December 31, 2019 • 50 mins
Jack, Anna, and Caitlin Durante go over all the most memorable parts of the 2018 and 2019 years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this very special year
end episode of George da Leys eight Guys, a production
of Hi Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we
take a deep dive into Americans share consciousness. We still say,
officially off the top, fuck the Koch Brothers and Fox News.
My name's Jack O'Brien and I'm throwed to be joined
(00:23):
by my special guest co host Caitlin Durante and super
producer Annajsnie. What's up, guys, Hi, We're looking back at
the years two, two, thou nineteen, even though we're still
in one of them. Hell, Hot Pop Quiz, Hot Shot,
which one are still in? Alright? So the way Jordan
(00:50):
Peel sweating kid, So the way we've been kicking these
off is just talking about movies, because I think that's
the most important thing about anything I don't know about
the Most of my entire personality is movies. I've cultivated
an entire persona around me loving movies. There's no other
aspect of my personality at least sound drops. Yeah, what's that?
(01:19):
And fucking savage? And that was the most savage thing
you've ever said about Dan, and I think it was
after he left that's a surprising. I think it's I
think it's like, actually, he's probably still close enough to
have heard it from outside the room, and that was
(01:40):
really mean. I think you need to think about what
you're doing the people around you. Yeah, the poor Danial
who speaks in sound drops sometimes when he doesn't have
the opportunity to drop it. Yeah, well he's good at it. Though,
Um let's talk abouten first. Should we take it in
order what he guys think? Huh, that's alright. What a
(02:04):
year of film. Uh, we had Black Panther, great film,
and then we had the opposite in a quiet place,
so a quiet place. I did not enjoy it. I
thought it was an effective movie. But I also really
thought the read of it that it's like white supremacists,
(02:26):
uh fear where it's like white people feel like they
can't make noises and then these brown monsters like come
if you make a single noise and like kill you
was an interest but I but I think it's like
an interesting read on like it was about white fragility
(02:48):
essentially that yeah, I hadn't heard that. But also biggest
plot hole farting give me a fucking break, did be
called silent, but deadly, quiet place, silent but deadly. But
I mean, and when you think about it, John Krasinski
is all about those uh like all right movies. He's
(03:12):
in The Men or the ben Ghazi movie. He's in
a quiet place. He is Jack Ryan, the CIA agent
where he's like Jim, you know, people like really need
to give the CIA more of like more love. They
do amazing things for us. Well he got hot now
he's all right, Yeah, that's that's what sucks. Like remember Jim,
(03:35):
like that was such an era. Yeah, but that's the past.
Listeners can't hear it. But I'm giving in a knowing
look like Jim. In honor of Jim. Uh, let's talk
about what else? What movies do we think are going
to stand the test of time? This is also the
year of uh incredible two, Deadpool too? Deadpool too? Was it?
(03:59):
Oh yeah? Death out of order? But yeah, that is
that did happen? Aunt Man versus the Wasp, I mean
classic cinema. We've got a lot of superhero citizens came,
The Citizens came that Aunt members the Wasp is the
citizen Kane of movies with verses in the title. Um,
(04:22):
oh sure, I mean Alien versus Predator what else. I
feel like A Star Is Born is probably one of
the more iconic movies from this year because it's it's
a it's a remix, so every time it comes out
so in like, I don't know, give or take not
keep doing that the background when it stars Ariana Grande
(04:48):
and I don't know what's another one up? What's the guy?
The Harry styles so very old? I don't know. Then
we'll be like, wow, and which was your favorite version?
And of course, naturally I will say the Lady Gaga
Bradley Cooper one, depending how well that one is made. Sure,
So the test of time, you and I talked together
(05:12):
and held hands, we cried, we laughed. I think you
didn't like it. I didn't like it at all. Um
So I don't know. I don't think it will stand
the test of time. I think I don't think it's like.
I don't think it's a great movie. I think it's like.
But we will always continue to make it because it's
a classic. Stars are always being born. Remember how bad
the Barbara streisand One was. I haven't seen that ship show.
(05:34):
That isn't it? But it's interesting because I've heard I've
heard it's terrible, And when when I heard they were
remaking A Star is Born, I was like, oh, ship,
that's a like classic movie and I didn't even know
anything about it. So I don't know. I feel like
I just think Also, the phrase of stars Born is
just yeah, like old Hollywood. So we're like, I'm always
(05:55):
saying it every time somebody comes on our show and
they say something funny. I Hey, a star is born, kid,
But you always turned to a camera. That's not um.
Some movies that happened that seemed to have just like
disappeared from our memory. Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom, that happened. Also,
(06:16):
Ballad of Buster scrug there. I mean that went directly
to Netflix. Yeah, but no one for it was made specifically.
It felt like it was like a straight to video
Disney or something like Mary Poppins Returns. Was like a
movie that I was expecting big things from. Oh sure, yeah,
I just kind of came in a bit of a
(06:37):
I don't know if there's a box office flop, but
no one, no one cares like it feels blah Red Sparrow.
Oh yeah you saw that, Yeah, the nuts everything, Well,
I just no, I haven't you see everything dork. Okay,
fucking loser. Uh sorry, um I have I've seen a
(07:00):
solid probably eighty percent of the movies on this perhaps more.
I'll tell you which ones are the good ones. Okay please.
Spider Man into the Spider Verse is not only the
best movie, but one of the best movies of the decade.
Thank you very much. I'll not be taking questions at
this point, I do. I did have that highlighted as
one of the iconic movies that will stand the test
(07:21):
up tone, let's see that is, um, let's see DC
movies just like disappear from like it's just like they're
big when they come out, and like everyone's like, oh,
I can't believe Spiderman Verse or Superman Verse Batman's coming out,
(07:42):
and then like I don't remember it because they don't
like Nolan. Nolan's DC movies were like great, classic and iconic,
but like every ever since then, it's just been ship Also,
sorry to bother you, I think, um oh, yeah, I
quite stand the whole concept of like having to pretend
to be white, basically the white voice and the fetishization fetissistation. Yeah,
(08:09):
egg of black culture. There's a really great scene where
like he clearly, um is just giving the white people
what they want, like they're like rap an army hammer
like a billionaire who's Yeah, it's just like the FU.
So that's I think. I feel like that's just um,
that's that's our society, like in a nutshell, and I
(08:31):
doubt that's going to change anytime. So similar themes were
explored in Black Klansmen as well. Yeah, actually, like specifically
the white voice. Um, what what are some other ones
that you think are classics that will stand the test
of time from wi Um game Night Now, I'm kidding,
(08:54):
I do. Actually, I thought it was a blast. I
can watch it anytime it's onto, I'll just put it on.
It was fun. I thought cock Blockers was surprisingly fresh
and funny and uh more progressive than you'd expect of
like a teen sex romp type of store alert. It's
(09:14):
not called cock blockers, but that is what you wrote
on the thing. That's what I called it. Blockers also
an interesting foreshadowing of butt chugging coming up in the
Brick Cavanaugh trial. Yeah, Boof gets a drunker bro I
feel like Ready Player one another one that Oh yeah,
I did see that skip at everybody Ready Player one
(09:37):
and b F G. Spielberg is on a run of
just movies that are going away, big, big fucking giant,
big fucking giant. It was a big friendly giant. I
don't even know, like a kid's movie that nobody saw
Forest Spielberg movie. Alright, let's talk about the top ten
(09:58):
stories in order. So the Parkland school shooting was the
number one story. Uh. It happened on Valentine's Day, which
I hadn't realized. Uh, but there have been I was wondering,
you know, they were like this was not in their
right up of this. They were like, this was not
like previous shootings because kids actually like asked for change
(10:23):
and got it. Uh. And I hadn't really remembered or
like paid enough attention, I guess to know like how
much uh legislation actually got passed. But uh, so Florida
past the Marjorie Stone and Douglas High School Public Safety Act,
which raids the age to purchase guns to twenty one
(10:45):
from eighteen. That's pretty good. Federal government effectively banned bump stocks, right. Uh.
And then there were some just like state a bunch
of state laws, but eleven states past laws in two
thousand eighteen, there was strict gun access to people linked
to domestic violence, which is a very important cause of
(11:11):
you know, murder is people who have committed acts of
domestic violence, right, which is so interesting that we slowly
passed all these laws of different states and stuff, but um,
we still have such a serious gun problem. It's like
we've done that, We've taken a step, but we have
so far to go. It's like step one of step steps, right.
(11:33):
I think that's why I was like, wait, oh, I
guess there was some gun legislation pass, but it does
feel we got to keep going. Yeah, Like there's still
been massive a ton of we still have. We have
shooting so often that I'm like, all right, wait, sorry,
what was that one from last week? Like I can't
remember a shooting going back through the decades, Like this
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is the last of the episodes where we're doing like
bad years in review for the whole decade, and like
there are legitimately, like huge news story mass shootings that
I totally like didn't remember. They just like led into
other ones. Yeah, we should never not remember a mass shooting.
