December 29, 2025 • 54 mins
In this special holiday episode, Jack and Miles are joined by Bryan, The Editor to discuss the top 15 stories of 2025!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special holiday year
end episode of.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Guys to.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hell Hell Hello. It's the production of iHeartRadio's podcast and
take that Dotten Mary Share Concus And for the holidays,
we like to take a deep dive into some year
end shit, you know, take take a deep dive into
a look back into the year that was. I'm joined,
(00:30):
as always by my co host, mister Miles.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yes, here, I am probably luxuriating in a bathrobe as
as you listen to this, I'm most likely luxuriating in
a bathrobe.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
He's just airing out a snifter of brand.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I've taken so long trying to replace the bathrobe that
I had pre Fire, and it's very it's it's a
delicate decision because a bathrobe, I like, I'm trying to
I'm trying. I'm trying not.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
To be the same person, but the same person, and
it's very hard. Makes some changes. Yeah, Miles, we're thrilled
fortunate to be joined as always, but this time he's
going to be popping off on the mic a little bit. Yes,
not just in the in the chat. It's Brian the editor.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'm normally luxuriating in a robe.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Today, people don't know how fucking comfortable. Brian is a person.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Always smoking in a robe. That's what's happening. That's what
I'm looking at while we're recording. Just so you guys know,
I'm looking at Brian smoking or vapor while wearing a
robe at his desk. Uh in the locations unknown. Are
you wearing jeans?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Brian?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
No, no sweats? Oh good, thank god, thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
No jeans are violence. That's thank you. Leg jail, leg jail, Like,
that's what I call it, jails.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I hated jeans so much when I was like hate
seven years old. I was like, how do I itch my?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I'm so stiff, dude, I barely wear jeans.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I reduced my I only have like two or three
pairs of genes.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Now I got reduction. Yeah, all right. So last year
we did a year end tournament where we went through
pitted our sixteen favorite stories against one another. And this
year we're doing something a little bit different. We've invented
a new format that is called the countdown.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, the list and yeah, less redundant at certain points
because yeah, we noticed last year we were like, the
first episode was super fun because we were just like
blasting through all the stories in the second episode, we're like,
all right, so we said everything about those first stories.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So anyways, we're going to go through our fifteen favorite
stories of the year across three episodes.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Now we can remember, so that we can remember.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
We're probably fucking this up in some way or another,
but we're also leaving room by doing one honorable Menschi
at the top of each episode story that didn't quite
make the list, but that made a mark on us
on our hearts. So guys, should we get right into it? Yeah,
So for our honorable menschi before we get through, before
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we get into stories number fifteen through eleven of the year,
I wanted to bring us all back to April twenty
twenty five, when we were all in growth in what
some speculator might be the challenger of our time. Not hopefully,
(03:43):
I would say, okay, we you know, Katie Perry, Gail King,
other other people space together. I think the other people
were like famous.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Siship Leo astronautics research scientist Amanda wh and film producer
Carrie Ann Flynn.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Baby Miles is pulling all of those off the dome
was wasn't Bezos's girlfriend on there too? Yes? Yeah, Sancho. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Also we have to Brian as Angelina's we have to
give it up to Lauren Sanchez, who is all we
know her from Fox eleven Age.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got some interesting and so did
they get married this year? Was that one of those things?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I remember they went to Venice and I got out
of city.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
They're gonna be so fucking mad at us.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
When I talked to Jeff over this holiday and he's like,
my wedding didn't even make the top fifteen. He's going
to be pissed. It's like we we had to honor
his fianced in Jail King and Katie Perry. We're going
to space, the first all female flight crew in more
than six decades to head into space. This felt like
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the Imagine video of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, the way it was handled was also like an
era where people wish they didn't even live on this
Earth exerments and they're like fucking around like I mean,
we're already insulated by our wealth, but also fuck y'all.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Bye. It just felt like such a weird different Like again,
in the same way that the Imagined video was just
might have made sense. Like five years before, or even
like one year before. When it came out, everyone was
like fuck you. This was like, yeah, I could see
this like in the nineties, everybody being like, celebrities in space,
why I never And this time I feel like everyone
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was just like man. The two reactions were man them,
and then also the other reaction was no, they didn't.
I don't believe they went.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's the whole this the whole thing of it that
people were calling them astronauts and diminishing the profession of astronauts.
It was just that celebrities went to space, which has
been happening for years. It's like they kept calling them
astronauts and it was easy.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, he was going to act like it was like
a big step forward for womankind, as if they.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Were all women do this twenty years ago, right.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And you're just riding this is this is like being
like I am a pilot because I'm in the backseat
of seven forty seven.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
But you know what, this Bezos got his little spaceship
company add up. And at the same time, Katie Perry's
like stock fucking crashed harder than the capsule coming back
to Earth.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I feel like yep, but she cut justin Trudeau's attention.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yes she did. She so you know what, maybe all's
well that ends a w I just want to read
this quick quote from her. I think, actually, I'm really
excited about the engineering of it all. I'm excited to
learn more about STEM and just the math about what
it takes to accomplish this type of thing. I was
winding down from a rehearsal the other day and I
was listening to Cosmos by Carl Sagan and reading a
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book on string theory. And yeah, I was like going
to bed. That was definitely like helping. I was like Pythagoras, Pythagoras. Uh,
I think she's ad Pythagoras Pythiagorus and then snoring sounds.
But then, but you know, I've always been interested in
astrophysics and interested in astronomy and astrology and the stars.
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I feel like we are all and this is a quote.
I like this quote because it's how she she implies
that she's making this next part up. I feel like
we are all made of stardust and we all come
from the stars. It's like, oh damn, you feel like that.
You just came up with it, and it'll be exciting
to see them twinkle from that site and also have
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such an appreciation for Mother Earth when we see it
that way.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
If I make quote, if I make quote famous, yeah,
I'll quote the famous astronomer Moby in saying we are
all made of stars.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I feel like we are all made of stars. Gail
King noted that Perry didn't sing firework or roar because
this is this is great. I feel like Gail King
is working in satire here, of course, because she didn't
want to make the moment about herself. Uh huh yep, Nope,
but she still did sing. She's sang what a wonderful
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world for her literally captive audience as they returned to Earth,
and then she kissed the ground.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
It's like somebody performing on a suboy in front of you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Just yeah, all right. So that's our honorable Menchi. Now
we're into the real shit, the stuff that made our list.
Everybody's competing get on the TDZ Top fifteen Stories of
the Year. We're given our fifteenth spot to our obsession
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with spooky dolls. This year we had a real spooky
dollaissance with both the last Annabelle movie coming out Annabelle
the Doll going on a rampage and killing, killing people,
and then of course the La Boo boo, the Laboo
Boo dolls. Yep, we covered back in July that the
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Laboo boos were being accused of having satanic ties.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, I mean, they're ugly as sin.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And I told you the first thing I ever heard
about laboo boo's was a kid at my seven year
old school brought a labuoboo and my seven year old
was like, Dad, the thing turned its.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Head, Oh right right, yeah, it was like that. I mean, okay,
what do you say to that? You know what am
I say to my kid when he starts saying just
straight up bullshit? Straight up?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
That's what I said, bullshit.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh shit, you didn't even do this. Sneeze you scream bullshit,
then sneeze bullshit.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's tough because he's like, got a real creative spirit,
and sometimes I just want him to like kind of
live in his fanciful little world. But other times I'm like,
I don't want him to go too far off in that.
I was saying bullshit too, So what am I saying?
Let them cook?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Let them cook. But yeah, the the boo boo thing,
I mean, it was not only just like it. It
scratched the itch of like the satanic panic kind of
thing and the Annabelle stuff, but also became like the
Stanley Cup of the like year in terms of weird
consumer item that just became coveted for not reason.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Stanley Cup, Stanley Cup the people were drinking and the
Stanley Quinchers.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Or the new bad consumer item.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I liked jams Our writer Jam McNabb's description of them
that they look like if Maurice Sendak, the author of
Where the Wild Things Are, got drunk and tried to
draw Willem Dafoe. I feel like that's that's as good
a description it is.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
That those teeth and eyes I think are very defoe
like somehow shame they were, like.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
They must have things like Rihanna was robbing them, share
Lisa was robbing.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So many like soccer players in Europe, Like we're bringing
them in on their like duffel bag and ship. What
I don't know, man, I'm this is where I know
I'm too old and just like out of the loop
on ship.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, a giant lab boo boo showed up to protest Ice,
so we know they're on the right side of history.
They're in the mix. Yeah, and then there was the craze. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well it's also funny that because this ship has already
moved on, remember like by the by like fucking October,
the ship fell off really hard and then Sony's like
we're making a movie and you're like, uh no. And
then Carmen Laurent came on and she put us onto
like the new ship, which is a skull.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Panda, So fuck is sup? Skulp me?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
As I described, you could, the eyes can move independently,
so you can make that joint look like Kerry Russell
a mission impossible three.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Make it look like the crazy Grimlin. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But yeah, so there was a controversy with it wasn't
like explicitly like by a demon was the like that
wasn't the sales pit for Labuovo, but that was I
immediately was like, we we love hanted dolls. We've covered
like arabsession with haunted dolls before that. There's like, you know,
a surprisingly healthy cottage industry of haunted dolls being sold
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on eBay at all times, and I feel like this
is just the sort of capital capitalization of that market.
But there there was a literal exorcist who weren't parents.
Not to buy the toys if you if they're Christians,
if you're not, you're you're fucked anyway. So yeah, don't
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don't do that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
But yeah, they made they sold billions this year.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Good for them, good for the dolls.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And as as la booboos were peaking, I feel like
we weren't the only ones noticing a similarity between or
like a connection between arabsession with haunted dolls and uh,
the Labooo craze because the owner of Annabelle was taking
that shit on tour around America and there were rumors
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the one around that she went missing and possibly burned
down a mansion. Those turned out to be false, however,
that so like all of that's happening. There's like this
la boo boo craze. There's the Annabelle's on the loose,
nobody knows where annabel is shit, and people are like
everybody knows. And then the parenthormal investigator who was touring
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with the doll died on the tour and that was
not made up. Yeah, like that straight up passed from
this mortal coil.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
This makes the countdown because it feels like a fitting
end to the annabel thing, Like you wanted to be
able to say it killed somebody, yeah, and then it
finally did, and it was the person who was being
reckless with the haunted doll. So it feels like a TIGHTYU.
