The Daily Zeitgeist - The Yearly Zeitgeist 2018/2019

Episode Date: December 31, 2019

Jack, Anna, and Caitlin Durante go over all the most memorable parts of the 2018 and 2019 years. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We still say, officially, off the top top fuck the coke brothers and fuck fox news uh my name is jack o'brien and i'm thrilled to be joined by my special guest co-hosts caitlin dorante and super producer anna hosnia what's up guys hi hi hi we're looking back at, 2018, 2019, even though we're still in one of them. Hell yeah. Pop quiz, hot shot, which one? Are we still in? I know. Oh, not again.

Oh, no. Oh, boy. Look at the music. Just cut to Jordan Peele sweating. So the way we've been kicking these off is just talking about movies because I think that's the most important thing about anything. I don't know about that. I'm kidding. It's the most important.

My entire personality is movies. I've cultivated an entire persona around me loving movies. There's no other aspect of my personality. At least it's not sound drops. What's that? Wow. Anna is fucking savage today. I'm joking.

That was the most savage thing you've ever said about Dan and I think it was after he left too. That's a surprise zinger for when he's editing it. I think it's like actually he's probably still close enough to have heard it from outside the room. And that was really mean.

I think you need to think about what you're doing to the people around you. To poor Danil. Yeah, to poor Danil. Who speaks in sound drops sometimes when he doesn't have the opportunity to drop it.

Yeah. Well. He's good at it, though. Let's talk about 2018 first. Should we take it in order? What do you guys think? Huh? Sure.

Does that sound like fun? All right. 2018, what a year of film. We had Black Panther. Great film. Then we had the opposite in A Quiet Place. You didn't like A Quiet Place? So, A Quiet Place. I did not enjoy it.

I thought it was an effective movie, but I also really thought the read of it, that it's like white supremacist fear where it's like white people feel like they can't make noises, and then these brown monsters come if you make a single noise and like kill you

was an interesting read. They should think that. I know but I think it's like an interesting read on like it was about white fragility essentially. I hadn't heard that one. Yeah I hadn't heard that but also biggest plot hole farting. Give me a fucking break.

Y'all have silent farts? You fart and you're dead. It should have been called Silent But Deadly. The Quiet Place. Silent But Deadly. That's the sequel. And when you think about it, John Krasinski is all about those alt-right movies. He's in the Benghazi movie. He's in the uh men gaz or the benghazi movie he's in a quiet place he is

jack ryan the cia agent where he's like jim you know uh people like really need to give the cia more of like more love they do amazing things for us well he got hot and now he's all right i guess yeah that's wow that sucks like remember jim like that was such an era yeah um but that's the past listeners can't hear it but i'm giving an uh knowing look like jim in honor of jim uh let's talk about what what else what movies do we think are going to stand the test of time this is also the year of uh incredibles 2 deadpool 2 deadpool 2 was it oh yeah i'm going out of order but yeah that is uh that did happen uh ant-man versus the wasp i mean classic cinema we've got a lot of superhero movies the citizen came that's the porn version.

That Ant-Man versus the Wasp is the Citizen Kane of movies with verses in the title. Oh, sure. No, that's not true. I mean, Alien versus Predator. What else? Kramer versus Kramer.

Kramer versus Kramer. True. I feel like A Star is Born is probably one of the more iconic movies from this year. Yeah, because it's a remake. So every time it comes out, so in like, I don't know, give or take,

keep doing that in the background, Molly. In 15 years, when it stars Ariana Grande, and I don't know, what's another one? What's the guy? The Harry Styles. Right, you sound very old uh i don't know then we'll be like wow and which was your favorite version and of course naturally i will say

the lady gaga bradley cooper one depending how well that one is made sure so i uh i mean stands the test of time we've never you and i started together and I saw it together. Yes, we did. We held hands. We held hands. We cried. We laughed. I think you didn't like it. I didn't like it at all. So I don't know. I don't think it'll stand the test of time. I think.

I don't think it's like, I don't think it's a great movie. I think it's iconic. But we will always continue to make it because it's a classic story. Because stars are always being born.

Remember how bad the Barbra Streisand one was? No. I haven't seen that one. Shit show. That is, but it's interesting because I've heard it's terrible. And when I heard they were remaking A Star is Born, I was like, oh, shit. That's a classic movie.

And I didn't even know anything about it. So I don't know. I feel like. I just think also the phrase A Star is Born is just like old Hollywood. So we're like, ooh. I'm always saying it every time somebody comes on our show and they say something funny. I go, hey, a star is born, kid.

