Nepal Royal Massacre: The Prophecy Behind a Dynasty’s Downfall

[00:00:01] Kyle Risi: This is probably one of the most horrific stories I think we've ever done on this podcast.

[00:00:05] Adam Cox: In what way?

[00:00:05] Kyle Risi: This massacre to date is the bloodiest slaughter of a royal family in recorded history

So there is, an old legend that goes back to when modern day Nepal, was first founded.

The king of Nepal. Was marching through the valley when he came across a holy sage.

The sage extended his hospitality

but was instead insulted by the King creating a prophecy that would lead to the end of the family in 10 generations,

Fast forward 235 years, The next in line to inherit the throne is Prince Dendra,

when he becomes king, he will essentially be the 10th reigning monarch since the prophecy

At a party, the Queen and the queen mother, they are still in the sitting room. Suddenly they see Prince Dendra appear in the doorway

He's holding a rifle in one hand . Without hesitation, he sprays the absolute hell outta the queen, with bullets.

[00:01:10] Adam Cox: Oh my God.

[00:01:10] Kyle Risi: Like she is dead



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[00:03:08] Kyle Risi: Mm-hmm. So Lion orthodontist, huh?

Dangerous job. Yeah, I dunno, Adam, we have too much budget. I think it's scarier when a lion doesn't have curly white teeth and they're all are mangled,

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[00:05:29] Kyle Risi: But Adam, that is enough of the housekeeping because today on the Compendium, we are diving into an Assembly of family dinner, a loaded silence and a prophecy that has been keeping receipts for generations.

[00:05:43] Adam Cox: Sounds like a Sunday lunch at mom and dad's.

[00:05:45] Kyle Risi: Yeah. For sure, Adam. So there is, an old legend that goes back to 1766 when modern day Nepal, as we know it today, was first founded.

And the legend goes that after Prith knee Nariah Sha conquered the Katmandu Valley and declared himself the king of Nepal.

He was marching through the valley with his army when he came across a holy sage. Do you know what a sage is?

[00:06:11] Adam Cox: Um, is it someone with the beard?

[00:06:13] Kyle Risi: It is someone with a beard. Yes. That's the best way to describe it. The sage extended his hospitality to prithvi by offering him a bowl of curd.

Prithvi was reluctant. He wasn't sure if the offering was a trick, and so to reassure Prithvi, the sage brought the bowl up to his lips.

He took a sip of the curd before extending the bowl out to him declaring that the curd was now blessed.

[00:06:37] Adam Cox: KD as in like curds and whey as in from Goldilocks or

[00:06:40] Kyle Risi: yeah, curds and whey, it's like the byproduct of milk, isn't it?

[00:06:43] Adam Cox: Right. And that's a gift.

[00:06:44] Kyle Risi: Apparently it's all the sage had to offer Adam,

but disgusted by the thought of drinking from a bowl tainted by the old man's lips, privy through the cur to the ground, and as it did, it splattered across his feet and his toes.

The sage hurt by the king's pride told him that the Kurd was actually a blessing, and that had he eaten it, all of his wishes would've been fulfilled.

[00:07:08] Adam Cox: Oh,

[00:07:08] Kyle Risi: but now, instead, the insult would bring about the end of his house after 10 generations, one for each toe that the Kurd had touched,

so Adam, after 235 years, in the 10th king of Nepal was crowned. And as the sage professed, the Nepalese royal family fell.

And today I'm gonna tell you exactly what happened.

[00:07:37] Adam Cox: All because of a bowl of curds.

[00:07:39] Kyle Risi: All because of a bowl of curd.

So I don't see the point in obviously asking whether or not you've even heard of this story,

[00:07:45] Adam Cox: I've heard of this.

[00:07:46] Kyle Risi: Have

[00:07:47] Adam Cox: you? Yeah,

[00:07:47] Kyle Risi: when

[00:07:48] Adam Cox: like I had like nursery rhymes and storybooks about that.

[00:07:54] Kyle Risi: Oh God. Can you imagine? It's embedded in there. But I actually heard of the story when we were doing biosphere, when John Allen was working in Cat Mandu and I was looking into kind of what he was doing out there and that's when I came across the story.

And Adam, honestly, it is probably one of the most horrific stories I think we've ever done on this podcast.

[00:08:09] Adam Cox: In what way?

[00:08:10] Kyle Risi: In like this is a massacre.

[00:08:13] Adam Cox: Oh

[00:08:13] Kyle Risi: yes.

So first of all, do you know much about Nepal?

[00:08:17] Adam Cox: No.

[00:08:18] Kyle Risi: So Nepal, as I alluded to in the intro, was officially founded between the years of 1768 and 1769 when it was unified as like a single kingdom under King Prithvi, Nariah Shah.

Before this point, basically Nepal was just a series of like 50 miler kingdoms.

Nepal is of course located in the southern slopes of the Himalaya Mountain range, making the landlocked country between China and India.

And as we know, it is also home to. Mount Everest. Right? The tallest mountain in the world. Mm-hmm. Did you know that?

[00:08:48] Adam Cox: Yeah,

[00:08:48] Kyle Risi: of course you did.

[00:08:49] Adam Cox: Yeah.

[00:08:49] Kyle Risi: You just was looking at me blankly. I wasn't sure if you'd like lost focus.

[00:08:52] Adam Cox: Just glazed over hello.

[00:08:54] Kyle Risi: Had a rough night. But also interestingly, it's also home to Gima Buddha, who is the founder of Buddhism, making Nepal a holy site for more than 500 million Buddhists around the world.

[00:09:06] Adam Cox: I did not know that.

[00:09:07] Kyle Risi: No, I didn't. Now, since the unification of Nepal, though the Shah Dens has ruled as an absolute monarchy across several successive kings. But in 1846, this power balance shifted in an event known as the Cop Massacre, the lead up to the cop massacre, started with King Ra Bikram Shah, he's an ancestor of privy.

is not a great king Adam. He's super indecisive. He was prone to kind of a lot of emotional outbursts, and as a result, he often kind of relied heavily on his queen, Raja Lakshmi. This resulted in the country's elites sort of, kind of splitting into these rival clangs.

You had the pond race, you had the thapa, you had the Bais and you had the Kois. The Kois in particular, they have a lot of influence over the army.

So basically you gotta think like the entire kingdom is split up into these little families. Like you've got the, the Marlborough or you've got the Windsors or you've got all these different kind of elite families you could almost say it was like Game of Thrones where

[00:10:07] Adam Cox: you are, the Taggar and the other ones. I can't remember.

[00:10:11] Kyle Risi: Yeah, that's exactly how I imagine it basically.

[00:10:14] Adam Cox: Okay.

[00:10:14] Kyle Risi: And like the Taggar are very good at fighting and stuff like that, so they might control the Army as an example.

[00:10:20] Adam Cox: Others like, like they, I dunno, they work in the forest, so they're good at woodwork. I don't know.

[00:10:23] Kyle Risi: Now the Kois in particular, they have a lot of influence over the Army now. One evening, queen Raja Lakshmi's, closest confidence. This is a guy called. Gargan Sing Budi, he's assassinated in his chamber one night while he's praying.

Now, the Queen suspected this was the work of one of the elite families called the Pan Days, one of the rival clangs. Mm-hmm. And so in response, the Queen summoned more than a hundred of the kingdom's, nobles, officials, and officers to the cot armoury courtyard convinced that the panes were at fault.

The Queen ordered the Army's general. This is a guy called Binman Singh, to kill the guy who is the head of the Pan days. kill him, assassinate him right there in front of all the other nobles.

But in that moment, the army general hesitates, he looks to the king, but the king is kind of like just a sleeping monarch, right? He, the queen is running everything. And so by him looking at the king, this outrages the queen, oh. And so it's clear to the queen where his loyalties lie.

And out of this a scuffle unfolds. And in the chaos, colonel J UA orders the army to take control of all of the exits in the courtyard, and they basically begin slaughtering the heads of the different rival clangs. So the taggar gone, the other ones gone.

[00:11:45] Adam Cox: So who is left there?

After

[00:11:46] Kyle Risi: all these, the laers gone. This in effect, lays a path clear for him. So he's a kernel of the army, right? Mm-hmm. To take control. And within days, Jung is declared Prime Minister. And through various political manoeuvres, he starts extending his prime ministerial powers, including flipping the title from being an elected role into being a hereditary one, which allows him to keep the role in his family.

So basically, imagine Tony Blair becomes prime Minister and he dies, or he resigns or whatever. He's allowed to pass his role over to his son, basically. Or Sherry? Sherry Blair, the big mouth.

[00:12:27] Adam Cox: Sure. I totally understand. But don't give like Trump ideas because if he listens to this, I think about that.

[00:12:32] Kyle Risi: Yeah, no, no. Don't give Trumpy any ideas. And basically you would think that at this point he would go ahead and abolish the monarchy, right?

Mm-hmm. Because he is now in control, but he doesn't, he actually decides to keep them as puppets and he consolidates all the power into basically his Prime Minister's stereo ship, giving him complete and absolute control over the country.

He also changes his name to Jung. Rana. And this now begins the Rana dynasty of the prime ministerial ship of Nepal.

[00:13:02] Adam Cox: And is this like the first country to have ever, or only country to have ever done this kind of dynasty ship with a prime minister?

[00:13:08] Kyle Risi: Um, I don't know. But it is interesting to me why he decides to keep the royal family rather than just abolish them.

[00:13:15] Adam Cox: Yeah. Why does he do that?

[00:13:16] Kyle Risi: I think honestly it's strategic.

This helps him kind of minimise the risk of a rebellion by people who are still pro monarchy or kind of foreign intervention looking to take advantage of this temporary power vacuum that's kind of emerged out of this.

Right. So if the royal family is still there, like, oh, the royal family is still there, like no one's gonna sweep in, right? So I think it's like a strategic move basically.

