 00:28:16,294 --> 00:28:17,695 WHO WERE FORCIBLY SEPARATED FROM 1058 00:28:17,762 --> 00:28:19,664 THEIR FAMILIES AND SENT TO 1059 00:28:19,731 --> 00:28:20,832 GOVERNMENT-FUNDED, CHURCH-RUN 1060 00:28:20,899 --> 00:28:23,334 BOARDING SCHOOLS IN ATTEMPT TO 1061 00:28:23,401 --> 00:28:23,701 ASSIMILATE THEM. 1062 00:28:23,768 --> 00:28:24,836 HORRIFIC ABUSES HAPPENED IN 1063 00:28:24,903 --> 00:28:25,970 THOSE SCHOOLS. 1064 00:28:26,037 --> 00:28:27,705 AND WHILE THEY WERE LARGELY RUN 1065 00:28:27,772 --> 00:28:28,907 BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE 1066 00:28:28,973 --> 00:28:30,275 CHURCH OF ENGLAND OPERATED 1067 00:28:30,341 --> 00:28:31,709 APPROXIMATELY THREE DOZEN OF 1068 00:28:31,776 --> 00:28:33,678 THEM, GIVING UP CONTROL OF THE 1069 00:28:33,745 --> 00:28:36,114 LAST ONE IN 1969, WHICH IS 1070 00:28:36,181 --> 00:28:37,282 PRETTY FUCKING RECENT. 1071 00:28:37,348 --> 00:28:38,516 EARLIER THIS YEAR, CHARLES 1072 00:28:38,583 --> 00:28:39,818 VISITED CANADA AND MADE A POINT 1073 00:28:39,884 --> 00:28:41,319 OF SHOWING UP AT A GARDEN THAT 1074 00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:42,454 PAID TRIBUTE TO THE VICTIMS OF 1075 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:43,321 THOSE SCHOOLS. 1076 00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:45,323 BUT WHEN IT CAME TO SHOWING 1077 00:28:45,390 --> 00:28:46,157 REMORSE FOR WHAT HAD HAPPENED, 1078 00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:46,958 THAT SEEMED TO BE OFF THE TABLE. 1079 00:28:47,025 --> 00:28:48,726 BECAUSE JUST LISTEN TO ONE 1080 00:28:48,793 --> 00:28:50,028 INDIGENOUS LEADER WHO BRIEFLY 1081 00:28:50,095 --> 00:28:51,596 SPOKE WITH CHARLES THAT DAY 1082 00:28:51,663 --> 00:28:53,798 DESCRIBE THEIR ENTIRE EXCHANGE. 1083 00:28:53,865 --> 00:28:56,434 >> HE DID SAY, "I HOPE WE 1084 00:28:56,501 --> 00:28:57,936 WEREN'T TOO BAD ON YOU." 1085 00:28:58,002 --> 00:28:59,337 I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO RESPOND 1086 00:28:59,404 --> 00:29:00,805 SO HE MOVED ON. 1087 00:29:00,872 --> 00:29:02,574 THE PRINCE, WHILE LEADING THIS 1088 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,075 COUNTRY, HE SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO 1089 00:29:04,142 --> 00:29:06,578 THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE FOR THIS 1090 00:29:06,644 --> 00:29:08,046 TRAUMA THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH 1091 00:29:08,113 --> 00:29:09,547 FOR 500 YEARS. 1092 00:29:09,614 --> 00:29:10,281 >> John: WOW. 1093 00:29:10,348 --> 00:29:12,283 "I HOPE WE WEREN'T TOO BAD ON 1094 00:29:12,350 --> 00:29:13,651 YOU," HE SAID, BEFORE WALKING 1095 00:29:13,718 --> 00:29:14,185 AWAY. 1096 00:29:14,252 --> 00:29:16,621 WHICH I KNOW SEEMS BAD, BUT AS A 1097 00:29:16,688 --> 00:29:21,726 SYMBOL OF BRITAIN, IT'S PRETTY 1098 00:29:21,793 --> 00:29:22,794 ON-BRAND HONESTLY. 1099 00:29:22,861 --> 00:29:32,203 "YOU KEEP CALM. 1100 00:29:32,270 --> 00:29:33,238 AND IF YOU'LL EXCUSE ME, I'LL 1101 00:29:33,304 --> 00:29:33,505 CARRY ON." 1102 00:29:33,571 --> 00:29:34,005 AND LOOK, I KNOW, ACROSS 1103 00:29:34,072 --> 00:29:34,606 COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES, THERE 1104 00:29:34,672 --> 00:29:35,273 ARE A RANGE OF VIEWS, ESPECIALLY 1105 00:29:35,340 --> 00:29:35,874 AMONG THE OLDER GENERATION -- 1106 00:29:35,940 --> 00:29:36,474 AS, INCREDIBLY, EVEN SOME WHO 1107 00:29:36,541 --> 00:29:37,108 SUFFERED UNDER BRITISH RULE CAN 1108 00:29:37,175 --> 00:29:37,775 FEEL STRONG AFFECTION FOR THE 1109 00:29:37,842 --> 00:29:38,443 QUEEN PERSONALLY, EVEN IF THEY 1110 00:29:38,510 --> 00:29:39,344 DIDN'T LOVE WHAT SHE 1111 00:29:39,410 --> 00:29:39,711 REPRESENTED. 