December 31, 2025 • 59 mins
Goodbye 2025: The Year That Changed Everything
As 2025 comes to a close, it’s time to pause—and take one last, honest look at a year that often felt overwhelming. The first year of Trump’s return to power reshaped politics almost daily, while breakthroughs and breakdowns across science, health, entertainment, and pop culture competed for our attention nonstop.
Some stories inspired hope. Others shocked, exhausted, or divided us. And many lived somewhere in the uncomfortable middle. This episode of The Karel Cast puts 2025 into a time capsule—connecting the dots between the moments that defined the year and asking what they mean as we step into the future.
If you felt like 2025 was a lot… you weren’t wrong. Let’s talk about the year that was.
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As 2025 comes to a close, it’s time to pause—and take one last, honest look at a year that often felt overwhelming. The first year of Trump’s return to power reshaped politics almost daily, while breakthroughs and breakdowns across science, health, entertainment, and pop culture competed for our attention nonstop.
Some stories inspired hope. Others shocked, exhausted, or divided us. And many lived somewhere in the uncomfortable middle. This episode of The Karel Cast puts 2025 into a time capsule—connecting the dots between the moments that defined the year and asking what they mean as we step into the future.
If you felt like 2025 was a lot… you weren’t wrong. Let’s talk about the year that was.
📌 The Karel Cast is supported by viewer donations at patreon.com/reallykarel
👍 Please watch, like, and subscribe at youtube.com/reallykarel
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Karel is a history-making broadcaster and entertainer, reporting from Las Vegas with his service dog Ember.
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It is New Year's Eve. That's it.
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Twenty twenty five is about to be over. In fact,
in some part of the world, it already is a memory.
And what were those memories we're gonna talk about? Twenty
twenty five.
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It is the cast. I am corel Happy New Year's Eve.
Depending upon what time zone you're in, it could already
be New Year's I am so glad to be here
with you on this New Year's Eve. It's the morning
for me ten am. But you know, for y'all, whenever
you're listening, or if you're listening in another country, it
could be night or it could be tomorrow in Australia.
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If you're in Australia or China or other places, it
is already the new year. And what a year. I
gotta tell you, what a freaking year this, You know,
I wish I'd drank because it would be a good
night to get drunk tonight, given everything that's still going
on right up until New Year's Eve. This, I know,
(01:43):
I didn't want to talk politics, and I'm not gonna,
but you know the Epstein files, and you know the
kerfuffle around all that, and you know, just and I
haven't really addressed the Epstein Files on the show. I
haven't because I think it's much ado about nothing quite frankly.
(02:03):
I mean, the deadline came and some got released, some didn't,
and you know, redacted this, and blah blah blah that,
and oh court preceding this and whatever. But I don't
need those files because they are one of the biggest
stories of twenty twenty five, which we'll be talking the
biggest stories of twenty twenty five. I don't need those
files to, you know, convince me that rich white men,
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in particular, rich straight white men in particular avail themselves
of younger women and sometimes too you. And it's been
going on since the dawn of time. I fully believe
Donald Trump did it. I fully believe Alan Dershowitz did it.
I fully believe most everyone in the files did it.
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I don't know if Bill Clinton did, because Epstein himself
said that he never did. Epstein himself said that Clinton,
you know, was never a part of it. But who knows,
maybe he was. I don't know, but I do. I
don't need the files to show me that Trump is
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a criminal. I already know that it's. Egene Carrol proved
that the man does not respect women. The way that
he talks to women reporters proves that he doesn't. I know,
I'm talking politics. I said it wouldn't, but you know,
the man does not respect women, and so he certainly
(03:35):
wouldn't respect boundaries with women, including age. And as we
look back on that story this year and all the
hoopla around it, what has the release of you know
some of the files changed. Is MAGA turned against him? No,
not not over this. They're turning more against him about
(03:55):
the economy because they forgive him having sex with a
fifteen year old or sixteen year old or seventeen year old.
They would literally forgive him for that. And I don't
need the files to tell me that he did it.
You know, I fully believe he did. Nothing will change
my mind, and that's that. But it is New Year's Eve.
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Now I will not be awake at midnight. I do
the Irish New Year. I'll be at the pub at three.
I'm probably gonna go to Rera, go to the pubbet
three celebrated four when it's you know, New Year's four
o'clock this afternoon is New Year's in Ireland, and be
home by five, because I think New Year's Eve is
amateur night at the Apollo. I think that people get
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as drunk as they can, as fast as they can,
and then they go out and drive right after midnight.
I don't. And this is Las Vegas. There's going to
be fireworks at midnight. People are going to be blitzed
out of their minds. I don't want to be on
the road. I don't want to be out there in that.
I would rather be at home in bed with Ember.
Because tomorrow New Year's Day is just as important to
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me as New Year's Eve. If I stay up till
one or two in the morning, then my New Year's
Day is gonna be shot. I'm gonna feel like crap
on the first day of the New Year, and I
don't want to do that, So I do the Irish
New Year. You should do it with me today at
four o'clock. Celebrate New Year's. It's New Year's in Ireland.
Go to a pub. There's a pub everywhere that there's
a pub everywhere. Everywhere you go you can find an
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Irish pub.
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We are going to talk about some of the biggest
stories of the year, reflect reflections of We're also going
to talk about the best movies and television of the
year and the best music of the year. And I'd
love all of your comments down below about what I
got right, what I missed, what you thought was the
best or biggest story, what you thought was the best
movie or TV show. I'd love all of your comments
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Know, all right, Well, twenty twenty five. First of all,
it's December thirty first, January sixth You know, riots treason insurrection,
that wasn't a story from this last year. But the
fact that Trump pardoned a majority of those people certainly
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is a story from this year, because he did it
this year, and the fact that he took office this
January a big, huge story. In fact, it is the
number one political story out there. Trump retakes the White House.
I don't believe you won. I don't believe you one
And now I sound like him, but I just don't
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believe you won. I don't I believe it was manipulated fully,
I really do. I just don't think there were that
many stupid, angry people to put him back in office.
I don't. I saw the support for Kamala. I saw
the conventions. He was barely filling seats while she was
(07:33):
selling out huge arenas. I just I don't believe that
he legally won. I think somehow Elon Musk or someone
else manipulated the votes. Now you can agree with me
on that, you can disagree with me, you can think
I'm crazy, whatever, But I don't think he won. I
do not think he is a legitimate president. But he
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did return to the White House and just reshaped public
policy within minutes, and not for the best, you know,
not for the best. I mean, he had stacks of
executive orders on day one, many of which are still
being challenged in the courts. You know, there's too many
(08:18):
to even go down. I think he's already signed like
two hundred, so there's too many to even go over.
But the first two big stories to come out of
the Trump White House was his war on DEI meaning
Gay's lesbians, trans By and of course Ice. Those of
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all the stories of twenty twenty five, I think the
two biggest. And it's just been a story our year
of one huge story after another, Epstein files Ice doing
all of this. We had natural disasters galore, you know,
just a year of big news. I think the biggest
news was when the US government turned a division of
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law enforcement against its people, not just Ice, but the
National Guard. I think those are two huge stories from
this year, and not because of what they were doing.
In other words, what the National Guard was sent in
to do, or what Ice was sent out to do.
(09:30):
It wasn't really that. It's the fact that he was
using them as his Brown Shirts as his own private army.
He was using the National Guard to inflict his will
on blue states. And then he was using ICE to
literally harm legal immigrants, US citizens, immigrants that had no
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criminal records. He was not getting rid of the worst
among us. He was not just getting rid of illegals.
He really started a war on anybody not white. And
it it was a sad year to watch the news.
(10:14):
It really was. Didn't Social media and the news just
depress you this year? If we're being honest on New
Year's Eve, you know, every time you go to social
media and see Ice yet again rating someplace that they
shouldn't be, tackling mothers or fathers to the ground, snatching
seven year olds, taking babies, it twenty twenty five. In
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the news stories of twenty twenty five made me ashamed.
Never more in any year that I've ever lived in
my life, have I been more ashamed to be an
American than twenty twenty five. Trump brought great shame upon
the United States. You know, we could go through minutia
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of each of his policies and the stories and all
of that, but the fact is they're all shameful. He
brought a new level of shame and condemnation to the
United States like we had never seen. That's another big
story of twenty twenty five. Alienating our allies, painting the
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EU as not our friend, siding with Vladimir Putin, a
Russian dictator. There are so many groundbreaking stories in twenty
twenty five. I would need a week to go through
them all. Well, I've had a year, and we did
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go through them all. You know, his tariffs, those are
those are another big story of the year because they
led to the exact opposite of what he pledged. He
pledged to bring down prices, he pledged to bring down
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the soaring inflation of Joe Biden, and instead things went up.
And as just what a week ago, two weeks ago, now,
he did that eighteen minutes in the Oval Office, literally
yelling at America to try to convince them that black
was white and that up was down. He was deranged.
