Speaker 1: I'm Manny, I'm Noah, and this is no such thing
Speaker 1: the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours
Speaker 1: by actually doing the research. On today's episode, we are
Speaker 1: doing a year in review. We're gonna be talking about
Speaker 1: our favorite movies, music, and news events of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: There's no such thing, no such thing.
Speaker 2: Such, thank.
Speaker 3: Such, thank.
Speaker 4: Such, thank you.
Speaker 1: All Right, last week we were off for Christmas, and
Speaker 1: we're still kind of in that weird week between Christmas
Speaker 1: and New Year's where like no one's really doing anything.
Speaker 1: It's like a this work purgatory, and I think that's
Speaker 1: being reflected in our episode this week. We promise we'll
Speaker 1: be back with our regularly formatted episodes. Uh next week,
Speaker 1: We've got some bangers lined up, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're doing our year in review. We're talking
Speaker 1: about our favorite stuff this year. I think we can
Speaker 1: just start with movies. Noah, what was your favorite movie
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four?
Speaker 5: So I was thinking about this, and there's still a
Speaker 5: few big ones I need to see now that they're
Speaker 5: finally all coming out at once.
Speaker 6: Movies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, basically I won't really be able to answer this
Speaker 5: till February probably, but my number one movie, and I'm
Speaker 5: not sure either of you have seen it is Between
Speaker 5: the Temples.
Speaker 6: I have not even heard of this, but it's yeah.
Speaker 5: So it's It's with Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane. She's
Speaker 5: an elderly woman trying to get bot mitzvud late in life.
Speaker 5: He's he works at a temple, but he's supposed to
Speaker 5: like lead the songs there, but he he can't sing,
Speaker 5: and he's dealing with a losing his wife and kind
Speaker 5: of horrible past.
Speaker 7: Missus O'Connor, joh I know you, Ben Gottlieb. Benjamin Gottlieb,
Speaker 7: You're my music teacher. I worked down at the temple Sina.
Speaker 8: I'm a canter.
Speaker 3: So interesting because I'm in a query.
Speaker 5: He's well odd canter and so it's kind of an
Speaker 5: odd couple sort of scenario.
Speaker 7: But it's really funny.
Speaker 5: It's sweet, but at the same time doesn't like pull
Speaker 5: its punches when it comes to kind of some uncomfortable moments.
Speaker 5: I kind of had no expectations going into it. Just
Speaker 5: saw it at BAM on a random day, and.
Speaker 7: I was just so pleasantly surprised by it. And left
Speaker 7: feeling reinvigorated.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if everyone would be able to connect
Speaker 5: with it as much as me. Maybe, but I would
Speaker 5: recommend it.
Speaker 1: What do you what'd you throw on there? For The Letterbox?
Speaker 5: Now, I'd probably give it pretty high. I think i'd
Speaker 5: give it four point five star.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, it's up there an incredible film.
Speaker 6: Well, it's your movie in a year. It's gotta be.
Speaker 5: Oh. Not only not only that I like watching, but
Speaker 5: I think I would like watching it again, even if
Speaker 5: I watch it tonight, or if I watched it and
Speaker 5: I can see myself watching it years from now and
Speaker 5: enjoying it, which goes a long way.
Speaker 9: I guess we don't want to spoil the The Letterbox
Speaker 9: episode to come, but the fact that made by how
Speaker 9: high your favorite movie of the year, it's pread.
Speaker 7: Out honestly on a rewatch, I might even throw it
Speaker 7: a five. We'll see. Wow, I'm opening up my heart
Speaker 7: of it.
Speaker 1: Wow, I gotta see this film. Yeah, I'd be curious
Speaker 1: to hear what you guys think about it and check
Speaker 1: it out. I've got like you'll have to bear with me.
Speaker 1: I've got like my highbrow pick and then my kind
Speaker 1: of more phone pick. The the high brow one. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've guys seen Evil does Not Exist.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm, yeah.
