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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode

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of Arthur Knight AK. Nicholas

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alaverty Trend. That's the name

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of that guy from

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the video we talked about yesterday.

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Hi, I'm Jack Becca, I beca

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Hello. I don't know.

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I guess I'm just finding

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out all the details are being reminded

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of all the details of the story. This

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is the guy who, if you didn't listen to yesterday's

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episode, there's a wonderful video

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of him in disguise

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as a British man with

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like round glasses a gas mask

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on claiming that he can't stand

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up in the least convincing

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way possible with

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his wife, who is seems

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embarrassed for him.

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So producer Brian pointed out, he does

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look like Kiefer Sutherland in

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Dark City.

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Yes he does, and apparently his performance

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is influenced by that. Also. I couldn't

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think of his so I guess Nicholas

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Rossi is one of his other aks.

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Nicholas Alaverdian is his original

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real name. His British

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name is Arthur Knight.

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You know when you look up and you're like, that's British.

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That's British. That is a British ass name.

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So, the backstory, in addition

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to like him being on the run from

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the law because he committed

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sexual assault in Utah, is

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that he then became a men's rights figurehead

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for radicalized people who

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claim they are unable to get romantic or

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sexual partners despite desiring them,

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often referred to as in cels. That is according

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to Wikipedia. So an

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update that super producer Victor provided

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us is that when he faked his

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own death, one of the things that he did was

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right his own obituary and

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it is long

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and remarkable, so I

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just wanted to. I read through it, I highlighted.

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Some uh, I couldn't finish

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it. I was like, yeah, what is he saying.

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Nicholas Alaverty's battle for life

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ended on February twenty

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ninth, twenty twenty. His children,

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his families were there. His last words

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were fear not and run toward

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the bliss of the sun. At the

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time of his passing, the room was filled

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with the sounds of the end credits

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for the nineteen ninety seven film Contact

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by composer Alan Silvestri.

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Statesmen and stateswomen in

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the House of Representatives and Senate

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joined with mayors across Rhode Island

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in homage to a man whom

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they acknowledged as quote, one

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of the most vocal, outspoken, and

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constructive advocates for reforming

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Rhode Island's DCYF and

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the childcare system, and a

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fighter in spirit but

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a peacemaker in practice for two decades.

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Goes on. His name when uttered

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in memoriam in the House and State

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Senate chambers and city halls throughout

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the Ocean State was a fitting tribute,

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as those were the spaces where

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Ali Verdi and labored as a warrior for

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those without a voice for two decades,

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commenting on not just issues

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surrounding the Department of Children, Youth

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and Families, but also businesses,

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health, public safety, and education. It's

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a hell of a run on sentence.

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I was like literally counting the line. It's like a

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five line center.

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His name when uttered in

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memoriam in the House and Senate

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chambers and city halls throughout the Ocean

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State was a fitting tribute,

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as those were the space It's

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it's a mess, it's a mess.

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But he's just so profoundly

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and deeply full of shit in

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so many ways.

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I want to know what it's like to be that delusional, Like

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I envy people who can

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live in that type of delirium.

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Yes, and he like makes up quotes

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about how he was like a Dickenzian

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character. But it's just like this,

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they don't write obituaries this long

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for presidents. He

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is just going on and

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on and making up like columnists

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who claimed that he was the greatest

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person who ever did anything,

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But like everything is very vague. I

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think he had a you know, he was

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institutionalized as a child because

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he, according to his step parents,

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was like, you know, a violent

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sociopath and would like bite and kick

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and spit and they had to ultimately

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institutionalize him. So it does seem like his

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life's work, as he viewed it was

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to like reform the Department

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of Children, Youth and Families because

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he had been you know, dealing

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with them from a young age because he was a

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violent, kind of messed up child,

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which is said. But also he's

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not good. Yeah, yeah,

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that's not surprising. I'm sure

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there's plenty of problems there, but

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man, what a just the

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persistence of delusion, the persistence

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of bullshit, and just

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the lack of regard for

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anyone else's intelligence to

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just be like Arthur Knight let's go with that, and

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because that's British and people

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will believe I'm British. Just can't

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stop reading about this guy unfortunately, so

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unfortunately you guys have to keep hearing

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about him. Another thing

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that's trending, there's like an Edge Sheering lawsuit

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where the estate of Marvin

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Gay is claiming that one of his

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songs ripped off. Let's

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get it on.

