December 30, 2021 • 39 mins
In this holiday episode, Jack, Miles, and Anna talk about the Google trends of 2021.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special year end
episode of Dirty which we look at the search trends
of the year. My name is Jack O'Brien and I
am thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Mr Miles Gray. Yes, here to talk about the year
(00:21):
in search or Google lets us know just how how
far we've come, either forward or backwards. And Miles, we
are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
the brilliant and talented super producer is raining outside. Oh cool,
(00:41):
we could use it here in this uh this part
state of ours. So this is a thing Google does
every year. It tells us what the what everybody was
searching for all year? Um, we cover trends every day,
usually looking at Google trends as one of our primary sources.
And this is a digest of like what what made
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it to the top of the list, you know? And yeah,
so should we should we kick it off with just
the top ten most searched things? Yeah, there is this
thing that I that usually comes out with this. I
feel like sometimes an outlet, will I get an interview
with somebody at Google, And I think this year it's
(01:23):
a box or somewhere they were talking about like their
main data, like an analyst type person, And the way
he puts this sort of year in review is like,
no one trusts anyone more than their searching, their search engine,
because that's what You're not afraid to look stupid in
front of You're gonna ask questions you didn't know that
you wanted the answers to, so in that this way,
this is truly an intimate glance into America's shared consciousness. Yeah.
(01:49):
What one good example of that is the how to
pronounce section where the number one search was how to
pronounce doge coin? Is that how it is pronounced? Actually,
I don't know, you killed it? But number two is
how to pronounce Michael Jackson? Yeah? What the fun I saw?
I did not know that was on the national share
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consciousness on people's minds. Is that, Like I wonder, is
this like a viral video like how to pronounce Michael Jackson?
Because I can't imagine that this was something like yeah,
there has to be more to it, and we're gonna
get to it, folks. We're gonna get to the bottom
of this ship. Like we're so old. It's like, dude,
it's like a famous meme. How to pronounce Michael Jackson.
(02:31):
But no, it's truly, that's there's like there's fucking full
on guides like how to say it, let me hear it.
Maybe it's other countries. Oh okay, got it? Um, thanks
all right, But just top overall searches. Um, we've got
some deceased celebrities, celebrities who passed, uh, some just wild
(02:56):
ship bags. But the number one most search thing is NBA. Yeah,
there's not a there's not another like league on anywhere
on here. Um, No, I'm worried. What does this mean?
What could it have? Is it because of vaccine searches
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and like people trying to figure out where the league
goes out with vaccines plus generally the like the finals
being cool. I don't know, I'm it's there's this there's
part of me that I'm scratching my head why NBA
is the top building, right, because none of those things
would be well, you know, the finals being really cool
is definitely like a good candidate. But like vaccine ship,
(03:39):
like nobody like the NFL had vaccine ship that Major
League Baseball had even more searchable and newsworthy vaccine ship
because they kept like having massive outbreaks. So yeah, I
think it just might be that it's the beautiful game
and people just like to. Uh, I think you're the
most important search of the year, which is what how
(04:00):
to be a battie. We're gonna get to it. Uh,
this is just a focus mostly on that. What do
you think about the NBA? Why is the NBA trending?
Kobe Bryant was the only basketball thing related thing trending
top searches. Basketball was represented by Kobe because he passed away.
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But and I don't know, maybe we're looking into it
and I'm just I'm glad to see that d m
X is number two. So d m X is number two.
Is the NBA not just always trending? I think it is,
But I think so that's the thing is that's what
like has emerged about the NBA is that it may
not be the highest rated sport like it might like
(04:42):
people don't watch it as much as the NFL, but
people talk about it so much more than like any
other sport. NFL is more watched than the NBA. Yeah,
by quite a bit. That's racist, said, I mean, first,
I think but yeah, I mean I think the NBA
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just in general, I think just creates more discussion and
there's more culture out of NBA than there is the NFL.
But like I'm even looking at ten, I'm thinking maybe
it's a maybe like the NBA is there, but there's
nothing basketball related in twenty nineteen either, So I think
it's just I think in general, especially after the two people,
(05:25):
just I think we're kind of seeing like, Okay, basketball
is kind of fun. We like, we like where they're headed,
and they got good interesting stars to represent the sport.
And you know, based on the how to pronounce Michael
Jackson search, I'm assuming that a lot of these the
confusing ones are driven by international you know, search traffic,
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and maybe the NBA and the fact that the newest
best player in the league is an international player, Jani Sankopo,
and he had a run to the finals that like
was super entertaining someone. And if maybe that's it is
that like it just got even more popular internationally than
it has been in the past. Well globally, NBA was
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the fourth most search term. Miles, you just funked up
my theory. Man cut that ship, Brian, cut that ship.
Just leave leave my theory. It makes sense. I'm just
going back for a time to see what the difference
between global status statistics and US. But yeah, no, I'm
just joking it probably it probably activated I think it
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probably did activate some new fans for sure. I'm sure
if like you're you're you know, in the in the
Milwaukee area. I don't know it's had enough to sway
the trends. But all that to say, d m X
at number two, Gabby Potito at number three written house
for Brian laundry five. That's wild that Gabby Potito and
her her disappearance or her murder, and then Brian they're
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they're all in the like the top five. Hey, it
was on our minds, right, definitely on America's mind Were
talked about that ship once and then we're like, all right,
we even feel weird mentioning this, but certainly America. You know,
it's interesting you're able to see globally because when I
moved to globally, only search that comes up is how
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to be a batty? For maybe this is like national
batty associated Like maybe there's a dual meaning of n
b A and that's where it's coming from, because everybody's
interested in like how to be a batty? I would
say there are a lot of baddies in the NBA. Yeah,
oh absolutely. I mean I do think a large part
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of like the popularity to the NBA is that you
see the players first of all, you see their like
personalities more, and you also like they're not covered up
by a bunch of you know, gear and stuff, and
they're playing on a small court, so you'd like get
to be up close and personal with them, so I
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think it's a more intimate Yeah. I also think a
part of that is that now like with Instagram and
social media and like you know accounts like league fits
and the fact that they don't have to just like
wear those like giants Kari suits anymore. They can actually
really express themselves, so you become somewhat of like a
fan of their game and then also a fan of
like who they are aesthetically and the you know choices
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they make like in their everyday life, you know, like
and the giant sweater where you're like, okay, but I
like that to do that, you know, I would love
to see that confidence on the court when he was
playing for the Lakers. Just kidding. I have no opinions
on basketball, but um, sorry, what you say about Westbrook,
I said, or most a lot of many of the
outfits Russell Westbrook wears coming in, You're like, he likes
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to take swings. Westbrook is an icon of style. So
are his twins that I follow. That's right. I know
more about Russell rest books twins than I do about
his actual play. Who's he played for? Tin? Is he on?
It looks like yellow and purple beata for the yellows,
I think l a yellows. His twins are really cute.
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And then the last five are mega millions a mc
stock stimulus check, Georgia Senate Race, squid Game, Georgia Senate Race.
That was that was a big one, you know, yeah,
a big one. Remember that was the one they said, hey, guys,
turn out for that one, and it's fifteen dollar minimum
wages for all. Yeah. I feel like of the top ten,
(09:24):
like Georgia Senate Race would be the one that you know,
at the time, we were all about it. We're like,
this is gonna change everything, and I didn't do ship well,
you know, welcome, Welcome to Jurassic Park ak the United States.
But yeah, I mean this all kind of goes in hand.