Speaker 1: I really liked it so last was that last year
Speaker 1: or two years ago, was driving my car. It's like
Speaker 1: the same director. I thought that one was like, oh,
Speaker 1: like fine, like I enjoyed it. It was super long, obviously,
Speaker 1: but uh, this time he's got this movie about this
Speaker 1: community basically that's affected by like the construction of like
Speaker 1: a glamping like social media site, and on the surface,
Speaker 1: that's the plot, but like, underneath that plot, it's it's
Speaker 1: more about, like I don't know, some of the same
Speaker 1: themes of the first the previous one, to human connections
Speaker 1: and like all the little nuanced ways that we affect
Speaker 1: each other's lives, like how the decisions I make might
Speaker 1: affect Noah or Devin's lives, and how like really considering
Speaker 1: that is important because otherwise we're just robots, or we
Speaker 1: might as well be robots or these like inhuman kind
Speaker 1: of figures. It's streaming on Criterion Channel if you haven't
Speaker 1: seen it yet. But then my kind of like more
Speaker 1: fun pick I really really enjoyed the furios of movie,
Speaker 1: the Mad Max movie, and I was I think it
Speaker 1: might have something to do with going into it with
Speaker 1: like really low expectations because they they did that movie
Speaker 1: a total disservice with the trailer, Like the trailers really
Speaker 1: positioned this film as like this Marvel extended universe situation
Speaker 1: where they're like all these like side characters and cameos
Speaker 1: and stuff. But so I was like, oh, this might suck.
Speaker 1: But I went into it and I thought it was
Speaker 1: like really rad and doing a lot of cool things,
Speaker 1: and you've got the classic George Miller like we're gonna
Speaker 1: actually do the action scenes. And I left that movie
Speaker 1: being like damn, like this is what this is what
Speaker 1: movies are about. Yeah, I want to leave just like shocked,
Speaker 1: like wow, I can't believe they did that and it
Speaker 1: was and I thought it was incredible.
Speaker 6: The question is I have it an you and I
Speaker 6: might get an epic.
Speaker 1: But I will also say I didn't get to the
Speaker 1: movies that much this year. It was it was an
Speaker 1: off year for me. Yeah, like for that to be
Speaker 1: my pick feels a little off. But I gotta go
Speaker 1: see some movies before the before the year ends.
Speaker 7: Manny, what would you rate your those two picks?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Evil does not exist? You know, it wasn't like kind
Speaker 1: of like mind blowing, but it was like a solid
Speaker 1: three and a half. I think at least I could
Speaker 1: see it being a four if I were like an
Speaker 1: especially mood that.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I really liked that town hall scene. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 5: was locked in during.
Speaker 1: That, leaned forward on the couch during that scene. And
Speaker 1: then Furiosa probably a three. Okay, okay, yeah, best movie
Speaker 1: of the year. Three favorite memorable.
Speaker 5: Is already one where I was scrolling through just was
Speaker 5: on on cable the other day. That was on and
Speaker 5: I was like sat back for probably fifteen minutes watching
Speaker 5: Chris all right, Devin.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we're still movies. Uh, you know, obviously it's there's
Speaker 9: the big ones of the year. I think guys are
Speaker 9: on everyone's list, like the Dune two's Challengers. Those are
Speaker 9: probably my two mainstream picks.
Speaker 7: My challenges, my big, my big mainstream one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it's it's incredible.
Speaker 9: A lot of people have talked about that one, so
Speaker 9: I won't waste more talking about it, and we'll talk
Speaker 9: about it later, yes on NFT, but I'm gonna go
Speaker 9: with a different man.
Speaker 6: So this is I don't know, have y'all heard of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, number two, that was like on my short list.
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 9: So the way I think about it and I think
Speaker 9: I put in my letterbox review is like, this is
Speaker 9: like if Charlie Kaufman made The Substance. So so the
Speaker 9: premise is like this dude he has like a facial
Speaker 9: deformity and he can basically goes to like get a
Speaker 9: surgery to make his face look quote unquote normal.
Speaker 6: But then a lot of things.
Speaker 9: I don't want to spoil the movie because it's actually
Speaker 9: very interesting and it's like one of those things that
Speaker 9: as little as you know about it going into it,
Speaker 9: the better.
Speaker 7: Piece of man, Why are.
Speaker 10: Remember me? That guy's amazing?
Speaker 11: How do you know about who is he?
Speaker 10: He's meeting a double like in Australia.
Speaker 9: But it's funny because I saw it maybe a day
Speaker 9: or two after I saw The Substance, and it felt
Speaker 9: like they would make a great like back to back screening,
Speaker 9: you know, sort of definitely in the same It's like
Speaker 9: a smart, much smarter version of the Substance. It's a
Speaker 9: much more layered and it's like I think sometimes you
Speaker 9: can be like, this is like a Charlie Kaufman version
Speaker 9: of this thing as like an insult.
