The Basement Yard - #535 - The 2025 YARDIE AWARDS

Episode Date: December 29, 2025

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Welcome back to the baby. Welcome back to the basement yard. Frank, how are you feeling today? I'm feeling great. Are you Frankson? I'm trying to do that about it. I thought we were doing like a more regal entrance. Right. Yeah. You know, like maybe some like throw some like award show music in here with like trumpets. That'd be cool. Can you do that? Bap, bum, bah. Oh, not me do it. No. We've heard your vocal renditions and stuff on the San Diego studio. Go ahead. Give us, give us your, uh, your, your, uh, your, your, your, uh, your, your, you know, You're a horn intro. Go get horny for us.

No. See, no, that was just insulting. I tried to do a puppet. You tried to... I'm not usually on this side. Yeah. You're also standing like Trump. This podium...

You guys can't see it. He's like forward. I'm making sure this podium doesn't fall over. Ah, you're all right. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the sixth annual Yardy Awards. I mean, come on, folks. Give it a round of applause. Round of applause for us.

for us, me, mostly me and us. Yeah. Oh, you're going right for it. Yeah, we're gonna open this up because it's a celebration, okay? It was a wonderful year for everyone out there. Not everyone. It was actually, you know, the price keeps going up

and people are not getting paid and that's sad. Yeah, there's some people that definitely, what are you doing? I don't know, but now- Why are you like- There's easier ways to open up a champagne and I don't have that in front of me now, but that's what this is all we got.

By the way. Did you buy this? Well, you bought it. What did you do? I was going to say, how much is this? Also, it's bottle of M-O-A. I mean, if you were doing it for the yardies, you go. Yeah, you got to bump this up.

You got a fire. It's really, I forgot to buy champagne. That's what I had in my house. Oh, gotcha, got, got it. This is from probably 19102. No, you're good. 190, the year 19, 19, 102. I got a quick.

Look, it's got a little thing on. You got to be careful. There's a very expensive light right above you. Should I just send it? I mean, I don't see why. It's going to get wet on your desk. I hope it doesn't. Is this going to go everywhere?

I don't know. Is it cold? Did you shake it? Hey, welcome to the 2025 Yardi Awards. You hit the light. Damn it. Oh, but she didn't spill. Hey!

She didn't spill. This is an evening, we're recording this at noon, of celebration where, uh, well, I, I feel like I don't need to explain it. A lot of people here know what the Yardies is. If you guys are a first time viewer, you're in for a fucking treat. Okay? We got all dolled up. We got all snazzed up. Joey is weird.

wearing a pre-tied bow tie, which is disgusting. I am wearing a custom-made, I had tied like that. And let's give it up for Frank and his fucking bow tie! Because we all give a shit! Alright, here you go. I think it's more impressive that mine is not pre-tied. Honestly, dude, when you walked in here with that, the first thing me and Anne said to each other is, wow, how impressive.

The guy can tie ribbon. I can tie a bowtie. The guy can make the ribbon happen. Also, what the hell was that? Look at what you did. He did it too. What I do? Look at him!

He's fat. I not you like the cup I'm sorry I was mean I don't mean you Batman bowtie by the way Batman bow tie I can see that I can see um you did say it was custom what does that mean my friend um Melissa made it for me in college for Christmas hmm so you think guys and girls can be friends she she still one of my friends I love her love her to this day uh cheers to the Yardies I'm not gonna make it I mean you and I can make it maybe we can do it these are nice champagne flutes by the way

all right this is going to be quite the episode who knows what's going to happen technically we do we plan the whole thing like I said if you guys actually I shouldn't introduce it yeah I think if anyone is to introduce this show it is the first time host first time host mister the only host we've ever had

for the arties usually it's just me and Frank out here doing the damn thing but ants on this side of the camera today because he wanted to host this and he also wrote some words for us so uh let's uh let's get her going why don't we aunt wrote a monologue we'd love to give you the floor uh so please take it take the floor take it take it from us did i spend a lot of time writing this i sure hope so oh you spent a good amount of days this is a big this is a big moment this might be your last there's been rewrites even this might be your last moment, not even just on the channel on the show, but maybe in

life. I will just say, would like you to enunciate and speak loudly. Yeah, and we can stop in the middle if we need to talk about what he says. Sure. Yeah. Right. And I will have a job. Well, that seems to be up in the air. It's like a random question. You're asking

the wrong people, but the right person. You know what I'm saying? Okay, so, welcome to the what year is it? Read the fucking goddamn, what the fuck? Welcome to the 6th annual Yardies Awards. My name is Aunt Priscoe. You know the fat dick, thick daddy with the fake glasses, hubba, hubba, boo-ya. Yeah, all right.

Oh, that's a pretty good. That's a pretty good introduction for yourself. Bad balls. Yeah. Oh, wait, what was it? Uh, I'm sorry. It was fat dick, thick daddy. Got it, got it, got it.

You should read slower. Yeah, we need to understand. Really enunciate. You're trying to like, you know, twist of the thing. Twist of the thing. I'm honored to be the first official host of the Yardies. That's right. Your favorite gagger gagged his way into this role and I don't plan to come up for air anytime soon. Whoa, that's a good plan. Wow. He's dedicated, it seems.

Well, and honestly, you do gag often and pretty well. You have been gag every day for the last month. Let's get that out of the way. Also, where are you that you're saying you're not coming up for air? Mmm. That's a really. Not only is it a good question. It's a fair question. It's a fair one.

I believe that's to be left up to the imagination, Frankie. Hmm. Okay. Hold my hair back, Haley Welch. I'm gonna hock toa all over this thing. You smell? I can't. Free ditty.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. It's good. It's good. You wrote that? I can't believe. Why would you say that? Your first time as a host on the show, you're going to say free ditty. You know, what's in the champagne now that I think about it?

Good Lord. It's going to be clipped. Okay. You ended with free ditty. Yes, right. Thank you. Start right after the free ditty part. Yeah.

In honor of this momentous occasion, I've written a brief monologue in my own words that no one else has seen or had a hand in. That's obvious. That's great. Speaking of a hand in, I wish someone had a hand in me. right now. I don't see how that's even... I don't know how that applies. Why, in what context would that be necessary for the moment? Right. Mm-hmm. So strap in or strap up if lesbian, whoa, dude. This is a very lesbian-friendly show. You know what, though? I like that you're inclusive of the lesbians. It's good. Although you're leaving some people out. Yeah, a lot of

people out. And join me as we have an evening of laughs, tears, and if you're lucky, maybe Frank and Joe will lightly kiss beneath the milky twilight. Why would you... Did you write? I didn't write that. Why? Well, he wrote that. Yeah.

I thought we had pre-roomed to ad lib here. Okay. What the fuck? At this point... Oh, I see. At this point, we can look confused like, wait, you wrote that. Whoa, whoa. What are you doing, dude?

Fucking. Got it. That's in parentheses. And that's what's really. Take a sip of your, your martini that you made. He made the thickest, strongest, dirty martini I've ever seen. Can I say?

looks like an old dehydrated man pissed in your glass. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. That looks like it's fresh out of a urethra. It tastes like that as well. Shall I continue? Yeah, actually, can you start from the free ditty part one more time? Or just repeat that.