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If anyone has Trump derangement syndrome, it's in. And so
it was a year of broken promises by him. He didn't,
you know, keep any of his promises. It was a
year of authoritarian rule, fascism, and oligarchy like never in
the history of the United States. Ever, twenty twenty five
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will be remembered as the year fascism and authoritariatism. Authoritarianism
came to the United States again, possibly the biggest story
of the year. The United States sinks into authoritarianism because
no one ever thought we would. You know, no one
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ever believed that that would happen to us, and yet
it has. It has completely happened to us. And God,
you know, when I just look back on everything we've
talked about the Dei culture war and how quick companies
were to jump on board. Not all Costco and a
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few others said no, but so many companies were fair
weather friends to Gaze, to minorities, to immigrants, to women,
and they jumped right on board with his anti Dei policies.
I don't know why. In twenty twenty five, when we
look back, I wonder what people will say, why did
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he want you know, he because they act like DEI
doesn't mean Americans. Diversity means just including more Americans in America,
that's all. It means. Equity inclusion. It just means including
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more giving more people a chance. Why in twenty twenty
five would anybody, let alone a US president want to
exclude instead of include, wants to be less diverse instead
of more, and want a system of inequality instead of equality. Again.
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I think his war on DEI will be one of
the biggest stories of the year. When we look back
on twenty twenty five, you know there will be some
good news stories here. But when I was compiling this,
I realized all the shit you and I have had
to deal with. You know, when you sort of it's
(15:11):
like my music retrospective show that I did on Christmas.
Not that many of you saw it, but the ones
that did. I had never looked at my musical career
in one spot, and when I did on that show,
I realized I've had a musical career and to see
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it all in one place was overwhelming and made me thrilled. Well,
when we look at twenty twenty five and we see
all the things Donald Trump has done as a list
in one place, I don't know how you and I
survived it. I really don't. I don't know how you
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and I got through this fucking year, because when you
see all the things we've had to deal with all
the way back to January, because he hit the ground
going we didn't get a break It wasn't like he
started in March or April or in the middle of
the year. No, he started being evil on day one,
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and so we have been bombarded since day one with
foolishness the war on DII. University and cultural institutions faced
all kinds of pressures, litigation and compliance disputes, escalated media
cycles treated these battles as a constant storyline. They still do.
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We're still fighting them. It's nowhere near over. He's got
three more years. His war on DEI continues. ICE isn't
being recalled, you know, tonight's New Year's Eve, Tomorrow on
New Year's Day. ICE isn't suddenly going to stop what
it's been doing. A lot of these stories are going
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to carry right into twenty twenty six. I don't know
about you, but I don't find that to be a
good thing. He did shift federal marijuana policy. I believe
he signed that. I don't think they made a big
deal about it, but I guess I could google, because
I fully believe that he reclassified marijuana. Did Trump reclassify pot?
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Remember two weeks ago we talked about it. Trump signs
executive order fast tracking reclassification of cannabis. So, yes, that
that's a big story. That's a huge story. You know.
It may reduce barriers to medical research, reshape enforcement priorities,
States and employers are watching for regulatory follow through. It
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reignites the debate over legalization versus incremental reform. But more importantly,
it is no longer on par Is, you know, heroin.
So that that was a big deal that he did.
I'm not mad at him for doing that. That's the
one thing, the one thing in twenty twenty five, unless
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he drops dead tonight, we have till midnight, you know.
But short of him dropping dead before the ball drops,
the one thing he did in twenty twenty five to
reclassify pot was one good thing. Can y'all think of
any other good thing he did? Anybody? You can leave
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it down below the comments or over at Patreon at
patreon dot com, forward slash really, Qurell, can any of
you think about one other thing that he did that
was actually good? I can't, But the reclassifying of pot
that was good. Number Five, Immigration enforcement and detention politics
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stay at a boiling point. Yes, civil liberty debates, detention
and in four horsement policies, court rulings, that create whiplash.
One minute they can do this, one minute, they can't.
One minute they get you know, this court says this,
but this court says that. But again, the big story
there is ice and the turning on your own people.
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That was something. You know, he said this year that
he stopped more wars than he didn't. He did, and
a lot of those wars are still raging, by the way,
the Congo is still going on, Taiwan still going on,
Ukraine still going on, Israel still lobbing missiles. But certainly
that was a huge story that bled into twenty twenty five.
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The genocide created by Israel, that was a huge story.
Global leadership changes, protest and coups reshaped national politics. Yeah,
several countries experience contentious leadership transitions and unrest. Gen z
Led political energy became a recurring narrative. Instability affected migration,
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margarets and security markets. Domestic politics increasingly played out on
global platforms. Remember the kids that in Nepal that threw
out their leader and burned down their house. That was something.
Ireland got a new president, a woman president, in twenty
twenty five. Michael D. Higgins no longer the president. There
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lots of regime changes, lots of world shifting, and then Venezuela.
That's a story that might be a big story in
twenty twenty six because he's still giving war vibes. All right,
we are talking the biggest stories of the year, not
just from politics, but we'll cover entertainment, music and all
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of that on this New Year's Eve where you're going
to stay safe and you're going to stay sane and
you're not going to put yourself in any danger because
I need you. Okay, that's I need you. So yeah,
all right, let me look up some other stories here. Oh,
extreme weather, Yes, extreme weather became a political fight over
(21:12):
prepared natural disaster. We had plenty boy, oh my god,
looking at all this. How are we even here? Usha
parties telling you that or this afternoon or whatever?
Speaker 10 (21:27):
Lords, no, it show.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
You know.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
So.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Another huge story of twenty twenty five was the politicization
of science, where RFK Junior just started making policies rooted
in nothing but politics nothing, where being a vegan became woke.
Taking a vaccine became I don't want to say, you know, arbitrary,
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but you know, all of a sudden, vaccines that people
were told to get get these vaccines. Suddenly it's like, oh,
I'm not gonna I don't need it. The government says
I don't need it. It really became the year where
science an intellect, I don't want to say dissolved, but
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moved out of the United States. He took a part
every major climate change consortium in the country, so we
no longer lead the way in climate science. He allowed
RFK Junior to cast aside decades and decades of science,
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tell you, sat fat's good for you. You know, eat
more bacon, eat more eggs. Twenty twenty five, more than
any other year in American history, was the year that
we regressed intellectually. We went backwards because of our disregard
for science and allowing the politicization of science. You know
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that possibly the worst thing that could have happened in
twenty twenty five. No longer respecting knowledge, no longer respecting intellect,
in fact, making smart people seem like pariahs, making intellectual
and anyone that disagreed with him, like the lady that
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didn't want to vote to rename the Kennedy Center the
Trump Center, so they muted her during the vote. They
didn't let her vote it wasn't a unanimous vote, silencing
his enemies. A president has never done that before. Malicious
prosecutions of Letitian, James, James Comey and others. What a
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year pop culture was? Remember the met Gala? Black dandyism
came into the conversation. It became a vehicle for cultural
history and identity debates. Link style to power, history and
self definition sparked viral discourse about representation and credit. Fashion
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coverage became broader cultural commentary. Because again, in twenty twenty five,
everything had to be a political statement. The met Gala close.
You know that had to be a political statement. You
were if you wore this, You're not if you wore that.
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You know this from an administration that made a red
hat a political station a political statement. In fun news,
twenty twenty five was the year of the lea booboo.
You know, we remember things like the year of the
pet rock, the year of the cabbage patch kid. Well,
the year of the lea boo boo. Say it with me,
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love booboo, love booboo. I bet most of you don't
even know what a freaking the booboo is. I mean,
it's a doll, but you don't know where it came from.
It's a fairy story. And I don't mean a gay
guy story. I mean a story about fairies. Also, twenty
twenty five became the year that content creators became more
important than journalists. That's that's really sad that content creators
(25:55):
became as credible as journalists. Suddenly they're at the White House,
they're in the press pools, they're on the red carpets,
they're getting TV shows, they're claim to fame, they're influences.
I mean, look, it was also the year that Oscar
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decided to no longer be on ABC, which it has
been on since the nineteen seventies. It's now going to
be on YouTube. The Oscars, the Academy Awards will be
on YouTube. That speaks volumes to YouTube being an actual network.
(26:39):
You know, YouTube is not governed like a network, but
it is a network, and this proves that it's a network.
So yeah, slow's a big story. And then I don't
want to say possibly the most influential or important story
of the year, but it's certain me the one story
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that's going to affect our future more than anything out
of twenty twenty five. Do you know what that is,
in a guess in the chat room, you're going to
guess the one story, the one thing, because there are
billions of stories about it, but the one thing that
emerged as a newborn infant that suddenly grew up fast,
(27:28):
that will affect the entire future, Our whole future of humanity,
the entire future of humanity was beginning to be shaped
by this one thing in twenty twenty five. And you
know what that is? Ai? AI. There is no doubt
(27:49):
that AI and their exponential growth of it in twenty
twenty five was the political, cultural, scientific, medical, social, everything
breakthrough that you can think of. Now. Granted there's been
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AI before twenty twenty five, but in twenty twenty five,
we got CHATJPT. In twenty twenty five, we got AI video.
