Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this Year in Review
Speaker 1: in Review?
Speaker 2: Holy ship got charity? Wow jesus.
Speaker 1: Uh, my name is Jack O'Brien. That over there is
Speaker 1: mister Miles. Yeah, I have so much energy too it
Speaker 1: bom my god, taine. We have never done this before.
Speaker 3: We're doing cocaine before the show. And it turns out no,
Speaker 3: I listened. I went back and listened to last year's
Speaker 3: Year in Review and review. Man I was hired. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think it was the very last thing we recorded. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a lot. Uh and Miles. We were thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined by super producers on a hosey a
Speaker 1: and Becca Rama. Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, heller.
Speaker 2: Aller.
Speaker 1: What a year? Huh, folks, what a year?
Speaker 4: What a year in review? This was actually fun.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed some of these years in review, some of
Speaker 3: what we found just looking back at the at the
Speaker 3: media from.
Speaker 4: You know, trying to wrap up twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Uh but yeah, I uh, should we start with the
Speaker 1: Google year in Search? Yeah?
Speaker 5: An, well, any top line thoughts from people, just you know,
Speaker 5: just to open it up, you know, what, how would
Speaker 5: you I guess everybody describe twenty twenty three and two
Speaker 5: to three words.
Speaker 2: Oh top line thoughts sort of a dumpster fire.
Speaker 5: Okay, dumpster fire. I would say shit's fucked. That would
Speaker 5: be my shit's fucked.
Speaker 6: Is great.
Speaker 7: I can't even think past genocide sadly, you know, not
Speaker 7: to bring a damn brother the beginning of the episode.
Speaker 7: But it's like to me, I'm like, how can we
Speaker 7: talk about the rest of the year when we've just
Speaker 7: been having a really rough time since October?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: This person of the year, a dead baby, ring that
Speaker 2: new year baby.
Speaker 1: I'll it up in one word, Barbenheimer.
Speaker 2: Okay, hey, you're right about one thing. There's been a
Speaker 2: lot of bombs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you in and out of the box office
Speaker 1: for sure. Yes, yeah, Taylor.
Speaker 3: Swift, Barbenheimer, that's three for you, and that's my year
Speaker 3: twenty three.
Speaker 4: So that's gonna do it pretty nicely.
Speaker 3: We'll cut out all that other stuff that everyone was
Speaker 3: talking about and just you know.
Speaker 1: It's a two second episode, that's right.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there's definitely some shit like I the story
Speaker 3: that happened this year, but most like registers for me
Speaker 3: is like that definitely wasn't this year for some reason.
Speaker 3: The fact that the Last of Us came out this
Speaker 3: year seems impossible to me.
Speaker 1: I'm not really.
Speaker 6: Sure, Like that was last year year's moment?
Speaker 1: Was it last year? Well? Wait? Did it? Like?
Speaker 6: Am I crazy? Did it feel like the Last of Us? Heyday?
Speaker 6: Topic felt like we talked about at the end of
Speaker 6: last year.
Speaker 7: But the show was definitely airing in the summer, because
Speaker 7: I remember so vividly my partner's sister living with us
Speaker 7: catching up in the Last of Us every week on
Speaker 7: HBO on our cant Wow, you.
Speaker 1: Know what the release date was? What everyone? January fifteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Yeah, maybe that's what it was.
Speaker 6: Maybe we did was coming.
Speaker 8: At the end of last year, right right, right, Miles,
Speaker 8: that's not true, that's not true, and so it was
Speaker 8: our first live the Miles pelling on this shit.
Speaker 1: I'm not expecting to go to fact check what I
Speaker 1: say right now. I'm just going on vibes.
Speaker 2: That's not true.
Speaker 3: But like vibes wise, that show did not come out
Speaker 3: this year, No, fie, that's a twenty twenty two show.
Speaker 1: That was like a twenty twenty one show.
Speaker 2: Maybe if we're specifically looking at vibes, this ain't.
Speaker 5: This ain't even it, it's not even it's not even registering.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but so the AP did a bunch of like
Speaker 3: gear in review shit, And the main thing that I
Speaker 3: took away from it is that it feels like this
Speaker 3: was the year they started to truly not give a fuck.
Speaker 4: One writing the internet.
Speaker 3: You don't say there was Like one of their articles
Speaker 3: was top TV of twenty twenty three. APS selections include Succession,
Speaker 3: Jerry Duty, Shrinking Swarm. But then like the writing underneath that,
Speaker 3: like the subhead is, did you.
Speaker 1: Watch Beef yet? What about the Bear?
Speaker 3: It seems there's always a show or two that maybe
Speaker 3: you've meant to watch and just haven't gotten around to yet,
Speaker 3: just haven't gotten around to it yet. Like that is
Speaker 3: some saying shit without saying anything. Ask copy like it
Speaker 3: reads like a copy in a spam email, and it
Speaker 3: is in the AP like your review. Like that's fucking wild,
Speaker 3: Like they like stopped giving.
Speaker 7: A fun at all that they publish.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't understand. Also, all the web pages are
Speaker 3: fucking broken.
Speaker 2: There's one thing I know is that like headline culture
Speaker 2: is dead right, Oh yeah, nothing makes any sense. I
Speaker 2: read the most insane headline earlier today, which actually was
Speaker 2: like a headline that normally, like I would be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is a positive headline, but can I just read
Speaker 2: it to you right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yes, please.