Yeah right, there shouldn't and there just shouldn't be so
(12:16):
many that our brains, confuse them, forget about them. Um.
The number two story was the Trump Russia probe ummueller time. Hey,
am I right? When you write it down by year, uh,
as we have over the course of this series, it
becomes clear that like every year has enough scandals uh
(12:41):
to be an administration defining disaster, like and then you
then something else happens, right, Like I forgot about Michael
Cohen existing remember Michael Cohen? Um? But yeah, I mean
this one came up a little bit short because of
media a red queen like where nothing will surprise us anymore,
(13:04):
because the more bad shitty does, the worst the ship
has to be to like get our attention because otherwise
it just like drowns it out. But like I totally
forgotten about the Stormy Daniels thing because it seems tawdry
and he didn't sexually assault her, but she was she
was physically intimidated by somebody, uh while she was putting
(13:27):
her infant daughter into a car. I think, yeah, but
if this was and she was like arrested in places
that she was just intimidated NonStop, like they were finding
ways to funk with her, yes, yeah, if it was
a democratic administration, Fox News would be melting down in
the mainstream media would be following their lead. UM, impeach them.
(13:51):
This was the year. So we talked about how two
seventeen was December two thou seventeen, I think was when
the Weinstein story broke, But two thousand eighteen was when
it's sort of you know, we started getting Yeah, we
started seeing more and more people. People started paying attention
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to the fact that Bill Cosby was a rapist and
he was sentenced to prison. Larry Nasser, the former Michigan
State and USA gymnastics sports doctor, was convicted of molesting
hundreds of young women. Weinstein was charged with rape. Less
Moonvez was asked it as the top executive at CBS. UM.
(14:33):
You know what's kind of amazing about the Michigan Larry
Nasa thing is that we when we watch Olympics, like
we love gymnastics as a country, we literally these women,
these young women go out there and do some of
the craziest jumps and twirls. I don't want to say
tals because it feels like I'm like down, like truly.
The thing, the amount of athleticism they bring to that,
(14:56):
it's the venue whatever it's called h Comedy Club. Unreal.
It's so they are so good at what they do
and most of them are dealing with a sexual assault
by a doctor who they were supposed to trust to
make sure that is, to have that sort of like
like I have such respect for these women, like it
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makes me just like it makes me feel like anything
I've ever gone through is pointless because like I'm watching
these women have to compete for gold medals and also
be sexually assaulted by the doctor who they are supposed
to trust and who are supposed to be watching after them.
It's just it's unreal and it's um I think we
really have to give these women so much credit for
continuing to do what they do and yes, and then
(15:40):
even like Simone Biles was molest like it's so fucked up,
and then she goes and goes like, well fuck, I
have to keep my head up and keep going. And
it's like it's it's so important to acknowledge what these
women have gone through and still come out and be
like I'm a gold medalist. I kept my head up,
I got through this and I want a gold medal,
so that's huge. But yeah, I mean this is I
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feel like this is when it became clear that this
wasn't an isolated problem or an industry problem. And I
think it's been clear to women, but I feel like
the mainstream media finally came came around to the fact that,
you know, when women reported sexual assault up to this point,
there were and predators relied on it, and the men
(16:28):
were protected. Yeah, and men were like actively protected. All right,
let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
we're back. And uh So they had as a separate
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story from the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas story, which AP readers
voted number one. Mass shootings was a separate story that
was their number four. They talked about how twelve people
were killed at a California country music bar that was
pretty close to here. Um, I had totally forgot about that.
(17:09):
Uh it was in I think it was it was
close to Pepperdine because like where a lot of Pepperdine
students were. Um. There was just two months after the
Parkland shooting, eight students and two teachers were killed at
a high school in Santa Fe in Texas. In June,
(17:31):
a gunman shot five employees at the Capitol Gazette newspaper
in Annapolis, Maryland. Uh. And then in October, eleven people
were killed in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
So yeah, I mean, this is all in addition to
the worst mass shooting of the year. Uh. And the
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Tree of Life thing was a white supremacist who supported Trump.
Capital Gazette was a conservative who thought the media was
out to get him at the height of Trump's the
media is then the people, if you're uh that that
was also days after Milo Napolis claimed that he couldn't
wait for a vigilante squad to start gunning journalists down
(18:14):
on site. And just the it's the fact that these
people feel empowered by this presidency to go out and
enact violence is I mean, one of many horrible things
(18:34):
about this presidency. But it's the effects are so devastating,
and the fact that he's taking that Trump is taking
no accountability for it and facing facing no consequences. He's
empowering like just white supremacy to uh, white supremacists to
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just be out and open and kill people and no
one there's nothing's changing when you look when you look
at them, like when you look at it across like
a series of years, it's like I've talked before about
how um the Nazi like in Nazi Germany, by the end,
(19:24):
by the end of the Rise of Hitler, they were
just bored by the news story. So it was just
like nobody was really writing about it anymore because they
were tired of writing the same story over and over
and over again. And that seems like what happened like
over the course of the first three years of his presidency.
It was just like, yeah, he's a racist, but we've
(19:45):
already said that. Yeah, like what else? What else are
you going to say? You know, I need to call
it Titanic, the incredible James Camerman film. Give them something
new to print. You know. That's what always bothers I mean, currently,
what really bothers me when Obama comes out and tries
(20:05):
to be like, we don't need such an intense change.
We need to think about this. It has to be methodical.
How dare you like, we we need an overhaul of
this goddamn govern radical change, Like you don't understand, y'all
gotta go, yeah, because ship is not changing. You don't care.
You just want to be a politician to say you're
a politician. At this point, you're not doing everyone is
(20:29):
upholding the status quo, and the status quo is bad.
It needs So how dare you look at us and
be like whoa, whoa, whoa, how how dare you go
so far left? It's like yes, because we're watching everything
go down and you guys are ignoring it all. Yeah,
like how dare we hashtag gun control? One positive? And
(20:52):
this year of news was the U S midterm elections. Uh.
I still remember like the moment. There was this moment
early on in the night of the midterm election results
when it looked like it was going to happen again,
and just like I was so depressed for like five minutes.
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But literally I was just like, oh, it's not nothing
makes sense, Like we're just everything. And then the Democrats
kind of, you know, the Democrats ended up winning by
seven percent. It's nice. It would be enough to beat
Trump in a presidential election. Seven Like, you can't lose
(21:39):
by seven percent in the popular vote and nationwide and
still maintain I don't think so can you. I don't know,
I don't know the rules the electoral game. He could technically,
but oh ship, yeah, you know. If Christopher Nolan says
an inception is an allegory for me making well, then
(22:00):
I say the politics are a game, and that's bold
of me. Anyways, hopefully, I don't know. That's one of
the few things that gives me hope is the addage,
you know, participation in the mid term elections, the fact
(22:22):
that it was like a record turnout and the Democratics
I had one by seven percent, and we just gonna
stay mobilized, baby, right, stay ready to vote in less
good news. One of the other big stories of the
year was US immigration and the fact that this administration
(22:42):
was putting children in cages. So what a world we
live in and guess what, they're still in cages. Yeah,
nothing's changed, right. Two eighteen was the year they started
putting children in cages. Wow, of concentration camps in our
(23:03):
country right now? For children? For children, that's the word,
children that we have separated from their parents, who may
never go see their parents again because no one keeps
track of paperwork. Apparently either they're like, oh, sorry, we
don't know where your parents are because we departed them
and you were here, Which is I think that how
(23:27):
is there not a law against that? It feels very like,
shouldn't that be illegal? Because like you are taking the
child from their guardian, and then then who's the guardian?
Here n the parent and then no longer there's a
guardian to make decisions for them. So you would think
that shouldn't be legal. Yet here we are, life seems
(23:49):
to be burning in the world. I don't get it, Like,
I just don't get why there's no we need more
legislation in regards to this moving forward, because that's that
that's this a dangerous game to be just taking children.
I mean, the legislation should be, let's not separate children
from their families, but it seems like that doesn't matter.
So it's like, if we're going to do that, then
(24:11):
you've got to come out come up with a way
to get these kids home safely, Like you can't just
keep them here. I mean maybe that's the more realistic
version of it, but again stop, we should just I mean,
it's true, but someone should just step in and be like, okay, um,
all all right it It won't be me because I
don't understand anything, but someone should. I don't want the
(24:32):
real life Spider Man to come in and save the day,
web up all the kids to swoop them out. Yeah, yeah,
what could they do answer. I don't know anyone. I mean,
there's there's lots of lawyers working on it, but not enough.
