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List - Myths People Believe about Movies From September 3rd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Is this sponsored?
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  Speaker 1: No, but I have.
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  Speaker 2: But you have a.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's Radio From Hell with another list. Because people love
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  Speaker 3: a good list.
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  Speaker 1: X96. It goes without saying that the internet has caused
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  Speaker 1: a bit of misinformation in the modern age.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, someone could just say something online and everyone
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  Speaker 1: just runs with it.
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  Speaker 2: These myth, mistruths.
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  Speaker 1: Either come from misunderstanding or someone just lying or not
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  Speaker 1: bothering to fact check, and that is not ignored by
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  Speaker 1: the movies. I have a list of things that everyone
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  Speaker 1: believes about the movies that aren't true. And I was
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  Speaker 1: surprised at some of these that I believed, including this
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  Speaker 1: first one. The reaction to the hospital explosion in The
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  Speaker 1: Dark Knight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most famous moments in The Dark Knight
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  Speaker 1: is when the Joker, Heath Ledger, walks out of the
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  Speaker 1: hospital and it explodes behind him. And the explosions stop
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  Speaker 1: and the Joker humorously fidgets around for a beat, wondering
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  Speaker 1: what went wrong with his detonator. A myth was formed,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps due to Ledger's intense commitment and embodying the character,
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  Speaker 1: that the pause in the explosions wasn't supposed to happen
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  Speaker 1: and that Ledger simply filled in the time fidgeting around.
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  Speaker 1: The truth is, of course, it was all carefully planned.
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  Speaker 3: But I have.
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  Speaker 1: I have heard that for years, that he was just improvising.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard it, but I knew it was wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe Christopher Nolan is a huge fan of improvisation.
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  Speaker 1: All the clocks set to 420 in Pulp Fiction is false.
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  Speaker 3: They're not.
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  Speaker 1: Pulp Fiction posters continue to populate college dorm rooms. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: one day when some college students are engaged in some
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  Speaker 1: extracurricular activities, one casually mentioned. You know all the clocks
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  Speaker 1: in Pulp Fiction are set to 420.
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  Speaker 3: No, they're not. They're set to 520, which I don't
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  Speaker 3: know why.
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  Speaker 1: Leonardo DiCaprio smeared real blood on Kerry Washington's face in
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  Speaker 1: Django Unchained. No, of course not. In Being John Malkovich,
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  Speaker 1: an extra improvised chucking a beer can at John Malkovich.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard that one before.
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  Speaker 2: You don't improvise something like that.
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  Speaker 1: A persistent rumor is that the scene with the person
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  Speaker 1: throwing a beer can at John Malkovich wasn't supposed to happen.
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  Speaker 1: According to the legend, the extras got drunk that night
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  Speaker 1: and one thought it would be funny to throw something
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  Speaker 1: out of a car window. No, no, no. I've never
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  Speaker 1: heard this one. They used milk as the rain in
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  Speaker 1: Singing in the Rain with Gene Kelly so you could
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  Speaker 1: see it better.
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  Speaker 2: I've not heard that. Because it wouldn't show.
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  Speaker 1: Up well on film. Water reflects light, so any... Light
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  Speaker 1: sources in front of rainfall wouldn't have allowed it to
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  Speaker 1: show up on camera. That's probably where the milk myth originated.
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  Speaker 3: But then it would look like milk, wouldn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Instead, the crew backlit rain, putting light sources behind it
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  Speaker 1: that made it look kind of.
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  Speaker 2: I never heard that one before.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Hopkins never blinks in Silence of the Lambs.
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  Speaker 2: Not true.
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  Speaker 1: Not true.
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  Speaker 3: Of course he... He doesn't blink a lot.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: No. he has a very good ability to sort of
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  Speaker 3: stare without blinking.
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  Speaker 1: Snow White is the first feature-length animated film.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I thought.
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  Speaker 1: You ask most people which first feature-length animated film, they'd
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  Speaker 1: say Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from 1937. But
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  Speaker 1: that is not technically true. Even if we're splitting hairs
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  Speaker 1: a bit, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the
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  Speaker 1: first feature-length cell animated movie, but there were several other
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  Speaker 1: films preceding it. It's believed an Argentinian animator made some
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  Speaker 1: animated features. They've been lost to time, though. But we
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  Speaker 1: also still have 1926's The Adventures of Prince Ahmed, a
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  Speaker 1: German director.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a one.
