December 27, 2019 • 52 mins
Jack, Miles, and Danl go over all the most memorable parts of the 2014 and 2015 years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this very special holiday
edition of Joe Daily Zeitgeist. Uh it's a production of
I Heart Radio Still, but this is a podcast. We're
taking a deep dive into America's shared consciousness back in
the years two thousand fourteen and two thousand fifteen, and
we're saying, officially, off the top the Koch Brothers fun
(00:22):
Fox News. My name is Jack O'Brien, a k when
You're hungry four some daily news? Were you gonna pod
te dazy wow? And who's the host that can't smoke
a dude who sweat on his brown Jack O'Brien, Yeah,
(00:43):
Pod Moran, And I'm thrilled to be joined as always
by my co host, Mr Miles Ras And I guess
he's gonna have to smoke someone he got, Wasn't that? Yeah?
Because I was trying. I just came off the rip
off the top of that one. Too hot to handle,
(01:06):
That's what people refer to Miles, and I asked that
I will tell you which what was the song at
the end, like the credits, this little mini scene with
like him catching the ghost shogger and ship? Yeah? Was
that a different track too? I don't know. That was
the same one. It was the same one. Yeah, it
was a reprise. Perhaps I just remember them controlling that
(01:27):
Statue of Liberty with a video game controller. Yeah, so
I'm not sure how that technology works, and I don't
ghost man ghost. I have to do this press forward
on the joystick, and the statue of literally knows aboute science. Uh.
We're also joined in studio by super producer DJ Daniel Goodman.
What's up Man good He's off Mike. I'll give him
(01:48):
a mike uh, Anna Hosnie. I could not be here
for this one, but DJ Daniel be in the background
speaking off Mike. You'll be able to hear him vaguely.
Given give him weird looks to the not camera one day.
One day, to give the weird looks to the not camera. Uh.
Two thousand fourteen miles. What a year. What a time
to be alive? Actually that was two thousand You mean
(02:10):
the album? Yeah, the album had to be alive. I
am working for Power one oh six for part of
YouTube the second half of that year YouTube. This is
when I started like working, work and work before. I
don't know if you listen in the past episodes some
lean years you were you were in politics. You had
(02:34):
a career. I had a career, and I basically had
to save all my money so I wouldn't I wouldn't
have to work for a while, so I could literally
put as much time into trying to get a comedy
career as possible. Yeah, so because politics was killing your soul? Yeah,
no it was. It was all right, let's talk about
two thousand fourteen, the way we've been kicking these offices,
just looking at the movies from that year. As you know,
(02:56):
I'm a big believer that the movies effect as like
geist and vice versa. Uh, And I've been just using Google.
I just Google movies of two thousand fourteen and look
at the top results because Google, Uh, maybe it might
be reacting to me what it knows about me when
you googled this list? This is what? This is the
(03:18):
old when I google movies. Yeah, it's so funny because
this morning I was starting I wasn't clear on who
was going to start trying to put this research together.
And I did the same search. The first thing that
it showed for me was Grand Budapest Hotel. Was it? Yeah, Uh,
that's so weird. Yeah, I guess it knows that I'm
a sick nerd culture freak who loves Guardians of the
(03:39):
Galaxy and I love fucking symmetry. Yeah, so is that
Wes Anderson. Yeah yeah, yeah, Grand Boot. I didn't see
it really, Maybe maybe your algorithm just knows that you
need to see that. Yeah, They're like the one thing
I do really like Grand Budapest Hotel. There was a
promotional cologne that my mom got for that movie, and
I love that. Oh really, yeah, smelled great. I think
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that's his best movie. Really. Yeah, damn. It's not like
maybe Rushmore. I'm not a huge I mean, I like
Wes Anderson, but I'm not like a stand or anything.
But yeah, I'm not say that I got time. There's
a lot of movies on this list I still need
to see. Still Interstellar. You haven't seen you talk about this.
It's like the one Chris Nolan film. I was, Yeah,
(04:22):
I don't know what they need him to be perfect
in my mind, but a lot of people are like, yo,
just see it. Yeah, it's fun. It's like, yeah, it's
not perfect by any stretch, but it's dope. Done. Girl
came out this year. I feel like that was a
big what were you saying just a joke that I'm
glad you talked over. Uh. Gone Girl came out this year.
I feel like, Okay, so Guardians of the Galaxy came out.
(04:47):
That was a huge hit. I also feel like it
has taken on it. I mean it was like Chris
Pine became a thing off of that Pine. Not Chris Pine,
Chris Pratt, the other Crisp. Crispy Chris is uh Chris
p Rat Donuts, Yamagucci main exactly. Yeah, Chris Pratt became
a thing before this. He was just Andy from Parks
(05:10):
and rec uh and probably in one other thing or something.
But Edge of Tomorrow, the tom Cruise movie, was not
a hit. Uh a k lived I repeat that was.
That was a thing where I had a DVD hanging around.
I picked it up. I said, I don't have a
lot of going on today. Put it in. It wasn't bad. No,
that's a good movie. Yeah, And I feel like it's
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been it's kind of grown in stature in our after
the fact. I feel like Gone Girls same, like it
was a hit, but then like I feel like Gone
Girling has become a No, it hasn't. I was gonna
say two Gone Girls that was a stupid thing killed me,
(05:51):
pretending fake one's own death. Uh no, I was saying.
I was saying that, Um never mind Birdman Man about
where about where it was critically acclaimed. I don't feel
like a lot of people reference it. I mean, it's
like a movie who I feel like I need to
watch it again because I really enjoyed it the first time.
But it's just one of those films that I I'm
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not I'm trying to remember if I liked it because
of the way it was shot, because it was actually good. Yeah.
This was the year that John Wick came out and
that has become a huge monstrous UH movement ever since.
Huge monstros monstrous bout movement, Huge monstrous battle movement. UH.
Neighbors came out this year and was a big deal,
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and I feel like people have kind of forgotten about
that movie. Seth Rogan, Yeah, and zach Efron zac Efron?
And who is za rose Burn? Rose Burn? Yeah, she's great.
Rose Burn The Hobbit movie, one of the Hobbit movies
ever watched any of them. I did not give a
shit about those, And I feel like people don't really
talk or think about those. But maybe it's just me good,
(06:56):
but also the people who I know who have been
like you to check it out. Ore Tolkeien stand right. Yeah,
so there will be comments, but I will not listen
to them. Big Hero six Did you ever watch that?
Or did you even know what that was? I did
because I knew some people who worked on it, but
I didn't know. I only knew because they worked on it.
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I feel like it would have flown under my radar.
I feel like it flew under the radar when it
came out. It was a like successful movie, like it
did well in theaters, but it kind of flew under
the radar culturally, and I feel like people don't really
talk about it anymore that much. But it's good. People
should check that ship out if you haven't seen it. Yeah. Uh,
The Amazing Spider's Man too, Spiders Spider Man, spiders Man,
(07:41):
Andrew Garfield Spider Man. I feel like has disappeared from
the memory of error. What happened because he was what
he was riding high network, Yeah dude, because everybody like
wanted him to succeed and then he got sucked over
and hey, he's also an arsenal fan. Lawyer on motherfucker. Um. Yeah,
(08:02):
Jump Street the movie one of the first dates I
went to with her, Majesty Street. Yeah, told the move
where I legit forgot my wallet. Yeah, and I'm so
you weren't pulling a move. But it was that ship
where I sincerely was patting my pockets trying to get
my wallet and I just go, oh, Ship, which you
(08:22):
did every time that I've gone if you ever lunch
with I was like, ah, mother, damn it, I really
did it this time. Yeah, I got no no wallet. Musically,
what are we looking at? We're looking at uptown funk,
We're looking at fancy, We're looking at no flex zone,
Bobby Schmurder. Believe me, Wayne Wayne, Uh, there's some good
(08:45):
songs in here. But the Beyonce album came out at
the beginning of this year, right or wasn't the end
of the year before. I don't know. I think I
get this and the next year mixed up. But there
was some run the jewels business being done, tea club
going up on a Tuesday. Uh. I love mcconum, you
know what. Just in fairness to us, it came out
(09:07):
in December. Album There it is, Um, that's why finally,
thank god. Uh and that's about it. Did the Taylor
Swift album come out that year? The next year, Yeah,
Taylor Swift drop that year shake it Off? Uh you
guys know how I feel about shake it Off. I
can't shake it. It's a jam. Uh So story wise,
(09:31):
news wise, on the internet and off. So this was
this was the year that gamer gate became a thing,
and it was like, man, there is this enormous amount
of anger amongst video game playing males towards women because like,
and it was it was just completely outside. Like a
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woman was like, we need to like start thinking about
adding some progressive thinking to how we design video games,
how we review video games, and she was like targeted
for death. Yeah, they're like what do you say? And
they're they're just damseling women in video games and you're
saving Like she was just pointing out all these tropes
and being like like I'll actually understanding what. Yeah, I
(10:15):
need a Sarkesian And it became just a complete nightmare,
a huge story, uh it. And I assumed that this
was just like, I don't know, some sort of imbalance
in like one specific part of the Internet, and it
just kept going there. A few years later, it happened
(10:37):
to a woman named Zoe Quinn or Zoe Quinn, and
it happened to some of the actresses on one of
our videos that cracked. And then it like that whole
movement became like maga Twitter and maga like the online
Trump hive. Well the yeah, well the Zoe Quinn thing
happened also, Yeah, because that was part of the whole
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that was like the other thing they were pointing at
of like I wish she was accused of, um like
sleeping with a journalist or something or this year was
in a relationship with it, and it just became like
this really lame fucking crusade. But yeah, I mean that
was really when I was like, oh, like it's to me.
I was like, oh, now we're we really do see that.
It awoke a certain mentality, like it could allowed all
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these people to sort of gather around a common cause,
which was like women were trying to do what Yeah,
this is where Mike Sernovitch came from. He was like
a gamer Gate right persona um, but yeah, it really
did become a whole thing. Yeah, And then what and
wasn't Steve Bannon was that when he was like, hey,
these these guys might be right for the picking. Yeah,
(11:45):
that's exactly right. Steve Bannon saw the energy behind gamer
Gate and was like, you know, I think there might
be for basically a populist movement on the right to
like come through and respond to all these people who
feel like entitled two secs basically, Um, because it's wild
(12:07):
that that, like, this is the worst possible version that
I could possibly imagine looking back six years on at
this story and being like, oh, this movement became the
president right of the United States. It manifested itself into
and yeah, becau administration right and it so they were
(12:27):
a lot of they were able to use a lot
of the misogynistic ship from a misogynistic ideals, misogynistic like
energy from this movement against Hillary Clinton, against progressive ideas. Uh.
