Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special year end
Speaker 1: episode of Darnley Guys, the production of iHeartRadio. This is
Speaker 1: a podcast where you take a deep to have into America,
Speaker 1: share consciousness, and for the end of the year, we
Speaker 1: like to take a look back at the year and
Speaker 1: on this episode specifically the most viral stories of the
Speaker 1: year that we enjoyed the most. We did the top
Speaker 1: fifteen stories, but we also like to reserve an episode
Speaker 1: to bring on our youngest producers to talk about what
Speaker 1: went viral, what we might have missed, or just like
Speaker 1: the shit that was the most fun. I'm joined, as
Speaker 1: always by my co host mister Miles Right, thank you, thank.
Speaker 2: You for visiting me. You always say you're gonna visit
Speaker 2: you never do. Come closer, let me see your face.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen your face in so long. Anyway. Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm living in a This is a parallel reality because
Speaker 2: as you hear this, I am horizontal. Probably yeah, ghost.
Speaker 1: Well it was not feeling great, but.
Speaker 2: I was referencing that I'm going to play video games
Speaker 2: for two weeks.
Speaker 1: Oh what you As they are hearing this, we are
Speaker 1: in a void of not having to record the show
Speaker 1: for two weeks. So glorious. We're almost at the finish line. Miles. Yes,
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined by three supers producer with a
Speaker 1: combined age of forty five. We're thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: by super producer Bae Wow. Hey, we're joined by a
Speaker 1: super producer and an integral part of this year and
Speaker 1: tradition was on the first time we did it. Bru
Speaker 1: helps keep us up on our on our tiktoks. One
Speaker 1: of the greats.
Speaker 2: It's super producer Baca Rama.
Speaker 3: Hello, I'm back baby.
Speaker 1: We missed.
Speaker 2: I said, don't forget about me. Now look what happened.
Speaker 2: You got all you now you with the culture. Now okay,
Speaker 2: well I miss you, we miss you.
Speaker 1: We miss you. We're to have you back. And we're
Speaker 1: of course joined by super producer Victor. Right, it's starting already.
Speaker 1: We're young.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So I was like, are we gonna have enough viral
Speaker 1: stories to talk about? Did stuff go viral this year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It turns out a lot of show went viral. We
Speaker 1: ended up with seventeen pages of stories to talk about.
Speaker 1: We're not going to be able to get to all
Speaker 1: of those. So instead we're going to do this like
Speaker 1: a draft where everybody. We're going to go through our
Speaker 1: roster of guests and hosts on this show, and everybody's
Speaker 1: going to pick their number one story, So you have
Speaker 1: to choose carefully. Well, we'll go until we hit the
Speaker 1: hour mark. So however many rounds that takes us, we
Speaker 1: are going to give the first pick to the first
Speaker 1: person to come on this format of the show. One
Speaker 1: of the original super producers of this show, Becca Ramos.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Becca, you have the very first pick
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty five viral Internet Trends of the
Speaker 1: Year draft. What you going with?
Speaker 4: Zor On zor On Zoran Mom.
Speaker 2: People don't don't say it like Cuomo Now, Oh, don't.
Speaker 3: Do that to me. Don't do that to me.
Speaker 5: No, he is the people's princess. He is America's mayor.
Speaker 5: It has been very exciting to live in New York
Speaker 5: City at a time where there's hope again. It feels
Speaker 5: like two thousand and eight Obama. It is crazy.
Speaker 1: Heretually it doesn't go like two thousand and eight Obama.
Speaker 1: Now that I have the job, I understand I need
Speaker 1: the banks to back me.
Speaker 5: And that is truly how I think everybody in the
Speaker 5: city felt during the election. Post the election, I honestly
Speaker 5: the craziest thing pre the election was the campaigners, because
Speaker 5: as someone who's an apartment dweller here in New York City,
Speaker 5: the amount of people that have come to my door
Speaker 5: knocked disturbed my very erratic dogs and been like are
Speaker 5: you voting and who are you voting for? And I
Speaker 5: was like, yes, I am voting. Are you doing early voting?
Speaker 5: And I was like probably, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 5: And they're like, like, well, what date are you early
Speaker 5: voting right now? I was like, oh my god, alone,
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm voting for Zoron.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to close the door. I'm voting for Zoron.
Speaker 5: They're like, no, you need to tell me the date
Speaker 5: and time you're going to be voting for or On.
Speaker 5: I need to know where exactly you're going to be
Speaker 5: voting for Zoron. I'm like, so I voted, Okay, I
Speaker 5: voted for Zoron.
Speaker 3: I was teams Oron. We've been teams On.
Speaker 5: We're hoping that he doesn't fall into the clutches of
Speaker 5: you know, centrism and the bigotry that is the administration.
Speaker 5: But you know, there's hope for the first time ever.
Speaker 5: October was a crazy month. I had never seen so
Speaker 5: many people campaigning in the streets, excited to see the
Speaker 5: hottest mayor to come into New York City physically and electorally.
Speaker 1: And an Arsenal supporter, Yeah, an Arsenal fan, I thought
Speaker 1: you were referring to the only stories that went viral
Speaker 1: for me about Zoron. We're all the stories about how
Speaker 1: he was going to do a nine to eleven every
Speaker 1: day and all those cool Cuomo videos.
Speaker 5: The moves were crazy, and also I want to acknowledge, yeah,
Speaker 5: the Islamophobia that like perked up during the campaign because
Speaker 5: I think those of us who vote in the primaries
Speaker 5: and were shocked that he got, you know, at the
Speaker 5: official nomination for the Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: Then like a month.
Speaker 5: Or two before October or November before like official election day,
Speaker 5: it was like the Cuomo campaigns were insane. I was
Speaker 5: at the gym, and you know, they have a public
Speaker 5: cable at the gym, and all the political campaigns would
Speaker 5: pop up, and then I would see the Cuomo ads
Speaker 5: and they were like, literally, Mondomie is doing nine to eleven,
Speaker 5: He is going to bring this city down and crutches.
Speaker 3: He's burning everything up, and I was like, oh.
Speaker 1: Teaching Arabicals to kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was like doing like the crazy like Sepiatone,
Speaker 5: like it's like all the classics, and I.
Speaker 1: Was Every video begins with like the prayer call, you know,
Speaker 1: like it like it's an HBO show in the early aughts,
Speaker 1: cutting to you like.
Speaker 2: I used to I miss the sounds of dem Bo
Speaker 2: playing in the streets, but now it's the call to prayer.
Speaker 2: New York has changed because.
Speaker 5: You're in your own bubble, right, Like when you're in
Speaker 5: the like left wing like little roll bubble, you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: of course everyone's voting for Zoron, Zoro and zor On.
Speaker 5: But then you go to a regular place where there's
Speaker 5: other people, like the gym, and they have it on
Speaker 5: all the TV.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh my god, I can't believe.
Speaker 2: The when there's almost as if so many people agree
Speaker 2: that ship is too damn expensive.
Speaker 1: Almost it's almost like that. But that's actually not the
Speaker 1: lesson to take. The lesson to take is the Zorn
Speaker 1: is a talented politician who's got a good smile, and
Speaker 1: that's all you need. Oh no, please, no, no, no, please,
Speaker 1: no more talk about affordability. Affordability as a hoax, thank you.
Speaker 5: Uns is real quick. I hope to god this doesn't
Speaker 5: become because if we all remember during twenty twenty, if
Speaker 5: you lived here in New York City during twenty twenty,
Speaker 5: before Cuomo fell from grace, people were like Cuomo sexuals.
Speaker 3: If we know that there were instagram that.
Speaker 1: They were sexual predators or oh no, you just mean
Speaker 1: they were yeah, yeah, now.
Speaker 3: That is what it means.
Speaker 5: But before people were like, no, no, I think Cmo so
Speaker 5: sexy that I he's saving New York City, Thank you
Speaker 5: Cuomo Quomo sexual And then it was like, so he
Speaker 5: is assaulting people, so like Houmo sexuals.
Speaker 3: Now he's.
Speaker 1: He's Italian.
Speaker 3: That's just just charismatic, just.
Speaker 1: How they communicate with their hands growing people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I just hope that doesn't know that. I
Speaker 3: believe though having a zor on, but it is weird
Speaker 3: to see the successfulation.
