The Daily Zeitgeist - The Yearly Zeitgeist: 2012/2013

Episode Date: December 26, 2019

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this very special 2012-2013 episode of Dear Daily Zeitgeist. I don't know why I got all Morning Zoo there. This show is a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say, officially off the top, fuck the Koch brothers and fuck Fox News. Oh, fuck them. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.

Oh, Jack O'Brien. Oh, Jack O'Brien. How are thy hands so awkward? And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! I see a Blasian boy

puffing on a blunt. Bum, bum, bum. Bum, bum, bum. Okay, that's all I got. Yeah, and we're thrilled to be joined also A blazing boy puffing on a blunt. Okay, that's all I got. Yeah, and we're thrilled to be joined also by super producer, Anna Hosni. Anna Hosni. Anna Hosni. All right, this is bullshit. Anna Hosni.

I did it right. Why are my dicks so fire? Jack has a box of holiday candy he's vibrating that he's crushing and snorting but like i'm like tired but yeah like you're like a delirium yeah i'm a little delirious right now guys but you've got we get we've been going like four podcasts a day for like a week yeah i'm just doing it i'm're going to burn out, y'all. Like millennials. It's overheating.

Oh, Jesus Christ. Sorry. I love it. None of this. Keep this energy. Keep this energy throughout. Well, so today, guys, talking about 2012, 2013. What a year.

Where were you? What a year to be alive. Where was I in 2012? I had just moved out to Los Angeles. Sarah and I got real into running. Really? It was a very lonely time for both of us. What do you mean?

Because you were both just jogging, yogging together? Yogging a lot. In your own, did you, would you wear headphones or did you, that thing where like,

hey, if you're jogging, you should be able to have a light conversation. Oh, no, no, no. We would do it together

and we had each other's company, but we didn't have many friends. Oh, got it, got it many friends. Oh, got it. Got it. Yeah. Oh, because you just moved out to a new town. We just moved out to a new town. We were running a lot and the people we were hanging out with were other runners.

Oh, shit. Yeah, it was rough, man. Run gang. What were you running from, though? Yeah, exactly. That's the question we're still trying to answer. New York shitty. Yeah.

Where were you, Anna? 2012? Yeah. that's the question we're still trying to answer New York shitty where were you Anna? 2012 mid year I graduated college, university that's true I did end up getting back into good standing hell yeah this is the triumphant return graduated

top of her class gave a speech, valedictorian I don't even think they let me walk didn't graduate top of her class graduated a speech. Valedictorian. I don't even think they let me walk. Didn't graduate top of her class. Graduated fucked up off her ass. That's true. There's a photo of me at the graduation ceremony with my eyes closed and head back.

Because my parents were like, why are you even giving a shit? And I was like, it's like 18 hours long. You've been to a public university before? I didn't even go to my ceremony. So many students. I did not go to my own college graduation because I did not want to sit in the heat at the tennis courts at UCLA. Ours was indoors. No, because

they have to graduate everybody at the same time, so my department would be in the tennis area. I'm like, fam, in June in Los Angeles? No. Also, I just need the paper so I can get a fucking job. Goodbye. Did you bring that paper? Did you bring your diploma to every job interview? Yeah, like the mom in Joy Luck

Club who's holding the Time Magazine cover. Remember when you brought it to this one? I did. And you guys didn't even give me shit because it was so clearly a joke diploma from Bovine University. Yeah. I was living in my mom's back house. This is post politics life. This is post-politic life.

This is post-politics life. I'm still not really doing a steady job. This is when I'm doing, start doing my otter jobs. Like I'm doing raves, doing artist hospitality there, managing like cash bars. Artist hospitality at raves? Yeah. Wow. Like so setting up like a DJ's trailer with like all their wild rider shit. Yeah. Wow. So setting up a DJ's trailer with all their wild writer shit.

Yeah. Hell yeah, man. And that's when I was like, man, you know what? I need to get on the right side of this mic, man. Yeah, that's right. So I can have people fill up my dressing room with gelato and hint pineapple water. Hint pineapple water. That was your future, man.

That's the writer right there. There it is. Anyway, so 2012. 2012. Where we started. what a year uh so let's start out with movies i i feel like that's a good good way to kind of place yourself in the zeitgeist yeah yeah that was the year uh that looper came out and this is also the order generally i'm going to be listing these in the order when you google movies 2012 this is how google has it which i think is a good metaphor for like how our collective consciousness remembers uh movies from that year it's like what order they're in kind of a weird order looper first the master argo uh lincoln moonrise kingdom the avengers

which i would have thought would be first uh Django, The Amazing Spider-Man. That's a movie that has just completely disappeared. Is that the one with Andrew Garfield? Yeah. Just totally disappeared from our consciousness. Because it wasn't one. Okay. Tobey Maguire, regardless of his pussy posse days, he really killed it with that Spider-Man.