And because I think, isn't that was sort of also
the them talking about social justice warriors. Yeah, that's where
it was. S j W became a thing, and that's
(12:49):
when I started being accused of being an s j W.
I was like, wait, what because I'm because I'm saying misogyny,
bad fucking social justice. Uh, It's it cuts deep on
being called disloy boy oh, man, I've I've never lived
it down. Yeah, yes, Sarah calls it, calls me that. Yeah.
(13:09):
Oh that's why you never want soy milk in the office. No,
it's not good for you, man, or right, that's not
good for your all right, I'm not I don't don't
need I need high tea with the queen. Anyways. Wild year.
They also like weaponize it against like c net and
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got like big companies to stop wanting to advertise on
big websites. Not seen it, what's the g M. It's
just just a nightmare, nightmare alternate history. So this is
a kind of a dark year, dark couple of years. Uh,
Ebola outbreak was this year. Uh, the Malaysian flight that
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disappeared happened this year. We've talked the past episode of
t d Z, but this is one of those stories
that I think the energy from the media was behind
maintaining the mystery. They were like, it's so mysterious, like
we never know, like it disappeared into thin air and
we actually know what happened to the plane. Um, there
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was an Atlantic kind of deep dive into it, and
they know where it crashed based on like, uh, you know,
debris that washed up on shores and like tide patterns,
they have a rough idea of where it crashed. They
also know like where it was right before it would
have run out of fuel and it was like over
the South Indian Ocean. Uh, And they also know what happened.
(14:43):
It was the pilot um did it on purpose. I mean,
we don't know why necessarily. He was like going through
some tough things at home. But he was a veteran
pilot in his fifties, and he had a flight simulator
at his home that he ran like thousands of flight
simulations on and the one of the last ones he ran,
(15:05):
or the very last one, was the exact flight path
that they think the plane took before it crashed. So
he it was such a mystery to at the time.
There were so many theories about what happened, But I
think they're part of it too, Like it activated a
weird part of people's like imaginations. I think too, like
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there was something really interesting to people at the time
when they're like, well, what really could have Yeah, And
I think it's still like people are still like think
that it just disappeared into thin air. And I mean
there's been I blame lost. There's been well there's lost,
but there's also been like a USA show where it's
like this flight disappeared in the fifties and then just
(15:46):
landed and like the fucking movie from the eighties or something. Yeah,
but it's you know, I'm talking about where like these
people were like on a flight and then like they
land in some weird place and like they're completely placed
with others. No fuck, no clue what you're talking about.
Oh man, I'll let it. So it was. It sounds
(16:07):
like the listeners are screaming whatever that movie is. But airplane, Well,
we're gonna actually take a quick break for Miles to
look that up and we'll be right back and he
will shout it out loud as he realizes what it was.
Back in a minute and we're back, and Miles, did
(16:36):
you figure it out? It's either I'm thinking Millennium or
the Langoliers. I think it's the legal Ears when I
actually read the description, But Langoliers. Most of the passers
on airplane disappear and the remainder land the plane mysterious
and a mysteriously barren airport. And that is just the
way the human memory works. That's what people are going
to remember as what actually happened to the Malaysian plate
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right sotal anglers. It was a total angle ears. Uh.
So this was also the year of Michael Brown being
killed by a police officer and the protests in Ferguson
and Eric Gardner's death was also two thousand fourteen. There
was that was such a dark it's that you know,
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not that like the darkness continues, you know, it's the
same same ship. And I think this was when it
was just happening with such frequency to uh and it
continues to it just I don't know, it feels like
a problem that will just won't go away. And this
was kind of continuing with the pest thread. This was
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also we we saw a sort of the militarization of
the American police force and like how they dealt with
the protests and Ferguson. They were like giant you know,
military vehicles and you know, all sorts of just really
overly aggressive to actics. They were used by the police too,
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you know, for the purposes of quote unquote crowd control.
And the guy who killed Michael Brown, the cop was
never didn't see a day of jail for that. The
guy who killed Eric Garner also never saw any criminal consequences.
He did get fired from the New York Police Force
(18:25):
five years on. So um, yeah, yeah, you know, this
is also the year that Isis kind of became a
thing where we Isis sort of rose up, swept across uh,
came out of Iraq and you know, started fucking ship
up basically just uploading horrific videos of all these executions
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and ship and all their propaganda. Like I think they
it's like when we saw terrorism move into like the
digital aged. Yeah, they were pretty advanced in terms of
how they were communicating and and also just how their
military strategy as compared to like al Qaeda. We we
had started hearing that al qaedo was sort of falling
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apart and getting beaten back by US military and then
this it was basically the remnants of al Qaeda in
Iraq came came through with this massive movement. And it's
also this is also kind of like a weird moment
to where people We're starting to realize like that YouTube
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and social media were becoming a real recruitment tool. Also,
it was the first and only bad thing that social
media has ever produced to this huh Um, this was
also the conflict in Ukraine in Kiev, where you know,
a bunch of people were protesting a head of state
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who was very pro Russia moving Ukraine away from the EU.
And you know it ended up with a massive protest
in the middle of Kiev where they built like a
snow fort and fought the cops. And Victor Ennakovich, Yeah,
who actually I think was pals with Paul Manafort. Uh
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what thought weird? Uh? Robin Williams took his own life
this year. Very sad and depressing. H Let's talk about
some less said things from this year. Uh. This is
the Time magazine section Things that Broke the Internet. We
got Kim Kardashian's But wait, wasn't that like literally what
(20:41):
they called it, like Kim Kardashian breaks the Internet? Or yeah,
break the Internet. Kim Kardashian. That was the cover of
Paper magazine and it was her butt, Uh that broke
the Internet. Yeah, who's gonna pay for this? Way? Kids?
Broke the Internet. Paper's website saw six point six million
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page views. This is where they left talking about hits
and page views. This guy this page has since seen
fifteen million hits. It's like it seems very outdated. Yeah,
that was remember that currency, wasn't that? Also? H like
and them like completely copying a different image too, Like
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there the image that they're like the Champagne one. I
don't could have swore like a Dolly one. Yeah, I
mean I am right because I remember producer Daniel is confirming.
Yeah exactly. It was like of a black woman, I believe,
And yeah, this is cool. The beginning of her being
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like I don't know, that was like, I really that
was like a really sick photo shoot. Right. This was
also the year of the sexy felon the um much
shot of that really really handsome dude, Jeremy Eeks. He's
bays Fuck yeah, isn't he? He got like engaged or
married to someone who's wealthy as fuck. Yeah. I don't
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know if they're still together. But he got out of
he got out and left his girlfriend who had been
standing by him while he was in jail, and really
left her for a rich, famous person. I think, um,
see what happens. This is when Renee's elwigger. We saw
her for the first time and like a decade and
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she looked totally different. That's right, right, and forgot it
was weird because like there was a lot of like pushback,
people just being like, well, leave women alone, like stop
you know, policing what women look like. It was not
so much that as and I mean this is me
a guy saying this, But at the same time, like
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I would have had the same reaction had it been
any dude. Like she just looked like she had taken
a different person's face and put it on. Yeah, it
just looks like a different person. I think it's just well,
I think that's the issue, right, is like you take
something like like celebrity culture and how it's like hyper
scrutinized and everything. So yeah, it's a toxic equation where
(23:18):
the upcomes will always be toxic, right. Yeah. I mean
it's definitely that she or anyone felt pressure to change,
how well. And also when you think of like now too,
in the nature of like the digital like media landscape,
like the takes had to be fucked up to get
the clicks, Like you couldn't be like Renee's l Wegger
has like re emerged. The headlines would be like what
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has she done to her face? Her face? Don't believe
what Reneelger? She didn't look better or worse. She just
looked like a different person. But people were like, what
did she do to her face? Um? Yeah, so the
internet fuck off? Also, this was uncanny. It was an
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uncanny experience. Uh, Taylor Swift drop nine, as we mentioned,
twenty or one point two million copies week one. Uh,
and now we're gonna listen to it and it's entire
uh the ice bucket Challenge. Remember this. You guys seen this,
you heard about this. Didn't do it? You didn't. Uh.
(24:26):
I had a whole bunch of people around me who
were doing it and it got to me and I
didn't do it and that was it. Wow. Yeah, so
we can blame you for everything that's happened. Yeah. Bill
Gates did it and his version racked up twenty million views.
Charlie Sheen's got nearly as many. And Bill Gates, I mean,
(24:47):
he's a humanitarian and a great great man who around
this time was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, but
I think it was just to talk about how to
raise money for a LA right. Right. This was the
year of the jay Z Solange elevator showdown. Was that
(25:09):
was the first time that we had an inkling of
what was to come with Lemonade and four forty four
Becky with a good hair had had done her damage
and Slange. Uh this was kind of before Solange really
like had started dropping like classics, right, yeah for sure. Well,
(25:31):
I mean at least her first album, which was really
really good. She had little singles here, She had singles
like I knew her as Beyonce's sister who was at
Coachella the one year I went and was like dope,
Like her music was like solid, Like she had a
really cool like aesthetic that I was like, Okay, this
person is probably gonna be something, but she wasn't like
(25:53):
well a yeah, a seat at the table which was six,
And that's when people are like, what the god did
everyone fall asleep on this person? So stay tuned to
next episode where we'll probably talk about that. This was
also the year of the Happening, as it has become known,
and the people say, we're trying to blame four chan
(26:14):
for it, I think initially, and then it was like, no,
this is it's a that's a much larger fuck up thing.
The man, this was twenty what is this What year
am I in? Now? Yeah? So we're in uh late
August early September, hack photos belonged to Jennifer Lawrence, k Upting,
(26:35):
Kristen Dunce leaked online, spread across four Chance, so four
Chune spread it, but they weren't the ones who were
done the actually we did the hacking. Hacking, uh and
d You had to explain that to Sway? What do
you mean? Like you called into Sway show We're doing
a guest on sha and it was the day of
the happening, and he was like, why is this? What
(26:56):
is this? What is that? Like? What is this? What's fat?