Speaker 1: What happened to all these guys.
Speaker 5: I'm saying, like everybody, all these memes are like hot
Speaker 5: sexy mayor Zorah. People are like now they're like, okay,
Speaker 5: we love his policies, but we also think he's so sexy,
Speaker 5: and we're like.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, we needed to step that down. Just focus
Speaker 1: on to learn.
Speaker 2: Stop fucking idolizing the fucking politicians Jesus Christ, like it's
Speaker 2: great of like what a candidacy represents, but getting all
Speaker 2: in on the like the hotness of it all that that's.
Speaker 5: No, they're like me the memes I was seeing on
Speaker 5: my feed of like I bet you they're on field.
Speaker 5: They look for a third they treat their unicorn really well.
Speaker 5: I'm like, this is weird.
Speaker 3: Wow, this is weird.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, great first pick, Rebecca Ramosh. We're moving over to you,
Speaker 1: Miles Gray, for your first pick, the overall second pick
Speaker 1: of the Internet Virality twenty twenty five draft. What what
Speaker 1: you're going with?
Speaker 2: Mine is absolutely Italian brain rot.
Speaker 1: It's got to be, it's got, it's it is the
Speaker 1: story Like the one that I have the most trouble
Speaker 1: believing was this year. Although I will say Zorn I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, what was happening at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year, but like was he was nobody? Yeah, people
Speaker 1: were like it would be cool, like I think this
Speaker 1: guy might get ten percent of the boat, so that
Speaker 1: is wild. But Italian brain rot. The fact that that
Speaker 1: was not a thing I was aware of at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the year.
Speaker 3: This is still not aware, can you Okay?
Speaker 1: So I'll let you know my we mounded seven in
Speaker 1: with this. It's no separate, right, I.
Speaker 2: Mean you could if it's like things that your friends
Speaker 2: who are teachers told you about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like a thing that overtook that entire
Speaker 1: and like it's similarly stupid as fuck, Like it's just slibbitty,
Speaker 1: though it's closer to the Skimmity toilet I think exactly.
Speaker 2: This is more skibbitty than six seven. I would say
Speaker 2: skimmity was last year skimbitty skimmity ishneys old. But again,
Speaker 2: this was like one of those things, Like I said,
Speaker 2: if I get a lot of my like news from
Speaker 2: what's happening with like the real youth, from my friends
Speaker 2: that are teachers. My one homie who's a music teacher,
Speaker 2: just was like, dude, my kids are losing their fucking
Speaker 2: minds watching this Italian brain rock content. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: what the what are you fucking talking about?
Speaker 3: Like, what are these words strung together?
Speaker 2: What you exactly? Like, what do you mean Italian brand?
Speaker 2: He's like he's like, you don't know about this, And
Speaker 2: I'm like absolutely not. So let me play a video
Speaker 2: to the the video really that kicked it all off,
Speaker 2: that became stuck in my brain for months, because once
Speaker 2: you hear it, you can't unhear it. Before I play
Speaker 2: this Italian brain rot is basically a bunch of these
Speaker 2: AI generated made up characters with Italian sounding names that
Speaker 2: have just entered the brains of kids everywhere. So here's
Speaker 2: a video where a guys doing the typical rank these
Speaker 2: AI brain rot slop characters according to your reference. Here
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 6: Lombardino, Corio, Bombardio, Chimpanzini.
Speaker 2: So this is just this has just become the thing
Speaker 2: that now I hear ambiently all the Timeizi Benini. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Tom tum tum sahor is in my brain is toom
Speaker 2: the word for people are saying. It's like a mashup
Speaker 2: name that like, so who is an Indonesian word and
Speaker 2: tum or whatever is tree and Chinese like not exactly
Speaker 2: an Italian word. Anyway, this is when I went on
Speaker 2: deep internet research on these characters. That's all.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 1: Like there's no like shows or like videos where they're
Speaker 1: doing stuff. It's just like the silly word and like
Speaker 1: ranking them.
Speaker 2: People are doing shit with those characters.
Speaker 1: But I think shared cinematic universe.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think for the reason why I can't get
Speaker 2: out of my mind is because these names are so
Speaker 2: dumb but familiar and fun to say that I cannot
Speaker 2: get it out of my mind. And I think it's
Speaker 2: just the perfect encapsulation of like ai slop, like making
Speaker 2: our brains twitch.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: And you know, just watching how this is now becoming
Speaker 2: like so normal now for like young people that I'm like,
Speaker 2: kind of I really generationally like look at it all.
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, this is so fucking different. These kids
Speaker 2: are laughing, is build different. Gimpanzeini by Nanini is great
Speaker 2: for me. It's always toomtum tum sahor because it's so
Speaker 2: absurd and.
Speaker 1: It doesn't like rhyme like all the other ones are
Speaker 1: like rhyming, like you kind of get where it's coming from,
Speaker 1: and then tum tum tum sahor. It's it's I think
Speaker 1: it's like just people also discovering that the Italian language
Speaker 1: is fun to say, yeah, and like play with.
Speaker 2: I think We've always known that, We've.
Speaker 1: Always These damn kids they don't know they don't know
Speaker 1: from the Italian language. People are making money off of
Speaker 1: this too. I went to the Philippines this year. There's
Speaker 1: all kinds of plush toys of tum tum tum sahor
Speaker 1: and like all of that ship is everywhere.
Speaker 2: Which has got to be kind of wild because if
Speaker 2: it's AI generated, like, then who owns the ip ip
Speaker 2: It's like for everyone, it's like anyone can now sell
Speaker 2: your own toom tum tum sahor whatever. Nonsense.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's really intellectual.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very intellectual. That's a really good point.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Up next, a resident intellectual Bey is up on ship
Speaker 1: that like, I don't even I don't even have the
Speaker 1: beginnings of a way to know what the fuck they're
Speaker 1: talking about. Bee, You've got the number three pick in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Virality Viral Stories of the Year draft.
Speaker 1: Where are you going with it?
Speaker 9: Okay, I'm going with Chinese maxing. Okay, guys, Yeah, so
Speaker 9: this is something maxing.
Speaker 2: I see it everywhere. I need someone to help me
Speaker 2: understand what China maxing Chinese maxing is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have no idea what you're talking about, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be I'm gonna be straight with you.
Speaker 8: Are you serious?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I think it is like embarrassed for
Speaker 1: you right now is always embarrassed for me. That is stasis.
Speaker 1: That is only where we start from.
Speaker 3: And I only know because Bowen's been posting memes.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, some of the some of your friends are
Speaker 8: going through a really Chinese time in their life.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what you don't even know.
Speaker 8: So anyway, let's show the Jimmy O Yang one.
Speaker 2: Okayang one Okay. So Jimmy's singing.
Speaker 1: So Jimmy O Yang is singing with the text saying
Speaker 1: you met me at a very Chinese time in my life,
Speaker 1: which is every day.
Speaker 9: This video is like reach peak celebrity noess, you know obviously,
Speaker 9: so that's why Jimmy Yang is making this video. But
Speaker 9: you know a lot has led up to that, Like
Speaker 9: he's wearing like an Adidas Chinese.
Speaker 2: Like at one yeah, like a.
Speaker 8: Pretty like big drop I think like earlier this year.
Speaker 2: Or something like that.
Speaker 3: And the song like I have been seeing the song and.
Speaker 8: Then the other one that's like the being it's like
Speaker 8: the Chinese rap song, right.
Speaker 2: Because I see black people even singing that song that
Speaker 2: Jimmy O Yang is singing. I'm like, what what is
Speaker 2: that song?
Speaker 1: Is that a popular song in China? It's just like
Speaker 1: a song that feels China, like the most Chinese and
Speaker 1: some people are significant this one in this video.
Speaker 9: It's like it's like a famous just song that like
Speaker 9: people sing on like I don't know, like TV shows
Speaker 9: or you know, like yeah whatever.
Speaker 8: And then the rap song. I'm not sure if it's
Speaker 8: big in China. Actually I'm not really sure, but it
Speaker 8: is big here.
Speaker 2: So okay, I it's weird because I only saw China
Speaker 2: maxing because I saw this guy on.
Speaker 8: So he's also doing stuff.