But you always turn to a camera that's not there. You're always like, oh, no. Some movies that happened that seem to have just disappeared from our memory, Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom. That happened. Also Ballad of Buster Scruggs. What happened there? that seemed to have just like disappeared from our memory. Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom. Yeah. That happened. Also Ballad of Buster Scruggs. What happened there?

I mean, that went directly to Netflix. Yeah, but no one forgot about it. Because it was made specifically for Netflix. It's not like it was like a straight to like video Disney sequel or something like that. I feel like Mary Poppins Returns was like a movie that I was expecting big things from. Oh, sure. Yeah, it just kind of- Came and went.

A bit of a- I don't know if it was a box office flop, but- It wasn't a flop. No one cares about it. It just feels blah. Red Sparrow? Oh, yeah. J-Law?

You saw that? Yeah. The Nutcracker? You've seen everything. Well, I just- No, I haven't. You see everything, dork. Okay.

Fucking loser. Okay. Fucking loser. Okay. Sorry. I've seen a solid probably 80% of the movies on this list. Oh, wow. Perhaps more. Good God. I'll tell you which ones are the good ones.

Okay, please. Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse is not only the best movie of 2018, but one of the best movies of the decade. Thank you very much. I will not be taking questions at this point. I did have that highlighted as one of the iconic movies that will stand the test of time. Yes, indeed. Let's see.

Aquaman. That is the best film ever made. Let's see. DC movies just disappear. They're big when they come out, and everyone's like, oh, I can't believe Spider-Man versus Superman versus Batman's coming out,

and then I don't remember anything. Because they don't... Nolan's DC movies were classic and iconic, but ever since then, it's just been shit. Also, Sorry to B bother you, I think. Oh, yeah, I quite enjoyed that. The whole concept of having to pretend to be white

basically. The white voice and then the fetishization fetishization? Yeah. Booted your egg. Of black culture. There's a really great scene where he clearly is just giving the white people what they want like they're like rap oh right yeah okay it's an army hammer like a billionaire who's yeah

it's just like what the fuck so that's i think i feel like that's just um that's that's our society like in a nutshell and i doubt that's going to change anytime soon. Similar themes were explored in Black Klansman as well. Yeah. Yeah, actually. Like specifically the white voice. What are some other ones that you think are classics that will stand the test of time from 2018? Caitlin.

Gee whiz. Game Night. No, I'm kidding. I do actually really like Game Night. I thought it was a blast. I agree. I can watch it anytime it's on TV. I'll just put it on.

It was fun. I thought Cockblockers was surprisingly fresh and funny and more progressive than you'd expect of like a teen sex romp type story. Spoiler alert. Oh yeah, it's not called Cockblockers, but that is what you wrote on the thing, so that's what I called it.

It's just called Blockers. Also an interesting foreshadowing of butt chugging coming up in the Brett Kavanaugh trial. Yeah. Boofing. Get you drunker, bro. I feel like Ready Player One, another one that just came and went.

Oh yeah, I did see that. Skip it, everybody. Ready Player One and BFG. Spielberg is on a run of just movies that are going away. What was BFG? Big fucking giant. Big fucking giant. No, it was Big Friendly Giant.

Oh, I don't even know what that is. It's like a kid's movie that nobody saw. Yeah. For a Spielberg movie. All right. Oh, I don't even know what that is. It's like a kid's movie that nobody saw. Yeah. Forrest Spielberg movie. All right, let's talk about the top 10 stories in order. So the Parkland school shooting was the number one story. It happened on Valentine's Day, which I hadn't realized.

Damn. But there have been, I was wondering, you know, they were like, this was not in their write-up of this. They were like, this was not previous shootings because kids actually asked for change and got it. And I hadn't really remembered or paid enough attention, I guess, to know how much legislation actually got passed. But so Florida passed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which raids the age to purchase guns to 21 from 18. That's pretty good. Federal government effectively banned bump stocks.

Right. And then there were some just like a bunch of state laws but 11 states passed laws in 2018 that restrict gun access to people linked to domestic violence uh which is a very like important cause of uh you know murder is people who've committed acts of domestic violence. Right, which is so interesting that we slowly pass all these laws in different states and stuff, but we still have such a serious gun problem. Yeah. It's like we've taken a step, but we have so far to go.

It's like step one of step 100 more steps we need to take. I think that's why I was like, wait, oh, I guess there was some gun legislation passed, but it does feel like- We got to keep going. Yeah. Like there's still been massive, a ton of mass shooting. We still have, we have shootings so often that I'm like, all right, wait, sorry, what was that one from last week?

