The Daily Zeitgeist - Coldplay KissCam Drama, No Such Thing As BAD Xmas Movies? 12.19.25

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

In episode 1983, Jack and Miles are joined by author of Cry For Me, Argentina: My Life As A Failed Child Star, Tamara Yajia, to discuss… COLDPLAY KISS CAM LADY SPEAKS! Phone Bans Actually Work??? What’s The Worst Christmas Movie Of All-Time? And more! The Ritual Shaming of the Woman at the Coldplay Concert Coldplay kisscam HR boss Kristin Cabot on 16 seconds that ruined her life Phone Bans Actually Work??? Our picks for the worst Christmas movie ever Tim Allen's Critically-Panned 21-Year-Old John Grisham Movie Adaptation Is Now Dominating Streaming Charts The Worst Christmas Movie Ever Is About To Leave Netflix The Worst Christmas Movies of All Time I watched the worst-rated Christmas film ever made - with a very bizarre message Santa Claus: The Movie at 40 – how a box office flop became a ‘pure panto’ British Christmas staple Revisiting Santa Claus: The Movie ‘Santa Claus: The Movie’ (1985) [McDonald's Clip] Halloween's John Carpenter almost made this cult Christmas movie Jack's Piece of Media: "I only come on here to watch this now" LISTEN: Living Through a Lense by Vincent McRae TrioSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How's the mom's only fans? It's thriving. I just took her $500 as a holiday gift. Wait, you tip, hold on, you tip your own mom 500 on the left? Yeah, but she thinks it's from someone else. She needs the money. It's from Roberto J.J.

Wow. Did you upload like a hot screen cap? Like a fake AI face or anything? No, it's just like an A. you know, like a blank. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did she was like, Tammy, you're not going to believe this.

She's like, somebody tipped me $500. I was like, oh, my God, mom, amazing. You're doing the equivalent of like, you know, magazine drive. Like a rich parent helping their NEPO kid with that. Sell some books. Yeah, exactly. Oh, my God, you're number one on the New York Times.

That's crazy, you, son. My book sales just spiked. There were 10 sales this weekend. Yeah. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. Who would you call if the unthinkable happened? I said, it was y'all 22 times.

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Yep. That's the only international day I need. International last episode recording of 2025. Let, oh, there it is. Welcome to the National Day, and guess what? Miles is sick again to round out the year, the annual tradition on the daily zeitgeist. My body shuts down right at the end, barely getting over the line. Yeah, I mean, the only other thing is that it's National Ugly Christmas Swear Day.

That's it. There you go. Yeah. Or your ugly sweaters. Or wear a beautiful sweater, like our guest, you know? Yeah, beautiful sweater. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka the opposite of Hugh Jackman, Jack Hugh Mann. Oh.

That one courtesy of Blinky Hack Because they're a bit of a thinker You know It's fucking deep I'm thrilled to be joined as always By my co-host Mr. Miles Gray It's Miles Gray

I like the way you brought that Christchow Murr Okay That was right there But you y'all already know That was Snark Gila, thank you Any Ching-Y right there I love the way you brought the baby

Murr Yeah bring it right there That's so good And I do love the way That wise man brought that baby Mur. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Is Mur one of the incenses?

Frankencense, gold, and mur, right? Mur. Yeah. Brought that baby, Murr. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our favorite guests, a comedian, actress, musician, writer, the author behind poems I wrote while taking a shit. And the book, Cry for Me, Argentina, My Life is a Failed Child Star. Please welcome back to the show, The Hilarious and Talented, Tomorrow, Yehia!

Tam, Tam. Hi, guys. I've had three coffees, and I'm ready to talk. Good, good, good. Hopefully your bowels are. We are not. Okay, also for the cups of coffee. I'm actually constipated right now, believe it or not.

That's why the three cough. Oh, you're going for the coffee laxative? Yeah, exactly. Did you smoke like three cigarettes at once, too? Oh, my God, I quit, you guys. Oh, good. Oh, congratulations. Thanks.

How's it going? It's good. I actually smoke when I drink every now and then, but compared to being a full-time smoker, it's weight. You know what I mean? Like, I'll have one every now and then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go.

And you're still vaping and... No, no vaping. Skull, right? I've never, I've never vaped before. It's not for me. Oh, that's so principled. I love that. I love that for you.

Not for me. But I do, when I did smoke, I smoked Parliament Lights. You guys look like you've never smoked before. I've smoked. I've smoked. I mean, I still smoke lights. You know,

recessed filter. Yeah, what's up with them? They go down so easily. It's just like, it's wonderful. That's what everyone in L.A. does snorts cocaine out of. Yes. It's a recess filter. I never have, but it's like a long fingernail.

Yeah, they're like, well, in the little cup, you put the blow, and then you just blow up right there in the middle of the club, and they just think you're smelling a cigarette. Guys, cocaine was crazy. Yeah. Remember that? Remember that? You know, what a time.

I did love it. Coquine keeps coming up a lot on the show. Does it? It's just ambient, I think, in L.A. I grew up around so many drug users, like, also just in the industry. There's so much, there's still a lot of people. Well, which kind of blows my mind. But I will say, the other day I was having, like, a really nice dinner party, and we

invited this new friend that's from out of town, and she came with a bag of blow, and we were all, we looked at her. It was like 6 p.m. We looked at her like she was an crazy person. 6 p.m. dinner party blow. It's a potluck. Presumptuous. All right, Tam, we're thrilled to have you here.

We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're telling the listeners a couple of the stories we're talking about today. We're going Trump-free Thursdays, Trump-free Fridays, I guess. But it's Friday. Yeah, yeah. Last episode of the year, although he is the reason that cocaine keeps coming up on the show, I think. Yeah, probably. Just showing up profusely sweating and ranting.

In public, but we're not going to talk about that. We are going to talk about the first official interview from the Cold Play Kiss Cam Lady, HR head. We finally got her version of events, okay? Barry Weiss, you fucked up. This is who you should have interviewed in your big reveal, not Erica Kirk, who has been giving that same interview on Rote. Since 9-11, yeah. So we're going to talk about. That interview, we're going to talk about phone bans because they might actually work.

The New York schools banned phones at the beginning of the year, and we have a report from the ground, and the children are bored and doing dumb bullshit, just like children are supposed to do. And then we're going to ask what's the worst Christmas movie of all time, because there's no Rotten Tomatoes list that has some theories. All of that, plenty more. But first time, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? that's revealing about who you are? I actually watched porn last night, so I cleared my search history after, like an intelligent person.