I guess who who do we know? Who has custody
of Annabel now?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Miles in a belt. Nobody knows where Annabel is right now?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Do we know the circumstances of this death?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
He suffered from He had a history of cardiac issues.
And then they were like, yeah, yeah, so it's entirely
possible that Annabelle frightened this person to death. Yeah, it's
They're like, it was a history of cardiac issues, and
then don't mention that there was a knife in his
heart when they found him.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
There's a lot of everyone was like a lot of
the skeptics or people just don't give a shit about
this story. Like I was reading like comments around posts
about it and people like there wasn't even the fucking
room when the guy fucking died. Right, Fine, but you
know what, we want to believe that it was a
haunting so severe that his heart stopped due to pre
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existing conditions.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I feel like the bad vibes can be so overpowering
that like they don't the Annabelle doesn't need to necessarily
be in the room.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, I'm so aggressively anti ghosts, you know, like I
fucking don't. I think it's dumb. I like, I like
the idea that it could be real, but I think
also because it freaks me out, I'm aggressively like, man,
fuck a doll like that, man, but also at the
same time, like, I don't need me in a fucking
room with this show.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I don't. I don't need any of that.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Though I'm anti I'm anti freaky doll, but yeah, because
I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
As well you should be. I feel like I feel
like they are the two genres of stories that we'll
be hitting on this list. Some are like, oh, yeah,
that happened this year. That's crazy, Like these like are
honorable menchi in this one, Yeah, which I feel like
the Annabelle La Booboo Sweeping America feels like it could
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have been any of the years.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah, but again, I think for how significant it was,
even for how many of our guests who came on
talking about like La Boo boos and stuff, I'm like, no.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It's it's a thing that happened, And that was a
Brian made his delete where we had a la boo
boo on Yeah episode yep, we're just like we don't.
I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah, I thought it
was pretty cool move.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
We had a lot of interesting takes.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
You could tell it was Miles making the mouth move though.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No, it fucking wasn't. It was a haunted luboo boo
I bought on.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
eBay string Miles. All right, we're gonna take a little break,
then we're gonna come back and we're gonna get to
story number fourteen of the year twenty twenty five. Uh
fucking man, we might even get to story number thirteen
in the next part. We were crazy like that, we'll.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
We're back and ice story number fourteen.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I think another thing you might notice is there was
so much fucked up shit going on this year two.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We tried to just kind of condition that the fifteen
most important stories will be the top stories that we
enjoyed talking about. I mean, and also and also just
shit that was consequential.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
But yeah, the ice raids, I would say it would
even go lower on my list, barely even notice it
in Beverly Hills. Here there's just I don't even know.
But yeah, the Ice raids were one of the definitely
like the beginnings of the feeling of the like physical
presence of the Trump administration completely wrecking your life, aside
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from all of the like bureaucratic shit that was destroying
people's lives, but like the arrival of physical space that
at this point was undeniable for pretty much most people
living in a city. Like even if you were like
I think they're you know, they're even wealthy people in
La and other cities were like, oh my god, what's
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going on, which before was something that I think was
easier to put in the back of mind. So with
this it was definitely a very vivid moment, and alongside
that it introduced us to the absolute shitthead losers that
are ICE agents. But also, yeah, I share this guy. Yeah,
the I.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Think it was this year when like I remember that
first story, like seeing people in a parking lot being
like they just came and took someone they don't even
have like ID on them. This is fucking crazy, And
that just seems it was like isolated, like just people
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pulling up and unmarked cars kidnapping people, and it seemed
bleak and apocalyptic, and then it just became like even
more systematized, and then they got helicopters, and then they
just started invading entire cities at a time.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
One of the few I think it was one of
the times I noticed, like younger members of my family
who were pretty disengaged from politics finally be like, Yo,
what what the fuck is this? Because I think so
much stuff can be abstract for people, but when you
are subjected to seeing video after video of literal just
masked boons disappearing people, it has an effect on you.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And I think that's probably why the sandwich guy. Yeah,
so number or number fourteen, Yeah, fourteen fourteen is the
sandwich assassin. Yeah. This dangerous, dangerous Okay, So yeah, we
don't like ice, Okay, we we think they're bad, but
you don't. You don't go and do this. This is
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dangerous stuff. I mean this guy, Come on, guys, Yeah, man,
that's not good. Can you imagine can you imagine being
in this person's position and like having that sandwich coming
at you that fast at all is never gonna come out? Yeah,
extra wet. He's like, yeah, yeah, take money, subway extra wet.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
The clips of it, man, they get. Let's listen to
this induced.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Sean Done accused of attacking a federal.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Off done subway sandwich similar to this one right here
at fourteenth and you this past.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I like how this local guy is holding a sandwich.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Yeah, I like how you had to get the sandwich
the fascist right here.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You take a look at this cell phone video from
late Sunday and you can tell this kind of his
movements are kind of drunk shirt and.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Users on Fourteenth Street in d C.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
No for real, shame Now, moments he goes hearing to
show him crossing the street screaming.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Like yeah, this guy's and.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Then appearing to hit the officer in the chest.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Ships so sne in.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The street and.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So all right. For people who are watching the video
with us, which is everybody except us, three I had
watched the video in a long time, he is a
drunk man in short shorts and a pink polo who uh.
And you could also tell he's drunk because he's walking
home in the middle of the night with a subway
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holding that ship like it's Gandalf's staff or some shit
and then just starts killing shelling at these guys doing
the right thing, yelling shame, shame, and then walks up
point blank sandwich to the chest. And this is also
another another reason I love this story is because it
highlights one of my favorite trends in ice resistance, which
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is that you can be a foot from them and
do something to resist them and then run away. These
are some of the slowest of.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Foot and they have too much shit on them.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
They got way too much ship on them.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, I'm surprised they don't have like some like they
start like orcs, you know, like in Lord of the
Rings have different specialties, Like there's the berserker orcs and
the ones like who don't have as much shit on
they can run you down.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Might get them good ideas. Right now, they just have
a sprinter with them at all times.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You just think that they would just watch Lord of
the Rings and be like, dude, we need like a
berserker guy and one dude who likes.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But like the videos of people, you know, doing acts
of ice resistance to just like humiliate them. It's it's
not like throwing somebody at them from like down the street.
It's like a guy on a scooter who like rolls
up and like flips the guy's hat off like point
like and then it's like rides off and then you
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just get to see these I mean we we we
also got treated to watching them train on a child's playground,
watching Dean Caine make his way through ruggle the ice
uh tree facility, and like just skip a couple of
the things. Yeah, but yeah, I mean it's a great
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it's a great way to underline how hapless these dipshits are.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And also the trial of Subway Sir Han I think
is also worth talking about because because we're again and
I'm not obviously it's fucked up, but like you know,
they're they're going after these people who quote unquote resist.
We're mostly been like get your goddamn hands off me
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type shit.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Right, yeah, yeah, so that was a big move by
ICE agents, is being like the number of assaults on
ICE agents has gone oh shut through the roof. And
then it should be like see the video and it's
somebody like squirming as they're like grabbing their hand. It's
like a nineteen year old woman like squirming to like
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get away from them, and they're.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Like ah, yeah, but then trial for subway Sirhan luckily
ended in an acquittal, And I think we had a
lot of fun just in how that case was being
tried generally, how they're trying to make serious that the
guy through his subway sandy out of guy's fucking bulletproof.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
So good.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I wonder if there was a part in the trial
where like they had to like detail what was in
the sandwich and how dangerous it was.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Right they're ready, Oh, my dear friend, you mostly work
on the trending episodes, so you missed. Actually what I
think our biggest Instagram clip this year? Yeah, this is it,
says Border Patrol agent Gary Larimore is on the stand
narrating surveillance video of the sandy toass quote, now he
struck me with the sandwich, Larimore says. Border Patrol agent
Larymore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich,
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but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The
sandwich came apart and quote kind of exploded on his
chest upon impact, He says, quote I could smell the
onions and mustard.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You can still smell them.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Never and then never forget. I still snap awake, show me.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
On the doll where the sandwich hit you right?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Well, then the during the crossing examination, this dun's layers has.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Quote this defense like unsung hero here.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Playing a real straight do you recognize the sandwich? Larimore
won't confirm quote I did not go back to collected.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
He says.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
The defense impresses Larimore where the sandwich really quote exploded?
They returned to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper
on the ground. But that sandwich hasn't exploded at all,
has it? Defense asks, quote, it looks like a little
bit is coming out towards the bottom.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Larimore revis.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Oh yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
And then they it's revealed that he has been roasted
like they said that, like he's been getting The defense
is like, so, how how have you been dealing with
this since the attack? Like have you had to take
time off? The how of your fellow how have your
fellow agents treated you? They've been helpful and supported you artists.
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They've been giving me subway plush toys.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Y sent me.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
They gave me a patch that said felony foot long
on it.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Shitty little lair more mayor name.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Living infamy you fucking goof Yeah, amazing amazing work by
that defense attorney.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
All right on to another victim that we learned about.
This was kind of an all around trend that Business
Insider was like doing these op eds about what, you know,
just people who are going through some ship. They saw that,
you know, America is having a tough year this year.
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We talked about how it's like no longer feels good
to ever be like, how's it going to people like
that that question is now off limits because everybody's doing
badly because the government is fucked up and the economy
is fucked up. Business Insider came through and was like,
we gotta we gotta start singing people's pain through the streets.
(27:12):
We need to let everybody know.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
We know it's twenty twenty five and a lot's happening
in this country, but let's also there's a few victims
we're forgetting, namely white guys named Chad.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
And that is your story number thirteen. My name is Chad.
