The Daily Zeitgeist - Top Stories of 2025: Part 3

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

In this special holiday episode, Jack and Miles are joined by Bryan, The Editor and writer JM McNabb to discuss the top 5 stories of 2025!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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america shared consciousness and for the end of the year we like to take a deep dive into the year that was joined as always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray. Hello. Hello. Who's that coming out of the Who's that coming out of the tunnel?

Willis Reed, Limpin. Oh shit. Yeah, yeah. Every year, when we get to like the tail end of the year and we start recording like banking episodes so you can take a break my, like this is my body's like, all right, bro. Yeah. It's when we find out that we shouldn't be doing as many episodes that we're doing

already and then when you add a third episode on top of the two episodes a day that we're doing is more games, more games. Too much. No, the athletes can't take it. No, Mr. Silver, more games. More games. Maybe less games. Since you asked for less games, we're going more. Yeah, we're

going NFL on that ass. Miles, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for this blue game. We're thrilled to be joined by the behind the Zoom chat for regular episodes coming to us from parts unknown he's been called the silent majority by himself just now uh it's brian the editor man i am also sick hi everybody's sick with it look um champion thanks for you guys when you when you look back

at the beach and you saw just one set of footsteps saw one set of quad tracks behind you Yeah. That was actually me making you carry me even though you're sick. Sorry about that. I got real tired. Yeah, you were actually dead. So I was just walking by myself. You can see like the, and it's like your footsteps and then feet dragging because I just grabbed onto your back and made you drag me like a sled. And for this final top five, we're counting down the top five stories of the year. We did 15 through 11, 10 through 6 the past couple of days. days. Today, we got the top five. I asked this guy, he's a, you know, integral part of the team. He's written a lot of these stories. I said, hey, do you want to join for the top 15, top 10 through six stories? And he said, Jack, that sounds like a waste of my time. Call me accurately because you bring me into clothes, brother. Only top five for me. It's our writer, J.M. McNabb! Hey, yeah, I'm not It's six through 10.

Are you kidding me? What is this? 10 through 15. David Letterman wouldn't even do 10 through 15. That was bullshit. Give me the top five or give me nothing. J.M., thank you for joining us all the way from Canada. Thank you.

All right, guys, we got a lot of stories to get through. We got a couple honorable menchies because we didn't realize they happened. We forgot that. No, that's not true. These actually, I don't think, even had we had them, on the list at the start I don't think they would have made the top 15 but they are important stories

we got rapture talk which we don't need to talk that much about because it is going to make our internet virality episode where we bring on super producer Becca Ramos to go through all the viral trends of the year that we talked

about and some that we didn't talk about something that we missed but Rapture talk in our 40s. This is the big one all TikTokers seemingly prepping for the rapture prepping for a trip to heaven and it was just kind of fun shot in Freuda it was fun to look back at that and laugh

but as of yet it still hasn't happened yeah but you know still possible you never know kicking the can down the road so they there is at least that they're not giving up on it they're like well there's a new one coming just let God tell me yeah could be that we got left behind

and it was a very specific rapture. Yeah, what if it was just like one guy? There's only one guy who's good enough. But it did. It gave us some great videos like that guy doing the TikTok videos where he was like there, boom, trumpets, boom. And then a kid playing with his parents, boom, the baby gone. Where the baby go?

Boom. Boom. Some great stuff from him. We also had, this was kind of a big one at the moment that just sort of faded away was when ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel. And we had to pretend to care. You're like, not Jimmy Kimmel.

No. And then Stephen Colbert, his show got canceled a few weeks later. It's just overall, the big story is the corporate capitulation to the Trump administration, which we covered a little bit

in all over the place. It's everywhere. It was just one of those things where it was just so out in the open where like the FCC, Brendan Carr's just like, I don't know, man, maybe this shouldn't be on the air because we know some of you guys want mergers and then I was like, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, nope.

That's really great point. All because of just the, this was just all in that. Really, that was just all in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk. Because just being like, he's like, what did Trump say? And he's like, how are you feeling about Charlie Kirk? He's like, this ballroom. Yeah, there is. So Trump was like that this is a great loss.

He's a new hero. And then the next day I didn't even remember. But, uh, yeah, the right. I mean, the right continues to be like this, this would be the no, the Charlie Kirk assassination would be the number one story where we are right wing podcast for sure. They are outraged that Charlie Kirk was not given Times person of the year. Uh, they're outraged that he wasn't nominated for a Grammy. You know, like just everything.

It's like Martin Luther King died all over again. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's really. They were mad he didn't get WMBA finals MVP. It was all a lot of, they felt a lot was owed to that man. They were mad that the Super Bowl halftime show isn't just going to be like a very long moment of silence for Charlie Kirk. With pyrotechnics going off.

Yeah, that's right. Deffining pyrotechnics going off during the moment of sight. It will be a permanent moment of silence. the most yeah after that permanent moment of thanitis no one's allowed to talk anymore that was they did try to they were basically like anybody who says his name takes our new saviour's name in vain you get fired and it were a lot of people got fired

uh jimmy kimal almost got fired he got like kind of temporarily fired uh and became the new leader of la resistance yeah when gabin knew someone everybody Everyone pulled up for Jimmy Kimmel, but I think overall it was more the idea that like everyone was watching just all of the rights go away in like such casual fashion that I think that was, that was probably the more for me the jarring thing to be like, oh wow, like they're really just going to go for being like, yeah, and you can't do this, you can't do this. Now this person's fired. Now I know they would love to have that really be like sort of enshrined in law, but I guess that moment, that, moment of cancellation was definitely jarring. I think this magic moment. This jarring moment. So that's bad.

