120 | Pt1 | Ronald True's Descent into Madness: A Trew Story of Addiction, Crime & Insanity

This episode dives deep into the life of Ronald True, exploring his tumultuous early years, family background, and the factors that shaped him into a notorious figure. The hosts discuss his upbringing, education, and the peculiarities of his character, setting the stage for understanding his later actions and the historical context surrounding his life. The conversation delves into the chaotic life of Ronald True, a man whose global misadventures led him through various countries and experiences, culminating in his involvement with the Royal Army Air Corps during World War I. Despite his lack of qualifications, he managed to become a pilot, notorious for his incompetence and crashes. His addiction to morphine and subsequent career as a test pilot highlight the absurdity of his life, which is likened to that of a modern influencer. The discussion ends with a cliffhanger about his journey to America and what lies ahead for True.

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Episode Transcript

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Madman, murderer, relentless optimist, a world traveller,
flight instructor and one of theelite.
This week we take one of the only deep dives into the
fascinating listener suggested story of Ronald True, I didn't

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see you there. It all started early this
morning. From hunting ghosts to Bigfoot
UFOs. Cryptids, true crime,
paranormal, and more I. Always wanted to see UFO.
Oh I was. I was researching for your
entertainment. That's Bigfoot's guess.
He basically wrote the book on Monarch.
We aren't really comedians. What if Buddha did cocaine?
The Addams family on meth. This is the Black Hat report.

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See you on the other side, Joey.Yeah, Sir, do we have a case for
you today? This case, which by the way, I
totally just fucking skipped theintro.
Hello everybody, and welcome to episode 120.

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My name is Gil and joining me today the only man, whoever man,
man with a man, man, man Joey. Man, that's damn true.
Dear God damn right I'm here. True story.
Maybe I don't know. Are we?
Are we here? I think so.

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I wanna say we got well, we're here.
A couple quick announcements here.
Let me pull this up. We've got the next BCR bootleg
movie night coming up on I believe it's this Saturday, the
18th at 8:30 PM Eastern is goingto be 1 of Joey's Picks

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Television 1986. It looks terrible, absolutely
freaking terrible. Yeah, it'll be, it'll be great.
It'll be great. And I hope, hope you all can
join us for that. We also have, let's see, the B3
birthday party, the beer, booze boogeyman birthday party, which
is going to be a paranormal openlines event.
Any conspiracy theories, any, you know, alien encounters, any

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ghost stories, any possessed Furbies that you've managed to
pick up along the way, All of that.
Call in or submit your story ahead of time.
Links will be in the show notes.We just want to open up the
lines and kind of just have a, amixtape episode of all the
topics that we've covered over the past year.
Yeah, anything else that are missing you?

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Yeah, yeah, we have a special remembered the first, first
episode of of something that gotpostponed last week because of
ice Ice baby, because of NL ice.He actually made us postpone
this episode, so. His goddamn real estate
investments finally caught up tous.

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Did you know that he became a huge real estate psycho?
I did. I don't know, you know why I
haven't chosen to forget that inthe back of my mind, but it's
there anyways. Yeah.
So this Wednesday at 8:00, I think something like that.
Eight o'clock 838. PM, Eastern Time.
Around that time, we're going tobe doing our first live stream

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of Midnight Mass. And no, it's not a cult thing.
But yes, you should wear a cloakand bring some sort of idly
decorative dagger and maybe a few things for the sacrifice,
you know? But we're just going to be
hanging out. We did a poll little while back
on our Patreon and asked folks what would they like it to be.

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They gave us answers. And that'll be your surprise.
Hint, hint. There might be recent news
stories of weird things that have happened, there might be an
AI Charles Manson answering yourquestions, and there might be a
board game. So it's a hangout time if you
want. To you won't be bored, we'll
have a lot of. Fun.
You won't be bored. The only thing boring will be

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the game. We'll be the Just kidding.
We're actually pretty strict about the game.
It looks really awesome. Super exciting years.
Now before we dive in, got to give a shout out if you can call
that to the main source for thisweek and next week's episode,
which is the Making of the Modern Law Print Editions, Legal

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Trustees 1800 to 1926 Trial of Ronald True.
And dear Lord, if you think that's dry, you should read
just. Yeah, he's trial scripts.
He's actually memorizing the name of the book.
He's just looking down because it's so long.
You know he's you can't hold eyecontact with the camera that

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long because the name of the book is so.
Long It's mostly out of shame for reading a early 1900s legal
trustees book from England. No, but I will say, although
it's damn near impossible to read because it's photocopied of
the original, like typed paperwork from the court,

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there's some wit, there's some humor.
And beneath it all, if you take the time to, you know, connect
the dots for the letters so you can actually read it.
Just sitting there with a fine tooth felt pen trying to figure
out what the fuck letter something is.
If you actually take the time todo that, there's a fascinating
fucking case behind it. That is the case that we're

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going to be covering today. Like I said up top, we're going
to be doing one of the only deepdives into A and surprise
surprise, there's a lot of falseinformation about him out on the
Internet, specifically when it comes to comes to dates and when
it comes to at least one noble person's reputation.
But to understand how this fucking insane cuckoo bananas

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madman manages to travel around the world multiple times and get
into the hijinks he's going to get into later, we have to
understand how everything started.
June 17th, 1891 in Manchester, England, 16 year old Annabelle

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Angus gave birth to a seemingly healthy baby boy whom she would
name Angus Ronald True, better known today as Ronald True.
Boy's father, William Thomas True, was hardly in the picture
enough to be considered present,so much so that many sources
often falsely state Ronald's father was completely unknown.