Oh, you do that? Wait, hold on. So your method is to erase any documentable evidence. A whole search history. You never know. You want to start with a clean slate. Yeah, it's like it takes the shame away. No, I'm just kidding.

I'm not ashamed of it, but it's like, I don't want it popping up in like, and someone my phone to look, or auto fill. Hold on, you jacking off mobily? Yeah. Oh, is that weird? No, I just, that was a line from a little dicky song. We're like, talking about porn on the phone.

He's like, no, I don't jack off mobily. I jack off mobily, and it's hard because I have to like get it to stand up against a pillow. And it always falls over when I'm about to come. So I have to move on to imagination. Jack it off to the back of your iPhone. So I have a clean, clean Google search. Well, okay, what did you? No idea.

What did you search, though? What did you search though? I knew you were going to ask me. It was gay porn, like female grinding vaginas. Oh, okay. I don't know. Sometimes I'm into that just because, like, I'm gay. No, I'm just kidding.

I'm not gay, but I'm gay for that kind of porn. Sure. Ciscering. Understandable. Get in where you fit it. All right. So scissoring. Cisorring is the perfect.

And you could have turned that into, you know, been like wrapping gifts, but no, I like the honesty. Tamp keeps it 100. She keep it above. Oh. I'm bright, right. I'm so blushing right now. Oh, come.

Not even. Yeah. You're not. Yeah. I am. Look, and I'm wearing all red and I have red hair. You're wearing a red hair. Maybe it's messing up the white balance.

Yeah, the red balance. Based on perspective, I think you're not. What is something that you think is underrated? Okay. Oh, God. I like to floss my teeth and then smell the tooth floss. Okay. Oh, wow.

It's bad. You're nasty. Okay. No, no, I'm not saying yours in particular. I've done this too. You have, right? And like no one likes to admit it. You want to know what that shit is?

Like how long it's been in there? I'm coming in with a bang of disgust today. But isn't it wonderful? You got to know your own brand. It's called knowing your own brand. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like when you smell your own farts real deep, you let, huh?

Oh, damn. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's nasty work. Yeah. I mean, I went to the zoo the other day and there was two monkeys like picking at each other and then smelling whatever was coming out. And it's like that's what I like to do.

I just wish we all admitted that we like it. That's why I think it's underrated. Exactly. Everyone has to know. You got to know your own brand. You've got to know what it's like. Yes. And I think with flossing, too, like, yeah, because like stuff that's been recessed in your gums for like.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, that shit starts fucking stanking. Pure rot. Yeah. It smells like old, old person mouth or rotten vegetables usually when I'm smelling my own. Old person mouth is like when you really go, you're like, Oh, shit, that's, that's an old person mouth.

That's where the old person mouth is just old person mouth comes from a lack of philosophy, I guess. To me, it smells like the zoo. Damn, you have different. And that's interesting. You know what? We should have a party, get together and compare. Yeah. And they see who can, like, identify their own.

Oh, you know, I could definitely identify my own. Please, Miles, you're like using your tongue to see what's stuck right now. I can see you. I'm like, what I got in here? Sometimes my dad will barbecue and then afterwards I'll bring out like a little cut full of tooth floss and we all floss. And it's like, oh, you can almost create a whole steak out of what comes out. Right. But that is interesting.

Like I did not, I assumed everybody was working with the same shit in there. It's interesting that your smells like the zoo. And when you say barbecue, this was an us hall. Assalo, yeah, which is like 18 pounds of meat, but we recuperate half a pound. Right, just really from a gap. Or a quarter of a pound. This is what we're going to have to do in the future, folks, you know, once the environment totally dies on us, you're not going to let that shit go to waste.

Yeah, hell no. Put that shit in a box. Reassemble. Yeah, that's like when I was young and I would tell my mom that I was thirsty and she'd be like, Just swallow your saliva. Yeah, swallow your own spit. Oh, shit. That's bad parenting.

That's bad parenting. Yeah. Sometimes before we record the show, if there's a chance that there's going to be video clips, I will, like, wash my mouth out so that there's no, like, food on my teeth. Right. And the shit that comes out is, like, a fucking diorama. What's going on? A diorama.

I'm thinking of the wrong thing. It's like a point to list panning on in my sink, you know? Mosaic was the word I was looking for, not diorama. That would be dope if I could just spit out a diorama. A shoebox? Yeah, a shoebox with like a tequila mockingbird scene inside of it. Yeah, that's what I meant. A Christmas village?

Like what? What? What? We don't all have the same stuff? What was I eating, dude? All right, let me smell it really quick, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's me. What is something, Tand, that you think is overrated?

The book, Wuthering Heights, had either of you read it? No, I read that shit for school. It's so stupid. I just read it because I wanted to get ready for the horny Jacob Allerdy movie that's coming out soon. And I was like, what the fuck is this? It's just like a book about people that just die. They all die. Yeah, everybody keeps dying.

they all keep dying they're all schmucks they're insufferable and uh i like couldn't even finish it so remember it just being like not much happens right like it's just like people it is helpful into putting you into the mindset of a time when it was like damn these people are coming over that's going to be our month yes like that's you know like somebody dropping by is like the your excitement for the whole month. 100% that's what it is, except like the journey to walk to the next house, which is like one mile away, always kills the person. Right.

So people, either they make it and then they die after one day of the visit or they just don't make it. It's like a slasher movie where the slasher is like cholera or like scarlet fever. That's kind of cool, actually. Yeah. Mr. Colera. Yeah. But yeah, this does seem to be the next big horn.

That's coming our way. And it will be horny. I'm sure they'll change things. Because also, sorry. You know, I went from smelling floss and like talking about cocaine to this like boring ass gothic novel. But, uh, contain multitudes. I couldn't.

Yes, exactly. But they don't even have sex. No one has sex in the book. Oh, they don't? Just like, longingly like kiss each other. They like die before they can fuck. Right. Yes.

