The Yearly Zeitgeist: 2012/2013

Jack, Miles, and Anna go over all the most memorable parts of the 2012 and 2013 years.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet. I'm welcome to this very special two
thousand twelve, two thousand thirteen episode of Daily's eight Guys.
I don't know why I got all the morning zoo there. Uh.
The show's a production of I Heart Radio. This is
a podcast where you take a deep dive into America's
share consciousness and say, officially, off the top, fuck the

(00:22):
Koch Brothers and funk Fox News. My name is Jack O'Brien,
a k oh Jack O'Brien. Oh, Jack O'Brien. How are
thy hands so awkward? And I'm thrilled to be joined
as always by my co host Mr Miles see up

(00:43):
plage and boy puffing on up blond. Okay, that's yeah,
and we're thrilled to be joined also by super producer
no Hona Anna. All right, this is a bush I
did it right right now holiday candies that he's crushing

(01:11):
and snorting. But like, I'm like tired, but yeah, like
a sugar like a delirium. Yeah, I'm delirious right now, guys.
But we've been We've got we've been going like four
podcasts a day for like a week. I'm just doing it.
I'm we're gonna burn out. Y'all like millennials. It's overheating. Sorry,

(01:33):
I love none of this. Keep this energy, this energy throughout. Well,
So today guys talking about twelve, two thirteen a year,
where were you to be alive? Where was that twelve?
I just moved out to Los Angeles? Uh, Sarah and
I got real into running. It was a very lonely
time for both of us. What do you mean because

(01:54):
you were both just jogging? Yogging too in your own
did you would you wear headphones or do that thing?
We're like, if you're jogging, you should be able to
have a light conversation. Oh no, no no, no, we would.
We would do it together and we had each other's company,
but we didn't have many friends. Oh got it? Got it? Yeh?
Because you just moved out to and we just moved
out to a new town. We were running a lot,

(02:14):
and the people, uh we were hanging out with were
other runners. Yeah. What were you running from? Though? Exactly?
That's the question. We're still trying to New York. Yeah,
where were you? Annah? Mid year? I had graduated college university. True,
I did end up getting back from getting it back

(02:37):
into good standing. This was a triumphant return, you know,
graduated h top of our class, gave a speech valedictorians.
I don't even think they let me walk. I didn't
graduate top of her class, graduated funked up off her ass. Yeah,
that's true. There's a photo of me at the graduation
ceremony with my eyes closed and head back because my

(02:59):
parents were like, aren't you even giving a ship? And
I was like, it's like eighteen hours long. I've been
to a public university before. I never I didn't even
go to my so many students. I did not go
to my own college graduations because I did not want
to sit in the heat at the tennis courts at
u c l A. Oh no, because they have to
graduate everybody at the same time, so like my department

(03:19):
would be in the Tennis area and my family in
June in Los Angeles. No. Also, I just need the
paper so I can get a job. Goodbye. Did you
bring that paper? Did you bring your diploma to every
job interview? Yeah? Like the mom who's like holding the
Time magazine, Remember when you brought it to this one?
I did, and you guys didn't even give me ship
because it was so clearly a joke. Diploma from bow

(03:41):
behind university. Um, yeah, I was living in my mom's backhouse.
This is post politics life, post politics life. I'm still
not really doing a steady job. This is when I'm
doing start doing my otter jobs, like I'm doing raves,
doing artist hospitality there, managing like artist's hospitality at raids. Yeah.

(04:04):
Like so setting up like a DJ's trailer with like
all their wild Riders ship. Yeah, that's and I was like, man,
you know what I need to get on the right
side of this, Mike Man have I can have people
fill up my dressing room with gelatto and hint pineapple water,
hint pineapple water. That's that was your future man, that's

(04:26):
the rider right there. Anyway, what a year. Uh So
let's start out with movies. I I feel like that's
a good good way to kind of place yourself in
the zeitgeys. That was the year that Looper came out.
And this is also the order generally, I'm gonna be
listening to these in the order when you Google movies
two thousand twelve. This is how Google has it, which

(04:48):
I think is a good metaphor for like how our
collective consciousness remembers movies from that year. It's like, what order.
They're kind of a weird order. Looper first, The Master
are Go h Lincoln, Moonrise, Kingdom, the Avengers, which I
would have thought would be first. Uh Jango, The Amazing

(05:09):
Spider Man. That that's a movie that is just completely disappeared.
The one with Andrew Garfield just totally disappeared from my consciousness. One. Okay,
Toby mcchoire, regardless of his pussy posse days, he really
killed it with that Spider Man. Like that one really
brought it home to me. I was like, James Franco,
evil Dad, get it okay? Yeah. So and then when

