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Post-Mortem: 2025 · Never Post

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Mike Rugnetta: Friends, hello, and welcome to Never Posts Post
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Mortem 2025, a year end quiz show for and about the Internet.
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I'm your host, Mike Rugnetta, and this is publishing on the
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final day of 2025. A last gasp, a final coup de grace, a look
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back, not in anger. I've been told to never do that, but in
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reverence and also anger. Today, here, and now, we bid farewell
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to the complete clusterfuck that was 2025 by asking our esteemed
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panelists organized in three teams of two questions about it.
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We do this to celebrate our guests for what they've seen and
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mock them for what they've missed, to celebrate the year
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for what it brought us, and to damn it for what it did to us.
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On our first team, author of Raw Dog, the Naked Truth About Hot
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Dogs, host of the Bechtel cast, comedian of jokes, actor of
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characters Yeah. Jamie Loftus. Perfect.
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Jamie Loftus: Yeah. Yeah. Go, Jamie.
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Mike Rugnetta: Alongside, author of, obviously, stories from my
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timeline, host of the podcast Rebel Spirit, and Courier's How
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Is This Better renowned poster, Akilah Hughes.
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Akilah Hughes: Yes. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Mike Rugnetta: Next up, team two, journalist, author of the
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newsletter Garbage Day, and host of the podcast Panic World, Ryan
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Broderick.
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Akilah Hughes: Hello.
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Mike Rugnetta: Alongside, as always, researcher of the
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newsletter Garbage Day and the podcast Panic World, Adam Bumas.
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Great to be here.
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Jamie Loftus: Hello, Adam.
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Mike Rugnetta: It's good to have you.
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Georgia Hampton: Classic. Classic.
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Mike Rugnetta: And finally, team three, writer, filmmaker,
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culture critic, video essayist, host of the podcast TSTV, a Twin
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Peaks podcast, Lily Alexander.
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Lily Alexandre: I'm even happier to be here.
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Akilah Hughes: Wow. Wow.
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Mike Rugnetta: Competition begins early this show.
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Akilah Hughes: Is. With
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Mike Rugnetta: writer, host, video maker, Internet science
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communicator at large, and host of our findings show, the
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preeminent live staged science communication game show, Tom
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Lum.
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Tom Lum: I said, oh, no, when you said bio because I thought
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you were gonna read, like, our Twitter bio or something like
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that. And here's Tom Lum. Please please hire me. Please my live
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show. Please go.
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Mike Rugnetta: K. We have some changes to make to Tom's bio
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here and writer, host, video maker. Please, please, please
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hire him. Tom Lom. Welcome, everybody, and welcome back.
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This is the exact same panel that we had for last year's
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inaugural show. So it's really nice to have you all back here
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again to play for a second
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Akilah Hughes: time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Here's how this is gonna work. As
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mentioned, I'm your Quizmaster, master, Mike Rugnetta. I am
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joined behind the scenes by Neverpost's senior producer Hans
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Buto, and in front of the scenes by Neverpost's producer, Georgia
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Hampton.
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Georgia Hampton: I've decided to be really good at math this
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time.
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Mike Rugnetta: Have you spent the last year training?
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Georgia Hampton: I believe last year I called subtraction
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reverse math. So, frankly, it can only go up
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Akilah Hughes: from here. We'll see if
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Mike Rugnetta: we can top that. Georgia is gonna be our
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timekeeper, scorekeeper, and adjudicator, so do not get on
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her bad side. In the event there are any disputes, informational,
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personal, spiritual, Georgia is gonna be here to track down the
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truth in a world which has otherwise abandoned it, perhaps
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with the assistance of Duck Duck Go and a few crystals.
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Georgia Hampton: I'm surrounded by all of my mystical magical
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items to help me in this endeavor today.
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Mike Rugnetta: Alright. The rules, like last time, are very
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simple. We have three rounds of five questions with one bonus
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question after each round. At the end of the round, we're
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gonna reveal and then score answers one by one. Correct
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answers are worth one point unless otherwise stated, and
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there are no penalties for wrong answers.
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We politely request, as a matter of sportsmanship, you not go
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searching the internet for answers as we play. Claude was
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not invited to play this game for a reason.
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Akilah Hughes: He's a
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Mike Rugnetta: piece of shit.
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Akilah Hughes: Fuck that, guys.
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Mike Rugnetta: Fuck that. Yeah.
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Lily Alexandre: I'm so mad right now.
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Mike Rugnetta: Before we get to the festivities and the
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questions and the answers, we have once again asked these
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teams to name themselves. Teams, are you all prepared to
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summarize your entire collective identity into one short witty
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epithet? We got some looks of fear, some vigorous nodding.
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Team one, Akila and Jamie. What would you like to call
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yourselves?
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Jamie Loftus: I you know
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Akilah Hughes: I think we're still
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Jamie Loftus: If I recall correctly, we won last year by a
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pretty wide margin. So I think we should stick with what
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definitely
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Akilah Hughes: for us. No. But you guys swept.
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Georgia Hampton: It was, like, it
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Akilah Hughes: was kind of embarrassing.
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Jamie Loftus: It is, like, that everyone had the Internet. It
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seemed like Yeah.
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Akilah Hughes: It's cheesy.
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Jamie Loftus: So, yeah, the doghats are here to say
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Akilah Hughes: best of luck to everyone.
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Mike Rugnetta: Okay. We got the doghats, Adam and Ryan.
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Ryan Broderick: So Adam and I were discussing. He said he
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didn't want to be called crooked up white boys.
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Adam Bumas: So That's the name I just sent you.
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Ryan Broderick: So he he has he has offered he has offered an
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alternative that I think is pretty good, which is so we're
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gonna be called six seven nights at Freddy's. You
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Mike Rugnetta: caused Tom pain. Okay. Six seven nights at
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Freddy's. It's very fun.
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Akilah Hughes: Oh, I forgot we're gonna have to keep hearing
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that also. Oh, over and over again.
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Ryan Broderick: Two hours of your life. Yeah.
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Mike Rugnetta: You have to
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Ryan Broderick: do the hands. It's part of the name, actually.
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Mike Rugnetta: The balancing hand motion is part of the name.
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Ryan Broderick: Yeah.
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Mike Rugnetta: And Tom and Lily.
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Akilah Hughes: So I believe last year, we were Nerds of a
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Feather. And so for the sequel, we are and once again, we're
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doing a a colon name with a sub name. So it is Two Nerds, Too
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Furious Yes. Colon.
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Lily Alexandre: Lilishin Intomzable? Okay.
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Mike Rugnetta: Two nerds too okay. Spelt out or numeral?
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Numeral.
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Lily Alexandre: Thank you. All one word.
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Adam Bumas: Absolutely numeral.
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Mike Rugnetta: Two nerds too furious. And then what was the
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the subtitle of your
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Lily Alexandre: team name? Lilishin Intomzable. Excellent.
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Mike Rugnetta: Alright. Amazing. We're gonna take a short break.
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We're gonna listen to some ads unless you're on the member
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feed. And when we come back, we're gonna play Never Posts
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Post Mortem 2025.
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Welcome back to postmortem. Which round should we start
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with? How about round number one? In this round, you are all
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gonna be answering questions about the big moments, the big
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stories that broke containment and either leaked from meatspace
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to online or from online into physical reality, a border now
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so diaphanous, it's basically idiocy to be maintaining that it
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even exists. In 2025, we all finally got our wish, and Katy
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Perry finally fucked off into space.
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Unfortunately, she came right back, and upon landing, declared
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that she felt super connected to love. Gayle King, also on the
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flight, said, I may now get my ears pierced.
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Georgia Hampton: Astronauts don't wanna tell you about the
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urge to get your ears pierced after you go to space.
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Jamie Loftus: Must be like an altitude thing.
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Akilah Hughes: It's ubiquitous.
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They talk about overview effect about
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Mike Rugnetta: how seeing the entire Earth really makes you
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feel connected to everybody, but then what they don't mention is
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what that makes you want to do is
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Georgia Hampton: Getting your ears pierced.
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Akilah Hughes: Yeah. There's, like, quote that astronaut, he,
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like, looked into space, and he thought to himself, wow. They
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should have brought Claire's employee. Yeah.
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Mike Rugnetta: I need more holes. That's what I was
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thinking. I like you come back from space, and you're like, I
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gotta get another hole. There's just no Yeah.
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Jamie Loftus: Get another hole in there.
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Mike Rugnetta: Obviously. In a shocking case of announcing the
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subtext, Pantone named the color of the year landlord white,
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sparking an amount of discourse not easy to paint over. Nice.
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Revolutionary protesters brought down the government of Nepal
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under the straw hat Pirates Jolly Roger flag from one piece,
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and proceeded to elect an interim prime minister via
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Discord. Yeah.
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Sushi La Kharki is the first woman in Nepal's history serve
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as both prime minister and as chief justice of the Supreme
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Court of Nepal and was elected in the youths against corruption
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Discord server.
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Georgia Hampton: Come on, Nick.
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Mike Rugnetta: In this round, you're gonna answer questions
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about the Internet related components of other big stories.
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Let's do it. One, we all helped set a Wikipedia record this
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year. Following a major event in May, traffic to all Wikimedia
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sites peaked at around 800,000 hits per second. This is
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according to the Wikimedia Foundation more than six times
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normal levels and an all time high.
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What event precipitated this rush of uplooking?
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Ryan Broderick: What month was it? Sorry.
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Mike Rugnetta: May. May.
