*Disclaimer: The AI that generated this podcast had a bit of a problem rendering Alex's beautiful voice, so that's why his half sounds crazy this week.*

In reality, his mic gave out just before recording so he had to improvise using his phone. The resulting recording was inconsistent and not up to the quality of the rest of the podcast. We apologize for the inconsistency, but hope to be back to audio perfection by next week.

Anyway, we start by discussing the NYMag story that came out on Monday featuring 72 notable New Yorkers, and how easily identifiable they are. We then talk a bit about Elon's Twitter and let the fact that he fired a dozen janitors transition us to the busting of the railroad workers strike. Then we get back into social media to talk about Spotify's premature end of year assessment, and further how much Spotify sucks in general. Then we talk about Alex's experience at a live show on Sunday even though he doesn't listen to music hardly ever. Before wrapping we touch on Throwing Fits for the most time in several weeks, recapping their latest episode and "the greatest story never (before) told", before finishing on a robust discussion on raw denim spurred by their hosting of denim gawd Andrew Chen of 3Sixteen/Self Edge.