Fair Maidens. My fair maidens, my ladies, my girls, my wondrous winter witches.

Ooh. Happy winter everybody. I'm Sam Sanders. I'm Saeed Jones.

And I'm Zach Stafford and you are listening to Vibe Check, Winter Wonderland Edition.

Let it go, no we won't.

Nope, not letting it go.

We got grudges, bitch. This week we are going to talk about two frankly very high-stakes stories and we just fascinated by them and we think they have huge implications for many of us.

So we're going to talk first about the many recent lawsuits that have been filed against celebrities like Pedede, Eric Adams, Axel Rose.

I'm sure you've heard about some of them.

You might understandably be wondering, wait,

why is all this happening at the same time?

There's a reason for that, and we'll talk about it and its implications.

And also we're going to talk about look. Okay, let me preface this.

You like geared up. You like mounted up for this, say.

Any given week for about the last year and a half

that we've been doing this show,

we understandably could have talked about Elon Musk.

I call him Elon Musti.

But you know, as with people frankly like Donald Trump, who I think he has increasingly a lot in common with

it's kind of like do you want to make these people the center of your world your

editorial mind you know what I mean they They're just constantly doing stuff, but we're just over a year in into...

About a year in a month. Yeah, a year in a month into Elon's tenure and tyranny at the site formerly known as Twitter.

So we thought this in particular would be a good time to kind of look back.

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