The Daily Zeitgeist - Google Trends Of 2021

Episode Date: December 30, 2021

In this holiday episode, Jack, Miles, and Anna talk about the Google trends of 2021. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this special year-end episode of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist, in which we look at the search trends of the year. My name is Jack O'Brien, and i am thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host mr miles gray yes here to talk about the year in search where google lets us know just how how far we've come either forward or backwards and miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the brilliant and talented super producer, Anna Hosnia. It's raining outside. Oh, cool.

We could use it. Yeah. In this parched state of ours. So this is a thing Google does every year. It tells us what everybody was searching for all year. every year it tells us what the what everybody was searching for all year um we cover trends every day usually looking at google trends as one of our primary sources and this is a digest of like what what made it to the top of the list you know oh hell yeah and yeah so should we should we kick it off with just the top 10 most searched things?

Yeah, there is this thing that usually comes out with this. I feel like sometimes an outlet will get an interview with somebody at Google. And I think this year, it was a Vox or somewhere, they were talking about their main data analyst type person. And the way he puts this sort of year in review is like, no one trusts anyone more than their search their search engine because that's who you're not afraid to look stupid in front of you're going to ask questions you didn't know that you wanted the answers to so in that

this way this is truly a an intimate glance into america's shared consciousness yeah what one good example that is the how to pronounce section where the number one search was how to pronounce dogecoin is that how it's pronounced actually i don't know yeah you killed it but number two is how to pronounce michael jackson yeah what the fuck i saw i didn't i did not know that was on the national shared consciousness on people's minds is that like a i wonder is this like a viral video like how to pronounce michael jackson because i can't imagine that this was something like yeah there has to be more to it and we're gonna get to it folks we're gonna get to the bottom of this shit like we're so old it's like dude it's like a famous meme how to pronounce

michael jackson but no it's truly that's's truly, there's fucking full-on guides, like how to say it. Let me hear it. Maybe it's other countries. Oh, okay. Got it. Thanks. All right, but just top overall searches.

We've got some deceased celebrities who passed, some uh just wild shit bags but the number one most searched thing was nba yeah there's not a there's not another like league on anywhere on here um no i'm worried what does this mean what could it have is it because of vaccine searches and like people trying to figure out where the league was at with vaccines plus generally the like the finals being cool i don't know i'm it's there's this there's part of me that i'm scratching my head why nba is the top build thing right because none of those things would be well you know the finals being really cool is definitely like a good candidate but like vaccine shit like

nobody like the nfl had vaccine shit that major league baseball had even more searchable and newsworthy vaccine shit because they kept like having massive outbreaks so yeah i think it just might be that it's the beautiful game and people just like to... I think you're missing the most important search of the year. Which is what? How to be a baddie. We're going to get to it. I think we should focus mostly on that.

What do you think about the NBA? Why is the NBA trending? Kobe Bryant was the only basketball-related thing trending in 2020. In 2020. In the top searches, basketball was represented by Kobe because he passed away, but in

2021, I don't know, maybe we're looking into it. I'm glad to see that DMX is number two. DMX is number two. Is the NBA not just always trending? I think it is, but I think... So that's the thing. That's what has emerged about the NBA

is that it may not be the highest rated sport. People don't watch it as much as the NFL, but people talk about it so much more than any other sport. NFL is more watched than the NBA? Yeah, by quite a bit. That's racist. You said it.

You heard it here first, folks. That's so wild to me. I think the NBA just in general creates more discussion and there's more culture out of NBA than there is the NFL. I'm even looking at 2019 and I'm thinking maybe the NBA is there,

but there's nothing basketball-related in 2019 either. So I think in general, especially in 2020 too, people just, I think we're kind of seeing like, okay, basketball is kind of fun. We like where they're headed, and they got good, interesting stars to represent the sport and you know based on the how to pronounce michael jackson uh search i'm assuming that a lot of these the confusing ones are driven by international you know search traffic and maybe