Speaker 6: But I thought this was like a.
Speaker 9: Very good coughmin like world where it was like it's layered.
Speaker 9: Everything's a little bit off, everyone's a little bit weird,
Speaker 9: but it's also like you get the world pretty quickly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's not too hyper stylized or something where
Speaker 5: it still feels grounded and it yes, even though it
Speaker 5: What was pleasantly surprising to me was it pushed the
Speaker 5: story way further than I expected. Yeah, without saying too much,
Speaker 5: but yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, what you were you think it's gonna go is
Speaker 9: over in like fifteen minutes, but then yeah, you know,
Speaker 9: it's like, oh, where are we going to go from here?
Speaker 6: The thing has already happened.
Speaker 1: So the two of you do you think it? You
Speaker 1: don't think it necessarily replaces the need for the substance.
Speaker 1: You just know it should be like a back today.
Speaker 9: They're different enough, they're very different, like someone This movie
Speaker 9: is not as easy of a movie to contumee as
Speaker 9: as something like the Substance.
Speaker 1: Gotcha. I think if I'm only gonna watch one of
Speaker 1: these movies, you you should.
Speaker 6: Watch a different man. If you're only gonna pick.
Speaker 9: One, knowing you what the hell does that mean that's
Speaker 9: a compliment in this case.
Speaker 1: Knowing you're a dumb ass you got Yeah.
Speaker 9: Different, man, I'm saying like, if I had to pick,
Speaker 9: like if you're if you're like between these two movies,
Speaker 9: pick something that like a mainstream audience is gonna like,
Speaker 9: I'm gonna pick the substance because it's a lot more.
Speaker 1: It's different, Man's more interesting, Yes.
Speaker 9: Got but it's also you know, you got to pay
Speaker 9: a little bit more attention. It's been more layered. You're
Speaker 9: gonna have a bit more questions. You know, probably show
Speaker 9: your mom this. I'm gonna show my mom either.
Speaker 6: Money is but.
Speaker 7: And especially Sam was great. He's he's had a great
Speaker 7: turn for me.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm I'm a fan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he seems like a seen.
Speaker 1: The Trump movie yet, but I want to. I want
Speaker 1: to see him. You don't need to no shaking his
Speaker 1: head after what they did to my president. So I
Speaker 1: think that might conclude our movies portion of the episode.
Speaker 1: We can move on to music.
Speaker 6: Now, Well let's start. Let's start with Manny because.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, yeahs not famously not a music
Speaker 1: listener either, Yeah, uh.
Speaker 7: And doesn't listen to music.
Speaker 9: So we we all we're the last three people on
Speaker 9: earth who still have Apple Music. Yeah, so our well,
Speaker 9: I don't even know what they called Apple music year
Speaker 9: and review rewind or replay rewind. We usually send it
Speaker 9: to the group and every year Manny's numbers get crazier year, Like,
Speaker 9: I'm like, I.
Speaker 6: Don't even know your numbers are so to be.
Speaker 9: Like sixty minutes, yes, like its top listen to the
Speaker 9: song of the year, it's like three plays.
Speaker 6: I was like, is this correct?
Speaker 1: My top listened to artists? Unsurprisingly was Drake how many?
Speaker 1: I listened to him for one hundred and forty two minutes.
Speaker 5: That's that's like the album, Yeah, Scorpion from front to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 9: I just artist of the Year is Future at sixty
Speaker 9: five minutes. There's not a Future album at sixty five
Speaker 9: minutes long?
Speaker 7: Yes, I mean what do you do? Like, what how
Speaker 7: do you hear music?
Speaker 1: You know, it's weird when they when they rank it
Speaker 1: that way, because I do, like if I'm at the
Speaker 1: gym or if I'm like at home cleaning or something,
Speaker 1: there is music on, but it's never like I never
Speaker 1: listen into the same thing again, Like it just keeps
Speaker 1: going and going, but just or something yeah, and so
Speaker 1: it doesn't end up ranking like you'll never see any
Speaker 1: like I never like Heart a song that I really liked.
