The Daily Zeitgeist - Year Tournament Stories of the Year Tournament of Champions 2024, Pt. 1

Episode Date: December 26, 2024

In this episode, Jack and Miles are joined by writer JM McNab and super producer Victor Wright to review the top stories of the year for TDZ's inaugural "Year Tournament Stories of the Year Tournament... of Champions"!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey everyone, it's John also known as Dr. John Paul and I'm Jordan or Joe Ho and we are the Black Fat Film Podcast, a podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. 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 Fam podcast on the iHeart Radio app. Have a podcast or whatever you get your podcast, girl. Ooh, I know that's right. ["Wonderful Music"] Curious about queer sexuality, cruising, and expanding your horizons?
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Starting point is 00:01:23 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. Hey everyone, I'm Madison Packer, a pro hockey veteran going on my 10th season in New York. And I'm Anya Packer, a former pro hockey player
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Starting point is 00:02:33 picture actually is. The numbers won't lie to you. Listen to this week's episode of Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the Internet and welcome to the first annual inaugural year tournament of stories of the year tournament of champions. And that is the full name year tournament stories of the year tournament of champions of champions. Yeah, my name is Jack O'Brien.
Starting point is 00:03:01 I am joined, of course, by my esteemed colleague, co-commissioner of this league of story competitors, Mr. Miles Bray! Yes, yes, yes. This thought came to us in the middle of the night and we're like, what if we pit all our fun stories against each other and proclaim one the champion of the year? And we've got some fun ones like we got the elections.
Starting point is 00:03:28 We had to take. We definitely wanted to take some out because let's be real. We we get that part. So maybe let's look back at the fun, goofy shit of this year. Yeah. So that's what this first episode is going to be us selecting the field, maybe doing some seeding of the field for the ultimate tournament.
Starting point is 00:03:49 We're looking at a 16 team tournament, a sweet 16 of the top 16 stories of the year. We greatly appreciate the nominations from Zeitgang on Blue Sky and in the Discord. Yeah, there were some, there are a couple that we didn't have and we will do our best to shout you out on the ones where you reminded us. Called out the blind spots.
Starting point is 00:04:16 How cool it is that Mark Robinson was the norm from cheers of a little weird windowless porn hut. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined by a couple of esteemed guests. First up, one person who is responsible for bringing a lot of these stories to our attention, helping us work through them mentally, spiritually. One of our writers on the show, it is Mr. Jam McNabb!
Starting point is 00:04:46 Jam McNabb! Hello. I'm ready. I'm coming from the great white north. That's right, yeah, I'm up here in Canada. Am I allowed to participate in this league? If, is it like intercontinental or? Could you imagine, like jam dude,
Starting point is 00:05:06 jam let's talk about these stories. And they're like, no, shut up. Wait, what the fuck are you talking about right now? Why is there a Canadian talking on this shit? Yo, you made me do. You're in tests and. Yeah, we did. That's just for our kink.
Starting point is 00:05:19 We said they were taste tests. Oh, I'm sorry. Speaking of kinky mother fuck. No. They were taste tests. Oh speaking of kinky motherfucker now To be joined By one of the very producers who makes this show possible He went back through all the show docs from this year after I texted him this morning and Went back pulled all the stories so that we could remember what the
Starting point is 00:05:45 fuck furry hackers meant. Um, he is Mr. Victor, right? Victor. Oh, thank you guys. Uh, the news is my kink. Politics is my kink. Uh, I want to apologize because I sent you guys a 70 page document. You did like an hour ago and I was like, Hey, can you go through all of this? Because these are all the stories that we have. You said, get me notes asshole. Yeah. And some of these, I didn't understand that Jack wrote. I didn't know what gymnast nerd was. So things were quite difficult for me this morning, but I'm happy to be here. Hey, what were we saying about gymnast nerd again? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Find that, find that. I Googled it. Exactly. I don't know what's coming up. As Victor knows, the rule is no questions around clarification for Jack. Yeah. Jack will freak out if you ask him questions
Starting point is 00:06:37 for clarification before he's had his coffee. Yeah, especially when you point it out, you're like, I don't know if that's the best handle you could have on blue sky and that really brother. Anyways. So here, should we just read? We have 24 stories competing for the 16 spots here. Yeah. I want to just go through the stories. Yeah. So this is phase one. Let's,
Starting point is 00:07:03 let's get familiar with what we were thinking about. Yeah. So this is phase one. Let's, let's get familiar with what we were thinking about. Yeah. And then the next episodes will be the fight to the actual fight, but we're just going to re familiarize ourselves. The first one coming straight down the middle, a big old meatball of a story. And I don't know if anybody remembers this, but you guys remember Drake? Yeah. Guy from Degrassi used to be a big. Oh yeah. Jam rap star.
Starting point is 00:07:29 Yeah. Jam. Yeah. So that he had a real beef with Kendrick Kung Fu Kenny himself. So that was a big story at the beginning of this year that feels like it has to be on the list. It was giving us life. I feel like, oh, that's that like those did what?
Starting point is 00:07:50 Like two weeks in May or early May when all that shit came together. I don't know. That was that was a hip hop Christmas. Like every time Kendrick was dropping another fucking diss track, I was like, oh, my God, what is happening? I had it was interesting to look back at our notes from that time. And I was like, the 616 in L.A. is definitely the one that's going to hit the most.
Starting point is 00:08:16 They're not like us is OK, but totally like the act. Well, that's like the spiking of the football as a track. For me, and I think, yeah, I mean, I think we were all kind of like lyrically, the thing that was, I mean, Meet the Grams was a haunted house of a track that only made people shudder when they listened to it. 616 felt super dope and there was a whole era of YouTube analysis videos that helped us understand it
Starting point is 00:08:44 even further, which made me love the song even more. But yeah. All right. We've got Olympic pole vaulter, aka guy who lost at the Olympics, but won the gold medal in having a dick for sure. No doubt this guy, just from the sheer sprowing of it that was on evidence. This man had a dick. There's no doubt about it.
