The Hottest Takes Of 2026 So Far

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Today, we are going through the hottest takes of 2026, okay? Somehow, we're only a few months in, and there's already some steaming hot takes. So let's figure out whether these are justified or not. Let's go. People are increasingly miserable, given them a four-day work week for Christ's sake. I agree. Didn't it wasn't there a country like Sweden or one of those fucking, one of those countries where they did a four-day work week and it didn't like boosted production or something? I don't know. I think four days is enough. I personally feel like four days. That's really all you need to get things done. What are we really getting done on a Friday, dude? They're probably getting there on time, but they're checked out by one. They're already thinking about the happy hour at five, the bender that's going to last until, I would say Sunday, probably at three, right after brunch. And by that point, you're already like five of Moses deep, then you're like, fuck, I got work on Monday, you know? How about giving them an extra day? Let's go Monday to Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we're off. I think they were good there, all right? I agree. Dating wasn't any easier back in the day. People just used to settle for less. Ooh, damn. No Instagram or social media, smaller towns, not as many distractions. People just don't compare as much as they do now. I don't even know if I agree or disagree with that because I'm confused reading it. Like, I don't know with the point. But like, I do agree that if you have less access to people, you have less options. You have less of a decision to make. And I also believe that the dating apps, you're like gamifying dating in a way. You're like throwing people out immediately and then saying yes to the ones that you find attractive. And if you're not getting what you want in the first like five minutes of that interaction, you're like, I can just throw this one out and get a different one. Like, I think that probably has a huge effect on dating as a whole. Whereas back in the day, you would probably meet someone in person and you would spend some time with them, go on a couple of dates and then kind of make your decision. Whereas now, I feel like people are very quick to kind of discard because it's like, I have three apps. So there's always a next person. I don't even know if that's true. That's just a theory. But I don't know whether that makes dating easier or harder or whatever it is because you would assume that dating is easier if you had more options. But I think that a lot of people get this like, there's a term for it that I can't remember right now. But if we have too many options that kind of makes you freeze and not make a decision because you have too many decision fatigue, maybe that, I don't know. I feel like there's something to be said for that. There's too many options. There's this notion that like, I could just go get another one if I wanted to. I'll just keep scrolling. I don't think that's good. I don't know the answer, but that's that. People who can fall asleep regularly in 10 minutes or less are absolute psychopaths or have no emotional depth to them. What the fuck? Or they just have sleep apnea? Yeah. Because like, I feel like people who don't sleep well, probably like nap a lot or whatever. I am someone who can fall asleep pretty quickly. I don't know about 10 minutes. That feels like very short. But I definitely can fall asleep within a half an hour. Like if I lay down in bed and the TV is on, I'm out. I'm like, I'm going a bit. I can get tired at 10 o'clock. I can get tired at 9.30, all right? I'm 34 now. I can get tired at 9.30. I get into bed around 10. I'm not seeing 11. That ain't happening, okay? I might see like 10.37, but you bet your ass 10.38. I'm in REM. So I don't know if that makes me a psychopath or whatever. Why do you have emotional depth because you stay up all night? And you can't fall asleep because you're on your phone or you're thinking about all the shit that's going on in the world. You're thinking, I don't know, you're scared. You're going to lock your door. Bro, you're the psychopath. You know what I mean? If anything, I'm rested and I'm thinking clearly and I'm going to sleep. And I realize that's a luxury because a lot of people struggle with sleep, but I don't think that makes me a psychopath. I'm good. I'm chilling. I'm just going to say it. I kind of missed the early pandemic. This isn't a hot take. This isn't, well, minus the death. I don't miss the death. Oh, let's keep reading before I dig a hole. Not the death and horror of it all. Thank you. Okay, good. This is where it's a good place to start. But after we understood that we kind of had to settle in for a while, I feel like it brought some of us closer. Like we checked in on people a bit more. I started having virtual lunch and dinner dates with friends. We'd make our order food, pour a glass of wine, and then FaceTime resume