the nba and the fact that the newest best player in the league is an international player, Giannis Antetokounmpo. And he had a run to the finals that like was super entertaining. So I'm wondering if maybe that's it. Is that like it just got even more popular internationally than it has been in the past? Well, globally, NBA was the fourth most searched term. Miles, you just fucked up my theory, man. Cut that shit, Brian. Cut that shit. Just up my theory man cut that shit brian cut that shit just

leave my theory it makes sense i'm just going back for a second to see what the difference between global status statistics and us but yeah no i'm just joking brian it probably it probably activated i think it probably did activate some new fans for sure i'm sure if like you were you're you know in the Milwaukee area. I don't know. Is that enough to sway the trends? But all that to say, DMX at number two, Gabby Petito at number three, Rittenhouse four, Brian Laundrie five.

That's wild that Gabby Petito and her disappearance or her murder and then Brian, they're all in the top five. Hey, it was on our minds right definitely on america's mind we talked about that shit once and then we're like all right we even feel weird mentioning this but uh certainly america you know loves it it's interesting you're able to see globally because when i moved to global the only search that comes up is how to be a baddie for me. Maybe this is like national baddie associated. Like maybe there's a dual meaning of NBA and that's where it's coming from because everybody's interested in like how to be a baddie.

I will say there are a lot of baddies in the NBA. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I mean, I do think a large part of like the popularity of the nba is that you see the players first of all you see their like personalities more and you also like they're not covered up by a bunch of you know gear and stuff and they're playing on a small court so you like get to be up close and personal with them so i think it's a more intimate yeah yeah i also think a part of that is that now like with instagram and social media and like you know

accounts like league fits and the fact that they don't have to just like wear those like giant starvy suits anymore they can actually really express themselves so you become somewhat of like a fan of their game and then also a fan of like who they are aesthetically and the you know choices they make like in their everyday life you know like who's in the giant sweater where you're like okay but uh i like that he has most of russell was able to do that i you know i would love to see that confidence on the court when he was playing for the lakers just kidding i have no opinions on basketball but um wait sorry what'd you say about westbrook i said or most a lot of many of the outfits

Russell Westbrook wears coming in. You're like, hmm. He likes to take swings. Westbrook is an icon of style. So are his twins that I follow. That's right. I know more about Russell Westbrook's twins than I do about his actual playing. Who's he play for?

What team is he on? It looks like yellow and purple, maybe? He plays for the Yellows, I think. The LA Yellows. His twins are really cute. And then the last five are Mega Millions, AMC Stock, Stimulus Check, Georgia Senate Race, Squid Game, Georgia Senate Race.

That was a big one, you know? Yeah, a big one. one remember that was the one they said hey guys turn out for that one and it's $15 minimum wages for all yeah I feel like of the top 10 like Georgia Senate race would be the one that

you know at the time we were all about it we were like this is gonna change everything and it didn't do shit well you know welcome welcome to jurassic park aka the united states but yeah i mean this all kind of goes in hand i think it's interesting when you see stimulus check and georgia senate race like sort of eight and nine because so much of the anxiety around stimulus checks was being tied to the georgia senate race like that was being tied to the Georgia Senate race.

Like that was being, you know, sort of dangled over people to be like, hey, man, you're going to get more money, but we're going to do some weird math based on what we think $2,000 is. And then we'll go from there. But economic anxiety is for real. I think the Democratic Party is probably in more trouble than they realize and then more trouble than is generally being assumed because they really went hard with this georgia senate race with the last presidential election and then didn't follow through and i think people are annoyed yeah squid games number 10 um which i don't know what that is but that's interesting i feel like a lot of this other than maybe like dmx didn't really matter in the end because it's america

and it's like we're in the stimulus check we got like three kyle rittenhouse got off yeah so sad amc stock how is that but i think those are more indicative they're definitely indicative of Kyle Rittenhouse got off. Yeah. So sad. AMC stock. How is that doing? But I think those are more indicative. They're definitely indicative of just the financial economic worldview that people have. Because the top three news searches are mega millions, AMC stock, stimulus check. And then GME is even at five. So there's definitely, whether it's for good reasons or out of desperation, there are people who are very much focused on where is there other forms of money possible? Is it through a lottery?

