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Marlon and StableRonaldo shop for a time capsule and hit rock digging in the yardPODCAST15m of 45m read81HIGH
They drive to Home Depot and buy a shovel, gloves and a box, and Pepsi tells them digging is fine unless their lease forbids a hole in the backyard. Marlon and StableRonaldo start digging, hit a rock underground, and Marlon tells StableRonaldo to grip the shovel by the throat and keep going.
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StableRonaldo jokes about finding a diamond while a friend asks if they are digging to Japan.
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The group turns a simple backyard dig into a hunt for rocks, diamonds and maybe Japan, planning to dig the capsule up in ten years.
Marlon and Laci film green-screen clips and pitch free iPhones to win Duo of the Year votesPODCAST15m of 1h 18m read79HIGH
In the first 15 minutes, Marlon, host of the stream, and Laci, his guest, film green-screen clips asking viewers to vote them Duo of the Year and let chat add anything they want behind them. Marlon runs away acting scared when Laci tells him to run, and Laci pretends to be angry and yells at someone who did not vote.
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They film a pitch offering a free iPhone for scanning a QR code, shoot a basketball and promise votes if they make the shot, and pose while telling viewers to pause, screenshot, scan and vote. Marlon jokes that chat could add plane crashes or Jeffrey Dahmer to the green screen, and Laci asks clippers to post the clips on TikTok, Instagram and Twitter without messing them up, saying there is no way they lose.
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The pair hand their green screen to chat and clippers to edit while joking about plane crashes and Jeffrey Dahmer, and promise free iPhones to anyone who scans a QR code and votes.
In the first 15 minutes, Marlon looks at three statues of Botswana's founding fathers, where Timothy offers to summarize them. At a traditional dinner, Rachel tells the guests they are about to eat some of the best beef of their lives, Marlon tries a palate cleanser and the Botswana beef, and Leander says the dessert is a malva pudding inspired by South Africa.
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Marlon tastes a local drink and calls it good, and says he has four days planned in Botswana before he climbs Kilimanjaro.
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The local guide's claim that diamond money pays for Botswana's infrastructure, hospitals and education turns the sightseeing into a lesson on the country's wealth.
Marlon and AngryGinge play a $10,000 FC27 1v1 wager and trade goals and trash talkPODCAST15m of 1h 12m read78HIGH
In the first 15 minutes, Marlon and AngryGinge agree to a best-of-three FC27 1v1 for $10,000, and Marlon says that if he wins he will not owe the 100 anymore. AngryGinge mocks Marlon after scoring, asks what he is celebrating for, and tells him his head is an unfurnished apartment.
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AngryGinge says Marlon is only lucky because he is not warmed up or focused, then chants that they all hate Marlon. Marlon says he is done with the bullshit but insists it is not over yet.
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AngryGinge chants that they all hate Marlon mid-match, and Marlon answers by saying he is done with the bullshit while the $10,000 wager hangs on the game.
Marlon tours Botswana's founding-chief statues and its biggest university before a steak dinnerEDITED VIDEO15m of 44m read77HIGH
In the first 15 minutes, Timothy walks Marlon past three statues of Botswana's founding chiefs and tells how one chief went to Britain for protection, while a speaker says diamonds bring in about 80% of the country's revenue. Marlon then strolls the country's biggest university, orders a strawberry and mango slushy, and a guide shows him the cars a 1966 president drove around Botswana to sell democracy.
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At dinner, Rachel serves him a medium steak with beef stew and sorghum risotto and says Botswana is known for the rich texture of its beef, and a speaker says the same party has held power for 58 years. Marlon bites the steak and says it tastes like it came straight off a backyard cow, then Vianda brings out a South Africa inspired apricot sticky pudding that he calls an amazing end to the meal.
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Marlon's verdict that the steak tastes like it came straight off a backyard cow lands after Rachel promises the best beef of his life.
In the first 15 minutes, Marlon turns up in a Batman-style outfit, announces he is the one securing the event and works the entrance asking arrivals whether they are on the list. He counts out the four buffalo chicken wings and protein bowl he ate before arriving, saying buffalo has the fewest calories.
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He warns a noisy pair that he will match them against each other and slam them both, and says he will slap food out of the hands of anyone he catches eating. A security guard tells him his newborn son made him calmer and more patient, and Marlon congratulates him, after blaming a dinosaur on the road for holding him back an hour.
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Marlon threatens a rowdy duo that he will put them against each other and slam them both, and a guard opens up about how his newborn son made him calmer.
Boat safari speakers say diamonds have helped the country, and one doubts itUGC PROMO1m of 30s read60FAIR
Speakers on a boat safari trade views on diamonds, with one saying the stones have really helped the country a lot. A second speaker says they did not hear about that, and a third says diamonds also come up in education and wildlife conversation.
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A speaker pushes back that they did not hear about it right after the claim that diamonds helped the country.
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Marlon admits he did not know what to expect and says a lawyer did not talkREADY CLIP1m of 33s read36LOW
Marlon, the host, admits he did not know what to expect or whether he would know them. His guest tells him the other person left the studio and got to experience him, and Marlon adds that a lawyer did not talk.
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Marlon openly admits he did not know what to expect or whether he would know them.
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Marlon and StableRonaldo shop for a time capsule and hit rock digging in the yard