In twenty twenty five, we got AI posting our socials
for us. We got AI doing almost everything for us.
And it's just starting, it's just beginning. But certainly the
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biggest phenomenon of twenty twenty five was the proliferation and
advent of AI. This is the year that they will
remember it for. This is the year they will look
back and say, well, when it all started back in
twenty twenty five. AI think about that in this year
(28:56):
of horror, we also had possibly the biggest technological advance
I want to say, in one hundred years, just an
enormous advance, and that came out of this year. This year,
all right, we got more stories to talk about, including
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movies and films and music. On this New Year's Eve
edition of the Corell Cast, I hope you're gonna celebrate
safely and sanely, and I hope that you're gonna wake
up tomorrow morning. Refreshed and renewed from twenty twenty sixth
See there I go.
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There were headlines that rocked the world in twenty twenty five,
and there were things that have happened that we're gonna
be feeling for years and years to come. It is
the New Year's Eve Best up Show with Carrel Stay.
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You know, I am Corella's Caro Cast. And things happen
so fast now that earth shattering stories. Where in any
other year for year end, we'd be talking about only
three or five stories because they were huge, and now
there's one hundred because they just fly at you. For instance,
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remember when Vladimir Zelenski met with Donald Trump and JD.
Vance and it just went so south. Remember that, Oh
my god, it was horrifying. I mean I remember it vividly.
It was terrible. The lunch the next day was canceled.
Oh what a moment that was. They got in a
fight right there in front of the media. Also in
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twenty twenty five, Facebook and Instagram announced they would stop
fact checking. If you don't think that influences culture, you're wrong.
But that happened this year. Facebook and Instagram, the same company,
said that they were no longer going to fact check.
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I mean that, that's mind boggling. That's mind boggling. Then
there was a large scale drone attack known as Operation
Spider Web, which was launched by the Ukraine against Russia
pissed Rush off so much that they ended up bombing
the hell out of Kiev. Iran was attacked by Israel
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because of their alleged nuclear efforts. Remember that. Remember when
Israel attacked Iran and we were all like, oh God,
World War iie here it is. God forgotten about that one.
I really had. The Dali Lama spoke about a successor,
it's gonna step down. We got a new pope, Pope
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Leo the fourteenth. He became the first American pope. That
happened in twenty twenty five, the first American pope, and
then Pope Francis on Easter. Then remember we had the
astronauts that were stranded up there for just months and
months and months and months, and then of course they
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got back home, but it took a while. And then
there was Doge. Doge remember came in chainsaw elon musk
Ketamine said I was gonna cut trillions and save trillions
of dollars and all of that. It ain't even in
existence anymore. That's something. Oh. Yes, there was the first
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pig to human transplant of a kidney. I don't know
how the pig felt about it, but they seem to
think that is the way that pigs, for some reason,
we can genetically modify them. They're most like humans, and
yet we eat them. I don't. But they're genetically modifying
pigs to grow organs for us, and they grew a kidney.
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Didn't turn out as they totally would have liked, but
it gave them enough promise to move ahead. Me and
Mar's second largest city was hit by a seven point
seven earthquake this year. That was devastating. I remember when
that occurred. Los Angeles wildfires. Now that's for many going
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to be their biggest story because their houses are gone.
We all watched it live on TV. It was horrific
watching Runyon Canyon start on fire when I had friends
that lived right next to it, watching the flames head
towards Hollywood Boulevard. Pacific Palisades wiped out, Malibu wiped out
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an urban center, Los Alta, Dina devastated. Hugh a giant
urban center, caught fire and didn't have the resources to
deal I hope we've learned, you know. I hope in
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twenty twenty six and forward, we will learn how to
deal with fires in urban centers. Because the fires were
that was something that was a story and we all
watched We all watched it live. All right, when we
come back, we've got many more stories to talk about,
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and we'll talk about the top movies and television shows
of the year, all of this on my New Year's Eve,
year end look back on twenty twenty five. I hope
you're having a good time I hope you're gonna have
a good time tonight. I hope you or this afternoon,
and I hope you're gonna stay safe and see us
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Yeah, you know, I was just thinking if all the
years got together and had a party, there'd be a
separate table for a few years, you know, a few
bad years two thousand and one for me? What was
one of your worst years other than twenty twenty five?
But I mean personally, what was one of your worst
years two thousand and one? Obviously for me when Andrew
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died and then I lost my job at KFI, and
oh that was a well, that was a Joesy of
a year. But personally, I'm not talking about you know,
politics or whatever. Personally, what was one of your worst years?
Put it down below, put a comment down below. But
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also what was one of your best years? Certainly nineteen
eighty eight, eighty nine when I met Andrew. One of
my best years. This year for me was the first
time I actually saw my music chart again in it
had been decades since my music charted, so that was
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and this was the first year that I ever had
a song chart that I wrote. That's a big deal
for me. In twenty twenty five, what were some of
the milestones did you have, Miles? I mean, it wasn't
all bad. This year. Yeah, the news was all bad,
but my life wasn't all bad. Twenty twenty five had
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many you know ups, it did, like record the recording
a song I wrote and it going, you know, up
to the top five. I danced because and how well
received it was, and do you want to funk? And
working with Jeanie Tracy and so twenty twenty five, you know,
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had its moments. What were some of yours? I'd love
to read them, put them down below. Okay, Justin Trudeau
resigned in twenty twenty five. He stepped down as the
prime minister so he could date Katy Perry. Why are
you resigning? I really want to date Katy Perry. Okay. Whatever.
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The Blatin Glacier collapse, that was a big deal. A
catastrophic glacier collapsed in the smiss Alps, devastating the village
of Blattin on May twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, buried
an entire village under a massive landslide of ice and rock.
It was triggered when the when the Birch Glacier gave
way after being destabilized by millions of cubic meters of
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debris from earlier rock falls. There was a timely evacuation
so that people weren't in the village, but the village
was swallowed up. That was something. Nineteen countries are restricted
or banned from entering the US at the order of
Donald Trump. That's a huge story from twenty twenty five
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and one that rocked the world. Nineteen countries. The directive
placed a full ban on Individuals from twelve nations, including Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Cuba,
Venezuela were placed under partial restrictions as part of these
new border security. Of course, if you're rich, you can
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buy a gold card and just get past all of this.
The era of private spaceflight took another major step in
twenty twenty five with the launch of Axium Mission four
to the International Space Station. The mission lifted off on
June twenty fifth. It was significant for carrying the first
Polish and Indian astronauts in decades as part of its
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four person crew. The collaboration between Axiom, SpaceX and NASA
also marked the first modern flight of the new crew
Dragon Capsule Grace. The capsule was called Grace. Also this year,
Hungary left the US or left the International Criminal Court.
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It was politically charged of course it was announced as
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Nett and Yahoo, who was wanted
under an active ICC arrest warrant, arrived for a state
visit in Hungary. So in order for him to visit there,
they had to leave the court or they would have
had to arrest him. So they left the court. A
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peace agreement was struck between the DRC Democratic Republic of
Congo and Rwanda. After thirty seven years, however, we know
that tensions are still high and fighting is still going on.
Federal troops were deployed in LA against anti ICE protesters,
and then Portland and then Chicago, then New York, I
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think New York, now Washington, d C. That was a
scary headline. A lot of these headlines are scary. Cambodia
and Thailand started fighting this year. That's, you know, not
something we wanted. Texas flooded, remember that. I remember it July.
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Texas just flooded and the camp where the kids were,
all the death and mayhem that happened there. That for
Texas was the equivalent of the fires half with fire
and water. But yeah, that was something. The Texas flood.
A military helicopter during a passenger plane collided. That was
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in January. The aircraft carrying sixty four people was on
its way to Reagan National Airport. Remember that most of
you forgot. Remember the plane was flying in and it
hit the helicopter and then bam, that was it. Three
service members on board. They crashed into the water. Remember that.
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I did a few ask people, hey, in twenty twenty five,
did an airplane run into a helicopter? They'd be like, no, yeah,
it did. Remember we watched it again. Something we watched
live on TV, played over and over and over again,
and yet we forgot. Then, of course, we blew up
Iranian nuclear facilities. We launched missiles on Iran in twenty
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twenty five. These stories be wearing me out, you know. Really,
he renamed the Gulf of Mexico, called it the Gulf
of America. Remember that was a big story. I don't
think anyone pays attention to it. I don't think anyone
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calls it that, but he did it. So these are
just some of the big stories of twenty twenty five.
I just can't you know, ap if you go to
their year end review, it's even more depressing, you know,
it's even more depressing FEIFA. Remember they gave Trump a
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piece of word. Oh yeah, that was that was that
was something we have bad Bunny being named to do
the super Bowl in twenty twenty five, first time a
Puerto Rican non English speaking act. Although the super Bowl is,
you know, coming up today, it didn't tomorrow. There's a
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lot of games, a lot of games tomorrow. So that's
that's big news for twenty twenty five. What else? What
are their key moments and trends where they're let's see
AP film writers ranked the best movies. What do they
have to say about the best movies of twenty twenty five.