It feels like anytime something bad happens to anyone who nominally supports Donald Trump, it's going to be used as an opportunity to just like consolidate more and more power. Yeah. Yeah. So that's, we learned that in a very acute detail this year. And then finally, Italian Bram Rott did not make the list. We are sorry Italian Bram Rott, but Miles, you were pointing out that did hit in April. I thought that, I thought that happened last summer.

It doesn't seem like it could have possibly happened this year. I thought it was part of Brat summer. I thought it was weird, kind of the GOP weird summer. But no, that was just fucking April. So, yeah. Get to that. And they're really good. Yeah, we'll talk about that in the virality, you know, took over the t-shirt.

shirts on the boardwalk, which is one of my ways of track of the zeitgeist last year was a lot of a hot toa girl. This year, Italian Bramrot is king. Were you able to keep the dates straight in your mind based on the boardwalk t-shirts? Because this was, this was Italian brainwatt t-shirts. Yeah. Last year was election year where there was a lot of Donald Trump, one Kamala, and so many Hock Tua. If we had gone off of my rule of thumb that you can tell who's about to get elected based on T-shirts, the Hoctua girl would have been elected in a landslide.

This year would have been Tum-Tum-Tum-Sahur. Tum-Tum-Sahor in the midterms in a special election. All right, but let's get into the actual top five stories of the year. Coming in at number five is The Rise. The win of won Zern Mammdani. Zern Mamm Dani, Miles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's here.

Our good friend Zorn Mammani. Oh, man, it feels good to say like the too much tuna guys. It's still good, yeah. It's still all right. And now, I mean, I think it was one of those moments where everyone was like, who's going to win right now in the aftermath of the election. Is it going to be all the centrists and establishment Democrats are like, We got to go more racist guys to have a bigger tent.

Or was it going to be the groups or the progressives or leftists who are like, you guys are missed the entire fucking point for the last like 20 years, which is like no one knows what it's like to be fucking. No one knows what it's like. Oh, man. Behind broke eyes. That's the thing. I'm just thinking of the Limp Bizkit version.

Yeah. Wait, is there another version for that song? Oh, yeah. There's a red durs behind the version of the song. Sorry for bringing that to your attention. Yeah, side note for people, go, why don't you pause this podcast and go listen to that really quick. But I think the message of his whole candidacy about being like, shit costs too much.

What the fuck? Can't we just make shit cheaper? Resinated immediately. And I think for us who have been, and like most people who have been looking at how unaffordable things have become and the indifference and just last. of attention intentionally from people in leadership. We're like, this is going to resonate. And seeing that was really, I think, was a nice win for people who were worried that

some just freak show was going to pull up and be like, how about more status quo and even more regressive? Because I think the fear after that election was like, oh, we're completely slipping, and which we are to a certain extent. but there was still there was still some hope in that people could be brought in to a campaign or to support a candidate who was talking purely like about affordability and right why that's needed yeah and ends up being we'll see if it's just talk i think it'll be i think i don't i don't know about his intent i know that it's definitely going to be difficult to implement these kinds of things

when you don't have like just you know uh cart blanche to change regulations yeah but i think like right now one of the first things that it's been talked about, which seems like pretty low-hanging fruit, is just like a lull cart licenses and eliminating like the middlemen who like, you know, resell them for higher amounts, which can lead to these other sort of things like cooperatives being set up. So I think I'm sure like it seems like the people that are there are looking for the things that they can actually get done and see some results for. But yeah, to that end, I think I'm also like every like every candidate we've seen in the last 10 years who kind of it on progressivism or like being

even DSA, sometimes it doesn't end up being the exact same thing. He's got the best shot though, and I will say coming into the year, like this would be the story that went the most unexpectedly positive. Coming in, he was a long shot that I feel like

people were like, best case scenario is he like runs close to Cuomo and like there's some momentum, right? That he's going to actually create an idea that, like, maybe you can run as a progressive. And the fact that the first sentence of JM's story from this was not surprisingly, Zeran Mamdani handily won the New York mayoral election.

And I feel like just taking a step back and looking at it across year 2025, that is the story that is probably the most shocking and, like, promising is, like, how much better that works. And even if he's not able to deliver on, that, like, I mean, the Democrats are going to do their best to not learn that message, but it's, it's going to be hard not to take any learnings from that. And even like we just saw the Miami mayoral candidate, like a Democrat won the mayoral seat in Miami for the first time since 1997, focusing on affordability. Yeah. I think the question is,

will that bear fruit? Will they do anything? That's, I think that's the really, the rubber meets the road and I think that's where I'm still reserving my judgment to see like what can be done and how that's messaged because yeah there's a ton of support for that and I think yeah again after that election you're like wait people do people want fucking fascism or affordability because he was kind of pitching both to people um and then now seeing that like more of the polling shows like some people did want fascism uh but most people still want the affordability part um miles Let's split the difference and go for a fashability. Yeah, okay.