Speaker 2: This headline literally it made my brain explode. And it
Speaker 2: was from Democracy Now of all places. So I was like, okay, well,
Speaker 2: I know they're trying to do good, but like, come on, Amy,
Speaker 2: this is it, says New York Times. Israel encouraged Hamas
Speaker 2: control of Gaza to buy Quiet. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: To buy quiet?
Speaker 2: To buy quiet? In quote and buy quiets and quotes.
Speaker 1: Like has it purchase be you why to buy?
Speaker 2: Israel encouraged Hamas control of Gaza to buy Quiet.
Speaker 1: To buy q I heard I heard d Bai choir.
Speaker 2: To the Dubai choir.
Speaker 1: Du Bay choir. Have you heard them those little kids
Speaker 1: there's so they sing like little angel. Yeah, they shift
Speaker 1: building a stadium.
Speaker 2: It made me think that with like they're trying to
Speaker 2: sort of like instagrama infographic, a fie all headlines. Yeah,
Speaker 2: to a point where it's just like a bunch of
Speaker 2: words they put together and removed sort of like any
Speaker 2: like you know, right, anything else. So it just sounds
Speaker 2: like nonsense. So you're like, yeah, well, you know the
Speaker 2: thing you didn't understand about is that Israel, Uh did something?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: You're like by quiet, yeah, and you're like, what what
Speaker 2: are you talking?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because like headlines used to be something you could
Speaker 5: just read and then go into a conversation with like
Speaker 5: the confidence of a connor, and it's can be like
Speaker 5: the yeah, oh yeah, yeah, of course, of course. I
Speaker 5: mean we all know that there's really Hamosoper by.
Speaker 3: Quiet and you're like you're you're doing and people are
Speaker 3: like are you all right?
Speaker 1: Can you like you mean something? You know? Yeah?
Speaker 3: But people, Yeah, I feel like this is why I
Speaker 3: think if if it wasn't gonna Times Person of the Year,
Speaker 3: if it wasn't going to be Labor, it should have
Speaker 3: been AI because I think, like we talked throughout this year,
Speaker 3: we were like, AI isn't isn't there yet? But it's
Speaker 3: like it's broken. It sucks, but they just like went
Speaker 3: with it anyway. They're using it to write the ship anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it doesn't work, and these all these meaning has broken
Speaker 3: das each Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well I get these ads on Hulu all the time
Speaker 7: about AI.
Speaker 6: It's like scary.
Speaker 7: It's like use AI to help your company grow, And
Speaker 7: I'm like the fact that I'm getting like mainstream TV
Speaker 7: ads about AI is like super.
Speaker 6: Scary to me.
Speaker 5: Well that's why it has. It has crypto vibes all
Speaker 5: over it, you know what I mean. It's like, here's
Speaker 5: the thing that maybe we can get enough people into
Speaker 5: and that'll.
Speaker 1: Make me rich. And I'll just say it's the future,
Speaker 1: even though it's not even cut really close yet. I mean,
Speaker 1: we had this whole evolution with it. We're like, fuck,
Speaker 1: we're gonna die.
Speaker 5: And then we like spoke to enough people who know
Speaker 5: what the fuck they're talking about, Like this thing is
Speaker 5: a fucking joke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not good, but they are using it.
Speaker 1: Is this impact the when.
Speaker 2: We googled or aied ourselves, it said that me and
Speaker 2: Miles were over married to his wife.
Speaker 1: That is fact and that is canon. Anna her majesty,
Speaker 1: Miles Throuble.
Speaker 5: I started by a throttle and we gave birth to
Speaker 5: our son Jack or Briar, Jork or Burger.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so that seems significant. Stops to buy choir.
Speaker 3: It just stopped. Everything stopped making sense. It was cool
Speaker 3: that that movie was re released, stopped making sense, the
Speaker 3: Talking Heads concert film, because everything truly did just stop
Speaker 3: making sense.
Speaker 1: This year, truly, Google year in search. I was listening
Speaker 1: back to the year and review from last year, and
Speaker 1: the top ship was like wordle.
Speaker 4: This year it was not fun. It was just warn Israel.
Speaker 3: I guess the closest we got to the like a
Speaker 3: fun top search thing was the Titanic Submarine.
Speaker 2: That one was like, oh yeah, when all those people
Speaker 2: died tragically, were.
Speaker 1: Like, that's like obvious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But like everything else is earthquakes, hurricanes, shooting. There
Speaker 3: is a space mission that I believe nobody blew up in.
Speaker 3: So that's the that's the good one.
Speaker 1: Uh. And then right back to Warren's Sudan. I do
Speaker 1: want to call out so people the top search people
Speaker 1: in Google the globally or in the United States.
Speaker 4: This is in the United States.
Speaker 3: Okay, but can I guess Taylor Swift? No, Swift doesn't
Speaker 3: crack the top ten? The top five? Yeah, mile hit
Speaker 3: a top five. Damar Hamlet, Okay. The Buffalo Bills player, that.
Speaker 1: Player who died on the field and then was brought
Speaker 1: back and.
Speaker 5: Then brought back to life. Number two, Jeremy Renner, number three,
Speaker 5: This one that.
Speaker 1: One that one mind did.
Speaker 2: He did he drop? He dropped that hot track this.