That one really brought it home to me. I was like, James Franco, evil dad, get it. Okay. That was James Franco, wasn't it? Yeah. Wow. And then when you come out with the... I feel like they didn't wait long enough to come out with a new Spider-Man, so by that point I was like, no, I'm still taking in the old Spider-Man.

Right. Because it takes me like 10 years to watch a single superhero movie, you guys. Beast of the Southern Wild came out that year. That was a pretty movie. Wasn't the little girl in that like the youngest Academy Award nominee? Yeah, I think she was. I don't want to say her name wrong, but I think it was Kwanzaa Nay. That's a pretty movie. Didn't, wasn't the little girl in that like the youngest Academy Award nominee? Yeah, I think she was. I don't want to say her name wrong, but I think it was Kwanzaa Nay.

Uh-huh. That's a pretty name. It lasted, I can't remember unfortunately. Zero Dark Thirty came out that year. That seems too fast because didn't we just talk

in the last episode about how they killed Bin Laden one year before? That movie was propaganda. It really was. So we had Zero Dark Thirty and what was the other oh argo in which they claimed that like the american cia saved these hostages except and

like totally edited out the canadian intelligence officers who like planned the whole thing and executed the whole thing but this was a big year for cia propaganda big year for people to judge i believe argo's tagline was, thank God for Ben Affleck. Yeah. In which we were all like, Iranians were angry for years after. What was...

I completely lost my train of thought. I was just looking up when the Osama Bin Laden raid was, May 2nd 2011, and then this movie came out December of 2012 yeah they were just like boom yeah but apparently how much info we have they say Catherine Bigelow was working on a script already that was

around the Battle of Tora Bora so it was already kind of searching for Bin Laden esque got it and then yeah I thought then one of the people that was helping her write said that they found out like women had a huge role in this process. And then they started getting cracking on that script.

But yeah, that was very much like, yeah, nothing to see here. That was all cool. All chill. Don't worry about it. America number one. I feel like the Avengers was like the big movie that year, right? The Avengers and the Dark Knight Rises. I didn't even see the Avengers.

Really? Yeah. Oh, man. I don't know why. It's weird. that year right the avengers and the dark knight rises i didn't even see the avengers really yeah oh man i don't know why it's weird i like i say i say this all the time i just got overwhelmed i think that year before thor and like iron man three man and all that other shit iron man three was 2013 yeah because oh that reminds me of my other job i was doing iron man 2 was 2011 i see yeah i don't know i don't think maybe I just didn't like those other characters. But I do feel like you're correct that this was a year that is defined again. We talked 2010 had a lot of original IP. 2012 or 2011, we started seeing more sequels.

And this year, that kind of continued that trend because you got Avengers. You got Dark Knight Rises. You got- 21 Jump Street. 21 Jump Street. Skyfall. year that kind of continued that trend because you got Avengers you got Dark Knight Rises you got 21 Jump Street 21 Jump Street Skyfall uh you got movies that were uh Men in Black 3 uh actually I looked at uh the top 10 wait John Carter like John Carter from Mars yeah that was that that was in 2012 yeah I could have swore that was like in 2002 you know i the movie that really uh spoke to me was outside of magic mike was the master because i believe around that time is when we were all starting to really come after scientology like that was kind

of yeah i remember lawrence wright came out with the going clear book like we were all starting to hop i don't know if that was exactly 2012 but we were all starting to hop on the what the fuck is going on here yeah train so the top box office movies the avengers dark knight rises hunger games skyfall the bond movie twilight uh the amazing spider-man that's the top six and those are all like sequels or whatever and then you get more original works like ted your ted's oh the first head came out that yeah the first head came out that yeah uh your madagascar three europe's most wanteds of the world when did uh penguins of madagascar come out i have no idea no there was like that spin off the penguin characters from madagascar got their own film. Anyways, let's talk about the stories that happened.

This was a rough year for just- Pictures News, all the events. Yeah, so it started with Trayvon was the first major story of that year in February. May, Obama supports gay marriage. And that was actually something I had heard Biden say. He was the first to support gay marriage in and that was actually something like i had heard biden say like he was the first to support gay marriage in the obama white house uh during a debate and just thought it was like random synapses firing uh but the way that time magazine again i'm looking back at these uh sort of year recaps like year in review recaps from the end of the year they're like written in

december of that year and're like written in December of that year and the way that that story was written was like after Joe Biden like unexpectedly came out in favor of gay marriage uh you know Obama was sort of forced to do it so that uh that random synapse firing that came out of Joe Biden's mouth apparently might be true wait so they are saying it was like an accident where he's like, I, he just forgot to say do not and just wrote support gay marriage. No, I think he just, it was like unplanned.