My name is Chad.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
This one is the one that kept my eye on
Business Insider throughout the year and why we were able
to talk about the lady who named her kid Disney,
like yeah, I'm brave.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
We also right We also got the woman who was like,
you know, it's so hard giving your kids cool names
like Disney.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Right, and then the parent who's like, I use AI
and I outsourced all my parenting day.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah. Yeah, that was the other one.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
The Chad one is this one quote my name is Chad. Yes,
I'm white, working off this job, and sometimes I wear
a vest. And he goes on to talk about his
name and how it's you know, like, maybe Chad is
kind of a cool thing. Quote. Still I worry about
it because my name is Chad, and sometimes I look
like what people think that means, even if I'm not,
that guarantees a daily dosa perspective, and I'm determined to
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use it. Well, it's a reminder not.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
To take myself too seriously. So he says that and
then goes on to do the exact opposite of that
of have perspective and not take himself too serious.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Well, Brian, you ever can you relate to this one?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
The only time I truly worry about my name is
in professional settings. It's hard not to picture a hiring manager,
potential client, or editor seeing my name and shaking their head.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
So I head from time to time using my initial CW.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
This is from Business Insider.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, hey, they're telling the truth about what it's like
out here on the streets for you know, workaday employees.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
They've got all kinds of stuff on there. There's like
usually a lot of their like sort of op Eddy
section is always like stuff about. Like people are like,
I left my job in marketing. Now I live in
you know, Sevia Spain.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Uh, I've seen those people.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Did they do one on? Did they do one on?
A woman named Stacy too?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And I wonder if there has to go through.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
This insider Karen.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I wonder that they must have done that like that
that one must have dropped, like back when the Karen
thing was happening.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Fuck, it was right before. Okay, so we got Chad
in uh May of twenty twenty five. April twenty nine,
twenty twenty five, we got my name is Karen.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh my chiming.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I think fuck though I should have I should have
stayed on this man. See, I slept on the Karen one.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
The Karen one actually makes sense, So this one sucks.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Though this one is Egyptian. She's like, I'm I grew
up in Egypt, man.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Like it's also because.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Karen is used by I don't want to say everyone,
but it's used by a wider demographic of people than
the chad thing, which to me was created by said
lonely white guys to talk about other white guys.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Right, this is the thing, like I don't think chad
is ever used in and it's the people who use
it are using it positively, and they're like, that guy's
a chad.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
He's like, I'll put chad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
They use it for like looks maxing.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
There's looks maxing chads and then there's like the insil
chads and.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
He is just doing he's trying to you know, my
name is Bobby Stone here.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Named I was named Bobby big Dick. My life is
so hard you wouldn't even believe.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I do feel like this is also a part of
a trend that we've seen, uh, Like the Olivia Nuzzy
story comes to mind of like people just trying to
make their existence poetic in a time when like just
everything is bad and they're like kind of focused on
the wrong thing, have a sense that something's bad, but
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they're going to write like trying wax lyrically about the
difficulty of having the name Chad, like sign of the
shit that's in this article. I know some things about
the name Chad that others don't like. When I hear
it spoken by my way who doesn't say it often,
I can't help but feel a small flutter in my chest.
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Or when I think of my childhood best friend, whom
I haven't spoken to in years, like you think he's
going to be like who died, but instead he can't.
He doesn't even have that trauma. Whom I haven't spoken
to in years. I remember the way our names were
always said in a pair, Cam and Chad, and I
smile God, because there are lots of stories caught in
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between the utterance of those names together, for better or worse.
Chad is my name, and I still long to hear
it said again in the voices of people who are
no longer here and whom I missed dearly. But you know,
if anybody in his life had died, he would have
crammed it in here. But it's yeah, I can remember
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writing it on my first love note, signs slow and scared.
It's like, motherfucker, what are you? What are? What do
you think you're?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Like?
Speaker 5 (32:21):
He didn't say that the wind is whispering his name
or some shit me like that that got edited out.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah, the business the person the editor at Business Insider
who had to go through this is like, so I can't.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Put that there, man, it's too much, pretty out of
con roll stupid. But I feel this is one of
the best depictions of white culture that we have, like
just the desperate needs to be victimized, like find a
way to.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Be the victim.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
It's it's you think this was like written by Alice
Walker or something, but you just changed some ship around
for about a white guy.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, I mean he might have actually just straight up
done that. That also sounds like whaite culture just appropriated,
and like.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
The idea truly, Like I mean, I remember when we
recorded this, the idea of like your name being too
like my dad and uncle my grandmother consciously tried to
choose names for them that wouldn't trigger like negro alert
in nineteen sixties America so they could get a job,
and like that's such a real thing. But this fucking
guy's name Chad, you know what I mean? And he's
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like I wor about a Welsh slaver right exactly. Yeah,
Like I have an English as fuck name Miles. Yeah,
but like, and so I think that's what's so funny
to me to your point, Jack, is like you're almost
just swapping out these experiences that are very real for
other people and just be like and that applies to
me too.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, but like the subtext is the thing that they
think you are. So people on the right think you're cool,
and people everywhere else just think you're a white guy,
which is the least discriminated.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Against a white guy with a white guy name.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Too, Like, Yeah, this has to be like he has
to be writing from the perspective of like, it's tough
to be a white guy actually, Which the fact that
that's just like that's not even said in the article.
That's just an idea that he's digested and is like
writing from the perspective of that is fucking wild.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
This piece would have been better written by chad Ocho
Senko Johnson, Right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
But I love the pseudo poetry about how his wife's
saying his name makes him a little bit horny.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Who doesn't say it often?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
She doesn't say it often. I wish she would say
what calls me dickhead?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Hey, Hey, Anyways, all right, those are stories number fourteen
and thirteen. We're gonna take a quick break, we're gonna
come back, and we're going to get in to the
vaunted top twelve GDS story he's of twenty twenty five.
We'll be right back, and we're back. We're back and
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all right. This was a major one. Charlie Kirk past
was killed. They had a funeral, the world his supporters
went fucking bonkers, started canceling people who weren't like, do
you accept Charlie Kirk as your lord and savior?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Canceling is two week of a term.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
I would say, God, people fired, ran out on a rail,
people online.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah, there was something about I think there was an
analysis about the one hundred or so people are hundreds
of people that in the aftermath who like, we're just
doing about like I quoted Charlie Kirk's own fucked up
words in a Facebook post, Yeah, and how I lost
my job because people were like again that cognitive dissonance
(36:06):
that kicked in there where people I think we're under
black Yeah, but also realized, like that racist vitriol that
is my life's blood in terms of the content that
I ingest you're pointing out how fucked up it is,
how dare you There's like also that part of it. Yeah, yeah,
but yeah, this was a very wild time because just
as quickly as that guy like was put laid to
(36:29):
rest in a casket, his wife was like already at it,
running turning point and kicked off like a like a
fracturing in the MAGA base too, where there were a
lot of people who were I think just for mostly
misogynistic reasons, but also just kind of the timing were like,
I don't trust this Erica Kirk, She's suddenly running everything.
What the fuck is this? Why isn't she mourning? What
(36:51):
was that funeral? Look like a fucking kickoff or whatever?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
That what? That was like huge turnout, huge pyrotechnic display
as one would expect from a w w E Monday night.
Oh I'm sorry, this was a funeral.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Yeah, have an issue with funerals being fun, but I
like that was fun.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
The tone was fun.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Yeah, it's like the idea of a fun funeral with
like pyrotechnics.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
That sounds Yeah, that's like if if like Gerbels and
Vince McMahon teamed up, that's.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
What you got.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Very Nazis look at these fireworks. Yeah, they didn't even
have this technology.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Nazis. Donald Trump, so his wife said she forgave the killer.
Not interested in seeing the death penalty. Erica nay Kirk
soon Vance said yeah, like this would be the Christian
thing to do in Donald Trump literally like got up
after and was like fuck that. Yeah, said he hates
his enemies, does not wish Biden, Well couldn't and stopped
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talking about Biden. He was playing the hits from the
Champagne trail. Was this the one where Steven Miller started
quoting the Nazi speech?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Or was that he does it every time?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
There's always some when is he not quoting an Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Yeah, honestly, like that's even a thing that we're not
even journalists. But even if I was, I would be
safe just writing that that it was like lifted from Gerbels,
because I think we're like nine out of ten, like
we're about ninety percent or something.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Here. Tucker Carlson gave a speech where he like burst
into maniacal laughter. It seems like it was like right
as he was about to be overtly antisemitic instead of
like just kind of implying and then he like kind
of stopped himself and then.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Was like.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yeah, yeah. But then it's the aftermath too that I
think was also interesting because jd Vance, who has made
our countdown very in the upper tiers of the Countdown
last year for being a couch populator. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah it is now you know that there was that
(39:06):
hug heard around the world. We're at an event where
jade Van's like, man, my wife's like Indian and ship
and she won't fucking worship Jesus. I don't know, man,
maybe this isn't the wave. Then got on stage with
Erica Kirk and gave a very very cool hug.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
You know the waves.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
A lot of thumbs, a lot of thumbs. Yeah, she's
got long ass nails.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
She's running her fingers through the back of his hair.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
It's it's touch. He touches her love language.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Touch is her love language.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
But yeah, I think the thing that really made it
like such a weird event was he was just slamming
his wife for not being a Christian like white American,
and then you see this like outward display of affection
with Himler Barbie and cut to.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Like they're at the taj Mahal, like the next month. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm like, letty.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Wa wow uh man.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, I probably it would have been like he's probably
like an awkward person. And but the fact that it
was like the same day that he was like and
I wish she did except christ and yeah, I think
about it every every day, but it was. It was
a little bit weird.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I mean, I think, but it makes sense, right, all
the anti Indian racism in like the MAGA thing has
come out so hardcore, just with all of the people
who have intersected with the party already, whether that's Vivek
Ramaswami or Cash Patel like.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Like something about this guy, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
And I think this is just a lesson to people.
When you're trying to be a token around fucking racist
it's never going to be safe for you.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
No, never going to be seem safe for a little
while when you're like having kids together and ship. But
eventually there are the people the fact that everyone else
in their life is like I.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Don't know, Yeah, dude, romas Swami thought he was a
shit being a part of DOGE and then the second
he starts doing events out there, people are point blank
asking him about like, oh, how can I prefer if
you were Christian?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I don't know about this. I don't know that. Da
da da, And I.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Feel like I'm assuming jd. Vance thinks it'll be a
fair election in the twenty twenty eight presidential because he's
trying to maneuver as if like he gives a fuck
about how people vote. But maybe those are just his
true feelings.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
I did. An underrated moment in the aftermath of the
Charlie Kirk assassination was when you know, Donald Trump was
asked it was I think within twenty four hours, like
how have you been affected by this? How are you doing, sir?