[00:13:36] Adam Cox: I see. Yeah.

[00:13:37] Kyle Risi: In effect, he has cloaked his Rana autocracy in Sha sanctity So this is how the government of Nepal is structured until basically 1947 when the British decide to withdraw from India. With this went vital external support for this setup where the Prime Minister essentially had more power than the monarchy.

So throughout the early 1950s there is this increased movements calling for the Prime Minister, ran to be overthrow, which of course gets a tonne of support from the king at the time.

' 'cause for of course generations, his family's been just relegated to Jir figurehead. So there's nothing more than he would like to restore his family's name back to absolute power over the country.

Of course, this movement starts to get a tonne of support and eventually.

Rana is eventually overthrowing. The Prime Minister is ousted and the royal family is restored to full absolute power.

[00:14:30] Adam Cox: So how long has the Prime Minister ship been in power or kind of the dominant power then?

[00:14:34] Kyle Risi: So for like a hundred years, okay. Is been in the Rana family basically. And so by the time the Rhino Prime ministerial ship has been abolished by this point, king Mahindra is now king.

And so what he does is he restores a monarchy back to full power. He issues a brand new constitution, but he also enacts a parliamentary system, which allows for real elections like a true democracy in the country.

Very much like what we have in the uk, Mm-hmm.

In the end, the Nepali Congress party ends up winning the majority of the votes, and the king invites a guy called BP Koral, to form a brand new government and become the country's new prime minister.

So a proper prime minister like Stan, right? Mm-hmm. He answers to the king, he gets appointed. He's just a prime minister.

[00:15:21] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:15:22] Kyle Risi: However, after just one year in 1960, king Mahindra changes his mind. He decides to dissolve parliaments, he gets rid of the Prime Minister, and he's like, screw that. I'm in charge. Everyone else can get fucked.

[00:15:33] Adam Cox: So why did he do a u-turn on that then?

[00:15:35] Kyle Risi: Basically it's because the Prime Minister was just useless, Like the roads were like going to shits like infrastructure around uh, kind of catman do was not great. And he was like, yeah, people have lost trust in the Prime Minister, so I'm just gonna reverse everything, take back control.

[00:15:49] Adam Cox: Could he not just get like, or a new. A new election.

[00:15:52] Kyle Risi: Yeah, exactly. Just like, I'm gonna get rid of, you gonna hold a new election? We'll pick someone who's a bit more competent. But no, what he does is he just basically gets rid of democracy.

[00:16:00] Adam Cox: Okay.

[00:16:01] Kyle Risi: This, of course, sparks rights across the country and in response, as most tyrants do, the king starts to imprison anyone who starts to oppose this idea of dissolving democracy and going back to full autocracy, which is not gonna end well, is it?

[00:16:14] Adam Cox: No, not in, especially in like modern times. Do you know what I mean? That's only what, 70 years ago?

[00:16:19] Kyle Risi: Yeah, exactly. Was that long ago? Was it? And for a time there was hope amongst obviously the Nepalese people, that both India and China would see what was going on and possibly try and intervene. But the king was smart enough to make sure that he got India and China's full support before officially reclaiming full power.

So King Mahindra, he manages to hold onto power until 1972 when he finally dies and his son Behra becomes the new king of Nepal.

So we're going through the generations, right? We are getting closer to generation 10.

[00:16:50] Adam Cox: And so what generation are we on right now?

[00:16:52] Kyle Risi: We are on generation eight.

[00:16:54] Adam Cox: Eight?

Okay. So it's still got the King dynasty and everything. Yep. But it's coming to an end.

[00:16:59] Kyle Risi: So we're making progress, Adam. Because it's King Behra who actually sets the stage for our little prophecy.

King Behra, he's the oldest son of the previous king and his first wife, Indra, who died due to complications giving birth to their six child. Interestingly, her death is actually what gives rise to Nepal building the country's first maternity hospital in the country. Before that, they were just like, oh yeah, you just give birth at home. The baby dies and dies.

[00:17:24] Adam Cox: How far behind do they compare to the rest of the world then?

[00:17:27] Kyle Risi: I have no idea. But if you don't have a maternity hospital, I would say pretty far behind.

[00:17:31] Adam Cox: Yeah. True. It does feel like at least have a room.

[00:17:34] Kyle Risi: Yeah.

[00:17:35] Adam Cox: Dedicate, yeah.

[00:17:35] Kyle Risi: Just a little place where you can go and give birth, even if you have to do it yourself. Hand towels are there, sinks there. If you need the scissors, they're all over there. Do you know what I mean?

[00:17:44] Adam Cox: Yeah. Checking yourself.

[00:17:45] Kyle Risi: Yeah.

[00:17:45] Adam Cox: Wipe down once you're done.

[00:17:47] Kyle Risi: Yeah.

[00:17:47] Adam Cox: Get down.

[00:17:48] Kyle Risi: Shut the door. Your way out. Yeah.

again. Yeah. So after her death, the king, of course, he needs a new wife and so he ends up marrying. His wife's sister,

[00:17:56] Adam Cox: does he not get out much? Is he just like you'll do?

[00:17:59] Kyle Risi: I think so. I guess it's handy because it means he doesn't have to go through the awful process of him to meet the family again. It's like I already know them.

[00:18:05] Adam Cox: And how does the rest of the family like take to this? How does even assist take to risk? 'cause like you, you were just married to my sister.

[00:18:11] Kyle Risi: I dunno, it's all just alliances and Game of Thrones, isn't it? It's all that kind of stuff.

[00:18:15] Adam Cox: Yeah, but it's not that long ago. It feels more like EastEnders.

[00:18:18] Kyle Risi: Yeah. EastEnders did probably start in the sixties, didn't it?

[00:18:22] Adam Cox: Uh, eighties I think it was.

[00:18:23] Kyle Risi: Really? Wow.

[00:18:23] Adam Cox: So this, this is what I mean, this isn't, this is so opera

[00:18:26] Kyle Risi: anyway. Behra, right? Growing up as the crown prince. He gets the best education possible, as you can imagine. He attends Eaton College in the uk, and by all accounts, he is really well liked. He doesn't really come across as the self-entitled tyrant. He has friends, he has girlfriends.

He doesn't have those North Korean dictator vibes manifesting under the surface. He's just ordinary, regular, well adjusted kind of guy.

[00:18:50] Adam Cox: So he is a, a nice dictator

[00:18:52] Kyle Risi: y Yeah.

Yeah. His classmates describing him as basically a cool kid.

[00:18:55] Adam Cox: Okay. But

[00:18:56] Kyle Risi: he is also very aware and embarrassed by his title, especially when he teachers at Eaton insist on calling him by his full title during assemblies.

[00:19:05] Adam Cox: What's his full title?

[00:19:07] Kyle Risi: This is the thing. I had to practise this so many times, so God knows, and I'm never gonna say this title again after this episode, but for these teachers at the school who insists on calling him by his full title.

[00:19:19] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:19:20] Kyle Risi: Man, they must have had to practise.

[00:19:22] Adam Cox: Okay. Have you got this written down phonetically?

[00:19:25] Kyle Risi: I do, yeah. His name is She Punch Maha Raja Di Raja Crown, prince Bera, b Bikram Sha, Dave.

[00:19:36] Adam Cox: Dave,

[00:19:37] Kyle Risi: It's Dave. D-A-Y-V-D-A-Y.

[00:19:41] Adam Cox: Okay. I'm just gonna call him Dave.

[00:19:43] Kyle Risi: That's what I mean. It is like, sir, can't you just call me Dave? They're like, no.

Like,

[00:19:48] Kyle Risi: So yeah, they, they had to practise that,

[00:19:50] Adam Cox: so when they have to call the register, it's oh my God. Every time.

[00:19:54] Kyle Risi: Yeah. So, yeah, I'm here, sir. Do you think he ever corrects anyone if they get it wrong?

mis pronunciation,

[00:20:00] Adam Cox: but it sounds like he is a bit more relaxed. And if he's ashamed of it, I don't think he's gonna be like, what?

Did you just call me?

[00:20:05] Kyle Risi: Pronounced it wrong? Yes, yes, it's

[00:20:06] Adam Cox: true. So

[00:20:07] Kyle Risi: probably not. Yeah, that's me. But I do love Howard. It's Dave at the end.

[00:20:11] Adam Cox: Okay.

[00:20:11] Kyle Risi: Which is a very Indian word, Dave. DAYV.

[00:20:14] Adam Cox: Really?

[00:20:15] Kyle Risi: Yeah. So after Eaton, Bera, he goes off to study at the University of Tokyo, and then in Harvard, sadly, when he's 26 years old, his father dies. And of course, Bera is then pronounced King.

[00:20:28] Adam Cox: King Dave,

[00:20:29] Kyle Risi: king Bera.

[00:20:30] Adam Cox: Oh, sorry.

[00:20:32] Kyle Risi: Dave is like the last word on his title.

[00:20:34] Adam Cox: I know, but that's the bit I remember.

[00:20:35] Kyle Risi: Yeah, exactly. Should we just call him Dave? So Behra, he is married quickly off to his second cousin, a woman called Ash Raja, Lakshmi. Devi, Rana.

[00:20:45] Adam Cox: Isn't that the same name as the Prime Minister?

[00:20:47] Kyle Risi: Exactly. Because she's a member of the Rana family who ruled the country as a Prime minister for the last hundred years under Jung Runner's autocratic prime ministerial ship, and basically the reason why they allowed this marriage, it's essentially this deliberate political alliance to heal kind of those historical divides between obviously the rans and the monarchy, right?

Mm-hmm. But it also helps to consolidate power back under the monarchy that may have been left behind from the previous structure.

Because basically it's saying if there's any supporters out there that still want the Prime Minister to stereo ship to come back, then now the part of the royal family, they're all the same thing.

So you've just consolidated that power, essentially.

[00:21:26] Adam Cox: Sure. Okay.