while we ate together. We all found creative ways to stay connected. Even celebrities brought us into their homes with livestreams and let us get to see their lives behind the scenes. It was so nice. Now that we've resumed normalcy, all has kind of dissiped. All of that has kind of dissipated. I agree with this, you know? Like I think that in the future when I look back on COVID, like I will talk about it fondly minus the death. Minus the death, that's a huge, huge thing. But in these ways where you're kind of stuck inside, I did trivia nights with my friends where I hosted trivia and we were all kind of drinking on Zoom and shit. And I remember, there was a, like Griffin as a DJ and he did this like virtual, like festival or whatever. And we all had it on Zoom, like on, like we split the Zoom. And then this, and I was playing beer pong outside with my brother, you know? Like there were these creative ways that, you know, you can kind of have fun. I definitely was checking in. I will say, I did have a moment pretty early on in the pandemic where I was like, of course this is fucking horrible. But this is the only time in my life probably that the entire world is dealing with the same issue. Which I was like, that's kind of interesting. Like I felt so connected to people in Italy. Like they know what I'm going through because this is happening to everyone on earth. Which was so interesting, dude. Like how often does that happen? Now obviously bad because people passed away and it's a horrible thing. But in a weird way, we were all connected by dealing with the same issue. We all had the same common enemy. And you're watching the news of people all over the world and we're all learning about it in real time. Like that part of it is, I won't say cool. I will say interesting because it wasn't cool. But it was, it was interesting to kind of feel that. And I don't know if that over will happen again. I also drank a lot of wine those first two weeks. Let me tell you. They were like 14 weeks, stopped to spread. I got my Xbox, I moved into my mom's house and I drank like three bottles of wine that weekend. And then we're like, hold on. And I was like, oh fuck. My mom kicked me out after like two months. The butt cheek is probably the worst part of the body to get a pimple in my opinion. Bro, at this moment, I have a fucking pimple that is raging on my right butt cheek. Dude, it's raging. Like I saw it in the mirror and I was like, dude. It looks like I got stabbed. It literally is so red. And I don't know what it is. Let me touch it. Oh, I don't. I don't think I have it anymore. I scratched it the other day and I was like, whoa, hold it. Like it felt like I like scratch an open wound. It probably is one of the worst ones. Definitely the most painful. I think maybe your face is probably the worst place, at least for me, because I get self-conscious. And I really only get them like near my beard. So sometimes it looks like, you know, it's like on my lip and that's a little off-putting. And I get cold sores too. But I'm not even talking about cold sores. I'm talking about pimples. Like sometimes you get them in the corner of your mouth and then when you open your mouth, they kind of stretch open and like that hurts like hell. So that kind of sucks too. But haven't had that happen in a while. You know what it is? The butt cheek is primed for a big one. You know, I never get a big pimple on my face. My butt gets craters on it sometimes. Not craters, crater. Like one at a time. But it gets painful back there. I don't know what it is. I think it's because I like sweat in my workout shorts and then like the sweat just like traps into my butt cheek and it's like we gotta, we gotta get infected or whatever. I don't know what my body's doing. Hogwarts is a stupid name for a school. It's hog plus warts, that's terrible. I don't think this is a hot take. This is a freezing cold take. I agree. It somehow works, Hogwarts. But like hog and warts, what are we doing here? Both like not great separately. So you put them together and you were hoping for the best. I don't know. But I couldn't come up with a different name. I like it, Hogwarts. I mean, I'm just conditioned to know that name. So I think that's why I like it. But I agree, when you really separate the word, you're like, how did she come up with this? What, why? The phrases panic attacks and anxiety attacks have been overused and ruined by people on TikTok and social media and now people who actually suffer from those issues don't get taken at seriously. I agree and maybe disagree at the same time. I do agree that people overused anxiety attacks and panic attacks for whenever they're like a little nervous or just like, ooh, I'm about to have a panic attack and it's like sister, you don't even know what the fuck that is, all right? I've had panic attacks and it don't feel like, ooh, I think it, no bro. I'm sitting here and I gotta lock in and make sure I remember how to fucking breathe. It feels like I'm giving myself CPR