Ep 592 - 2025: A Year in Review

Wow, wow, wow, Wes. Hey, guys, happy new year. We're here kind of an off week, but figured we'd hit you guys with a little best of 2025. We've got some great stuff. Man, some good clips lined up. Before we get into that, I just want to say again, happy new year. Thanks for watching. We are entering the unfortunately, that kind of podcast crucible again. Shane is going to be gone filming for a little bit, but that's nothing to get glum about. We're going to be jam packed with super hot guests and a lot of good times. It'll probably make the next year's best of 2026. We'll see. However, you know, I mean, let's just recap. What would happen in 2026, man? Fucking, you know, we got a lot of wars going on. There's that. We have a lot of wars, which, you know, not good. It's not good. There's been Israel Palestine, which I believe is a ceasefire. So shout out to politicians for the ceasefire on that. And also, Russia, Ukraine, maybe that'll come to an end and hopefully not vent as well. But, you know, out bright siding it. It's like, look, guys were getting busy. All right. Guys, we're doing stuff. No one was sitting on their ass this year. People were, unfortunately, fighting and killing hundreds of thousands of people. But, you know, that's maybe next year, we can just kind of like do other stuff instead, but keep that same can do fire and spirit. But guys, I didn't need to come here to talk about war. I'm just recapping the year 2025 wars. Okay, fair enough. What else happened? What else happened this year? Big things that happened. We had, you know, Donald Trump is still the president. And we'll see, man, I think I think his sizzle is starting to kind of fade. It's like, you know, the quiet piggy that was definitely him pushing himself up there in the headlines. Aside from that, it's like DJT's not hitting as hard as it used to. I think we're finally used to him. So he's got, I don't know, a couple more years left. And I don't know. I think I think we're, we're on the cusp. And I'm again, I'm just bright siding New Year's time horizon. I think we're on the cusp of finally as a country stepping out from under Trump's shadow, which has really, you know, if you love him or hate him, whatever, but he has loomed over this country for a decade as long as his podcast has been going on, which is crazy. 10 years. Trump has been just, you know, a central fixture in the news. And I think he's going to fade, man. And it's like as much as people love him or hate him, it's like, I honestly don't know what it's going to be like without the guy. Because in my opinion is like, are we going to get like a Trump 2.0 or, you know, what are we going to get? We don't know. I'm excited. I can't wait to find out in 2028, but we'll have to wait for two more New Year's to find that out. So we'll see about that. Stay tuned for two more years. Another news. We also have AI is booming right now. And, uh, who, boy, another hotbed of controversy as well. AI apparently is getting better. There's billions, maybe even trillions of dollars being spent on AI research. And, you know, again, another thing people love, people hate. My thing is if you're worried about AI coming and taking your job, I don't you hear all this all the time. It's like, well, what if AI takes my job? What am I going to do then? It's like, dude, let it take your job. There's no shame in a machine built by billionaires taking your job from you. What do you think you're going to, you're not going to do better than that? It's like, let it have your job. You'll just be like, let the state figure out your life for you. You know, if you, if, if I'm saying, if AI takes your job, that is, that's nothing to stay awake at night about being like, oh, well, it's like, there's nothing you can do. Like it, just let it come take your job. And it's also like most, most of the jobs it would take would probably be like office jobs, which are mostly fake jobs anyway. So why would you worry about a machine built by billionaires taking a fake job from it? You're not even really working. Let it have your fake job. Just give it say, hey, here you go, computer, you can have my job. I'm going to go outside now. And now you go from sitting like a fat ghost in an office to now you're outside. You get sunlight on you and now you got to go find food, which in my opinion is much more exciting than sitting in front of a computer and pretending to work in front of pictures of your kids, which imagine if those kids could actually see you pretending to have a job to pay for them. That's fucking embarrassing, dude. Let the machines have your job say, hey, machines come and get it. Let them come in and take it. Now you're on the outside. You got to go find food. And here's my thing. Here's how the fuck am I going to find food? It's like, I don't know. But if the AI came and took my job and like all my work friends job and, you know, unfortunately, even my work wives jobs as well, I'd start a militia. You know, you start a peaceful militia, obviously. But it's like, you go from sitting on your ass in an office every day with it just groveling to your fucking boss, hoping they give you a little promotion and that's fucking hell. Let the computer wipe that out. Now you're outside. You're doing pushups, you're doing burpees, you and your friends can set up a little barbed wire crawl space. You can crawl through, do drills. And if you get like a few hundred people to do military drills in your front yard with you, my prediction is the government will start giving you food because they'll be like, Hey, guys, just here. Here's some food. And you don't have to be like, you know, I'm not saying become like a terrorist cell. That is not what I'm saying at all. We don't need any more of that. I'm saying, do pushups in your front yard with all of your office friends. You guys are all in the office. Now you're in front yard. You're working. You're maybe digging little trenches and just kind of like, I don't know, just fucking find food. It'd be so much more fun to go and find food than sitting in office. You know, that's if AI takes your job. That's my whole point. So don't worry about that. We had AI. We had endless wars. And what else do we have? I don't know. I think they cloned. They didn't cloned. They made a false embryo in a or a false womb in Australia. So science is going, you know, we have, we have a false