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Hello and re welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown.

I as always am your host Simon I'm to hear one of my writers in this case Danny's

written me was

Alverine excuse me was ever a lien replaced by an imposter well the answers no

thanks everyone for being here no, I'm just kidding.

Danny has written somehow 25 pages on this.

I've vaguely heard of this conspiracy era. I think he was into pictures and I'm like,

this is clearly nonsense. Are they like, oh yeah, she was replaced by a security guard or bodyguard or something.

He was obviously a woman.

Because women can be security guards.

Um, let's crack on with it, shall we?

The format of the show, I've never read this before, you're going to read it together.

Let's go.

Towards the end of 2003 a quite remarkable crisis meeting was said to have

taken place at the headquarters of Arista Records in Santa Clara, California.

There were several items of pressing importance on the agenda that morning, which could potentially deal a devastating blow to the record labels meticulously planned schedule.

Aerosmith were refusing to complete their world tour following a heated argument over which one of them had failed to put the ham in the Vegetarian Kiche.

Barry Manilow was threatening to write a whole album of new material himself.

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