Yeah. But like he basically, like Joe Biden put out his support first and Obama was like, you mother, all right, fine, Joe. I do too. Well, cause in like that, what, 2011 is when he stopped having Department of Justice defend DOMA in court. Right.

I mean, it was kind of on that way. I mean, obviously. But yeah, he had, because like before that, like in the early 2000s, he was more of like, I fuck with civil unions, but marriage isn't a right type of stance. Yeah. Oh. There was the mass shooting in Aurora

at the Dark Knight Rises movie. Like, I think it was opening weekend. Obama, this was while the election was going on

and Obama really stepped up, became, I think this was one around the first time people started using the phrase consoler in chief. He was like the man who was like there for people a shoulder literally a shoulder for people like victims to cry on um so that happened in july then in august the the london olympics happened yeah i feel like this was a good glimpse at the future of like definitely probably the

present of china but like sort of the future police states of the world like very beautiful very fun very like popular full of viral moments and deeply authoritarian like across the board with just like all sorts of surveillance equipment and police state technology i think there were some buildings in downtown London that had missile launchers on the wall. Oh, yeah, like some kind of defense emplacements, right? Yeah, yeah. It was just fully militarized.

It was wild. And building stadiums that nobody really ever wanted. Right. But that's a constant theme with any Olympics. Yeah, that's always the Olympics. Let's displace people for this shit. Yeah. Also, I remember that year this game Plague Inc. came out, this mobile game where you could like evolve your own virus.

I remember that. And kind of one of the deals, I feel like it always would reference the Olympics that year. And then a lot of people go for the Olympics and then that virus starts spreading everywhere. Is that the one that was actually a sort of artificial intelligence thing where they were trying to look at sort of how a plague would spread, basically? I don't know. That was the motive behind it? Oh, I just like that you can add new things to your illness. Yeah.

Your virus, you added some new, you're like, this one. Yeah, because you could be like, oh, it does well in arid climates or causes cough. This one makes you so thirsty and then the worms burst forth through your nose. It's weird, actually, when I think about that mindset for me to be playing a game in 2012 where I'm like reveling and ending all life on earth and creating an illness that is uncurable, incurable. So that's about halfway through the year. So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back with the rest of 2012 and into 2013. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts, separated by two months.

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And, all right, so the London Olympics happened. We're all just, like, riding on a high from Michael Phelps and, like, just tearing it up. Was that his first year doing it? No, that was – 2008? Yeah, Beijing was his first year. And then this was when he really... It was just like he was rolling.

They're like, this guy's high. Rolling through the competition. Riding high, literally. How dare this Olympic athlete live his life? And then September 11th happens and Benghazi knock us down off our high horse. That was really sad. It was very sad.

It was also that then in October, the investigation into the attacks on Benghazi start. And yeah. I remember the diplomat that they dragged out and killed went to my college. Did he really? Because our college put out a thing. Yeah, he was a lot older,

but the college put out a thing being like was a lot older but the college thing being like um you know like that guy rest in peace like oh and that was devastating because i remember the photos of his body his lifeless body being dragged around or circulating and i remember just being i can like still see the photos in my mind and it's still to this day like one of the most devastating things i like imagining like of a person being dragged through the streets and then having the photo posted everywhere and it's like this is a this person has a family and then now for the rest of our years

we everyone Hillary gets blamed like you hear the word Benghazi so often right you're like yeah meaning yeah it's just in drag through the mud and it's just a really fucked up it's fucked up thing that we'll never forget. Yeah, and weaponizing that as a political tool. Yep.

The economy had a pretty strong recovery through the first four years of the Obama administration, and that was something Time Magazine commented on. The headline they had was the economy recovers like a motherfucker. Oh, hell yeah. They had that actual headline? Oh, hell yeah, pimp.

Hell yeah, pimp. No, they didn't have that. But I have a chart in our doc that shows basically what happened and it's pretty pretty remarkable uh what we call in the biz hockey sticks growth hell yeah hell yeah um then in october we had hurricane sandy uh devastated the east coast uh the 2012 election where mitt romney came in. Won it back for the Republican Party. Oh, yeah.

The fiscal cliff in December. Oh, that was such hot news. I know. That was such a big deal. Look at us now. Don't give a fuck. And then Sandy Hook happened in December. So just kind of.