Everyone keeps talking about this Timothy Challamey movie where Marty Supreme,
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but none of us have seen it. Oh yeah, we
lost Robert Redford, We lost Diane Keaton. Oh we lost
so many fabulous people. We lost Jane Goodall, We lost
Jeane Happen. Remember that his wife got the Haunta virus
and died and then he pretty much died of a
(44:35):
broken heart sitting on his porch. Oh, I'd forgotten that story.
That was something. Maybe we should switch and talking These
are depressing me. I don't want to be depressed on
New Year's eve. You know, let's let's talk something more fun,
like movies and television and all of that, because boys,
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some of these stories they are they're really depressing me.
I mean, I don't know about you, Charlie Kirk. That's
certainly one of the biggest stories of twenty twenty five,
Charlie Kirk. Val Kilmer passed away as well. Not just
Robert Redford, but the assassination of Charlie Kirk. That certainly shaped,
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you know, our our narrative, our country, you know it,
it shaped a lot. Rob Reiner being murdered. Didn't have
that on our bingo card for you know, twenty twenty five,
did you? I certainly didn't. What a year. Wow, hearing
(45:41):
all this is just real. Putting all this together in
one spot, it's it's no wonder we're exhausted. We should
all just sleep, which you know, we'ch just go to bed.
Twenty twenty five was exhausting. For the arts. It was
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the year that we saw the pit. Noah Wiley came
back to television and What Is Being Held is the
best show of twenty twenty five. I adored it. A
medical show, Noah Wiley fabulous. It was wonderful. The Lowdown
on TV saw Reservoir Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harrow brought
(46:24):
another Oklahoma story life. It's called The low Down. If
you haven't seen it, it's on Disney Plus and Hulu
and FX. Really great show. The film Black Bag. Many
people have forgotten that Kate Blanchette written by David Kepp
Michael Fassbender. That was wonderful. Alien Earth, that's certainly one
(46:48):
of the best TV shows this year. If y'all haven't
seen that show, oh my god, it's so good. It's
so good. And The Residents was picked by many, including
pr as one of the best shows of the year.
In Netflix canceled it. Same with Boots, yet in an
effort to get approval for their big merger, they canceled
(47:12):
The Residents and Boots. And the Resident was so cute,
it was a who Done It at the White House?
And the character Cordelia cup I could watch more and
more and more and more of her, so good. What
else Mountainhead? Oh that movie, Oh it was about all
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those rich people that pretty much engineer the end of
the world. And then there was the movie that really
ripped my guts out, a perfect strange The Perfect Neighbor
that's on Netflix if you haven't seen it. It was a
documentary or was it a movie. I think it's a movie,
and it really God, this white lady just kills this
(47:55):
black lady for for no reason, you know, for no
ethan And there were all these events that should have
led people to know that it was going to happen.
But then for film, we had a house of dynamite
and the fact the most important part of that movie
and why it was important in twenty twenty five, it
(48:18):
showed that in order to react, they only have about
twenty minutes. So basically, the decision to end the world
as we know it if they detect a missile launch,
that decision is made in about eighteen minutes. Can you
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imagine having to decide whether or not the world is
going to end as you know it in eighteen minutes.
I wouldn't want that weapons. That was a really good
horror movie, not as good as Sinners. Sinners is my
favorite of the year. My favorite movie of the year
was Sinners. It had music, it had great performances, it
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had Michael B. Jordan, Oh Sweet Jesus, and it was
just so innovative for a vampire movie. I hope it
wins Oscars. I hope that it ends up winning Oscars.
But Weapons was equally as good, and weapons was a
big analogy for school shootings. Of course, twenty twenty five
(49:24):
was the year of the Bondie Beat shooting in Australia.
They'll remember that forever. We've already forgotten. It was two
weeks ago. Most of you have forgotten. I have not,
Jews have not, and the people of Australia have not.
But that was there Frankenstein with my future husband, Jacob Elordi.
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It's one of the best movies of the year. I
loved it. A great retelling, the same as Superman. I
loved that twinless, I loved Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney.
Was a great movie, really low key independent film, but
seeing Dylan O'Brien play Gaye just made my heart sing.
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Blue Lights. That's been named one of the best shows
of the year. It's on brit Box and it's a
cop show. I watched two shows on brit Box now
that and Silent Witness which season twenty eight twenty nine,
something like that. Great show. If you haven't seen it,
The Traders, I hear is really great. It's on a
(50:30):
lot of year end list hosted by Alan Cummings. I
haven't really seen it. One battle after another is being
hailed as one of the greatest movies of the year.
I don't think it is. This is where I disagree
with the people that make all the list. I thought
it was okay, but the greatest movie of the year. No,
(50:53):
I'm gonna go on a limb here and say, no,
what movies or TV did you love this year? Put
them down below. I'd love to hear from you. Am
I missing any Are you you know? Are you disagreeing
with some of these? Have you not seen any of them?
A lot of them are streaming, but some of you
don't pay for streaming. Some of you don't, you know,
(51:15):
like the streaming. But entertainment things bigs me, so, you know. Sometimes.
All right, we'll finish up the last segment of the year.
Oh my god, the last segment of the year is.
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It just hit me, It really did, just hit me
that this was the last segment of the year. We
have done four shows a week for fifty two weeks,
so two hundred and eight shows basically wow, wow, Actually
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right about two hundred. There were some I missed. I'm sorry,
but I've done two hundred shows this year, two hundred
times that you welcomed me into your homes, your cars,
your headphones. Two hundred times, including tonight, that I've sat
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here and commented and you know, said all kinds of
things to you. You stuck with me through all the
medical anxiety. You know, yesterday's show, maybe you watched it,
maybe you didn't, maybe you tuned out, but having then
at the clinic where Eric Dane you know, went, and
(53:05):
this was the year of my als scare, This was
the year of the repercussions from last year of that
damn shot, and so on this last segment of like
my two hundredth show, I just can't thank you enough.
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I just it's really the patrons. It it's the patrons,
And I can't thank you patrons enough. I would not
have made it through the year without you. You literally
paid the bills, and you know, you made it easier
for me to be me this year. I can't. Oh,
(53:49):
I'm getting all them, you know. New Year's Eve makes
me so fucking emotional. I can't. You know, I had
more movies. I wanted to tell you about more music,
but the final segment of the year, we have think
of all the shit we have talked about this year, painful,
painful stuff, stuff that infuriated us, and then happy stuff,
(54:14):
you know, fun interviews and fun topics. And we've gone
through it all together, you and me, you and I
with Ember, And I'm gonna be so blessed if I
can do it again next year, if we make it
through another year to another New Year's Eve, if Trump
(54:37):
doesn't come after me, if Maga doesn't come after me,
if I'm look the future, you know, on this New
Year's Eve, I look to the future this next year,
and I may not be in this room come next
New Year's Eve. I may be in a different house
here in Vegas. I may be in a different state
(54:57):
in the United States, or I may be in a
different country. Or I may be dead. You know that
it's a possibility and you can't rule it out. So
that's exciting to think about, you know what I mean.
Isn't it exciting to think that we don't know where
(55:19):
we're going to be next New Year's Eve. Trump could
be dead, he could be just like I could be
or you could be he's old, he's sick, and he's
pissing off a lot of venezuel and drug cartels. The
Democrats could win the House and Senate in the year
to come, and come next New Year's Eve, we could
(55:40):
be in a completely different place politically. But I know
that we're going to talk about it right here, just
like we've done two hundred times this year. Wow, I
am emotional right now. I am gravity of the day,
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you know, and the the thought that going through all
of these stories, you know all this, and we didn't
we just touched the surface of the stories. There were
so many other things that happened. We just can't even
(56:22):
There were fun shows like Murder Bought with my future
husband Alexander Scarasgard. There was Adolescents and Sinners, and there
was Pluribus, very interesting show on Apple TV. A lot
of these shows reflecting the cultural changes going on right
(56:42):
now in our country. But Wow, two hundred times you
and I have sat here and tried to figure it
all out together. You know, Tonight New Year's Eve, maybe
you're alone. I will be. I'll be alone at midnight.
(57:04):
I'll be asleep in bed with ember By myself. I
may go to the pub by myself. If Steve doesn't
want to go. He still hasn't told me if he
wants to go. I may be alone. It's okay. It's
fine because A I get to be with you every
day and B you know, we are born alone, we
die alone. So being alone on New Year's Eve is okay.
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But I'm emotional because every year takes its toll, and
this year took a toll on me. It really did. Emotionally.
This was a heavy year for me because of the country.
Never in my life in sixty three years have I
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lived through a year in my country like this. And
I've been gay under Reagan and Bush, but never, never
in my life have I lived through a year like this.