I had to explain that. Did you have to explain
what fapping that too? I don't believe that must have
been very awkward. Uh. Jennifer Lawrence put it, uh, kind
of bluntly, and I think rightly. It's not a scandal.
It is a sex it is a sexual violation. It's disgusting.
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And that's when like, also you saw the on the
other side of like conservative people being like, well, what
are you doing taking those pictures? Anyway? I can't fucking
believe that was ever anyone's take who is still allowed
to show their face? That's unbelievable, that's unlivable. You have
a you have a right to you have a reasonable
(27:39):
expectation of privacy. And I think it was like mainstream
people like I don't think like I didn't consume any
right wing media at the time, and I heard that
ship Yeah, well I meant more like in how whatever
their values are like a bit more conservative, but yeah,
and also conservatives to full stop on the right, full stop.
All right, we're about to get into but before we
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do that, we're gonna take one more quick break and
we're back and let's get into. It's kind of a
I don't know, weird year for movies. I mean, Star
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Wars Force Awakens came out. I mean that kind of
took up all the oxygen. It was the end of
the year, but still it was like such a huge deal.
I saw it in Japan. That was dope. It was
the first time her majesty came with me to Japan.
And then when they remember that she got up out
of her seat. But in Japan you sit through the credits.
(28:42):
Shouldn't a lot of film there because it was just
an audible gasp throughout the like she has hemorrhoids. I'm
sorry she had to get up, but more just like
you know, it's like, oh, but the film, the picture
has not ended, so we will see the credits and
everyone who worked on it, and then you will leave
some respect. There's some pretty iconic movies from the here
met Max, Fury, Road Spotlight. I feel like those are
(29:03):
both fairly iconic there in the in the club you ever,
but you ever throw spotlight on? Be like yo, you
want to time every time my parents are over, just
like hey, you guys seen this. You guys seen that,
you guys heard about this mad Max. Yeah, it was
I think for me was sort of some of the
filmmaking things because his wife right edited the film. Yeah,
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and she's not an action film editor, and like a
lot of people who are like like more editing nerds
are like, yeah, that's what's really cool is like the
timing style of very differently and also like the central
focal point in all the shots like another sort of
cinematic device that they used a lot, And it wasn't
like I started reading more analysis of it that I
was like, oh, I'm realizing how it operated in many
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other ways aside like yeah, that's a very rich text,
Like that movie was like made for the internet. Like
both in terms of what you're talking about, and in
terms of just if you like look at a shot
and there's like all these things hidden in there, like
that is an old eight seven trans am, like a
piece of there's just all sorts of dope stuff. And
then like the writings on the literal writing on the
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wall and some of the scenes. This was I guess
a successful movie year. Jurassic World came out that year,
which was a monster hit The Martian, which I feel
like The Martian was huge at the time, and I
don't know, I never think about that movie ever. You're
not you're not popping that one in. I'm not popping
that well, I'm not popping any of these in, but
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I don't think about it anymore like I will. The
one thing I'll pop in is the border scene from Cicario. Yeah,
Cicario I think is enhanced. I think Cicario is like
kind of iconic. It's just that right, It's the when
they're driving in the city. It's just that one track
I think it's called the Beast or something, and you're
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like that movie was dope, the big short kind of
I think because him somewhat iconic, iconic. I don't know,
maybe not. It definitely like was one of those films
where it's simplified the financial crisis a little bit for people, right, Yeah,
I think it. Yeah, there was reading was it Margot
(31:14):
Robbie where they're like and now Margot Robbie in bath
bathtub explains this to you. Yeah. I mean it was
Adam McKay's first like successful dramatic movie. Um, but yeah,
maybe maybe not iconic. I guess the financial crisis is iconic,
and it was the first thing that like fully kind
of made that breakthrough. So iconic financial crisis. Yeah, it's
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legacy have never recovered from it. Iconic iconic Avengers age
of Ultron is diminished, I would say, And like I
feel like that was not a movie anyone everything. Yeah
it's a guy. Yeah, it was a series of it
(32:00):
was like the Internet became sentient. Oh really. Yeah. It
was dumb as fun. Considered the worst of the Avengers
films probably yeah, because it's the second one. So there's
first Avengers, which like invented the whole thing and was
written by Josh Sweden, just Sweden, Uh, and it was
(32:21):
a lot of fun. But then I think this one
was made by Josh Sweden, too and just wasn't good. Uh.
And then there was Captain America Winter Soldier wasn't that
this year I'm taking a Civil War, which was essentially
an Avengers movie. And then yeah, oh the cycle right
Creed came out this year, iconic, straight out of Compton
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icon it, dude, straight out of marketing ideas. After that,
I know, seriously, Fifty Shades of Gray, Oh, ship, that
was the first you first came out. That was the
year the movie came out. Yeah, I guess, like was
when the bas everywhere? I know, I did not. I've
(33:06):
not seen it either, but I did see fifty Shades
gray or there are fifty more shades. I don't know
what the sequel sequel? Yeah, oh you saw the sequel. No,
I didn't know the Hunger Games movies were coming out
at this time, and I maybe it's just my age
and I don't know who I am, but I know
these movies. Yeah, I now have five Weathers in my pocket.
(33:27):
I don't know where they're coming from. Uh. But these
movies didn't make any register, like, didn't register at all
for me. Yeah, No, I I saw one because I
wasn't so many people were freaking out about it yeah,
and I was like, all right, fuck it, I'll see
what the fuss is. And I was like, I don't know.
I think Alan Cumming looks cool, cool outfit. Yeah, that's
(33:50):
about it. Yeah, the people in the capital look, I
don't know, there was I think or is it Stanley Tucci, Yes,
Stanley Tucci of Donald Sutherland other people? Um, yeah, this
motherfucker hungry games just making that Alan coming, great character actor.
You know. I feel like The Good din so Inside
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Out and The Good Dinosaur both came out that year.
Inside Out super iconic. The Good Dinosaur is probably Pixar
at least icon What's the Good Dinosaur? That was like
a Pixar movie that just nobody really give a funk about. Yeah, see,
like this is where my blind spot are all these
animated things. And everyone said Inside Out was really good too, right,
It is good where it's like it's if you're old enough,
(34:33):
you can really get a deeper message out of it.
If you're wrong enough, it's kind of teaching you something.
But really yeah, magic Mike double XL. I feel like
it is iconic ish That one song was that with
Jeremiah I mean money when I'm thinking thank you whereas
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Steve Jobs lest iconic and there wasn't even a good
strip scene in that. I know, like I was waiting
for it the whole time. This one is one more thing,
but don't know that was. This was the one that
was actually a movie. Ashton Kutcher one was a prank video.
I think it was funnier die. I think it was
a prank on Ashton just Steve Jobs movies though, No, Yeah,
(35:17):
there Ashton Kutcher did make a Steve Jobs movie. I
don't know what year that was, but it is that's
a prank. It could be a prank video on Ashton
Kutcher being like Ashton thinks we're making a real movie
and like taking his performance seriously. Yeah. No, Fassbender, I
think did a solid performance. Does he pull his dick
(35:38):
out in this or that's the difference? Didn't Damn Yeah,
that's not the one we played again waiting for it. Yeah,
you really wanted this to be a sexual movie. I'm
just you wanted him to have that one more thing dick. Uh.
This was this was a huge year for music. Uh
to pivot. Butterfly came out, Black messiah' angelo Okay, I
(36:03):
I love D'Angelo. But you're not a fan of this album.
I mean, the band that he has in this is
really good, really good. I No, I don't even know
why I'm even like pumping the brakes on it. It
just ranks. It's it's not my favorite 'angelo. That's the
only reason. But it's still fantastic Jamie x x in
try to believe it's how that's pret album? Oh my gosh. Uh.
(36:25):
And then Drake had a had a big, big one.
If you're reading this, it's too late. He sur prize
dropped that album too. It was like, yeah, I just
want to get out of my contract. And I still
think it's his best or second best album. Uh. And
what a time to be alive With Future he dropped
that out of those. I could barely listen to that ship.
Oh really Yeah, I got really into the Future. That's why,
(36:47):
Oh you don't like Future. When I when I used
to work at Power one of six, he came in
for an interview. He was so arrogant about like what
he does, and I was just like, bro, you're on
auto tune. A guy named Future was Eric the guy
who and they around the time when he was doing
the Hendrix thing on Future Hendrix. Jimmy, I'm like, you
are not even close to even getting near the creative
(37:09):
powerhouse that was Jimmy Hendrix. But hey, you know, you
know he's just being honest. I think that's when his
album Onnest came out, Hotline came to but yeah, I
mean Drake, the Hotline Bling dance. Yeah, the Hotline Bling
video was a thing that was That was the way dude,
(37:30):
the way he was, like everybody did like mem to
the funk out of him dance swipe video or hand
swipe move. Yeah, that was when like awkward Drake became
Like it was like he's not even trying to be cooler.
Maybe he is, but like it wasn't the learning of
Drake's mumification because the Hotline Bling video wasn't the two
pain meme uh set up of the like note and
(37:52):
the Yeah, that's just that's yeah. See, this is I
think the beginnings. Yeah, this is when I mean, yeah,
I feel like this is the year he fully fully
broke through, uh because I mean people, you know, he
was selling a lot of albums before, but like he
was everywhere this year. Yeah, well I think was a
big year for him too. Because what's what's that? What
(38:16):
was that album? Everything? Nothing was the same? Yeah, yeah,
yeah that oh yeah with just hold on, We're going
that one. I think that's when you had like like
white people who did not know about Drake were like,
I've got my eyes on the face. You have to
see the face holes making it looks like it looks
like he's playing golf while singing that I'm doing a
(38:38):
got talking about you the golf ball. I know how
you should think the same Jason Pinky Ring talking these
hose I need quarantine in the same league, but we
don't ball the same. That's actually a two chains line
from to Change. Oh God, was like a a real
(39:00):
fucked up I guess, continuing the trajectory of this being
a funked up decade, we had the Charlie Hebdoe attack
in Paris right off it was like a weekend. We
had the German wing plane crash where the dude just
like crashed on takeoff on purpose into the side of
a mountain. Uh. We had more cops killing people, uh
(39:22):
at this time getting caught on camera. Well, I guess
with Eric Garner they got caught on camera. But the
one that like has always stuck out in my mind,
is Walter Scott in North Carolina or North Charleston, South
Carolina where he's the dude is just like running away
like he had been stopped for having a break light
(39:43):
out and the cop just shoots him dead in the
back and then like filed a police report that was like, yeah,
he was like attacking me, running at me, and it's
just like it's he's traight up like cold blooded murders
the guy, and you like get a sense that this
is what's happening when we're not uh, I mean such
(40:06):
you know, NonStop Tray Van, Michael Brown, Eric Gardner, Walter Scott,
Freddie greg Every year this happens, and it's just amazing
how little people who are on this like Blue Lives
Matter ship are like unwilling to look at this rejectively
and be like, now this is actually this isn't even
how law enforcement should work, Like this is state sanctioned murder,
(40:29):
and maybe there is like and you know, I know
people who are in law enforcement who are not like
wired like this, who are like sort of motivated by
something sincere, but like to obscure these arguments by being like,
you know, you never know what people are trying to do.