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Akilah Hughes: Don't know.
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Jamie Loftus: I'm just staring into the middle distance.
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Please. Stop.
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Mike Rugnetta: I'm so excited to hear whatever this answer is.
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Tom is Tom cannot keep it together.
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Tom Lum: Tom I was laughing at Lily laughing keeping it
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together.
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Akilah Hughes: Jamie, I I just found wrote.
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Jamie Loftus: I have an idea, but I don't remember what month
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that happened.
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Akilah Hughes: Yeah. Oh. Yes, Jamie. 100%.
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Mike Rugnetta: Okay. And time is up. Okay. Question number two,
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round one. In 2017, entrepreneur Billy McFarland and rapper Ja
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Rule teamed up to launch the luxury live music event Fyre
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Festival, which ended up a legendary debacle.
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This year, fresh out of prison, McFarlane hosted the Phoenix
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Festival with all of the vowels removed, so the Fynex Festival
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in Honduras, which according to Jezebel, had both food and
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bathrooms.
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Akilah Hughes: In this economy? For both holes. For both holes.
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Mike Rugnetta: You gotta accommodate all the holes
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Ryan Broderick: in and out. Separate toilet.
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Georgia Hampton: Separate toilet. Well, of course.
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Ryan Broderick: Food go in and food come out.
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Akilah Hughes: So you
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Ryan Broderick: gotta have both
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Akilah Hughes: Yeah.
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Mike Rugnetta: It took him about eight years to learn that.
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Ryan Broderick: It was both holes.
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Mike Rugnetta: So the question here is, why the rebrand? Why
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not Fyre Festival two? Because the recognition is massive. In
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fact, the Fyre brand was sold in an eBay auction in July for not
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quite a quarter of $1,000,000. Players, can you tell us what
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aged Internet brand bought and then pivoted the Fire brand?
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And for an extra point, could you also name the company's own
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pivot after a similar deal where their IP was purchased by an
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unrelated group?
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Akilah Hughes: All all I'm thinking is hurt brands hurt
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brands.
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Adam Bumas: There there have been so many of these, like,
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things that people vaguely remember, and then they get
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bought and relaunched and remodeled.
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Mike Rugnetta: Because you're like, oh, I know that and I like
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it. And then you go and it's just like, now it's an
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investment bank or something.
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Jamie Loftus: Yeah. You should okay. Okay.
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Georgia Hampton: I'm putting it in.
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Jamie Loftus: Guest in old things.
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Mike Rugnetta: Yeah. I think that's the thing to do here. The
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I will warn you that when we get to it, the answer to this is
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enraging. Oh. Number three, round one.
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In June, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez got married in Venice,
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putting on reportedly the seventh most expensive wedding
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in modern history. The couple rented an entire island for the
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three day affair, which Venice's Ministry of Tourism estimated
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would generate roughly two thirds of the city's annual
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tourism take. For all of their cash and panache, there was one
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detail that slipped through the cracks. The wedding was
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ridiculed online for a specific decor disaster. What was it?
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Jamie Loftus: Sorry. No. This isn't right. That's all I got.
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Akilah Hughes: That's all I got.
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Jamie Loftus: I think it I think it works. I think it works.
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Mike Rugnetta: K. Four. Microsoft Satya Nadella said the
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biggest problem facing AI isn't computing power, but power
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power. Data centers currently account for nearly 5% of The
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United States overall peak power usage. Over the next two years,
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that need could double, but infrastructure is not growing
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fast enough to meet demand.
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So Microsoft is taking matters into its own hands. They will
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pay $16,000,000,000 with $1,000,000,000 of help from the
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Trump administration to do what? To solve the problem of not
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enough power to meet AI demand.
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Georgia Hampton: I mean
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Ryan Broderick: The they're basically the Microsoft is
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pressuring the Trump administration to, like, build a
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project that Microsoft needs. That that's right?
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Mike Rugnetta: They're spending a lot of money to build a
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project with the help of of Trump in order to get more
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power.
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Ryan Broderick: Yeah.
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Jamie Loftus: Jamie. I I think what's
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Jamie Loftus: gonna become clear about this is like, I think this
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has been a year where I've had the healthiest attitude towards
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the Internet, and I'm being punished for it. Yes.
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Georgia Hampton: Say that.
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Jamie Loftus: Say that.
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Mike Rugnetta: We said earlier that there are both points
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victories and moral victories, and perhaps the shortest way to
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a moral victory is to have just logged off.
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Akilah Hughes: Last question's gotta be, like, 500 word essay
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describe the joy of touching grass. Like
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Jamie Loftus: Yeah. And I think that's how we come back
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ultimately.
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Jamie Loftus: You can't even think of a joke answer. I still
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don't understand the question.
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Mike Rugnetta: Question five, round one. The November 4
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election of Zoran Mamdani as mayor of New York City
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apparently had some pretty big impacts. According to the
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research and data team at Pornhub, the election affected
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viewership numbers that day. Oh. Players, please tell us, do you
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think viewership of Pornhub went up or down the day Zoran Mamdani
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was elected?
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For an additional point, you can guess how much you think it went
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up or down. And if you get within 10 percentage points,
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we're gonna call it good. And for an additional additional
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point, what was the most searched for term in New York
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City the day Zoran Mamdani won the mayor race, up a whopping
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957%.
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Ryan Broderick: I'm trying to think what I was searching that
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day.
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Akilah Hughes: What was I DDoSing porn up with? Yeah.
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Ryan Broderick: You know? I Once you get into the goon or flow
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state, it's, like, really hard to keep track of what's going
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on. But
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Georgia Hampton: Now that's a team name.
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Ryan Broderick: Yeah. Once I'm hooked up to my rig, I'm not
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really sort of thinking straight.
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Jamie Loftus: Yes. Put it, please. I think we got the first
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part right. That rules.
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Mike Rugnetta: Players, let's score round one.
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Ryan Broderick: Okay.
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Mike Rugnetta: Question number one. What event precipitated the
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rush of uplooking on all Wikimedia sites, which peaked at
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around 800,000 hits per second? Team one, the dog hots, what'd
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get?
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Akilah Hughes: He said Two. Poop. Nailed it.
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Jamie Loftus: Like, caught the pope. Yes. Thanks, guys.
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Akilah Hughes: That might
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Mike Rugnetta: have the
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Georgia Hampton: pope. Know that's That
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Akilah Hughes: is correct.
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Mike Rugnetta: The election of Pope Leo in May is what did it.
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Akilah Hughes: Awesome. That's all on Jamie. I had nothing.
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Jamie Loftus: Let's let's let's not get used to us having the
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right answer. Let's Yeah. Let's You
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Mike Rugnetta: were so unsure. You were really daunting
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yourself, and you've nailed it.
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Jamie Loftus: Well, just keep watching. You know what mean?
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No.
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Mike Rugnetta: Six seven nights at Freddy's.
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Ryan Broderick: We also had new poke.
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Georgia Hampton: Nice. As
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Mike Rugnetta: we know, nailed it. Two nerds, two furious.
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Akilah Hughes: Yeah. We put down queen died again.
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Mike Rugnetta: Any specific queen or just, like, a queen in
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general?
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Akilah Hughes: I I just remember it was so big last year, The the
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or the year before prior that the queen died. That was like
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the big Wikipedia thing.
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Lily Alexandre: It was the whole Jesus thing. I know this year
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has been busy, but
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Mike Rugnetta: There was just some some queen searching runoff
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that just got over into the next year. No. She
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Akilah Hughes: died again. No. She did it again.
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Lily Alexandre: She was queen Elizabeth the second and third.
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Akilah Hughes: Doing the, like, Taylor Swift thing. Well, she
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she can't stand not being the first. There's all that we can
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do. Oh my god.
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Ryan Broderick: They brought her back together again.
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Georgia Hampton: It's true. One last job.
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Lily Alexandre: Main character syndrome.
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Akilah Hughes: One last
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Mike Rugnetta: job. Wanted to they wanted
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Ryan Broderick: to distract everyone from the Epstein stuff,
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so they brought it
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Akilah Hughes: back. Yeah. It's like I'll
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Ryan Broderick: die again.
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Mike Rugnetta: K. Question number two. Please place your
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answers to question number two, which was, can you tell us what
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aged Internet brand bought and pivoted the fire brand and what
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their own pivot was when their IP was purchased? Six seven
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nights at Freddy's, what did you write?
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Ryan Broderick: It's Limewire, and they're a crypto company
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now.
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Mike Rugnetta: That is correct. Bummer. That's I
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Ryan Broderick: were literally writing about this before we
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started recording today.
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Georgia Hampton: Well well.
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Lily Alexandre: Crypto like the most boring pivot at this point.
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What year is it?
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Mike Rugnetta: You know? I think are they are do any specialize
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in NFTs? NFTs.
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Adam Bumas: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was what they were doing
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when they purchased LimeWire, and now they're acting as if
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that never happened.
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Ryan Broderick: Yeah. They're trying to, like, get one to
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forget
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Mike Rugnetta: about that.
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Jamie Loftus: I understand why.
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Mike Rugnetta: Two nerds too furious. What was your answer?
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Lily Alexandre: The company was Netscape, and the product is
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Netcapes.
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Jamie Loftus: Wow. And if they do
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Lily Alexandre: anything while you're falling or whatever, it's
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actually very inefficient.
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Mike Rugnetta: Yeah. That doesn't sound like a good
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product.
