Ep 592 - 2025: A Year in Review

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Israel Palestine, Russia Ukraine
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Kuvade syndrome
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Guitar Center, Kuvade syndrome
4. 30:00 – 35:00: Prize Pick
5. 35:00 – 40:00: Prize Pick, Soviet government

Notable quotes from "Ep 592 - 2025: A Year in Review"

• 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.

  about Israel Palestine · at 0:46

• And they also have this thing too called Kuvade syndrome where guys now time, 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.

  about Kuvade syndrome · at 9:00

• Bad. And so yeah, I'm driving my Telecaster, my new Princeton reverb amp that I went and got from Guitar Center.

  about Guitar Center · at 13:04

• New routine or making your first team pick, but when it clicks, when you're right, it feels incredible. On Prize Picks, it's good to be right. With high pressure playoff…

  about Prize Pick · at 34:25

• Started to falter and break. And eventually the machines started getting [ __ ] up. So the Soviet government was All right guys, we're going to let you see your loved ones…

  about Soviet government · at 38:09

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

Companies & orgs

• Prize Pick — Company · 3 mentions · first at 34:20
• Guitar Center — Company · 1 mention · first at 13:09
• Soviet government — Company · 1 mention · first at 38:13

Concepts & topics

• Artificial Intelligence — Concept · 3 mentions
• Kuvade syndrome — Concept · 2 mentions · first at 9:02
• Israel Palestine — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:46
• Russia Ukraine — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:54
  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 Venezuela, but bright siding it, it's look, guys were getting busy. All right,.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Wow. Wow. Wes. Hey guys, happy new year. We're here. Um, kind of an off week, but figured we'd hit you guys with a little best of 2025. Um, we 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 uh, unfortunately that kind of podcast crucible again. Shane is going to be gone filming for a little bit. Um, 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. Um, however, you know, I mean, let's just recap what would happen in 2026, man.

0:40 [ __ ] you know, we got a lot of wars going on. There's that. We have a lot of wars. Um, 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, uh, also Russia, Ukraine. Maybe that'll come to an end. And hopefully not Venezuela, but you know, bright siding it, it's like, look, guys were getting busy. All right, guys. 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 uh fire and spirit. But guys, I I didn't come here to talk about war. I'm just recapping the year 2025 wars. Okay, fair enough. Um, what else happened? What else happened this year?

1:29 Big things that happened. We had, uh, 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, he the quiet piggy that was definitely him pushing himself up there in the headlines. Aside from that, it's like DJT is not hitting as hard as he 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 uh 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 this podcast has been going on, which is crazy. 10 years Trump has been just, you know, a central fixture in the news.

2:25 And I think he's gonna 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 Years to find that out. So, we'll see about that. Stay tuned for two more years. In other news, we also have AI is booming right now. And uh oh boy, another hot bit of controversy as well.

2:56 AI apparently it's 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. Um, 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 is no shame in a machine built by billionaires taking your job from you. What do you you think you're going to you're not going to do better than that. It's like, let it have your job. Let you'll just be like, let the state figure out your life for you. You know, if you if I'm saying if AI takes your job, that is not that's nothing to stay awake at night about being like it's like there's nothing you can do.

3:46 Like you 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, "Here, 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 the 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 [ __ ] embarrassing, dude. Let the machines have your job. Say, "Hey, machines, come and get it. Let them come

4:39 in and take it." Now you're on the outside. You got to go find food. And here's my thing. You're going to say, "All right, well, how the [ __ ] am I going to find food?" It's like, I don't know. But if if the AI came and took my job and like all of 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 you don't a peaceful militia obviously, but it's like you go from sitting on your ass in an office every day with that just graveling to your [ __ ] boss hoping they give you a little promotion and it's that's [ __ ] hell. Let the computer wipe that out.

5:12 Now you're outside, you're doing push-ups, you're doing burpees, you and your friends can set up a little barbwire 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. I 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 a, 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 push-ups 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 [ __ ] find food. It'd be so much more fun to go and find food than sit in an office, you know? That's if AI takes your job. That's my whole point.

5:55 So, don't worry about that. We had AI. We had Endless Wars and um what else do we have? Um I don't know. I think they cloned They didn't clone. They made a false embryo in uh 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.

6:15 Why don't we take it to one of these beautiful clips? Hold on, guys. Check this out.

6:20 I didn't know you got you were that drunk. We were on the plane together. You know what I found? Do you know why scuba divers you know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah.