You're right. You're right. Yeah, I think fastability is better. Yeah. For short ability. And then, of course, so it was fun to watch the right spiral in response to this. Sure. Freaking out.

People being like, he's about to kill us all. Billionaires, millionaires. Everybody has to move to New Jersey. He's going to make us use Arabic numerals. Yeah. Yeah. That was great. That was great.

When people were trolling with that, it's like, he's going to make people use Arabic numerals. And they're like, what the fuck? Really? They're like, hey, dumb fuck. Why don't you look up what our numeric, like our numeral system is based on? Yeah. Day after the election, the millionaires were all raptured to upstate New York and New Jersey. The Adirondex and shit.

Yeah, exactly. And then there was also, I mean, he came through another thing that like just in both cases, things that went more positively than, I think. think I could have expected is his election performance and then his showdown with socialism where Zaron went down and met with him. And everyone was like, get ready to be owned, Lib. And then Donald Trump was like, I think he's cute. Yeah. I think you, do you think he likes me? My wee wee's kicking. Wow. Look at this. Yeah. I think the other part too that was great to see was that all of the sort of status quo attacks

on a candidate who's running on the left or just is Muslim like none of that shit was working this time because they went so hard you know like they tried every tool the first one was like this guy's a freaking socialist yeah

and there was Bricketts and they're like okay fuck fuck fuck all right what about this one I try oh this one's a good this is a good one he's a fucking Muslim and he's gonna do 9-11 on you again every day every day is at 9-11 every day a new 9-11 that was his campaign promise you guys

and again fucking crickets crickets everybody's like gas was affordable during 9-11 yeah right so was cocaine but this thing yeah just seeing the fact that none of those things work as distractions from the main point which is like yeah dude i don't bring that on bring on a personal color Muslim, socialist, if that means someone is hearing what I'm saying that the hardest thing to survive right now is everything is unaffordable, if someone's listening to that, that is actually going to get someone's attention. But everyone's fear is, well, how is this going to be co-opted? How is this going to be blunted so that all that energy is sort of like in political Aikido, just like redirected into yourself. And you're like, and don't worry, things are still

going to be as unaffordable as possible. But I'm optimistic, given that there are enough people who are supporting it and support the policies. I mean, just the optics, too, of just a young person who doesn't necessarily come from dynastic wealth and influence running New York is kind of nice to see. Oh, his mom's a filmmaker.

His mom's a filmmaker. He grew up in a nice house. That was rent controlled. Yeah. Yeah, power, yeah. Let's take a quick break. We're going to come back. We're going to get to stories number four,

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Yes. Wake up at 4 o'clock. Yeah. That was a face in Saratoga Springwater. I wonder, he's, I wonder like, I wish you could check these people. like bank accounts. Yeah. You know what I mean?

I really want to know, like, oh, he doesn't have a net worth thing when you Google him. That means he's fucking broke. Well, no, of course not.

Yeah, because they're all like, they all have obscure jobs, like elite trainer, fitness consultant or something. It's like, because you sprint like with a G-wagon chasing you. That's-

Honestly, when you're built like that, you can charge goofy people, like, whatever you want with a whatever title, like, because they will never build that physique. Damn,

how you do that? The guy was called Ashton Hall. Yeah. What did we learn from him? Because I do just want to go through the things that we, so he got up at 4 in the morning, handed a bowl of ice water that had been poured from a glass bottle of water. That's good. You always need to watch some kind of church service.

You need a sweaty black man to yell at you for 45 minutes while you get ready. Yeah, the silk. Yeah, the silk. Yeah. It's basically, it's stealing money from his parishioners. Mark Wahlberg style. So he's been up for two hours. By 6 o'clock, he's now just getting ready to go out for a run.

And he's done, fuck-all, by the way. He's done-buck-all. He's important to know that he has more efficient. He doesn't need as much sleep because he has more efficient sleep because he tapes his mouth closed. Right. At night with a little band. Yeah.

Which was important for me to know because I had not been. And so I started doing, I started mummying my whole shit up and taping my whole whole head. But you, but your breathing stopped, right? You said, yeah, yeah, it was bad. I had to go to the hospital for a little bit. I've been to punch a hole through with a key. You might have noticed my takes getting less coherent around this time. Yeah, so he, he did that.

Rubbed a banana on his body. Is that a banana? Tiny push-ups. Yeah, a banana peel. He's just walking around smelling like, bananas? Yeah, it's good for your face, dude. It's exfoliating. Oh, damn, he's getting all he's, why do you show his armpit hair? He's shaving that. Okay, he flosses. He has to touch his glasses for three minutes. This is how you get dressed. He showed me how to get dressed. Who is handing him shit?

He has the staff. He has female assistant. He has female. He got some man hands in there too. I feel like I saw three sets of hands. Oh, yeah. Okay, that, okay, so the dude, there was a dude who pulled out like the weird pedestal because you to show some tatted arms and big biceps. And then there's something, just a manicured hand, throwing him some cologne. And he is doing way too much. Oh, he's,

he's spraying it way too much. Holy shit. Hold on. You should not be spraying that much cologne on your penis. Maybe it's, oh, de toilette. Okay, maybe it's a little lighter in concentration. He has like a funeral arrangement of roses. I'm sorry, I just pause.