Is it through investments? Is it from, hopefully, the government? The top three news searches are all ways to avoid having to continue to do our jobs. And right. Like the right. And the mainstream media has looked at that and been like, it's proof that people are getting lazier. Right.

But it's obviously like humanity is at the end of our rope with capitalism, like just kind of encroaching on every aspect of our lives until now. Like social media is like it's gotten so much into the dna of like our daily lives that it's unsustainable and like people are just like get me the fuck out of here like that those three being the top most searched things is the really good sign mega millions yeah one right yeah and the fact that the mainstream media is ignoring where people are at and the complicity of their corporate owners and advertisers in the whole thing is probably a large part of why people are like

fleeing to you know people on youtube or you know on the right and like the right seems to have figured out before the left that the mainstream media has lost all respect with people and they had like a terrible bullshit answer waiting but it was an answer you know yeah which is like don't watch their bullshit watch our bullshit we'll call it bullshit but feed you like heaps of bullshit. Right. But I mean, and I think you also kind of see that in the how to help category, too. Like, I mean, I'm surprised at Americans capacity.

I think it's more of the guilt of knowing what America's foreign policy was, but how to help Afghan refugees was first. Then how to help Texas, how to help India, covid uh how to help foster kids i like at the very bottom though apparently we have a epidemic of farting babies because number 10 is how to help a baby with gas that is yeah that is one of one of the worst problems uh new parents run up against because it's wild it's like what you eat then goes through the milk to the baby and like might cause gas. And a baby with gas is no fun. Right.

Not great. Why? Because they're just crying all the time from gas? Yeah, they're uncomfortable, but it's, there's no, there's nothing really you can do other than like kind of pat them on the back until they fart or burp. Haven't you ever had that level of gas? Yeah.

No, I have, but I'm able to just express it to you guys. And wait, are we cutting that part out when I talk about my gas for like 15 minutes straight? Yeah. Is that not making it into the show? It's never been it. I have gas where I can't seem to get it out and it's like debilitating. Yeah. You got to lay on your side.

It's so bad. Or you got to massage your guts. That's like debilitating yeah you gotta lay on your side so bad or you gotta massage your guts that's like in japan that's like a thing you do you lay on one side or just get your like really kind of move the gas through your stomach to your butt i do headstands i do you know have somebody just drop me on my head laying straight on your stomach that also helped me too oh i just lay on the ground and you'll kill me there's some real like i if i had to just like look at this whole page of all the trends and like come away with one overarching theme and like this isn't a fun or funny answer it's really like it's very lonely which goes back to the whole you know all of our interactions and relationships with the people who you know are supposed to make us human uh our family our

friends uh are mediated by like capitalist institutions that turn us into the product or turn us into brands or whatever like for instance there is how to help your teen make friends is one of the how-to's uh on the how to be how to be happy alone how to be happy with yourself yeah how to be there's happy alone how to be more attract i mean there is it's just there's a lot of i don't personal deficit uh being expressed i think in like the how to be stuff except unless you're a baddie in which case yeah all right we are going to do some research into how to be a baddie when we come back from this break as we take this break imagine there's only one really lonely person who searched all

just non-stop any updates on uh how to be happy no still looking no they can't be talking anyone they're lonely that's right no they're talking that still looking. No, they can't be talking to anyone. They're lonely. That's right. No, they're talking. That's how sad it was. They weren't talking to anybody, Anna. I'll be right up, honey. No one like that dude lives in a basement apartment. You don't.

