The Daily Zeitgeist - TDZ's "Stories of the Year" Tournament of Champions 2024, Pt. 3

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

In this episode, Jack and Miles are joined by writer JM McNab and super producers Bei Wang and  Victor Wright to pit the top stories of the year against each other for part 3 of TDZ's inaugural "Stories of the Year" Tournament of Champions"!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our 11th season of Family Secrets. Listen to season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to the climactic final. Do you hear me, everybody? We're getting through this shit. Final episode of the Story of the Year Tournament of Champions, where we name the top story of the year. you're going to notice a tonal shift between this story and the previous rounds. Even though we're dropping them in three consecutive

days, the previous two episodes were recorded a month ago. In late November. Yeah, late November before we all met Luigi Mangione. And that is, we now have a problem that we have to figure out. Where do we put Luigi Mangione on this list of the stories of the year? My name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is Mr. Miles Gray. And we are thrilled to be joined by our writer,

Mr. J.M. McNam. J.M. Hello.. Hello. J.M. Hello. Simply having a wonderful Christmas time, hater himself. Must be. J.M. McNabb. Simply. I love when he gets so freaky with the synth, dude.

Wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham, wham. J.M. is furious. There's fucking steam coming out of his ears. I'm going to punch Sir Paul McCartney in the face You would kill him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's Old we're thrilled to be joined by super producer Victor How's it going good great We're gonna get to the shocking conclusion of the shocking conclusion that you didn't see coming and that doctors don't want you to know about

one shocking conclusion And of course, we're thrilled to be joined by super producer the tiebreaker themselves Alright so guys, if you haven't listened to the episode so far, this isn't gonna make a whole lot of sense, but basically we're doing a sweet 16 bracket NCAA style tournament, single elimination of all the top stories that we covered this year. So one half of the bracket is in the, uh, final eight, uh, Glasgow, the Glasgow, uh, Willy Wonka story, uh, Mark Robinson, RFK bear, uh,

AI 6.8 weeks. If you don't know what those stories are, especially the AI one, you're not going to rise against me. You are always against miles and you should go back and listen. Uh, we still have to do the first round of the other side of the bracket and also determine where we put Luigi Mangione. Although I would like to propose to that we. I would like to propose to Luigi Mangione. Would you marry me, sir?

That marry me, marry me, say, get proposalsosals like prisoners who just who aren't like international heartthrobs get proposed to all the time. This motherfucker must be just like buried under a bunch of paper mail candy. All right. So here is my proposal. This was miles. What you suggested before we started.

So we do have an omnibus story. Yeah, it is cotton candy burrito election, the election, the U.S. presidential election, the Bridgerton scam. Yeah. And what if we added Luigi Mangione to that? Those are all basically about the same thing. Yeah. You know, class consciousness. Absolutely. Cotton Candy Burrito is a burrito that had like a bunch of shit in it. Had too much shit in it. We did it.

And then like enough said, do we just swap those three out and say Luigi Mangione dunks on all three of those? Yeah, we don't. All those. Yeah. All right. The election. Fake Bridgerton. We hate to see you go. We were. We had Glasgow, you go. We were we had Glasgow Wonka. So we got a burrito was interesting because like it was such a nothing story.

And yet it was like really resonated with people. People were like, oh, yeah, I remember the cotton candy burrito. But anyways, he grew pissed off. He wore angrier at that than they were at the election. I think so. The results of the election. And so the cotton candy burrito was cotton candy on the outside, chocolate and both.

Convenient store on the inside. Basically. All right. So Luigi Mangione is now in the bracket in the whatever seed that was going up against Kamala Fashion Week party, that Fashion Week party. Which was like one that I was expecting to make a lot of noise up until that party

just ran into a buzzsaw. All right, so here are the matchups that we have to do right now. We're gonna just run through them real quick. So one is JD Vance fucking couches. And then we have the dick too big pole vaulter. JD Vance did not in fact write about fucking a couch, but the way the internet just made it so was a lot of fun. We were just, we weren't working with much on the

democratic side of the ticket. And so let's get to it. All right, let's get my enough. Okay, we already know. We all know the stories. We got to roll up our proverbial sleeves here. Everybody on three is going to say who they want to win. And that whoever wins will move through on. So I'm going to say one, two, three, and then you're going to say your vote.

Okay. Not on three. Okay. So like, it'll be almost like you're saying before. Okay. One, two, three. Wait, wait, wait, wait your vote. Okay. Not on three. Okay. So like it'll be almost like you're saying before. Okay. One, two. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Which bracket are we doing here? Is this the final? This is all of them or is this? No, no, dude.

