Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to the climactic final Do
Speaker 1: you hear me? Everybody, We're getting through this shit final
Speaker 1: episode of the Story of the Year Tournament of Champions,
Speaker 1: where we name the top story of the year. You're
Speaker 1: going to notice a tonal shift between this story and
Speaker 1: the previous realms, even though we're dropping them in three
Speaker 1: consecutive days. The previous two episodes were recorded a month ago, yeah,
Speaker 1: late November, before we all met Luigi Mangoni, and that
Speaker 1: is we now have a problem that we have to
Speaker 1: figure out. Where do we put Luigi Mangoni on this
Speaker 1: list of the stories of the year. My name is
Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien. That over there is mister Miles Gray, and
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined by our writer, mister
Speaker 1: j m mcnae. Hello, Jam, simply haven't wonderful Christmas time
Speaker 1: hater him must be j McNabb I love when he.
Speaker 2: Gets so freaky with the synth.
Speaker 1: Dude, Jam is furious. There's fucking steam coming out of
Speaker 1: his ears.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna punch Sir Paul McCartney in the face of.
Speaker 1: You would kill him. Yeah, he's old. We're thrilled to
Speaker 1: be joined by super producer Victor R.
Speaker 4: What how's it going?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 2: Great? What's up? We're gonna get to the shocking conclusion
Speaker 2: of the.
Speaker 1: Shocking conclusion that you didn't see coming in that doctors
Speaker 1: don't want you to know about one shocking conclusion, and
Speaker 1: of course we're thrilled to be joined by super producer
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker themselves. All right, so guys here if listens,
Speaker 1: if you haven't listened to the episode so far, this
Speaker 1: isn't gonna make a whole lot of sense, but basically
Speaker 1: we're doing a Sweet sixteen bracket NC DOUAA style tournament,
Speaker 1: single eliminache of all the top stories that we covered
Speaker 1: this year and the remain so one half of the
Speaker 1: bracket is in the final eight Glasgal the Glasgow Willy
Speaker 1: Wonka story, Mark Robinson, RFK bear Ai six point eight weeks.
Speaker 1: If you don't know what those stories are, especially they
Speaker 1: when you're not gonna you were always against Miles, and
Speaker 1: you should go back and listen. We still have to
Speaker 1: do the first round of the other side of the
Speaker 1: bracket and also determine where we put Luigi Mangioni. Although
Speaker 1: I would like to propose I would like to propose
Speaker 1: to Luigi Mangioni, would you marry me, sir, may marry me?
Speaker 1: Say get proposals like prisoners who just who aren't like
Speaker 1: international heart throbs get proposed to all the time. This
Speaker 1: motherfucker must be just like buried under a bunch of
Speaker 1: paper mail cras candy grabs. All right, so here is
Speaker 1: my proposal. This was, Miles, what you suggested before we started.
Speaker 1: So we we do have an omnibus story. It is
Speaker 1: cotton candy burrito election, the US presidential election, the Bridgerton scam,
Speaker 1: and what if we added Luigi Mangioni to that. Those
Speaker 1: are all basically about the same thing, you know, class consciousness. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: cotton candy burrito is a burrito that had like a
Speaker 1: bunch of shit in it, had too much shit in it.
Speaker 1: And then like enough said.
Speaker 5: Do we just swap those three out and say, Luigi
Speaker 5: Mai dunks on all three of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the election, fake Bridgerton, We hate to see you go.
Speaker 1: We were baying. It was interesting because like it was
Speaker 1: such a nothing story and yet it was like really
Speaker 1: resonated with people. People were like, oh, yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: the cotton candy brito. But anyways, keep grating pissed off.
Speaker 1: People were angrier at that than they were at the election.
Speaker 1: As the results of the election, and so the cotton
Speaker 1: candy burrito was cotton candy on the outside, chocolate and inside.
Speaker 1: All right, So Luigi Manngioni is now in the bracket
Speaker 1: in the whatever seed that was going up against Kamala
Speaker 1: fashion weak party, which was like one that I was
Speaker 1: expecting to make a lot of noise up until that
Speaker 1: party just ran into a bus saw. All right, So
Speaker 1: here are the matchups that we have to do right now.
Speaker 1: We're gonna just run through them real quick. So one
Speaker 1: is JD. Vance fucking couches, and then we have the
Speaker 1: dick two big vaulter. JD. Bance did not in fact
Speaker 1: write about sucking a couch, but the way the Internet
Speaker 1: just made it so it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We were just we weren't working with much on the
Speaker 1: Democratic side of the ticket. And let's get to it,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get enough.
Speaker 2: Okay, we already know, we all know the stories we got.
Speaker 2: We got to roll up our proverbial sleeves here.
Speaker 1: Everybody on three is going to say who they want
Speaker 1: to win, and that whoever wins will move through on.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say one, two, three, and then you're
Speaker 1: gonna say your vote okay, not on three okay, So
Speaker 1: like it'll be almost like you're saying the four okay one.
Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, which what we're doing here? It's just
Speaker 3: the final This is all of them.
Speaker 2: No, no, dude, this is the first.
Speaker 1: We're just getting to the first on their coast.
Speaker 2: Of the of our march madness practice.
Speaker 1: This is jd J counchuck versus pull Vaulter.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, if you look in the dogs, I have
Speaker 5: the bracket so you can visually it's visually represent.
Speaker 2: Okay, I say it. Okay, cauch three.