Speaker 2: This guy is a guy that turned Chinese. Also, it's
Speaker 2: like a guy yeah. But then and then I'm tired
Speaker 2: of being and not Chinese. So this guy famously is white.
Speaker 2: So this white guy's even lamenting he wants to be Chinese? Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: So what is the what are the vibes we're chasing
Speaker 2: with Chinamaxic?
Speaker 8: It's just basically like.
Speaker 9: I think it's just like a bear because obvious, like
Speaker 9: you know, the fall of the West is here, you know,
Speaker 9: and we're just like, you know, we're sick and tired working,
Speaker 9: We're sick and tired yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean this does race you know a lot of the
Speaker 1: mainstream stories we're covering where it's like, you know, China
Speaker 1: coming out with their version of AI and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't spend that much money and it actually works,
Speaker 1: or webbing Alma going to China in the off season
Speaker 1: and coming back with superpowers.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's also that like this is like
Speaker 2: weird Cold War sinophobia is just wearing thin. It's just
Speaker 2: the same thing like with Islamophobia, like this whole thing
Speaker 2: of like chyack, what are they doing. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, the quality of life actually seems
Speaker 2: pretty good right now compared to like we're we're doing
Speaker 2: shit like people are rationing firewood for people who can't
Speaker 2: afford electricity in the United States.
Speaker 5: So I think it's like one of those things that
Speaker 5: baby formula and like people can't get like basic.
Speaker 2: Needs right right and everything. Like we even talked about
Speaker 2: this story about those like Ford executives who went to
Speaker 2: like a Chinese car manufacturing plant and they're like, guys
Speaker 2: were fucked. Yeah, yeah, like we're so behind. They were
Speaker 2: truly talking about it like it was a work of
Speaker 2: sci fi. They're like they have these things called lights
Speaker 2: off factories where you don't even have to be there.
Speaker 2: They don't even have the lights on, and like the
Speaker 2: robots are just in the dark building their cars in
Speaker 2: like seventeen minutes, right right, I think like to me,
Speaker 2: like when I see all this too, it feels like
Speaker 2: Part in two. And also realizing how cooked America is
Speaker 2: and you're just like fed this like diet of like, well,
Speaker 2: these other countries are fucking not as good as a
Speaker 2: and now people like wait, hold the fuck up and
Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, actually I'm chinamaxing now exactly.
Speaker 9: And it's like it's it's a lot of also like
Speaker 9: you know, we're in twenty twenty five now, and like
Speaker 9: you know, we've been to Japan, We've you know, we've
Speaker 9: done the K pop stuff, you know.
Speaker 2: Right right right, yeah, yeah, it's like we're hopping around Asia.
Speaker 2: We're like now it's your term. It's like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8: You know, Marxists like hipsters aren't like they're not hipsters anymore.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 8: It's like a big ideology.
Speaker 9: Now you know, we're we're getting we're having business meetings
Speaker 9: with like ten million cigarettes and.
Speaker 2: Like right right, no, I mean so yeah, shout out
Speaker 2: people recognizing the deep squat that Asian people do. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and not so check your knees. Check. A lot of
Speaker 2: people are like, dude, my knees. I can't people have
Speaker 2: trouble squatting like that because of their knees, right, Well,
Speaker 2: American has.
Speaker 1: Just been leaning against shit their whole lives. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: found out that like that does the thing that KGB
Speaker 1: was like, you can tell an American spy because they'll
Speaker 1: be leaning against ship. Everyone in a Maria it is
Speaker 1: always leaning. And yeah in China they're they're squatting. They're sturdy,
Speaker 1: got a squad. Look, you know, I'm getting sturdy.
Speaker 5: Could be quite on squad. I'm in the subway, I'm squatting.
Speaker 5: I'm not leaning at the wall. Tell you I'm squatting
Speaker 5: down Chinese you know, I'm scrolling my phone suing for this.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you know when you were doing that that
Speaker 1: you were Chinese? Maxim?
Speaker 3: You know what now I know?
Speaker 8: Now that's the most Chinese thing about it is like
Speaker 8: shouldn't she didn't even know? I didn't even know. It
Speaker 8: was like it was a part of me.
Speaker 2: It was, yeah, a cigarette squatting, so baby, so babe
Speaker 2: Becca is invited to the what we say, cookout hot
Speaker 2: hot Yeah, okay, cool, pull up, pull up.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna ask if I'm invited. I know
Speaker 1: the answer.
Speaker 8: You're invited.
Speaker 1: What amazing? Yeah, this is great. They're like, you have
Speaker 1: a whole list of things here, many of which I
Speaker 1: don't No ship, uh double Happiness, don't know what that is?
Speaker 1: Non Jing cigarette?
Speaker 8: These are cigarette.
Speaker 2: What that is?
Speaker 8: Brands?
Speaker 1: These are all cigarette brands.
Speaker 9: Got It got And you know, I actually did smoke
Speaker 9: a don't one of those recently and I was like, damn,
Speaker 9: this is so crazy.
Speaker 8: Actually tastes so good, and like.
Speaker 3: Well, what makes it different than a regular cigarette? I
Speaker 3: don't smoke cigarettes at all, but you're not China Maxine.
Speaker 9: Actually don't know obviously, you know, probably different ingredients or whatever.
Speaker 1: Like does it taste like dirt? Because I feel like
Speaker 1: that's what American cigarettes tastes.
Speaker 8: Really. There's like a flavor to it.
Speaker 1: It's like it's takes you to flavor country.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's flavor Town, and it's like and it's not like, uh,
Speaker 9: I don't know, it's not like bitter, you know.
Speaker 8: What I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Interesting? Yeah, all right, guys, you've got your home work.
Speaker 1: Start smoking Chinese cigarette.
Speaker 2: Pack, dude, A double happiness.
Speaker 1: Great pick coming in at number three. Number three is
Speaker 1: always a big pick in the NBA draft. That's where
Speaker 1: Jordan was picked. That's where a lot of really Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1: So I expected something strong from Beay there. Up next,
Speaker 1: we're bringing in youngest member of our team, youngest person
Speaker 1: maybe in the United States.
Speaker 2: I'm in act nineteen years old.
Speaker 1: It's super producer Victor.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 10: Hi, So my pick isn't even on the draft, it's
Speaker 10: not in this dock and it's not anywhere to be
Speaker 10: found since we publib earlier this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Chinese to go. Fuck. Yeah, it's the Ai
Speaker 1: Cat video stories.
Speaker 10: Do you guys remember this where it's like, I do
Speaker 10: they do weird stories and I'm going to put one
Speaker 10: in the chat. It's not my favorite. I just kind
Speaker 10: of pull it up, but it gives you an idea.
Speaker 10: And they were everywhere this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these blew up. These were huge. This is a
Speaker 1: great pick from Victor. I was worried, Victor, if I'm
Speaker 1: being honest, I was worried. He said, I'm going on prompter.
Speaker 1: I totally forgot about this, but yeah, these were like
Speaker 1: the most popular thing this year. It like transcends generations,
Speaker 1: Like older people love this too. I've watched hours of this.
Speaker 1: This is like hours embarrassing. I just sit watching these.
Speaker 1: So these are AI videos of adorable kittens and like
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, okay, I know what to expect adorable kittens.
Speaker 1: People love adorable cats. But then they give them like
Speaker 1: tragic stories. Yeah yeah yeah, ca and being like emotionally abused.
Speaker 2: And another kids like it's okay that you have races
Speaker 2: and then he's like, oh okay.
Speaker 5: Watched a lot of these, but not the cat ones.
Speaker 5: I have been ubsessed because I have two wiener dogs.
Speaker 5: I get served a lot of the the wiener dog
Speaker 5: ones where they're there's wiener dog ones.
Speaker 2: Yes see, I know sort and all of y'all. They're
Speaker 2: like you're a wiener dog.
Speaker 5: They're like these wiener dogs that are like cooking in
Speaker 5: this like Japanese like village. Like they're like in like
Speaker 5: the mountains and like they're cooking like food in this
Speaker 5: little cap and it's so let me, I'll see if I.
Speaker 10: Can, I'll explain. Like the ones I usually find there's
Speaker 10: like an unimaginably evil step mother who throws her baby
Speaker 10: cat out of like an airplane or a boat and
Speaker 10: the baby cat survives on an island.
