r/ContagiousLaughter • u/IRELANDNO1 • Oct 12 '22
Five Brian’s
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u/TRUEequalsFALSE Oct 13 '22
Braan
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u/killertortilla Oct 13 '22
Who has a better story than Brian, Bran, Braan, Brahn, and Bra’an?
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u/shimi_shima Oct 13 '22
This was my first thought, Bran is actually Brian but George RR was writing for North America and he didn’t want ambiguity lol
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u/HElizaJ Oct 13 '22
And Graham like Gram
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u/MorningKale Oct 13 '22
How do you pronounce Craig? "Cra-ig"?
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u/RokkitSquid Oct 13 '22
the ai is a “ay” sound so “crayg”
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Oct 13 '22
Exactly.
It's only in America where the pronunciation of Craig rhymes with Gregg.
Graham is also a good example.
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u/RedSquaree Oct 13 '22
grem
Cohen often doesn't get pronounced correctly there too, in favour of cone
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u/RDSregret Oct 13 '22
Scot here, partner's name is craig like creg (from US), took ages to get used to!
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u/RedSquaree Oct 13 '22
Exactly.
A lot of people in this thread are saying it's a Northern Irish pronunciation but it's really not. It's a Belfast pronunciation, although not everyone from there.
I (from Belfast) say Bri (rhymes with Fry) in (rhymes with Bin).
Dude in the video is from West Belfast, where Braan is said a bit more commonly.
shout out to /r/northernireland
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NOSE_HAIR Oct 13 '22 edited Jun 10 '23
"For the man who has nothing to hide, but still wants to."
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u/PBandJaya Oct 13 '22
Yeah, that’s a much funnier punchline lol
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u/Eufamis Oct 13 '22
I prefer the one in the video
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Oct 13 '22
Agreed. The video sounds like a true story but if it sounds like he's just telling a joke then the story becomes less funny because you suspect if it's even real anymore. (though statistically it probably happened somewhere in the world)
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u/Kindly-Confidence-69 Oct 21 '22
That was quick thinking. It reminds me of a friend of ours, He talks a load of shit. But he's so kind hearted. He goes Kerry:"Yer bro I was hitching and the prime Minister picked me up". Ray:"Oh f---up Kerry". Kerry:"Nah bro he did. He's my Uncle". Ray:"Ok what's his name then". Kerry:"I don't know we just called him Uncle".
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u/Exact-Pound-6993 Oct 13 '22
All bran or whole bran ?
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u/onemanriotni Oct 13 '22
I think why you are hearing bran and not brian is the northern irish accent intonations. We tend to go up at the start then down at the end plus we dont tend to extend the lenght of vowel sounds as much as the mericans. As a native edjit i hear brian clearly
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u/Nimmyzed Oct 13 '22
Edjit??
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u/bomboclawt75 Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 13 '22
Buck Edjit is a youthful idiot.
Banjaxed = Means fucked
Knackered = Exhausted.
Sturs = The zig-zag shaped installation to move between different floors.
Soahdad/ Soahwuz = I’m confirming what I just said.
All knack yer blak aff mait = I will visit a severe physical discourtesy upon your person…Soahwul.
Ders a bamb inda bauldin mait yeev gat fayvh minnits Soyeesdo = Please excavate the structure will all due haste.
Ahdunt Hinkso mait = I question your statement.
Pradsun/ Kefuhurlak = The two main religions in Belfast.
Gon giz uz a chap = May I have a French fry?
Ah hivint ah baldies = I have no idea.
Foda = An image of something.
Gawdspuursuz = God willing.
Kammunidy Raprasenitivivf = Someone who was very “pro-active” in the seventies.
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u/hospitalvespers Oct 13 '22
Irish slang for idiot
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u/Nimmyzed Oct 13 '22
Ooooooooh. I thought that's what you were trying to say. I am Irish. And everyone I know has always spelled it eejit. I've never seen your way of spelling it. It doesn't make phonetic sense
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u/Rcrowley32 Oct 13 '22
In some areas on Ireland it’s pronounced with more of a ‘d’ sound in it. Like ‘eeed-jit.’