This is the first. We're just getting to the first round. On the other coast of our March Madness bracket. This is JD. Okay. JD Vance, Couchfuck versus Dick 2B, Paul Volter. Okay. Okay. JD Vance couch fuck versus dick too big pole vaulter. Okay. Okay. If you look in the doc, I have the bracket so you can visually, it's visually represented. Okay. I see it. Okay. Couch vaulter. Yes. On three. One, two, three.

Couch vaulter. JD Vance. Couch vaulter. What? What? Did you say say couch falter? I said couch fucker. I say couch fucker, too Jim said couch fucker couch fuckers on to the next round Alright, congratulations to JD Vance couch fucking up next. We have ray gun. This is a fucking what what a matchup Holy shit. We have ray gun going up against RFK Brainworm. You know, the fact that RFK Jr. was being piloted by a brain worm, which just felt appropriate because nothing he did made sense. And then we of course have Ray Gunn, who appeared to be making fun of the idea

of break dancing as an Olympic event, while also being, yeah. Or just generally the whole art of breakdancing being an absolute joke. Yes, which I disagree with but There it is. All right on three one two three

Brainworm Reagan brainworm So JM, I don't think I heard you. I said Ray Gun. Ray Gun? Ray Gun. You said Ray Gun. I said Ray Gun. Ray Gun is a brew. Wow, Ray Gun is a brew. Fuck all of you. That's weird. Okay.

RFK Bear made it. Damn. So, RFK's still alive. The thing is, Ray Gun may have a brain worm. We don't know. Yeah, that's true. It's entirely possible. That could be the new defense for cultural appropriation.

I had this brain worm. I had this brain worm. I had this brain worm. I had this brain worm. I had this brain worm. I had this brain worm. I had this brain worm. I had this brain worm. I had this brain worm. may have a brain worm. We don't know. Yeah, that's true. It's entirely possible. That could be the new defense for cultural appropriation. Ah, I had this brain worm, man.

I'm not surprised that RFK has a brain worm, you know? I'm salty because I just lost my retirement funds. I bet it all on the brain worm. Brian might be kind to you. You might not owe him three Bitcoin. Right, exactly. Also, the brain worm, I was always a little suspicious because it came out during Brian might be kind to you. You might not owe him three Bitcoin. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Also the brain worm. I was always a little suspicious because it came out during deposition of a divorce where

he was like using it almost as an excuse where he was like, this is why I can't like pay you money. Right. So anyways. All right. Up next we have Kendrick V Drake, the beef, the rap beef. You guys hear about that? We got a bit of surf and turf in this matchup, it looks like.

That's right. And then we have, so on one side beef and on the other side, we got the private equity shrimp, red lobster. Whatever, never ending shrimp. This is hard. So red lobster blamed their bankruptcy on the bottomless shrimp and just being like, you pigs ate too much shrimp.

And then when you dug in, it was private equity. It was yet another victim of private equity being vampires who just insert themselves and suck up all the money. And it's like a sopranos type thing. They break in, they run your business in the ground and then you owe them everything. All right. On three. One, two, three. Kendrick. Kendrick. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You're not getting us this time. Private equity. Nice try. Sorry. Sorry, assholes. Back to the shrimp you go. All right. This is the last one of the first round, and then we will take a break

and come back for the elite eight. Is that right? Elite. Yeah, it'll be the lead. OK, finally, we have Kamala Harris's Fashion Week party, which was just a complete encapsulation, but also encapsulation of just like everything being completely out of touch. Just perfect. It's like if this had been more widely covered, we would have all known exactly what was about

to happen on Election Day. I feel like that is going up against Luigi Mangione. So that's where we're at. When who is Louie? Louie, Louie, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, the mangy one. Yeah, man. You won. Man. I won. Man. Guy. One sounds like it could be like a podcast hosted by a Joe. Man. Guy.

One sounds like a like a Manasphere podcast. Yeah, exactly. Work on man. Guy. One. Actually, my show's on man. Guy. One. All right. Kamala V. Man. Guy. One. And I feel like this might go down like election night.

Ready? One, two, three. Manga, I want to make one. Oh, man, I want to make one. Manga, I want to reach the way we are. Like a lot of America, we gen the juice. I'm going to keep trying to make that thing. And I'm going to sue you, dude. All right. We have our final eight.

