Burt Reynolds to John Mahoney: 2018’s Celebrity Deaths!

Who’s the Worst Loss of 2018?  Join Ryan and Ruban on The Worst of the Best Podcast for our third annual dive into the year’s most notable celebrity deaths, as listed by People magazine! From Burt Reynolds to John Mahoney, we’re sharing heartfelt memories, hot takes, and our picks for the biggest loss and the “worst” celebrity of the year. 

This episode is a rollercoaster of nostalgia, laughs, and tributes as we honor 2018’s fallen celebrities. Expect candid reactions, personal stories, and a touch of Canadian humor as we sift through People magazine’s list of 101 notable deaths. Whether you’re a pop culture junkie or just curious, you’ll love our heartfelt picks for who left the biggest void and who we think was the “worst” of the best.

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Ruban Rebalkin

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Ryan Rebalkin

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welcome to the worst of the best podcast
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you wanted the best well they didn't
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freaking make
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it so here's what you get from Canada
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Ryan and
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Ruben all right Welcome to the worst of
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the best podcast I am your host Ryan and
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Ryan and my other host Ruben Ruben
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Welcome to our show this is our third
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annual this is our third annual and my
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my favorite topic it's the one I look
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forward to every
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year oh we're terrible people aren't we
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so celebrities celebrities this is as
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the title has suggested we are picking
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the worst of the best celebrity desks so
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we went to what site was is this real uh
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people people great popular culture
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magazine they have given us 100 we
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display footsies there they've given I
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wasn't playing all right we guys you can
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see here there's 101 people so we're
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going to be fast so basically 101 people
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died this year that are of a celebrity
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type nature I guess well they probably
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got people like some lame people who are
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like authors
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or poet you know podcasters podcasters
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third if we don't know them we're not
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going to weigh in on them so we don't
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know they're dead to us they're
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dead Penny Marshall oh yeah love love
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her in Li and trly yeah she had the LL
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here on her uh on
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her shirt ankka pop Canadian ROM
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Romanian singer anap pop make you rest
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in peace yeah may she rest in peace I
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don't know who she is though Nancy
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Wilson I thought she was uh in
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heart is it Nancy Wilson in heart I had
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no idea she was black I thought she was
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a white singer wow wow good maybe when
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she went solo she's a solo artist here
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she's just yeah okay don't know her so
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far we got one moving on yeah we got 100
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to go through Penny Marshall so far
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she's the worst because she's the only
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make note of this yeah make note of who
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we know go ahead and write in the back
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of that oh here we go Penny kenberry
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rest in peace Brother rest in peace Kim
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Porter rest oh hold on a second oh she's
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oh that's K that's uh sha Diddy's
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ex-wife oh wow okay don't know her rest
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in peace yeah mayble to say rip it's a
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lot faster yeah we got to save time yeah
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rip rip LFO
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oh he's cute I know Little House on the
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Prairie I know the show but wish you say
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the name oh well for the audio okay
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here's the thing R I didn't tell you
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this so when it comes to audio the audio
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release I'm going to totally delete all
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these rips oh okay and then you're only
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going to hear me and you speaking about
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the people we know all right but people
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that get to watch this they see what we
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see sure and they know what yeah okay
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Stanley hey big loss big loss to uh now
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did you remember that uh is he though is
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is this a big loss well the when when's
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the last time he made
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something he's all of his movies are
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like the biggest movies in the world
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yeah but really what did he do about the
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movies he created the characters right
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which is amazing you sound like Bill M
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here I'm not trying to channel but well
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he better write down Sally sounds like
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your worst pick so
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far why would they pick this picture
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this is why I love we get to have the
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video so she's 42k look I'm
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43 RIP by the way uh Amanda blank I
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don't know her last name
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no it's too bad she was found dead we're
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not making fun of their deaths but I'm
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just saying why would they use this
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picture I don't understand I mean I
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guess she's a trainer this is her
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physique but all right rest in peace uh
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Mickey roor no it's a Tony Joe White rip
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Bo I don't know anybody oh he looks
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looks like he's finding out he's going
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to be dead there wow the S of sons an I
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did watch that show okay I recognize
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watch it but oh Mac Miller y you know
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him no but I have a customer who is his
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a producer oh wow yeah if he listens to
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our show you're customer yeah he doesn't
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know okay still rip a drug overdose
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apparently yeah b r wow oh Bert okay we
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know
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somebody if you listen to our other show