with my own lungs. Like that's kind of like, I cannot breathe, I can't think and I'm like, now I'm cold sweating and then all I'm thinking about is getting another panic attack right after this one and I don't know when this is gonna end and I'm just gonna sit here and chill. Otherwise, it's going down. Like, it's bad. But if you're just like, oh my God, I'm gonna have a panic attack because I gotta, I gotta final on Monday, you're nervous. You can be anxious without having an attack. Those are very different things. Are you hyperventilating? Are you feeling doom and gloom? Because those are usually the two boys that show up when you're having one of those attacks, okay? I also disagree because I don't know that people who actually suffer from those don't get taken as seriously, I don't know. Maybe that's true, not in my experience. I mean, I'm someone who's like, I have it, not all the time, but like, I experience attacks rarely. But when I do, hello, but I think that people take it seriously. I also think that you can tell when people are using it in a serious way and a not serious way. And when people are using it in a serious way, you can see physically, there's something going on. Like, it looks bad. Someone who's just like saying it, it's like someone being like, oh, I like, you know, I have to have my keys on me. I have OCD, it's like, you don't have OCD, okay? That's, you know, it's like, it's almost become this expression for people to be like, oh, I have OCD because, you know, I need to have my phone on my nightstand or, I don't know, some shit like that. And it's like, okay, there's a spectrum of OCD and, you know, whatever, but people who are suffering from OCD, like it's very intense and can get very intense. But even those situations, no one's like, oh, wow. So they have OCD. So I shouldn't take this person as OCD seriously. Like, I don't think that's, the case. I do think people will get very liberal with panic attacks, anxiety attacks, depression, and like OCD. They're a little overuse, I'll agree, but I think we should all still take them very seriously. All right, before we continue with this video, we do have some sponsors. The first one being Seaky. Seaky is where you're going to want to buy all your tickets, okay? 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And you're going to want to sign up right now at rockamoney.com/jow. All right. Enjoy rockamoney.com/jow. I need you to become on your birthday as the age you just completed, not the age you started. Bro, I said this the other fucking day. And I ruined the birthday, honestly, because Nicole turned 30. Because she's like, oh my god, I'm 30. This is crazy. And I was like, actually, you've been alive for 31. You ever think about that? You've been alive for 31. And I can't take credit for that because it's not my thought. I just heard someone else say that. Or maybe I read it somewhere. I don't know. But I heard that and I was in a blue my mind because I never even considered that. Like when you turn one, you just did one. Like, you're not zero until you're one. Like, why aren't you born about one? Boom. How's that a hot take? That's just facts. It's hurtful to society that most successful people or public figures don't publicly acknowledge pure luck as an ingredient to their success. I don't think having successful people like knowledge that there's luck involved would do anything to the process. I don't think being like, I just got lucky will result in any net positive. Like, I don't think that's actually helpful. And I don't know that it's hurtful either to society if they're not acknowledging pure luck. Obviously, no one thinks they got lucky because they know how much work they put in. I like to say that of course there's luck involved, but you have to be prepared for luck. I don't know that people are just completely unlucky or they're unprepared for their lucky moments. You know, like you can have a moment that doesn't feel like a moment because you weren't prepared for it or you didn't take advantage of a certain opportunity. Of course you're not going to feel lucky because it didn't happen. You weren't like assertive in that moment or whatever or you weren't prepared for the moment. The moment was bigger than you and you kind of ran away from it or blah blah blah. There was multiple times in my life that I felt like that could have been a moment for me, but I just wasn't prepared or it was a bad time or I just didn't do the right thing. So it's not like I don't look lucky. I just it just didn't happen. And then later on in your life, you'd be like, well, I just never got lucky. And it's like, maybe you did. There were opportunities. You have to be prepared for those. And that's why I think it's so important to be like obsessed with the thing that you want because it would be impossible to ignore your lucky moments, your lucky moments. I see them as opportunities that you're prepared for. And it feels like luck because it's like an opportunity is very similar to me to luck