Dennis is explaining in very articulate terms how he disagrees with the monarchy that King Arthur represents, okay? And at this point, I think Dennis's wife, I assume it's Dennis's wife played by Terry Jones. It's played by a man. Terry Jones was very good at playing women. He sort of spoke in this voice, you know, all the pythons, whenever they needed a woman, they would ask, well, one of them would play the woman. So there's the word exploit, which you should know, exploiting means to sort of benefit unfairly from the work of someone else. Can you repeat that by hanging on to outdated imperialist Dogma, which perpetuates
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