I mean, this is what this is what contributes to
this mentality, especially for African Americans this country, where we're
like you know what what I've we do not see
(40:51):
justice at all, and it's a continuing pattern that just
does not cease. And yeah, they'll they'll be people, you know,
continuing to protest it like this because until we see
something change or until we start seeing more people be
held accountable for their acts, Like even with both of
gen his killer getting convicted, most people were shocked. Yeah,
(41:12):
because like we see this play out. White cop kills
a person of color, black person typically and we get
to a trial and it's like, oh yeah, we're gonna
slap him on the wrist, and they're demoted or they're
like nah, yeah, you're good acquitted. Walter Scott was one
case where the person actually did get convicted, but they
were sentenced to twenty years in prison for second degree murder,
whereas like this did not seem to be second degree
(41:35):
like heat of the moment, like he just cold blooded
stood there, pulled out his gun, shot him while he
was running away, and then falsified the police report. Like
even that like doesn't feel like like this dude should
not ever see the light of day again. Uh. Freddie
Gray happened this year where he was killed by Baltimore police. Um,
(41:56):
just a fucking awful, yeah, awful series of events and
news stories that I think we're very very necessary to
kind of make us aware of ship that was happening.
And then this is also the kind of uh discontent
that's brewing in the black community that you know it
can be weaponized going into right, A lot of a
(42:19):
lot of people were angry for all kinds of reasons
that like just looking back, you had game or get
you have all these NonStop murders of black men and
women by the police. There was a you know, anyone
who was looking at what's going on in our our culture,
our society, right, you know, maybe had some had to
figure it out. Yea, we have these ongoing conflicts, right,
and you know that's the Russian intelligence community was able
(42:42):
to like exploit both that and there were like Black
Lives Matter like imitation websites that were used to spread
messaging that basically diminished voter turnout. Yeah yeah, Um, prisoners
escape in New York that gave us escape from Dana
(43:03):
Mora the I think a should be number one, number
one story. Don't tell anybody that. And also for as
we always say, the actor who plays Lyle my God,
he knew he should have won every conceivable award. I'm
(43:23):
pretty sure like that that's the performance that gets the
most attention, the most running our um in our office. Yeah,
between Patricia Arquette and him, who I know he wasn't lost. Also,
but the way you know, I knew he was having
an affair on me. I knew he was having an
affair on me because he ordered the local menu at
(43:44):
King's Walk and that fucked up margharita they makes, she makes,
he puts the salt in the motherfucking margarita. The Charleston
shooting happened this year. The racist terror attack by fucking
Roof Dylan Roof bowl cut. Fuck um. Yeah. This also,
(44:05):
there was some kinds of weird trends this year. I'm
trying to think. I feel like there was a lot
of man bun beginning this year. Let's talk about that. No,
I feel like Joaquin Phoenix, Jared Leto, they were starting
to do that thing. We're then like, yo, dude, this
(44:25):
guy's got what the funk what's up with man bun Right?
And that was bad blood video with Taylor Swift when
everyone was like, what squad are you with? Who's Who's squizzy?
Are you part of? Right? Because Taylor so with that.
The backstory to that, which I only learned when reading
up on history, right on history, checking out the history books,
(44:50):
was that Katie Perry took some of Taylor swift dancers
mid tour. Then Katy Perry was dating Diplo at the time.
Blow was caught in a viral video saying that h
Taylor Swift should use some of all the money that
she makes to buy herself an ass and then Lord
(45:11):
was like, well maybe people, maybe you wouldn't talk about
other people's physical attributes if people talked about your tiny
dick Diplow. And after that, I don't know why didn't
come back with a flames. Different kind of beef, you know,
(45:31):
different kind of beef In the pop world, no one
really wants to smoke, That's right. They're just they want
to They'll do their little passive aggressive videos and then
keep it moving. A couple of a couple of the
later stories from this year, Pizza Rat. This gave us
Pizza Rat the fifteen second clip where the rat was
dragging a giant piece of pizza down down the subway
(45:54):
stairs to the just and was that fake? Right? Was it?
There was another one so one who did recently there
was a subway rat thing that someone did his performance,
are like able to train a rat? But look, I
think for anybody who's been in New York or any
place with a high rat population, anythink it's possible. Anything
is possible. That's also when um fucking to Make Making
(46:18):
a Murderer came out. I remember at the end of
people were binging the funk out of Making because I
remember being in Japan also at this time, right and
looking around everyone's talking about him, like I think we
need to watch this and that that was no. Uh.
The dress also happened this year, oh ship where people
(46:40):
some people thought it was blue and black, others thought
it was white and gold. Uh. Never the twin shall meet?
What what were you? White and gold? I need to
look at whatever the pick, whatever it was, I knew
what it was. What color is the dress? I'll tell
you right now as I look at it. Oh, yeah,
this motherfucker's yeah blue and black. Yeah, but it's um
(47:05):
I've never been able to see it, to be honest
with you, um, and I think because people are I
don't know if it was because I've like fucked around
with a lot of image editing software that I can
see how you can like these other values might be present.
But to me, I'm like, nobody would wear in the
(47:25):
version that people were confused off of. It looks like
pooh brown and like a weird soft lavender or something.
I would never get white and gold from that. But
then there was this more recent teal and uh oh,
now I see it for the first time. Damn, that's
wild shoes that look both teal and gray and pink
(47:48):
and white. I had always seen as teal and gray.
This is like this year's version of that. But it
turns out everybody else was like, no, they're pink and white.
But I just saw them as pink and white for
the first time. Just now, uh huh? You see that? Did?
That was healing? Great? It does? But then look there,
well that she was picking white, right, But then look
(48:12):
there Now a good gag gift would it be to
buy someone in the dress? Yeah? That was that was
I think somebody rocked that dress to like a holiday
party that year and it was dope. Oh like that
you were at Yeah. Do people recognize it as the dress? Right? Yeah?
Really yeah, because like when I see it, like from
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the company that made it, was someone wearing it, it
was sold out immediately. I don't think I'd be like, oh,
right dress, like nice dress. Yeah, and Ariana Grande preparing
for her uh, for her rise to stardom. Uh. This
year she was in hot water for licking a doughnut.
(48:53):
Simpler times, guys, simply and rae oh yeah, Rachel DoLS,
let's not forget you know, my sister from another mister. Um, well,
so Rachel Dolas was a white woman who had been
pretending to be black. Is that correct? Yeah? I was
saying that's I am a well that said later on
(49:16):
right there, like we'll hold on. You're out here being
in part of like double a CP like regional leadership,
and then it was like why I identify as black?
And then there was what the Caitlyn Jenner came out
was that on June one, I think or June second,
because I remember the cynical take was that was the
(49:37):
same day that Patriot Act was renewed, and they're like, yo,
y'all were y'all were too busy looking at that Vanity
fair cover the Patriot there was there was one of
the renewals of the Patriot Act was on June maybe
not maybe maybe don't use a huge moment for trans
people to be like, yeah, but see that was all
(49:58):
ploy Like it's like just maybe just I think, if anything,
it's more that like people don't actually actively pay attention
to anything that is happening in the federal government. Yeah,
are the things we spend Most people aren't really interested
in the you know, the match and nations and the
inner workings of the government. And you're like, what happened
(50:19):
with Bruce Jenner, Yeah, call me Caitlin June yeah. John.
Second was when this article on vanity affairs from so
dude Pizza Rat Pizza Ratt. I hope Pizza Rats Okay, yeah,
I'm sure Pizza ret is thriving. Definitely. Do you think
so you think Pizza Rat told other rats on Pizza Rat?
(50:40):
Oh yeah, people, Pizza Ratt has an agent that to
be a good like sort of weird Pixar film like
rats would talk and they're like kind of stunting on
each other. Like I'm Pizza Rat, and I'm like, well,
I'm splinter. Pizza Rat reminded me. The thing that was
so uncanny about it is it looked like a live
action Rattitu Like, oh straight up, like because that that
(51:04):
movie like is all about rats dragging food round. Oh
I've never seen rabbit see dude. I'm I'm fucking up.
I'm sorry, listener, I'm gonna have to put a list
together for you. I'm gonna give myself the Ludovico treatment
from the Clockwork, Orange or Holidays and mainline just mainlining
children's films. I think I'm the weird one, by the way,
(51:25):
because I saw all these before I had kids, So
I was just, are you like going to movies? Though?
I do like going to movie I do like going
to children's Buy my so with a cannibake beans, and
that boy was me. Uh well, alright, guys, that has
been our rundown of the years. A lot of other
(51:48):
really depressing ship happened. There's a European refugee crisis. There
was just a lot of othership awful ship. But uh yeah,
well we'll make twenties, sixteen and seventeen light since we
know those are hell years. Yeah, can you imagine that?
Oh my god, yeah, this is this is on was
(52:09):
the leg being drawn back before they kick in your balls?
The twenty six? All right, well with that image, we
will leave you for today. I hope you're having a
great holiday. Yeah, we miss you. Bock some things up
and give to the needy. We'll be back tomorrow or
(52:30):
I don't even know. Is this a Friday? Who knows?