Right. Like I can't remember a shooting. That's bad. Going back through the decades, like this is the last of the episodes where we're doing like years in review for the whole decade. And like there are legitimately like huge news story mass shootings that I totally like didn't remember. They just like bled into other ones. Yeah. We should never not remember a mass shooting.

Yeah. Right. There shouldn't. And there just shouldn't be so many that our brains confuse them. Yeah. Forget about them. The number two story was the Trump Russia probe. Mueller time.

Hey, am I right? When you break it down by year, as we have over the course of this series, it becomes clear that every year has enough scandals to be an administration-defining disaster. But then something else happens. Right. Like, I forgot about Michael Cohen existing. Right. Remember Michael Cohen?

Oh, God. Barely. Yes. What a mess. But yeah, I mean, this one came up a little bit short because of media, Red Queen, like where nothing will surprise us anymore because the more bad shit he does, the worse the shit has to be to get our attention because otherwise it just like drowns it out but like i'd totally forgotten about the stormy daniels thing uh because it seems tawdry and he didn't sexually assault her but she was she was physically intimidated by somebody uh while she was

putting her infant daughter into a car i think yeah but if this was and she was like arrested in places that right she was just intimidated nonstop. Like they were finding ways to fuck with her. Yes. Oh, God. But yeah, if it was a Democratic administration, Fox News would be melting down and the mainstream media would be following their lead.

Impeach them all. This was the year... So we talked about how 2017 was, December 2017, I think, was when the first Weinstein story broke. But 2018 was when it sort of, you know, we started getting. Yeah, we started seeing more and more people. People started paying attention to the fact that Bill cosby was a rapist and he was sentenced to prison uh larry nasser the former michigan state and usa gymnastic sports doctor was convicted of molesting hundreds of young women weinstein was charged with rape les moonves was

ousted as the top executive at cbs um you know what's kind of amazing about the Michigan Larry Nassar thing is that when we watch Olympics, we love gymnastics as a country. Literally, these women, these young women go out there and do some of the craziest jumps and twirls. I don't even want to say twirls because it feels like I'm downplaying it. Truly, the amount of athleticism they bring to that it's the venue whatever it's called uh it's a comedy club unreal it's so they are so good at what they do yeah and most of them are dealing with a sexual assault by a doctor who they were supposed to trust to

make sure that is yeah to have that sort of like I have such respect for these women. Like it makes me just like it makes me feel like anything I've ever gone through is pointless because like I'm watching these women have to compete for gold medals and also be sexually assaulted by the doctor who they are supposed to trust and who's supposed to be watching after them. It's just it's unreal. And it's I think we really have to give these women so much credit for continuing to do what they do. And being just incredible athletes. And then even like Simone Biles was molested. It's so fucked up. And then she goes and goes like, well, fuck.

I have to keep my head up and keep going. And it's like, it's so important to acknowledge what these women have gone through. And still come out and be like, I'm a gold medalist. Right. I have gone through and still come out and be like i'm a gold medalist right i kept my head up i got through this and i won a gold medal right so that's huge but yeah i mean this is i feel like this is when it became clear that this wasn't an isolated problem or an industry problem and i think it's been clear to women but i feel like the mainstream media finally came came around to the fact that you know when women reported sexual assault up to this point there were they were and predators relied on it and the men were protected yeah and men were like actively

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That was their number four. They talked about how 12 people were killed at a California country music bar. That was pretty close to here. I had totally forgotten about that. Where was it? It was in, I think it was close to Pepperdine. It's like where a lot of Pepperdine students were there was

just two months after the Parkland shooting eight students and two teachers were killed at a high school in Santa Fe in Texas in June a gunman shot five employees at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, uh and then in

october 11 people were killed in the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh so yeah i mean this is all in addition to the worst mass shooting of the year uh and the tree of life thing was a white supremacist who supported trump capital gazette was a conservative who thought the media was out to get him at the height of trump's the media is the enemy of the people furor uh that was also days after milo yiannopoulos claimed that he couldn't wait for a vigilante squad to start gunning journalists down on site. The fact that these people feel empowered by this presidency to go out and enact violence is, I mean, one of many horrible things about this presidency. But the effects are so devastating.

And the fact that Trump is taking no accountability for it. And facing no consequences. Facing no consequences. No consequences. He's empowering just white supremacists to just be out and open and kill people. And nothing's changing. look at the um like when you look at it across like a series of years it's like i've talked before about how um the nazi like in nazi germany by the end uh by the end of the rise of hitler they were just bored by the news story so it was just like nobody was really writing about it anymore because they were tired of writing the same story over and over and over again right and that seems like what happened.

