Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Arthur
Speaker 1: Knight AK. Nicholas alaverty Trend. That's the name of that
Speaker 1: guy from the video we talked about yesterday. Hi, I'm
Speaker 1: Jack Becca, I beca Hello. I don't know. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm just finding out all the details are being reminded
Speaker 1: of all the details of the story. This is the
Speaker 1: guy who, if you didn't listen to yesterday's episode, there's
Speaker 1: a wonderful video of him in disguise as a British
Speaker 1: man with like round glasses a gas mask on claiming
Speaker 1: that he can't stand up in the least convincing way
Speaker 1: possible with his wife, who is seems embarrassed for him.
Speaker 2: So producer Brian pointed out, he does look like Kiefer
Speaker 2: Sutherland in Dark City.
Speaker 1: Yes he does, and apparently his performance is influenced by that. Also.
Speaker 1: I couldn't think of his so I guess Nicholas Rossi
Speaker 1: is one of his other aks. Nicholas Alaverdian is his
Speaker 1: original real name. His British name is Arthur Knight.
Speaker 3: You know when you look up and you're like, that's British.
Speaker 1: That's British. That is a British ass name. So, the backstory,
Speaker 1: in addition to like him being on the run from
Speaker 1: the law because he committed sexual assault in Utah, is
Speaker 1: that he then became a men's rights figurehead for radicalized
Speaker 1: people who claim they are unable to get romantic or
Speaker 1: sexual partners despite desiring them, often referred to as in cels.
Speaker 1: That is according to Wikipedia. So an update that super
Speaker 1: producer Victor provided us is that when he faked his
Speaker 1: own death, one of the things that he did was
Speaker 1: right his own obituary and it is long and remarkable,
Speaker 1: so I just wanted to. I read through it, I highlighted.
Speaker 2: Some uh, I couldn't finish it. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: what is he saying.
Speaker 1: Nicholas Alaverty's battle for life ended on February twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. His children, his families were there. His last
Speaker 1: words were fear not and run toward the bliss of
Speaker 1: the sun. At the time of his passing, the room
Speaker 1: was filled with the sounds of the end credits for
Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety seven film Contact by composer Alan Silvestri.
Speaker 1: Statesmen and stateswomen in the House of Representatives and Senate
Speaker 1: joined with mayors across Rhode Island in homage to a
Speaker 1: man whom they acknowledged as quote, one of the most vocal, outspoken,
Speaker 1: and constructive advocates for reforming Rhode Island's DCYF and the
Speaker 1: childcare system, and a fighter in spirit but a peacemaker
Speaker 1: in practice for two decades. Goes on. His name when
Speaker 1: uttered in memoriam in the House and State Senate chambers
Speaker 1: and city halls throughout the Ocean State was a fitting tribute,
Speaker 1: as those were the spaces where Ali Verdi and labored
Speaker 1: as a warrior for those without a voice for two decades,
Speaker 1: commenting on not just issues surrounding the Department of Children,
Speaker 1: Youth and Families, but also businesses, health, public safety, and education.
Speaker 1: It's a hell of a run on sentence.
Speaker 2: I was like literally counting the line. It's like a
Speaker 2: five line center.
Speaker 1: His name when uttered in memoriam in the House and
Speaker 1: Senate chambers and city halls throughout the Ocean State was
Speaker 1: a fitting tribute, as those were the space It's it's
Speaker 1: a mess, it's a mess. But he's just so profoundly
Speaker 1: and deeply full of shit in so many ways.
Speaker 2: I want to know what it's like to be that delusional,
Speaker 2: Like I envy people who can live in that type
Speaker 2: of delirium.
Speaker 1: Yes, and he like makes up quotes about how he
Speaker 1: was like a Dickenzian character. But it's just like this,
Speaker 1: they don't write obituaries this long for presidents. He is
Speaker 1: just going on and on and making up like columnists
Speaker 1: who claimed that he was the greatest person who ever
Speaker 1: did anything, But like everything is very vague. I think
Speaker 1: he had a you know, he was institutionalized as a
Speaker 1: child because he, according to his step parents, was like,
Speaker 1: you know, a violent sociopath and would like bite and
Speaker 1: kick and spit and they had to ultimately institutionalize him.