I think it's interesting when you see stimulus check and
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Georgia Senate race like sort of eight and nine, because
so much of the anxiety around stimulus checks was being
tied to the Georgia Senate race, like that was being
you know, sort of dangled over people to be like,
hey man, you're gonna get more of my any but
we're gonna do some weird math based on what we
think two thousand dollars is and then we'll go from there.
But economic anxiety, for real, I think the Democratic Party
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is probably in more trouble than they realize, and then
more trouble than is generally being assumed, because they really
went hard with this Georgia center race with the last
presidential election and then didn't follow through. And I think
people are annoyed. Yea squid Games number ten um, which
(10:32):
I don't know what that is, but that's interesting. I
feel like a lot of this, other than maybe like DMX,
it didn't really matter in the end because it's America,
and it's like where in that stimulus check we got
like three Kyle Rittenhouse got off, Yeah, sad amc. Stock.
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But I think those are more indicatus. They're they're definitely
indicative of just the like if I financial economic worldview
that people have, you know, because the top three news
searches are Mega millions, AMC, stock stimulus check, and then
g m E is even at five. So there's definitely
whether it's for good reasons or out of desperation. There
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are people who are very much focused on like where
there where is there other forms of money possible? Is
it through a lottery? Is it through investments? Is it
from hopefully the government? The top three news searches are
always to avoid having to continue to do our jobs
and right, like the right and the mainstream media has
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looked at that and then like it's proof that people
are getting lazier. But it's obviously like humanity is at
the end of our rope with capitalism like just kind
of encroaching on every aspect of our lives until now,
like social media is like it's gotten so much into
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the d n A of like our daily lives that
it's unsustainable and like people are just like getting the
funk out of here, like that those three being the
top most searched things. Is the really good sign megamillions?
Yeah one right, yeah, And the fact that the mainstream
media is ignoring where people are at and the complicity
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of their corporate owners and advertisers in the whole thing
is probably a large part of why people are like
fleeing to you know, people on YouTube or you know,
on the right, and like the right seems to have
figured out before the left that the mainstream media is
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lost all respect with people. And they had like a
terrible bullshit answer waiting, but it was an answer, you know,
which is like, don't watch their bullshit, watch our bullshit.
We call the bullshit. But you do like heaps of bullshit. Um,
but I mean, and I think you also kind of
see that in the how to help category to like,
I mean, I'm surprised at American's capacity. I think it's
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more of the guilt of knowing what America's foreign policy was.
But how to help Afghan refugees was first, then how
to help Texas, how to help India, COVID, how to
help foster kids, I like, at the very bottom though,
apparently we have an epidemic of farting babies because number
ten is how to help a baby with gas? That is, yeah,
that is one of one of the worst problems new
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parents run up against because it's wild it's like what
you eat then goes through the milk to the baby
and like might cause gas, and a baby with gas
is no fun, not great. Well, just crying all the
time from gas. They're uncomfortable, but it's there's no there's
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nothing really you can do other than like kind of
pat them on the back until they farts. Yeah, no,
I have, but I'm able to just express it to
you guys. And wait, are we cutting that part out?
When I talk about my gas for like fifteen minutes straight?
Is that not making it into the show. It's been
a ga where I can't seem to get it out
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and it's like debilitating. Yeah. Or I got to massige
your guts. That's like Japan. That's like a thing you do.
You lay on one side or just get your like
really kind of move the gas through your stomach to
your butt. I do headstands. I do you know, have
somebody to just drop me on my head laying straight
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on your stomach. That also helped me to oh, I
just lay on the ground and you'll kill me. There's
some real like I if I had to just like
look at this whole page of all the trends and
like come away with one overarching theme and like this
isn't a fun or funny answer. It's really like very lonely,
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which goes back to the whole you know, all their
interactions and relationships with the people who you know are
supposed to make us human or family, our friends, our
meat aated by like capitalist institutions that turn us into
the product or turn us under brands or whatever. Like.
For instance, there is how to help your team make
friends is one of the how two's on the how
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to be, how to be happy alone, how to be
happy with yourself, how to be there's happy alone, how
to be more trying, I mean there is. It's just
there's a lot of a personal deficit being expressed, I think,
and like the how to be stuff, except unless you're
a baddy, in which case, yeah, all right, we are
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going to do some research into how to be a
baddy when we come back from this break. As we
take this break, imagine there's only one really lonely person
who searched all just NonStop, any updates on how to
be happy. No, they can't be talking anyone there lonely,
That's right, it was. They weren't talking to anybody in
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a I'll be right up, honey, Like that dude lives
in a basement apartment and we know, okay, all right,
we'll be right back and your back and how to
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be a bad eye one on one. Let's let them know.
I mean, this is kind of the thing that people
come to the dailies likes for is to find out
how to be a baddy. First, we offer a Dictionary
definition of a baddy. We're not talking about a bad guy,
bad person and anti hero or something like that. We're talking,
I guess, to quote the Urban Dictionary, a bad girl
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who is always on fleet, slaying the game most of
the time. These baddies grew up begin bully or what
the funk this is? This is why you can't read
Urban Dictionary because people are like, like literally drunk at
a bus stop typing this. But apparently they're trying to
also make it seem like a black Swan type evolution.
But we all know just to who's bad but bad
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meaning good? I think the most interesting part is when
you're able to click that search and it goes to
the sub regions of who searched it the most, and
it says Georgia, Texas, New York, Florida, California. Yeah, and
then just Jack O'Brien's house, just TikTok topic. Apparently in
Texas it was like, I don't know, when's the search
interest one hundred? I'm like, okay, so they keep it
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one hundred with their batty interests Georgia's I think Georgia's
top searched is in Georgia. So when that Senate race
was going on, everyone's like, guts to learn how to
be a batty? I mean yeah, I mean stimulus checker. No,
you must be a batty to survive in this country.
So this is basically an overlap with number two on
the how to be section, which is how to be
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more attractive? Right? Am I missing some nuance here because
I just say things like how to be more attractive?
I don't know what how to be a bad he
is other than where and I patch and hijack the
Naka Tomi Tower. Yeah, well, like I know that audience
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has aged out of it. Happy with yourself? Jack, this
is dark. It looks. How to be more attractive feels
like the more accessible Middle America version of how to
be a battye? You know, or like that's why you
see it more like, okay, right, how to be more attractive?
They were searching that in Arizona, in Colorado, you know,
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maybe a little less about using the term batty. Oklahoma
is the number one place they were searching that. I
don't like these search trends, all right, UM's released? Yeah,
these are these are bad. These are bad search trends.
And do something cooler. Oh, here we go. Here's the
one Google under how to style? Can we talk about that?
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A lot of fascinating stuff I think that talks about,
you know, like how does style a sweater vest? Huge? Yeah,
sweater vest as a little too high up there. For
when I'm thinking is like this is a lot of
millennial and gen z searches happening, Like how does style flannel?
That must before the kids because we know how to
style flannel? How do I style a wolf hair cut?
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I don't know. Well, that's like that. That's like that
rocker hair that she a lot of people. It's almost
like a mullet, but it looks like more fancy. Oh
I have one of those, but I have a curly
version of it. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's kind of wolfie.
But yeah, that's like the wolf hair cut. How does
style a corset? I'm like, okay, let's go back in time.