Speaker 1: Yeah on three, one two three? Couch fucker? What Okay,
Speaker 1: what did you say, couch falter?
Speaker 2: I said, couch fucker.
Speaker 4: I say couch fucker too, said couch.
Speaker 1: JA said couch fucker. Couch fuckers. Onto the next round,
Speaker 1: all right, congratulations to JD vance. Catch fucking up. Next,
Speaker 1: we have ray Gun. This is a fucking what a
Speaker 1: what a macw holy ship. We have ray Gun going
Speaker 1: up against RFK brainworm. You know the fact that RFK
Speaker 1: Junior was being piloted by a brain worm, which just
Speaker 1: felt appropriate because nothing he did made sense. And then
Speaker 1: we of course have ray Gun, who appeared to be
Speaker 1: making fun of the idea of breakdancing as an Olympic
Speaker 1: event while also being yeah.
Speaker 2: The whole art of breakdancing being an absolute joke.
Speaker 1: Yes, which I disagree with, but there it is, all
Speaker 1: right on three one two three? Brain worm?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: Uh so, jam, I don't think I heard you, I said,
Speaker 1: Raygun said Regun, I said all of you, Okay, r
Speaker 1: FK Bear made it. So then may have a brain worm.
Speaker 1: We don't know, entirely possible.
Speaker 2: That could be the new defense for cultural appropriation. I
Speaker 2: had this brainworm. Man, I'm not.
Speaker 7: Surprised that our f K has the brain worm.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm salty because I just lost my my
Speaker 8: retirement funds.
Speaker 4: I bet all the.
Speaker 5: Brian might be kind to you might not know him
Speaker 5: three bitcoins right exactly.
Speaker 1: Also, the brain worm I was always a little suspicious
Speaker 1: because it came out during deposition of a divorce where
Speaker 1: he was like using it almost as an excuse, where
Speaker 1: he was like, this is why I can't like pay
Speaker 1: you money. Right, So anyways, all right, up next we
Speaker 1: have Kendrick v. Drake, the Beef, the wrap.
Speaker 2: Beef he has here about that we got to get
Speaker 2: a surf and turf in this matchup, it looks like,
Speaker 2: and that's right.
Speaker 1: And then we have so on one side beef and
Speaker 1: on the other side we got the private equity shrimp.
Speaker 2: Red lust or whatever.
Speaker 7: This is hard.
Speaker 1: So Red Lobster blamed their bankruptcy on the bottomless shrimp
Speaker 1: and just being like, you pigs ate too much shrimp
Speaker 1: and then when you dug in it was private equity.
Speaker 1: He had another victim of private equity being vampires who
Speaker 1: just insert themselves and suck up all the money.
Speaker 2: And it's like a Sopranos type thing. They break in,
Speaker 2: they run your business in the ground, and then you
Speaker 2: owe them everything.
Speaker 1: All right on three one two three, Kendrick Kendrick Drake.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, you're.
Speaker 1: Not getting us this time, private equity. Nice try. Sorry,
Speaker 1: sorry assholes. Back to the shrimp, you go, all right,
Speaker 1: this is the last one of the first round, and
Speaker 1: then we will take a break and come back for
Speaker 1: the Elite eight. Is that right?
Speaker 2: Elite Okay.
Speaker 1: Finally we have Kamala Harris's Fashion Week party, which was
Speaker 1: just a complete uh compostulation, encasulation in the bottle of
Speaker 1: just like everything being completely out of touch, just perfect.
Speaker 1: It's like if this had been more widely covered, we
Speaker 1: would have all known exactly what was about to happen
Speaker 1: on election Day. I feel like that is going up
Speaker 1: against Luigi Mangioni.
Speaker 6: So that's where we're at. And who is Luigi Mangi one?
Speaker 6: One Man Man Guy one.
Speaker 1: Sounds like it could be like a podcast hosted by
Speaker 1: a Joe.
Speaker 5: It sounds like a like a Manisphere podcast. Work Manguy one. Actually,
Speaker 5: my show's on Mangui one, all right.
Speaker 1: Kamala v. Manguy one. And I feel like there's might
Speaker 1: go down like election night, ready one two three one,
Speaker 1: Mangui wan. We we are like a lot of America
Speaker 1: WEEJ and the Juice. I'm gonna keep trying to make
Speaker 1: that po thing. All right. We have our final eight.
Speaker 1: We got Glasgow, we got Mark Robinson, RFK Bear Ai
Speaker 1: six point eight weeks, JD. Couch, fuck Rey gun Kendrick,
Speaker 1: Drake Beef and Luigi Mangioni. What a What a final eight?
Speaker 1: What an elite eight? Truly elite this year this time around,
Speaker 1: no Derella is to be had. We're gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick break, We're gonna come back, and we're gonna settle
Speaker 1: this ship once and for all. We'll be right back, man,
Speaker 1: We're back. Anything anybody wants to cover before, like you know,
Speaker 1: I've talked about I think I spent some time on why,
Speaker 1: like the Kambala Fashion Week thing was one of my
Speaker 1: favorites and not that it fucking mattered, But any thing
Speaker 1: anybody wants to call out before we get into.
Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
Speaker 5: There is something. There is an extra. There is a
Speaker 5: new wrinkle on the Mark Robinson story.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if it was covered while I
Speaker 5: was sick the week that this story came out, But
Speaker 5: so Mark Robinson, if you remember, one of the big
Speaker 5: things was like He's like, that wasn't me.