We got Glasgow. We got Mark Robinson, R.F.K. Bear, A.I. six point eight weeks, JD Couchfuck, Ray Gun, Kendrick Drake, Beef and Luigi Mangione. What a what a final eight. What an elite, a truly elite this year, this time around. No Cinderella's to be had. We're going to take a quick break. We're going to come back and

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Yes, I do. There is something there is an extra there is a new wrinkle on the Mark Robinson story. I don't know if it was covered while I was sick the week that this story came out, but so Mark Robinson, if you remember one of the big things was like, he's like, that wasn't me. They set me up. I would know like, what the fuck is this? And he was using the screen name or like our account name, Mini Soldier, M-I-N-I-S-O-L-D-R. And then remember, he sued CNN and Louis Money for defamation because of that story. Then in December, this guy logs onto like a meeting for like inauguration stuff that's happening in the state and his fucking Google Meet login name is Mini Soldier.

Like he logged into a government meeting with the fucking screen name in question. And it was very internal. This wasn't a public facing thing, but someone from the meeting was like, they sent it to the assembly, which is the news outlet that first broke all the Mark Robinson shit. And they're like, dude, this guy just fucking signed into a meeting as mini soldier. I don't know if that does anything to his case, but yeah, that might be him. So just want to add that he completely self owned once more before the end of the year. So yeah, just a little did. We the Glasgow story had had its update, right, that the guy behind the Glasgow Willy Wonka scam had to register as a sex offender for stalking somebody and blamed it all on the Glasgow.

Yeah, it was like the story was just I'm not going to blame it all on 9-11, but it certainly didn't help type shit. Oh, whoa, wait, before, oh, now it's, apparently he was accused of rape now. Oh, wow, okay. So that thing has gotten completely, wow, a dark, very dark turn for that. So these two deserve each other in this matchup.

Yeah, very, very sorted story here. I think I have one based on that. I have one development, one mile development. It's not a real development, but I've been going on the r slash Drizzy subreddit a lot, which is all about Drake. And I've just been enjoying after everything. They're still like, actually, Drake is the better rapper. God's plan was the first one to make it to a billion downloads and not like us isn't

even there yet. Wow. I've just been enjoying all the saltiness from that. Isn't there a new thing that GNX is like one of the first albums that's going to like going to get to the fastest billion listen mark or something like that of any rap album? It doesn't even have like 90 tracks like a lot of people are pointing at it like, wow, look at that. Sounds like quality is better than quantity.

A. But anyway. Yes. All right. Well, let's we can talk a little bit more about that when we get to it. But with Glasgow, Mark Robinson in our head, we are now going to vote on three. One, two, three. Gladly, Mark Robinson. Oh, I'm a Mark Robinson Bayer. Mark Robinson. Yeah.

I really think Glasgow one is good, but that the last thing about. Oh, my gosh. Maybe soldier Logan brought it back for me. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. OK, that was a late. That was a buzzer beater for me. Yeah. So, Victor, what do you what do you pick? I voted Glasgow. OK. Oh, no, Glasgow. So. Oh, OK. It was truly a buzzer beater for me. Yeah. Victor, what'd you what'd you pick? I voted Glasgow. OK, Glasgow.

Glasgow. Oh, OK. It was truly a buzzer beater. It was like nobody thought nobody thought Mark Robinson was going to do this. And then Glasgow had to come from behind. Sorry, too little too late, Mark Robinson. But as a reminder, everyone put Glasgow as like number one. Yeah.

So it was number one. It was a fan favorite. Yeah. I think it's a new fan favorite one. Yeah. So it was a fan favorite. Yeah. I think there's a new favorite, though. Yeah. OK. Up next of all the RFK stories, this is the one that survives. You know, we had RFK whalehead lost to Mark Robinson, lost to Mark early, early out. Yeah. Early exit for that one. But now we have RFK bear, Heidi bear, where our bear, and this was the one, this was the one that

like had the whole like long read treatment. The New Yorker wrote about just what a maniac this guy is and told the story. It was, it's very vivid. It does seem to be the one that maybe got the most mainstream media coverage Although the whale head seemed to get a lot of like the zeitgeist But maybe that was just because it was last No, it got a lot of mileage because a lot of people started memeing that video when he was telling Roseanne about the bear Yeah, and it turned into you know That was the one where we went from like the brain worm thing is like funny to make fun of. And he's seems like a really strange person to like just

being on a different level of like, I can truly hear any absurd story about this person. And I guess I have to believe it going forward. That. Yeah. So I think that's where the RFK bear is getting a lot of its story. I will say, though, you know, sometimes this happens in sports where like an entire conference, like all of a sudden, like nine of the 10 teams, like they were doing great all year. Everyone was like, this conference is incredible, but they were like playing each other and then they get into like the round, you know, the NCAA tournament and they just get wiped out because they were just playing like worse teams.

Like they were all like a level below everyone. And I'm wondering if that's what's happening with RFK. We're about to find out. Mm hmm. Because it's going up against a six point eight weeks. Miles, do we need to refresh? A six point. No, because everybody knows that's my brain worm. That is Miles' brain worm. And it tells me what to do and where to go.