So I'm like, wait. Wait. then do so they it looked like people were fucking no on the trailer that's what i think they were just kissing deep i think that they're going to do you know take some creative liberties because if not then like whatever like kiss on the cheek right or like the emily bronte stands is like bronte twitter going to come out and be like what the fuck was that man why they fucking in it oh for sure and they'll all probably hate me right now after this well it's like the studios know what they're doing the horniness is all in like the the words like um

I'm just reading from the opening of the plot. In 1801, Mr. Lockwood and the new tenant at Thrush Cross Grange. Oh, yeah. Oh, cross my thrush with your grange. Oh, your long pointy grange. Oh, I can't wait to lock wood with that guy. That's just where our dicks shake each other's hands like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weather. Yeah.

What's up, Brock? All right, you good. All right, I'm off to the Yorkshire Moors. Yeah, so we'll see. Yeah, but you didn't make it all. It does feel like it's one of those things that's like, oh, they were inventing novels, you know? Yeah, and it was some like depressed girl that never left the house. And that's kind of cool, you know.

Also, have me back after the movie comes out and let's rediscuss. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll probably go see it. So this is Emily Bronte's only novel, and then she died. She was on to something with her plots. Right. That's the thing. It's like everybody probably did die at the time.

So it's a very, it's a realism, really. Did she like die of like a toothache or something, like some like 19th century shit? Oh, I hope. Yeah, let's see. Emily Bronte's death, her juvenalia, her adulthood, her person. personality disorder. Damn, they really. Oh, okay. She was tubercular. Oh, wow. Classic. Oh, classic shit. Yeah, she coughed once into a napkin, little spot of blood, and then cut to gravestone. How beautiful. Yep. Yeah. That is the prettiest way to die. The chicest, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just a subtle cough into your white napkin. Your pale with long black hair. I'll be at Huckleberry. Isn't that what Doc Holliday, dies from in Tombstone. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. It's a good way to go. That's cool.

Hey, Jack, don't worry because tuberculosis is probably coming back, baby. So everyone can have their time. That's right. All right. Let's take a quick break and then we're going to check in with our good friend. What's her name? Kristen Cabot. Kristen Cabot, made famous from one of our favorite news stories from this year,

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Listen to Crimless on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back. And I thought it was an underrated detail of the original Cold Play Kiss Cam video that it was the head of HR, you know? Yeah. Because everybody's dealt with some people who are the heads of. Yeah, nobody likes a CEO and everybody's like, ah, CEO, fuck that. But also with the head of HR.

Oh, she was the head of HR. I never knew this. She was the head of HR. Or chief people person or something. Chief person officer or whatever. Chief Person officer. Right, right, right. So the devil.

I mean, we all know HR. Right. They're the worst person. Yeah. Right. Okay. So she's finally, before everyone's just like gleaning what they can from, you know, court documents or houses being sold and like, it sounds like they're filing for a divorce.

But she's like, I'm going to, let me give you all some detail about what happened here. Let me set the record straight about how it looked from my point of view. So, uh, one thing to. start was that she like hit it off with Andy Byron, the CEO, pretty much like the second she started working there. This is the new Wuthering Heights. Yeah.

Just a big ass drama where nobody fucks. Nose to nose deep breathing. So then, so apparently as they were working together, she comes to find out that he as well was going through a like breakup with their spouse. So that's when they're, I think that's when like the horny ears perked up.

And they said, Oh, okay. So we might have to, let me find out. Okay. So there was an instant spark. And then it worked for, you know, they were both kind of available, but not really. Exactly. This is from, so she spoke with like the Independent and the Times of London, I spoke to a couple of outlets, quote, by the time of the concert, Cabot told the Times of London that she had developed, quote, big happy crush. But she told the New York Times. Oh, so she told, she didn't interview with the Times of London and the New York Times because you got to get both sides of the Atlantic. She told the New York Times that she kept her feelings in check because he was her boss. At the concert, she said she had a few high noons.

The vodka seltzer is well known to college partiers. And the two started to act more like a couple. It was, she said, the only time they kissed. Now, they didn't even kiss. They started to act more like a couple is also such a fucking HR-ass euphemism. Yeah. That means you're not acting like a couple. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. How many times do you smash you? in a motel. That body language, like, he was pressing his hard dick against her butt. Oh, sure, sure, sure. Yeah. He was loving it. That's probably why he ducked because he didn't want to be upright and let everybody know he was packed of wood. She ran away and then he ducked. He went fetal. He's like, well, I cannot stand up. Not like this. Which is what I do when I get a button. Just do it in a cannon, assume a cannon ball position. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. Are you your stomach hurting?

No, I'm good. What's up? What? What do you need? What do you need? We were just talking, dude. Yeah, I'm still talking. I can still talk from down here.

Don't worry about it. We can keep talking. Now you're being weird because you don't want to talk about whatever we were talking about. Then there's like, they go into the next thing then. So, quote, immediately after being, after the big screen caught Cabot and Byron embracing and quickly untangling, ducking and turning away, Cabot said she first thought of accidentally humiliating her still husband, who was all. Also at the concert.

The concert. Yo! That is the one. That's the one. I'm a hold on, Kristen. So you guys were separated, but still going to the same concert separately, which I guess can happen, but it doesn't feel quite separated. Like, it doesn't feel like they're calling each other my ex quite yet, you know?

This is so good. I believe he was at the concert. Can you imagine being that dude? He watched it live. Oh, that's so good. I assume he wasn't sitting with the group. No, that'd be so funny, just getting cuffed on the side. I mean, he's like, hey.

I love you, Chris Martin. Should I hop in there now that he crumbled away? No, get the fuck out of here. Andy, you get enough, man? Can I hop in? You got enough? All right, go ahead, bro. I'm loving it.

I'm loving it. I'll sit right back down. I'll sit right back down. Y'all do your thing. Y'all do your thing. That's just so, I mean, I love how I'm just, she goes, oh, shit, my fucking husband. That's right. My fucking husband's also here.

Oh, my God. Quote, immediately after the big screen caught Gavin and Bairn embracing, oh, that goes on, quote, then a beat later, my mind turns to, oh, God, Andy's my effing boss. This is a bad box. This is so HR coded. That's how HR people. You're effing boss. he's my effing boss.

This is a bad look. Oh my God. This person's an absolute idiot. I know. First of all, so they knew they were at a concert where, like, did they not, because they weren't the first couple that was shown. Like, they were, their body language was such.

They were taking in the show. People who were trying to get on the kiss cam. Totally. Or it was just sort of like, if you're with your partner at a show, like, you might be like, hey, let me, I'm fin to grab you by you. and just kind of watch and it felt like they were just taking it in. I don't know if they were trying to get on the kiss camera.