Speaker 1: Is a stepmother a cat? Yes? Yeah, they're almost all cats,
Speaker 1: And there's usually a cat remix version of Rihanna, does
Speaker 1: it shine bright like a diamond hanging in the background,
Speaker 1: cat version being yeah like that, So I just wanting
Speaker 1: to make sure I got that out you. Billie Eilish
Speaker 1: is also a frequent like hat remix version, and I
Speaker 1: think she heard about it and saying the cat version
Speaker 1: at one of her concerts. So it's it hit the mainstream.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Uh, I've watched so many hours of this and you
Speaker 1: just it.
Speaker 2: Feels simple, is it? Because like it's innocent, it's not
Speaker 2: challenging you. You do not have to watch war crimes
Speaker 2: be committed.
Speaker 10: Like that's true, but it's also just it gets bizarre,
Speaker 10: like one is, uh, oh, let's watch this this the.
Speaker 1: Way you just stopped talking.
Speaker 11: Sorry, yeah, equivalent, which is Wiener Doug cooking kind of
Speaker 11: pouring some honey on a plate, putting honey on a
Speaker 11: little plate.
Speaker 5: Very care is definitely a more nice one. The second
Speaker 5: one I sent is like More the ones that I, oh.
Speaker 2: Something is something is wrong with that egg the way
Speaker 2: it was just leaking. These are all AI videos, so
Speaker 2: like things.
Speaker 1: Miles. They did not get a dog to do that.
Speaker 2: I was, I thought, so I was like, how the
Speaker 2: funk is it holding on to that eggshell.
Speaker 1: As you do that?
Speaker 2: Okay? Uh, this is actually is so calm because what
Speaker 2: is what Victor showed is that butter. It was buttered.
Speaker 1: I think he was buttering and like flower was coming
Speaker 1: out of the butter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was trying to be folded in.
Speaker 2: But again, the AI wasn't that cat. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: But what's interesting is this is so much more photo realistic.
Speaker 2: We're the one that Victor sent More felt like like
Speaker 2: a brats Doll universe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very cartoonish.
Speaker 2: This really feels like what is this like if my
Speaker 2: grandmother was still alive, I would show this to what
Speaker 2: is he making?
Speaker 1: I'm Churia with these? Yeah yeah yeah, Well the smoke
Speaker 1: is coming to the thing, to the waffles into the
Speaker 1: waffles in this video.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, very therapeutic these videos.
Speaker 1: There's also like a genre of cat video. I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot where cats are like on someone's front porch,
Speaker 1: like playing the accordion or something, and then a person
Speaker 1: like comes out. I was like, hey, stop it, yeah,
Speaker 1: like it was a cream.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because it looks like it's a door camera, I can
Speaker 1: like hide the AI stuff a little bit so it
Speaker 1: actually looks realistic. There's also a animal AI story that
Speaker 1: I should acknowledge fooled my ass, which is which was
Speaker 1: the animals jumping on a trampoline that that was a
Speaker 1: big thing this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That I was like, guys, the animals have found the
Speaker 1: trampoline the way I like that during super producers like
Speaker 1: Jack Jack Jack.
Speaker 2: Jack Jack Jack Jack decked or not even close? You fool?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's are you giving one too? What's yours? What's your
Speaker 2: top story?
Speaker 1: My top story, Miles, and I'm glad you asked is
Speaker 1: a rapture talk h the TikTok moment where we got
Speaker 1: to find out that a bunch of Christians thought they
Speaker 1: were about to be raptured and then just glory in
Speaker 1: the day on the Internet where they thought they were
Speaker 1: like this is the thing that has happened historically repeatedly,
Speaker 1: and you get to see very smug people be like
Speaker 1: all right, so here are tips for those of us
Speaker 1: who are going to heaven, and then for you guys
Speaker 1: who are watching us ascend, here's how you're gonna want
Speaker 1: to do that because you're gonna be left behind, you
Speaker 1: sinful fox. And then you know, you get just check
Speaker 1: it on them a couple days later and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: how you doing.
Speaker 2: It was great because it had the same texture of
Speaker 2: like viral TikTok trends, where there's like kinds of videos
Speaker 2: you do to get in on the trend, and a
Speaker 2: lot of people are like, how I'm preparing for God
Speaker 2: to take me away?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, And there were some of the great AI
Speaker 1: videos of that too. Yeah go out, yeah number one,
Speaker 1: go outside, don't get stuck to the ceiling like Willy Wonka.
Speaker 12: The thing I found really interesting about this, this trend
Speaker 12: that's the only trend I have a take on, is that.
Speaker 2: Oh it's Brian the editor, Oh shit, yeah, is that ship?
Speaker 12: Is that hyper religious people in America, mostly white, took
Speaker 12: what a black man said seriously and acted on it
Speaker 12: like what did sure did?
Speaker 2: Doesn't make any sense? Well he's from Africa. I wonder
Speaker 2: if that was the other thing. They're like, well he is.
Speaker 12: From black man wants equity, get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 12: Black man says, the entire world is ending, and they're
Speaker 12: just on board. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: It's about the message, That's what it was like. The
Speaker 2: world is ending, Okay, come on up, sir, come on up. Finally, Yeah,
Speaker 2: someone's talking the truth. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And there were definitely like some that were mixed in there.
Speaker 1: There were jokes, but there were a lot of people
Speaker 1: who were like, Okay, so I've sold my car, getting ready,
Speaker 1: getting ready to go. Why did you see What are
Speaker 1: you going to do with the money? Yeah? Yeah, Brian
Speaker 1: and I had the exact same thought. Like I kept
Speaker 1: hearing that.
Speaker 2: I was like, for what I mean, this was our
Speaker 2: our favorite creator, I think was oh Punku. This guy
Speaker 2: would always take camera show like Minecraft Animations and be like,
Speaker 2: this is exactly what the raptor is going to look
Speaker 2: like pre viz.
Speaker 1: For the Rapture on bro, don't scroll. This is the
Speaker 1: Rapture and how it's gonna happen. So check it out right,
Speaker 1: this is my guy. Boom trumpet sound right, trumpet sound
Speaker 1: trump It sounds right? Trump sound?
Speaker 2: Look who pulled up? Looking pulled up?
Speaker 7: Okay, Jesus returned Jesus returned, disappeared. Wow, the souls, the
Speaker 7: dead souls are going look at this baby, look at the.
Speaker 1: Boom gone, look at this baby boom Wow. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: just great work by that guy. Wait does one of
Speaker 1: them disappear and the other ones like.
Speaker 2: Couples know they both just as I think, a nune
Speaker 2: pops up from the shrubs behind them, clocks them, and
Speaker 2: then they vanish.
Speaker 1: That's weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The thing also loved about is like this guy not
Speaker 2: even like quoting the Bible at all. He's like, here's
Speaker 2: gonna have been boom Trump is sound.
Speaker 1: Revelations.
Speaker 2: You didn't read that part, but I'm talking about generally
Speaker 2: all of his stuff is like, not even in the
Speaker 2: text of it. It's just all very tangle.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what Christianity is now, Yes.
Speaker 2: It is vibes. And and then that's why I'm suing
Speaker 2: my professor for saying I couldn't argue christ vibes against
Speaker 2: sociology or whatever.
Speaker 1: All right, that was round one. Let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back for round two. We'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we're back, and that we're back to you. You've
Speaker 1: been given a lot about it.
Speaker 3: I want to pick.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're round two, maybe round three, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm assuming round round two will go a
Speaker 1: little bit quicker because the stories aren't quite as impactful,
Speaker 1: but we'll see.
Speaker 5: Okay, so many I'm gonna do macha being performative.
Speaker 3: I thought that was a really funny.
Speaker 5: Weird pivot where it was like, basically, all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: the TikTok men are like, no, no, like to be
Speaker 5: cool and to like get girls, you have to like.
Speaker 1: Like macha and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then the Asian community was like, what if
Speaker 5: we just enjoy macha? Can we not enjoy macha?
Speaker 3: This is our drink. And now you're telling men.
Speaker 5: That it is like performative to enjoy macha because they're
Speaker 5: trying to appeal to femininity and women. It was such
Speaker 5: a brain rot circle, like how gen Z wants to
Speaker 5: be appealing to one of the other or like meeting calls.