(05:29):
you come out with the I feel like they didn't
wait long enough to come out with a new Spider Man.
So by that point I was like, no, I'm still
taking in the old Spider Man because it takes me
like ten years to watch a single superhero movie. You guys.
Beat of the Southern Wild came out that year. That
was a pretty movie, didn't Wasn't the little girl in
that like the Youngest Academy Award nomina. I don't want
to say her name wrong, but I think it was

(05:49):
kwanzen A. That's a period name. Zero Dark thirty came
out that year. That seems too fast, because didn't we
just talk in the last episode of in Laden how
they killed Bin Laden one year before and there was
propaganda it really was. So we had zero Dark thirty
and what was the other argo in which they claimed

(06:12):
that like the American CIA saved these hostages, except and
like totally edited out the Canadian intelligence officers who planned
the whole thing and executed the whole thing. But this
was a big year for c I a propaganda big
year for Pete Bota Edge. I believe argos tagline was
thank God for Ben Affleck, in which we're all, like

(06:32):
your audience were angry for years after what was um?
I completely lost my train. I thought I was just
looking up when the Osama bin Laden raid was May second,
two thousand eleven, and then this movie came out December. Yeah,
they were just like boom. But apparently how much info
we have? They say Catherine Bigelow was working on a

(06:53):
script already that was around the Battle of Tora Bora,
so it was already kind of searching for being lauden
Esquet and then yeah, oh, then one of the people
that was helping her right said that they found out
like women had a huge role in this process, and
then they started getting cracking on that script. But yeah,

(07:13):
that was very much like yeah, nothing to see here,
that was all cool, all chill, don't worry about it.
American number one. I feel like the Avengers was like
the big movie that You're right, the Avengers and the
Dark Knight Rises. I didn't even see the Avengers really. Yeah, man,
I don't know why it's weird. I like I said,
I say this all the time. I just got overwhelmed.
I think that year before thor and like iron Man

(07:36):
three Man and all that other Shipman three was because
oh that reminds me of my other job I was doing.
I see. Yeah, I don't know. I don't think. Maybe
I just didn't like those other characters. But I do
feel like you're correct that this was a year that
is defined again, like we talked, had a lot of
original I p or than we started seeing more sequels,

(08:02):
and this year that kind of continued that trend because
you got Avengers, you got Dark Knight Rises, you got Stall,
you got movies that were Men in Black three. Uh
actually had looked at the top ten. Wait, John Carter,
like John Carter from Mars. Yeah, that was that. That

(08:24):
was in Yeah, I could have swore that was like
in two thousand two. You know. I the movie that
really spoke to me was Outside of Magic. Mike was
the Master because I believe around that time when we
were all starting to really come after scientology like that
was kind of remember Lawrence Wright came out with the
Going Clear book, like we were all starting to hop.

(08:45):
I don't know if that was exactly, but we're all
starting to hop on the on here. Yeah. Train. So
the top box office movies the Avengers, Dark, Knight Rises,
Hunger Games, Skyfall, the Bond movie, Twilight, Uh, the Amazing
Spider Man. That's the top six and those are all
like sequels or whatever. And then you get more original
works like Ted your Ted's the first Head came out there? Yeah,

(09:10):
the first head came out there. You're Madagascar three, Europe's
Most Wanted's of the World. When did uh Penguins of
Madagascar come out? No, there's like that spinoff. The penguin
characters of Madagascar got their old film. Anyways, let's talk
about the stories that happened. This was a this was

(09:31):
a rough year for just just news over the event. Yeah, yeah,
it was. So it started with Trayvon was the first
like major story of that year. In February, Uh May
Obama supports gay marriage. Uh, and that was actually something
like I had heard Biden say, like he was the
first to support gay marriage in the Obama White House

(09:53):
during a debate and just thought it was like random
synapses firing. But the way that time magazine again, I'm
looking back at these uh sort of year recaps, like
your review recaps from the end of the year. They're
like written in December of that year, and the way
that that story was written was like after Joe Biden
like unexpectedly came out in favor of gay marriage. Uh,

(10:16):
you know, Obama was sort of forced to do it,
so that uh that random synapse firing that came out
of Joe Biden's mouth apparently might be true. Wait, so
they are saying it was like an accident where he's
like I just forgot to say do not and just
wrote support marriage. And I think he just it was
like unplanned, but like he basically like Joe Biden put

(10:39):
out his support first, and Obama was like you mother, alright, fine, Joe,
I do too. Um well, because in like that eleven
is when that he stopped having Department of Justice Defendoma
in court. So I mean it was kind of on
that way, I mean obviously, but yeah he had because

