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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to the first annual inaugural

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Speaker 1: year Tournament of Stories of the Year, Tournament of Champions.

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Speaker 1: And that is the full name Year Tournament Stories of

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Speaker 1: the Year, Tournament of Champion of Champions. My name is

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Speaker 1: Jack O'Brien. I am joined, of course, by my esteemed

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Speaker 1: colleague co commissioner of this league of story competitors, mister.

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Speaker 2: This thought came to us in the middle of the night,

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Speaker 2: and we're like, what if we pit all our fun

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Speaker 2: stories against each other and proclaim one the champion of

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Speaker 2: the year.

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Speaker 1: And we've got some fun ones, Like we.

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Speaker 2: Got the election, we had to take some. We definitely

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Speaker 2: wanted to take some out because let's be real, we

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Speaker 2: we get that part. So maybe let's look back at

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Speaker 2: the fun goofy shit this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's this first episode is going to be

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Speaker 1: us selecting the field, maybe doing some seeding of the

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Speaker 1: field for the ultimate tournament. We're looking at a sixteen

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Speaker 1: team tournament, a sweet sixteen of the top sixteen stories

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Speaker 1: of the year. We greatly appreciate the nominations from Zeitgang

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Speaker 1: on Blue Sky and in the discord. Yeah, there were some.

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Speaker 1: There are a couple that we didn't have, and we

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Speaker 1: will do our best to shut you out on the

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Speaker 1: on the ones where you reminded.

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Speaker 2: Us blind spots.

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Speaker 1: How cool it is that Mark Robinson was the normally

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Speaker 1: from cheers of a little weird windowless porn Hut Miles.

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Speaker 1: We're thrilled to be joined by a couple esteemed guests.

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Speaker 1: First up, one person who was responsible for bringing a

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Speaker 1: lot of these stories to our attention, helping us work

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Speaker 1: through them mentally, spiritually. One of our writers on the show.

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Speaker 1: It is mister jam McNab coming from the Great White North.

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Speaker 3: That's right, yeah up here in Canada. We yeah, am

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Speaker 3: I allowed to participate in this league? If is it

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Speaker 3: like Intercontinental?

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Speaker 2: It's like, jam, dude, jam, let's talk about these stories.

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Speaker 2: And they're like, no, shut shut up? Wait, what the

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Speaker 2: are you?

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Speaker 1: Why is there a Canadian talking on this ship?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Tests and yeah we did.

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Speaker 1: That's just for our kink said, speaking of kinky motherfucker. Now,

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Speaker 1: we're thrilled to be joined by one of the very

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Speaker 1: producers who makes this show possible. Uh. He went back

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Speaker 1: through all the show docs from this year after I

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Speaker 1: texted him this morning, and UH went back pulled all

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Speaker 1: the so that we could remember what the fuck furry

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Speaker 1: hackers meant?

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Speaker 5: He is mister Victor right, thank you guys who uses

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Speaker 5: my king politics as Mike kink. I want to apologize

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Speaker 5: because I sent you guys a seventy page document like

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Speaker 5: an hour ago, and I was like, hey, can you

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Speaker 5: go through all of this because these are all the

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Speaker 5: stories that we.

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Speaker 1: Have, asshole.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and some of these I didn't understand that Jack

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Speaker 5: ro I didn't know what gymnast Nerd was. Yeah, so

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Speaker 5: things were quite difficult for me this morning. But happy

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Speaker 2: Hey, what were we saying about gymnast Nerd again?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I googled it. As Victor knows, the rule is

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Speaker 1: no questions around clarification for Jacky. Jack will freak out

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Speaker 1: if you ask him questions for clarification before he's had

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Speaker 1: his coffee.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, especially when you pointed out You're like, I don't

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Speaker 2: know if that's your the best handle you could have

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Speaker 2: on Blue Sky and.

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Speaker 1: Brother. Anyways, So here should we just read we have

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Speaker 1: twenty four stories competing for the sixteen spots here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I want to just go through the stories.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is phase one. Let's let's get familiar

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Speaker 2: with what we were thinking about yeah, and then the

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Speaker 2: next episodes will be the fight to the.

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Speaker 1: Actual fight, but we're just gonna refamiliarize ourselves. The first

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Speaker 1: one coming straight down the middle, a big old meat

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Speaker 1: ball of a story. And I don't know if anybody

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Speaker 1: remembers this, but you have remember Drake, Yeah, guy from

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Speaker 1: Degrassi used to be a big oh yeah j rap star.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so that he had a real beef with

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Speaker 1: Kendrick kung Fu Kenny himself.

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Speaker 5: So that was a.

