00:00But Michael, let's talk about what you think we heard from the king, Charles obviously making the speech.
00:09And I thought it was quite interesting because he quoted the British writer Oscar Wilde.
00:14He said, we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
00:22I don't know what you made of what he had to say.
00:25So what struck me the most is that you had a leader in Congress quoting Oscar Wilde, which is not
00:32a daily occurrence, certainly not in America in 2026.
00:36We also had a leader who spoke with a sense of humor and a sense of decorum.
00:41I also thought it was interesting, and perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but one of the accusations that
00:48gets leveled against the Trump administration is that it's turning America a little bit too fascist.
00:54For some.
00:56And the king made a point to say that we are in this citadel of democracy, which I think, you
01:03know, there's a stature and a sense of gravitas with the language that he's using and the way he's delivering
01:10it.
01:11And that, I feel, is something that has been missing from certainly from the political discourse that exists in the
01:20United States currently.
01:22Now, something else I will say is that everybody, all the royal watchers, will talk about how King Charles is
01:29not a political figure and that this speech in no way will be political.
01:33But I think we all know that the fun that the royal watchers get, as well as so many other
01:40people, is that we enjoy reading between the lines.
01:44And what does every word, what does every expression, what does it all mean in these moments?
01:50Because it is, the king is coming here, representing the UK, we have to assume quite strongly, we're confident, that
02:02the speech would, of course, have been gone over by 10 Downing Street.
02:07And we know that there are subtle cues and that we can all read between the lines, we will devour
02:16and dissect everything that the king is saying.
02:19But I did find myself, as a viewer, listening to the king, that the manner in which he is speaking,
02:30continues to speak, is sadly missing from so much of the discourse that comes out of American politics today.
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