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But that simply isn't true. Ronald True's mother had in fact
none been married to Ronald's father William, meaning he was
born out of wedlock. And so, as was the tradition in
most Christian communities at the time, Angus was all but
shunned by the strict Presbyterian community to which

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she belonged. The scandal of such a sin soon
sent the young mother packing, forced by the hands and shame of
her own mother and stepfather, who made the 16 year old Angus
leave her newborn son with them as she was sent off to London to
make her way in the world alone.Fortunately, this moment would

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go on to mark only the first of what would become so many
heartaches centred around her beloved son.
And so Ronald left behind to thecare of his grandparents, both
innkeepers would spend the firsteight years of his life living

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at the Seaford Arms Hotel in thetown of Rhodes, located in
northeast Scotland. In other words, he was a hotel
kid, and I mean it with all the fence.
When I say hotel kids are fucking weird, yeah, I'm just
gonna say that's kind. Of what they gonna tell, right?

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I mean, they're just there. They're just, they're just
traveling around with their families.
What's so weird about that? No, no, I mean like kids that
live at hotels like where like the parents are keepers of the
hotels. I don't know, maybe I'm the only
one. My family traveled a lot, like
did a lot of cross country tripsand we stayed at a lot of hotels
just in the middle of nowhere. And you know, when you're like

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9-10 years old and you see another kid that your age, you
get really stoked, especially being in the car all day.
Every fucking time I'd see one of these kids, they'd be like,
hey man, hey, it's so nice to meet you.
You want to do cocaine and play with guns?
And I'm like, not for another five years.
Get away from me, scoundrel. I don't know, give me a.
Few years to get used to it's. Kind of weird.
It's like there were there's certain places that kids

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shouldn't be raised. Truck stops within the Catholic
Church and hotels. I think those are like the
three, the three main places I don't think a little kid should
be raised. At But it's The Three Musketeers
of not raising children at, you know.
Well, irregardless, Ronald was no exception to my strangely

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defined bias, and as later memories of those closest to him
at this time would vividly recall decades later, he was
very quickly displaying many of the classic warning signs and
behaviors that lovers of true crime know all too well.
He was selfish, disobedient, terrible in school, and often in

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trouble for skipping class. And while not considered
earmarks for a would be madman turn murderer, it was Ronald's
detachment from empathy that manifested in his childhood
hobby of constant and violent cruelty to animals.
Number one, it's always the signbaby.

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In 1899, his grandmother Ronald's primary guardian,
passed away, which quickly led to the now 8 year old Ronald
being sent off to Dartford, Kent, some 18 miles southeast of
London, where he would live withand be cared for by a governess.
Which I had to look up. And although it sounds really

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fancy, in reality the governess is just a very British title
given to a nanny who takes care of children over six and who
mostly focuses on education, behavior and early childhood
development. So kind of like a mix between A1
on one tutor and a nanny. A neuter I would guess they
would call him. Yes, and while that might sound

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like just some kind of random fun fact right about the term,
when we break things down a little bit further, we can
almost glean some assumptions about what Ronald was like as a
person at this age, which led his grandfather to send him some
470 miles away to the opposite side of the UK to live with and

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be raised by a specialized, dedicated tutor.
It's like a it's a pretty big send for an 8 year old.
It's expensive too. I bet that that granddad is like
he came back home and saw the deers that he had like shot to
eat and the deers had like crazymarkings in them and he's just
like. Oh, July of that same year,

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Ronald's mother, Annabelle, who had been forced to move to
London and make her own way in life, met and married Lieutenant
Henry Lethbridge. Like Xander, this marriage would
eventually mark a major turning point in both of their lives,
though like most things in Ronald's story, but happened

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indirectly and with an odd ending.
You see, soon after their marriage, Lieutenant Henry
Lethberg, Alexander and Annabelle moved to the violently
occupied land of India where theLieutenant would be able to
serve the crowned and make a name for himself being an

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oppressor and a colonizer. What's a good name for yourself
though in Britain? That's how I like in those.
I mean, honestly, like in those days, that's a good posting.
There's a lot of money to be made over there and like a lot
of clout to get, as bad as that sounds.
Like a lot of money to take over.
There exactly as bad as that sounds, but it's true in in the
British Empire days before WorldWar One it was a great post to

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be in for for a British officer.If he's a Lieutenant,
Lieutenant, Lieutenant would be Navy.
He's a Lieutenant. So yeah, he would.
That's good post is is as a stepdad goes, he's a terrible
person. But you know, the British
Empire, may you think about the times.
That's kind of what it was. So, but it's terrible.

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And that's something I think too.
Thank you for bringing it up. That's kind of important to keep
in mind here. This is, you know, this is still
back at the time when the phrasestill rang true that like the
sun never sets on the British Empire, right?
Because, and there was a phrase,because England owned and

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occupied and took over land everywhere in the world, all the
way around the world. It's the biggest.
Empire ever, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so it's kind of important tokeep that in mind here as some
traveling and some things like that come up here a little bit
later. But Annie, who's a lot of colony

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stuff. Yeah.
Well, unfortunately, after two years, Annabelle became terribly
ill and had to leave her Lieutenant husband Alexander, in
India, move to England. Now, does that have to do with
Ronald? And why did I tell you all that?

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Well, like everything in Ronald's life, it's going to be
a fun side quest. Almost immediately after
returning to England, Annabelle began having an affair with
another serviceman, Lieutenant Arthur Reginald French, son of
Arthur the French. The 4th Baron de Frant, meaning

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her secret side piece was next in line to the title.
He was British nobility and someday would be a goddamn
Baron, While the Wikipedia page for Arthur Reginald French seems
to have been cleaned up a littlebit.