womb for a kangaroo to be born in. That's nice. Why don't we take it to one of these beautiful clips? Hold on, guys. Check this out. I didn't know you got you got drunk. We're on the plane together. Do you know why scuba diver is here? Are they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah. Do you know why they do that? Look cool. Now because if they fell for it, they would land in the boat. Come on, guys. Classic highlight reel 25. Joe, girl, clip it. Joe, girl. Highlight reel 2025. Just run that back 25 times. That's what we'll do for the New Jersey. Over and over for three hours. You fall asleep to it. But you're going to laugh every time. You're going to try sleeping. Hey, oh man. That was hilarious. And now we're back to the special New Year's edition. Guys, we talked about, we recap 2026, you know, whatever 2025. I'm sorry about that. Sorry, sponsors. Recap 2025. I don't know, man. Like what else is out there? Recently, I actually just discovered that there's a thing that women experience. It's called a false pregnancy syndrome, or a woman will convince herself that she's pregnant to the point where her breasts start to lactate and her belly expands as if they're a child inside of it. There was recently a case. It was this year, actually, shout out 2025. There was a case this year of a widow. Her husband had died. She was an old lady going through menopause, and her husband unfortunately died. And somehow her body convinced her that she was pregnant. So she, her breasts swelled with milk. Her stomach started sticking out. And she even thought she felt kicks. And the lady went to the doctor to be like, what the hell? This is a miracle. My, maybe it's my dead husband being reincarnated in my old withered womb. And turns out, she went to the doctor and she just, her stomach was full of gas. And it was moving around her stomach, but she thinking those were baby kicks stimulated her milk land somehow to produce milk for this baby that didn't exist. And the doctor had a teller like, no, you just have a bunch of farts. You don't have a child. You have a bunch of farts in your stomach and your husband's dead to get over it. You're, you're not pregnant. You old bitch. Go home. And like, damn, that person for sure is probably like, I can't wait until 2025's over 2025 is kicking my ass. I missed my husband so much that it became fake pregnant and farted in the ER just to be told that I don't have a baby. I just have a big fart in my stomach. Oh, man. Poor lady. And they also have this thing too called Kuwait syndrome where guys now, you know, we got, we talked about the girls now, it's guys time. Guys, apparently I've never met a guy like this, but apparently it's a real thing where when a woman becomes pregnant, the man starts to like biologically mimic some of the pregnancy response in the women. Like, for instance, when a woman gets pregnant, there's this thing called nesting where like one, they're pregnant. They'll go around. It's like a real instinct. They'll go around and start like setting up the house. Like they organize the house like a bird with a bird's nest. They'll start like moving stuff, redoing the closets. They get like bins and they start fucking putting things in bins, you know, stuff like that. And, um, and guys now apparently will like, or they're saying they'll start mimicking those responses. Even to the point where the guys will gain weight, some of the guys even claim they feel a baby kicking in their belly, which is like, don't, first of all, it's definitely gas. Second of all, never. That's even if you're mimicking your wife's pregnancy response? Never say that out loud, dude. Just fucking, just, it's not, first of all, it's not real. And second of all, like, dude, don't never be like, I think I'm pregnant too. I, they don't respect that. Just be like, nah, I'm not even, if anything, I'm just like harder than ever looking at that fucking baby in your belly. That's something women can respect. Honestly, don't tell them like, my nipples are kind of sensitive too. Dude, that's fucking disgusting. Take it to the grave, man. If your wife's pregnant and you're like, I think I'm sort of praying, don't do that, man. Got these guys going to the doctor. It's called a Kuvaid syndrome, which is like, oh, it's fucking brutal. I'd rather have a guy hold me down and finger my butt and tell someone about that. Then come up to my friends and be like, you know, I started actually mimicking my wife's pregnancy symptoms as well. Don't talk about that to anybody. Keep that to yourself. All right? Like, oh, my breasts are actually a little swollen. Dude's will gain weight a lot. There's guys waking up with morning sickness. It's like, dude, what the, it's not, you're just, there's stomach hurts. Stop pretending you have a fucking baby. I don't know why people, guys and girls are like are having fake pregnancies. It's like, just stop, man. It's fucking, that's really weird and it's really, unbecoming of a man to try to get in on pregnancy glory. That's all I'm saying. It's not, that's not your stuff. Again, just to recap, I would rather have a guy hold me down, whether he, you know, pinned me down by my arms on top of me or just kind of like knocked me over, like a stone cold stunner came around my back and just started fucking blasting my butt with this face. I don't know. However, he gets it. He gets it. Maybe we're just both lying on our side. He trips me or like lying on our side and like on some side, uh, side doggy or whatever. I don't know. Guys, let's take it to a clip. I didn't know you got, you were a drunk. You know why scuba divers, you know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards. Yeah. Look cool. Now, because if they fell forward, they would land in the boat. Come on, guys, classic highlight reel, 20, 25. Joe grilled glib it. Joe grilled highlight reel, 20, 25. Yep. That's what we'll do for the new year. All right, guys, that was something else. Hey, let me tell you guys about something on the way here, right? I'm coming to my office. I'm like, you know, driving peacefully. I can't wait to do this best of 2020, 2025 compilation for, you know, the fans out there. They're going to love this. Can't wait. As I'm driving, I also got a Christmas present from my brother, shout out, Billy. I got a nice shreddicaster. So I was, yeah, shreddicaster. I'm thinking, no, telecaster, my bad. And, um, so I go, I'm