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A batty is someone wearing a corset? They could it's
so nebulous. Wait, so then do you wear a corset
or not? A course for a batty? I mean, it's
really up to the batty. You know, it's a style
choice A batty could make mm hmm maybe a little
too bad, but you know that's the badness is in
the eye of the bad holder. So when someone's asking
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how does style straight leg jeans, they're just asking, like
what to wear it with? Like what what to do? Yeah, okay,
how to style jack? You know, dude, ever do any
search like style searches? I don't be straight leg? Yeah
that's what it's how to rock? Yeah, okay, got it.
(20:17):
I've seen you. Yeah. I wear skinny and straight leg,
mostly boot cut, though, which I was surprised to not
see on this list boot cut skinny How to wear
skinny boot cut jeans? I've never seen you wear boott
I think you've blacked it out. Is a terrible time
I've been through your closet. That time you had us
over for the you did come down in like five
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different outfits of them, you're liked up like these aren't
boot cut. I'll keep looking, but kind of dubious at
this point with your boot cut, count is, could you
stay downstairs? Did you know what like these aesthetics were,
like indie dark academia? I knew what Cottage Core was
that number three? Y t K. I think I had
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seen that coconut girl. I have not. I do not
know what coconut girl is. That what the coconut girl
is that it give is? Let me see if I can.
I like this, Yeah, that's a that's kind of a cool. Yeah.
I looked up a dark academia and it's like dark colors.
The photographs are like poorly lit. They had like a
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color palette to go with it. Mm hmmm mmmm. It
feels like East Coast, like New England boarding school for
which one dark academia like a Harvard or like is
it like Edgy Hogwarts? Well, Harry Potter is number nine
miles and Slytherin is number ten. Yeah, so I think
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Harry Potter. The is still very strong in the zeitgeist.
I'm assuming right, like the searches that like they're searching
like the aesthetic as well, or I guess people just
of that vibe. They want to be Malfoyd out. I
don't know. I was like worried to look at that.
I feel like that's gonna be like creepy. I think
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that's we fully regressed. Oh, this is like Jojo saw Ship. Okay,
you look like just yeah, you look like a Lisa
Frank as a human being. We used just called this
like that was like sort of candy stepper raver style
back in my dad Yeah. See, I don't like these
trends because they're making me feel old. We used to
call this something else. We just called this happy hardcore.
(22:31):
Back in the day he was dressed like this. They'd
be in the happy Hardcore room. One of the top
searches is Miles Gray old damn and Miles Gray Young.
Same picture you were trying to counteract. Huh, very young,
very young. I was born after night and eleven. Let's
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run through the top ten memes. We got number one
Bernie Sanders Mittens, which it just feels like a I
don't know, I feel like we were working through something
there thinking that that was like I don't know or
maybe I don't know, like like it was the Biden
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supporters being like, look, how you know shitty? This guy
looks well, like we made the right decision and this
guy's unelectable type thing. It feels like it surpassed that though,
where it was like everyone was doing it just to
be like look like if it almost lost its meeting
of like why are we meeting this? Like it was
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just like just put them on something and there he
is right and you're like, okay, okay. Yeah, it's just
wild that that was the number one me of the year.
I think it was just that it was, yeah, just
that weird stress release of being like, Okay, the inauguration
is actually happening. There were were one step closer to
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realizing that maybe Trump isn't the actual president anymore. I
don't ending on where you get your news, but I
think that was like gave people this like just dumb
moment to just you know, party with like oh my god,
he's wearing mittens so cool and he hates it. Yeah.
It felt like that was a manic moment of culture
that like now feels a little bit alien to me,
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like why was everybody just hysterically sending That cropped into
various things back and forth. Hamster is number two because
there's another memorable hamster. I think it's a scared hamster
twisted tea. Not not familiar with that one. APOLOGIESE to
Uh the youngsters don't that is I mean? This is
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also it's interesting to see, like what the I feel
like people who are searching memes on Google is a
little bit different than what the actual most popping memes were,
you know what I mean, because they're just if you're
searching memes, you're like what she's mean on TikTok when
they like it's not because I get that that was
a huge trend on TikTok, But I don't know if
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this is quite the best metric to apply to actually
understand the most popping memes. But the Bernie Sanders one
does make sense because it feels like a thing that
everybody was tapped into. Everybody was looking at even like
on CNN or whatever they're like, and and Bernie was
he was even staying warm despite all the social distancing
in the crowd and just's like cutting to yeah, these
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are this is actually a list of the memes that
were most popular with middle managers. UH wanted to like
send them to other people. Wrapped me up dabbed me
up as number seven. She she was number five. Six
is red flag Like that's pretty hey. I like to
think of a very loving step parent who's trying to
(25:46):
create Suez Canal. That was actually just a great moment
of the year. The size of that thing, um the
giant container ship, uh that clogged up the sue As Canal.
I'd be unhappy with that being on the being on
the list, and I liked the crop jobs of that
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just being various places. It was a moment. I was
a real moment. Anything else that jumped out to you
from the list? Vin Diesel Family Baby, Yeah, that was
huge for us. Vin Diesel heads us Fast and Nefurious
as serves. Did a meme come out of the last movie?
Because I just always know Vin Diesel families just like
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always a standard the last movie, there was a pop
off of memes about Vin Diesel and family. I think
it brought it back into the zite guy ding ding
and people were all again retweeting or I mean even
I think maybe it's been a minute since we had
a Fast and Furious movie because this one got pushed
back here due to the pandemic. So people are just
(26:50):
ready people are right, and you know what I think,
like there is a thing to say about like the
pandemic basically upping our our meme sort of power, because
all of a sudden, you know, it's like you're at
home and you're just doing it and you got we
all got meme time, you know, in the meme time,
we all created memes, so and we're so lonely that
we're like, Vin Diesel really is my family? Oh man,
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that's when you're within your family. That's Olive Garden. Actually,
did you know that Ven Diesel owns a large amount
of stock in Alive Garden? He should if he gives
a funk about family. Why do you think I'm joking?
Oh he wait, so he's that's a joke. If that's
a joke, you're fucking up Vin Diesel. That's real. Okay,
(27:35):
we're back on track. The or section is just yeah,
or was the one I wanted to jump to. Yeah,
this feels like so consistent, just like effect or affect,
Like I feel like that's got to be top right
consistently through the years, Like the years actually got those
definitions separately tattooed on my body. Your memento is just
(27:59):
like it can affect something rather than be an effect
of something. Yeah, it's just the thing is it's interesting,
is like they don't have it consistently every year, Like
the first five sections typically are the same, but they
don't have an or section for nine. And is it
boogie or boogee? That that's a spelling one, right, boogier? Yeah,
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Like what do we do? Bones or no bones is
a meme? Right? That should be on the meme one,
I feel, but it qualifies here because it has a
or in the middle of it. It's a little bit sloppy,
you know, it's not it's not the purest either or type.
Bones or no bones is like the pug, right, you
tell me, Dad? So I think it was like somebody
(28:47):
had a pug that would predict what kind of day
was going to be based on if it looked like
it had bones bones or not. Oh this thing yeah
pretty cute. Well, I think another indication of how sad
we've become, where we're like, I don't know, meme pug,
tell me what is our future? Please now immediately? And
(29:10):
then sinus, I like sinus infection or COVID allergies or
COVID cold or COVID. I definitely hit allergies or COVID myself. Yeah,
and then I do fiser or Maderna Like, okay, I
like that. People. You see that story about how Neron
taking out those fiser antibodies. Good luck Jack. They just
(29:33):
said the third dose worked. Well, no, they said three
doing good. You're safe before it will kill you. So
it's real crap. Shoot. Yeah, actually, don't don't start staying
things and people are like, wait, what is it? No? Yeah, yeah, sorry,
that's that's a joke that cuts in the direction of antibactors.
