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Chuckle Sandwich is a comedy podcast hosted by Ted Nivison & Schlatt. New episodes every week! For advertising opportunities please email [email protected]    We want to make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4   Privacy Policy: https://www.stu...

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The Outsiders

S. E. Hinton

Mentioned 1 year ago

The Pokimane Episode

They said they had read the book but could not recall much of its content.

You read that book? The Outsiders? Of course. Do I remember much of it? No. You know, we didn't really get through that point. Like, I really don't remember much of my childhood.

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Die With Zero

Bill Perkins

Mentioned 1 year ago

The Chuckle Sandwich Holiday Special (2024)

Schlatt recalled that he had been suggested the book Die With Zero, read it, and then considered the idea of dying with zero.

You suggested to me a book called Die With Zero about how you should die with zero.

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The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set Hardcover Illustrated edition 2020 June 25 cover

The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set Hardcover Illustrated edition 2020 June 25

J.R.R. Tolkien

Mentioned 1 year ago

We Tested How Fancy We Are

The hosts jokingly imagined dressing up as elves with pointy ears and referenced a "Lord of the Rings" cosplay, noting the fantasy theme of MiddleEarth as part of their banter.

pointy ears

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Mentioned 1 year ago

Are We Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

The podcast hosts discussed this 1960 novel, focusing on its themes of social and racial inequality. One host admitted they did not know the author and struggled to recall the details.

To kill a mockingbird.

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Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation)

Laura Hillenbrand

Mentioned 2 years ago

Preparing For Our Retirement

It was a good book. It was about the guys that were in the B-bomb B-something bombers and they got lost at sea for 47 days.

It was a good book. I think we read it in school, Tucker, didn't we?

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A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

Mentioned 2 years ago

Answering Our Fans Deepest Conspiracies

The speaker had two copies of the book but thought it was a gift for a child as it was on the topic of history.

Funny story. My dad got me two of these books for Christmas. I open them up. My my nine year old sister sitting across from me. I was like, are these for her or something?

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Shōgun

James Clavell

Mentioned 2 years ago

Huge Dairy Queen Drama

The speaker mentioned watching the show Shogun, but didn't say anything specific about the book it is based on.

I've been watching Shogun.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket Book 1)

Roald Dahl

Mentioned 2 years ago

The Willy Wonka AI Disaster

It was mentioned that the original 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' book is a Roald Dahl book.

I don't know if that's a isn't Willy-wanka a role doll book. Yeah, willy-wanka. I think that's a role doll

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Guinness World Records 2024

Guinness World Records

Mentioned 2 years ago

Our Fans Sent us Their Hottest Takes...Bad Idea

It was mentioned as a specific book that was from 2006.

Reading that 2006, they were a year ahead, the Guinness Book of World Records for 2006.

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Warriors

Erin Hunter

Mentioned 2 years ago

Our Fans Sent us Their Hottest Takes...Bad Idea

It was mentioned as a book from the Scholastic Book Fair and seemed to be something they enjoyed as kids.

Sunrise, from the Scholastic Book Fair.

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It

Stephen King

Mentioned 2 years ago

Unlawful "Would You Rather?" Questions

The speaker mentioned the book "It" by Stephen King, suggesting it was a good example of a story with a "being of death" character, but did not elaborate further.

And then if you made the duck crazy then that would make that would make duck hunting of very very they'd be like on a war.

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Guardians Of Ga'hoole Series Books 1 - 5 Collection Set by Kathryn Lasky (The Capture, The Journey, The Rescue, The Siege & The Shattering) cover

Guardians Of Ga'hoole Series Books 1 - 5 Collection Set by Kathryn Lasky (The Capture, The Journey, The Rescue, The Siege & The Shattering)

Kathryn Lasky

Mentioned 2 years ago

We Ranked The World's Favorite Animals

The Guardians of G'huul was mentioned as part of a young adult novel series where animals like owls are given wars, which was popular in late elementary school. The series was so popular that it got its own movie.

I read a couple of books called The Guardians of G'huul. You ever read The Guardians of G'huul, Tucker Schlatt?