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Speaker 1: Big story at the beginning of this year. That feels

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Speaker 2: I feel like, oh, that's that Like those what like

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Speaker 2: hip hop Christmas. Like every time Kendrick was dropping another

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Speaker 1: I had its interesting to look back at our notes

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Speaker 1: from that time, and I was like, the six sixteen

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Speaker 1: They're not like us is okay, but totally correct.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's like the spiking of the football as a

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Speaker 2: think we were all kind of like lyrically. The thing

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Speaker 2: that was, I mean, Meet the Grahams was a haunted

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Speaker 2: they listened to it. Six sixteen felt super dope, and

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Speaker 2: you know, there was a whole you know era of

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Speaker 2: you tube analysis videos that helped us understand it even further,

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Speaker 1: But yeah, all right, we've got Olympic pole vaulter aka

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Speaker 1: guy who lost at the Olympics but won the gold

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Speaker 1: medal in having a dick for sure, like no doubt

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Speaker 1: this guy. You get just from the the sheer spraying

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: This man had a dick.

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Speaker 1: Exactly. Is the reverse Ghostbusters his name Anthony Amarati. Let's

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Speaker 1: all right, we've got a suite of Olympics stories that

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Speaker 1: I don't think it. I don't think they should be consolidated. Personally,

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Speaker 1: there's two categories like this, There's Olympics, there's RFK. Right,

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Speaker 1: so the Olympics stories we have guy lost the Olympics

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Speaker 1: but won the gold medal and having a dick. Raban

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Speaker 1: I don't know mody the existence of her event.

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Speaker 5: She's an academic. You don't put a fucking ancient historian

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Speaker 5: in like the colisseum and tell them to fight, right,

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Speaker 5: It doesn't make any sense for her to have gone

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Speaker 1: Because that was there and she deserved to be there,

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Speaker 1: that's true. Sorry, gymnast Nerd was one the victor needed

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Speaker 1: Sniper. Yeah, yeah, I don't This is where you find out.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the Olympics are. Dude.

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Speaker 2: He just beat the ship out of that horse. Huh

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Speaker 1: Yeah, pommel horse specialist who had glasses and everyone was like,

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Speaker 4: Fucking dork, just an athlete with glasses.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the super guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we have the Olympic shooters. I think my underrated

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Speaker 1: I do this because my wife took my dog and

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Speaker 1: I want my dog back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I love the help. There was so much, uh like,

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Speaker 2: so many theories about this guy, because you see takes

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Speaker 2: like this guy might be some kind of military operator,

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Speaker 2: just like one of these people who just has a

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Speaker 2: freakish talent for shooting a pistol.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they just apparently Yeah, he looked, and that is

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Speaker 1: actually a good sign. We learn four shooters h all right,

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Speaker 2: About the Korean the Korean shooters too.

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Speaker 1: The Korean shooters also really cool.

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Speaker 1: So Olympic shooters kind of captured our hearts, our minds,

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Speaker 1: our attention, our fashion. I started dressing like the guy

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Speaker 1: just extremely divorced. Clive Owen is kind of what he uh,

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Speaker 1: the vibe he was giving me. We got our FK stories,

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Speaker 1: we got our FK whalehead, we got our FK Heidi Bear.

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Speaker 1: We got our FK brainworm, we got our FK affair,

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Speaker 1: which one probably don't need all four of those.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so should we pair this down now?

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Speaker 1: I would vote let's just fucking get rid of the affair.

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Speaker 1: I don't yeah, I don't care about that, Like that's

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what's so impressive about all those stories you

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Speaker 4: The most spacious wild.

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Speaker 2: Involved with Because there's the brain worm, which he that

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Speaker 2: his divorce. It was like, you're not not a brain work,

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Speaker 2: You're like, wait what and ate.

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Speaker 5: Half his brain or something?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 5: It was like eating inside a thing?

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Speaker 3: Was it didn't he say like, oh it, you know

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Speaker 3: it's living inside your it's a parasite. And he interpreted

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Speaker 3: that as part of my brain is missing. Because a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like that's not even how the brain works.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, great, we love that.

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Speaker 5: I do.

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Speaker 1: I do think that. I remember reading some stories that

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Speaker 1: were like, I don't know, it could have been a thing.

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Speaker 1: It's like a thing that happens. And also I remember

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Speaker 1: around the time that his entire personality completely changed. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Race is he's just obsessed with fame,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I don't know.

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Speaker 1: He's been famous since he was young. He hadn't had

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Speaker 3: Isn't that the worm is in charge now? And you know,

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Speaker 3: just like did he start asking to be referred to

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Speaker 3: as you know whatever the worm's name was?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: Name?

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Speaker 2: Just a sound?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. It's what I hear in my brain.

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Speaker 1: It's like three Latin words backwards. So we have three

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Speaker 1: RFK stories. Yeah, whalehead worm. I think those all need

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Speaker 1: to be in the Does everybody agree those need to

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Speaker 1: be in the turn?

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Speaker 5: I think so. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It just basically the three headed monster servers.

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Speaker 5: Have three heads.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry to be sorry. To bring my mythology brain

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Speaker 2: into this, dude, because I don't have a brain worm.

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Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about mythology.

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Speaker 1: I wish you had a brain worm, dude.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: like no, no, no, But the part he brings pizzas

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Speaker 1: Yes, keep jacking off with homing pigeons. Right.