I will be back and I'm in my sweatpask. We'll
be back on the next weekday to uh tell you
about seventeen. It will be nice and light. Quick night
by
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this very special holiday
edition of Joe Daily Zeitgeist. Uh it's a production of
I Heart Radio Still, but this is a podcast. We're
taking a deep dive into America's shared consciousness back in
the years two thousand fourteen and two thousand fifteen, and
we're saying, officially, off the top the Koch Brothers fun
(00:22):
Fox News. My name is Jack O'Brien, a k when
You're hungry four some daily news? Were you gonna pod
te dazy wow? And who's the host that can't smoke
a dude who sweat on his brown Jack O'Brien, Yeah,
(00:43):
Pod Moran, And I'm thrilled to be joined as always
by my co host, Mr Miles Ras And I guess
he's gonna have to smoke someone he got, Wasn't that? Yeah?
Because I was trying. I just came off the rip
off the top of that one. Too hot to handle,
(01:06):
That's what people refer to Miles, and I asked that
I will tell you which what was the song at
the end, like the credits, this little mini scene with
like him catching the ghost shogger and ship? Yeah? Was
that a different track too? I don't know. That was
the same one. It was the same one. Yeah, it
was a reprise. Perhaps I just remember them controlling that
(01:27):
Statue of Liberty with a video game controller. Yeah, so
I'm not sure how that technology works, and I don't
ghost man ghost. I have to do this press forward
on the joystick, and the statue of literally knows aboute science. Uh.
We're also joined in studio by super producer DJ Daniel Goodman.
What's up Man good He's off Mike. I'll give him
(01:48):
a mike uh, Anna Hosnie. I could not be here
for this one, but DJ Daniel be in the background
speaking off Mike. You'll be able to hear him vaguely.
Given give him weird looks to the not camera one day.
One day, to give the weird looks to the not camera. Uh.
Two thousand fourteen miles. What a year. What a time
to be alive? Actually that was two thousand You mean
(02:10):
the album? Yeah, the album had to be alive. I
am working for Power one oh six for part of
YouTube the second half of that year YouTube. This is
when I started like working, work and work before. I
don't know if you listen in the past episodes some
lean years you were you were in politics. You had
(02:34):
a career. I had a career, and I basically had
to save all my money so I wouldn't I wouldn't
have to work for a while, so I could literally
put as much time into trying to get a comedy
career as possible. Yeah, so because politics was killing your soul? Yeah,
no it was. It was all right, let's talk about
two thousand fourteen, the way we've been kicking these offices,
just looking at the movies from that year. As you know,
(02:56):
I'm a big believer that the movies effect as like
geist and vice versa. Uh, And I've been just using Google.
I just Google movies of two thousand fourteen and look
at the top results because Google, Uh, maybe it might
be reacting to me what it knows about me when
you googled this list? This is what? This is the
(03:18):
old when I google movies. Yeah, it's so funny because
this morning I was starting I wasn't clear on who
was going to start trying to put this research together.
And I did the same search. The first thing that
it showed for me was Grand Budapest Hotel. Was it? Yeah, Uh,
that's so weird. Yeah, I guess it knows that I'm
a sick nerd culture freak who loves Guardians of the
(03:39):
Galaxy and I love fucking symmetry. Yeah, so is that
Wes Anderson. Yeah yeah, yeah, Grand Boot. I didn't see
it really, Maybe maybe your algorithm just knows that you
need to see that. Yeah, They're like the one thing
I do really like Grand Budapest Hotel. There was a
promotional cologne that my mom got for that movie, and
I love that. Oh really, yeah, smelled great. I think
(04:02):
that's his best movie. Really. Yeah, damn. It's not like
maybe Rushmore. I'm not a huge I mean, I like
Wes Anderson, but I'm not like a stand or anything.
But yeah, I'm not say that I got time. There's
a lot of movies on this list I still need
to see. Still Interstellar. You haven't seen you talk about this.
It's like the one Chris Nolan film. I was, Yeah,
(04:22):
I don't know what they need him to be perfect
in my mind, but a lot of people are like, yo,
just see it. Yeah, it's fun. It's like, yeah, it's
not perfect by any stretch, but it's dope. Done. Girl
came out this year. I feel like that was a
big what were you saying just a joke that I'm
glad you talked over. Uh. Gone Girl came out this year.
I feel like, Okay, so Guardians of the Galaxy came out.
(04:47):
That was a huge hit. I also feel like it
has taken on it. I mean it was like Chris
Pine became a thing off of that Pine. Not Chris Pine,
Chris Pratt, the other Crisp. Crispy Chris is uh Chris
p Rat Donuts, Yamagucci main exactly. Yeah, Chris Pratt became
a thing before this. He was just Andy from Parks
(05:10):
and rec uh and probably in one other thing or something.
But Edge of Tomorrow, the tom Cruise movie, was not
a hit. Uh a k lived I repeat that was.
That was a thing where I had a DVD hanging around.
I picked it up. I said, I don't have a
lot of going on today. Put it in. It wasn't bad. No,
that's a good movie. Yeah, And I feel like it's
(05:31):
been it's kind of grown in stature in our after
the fact. I feel like Gone Girls same, like it
was a hit, but then like I feel like Gone
Girling has become a No, it hasn't. I was gonna
say two Gone Girls that was a stupid thing killed me,
(05:51):
pretending fake one's own death. Uh no, I was saying.
I was saying that, Um never mind Birdman Man about
where about where it was critically acclaimed. I don't feel
like a lot of people reference it. I mean, it's
like a movie who I feel like I need to
watch it again because I really enjoyed it the first time.
But it's just one of those films that I I'm
(06:12):
not I'm trying to remember if I liked it because
of the way it was shot, because it was actually good. Yeah.
This was the year that John Wick came out and
that has become a huge monstrous UH movement ever since.
Huge monstros monstrous bout movement, Huge monstrous battle movement. UH.
Neighbors came out this year and was a big deal,
(06:34):
and I feel like people have kind of forgotten about
that movie. Seth Rogan, Yeah, and zach Efron zac Efron?
And who is za rose Burn? Rose Burn? Yeah, she's great.
Rose Burn The Hobbit movie, one of the Hobbit movies
ever watched any of them. I did not give a
shit about those, And I feel like people don't really
talk or think about those. But maybe it's just me good,
(06:56):
but also the people who I know who have been
like you to check it out. Ore Tolkeien stand right. Yeah,
so there will be comments, but I will not listen
to them. Big Hero six Did you ever watch that?
Or did you even know what that was? I did
because I knew some people who worked on it, but
I didn't know. I only knew because they worked on it.
(07:18):
I feel like it would have flown under my radar.
I feel like it flew under the radar when it
came out. It was a like successful movie, like it
did well in theaters, but it kind of flew under
the radar culturally, and I feel like people don't really
talk about it anymore that much. But it's good. People
should check that ship out if you haven't seen it. Yeah. Uh,
The Amazing Spider's Man too, Spiders Spider Man, spiders Man,
(07:41):
Andrew Garfield Spider Man. I feel like has disappeared from
the memory of error. What happened because he was what
he was riding high network, Yeah dude, because everybody like
wanted him to succeed and then he got sucked over
and hey, he's also an arsenal fan. Lawyer on motherfucker. Um. Yeah,
(08:02):
Jump Street the movie one of the first dates I
went to with her, Majesty Street. Yeah, told the move
where I legit forgot my wallet. Yeah, and I'm so
you weren't pulling a move. But it was that ship
where I sincerely was patting my pockets trying to get
my wallet and I just go, oh, Ship, which you
(08:22):
did every time that I've gone if you ever lunch
with I was like, ah, mother, damn it, I really
did it this time. Yeah, I got no no wallet. Musically,
what are we looking at? We're looking at uptown funk,
We're looking at fancy, We're looking at no flex zone,
Bobby Schmurder. Believe me, Wayne Wayne, Uh, there's some good
(08:45):
songs in here. But the Beyonce album came out at
the beginning of this year, right or wasn't the end
of the year before. I don't know. I think I
get this and the next year mixed up. But there
was some run the jewels business being done, tea club
going up on a Tuesday. Uh. I love mcconum, you
know what. Just in fairness to us, it came out
(09:07):
in December. Album There it is, Um, that's why finally,
thank god. Uh and that's about it. Did the Taylor
Swift album come out that year? The next year, Yeah,
Taylor Swift drop that year shake it Off? Uh you
guys know how I feel about shake it Off. I
can't shake it. It's a jam. Uh So story wise,
(09:31):
news wise, on the internet and off. So this was
this was the year that gamer gate became a thing,
and it was like, man, there is this enormous amount
of anger amongst video game playing males towards women because like,
and it was it was just completely outside. Like a
(09:54):
woman was like, we need to like start thinking about
adding some progressive thinking to how we design video games,
how we review video games, and she was like targeted
for death. Yeah, they're like what do you say? And
they're they're just damseling women in video games and you're
saving Like she was just pointing out all these tropes
and being like like I'll actually understanding what. Yeah, I
(10:15):
need a Sarkesian And it became just a complete nightmare,
a huge story, uh it. And I assumed that this
was just like, I don't know, some sort of imbalance
in like one specific part of the Internet, and it
just kept going there. A few years later, it happened
(10:37):
to a woman named Zoe Quinn or Zoe Quinn, and
it happened to some of the actresses on one of
our videos that cracked. And then it like that whole
movement became like maga Twitter and maga like the online
Trump hive. Well the yeah, well the Zoe Quinn thing
happened also, Yeah, because that was part of the whole
(11:00):
that was like the other thing they were pointing at
of like I wish she was accused of, um like
sleeping with a journalist or something or this year was
in a relationship with it, and it just became like
this really lame fucking crusade. But yeah, I mean that
was really when I was like, oh, like it's to me.
I was like, oh, now we're we really do see that.
It awoke a certain mentality, like it could allowed all
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these people to sort of gather around a common cause,
which was like women were trying to do what Yeah,
this is where Mike Sernovitch came from. He was like
a gamer Gate right persona um, but yeah, it really
did become a whole thing. Yeah, And then what and
wasn't Steve Bannon was that when he was like, hey,
these these guys might be right for the picking. Yeah,
(11:45):
that's exactly right. Steve Bannon saw the energy behind gamer
Gate and was like, you know, I think there might
be for basically a populist movement on the right to
like come through and respond to all these people who
feel like entitled two secs basically, Um, because it's wild
(12:07):
that that, like, this is the worst possible version that
I could possibly imagine looking back six years on at
this story and being like, oh, this movement became the
president right of the United States. It manifested itself into
and yeah, becau administration right and it so they were
(12:27):
a lot of they were able to use a lot
of the misogynistic ship from a misogynistic ideals, misogynistic like
energy from this movement against Hillary Clinton, against progressive ideas. Uh.