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Lily Alexandre: But the fashion might
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Akilah Hughes: Oh, but
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Adam Bumas: crypto does?
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Mike Rugnetta: More useful than an NFT. Sure. Yeah. And the dog
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hots?
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Jamie Loftus: This is on me. You know? I didn't know. So I said
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Napster, and I don't know what they would have pivoted to. Not
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music, essentially.
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I mean, you were in the neighborhood, though.
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Jamie Loftus: That's that's all Akil. I I guessed ask Jeeves.
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Wow.
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Ryan Broderick: That's cool. Napster did get purchased and
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turned into, like, an AI music platform. So
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Jamie Loftus: Thanks, Riot. I
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Ryan Broderick: got you. Alright.
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Mike Rugnetta: Question number three. The wedding of Jeff Bezos
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and Lauren Sanchez was ridiculed online for a specific decor
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disaster. What was it? We didn't know this one. Two nerds too
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furious.
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What was your answer?
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Lily Alexandre: Well, the the guys on the cake, the figures,
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they forgot their pants.
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Mike Rugnetta: Naked cake toppers.
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Lily Alexandre: Yeah. Butts out.
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Ryan Broderick: Is that really what it was?
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Georgia Hampton: No. No. It was not. I
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Ryan Broderick: would believe that though.
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Akilah Hughes: I think that's the closest we have to a
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credible answer. I know. Thought it was.
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Mike Rugnetta: The dog the dog hots, what was your answer?
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Jamie Loftus: I think inviting Sydney Sweeney was just a weird
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thing to do.
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Georgia Hampton: The first domino that fell.
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Jamie Loftus: Yeah. That's you're going to your friend's
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wedding, and she's just there. What?
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Mike Rugnetta: Interesting to describe Sydney Sweeney as a
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decor disaster. She's in the room.
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Akilah Hughes: If the shoe fits. Yeah.
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Mike Rugnetta: Six seven nights at Freddy's. What was your
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answer?
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Ryan Broderick: Yeah. So we didn't know this one, but I
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guess that Jeff Bez's head was too shiny.
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Akilah Hughes: That's always true. Honestly.
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Mike Rugnetta: I mean, good pull.
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Ryan Broderick: They didn't polish it. They polish it too
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much or no?
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Akilah Hughes: It's like one of those, like, anti paparazzi
20:22
things where it, like, the glare blares at the camera so
20:25
Jamie Loftus: you can't see.
20:26
Mike Rugnetta: None of the
20:27
Akilah Hughes: pictures came out
20:27
Adam Bumas: of beautiful Mediterranean sun.
20:29
Ryan Broderick: It was
20:29
Adam Bumas: just too much.
20:30
Akilah Hughes: Too much.
20:30
Ryan Broderick: Yeah. It's almost head head too shiny.
20:32
Lily Alexandre: It's like a magnifying glass.
20:34
Mike Rugnetta: So the answer to this is that at the reception,
20:36
there was really ugly office carpeting. Ugly gray squares of
20:42
office carpeting at this otherwise immaculately designed
20:46
extremely expensive wedding, and it really does draw the eye
20:50
down.
20:51
Georgia Hampton: It's pretty unforgettable.
20:53
Adam Bumas: Except by all of us.
20:54
Georgia Hampton: Except by all of you guys.
20:56
Akilah Hughes: Right. Yeah. We believe for you.
20:58
Jamie Loftus: I think it is radical and beautiful that none
21:01
of us cared enough about this wedding to know the answer.
21:04
Mike Rugnetta: Question number four.
21:05
Akilah Hughes: We've got this one. We've got this one.
21:07
Jamie Loftus: This was definitely right.
21:08
Mike Rugnetta: Microsoft is gonna pay $16,000,000,000 to
21:11
solve the crisis of not enough power for their AI data centers
21:15
by doing what? The doghots. Our answer was Xboxes.
21:20
Akilah Hughes: Just Xboxes.
21:21
Jamie Loftus: But with a little
21:22
Jamie Loftus: smile and
21:23
Akilah Hughes: with a smiley face. I will say I
21:25
Mike Rugnetta: am charmed by the smiley face.
21:26
Lily Alexandre: I was
21:26
Akilah Hughes: gonna say, maybe we should
21:27
Georgia Hampton: have a secret point counter for this.
21:29
Jamie Loftus: For just for how cute we can make.
21:30
Jamie Loftus: How how charming can we be while being completely
21:34
wrong?
21:34
Georgia Hampton: Listen.
21:35
Jamie Loftus: Guys, we wanna be at least in the conversation at
21:37
the end
21:38
Akilah Hughes: of this.
21:39
Mike Rugnetta: Six seven nights at Freddy's?
21:41
Adam Bumas: Yeah. We said that they were gonna build this
21:44
program called Stargate, which they said it was gonna be
21:48
focused in in the West and just, like, build a bunch of new data
21:52
centers with government money.
21:54
Mike Rugnetta: It does sound true. It might it might actually
21:57
be true. Let's read the last answer, and then we'll have
21:59
Georgia adjudicate.
22:00
Jamie Loftus: Okay.
22:01
Mike Rugnetta: Two nerds too furious, what did you have?
22:03
Akilah Hughes: Yeah. Just they just stopped doing AI. They
22:05
developed more clarity. Yeah.
22:07
Mike Rugnetta: They're gonna pay $16,000,000,000
22:09
Akilah Hughes: to just knock it off.
22:11
Ryan Broderick: Yeah. They're done. They said they're done.
22:13
Akilah Hughes: Similar to Stargate, we almost we almost
22:14
put build a The Matrix.
22:19
Mike Rugnetta: So the answer that I have here is that they
22:21
have recommissioned 3 Mile Island. Woah.
22:28
Akilah Hughes: Oh, right. I actually do remember this.
22:30
Mike Rugnetta: They will pay $16,000,000,000 to recommission
22:34
3 Mile Island and to open it as a power plant. I think 80% of
22:39
whose output will go to Microsoft. For anybody in our
22:42
audience who doesn't know, 3 Mile Island is a famous power
22:45
plant in Pennsylvania in The United States that is the site
22:48
of the only domestic nuclear incident in The United States.
22:53
One of its reactors went into meltdown for a short amount of
22:56
time. No one was injured, and there is no long term health
23:01
impacts from that, but it nonetheless is like a really big
23:05
sort of, like, cultural touchstone for, Americans'
23:10
reticence and hesitance around, nuclear power.
23:14
Adam Bumas: It's why Homer Simpson works at a nuclear power
23:17
plant because that was a big story in the late eighties. Oh.
23:21
Ryan Broderick: So I'm seeing here that that was the first AI
23:24
data center under Stargate.
23:26
Jamie Loftus: I also just saw that Microsoft makes Xboxes.
23:30
Ryan Broderick: That's true. They do. They
23:31
Mike Rugnetta: do make Xbox.
23:32
Akilah Hughes: So I think we both
23:33
Jamie Loftus: get a good version of gonna stop. They never said
23:35
they were gonna stop.
23:37
Jamie Loftus: A power plant could be anything.
23:38
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Georgia, who's getting points?
23:40
Georgia Hampton: Ryan, where did you see the that it's the first
23:42
Stargate thing? I'm not seeing that.
23:43
Ryan Broderick: Made it up. No. I I saw it in a Bloomberg piece.
23:49
Georgia Hampton: So Okay.
23:50
Ryan Broderick: This is actually confusing. But I I it seems like
23:53
the 3 Mile Island Nuclear plant is part of the Stargate stuff, I
23:56
guess. But I'm I don't really understand this. But
23:59
Georgia Hampton: I'll give you a point.
24:00
Jamie Loftus: Yeah. I'll give you a point.
24:01
Georgia Hampton: Yes. We're all having fun.
24:03
Mike Rugnetta: For doing original research in the
24:05
recording.
24:05
Georgia Hampton: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually so true.
24:08
Lily Alexandre: It hasn't really occurred to us to get right
24:09
answers, so you guys are kinda speeding ahead of us.
24:11
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Question number five for round one. You
24:13
can place your answers. Did viewership of Pornhub go up or
24:19
down the day Zoran Mamdani was elected? How much did it go up
24:24
or down, and what was the number one search term in New York City
24:28
that night?
24:29
Up over 900%. Six, seven nights at Freddy's. What was your
24:34
answer?
24:34
Adam Bumas: We said that the that the swing in Pornhub
24:38
activity went up the day Zoran Mamdani was elected, and we said
24:42
it went up by 90%. And the most popular search term that saw,
24:47
like, several times over increase was MELF.
24:50
Ryan Broderick: I'm guess I I am sort of half remembering that,
24:53
but I I feel like it was something about, like, angry
24:55
gooning on Staten Island, and then I was like, well, what's
24:57
the funniest thing for people on Staten Island to be angry
24:59
gooning about? And it was like milk. That milk's yeah. Because
25:02
I I feel like what I read was like it was upset Cuomo
25:04
supporters, and I was like, well, Cuomo supporter,
25:06
obviously, they're be looking at milk. So that that was the
25:08
thinking there.
25:09
Georgia Hampton: That is actually true that Staten Island
25:11
was an outlier. I don't think I can give you a point, but I do
25:14
wanna tell you that.
25:15
Ryan Broderick: I want to just have that on the record that I
25:17
knew that.
25:18
Akilah Hughes: Yes. Do you want that on the record, Ryan? Yeah.
25:22
I Jack and Island.
25:23
Ryan Broderick: It's how I make my money. Jack and Island. I
25:25
know and stuff like that.