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Speaker 1: Next, we have furry hackers. This was one I did

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Speaker 3: like pulled out just one photograph of like the like

442
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 3: Russian guy that was living in the US that they

443
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 3: suspected whatever. Instead of like a lineup of photos or something,

444
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 3: they just handed this one photo and they're like, could

445
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 3: this be the driver?

446
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 4: And she was like yes, Oh.

447
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 2: Dude, you're not gonna fucking believe this. You know who

448
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 2: that is?

449
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 1: Guy who poisoned that guy who's face melted off.

450
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 4: It was Jay Leno then crashed the media.

451
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,199
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't see the aftermath of that

452
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,679
Speaker 1: TMZ interview where they're talking to Jay Leno. The sixty

453
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,199
Speaker 1: Minutes guy comes up with that same picture and was like, Jay, Yeah, anyways,

454
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: I don't know should we bubble it? Let's bubble it.

455
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 1: I deleted it and then JM brought it back for me.

456
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 4: Just you thought you were out Havana syndrome.

457
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: I got a fever.

458
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 3: I know that it's psychostomatic because every time I wrote

459
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 3: one of those things I started getting headaches.

460
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:27,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, way too much.

461
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 2: And hearing high pitch ringing.

462
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,199
Speaker 1: Yeah. So a lot of things came together in this

463
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: next story, uh, the private equity shrimp story. There's a

464
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: big story about how Red Lobster, you know what A

465
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 1: dealed themselves out of business by like doing endless shrimp bowls,

466
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: and it turned out it was just like private equity

467
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: fucking them the way they fucked Basically, Toys r us

468
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: J Crew many a recognizable brand. I guess it does

469
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: spark joy sparks.

470
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I would say a lot of listeners reached

471
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 2: out and like when asking about this in DMS and

472
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 2: like on Blue Ski and stuff, we're like, like, people

473
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 2: really liked the private equity episode we did with Brendan

474
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 2: Belou who was working at the DJ.

475
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, a number one episode, I believe.

476
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 2: Yeah that that definitely like opened up our brains to

477
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 2: begin to look at these kinds of like stories where

478
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 2: they're like, this beloved company is going out of business,

479
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 2: what the fuck happened? And always realizing like, let's always

480
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 2: assume it's private equity. And this was one of those

481
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:32,959
Speaker 2: times I remember where this was like in like, uh,

482
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 2: I think in March is when the stories first started

483
00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 2: coming out, they're like, oh, they're in trouble due to

484
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 2: Endless Shrimp, and then we're like, let's just do a

485
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 2: quick search of thread Lobster private equity. There it is

486
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 2: because what happens is they buy up a company and

487
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 2: then they suck your blood out by selling all their

488
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 2: real estate from out under the company and then make

489
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 2: the individual restaurants pay the private equity firm back for

490
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 2: rent that they never had to, which means they have

491
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 2: dwindling profits, which then just sort of exacerbate. It's a

492
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 2: downward financial spiral, but the private equity firms they make

493
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 2: out like gang Busters.

494
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: So gang Busters, Yeah, I don't. I mean I feel good.

495
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 1: I love the story. Uh, and I think we're going

496
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: to keep it.

497
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 2: It sounds like the closest to being for real, like

498
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 2: a real story, yeah, without totally joking.

499
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: And I think also that's all you can eat shrimp

500
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: involved with it, so that it does.

501
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: And it also makes me feel like, you know, we're

502
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 2: we're much smarter than we are because we talked about

503
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 2: blue that one time and then yeah, private it's my

504
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:32,959
Speaker 2: new thing.

505
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: It'll be one where like I can uh send my

506
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,360
Speaker 1: parents the time stamps of this episode where we talk

507
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 1: about that and be like, yeah, yeah, just check out

508
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: this part this five minutes. Ignore the part where I

509
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: keep saying that the guy won the gold medal and

510
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: having a dick just focused on.

511
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 2: Major in philosophy.

512
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: Honey, Oh man, you think they you think they thought

513
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 1: that was a good idea. Anyways, Uh, Private Equity Shrip,

514
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: you're in the tournament, Welcome got nominated by people. This

515
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: was like a very minor story.

516
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, but apparently stuck out to people.

517
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 5: I'll fight for it because it's so fucking weird. It's

518
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 5: just they included these cotton candy and in the middle

519
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 5: was Skittles and Eminem's or something with a lot.

520
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: Of chocolate with a lot of Skittles like it was,

521
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: which I don't know, like, is that violating any sort

522
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: of law for you guys, because you know, there's the

523
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: dirt cup that is a favorite with chocolate pudding and

524
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: the gummy worms.

525
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 2: The dirt cup.

526
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: They love the dirt cup. The dirt cup is an

527
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,959
Speaker 1: American class.

528
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 2: This is an an abomination to me.

529
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe could we could we lump this together with

530
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 3: the election and just put it under like an umbrella

531
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: decisions all around.

532
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: Cotton candy burrito election. I mean, there was a portion

533
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: of the election where I kept comparing Trump's brain to

534
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: cotton candy that someone had dumped a diet coke on

535
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: top of. So there is all right, cotton candy burrito

536
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: slash election. You're on the bubble. Okay, you're you're a

537
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: strong bubble contender.