And he said doing well, Actually, we have this beautiful
ballroom over here that's going to be the best. We're
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about to tear it down, but it's going to be
one of the best. Just instant moving, moving it along.
And then he did also in the aftermath find a
way to brag about how an assassin tried to kill him,
but he's like, you know, Arlie was actually really impressed.
He was like, how did you how did you do that?
How do you get away from that bullet? Like I
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don't even know, I don't even turn my head, tell
you turn my head. I guess he didn't back into
the left, that's right. And our number eleven one of
the dumbest stories that we couldn't stop talking about this year.
I don't like we went back through the dog and
we found like a paragraph where we covered it, but
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it was essentially something that I think we talked about.
I'm scripped across like five episodes. Yeah, and that is
the one hundred men versus one gorilla thought experiment that
everybody just kept coming up.
Speaker 5 (42:44):
You know, toxic masculinity experience. Oh yeah, yeah, can we
fucking take him?
Speaker 1 (42:50):
How do we do that? How do we how do
we fucking get this gorilla?
Speaker 3 (42:54):
Is it in waves? Do you tire the gorilla out?
So many strategies were launched. I don't think no one
asked Jane Goodall.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
I can't believe it went on so long, with.
Speaker 5 (43:04):
How rapacious humans are, how many species we've eliminated that
the idea that one hundred dudes couldn't kill a gorilla.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yeah, yeah, Well, I think it's just like there's a
people build up like the gorilla in their mind.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Dude, gorilla, get it? Like they they don't really get
up too much.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
It's like whenever they were asking primatologists, because you know,
so many outlets were like, hey, x, if anyone's gonna
fucking know, it's gonna be this person who studies them,
this guy living.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Might have been might have been what killed Jane Goodall? Yeah, yeah,
a number of incoming she had on people being like, hey,
we have a quite Jane.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
So many so many of those privatologists were like dude, no,
what the fuck? I don't want that at all, Like
that would be terrifying for them, and but like how
would be the best way to do it?
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Like what do we say behind? Do we send there?
And then we like grab the back you up from
the back? No, I don't know, Like I just keep
having this thought, this invasive thought, like gorilla from the back?
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Is that weird?
Speaker 3 (44:15):
In what contexts? Or the gorilla from the back? And
who who is in the back? At this point, I'm
working some stuff out, all right, But yeah, that then
like it got turned into a meme where at that
point people were like using those video simulators where it
would be like one hundred men versus a gorilla, and
then there was ten thousand gorillas versus one million men.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, and the gorillas are like hitting the men and
then like thirty men are going like flying off toward
the horizons like that. Well, yeah, this is one way
that it could go. I guess yeah. I'm still it's
still a fun question to think about. I'm not going
to deny that it's not fun to think about.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
Like, I'm more I'm more invested in the idea that
one gorilla could kill a hundred men. It's really not like,
what's what's feasible? I like the reality where the gorilla.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Is so powerful that it could defeat a hundred men.
Here's the thing, I think if the men yet, Yes,
it seemed like one hundred people. You send one hundred
people at anything, and it's probably not like that. That's
what kills tons of people every year, is like, you know,
a smash of people, you know, a crowd control being mishandled.
(45:25):
You could probably handle it. But I think we need
the even the playing field. I didn't see this mentioned enough.
But the gorilla is naked. The people need to be naked.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
You know what, do you think the gorilla is gonna
be weirded out by seeing a bunch of naked dudes.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
No, I'm saying this evens the playing field, like, because
otherwise you're just giving humans the tools that we've always
used to dominate. So I'm just saying, like, those hundred
people need to be transported there without in the same
way as the gorilla, in the same way as the
gorilla is Like in my mind mind, it's always okay.
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Gorilla is just like, well, where where am I? What
the's happening? And there's one hundred men coming at him.
I think everybody's like, okay, So here's you have to strategize, Miles.
If you don't look convinced, think about it this way.
How much more careful something with your dick out?
Speaker 5 (46:16):
Yeah, like you think a little bit harder before you
got close.
Speaker 7 (46:21):
Oh well you don't know me that well, then the
grill is just going around ripping dicks, Miles.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Easy, somehow I defeat.
Speaker 7 (46:37):
You.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Weirded the gorillas out like that. It's you think that's important,
because every all the answers that I saw kept being like,
all right, so here's our strategy we send we send
them in waves. It's like, no, the gorilla doesn't get
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a chance to like, you know, think about it. Ahead
of time. Neither should the one hundred men.
Speaker 5 (47:03):
That's the other thing. I think the men that are
transported there should have no idea that they're about to
fight a gorilla.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah right, I think I think, yeah, it has to
be like D Day where there's like these landing boats
where there's each boat has a like like like a
hundred dudes, but you don't know which boat are going
to open them, yeah right, and they're all naked, and
but you don't know what's on the other side of
this fucking door when that ship opens and they blow
the whistle, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
I think that would make it a little more fair.
So if Steven Spielberg get done that and saving ride
and they just run out onto the beach and get
their ship rocked by a gorilla, every one of them
butt naked.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
You should juice the gorilla up on PCP or batsiz.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Well, I mean, what what percentage of the people you're
taking a random sampling of people. It's not like we
sent one hundred of our best fighters. You you are
just like you know, playing doing a randomization machine that
like pulls one hundred people. A lot of them are
gonna be children. A lot of them are going to
be elderly, and a lot of them are going to
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be high as fuck. Wow, you know you're looking at
that that it was one hundred men? Is it one
hundred men?
Speaker 2 (48:18):
All right?
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Even even so, are one hundred elderly? Even so, if
we're just going over eighteen, a lot of them are gonna.
Speaker 4 (48:26):
Be members of Congress old, Yeah, enfeebled by drunk.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
I think we're just like, look at look at what
happened when they tried to like put together a fucking
crack squad of ice agents. Yeah, like these motherfuckers, Like.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
No, it's gonna be weird because if you get here's
a deal if you if you did a thing, We're like, dude,
you want if you're down to fight animals for like
a huge prize, sign up.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
You probably get a ton of sign ups.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
But I think the kinds of dudes who would sign
up for that this second, they have to get naked.
They're just gonna fucking they're gonna be like, I'm the gorilla,
kill me, dude. This is so weird for me.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
Dog.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
They didn't tell me that this was going to happen
when I went to my man camp where I just
think how many dudes are just gonna be and he said,
there you are, David, there you are. Oh Man, Yeah,
I find it a very interesting question.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
Again, I think it's more from my from my perspective,
it's not about what I think how the equation I
think works out. It's more of who who do I want.
Speaker 6 (49:27):
To believe in more.
Speaker 5 (49:29):
It's very fascinating. Of course you think it's a fact.
You're fascinated with getting your whole ship bit jack.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
Yeah, not by a gorilla, man, I'm fascinated I get
my ship rocked.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
That would be fun, Like people left.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
Have you seen don't? I don't know if you remember.
There was a show called Wild Boys with Chris Pontius
and I think Steve O on MTV and they would
go around with like this like nature dude, and there's
one episode where they go to these gorillas and there's
the moment where this gorilla runs up on them and
swipes away like five bamboo trees.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
So casually Saw.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
I was like, that was for me. That's that's my
like origin gorilla strength myth video that I'm like, I
remember being in college like Jo just like that Dare
story with the dumpster through the PCP dump. Sure that
is not true. Yeah, exactly exactly. It's that it's that
visual that I think I cherish so much that I
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think I can't have that not future, Like I just
picture that wild Boy's gorilla.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
I do think it's just interesting to revisit this question
also because this kind of went viral before we had
seen one hundred ice agents like trying to chase somebody
who just flipped their hat off and like falling over,
like their shoelaces were tied together, Like if it's a hundred, like,
I feel like people would have been a little bit
(50:56):
less confident that the men would win if they if
we had seen all those videos by oh yeah here
this is where they.
Speaker 3 (51:03):
Okay, there's a little baby that kept following them and
they're like, yo, you better watch out. Look at this.
Speaker 1 (51:08):
Just yeah, it's just like accidentally knocking bamboos over.
Speaker 3 (51:14):
Yeah, but fine, I'm not going to sign up to
fight them. But I do think the D Day idea
just generally when because I know we're all work like
the billionaires are thinking of some weird entertaining form of
population control that do the D Day landing craft naked
dudes and D Day landing craft. They don't know what's
on the fucking beach, and it is what it is, Bro.
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And if you survive your your family, will you know
the protective scrolls.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
There you go. We also just gave you a good idea.
A good use of AI is redo the opening scene
of Saving Private Ryn.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
I am going to We're gonna have to get amblance pictures.
Steven Spielberg on board, Tom Hanks, Let's do this for real.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Get Chris Nolan, Get Chris Nolan on the phone. Let's
do this, Chris.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
That is episode one of our countdown of the top
stories of the year. As you can tell, this is
a very scientific process and makes a lot of sense.
We are going to be back probably tomorrow with stories
ten through six. Yeah, that would be the next five
(52:25):
we're entering the top ten and also probably another honorable
Menchi if you're good. So thanks for joining us, Brian,
Thank you for joining us. So it's good to have
you commenting, not in the chat where I'm like, oh,
you should have said that as we finished. As we finished.
Speaker 5 (52:44):
The reason I comment in the chat is because I
no longer comment on things on the internet.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
So this is where I have my fun. This is
my Yeah, this is my internet wonderful.
Speaker 4 (52:59):
Are you going to ask me where people can find me?