Starting point is 00:09:08 This man had a dick. Exactly. It was the reverse Ghostbusters. His name, Anthony Amarati. Let's not forget that. Anthony Amarati. All right, we've got a suite of Olympic stories that I don't think they should be consolidated personally
Starting point is 00:09:26 There's two categories like this. There's Olympics. There's RFK, right? So the Olympic stories we have Guy lost the Olympics but won the gold medal and having a dick Ray gun Ray who lost the Olympics but won the gold medal of I don't know Right who lost the Olympics but won the gold medal of I don't know my deal the existence of her event She's an academic. You don't put a fucking ancient historian in like the coliseum and tell them to fight right? It doesn't make any sense for her to to have gone to the olympics in the first place Hey, don't tell ray gun that because reger that uh was there and she deserved to be there. That's true. Sorry gymnast nerd was one the Victor needed to refresh her on.
Starting point is 00:10:10 Yeah. Steve Netorosic. Yeah. Yeah. This is a guy who was just like the pole vaulter expert, the pole vaulter or not. Paul. Paul. No, it was a sniper.
Starting point is 00:10:23 Yeah. Yeah. I don't., horse, sniper. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, this is where you find out. I don't know what the Olympics are. Dude, he just beat the shit out of that horse. Huh? I was like, what? He's just pummeling that.
Starting point is 00:10:35 Yeah. Yeah. Pommel horse specialist who had glasses and everyone was like, this guy's a fucking dork. Just an athlete with glasses. Yeah. That was a super jacked guy who had glasses and everyone was like, this guy's a fucking dork. Just an athlete with glasses. Yeah, that was a super jacked guy who had glasses. Yeah, we have the Olympic shooters, I think my underrated fave from the Olympics,
Starting point is 00:10:57 which another Olympic athlete with glasses, but the guy who just casually shot with like one of his hands in his pocket and was going through a divorce, I think actually like years after the divorce, but was like still struggling with it. Yousef Dickach. Yeah, I do this because my wife took my dog and I want my dog back. Yeah, I love the how there was so much Like so many theories about this guy because you see takes like this guy doesn't even have one eye closed
Starting point is 00:11:29 It's like this guy might be some kind of military operator Yeah, hit man or something like I don't know or he's just like one of these people who just has a freakish talent for shooting A pistol. Yeah, they just apparently yeah, he looked bored and that is actually a good sign. We learn for shooters Alright and then we should probably talk about Korean the Korean shooters to the Korean shooters also real cool Yeah, so Olympic shooters kind of captured our hearts our minds our attention our fashion I started dressing like the guy with the our attention, our fashion. I started dressing like the guy with the, you know, just one hand in the pocket.
Starting point is 00:12:07 Just the big guy in a polo. Lookin' like rolled out of bed. Just extremely divorced Clive Owen is kind of what he, the vibe he was giving me. For sure. We got RFK stories. We got RFK Whalehead, we got RFK Heidi Bear, we got RFK Brain Worm, we got RFK Aff head. We got RFK Heidi bear. We got RFK brain worm.
Starting point is 00:12:25 We got RFK affair. Which one? Probably don't need all four of those. Okay, so should we pare this down now? I mean, I would vote. Let's just fucking get rid of the affair. I don't care about that. Like that's just.
Starting point is 00:12:41 It's between. Yeah, I feel like it was a popular story with people who like knew that journalist and they were like, oh, you? I don't work there. I don't know why I should care about this at all. Well, that's what's so impressive about all those stories you mentioned
Starting point is 00:12:57 is the fact that having an affair with a reporter, which traditionally would be a huge scandal, doesn't even like crack, you know, crack the list of the most slushy, wild shit about it. Yeah. Involved with. Yeah. Cause there's the brain worm, which he, that came out because he used that as an
Starting point is 00:13:16 excuse in his divorce. It was like, dude, I don't know. I had a brain worm. And you're like, wait, what? Well, and it ate half his brain or something. Right. Yeah. It was like eating inside. It was insane. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:27 That wasn't even a thing, was it? Didn't he just say that? No, no. Didn't he say like, oh, you know, it's living inside your, it's a parasite. And he interpreted that as part of my brain is missing because a worm ate it. Yeah. It's like, that's not even how the brain works. But yeah, great, great, great.
Starting point is 00:13:42 We love that. I do think that I remember reading some stories that were like, I don't know it could have been a thing it's like a thing that happens and Also, I remember there being a lot of people being like it was around the time that his entire personality completely changed So I don't know I might like could also be the author Razor is he's just obsessed with fame and fame is the worst thing that can happen to a human brain. Yeah. But I don't know.
Starting point is 00:14:13 He's been famous since he was young. He hasn't had brain worms since he was young. Is it that the worm is in charge now and you know, it's just a complete, like did he start asking to be referred to as you know,, whatever the worms name was? Yeah. Yeah. Just a sound. Yeah. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:14:29 It's what I hear in my brain. It's like three Latin words backwards. So we have three RFK stories. Yeah. Whalehead, Heidi Bear, Brainworm. I think those all need to be in the, does everybody agree those need to be in the tournament? I think so, yeah. It just becomes a Cerberus basically.
Starting point is 00:14:48 Think the three headed monster. Does Cerberus have three heads? It doesn't matter. Sorry. Sorry to bring my mythology brain into this dude because I don't have a brain worm. I'm just thinking about mythology all the time. You wish you had a brain worm, dude.
Starting point is 00:15:02 I wish I fucking, yeah. Yeah, so I don't know. So those and the Olympics, I feel like, are in categories where they could be one story, but I think they need to be all broken out into individual stories. Oh, individual, okay. Because we needed them. Really? I do think so, yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:20 I think the bear head or the bear hide can fit into the whale head story because there's a whale head. Yeah, those are very similar, right? They're both. I mean, the title article here is R.F.K. Jr. faces call for investigation and to claim he chainsawed a whale's head off, which is the kind of shit that got me into the news and politics in the first place. That's so weird that that's how you got in.