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So that is actions maybe come across as, I don't know,
sounding more reasonable and hisnovel a little bit more
honorable. Yeah.
I want to point this out becauseI noticed something.
If you're searching for him, you'll come up on some fairly
reasonable things that I guess really, really high up and you

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know, the nobility, some things to be considered scandalous, but
for most folks it'd be fine. But if you're searching from the
direction of Annabelle and Ronalds and you find him, you
come across a different story. And actually you come across a
few more court cases and legal documents from that time.
So something to keep in mind here.

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So anyways, as it turns out, when you're researching, like I
just said, when you're researching the history of
Ronald True, the dates, documents and accounts of what
went down with Arthur and Annabelle at this time paint a
completely more naughty picture of dear old Arthur.

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As the old adage I just made-up goes, once you go barren, you
just stop caring. And that's exactly what happened
to these two lovebirds when onlya matter of a few months, their
affair escalated from midnight romps to moving into a house
together and openly pretending to be married.

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Wow, and I'm also add to your your attitude that you just said
once you go Baron you start a faron that is the next one.
Also, she stopped. Caring.
If you're going to be a Faron, do it with a Baron.
Yeah, if you're going to be a fan.
Yeah, exactly. She wasn't Sharon either.
So I feel like they just, Dang, I'm surprised that they actually

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gave that guy nobility, especially since his last name
French. And we all know how much British
hate the French. Like even today.
In all fairness, it was like, I think it was over Scotland.
I'm going to say it was over Scotland.
So it was kind of like a, you know, for the English.
They were kind of like, yeah, you know, yeah.
I mean, you know. English kind of hated everybody

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at that time, so it's fine. Yeah, yeah.
Which is weird because they wanted to be everyone's
neighbor. It's the colonization.
I guess the only way colonization works is if you
hate the other people. Yep.
So yeah, the word blatant comes to mind when reading about their
affair. Which is why in less than a

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year, Tino too. It's not surprising at all that
Lieutenant husband Alexander, who Annabelle was still married
to well his family found out andthey started freaking out and
the two were haunt right air quotes, big old air quotes on

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caught. They straight up got a house
together were walking around downtown holding each other and
like doing over each other and like had wedding ring and like
that's weird. They were straight up acting
like they were married and telling everything they were
openly in the public. I don't know if that this is

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gonna say this. Town as her real husband's
family. But does.
But does the other guy know the the Duke, the Baron know that
she's also married? OK.
Just. I just wanna make sure.
Oh yeah, Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah.
Surprisingly, this news quickly pissed off and embarrassed Daddy
Baron Dufresne and led him to completely cutting Arthur off of

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financially. But to them, none of that really
mattered. See, it was true love and for
Arthur and Annabelle, I couldn'tgive a fuck less.
And they were officially marriedNovember 18th of that same year.
Oh, so they, the other people had to divorce first?

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The Lieutenant in her had to divorce first I would imagine.
Oh, yeah, Now that Lieutenant husband, Alexander, Yeah, yeah,
I mean, he was still back in India and he's like, what the
fuck? So what?
Yeah, like anybody would be like, dude.
He's like, it's a good thing I've been raping and killing all
these Indian people every because that's what I was doing

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and they didn't find about that.It's pretty much.
Need at least eight more concubines.
Exactly to get through this awful pain.
Ever get through this? Yeah, Yeah.
And I don't want to paint these dudes as like, being Saints or
anything like that either. It's just bro, you like, that's
so open by any day's standards. You don't.
Do that no, and you know, when we talk about, you know, kind of

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like marriage and love in this, you know, the podcast and this
kind of stuff, like there's you know, in a marriage, there's
like people can agree to what they want in their marriage, but
I'm pretty sure this Lieutenant did not was not like, hey, I'm
good with you going Polly, OK, like you can go Polly all you
want. You know, like there he was not
OK with that. He was like this is we're we're

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monogas marriage and she was like, you know what, I'm not
feeling that I I would rather gobarren, you know, barren at all.
That's what she was doing, or maybe what he was doing.
Barring it to the world, yeah. But the the timelines, like I
did my best to kind of dig updates and to create a cohesive

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actual chronological timeline tobe honest about my best
assumptions with the way these dates and stuff work.
It kind of sounds like they started hooking up when she was
coming back from India as being sick.
Like that's how quick it was. It was like immediately they
were already moved in together. And I was like this relationship

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didn't start yesterday and. It's a Trek.
Getting back from India like. Maybe it had to have started
before she came back, you know? Maybe, and, you know, maybe
there's a whole. Conspiracy.
Before she went to India, they went to India, you know.
Yeah, conspiracy. You know well, good.
And this is important to keep inmind.

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Even after his sugar daddy Baroncut off his allowance, Arthur
was still both a Lieutenant and a baby Baron, meaning that
Arthur was still filthy rich. And now so too was his new
family, Annabelle and Ronalds, aJoey.
Yeah, I, for one have had the honor of falling in love.

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And becoming a stepdad to my partner's cats before.
So I kind of feel like I can understand what must have been,
you know, going on in Arthur's mind when he was finally
introduced to his new 12 year old stepson, Ronald.
And while we don't have a written account of their first

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meeting, we can assume based on the dates between when Arthur
and Annabelle got married in midNovember, when they got back
from their honeymoon in December, and what happens to
Ronald in January. And I feel like there was a gut
reaction that went on there. Bring all this up because within

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a month of getting back from their honeymoon, January of 19,
O3 Ronald. True was enrolled in and shipped
off to the Bedford Grammar School.
Now this place is an incredibly exclusive independent boys
school reserved only for the children of the most elite.