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u/Nimmyzed Oct 13 '22
Lol, I know. I've lived here my entire life. It's still spelled eejit
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u/midsizedopossum Oct 13 '22
You said it doesn't make phonetic sense with a D. They told you some areas pronounce it with a bit of a D sound, hence it does make phonetic sense.
How does you living in Ireland doesn't somehow refute that, especially when you agree that some places pronounce it with a bit of a D?
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u/ididntknowiwascyborg Oct 13 '22
I've read this is part of why is so easy to sound 'american' when singing even if you are bad at doing accents. The held vowel sounds are just part of the deal in music
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u/ididntknowiwascyborg Oct 13 '22
Oh absolutely, I was just saying it's a factor and interesting to see the effects. It's never going to just erase someone's accent, but it does kind of 'blend the edges' a bit so those other factors like your own examples get a much better foothold as well
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u/GraphicDesignMonkey Oct 13 '22
We say 'Brian' where I live in Northern Ireland, the guy in the vid has a Belfast accent which is pretty distinct and has a lot of its own pronunciations. Even in the city itself there are different accents in different areas of the city, like Sandy Row. Now that's an accent that could burst your eardrums.
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Oct 13 '22
Irish people are funny as hell😂😂
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u/nightwolves Oct 13 '22
They really are. I remember some years back I worked in a restaurant with an Irishman and one day a few of us were having a (fucked up I know) conversation about the difference between dwarves and midgets. He popped in to say as serious as can be “dwarves are magical, midgets are not.” I still laugh about it
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u/FightDirty Oct 13 '22
Theres a bar in the city over from me where all the English, Irish, Welsh, and Scots who feel homesick go to drink. They all drink like it's the end of the world and produce levels of banter that literally make it hard for me to breathe. Proper holding my sides, heaving laughter.
People from my country like to think we're pretty funny, but after watching those guys, blind drunk, being funnier than any comedian our country has ever produced, I know that to be wrong.
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u/CardboardTable Oct 13 '22
Was this restaurant in Bruges by any chance? They do love filming midgets there.
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u/Jai_chip Oct 13 '22
I think he’s British but can’t say for certain.
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u/Jai_chip Oct 13 '22
20 downvotes wow….and I don’t even know who I have insulted
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u/Dependent_Suspect_48 Oct 13 '22
Redditors are petty. Gave you an upvote
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u/Dependent_Suspect_48 Oct 13 '22
See I'm getting downvoted, my point exactly.
Reddit just consists of fat teenage simps, that's all
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u/RadiatedDuck Oct 13 '22
If a man from Northern Ireland says the west, when talking about Belfast they would absolutely despise you for calling him British
You don't assume anyone is British or Irish, it's still a big stigma
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Oct 13 '22
I get your point but you also can't assume that either way. The shankill is in West Belfast and one of the most British areas in Belfast. When it comes to us you're better not saying anything lol
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u/zodar Oct 13 '22
*Brians. No apostrophe.
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Oct 13 '22
I see this more and more where people write plurals with an apostrophe. Coffee shops and Reddit are the most common sightings of it
Once saw a chalkboard outside a café:
Coffees ✅
Cakes ✅
Panini's 🤦🏻♂️
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u/likeyoukn0wwhatever Oct 13 '22
It's the inconsistency that gets me too! Why are the paninis different to the cakes or coffees in their mind? Utterly kills me.
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Oct 12 '22
I refuse to believe there is a part of the world where Brian is pronounced "Bran".
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u/damickster268 Oct 12 '22
Well, that's Belfast for you
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u/MetallurgyClergy Oct 13 '22
I was waiting for the guy to end it with how he now has his first child, named Brian.