Do we say that this contains in it, it's like my version of this is, it's no big secret why Van Vought doesn't work in Hollywood anymore, which is a headline I saw all over the place on like the sidebar edge spam things with a picture of Vince Vaughn. It's no big secret why Van Bought doesn't work in Hollywood anymore. And it's just an example of the, you know, AI brain rot slowly making its way into the

world in a way that is like unremarked upon. Everyone's just like, uh huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, everything sucks. Nothing makes sense anymore. That's fine. Anyways, anything anyone wants to add on either of these stories before we put it to a vote? Let's throw down. All right. Here we go. On three, we will vote.

RFK Bear, AI 6.8 weeks. One, two, three. RFK bear. RFK bear. AI 6.8 weeks. Okay. No, I already saw. It's three to two.

Three to two. Shout out to producers. AI 6.8 weeks. Yep. Shout out to the producers for having my back, even though I say y'all were always against me. You prove right now that you weren't. And I really appreciate that.

Wow. That's our early exit. RFK making so much noise earlier. And yet I feel like his story is not yet done. And maybe that's what we're all sense. Yeah, I think we're we're going to have to he's going to be such a fucking main character this next four years or however fucking long. Yeah. Unless like some raw milk ends up being his demise. fucking main character this next four years or however fucking long. Unless some raw milk ends up being his demise, but we'll see.

Yeah, but it's just gonna be a slow Cronenberg movie death. He's like... Yeah, it's gonna look like Tobias in Arrested Development when he got the hair transplant and it's slowly killing him in front of everyone and they're like, ooh, buddy. That maybe then he'll be a number one seed. slowly killing him in front of everyone and they're like, Ooh buddy. Yeah. Yeah. Um, that may, maybe then he'll be a number, a one seed. That's what you,

that's what it's going to take. RFK jr. Um, all right. Uh, up next, the other side, the other side of the bracket, JD Vance, couch fucking versus Ronald Reagan. Yeah. Ronald Reagan. Mm hmm. This bracket is feeling relatively weak this side for some reason J.D. Vance couch fuck. I don't know. But maybe that's just me Anyone speak now forever hold your piece about either of these stories how they make you feel Why you think they deserve extra attention? They are both weak because they're both like kind of nothing stories like the JD Vance couch one

They are both weak because they're both like kind of nothing stories. Like the JD Vance couch one just literally didn't happen. And then the ray gun thing was just a woman embarrassing herself in front of everyone. You know, it was art. So just mark it down that Victor hates art. Okay. I feel like the ray gun thing was also this. It happened when I was like visiting my wife family, and it was this thing where online culture kind of just intersected with mainstream culture.

I was seeing all of this blowing up on social media, but also everyone in the real world also knew about it and could talk about it. It was just this huge dominant thing. Whereas the couch, I'm sure my parents, if I said something about the JD Vance thing, my parents, I don't think they would know what I was talking about. No, if I know my mom, she'd be like,

I really wish I had raised you differently. Cause probably you can't say that. But here we are, sorry. And then she would have said, couldn't you be a Olympic break dancer? Like that one person. Yeah, right. Tears in my eyes.

I'm like, I was. Okay, here we go. On three, one, in my eyes. I'm like I was Okay, I go on three one two three Reggie Vance Miles would you choose JD JD JD Vance couch JD one is through to the next round Congratulations. He he's in the final four. Yeah, that's huge. Okay. And finally, I hate to do this. Kendrick Drake versus Luigi Mangione. Oh, she was on both sides. I betray the working class for my West Coast allegiances.

I mean, both of these bodies this year. It's this is not an easy one. This one on the other side, the last one felt a little light weight. Yeah. This one feels heavy. Yeah. This one's heavy, man.

All right, Victor, you wanted to point out the Kendrick Drake beef might seem like it's an over and done with story. It lives. From our perspective out here, but for people, for the soldiers in the game, especially those backing Drake, they're like, no, man, this is shit. Even on the even on the Kendrick Lamar sub, it's still constantly talked about

to the point where like all the old heads that were using our our Kendrick Lamar were like, bro, I can't wait for the beef shit to stop because there's like a bunch of new people who are just like, Drake and like this shit is not about Drake. This summer is like MMR. Yeah. So it still lives rent free in everyone's brains in hip hop, for sure.

Yeah. All right. Here we go. Ooh, I actually don't know which one I'm going to pick. It's going to have to be in the moment for me. Okay. All right. On three. Okay. One, two, three. Louis.

Yeah. Okay. All right. Let's stop pretending. And I'm sorry, Kendrick. I'm sorry. But this shit is bigger than hip hop. Bigger than hip hop.