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So the dad did react by kind of being like, oh Jesus Christ, get
the fuck out of here right for the kid.
But kind of sent him to the bestplace possible to set him up in
life. I mean, like this kid is coming
from being a hotel kid right to he's going to be in a Baron's
family. So like got to get some step UPS

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here going on, you know what I'msaying?
He's got for, you know, he's gotlike a governor governess, you
know, like this kid, like he goes for a hotel kid to
governess, then he goes to, thenhe goes to a charter school, you
know, like a boarding school, really freaking nice boarding
school, the cream creme de la creme of boarding schools.
It's like he's kind of just getting these steps up.

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You know, he's getting this, as I say, golden elevator to
success. And yes, I'm excited to see
where he goes with this. Yeah, and this whole time
torturing little animals, being a little hellion in a non good
way. I think that's the best way to

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put it. Kind of like an asshole about
the he's not skipping school to have fun.
He's skipping school because andthen just not doing anything.
Like it's like really lame. I don't know.
I don't know how else to put it.It's just kind of like a like
I'm just gonna skip school. I'm not gonna sleep in and not

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gonna read or do anything. I'm not gonna go outside.
I'm not gonna go and walk. So I'm just gonna I'll go.
But he at the same time, The thing is, he wasn't coming
across to anybody as like melancholy, like an early word
for like being depressed or anything like that.
It wasn't like that. None of the reports said
anything like he was suffering from chronic depression.

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And no. Wasn't like he was trying to get
somebody to be like, hey, talk to me, help me.
He was more just like, I hate, I'm going to murder everyone one
day, you know, like I'm going to, I hate everybody or, you
know, I'm just. Yeah, I don't know, just weird.
Listless I think is a good word.For it but.
At the same time, fucking egotistical.

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Well, here's the deal. The next five years, Ronald
rubbed shoulders with the sons of royalty, the future leaders
of empires, and heirs to literalfortunes.
A quick glance at the list of the school's alumni,
affectionately referred to as Old Bedfordians, includes 40

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major generals, 20 Admirals, sixof which became direct military
secretaries for various kings, 10 lieutenants, 29 members of
Parliament, and 89 people who have been personally knighted by
either the King or Queen. That's not even counting these
scores of scientists, artists, actors, writers, musicians,

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athletes, industry tycoons, the list goes on and on and on.
I hope you get the picture here.This is the most possible clout
you could ever ask for in terms of, like attending a place.
This is, you know, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, you know, all of

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them, MIT, like all of them wrapped up into one.
And that's what you get to say. You went to by the time that you
would normally be graduating high school, This is that's how
he's getting prepared for the world.
This is like that PayPal house, that house like 30 or 40 of the
greatest, like that, not the greatest, but the biggest CE OS
and the richest people in the world right now.

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It's like all those people that are part of PayPal and like
those 20 or 30 people started like 30 different tech
companies. Now.
Elon Musk was one of them. You know, there's a few other
ones that started the big techs.Dude, it I like I I'll throw the
link in the in the show notes under references.
This is seriously just like scrolling through the list is

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enough to make your eyes roll back like it's just like what
the it's it's buried, but eventually you'll get to it
where it's like these are the Petforians.
It's like Jesus Christ, just being an alumni of the school
meant that no matter how bad your grades were or what you've
done with your life after attending, by just nearly having

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Bedford listed on your credentials, you were guaranteed
a lifetime of privilege, prestige, status, and above all
else, unlimited access to incredible opportunities.
Which becomes important. And it's a good thing to kind of

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understand when you're looking into the story of Ronald.
True, because by the time he left Bedford at 17, all he
managed to take with him was an unbreakable belief that he's
absolutely incredible. A major superiority complex that
honestly could probably make Godblush at a sense of entitlement

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to be rivaled only by the undeniable proof that it is
possible to be incredibly talented at not being talented.
And so with the world in his hands, 0 motivation and five
years worth of citations, warnings and a never ending

(28:03):
stream of bad reports from his school, he returned home and
quoting from the book. In the circumstances, it is not
surprising that his family made no attempt to put him into a
profession, but took the conventional way of disposing of
a stupid and difficult youth. They shipped him out to the

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colonies and. Smart.
Yep, that's where that's where you go.
So again, picturing his classmates and everybody he was
around and just every all of that, the first thing that
happens when he gets out of highschool is his stepdad shipped

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him straight to New Zealand to work on a farm.
That's the worst place you can ever go.
His mom for his mom for who was like somebody Biggest
cheerleader even. Agreed.
She's like, this kid fucking sucks.
For that one, somebody with thatmuch prestige and being, I mean,

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he's not technically the son of the Baron, but he's the stepson
of the Baron. He a biological son.
He's not the biological son. He is the stepson of the Baron.
So that's reserved for like 6th,7th son.
You know, like after the 6th youget to like, you get to after
three, you're kind of just like,I just sent him to like the

(29:33):
minds of Moria or something. Send them, send them somewhere
where, where they're not even going to be around.
They'll get experience doing whatever.
And so he was the first son in the family and at this time and
they're like, you know, we got to make another one.
We got, we got to do something. If we, he can't be the only one,
he just can't, he's got to go somewhere.
Let's hide him in New Zealand. That was already the criminal

(29:56):
place. They sent criminals.
It's like New Zealand is anotherplace.
They're just like, well, Australia said I would love to
go to New Zealand, honestly. And I, I know a person from New
Zealand and they're amazing people.
That person's an amazing people.I'm sure everybody there is.
But Australia sent their criminals to New Zealand.
It was like they like, that's where this guy is going, you

(30:18):
know, like the idea of where this guy is going, he's not
going to Australia where the criminals were sent.
He was going where the criminalsof the criminals were sent.
It was the Alcatraz of England, basically.
Exactly. Yeah, as much as I love New
Zealand, but like that's, you know, this is Britain, what
Britain did so. Yeah, no sense.
At the time, you were kind of the world's Texas.