Like over the course of the first three years of his presidency, it was just like, yeah, he's a racist, but we've already said that. Yeah, right. Like what else are you going to say? I mean, to quote Titanic, the incredible 1997 James Cameron film, give them something new to print. You know, that's what always bothered, Quote Titanic, the incredible 1997 James Cameron film. Never heard of it.

Give them something new to print. You know, that's what always bothers, I mean, currently what really bothers me when Obama comes out and tries to be like, we don't need such an intense change. We need to think about this. It has to be methodical. It's like, how dare you? Yeah. Like, we need an overhaul of this goddamn government.

A radical change. Like like you don't understand y'all gotta go yeah because shit is not changing you don't care you just want to be a politician to say you're a politician at this point you're not doing it everyone is upholding the status quo and the status quo is bad yeah needs so how dare you look at us and be like whoa whoa whoa how how dare you go so far left it's like yes because we're watching everything go down and you guys are ignoring it all right yeah like how dare we ugh gun control hashtag gun control one positive uh in this year of news was the u.s midterm elections uh i still remember like the moment there was this moment early on in the night of the midterm election results

when it looked like it was going to happen again and just like i was so depressed for like five minutes but literally i was just like oh it's not nothing makes sense like we're just everything and then the democrats kind of you know the democrats ended up winning by seven percent uh edged over it's nice it it was nice would be enough to beat Trump in a presidential election. You can't lose by 7% in the popular vote and nationwide and still. Maintain. I don't think so. Can you?

I don't know. I don't know the rules of the game. Yeah, because it's a game. I mean, you could technically, but oh, shit. Oh, yeah. In your face. If Christopher Nolan says that Inception is an allegory for movie making, well then I say that politics are a game. And that's bold of me to say. Uh, anyways, hopefully, I don't know.

This is one of the few things that like gives me hope is the added, you know, participation in the midterm elections. The fact that it was like a record turnout and the democratic side won by 7%. And we just gotta stay mobilized, baby. Right. Stay ready to vote. In less good news, one of the other big stories of the year was U.S. immigration and the fact that this administration was putting children in cages. What a world we live in. And guess what?

They're still in cages. Yeah. Nothing's changed. Right. 2018 was the year they started putting children in cages. Wow. And. We have concentration camps.

Yeah. In our country right now. Yeah. For children. For children. Right. That's the worst. For children that we have separated from their parents.

Who may never go see their parents again because no one keeps track of paperwork apparently either. Right. They're like oh sorry we don't know where your parents are because we deported them and you were here right which is i think that how is there not a law against that it feels very like shouldn't that be illegal because like you are taking the child from their guardian and then then who's the guardian here if you deport children the parent and then so yes no longer there's a guardian to make decisions for them so you would think that shouldn't be legal yet here we are life seems

to be burning in hell the world is i don't get it like i just don't get why there's no we need more legislation in regards to this moving forward because that's... This is a dangerous game to be just taking children. I mean, the legislation should be, let's not separate children from their families. But it seems like that doesn't matter. So it's

like, if we're going to do that, then you got to come up with a way to get these kids home safely. Like, you can't just keep them here. I mean, maybe that's the more realistic version of it. Because they won't stop. Who knows? We should just, I mean, it's true.

Someone should just step in and be like, okay, I'll ride it. Right. It won't be me because I don't understand anything. But someone should, I don't know. We need a real life Spider-Man to come in and save the day. Just web up all the kids and swoop them out. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. What could they do? What could who? Jack, please answer. I don't know anyone. Fix it. I mean, there's lots of lawyers working on it, but not enough. Not enough.

Well, because a lot of those lawyers work in human rights and there's no money in human rights, which is the fucking saddest thing in the world yeah we don't put money into human rights uh brett kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed in 2018 uh and we can it's our show fuck that boofing ass bitch yeah sorry i mean he just openly lied about shit and got away with it. Have you ever seen an angrier man defensive? Like, it was like, well, have you never had a beer? It's like, okay, you're shrieking. No, I haven't.

Have you? God. He was. So fucking entitled. He was doing what women get accused of doing. Like, well, she's shrieking. Yeah, he's shrill. He was doing what women get accused of doing. Like, well, she's shrieking. Yeah, he's shrill. He was being shrill. Yeah.

Everyone's like, I don't know. He seems legit. I was like, what is going on? This is also the year of the Khashoggi killing and again. Classic murder. Classic Saudi murder. His reaction, Trump's reaction to this would be an administration defining fuck up for anyone else. I'd have to imagine history will see it that way.