Starting point is 00:15:46 That's exactly. Yeah. No, but like, you've just been waiting. You're like, finally, finally, this is my time. Get off the sidelines. But like the whale head and the bear hide are basically the same story that just happened to different animals. You know, it's just the desecration of a dead animal's body. I mean, the bear one does have some pretty great details though.
Starting point is 00:16:10 Like he tried, he didn't just, you know, desecrate a bear. He like made it, turned it into a prop. Like he tried to like stage some kind of bad political cartoon. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So. Let's put a bad political cartoon. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So. Let's put a pin in it.
Starting point is 00:16:28 Let's leave them separate for now. Okay. Okay. And then we can eliminate later. Also, we're not picking the winner right now. We're picking a list of 16. We're down to 24 actually, because I just remembered that I do want to talk about Jay Leno's weird face thing.
Starting point is 00:16:44 Even if we don't put it on the list, I know we said beforehand we weren't going to put it on the list. I still want to talk about why it's not going on. I think it's one of those things too, we have to acknowledge how much a story takes up oxygen off mic when we're not recording the show. And that's certainly taking up a lot of energy from us right now. All right, we got some election stories here. Do you guys remember, the US presidential election happened earlier this month, I guess. It doesn't ring a bell.
Starting point is 00:17:14 And so we've got a couple of those that I guess, I guess these could all be like categories. They could all be like varying categories. The first one we have on here that I think is actually a pretty good candidate to be the first one cut is Laura Loomer. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:30 This was a big. Yeah. There's something about this story that did capture, I think what we're about to see, because like early in the year, there were articles where people were like, I spent some time with Laura Loomer. She exists like in this weird universe where all she does all day is like check in on Trump's availability and like hope to spend time with Trump and
Starting point is 00:17:59 like tell people about how much access she has to Trump and then get like ditched and ignored by Trump. And then there were two weeks where Trump just was like, I don't know, like they had enough. Taking it with her heavy. Yeah. Yeah. But then she was saying the most racist off the wall shit too. And they're like, yo, is this your girl? And I guess maybe. Yeah, she's great. We love her. But like just the, the whole like royal court of it all felt very appropriate at the same time. Doesn't bring me any joy. It doesn't spark joy. And I feel like that is what we need to be thinking here. So it's like we're decluttering this, uh, bracket. We are. We are.
Starting point is 00:18:41 It doesn't spark joy. It's gone. We should move on. I think it's easy. I don't think anyone, anyone here by Laura Loomer, It doesn't spark joy. It's gone. We should move on. I think it's easy. I don't think anyone, anyone here? Bye Laura Loomer. Just checking. Does it spark joy? No.
Starting point is 00:18:51 Okay. Yeah. There we are. Next we have JD Vance couch. Fuck. I think that is that's an end. That one stays. Yeah, it stays.
Starting point is 00:18:59 Yeah. Next we have just the election in all caps. Oh yeah. The couch. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. The election. I mean, it was, it's obviously the most consequential story of our time.
Starting point is 00:19:12 But does it spark joy? No. No, by the election, the election and for that reason you have been vaporized. Peace. Just only the fun stuff around it. It's like the elections, like the crust. And we're like, nah, I just want like the bread part where it's JD Vance couch fucking or this next guy.
Starting point is 00:19:31 Yeah, yeah. So the next thing, I'm gonna move this one down to the bottom. The next thing we have is Mark Robinson, porn shop regular. So a lot of just wild, racist, horrifying things being said by Mark Robinson. We found out that his wife and he like would buy Girl Scout cookies and like stiff them for, for money, just like one unimaginable political scandal after another.
Starting point is 00:20:05 But the highlight for us, I think was when we found out that he was like part of this group of people who would always meet up at a porn shop to like jack off next to each other. But he would bring pizzas with him. Yeah, he would bring pizza. He was like a beloved, like it gave 80s sitcom vibe, you know, vibes. It really felt like cheers, but at porn shop, like they were like, yeah, Mark was actually like pretty funny guy. Yeah, nothing against him. He just owes me $40. So I'm burning his political career down. Right. This kind of sums up though,
Starting point is 00:20:42 this kind of like the elections kind of stories like, obviously he was a gubernatorial candidate who was like, I'm a black Nazi. As a Holocaust denier and said, like Martin Luther King's, he had the, he was just like the worst fucking guy, but we're like, no, no, no. But the part where he brings pizzas to the Jackoff video store. Now, now that's a story. Now also the Nazi thing was a comment on a porn site. So it's stuck with the VHS habit. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and that's what we, yeah, the way that Russia keeps things off of the internet and like when they're doing spy craft, they like send things via a carrier pigeon. Right. That's how you should keep your jacking off digital or whatever the opposite of digital is.
Starting point is 00:21:29 Keep it on Betamax. Homing pigeon? Yes, keep jacking off with homing pigeons. Yeah. That's right. He was buying also, he was buying bootleg porno tapes at the store that one of the guys named Louis Money was selling to him on the side. That was the guys named Louis money was selling to him on the side. That was the other detail about this was that he bought and he stiffed the
Starting point is 00:21:50 guy 25 bucks and I think that's why he was like, yeah, I got something to say about Mark Robinson. $25. He's also promoting his band, I think, right? Yeah. Yeah. They had a fun time. I forgot what the band was. But anyways, this is, I think this one's in this is like one of the ones. Yeah, that one's in. This is like somebody wins the SEC tournament or something. You know, like it's like, yeah, you're automatically in. Congratulations on winning the Big East Tournament,
Starting point is 00:22:14 Mark Robinson, Porn Shop Regular. You are in the tournament. Let's take a quick break and we'll be back to continue narrowing down the field of competitors. 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, Angela Carrasque, and more. Make sure you listen to the Black Fat Fam podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts, girl. Ooh, I know that's right.