6:26 Do you know why they do that? Look cool. No. Cuz if they fell forward, they would land in the boat. Come on, guys.

6:40 Classic highlight reel 2025. Mark that. Joke world. Clip it. Joke world. Highlight reel 2025. Just run that back 25 times.

6:49 Yep. That's what we'll do for the New Year. New Year's. Just that joke over and over for three hours.

6:56 You fall asleep to it. But you're going to laugh every time. You're going to try to sleep. You can go.

7:04 Oh man, that was hilarious. And now we're back to the special New Year's edition. Guys, we talked about we recaped 2026, you know, whatever. Or 2025. I'm sorry about that. Sorry, sponsors. We recap 2025. I don't know, man. Like, what else is out there? Recently, I actually just discovered that there's a thing um that women experience. It's called a false pregnancy syndrome where a woman will convince herself that she's pregnant to the point where her breasts start to lactate and her belly expands as if there were a child inside of it. There was recently a a case uh 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 breast swelled with milk, her stomach started sticking out, and she even thought she felt kicks. And uh and

8:03 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 uh 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 gland somehow to produce milk for this baby that didn't exist. And the doctor had to tell her 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. Get over it. You You're not pregnant, you old [ __ ] Go home." And like, damn, that person for sure was probably like, "I can't wait till 2025's over. 2025 is kicking my ass. I missed my husband so much that I 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.

8:56 Oh man, poor lady. And they also have this thing too called Kuvade syndrome where guys now time, 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 when they're pregnant, they they'll go around. It's 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.

9:35 They get like bins and they start [ __ ] 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, dude, don't. First of all, it's definitely gas. Second of all, never. That's it. Even if you're mimicking your wife's pregnancy response, never say that out loud, dude. Just [ __ ] just it's 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 [ __ ] baby in your belly. That's something women can respect, honestly. Don't tell them like, "My nipples are kind of sensitive, too."

10:24 Dude, that's [ __ ] disgusting. Take it to the grave, man. If your wife's pregnant and you're like, "I think I'm sort of pregnant." Don't do that, man. Got these guys going to the doctor. It's called Kuvade syndrome, which is like, oh, it's [ __ ] brutal. I'd I'd rather have a guy hold me down and finger my butt and tell someone about that than come up to my friends and be like, you know, I started actually mimicking my wife's pregnancy symptoms as well, you know? Just don't, dude. Don't talk about that to anybody. Keep that to yourself.

10:54 All right? Like, oh my my breasts are actually a little swollen. Dudes 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 your stomach hurts. Stop pretending you have a [ __ ] baby. I don't know why people guys and girls alike are having fake pregnancies. It's like just stop, man. It's [ __ ] 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. That'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 [ __ ] blasting my butt with his. I don't know.

11:39 However he gets it, he gets it. Maybe we're just both lying on our side. He trips me. We're like lying on our side 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 that drunk. We were on the plane together.

11:57 You know what I found? Do you know why scuba divers you know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah.

12:01 Do you know why they do that? Look cool. No. Cuz if they fell forward, they would land in the boat.

12:13 Come on, guys. Classic highlight reel 2025. Mark that. Joke world. Clip it. Joke world. Highlight reel 2025. Just run that back 25 times.

12:24 Yep. That's what we'll do for the New Year's episode. Just that joke over and over for three hours. You fall asleep to it, but you're going to laugh every time. You're going to try to sleep and you go, "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 I'm just, you know, driving peacefully, but 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 I also got a a Christmas present from my brother. Shout out Billy. I got a a nice uh Stratacastaster. Is that was Yeah, Stratacaster. I'm think no Teleer. My bad. And um so yeah, I'm driving my Telecaster, my new Princeton reverb amp that I went and got from Guitar Center.

13:12 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, they're my there's my my true core fans. Every time I go into a guitar store, Sam Ashuit 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 I had to drive kind of slow cuz 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 tube amp they explained to me and they can break easy.

13:54 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 from my living space. And um so I'm driving here and I I hit the brakes like coming up to the stop sign slow because 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 brake and meanwhile uh at the intersection like across from me there was an old man in a Subaru and he or 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 like pulled up to an intersection with an old man in a Subaru giving me the stank eye. 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 [ __ ] crammed in the house. It's all day, non-stop, blah blah blah. So, I'm I'm a

14:41 little cranky, you know? I'm a little bit cranky. Obviously, I'm I'm stoked to come here and do the best of 2025, but like I'm a little cranky, man. I'm I'm a little fired up and I I take a taking a 40 plus vitamin that has Tomato Ali, so my tea 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 [ __ ] look at him like the [ __ ] are you going to do? And I literally out my window I said, "What the [ __ ] are you going to do, old man? You [ __ ] ass Subaru. I'll [ __ ] you up in that [ __ ] Subaru." And I was like, "That's not me.