Speaker 1: I was completely unfamiliar with this one. I'll jump a
Speaker 1: link in the chat. I do have macha painted on
Speaker 1: the outside of my cup so that people think I'm
Speaker 1: drinking macha when I'm drinking actual coffee.
Speaker 5: Basically, the overarching of like the performative male archetype. Right,
Speaker 5: So there's like all these memes without the performative male archetype,
Speaker 5: and it's basically just like gen Z kids, boys leaning
Speaker 5: into like femininity to.
Speaker 3: Like attract women, right, like the dead leering, like the
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 5: Baggy pants like beanies, rolled up three, you know, hanging
Speaker 5: off the boo boos reading outside.
Speaker 12: They took it to the max at these competitions. They'd
Speaker 12: be dudes with an arm full of open three with
Speaker 12: a macha, the boo boos, all the stuff.
Speaker 2: It was pretty funny.
Speaker 5: And then I loved the Asian community fighting back and
Speaker 5: being like I am not gonna let you call macha performative.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna enjoy my macha.
Speaker 2: Fu all yeah, Like where how come y'all are just
Speaker 2: jumping in suddenly like this is performative.
Speaker 12: Well, the performative part is that it's a perpetually full macha. Yeah,
Speaker 12: someone who doesn't like macha getting macha to show people
Speaker 12: that they're like down.
Speaker 5: Culture, yeah, yeah, that they're interested. And then where you're
Speaker 5: at there, they're not making you get a drink on
Speaker 5: the first day, we can get a macha is at
Speaker 5: the same.
Speaker 2: Time where they'll be like, yo, if a dude is
Speaker 2: like carrying like a big bag, like not like a backpack,
Speaker 2: Like he's also trying to come off as like not
Speaker 2: threatening kind of thing, like the type of bags.
Speaker 12: Yeah, there's a there's a contest in the in the
Speaker 12: chat if you want to see what these people look like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like yeah, like having a big tote wearing like
Speaker 2: a frayed sweater with maybe some loafer thing.
Speaker 12: Was like, it's like there'd be a dude in a
Speaker 12: Claro concert sitting down reading a book.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, this is perfect. Yeah what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, they got Claro blast.
Speaker 1: It's always Clara, It's always c See everybody got the
Speaker 1: tote bag. Everybody's bini killed.
Speaker 2: But I'm then you got the shirt, I got the shirt.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he got a oh he got a little man.
Speaker 1: This is a performative male contest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, doing the best performative.
Speaker 3: Male contests, like people showing up in public.
Speaker 11: Yea.
Speaker 2: For I felt like when I was in New York
Speaker 2: like three times this year. Twice there was something happening
Speaker 2: in Washington Square Park where there was there was.
Speaker 5: A contests in New York. There's a Timmy che ma.
Speaker 5: Look like contests in New York. I feel like there
Speaker 5: was like one other one, and that meme archetype in
Speaker 5: general is very connected to this.
Speaker 4: Yeah as well, hanging like we used to just do
Speaker 4: dance battles, lost the art.
Speaker 9: These ares, these are the sass one.
Speaker 3: The Bay Area. That video was, Yeah, it was in
Speaker 3: New York or LA. It would be more white probably.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And the dangly earring. I saw that reference on a
Speaker 1: I don't think so, honey recently on last Culture, So
Speaker 1: I don't think something so that is in the same category.
Speaker 5: It's actually giving a little bit of empathy to those
Speaker 5: who are of the dangle earring dash for us, so.
Speaker 1: It's like it doesn't some people just want to put
Speaker 1: that on and maybe that's how they're experimenting with being
Speaker 1: exactly She's a good person, you know. M Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't want Macha like I like ma. I don't want
Speaker 1: it to be a problem. I don't want it to
Speaker 1: make me seem like I'm putting feelers out to be like, hey, Macha,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to wear a shirt that announces that
Speaker 2: on the front though, where it's like, yo, I'm only
Speaker 2: drinking this Macha because I actually like it. Like I'm
Speaker 2: actually not even approaching.
Speaker 1: I'm a wife guy. Okay, I'm drinking this Machia just
Speaker 1: because I like it. All Right, great pick, Becca, I
Speaker 1: feel like so much more informed about all the wrong
Speaker 1: decisions I'm making. Miles Gray, You're up next with the
Speaker 1: second pick and the second round of the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five Viral Stories of the Year draft. What's you going with?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is tough.
Speaker 2: I think if I'm going off of purely something that
Speaker 2: I've really enjoyed, it's just been these this like this
Speaker 2: comedy group from Australia Mates Rates on TikTok, and they
Speaker 2: just do this thing where they're like doing names of
Speaker 2: like fake South African people and they're just improvising. I
Speaker 2: love it so much and I can't get this is
Speaker 2: the thing. I've also been sharing with my friends a
Speaker 2: lot where yeah, take names of this. I've definitely shared
Speaker 2: this on the piece of media I've liked. But it's
Speaker 2: got They're just good South African names, be like, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's liquor? Mykrica gIBIS Creek?
Speaker 1: Nice to see you here in Joe, I did you
Speaker 1: show you around later? Hey?
Speaker 2: Mate, I'm Robbie Bush. I can sell you some great diamonds.
Speaker 2: Just don't ask where the game from.
Speaker 3: Hello, gosh, it's de Cler. Have you met my san?
Speaker 2: I meant thanks for coming to my bra. I'm got
Speaker 2: my bullsack. I'm from Brodisia. Sorry, didn't mean to say that.
Speaker 1: It's good hunting.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 2: These are just this has been a year of finding
Speaker 2: a bunch of really just fun stupid videos. Another one
Speaker 2: I do have to shout out is this one dude,
Speaker 2: Sir Spence, who I found really funny. There's just one
Speaker 2: this is very funny doing a video about he's just
Speaker 2: playing beer pong and he's hitting the dudes. This guy
Speaker 2: is white, okay, and he is hitting these people with
Speaker 2: the patwa in a way that's fucking really really on points.
Speaker 2: So I got to give it up for this one.
Speaker 1: Yes, Sir Spencer is great.
Speaker 3: On the universe, on the.
Speaker 2: The algorithm of Einstein. You cut down Big Baniri, Big
Speaker 2: and white Boy. Anyway, So a lot of my videos
Speaker 2: are white people pretending to be other Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I saw something similar to this recently, and it was
Speaker 5: like people making fun of how the Canadian accent has
Speaker 5: become Jamaican.
Speaker 2: Like these.
Speaker 1: Toronto.
Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna accent Toronto Mande.
Speaker 2: That's the Toronto Mandem accent.
Speaker 1: Also, our writer JM was just on our ear end episode.
Speaker 1: You should have heard him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's up pro Ski. Yeah he said this show
Speaker 2: is baardesk fam And I was like, huh yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: He said we look like a couple of buckties, and
Speaker 2: I think that was cool. But yeah, that was another
Speaker 2: huge thing. I've had so many of these, like weird
Speaker 2: vocal stems go off, and it's been the South weird
Speaker 2: South African names, probably Toronto Mandem speak.
Speaker 8: Say like to tos or whatever.
Speaker 2: Tools There's like a whole like series where a guy's
Speaker 2: just in malls in Toronto asking people questions, and a
Speaker 2: lot of the time I was like, this can't be real,
Speaker 2: but it I think it is all right.
Speaker 1: Up next, Bey Wang, you got the third pick in
Speaker 1: the second round of the draft. I now realize that
Speaker 1: we've done this backward. Usually when you do a draft
Speaker 1: it goes in a reverse order, but I wasn't ready,
Speaker 1: So I think I think it's better this way. We're
Speaker 1: not doing snake style. Bey, what is your pick in
Speaker 1: the third pick of the second round of the top
Speaker 1: viral stories of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I only really came up with one, but
Speaker 9: now that we're on second round the okay, So, like
Speaker 9: the Charlie Kirk face.
Speaker 1: Swaps, Yeah, that's a pretty recent one.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a recent trend. And yeah there's this one
Speaker 9: with like Arian and Kronde like and him.