Yeah, but when you go to like a Dodger game or something and you know that like the camera is kind of near, you see that shit coming. Yeah. The camera's not like tiny. This is a type of, this is a genre of viral video of people getting caught on the kiss cam with people they're not supposed to be with

and like shrinking away. Like that, this is not. This is probably her fault for being an. HR and being like no no scrolling YouTube let the office so this is like a summation of like one of the articles the times of London article really has some just real good quotes so this is her talking about it okay um sorry my god my fucking throat um i'm sorry just like guys i really believed in true love and um it was really shipping there's like some like some other shit going on in my life yeah um she's like quote we were sitting in the back of the stadium at the opposite end of the

stage in the pitch black, just feeling totally anonymous in an arena of 50 to 60,000 people. We were just dancing. I had a few high noons. Andy was standing behind me and we were dancing and I grabbed him. I didn't hear the announcement that the Jumbotron was coming. So suddenly I'm just seeing us on screen. Yeah. No, we all saw that. Yeah. We all saw that. That was the best part of the video was watching you realize that it was in fact you on screen. And he didn't happen to be standing behind you. Yeah, right? And it was like, back there somewhere hard dick pressed against my butt and i don't know we we call it a hot dog in the bun when he puts it with too much and we were just hot dog in it um and then she said

quote my immediate reaction was holy shit andrews here her husband's called she's she's got a thing for andy's damn son we were in the middle of an incredibly and amazingly amicable separation that is true from i've i read a quote from the husband who was like no we were pretty like chill chill chillly separated. I was worried I would embarrass him. He's an amazing guy and does not deserve that. Uh-huh. A word. Or she was like, this is fucking humiliating. And like the right thing to do in that situation would be like, okay, we can say that like we're separated because it doesn't make either of us look good. If I'm like, I didn't know, she was fucking her boss. That's crazy. Yep. So. Yeah, it's in their both best interests. Yes, it's in everybody's

best interest. So I'm just saying the fact the fact that he's at the concert is, I mean, it's not impossible that they were like, you know, separated and like on good terms and everything was cool and he knew that she was like fucking around with her boss, but like I feel like it's a little, I don't

know, that he's there. He's there, sloppy. That's sloppy as hell. That's sloppy. It is. I have to say, I went to see Argentina play a couple of months ago and I knew my arch enemy would be there. But I was like, It's a huge stadium of like...

Who, Rodrigo DePaul? Yeah, he's my arch enemy. Wait, you have an Argentine arch enemy? Yeah, they're a family that lives in the U.S. That took us in at the beginning. I don't want to like take this off course. But they're... The whole family hates my family.

And they have a daughter who hates me and we're all the same age. We're blocked on every social media that there is. Holy shit. Okay, so y'all at the game. They invent a new social media. You get on there and just block them. I blocked them on LinkedIn.

That's how bad it is. Damn, that's so cool that you're part of like a Hatfields and McCoy's thing. I love it. That's really cool. But I went to the game and I'm like, shit, they're probably going to be here. But it's like a 20,000 person stadium. They were sitting right next to us. No fucking way.

Right next to us. Right next to us. How was that? Did you acknowledge each other? It was so uncomfortable. I've never had worst anxiety in my entire life. And I was sober so I couldn't like go. get a drink to calm myself down.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was the worst. But what I'm saying about this, I'm not trying to hijack, is that, like, you think a stadium's going to be so big. Big enough. But this shit happens. Yeah. I guess my mind is always worst case.

So, like, that's why I'm thinking, you know, like, I'm always, like, I'm like, I'm about to run into this person who's also here. She was high, she was high on being HR, better. That's right. Yeah. Holier than thou. Who can manage me, boo. I can manage everything.

Yeah. We'll make this look fine. It goes on to say that so right after, quote, Cabot and Byron rushed out of Gillette Stadium as they started to process what it happened, thinking about what they should do next. They agreed they needed to send a joint email to Astronomers Board of Directors in case the news got up. They got a taxi back to where they had parked their cars. It was still pretty silent, Cabot said of the journey. All I could think of, all I could think about was Andrew's going to kill me. And what do we do about our jobs?

Byron and Cabot drove back to hers more than an hour away in Ryan, New Hampshire. During the drive, she received a text from an old friend who had been at the gig, but did not know she and Andrew were separated. It read, dude. Oh, what. What a great text. With three U's and three E's. Three U's and three E's. Dude.

How many exclamation points? Just one? No, not even. Just a question mark. Just a question mark. T-U-U-U-D-D-D-E question mark. I love that during that ride. You know there was a moment when they said,

well, maybe no one saw it. Right. Well, okay, so how many people were at the concert, like maybe $60,000, fine. We can control this. We're going to get a letter out to the board. We're just going to say it was super innocent. We were actually playing a game.

It was like we were doing role playing. It was actually a team building exercise. And then, but I do like at that point, she said that panic, tax we're starting. Yeah. Basically. So then, this is what they talk about.

They said, um, her husband texted her at four in the morning and just sent a screenshot of the video with the message, quote, I think you should know this is out there. Just, I think like that to me does speak like it's am. He was like, just so you know, bro, you about to get fucking steamwold on the internet. Andrews won me over. Yeah. Andrews, Andrews, I think Andrew's being chill. Uh, so then Cabot wanted to.

tell her children her daughter and 16-year-old son before they heard it from anyone else. Quote, my daughter burst into tears saying, I guess that means you really are getting divorced then, while her son tried to reassure her that it would, quote, probably go away. It did not. The video took on a life of its own, turned to fodder for late-knit talks about da-da-da-da-da. And then she talks about how everyone's LinkedIn accounts, their social media accounts, just got all these cold play lyric references, people fucking with them. Fake Facebook accounts are set up in their names of their spouses.

and there she is now. She didn't need to dig this up. No. Like, it was almost going away. Yeah. She must have gotten paid. Yeah, she got paid. There's been, since the moment that she turned her face away from that camera,

journalists from every outlet have been just hitting her up being like, you've got to tell your story. You've got to take your story back. You've got to tell it your way. And she does do that. was one of my favorite details that put her firmly in the HRS person I can't really identify with. She got mad at Gwyneth Poutro. She said that in July, Paltrow, the founder and CEO of Goup, appeared in an astronomer ad that

poked fun at the kiss cam video. And she told the times of London that Poutro, who popularized the phrase, conscious uncoupling, when she split from Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin, was acting like a hypocrite. And she decided to throw out all her goop products. Oh, my. She threw out her yoni egg? Yeah. Oh.