And because I think, isn't that was sort of also
the them talking about social justice warriors. Yeah, that's where
it was. S j W became a thing, and that's
(12:49):
when I started being accused of being an s j W.
I was like, wait, what because I'm because I'm saying misogyny,
bad fucking social justice. Uh, It's it cuts deep on
being called disloy boy oh, man, I've I've never lived
it down. Yeah, yes, Sarah calls it, calls me that. Yeah.
(13:09):
Oh that's why you never want soy milk in the office. No,
it's not good for you, man, or right, that's not
good for your all right, I'm not I don't don't
need I need high tea with the queen. Anyways. Wild year.
They also like weaponize it against like c net and
(13:32):
got like big companies to stop wanting to advertise on
big websites. Not seen it, what's the g M. It's
just just a nightmare, nightmare alternate history. So this is
a kind of a dark year, dark couple of years. Uh,
Ebola outbreak was this year. Uh, the Malaysian flight that
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disappeared happened this year. We've talked the past episode of
t d Z, but this is one of those stories
that I think the energy from the media was behind
maintaining the mystery. They were like, it's so mysterious, like
we never know, like it disappeared into thin air and
we actually know what happened to the plane. Um, there
(14:18):
was an Atlantic kind of deep dive into it, and
they know where it crashed based on like, uh, you know,
debris that washed up on shores and like tide patterns,
they have a rough idea of where it crashed. They
also know like where it was right before it would
have run out of fuel and it was like over
the South Indian Ocean. Uh, And they also know what happened.
(14:43):
It was the pilot um did it on purpose. I mean,
we don't know why necessarily. He was like going through
some tough things at home. But he was a veteran
pilot in his fifties, and he had a flight simulator
at his home that he ran like thousands of flight
simulations on and the one of the last ones he ran,
(15:05):
or the very last one, was the exact flight path
that they think the plane took before it crashed. So
he it was such a mystery to at the time.
There were so many theories about what happened, But I
think they're part of it too, Like it activated a
weird part of people's like imaginations. I think too, like
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there was something really interesting to people at the time
when they're like, well, what really could have Yeah, And
I think it's still like people are still like think
that it just disappeared into thin air. And I mean
there's been I blame lost. There's been well there's lost,
but there's also been like a USA show where it's
like this flight disappeared in the fifties and then just
(15:46):
landed and like the fucking movie from the eighties or something. Yeah,
but it's you know, I'm talking about where like these
people were like on a flight and then like they
land in some weird place and like they're completely placed
with others. No fuck, no clue what you're talking about.
Oh man, I'll let it. So it was. It sounds
(16:07):
like the listeners are screaming whatever that movie is. But airplane, Well,
we're gonna actually take a quick break for Miles to
look that up and we'll be right back and he
will shout it out loud as he realizes what it was.
Back in a minute and we're back, and Miles, did
(16:36):
you figure it out? It's either I'm thinking Millennium or
the Langoliers. I think it's the legal Ears when I
actually read the description, But Langoliers. Most of the passers
on airplane disappear and the remainder land the plane mysterious
and a mysteriously barren airport. And that is just the
way the human memory works. That's what people are going
to remember as what actually happened to the Malaysian plate
(16:59):
right sotal anglers. It was a total angle ears. Uh.
So this was also the year of Michael Brown being
killed by a police officer and the protests in Ferguson
and Eric Gardner's death was also two thousand fourteen. There
was that was such a dark it's that you know,
(17:22):
not that like the darkness continues, you know, it's the
same same ship. And I think this was when it
was just happening with such frequency to uh and it
continues to it just I don't know, it feels like
a problem that will just won't go away. And this
was kind of continuing with the pest thread. This was
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also we we saw a sort of the militarization of
the American police force and like how they dealt with
the protests and Ferguson. They were like giant you know,
military vehicles and you know, all sorts of just really
overly aggressive to actics. They were used by the police too,
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you know, for the purposes of quote unquote crowd control.
And the guy who killed Michael Brown, the cop was
never didn't see a day of jail for that. The
guy who killed Eric Garner also never saw any criminal consequences.
He did get fired from the New York Police Force
(18:25):
five years on. So um, yeah, yeah, you know, this
is also the year that Isis kind of became a
thing where we Isis sort of rose up, swept across uh,
came out of Iraq and you know, started fucking ship
up basically just uploading horrific videos of all these executions
(18:49):
and ship and all their propaganda. Like I think they
it's like when we saw terrorism move into like the
digital aged. Yeah, they were pretty advanced in terms of
how they were communicating and and also just how their
military strategy as compared to like al Qaeda. We we
had started hearing that al qaedo was sort of falling
(19:13):
apart and getting beaten back by US military and then
this it was basically the remnants of al Qaeda in
Iraq came came through with this massive movement. And it's
also this is also kind of like a weird moment
to where people We're starting to realize like that YouTube
(19:34):
and social media were becoming a real recruitment tool. Also,
it was the first and only bad thing that social
media has ever produced to this huh Um, this was
also the conflict in Ukraine in Kiev, where you know,
a bunch of people were protesting a head of state
(19:58):
who was very pro Russia moving Ukraine away from the EU.
And you know it ended up with a massive protest
in the middle of Kiev where they built like a
snow fort and fought the cops. And Victor Ennakovich, Yeah,
who actually I think was pals with Paul Manafort. Uh
(20:19):
what thought weird? Uh? Robin Williams took his own life
this year. Very sad and depressing. H Let's talk about
some less said things from this year. Uh. This is
the Time magazine section Things that Broke the Internet. We
got Kim Kardashian's But wait, wasn't that like literally what
(20:41):
they called it, like Kim Kardashian breaks the Internet? Or yeah,
break the Internet. Kim Kardashian. That was the cover of
Paper magazine and it was her butt, Uh that broke
the Internet. Yeah, who's gonna pay for this? Way? Kids?
Broke the Internet. Paper's website saw six point six million
(21:02):
page views. This is where they left talking about hits
and page views. This guy this page has since seen
fifteen million hits. It's like it seems very outdated. Yeah,
that was remember that currency, wasn't that? Also? H like
and them like completely copying a different image too, Like
(21:25):
there the image that they're like the Champagne one. I
don't could have swore like a Dolly one. Yeah, I
mean I am right because I remember producer Daniel is confirming.
Yeah exactly. It was like of a black woman, I believe,
And yeah, this is cool. The beginning of her being
(21:45):
like I don't know, that was like, I really that
was like a really sick photo shoot. Right. This was
also the year of the sexy felon the um much
shot of that really really handsome dude, Jeremy Eeks. He's
bays Fuck yeah, isn't he? He got like engaged or
married to someone who's wealthy as fuck. Yeah. I don't
(22:09):
know if they're still together. But he got out of
he got out and left his girlfriend who had been
standing by him while he was in jail, and really
left her for a rich, famous person. I think, um,
see what happens. This is when Renee's elwigger. We saw
her for the first time and like a decade and
(22:31):
she looked totally different. That's right, right, and forgot it
was weird because like there was a lot of like pushback,
people just being like, well, leave women alone, like stop
you know, policing what women look like. It was not
so much that as and I mean this is me
a guy saying this, But at the same time, like
(22:54):
I would have had the same reaction had it been
any dude. Like she just looked like she had taken
a different person's face and put it on. Yeah, it
just looks like a different person. I think it's just well,
I think that's the issue, right, is like you take
something like like celebrity culture and how it's like hyper
scrutinized and everything. So yeah, it's a toxic equation where
(23:18):
the upcomes will always be toxic, right. Yeah. I mean
it's definitely that she or anyone felt pressure to change,
how well. And also when you think of like now too,
in the nature of like the digital like media landscape,
like the takes had to be fucked up to get
the clicks, Like you couldn't be like Renee's l Wegger
has like re emerged. The headlines would be like what
(23:41):
has she done to her face? Her face? Don't believe
what Reneelger? She didn't look better or worse. She just
looked like a different person. But people were like, what
did she do to her face? Um? Yeah, so the
internet fuck off? Also, this was uncanny. It was an
(24:02):
uncanny experience. Uh, Taylor Swift drop nine, as we mentioned,
twenty or one point two million copies week one. Uh,
and now we're gonna listen to it and it's entire
uh the ice bucket Challenge. Remember this. You guys seen this,
you heard about this. Didn't do it? You didn't. Uh.
(24:26):
I had a whole bunch of people around me who
were doing it and it got to me and I
didn't do it and that was it. Wow. Yeah, so
we can blame you for everything that's happened. Yeah. Bill
Gates did it and his version racked up twenty million views.
Charlie Sheen's got nearly as many. And Bill Gates, I mean,
(24:47):
he's a humanitarian and a great great man who around
this time was hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, but
I think it was just to talk about how to
raise money for a LA right. Right. This was the
year of the jay Z Solange elevator showdown. Was that
(25:09):
was the first time that we had an inkling of
what was to come with Lemonade and four forty four
Becky with a good hair had had done her damage
and Slange. Uh this was kind of before Solange really
like had started dropping like classics, right, yeah for sure. Well,
(25:31):
I mean at least her first album, which was really
really good. She had little singles here, She had singles
like I knew her as Beyonce's sister who was at
Coachella the one year I went and was like dope,
Like her music was like solid, Like she had a
really cool like aesthetic that I was like, Okay, this
person is probably gonna be something, but she wasn't like
(25:53):
well a yeah, a seat at the table which was six,
And that's when people are like, what the god did
everyone fall asleep on this person? So stay tuned to
next episode where we'll probably talk about that. This was
also the year of the Happening, as it has become known,
and the people say, we're trying to blame four chan
(26:14):
for it, I think initially, and then it was like, no,
this is it's a that's a much larger fuck up thing.
The man, this was twenty what is this What year
am I in? Now? Yeah? So we're in uh late
August early September, hack photos belonged to Jennifer Lawrence, k Upting,
(26:35):
Kristen Dunce leaked online, spread across four Chance, so four
Chune spread it, but they weren't the ones who were
done the actually we did the hacking. Hacking, uh and
d You had to explain that to Sway? What do
you mean? Like you called into Sway show We're doing
a guest on sha and it was the day of
the happening, and he was like, why is this? What
(26:56):
is this? What is that? Like? What is this? What's fat?