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Starting point is 00:23:51 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. Whatever the case, and wherever you are, thank you for being part of our Family Secrets family, where every week we explore the secrets
Starting point is 00:24:23 that are kept from us, the secrets we keep from others, and the secrets we keep from ourselves. Listen to Season 11 of Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone. I'm Madison Packer, a pro hockey veteran going on my 10th season in New York. And I'm Anya Packer, a former pro hockey player and now a full Madison Packer stan. Anya and I met through hockey, and now we're married and moms to two awesome toddlers.
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Starting point is 00:25:57 But you also have a lot of questions like how should I be investing this money? I mean, how much do I save? And what about my 401k? Well, we're talking with finance expert Vivian Too, aka Your Rich BFF, to break it all down. How should I be investing this money? I mean, how much do I save? And what about my 401k? Well, we're talking with finance expert, Vivian Tu, AKA Your Rich BFF to break it all down. I always get roasted on the internet when I say this out loud,
Starting point is 00:26:13 but I'm like every single year, you need to be asking for a raise of somewhere between 10 to 15%. I'm not saying you're gonna get 15% every single year, but if you ask for 10 to 15 and you end up getting eight, that is actually a true raise. Listen to this week's episode of Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. Up next, we have furry hackers.
Starting point is 00:26:48 This was one I did not remember from when it happened. But this was a group of hackers who hacked the people behind Project 2025 and threatened to reveal their names and the names of all the people who were funding them, the Heritage Foundation, and ultimately like didn't do that. One of the Heritage Foundation people in response quoted Eminem. It was like, I am whatever you say I am, dog. Damn, Like, you know, the, the equivalent, the, the, uh, white guy equivalent of like not of, of experiencing emotions for the first time. You're like, the only way I can really express vulnerability is
Starting point is 00:27:38 right. His whole thing was like being like, yeah, come at me. Motherfuckers, I ain't scared of you. And then like, go ahead, publish our interactions about how I ain't scared of you. And then they're like, go ahead, publish our interactions about how I'm not scared of you. And then they did. And that's when he was like, okay, you got me being a homophobe in 4K. So he's hitting you with like, I sit back with this pack.
Starting point is 00:27:54 That's exactly this bag, this tweet. And you're like, very normal response. Thank you for that. Yeah, I'd like to see you try and post that. And he posted it. Mom's spaghetti, vomit on a sweater. I read what This one I think Bubble for me. Yeah, it's a bubble. It's a bubble story
Starting point is 00:28:13 Yeah, cuz I was thinking cuz I went through all this this morning and the article itself is Funny or the article title is funny where it's like furry hackers Attack heritage foundation and shit like that, but the actual essence just isn't there for me So I'd be fine with getting rid of it. Yeah, I think the funniest part is this dude Responding with an M&M lyric more than anything like shout out to the hackers for exposing this hateful organization The funny part isn't necessarily that like this is a furry hacker collective. It's the guy who just says, Hey, I'm being homophobic live. There's a defense or some shit. So yeah, I don't know if it's, I'm going to leave it on the bubble for now. All right. Yep.
Starting point is 00:28:58 With a gymnast nerd. I feel like those two are on the bubble right now. And we'll put whale head on the bubble because whale head might be combined with Heidi bear. Although I don't know, that might be, might make it too strong. That might be like, what if Michigan state in Michigan, we just let the teams combine. And then see the way it turned out. Like what the fuck?
Starting point is 00:29:22 All right, up next we have JD Vance donut shop. I think an underrated entry where he just like came in and didn't know how to interact with human. Yeah, feels bubbly. All right, feels a little bubbly. We're gonna take the highlight off. I mean, if we're doing, if you put the two JD Vance stories next to each other,
Starting point is 00:29:39 you gotta take couch fuck over the donut shop every day. Yeah, couch fuck probably beats that. I think we're getting down to a place where we're gonna be able to be eliminating some of these. Actually, no, it's pretty strong from here on out. The one that I think we can eliminate, yet again this year, Havana syndrome was solved and the mainstream media refused to allow
Starting point is 00:29:59 that information in. We got more evidence that it was either psychosomatic or a function disorder something that had more to do with you know, how the people were feeling overall and suggestion and they just doubled down 60 minutes because journalism is now broken. So are all the original foundational institutions. They were like, Whoa, there's some new stuff about Havana syndrome. Wow. Uh, that was just like bullshit, but is this sparking joy for anybody? No,
Starting point is 00:30:36 I think you're the true person who would determine whether or not a Havana syndrome, true joy. So I will not get in the way of that process. Yeah, I barely have a boner right now, so I'm gonna delete it. I will say that 60 minutes piece is very funny to watch. It is. It is. Because they just do things that even I know, well, that's a ridiculous thing to do.
Starting point is 00:30:57 I was reading over the notes again, because it'd been a while, but there was one part where a woman that said she suffered from Havana syndrome uh thought she saw like a suspicious car parked outside of her house and so the 60 minutes reporter just like pulled out just one photograph of like the like Russian guy that was living in the US that they suspected were whatever instead of like a lineup of photos or something they just handed this one photo and they're like, could this be the driver? And she was like, yes. Oh, you're not, dude, you're not going to fucking believe this. You know who that is?
Starting point is 00:31:32 The guy who poisoned that guy whose face melted off. It was Jay Leno. Joke's on you. He crashed the car immediately. Yeah. A lot of people don't see the aftermath of that TMZ interview where they're talking to Jay Leno. So the 60 minutes guy comes up with that same picture and was like, Jay, anyways, I don't
Starting point is 00:31:56 know. Should we bubble it? Let's bubble it. You can bubble it. I deleted it and then JM brought it back for me. Just when you thought you were out. I can't help but have Havana syndrome. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:08 I got a fever. I know that it's psychosomatic because every time I wrote one of those things, I started getting headaches. Thinking about it way too much. And hearing high pitch ringing. Yeah. So a lot of things came together in this next story. The private equity shrimp story.