Speaker 1: So it does seem like his life's work, as he
Speaker 1: viewed it was to like reform the Department of Children,
Speaker 1: Youth and Families because he had been you know, dealing
Speaker 1: with them from a young age because he was a violent,
Speaker 1: kind of messed up child, which is said. But also
Speaker 1: he's not good. Yeah, yeah, that's not surprising. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's plenty of problems there, but man, what a just
Speaker 1: the persistence of delusion, the persistence of bullshit, and just
Speaker 1: the lack of regard for anyone else's intelligence to just
Speaker 1: be like Arthur Knight let's go with that, and because
Speaker 1: that's British and people will believe I'm British. Just can't
Speaker 1: stop reading about this guy unfortunately, so unfortunately you guys
Speaker 1: have to keep hearing about him. Another thing that's trending,
Speaker 1: there's like an Edge Sheering lawsuit where the estate of
Speaker 1: Marvin Gay is claiming that one of his songs ripped off.
Speaker 1: Let's get it on.
Speaker 3: Which song is it again?
Speaker 1: Which Ed Sheeron song?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Which ed Cheerin song?
Speaker 1: You're asking me which of ed Sheeran songs? Which I
Speaker 1: know the title of it is? It's the one that's
Speaker 1: like darling and I yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that one.
Speaker 3: I would argue you no, just like it doesn't sound.
Speaker 1: Like the thing. Like I came into this being like,
Speaker 1: well you ripped off here. Yeah, I'm here for Marvin Gay.
Speaker 1: I'm team Marvin Gay over Red Cheerin. And he definitely
Speaker 1: ripped off TLC for Scrubs. I guess that was admitted.
Speaker 1: But that one was weird too, because he like wrote
Speaker 1: the song and then was like, oh, I guess I
Speaker 1: was ripping off scrubs and so he like paid for it.
Speaker 1: But this one just doesn't sound like it it just
Speaker 1: doesn't like it at all to me, Like it sounds
Speaker 1: like I remember hearing that song and being like is
Speaker 1: this a remake or like is he pulling like chords
Speaker 1: from like a different song. Yeah, never like even listening
Speaker 1: to them side by side, I like, don't hear it.
Speaker 1: I get like a producer Brian definitely has like a
Speaker 1: more musical mind than me, and he's like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: the same chord progression, but that's true of like you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time
Speaker 1: being on Marvin Gay's team on the although I will
Speaker 1: say always been a Marvin Gay fan, not always been
Speaker 1: a big fan of his fan family members. If you
Speaker 1: know how he died, that might make sense, all right.
Speaker 1: Cinema Con. Cinema Con is a trade show. It's less
Speaker 1: like a film festival and more I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's it's like networking, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It feels like it's like insider stuff they like preview
Speaker 1: scenes for movies. It's just weird because, yeah, you get
Speaker 1: titles of these articles that you think you're about to
Speaker 1: see a trailer, Like there's Wanka Timothy's Challamet meets Hugh Grant,
Speaker 1: as an Opa Loompa in new trailer and then but
Speaker 1: like there's no trailer the other things that people have
Speaker 1: seen at cinema con. We were recently talking about this,
Speaker 1: I think on Yeah Yeah on TDZ because one of
Speaker 1: our guests was saying that their child's latest obsession is Napoleon,
Speaker 1: and I was like, it's so weird that we haven't
Speaker 1: had a big Napoleon movie, because like that was one
Speaker 1: of Kubrick's big obsessions for many years, but he never
Speaker 1: finished it. We've also talked about how like the various
Speaker 1: stages of like things kids become obsessed with just seemed
Speaker 1: to always work out as great fodder for like big
Speaker 1: blockbuster movies. And Napoleon and the Greek Gods are two
Speaker 1: weird kid obsessions that don't have their like massive modern
Speaker 1: blockbuster yet. Well, there's a Napoleon movie coming that I
Speaker 1: didn't know at the time we were talking about that.
Speaker 1: It's from Ridley Scott, stars Hawaquin Phoenix, and they like
Speaker 1: showed a battle scene from it and they were people
Speaker 1: were like, it's expensive looking. It looks like it's a
Speaker 1: period they spent all the money, So that's exciting. Equalizer
Speaker 1: Three Bad Boys four, and then a rom com starring
Speaker 1: Glenn pal the cocky guy from the latest Top Gun,
Speaker 1: and Sidney Sweeney. There's a Spider Man spin off, Craven
Speaker 1: the Hunter, which they're trying. I think they are hoping
Speaker 1: this can be their joker because R rated apparently features
Speaker 1: gory fight scenes which include decapitations and bear traps, the
Speaker 1: two things that any good fight scene you want to
Speaker 1: look for. Anyways, CinemaCon a very unsatisfying convention to cover. Also,
Speaker 1: I guess gives us a heads up of what's coming.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break, shall we, and then we'll
Speaker 1: come back and talk about chocolate. King Charles head for
Speaker 1: some reason. We'll be right back, and we're back, and
Speaker 1: King Charles's coronation is happening. Okay, you all right. I
Speaker 1: also like had some digestional issues as I was saying that,
Speaker 1: So maybe that's just the natural reaction, although natural reaction
Speaker 1: to monarchy at this time to get a little sick
Speaker 1: to your stomach, but natural reaction to that. They're doing
Speaker 1: their best to make it more appetizing, more palatable to people,
Speaker 1: and one way they're doing that is that the Mars Company,
Speaker 1: as a you know, homage to King Charles. I guess
Speaker 1: it's not an homage. It's just a straight up, like
Speaker 1: your honor, sir, here we go. They made a life
Speaker 1: size bust of Charles, made entirely of melted chocolate, three
Speaker 1: point seven gallons of it. It took four weeks to make,
Speaker 1: and it is absolutely horrifying, Like shit, it's just the
Speaker 1: worst that chocolate has ever looked. I think.