And I can't tell you how I would have gone
insane if I didn't have you to go through it
with and to hear your comments and to get support
(58:15):
from people like Jim Schnabel and Rachel Kapper and Randy
Radar and all the others, Sue Jaeger, and there's countless others,
Darren Holme, Quisk and Phineas and just so many Sandy
and just there's so many people, all the chatters, but
Beta just all the different people. Your support got me
(58:38):
through this year. It got me through, and I hoped
I helped get you through this year, just a little
little hour a day. I hope that it helped you
make it now. I don't know what's coming our way
next year. I don't could be good, could be bad,
(58:58):
could be world ending, world war I don't know. But
I do know if we had the strength and the
courage and the wherewithal to get through this year, that
we'll get it. We'll make it. We'll make it together.
So for the last time in twenty twenty five, I
(59:23):
am Correl. Be who you want to be, so long
as it doesn't hurt you, buddy. Thank you so much
for a marvelous year. Here's hoping next New Year's Eve,
Ember is by my side. You're in front of me
in a canon. I love you all. Thank you very much.
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It is the cast. I am corel Happy New Year's Eve.
Depending upon what time zone you're in, it could already
be New Year's I am so glad to be here
with you on this New Year's Eve. It's the morning
for me ten am. But you know, for y'all, whenever
you're listening, or if you're listening in another country, it
could be night or it could be tomorrow in Australia.
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If you're in Australia or China or other places, it
is already the new year. And what a year. I
gotta tell you, what a freaking year this, You know,
I wish I'd drank because it would be a good
night to get drunk tonight, given everything that's still going
on right up until New Year's Eve. This, I know,
(01:43):
I didn't want to talk politics, and I'm not gonna,
but you know the Epstein files, and you know the
kerfuffle around all that, and you know, just and I
haven't really addressed the Epstein Files on the show. I
haven't because I think it's much ado about nothing quite frankly.
(02:03):
I mean, the deadline came and some got released, some didn't,
and you know, redacted this, and blah blah blah that,
and oh court preceding this and whatever. But I don't
need those files because they are one of the biggest
stories of twenty twenty five, which we'll be talking the
biggest stories of twenty twenty five. I don't need those
files to, you know, convince me that rich white men,
(02:31):
in particular, rich straight white men in particular avail themselves
of younger women and sometimes too you. And it's been
going on since the dawn of time. I fully believe
Donald Trump did it. I fully believe Alan Dershowitz did it.
I fully believe most everyone in the files did it.
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I don't know if Bill Clinton did, because Epstein himself
said that he never did. Epstein himself said that Clinton,
you know, was never a part of it. But who knows,
maybe he was. I don't know, but I do. I
don't need the files to show me that Trump is
(03:14):
a criminal. I already know that it's. Egene Carrol proved
that the man does not respect women. The way that
he talks to women reporters proves that he doesn't. I know,
I'm talking politics. I said it wouldn't, but you know,
the man does not respect women, and so he certainly
(03:35):
wouldn't respect boundaries with women, including age. And as we
look back on that story this year and all the
hoopla around it, what has the release of you know
some of the files changed. Is MAGA turned against him? No,
not not over this. They're turning more against him about
(03:55):
the economy because they forgive him having sex with a
fifteen year old or sixteen year old or seventeen year old.
They would literally forgive him for that. And I don't
need the files to tell me that he did it.
You know, I fully believe he did. Nothing will change
my mind, and that's that. But it is New Year's Eve.
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Now I will not be awake at midnight. I do
the Irish New Year. I'll be at the pub at three.
I'm probably gonna go to Rera, go to the pubbet
three celebrated four when it's you know, New Year's four
o'clock this afternoon is New Year's in Ireland, and be
home by five, because I think New Year's Eve is
amateur night at the Apollo. I think that people get
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as drunk as they can, as fast as they can,
and then they go out and drive right after midnight.
I don't. And this is Las Vegas. There's going to
be fireworks at midnight. People are going to be blitzed
out of their minds. I don't want to be on
the road. I don't want to be out there in that.
I would rather be at home in bed with Ember.
Because tomorrow New Year's Day is just as important to
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me as New Year's Eve. If I stay up till
one or two in the morning, then my New Year's
Day is gonna be shot. I'm gonna feel like crap
on the first day of the New Year, and I
don't want to do that, So I do the Irish
New Year. You should do it with me today at
four o'clock. Celebrate New Year's. It's New Year's in Ireland.
Go to a pub. There's a pub everywhere that there's
a pub everywhere. Everywhere you go you can find an
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Irish pub.
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stories of the year, reflect reflections of We're also going
to talk about the best movies and television of the
year and the best music of the year. And I'd
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got right, what I missed, what you thought was the
best or biggest story, what you thought was the best
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Know, all right, Well, twenty twenty five. First of all,
it's December thirty first, January sixth You know, riots treason insurrection,
that wasn't a story from this last year. But the
fact that Trump pardoned a majority of those people certainly
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is a story from this year, because he did it
this year, and the fact that he took office this
January a big, huge story. In fact, it is the
number one political story out there. Trump retakes the White House.
I don't believe you won. I don't believe you one
And now I sound like him, but I just don't
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believe you won. I don't I believe it was manipulated fully,
I really do. I just don't think there were that
many stupid, angry people to put him back in office.
I don't. I saw the support for Kamala. I saw
the conventions. He was barely filling seats while she was
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selling out huge arenas. I just I don't believe that
he legally won. I think somehow Elon Musk or someone
else manipulated the votes. Now you can agree with me
on that, you can disagree with me, you can think
I'm crazy, whatever, But I don't think he won. I
do not think he is a legitimate president. But he
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did return to the White House and just reshaped public
policy within minutes, and not for the best, you know,
not for the best. I mean, he had stacks of
executive orders on day one, many of which are still
being challenged in the courts. You know, there's too many
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to even go down. I think he's already signed like
two hundred, so there's too many to even go over.
But the first two big stories to come out of
the Trump White House was his war on DEI meaning
Gay's lesbians, trans By and of course Ice. Those of
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all the stories of twenty twenty five, I think the
two biggest. And it's just been a story our year
of one huge story after another, Epstein files Ice doing
all of this. We had natural disasters galore, you know,
just a year of big news. I think the biggest
news was when the US government turned a division of
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law enforcement against its people, not just Ice, but the
National Guard. I think those are two huge stories from
this year, and not because of what they were doing.
In other words, what the National Guard was sent in
to do, or what Ice was sent out to do.
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It wasn't really that. It's the fact that he was
using them as his Brown Shirts as his own private army.
He was using the National Guard to inflict his will
on blue states. And then he was using ICE to
literally harm legal immigrants, US citizens, immigrants that had no
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criminal records. He was not getting rid of the worst
among us. He was not just getting rid of illegals.
He really started a war on anybody not white. And
it it was a sad year to watch the news.
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It really was. Didn't Social media and the news just
depress you this year? If we're being honest on New
Year's Eve, you know, every time you go to social
media and see Ice yet again rating someplace that they
shouldn't be, tackling mothers or fathers to the ground, snatching
seven year olds, taking babies, it twenty twenty five. In
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the news stories of twenty twenty five made me ashamed.
Never more in any year that I've ever lived in
my life, have I been more ashamed to be an
American than twenty twenty five. Trump brought great shame upon
the United States. You know, we could go through minutia
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of each of his policies and the stories and all
of that, but the fact is they're all shameful. He
brought a new level of shame and condemnation to the
United States like we had never seen. That's another big
story of twenty twenty five. Alienating our allies, painting the
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EU as not our friend, siding with Vladimir Putin, a
Russian dictator. There are so many groundbreaking stories in twenty
twenty five. I would need a week to go through
them all. Well, I've had a year, and we did
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go through them all. You know, his tariffs, those are
those are another big story of the year because they
led to the exact opposite of what he pledged. He
pledged to bring down prices, he pledged to bring down
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the soaring inflation of Joe Biden, and instead things went up.
And as just what a week ago, two weeks ago, now,
he did that eighteen minutes in the Oval Office, literally
yelling at America to try to convince them that black
was white and that up was down. He was deranged.
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If anyone has Trump derangement syndrome, it's in. And so
it was a year of broken promises by him. He didn't,
you know, keep any of his promises. It was a
year of authoritarian rule, fascism, and oligarchy like never in
the history of the United States. Ever, twenty twenty five
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will be remembered as the year fascism and authoritariatism. Authoritarianism
came to the United States again, possibly the biggest story
of the year. The United States sinks into authoritarianism because
no one ever thought we would. You know, no one
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ever believed that that would happen to us, and yet
it has. It has completely happened to us. And God,
you know, when I just look back on everything we've
talked about the Dei culture war and how quick companies
were to jump on board. Not all Costco and a
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few others said no, but so many companies were fair
weather friends to Gaze, to minorities, to immigrants, to women,
and they jumped right on board with his anti Dei policies.