Starting point is 00:32:26 There's a big story about how Red Lobster, what a deal themselves out of business by doing endless shrimp bowls. And it turned out it was just like private equity fucking them the way they fucked basically Toys R Us, many J Crew, many recognizable brand. I guess it does spark joy. It sparks joy, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:50 Well, I would say a lot of listeners reached out and like when asking about this in DMs and like on Blue Ski and stuff, where like people really liked the private equity episode we did with Brendan Ballou who was working at the DOJ. Yeah, last year's number one episode, I believe. Yeah, that definitely opened up our brains to begin to look at these kinds of stories
Starting point is 00:33:11 where they're like, this beloved company is going out of business, what the fuck happened? And always realizing, let's always assume it's private equity. And this was one of those times I remember where, this was like, I think in March is when the stories first started coming out where they're like, Oh, they're in trouble due to endless shrimp. And then we're like,
Starting point is 00:33:29 let's just do a quick search of red lobster private equity. There it is. Because what happens is they buy up a company and then they suck your blood out by selling all the real estate from out under the company and then make the individual restaurants, pay the private equity firm back for rent that they never had to, which means they have dwindling profits, which then just sort of exacerbates the downward financial spiral.
Starting point is 00:33:52 But the private equity firms, they make out like gangbusters. So, gangbusters. Yeah, I don't, I mean, I feel like this one feels like it. Busting makes me feel good. I love the story. And I think we're gonna keep it. It feels like the closest to being for real, like a real story. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:09 Without totally Jokey. And I think it has all, you can eat shrimp involved with it. So that does. And it also makes me feel like, you know, we're, we're much smarter than we are because we talked to Brendan Baloo that one time and then it was just private equity. It's one new thing. It'll be one where where I can send my parents the timestamps of this episode where we talk about that and be like, yeah, yeah, just check out this part.
Starting point is 00:34:31 This five minutes. Ignore the part where I keep saying that the guy won the gold medal and having a dick. And just focus on. Jack, didn't you major in philosophy, honey? Oh man, you think they thought that was a good idea? Anyways, private equity shrimp, you're in the tournament. You're in there.
Starting point is 00:34:55 Welcome. Cotton candy burrito got nominated by people, which this was like a very minor story, right? Yeah, but apparently stuck out to people.'ll fight for it because it's so fucking weird Yeah, it's just they included those cotton candy and in the middle was skittles and M&Ms or some shit with Yes, a lot of chocolate with a lot of skittles like it was which I don't know like is that violating any sort of law for you guys? Because there's the dirt cup that is a favorite with chocolate pudding and the gummy worms.
Starting point is 00:35:34 Don't you dare say anything bad about the dirt cup. No, I love the dirt cup. The dirt cup is an American classic. This is nothing like the dirt cup. This is an abomination to me. Yeah. Maybe could we lump this together with the election and just put it under like an umbrella of bad decisions all around?
Starting point is 00:35:51 Cotton candy burrito election. I mean, there was a portion of the election where I kept comparing Trump's brain to cotton candy that someone had dumped a Diet Coke on top of. So there is, all right, cotton candy, burrito slash election. You're on the bubble. You're a strong bubble contender. Because this was, I think just for the backstory, this was something that Arizona Cardinals
Starting point is 00:36:16 were doing at their stadium. Yeah. That's how. Because I was going to say more sports stadiums are trying to do like upgraded food options instead of like just the normal hot dog and nachos. And this is what they fucking came up with. It is America. It was that crazy hot dog fight this year.
Starting point is 00:36:34 Remember that with the dollar hot dog night where there was like a massive hot dog fight. Was that a dream I had? No, no, no, there was. There was something. That was one that apparently happened when I was either out or not properly storing memories due to fugue state. But I don't remember that. Anyways, Cotton Candy Burrito slash The Election. You are in Kamala Fashion Week Party.
Starting point is 00:37:01 You are, I've got to say this is in. Yeah. Yeah, this is like, this is one of those bitter pill ones. I mean, obviously election itself is a fucking bitter pill, but I think this is one of those ones too, where like realizing after the election, cause I like, I only caught wind of it after the election, but in the buildup that this Fashion Week party had happened
Starting point is 00:37:23 is in this weird way is this like really tragic summation manifestation of what the Harris campaign was. And yeah, yeah, this was what needed to be like the main story of the election as it was happening. And we found out too late about it. But it's my it's the most important story I think of the election is this fashion week party. It explains everything.
Starting point is 00:37:49 This is a, this is a not, not only in for me, it's a strong seed. Yeah. I think. Yeah. It convinces everything wrong that happened. Yeah. To like a what? One minute video.
Starting point is 00:38:02 Right. It's like being really leaning into like the meme aspect of the election, being super flippant about people's human civil rights, and jengifying them, distilling sexual assault into a claw grabber game. It all felt very like, I don't know, these are like, I think we can make jokes about this and then that'll help people get excited about our
Starting point is 00:38:25 Campaign that we're not even taking any of it. Seriously. Yeah, so yeah. Yeah, that's you're staying you're going to Hollywood Fashion week party you're going To the video that we had because and you can actually go see this on our YouTube channel. It was the episode with... I think Chelsea? Chelsea Weber. Smith.
Starting point is 00:38:55 Yeah. Go, go check out that episode and you can see the video. It's narrated by a French guy who's just like, wow. He's like, this is so dystopian. He's like, bro, why you gotta call us out like that in that accent? It just hits way harder when you say it like that. All right. This next one, as far as I'm concerned, not going anywhere. This is in the turnout. Elmo versus Big Bird. We totally forgot about this one until the moment before we started recording. But did somebody recommend it over BluSky?