Speaker 1 (53:01):
Jack? You know I like to ask you. You always
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special holiday year
end episode of.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Guys to.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hell Hell Hello. It's the production of iHeartRadio's podcast and
take that Dotten Mary Share Concus And for the holidays,
we like to take a deep dive into some year
end shit, you know, take take a deep dive into
a look back into the year that was. I'm joined,
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as always by my co host, mister Miles.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yes, here, I am probably luxuriating in a bathrobe as
as you listen to this, I'm most likely luxuriating in
a bathrobe.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
He's just airing out a snifter of brand.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I've taken so long trying to replace the bathrobe that
I had pre Fire, and it's very it's it's a
delicate decision because a bathrobe, I like, I'm trying to
I'm trying. I'm trying not.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
To be the same person, but the same person, and
it's very hard. Makes some changes. Yeah, Miles, we're thrilled
fortunate to be joined as always, but this time he's
going to be popping off on the mic a little bit. Yes,
not just in the in the chat. It's Brian the editor.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I'm normally luxuriating in a robe.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Today, people don't know how fucking comfortable. Brian is a person.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Always smoking in a robe. That's what's happening. That's what
I'm looking at while we're recording. Just so you guys know,
I'm looking at Brian smoking or vapor while wearing a
robe at his desk. Uh in the locations unknown. Are
you wearing jeans?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Brian?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
No, no sweats? Oh good, thank god, thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
No jeans are violence. That's thank you. Leg jail, leg jail, Like,
that's what I call it, jails.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I hated jeans so much when I was like hate
seven years old. I was like, how do I itch my?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I'm so stiff, dude, I barely wear jeans.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I reduced my I only have like two or three
pairs of genes.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Now I got reduction. Yeah, all right. So last year
we did a year end tournament where we went through
pitted our sixteen favorite stories against one another. And this
year we're doing something a little bit different. We've invented
a new format that is called the countdown.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, the list and yeah, less redundant at certain points
because yeah, we noticed last year we were like, the
first episode was super fun because we were just like
blasting through all the stories in the second episode, we're like,
all right, so we said everything about those first stories.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
So anyways, we're going to go through our fifteen favorite
stories of the year across three episodes.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Now we can remember, so that we can remember.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
We're probably fucking this up in some way or another,
but we're also leaving room by doing one honorable Menschi
at the top of each episode story that didn't quite
make the list, but that made a mark on us
on our hearts. So guys, should we get right into it? Yeah,
So for our honorable menschi before we get through, before
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we get into stories number fifteen through eleven of the year,
I wanted to bring us all back to April twenty
twenty five, when we were all in growth in what
some speculator might be the challenger of our time. Not hopefully,
(03:43):
I would say, okay, we you know, Katie Perry, Gail King,
other other people space together. I think the other people
were like famous.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Siship Leo astronautics research scientist Amanda wh and film producer
Carrie Ann Flynn.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Baby Miles is pulling all of those off the dome
was wasn't Bezos's girlfriend on there too? Yes? Yeah, Sancho. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Also we have to Brian as Angelina's we have to
give it up to Lauren Sanchez, who is all we
know her from Fox eleven Age.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got some interesting and so did
they get married this year? Was that one of those things?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I remember they went to Venice and I got out
of city.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
They're gonna be so fucking mad at us.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
When I talked to Jeff over this holiday and he's like,
my wedding didn't even make the top fifteen. He's going
to be pissed. It's like we we had to honor
his fianced in Jail King and Katie Perry. We're going
to space, the first all female flight crew in more
than six decades to head into space. This felt like
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the Imagine video of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, the way it was handled was also like an
era where people wish they didn't even live on this
Earth exerments and they're like fucking around like I mean,
we're already insulated by our wealth, but also fuck y'all.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Bye. It just felt like such a weird different Like again,
in the same way that the Imagined video was just
might have made sense. Like five years before, or even
like one year before. When it came out, everyone was
like fuck you. This was like, yeah, I could see
this like in the nineties, everybody being like, celebrities in space,
why I never And this time I feel like everyone
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was just like man. The two reactions were man them,
and then also the other reaction was no, they didn't.
I don't believe they went.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's the whole this the whole thing of it that
people were calling them astronauts and diminishing the profession of astronauts.
It was just that celebrities went to space, which has
been happening for years. It's like they kept calling them
astronauts and it was easy.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, he was going to act like it was like
a big step forward for womankind, as if they.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Were all women do this twenty years ago, right.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And you're just riding this is this is like being
like I am a pilot because I'm in the backseat
of seven forty seven.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
But you know what, this Bezos got his little spaceship
company add up. And at the same time, Katie Perry's
like stock fucking crashed harder than the capsule coming back
to Earth.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I feel like yep, but she cut justin Trudeau's attention.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yes she did. She so you know what, maybe all's
well that ends a w I just want to read
this quick quote from her. I think, actually, I'm really
excited about the engineering of it all. I'm excited to
learn more about STEM and just the math about what
it takes to accomplish this type of thing. I was
winding down from a rehearsal the other day and I
was listening to Cosmos by Carl Sagan and reading a
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book on string theory. And yeah, I was like going
to bed. That was definitely like helping. I was like Pythagoras, Pythagoras. Uh,
I think she's ad Pythagoras Pythiagorus and then snoring sounds.
But then, but you know, I've always been interested in
astrophysics and interested in astronomy and astrology and the stars.
(07:14):
I feel like we are all and this is a quote.
I like this quote because it's how she she implies
that she's making this next part up. I feel like
we are all made of stardust and we all come
from the stars. It's like, oh damn, you feel like that.
You just came up with it, and it'll be exciting
to see them twinkle from that site and also have
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such an appreciation for Mother Earth when we see it
that way.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
If I make quote, if I make quote famous, yeah,
I'll quote the famous astronomer Moby in saying we are
all made of stars.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I feel like we are all made of stars. Gail
King noted that Perry didn't sing firework or roar because
this is this is great. I feel like Gail King
is working in satire here, of course, because she didn't
want to make the moment about herself. Uh huh yep, Nope,
but she still did sing. She's sang what a wonderful
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world for her literally captive audience as they returned to Earth,
and then she kissed the ground.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
It's like somebody performing on a suboy in front of you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Just yeah, all right. So that's our honorable Menchi. Now
we're into the real shit, the stuff that made our list.
Everybody's competing get on the TDZ Top fifteen Stories of
the Year. We're given our fifteenth spot to our obsession
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with spooky dolls. This year we had a real spooky
dollaissance with both the last Annabelle movie coming out Annabelle
the Doll going on a rampage and killing, killing people,
and then of course the La Boo boo, the Laboo
Boo dolls. Yep, we covered back in July that the
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Laboo boos were being accused of having satanic ties.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, I mean, they're ugly as sin.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And I told you the first thing I ever heard
about laboo boo's was a kid at my seven year
old school brought a labuoboo and my seven year old
was like, Dad, the thing turned its.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Head, Oh right right, yeah, it was like that. I mean, okay,
what do you say to that? You know what am
I say to my kid when he starts saying just
straight up bullshit? Straight up?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
That's what I said, bullshit.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh shit, you didn't even do this. Sneeze you scream bullshit,
then sneeze bullshit.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's tough because he's like, got a real creative spirit,
and sometimes I just want him to like kind of
live in his fanciful little world. But other times I'm like,
I don't want him to go too far off in that.
I was saying bullshit too, So what am I saying?
Let them cook?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Let them cook. But yeah, the the boo boo thing,
I mean, it was not only just like it. It
scratched the itch of like the satanic panic kind of
thing and the Annabelle stuff, but also became like the
Stanley Cup of the like year in terms of weird
consumer item that just became coveted for not reason.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Stanley Cup, Stanley Cup the people were drinking and the
Stanley Quinchers.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Or the new bad consumer item.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I liked jams Our writer Jam McNabb's description of them
that they look like if Maurice Sendak, the author of
Where the Wild Things Are, got drunk and tried to
draw Willem Dafoe. I feel like that's that's as good
a description it is.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
That those teeth and eyes I think are very defoe
like somehow shame they were, like.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
They must have things like Rihanna was robbing them, share
Lisa was robbing.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So many like soccer players in Europe, Like we're bringing
them in on their like duffel bag and ship. What
I don't know, man, I'm this is where I know
I'm too old and just like out of the loop
on ship.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, a giant lab boo boo showed up to protest Ice,
so we know they're on the right side of history.
They're in the mix. Yeah, and then there was the craze. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well it's also funny that because this ship has already
moved on, remember like by the by like fucking October,
the ship fell off really hard and then Sony's like
we're making a movie and you're like, uh no. And
then Carmen Laurent came on and she put us onto
like the new ship, which is a skull.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Panda, So fuck is sup? Skulp me?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
As I described, you could, the eyes can move independently,
so you can make that joint look like Kerry Russell
a mission impossible three.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Make it look like the crazy Grimlin. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But yeah, so there was a controversy with it wasn't
like explicitly like by a demon was the like that
wasn't the sales pit for Labuovo, but that was I
immediately was like, we we love hanted dolls. We've covered
like arabsession with haunted dolls before that. There's like, you know,
a surprisingly healthy cottage industry of haunted dolls being sold
(12:19):
on eBay at all times, and I feel like this
is just the sort of capital capitalization of that market.
But there there was a literal exorcist who weren't parents.
Not to buy the toys if you if they're Christians,
if you're not, you're you're fucked anyway. So yeah, don't
(12:40):
don't do that.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
But yeah, they made they sold billions this year.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Good for them, good for the dolls.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And as as la booboos were peaking, I feel like
we weren't the only ones noticing a similarity between or
like a connection between arabsession with haunted dolls and uh,
the Labooo craze because the owner of Annabelle was taking
that shit on tour around America and there were rumors
(13:09):
the one around that she went missing and possibly burned
down a mansion. Those turned out to be false, however,
that so like all of that's happening. There's like this
la boo boo craze. There's the Annabelle's on the loose,
nobody knows where annabel is shit, and people are like
everybody knows. And then the parenthormal investigator who was touring
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with the doll died on the tour and that was
not made up. Yeah, like that straight up passed from
this mortal coil.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
This makes the countdown because it feels like a fitting
end to the annabel thing, Like you wanted to be
able to say it killed somebody, yeah, and then it
finally did, and it was the person who was being
reckless with the haunted doll. So it feels like a TIGHTYU.
I guess who who do we know? Who has custody
of Annabel now?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Miles in a belt. Nobody knows where Annabel is right now?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Do we know the circumstances of this death?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
He suffered from He had a history of cardiac issues.