Not enough because a lot of those lawyers work in
(24:52):
human rights and there's no money in human rights, which
is the fucking saddest thing in the world. We don't
put money into human rights. Uh. Brett Kavanaugh was narrowly
confirmed into uh, and we can sorry that booff and asspit.
Yeah sorry, I mean he just openly lied about ship
(25:16):
and got away with it. Have you ever seen an
angrier man defensive? Like it was like, well, have you
never had a beer? It's like, okay, you're shrieking. No,
I haven't have you. He was so fucking entitled. He
was doing women do like, well she's shrieking. Yeah he was.
(25:39):
He was being shrill, yeah, like he was doing everyone's like,
I don't know, I don't know. He seems legit. It's like,
what is going on? Is also the year of the
show g killing and classic market again classical his reaction,
Trump's reaction. This would be an administration defining funk up
for anyone else. I don't have to imagine history. We'll
(26:02):
see it that way. I don't know what is happening?
What the fuck? Yeah, it's when you look at it
from like a from a year by year perspective, it's
pretty wild. Things are bleak. Things are real, blak, everyone
real blake. The earth will be dead in thirty years
(26:25):
and I'll not be here anymore. Crushed it. Uh, sorry,
real quick. What I've been thinking about a lot is
the connection between Jeff Bezos Washington Post, and Jamal Casho
G and Saudi Arabia. It's very interesting when you look
into it. Wait, what do you what's Jamal Casho G
wrote for The Washington Post. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Saudi Arabia tried to hack Jeff Bezos. I don't know.
(26:46):
I don't have like a theory or anything here. I've
just been thinking. You remember when he came out. I
was like, I'm getting ahead of this. Here are my sex,
and We're all like, here are my sex? Jeff Bezos,
you just wanted to brag about what wants to see, you,
lame old man, billionaire sex billionaire dick. Because that was it. Remember,
(27:07):
wasn't it that MBS was the one who sent not
MBS direct. Who knows what's really going on? But like
they ha, MBS was who he was sexing. Yeah, and
he was sexing NBS and he's like, click this link
for my picks, and that's what got him. Got him?
Act never click a link. You don't know where it
came from. That's all I'm saying. Alright, Gang, I mean
there's so many other just incredibly depressing, Like climate change
(27:32):
was one of aps tough stories. California wildfires which were
very related, but yeah, that that was the year of
the like super wildfire where like a wave of flame
just came through and like like literally like melted cars.
Like cars were just like melted into puddles. Uh and
(27:55):
like in seconds. Anyways, Uh, it was a nightmare. But
fortunately two nineteen has been perfect, the best a year,
never been happier. Should we should we talk about some
movies from twenty nineteen to break it up? Talk about
break it up? You two. That's what I like to
(28:16):
say when I see people kissing. H alright, yeah, getroom
through this episode. Um, this is how I kissed. All Right.
This is tough because up to this point, Cross, it's
(28:40):
just just kiss like a father. Uh So it's tough
because up to this point we've been looking at the
movies and like, I feel like I had enough of
enough distance to be like, oh, that movie seems like
(29:03):
it didn't happen, or that movie feels like it's just
as relevant today as it was when it came out
twenty nineteen. These movies are still happening to us, some
of them are still in theaters watch out, but we
can still kind of go down. And another thing is
the method that I've been using, where I just typed
(29:26):
twenty like the year, and then movies and then look
at whatever Google's results are does not work when it's
this year, or maybe it just doesn't work in general.
But Parasite and Uncut Gems, which are my favorite movies
of the year so far, didn't like We're just nowhere
on the entire list. I loved Uncut Gems. I love
(29:50):
Uncut Gems. I don't know why I turned into I'm
going to parasite your family just that way, parasite, I'll
do it. I'll be there too. You're not rather you
con parasite me. My whole family is going to just
coins that only start working for you, slowly but surely. Okay,
I guess that scared, very scared here the best movie
(30:14):
is a Year Ready, Okay, not the best, but the
ones I had most fun watching, starting with Hobbs and Shock. Yes,
I had a blast. It was fun. It was fun.
Hustlers really enjoyed it. I liked Book Smart, loved The Farewell.
That was a great film. Let's see Detective Pikachu A
(30:40):
blast didn't ten out of ten on the Caitlin Rampo meter.
Ready or not another ten out of ten on the
Rumpo me. I liked Readier. It was a young woman
gets married to do like a one percent like one
per cent her family, very rich family, and they play
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this game to like induct her into the family, uh,
which is a murder game, and she has to survive
through the night or else like a curse will befall
the family. So it's like a it's a how do
I describe it? A thriller kind of a but like
a light totally more light um kind of fun Robbie thriller.
(31:27):
Um Dora and the Lost City is was so much fun.
I watched that. I loved it. I thought the trailer
had some really solid jokes. I was like, this looks dumb,
but I really wanted the c G I monkey was
the worst part of it. If you can get beyond that,
(31:47):
it is so funny. It's funny, it's funny, it's all
the best parts I thought were the c O. Well,
I guess that's on me. Let's take a quick break too,
and then we'll come back with more from Caitlin's Rompa
Meter to be right back. And we're back, and Caitlin's
(32:15):
Rompa meter has just gotten started. It's just gotten started. Okay,
we've got the Lighthouse scores a twenty out of ten
on the Rampa. That possible. It's not only well, it's
only possible for the Lighthouse, but I'm also kidding. It's
not a wrong, but it's not it's not romp. But
(32:37):
I still quite like to actually, Robert pat it's a
bit of a romp Pattison. Is that not what it is?
Pattens Pattinson Patterson, that's I don't know, man, Robert Man
The Lighthouse starring Paddington. He's already he's already got the
(32:58):
hat at Fisherman cat Hello terrible. All right, anyway, Okay,
we've got us. Is it true that the Lighthouse has
a scene where somebody jerks off to Scrimshaw. What is scrimshaw?
(33:19):
Like the drawing and whale bone? Um, there's there's definitely
a jerk off scene to like a figurine of a mermaid.
That's funny, right cool? Anyways, sorry, go ahead. Oh. Some
other movies I quite enjoyed were Us except for the
last ten minutes. Let's see um always be my Maybe
(33:45):
the Nut fun too in the beginning, and then I
had to take my son out of the room because
he said, what are they doing? Are they wrestling in
the car? Yeah? Hell dude, you would have finally seen
representation on screen. Let's be real, like, oh cool, Asian
(34:05):
dudes can get it. Yeah, that's true. Your children an't
have Asian Yes, I don't know. I didn't. I didn't
weird to the audience who don't know knives out. I
loved a lot. Oh yeah that I got to see it.
You must google. You have terrible taste in movies. Uh,
let's see, what are some movies that seemed like they
(34:28):
didn't come out this year? The Lego movie too that
came out this year? Shazam, I saw it, but that brag? Wait,
oh I did see doesn't that seems like it came
out like ten years ago. Well, because you're thinking of Kausam, No,
I'm not thinking of the one where the guy is
blowing a bubble and he's a superhero. Oh yeah, what's that?
(34:51):
Who plays Chuck? Or who played Chuck on that show? Yeah?
That's Chuck. How did he get cast that? I wondered
that myself. A handsome white guy. I don't know they're
trying to redo his career. Maybe yeah, they really are.
You got a good agent. I feel like Joker big
movie this year? Guys. Oh okay, I'll talk about Joker
(35:12):
talking about hot take. Uh yeah, what what tell me? Well? Uh?
I thought it was all things considered, a like an
effective character study. It's just that the character that we're studying,
the real problem is that it really wildly demonizes mental illness.
(35:38):
So not good. You know, I'm not saying anything new here,
but if it gets like nominated for any um like oscars,
I'll be furious. Now you're saying, like it just pretty
like this man is mentally ill, and now it's escalating
in a way where he's going to um do something
really dangerous until we like is that? What have you
(36:00):
seen him? Like murder a bunch of people, and and
it's blaming his violence on his mental illness, and you
kind of have to go through some convoluted plat things
for him to turn to violence a little bit, I
feel like it's like, yeah, okay, I get you. Anyways,
Toy Story four is my favorite movie of the year.
Oh sure, that was pretty good. A lot of fun. Baby,
(36:26):
I keep wanting to be for the guy from the
B fifty two is the Lighthouse Baby. Um Kiana Reviews
had a good year this year because he was John
Wick three to three story for Iconic Always be My, maybe,
(36:47):
always be my, maybe maybe something else. I liked John
Wick a lot john Wick three. Yeah, I really just
the the the I am not really an action movie person.
I get bored very easily. I'm like, okay of it along.
But this movie I just thought it was so well done.
Specifically the knife throwing scene. What the funk was going on?