I was gonna die. Wow. Six years of the Yardies, amazing. Only 12 more years, and it'll officially be too old for my liking. Whoa. Oh, my God, you filthy. Fuck. Yeah, you're a pig.

What is wrong with you? Jesus. It's disgusting. That's illegal. If you're a first time viewer, the artist is an award show where the boys look back at the past year and award some of the most iconic moments and people that shaped 2025. Right. Yes, we do. And we are very happy to do it.

Yep. We love doing it. It was an incredible year for us as a unit for the world, sometimes for certain amounts of people. But we'll get to that. Yeah. Two more pages. Oh. Just saying.

This year, we decided there needs to be a clear winner, so the boys will give their nominee and then tell us why they think their nominee should win. My job here is to be unbiased and uncircumcised. Okay. I don't know if I should ask. Should you? Are you doing your job well? You got a hood?

You got a hood? Why are you thinking? Why are you? Because I was trying to remember which one is circumcised, which one's not. I'm doing a bad job. Oh, so you're, so you're, you're walking around like, so a little, shalom is what you're saying. Yeah? How, this isn't hard.

The chop one, the chop it off. That's what I have. Circumcised is no, like there's been a procedure. Yeah, the removal. Oh, thank you. Yes, that's the circumference skin around your. That's what, yeah, it's the circumference. Got it.

Resized. Okay. That's the one I have. Yeah. I will pick a winner, but let's be honest, you know I'm going to rig it against the not white Oh! That's crazy. That's insane.

You know what though? He's saying the quiet part out loud. We also expected, we like, expected that, but I didn't know that he was going to say that. I mean, there is something beautiful about the fact that he's just coming out and saying it. We don't need a, we don't need a probe. What? Are you kidding? I'm sorry.

That can't have been real. Your first time over here and this is how you're sneezing? Yeah, you also sneeze at me, brother? brother I think I went down you did okay good okay each oh are you kidding me each winner will receive a small golden statue and boy do I love statues that's right you ain't tearing these down liberals that's crazy okay 2025 rape we squeeze it in we got Republican aunt yeah perfect and what a year it was I mean how crazy was this year that we forgot that it's

started with mysterious drones in the sky there were rumors that these drones were coming from Chinese mothership off of the coast but due to our overpopulation each mothership can only have one drone that's really clever whoever someone yeah listen listen listen took me a reader too

whoever well we haven't seen this right I'm saying though whoever wrote that yeah that was very clever and I think they deserve an award just for that one cheers to that cheers to that You're the Chinese mothership. We saw the rise of viral trends and the fall of King of Trows. Typo.

Reading's tough. We saw the rise of viral trends and the fall of the King of Trolls Elon Musk. Solidifying the age-old sentiment that the hardest thing a person could be is a rich, white, and straight. Am I right, Joe? Whoa! What is it? I don't. Did I?

Was I? I mean, I wasn't involved in that. You guys often talk about this. There was a, there was, now I'm being shocked by things in here. You guys often talk about this. Last page. Oh, another page, yeah. Three pages, wow.

Here it comes. This year brought us so much to be grateful for, especially me coming on as the official producer of the basement yard. Yeah, you know what? Actually, cheers to that. Congratulations. Cheers to that. Yeah. I'm afraid to spill.

Oh, my Lord. The average dong size just grew a whopping five inches, maybe eight inches. I don't know, maybe like hands in balance. Jesus. So you admit it's huge. I don't know if you know how like action typing works. You're not supposed to read the action words. Well, there's a little star and then like a hyphen.

It doesn't really signify. How would that mean read this out loud? You're in the industry now, man. Yeah. This is welcome to Hollywood. Hands and balance is hilarious. Is that not what it is? I guess, but it's just a funny way to write that.

If you just wrote gesture six, seven, I probably wrote that. Well, you might have a better understanding of that world. Regardless. We're almost, we're getting there. Thank you for upping the average. You're welcome. So here's how it's going to work, Piggies. Joe is...

Oh, my God. Wow, okay. Yeah, just so, I'm sorry, really quick. Are you talking about us, Piggy's or Piggy's? Like, you're talking about our fans, Piggy's? I'll come over there. A collective trough of everybody. He, just so he said we are all on the same page.

He said he up the average. The average was already at 10. So now it's at 18 for fucking, yeah, Colossal Kong over here. So here is how it's going to work, Piggy's. Joe is going to go first, obviously, and present his argument for each award. Then, I guess because D.E.I. Frank can explain his side and the boys will argue. Unbelievable. Now we see how you really feel about us. That's crazy. Calling him D.E.I. Frank. It's fucked up. That's fucked up.

Before we get started, this show is sponsored by American Eagle Jeans. That's news to me. That's news to me, too. Want comfort, want style, want to look like all the coolest and best celebs, Ellen DeGeneres, Sidney Sweeney, Jared wear American Eagle jeans wow the jeans so great the jeans so great there must Frankie the jeans so great there must have this Christmas season American Eagle jeans blonde hair blue eyes blue jeans yeah that's a crazy ad to put in there I didn't approve that ad crazy that I better be a fat check it went out on his own and I better be a fat check I don't

know what's going on here So just like Boeing, let's take off and just pray, this goes smooth. Wow. Well, thank you. Thank you for the speech. Great opening monologue. That was great, Anne. I mean, my goodness.

Good for you. That was beautiful. How do you feel? Feel good. We learned a lot about you in that one. Yeah, it got a little dicey there towards the middle. Yeah, I mean, I would argue that it was dicey the whole time. Yeah, I mean, I definitely didn't end on a strong note.

I accidentally drank my glass I just give that one Oopsie poopsie It's the Yardies What do you do Z? All right, I'll be killed Yeah Someone killed

All right So there you go Now you know the rules We wanted to switch it up this year Because we felt like last year And the years before We're fucking awful I'm kidding

I'm kidding No we just We wanted to really People love seeing us disagree And we wanted to flex Our Disagreement debate me bones right yeah you know so I think that we could really hit a home run here

nail it and uh you know who I love nailing it that's a sex joke what do we got for our first category two for two by the way they told me to show the cards because we put into effort look at you look at you first award gagger of the year wow many moments left us gagged or speechless, but only one can be the moment or person who shocked plus amazed us the most. Unbelievable. Great award. I got to remember what the hell I wrote. So, I mean, the rules that Ant established his white supremacist award rules shows that you must go first. And then we fist bumped. Yeah, and then we fist bumped. Oh, I think I remember this. Okay, so my, let me just put my computer over here so I know what the hell's going on. All right, so my, my nomination,

for gagger of the year, no pun intended, is the brothers from White Lotus, okay? You want to talk about something that shocked me, left me without air and gagged, some would say? It was that episode of White Lotus, and I don't even really watch the show like that, but my guy, that is a scene that I did not see coming, nor did I think that it was necessary in the show at all. I don't know how that added to the plot, but that's what I'm going with. What happened in the scene? you didn't watch it no okay so let's just describe just go for it i'm not doing anything this is your pick bitch two guys yes brothers correct played by fucking the terminator son and then the other guy Patrick Schwarzenegger and i believe sam nevola oh okay some other white and uh they're on a