[00:21:27] Kyle Risi: And Adam, their wedding is massive. It's lavish. It's a political statement. It's considered one of the most extravagant Hindu royal ceremonies in history It costs somewhere between the region of 10 to $6 million, which is surprising to me because I thought there would be weddings out there that would be, especially royal weddings.

There would've been way more than that, but this is considered one of the most extravagant Hindu weddings.

The Hindus are downplaying a lot of things. I think if this is the case,

[00:21:52] Adam Cox: Yeah. This is back in what, the seventies?

[00:21:54] Kyle Risi: Something like that.

[00:21:55] Adam Cox: That's still probably a lot of money.

[00:21:56] Kyle Risi: I guess so. Yeah. Yeah. Now 10 to 16 million doesn't seem like a lot of money maybe to us in comparison today, but at the time this was 25% of the country's annual budget.

[00:22:07] Adam Cox: Wow.

[00:22:08] Kyle Risi: That is a lot, isn't it? On a party. Yeah, on a party. So relatively, it's a hell of a lot of money.

They end up importing flowers from the Netherlands. They whitewash all the buildings across Ka mandu. They repave many of the roads, which I'm sure the local people would really appreciate it. Well,

[00:22:25] Adam Cox: yeah, that's good. At least that's giving back to the community.

[00:22:27] Kyle Risi: Exactly. They also clear out all the hippies and the hashish markets, which of course means thousands of people get displaced.

Which isn't good.

[00:22:34] Adam Cox: That's not so good.

[00:22:35] Kyle Risi: They also import white stallions from England, which is strange 'cause I didn't think that the UK was known for its white stallions.

[00:22:42] Adam Cox: And what are they gonna ride on the stallions?

[00:22:43] Kyle Risi: Probably like horse carriages and things like that.

[00:22:45] Adam Cox: Okay.

[00:22:46] Kyle Risi: They also fly in all the food from deli, specifically flown in just for the wedding.

They issue a new postal stamp. So basically Adam Nepal is treating this wedding as a very big deal.

[00:22:56] Adam Cox: Sounds like it. Huh?

[00:22:57] Kyle Risi: It's 'cause it's the first wedding since they've reclaimed power really? Under the, the new monarchy's. Total full control of the country again. Yeah. After a hundred years, essentially.

[00:23:05] Adam Cox: It's always a big deal when like they update the stamp, like now they update the stamps all the time. It doesn't feel like a big thing, but back then

[00:23:12] Kyle Risi: I bought some stamps like four days ago. 'cause I'd sent off my passport, and it was still the queen on there, where's Charlie?

[00:23:18] Adam Cox: I guess maybe they got so many stamps, but they're to clear out.

[00:23:22] Kyle Risi: that's possible. Maybe they were like, the queen has probably died. We should just issue one more batch of stamps so people, everyone could get a stamp.

[00:23:29] Adam Cox: Yeah,

[00:23:29] Kyle Risi: maybe

[00:23:30] Adam Cox: that's it. Yeah.

[00:23:30] Kyle Risi: And so Adam, they're getting married.

When it comes to their wedding celebrations, very often, the Nepalese people will look to the heavens to work out everything from when to what to how, like when you guys should be having sex, to make sure that you, produce an air that will fall in the exact celestial kind of arrangement that will give us a great king as an example.

[00:23:52] Adam Cox: How can they, I don't know,

[00:23:54] Kyle Risi: govern. They're very clever people. Adam, very clever.

[00:23:57] Adam Cox: But whats if they can't get pregnant?

[00:23:59] Kyle Risi: Yeah, exactly. That's the problem, right?

[00:24:00] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:24:01] Kyle Risi: But it's all, it's those types of things. This also extends to RA's coronation, right? Which is why there is a three year gap between when he formally becomes king to when Behra is physically coronated,

so he is just sitting there going, well, I'm king, but I'm not officially king for another three years until they get coronated. Because Jupiter isn't aligned with like Saturn in this consolation in Leo or whatever.

[00:24:23] Adam Cox: He's like, um, interim king.

[00:24:25] Kyle Risi: He's an interim king. Yes. During his coronation ceremony, Behra is ritualistically covered in mud from several symbolic places around Nepal. They get some mud from a mountain, from a bottom of a lake. They make a paste out of ivory from like a tusk of an elephant, which they grind up to kind of make into this weird paste.. They make mud from the dirt that's collected from the doorstep of a sex worker.

[00:24:47] Adam Cox: And this was, part of the star sites?

[00:24:51] Kyle Risi: This is, yes. This is all kind of the symbolic kind of ritualistic stuff, this part of it is to make sure that the queen will be adventurous in the sack.

That's the purpose of the sex worker mud.

[00:25:01] Adam Cox: And the rest of the mud.

[00:25:03] Kyle Risi: Oh, it's probably like, like he's got control over the mountains, got control over the seas, or I don't know.

[00:25:08] Adam Cox: And they just need some sex worker mud for a little bit of kink.

[00:25:10] Kyle Risi: Yeah, that's it. So once, uh, Bera is all muddied up, is then ritualistically cleaned with butter and milk and yoghourt and honey. all the while all the holy people are chanting Buddhist chants and stuff like that. And like Adam, remember all of this happened during the 1970s, so there were guests there that we would know today, including serial gay crasher, Emelda Marcos.

[00:25:33] Adam Cox: Oh, was she what?

with some new shoes.

[00:25:35] Kyle Risi: Yeah. Also Prince King Charles was there as well.

[00:25:37] Adam Cox: Oh, okay.

[00:25:38] Kyle Risi: So Adam, four years in, once the celebrations are out of the way, Behra begins his kinship. And again, the monarchy rules with absolute control.

But due to economic struggles that afflict the country throughout the late 1980s, a popular movement starts to build momentum in the country calling for the monarchy to be changing to a constitutional one, almost exactly like what we have in the uk, right?

[00:25:58] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:25:59] Kyle Risi: at first, the answer is a flat narrow, right? He's Nope, I'm king. I've got complete control power over the country.

But following a series of mass protests, king Behra is finally forced to concede and give the people what they want.

The Wide Royal family hate this move because of course it means that the monarchy will have to give up a lot of the power that they've been struggling to kind of regain back.

Mm-hmm. Over the last 100 years.

Remember it wasn't that long ago when they were in a situation where they were completely powerless. So this move feels like a small step back in that direction for a lot of the members of the royal family. So they don't like this idea of

[00:26:34] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:26:34] Kyle Risi: So under this new system there are gonna be three main political parties and they all start campaigning for power. The three main political parties are the nc, which is the Nepali Congress. also then have the Communist Party. They are described in the country as the malice, and they, Adam are dead set on getting rid of the monarchy altogether.

Mm-hmm. They're very anti monarchy. And then you have the National Democratic Party who are very pro monarchy. So if you were a member of the Royal family, which party would you be voting for?

[00:27:03] Adam Cox: The National Democratic Party.

[00:27:05] Kyle Risi: they're pro-democracy, aren't they?

[00:27:06] Adam Cox: Yeah. So it's a bit of a risk by introducing these three parties, but knowing one was so or completely different ideals to the royal family.

[00:27:12] Kyle Risi: That's right. Yeah.

[00:27:13] Adam Cox: But they did it anyway. Mm-hmm. Just to kind of give democracy.

[00:27:16] Kyle Risi: That's right. The Maoists, they are just this massive threat to the monarchy. They also don't really think that they're going to get that much kind of influence over the people.

But their popularity ends up growing. And in 1996, the Maoists, they announced what they call the People's War.

And Adam, it is bad. This causes a five year period where around 17,000 people end up being killed and 150,000 people are displaced.

And it's all just because of these political divide people in fighting between these different parties, people who are pro monarchy and people who are anti monarchy.

[00:27:51] Adam Cox: Ah, so it's all different. People supporting different parties then It's not a particular party that's getting killed.

[00:27:56] Kyle Risi: Yeah, it's just people in fighting basically because they have opposing ideologies across the country. so it's not good. This people's war essentially goes on until 2001.

When the prophecy that we talked about at the very top of the show begins to unfold and ends up transforming the royal family and the country forever.

[00:28:14] Adam Cox: Is it because they get a new air, right?

[00:28:16] Kyle Risi: Well, before I get into that,

I do feel like I need to tell you just a bit more about the more important people in the royal family, the ones that are relevant to the story right now.

[00:28:26] Adam Cox: Okay.

[00:28:26] Kyle Risi: The prophecy, because you can forget all the names that we mentioned before. They're not important anymore.

[00:28:32] Adam Cox: So who do we need to focus on then?

[00:28:34] Kyle Risi: Okay, so of course you already know that we have King be Hendra and his Queen Ashra.

[00:28:38] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:28:39] Kyle Risi: They have three children. The youngest is Prince Niraj, who is 23 years old. The second is Princess Shruti. She's 24 years old and the eldest, and of course the Crown Prince. The one next in line to inherit the throne is Prince Dendra, and he's 29 years old now.

When he becomes king, he will essentially be the 10th reigning monarch since King Prithvi Naisha claim the throne in 1766.

[00:29:09] Adam Cox: And so does he know of the prophecy? Does the family know about what could happen?

[00:29:14] Kyle Risi: It's such an interesting question because for a, monarchy that is so entwined or so reliant on the court astrologers mm-hmm. I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't at least got their eye on their prophecy.

Do you know what I mean?

[00:29:27] Adam Cox: Yeah. Do you know what it reminds me of? This is really geeky. It reminds me of Doctor Who I'm pretty sure there was a point when I watched it that eventually there would only be like 10 doctors or something like that. And when he gets to the 10th doctor, then the doctor dies or something.

But that was the kind of the whole point is like, oh, if he regenerates any, more than two more times, then he is dead sort of thing.

Yeah. So he has to be careful.