Starting point is 00:39:33 On BluSky, yes, someone did mention it and it was Queen Try or Queen Tree on BluSky. I remember. Yeah. I suggest this. So shout out to you, Queen For that one, but yeah, cuz I do it started off as a story talking about how Elmo just innocent like And then it just became a trauma dump emotional like fucking good Elmo and then I think it just took a tangent because I think that episode was called Big Bird versus Elmo, Who Ya Got? Like it was one part of it. Because Big Bird was also trying something at that time, wasn't he, J.M.? I remember you, I think you wrote this one up.
Starting point is 00:40:12 I think it was, yeah, I think it was like part of some kind of coordinated effort where they're trying to get the Sesame Street Muppets to like open up a conversation about mental health or something. But it just immediately took a turn. Wasn't Big mental health or something, but it just immediately took a turn. It wasn't Big Bird missing or something or Big Bird shrunk down to normal size or something. There was something with- Yeah. So on Big Bird's account, he'd been posting
Starting point is 00:40:36 about how he quote, randomly shrunk to the size of an insect and is no longer big. It was like Kafka's metamorphosis, but with- Yeah, exactly. And Mr. Snuffleufagus was like Kafka's metamorphosis, but with. Yeah, exactly. And Mr. like and snuffle up a guess like was even tweeting. It's like, I'll avoid the area bird. So I don't trample you to death. Yeah, that was a great Buffalo Bill. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:40:55 A big old fat bird. Snuffle, Luffalo Bill. Yeah, but then, but then it was about, is he shrinking? Is it getting big? And then we were thinking that I guess technically Elmo's a monster. Yeah, so I think somehow it came up that we were like, who you got between these two,
Starting point is 00:41:15 because like, I think we were suspecting like, it's gotta be frustrating. Big Bird's like put together this well coordinated with special effects, social media thing where it's like, and then I'll look small and, you know, just a real, some real try hard shit from Big Bird. And then Elmo's like, Hey, how's everyone doing? And everyone just like Elmo is the number one thing trending on Twitter that day during the election. And we were suspecting like there's probably
Starting point is 00:41:46 some tension there. And the question came up like who would actually win in a fight, Big Bird obviously huge, but you know, doesn't seem to. Elmo's got him, I'm sorry. You know, because Big Bird has like, he's top heavy, right? So all Elmo has to do is push him over and then start
Starting point is 00:42:05 kicking him. And that's it. Big Bird is done. Canonically, Big Bird is six, Elmo is three and a half. Okay. Elmo is a three and a half year old red monster though. Yeah. Big Bird is a giant dinosaur. You know, dinosaurs had feathers, uh, with eyes that are very close together suggesting predation, you know, whereas Elmo's eyes are just like kind of going any which way. So probably, you know, more of a, I mean, to be fair, most of its squarely have those eyes just right dead center. When I look at it side by side. Big Bird's eyes are locked on your ass. You can see Big Bird approaching you from behind in the forest like as Snuffy's like,
Starting point is 00:42:50 Hi. And then like, you know, you hear a twig break behind you and that's the last thing you ever hear. This was also because this happened. Elmo asked how everyone was doing in January, January 29th of this year. So this was, he kicked off, this definitely kicked off the year. How the fuck do you think we're doing? Yeah, there's a fucking genocide happening,
Starting point is 00:43:12 everyone's lonely, we got an election coming. What do you fucking want? I think that one's pretty strong contender. All right, speaking of strong contenders, this is probably the one we got the most votes for. It was the first one that we put on the list, which is Willy Wonka Glasgow, aka, just thank you, Victor, for going back and finding, I think, Jam's original story. or no, I think, uh, miles, you maybe wrote this one up, but, uh, it was called Willie's chocolate experience.
Starting point is 00:43:52 Off brand ass naming. You could possibly, uh, come up with these chocolate experience. Uh, I mean, this is, I think a strong one seed. Like, yeah, this was I think a strong one seed Yeah, a story that kept going to throw that year. We would get bizarre fucking updates we just had an update on this one because yeah, the mastermind behind this was convicted as a sex crime Yeah, just yeah sending a ton of was like was was he sending a bunch of nude pics or something? Just harassing a woman over text basically. Sexual messaging.
Starting point is 00:44:31 Yeah. And then blamed the stress of being the number one story of the year. Yeah. For his behavior. I think the other part too, though, that was made it really stick out was the use of AI in all the promotional materials. Like they were chumming the waters with this like fantastic nonsense AI art. And then when you got there, they were in a barren warehouse with again, remember, there was like just shitty like posters you could take a picture of there was the the Oompa Loompa bartender who looked like she
Starting point is 00:45:02 was just in the midst of some kind of existential crisis. Then there was like the little girl, the unknown. Yeah, the unknown, which was a 16 year old girl who was wearing a weird like silver mask and like hiding behind a mirror. Who was Wonka's enemy. I don't remember Wonka ever having an enemy. That was AI too, wasn't it? Because they wrote a whole back story narrative that was written by AI. They like actually created lore as part of this and the lore sucked shit. Because it was from AI.
Starting point is 00:45:40 It also made up words like cat gacating. Archie tons instead of catchy tunes. It also made up words like cat-gacating, car-chi-tons instead of catchy tunes, exacerbates de-dre lollipops. I love how it's easier to use AI than it is to read a children's book or watch an 80 minute movie. Yeah, just regurgitate what you just saw. I don't know, maybe they should have a fight. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:06 Yeah, anyways, it's a one-seed, strong one-seed. Welcome to the tournament. Up next, we have kind of, again, like this could be part of the same story, but a fake Bridgerton that happened in Atlanta. Yep, oh no, Detroit. Sorry, Detroit, that's right. Yep. Oh no, Detroit. Sorry, Detroit. That's right.
Starting point is 00:46:26 And it did not go well. It was kind of, it gave us some of the Glasgow Wonka energy at a time when we desperately needed it. What do we think? I think it's out. It's, it's, I think it's, it's hanging on the coattails of Willy Wonka and Glasgow, Scotland, Glasgow. I gotta argue for this one though.
