WEBVTT - Viral Trends 2025 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.240 Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special year end 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:08.560 episode of Darnley Guys, the production of iHeartRadio. This is 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:10.319 a podcast where you take a deep to have into America, 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.760 share consciousness, and for the end of the year, we 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.680 like to take a look back at the year and 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.040 on this episode specifically the most viral stories of the 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.599 year that we enjoyed the most. We did the top 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.240 fifteen stories, but we also like to reserve an episode 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:29.000 to bring on our youngest producers to talk about what 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.519 went viral, what we might have missed, or just like 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.319 the shit that was the most fun. I'm joined, as 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:40.120 always by my co host mister Miles Right, thank you, thank. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.920 You for visiting me. You always say you're gonna visit 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:47.760 you never do. Come closer, let me see your face. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.320 I haven't seen your face in so long. Anyway. Yes, 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.240 I'm living in a This is a parallel reality because 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.760 as you hear this, I am horizontal. Probably yeah, ghost. 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:02.920 Well it was not feeling great, but. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.040 I was referencing that I'm going to play video games 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:06.280 for two weeks. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:10.120 Oh what you As they are hearing this, we are 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.480 in a void of not having to record the show 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:19.759 for two weeks. So glorious. We're almost at the finish line. Miles. Yes, 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:24.480 thrilled to be joined by three supers producer with a 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:30.080 combined age of forty five. We're thrilled to be joined 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:37.200 by super producer Bae Wow. Hey, we're joined by a 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.680 super producer and an integral part of this year and 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.760 tradition was on the first time we did it. Bru 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.920 helps keep us up on our on our tiktoks. One 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:49.760 of the greats. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.640 It's super producer Baca Rama. 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.520 Hello, I'm back baby. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:01:59.800 We missed. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.520 I said, don't forget about me. Now look what happened. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.600 You got all you now you with the culture. Now okay, 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:09.400 well I miss you, we miss you. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.880 We miss you. We're to have you back. And we're 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:24.960 of course joined by super producer Victor. Right, it's starting already. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:26.120 We're young. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:27.360 Oh my god. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.280 So I was like, are we gonna have enough viral 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:35.600 stories to talk about? Did stuff go viral this year? Yeah? 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.120 It turns out a lot of show went viral. We 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.919 ended up with seventeen pages of stories to talk about. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:42.720 We're not going to be able to get to all 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.440 of those. So instead we're going to do this like 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:50.359 a draft where everybody. We're going to go through our 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.680 roster of guests and hosts on this show, and everybody's 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.440 going to pick their number one story, So you have 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:01.360 to choose carefully. Well, we'll go until we hit the 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:06.400 hour mark. So however many rounds that takes us, we 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.960 are going to give the first pick to the first 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.919 person to come on this format of the show. One 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.720 of the original super producers of this show, Becca Ramos. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.600 Oh my god, Becca, you have the very first pick 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:24.280 in the twenty twenty five viral Internet Trends of the 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.280 Year draft. What you going with? 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:33.799 Zor On zor On Zoran Mom. 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:40.119 People don't don't say it like Cuomo Now, Oh, don't. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.320 Do that to me. Don't do that to me. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:47.800 No, he is the people's princess. He is America's mayor. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:50.839 It has been very exciting to live in New York 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.680 City at a time where there's hope again. It feels 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.040 like two thousand and eight Obama. It is crazy. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:02.240 Heretually it doesn't go like two thousand and eight Obama. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.640 Now that I have the job, I understand I need 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:06.880 the banks to back me. 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.640 And that is truly how I think everybody in the 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:15.240 city felt during the election. Post the election, I honestly 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.800 the craziest thing pre the election was the campaigners, because 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:22.800 as someone who's an apartment dweller here in New York City, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.039 the amount of people that have come to my door 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:31.120 knocked disturbed my very erratic dogs and been like are 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.560 you voting and who are you voting for? And I 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.520 was like, yes, I am voting. Are you doing early voting? 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.839 And I was like probably, I don't, I don't know. 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.839 And they're like, like, well, what date are you early 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:46.320 voting right now? I was like, oh my god, alone, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:47.520 I'm like, I'm voting for Zoron. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.440 I'm trying to close the door. I'm voting for Zoron. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:50.920 They're like, no, you need to tell me the date 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.520 and time you're going to be voting for or On. 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.440 I need to know where exactly you're going to be 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.479 voting for Zoron. I'm like, so I voted, Okay, I 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:58.240 voted for Zoron. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.159 I was teams Oron. We've been teams On. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.160 We're hoping that he doesn't fall into the clutches of 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.919 you know, centrism and the bigotry that is the administration. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.760 But you know, there's hope for the first time ever. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.640 October was a crazy month. I had never seen so 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:18.640 many people campaigning in the streets, excited to see the 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.880 hottest mayor to come into New York City physically and electorally. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.280 And an Arsenal supporter, Yeah, an Arsenal fan, I thought 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.760 you were referring to the only stories that went viral 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.280 for me about Zoron. We're all the stories about how 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:33.720 he was going to do a nine to eleven every 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.680 day and all those cool Cuomo videos. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.760 The moves were crazy, and also I want to acknowledge, yeah, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:47.040 the Islamophobia that like perked up during the campaign because 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.159 I think those of us who vote in the primaries 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.719 and were shocked that he got, you know, at the 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.520 official nomination for the Democratic Party. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:56.680 Then like a month. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:01.000 Or two before October or November before like official election day, 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.120 it was like the Cuomo campaigns were insane. I was 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.040 at the gym, and you know, they have a public 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.400 cable at the gym, and all the political campaigns would 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.080 pop up, and then I would see the Cuomo ads 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.279 and they were like, literally, Mondomie is doing nine to eleven, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.040 He is going to bring this city down and crutches. 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.880 He's burning everything up, and I was like, oh. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:23.880 Teaching Arabicals to kids. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.119 Yeah, it was like doing like the crazy like Sepiatone, 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.520 like it's like all the classics, and I. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.800 Was Every video begins with like the prayer call, you know, 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.400 like it like it's an HBO show in the early aughts, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.480 cutting to you like. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.440 I used to I miss the sounds of dem Bo 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.840 playing in the streets, but now it's the call to prayer. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.640 New York has changed because. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.159 You're in your own bubble, right, Like when you're in 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.760 the like left wing like little roll bubble, you're like, oh, yeah, 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.880 of course everyone's voting for Zoron, Zoro and zor On. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.080 But then you go to a regular place where there's 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.400 other people, like the gym, and they have it on 0:06:59.440 --> 0:06:59.960 all the TV. 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.479 You're like, oh my god, I can't believe. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.200 The when there's almost as if so many people agree 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.120 that ship is too damn expensive. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.960 Almost it's almost like that. But that's actually not the 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.080 lesson to take. The lesson to take is the Zorn 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.880 is a talented politician who's got a good smile, and 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.840 that's all you need. Oh no, please, no, no, no, please, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.000 no more talk about affordability. Affordability as a hoax, thank you. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:32.400 Uns is real quick. I hope to god this doesn't 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.600 become because if we all remember during twenty twenty, if 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.560 you lived here in New York City during twenty twenty, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:41.440 before Cuomo fell from grace, people were like Cuomo sexuals. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.840 If we know that there were instagram that. 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.720 They were sexual predators or oh no, you just mean 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.880 they were yeah, yeah, now. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:51.560 That is what it means. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.280 But before people were like, no, no, I think Cmo so 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:58.080 sexy that I he's saving New York City, Thank you 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.360 Cuomo Quomo sexual And then it was like, so he 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.720 is assaulting people, so like Houmo sexuals. 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.240 Now he's. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:06.800 He's Italian. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.320 That's just just charismatic, just. 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:13.200 How they communicate with their hands growing people. 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.320 Yeah, so I just hope that doesn't know that. I 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.520 believe though having a zor on, but it is weird 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.160 to see the successfulation. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.320 What happened to all these guys. 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.720 I'm saying, like everybody, all these memes are like hot 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.679 sexy mayor Zorah. People are like now they're like, okay, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.120 we love his policies, but we also think he's so sexy, 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:35.480 and we're like. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.240 No, no, no, we needed to step that down. Just focus 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:39.240 on to learn. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:44.080 Stop fucking idolizing the fucking politicians Jesus Christ, like it's 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:48.160 great of like what a candidacy represents, but getting all 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:52.280 in on the like the hotness of it all that that's. 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.520 No, they're like me the memes I was seeing on 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.600 my feed of like I bet you they're on field. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.120 They look for a third they treat their unicorn really well. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:02.679 I'm like, this is weird. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.200 Wow, this is weird. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:04.880 Wow. 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:10.080 Okay, great first pick, Rebecca Ramosh. We're moving over to you, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.400 Miles Gray, for your first pick, the overall second pick 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.680 of the Internet Virality twenty twenty five draft. What what 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:19.400 you're going with? 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.480 Mine is absolutely Italian brain rot. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.560 It's got to be, it's got, it's it is the 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.520 story Like the one that I have the most trouble 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.920 believing was this year. Although I will say Zorn I 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.920 was like, wait, what was happening at the beginning of 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.040 the year, but like was he was nobody? Yeah, people 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.920 were like it would be cool, like I think this 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.640 guy might get ten percent of the boat, so that 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.800 is wild. But Italian brain rot. The fact that that 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:48.839 was not a thing I was aware of at the 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:49.600 beginning of the year. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.160 This is still not aware, can you Okay? 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.160 So I'll let you know my we mounded seven in 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.800 with this. It's no separate, right, I. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.240 Mean you could if it's like things that your friends 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:02.959 who are teachers told you about. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.319 Yeah, it's just like a thing that overtook that entire 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.400 and like it's similarly stupid as fuck, Like it's just slibbitty, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.319 though it's closer to the Skimmity toilet I think exactly. 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.959 This is more skibbitty than six seven. I would say 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:23.760 skimmity was last year skimbitty skimmity ishneys old. But again, 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.600 this was like one of those things, Like I said, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.760 if I get a lot of my like news from 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.360 what's happening with like the real youth, from my friends 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.920 that are teachers. My one homie who's a music teacher, 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.000 just was like, dude, my kids are losing their fucking 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.200 minds watching this Italian brain rock content. And I'm like, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.200 what the what are you fucking talking about? 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:44.760 Like, what are these words strung together? 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:46.880 What you exactly? Like, what do you mean Italian brand? 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.040 He's like he's like, you don't know about this, And 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.480 I'm like absolutely not. So let me play a video 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.480 to the the video really that kicked it all off, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:11:00.200 that became stuck in my brain for months, because once 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.800 you hear it, you can't unhear it. Before I play 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.240 this Italian brain rot is basically a bunch of these 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.839 AI generated made up characters with Italian sounding names that 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.640 have just entered the brains of kids everywhere. So here's 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.360 a video where a guys doing the typical rank these 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.959 AI brain rot slop characters according to your reference. Here 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:23.160 we go. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:39.160 Lombardino, Corio, Bombardio, Chimpanzini. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.160 So this is just this has just become the thing 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:54.040 that now I hear ambiently all the Timeizi Benini. Yeah, 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:59.240 Tom tum tum sahor is in my brain is toom 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.760 the word for people are saying. It's like a mashup 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.679 name that like, so who is an Indonesian word and 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.200 tum or whatever is tree and Chinese like not exactly 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.559 an Italian word. Anyway, this is when I went on 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.880 deep internet research on these characters. That's all. 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:14.480 That's all. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:14.760 It is. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.520 Like there's no like shows or like videos where they're 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.480 doing stuff. It's just like the silly word and like 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:22.520 ranking them. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.840 People are doing shit with those characters. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:26.960 But I think shared cinematic universe. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.920 Yeah. I think for the reason why I can't get 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.079 out of my mind is because these names are so 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.920 dumb but familiar and fun to say that I cannot 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.800 get it out of my mind. And I think it's 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:43.800 just the perfect encapsulation of like ai slop, like making 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:44.880 our brains twitch. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:45.760 Uh. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.360 And you know, just watching how this is now becoming 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.679 like so normal now for like young people that I'm like, 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.960 kind of I really generationally like look at it all. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.839 I'm like, man, this is so fucking different. These kids 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:02.400 are laughing, is build different. Gimpanzeini by Nanini is great 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.599 for me. It's always toomtum tum sahor because it's so 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.640 absurd and. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.560 It doesn't like rhyme like all the other ones are 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.400 like rhyming, like you kind of get where it's coming from, 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.120 and then tum tum tum sahor. It's it's I think 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.080 it's like just people also discovering that the Italian language 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.800 is fun to say, yeah, and like play with. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.000 I think We've always known that, We've. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.319 Always These damn kids they don't know they don't know 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.319 from the Italian language. People are making money off of 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.840 this too. I went to the Philippines this year. There's 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.920 all kinds of plush toys of tum tum tum sahor 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.480 and like all of that ship is everywhere. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.880 Which has got to be kind of wild because if 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:45.000 it's AI generated, like, then who owns the ip ip 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.360 It's like for everyone, it's like anyone can now sell 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.400 your own toom tum tum sahor whatever. Nonsense. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.079 Yeah, it's really intellectual. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.400 Yeah, it's very intellectual. That's a really good point. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:00.640 All right. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:07.160 Up next, a resident intellectual Bey is up on ship 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.120 that like, I don't even I don't even have the 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.960 beginnings of a way to know what the fuck they're 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.480 talking about. Bee, You've got the number three pick in 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:21.840 the twenty twenty five Virality Viral Stories of the Year draft. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:23.520 Where are you going with it? 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.560 Okay, I'm going with Chinese maxing. Okay, guys, Yeah, so 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.080 this is something maxing. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.160 I see it everywhere. I need someone to help me 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.360 understand what China maxing Chinese maxing is. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.520 Yeah, I have no idea what you're talking about, So 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.520 I'm gonna be I'm gonna be straight with you. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:42.240 Are you serious? 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.000 Yeah? I mean I think it is like embarrassed for 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:53.400 you right now is always embarrassed for me. That is stasis. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.400 That is only where we start from. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.360 And I only know because Bowen's been posting memes. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.840 Yes, yes, some of the some of your friends are 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.840 going through a really Chinese time in their life. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:05.600 Yeah you know what you don't even know. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:10.480 So anyway, let's show the Jimmy O Yang one. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:23.720 Okayang one Okay. So Jimmy's singing. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.600 So Jimmy O Yang is singing with the text saying 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.280 you met me at a very Chinese time in my life, 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:32.120 which is every day. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:37.520 This video is like reach peak celebrity noess, you know obviously, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.360 so that's why Jimmy Yang is making this video. But 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.840 you know a lot has led up to that, Like 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.200 he's wearing like an Adidas Chinese. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.320 Like at one yeah, like a. 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.520 Pretty like big drop I think like earlier this year. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:52.920 Or something like that. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:58.320 And the song like I have been seeing the song and. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.040 Then the other one that's like the being it's like 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.520 the Chinese rap song, right. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.960 Because I see black people even singing that song that 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.160 Jimmy O Yang is singing. I'm like, what what is 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:09.640 that song? 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.560 Is that a popular song in China? It's just like 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.080 a song that feels China, like the most Chinese and 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.680 some people are significant this one in this video. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.600 It's like it's like a famous just song that like 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.440 people sing on like I don't know, like TV shows 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.120 or you know, like yeah whatever. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.000 And then the rap song. I'm not sure if it's 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:33.880 big in China. Actually I'm not really sure, but it 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:34.680 is big here. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:39.600 So okay, I it's weird because I only saw China 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.120 maxing because I saw this guy on. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.000 So he's also doing stuff. 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.240 This guy is a guy that turned Chinese. Also, it's 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:59.680 like a guy yeah. But then and then I'm tired 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.040 of being and not Chinese. So this guy famously is white. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:07.720 So this white guy's even lamenting he wants to be Chinese? Yes, yes, yes, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.040 So what is the what are the vibes we're chasing 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:10.880 with Chinamaxic? 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.000 It's just basically like. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.200 I think it's just like a bear because obvious, like 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.680 you know, the fall of the West is here, you know, 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.840 and we're just like, you know, we're sick and tired working, 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.639 We're sick and tired yeah, yeah, I. 