538
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 2: Because this was again I think just for the backstory,

539
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 2: this was something the Arizona Cardinals were doing at their stadium.

540
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 5: And yeah, that's how because I was going to say

541
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 5: more sports stadiums are trying to do like upgraded food

542
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 5: options and instead of like just the normal hot dog

543
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 5: and nachos. And this is what they fucking came up with.

544
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 4: Hot dog fight this year.

545
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 3: Remember that with the dollar hot Dog Night where there

546
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 3: was like a massive hot dog fight.

547
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 1: Was that I had there was something that was one

548
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: that apparently happened when I was either out or not

549
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: properly storing memory is due to fugue state, But I

550
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: don't remember that anyways, Ktton Candy Burrito slashed the election.

551
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: You are in Kamala fashion Week party? You are I've

552
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: got to say, this is in Yeah.

553
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like this is one of those bitter

554
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 2: pill ones. I mean, obviously election itself is a fucking

555
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 2: bitter pill, but I think this is one of those

556
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 2: ones too, where like realizing after the election, because I

557
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 2: like I only caught wind of it after the election,

558
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 2: but in the build up that this fashion Week party

559
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 2: had happened, is in this weird way? Is this like

560
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,959
Speaker 2: really tragic summation manifestation of what the Harris campaign was?

561
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah, this was what needed to be like

562
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: the main story of the election as it was happening. Uh,

563
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: and you found out too late about it. But it's

564
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: my it's the most important story. I think of the

565
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: election as this fashion Week party. It explains everything. This

566
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: is a this is a not not only in for me,

567
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: it's a strong feed.

568
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:09,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, yeah, it's everything wrong that happened into

569
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 5: like what one minute video.

570
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 2: Right, it's like being really leaning into like the meme

571
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 2: aspect of the election, being super flippant about people's human

572
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 2: civil rights yea, and jengifying them, distilling sexual assault into

573
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 2: a claw grabber game. It all felt very like, I

574
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 2: don't know, these are like propa. I think we can

575
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,959
Speaker 2: make jokes about this and then that'll help people get

576
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 2: excited about our campaign that we're not even taking any

577
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 2: of it seriously.

578
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

579
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, that's your staying. You're going to Hollywood,

580
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 2: as they say.

581
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: In American Fashion Week party, You're going to Hollywood to

582
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: the video that we had because and you can actually

583
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: go see this on our YouTube channel. It was the

584
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: episode we I think Chelsea Chelsea Weber's Smith Smith. Yeah,

585
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: go go check out that episode and you can see

586
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 1: the video. It's narrated by French guy who was just.

587
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 2: Like wow, He's like, this is so distubi bro accent.

588
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 2: It HiT's way harder when you say it like that.

589
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: All right, this next one, as far as I'm concerned,

590
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. This is this is in the Turn. Yeah,

591
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: Elmo versus Big Bird. We totally forgot about this one

592
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: until the moment before we started recording. But did somebody

593
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: recommend it over.

594
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 2: On Blue Ski. Yes, someone did mention it and it

595
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 2: was Queen Try or Queen Tree on Blue Sky. Remember, yeah,

596
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: suggest shout out to you, Queen for that one. But yeah,

597
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 2: because I do. It started off as a story talking

598
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 2: about how Elmo just innocently like Elmo has everybody doing

599
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: on Twitter, and then it just became trauma dump.

600
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: Emotional, like fucking good Elmo, I'm fucking dying Elmo.

601
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 2: And then I think it just took a tangent because

602
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 2: I think that episode was called Big Bird Versus Elmo.

603
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 2: Who you got.

604
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: Big Bird was also trying something at that time, wasn't

605
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: he jam I remember you think you wrote this one up?

606
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 4: I think it was.

607
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

608
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 3: I think it was like part of some kind of

609
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 3: coordinated effort where they're trying to get the Sesame Street

610
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 3: muppets to like open up a conversation about mental health

611
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 3: or something.

612
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 4: But yeah, it just immediately took a turn like wasn't.

613
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: Big Bird missing or something or Big Bird like trunk

614
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: down to normal size or something. There there was something

615
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: with yea, yeah, so.

616
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 2: Big Bird's account he'd been posting about how he quote

617
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 2: randomly shrunk to the size of an insect and is

618
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 2: no longer big.

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Speaker 3: It was like coughcus metamorphosis, but with yeah exactly, and

620
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 3: mister like and snuffleophagous like was even tweeting it's like.

621
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 2: All avoid there, bird, so don't trample you to death.

622
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 4: Yeah that's a great buffalo bill.

623
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 2: Thank you, big old fat bird snuffle uffalo bill.

624
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 1: Yeah.

625
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,760
Speaker 2: But then but then it was about is he shrinking?

626
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 2: Is he getting big? And then we were thinking that

627
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,760
Speaker 2: I guess technically Elmo's a monster.

