Do Go On - 347 - The Nepalese Royal Family Massacre

Episode Date: June 15, 2022

In 2001, Nepal had three kings in three days. I don't want to give away too much more here, but the reason is one of the most shocking stories we've ever covered on the show... Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: dogoonpod.com or patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/suggest-a-topic/ Check out our new merch! : https://do-go-on-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Stream our 300th episode with extra quiz (and 16 other episodes with bonus content): https://sospresents.com/authors/dogoon Check out our AACTA nominated web series: http://bit.ly/DGOWebSeries​ Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:Zero Hour, 2007:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYkX2NX1tBs  https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/08/world/a-witness-to-massacre-in-nepal-tells-gory-details.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-01/how-a-lovesick-prince-wiped-out-nepals-royal-family/100056562https://mofa.gov.np/about-nepal/history-of-nepal/#:~:text=After%20the%20death%20of%20Yaksha,Gorkha%20with%20a%20Shah%20ruler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.

Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. Welcome to another episode of Do Go One. My name is Dave Warnikey, and as always, I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart.

Hello. Hello. How low can you go? Oh. How about this one? No. And I'll have my go. Hello.

Okay. That didn't quite work out. You see. suck at everything. Well, except and explaining how the show works. Okay, good. You were going for the same thing. Matt, I'll take this one. What we do here is we take it in terms of report on a topic

often suggested to us by one of the listeners. We go away, do a bit of research, bring it back to the group, and it's my turn to do that this week. I've picked a topic. You two don't know what it's going to be about. And to get us on the topic, I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to fold my laptop because I think Jess is going to cheat because you're an absolute cheat.

I'm an absolute cheat. If I can see that screen, I'm looking. You're looking. Hey, David, before you get started, can I just have a quick look at your screen? No reason. Oh, yeah. Can I just, I'll click share with you

because you are coming down the line. You are podcasting from Alabama, I believe. Brisbane, similar. Sorry, often get those too confused. All right, my question to you is, and if Matt doesn't get this, he gets the excuse of being on delay, Jess. You've got no excuse.

In 2001, both of you were alive, Which Asian country had three kings in three days? Whoa. I love the sound of this. Yeah, it's going to be a fun story, I think. Any ideas, Matt? What's the king? Does Malaysia have kings?

It's not Malaysia. Thailand recently had a changeover, didn't they? But I think that was one long serving king. Yeah, I think about seven decades of the same king they had. Oh, wow. We know that. Mousie Dong and

no, when did Mousie kick the bucket but he wasn't ever a king anyway it was like more of a That's right. Yeah. It was just a leader. My guess is Nepal.

Oh, can I go? Really? I'm going to go with Jess on this. I'm going to also go Nepal. How long ago did you look at this screen? Your computer's been open for ages. It was right there. In bold. I actually tricked you is Malaysia.

It is Nepal. It is Nepal. You had me go for a second. I was like, then why did he write answer Nepal? So confusing. Did he know I would look? Yeah. I tricked everyone.

I tricked everyone. I tricked it, including myself. Wow, you got us. I want to say, for the person who's keeping Tally, I still get that point. Absolutely. Yeah, cheating. Cheating's fine.

Cheating shmeating. I still said it first, didn't I? So. So yes, the answer is Nepal. And this topic, though, those three days of changes of kings, which we'll get to why that happened, been suggested by two people.

Richard, from Nepal, currently in Sydney, although this was suggested in 2018, where are you now, Richard? Oh. And also Mahima Bandari from Geelong, but they were in Nepal during this turbulent time in the story. Oh, cool. I met someone just recently who was from Nepal

in Newcastle, had just moved there from Sydney. Their name was not Richard, so it's not the same person. Okay. Was the name Richie? Or Dickie? No, no, it was Rick. He said, Rick, no relation to Richard. Well, let me give you a bit of a background on Nepal.

It is a landlocked country between China and India lying along the southern slopes of the Himalayan mountain ranges. Beautiful. Beautiful mountains. Gorgeous. It boasts some very famous past and bro. present residents, including Mount Everest. Of course.

You think of Mount Everest as a resident. Yeah, still there, still there. Everest could move. We could get Everest. It's like the Olympics. You've got a sort of bid for it. And, yeah, we've really thrown a hat in the ring. Australia got Everest.

The appropriate weather, apparently, yeah. Whoa. That'd be a real boon for our economy, I think. Wouldn't it? Yeah. Real Pat Boone for our economy. So it's got Mount Everest and also Gatama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.

Ah. I thought it was going to be the founder of guitar, guitar, rock and roll. Now that was a side project, please. Could have done both. Nepal was unified as a Hindu kingdom in 1768, founded by King Prithby Norean Shah. The Shah dynasty then ruled as an absolute monarchy

under successive kings until 1846 when there was a huge shift in power. Also, I'm going to say here, I've looked up a lot of pronunciations for these names. if you are from Nepal or from that region of the world, I have tried very hard to say these names correctly, but there will be a couple that I'm obviously having a stab at. Yeah, if you want to tweet in with criticisms,

can you hashtag it, Nepaling pronunciation? Please, I encourage this, I encourage this. A fast-rising military leader, Jung Bahadu Rana looked as if he threatened the Shah's hold on power. So the Queen Raja Lakshmi plotted to stop this upstart military leader. She had several hundred princes and chieftains executed after a clash between military personnel and administrators loyal to the Queen in what is known as the Kot Massacre. So the Queen tried to quell this uprising by killing lots of people, but it didn't work.

Despite this, Jung Bejaharra eventually emerged victorious and founded the Rana dynasty. He kept the monarch on, but made it a titular figure without any power. Ah. And declared himself Prime Minister, which he then made a hereditary role. Oh. So his son became Prime Minister and so on and so on. So they replaced the king to basically create a king with a new name. I'd actually be alright with being a queen with none of the power.

Queen and name only. Kind of like the Queen of England? Yeah. I want to be the Queen and I want to have like a staff looking after me. and not to really have to worry about budgeting, you know. But I don't want to have to make any big decisions. Do you want to have to open plaques and things like that? I'd rather not.

Okay. But if I had to do a couple of years, yeah, I'd do that. A couple of appearances, you know, kiss some babies, sign some babies, whatever. You're right, Matt, just like the queen. Sounds great. I'm guessing him and his followers were like, where this is righteous, we're going to take down this system, give it back to the people.

and then just slowly made it the same thing again. Yeah, just made the exact one. Hey, yeah, Prime Ministers, people get to vote for those and they're like fantastic. And then he's like, all right, my son's the next Prime Minister. Yeah. And his son. I have voted for him.

I said people vote for him. I voted for him. Yeah. Sure, he's three. The justification must be like, hey, look, we all know that I'm a good person, right? That's why we did this. And who can we trust the people to pick the rights?

right person? I'm not sure that we can. My son, I'll make sure he's a good bloke and he'll be good to promise. And it won't be him growing up as the heir apparent and in living in a palace certainly won't make him a bit of a weirdo and end up having strange ideas about what the world is. He'll be in touch with the people just like me, just like his dad. And they passed on the position of Prime Minister to nine separate successes for 100 years. The backing of the British helped them stay in power. That was integral.

Okay. Then to quote from Britannica here, the British withdrawal from India in 1947 deprived the Ranas, who were the prime ministers, of a vital external source of support and exposed the regime to new dangers. One of those dangers really came through when a democracy movement of the early 1950s

saw them overthrown with support from the then monarch of Nepal, King Tribhubhuvius. who remember was just a figurehead at the time. Yeah, the perfect kind of king. Right? In my opinion. But soon after the overthrow of the run,

King Tripevin was reinstated as the head of state. So he's like, I'm in charge again, I'm back. And this is a quote from the Government of Nepal's Foreign Affairs website, which I've enjoyed a lot this week. I bet you have. That sounds very interesting and fun. In early 1959, Tribhuvan's son, King Mahendra, issued a new constitution

and the first democratic elections for a national assembly were held. So he's bringing democracy back. Fantastic. The Nepali Congress Party was victorious and their leader. Bisheshwar Prasad Koralah formed a government and served as prime minister. This time an elected prime minister. Fantastic. But by 1960 the following year, King Mahendra changed his mind

and dissolved parliament dismissing the first democratic government. So he went, actually, this is. isn't such a good idea. I'm in charge. That's right. Okay. Really, Tom Brady did it. I'm retiring. Yeah, that's right. Actually. Actually, I kind of miss it. I want to be king again of the NFL. In fact, most of the party's leaders were imprisoned. Oh.

So they tried to have a constitutional monarchy, but it didn't work out right away, or for quite a long time. Again, from Britannica, King Mahendra attained both Indian and Chinese acceptance of his regime, and the internal opposition was weak, disorganised and discouraged. And he was able to hold on to the throne until 1972 when he died and his son Berendra took the throne. And Berendra is integral to the story we are talking about today. King Berendra. So he was the oldest son of Mahendra and his first wife Indra.

His mother, Indra, died during the birth of their sixth child and the death of the crown princess led to the building of the kingdom's first maternity hospital. Oh. Before that, they didn't have one. Mahendra was widowed, this is the king, then married his first wife's younger sister, Ratner. Really loves that whole hereditary passing it down thing, even wives.

Yeah. Keep them coming. How many more you got? How many more? That does feel, you hear that happen a little bit. I mean, I've never known anybody, but you hear those stories sometimes. And it's like, well, I guess you don't have to then, like, go through meeting the family again. Absolutely right.

Sir names and all that, you know. Yeah. And you're also like, well, I mean, I really liked, I loved someone who was very similar genetically to this person. Yeah, yeah. DNA was. She had a lot of DNA, yeah, very, very similar. Chimps and humans are 98% similar. Her and her sister, probably like 98.5, 99, maybe, you know, high.

Yeah. So what do you want me to do? Marry a chimp? Or I can marry my wife, my dead wife's sister. Come on. Who is also a chip. Well, I love chips. I love gyms.

Is there a problem here? I'm the king. I can marry whatever I like. That lamp. That bookshelf, record player. I've married them all. So he remarried the sister or married the sister. They had no more children though.