And then she also blames Chris Martin. She said he played a role in creating the scandal. It was disappointed that nobody from Coldplay had contacted her or released a statement. This is where you've lost all goodwill, Kristen. Yeah. You're just, the world doesn't completely revolve around you, it turns out. Yeah. I once saw Chris Martin when he was in the middle of being married to Gwyneth Paltrow at a bar with a famous actress, and they were like holding hands.

Yeah. That's what conscious uncoupling is. Yeah. They were already uncoupled. That means, yeah, I'm consciously checked the fuck out of my marriage. Yeah. And I know. Consciously?

I'm not even in denial. No, I'm off this. I'm very aware of it. Then she talks about just the ordeal after. It was just such a terrible thing. know what to do. Apparently one of the lines of logic for her was she wanted to get out there to show her kids, like, you can

fuck up bad and still, like, own it. Blame Gwyneth Poutreau. And blame everyone else for putting you on blast because you were out here doing whatever the fuck you were doing. And I think that's the thing. It's like, I think the other story is apparently because Andrew Byron too, if they

were broken up, it's like, it is what it is. Yeah, that's fine. Doing the thing of like, and Chris Martin's ass, he should have apologized to me. Like, for what? You were at his concert. Like, it's like, he was like, hey, why don't you come up here and kiss right now, even though y'all are married to other people. Right. It's great. I love this story.

I love that she came out and told her a story and we still get to hate the CEO guy. I can't wait for him to come out with his story and just not be able to, like, put a positive or normal face on it whatsoever. Yeah. So are they still a couple or what? I think the CEO is with his wife still. oh god wow they were i just read the thing that he was they were caught there they were photographed like together with rings on damn so i don't know i don't know at least it should have worked

out yeah i know it didn't like they don't she said that like they don't they haven't really talked much since that car ride back where the panic attacks started setting in yeah they were like that's been plenty yeah it says yeah, like in September it said they were still going strong him and his wife He said they were separated at the time So I know but I think they got

I don't know dude That's where you're like What's the story Andy Byron? Because then did he just throw Kristen Cabin under the bus to his wife? He's like, dude I'm so sorry babe Kristen was off the high noons She jumped into my arms

And like started grinding her butt against my boner Dude That's so fucked up right baby And I'm like, no, I don't want to have a boner at the Coldplay show. And she was like, you're going to have one. And I was like, no. And then Chris Martin like made us go on the screen, babe. It's so fucked up.

And like, I'm going to stop vaping and shit. Dude, I'll do whatever you want. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what. I don't know what, look, I'm all as well that ends well, hopefully. Yeah. But Kristen Cabot, I think in one of the other ones, she's like, I've left my career entirely at this point. And I'm like, going to figure it out.

And you're like, dude, no one's going to fucking remember you. that like where you'd be like I can't hire the cold play kiss cam lady right that's like the sentence under her name and the resume I mean they're not gonna they're not gonna hire for like being able to play like communicate well or like handle a scandal you know she's not gonna be on anyone's scandal team one time one time I cried at work and the HR lady told me that it's frowned upon to cry at work that HR people flag you if you cry at work And just so you know, I'm not telling you this because I'm flagging you. I'm just, I'm trying to help you that we think you look fucking crazy right.

The most undercover. Yeah, like they really just hold the line for the company. Oh, God. Yeah. And it's always done this. Like, no, man, like we share it. Totally. You like Hershey's kisses?

Take one out of the jar on my desk. They had just laid off like 30 people. It's like, yeah, I was crying. Oh, when I was working at Playboy, while Playboy was just disintegrating. upon reentry, the HR. Shout out to this HR lady, because she straight up was like, y'all, get the fuck out of here, man. It's ugly. She's like, it's ugly.

And I was like, oh, for real. And she, like, hooked me up with, like, an insurance coordinator, all these other people. I was like, thank you, thank you, thank you. She's like, get the fuck out now. Wow. Get out. Okay, shout out to the good ones.

One in a thousand that I've encountered. There's one that I worked with that I was like, why is she so happy today? And then it, like, came out that there was a whole, round of firings. Oh, my God. She was doing them. Oh, shit.

She's like on one today. What's going on? She's like so chatty and shit. Yeah. And it was just like she was in her fucking. In her zone. Yeah. She's usually just in her office ripping the wings off of flies all day.

For real. Huh. That's crazy. He thinks he can still fly. Watch this. Watch this. Oh, where are you going? Uh-oh.

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schools banned phones at the beginning of the year with their thing was like kids are on their phones in the classroom we've got to stop this shit and so they banned them

they gave the kids the little pouches to put your phones in like at the comedy mothership yeah exactly at the comedy mothership so now the teachers can

finally legal again for those teachers the special ed teachers are like, finally, I'm about to let y'all know what the fear, like, oh, no, no, no. Oh, no. I, you know, part of me, I think a lot of people were like, this, teenagers are smart. They'll find ways to get around this shit.

Right. This shit isn't going to work. But overall, like, the effect, so the New York Mag went back and, like, checked in on the schools. Mm-hmm. And it's kind of crazy to hear, like, at one high school. So, so this is one example of, like, what I thought would happen at one high school and entrepreneurial senior, bought a pouch-unlocking magnet on Amazon and tried to charge classmates a dollar per jailbreak.

That was me. That was me as fuck. But generally, they say, there's, quote, a pleasant buzz in the lunchroom, chatter in the hallways, and an alphabet of new analog hobbies popping up just about everywhere. They have card games, board games, sports equipment. one teacher hands out volleyball every lunch period and he says,

he hands out, listen to it. It gets weirder. It gets weirder. He said the kids are playing this. He said, it's no net. Open space, forming their own circles

of 10 or 12 kids, hitting it up to each other, an equal number of girls and boys. I hate this. Most boring ass like, hey, I guess we could just bump the ball around. It's like hoops and sticks and shit.

