- Alright, our first headline is from Connecticut.
Baseball is just starting up there
and the police in Ridgefield, Connecticut are investigating
a fire in which 25 gallons of gasoline
were doused onto a baseball field
by someone who thought that was the best way
to dry out the field after heavy rain.
- So it rained before a little league game,
who was it, was it the manager
of one of the teams?
Was it like the home team manager?
- It's unclear.
- Ah, but somebody was like "I'll dry-
- Police are investigating.
- Someone was like, "I'll dry the field
"so these kids can play ball."
And then just lit the infield on fire.
Using how many gallons of gasoline?
(laughs) - 50 gallons, and you know
with that amount of firepower there,
they lost a little bit of control of it.
- No, I mean
(unintelligible stuttering)
they've used helicopters in the past
to try to dry off a field.
Doesn't really work.
Uh, Erica, do we have a video
of that little league game where they try
to dry off the field with gasoline?
(screams coming from video on computer)
(laughs)
- I mean-
- Yeah, I mean,
you'd think they would've,
at what point did they call it?
- They did,
they canceled the game.
There's no games being played.
It could cost up to $50,000.
(screaming on computer continues)
(all laughing)
I mean it's another reminder, don't-
- These kids just wanna play a game.
- Right, it's another reminder-
- And now, they're in this situation.
- We don't have these problems in California.
Like our fires are natural and they're in the hills.
We don't have to worry about,
you know, rain on a baseball field
that you have to dry out for fires.
That's another reason. - No.
- Like the longer I live here,
the more insane it seems that anyone lives
in the Northeast.
- I'm just glad that this was a baseball,
you know, this happened at a baseball game,
not a football game,
because there's so many more players
on the football team.
Do you know what I mean?
If you listen to that clip,
you hear 18, 20 kids.
You know, having a hard time.
Play it again.
(screaming from video)
(giggling)
Yeah, you know what I mean?
That's like, they're in the dugout.
They're a little worried.
I think most of them got out with minor injuries.
Smoke inhalation will follow them forever,
but I think that if it'd been football players
that it would've been melted helmets
and stuff like that.
You don't need that.
(screaming plays again)
And these kids, you know,
I just hope they get a chance to make up the game.
(laughing)
And some adults moving forward,
find a better way to dry the field
than burning a bunch of kids to death.
- Our last headline's from the great country-
- This is my favorite story of the week.
- Yeah, I knew it was.
(laughing)
You know it's Anthony's favorite because it goes last.
The great country of Brazil,
where a judge this week ordered
that a pair of identical twins both pay
child support to a woman who is seeking paternity results
because neither one of them will admit
to being the father.
They are identical twins, and she knows
that she slept with one of them.
The paternity test for one of the guys turned up positive,
but they made his identical brother also take a test,
and that also came up positive.
And now they both have to pay child support.
- And she's saying that she doesn't know
which brother she slept with?
- How would she know?
I mean, they're identical twins.
- I'm sure their names are different.
You know what I mean?
I don't know, uh,
I assume there's more to the story,
that she slept with both guys.
That she slept with both twins at certain points.
Maybe one of the twins was like, "Hey,
"I slept with this girl.
"Uh...
"Now's your chance."
Do you know what I mean?
I don't know how twins work.
- They both deny it.
The first guy denied he was the father
even though the paternity test came back.
And so that's why they made the identical twin brother
do it as well.
But there's even more to the story.
The judge in the case, who was livid,
said it was evident that the defendants
from adolescence took advantage and continued
to take advantage of the fact that
they're identical twins.
It became clear that they have repeatedly used
each other's name to attract as many women as possible,
and to hide instances of betrayal
in their relationships.
So this is like a long con that they do
with lots of women.
- If the judge says that about two people,
why weren't they killed on the spot?
(chuckling)
Like if they're that,
(sighs) what's the word?
Insidious?
With their twin behavior?