That's probably a good idea because then the kids would be like siblings and cousins. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I am right. And then aunties become mum. Auntie mum. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because they'd already know. Oh, yeah, that's messy.

Auntie stepmom. No, that's nice. It's nice. I think the more consolidation we can do, you know, you would talk about in the modern life, you want to consolidate things, more time for me. So you just consolidate family members into one. Do you think that would be easier?

Yeah, I think that would be nice. Honestly, that sounds like the logic of a cult leader that marries every single person. Yeah. Come on. I don't want it to be any kind of. of jealousy because I've married like two or three of the women. So I'm just going to marry all of them.

I marry them all. And then we're all equal. And I love you all the same. Obviously, Sandra's number one. Yeah, obviously. I love you all the same. My number one wife. Number two, I have got a ranking system.

There is a ranking system. I will publish that. I will publish that on the notice board. Sarah, you've really been letting me down lately. You are slipping to 13th. You have dropped a few spots. But I love you all. Basically, we're talking a couple of percentage points.

Where it's fractional. It's little fractions here, but yes. Yeah. But yes. I have a favourite. The oldest son, Berendra, the one is integral to this story, had been educated at the prestigious and expensive Eton College in the UK. Oh, we heard about that in recent episodes or past episodes, didn't we?

Like a lot of UK prime ministers studied there. Yes, that's right. A lot of world leaders, especially from the UK, but also from around the world, go there. Scott Morrison went there, I think. You know, all the good world. world leaders. Yeah. By the time this comes out, who knows?

Remember, there was someone who was, like, talking about how they donated to charities and one of the charities turned out to be eaten. I can't remember what episode that was. I found that very funny. That's funny. Given to the needy. But he went to Eden, that's cool.

That's right. And the kids at Eaton will be eaten tonight for the first time in a long time after my donation. You're welcome, children. You are welcome. You are the future. Leaders. Everyone gets a free jaguar.

Animal or car? Both. Whoa. Pop the boot. You're going to love what you find in there. So he went to Eaton where he was later described by his classmates as, quote, a very, very nice bloke who was embarrassed when his full title was read out at the school assembly. Oh, don't, principal, please.

No, don't say it. I'm shy. He went on to study at the University of Tokyo and Harvard. Am I saying that right? The University of Harvard. Yes. Saying that right? Harvard.

Thank you. And he had just turned 26 when his father died. He married his wife, who became Queen Ashwara, who was his second cousin. They love it in the family. I love it. And also a member of the Rana family, the group that had ruled as prime ministers for 100 years.

Oh, wow. That feels like a very good match then. Yes, I guess by marrying up, he sort of shored up the two, families together. Dave, did you say he married his wife? Yeah. Were they, like, is that allowed to marry someone who's already your wife?

You know, when you redo your vows? Yeah, yeah, that's really consolidating things. I had written he married his queen, but that made me feel weird, so I changed it for a lot. Why, that's nice. He married his queen. You should marry your queen. I think that's, every wedding I go to, I'm sure I've heard them say, I'm marrying my queen. Weddings are so weird.

I love them, but fuck, it's so funny to see your friends. friends and it's like it's the one day where they have this really private conversation but they have it in front of everyone. I'm like, oh, are you sure you guys, you don't need some privacy while you do these vows? They use their very private pet names publicly and be like, are you sure you wanted to do that? Matt, I thought it was weird at my wedding when you heckled with get a ruin. But honestly, it was a bit much. Yeah, it was.

Honestly, you killed though, you killed. That heckle was, you killed. Oh, I love killing with a heckle. Groom slaps down heckler. You won't believe what he says. Check out that YouTube video on the page. Anyway, he married his wife, who became his queen, all this stuff. And their wedding was huge.

It actually has its own entry on a wedding website I found called wikipedia.org. Okay. Did you come across that when you were doing the wedding planning? Yeah, that's right, actually. So it's just like anything, any kind of references you've been. might need for planning a wedding? Yeah. But it seems like it also has like the history of weddings.

Yeah, it does. And actually, I'll read from that page and you'll honestly notice that my wedding was a bit hack. I did all of these things. Okay, great. Hey, Dave, just before you go on, I'd like to, I feel like I have to pass this on. Someone tweeted it as recently. Petition for you to stop the Wikipedia joke.

What? My answer? Fuck off. I'm putting it on the record, okay? Okay. And on the record, fuck off. Lighten up. Jesus Christ.

Let us have this. Look at the fucking news. The world is on fire. And three little dickheads in Melbourne and Brisbane today make a little joke on a weekly basis. That's what Wikipedia is. And it's a bit of fucking fun. Lighten up. If that's the worst thing it's happened in your day, look inward, you.

miserable piece of shit. I think I went too far that last bit, but I'm not apologising. I agree. Lighten up. I think I need to send you the Wikipedia page for apology. No, Wikipedia, is that an apology website? It's an apology website. But it's also a wedding website.

Let me read from the page. Let me read from the page. Their wedding had an extensive preparation. Yep. Four white stallions were brought from England. Yes. Flowers from the Netherlands. So far you can see my wedding, very much. Yeah, that's embarrassing.

Even, like, the destinations you've got, the stallions of flowers. Absolutely. Exotic foods were brought from New Delhi and two planes, including 130 Indian waiters and 40 taxi cabs. Dave, this is eerie. That's so great. Hang on, no, no, no, no, no. Hand on your heart, you're promising you had not read about this wedding

when you planned your own. Next question. Oh, okay. You remember this bit? 200 automobiles were brought from Germany and Japan. I do remember, yes. Do. There's already 40 taxis as well, so they're getting automobiles from everywhere.

Everywhere. The singer Derba Palace was clean to make room for the bride's family. The roads of Kathmandu were repaved and streetlights were reinstalled. Wow. Government buildings were whitewashed and new walls were built for older constructions. Government buildings do tend to be a little bit whitewashed. Don't you agree? Hmm?

Hmm? Hmm? Good one. Good one. Is that anything? Did I say? Two new second-class hotels were taken by government to serve the guests. I mean, they could have taken first-class hotels, couldn't they?

Second-class hotels? Embarrassing. I don't know what this means, but the hippies and the hashish market, then a legal business were closed months before the wedding. So they closed down the hippies and the hashish market. Get out of here, hippies. Get a haircut. Yeah.

They shaved down the whole hippies precinct. Can you believe? A postal stamp was issued to mark the occasion and the cost of the wedding was thought to be between nine and 16 million US dollars. Ooh. Love a vague guess like that. That's a big jump, isn't it?

Yeah. Nepal's annual budget at the time was 66 million. Wow. And so the wedding was... About 20% of their national budget. Ooh. That feels right. was doing well and there were, you know,

there were no other things that needed the money, then fine, spend a silly amount of money on the wedding. Everyone's comfortable and has, yeah, somewhere to sleep. And I'm assuming that's the case. So they had this massive wedding and Berendera took the throne in 1972 but he wasn't crowned king for three years based on the advice of court astrologers who said that a better time for the coronation would be in three years' time.

Three years? And as we'll hear again in this, story. The court astrologers were very influential on the monarchy. Okay. They based a lot of their decisions on these predictions. And again from that wedding website, Wikipedia.org, which apparently also has a section

that describes coronations. Okay. A little subsection. That's interesting because the two don't generally go hand in hand. But in this case, they did. So Berendra, this is his coronation. There he was smeared with mud taken from various symbolic places, the bottom

of a lake, the tusk of an elephant. A mountain, the confluence of two rivers, and the doorstep of a sex worker's house. Yeah, that's the big six. The big six. Then with Queen Ashwara beside him, he was cleansed with butter, milk, yogurt and honey as priest chanted praises and salutations. Butter, milk, yogurt and honey. That's sticky.

Yeah, nice brecky though. Good way to clean off mud. Yeah. Well, it's like red wine and white wine. You get red one out with white wine. You get mud out with butter, honey. And eggs. Yogurt.

And milk. And it's like when Lisa Simpson had bubble gum in her hair, they just piled more and more stuff on top. It's like that. And then eventually just cut it off. That sounds like a relaxing day to one of those fancy spas. It totally does. And a lot of royalty in statespeople from around the world

were watching on, including Prince Charles. He was there. Really? Watching this honey ceremony. So Berendra was on the throne and he ruled the country and political parties remained effectively banned until 19. But an economic crisis at the end of the 80s led to a popular movement that resulted in strikes and protests across the nation. The king had no choice but to make reforms and in a pretty amazingly quick time, Nepal transformed into a constitutional monarchy and a multi-party parliamentary political system.

A lot of the royal family were unhappy with the king conceding most of his power to the constitutional monarchy and it was a source of tension, let me tell you. source of tension is another thing that he used to get the mud off. Yes, yeah, yeah. You must have missed that, Dave, in your research. But source of tension, it was there. Certainly. And the source of tension, how would you describe flavoring? You'll have a bite.

You'll taste and be like, oh, nothing. And then you'll be like, wait, what's going on? Do I not know how to taste anymore? What's happened to my taste buds? Are they failing? Oh, my God. Wait, have I got COVID or something else has happened? And then I'll go, bang, and the tension's broken.

And it's beautiful. Wow. And that tastes like everything all at once. Whoa. Yeah. Wow. It's a bit overwhelming, actually. Yeah, that's a bit much.

Yeah. Probably not good for chippies. Only for special occasions. Very rich. Not moorish at all. Oh, very rich. Yeah. It's like one of those very chocolatey cakes.

Yeah, yeah, you go. Just a sliver. Just a sliver of source of attention, please. The first bite is almost certainly enough and it never gets better from there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And you're like, let's share a piece.

Do you want to share this? Yeah, between five people. A lot of craft beers are like that where they sound great. They're hectic and you have a sip, but you've ordered a pint of it. And you're like, you're enjoying it. Yeah. And by the end, you're wishing you're wishing you went for a pot. Yeah, I feel like they should serve them in like pints, schooners, pots, ponies and maybe like a teaspoon.

Yeah, that's true. Can I have a teaspoon of that? A thimble. I'd love a thimble of that. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Obviously for them to make money, you still pay the full price. But honestly, you're doing yourself a favour.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't want to pint at that. So sorry, same price for a pint or a thimble. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That seems like a bad business model. Or actually a very good business model. Yeah, for them. For them, yeah.