(37:09):
I't we haven't seen it. It was moving so quickly
that I was like, Wow, this is a win. Captain
Marvel came out this year. I don't even remember that movie.
Who was in that? Oh she was Captain Marvel. Yeah.
Avengers Endgame seemed like it happened years and years and
years ago, true, but it was this year and I
(37:30):
rather enjoyed it. I found it. I liked it. It's
a time travel saying, so I loved it. Uh. And also, um,
Spider Man Far from Home I also enjoyed. It's a
European Spiderman European vacation, right, yes, yeah? Yeah? Uh? Here
the worst movies of the year ready, Yeah, I just
(37:53):
hated Once upon a Time in Hollywood. Yeah. Also Elite
of Battle Angel was bad? Uh, that hurt Eyes or
so Men in Black International was bad. What Men Want
was a movie that we made, yeah, and we did
make that here in our studio. Yeah. Yeah. So for
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this as of this recording, nobody has written or a
lot of people haven't written their Year in review top
news stories articles, and the ones that I found I
did not like. So instead I just looked at Google,
uh for like what the top searches were here, and
it's kind of fun. It's kind of fun alright. Disney
(38:37):
Plus was the number one search of two thousand nineteen.
And you know what I'm going to say, rightly, So
great product Disney do you have? I did? I got it? Yeah? Same? Yeah, Well,
happy about it? Highly recommend Greatest Dog or what is it?
The greatest Dogs ever, World's greatest dogmend it's a TV
(39:00):
show or it's like a special little one hour and
a half like little thing on like the Natchio guys.
It is a wild ride. Do we get a cat's one?
Or there might be I have a there might be
I would have to go. Look. But these dogs are
writing scooters, they're making phone calls, they're recording podcasts. Really well, no, well,
(39:22):
they are writing scooters. But the rest I was just
joking around like they're impeaching presidents if I wanted to
pitch a dog podcast and when What I mean is
dogs record a podcast on this network. Dogs record a podcast. Yeah,
they communicate into the mind, they talk into the mics.
(39:42):
What language do they speak? Whatever? Dog it's actually it's
globally wonderful because you can translate into every language. Dog
is the universe. It's a language. Jack, take this to
the top. This is the Moneymaker. Three two deaths. Cameron
(40:03):
Boyce and Nipsey Hustle. Next to Cameron Boyce is the
Disney Channel star. Then Hurricane Dorian Antonio Brown NFL player
who went from like being I thought he was I
don't know, uh, just super talented but like not bad
(40:24):
as a human being to just world's biggest supervillain, rapist
and horrible person. I guess you don't need those anyways. Uh.
Luke Perry another death right? Alright, Perry? He was just
(40:45):
in like he was just in Once upon a Time
in Hollywood. So I was like, yeah, he plays the
like in the movie scene where he's in like the
Wild West where he's playing a bad guy and he's
got the little girl on her his lap and he
Luke Perry walks in as like the whatever savior person.
(41:07):
It was just why Yeah, I was just like, whoa,
that's Luke? Wait didn't Luke? And then it was just
like damn, that's like must have been his last role.
It was his final future performance. How did he die
of a stroke? I don't actually think yeah, yeah, no,
that's what it was. But it is the nation's fifth
leading cause of death. Um yeah, stroke Avengers end Game
(41:32):
it was a top search and then Game of Thrones.
Do you guys remember that when people were watching Game
of Thrones? So that was like a show with like dragons.
Um that that does feel? Um, I guess it doesn't
(41:53):
feel longer, long ago. It just feels like I can't
believe I ever gave a ship about that show. iPhone
eleven small baby. I do not have an iPhone eleven.
I still have the iPhone eight, and I like it.
I grew up. I justssed out on I didn't even
(42:18):
know there was like an iPhone nine or ten. There
wasn't a nine. There wasn't a nine. No, they skipped
the nine. They went straight to the X, which was
the ten. What did they do that? Apple makes its
own rules. I don't know. I don't know what anyone's
thinking is anymore. Who knows tim Apple? Remember that when people, uh,
(42:40):
this is fun top searches that started with the phrase
what is yeah? Area fifty one baby? Yeah? I think
because there was like that main streaming of area storming.
Also my yeah, the Facebook event to be like we're
(43:01):
doing it. We're finally going like a store something that's
really What is a Visco girl? It's v s c O.
Is that how it's pronounced? Yeah, I mean it's an
app that you can get that. No, I know you
because back in the day. Yeah, No, these are the
(43:24):
top most search But are is it pronounced vs C O.
I don't know. I've never heard anyone say fisco fuck
I look like such an idiot. But I also don't
talk to a lot of people about this. Um could
you imagine? I mean, just go look at baby yoga
(43:45):
and is a v S c O girl if you
need to understand that, that's becoming a meme by the way,
my misunderstand by yoga. Yeah, people are like, because I
think John Mayor tweeted it. He had the same confusion.
We're both old old whites. Got to watch out for him.
(44:07):
Classic what is momo? Which I had totally forgotten about.
It was like that weird I'm not asking, ok No,
I'm like just I'm really just talking out for myself. Okay.
It's like that weird like creature creature, like big big
eyes like this and like really stringy black baby yoga.
It kind of made yeah, you know, like the slender
(44:31):
Man thing. Yes, it is slender man ish. It was
basically a myth that there were a bunch of videos
on YouTube where here you recognize that that lady, recognize
that gal. So it was like a myth that she
was getting people to kill themselves. Uh, this is my favorite.
(44:55):
What is a Boomer. So, Jack, I think we need
to understand. I'm going, Uh, what is quid pro quo?
What is camp fashion? Uh? What is Disney plus? So weird?
What is a bird box about? How is that that
(45:17):
this year? Well, here's what I know about it. It's
not a box that was bitten by a radio Boctor.
Maybe maybe it didn't come out this year, But that
joke that you made is a bird Oh come on, guys, really,
(45:38):
what is a Mandalorian? That's still something I could google.
Even though I've seen the show, I'm asking what is it?
It seems to be some guy who has to wear
a helmet. That's all I know. People from Mandalore. That's
the thing. That's it. I think. So there you go.
I think it's a talent town. I think it's a
(46:00):
in it. It's like the movie The Town. Okay, they're
all very Bostonian. I think this is all going to
sound very dumb to people who actually know what the
Mandalorian is. It's people from Mandalori. Uh. And what is brexit? Which? Fine,
(46:21):
what is it? More power to you? When it clicks
show less l you're gonna click that on this podcast? Uh? Well, guys,
that's been the year two. Thum, we did it too
sexy years right, Um I peeked during those years and Nope,
(46:45):
is gonna be way better, best year ever. I hope
for gun control. I hope for not this president anymore.
You're you thinking like Pence takes over. No, I'm thinking
we vote him out. Predictions for guys one prediction each
and a go oh no, baby yoga becomes a sex symbol.
(47:12):
Baby yoga. I'm just joking. I hope. I think Apple
Plus potentially maybe shutters. Oh Apple plus plus. No, I
think Disney plus will maintain strength. I think Disney will
have a big year. That's my prediction for Apple Plus.
I don't know how well it will do. I mean
(47:33):
maybe I'll do it. Just it just feels like they're
kind of they're grasping at straws. I agree. I'm like,
I don't. It's not something I'm gonna subscribe to until
I do, because I absolutely have to write. Yeah, I'm
thinking big year for Disney, big year for that's it. Disney. Okay,
(47:56):
you think Disney? Wait, do you think Disney is gonna
just like keep doing Disney? Wow? You do you Disney? Uh? Well, um,
I should have taken more improv classes. I don't know.
(48:17):
I predict that, Um, we're going to have a new president. Yeah,
thank you for saying it, because no one was enough
that there will be controversy about the outcome of this election. Jack,
(48:39):
you're just staying so safe. Man. He will lose, but
he won't allow himself to lose. He won't step down
or what is it he won't what is that thing
called when they accept that they've lost, conceit you're going
they'll be like, sorry, uh, there's something on the line.
(48:59):
I can't hear you too. Well. There that's been and
god bless yeah, God bless you all. Just what's next?
Best of the decade? Are we still recording? What are
you doing? People? What I guess? I guess technically we're
(49:22):
gonna take I don't know what you're doing with this Dan,
with this fall after before New Year's, Dan's in Europe,
Dan is right there? Do you think you just like
fizzled into Europe? I don't even know if I can
record another episode today. I'm honestly this is not stick
(49:43):
in this stick in the head and the lungs. I
believe this one will drop right before New Year's and
then it goes to then we'll take the actual New
Year's Day off and best of lands on the site. Okay,
best of the decade, Okay cool? Uh please treating me. No,
(50:04):
I'm I think I'm gonna fire myself. I'm fired. Uh,
that's gonna do it. Bye bye,
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this very special year
end episode of George da Leys eight Guys, a production
of Hi Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we
take a deep dive into Americans share consciousness. We still say,
officially off the top, fuck the Koch Brothers and Fox News.