628
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, I think somehow it came up that

629
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: we were like, who you got between these two, because

630
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: like I think we were suspecting, like, it's gotta be

631
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: frustrating Big birds like put together this well coordinated with

632
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: special effects like social media thing where it's like and

633
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: then I'll look small and you know, just a some

634
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: real try hard shit from Big Bird and then Elmo's like, hey,

635
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: how's everyone doing, and everyone just like Elmo is the

636
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:52,720
Speaker 1: number one thing trending on Twitter that day during the election,

637
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,280
Speaker 1: and we were suspecting, like there's probably some tension there,

638
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: and the question came up, like who would actually win

639
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: in a fight? Big Bird obviously huge, but you know,

640
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: doesn't almost.

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00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 5: Got them I'm sorry, you know, because got him. Big

642
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 5: Bird has like he's top heavy, right, so all Almo

643
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:14,959
Speaker 5: has to do is push him over and then start

644
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 5: kicking him and that's it. Big Bird's done.

645
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 2: Canonically, Big Bird is six Elmos three and a half yeah, okay,

646
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 2: a three and a half year old red monster.

647
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: Though, yeah, big Bird is a giant dinosaur. You know,

648
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: dinosaurs had feathers with eyes that are very close together,

649
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: suggesting predation, you know, whereas Elmo's eyes are just like

650
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: kind of going any which way, so probably you know,

651
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: more of a prey.

652
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 2: Squarely have those eyes just right dead center.

653
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: When Big Bird's eyes are locked on your ass. Big

654
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: Bird approaching you from behind in the forest like as

655
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: he's like hi, and the I'm like, you know, you

656
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: hear a twig break behind you, and that's the last

657
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: thing you ever hear.

658
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 2: This was also because this happened, Elmo asked how everyone

659
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,479
Speaker 2: was doing in January. January twenty ninth of this year.

660
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this was he kicked off this.

661
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Speaker 2: This definitely kicked off the year, and I was like.

662
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,720
Speaker 1: Fuck do you think we're doing?

663
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a fucking genocide happening. Everyone's lonely. We got

664
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 2: an election coming. What do you fucking want?

665
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: I think that one's pretty strong contender. Yeah, all right,

666
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: speaking of strong contenders, this is probably the one we

667
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: got the most votes for. It was the first one

668
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: that we put on the list YEP, which is Willy

669
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: Wonka Glasgow aka. Just thank you Victor for going back

670
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: and finding I think Jam's original story or no, I

671
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: think Miles you maybe wrote this one up. Yeah, but

672
00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: it was called Willie's Chocolate Experience, off brand ass naming.

673
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: You could possibly come up with Molye's Chocolate Experience. I mean,

674
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: this is I think a strong one. Seed. Yeah.

675
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 5: This was a story that kept going to throughout the year.

676
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 5: We would get bizarre fucking updates.

677
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: We just had an update on this one because the

678
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: mastermind behind this was convicted as a sex krim y. Yeah,

679
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: sexual career.

680
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 2: Just sending a ton of was like, was he sending

681
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 2: bunch of nude pics or something? Just harassing a woman

682
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 2: over to.

683
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 1: Basically sexual messaging, and then blamed the stress of being

684
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: the number one story of the year for his behavior.

685
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 2: I think the other part too, though, that was made

686
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 2: it really stick out, was the use of AI in

687
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 2: all the promotional materials, Like they were chumming the waters

688
00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 2: with this like fantastic nonsense AI art, and then when

689
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 2: you got there, they were in a barren warehouse with again,

690
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 2: remember there was like just shitty like posters you could

691
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 2: take a picture of. There was the the Umpah lumpa

692
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,840
Speaker 2: bartender who looked like she was just in the midst

693
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 2: of some kind of existential crisis. Then there was like

694
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 2: the little the Unknown, Yeah, the Unknown, which was a

695
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 2: sixteen year old girl who was wearing a weird like

696
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 2: silver mask and like hiding behind a mirror.

697
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 5: Who was Wonka's enemy. I don't remember Wanka ever having

698
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 5: an enemy That.

699
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 2: Was AI too, was because they wrote a whole backstory

700
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 2: narrative that was written by AI.

701
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: They like actually created lore as part of this, and

702
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: the lore sucked shit because it was from AI. It

703
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: also made up words like cat gacading, uh hear chie

704
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: tons instead of catchy tunes, Disasser's de dre lollipops.

705
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 3: I love how to use Easier to use AI than

706
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 3: it is to like read a children's book or watching

707
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 3: eighty minutes movie.

708
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 2: Just regurgitate what you just saw.

709
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, anyway, the strong Ones siege, Welcome to the tournament.

710
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:25,479
Speaker 1: Up next, we have kind of again like this could

711
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: be part of the same story, but a fake Bridgerton

712
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: that happened in Atlanta. Yeah, oh no, Detroit, sorry Detroit,

713
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: that's right, and it did not go well. It was

714
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: kind of gave us some of the Glasgow Wonka energy

715
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: at a time when we desperately needed it. What do

716
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: we think?