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the rocky series podcast Going the
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Distance that's the other show that
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Ruben and I do we did many many many
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many stories and of adoration and love
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for Bert Reynolds lot of burns a lot of
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rug Burns a lot of lot of rug rug
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Burts if you haven't already and you are
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only hearing about Bert Reynolds now in
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your life and you want to see Bert in
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his prime may I suggest that you go on
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Google after our podcast and Google Bert
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Reynolds on a bear rug you will not be
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disappointed no you will not be
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disappointed it'll inspire you it will
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inspire you it will uh it will bring
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things to your
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feel it make you feel things you never
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thought you could feel before Oh John
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McCain John McCain you writing these
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down rub okay yeah thank you uh John Boy
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he was an enemy of trump and Trump an
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enemy of his they did not like each
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other well you know Trump to be fair
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doesn't like uh what it losers yeah
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that's right he doesn't like people that
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were caught in war yeah so I never liked
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him as much after that cuz I don't like
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losers but but Frank Frank let me get to
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it he hit me he's not a war hero a war
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hero he a
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he's a war hero cuz he was captured I
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like people that weren't captured okay I
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hate to tell you do you agree with that
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he's a war hero because he was captured
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yeah you got to have your standards High
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that's true when you've had bone spurs
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that's right that you fake to get out of
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a war that someone else was a PW I think
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he can talk well Trump's smart you evade
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War you'll never get
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caught he was one step ahead of the
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enemy Neil Simon know who he is no I
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don't know enough like he's a playwriter
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I got that at he looks like a Woody
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Allen had a different stylist yeah Robin
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Lee that's right oh I loved watching his
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show on the weekends as was a kid life
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styles of the Rich and Famous I guess
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his death style now the last
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episode he's probably having the show up
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Up In Heaven There yeah prly Gates gold
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gold tell me about the gates that's my
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now he wasn't very rich how rich was he
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cuz he acted like he was rich well he
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had the British acction I know I love
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how the British
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action he did okay do you know who he
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was really good friends with who that
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his death hit this friend really hard oh
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who's that Vince Neil oh really yeah
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Vince Neil and him were Vegas buddies
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all right hey Vince if you're watching
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our show rest in peace to your brother
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technically it's not the end of the year
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so Vince might be joining him yeah
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that's right we should make note that if
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necessary if such a celebrity that
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breaks the news the next three days
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Ruben and I will do an emergency
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supplemental we'll weigh in we'll weigh
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in to see if this person would have been
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our worst pick or not all right is that
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fair fair fair Ed King no Leonard
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skinnard yeah rest in peace yeah Frankin
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Franklin definitely know who she is you
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know I never listen to her music but he
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always got to give her
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respect I think in good conscience she
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wouldn't make my worst choice but you
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know you've seen her enough you've heard
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her enough you know who she is and what
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she's every knows Franklin yeah she was
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the queen of soul oh I I did that from
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memory and there it is there and I
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actually did that from memory Jill Janus
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rip rip Morgana King rip oh why would
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why
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why would they show come on why would
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they show his death
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photo why would he that's that's
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disrespect well you know who he is right
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we watch wrest Jim the Jim the anle
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heart it's nart is his real name but
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come on let's I'm just going to I'm just
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going to show you Jim Anvil they could
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have definitely got a a better photo
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here uh that that was there there he is
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in his prime that's that why is that the
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same it's still there why would they
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pick that for I guess it was an open
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casket stand Standing casket oh why okay
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Rubicon rip rip oh yeah The Facts of
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Life Different Strokes we watched her on
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TV as a kids she was 92 when she passed
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full life good for her Charlotte Ray
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Charlotte Ray sorry for those and she
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would know all about death
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she would because it's the facts of life
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it is the well you have to take the good
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you have to take the bad and there you
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have Reuben The Facts of Life The Facts
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of Life or or in this case death that's
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right oh she was in Hell's Kitchen this
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is Jessica vogle I just know her because