(29:55):
So I will shut the funk up, but we will
lose Jack unfortunately, because he's a fighter guy and Miles
and I are both madern heads, so see uh he
well he also he took every vaccine. I don't think
you were there for that when he told us that. Yeah,
he said he got every single one. Collector and yeah,
I've gotten three J and jet Yeah he did three
(30:17):
J and j's for his booster turning the bottle of
baby shampoo. I keep some jan J sitting Ben up
in the stairways. Also shout out to Olivia Rodrigo. She
got two of the top ten song searches theah, you
know three, what am I saying? Deja vu? Whoa strawberry
ice cream in Malibu? Let him know? Mhm, A good one.
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I don't I don't know. I heard the driver's license one.
I'm a little checked out. When it comes to Olivia Rodrigo,
I got it all through Osmosis from her majesty and
then a couple of ones. I was like it was
it was one of those albums. I was like, Oh,
this is gonna be pretty poppy. But then I was like,
oh the production pretty good. Olivia Rodrick, now help us
get everyone vaccinated. And she tried. She did her, She
(31:06):
did her best TV shows. You got the expected what
you'd expect, Squid Game, Briton one Division, then number four
coming in Hut Jenny and Georgia. Didn't expect to see
that one. You watch that caught me looking? Yeah I did,
I did watch that, but um, you know why I
blew up Taylor Swift did uh what is it the
(31:28):
barber stride sand effect or whatever, tweeting out because there
was They make a joke in the show about Taylor
Swift dating a bunch of different dudes and they're like,
what do you Taylor Swift, so I don't know something
like that. Taylor Swift got upset, tweeted about the show
having this joke, which I'm like, this girl's got forty
Google alerts a second about her deserving all of them
(31:50):
and um, and then she tweeted it out to be
like this is inappropriate Netflix, why would you come for
women like that? And then proceeded to blow the shop
because everyone's like, well, I got love it, Like all
they coming for Taylor Swift were here. So I think
she invertedly popped off the show when she was actually
trying to scold Netflix for allowing them to include a
(32:11):
very brief throwaway joke about her in like episode eight.
Mm hm, well the Power of the Swift Cobra Kai
number five. Uh. They must had a new season this season. Yeah,
I only watched the first two. Yeah, but there's that
I liked them, and then the only ones I really
watched on Your Squid Game, Mayor of East Town. Yeo.
(32:33):
So I just have to once again, there's a movie
that's getting a lot of buzz called The Power of
the Dog. It's very good, but it's it starts Bennet
at Cumberbatch and he's getting a lot of buzz for
like a wardship. He cannot do an American accent. It's
a Western and he's like, what are you doing? Cool? My,
(32:58):
Like it's like real, like he's you can like see
he's burning a thousand calories every time he has to
like say certain words. And I just have to once
again shout out to what Kate Winslett did in Mayor
of Easta that like just the greatest moment of that
show for me was just like cutting to an interview
(33:20):
with her after and her speaking in a British accent
and me like having totally forgotten that, uh you know,
she wasn't she wasn't mayor. Do you want to hear
my impression of Mayor Vy's town if she was a podcaster? Guys,
we need to record a poisterl No, no, no, that
you had that big, so strong when the show was remember,
(33:44):
we need to record a poister roll poist Sydney. Yeah,
it's something like that. I to do it better when
the show was actually on it and I would just
talk like her, Yeah, boys, we need to record. It's
like a boy record. There was this article that came
(34:06):
out recently that was like do actually, like, do good
accents even matter anymore? And they were juxtaposing that with
like Lady Gaga on how s a Gucci? And I
think even the cumber Batch thing where they're just sort
of like, I don't know if it even matters, you know,
if you're sucking up at this point, it's a great
it's a great performance, like it is like when the
movie works really well. It just stressed me out at
(34:29):
the beginning. When I realized he wasn't pulling it off,
I was like, oh, yeah, may I defend the accent
work in film work like the Power of the Dog?
Is that what it was called? Yeah? That era accents
were a mess because we were transitioning from a more
British sounding nonsense to a more less British sounding to
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what we now deemed the American accent. So I don't
think there is too much of it, a like a
right accent if the movie is it takes place in
a time that's old enough in this country. Because there
was such a kind of I don't what am I
even doing defending America? You know what, You're right, his
accent sucked. Hey, they're just transitioning out of their their
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colonizer swag. No. I mean it's like, I don't think
accents like back then when this movie supposedly takes place
in quotes, I don't think there was like I think
accents were all over the place because there was still
such like colonizing and like, you know, the UK and
then you know, I've also heard the UK had more
(35:36):
of an accent like the South way way way, way
way long time ago. That that or not even maybe
like the South but more like Boston that was. Yeah,
that then was morphed into this more like classies sort
of British, you know, like they made that ship up.
They were like, oh that sounds fancy as fun. They
(35:56):
used to be like, hey, you're watching the Sacks game.
I don't know. I'm sorry, I'm all tied everyone goodbye.
But yeah, I mean that shout out to the Industrial
Revolution for changing the accents too. Among the great greatest
things with the Industrial Revolution brought us yet to find
a bad one from the Industrial Revolution, just winning streak
(36:23):
ever since anything else from the from the overall page
of Google trends, before we bid a do you? Which,
let me just look up how to pronounce a do you? Yeah,
I think it. Um favorite recipe that got searched, um
is the like TikTok pasta. That's how you know we
(36:47):
are were too fun helping us is that people like,
how do you make that pasta on it? From TikTok?
Is that one with the big block of cheese and
the tomatoes? My favorite smashed potatoes? Guys, this is the
right there, just smashed the potatoes. There's ones, Yeah, I
think I don't know. The one. I just appreciate that
bevideo tacos is number three that became and I think, honestly,
(37:10):
and that's also as a result of the Internet because
like the dunking of the beadia taco into the consummate,
that has just become like standard issue food porn on
social media. So good to see out there, good to
see out there media. I wish that was like a
top porn trends search as well. You know, I'm sure
(37:30):
that that porn hub will be issuing that and when
they do, um, we will do an hour and a
half on what you sip? Yeah so that mom, right,
isn't that the main one? I remember? Well? Yeah, remember
we have clicked on that link. Yeah, I remember going
(37:51):
and searching step Mamaton and I was like, this must
do well, very good work. So wait, if you're in
your thirties, that just means you have to start saying
you're step mom. Do you want to hook up with
everyone step mom? Period? Doesn't matter who they are, what
they do. You just want everyone's step mom, right right? Right?
(38:11):
Who do your own step mom? I guess I don't know. Yeah,
I think I think the backstories as I understand them
are always uh step mom and uh step you know,
it's like step step other human being. Yeah, well, I
think I don't know when that we're going to get
their their year in review one, but I know it's coming.
(38:32):
I know it's coming. Yeah. Anyways, that's what That's what
was most trending in according to Google. Try harder next
year and uh Google harder. That's gonna do it. We're
back with more special episodes pretty soon and we'll talk
to you all then bye. Not to bad
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special year end
episode of Dirty which we look at the search trends
of the year. My name is Jack O'Brien and I
am thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Mr Miles Gray. Yes, here to talk about the year
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in search or Google lets us know just how how
far we've come, either forward or backwards. And Miles, we
are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
the brilliant and talented super producer is raining outside. Oh cool,
(00:41):
we could use it here in this uh this part
state of ours. So this is a thing Google does
every year. It tells us what the what everybody was
searching for all year? Um, we cover trends every day,
usually looking at Google trends as one of our primary sources.