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Which song is it again?

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Which Ed Sheeron song?

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Yeah? Which ed Cheerin song?

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You're asking me which of ed

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Sheeran songs? Which I know the title of it

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is? It's the one

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that's like darling and I

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yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that one.

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I would argue you no, just like it doesn't

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sound.

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Like the thing. Like I came

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into this being like, well you ripped off here.

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Yeah, I'm here for Marvin Gay. I'm team

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Marvin Gay over Red Cheerin. And he

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definitely ripped off TLC for Scrubs. I

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guess that was admitted. But

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that one was weird too, because he like wrote the song

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and then was like, oh, I guess I was ripping off scrubs

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and so he like paid for it. But

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this one just doesn't sound like it it

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just doesn't like it at all to me, Like it

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sounds like I remember hearing

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that song and being like is this

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a remake or like is he pulling

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like chords from like a different song. Yeah,

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never like even listening

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to them side by side, I like, don't hear it.

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I get like a producer

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Brian definitely has like a more musical mind

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than me, and he's like, oh, it's the same chord progression,

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but that's true of like you know, yeah,

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So I don't know. Unfortunately,

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I'm having a hard time being

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on Marvin Gay's team on the although

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I will say always been a Marvin Gay fan,

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not always been a big fan of his

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fan family members. If

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you know how he died, that

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might make sense, all right. Cinema Con.

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Cinema Con is a trade

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show. It's less like a film

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festival and more I don't know.

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It's it's like networking,

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right, Yeah.

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It feels like it's like insider stuff

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they like preview scenes for movies.

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It's just weird because, yeah,

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you get titles of these articles that you

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think you're about to see a trailer, Like there's

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Wanka Timothy's Challamet meets

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Hugh Grant, as an Opa Loompa in new

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trailer and then but

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like there's no trailer the

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other things that people have seen at cinema

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con. We were recently

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talking about this, I think on Yeah

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Yeah on TDZ because

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one of our guests was saying that their

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child's latest obsession is Napoleon,

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and I was like, it's so weird that we

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haven't had a big Napoleon movie,

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because like that was one of Kubrick's

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big obsessions for many years,

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but he never finished it. We've also talked

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about how like the various stages of like

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things kids become obsessed with just seemed

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to always work out as great fodder for

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like big blockbuster movies. And Napoleon

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and the Greek Gods are two

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weird kid obsessions that don't

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have their like massive modern

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blockbuster yet. Well, there's a Napoleon

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movie coming that I didn't know at

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the time we were talking about that. It's from Ridley

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Scott, stars Hawaquin

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Phoenix, and

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they like showed a battle scene from it and they were

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people were like, it's expensive

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looking. It looks like it's a period they

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spent all the money, So

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that's exciting. Equalizer Three

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Bad Boys four, and then a

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rom com starring Glenn pal the

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cocky guy from the latest Top Gun, and Sidney

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Sweeney. There's a Spider Man spin off,

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Craven the Hunter, which they're trying. I think

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they are hoping this can be their joker

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because R rated

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apparently features gory fight scenes which

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include decapitations and bear

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traps, the two things that any

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good fight scene you want to look for.

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Anyways, CinemaCon a

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very unsatisfying

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convention to cover. Also,

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I guess gives us a heads up of what's

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coming. Let's take a quick break,

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shall we, and then we'll come back and talk about chocolate.

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King Charles head for some reason. We'll

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be right back, and

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we're back, and King

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Charles's coronation is

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happening. Okay,

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you all right. I also

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like had some digestional

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issues as I was saying that, So maybe

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that's just the natural reaction, although

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natural reaction to monarchy

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at this time to get a little sick to

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your stomach, but natural

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reaction to that. They're

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doing their best to make it more appetizing,

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more palatable to people, and one

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way they're doing that is that the

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Mars Company, as a

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you know, homage to King Charles.