Starting point is 00:46:46 I'm sorry. Okay, good. No, stop please. The Willy Wonka AI experience felt like one guy being a piece of shit, but then the fake Bridgerton one had multiple people. The queen was handing out her business cards after... There was a shipper. There was some good details in there.
Starting point is 00:47:03 There was a pole dancer. There were a lot of details that separated it. Right? Yeah. This is the old answer. They were promised like a ball, like scenes from Bridgerton and it was just like one lone pole dancer and some like dodgy string music in like a conference room. Yeah. Like a Ramada in event space. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's not a strong seed, but I think it's just enough to edge it out. You know, right. Like it would be a 16 seed type. Can we combine that with the election? Election. Candy, cotton candy, burrito, Big Bridgerton. All right. They are there on the bubble as a single story.
Starting point is 00:47:45 Let's just call it America. That's right. Yeah. Call it all America. All right. We got Jay Leno, one that I wanted to bring back and talk about. And now, because this is the third recording we're doing today, I don't remember why. So any we could cut it. Well, I think the reason we bring it up is because we've talked about it so much off mic, trying to understand. I mean, you heard us, you know,
Starting point is 00:48:09 sort of try and parse through the details and come to some kind of conclusion as to what the fuck is going on with Jay Leno. It could be, I don't know, I don't know. I mean, some things are better left not in podcast form maybe sometimes, because it feels like, it doesn't feel like fun. Either way, it's like, is he in trouble with the mob?
Starting point is 00:48:28 Is he trying to like hurt himself? Is he like slipping into senility in a way that he's a danger to himself? None of those are really the fun thing. Yeah, like a thrill, thrill seeking freak shit. I guess that one's kind of fun that this is just his kink. It's his like ocean gate submarine basically. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we could put a pin in it and see if he gets like attacked by a shark or something for the final vote. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:47 All right. True. I mean, the final vote is in probably 30 to 45 seconds. So we're going to put a pin in that. Jam's going to go check if Jay Leno has been attacked by a shark or an orca. Another story. That's a whole, there's a whole story. I mean, I think it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a,M. is going to go check if Jay Leno has been attacked by a shark or an orca.
Starting point is 00:49:08 Another story. There's a whole genre of stories that felt like they happened this year. Orcas attacking yachts. That was actually mid-2023. Covenant eyes happened in 2023. Yeah, but have been kind of mainstay stories in the news cycles Yeah, the other one that I think is entering as a one seed Without a doubt in my mind. Yes is the food and wine article
Starting point is 00:49:34 about Pumpkin spice latte flavored M&Ms that broke Miles brain or broke the show I fucking hate this story. Yeah, and by that I mean it Consumed it's still I'm like so angry just thinking about it again Like you said they were introducing fall flavors to M&Ms very early. This is the part that killed me Okay
Starting point is 00:50:03 This is the part where because this is all part of like an AI anger genre of story, where this part, this specific fucking paragraph in this food and wine story, quote, the pre seasonal launch of the milk chocolate pumpkin pie M&Ms is a strategic move that taps into Mars' market research. The research indicates that Gen Z and Millennials plan to celebrate Halloween by dressing up and planning for the holiday about 6.8 weeks beforehand. Well, 6.8 weeks from Memorial Day is the 4th of July, so you still have plenty of time to latch onto a pop culture trend and turn it into a creative costume? What the fuck does any of that are you talking about? Well, six point eight weeks from Memorial Day is the fourth. Anyway, it's a number one seed with a bullet.
Starting point is 00:50:55 This one is not. Can I just say that it's not it's not six point eight weeks. I don't know where six point eight weeks comes from. Who even who even describes time in in like fucking fractions of a week. Maybe with that. Yeah. Six. Oh, yes. Six point eight weeks. Yeah. I know what eight tenths of a fucking six point eight weeks since.
Starting point is 00:51:19 Eminem's maybe for my health, we don't talk about it. Like, I feel like my fucking blood pressure shot up. So that one's in for sure. Going to Hollywood. You're going to Hollywood, Food and Wine AI article. It feels like an illustration of the Van Vot thing that I kept seeing. It's no big secret why Van Vot doesn't work in Hollywood anymore. And it's a picture of Vince Vaughn. But this was one that
Starting point is 00:51:46 we just encountered like in an article that like we would be talking about anyways. There's a famous genre of story that we always cover on TDZ anytime they're trying to do something horrifying with pumpkin spice and bringing it back way too early. And it was just, just right there. Didn't, didn't make any sense. Um, AI is, yeah, it's turning the world into what feels like a dream you're having while you lay dying. Um, is kind of what, what it feels like. That's what this show is basically, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:23 So we're gonna, we So we got through the stories that are nominees for the tournament. We're going to take one final break and we're going to come back and make the final selection, maybe even do some seeding. We'll be right back. Hey everyone, it's Jon, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the Black Fat Film Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated. Oh, chat.
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Starting point is 00:56:57 Kendrick Drake, guy who won the gold medal having a dick. Ray Gun, Olympic Shooters, RFK Heidi Bear, RFK Brain Worm, JD Vans Couchfuck, Mark Robinson Porn Shop, Private Equity Shrimp, Kamala Fashion Week Party, Elmo, The Big Bird,
Starting point is 00:57:15 Wonka Glasgow AI article, that's 13. We have three spots to fill with gymnast nerd, whale head, furry hackers, Havana syndrome solved, JD Vance donut shop, cotton candy burrito slash election slash fake Vade Bridgerton and Jay Leno, which Jay Leno, I feel like we can cut if he hasn't been attacked
Starting point is 00:57:39 by a shark yet. Jay, any update on that? I've been checking so far, no. So far, no. All right We're going to cut Jay Leno. We don't know where that story is exactly going. It's not a complete story. So we're down to 19 stories. Got any election, burrito election, fake Bridgerton I think is in. Is in. Yeah. Yeah. Highlight that. Yeah. All right. That one's in.