[00:29:46] Kyle Risi: Exactly. Yeah. So I I, But I imagine the court astrologers, they're keeping their eye on this, but they're probably also thinking, well, do you know what, we'll just, we'll just really protect the king. We'll keep him indoors a lot. I don't know.

[00:29:56] Adam Cox: And then it's like us two, 300 years old prophecy.

Yeah. It can really happen. What

[00:30:00] Kyle Risi: do they know? Yeah. It's just a fable. Yeah, exactly.

The thing to know about Prince Dendra, the Crown Prince. He's very popular amongst the people and he's affectionately known as dippy. Which I think is a cute little name.

[00:30:11] Adam Cox: Isn't that a dinosaur?

[00:30:12] Kyle Risi: It is, yeah. Dippy The dinosaur. Yeah. The big Dip Dokas that used to be in the Natural History Museum for that amount. Oh

[00:30:18] Adam Cox: yeah, that's right.

[00:30:18] Kyle Risi: With to Norwich.

[00:30:19] Adam Cox: Yeah, he did.

[00:30:20] Kyle Risi: Yeah.

[00:30:21] Adam Cox: On his travels.

[00:30:22] Kyle Risi: Yeah. I think also he went to Australia. I think he's recently been in Sydney.

[00:30:25] Adam Cox: He's a giant fossil.

[00:30:26] Kyle Risi: Mm. so dippy like his father. He also goes to Eaton. He's also a black belt in karate. He's also super into all things that are military. He's he also has a bit of a fighter streak in him as well. So he's very, he's very into the military.

It's in England that he ends up meeting a woman that he falls madly in love with, and her name is Deviani Rana.

[00:30:48] Adam Cox: Ah, so that's part of the Prime Minister's, uh, family, right?

[00:30:51] Kyle Risi: Yeah. So she's part of that side of the family. Yeah. But she's from like, kind of the India branch, like since obviously they've been a, so they've moved to India. There's different kind of areas of it. Bitch. She's, she's got the Rana name.

Here's the thing to know about her side of the family,

Adam. They are stinking rich by comparison. Their wealth vastly outstrips the Nepalese royal family's wealth by considerable margin.

Imagine being so rich that you look your nose down at Prince Charles.

[00:31:18] Adam Cox: I mean, you've gotta be like what? Like Elon Musk, that kind of rich.

[00:31:22] Kyle Risi: Yeah. Stinking rich. That's how rich I'm talking.

However, when the King and Queen find out about the relationship and that they are potentially interested in getting married, they're completely outraged by this

[00:31:32] Adam Cox: isn't she? A rhino? The queen?

[00:31:34] Kyle Risi: The queen, yeah. So she comes from the Rhino Dynasty, but the problem is, is that Dani's mother has Indian blood in her. It raises basically fears about Indian influence that might leak into the royal family if they do get married, because the two countries at the time were not on good terms.

Mm-hmm.

[00:31:49] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:31:50] Kyle Risi: Which is a little bit racist, I guess.

[00:31:51] Adam Cox: Oh yeah.

[00:31:52] Kyle Risi: It also doesn't help that the queen mother has her royal astrologers look into the compatibility and they say that Deviani was unlikely to produce him a male heir.

[00:32:01] Adam Cox: How do they know that?

[00:32:02] Kyle Risi: Again, they just ask the astrologers, but come on.

[00:32:04] Adam Cox: Yeah. What do they know?

[00:32:06] Kyle Risi: Apparently a lot because they're taking their word for it. so if the fact that she's half Indian doesn't inform their decision on being outraged by this union ship, the fact that she's unlikely produce a male heir,

[00:32:17] Adam Cox: well that

[00:32:17] Kyle Risi: will do It is definitely gonna do it, right?

Yeah. But regardless, dippy says that he doesn't care about this and he's going to pursue the relationship anyway. And so the king says if he does that, he's going to Disinherit disha dippy.

So for a long time they are forced to continue the relationship in secret. So they'll like travel to different countries around the world. They'll meet up like in Paris and France or whatever.

[00:32:35] Adam Cox: Fine. So it's a relationship that the royal family doesn't approve of. And yeah, if he wants to pursue that, he can't be the king. It's a bit like, who was the one that abdicated because of Wallace?

[00:32:45] Kyle Risi: Oh, Edward iv.

[00:32:46] Adam Cox: Yeah. I mean different, but kind of like that.

[00:32:49] Kyle Risi: Yeah. But, I guess if he does want to be with her, then that's his only option, right. Is to abdicate and to allow it to go to his brother. Which for me, I would still be like, I don't care really. Like I would just be like, I'm happy to just abdicate because remember like her family is vastly richer than they are anyway.

[00:33:05] Adam Cox: That's true.

[00:33:06] Kyle Risi: They're gonna

[00:33:06] Adam Cox: have a really comfortable life.

[00:33:08] Kyle Risi: Exactly. It's not like he's going to be left destitute if anything is gonna be better off he might even be able to finally get that pool.

[00:33:15] Adam Cox: doesn't have the responsibility if he just marries into their family.

[00:33:18] Kyle Risi: Exactly. No responsibility and richer. The problem is Dani's family is also against the marriage as well, and it just so happens to be for the same reason.

They don't have a pool.

[00:33:30] Adam Cox: They don't,

[00:33:31] Kyle Risi: it's 'cause they're poor. They think that their daughter marrying into the Nepalese Royal family would be a massive downgrade for her.

[00:33:36] Adam Cox: Wow.

[00:33:37] Kyle Risi: That's how rich they are.

They're like, how will you cope when you only have 10 bedroom servants to help you get ready for bed at night?

[00:33:43] Adam Cox: That is a dilemma that I can take.

[00:33:46] Kyle Risi: But another reason is because they question like, what kind of royal family would surrender their power to the people as well? They're like, why would you do that?

[00:33:53] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:33:54] Kyle Risi: And in all honesty, the royal family, they don't really have that much of a global diplomatic sway. About them anyway. They're just, The way that Dani's family see it is they're just the Nepalese royal family, Like if you marry them, benefit is that gonna have for you and your own personal interests?

she would be way better off marrying like a Middle East billionaire where should have way more power than all the members of the current Nepalese family put together.

[00:34:18] Adam Cox: But does she, she wants to pursue the relationship. It's love, right? Yeah.

[00:34:21] Kyle Risi: She loves him. She loves dippy, dippy, the dinosaur.

So it's safe to say that dippy is just a little bit gutted by this news that also not only does his family disapprove of the marriage, but her family also disapproves as well,

[00:34:34] Adam Cox: like Romeo and Juliet.

[00:34:35] Kyle Risi: He's also being insulted at the same time, like being made to feel like a joke. Oh, he's only the prince of Nepal.

[00:34:40] Adam Cox: Yeah.

[00:34:42] Kyle Risi: So eventually dippy graduates and he comes back to Nepal. He again sneaks off occasionally to hook up with Deviani. Meanwhile, he ends up settling into a career in the military where he's training to become a pilot.

At this point, Adam, it is now 2001. And so in June of that year, dippy is hosting a family gathering at his house within the royal complex.

He invites all the usual members of the family. There are around 22 of them spanning across like three generations, right? Including very close friends of the family. And this is typical, the family actually caught up like this on the first and third Friday of every single month,

they would all basically take turns hosting at their own royal quarters in the palace grounds. essentially. There's never any formal plans. You would just basically wait for like a location to be confirmed on like the Royal WhatsApp group or whatever, and then people will just show up so it doesn't go unnoticed.

When Dippy wants to know specifically who will be attending in advance, because it's not really how it worked. They would just be like, who's hosting? Everyone show up for drinks. There's normally a buffet people would just grab some food and they would sit and chat and catch up and things like that.

[00:35:50] Adam Cox: Well, sure. It's just like the royal family Why does he wanna know specifically who's coming then?

[00:35:54] Kyle Risi: They think basically that maybe he might be hosting like a sit down dinner and he needs the numbers for the caterers. So to them that kind of makes sense.

At around 8:00 PM that evening, guests start arriving, which is dippy cue to go and collect the queen mother from her complex.

He gets back a little after 8:00 PM so it's not that far. And after everyone has arrived, they all have a few drinks and they have a few nibbles together. And dippy says that there will be a buffet coming out a bit later but no one really questions or thinks about, oh, why did you want to know about who was gonna be attending that night?

[00:36:25] Adam Cox: I feel like that's just a normal thing to ask, but maybe not in these social circles,

[00:36:28] Kyle Risi: they've just been doing it for so long and this is just the dynamic that they just pick a location and everyone just shows up, right?

[00:36:34] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:36:35] Kyle Risi: They do the usual thing. The family split up into their usual groups, the Queen mother and the King and the Queen, and some of the older kind of family members. They go and chill out in a little sitting room, just off the main foyer.

The younger members of the family, including dippy, they head to the billard room where they can, you know, sort of listen to music. They can be a bit more rowdy. They can have a few drinks. They can just be young young and royal. Do you know what I mean?

[00:36:58] Adam Cox: Young and royal playing Cards against humanity.

[00:37:01] Kyle Risi: Yeah, playing Game of Thrones. Yeah. By this point, dippy is already very, very drunk on whiskey and the room starts spinning for him. Oh. And so he decides that he wants to take a break from playing pool, and he sits down on the couch for a bit.

[00:37:14] Adam Cox: How much has he had to drink?

[00:37:15] Kyle Risi: Quite a lot. He's very drunk at this point, Adam. Right. Drunk enough for it to not be appropriate around your relatives.

[00:37:21] Adam Cox: I know in front of his parents and his aunt and uncle and all that.

[00:37:24] Kyle Risi: They're in the other room though. But They could walk in at any moment, right?

[00:37:27] Adam Cox: Yeah.

[00:37:28] Kyle Risi: When he sits down, he decides that he's gonna spark up a joint, which again, in that family is just not something you do as a family. They are very anti pot, and he knows this. Right. So him sparking up either gives you a clue of just how drunk he is or the disdain that he now has for his family since they will not let him marry Deani.