Speaker 1: So I'm I know. I do know that I listened
Speaker 1: to music way less frequently than the average person. But
Speaker 1: when you look at these ranks, it's like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: did only listen to Drake for one hundred minutes, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily paint the picture of how often I'm
Speaker 1: listening to music. But speaking of Drake, this is a
Speaker 1: good segue. There was, you know, as we talk about
Speaker 1: our favorite music from this year, our favorite song, even
Speaker 1: there was a very high profile rap beef that happened
Speaker 1: earlier this year, and I don't think that this song
Speaker 1: is necessarily my favorite song of the year, but I
Speaker 1: but I don't think it gets enough credit. If I
Speaker 1: may be.
Speaker 7: Just what I think it's gonna be.
Speaker 5: I think so.
Speaker 1: I think by far, the best song that came out
Speaker 1: of that beef was Family Matters, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot more people would agree if Kendrick hadn't been so
Speaker 1: smart to immediately snuff out the hype around it by
Speaker 1: putting by releasing his next song like that that strategy
Speaker 1: around it completely just belittled what the song was. But
Speaker 1: I think when you really go back and listen to it, like.
Speaker 9: Barfest song, best song, as in like song you enjoy
Speaker 9: listening to, most effective song in the beat.
Speaker 1: It's the most dynamic, It has the best rap bars
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 12: Hey, kend you just open his mouth? Someone goll hand
Speaker 12: him on Grammy? Right now, where Jon put that? Because
Speaker 12: I want to tell to the man in the house
Speaker 12: West Coast niggas do phase right, kunget this has woo
Speaker 12: you want to take over forever? And Kung get his
Speaker 12: legacy out of my house.
Speaker 1: It's got all the switch ups, which are fun. There's
Speaker 1: the layers of like how many people he's dissing in
Speaker 1: it as well, which is just like a fun exercise
Speaker 1: to listen to now not like us. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: it's a gigantic song. Obviously, it's been played over and
Speaker 1: over for the entire year, especially in you know, because
Speaker 1: of what he's saying in the song. But and and
Speaker 1: that's part of the genius of the song, is like
Speaker 1: it coming out right after family matters and like no
Speaker 1: one really talks about family matters. Uh, But yeah, I
Speaker 1: challenge any like rap head to like go listen to
Speaker 1: the songs back to back, read the pull up the
Speaker 1: rap genius, read the lyrics. Uh you like that's I
Speaker 1: do think that song is like better quality?
Speaker 9: This is this is the this issue before during the
Speaker 9: push a T. Drake Beef, where I think you have
Speaker 9: a very different understanding of what is a good rap
Speaker 9: beef song than I do. Not like Us obviously is the.
Speaker 1: Song, yeah, the year period we agree on.
Speaker 9: Outside of the Yeah, I get it it's not your favorite,
Speaker 9: but you said it's the best song. And like we
Speaker 9: also had this conversation around the pusha T Song.
Speaker 6: Story of that and on character. Let me keep with
Speaker 6: the facts.
Speaker 12: You are hiding a child, but then boy come home
Speaker 12: did beat motherfucker playing Border Patrol.
Speaker 9: And you're like, oh, the song isn't really that good.
Speaker 9: But it's like does it like we're not no one
Speaker 9: is into a rat beef to be like, I'm you know,
Speaker 9: I gotta you know, how structured is my song and
Speaker 9: like I gotta make sure that like it's cohesive. But
Speaker 9: I think like Us is a better song.
Speaker 1: And that's about it. But here's the thing we're talking,
Speaker 1: like this are two different conversations. Right, We're like, I'm
Speaker 1: acknowledging that we're talking about rat beef. What's more effective
Speaker 1: in a rat beef? That's not like us by a mile.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about you know, here's we get a
Speaker 1: chance in the NST podcast to pick a song that
Speaker 1: we think maybe didn't get enough spotlight. And I do
Speaker 1: think it's a better song. I don't think it means
Speaker 1: he won the beef, clearly, not that was like the
Speaker 1: most lopsided beef in rap history. Maybe, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's just such a I think I listened to
Speaker 1: it the other day. I'm like, god, damn, this guy
Speaker 1: was going crazy on this song and we don't talk
Speaker 1: about it. It's not like us dropped eight minutes later
Speaker 1: and that was it. Anyway, that was my pick. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a good pick, Devin.
Speaker 7: You want to go sure, I don't.
Speaker 9: I'm not a huge singles guy. Yeah, I mostly I
Speaker 9: mostly listen to albums. So even looking at like my
Speaker 9: top songs of the year with this Apple Music review,
Speaker 9: it's just like it just becomes like, what are the
Speaker 9: albums I listened to? Yeah, yeah, And it's like, all right,
Speaker 9: here's ten songs from the album when You're twenty.
