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Battling Butler / The General with Jamelle Bouie

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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The Buster Keaton Story

Keaton saw a British musical that had been running on the city. It's 42nd Street in the Seleman Theatre. Big hit. He liked the, you know, the swap. A sort of fancy lad has the same... Who's trying to prove his sort of masculinity and grit to the world finds out he has the same name as a tough guy boxer. The other problem he has with the original story is how it ends with just like, oh, you don't actually have to do it. That would be too boring as an ending. So we have to tack on all the other stuff. And this adds the fun mistake and identity thing on top of the what if

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