All right. We're gonna take one more break We're gonna come back. It is the final four and we're gonna we're gonna have the daily zeitgeist season of champions story of the year tournament of champions All of those words in that order is what I intended to say. We'll be right back

in that order is what I intended to say. We'll be right back. Hey y'all, I'm Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, host of Therapy for Black Girls. And I'm thrilled to invite you to our January Jumpstart Series for the third year running. All January, I'll be joined by inspiring guests who will help you kickstart your personal growth

with actionable ideas and real conversations. We're talking about topics like building community and creating an inner and outer glow. I always tell people that when you buy a handbag it doesn't cover a childhood scar. You know, when you buy a jacket it doesn't reaffirm what you love about the hair you were told not to love. So when I think about beauty it's so emotional because it starts to go back into the archives of who we were, how we want to see ourselves, and who we know ourselves to be and who we can be. So a little bit of past, present, and future, all in one idea, soothing something from the past. And it doesn't have to be always an insecurity. It can be something that you love. All to help you start 2025 feeling empowered and ready. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls starting on January 1st on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone. It's John, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the BlackFatFilm Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Ooh chat, this year we have had some of our favorite people on including Kid Fury, T.S. Madison, Amber Ruffin from the Amber and Lacey Show, Angelica Ross and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Film Podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast

or wherever you get your podcast girl. Ooh, I know that's right. Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro, host of the hit podcast, Family Secrets. How would you feel if when you met your biological father for the first time, he didn't even say hello? And how would you feel if your doctor advised you to keep your life-altering medical procedure

a secret from everyone? And what if your past itself was a secret, and the time had suddenly come to share that past with your child? These are just a few of the powerful and profound questions we'll be asking on our 11th season of Family Secrets. Some of you have been with us since season one, and others are just tuning in.

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And we're back. We're back. And can I just take like one minute to just argue that maybe Dick Too Big Polevaulter deserves to just like be considered back in here. All right. How much money did you lose? Yeah, I rewatched the video and that was it does deserve something. I was like, damn, it does. It does. It's only he had some consolation. So bad. You know, You feel bad? No. Yeah. I mean that for that guy he lost because of winning it though. Wait.

Yeah. So one thing, a couple of details of that story are that he had hit the bar already with his knees as he was going over the bar. And I have a loose theory that he thrust his dick forward in order to catch it because he had already lost. And so in a moment of ingenious viral marketing. Yeah, you had to do it for the marketing. Intentionally caught his dick on it and was like,

oh, I was a golden, I was my big dick away from a gold medal. I think I'm gonna need Kevin Costner to dim the lights and explain this to me. That's right. I think I'm going to need Kevin Costner to dim the lights and explain this to me. I did see that there was, he posted at the time, like a video of him, like that pole vaulting attempt and in French, their translation was POV, you create more buzz for your package than your performance. And then in the caption also put, I don't know, really, I really don't know if I should take it well or not, but with like laughing

emojis, he's a good sport and also bro, you weren't going to win the, the, it's fine. It's fine. It was good, good marketing, great marketing. We could email him and saying that he made it on this bracket. Maybe that would make him feel a little bit better. You know? Yeah. You made it to the final. No, wait, nevermind. Nevermind. Nevermind. Yeah. Maybe we shouldn't tell him. Yeah. All right. Glasgow versus AI six point eight weeks. Glasgow versus AI slop.

Now, this is hard because it's like a chicken or egg type situation where I look at for me personally, I look at the AI six point eight weeks thing as a sort of like this all encompassing like this is exactly why we need to fucking run in the opposite direction of AI in terms of like content generation or whatever and many other things. But then Glasgow, why am I saying Glasgow like you Glasgow is like a better scam with so many more fun things. And I'd rather see like a mockumentary about that than the

you know, Glasgow. Yeah, for sure. Glasgow does have elements of the slot in it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The what were some of the words that they were advertising today? It was so bad. Yeah, it was just a bunch of made up. Yeah, that's great. OK, so just some things that are on a cat catcating live performances, car chee tons,

on catcating live performances, car-cheat tons, Exacer-dre lollipops, a pass a dice of sweet teats. Yeah. A pass a dice of sweet teats, you say? A pass a dice of sweet teats. In it. And like one picture that was, you know,

a good example of like what good AI art can do, where it like looks like a trapper keeper, but it looks like, oh, this is, they've actually built a wonderland of candy. Like this looks like a modern updating of what Willy Wonka's chocolate factory would actually look like. And then you get there and whoo. It also sums up, yeah, the intoxicating nature of AI and how it will draw people like moths to a flame

only to find out it's a big fucking disaster Yeah, yeah, the the actual image was like a empty warehouse with Some like plaster of Paris big candy cane shit and some really bummed out looking workers. Yeah, very very bummed out I really do think it sums up so many different parts of it all. All right. On three, anybody else speak now forever hold your peace. I will say I do think there's something about the Willy Wonka. The fact that it's almost like it's not against me jam by mistake.