I had to explain that. Did you have to explain
what fapping that too? I don't believe that must have
been very awkward. Uh. Jennifer Lawrence put it, uh, kind
of bluntly, and I think rightly. It's not a scandal.
It is a sex it is a sexual violation. It's disgusting.
(27:18):
And that's when like, also you saw the on the
other side of like conservative people being like, well, what
are you doing taking those pictures? Anyway? I can't fucking
believe that was ever anyone's take who is still allowed
to show their face? That's unbelievable, that's unlivable. You have
a you have a right to you have a reasonable
(27:39):
expectation of privacy. And I think it was like mainstream
people like I don't think like I didn't consume any
right wing media at the time, and I heard that
ship Yeah, well I meant more like in how whatever
their values are like a bit more conservative, but yeah,
and also conservatives to full stop on the right, full stop.
All right, we're about to get into but before we
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do that, we're gonna take one more quick break and
we're back and let's get into. It's kind of a
I don't know, weird year for movies. I mean, Star
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Wars Force Awakens came out. I mean that kind of
took up all the oxygen. It was the end of
the year, but still it was like such a huge deal.
I saw it in Japan. That was dope. It was
the first time her majesty came with me to Japan.
And then when they remember that she got up out
of her seat. But in Japan you sit through the credits.
(28:42):
Shouldn't a lot of film there because it was just
an audible gasp throughout the like she has hemorrhoids. I'm
sorry she had to get up, but more just like
you know, it's like, oh, but the film, the picture
has not ended, so we will see the credits and
everyone who worked on it, and then you will leave
some respect. There's some pretty iconic movies from the here
met Max, Fury, Road Spotlight. I feel like those are
(29:03):
both fairly iconic there in the in the club you ever,
but you ever throw spotlight on? Be like yo, you
want to time every time my parents are over, just
like hey, you guys seen this. You guys seen that,
you guys heard about this mad Max. Yeah, it was
I think for me was sort of some of the
filmmaking things because his wife right edited the film. Yeah,
(29:26):
and she's not an action film editor, and like a
lot of people who are like like more editing nerds
are like, yeah, that's what's really cool is like the
timing style of very differently and also like the central
focal point in all the shots like another sort of
cinematic device that they used a lot, And it wasn't
like I started reading more analysis of it that I
was like, oh, I'm realizing how it operated in many
(29:49):
other ways aside like yeah, that's a very rich text,
Like that movie was like made for the internet. Like
both in terms of what you're talking about, and in
terms of just if you like look at a shot
and there's like all these things hidden in there, like
that is an old eight seven trans am, like a
piece of there's just all sorts of dope stuff. And
then like the writings on the literal writing on the
(30:11):
wall and some of the scenes. This was I guess
a successful movie year. Jurassic World came out that year,
which was a monster hit The Martian, which I feel
like The Martian was huge at the time, and I
don't know, I never think about that movie ever. You're
not you're not popping that one in. I'm not popping
that well, I'm not popping any of these in, but
(30:32):
I don't think about it anymore like I will. The
one thing I'll pop in is the border scene from Cicario. Yeah,
Cicario I think is enhanced. I think Cicario is like
kind of iconic. It's just that right, It's the when
they're driving in the city. It's just that one track
I think it's called the Beast or something, and you're
(30:53):
like that movie was dope, the big short kind of
I think because him somewhat iconic, iconic. I don't know,
maybe not. It definitely like was one of those films
where it's simplified the financial crisis a little bit for people, right, Yeah,
I think it. Yeah, there was reading was it Margot
(31:14):
Robbie where they're like and now Margot Robbie in bath
bathtub explains this to you. Yeah. I mean it was
Adam McKay's first like successful dramatic movie. Um, but yeah,
maybe maybe not iconic. I guess the financial crisis is iconic,
and it was the first thing that like fully kind
of made that breakthrough. So iconic financial crisis. Yeah, it's
(31:39):
legacy have never recovered from it. Iconic iconic Avengers age
of Ultron is diminished, I would say, And like I
feel like that was not a movie anyone everything. Yeah
it's a guy. Yeah, it was a series of it
(32:00):
was like the Internet became sentient. Oh really. Yeah. It
was dumb as fun. Considered the worst of the Avengers
films probably yeah, because it's the second one. So there's
first Avengers, which like invented the whole thing and was
written by Josh Sweden, just Sweden, Uh, and it was
(32:21):
a lot of fun. But then I think this one
was made by Josh Sweden, too and just wasn't good. Uh.
And then there was Captain America Winter Soldier wasn't that
this year I'm taking a Civil War, which was essentially
an Avengers movie. And then yeah, oh the cycle right
Creed came out this year, iconic, straight out of Compton
(32:46):
icon it, dude, straight out of marketing ideas. After that,
I know, seriously, Fifty Shades of Gray, Oh, ship, that
was the first you first came out. That was the
year the movie came out. Yeah, I guess, like was
when the bas everywhere? I know, I did not. I've
(33:06):
not seen it either, but I did see fifty Shades
gray or there are fifty more shades. I don't know
what the sequel sequel? Yeah, oh you saw the sequel. No,
I didn't know the Hunger Games movies were coming out
at this time, and I maybe it's just my age
and I don't know who I am, but I know
these movies. Yeah, I now have five Weathers in my pocket.
(33:27):
I don't know where they're coming from. Uh. But these
movies didn't make any register, like, didn't register at all
for me. Yeah, No, I I saw one because I
wasn't so many people were freaking out about it yeah,
and I was like, all right, fuck it, I'll see
what the fuss is. And I was like, I don't know.
I think Alan Cumming looks cool, cool outfit. Yeah, that's
(33:50):
about it. Yeah, the people in the capital look, I
don't know, there was I think or is it Stanley Tucci, Yes,
Stanley Tucci of Donald Sutherland other people? Um, yeah, this
motherfucker hungry games just making that Alan coming, great character actor.
You know. I feel like The Good din so Inside
(34:11):
Out and The Good Dinosaur both came out that year.
Inside Out super iconic. The Good Dinosaur is probably Pixar
at least icon What's the Good Dinosaur? That was like
a Pixar movie that just nobody really give a funk about. Yeah, see,
like this is where my blind spot are all these
animated things. And everyone said Inside Out was really good too, right,
It is good where it's like it's if you're old enough,
(34:33):
you can really get a deeper message out of it.
If you're wrong enough, it's kind of teaching you something.
But really yeah, magic Mike double XL. I feel like
it is iconic ish That one song was that with
Jeremiah I mean money when I'm thinking thank you whereas
(34:53):
Steve Jobs lest iconic and there wasn't even a good
strip scene in that. I know, like I was waiting
for it the whole time. This one is one more thing,
but don't know that was. This was the one that
was actually a movie. Ashton Kutcher one was a prank video.
I think it was funnier die. I think it was
a prank on Ashton just Steve Jobs movies though, No, Yeah,
(35:17):
there Ashton Kutcher did make a Steve Jobs movie. I
don't know what year that was, but it is that's
a prank. It could be a prank video on Ashton
Kutcher being like Ashton thinks we're making a real movie
and like taking his performance seriously. Yeah. No, Fassbender, I
think did a solid performance. Does he pull his dick
(35:38):
out in this or that's the difference? Didn't Damn Yeah,
that's not the one we played again waiting for it. Yeah,
you really wanted this to be a sexual movie. I'm
just you wanted him to have that one more thing dick. Uh.
This was this was a huge year for music. Uh
to pivot. Butterfly came out, Black messiah' angelo Okay, I
(36:03):
I love D'Angelo. But you're not a fan of this album.
I mean, the band that he has in this is
really good, really good. I No, I don't even know
why I'm even like pumping the brakes on it. It
just ranks. It's it's not my favorite 'angelo. That's the
only reason. But it's still fantastic Jamie x x in
try to believe it's how that's pret album? Oh my gosh. Uh.
(36:25):
And then Drake had a had a big, big one.
If you're reading this, it's too late. He sur prize
dropped that album too. It was like, yeah, I just
want to get out of my contract. And I still
think it's his best or second best album. Uh. And
what a time to be alive With Future he dropped
that out of those. I could barely listen to that ship.
Oh really Yeah, I got really into the Future. That's why,
(36:47):
Oh you don't like Future. When I when I used
to work at Power one of six, he came in
for an interview. He was so arrogant about like what
he does, and I was just like, bro, you're on
auto tune. A guy named Future was Eric the guy
who and they around the time when he was doing
the Hendrix thing on Future Hendrix. Jimmy, I'm like, you
are not even close to even getting near the creative
(37:09):
powerhouse that was Jimmy Hendrix. But hey, you know, you
know he's just being honest. I think that's when his
album Onnest came out, Hotline came to but yeah, I
mean Drake, the Hotline Bling dance. Yeah, the Hotline Bling
video was a thing that was That was the way dude,
(37:30):
the way he was, like everybody did like mem to
the funk out of him dance swipe video or hand
swipe move. Yeah, that was when like awkward Drake became
Like it was like he's not even trying to be cooler.
Maybe he is, but like it wasn't the learning of
Drake's mumification because the Hotline Bling video wasn't the two
pain meme uh set up of the like note and
(37:52):
the Yeah, that's just that's yeah. See, this is I
think the beginnings. Yeah, this is when I mean, yeah,
I feel like this is the year he fully fully
broke through, uh because I mean people, you know, he
was selling a lot of albums before, but like he
was everywhere this year. Yeah, well I think was a
big year for him too. Because what's what's that? What
(38:16):
was that album? Everything? Nothing was the same? Yeah, yeah,
yeah that oh yeah with just hold on, We're going
that one. I think that's when you had like like
white people who did not know about Drake were like,
I've got my eyes on the face. You have to
see the face holes making it looks like it looks
like he's playing golf while singing that I'm doing a
(38:38):
got talking about you the golf ball. I know how
you should think the same Jason Pinky Ring talking these
hose I need quarantine in the same league, but we
don't ball the same. That's actually a two chains line
from to Change. Oh God, was like a a real
(39:00):
fucked up I guess, continuing the trajectory of this being
a funked up decade, we had the Charlie Hebdoe attack
in Paris right off it was like a weekend. We
had the German wing plane crash where the dude just
like crashed on takeoff on purpose into the side of
a mountain. Uh. We had more cops killing people, uh
(39:22):
at this time getting caught on camera. Well, I guess
with Eric Garner they got caught on camera. But the
one that like has always stuck out in my mind,
is Walter Scott in North Carolina or North Charleston, South
Carolina where he's the dude is just like running away
like he had been stopped for having a break light
(39:43):
out and the cop just shoots him dead in the
back and then like filed a police report that was like, yeah,
he was like attacking me, running at me, and it's
just like it's he's traight up like cold blooded murders
the guy, and you like get a sense that this
is what's happening when we're not uh, I mean such
(40:06):
you know, NonStop Tray Van, Michael Brown, Eric Gardner, Walter Scott,
Freddie greg Every year this happens, and it's just amazing
how little people who are on this like Blue Lives
Matter ship are like unwilling to look at this rejectively
and be like, now this is actually this isn't even
how law enforcement should work, Like this is state sanctioned murder,
(40:29):
and maybe there is like and you know, I know
people who are in law enforcement who are not like
wired like this, who are like sort of motivated by
something sincere, but like to obscure these arguments by being like,
you know, you never know what people are trying to do.