So there's a new government. The king's now given up a lot of his power, and the new government wasn't very popular with the people either. throughout the 1990s, three main players were jostle for power in Nepal. Two were the largest political parties. We have the Nepali Congress or the NC. And then also the Communist Party of Nepal, sometimes described as the Maoists. Similar to Chairman Mao Sidong.

There you go, Matt. And the third edge of the triangle was, of course, the royal family. The Communist Party were especially in favour of overthrowing the monarchy. Yeah, of course they were. They were a real threat to them. In 1996, the Maoists announced the people, war and there was bloodshed across the country very violent time. So it was already

very turbulent across Nepal but in 2001 something happened that would transform the royal family and the country forever. A surprising event that no one could see coming. Yes, any guesses? 2001. Was that the year that Jet released Get Born? I got 2003.

Okay. This is the year that Jet recorded their demos that they sent to Sony that would one day result in the release of Get Born. I don't know what else it could be if it wasn't Get Born. Well, we'll find out. Let's meet the rest of the royal family.

Okay. They are this story. So we already have the King and Queen, King Berendra and Queen Aishwarya. Both came from big families with multiple siblings. The Queen's younger sister, and they love to keep it in the family as we've already established.

The Queen's younger sister, Preccia, Married the King's brother, Prince Darendra. Oh, okay, yeah. I don't mind that. Brothers, marrying sisters? Yeah. That's fine, I guess. What about twin brothers marrying twin sisters?

Oh. And they live in the same house together. There was a story. There was a story I'd lie the other day that had a photo. Have you seen that? I think it went a little bit vile. They were in the same clothes and people thought it was weird. I'm like, hey, we don't know.

We don't know the inner workings of that house where the twins share and wear the same clothes and house and maybe even partners who we don't know if that's how that all works. Do you think identical twins are better at telling apart other identical twins? Oh, good question. Like noticing the subtle differences. Yeah, because you know how people, some people are just like, I just can't figure it out.

And that's very annoying for identical twins. Do you think people who are identical twins see another set and go, got it, I know exactly who's who here. I guess I'm wondering if they do ever accidentally squeeze their sister-in-law's butt instead of their wife. Oops, so sorry. That is not my wife's bottom.

You'd obviously know your wife's bottom by touch. Yeah, oh yeah, so you know your wife's bottom by then. Already touched it. Sure, you could stare at it, but that'll be odd. Okay, so we're talking about the royal family. The king and queen had three children. Princess Shruti, who was 24 in 2001. and Prince Narajan, who was 23,

their older brother, crowned Prince Dependra, who was 29, heir to the throne and also integral to today's story. Okay. Now remind me who was the first person you said was integral to today's story? King Berendra. And that's his dad. Dad. And he's the oldest son. He's the heir to the throne when his dad dies.

It's assumed we'll take the role. So he's 29 years old in 2001. Prince Dependra was popular with his people who affectionate referred to him as Dippy. I was going to say, if I had to have a stab, I was going to say Dippy. Dippy. And it would have probably been my joke answer, but I love it. Dippy!

Dippy! Dippy! It wasn't that the nickname of the big Diplodocus that was built in country, Australia somewhere? They should have gone with that, but they called him Plotty. Oh, that's right. Ploddy. Ploddy's not right. Plottie's fun, but Dippy is better.

Dippy. Dippy's way better. Dippy! We did a Patreon bonus episode going through all the big things around Australia and what is it? Ploddy, the dinosaur, claims to be possibly the first one, but it's a bit

controversial. Who was first? Geez, you've got a good memory, Dave. Jess, any recollection of that? No idea. I don't know who you are. So like his father, Dippy or Prince Duprenra was educated at Eton.

He excelled at Karachi. Oh. And was captain of Eaton's school karate team, receiving the rank of Black Belt. And apparently, whilst at school, he never lost a match. Whoa. It was during his time in England that he reportedly met the love of his life, Deviani Rana, who was also studying in England at the time.

Rana. Yes, interesting. You noticed the last name there. Deviani also came from a wealthy aristocratic background, the wealth of which actually dwarfed even that of the royal family. Oh my God. Her family was stinking rich. So wealthy.

Well,ier than the royal family. Like, to the point where they look down on the royals' wealth. Oh, that's the dream. It's not, I mean, I don't, you know, I'm not a... But that would be fun. To be like, that's a really cute Rolls-Royce you have, Queen Elizabeth. So nice. Oh, you've got four taxes for your wedding, have you?

Oh, that's so good. No, that's so nice. That's great. 40 taxi, would you have to get them to do four trips each? I think it's easy if you just get 160 taxis

and they just have to drive one way. Oh, that feels like a bit of a cost. Okay. Yeah, no, no, no, no, that's fine. That's what I did for my wedding matter. Oh, you dropped that $100 bill. Oh, actually, that was me, and I'm not even going to pick it out.

I don't even care. You'd probably need it. I blow my nose with those. Like, I'm just obnoxious about it. Yeah. Dropping notes on purpose just to prove they don't need it. Oh, what a beautiful stables you have.

Look at all of these three horses. Wow. Are you okay? It's so sad how you live. Oh, it's amazing what welfare can pay for. You know, the doll these days, you can get three horses. Good for you. Good on you.

Are you a little battler? Has there been some sort of a horse-killing virus go through your stables? Only got three left. Is that what happened, I assume? Where are your other hundreds of horses that most people have, I assume? She was also the great-granddaughter of the last Rana Prime Minister of Nepal. Remember the Ranas were the ones that held the Shah monarchy back for 100 years by passing on the prime ministership.

So she's from that family. Her mother came from a very rich and powerful Indian family and the Nepalese king and queen did not approve of her as a match for their son, Prince Dependra. Probably because of that history, do you think? of a Romeo and Juliet type thing here? A bit of that, but remember the Queen actually came from that side as well. But I think they actually didn't like her mother's side of the family, the Indian family. For some reason, there was beef there, a bit of tension between their families.

A bit of source of tension. Then the Queen Mother, that is Dippy's grandmother, probably step-grandma, because it's his grandfather's second wife, also didn't approve of the relationship and in an attempt to sabotage it had the Royal Astronomer examine their connection. Oh, pulling out the big guns. The big guns. And would you believe that the astronomer foresaw that Deviani would be unlikely to produce a male air

and therefore was an unsuitable wife? Right. So she's like, I don't like you. I'm going to go talk to the people that work for me and they're going to tell me that you're not good. And the astrologer is like, I'm going to be completely impartial. You seem really nice. Your ovaries are dud, though. So that's just not going to work.

Sorry. So the family didn't approve of Deviani. It's believed that Dependra, their son, was threatened with being disinherited if he continued with the match so the affair had to continue in secret. Well, why doesn't he just marry her anyway? Because her family's loaded.

They looked after regardless. I know. It's not really a fall from grace if her family's richer than your royal family. Well, let me say that Deviani's family were also skeptical of the union. Damn it. Because the royal family had so much less money

than their own. They thought that if she became queen, she'd have to get used to a less lavish lifestyle and it was seen as a real downgrade for her to become the queen of the pool. That is incredible. I mean, I think they must be billionaire. You should hate these people,

but that is fucking funny. That is so good. Honey, you can't marry a prince. And then you'll grow up and be a queen. Oh, yes. Oh, okay, well, now let's pretend you have a quarter of the staff that you have now. How are you going to get anything done? Oh, my God.

How are you going to get anything done? You'll have to work a lot harder. You're probably going to have to put your own clothes on. Have you thought about that? Have you thought about that? Is he worth that? And that's embarrassing to me, your mother. If you have less money, you know, you're going to have to start combining things like wives and sisters and, you know, all these jobs.

You won't have enough. You won't have enough staff members to do them all. So your sons are going to have to become your brothers and your sisters, your grandmothers. It's going to be pretty crazy, but, you know, good luck. You know, yeah. If that's what you want. That's so funny that, like, that sort of class,

that classism, but it's like you're looking down on the royal family. Royal family. That is so funny. The people that spend one-sixth of the economy on a wedding. And you're like, oh, only one-sixth. Oh, my God. This is so embarrassing. What are they doing it on?

my budget? Ugh. Oh, that's so, so good. I also read from at least one source that Dippy himself threatened to poison himself if Deviani refused to marry him, even though his family and her family, they're the ones opposing it.

So he's a bit all over the place and I must say quite intense. Yeah, okay. So he's threatening her, even though she's like, no, dude, I want to be with you. Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's everyone against us. We're in it together.

We should, if anything, You should be sticking with me and maybe threatening your parents. Have you thought about that? So all of this was a bit of a scandal. Yeah. According to the ABC, our very own ABC, newspaper clippings at the time reveal the prince's decision to not marry as he reached his 30s, remember he's 29,

was threatening his status as heir to the throne. So the people of Nepal were talking about how it's weird that their crown prince wasn't married yet. Right. And the main reason he wasn't was because behind the scenes, he's in love with a woman that he's not allowed to marry. Yeah. So, but yeah, the people are questioning it going,

why isn't really, he should get going with making an air because that's his job. That's his job. He's the air and he needs to make another air. Yeah, people are talking about it. And that wasn't the only source of family tension. Some say that Dippy was angry at his father for giving way to the constitutional monarchy,

feeling he'd given away too much power, and he was worried that he was inheriting a diminished role. Oh, he's like, what's the point of being king anyway? It means nothing. It means nothing. He's kind of like, I'm giving up the love of my life to become king, and then it's really a ceremonial. Who cares?

Yeah, who gives a shit? So he's like, Dad, you shouldn't have done that. So that was, there was tense. And also apparently, I think the queen mother was also a bit like, why the hell is my son? Was stepson doing that? After finishing school, Dependras set out on a military career, receiving military training from the Academy of Royal Nepalese, Gherka Army,

and piloting training from the civil aviation department. So he's militarily trained. But everything came to a head on June 1st, 2001. Dippy hosted 22 people at his residence on that night. And his house was within the large royal palace. They've all got their own houses. Within the palace. Yeah.

