This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

In September 2015, Duke University's football team

promoted its backup quarterback to starter.

This was a little bit of a shakeup

because the new starting quarterback was a total rookie stepping up to take command of the team

Duke's new quarterback may have been inexperienced, but he sure did look the part. He was exactly the kind of person you cast in a movie about a team trying to turn their luck around

Dude is 6-4

225 pounds has boyish good looks and an awshucks grin.

That's all shucks producer Sam Greenspan.

Meanwhile, in Orange County, California,

a public defender was making headlines for his work investigating

how local law enforcement had been stacking the deck against defendants.

Newspapers show him in a standard suit with wireframe glasses, ductailed hair, and a goatee.

He's got the look of a 20-year veteran of the courts who's managed to keep

hold of his ideals. Meanwhile, in the West African country of Burkina Faso, a group of armed

soldiers in military fatigues forced their way into a cabinet meeting

and asserted their control over the government.

In each of these cases, the quarterback, the attorney, the coup, newspaper articles about each of them describe them in exactly the same way.

They were all written up as being

straight out of Central Casting.

Calling something or someone from central casting

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