Like it's it's a genuinely hilarious comedy. I see that. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it's like it's a hopeful hilarious comedy. I see that. You know what I mean? Yeah. So it's like, it's a hopeful story about AI. And in that way. Well, and it kept going. Like each week there was new,

like someone else was speaking out against it or we got a worker's perspective. So it was an ongoing story for months. It inspired copycat scam events. Yeah. Bridgerton does like belong to this story and some yeah miles Do you want to just read the six point eight weeks copy just once? Well, I'm just again. I'll find out who's against me Okay, that's all that's what I'll use this vote for I don't need to remind people how important this is to me. Mm-hmm

Yeah, so we'll see let's go on three. Let's go motherfuckers. Yeah on three then Yeah, one two three Gladly, oh my god. Wait, did I say let the switch? I think you did. Yeah. Sorry AI It's it you asked AI to write that answer for you. I just said which one's better. Hurry. Help me. Help me answer for you. I just said, which one's better? Hurry, help me, help me. For your whole. Glass, what? And I was like, I'll take it.

Glasgow. All right, Glasgow, you're in the final. Yeah. Salute to six point eight weeks. I do think we got to read the six point eight weeks one last time just to give it a fair send off. This is how it originally appeared. Yeah. In's original story. And apparently, quote, research indicates the Gen Z millennials plan to celebrate Halloween by dressing up and planning

for the holiday about 6.8 weeks beforehand, which would, and then in the actual article, well, 6.8 weeks from Memorial Day is the fourth of July. So you still have plenty of time to latch on to a pop culture trend and turn it into a creative costume. Just absolute meaninglessness. What are you even saying? Absolutely.

Melissa Kravitz-Hoffner, you should be ashamed. If that is your name. Exactly. It's probably a fucking AI operation. Melissa Kravitz-Hoffner. That's who the Terminator is coming back for. Exactly. Melissa Kravitz-Hoffner, you've been erased.

This started with a story about M&M's prematurely launching pumpkin spice season in June. That's fucking crazy. That is too early. Anyways, adios, AI Slop. I'm sure you will be on next year's story of don't worry, honey. I'm getting a tatted right after this. All right. On the other side of the bracket, we have what one JD Vans or Rega JD Vans versus Luigi Mangione, the song of Luigi Mangione. Yep. I mean, this is, uh,

just raising so many, uh, things that I can't say out loud in my head, pairing these two against each other. But, uh, you know, I'll just say we, so we got the cat. Why don't you type it in the chat? chat. But yeah, really, the JD Vance couch fucking thing took over

the Internet for a good week at a time when we really needed it. Yep. And it launched a thousand weird ships to these guys are just weird, huh? Yeah, that's right. I mean, to be fair, like we were talking about how it didn't cross over as much as Reagan, but the Democratic vice presidential candidate

did like make reference to it and talk about like. And it said awful lot of the weird stuff. And it just started with like a dude. It was just like a guy who did like. A ship post. Yeah, it's just a ship post. And then it made it from that to like, yeah, being referenced in national politics. And also just so easy to check to see if it was true or not.

But it didn't matter. Exactly. It didn't matter. That's what I think is so wild about this story. But it was believable. Yeah, because you're like, I don't know, even if it is. I don't know, maybe. Fine, I don't know, even if it is like, I don't know, maybe I might.

I also feel like that was the one thing that Republicans didn't like being called. They didn't like being called weird. You can call them racist, sex offenders. Weird is where they draw the line. Yeah, that was the one thing they could actually point out that didn't make people be like, and I bet they call me weird, you know, as we've talked about, like when the Democrats are like looking down their nose at the Republicans, like that actually helps the Republicans. Like that's part of the strategy.