Oh, that's good. I'd want mine to look like a little fairy cottage. It's like Disneyland with different lands. Yeah. Oh, Jess is over in Fairyland. Oh, Fairyland. And I'm over in like Star Wars World. Yeah.

I'm in the Millennium Falcon. I'm in a fridge. Old Man Land. Which is the same as fridge land. We're on ice over there, just trying to de age. Did you just look around the room and just panic and say fridge? Yeah. Fridge land.

I didn't understand the question. Because my mind was thinking about when I was a kid, I think just outside of Melbourne, I should say, there was a fairyland, I think. I remember going to it in primary school excursion. It was like there was a Jack and the Beanstalk. and like all these fairy tale things maybe. A very vague memory may not be true. Sounds like heaven.

How long ago did you go to school? Well, it was when Jack of the Beanstalk was happening. That's why they made the statue. You're hanging out with the brothers grim. So Dippy's had a bunch of friends over at his house within the castle. That's right, 22 people. The guests consisted of three generations of royalty and their close friends. There was nothing unusual about the get-together.

his family tried to catch up on the first and third Friday of each month. It was a regular thing. That's not bad. Every couple of weeks, I think that's a reasonable amount of time to see family. Yeah. If they live close by, you know, like every couple of weeks, I think is pretty reasonable. Yeah, especially if like a lot of you live within the palace. Yeah, yeah, you can manage that.

The get-togethers were usually pretty casual affairs organized at the last second. But on this particular evening, Dependra wanted to know in advance who was coming to the party. Okay. You got some RSVPs. But apart from that, it all seemed pretty normal. Just for catering purposes. Yeah. How many places are my staff setting at the table?

And his girlfriend's like, oh, can you afford staff? I didn't think you were able to. Oh, that's cute. Do you think that one staff member setting the table will have time? I'd have eight. I have people that act as my table and I eat off their backs. So people started arriving a bit after 8pm. And Dependra left the party to go and get the queen mother,

the matriarch of the family. Okay. He picked her up in his car. She's also his grandmother, the queen mother, just for context. They returned to the party a bit after eight where the gathering was split into two groups. Okay, a bit of trivia. We're going to play a picturenery.

No, we're going to teams? No, we're going to two rooms. Yeah, so then they could all devise a plan. They're going to win picturesary. A bit of strategy. Yeah, okay. Two different games in different rooms and you rotate. Is that what's going on now?

Exactly. Fun. They were playing games because most of the guests were in the billiard room. with a billiard table. And next door, in a room very close by... Sorry, Dave. You're speeding through that. So in the billiard room, there was a billiard table? Is that right?

No, they just had balls on the floor. I don't know if you heard. The royal family aren't very wealthy. They can't afford a table. But they still call it in the billiard room. They just have a ball pit made of billiard balls. It's very painful for the children. Ow!

It hurts. So most of the people in this, this is like the happening part. party. This is where the younger people are hanging out there, drinking. Playing billiards. Playing billiards. Getting in the ball pit. And next door, we're very close by in another room. In a much quieter setting was the queen mother, the king, the queen and some other older ladies. Yeah, a bit more civilised. Dippy's closest confident in the family was his cousin, Paris Shah.

According to a documentary I watched called Zero Hour, which is a TV series, he was seen as above the law. Oh. And in the TV series they say he once killed two motorists during a hit and run and also shot a bouncer in one of Kathmandu's nightclubs and no charges were ever brought. Brick and hell. If you're going to know somebody who's above the law,

I guess you want them on your side? Yeah, want it to be your friend? I'm guessing that means that all these people are seen as above the law. Yeah, I guess so. Because he's like, you know, he's related to the king. Yeah. But he's like the nephew. He's not even in line for the throne.

No one seemed to notice early on in the evening that Dependra was drinking heavily. knocking back Famous Grouse Scotch whiskeys. Scotch whiskey. I just love Famous Grouse, my favourite name for a drink. Yeah, that's amazing. I just like, just like, Jess sort of did a whisper echo.

Scotch whiskey. Yeah. Really set in the scene here. He suddenly appeared noticeably drunk to members of the family and stopped playing pool to sit on a couch. He then started smoking hashish or marijuana, which was seen as a very rude thing to do in front of his elders. You do it in private.

You don't smoke anything in front of your elders in their culture. Yeah, you do it in front of your youngers. Do they smoke things, the elders? I don't think. I think it's just like, yeah, you don't smoke. You shouldn't be smoking at the party. Okay. But yeah, I think it's especially offensive if the king and your elders are there.

Yeah, gotcha. Clearly not in a great way after the drinking and smoking. He started a fight with a guest, so his cousin, Paris and younger brother, Narajan, decided to put the crown prince to bed to sleep it off. Sleep it off. They sort of, they carried him, carried him back to his bed.

What's the old rhyme? It's, it's, uh, beer then grass. You're on your ass, isn't it? Grass then beer, you're in the clear. Beer, then grass, you're on your ass. He didn't listen to the rhyme. Yeah, what about, uh, beer than hashish. Sheesh.

You're fucked. Dave, that's good stuff, right? No need to go for a second draft on that one. That was perfect. Nailed it. Do you reckon we can put that on a t-shirt? Sell it like a sell it at a market. I reckon we could sell that on our official merch store.

That's right. Beer and hashish. Sheesh, you're fucked. That's good stuff. That is good stuff. Someone could design that for us. We'll get that in the shop. Pronto.

Yeah, ASAP. Send that to us. And we will sell it worldwide. It's going to be big. It's going to be big. It's good. big. Fashion changed forever that day. Jeez, you're fuck.

And he was. They put him to bed. He's not in a good way. And they go back to the party and everyone's like, people apparently, they're talking about it at the party like he didn't seem that drunk earlier. And they're like, oh, oh, well. Anyway, now a lot of this recreation is based on that TV series Zero Hour as they recreated the whole night through testimonials. Okay. Through people that were there.

After placing Dippy in his bed, Paris, his cousin, put down his cousin's joints next to him. And he noticed his drawer was open with some guns in it. Some guns. Some guns. A couple of hand guns. Okay.

In his bedside drawer. Yeah, it would be in his gun drawer. Dave. The gun draw? You don't have a gun drawer with just fall to the brim with guns? We've got a gun room. Yeah, I've got a gun pit. No draw can hold my collection.

Neighborhood kids play in the gun pit that I've got out the front. I said, how many, they dive in. We couldn't afford balls. Not even snooker balls. But he didn't think much of it. This is because Dippy had a long history with firearms, having received his first pistol for his eighth birthday. That's nice.

That's a good... That's appropriate. And from there, would you believe it, guns became his obsession. Okay. He was an avid gun collector and even on a computer designed his own weapons. Okay. Which he designed something he called the perfect gun. The perfect guns.

He called it that. The perfect guy. Very cool guy. I'm picturing it like Homer's perfect car. It's just got too much going on. It's like a shotgun slash rocket launcher, slash pistol, slash flamethrower.

It's got everything. The GPS. It's got a butt warmer on it for when you're out there shooting in the cold. Popcorn maker. He also had access to the palace armour which stored some serious weapons. His military training and passion for hunting

led him to be a great shot. Apparently, he was more accurate than all of his guards. There was a point of pride. Okay. Well, I don't think that should be a point of pride. I'd be concerned. Get better guards.

Yeah, get better guards. I want guards that are going to protect me. He's purposely hiring guards that don't have good shots so that he can be better than it. They all get tested. And anyone who's a great shot, they do not get hired.

because he's proud of being better than him. They have to be okay, but he has to be better. Yeah. They have to shoot, you know, that big square target, they've got to hit the paper at least, you know. But no bullseys. That's something he does. He's not even actually that good.

He hits the third ring, so they have to be worse than that. If someone shoots the target, he's like, oh, and then he shoots them. Works out well. From close range, so it was quite easy to do. Yeah, that's right. Oh, you got a bull's like. well, so did I bang. And he still only wings them.

He aims at their head and somehow shoots their toe off. And because of his passion for hunting birds around the palace grounds, the guards were used to hearing gunshots at night. Right. Great. So now was thinking, you knew this. Still in bed, Dippy's forbidden girlfriend, Deviani, called him on his mobile, but he was incoherent when he answered.

And when she called back, he didn't answer at all. The unanswered calls were redirected automatically to the palace's security office. Deviani asked if they would check on the crown prince. So they sent a couple of staff members up. They checked on him but he dismissed them saying I'm fine, I'm fine. Yeah, I'm just drunk. I'm just drunk. Leave me alone.

Go get me some hash browns. Haschish browns. Has she? Put that in my t-shirt. Has she sprounds. So the last any one seen of Dippy, he's gone to bed and everyone's like, well, you know, I guess he's passed out for the night. At 8.45 p.m., the King Rishapes.

joined the main party in the billiard room, leaving behind the queen and his wife the queen in that quieter room next door. Okay. A few minutes later, Prince Dependra, Dippy, unexpectedly walked back into the party wearing full military fatigues and carrying a rifle and a shotgun.

Okay. Okay. But no one really took notice of him as they thought he was stressed to go out hunting like he often did. So nobody's worried that a very drunk man just walked back into the room in military fatigues. No, they're like, I guess he's going to go shoot some birds. All right.

Well, really drunk. Well, really drunk and possibly high. But he did get everyone's attention when he walked up to his father, the king, who was engaged in a conversation, lifted his rifle and fired twice at his dad. The king fell and Dippy dropped the gun and left the party. So he just walked up to his dad and his dad was like, what are he doing? And he just shot him twice. Far out.

And this is the guy who's a good shot. A good shot. No, at point blank range, he doesn't miss. Oh, my God. I just realized that, like, I didn't, I don't know what the name of this episode is going to be. So I don't know what's going to happen. So that did surprise me. That surprised me too.

It's so funny. I thought it was just going to be like a power struggle, not, not, um, whatever you call, King Aside or whatever it's called. King Aside. Regicide. Regicide. Dave. That's only, if the.