boat were they on a boat they were on a yacht brother yeah so it's not really a boat um but they were on a boat and they were like having sex with this or one of them was having sex with this girl and then the other one they were like drunk and like hi and all the shit and then the other one like sat in a chair and he sort of like self-servicing um and then all the sudden what you know what i'm talking about um but then uh you know one thing leads to another and now he's doing that to his brother interesting yeah okay well color me gagged folks okay that's a very interesting pick however my pick as you will find is the actual winner my winner of the gagger of the year award is the moment that kensrick lamar called drake a pedophile

at the super bowl halftime show now we have seen rap beefs before we have seen disagreements in the public eye yeah we have never seen one where one of the people went on quite possibly the most viewed television event consistently every year and straight up looked into the camera and went, say, Drake, I hear you like him young. I mean, just an unbelievable amount. I mean, the beef that we had last year. Beef. Was quite the, I mean, a lot of people felt it was one-sided.

You'll get people to argue both sides. I'm not here to say if anyone was in the right. or the wrong, okay? Who am I? I'm not an expert on rap beef. But what I will say is it the fact that someone, a Grammy award-winning, rap musician, went on the Super Bowl halftime show and called another one a pedophile is absolutely bananas. And it left me gagged, gagged, tagged and bagged, tagged, bagged, and ready to shag. You know what I'm saying? Oh, got you going. I mean, No, because he was talking about... I just thought of other AG words, you know, AG.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Hmm. Here's, can I make, can I make an argument? That was what that was. No, no, no, I made an argument for mine. Can I make an argument against his? Why not? Whoa. Thank you. I appreciate it. You're, man, you're really doing well.

And your contribution here, by the way, has been absolutely incredible. Do not fall for that. We're very, very lucky. He has a band-aid on his hand. This is, this is tampering a witness? I mean, I... Basically. Who would be the witness?

him. You're tampering. He's the judge. You're pandering. I'm not pandering. Overruled. Thank you. I'm telling him. You're not a judge. You just said I was a judge. You honestly, you are kind of a judge. Yeah, he absolutely is. I'm just letting him know that his contribution here has been... Go ahead. Talk badly about mine. Exponential. Fans of the White Lotus are kind of used to some out of fucking left field shit

happening. Sure. So everyone is watching that show anticipating, expecting something wild is going to happen. And if we're being honest, these guys look like they wanted to fuck each other all episode, all season. So some of us that are keen-eyed viewers of White Lotus saw it coming and then watched it, unfortunately, coming. No one believes that. You know that. I don't think anybody saw it coming.

Thank you. Dude, these guys wanted to fuck each other. They're brothers. I mean, I don't know. I mean, this was gagging. This was shocked. These are both great points. Thank you.

I would have to say that just on the sheer scale of the size of the Super Bowl that the Gagger of the Year award has to go to Kendrick Lamar calling Drake. Unbelievable. Thank you so much. Listen, I have so many people to thank. I have so many people to look back on

if my kids are awake, please, you're up too late. Go to sleep. Thank you to Kendrick Lamar. Thank you to the Academy. Thank you to everyone that made this possible. is proof that your dreams can come true and uh uh you all you need is a dream and you'll make it come true thank you i don't think you're built for the grammies uh fuck all right it was valiant wait why do you have a big one behind you that's been there why i don't know where did that

come from it may have been like an old yardiest to be honest oh you got a tiny one next award All right. The Landscaper of the Year award. What does that mean? Give me a second. It's on there. The person or a moment that needed to touch grass the most. You spent the good part of the year annoying the hell out of us.

So here's a shiny reward. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Great award. For my nominee, I put the whole debate this year, 100 men versus one gorilla and do just getting on the internet and just being all. bent out of shape and being like, we can take on a gorilla. But the reality is this, a gorilla's going to kill 100 men. You're definitely not going to take it down.

You and your boys. That ain't happening. Okay? And I don't need the discourse anymore. I already got one person over here in my life that thinks that he could take down moose and great white sharks and shit. Meese. I don't need the whole fucking internet out there thinking that they can beat up the strongest animal that exists.

annoying touch grass unbelievable well may I first open up by saying you read that really well like with such a plum and just an unbelievable amount of Riz

this just in folks we have a new nominee for Gagger of the year listen I give credit where credit is due and he deserves so much credit I'm going to transition though Sorry, I thought that would upset you based off of your monologue. My winner of The Landscaper of the Year is not a group of people that I necessarily disagree with,

but the reaction that they elicited definitely showed me that they need to see life outside their phones. And that were, that is, the winner, my nominee are the people that posted those crying over TikTok. going away TikToks now listen we all been on TikTok we've all established a beautiful connection with the people that love us and support us thank you guys so much hey thank you too by the way you really did a great job to stand in there the idea that although i understand that this is going away you've amassed the following and some people of livelihood i support that but you can live life outside your phone a little bit you can go outside you could touch grass you need it. You need to feel the energy of the earth underneath your feet. You need some blades of

grass between your toes, some Kentucky bluegrass maybe. I don't know the type of grass, but you need it and you need to touch it. So that's why my nominee are the people that cried on TikTok when it was going away. I would like to point out that Frank was one of these people. Whoa. Frank posted a video. I didn't cry. You didn't cry, but it was one of those like, I really appreciate the judge is laughing so that's one thing this is tampering

you've tampered him no tampon tampered no you've tamponed him and also I think that also let's just get this out of the way I mean people crying because these are their full-time jobs sometimes and then it's going away and then you're making fun of them for crying

and in a way you're kind of forced to give me the trophy because mine's silly Frank I don't know maybe we're laughing at people that lost their jobs I don't know that's gonna play

uh uh uh do you know who he wants you know the people that he's talking about that said that they have a chance at beating a hundred men versus one gorilla it's all the big fans of like the hyper masculine like evil dark web podcast bros and I'm so that's who you want to award

that's who you want to award them I'm awarding them for being annoying oh no but they're not going to take it that way they're going to take it as like yeah I won this because I'm a macho man I'm a good boy and that's not right I think blind, I'm not saying I don't agree with the reason that they got emotional. I fully supported and understand it, but I will say the realization that a social media app could go away and, like, you can go outside and you could see the earth.

You can look at the sky. You can let the rays hit you on the face. Unfortunately, the clouds don't pay the bills. So, what are you going to do, aunt? I'm sensing a cloud of hypocriticism. Ah! As am I. On some side of the earth.

But no, I didn't cry. I wasn't crying. I was just, I was saying, like, it was a joking manner. No one said who I was talking about. That's true. Felt a little defensive there. Come on, bitch. Even though I do think a hundred men can take out a gorilla,

I'm going to have to give it. That's why! He's part of the cohort. This is why you're doing this. Oh, you picked answers because he's in them because he says he thinks he's one of those people. I didn't even know that. If you didn't make a video doing it,

You might have had a better chance. I made a video of me showing off a talent. What? It was me singing a song that I memorized. You sang a song in that video? Yeah. Oh, I should get another one. No, no, no, no.