Speaker 2: They set me up. I would not like, what the
Speaker 2: fuck is this?
Speaker 5: And he was using the screen name or like our
Speaker 5: account name Mini Soldier, M I N I, S O,
Speaker 5: L D R. And then he remember he soon CNN
Speaker 5: and Louis money for defamation, okay, because of that story.
Speaker 5: Then uh, in December, this guy logs onto like a
Speaker 5: meeting for like inauguration stuff that's happening in the state,
Speaker 5: and his fucking Google meet login name is Mini Soldier. Like,
Speaker 5: he logged into a government meeting with the fucking screen
Speaker 5: name in question, and and it was very internal. This
Speaker 5: wasn't a public basing thing. But someone from the meeting
Speaker 5: was like, they sent it to the Assembly, which is
Speaker 5: the news outlet that first broke all the Mark Robinson shit,
Speaker 5: and they're like, dude, this guy just fucking signed into
Speaker 5: a meeting as Mini Soldier. I don't know if that
Speaker 5: does anything to his case, but yeah, that might be him.
Speaker 5: So I just want to add that he completely self
Speaker 5: owned once more before the end of the year.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just so we did we The Glasgow story
Speaker 1: had had its update right that the guy, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the Glasgow uh Willie Wang a scam, had to register
Speaker 1: as a sex offender for stalking somebody and blamed it
Speaker 1: all on the Glasgow. Yeah, it was like this story
Speaker 1: was just I'm not gonna blame it at all on
Speaker 1: nine to eleven, but it certainly didn't help type shit.
Speaker 5: Oh whoa wait before Oh no, it's it's apparently he
Speaker 5: was accused of rape.
Speaker 1: Now oh wow, okay.
Speaker 5: So that thing has gotten completely wow a dark, very
Speaker 5: dark term.
Speaker 1: So these two deserve each other in this matter.
Speaker 2: Very very sordid story here.
Speaker 8: I have one development, one mild development, and it's not
Speaker 8: a real development. But I've been going on the r
Speaker 8: slash Drizzy subreddit a lot, which is all about Drake,
Speaker 8: and I've just been enjoying. After everything, they're still like, actually,
Speaker 8: Drake is the better rapper. God's Plan was the first
Speaker 8: one to make it to a billion downloads and not
Speaker 8: like US isn't even there yet.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 4: I've just been enjoying all the saltiness from that.
Speaker 5: Subway that GNA is like one of the first albums
Speaker 5: that's gonna get like gonna get to the fastest billion
Speaker 5: listen mark or something like that of any rap album.
Speaker 1: That it doesn't even have like ninety tracks. Like yeah,
Speaker 1: I think a lot.
Speaker 5: Of people are pointing at him like wow, look at that.
Speaker 5: Sounds like quality is better than quantity A but anyway, yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, well let's we can talk a little bit
Speaker 1: more about that when we get to it. But with
Speaker 1: Glasgow Mark Robinson in our head, we are now going
Speaker 1: to vote on three one two three Mark Robinson.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm a Mark Robinson bay or Mark Robinson.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I really the Glasgow one is good, but that
Speaker 9: the last.
Speaker 5: Thing brought it back for me. Yeah, wow, yeah that
Speaker 5: was a late That was a buzzer beater for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you would you pick?
Speaker 4: I voted Glasgow Glasgow?
Speaker 1: So oh it was truly a buzzer beater. Was like
Speaker 1: nobody thought. Nobody thought Mark Robinson was gonna do this,
Speaker 1: and then Glasgow had to come from behind.
Speaker 2: Sorry too late, Mark Robinson.
Speaker 4: And everyone put Glasgow was like number one.
Speaker 1: Yeah left fand favorite Yeah yeah yeah, okay up next
Speaker 1: of all the RFK stories, this is the one that survives.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, we had r f K Whalehead.
Speaker 2: Lost to Mark Robins early early exit for that.
Speaker 1: One, but now we have r FK Bear Heidi Bear
Speaker 1: where And this was the one. This was the one
Speaker 1: that like had the whole like long read treatment. The
Speaker 1: New Yorker like wrote about just what a maniac this
Speaker 1: guy is and told the story it was. It's very vivid.
Speaker 1: It does seem to be the one that maybe got
Speaker 1: the most mainstream media coverage, although the Whalehead seemed to
Speaker 1: get a lot of like does geist, but maybe that
Speaker 1: was just because it was last.
Speaker 5: Uh No, it got a lot of mileage because a
Speaker 5: lot of people started meming that video when he was
Speaker 5: telling Roseanne about the bear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and it turned into you know, that was.
Speaker 1: The one where we went from like the brainworm thing
Speaker 1: is like funny to make fun of, and he's seems
Speaker 1: like a really strange person to like just being on
Speaker 1: a different level of like I can truly hear any
Speaker 1: absurd story about this person, and I guess I have
Speaker 1: to believe it going forward. That Yeah, So I think
Speaker 1: that's where the RFK bear is getting a lot of
Speaker 1: its story. I will say, though, you know, sometimes this
Speaker 1: happens in sports, where like an entire conference, like all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like nine of the ten teams, like
Speaker 1: they were doing great all year. Everyone was like this
Speaker 1: conference is incredible, but they were like playing each other,
Speaker 1: and then they get into like the round of you know,
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament, and they just get wiped out because
Speaker 1: they were just playing like worst teams, like they were
Speaker 1: all like a level below everyone. And I'm wondering if
Speaker 1: that's what's happening with RFK. We're about to find out.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm, because it's going up against AI six point
Speaker 5: eight weeks miles.