(11:02):
like before that, like in the early two thousand's, he
was more of like I focused civil unions, but which
isn't a right stance. Yeah. Um, there's the mass shooting
in Aurora at the Dark Knight Rises, uh movie, Like
I think it was opening weekend Obama. This was while
the election was going on, uh, and Obama really stepped

(11:23):
up became I think this is one around the first
time people started using the phrase consoler in chief. He
was like the man who was like there for people
a shoulder literally a shoulder for people like victims to
cry on. Um. So that happened in July. Then in
August the London Olympics happened. I feel like this was

(11:44):
a good glimpse at the future of like definitely probably
the present of China, but like sort of the future
police states of the world, like very beautiful, very fun,
very like popular, full of viral moments, and deeply authoritarian,
like across the board, with just like all sorts of
surveillance equipment and police state technology. I think there were

(12:07):
some buildings in downtown London that had missile launchers on
the wall. Um oh yeah, like some kind of like
defense in places, right. Yeah, yeah, it was just fully militarized.
It was wild building stadiums that nobody really ever wanted.
That's but that's a constant thing with that. Yeah, that's
always the Olympics. Let's displace people for this ship. Yeah.
Also I remember that year this game Plagued Inc. Came out,

(12:29):
this mobile game where you could like evolve your own virus,
and kind of one of the deals I feel like
it always would reference the the Olympics that year, and
you know then a lot of people go for the
Olympics and then that virus starts spreading everywhere. Is that
the one that was like was actually uh sort of
artificial intelligence thing where they were trying to look at

(12:51):
sort of how a plague would spread. Basically, I don't
know who that was the motive behind it. That you
can add new like things to your illness. Yeah, your virus.
You added added some new Uh you're like this one, yeah,
because you could be like, oh it does well in
arid climates or like causes cough this one makes you
so thirsty and then the worms burst forth. It's it's

(13:14):
just it's weird. Actually when I think about that mindset
for me to be playing a game in twelve where
I'm like reveling and ending all life on earth and
creating an illness that is incurable, incurable. So that's about
halfway through the year. Uh, so we're gonna take a
quick break and we'll be right back with the rest
of twelve and into and we're back and all right,

(13:50):
So the London Olympics happen, We're all just like riding
on a high from Michael Phelps and like just the
first year Beijing was this first year and then this
was like when he really it was just like he
was rolling there like this guy's high rolling through the competition,
riding high. Literally, dare this Olympic athlete live his life?

(14:12):
And then September eleven happens and Benghazi knock us down
off our high horse. Uh, really sad. It was very sad.
It was also uh that then in October the investigation
into the attacks on Benghazi start. Uh, and yeah, that's
I remember the diplomat that they dragged out and killed.

(14:34):
Went to my college college put out a thing. Yeah
he was a lot older thing being like, um, you know,
like rest in peace. Like that was devastating because I
remember the photos of his body, his lifeless body being
dragged around were circulating, and I remember just being I
can like still see the photos in my mind and
it's still to this day, like one of the most

(14:56):
devastating things. I like imagining, like of a person being
dragged through the streets and then having the photo posted
everywhere and it's like this is a family. Yeah. And
then now for the rest of our years, everyone Hillary
gets blamed, Like you hear the word ben Ghazi so
often we're like, yeah, yeah, it's just it's just in

(15:17):
dragged through the mud, and it's just a really fucked up,
it's fucked up thing that we'll never forget. Yeah, and yeah,
using like weaponizing that for as a political tool. Yep. Uh.
The economy had kind of had a pretty strong recovery
through the first four years of the Obama administration, and

(15:37):
that was something Time magazine uh commented on the headline
they had was the economy recovers like a motherfucker. They
had that actual know that they know they didn't have that,
but they they have a chart in our dock that
shows like basically what happened. It's pretty pretty remarkable. Uh

(16:02):
what we call him the bis hockey sticks growth. Hell yeah. Um.
Then in October we had Hurricane Sandy devastated the East coast,
the twelve election where Mitt Romney came in went it
back for the Republican Party. Oh yeah, the fiscal cliff

(16:23):
in December. Oh that was that was such hot news.
I know, that was such a big deal and look
at us not given. And then Sandy Hook happened in December.
So just kind of and I think, yeah, that was
really fun man. That was seven years ago, and we
are still done funck all on gun control. I mean

(16:47):
we did so in this episode. We're doing thirteen. So
I looked at like, and you know, the news stories
about gun control, and it's just like we actually like
went in the opposite direction, because because gun rights people
like go so hard when something like that happens, they

(17:08):
push back in the other direction. It's I find interesting
that like today you still see it that very like
very intense ad from the Sandy Hook Parents Association where
it's a bunch of kids doing like they're back to school,
shopping and I love to get this stuff, but it's
so clue that they're like hiding from a school shooting,
like that's there. They have to put that out out now,