And I think, yeah, that was really. Fuck, man. That was seven years ago. Sandy Hook happened in December so just kind of and I think yeah that was really fuck man that was seven years ago and we are still done fuck all yeah on gun control I mean we did so in this episode we're doing 2012 and 2013 so I looked at like 2013

and you know the news stories about gun control and it's just like we actually like went in the opposite direction because because gun rights people like go so hard when something like that happens they push back in the other direction it's i find interesting that like today you still see it that very like a very intense ad from the sandy hook parents association where it's a bunch of kids doing like their back to school shopping oh yeah they're being like i love to get this stuff but it's so

clearly that they're like hiding from a school shooting like that's they're they have to put that out now like it's been seven years and they're still being like hi our kids are in danger yep they got well we just can't uh that lobby's so powerful i think the reaction too was like uh like second amendment nra gun humper people were so the second anything was mentioned it's like you know like when maybe there's a one last let's say one last coca-cola in the cooler and you reach for it someone goes i need that man that's mine don't fucking touch it and you're almost kind of like a reasonable person so you go go, oh, fuck. All right, dude.

Right. Yeah. Like it ain't got to be like that. That sort of reaction initially, I think. But if you're a Coca-Cola rights advocate, you're going to be like, no, fuck that. It's mine. Yeah. Yeah.

But I think just seeing that, like, I think for people who are maybe in favor of gun control first or sort of taken aback maybe a little bit, but like, oh, shit. Like, what? Why are they coming at us so hot then when you sort of look back retrospectively and understand just how these conversations or discussions were informed by the NRA and things it's like

but I mean it's not just the NRA like gun sales shoot through the roof that's a terrible way to say that but gun sales go up right after a mass shooting because which is so weird because people are scared they're like you'll take it if i don't grab it now yeah part of them knows like it's wild that our government lets us have these like weapons that are this deadly like these are

military grade weapons and so they're just like we better go out and buy all of these because eventually it's too good to be true one day day they're going to take these back and not let us be armed like we're in the middle of a ground war. Here's a hot take. Guns aren't really that cool. Oh, tell that to the Minutemen. Yeah. Right. Just some of the things from the 2012 election.

Romney was really quite the candidate. Oh, hell yeah. These are memorable moments, according to Time Magazine. Romney tells a New Hampshire audience, I like being able to fire people. They say kicking off a year of rich guy gaffes. Wow. So that basically led to Trump being elected

because he was the king of firing people. Right. Right. Right. Well, it was just it was basically the things that Romney was ashamed of was were the things that Trump just did like openly and cartoonishly to the point that people were like, yeah, no, this guy like steers into the tailspin, you know, conservative firebrand rush limbaugh calls georgetown law student sandra fluke a quote slut and a quote prostitute during his nationally syndicated talk radio show uh i do remember this i hadn't like so it was just like this is what went when obama was president like the conservative The conservative side of the media needed something to freak out about.

Currently, they're accusing the mainstream media of freaking out about their president. But when Obama was president, they just had to lash out. They're just like, yeah. Wait, what did she do? I remember her name. She did something about women's rights and uh rights to uh birth control and planned parenthood what a slut what a slut and a prostitute yeah um i sweat ranch and he still has that show yeah telling people that hurricanes aren't real they're a myth while

he's like buildings being taken away idiot yeah no he's one of the most popular and influential voices in uh conservative politics today a daily caller reporter interrupted heckled obama during a major immigration reform announcement uh just started calling him like a liar and shit it's just something about that guy that they couldn't stomach. I don't know what it was. His skin color. The fucking Clint Eastwood empty chair. That was also at the Republican National Convention this year

when old ass Clint Eastwood did his memorable, iconic single chair monologue, empty chairologue it was so strange i hadn't remembered how strange this was and also how like i don't know awkward and he didn't seem to be be able to remember what he was supposed to be saying yeah it looked like somebody like a like a toxic confident guy doing an open mic set for the first time right and like kind of going through the jokes but it's also not phasing him because he's in a just a completely separate reality from everyone else yeah he so the Clint Eastwood gets up at the Republican National Convention and is like yeah I liked Obama when he got uh nominated I i cried oprah cried but then you know i i was not as hard as i cry when people are

unemployed now and then he just starts addressing this empty chair next to him without explaining that there's like a premise here right because it almost looks like oh is he sundowning right uh then i guess here you can hear a little bit how it starts yeah literally addressing an empty chair that's supposed to be a prophet so mr president how do you uh how do you handle uh how do you handle promises that you've made when you were running for election and how do you handle uh how do you handle it i mean what do you say to people do you uh do you just uh what you know i know people uh people were wondering you don't you don't have it okay well i know even some of the people in your own party were very disappointed when you didn't close gitmo and i

thought well i think get closing get mo why clothes that we spent so much money on it yeah it's a ramble it's really like one of those things like you never want to meet your heroes or see them like this kind of without a script yeah yeah how do you uh yeah yeah anyways Romney lost badly. There was also the secretly recorded video where he said that 47% of America doesn't work. And he said that he liked Sesame Street as much as

everybody else, but he was still going to defund PBS. And binders. Yeah, binders. I think it was during a debate. He was like talking about how woke his campaign was. And he was like, I had binders full of women come to me.