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Kurt Vonnegut

Welcome to the Monkey House

The Special Edition

The book was brought up as a reference to a dystopian short story in which overly smart people have a radio implanted in their heads that emits a deafening noise, and the physically strong are burdened with weights, leading to a chaotic climax. The host described the plot details and the shocking ending, using it as a colorful example during the conversation.

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Episode: How Schlatt Got a Cat Cancelled on Twitter

It was discussed as a dystopian short story where people who are too smart or strong have devices imposed on them to limit their abilities, such as a loud noise in their brain.

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You know that fucking Kurt Vonnegut story where all the smart people have a radio and plant it in their head that just plays a really loud noise

Yeah, that's the dystopian story about like the person who are too smart so they have a thing that just plays fucking loud noises in their brain and then the people who are really strong have weights on their body and stuff.

And then there's this great moment where he goes on television, he rips it all off and he has like some fucking orgy on camera with all these beautiful women.

No, I think it's a ballet dance that happens.

Okay, well maybe I was fantasizing a bit and then he gets pulled apart by a shotgun.

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Harvey Pekar

The New American Splendor Anthology

MeatCanyon discussed the title, noting that its crude art style and vulgar storytelling approach from the 1970s indie comics scene had inspired his own work, and he described it as cool and awesome. The positive tone indicated a strong endorsement of the book.

Highly Recommended
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Episode: Unhinged Conversations ft. MeatCanyon

MeatCanyon mentioned being inspired by the crude art style and vulgar approach to storytelling in indie comics like American Splendor, from the 70s.

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and then like a little more just vulgar with their approach to storytelling which is cool right all that kind of stuff to Ralph Baxi all that kind of shit that's awesome man

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G.A. Aiken

Last Dragon Standing (Dragon Kin series Book 4)

It was mentioned as the title of a potential book written by one of the podcast hosts, discussing the events of the podcast, potentially including the death of one of the hosts.

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We need the first podcast where the members killed each other. My new book, The Last Chuckle, where I talk about hey at some point in time the last chuckle will be had.

— Episode: Our Greatest Fears

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Episode: Our Greatest Fears

It was mentioned as the title of a potential book written by one of the podcast hosts, discussing the events of the podcast, potentially including the death of one of the hosts.

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We need the first podcast where the members killed each other. My new book, The Last Chuckle, where I talk about hey at some point in time the last chuckle will be had.

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David Arnold

The Electric Kingdom

It was mentioned as a book that they had read together, and was described as a 'good one'.

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We read The Electric Kingdom, which was a good one and I don't remember who it was fucking by.

— Episode: The Quackity Exclusive

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Episode: The Quackity Exclusive

It was mentioned as a book that they had read together, and was described as a 'good one'.

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We read The Electric Kingdom, which was a good one and I don't remember who it was fucking by.

Welcome to the Monkey House: The Special Edition: Stories Cover

Kurt Vonnegut

Welcome to the Monkey House

The Special Edition

In the episode, the host referenced the book while discussing enforced equality and the notion of handicapping intellectually gifted individuals, noting it as a classic example of dystopian literature. The conversation highlighted how the story depicts a future where smart people are forced to wear devices that emit noise to limit their thinking.

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Episode: Hasan Piker & Will Neff Are Freaky Boys

It was discussed in relation to the concept of enforced equality, where intellectually gifted individuals are forced to wear handicaps, and was mentioned as an example of dystopian literature.

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There was a handicapper general because everyone has to be equal in the future and so the smart people was this by Ray Bradbury This is by Kurt Vonnegut.

And so all the smart people have little radios put in their skulls that play loud noise play loud noises So they can't keep thinking for long stretches of time

Yes fucking shot to death right so these these parents are watching the television and then they have a son who is just huge like Like picture Hassan is their son, right? And he's just this fucking giga chat and he's got everything

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John Vorhaus

The Comic Toolbox

How to be Funny Even if You're Not

In the episode, SuperMega recalled receiving books on how to be funny as part of improv training with Markiplier, noting that they read the title and it helped them stay funny. The hosts presented the book as a useful resource that contributed to their comedic development.

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Episode: Slimecicle Learns How To Love ft. SuperMega

SuperMega mentioned receiving books on how to be funny as part of their improv training with Markiplier, which they read and continue to be funny today.