King's name is Reginald. Which, uh, let me check my notes. Oh, hang on, no it's not. So this is just king aside. King aside. So he shot, shut him twice in the chest. His dad falls to the floor. Dipy drops the gun and walks back out to the garden and everyone was in shock.

What? Some thought that a horrible accident had happened to the gun had just gone off because not many people were concentrating. And those who had witnessed the violence were fully in a daze. Yeah, you're in shock. That is so unexpected. Yeah, everyone is like, what the hell? Hell. Is this some sort of a prank?

Let's check the date. Wouldn't you be thinking of they orchestrated this? That's right. A little bit of entertainment for the party? Is Ashton Kutcher about to walk out of a cupboard and say, you got punked? Yeah. You got Reggie pumped. The king gets up and he's like, he's a rubber bullet.

So he had a bullet professor. He's like, ah. Got you. No, one of the guests, Rajiv Shahi, the son-in-law of the youngest brother of the king, was a trained military doctor who was at the party, he rushed to the king's aid and tried to stem the flow of blood with his jacket. Wow. Next door, the queen of the queen mother, they had no idea what was going on.

They're far enough away that they don't hear the shots or they hear the shots and don't think anything of it. That's how big these places are. Yeah. Don't hear shots. Again, and people aren't freaking out because he goes hunting most nights. So you hear bullets. Yeah.

You hear shooting. So even the guards, they've got commandos on site for their protection, no one's noticed anything. No one really cares. Meanwhile, Dependra had gone back out into the garden to his gun bag that he had stashed out there. He replaced the shotgun, but grabbed two further weapons,

an M16 rifle and an MP5K machine pistol. Machine pistol. That doesn't sound good. It doesn't sound good. Sounds like the perfect gun. Did he invent that? Yeah. Dependra returned to the party.

He went back in with the guns and when confronted by the king's brother Darendra, who told Dependra to stop what he was doing Dependra shot him at point blank. Oh my God. So he shot the King's brother. His uncle? His uncle.

From there, Dependra went on a spree. Cold and free of any emotion. He was described as looking like a robot, expressionless like the Terminator 2, someone described him as. Great reference. Great reference, but it's like, are you talking about the T-1000

or Arnie's character, which would be specific here. There's two Terminators in that movie. Which one do you mean? Which one? Is this a critique of Arnie's wooden acting? What's going on here? He's playing a robot.

Yeah, huh? Or you referring to Robert Patrick? I mean, who are we putting down here? Yeah. Anyway, he went on a spree, and over the next 60 to 90 seconds, he shot another 11 people in the room. Holy.

Holy shit. I mean, you know, it takes us several minutes to talk about it. But from him just walking out of his bedroom, shooting his dad, going out to the garden, it's like it's over in a flash it's so quick so quick you wouldn't have time to comprehend that the king was just shot

and then maybe your shot or people like that's wild and people are walking up to him trying to sort of sort of talk him out of it and he just shoots him at point blank range it's because like that's your it's close family too right so you're kind of thinking like you're not thinking with fear you're going like oh yeah what's going on here and trying to calm things down

wow that's wild shooting lots in the lots of people. Paris, the cousin accused of the hit and run that is his close friend, reportedly selflessly shielded a group of women who, like him, came out unscathed. Wow. And I believe he was one of the few people that said, what are you doing with a gun

pointed at him and Depender didn't shoot him? It's one of the few people that wasn't shot. Power security had heard screams and shouts and radioed all units to attend the scene, but it took them minutes to reach the room, and when they did, they found that the door was locked, so they had to try and find another way in.

Nobody had a key. No, and these are armed commandos who could have taken him out. Dependra left the room after shooting 11 more people and it went back out into the garden. The queen and the queen mother was safe in the room next door and had no idea what was happening. But someone informed the queen of the terrible events and she ran after her son Dippy, running into the garden with their other son, Prince Narajan. They think she was hoping to confront him to talk some sense into him. Oh, they think which means they don't know.

Yes, because when she got there, Dippy shot her and his brother as well. Oh my God. I didn't know this story at all. It would be either. It is so wild. And it's so recent and we were all alive. It's honestly one of the most wild stories I've ever come across in our show. This is awful.

So he shot his brother, shot his mom before finally turning the pistol on himself, shooting himself in the head, falling on a footbridge over a garden stream. Oh my God. Just like that, the violence was over. The military finally got into the room and started administering aid to survivors. the king was still alive at this time but later died in hospital. Also dead was the queen, their daughter of Princess Truti and their son, Prince Narajan, three of the King's siblings, as well as one of their husbands,

and the king's cousin, Princess Gianty, King Berendra's first cousin. In total, nine people had lost their lives. Whoa. Four more were injured in what is known as the Nepal Royal Family Massacre. Okay, so now we know the name of the episode. Yes. So that also means that everyone listening has known this was coming all along, I suppose. And Jess and I have just been like, doop-by-doo.

Geez, they've taken this a bit lightly, aren't they? That's what happens on all these episodes like that. There's often comments like, geez, they were being a bit insensitive in the lead-up to this. We're like blissfully unaware. We didn't know. We didn't know. It was the bloodiest slang of any royal family ever recorded, ever. Wow.

Think about all the kings and queens of the past that were brutal and knocking each other off left, right and center, this is the worst. Almost the entire royal family had been wiped out in minutes. Far out. That's awful. Is this going to be like a King Ralph scenario? Well, almost that's unexpected to you probably because,

but someone who was not dead was the gunman himself. Oh. Prince Dupendra, who'd shot himself in the head, had been taken to hospital where he survived on a ventilator. Oh, my God. And because, of course, he's next in line to the throne whilst his family were cremated, he was declared King of Nepal.

Holy shit. I know. Oh, that's awful. And because Dependra had been declared king, the Royal Palace issued a statement claiming that the shooting had been the result of an accident when an automatic weapon went off. The Prime Minister at the time even said,

quote, according to the information we have, the incident happened by an accidental firing of an automatic weapon, seriously injuring the king, the queen, the crown prince, and members of the royal family. No one believed this story and it did not help quash rumours of some sort of conspiracy. Whoa. Yeah, like, I mean, who's believing, what are they, they meant to believe that they were all standing in a line or something? Like, it's pretty unlikely that an accident led to nine people dying and four more being injured.

I guess if it was an automatic weapon spinning around or something, that's what they do? I was trying to do that cool thing where you like flick it around before you put it in your holsters and it was going off the whole time. So Dependra, despite the crimes, had been crowned the king. However, he never regained consciousness and he died in hospital three days later.

Okay. Right, okay. That's how we get to the three kings in three days. Dave, does that mean that if he survived, he would have served as king? Like, is it once you're king, you're above the law, you can't be can you know is it anything like that

it's really difficult to say I don't know apparently members of the family that had been at the party that had seen him kill people and then heard that he was king were deeply upset by it yeah look that I think that's quite understandable yeah they were like they were like I just found that

extremely offensive yeah I get that I get that so if he had survived who knows maybe there would have been a conspiracy to cover it up to try and keep him on the throne but his uncle, his father's brother and Paris's father, Guyanaendra, was one of the few people not to attend the party and therefore survived.

So he was named the next king, the king's brother. Oh, shit. So like he said, three kings, three days. This was actually the second time that Guy andendra had been named king because briefly for three months as a three-year-old when his father had fled the country after a plot had been found out against him and they left the three-year-old behind. The three-year-old was named king for three months.

the dad came back. Being a king's like riding a horse, I've heard. So for him, it'd be, he just slipped straight back into it. Exactly. But he wasn't the king this time, so he must be the younger brother of the king that was just killed, right? Yes, so I guess his brother must have been, he must have fled with the family. They just, was it like a home alone situation?

He was the Kevin. They left the three-month-old behind. I think they were like, let's take the heir to the throne. Who cares about the spare to the throne? So they left him behind. I haven't heard that before. That is, that's good stuff. Spare to the throne.

David, you are the pun master. That's definitely not one of mine. Definitely not one of mine. You are so bad, Dave. Can't claim it. What are you like? What are you like? So the country of Nepal and honestly a lot of the world,

the people that knew about it, I never knew about it as a 10 or 11 year old, but they were truly shocked by the events of June the 1st. The nation went into mourning, some showing their sadness in different ways. Part of the grieving public took to the streets and rioted for several days. The new king, Guy and Endra, appointed a two-man investigation team to look into the massacre. Over seven days, the duo interviewed more than 100 people, including eyewitnesses,

palace officials, guards and staff. They concluded that Dependra had indeed carried out the massacre, but they drew no further conclusions. Wow. You know, seven days, like as if that's long enough for something of this magnitude. Well, yeah, because, yeah, I was going to do a Craig David. Oh, of course on Monday. You start Tuesday, you go for a drink.

Yeah. Making love by Wednesday. Interview survivors on Tuesday. And of course, you chill on Sunday. I just, I couldn't start it and I stopped. I'm sorry. It's great stuff. This little, like, pretty shit.

investigation and the fact that there were no further conclusions. They're like, yep, he did it. Wow. End of story. This didn't help quash any rumours and many spoke of conspiracy. Many doubted that the popular crown prince of the people loved could have been responsible for such an unspeakable act. The act would set in motion an unstoppable chain reaction that would change their country forever.

To many, a few things didn't add up. Let's see what you think of this. Okay. Dependra was right-handed, but had shot himself in the head with his left hand. Also, his pistol had been fired twice, but they don't know where the second bullet was fired. Oh, okay. Never tracked that down. There might have been a deer passing by. He was...

And he just took a shot at that? A lover of hunting. When you were telling about this story, I'm like, it does feel like it is right for conspiracy theories because all the witnesses have pretty much been killed, apart from, you know, a small handful. And, yeah, it just feels like it's so wild. and it's exactly like I've been watching X-Files lately, so maybe this is why, but there's a lot of that sort of faking suicides and these sort of things put in the gun in the hand.

And this has been the case in at least one episode where it was, why did they, they shot them with the right hand, but they're left-handed or vice versa. Yeah, like so Jess, you're a famous left-hander. Yeah, very well known for being left-handed. Would you ever use your right for anything like? Shooting a gun or anything like that. My left hand was a bit tired. Well, I mean, he had shot lots of people.