And this is a digest of like what what made
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it to the top of the list, you know? And yeah,
so should we should we kick it off with just
the top ten most searched things? Yeah, there is this
thing that I that usually comes out with this. I
feel like sometimes an outlet, will I get an interview
with somebody at Google, And I think this year it's
(01:23):
a box or somewhere they were talking about like their
main data, like an analyst type person, And the way
he puts this sort of year in review is like,
no one trusts anyone more than their searching, their search engine,
because that's what You're not afraid to look stupid in
front of You're gonna ask questions you didn't know that
you wanted the answers to, so in that this way,
this is truly an intimate glance into America's shared consciousness. Yeah.
(01:49):
What one good example of that is the how to
pronounce section where the number one search was how to
pronounce doge coin? Is that how it is pronounced? Actually,
I don't know, you killed it? But number two is
how to pronounce Michael Jackson? Yeah? What the fun I saw?
I did not know that was on the national share
(02:10):
consciousness on people's minds. Is that, Like I wonder, is
this like a viral video like how to pronounce Michael Jackson?
Because I can't imagine that this was something like yeah,
there has to be more to it, and we're gonna
get to it, folks. We're gonna get to the bottom
of this ship. Like we're so old. It's like, dude,
it's like a famous meme. How to pronounce Michael Jackson.
(02:31):
But no, it's truly, that's there's like there's fucking full
on guides like how to say it, let me hear it.
Maybe it's other countries. Oh okay, got it? Um, thanks
all right, But just top overall searches. Um, we've got
some deceased celebrities, celebrities who passed, uh, some just wild
(02:56):
ship bags. But the number one most search thing is NBA. Yeah,
there's not a there's not another like league on anywhere
on here. Um, No, I'm worried. What does this mean?
What could it have? Is it because of vaccine searches
(03:16):
and like people trying to figure out where the league
goes out with vaccines plus generally the like the finals
being cool. I don't know, I'm it's there's this there's
part of me that I'm scratching my head why NBA
is the top building, right, because none of those things
would be well, you know, the finals being really cool
is definitely like a good candidate. But like vaccine ship,
(03:39):
like nobody like the NFL had vaccine ship that Major
League Baseball had even more searchable and newsworthy vaccine ship
because they kept like having massive outbreaks. So yeah, I
think it just might be that it's the beautiful game
and people just like to. Uh, I think you're the
most important search of the year, which is what how
(04:00):
to be a battie. We're gonna get to it. Uh,
this is just a focus mostly on that. What do
you think about the NBA? Why is the NBA trending?
Kobe Bryant was the only basketball thing related thing trending
top searches. Basketball was represented by Kobe because he passed away.
(04:21):
But and I don't know, maybe we're looking into it
and I'm just I'm glad to see that d m
X is number two. So d m X is number two.
Is the NBA not just always trending? I think it is,
But I think so that's the thing is that's what
like has emerged about the NBA is that it may
not be the highest rated sport like it might like
(04:42):
people don't watch it as much as the NFL, but
people talk about it so much more than like any
other sport. NFL is more watched than the NBA. Yeah,
by quite a bit. That's racist, said, I mean, first,
I think but yeah, I mean I think the NBA
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just in general, I think just creates more discussion and
there's more culture out of NBA than there is the NFL.
But like I'm even looking at ten, I'm thinking maybe
it's a maybe like the NBA is there, but there's
nothing basketball related in twenty nineteen either, So I think
it's just I think in general, especially after the two people,
(05:25):
just I think we're kind of seeing like, Okay, basketball
is kind of fun. We like, we like where they're headed,
and they got good interesting stars to represent the sport.
And you know, based on the how to pronounce Michael
Jackson search, I'm assuming that a lot of these the
confusing ones are driven by international you know, search traffic,
(05:47):
and maybe the NBA and the fact that the newest
best player in the league is an international player, Jani Sankopo,
and he had a run to the finals that like
was super entertaining someone. And if maybe that's it is
that like it just got even more popular internationally than
it has been in the past. Well globally, NBA was
(06:08):
the fourth most search term. Miles, you just funked up
my theory. Man cut that ship, Brian, cut that ship.
Just leave leave my theory. It makes sense. I'm just
going back for a time to see what the difference
between global status statistics and US. But yeah, no, I'm
just joking it probably it probably activated I think it
(06:28):
probably did activate some new fans for sure. I'm sure
if like you're you're you know, in the in the
Milwaukee area. I don't know it's had enough to sway
the trends. But all that to say, d m X
at number two, Gabby Potito at number three written house
for Brian laundry five. That's wild that Gabby Potito and
her her disappearance or her murder, and then Brian they're
(06:50):
they're all in the like the top five. Hey, it
was on our minds, right, definitely on America's mind Were
talked about that ship once and then we're like, all right,
we even feel weird mentioning this, but certainly America. You know,
it's interesting you're able to see globally because when I
moved to globally, only search that comes up is how
(07:11):
to be a batty? For maybe this is like national
batty associated Like maybe there's a dual meaning of n
b A and that's where it's coming from, because everybody's
interested in like how to be a batty? I would
say there are a lot of baddies in the NBA. Yeah,
oh absolutely. I mean I do think a large part
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of like the popularity to the NBA is that you
see the players first of all, you see their like
personalities more, and you also like they're not covered up
by a bunch of you know, gear and stuff, and
they're playing on a small court, so you'd like get
to be up close and personal with them, so I
(07:53):
think it's a more intimate Yeah. I also think a
part of that is that now like with Instagram and
social media and like you know accounts like league fits
and the fact that they don't have to just like
wear those like giants Kari suits anymore. They can actually
really express themselves, so you become somewhat of like a
fan of their game and then also a fan of
like who they are aesthetically and the you know choices
(08:15):
they make like in their everyday life, you know, like
and the giant sweater where you're like, okay, but I
like that to do that, you know, I would love
to see that confidence on the court when he was
playing for the Lakers. Just kidding. I have no opinions
on basketball, but um, sorry, what you say about Westbrook,
I said, or most a lot of many of the
outfits Russell Westbrook wears coming in, You're like, he likes
(08:38):
to take swings. Westbrook is an icon of style. So
are his twins that I follow. That's right. I know
more about Russell rest books twins than I do about
his actual play. Who's he played for? Tin? Is he on?
It looks like yellow and purple beata for the yellows,
I think l a yellows. His twins are really cute.
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And then the last five are mega millions a mc
stock stimulus check, Georgia Senate Race, squid Game, Georgia Senate Race.
That was that was a big one, you know, yeah,
a big one. Remember that was the one they said, hey, guys,
turn out for that one, and it's fifteen dollar minimum
wages for all. Yeah. I feel like of the top ten,
(09:24):
like Georgia Senate Race would be the one that you know,
at the time, we were all about it. We're like,
this is gonna change everything, and I didn't do ship well,
you know, welcome, Welcome to Jurassic Park ak the United States.
But yeah, I mean this all kind of goes in hand.
I think it's interesting when you see stimulus check and
(09:45):
Georgia Senate race like sort of eight and nine, because
so much of the anxiety around stimulus checks was being
tied to the Georgia Senate race, like that was being
you know, sort of dangled over people to be like,
hey man, you're gonna get more of my any but
we're gonna do some weird math based on what we
think two thousand dollars is and then we'll go from there.