My name's Jack O'Brien and I'm throwed to be joined
(00:23):
by my special guest co host Caitlin Durante and super
producer Annajsnie. What's up, guys, Hi, We're looking back at
the years two, two, thou nineteen, even though we're still
in one of them. Hell, Hot Pop Quiz, Hot Shot,
which one are still in? Alright? So the way Jordan
(00:50):
Peel sweating kid, So the way we've been kicking these
off is just talking about movies, because I think that's
the most important thing about anything I don't know about
the Most of my entire personality is movies. I've cultivated
an entire persona around me loving movies. There's no other
aspect of my personality at least sound drops. Yeah, what's that?
(01:19):
And fucking savage? And that was the most savage thing
you've ever said about Dan, and I think it was
after he left that's a surprising. I think it's I
think it's like, actually, he's probably still close enough to
have heard it from outside the room, and that was
(01:40):
really mean. I think you need to think about what
you're doing the people around you. Yeah, the poor Danial
who speaks in sound drops sometimes when he doesn't have
the opportunity to drop it. Yeah, well he's good at it. Though,
Um let's talk abouten first. Should we take it in
order what he guys think? Huh, that's alright. What a
(02:04):
year of film. Uh, we had Black Panther, great film,
and then we had the opposite in a quiet place,
so a quiet place. I did not enjoy it. I
thought it was an effective movie. But I also really
thought the read of it that it's like white supremacists,
(02:26):
uh fear where it's like white people feel like they
can't make noises and then these brown monsters like come
if you make a single noise and like kill you
was an interest but I but I think it's like
an interesting read on like it was about white fragility
(02:48):
essentially that yeah, I hadn't heard that. But also biggest
plot hole farting give me a fucking break, did be
called silent, but deadly, quiet place, silent but deadly. But
I mean, and when you think about it, John Krasinski
is all about those uh like all right movies. He's
(03:12):
in The Men or the ben Ghazi movie. He's in
a quiet place. He is Jack Ryan, the CIA agent
where he's like Jim, you know, people like really need
to give the CIA more of like more love. They
do amazing things for us. Well he got hot now
he's all right, Yeah, that's that's what sucks. Like remember Jim,
(03:35):
like that was such an era. Yeah, but that's the past.
Listeners can't hear it. But I'm giving in a knowing
look like Jim. In honor of Jim. Uh, let's talk
about what else? What movies do we think are going
to stand the test of time? This is also the
year of uh incredible two, Deadpool too? Deadpool too? Was it?
(03:59):
Oh yeah? Death out of order? But yeah, that is
that did happen? Aunt Man versus the Wasp, I mean
classic cinema. We've got a lot of superhero citizens came,
The Citizens came that Aunt members the Wasp is the
citizen Kane of movies with verses in the title. Um,
(04:22):
oh sure, I mean Alien versus Predator what else. I
feel like A Star Is Born is probably one of
the more iconic movies from this year because it's it's
a it's a remix, so every time it comes out
so in like, I don't know, give or take not
keep doing that the background when it stars Ariana Grande
(04:48):
and I don't know what's another one up? What's the guy?
The Harry styles so very old? I don't know. Then
we'll be like, wow, and which was your favorite version?
And of course, naturally I will say the Lady Gaga
Bradley Cooper one, depending how well that one is made. Sure,
So the test of time, you and I talked together
(05:12):
and held hands, we cried, we laughed. I think you
didn't like it. I didn't like it at all. Um
So I don't know. I don't think it will stand
the test of time. I think I don't think it's like.
I don't think it's a great movie. I think it's like.
But we will always continue to make it because it's
a classic. Stars are always being born. Remember how bad
the Barbara streisand One was. I haven't seen that ship show.
(05:34):
That isn't it? But it's interesting because I've heard I've
heard it's terrible, And when when I heard they were
remaking A Star is Born, I was like, oh, ship,
that's a like classic movie and I didn't even know
anything about it. So I don't know. I feel like
I just think Also, the phrase of stars Born is
just yeah, like old Hollywood. So we're like, I'm always
(05:55):
saying it every time somebody comes on our show and
they say something funny. I Hey, a star is born, kid,
But you always turned to a camera. That's not um.
Some movies that happened that seemed to have just like
disappeared from our memory. Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom, that happened. Also,
(06:16):
Ballad of Buster scrug there. I mean that went directly
to Netflix. Yeah, but no one for it was made specifically.
It felt like it was like a straight to video
Disney or something like Mary Poppins Returns. Was like a
movie that I was expecting big things from. Oh sure, yeah,
I just kind of came in a bit of a
(06:37):
I don't know if there's a box office flop, but
no one, no one cares like it feels blah Red Sparrow.
Oh yeah you saw that, Yeah, the nuts everything, Well,
I just no, I haven't you see everything dork. Okay,
fucking loser. Uh sorry, um I have I've seen a
(07:00):
solid probably eighty percent of the movies on this perhaps more.
I'll tell you which ones are the good ones. Okay please.
Spider Man into the Spider Verse is not only the
best movie, but one of the best movies of the decade.
Thank you very much. I'll not be taking questions at
this point, I do. I did have that highlighted as
one of the iconic movies that will stand the test
(07:21):
up tone, let's see that is, um, let's see DC
movies just like disappear from like it's just like they're
big when they come out, and like everyone's like, oh,
I can't believe Spiderman Verse or Superman Verse Batman's coming out,
(07:42):
and then like I don't remember it because they don't
like Nolan. Nolan's DC movies were like great, classic and iconic,
but like every ever since then, it's just been ship Also,
sorry to bother you, I think, um oh, yeah, I
quite stand the whole concept of like having to pretend
to be white, basically the white voice and the fetishization fetissistation. Yeah,
(08:09):
egg of black culture. There's a really great scene where
like he clearly, um is just giving the white people
what they want, like they're like rap an army hammer
like a billionaire who's Yeah, it's just like the FU.
So that's I think. I feel like that's just um,
that's that's our society, like in a nutshell, and I
(08:31):
doubt that's going to change anytime. So similar themes were
explored in Black Klansmen as well. Yeah, actually, like specifically
the white voice. Um, what what are some other ones
that you think are classics that will stand the test
of time from wi Um game Night Now, I'm kidding,
(08:54):
I do. Actually, I thought it was a blast. I
can watch it anytime it's onto, I'll just put it on.
It was fun. I thought cock Blockers was surprisingly fresh
and funny and uh more progressive than you'd expect of
like a teen sex romp type of store alert. It's
(09:14):
not called cock blockers, but that is what you wrote
on the thing. That's what I called it. Blockers also
an interesting foreshadowing of butt chugging coming up in the
Brick Cavanaugh trial. Yeah, Boof gets a drunker bro I
feel like Ready Player one another one that Oh yeah,
I did see that skip at everybody Ready Player one
(09:37):
and b F G. Spielberg is on a run of
just movies that are going away, big, big fucking giant,
big fucking giant. It was a big friendly giant. I
don't even know, like a kid's movie that nobody saw
Forest Spielberg movie. Alright, let's talk about the top ten
(09:58):
stories in order. So the Parkland school shooting was the
number one story. Uh. It happened on Valentine's Day, which
I hadn't realized. Uh, but there have been I was wondering,
you know, they were like this was not in their
right up of this. They were like, this was not
like previous shootings because kids actually like asked for change
(10:23):
and got it. Uh. And I hadn't really remembered or
like paid enough attention, I guess to know like how
much uh legislation actually got passed. But uh, so Florida
past the Marjorie Stone and Douglas High School Public Safety Act,
which raids the age to purchase guns to twenty one
(10:45):
from eighteen. That's pretty good. Federal government effectively banned bump stocks, right. Uh.
And then there were some just like state a bunch
of state laws, but eleven states past laws in two
thousand eighteen, there was strict gun access to people linked
to domestic violence, which is a very important cause of
(11:11):
you know, murder is people who have committed acts of
domestic violence, right, which is so interesting that we slowly
passed all these laws of different states and stuff, but um,
we still have such a serious gun problem. It's like
we've done that, We've taken a step, but we have
so far to go. It's like step one of step steps, right.
(11:33):
I think that's why I was like, wait, oh, I
guess there was some gun legislation pass, but it does
feel we got to keep going. Yeah, Like there's still
been massive a ton of we still have. We have
shooting so often that I'm like, all right, wait, sorry,
what was that one from last week? Like I can't
remember a shooting going back through the decades, Like this
(11:55):
is the last of the episodes where we're doing like
bad years in review for the whole decade, and like
there are legitimately, like huge news story mass shootings that
I totally like didn't remember. They just like led into
other ones. Yeah, we should never not remember a mass shooting.