There's plenty down here. It was not a real, like, singing. That I would... What was the song? Imagine all the people. If that was that, I would have given him the award. You would have given me a cyanide to it. I would have changed the locks if that was that.

Okay, one-one. Okay, moving on. Here we go. This card just says jizz. Ew. This is a professional setting. This card just says jiz. Why does it say it's so little, though?

It's a tiny amount of jizz. Yeah. Well, you know, some people just don't have giant loads. Okay. So maybe don't be so judgmental. What did you prepare over there, you freak? Put Jizz in there? This is a, this is like a, on TV.

I guess no one wants an award for that one. Okay. Well, hold on. Are you giving out awards for Jiz? The moment passed. Next category. The Lifetime Bereavement Award. Hmm.

This will be awarded to something that died in 2025. We're either sad, we're either sad to see it go or happy that it's gone. Either way, it's dead. Hmm. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Great, great job reading that.

You choose. Am I going first every time or you want to go? Well, that's his rules. I'm just telling you. Oh, okay. I, for my nominee for the Lifetime Bereavement Award is none other than Hulk Hogan. Joey. Jesus Christ.

Who died in July. He died in July. Come on, man. It's a lifetime bereavement. We don't know whether you're happy. What was it? That you're happy to see it go. Happy to see.

Sad to see it go or happy that it's gone. Right. We don't know that, but Hulk Hogan did die. An iconic guy. Oh, whoa. Love the N-word, brother. Jesus. Soft rails.

He's had some champagne. He's had too much champagne. He's had some champagne. That's what's going on. What you're going to do, brother? He's really set me up on it. I would have to give him that award. Probably in hell, brother.

That's where my vote is going. My nominee, Hulk Hogan. I mean, you went with a literal someone died. I mean, it's, I understand it could be a moment. It could be something. Listen, instead of, by the way, you look great. That shirt jacket combo out of control. Is there like a...

I'm going to throw up. Is there like a, there's like a texture on there, like a pattern? Yeah, it's a texture. That's really cool. Yeah, what is that? Couldn't tell you. All right. I don't cares anymore.

Yeah. So. So instead of... putting you in a position where you have to pick between awarding the death of Hulk Hogan I'm gonna give you one that's an easy pick my lifetime bereavement nominee is for uncomfortable press junket interviews now what do I mean by that well we've seen some examples for some pretty big movies come out where the stars of these movies get a little comfortable may we say handsy may we say

touchy feely and it makes us as the audience just feel a little strange and a little odd. Now, listen, these individuals have their own relationships, but I don't need to see Pedro Pascal having Vanessa Kirby's hand stuck up his ass during an interview. I don't need to see that, okay? He's got anxiety. Whatever the reason is,

it's something that as a society thing, all of us have seen and just gone, you know, that ain't it. And I'm happy and hopeful that it dies a fiery death in 2020. and we can move on. The only argument that I will make, we don't know if it's dead. Yeah, it does say that died in 2020. Oh, it died.

It died. It was born and died in the same year. Did it because Ariana Grande and Cynthia Rivia, who are very talented women, I will point out. Whoa, you just, you just identified their gender. You just, who knows what they identify as? They say that. They are women, Joey. You're trying.

I am. And I don't know my way out of this. I will say this. Jokes aside. Just an unbelievable amount of talent in those two individuals. And then collective as a unit is ridiculous. It's interesting. But they are crawling all over each other in the interviews.

Yeah. Yeah. But it happened in 2025. And it's dead. We're moving into a new year. You're killing it, though. We don't know that it's dead. Listen, sometimes in order for things to not go on,

you need to bring them behind the shed and put two in the back of their head. I'm talking Lenny of Mice and Men's stuff. And that's what I'm doing to this, and you're welcome. I believe he was near a lake. It was behind a shed. Technically, everything is behind a shed. The world is behind a shed. So I have to choose between a dead Hulk Hogan

who has a choice word selection. Definitely does. Or... I think that's minimizing it. Or... An answer that doesn't even fit in the category. Excuse you! How does that not fit in the category? It's not dead. So it is dead

I killed it. You know what? I like the initiative Frankie. Whoa Unbelievable. All right. So now we've we've we've we've now established that aunt can be bought that's what we've established bought and I just think that you just gave an answer that was insane Hulk Hogan died. Yeah, you went with a little Frank you let it go. He's dead. I let it go I've moved on with my life. I don't know but Okay. I think, thank you, by the way. Thank you so much. To be fair, I also want it. I want the interviews to stop as well. Thank you. If you have the power to kill it, I would like that. You guys, I'm going to take that back the next round of interviews that we see where people are all over each other. If that happens, I will come on this show and you will have to give me my fucking thing back. And I will eat a spoonful of the hottest hot sauce you could find.

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The COVID-2020 award. Wow. A moment's so viral that the entire world couldn't escape. it. Ah, just like COVID-19. That's a pretty clever way to name an award. How do you feel about that? Which part? COVID-19. The naming of the award. You think it was Fauci? You think it was in? I mean, your monologue seems to say.

Right, right. How do you feel about that? The name of the award? I think it's fitting. The entire world couldn't escape it. Do you like it? Which part? The award. I don't know. Yeah. What are the answers? I mean, what are you doing? What's going on? Why are you pointing me like this?

I don't know. What am I doing? What are you doing? What percent is this? Percent down the hatch, bone apple teats. 13? That'll do it. Okay.

Joe, it sounds like he's read the award category. Be respectful. Okay, COVID, 2025 award. The most viral thing, I will say, I'm going to go with Ashton Hall's morning routine. So you remember the yuked dude Who's fucking put in his face in Saratoga water every fucking morning at 2 a.m or whatever the fuck is going on That became so popular that like every single company Was like we're gonna have our mascot do this thing

Everyone's putting their face in water in the morning Sometimes squeezing some lemon All of a sudden we started putting banana peals on her face and stuff like that I've never done any of this to be honest but I'm not against it I don't know if it works It feels gimmicky I think that was probably the one thing not the one thing

but one of the things this year that were so viral that everyone and their mother knows about this Joe do you mind showing some respect to your award and put it in front of you please wow what an unbelievable

he doesn't even care he does not even care look I have these damn this award's got a fat ass I have the he doesn't even care for them no my shit's got a you know why I care for these you should's got a fat ass

it's got a dump It's got a bump. It craps. You know why I care for these? Because I earn them. You know why else I care for them? Because you put in the hard work and dedication to get them. And I thank you for that.

That's incredibly kind. You're going to freak out. Joey, you know what? That is a pretty vower moment. And I am not going to sit here and try to bring down something that clearly is deserving of this award. Have you done a face plunge? I have not done a face plunge. Have you floof plow plunge?

Not yet. He does seem like someone who would recreate the video, though. Frank? Mm-hmm. Why is that? I don't know. I mean, I'm up pretty early sometimes, so, you know, that may be that, because he gets up at like two. And then the first thing he does was that like four.

