Hello, friends, a quick announcement before this week's episode. After this week, 60 songs will be going on its regularly scheduled hiatus until Wednesday, August 5th, 2026. That is the exact date. We will return. You are encouraged to

hold me to that date. Our last break took way too long, and I once again apologize. This break

will be shorter, and it will end at the appointed time.

Thank you so much for listening and we will see you very soon.

On April 19th, 2018, a dude in Houston, Texas posted what is now widely regarded as the single greatest Craigslist ad of all time.

Subject line, 1999 Toyota Corolla, Fine A.F.

If you don't know what Fine A.F.

It's too late.

We got a guy selling his car here.

We got a guy in 2018 selling his 1999 Toyota Corolla.

That's the premise of this genuinely transcendent Craigslist ad.

You know how people say we're living in late capitalism lately?

Late capitalism, an actual economic concept from the 1930s that I don't know anything about.

But now it's a term that you mostly see people use on the internet as shorthand for everything sucks, right?

A quarter pounder with cheese costs $35 now. Late capitalism. Spirit Airlines shut down.

Late capitalism. The M&M Fortnite skin, late capitalism.

The trolls movies, yeah.

But the very concept of late capitalism implies the existence of peak capitalism.

A previous single identifiable point in human history

when we perfected capitalism, when we fucking nailed it.

But from then on, we totally biffed it, and it was all downhill from that single perfect moment

onward.

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