Speaker 2: Wait that people are swapping his face onto her.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh gosh, she looks great. Actually, she
Speaker 1: looks really good.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think that's like the first like swap that was
Speaker 8: like kind of like what the hell?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, rist this is the man. This is
Speaker 2: like also just scary. Some like this also goes along
Speaker 2: with like those cat porch videos Jackie were talking about,
Speaker 2: is that this is also bred such a new era
Speaker 2: of like meme that is like reality but AI is
Speaker 2: enabling some really. I saw one video where a dude
Speaker 2: is driving in his car with his girl and it
Speaker 2: says like they got like a like CarPlay screen in
Speaker 2: the car and it says incoming call from throat Goat
Speaker 2: and his girlfriend looks over. She goes whose throat Goat
Speaker 2: And it cuts to the guy just driving off the
Speaker 2: like cliff and they're both in the car and it
Speaker 2: looks so realistic. And then the other time you're just
Speaker 2: like mashing together like old clips from like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just like some shit the movie where a
Speaker 1: car goes off a cliff.
Speaker 2: Right seeing it all now, really this is like kind
Speaker 2: of a whole new thing where I'm like, oh god,
Speaker 2: this texture is becoming way more eerie. Uh in a
Speaker 2: way that.
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk face swapped with in that video.
Speaker 8: I don't really know.
Speaker 1: Actually it's like a rapper, yeah, I mean he looks great.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Somebody sent me this like a long time a
Speaker 8: while ago, and it was the first one I saw.
Speaker 2: I was like woa, oh wow, wow wow.
Speaker 1: And the editors in the chat put in like grand
Speaker 1: Theft Auto six and it's like, oh, it's Charlie Kirk,
Speaker 1: Like that's Cash.
Speaker 2: No, that's that's Charlie.
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk asked, and Charlie Kirk as Cash, Paatel, Ye,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to stop, Brian.
Speaker 2: This is way Jesus queen. Yeah, yeah, hunting all right, great,
Speaker 2: pick Bay were over to Victor Cure, pick Man, what
Speaker 2: do you got?
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna have to steal one of Becca's
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Becca.
Speaker 3: They were for the community.
Speaker 1: The community, he's going for the steal. How far into
Speaker 1: the Summer I Turned Pretty did you get? Because that
Speaker 1: flacter was big on the Summer I about it like
Speaker 1: twice a day. If I'm being completely honest, I've seen
Speaker 1: the show three times now, once on its own and
Speaker 1: then twice with two different people running commentary over it.
Speaker 1: The Summer I Turn Pretty is insane? How far did
Speaker 1: you go?
Speaker 3: Beca I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 5: I only got a few episodes in I because Okay,
Speaker 5: my sister in law is twenty two, so she's a
Speaker 5: bibet and she was like, Becca, you have to watch
Speaker 5: Summer I Turn Pretty, And so she was over all
Speaker 5: the time and she would put it on and I'm like, Ashley,
Speaker 5: what is this? This is crazy I And then I
Speaker 5: just kept being caught up with the memes. But I
Speaker 5: couldn't sit down and like watch it because every time
Speaker 5: I would watch it, I would get frustrated because I
Speaker 5: was like, I hate that she's been called Belly. I
Speaker 5: think that's an ugly as nick name. I'm like, and
Speaker 5: then like the ring memes, I was like, yeah, girl,
Speaker 5: what do you mean? And also I didn't understand it
Speaker 5: because like, from what I understood of the show, aren't
Speaker 5: they rich?
Speaker 3: Why does she have such a tiny, tiny ring?
Speaker 5: And then she went to Paris and was having her
Speaker 5: little like em of the Empoie movement and she met
Speaker 5: a hot guy.
Speaker 6: Up.
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, girl, live your best Paris life.
Speaker 5: Don't know how you're living in that apartment very Emily
Speaker 5: in Paris Corps. Yeah, and then she was like, I'm
Speaker 5: still thinking about Conrad and It's.
Speaker 3: Like, girl, you live in Paris. Were you thinking about him?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: This is the first time her Majesty was having motherfuckers
Speaker 2: over to watch this shit at midnight. I was like,
Speaker 2: you got a kid, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: Mile you got pulled in too, and then you started
Speaker 1: having problematic takes. The victor was like, I witnessed lose respect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but losers again. This is the take
Speaker 2: again that I'm not talking about narratively. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: straight up who can get it okay? And this team
Speaker 2: Jeremiah for me, not Conrad. I'm sorry. I think Jeremiah
Speaker 2: is more beautiful than Conrad, and I think Conrad ha
Speaker 2: Conrad is a mess. If I had hair. If I
Speaker 2: had hair, I wouldn't be looking like that, but objectively, the.
Speaker 5: Man in Paris was the hottest one, so why are
Speaker 5: we even thinking about these boys in the United States.
Speaker 2: Thing. The thing that was getting me in trouble though,
Speaker 2: is people said that I narratively the character I think
Speaker 2: Jeremiah is better than this is. I was I was
Speaker 2: fighting people off in my own house when her Masi's
Speaker 2: friends are wait, oh you think, let me tell you
Speaker 2: about this. This is why this is wrong. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, yeah, I came over to h you
Speaker 2: did fight you, you did, but instead you just threw
Speaker 2: ship all over my car.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well, because Miles, you and I had a very similar
Speaker 10: experience from you were telling me where your wife and
Speaker 10: my wife just had it on, right, and we're like, no,
Speaker 10: funk that I'm gonna.
Speaker 8: Do, like.
Speaker 2: Yeah with my teeth.
Speaker 1: And then you go like what did she just say?
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, oh you're into it. Now, why is
Speaker 1: she saying that? And then I'm like shut up, I
Speaker 1: need I need a listen.
Speaker 2: And I was I was like, wait, why are you
Speaker 2: telling her that he loved her? Isn't she about to
Speaker 2: get married to the other one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: This is a mess, Like this is a mess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is stressed. I was like, I can't do that.
Speaker 3: It's just stupid.
Speaker 2: It's just like one of those things. I think it
Speaker 2: feels like probably super deep when you're younger. And then
Speaker 2: I think what happened for like millennials was that it
Speaker 2: was like relatable, this kind of like mess or whatever.
Speaker 2: Not to say that, like this is a good show,
Speaker 2: but they were like, I like the themes that are
Speaker 2: in here a lot. Yeah, yeah, that's I got in
Speaker 2: the constant arguments, I'm like, this is not well written.
Speaker 10: If I can give like a compliment to the show,
Speaker 10: because I think the show is completely not well written,
Speaker 10: It's just there's no actual issues other than people wanting
Speaker 10: to be shitty to each other.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 10: Season one, I'm someone who likes putting seasonal things in
Speaker 10: the background, like there's always a Christmas movie playing or
Speaker 10: Halloween movie playing. Season one has really nice summer aesthetic.
Speaker 10: It's not that you're at the liquor store buying for
Speaker 10: the cool party, and that feels like if I just
Speaker 10: mute it, it's like aesthetically nice you know, e.
Speaker 1: Free movie needs to do. Like yeah, we were just
Speaker 1: talking about how Eyes Wide Shut just like has like
Speaker 1: a layer of Christmas over it exactly, Like you're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that like adds so much, Like yeah, Diehard didn't need
Speaker 1: to be a Christmas movie, but it is. You know,
Speaker 1: like just make it summary, make it like, have a
Speaker 1: very coherent vibe. Do not change seasons in your movie.
Speaker 1: Do you hear me?
Speaker 3: Time one place?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: What about you? Jack?
Speaker 1: All right? I mean I'm getting credible value. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is almost cheating. It's our number two story
Speaker 1: of the year, but it also belongs here, and it
Speaker 1: is the Coldplay kiss cam couple, Like that's this is
Speaker 1: like getting Jokic. This is like getting Jokic in the
Speaker 1: at the end of the NBA draft, Like, this is
Speaker 1: fucking this is the one. This one the viral story
Speaker 1: of the year, the viral moment of the year. I
Speaker 1: drafted Sam Bouie. Well you know that my grandfather drafted
Speaker 1: Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan.
Speaker 12: I know that.
Speaker 2: When I said that, I didn't mean to imply that,
Speaker 2: but it is one of the most famous draft blunders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2: No, we're over it.
