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You can listen to and follow vibe check wherever you get your podcast. And we're back with an all new episode of Keep It.

I'm Louis Furtell, and I love the smell of medium octane pop culture takes in the morning.

RIP Robert DuBall, that's my tribute to Apocalypse Now.

Also, this is another episode of the other podcast we do, Guess Who Died? Because three people have died this week. It's extraordinary. We'll get into those. But we have a returnee to keep it this week. Hello. One of the best, Nina Parker, welcome back to keep it. Thank you. I'm so psyched you're here. Me too. And I'm so not psyched that people are dead. I mean, it's, you know, I always say people are dying who never died before. They're trying it for the first time. How dare you? You know, some people ain't got no business being dead. Right. You know, like Whitney Houston, like you ain't got no business being dead. Whitney Houston is one of the few people where I remember where I was and who I had to call. Yes. I got my friend Andrew who saw her in concert. I'd seen her in concert. I called him and like a newscaster was like, I have to tell you that Whitney Houston died. Why was I possessing that moment? Well, you know, I have a weird thing because I was reporting on a lot of these people. So I'd be the first person to find out. So all my family would always text me and be like, is it true?

You know, so not only that I have to deal with, like, working you. If you have a black family that is somebody iconic has died and they black, you want a phone all day. Yeah. Because they want to know what you know. So, you know, they're like, where was Whitney? Where was she at? They wanted to go to the hotel, child.

So, yeah, it's a thing.

Well, this week, we just, So, yeah, it's a thing.

Well, this week we just, like, within seconds, lost Jesse Jackson. Yep. We lost Robert Duval, the legendary actor, I mean, 95 years of age. Yeah. We'll get into him in a second. 95. Yeah, and James Vanderbeek, best known for Dawson's Creek, died last week. I can't believe we have to cover that this week, too.

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