25:27
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Two nerds, two furious. What was your
25:29
answer?
25:30
Akilah Hughes: We thought the opposite. That's smart. My
25:33
thought was they were going down because everyone was having a
25:37
ball in real life celebrating.
25:39
Lily Alexandre: Having sex in real life.
25:41
Akilah Hughes: Yeah. And so, yeah, our our most searched was
25:44
socialist sex positions. This is our hole.
25:49
Mike Rugnetta: From each according to their means, to
25:50
each according to their need.
25:52
Lily Alexandre: And my knees are huge.
25:53
Mike Rugnetta: The dog hots.
25:55
Jamie Loftus: We said up, but a modest up. People were busy that
25:59
day. Twelve just twelve percent. And the search term is unrelated
26:04
to the election. It was step siblings, which is Yeah.
26:09
Akilah Hughes: Just every single one. Classic.
26:12
Georgia Hampton: Yeah. It's just unrelated.
26:13
Jamie Loftus: Some days you want that more than others. Yeah.
26:17
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. So for the entire day, viewership was down
26:23
over the The biggest dip in traffic across the whole day was
26:28
at 10PM. 41%.
26:31
Jamie Loftus: Good. Wow.
26:33
Mike Rugnetta: And the most searched term was big butts. Big
26:40
butts. Okay.
26:42
Ryan Broderick: Wow. That's Well,
26:45
Georgia Hampton: So I wanna give a point to two nerds too furious
26:49
because y'all did get it right that it went down.
26:51
Mike Rugnetta: Alright. And finally, in round one, we have
26:56
our first bonus question from our friend Morgan Sung, host of
26:59
the excellent podcast Close All Tabs. Hans, can you please roll
27:04
Morgan's tape?
27:05
Morgan Sung: Hello, players. The hottest show on TV right now,
27:09
HBO's heated rivalry, which in case you've missed the hype is
27:13
about two rivaling hockey stars who fall in love. A multi year
27:16
situationship and lots of smut ensue. And even hotter than
27:20
that, it's all gay yearning. But Heated Rivalry is actually based
27:26
on a sequel to a novel that originally started as a fanfic
27:29
on archive of our own.
27:31
Players, please tell us, what ship did that original fanfic
27:35
revolve around? Hint. It's a Disney property.
27:38
Mike Rugnetta: It's a Disney property.
27:39
Morgan Sung: For an additional point, what was that couple's
27:41
ship name? And for an extra bonus point, women love boys
27:47
kissing. This genre of boy on boy romance was largely
27:50
popularized by manga and anime. What is the Japanese term for
27:55
female fans of this genre? And for one more point, BL is so
28:01
popular online now that the Japanese term for female fans of
28:05
this genre is now a meme verb.
28:08
Players, can you use that name in a sentence? No.
28:13
Akilah Hughes: I could. Okay.
28:15
Mike Rugnetta: Here I'll
28:15
Ryan Broderick: I've never answered any trigger question
28:17
faster than this
28:18
Akilah Hughes: one. Okay.
28:19
Mike Rugnetta: I'll read them all out again. Tell us what ship
28:22
did that original fanfic revolve around Okay. Hint it's a Disney
28:25
property. What was that couple's ship name? What is the Japanese
28:30
term for female fans of the genre of boy romance that was
28:35
largely popularized by manga and anime?
28:38
And BL is so popular online now that the Japanese term for
28:41
female fans of this genre is now its own meme verb. Players, can
28:44
you use that name in a sentence?
28:47
Adam Bumas: I forget. What's the what's the ship name for Mickey
28:49
and Goofy? Help me out.
28:55
Mike Rugnetta: I don't think you can say that in polite company.
28:58
Ryan Broderick: Are you talking about the geeky thing? Tom. I
29:04
love the geeky shit.
29:05
Akilah Hughes: Woah. Cool. There's only one bed in the
29:07
hotel. Oh my god.
29:15
Jamie Loftus: Just put it in.
29:19
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Hans will play us the tape where she
29:21
reveals the answers.
29:23
Ryan Broderick: I'm gonna I'm gonna use the restroom because I
29:24
know this one. I don't even need
29:25
Akilah Hughes: a Oh my god. Wow.
29:29
Mike Rugnetta: Two nerds two furious, what were your answers
29:32
to Morgan's questions?
29:34
Lily Alexandre: The ship was a beast and chandelier. The name
29:39
is Bandelier. The physic the geometry of it, I don't know how
29:42
it works. Yeah. And to
29:43
Akilah Hughes: be clear, we're not talking about Lumiere. We're
29:45
not misremembering his name. We're talking about the
29:47
chandelier. The big
29:48
Jamie Loftus: chandelier. The
29:50
Lily Alexandre: genre is Yowie, which I feel pretty good about
29:55
for no personal reasons. And Tom, do you wanna do you wanna
29:58
give us the final component of this?
30:00
Akilah Hughes: Vegeta, what you don't know is I'm Fujo ing out
30:04
right now.
30:07
Mike Rugnetta: That's good. Did you work on your Goku impression
30:09
before this?
30:10
Akilah Hughes: A little bit. But weren't we all? I I said I was
30:12
prepping for this.
30:13
Mike Rugnetta: I'm out right now.
30:16
Akilah Hughes: Let's fucking go.
30:20
Lily Alexandre: We got this, man.
30:21
Mike Rugnetta: Alright. The dog hots. What do you have?
30:25
Jamie Loftus: Bob Iger and Michael Eisner, also known as
30:28
Bisner.
30:35
Akilah Hughes: I guess technically
30:37
Mike Rugnetta: a Disney property.
30:38
Jamie Loftus: Yeah. It's just The fanfic is called earnings
30:40
call. And
30:44
Jamie Loftus: it's kind of hand trick kind of thing because,
30:47
yeah, they're both jacking off furiously on opposite coasts.
30:51
That's exactly right.
30:53
Adam Bumas: Are they doing it to the shareholders? Are they
30:55
listening in?
30:56
Jamie Loftus: Yeah. The shareholders are the fans of the
30:58
thing.
30:58
Georgia Hampton: They're part of it.
30:58
They're part
30:59
Akilah Hughes: of it. Actually, Hassan, the shareholders are
31:01
watching.
31:04
Georgia Hampton: I just heard
31:05
Jamie Loftus: But then the shareholders are kind of into
31:07
it.
31:07
Jamie Loftus: And Yeah. They kinda like it. And they're like,
31:10
Akilah Hughes: come on guys. Going up?
31:11
Jamie Loftus: Yeah. And I can't use it in a sentence. It's
31:14
actually it's too explicit for this. Powerful. Yeah.
31:18
Mike Rugnetta: Six seven nights at Freddy's.
31:20
Ryan Broderick: Well, if you all read garbage day, you would know
31:24
that it's based on Captain America the Winter Soldier Yeah.
31:27
A Marvel property owned by Disney. The ship is Stucky,
31:30
which is Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes. The term for boys love
31:34
in Japanese is Yowie, and there are two ways to use the fandom
31:38
for Yowie in a sentence. One is I'm straight Fujoshi ing it to
31:42
heated rivalry right now, or I'm also Fujoe ing it to Stucky on a
31:46
o three as well.
31:47
Damn.
31:48
Mike Rugnetta: I'm damn
31:49
Ryan Broderick: Oh, sorry. The cops just pulled up. I gotta go.
31:51
They're arrested.
31:55
Mike Rugnetta: Alright. Let's hear the answers from Morgan.
31:58
Morgan Sung: The original fic Game Changers is based on Bucky
32:01
Barnes and Steve Rogers from Marvel's Captain America. The
32:05
couple's ship name is Stucky. Female fans of Yowie, also known
32:10
as BL for boys love, are called Fujoshis, fujos for short. Used
32:15
in a sentence, babe, he had rivalries on. God forbid a girl
32:19
fujou out on a weeknight.
32:21
Akilah Hughes: Wow. Ryan
32:23
Jamie Loftus: Wow. It looks like he just wrote the exact answer.
32:26
That must be really good for you. That's great.
32:29
Mike Rugnetta: Alright. That's the end of round one. Georgia,
32:32
how are our scores looking?
32:33
Georgia Hampton: Wow. Okay. In last place is the dog hots.
32:39
Akilah Hughes: Shut up, Bryce. Two points.
32:43
Georgia Hampton: In second place, with three points, is two
32:47
nerds, two furious. We'll take it. In the top spot, six seven
32:52
with a whopping seven
32:56
Akilah Hughes: points. Listeners, Ryan's doing the hand
32:59
gestures every time. Every single time. That's
33:03
Adam Bumas: of the numbers.
33:03
Mike Rugnetta: Meme number. Meme number. Congratulations to
33:07
everybody. It is still anyone's game. Alright.
33:12
We're gonna take a quick break, and then we're gonna go on to
33:14
round two. Alright, everybody. Welcome back. Here we are in
33:26
round two of Never Posts Post Mortem twenty twenty five. In
33:30
round two, we turn our attention to jokes for people without
33:34
friends, aka Internet memes.
33:38
Nothing beats a jet two holiday except, of course, dopamine
33:42
poisoning from your April nothing beats a jet two holiday
33:47
video. In 2025, Duolingo killed Duo the Owl. People rushed in
33:54
droves to accuse various parties, Luigi Mangione and Ezio
33:58
from Assassin's Creed amongst them. Before long, the language
34:02
learning company revealed the official cause of death, a hit
34:05
and run by a cyber truck. Six seven happened and continues to
34:12
happen.