But economic anxiety, for real, I think the Democratic Party
(10:11):
is probably in more trouble than they realize, and then
more trouble than is generally being assumed, because they really
went hard with this Georgia center race with the last
presidential election and then didn't follow through. And I think
people are annoyed. Yea squid Games number ten um, which
(10:32):
I don't know what that is, but that's interesting. I
feel like a lot of this, other than maybe like DMX,
it didn't really matter in the end because it's America,
and it's like where in that stimulus check we got
like three Kyle Rittenhouse got off, Yeah, sad amc. Stock.
(10:54):
But I think those are more indicatus. They're they're definitely
indicative of just the like if I financial economic worldview
that people have, you know, because the top three news
searches are Mega millions, AMC, stock stimulus check, and then
g m E is even at five. So there's definitely
whether it's for good reasons or out of desperation. There
(11:15):
are people who are very much focused on like where
there where is there other forms of money possible? Is
it through a lottery? Is it through investments? Is it
from hopefully the government? The top three news searches are
always to avoid having to continue to do our jobs
and right, like the right and the mainstream media has
(11:36):
looked at that and then like it's proof that people
are getting lazier. But it's obviously like humanity is at
the end of our rope with capitalism like just kind
of encroaching on every aspect of our lives until now,
like social media is like it's gotten so much into
(11:58):
the d n A of like our daily lives that
it's unsustainable and like people are just like getting the
funk out of here, like that those three being the
top most searched things. Is the really good sign megamillions?
Yeah one right, yeah, And the fact that the mainstream
media is ignoring where people are at and the complicity
(12:21):
of their corporate owners and advertisers in the whole thing
is probably a large part of why people are like
fleeing to you know, people on YouTube or you know,
on the right, and like the right seems to have
figured out before the left that the mainstream media is
(12:41):
lost all respect with people. And they had like a
terrible bullshit answer waiting, but it was an answer, you know,
which is like, don't watch their bullshit, watch our bullshit.
We call the bullshit. But you do like heaps of bullshit. Um,
but I mean, and I think you also kind of
see that in the how to help category to like,
I mean, I'm surprised at American's capacity. I think it's
(13:03):
more of the guilt of knowing what America's foreign policy was.
But how to help Afghan refugees was first, then how
to help Texas, how to help India, COVID, how to
help foster kids, I like, at the very bottom though,
apparently we have an epidemic of farting babies because number
ten is how to help a baby with gas? That is, yeah,
that is one of one of the worst problems new
(13:27):
parents run up against because it's wild it's like what
you eat then goes through the milk to the baby
and like might cause gas, and a baby with gas
is no fun, not great. Well, just crying all the
time from gas. They're uncomfortable, but it's there's no there's
(13:47):
nothing really you can do other than like kind of
pat them on the back until they farts. Yeah, no,
I have, but I'm able to just express it to
you guys. And wait, are we cutting that part out?
When I talk about my gas for like fifteen minutes straight?
Is that not making it into the show. It's been
a ga where I can't seem to get it out
(14:09):
and it's like debilitating. Yeah. Or I got to massige
your guts. That's like Japan. That's like a thing you do.
You lay on one side or just get your like
really kind of move the gas through your stomach to
your butt. I do headstands. I do you know, have
somebody to just drop me on my head laying straight
(14:29):
on your stomach. That also helped me to oh, I
just lay on the ground and you'll kill me. There's
some real like I if I had to just like
look at this whole page of all the trends and
like come away with one overarching theme and like this
isn't a fun or funny answer. It's really like very lonely,
(14:50):
which goes back to the whole you know, all their
interactions and relationships with the people who you know are
supposed to make us human or family, our friends, our
meat aated by like capitalist institutions that turn us into
the product or turn us under brands or whatever. Like.
For instance, there is how to help your team make
friends is one of the how two's on the how
(15:12):
to be, how to be happy alone, how to be
happy with yourself, how to be there's happy alone, how
to be more trying, I mean there is. It's just
there's a lot of a personal deficit being expressed, I think,
and like the how to be stuff, except unless you're
a baddy, in which case, yeah, all right, we are
(15:35):
going to do some research into how to be a
baddy when we come back from this break. As we
take this break, imagine there's only one really lonely person
who searched all just NonStop, any updates on how to
be happy. No, they can't be talking anyone there lonely,
That's right, it was. They weren't talking to anybody in
(15:57):
a I'll be right up, honey, Like that dude lives
in a basement apartment and we know, okay, all right,
we'll be right back and your back and how to
(16:18):
be a bad eye one on one. Let's let them know.
I mean, this is kind of the thing that people
come to the dailies likes for is to find out
how to be a baddy. First, we offer a Dictionary
definition of a baddy. We're not talking about a bad guy,
bad person and anti hero or something like that. We're talking,
I guess, to quote the Urban Dictionary, a bad girl
(16:40):
who is always on fleet, slaying the game most of
the time. These baddies grew up begin bully or what
the funk this is? This is why you can't read
Urban Dictionary because people are like, like literally drunk at
a bus stop typing this. But apparently they're trying to
also make it seem like a black Swan type evolution.
But we all know just to who's bad but bad
(17:01):
meaning good? I think the most interesting part is when
you're able to click that search and it goes to
the sub regions of who searched it the most, and
it says Georgia, Texas, New York, Florida, California. Yeah, and
then just Jack O'Brien's house, just TikTok topic. Apparently in
Texas it was like, I don't know, when's the search
interest one hundred? I'm like, okay, so they keep it
(17:24):
one hundred with their batty interests Georgia's I think Georgia's
top searched is in Georgia. So when that Senate race
was going on, everyone's like, guts to learn how to
be a batty? I mean yeah, I mean stimulus checker. No,
you must be a batty to survive in this country.
So this is basically an overlap with number two on
the how to be section, which is how to be
(17:46):
more attractive? Right? Am I missing some nuance here because
I just say things like how to be more attractive?
I don't know what how to be a bad he
is other than where and I patch and hijack the
Naka Tomi Tower. Yeah, well, like I know that audience
(18:07):
has aged out of it. Happy with yourself? Jack, this
is dark. It looks. How to be more attractive feels
like the more accessible Middle America version of how to
be a battye? You know, or like that's why you
see it more like, okay, right, how to be more attractive?
They were searching that in Arizona, in Colorado, you know,
(18:29):
maybe a little less about using the term batty. Oklahoma
is the number one place they were searching that. I
don't like these search trends, all right, UM's released? Yeah,
these are these are bad. These are bad search trends.
And do something cooler. Oh, here we go. Here's the
one Google under how to style? Can we talk about that?
(18:53):
A lot of fascinating stuff I think that talks about,
you know, like how does style a sweater vest? Huge? Yeah,
sweater vest as a little too high up there. For
when I'm thinking is like this is a lot of
millennial and gen z searches happening, Like how does style flannel?
That must before the kids because we know how to
style flannel? How do I style a wolf hair cut?
(19:14):
I don't know. Well, that's like that. That's like that
rocker hair that she a lot of people. It's almost
like a mullet, but it looks like more fancy. Oh
I have one of those, but I have a curly
version of it. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's kind of wolfie.
But yeah, that's like the wolf hair cut. How does
style a corset? I'm like, okay, let's go back in time.