So he, yeah, he's just, he, he had the perfect mixture of being out of touch, a super rich person. And also like Al Gore level robot human charisma. Yeah.

Charisma. Charisma. Yeah. Uh, and then let's move on to 2013. Let's start off with the movies of 2013, 12 years of slave. That instantly reminds me of Sterling at the Clippers.

Sterling at the Clippers. We're making memes because he was talking. That's when he was caught on the phone this year. Wasn't at the Clippers? I remember people were making memes because he was talking, that's when he was caught on the phone this year. Wasn't this the year? Was this the year? I could have swore to God it was because I was making 12 Years a Slave memes about how he was talking about his own players in the franchise.

That was 2014. They got me. Oh, when did the movie come out though? End of 2013? End of 2013. Hey, and I'm back, baby. I ain't no Clint Eastwood here. Yeah, 12 Years a Slave out, though? End of 2013? End of 2013. Hey, and I'm back, baby. I ain't no Clint Eastwood here. Yeah, 12 Years a Slave. What was the act of killing? The act of killing was that documentary.

It's probably the best documentary ever. It's Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. I thought they did it together. I don't think so. I'm pretty sure. No, it's just a filmmaker. It's neither of those guys. But it's like a guy goes over to a country that had a full-on revolution and genocide.

Yeah, it was in Indonesia. In Indonesia. And the country, the leaders who are still in power. Executive producers, Werner Herzog and Errol Morris. Oh, I thought you meant like made it. No, but I mean they teamed up to get it, like made it happen. Because they're like the the two guys who know that feels like something verner herzog when you heard about it goes

we must make this documentary right that's i remember seeing it because it was so wild because they re and they got the people who committed the murder to reenact the murders that's hard to convince people to do that it was it's one of the if you haven't seen it it's just an amazing they snitched on themselves yeah well because so basically the idea was that they had never because after the revolution they were the people in power so they had just never confronted that there was anything wrong with the fact that they you know committed genocide and so you are having these people just completely guiltlessly talking about committing mass murder and just like choking out hundreds of people on a single day with like this wire thing

and then but there's like also this level where they're there's like a part of them like their humanity that they've like killed off that's like kind of like the person starts having like stomach trouble as he's like talking about it right he's like oh yeah this was dark yeah yeah it's really wild uh but yeah then they reenact like the killings um frozen came out this year uh iconic iconic movie it's 2013 and i'm in a movie theater frozen has has just come out. Right. 2013? I don't know. I have no concept of when movies come out anymore. I honestly, I thought Frozen came out in 2015, 2016.

Yeah, I would have too. You could have convinced me of either thing. The first Purge came out. I feel like that's pretty iconic. I haven't seen it though. Now You See Me, I feel like that's iconic, even though I don't know why wait the magician film? yeah don't you feel like that movies

I'm not gonna lie I saw it I've seen it on cable since then I haven't seen Now You See Me 2 I don't know it's like movies that a lot of people saw this year aren't that iconic like World War Z I feel like that was like a huge hit and a big deal at the time but it didn't really like last in the consciousness no I think the best thing about World War Z, I feel like that was a huge hit and a big deal at the time but it didn't really last

in the consciousness. No, I think the best thing about World War Z was the fucking trailer. Right. I remember seeing it and I'm like, what the fuck? No. I just liked this shit. I wanted to see a wild ass group of zombies just make a big pile against the wall. I was like, yep, this is tight.

And then it was not. It wasn't a hit like I thought it was. It was just blah. it was uh american hustle aka wigs the movie uh that was like a movie that everybody loved at the time but like i feel like it's not really i haven't seen it since then yeah i don't think i don't think anyone's thought about it i think it was just completely forgotten the second the ball dropped yeah 2014 uh but yeah like smaller movies like The Purge were iconic. Captain Phillips became iconic for the I'm the Captain Now line. I have trouble remembering most of everything except for that line. I've seen the film.

And all I remember is I'm the Captain Now. So basically, do you want me to explain the plot to you? I haven't seen it, but I know everything. I mean, I know the basic plot, but i can't vividly remember many of the scenes aside from like that one i believe tom hanks was acting with a beard of some sort yeah yeah yeah yeah and i believe he was playing some kind of captain iconic at the time very iconic uh iron man 3 came, one of the big movies of the year. Iron Man 3, man.