Speaker 6: So my I'm not gonna do song, I'm gonna do.
Speaker 9: My top album of the year, which is love Guess
Speaker 9: Who by this artist named Altrey Novall. It's funny because
Speaker 9: this year I was listening to a lot of the
Speaker 9: same artists I was listening to in like twenty sixteen,
Speaker 9: Like my top artists were mostly those artists Pine Grove,
Speaker 9: Pine Grove, Yeah, how to Dress Well, yeah, you know
Speaker 9: bone Beer back in there again album?
Speaker 6: Well, that's you know, that's close.
Speaker 9: But the Are One came out in November and it
Speaker 9: was my top played album of the year, which is
Speaker 9: kind of crazy. It Also, you know, I saw him
Speaker 9: perform that album. He hasn't performed in you know, like
Speaker 9: a long time, and I saw him perform the album
Speaker 9: the day after the election, which was pretty wild and
Speaker 9: kind of a weird headspace after also working for like
Speaker 9: two days after your president was elected. Uh noah, our
Speaker 9: president to be like, do I president want to go
Speaker 9: see a concert tonight? Is that really where I want
Speaker 9: to go? And like to go see this man? Like
Speaker 9: this man performs and it's I don't know, I just
Speaker 9: felt like this year too, I saw a lot of
Speaker 9: concerts that I was just sort of like that was fine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was curious if you had to hear a
Speaker 5: concert as sincere probably the most the biggest live music
Speaker 5: ahead of all of us.
Speaker 6: Definitely, I don't just I don't know.
Speaker 9: I feel like there's a lot of artists right now
Speaker 9: who are just showing up and playing songs, which is fine,
Speaker 9: but I like, I like to see an artist where
Speaker 9: you're like, I don't know if this person is going
Speaker 9: to finish this concert. You know, like they're going through it,
Speaker 9: like they're going through the elections of when I recorded
Speaker 9: the first time. And I've seen that man play big
Speaker 9: spaces in like very small spaces and he always performs
Speaker 9: as if it's like Madison Square Guard and you know,
Speaker 9: body on the Line sort of stuff, and it's nice
Speaker 9: to see. It's like, yeah, that's why I showed up.
Speaker 9: I didn't show up for you to just sort of
Speaker 9: like here, yeah exactly, just like play just you know.
Speaker 6: Quickly go through the album version. So that's be.
Speaker 7: A standout song if you had one people to sample.
Speaker 9: Let's play Uh, we've gotta do like they do in
Speaker 9: the podcast, like we're playing it. Yeah, let's play about
Speaker 9: to lose commalss theme.
Speaker 4: So I got its feeling out about But then I
Speaker 4: don't ever want to make good to.
Speaker 7: All right any other any other music notes Sevin.
Speaker 9: I listened to probably about the same amount of music
Speaker 9: as I always listened to. This year, I had tough
Speaker 9: time connecting to music this year.
Speaker 6: I don't know so much.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know how much of that was me
Speaker 9: or if the new stuff just wasn't that good, especially
Speaker 9: looking back, you know where I got my like Facebook
Speaker 9: memory shit popping up, and I was like, looking back
Speaker 9: on some of my old lists of like favorite albums
Speaker 9: and stuff, I was like, shit, I used to listen
Speaker 9: to a lot of new music and like not playing
Speaker 9: it once but like on rotation throughout the year, and
Speaker 9: this year I was just like it was tough to
Speaker 9: like there was there wasn't a lot of new stuff
Speaker 9: that I connected with.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel similarly.
Speaker 9: I think next year I'm gonna try to be a
Speaker 9: bit more intentional about it because I think also it's
Speaker 9: like I fucking hate the Apple Music UI and it
Speaker 9: wait forced you to basically just listen to the last
Speaker 9: three things you listened to yeah, yeah, or something completely random.
Speaker 9: So twenty twenty five. My goal is to be more
Speaker 9: intentional about listening to new music.