Speaker 1: Do we need to refra.
Speaker 2: AI six point no?
Speaker 5: Because everybody knows that's my brainworm, that is Miles's brain.
Speaker 2: Worm, and it tells me what to do and where
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 1: Do we say that this contains in it? It's no
Speaker 1: Like my version of this is it's no big secret
Speaker 1: why Van Vought doesn't work in Hollywood anymore, which is
Speaker 1: a headline I saw all over the place on like
Speaker 1: the sidebar edge spam things with a picture of Vince Vaughan.
Speaker 1: It's no big secret why van Vot doesn't work in
Speaker 1: Hollywood anymore. And it's just an example of the you know,
Speaker 1: AI brain rot slowly making its way into the world
Speaker 1: in a way that is like unremarked upon. Everyone's just
Speaker 1: like uh huh, yeah, yeah, no, everything sucks, nothing makes
Speaker 1: sense anymore. That's fine anyways, anything anyone wants to add
Speaker 1: on either of these stories before we put it to
Speaker 1: a vote, let's throw down, all right, here we go
Speaker 1: on three we will vote r FK bear AI six
Speaker 1: twenty weeks one two three ry weeks.
Speaker 2: Okay, that I already saw. It's three to two, three
Speaker 2: to two shot weeks. Yep.
Speaker 5: Shout out the producers for having my back, even though
Speaker 5: I said y'all were always against me.
Speaker 2: You prove that you prove right now that you weren't.
Speaker 2: And I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's our early exit. RFK making so much noise earlier,
Speaker 1: and yet I feel like his story is not yet done,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's what we're all sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we're we're gonna have to. He's gonna
Speaker 5: be such a fucking main character this next four years.
Speaker 2: Or hover fucking long.
Speaker 5: Yeah, unless like some raw milk ends up being his demise,
Speaker 5: but yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's just gonna be like a slow, like
Speaker 3: Cronenberg movie death.
Speaker 5: Like he's like, it's gonna look like Tobias in like
Speaker 5: Arrested Development when he got the hair transplant and it's
Speaker 5: slowly killing him in front of everyone and they're like.
Speaker 1: Ooh buddy, yeah yeah that may Maybe then he'll be
Speaker 1: at number A one seed. That's what That's what it's
Speaker 1: gonna take. RFK Junior all right up next the other
Speaker 1: we have the other side of the bracket. JD. Vance
Speaker 1: Couch fucking versus Ronald Reagan Ronald ray Gun. This bracket
Speaker 1: is feeling relatively weak this side for some reason. JD.
Speaker 1: Couch Fuck. I don't know, but maybe maybe that's just me.
Speaker 1: Anyone speak now forever, hold your piece about either of
Speaker 1: these stories, how they make you feel, why you think
Speaker 1: they deserve extra attention.
Speaker 8: They are both weak because they're both like kind of
Speaker 8: nothing stories Like the JD Vance couch one just literally
Speaker 8: didn't happen, and then the ray Gunt thing was just
Speaker 8: a woman embarrassing herself in front of everyone.
Speaker 1: You know, it was our so just mark it down.
Speaker 1: The victor hates art, okay.
Speaker 3: Well, Also, I feel like the ray gun thing was
Speaker 3: also this uh it happened when I was like visiting
Speaker 3: uh my wife's family, and it was this thing where
Speaker 3: like online culture kind of just intersected with mainstream culture,
Speaker 3: like I was seeing all of this blowing up on
Speaker 3: social media, but also everyone in the real world also
Speaker 3: knew about it and could talk about it. It was
Speaker 3: just this like huge dominant thing, whereas like the couch, like,
Speaker 3: I'm sure my parents if I said something about like
Speaker 3: the JD Vance thing, my parents, I don't think they
Speaker 3: would know what I was talking.
Speaker 5: She'd be like, I really wish i'd raised you differently,
Speaker 5: but here we are, sorry.
Speaker 1: Where And then she would have said, couldn't you be
Speaker 1: an Olympic Breakdancer like that one right.
Speaker 2: In my eyes. I'm like, I was, okay.
Speaker 1: Go on three one, two, three miles, would you choose
Speaker 1: jd Vance Couch is through to the next round. Congratulations,
Speaker 1: he's in the final four. Yeah, that's huge. Okay. And finally,
Speaker 1: I hate to do this, Kendrick Drake versus Luigi Mangione shooting.
Speaker 5: I betray the working class for my West Coast allegiances.
Speaker 1: I mean, both of these hot bodies this year. It's uh,
Speaker 1: this is not an easy one. This one. On the
Speaker 1: other side, the last one felt a little light. Wait,
Speaker 1: this one feels heavy. Yeah, this one's heavy, man, all right, Victor,
Speaker 1: you wanted to point out the Kendrick Drake beef might
Speaker 1: seem like it's an over and done with story lives
Speaker 1: from our perspective out here, but people for people, for
Speaker 1: the soldiers in the game, especially those backing Drake, they're like, nah, man,
Speaker 1: this is.
Speaker 5: Even on the even on the Kendrick Lamar sub it's
Speaker 5: still constantly talked about, to the point where like all
Speaker 5: the old heads that were using our our Kendrick Lamar,
Speaker 5: We're like.