(19:34):
A batty is someone wearing a corset? They could it's
so nebulous. Wait, so then do you wear a corset
or not? A course for a batty? I mean, it's
really up to the batty. You know, it's a style
choice A batty could make mm hmm maybe a little
too bad, but you know that's the badness is in
the eye of the bad holder. So when someone's asking
(19:54):
how does style straight leg jeans, they're just asking, like
what to wear it with? Like what what to do? Yeah, okay,
how to style jack? You know, dude, ever do any
search like style searches? I don't be straight leg? Yeah
that's what it's how to rock? Yeah, okay, got it.
(20:17):
I've seen you. Yeah. I wear skinny and straight leg,
mostly boot cut, though, which I was surprised to not
see on this list boot cut skinny How to wear
skinny boot cut jeans? I've never seen you wear boott
I think you've blacked it out. Is a terrible time
I've been through your closet. That time you had us
over for the you did come down in like five
(20:40):
different outfits of them, you're liked up like these aren't
boot cut. I'll keep looking, but kind of dubious at
this point with your boot cut, count is, could you
stay downstairs? Did you know what like these aesthetics were,
like indie dark academia? I knew what Cottage Core was
that number three? Y t K. I think I had
(21:02):
seen that coconut girl. I have not. I do not
know what coconut girl is. That what the coconut girl
is that it give is? Let me see if I can.
I like this, Yeah, that's a that's kind of a cool. Yeah.
I looked up a dark academia and it's like dark colors.
The photographs are like poorly lit. They had like a
(21:25):
color palette to go with it. Mm hmmm mmmm. It
feels like East Coast, like New England boarding school for
which one dark academia like a Harvard or like is
it like Edgy Hogwarts? Well, Harry Potter is number nine
miles and Slytherin is number ten. Yeah, so I think
(21:48):
Harry Potter. The is still very strong in the zeitgeist.
I'm assuming right, like the searches that like they're searching
like the aesthetic as well, or I guess people just
of that vibe. They want to be Malfoyd out. I
don't know. I was like worried to look at that.
I feel like that's gonna be like creepy. I think
(22:09):
that's we fully regressed. Oh, this is like Jojo saw Ship. Okay,
you look like just yeah, you look like a Lisa
Frank as a human being. We used just called this
like that was like sort of candy stepper raver style
back in my dad Yeah. See, I don't like these
trends because they're making me feel old. We used to
call this something else. We just called this happy hardcore.
(22:31):
Back in the day he was dressed like this. They'd
be in the happy Hardcore room. One of the top
searches is Miles Gray old damn and Miles Gray Young.
Same picture you were trying to counteract. Huh, very young,
very young. I was born after night and eleven. Let's
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run through the top ten memes. We got number one
Bernie Sanders Mittens, which it just feels like a I
don't know, I feel like we were working through something
there thinking that that was like I don't know or
maybe I don't know, like like it was the Biden
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supporters being like, look, how you know shitty? This guy
looks well, like we made the right decision and this
guy's unelectable type thing. It feels like it surpassed that though,
where it was like everyone was doing it just to
be like look like if it almost lost its meeting
of like why are we meeting this? Like it was
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just like just put them on something and there he
is right and you're like, okay, okay. Yeah, it's just
wild that that was the number one me of the year.
I think it was just that it was, yeah, just
that weird stress release of being like, Okay, the inauguration
is actually happening. There were were one step closer to
(23:56):
realizing that maybe Trump isn't the actual president anymore. I
don't ending on where you get your news, but I
think that was like gave people this like just dumb
moment to just you know, party with like oh my god,
he's wearing mittens so cool and he hates it. Yeah.
It felt like that was a manic moment of culture
that like now feels a little bit alien to me,
(24:19):
like why was everybody just hysterically sending That cropped into
various things back and forth. Hamster is number two because
there's another memorable hamster. I think it's a scared hamster
twisted tea. Not not familiar with that one. APOLOGIESE to
Uh the youngsters don't that is I mean? This is
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also it's interesting to see, like what the I feel
like people who are searching memes on Google is a
little bit different than what the actual most popping memes were,
you know what I mean, because they're just if you're
searching memes, you're like what she's mean on TikTok when
they like it's not because I get that that was
a huge trend on TikTok, But I don't know if
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this is quite the best metric to apply to actually
understand the most popping memes. But the Bernie Sanders one
does make sense because it feels like a thing that
everybody was tapped into. Everybody was looking at even like
on CNN or whatever they're like, and and Bernie was
he was even staying warm despite all the social distancing
in the crowd and just's like cutting to yeah, these
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are this is actually a list of the memes that
were most popular with middle managers. UH wanted to like
send them to other people. Wrapped me up dabbed me
up as number seven. She she was number five. Six
is red flag Like that's pretty hey. I like to
think of a very loving step parent who's trying to
(25:46):
create Suez Canal. That was actually just a great moment
of the year. The size of that thing, um the
giant container ship, uh that clogged up the sue As Canal.
I'd be unhappy with that being on the being on
the list, and I liked the crop jobs of that
(26:07):
just being various places. It was a moment. I was
a real moment. Anything else that jumped out to you
from the list? Vin Diesel Family Baby, Yeah, that was
huge for us. Vin Diesel heads us Fast and Nefurious
as serves. Did a meme come out of the last movie?
Because I just always know Vin Diesel families just like
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always a standard the last movie, there was a pop
off of memes about Vin Diesel and family. I think
it brought it back into the zite guy ding ding
and people were all again retweeting or I mean even
I think maybe it's been a minute since we had
a Fast and Furious movie because this one got pushed
back here due to the pandemic. So people are just
(26:50):
ready people are right, and you know what I think,
like there is a thing to say about like the
pandemic basically upping our our meme sort of power, because
all of a sudden, you know, it's like you're at
home and you're just doing it and you got we
all got meme time, you know, in the meme time,
we all created memes, so and we're so lonely that
we're like, Vin Diesel really is my family? Oh man,
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that's when you're within your family. That's Olive Garden. Actually,
did you know that Ven Diesel owns a large amount
of stock in Alive Garden? He should if he gives
a funk about family. Why do you think I'm joking?
Oh he wait, so he's that's a joke. If that's
a joke, you're fucking up Vin Diesel. That's real. Okay,
(27:35):
we're back on track. The or section is just yeah,
or was the one I wanted to jump to. Yeah,
this feels like so consistent, just like effect or affect,
Like I feel like that's got to be top right
consistently through the years, Like the years actually got those
definitions separately tattooed on my body. Your memento is just
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like it can affect something rather than be an effect
of something. Yeah, it's just the thing is it's interesting,
is like they don't have it consistently every year, Like
the first five sections typically are the same, but they
don't have an or section for nine. And is it
boogie or boogee? That that's a spelling one, right, boogier? Yeah,
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Like what do we do? Bones or no bones is
a meme? Right? That should be on the meme one,
I feel, but it qualifies here because it has a
or in the middle of it. It's a little bit sloppy,
you know, it's not it's not the purest either or type.
Bones or no bones is like the pug, right, you
tell me, Dad? So I think it was like somebody
(28:47):
had a pug that would predict what kind of day
was going to be based on if it looked like
it had bones bones or not. Oh this thing yeah
pretty cute. Well, I think another indication of how sad
we've become, where we're like, I don't know, meme pug,
tell me what is our future? Please now immediately? And
(29:10):
then sinus, I like sinus infection or COVID allergies or
COVID cold or COVID. I definitely hit allergies or COVID myself. Yeah,
and then I do fiser or Maderna Like, okay, I
like that. People. You see that story about how Neron
taking out those fiser antibodies. Good luck Jack. They just
(29:33):
said the third dose worked. Well, no, they said three
doing good. You're safe before it will kill you. So
it's real crap. Shoot. Yeah, actually, don't don't start staying
things and people are like, wait, what is it? No? Yeah, yeah, sorry,
that's that's a joke that cuts in the direction of antibactors.