One million push-ups, I think. Yeah, well, that I'm not doing. I think I might have a tore bicep, chest, peck. Right, yeah. So I can't, I can't be doing that. Yeah, yeah. But that is, Joey, you know what? I will give flowers where they're needed.

That was a very viral moment. However, yeah. There is one moment that not only took the U.S. by storm, because that's really what that was. That was localized to the U.S. as far as I could see. I mean, there were videos of him in Dubai. That ain't the U.S. It is, by definition, not the U.S. But you know what was even bigger, Joey?

It was the Coldplay concert moment. Now, this guy did something, as anyone else does. Okay? He took a video of himself. He's already a pre-established influencer. or I believe he makes content about, you know, like routines and blogging and stuff like that, health, wellness. You know what was even bigger? A moment that was candidly caught on camera at a Coldplay concert where allegedly there were people having an affair and Coldplay himself saw them.

Chris Martin is his name. Chris Martin himself saw them. Okay? So I think that, yes, although you have some grounds to stand on, I'm over here laying down streets for the world. to drive on. This thing was everywhere. Gritty was doing it. Other mascots were also doing it. Everyone was doing it where they were hugging and then the camera got on them and they jumped out of frame. It was massive. You couldn't escape it and it was significantly more deserving of this

award than yours. I actually think that that was very viral, but it lasted very short. It wasn't a long time. The put in the face in the ice thing, I feel like lasted a variable. Here's the thing. I think the face and the ice thing, if I'm being really honest, I didn't even hear about it until, like, after it was viral, really. Like, it was like maybe a week and a half later. That's how virality works. No, no, no, but I'm saying, I'm saying, like, it became viral. And then it was like, two weeks later, I was like, why is everyone buying Saratototota, well, like, why is everyone talking about Ceratoga Springs Water? And then I saw the original.

You couldn't escape this call play concert video. It was massive banana sandwiches. Well, we'll see what the judge thinks I think we should probably look up and fact check which is more viewed How would we do that? We have to count up all this dude's videos No, I'm sure it's like pinned on his TikTok

Right? He has a bunch of, he does it in every video He put, what was the one? I don't know, I don't even know But he just kept doing it Is there a the one of the Coldplay concert? Yes, it was from a girl like a someone's Twitter account

I think this is actually very hard I think these are two of the best answers probably that we've been given so far. Hey. Thank you so much, Ant. To being hard. Hey, yeah. To both being hard. To both making Ant hard.

Why not? You don't like that. No. It's not good. I can tell. It's not good at all. I do think the mascot argument doesn't work here because with the Saratoga water, a lot of mascots did it as well. and I've seen a lot of influencers do it

and mimic that, not so much the other thing. So unfortunately I'm going to have to give it to Joe here. What the fuck? Thank you. You were doing so well. Now that I have this in my possession, unfortunately, what the fuck is that about? Whose team are you on? Did I say unfortunately?

You did. You certainly did! I can't back you up here unless you want me to. I would like that. Yeah, I would like that. Yeah, dude. Leave him alone. He's trying to do his best, man. Well, I meant unfortunately because it was such a hard decision Not that unfortunate that you want it Unbelievable, of course

You know what? They're in cahoots I want to say you navigated that with such a plumb And I'm very, very proud of the way that you handled that And although I lost, I'm proud to be a part of your team If I had a grenade It'd be alive I think he used a plum twice now in this episode He could have

He knows about five interesting words And they may, they will rear their ugly head through this episode, I'm sure. Joey, that is so not very a plumb of you. See, now we're on to number three. Next award. The I'm an old pathetic fat loser award. This goes to the award that made us feel old.

Yeah, I mean, I have a very obvious one for us. I mean, me and Frank are 33. Who knows how old is. Yeah, you're like, I don't either like, like an elf, how old are you? You look great. I would never call you an elf. 28 28 you're not 20 are you 28 yeah i think you're 29 no his birthday i know when your birthday

january 16 16 i'm just going to throw that out there which is his astrology sign uh that's sagittarius isn't it capricorn that's the one um i can't believe he didn't know your birthday by the way he's yeah i didn't not know it you're telling everybody i'm 29 well that was more of a feeling and energy it's not a fact it's how i feel oh so you can't really tell me how i feel about your age you hear what he said yeah yeah go ahead just put down there yeah um i i mean for this one i think it's obvious i put six seven this was probably one of the first things that appeared on the internet that i was like oh man i'm so aged out of this and i i i just can't get in like because i'm so old so it was it was definitely an indicator that i am no longer part of the

younger generation that pushes culture and now I'm just on the outside and I have to accept what wave crashes over me. Interesting. Well, while you're gasping for air drowning under this wave, let me explain to you my point of view, which is surfing above the waves and going to win this award. My nominee for the I'm a fat old bitch, what is it? I'm a fat old

pathetic loser. Yeah, whatever it is. Old pathetic fat loser. Okay. Let's make sure you get that right. Joey, that's a great point too. However, There's one reason that my answer is better than yours and should win, because my answer is the Labubu craze. Now, yes, 6-7 is a massive, massive thing. However, we at one point were in that age bracket. We at one point were in that demographic.

We understood inside jokes with our friends and they became big. You and I better than most people. We didn't have the internet at that time, but you know what? You and I definitely can relate to that. You know what we can't relate to? The massive explosion of Lububu's, these hideous little rat demon-looking things that all of a sudden are becoming, like, status symbols?

I mean, they're selling some for thousands of dollars. Yes, collecting is something that is understood. But when there is something that is collecting that I have no understanding about, I am completely a fat loser about it. So that's why I kick the Labubu craze. All right. I assume this is going to be tough for our drudge here.

Yeah, I mean, the Lubbubu answer was awful. It's an awful answer. It's like actually, it's not very good of an answer. What? I mean, you've gone through many iterations of that, the Beanie Baby. You know, like, it's not new. Furby. No, but Beanie babies were adorable.

Furbies were adorable. They did something. Labibu's did nothing. They're ugly. They do nothing. I would never talk about a little toy that has eyes like that, just in case they get, just in case they get demonic. Unfortunately, what's going against you is the definition of

seven is literally nothing. So even looking it up makes it, makes you feel old. Well, let me ask you something. Why? Give it away. Give it away. No, no.

Yay! Woo! Unbelievable. Unbelievable. All right. Believe Joe takes the lead there. Yeah, now that he finally put his awards on display.