But no, because it would just feel very wrong. It would feel weird. But that's just me. Some people are, you know, ambidextrous or... It's true. He's a great shot. So I imagine that over time you're like, I'm bored of shooting with this hand, I'll go with this hand.

There's stuff I can do with my right hand. Okay. That sounded so tough. Okay. No follow-up questions. Absolutely no follow questions. Thank you. Thank you.

Oh, God. How about this? An autopsy was refused on Dependra, as was helped from Scotland Yard, who had often to conduct a forensic investigation of the crime. They said, no thank you. I mean, that's probably them just trying to... Yeah, just get it sort of in the past, put it behind them. Yeah, that's right, because it was quite a chaotic event.

It's a bit embarrassing, isn't it? But it's also like, we can handle our own investigation. We don't need Scotland Yard to come in, you know, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. as well, or not even pride, it's like, we're our own country, we don't need your help to investigate something like this. So you sort of get that, maybe the family, some people don't like the idea of autopsies on their family members.

It's just like a, so, but yeah, it does all add to the doubt about, it does feel like maybe it's a cover up. Also, his residence in the palace was later destroyed along with possible evidence of the crime. That's just with events in the country rather than. than people destroying evidence, but like that means we can't go, people can't go and revisit it 20 years later and sort of open up, you know,

how they go to the grassy knoll now and everyone still does, you can't do that anymore because a lot of the place is destroyed. People also asked, where were the palace guards and the AIDS? Why did it take so long for the commandos to respond? Yep.

To protect their people. Many have and still speculate that the whole thing was actually a cover-up, a planned event to possibly put King Guy andendra on the throne. They ask, why wasn't the uncle at the event? His son Paris also survived unscathed. Why was that? And he could say that's because he's friends with Dependra.

But I mean, his mum and dad were pretty close to him as well, right? And he didn't have any trouble killing, like, brothers and sisters and parents. Yeah. Yes. Though a lot of people do say, well, the most accepted reason for his crazy behaviour was they denied him marrying his love. Yeah. And they said they didn't.

inherit him and a lot of the people shot were people that had told him, I don't think you should marry it. I mean, we've all got, we've all got that cousin that we wouldn't shoot over our siblings, yeah? Yeah, that's true. Mine's called Liam. Hi, Liam. Whatever happened, the new King Guy andendra inherited a kingdom in turmoil.

He was not as beloved as the royal family and many blamed him for what had happened. It was, you know, a bad look for him. How brutal, if it was just as explained, and it was just pure luck that he wasn't there, and he's grieving his whole family dying, and then people are blaming him for it. Oh my God, that is a novel. Yeah, they're saying, that guy we love couldn't have done it,

but you could have, and he's like, but I didn't. He did. Fiercely Republican Maoist politicians rode a wave of public resentment for King Guy and Endra to take the majority in the Constitutional Assembly. So they took advantage of the hate against him and stoked that up a bit. I remember the Maoists are the ones that want to get rid of the king altogether. King Guy and Andrea abided by the elected government for some time, but in 2005, this is obviously four years later,

he dismissed the elected parliament to wield absolute power. Ah, I see. They started coming up and saying bad things against him and he went, fine, I'll get rid of the politicians altogether and I'll just be king again. I'll be a classic king. And some say his mistake was to try. and suppress the Maoists and the other major political parties all at the same time. Often you'd play them off against each other, but he went,

nah, you're all gone. So it's difficult to control them all at once. King Guy and Andrew promised that peace and effective democracy would be restored within three years. Okay. He said, to give me 36 months, so get us back on track. But the period of direct rule was accompanied by a repression of dissent. So anyone speaking out against him was quarter. They were, they got shushed.

Oy, oh, oh. Shish, shush. Oh, they went full library rules. Yeah. Yeah, there was like, there were professional shushers on the street. People tapping signs saying, who, I think you'd be alright at that, Matt. Sign tapper.

Pro shusher. Oh, pro shusher, yeah, yeah. But I think I could also hold a sign that says, no bad mouthing the king. And I could tap them while shushing. Yeah, see, see how good he is it, that? You're really good. So good.

You're also really good to go up, up, up, up, up, up. And putting your finger over someone's mouth. Yeah, yeah. I'll touch a stranger's lips. Honestly, that usually silences them, doesn't it? They're shocked. They normally go away. Not just strangers' lips.

So he squashed the political parties, but in April 2006, this is again from the Nepal government website, another people's movement was launched jointly by the Democratic parties, so they came together, focusing most energy in Kathmandu, the capital, which led to a 19-day curfew. Eventually, King Guy and Indra had no choice but to relinquish his power

and reinstated the parliament. Wow. And let me tell you, there is an old legend in Nepal dating back to 1769. Nice. Nice. That's when Prithby, Norean Shah conquered the three kingdoms and declared himself monarch. So the founder of the Shah dynasty

that this whole family has been a part of. of the legend is the king was marching into the Kathmandu Valley when he came across a sage or a mystic and offered him some yoghurt or soup. The holy man tasted it and returned the rest, declaring it blessed. Unwilling to eat the yogurt that had already been tasted by the sage, he didn't want it any more of it,

the king threw it on the ground. Okay. He went yuck. The sage chastised the king for his pride and said if he'd eaten the yogurt, every one of his wishes would have been fulfilled. Instead, the yoghut had splashed across the king's 10 toes, ensuring his dynasty would fall after 10 generations.

Oh. Guess what number King Guy and Endra was? He was lucky number 11. Wow. I've done lucky, I only had 10 toes. Yeah. What if he'd only had nine? Oh, that's true.

Maybe it's fortunate he had the full set. That's true too. Good point. You've got to think of a toe half full. So he's number 11, and on May 28, 2008, the newly elected, Constituate Assembly declared Nepal to be a federal democratic republic abolishing the 240-year-old monarchy

and bringing an end to the world's last Hindu monarchy. Wow. Only that king had eaten some yoghut. You should have eaten that yogurt. The country that believed their royals were living Hindu gods gave the surviving family members 15 days to get out of the palace. So they gave an eviction notice to the king. The palace is now a museum

where you can go and see the Royal Crown jewels on display. That was in 2008. Nepal today has a president as head of state and Prime Minister heading the government. Although Guy and Endra is still alive, the last king, two decades after the massacre, there are still public calls for the monarchy to be reinstated. Some people want it.

The ABC in Australia reported last year, May 2021, quote, thousands of people gathered in Kathmandu seeking an end to the democracy and at a return of King Guy and Endra. King, please come back and save our country, they chanted. We want the monarchy back. Abolish the Republic. Okay.

So is this story over? We don't know. Wow. Dave, when you said Kathmandu, do you mean the capital city or do you mean a retail outlet for the hiking gear manufacturer? I meant both. There's actually a retail inside Kathmandu, if you can believe it. I can't believe it.

Wow. But yeah, that is the end of the story so far. The Nepalese royal family. massacre. Well done, Dave. That is a great story. Well, it's not a great story. Yeah, a hectic story.

It's unbelievable. I know. It's certainly one of my less fun stories, but also it was so unbelievable. I just, when I learned about it, I was like, I've got to talk about this.

Yeah, that is fascinating. Wow. And wild that it happened so recently and we had no, no recollection of it at all. Yeah, because it sounds like, you know, like a massacre

from 200 years ago or something. But, you know, it happened with automatic weapons in our lifetime. Yeah, wow. It's just so many sad elements to it as well, obviously, all the loss of life, but also that sort of forbidden love story and, yeah, a lot of sad elements,

yeah. Yeah. But that brings us to everyone's favourite section of the show where we get to thank a few of our great supporters who get involved at patreon.com slash dogoonpod or dogoonpod.com. And there's a bunch of different

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Ding. He always remembers the ding. And to get involved in this, you sign up on the Sydney-Shaunberg level. Then you get to give us a fact, a quote, or a question. You also get to give yourself a title. People also sometimes offer brags and suggestions or really whatever you like. Anything they want. Anything you want.

It's up to you. So first up this week, we have one from Jez Gleason, who's given themselves a title of Head of Renéasant's costume at the Dugo on Time Travel Agency. That is very handy stuff. That is good, sure. I think we talked about a while ago, one of us were going to time travel back to the Renaissance, Dave, maybe you. And you can't just go there in your smart, casual, daily wear, your norm core clothes that you wear day to day. you'd be, you'd probably be strung up as a witch.

Whoa, what is this fabric you wear? Kashmir. Luckily, Jez is here to make sure you fit in. I look forward to you speaking the language. I think it's all like just adding yee to a lot of stuff. Yeah, I think so. So Jez has offered a fact writing, Hello Matt, Jess and Dave.

One of my favourite historical figures is Mary the First of England, daughter of Henry the 8th and Catherine of Aragon, a previous report subject. I genuinely bought, I think about 12 books about her over the several Melbourne lockdown periods. I guess I average two books per lockdown. Though I thought I could give you a fact about her. Despite the historical popular belief, until relevantly recently that she was an inept ruler who didn't know what she was doing and a political disaster

because she was never educated to rule. She was the only one of Henry the 8th's children to be sent to Ludlow at the age of nine. At the time, heirs to the throne was sent there to proceed over their own court. I said proceed. Precede? Whatever. Sorry.

I only read these when I'm reading them. Okay? Yeah. So don't look at me like that, Dave, you dog. So in preparation for the eventual ascension to the throne. That's why they go to Ludlow. So yeah, Mary was definitely taught how to be a monarch. Elizabeth I was declared a bastard at three after her mother's execution.

And Edward the sixth became king at nine. So that's probably why Mary's sibling never went and proceeded over Ludlow. Sorry that it was a bit long. Love the pod. even have got my mum into it. Yes. Thanks, Jess. And thanks Jess's mum.

Yes, and thanks to Mary the first. Next one comes from Austin Horst, who has the title of Executive VP of procrastination. Sorry, it's taken me so long to chuck in another submission. A lengthy title, but a lovely title. Austin's asking a question, writing, Are you guys still planning to do Do Go D&D soon? I really enjoyed your first adventure.