Yeah. They're going back to the kids. kid hitting a hoop down the street by with a stick i also love that they've been so on their phones just like wee ball yeah no exactly that's what i'm saying like the kids could figure this shit out if they wanted to right right i don't think they want to figure it out i don't think we're hard lined to just be playing with each other yeah aden amine a ninth grader at hunter college high school you say idiomene oh sorry i was like what uh why yeah is that is that a guy i mean is hiding out is ninth grader at Hunter College in a Hunter College High School is in a friend group that congregates in the school for FOIA to stack OK play tiles and compete at Sari and other tabletop games during lunch, quote, I'd say it's made us closer.

Honestly, half the people I'm playing board games with, I didn't know at all before this. Damn. I didn't realize how cooked these kids were. Yeah, like we weren't playing board games at lunch. I know. Yeah, but we didn't have phones, so we were just, like, talking shit and, like, making fun of each other. Like, you did. Like, they need to have their hands.

They'll discover that in the spring. They'll discover talking shit and making fun. But, like, it really feels like they've, like, gone back. It really reminds me of, like, the end of Wally when, like, their devices go down and they just, like, look around and they're like, huh? Like, they wake up from, like, a 40-year nap. Right, right, right. It's a lot of gambling, it seems like. Kids are, like, gambling with hair ties.

It sounds a lot like prison. they're like yeah they're playing poker gambling for hair ties and then there are side wagers going on on the games prop bets prop bets on the gambling on the poker games you know the teacher's gonna fall the teacher's gonna fall i got 20 on i got 20 yeah yeah that is that is so wow because i do think about like how at my school like people were like people had yo-yos and shit right you know we used to kick walls went through a yo-yo phase and high like my freshman year of high school we were hacking yeah you know uh god i mean And, like, it's, it's heartening to hear that it's, it was pretty seamless. Like, where suddenly it's like, no phones, you're like, board game, talk to friend.

Yeah, I'm shocked. I was not expecting that at all. Yeah. And the fact that they're, like, describing it as, like, an alien thing that there's a buzz in the cafeteria when all the kids are there makes me, like, realize that it was, like, dead silent before. And, like, that was actually something in our old, our show, Miles and Jack, I'm at Moosey's, our old NBA show. Yeah. Somebody was reporting that, like, now when you go into NBA locker rooms at halftime, it's dead silent because everyone's on their phones. Yeah.

No one's like talking to each other. Everyone's just immediately goes to their phone to see what people are saying about the first half. So, like, yeah, I guess it was like weird silent spring shit in there, like, before this in a way that I hadn't fully understood. Yeah. And now they're like, it's crazy. The kids are like talking again. Yeah. I mean, I love it.

Yeah. It makes you realize like, yeah, through evolution, like this is our normal mode of existence is to collaborate, to communicate, to hang out. And then like the glowing screen in our hands had everyone just like looking down. But I feel like I'm fortunate to be like a 41 year old who still has a lot of those skills intact from like, you know, the pre phone era or even like early phone because phones weren't even smart enough for me to be like on that shit all the time. No, same. I'm the same age. I had a pager.

Yeah, right. Exactly. The pager. That was, that was the shit. Honestly. Just what was the point of that? Yeah. But you got to put it in like a cool mint green case, you know, and make it customize it. But I think, I mean, like for me, like the most like exhilarating shit was like passing notes and shit. Oh, God.

And then someone being like, yo, did you see this note that Kristen Roe making? And you're like, you got it? And then you like reading it. People were, I remember people with Xerox fucking notes in the library. Chain of custody. And like mash distribute like a messy note. And they're like, yo, bro, they're not going to be friends anymore. Oh, I miss that.

That's so beautiful. They'll never know what that is. The little notes that were folded like origami. Yes. Yes. I'm sure they're, I mean, they got to be passing notes. That's a tale of old time. They're evolving back to that.

They'll discover notes like next school year. Yeah. T-I-82 calculator games, you know, playing mafia or whatever. But, like, I do, I've always admired in this generation their ability to come up with creative shit to do one board. Like, we've talked about the people who made chocolate chip cookies with the, like, hand-grabber toys. Like, you weren't allowed to touch any of the ingredients with your actual hands.

You had to, like, crack the egg with the hand-grabber. And, like, there's a, I was talking the other day about, like, kids who just, like, stood there trying to throw a piece of fruit onto the pointy tip of a light pole for four hours, and then they like got it. We're like, oh! Running around, like they just scored the World Cup. And like, I

yeah, like I feel like maybe by having like had to exist on these phones for so long, they've given themselves a new, they can be like boredom artists where they create great creative things to do out of just complete boredom.

A lot of those trick shot things are just kind of like TikTok live money grabs because it'll be like a kid trying to throw a quarter in the slot of a piggy bank from like 10 feet away. And like they're just sitting there with like coins around like, hey, what's up? I just can keep going. And then people cut those down to like when they do it. But there's like thousands of people just tune in to be like, I don't know, do this guy's going to ping pong ball off.

Yeah, off like 14 pans. I understand it now. I watched my mom. Well, see, I'm not on TikTok, but my mom is a TikTok freak. And I watched her make one yesterday, and I couldn't believe it. What was it up? It was like she had an all-girl slumber party this weekend, and they made a human bicycle. What the fuck is that?

I'm going to link you guys so you can share it. It's like there was like 10 women, and they formed a human bicycle, and they like rode around. but it was just women's bodies. So they're the wheels? It's just women's bodies or the wheels. Four of them were the wheels. Sorry. All right.

We don't have to put this in the thing, but what's her handle? So I can summon the video and we could watch it really quick. Oh, it's, uh, well, she posted it on Instagram too. It's, uh, Ro, Yahia or Roxanne. Yeah, Rojaea, I think. It's on there. Foxy Roxy. Yeah.

Foxy Roxy. Yeah. Okay. Is it everyone wearing red? Yeah. Got bottles? Yeah, it was everyone wearing red. you just see this oh that's a oh my god wait hold on wait oh my oh my sorry we won't be able to play this but hold on

wait till you see this part where's the bicycle I don't know I think that one just went on TikTok oh wow wow wow okay that's my mom guys yeah but having a good time see yeah having a great time And that was cute, how they turned a roll of paper towels into a trombone. That's my favorite part of the video, yes. Very interesting. Yeah. Beautiful, beautiful. Amazing.

Well, good luck to you, young people, rediscovering what it's like to actually be aware of your existence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hopefully this starts a trend. Finally, we just want to go out talking about Christmas movies. There's a trend going around, I guess NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour debated the topic of the worst Christmas movie of all time. They mentioned jingle all the way.