You gotta put them in separate prisons,
or you gotta kill them on the spot.
Or mark one of their faces,
you know what I mean,
with like a brand, you know?
That just says like, "Twin."
(laughing)
- It's kind of,
I wouldn't say it's really working out,
because it took a while to go through courts. And-
- But they get to split-
- Now the kid's nine years old.
They are not splitting,
that's kind of the twist, is they're both paying-
- Equal?
They're both paying like the maximum?
- Right, which is depressingly
only $60 each, a month.
- What? - But apparently,
that's above what you would expect
for minimum wage, which is what they make in Brazil.
So she's actually getting double
what she would've gotten from either one of them.
If one of them just said, "I'm the father"
then they could've split it
and they would've been paying half.
But instead they're paying double.
- But what's to stop one of the twins
from coming up and being like, "Here's your $60."
And then she goes to the other twin and he's like,
"What do you mean?
"I just gave it to you."
(laughing)
You know what I mean?
This could go on forever.
You gotta brand their faces.
And this kid's nine years old?
- Well now, yeah, the girl is now nine years old.
It took forever to go through courts
and all sorts of different things.
- Is there any visitation?
- I don't think they're too interested,
it is kind of like a sad reality.
Did you have any friends that were twins?
Two of my best friends were twins.
- There were two sets of twins,
the Nelson brothers and the McBride brothers.
- Shout out to the Veeteck's,
two of the best people I've ever known,
who weren't identical, but everyone thought
they were identical except for their friends
or the people that really knew them
that could definitely tell the difference.
And that's the type of thing in high school
that everyone talks about.
It's like, "Oh, Bob!
"Why don't you go do this and that
"and say you're Jeff to a girl?"
Everyone is always pushing twins to go
in this direction.
- Twins are screwed up.
I think we should go back to,
you know back in the day, if someone had twins,
and they were identical,
they would throw them off a cliff.
Very Game of Thrones style.
You don't see a lot of twins on Game of Thrones.
Of course, you know, the vampire twins
from The Matrix Reloaded.
Those are two of the worst people ever.
Not a twin guy-
- Not a twin guy. (laughs) - The twins in my high school,
the twins in my high school,
I remember their parents wouldn't let them
do things without each other.
They're like, "What if something happens
"to one of you?
"You'd want the other one to be there."
I think they had to go to college together, too.
- My friends went to college together, The Veeteck's.
- If you're identical twins,
I assume you're a flat out rapist.
- Please, you could look at this from a-
- Give me one example.
- The Veeteck's, they're clean.
- I'll believe it when I see it.
- You could look at this- - It's too easy.
- In so many cases-
- It's too tempting.
- In so many cases-
- Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- What's that documentary?
Three Brothers?
- Three identical twin-
uh, three identical strangers.
- And there's so many cases,
and I'm thinking of this with my friends
who are totally different
like totally different in terms
of their personality, the lives that they led,
the types of people.
You know, they date, all that sort of stuff.
You know, that happens all the time with twins
but you can look at this story as like
they're in it to win it.
They've stayed buddies this whole time
with this scheme.
They're very similar.
They're close.
- Yeah but they're still making minimum wage
in Brazil, which is not at the height of success.
I'll tell you this right now,
if I had a twin brother,
I'd kill him.
I wouldn't risk the temptation taking over,
I would kill my twin brother.
- Wouldn't you,
I feel like you'd be attracted to him though.
- Of course.
Of course I would.
Are you crazy?
He's my brother, I'm not blind.
You know what I mean?
- It could just drive you crazy to have
this other guy out there- - It's one of the reasons
I'd have to kill him.
You know what I mean?
So I wouldn't sleep with my twin brother.
- It would really be an amazing thing-
- I would never sleep with my actual brother.
- Yeah.
- There's a seven year age gap.
But a twin brother, nothing wrong with that.
But I would have to kill him.
I would have to kill him.
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