Speaker 3: Year right he got ran over by the snow plow
Speaker 3: he got dropped that hot track or a snow cat, right,
Speaker 3: it was everyone was calling a snowplow.
Speaker 1: I had I think it was like a big one.
Speaker 5: No, it's a snow cat, like a thing that had
Speaker 5: fallen like tank treads on it.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure like that kind of ship. Number three.
Speaker 1: This is where you get swifty Travis Kelsey. Yeah, of
Speaker 1: course that people are like, who the fuck is this guy?
Speaker 6: Then that's number three for you. It's for me in
Speaker 6: the US. My oh, I'm looking at people in general.
Speaker 1: You're going to people globally.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in the US for Tucker Carlson, number five, Lill Tay.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right when she like died back to life there.
Speaker 5: Huh yeah, and then Andrew Tate, Carl Russell, Jamie Fox,
Speaker 5: Danny Masterson, Matt Rife.
Speaker 1: But it's all people who have like tragic things happen
Speaker 1: to them, or people are angry at I mean, is
Speaker 1: Carl Russell that isn't actually a person that was a mistake.
Speaker 4: You find out that is actually not a person who the.
Speaker 1: Lady who faked your own kidnapping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like it's just people being like what happened, right,
Speaker 2: They're like, that's Google, who's this Lill Tay that died?
Speaker 5: Or maybe who's this Andrew Tait men's rights guy?
Speaker 1: And then it's like, oh my god, Jamie Fox almost died.
Speaker 5: Danny Masterson is a sexual predator, Matt Rife has a
Speaker 5: fake chin like those.
Speaker 6: Are kind of the fake and hates women.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I heard he actually, like to save Jeremy
Speaker 3: Renner had to have his chin transplanted into his job.
Speaker 3: Did Jeremy Renner think totally? Like I remember that being
Speaker 3: a thing. I don't remember it being a thing that
Speaker 3: like everybody cared about. And so yeah, Usually we take
Speaker 3: a look at these and we're like, what is wrong
Speaker 3: with America? For For me, this this one was all
Speaker 3: about what is wrong with me? I am missing the zeitgeist.
Speaker 3: I'm missing all the stories that people care about.
Speaker 5: But you knew, but you knew it passively, you knew
Speaker 5: it after Jeremy Renner. And then you're like, already I'm
Speaker 5: up on the Renner lore.
Speaker 1: It's not care enough.
Speaker 2: What do you mean You're missing all the stories? You
Speaker 2: literally host a daily news podcast.
Speaker 1: We actually talked about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you first sure talked about it. You just didn't
Speaker 2: have to go.
Speaker 1: Was it the number two story in my life this
Speaker 1: year about people?
Speaker 4: You know why?
Speaker 1: Because it failed? That's why failed.
Speaker 2: You host a daily podcast, so you have like six
Speaker 2: thousand stories on your feet at all times. So like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, that woman picked her own death. Hah.
Speaker 7: Was when this was pulled because I feel like maybe
Speaker 7: it's just my new circle, but I feel like the
Speaker 7: Diddy stuff has been really big in my Google search,
Speaker 7: like my like my popular culture, so I do wonder
Speaker 7: when these people were selected for us.
Speaker 5: I think it's weird the p Diddy stuff has it
Speaker 5: hasn't quite broken through the main stream, which.
Speaker 1: Is really I mean, I think I mean about it.
Speaker 5: I mean I'm not on TikTok, but the second is,
Speaker 5: oh man, the theories that are like people trying to
Speaker 5: connect all these dots about him is wild.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's managed to well.
Speaker 7: He even made it to paper taploid because I was
Speaker 7: at the a good old suburban Kroger this morning with
Speaker 7: and it was like on the front of like Star magazine.
Speaker 7: It was like j Lo's horrible two years of nightmare
Speaker 7: with Diddy, and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, damn, wow, Yeah, superducer Becerramos went to an actual
Speaker 3: grocery store, looked at the actual magazine racks, and came
Speaker 3: back with a Time Magazine Year of Review. So, uh,
Speaker 3: we'll just we'll be asking you to open to a
Speaker 3: random page, please and I will, yeah, and we'll learn what.
Speaker 1: Time Magazine has to say.
Speaker 3: But we're going to take a quick break and then
Speaker 3: we're going to come back and talk about the thing
Speaker 3: that we all really want to talk about, which is
Speaker 3: the top memes of the year.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back and we're back.
Speaker 3: And does Time Magazine have have an opinion on the
Speaker 3: top the top memes.
Speaker 1: On the memes?
Speaker 7: No, they have a culture section though, let's see science.
Speaker 2: Sports culture section they do.
Speaker 3: It's hmmm, oh wait, No, where I get all my
Speaker 3: like movie and music picks each year? Is I just
Speaker 3: wait for Time Magaziness Year and Review and then just
Speaker 3: buy everything, buy everything?
Speaker 6: Well, they have like images for the year. They have
Speaker 6: the migrant crossing.
Speaker 7: Uh, show of support for because they're Zionists, for Israel,
Speaker 7: anything for support for Israel.
Speaker 2: Even I don't understand the question.
Speaker 7: Even one of the captain says, we are not Jewish,
Speaker 7: but we came to support Israel. So Okay, big Zion
Speaker 7: is over here at at Time Magazine. But are we
Speaker 7: are we really surprised? They obviously.