[00:37:49] Adam Cox: And so he just doesn't care at this point

[00:37:51] Kyle Risi: that he might not necessarily care, does he?

The point is a few people in that room are concerned that the king could potentially walk in at any moment.

So if they see him smoking a joint, it's not gonna be good.

Eventually, dippy hiss cousin Paris, he decides that the best thing for us to do is to put dippy to bed, as well as being dippy. Hiss cousin. Para is also dippy hiss, closest confidant as well. But also Paris is a very dangerous guy. Right. He once killed two motorists in a hit and run accident, and he ended up shooting a bouncer one time in a nightclub in Ka Mandu.

[00:38:23] Adam Cox: So got a bit of a temper.

[00:38:25] Kyle Risi: Yeah. And no charges were brought against him at all.

[00:38:28] Adam Cox: Wow.

[00:38:28] Kyle Risi: So it kind of shows you the lawlessness that they live by.

[00:38:31] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:38:31] Kyle Risi: As members of the royal family. Yeah. Especially when they're a bit dangerous, you know?

[00:38:34] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:38:35] Kyle Risi: And so Paris takes dippy to bed. Everyone is in the village room, they're all gossiping about dippy in what he's done, like what he must be thinking, and like how brazen of him to light up a joint

[00:38:44] Adam Cox: and the room's gonna stink.

[00:38:46] Kyle Risi: Exactly. When Paris puts dippy to bed, he goes to place dippy joints in his bedside drawer, and as he does, he notices that he has a couple handguns in his drawer It's not a big deal because dippy is really, really into them. Apparently he was giving me like his first, pistol when he was like eight years old, which, totally appropriate thing to do,

[00:39:04] Adam Cox: like a spud gun, but an actual pistol,

[00:39:06] Kyle Risi: an actual pistol. And ever since then, apparently he's been completely obsessed with him.

One of his favourite things to do growing up was designing the perfect gun on Microsoft paint. So imagine there's like a, a Homo Simpson kind of car with all the different models. Oh yeah.

By the time he's an adult, dippy is amassed a huge collection of rifles, machine guns, pistols, Adam, all sorts.

And he stores them all in the Palace Armoury, which is on the complex.

[00:39:33] Adam Cox: Yeah.

[00:39:33] Kyle Risi: And so he comes and goes without any question

[00:39:36] Adam Cox: and he keeps them in his bedside drawer. He doesn't return them back in. He doesn't check them back

[00:39:39] Kyle Risi: in. Well he is got one in his bedside drawer basically.

No, carry

[00:39:41] Adam Cox: on. But is Paris, is he gonna be a little bit concerned just leaving him in his drunk state with a pistol?

[00:39:47] Kyle Risi: Not really like just growing up, he's just always been so enthusiastic about guns. Like it wouldn't be unusual for you to just be sitting in the living room.

[00:39:55] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:39:56] Kyle Risi: And to hear a bunch of gunshots it's just basically dippy shooting rats and crows.

[00:40:00] Adam Cox: He's just changing the

[00:40:01] Kyle Risi: shower in the garden. Yeah. And that's exactly what he would do. Like you would literally hear on a nightly basis, gunshots going off and it's because he's out in the palace grounds just shooting straight cats and crows.

[00:40:11] Adam Cox: Poor cats.

[00:40:11] Kyle Risi: I know. Horrible. And so it doesn't concern them. You see where all this is going, right.

[00:40:17] Adam Cox: No.

[00:40:21] Kyle Risi: Wow. Okay. Maybe we need to be a little bit more explicit. So while Dippy is in bed, he gets a call from, Viviani.

She says when he answered, she couldn't understand a single word that he was saying. He was just slurring his words and he was just, he was so drunk, basically. Mm-hmm.

He ends up hanging up and when she calls back, he doesn't actually answer the phone. Eventually she decides that she's gonna call the palace officers and ask whether or not they can go off and check on him.

When they do, they find that he's still in bed. He's a little bit drunk. Maybe a little bit high, And so they tell their Ani that he's fine. He's just drunk and he's in bed.

Adam at 8:45 PM. King Behra has joined the party in the village room. Smell something in the air.

[00:41:02] Adam Cox: Yeah. Who's been smoking pot in her.

[00:41:05] Kyle Risi: Yeah. The queen and the queen mother, they are still in the sitting room. Suddenly they see dippy appear in the doorway

[00:41:13] Adam Cox: with a gun.

[00:41:14] Kyle Risi: He's dressed head to toe in combat clothes. He's holding a rifle in one hand and a shotgun in the other.

And honestly, people at that moment when they see him, they do not react at all. They sort of just look at him. Surprised. Almost. Amused in a way. They're like, is he like putting on a show? Is he gonna show us something? I dunno. Like he's a king. Maybe should paying attention,

[00:41:35] Adam Cox: doing a little performance for us. Yeah.

[00:41:37] Kyle Risi: It's his

[00:41:37] Adam Cox: party.

[00:41:38] Kyle Risi: Yeah. Why not? Like is this one of those things where everyone has a part,

[00:41:41] Adam Cox: oh, I think I know where this is now leading.

[00:41:43] Kyle Risi: Mm-hmm. Then While the king is in mid conversation, dippy walks up to his father and fires the rifle at point blank range

[00:41:50] Adam Cox: shit.

[00:41:51] Kyle Risi: He is shot three times through his abdomen and of course the king, he just collapses right there. And then everyone in the room in that moment is in just complete shock as to what has just happened.

To the point they're just like frozen

[00:42:05] Adam Cox: they weren't, they wouldn't have expected this, right?

[00:42:07] Kyle Risi: And also it happens so quickly, right? Like their brains are really compute that they've just watched the crown prince shoot the king at a point blank range with a fucking rifle.

Dippy then drops the rifle and for a second he just stands there, which is where someone probably had, they had the sense, could have taken him down. But they don't.

Dippy then turns, he leaves a room. One of the guests who is a doctor, rushes over to the king, and he tries to stop the bleeding with his jacket. Right? He's in mortal danger at this point.

Meanwhile, in the sitting room, the queen and the queen mother, they do hear a bang. And here's a wild thing.

One of the guests says, what was that? And the queen mother says, oh, that's probably just dippy shooting rats and crows in the garden. And then they go straight back to chatting. They have no idea that the king has just been shot.

[00:42:56] Adam Cox: I mean, no one would've thought that's what was gonna happen,

[00:42:58] Kyle Risi: right? No one would've thought, right? This is why everyone is so in such shock.

Meanwhile, dippy heads outside to the garden where he has a stashed gun, bagg. So it is very clear by that alone. This wasn't a moment of madness that he had clearly been planning this.

Mm-hmm. He had all the guns in the bag. He swaps out the shotgun. He grabs an M 16 rifle and an MP 5K machine pistol, both automatic weapons, and then he goes back inside,

[00:43:25] Adam Cox: oh God.

[00:43:26] Kyle Risi: He goes back up to the king. It looks like he's going to shoot him again. But then immediately he's confronted by the king's brother Dippy, shoots him, point blank range.

He then turns his gun to his other uncle and again, sprays a half a dozen bullets into him.

[00:43:41] Adam Cox: Oh my God.

[00:43:42] Kyle Risi: His wife runs over to help Dippy sprays her full of bullets as well. People said he was almost robotic, he reminded them of the Terminator completely expressionists totally focused on what he was doing in that moment.

His auntie says. It was the look on his face that scared her more than actually being shot by him.

[00:44:02] Adam Cox: Well, this is a family member, like a nephew or whatever, a cousin, and he's doing this.

[00:44:07] Kyle Risi: Yeah, and he's also the Crown prince. Do you know what I mean? He's almost the head of the family

while the king is laying, dying, essentially on the floor, barely conscious, Dip has dropped a gun and he decides to try and reach for it. His sister, princess Chaba stops him. She slides the gun away and she's like, enough, that's enough of the violence.

She swoops the gun out of the way, dippy turns, sees the commotion, shoot her point blank several times in the back of the head. Like she posed no threat to him whatsoever. If anything, trying to save him in this moment by saying, no more violence. Yeah. And so he turns around, sees the commotion, and just shoots her.

[00:44:45] Adam Cox: Bloody hell. Isn't and I guess he's been obviously drinking all this whiskey. He's been like building the courage, getting high or whatever to do all this

[00:44:53] Kyle Risi: Possibly. Yeah.

But it also goes to show the fact that he shot her. It wasn't about whether or not she pros a threat to him. It was literally about killing all these people.

[00:45:02] Adam Cox: He, his whole family, I'm guessing.

[00:45:03] Kyle Risi: Yeah. He then turns to the king. He sprays another round of half a dozen bullets into him. It's just the unflinching cruelty in these moments. It's just so difficult for me to get my head round.

[00:45:14] Adam Cox: Well, I'm guessing he's doing this because he is been told that he can't marry this woman.

[00:45:19] Kyle Risi: Yeah,

[00:45:20] Adam Cox: but the thing is, he's only been told that he can't be the king and marry this woman. Right?

[00:45:23] Kyle Risi: True. That's true.

[00:45:24] Adam Cox: But he is being a selfish brat. And becoming this hu horrible murderer.

[00:45:29] Kyle Risi: Adam. Over the next one and a half minutes, he continues taking out all of his aunties, all of his uncles, all of his cousins in-laws, all of them.

He's literally spraying bullets into every single one of them that comes into his sights. Like these are automatic weapons. You push the trigger for half a second, that's six bullets straight into you.

[00:45:48] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:45:49] Kyle Risi: It's awful. It didn't matter if you were coming to confront him or if you were running away, if you were cowering, he shot you.

Eventually the palace security, they end up appearing obviously all the shots. Right. This isn't just shots from like him shooting cats and crows in the garden. Right.

[00:46:06] Adam Cox: There must have been like loads by this point.