Yeah right, there shouldn't and there just shouldn't be so
(12:16):
many that our brains, confuse them, forget about them. Um.
The number two story was the Trump Russia probe ummueller time. Hey,
am I right? When you write it down by year, uh,
as we have over the course of this series, it
becomes clear that like every year has enough scandals uh
(12:41):
to be an administration defining disaster, like and then you
then something else happens, right, Like I forgot about Michael
Cohen existing remember Michael Cohen? Um? But yeah, I mean
this one came up a little bit short because of
media a red queen like where nothing will surprise us anymore,
(13:04):
because the more bad shitty does, the worst the ship
has to be to like get our attention because otherwise
it just like drowns it out. But like I totally
forgotten about the Stormy Daniels thing because it seems tawdry
and he didn't sexually assault her, but she was she
was physically intimidated by somebody, uh while she was putting
(13:27):
her infant daughter into a car. I think, yeah, but
if this was and she was like arrested in places
that she was just intimidated NonStop, like they were finding
ways to funk with her, yes, yeah, if it was
a democratic administration, Fox News would be melting down in
the mainstream media would be following their lead. UM, impeach them.
(13:51):
This was the year. So we talked about how two
seventeen was December two thou seventeen, I think was when
the Weinstein story broke, But two thousand eighteen was when
it's sort of you know, we started getting Yeah, we
started seeing more and more people. People started paying attention
(14:13):
to the fact that Bill Cosby was a rapist and
he was sentenced to prison. Larry Nasser, the former Michigan
State and USA gymnastics sports doctor, was convicted of molesting
hundreds of young women. Weinstein was charged with rape. Less
Moonvez was asked it as the top executive at CBS. UM.
(14:33):
You know what's kind of amazing about the Michigan Larry
Nasa thing is that we when we watch Olympics, like
we love gymnastics as a country, we literally these women,
these young women go out there and do some of
the craziest jumps and twirls. I don't want to say
tals because it feels like I'm like down, like truly.
The thing, the amount of athleticism they bring to that,
(14:56):
it's the venue whatever it's called h Comedy Club. Unreal.
It's so they are so good at what they do
and most of them are dealing with a sexual assault
by a doctor who they were supposed to trust to
make sure that is, to have that sort of like
like I have such respect for these women, like it
(15:16):
makes me just like it makes me feel like anything
I've ever gone through is pointless because like I'm watching
these women have to compete for gold medals and also
be sexually assaulted by the doctor who they are supposed
to trust and who are supposed to be watching after them.
It's just it's unreal and it's um I think we
really have to give these women so much credit for
continuing to do what they do and yes, and then
(15:40):
even like Simone Biles was molest like it's so fucked up,
and then she goes and goes like, well fuck, I
have to keep my head up and keep going. And
it's like it's it's so important to acknowledge what these
women have gone through and still come out and be
like I'm a gold medalist. I kept my head up,
I got through this and I want a gold medal,
so that's huge. But yeah, I mean this is I
(16:03):
feel like this is when it became clear that this
wasn't an isolated problem or an industry problem. And I
think it's been clear to women, but I feel like
the mainstream media finally came came around to the fact that,
you know, when women reported sexual assault up to this point,
there were and predators relied on it, and the men
(16:28):
were protected. Yeah, and men were like actively protected. All right,
let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and
we're back. And uh So they had as a separate
(16:48):
story from the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas story, which AP readers
voted number one. Mass shootings was a separate story that
was their number four. They talked about how twelve people
were killed at a California country music bar that was
pretty close to here. Um, I had totally forgot about that.
(17:09):
Uh it was in I think it was it was
close to Pepperdine because like where a lot of Pepperdine
students were. Um. There was just two months after the
Parkland shooting, eight students and two teachers were killed at
a high school in Santa Fe in Texas. In June,
(17:31):
a gunman shot five employees at the Capitol Gazette newspaper
in Annapolis, Maryland. Uh. And then in October, eleven people
were killed in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
So yeah, I mean, this is all in addition to
the worst mass shooting of the year. Uh. And the
(17:52):
Tree of Life thing was a white supremacist who supported Trump.
Capital Gazette was a conservative who thought the media was
out to get him at the height of Trump's the
media is then the people, if you're uh that that
was also days after Milo Napolis claimed that he couldn't
wait for a vigilante squad to start gunning journalists down
(18:14):
on site. And just the it's the fact that these
people feel empowered by this presidency to go out and
enact violence is I mean, one of many horrible things
(18:34):
about this presidency. But it's the effects are so devastating,
and the fact that he's taking that Trump is taking
no accountability for it and facing facing no consequences. He's
empowering like just white supremacy to uh, white supremacists to
(19:02):
just be out and open and kill people and no
one there's nothing's changing when you look when you look
at them, like when you look at it across like
a series of years, it's like I've talked before about
how um the Nazi like in Nazi Germany, by the end,
(19:24):
by the end of the Rise of Hitler, they were
just bored by the news story. So it was just
like nobody was really writing about it anymore because they
were tired of writing the same story over and over
and over again. And that seems like what happened like
over the course of the first three years of his presidency.
It was just like, yeah, he's a racist, but we've
(19:45):
already said that. Yeah, like what else? What else are
you going to say? You know, I need to call
it Titanic, the incredible James Camerman film. Give them something
new to print. You know. That's what always bothers I mean, currently,
what really bothers me when Obama comes out and tries
(20:05):
to be like, we don't need such an intense change.
We need to think about this. It has to be methodical.
How dare you like, we we need an overhaul of
this goddamn govern radical change, Like you don't understand, y'all
gotta go, yeah, because ship is not changing. You don't care.
You just want to be a politician to say you're
a politician. At this point, you're not doing everyone is
(20:29):
upholding the status quo, and the status quo is bad.
It needs So how dare you look at us and
be like whoa, whoa, whoa, how how dare you go
so far left? It's like yes, because we're watching everything
go down and you guys are ignoring it all. Yeah,
like how dare we hashtag gun control? One positive? And
(20:52):
this year of news was the U S midterm elections. Uh.
I still remember like the moment. There was this moment
early on in the night of the midterm election results
when it looked like it was going to happen again,
and just like I was so depressed for like five minutes.
(21:15):
But literally I was just like, oh, it's not nothing
makes sense, Like we're just everything. And then the Democrats
kind of, you know, the Democrats ended up winning by
seven percent. It's nice. It would be enough to beat
Trump in a presidential election. Seven Like, you can't lose
(21:39):
by seven percent in the popular vote and nationwide and
still maintain I don't think so can you. I don't know,
I don't know the rules the electoral game. He could technically,
but oh ship, yeah, you know. If Christopher Nolan says
an inception is an allegory for me making well, then
(22:00):
I say the politics are a game, and that's bold
of me. Anyways, hopefully, I don't know. That's one of
the few things that gives me hope is the addage,
you know, participation in the mid term elections, the fact
(22:22):
that it was like a record turnout and the Democratics
I had one by seven percent, and we just gonna
stay mobilized, baby, right, stay ready to vote in less
good news. One of the other big stories of the
year was US immigration and the fact that this administration
(22:42):
was putting children in cages. So what a world we
live in and guess what, they're still in cages. Yeah,
nothing's changed, right. Two eighteen was the year they started
putting children in cages. Wow, of concentration camps in our
(23:03):
country right now? For children? For children, that's the word,
children that we have separated from their parents, who may
never go see their parents again because no one keeps
track of paperwork. Apparently either they're like, oh, sorry, we
don't know where your parents are because we departed them
and you were here, Which is I think that how
(23:27):
is there not a law against that? It feels very like,
shouldn't that be illegal? Because like you are taking the
child from their guardian, and then then who's the guardian?
Here n the parent and then no longer there's a
guardian to make decisions for them. So you would think
that shouldn't be legal. Yet here we are, life seems
(23:49):
to be burning in the world. I don't get it, Like,
I just don't get why there's no we need more
legislation in regards to this moving forward, because that's that
that's this a dangerous game to be just taking children.
I mean, the legislation should be, let's not separate children
from their families, but it seems like that doesn't matter.
So it's like, if we're going to do that, then
(24:11):
you've got to come out come up with a way
to get these kids home safely, Like you can't just
keep them here. I mean maybe that's the more realistic
version of it, but again stop, we should just I mean,
it's true, but someone should just step in and be like, okay, um,
all all right it It won't be me because I
don't understand anything, but someone should. I don't want the
(24:32):
real life Spider Man to come in and save the day,
web up all the kids to swoop them out. Yeah, yeah,
what could they do answer. I don't know anyone. I mean,
there's there's lots of lawyers working on it, but not enough.