I don't know what is happening. What the fuck? Yeah. It's when you look at it from like a from a year by year perspective, it's pretty wild. Things are bleak. Things are real bleak, everyone. Real bleak. Real bleak, gang.

The good news is the Earth will be dead in 30 years, and then we'll not be here anymore. Crushed it. Sorry, real quick. What I've been thinking about a lot is the connection between Jeff Bezos' Washington Post and Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia. It's very interesting when you look into it. Wait, what's... Tell us. Jamal Khashoggi wrote for the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.

Saudi Arabia tried to hack Jeff Bezos. I don't know. I don't have like a theory or anything here. I've just been thinking a lot about... They tried to hack him? Yeah, remember when he came out and was like, I'm getting ahead of this. Here are my sex. And we were all like, Aw, dude! Here are my sex! Fuck off, Jeff Bezos!ff bezos you just wanted to brag about no one wants to see your lame old man billionaire sex yeah billionaire dick because that was it remember wasn't it that mbs was the one who sent uh not mbs direct who knows what's really going on but like they they hacked mbs was who he was

sexting yeah and he was sexting mbs and he's like click this link for my pics and that's what got him got him hacked never click a link you don't know where it came from that's all i'm saying uh all right gang i mean there's so many other just incredibly depressing like climate change was one of ap's top stories california wildfires which are very related. But yeah, that was the year of the super wildfire where a wave of flame just came through and literally melted cars. Cars were just melted into puddles and like in seconds.

Anyways, it was a nightmare, but fortunately 2019 has been perfect. It's been the best year ever. What a year. Never been happier. Should we talk about some movies from 2019? I'd love to.

I'd love to only talk about that. Break it up, you two. That's what I like to say when i see people kissing uh all right i don't know man pda yeah break it up you too get a room through this episode right um this is tough because up to this point gross just kiss like a

father so 2019 it's tough because up to this point we've been looking at the movies and I feel like I had enough distance to be like oh that movie seems like it didn't happen or that movie feels like it's

just as relevant today as it was when it came out 2019 these movies are still happening to us some of them are still in theaters what? wow watch out but we can still Some of them are still in theaters. What? Wow. Woo. Watch out.

But we can still kind of go down. And another thing is the method that I've been using where I just type 20, like the year and then movies, and then look at whatever Google's results are does not work when it's this year. or maybe it just doesn't work in general, but Parasite and Uncut Gems, which are my favorite movies of the year so far, didn't, like, were just nowhere on the entire list. Is Uncut Gems good? I loved Uncut Gems. I love Uncut Gems!

I don't know why I turned into... One day I'm gonna parasite your family, just FYI. Parasite my family? I'll be there too. I'll be your brother. You can parasite me. My whole family's going to just coincidentally start working for you. Slowly but surely.

Okay. Interesting. Be scared. Very scared. Here are the best movies of the year. Okay. Ready? All right. Okay. Not the best, but the ones I movies of the year. Okay. Ready? All right.

Okay. Not the best, but the ones I had most fun watching. Okay. Starting with Hobbs and Shaw. Yes. You love a good Hobbs and Shaw. I had a blast. It was pretty fun.

It was fun. Hustlers. Loved it. I enjoyed it. I liked Booksmart. Loved The Farewell. That was a great film. Great film. Film. Let great film. Great film.

Film. Let's see. Detective Pikachu. A blast. A romp. I didn't see it. 10 out of 10 on the Caitlin romp-o-meter. Oh, no.

Caitlin romp-o-meter. That's awesome. That sounds kind of fun. Ready or Not. Another 10 out of 10 on the romp-o-meter. Wait, what is Ready or Not? I liked Ready or Not. It was a young woman gets married to into like a one percent fan like a

one percenter family a very rich family and they play this game to like induct her into the family uh which is a murder game and she has to survive through the night or else like a curse will befall the family uh so it's like a, it's a, how do I describe it? A thriller, kind of a, but like a light, a tonally more light,

kind of fun, rompy thriller. Dora and the Lost City is, was so much fun. I watched that. I loved it. I thought the trailer had some really solid jokes.