I've listened through a few times now. It was awesome listening to you guys, learn how to play and nailing it. P.S. I started listening to D&Ds for nerds after those apps. So thanks for the introduction. Hey, no worries, Austin. Yes, that is something we talk about. It's actually last time we talked about it. We were talking about maybe having a Patreon stretch goal

if we hit it and doing, maybe starting to do a monthly D&D game on the Patreon. So maybe we should, that's a good reminder, Austin. That is a good reminder. So if people haven't heard it, you can, if you join up on Patreon, as one of our almost 150 bonus episodes, you instantly unlock access when he support the show. And yeah, we did, what, a six-episode campaign where we all picked a character and learnt how we're doing with Adam Carnivalet from Sand's

Pants. And he was our DM, dungeon master. And it was so fun. Great fun, wasn't it? Yeah, I was sleazy. That was fun, wasn't it? Yeah. My character was called Casino Musgraves.

I was just hitting on it, everyone. Yeah, you're a pervert. I was a perth. Jess Purvkins. Thanks so that, Reminer. The next one comes from Lily Morley, okay, tired IT girl. Tired It Girl.

Oh, sorry, Tired It Girl. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. That's very possible. Because IT was capitalised, so maybe just wanted me to really hit it. Find it, girl. So Lily's question is, do you and your households have any inside references for generic things around the house slash in life that if anyone else heard, they'd think you've gone mad?

Or Jess, you'd have some of them with they, surely. Lily's answered her own question, which we always encourage. Yeah, please. The question is to do writing. To answer my own question. My boyfriend and I always say, I'm going to take a Cher by Sher Lloyd. Am I saying sure?

What is it? It's share, isn't it? I don't know, whatever. I'm going to take a share by Cher Lloyd. When we go to take a shower, inspired by the disgusting video. Because at the beginning of the video, the girl says,

I'm going to be singing Cher Lloyd by Sher Lloyd. It sounds like she's saying shower because of her accent. If you haven't seen the video, I would recommend. That's funny. I mean, I have seen the video, but I didn't remember that part. That's fun. It's such a good question. And it is often the case particularly when it happens when you live with friends or family or a partner

that a lot of like the talk around the house sort of becomes shorthand and in jokes. a lot? Yes, yes, totally. But I'm trying to think of... I've gone blank as well. Yeah, but I know there are, but it's more... What I'm thinking of, like, when I was living at the studio, they were Andy at one point uncovered a second,

like the landlord had nailed off a little room and Andy was trying to figure out what it was and it turned out to be this toilet, which was horrendous in there. Like it was... It was... So we ended up, that was called the disgusting toilet. Who's using the disgusting toilet?

I don't know if that's why answering the question or not. Yeah, I think people, we ended up filming like a six-part sketch series in there where Alistair moved down. Oh, that was that one. The disgusting toilet apartment. I love that. But were people actually using it as a, did it work as a toilet? Yeah, it ended up, yeah, Andy fixed it up and it ended up being a second toilet.

The disgusting toilet's free if you need it. Something we add, I say at the lot of, at the end of things. Like, for example, it started because I was cold one night. When we first moved into this apartment, it was very cold. And I said, I was getting into bed and I kept saying, burr. And I wasn't getting the appropriate sympathy that I required. So I said, burr, I say. And now we just say, I say at the end.

things a lot. It's a bit of fun. It's sort of like, acknowledge me. Burr, I say. Can you think of anything, Dave? It's hard, isn't it? I know. There must be so many. There's so many, most of the nicknames for our dog. Oh my God, yes. I like to sing popular songs, just replace words with pup. Yeah. My name is Alexander Hamel Pup, for example. Yep. Yeah, I've told you one of ours, which is my, his name is Goosey. He is

He's a good boy. There's a lot. We sing to the dog a lot. We call the dog a lot of different things. Sometimes when we're talking to each other, we just refer to him as boy. Has boy been fed? Have you fed boy?

How is boy? And that's it. If you like peanut, I'm free. That's good. Yeah, that's yours. You can have that. That's almost too good to be honest.

Pinaw or puppy, maybe. Live in Lovita puppy. Oh, live in Lovita. puppy yeah that's good stuff uh thank you very much for that question lily you know what we're all going to go home and over the next few days just like these are going to come out a lot and be like oh i wish i thought of that one that kind of thing yes totally next one and final one for this week comes from detective herbert covington and it's another question uh but i love it detective's already got a title he's but he's given himself another title which is official three person

bicycle mechanic of the patented do-go-on-mobile. Very handy. Thank you. It does break down a lot. It does. And the good detective has a question as well writing, Howdy all? I hope you're doing well. I've missed the podcast so much

and I'm super behind since I've been in welding training for over six months. While I did have access to your lovely podcast, I put off listening to it because I was so tired and busy all the time that if If I did listen, I wouldn't be giving it 100% of my attention and I would miss interesting info

about topics as well as y'all's lovely banter. The long-winded prelude brings me to my question. It says the weekly planet got the same treatment. I don't know if you'd need to bring them into this detective. You know we're fierce rivals with those boys. Those naughty boys. Anyway, getting to his question, what is a... piece of media you enjoy so much that you'll put off watching listening to it until you can give

it your absolute attention. For me, it's obviously this podcast. Cheers to catching back up on six plus months' worth of episodes. I enjoy. I think we've done some good ones over the last six months. Yeah. Some good stuff in there. Some good stories told.

Answer for me is none. I will almost exclusively now put on a TV show and then be on my phone. playing a little game. Oh, so you don't enjoy anything? I really struggle to actually focus on something. Is that sad? Have you just not found something you like enough to? As long as you're enjoying yourself.

I went and saw Dr. Strange and the multitude of happiness or whatever, and he, through that, I found myself pretty quickly just on the phone. I was doing wordle and, you know, browsing Twitter. What am I doing? I've just paid to go see this movie in the cinema. And even then I'm... I think that's about right with that movie. For me, I frequently put off the last episode of something

because I don't want it to be over. Yeah. I didn't watch the last episode of Poirot, Curtin, Poirot's last case, for about 18 months after, this is the David Soucho TV. And then for me, I still haven't watched the last episode of the last dance,

the Michael Jordan documentary, because I was loving it so much. Two years it's been since it came out. And now if I want to, wanted to watch it, I'd have to go back and watch the first nine episodes again. But I was just loving it. I was like, oh, I don't want to watch it on my phone. I want to watch this properly because I've loved this series so much.

And then I've just put it off so much, I've forgotten what it was about. Basketball, mostly. That was... Michael Jordan, Dave, was a big part of it. Very obvious. I'm actually a fan of his baseball career, so... Well, that's touched on as well. But I reckon rarely does the series end in a satisfactory...

flying way. So that's another good reason to not watch the last episode. I can't, I'll reckon it would happen like less than 10% of the time where I watch the last episode, something go, that was great. But I think there's normally one series at a time that I'm enjoying and I'll, I haven't watched the last few episodes of winning time yet, which I was quite enjoying. And that's because I've been like, oh, on the plane I could watch it or I'm tired at home. But I'm like, no, I want to watch it when I can actually sort of relax and enjoy it. another basketball one that is but yeah there's probably i reckon there's always there's one at any at any point i'm watching something that is like that i reckon on one of the one of the new

streaming shows or something i've been what um binging x files and uh yeah but i there's been a few episodes where i couldn't tell you much about what happened because i've been distracted by my phone next what we like to do is thank a few of our other great supporters uh and just Normally comes up a little game here based on the topic at hand. Ooh, that is a tough one on a massacre episode. Yeah, I think you might have to go tangential. Yeah. Maybe a forbidden love.

Who their forbidden love is. Yeah. And maybe it could be a person or whatever. It could be a thing. Yeah. What do you reckon, Dave? Forbidden love? Yeah, let's give it a crack.

Let's have a go. Who or what is their forbidden love? All right. Well, I'd love to kick it off. that's okay with you. Yeah. And first up from Werribee in Victoria, home of the Open Range Zoo, it's Jessica Bickham.

Jessica Bickham has a forbidden love with the giraffes from the Werribee Open Range Zoo. Oh. Their love is kept apart by several fences. I love the Werribee Zoo. I've been there a few times over the last few years, just to get out and about a bit. And it's, yeah, the zebras are amazing. see them. Last time I went there

they walked out, because it's sort of an open range zoo. You'd probably figure that out from the name. Yeah, they walked right up to the bus and I'm like, oh that's cool. That's a real giraffe right there. You know, it was like that surreal moment where I've been to other zoos around the

world and you know, they're normally in like a cage thing and you're like, yeah, that's a zoo that's a giraffe, whatever, it's almost like you're watching one on TV. Do you often get giraffes and Zebras mixed up? Yes.

I do. Dave and I, we talked about it years ago that we wanted to go on an African safari at one point. That's still on the cards, Dave. That's still my number one dream holiday destination. Whereabouts was it again you wanted to go? I'd like to go to the Atosha National Park in Namibia. My dream. Yeah, I'd love it.

I mean, if I'm getting blown away in Werribee, you know. then I imagine if I can get over there my head will explode you'll say holy fuck Jessica hopefully your secret romance with the giraffes works out okay

next I'd love to thank from London in Great Britain Jamie Alcantara Jamie Alcantara forbidden love of course being with the bees you know like that Nicholas Cade scene who he's like the bees. Oh, bees.

Whatever he says. The wicker man. Yeah. I don't know that. It's the only, I've never seen it, but Tony Martin uses it a lot in Sizzletown. Whenever bees are mentioned, he plays the clip of Nicholas Cage yelling out, ah, it's the bees, the bees. So, yeah, Jamie's got a forbidden.

It also knows that, you know, the bees are kind of, they're doing it tough. And he knows that him and the bees can't procreate more bees. So he feels some responsible. responsibility there to, you know, maybe, certainly the bees' parents do not approve. They're like humans have been part of the reason why we're in such, in this mess in the first place. Yeah, now you want to waste the opportunity to repopulate by running off with a human. No. I won't allow it.

Buzz, biz, biz, biz. And finally from me, I'd love to thank from York in Great Britain. It's Nathan Bauer. Nathan Bauer. Obviously, York is very posh. We know this from one person who told us that once a few years ago when we're in Leeds. Nathan is in a secret relationship with their driver. Oh, forbidden love.