Yeah, and I'm petting all their butts. Next award. The I'm going to cut my head clean off if I hear this one more time award this goes out to the song or vocal stem that we couldn't get out of our heads in 2025 I have here

I mean the only thing that kind of pops out in my head is the no it on my head fucking Jet 2 holiday and that was bad it's not don't go off of the impression of it because that wasn't great but I feel like that was such a fucking like

when I was scrolling on TikTok it was every other video was this and I was and I liked those types of videos where there's crazy shit going on people falling down a flight of steps old people shit in their pants or whatever it is those are the type of videos that I like and now I'm forced to sit through this

the sound of nothing beats the chat to holiday every single second other day very annoying that's what I'm going with the second attempt that was good i can do that part yeah that part i mean i can't hit that that's not my that's not my tone is is the vocal stem um that's a terrible sandwich by the way is that this year yeah that is i love that one i don't even know which one that is little kid gets off the school bus and goes up to his mom and he goes mom and she goes yeah he goes terrible sandwich by

the way terrible sandwich by the way so every time there's something like that doesn't good having like terrible sandwich by the way either way that's adorable and you saying it's cute thank you um you you know what that was big but i'm gonna make it harder okay oh because not only is my vocal stem my little my little audio snippet or whatever you may call it not only was it big in social media and people couldn't escape it but it was big in the real world okay and that's why my nominee for the what's the award title again and fucking i'm gonna kill myself if i hear this something like that close enough uh my nominee for the i'm going to chop my head off if i hear one more time award is chicken jackie listen minecraft movie is i think as of recording the biggest

movie of the year financially really and it is a phenomenon that spans over like 15 years at this point in time so the fact that the movie came out and not only were people on social media unable to avoid chicken jockey and everything with the minecraft movie but they had to go in real to the movies and they would be covered in popcorn and nachos with kids bringing actual chickens into the movie theater. I couldn't get this out of my head. It was borderline

torture and it needs it was, it was, it was a lot. It was a lot to deal with. I have no rebuttal. I know that you love Minecraft. I'm simply just. It's not really about that but Joe gave a good answer and then your answer blew it out of the water.

Good! Pesco to Frankie. That's a very good answer. Wow. Also, Ann, can we look up the How much the Minecraft movie grossed? Wow. Now you've got to run over there and do it. I'm not. I just wanted to do that from this side. You know, you got to do it.

You want me to tell you how much it gross? I'll tell you right now. It's just the first thing of my phone with it. I don't know what. It's a picture of J.D. Vance? Yeah. Is J.D. Vance your background? Okay, give me one of those fucking jokes right now.

Frank's background is J.D. Vance. All right. How many categories do we have? So the Minecraft movie, as of recording, worldwide made about $958 million. It's a couple bucks. On a budget of $158 million, reported. That's a lot of money.

Yeah, that's a lot of money. So chicken Jackie. Next cat. This card just says come. Oh, so, okay. This card just says come. I know, I know. Frank is laughing a little hard at that one.

I feel like he was the come. Yeah. You were the jizz? We don't Snitch You're right We don't You just snitch

I don't I said I think That's a snitch I think the murder weapon's over there You just snitched And you hear about his free ditty line You know how he feels about snitches You didn't say that

I did I did read the paper Next category The that'll wake up your aunt Moment of the year It's aunt Ant moment of the year That'll wake up your aunt moment of the year

That'll wake up your aunt moment of the year year. I only spell ant one way. That was bad. A moment this year that made everyone notice someone or something that was previously unknown or laying low. That's, that's, yeah, I messed out. I messed up. Got it. Or laying low. For this one, I, I, I put something that I think is more recent or whatever, but I put the, the, sorry, can you read it one more time? A moment this year that made everyone notice someone or something that was previously unknown or laying low. Right. So something that like we all kind of knew, but now we have a term to kind of out these people. But I went with the performative male. Okay. The dudes who walk around with the tote bags

and a little chain off of their pants and drinking a macho latte and reading a book like a like a just a, I don't know, just some just some very performative book. Do people walk down the street and read books. Bro, you gotta go to the East Village in like the middle of the day. I gotta. It's unbelievable. That's, uh, it's like, walking to any coffee shop.

The dudes are drinking fucking macha. Careful. What? Macha's great. It's not about the macha. They're drinking macha. They're wearing tote bags. They all just look the same.

That's what it is. Sometimes they have tattered clothing, ironically. But you live in the lower east side. Have you ever gotten to the table? coffee shop with a book I have not no he's protecting himself there I've never been to the coffee shop with the book I I don't I like my apartment so I don't I'm not gonna go work somewhere else make sense even people I mean we there's a co-working space in my building and a lot of people work there and I'm like I you know it's a

nice building why wouldn't you just work in your house interesting well my nominee not only is great, but Joey should be disqualified because he himself said it. The award for that'll wake up your aunt moment of the year is something that was previously laying low or people didn't recognize or realize. Is that correct? Well, he just said that we knew about these people. We just didn't have a term for them. So he is just going off someone that now has a title. But you know what? I'm going to tell you who wins my award. Who is the nominee that I am presenting to the table, which by the way, your table looks great, by the way. I just want to say, I know you, did you build that? I did. God, it's so sturdy. It's on a box now. It's a little.

wobbly. No, no, no. Okay. My nominee for this award is me playing basketball in Phoenix. Now, hear me out. Hear me out. Yes. Yes. Joey might have picked something that's a little bit more traditional, but even Parasite won Best Picture at the Oscars one year. And why should I win? Because there was nothing but disrespect thrown my way for my basketball skills. Nothing but disrespect. Can I stop you? Hold on. No, you better hold on. And I'm just going to say this, okay? There was nothing but disrespect.

And I told you last year I was working on my basketball skills. So me coming out, me coming out and putting on a clinic is worthy of praise and awardship. I will stop you there. One, that thing that I want to point out, you didn't say you were working on your basketball skills. You said, I'm trying to dunk. And I'm like, that's not going on. Is dunking a basketball skill? You didn't dunk during the game that we played.

just just wait two i am going to actively surrender this trophy because if you were there in phoenix what a performance frank put on during that game wow it really was it really was something it really was something in a hundred and five heat yeah okay in a hundred five heat the guy pulled up and he really just put a lot of points on the board a lot of boards a lot of hustle plays the guy went after it it was impressive it was a big It was a big moment for me personally. A lot of hard work went into it. And I'm really excited that I opened some eyes that day.

Some scouts might not have been there, but now they hear this and they might be a little more inclined. That was the basement yards, Linsanity. You know, like someone comes off the bench and you go, you're not expecting too much. And it's like, what's going on? That's what happened. They picked me and they were like, I guess just throw Frankie on that team.

You were on my team. Yeah, I know. They were like, just put them on that team. And I was like, okay, and then I fucking balled up like, like Mike. Just balled up. It was unbelievable. What was that one called? Oh, that'll wake up your aunt?

Yeah, dude. Deserving. It's unbelievable. Frank's basketball performance in Phoenix this year was great. We don't even know if something like that can be replicated. Probably not. When it happened. I'll go one step further.

It can't be. Okay, let's make that very clear. There's a ton of pressure now. Oh, man. Okay. Next up, fan favorite, the Will Smith Award. The person or entity that loves. Loss credibility and continue to make matters worse for themselves.

Yeah. I feel like this one's a little... You know what? This one is actually going to be super cool, but we're going to let you know what it is right after these sponsors here. Tricky. What did you say? You tricky.

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And my nominee for this award is going to be, can you read it one more time? The person or entity that lost credibility and continue to make matters worse for themselves. Yeah, I'm going to go with Sidney Sweeney this year. Hey. Hey, that was mine too. Sydney Sweet, we're on the same wavelength here. Someone who I believe was America's darling for a certain amount of time. And then we had this American Eagle gene thing, which was one thing.

