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Heaven Marianna

January 27, 2023 at 2:12 pm

No he’s not

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January 27, 2023 at 2:13 pm

No he’s not

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Ashley Madison[H0rny H0usewife]

January 27, 2023 at 2:14 pm

No he’s not

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Emily Clarke

January 27, 2023 at 2:19 pm

No he’s not

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Matt Z

January 27, 2023 at 2:20 pm

No he’s not

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KRISTIN

January 27, 2023 at 2:20 pm

No he’s not

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Alexander Müller

January 27, 2023 at 2:21 pm

So many fu*king bots in the comment section ????????

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January 27, 2023 at 2:21 pm

No he’s not

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January 27, 2023 at 2:23 pm

No he’s not

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Salama K

January 27, 2023 at 2:24 pm

No he’s not

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Michael Kim

January 27, 2023 at 2:25 pm

No, he is related to Mark Wahlberg

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January 27, 2023 at 2:28 pm

No he’s not

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Lars

January 27, 2023 at 2:28 pm

No he’s not

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Julia???? Your stepmom

January 27, 2023 at 2:29 pm

No he’s not

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Connie Adams

January 27, 2023 at 2:45 pm

Who cares people!

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Gingerbread

January 27, 2023 at 2:45 pm

According to the bots…

‘no, he’s not’

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- Osama
  
  January 27, 2023 at 2:50 pm
  
  this channel has 90% bot comments on shorts ????
  
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Sherrie Schmidt

January 27, 2023 at 2:54 pm

We all know Jimmy Kimmel googles ‘is Matt Damon Dead?’ Every morning when he wakes up.

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Navajo Ninja

January 27, 2023 at 3:20 pm

With that style of thinking, we are all related.

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- Brendan Beckett
  
  January 27, 2023 at 5:02 pm
  
  The vast majority of people are not anywhere close to that closely related.
  
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- Brendan Beckett
  
  January 27, 2023 at 5:02 pm
  
  The vast majority of people are not anywhere near that closely related.
  
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- Ziggy Bupkiss
  
  January 28, 2023 at 4:27 am
  
  and that’s why we all choose sides during world wars!
  
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- Dibs Dibs
  
  January 30, 2023 at 6:15 am
  
  They’re probably like 10th cousins
  
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- D
  
  January 30, 2023 at 7:38 am
  
  @Brendan Beckett Yean they are ????????‍♂️ past 7th cousin you’re pretty much pot luck relayed to anyone
  
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- Cinema Atrium
  
  January 30, 2023 at 9:04 pm
  
  @Brendan Beckettactually its possible that you are related to matt daemon to. We all have 4 grandparents but 16 greatgreatgrandparents. So if we go back until 1625 with people having kids at 25 ….it means in 1625 you were the offspring of 65536 people that were alive at the same time in 1625. I mean 65536 people does not seem like a lot of people to be related to just at that time not even counting all generations after that. But the world population was pretty low due to the black death. So guess the probability of you, beeing related to matt is probably 1:20. (If you are caucasian)
  
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- Brendan Beckett
  
  January 30, 2023 at 9:08 pm
  
  @Cinema Atrium Of course it is, but not likely — hence why it’s not as common as people are suggesting.
  
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- Cinema Atrium
  
  January 30, 2023 at 9:41 pm
  
  @Brendan Beckett a chance of one in twenty is about as likely as people make it seem.
  
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Comedic Genuis

January 27, 2023 at 3:52 pm

How tf did they know what someone’s job was in the 1600s ???????? I call BS

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- Blobfishyyyyy
  
  January 27, 2023 at 8:26 pm
  
  Maybe there were some records of the man? Idk tho
  
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- Lya H
  
  January 27, 2023 at 8:30 pm
  
  That wasn’t bs. That was humor.
  
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- Jess T
  
  January 27, 2023 at 9:20 pm
  
  Some of the parish records in the UK have a profession listed against the marriage record so it’s possible (assuming the ancestor was English)
  
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- Rat Dragon
  
  January 28, 2023 at 1:51 pm
  
  How do they know humans existed in the 1600’s? Because we have records…
  
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- Government Agent #762????️
  
  February 1, 2023 at 8:10 pm
  
  This is a really stupid comment.
  A lot of those ancestor DNA tests, and stuff keep records of people’s ancestors dating back hundreds of years.
  That is as long as they can find them. So yes it is common.
  
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Everton Gomes

January 27, 2023 at 5:14 pm

This is funny!

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Sociopath Mercenary

January 27, 2023 at 5:30 pm

Should Matt Damon stop getting paid for movies where he uses firearms… Or stop making anti-gun statements?

Love ya, man. Just make more movies, dude.

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Cap't Jack

January 27, 2023 at 7:07 pm

Maaaaattttt daaaamon

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MadRichOne

January 28, 2023 at 2:24 am

brick layer, laying brick like good will hunting

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Mr Green

January 28, 2023 at 3:55 am

He died inside a little at the end lol

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AB Moeis

January 28, 2023 at 6:29 am

Its Jason Bourne. We think he is dead..

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Rat Dragon

January 28, 2023 at 1:49 pm

He’s so much more shy than I’d ever imagine

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-_-

January 30, 2023 at 8:15 pm

Wonderful woman. We’re all very fond of her.

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