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Well, you want to guess what happens next.
He starts growing pot. No, not yet.
He only lasted less than a year before the farm shipped him back
with all but a do not return stamp attached to his head.
He drove everybody fucking insane, was lazy as hell, was
considered just impossible to work with, weird as fuck, and

(31:04):
the same word which pops up overand over and over again in
everyone's testimony. Incredibly eccentric, which
we'll learn a little bit more about later.
Upon his return, he was immediately sent off to work yet
again on another farm. This time it was one in

(31:24):
Yorkshire and in less than a month he was sent back home
again, the exact same complaints.
But right after that, right after he got back home, he was
sent to Argentina where he did God knows what before being sent
back to England. Next was Canada, where the now
21 year old Ronald True served for a quote a very limited time

(31:51):
and the Northwest Mounted Policebefore he quote, drifted to
Mexico. Records of what he did after
that seemed to have kind of beenlost to time.
It feels safe to assume that he was keeping himself busy finding
new and exciting ways to drive people absolutely fucking insane

(32:11):
while getting fired. Now this whole trip, all these
little locations in these spots that he's stopping at, we're
constantly being sponsored by his mother's desperate need to
see him find anything he could be good at, along with a small
allowance of what today would equal 53 and a half, $1000 a

(32:33):
year. But that's irrelevant.
Ronald's mediocre misadventures continued until he somehow
managed to end up on the complete opposite side of the
world and the middle of Shanghai, China.
No clue how the fuck he got there, especially we're looking
at like it's around 19131914. No clue what the fuck he did,

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but there is something special that happens.
You see, it was there in Shanghai that Ronald True found
his first real passionate life, his first real Ronald True love,
morphine. Yes, that's a good thing to
love. He was he, you know how he

(33:21):
actually went to Shanghai? He was like, am I?
Am I too early for rush hour 3? Chris?
Is it Chris? Tucker.
Chris Tucker. I was, I was confused that
Chris's cause like the it's Chris Tucker.
Chris Tucker. Yeah, yeah, I was.
Can confuse their names. I know who they are.
I can see them. But Chris Tucker, great.
Yeah, that's what he was searching for.

(33:42):
He was searching for Rush Hour 3in Shanghai.
Yeah, it's I think the second one was also in Shanghai too.
You never know where we're gonnago here.
You really don't this. He's only like he's 22 at this
point. He's a world.
He's been there, too. And he's been in New Zealand,
Canada and had to cross through the US, Mexico potentially,

(34:06):
Yeah, in Argentina. Some accounts also say Bolivia,
India, China and yeah, any countries he had to get through
to get to China. Right?
Which, knowing this dude, he probably tried to walk across
the Antarctica. Nowadays he would be the
freaking worst influencer on Instagram.
Jesus Christ, you're right. He would just be sitting there

(34:28):
like, yeah, sitting on the beach.
And like, behind him is just people working on a farm looking
at him, like, what are you doing?
Like the farms near the beach. And there's like, looking at him
like this, it's all over here. He's entitled asshole.
He's like, yeah, it's hard. Child drowning in the
background. Yeah, hard days, work on the
farm. Oh yeah, there's a child over

(34:50):
there, that's fine. I mean, there's just whatever
that happens every day. Oh yeah, I'm just sitting here.
And Sandy's got to stay true to himself.
Ronald True. Yeah.
Stay true to yourselves out there, everybody true out, you
know. I think that's what you you
fucking nailed it. Been bothering me all for the
past like week and a half. Like I'm like he he's not an

(35:13):
Eppo baby, right, He's not an Eppo baby because he kind of,
you know, like you said, like that golden liner, golden
escalator, kind of like up kind of situation.
So he did have kind of a rough beginning, but dear Lord, did he
adapt to the the mentality of a douchebag rich kid so fast and
so naturally, like, it was just,it was inherent, you know?

(35:35):
Like he was always meant to be. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And honestly, he acts like it constantly.
He's just like, of course, yeah.Like he acts like when he was
born, he had already conquered the world and was bored with it.
Like, that's kind of the vibe that he's always had about
things. He's a douche.

(35:55):
He's a douche. Well.
That's lack of empathy. You know, that kind of goes hand
in hand with like how you react to the world and how you just go
through the world. Yeah, but springs us up now to
the year 1914. And Joey, do you want to tell
our listeners what started in 1914?

(36:20):
I would have to say, what is it?What was the big huge?
Event ACD CS first concert it was literally the beginning of
the first the Great War, as theycalled it that time because it
they're like there's not going to be two world wars for sure
the great. War.