Speaker 2: Bro, I can't wait for the beef ship to stop.
Speaker 2: Because there's like a bunch of new people who are just.
Speaker 5: Like, like, this ship is not about Drake Lamar. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so it's still it still lives rent free in everyone's
Speaker 5: brains and hip hop for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, here we go. I actually don't know which
Speaker 1: one I'm gonna pick. It's gonna it's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be in the moment for me. Okay, all right on three? Okay,
Speaker 1: one huh two?
Speaker 4: Three, Louis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, all right, let's stop, let's stop pretending.
Speaker 5: And I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but this ship is bigger
Speaker 5: than hip hop, bigger than hip hop, you know.
Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna take one more break. We're gonna
Speaker 1: come back. It is the Final Four, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna have the daily Zeitgeist, Season of Champions, Story
Speaker 1: of the Year, Tournament of Champions. All of those words
Speaker 1: in that order is what I intended to say. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back.
Speaker 1: And can I just take like one minute to just
Speaker 1: argue that maybe Dick too big Pole Vaulter deserves to
Speaker 1: just like be considered back in here.
Speaker 4: All right, how much money did you lose?
Speaker 9: I rewatched the video and that was it does deserve something.
Speaker 9: I was like, damnation, I feel so bad.
Speaker 2: You know you feel bad?
Speaker 7: No, yeah, I mean that that guy he lost because
Speaker 7: of winning.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So one thing. A couple of details of that
Speaker 1: story are that he had hit the bar already with
Speaker 1: his knees as he was going over the bar, and
Speaker 1: I have a loose theory that he thrust his dick
Speaker 1: forward in order to like catch it because he had
Speaker 1: already lost, and so, in a moment of like ingenious viral.
Speaker 7: Marketing, yeah you got to do it for the market.
Speaker 1: Actually caught his dick on it and was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I was a golden I was my big dick away
Speaker 1: from a gold medal.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna need Kevin Costner to dim the
Speaker 3: lights and explain this to me.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: I did see that.
Speaker 5: There was he posted at the time, like a video
Speaker 5: of him like that pole vaulting attempt, and in French,
Speaker 5: the translation was pov, you create more buzz for your
Speaker 5: package than your performances, and then the caption also put
Speaker 5: I don't know, really, I really don't know if I
Speaker 5: should take it well or not, but with like laughing emojis,
Speaker 5: he's a good sport and also, bro, you were't gonna
Speaker 5: win the That's fine, it was good, good marketing, great marketing.
Speaker 8: We could email him and saying that he made it
Speaker 8: on this bracket. Maybe that would make him feel a
Speaker 8: little bit better, you.
Speaker 5: Know, yeah, he made it to the final No wait,
Speaker 5: never mind, shut never mind, never mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe we shouldn't tell him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Glasgow versus AI six point eight weeks
Speaker 1: Glasgow versus AI slop.
Speaker 5: Now, this is hard because it's like a chicken or
Speaker 5: egg type situation where I look at me personally, I
Speaker 5: look at the AI six point eight weeks thing as
Speaker 5: just sort of like this all encompassing, like this is
Speaker 5: exactly why we need to fucking run in the opposite
Speaker 5: direction of AI in terms of like content generation or
Speaker 5: whatever and many other things.
Speaker 2: But then Glasgow, why am I saying Glasgow?
Speaker 5: Like you, Glasgow is like a better scam with so
Speaker 5: many more fun things, And I'd rather see like a
Speaker 5: mockumentary about.
Speaker 7: That than the IX you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, sure Glasgow does have elements of the
Speaker 1: AI slop in it. Yeah, yeah, the the what were
Speaker 1: some of the words that that they were advertising?
Speaker 2: It was so bad?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just a bunch of made up rip.
Speaker 1: Yeah this great, Okay, So just some things that were
Speaker 1: on eating catating live performances, carchie tons, exascer dre, lollipops,
Speaker 1: Pasi dice of sweet teats, ah sweet sweet in it,
Speaker 1: and like one picture that was, you know a good
Speaker 1: example of like what good ai ar can do, where
Speaker 1: it like looks like a trapper keeper, but it looks like,
Speaker 1: oh this is they've actually built a wonderland of candy.
Speaker 1: Like this looks like a modern updating of what Willy
Speaker 1: Wonka's chopping factory would actually look like. And then you
Speaker 1: get there.
Speaker 5: And yeah, the intoxicating nature of ai and how it
Speaker 5: will draw people like moths to a flame only to
Speaker 5: find out it's a big fucking disaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The actual image was like a empty where how else
Speaker 1: with some like plaster of Paris, big candy cane ships
Speaker 1: and some.
Speaker 2: Really bummed out looking workers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very very bummed out. I really do think it
Speaker 1: sums up so many different parts of the of it all.
Speaker 1: All right on three, anybody else speak now forever hold
Speaker 1: your peace.
Speaker 3: I will say I do think there's something but the
Speaker 3: Willy Wonka, the fact that it's almost like it's by mistake,
Speaker 3: like it's it's a genuinely hilarious comedy that you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's like it's a hopeful story about ai
Speaker 1: uh and in that way.
Speaker 8: Well, and it kept going like each week there was
Speaker 8: new like someone else was speaking out against it, or
Speaker 8: we got a worker's perspective.
Speaker 4: So it was an ongoing story.
