Spotify has the audacity to think it knows the top ten artists in hip-hop. New Gorillaz album dropped. TI and 50 are beefing for some reason. Ziggy has some wild hip-hop takes that Doc is so ready to swat down. How painful is stepping on a LEGO compared to other minor injuries? Who would have a bigger bounty: Osama Bin Laden or Jeffery Epstein? Bananaball becomes official! The WNBA is on the verge of a labor strike. Punch the Monkey might close this horrible timeline we are in, one that includes Jonathan Majors being in a movie directed by Ben Shapiro...

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J Cole is selling albums out the trunk. Do albums even matter? Snoop is not received nearly as well at the winter olympics. The Super Bowl has actually had a lot of non-American artists perform at the halftime show. The Epstein Files continue to drop and we owe conspiracy theorists some apologies. Pam Bondi blows her cool but the DOW is over 50,000 so why should we care? The Internet asked white people what their favorite things about Black people are. We award a championship ring to the kid who punched the nazi in school. Damian Lillard is still good at basketball. Chris Paul finally retires. Baltimore has their own Banksy, kinda. What should the next Men in Black be like?

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Doc predicts the Grammys. Don Lemon gets arrested. Green Day and Bad Bunny might make some people angry. Everyone hates ICE. Nikki Minaj goes full MAGA. More Epstein files fallout. Erika Kirk continues to have terrible optics. Did Epstein create /pol? Kai Cenat is learning how to read. Bill Belichick gets snubbed. Luigi is freed from federal charges. The leviathan is going to eat us all.

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A$AP reminds us that he is more than Rihanna's husband. J Cole reminds us that he still exists. ICE is wilin' out. The midterms could not get here soon enough. Trump fails with oil executives. Bad Bunny made a fantastic Super Bowl ad. Doc and Zig talk about an article claiming that getting back to your hobbies is how we should build community in 2026. Tech executives are turned off by romance.

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Doc and Ziggy are joined by Kellen, the original Flood fan! He proposes that TV needs to get weird again and how now is the time for peak absurdity. Spotify had more than 99% of its library scraped. Jake Paul gets humbled. Diddy gets owned. Who are some of the greatest haters in history? CBS bends the knee and refuses to air CECOT episode of 60 Minutes.

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In music, Sombr tops the charts while Wale stages a comeback and Jesse Wells makes a statement. Donald Glover reveals why he cancelled his tour and it isn't a fun reason. "Big Short" inspiration Michael Burry is betting against AI while AI toys are hitting the market and actors are having their likeness reused in advertisements. The argument on fair compensation for artists rages on while Doc and Ziggy argue about ranking of fictional artists. The Starbucks workers are on strike and what are the best cities to live in based on the price of a cappuccino?

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This week on The Flood, Dan and Doc break down Congress finally reopening after the longest government shutdown ever, the Epstein files vote, and Trump’s tanking approval rating. We get into the leaked Epstein emails, the Bill Clinton rumors blowing up online, and why the internet is spiraling over Disney’s new AI content tools.

We also talk TikTok vs. Vine nostalgia, viral dating trends like “zipcoding” and “shrekking,” Paul Walker’s 2 Fast 2 Furious Evo going up for auction, and the Being Eddie documentary. Plus: Wolfenstein dad moments, Roman Empire brainworms, and whether having a boyfriend is officially embarrassing now.

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In this week’s episode of The Flood, Doc and Ziggy cover everything from the surreal to the stupid. Ziggy kicks things off with his Halloween triumph as Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off before the crew dives into anime news, the Dodgers’ wild Game 7 finish, and why Victor Wembanyama might actually be from another planet.

They also unpack the latest chaos from D.C.—Trump’s Gatsby party at the White House, SNAP benefits expiring mid-shutdown—and take aim at Elon Musk’s latest project, Grokopedia, the AI-powered Wikipedia no one asked for.

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