34:12
Yeah. And finally, TikTok was banned for fourteen hours,
34:17
leading legions of users to mourn the app and celebrate all
34:20
it brought into their lives only to have it return the next
34:23
morning. A sale has been arranged, but not finalized,
34:26
likely putting the app under control of a cadre of president
34:29
Trump's cronies. I hope everyone here is looking forward to
34:32
posting their federally mandated Charlie Kirk remembrances every
34:36
year.
34:37
Akilah Hughes: Charlie Kirk. We go. Everybody. Let's let's
34:43
Adam Bumas: get on beat. Let's do some
34:45
Akilah Hughes: warm ups. In
34:47
Mike Rugnetta: this round, dumb questions about dumb jokes.
34:49
Everybody ready? One. On 01/06/2024, Chicago based
34:55
comedian, Winslow Dumaine posted, had to make a pilgrimage
34:58
to the Chicago Rat Hole on a picture of a rain soaked piece
35:02
of pavement and in it, a rainwater filled rat shaped
35:06
hole. Thus launched the saga of Chicago's most beloved landmark,
35:11
which was pilgrimaged to, discourse about, filled, and
35:14
then re excavated.
35:16
In 2025, an international team of researchers from Tennessee,
35:22
North Carolina, New York, and Calgary determined with 98.67%
35:28
likelihood Six seven. That the Chicago rat hole was made not by
35:31
a rat, but by what?
35:35
Lily Alexandre: Yes. I'm dropping subtle hints that it
35:37
was a tiny little cat. It was a small not a kitten. That'd be
35:40
too sad. It was a tiny little cat.
35:42
Everyone remember to write that down.
35:45
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Question number two, round two. Guys,
35:49
gents, fellas are having a tough go. From the male loneliness
35:54
epidemic to sometimes needing to be a little nicer to women,
35:58
straight men everywhere had a real rocky 2025. They can't even
36:03
go outside and enjoy their leisurely pastimes without being
36:08
mocked and ridiculed online.
36:11
For three points, could each team please describe in as much
36:15
detail as is possible one performative male?
36:20
Ryan Broderick: Do we get points for all of the ones we can do?
36:22
Jamie Loftus: I'm just doing a free write.
36:24
Mike Rugnetta: No. This is now we're looking for maximum
36:26
performative male.
36:27
Georgia Hampton: Paint me a beautiful picture.
36:29
Akilah Hughes: Okay. Okay.
36:30
Georgia Hampton: Feel like this more than any other question,
36:33
everyone is so locked in.
36:36
Lily Alexandre: We're building worlds here.
36:38
Jamie Loftus: Yes. Yes. Oh my gosh. I can see him. Okay.
36:45
Georgia Hampton: He's here.
36:45
Jamie Loftus: Yes. Yes.
36:46
Mike Rugnetta: It's just Ryan.
36:48
Georgia Hampton: It's Joe.
36:48
Ryan Broderick: Oh, I wish. I wish.
36:52
Georgia Hampton: We cut to Ryan that
36:53
Mike Rugnetta: he's Yeah. I
36:54
Adam Bumas: really wish.
36:56
Mike Rugnetta: Oh, got him.
36:58
Akilah Hughes: We we have a we have a novella.
37:02
Georgia Hampton: Oh, I'm so excited. Excited.
37:03
Akilah Hughes: Oh my god.
37:05
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Question number three, round two. This
37:08
year, TikTok user lils bowls marabella two has held her
37:13
libubu over an open flame. She has assaulted it with a
37:16
screwdriver. She has driven over it with a car, pretended to dunk
37:20
it in Coca Cola, and mimed washing it with dish soap,
37:24
attracting hundreds of thousands to millions of views on various
37:29
videos and endless enraged comments for her original claim,
37:35
which is that said La boo boo is what?
37:38
Akilah Hughes: Yep. Mhmm.
37:40
Mike Rugnetta: What quality is she claiming is the case of this
37:44
LaBubu that justifies her trying to light it on fire, poking it
37:49
with a screwdriver, running over it with a car, etcetera,
37:52
etcetera?
37:55
Akilah Hughes: Phone's getting so tiny on the performative.
37:57
Georgia Hampton: I'm watching this happen.
38:00
Akilah Hughes: We're still adding to it. Oh my god. Yeah.
38:04
Mike Rugnetta: K. Four. Oh, you think that nonsense is your
38:09
ally, but you merely adopted it. I was born into it, molded by
38:15
it. I didn't see sense until I was already a man, and by then,
38:18
it was nothing to me but confusion.
38:23
For every Italian brain rot character you can name, you gain
38:26
one point. Spelling does not count. Spelling doesn't count?
38:29
Spelling does not count.
38:30
Akilah Hughes: Okay. Do you know these?
38:32
Lily Alexandre: Yeah. I have a teenage sibling, so I can There
38:34
go. Yeah.
38:36
Jamie Loftus: Italian brain rat character? Yes.
38:39
Jamie Loftus: This is a whole thing. I remember this. Hold on.
38:42
Akilah Hughes: Okay. I have, like, one.
38:47
Mike Rugnetta: K. Question number five. What is this sound
38:52
from?
38:55
Akilah Hughes: Woah. Woah. Yes.
38:59
Lily Alexandre: I don't know this one. Is it like a Pharrell
39:01
beat?
39:02
Akilah Hughes: Achilles du Vini?
39:03
Jamie Loftus: I do.
39:03
Jamie Loftus: I'm just typing in Italian words I think are real.
39:07
Jamie Loftus: That's gotta be at least a point.
39:09
Mike Rugnetta: Alright. Those are all the questions for round
39:11
two. Let's score round two. Question number one. With 98.67%
39:22
likelihood, a group of academics have determined that the Chicago
39:25
rat hole was not made by a rat, but by a what?
39:29
The dog hots. What is your answer?
39:32
Akilah Hughes: Is it still Bisner? Still
39:34
Jamie Loftus: it's earnings call. Squirrel. You are correct.
39:39
Yes.
39:40
Akilah Hughes: Yes. Thank you, Jamie.
39:41
Jamie Loftus: The one answer I knew.
39:43
Mike Rugnetta: 67NightsAt Freddy's. What is your answer?
39:46
Ryan Broderick: We weren't totally sure, so I guess
39:48
TheBear.
39:51
Adam Bumas: Yeah. You know, the star of show. That's what it's
39:54
about. Right? Bear?
39:54
Mike Rugnetta: I've heard Jeremy Allen White is short, but not
39:56
that short.
39:57
Lily Alexandre: Is he the bear?
39:58
Jamie Loftus: He is
39:58
Lily Alexandre: rat hole.
39:59
Akilah Hughes: The bear
40:00
Georgia Hampton: is the spirit of the city of Chicago.
40:02
Jamie Loftus: That's right. Right.
40:05
Mike Rugnetta: To nerds too furious, what was your answer?
40:06
Lily Alexandre: It was a squirrel, but not just any
40:08
squirrel. It was a screen age, scrutin screenger squirrel.
40:13
Akilah Hughes: Screen age. Scrutin, screenger squirrel.
40:17
Georgia Hampton: Yes. I'm doing an extra point for pizzazz.
40:20
Akilah Hughes: Squirrels in the concrete.
40:25
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Question number two. Please describe in
40:28
excruciating detail one performative male.
40:33
Georgia Hampton: I need to be wowed.
40:35
Mike Rugnetta: Six, seven nights at Freddy's. Let's do you first.
40:38
Ryan Broderick: Yeah. So I just looked outside my window in Bed
40:40
Stuy and just described a man that I saw, and he was listening
40:44
to Claro drinking matcha, reading books, also drinking
40:47
belt boba and wearing salvage denim.
40:50
Georgia Hampton: God. The salvage denim pole.
40:52
Lily Alexandre: He's got, like, 50 pounds a gear.
40:54
Jamie Loftus: See he was listening to Claro.
40:57
Georgia Hampton: Oh, you can see it.
40:58
Ryan Broderick: He held he held he held up
41:00
Georgia Hampton: his his his iPod. No.
41:01
Mike Rugnetta: He he's
41:02
Georgia Hampton: holding the the LP.
41:04
Ryan Broderick: Yeah. He's retro.
41:06
Jamie Loftus: Oh, vinyl. That is
41:08
Georgia Hampton: yeah. Alright. Pretty pretty damn good.
41:11
Mike Rugnetta: Alright. Two nerds too furious.
41:13
Akilah Hughes: Oh, this, I say reading bell hooks by an open
41:16
window smoking a cigarette. Yeah. It is the record store day
41:19
edition of Claro's first LP. I'm a bit of a Fujoshi. Shout to
41:23
Fujoshi.
41:23
A Fujoshi comment.
41:24
Jamie Loftus: She can Claro mention. Wow.
41:27
Lily Alexandre: Got a
41:27
Mike Rugnetta: I got a The
41:29
Georgia Hampton: POV of this is really selling me, so I'm going
41:32
to afford two points.
41:33
Lily Alexandre: I like to picture myself down on the
41:34
sidewalk. He's like calling out, you know,
41:37
Georgia Hampton: from above. Yes.
41:38
Jamie Loftus: No one asked.
41:39
Akilah Hughes: That's why. Hello?
41:46
Mike Rugnetta: Finally, the dog hots.
41:48
Jamie Loftus: Tote bag, feminist slash ally t shirt, painted
41:51
nails for the first time. Wow. Found to be emotionally abusive
41:54
by multiple women. And he's reading a book, probably all
41:59
fours by Miranda July. Oh my god.