Speaker 1: As a family, We're totally over It's it's the great
Speaker 1: it was our less bloody Luigi Mangioni of the Year
Speaker 1: in that like, you know, we all got to take
Speaker 1: this motherfucker down, like a CEO of a fucking AI
Speaker 1: streaming company. There was a lesser version of this where
Speaker 1: there's the video of the guy stealing the kids, like
Speaker 1: a tennis player of the US Open gave his hat
Speaker 1: to a kid and a CEO just like reached in
Speaker 1: and was like yoink. But yeah, those two like moments
Speaker 1: of CEOs behaving badly, like this is what people should
Speaker 1: be doing for like a YouTube channel. Create a YouTube
Speaker 1: channel where you just have cameras on CEOs at all time.
Speaker 1: They're gonna do something fucked up, like and we will
Speaker 1: be here.
Speaker 3: For surveillance capitalism, yes exactly.
Speaker 1: Like we don't need it. Yeah, they watch us and
Speaker 1: like time our bathroom breaks. Let's use AI to just
Speaker 1: like get some drone cameras that lock on them and
Speaker 1: just like follow their every move. The people are hungry
Speaker 1: for CEOs behaving badly and doing cancel bullshit. Let's go.
Speaker 1: This is this is what I request for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a quick break and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back and they're gonna explain the internet
Speaker 1: to me. We'll be right back act and quick speed
Speaker 1: run through some of these stories. Jet to Holiday I
Speaker 1: saw referenced all over the place. I didn't see any
Speaker 1: of the memes. Can you explain this? You did?
Speaker 3: I believe that's correct.
Speaker 1: I might have, but I just probably like skipped out
Speaker 1: of them too far. I didn't do a lot of
Speaker 1: like being on Instagram or TikTok with the sound on.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what the origin of the
Speaker 1: song like.
Speaker 5: I think it came from an obviously British commercial basic accent.
Speaker 5: It's like looking forward to a jet to holiday and
Speaker 5: then it's like a bunch of like it's like aline
Speaker 5: commercial airline tickets. But the concept of the meme is
Speaker 5: that like something bad happens to you, and then they
Speaker 5: play the music and I don't remember why or how
Speaker 5: we got there, but it was a referential moment for
Speaker 5: people who had a rough moment and they play this over.
Speaker 3: I don't know that.
Speaker 1: So it's like a bad it's a bad moment from
Speaker 1: vacation and it's like welcome to you.
Speaker 5: Let's say you were walking and then you like ate shit,
Speaker 5: and then it would be like, yeah, welcome to a
Speaker 5: jet two holiday and then okay.
Speaker 1: So it's the holiday version of like when during the
Speaker 1: Olympics a couple of years ago when people were like,
Speaker 1: so I didn't make the team and then like showing
Speaker 1: themselves like eating shit, trying to do a dive or
Speaker 1: something like that. Guy all right, The question was posed,
Speaker 1: is dnse bean salad this year and women eating two
Speaker 1: cups of beans a day to fix all their problems?
Speaker 1: What is this trend? I don't know that.
Speaker 5: I honestly thought this was twenty twenty four, to be honest,
Speaker 5: but the internet also if now what's time? But a
Speaker 5: dense bean salad is a new concept. I guess I've
Speaker 5: been making dense bean sales for a long time. But
Speaker 5: instead of making a salad with lettuce, you make it
Speaker 5: with beans, so you know, it's high in fiber.
Speaker 3: People are sholving their so it's just bean salad. It's
Speaker 3: just being salad.
Speaker 5: It is various four and then people just being like
Speaker 5: it marinates in the fridge all week to get the
Speaker 5: best flavor, and it's like, yeah, if you've been like
Speaker 5: meal prepping, like the rest of us who are poor forever,
Speaker 5: you would know this hard.
Speaker 1: So it's the thing that's existed outside of this here.
Speaker 1: That's just like people are people are finding out about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they're trying all these different dens bean salad
Speaker 5: and there's now like different white girl. I do specify
Speaker 5: that it is white girls influencers making these dens bean salads,
Speaker 5: and I'm like.
Speaker 3: They've been around forever.
Speaker 5: Like I make this one that is like almost like
Speaker 5: a Greek salad, like Apasta salad, but I add like
Speaker 5: a shit to and that's, you know, my dens bean
Speaker 5: salad that I eat like at least once a month.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have a follow up question real quick. Is
Speaker 1: that different?
Speaker 10: Because there was a woman who brought I thought bean
Speaker 10: salad to a potluck and then no one ate it,
Speaker 10: and the internet was like that, no, we fuck with you.
Speaker 1: You're cool.
Speaker 3: You know that did happen.
Speaker 5: But I think that was like a separate thing because
Speaker 5: I think it was like a potluck where it was
Speaker 5: like a Thanksgiving potluck, and it's like, why are you bringing.
Speaker 1: That bean salad to a potluck? To a Thanksgiving potluck?
Speaker 5: It's like, that's not that's not the vibe. People want
Speaker 5: mac and cheese, you know, they want yams. They don't
Speaker 5: want a dense bean salad.
Speaker 1: You know that was not on my thing. That's for luncheah,
Speaker 1: that is a lunch thing. Yeah, bad because I think
Speaker 1: she was like crying and ship It's like.
Speaker 5: Oh, you know, the repopularization of the dens bean sal
Speaker 5: came from that people being like, no, no, they're cool,
Speaker 5: which they can be cool, and maybe she just made
Speaker 5: a bad one and that happens everyone's going to hit.
Speaker 1: I've been on being salads. Okay, guys, so nice to
Speaker 1: try the internet. One that I meant to draft at
Speaker 1: some point but didn't get drafted was the moment that
Speaker 1: Twitter made people's locations public and we found out like
Speaker 1: all of these Trump influencers are from Bangladesh.
Speaker 12: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is there is a day where like there's
Speaker 1: one called My favorite tweet was from Grease Menace, who
Speaker 1: retweeted this thing that said America First. That was their
Speaker 1: hand and the writing was thumbs up if you're a
Speaker 1: Trumper who loves God. And it's a blonde woman hugging
Speaker 1: her blonde baby in like the most Midwestern ass kitchen possible,
Speaker 1: and they tweeted laughed my ass off. This account is
Speaker 1: in Bangladesh.
Speaker 3: So are they bots based in Banglades.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just the whole Maga sphere is made up
Speaker 1: of bots other countries. Yeah, all right, any any others
Speaker 1: that people wanted to hit on the way out to Drydo.
Speaker 3: It was a bad bunny year, bitches. Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: perto Rico. Everywhere we are out here.
Speaker 12: He has sold out ten ten nights in a row
Speaker 12: at a stadium in Mexico City, sixty five thousand cedar
Speaker 12: ten nights in a.
Speaker 3: Row resident and Puerto Rico sold out every day. It
Speaker 3: was crazy.
Speaker 5: As somebody who went, it was a very cool year
Speaker 5: to be Puerto Rican. It was a very exciting year
Speaker 5: reperto Rican. But we're not gonna, you know, get our
Speaker 5: foot off your next in twenty six. We're still gonna
Speaker 5: be ousting.
Speaker 1: Still come for I mean twenty six exactly. First of all,
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican Super Bowl that you're not allowed to play
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl unless you're put Rican. Real Housewives
Speaker 1: of Salt Lake City I got a lot of ambient
Speaker 1: updates on that what happens this year, that this was
Speaker 1: like the year of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
Speaker 1: because it's been around before, but this year just seemed
Speaker 1: like everyone was on it. Like Bridge Winnaker just gave
Speaker 1: us a real Housewives update in his Overrated Underrated a
Speaker 1: couple of days ago.
Speaker 5: It just came back Salt Lake City. I think we're
Speaker 5: only like a handful of episodes in the season, maybe
Speaker 5: like four or five. So that's part of it that
Speaker 5: it just came back, but also that it is probably
Speaker 5: the best franchise right now, like all the other franchises
Speaker 5: have been quite boring, especially Beverly Hills.
Speaker 3: Right now, if you're comparing Beverly Hills.
Speaker 5: It's like just started to Salt Lake, because I think
Speaker 5: the three that are on right now active is Salt Lake,
Speaker 5: Beverly Hills, and Potomac is like rounding out their season.