And it was kind of like people are like this as kind of tone deaf. But some people are giving her the benefit of the doubt, then goes on an interview and kind of has an opportunity to say something and really doesn't. So just keeps consistently making it worse. What are you going to do? Yeah. And this is an award that we've been. giving out for several years. I mean, Will Smith has been a topic of conversation at these Yardy Awards for a couple of years. I don't know why. I mean, he's had some, he's had a rough

couple years, you know, and definitely didn't have a great year this year with the whole, like, music thing. AI fake crowd. AI fake crowd. The whole like performance in London. But we just, I mean, I decided to give it to Sidney Sweeney. And it sounds like we're in agreement. So what do we do in this situation? I guess a tie. We both get one or I do have two. Right. But yeah, I think that makes sense. But someone did answer first. Get the fuck out of here. Hold the fuck on.

No way. One, two, three, four. I don't want it. Your pity award. Yeah, no, no, no. I got four. Wait, no. Now we're tied.

I do want it. No, no, no. You can't. You just can't. That's not how the show goes. It's not how it goes. Whoa. Just not how the show it goes.

See, this is what, you guys are seeing it live. Next award. The. Hit us with it. The orange phone. award comeback of the year ah yes the comeback of the year the orange phone award I have Justin Bieber this year made a comeback in a way that I don't think people are actually realizing one this guy's very cool I fuck with

Justin Bieber okay two over the years he's had run run-ins with paparazzi and those have been iconic moments you remember when he was I believe he was in Paris and he said he'll beat I'll beat the fuck out of you bro something like that cool this year now we get a new one where he's like it's not clocking to you it's not clocking to you that I'm standing on business you know like he's he's serving all the Gen Z coded slang right to these motherfuckers the paparazzi then also is standing behind a fucking guard like a security guard and goes fucking you too everyone gets these hands according to Justin

Bieber the boy is back okay and now he's streaming on Twitch apparently the guy's back in a way that you would not believe, okay? If an album comes next year, I'm going to throw up. Interesting. Well, first of all, let's say this. It's called the Orange Phone Award because the Orange Phone made its return. A lot of people are very excited about it. The Orange Phone deserves, by the way, round of applause for the Orange Phone. If we could please... Hey, Dad! Hey, by the way, great clapping there. Really good. Don't listen. I have... Full of a plumb. I will say that, although that is a serviceable nominee, my nominee is something that has transcended the year okay and that's why my nominee

what's the award again the orange phone that's why my nominee we just gave it a round of yeah that's why my nominee for the orange phone award goes to 50 cent being a generational hater now this is a guy that has been in the news for being a hater for years all the stuff about telling Floyd Mayweather to read a page from Harry Potter, all the stuff with buying like a bunch of front row tickets to Jaw Rules concert, a bunch of his beef with Fat Joe. Listen, this guy stepped up the hating this year. And he is so back in the hater driver's seat. Okay. He not only produced a documentary about Diddy, but then he made sure that it was shown on a platform where inmates in prisons, in the prison, where Diddy is, could watch it.

Yeah, that's Hay. That's Hayes drinking the Hater Aid. And this broke recently, he just bought Jim Jones podcast. Did he really? Yeah. This guy is taking hating to a new degree, okay? And Joey wants to award someone that's sitting there offering violence. If you award that, you're a bystander.

part of the problem. If you don't, you're a good person. I think that's a threat. It's not. It's not a threat. It's a social awareness. It's kind of handcuffing me with the Diddy documentary thing here. I mean, he is threatening you as well. Well, listen, I think Justin Bieber has remained in the limelight for years. Are you going to be in support of him picking 50 cent who made the documentary about Diddy when you very clearly in your opening monologue said free Diddy? Wow. And you know what, though? You have a moment. You are, this is a moment. in our lives where you can do the right thing and you are being presented with an opportunity

to do the right thing here. You can stand by your Diddy comments or you can vote an award against it. I think you'd make a great point. The award has to go to Joe. Why? How?

Where the fuck? What do you mean? Come back of the year. Justin Bieber hasn't left the limelight. bro where he just had that Georgia song a couple years ago Georgia I got my peaches down in Georgia song's called peaches whatever it is five years ago whatever wasn't your comeback player they are technically like

a person's personality it's the person being a generational version of a hater you know but you also said that he was consistent in his hate yeah you know I gave examples of years ago this is this year where he just sprung his hate upon us To be comeback, I would say were there moments where he was not hating. Joey's getting after. Yeah, he really is.

God damn. It's already open. I believe, let's count the trophies because we're on our final award here. I have four. I have five. I need to tie this up. It's true. For the final award, we are playing for this big one.

It counts for the whole game. It counts for the whole game, probably. The whole one. There we go. It's actually up there. The whole one. This last award. Written very small?

Big Roar Energy Award Hmm You can't see it Can I see it? Oh wow, okay Yeah commanded the year with giant amounts

of energy and aura The Big Roar Energy Which of course refers to Frank's Roar Yes Which was a big moment for us It was a big moment

Yes it was So actually was You know For those of you who didn't make it to the live shows, that was part of our intro. It was the first thing that you would hear when you go to a basement yard show would be Frank's roar. Okay. You have yet to grace us with a legitimate roar, and I feel that the year is ending, and we would all be remiss if we didn't celebrate 2025 and what...

No way. What was that? I didn't want to make that sound. That's not the sound that I was planning. My vocal cords have, like, dummy dirty, I think. And I apologize, I think. That was something else. I gave it a go.

You can't fucking breathe. All right, come on. Give us a real one. Frank. I think that's the best we're getting. Oh, God. I'm sorry. Really?

Ant? Oh, no, I can't top that. What's the award? Oh, the big award. You just did it. Yeah, the Roar Award, the big roar of the year. This is our big one. I'm going to say, and, you know, you know me, bro.

Swifty. So I'm going Taylor Swift in this year. I think she put out this. album the shit broke records it was like the fastest selling album ever and blah blah blah shit went like super platinum and also she got engaged this year she's had a hell of a year she's had a run for the last three years honestly so it's about time she's awarded for that just gonna just gonna taylor swift that's my big roar unless i'm mistaken i think we gave like our year end award to taylor swift last year hey man it's a it's a she's making a fucking run people win people

People win awards. Listen, you know what? I'm not going to speak ill of Taylor Swift because... That's a good strategy. It's a pretty good astute strategy. But I got someone who just had a little bit more of Roar Energy this year. And that's why my nominee for the Big Roar Energy Award for 2025 is Timmy Chalomey. Ooh, Timotay.

Right. He came into this year and everyone saw Timotay Shalame as like, he was coming in and everyone was like, oh, he's kind of. Kind of like a snooty, uptight, like, you know, like it's Timote. Like people had that image of him. And then he shaved his head. He put on a puffer jacket. And he started just spitting bars and just throwing ass at the Knicks games. This kid knows what he's doing.

He had a generational year. Yes, Taylor Swift is consistently having great years. But I would say 2024 with her Evers tour was bigger than 2025. So I feel it's only right that we award someone that. stepped out of the shell of being a snooty actor and into the limelight of being an absolute roaring motherfucking stud. It's hard to argue.