And then they were like, yeah, yeah, so it's entirely
possible that Annabelle frightened this person to death. Yeah, it's
They're like, it was a history of cardiac issues, and
then don't mention that there was a knife in his
heart when they found him.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
There's a lot of everyone was like a lot of
the skeptics or people just don't give a shit about
this story. Like I was reading like comments around posts
about it and people like there wasn't even the fucking
room when the guy fucking died. Right, Fine, but you
know what, we want to believe that it was a
haunting so severe that his heart stopped due to pre
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existing conditions.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
I feel like the bad vibes can be so overpowering
that like they don't the Annabelle doesn't need to necessarily
be in the room.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, I'm so aggressively anti ghosts, you know, like I
fucking don't. I think it's dumb. I like, I like
the idea that it could be real, but I think
also because it freaks me out, I'm aggressively like, man,
fuck a doll like that, man, but also at the
same time, like, I don't need me in a fucking
room with this show.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I don't. I don't need any of that.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Though I'm anti I'm anti freaky doll, but yeah, because
I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
As well you should be. I feel like I feel
like they are the two genres of stories that we'll
be hitting on this list. Some are like, oh, yeah,
that happened this year. That's crazy, Like these like are
honorable menchi in this one, Yeah, which I feel like
the Annabelle La Booboo Sweeping America feels like it could
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have been any of the years.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah, but again, I think for how significant it was,
even for how many of our guests who came on
talking about like La Boo boos and stuff, I'm like, no.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
It's it's a thing that happened, And that was a
Brian made his delete where we had a la boo
boo on Yeah episode yep, we're just like we don't.
I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah, I thought it
was pretty cool move.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
We had a lot of interesting takes.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
You could tell it was Miles making the mouth move though.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No, it fucking wasn't. It was a haunted luboo boo
I bought on.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
eBay string Miles. All right, we're gonna take a little break,
then we're gonna come back and we're gonna get to
story number fourteen of the year twenty twenty five. Uh
fucking man, we might even get to story number thirteen
in the next part. We were crazy like that, we'll.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
We're back and ice story number fourteen.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I think another thing you might notice is there was
so much fucked up shit going on this year two.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We tried to just kind of condition that the fifteen
most important stories will be the top stories that we
enjoyed talking about. I mean, and also and also just
shit that was consequential.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
But yeah, the ice raids, I would say it would
even go lower on my list, barely even notice it
in Beverly Hills. Here there's just I don't even know.
But yeah, the Ice raids were one of the definitely
like the beginnings of the feeling of the like physical
presence of the Trump administration completely wrecking your life, aside
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from all of the like bureaucratic shit that was destroying
people's lives, but like the arrival of physical space that
at this point was undeniable for pretty much most people
living in a city. Like even if you were like
I think they're you know, they're even wealthy people in
La and other cities were like, oh my god, what's
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going on, which before was something that I think was
easier to put in the back of mind. So with
this it was definitely a very vivid moment, and alongside
that it introduced us to the absolute shitthead losers that
are ICE agents. But also, yeah, I share this guy. Yeah,
the I.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Think it was this year when like I remember that
first story, like seeing people in a parking lot being
like they just came and took someone they don't even
have like ID on them. This is fucking crazy, And
that just seems it was like isolated, like just people
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pulling up and unmarked cars kidnapping people, and it seemed
bleak and apocalyptic, and then it just became like even
more systematized, and then they got helicopters, and then they
just started invading entire cities at a time.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
One of the few I think it was one of
the times I noticed, like younger members of my family
who were pretty disengaged from politics finally be like, Yo,
what what the fuck is this? Because I think so
much stuff can be abstract for people, but when you
are subjected to seeing video after video of literal just
masked boons disappearing people, it has an effect on you.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And I think that's probably why the sandwich guy. Yeah,
so number or number fourteen, Yeah, fourteen fourteen is the
sandwich assassin. Yeah. This dangerous, dangerous Okay, So yeah, we
don't like ice, Okay, we we think they're bad, but
you don't. You don't go and do this. This is
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dangerous stuff. I mean this guy, Come on, guys, Yeah, man,
that's not good. Can you imagine can you imagine being
in this person's position and like having that sandwich coming
at you that fast at all is never gonna come out? Yeah,
extra wet. He's like, yeah, yeah, take money, subway extra wet.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
The clips of it, man, they get. Let's listen to
this induced.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Sean Done accused of attacking a federal.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Off done subway sandwich similar to this one right here
at fourteenth and you this past.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I like how this local guy is holding a sandwich.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Yeah, I like how you had to get the sandwich
the fascist right here.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You take a look at this cell phone video from
late Sunday and you can tell this kind of his
movements are kind of drunk shirt and.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Users on Fourteenth Street in d C.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
No for real, shame Now, moments he goes hearing to
show him crossing the street screaming.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Like yeah, this guy's and.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Then appearing to hit the officer in the chest.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Ships so sne in.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The street and.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So all right. For people who are watching the video
with us, which is everybody except us, three I had
watched the video in a long time, he is a
drunk man in short shorts and a pink polo who uh.
And you could also tell he's drunk because he's walking
home in the middle of the night with a subway
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holding that ship like it's Gandalf's staff or some shit
and then just starts killing shelling at these guys doing
the right thing, yelling shame, shame, and then walks up
point blank sandwich to the chest. And this is also
another another reason I love this story is because it
highlights one of my favorite trends in ice resistance, which
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is that you can be a foot from them and
do something to resist them and then run away. These
are some of the slowest of.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Foot and they have too much shit on them.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
They got way too much ship on them.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, I'm surprised they don't have like some like they
start like orcs, you know, like in Lord of the
Rings have different specialties, Like there's the berserker orcs and
the ones like who don't have as much shit on
they can run you down.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Might get them good ideas. Right now, they just have
a sprinter with them at all times.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You just think that they would just watch Lord of
the Rings and be like, dude, we need like a
berserker guy and one dude who likes.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But like the videos of people, you know, doing acts
of ice resistance to just like humiliate them. It's it's
not like throwing somebody at them from like down the street.
It's like a guy on a scooter who like rolls
up and like flips the guy's hat off like point
like and then it's like rides off and then you
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just get to see these I mean we we we
also got treated to watching them train on a child's playground,
watching Dean Caine make his way through ruggle the ice
uh tree facility, and like just skip a couple of
the things. Yeah, but yeah, I mean it's a great
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it's a great way to underline how hapless these dipshits are.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And also the trial of Subway Sir Han I think
is also worth talking about because because we're again and
I'm not obviously it's fucked up, but like you know,
they're they're going after these people who quote unquote resist.
We're mostly been like get your goddamn hands off me
(23:34):
type shit.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Right, yeah, yeah, so that was a big move by
ICE agents, is being like the number of assaults on
ICE agents has gone oh shut through the roof. And
then it should be like see the video and it's
somebody like squirming as they're like grabbing their hand. It's
like a nineteen year old woman like squirming to like
(23:55):
get away from them, and they're.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Like ah, yeah, but then trial for subway Sirhan luckily
ended in an acquittal, And I think we had a
lot of fun just in how that case was being
tried generally, how they're trying to make serious that the
guy through his subway sandy out of guy's fucking bulletproof.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
So good.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
I wonder if there was a part in the trial
where like they had to like detail what was in
the sandwich and how dangerous it was.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Right they're ready, Oh, my dear friend, you mostly work
on the trending episodes, so you missed. Actually what I
think our biggest Instagram clip this year? Yeah, this is it,
says Border Patrol agent Gary Larimore is on the stand
narrating surveillance video of the sandy toass quote, now he
struck me with the sandwich, Larimore says. Border Patrol agent
Larymore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich,
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but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The
sandwich came apart and quote kind of exploded on his
chest upon impact, He says, quote I could smell the
onions and mustard.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You can still smell them.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Never and then never forget. I still snap awake, show me.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
On the doll where the sandwich hit you right?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Well, then the during the crossing examination, this dun's layers has.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Quote this defense like unsung hero here.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Playing a real straight do you recognize the sandwich? Larimore
won't confirm quote I did not go back to collected.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
He says.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
The defense impresses Larimore where the sandwich really quote exploded?
They returned to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper
on the ground. But that sandwich hasn't exploded at all,
has it? Defense asks, quote, it looks like a little
bit is coming out towards the bottom.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Larimore revis.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Oh yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
And then they it's revealed that he has been roasted
like they said that, like he's been getting The defense
is like, so, how how have you been dealing with
this since the attack? Like have you had to take
time off? The how of your fellow how have your
fellow agents treated you? They've been helpful and supported you artists.
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They've been giving me subway plush toys.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Y sent me.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
They gave me a patch that said felony foot long
on it.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Shitty little lair more mayor name.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Living infamy you fucking goof Yeah, amazing amazing work by
that defense attorney.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
All right on to another victim that we learned about.
This was kind of an all around trend that Business
Insider was like doing these op eds about what, you know,
just people who are going through some ship. They saw that,
you know, America is having a tough year this year.
(26:50):
We talked about how it's like no longer feels good
to ever be like, how's it going to people like
that that question is now off limits because everybody's doing
badly because the government is fucked up and the economy
is fucked up. Business Insider came through and was like,
we gotta we gotta start singing people's pain through the streets.
(27:12):
We need to let everybody know.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
We know it's twenty twenty five and a lot's happening
in this country, but let's also there's a few victims
we're forgetting, namely white guys named Chad.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
And that is your story number thirteen. My name is Chad.
My name is Chad.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
This one is the one that kept my eye on
Business Insider throughout the year and why we were able
to talk about the lady who named her kid Disney,
like yeah, I'm brave.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
We also right We also got the woman who was like,
you know, it's so hard giving your kids cool names
like Disney.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Right, and then the parent who's like, I use AI
and I outsourced all my parenting day.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah. Yeah, that was the other one.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
The Chad one is this one quote my name is Chad. Yes,
I'm white, working off this job, and sometimes I wear
a vest. And he goes on to talk about his
name and how it's you know, like, maybe Chad is
kind of a cool thing. Quote. Still I worry about
it because my name is Chad, and sometimes I look
like what people think that means, even if I'm not,
that guarantees a daily dosa perspective, and I'm determined to
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use it. Well, it's a reminder not.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
To take myself too seriously. So he says that and
then goes on to do the exact opposite of that
of have perspective and not take himself too serious.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Well, Brian, you ever can you relate to this one?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
The only time I truly worry about my name is
in professional settings. It's hard not to picture a hiring manager,
potential client, or editor seeing my name and shaking their head.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
So I head from time to time using my initial CW.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
This is from Business Insider.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, hey, they're telling the truth about what it's like
out here on the streets for you know, workaday employees.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
They've got all kinds of stuff on there. There's like
usually a lot of their like sort of op Eddy
section is always like stuff about. Like people are like,
I left my job in marketing. Now I live in
you know, Sevia Spain.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Uh, I've seen those people.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Did they do one on? Did they do one on?
