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Eleven Maric. 
Okay, mileva Maric and Albert 

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Einstein. 
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What the heck? 

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Hope you enjoy this one. 
I'm really excited. 

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I love the. 
I do more off the beaten path. 

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Episodes. 
I mean he's wicked famous but 

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nobody knows him as a lover. 
Exactly. 

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Like I'm so sick of Albert. 
Einstein the scientist. 

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Okay. 
Boring. 

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Yeah, honestly we're not going 
to cover much of that in this 

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episode like the science. 
Yeah, people know who he is 

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beer. 
He's like I can't physically. 

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I hate physics so much. 
That was my worst class in all 

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of school that have ever taken. 
I got a see, um, physics. 

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Hey, I didn't mind actually, I 
got the terrible hated 

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chemistry. 
I hated my physics of sure. 

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Yeah, that can make or break an 
experience. 

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This episode is definitely 
probably not for like the Albert

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Einstein stands, who like love 
his work specifically and like 

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like your I sound like an idiot 
like talking about this like 

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this is for the people who like 
casually you know are interested

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in what he was like. 
Yeah, as a lover. 

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Well you think that someone that
sign Stein fan wouldn't be 

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interested in? 
His personal life. 

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I think they probably would 
actually. 

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Well know, I did see some things
online. 

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It's like should we really be 
saving these love letters that 

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he had like you know, like it's 
not anywhere? 

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Yeah, yeah and it's like like oh
this is tabloid gossip. 

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Because a lot of these letters 
actually didn't even come to 

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light to until like the 80s. 
And so people didn't really, 

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like know a lot of this stuff 
before then they're like, this 

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is really his personal. 
That's cool ssion. 

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Yeah. 
Yes. 

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Family like auction, some of 
them off and stuff. 

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I love reading letters. 
It's so intimate. 

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It's like, I totally see him in 
a different light and wow, it's 

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really interesting. 
Yeah, can we get into it? 

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Yeah. 
What three words would you use 

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to describe their relationship? 
Oh, I would say. 

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I don't even think about it. 
Mmm intellectual. 

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Hmm, obviously, romantic. 
Whoo. 

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And Heartbreaking. 
I would say, okay, wow. 

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Here we go, right? 
So mr. 

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Albert, Einstein himself, he was
born, March 14, 1879 in Ulm in 

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the Kingdom of württemberg in 
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He's a Pisces. 
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So I first German episode, 
right? 

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It is yeah, but much of it 
actually takes place in 

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Switzerland. 
I see our first whist episode. 

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Yeah, I think so. 
I think we do have some like 

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German and swiss listeners from 
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Right at railay. 
I don't know if they're still 

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here, but if you are thinking, 
yeah, his dad was Herman. 

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Einstein he was a Salesman and 
an engineer. 

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His mom was Pauline Scotch. 
She came from an affluent 

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family, but like, I think she 
was just a homemaker. 

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I'm not really sure like what 
she did. 

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And he had one sister named 
Maria, but she went by Masha, 

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and she was born when Albert was
too and I read that out. 

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It really had trouble making 
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And really his sister was kind 
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child and his family. 
They were secular Ashkenazi 

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Ashkenazi Jews. 
We're talking with them. 

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Yeah, at one years old, his 
family moved to Munich and his 

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dad and uncle. 
Founded a company that 

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manufactured electrical 
equipment based on direct 

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current. 
And he actually in these very 

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early years of his life, had a 
really significant speech delay 

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and couldn't talk really mmm. 
And his parents were really 

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concerned about him and they 
took him to like all these 

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doctors. 
And eventually he began talking.

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But even when he did speak he 
would repeat sentences to 

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himself alone. 
Kind of like that kid in that 

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show The Middle. 
Oh, I feel like it's like now 

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speculated like maybe he might 
have been like, on the Spectrum 

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really but no, one can say, for 
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Yeah, I'm really knows but 
because of that he did have 

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trouble making friends which was
really tough for him. 

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He was obviously really into 
science when he was Kid. 

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He taught himself science and 
math. 