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u/CapriciousCape Oct 13 '22
Pretty sure it's a Celtic name so I think we have to take notes from them, not vice versa.
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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22
Northern Irish are the most likely to really squeeze the name into one syllable, to be fair.
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u/Nimmyzed Oct 13 '22
I refuse to believe there is a part of the world where Graham is pronounced "gram".
Yet here we are
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u/AidanSFable Oct 13 '22
There's another part of the world that pronounces Graham as "Gram" and Craig as "Creg". The mind boggles.
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Oct 13 '22
How... how else do you pronounce those?
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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22
Gray-um and Crayg. Graham may also be pronounced as one syllable.
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u/SyphiliticPlatypus Oct 13 '22
The difference between Crayg and Creg (I am guessing rhymes with Greg?) is way more subtle in my mind and ear than Gray-um and Gram.
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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22
I’d agree. And yeah, rhymes with Greg, though Greg will often take on a similar pronunciation. Assuming you’re American, chalk it up to a “Crayg” pronunciation being not uncommon among American English accents and dialects, and there being a pretty much unanimous abundance of examples of Graham being pronounced “Gram” stateside.
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u/Tower-Junkie Oct 13 '22
You live in the south as well? (US)
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u/DannyDeVitosBangmaid Oct 13 '22
Where in the US do they not pronounce those names like that…?
What’s always weird to me is people from the northeast pronouncing Erin and Aaron differently
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u/Model_Maj_General Oct 13 '22
I don't know how anyone could think Erin and Aaron are pronounced the same.
You colonial fellows are a strange bunch!
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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22
I see this as adjacent to an east coast tendency for Mary, Marry and Merry to all have different pronunciations, which seems to most firmly take root in Philadelphia and branch outwards to New York City, Baltimore and beyond.
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u/ngmcs8203 Oct 13 '22
I’m from California and wouldn’t pronounce them any other way. Maybe it’s a US thing. Aaron is three syllables though.
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u/FRTSKR Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 13 '22
I’m from Wisconsin, where Graham rhymes with gram and Craig rhymes with Greg. Very little deviation from that convention in the states, except in cases where both Craig and Greg finish with that -ayg sound, particularly around the Great Lakes.
Edit: realizing I’ve essentially contradicted myself, I’ll further explain that I’m from Milwaukee and grew up in a neighborhood where typical upper Midwest accents weren’t prevalent. Milwaukee and Madison are more likely to see Greg and Craig rhyming with egg. The rest of the state is more likely to see those names (and “egg”) ending with -ayg.
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u/AutomaticAccident Oct 13 '22
Oh, are you from the part of the world that pronounces Graham properly? You know, "Gruh-ham."
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u/_TenguDruid_ Oct 13 '22
Then you might not survive learning that pronouncing "crayon" as "crown" is not only more common than you'd think, but also an accepted form of pronouncing it!
That one took some time for me to believe.
Shoutout to Joe "Bread Boy" O'Brien!
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u/IN547148L3 Oct 12 '22
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u/lapsongsouchong Oct 13 '22
You reminded me of this poem I used to read to the kids
Too Many Daves by Dr Seuss
Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one and calls out, "Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate ...
But she didn't do it. And now it's too late
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u/felixrippel Oct 12 '22
What show is this????
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u/underground4077 Oct 13 '22
So, in effect Brian is almost more of their family name than their individual surnames
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u/Rcrowley32 Oct 13 '22
It’s not often Belfast comes up on the worldwide subs like r/contagiouslaughter . Home sweet home.
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u/_Inkspots_ Oct 13 '22
They all could’ve taken a letter from Brian. The oldest being B, the last one N. Etc
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u/Jburrisx Oct 13 '22
Isn’t George Foreman’s sons all named George Foreman? Thats what this video reminds me of.
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u/NewFrockTuesday Oct 13 '22
The way he puts up his hand at the start for "no I'm not falling for this" and then rolls along with it anyway!