driving my telecaster, my new Princeton Reverb amp that I went and got from a guitar center. Shout out to the guys down in guitar center. That's really dude. I'm not trying to act like the man, but I know when I walk into a guitar center, there are my, there's my, my true core fans. Every time I go into a guitar source saying that guitar center, it's nothing but the bros, dude. Nothing but the bros always hook it up. Thank you guys. And, um, yeah, so that was nice. Walked in there. And I got my Princeton Reverb amp, which is what Billy told me to get. And so, you know, I'm driving it. It was at my house. I'm driving it to my office so I could have it here in my creative workspace. And, and I'm driving it. So I had to drive kind of slow because I have an amp, a pretty big amp, it's sitting on my, uh, my seat. I don't want to like hit my brakes really hard because, you know, it's like a two-bamp. They explained to me and they can break easy. So I'm like, all right, let me drive carefully. So I'm coming to a four-way stop sign on the way to my creative workspace for my living space. And, um, so I'm driving here and I hit the brakes like coming up to the stop sign slopes. I didn't want to jam them and have it fall over and, you know, break one of those tubes. So I'm like, kind of easing on the break. And meanwhile, uh, at the intersection like across from me, there was an old man in a Subaru. And he, oh, no, he was coming like perpendicular. So he was this way. So I came to a stop like too slow for his liking. And I'd like pulled up to an intersection with an old man in a Subaru giving me the stank guy. And I don't know what it was about that. But it just like, I, you know, I was already, you know, it's been the holidays. I'm like, me and my wife and kids are just fucking crammed in the house. It's all day non-stop blah, blah, blah. So I'm a, I'm a little cranky, you know, I'm a little bit cranky. Obviously, I'm stoked to come here and do the best of 2025. But like, a little cranky, man, I'm a little fired up. And I take a, I take a, taking a 40 plus vitamin that has Tom got at least. And my T is kind of going nuts. And like, I pull up to this intersection with this old man in a Subaru looking at me like he's about to beat my ass. And I just like, he was giving me this. He was going like sitting there. He's just going like, I pull up to this guy. Just going. And I fucking look at him like, what the fuck are you going to do? And I literally out my window, I say, what the fuck are you going to do, old man? You bitch ass, Subaru. I'll fuck you up in that fucking Subaru. And I was like, that's not me. I'm leaving that me behind in 2025 because I really for a second was hoping that the old man would get out of the Subaru. And I would do, I would literally fucking bash his head into the winch. I would have killed this guy. I know it's disgusting. I don't want to, I'm not trying to do that kind of shit in 2026. But like, for a second, I was like, dude, if this old man gets out of the Subaru, I'm not saying I'm the toughest guy in the world. But an old man in a Subaru in Austin, dude, I could British bulldog his head right through the fucking passenger window. Easily. I would have left this guy in a bloody, discarded heap on the side. I would have drove over his own, his concussed body and I was so fucking angry. But he drove off and, you know, I calm down, cooled off and made it to my creative workspace. And I don't know, man, it was just something about that old man in a Subaru flexed on me. I'm like, bro, like, again, not the toughest guy in the world. I'm not out here looking to fight people, but like, an old man in the Subaru just given me the nastiest look. And all I wanted to tell him was like, dude, I have a fucking tube amp in the back of my CRV. If it's falls over, it's gonna be pretty costly. The costly to repair this and all I'm doing is breaking slowly, taking my time to get to the stop sign. And you're looking at me like I already run it. You're charging me of a crime. I didn't even commit. And now you're looking like you want to fight. It's like, I'll fucking fight you right now, dude. 2025 leave the ship behind. We'll both move on. Maybe you won't make it to 2026. It was a pure lib spaz. That's all it was. And again, I'm not, I'm not, you know, whatever about politics. We're done with those. But like, an old man lib in a Subaru probably has 47 potted plants in front. A lib's old lib's love putting 97 potted plants in front of their fucking houses. It's another thing, man. Get them out of the fucking sidewalk. I'm trying to walk, fucking put them in your backyard. You don't need 40 fucking fern plants outside of your house. Nobody gives a shit. It's 40 fern plants of Ruth Bader Ginsburg sticker on your window. Get a fucking garden. Put it in your backyard. Put those plants. You have a backyard. I know the layout of the whole neighborhood. Put them in your fucking backyard. Don't have 40 potted plants and drive around your Subaru, given everyone the stankface because you clearly see, I mean, dare I say a silver fox alpha coming, you know I have a Princeton reverb in the back of my CRV. You want me to break a fucking tube. And I'm like, let me just come to an easy stop. You're going, fuck you. I'm like, excuse me, sir. Fucking, excuse me. Anyway, guys, that's not good. Guys, let's go to a fucking clip. That story sucked. I didn't know you got you were a drunk. We're on the plane again. Do you know why scuba diver is, you know, they sit on the boat and fall backwards. Yeah. Look cool. Come on, guys. Classic highlight reel 2025. Joe, girl, clip it. Joe, girl. Highlight reel 2025. Yep. That's what we'll do for the new year's absolutely. But you're gonna laugh every time. You're gonna try sleeping. Oh, man, we're back. Dude, also, guys, please make sure to like, comment, and subscribe. And when you comment, it really helps the algorithm. It just boosts us into the algorithm and makes us more visible. So more people can access this kind of content. You love and no one love. So, all right. So we talked about the old man, the Subaru. And it's like, I've already moved past it, man. I forgave him instantly. It's just, you know, it just got damn it. I hate that face when you pull up and someone goes, it's like, how dare you question my, you don't even know what the fuck I'm doing, dude. Actually, I'm going, I should have just fucking veered