Speaker 5: We're in the middle of Salt Lake and we're at
Speaker 5: the beginning of Beverly Hills, and it's just like from
Speaker 5: moment one, absolute drama. Like I think they started off
Speaker 5: season one with all the all the episodes are blurring
Speaker 5: to me right now. But it was like Todd cheating
Speaker 5: on Bronwyn in broad Daylight, Like he was like on
Speaker 5: a plane sexting somebody and like a random person sought
Speaker 5: over his shoulder like an old man, and that was
Speaker 5: like top tier.
Speaker 1: Meredith assaults, one of the main housewives got cheated on
Speaker 1: by her house husband and very publicly. Yeah, like these
Speaker 1: are godly people from Salt Lake City exactly.
Speaker 3: And I think that's like part of the lore is
Speaker 3: that like, oh.
Speaker 1: My god, these women drink coffee.
Speaker 5: Yes, but I would say Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
Speaker 5: that one is crazier because it.
Speaker 3: Well, they actually don't drink. I would say the Salt
Speaker 3: Lake City housewives do drink.
Speaker 5: That has always been kind of the weird crux where
Speaker 5: it's like some of these women like Lisa are like
Speaker 5: devout Mormons but still drink. The Secret Lives of Momon wives,
Speaker 5: they don't drink. They are something did only like a
Speaker 5: couple of them, but like most of them are very sober.
Speaker 5: So you're like with Secret Lives and Moral Wives specifically,
Speaker 5: you're like, I can't believe these women are saying these
Speaker 5: things out loud fully sober.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, yeah, you're talking.
Speaker 1: Having a reality show where the people on it don't
Speaker 1: drink is like trying to make a cake without flower.
Speaker 1: It's like, wait, what you think you can't do that?
Speaker 5: Life of Mormon Wives is absolutely fucking nutty, like to
Speaker 5: just Jack to give you table steaks. One of the
Speaker 5: Mormon Wives lets her husband drink her pea because it
Speaker 5: tastes like pretty pebbles, and they said that out loud.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that is weird. She get that checked out.
Speaker 1: That sounds like diabetes exactly.
Speaker 3: That's what everyone saying.
Speaker 1: I agree that that's weird.
Speaker 9: Now, yeah, I mean they probably do have diabetes. I
Speaker 9: mean they drink, they drink so much soda and they
Speaker 9: put like flavory.
Speaker 5: But I'm saying that is the level that they're willing to,
Speaker 5: Like the Mormon Wives are on like a different level
Speaker 5: that they're like willing to put anything and everything on
Speaker 5: their TV screen.
Speaker 3: But Salt Lake, in terms of the Housewives universe, I
Speaker 3: think they just bring it. Every episode.
Speaker 5: They bring intense drama, whereas like a lot of the
Speaker 5: other franchises right now, they're a little boring or like
Speaker 5: it's they taking like full season arcs to get through storylines,
Speaker 5: whereas like every episode of Salt Lake is like storyline
Speaker 5: after storyline after storyline.
Speaker 3: New new new, just like boom boom boom.
Speaker 5: Like Mary's son is back in prison for like his
Speaker 5: drug shit, and then she reopened her church. Bron Wan's
Speaker 5: dealing with her mom living with her and also being
Speaker 5: a nightmare and telling her that like it was her
Speaker 5: fault she got pregnant like at eighteen or whatever, and
Speaker 5: also her husband's cheating on her.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a lot of their husbands are cheating on them.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're always cheating. That's like kind of you know,
Speaker 3: table Stakes of Housewives.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's like I feel like a lot
Speaker 5: of housewives join house lives so that they can start
Speaker 5: their divorces.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like giving themselves a platform.
Speaker 5: It's financial stability so that they can like leave these
Speaker 5: bad marriages. So bron Wins was like that was you know,
Speaker 5: everyone knew the writing was on the wall from the
Speaker 5: first season she joined last week or last season to
Speaker 5: this season. We're like, I'm not surprised, but it is
Speaker 5: interesting to see it come out so frequently that she
Speaker 5: was just like, yeah, he was like absolutely sexing on
Speaker 5: this plane, and you're like, oh, and the Meredith is
Speaker 5: like clearly a drunk and like also a pill popper,
Speaker 5: and she's like spewing hate speech to these women and
Speaker 5: then being like what are you guys talking about I
Speaker 5: didn't do any of them. I don't recall, and you
Speaker 5: it's it's absolutely slenderous that you would even say that
Speaker 5: I'm doing any drugs.
Speaker 3: And you're like, girl, listen to how you talk. This
Speaker 3: is crazy. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And then the main character, like the most intriguing character
Speaker 1: from the history of the show, j Shaw, is getting
Speaker 1: out of prison. Just got out of prison, and it's
Speaker 1: it is honestly the most anticipate hated release from prison
Speaker 1: I can remember since Tupac. Like usually someone goes into
Speaker 1: prison and then when they get out, like by that time,
Speaker 1: you've kind of forgotten a little bit. But everybody's like
Speaker 1: waiting out there, like is she out yet?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And like people think she's really gonna come back
Speaker 5: to Housewives, but Andy's been very, very firm that he's like,
Speaker 5: no funny business, she's not coming back. And I think
Speaker 5: it's interesting that he is so firm on this, considering
Speaker 5: there is so much other like bigotry and issues and
Speaker 5: racism within the Housewives that like this for him, this
Speaker 5: is the hill to die on. I find interesting, But
Speaker 5: I'm glad he's dying on it. I guess, like, out
Speaker 5: of all the things Rony is still a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 5: Like they had to wipe that whole cast because of
Speaker 5: racism and then come back to more racism. Like they
Speaker 5: got a whole new cast and then that whole cast
Speaker 5: was racist, and you're like, yeah, You're like, how did
Speaker 5: you fuck up twice? You fired legacy cast because there
Speaker 5: are racist rightfully, so brought in a whole new cast
Speaker 5: and then there were more racist in the previous.
Speaker 1: Guy, those are all just people's like friends, all the
Speaker 1: all the executives, friends from New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it like blew up so.
Speaker 5: Bad that they like haven't brought it back. They were like,
Speaker 5: oh god, season two of the newcast was so diabolical,
Speaker 5: we don't even know what to do. And they just
Speaker 5: put a pause on Roney.
Speaker 1: They're just yeah, thank you so much, Thank you guys
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Becca. Where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you all that good stuff.
Speaker 5: You can find me and follow me at bex b ECCS,
Speaker 5: ramos on all platforms. But also, I have an exciting
Speaker 5: update as my weapondom comes to fruition. I am launching
Speaker 5: a podcast February third, Ray six. It's called Welcome to
Speaker 5: a Barrio and it is about Puerto Rican history, culture,
Speaker 5: really just bridging the community of those of us here
Speaker 5: on the mainland to those on the island. So if
Speaker 5: you had fun with Bad Bundy this year, if you're
Speaker 5: interested in Puerto Rican history, culture, news, food, anything, really,
Speaker 5: if you're just interested in any of those things generally,
Speaker 5: I think you'll have a lot of fun with the
Speaker 5: show and I'm excited for it to come out. So
Speaker 5: you can follow the show account with teb pod w
Speaker 5: T e B pod.
Speaker 1: Yeah amazing, Uh superducer Bee. Where where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Or do you do you care for people to find you?
Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 8: go listen to General World jenneral World. Yeah, we've been
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Speaker 1: Yeah, dream team Victor, do you care to be found?
Speaker 1: Sure you can find me on Instagram Victor right four
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Speaker 1: what you're doing, Brian the editor. Where can people go?
Speaker 12: You can find me on LinkedIn posing as an absolutely
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Speaker 1: Oh underscore, Brian, I've made my account public. Uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know why we'll see to share TDZ clips and
Speaker 1: not have them only go to my aunts. All right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this year in Internet virality,
Speaker 1: we are back. I think we got one more year
Speaker 1: end episode to go, and then we're back with fresh
Speaker 1: updates about whatever the fuck has been happening over these
Speaker 1: past two weeks. In the new year, I hope everybody's
Speaker 1: having a great holiday and we will talk to you
Speaker 1: all soon.
Speaker 2: Bite by bite, The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by
Speaker 2: Catherine Law, co produced by Bee Wayang, co produced by
Speaker 2: Victor Wright
Speaker 12: Co written by j M McNabb, and edited and engineered
Speaker 12: by Brian Jefferies.