Speaker 5: So yeah, Similarly, I'm not really a singles guy, so
Speaker 5: that I was I was trying to see, like, Okay,
Speaker 5: do I have a standout song? But I did pick
Speaker 5: one that It's by a band called Speed from Australia
Speaker 5: who I saw in July. They're like a hardcore band,
Speaker 5: really heavy, but but I think kind of have a
Speaker 5: lightness or there's kind of a fun element to them
Speaker 5: where I think anyone who's at all open to like
Speaker 5: kind of loud rock could probably tolerate it. This is
Speaker 5: great for like a gym playlist. The song would be
Speaker 5: the first test. It's on their new album. They incorporate
Speaker 5: flute in a way that isn't as gimmicky as I
Speaker 5: would have feared.
Speaker 6: Lizzo heard about this No no, no, no no.
Speaker 5: No, being like, all right, here's this hardcore band that's
Speaker 5: like screaming and mashing and stuff and they do flute stuff.
Speaker 7: I was like, but I saw them live before.
Speaker 5: I really I had heard them before, but seeing them
Speaker 5: live they were great and the flute stuff played really well,
Speaker 5: and it's like, you know, next time you're trying to
Speaker 5: get your pump on. Throw the song, see see how
Speaker 5: it feels next time, trying to pr at the Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 5: just throw up somewhere in the middle of the playlist
Speaker 5: there and see see how you feel about it.
Speaker 7: I'd i'd love to get your reaction.
Speaker 1: I need, I need motivational music to even you know,
Speaker 1: get out there.
Speaker 7: It's good, nice, Yeah, throw it on.
Speaker 5: So that that's that's if I had to pick like
Speaker 5: one song, I was looking back because similarly to you, Devin, like,
Speaker 5: I'll check out what comes out every week, but a
Speaker 5: lot of stuff I just lose after that week because
Speaker 5: I'm either onto something new or most of what I
Speaker 5: listened to is if you look at my Apple rewind,
Speaker 5: it's just Bob Dylan like three thousand minutes or something,
Speaker 5: so it's yeah new at all.
Speaker 9: It's funny to see, like what y'all listening to a
Speaker 9: week the week. There's a thing with Apple music, you
Speaker 9: see what other group listening to, but I see, I
Speaker 9: see you nos, and it's always like some random Bob
Speaker 9: Dale album.
Speaker 6: Even prior to the Timmy stuff, he's an og.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: This year for live stuff, I didn't see many things,
Speaker 5: but one kind of notable experience was this band's son,
Speaker 5: and it's these two guys.
Speaker 7: It's like drone music.
Speaker 5: So they come out in robes and they both have
Speaker 5: guitars and they'll just like strum a chord and hold
Speaker 5: it for like minutes, and it's the most incredibly loud
Speaker 5: thing I've ever That was that Lincoln Center, so it
Speaker 5: seeded a beautiful theater and like fog and weird lights
Speaker 5: and stuff, but it was like eight earplugs and thank god,
Speaker 5: but it's like my whole body was like wow, vibrating.
Speaker 5: It was crazy, and like like the first few minutes
Speaker 5: you're like getting used to it.
Speaker 7: I was like, I don't know if I can sit
Speaker 7: through an hour or whatever of this, and then like
Speaker 7: you get used to it.
Speaker 5: It was really pretty, and then you're just kind of
Speaker 5: like you really are just like zoning out.
Speaker 6: But it was his sensory experience, Yeah.
Speaker 7: It really was.
Speaker 8: It was pretty crazy, all right.
Speaker 1: I think we can move on to the news events.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I don't really know exactly what I
Speaker 1: was thinking with this category. I guess like some kind
Speaker 1: of thing that happened in the news that you think
Speaker 1: has implications for next year. We obviously just did the
Speaker 1: assassinations episode, so that doesn't count. The one thing that's
Speaker 1: been in my mind is when the Democrats finally scrambled
Speaker 1: together to replace Joe Biden on the ticket.
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Speaker 11: for a different Democratic candidate to face former President Trump
Speaker 11: this November.
Speaker 9: Well, we were together that day a fauldy. There's a
Speaker 9: huge day Sunday. Is it a Sunday hours, Yeah, it was Sunday.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I think it's a Sunday. We were getting
Speaker 1: together to do a photo shoot shout out Jordan Bowman
Speaker 1: for the podcast, and they just announced it while we
Speaker 1: were in there, or maybe while we were on our
Speaker 1: way there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because that was on my I was on a
Speaker 9: city bike and people from work were calling me and
Speaker 9: I was like I knew immediately what was happening.
Speaker 6: And I was like, yeah, I got to pull over.
