Episode 2 - Fatty Arbuckle
Hollywood Crime Scene
Rachel Fisher
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2017
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 2:25.6 | And his dad is very skinny so he immediately questions the paternity of the baby-based |
| 2:32.0 | security. You get this fat kid? This is not mine. |
| 2:36.1 | And he actually named him after his least favourite politician, |
| 2:40.4 | Republican Roscoe Conkling. So this is the level of petty dick his dad was. |
| 2:44.8 | Wow. And then to make matters worse, his dad beat him throughout his life because he thought |
| 2:51.6 | he was an illegitimate child which makes no sense. I mean I'm not saying he should have beat the wife |
| 2:57.0 | but if you think the wife was the one the kid didn't do anything regardless. And neither did the mom. |
| 3:03.1 | But the mom was very supportive of her son but she had nine babies including a huge fat one |
| 3:10.3 | and again rest in peace. And she suffered health issues because of that. |
| 3:16.8 | She eventually died when Fattie was 12 and most of the research I saw it was she died when he was 12 |
| 3:26.0 | and 180 pounds. Those just like really? So they're going to fat shame him from a very young age. |
| 3:32.0 | And so he at that point was basically an orphan because his dad was yeah and nothing to do with him. |
| 3:37.5 | So one thing that Fattie did have was that he had a beautiful singing voice. In fact it was so |
| 3:43.1 | beautiful that a famous opera singer at the time Enrico Caruso once heard him sing and urged him |
| 3:48.6 | to give up this nonsense meaning comedy you do for a living with training you could become |
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