Speaker 2: Of fired copycat scam events.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bridgerton does like belong to this story and something. Yes, Miles,
Speaker 1: do you want to just read the six twenty eight
Speaker 1: weeks copy?
Speaker 5: Just want I'm just again. I'll find out who's against me. Okay,
Speaker 5: that's all.
Speaker 2: That's what I'll use this vote for. I don't need
Speaker 2: to remind people how important this is to me. Okay,
Speaker 2: so we'll see. That's right, let's call the motherfuckers.
Speaker 1: Yeah on three then one two three? Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Wait did I think the switch?
Speaker 1: I think you did?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah, it's you asked a I to write that
Speaker 1: answer for you.
Speaker 2: Which one's better?
Speaker 1: Hurry?
Speaker 2: Help me help me? Yeah it's Glass what And I
Speaker 2: was like, I'll take it. Glasgow? All right, Glasgow, you're
Speaker 2: in the final.
Speaker 1: Yeah, salute to six twenty eight weeks. I do think
Speaker 1: we got to read the six twenty eight weeks one
Speaker 1: last time just to give it a fair sendoff. This
Speaker 1: is how it originally appeared. Yeah, in Jam's original story
Speaker 1: and apparently quote research indicates the gen Z millennials plan
Speaker 1: to sell it rate Halloween by dressing up and planning
Speaker 1: for the holiday about six point eight weeks beforehand, uh,
Speaker 1: which would And then in the actual article, well six
Speaker 1: point eight weeks from Memorial Day is the fourth of July,
Speaker 1: so you still have plenty of time to latch onto
Speaker 1: a pop culture trend and turn it into a creative costume.
Speaker 1: Just absolute meaninglessness. Absolutely, Melissa Kravitz Hoffner, you should be.
Speaker 2: Ashamed if that is your name, exactly, it's probably your
Speaker 2: fucking Melissa Kravitz Hofna.
Speaker 1: That's who writer is coming back exactly.
Speaker 2: Melissa Kravitz Hoffna. You've been the raised.
Speaker 1: This started with a story about Eminem's prematurely launching Pumpkins
Speaker 1: Spice season in June. Yeah, fucking crazy, that is too
Speaker 1: early anyways, Audios, Ai Slop, I'm sure you will be
Speaker 1: on next year's story of.
Speaker 2: Right after this all.
Speaker 1: Right on the other side of the bracket, we have
Speaker 1: what one JD vent J versus Luigi Mangioni.
Speaker 2: The song of Luigi Mangoni. Yep.
Speaker 1: I mean this is uh just raising so many h
Speaker 1: things that I can't say out loud in my head,
Speaker 1: pairing these two against each other. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll just say we so we got the catch. But yeah, really,
Speaker 1: the JD Vance couch fucking thing took over the Internet
Speaker 1: for a good week at a time when we really
Speaker 1: needed it, yep.
Speaker 2: And it launched a thousand weird ships too. These guys
Speaker 2: are just weird. Huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I mean to be fair, Like we
Speaker 1: were talking about how it didn't cross over as much
Speaker 1: as Reagan, but the Democratic vice presidential candidate did like
Speaker 1: make reference to it and talk.
Speaker 2: About the weird stuff, and it just started with like
Speaker 2: a dude.
Speaker 3: It was just like a guy who did like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's just a ship post and that it made it
Speaker 3: from that to like yeah, being referenced in national politics
Speaker 3: and also just so easy to check to see.
Speaker 2: If But did it matter? It exacted matter, And that's what.
Speaker 5: I think, BELI yeah, because you're like, I don't know,
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe we might.
Speaker 8: I also feel like that was the one thing that
Speaker 8: Republicans didn't like being called. They didn't like being called weird.
Speaker 1: Democrats are like, okay, our bad the basti.
Speaker 2: Where they draw the line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the one thing they could actually point
Speaker 1: out that didn't make people be like, and I bet
Speaker 1: they call me weird. You know, as we've talked about,
Speaker 1: like when the Democrats are like looking down there, no
Speaker 1: was that the Republicans like that actually helps the Republicans,
Speaker 1: like that's part of the strategy. David Graeber talked about
Speaker 1: how these Republics, you know, George W. Bush went to Yale,
Speaker 1: but then when he became a politician, he suddenly had
Speaker 1: a thick Southern accent and like spend his time on
Speaker 1: the ranch because he knew like it was part of
Speaker 1: a strategy where by being a hick, he would get
Speaker 1: the Democrats to make fun of him for being a hick,
Speaker 1: and then all the people would be like, well that's me,
Speaker 1: Like you're making fun of me, asshole. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: Trumps similarly, like there's plenty of things that he embodies
Speaker 1: that people criticized that people were like, yeah, you probably
Speaker 1: say that about me, but weird feels like not one
Speaker 1: of them. It really is wild. We talked before the election.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we've talked enough about it after,
Speaker 1: but that like, once an election happens, it becomes everyone's
Speaker 1: just like yeah, and that was always what was going
Speaker 1: to happen, and there was no other way to avoid
Speaker 1: what was going to happen. And the Republicans were going
Speaker 1: to win in a landslide.
Speaker 2: But they didn't win in a lance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't win in a landslide. And also if
Speaker 1: they had just fucking you know, Kamala Harris at one
Speaker 1: point was like leaning in a direction of like populism
Speaker 1: and like criticizing corporations for greedflation, and then one of
Speaker 1: her advisors was like, don't do that, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: And then the weird thing went away. Also, so just
Speaker 1: you know, who knows what would have happened if they
Speaker 1: didn't have exactly the wrong instincts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they should have leaned into the couch fucking thing
Speaker 3: more like they should have been like dramatic commercials.