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First, we offer a dictionary definition of a baddie we're not talking about a bad guy bad person an anti-hero or something like that we're talking i guess to quote the urban dictionary a bad girl who is always on fleek slaying the game most of the time these baddies grew up begin bully or what the fuck this is a this is why you can't read urban dictionary because people are like like literally drunk at a bus stop typing this uh but apparently they're trying to also make it seem like a black swan type uh evolution but we all know just someone who's bad but bad meaning good i think the most interesting part is when you're able to click that search and it goes to the sub regions of who searched it the most and it says georgia texas new york florida california yeah and then just jack o'brien's house just my tiktok topic apparently

in texas it was like i don't know when it says search interest 100 i'm like okay so they keep it 100 with their baddie interests georgia's i think georgia's top searched is in Georgia. So when that Senate race was going on, everyone's like, I got to learn how to be a baddie. I mean, yeah. I mean, stimulus checker, no. You must be a baddie to survive in this country. So this is basically an overlap

with number two on the how to be section, which is how to be more attractive, right? I don't know. Am I missing some nuance here because i just say things like how to be more attractive i don't know what how to be a baddie is other than wear an eye patch and uh hijack the nakatomi tower yeah well look i know i said it that audience is aged out of it happy with yourself jack this is dark it looks how to be more attractive feels like the more accessible middle america version of how to be a baddie you know or like that's why you see it more like okay right how to be more attractive they were

searching that in arizona in colorado you know maybe a little less about using the term baddie. Oklahoma is the number one place they were searching that. I don't like these search trends. All right. Well, that's been this episode. Let's not release this. Yeah, these are bad. These are bad search trends.

Do something cooler. Fuck off. Oh, here we go. Here's the one. Oh, fuck off, Google. Under how to style style can we talk about that a lot of fascinating stuff i think that talks about you know like how to style a sweater vest huge yeah sweater vest is a little too high up there for when i'm thinking is like this is a

lot of millennial and gen z searches happening like how to style flannel that must be for the kids because we know how to style flannel. That must be for the kids. Because we know how to style flannel. How do I style a wolf haircut? I don't know. That's like that rocker hair that you see a lot of people. It's almost like a mullet, but it looks like more fancy. Oh, I have one of those.

I have that, but I have a curly version of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of wolfy. But yeah, that's like the wolf haircut. How to style a corset. I'm like, okay, It's kind of wolfy. But yeah, that's like the wolf haircut. How to style a corset. I'm like, okay, let's go back in time. That's a baddie. A baddie is someone wearing a corset. They could be.

It's so nebulous. Wait, so then do you wear a corset or not a corset for a baddie? I mean, it's really up to the baddie. Yeah, it's a style choice a baddie could make. Maybe a little too bad, but you know know that's the badness is in the eye of the bad holder so when someone's asking how to style straight leg jeans they're just asking like what to wear it with like what what to do yeah okay yeah how to style jack you don't do you ever do any search like style searches i don't i because you already

know how to rock straight leg yeah that's what oh it's how to rock yeah okay got it you are skinny i've seen you uh yeah i wear skinny uh and straight leg mostly boot cut though uh which i was surprised to not see on this list boot cut skinny yeah how to wear skinny boot cut jeans i've never seen you wear boot cut jeans i think you've blacked it out is a terrible time i've been through your closet that time you had us over for the you did come down in like five different outfits of mine you're like holding up like these aren't boot cut i'll keep looking but kind of dubious at this point what's your boot cut count is could you stay downstairs

no did you know what like these aesthetics were like indie dark academia i knew what cottage core was that's number three y2k i think i had seen that coconut girl i have not i do not know what coconut girl is that the coconut girl aesthetic is. Let me see if I can. I like this. Yeah, that's kind of cool. Yeah. I looked up dark academia, and it's like dark colors.

The photographs are poorly lit. They had a color palette to go with it. It feels like East coast, like new England boarding school for which one dark academia, like a Harvard. Oh, right. Or like,

is it like edgy Hogwarts? Yes. Well, Harry Potter's number nine miles and Slytherin is number 10. Yeah. So I think Harry Potter, the is still very strong in the zeitgeist i'm assuming right like the search is that like they're searching like the aesthetic as well or i guess

people just love that vibe they want to be malfoyed out what is the decor i don't know i was like worried to look at that i feel like that's gonna be like creepy i think that's we've fully regressed oh this is like jojo siwa shit yeah yeah okay you look like uh just yeah you look like a lisa frank as a human being got it we just called this like that was like sort of candy stepper raver style back in my day yeah see i don't like these trends because they're making me feel old oh yeah we used to call this something else we just called this happy hardcore back in the day kids dressed like this they'd be in the happy hardcore room one of the top searches is miles gray old damn and miles gray young same picture you trying to counteract it no he's young he's young very young's young. Uh-uh. He's big young. Very young. Very young.