because they both kind of just pop up. There could be an opportunity for me tomorrow that that just pops up. It's not going to be because I did anything. It's because someone has decided to create an opportunity for me. And I see that and I go, okay, go do that. Of course, I could feel like luck, but you got to be prepared for that. Like if you go viral for the first video you ever make, you still have to be prepared for that. So like, what are you going to do with that moment? Are you going to continue creating content or you're going to do blah blah blah? Or are you not? Because you're not prepared and you don't know how to do it. And you kind of fumble that opportunity, even when you have all these eyes on you, that would feel like, well, I didn't get lucky. It's like, well, you had this moment and you had this thing, you know. So again, I think that luck is involved in that way. You have to have luck because luck is opportunity. Opportunities will pop up and it's kind of out of your control. And you can try and get as many opportunities and like actively go get opportunities as you can, but you do need them to pop up and you need people to speak on your behalf and want to help you out. And you need people along the way that are going to quote unquote, do you favors and those feel like luck. But I again, I don't think that public figures being like, yes, there's pure luck involved. I don't think that really does anything because if the way that that's sort of written, I think to me, it just sounds like just wait around and your opportunity could come. That's how it happened for me. I don't think it happens that passively. I think that you have to be actively like chasing something and prepared for an opportunity. And then later on in your life, you could be like, well, this person gave me an opportunity. So I got lucky, which is true. But also you are prepared for the opportunity. I'm going to stop because I'm talking in circles now, but you get what I'm saying. Someone eating an apple on the street looks cooler than the coolest person smoking a cigarette on the street. What a person eating an apple on the street looks cooler than someone to. Bro, give me a break, dude. I hate cigarettes. I've never taken a drag of a cigarette in my life, but bro, they look cool. They do look cool. And it's just so like, like, you're like a nullied. It's just like, it's a good like accessory on apple. You fucking William tell you know, like in photos, black and white photos and shit is like, yeah, you know, we make this photo cooler. A fucking apple. No one said that. No one's ever said like, bro, if only you had an apple and you were biting into it. I also think I look like an idiot eating an apple, dude. Like my teeth come out first, like a horse. Like I'm like, don't try to bite through this thing. An apple is not cool, at least not for me, bro. I would look way cooler, smoking a cigarette than I would like eating an apple, like, like, nah, it's no. Fruits and chocolate don't go together. Yes and no, mostly no. When people have chocolate bars and they put fruit in it, dead to me, kill you, kill. I hope someone does, but I don't like that. Also, orange and chocolate. Literally, I hope you get tortured. Fruits and chocolate, I will say like, chocolate covered shit is good. Chocolate covered strawberries. Those are cool. Do I need a fountain? No. It's also the fake, fanciest thing that maybe exists ever. It's a fountain of chocolate. Am I a gustous gloop? I don't need this shit. Just fucking put it, dip it, leave it on a plate. I'll get to it. And I think that's good. But when you put the fruit inside the chocolate bar, disgusting to me. Disgusting to me. I hate that. Hate it. It's absurd how much professional athletes get paid. I, I actually don't think that this is very absurd because of the amount of people that support these teams. Where would you have that money go? Do you think that the person who owns the team should get that money? The money has to go somewhere because enough people are showing up and spending money on jerseys, on, on hot dogs, on fucking whatever, everything else. Money's got to go somewhere. Should it not go to the reason why people are showing up? I think it should go to them rather than some dude in a suit who barely shows his face and doesn't really even do anything anymore. You know, he doesn't GM the team. I mean, maybe he has a say in like who gets picked or whatever, but probably not really realistically you hire for people to do that. You have scouts, you have the GM, you have the manager, like, you have a bunch of people below you and you have maybe final say because you don't the team, but like you hire people to do that. Of course it's absurd. Like, it's a lot of money that they make. I think that it's probably well justified. If you looked at jerseys sales, ticket sales, and stuff like that, it's, it's hard to argue that they, that they're getting paid too much. I don't know that they're getting paid too much. I don't know. Making the