This motherfucker's credit card is, right here. Oh, yeah. We got the digis? 4147. You know, that's a visa. 2026. You got the CCV.

6850-0596. Expiration date, August 29th. Three-digit code 310. All right. Who wants a jet ski? You need to have some OPSEC even on your stunt content, sir. You got the whole back. And I bet you people can clock what weird-ass building you live in Miami.

me. And they could... This is the clip. You're welcome. We're just doing a clip so that you can buy a jet ski. There you go. There it is. Zoom in.

It's out there, guys. I'm assuming he wanted this to be in public. There was the original video also had a great moment where he... Like, because... Why he's pulling an iPhone out of the box? Because he just got it. He gets a new iPhone every day. He just got it.

You know how NBA players like, do you... Are you using yesterday's iPhone today? Brian has a new Wait sure I know Brian uses Samsung You surely pop open A new galaxy Every day, right?

You surely have I'm poor I can only afford You surely have a woman $1,200 flip phone Miles Surely have a woman throwing you a brand new

box of phone every day Every day I just I open up my phone I use it And then I fold it The wrong way Yeah

Just snap it in half I just like You don't even break it You just put it down On a pile of other ones And it's just like there You're like, what did these are, what the...

I didn't see this far into the video. I didn't realize he unboxes a new iPhone 17 Pro Plus. This is an original one that went viral, uh, had... It's very similar. It's like broken out by like, okay, 829, spray my chest with Cologne. 830. Spray my dick with Cologne. Like it's a moment by moment breakdown.

At one point, uh, he jumps to dive into a pool at like 920 and then land. Man's in the pool at like 924. Oh, there is that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So great learnings from him. The assistant you can't see kind of reminds me of like, remember in the Muppet babies where the nanny, you only saw their legs?

Yes, it's kind of like that. Do you think this is nanny? This is what nanny's up to. She's had to move on to just helping man influencers. Jesus. It was the original man influencer, by the last. He was, man. A lot of people.

A lot of Kermits out there was something we talked about this year. And then we also got to meet a guy who taught us how to sit in a chair while just being constantly tormented by bullies who had once told him like he wasn't doing things manly enough. This man has cried a lot. This is him talking about, talk about you are overthinking so much because you're so insecure. He's like, you're not masculine enough. So he walks, he goes, dude, that was gay, dude, that was gay, dude, that was gay.

I like the luggage one because you can really see the, the, the mass slip and it all falls apart when he's doing the luggage one and he drops it and starts stumbling over his words. Like, you don't want to look like fucking stupid idiot dropping, he's bending over gay stuff. Like he was losing it in his mind. he taught us this year how to open a water bottle, sit in a chair and pick up a suitcase. His main thesis seems to be

it's gay to bend over and so he is just teaching you how to do various things. You never want to be in a vulnerable position. Yeah, he's teaching you how to do various things. So he like walks up to a chair and is like, this is how you pull out a chair when you're sitting down. And then he like

bends all the way over. He's like, uh, that's how you do it whereas I do it I stay straight up like a like there's a pull up my head on a swivel

yeah and then he does it for a thing that like must have just happened to him which was walking through the airport like pulling a rolling suitcase and then you accidentally drop it it's just like not a dated

a daily occurrence to anyone and then he found himself bending over to pick up his bag and he was like fuck I got to make a video about this to make sure this doesn't happen to anybody else. Because you know what happens when that does happen is it makes a loud sound and everybody turns around and looks at you. Everyone turns around and looks at you and they're looking at you. And they've got all these eyes on him.

They cross their arms in front of them and they're like, mm-hmm. So here he is giving you tips. I don't lean over it. I should use my whole body. Use your whole body. I'm trying to shift. I'm not putting my head there and then moving. the proper way to do it

get up shift the whole body with your head continue the movement and it's pathetic if you drop some and you start stop being looking and acting frustrated stop being looking stuff

he says through just years of frustration yeah like and fear his dad was a very kind man it's clear yeah this guy had such a good the most alpha thing you could do in that situation is just keep walking and leave your luggage. Leave your luggage behind.

There's no, no cool way to pick up walking. The issue with all this stuff is is that people who are secure don't give a fuck about anyone around them or thinking about what another person thinks about them.

That's really the skill that you're trying to teach people in a holistic way is that you don't need to worry about other people's perceptions of you. You can be complete, you be you who you are and that's all that fucking matters but these people all live in a world where they're like i live entirely for an external audience and i must perform for them or else i am not this thing that i'm performing as it's just so funny that it's like it it basically

comes down to the most intense version which is shit like this is like you can't fucking get in a chair like this bro you can't open a water bottle like this bro you got to fucking dominate that thing every act is freighted with like the pressure of performing masculinity like in the most egregious way possible. Right. So like it's funny because when he's just trying to walk at the beginning of the video, he can't walk normal because he just like feels like every move he makes is being judged by a panel of men being like.

Also all of his clothes are too tight. They don't look comfortable. That's how you know he's fucking working out. So here he is just... Pulling it over, then coming in and... Pulling it over. Hell, yeah. More trap.

Make that chair serve you. What the fuck is this song? Dude, make that chair serve you. And I think the best one is the best one of the water bottle. It's fucking so stupid. You're drinking... Open a water bottle can absolutely ruin your first impression. What?