42:02
Wow. Posting about perimenopause on his Instagram story. He's
42:06
listening and learning.
42:07
Akilah Hughes: Akila and Jamie. Points. Three points. Points.
42:11
Three points.
42:11
Three Three Three points.
42:12
Lily Alexandre: Points. That's a fucking novel. That's the
42:14
American
42:14
Georgia Hampton: novel. I started sweating
42:19
Jamie Loftus: out of fear and anger. Man.
42:23
Georgia Hampton: Wow. Okay. I mean, everyone obviously gets
42:26
points.
42:26
Jamie Loftus: Yeah. He just learned about bread crumbing
42:28
because a bunch of girls said he did that.
42:30
Jamie Loftus: Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's using he's using therapy
42:33
language to yell
42:34
Jamie Loftus: at you. That's right. Yeah. He has an older
42:37
sister, though, so it's fine. Oh my god.
42:40
Georgia Hampton: It's not just that he's avoidant. He's
42:42
avoidant dismissive. He does
42:43
Jamie Loftus: the attachment style book. That was a crucial
42:46
one.
42:46
Georgia Hampton: God. Exquisite. The Miranda okay.
42:49
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Next question. What's the deal with
42:52
that Lububu? Two nerds too furious. What was your answer?
42:56
Akilah Hughes: Well,
42:57
Lily Alexandre: she was trying to convince us that it was
42:59
alive.
43:00
Akilah Hughes: Oh. And
43:02
Mike Rugnetta: had to be put down.
43:05
Georgia Hampton: Have to delicious libubu till it's free.
43:09
Akilah Hughes: Our real answer. I believe am I right that this
43:11
is the I have the only 24 carat gold Le Boo Boo.
43:17
Jamie Loftus: Yes. Alright.
43:20
Georgia Hampton: The one and only. Woah.
43:22
Mike Rugnetta: The dog hots, what was your answer?
43:24
Jamie Loftus: Yeah. We said Ugly.
43:28
Jamie Loftus: He said it deserved
43:29
Mike Rugnetta: what happens to Honestly, wrong. Not wrong.
43:34
Jamie Loftus: The audience did not agree, but she was adamant
43:37
that it was the it was just too ugly.
43:39
Akilah Hughes: It was just too ugly to live.
43:41
Georgia Hampton: Yeah. That is wrong, but it is also right.
43:43
Mike Rugnetta: It is it is a hideous looking object.
43:46
Georgia Hampton: God, it really is.
43:47
Mike Rugnetta: Six seven nights at Freddy's.
43:49
Ryan Broderick: We also said gold.
43:51
Georgia Hampton: It is the one and only 24 karat gold. Le bobo.
43:55
Le bobo.
43:56
Akilah Hughes: But I will I will give it to you.
43:58
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. For every Italian brain rock character you
44:00
can name, you gain one point. Alright. The doghats.
44:04
Jamie Loftus: Alright. I think the first one is a real one and
44:06
then it it kind of devolves. We've got Ballerina Cappuccino.
44:11
Yes. I've said Mary Manicotti Bugatti.
44:18
I feel like boobellini was something.
44:20
Lily Alexandre: Yep. Yep.
44:21
Jamie Loftus: There was, like, chimpanzini Luigi mama. Luigi
44:26
mama.
44:29
Georgia Hampton: Luigi mama's pregnant. That was okay. Luigi
44:31
mama's pregnant.
44:32
Jamie Loftus: Is that an extra point if one of them is
44:34
pregnant?
44:35
Jamie Loftus: Yes. I'm
44:37
Jamie Loftus: gonna keep that. I'm gonna start using that.
44:40
Mike Rugnetta: Six seven nights at Freddy's.
44:42
Adam Bumas: Here we got Bombardino Crocodillo. We have
44:45
Tongue Tongue Sahur. We have Ballerina Cappuccino, just like
44:50
the Dog Hots did. Then we have Chimpanzini Bananini, which was
44:54
one of several chimpanzinis, actually. And we're ending it
44:58
with the OG, Tralla Lero Tralla la.
45:01
Mike Rugnetta: Wow. Two nerds too furious.
45:04
Lily Alexandre: It must be sad to know these things.
45:06
Akilah Hughes: Yeah. Okay.
45:09
Lily Alexandre: Let's see. A marinade black cappuccino.
45:14
Crocodillo bombardino. Andrew Cuomo.
45:24
Georgia Hampton: Andrew Cuomo.
45:26
Mike Rugnetta: I mean, I'm inclined to agree.
45:27
Akilah Hughes: I'm put I'm putting a point in there.
45:29
Georgia Hampton: He'd take the press. Alright. I can confirm
45:32
ballerina cappuccino. Mhmm. Crocodillo, bombardino.
45:38
Chimpanzini, Bananini. Yes.
45:40
Jamie Loftus: Oh, damn. I
45:44
Mike Rugnetta: will confirm for you for that that one is real.
45:46
Georgia Hampton: Correct. Yes.
45:48
Jamie Loftus: Luigi Mama. Luigi Mama's pregnant.
45:51
Georgia Hampton: Luigi Mama's pregnant would have gotten you a
45:54
point, but I only see Luigi Mama.
45:56
Jamie Loftus: That's tough. That's tough. Andrew
45:58
Georgia Hampton: Cuomo. Yeah.
46:03
Akilah Hughes: Yeah. Yeah.
46:04
Mike Rugnetta: The brain the brain rots in several ways
46:07
around.
46:07
Georgia Hampton: The brain does
46:08
Akilah Hughes: rot in many ways. So I'm an Italian. Whose brains
46:10
have rotted. Right?
46:13
Mike Rugnetta: Question number five in round two. What was that
46:17
sound from? Six seven nights at Freddy's.
46:22
Ryan Broderick: We guessed on this one because it was brain
46:25
rot. So we guessed it was my favorite band of the year, the
46:28
Velvet Sundown.
46:29
Mike Rugnetta: Interesting. Interesting. Two Nerds Too
46:32
Furious.
46:32
Akilah Hughes: Steve. Hello. Wow. Wow. Steve.
46:38
You say, Laurent. I hate it makes me feel millennial coded
46:46
saying it so earnestly, but I like it.
46:50
Mike Rugnetta: That is correct. The dog hots?
46:52
Jamie Loftus: Me and I was thinking of, like, a dance on
46:54
TikTok. It says this dance on TikTok where people do where
46:58
they, I wanna say, cover their face or something.
47:02
Mike Rugnetta: I feel like I already know the answer to this,
47:04
but there's a secret bonus question here, which is anybody
47:06
who can sing the entirety of the verse in French that is in most
47:09
of the videos can get an extra 10 points.
47:12
Akilah Hughes: 10. That's the last one. He has arms and legs.
47:15
Mike Rugnetta: Yep. He nailed it. Tom got it. So Tom gets an
47:17
extra 10 points.
47:18
Lily Alexandre: Tom, we just won the game.
47:24
Akilah Hughes: Oh,
47:27
Lily Alexandre: this is delightful.
47:37
Mike Rugnetta: Good job, Tom.
47:39
Georgia Hampton: Very nice.
47:40
Akilah Hughes: It's just a little cartoon fish who's orange
47:42
and has arms and legs. That's
47:43
Jamie Loftus: it. It's a return to form for the Internet. It
47:46
Mike Rugnetta: kinda is. That is the end of round two. Georgia,
47:52
how's everybody scores looking?
47:54
Georgia Hampton: Okay. I've done the impossible. I've added
47:58
numbers together.
47:59
Mike Rugnetta: She prevailed.
48:00
Georgia Hampton: There has been quite an upset, but not in terms
48:04
of who's in last place. No. I'm sorry to say, my darlings, the
48:12
doghats have seven points.
48:14
Jamie Loftus: We've been here before. I just feel like this is
48:16
something
48:16
Jamie Loftus: where losing is winning. Losing is winning in
48:19
many
48:20
Akilah Hughes: ways. Yeah.
48:20
Jamie Loftus: I saw my friends this year.
48:23
Georgia Hampton: Moving on. There's been a dramatic upset
48:26
because six seven is in second place with 14 points. And
48:31
specifically, I think because of Tom's knowledge of Le Poisson
48:35
Steve, two nerds too furious is in first place with 22 points.
48:42
Wow.
48:43
Akilah Hughes: We are the champions. Now now, Lily, all we
48:46
have to do now, we have to stall the clock. Stop the couch.
48:50
Jamie Loftus: Stop the couch. That last round. No.
48:53
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Here we are at our second guest bonus
48:57
question. What question from Yonder contributor is posed? Tis
49:04
a second bonus question, and our friend Kurt White, social worker
49:08
and psychotherapist and cohost of the podcast Unraveling is the
49:14
sun. Hans, tape, please.
49:18
Kurt White: Hello, Never Post. This is Kurt White, friend of
49:20
the show. For 10 points, what Gen Alpha defining trend took
49:28
the world by storm over the last several months?
49:33
Mike Rugnetta: This is a buzz in first sort of scenario. So who
49:35
are Buzz.
49:35
Jamie Loftus: Six seven.
49:36
Mike Rugnetta: Buzz. Okay. I think Akila got it.
49:38
Kurt White: If you said six seven, you're correct.
49:43
Jamie Loftus: It's the name of your team, Ryan. Get your head
49:45
in the game.
49:45
Akilah Hughes: Listeners, the look on Ryan's face is as
49:47
delicious as you would. Yeah.