Keeping that process going of, you know, sequels. Monster University, Despicable Me 2, these were the big movies of that year.

Oh, you'll love it. Love to see it. Oh, yeah. But yeah, like Her, that was a big movie that was like

super critically acclaimed that I feel like everybody's kind of Forgotten about since then Furious 6 hugely Critically acclaimed No but it was Very successful movie I don't know I can't tell any of those apart

I think Furious 6 was the one where they destroyed Brazil No that's 5 That's 5 bro I think 6 maybe they destroyed. I don't know. What town do they destroy? That was the one with the giant plane at the end where they're driving down the runway of the airport.

Oh, that's the one where Gal Gadot's character shows up. Yeah. I won't spoil it. Is this when The Rock shows up for the first time? No, five. No, that was five. Oh, so now he's chasing them around the world. No, now they've teamed up.

Oh, are they still chasing them? I'm pretty sure they teamed up. Well, no, they do later, but it's the fallout from Rio. And then Hobbs has been tracking a gang of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. And then someone Dom knows. So he's like, yo, Dom. Dude, this is the one where Letty. skilful mercenary drivers and then someone Dom knows so he's like yo Dom. Dude this is the one where Letty.

Letty comes back. This is the Letty one. What do you mean? The most iconic of all. Remember how she dies and is alive in every other episode? I don't really know these movies that well. I just like Supras. So yeah there's some iconic movies but they're not

uh they're not necessarily the ones that you would have picked as the most iconic at like that year i would have because i know everything but ah yes uh top international stories there's a lot of like you know just international like i feel like what is the stereotypical thing that americans picture when they think of international stories there's like super typhoons uh ring of terror in africa a factory disaster in bangladesh um yeah it's just like that's when americans picture news of the world i think they picture stretchers and rubble and starving children. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, most of the news is sort of focused to be like, yeah, what about that part of the world, though?

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And we're not going to talk about the pope we're going to drink beer the german one no he's that dude's not progressive that's a nazi guy ratziger was the nazi when was he the pope right before this dude but then francis came in because that dude retired happened there it's weird and that what the whole movie is there's like a movie yeah there's a new movie the two popes because usually there's only one pope alive and this proves that there's a reason for that because the pope who's still alive but is no longer the pope and who is also an ex-nazi

and also a super conservative pope who's like but he drinks beer right wasn't that the thing like but he loves beer yeah so yeah so he's cool so that excuses everything anyways he retired probably because he had like some sort of scandal coming down the pike and they were like so and then a progressive pope came along and he just laid back in the cut and was like yes yes yes my pretties um. This is when serious Civil War started. Horrifying. And then, yeah, this is the year when, like I was talking about,

one of the stories that Time Magazine had in their year-end review is, gun control loses steam. The historic school shooting in Newton that left 20 children dead and six adults was supposed to have been a turning point for gun control advocates riding the collective dismay over the massacre the DNC

leader sought to ban assault weapons and then it was like fully pushed back and it died in the Senate and then they like got laws that loosened restrictions so that makes sense yeah kind of breaking in the other direction,

the Supreme Court found for gay marriage, there was the Boston Marathon bombing, which I feel like was America's version of the London Olympics, where we got a vision of what an American police state would be like when they had completely shut down the whole city of Boston and all the suburbs

and nobody was allowed on the street. Oh, right. Cause they were, they were chasing them. It was a manhunt. Right. And then they was like found in the back of a boat or something.

Right. Someone's backyard. And then this is when we got the Snowden lakes, which I think was the big dominant news story of, of that time. Right. But let's not talk about that yeah let's talk about the top 10 buzzwords what what oh god i like this one okay thanksgivica the fuck is that i guess

that was the year that uh the gregorian and hebrew calendars lined up and so thanksgiving the first day of hanukkah, both fell on November 20th. Oh, early Hanukkah that year. That's one of those buzzwords that has really stood the test of time. Thanksgiving. That sounds like you're going to Thanksgiving with a crib. Right. It's funny.

Time has a list of over-reported stories, and they are Miley Cyrus twerking Paula Deen. She was not twerking. And also it's funny that stories about institutional racism and appropriation are the ones that everyone needs to just chill out about. Right. These are overdone. Okay Paula. Hot booter

and all. I'm racist y'all. Yeah. And wasn't that was the Miley Cyrus twerking thing from the MTV Awards? Yeah. When she was completely using like black people as props. Yeah, exactly. It was like just the most. Yeah, that was when people started being

like, hold up a little bit now. Yeah, we are. It's fine. It was just a phase. Right. Exactly. And I've gone completely the other way. I'm just country singer now.