Speaker 4: Of Hamas this year, they obviously.
Speaker 7: Promoted Taylor Swift over Beyonce. I think they have like
Speaker 7: one little photo of Beyonce, but they have like multiple
Speaker 7: photos of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 6: So the war.
Speaker 7: Continues between the two. But they obviously the women do
Speaker 7: not believe in the war. They they were at each
Speaker 7: other's premieres.
Speaker 1: So yeah, exactly. The media they're here to support. They're
Speaker 1: here to support. Just stop at Time Magazine, you messy bitches.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: Back to Google memes Top memes.
Speaker 3: Baby Kevin James the number I love A cute little
Speaker 3: picture of him being a cute little rascal, just with
Speaker 3: his hands in his pocket from the said King of Queens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't act like you don't know what the set
Speaker 2: that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see that. I see that. I don't see
Speaker 1: Kevin James.
Speaker 3: Actually, when they said Kevin James, so that's not Kevin James,
Speaker 3: mean that that is a meme starring the King of Queens.
Speaker 1: I don't know his name though, I don't know that's
Speaker 1: King of Queen's.
Speaker 6: Well, what I love.
Speaker 7: About that meme is that it started to pull like
Speaker 7: weird photoshoots that like sitcoms of the nineties had to
Speaker 7: do for press because they like I started seeing ones
Speaker 7: from friends that were like why are they in I
Speaker 7: don't even remember what it was. It wasn't like a
Speaker 7: normal setting. It's like why are they holding hands like this?
Speaker 7: Why are they all like? Oh, I think one of
Speaker 7: them they were in boxes like just like geometrical shapes
Speaker 7: and they were like having to like almost like kiss
Speaker 7: in these geometrical shapes and You're like, what is happening?
Speaker 7: And yeah, So I liked that the Kevin James mean
Speaker 7: brought up that we used to do really weird TV
Speaker 7: promo photo shoots.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they got to bring him back.
Speaker 5: Number two was the Ohio meme. Don't I mean I
Speaker 5: was that. Don't even think it was like only it's
Speaker 5: like the only in.
Speaker 3: Ohio kind of shit, right, It's like Ohio must be stopped,
Speaker 3: like everything is Ohio.
Speaker 7: Yeah, or I saw you know it's big in New
Speaker 7: York because there's so there's a giant billboard by my
Speaker 7: house in Brookland that is like you could be paying
Speaker 7: you're paying that much rent here when you could pee
Speaker 7: in Ohio and we're like, but none of us want
Speaker 7: to go to Ohio. This billboard is on Bhio just kidding.
Speaker 2: Have you been to Columbus?
Speaker 1: Gorgeous? Yeah, I have.
Speaker 2: Columbus is beautiful. I would hang out in I would
Speaker 2: have lived there. I would have like a little house
Speaker 2: in Colombo.
Speaker 1: A lot of people I know from Columbus would beg
Speaker 1: to differ, but uh yeah, a stupid nice place to place.
Speaker 1: Well then they're dumb.
Speaker 4: Well they're fucking idiots.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of a lot of these are like
Speaker 3: Ohio is just like a I don't know, like I
Speaker 3: had to look up on Know Your Meme and it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, every like all these weird kind of inside
Speaker 3: jokes based on like a twenty sixteen picture that was
Speaker 3: like Ohio will be eliminated that was written on a
Speaker 3: bus stop and then they were like what.
Speaker 1: If Ohio was this like powerful cause? And so it's
Speaker 1: just a lot of Ohio shit.
Speaker 5: I think the ones that are most power or full
Speaker 5: in our minds probably is I think to start folding chair.
Speaker 5: Folding chair, that to me was the one of the
Speaker 5: best things, best meme stories of the year, great stuff.
Speaker 4: There's the person of the Year, the Person's of.
Speaker 5: The the folding chair person of the Year.
Speaker 1: The way we.
Speaker 2: Found everyone training was folding chairs leading up to and
Speaker 2: then like people re enacting it in pools and stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, gorgeous, fantastic.
Speaker 1: That's when you know it's that's real, like meme ubiquity
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. It struck culture in a way. And also
Speaker 2: it is like basically like literal like race wars the
Speaker 2: funniest way possible.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what the what the wild thing too is how
Speaker 5: it played out too, is like the white lady won't
Speaker 5: face charges, but the black guy might, and then there's
Speaker 5: like this well back and forth. It's like okay and
Speaker 5: maybe not anymore and you're like what yeah, and.
Speaker 2: Then it's like but did you see that white guy's crocs?
Speaker 2: Even crocs was in on it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: It was an incredible sort of uh intersection of all
Speaker 2: culture coming in together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wrestling, yeah, racial in Alabama.
Speaker 6: Cross man, climate change.
Speaker 2: And then also like fairy culture right right, right, Wait,
Speaker 2: what was the fairy culture they had? They were asking
Speaker 2: them to move their boats so the fairy could pull
Speaker 2: in like the ferry. Yeah, the four with then the
Speaker 2: real culture.
Speaker 1: Boston Boston cop slide. Also stop bins and we have
Speaker 1: here our man on the street on.
Speaker 2: I was in Boston for the tour. I went I
Speaker 2: that slide was like ten minutes from my hotel.
Speaker 5: Not out there. This is important, sorry, I said, not
Speaker 5: our tours and people. No, no, this a much bigger show.