So he stopped. Do it right. You got to grab a bottle. I'm sorry. He just opened it. He's like, stop. You grab it by the base. And then you twist it.

And you twist it and then you like jack it off a little bit. Yeah. Don't forget about the nuts either. Don't forget about the nuts. All right. All right. Man tips for you. But his way of opening the water bottle, like here's how you do it.

And then he like goes to the water bottle and like punches over it. Like yeah. Yeah. He curls his shoulders. A real four. Straw man situation. You know, it's actually really funny. I just noticed this in the video, he tags body armor water.

He says the right way to open an at, drink body armor water bottle and this isn't even a fucking ad I think this guy's thinking if he tags them he'll get the attention of this company and they're like yeah yeah this is what we want to align he saw the other guy with the Saratoga

whatever the fuck and he's like oh I got to get one of these water sponsorships but what I got to do is be like hey you're you're fucking less than you're a fucking loser dickless man unless you open a bottle like this body armor right guys you co-size you here's you you're

oh god how do i open this water bottle i mean but we all know real alphas don't drink water out of plastic bottles like how fuck was he thinking well but he does have to because an important detail of the video is after he correctly opens it and takes a sip he then closes it and fucking throws it on the ground like somebody who's very comfortable in their masculinity and making everything seem effortless yep i don't know i think you guys are being too hard on him i think that's what i'm going to do from now i think that ruled Yeah, he has been quiet, this whole segment. Yeah.

Just in, oh, he's like, oh, wow. Guys, that's my- Rolling your eyes, yeah. He's taking vigorous notes. You should have seen how Jay and walked up. Again, I think to Brian's point, Real Offers don't drink out of bottles. Yeah, they drink out of the L.A. River.

Okay. Have you seen the chair company, the show? Yeah, yeah. Sitting in a chair the wrong way can ruin your life. That is true. Yeah. That is the thrust of that show. I wish he, that would be so funny as an influencer, but take, like, but taking that perspective on, like a Tim Robbins character's like, but not, it's not Tim Robinson. It's like this muscle bound freak doing it. He's like, you got to be careful because look, you could fall in it. And then nobody takes you seriously. And then what? He's just playing out absurd. Anyway, that's a comedy spoof channel for someone to run with. He's, but he is great. I mean, he is like a Tim Robinson character come to life in, um,

In reality, and we respect him. That's why he made the top ten, the top four stories of the year, along with the Saratoga Springs guy. All right. We're on to number three, guys. You may have heard about these, these dang Epstein emails. Who? It's a non-story.

It's overblown. First of all, guys, the guy is dead. So why are we even still talking about him? why are we you guys are so stupid you're still talking about this guy oh my god i'm so embarrassed for you you know coming into the year donald trump was riding pretty high just been elected president things are looking good and this among many other things this seemed to be the thing where people were first like what the fuck is he doing like even on his side we're like why does he keep uh being like i actually don't care about this anymore this thing that was a major part of my

campaign and then the emails dropped and he is the name that is most mentioned i do think the democrats did a good job dropping that first batch of emails with the one that said he is that dog that hasn't barked it's just like yeah it just feels like oh man what does that even mean actually i never bothered to ask because i didn't really care but what does that mean it means that he is the thing that hasn't been talked about yet in all of the controversy surrounding, you know, everybody covering this back in 2011. So this is in 2011. This is before he even has a political career.

But Epstein's like, you know whose names are not getting mentioned who was like my number one pervert, my number one guy for a long time was Donald Trump? It is a weird way of putting it. It's like a Leonard Cohen lyric or something. It's, it's a little tangential. for me and I don't like it and it's sort of fitting with the whole Epstein brain thing

that he's got going on. Yeah. And then a bunch of emails came out. He was all over them and just seems bad. He doesn't seem to know how to respond to it other than posting a bunch of images of he and Melania being like normal Mac

like the White House in the immediate aftermath post a picture of him. Benny Johnson style posts. Yeah. Well, I was specifically after the the Clinton thing. Yeah, that was after everybody started speculating that he sucked Bill Clinton's dick.

That happened. Classic. So many fucking things happen. At White House, a picture of Donald Trump kissing Malani on the cheek with the quote, I can't help falling in love with you. My genetically female wife.

Jesus. Adult wife also. America's power couple of them holding hands. I don't know This story is just beginning I would say Yeah because as of this recording They haven't dropped yet

They're gonna drop a week from today Yeah they're supposed to And then that's when I think A lot of the parsing through will begin So this is gonna be another one of those weird Christmas breaks We're probably gonna just read the wildest shit Probably coming out of this

Or who knows I don't know Or they're gonna be pretty wild reading a completely black tome. That's what we see. Because that's the other thing, too, is like, the,

obviously the, like, the Democrats are like, we'll see what this looks like. Like, what form these documents look like they're in. But yeah, more to come.

But I think the other huge thing about just the Epstein emails and files thing is like, it really started fucking, like, wobbling the, a lot of like the maggot people, too. Yeah.