(17:29):
Like it's been seven years and they're still being like high,
our kids are in danger. They got they just can't.
That lobby is so powerful. I think the reaction to
was like, uh, like Second Amendment n R A gun humper.
People were so the second anything was mentioned. It's like,
you know, like when maybe there's a one last let's say,

(17:50):
one last Coca Cola in the cooler and you reach
for it and someone goes, I mean that man, that's mine,
don't touch it, and you're almost kind of like a
reasonable person, you go, oh funck alright, dude, right, don't
like it. Ain't gotta be like that that sort of
reaction initially, I think, but if you're a Coca Cola
Right to advocate, you're gonna be like, no, funk that
it's mine. Yeah. But I think just seeing that, like

(18:12):
I think for people who are maybe in favor of
gun control first or sort of taken it back maybe
a little bit like oh ship, like what then when
you sort of look back retrospectively and understand just how
you know, these conversations or discussions were informed by the
n r A and things. It's like, of course, but
I mean it's not just the n r A. Like
gun sales shoot through the roof. That's a terrible way

(18:34):
to say that. But gun sales go up right after
a mass shooting because which is so weird, because people
are scared. They now, yeah, part of them knows, like
it's wild that our government let's us have these like
weapons that are this deadly, like these are military grade weapons,
and so they're just like, we better go out and

(18:56):
buy all of these because eventually it's too good to
be true. One day they're gonna take these back and
not let us be armed, like we're in the middle
of a ground war here at guns are really that cool?
Oh tell that to the minute man, right. Um, just
some of the things from twelve election, Romney was really

(19:19):
quite quite the candidate. Um, these these are memorable moments.
According to Time magazine, Romney tells a New Hampshire audience,
I like being able to fire people. Uh, they say,
kicking off a year of rich guy gaffs. Wow. So
that basically led to Trump being elected because he was
the king of firing people, right. Well, it was just

(19:41):
it was basically the things that Romney was ashamed of
was were the things that Trump just did, like openly
and cartoonishly to the point that people were like, yeah,
I know, this guy like steers into the tailspin. You know. Uh.
Conservative firebrand Rush Limbach calls George on Law students Sandra
Fluke a quote slut and a quote prostitute during his

(20:05):
nationally syndicated talk radio show. I do remember this. I
hadn't like so it was just like this is what
when when Obama was president, Like the conservative side of
the media was like needed something to freak out about.
Like currently they're accusing the mainstream media freaking out about

(20:28):
their president, But when Obama was president, they just had
to like lash out. They're just like, yeah, what did
she do? I remember her name. She did something about
women's rights and rights to birth control and planned parenthood.
What a slut? Yeah? Um our sweat ranch. He still

(20:52):
has that show telling people that hurricanes aren't real, they're
a myth while his like buildings being taken away. Idiot. Yeah. No.
He's one of the most popular and influential voices in
UH conservative politics. To a Daily Caller reporter, interrupted heckled
Obama during a major immigration reform announcement. UH just started

(21:15):
calling him like a liar and ship. It's just something
about that guy that they couldn't stomach. I don't know
what it was. This the fucking Clint Eastwood empty chair
that was also UM at the Republican National Convention this
year when old as Clint Eastwood did his memorable iconic

(21:38):
single chair monologue, empty chair monologue, it was so strange.
I hadn't remembered how strange this was, and also how like,
I don't know, awkward, and he didn't seem to be
be able to remember what he was supposed to be saying. Yeah,
it looked like somebody like a like a toxic confident
guy doing an open mic set for the first time

(22:00):
and like kind of going through the jokes. But it's
also not phasing him because he's in a just a
completely separate reality from everyone else. Yeah, he so the clinics.
Wood gets up at the Republican National Convention and it's like, yeah,
I liked Obama when he got UH nominated. I I cried,
Oprah cried. But then you know, I also not as

(22:21):
hard as I cry when people are unemployed. Now, and
then he just starts addressing this empty chair next to
him without explaining that there's like a premise here, right,
because it almost looks like, oh, he's he sundownding. Uh.
Then I gets here, you little how it starts literally
addressing an empty fucking chair that's supposed to be so

(22:45):
Mr President? How do you how do you handle how
do you handle promises that you've made when you were
running for election? And how do you handle it? Uh?
How do you handle it? I mean, what do you
say to people? Do you you just what you know?
I know people people were wondering you don't you don't know? Okay,

(23:10):
well I know even some of the people in your
own party were very disappointed we did didn't close Gitmo?
And I thought, well, I think get closing Gitmo? Why
closing that we've spent so much money on it? Uh? Okay, yeah,
it's ramble. It's really like one of those things like
you never want to meet your heroes or see them
like this without a script. Yeah, how do you? Uh? Yeah? Anyways,

(23:37):
Romney lost badly. Uh. There was also the secretly recorded
video where he said that of America doesn't work, and
he said that he like Big Sesame Street as much
as everybody else, but he was still gonna defund PBS
UM and Binders Binders, right, somebody. I think it was

(24:00):
a debate. He was like talking about how woke his
campaign was, and he was like, I I had binders
full of women come to me. Uh so he yeah,
he's just he He had the perfect mixture of being
out of touch, uh, super rich person and also like
Al Gore level robot human charism, yeah, charisma, tourisma yeah. Uh.