Speaker 1: There had been for maybe two days like it might happen,
Speaker 1: and yeah, but the reason I chose that event is
Speaker 1: like I go back and forth because on one hand,
Speaker 1: it shows that like the Democrats, who I'm very you know,
Speaker 1: cynical about, do you have the ability to like get
Speaker 1: together and like do some big thing if they need to.
Speaker 1: But then obviously on the other hand, it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they chose the wrong person clearly, or like they could
Speaker 1: have like it earlier in the year. They could have
Speaker 1: been doing this so that we could do it.
Speaker 7: We could have done this two years ago the process.
Speaker 9: Yeah, or look, it could have been right person. I
Speaker 9: think it's right person, wrong strategy. I think she could
Speaker 9: have won if they threw Biden under the bus. But yeah,
Speaker 9: see that's why at that moment frustrates me because it's
Speaker 9: like they were willing to do something, but not.
Speaker 7: They're still scared.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's what I go back and forth on.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, it is good that they they they
Speaker 1: realized that they acknowledged how bad this was looking, and
Speaker 1: then they switched them out. And then it was like,
Speaker 1: but it's the same case to the same but like,
Speaker 1: don't worry, we're still it's like, god, damn it, and
Speaker 1: now look where we are.
Speaker 9: Well, especially my frustration with that moment is like if
Speaker 9: you if Trump is such a big like he is
Speaker 9: this huge threat to democracy, right, you're telling people this
Speaker 9: may be the last election if this guy is chosen.
Speaker 9: So we're gonna we're gonna do something that's never been
Speaker 9: done before. We're getting rid of our candidate. Yeah, and
Speaker 9: then for that to happen, but then for you to
Speaker 9: be like, but we don't want the new candidate to
Speaker 9: be mean to the old candidate. We don't want her
Speaker 9: to say anything not nice about the old candidate, Like
Speaker 9: how is that where we're drawing in the line.
Speaker 1: She didn't have to be not mean about it. She
Speaker 1: could pay This is a different guy, different platform.
Speaker 5: Just like the lack of any said he's the boss,
Speaker 5: so obviously I was going along with him.
Speaker 7: But yeah, next year, it's gonna.
Speaker 6: Be me in charge.
Speaker 7: And here's what I would do. The most.
Speaker 1: The most infuriating ship was they did the podcast with
Speaker 1: the pod Save America people, like all the people were
Speaker 1: in that campaign it's like a month ago, I think,
Speaker 1: and just like absolutely zero like self reflection, likething.
Speaker 6: In the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just blame other people. Yeah, and so implications
Speaker 1: going you know, in the future. Like, I think it's
Speaker 1: nice that they can, you know, do this kind of
Speaker 1: like hit the emergency glass thing if they need to.
Speaker 1: But hopefully they learn from this because the four years
Speaker 1: of Trump. Not happy about that.
Speaker 6: But it doesn't seem like they are learning from it
Speaker 6: based on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well hopefully at that point will be different people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's time. Who knows, Yeah, there's time. That's
Speaker 5: a good pick. Maybe a nice hopeful pick, you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, my pick was not.
Speaker 6: I didn't follow the rules of this.
Speaker 9: Do you think I just picked what was an important
Speaker 9: moment to me this year around the world of media,
Speaker 9: which is uh. I found this TikToker who makes print calls.
Speaker 9: He goes by the name this is the funniest ship
Speaker 9: I've seen in quite some time. Goes by the name
Speaker 9: of Cassandra Bowman. I feel like print calls were such
Speaker 9: a thing when we were kids, like crank anchors. Yeah,
Speaker 9: of course, you ever do it with your friends print calls?
Speaker 1: Maybe a couple of times. I was a good guy, yeah.
Speaker 9: Because it was pre you know, we were like in
Speaker 9: the just like caller ID just becoming a thing, but
Speaker 9: you can still hide your number.
Speaker 6: Stage of things.
