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JACOB SOBOROFF: What's up, guys?
It's Jacob.
Every day, we bring you the best videos around.
And today we are learning British swear words.
-Dirty skiver.
JACOB SOBOROFF: Rolling up a fat Picasso.
And pulling off the first ever one of these.
-What the [BEEP]?
[THEME MUSIC]
-That's pretty cool, I guess.
JACOB SOBOROFF: 12-year-old Mary Elizabeth Paris
is a leukemia patient waiting for a bone marrow
transplant in Atlanta.
She also happens to be a "Napoleon Dynamite" super-fan.
So who better to wish her well than Napoleon Dynamite himself?
When Jon Heder heard Mary Elizabeth's story
on social media, he decided it was
time to bring the character out of retirement.
-So I heard your nurses decorated your room
and made it all gold.
That's like pretty much the best color of all time.
All my nurses ever did for me were
try to give me a root beer-flavored lollipop
after shoving a needle in my neck meat.
I just wanna bid you adieu with a presentation of the butterfly
lotus.
JACOB SOBOROFF: It has been 10 years
since we've seen Napoleon, and this was definitely
the best reason ever to bring him back.
Mary Elizabeth, we're all thinking of you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ALEX: I bet you think rolling up an old dusty poster
doesn't sound very exciting.
But what if that poster was a Picasso that
is 95 years old, 20 feet long, and has a penchant for breaking
up into little pieces?
For the two-mile journey to its new home with the New York
Historical Society, "Le Tricorne"
needed 10 tiers of scaffolding, a 23-foot tube,
and a small army of brave men.
-The idea here is to make the roll climb up the wall,
and the painting not even aware that it's
getting rolled at the top.
And hopefully, the mystery of how this thing is hanging
will reveal itself.
ALEX: This is as edge-of-your-seat as an art
video will ever be.
I'm not gonna tell you what happens.
It's only five minutes long, so just go watch it for yourself.
JACOB SOBOROFF: ***.
Burke.
Minger.
Skiver.
No, those are not the names of EDM DJs.
They're British insults.
Siobhan Thompson takes us through some
of the Brits' favorite jibes to get us up
to speed on the latest from Anglophenia.
-"Pillock."
This means idiot, specifically a very clumsy, forgetful kind
of idiocy.
You forgot your homework again?
Brian, you are such a pillock. "***."
This is the British equivalent to jerk
and means the same thing.
You know, that thing.
You know.
I know you know.
JACOB SOBOROFF: Head over to Anglophenia
to see Siobhan do 17 different British accents.
(IN BRITISHESQUE ACCENT) I thought there was only one.
That sounds Australian.
MILES: 30 years ago today, a young Miles
was getting his first look at this beautiful world.
And at the same time, across the country,
seminal hip hop label Def Jam was still
celebrating their first official release.
The latest from Noisey's "Back & Forth" series
has Def Jam founders Rick Rubin and Russell
Simmons looking back on the label's monumental past.
-You went to a hip hop club in those days.
And if you bought a hip hop record,
they were two completely different experiences.
I just wanted to make records that
sounded like what it sounded like at the club.
-And in fact, the other records that were out,
the Sugar Hill Records, sounded like R&B records.
-They were all people who made R&B records.
So they made an R&B record and then put a guy rapping on it,
and thought that was a rap record.
MILES: This is the first of four episodes that
are dropping every Wednesday, so head over to Noisey,
so you don't miss out.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
JACOB SOBOROFF: Earlier this month, the top
freeride bikers in the world gathered
in Nuremberg, Germany for Red Bull's District Ride 2014.
Everybody showed up to compete, but up-and-coming Polish rider,
Szymon Godziek, showed up to win.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
JACOB SOBOROFF: It's called a "tsunami flip,"
and this is the first time one's ever
been landed on a mountain biking competition.
-Just about touched his heels on the back wheel.
[LAUGHS] It was insane.
JACOB SOBOROFF: Needless to say, he
took home the Best Trick Award.
The final event in the Freestyle Mountain Bike World Tour
is coming up in Utah.
Szymon's going to be there.
We're gonna keep you posted with what he does next.
-Hi, YouTube Nation.
My name's George Basil.
I play St. Peter in Above Average's series "St. Peter
Meets" with Chris Smith as Gaston,
who is a dear friend and wickedly talented pal.
Please enjoy it.
-Bonjour, Gaston.
-Bon jower to you, uh, Street Peter.
-Right.
-Mmm.
-You know, I did want to mention we have a strict no food
or drink policy.
So if you could--
[SOUND OF BREAKING GLASS]
-Nope.
-I'm barefoot.
-Don't care.
-Could we hurry this up?
I've got to get back to the gym and roughhouse
with some guys who wish they were me.
JACOB SOBOROFF: Thank you, George.
To see St. Peter size up other Disney villains
like Ursula and Cruella de Vil, head on over to Above Average.
Every Tuesday during the show, we always
tackle your comments and questions.
But tomorrow, as an added bonus, we
are all going to be in the comments during the first hour
after the show posts to take your questions in real time.
MILES: It's gonna be a comment party!
[CHEERS]
MILES: We're gonna answer all your questions
from 6:00 to 7:00 PM, Pacific.
Please RSVP in the comments.
JACOB SOBOROFF: You don't have to RSVP.
We'll see you guys tomorrow.
Play us out.
JACOB AND MILES: Soprano!
[MUSIC PLAYING SOPRANO "COSMO"]