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  Speaker 1: No? No. Well, it says, Bill, it remains one of
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  Speaker 1: the most beautifully animated films of all time.
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  Speaker 3: Huh. Prince Ahmed. Yeah. And it's German, did you say?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, from 1926. So I don't know if you can
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  Speaker 1: see it anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: I'll bet you can find it online.
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  Speaker 1: Another falsehood. Blazing Saddles has the first audible cinematic fart.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: This was a rumor.
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  Speaker 1: The film typically gets credited for having cinema's first fart
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  Speaker 1: joke with a scene depicting cowboys eating beans and letting
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  Speaker 1: it rip.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: It might have been the first fart joke in an
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  Speaker 1: American movie, but Japan was way ahead of.
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  Speaker 2: The curve on this one.
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  Speaker 3: Japan, Japanese think farts are way funnier than we do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You can go all the way back to 1959
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  Speaker 1: for a film called Good Morning. Flatulence is of utmost
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  Speaker 1: importance in this story about young boys coming of age,
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  Speaker 1: and it includes them discovering how joyous farts can be.
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  Speaker 2: It is, yes.
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  Speaker 3: How joyous farts can be.
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  Speaker 2: They are joyous.
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  Speaker 1: A stunned man was killed during the chariot racing scene
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  Speaker 1: in Bed-Hur.
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  Speaker 2: False.
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  Speaker 1: I always thought that was true.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One, reportedly the death can be found in the movie,
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  Speaker 1: which has surely led to countless people trying to pause
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  Speaker 1: at just the right moment to see if it's a
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  Speaker 1: snuff film. There's zero proof that any death occurred. It's
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  Speaker 1: possible this rumor got entangled with the 1925 version of Ben-Hur,
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  Speaker 1: which was nothing short of a disaster. During that production,
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  Speaker 1: a wheel fell off a chariot, causing a stunt performer
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  Speaker 1: to fall and die. So it was in a different
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  Speaker 1: Ben-Hur film. I've seen a couple.
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  Speaker 3: Of scenes of that film, the 1925 one. Which, it's silent,
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  Speaker 3: and it's really terrible.
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  Speaker 1: CGI was used to reduce Brandon Routh's bulge in Superman Returns. Apparently, his.
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  Speaker 3: You mean his codpiece?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's not true.
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  Speaker 1: No. No. Let's see. James Cameron didn't cast O.J. Simpson
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  Speaker 1: as the Terminator because he wasn't believable as a killer.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard that one.
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  Speaker 2: No one would believe O.J.
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  Speaker 1: Killed him.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that may be kind of true.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently, Simpson's name was thrown around during a meeting Cameron
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  Speaker 1: had with an executive. They were never seriously considering him,
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  Speaker 1: but they apparently had said, how about O.J.? Oh, this.
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  Speaker 3: Was back when he was beloved. Yeah. I mean, when I...
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  Speaker 3: When I heard that O.J. Simpson had been, I think
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  Speaker 3: we were on a plane and getting ready to leave Europe.
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  Speaker 3: And somebody started talking about it and I'm going, what? O.J.
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  Speaker 3: Simpson did what? You know, it was just unbelievable. I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't believe, I just was stunned.
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  Speaker 1: This is another one I always thought was true. The
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  Speaker 1: kids in Goonies didn't see the pirate ship before filming.
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  Speaker 1: A full-scale pirate ship was built for the Goonies, and
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  Speaker 1: the kids' reaction seemed so genuine that a myth materialized
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  Speaker 1: that they weren't allowed to see the ship ahead of time.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Astin said he saw the ship ahead of time
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  Speaker 1: and jokingly mentioned, I was sort of offended that people
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  Speaker 1: had the idea, but they wouldn't let the kids see
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  Speaker 1: it so that they could capture their reaction. He's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're actors. We can act that.
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  Speaker 2: We are surprised. Calm down, Olivier.
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  Speaker 1: And the last one is Brad Pitt was only paid
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  Speaker 1: a cup of coffee for his cameo in Deadpool 2.
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  Speaker 1: Is the rumor, if that's all.
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  Speaker 2: And he's on screen for a quarter of a second. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that was even worth a cup of coffee. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently, Pitt... Pitt did get paid. We don't know how much,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm sure he did.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Pitt doesn't roll out of bed for less than
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  Speaker 2: a cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good cup of coffee, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: We hope you enjoyed another list with Radio From Hell
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