[00:46:08] Kyle Risi: Yeah, that's it. But by the time they get there, though, the door to that wing of the house is completely locked, and so they have to scramble to find another way in.

[00:46:16] Adam Cox: Did he lock it then?

[00:46:16] Kyle Risi: Who knows. He must have done, if he was planning this, that would be a wise move, right? Mm-hmm. Because who's the one person that can get in your way? Well, it's the palace guards.

[00:46:23] Adam Cox: Yeah,

[00:46:24] Kyle Risi: And so after a minute or so, like it's just almost silent in just the entire room. No one's screaming. No one's shouting. Everyone's pretty much either dead or unconscious or just not with it.

He starts walking amongst all his family members and he's literally just kicking them to see if any of them are still alive.

The reason why we know this is because some of the survivors. Talk about this in a documentary called The Zero Hour, where they talk about what it was like being in that room and what he did after he shot everyone. It's horrific.

[00:46:51] Adam Cox: So like family survivors or like palace servants and stuff like that,

[00:46:54] Kyle Risi: Actual family members. According to some of their testimony, apparently he slowly makes his way towards the back of the room where he comes face to face with Paris, his cousin, right? And his closest confidant. He points a gun at him. And there is a moment, where he hesitates and then dippy just turns and walks away. He lets him live.

[00:47:12] Adam Cox: Really?

[00:47:12] Kyle Risi: It's the only person that he just was like, yeah, okay. I'm not gonna kill you.

There is a small group of people, that were with Paris and I guess maybe that might be in his sister or whatever, but he lets them live and he just walks past as a small group. But everyone else, he just massacres.

[00:47:25] Adam Cox: Wow. The amount of hatred he must have had for his family at that point in time to just do this. This is, he is I wonder how long he's been building up to this.

[00:47:35] Kyle Risi: So, when he turns away from Paris, he starts heading back to towards the garden. By this point, the queen is alert to what has been happening, right? She comes running in, and she sees dippy heading outside, and she decides to run after him with dippy, hiss younger brother again. When dippy Caesar Adam, without hesitation, he sprays six bullets into his brother and then sprays the absolute shit outta the queen, like maybe 30 rounds or so, just sprays her with bullets.

[00:48:02] Adam Cox: Oh my God.

[00:48:03] Kyle Risi: Like she is dead as they lay dying on the ground. He then pulls a pistol to his head and he pulls the trigger and it is over.

[00:48:10] Adam Cox: So he wanted, or was waiting to shoot his mother and his brother. Knowing that he just, his whole

[00:48:15] Kyle Risi: family members.

Yeah.

[00:48:16] Adam Cox: Knowing that he'd got everyone and that's when he would shoot himself.

[00:48:18] Kyle Risi: Yeah. He massacred most of his family.

[00:48:22] Adam Cox: He took them all out. Pretty much.

[00:48:24] Kyle Risi: Yeah.

[00:48:24] Adam Cox: Duh.

[00:48:25] Kyle Risi: All in all, he killed the Queen Princess Shruti, prince Rajan, the King's three siblings, along with their spouses, the King's cousin. He also killed Princess Shanti. At that point, king Behra, actually Adam is still alive, but he ends up dying in hospital lace that night.

So out of the 22 people in attendance that night, dippy murdered 10 of his immediate family members and injured five of them.

[00:48:52] Adam Cox: Wow.

[00:48:52] Kyle Risi: That's crazy.

[00:48:53] Adam Cox: This is worse than like the Roman officer in a way. Obviously a different sort of situation. Mm-hmm. But in terms of wiping out a whole family,

[00:49:00] Kyle Risi: yeah, that's right. Adam, this massacre to date is the bloodiest slaughter of a royal family ever recorded.

[00:49:05] Adam Cox: Oh, really?

[00:49:05] Kyle Risi: It is, yeah. And it happened in 2001.

[00:49:07] Adam Cox: I don't remember this at all.

[00:49:09] Kyle Risi: Oh, there's a reason

[00:49:10] Adam Cox: why

[00:49:11] Kyle Risi: nine 11.

[00:49:11] Adam Cox: Oh wait, really?

[00:49:12] Kyle Risi: Yeah, just this was June and then September a few months later, like you probably wouldn't have heard it. It probably would've been drowned out.

[00:49:19] Adam Cox: is crazy that that again, that is

[00:49:21] Kyle Risi: just is happening.

[00:49:22] Adam Cox: Yeah, this that year was a nightmare.

[00:49:24] Kyle Risi: Yeah.

But Adam, there is something very important that we need to mention because there is one person that dippy intended to kill, but actually managed to survive.

[00:49:34] Adam Cox: Oh, who

[00:49:34] Kyle Risi: himself?

[00:49:35] Adam Cox: What?

[00:49:36] Kyle Risi: Dippy is still alive and with King Behra pronounced dead at 9:30 PM This meant that dippy was now king of Nepal.

[00:49:44] Adam Cox: Shit.

[00:49:46] Kyle Risi: Yeah.

[00:49:46] Adam Cox: So how he shot himself in the head. He did. How does he get away with that?

[00:49:50] Kyle Risi: He did. Yeah. Crazy isn't it? Of course. The following morning, the people at Nepal, they wake up to obviously the tragic news after the palace issues a statement saying that the shooting was the result of get this an accident.

I dunno how that must have computed hearing that because like, what kind of accident like results in the absolute slots of 10 senior members of the royal family? I have no idea.

Unless it was one of those things where like you are playing like, spaghetti western where you grab the gun and you spin it and then they're like, just is going off the entire time, just spraying bullets.

but it's a machine gun.

[00:50:22] Adam Cox: But yeah, this is like the PR team trying to pull a vast one.

[00:50:26] Kyle Risi: Oh yeah, for sure. But considering dippy was now the king, I guess that had to be the official story, right? Imagine the optics of having a monarch on the throne who has just massacred the entire royal family.

That's not good,

[00:50:38] Adam Cox: but how are they gonna be able to get away with this? This can't,

[00:50:41] Kyle Risi: he's gotta put out a statement saying it was a tragic accident.

[00:50:43] Adam Cox: But then the other king has been, the new king's been shot in the head.

[00:50:46] Kyle Risi: He's

[00:50:46] Adam Cox: injured. Yeah.

[00:50:46] Kyle Risi: Tragic. Tragic accident. Yeah. That's it. That's, that was the official statement.

[00:50:50] Adam Cox: But surely some of the members that have survived gone, hang on a second.

[00:50:53] Kyle Risi: Yes. Of sure. But remember he is now king. Right? You have to now protect the king. What? It's just wild. Of course, they're not happy about it, but for the sake of the country in the monarchy, there has to be the visual line.

[00:51:04] Adam Cox: No.

[00:51:05] Kyle Risi: So naturally, as you can imagine, this spurs speculation and conspiracy across the entire country. The next day as the news of the massacre is settling in. All the family members who were killed, they are cremated under Hindu tradition. Like they don't waste any time like you died. We cremate you within 24 hours.

[00:51:24] Adam Cox: So there's no like kind of autopsy or people like investigating their deaths?

[00:51:27] Kyle Risi: Nope. And that will be a, like a course for outrage as well. 'cause this was a serious crime. Like there should be exceptions for that. Mm. But nope, they all get cremated. Despite what dippy has done and despite being in a coma, the formalities of pronouncing him king start to get underway, which to me is just wild.

Of course, members of the royal family, who by the way had just watched their family members being masked, their, husbands, their daughters, their children, whatever. They're outraged by this idea that he is now being proclaimed as king.

[00:51:59] Adam Cox: Isn't it crazy where you've got like the, what do they call it in the uk, the company or whatever it is?

[00:52:04] Kyle Risi: Mm-hmm

[00:52:05] Adam Cox: The firm. The firm that just tries to put on this, I dunno, this public image, this display of stuff that all things are Well,

And that they almost have this protocol for this kind of thing.

[00:52:14] Kyle Risi: I think that's exactly what is at play here, Adam. Like it is nuts that anyone would ever consider giving him the crown. it's a strange thought experiments. 'cause technically if he killed the king, is that treason? But now that the king is dead, we're denying him the crown be treason in itself.

[00:52:33] Adam Cox: But does he even want to be king at this point?

[00:52:34] Kyle Risi: Oh god no. Exactly. He's in a coma, like we've gotta wait till he wakes up.

However, it's about to take another turn at him because three days after the massacre.

Dippy actually dies.

[00:52:45] Adam Cox: Oh

[00:52:46] Kyle Risi: yeah. And so that means that the Crown passes to his Uncle Ra.

The wild thing is Guy Endra is para's father. That's Dip. He's cousin and best friend.

[00:52:58] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:52:59] Kyle Risi: That means pers is now the Crown Prince of Nepal. And I bet he didn't see that coming.

[00:53:04] Adam Cox: Well no,

[00:53:05] Kyle Risi: like he's like, what a stroke of luck. Do you know what I mean? But also don't forget, PERAs has killed two motorists in a hit and run and shot a bouncer in a nightclub and Cat Mandu. Is that really the person that you wanna be crowned King one day?

[00:53:18] Adam Cox: Not really. No. No.

So how does it work with the Nepal Royal family then? Because even like Harry is ex in line, right? Mm-hmm. To be king. So he, Paris would've been ex in line to be king, but obviously a lot had to happen before that.

[00:53:30] Kyle Risi: Yes, Yes. Like a lot of people would've had to dine and it's just unlikely, right? Yeah. So likeyeah. On paper. Yeah. You're like 10th in succession, but in reality, what's the chances of, 10 members of your family dying? Yeah. Uh, Quite a lot actually

[00:53:43] Adam Cox: In this situation. Yeah.

[00:53:45] Kyle Risi: But get this ra who is obviously the Crown now goes to, was one of the very few family members. Who wasn't actually in attendance at the party that night.