Like, it seems like it's the first crack that we've seen. in the MAGA stuff that actually like there's been plenty of things where people are like well surely he's he's done now and it you know anything where he's being corrupt to protect himself yeah people are like yeah no that's what we like about him he's like a cheater businessman guy like that's we we like that he like does whatever he wants to gain power that's what we think is cool we feel like we need a strongman because the current system doesn't work, but like they built

an entire fictional universe around him where he is like the head pedophile catcher. That's been a huge part of his mythos is the fucking whole QAnon thing and to have him then

be revealed to be the head pedophile no catcher seems seems bad and even like Marjorie Taylor Green broke with them a lot of people started being like I don't know about this yeah I wonder if some people was like I don't know if they can handle hearing that Pony Stark was Thanos also at the same time but yeah we'll see we'll we'll see seems like one that's going to be worth paying attention to but it did it did it was a big

enough deal this year that it did make our list I mean the the Bubba stuff was really fun that was a fun weekend I feel like that was our J.D. Vance Couchfucker meme of 2025, you know? It was a big weekend for those two guys from The Shining. Oh, yeah, the guy in the bear costume.

Yeah, the bear costume being, having his face and Donald Trump's face. No, I distinctly remember laughing really hard for about 45 seconds when I was like, okay, I guess I'm going to have to Google. Did Trump blow Clinton? Yeah. I was just like, wow, great year, great year.

We wouldn't be journalists if we didn't come out and say that Mark Epstein came out and said it wasn't about Bill Clinton. So we don't know. It could have been Bubba the Love Sponge, the guy who filmed the sex tape of Hulk Hogan, fucking his wife. I'm thinking Bubba Gump. That's my big. I think Bubba Gump from, yeah, I mean, it was the 90s. That's who I would want it to be. Bubba Gump is the name of the company.

Bubba Gump is the name of the company. I've never actually seen the movie because I think it's stupid. Sorry. Oh, you're way off. You're way off, Brian. No else taken. No else taken then. It was a touching tribute to his friend Bubba.

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I feel like this next story in a way was our Luigi of this year Luigi Mangione. In that it allowed us

to hate on CEOs in a way that was a little bit more fun a little less bloody. That was this year. I'm talking of course

about the CEO Coldplay couple and also to a lesser degree but I still want to I think it deserves an honorable mention. The CEO stealing that kids had at the U.S. Open.

Yeah. I think that one is definitely, yeah, the CEO, the cheating CEO thing is, is by far like the most potent of, that is our number two story is the cold play concert. It's just,

oh, God. The internet really came together that day and did his job. Like, and I was proud. I was like, oh, internet,

you were. You did it all. Yeah. The speed at which the response memes. Oh. So to recap, there's a, there's a kiss cam going around at a cold play concert. They focus on a couple that look like a married couple. He's holding her from behind.

And the second there's show, he melts into the background. All right. Come on. You're okay? He ducks. Either they're having a fair Or they're just very shot Oh no

You may have been spot on Because then I feel so bad for the woman Who had to face the care Because the woman turned around And then talked to her home girl Who's her employee Okay

He did like if Mitch McConnell was present for a shooting Yeah He just like went to the ground very slowly This I just love the chin, just the little bits of... Yeah, there's a moment where he realizes he's on and his face goes from smiling to his chin going up like,

like, he's like, he can actually... He's doing the biggest gulp of all time. It's that shot in like 80s action movies right before like a tertiary bad guy character is about to get killed in a really funny way. And he's like, gul? Yeah. Yeah, he just... He loves for the camera.

for a few frames. 100%. Yeah. And she looks like she's watching like the Challenger or something. Yeah. It's very,

yeah. Now, had they just stayed completely still, they probably would have been fine. Thumbs up, go, they could have played off the redness as like,

oh shit, we're a little embarrassed, but it would not have been noteworthy at all. Hell yeah, brother. Why is he blowing bright orange? That's it.

I mean, sunburned or is there something weird going on with the night vision? I can have a better question, Jack. Why are you going to super high Viz places

with your fucking mistress. It was a team building activity that just got out of hand. Did all the seedy motels go out of business? Like, you're supposed to, that's an indoor activity. Stay inside with that. Yeah. It wasn't, that was just, I mean, that was just them being sloppy.

Yeah. And then, but I guess it was all the, people don't know how to cheat on the wife anymore. That came out, too, that was like, not only it was like, they also, there was the HR lady. Yes. So that's what's important. He was the CEO of a company called Astronomer or astrology. Astronomer. Astronomer. She was the head of HR. So everyone was like, oh, yeah. Couldn't have been more perfect. Wait, didn't you sit down for that 45 minute video about doing this kind of stuff, right? That I had to watch. Wasn't that? Is it a different video?

You made us watch an hour-long video every year. saying don't have sex with your co-workers? I didn't have fair. This was also like I noticed something that bubbled up like beyond the internet too. Like it was a big huge thing on the internet. But then I remember I was out like that day working in coffee shops and stuff. And like you could just like strangers on the street, you pass by and they'd be talking about it.

It was like when Kennedy was everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. It was. It was amazing. And coldly it was all of a sudden like on every radio station. Like it was like a huge bump. them. And I actually wanted to ask you guys, do you think this story would have been as big as it was and as funny as it was if it wasn't Coldplay? Because there's already something kind of embarrassing about just going to a Coldplay concert that I feel like is a factor in why everyone kind of... I think it had everything going for.