Not enough because a lot of those lawyers work in
(24:52):
human rights and there's no money in human rights, which
is the fucking saddest thing in the world. We don't
put money into human rights. Uh. Brett Kavanaugh was narrowly
confirmed into uh, and we can sorry that booff and asspit.
Yeah sorry, I mean he just openly lied about ship
(25:16):
and got away with it. Have you ever seen an
angrier man defensive? Like it was like, well, have you
never had a beer? It's like, okay, you're shrieking. No,
I haven't have you. He was so fucking entitled. He
was doing women do like, well she's shrieking. Yeah he was.
(25:39):
He was being shrill, yeah, like he was doing everyone's like,
I don't know, I don't know. He seems legit. It's like,
what is going on? Is also the year of the
show g killing and classic market again classical his reaction,
Trump's reaction. This would be an administration defining funk up
for anyone else. I don't have to imagine history. We'll
(26:02):
see it that way. I don't know what is happening?
What the fuck? Yeah, it's when you look at it
from like a from a year by year perspective, it's
pretty wild. Things are bleak. Things are real, blak, everyone
real blake. The earth will be dead in thirty years
(26:25):
and I'll not be here anymore. Crushed it. Uh, sorry,
real quick. What I've been thinking about a lot is
the connection between Jeff Bezos Washington Post, and Jamal Casho
G and Saudi Arabia. It's very interesting when you look
into it. Wait, what do you what's Jamal Casho G
wrote for The Washington Post. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Saudi Arabia tried to hack Jeff Bezos. I don't know.
(26:46):
I don't have like a theory or anything here. I've
just been thinking. You remember when he came out. I
was like, I'm getting ahead of this. Here are my sex,
and We're all like, here are my sex? Jeff Bezos,
you just wanted to brag about what wants to see, you,
lame old man, billionaire sex billionaire dick. Because that was it. Remember,
(27:07):
wasn't it that MBS was the one who sent not
MBS direct. Who knows what's really going on? But like
they ha, MBS was who he was sexing. Yeah, and
he was sexing NBS and he's like, click this link
for my picks, and that's what got him. Got him?
Act never click a link. You don't know where it
came from. That's all I'm saying. Alright, Gang, I mean
there's so many other just incredibly depressing, Like climate change
(27:32):
was one of aps tough stories. California wildfires which were
very related, but yeah, that that was the year of
the like super wildfire where like a wave of flame
just came through and like like literally like melted cars.
Like cars were just like melted into puddles. Uh and
(27:55):
like in seconds. Anyways, Uh, it was a nightmare. But
fortunately two nineteen has been perfect, the best a year,
never been happier. Should we should we talk about some
movies from twenty nineteen to break it up? Talk about
break it up? You two. That's what I like to
(28:16):
say when I see people kissing. H alright, yeah, getroom
through this episode. Um, this is how I kissed. All Right.
This is tough because up to this point, Cross, it's
(28:40):
just just kiss like a father. Uh So it's tough
because up to this point we've been looking at the
movies and like, I feel like I had enough of
enough distance to be like, oh, that movie seems like
(29:03):
it didn't happen, or that movie feels like it's just
as relevant today as it was when it came out
twenty nineteen. These movies are still happening to us, some
of them are still in theaters watch out, but we
can still kind of go down. And another thing is
the method that I've been using, where I just typed
(29:26):
twenty like the year, and then movies and then look
at whatever Google's results are does not work when it's
this year, or maybe it just doesn't work in general.
But Parasite and Uncut Gems, which are my favorite movies
of the year so far, didn't like We're just nowhere
on the entire list. I loved Uncut Gems. I love
(29:50):
Uncut Gems. I don't know why I turned into I'm
going to parasite your family just that way, parasite, I'll
do it. I'll be there too. You're not rather you
con parasite me. My whole family is going to just
coins that only start working for you, slowly but surely. Okay,
I guess that scared, very scared here the best movie
(30:14):
is a Year Ready, Okay, not the best, but the
ones I had most fun watching, starting with Hobbs and Shock. Yes,
I had a blast. It was fun. It was fun.
Hustlers really enjoyed it. I liked Book Smart, loved The Farewell.
That was a great film. Let's see Detective Pikachu A
(30:40):
blast didn't ten out of ten on the Caitlin Rampo meter.
Ready or not another ten out of ten on the
Rumpo me. I liked Readier. It was a young woman
gets married to do like a one percent like one
per cent her family, very rich family, and they play
(31:03):
this game to like induct her into the family, uh,
which is a murder game, and she has to survive
through the night or else like a curse will befall
the family. So it's like a it's a how do
I describe it? A thriller kind of a but like
a light totally more light um kind of fun Robbie thriller.
(31:27):
Um Dora and the Lost City is was so much fun.
I watched that. I loved it. I thought the trailer
had some really solid jokes. I was like, this looks dumb,
but I really wanted the c G I monkey was
the worst part of it. If you can get beyond that,
(31:47):
it is so funny. It's funny, it's funny, it's all
the best parts I thought were the c O. Well,
I guess that's on me. Let's take a quick break too,
and then we'll come back with more from Caitlin's Rompa
Meter to be right back. And we're back, and Caitlin's
(32:15):
Rompa meter has just gotten started. It's just gotten started. Okay,
we've got the Lighthouse scores a twenty out of ten
on the Rampa. That possible. It's not only well, it's
only possible for the Lighthouse, but I'm also kidding. It's
not a wrong, but it's not it's not romp. But
(32:37):
I still quite like to actually, Robert pat it's a
bit of a romp Pattison. Is that not what it is?
Pattens Pattinson Patterson, that's I don't know, man, Robert Man
The Lighthouse starring Paddington. He's already he's already got the
(32:58):
hat at Fisherman cat Hello terrible. All right, anyway, Okay,
we've got us. Is it true that the Lighthouse has
a scene where somebody jerks off to Scrimshaw. What is scrimshaw?
(33:19):
Like the drawing and whale bone? Um, there's there's definitely
a jerk off scene to like a figurine of a mermaid.
That's funny, right cool? Anyways, sorry, go ahead. Oh. Some
other movies I quite enjoyed were Us except for the
last ten minutes. Let's see um always be my Maybe
(33:45):
the Nut fun too in the beginning, and then I
had to take my son out of the room because
he said, what are they doing? Are they wrestling in
the car? Yeah? Hell dude, you would have finally seen
representation on screen. Let's be real, like, oh cool, Asian
(34:05):
dudes can get it. Yeah, that's true. Your children an't
have Asian Yes, I don't know. I didn't. I didn't
weird to the audience who don't know knives out. I
loved a lot. Oh yeah that I got to see it.
You must google. You have terrible taste in movies. Uh,
let's see, what are some movies that seemed like they
(34:28):
didn't come out this year? The Lego movie too that
came out this year? Shazam, I saw it, but that brag? Wait,
oh I did see doesn't that seems like it came
out like ten years ago. Well, because you're thinking of Kausam, No,
I'm not thinking of the one where the guy is
blowing a bubble and he's a superhero. Oh yeah, what's that?
(34:51):
Who plays Chuck? Or who played Chuck on that show? Yeah?
That's Chuck. How did he get cast that? I wondered
that myself. A handsome white guy. I don't know they're
trying to redo his career. Maybe yeah, they really are.
You got a good agent. I feel like Joker big
movie this year? Guys. Oh okay, I'll talk about Joker
(35:12):
talking about hot take. Uh yeah, what what tell me? Well? Uh?
I thought it was all things considered, a like an
effective character study. It's just that the character that we're studying,
the real problem is that it really wildly demonizes mental illness.
(35:38):
So not good. You know, I'm not saying anything new here,
but if it gets like nominated for any um like oscars,
I'll be furious. Now you're saying, like it just pretty
like this man is mentally ill, and now it's escalating
in a way where he's going to um do something
really dangerous until we like is that? What have you
(36:00):
seen him? Like murder a bunch of people, and and
it's blaming his violence on his mental illness, and you
kind of have to go through some convoluted plat things
for him to turn to violence a little bit, I
feel like it's like, yeah, okay, I get you. Anyways,
Toy Story four is my favorite movie of the year.
Oh sure, that was pretty good. A lot of fun. Baby,
(36:26):
I keep wanting to be for the guy from the
B fifty two is the Lighthouse Baby. Um Kiana Reviews
had a good year this year because he was John
Wick three to three story for Iconic Always be My, maybe,
(36:47):
always be my, maybe maybe something else. I liked John
Wick a lot john Wick three. Yeah, I really just
the the the I am not really an action movie person.
I get bored very easily. I'm like, okay of it along.
But this movie I just thought it was so well done.
Specifically the knife throwing scene. What the funk was going on?