[00:53:55] Adam Cox: Oh

[00:53:55] Kyle Risi: And so within three days, Nepal has cycled through essentially three kings. Right? So that prophecy came on pretty damn quick. They were like, I'm losing patience. Let's kill three of them.

[00:54:06] Adam Cox: But then they're still part of the royal family.

I thought it was supposed to end at 10. So if it's going to the onco now,

[00:54:11] Kyle Risi: yeah. We're gonna find out, right? Because it's now on the 11th, what's gonna happen?

But here's a little quick detail before we get into that. ' cause RA not being at the party, obviously ends up fueling all these conspiracy theories even more, especially when it's pointed out that for a period of three months, when RA was three years old, he was actually declared King for two months.

At the time, the country was in the midst of like the 1950s revolution, the current king at the time, and his grandfather were forced to flee to India. And since there were no other male royal heirs in the kingdom, they pronounced ra, this little kid king of Nepal, like Adam, it was only for two months, but he had a coronation. They even minted coins in his name. and so, when the public are reminded that actually remember

[00:55:01] Adam Cox: you've already done this

[00:55:02] Kyle Risi: did he already have a taste of the king ship?

[00:55:05] Adam Cox: He wanted to get that back.

[00:55:06] Kyle Risi: He wanted to get that back, and so did. He orchestrate the massacre so he could become king again.

[00:55:11] Adam Cox: So that's what they're thinking. But

[00:55:14] Kyle Risi: hang on, that is just a conspiracy theory. Yeah. But it's wild to think.

[00:55:17] Adam Cox: Yeah. Interesting. But then he's been crowned king as a kid. He gets these coins and what his uncle, his great grandfather or great uncle comes back and he is I'll take that back.

Thank

[00:55:27] Kyle Risi: you. Yeah. Basically, yeah. And so for the two month period, he was like, yeah, well, but the power rangers were so much better when I was king. So he was like, if I'm king now, just think of the cool toys I can get now.

[00:55:38] Adam Cox: Yeah. Like uh,

[00:55:39] Kyle Risi: and get a mega saw.

[00:55:40] Adam Cox: That must be fun to have like been king for a summer.

[00:55:43] Kyle Risi: But then he is only three years old, does even know what's happening.

[00:55:45] Adam Cox: Oh, okay then no. Then how can people say, oh, did he get a taste for it at three years?

[00:55:51] Kyle Risi: No, it's just it's the spec. It's the conspiracy. Like people are just drawing the dots together. But there are also other things as well, like the fact that he wasn't there that night and normally.

[00:56:00] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[00:56:00] Kyle Risi: Like all family members are normally there. He had apparently dinner arrangements somewhere else.

[00:56:05] Adam Cox: Well, he was wise to do that.

[00:56:06] Kyle Risi: Yeah. Anyway, Diandra is now pronounced king with dippy dead the palace. They are now more forthcoming with what actually happened because now they need to protect the new king, right?

[00:56:18] Adam Cox: Really. So now they're like, oh, actually what really went down?

[00:56:21] Kyle Risi: Yes, exactly. There's no need to protect dippy anymore.

So this flip flopping in the official story, of course, as you can imagine, only angers the public even more, which devolves into just protests and riots across the country because they've been lied to once.

So they don't know whether or not they can believe the new story, right?

And so these riots and protests end up with people demanding an inquest into what actually happened. An independent inquest. They want the truth, And so King Guy Andra, he finally buckles and he appoints at a A two man investigation, right? They interview a hundred people.

They formally interviewed the surviving members of the Royal family. The key thing that comes out of this inquest is actually the backstory of the king and queen refusing to let dippy and deviani get married,

but also the a little detail about a meeting that dippy calls with royal family one year prior where he vowed that he wouldn't let anyone stand in his way of his relationship, telling his family members that you're either with me. You are against me going on to say he would kill anyone if they so much as stood in his way.

[00:57:30] Adam Cox: Wow. So this had been brewing for some while.

[00:57:33] Kyle Risi: Yeah.

[00:57:33] Adam Cox: He warned them at that point.

[00:57:34] Kyle Risi: Yeah. And in hindsight, some of the surviving family members were like, do you remember that meeting we had a couple years ago think that was a warning, guys. Yeah. Was he

[00:57:42] Adam Cox: serious about that? Well,

[00:57:44] Kyle Risi: clearly he

[00:57:44] Adam Cox: was, yeah. I was too busy, I don't know, playing ards,

[00:57:47] Kyle Risi: But in the moment, they don't really take him that seriously until his younger sister during the meeting, she stands up, she's pregnant at the time.

Right. She starts yelling at him saying how can you talk to your family in this way? You are selfish. You are not thinking about the family. Also, what the hell do you know about marriage? And so he just slaps her down, like literally slaps her down. She falls on the floor, she's pregnant, and the whole family just like gas.

[00:58:12] Adam Cox: Wow. Yeah, he was being a completely utter, a spoiled brat. What did Diani make out of all this? Like when she found out what had actually happened?

[00:58:21] Kyle Risi: That is such a good question. I don't know.

[00:58:23] Adam Cox: Oh,

[00:58:23] Kyle Risi: I don't know.

[00:58:25] Adam Cox: Because I'd be like,

[00:58:25] Kyle Risi: that, I'm sure she's outraged.

[00:58:27] Adam Cox: That's not the man I was hoping to marry.

[00:58:28] Kyle Risi: Yeah, exactly. Close call.

[00:58:30] Adam Cox: Yeah, yeah,

[00:58:31] Kyle Risi: yeah. So based on the fact that he wanted to know who was attending that night, based on the fact that he had gotten dressed in full combat gear and had a duffle bag of guns waiting in the garden, it shows Adam that he had planned all of this.

It wasn't just a moment of madness, like after hearing all of that and understanding those basic facts, you don't really need to go any deeper than that. So as a result, the inquest only takes a week.

But when the public hear that the inquest has only taken a week and they've only interviewed like a hundred people, they're very dubious. They're like, why? They're not going gone into it that deep. And the reality is you didn't really need to go into that deep. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like he clearly massacred his whole family because he couldn't marry the woman that he loved.

[00:59:16] Adam Cox: He became a bit of a psychopath.

[00:59:18] Kyle Risi: Yeah. But I guess it's because by far, dippy was by far the most popular member of the royal family, and nobody wanted to believe that he was even capable of doing something like this.

Like he was their dear dippy.

[00:59:30] Adam Cox: Yeah. And I guess if they felt like they've been lied to just recently, like they're probably not wanting to believe it.

[00:59:35] Kyle Risi: Yeah. Where's

[00:59:36] Adam Cox: the evidence?

[00:59:36] Kyle Risi: You're gonna be twice as shy, aren't you?

Right? Mm-hmm. So over the next few days, people start scrutinising every single detail they can. Everything that they look at, everything that they hear becomes a point of scrutiny, things like, why was King Guy Andra not even there that night?

It seems very convenient. Apparently he had another dinner engagement. they also point out that dippy was right-handed, and yet he managed to shoot himself in the left hand side of the head.

[01:00:05] Adam Cox: I mean, it's not that hard. I think when you are, I dunno, I'm making a huge assumption Sure.

That you could probably still do that with either hand.

[01:00:12] Kyle Risi: Yes. And I think there's probably a better explanation or more rational explanation for that. I think that it's possible that he didn't shoot himself.

That after he had done everything that he'd done, the palace guards finally came round, saw him in the garden, and then they shot him.

[01:00:25] Adam Cox: Oh,

[01:00:25] Kyle Risi: interesting. But no one wanted to take responsibility for shooting the king interest. Interesting. And so they just said that he had shot himself,

[01:00:31] Adam Cox: but equally like, would, did he think he would ever get away with it? And also, if you're committing suicide with a gun held to your head that close, I think the chances of surviving that are pretty slim.

Right?

Maybe not impossible.

[01:00:42] Kyle Risi: Yeah.

[01:00:43] Adam Cox: But pretty slim. So that does make sense that a guard might have done this. Yeah.

[01:00:47] Kyle Risi: But also they question like from the pistol that he supposedly fired into his head. Two bullets were fired. They could find the first bullet, which of course was dislodged in his head, but they couldn't find the second one. So they had questions about that,

[01:00:58] Adam Cox: yeah, that does sound a bit suss.

[01:00:59] Kyle Risi: They also wanted to know why, if this was a crime, the dead were allowed to be cremated the next day without autopsies. They also questioned why the guards were unable to gain access to the residence. They're like, well, why?

All the doors were locked and none of them had any keys. Like, Should they have had keys?

With so many unanswered questions, Adam, people were miffed that the inquest only took a week. But what about all these other questions?

[01:01:25] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[01:01:25] Kyle Risi: It doesn't help when later the palace decided it was best to demolish dippy kind of residence in the royal complex. And I mean, other than dippy shooting himself in the left hand side of the head, which I think probably is because another guard has shot him to stop him from what he was doing.

Right. He just weighed 30 bullets into the queen. I get it. But other than dippy shooting himself in the left hand side of the head, I think there is probably a rational explanation for a lot of these things. Like it makes sense to me that you probably want to demolish his residence where. Half of the royal family were just executed.

[01:01:59] Adam Cox: Do you know what I mean? Yeah. You don't wanna turn it into some weird, like shrine

[01:02:01] Kyle Risi: or anything, or reminder. Yeah. Especially if you start to continue living in the complex. True.

And have to look at that building every day.

[01:02:06] Adam Cox: Yeah. The surviving family members wouldn't want that.

[01:02:09] Kyle Risi: So you can kind of see how a lot of these things are rational in one sense, but then also why the public, especially when they've been lied to before, would then be forced to kind of look at this with a bit of conspiracy.

[01:02:21] Adam Cox: I think obviously the, the palace and the, the firm are trying to do probably best to maintain the image, and ultimately what they've done isn't necessarily bad. They've just gone about it the wrong way.

[01:02:32] Kyle Risi: Yeah. It's causing a cluster fuck, basically.