Love actually Scrooge. Oh, Scrooge and Marley. Oh. That's about Scrooge and Bob Marley? Yeah. That's right. That sounds kind of tight. There's a dog in it, no?

Or that's, I love Marley. Oh, that's Marley and me. Marley and me. Scrooge of Marley is a gay take on a Christmas carol set in modern-day Chicago, co-starring Bruce Valanche as Fezzie Is it Fezziwig a character? It must be. Oh, because there's the, where the Marleys or whatever, hunt Ebeneez or Scrooge.

I just know that from the Muppet Christmas Carol. He's like, we're Marley and Marley. Anyway, classic. I think this is an interesting idea to rank a Christmas movie because to me, Christmas movies don't need to be good and aren't supposed to be good. Like, it's its own odd form of filmmaking. game. Yeah, as long as they have to be cozy. As long as they're cozy, they're great. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I mean, yeah, jingle all the way fucking sucks. I guess if you're like analyzing, like, this story is dumb. There's none of this is believable. But like, if you just want to hear him go,

I got the temple man doll and, you know, it's terrible time. Great, great. And Sinbad gets to be a postal carrier with a bomb. Perfect. Yeah. I mean, like the one I hate the most is, this is controversial, like it's a wonderful life to me is like an absolute depression. Wow. We just, we just, we just watched it for the first time.

We just watched it for the first time for this show. And that's what, an episode that's coming out in a few days. Do you hate me now? It's just like the black and white of it all. It's like, I need red. I saw the shitty colorized version.

Oh, I saw the black and white version. But it was so, I remember one of my first notes as I was watching and go, bro, this is so fucking dark. This dude is beating this kid. Like, within the first 10 minutes?

The fuck is this? Yeah, it's my husband's favorite. And I'm like, dude, take this off the screen. Like, I want to kill myself. Is it because, like, the torture porn is so intense until that third act where they just like, and it all worked out beautifully, right? Doesn't that a great release? Yeah, exactly.

You thought your neck was going to get broken there for a second? That cop tried to shoot you, man. Yeah. Like multiple times. Yeah, I think if it's not delivering cozy. the aesthetics of Christmas, I think that's a problem. That's why Polar Express is bad. The Polar Express is bad.

I think Polar Express is a good one. This is my son was briefly but ravenously obsessed with trains, and we watched it a lot during that period. And the eyes are icy. Like it just sends a shiver through your soul. The eyes, like the character's eyes, like a doll's eyes are all dead like a doll's eyes they roll over white when when they go to drink their hot cocoa their eyes roll over white like a shark no it's just it's it's just off it was just they were trying to do something the technology wasn't capable of a real controversial one have you guys seen christmas with the cranks with tim allen and so this is officially ranked on rotten tomatoes as the worst Christmas movie with over 20 reviews.

So you're not counting your Kirk Cameron saving Christmas. I watched like the first 20 minutes of it. I couldn't really get through it. But it is very popular. Like it's beating Elf right now on HBO Max in terms of like Christmas streaming movies, which is weird. It sucks.

And isn't it like, doesn't it take place in the summertime? Or there's some summer. involved in the plot. Because they want to go to the They want to go to the they want to go on a cruise. Oh, well, that's why I hate it already.

It's like they don't want. Also, Tim Allen sucks. I don't need to be seeing anything with him in it. Yeah. Not even the Santa Claus. Yeah, even the Santa Claus. Yeah.

That's another one where I guess even now like I don't need, I don't really like the movies with Santa in it. No, you're right. I want to see people. I think it's really just because it's, I just want to see people in the cult. during Christmas. It's really,

it's got that. I'm like, yeah, this is cool. Yeah, fine. You're doing it. I need like red balls

everywhere and a little bit of snow. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Christmas with the cranks being 5% is pretty wild. I can't, yeah, I can't believe it's that.

They were that out on that movie. Is it just, yeah. Fuck Tim Allen. Right. At that point. Jamie Lee Curtis ain't going to do shit with her career. That's like what they write in that one.

They're like, should be lucky if she ever gets nominated for an Academy Award after this shit. And Tim Allen, I did recently watch the Santa Claus with Tim Allen and like he is a third like the part where you first meet him and he's just supposed to be like a very divorced guy. He's thoroughly unlikable. Like he's just like, he's like, what do you want? You want me to cook for you? God. He's just like your observational comedy is like it's hard to be a single divorced dad. And it's just like, I don't know, man. I just realized my father-in-law is in that movie.

Oh, really? Yeah. Tim Allen? He's, yeah, he's, yeah, he's, I fucking hate Tim Allen. Sorry, yeah. I didn't mean to spill it like that. No, he plays one of Tim Allen's co-workers. Oh, really?

I mean, it's not a claim to fame, but I just, it just hit my mom. To some, it is. To some it is. Yeah, it could be. I remember that's why we watched it. So your father-in-law is Judge, or Judge Reinhold? He's, uh, David Crumholz. He's like, uh, coworker number two.

too. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I like it. Oh, yeah. I actually loved his work in that. It's funny, though, too, when you look at like Rotten Tomatoes on the site, it's like the critics, like, the comedy's so broad. It barely dents its targets and a patronizing moral conclusion that goes against everything its protagonist originally stood for. The exhausting, like this is another one, the exhausting parade of white people's Christmas problems. For his only banality, blandness, whatever. Then you get to audience ones. We watch this movie every year. It's a Christmas tradition. Very funny. Always enjoy Tim Allen. Christmas at the Cranks is loud, corny holiday comedy and it embraces

so absurdity. Like, so people that, who aren't the critics are like, yeah, I don't know, sucks shit, but I'm not, I'm not mad about it. Like, it's just, because it's, it's a texture. It's a Christmas. It's a texture. Yes. Oh, I love that. Yeah. There you go. A writer Jam wanted to put in a word for

the worst Christmas movie being Santa Claus the movie, which I didn't really, it doesn't really exist in, like, the way Christmas with the cranks is like, for some people, a holiday class, This was like a $50 million production in the mid-80s. Oh, my God.