my car, ran it, but like, no, you go ahead and this one fucking crashed to Subaru. Look at asshole. Anyway, guys, enough about that. What else I want to talk about? Also, I played basketball yesterday first time in, man, I can't remember. It's been a long time. But as you know, I've been training, man, I don't look. I don't talk about my training that much, but I've been training pretty intensely. And, you know, so I'm just up in the basketball court yesterday. It's a little cold, little windy, not ideal conditions for, you know, an outdoor basketball court. But my goal this year in 2026 is to become something of like a street ball legend in my white and Asian neighborhood. which I honestly think I could, man. I was up there yesterday shooting around on a windy day, just totally stroking myself like, I don't even know why. Just being like, of course I'm the only person out here shooting on a windy cold day, just different. Every car that would drive by in my head, I'm like, this is the hottest housewife possible. I'm going between my legs, I'm shooting the three, I'm air ballin', I'm like, fuck, all right. Let me just, you know, maybe she didn't see that. It was pretty pathetic display now that I'm singing out loud, but I'm out there, and you know, I'm shooting around, I'm getting warmed up and, you know, the Apple Watch on, burning a surprising amount of calories. And I'm like, I guess this is not a bad little workout, man. I'm going to try to like, you know, get to really know this court, kind of feel these rims out so that, you know, I can become a street ball legend just up there all the time. And I'm playing shooting around, and these two young whipper snappers, these two kids come up, I didn't realize they're in high school. They're seniors in high school. Came up, I see him shootin' around, and I'm like, you know, again, nothing against them, they just weren't really that good at all. And I was like, bingo, so I'm going to play these kids in 21, just fucking demolish them, go as hard as I fucking can. Because I'm finally, and again, I've, I've, I've always like, I remember being young and seeing the old man on the basketball court. And even back then, I'd wonder like, I had enough weird, I don't know, foresight or curiosity to be like, it's got to be crazy playing basketball as like an old guy. And I'm finally like yesterday, absolutely confirmed it. I'm finally the old man at the basketball court. Dude, it felt kind of, it's everything I thought it would be put it that way. I've always wondered like, what's that like? Dude, it's literally, it's, it can't get better. So I'm sittin' there, I'm shooting around. I see the young kids, I let them warm up. I'm not gonna fucking, I, you know, I'm not gonna be all warmed up. 20 minutes in, shooting around, running back and forth. Full court really going behind my back, whenever a Volvo passed to me. It's hoping it was like a super hot housewife for their kids. It's gonna be like, goddamn, behind my back, through the legs, pulling up threes dude, just fucking raining them. And see these kids, let them get warmed up. And I, you know, and again, I'm thinking I'm going, I should ask them to play 21. I do this a lot. This is something I'm getting away from in 2026. But in 2025, I like wanna ask, they're fucking kids. I wanna play basketball with them. Takes me like 10 minutes to work up the gumption to be like, hey, your kids wanna play some 21. So I'm like, you know, I'm sittin' there, I'm shootin' around. It was like my mind, like hijacked my body. I didn't even know what I was doing. I was like, you guys wanna play some 21. I just yelled it across the court. And I just, they just both look at me like, we don't know how to play that. And I'm like, oh, here, I gave them the rules. It's pretty much like one on two when you have the ball. And then if you make it, you go to the foul line shoot, you know, from the, wherever it's a two, if you shoot from the three, that's a three foul, foul shots are one point. If you make three foul shots in the row, it's your ball and you get to go again. Start playing 21. And I don't think, here's a thing. This is the joy of being the old man at the basketball court. Those kids were playing. I wasn't playing. I was like, I was like fighting time and death itself. When you're an old man at the basketball court, you're battling time. The kids are like, oh, we're playing each other. It doesn't matter who I'm playing against. I'm raging against my mortality, playing these kids on the basketball court. I went so, so fucking hard on these kids. I feel bad. I'm looking back on it. I was like, I shouldn't have done that. I went so fucking hard driving. There was one point. Again, this is where my training comes in. You think like, oh, why should I train? I'm 40 years old. I'll tell you why I should train, you know, lift the weights and do all that shit. There was one point I'm driving in. It's two on one. Obviously it's the nature of the game of 21. I'm going to lay it up. Both of them fail me. And again, I'm not bragging. This is just what happened. Both of them failed me. I lifted both children up on my arm and laid it up. No problem. And it took everything in me, not to look them in the face and go, fuck, you fucking life, take a little fuck. I didn't. I said, oh, man, I don't worry about it. Went to the point. You know, I might have done a little in one, but whatever. I was fucking, you would have thought I got shot out of a volcano. Just swore through the air with children on my arm. These were fucking high school seniors. Hold it. My head, I might be dramaticizing a little bit, but it was like, I felt them try to pull me down and I just fucking ripped through these children and laid it up, made it in one. And God, I ended up winning again. It's not about that. If I lost whatever, but I did win by a lot and actually that little one little kid started coming back. I started getting nervous. But I was like wildly and completely out of breath. And after I finally won, I got to 21, I think the second place kid had like, he was creeping on me. He had like 15, so he was, I had a size belief for a while and I just gasped and I eventually got it back to kind of, you know, it was pretty windy. So my, my jump shot was getting taken by the wind as well as me missing. So I was kind of just like pulling up like four feet away and hitting little like floaters. So finally, I