1112 00:29:39,777 --> 00:29:40,879 AND SOME ARGUE, "IF THE ROYAL 1113 00:29:40,945 --> 00:29:42,313 FAMILY'S JUST CEREMONIAL NOW, 1114 00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:43,681 WHERE'S THE REAL HARM?" 1115 00:29:43,748 --> 00:29:45,583 BUT THE CEREMONIAL CAN STILL 1116 00:29:45,650 --> 00:29:46,985 HAVE THE POWER TO INFURIATE. 1117 00:29:47,051 --> 00:29:47,952 AND TO SEE THAT, LET'S GO BACK 1118 00:29:48,019 --> 00:29:49,487 TO AUSTRALIA. 1119 00:29:49,554 --> 00:29:50,889 BECAUSE SHORTLY BEFORE THE QUEEN 1120 00:29:50,955 --> 00:29:52,090 DIED, LIDIA THORPE, AN 1121 00:29:52,157 --> 00:29:53,758 INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN SENATOR 1122 00:29:53,825 --> 00:29:55,293 WAS TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE, 1123 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:56,528 WHICH REQUIRED HER TO SWEAR 1124 00:29:56,594 --> 00:29:57,529 ALLEGIANCE TO THE QUEEN. 1125 00:29:57,595 --> 00:29:59,497 SOMETHING SHE UNDERSTANDABLY HAD 1126 00:29:59,564 --> 00:30:01,032 A BIT OF A PROBLEM WITH, SO THIS 1127 00:30:01,099 --> 00:30:01,833 IS WHAT SHE DID. 1128 00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:05,270 >> PLEASE RECITE THE AFFIRMATION 1129 00:30:05,336 --> 00:30:08,840 ON THE CARD HANDED TO YOU. 1130 00:30:08,907 --> 00:30:09,908 >> I, SOVEREIGN LIDIA THORPE, DO 1131 00:30:09,974 --> 00:30:13,878 SOLEMNLY AND SINCERELY AFFIRM 1132 00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:15,513 AND DECLARE THAT I WILL BE 1133 00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:18,316 FAITHFUL, AND I BEAR TRUE 1134 00:30:18,383 --> 00:30:21,452 ALLEGIANCE TO THE COLONIZING HER 1135 00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:22,020 MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II. 1136 00:30:22,086 --> 00:30:22,954 >> SENATOR THORPE -- SENATOR 1137 00:30:23,021 --> 00:30:24,389 THORPE, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO 1138 00:30:24,455 --> 00:30:26,691 RECITE THE OATH AS PRINTED ON 1139 00:30:26,758 --> 00:30:27,725 THE CARD. 1140 00:30:27,792 --> 00:30:28,726 >> John: YEAH, THEY ACTUALLY 1141 00:30:28,793 --> 00:30:30,361 FORCED HER TO READ WHAT WAS 1142 00:30:30,428 --> 00:30:35,333 PRINTED ON THE CARD, VERBATIM. 1143 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,335 SO SHE DID THAT, BUT CREDIT TO 1144 00:30:37,402 --> 00:30:38,870 HER -- BECAUSE SHE THEN EMPLOYED 1145 00:30:38,937 --> 00:30:39,604 A TONE OF VOICE THAT DID A "LOT" 1146 00:30:39,671 --> 00:30:40,271 OF HEAVY LIFTING. 