This looks dumb, but I really wanted to see it. The CGI monkey was the worst part of it. If you can get beyond that, it is so funny. It's funny. It's great. All the best parts I thought were the CGI monkeys. I guess that's

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What? Is that possible? It's not only, well, it's only possible for the lighthouse, but I'm also kidding. It's not a romp. It's not a romp. It's not a romp, but I still quite liked it. Actually. Robert Pattinson? It's a bit not a romp but it's not a romp it's not a romp but i still quite liked it actually robert pattinson it's a bit of a romp yeah pattinson is that not what it is pattinson pattinson pattinson that's i don't know man paddington robert robert paddington

man the lighthouse starring paddington heton. He's already got the hat. He's got a fisherman's cap. Hello, Paddington. That is not how Paddington sounds. That was terrible. Hello, Paddington. All right. Anyway, okay, we've got us.

Is it true that the lighthouse has a scene where somebody jerks off to Scrimshaw? What is Scrimshaw? Like the drawing in Whalebone? There's definitely a jerk-off scene to a figurine of a mermaid. That's funny. Right? Cool.

Anyways, sorry, go ahead. Some other movies I quite enjoyed were Us, except for the last 10 minutes. Aw. Let's see. Haven't seen it. Too scared. Always Be My Maybe, the Netflix.

Oh. I liked that, too. You only saw the Keanu Reeves part. And the beginning. And then I had to take my son out of the room because he said, what are they doing? Are they wrestling? In the car?

In the car, yeah. Hell yeah, dude. Well, why? He would have finally seen representation on screen. Let's be real. He'd be like, oh, cool. Asian dudes can get it. Yeah, that's true.

Your children are half Asian. Yes, they are. Oh, thanks. I don't know. I didn't realize that. That sounds weird to the audience who don't know. Knives Out, I loved a lot. Oh, yeah.

That's also not on here. I've got to see it. You must. Google, you have terrible taste in movies. Let's see. What are some movies that seem like they didn't come out this year? The Lego Movie 2. That came out this year.

Shazam. I saw it. Brag. Wait. Oh, I did see Shazam, actually. Doesn't that seem like it came out like year. Shazam. I saw it. Brag. Wait. Oh, I did see Shazam, actually. Doesn't that seem like it came out like 10 years ago? Well, because you're thinking of Kazam. No, I'm not.

I'm thinking of the one where the guy's blowing a bubble and he's a superhero. Oh, yeah. What's that one? The guy who plays Chuck or who played Chuck on that show. Chuck? Yeah, that's Chuck. How did he get cast in that? I wondered that myself.

He's a handsome white guy. I don't know. They're trying to redo his career maybe. Yeah, they really are. He got a good agent. I don't know. I feel like Joker, big movie this year, guys. Oh, okay.

I'm not going to lie to you. I'll talk about Joker if you want. Talk about a hot take. Yeah. Tell me. Hit me. What a hot take. Yeah.

Tell me. Hit me. Well, I thought it was all things considered an effective character study. It's just that the character that we're studying sucks. Fucking sucks. The real problem is that it really wildly demonizes mental illness. Yes. So not good. I'm not saying anything new here.

But if it gets nominated for any Oscars, I'll be furious. It will. Now, you're saying this man is mentally ill and now it's escalating in a way where he's going to do something really dangerous until we like is that what you mean? We see him like murder a bunch of people and it's blaming his violence on his mental illness. And you kind of have to go

through some convoluted plot things for him to turn to violence a little bit. I feel like it's like yeah. Okay. I get you. Anyways, Toy Story 4 is my favorite movie of the year. Oh, sure. That was pretty good. Toy Story 4 is a lot

of fun, baby! I keep wanting to be Fred, the guy from the B-52s. The Lighthouse Baby! Baby! Keanu Reeves had a good year this year.

Yeah. Because he was John Wick 3, Toy Story 4. John Wick 3, iconic. Toy Story 4, iconic. Always Be My Maybe. Always Be My Maybe, iconic. And maybe something else.

I liked John Wick a lot. John Wick 3? Yeah, I really just, I am not really an action movie person. I get bored very easily. I'm like, okay, move it along. But this movie, I just thought it was so well done.

Specifically the knife throwing scene. What the fuck was going on? I actually haven't seen it. It was moving so quickly that I was like, wow, this is a wild ride. Did you know Captain Marvel came out this year? I don't even remember that movie.

Who was in that? Brie Larson. Brie Larson. Oh, she was Captain Mar-Vell. Yeah. Huh. Avengers Endgame seemed like it happened years and years and years ago. True, but it was this year.

And I rather enjoyed it. I found it. I liked it. I thought the beginning was good. It's a time travel thing, so I loved it. I liked it. I thought the beginning was good. It's a time travel thing, so I loved it. And also, Spider-Man Far From Home, I also enjoyed.