Speaker 1: Body Double just looks like child hire Haley Joel OSMONCC.
Speaker 5: Just fucking like they're like, man, we racked up a
Speaker 5: lot of fines for area commercial, all right, It.
Speaker 1: Is JD Evans couch fuck versus Luigi Mangioni on three
Speaker 1: one two three?
Speaker 5: Jad?
Speaker 2: What yeah you think? Wow? Wait, is that who you
Speaker 2: picked to lose?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: When who are you talking to?
Speaker 1: I just convinced myself of the JD vance catch Fox
Speaker 1: during the course of that. Wow.
Speaker 7: Okay, I just I'm always gonna choose Luigi.
Speaker 1: Miles and Bay chose Luigi. Did anybody else choose?
Speaker 2: I chose Luigi?
Speaker 4: Okay, moves on?
Speaker 1: Luigi moves on? All right?
Speaker 5: I mean I think that goes with that again. This
Speaker 5: one guy has created so much class consciousness that the
Speaker 5: media is absolutely fucking freaking out and many other people like, like,
Speaker 5: how do we fucking not talk about any of this?
Speaker 1: I speaking of past consciousness? Though? Have you read Hillbilly
Speaker 1: ellogy Man?
Speaker 9: He literally made like a glitch in the in the matrix,
Speaker 9: you know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Luigi Like, so, I can't, I can't, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just think the image of a guy fucking couch
Speaker 4: is funny, of course.
Speaker 5: Yea too.
Speaker 2: I don't know, though, but think about like how he
Speaker 2: would have done.
Speaker 8: It, yeah, ouch, and a funny you know, a Barca
Speaker 8: lounger would be funnier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ricky was that the video, the pretty Ricky video
Speaker 1: where those guys all fucking couch an automan, they're like
Speaker 1: showing their stroke game off.
Speaker 4: You remember that?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah teenagers? Anywow, So we have the finals.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: It is Glasgow versus Luigi Mangioni. Yep, and any final
Speaker 1: words Glasgow.
Speaker 5: I think they're they're they're both powerhouses in their own right.
Speaker 5: Glasgow being an encapsulation of like popular culture and everything
Speaker 5: that's happening and how we love to.
Speaker 2: Laugh at scams and all that shit.
Speaker 5: The Luisi Mangoni I think is like incredibly revealing about
Speaker 5: like the state of America. How suddenly there's bipart is
Speaker 5: in agreement over someone dying, but also then everyone talking
Speaker 5: about their hatred of the American healthcare system.
Speaker 2: And what that's done. Very powerful for us.
Speaker 5: I guess now it's kind of like we're deciding what's
Speaker 5: like the story that like really for like damn, that
Speaker 5: was such a year that was and that goes to
Speaker 5: Glasgow or it's like holy ship this was.
Speaker 2: I think that was the other reason too with the election,
Speaker 2: where like, of.
Speaker 5: Course the election is the biggest story because it's our
Speaker 5: most consequential.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember what happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's something about Burrito and like a Bridgerton thing
Speaker 3: in the election.
Speaker 2: And then the Luigi story, I think is just I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 5: I find it very very interesting personally, and I think
Speaker 5: like most people do. We've talked about it plenty on
Speaker 5: the show.
Speaker 2: Do we do fun? I don't know. I look at
Speaker 2: one the other.
Speaker 7: Thing, the Glasgow versus Yeah.
Speaker 1: It is, and that's what getting to the championship. I
Speaker 1: will just say this is the This is not the
Speaker 1: Time magazine story of the year. This is the daily
Speaker 1: zeitgeist story of the year. Tournament of champions that doesn't
Speaker 1: I'm not saying weeks I don't get Yeah, yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 1: Is it the story the biggest story? Is it the
Speaker 1: story that we deserve as a second rate podcast.
Speaker 3: Bias to a certain extent to the Luigi mang Is
Speaker 3: it possible?
Speaker 1: Question? That is a good question. Do I want to
Speaker 1: cast a like have the champion be something that the
Speaker 1: listeners didn't get a chance to vote on. I say
Speaker 1: yes because I despise our listen. Now I'm just joking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's there. They're two very different stories
Speaker 1: very powerful for different reasons. Uh, guys, I'd love to
Speaker 1: have both of you win. Unfortunately, only one can win.
Speaker 1: It is Willie Wanka Glasgow versus Luigi Mangoni.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what. Yeah.
Speaker 3: One thing that could potentially, uh make the Willy Wonka
Speaker 3: story less appealing is the people that tried to turn
Speaker 3: it into a musical with like John Stamos. Remember that.
Speaker 3: To me, that almost kind of ruins the joke when
Speaker 3: you remember that, take it and make it like funny.
Speaker 3: It's like it was already funny.
Speaker 2: You don't need to wait.
Speaker 7: They wanted to use the warehouse.
Speaker 1: No, no, they made it.
Speaker 3: I think it was like a fringe, a fringe of.
Speaker 4: Broadway. Yeah, it was like a wouldn't fringe?
Speaker 2: Would I didn't even know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so it's like it was already like this,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and live musical that takes inspiration from the disastrous
Speaker 2: Willy Wonka inspired event in Scotland.