I was born after 9-11. Let's run through the top 10 memes. We got number one, Bernie Sanders mittens, which it just feels like a, I don't know. That one's good. I feel like we were working through something there, thinking that that was like, I don't know. Or maybe, I don't know. thinking that that was like i don't know or maybe i don't know like like it was the biden supporters being like look how you know shitty this guy looks well like we made the right decision and this guy's unelectable type thing i feel like it it surpassed that though

where it was like everyone was doing it just to be like look like it felt like it almost lost its meaning of like why are we memeing this like it was just like just put him on something and there he is right and you're like okay okay yeah it's just wild that that was the number one meme of the year i think it was just that it was yeah just that weird stress release of being like okay the inauguration's actually happening there were one step closer to realizing that maybe trump isn't the actual president anymore i depending on where you get your news but i think that was like gave people this like just dumb moment to just you know party with like oh my god he's

wearing mittens yeah so cool and he like hates it yeah it felt like that was a manic moment of culture that like now feels uh a little bit alien to me like why was everybody just hysterically sending that uh cropped into various things back and forth hamster is number two because there's another memeable hamster i think it's a scared hamster twisted t not not familiar with that one apologies to uh the youngsters don't know what that is i mean this is also it's interesting to see like what the i feel like people who are searching memes on google is a little bit different than what the actual most popping memes were you know what i mean yeah yeah because they're just if you're searching memes you're like what

sheesh mean on tiktok when they're like it's not because like i get that that was a huge trend on tiktok but i don't know if this is quite the best metric to apply to actually understand the most popping memes but the bernie sanders one does make sense because it feels like a thing that everybody was tapped into everybody was looking at even like on cnn or whatever they're like and bernie was he was even staying warm despite all the social distancing in the crowd and just like cutting to yeah these are this is actually a list of the memes that were most popular with middle managers uh wanted to like send them to other people me up yeah dab me up is number seven sheesh is number five uh six is red flag like it's pretty hey i like to think of a very loving

step parent who's trying to create common ground. That's cute. Suez canal. That was actually just a great moment of the year. The, the size of that thing, the, the giant container ship that clogged up the Suez canal. I'd be happy with that being on the, being on the list. And I liked the crop jobs of that.

Just being various places. It was a moment. that was a real moment anything else that jumped out to you from the list vin diesel family baby yeah that was huge for us vin diesel heads us fast and furious sisters did a meme come out of the last movie because i just always know vin diesel family's just like always a standard the last movie there was a pop-off of memes about vin diesel and family right brought it back into the zeitgeist ding ding ding ding and um people were all again retweeting or i mean even i think maybe it's been a minute since we had a fast and furious movie because this one got pushed back a year due to the pandemic so People were just ready.

And you know what? I think there is a thing to say about the pandemic basically upping our meme sort of power because all of a sudden, you know, it's like you're at home and you're just doing it and we all got meme time, you know? Yeah. In the meme time,

we all created memes. And we're so lonely that we're like vin diesel really is my family oh man that's when you're with vin your family wait that's olive garden fuck um actually did you know that vin diesel owns a large amount of stock in olive garden he should if he gives a fuck about family why do you think i'm joking oh wait so he's that's a joke if that's a joke you're fucking up vindy no i'm that's real okay we're back on track the or section is just yeah or it was the one i wanted to jump to yeah this feels like so consistent just like

effect or affect like i feel like that's got to be top right consistently through the years yeah like through the years i actually got those definitions separately tattooed on my body it's just like it can affect something rather than be an effect of something uh yeah it's just the the thing is it's interesting is like they don't have it consistently every year like the first five sections typically are the same but they don't have a or section for 2020 or 2019 and is it boogie or bougie that that's a spelling one right bougie yeah yeah just like what are we doing bones or no bones is a meme, right? That should be on the meme one, I feel like.

