Julie & Zach Ertz on World Cup and real football & Johnny Knoxville on his Jackass' legacy | EP 196

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The live action movie Moana didn't make the big landing that it was expected in its opening weekend at the box office, but it did bring in $43,000,000 in North American theaters.

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I'm talking about stories that make you miss appointments.

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There's something about that that I thought, oh, this is good. Because it's — I always say — it's showing off in private.

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It started with a mix

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Bonnie Tyler had a penchant for songs that feel larger than life. Her musical signature, heartrending, over the top belting that pushed her gravelly voice to its limit.

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The excess and anguish of her nineteen eighties collaborations with producer Jim Steinman came to define the maximalist pop rock of the decade.

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At his funeral, when someone draped a black shroud over his coffin, one of his friends freaked out and started yelling, no black for Monet!

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Originality is just undetected plagiarism.

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I have total freedom to do whatever I want, and at my age, 84, I have no obligation to keep writing. This freedom is lethal.

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What Robert Frost was actually doing was sort of criticizing Edward Thomas, his walking partner, who would, when they would come to two roads that looked the same, would agonize over which one to take. And then no matter which one they take, when they were done, he would say, we should have taken the other one.

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