37: Royal Family in the UK

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After a question last time round from listener Georgia, Mitch and Isi discuss the influence of modern day influencers; the Royal Family. From backing British made products, influencing the EU referendum and championing mental health and environmental awareness. They also discuss the controversial topics surrounding the armed forces and the love/hate relationship they have with tabloid media.

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Intro
Mitch:
[0:23] Hello, welcome to episode... what is it? Oh God.

Isi:
[0:27] 30...

Mitch:
[0:29] 30, what would you think? 31? No, don't be silly.

Isi:
[0:34] Oh God.

Mitch:
[0:36] Episode 37. (Wow!) Of the Easy English Podcast.

Isi:
[0:41] Hello.

Mitch:
[0:41] I planned for us to do an episode about Georgia's question from the last episode, asking; how much the royal family affects our day-to-day life, in the UK.

Isi:
[0:52] Didn't we talk about the royals before? We did a video episode about the queen's jubilee with Cari from Easy German who's a big 'Crown' 'The Crown' fan and Netflix series.

Mitch:
[1:04] Yeah I mean that is already one way in which the royal family affects, their part of (The world.) Yeah, they're like... they're back they're back again into common culture. There was a period I think between Diana and now, where they're kind of had a bit of a dip. But now they're kind of like, influencers. They live a life of influencers, in a way, don't they?

Isi:
[1:26] I guess they're representatives of the monarchy. But in a way, I think they see themselves also as representatives of Britain, of the Commonwealth.

Mitch:
[1:37] They have some power, in the sense of they don't have any...

Isi:
[1:41] They're influential.

Mitch:
[1:42] Yeah, exactly.

Isi:
[1:42] To a lot of people still.

Mitch:
[1:44] If they mention a brand or something, then they can have... or talk badly about a brand.

Isi:
[1:49] But they don't do that, on purpose, they don't they don't want to be political and they are actually they shouldn't be, right? From the legal stand.

Mitch:
[1:59] They shouldn't be, but obviously like, if you think of Harry and Meghan they had a Spotify and did Kate and William also have a Spotify. (No, I don't think so.) Harry and Meghan had a Spotify podcast right, exclusive.

Isi:
[2:09] Do they still have that.

Mitch:
[2:10] No. (I've never listened to it.) It got dropped. (Okay.) Because they're so boring. (Are they?) But Spotify obviously has like...

Isi:
[2:18] I actually like their Netflix series. I found it quite entertaining.

Mitch:
[2:22] That was good. (Yeah.) But if you think they have these brands... that they promote, they put their stamp on things that they agree with, principally, things that are British-made.

Isi:
[2:33] Ah, true, yeah. Like very old, traditional products, like brown sauce.

Mitch:
[2:39] Twining's tea?

Isi:
[2:40] I love Twining's tea.

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