But it qualifies here because it has ore in the middle of it. It's a little bit sloppy. Yeah. It's not the purest either ore type. Bones or no bones is like the pug, right? You tell me, dad. So I think it was like somebody had a pug that would predict what kind of day I was going to be based on if it looked like it had bones or not.

Oh, this thing. Yeah. Pretty cute. Well, I think another indication of how sad we've become where we're like, I don't know, meme pug. Tell me what is our future. Please. Now.

Immediately. And then sinus, I like sinus infection or COVID, allergies or COVID, cold or COVID. I definitely hit allergies or COVID myself once. Yeah, for sure. And then do Pfizer or

Moderna. Like, okay, I like that people are... You see that story about Omicron taking out those pfizer antibodies good luck jack they just said the third dose worked well no they said three they said doing good you're safe before it will kill you so it's real uh crapshoot yeah actually don't don't start saying things people are like wait what yeah is it no yeah yeah sorry that's that's a joke that cuts in the direction of anti-vaxxers

so I will shut the fuck up but we will lose Jack unfortunately because he's a Pfizer guy and Miles and I are both modern heads so see ya he took every vaccine I don't think you were there for that when he told us that he said he got every single one I'm'm a collector anna yeah booster yet i've gotten three j and j

yeah he did three j and j's for his booster you're turning into a bottle of baby shampoo i keep some j and j uh sitting bent up in the stairway also shout out to olivia rodrigo she got two of the top 10 song searches she's all over this shit yeah yeah i don't know three what am i saying deja vu strawberry ice cream in malibu let them know i don't i don't know i heard the driver's license one i'm a little checked out when it comes to olivia rodrigo i got it all through Osmosis from Her Majesty. And then a couple ones. I was like, it was one of those albums.

I was like, oh, this is gonna be pretty poppy. But then I was like, oh, the production? Pretty good. Olivia Rodrigo. Now help us get everyone vaccinated. And she tried. She did her best. She did her best.

She did her best. TV shows. You got the expected expected what you'd expect Squid Game, Bridgerton WandaVision then number 4 coming in hot Ginny in Georgia didn't expect to see that one you didn't watch that?

caught me looking yeah I did watch that you know why it blew up? Taylor Swift did a what is it the Barbara Streisand effect or whatever right tweeting out because there was a they make a joke in the show about taylor swift dating a bunch of different dudes and they're like what are you taylor swift just i don't know something like that taylor swift

got upset tweeted about the show having this joke which i'm like this girl's got 40 google alerts a second about her observing all of them. And then she tweeted it out to be like this is inappropriate Netflix. Why would you come for women like that? And then proceeded to blow the show up. Because everyone's like well I gotta watch this. They're like oh they coming for Taylor Swift? Say less.

I think she inadvertently popped off the show when she was actually trying to scold Netflix for allowing them to include a very brief throwaway joke about her in like episode 8. Right. Well, the power of the swift. Cobra Kai, number 5. They must have

a new season this season. Yeah, I'd only watch the first two. And I liked them. And the only ones I really watched on your Squid Game Mayor of East Town. Oh yeah, Mayor. Yo. but there's that i like them and then other than that only ones i really watched on your squid game mayor of east town oh yeah mayor yo so i i just have to once again there's a movie that's getting a lot of buzz called the power of the dog it's very good but it's it stars benedict cumberbatch and he's getting a lot of buzz for like a word shit he cannot do an american accent it's a western and he's like oh what are you doing come on man like it's like real like he's you can like see

he's burning a thousand calories every time he has to like say certain words and i just have to once again shout out to what kate winslet did in mayor of east that like just the the greatest moment of that show for me was just like cutting to an interview with her after and her speaking in a british accent and me like having totally forgotten that uh you know she wasn't mayor. She wasn't mayor. Do you want to hear my impression of mayor of East town? If she was a podcaster? Yes. Guys,

we need to record a post. No, I fucked it up. No, no, keep that. You had that big going so strong when the show was on. I remember guys,

we need to record a poised roll. Poised. Poised. Roll. Poised. Poised. Mayor of Sydney now. Poistroll.