49:49
Kurt White: Now this is fascinating to me because I
49:52
think it's an example of a kind of linguistic accidental
49:57
convergence. Because this number, six seven, was already
50:02
in the popular culture. In what popular expression for 10 more
50:07
points?
50:08
Jamie Loftus: Buzz, six foot seven foot Lil Wayne.
50:11
Mike Rugnetta: Incorrect.
50:12
Adam Bumas: Buzz?
50:14
Mike Rugnetta: Adam.
50:15
Adam Bumas: Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
50:17
Mike Rugnetta: Incorrect. Tom, Lily, do Was
50:20
Lily Alexandre: it just, like, six seven? Like, for the the
50:22
basketball player who would, like, score points and whatever?
50:26
I don't watch sports.
50:27
Jamie Loftus: This is
50:27
Akilah Hughes: the more advanced version of the 69 position. It's
50:31
just is
50:32
Ryan Broderick: is he is he referencing the song? Is that
50:35
what he's talking about?
50:36
Kurt White: If you said to be at sixes and sevens, you would be
50:40
right. For a 100 points, what fourteenth century dice game is
50:46
the origin of the phrase at sixes and sevens.
50:50
Akilah Hughes: 100 points.
50:51
Mike Rugnetta: For a 100 points, what's the fourteenth century
50:53
dice game at sixes and sevens?
50:56
Jamie Loftus: Buzz Schlooples.
50:59
Akilah Hughes: It's a
51:00
Mike Rugnetta: good guess, unfortunately. Incorrect.
51:02
Adam Bumas: Buzz backgammon?
51:04
Lily Alexandre: Incorrect. Buzz, old Yahtzee?
51:08
Akilah Hughes: They called it that at the time. That's true.
51:12
Yeah.
51:12
Jamie Loftus: No. Didn't even prove it.
51:14
Mike Rugnetta: Yeah. Great guess.
51:15
Kurt White: If you said hazard, you're correct. And probably
51:20
smarter than most people. No. Who is widely credited for
51:25
popularizing the phrase six and seven in Western European
51:32
culture?
51:33
Mike Rugnetta: Who is widely credited for popularizing the
51:36
phrase six and seven in Western European culture?
51:40
Jamie Loftus: Was Napoleon. Incorrect.
51:43
Lily Alexandre: No. He was really lying about his height.
51:48
Akilah Hughes: J Robert Oppenheimer. Incorrect.
51:51
Adam Bumas: It sounds like British currency, like 6
51:54
shillings or whatever.
51:55
Kurt White: If you said William Shakespeare, that's 10 more
51:59
points for
51:59
Lily Alexandre: you.
52:00
Akilah Hughes: Oh, fuck.
52:00
Kurt White: So I hope that you have a wonderful New Year, and
52:05
thank you for everything.
52:06
Mike Rugnetta: Aw, Kurt.
52:08
Georgia Hampton: I do have a scoring update, which is that
52:11
doghats are not in last place anymore. Six seven is in last
52:18
place with 14 points.
52:19
Lily Alexandre: Oh. Wow. Reversal.
52:21
Georgia Hampton: Doghats are in second place with 17 points.
52:24
Jamie Loftus: We're gonna hold on
52:25
Akilah Hughes: to it.
52:25
Georgia Hampton: Catching up to two nerds two furious with 22
52:29
points. So who knows what'll happen?
52:32
Mike Rugnetta: We'll find out in round three. See everybody soon.
52:46
And we're back. Okay. The last and final and also final round
52:52
of Never Post Post Mortem twenty twenty five.
52:56
In this round, we are concerned with your safety. 2025 was a
53:00
dangerous year with breaches, leaks, risks, and pitfalls
53:04
galore. The social network x in an effort to increase
53:07
transparency enabled a feature which revealed the primary
53:09
location out of which accounts operate, exposing many active
53:13
conservative accounts as being located in The Philippines,
53:16
Africa, Macedonia, and others. The Department of Homeland
53:19
Security was labeled as being based in Israel. The feature was
53:24
quickly turned off.
53:26
Though they have not made as much news this year, the Orca
53:29
attacks continue. Just over the last few months, Orcas have sunk
53:34
several yachts mostly off the coast of Portugal. It must be
53:37
rough for the super rich having to worry about your well-being
53:41
knowing that at any time random circumstances may have
53:45
irreversible effects on your life. Perhaps they should
53:48
attempt donating to the Orca's super packs. And finally, this
53:53
year mister beast announced that he will branch out to offer both
53:57
mobile phone and banking services.
53:59
The Gen Z Richard Branson has cultivated an image of business
54:02
savvy through his YouTube videos where for legal purposes, the
54:06
following phrase is satire. He tortures poor people who hope to
54:09
be compensated for their turmoil.
54:11
Jamie Loftus: Yes.
54:12
Mike Rugnetta: That is definitely a guy that I want
54:14
watching over my retirement account. In this round,
54:18
questions about staying safe in a world indifferent to your
54:22
suffering. Is everybody ready?
54:23
Jamie Loftus: Oh, yeah. Alright.
54:24
Mike Rugnetta: K. Question number one. In July, astronomer
54:28
CEO Andy Byron was caught on the Kiss Cam canoodling with the
54:32
company's HR chief Kristen Cabot at a Coldplay concert. See what
54:37
I did there? Millions of people watched the video.
54:40
Millions of high horses were mounted as was a formal
54:43
investigation within the company shortly after which Byron handed
54:47
in his resignation. Prior to the incident, Astronomer had
54:51
recently relocated its headquarters to New York and
54:53
raised a $100,000,000 in VC funding. Which celebrity did
54:58
Astronomer hire less than two weeks following the cold play
55:02
cock up as a temporary spokesperson to do damage
55:07
control.
55:08
Jamie Loftus: Akhilah, you leaned This is this
55:11
Jamie Loftus: is my bread and butter. Right? Excellent. This
55:14
is the kind of salacious shit I get into online. I love it.
55:20
Lily Alexandre: Trying to think about scammy celebrities, and
55:22
it's kind of easier to think of ones that aren't trying to rip
55:25
us off.
55:25
Mike Rugnetta: It's a real 2025 vibe. K. Question number two.
55:30
This year, we saw the biggest crypto heist in history.
55:35
$1,500,000,000 was stolen from the Dubai based exchange Bybit.
55:40
In order to pull off the heist, hackers needed to secure
55:43
approval from multiple high level Bybit employee accounts.
55:47
Researchers conclude that the thieves must have spent months
55:50
preparing, working both socially and programmatically. They have
55:55
yet to be caught, but security experts say these are techniques
55:58
often employed by hackers working for whom?
56:03
Akilah Hughes: It would be so awesome if
56:05
Jamie Loftus: we didn't come in last.
56:07
Jamie Loftus: I know.
56:09
Jamie Loftus: I didn't think this was gonna be possible.
56:12
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Question number three. In March, Atlantic
56:17
editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to a signal
56:21
group chat by national security adviser Mike Waltz in which JD
56:25
Vance, Steven Miller, Pete Hegseth, and others were
56:28
strategizing about operation rough rider, a campaign of air
56:31
and sea strikes against Houthis in Yemen. In the chat, Hegseth
56:35
shared details about the strike. John Ratcliffe revealed the name
56:38
of an active undercover CIA operative, and JD Vance engages
56:42
in his most favorite pastime, complaining.
56:45
In the exchange, what is the massively ironic six word phrase
56:50
which Pete Hegseth posted and which in a just world would be
56:54
carved on his headstone?
56:56
Akilah Hughes: Six letter or six word?
56:57
Mike Rugnetta: Six word. Question number four. A popular
57:02
text message scam involves the scammer pretending to be a
57:05
famous person, interested for some reason in a relationship
57:08
with the fan and then asking for some reason for money. Though
57:11
they have been named Brad Pitt scams after a particularly
57:15
egregious case in France, another male star is reportedly
57:18
the most impersonated by far. So much so that this year, the
57:23
Hollywood reporter revealed that he spends thousands of dollars
57:26
of his own money per month paying a private service to
57:31
report scammers using his name to social platforms.
57:35
Who is that person?
57:38
Akilah Hughes: Oh, fuck.
57:40
Jamie Loftus: I know who this is.
57:41
Lily Alexandre: Tom, that's so random that it must be true.
57:44
Akilah Hughes: Yeah.
57:47
Jamie Loftus: Think you should put that full answer, JV.
57:50
Lily Alexandre: That's not someone I've thought about in
57:52
ten years. I think I think it's gotta be.
57:54
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. And final question of the round. On
57:58
October 19, thieves stole €88,000,000 worth of crown
58:02
jewels from the Louvre. Over the course of eight minutes, the
58:05
thieves used a furniture lift to gain access to a second story
58:07
balcony where they used a disc cutter to gain access through a
58:11
window and which they then used to threaten guards. Laurence
58:15
Dakar, the president and director of the Louvre said that
58:17
while the Louvre's Louvre's security system was operating as
58:20
expected, president the single camera in that gallery was not
58:23
facing the aforementioned window.
58:26
In the wake of the incident, a 2014 security audit has
58:30
resurfaced in which it is revealed that the Louvre's
58:32
surveillance system password was, and until this heist
58:36
remained, what? And players, this answer, like all passwords,
58:41
is case sensitive.
58:46
Jamie Loftus: Amazing. I'm almost a 100% certain, Demi.
58:49
Georgia Hampton: Oh my god. Incredible.