I mean, this is what this is what contributes to
this mentality, especially for African Americans this country, where we're
like you know what what I've we do not see
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justice at all, and it's a continuing pattern that just
does not cease. And yeah, they'll they'll be people, you know,
continuing to protest it like this because until we see
something change or until we start seeing more people be
held accountable for their acts, Like even with both of
gen his killer getting convicted, most people were shocked. Yeah,
(41:12):
because like we see this play out. White cop kills
a person of color, black person typically and we get
to a trial and it's like, oh yeah, we're gonna
slap him on the wrist, and they're demoted or they're
like nah, yeah, you're good acquitted. Walter Scott was one
case where the person actually did get convicted, but they
were sentenced to twenty years in prison for second degree murder,
whereas like this did not seem to be second degree
(41:35):
like heat of the moment, like he just cold blooded
stood there, pulled out his gun, shot him while he
was running away, and then falsified the police report. Like
even that like doesn't feel like like this dude should
not ever see the light of day again. Uh. Freddie
Gray happened this year where he was killed by Baltimore police. Um,
(41:56):
just a fucking awful, yeah, awful series of events and
news stories that I think we're very very necessary to
kind of make us aware of ship that was happening.
And then this is also the kind of uh discontent
that's brewing in the black community that you know it
can be weaponized going into right, A lot of a
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lot of people were angry for all kinds of reasons
that like just looking back, you had game or get
you have all these NonStop murders of black men and
women by the police. There was a you know, anyone
who was looking at what's going on in our our culture,
our society, right, you know, maybe had some had to
figure it out. Yea, we have these ongoing conflicts, right,
and you know that's the Russian intelligence community was able
(42:42):
to like exploit both that and there were like Black
Lives Matter like imitation websites that were used to spread
messaging that basically diminished voter turnout. Yeah yeah, Um, prisoners
escape in New York that gave us escape from Dana
(43:03):
Mora the I think a should be number one, number
one story. Don't tell anybody that. And also for as
we always say, the actor who plays Lyle my God,
he knew he should have won every conceivable award. I'm
(43:23):
pretty sure like that that's the performance that gets the
most attention, the most running our um in our office. Yeah,
between Patricia Arquette and him, who I know he wasn't lost. Also,
but the way you know, I knew he was having
an affair on me. I knew he was having an
affair on me because he ordered the local menu at
(43:44):
King's Walk and that fucked up margharita they makes, she makes,
he puts the salt in the motherfucking margarita. The Charleston
shooting happened this year. The racist terror attack by fucking
Roof Dylan Roof bowl cut. Fuck um. Yeah. This also,
(44:05):
there was some kinds of weird trends this year. I'm
trying to think. I feel like there was a lot
of man bun beginning this year. Let's talk about that. No,
I feel like Joaquin Phoenix, Jared Leto, they were starting
to do that thing. We're then like, yo, dude, this
(44:25):
guy's got what the funk what's up with man bun Right?
And that was bad blood video with Taylor Swift when
everyone was like, what squad are you with? Who's Who's squizzy?
Are you part of? Right? Because Taylor so with that.
The backstory to that, which I only learned when reading
up on history, right on history, checking out the history books,
(44:50):
was that Katie Perry took some of Taylor swift dancers
mid tour. Then Katy Perry was dating Diplo at the time.
Blow was caught in a viral video saying that h
Taylor Swift should use some of all the money that
she makes to buy herself an ass and then Lord
(45:11):
was like, well maybe people, maybe you wouldn't talk about
other people's physical attributes if people talked about your tiny
dick Diplow. And after that, I don't know why didn't
come back with a flames. Different kind of beef, you know,
(45:31):
different kind of beef In the pop world, no one
really wants to smoke, That's right. They're just they want
to They'll do their little passive aggressive videos and then
keep it moving. A couple of a couple of the
later stories from this year, Pizza Rat. This gave us
Pizza Rat the fifteen second clip where the rat was
dragging a giant piece of pizza down down the subway
(45:54):
stairs to the just and was that fake? Right? Was it?
There was another one so one who did recently there
was a subway rat thing that someone did his performance,
are like able to train a rat? But look, I
think for anybody who's been in New York or any
place with a high rat population, anythink it's possible. Anything
is possible. That's also when um fucking to Make Making
(46:18):
a Murderer came out. I remember at the end of
people were binging the funk out of Making because I
remember being in Japan also at this time, right and
looking around everyone's talking about him, like I think we
need to watch this and that that was no. Uh.
The dress also happened this year, oh ship where people
(46:40):
some people thought it was blue and black, others thought
it was white and gold. Uh. Never the twin shall meet?
What what were you? White and gold? I need to
look at whatever the pick, whatever it was, I knew
what it was. What color is the dress? I'll tell
you right now as I look at it. Oh, yeah,
this motherfucker's yeah blue and black. Yeah, but it's um
(47:05):
I've never been able to see it, to be honest
with you, um, and I think because people are I
don't know if it was because I've like fucked around
with a lot of image editing software that I can
see how you can like these other values might be present.
But to me, I'm like, nobody would wear in the
(47:25):
version that people were confused off of. It looks like
pooh brown and like a weird soft lavender or something.
I would never get white and gold from that. But
then there was this more recent teal and uh oh,
now I see it for the first time. Damn, that's
wild shoes that look both teal and gray and pink
(47:48):
and white. I had always seen as teal and gray.
This is like this year's version of that. But it
turns out everybody else was like, no, they're pink and white.
But I just saw them as pink and white for
the first time. Just now, uh huh? You see that? Did?
That was healing? Great? It does? But then look there,
well that she was picking white, right, But then look
(48:12):
there Now a good gag gift would it be to
buy someone in the dress? Yeah? That was that was
I think somebody rocked that dress to like a holiday
party that year and it was dope. Oh like that
you were at Yeah. Do people recognize it as the dress? Right? Yeah?
Really yeah, because like when I see it, like from
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the company that made it, was someone wearing it, it
was sold out immediately. I don't think I'd be like, oh,
right dress, like nice dress. Yeah, and Ariana Grande preparing
for her uh, for her rise to stardom. Uh. This
year she was in hot water for licking a doughnut.
(48:53):
Simpler times, guys, simply and rae oh yeah, Rachel DoLS,
let's not forget you know, my sister from another mister. Um, well,
so Rachel Dolas was a white woman who had been
pretending to be black. Is that correct? Yeah? I was
saying that's I am a well that said later on
(49:16):
right there, like we'll hold on. You're out here being
in part of like double a CP like regional leadership,
and then it was like why I identify as black?
And then there was what the Caitlyn Jenner came out
was that on June one, I think or June second,
because I remember the cynical take was that was the
(49:37):
same day that Patriot Act was renewed, and they're like, yo,
y'all were y'all were too busy looking at that Vanity
fair cover the Patriot there was there was one of
the renewals of the Patriot Act was on June maybe
not maybe maybe don't use a huge moment for trans
people to be like, yeah, but see that was all
(49:58):
ploy Like it's like just maybe just I think, if anything,
it's more that like people don't actually actively pay attention
to anything that is happening in the federal government. Yeah,
are the things we spend Most people aren't really interested
in the you know, the match and nations and the
inner workings of the government. And you're like, what happened
(50:19):
with Bruce Jenner, Yeah, call me Caitlin June yeah. John.
Second was when this article on vanity affairs from so
dude Pizza Rat Pizza Ratt. I hope Pizza Rats Okay, yeah,
I'm sure Pizza ret is thriving. Definitely. Do you think
so you think Pizza Rat told other rats on Pizza Rat?
(50:40):
Oh yeah, people, Pizza Ratt has an agent that to
be a good like sort of weird Pixar film like
rats would talk and they're like kind of stunting on
each other. Like I'm Pizza Rat, and I'm like, well,
I'm splinter. Pizza Rat reminded me. The thing that was
so uncanny about it is it looked like a live
action Rattitu Like, oh straight up, like because that that
(51:04):
movie like is all about rats dragging food round. Oh
I've never seen rabbit see dude. I'm I'm fucking up.
I'm sorry, listener, I'm gonna have to put a list
together for you. I'm gonna give myself the Ludovico treatment
from the Clockwork, Orange or Holidays and mainline just mainlining
children's films. I think I'm the weird one, by the way,
(51:25):
because I saw all these before I had kids, So
I was just, are you like going to movies? Though?
I do like going to movie I do like going
to children's Buy my so with a cannibake beans, and
that boy was me. Uh well, alright, guys, that has
been our rundown of the years. A lot of other
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really depressing ship happened. There's a European refugee crisis. There
was just a lot of othership awful ship. But uh yeah,
well we'll make twenties, sixteen and seventeen light since we
know those are hell years. Yeah, can you imagine that?
Oh my god, yeah, this is this is on was
(52:09):
the leg being drawn back before they kick in your balls?
The twenty six? All right, well with that image, we
will leave you for today. I hope you're having a
great holiday. Yeah, we miss you. Bock some things up
and give to the needy. We'll be back tomorrow or
(52:30):
I don't even know. Is this a Friday? Who knows?
I will be back and I'm in my sweatpask. We'll
be back on the next weekday to uh tell you
about seventeen. It will be nice and light. Quick night
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