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my wife and I watch the show but not
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enough to even speak to her I've seen
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her on the show and now she's in
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Heaven's kitchen yeah Heaven's kitchen
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let Hope another wrestler he's the son
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this is Brian Lawler he's the son of WWE
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Hall of Famer Jerry The King Lawler so
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those are wrestling fans I had no idea
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that the king lawyer son pass away
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that's tough that's tough CU he would
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have been fairly young I would assume
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probably on my end it's a rip I I yeah I
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know I just I don't even know I just
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know who Jerry Lawler is I love
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wrestling enough to know who he is but
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obviously I I assumed he had kids this
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is too bad to L you should never have to
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lose your own child like that no matter
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of the age but Nicholas Duffy fudge okay
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rip rip rip El Mary Wendell is that Tom
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Cruz's ex-wife who's what's her name
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again uh Kate Katy Holmes Kate Middleton
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Katy hes that's Katy Holmes that's Katy
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Holmes rest in PE she never looked
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better she's look Katy Holmes rest in
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peace Tab Hunter I haven't kept tabs on
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him he's a he throb rip Richard Swift
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Black
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Keys member okay rip alen longr rip
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Joe Joe Jackson sometimes sometimes uh I
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let's find out if there's somebody yeah
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well I don't want to give away a pick
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but I just got this little
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like the music manager and father of 11
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died early on June 27th he was
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89 sometimes when somebody dies Heaven's
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a little better yeah in this case Earth
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was a little better yeah uh the Jackson
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family patriarch had been battling
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terminal pancreatic cancer and was not
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doing well that's a shame it too bad he
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should have just uh had somebody beat
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him until it got better no he was nice
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to his kids I think he was nice to his
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children they all turn out healthy yeah
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yeah good man good man oh the Pawn Stars
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dude this guy Richard Harrison I know
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who he is I forgot that he passed away
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um yeah I forgot he was born yeah Vinnie
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Paul panta member so big in the big in
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the metal world yeah I forgot about that
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that's a big loss too Sophie Gordon wow
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she's 32 very Gone Too Soon another
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wrestler Leon White he played Vader yeah
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Vader had some matches with Hulk Hogan
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back in the day the wrestlers a yeah how
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do you say his name ex extension well I
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know but why is it 3 X's yeah cuz he's
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like XR X so what happened here I wonder
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was fat he was shot in what
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investigators believe was a possible
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robbery so this is
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extent as he left the motorcycle
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dealership okay so he got to uh he went
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out in style thug life is that what they
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call that you know some of those people
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you just kind of he went out in the
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shooting like another show my Jimmy wo
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another fatally shot rapper died in a
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double drive by shooting boy he's only
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21 GH anyway I don't know who he is but
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that's just unfortunate obviously for
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anyone to get shot georgean Johnson rip
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boy there's a lot of people here r
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Anthony Anthony Bain the celebrated
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American Chef who was 61 apparent
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suicide we said this before our one of
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our episodes say it again cuz I don't
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remember Google suicide by doorknob okay
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I think he was one of them crazy I don't
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understand how many celebrities have
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died by hanging themselves on the door
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knob they can afford door knobs I think
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it was I think he did that I'm not sure
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if it was him so don't I'm just saying
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if those are watching I could be wrong
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but I think he did do it that way but if
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not him there's enough that you Google
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it you'll see how many did do it that
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way it's weird another sense of Anar
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actor dead boy Kate Spade Kate you know
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her sure really well yeah she's the
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purse lady Kate Spade she's also the
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sister-in-law to David oh Reuben right
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here check this out everyone scarf had
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reportedly been tied to her door I told
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you it's it's right there Google
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celebrities hung by door knobs you will
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go down a wormhole that you there's some
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connections here did I just say you did
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you did yeah we have recording I know
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but it's I know I know I know it's
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uncanny like it wasn't drug even a drug
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overdose be like okay yeah yeah yeah but
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doorknob hangings yeah and how high is a
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doorknob go to your go to your nearest
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door knob and how I guess it's higher
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than your neck I guess you could ially
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if you had a short you very short you
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know leash or something but
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still how do you shut the I don't know
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anyways uncanny Tom Wolf sure author
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know oh Margo kider yes she was Lois Lan