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we did a get books on how to be funny and we read them and now look where we are

Sweet Tooth: 100 Desserts to Save Room For (A Baking Book) Cover

Sarah Fennel

Sweet Tooth

100 Desserts to Save Room For (A Baking Book)

It was referenced in relation to a tv series based on the book, as an example of rangers protecting the community in an apocalyptic scenario.

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There was actually a book that I read it one for another apocalypse related situation, but I read a book about when the Yellowstone super volcano it's bloated and it was like a bunch of ash a bunch of...

— Episode: Our Zombie Apocalypse Plans ft. Ethan Ne...

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Episode: Our Zombie Apocalypse Plans ft. Ethan Nestor

It was referenced in relation to a tv series based on the book, as an example of rangers protecting the community in an apocalyptic scenario.

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There was actually a book that I read it one for another apocalypse related situation, but I read a book about when the Yellowstone super volcano it's bloated and it was like a bunch of ash a bunch of ash everywhere across the world.

Winger (Bestselling Teen Fiction) Cover

Andrew Smith

Winger (Bestselling Teen Fiction)

It was mentioned as a book about individuals who enjoy birdwatching and other activities with differing levels of engagement, not necessarily strangling birds.

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Didn't you read a book about BG or PS, what the fuck are you guys talking about? The winger. It's like a book about kids who like they don't like bird feeder and I watch them. It's all sorts of differ...

— Episode: William Osman & Chuckle Week Begins

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Episode: William Osman & Chuckle Week Begins

It was mentioned as a book about individuals who enjoy birdwatching and other activities with differing levels of engagement, not necessarily strangling birds.

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Didn't you read a book about BG or PS, what the fuck are you guys talking about? The winger. It's like a book about kids who like they don't like bird feeder and I watch them. It's all sorts of different types of people.

It's a fun book.

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Robert Kirkman

The Walking Dead Compendium Vol. 1

It was compared to a zombie in its own right, as it continues to run despite low ratings and dissatisfaction from actors.

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Yeah The Walking Dead is just quite literally that show is I think they're on their last season aren't they.

— Episode: The Cr1tikal Exclusive

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Episode: The Cr1tikal Exclusive

It was compared to a zombie in its own right, as it continues to run despite low ratings and dissatisfaction from actors.

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Yeah The Walking Dead is just quite literally that show is I think they're on their last season aren't they.

They've been on their last season like six times they say that.

Dude is it will it ever end will it ever get better.

No.

It's sort of meta because the show itself is somewhat of a zombie in its own right because it's literally just walking through the point.

We just can't kill it we just won't go down.

No matter how low the ratings get it just keeps fucking going man.

Yeah as they just keep I've also heard that a lot of actors on that show have just like been miserable in general or something along the lines of that like they just did not have a good time or something they were just like ready to get the fuck out of that show.

They're like just coming already please.

Same guy wrote the the graphic novels.

Robert Kirkman.

Minecraft: The Official Joke Book (Minecraft) Cover

Dan Morgan

Minecraft

The Official Joke Book (Minecraft)

It received a perfect score of 100 on Moist Meter, was described as a complete game where you can do whatever you want, and a space that perpetually creates content.

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I'm not a Minecraft fan personally I but I definitely can recognize that objectively that's the only game that has brought so many different age groups and interests together and they...

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Episode: The Cr1tikal Exclusive

It received a perfect score of 100 on Moist Meter, was described as a complete game where you can do whatever you want, and a space that perpetually creates content.

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I'm not a Minecraft fan personally I but I definitely can recognize that objectively that's the only game that has brought so many different age groups and interests together and they all like the game and you can pretty much do whatever you want in it so I think as far as games go Minecraft is about as complete as it gets

even though I'm a big Minecraft guy yeah big Minecraft guy I love that I love the fact that I'm just the Minecrafter to people who have no idea who I am and then I have an uploaded a Minecraft video in like two years it's that's fun to me

yeah it sounds pretty fun man yeah you sound like you're really jived about that I was trending I was trending on Twitter I don't know if you guys saw me trending with like 10 000 tweets yesterday for no fucking reason other than the fact that dream was getting canceled and his fans were like oh well he's at least he's not as bad as schlad we should kick him off the dream it all comes back to that doesn't it all comes full circle man

and I haven't played on the dream s m p in like months I played once when quackity asked me to for his fucking lore stream like three months ago and before that like it's been it's been so long since I've logged into the fucking server but no I'm a scourge yeah I mean you love you love my friend so much and you're such a bad guy I don't know what to tell you