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Yes, it was the beginning of World War One.
You're seeing the news of the war on the coming up on the
horizon. Ronald True made his way yet
again back to England. It took a little while, and I
want to assume the morphine had something to do with it, but the
whole time he knew in his heart the only way England could

(37:04):
possibly win the war was if he signed up and joined the fight.
So 1915 Ronald enlisted. Dying in the trenches wasn't
really his style, wasn't really his thing.
So with just an unrelenting complete confidence and 0

(37:26):
qualifications, Ronald applied to and was somehow accepted into
the newly formed Royal Army Air Corps.
RAF now let. Me tell you Joey, in no time, no
time at all, he was able to makea name for himself and become

(37:49):
known by pretty much all of the pilots and all the high brass.
Not for his skills and abilitiesbefore his incredible, almost
heroic display of incompetence. It's the best kind of display of
incompetence ever. He became notorious for never

(38:12):
wearing his hat because, quote, it put too much pressure on his
head. End Quote, He would just walk
around the base all day. Like hold, it's the military,
it's the 1900s, pretty fucking strict about dress code and shit
like that. So this is a big deal.
But it's gonna pop up later, too, because he kind of his

(38:33):
whole life had this allergy to wearing hats, even when it was
seen as rude to not wear a hat decade later.
But yeah, Besides that, when asked about him later, he was
described by his peers at this time as, quote, eccentric,
childish, irresponsible and a notoriously terrible flier.

(38:57):
End Quote. But Ronald didn't listen to the
naysayers. No.
And he wasn't one to give up after spending more than a year
in basic training. And having three attempts to
pass his flying exam. Ronald True was finally issued

(39:19):
his wings. Everybody freaked the fuck out
even the instructors. Nobody years later was like I
have literally no clue how it happened.
Ronald True might have just killed the person that was in
charge of it or drugged them or something like I don't this
shouldn't have happened. Basically if we go.
By how the in 1920s and 1930s and Soviet Union from the last

(39:42):
episode, I believe that they were baby trainers and they were
just like, that's good, that's good.
Remember the booster seats that they had in Soviet Union to help
the trainers work? And like, just want to point
something out here close. We want to talk about want to
talk about sexism and things like that.
Looking at last week's episode and how much shit.

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And she was good and she was really good.
She was leading instructors and classes and was like couple 100
hours shy when she was still like what, 234 years too young
to like be official pilot. She was only like handful of
hours away from having as much as and they're like, I don't

(40:27):
know, what if you get your period while you're flying?
Like they got all weird with herand shit.
She's the example of when an eccentric person that doesn't
really give a fuck about the world is talented and actually
does make great plans. We're on the other hand, this
complete fucking doofus who again, thanks to Bedford I

(40:48):
imagine is able to get access and get into and have
opportunities for literally fucking anything.
He's able to fail flying tests, flying the exams three times in
a row and stay in basic, in basic, in basic training for a
year during World War One. Do you know how quick they

(41:13):
cycled through folks back then? If I can say something that is
also a pun, He failed up, he failed upwards.
It's true. It's Ronald True.
Yeah. Yeah, hunting it up today.
Hunting it up. So like I said, after three
attempts, he finally fucking passed and he was issued his

(41:34):
wings. The coveted wings that pilots
have always gotten when they're approved, which Ronald
immediately threw out and replaced with his own custom
made wings that he ordered a while back that were in fact
three times regulation size and didn't match anybody else.
In a time where everyone was strict about uniforms.
Love it. He had like freakishly large

(41:58):
wings made like I just like to imagine like glittered and
bedazzled like wings with it just has like some like little
saying like stay true on the bottom or some shit.
Like the guy's a trip, you know,and we go, we go back to the
last week, go back to like, you know, the Lily, right?

(42:18):
She dyed her hair. She would drop off flowers and
planes. She had custom Chrome boots, you
know, and had the fur going on. She fucking earned it, right?
Yeah. This dude stick out the talent.
This guy just did it. Yeah, even with all that fucking
talent, she was still catching shit.
Well, soon he was sent out on his first solo flight and he

(42:43):
crashed almost immediately. But luckily for true, it was
just a minor accident. Some some bumps and bruises and
within a matter of days he was back in the air on his second
solo flight where he also crashed again immediately like
it was like right after takeoff crashed he.

(43:04):
Barely pops up over a rock and hits the ground and crashes and
he's like oh that was my. Second one falls off the ladder
on the way up. Well damn, the second one wasn't
as kind to him. He suffered a severe concussion
and it actually ended up leavinghim in the hospital unconscious
for two days. But Fast forward now past the

(43:27):
recovery, he's now on his third solo flight when he crashed
again, resulting in him being hospitalized for three months.
This. Third time's the charm.
Third time is the time to go to the hospital and the the
airplanes at this time too were open top.
There was no, there's no covering.

(43:48):
You know, I like in World War 2,they started getting plastic
covering. So just think about it where
he's on a probably a propeller plane by plane, which I imagine
that he's in. He barely gets up and then
crashes into the ground or he gets up to AI mean he he
couldn't have got up that high. That's what I'm thinking is he
couldn't have got up that high to crash and not die, you know,

(44:11):
So he probably went up like 40-30, forty feet and then
something happened, like he like, ejected all the fuel and
was like, I hate fuel, you know,And it was just like, I'm going
to be the first to ever fly without fuel and, you know,
stupid. Like I should have forgot my
wings climbs out just like that and.
Jumps out, jumps as he's leavingand as a solo flight, I wonder

(44:33):
if he had like a tail gun or or something like that that was in
there with him because I don't think anybody would ever want to
fly with that guy. No, not at all.
Fuck no, dude. Like everything about this guy
is just like no, no, no, no. And The thing is, to this whole
fucking time, he's just getting more and more egotistical and

(44:57):
confident. Like it's like he's just, he's
ready to take on the goddamn worlds.
You know, they're hoping he dies.
You know, You know what? The instructors and the people
on the ground like watch him go up and they're just like, come
on, this is the time. This is the one that's going to
kill him. And then he gets in the
hospital. Like they get up to like not
save him in quotations. And they like that, you know,

(45:19):
the rescue workers, first responders or whatever, that
time they get over there and just like, he's alive, all
right, send him to the hospital.At least take him away for three
months. Have some peace, Jesus Christ.
Well, that actually describes a lot of stays in hospitals.
They were pretty happy when he left.
And here's the thing though about this crash.