David Graeber talked about how these, you know, George W. Bush went to Yale, but then when he became a politician, he suddenly had a thick Southern accent and like spent his time on the ranch because he knew like it was part of a strategy where by being a hick, he would get the Democrats to make fun of him for being a hick. And then all the people would be like, well, that's me. Like you're making fun of me asshole. Yeah. Um, and you know Trump's similarly like there's plenty of things that He embodies that people criticized that people were like, yeah, you probably say that about me But weird feels like not one of them. It really is wild. We talked before the election I don't know if we've talked enough about it after but but that like once an election happens, it becomes everyone's just like, yeah, and that was always what

was going to happen. And there was no other way to avoid what was going to happen. The Republicans were going to win in a landslide and- But they didn't win in a landslide. Yeah, they didn't win in a landslide. And also if they had just fucking, you know, Kamala Harris at one point was like leaning in a direction of like populism and like criticizing corporations for greed, flation. And then one of her advisors was like, don't do that. What are you doing? And then the weird thing went away also. So just, you know,

who knows what would have happened if they didn't have exactly the wrong instincts. They should have leaned into the couch fucking thing more like yeah They should have been like dramatic commercials Body double this looks Do like child higher Haley Joel Osment the FCC just fucking like they're like man We racked up a lot of fines for airing that commercial. All right, it is JD Vance Couchfuck versus Luigi Mangione on three. One, two, three.

JD Vance Couchfuck. It's Luigi Mangione. What? Yeah. You think? Wow. Wait, is that who you picked to lose? Oh, no. No win. Wow. Who are you talking to? I just convinced myself of the JD Vance catfuck

during the course of that. Wow. Okay. I'm always gonna choose Luigi. Miles and Bay chose Luigi. Did anybody else choose Luigi? I chose Luigi. Oh, okay.

Okay, so Luigi moves on. Luigi moves on, all right. I mean, I think that goes with that. Again, this one guy has created so much class consciousness that the media is absolutely fucking freaking out and many other people are like, how do we fucking not talk about any of this? I mean, speaking of class consciousness, though, have you read Hillbilly Elegy, man? He literally made like a glitch in the Matrix.

You know what I mean, Luigi? Like, so I can't, I a glitch in the in the Matrix. You know what I mean, Luigi? Like, so I can't, I can't. Yeah. I don't know. I just think the image of a guy fucking a couch is funny, which is why I voted for it. Of course. Yeah.

I don't know, though. But think about like how he would have done it. Yeah. All right. Luigi? No, JD Vance fucking a couch. And on the movie's funny, you know, A barka lounger would be funnier. Oh yeah.

Pretty Ricky, was that the video? The Pretty Ricky video where those guys all fuck a couch, an ottoman, they're like showing their stroke game off. Do you remember that? Oh yeah. Teenagers, anyway. Wow. So we have the finals.

Yep. It is Glasgow versus Luigi Mangione. Yep. Any final words? Glasgow, I think they're both powerhouses in their own right. Glasgow being an encapsulation of popular culture and everything that's happening and how we love to laugh at scams and all that shit.

The Luigi Mangione, I think is incredibly revealing about the state of America, how suddenly there's bipartisan agreement over someone dying, but also then everyone talking about their hatred of the American healthcare system and what that's done, very powerful force. I guess now it's kind of like, we're deciding what's like the story

that like really feel like, damn, that was such a year. And that goes to Glasgow or it's like, holy shit. This was, I think that was the other reason too with the election, we're like, of course the election's the biggest story because it's most consequential. Dude, I don't even remember what happened. Yeah. Is there something about a burrito and-

And like a Bridgerton thing in the election? And then the Luigi story, I think is just, I don't know, I find it very, very interesting personally. And I think like most people do, we've talked about it plenty on the show. Do we do fun? I don't know. I look at one as being fun, the other being- This is kind of hard, the Glasgow versus Luigi.

It is. And that's what getting to the finals, winning the championship is hard. I will just say, this is not the Time magazine story of the year. This is the Daily Zeitgeist story of the year tournament of champions. That doesn't I'm not saying one way. I six point eight weeks. I don't get this. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, is it the story?

The biggest story is that the story that we deserve as a second rate podcast, you know, recency bias to a certain extent to the Luigi Mangione. Is it possible? My question. That is a good question. Six months from now, you know, I don't want to cast a like, have the champion be something that the listeners didn't get a chance to vote on.

I say yes, because I despise our list. No, I'm just joking. Yeah, I don't know. It's there. They're two very different stories, very powerful for different reasons. Guys, I'd love to have both of you win. Unfortunately, only one can win. It is Willy Wonka Glasgow versus Luigi Mangione. Oh, my God. So hard.ione. I don't know. Oh, you know what? Yeah, what one thing that could potentially Make the Willy Wonka story less appealing is okay the people that tried to turn it into a musical with like John Stamos Remember that what to me that almost kind of ruins the joke. I do remember that.

When you try to take it and make it like funny. It's like it was already funny. Wait they wanted to use the warehouse as a... No, no they made it, I think it was like a fringe show. Like off Broadway kind of thing. It was like off, off Broadway, yeah. Or it was like a wooden fringe. Wouldn't be funny if...