It's a Spider-Man European vacation, right? Yes. Yeah. Here are the worst movies of the year. Ready? Yeah. I just hated Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Yeah.

Also, Alita Battle Angel was bad. But her eyes are so big. Men in Black International was bad. What Men Want was a movie that we made for some reason. Yeah. And it was bad. We did make that here in our studio. Yeah.

Yeah. So for this, as of this recording, nobody has written or a lot of people haven't written their year in review top news stories, articles and the ones that I found I did not like. So instead, I just looked at Google for like what the top searches were of the year. And it's kind of fun. It's kind of fun, you guys. All right. Disney Plus was the number one search of 2019. And you know what?

I'm going to say, rightly so. Great product, Disney. Do you have a subscription? I did, I got it. Yeah. Same. Yeah. Not happy about it.

Highly recommend Greatest Dog, or what is it? Greatest Dogs Ever? World's Greatest Dogs. Is that a show? Highly recommend it, Dog or what is it? Greatest Dogs Ever? World's Greatest Dogs. Is that a show? Highly recommend it. Or a movie? It's a TV show or it's like a special little one hour and a half like little thing on like the Nat Geo side of it.

Oh, sure. Guys, it is a wild ride and I really recommend it. Do we get a cat's one? Is there a cat's representation? There might be. I would have to go look. But these dogs are riding scooters. They're making phone calls.

They're recording podcasts. Wait, really? Well, no. Well, they are riding scooters, but the rest I was just joking around. They're impeaching presidents. If I wanted to pitch a dog podcast, what I mean is dogs record a podcast on this network. Dogs record a podcast. Yeah yeah they communicate into the mic they talk into the mics what language do they speak whatever dog they just bark into the mic it's

actually it's globally wonderful because you can translate into every language dog is the universal language jack jack take this to the top this is a money maker okay you're welcome three two deaths cameron boyce and nipsey hustle were the next two cameron boyce is the disney channel star then hurricane dorian antonio brown n NFL player who went from like being I thought he was I don't know, just super talented but like not bad as a human being to just world's biggest super villain.

Rapist and horrible person. I guess you don't need those. Anyways. Luke Perry, another death..i.p r.i.p r.i.p perry which is he was just in like he was just in once upon a time in hollywood so i was like yeah he plays the um like in the movie scene where he's in like the Wild West where he's playing a bad guy and he's got the little girl on his lap. And Luke Perry walks in as like the whatever savior person.

I was just like, whoa, that's Luke. Wait, didn't Luke? And then it was just like, damn, that's like must have been his last role. Yeah, it was his final future performance. How did he die of a stroke? I don't actually know. I think. I don't know.

Yeah. No, that's what it was. But it is the nation's fifth leading cause of death. Yeah. Stroke. Avengers Endgame was top search. And then Game of Thrones. Do you guys remember that when people were watching Game of Thrones? What's that? What is Game of Thrones do you guys remember that when people were watching Game of Thrones

so that was like a show with like dragons lame yeah that does feel I guess it doesn't feel long ago it just feels like I can't believe I ever

gave a shit about that show. iPhone 11. Who has one? Jesse Smollett. Baby. I do not have an iPhone 11. I still have the iPhone 8. Same.

I like it. Grow up. What? I don't know. I don't know. I really don't care. I missed out on, I didn't even know there was an iPhone 9

or 10. There wasn't a 9. There wasn't a 9. No, they skipped the 9. They went straight to the X, which was the 10. What did they do that for? Apple makes its own rules, Kayla. I don't know. I don't know what anyone's thinking is anymore. Who knows? Tim Apple, remember

that? Tim Apple. this is fun uh top searches that started with the phrase what is you ready oh yeah what is area 51 baby uh yeah i think because uh there was like that mainstreaming of area 51 with they wanted to area 51 storming. Also, yeah, the Facebook event to be like, we're doing it. We're finally going. Yeah. People are like, is that like a store or something?

It's really funny. What is a VSCO girl? It's V-S-C-O. Is that how it's pronounced? Yeah, I mean, it's an app that you can get. No, I know. Oh, I didn't know what you knew. No, because I searched this back in the day.

No, these are the top most searched. But is it pronounced V-S-C-O? I always say V-S-C-O. I don't know. I've never heard anyone say Visco. Fuck, I look like such an idiot. But I also don't talk to a lot of people about this um could you imagine i mean just go uh look at baby yoga and uh you'll feel better yoga is a

vseo girl if you need to understand that that's becoming a meme by the way my misunderstanding baby yoga yeah yeah people are like baby yoga isn't because I think John Mayer tweeted it he he had the same

confusion we're both old old whites gotta watch out for him classic what is Momo which I had totally forgotten about

it was like that weird I'm not asking eyeball thing no I'm like just I'm really just talking out for myself okay got it it's like that weird like creature eyeball scary creature like big I'm not asking. I'm eyeball thing. No, I'm like just, I'm really just talking out for myself. Okay, got it.