finally win and I'm completely out of breath. I'm shattered. Dude, my Apple watch, I don't know if you track, you know, your fucking calories you burn. Dude, I burnt 668 calories in less than an hour, which go test it for yourself. It's, it's really, that's, that's a lot. Like if you do a standard hour, 20 minute lifting thing, you might burn like 3, 50, 400. I burned 668 on these kids. 668 calories of megawatts or whatever the fuck they are, fucking fat molecules exploding in my body to just defeat these children. And again, wasn't even about them, I'm battling fucking time death. My body failing. I could feel like my ankles like, oh, fuck, like everything hurts the whole time. And I beat these kids and, and I don't know what possessed me to do this, but I went and got my ball and I was like, thanks for playing guys and I was like, oh, man, I'm turning 40 this year, guys. And they just both looked at me like, oh, whoa. That's cool. Yeah. They're like, well, man, that was a, you played pretty good and I was like, thanks, guys. Well, I'll see you up here again and, I don't know why I just like told these children. I was 40. It was a very, it reminds me of the time when me and my cousin sold lemonade at the bottom of our, we had a shared driveway and we, like a mailman pulled over, bought lemonade office and just told us his like life story, all this troubles. Now I'm like, yeah, I get it, man. Something about it, man. And I'm like, I don't know, it's, it's a shame you get such a bad rap for hanging out with kids because honestly, if I, and again, it's like, I'm not like that, like I get that funny stuff, but like, I don't know, man, I wouldn't mind chilling with kids if I'm being honest. Like, I feel weird around adults. I do. If I'm like at a party with adults, it's like, I don't know, but if like, dude, if you could just drop me at like, you know, like a 12 year olds, I don't know, 12 year olds birthday party. I would for real vibe so hard with like 12, 14, 17 year old kids and just like, you know, play flag football, do a slip and slide, you know, if we got a wrestle, I would wrestle them on my knees to be fair. But like, I don't know, I ain't like no pito on me. I'm just like, it's so, it was so fun just fucking balling out with these kids yesterday. And you know, I hope I see him again on the court. I hope I ignited a little fire in their bellies because I mean, dude, if I was, if I was a high school senior and some 40 year old was giving me the motherfucking business and I, I'll be honest, I could have been a lot more physical, but I let him taste it every now and again. I would drive and be like, okay, you want to get how you fucking like that. But I did my best not to just try to like physically overpower because that's, you know, it's kind of coward shit. I'm not sitting here, tooting my own horn, but I'm stronger than a couple of kids. But like, they did try to hold me down from jumping and I lep through the air with them holding on to me and I'll never forget that. That was so nice, dude, just to go home, whoo, that was a nice feeling, but guys, let's check out one of these fucking clips. What do you say? Best of 2025. I didn't know you got, you were a drunk, we're on the plane again. You know why scuba divers, you know, they sit on the boat and fall backwards. Yeah. Look cool. Come on, guys, classic highlight, real 2025, Joe Grold, clip it, Joe Grold. Highlight, real 2025, just run that back 25 times. That's what we'll do for the new year's episode, over and over for three hours. You fall asleep to it, but you're going to laugh every time, you're going to try sleeping for you. All right, guys, and we're back. Big year 2025. What else we had? We talked about some of the geopolitical stuff. Also the comedy world, bit of a hotbed, a lot of turmoil going around the comedy world. A lot of, a lot of comedian infighting, which I'll say, one thing I'm grateful for in 2025 is to not, not have gotten caught up in any of that kind of turmoil and kind of just like, this guy, that guy, it's like, man, I feel like a younger me could have, you know, because you see that. That stuff gets a lot of attention. And unfortunately, you know, I am in the business of fucking eyeball flickers myself and it's, it's tempting to be like, you know who I fucking hate and, you know, and all that stuff. But a lot of that stuff going on, man, it's been a, there's like comedian versus comedian. There's YouTuber versus comedian. There's comedian versus YouTuber and it's like this endless swirl of just kind of negativity that we can't fucking keep our eyes off. And I've said it before, cat Williams, cram, I mean, he's, you know, obviously this is older than him. It predates cat Williams, a probably stand-up comedy itself. But like, he blew the lid off the jar when he, he's fucking spilled the tea, it was, it It was a, that was it. Was that 2024 or 2025? I don't know. Let's, I'm gonna put that in the 2025 bucket 'cause that couldn't have been more than a year ago. That seems like that was so 2025. That is not so 2024. But I think, man, we might have even like started the year. That might have been like the, dude, that we started 2025 'cause it was the Will Smith slap. That was so, that was 2024. The thing that finally stopped that was the cat Williams T that set the tone for 2025. And dude, I don't think we've ever recovered that got 30 zillion views on the Shannon Sharp podcast which, you know, kind of launched his podcast and then the Shannon Sharp had a bit of a strange year as well. A lot of sexual stuff. And I think he's, that's crazy. It's crazy to get so much pussy that Disney's like, dude, we gotta cut ties. That's way too much pussy, huh? We're fucking, you're killing it right now. He got so much pussy that Disney was like, like he's getting so much pussy that he's like hitting his phone. You know when you fake call somebody, are you like accidentally pocket dial? Yeah, it's just usually you just like walking through the grocery store, like fumbling your keys in your pocket. Shannon Sharp's getting so much pussy that when his phone bumps to like call somebody or go live, which was suspicious, it's just him digging out a lady. I mean, like, oh God, no, oh. Shannon Sharp got so much pussy in 2025 that Disney dropped him and I think he's fine. But my whole point was cat Williams on the podcast, blew it off it. And I don't know if it was that or what, but