Speaker 5: This is important.
Speaker 1: Friends becose she likes much better than us.
Speaker 5: Well, we can't provide private jets, so I'll give her that.
Speaker 2: That's very true. I walked over there. I waited in
Speaker 2: line behind a bunch of children down the slide. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: here's the thing. I was alone, so I would have
Speaker 2: gotten video if I had like another adult with me,
Speaker 2: but instead I didn't really feel comfortable asking a child
Speaker 2: to take a video of me. Sure, I went down
Speaker 2: the slide because I was like, I have to understand
Speaker 2: what this slide is. Completely pleasant, absolutely no reason for
Speaker 2: a man to fly down that slide and lose his gun.
Speaker 3: Like like your phone didn't fly out of your pocket
Speaker 3: when you went down, and you didn't like go as
Speaker 3: over tea kettle.
Speaker 2: No, here's the thing. My body stayed in the same
Speaker 2: position from when I started the slides when I ended
Speaker 2: the slide.
Speaker 5: Okay, standard slide fare basically like had he just not
Speaker 5: been had he heard of slides before? But even if
Speaker 5: you had it, But even if you had it, I
Speaker 5: was asking Anna, like is there a way to launch
Speaker 5: yourself down? And it's like not really, It's like, so
Speaker 5: is he some kind of physics anomaly as like a
Speaker 5: human being?
Speaker 2: What if his man had never gone on a slide
Speaker 2: before and was not ready for like slide culture in
Speaker 2: any way.
Speaker 3: Slide culture is real, but maybe his uniform is like
Speaker 3: made of teflon, right, and like maybe it just like
Speaker 3: sped down there. It's just God, I love it picturing
Speaker 3: you in a line with like five children front of you,
Speaker 3: like three behind you.
Speaker 2: It really was what it was. I was like minding
Speaker 2: my business.
Speaker 3: Yeah I had kind of because I'm so internet poisoned.
Speaker 3: I had assumed it would be like a bunch of
Speaker 3: people with their phones and like there.
Speaker 2: Were people there, but it was funny because you would
Speaker 2: like make eye contact with a parent, but they would not,
Speaker 2: Like I got it. One was looking at you weird
Speaker 2: because they all knew, like.
Speaker 1: We know, yeah, here for the fucking slide. Yeah we
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: Well, slide holds.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Boston for the slide scibity toilet, which I
Speaker 1: still don't totally understand.
Speaker 6: That Google that one.
Speaker 1: I was like, what, oh man, so Becca, who is
Speaker 1: canonically eighteen years old. It is like he's so young,
Speaker 1: does not even know.
Speaker 6: The other ones I know, very young.
Speaker 3: So Becca's the youngest person possible as far as I know,
Speaker 3: and which is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, Becca's younger than my kids, younger than my kid? Yeah?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 1: Uh? What? What does Time Magazine have to say about
Speaker 1: skibit toilet? Interesting analysis?
Speaker 6: They didn't quite cover that one.
Speaker 7: It not.
Speaker 6: But the Veiggest Dome they got six pictures of that.
Speaker 3: Time Magazine loves the Vegas Dome. I bet there was
Speaker 3: a conversation where they were like, should James Dolan.
Speaker 1: Be the person of the year?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 7: A special sphere is a special sphere?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 4: Okay, special sphere?
Speaker 3: Is that a play on words alliteration? And the next
Speaker 3: one is uh, the second story that based on vibes
Speaker 3: did not happen this year as far as I can
Speaker 3: tell that this one does not, see?
Speaker 4: Am I wrong? Angela Bassett did the thing?
Speaker 1: Did the thing this year? That was this?
Speaker 2: That was this year that.
Speaker 1: Seems so long ago to me, you know what, but
Speaker 1: that's yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean Angela Basaid did the thing and she's coming
Speaker 2: back to host again.
Speaker 6: Big sleigh for her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, incredible.
Speaker 5: I think the one that we got also shout out
Speaker 5: too that was very of personal interest to the show
Speaker 5: was Grimace.
Speaker 7: Because I feel like this year that felling last year,
Speaker 7: I was like that was this here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, milkshake is eternal feels.
Speaker 5: It's also the top searched recipe in the United States, really,
Speaker 5: the Grimace Shake. Yeah, next to lasagna, soup, chicken.
Speaker 6: Cobbler, soup went viral on TikTok.
Speaker 5: Black Cake, pump teeny, the Hugo, Sprits, Cowboy Butter, Coronation,
Speaker 5: Keish Brazilian lemonade, and Cotta cheese ice.
Speaker 6: Creape Cowboy butter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know that sounds ronistic. Yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 1: sounds like what forms when a cowboy hasn't bathed in
Speaker 1: like three weeks. I'm sorry what it sounds like to me?
Speaker 4: Just going off?
Speaker 1: Wait, what do they say the Grimace milkshake is made
Speaker 1: of like what are they like, grapes?
Speaker 2: Eight cups of sugar.
Speaker 1: And then bring Grandmas over and get him off.
Speaker 5: For that unforgettable purple hue.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. You are, boss Roman. The Roman
Speaker 1: Empire is also on here.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 1: That's it's funny, not true.
Speaker 2: Because when you really think about it, it's quite present.