Starting point is 00:58:01 JD Vance donut shop. Do we want to cut? What was, I don't even, the gymnast nerd, was it just that he wore glasses or was his Dick out too? What was the deal with that? He was a sensation or I remember everyone was obsessed because he was so calm and then helped deliver a medal for the U S men's gymnastics team. And it was like, why is this guy here he has glasses on so like the the question was posed just in his very presence I think there was probably one of those packages before where is like I know this guy looks like a
Starting point is 00:58:38 fucking dork but here he is back at home, you know, getting the call that he gets to be in the Olympics, even though he has glasses. And then he had a big moment in the team event and fully came through. The Olympic men meddled once again and, you know, just going back through, I feel like this bitch got to be in there. I know we're Olympics heavy, but that would also give us four Olympic stories that they could be their own section of the tournament. Okay, that rounds it out.
Starting point is 00:59:13 Yeah, because it'd be weird to have three Olympic stories. Oh, so we cluster them into like the Eastern bracket? Yeah, exactly. So one of them comes out of that quadrant. Okay. Yeah. I think we cut furry hackers and Havana syndrome. So then that leaves RFK whale head and the donut shop Yeah, the donut shop is like as much as I don't want to think about I mean whatever we're already have to think about his Love of the couch so we might as well just talk about how
Starting point is 00:59:41 Absolutely awkward and robotic he is around normal whale head got a lot of nominations from listeners. Well, because it also has the whale juice. It's the daughter's anecdote about it that does a lot of the head lifting. Ben Affleck is involved. It was, I think in many ways, the culmination. Like even though, like with the Kendrick songs even though You know I happened to when I first heard it like you know
Starting point is 01:00:10 The one that he only dropped on Instagram better Not like us was his favorite was the one that hit the hardest and I feel like whale head was the one That hit the hardest so no it's not like the deep cut. So the RFK brain worm is like, like that? The diss track from future Metro Boomin? Okay, and then Heidi Bear is like, yeah. Okay. 616. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:36 And whale head is not like us. Donut shop I think can go. Okay. And that gets us there. Cause whale head and Heidi Bear, we're confirming are just two separate stories now. I think they have to be. They stand on their own. Then do we also cluster RFK stories in their own quadrant too? So
Starting point is 01:00:51 one emerges or do we make them do the battle to the death there? I think we cluster them in their own bracket with Kendrick Drake. Or maybe with the Elmo Big Bird, I don't know. Or Mark Robinson, I guess. Like colorful characters from the election would be maybe. Okay. Yeah. So how do we want to, we're going to see them now? So here's what I think we should do.
Starting point is 01:01:22 Because this has already been a long episode. We've reviewed the stories that are going to be them now? So here's what I think we should do. Because this has already been a long episode. We've reviewed the stories that are going to be facing off with one another. I think we should between now and tomorrow when we're recording the kind of determinative episode where we figure out who wins, what is the top story of 2024. I think everybody ranks their favorites, like just ranks the whole thing in order. We use that to seed.
Starting point is 01:01:50 And then the way that the actual event is determined is just like one-on-one, which of these two stories, and we talk it out. Okay, all right. Does that sound fair to everyone? That sounds fair. Sounds good. I'll do my rankings.
Starting point is 01:02:03 I'll bring my rankings to the next class and we will begin the actual... With the understanding that the Olympics ones are all going to be clustered together. But, or maybe they don't have to be. Yeah, but it makes sense. Maybe they're free. Well, I don't know. Yeah, that's where we'll talk about it. I think that's the important thing is we can, we'll think about how we get there because you don't want to get those huge matchups early on in the tournament.
Starting point is 01:02:24 Yeah. You certainly don't want, you don't want to get those huge matchups early on in the tournament. You know, yeah, you certainly don't, Miles. No, but yeah, I think we're going to end up with like four really strong one seeds as everybody chooses their favorite stories. And we're going to get, for the sake of science, we're going to get the top Daily Zeitgeist story of the year 2024, like I story of the year 2024, um, inaugural episode. I exactly, my only shame in doing this episode is that it took us this long to figure out that we should be doing this every year. Um, you know, yeah, but look, look, we got, look, we got a lot of tables, man, as Janine Perofilo says, and famously in the Gable guy at medieval times,
Starting point is 01:03:07 we should, we should also do a tournament of just our most overused pop culture references. We got a lot of, yeah. I think I'd say we got a lot of tables or I got a lot of tables, man. Yeah, that or anything that's a word that ends in T-I-O-N becomes an ace word. There's a lot of those. That might be another one too, from Zeitgang, just Zeitgeistisms, Battle of the Zeitgeistisms, too, for this year. Taking a little vacation. Yeah. To the nash.
Starting point is 01:03:32 A little recommendation for my vacation. All right. All right. J.M. McNabb, thank you so much for joining us. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? I don't even know anymore. Cool. find you, follow you, all that good stuff? I don't even know anymore.
Starting point is 01:03:51 Cool. Yeah, I'm on Twitter, but I don't do anything on that anymore. I guess I'm on Blue Sky, but I don't remember what the thing is. So I'm around. All right. There you go. Victor, where can people find you? I'm also like JM. I never do any on Instagram or Twitter. Don't leave me alone, please. yes all right great miles don't no good when this is a OB one on blue sky Oh Jack O bone Jack O bone Jack OB the number one okay yeah you already know you Obey won. You already know. You already know. Y'all already know. Yep. All right. This was fun. Thank you so much. Thank you as always to Brian, the editor,
Starting point is 01:04:35 who's going to have to cut this shit together. Yeah. Also shout out to everybody else who couldn't make it. Obviously producer Bay, EP Justin yeah we all love you but Anna will be in another episode of the may have aired by the time you hear this but anyway that's right the whole gangs getting back you might even hear from Becca okay there right I was gonna do it hope everybody's having a great and to their year and we'll talk to y'all tomorrow with the exciting conclusion of the Daily Zeitgeist Stories of the Year Tournament of Champions or however I said at the beginning story tournament year stories of the year tournament of champions Yep, there it is. Boom Boom.
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