(24:25):
And then let's move on toten. Let's start off with
the movies. Often twelve Years of Slave that instantly reminds
me of Sterling at the Clippers, Sterling at the We're
making memes because he was talking that's when he was
caught on the phone. This year wasn't this? The year
was this year? I could have swore a goud It
was because I was making twelve Years of Slave memes

(24:47):
about like how he was talking about his own players
in the franchise Die They Got me? Oh when did
the movie come out? I Clean Eastwood here? Yeah, twelve
years the act of what was the act of killing.
The Act of killing was that documentary. It's probably the
best document and I thought they did it together. I

(25:11):
don't think so. Now it's a it's just a filmmaker.
It's neither of those guys. But it's it's a like
a guy goes over to a country that had a
full on revolution and genocide. Yeah, it was in Indonesia,
and Indonesia and the country the leaders who are still
in power. What executive producer producers weren't Herzak made it No,

(25:36):
But I mean they teamed up to get it, like
made it happen because they're like the two guys who
know that feels like something Werner Hurtzog when you heard
nobody goes, we must make this documentary. That's I remember
seeing it because it was so wild because they re
and they got the people who committed the murder to
reenact the murders. That's hard to convince people to do that.

(25:56):
It was. It's one of the if you haven't seen it,
it's just an amazing they snitched on themselves. Yeah, well
because so basically the idea was that they had never
because after the revolution they were the people in power,
so they had just never confronted that there was anything
wrong with the fact that they, you know, committed genocide.
And so you are having these people just completely guiltlessly

(26:20):
talking about committing mass murder and just like choking out
hundreds of people on a single day with like this
wire thing. And then but there's like also this level
where they're there's like a part of them, like their humanity,
that they've like killed off. That's like kind of like
the person starts having like stomach trouble as he's like
talking about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's really wild. But yeah,

(26:46):
then they re enact like the killings. Um, Frozen came
out this year iconic icon and I'm in a movie
theater Frozen has just come out. I don't know. I'm
I have no concept that when movies come out anymore.
I honestly I thought Frozen came out. Yeah, I would

(27:09):
have to. You could have. You could have convinced me
of either thing. The first Purge came out, I feel
like that's pretty iconic. I've seen it though, now you
see me. I feel like that's iconic, even though I
don't know why. The Magician film, Yeah, don't you feel like, Yeah,
I saw it. Yeah, I've seen it on cable since then.

(27:29):
I can see now you see me too. I don't know.
It's like movies that a lot of people saw this
year aren't that iconic, Like World war Z. I feel
like that that was like a huge hit and a
big deal at the time, but that it didn't really
like last in the consciousness. No. I think the best
thing about World War Z was the fucking trailer, Like
I remember seeing him, like, what the funk? No, I

(27:49):
just like this ship. I wanted to see a wild
ass group of zombies just make a big pile against
the wall. I was like, Yep, this is tight, and
then it was not. It wasn't it was a hit
like I thought it. American Hustle Ak Wigs the movie
that was like a movie that everybody loved at the time,
But like, I feel like it's not really since then. Yeah,

(28:11):
I don't think. I don't think anyone's thought about it.
I think it was just completely forgotten the second the
ball dropped. Uh. But yeah, like smaller movies like The
Purge where iconic uh, Captain Phillips became iconic for the
I'm the captain now line. I have trouble remembering most
of everything except from that line. I've seen the film

(28:33):
and I remember is I'm the captain now? So basically,
do you want me to explain the plot to you?
I haven't seen it, but I know I remember what
I mean. I know the basic plot, but like, I
can't vividly remember many of the scenes aside from like
that one. I believe Tom Hanks was acting with a
beard of some sort. Yeah, and I believe he was
playing some kind of captain. Very iconic. Iron Man three

(28:59):
came out one of the big movie because of the year,
keeping that process going of you know, sequels, Monster University,
Despicable Me Too. These were the big movies of that year.
Oh you love it. I love to see it. Yeah.
Um but yeah, like Her, that was a big movie
that was like super critically acclaimed. To that, I feel

(29:20):
like everybody's kind of from about since then, Um, Furious
six usually critically acclaimed. Uh no, but it was, it
was very successful. To that one. I don't know, I
don't I can't tell any of the Curious six was
the one where they destroyed Brazil. That's five five, You're right,
I think six. Maybe they destroyed I don't know. That

(29:42):
was the one with the giant like plane at the
end where they're like driving down the runway of the
gal gal Gadot's character shows up. Yeah, spoil it is
this when the Rock shows up for the first time. Also,
now he's chasing them around the world. Now they've teamed up.