Guys, he's making better music now. Anyway, it's the most over covered story of the year. Give it a break. Jay's on my feet. Break gas. Other buzzwords emoji. Did they just learn about emojis in 2013?

Like, was that? No, I think they were just starting to pop off. I think because it was it was a thing that like phone people knew because in Japan you've been like we would. That's from Japan. The word emoji I think it just became a like it reached its tipping point here and then we're like yeah use those emojis

rather than like what about cool cry face but this like sounds like it could have been written in the 1800s texters decorated countless messages and posts with letter sized aliens clinking glasses and kisses and the niche buzzword used to describe the little digital messages were welcomed into Oxford's online dictionary.

Emoji. Anyways. Yeah. Oh, dude, Bitcoin was huge, too. Yeah, this was big. Oh, this is when it was getting bigger, though. Right. This is when it kind of started puffing up.

Not when Lily Allen turned down like $900 billion in Bitcoin. Right. Whistleblower was a buzzword, I guess, because of Edward Snowden, even though that word had been around for a long time. Snapchat. Catfishing. So this is, we talked in 2000, I guess, 2010 or 11, the movie Catfish came out. I think it was 2010 because we were saying that that was like a very iconic year for original movies. So that was the year Catfish came out,

and then this is the year that catfishing officially entered the lexicon. Yes, dude, Manti-Tale. Yeah. Wow. Do you remember that? I always remember it. Yes, fool.

Anna, do you know that story? No, what is this? This dude who played for Notre Dame, football player? No. What was the thing he had? He made up a person that he found? He had a girlfriend online

who he had never met who had told him that I think somebody was dying or maybe they said that they were dying. Oh no. He was classically catfish.

So he, he like was one of the top NFL prospects and the bit like the best defensive player in college football. And he had like Notre Dame play on behalf of his girlfriend, like the inspirational story. And he would like tell people that he was like, he would tell the media that he was playing for his girlfriend. the inspirational story and he would like tell people that he was like he would tell the media that he was playing for his girlfriend and then so the media looked into it

and they were like yo dude that is not who you think it is it was a man right yeah it was just a dude from hawaii yeah damn oh but from hawaii yeah did they ever meet like in catfish and see if maybe they can make it work they flew neve out yeah and he goes what the hell what the heck man that's really not cool yeah manti like really was really loved you while max is covered in cameras yeah so many and he's holding three digital cameras um all right i'm gonna i'm gonna do one for you and you tell me if you can guess the word the term blank describing a provocative hip thrusting dance i guess that's yeah we already said it um what is it the dougie no dougie binge watch they claim binge watch became a term only in 2013 is this just because time magazine's like old people is it one of those things because it got into the dictionary that they're calling it a buzzword maybe like it's

that word of the year well because i mean it's this is kind of when like yeah at this point ever a lot of people have netflix most people have netflix and like they i was noticing that people were uh what one of like the verges big stories of 2013 was the netflix studio like the idea that netflix would create original content um house of cards debuted to a flurry of positive reviews and viewing binges uh and arrested development and orange is the new black proved it wasn't a fluke uh yeah, there were three original shows on streaming platforms that year. This was the first year that we got original shows on streaming. With Amazon Studios recently releasing its first original shows, yeah. They're stepping into the fray.

Was Lillehammer one one of those shows too? I think so yeah I think that was one of Netflix's first original shows I remember just seeing yeah like Silvio's face or what's his face Steve Van Zandt and I was like well Sopranos and maybe I look at it and I was like what the fuck what is this but I think people thought it was good

yeah I don't know I have no couldn't be me no clue about all that shit so 2013 2012 you guys have any overall takeaways about the years, those years? 2013, I dated a lot of women who worked at weed stores. Nice. Very cool. Did you meet them at weed stores or that was just like something shared about them?

I met them through like other people in the game. improv yeah ucb no no i was like i don't know you know just that world you know what i mean the weed world um like people who are growing and shit you know what i mean they're always like yeah they all work in dispensaries and there's like what do you want a cloud pen and i'm like hell yeah dude that's yeah I remember it being those were two tough years for me because I just graduated college and didn't know what I was doing why didn't you get a job

I did what'd you do I moved directly from college to LA and my first job was working as a videographer for this handbag designer who was quite an interesting lady. Quite the character. And I worked on the beach in Marina Del Rey.

And I had this weird vision of how L.A. was supposed to be. And it was overwhelming. And then I worked in reality TV. And that was a hellhole. Oh, yeah. And then I quit and went to Iran for a while, actually. There you go. That was cool. I went and spent a lot of time with my uncle in Iran watching him smoke cigarettes in his

sweater vest. All right, Anna. It's 2 o'clock. That's very evocative. Time for you to learn something. Watch me as I smoke these cigs in my sweater vest. And he's the type of guy who would let it, he would, you know when you watch people who let the ash, they never ash it?