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.920 Mean this does race you know a lot of the 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:38.600 mainstream stories we're covering where it's like, you know, China 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.480 coming out with their version of AI and it's like, yeah, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.040 we don't spend that much money and it actually works, 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.639 or webbing Alma going to China in the off season 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.240 and coming back with superpowers. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.440 Well, I think it's also that like this is like 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:57.040 weird Cold War sinophobia is just wearing thin. It's just 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.159 the same thing like with Islamophobia, like this whole thing 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.560 of like chyack, what are they doing. It's like, yeah, 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.000 I don't know, man, the quality of life actually seems 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.360 pretty good right now compared to like we're we're doing 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.600 shit like people are rationing firewood for people who can't 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.000 afford electricity in the United States. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:16.560 So I think it's like one of those things that 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.720 baby formula and like people can't get like basic. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.960 Needs right right and everything. Like we even talked about 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.200 this story about those like Ford executives who went to 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.879 like a Chinese car manufacturing plant and they're like, guys 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.959 were fucked. Yeah, yeah, like we're so behind. They were 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:33.760 truly talking about it like it was a work of 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.240 sci fi. They're like they have these things called lights 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:40.040 off factories where you don't even have to be there. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.320 They don't even have the lights on, and like the 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.080 robots are just in the dark building their cars in 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.520 like seventeen minutes, right right, I think like to me, 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.520 like when I see all this too, it feels like 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.280 Part in two. And also realizing how cooked America is 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.960 and you're just like fed this like diet of like, well, 0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:59.760 these other countries are fucking not as good as a 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.520 and now people like wait, hold the fuck up and 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.280 they're like, yeah, actually I'm chinamaxing now exactly. 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.520 And it's like it's it's a lot of also like 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.639 you know, we're in twenty twenty five now, and like 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.240 you know, we've been to Japan, We've you know, we've 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:16.960 done the K pop stuff, you know. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.680 Right right right, yeah, yeah, it's like we're hopping around Asia. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.280 We're like now it's your term. It's like yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.439 You know, Marxists like hipsters aren't like they're not hipsters anymore. 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:26.600 You know. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:28.000 It's like a big ideology. 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:31.800 Now you know, we're we're getting we're having business meetings 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:33.399 with like ten million cigarettes and. 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:38.040 Like right right, no, I mean so yeah, shout out 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.200 people recognizing the deep squat that Asian people do. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:43.680 and not so check your knees. Check. A lot of 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.040 people are like, dude, my knees. I can't people have 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.200 trouble squatting like that because of their knees, right, Well, 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:49.920 American has. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.240 Just been leaning against shit their whole lives. Yeah, we 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.800 found out that like that does the thing that KGB 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.120 was like, you can tell an American spy because they'll 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.240 be leaning against ship. Everyone in a Maria it is 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:05.439 always leaning. And yeah in China they're they're squatting. They're sturdy, 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:07.880 got a squad. Look, you know, I'm getting sturdy. 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.600 Could be quite on squad. I'm in the subway, I'm squatting. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.240 I'm not leaning at the wall. Tell you I'm squatting 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:18.920 down Chinese you know, I'm scrolling my phone suing for this. 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.920 Yeah. Did you know when you were doing that that 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:23.000 you were Chinese? Maxim? 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:24.760 You know what now I know? 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.840 Now that's the most Chinese thing about it is like 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.920 shouldn't she didn't even know? I didn't even know. It 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:32.760 was like it was a part of me. 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:37.680 It was, yeah, a cigarette squatting, so baby, so babe 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.760 Becca is invited to the what we say, cookout hot 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.199 hot Yeah, okay, cool, pull up, pull up. 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:45.560 Yeah. 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:47.639 I'm not even gonna ask if I'm invited. I know 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:48.080 the answer. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:49.440 You're invited. 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:57.240 What amazing? Yeah, this is great. They're like, you have 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.720 a whole list of things here, many of which I 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:04.480 don't No ship, uh double Happiness, don't know what that is? 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:06.200 Non Jing cigarette? 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:07.600 These are cigarette. 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:09.119 What that is? 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:12.600