That is sexy. The limo driver. The limo driver. Scandal. That's hot. That's actually hot. We love that. That is real hot.

Love that very much. Thank you to Nathan, Jamie, and Jessica. Bopper, do you want to thank a few? I would love to thank some people. I would love to thank from Reservoir in Victoria. Surname unknown, but I'd love to thank Lockie. Oh, Lucky. Locky in a forbidden romance with Lakey.

A sentient lake. Oh, okay. A sentient lake. Not a person named Lake. No. But in fact, a sentient lake. Lake and why can't Locky and Lakey be together? I think that some people would look down on that.

How dare you swim in my wife? Yeah, constantly trying to fence off his wife. But at the same time, wanting to liberate her to be free. Yeah. I don't want to, you know, honey, I don't want to hold you back. Just trying to keep people out of you. But then, but yeah, he realizes that the most joy like he ever has is when people are frolicing within her.

So, yeah, it's tough. Yeah, it's tough, isn't it? Oh, I don't envy you, Lockie or Lakey. But we thank you for your support. Next for me, I would love to thank from Harold's Cross in Dublin and obviously in Ireland, an incredibly Irish name, which, I mean, as we learned a couple of weeks ago on the Gronier episode, I'm not going to sit here and laugh.

or be a dick, but I don't know how to pronounce this name. Dave, could you Google it? All right. But it's, I mean, there's a B-H in there, so it's got like a V sound. It looks like it'd be something like Aviana. That's an absolute guess.

Oh, I'm going to have to watch a YouTube video. Yeah, it's the only way. Okay. A-veen. A-veen. But there's an A-E-at-the-end as well, so it might be Av-a. Oh, so I was pretty close.

Yes. Maybe Avina. Avina Hobson. Please feel free to let us know how we went there. We really had a stab there. I know B.H is a V sound, so I had that at least. But a beautiful part of the world, Dublin. We love Dublin.

Oh, those hot birds you have over there. Oh, my God. Well, that's the forbidden love. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Sexy magpires. Holy shit, they're beautiful. Yeah, forbidden because we want them for ourselves.

Yeah, give it. Give us that bird. I want to love that bird. So congratulations. And I hope, obviously, if you're in Dublin, you would see those birds around a lot. And I hope that's not too painful for you, you know? Because, you know, distance and time heals all wounds.

But when you're seeing the thing you love the most, all the time, it must be very difficult. That's tough. That's tough. Finally, for me, I would love to thank from, what is this, Wiale in South Australia? I would love to thank Isaac. Isaac.

Isaac. 1 Z, 2 A's. That's fun. 1K. Isaac. And an eye. I just wanted to, I think I was being left out. Forbidden love with the Mona Lisa. Wow. Can't take that off a wall. About a month ago we did the episode about marriage equality in Australia and talked about a few bat-shit moments in Australian politics.

Y. L as reminded me one of the other classic ones where Labor MP Craig Emerson and did one of the most awkward press conferences out in one of the yards at Parliament House. He had a little tape recorder and he pressed play and it was the music to horror movie by... Oh, Skyhawks. Skyhooks. But he changed the words to,

No, why yalla wipe out here on my TV. No, yalla wipe out here on my TV. No way. Oh my God. It doesn't work at all. It doesn't work. It was brutal. Very, very brutal to watch.

Yeah, talking about jobs being wiped out in his home electorate or something like that. Yeah, anyway. I see. That's great stuff. That is good stuff. But back to Isaac and Isaac's forbidden love with the Mona Lisa. What's the issue? You can't take Mona Lisa home.

Yeah, exactly. I mean. Start a life together. There's people lining up all the time for a photo and you're like, can I have some privacy? Yeah, do you mind? Her eyes are following me around the room, okay? For your eyes only.

Yeah, there's a reason you can't bloody touch, okay? Look, but no touch, thanks. That is my wife. On you, Isaac. And I would like to thank from Mitchum here in Victoria, Steph Kendall. Steph Kendall. What do you reckon?

What's Steph Kendall? Forbidden Love? Steph Kendall's forbidden love is Keanu Reeve. Oh, it's hard. It is hard. But Steph knows that she and Keanu, well, what they have is electric. She can't be with him. Can't be with him.

It's a fear real. Is that anything? It's one of those things of like right person wrong time. Do you know what I mean? That's so sad. It's actually really sad. Sorry, Steph, to bring it up. it's a bit of a sore point for you.

But yeah, it's beautiful. And maybe one day they'll make it work. But for now it is forbidden. Sorry. You can't be with Keanu. I meant ethereal. All right. You said ethereal.

Oh, did I? Yeah. I think I said it with a fh, not a th. Oh, I see. I feel like I merge two words together, which is my right. And how dare you try and stop me speak my truth? No one did. A made up word.

No one. No one is stopped you. I won't have it, Jess. You won't silence me. Oh, shut up. Oh, here we go. Being shushed again at the library all over again. Shush, shush, shush, shush, shush.

I would also like to thank from the Netherlands, from, I believe it's part of the Hague, I would like to thank Tim Van Rossum. What's part of the Hague? I believe the city name we've been, that says here. Yeah, and what's that city name? Because this is what you did to me recently. Mm-hmm.

Oh, yeah, the Hague, I'm saying that right. It's absolutely perfect. That's right. S. Graven Hage. Yep, thank you very much. I appreciate your support. They're Tim Van Rossom. Yeah, Matt, what is Tim's forbidden love?

Tim Van Rossum, forbidden love with a possum. And why is it forbidden? It's a bit cross, isn't it? Yeah. Well, it's mainly because his neighbours hate the mating sounds of possums. That's pretty fond. Yeah.

They also don't love the idea that, the possum's name would become Possum Van Rossum. They're like bit on the nose, actually. The possum's name is possum. Yeah. Oh my God. Dave has gone so petty

that he is now listening to how to pronounce it. He's taking his headphones out, Matt. So you can say whatever you want about him. He's putting his headphones back in. Here we go. Ready to nail it. It's fucking half.

Thank you so much. That felt offensive. You were not close at all. That felt offensive. Svahfenhachen. No, that feels, that feels offensive. You can't, can you hear that? I think you nailed it.

Svavvan Harkin. Okay. Dave's got heritage from that part of the world, that vague. That's right. My uncle lives in Amsterdam, you know. It's good stuff. You know, I think he got it. So just the last one, I shout out to Dave O.

Yes, let's see if I can pronounce this one. Sunny Bank. Incorrect, incorrect. In correct. in Queensland, Logan Husky. It's Sunni Bunk. Logan Husky is one of my favourite names. I love it so much.

That's an incredible name. That is such a good name. So good name. Logan Husky. All right. Who's got a forbidden love for Logan? Logan Husky, forbidden love with his music teacher.

Oh, no. They're the same. age, you know, they're both adults and it, but people, the other students are like, her only loves allowed to be with the music. So other, other class members have put a stop to it. Right. Jealousy, do you reckon? Yeah, it seems like jealousy, but they just, yeah, they're like, to them, she's only a music teacher, but to Logan, she's so much more. That's so pedestrian of them. I know, it's a very weird taste.

that they've had. But I'm only reporting the truth. Wow, that is rude. Yeah. Disappointing. Well, there you go. I'm sorry, Logan. I'm sorry, it just wasn't meant to be.

Logan Husky, what a name. What a name. Thank you so much to Logan, Tim, Steph, Isaac, Lockie, Nathan, Jamie, Jessica and Jess. The last one there in the middle from Dublin. Aviana? Aviana. Avina.

Oh, yeah, it looks more like Aviana. Avina. Thank you so much. Aviana. Fantastic. Wow, such a great name. Either way. The last thing we like to do is open up the doors to the Triptitch Club,

which is a club, an exclusive club, for supporters who have been supporting us for three straight years on the shoutout level or above. And in this club, you get lifetime entry. Once you're in, you're in for life, whether you like it or not. And it's a beautiful place. You come in, you can enter any time,

pick back, enjoy, you know, the ambiance. I'm on the door. I've got your name. I'll read it out. You'll be welcomed in. The crowd of previous inductees will be there chanting along to your name as Dave hipes you up with some pretty weak wordplay and then Jess will hype Dave up

because he normally realizes that he's done a pretty poor job. Can we turn this guy down? Jess also makes a cocktail based on the topic of the day. Fuck, how. Dave, you also book a band. Who's the band you've booked this week? You're not going to believe this. I've actually booked a band from Nepal,

our first Nepalese band live in the club, I believe. That is hard rock band, Cobweb. Ooh, Cobweb. I like it. That is good. Been rockin since 1993. So you can come in, you can enjoy the sounds of Cobweb

with a full royal banquet I've put on for you. However, however, while you enjoy this royal banquet, there are going to be some people who are better dressed than you and clearly have more money than you being very patronising. Going, oh, is that what you eat for dinner, is it? Okay. So it is going to be, you know, great food, but probably not the best experience. And yeah, so I can't wait for Cobweb to play the after party,

but the main show, of course, is the induction of our new Triptitch member. Only one this week. You ready for this? Oh, only one. Oh, a numla makes an O longer, doesn't it? It makes it from O to U. Is that right? I think so.

I'm going to go with that. From Lurak in Deutschland, it's Dominic Schind. Svind. Well, some people like to siftle their way into our club, but not you, Dominic. Not you, Dominic. We're rolling out the red carpet. Go on in. No spindling for you.

You don't need to spindle. See, Matt, and you were saying, oh, it's pretty. pretty poor wordplay, you wouldn't have thought of that. You would have said like, oh, Domit, you know, you would have done something shit. I would have been like dominating. Yeah, nothing is good as Schindel. That is awful. Oh my God, how do you look at yourself?

I don't hear the wind. I hear the Schind. As time goes on, looking in the mirror is a bigger battle every day. But welcome into the club, Dominic Schind. I can't believe how many great names we've had today. is just another one of an all-time greats. So that pretty much brings us to the end of the episode. Now, anything else we need to say, Bopper, before we go?

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