Speaker 1: And everything we do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I literally say that, like I don't even
Speaker 2: here's the thing even before the meme, Like when my
Speaker 2: team would start like losing in tennis, I would be like,
Speaker 2: that's how the Roman Empire fell. But that thing is,
Speaker 2: like we talk about the Roman Empire actually quite a lot.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's a that meme is actually quite on
Speaker 2: the nose. Dare I say it? And don't act like
Speaker 2: men out here aren't being like, well, the thing you
Speaker 2: need to understand about history, okay, because you know you
Speaker 2: guys all are we are one? Have you ever talked
Speaker 2: to a white man before? I would out history so quick.
Speaker 5: I would actually posit that the United States is more
Speaker 5: like Carthage than it is a Roman.
Speaker 1: That's my whole problems.
Speaker 3: You're already talking about what you have to understand. She's
Speaker 3: turning into a grim mischake, going out of body. Uh,
Speaker 3: let's take a quick break, we'll come back. We'll do
Speaker 3: worst movies of the year. And wrap it up. We'll
Speaker 3: be right back, and we're back, and so, uh, Metacritic
Speaker 3: no longer doing their digest of like the top ten
Speaker 3: lists of of movies like critics top ten lists, because
Speaker 3: they're a website and wesites just decided to stop.
Speaker 1: Like paying humans to run.
Speaker 3: Them editorially, so they don't do that anymore. But they
Speaker 3: do do the worst movies of the year, which is
Speaker 3: I always find it revealing because it's like, oh, that's
Speaker 3: what like that person has been doing for the past year.
Speaker 3: Like John Cena and Alison Brie were in one of
Speaker 3: the worst movies of the year that was like an
Speaker 3: action adventure. It seemed like very similar in theory to
Speaker 3: the Sandra Bullet Chanting Tatum one from last year, right,
Speaker 3: like an adventure romancing.
Speaker 7: The fact I even realized that movie came out with
Speaker 7: Alison Brie and that's.
Speaker 1: So many movies this year. Yeah, so that was that.
Speaker 5: The strike also kind of helped blur those things because
Speaker 5: no one was promoting anything.
Speaker 1: So you're like, huh, I saw.
Speaker 3: The previews for My Big Fat Greek Wedding three, and
Speaker 3: you know, I remember when the first and second one
Speaker 3: came out, and then this one they were showing the
Speaker 3: previews and then it like never came out, but it did.
Speaker 3: It was just it was just bad wha.
Speaker 2: Watching don't talk like that about good reviews, is all.
Speaker 6: I did not think it came out. I was shook.
Speaker 6: When I was prepping for our Year.
Speaker 7: In Movies episode, I was like, wait, my big back
Speaker 7: Greek wedding and I missed it. Let me tell you,
Speaker 7: I'm a franchise fan.
Speaker 2: I love a franchise fan.
Speaker 1: Watch franchise.
Speaker 2: Watch number one recently still holds up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I watched it last year around I did
Speaker 7: with a friend and I was like, this movie still
Speaker 7: fucking slaps.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 5: I did three weeks ago for the very first times.
Speaker 2: Literally five or six years of me since I met you,
Speaker 2: I've been saying, you haven't seen my big packorck wedding.
Speaker 1: This bit.
Speaker 2: You finally watched it after all this time.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I was.
Speaker 5: I was with some people and like they're like, oh,
Speaker 5: let's watch it, And I got the save response, like
Speaker 5: you haven't sa.
Speaker 1: Wrapped me to a chair.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The touchers class it touches culture like it's like, as
Speaker 7: a person of color in this country who doesn't have
Speaker 7: a lot of rom comms.
Speaker 6: I feel like that was the wrong come for us
Speaker 6: that the day.
Speaker 7: You know, Yeah, it like did touch on like the
Speaker 7: immigrant experience family.
Speaker 2: I've ever seen that represented my family in any way.
Speaker 5: It was funny because like growing up with some Greek people,
Speaker 5: I was like, watch one of the first lines gonna
Speaker 5: be about how to use wind decks on everything, cut
Speaker 5: to wind decks on everything, Like, okay, but I guess
Speaker 5: that's just ubiquitously.
Speaker 2: Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It was, Yeah, it was great. I don't he
Speaker 1: went high on that one. You guys great, Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: full of shit, not mad.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. My favorite line when he's like when
Speaker 2: the aunt is, by the way, every single casting in
Speaker 2: that show, in that movie incredible work. When the aunt
Speaker 2: is like, come over, we'll make you dinner and they're like, well,
Speaker 2: you know he's vegetarian, and she's like, veget terry. I'll
Speaker 2: make lamb. That wine reading is the most legendary, Like
Speaker 2: to this day, if someone says anything about vegetarian, I say,
Speaker 2: I'll make lamb. It is a cultural touchstone for me.
Speaker 2: I'll make that like just doesn't give a ship that
Speaker 2: you're vegetarian or Greek. I'll make lamb literally.
Speaker 7: My parents around the holidays because my partner doesn't really
Speaker 7: eat a lot of pork, and my parents are like,
Speaker 7: I don't know what to tell you, my guy.
Speaker 5: Okay, so yeah, your blood type is going to be
Speaker 5: put Neil Man.
Speaker 3: I hope you're ready, Miles. The family switch is on there.
Speaker 3: I believe, did you is.
Speaker 1: That I saw that ship came.