(30:05):
Oh is are they still chasing them? You know they
do later, but like there it's the fallout from Rio,
and then Hobbs has been tracking a gang of lethally
skilled mercenary drivers. And then someone Dom knows so he's like, yo, Dom, dude,
this is the one where um letty and then the

(30:28):
most iconic Yeah she dies and is alive and every
other I don't really know these movies that well. I
just I just like supers. So yeah, there's some iconic movies,
but they're not They're not necessarily the ones that you
would have picked as the most iconic at like that year.
I would have because I know everything. But yes, uh,

(30:50):
top international stories, there's a lot of like, you know,
just international Like I feel like, what is the stereotypical
thing that Americans picture when they think of international stories.
There's like super typhoons, ring of Terror in Africa, a
factory disaster in Bangladesh. Um. Yeah, it's just like that's

(31:14):
when Americans picture news of the world. I think they
picture stretchers and rubble and starving children. Oh yeah, well,
I mean most of the news is sort of focused
to be like, yeah, what about that part of the
world though. Um, but we also got Francis the Progressive Pope,
and the rest of this episode will be about Francis
the Progressive Pope after we take a quick commercial break

(31:37):
from Progressive auto insure and we're back and we're not
going to talk about the Pope were gone. No, he's
that is not progressive. Ratziger was the Nazi? When was

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he the pope right before this dude, but then Francis
came in because that dude retired. There it's weird. And
that with the whole movie is that there's like a movie.
But yeah, there's no movie the two popes because usually
there's only one pope alive, and this proves that there's
a reason for that because the pope who's still alive
but it's no longer the pope and who is also

(32:22):
an ex Nazi and also a super conservative pope who's
like what he drinks beer wasn't that the thing, Like, yeah,
so he's cool, so that excuses everything. Anyways, he retired
probably because he had like some sort of scandal coming
down the pike, and they were like, uh so, and
then a progressive pope came along and he just laid

(32:45):
back in the cut and was like yes, yes, yes,
my prettease. Um. That is when serious of war started horrifying. Um.
And then yeah, this is the year when, like I
was talking about, one of the stories that Time magazine
had in their urin review is gun control loses steam.
The historic school shooting in Newton that left twenty children

(33:09):
dead and six adults was supposed to have been a
turning point for gun control advocates, riding the collective dismay
over the massacre. Uh, the d n C leaders sought
to ban assault weapons and then it was like fully
pushed back and it it died in the Senate. And
then they like got laws that loosened restrictions. So it

(33:30):
makes sense. Yeah, kind of bringing in the other direction,
the Supreme Court found for gay marriage. Uh. There was
the Boston marathon bombing, which I feel like was America's
version of the London Olympics, where we got a vision
of like what a American police state would be like
when they had completely like shut down the whole city

(33:50):
of Boston and all the suburbs and like nobody was
allowed on the street they were chasing and then they
was like found in the back of a boat or
something rest in his backyard. And then this is when
we got the Snowden Lakes um, which I think was
the big dominant news story of of that time. But

(34:13):
let's not talk about that. Let's talk about the top
ten buzzwords. What what oh God? I like this one? Okay,
thanks give Aka. The fun is that that was the
year that the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars lined up, and
so Thanksgiving the first day of Hanakah both fell in
November twelve, early early Hanakah that year. That that's one

(34:36):
of those buzzwords that has really stood the test of
thing that sounds like you're going to Thanksgiving with a crip.
It's funny time Time is a list of overreported stories
and they are Miley Cyrus, twerking, Paula Deane, she was
not twerking. And also it's it's funny that stories about

(34:56):
institutional racism and appropriation are the ones that one's just
chill out about right. These are overdone, okay, Paula All
I'm racist, y'all. Yeah, And that wasn't the was the
Miley side was striking thing from the MTV Awards when
she was completely using like black people as props exactly
the most ye that was when people started being like,

(35:17):
hold up a little bit, now, are It's fine? It
was just a phase, right, and I've gone completely the
other way. I'm just country singer. Now she's making better
music now. Anyway, It's the most overcovered story of the year.
Give it a break. Other buzzwords emoji. Did they just