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and Superman oh wow she was so pretty I
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loved her she's a great she's probably
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the quential is that the word quential
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yeah Lois Lane she did a great job loved
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her as Lois Lane oh oh ver Troyer mini
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me he was 49 I heard it was a small
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funeral another wrestler Bruno San
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Martino he was around we first started
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watching wrestling in the early ' 80s
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he'd already been kind of those on
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Vintage trunks yeah and some vintage
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body hair that is awesome this man did
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not shave and he probably groomed the
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armpit a little bit but but yeah I know
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who he is absolutely good I don't I
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can't wait oh really he died at 82
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though yeah so yeah you L the full like
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I mean he was already a season wrestler
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we watched him in the early ' 80s so
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Italian Superman yep oh you saw him
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wrestle I know sure I'm sure I did
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Barbara Bush RI oh Babs was she a
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doorknob as
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well Anderson Anderson Night Court oh
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yes love nightt remember bull oh yeah
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yeah what he's up to oh AR Le Emery he
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was the guy in the Full Metal Jacket
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drill sergeant oh okay never saw the
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movie but I've seen Clips really yeah oh
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it's quite good uh but anyways yeah he
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was a he actually was the story is is
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that was his first movie and he was the
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set drill instructor like person
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teaching the actor how to be drill
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instructor and Stanley Kubrick was like
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so why don't you just do it because he
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was the other actor wasn't getting it
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and he was nailing it how to be a drill
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instructor cuz he was a drill instructor
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in the military in the
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Marines and so that was his first
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onscreen performance full metal jacket
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and so he played himself and the things
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nothing he said was scripted wow he just
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was drill sergeant to the actors and it
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was just amazing so just that everyone
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that's seen the movie knows exactly what
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I'm talking about just how good he was
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at just tearing these guys apart it
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great you could just actually Google I
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mean um YouTube is sure yelling at the
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the recruits rest in peace oh yeah
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Steven boto you know he did uh NYPD Blue
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was the one show that he did that I did
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watch anyways for what it's worth I did
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like that show Stephen Hawking um yeah
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Steph Hawkins 76 so he he lived a little
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bit longer I guess there's conspiracy
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theories about that Stephen Hawking is
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not Stephen Hawking what that's people
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were just programming things for him to
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say get out of here oh yeah yeah yeah
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yeah and how long he lived with his
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disease that he had most people died a
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lot sooner and so that's like not even
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him that's what that's what people say
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no well my brain was like remember to
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Google this yeah yeah yeah really yeah I
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guess that's about but who was the guy
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who's faking to be that person yeah
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that's weird for the record for the
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worst of the best podcast just because
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we don't know who they are doesn't mean
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they weren't important in somebody's
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life we're not trying to be BL about the
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people we don't know I just want to make
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that clear people die all the time it's
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just these someone's probably dying
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right now somebody's dying during this
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BR broadcast right now you probably feel
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like you're dying yes and if you do feel
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that way call yeah don't go to any door
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Billy Graham Billy Graham Christian EV
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Evangel I like him in um the crown
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season uh two he was 99 wow wow quit
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Park oh I remember that guy oh wait yeah
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yeah yeah he was in Home Improvement I
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remember him in Home Improvement yeah
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always oh he's been a lot of stuff good
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for him so yeah one of those character
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actors you know sure hey we need a guy
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looks like a biker sure he's got a heart
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of
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gold yeah rest in peace brother oh oh he
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I forgot you know it's funny if you
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would have tell me that he died two
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years ago I would have been like oh yeah
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I forgot it was this year I I love for
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for those who know me my wife for
16:51
example knows me I love Fraser I've it's
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one of the few series Ruben that I've
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watched more than once all the way
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through through oh really yeah Fraser
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I've done it with friends frer I think
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they're rebooting Fraser with with
17:05
Kelsey gramar yeah yeah yeah oh that'd
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be amazing he's still got a lot of years
17:08
left in him he's so good he's such a
17:10
good actor he's a very good actor and so
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yeah Frasier i' I love that show and
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yeah he was so good in it John Mahoney
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rest in peace Brother whoa that's a deep
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cut oh wow wait go back so tby Teletubby
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died he was 52 and he he played Simon
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Shelton Barnes he was the purple female