I think there is an element of... Okay, so I feel like there's a certain subset of the population who, like, Coldplay doesn't enter their mind at all. And they sort of live in the, like, the 2000s and 2010s. Like I always think of yellow. That was the last time I paid attention to Colplay. And it was all yellow. So much good shit has come out since then, man. Coal play is doing

one of the, what has to be one of the biggest world tours of the year. Oh yeah. They are still huge. They are still making music on a regular basis. And they have,

like, they perform at stadiums and they do Jumbotron shit. That was all news to me. And I was like, Oh, yeah. We're there now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. And they transport people so much that they feel like they could just cheat on their wives in public with the head of HR. That's how powerful they have. I did do a little bit of additional research because, you know, I feel like this was, these people were not just the like main character of the day on the internet. They were the main character for like a week. And then it kind of dropped off. And I did just want to say, like, we didn't cover how much this guy's life was absolutely. and totally inconvenienced by this. And I just, it's, it's very sad. He had to sell his $6 million full floor condominium in Tribeca, New York.

Oh. Can you fucking imagine. He only made $400,000 on the deal. I know. He only made $400,000 on the deal because he had bought it for $5.4 million and sold it for 5.8. So, like, think about that. Oh, so he, like, he must have been.

for a much better return. He submitted divorce paperwork on August 13th, just weeks after the video. People reports that he and his wife were already separated according to his spokesperson. We were on a break. Right.

And yeah, I mean, everyone's rejoicing in seeing a CEO get his comeuppance, but think about all the jobs he created, all the value he would have brought to the world. Oh, wait, sorry, They are a streaming AI company. That was something that I feel like was left out at the time is like, he is the CEO of a company that was,

he's the CEO of a company that was just like putting AI on streaming somehow. As soon as people found out he worked for an AI company, that's when they felt completely comfortable tearing his ass apart. His big move after taking over as his big move after taking over as CEO, was moving the company from where it was founded in Cincinnati to the much less affordable New York. So he's like a real CEO, you know? Yeah, yeah. He's the type of CEO who's like, yeah, you're going to have to move to New York because that's where my $6 million tribeca full floor condo is.

I love how the AI companies are also just have names that of professions that sound cooler than that. Right. Astronomer. Like, oh, do you deal in astronomy? No. No, not at all. Astronomer established in 2015 focuses on streaming interactions

with artificial intelligence applications. Cool. I don't know what the fuck that means. We hate to see a guy like that loses job and you do hate to see it. Yeah, yeah. I mean, again, yeah, we live in a world where people, if there's something,

like just the genre of bad thing happened to CEO, go on, yes, please, more, more, more. And I think this all fits into like the same shit where, like, the Democrats don't realize that, like, people are so stretched into the point that they hate the rich. Right. If you can just, that's this one big part of culture that you're missing right now, is that most people fucking hate the rich.

Yeah. It feels like the way that, like, for a long time, everybody was like, we got to tear this Trump guy down by pointing out that the stuff he does is unconstitutional. cooth and not allowed in polite society and it's like no that's the that's his appeal like it feels like now the left kind of has the advantage in that they keep being like well if you elect zeron the rich are going to have to move out of new york and everyone's like fuck yeah that's that's exactly what we want they're crying yeah Michael Bloomberg is he's scared they're like great you know but imagine if that was you imagine yeah completely

emphasizing the wrong things. They don't understand how much everybody, the only person who understands it is that poor luxury good CEO who's losing sleep. I'm sure this is like a good like Rorschach test too. So many, that's what people say.

You ask them like, why would why was this big? Some people are like, because it's messy and this like guy got caught cheating. And other people goes like, yeah, because this CEO got caught cheating. Yeah. It had everything. Yeah, it had everything for everyone. Yeah. Shout out the Coldplay fans, because they really won.

They're good. All right. We're at our number one story. It was really a tough battle between this and the cold play thing. But I do feel like this was a moment in time that I feel like changed quite a bit. And that I'm talking, of course, about the Elon Musk Nazi salute, which did happen at the beginning of this year. He couldn't have been riding higher.

everyone was giving him credit for winning the election he was feeling himself a little too much and while giving a speech at the inauguration he stopped what he was doing stepped to the side of the lectern

so you could see his boner so you could see his whole body and gave a Nazi salute so violent and emphatic it almost seemed like it was like it was an alien hand syndrome him like Dr. Strange Love episode. Like, yeah, he was, it was like his whole body had been overtaken by this thing that

he'd been, he'd had a Nazi salute in his heart for so long. And it just like burst forth. He had to emerge from the chrysalis, basically. And then he turned around and did it again. He did it again. Double down. Just in case you missed it. For the people in the back.

Yep. The U.S. mainstream media was at the time in the midst of a. Well, we must be wrong about these guys if they, if they keep winning existential crisis. And they be not. Can they be Nazis? They didn't know what to do with this one. Like you still, like when you Google Elon Musk Nazi salute, there's still. It was never stated as such by any mainstream outlet. No, no. What Elon Musk's salute was all about is the strange hand gesture is the thing I can see.

Yeah. Elon Musk's salute controversy. is what it says on Wikipedia. Like, why people are arguing Nazi salutes are just a joke on NPR. Elon Musk makes Nazi style salute at Donald Trump's inauguration. And the style of a Nazi. Yeah, this is my favorite, though. Elon Musk and the history of the, quote, Roman salute. Jesus.