58:50
Mike Rugnetta: Okay. Scoring next. Alright, everybody. Let's
58:53
look at some answers for round three about safety and security.
59:01
Question number one.
59:03
Andy Byron was caught on cam canoodling with the HR person.
59:06
What temporary spokesperson was hired to do damage control for
59:11
astronomer? The doghats.
59:13
Jamie Loftus: Akila knew this immediately.
59:15
Jamie Loftus: I'm 99% certain it was Gwyneth Paltrow. You are a
59:19
100%
59:20
Mike Rugnetta: correct.
59:20
Jamie Loftus: Yeah. Yeah. What?
59:23
Jamie Loftus: It was like, we gotta hire Coldplay's ex wife.
59:26
Yeah. Oh my god. Relationship expert.
59:28
Mike Rugnetta: Six seven nights at Freddy's.
59:30
Ryan Broderick: We had the same thing. Nice. That's not true.
59:34
Mike Rugnetta: Two nerds too furious.
59:35
Lily Alexandre: I'm pissed off because, like, the true answer
59:37
is almost funnier, but Chris Martin himself.
59:41
Georgia Hampton: He is
59:41
Jamie Loftus: the one.
59:42
Mike Rugnetta: You were close.
59:43
Akilah Hughes: Hey, guys. A little adultery is fine every
59:44
once in a while. I used to rule.
59:52
Mike Rugnetta: Alright. Question number two. The hackers who
59:56
stole $1,500,000,000 worth of crypto from a Dubai based
59:59
exchange Bybit have not been caught, but security experts say
1:00:02
they very likely work for who? Six Seven Nights at Freddy's.
1:00:06
Ryan Broderick: We guessed on this one, but gonna go with
1:00:09
North Korea.
1:00:10
Mike Rugnetta: That guess pays off because it's right. They
1:00:14
love pig butchering skills. That's that's how
1:00:16
Ryan Broderick: we came up
1:00:16
Jamie Loftus: with them.
1:00:16
Mike Rugnetta: Two nerds too furious.
1:00:18
Akilah Hughes: We said lime wire. Getting their foot in the
1:00:22
door.
1:00:22
Lily Alexandre: Making big moves.
1:00:24
Mike Rugnetta: Close. Close. The dog huts.
1:00:27
Jamie Loftus: We said the government or even Russia. The
1:00:31
government. The government.
1:00:34
Akilah Hughes: To be fair
1:00:35
Mike Rugnetta: I think North Korea is an example of the
1:00:38
government.
1:00:38
Georgia Hampton: Listen. I'll give you a point for duh.
1:00:40
Question
1:00:44
Mike Rugnetta: number three, what is the massively ironic six
1:00:47
word phrase that Pete Hegseth posted in that signal chat? Two
1:00:51
nerds too furious.
1:00:52
Lily Alexandre: More like, yeet, Hesketh. I'm out. And then be
1:00:55
like, incredible.
1:00:56
Mike Rugnetta: Dog hots?
1:00:57
Jamie Loftus: It'd be crazy if this leak. And
1:01:03
Akilah Hughes: then the, like, wacky tongue out emoji, like
1:01:10
Mike Rugnetta: six seven nights at Freddy's.
1:01:11
Adam Bumas: We are clean on op sec. Wow.
1:01:16
Mike Rugnetta: The the actual phrase is we are currently clean
1:01:19
on op sec as one word, but I think that this is close enough.
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Georgia Hampton: Okay. Yeah. Right? I think that's fine. I
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think that's fine.
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Mike Rugnetta: Alright. Question number four, who is the most
1:01:27
impersonated celebrity online by far so much so he spends his own
1:01:33
money to try to do something about it? Two nerds too furious.
1:01:38
Akilah Hughes: I had a hunch just because I think this is the
1:01:40
one I saw first when I first saw this. So my guess
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Mike Rugnetta: is Orlando Bloom. That's a really good guess, but
1:01:47
it's not right. Okay. Dog Hots?
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Jamie Loftus: This is a guess based on, like, celebrity that's
1:01:53
online but not good at it. So we're we're we're throwing
1:01:57
Jeremy Renner's name back into the conversation.
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Adam Bumas: After the year he's had,
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Jamie Loftus: I can't be him.
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Ryan Broderick: Did you see that somebody called his performance
1:02:08
in Wake Up Deadman the first ever post humus acting
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performance?
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Akilah Hughes: My god. That's no sense.
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Mike Rugnetta: Yeah. Six Seven Nights at Freddy's.
1:02:18
Ryan Broderick: We guessed George Clooney.
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Mike Rugnetta: Also a good guess. The actual answer is
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Keanu Reeves.
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Akilah Hughes: Oh, sure.
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Mike Rugnetta: Oh, I see it. Most impersonated by far.
1:02:28
Ryan Broderick: Yeah. Right.
1:02:30
Mike Rugnetta: And finally, what was the Louvre's surveillance
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system password? DogHots.
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Jamie Loftus: I believe that this is right. I think it was
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just Louvre.
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Georgia Hampton: How case sensitive are we being?
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Mike Rugnetta: We are being extremely case sensitive.
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Georgia Hampton: And that is incorrect.
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Jamie Loftus: It had a capital.
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Georgia Hampton: It's L. I'm sorry. I'm
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Jamie Loftus: sorry. It's alright.
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Mike Rugnetta: It's alright. It's six seven nights at
1:02:53
Freddy's. We could have
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Akilah Hughes: had it all.
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Ryan Broderick: Yeah. We lost this one too.
1:02:55
Adam Bumas: We made we made the same mistake. I
1:02:59
Akilah Hughes: can't believe we're the only ones that got it.
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Wow.
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Lily Alexandre: It's lonely at the top.
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Akilah Hughes: We're seeing baguette with a
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Mike Rugnetta: three. God.
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Georgia Hampton: We do have to be strict with this one, but
1:03:12
that would have had my point in a perfect world.
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Akilah Hughes: But we should be strict.
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Mike Rugnetta: No takers on this one. Alright.
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Georgia Hampton: Alright. I've gathered the points. In last
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place is six seven.
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Akilah Hughes: Oh my god.
1:03:28
Georgia Hampton: With 17 points.
1:03:29
Adam Bumas: Wow. Shameful.
1:03:31
Georgia Hampton: In second place is the doghouse
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Jamie Loftus: Oh my god.
1:03:36
Georgia Hampton: With 19 points.
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Jamie Loftus: Well, take it. Respectable.
1:03:38
Georgia Hampton: Which means that in first place is two nerds
1:03:43
too furious with 22 points.
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Akilah Hughes: Yay. Woo hoo.
1:03:49
Adam Bumas: Lelishen Intombzable.
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Akilah Hughes: Thank you.
1:03:53
Lily Alexandre: Someone says the full name.
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Georgia Hampton: I wasn't brave enough to try.
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Mike Rugnetta: Folks, that's very exciting, But we do have
1:04:00
one final question to go. That's right. Oh, boy. For the final
1:04:05
course, our third bonus question, this time from Annie
1:04:11
Ruwerda, creator and denizen of the depths of Wikipedia. Annie
1:04:16
was kind enough to send us her question from the airport.
1:04:21
Just like Kurt's bonus questions, the first person to
1:04:25
answer wins it. Hans, give us that tape.
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Annie Rauwerda: In 2011, a nine year old named Milo Kress
1:04:32
launched a viral campaign to ban plastic straws. He apparently
1:04:36
conducted a phone survey of straw manufacturers that led him
1:04:40
to declare that Americans used 500,000,000 plastic straws every
1:04:44
single day. The figure has been widely disputed. Anyway, Milo
1:04:49
Kress is a college graduate now and in 2025, he got a job at
1:04:52
which leading AI company best known for developing Claude?
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Ryan Broderick: Anthropic. Correct. Look
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Jamie Loftus: at him. You guys won.
1:04:58
Annie Rauwerda: Wow. Aren't you glad AI safety is in the hands
1:05:00
of someone with a proven history of pragmatism? The answer for
1:05:05
500,000,000 points is Anthropic. And remember, if you're gonna
1:05:09
consume AI slop, you better suck it through a soggy cardboard
1:05:12
straw.
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Ryan Broderick: Wow. I think you just won 500,000,000
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Akilah Hughes: points. 500,000,000.
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Jamie Loftus: I have to give
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Georgia Hampton: it to six seven. So as it stands
1:05:25
Lily Alexandre: This game rules.
1:05:26
Georgia Hampton: With 500,000,017 points, our winners
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are six seven nights at Freddy's unless
1:05:35
Akilah Hughes: Oh, wow.
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Georgia Hampton: You don't agree with a point system that offers
1:05:40
such an exorbitant, unbelievable amount of points.
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Akilah Hughes: That's
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Mike Rugnetta: the year we have for you. That is 2025, Mordid
1:05:51
Postly. Congrats to our winners, and thank you to our guests,
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Jamie Loftus. Akila Hughes.
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Jamie Loftus: Yes. Tom Love.
1:06:02
Mike Rugnetta: Natalie Alexander. Ryan Brunner. And
1:06:06
Adam Humes. We're gonna put links to all the places that
1:06:09
everybody can find all of your work in the show notes. Thank
1:06:11
you to Annie Ruwerda from Depths of Wikipedia, Kurt White of the
1:06:15
podcast Unraveling, and Morgan Sung of the podcast Close All
1:06:19
Tabs.
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Happy New Year, everybody, and we'll see you in 2026.
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Akilah Hughes: Bye bye. Bye.