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he played Tinky Winky is that the name
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yeah oh yeah yeah he was
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52 this photo here is like if anyone
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takes this picture of me I'll just die
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and he did yeah that's oh no that's a
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pretty good one oh I sorry I just didn't
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recognize the name she's the woman who's
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the river Betty Naomi Parker Frey she
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was what Rosie the riv oh the one that's
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in that picture yeah okay well that not
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going to make her he's not going to make
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our worse that's for sure
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oh Jerry Van djk yeah yeah I like him
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yeah the younger brother of actor Dick
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Van dijk okay I didn't I didn't realize
18:05
he's younger he was 86 lived a full life
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for sure I mean great full life Dolores
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or oh Dolores
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or the cranberry singer 46 yeah that was
18:15
tough that was early in the year too
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wasn't it yeah great great songs he did
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some really good songs you know who he
18:20
looks like this year the actor Studio he
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looks like Tom Cruz and Tropic Thunder
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yeah Tom Cruz and Tropic Thunder look at
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that isn't that did they do that after
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him is he a producer or something you
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got to wonder eh all right rip okay all
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right so out of the 100 I've got two
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picks I don't have to look at the list
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I've got two picks for worst of the best
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really seley desk all right just a recap
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Penny Marshall Stanley Bert Reynolds
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John McCain Robin Leach artha Franklin
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the Anvil guy Charlotte from The Facts
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of Life Joe Jackson uh Michael Jackson's
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father Anthony bdan Kate Spade ver
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Troyer Barbara Bush Harry Anderson
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Steven Hawking Billy Graham John Mahoney
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Jerry Van djk Dolores o Riden you have
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two that are the have two we did this
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we've done this excuse me we've done
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this every year we kind of picked
19:10
somebody that we think was how do we say
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this the one that kind of affected us
19:15
the most sure and then one that we
19:17
that's the worst loss so it's the worst
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loss for us personally and then the
19:20
worst person and then the worst person
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this again is our opinion doesn't mean
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it's true so for worst loss for me
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personally I want to hear your worst
19:29
loss if you have already my worst loss
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is John Mahoney from Fraser I loved
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everything he did in that show and it
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was great without him being the father
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to Frasier and and N crane it wouldn't
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have been the same I love that he gave
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me nine years and plus of watch of
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entertainment and fun so out of this
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list he provided me the most joy uhhuh
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for the longest amount of time and so
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his Lo and his losses is the worst for
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me Reuben in the same vein he didn't
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affect me the same way though I like him
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sure I just feel very bad for those
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thatz Dolores was alcohol was it alcohol
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yeah what ver trer right and Anthony
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Bine and Kate Spade all the suicide all
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those all those things were their
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choices for whatever reason right
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whatever they're dealing with I think
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that's just a loss okay I think my wife
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was say Anthony berain she she was a fan
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of him oh wow you know what I mean like
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it's a sad reason why I lost like with
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cancer you can't do anything with with
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you whatever depression those things
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that lead people to feeling that that's
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the only way to it's very sad it is sad
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so we we want to make for the record
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that when we joke about like we chuckle
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we're we understand that for the one
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person listening yeah for the one person
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listening that please don't send us any
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hate mail we're not making fun of death
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but throughout these are people that
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have had more of effect on the world's
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life than you and I will ever have and
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we're just uh we'll never be on
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anybody's no but I will say the worst
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person in my opinion on this list and
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mine as well Jo Jo ja
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the guy sound like a real jerk yeah he
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was sound like well he was abusive I
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mean he hid his kids at the end of day
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he literally abused his children I don't
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care what you think of their music when
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they were kids one day but it sounded
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like he never like uh made good no no
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noan he always seemed like a jerk he I'm
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sorry he just always seemed like a jerk
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to me so rest in peace buddy whatever
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you know he lived a long time and and
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with a lot of money around him from his
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kids what do you want to say saying so
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hey thanks for joining us on our third
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annual Celebrity Death Watch or what do
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you want to call it I look forward to
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what next year will bring yeah who's
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going to be the worst next year who will
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be the worst find out stay tuned for
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next year's uh picks of our fourth
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annual at that time thanks for listening
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remember in front of every Silver Lining
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there's a cloud and we're here to help
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you find it
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