(29:55):
So I will shut the funk up, but we will
lose Jack unfortunately, because he's a fighter guy and Miles
and I are both madern heads, so see uh he
well he also he took every vaccine. I don't think
you were there for that when he told us that. Yeah,
he said he got every single one. Collector and yeah,
I've gotten three J and jet Yeah he did three
(30:17):
J and j's for his booster turning the bottle of
baby shampoo. I keep some jan J sitting Ben up
in the stairways. Also shout out to Olivia Rodrigo. She
got two of the top ten song searches theah, you
know three, what am I saying? Deja vu? Whoa strawberry
ice cream in Malibu? Let him know? Mhm, A good one.
(30:42):
I don't I don't know. I heard the driver's license one.
I'm a little checked out. When it comes to Olivia Rodrigo,
I got it all through Osmosis from her majesty and
then a couple of ones. I was like it was
it was one of those albums. I was like, Oh,
this is gonna be pretty poppy. But then I was like,
oh the production pretty good. Olivia Rodrick, now help us
get everyone vaccinated. And she tried. She did her, She
(31:06):
did her best TV shows. You got the expected what
you'd expect, Squid Game, Briton one Division, then number four
coming in Hut Jenny and Georgia. Didn't expect to see
that one. You watch that caught me looking? Yeah I did,
I did watch that, but um, you know why I
blew up Taylor Swift did uh what is it the
(31:28):
barber stride sand effect or whatever, tweeting out because there
was They make a joke in the show about Taylor
Swift dating a bunch of different dudes and they're like,
what do you Taylor Swift, so I don't know something
like that. Taylor Swift got upset, tweeted about the show
having this joke, which I'm like, this girl's got forty
Google alerts a second about her deserving all of them
(31:50):
and um, and then she tweeted it out to be
like this is inappropriate Netflix, why would you come for
women like that? And then proceeded to blow the shop
because everyone's like, well, I got love it, Like all
they coming for Taylor Swift were here. So I think
she invertedly popped off the show when she was actually
trying to scold Netflix for allowing them to include a
(32:11):
very brief throwaway joke about her in like episode eight.
Mm hm, well the Power of the Swift Cobra Kai
number five. Uh. They must had a new season this season. Yeah,
I only watched the first two. Yeah, but there's that
I liked them, and then the only ones I really
watched on Your Squid Game, Mayor of East Town. Yeo.
(32:33):
So I just have to once again, there's a movie
that's getting a lot of buzz called The Power of
the Dog. It's very good, but it's it starts Bennet
at Cumberbatch and he's getting a lot of buzz for
like a wardship. He cannot do an American accent. It's
a Western and he's like, what are you doing? Cool? My,
(32:58):
Like it's like real, like he's you can like see
he's burning a thousand calories every time he has to
like say certain words. And I just have to once
again shout out to what Kate Winslett did in Mayor
of Easta that like just the greatest moment of that
show for me was just like cutting to an interview
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with her after and her speaking in a British accent
and me like having totally forgotten that, uh you know,
she wasn't she wasn't mayor. Do you want to hear
my impression of Mayor Vy's town if she was a podcaster? Guys,
we need to record a poisterl No, no, no, that
you had that big, so strong when the show was remember,
(33:44):
we need to record a poister roll poist Sydney. Yeah,
it's something like that. I to do it better when
the show was actually on it and I would just
talk like her, Yeah, boys, we need to record. It's
like a boy record. There was this article that came
(34:06):
out recently that was like do actually, like, do good
accents even matter anymore? And they were juxtaposing that with
like Lady Gaga on how s a Gucci? And I
think even the cumber Batch thing where they're just sort
of like, I don't know if it even matters, you know,
if you're sucking up at this point, it's a great
it's a great performance, like it is like when the
movie works really well. It just stressed me out at
(34:29):
the beginning. When I realized he wasn't pulling it off,
I was like, oh, yeah, may I defend the accent
work in film work like the Power of the Dog?
Is that what it was called? Yeah? That era accents
were a mess because we were transitioning from a more
British sounding nonsense to a more less British sounding to
(34:53):
what we now deemed the American accent. So I don't
think there is too much of it, a like a
right accent if the movie is it takes place in
a time that's old enough in this country. Because there
was such a kind of I don't what am I
even doing defending America? You know what, You're right, his
accent sucked. Hey, they're just transitioning out of their their
(35:16):
colonizer swag. No. I mean it's like, I don't think
accents like back then when this movie supposedly takes place
in quotes, I don't think there was like I think
accents were all over the place because there was still
such like colonizing and like, you know, the UK and
then you know, I've also heard the UK had more
(35:36):
of an accent like the South way way way, way
way long time ago. That that or not even maybe
like the South but more like Boston that was. Yeah,
that then was morphed into this more like classies sort
of British, you know, like they made that ship up.
They were like, oh that sounds fancy as fun. They
(35:56):
used to be like, hey, you're watching the Sacks game.
I don't know. I'm sorry, I'm all tied everyone goodbye.
But yeah, I mean that shout out to the Industrial
Revolution for changing the accents too. Among the great greatest
things with the Industrial Revolution brought us yet to find
a bad one from the Industrial Revolution, just winning streak
(36:23):
ever since anything else from the from the overall page
of Google trends, before we bid a do you? Which,
let me just look up how to pronounce a do you? Yeah,
I think it. Um favorite recipe that got searched, um
is the like TikTok pasta. That's how you know we
(36:47):
are were too fun helping us is that people like,
how do you make that pasta on it? From TikTok?
Is that one with the big block of cheese and
the tomatoes? My favorite smashed potatoes? Guys, this is the
right there, just smashed the potatoes. There's ones, Yeah, I
think I don't know. The one. I just appreciate that
bevideo tacos is number three that became and I think, honestly,
(37:10):
and that's also as a result of the Internet because
like the dunking of the beadia taco into the consummate,
that has just become like standard issue food porn on
social media. So good to see out there, good to
see out there media. I wish that was like a
top porn trends search as well. You know, I'm sure
(37:30):
that that porn hub will be issuing that and when
they do, um, we will do an hour and a
half on what you sip? Yeah so that mom, right,
isn't that the main one? I remember? Well? Yeah, remember
we have clicked on that link. Yeah, I remember going
(37:51):
and searching step Mamaton and I was like, this must
do well, very good work. So wait, if you're in
your thirties, that just means you have to start saying
you're step mom. Do you want to hook up with
everyone step mom? Period? Doesn't matter who they are, what
they do. You just want everyone's step mom, right right? Right?
(38:11):
Who do your own step mom? I guess I don't know. Yeah,
I think I think the backstories as I understand them
are always uh step mom and uh step you know,
it's like step step other human being. Yeah, well, I
think I don't know when that we're going to get
their their year in review one, but I know it's coming.
(38:32):
I know it's coming. Yeah. Anyways, that's what That's what
was most trending in according to Google. Try harder next
year and uh Google harder. That's gonna do it. We're
back with more special episodes pretty soon and we'll talk
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