(35:37):
learn about emojis in two thousand? Like was that? I
think they're just starting to pop off. I think because
um it was it was a thing that like phone
people knew because in Japan you've been like we would
that's from Japan. The word emoji. I think it just
became a like it reached its tipping point here and

(35:57):
then we're like, yeah, use those emojis and like what
about cool gry face? But this like sounds like it
could have been written in the Texters decorated countless messages
and posts with letter sized aliens clinking glasses and kisses
and the niche used to describe the little digital messages
were welcomed into Oxford's online dictionary m o G. Anyways, yeah,

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oh do Bitcoin was huge too, but this was like, no,
this is when it was getting bigger though. This is
when it like kind of turned out like billion dollars
in bitcoin, right, whistleblower Beau. It was a buzzword, I
guess because of Edwards snowdan't even though that we're been
around for a long time snapchat cat fishing, So this
is we talked in two thousand I guess two thousand

(36:43):
ten or eleven, the movie Catfish came out. I think
it was two thousand and ten because we were saying
that that was like a very iconic year for original movies.
So that was the year Catfish came out. And then
this is the year that catfishing officially like entered the lexicon.
Yes do man t til yes, full and do you

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know that story? No? What is this this dude who
played for Notre Dame football player? No? What was the
thing he had? He he made up a person that
he felt like he he had a girlfriend online who
he had never met, who had told him that he

(37:26):
that I think somebody was dying or maybe they said
that they were dying. Oh no, he was classically and
so he he like was one of the top NF
or top NFL prospects and the like the best defensive
player in college football. And he had like Notre Dame
play on behalf of his girlfriend, like the inspirational story,

(37:50):
and he would like tell people that he was like
he would tell the media that he was playing for
his girlfriend. And then so the media looked into it
and they were like, yo, dude, that is not who
you think it is. It was a man, right, Yeah,
it was just a dude from Hawaii. Yeah, n from Hawaii. Yeah.
Did they ever meet like in Catfish and see if

(38:11):
maybe they can make it work? They flew Knival, Yeah,
and they goes, what the hell? What the heck? Man,
that's really not cool. Mant I like really was really
loved you. And cameras so many and he's holding three
digital cameras. Um, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna do
one for you, and you tell me if you can

(38:32):
guess the word the term blank describing a provocative, hip
thrusting dance. I guess that's yeah, we already said it, Um,
what is it? The dougie binge watch? They claimed binge
watch became a term only Is this just because Time
magazine is like old people? Is it one of those

(38:53):
things because it got into the dictionary that they're calling
it a buzzword like it's that word of the year. Well,
because I mean it's this is kind of when like yeah,
at this point, ever, a lot of people have Netflix right,
well have Netflix, and like they I was noticing that
people were, uh what one of like the virgins big
stories of was the Netflix studio, Like the idea that

(39:18):
Netflix would create original content? Um House of Cards debuted
to a flurry of positive reviews and viewing binges. Uh
and Arrested Development and Orange is the New Black proved
it wasn't a flu. Uh so yeah, there were three
original shows on streaming platforms that year. Those this was
the first year that we got like original shows on streaming,

(39:41):
with Amazon Studios recently releasing its first original shows. Uh yeah,
so they're they're they're stepping into the fray. Wasn't it
was Lila Hammer like one of those shows? I think so, yeah,
I think that was one of Netflix's first Remember seeing yeah,
like Silvio's face or what's his face, Steve Van's aunt
and I was like, well, sopranos and maybe I look

(40:02):
at it and and I was like, what the what is this?
But I think people thought it was good. Yeah, I
don't know. I have no no clue about all that
ship solve. You guys have any overall takeaways about the years?
Those years U thirteen, I dated a lot of women

(40:22):
who worked out weed stores. Nice, very cool. Did you
meet them at weed stores or that was just I
met them through like other people in the game, and yeah,
UCB no, no. I was like, I don't know, you know,
it just that world, you know what I mean, the
weed world, like people who were growing and ship you

(40:45):
know what I mean. They're always like yeah, they'll work
in dispensaries and there was like, what do you want
a cloud pen? And I'm like, hell yeah, dude, that's yeah.
I remember it being Those were two tough years for
me because I just graduated college and didn't know what
I was doing in life. Why didn't you get a job?
I did my first job and I moved directly from

(41:06):
college to l A. And my first job was working
as a videographer for this handbag designer who was quite
an interesting lady character. Um and I worked on the
beach in Marina del Rey, and I had this weird
vision of how l A was supposed to be and
it was overwhelming. Uh. And then I worked in reality
TV and that was a hell hole. And then I

(41:28):
quit and went to Iran for a while. Actually that
was cool. I went and spent a lot of time
with my uncle in Iran, watching him smoke cigarettes in
his sweater vest. Alright, learn something. Watch me as I
smoked these, and he's the type of guy who would
let it. He would you know when he was We
watched people who let the as they never ash it.