Speaker 1: I'm so confident nobody's ever going to know about anything
Speaker 1: that comes of that that I'm I'm all right discounting it.
Speaker 1: But okay, god damn Stamos. That is that is tough
Speaker 1: to discount. All right, we're gonna do on three.
Speaker 2: Wait, I don't know I'm going to vote for yet.
Speaker 5: All right, everybody say, hey, look, take a second. If
Speaker 5: you need to pray, go ahead, and you discuss that
Speaker 5: with whoever you need to.
Speaker 3: Can I have the length of the old America's Funniest
Speaker 3: home videos?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Yeah? Where Like everybody's like, all right, lock
Speaker 1: in your answer. And when I say, this is you?
Speaker 1: Is this what you want to be? You deserve to
Speaker 1: be in blue? You knew.
Speaker 2: Time to vote one?
Speaker 1: Two, three?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I kind of take it back what you say?
Speaker 1: What I said?
Speaker 4: Glasgow, Jane, What did you say?
Speaker 2: I said, Luigi.
Speaker 4: Victor? Would you say I said, I said Luigi. I'm
Speaker 4: trying to say.
Speaker 5: Luigia.
Speaker 2: He'll hear this. O.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the champ is here. The winner is Luigi MANGIONI
Speaker 1: came through stormed in. My only thought. The reason I
Speaker 1: voted against him, and I hope he's not mad at
Speaker 1: me same I is that I felt like Willie Walka
Speaker 1: Glasgow is the story that twenty twenty four deserved.
Speaker 7: It's just it's got a scammy nature.
Speaker 1: I love nature of it was kind of what I
Speaker 1: was thinking, so.
Speaker 5: You're saying right right before you dropped your ballot and
Speaker 5: actual actually actually actually I know and you went Glasgow.
Speaker 2: No, that's I never changed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hadn't had mine. It's but we just wanted
Speaker 1: to go down on your permanent record.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just gonna put that.
Speaker 9: Well, my heart goes to Luigi MANGIONI always, because you know,
Speaker 9: it's my heart will go on. Yeah, because you know,
Speaker 9: he is just power to the.
Speaker 7: People, you know.
Speaker 9: But but the Glasgow, it was just there's just this
Speaker 9: underground scammy feeling that I that I think kind of
Speaker 9: represents TDZ.
Speaker 1: So would it.
Speaker 3: Change things if you found out that Luigi Mangoni was
Speaker 3: also the one who pushed Jay Leno down that hill.
Speaker 1: That's another one that might have made the list if
Speaker 1: it had happened before. Yeah, I think it probably would
Speaker 1: have been in there. Anyways, this has been our first
Speaker 1: story of the year Tournament of Champions. I'm really happy
Speaker 1: with how it went. I really appreciate all the listeners
Speaker 1: who contributed votes and who contributed stories. I really appreciate
Speaker 1: everybody who got on MIC to just bare their heart
Speaker 1: and soul about what they thought was the most important
Speaker 1: stories that happened this year.
Speaker 4: I did just realize something. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 8: People contributed stories and we just threw all those stories
Speaker 8: out to give Luigi Mangioni the best story of the year.
Speaker 1: I did. I did say that before we voted, and
Speaker 1: you can blame me. That was part of the reason
Speaker 1: I thought a vote for Glasgow as a vote for
Speaker 1: the Zeit Gang, because zike Gang, You're always in my heart,
Speaker 1: but Miles you know, doesn't doesn't care.
Speaker 5: Look, I saw a lot more of Luigi Ak's than
Speaker 5: I did Willy Wonka Ak's.
Speaker 1: That's that's definitely you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Definitely it did something.
Speaker 1: It did something.
Speaker 2: It even got me a quote in Jacobin, So hell yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll take that.
Speaker 1: Did you really? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think someone listens to the Daily Zeitgeist.
Speaker 5: It's like in an article like last week, someone remember
Speaker 5: Zitgang showed me and I was like, oh, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Didn't know that. I would have voted for Mangioni. Man,
Speaker 1: that's fine.
Speaker 2: Just like I said, y'all were always against.
Speaker 1: Me getting quoted in Jacobin. Goddamn it was.
Speaker 2: It was straight out like something that I said on
Speaker 2: the show. So I was like, okay, shut up to
Speaker 2: you well again.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they said, as Miles Gray said on
Speaker 2: the podcast The Daily Zeitgeist, and then.
Speaker 1: Offer we are back.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I really hope they don't quote that part
Speaker 3: where I said something about Dick van Dyke.
Speaker 2: Fucking an Ottoman.
Speaker 1: Said on the podcast The Daily Zaiica. Guys, great year,
Speaker 1: great work, great bracket. We will be doing this again next.
Speaker 5: Year until legal technically considered illegal activity, right the new regime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, that's gonna do it. We're back with
Speaker 1: more year end content coming up. But that is the
Speaker 1: end of the tournament. Prepare for montage of Luigi Mangioni
Speaker 1: doing various things in slow motion like they do at
Speaker 1: the end of the n C Double A tournament as
Speaker 1: we play what's the song one Shining moment Shining? It's
Speaker 1: the song sucked, but it's been given like a very
Speaker 1: a place of primacy courtesy of CBS. All right, another
Speaker 1: one in the books, swish welawless victory. Thank you very
Speaker 1: much to Bryan the editor for turning that into a podcast.
Speaker 1: A lot of I design, a lot of overlapping bullshit.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody. In the New Year by