there I did start to see that show. I saw people come on that show trying to get their cat Williams moment where people are trying to like, you know, give this sensational take and like this guy, that guy, blah, blah, blah. And no one ever, you know, he was lightning in a bottle. No one ever recaptured the cat fucking crack off on the tee. But then I noticed, you know, there was a lot of other little comedian beefs and, you know, this and that and a lot of people just like, even when I meet people who don't do comedy, they're always asking me like, you know, what's this guy like and who's your favorite, who don't you like, blah, blah, blah. And I got to say, man, like, I do find it unfortunate that there is this fascination with comedians as like any sense. Like there were, this guy's a piece of shit 'cause they did this. This guy's like the best because it's like, dude, comedians for real are, they're just like, I don't know, they're like fucking mostly, myself included. They're just like theater dorks. They're like a strain of theater dork that it's like, yeah, you didn't go full theater dork and do like musicals, but that's in you. That's your thing and it's just like, whatever that is has gotten mutated to where now you do stand up instead of like musicals. But it's like, you're kind of the same guy as like a musical theater dork. You just, you know, you wear leather jacket and smoke and stay up late and you're like, I'm a fucking comic, you never understand my life. But you're a theater dork, man. And it's just so funny to have all this attention trying to dissect comedians and be like, this is what they're really thinking. It's like in 2025, I get it, but for 2026, it's like, dude, this is for real. You have to look at every comedian like, this is what it's like when people like comment and wanna be like, this guy's like this and they're a fucking hypocrite and all no longer support, look, man, I hate to break it to you. But it's like, it'd be like if you watch the special Olympics and you're like, what the hell, that guy's not even, it's like, yeah, dude, they're retarded. Just let them swim, all right? Just fucking let them swim, high five them. And if you don't like it, just turn it off. You don't watch the special Olympics and be like, what the fuck, man, this guy's not even, that's not how you do the backstroke. Yeah, dude, his fucking, he's missing a leg, do you all right? This guy's not all there. Let him do his thing if you don't like it, tune it out. But it's like you're, you're barking up a fucking burnt down tree, man. You're not gonna get anywhere by tracking them thoughts and opinions of commit, they flitter and fly around. You're, this is a guy panicking, saying whatever it is that I'll just get him through another hour of the week or the show or whatever so he can sell fucking digital picture frames. Don't look into it that much. It's like watching the fucking special Olympics or, you know, the WMBA or whatever. (laughing) Let's fire up a clip, guys. Go to it, like, comment, and subscribe. (bell dings) This episode is brought to you by PricePix. 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Thursday was just like burlap sack. And then Friday, I sort of got Friday was like, it was called a pointed wool military cap. That was your Friday. And what they did, I sort of got, look it up. And what they did was, it was this five day work week. And the idea was for the machines to never stop. They're like, hey, man, if we want to make this dream come true, we can't be like all taking off on Saturday and Sunday and having the machine stop. We got to keep this, you know, the industrialization or whatever, just fucking plugging along. So they purposely gave like wives and husbands and brothers and sisters and families different days off. So like if you're day off, you didn't have like a weekend. You just work all the time. This is never ending shift work. And then let's say like on like, you know, loaf of bread day, you were given off, but your wife was off on woolen military cap day. And for like a couple of years, everyone just lived this weird existence where the calendar was perfectly, purposely stripped from like any religious connotation. They didn't want Sunday because that like, you know, Sunday technically was about God and resting and that puts something above the state. So they took all that stuff away for a couple of years. No one got to really even see each other. All of the holidays were stripped out. They would give you a day off for like the day of fucking the day, Lenin was, well, I don't know some bullshit, but he might have came later, I don't even know. But my whole point is they had this thing where they tried to genuinely replace a calendar for several years and it's just everyone is fucking miserable. No one could see anybody. You would have off and no one else you really knew would have off. You would just sit there your whole, you just sit by yourself alone on your day off and eventually what happened was the machines from never like getting to stop basically and like cold down, the machines all started to falter and break and eventually the machine started getting fucked up. So the Soviet government was like, all right guys, we're gonna let you see your loved ones again and they allowed people to start seeing each other and then, you know, it's kind of fake as hell, you know what I mean? They're like, we see you, we heard you, but it was just the machines collapsed. That's so sad that like, they like pretty much dehumanized their population just to have the machines never stop producing crap, which is funny because I thought communism was more about like chilling, just like kicking up, you know, kicking with the homies and no, it was just all about the machines and the machines collapsed and then they got to go back to the standard Gregorian calendar. So I don't know, pretty chill I guess, but then the whole fucking society collapsed after that, shortly after and I don't know, now Russia's just fucking, Russia fighting, I guess, you know, I guess from Russia, I don't think they had a good year at all. A lot of people died, so. Million, they say, a million fucking people? Geez, Louise. That would piss me off if I was Russian, like that wasn't even true. Someone was just talking mess being like, you know, like a million guys died in Russia and they'd be like, no, we fucking didn't. Probably it, do