Yeah. I would just watch and just my hobby was because because you know there wasn't really any good internet and it's not like they had good cable right it's iran everything was in either turkish or farsi which to me is i wouldn't say it's most provocative television for me but um i my hobby was to watch and see how long it would take until the ash fell on his sweater vest oh so he wasn't even because i sometimes you know people who just know the ash so well like no it's gonna fall and they're like the thing is his son my cousin had died uh a few years previously so it was kind of me going to like reconnect and just like be around him so he he was mostly drunk um but you know like like one

of those very wealthy men who doesn't really need to work anymore but he's got this sadness about him and all he does is smoke cigarettes and drink and watch turkish soap operas that sort of uncle yeah yeah reminds me just like my uncle fujio i'm glad i spent a lot of time with him because a few years later he passed on so it was actually that 2013 was a big year for me and my uncle i think that was also the year he pulled me aside and said you ever need anything you come to me oh hell yeah and i was like damn dude have you ever taken him up on that had him kill somebody for you no he passed on soon after well that was actually huge because i was i you know i had a tough relationship with my father growing up and he was the first person to acknowledge in my life that my dad was a bit of an asshole because you know everyone else

goes hey you know what your dad has always provided you know he's trying his best yeah you know you just gotta understand tough love is his way of showing love and he was the first guy first person in my entire life to be like fuck that guy right and i was like thank you for acknowledging that we've all i don't know man yeah it's kind of a dick yeah that's exactly what it was like and i was like thank you because no one else you know in in Iranian culture, you're not supposed to talk poorly about your parents. In most immigrant cultures, you have to just respect the elders. Just let it rot. And he was the first person to ever let me just be like, yeah, that guy, he's got some shit.

Am I right? And I was like, thank you. And so anyway, shout out to my uncle. Amu Habib, think about you. 2013 was our year. to my uncle. Amu Habib, think about you. 2013 was our year. 2012,

2013, the time people of the year were Barack Obama and Pope Francis. 2012, runners up, Tim Cook, because that was the year that he took over. Steve Jobs died in 2011. Got it. They never gave Steve Jobs Person of the Year, which I mean. He never got it?

No. Really? I don't think he ever got runner up. Do you remember Steve Jobs' funeral? Yeah. I remember they compared it to the Pope's funeral. It was just that level of balling. It was huge.

So many people came out. He had that giant photo of him. And they were like, it kind of resembles as if he was some sort of religious figure. And he was, God, that iPhone. The year that he invented the iPhone, I think was 2006?

Yeah, five or six. January 2007, he announced the iPhone. Really? Yeah. God damn. Isn't that wild? Good for him.

Good on you, Eric. The winner of person of the year that year was Vladimir Putin. Really? For ending his second term as president and preparing to become prime minister. But yeah, he didn't even get a runner up it was just all politicians and jk rowling so it's interesting this like the time magazine person of the year is very uh you know lists heavily toward politicians and religious leaders in the year they say steve jobs could have won in the 80s the computer the pc got man of the year right in

2006 in 2006 when he was like dominating the news his iphone was about to come out the winner was you representing individual content creators on the world wide web okay bye-bye yeah yeah fuck you um yeah so that's 2012 2013 i'm sure we left maybe one or two things out but probably not i think we talked about it literally every single thing that's happened in those two years yep um but uh that's gonna do it have a have a great uh christmas tomorrow you have a special special treat coming to you that we recorded earlier today. On Christmas Eve. On this St. Christmas Day. On this, the day of Christmas Eve

of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Of our Lord. Best buy. Of our Lord. And my Lord, Muhammad. Yeah. Just waiting for it. We got it all. Have you guys heard of Sharia law? Are you interested?

I would love it if you have a pamphlet on it. Let us know your memories of 2012, 2013. I feel like that's something I should say, but I don't really care. Hey. No, I do. I do. Let us know what you were doing. Let us know top memories, 2012, 2013.

If you had to pick a movie. Did you live in your mom's back house did you we're at the end of uh this run of look back episodes we're gonna do our like movies of the decade and words of the decade and people of the decade so uh you know check it look out for that uh that's gonna do it for today we will be back tomorrow with a special uh treat for you guys sandy university uh so look out for that and then back the day after that with 2014 and 2015 talk to you guys then bye Bye. about the history and cultural richness of Lucha Libre. And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, emperor of Lucha Libre and a WWE superstar. Santos! Listen to Lucha Libre Behind the Mask

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