It's like that weird like creature eyeball thing. Scary creature. Like big, big eyes like this and like really stringy black hair. Like baby yoga? It kind of reminded me. Yes. Baby yoga. You know what it reminded me of?

Like the Slenderman thing. Yeah, it is Slenderman-ish. It was basically a myth that there were a bunch of videos on YouTube where, here, you recognize that lady? Recognize that gal? Oh, yeah. So it was like a myth that she was getting people to kill themselves. This is my favorite. What is a boomer?

So, Jack, the thing you need to understand. So a boomer. I'm going, uh, what is quid pro quo? What is camp fashion? Uh, what is Disney plus? How weird. What is bird box about? That made it into the top 10?

Heck yeah. How is that? Bird box? Was that this year? Well, here's what I know about it. It's not a box that was bitten by a radioactive bird. Maybe it

didn't come out this year, but that joke that you made came out this year. A bird box is a bird's vagina. That was 2018. Oh, come on, guys. Really? What is a Mandalorian? That's still something I could

Google even though I've seen the show. I'm asking. What is it, Anna? It seems to be some guy who has to wear a helmet. That's all I know. It's people from Mandalore. That's it? I think so. Oh, well, there you go. I think it's a town.

A town? I think it's a planet. It's like? I think so. Oh, well there you go. I think it's a town. A town? I think it's a planet. It's like the movie The Town. Right. Okay. Now you're onto something. They're all very Bostonian. I think this is all gonna sound very dumb to people who actually know what the Mandalorian

is. It's people from Mandalore. And what is Brexit? Which, fine. What is it? More power to you. I'm going to click show less. Show less.

You're going to click that on this podcast. Well, guys, that's been the year 2018, 2019. We did it. Two sexy years. Right? i peaked during those years and it's all downhill nope 2020 it's gonna be way better best year ever okay i hope for gun control i hope for not this president anymore you're you thinking like pence over? No, I'm thinking we vote him out. Yeah. Predictions for 2020,

guys. One prediction each. And go! Oh, no. Baby yoga becomes a sex symbol. Baby yoga? I'm just joking. I know, I think Apple Plus potentially may be shutters.

Oh, Apple Plus. No, I think Disney Plus will maintain strength. I think Disney will have a big year. That's my prediction for 2020. Apple Plus, I don't know how well it will do. I mean, maybe it'll do. It just feels like they're grasping at straws. I agree.

It's not something I'm going to subscribe to I'll do. It just feels like they're kind of they're grasping at straws. I agree. I'm like, I don't. It's not something I'm going to subscribe to until I do. Yeah. You absolutely have to. Yeah. That's it. I'm thinking big year for Disney. Big year for.

That's it. Okay. You think Disney. Wait, do you think Disney is going to just like keep doing Disney? it. Disney. Okay. You think Disney wait do you think Disney's gonna just like keep doing Disney? Yeah. Wow.

You do you Disney. Wow. Caitlin any predictions? Well I should have taken more improv classes. I don't know. I predict that more improv classes. I don't know.

I predict that we're going to have a new president. Yeah. Thank you for saying that. I predict. I really fucking hope so. No one was brave enough. I predict that there will be controversy about the outcome of this election.

Jack, you're just staying so safe, man. He will lose, but he won't allow himself to lose. He won't step down? He won't step down. What is that thing called when they accept that they've lost? Concede? Concede. There you go.

He won't admit to it. He'll be like, sorry, there's something on the line. I can't hear you too well. Yeah. They're like, you're on TV. That's been a podcast.

And God bless. Yeah. God bless you all. What's next? Best of the decade? Are we still recording? What are you doing? No, I'm just telling people what

We'll be back soon Technically, we're gonna take I don't know what you're doing Dan, would this fall after or before New Year's? Dan's in Europe Dan is right there Dan's in Europe You think he just fizzled into Europe?

I don't even know if I can record another episode today. I'm honestly, this is not going well. We're all sick in this. Sick in the head and the lungs. I believe this one will drop right before New Year's, and then it goes to, then we'll take the actual New Year's Day off, and best of lands on the second.

Okay. Best of the decade. Okay. Cool. Are you threatening me? No. I think I'm going to fire myself. I'm fired.

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