Speaker 5: You can count on me to watch the worst movies
Speaker 5: of the year and know nothing of the actual achievements
Speaker 5: in cinema this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that that definitely can be on there.
Speaker 5: It's like it's one of those movies where like I
Speaker 5: feel like anyone watches and you're like, I could have
Speaker 5: done a better job, like blackout drunk writing a film
Speaker 5: than like whatever this was.
Speaker 1: Maybe that is the method.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's just you just have to get blackout drunk
Speaker 3: and then write the film. The expend for blessed or
Speaker 3: expendables four, but it's written with the four in place
Speaker 3: of A because the four, I guess looks like a
Speaker 3: capital A, but you don't capitalize that part of the
Speaker 3: word anyways. That came out. I didn't realize it existed
Speaker 3: that Charlie Day movie. I don't know why this was
Speaker 3: on my radar, but it was like Charlie Day wrote
Speaker 3: and directed this movie seemed like a classic, like I
Speaker 3: don't know Peter Seller's premise where he's like this strange character,
Speaker 3: the strange figure who gets like mistaken identitied into being
Speaker 3: a movie star and then it didn't come out.
Speaker 1: Oh it did. It came out in May. It was
Speaker 1: just nobody. Nobody was checking for it.
Speaker 3: And yeah, that one looks like like Charlie Day, people
Speaker 3: are like, this is his big swing, and then you
Speaker 3: should have known that when it was coming out in May.
Speaker 5: That, like so many things, you're like, people are gonna
Speaker 5: be looking back, like how Willa Ford is like my
Speaker 5: career tanked because of nine to eleven because my album
Speaker 5: came out on nine to eleven, right, and like it's
Speaker 5: gonna I feel like the same way the Strike is
Speaker 5: like just we've like shows just disappeared in like the
Speaker 5: pop culture memory because no one was actually talking about them.
Speaker 2: Her album dropped on nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why she was so hilariously fucked.
Speaker 2: She's like, hey, guys, just want to promote.
Speaker 1: Oh got off?
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh never Okay, well that was tough.
Speaker 3: I read the room, who's like one of the leads
Speaker 3: in Hamilton, and she was in like this kid's movie
Speaker 3: that my kids like, Over the Moon. So I was like,
Speaker 3: I'm checking for her. She's in Moana. I was like,
Speaker 3: she's gonna have a career, and then like she disappeared.
Speaker 3: But she was in one of the twenty worst movies
Speaker 3: this year called One True Loves.
Speaker 6: Oh on the trailer for this, yeah, yes.
Speaker 3: She her husband dies, she falls in love with uh
Speaker 3: the famous actor from Chang Chi Oh.
Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, she obviously disliked actor hilarious.
Speaker 3: Falls in love with him, and then her husband come
Speaker 3: back from dead?
Speaker 1: What wait?
Speaker 2: What her husband comes back from dead? Whoops?
Speaker 6: He was a coma right or something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, or maybe he was like missing or I don't know, yes,
Speaker 3: moving along.
Speaker 1: He miraculously resurfaces. Yeah.
Speaker 7: They were like, oh, well, I have to move on
Speaker 7: my life. It's been five years.
Speaker 2: He's got to cut his losses. Sorry bro for that long.
Speaker 1: We saw cast Away. We saw Castaway, you know when
Speaker 1: you're out there.
Speaker 3: So it's just like what if Castaway was focused on
Speaker 3: Helen Hunt's Basically, the premise of this seems like it could.
Speaker 1: Be a good one, but so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then finally Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey.
Speaker 1: Uh was that is.
Speaker 3: The number one worst reviewed movie that came out this
Speaker 3: year according to Metacritic, and see that coming.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we kind of had a feeling.
Speaker 3: It felt like they made a movie and then got
Speaker 3: attention and then we're like, we're gonna keep making this movie.
Speaker 1: We're gonna add movie to this movie and apparently didn't
Speaker 1: hang together very coherently.
Speaker 2: Like we're gonna need more movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna need bigger movie it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, could you, uh we sprinkle some more movie over here?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, a little weird.
Speaker 3: Hey, speaking of Tasty grub Hubs, Trendiest Foods of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three based on orders is something we always like
Speaker 3: to check in with on this episode.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple of notes that they said that their
Speaker 5: whole thing was like sort of about like fivees. So
Speaker 5: like all the like copy in this blog posting is
Speaker 5: doing like trend one. It's giving fire school scales went
Speaker 5: off the charts. It's like gen Z Samantha. But they're
Speaker 5: talking about how this year a lot of people were
Speaker 5: adding spicy shit to their food.
Speaker 1: It was up a certain like a percentage of over
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 5: The next one, it's giving fizz work breaks hit different
Speaker 5: with a diet soda. Apparently, the hashtag diet coke break
Speaker 5: trended with over forty three million views on TikTok, and
Speaker 5: people wanted to get their fixed. They said diet coke
Speaker 5: orders increased by seventeen percent in twenty twenty three, just
Speaker 5: ordering a diet coke on grub Hub, like along with something,
Speaker 5: you know, like if you're ordering something with your food.
Speaker 5: Another one it's giving it's giving midnight oil jack caffeine
Speaker 5: cravings went after hours.
Speaker 1: This one is interesting. He said.