717
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 2: I think it's out, it's it's I think it's it's

718
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 2: hanging on the coattails of Willy Wonka and Glasgow, Scotland, Glasgow.

719
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 5: I gotta argue for this one though. I'm sorry because

720
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 5: like the Willy Wonka AI experience felt like one guy

721
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 5: being a piece of ship. But then the fake Bridgerton

722
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 5: one had multiple people, like the queen was handing out

723
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:09,760
Speaker 5: her business cards.

724
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, good details in there.

725
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 5: There was there were a lot of details that separated it, right, Yeah,

726
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 5: this is the whole answer.

727
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 2: They were promised like a ball like scenes from Bridgerton,

728
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 2: and it was just like one lone pole Dancer and

729
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 2: like dodgy stream music in a conference room eventsace. Yeah.

730
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's not a strong seed, but I think

731
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 5: it's just enough to edge it out, you know, right.

732
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: Like it would be a sixteen seed type.

733
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 2: Can we combine that with the election?

734
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 5: The election?

735
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:51,879
Speaker 1: Candy Cotton, Candy Burrito, fake Bridgerton, Ridon, all right, they

736
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: are on the bubble as a single story. Just call

737
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: it America, that's right, Yeah, call it all America. All right.

738
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: We got jay Leno one that I wanted to bring

739
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: back and talk about. And now, because this is the

740
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: third recording we're doing today, I don't remember why, so

741
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: any we could cut it well.

742
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,279
Speaker 2: I think the reason we bring it up is because

743
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 2: we've talked about it so much off Mike trying to understand,

744
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 2: I mean, you've heard us, you know, sort of try

745
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 2: and parse through the details and come to some kind

746
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 2: of conclusion as to what the fuck is going on

747
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 2: with jay Leno. It could be I don't know, I

748
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, some things are better left not

749
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 2: in podcast form maybe sometimes because it feels like it

750
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 2: doesn't feel like we have fun. Either way, it's like,

751
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 2: is he in trouble with the mob? Is he trying

752
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 2: to like hurt himself? Is he like slipping into sinility

753
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 2: in a way that he's a danger to himself? None

754
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:46,919
Speaker 2: of those are really the fun thing.

755
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, like a thrill thrill seeking freak shit. I guess

756
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: that one's kind of fun.

757
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 2: That this is just his kink and his like ocean

758
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 2: Gate and Submarine basically, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

759
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 3: I mean we could put a pin in it and

760
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 3: see if he gets it's like attacked by a shark

761
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 3: or something before the final vote.

762
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, I mean the final vote is in

763
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 1: probably thirty to forty five seconds. So okay, let me check.

764
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: We're going to put a pin in that. Jam's going

765
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,240
Speaker 1: to go check if Jaylen has been attacked by a shark.

766
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: Order worka another story that's a whole there's a whole

767
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: genre of stories that felt like they happened this year.

768
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: Work Is Attacking Yachts that was actually mid Latin mid

769
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Covenant Eyes happened in twenty twenty three.

770
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it been kind of like mainstay stories in

771
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 2: the news cycles.

772
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: The other one that I think is entering as a

773
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: one seed without a doubt in my mind. Yes, is

774
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:47,760
Speaker 1: the Food and Wine article about punkin spice latte flavored

775
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: Eminem's that broke Miles brain, broke the show.

776
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 2: I we fucking hate this story. Yeah, and by that

777
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 2: I mean it consumed. It's still I'm like so angry

778
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,439
Speaker 2: just thinking about it again. Like you said, they were

779
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 2: introducing fall flavors to Eminem's very early. This is the

780
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 2: part that killed me. Okay, this is the part where,

781
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 2: because this is all part of an ai anger genre

782
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 2: of story, where this part, this specific fucking paragraph in

783
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 2: this Food and Wine story quote, the preseasonal launch of

784
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,439
Speaker 2: the milk chocolate pumpkin pie Eminem's is a strategic move

785
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 2: that taps into Mars' market research. The research indicates that

786
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 2: Gen Z and Millennials plan to celebrate Halloween by dressing

787
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,280
Speaker 2: up and planning for the holiday about six point eight

788
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 2: weeks beforehand. Well, six point eight weeks from Memorial Day

789
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 2: is the fourth of July, so you still have plenty

790
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 2: of time to latch onto a pop culture trend and

791
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 2: turn it into a creative costume. What the fuck does

792
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 2: any of that agree?

793
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 1: Are you talking about? Well in eight weeks from Memorial

794
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,919
Speaker 1: Days the forces? Anyway, it's it's a number one seed

795
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: with a bullet. This one was not.

796
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 2: Can I just say that it's not it's not six

797
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 2: point eight weeks. I don't know if it's not. Where

798
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,720
Speaker 2: six twenty weeks comes from? Who even even describes time

799
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:18,959
Speaker 2: in like fucking fractions of a week?

800
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: Maybe decimals with yeah, oh.

801
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, six point eight weeks, Yeah, eight tenths.

802
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 1: Of the spam six point eight weeks. Eminem's maybe for

803
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 1: my health.