And then you get finally in the Google results a news source from outside of America, of The Guardian, and it says, the gesture speaks for itself. Germans respond to Musk's Nazi salute. Yeah. Yeah. No gesture has ever spoken more loudly for itself. That's what you do to show you're a

Nazi is the thing. It's like, huh. Yeah. I mean, even Dr. Strange Love tried to stop it. Yeah. Even Dr. Strangelove was like holding onto his arm and then like doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of other people, but like, so the fallout from it. And again, I wanted to put

this is a number one because it does, it feels like it's still like muted in the way that it was covered in the mainstream media, but like the actual impact of it, Tesla is like in the shit, like Tesla can no longer be a company that can like profit off of like

the public liking Tesla anymore. Like they just like released their cheapest models ever and their sales dropped to a four year low in November. Like, everybody is selling teslas nobody's buying teslas um everybody like people had to start fucking putting on um stickers to be like i'm not a nazi uh it's just it it feels like again like the rest of the world and even tesla owners were like oh no that was pretty clear like you you guys

in the mainstream media might not be saying this but this is where i get off right yeah it's like the people were carving like swastikas into cyber trucks and then by touching it the bumper would fall off or something oh yeah it was just completely rust through torching a bunch of teslas it was people were like oh so if you're a nazi then okay uh this is kind of what this is what the reaction is going to be it's wild though too to see someone like yeasy kanei be like out so out there with nazism and people were still rocking yezies right i mean like if people like you know no no no fuck that fuck that fuck that it just in the same way where people are like yo this guy is just out here being like i like hitler yeah but the shoes are still cool like it there's still the tesla thing

was just too much and i think also because of his proximity to trump it just became it yeah it made it completely uh a very potent combination for people to be like yeah fuck this thing and send the the brand what was that like thing about how like the people's brand affinity is like or like they're just like positive feelings towards Tesla had like drop to lows like no company like no automobile like to a point it's like no one no one's angry at like be you nobody gives this shit about like car companies like even like shit like the worst you can do is like poniap or something like that where it's like it kind of has a reputation for like where your car just explodes constantly yeah right and even then still don't think of pento as harshly as Tesla right

it's it yeah the only thing you can do is like be like that that that car is kind of a junk Nobody's ever like, that car represents the worst in humanity. Tesla is the new Pinto because they don't have regular fucking door knobs and you can't get out of the thing when it's on fire all the time. You know what people hate having to pull those door handles. They want to be confused. They want a little puzzle every time. They want to do a little puzzle. First time I got in a Tesla, someone picked me up.

Wait, how'd you get in? Exactly. Yeah. I was, I felt so stupid. I was like, what the fuck? What's going on? And the motherfucker had to get out the car to open it. And that's what I was like, man, fuck this dumb.

Like, because I felt stupid opening it. That was when I was like, man, fuck this car forever. You shouldn't need a computer to open a car door. It's a car door. And everything's computer. Yeah. Was this the year also the woman got stuck, Mitch McConnell's like sister-in-law got stuck in one?

I don't know. It seems bad. Anyways, they're now switching to the new bread and butter of the U.S. economy, which is promising future AI break crews and robots because nobody wants to buy their fucking cars because he could not hold in the Nazi salute in his heart any longer. It's a good, yeah. I mean, it'll be interesting to see what the continued, like, flailing is from him to try and keep, because, you know, the whole thing with Tesla stock is just people's belief in

Musk as like some kind of visionary, but at this point, like, all he's coming up with are like shitty kung fu robot yeah shitty restaurant and nazism i will say his overall crash out this year also did like i remember there was a real re-invigoration of the attention in the epstein files when he like got mad at don't trump and was like by the way trump's in the epstein files so so like his overall crash out really did help uh a lot of the top five stories this year and you know, we hated him and hated all so it's all in together now. Because this happened in like January, right? And yeah, I feel like it did

kind of set the tone for the year. Yeah. It was just like wow. Oh, okay. So it's that. It's like that. That's the way it is. Like that now. Better go get the funk about your back now. Or whatever. Oh, man. I God. This What a fucking year. What a year. And we made it through, guys. Those have been the top 15 news stories of the year.

Yeah. Thank you to Brian for editing so many of the episodes and for joining us, Brian the editor. Thank you to J.M. For writing and researching so many of the stories. And thanks for joining this episode. Yeah. Jam, where can people find you?

I don't know. You can't. Leave me alone. That's perfect. I'll be indoors. Me alone. There you. Yeah, yeah.

You can find me indoors. Brian, people can still find you. You can find me, what do I got? On Indie Go-Go, you can give me money to bring my idea to fruition. It's the sauce boss hot sauce tosser. All right. It's a sauce boss hot sauce tosser? Oh, yeah.

It's like an edible self-defense spray. That's such a good idea. She put it in an attacker's eyes. Mm-hmm. Sauce boss. Mm-hmm. Where can people find you, Miles? Hausser.

This is different than that sprayable lubricant that went wrong, right? Look, we don't talk about that. You're not just rebranding. Shut up, sprayable lube. Anyway, you can find me indoors, too. Indoor. All right. That's going to do it.

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