you think it's a million? I'm one of the impression that Russia's winning the war, but look, let's not get bogged down in 2025 conflicts guys. I just thought that was cool. The idea of just like trying to as a government up and time itself to be like, we're in charge of how you view time and it's like, what a fucking crazy thing to do. It's just so crazy to get that into politics. I was recently made a nice little game night, me, my wife, some other couples, and someone there found out that I had never voted before ever until like, my wife dragged me to do it this year. And they were like, they had a pretty serious like, that's like fucked up, you've never voted. And it's like, look, if you want a vote, fucking vote, but like this whole idea that like you can somehow embed politics into like your identity and the core of your being, I don't know, dude, it's like, it's fucking weird. Just don't, just fucking don't do it. The whole point of the government is to make sure there's like food and roads. So you can go and do the stuff you need to do to get food. Being into that, it's like being fucking stoked on the DMV, that's the government. It's the fucking DMV, it's the capital. And it's just like all of the weird human beings were like, I represent that. And it's like, okay, dude, like cool, go do that. I'm glad you do that. But all these people thinking they can like wrap themselves up in like any political identity, left and right. It's like, man, I hope that stuff falls by the wayside soon 'cause it is fucking so unbelievably lame to just get into that. I don't know, people ask. You never voted. It's like, yeah, 'cause I've never, every single president I've seen, I've been like, this person's a freak. And it's like, I guess I'm kind of a freak, but not like that, man. If I was president, I don't know. I would go classic like school president style, soda machines everywhere. That's probably why we're in debt. We're in debt. I don't know. What's the debt like $90 trillion? It just keeps growing and growing. The first thing I would do as president and say, hey guys, we've been in debt long enough. Let's cancel the debt. They could do that. I think they could do that. And they don't. So it's like, I'm not voting for anyone until they say, hey guys, you know that $90 trillion were in debt? Let's just say, fuck it. I'm the government. The debt is to the continent. It's probably to other countries. Whatever. Just call the other countries and be like, dude, you really gonna fucking hold me to the fire on this, man. 90 trillion. Can we just forget about this? Can we just all chill, please? It's fucking so lame. 40 trillion? Yeah, $40 trillion. The interest on that every year is gonna be, there's no way. Once you're in a loan set up for $40 trillion, like what is that? If I'm guessing these people who own this debt are getting at least 3%. So let's see if we ever can get out of this 'cause I honestly don't think we can. So here we go. So we have, I don't even know if I can, I gotta hold it sideways. These are big dog numbers here. Hold on, we're entering big dog numbers. 40, 1, 2, 3. Okay, 40,000, 1, 2, 3. 40 million, 1, 2, 3. 40 billy, 1, 2, 3. Okay, I'm at $40 trillion. Let's go times 0.03. Let's say we're doing 3% interest, huh? Let's see, 3% interest, equals. (laughing) Okay, the interest we're accruing on $40 trillion of debt is $1.2 trillion a year. We're never getting out of this. That they got, this is embarrassing, dude. $1.2 trillion. And you're gonna have a guy every four years be like, I'll tell you what, I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy, and I get it. Shut the fuck up. Every year, we, oh, one, the debt grows. If we just pay our payments the minimum, we pay the minimum, which we probably do, 1.2 million more, 1.2 trillion more dollars. So, next time someone's gonna be like, "Woo, you should vote." It's like, dude, get the debt down, then I'll fucking think about it, all right? Otherwise, one of my vote, it's a fucking bullshit puppet show, unless we can get out of, I'm embarrassed. Every time I travel to another country, it's all I can think about. I just go, "Fuck, we're really in the hole for 40 trail." That's 3%, 1.2 would be 3% of 40 trail. That's 2 trillion, so it looks like we have a little bit higher interest rate, too. How much? 2 trillion. Cheers. Oh, and how? How does it, fuck, I've said this forever. If you're in charge of running any enterprise, and if you fell into, let's just say you're in a company and you fell into $1 billion of debt, you would think people would start looking around and go, well, hold on a second here. We are $1 billion in debt, and no one's gonna stop at, we were $40 trillion in debt. Once we hit a trillion, you're telling me nobody in this highly capable, like, million person machine turned and went, hmm, we gotta figure out how to get, and if they didn't, it tells me that debt is just a contrived thing that's totally meaningless anyway. 'Cause you always hear that. You're like, well, you know your grandkids are gonna be, you know, the 350 million people with a $40 trillion are great. Your grandkids are gonna, oh, a $20 Brazilian dollars, and it's like, what the fuck, no, they're not. They're never gonna, it makes absolutely zero sense to say that's gonna stop us in any way, shape, or form, unless it's like all, this is our tax money go to paying the debt, I have no fucking clue. All I'm saying is when AI takes your job, right? Forget about the debt. At that point, you should say, all right, like, AI taking your job, you know what I'm thinking about today, and I don't know if this is like a good thing or not, it's sad, it's scary. It's kind of like, what am I gonna do with myself, but then maybe, you know, I'm bright-siding, obviously, the cotton gin kind of freed the slaves. It wasn't like the bleeding hearts of people, was that we came up with a machine that kind of were like, okay, we don't need all these slaves. AI could be the cotton gin of fat, frumpy office workers. How nice of that be. (laughs) How nice of that be. I don't know, whatever. Anyway, guys. Yeah, I think that's, yeah, let's do the final clip and guys, this is a good one, check this out. I didn't know you got, you were like drunk, we were on the plane together. Do you know why scuba divers, you know, they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah. Look cool. They fell for it, they would land in the boat. (laughs) Come on, guys. Classic highlight reel, 25. I know, 25. Joe Grold, glib it. Joe Grold. Highlight reel, 20, 25. Just run that back, 25 times. Yep. That's what we'll do for the New Year's Eve. For the New Year's Eve. You're gonna try sleeping, you know. Guys, 20, 25 is amazing. We recapped it, we had a lot of fun, I had a lot of fun. Everyone had a lot of fun and we also cried. 