I don't know why. In twenty twenty five, when we
look back, I wonder what people will say, why did
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he want you know, he because they act like DEI
doesn't mean Americans. Diversity means just including more Americans in America,
that's all. It means. Equity inclusion. It just means including
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more giving more people a chance. Why in twenty twenty
five would anybody, let alone a US president want to
exclude instead of include, wants to be less diverse instead
of more, and want a system of inequality instead of equality. Again.
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I think his war on DEI will be one of
the biggest stories of the year. When we look back
on twenty twenty five, you know there will be some
good news stories here. But when I was compiling this,
I realized all the shit you and I have had
to deal with. You know, when you sort of it's
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like my music retrospective show that I did on Christmas.
Not that many of you saw it, but the ones
that did. I had never looked at my musical career
in one spot, and when I did on that show,
I realized I've had a musical career and to see
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it all in one place was overwhelming and made me thrilled. Well,
when we look at twenty twenty five and we see
all the things Donald Trump has done as a list
in one place, I don't know how you and I
survived it. I really don't. I don't know how you
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and I got through this fucking year, because when you
see all the things we've had to deal with all
the way back to January, because he hit the ground
going we didn't get a break It wasn't like he
started in March or April or in the middle of
the year. No, he started being evil on day one,
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and so we have been bombarded since day one with
foolishness the war on DII. University and cultural institutions faced
all kinds of pressures, litigation and compliance disputes, escalated media
cycles treated these battles as a constant storyline. They still do.
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We're still fighting them. It's nowhere near over. He's got
three more years. His war on DEI continues. ICE isn't
being recalled, you know, tonight's New Year's Eve, Tomorrow on
New Year's Day. ICE isn't suddenly going to stop what
it's been doing. A lot of these stories are going
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to carry right into twenty twenty six. I don't know
about you, but I don't find that to be a
good thing. He did shift federal marijuana policy. I believe
he signed that. I don't think they made a big
deal about it, but I guess I could google, because
I fully believe that he reclassified marijuana. Did Trump reclassify pot?
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Remember two weeks ago we talked about it. Trump signs
executive order fast tracking reclassification of cannabis. So, yes, that
that's a big story. That's a huge story. You know.
It may reduce barriers to medical research, reshape enforcement priorities,
States and employers are watching for regulatory follow through. It
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reignites the debate over legalization versus incremental reform. But more importantly,
it is no longer on par Is, you know, heroin.
So that that was a big deal that he did.
I'm not mad at him for doing that. That's the
one thing, the one thing in twenty twenty five, unless
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he drops dead tonight, we have till midnight, you know.
But short of him dropping dead before the ball drops,
the one thing he did in twenty twenty five to
reclassify pot was one good thing. Can y'all think of
any other good thing he did? Anybody? You can leave
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it down below the comments or over at Patreon at
patreon dot com, forward slash really, Qurell, can any of
you think about one other thing that he did that
was actually good? I can't, But the reclassifying of pot
that was good. Number Five, Immigration enforcement and detention politics
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stay at a boiling point. Yes, civil liberty debates, detention
and in four horsement policies, court rulings, that create whiplash.
One minute they can do this, one minute, they can't.
One minute they get you know, this court says this,
but this court says that. But again, the big story
there is ice and the turning on your own people.
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That was something. You know, he said this year that
he stopped more wars than he didn't. He did, and
a lot of those wars are still raging, by the way,
the Congo is still going on, Taiwan still going on,
Ukraine still going on, Israel still lobbing missiles. But certainly
that was a huge story that bled into twenty twenty five.
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The genocide created by Israel, that was a huge story.
Global leadership changes, protest and coups reshaped national politics. Yeah,
several countries experience contentious leadership transitions and unrest. Gen z
Led political energy became a recurring narrative. Instability affected migration,
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margarets and security markets. Domestic politics increasingly played out on
global platforms. Remember the kids that in Nepal that threw
out their leader and burned down their house. That was something.
Ireland got a new president, a woman president, in twenty
twenty five. Michael D. Higgins no longer the president. There
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lots of regime changes, lots of world shifting, and then Venezuela.
That's a story that might be a big story in
twenty twenty six because he's still giving war vibes. All right,
we are talking the biggest stories of the year, not
just from politics, but we'll cover entertainment, music and all
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of that on this New Year's Eve where you're going
to stay safe and you're going to stay sane and
you're not going to put yourself in any danger because
I need you. Okay, that's I need you. So yeah,
all right, let me look up some other stories here. Oh,
extreme weather, Yes, extreme weather became a political fight over
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prepared natural disaster. We had plenty boy, oh my god,
looking at all this. How are we even here? Usha
parties telling you that or this afternoon or whatever?
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Another huge story of twenty twenty five was the politicization
of science, where RFK Junior just started making policies rooted
in nothing but politics nothing, where being a vegan became woke.
Taking a vaccine became I don't want to say, you know, arbitrary,
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but you know, all of a sudden, vaccines that people
were told to get get these vaccines. Suddenly it's like, oh,
I'm not gonna I don't need it. The government says
I don't need it. It really became the year where
science an intellect, I don't want to say dissolved, but
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moved out of the United States. He took a part
every major climate change consortium in the country, so we
no longer lead the way in climate science. He allowed
RFK Junior to cast aside decades and decades of science,
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tell you, sat fat's good for you. You know, eat
more bacon, eat more eggs. Twenty twenty five, more than
any other year in American history, was the year that
we regressed intellectually. We went backwards because of our disregard
for science and allowing the politicization of science. You know
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that possibly the worst thing that could have happened in
twenty twenty five. No longer respecting knowledge, no longer respecting intellect,
in fact, making smart people seem like pariahs, making intellectual
and anyone that disagreed with him, like the lady that
(23:57):
didn't want to vote to rename the Kennedy Center the
Trump Center, so they muted her during the vote. They
didn't let her vote it wasn't a unanimous vote, silencing
his enemies. A president has never done that before. Malicious
prosecutions of Letitian, James, James Comey and others. What a
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year pop culture was? Remember the met Gala? Black dandyism
came into the conversation. It became a vehicle for cultural
history and identity debates. Link style to power, history and
self definition sparked viral discourse about representation and credit. Fashion
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coverage became broader cultural commentary. Because again, in twenty twenty five,
everything had to be a political statement. The met Gala close.
You know that had to be a political statement. You
were if you wore this, You're not if you wore that.
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You know this from an administration that made a red
hat a political station a political statement. In fun news,
twenty twenty five was the year of the lea booboo.
You know, we remember things like the year of the
pet rock, the year of the cabbage patch kid. Well,
the year of the lea boo boo. Say it with me,
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love booboo, love booboo. I bet most of you don't
even know what a freaking the booboo is. I mean,
it's a doll, but you don't know where it came from.
It's a fairy story. And I don't mean a gay
guy story. I mean a story about fairies. Also, twenty
twenty five became the year that content creators became more
important than journalists. That's that's really sad that content creators
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became as credible as journalists. Suddenly they're at the White House,
they're in the press pools, they're on the red carpets,
they're getting TV shows, they're claim to fame, they're influences.
I mean, look, it was also the year that Oscar
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decided to no longer be on ABC, which it has
been on since the nineteen seventies. It's now going to
be on YouTube. The Oscars, the Academy Awards will be
on YouTube. That speaks volumes to YouTube being an actual network.
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You know, YouTube is not governed like a network, but
it is a network, and this proves that it's a network.
So yeah, slow's a big story. And then I don't
want to say possibly the most influential or important story
of the year, but it's certain me the one story
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that's going to affect our future more than anything out
of twenty twenty five. Do you know what that is,
in a guess in the chat room, you're going to
guess the one story, the one thing, because there are
billions of stories about it, but the one thing that
emerged as a newborn infant that suddenly grew up fast,
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that will affect the entire future, Our whole future of humanity,
the entire future of humanity was beginning to be shaped
by this one thing in twenty twenty five. And you
know what that is? Ai? AI. There is no doubt
(27:49):
that AI and their exponential growth of it in twenty
twenty five was the political, cultural, scientific, medical, social, everything
breakthrough that you can think of. Now. Granted there's been
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AI before twenty twenty five, but in twenty twenty five,
we got CHATJPT. In twenty twenty five, we got AI video.
In twenty twenty five, we got AI posting our socials
for us. We got AI doing almost everything for us.
And it's just starting, it's just beginning. But certainly the
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biggest phenomenon of twenty twenty five was the proliferation and
advent of AI. This is the year that they will
remember it for. This is the year they will look
back and say, well, when it all started back in
twenty twenty five. AI think about that in this year
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of horror, we also had possibly the biggest technological advance
I want to say, in one hundred years, just an
enormous advance, and that came out of this year. This year,
all right, we got more stories to talk about, including
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movies and films and music. On this New Year's Eve
edition of the Corell Cast, I hope you're gonna celebrate
safely and sanely, and I hope that you're gonna wake
up tomorrow morning. Refreshed and renewed from twenty twenty sixth
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so fast now that earth shattering stories. Where in any
other year for year end, we'd be talking about only
three or five stories because they were huge, and now
there's one hundred because they just fly at you. For instance,
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remember when Vladimir Zelenski met with Donald Trump and JD.