Minecraft is really strange to me because you know given our our jobs as content creators in someone in the gaming sphere in some of it it it's almost like just another space that is perpetually always able to create content like I'm sure that there's thousands of videos because you know how like real life like you can you can make content out of pretty much anything in the in the world but then Minecraft exists as its own world that almost exists in the same way as just the outside world what it has this potentially infinite amount of things that you can do with it to create content

I think that's what makes it 100 though right because it goes above a game like the way you guys are talking about it it's already sounding like more than just a game right an experience yeah it's like a completely full package of like of second life you can live and some people space it's less of a game and more just like a space like a play space

yeah yeah that's true I feel like for me personally I often get a lot of ideas for jokes or bits that are just too out there to physically ever work and so I end up like doing them in Minecraft or like bringing in mods to pull a gun on someone you know what I mean or just like something something like that you probably can't pull a gun on someone in real life but he really wants to do it it doesn't work but I hop on in the craft and I craft myself a jail sentence

Minecraft is the equivalent of Charlie of saying a threat to someone on Twitter but then saying in a video game afterwards but so but you don't you don't even really play Minecraft that much though but you just sort of recognize just its value

yeah you recognized how how valuable the man hunts are oh what do you watch them so I don't I don't even you don't watch the man I don't I don't I watch some Minecraft content just not very often like there's some cool ones I watch and I like some of the Minecrafters that get standover like they're good people right it's just I'm not I'm just not a big fan of the game itself but I am a fan of some of the people

Dark Souls Trilogy Compendium 25th Anniversary Edition Cover

Future Press

Dark Souls Trilogy Compendium 25th Anniversary Edition

It was mentioned as a favorite series, with a marathon of playthroughs recently completed, and the bosses were discussed in detail.

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oh I this is my favorite series so I just did a souls born marathon over the last like couple months just going 100 bosses I love those games

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It was mentioned as a favorite series, with a marathon of playthroughs recently completed, and the bosses were discussed in detail.

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oh I this is my favorite series so I just did a souls born marathon over the last like couple months just going 100 bosses I love those games

yeah I'd say probably the orphan of coast if we're including bloodborne are you that's the fucking like light bulb alien right that's that one no you're thinking of the emissary that's that's like the the alien guy now oh yeah I am yeah oh wow this is uh this is tremendously awful do you think that he's carrying his cock with him

yeah so that's that's the impression I got right because he like his weapon is like very phallic it's very like testicle e so wow and then he transforms he gets like mega zordid or yeah he ordered that shit off master cock I can that's there in there that's a master cock exclusive right that is a master they made that they made that forum

I've started playing stuff like I've been playing I played the demon souls remastered I played through that all the way I've started bloodborne recently and then I also got all of the Dark Souls games onto my ps5 and I've been trying to go through them all

but I is this orphan of coast is this later on in bloodborne because I'm very very very early he is the last boss of the DLC so I I tried to keep track of like all the deaths and I'm fucking nasty at those games I'm a filthy grease ball there I'm pretty good orphan of coast took me 27 tries second place for second hardest boss across all the games was I think 18 tries and that was dark souls 3

so he's the hardest boss you've ever had yeah fight yeah he really what made him so hard that fucking is cocked big place big fat cock on ironically that dick slinging weapon is nuts that hitbox is crazy and he like drags it on the ground too so you never really know where the hitbox is tough

yeah I was having I was having a lot of trouble recently because I was playing through Dark Souls 3 again I was having a lot of trouble with the the twins the the twin princes Prince Lothric and his big brother until I realized yeah what are their cocks like probably fat

and I was having a lot of trouble because I because he's got this this giant sword thing or the magic thing where it's just this huge fucking line of light and I just couldn't figure I was trying because he would he does this thing where he teleports to different parts a little girl you gotta figure out where he is so he's like he teleports and you're like where the fuck is he and then he's shooting something crazy at you