It's hard to argue. And he had some viral moments too. Remember someone interviewing me? He was like, hmm, uh, yeah, you know, something like that. I don't remember exactly. This is, this is hard. You guys gave real answers for this one. Yeah.

Oh, excuse me. I've given real answers for every single one that I have presented. Right. Right. Do you have any follow-up questions to help you make your decision? Was this year the year where Timothy Shalamei went on stage and said that you guys all suck, I want to be better than all you? Was that this year? First of all, that's not what he said at all.

That's not what he said? It was more internal. It was like, I'm on the pursuit of greatness and I want to be one of the greats. It wasn't like, fuck all you guys. I knew that's what he said. I just wanted him to say it. That's a pretty good... help for you thank you appreciate that i'm tapped in bro i'm a big timmy timmy see the guy just he just

came out and just completely flipped the script and while people saw him he's out there with a shaved head now people think he's a mysterious london rapper that's true they do think yeah they do think of that did he's scottish taylor swift on her tour wrote her whole album as well right she did so during that's what year that was though yeah but i'm just saying the album came out now. The album came out now, but she did it. All the, all this. Also, I will say that this year, I believe that she bought back all of her masters for, like, her earlier albums. So, listen, no one is saying that she's not generational, but every now and then Tom Brady needs to lose. I will even make the argument for Timothy Chalmay of saying that, I don't think that people thought he was

like snooty or whatever, but he definitely, I feel like, has pushed himself into a different category as an actor like people are like this is a this is a generational guy I think oh man's gonna shit his britches so hard

I think you should chug your drink I want to yeah I think you should I feel like you should swallow the whole thing go go go go go go I feel like oh that's oh he didn't chug it

he's gonna vomit he didn't chug it he didn't chug it chuck it come on please you're gonna I want to snap this in half and give it

it to you guys honestly where would you snap it someone someone will get the up no it's screwed in real tight at the bottom yeah you know what i'm gonna do this i think because i open up multiple of these so you had to make a decision yeah it has to be one or the other you can't there can't be two winners whoa what are you are you singing a Christmas song how what's the justification behind his wintership a whole tour the album the tour ended in 24 I know but she wrote the whole album on the tour and then she she you know what she did she made money forcing me to hear about Travis Kelsey's penis like you didn't you didn't think about

for free. That is true. She put out a song about Travis Kelsey's fucking apparent dong, dude. Apparently that. Have some respect, both of you. Yeah. You know what it is? He identifies with the dong. He's like, yo, she made a song. People have made songs about my penis before, probably. I believe it's called Redwood.

I thought it was just called Wood. That's worse. The fact that you guys don't know. The fact that you guys don't know. Frank, I helped, tried to help you. Also, I didn't watch Dune. Neither did I. Oh. This is getting crazy.

I don't think that came out this year. Timmy, we would love to have you on the show. We'll force Frank to watch before you get here. I watched it. But he was Bob Dylan. I didn't watch that. You're not going to award him for Bob Dylan?

You didn't watch. You know what? You didn't watch Bob Dylan. You know what? Did you watch it? Did you watch Wonka? Wonka was fantastic. You know what I'm going to say?

You know what I'm going to say, Timmy? Don't let you are a generational talent. Do see the way that they just ripped that award from your fucking deserving cold dead hands? Don't let this happen again. Continue to be you. You're crushing it. You see them?

This is them. That's what they're doing. Being them and not allowing you to shine. You and I are on the same page, Salome. You were robbed again, and I was robbed. We should get Timothy on this show. Get them on here.

Call them up. Yeah, I'm going to send an email. I'll be honest with you. I'm furious. Like, not even joking. I did not think I was going to win that one. This was a shock to me, especially when I started petitioning for Timothy Salome.

But, you know, it is what it is. Winners win, losers lose. And it is what it is. And it is what it is. And like I was saying earlier, that these ones have fat asses, this motherfucker's got a muddome. So this shit is crazy. I appreciate it.

I love the show. And thank you guys so much for an amazing year. All jokes aside, show gone. Like this show gone. It's still the show. Well, I'm saying. This is our last episode. That's right.

Well, seriously, all Joseph's on. Let's make it very clear. Of 2020. Yeah, of 2020. No, we're still doing it. Last show of the year, do want to honestly say that this has been a life-changing year. I mean, the last two years for me and Frank, similar to Taylor Swift, you know what, I do deserve this. But similarly to Taylor Swift, the last few years have been very life-changing for me and Frank.

And, you know, we moved into this space, had a new studio set up and all this stuff. And it's been amazing. and now ants on the show. We were going through a lot of changes at the moment, and you guys have been so supportive and haven't wavered at all, and we appreciate that so much, and it's been so much fun.

And, like, I really look forward to the future and have no idea where we can take this, and it feels like we've been working for many years to get to this point, but in a way, it also feels like the beginning of a next level, so it feels like we're just getting started. So we're very excited to kind of see what happens in the future and, you know, how far we're able to,

able to take this but it's it's fucking it was a crazy year I finished so I'll cheers an empty glass chug the bottle probably I think you should I'm not gonna chug the bottle I think you should chug your drink I got no more no chuck I think you should swallow both I don't want to no I don't do that dude Jesus Christ I think you should put a little champagne in there and top top it off and chug it now we're talking about something that's probably disgusting are you gonna have some with me are you wearing lipstick what is going on in that cup you know I think it's the dishwasher

I was also Frankie took a sip of this he wears I took a sip through a straw bitch to not mess up your lipstick no I was going in with do you want a little bit treating you with much of plumb yeah just the cheers at the end of the year I was going in treating you with much of plumb and then you ripped that from my fucking hands five of plums is definitely

too many for an episode well folks we are so appreciative some of us are our flabbergassad that we didn't win this but thank you for 2025. If you celebrate this new year, some people are Jewish and some people are Chinese. Jewish people have a different New Year too? Yeah. What? No, they don't. Do they do? Yeah. Jewish people have a different New Year. Yes, I don't want to mess up the name of it, but I absolutely know that they do. I know that the Chinese have a different new year. The Chinese New Year.

What's up? It looks like my olives are like little jets. what the fuck is going on in there bro show him that let me see it yeah they're like moving and and farting it's like they have their little jets look they're farting yeah isn't that uh it's called roshoshana

that's their new year yeah oh i thought that was just like a the hebrew it ushered in the hebrew year 5,786 wait what that's what it says 5,000 we're in 2025 5786 I don't make the rules, but whatever you celebrate, we want to thank you for the love for the support.

We're excited for 2026, and we hope that you'll join us and maybe bring along some new friends while you're at it. So, cheers. Cheers. Cheers, big ears. See, no, he's insulting your ears. No, it's a key thing, I think. Did he say that too? I think it's my dad used to say that to us.

Oh, well, that makes sense. Happy New Year, Merry, happy holidays, all that stuff. Wow, yeah. And we'll see you in, we'll see you next year. See, now you got to ruin it Let me sign it off And catch you on the next year That was way worse

Mm-hmm