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Hey guys, this is Mel. 
If you're listening to this, you

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Today we are returning to that 
old bastard Eddie Fisher, 

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continuing the saga with him and
Elizabeth Taylor. 

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I got to say, doing this 
research like the Debbie Fisher 

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Eddie. 
Oh my God. 

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Debbie Reynolds I know, Remember
I. 

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Said Burt Reynolds. 
Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher, 

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Elizabeth Taylor, Richard 
Burton, all this this whole 

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socket to me, it's so exciting 
to me. 

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This feels like one of the 
epitome significant lovers. 

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Like I feel like these people 
were meant to be covered on 

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significant lovers. 
Like I'm just getting so into 

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do. 
They have like any documentaries

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about this whole thing. 
Probably, yeah. 

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It's so fascinating and also so 
glamorous and I'm just loving 

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it. 
So thank you to whoever 

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recommended it. 
I I I just feel like, wow, this 

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was meant for our podcast and 
last night we were at dinner, we

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were talking a lot about 
Elizabeth Taylor, 'cause my 

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parents kind of remember some 
stuff about this and we were 

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talking about her for so long. 
And then I went to the bathroom 

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and her picture was. 
That's so spooky. 

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She's like, I know you're 
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Good point, Mel. 
Very good point. 

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And if you know anybody who's on
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Yep. 

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Hope that makes sense. 
But yeah, so should we get into 

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it, the couple? 
So we left off in our last 

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episode and Debbie Reynolds and 
Eddie Fisher were married, two 

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babies at home. 
They were good couple friends, 

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double dating with Elizabeth 
Taylor and her husband. 

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What was his name? 
Mike Todd, Mike. 

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Todd. 
Who was a producer? 

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And then he died. 
He. 

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Died in a plane crash. 
That's awful. 

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And so Eddie Fisher goes over 
there to console Elizabeth, and 

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then the two end up getting in 
bed together and having an 

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affair. 
And Debbie Reynolds calls up 

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Elizabeth one day, and her very 
own husband, Eddie Fisher, 

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answers the phone. 
Yes. 

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Oof, oof. 
That is tough. 

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So then Debbie and Eddie tried 
to make it work for a little 

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bit. 
Debbie really didn't want to get

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divorced, but then that she had 
to. 

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She she was pressured too. 
Eddie wanted to be with 

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Elizabeth. 
And so they were. 

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They got together and this is 
Elizabeth's fourth husband. 

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Oh, they got married. 
Yes. 

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And we were theorizing in our 
last episode, too, that Eddie 

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Fisher might be a little bit of 
a narcissist, from the way he's 

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charming at first makes everyone
feel special, but then is very 

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cold. 
Yes, yeah. 

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And if you guys have heard of 
the book 7 Husbands of Evelyn 

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Hugo, she is definitely the 
inspiration for that. 

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I think that's becoming a movie 
next year or something. 

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And we're going to talk a lot 
about Elizabeth Taylor. 

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She's a very interesting person,
very crazy life. 

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But it's fascinating. 
And if I had to describe this 

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couple in three words, I was 
pacing around my apartment 

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thinking about what? 
What would I say? 

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I would say Eddie and Elizabeth 
were sensual, impulsive and 

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precarious. 
OK, so who is Elizabeth Taylor? 

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You've probably heard of her, 
but who is she really? 

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Well, she was an actress who 
made a big name for herself 

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throughout the 40s, fifties and 
60s. 

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And she's been in movies like 
Little Women, Cleopatra, Cat on 

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a Hot Tin Roof, Who's Afraid of 
Virginia Woolf. 

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She was known for her extreme 
beauty. 

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People always said she had 
Violet eyes. 

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Which is like not true but. 
They're basically just blue, 

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yeah. 
In some lighting, maybe they 

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were purple, but they look blue.
She's very glamorous and she's 

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known for her really dramatic 
love life and all of her 

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marriages cause yeah, famously 
had eight marriages, 7 husbands 

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one of them married twice. 
Some of you probably already 

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know who, but won't get to that 
yet she it's kind of crazy. 

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Reminds me of like Henry the 
Eighth, just thinking about like

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each one of what happened 
between them and all their 

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names. 
How many marriages do you think 

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is like? 
Too many marriages to be like 

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OK, like that's. 
Definitely. 

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Too many? 
What does that even mean to be 

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married like? 
At that point, yeah, I guess 

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like there are benefits to being
married logistically. 

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You, if you're in ICU, your 
husband or wife or spouse can 

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make decisions for you and visit
you. 

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You can share health insurance. 
But when you're that much of A 

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celebrity, practical things 
don't matter as much. 

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I mean the ICU maybe, but still.
It just seems a little 

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ridiculous. 
In many cultures and religions 

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and such, it's supposed to be 
like sacred. 

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It's supposed to be one person 
for someone to get married 8 

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times. 
You're kind of like what the? 

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Point is, you are committing, 
hopefully to do it for the rest 

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of your life. 
And sometimes that really 

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doesn't work out. 
But I feel like by your fifth 

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marriage you're like, yeah, I 
know that this could be 

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temporary. 
I don't know. 

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I was wondering if you remember 
from the last episode, her and 

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Eddie getting together seemed so
not random, but it just 

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happened. 
It seemed so quickly how it 

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happened to her and Eddie 
getting together that you think,

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why did you have to get married?
Like couldn't? 

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This have just. 
Yeah, Exactly. 

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Yeah. 
It's almost like she marries 

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everybody she dates. 
Yeah, I know. 

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They all have to be married. 
I know. 

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I do think it could have 
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period. 
It was really not acceptable for

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people just be living together 
and not married. 

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So maybe anytime she wanted to 
like take it to the next level, 

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you know, like have a serious 
relationship, she thought had to

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be marriage. 
I don't know if that's why. 

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All right, I will have to stop 
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