804
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 2: We don't talk about it like I feel like my

805
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 2: fucking blood.

806
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that one's in for sure. Going to Hollywood,

807
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 1: You're going to Hollywood food and wine AI article. It

808
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: feels like an illustration of the Van Vaught thing that

809
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: I kept seeing the it's no big secret why Van

810
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: Vaught doesn't work in Hollywood anymore, And it's a picture

811
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 1: of Vince Vaughan. But this was one that we just encountered,

812
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,919
Speaker 1: like in an article that like we would be talking

813
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: about anyways. There's the famous genre of story that we

814
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: always cover on TDZ anytime they're trying to do something

815
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: horrifying with pumpkin spice and bringing it back way too

816
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: early and it was just just right there, didn't make

817
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: any sense. AI is Yeah, it's turning the world into

818
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: what feels like a dream you're having while you lay dying,

819
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: is kind of what it.

820
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 2: That's what this show is basically, right.

821
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we're gonna we got through the stories that

822
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: are nominees for the tournament. We're going to take one

823
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: final break and then we're gonna come back and make

824
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: the final selection, maybe even do some seating. We'll be

825
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: right back and we're back.

826
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 2: We're back.

827
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 1: So let me see the green stories we have highlight

828
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: it's Kendrick Drake guy won the gold medal, having a

829
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: Dick ray Gun, Olympic Shooters, Yeah, RFK, Heidi Bear RFK, Brainworm,

830
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: Jadie Vance, Couch fuck, Mark Robinson, porn Shop, Private Equity, Shrimp,

831
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: Kamala Fashion Week Party, Elmo, the Big Bird, Wanka Glasgow

832
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,720
Speaker 1: AI article. That's thirteen. We have three spots to fill

833
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: with Gymnast Nerd Whalehead, Furry Hackers, Havana Syndrome Solved, JD

834
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: Van's Donut Shop, Cotton Candy, Burrito, Slash, Elections slash fake

835
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: fave Bridgerton and which Jay Leno, I feel like we

836
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: can cut if he hasn't been attacked by a shark yet.

837
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: Any update on.

838
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 4: That I've been checking so far, now, so.

839
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: Far, Now, all right, we're gonna cut jay Leno. We

840
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: don't know where that story is exactly going. It's not

841
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 1: a complete story. So we're down to nineteen stories.

842
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 2: Any election, Brito election fake Bridgerton I think.

843
00:46:58,560 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: Is in is in?

844
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 2: Oh?

845
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, I highlight that. Yeah, all right, that one's in

846
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: JD Van's donut shop. Do we want to cut?

847
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 5: What was I don't even the gymnast nerd. Was it

848
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 5: just that he wore glasses or was his dick out too?

849
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 5: What was the deal with that?

850
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 2: He was a sensation? I remember everyone was obsessed because

851
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 2: he was so calm and then helped deliver a medal

852
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 2: for the US men's gymnastics team, and it.

853
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: Was like, why is this guy here? He has glasses on?

854
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: And then he then so like the question was posed

855
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: just in his very presence. I think there was probably

856
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: one of those packages before where it's like, I know,

857
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: this guy looks like a fucking dork, but here he

858
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: is back at home. You know, getting the call that

859
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: he gets to be in the Olympics even though he

860
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: has glasses. And then he had a big moment in

861
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: the team event and fully came through the Olympic men

862
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: medaled once again, and you know, just going back through

863
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: I feel like this bitch got to be in there.

864
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: I know we're Olympics heavy, but that would also give

865
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: us four Olympics stories that they could be their own

866
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:17,360
Speaker 1: section of the tournament. Yeah, because it'd be weird to

867
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: have three them into like the Eastern bracket. Yeah, exactly.

868
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, so one of them comes out of that of

869
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 2: that quadrant.

870
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I.

871
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: Think we cut furry hackers and Havana syndrome, so.

872
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,959
Speaker 2: Then that leaves RFK, whalehead and the donut shop. Yeah.

873
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 5: The donut shop.

874
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 2: Is like, as much as I don't want to think about,

875
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 2: I mean whatever, we already have to think about his

876
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 2: love of the couch, so we might as well just

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Speaker 2: talk about how absolutely awkward and robotic he is around

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Speaker 2: normal world.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot of nominations from listeners because it

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Speaker 1: al says the whale juice, it's a whale juice.

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Speaker 2: The daughter's anecdote about it that does a lot of.

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Speaker 1: That half Deck is involved. It was. I think in

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Speaker 1: many ways the culmination like it, even though like with

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Speaker 1: the Kendrick songs, even though you know I happened to

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Speaker 1: when I first heard it, like you know, the one

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Speaker 1: that he only dropped on Instagram better uh not like

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Speaker 1: us was the favorite, was the one that hit the hardest,

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Speaker 1: And I feel like Whalehead was the one that hit

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Speaker 1: the hardest.

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Speaker 2: So it's not like a Brainworm is like like that

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Speaker 2: the dis track from Future Metro booming okay, and then

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Speaker 2: Heidi Bear is like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: The Whalehead is not like us Doughnut Chop I think

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Speaker 1: can go okay, And that goes to us there.