(45:40):
Well, he fell in love in Shanghai with morphine, became
obsessed with it, then some might say addicted during this
third accident and his very longstay at hospital.
Irregardless, it was somewhere around his 2nd and 1/2 or third

(46:01):
crash. I like to imagine it was while
he was in air before his third crash, that somebody at the
base, somebody paying attention.Taking video of themselves.
Finally fucking realized. Oh yes, I'm.
Up in the air on my second try. Let's hope I don't crash this
time. He's got like a selfie stick, a

(46:23):
selfie stick with nothing attached to the end of it.
And they're like, what the fuck is he doing?
They're like watching with binoculars, Like what is he
doing? Like there's not even a phone
here. They What is going on?
He's not a fan of hats, but he'snot even wearing goggles, just
like birds stuck on his face. I, I like to think it was just,
it was probably, you know, maybearound the time of sunset, maybe

(46:45):
around the time of the plane crashing, that somebody in the
higher up, somebody in the brassfinally took note.
This motherfucker crashing so many times and being really
terrible at all things related to attempting things.

(47:06):
And they ordered him discharged from the Royal Flying Court on
the grounds that Ronald was, quote, unfit for service.
And Ronald, truer words have never been said.
Joey, do you wanna guess what his next move might be?
He decided that fresh out the air.

(47:28):
Get more The air was not. For him, yeah, yeah, Like he
was. He's like, I can.
I'm not a good flyer. You know what, you know what I
might be good at? It's like doing PR 'cause I feel
like I'm really good at that. I really also feel like the
brass at the top, you know, theywere just like they looked at
his wings. And they were just like people's

(47:48):
attention. Yeah, there's like he's, he's
that's too easy to be shot. The brass is always like it was
also like the they said there's he has too much brass on there.
There's not enough for the rest of us, so.
Yeah. Jealous.
And they kicked him out. So what?
What happened to him next? What really happened to him,
besides all the joking that I was doing?

(48:08):
He found his second Ronald true love because within a matter of
just a few months after getting discharged and probably after a
few morphine morphine binges, hegot hired at the Oval.
Government control words as a test pilot.

(48:29):
That's perfect for him. No, that is.
Where he may or may have not, although it's slightly
unconfirmed slashed, a lot of people say that it happened.
Had another crash absolutely fucking immediately.
That is the perfect spot for himbecause they're have OK, so he's
testing these new planes, right?They're like, look, we don't

(48:51):
care about this guy. He dies.
It's all good. No problem.
This, this this plane is gone. I don't care.
But they also have their other test pilots and assume that he's
the first one that of course he's the first one sent up
there, right? Like that's they're not getting
the good test pilots out there. It's like they're Ronald True.
We told him to try on these new boots.
Why is he getting in the plane? Yeah, Chrome boots, but he gets

(49:11):
in the plane and and then the instructors with the test pilots
are sitting there and just like.Look.
Do not do anything that guy does.
OK, so like he but he basically doesn't even lift off the ground
and crashes into a wall that wasnot even on the runway.
He just crashes into it and they're just like where did that
wall come from? I don't know.

(49:32):
He built it. He was trying to stop himself.
He built it, but that's the perfect job for him 'cause they
don't give a fuck about this dude.
They're just like, if he dies, he dies.
Test pilot. No big deal, You.
Would think that, but in fact, no one checked no one checked
anything. It was all within the UK and he
just kind of, you know, walked in said I'm Ronald True and they

(49:55):
were like, are you qualified? He's like, have you ever seen
those ducks? They were like, what ducks?
And he's like, do I have to wearhats here?
They they constrict my head too much and they're like, I think
he knows how to I mean, look at his wings and he's just like
they're bigger. They're all kind of fucked up
and pent up and shit. They're just actually duck
wings. He just like killed ducks and

(50:16):
made duck wings on his wings forhimself.
It's like, I think he's OK. He's pretty crazy, so let's just
let him go. He's a test pilot.
We need that. Wouldn't want another man to be
a test pilot. Exactly.
Yeah, like I said, surprise surprise, he was fired almost
fucking immediately. Soon after that he realized he

(50:38):
needed a sore higher. He needed to go new places.
More people needed to know abouthim or something or help or I'm
not exactly sure why he went to America.
I think that he came back to thehouse and his mom was just like
get the fuck out and he's like all righty then and he just like
took off. But as over to the United
States, that is where we're going to pick back up next week.

(51:01):
Ronald True Part 2. Still working on the the
phrasing for that one. Ronald two-part true.
Well, there it is. Next week the full descent into
madness goes and the World Travel is going to continue and
the crashes will definitely keepfucking continuing.