Speaker 5: People were winding up, not winding down this year, with
Speaker 5: over ten million coffee beverages ordered after five pm, which wow,
Speaker 5: I think it's kind of grip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not good for you. Yeah yeah, like.
Speaker 5: Ooh, either you're accidentally up all night or you need
Speaker 5: to be, which case, my heart goes out to you.
Speaker 4: Grinding.
Speaker 3: We're on that grind as a nation. And then it's
Speaker 3: giving Aloha. Pineapple on pizza goes mainstream. It said people
Speaker 3: didn't hold back when it comes to ordering on their pizza.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty three, Hawaiian pizza lovers ordered Pineapple with
Speaker 3: Pride the topping rows thirty.
Speaker 1: Three percent since last year. I'm not a pineapple guy,
Speaker 1: so I don't.
Speaker 3: Like a two month dalliance with pineapple a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago, and then my kids got tired of it, like,
Speaker 3: oh really, it feels like a thing for children, Like
Speaker 3: the children like pineapple pizza briefly, Pineapple Twitter is gonna
Speaker 3: come for you.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, Kineapple on pizza is like that's not new.
Speaker 5: I know, I know, But why this year though, Like,
Speaker 5: like did it go up by thirty three percent?
Speaker 1: Did someone? Did the older people figure it out? The
Speaker 1: old maybe?
Speaker 5: And then finally it's giving tangy wow booth to fashion.
Speaker 5: Pickles were on everything. Pickles had the largest increase since
Speaker 5: last year, with an eighty nine percent increase, with people
Speaker 5: ordering because of that stuff TikTok.
Speaker 7: There's a girl on TikTok who sells these pickle sweaters
Speaker 7: and they like went viral and they keep selling out
Speaker 7: and then I picked my definitely having a moment, a moment.
Speaker 7: I'm on pickle TikTok. I'm seeing girls make pickles from home.
Speaker 7: I try to make some pickled cares. The other day
Speaker 7: did not go well?
Speaker 5: How does it not go well? Like you you just
Speaker 5: do it too soon, like you eat it too soon,
Speaker 5: rather than.
Speaker 7: I don't know, I left it for a minute, and
Speaker 7: I just feel like they did just waste it at Okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: just one minute.
Speaker 6: No, I left for like probably a week, and I thought.
Speaker 2: Yet to leave that shit for six years, honey.
Speaker 7: Okay, Well now I know because I was like, I
Speaker 7: just felt like they weren't very flavorful and I just
Speaker 7: had soggy pickles, you know, right, you know like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, you got to be like my parents where
Speaker 2: you're like, so you pick up like a cobweb covered
Speaker 2: so like even that mister's color has turned and you're like,
Speaker 2: is this good? And they're like, oh that spice.
Speaker 5: You open the lid, it doesn't even pop, Just like that, like.
Speaker 2: A smoke comes out. That's when you know it's been.
Speaker 3: Yeah, makes the sound that when you rub a Genie lamp.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm impressed that they stuck with the It's giving a
Speaker 3: format for the entire thing once again, just more evidence
Speaker 3: that a I was the person of the Year, and
Speaker 3: it's just they're just like, I don't know, just to
Speaker 3: u gen Z spin on these trends.
Speaker 1: Oh Man, cocaine, it's giving national ego death.
Speaker 3: Let's all bury ourselves a love, all right, guys. Well,
Speaker 3: that has been our review of the year in review.
Speaker 3: So many so overall, you know, thumbs up, thumbs down.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty three nailed.
Speaker 1: It right, seven thumbs down.
Speaker 3: We were talking on last year's year review and review
Speaker 3: about the trend of people being like this was probably
Speaker 3: as recently as like two three years ago, people being
Speaker 3: like goodbye twenty twenty three, Bring on twenty twenty. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like where they just assumed that the thing that was
Speaker 3: wrong with the year was the year. This year was
Speaker 3: so bad? Can't wait for twenty seventeen? Eighteen was jump still,
Speaker 3: can't wait for twenty seventeen when the guy who made
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen bad is the president of the United States.
Speaker 5: Yeah only yeah, if only worked like that, And it's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: because the second January first hits, there will be a
Speaker 5: global shift in consciousness and empathy that will change all
Speaker 5: of the north.
Speaker 1: Then we go back to how it always used to be.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, when in reality it's like get ready, Trump's
Speaker 2: coming back. Everyone, get ready to shelters.
Speaker 3: Ready, I feel like there's never been a year so
Speaker 3: bad that I'm also like, this year was very bad
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, and I'm almost certain twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: is going to be like far worse, just based on
Speaker 3: like the inevitable, like the potential election.
Speaker 4: What's going to happen?
Speaker 1: Check into our predictions.
Speaker 5: Check into our predictions episode where we will see into
Speaker 5: our swordage future.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have our predictions coming, the bad predictions of
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three and the good predictions of us.
Speaker 1: What's actually coming in twenty twenty four? Yeah, is an
Speaker 1: episode coming in the coming days. We will talk to
Speaker 1: y'all then. I hope you're having a blessed holiday. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: stay tuned for the image of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: It's going to be Sarah Connor watching her son play
Speaker 5: in a playground.
Speaker 1: Twenty three.
Speaker 3: Uh, and then we'll see what happens in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: O god, oh no.
Speaker 1: We'll be back for that.
Speaker 4: Bye.
Speaker 1: Take care everybody.
Speaker 2: I love you.