1147 00:30:40,338 --> 00:30:40,905 >> I, LIDIA THORPE, DO SOLEMNLY 1148 00:30:40,972 --> 00:30:44,309 AND SINCERELY AFFIRM AND DECLARE 1149 00:30:44,375 --> 00:30:46,778 THAT I WILL BE FAITHFUL AND BEAR 1150 00:30:46,844 --> 00:30:53,117 TRUE ALLEGIANCE TO HER MAJESTY 1151 00:30:53,184 --> 00:30:54,152 QUEEN ELIZABETH II, HER HEIRS, 1152 00:30:54,219 --> 00:31:00,058 AND SUCCESSORS ACCORDING TO LAW. 1153 00:31:00,124 --> 00:31:01,459 >> John: OKAY, I HATE THAT SHE 1154 00:31:01,526 --> 00:31:02,360 WAS FORCED TO DO THAT, BUT I 1155 00:31:02,427 --> 00:31:04,229 ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE WAY SHE WAS 1156 00:31:04,295 --> 00:31:05,964 ABLE TO MAKE A PLEDGE TO A FANCY 1157 00:31:06,030 --> 00:31:06,564 OLD LADY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 1158 00:31:06,631 --> 00:31:09,100 THE WORLD SOUND EXACTLY AS 1159 00:31:09,167 --> 00:31:11,236 STUPID AS IT FUCKING IS. 1160 00:31:11,302 --> 00:31:12,870 AND LOOK, TO GO BY RECENT POLLS, 1161 00:31:12,937 --> 00:31:13,871 AUSTRALIA -- LIKE THE UK -- 1162 00:31:13,938 --> 00:31:15,473 SEEMS UNLIKELY TO LET GO OF THE 1163 00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:17,375 MONARCHY ANYTIME SOON. 1164 00:31:17,442 --> 00:31:19,611 BUT OTHER COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES 1165 00:31:19,677 --> 00:31:21,179 ARE ALREADY PREPARING TO DO SO. 1166 00:31:21,246 --> 00:31:22,847 LAST YEAR, BARBADOS REMOVED THE 1167 00:31:22,914 --> 00:31:23,848 QUEEN AS HEAD OF STATE. 1168 00:31:23,915 --> 00:31:25,216 JAMAICA IS LOOKING TO HAVE A 1169 00:31:25,283 --> 00:31:26,551 REFERENDUM TO DO THE SAME WITHIN 1170 00:31:26,618 --> 00:31:27,552 THE NEXT THREE YEARS, WITH ONE 1171 00:31:27,619 --> 00:31:29,354 POLL SHOWING A MAJORITY SUPPORTS 1172 00:31:29,420 --> 00:31:31,189 IT. 1173 00:31:31,256 --> 00:31:32,557 AND ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, GRENADA 1174 00:31:32,624 --> 00:31:33,191 AND BELIZE SEEM TO BE MOVING IN 1175 00:31:33,258 --> 00:31:35,193 THE SAME DIRECTION. 1176 00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:35,994 AND WHILE THE ROYAL FAMILY'S 1177 00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:37,629 SAID THESE COUNTRIES ARE FREE TO 1178 00:31:37,695 --> 00:31:38,630 LEAVE IF THEY SO CHOOSE, THEY 1179 00:31:38,696 --> 00:31:40,732 ALSO REFUSE TO RECKON WITH WHY 1180 00:31:40,798 --> 00:31:42,033 THEY MIGHT WANT TO DO THAT IN 1181 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:43,134 THE FIRST PLACE. 1182 00:31:43,201 --> 00:31:44,802 INSTEAD, THEY'VE CONTINUED 1183 00:31:44,869 --> 00:31:45,903 WORKING HARD TO BE PERCEIVED AS 1184 00:31:45,970 --> 00:31:47,138 A MERE "SYMBOL," WHILE NEVER 1185 00:31:47,205 --> 00:31:49,907 TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT 1186 00:31:49,974 --> 00:31:50,708 THAT SYMBOL EXCUSED -- ALL WHILE 1187 00:31:50,775 --> 00:31:51,876 IGNORING CALLS FOR TRUE 1188 00:31:51,943 --> 00:31:53,845 APOLOGIES AND REPARATIONS TO 1189 00:31:53,911 --> 00:31:55,346 THOSE WHO SUFFERED TREMENDOUSLY 1190 00:31:55,413 --> 00:31:57,382 BECAUSE OF WHAT WAS DONE IN 1191 00:31:57,448 --> 00:31:58,583 THEIR NAME. 1192 00:31:58,650 --> 00:32:00,418 AND LOOK, YOU DON'T HAVE TO HATE 1193 00:32:00,485 --> 00:32:02,453 THE ROYAL FAMILY PERSONALLY. 1194 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:03,288 I MEAN, GOOGLE "PRINCE PHILIP 1195 00:32:03,354 --> 00:32:04,889 RACISM" OR "PRINCE ANDREW 1196 00:32:04,956 --> 00:32:05,723 EVERYTHING" AND SEE WHERE YOU 1197 00:32:05,790 --> 00:32:07,158 LAND. 1198 00:32:07,225 --> 00:32:09,761 YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO THINK THE 1199 00:32:09,827 --> 00:32:11,362 INSTITUTION SHOULDN'T EXIST. 