Oh wow, I didn't even know that. Yeah. So it's like it was already like this, I don't know. Yeah. An upcoming live musical that takes inspiration from the disastrous Willy Wonka inspired event in Scotland. I'm so confident nobody's ever going to know about anything that comes of that, that I'm all right discounting it, but. Okay.

God damn, Stamos. Hmm. That is that is tough to discount. All right. We're going to do on three. Wait, I don't know what I'm going to vote for yet. All right. Everybody say, hey, look, take a second. If you need to pray, go ahead and you discuss that with whoever you need to. Can I have the length of the old America's Funniest Home videos? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Where like everybody's like, all right, lock in your answer. the length of the old America's Funniest Home videos? Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Where like everybody's like, all right, lock in your answer. America, America, this is you. And when I say this is you, is this what you wanna be or what you deserve to be, America? If we're red, white, and blue, all the funny things you do.

America, America, this is you. America, America. This is you. Time to vote. One, two, three. Glasgow. Luigi Mangione. I don't know. I kind of take it back. What did you say?

Babe, what did you say? I said Glasgow. James, what did you say? I said Luigi. I, I. Vicker, what did you say? I said Luigi. I, I, I said, I said Luigi. I'm trying to hear this. The champ is here. The winner is Luigi Mangione.

Came through stormed in. My only thought, the reason I voted against him, and I hope he's not mad at me, is that I felt like Willy Wonka Glasgow is the story that 2024 deserved. It's just it's got a scammy nature to it. And I love it. Nature of it was kind of what I was thinking. So you're saying right before you dropped your ballot, you went, actually, actually, actually, actually, actually, actually, actually.

I know. And you went Glasgow. No, that actually, actually, actually, actually, actually, actually. I know. And you went Glasgow. No, I never said. That's fine. It doesn't change the results. Yeah, I hadn't said. That's fine.

But we just want it to go down on your permanent record. Yeah, I'm just gonna put that down. Well, my heart goes to Luigi Mangione always, because it's just- My heart will go on. Yeah, because he is just power to the people. But with the know, he is just powered of people, you know, but with the Glasgow, it was just there's just this underground scammy feeling to it that I think kind of represents T.D.Z. So. The fuck is that supposed to mean?

Would it change things if you found out that Luigi Mangione was also the one who pushed Jay Leno down that hill. Oh, wow. That's another one that might have made the list if it had happened before. Yeah, I think it probably would have been in there. Anyways, this has been our first story of the year tournament of champions. I'm really happy with how it went. I really appreciate all the listeners who contributed votes and who contributed stories.

I really appreciate everybody who got on mic to just bear their heart and soul about what they thought was the most important stories that happened this year. I did just realize something, I'm so sorry. People contributed stories and we just threw all those stories out to give Luigi Mangione the best story of the year.

I did say I did say that before we voted. You can blame me. You can blame me. That was part of the reason I thought a vote for Glasgow was a vote for the zeitgang because zeitgang you're always in my heart. But Miles, you know, doesn't doesn't care. Hey, look, I saw a lot more Luigi AKs than I did Willy Wonka AKs. That's definitely true. I mean, definitely. It did something.

It did something. It even got me a quote in Jacobin. So, hell yeah, I'll take that. Did you really? Yeah, I think someone listens to the Daily Zyte guys. It's like in an article of like last week, someone, a member of Zyte gang showed me and I was like, oh, you know, I didn't know that. I would have voted for Mangione, man. That's fine. I just like I said, y member of a gang showed me and I was like, oh, you know that I would have voted for

Mangione, man. That's fine. I just like I said, y'all are always against me getting quoted in Jacobin. God damn. It was it was straight out like something that I said on the show. So I was like, OK, shut up to you. Well, again, I love me. You know, they attribute it to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They said, as my smile's gray said on the podcast the daily zeitgeist and then we are back Man I really hope they don't quote that part where I said something about dick van dyke fucking an Ottoman

They're like never mind never mind never mind. And as JN Nick Knapp said on the podcast, the Daily Zyka, shtick me in the dick once, fucked an arm in it. Guys, great year, great work, great bracket, we will be doing this again next year. If it's not illegal, technically considered illegal activity under the new regime.

Alright, that's gonna do it. We're back with more year end content coming up, but that is the end of the tournament. Prepare for a montage of Luigi Mangione doing various things in slow motion, like they do at the end of the NCAA tournament, as we play... What's the song? One Shining Moment. One Shining...

The song sucked, but it's been given a place of primacy, courtesy of CBS. All right. Another one in the books, Swish. It's been given a place of primacy, courtesy of CBS. Another one in the book, Swish, Wallace Victory. Thank you very much to Ryan the editor for turning that into a podcast. That was a lot of, by design, a lot of overlapping bullshit. Thanks everybody, and we'll see you in the new year.

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