Vance and it just went so south. Remember that, Oh
my god, it was horrifying. I mean I remember it vividly.
It was terrible. The lunch the next day was canceled.
Oh what a moment that was. They got in a
fight right there in front of the media. Also in
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twenty twenty five, Facebook and Instagram announced they would stop
fact checking. If you don't think that influences culture, you're wrong.
But that happened this year. Facebook and Instagram, the same company,
said that they were no longer going to fact check.
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I mean that, that's mind boggling. That's mind boggling. Then
there was a large scale drone attack known as Operation
Spider Web, which was launched by the Ukraine against Russia
pissed Rush off so much that they ended up bombing
the hell out of Kiev. Iran was attacked by Israel
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because of their alleged nuclear efforts. Remember that. Remember when
Israel attacked Iran and we were all like, oh God,
World War iie here it is. God forgotten about that one.
I really had. The Dali Lama spoke about a successor,
it's gonna step down. We got a new pope, Pope
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Leo the fourteenth. He became the first American pope. That
happened in twenty twenty five, the first American pope, and
then Pope Francis on Easter. Then remember we had the
astronauts that were stranded up there for just months and
months and months and months, and then of course they
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got back home, but it took a while. And then
there was Doge. Doge remember came in chainsaw elon musk
Ketamine said I was gonna cut trillions and save trillions
of dollars and all of that. It ain't even in
existence anymore. That's something. Oh. Yes, there was the first
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pig to human transplant of a kidney. I don't know
how the pig felt about it, but they seem to
think that is the way that pigs, for some reason,
we can genetically modify them. They're most like humans, and
yet we eat them. I don't. But they're genetically modifying
pigs to grow organs for us, and they grew a kidney.
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Didn't turn out as they totally would have liked, but
it gave them enough promise to move ahead. Me and
Mar's second largest city was hit by a seven point
seven earthquake this year. That was devastating. I remember when
that occurred. Los Angeles wildfires. Now that's for many going
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to be their biggest story because their houses are gone.
We all watched it live on TV. It was horrific
watching Runyon Canyon start on fire when I had friends
that lived right next to it, watching the flames head
towards Hollywood Boulevard. Pacific Palisades wiped out, Malibu wiped out
(34:42):
an urban center, Los Alta, Dina devastated. Hugh a giant
urban center, caught fire and didn't have the resources to
deal I hope we've learned, you know. I hope in
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twenty twenty six and forward, we will learn how to
deal with fires in urban centers. Because the fires were
that was something that was a story and we all
watched We all watched it live. All right, when we
come back, we've got many more stories to talk about,
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and we'll talk about the top movies and television shows
of the year, all of this on my New Year's Eve,
year end look back on twenty twenty five. I hope
you're having a good time I hope you're gonna have
a good time tonight. I hope you or this afternoon,
and I hope you're gonna stay safe and see us
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Yeah, you know, I was just thinking if all the
years got together and had a party, there'd be a
separate table for a few years, you know, a few
bad years two thousand and one for me? What was
one of your worst years other than twenty twenty five?
But I mean personally, what was one of your worst
years two thousand and one? Obviously for me when Andrew
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died and then I lost my job at KFI, and
oh that was a well, that was a Joesy of
a year. But personally, I'm not talking about you know,
politics or whatever. Personally, what was one of your worst years?
Put it down below, put a comment down below. But
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also what was one of your best years? Certainly nineteen
eighty eight, eighty nine when I met Andrew. One of
my best years. This year for me was the first
time I actually saw my music chart again in it
had been decades since my music charted, so that was
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and this was the first year that I ever had
a song chart that I wrote. That's a big deal
for me. In twenty twenty five, what were some of
the milestones did you have, Miles? I mean, it wasn't
all bad. This year. Yeah, the news was all bad,
but my life wasn't all bad. Twenty twenty five had
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many you know ups, it did, like record the recording
a song I wrote and it going, you know, up
to the top five. I danced because and how well
received it was, and do you want to funk? And
working with Jeanie Tracy and so twenty twenty five, you know,
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had its moments. What were some of yours? I'd love
to read them, put them down below. Okay, Justin Trudeau
resigned in twenty twenty five. He stepped down as the
prime minister so he could date Katy Perry. Why are
you resigning? I really want to date Katy Perry. Okay. Whatever.
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The Blatin Glacier collapse, that was a big deal. A
catastrophic glacier collapsed in the smiss Alps, devastating the village
of Blattin on May twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, buried
an entire village under a massive landslide of ice and rock.
It was triggered when the when the Birch Glacier gave
way after being destabilized by millions of cubic meters of
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debris from earlier rock falls. There was a timely evacuation
so that people weren't in the village, but the village
was swallowed up. That was something. Nineteen countries are restricted
or banned from entering the US at the order of
Donald Trump. That's a huge story from twenty twenty five
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and one that rocked the world. Nineteen countries. The directive
placed a full ban on Individuals from twelve nations, including Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Cuba,
Venezuela were placed under partial restrictions as part of these
new border security. Of course, if you're rich, you can
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buy a gold card and just get past all of this.
The era of private spaceflight took another major step in
twenty twenty five with the launch of Axium Mission four
to the International Space Station. The mission lifted off on
June twenty fifth. It was significant for carrying the first
Polish and Indian astronauts in decades as part of its
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four person crew. The collaboration between Axiom, SpaceX and NASA
also marked the first modern flight of the new crew
Dragon Capsule Grace. The capsule was called Grace. Also this year,
Hungary left the US or left the International Criminal Court.
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It was politically charged of course it was announced as
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Nett and Yahoo, who was wanted
under an active ICC arrest warrant, arrived for a state
visit in Hungary. So in order for him to visit there,
they had to leave the court or they would have
had to arrest him. So they left the court. A
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peace agreement was struck between the DRC Democratic Republic of
Congo and Rwanda. After thirty seven years, however, we know
that tensions are still high and fighting is still going on.
Federal troops were deployed in LA against anti ICE protesters,
and then Portland and then Chicago, then New York, I
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think New York, now Washington, d C. That was a
scary headline. A lot of these headlines are scary. Cambodia
and Thailand started fighting this year. That's, you know, not
something we wanted. Texas flooded, remember that. I remember it July.
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Texas just flooded and the camp where the kids were,
all the death and mayhem that happened there. That for
Texas was the equivalent of the fires half with fire
and water. But yeah, that was something. The Texas flood.
A military helicopter during a passenger plane collided. That was
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in January. The aircraft carrying sixty four people was on
its way to Reagan National Airport. Remember that most of
you forgot. Remember the plane was flying in and it
hit the helicopter and then bam, that was it. Three
service members on board. They crashed into the water. Remember that.
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I did a few ask people, hey, in twenty twenty five,
did an airplane run into a helicopter? They'd be like, no, yeah,
it did. Remember we watched it again. Something we watched
live on TV, played over and over and over again,
and yet we forgot. Then, of course, we blew up
Iranian nuclear facilities. We launched missiles on Iran in twenty
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twenty five. These stories be wearing me out, you know. Really,
he renamed the Gulf of Mexico, called it the Gulf
of America. Remember that was a big story. I don't
think anyone pays attention to it. I don't think anyone
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calls it that, but he did it. So these are
just some of the big stories of twenty twenty five.
I just can't you know, ap if you go to
their year end review, it's even more depressing, you know,
it's even more depressing FEIFA. Remember they gave Trump a
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piece of word. Oh yeah, that was that was that
was something we have bad Bunny being named to do
the super Bowl in twenty twenty five, first time a
Puerto Rican non English speaking act. Although the super Bowl is,
you know, coming up today, it didn't tomorrow. There's a
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lot of games, a lot of games tomorrow. So that's
that's big news for twenty twenty five. What else? What
are their key moments and trends where they're let's see
AP film writers ranked the best movies. What do they
have to say about the best movies of twenty twenty five.
Everyone keeps talking about this Timothy Challamey movie where Marty Supreme,
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but none of us have seen it. Oh yeah, we
lost Robert Redford, We lost Diane Keaton. Oh we lost
so many fabulous people. We lost Jane Goodall, We lost
Jeane Happen. Remember that his wife got the Haunta virus
and died and then he pretty much died of a
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broken heart sitting on his porch. Oh, I'd forgotten that story.
That was something. Maybe we should switch and talking These
are depressing me. I don't want to be depressed on
New Year's eve. You know, let's let's talk something more fun,
like movies and television and all of that, because boys,
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some of these stories they are they're really depressing me.
I mean, I don't know about you, Charlie Kirk. That's
certainly one of the biggest stories of twenty twenty five,
Charlie Kirk. Val Kilmer passed away as well. Not just
Robert Redford, but the assassination of Charlie Kirk. That certainly shaped,
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you know, our our narrative, our country, you know it,
it shaped a lot. Rob Reiner being murdered. Didn't have
that on our bingo card for you know, twenty twenty five,
did you? I certainly didn't. What a year. Wow, hearing
(45:41):
all this is just real. Putting all this together in
one spot, it's it's no wonder we're exhausted. We should
all just sleep, which you know, we'ch just go to bed.