(37:09):
I't we haven't seen it. It was moving so quickly
that I was like, Wow, this is a win. Captain
Marvel came out this year. I don't even remember that movie.
Who was in that? Oh she was Captain Marvel. Yeah.
Avengers Endgame seemed like it happened years and years and
years ago, true, but it was this year and I
(37:30):
rather enjoyed it. I found it. I liked it. It's
a time travel saying, so I loved it. Uh. And also, um,
Spider Man Far from Home I also enjoyed. It's a
European Spiderman European vacation, right, yes, yeah? Yeah? Uh? Here
the worst movies of the year ready, Yeah, I just
(37:53):
hated Once upon a Time in Hollywood. Yeah. Also Elite
of Battle Angel was bad? Uh, that hurt Eyes or
so Men in Black International was bad. What Men Want
was a movie that we made, yeah, and we did
make that here in our studio. Yeah. Yeah. So for
(38:15):
this as of this recording, nobody has written or a
lot of people haven't written their Year in review top
news stories articles, and the ones that I found I
did not like. So instead I just looked at Google,
uh for like what the top searches were here, and
it's kind of fun. It's kind of fun alright. Disney
(38:37):
Plus was the number one search of two thousand nineteen.
And you know what I'm going to say, rightly, So
great product Disney do you have? I did? I got it? Yeah? Same? Yeah, Well,
happy about it? Highly recommend Greatest Dog or what is it?
The greatest Dogs ever, World's greatest dogmend it's a TV
(39:00):
show or it's like a special little one hour and
a half like little thing on like the Natchio guys.
It is a wild ride. Do we get a cat's one?
Or there might be I have a there might be
I would have to go. Look. But these dogs are
writing scooters, they're making phone calls, they're recording podcasts. Really well, no, well,
(39:22):
they are writing scooters. But the rest I was just
joking around like they're impeaching presidents if I wanted to
pitch a dog podcast and when What I mean is
dogs record a podcast on this network. Dogs record a podcast. Yeah,
they communicate into the mind, they talk into the mics.
(39:42):
What language do they speak? Whatever? Dog it's actually it's
globally wonderful because you can translate into every language. Dog
is the universe. It's a language. Jack, take this to
the top. This is the Moneymaker. Three two deaths. Cameron
(40:03):
Boyce and Nipsey Hustle. Next to Cameron Boyce is the
Disney Channel star. Then Hurricane Dorian Antonio Brown NFL player
who went from like being I thought he was I
don't know, uh, just super talented but like not bad
(40:24):
as a human being to just world's biggest supervillain, rapist
and horrible person. I guess you don't need those anyways. Uh.
Luke Perry another death right? Alright, Perry? He was just
(40:45):
in like he was just in Once upon a Time
in Hollywood. So I was like, yeah, he plays the
like in the movie scene where he's in like the
Wild West where he's playing a bad guy and he's
got the little girl on her his lap and he
Luke Perry walks in as like the whatever savior person.
(41:07):
It was just why Yeah, I was just like, whoa,
that's Luke? Wait didn't Luke? And then it was just
like damn, that's like must have been his last role.
It was his final future performance. How did he die
of a stroke? I don't actually think yeah, yeah, no,
that's what it was. But it is the nation's fifth
leading cause of death. Um yeah, stroke Avengers end Game
(41:32):
it was a top search and then Game of Thrones.
Do you guys remember that when people were watching Game
of Thrones? So that was like a show with like dragons.
Um that that does feel? Um, I guess it doesn't
(41:53):
feel longer, long ago. It just feels like I can't
believe I ever gave a ship about that show. iPhone
eleven small baby. I do not have an iPhone eleven.
I still have the iPhone eight, and I like it.
I grew up. I justssed out on I didn't even
(42:18):
know there was like an iPhone nine or ten. There
wasn't a nine. There wasn't a nine. No, they skipped
the nine. They went straight to the X, which was
the ten. What did they do that? Apple makes its
own rules. I don't know. I don't know what anyone's
thinking is anymore. Who knows tim Apple? Remember that when people, uh,
(42:40):
this is fun top searches that started with the phrase
what is yeah? Area fifty one baby? Yeah? I think
because there was like that main streaming of area storming.
Also my yeah, the Facebook event to be like we're
(43:01):
doing it. We're finally going like a store something that's
really What is a Visco girl? It's v s c O.
Is that how it's pronounced? Yeah, I mean it's an
app that you can get that. No, I know you
because back in the day. Yeah, No, these are the
(43:24):
top most search But are is it pronounced vs C O.
I don't know. I've never heard anyone say fisco fuck
I look like such an idiot. But I also don't
talk to a lot of people about this. Um could
you imagine? I mean, just go look at baby yoga
(43:45):
and is a v S c O girl if you
need to understand that, that's becoming a meme by the way,
my misunderstand by yoga. Yeah, people are like, because I
think John Mayor tweeted it. He had the same confusion.
We're both old old whites. Got to watch out for him.
(44:07):
Classic what is momo? Which I had totally forgotten about.
It was like that weird I'm not asking, ok No,
I'm like just I'm really just talking out for myself. Okay.
It's like that weird like creature creature, like big big
eyes like this and like really stringy black baby yoga.
It kind of made yeah, you know, like the slender
(44:31):
Man thing. Yes, it is slender man ish. It was
basically a myth that there were a bunch of videos
on YouTube where here you recognize that that lady, recognize
that gal. So it was like a myth that she
was getting people to kill themselves. Uh, this is my favorite.
(44:55):
What is a Boomer. So, Jack, I think we need
to understand. I'm going, Uh, what is quid pro quo?
What is camp fashion? Uh? What is Disney plus? So weird?
What is a bird box about? How is that that
(45:17):
this year? Well, here's what I know about it. It's
not a box that was bitten by a radio Boctor.
Maybe maybe it didn't come out this year, But that
joke that you made is a bird Oh come on, guys, really,
(45:38):
what is a Mandalorian? That's still something I could google.
Even though I've seen the show, I'm asking what is it?
It seems to be some guy who has to wear
a helmet. That's all I know. People from Mandalore. That's
the thing. That's it. I think. So there you go.
I think it's a talent town. I think it's a
(46:00):
in it. It's like the movie The Town. Okay, they're
all very Bostonian. I think this is all going to
sound very dumb to people who actually know what the
Mandalorian is. It's people from Mandalori. Uh. And what is brexit? Which? Fine,
(46:21):
what is it? More power to you? When it clicks
show less l you're gonna click that on this podcast? Uh? Well, guys,
that's been the year two. Thum, we did it too
sexy years right, Um I peeked during those years and Nope,
(46:45):
is gonna be way better, best year ever. I hope
for gun control. I hope for not this president anymore.
You're you thinking like Pence takes over. No, I'm thinking
we vote him out. Predictions for guys one prediction each
and a go oh no, baby yoga becomes a sex symbol.
(47:12):
Baby yoga. I'm just joking. I hope. I think Apple
Plus potentially maybe shutters. Oh Apple plus plus. No, I
think Disney plus will maintain strength. I think Disney will
have a big year. That's my prediction for Apple Plus.
I don't know how well it will do. I mean
(47:33):
maybe I'll do it. Just it just feels like they're
kind of they're grasping at straws. I agree. I'm like,
I don't. It's not something I'm gonna subscribe to until
I do, because I absolutely have to write. Yeah, I'm
thinking big year for Disney, big year for that's it. Disney. Okay,
(47:56):
you think Disney? Wait, do you think Disney is gonna
just like keep doing Disney? Wow? You do you Disney? Uh? Well, um,
I should have taken more improv classes. I don't know.
(48:17):
I predict that, Um, we're going to have a new president. Yeah,
thank you for saying it, because no one was enough
that there will be controversy about the outcome of this election. Jack,
(48:39):
you're just staying so safe. Man. He will lose, but
he won't allow himself to lose. He won't step down
or what is it he won't what is that thing
called when they accept that they've lost, conceit you're going
they'll be like, sorry, uh, there's something on the line.
(48:59):
I can't hear you too. Well. There that's been and
god bless yeah, God bless you all. Just what's next?
Best of the decade? Are we still recording? What are
you doing? People? What I guess? I guess technically we're
(49:22):
gonna take I don't know what you're doing with this Dan,
with this fall after before New Year's, Dan's in Europe,
Dan is right there? Do you think you just like
fizzled into Europe? I don't even know if I can
record another episode today. I'm honestly this is not stick
(49:43):
in this stick in the head and the lungs. I
believe this one will drop right before New Year's and
then it goes to then we'll take the actual New
Year's Day off and best of lands on the site. Okay,
best of the decade, Okay cool? Uh please treating me. No,
(50:04):
I'm I think I'm gonna fire myself. I'm fired. Uh,
that's gonna do it. Bye bye,
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