(51:22):
This really is I really love what you said.
This really is a a expose, right?
A biopic of influencers before their time.
And it's kind of like he was theonly one reading his social
media and his social media was being hallucinated on the wall
around him. It's kind of kind of the vibe

(51:43):
that I get. He was creating a bunch of
robots to post on his own socialmedia stuff he was telling
himself to be like, Oh yeah, andyou see what this person said?
Pretty much what he was. Doing this dude, in this case,
everything about him is, is fucking nuts.
I know there's a lot of back story that I kind of went
through here on this first one, but it prepares us for how
things are going to be going a little bit later and things are

(52:07):
about to speed up really fuckingfast.
But to be honest, after listening to the two podcasts
that have talked about him, theycompletely skip over how the
fuck he was able to travel around the world, what the fuck
he was able to afford any of this, and how the fuck he was

(52:30):
able to get into all of these high level places, get accepted
into stuff, fuck up so many times royally, and still just
constantly have a fucking pass. They kind of just skip past
that, say this guy's nuts, he crashed a few times, then he
murdered. You know, like it's like now
this dude's life. He's the perfect mixture between

(52:51):
too far beginning of the year episodes, right?
Faking Your Own Death and Lydia Livia.
Kind of a mix between both of those episodes, but kind of not
good enough to pull either one of those.
Off no, he tried to fake his in death and she she's.
Yeah. Thank you guys so much for

(53:12):
listening. We really appreciate it.
We got a lot of true crime, the next true crime tale coming up
for Part 2 next week and we're excited, Ronald, True true crime
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you next week. Bye.
I got to put out a mini side quest here to one March 2nd.
Trying to look for it earlier inmy notes.
This is going to be cut out of the cut out of the main show.
Now, things happen with the old Baron, with the baby bear,
right? First off, he completely ditched

(55:04):
Annabelle when they went on their honeymoon up to Scotland
and was just kind of ghosting her for the entire month that
they were supposed to be there. That is a little bit weird,
right? And when they got back and soon
after, Ronald was sent off to the very prestigious Bedford
Grammar School, right? Within a year, French had to

(55:29):
resign from being a British officer because of openly
committing adultery against another, you know, basically
against another British officer,like while that officer was on
active duty in other country. Very scandalous, right?

(55:49):
And this dude's supposed to be nobility.
That was the situation that kinda put his dad over the top
and was like you're fucking cut bro.
Like, you're out of this where if you go back and you actually
look at French's Wikipedia page and articles about him, it says
that the embarrassment was caused by getting married to the

(56:14):
ex-wife about what the fuck happened.
Nobody cared about that, but they tried to kind of, Oh well,
I mean, you can under they were in love.
They were. It's like, no, they were, they
were blatant. It was really bad.
And this dude was a fucking douchebag.
Something funny that happened here.

(56:35):
Like I said, two years. Yeah, it was two years after
Ronald got sent off to this elite private school that French
resigned as a British officer because he couldn't live up to
the standards, was pretty much fucking embarrassed and you
know, life probably sucked there.
Pretty soon though, after he dipped out, leaving Annabelle
behind in England, he hopped on a sailboat or on a steamship

(56:58):
actually, and arrived in New York by mid January 19 O five.
It was there walked into a hotelwith all of his, you know, baby
Baron luggage and all this exquisite fanfare and all this
shit like that, checked into a hotel and then essentially faked

(57:18):
his own disappearance. He was so this guy who was
technically the 5th Baron Dufreyjust completely fucking went
missing and he did it on purpose.
But this quickly led to the press freaking the fuck out and
in like an open war slash. I don't know shit throwing

(57:43):
contest between the British Consulate and the NYPD like this
was like a huge political like turmoil where they were like how
the fuck did you lose the Baron?And they were like, we don't
know. We don't like that, doesn't make
any fucking. Yeah, we have no idea.
This whole fucking time he had snuck off and went about it was

(58:04):
about 50-60 miles away from downtown New York.
It listed in the US Army and nobody fucking found out until
mid February. So this was over a month he was
missing. Half that time he was actively
enlisted in the US military. That's crazy.

(58:25):
Here's something important though.
Because he was in the the British, the Royal Army or
whatever, and because he went missing, his pension as a
British officer went straight toAnnabelle.
He started getting his pension as an officer while he was, I

(58:48):
don't know, playing like rebel legionnaire by just joining
random fucking militaries in other places.
So this completely set up Annabelle.
And this was also during the time that was in school, right?
She had shit tons of money. Now, Frenchie does return back

(59:09):
because at the time you were able to pay to get out of
service, right? If you had enough money.
Well, his dad, you know, Daddy Baron, he died and that
automatically made him the BaronBaron, right, Baron refrain.
She got rich as fuck, became super popular with all the

(59:32):
Americans and stuff like that. He was just buying anything
anybody wanted. You know, this is whatever.
And then he was like, all right,guys, seems like my country
needs me, so I'm going to dip the fuck out.
Paid to get out of the military in the US, went over, started
fighting on the front lines immediately.
It was on the exact same fuckingday, the exact same location him

(59:56):
and his brother died in battle looking for.
I don't think I have it written down here.
It was some some bridge anywhere.
Point is the Baron and technically the next Baron that
was gonna be both died the same day in the same place in World
War One. Which lightweight throws?
Ronald's into this like pseudo place of potentially, yeah, and

(01:00:23):
it made them ultra super freaking don't give a fuck about
the world. There was so many things going
on back behind the scenes that just kept pushing him up the
ladder and pushing his mom up the fucking.
Yeah. Do you think that he left
purposefully so that she could have his have his back pay?

(01:00:48):
Do you think he thought about that when he was just like maybe
'cause I know that when I'm missing there?
Yeah, I, I wonder that 'cause he, he, that dude, he bounced
all the fuck around and served at a bunch of different places.
And there's just, it's one of those folks who was just like,
really loves war. Yeah, I'm out there.

(01:01:10):
He might have done that, but at the same time might have just
been a douche because like he fucking who's gonna ditch their
their wife on their fucking honeymoon?
Yeah, it's not. He just completely fucking
ditches her. So like I said, the men in the

(01:01:31):
story, they're not fucking Saints either.
But there was some lot of scandalous shit.
I just don't think he gave a fuck about anything.
I don't know, that's just kind of how do my take on that.