1200 00:32:11,429 --> 00:32:14,065 BUT IF IT'S GOING TO, IT'S FAIR 1201 00:32:14,132 --> 00:32:15,566 TO EXPECT SIGNIFICANTLY MORE 1202 00:32:15,633 --> 00:32:16,868 FROM THEM. 1203 00:32:16,934 --> 00:32:17,602 BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, FAR TOO 1204 00:32:17,669 --> 00:32:25,176 OFTEN, THEY HIDE BEHIND THE 1205 00:32:25,243 --> 00:32:25,677 SHIELD OF POLITENESS AND 1206 00:32:25,743 --> 00:32:26,210 MANNERS, WHICH FREQUENTLY 1207 00:32:26,277 --> 00:32:26,811 DEMANDS THE SILENCE OF ANYONE 1208 00:32:26,878 --> 00:32:27,378 WHO MIGHT CRITICIZE THEM, OR 1209 00:32:27,445 --> 00:32:27,845 WHAT THEY STAND FOR. 1210 00:32:27,912 --> 00:32:28,446 WILL THIS SEGMENT EVEN AIR ON 1211 00:32:28,513 --> 00:32:30,348 SKY IN BRITAIN? 1212 00:32:30,415 --> 00:32:31,749 I DUNNO. 1213 00:32:31,816 --> 00:32:32,550 MAYBE. 1214 00:32:32,617 --> 00:32:34,085 MAYBE NOT. 1215 00:32:34,152 --> 00:32:36,654 BUT IF THEY DO CUT IT FOR BEING 1216 00:32:36,721 --> 00:32:37,488 DISRESPECTFUL, THEY MIGHT WANT 1217 00:32:37,555 --> 00:32:39,957 TO THINK ABOUT WHY. 1218 00:32:40,024 --> 00:32:41,059 WHY THEY, AND EVERYONE ELSE, ARE 1219 00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:42,593 WORKING SO HARD NOT TO OFFEND A 1220 00:32:42,660 --> 00:32:44,128 FAMILY WHOSE NAME WAS BRANDED 1221 00:32:44,195 --> 00:32:47,532 INTO PEOPLE'S SKIN, AND WHO SIT 1222 00:32:47,598 --> 00:32:48,833 ATOP A PILE OF STOLEN WEALTH, 1223 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:50,134 WEARING CROWNS ADORNED WITH 1224 00:32:50,201 --> 00:32:51,536 OTHER COUNTRIES' TREASURES. 1225 00:32:51,602 --> 00:32:56,207 AND IF THERE'S AN ANSWER TO 1226 00:32:56,274 --> 00:32:56,808 THAT, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR IT, 1227 00:32:56,874 --> 00:32:57,442 THOUGH IF HISTORY IS ANY GUIDE, 1228 00:32:57,508 --> 00:32:58,409 I'M GUESSING I'M JUST GOING TO 1229 00:32:58,476 --> 00:32:59,877 GET AN ICY STARE WHILE YOU THINK 1230 00:32:59,944 --> 00:33:01,846 CERTAIN THOUGHTS IN YOUR HEAD. 1231 00:33:01,913 --> 00:33:03,648 BUT I REALLY HOPE THEY DON'T CUT 1232 00:33:03,715 --> 00:33:04,148 THIS PIECE. 1233 00:33:04,215 --> 00:33:08,586 PARTLY BECAUSE THIS IS A 1234 00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:10,788 LONG OVERDUE CONVERSATION THAT 1235 00:33:10,855 --> 00:33:13,391 NEEDS TO BE HAD, AND PARTLY 1236 00:33:13,458 --> 00:33:15,893 BECAUSE NO AUDIENCE DESERVES TO 1237 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:16,494 BE SUBJECTED TO 25 MINUTES OF 1238 00:33:16,561 --> 00:33:17,328 THIS. 1239 00:33:17,395 --> 00:33:21,199 ♪ ♪ 1240 00:33:21,265 --> 00:33:23,768 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1241 00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:28,272 [LAUGHTER] 1242 00:33:28,339 --> 00:33:31,209 ♪ ♪ 1243 00:33:31,275 --> 00:33:32,377 >> John: THAT'S OUR SHOW. 1244 00:33:32,443 --> 00:33:38,416 THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1245 00:33:38,483 --> 00:33:38,950 WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK! 1246 00:33:39,016 --> 00:33:39,350 GOOD NIGHT! 1247 00:33:39,417 --> 00:33:39,817 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1248 00:33:39,884 --> 00:33:53,931 ♪ ♪ 1249 00:33:53,998 --> 00:34:04,108 ♪ ♪ 1250 00:34:04,175 --> 00:34:05,176 >> I DON'T THINK I'M GOING TO