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I guess it's not an homage. It's just a straight up,

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like your honor, sir,

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here we go. They made a life size bust

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of Charles, made entirely of melted chocolate,

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three point seven gallons of it.

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It took four weeks to make,

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and it is absolutely

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horrifying, Like

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shit, it's just the worst that chocolate

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has ever looked. I think.

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I agree, it's pretty rough.

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Super producer Ryan said some blackface

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because I couldn't even use white chocolate. Yeah,

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yeah, I mean it's it's

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really well, it's at least not like you

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know, like imagine like a wax Madam

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Tussau's like bad wax sculpture.

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You know, it looks really accurate, but

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it's they nailed it. Yeah, like they

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nailed it.

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Does look like him in

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a way that is accurate to how ugly he

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is.

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But yeah, it's not like off

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putreos.

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I don't know, it's just it's also

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the Yeah, it's him and chocolate, and

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it's the first first time I've like fully

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come to terms with the fact that we're going to have to like

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live through a media cycle where people

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are like acting like this guy's cool.

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Yeah, like our

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Yeah, just fucking

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the guy's the worst.

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He's the worst.

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Wow. Super producer Brian is really

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on one today. I have to say. He said our

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chocolate King to Chocolate

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Wow. I

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think you should take over the show. I think I think

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that's a I think I'm done here. There's

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like a weird, like human interest

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story that's happening where a New Jersey

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town is disciplining

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parents who are mean to Little league umps

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by forcing them to act

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as umpires and little league games. I've

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seen footage of this. I've seen like parents

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flipping out at little league umpires

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or like little league umpires getting like beat up

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in the parking lot after little league

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games, and it seems like the worst job in the world.

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It's usually a volunteer job. And

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so they're like, all right, if you

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yell at a single little league umpire, you

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have to be an umpire for at least three

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little league games. And I

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think that's fair. I think that's probably

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a good way to just deal with these

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assholes. Yeah, the game also

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necessitates having a second certified umpire

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on the field to make sure that the penalized parents

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are getting the calls right.

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But that it sounds like we'll work for everyone.

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Yeah, it's a lot of hard, but also

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it does feel like a good Like once you

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do that, once you'd be like, oh, this is terrible.

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I should never be mean to a little league umpire

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again. Yeah. Yeah,

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I used to like referee special

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Olympics games and that was a

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hard, a hard job.

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It feel like any volunteer ref

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umpire role at kids

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games is just a lot. I

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didn't play much sports, but I

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was on the sidelines often for my brother

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who did play sports, and I was like this

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sucks all.

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Yeah, and people expect a

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level of expertise, like when

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you watch NBA basketball, like the refs aren't

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even that good. It's a it's just an impossible

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job being an umpire. It feels

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like, all right, things are happening pretty

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slow here.

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Yeah, especially in baseball for the kids.

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Baseball basketball is fucking

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impossible. Yeah, And to be mad

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about the refs or like to be like, well that's

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that clearly proves that, like there's a

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conspiracy. See as like Bill

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Simmons, like the most famous

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like sports commentator and is like a

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ninety percent of the time a complete dipshit,

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but he's like he really thinks that like,

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there's all these conspiracies in the world.

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It's just like, no, it's just everything.

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They're all bad. All the referees

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are bad because it's like an impossible job

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and you're an idiot. Anyways,

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those are some of the things that are trending. Becca,

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wonderful having you as always. Where can people find

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you?

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And Folly you can't find me and follow me

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at XPCCS, ramos on

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all platforms.

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Yeah you can. That is gonna do it for

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us this afternoon. We are back tomorrow

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with a whole ass episode of the show,

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a lot of UFO talk, folks. Get

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ready until then, be kind to each

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other, be kind to yourselves, get

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the vaccine, don't do nothing about white

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supremacy. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Why

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I e.