[01:02:34] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[01:02:35] Kyle Risi: So with the public sort of suspecting the king of foul play and also not really having any sentimental attachment to him because nobody thought he would ever become king, right?

[01:02:45] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[01:02:45] Kyle Risi: The very, very aggressive communist party use this to normalise the idea of actually maybe we don't need these guys. Like sure we've lost our dear dippy, but we're stuck with Guy Andra and no one really knows him. No one really likes him,

and so they think maybe it's time for actual reform in the country. Maybe we should just abolish the monarchy altogether.

And so it's a very popular notion that starts to intrigue people and also the other parties across the country, right? Mm-hmm. king Dendra obviously sees the sentiment brewing and just like what had happened before, he decides that he's gonna dissolve parliaments altogether, he's going to claw back power He says it's just temporary and that he'll reinstate government after the public have calmed down a little bit, which is obviously bullshit.

[01:03:31] Adam Cox: Yeah.

[01:03:31] Kyle Risi: And is very clear if history is anything to go by that's not going to happen. Unless people revolt again.

And so that's exactly what begins to brew. In April, 2006, all the political parties of the country, they band together into a single alliance called the Seven Party Alliance.

They launch the people's movement and they start marching on capmandu and very quickly just like that, it becomes very clear that if the king ignores them, it'll only end in bloodshed. And so King Aandra, he abdicates.

[01:04:03] Adam Cox: Oh, he does, does he?

[01:04:04] Kyle Risi: Yeah. And as of today, Nepal is now a federal democratic republic as enacted on the 28th of May, 2008, the monarchy has officially been abolished as the sage prophesized in 1766, the Sha dynasty would fall after the 10th generation.

King Dendra or dippy was the 10th. And true to the Prophecy's word, the monarchy fell after the 10th generation before bringing an end to the world's last Hindu monarchy.

[01:04:33] Adam Cox: Wow. I mean that's, I mean, did the sage just get lucky or is it something that's been written down and told and is it something that even dippy kind of knew of and was like, when he got mad, he's okay, I'm gonna do this. It's feeding into this

[01:04:46] Kyle Risi: yeah's.

[01:04:47] Adam Cox: I dunno. But it is weird. It's weird that it came true in the way that it did.

But did, um, his uncle, would he not been classed as like the 11th or because he was king for a while?

[01:04:57] Kyle Risi: He was, but it was after the 10th. So he, he didn't get to hand it down. So the 11th was the last.

[01:05:03] Adam Cox: Yeah. And what, unless he was counted as one of the other kings beforehand when he was like, for a couple of months.

[01:05:08] Kyle Risi: Oh. Then it was, I dunno, maybe he

[01:05:09] Adam Cox: wasn't make eight or something.

[01:05:10] Kyle Risi: Dunno. It's good. That makes him then 12, which invalidated his entire prophecy.

[01:05:15] Adam Cox: He was close 10 or 11 around about that. Yeah. He predicted it like several hundred years ago at this stage.

but yeah. And I guess the king at the time is like he knew he probably would've been killed. So abdicating was wise and he was like, well, can I just keep some money and I'll go live in the hills,

[01:05:29] Kyle Risi: Adam, that's so wild though as well. 'cause King guy Andra and the remaining members of the royal family, they're given just 15 days to vacate the royal palaces, right?

[01:05:37] Adam Cox: Mm-hmm.

[01:05:37] Kyle Risi: The country's constitution is rewritten and today all the palaces are now museums, which you can go and visit. You can also go and visit the crown jewels.

So it's been almost 20 years since all of this has happened now, right? Mm-hmm. Strangely, guy Andra still lives as a free citizen in Nepal. ' cause like usually countries that abolish their monarchy, like that either execute them or exile them from the country.

[01:05:57] Adam Cox: But if he like voluntary did it, then that's one thing. Sure. But then you're right, like exile and oh, could he come back and try and, rule again.

But perhaps he's wise to that.

[01:06:06] Kyle Risi: But here's the thing though. So apparently, first of all, he lives a fairly modest kind of life, but in spite of Nepal's generosity in letting him stay, he is extremely vocal about restoring the monarchy. So it's a risky game to play when your backyard is Nepal.

[01:06:21] Adam Cox: Yeah. Like I wouldn't be too vocal about that.

[01:06:23] Kyle Risi: Yeah. No.

[01:06:24] Adam Cox: And I don't think people are really like, it's only 20 years ago, people are not gonna like, oh yeah, that's, let's just change everything back.

[01:06:30] Kyle Risi: We can see how quickly things can change is, right.

Mm-hmm. So if there's all of a sudden a movement or for support for restoring the monarchy, because we've seen how things can flip flop, right? Really quickly, what's to say that like some kind of political opposer is gonna go in and try and assassinate him. Yeah. To stop that from happening. Do you know what I mean?

[01:06:46] Adam Cox: Yeah. Like he's been given a chance to live afterwards, uhhuh, so I'll just take that.

[01:06:50] Kyle Risi: Yeah. And Adam, that is a story of the Nepalese Royal Family Massacre, one of the bloodiest royal family massacres in recorded history

[01:06:59] Adam Cox: worms. If Dippy had survived, what would've happened? Would they really have carried on? It felt like for a while they would've done.

[01:07:07] Kyle Risi: Yeah. In the documentary, which I highly recommend you watch, is called Zero Hour. Yeah. The family are outraged. They're like, I cannot believe that we had witnessed everything that had happened that night. And yet he was proclaimed king that night. And they would have to a adhere to it 'cause he's the king. But I don't know, would they have continued? I mean, you're certainly keep an eye on him.

[01:07:25] Adam Cox: Yeah. You wouldn't be going round his for dinner, would you?

[01:07:27] Kyle Risi: Yeah. No more dinner parties for you. So what kind of kingship would that have been?

[01:07:30] Adam Cox: Yeah. It would've like caught an now, right? that news would've broke. Must, yeah. Just, that's crazy to think for those three days, that's what they were trying to do. And that also, like you say, like that basically made everyone lose their confidence in the royal family.

[01:07:44] Kyle Risi: Yeah, it's wild. Anyway, Adam, do you fancy doing some member shout outs?

[01:07:49] Adam Cox: Let's do it.

[01:07:50] Kyle Risi: Okay. As you guys know, we have been hard at work building our brand new job listing sites on the website. What do you think of Adam? Hard at work.

[01:07:58] Adam Cox: Yeah, we are.

We are recruiting and fast uhhuh. We need to fill those roles.

[01:08:02] Kyle Risi: We have a hundred different roles at the commending podcast.com. Go off, pick your favourite role, apply and submit your job description. And we will read the best one on the show on a future episode.

This week is from Leanne. Leanne has applied to be the archivist of misfiled prophecies.

[01:08:21] Adam Cox: Well, what does that mean? What's she up to?

[01:08:23] Kyle Risi: So the role includes cataloguing for toll disasters across reference omens and stamps, prophecies as actionable or ignore.

[01:08:32] Adam Cox: Okay.

[01:08:33] Kyle Risi: Which is very appropriate for today's episode, right?

[01:08:35] Adam Cox: Yeah, that's true actually.

[01:08:37] Kyle Risi: Based on her sage's prophecy, her role includes maintaining the secure storage of cursed paperwork and time sensitive warnings that arrive late. She's required to produce weekly summaries for managements who file them under interesting and proceed with the exact thing the prophecy warned about.

[01:08:57] Adam Cox: Yeah, that'll be fine.

[01:08:59] Kyle Risi: So Leanne submitted her appraisal. What has she said?

[01:09:01] Adam Cox: She says that her day-to-day responsibilities include designing Sils to keep cursed paperwork from eating her alive. She pulls cards daily to help her decide if a prophecy is actionable uhhuh, or if she should just ignore it. And, she's creative and responsive as to why she cannot perform solid duties.

[01:09:21] Kyle Risi: Ah, so she's done exactly what, uh, the royal, the Nepalese royal family have done have ignored the prophecy.

[01:09:26] Adam Cox: Yeah.

If there is a prophecy, at least pay half attention to

[01:09:29] Kyle Risi: it. Pay exactly.

[01:09:30] Adam Cox: Don't do exactly like he says,

she says that there has never been any incidents or near misses or cover up. She says, a never would I ever. And, uh, KPI. Self-assessment. I'm lovely to work with and baked fantastic chocolate chip cookies.

Well, you, you'll be a treat around the office.

[01:09:47] Kyle Risi: Yeah, you send her some of those treats, babe.

[01:09:49] Adam Cox: Yeah,

[01:09:50] Kyle Risi: guys. So we are no longer handing out job descriptions. You guys are free to go off and select your own job description on the compendium website.

Once you submit your job description, make sure to include a photograph. You will be added to the meet the team page automagically. And so make sure you do, we will read the best descriptions out on a future episode.

[01:10:11] Adam Cox: Should we run the outro?

[01:10:12] Kyle Risi: I think it's time to run the outro, Adam.

And so that brings us to the end of another fascinating foray into the compendium. We hope you enjoyed the ride as much as we did.

[01:10:21] Adam Cox: And if today's episode has sparked your curiosity, then please do us a favour and follow us on your favourite podcast app. It truly makes a world of difference and helps more people discover the show

[01:10:31] Kyle Risi: for our dedicated freaks out there. Don't forget that next week's episode is ready waiting for you on our Patreon. And as always, it's completely free to access.

[01:10:38] Adam Cox: And if you want even more, then join our certified Freaks tier. To unlock the entire archive, you get to delve into exclusive content and get a sneak peek of what's coming next.

[01:10:47] Kyle Risi: We drop new episodes every Tuesday. And until then, remember, Adam Prophecy or not History. Only needs one night to change everything.

[01:10:56] Adam Cox: Ooh,

[01:10:57] Kyle Risi: see you next time.

[01:10:58] Adam Cox: See ya.