bed every morning is totally pointless. I completely disagree with this. Making your bed in the morning is, oh man, I'm gonna sound like a fucking guru right now. But I really do think that waking up, I don't think it needs to be the first thing that you do. I think before you leave the house, make your bed. And this is a personal thing for me because a lot of people will tell you, make your bed because it's a good way to set the tone. I got something done and now I cross something off my list and that feels good and now I can move about my day with some good energy. Sure, but for me, it's more of, I gotta come back to this room and at night, you know, so if I make my bed and it's like neat and shit, and then at the end of the day when I just want to fucking relax and turn down, I walk into a room that looks like shit and the beds all fucked up. My energy's off. Like, it's hard to relax when there's something to do or it doesn't like look good. So that's why the bed gets made. I actually make the bed. I don't want to say the bed gets me. Sometimes it's me sometimes it's not. No, but I make the bed time. I actually make the bed probably more often than she does. But it's nice to come home and be like, okay. cool. It's the same reason why if I go on vacation, usually we have our cleaning lady that comes, you know, whatever sporadically. But if we're going on vacation, it's like, let's get the cleaning lady to come all the way so that when we come home, perfectly clean apartment. Good energy. There's nothing to do. You're really tired. You got all your bags and shit. You don't want there to be dirty dishes. You don't want there to be like, shit everywhere. It's the same thing with your bed. Make you bed. Because at the end of the day, when you want to turn down, it's nice and relaxing. Trust me. Ice cream does not belong on warm baked goods. Cookies, brownies, pie. All examples of things ice cream should not be put on. It adds a nice sweetness, but it's not worth that weird hot and cold temperature thing that goes on. Warm baked goods should be enjoyed as they are with appropriately temperature toppings. A good crumbled peanut topping on a brownie is acceptable. This person is a piece of shit. Adding ice cream to literally anything makes it better. I don't know where ice cream would make something worse. This is an extremely hot take. I like the difference in temperature. I'm not a big brownie guy, but you're telling me like a cookie with a little bit of ice cream on it. What are we talking about here? We're talking about some of the greatest shit that's ever existed. Pie? How about this? The pie sucks without the ice cream. That's the best part of the pie. Unless it's blueberry pie. Have you other pie? Inside of my balls. Ice cream is the best. Put it on anything. I'm in. Put it between a donut. I'm fucking that thing up. So this is extremely hot take. I don't fuck with that at all. The fact that it's got 12,000 upvotes or whatever is beyond me. You got miserable people out there. Last one we have here. Strong handshakes or a sign of weakness. Oh my God. I love it. I absolutely love it. Think about strong handshakes for a second, all right? Who gives you the strongest handshakes? It's some girl's dad who's fucking trying to be like, "I'm the guy." You fucking knew it. Oh yeah. Dude, just say you're insecure. You're not a big bad guy because you shook my hand hard. Oh, you got a stronger grip than me? What the hell does that mean? What does it mean? It literally is meaningless. You know? I'm not a piece of shit. I'm not. You shaking my hand real hard. What does that do? You're better than me now. You're just showing that you're trying to intimidate me but you would only be trying to intimidate me if you were scared. You look scared shaking my hand this hard. Let's just be normal here because we're normal human beings and we're not intimidated by each other. Imagine I went to some girl's dad and shook the shit out of his hand. That would almost come off as disrespectful. You trying to cuck me in my own fucking house but that's what's happening back this way. And now I gotta fight you. Now we're fighting. This is the first time we're meeting or we're fighting on a grip. What are we doing here? We look like a bunch of morons. I agree. It's a sign of weakness. It's okay to have a firm grip. Like you normally should. I think people who shake their hands and they're like hot like this is like I would slap like get the fuck out of here. A firm cool boy if you're like schtick is you're gonna like give me a hard handshake and really pull me in and look me in the eyes or whatever it's like all right dude we get it. You watched the pranos 10 years ago and you're a dweeb. That's that's what I'm getting from this handshake. All right. I agree. Well there you have it folks. Those are the hottest takes of 2026. Some I agree with some I don't as you can tell but we'll see if there's more later on in the year but that is all. Don't forget to subscribe and we'll see you next time.