20, 25, we cried, we grew, you know, and 20, 26. You know, my goal is to really become more social. I'm gonna get out there, you know, and here's the thing. Like being more social, it's not about just going to parties and getting fucked up, it's about genuinely getting to know other people and embedding themselves, embedding yourself into their lives in a real way, which I plan to do. I just, my problem with that is I'm just really only interested in my own life. So that's an obstacle I'm trying to overcome, just 'cause when I talk to people, I don't even think I hear them. They talk to me and I'm just going like, dude, fuck. I gotta drop like 10 pounds and get shredded. I don't hear anything anyone says to me ever. Every time someone talks to me, I can do like 30 seconds of another person talking to me before I'm like, dude, if I get my bench to fucking 280 and I get my squat to fucking 350, I'll be at the thousand pound club, pretty soon. Guys, but let's end this on a nice note, enough about that. You know, it's the new year. It's one of those things where we start thinking about time a year has passed and we start going, what's gonna happen in the next year? St. Augustine, or St. Augustine, however he says name, he has a famous quote on time. He wrote a whole essay on it. I'm gonna read you guys a little selection on, we're gonna close this out big with a quote from St. Augustine on time. So here's the quote, what then is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I wish to explain it to one that ask it, I know not. It confidently, I say, I know that if nothing passed away, there would be no past time. And if nothing were coming, there would be no future time. And if nothing were, there would be no present time. Those two times then passed in future. How are they when the past is no more? And the future is not yet asked for the present. If it were always present and never passed in the past time, it would not be time, but eternity. If then the present is time only because it passes into the past, how can we say that it is? Since the reason why it is will not be, in other words, can we truly say that time is only because it tends toward non-being? And yet we speak of, quote, a long time and a quote short time. And we say this only of the past or future. We call a hundred years ago, for example, a long time in the past and a hundred years hence, a long time in the future. But a short time in the past, we might call, say, 10 days ago, and 10 days ago, hence a short time. time in the future, but in what sense is something long or short that does not exist? He's saying the future in past does not exist. For the past is not now and the future is not yet. We should not say of the past quote, it is long, but it was long and of the future it will be long. Hmm, let's jump down here. Hmm. Okay. Behold the present time which alone can be, which alone we found could be called long, is narrowed to the space of scarcely one day. But let us discuss even this for not even one day is entirely present, all the hours of night and day, 24 make it up. The first of them has the rest future, the last has the rest past, and one in the middle has past hours before it, future after it. And that one hour passes in fleeting moments. Whatever of it has flown away as past, what remains is future. If any portion of time be conceived, which cannot now be divided into even the minutest particles of moments, this alone is what we call the present, which yet flies so swiftly from future in the past that it cannot be extended by any delay. For if it is extended, it is divided in the past and future, the present has no space. Where then is the time which we call long? Is it future? You do not say it is long, for it is not yet. So as to be long, we say it will be long, when then will it be? For even then, when it is still future, it will not be long because what may be long is not yet. But it will be long when from the future, which is not yet, it shall have begun to be and shall have become present so that then it can be something long. But instead, as we said before, the present cries that it cannot be long. But then do I measure? Where is the short syllable by which I measure? Where the long which I measure, both have sounded flown past away or no more, and yet I measure and confidently answer in as much as the rule of measurement as there is a rule of measurement. That asks you the space of time, the syllable is single, that double, and I could not do this unless they had passed and ended. I measure not themselves, therefore, which are no more, but something in my memory which remains fixed. In the "oh my mind," I measure times. Do not overwhelm me with noise. Do not overwhelm myself with the multitude of thy impressions. In the, I say, measure times, the impression which passing things make on the and which abides when they have passed that I measure as time present. That is what I measure, or perhaps I do not measure times, but the impressions. Behold how my life is at extension and thine right hand upholding me in my Lord, the Son of Man, mediator between thee, the one, and us the many who are in many ways distracted. That through him I may apprehend in whom I have been apprehended and may be gathered together again from my old days following the one for getting the things that are behind, not extended, but extended. But do things which shall be and shall pass away, but do those things which are before, not extended, but extended. I pressed for the price of the high calling. Wow. What a quote. Did you get that? Makes perfect sense. Guys, have a great new year. Let's get it one more time. Fire back up. I didn't know you got, you were the drunk. Yeah. Look cool. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Come on, guys. Classic highlight reel. Twenty five. I know. Mark that Joe, grilled glib it. Joe, bro. Highlight reel. Twenty twenty five. Just run that back. Twenty five times. Yep. You watch new episodes of Matt and Shane's secret podcast on Spotify. Do it.