(41:50):
I would just watch and just my my hobby was
because you know, there wasn't really any good internet, and
it's not like they had good cable because it's Iran.
Everything was in either Turkish or Varsie, which to me
is I wouldn't say it's most provocative television for me,
but um, I my hobby was to watch and see
how long it would take until the ash fell on
his sweater vest. Oh, so he wasn't even because I

(42:11):
sometimes you know people who just know the ash so
well it's kind of fun and they're like, the thing
is his son, my cousin had died a few years previously,
so it was kind of me going to like reconnect
and just like be around him. So he he was
mostly drunk um, but you know, like like one of
those very wealthy men who doesn't really need to work anymore,

(42:33):
but he's got this sadness about him and all he
does a smoke cigarettes and drink and watch Turkish soap
operas that sort of uncle. Yeah, but anyway, I actually
I'm glad I spent a lot of time with him
because a few years later he passed on, So it
was actually that was a big year for me and
my uncle. I think that was also the year he
pulled me aside and said, you ever need anything, you

(42:53):
come to me. And I was like, damn, dude, have
you ever taken him up on that? Had n't kill
somebody for years? He passed on soon after. Well that
was actually huge because I was, you know, I had
a tough relationship with my father growing up, and he
was the first person to acknowledge in my life that
my dad was a bit of an asshole. Because everyone
else goes, hey, you know, what your dad has always

(43:13):
provided for. Yeah, you know, you just gotta understand tough
love is his way of showing love. And he was
the first guy, first person in my entire life, to
be like, fuck that guy, right, And I was like,
thank you for acknowledging that we all. Yeah, yeah, that's
exactly what I was like. And I was like thank
you because no one else, you know, Uranian culture, you're

(43:34):
not supposed to talk poorly about your parents. The most
immigrant cultures, you have to respect the elders. And he
was the first person to ever let me just be like, yeah,
that guy, he's got some ship, am I Right? And
I was like thank you, And so anyway, shout out
to my uncle. I'm wu haabib. Thinking about you. Was
our year. Um two thousand and twelve, two thirteen the

(43:59):
time of the year where Barack Obama and Pope Francis
two thousand twelve runners up Tim Cook because that was
a year that he took over. Steve Jobs died in
two thousand eleven. Got it. They never gave Steve Jobs
Person of the Year, which never got really I think
he ever got runner up? Do you remember Steve Jobs funeral?

(44:21):
I remember they compared it to like the Pope's funeral,
Like it was just that level of like Paul and
like it was huge. So many people came out. He
had that giant photo of him, and they were like
it kind of resembles as if he was some sort
of like religious figure and he was God. The iPhone.
The year that he invented the iPhone, I think was

(44:41):
two thousand six, Yeah, five or six, two thousand January
two thousand seven he announced the iPhone. Yeah for him.
The winner of Person of the Year that year was
is Vladimir Vladimir Plutin really for ending his second term

(45:05):
as president and preparing to become prime minister. Uh, but yeah,
he didn't even get a runner up. It was just
all politicians and j K. Rally. So it's interesting this,
like the Time magazine Person of the Year is very
uh you know, lists heavily towards politicians and religious leaders

(45:26):
in the year. They say Steve Jobs could have won.
In the eighties, the computer the PC got Man of
the two in two thousands six when he was like
dominating the news his iPhone was about to come out.
The winner was you representing individual content creators on the
worldwide where yeah you. Um, yeah, so that's two thousand

(45:54):
and thirteen. Sure we left maybe one or two things out,
but probably not. I think they talked about it literally
every every single thing that's happened in those two years. Um.
But uh, that's gonna do it. Have a have a
great Christmas tomorrow. You have a special special treat coming
to you that we recorded earlier today. Um, on Christmas Eve,

(46:15):
on this Strumbas day, the day of Christmas Eve of
our Lord Jesus Christ, of our Lord, by Lord and
my Lord Mohammed. Yeah, I was just waiting for it.
Got it all you guys. Have you guys heard of
real law? Are you interested? I would love if you

(46:36):
have a pamphlet on it. Um, let us know your
memories of I feel like that's something I should say,
but I don't really care, right, No I do. I do.
Let us know top top memories. If you had to
pick a move actually living your mom's backhouse, did you.

(46:57):
We're at the end of this run of look back episodes.
We're gonna do our like movies of the decade and
words of the decade and people of the decades, so
you know, look after that. Uh, that's gonna do it
for today. We will be back tomorrow with a special

(47:17):
treat for you guys any university uh so look after
that and then back to day after that with talk
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