I used to be able to do it better when the show was actually on and I would just talk like her. Guys, we need to record. It's like a record. There was this article that came out recently that was like, do good accents even matter anymore?

And they were juxtaposing that with Lady Gaga and House of Gucci. And I think even the Cumberbatch thing where they were just sort of like, I don't know if it even matters if you're fucking up at this point. It's a great performance. It is. And the movie works really well. It just stressed me out at the beginning when I realized he wasn't pulling it off I was like oh no oh second hand embarrassment

may I defend the accent work in film work like the power of the dog is that what it was called? that era accents were a mess because we were transitioning from a more British sounding nonsense to a more less British sounding to what we now deem the American accent. So I don't think there is too

much of an, uh, like a right accent. If the movie is, it takes place in a time that's old enough in this country because there was such a kind of bleh.'t what am i even doing defending america you know what you're right his accent sucked hey they're just transitioning out of their their colonizer swag no i mean it's like i don't think accents like back then when this movie supposedly takes place in quotes i don't think there was like i think accents were all over the place because there was still such a time like colonizing and like you know the uk and then you know i've also heard the uk had more of an accent like the south way way way way way long time ago yeah that that or not even maybe like the south but more like boston delaware that then was yeah that then was morphed into this more like classier sort of British, you know, like they made that shit up.

They were like, oh, that sounds fancy as fuck. They used to be like, hey, you're watching the Sox game. Sorry, I apologize to everyone. Goodbye. But yeah, I mean, that shout out to the Industrial Revolution for changing the accents, too. Yeah. that shout out to the industrial revolution for changing the accents too yeah among the great greatest things that the industrial revolution brought us uh yet to find a bad one came back from the industrial revolution just been hey man 40 hour work week winning streak winning streak

uh ever since anything else from the from the overall page of Trends before we bid adieu, which let me just look up how to pronounce adieu. Yeah. I think I nailed it. Nailed it. Yeah. My favorite recipe that got searched is like TikTok pasta. That's how you know we're too far gone. There's no helping us.

Is that people like like how do you make that pasta on from tiktok it's that one with the big block of cheese and the tomatoes right my favorite smashed potatoes guys this is it's right there you just smash the potatoes there's ones yeah i i think i don't know the one i just appreciate that birria tacos is number three oh yeah that became and i think honestly and that's also as a result of the internet. Because, like, the dunking of the Birria Taco into the consomme, that has just become, like, standard issue food porn on social media. So, good to see you out there. Good to see you out there, Birria.

I wish there was, like, a top porn trend search as well. I'm sure Pornhub will be issuing that. And when they do, we will do an hour and a half on what you said. We'll double it. Yeah. It's all Stepmom, right? Isn't that the main one? I think it would be.

Stepmom does well. Yeah. Remember reading. You know what? I should not have clicked on that link. Yeah. I remember going and searching Stepmom a ton. And I was like, this must do well. mom does well yeah remember you know what i should not have clicked on that link yeah i remember going and searching stepmom a ton and i was like this must do well very good work so wait if you're in your 30s that just means you have to start saying you're a stepmom you want to hook up with

everyone's stepmom period doesn't matter who they are what they do you just want everyone's stepmom right right right put it here on stepmom i guess i don't know yeah i think i think the backstories as i understand them are always uh stepmom and uh step you know it's like stepmom relation yeah step other human being yeah well i think uh i don't know when that we're gonna get their their year in review one but i know it's coming i know it's coming yeah anyways that's what that's what was most trending in 2021 according to google try harder next year and uh google harder that's gonna do it uh we're back with more special episodes pretty soon. And we'll talk to you all then. Bye. Bye. Out of baddie.

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