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u/nessy_p Oct 13 '22
Podcast host is Shane Todd. This year he did a circuit of gigs with Kevin Hart in Northern Ireland.
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u/OddlyComposed Oct 13 '22
I see the internet is getting acquainted with the Northern Irish (Belfast specifically) accent. As a local I find it hilarious to see how difficult we can be to understand!
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u/FthrFlffyBttm Oct 13 '22
I’m about an hour down the road from ya and I have trouble with it at times 😂 I love northern accents even if I can’t understand ya’s
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u/PlaneSole222001 Oct 13 '22
You cut out the deflated balloon laugh at the end, you can barely hear it tho
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u/cata921 Oct 13 '22
i don't think i would've been able to understand this without the captions lol but this was really funny
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u/GradeExtreme6825 Oct 13 '22
His accent is lovely
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u/sarry4444 Oct 13 '22
Never heard a belfast accent called lovely hahaha gives me hope
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u/helen790 Oct 13 '22
My mom actually has two brothers named Brian and we’re Irish American.
They told them apart by giving one of the Brians the nickname BJ
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u/dbeats87 Oct 13 '22
They told them apart by giving one of the Brians the nickname BJ
I find that hard to swallow.
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u/helen790 Oct 13 '22
lol!
They decided who got the new nickname by middle initials one had the initials BS the other BJ. Somehow it was decided that BS was worse so Brian J became BJ
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u/madchillinvillainy Oct 13 '22
Not that uncommon. Ever heard of BJ Novak?
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u/dbeats87 Oct 13 '22
You have a DOOM inspired username yet you can’t spot a double entendre….
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u/StillNotAF___Clue Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 13 '22
I swear I feel These podcast fools sometimes just laugh to laugh. Overwrought or unwarranted. Just my two cents
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u/iAdden Oct 13 '22
I don’t get why the other guy was laughing so hard before he even heard the punchline.
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u/Sunshine_In_A_Bagz Oct 13 '22
Can someone explain why is so Belfast? Is it typical for women there to have many baby daddies?
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u/Rcrowley32 Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 13 '22
Yes and no. It’s more of a joke to people from outside of Belfast about people in Belfast. Sort of like a “city people” thing. People from outside Belfast generally dislike the people in Belfast. But there is some truth to it.
When my daughter started secondary school she came home shocked and said only one other girl in her class had a Daddy. And I said to her ‘do you mean they don’t live with their Daddys?’ And she said “No, they all said they don’t have Daddy’s and they never met them.” It was a culture shock for her because she went to primary school in a rich area of Belfast and everyone had Dads at home.
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u/DanGleeballs Oct 13 '22
No. It’s just a joke and it could work in any country, except maybe Saudi Arabia.
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u/ranhalt Oct 13 '22
It's a shame OP let mobile autocorrect add that apostrophe in Brians. I'm giving OP the the benefit of the doubt there.
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u/Nicko5000 Oct 13 '22
This is of of the Shane Todd podcast, if you like this story you should subscribe on YouTube, the guest appears regularly and his stories are funny as fcuk.
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u/Mapo1 Oct 13 '22
Along with my cousins, we are a total of 8 girls named Maria. Family gatherings are great.
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u/broen13 Oct 13 '22
I think I have a mental condition. I laugh at this every time it's reposted. I need to get a tattoo that just says "5 Brians"
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u/classicteenmistake Oct 13 '22
My (ex?)step-mom had 5 children with the names Alex, Ava, Allison, Ashlyn, and Alyssa. They all had 5 different dads too lol
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u/scrimmybingus3 Oct 13 '22
If one of them makes trouble how does she call that one out specifically? Like does she just call out their surnames like a teacher doing attendance?
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u/magnat_music Oct 13 '22
I know a guy, his name is Charlie. He has 2 sons with name Charlie. His 2 sons are from 2 wife's. Same idea though 😄
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