Speaker 9: And yeah, he has this TikTok where all it is
Speaker 9: is like he prank calls people. But my favorite thing
Speaker 9: that he does is like so it'll be like, Manny,
Speaker 9: you'll contact him and say, like, call my sister and
Speaker 9: tell her I put her down as a reference for
Speaker 9: a job, but like you won't tell your sister ahead
Speaker 9: of time. So he he'll call and be like, all right,
Speaker 9: I'm calling. He does like this woman's voice. You know, man,
Speaker 9: you puts you down as a reference, Like, tell me
Speaker 9: how you work together in the cit Like obviously the
Speaker 9: people are lying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because they're trying to help their Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: helping out there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and the see like the hoops that people jump through,
Speaker 9: because you will be like oh actually, she like, they'll
Speaker 9: beake where did you work together, and they'll say something
Speaker 9: like random company and they're like, oh, actually have you
Speaker 9: down and working and they're like, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: We Also, she said she was the chief operations officer
Speaker 3: of a mid sized startup and that you were the CEO.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, so we did theater together, my bud, that
Speaker 10: was a middle operation.
Speaker 6: She said.
Speaker 2: The the startup was about biotech.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, now I'm.
Speaker 10: A drum fire and we worked at the times. I'm
Speaker 10: sorry because I'm also entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 10: So the biotech we did was we were pretty much
Speaker 10: had samples of different what was it, we had stamples
Speaker 10: of different hair products, and she said that this was.
Speaker 2: About developing medical devices.
Speaker 9: Hold on, give me sucking.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: Yes, my dad, I'm just a little confused because you
Speaker 2: worked at a biotech company. You worked at the polls,
Speaker 2: he worked, you know, at the theater. I'm just a
Speaker 2: little lost, right now.
Speaker 7: That's good.
Speaker 1: It was on one hand, it's so funny, but like
Speaker 1: if I got that call about my sister, I'd be
Speaker 1: lying my ass like, yeah, we had a great time
Speaker 1: working at this company.
Speaker 6: Well, the last ones I saw, the woman was.
Speaker 9: Clearly like typing to try to like message to person
Speaker 9: and be like, what the fuck am I supposed to
Speaker 9: be saying?
Speaker 6: What did you put me down?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: And so she like the guy, he was like are
Speaker 9: you typing? What are you doing? And she's like, oh, no,
Speaker 9: I have a meeting. Like I'm trying to send an email.
Speaker 9: I'll share one of want of to tiktoks. But it's
Speaker 9: like I go to it maybe once a week to
Speaker 9: just like laugh out loud.
Speaker 6: It is incredible.
Speaker 5: I was at a loss thinking about big news events
Speaker 5: because I was just like, I can only think about
Speaker 5: the election and.
Speaker 7: Like the Luigi stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But then so then I was like, okay, let me
Speaker 5: just look at like a big list of news events.
Speaker 5: And I was looking and I found a story that
Speaker 5: I think everyone here is going to appreciate at least.
Speaker 5: I mean when I say everyone, I mean you to.
Speaker 5: And here's the headline from Reiters. This is in June,
Speaker 5: wild horses returned to Kazakhstans Golden Step after some two
Speaker 5: hundred years. So these are the only remaining wild horses
Speaker 5: and they've been returned to their incestral homeland in the
Speaker 5: Golden Step. And I need to do some more reading,
Speaker 5: admittedly to catch up on it, but it sounds like
Speaker 5: things are going well and they're kind of rebuilding their
Speaker 5: you know, they started with a few and now they're
Speaker 5: rebuilding up to get more and more back living naturally.
Speaker 5: So hopefully, you know, two hundred years from now, there'll
Speaker 5: be plenty more wild horses standing in fear, standing strong,
Speaker 5: not running.
Speaker 1: Probably you should send that article to ren the woman
Speaker 1: And I'm on this, yeah, yeah, but I think I've
Speaker 1: already seen it.
Speaker 5: Yeah I did this actually, but yeah, I thought that
Speaker 5: was a nice positive story, which you know so much
Speaker 5: of these days. Anything else, so many other reflections that
Speaker 5: you're obviously launching No Such Thing was a huge moment
Speaker 5: for for me and the world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how can we forget what a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: really at the end of the year, launching this podcast,
Speaker 1: and it's been so fun. Obviously we've gotten We're getting
Speaker 1: a lot of fun reviews and are super excited to
Speaker 1: keep it rocking in the new year. And as I
Speaker 1: just said earlier at the beginning of this episode, we
Speaker 1: are going back to regular episodes. Uh, starting what is
Speaker 1: that January seventh. I think the next episode is about
Speaker 1: whether it is okay to be on your bed with
Speaker 1: your outside clothes. Uh, so very divisive. We're getting a
Speaker 1: lot of voice notes in from our listener, so stay
Speaker 1: tuned for that one. It's gonna be a fun one.
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