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

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Hope you enjoy. 
Well, thank you for joining. 

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Today's episode is quite 
different. 

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We're talking about an arranged 
marriage. 

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I haven't done that before. 
And it's between Marie 

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Antoinette and Louis, the 16th 
of France, King and queen, Last 

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King and queen of France and. 
My sister Caitlin actually 

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picked this episode because she 
I feel like we talk about her a 

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lot, but she does a lot for us. 
She does our YouTube just out of

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the kindness of her heart, runs 
it. 

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For some reason, she's. 
Our biggest fan? 

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She listens to the episodes 
right away and gives us advice. 

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She. 
Yeah, I asked her what, What 

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would you want me to cover? 
And she said this. 

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So hope you like it, Caitlin. 
You know, you might think, oh, 

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1700s, this is going to be 
boring, but. 

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I assure you that it's not, that
it's crazy and that people back 

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then acted crazier than people 
today. 

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So yeah, they had like, almost 
no morals. 

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Yeah, well, in some ways they 
had so many morals, but just the

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things that they did, you know, 
we would not do today. 

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So, Mel, do you know anything 
about this couple? 

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I just want to. 
Know. 

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OK, good. 
Just that. 

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Weren't they kind of bad? 
I don't. 

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I mean, we'll get into it. 
They were OK. 

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So this is going to have a 
tragic ending, sadly, very 

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tragic ending. 
They. 

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Oh, she beheaded. 
They. 

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Both were beheaded by the 
guillotine, but I don't think it

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was deserved. 
And even though it's a tragic 

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ending, Marie Antoinette loved 
life. 

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She's a lover of life. 
She had a lot of fun, so I think

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she would want us to have fun. 
Until we get to that tragic 

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ending, OK. 
But yeah, cool. 

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Because I've listened to like, a
lot of history podcasts over the

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years, so I don't know, like 
what people know about them. 

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So that's good. 
It's good that you don't know 

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she's let. 
Them eat cake. 

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She is. 
She is. 

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She. 
Is known for saying that, but 

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she apparently did not ever say 
that. 

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She didn't. 
Say it. 

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She's misquoted. 
She's misquoted. 

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Oh, that's it. 
Because. 

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That's a kind of a bitchy thing,
that, she said Yes, she said it,

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yeah. 
The French people were starving.

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This is around the time of the 
French Revolution and the quote 

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is supposed to be that, oh, 
people can't even afford bread 

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and she said let them eat cake, 
but that is not true. 

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She did not say that That saying
actually wasn't a story way 

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before her time. 
Like it's. 

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It's a quote. 
It's a saying that predates her,

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so. 
Do people think it's something 

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that she would have said? 
I think they do think it's 

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something that she would have 
said, but no, the quote wasn't 

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associated with her until like 
50 years after her death. 

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So wow. 
That's kind of annoying. 

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I know. 
And it's like her most famous 

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quote and she didn't even say. 
It that's annoying. 

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But she, you know, she's known 
for her. 

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Huge hair. 
There is the Sofia Coppola movie

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with Kirsten Dunst, which is a 
weird coincidence because we 

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just did Priscilla last week, 
but Oh yeah, I think that's 

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great. 
Casting with her is my 

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Antoinette and what's his name? 
Jason Schwartzman is Louis. 

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But yeah, it is a tragic ending,
but it's it's going to be fun 

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before we get there. 
And it's kind of a raunchy 

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episode, by the way. 
Oh, La La. 

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I love it. 
We. 

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We pretty TMI. 
Like, Oh my gosh, my cup of tea 

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I love. 
That about the bedroom 

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situation, so it's yeah, maybe 
you don't listen to it like at 

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work, out loud, unless your work
is cool with that. 

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But if you have headphones, it's
fine, yeah, yeah. 

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Yeah, yeah. 
But it's going to be, it's going

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to be talk about sex. 
In this episode, and yeah, Marie

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Antoinette and Louis the 16th 
were an arranged marriage. 

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And it is known, even if you 
don't know that much about them,

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people kind of know that they 
weren't exactly the most 

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romantic couple, like head over 
heels in love with each other. 

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But my main question when I was 
researching this episode was, 

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did they ever come to love each 
other at all, even a little bit?

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Any feelings of love or 
friendship? 

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And that was kind of my like, 
mystery that I was 

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investigating. 
And I asked you guys on our 

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Patreon, I think we're going to 
start doing this is like a not 

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habit a. 
Tradition. 

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Tradition. 
I asked. 

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A poll, I said. 
Do you think it's possible to 

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fall in love with anyone if you 
got to know them well enough? 

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But I clarified not, not like a 
horrible person, not not Hitler 

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like a normal person. 
And 55% of you said yes and 45% 

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said no. 
Interesting. 

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I need to think about that. 
I heard that you know that you 

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can fall in love with anyone 
assuming that they're not an 

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evil person just by be having an
open mind and spending a lot of 

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time with them. 
But. 

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It's so hard though, because 
then some people can be in love 

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and then fall out of love. 
So. 

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I feel like you could grow to 
love someone, but maybe you 

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won't be per SE in love with 
them. 

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But you might have a lot of 
fondness. 

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All right, I will have to stop 
the episode right there. 

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