Twenty twenty five was exhausting. For the arts. It was
(46:01):
the year that we saw the pit. Noah Wiley came
back to television and What Is Being Held is the
best show of twenty twenty five. I adored it. A
medical show, Noah Wiley fabulous. It was wonderful. The Lowdown
on TV saw Reservoir Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harrow brought
(46:24):
another Oklahoma story life. It's called The low Down. If
you haven't seen it, it's on Disney Plus and Hulu
and FX. Really great show. The film Black Bag. Many
people have forgotten that Kate Blanchette written by David Kepp
Michael Fassbender. That was wonderful. Alien Earth, that's certainly one
(46:48):
of the best TV shows this year. If y'all haven't
seen that show, oh my god, it's so good. It's
so good. And The Residents was picked by many, including
pr as one of the best shows of the year.
In Netflix canceled it. Same with Boots, yet in an
effort to get approval for their big merger, they canceled
(47:12):
The Residents and Boots. And the Resident was so cute,
it was a who Done It at the White House?
And the character Cordelia cup I could watch more and
more and more and more of her, so good. What
else Mountainhead? Oh that movie, Oh it was about all
(47:32):
those rich people that pretty much engineer the end of
the world. And then there was the movie that really
ripped my guts out, a perfect strange The Perfect Neighbor
that's on Netflix if you haven't seen it. It was a
documentary or was it a movie. I think it's a movie,
and it really God, this white lady just kills this
(47:55):
black lady for for no reason, you know, for no
ethan And there were all these events that should have
led people to know that it was going to happen.
But then for film, we had a house of dynamite
and the fact the most important part of that movie
and why it was important in twenty twenty five, it
(48:18):
showed that in order to react, they only have about
twenty minutes. So basically, the decision to end the world
as we know it if they detect a missile launch,
that decision is made in about eighteen minutes. Can you
(48:40):
imagine having to decide whether or not the world is
going to end as you know it in eighteen minutes.
I wouldn't want that weapons. That was a really good
horror movie, not as good as Sinners. Sinners is my
favorite of the year. My favorite movie of the year
was Sinners. It had music, it had great performances, it
(49:03):
had Michael B. Jordan, Oh Sweet Jesus, and it was
just so innovative for a vampire movie. I hope it
wins Oscars. I hope that it ends up winning Oscars.
But Weapons was equally as good, and weapons was a
big analogy for school shootings. Of course, twenty twenty five
(49:24):
was the year of the Bondie Beat shooting in Australia.
They'll remember that forever. We've already forgotten. It was two
weeks ago. Most of you have forgotten. I have not,
Jews have not, and the people of Australia have not.
But that was there Frankenstein with my future husband, Jacob Elordi.
(49:47):
It's one of the best movies of the year. I
loved it. A great retelling, the same as Superman. I
loved that twinless, I loved Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney.
Was a great movie, really low key independent film, but
seeing Dylan O'Brien play Gaye just made my heart sing.
(50:08):
Blue Lights. That's been named one of the best shows
of the year. It's on brit Box and it's a
cop show. I watched two shows on brit Box now
that and Silent Witness which season twenty eight twenty nine,
something like that. Great show. If you haven't seen it,
The Traders, I hear is really great. It's on a
(50:30):
lot of year end list hosted by Alan Cummings. I
haven't really seen it. One battle after another is being
hailed as one of the greatest movies of the year.
I don't think it is. This is where I disagree
with the people that make all the list. I thought
it was okay, but the greatest movie of the year. No,
(50:53):
I'm gonna go on a limb here and say, no,
what movies or TV did you love this year? Put
them down below. I'd love to hear from you. Am
I missing any Are you you know? Are you disagreeing
with some of these? Have you not seen any of them?
A lot of them are streaming, but some of you
don't pay for streaming. Some of you don't, you know,
(51:15):
like the streaming. But entertainment things bigs me, so, you know. Sometimes.
All right, we'll finish up the last segment of the year.
Oh my god, the last segment of the year is.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Nice Sata no is show side.
Speaker 10 (51:59):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (52:00):
It just hit me, It really did, just hit me
that this was the last segment of the year. We
have done four shows a week for fifty two weeks,
so two hundred and eight shows basically wow, wow, Actually
(52:21):
right about two hundred. There were some I missed. I'm sorry,
but I've done two hundred shows this year, two hundred
times that you welcomed me into your homes, your cars,
your headphones. Two hundred times, including tonight, that I've sat
(52:42):
here and commented and you know, said all kinds of
things to you. You stuck with me through all the
medical anxiety. You know, yesterday's show, maybe you watched it,
maybe you didn't, maybe you tuned out, but having then
at the clinic where Eric Dane you know, went, and
(53:05):
this was the year of my als scare, This was
the year of the repercussions from last year of that
damn shot, and so on this last segment of like
my two hundredth show, I just can't thank you enough.
(53:26):
I just it's really the patrons. It it's the patrons,
And I can't thank you patrons enough. I would not
have made it through the year without you. You literally
paid the bills, and you know, you made it easier
for me to be me this year. I can't. Oh,
(53:49):
I'm getting all them, you know. New Year's Eve makes
me so fucking emotional. I can't. You know, I had
more movies. I wanted to tell you about more music,
but the final segment of the year, we have think
of all the shit we have talked about this year, painful,
painful stuff, stuff that infuriated us, and then happy stuff,
(54:14):
you know, fun interviews and fun topics. And we've gone
through it all together, you and me, you and I
with Ember, And I'm gonna be so blessed if I
can do it again next year, if we make it
through another year to another New Year's Eve, if Trump
(54:37):
doesn't come after me, if Maga doesn't come after me,
if I'm look the future, you know, on this New
Year's Eve, I look to the future this next year,
and I may not be in this room come next
New Year's Eve. I may be in a different house
here in Vegas. I may be in a different state
(54:57):
in the United States, or I may be in a
different country. Or I may be dead. You know that
it's a possibility and you can't rule it out. So
that's exciting to think about, you know what I mean.
Isn't it exciting to think that we don't know where
(55:19):
we're going to be next New Year's Eve. Trump could
be dead, he could be just like I could be
or you could be he's old, he's sick, and he's
pissing off a lot of venezuel and drug cartels. The
Democrats could win the House and Senate in the year
to come, and come next New Year's Eve, we could
(55:40):
be in a completely different place politically. But I know
that we're going to talk about it right here, just
like we've done two hundred times this year. Wow, I
am emotional right now. I am gravity of the day,
(56:01):
you know, and the the thought that going through all
of these stories, you know all this, and we didn't
we just touched the surface of the stories. There were
so many other things that happened. We just can't even
(56:22):
There were fun shows like Murder Bought with my future
husband Alexander Scarasgard. There was Adolescents and Sinners, and there
was Pluribus, very interesting show on Apple TV. A lot
of these shows reflecting the cultural changes going on right
(56:42):
now in our country. But Wow, two hundred times you
and I have sat here and tried to figure it
all out together. You know, Tonight New Year's Eve, maybe
you're alone. I will be. I'll be alone at midnight.
(57:04):
I'll be asleep in bed with ember By myself. I
may go to the pub by myself. If Steve doesn't
want to go. He still hasn't told me if he
wants to go. I may be alone. It's okay. It's
fine because A I get to be with you every
day and B you know, we are born alone, we
die alone. So being alone on New Year's Eve is okay.
(57:29):
But I'm emotional because every year takes its toll, and
this year took a toll on me. It really did. Emotionally.
This was a heavy year for me because of the country.
Never in my life in sixty three years have I
(57:52):
lived through a year in my country like this. And
I've been gay under Reagan and Bush, but never, never
in my life have I lived through a year like this.
And I can't tell you how I would have gone
insane if I didn't have you to go through it
with and to hear your comments and to get support
(58:15):
from people like Jim Schnabel and Rachel Kapper and Randy
Radar and all the others, Sue Jaeger, and there's countless others,
Darren Holme, Quisk and Phineas and just so many Sandy
and just there's so many people, all the chatters, but
Beta just all the different people. Your support got me
(58:38):
through this year. It got me through, and I hoped
I helped get you through this year, just a little
little hour a day. I hope that it helped you
make it now. I don't know what's coming our way
next year. I don't could be good, could be bad,
(58:58):
could be world ending, world war I don't know. But
I do know if we had the strength and the
courage and the wherewithal to get through this year, that
we'll get it. We'll make it. We'll make it together.
So for the last time in twenty twenty five, I
(59:23):
am Correl. Be who you want to be, so long
as it doesn't hurt you, buddy. Thank you so much
for a marvelous year. Here's hoping next New Year's Eve,
Ember is by my side. You're in front of me
in a canon. I love you all. Thank you very much.
(59:44):
Happy Year.
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