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He taught himself algebra and 
geometry in a single Sun I just 

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12 years old and like then when 
he was 12 he began teaching 

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himself calculus as well. 
Oh my goodness I never learn it 

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all he also loved music. 
He played the violin which is 

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mom taught him how to play and 
he has said that if he did not 

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become a scientist, he would 
have become a musician instead. 

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Ed cool beautiful. 
Yeah, that softer side to him. 

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Oh kids also a pick on him a lot
to. 

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He went to Catholic school and 
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Yeah. 
That like really like isolated 

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him from his peers. 
Sadly. 

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Hmm. 
Did he move around a lot? 

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He moved around someone a lot 
but that he did move around 

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some. 
Come up at age 13, he became 

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obsessed with philosophy. 
He studied kant's critique of 

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pure reason and then yeah, and 
his family moved to Italy after 

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his father and Uncle sold their 
company because they lost a lot 

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of money because things also 
like a bid to supply the city of

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Munich with electrical lighting 
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Was moved to Milan. 
And so he started school there 

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and then they moved to Pavia 
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But he stayed at school and he 
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I guess he had like a real tough
time with the teachers. 

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Like he was really defiant. 
He didn't like how they were 

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teaching and he was like the 
kind of kid who would like speak

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back to them and stuff. 
And so then he wrote to his 

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parents like begging for them to
take him out of school and they 

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did WOW, followed them. 
Them. 

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And then in his late, teens, he 
went off to. 

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I don't know how to say this 
arou Switzerland. 

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She's Lipa, I'm not sure for a 
secondary school and then he 

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stayed with April there. 
When he went to that school, he 

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stayed with the professor named 
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Whittler who had an 18 year old 
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He was actually 16 at the time, 
Albert and he fell deeply in 

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love with this girl, her name 
was Maria. 

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And yeah, they were like really 
into each other, but he broke it

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off later and I feel like he 
kind of looked down on her. 

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He didn't think that he was as 
smart as her. 

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Mmm, that's like kind of a theme
throughout his life, like, 

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judging people on their 
intelligence and he later said, 

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in a letter. 
She was a foolish darling. 

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That can neither do nor 
understand, anything. 

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Oh my God, that's so harsh, but 
he found it really pretty And 

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then at age 17, he received his 
diploma and Switzerland and then

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he enrolled in a math and 
physics teaching program at 

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Zurich, Polytechnic, wow, smart,
he's wicked smart and that we 

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have my gosh. 
How do you say it again? 

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One more time. 
Mileva, Maric. 

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That's the last time I love the 
love of my lover. 

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I love talking about is how do 
you spell it? 

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M, IL e vxa 11 lover. 
Kind of like my name, is it? 

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Yeah, my love. 
I was born, December 19th 1875. 

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She's a Sagittarius in title in 
Austria, Hungary, which is now 

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modern-day Serbia. 
Serbia Syria have a connection, 

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not gonna get into it though. 
She came from a pretty wealthy 

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family. 
Her parents were Milo's, Milo's 

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and Mariah and she was the 
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She had a younger sister. 
I think, and a younger brother. 

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And she was born with a 
displaced hip, which caused her 

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to have a limp when she walked. 
She really stood out because of 

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that, because her family was 
really rich. 

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She was really well-educated, 
which was not the norm for girls

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at that time. 
And that made her. 

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I mean, she's just naturally 
really smart too. 

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And she attended a girls school 
in Serbia, and her classmates 

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described her as really 
brilliant, but not very 

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talkative, she would keep to 
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She was really A observant. 
She just kind of like a 

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Wallflower. 
Hmm. 

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But very, very smart. 
Hmm. 

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And so her dad received special 
permission from the minister of 

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Education to allow her to attend
physics, lectures that were 

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reserved for boys. 
And then from there, she went 

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off to Switzerland to study math
and science, and she received 

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her diploma in 1896, and then 
also transferred to the same, Is

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Albert Zurich Polytechnic and 
they were in the same class with

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each other for the first year 
and it was just five of them in 

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the program. 
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