yeah shooting shooting yeah yeah that was like a that was like a kind of gimmick one though I remember because you kill one of them and then the other one just like falls over right and it's like it took me like 15 tries though until I figured out like that one dodge thing but that's why I love those games because once you win it's like this it feels like it's like this dopamine hit that's like hmm might as well be doing opiates right it's fantastic

if you haven't played through all of a man you're in for a treat

yeah no I might as well be sitting on a moby huge right now might as well those apes I still have played Dark Souls run gotta go through that gotta I think I when I was younger I tried to play Dark Souls too but I was too I was too young for it I hadn't grown into it yet so I like played it for a little bit and then I was like I don't know what this is and don't understand it so I'm gonna stop for 10 years

yeah but yeah that's what's your favorite game or cock go for it I mean me I mean this is to this is to the moist man but also my favorite favorite one of them of the souls born in my experience I would probably say that the the great wood tree probably has a really really long and slender cock that it just it's like it'll just come out and just shoot out and stand into the sky or something

vanny vine yeah I like that yeah no well it's a tree have you played that Dark Souls 3 yeah I know you're talking about yeah you walk in that big fog wall and then there's like a bunch of little guys and it has like a fucking demon thing inside yeah it's like living in it falls on the floor yeah pumps you full of xylem and flume

Bloodborne Complete Guide 25th Anniversary Edition Cover

Future Press

Bloodborne Complete Guide 25th Anniversary Edition

It was mentioned as being played recently, and the Orphan of Kos boss was described as the hardest boss encountered so far.

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I've started bloodborne recently

— Episode: The Cr1tikal Exclusive

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Episode: The Cr1tikal Exclusive

It was mentioned as being played recently, and the Orphan of Kos boss was described as the hardest boss encountered so far.

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I've started bloodborne recently

he is the last boss of the DLC

he's the hardest boss you've ever had

Freedom From Soul Wounds and Demons: Your Breakthrough to True Peace & Joy Cover

Nelson L. Schuman

Freedom From Soul Wounds and Demons

Your Breakthrough to True Peace & Joy

In the episode, the hosts noted that they had finished the title and remarked that its themes resembled those of Dark Souls. Charlie pointed out the thematic similarity, while Schlatt mentioned having played through the demon souls remastered version. The discussion was brief and did not include a strong endorsement, making it a casual mention.

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Episode: The Cr1tikal Exclusive

It was mentioned as being played and completed, and its thematic similarity to Dark Souls was noted.

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I played the demon souls remastered I played through that all the way

that feels more thematically similar

Not a Real Enemy: The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man's Fight for Freedom (Holocaust Survivor True Stories Wwii) Cover

Robert Wolf

Not a Real Enemy

The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man's Fight for Freedom (Holocaust Survivor True Stories Wwii)

In the episode, the book was cited as a title that Sinead O'Connor promoted to illustrate confronting the true source of abuse within the Catholic Church. The hosts noted its relevance to the discussion on child abuse, framing it as a means of fighting the 'real enemy.'

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Episode: Our Biggest Scandal

It was mentioned as a book that Sinead O'Connor was promoting as a way of fighting against child abuse in the Catholic church.

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She sang an acapella version of Bob Marley's 'War', which she intended as a protest against the... the sexual abuse thing with children... the Catholic Church referred to child abuse rather than racism.

Then she then presented a photo of Pope John Paul the second to the camera singing the word 'evil' after which she tore the photo into pieces said 'fight the real enemy' and threw the pieces towards the camera.

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! Cover

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Rich Dad Poor Dad

What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

It was mentioned as a source of advice on making money, specifically through starting a podcast, which is why the podcast exists.

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because I just read this great book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and you know he told me that the best way to make money is to start a podcast so that's why we do this thing.

— Episode: Charlie Slimecicle Becomes Lizard

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Episode: Charlie Slimecicle Becomes Lizard

It was mentioned as a source of advice on making money, specifically through starting a podcast, which is why the podcast exists.

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because I just read this great book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and you know he told me that the best way to make money is to start a podcast so that's why we do this thing.

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