A woman named Stacy too?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And I wonder if there has to go through.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
This insider Karen.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I wonder that they must have done that like that
that one must have dropped, like back when the Karen
thing was happening.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Fuck, it was right before. Okay, so we got Chad
in uh May of twenty twenty five. April twenty nine,
twenty twenty five, we got my name is Karen.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh my chiming.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I think fuck though I should have I should have
stayed on this man. See, I slept on the Karen one.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
The Karen one actually makes sense, So this one sucks.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Though this one is Egyptian. She's like, I'm I grew
up in Egypt, man.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Like it's also because.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Karen is used by I don't want to say everyone,
but it's used by a wider demographic of people than
the chad thing, which to me was created by said
lonely white guys to talk about other white guys.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Right, this is the thing, like I don't think chad
is ever used in and it's the people who use
it are using it positively, and they're like, that guy's
a chad.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
He's like, I'll put chad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
They use it for like looks maxing.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
There's looks maxing chads and then there's like the insil
chads and.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
He is just doing he's trying to you know, my
name is Bobby Stone here.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Named I was named Bobby big Dick. My life is
so hard you wouldn't even believe.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I do feel like this is also a part of
a trend that we've seen, uh, Like the Olivia Nuzzy
story comes to mind of like people just trying to
make their existence poetic in a time when like just
everything is bad and they're like kind of focused on
the wrong thing, have a sense that something's bad, but
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they're going to write like trying wax lyrically about the
difficulty of having the name Chad, like sign of the
shit that's in this article. I know some things about
the name Chad that others don't like. When I hear
it spoken by my way who doesn't say it often,
I can't help but feel a small flutter in my chest.
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Or when I think of my childhood best friend, whom
I haven't spoken to in years, like you think he's
going to be like who died, but instead he can't.
He doesn't even have that trauma. Whom I haven't spoken
to in years. I remember the way our names were
always said in a pair, Cam and Chad, and I
smile God, because there are lots of stories caught in
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between the utterance of those names together, for better or worse.
Chad is my name, and I still long to hear
it said again in the voices of people who are
no longer here and whom I missed dearly. But you know,
if anybody in his life had died, he would have
crammed it in here. But it's yeah, I can remember
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writing it on my first love note, signs slow and scared.
It's like, motherfucker, what are you? What are? What do
you think you're?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Like?
Speaker 5 (32:21):
He didn't say that the wind is whispering his name
or some shit me like that that got edited out.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah, the business the person the editor at Business Insider
who had to go through this is like, so I can't.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Put that there, man, it's too much, pretty out of
con roll stupid. But I feel this is one of
the best depictions of white culture that we have, like
just the desperate needs to be victimized, like find a
way to.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Be the victim.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
It's it's you think this was like written by Alice
Walker or something, but you just changed some ship around
for about a white guy.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, I mean he might have actually just straight up
done that. That also sounds like whaite culture just appropriated,
and like.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
The idea truly, Like I mean, I remember when we
recorded this, the idea of like your name being too
like my dad and uncle my grandmother consciously tried to
choose names for them that wouldn't trigger like negro alert
in nineteen sixties America so they could get a job,
and like that's such a real thing. But this fucking
guy's name Chad, you know what I mean? And he's
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like I wor about a Welsh slaver right exactly. Yeah,
Like I have an English as fuck name Miles. Yeah,
but like, and so I think that's what's so funny
to me to your point, Jack, is like you're almost
just swapping out these experiences that are very real for
other people and just be like and that applies to
me too.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, but like the subtext is the thing that they
think you are. So people on the right think you're cool,
and people everywhere else just think you're a white guy,
which is the least discriminated.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Against a white guy with a white guy name.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Too, Like, Yeah, this has to be like he has
to be writing from the perspective of like, it's tough
to be a white guy actually, Which the fact that
that's just like that's not even said in the article.
That's just an idea that he's digested and is like
writing from the perspective of that is fucking wild.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
This piece would have been better written by chad Ocho
Senko Johnson, Right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
But I love the pseudo poetry about how his wife's
saying his name makes him a little bit horny.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Who doesn't say it often?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
She doesn't say it often. I wish she would say
what calls me dickhead?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Hey, Hey, Anyways, all right, those are stories number fourteen
and thirteen. We're gonna take a quick break, we're gonna
come back, and we're going to get in to the
vaunted top twelve GDS story he's of twenty twenty five.
We'll be right back, and we're back. We're back and
(35:16):
all right. This was a major one. Charlie Kirk past
was killed. They had a funeral, the world his supporters
went fucking bonkers, started canceling people who weren't like, do
you accept Charlie Kirk as your lord and savior?
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Canceling is two week of a term.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
I would say, God, people fired, ran out on a rail,
people online.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah, there was something about I think there was an
analysis about the one hundred or so people are hundreds
of people that in the aftermath who like, we're just
doing about like I quoted Charlie Kirk's own fucked up
words in a Facebook post, Yeah, and how I lost
my job because people were like again that cognitive dissonance
(36:06):
that kicked in there where people I think we're under
black Yeah, but also realized, like that racist vitriol that
is my life's blood in terms of the content that
I ingest you're pointing out how fucked up it is,
how dare you There's like also that part of it. Yeah, yeah,
but yeah, this was a very wild time because just
as quickly as that guy like was put laid to
(36:29):
rest in a casket, his wife was like already at it,
running turning point and kicked off like a like a
fracturing in the MAGA base too, where there were a
lot of people who were I think just for mostly
misogynistic reasons, but also just kind of the timing were like,
I don't trust this Erica Kirk, She's suddenly running everything.
What the fuck is this? Why isn't she mourning? What
(36:51):
was that funeral? Look like a fucking kickoff or whatever?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
That what? That was like huge turnout, huge pyrotechnic display
as one would expect from a w w E Monday night.
Oh I'm sorry, this was a funeral.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Yeah, have an issue with funerals being fun, but I
like that was fun.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
The tone was fun.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Yeah, it's like the idea of a fun funeral with
like pyrotechnics.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
That sounds Yeah, that's like if if like Gerbels and
Vince McMahon teamed up, that's.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
What you got.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Very Nazis look at these fireworks. Yeah, they didn't even
have this technology.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Nazis. Donald Trump, so his wife said she forgave the killer.
Not interested in seeing the death penalty. Erica nay Kirk
soon Vance said yeah, like this would be the Christian
thing to do in Donald Trump literally like got up
after and was like fuck that. Yeah, said he hates
his enemies, does not wish Biden, Well couldn't and stopped
(38:00):
talking about Biden. He was playing the hits from the
Champagne trail. Was this the one where Steven Miller started
quoting the Nazi speech?
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Or was that he does it every time?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
There's always some when is he not quoting an Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Yeah, honestly, like that's even a thing that we're not
even journalists. But even if I was, I would be
safe just writing that that it was like lifted from Gerbels,
because I think we're like nine out of ten, like
we're about ninety percent or something.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Here. Tucker Carlson gave a speech where he like burst
into maniacal laughter. It seems like it was like right
as he was about to be overtly antisemitic instead of
like just kind of implying and then he like kind
of stopped himself and then.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Was like.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yeah, yeah. But then it's the aftermath too that I
think was also interesting because jd Vance, who has made
our countdown very in the upper tiers of the Countdown
last year for being a couch populator. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah it is now you know that there was that
(39:06):
hug heard around the world. We're at an event where
jade Van's like, man, my wife's like Indian and ship
and she won't fucking worship Jesus. I don't know, man,
maybe this isn't the wave. Then got on stage with
Erica Kirk and gave a very very cool hug.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
You know the waves.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
A lot of thumbs, a lot of thumbs. Yeah, she's
got long ass nails.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
She's running her fingers through the back of his hair.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
It's it's touch. He touches her love language.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Touch is her love language.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
But yeah, I think the thing that really made it
like such a weird event was he was just slamming
his wife for not being a Christian like white American,
and then you see this like outward display of affection
with Himler Barbie and cut to.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Like they're at the taj Mahal, like the next month. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm like, letty.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Wa wow uh man.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, I probably it would have been like he's probably
like an awkward person. And but the fact that it
was like the same day that he was like and
I wish she did except christ and yeah, I think
about it every every day, but it was. It was
a little bit weird.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I mean, I think, but it makes sense, right, all
the anti Indian racism in like the MAGA thing has
come out so hardcore, just with all of the people
who have intersected with the party already, whether that's Vivek
Ramaswami or Cash Patel like.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Like something about this guy, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
And I think this is just a lesson to people.
When you're trying to be a token around fucking racist
it's never going to be safe for you.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
No, never going to be seem safe for a little
while when you're like having kids together and ship. But
eventually there are the people the fact that everyone else
in their life is like I.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Don't know, Yeah, dude, romas Swami thought he was a
shit being a part of DOGE and then the second
he starts doing events out there, people are point blank
asking him about like, oh, how can I prefer if
you were Christian?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
I don't know about this. I don't know that. Da
da da, And I.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Feel like I'm assuming jd. Vance thinks it'll be a
fair election in the twenty twenty eight presidential because he's
trying to maneuver as if like he gives a fuck
about how people vote. But maybe those are just his
true feelings.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
I did. An underrated moment in the aftermath of the
Charlie Kirk assassination was when you know, Donald Trump was
asked it was I think within twenty four hours, like
how have you been affected by this? How are you doing, sir?
And he said doing well, Actually, we have this beautiful
ballroom over here that's going to be the best. We're
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about to tear it down, but it's going to be
one of the best. Just instant moving, moving it along.
And then he did also in the aftermath find a
way to brag about how an assassin tried to kill him,
but he's like, you know, Arlie was actually really impressed.