Speaker 3: I agree, it's pretty rough.
Speaker 2: Super producer Ryan said some blackface because I couldn't even
Speaker 2: use white chocolate. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's really well,
Speaker 2: it's at least not like you know, like imagine like
Speaker 2: a wax Madam Tussau's like bad wax sculpture.
Speaker 3: You know, it looks really accurate, but it's they nailed it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like they nailed it.
Speaker 2: Does look like him in a way that is accurate
Speaker 2: to how ugly he is.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's not like off putreos.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just it's also the Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: him and chocolate, and it's the first first time I've
Speaker 1: like fully come to terms with the fact that we're
Speaker 1: going to have to like live through a media cycle
Speaker 1: where people are like acting like this guy's cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like our Yeah, just fucking the guy's the worst.
Speaker 3: He's the worst.
Speaker 1: Wow. Super producer Brian is really on one today. I
Speaker 1: have to say. He said our chocolate King to Chocolate Wow.
Speaker 1: I think you should take over the show. I think
Speaker 1: I think that's a I think I'm done here. There's
Speaker 1: like a weird, like human interest story that's happening where
Speaker 1: a New Jersey town is disciplining parents who are mean
Speaker 1: to Little league umps by forcing them to act as
Speaker 1: umpires and little league games. I've seen footage of this.
Speaker 1: I've seen like parents flipping out at little league umpires
Speaker 1: or like little league umpires getting like beat up in
Speaker 1: the parking lot after little league games, and it seems
Speaker 1: like the worst job in the world. It's usually a
Speaker 1: volunteer job. And so they're like, all right, if you
Speaker 1: yell at a single little league umpire, you have to
Speaker 1: be an umpire for at least three little league games.
Speaker 1: And I think that's fair. I think that's probably a
Speaker 1: good way to just deal with these assholes. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: game also necessitates having a second certified umpire on the
Speaker 1: field to make sure that the penalized parents are getting
Speaker 1: the calls right.
Speaker 3: But that it sounds like we'll work for everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot of hard, but also it does
Speaker 1: feel like a good Like once you do that, once
Speaker 1: you'd be like, oh, this is terrible. I should never
Speaker 1: be mean to a little league umpire again. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I used to like referee special Olympics games and that
Speaker 1: was a hard, a hard job.
Speaker 2: It feel like any volunteer ref umpire role at kids
Speaker 2: games is just a lot. I didn't play much sports,
Speaker 2: but I was on the sidelines often for my brother
Speaker 2: who did play sports, and I was like this sucks all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and people expect a level of expertise, like when
Speaker 1: you watch NBA basketball, like the refs aren't even that good.
Speaker 1: It's a it's just an impossible job being an umpire.
Speaker 1: It feels like, all right, things are happening pretty slow here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially in baseball for the kids.
Speaker 1: Baseball basketball is fucking impossible. Yeah, And to be mad
Speaker 1: about the refs or like to be like, well that's
Speaker 1: that clearly proves that, like there's a conspiracy. See as
Speaker 1: like Bill Simmons, like the most famous like sports commentator
Speaker 1: and is like a ninety percent of the time a
Speaker 1: complete dipshit, but he's like he really thinks that like,
Speaker 1: there's all these conspiracies in the world. It's just like, no,
Speaker 1: it's just everything. They're all bad. All the referees are
Speaker 1: bad because it's like an impossible job and you're an idiot. Anyways,
Speaker 1: those are some of the things that are trending. Becca,
Speaker 1: wonderful having you as always. Where can people find you?
Speaker 2: And Folly you can't find me and follow me at XPCCS,
Speaker 2: ramos on all platforms.
Speaker 1: Yeah you can. That is gonna do it for us
Speaker 1: this afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole ass
Speaker 1: episode of the show, a lot of UFO talk, folks.
Speaker 1: Get ready until then, be kind to each other, be
Speaker 1: kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about
Speaker 1: white supremacy. We'll talk to you all tomorrow. Why I e.