That was like, this is the definitive cinematic story of Chris Kringle. And apparently it's just complete dog shit. Well, I want to watch that. That's cool, like a Schindler's list about Santa's life. Right. Dude, it says, this is what he wrote. For starters, it's creepy as fuck. Opening with Santa's origin story, which involves him and Mrs. Claus nearly freezing to death,

along with their reindeer before being rescued by eerie elves who want to fulfill an ancient prophecy. Oh, I'm watching this tonight, you guys. And there's like a part where like a poor kid goes to a McDonald's and just like looks in at people eating McDonald's and they're like, God, McDonald's is so fucking good. The end. Just a hobo hamburger scene. Yeah.

Wait, what is this called? Santa Claus the movie. Easy to remember, Cam. Meet me texting you guys tonight being like, wait, what was it called? What was that, Santa Claus movie you were talking about? Santa Claus, the movie. Tam's Googling porn again. Fuck it.

The back of the iPhone will do. All right. Tam Yehia, such a pleasure having you, as always, on the podcast. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Find me on Instagram. I am Tamara Yehia, and my mother's Instagram is Roe Yehia. Y-A-J-I-A. both necessary follows.

Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? I'm reading Portnoy's complaint right now. Damn. It's so fucking funny. Dave Portnoy? It's the Philip Roth book. Oh, I don't know what that is. Oh, it's so good.

There's a whole chapter about when he starts jacking off. He has like a billion words for the word penis. It's wonderful. Oh, nice. Yeah. Some holiday smut. I could use some alternative. You're going to love it.

That isn't just cock. That's my one critique of this holiday smut book we read. I can use a few other words, but I get it. I'm not the audience. A straight cis head, like, cishead dude is not the audience for these romance songs. I was like, can we call it a man? I get tired of cock. And then he pulled out his cock.

It's cock. Oh, Jesus. Oh, no, this one's great. There's like shlong, shvance, schmuck. It's very Jewish. Anyways, I highly recommend this book. Amazing. That is a much classier recommendation

than I think we've had all year. So we're going out on a high note. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Let's see. Well, first of all, you can find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I just do want to say,

since this is the last episode of the season, I want to send all my love and gratitude to all the listeners, all the people who support the show. This has been an incredibly fucked up year for me. But at the same time, it's somehow been like one of the best most life affirming years for me. After the fire, like everybody's support was overwhelming. And for doing a show where like you just talking to a microphone, it really gave me this sense of community that I didn't really

realize. So for that, I'm very grateful. And that made it very easy for me to be strong, you know, and get through this with my family. And so I just want to say, shout out to all of you all. I really appreciate you, and I look forward to your continued support in 2026. So that's just the main thing I want to say, but also find me at Miles of Gray. There's a new show called Ain't It Footy, where we're talking about football, Chris Martin, not from Coldplay, and Jamel Johnson. So if you'd indulge me and take a listen to that, maybe leave a review, I would greatly appreciate it. And, yeah, just love to everybody.

Go do it. Go listen. That's my work of media. You should go check out. I appreciate it. Ain't It footy. And also those two white children dancing and synchronized dancing. Do you know that it's all over Twitter right now at Sam Cooke with zeros instead of O's that I only come here to watch this now.

Wait, what is this? I'll link it in the footnotes. Oh, wait, I have this thing. At Sam Cooke. It's just like mesmerizing. There's two kids in like baggy jeans. okay we don't have to okay so they're playing a little bit

okay doing some heel toe yeah this is are they twins I don't know but they're really good they're just like real yeah wow did the guy just put him like double himself in a locked off shot

this just feels I mean okay I guess this is fun for white people okay it's like I don't know these two dudes kind of half ass dancing but okay yeah it's half ass but it's half ass He gets mesmerizing.

Hypnotizing. Sorry, sorry. Yeah. Do you do you? All right. You can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zykeyes. We're at The Daily Zykeyes on Instagram. You can go to the description of this episode wherever you're listening to it.

And there at the bottom, you will find the footnotes. Footnotes. Which is where we link off to average white children dancing as well as the information that we talked about in today's episode. We also link off to a song that we think you might enjoy in Miles. Yes. Is there one last song? You think the people might enjoy? There is, uh, there is one last song that I think people would enjoy. Uh, this was actually a track that, um, producer editor Justin put it put me on to a couple weeks ago, but I didn't get a chance to shout it out on the show. Unless someone did while, did you ever do icedy, Justin while I was out. I did. I did. Damn it. It's always happened. Easy. No, I like, part of me as I was winding up, I was like, and I think he probably did that. I couldn't. Don't worry. Because guess what? I did. I didn't. Because guess what? I

I got other songs that I do listen to. This guy's got so many songs that you listen to. There's so many fucking songs. Ah, where is it? Oh, yeah, there we go. Christmas time. Again, oh, no, I think I've done that in the early years because that's the song that brings tears to my eyes.

This is the Vincent McRae trio called Living Through a Lens. Again, just more some jazzy shit. Okay, just listen to it. This is the time of year for me. This is like, like, nice jazz is kind of like my Christmas music. So check this out. Honestly, take anything jazz, any Red Garland, any Oscar Peterson, or this Vincent McRae. Also, Miles, I'm interested to hear what you'll describe iced tea like because I did a terrible job.

I made it sound like it was shit. So, um, yeah. What was your description? Like, here's a fucking song or whatever. I was like, here's this shitty song where a rapper sucks. I don't know why I like it so much. What is this bullshit? Get this shit off my radio sway.

Um, no, I would say icedy is like a, uh, it's, first of all, it's, the beat is fun is great because it's like cinematic, but then on top of it, you get Project Pats, just southern swag on it. And it just takes it to another level. That's what I would probably say. Um, and, and also fucking sucks anyway. It's 21 Savage who really phones it in. You're like, bro, you really need to put the microphone down. Right. Um, but this one, jazz, living through a lens, Vincent McCratrio. All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes. The Daily Zeke is the production of iHeart Radio for Mark. podcast from iHeartRadio visit the iHeartRadio wrap apple podcast or wherever you listen to your favorite shows that's going to do it for us this morning uh we're back that's going to do it for us this year we're back this afternoon uh with an episode of ain't it footy in this feed so check that out then and then the holiday content starts on monday morning yeah we got a lot of great episodes for you we got crofton rewatch watching home alone for the first time we got miles and i watching And it's a wonderful life. We got some Santa University.

We got a review of a holiday, a horny holiday work of literature. Yep. It's all happening next week. I think it's our best week of holiday content. So tune in for that. Yeah. And have a great holiday, everyone. And we'll see you in the new year.

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