He was like, how did you how did you do that?
How do you get away from that bullet? Like I
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don't even know, I don't even turn my head, tell
you turn my head. I guess he didn't back into
the left, that's right. And our number eleven one of
the dumbest stories that we couldn't stop talking about this year.
I don't like we went back through the dog and
we found like a paragraph where we covered it, but
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it was essentially something that I think we talked about.
I'm scripped across like five episodes. Yeah, and that is
the one hundred men versus one gorilla thought experiment that
everybody just kept coming up.
Speaker 5 (42:44):
You know, toxic masculinity experience. Oh yeah, yeah, can we
fucking take him?
Speaker 1 (42:50):
How do we do that? How do we how do
we fucking get this gorilla?
Speaker 3 (42:54):
Is it in waves? Do you tire the gorilla out?
So many strategies were launched. I don't think no one
asked Jane Goodall.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
I can't believe it went on so long, with.
Speaker 5 (43:04):
How rapacious humans are, how many species we've eliminated that
the idea that one hundred dudes couldn't kill a gorilla.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yeah, yeah, Well, I think it's just like there's a
people build up like the gorilla in their mind.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Dude, gorilla, get it? Like they they don't really get
up too much.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
That's the thing.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
It's like whenever they were asking primatologists, because you know,
so many outlets were like, hey, x, if anyone's gonna
fucking know, it's gonna be this person who studies them,
this guy living.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Might have been might have been what killed Jane Goodall? Yeah, yeah,
a number of incoming she had on people being like, hey,
we have a quite Jane.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
So many so many of those privatologists were like dude, no,
what the fuck? I don't want that at all, Like
that would be terrifying for them, and but like how
would be the best way to do it?
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Like what do we say behind? Do we send there?
And then we like grab the back you up from
the back? No, I don't know, Like I just keep
having this thought, this invasive thought, like gorilla from the back?
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Is that weird?
Speaker 3 (44:15):
In what contexts? Or the gorilla from the back? And
who who is in the back? At this point, I'm
working some stuff out, all right, But yeah, that then
like it got turned into a meme where at that
point people were like using those video simulators where it
would be like one hundred men versus a gorilla, and
then there was ten thousand gorillas versus one million men.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yeah, and the gorillas are like hitting the men and
then like thirty men are going like flying off toward
the horizons like that. Well, yeah, this is one way
that it could go. I guess yeah. I'm still it's
still a fun question to think about. I'm not going
to deny that it's not fun to think about.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
Like, I'm more I'm more invested in the idea that
one gorilla could kill a hundred men. It's really not like,
what's what's feasible? I like the reality where the gorilla.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
Is so powerful that it could defeat a hundred men.
Here's the thing, I think if the men yet, Yes,
it seemed like one hundred people. You send one hundred
people at anything, and it's probably not like that. That's
what kills tons of people every year, is like, you know,
a smash of people, you know, a crowd control being mishandled.
(45:25):
You could probably handle it. But I think we need
the even the playing field. I didn't see this mentioned enough.
But the gorilla is naked. The people need to be naked.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
You know what, do you think the gorilla is gonna
be weirded out by seeing a bunch of naked dudes.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
No, I'm saying this evens the playing field, like, because
otherwise you're just giving humans the tools that we've always
used to dominate. So I'm just saying, like, those hundred
people need to be transported there without in the same
way as the gorilla, in the same way as the
gorilla is Like in my mind mind, it's always okay.
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Gorilla is just like, well, where where am I? What
the's happening? And there's one hundred men coming at him.
I think everybody's like, okay, So here's you have to strategize, Miles.
If you don't look convinced, think about it this way.
How much more careful something with your dick out?
Speaker 5 (46:16):
Yeah, like you think a little bit harder before you
got close.
Speaker 7 (46:21):
Oh well you don't know me that well, then the
grill is just going around ripping dicks, Miles.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Easy, somehow I defeat.
Speaker 7 (46:37):
You.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Weirded the gorillas out like that. It's you think that's important,
because every all the answers that I saw kept being like,
all right, so here's our strategy we send we send
them in waves. It's like, no, the gorilla doesn't get
(46:58):
a chance to like, you know, think about it. Ahead
of time. Neither should the one hundred men.
Speaker 5 (47:03):
That's the other thing. I think the men that are
transported there should have no idea that they're about to
fight a gorilla.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah right, I think I think, yeah, it has to
be like D Day where there's like these landing boats
where there's each boat has a like like like a
hundred dudes, but you don't know which boat are going
to open them, yeah right, and they're all naked, and
but you don't know what's on the other side of
this fucking door when that ship opens and they blow
the whistle, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
I think that would make it a little more fair.
So if Steven Spielberg get done that and saving ride
and they just run out onto the beach and get
their ship rocked by a gorilla, every one of them
butt naked.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
You should juice the gorilla up on PCP or batsiz.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Well, I mean, what what percentage of the people you're
taking a random sampling of people. It's not like we
sent one hundred of our best fighters. You you are
just like you know, playing doing a randomization machine that
like pulls one hundred people. A lot of them are
gonna be children. A lot of them are going to
be elderly, and a lot of them are going to
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be high as fuck. Wow, you know you're looking at
that that it was one hundred men? Is it one
hundred men?
Speaker 2 (48:18):
All right?
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Even even so, are one hundred elderly? Even so, if
we're just going over eighteen, a lot of them are gonna.
Speaker 4 (48:26):
Be members of Congress old, Yeah, enfeebled by drunk.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
I think we're just like, look at look at what
happened when they tried to like put together a fucking
crack squad of ice agents. Yeah, like these motherfuckers, Like.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
No, it's gonna be weird because if you get here's
a deal if you if you did a thing, We're like, dude,
you want if you're down to fight animals for like
a huge prize, sign up.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
You probably get a ton of sign ups.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
But I think the kinds of dudes who would sign
up for that this second, they have to get naked.
They're just gonna fucking they're gonna be like, I'm the gorilla,
kill me, dude. This is so weird for me.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
Dog.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
They didn't tell me that this was going to happen
when I went to my man camp where I just
think how many dudes are just gonna be and he said,
there you are, David, there you are. Oh Man, Yeah,
I find it a very interesting question.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
Again, I think it's more from my from my perspective,
it's not about what I think how the equation I
think works out. It's more of who who do I want.
Speaker 6 (49:27):
To believe in more.
Speaker 5 (49:29):
It's very fascinating. Of course you think it's a fact.
You're fascinated with getting your whole ship bit jack.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
Yeah, not by a gorilla, man, I'm fascinated I get
my ship rocked.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
That would be fun, Like people left.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
Have you seen don't? I don't know if you remember.
There was a show called Wild Boys with Chris Pontius
and I think Steve O on MTV and they would
go around with like this like nature dude, and there's
one episode where they go to these gorillas and there's
the moment where this gorilla runs up on them and
swipes away like five bamboo trees.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
So casually Saw.
Speaker 3 (50:08):
I was like, that was for me. That's that's my
like origin gorilla strength myth video that I'm like, I
remember being in college like Jo just like that Dare
story with the dumpster through the PCP dump. Sure that
is not true. Yeah, exactly exactly. It's that it's that
visual that I think I cherish so much that I
(50:31):
think I can't have that not future, Like I just
picture that wild Boy's gorilla.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
I do think it's just interesting to revisit this question
also because this kind of went viral before we had
seen one hundred ice agents like trying to chase somebody
who just flipped their hat off and like falling over,
like their shoelaces were tied together, Like if it's a hundred, like,
I feel like people would have been a little bit
(50:56):
less confident that the men would win if they if
we had seen all those videos by oh yeah here
this is where they.
Speaker 3 (51:03):
Okay, there's a little baby that kept following them and
they're like, yo, you better watch out. Look at this.
Speaker 1 (51:08):
Just yeah, it's just like accidentally knocking bamboos over.
Speaker 3 (51:14):
Yeah, but fine, I'm not going to sign up to
fight them. But I do think the D Day idea
just generally when because I know we're all work like
the billionaires are thinking of some weird entertaining form of
population control that do the D Day landing craft naked
dudes and D Day landing craft. They don't know what's
on the fucking beach, and it is what it is, Bro.
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And if you survive your your family, will you know
the protective scrolls.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
There you go. We also just gave you a good idea.
A good use of AI is redo the opening scene
of Saving Private Ryn.
Speaker 3 (51:49):
I am going to We're gonna have to get amblance pictures.
Steven Spielberg on board, Tom Hanks, Let's do this for real.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Get Chris Nolan, Get Chris Nolan on the phone. Let's
do this, Chris.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (52:04):
That is episode one of our countdown of the top
stories of the year. As you can tell, this is
a very scientific process and makes a lot of sense.
We are going to be back probably tomorrow with stories
ten through six. Yeah, that would be the next five
(52:25):
we're entering the top ten and also probably another honorable
Menchi if you're good. So thanks for joining us, Brian,
Thank you for joining us. So it's good to have
you commenting, not in the chat where I'm like, oh,
you should have said that as we finished. As we finished.
Speaker 5 (52:44):
The reason I comment in the chat is because I
no longer comment on things on the internet.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
So this is where I have my fun. This is
my Yeah, this is my internet wonderful.
Speaker 4 (52:59):
Are you going to ask me where people can find me?
Speaker 1 (53:01):
Jack? You know I like to ask you. You always
ask me, Go and ask me. Hey, hey, Brian the editor,
where can people find you? You can find me on
uh only fans only fans finally, yes, yeah, asex for paychecks. Okay,
I like it.
Speaker 5 (53:22):
I'm the world's first asexual only fans star amazing. I
watched maritime disasters on stream?
Speaker 1 (53:33):
All right, myles, where can they find you.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Can find miles of gray you already know.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Just find me Jack under Squirrel Brown on Twitter, Jack
o b the number one on Blue Sky that was
gonna do it back tomorrow to continue the countdown to
number one.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
I hope everybody's having a great holiday. Bye.
Speaker 3 (53:53):
By The Daily Guys as Executive produced by Catherine Law,
co produced by bay.
Speaker 1 (53:59):
Waang, co produced by Victor Wright
Speaker 4 (54:02):
Co written by j M mcnapp, and edited and engineered
by Brian Jeffries
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