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Speaker 5: Because Whalehead and Heidie Bear, we're confirming are just two

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Speaker 5: separate stories now, I think they have.

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Speaker 2: To stand on their Then do we also cluster RFK

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Speaker 2: stories in their own quadrant too, so one emerges or

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Speaker 2: do we make them do the battle to the death there?

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Speaker 1: I think we cluster them in the our own bracket

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Speaker 1: with Kendrick Drake, I don't know why, or maybe with

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Speaker 1: the Elmo Big Bird, I don't know, or Mark Robinson

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Speaker 1: I guess like colorful characters from the election would be maybe.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so how do we want to We're we

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Speaker 2: gonna see them now.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I think we should do. Because this

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Speaker 1: has already been a long episode. We've reviewed the stories

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Speaker 1: that are going to be facing off with one another.

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Speaker 1: I think we should between now and tomorrow when we're

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Speaker 1: recording the kind of determinative yeah, yeah, the other sode

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Speaker 1: where we like figure out who wins what is the

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Speaker 1: top story of twenty twenty four. I think everybody ranks

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Speaker 1: their favorites, like just ranks the whole thing in order

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Speaker 1: we use that to seed, and then the way that

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Speaker 1: the actual event is determined is just like one on one,

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Speaker 1: which of these two story worries and we talk it out. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, does that sound fair to everyone?

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Speaker 5: That sounds fair, sounds good.

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Speaker 2: I'll do my rankings. I'll bring my rankings to the

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Speaker 2: next class, and we will begin the act with.

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Speaker 1: The understanding that the Olympics ones are all gonna be

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Speaker 1: clustered together. But yeah, but it makes sense maybe well

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's where we'll talk about it. I think

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Speaker 2: that's that's the important thing is we can well, we'll

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Speaker 2: think about how we get there because you don't want

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Speaker 2: you don't want to get those huge matchups early on

928
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Speaker 2: in the tournament, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you certainly don't else. No, but yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna end up with like four really

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Speaker 1: strong one seeds as everybody chooses their favorite stories, and uh,

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Speaker 1: we're going to get for the sake of science, We're

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Speaker 1: going to get the top Daily Zeitgeist story of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four inaugural episode.

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Speaker 2: I exactly that.

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Speaker 1: My only shame in doing this episode is that it

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Speaker 1: took us this long to figure out that we should

938
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Speaker 1: be doing this every year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, hey, but look, look we got a look,

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Speaker 2: we got a lot of tables. Man, as Janine Garoppolo

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Speaker 2: says and famously in The Cable Guy at Medieval Time.

942
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Speaker 1: We should we should all do a tournament of just

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Speaker 1: our most over used pop culture, right, Yeah, I think

944
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Speaker 1: I say we got a lot of tables, or I

945
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Speaker 1: got a lot of tables.

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Speaker 2: Or anything that's a word that ends in t I

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Speaker 2: O N becomes an ash.

948
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Speaker 6: Where there's a less another one too from Ziking just

949
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Speaker 6: Zeitgeistism's Battle of the Seistism this.

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Speaker 1: Year, taking a little vacation to them for my vacatione

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Speaker 1: all right, Jay McNab, thank you so much for joining us.

952
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Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?

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Speaker 4: I don't even know anymore?

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Speaker 1: Cool.

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Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, I'm on Twitter, but then you know

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Speaker 3: I don't do anything on that anymore. I guess I'm

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Speaker 3: on Blue Sky, but I don't remember what the thing is,

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Speaker 3: so I'm around.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Victor. Where can people find you?

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Speaker 5: Don't I'm also like JM. I don't have I never

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Speaker 5: do anything Instagram or Twitter.

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Speaker 1: So don't leave me alone. Please? Thank you? All right,

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Speaker 1: great Miles don't Okay you can when this is jack

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Speaker 1: ob One on Blue Sky. Oh jacko Bone jack Obone,

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Speaker 1: jack Obi the number one. Okay, yeah you already know

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Speaker 1: you already everybody, y'all already? No, all right, this was fun.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Thank you as always to Brian

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Speaker 1: the editor who's gonna have to cut this shit together.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Also shout out to everybody else who couldn't make

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Speaker 2: it obviously. Producer by E. P.

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Speaker 5: Catherine Justin y we.

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Speaker 2: All love you, but Anna, we'll be in another episode

973
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Speaker 2: that may have aired by the time you hear this.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, the whole gang is getting back.

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Speaker 5: You might even hear from.

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Speaker 2: Becca, okay, getting the whole gang back together.

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Speaker 1: Raw, right, I was gonna do it. I hope everybody's

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Speaker 1: having a great end to their year, and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to y'all tomorrow with the exciting conclusion of the daily

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Speaker 1: Zeitke Guy Stories of the Year, Tournament of champions or

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Speaker 1: however I said at the beginning story Tournament Year

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Speaker 2: Stories of the Year, Tournament of Championship, the boom