15:22 I'm leaving that me behind in 2025." Cuz I really for a second was hoping that the old man would get out of the Subaru and I would do I would literally [ __ ] bash his head into the windsh. 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 [ __ ] 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 [ __ ] passenger window easily. I I would have left this guy in a bloody discarded heap on the side. I would have drove over his unc his concussed body and I was so [ __ ] angry.

16:03 But he drove off and uh you know I calmed down, cooled off, made it to my creative workspace and uh 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, I'm not the toughest guy in the world. I'm not out here looking to fight people, but like an old man in a Subaru just giving me the nastiest look. And all what I wanted to tell him was like, "Dude, I have a [ __ ] tube amp in the back of my CRV. If it falls over, it's going to be pretty costly. 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 had 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 [ __ ] fight you right now, dude. 2025, leave the [ __ ] behind. We'll both move on.

16:48 Maybe you won't make it to 2026. It was a pure lib spaz. That's all it was. And again, 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 libs. Old libs love putting 97 potted plants in front of their [ __ ] houses. It's another thing, man. Get them out of the [ __ ] sidewalk. I'm trying to walk [ __ ] put them in your backyard. You don't need 40 [ __ ] fern plants outside of your house. Nobody gives a [ __ ] It's 40 fern plants of Ruth Bader Ginsburgg sticker on your window. Get a [ __ ] 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 [ __ ] backyard. Don't have 40 potted plants and drive around your Subaru giving everyone the stank face because you clearly see I mean dare I say a silver fox alpha coming. You know I have a Princeton

17:43 Reverb in the back of my CRV. You want me to break a [ __ ] tube? And I'm like, "Let me just come to an easy stop." You're going, "What the [ __ ] are you?" I'm like, "Excuse me, sir. [ __ ] excuse me." Yeah. Anyway, guys, that's not good. Guys, let's go to a [ __ ] clip. That story sucked.

18:04 I didn't know you got you were that drunk. We were on the plane together. You know what I found? Do you know why scuba divers you know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah.

18:10 Do you know why they do that? Look cool. No. Cuz if they fell forward, they would land in the boat. Come on, guys.

18:24 Classic highlight reel 2025. Mark that. Joke world. Clip it. Joke world. Highlight reel 2025. Just run that back 25 times.

18:33 Yep. That's what we'll do for the new year. New Year's episode. Just that joke over and over for three hours. You fall asleep to it.

18:42 But you're going to laugh every time. You're going to try to 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. Um, it just boosts us into the algorithm and makes us more visible so more people can access this kind of content you love and uh know and love. So, all right. So, we talked about the old man in the Subaru, and it's like, I've already moved past it, man. I forgave him instantly. It's just, you know, it just god damn it. I hate that face when you pull up and someone goes it's like what's how dare you question my you don't even know what the [ __ ] I'm doing dude acting like I'm I should I should have just [ __ ] veered my car ran like no you go ahead and went [ __ ] crashed his Subaru [ __ ] [ __ ] Anyway guys enough about that.

19:31 Um what else I want to talk about? Also I played basketball yesterday. First time in man I I can't remember. It's been a long time. Um, but as you've know, I I've been training, man. I look, I don't talk about my training that much, but I've been training pretty intensely. And, you know, so I'm was up at the basketball court yesterday. It's a little cold, a little windy, not ideal conditions for, you know, an outdoor basketball court. But, um, 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.

20:08 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 airballing. I'd be like [ __ ] All right. Let me just, you know, maybe she didn't see that. It was it was pretty pathetic display now that I'm saying it out loud. But I'm out there and you know I'm shooting around. I'm getting warmed up and uh you know I got the Apple Watch on burning a surprising amount of calories and I'm like this is you know this is not a bad little workout man. I'm I'm going to try to like, you know, get to uh 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 whippers snappers, these two kids come

20:53 up, uh, high school, I didn't realize they're in high school. They're seniors in high school. Came up. I see them shooting around, and I'm like, and 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 [ __ ] demolish them. go as hard as I [ __ ] can cuz 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 of the basketball court. Dude, it 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

21:39 sitting there. I'm shooting around. I see the young kids. I let them warm up. I'm not going to [ __ ] I know. I'm not going to be all warmed up. 20 minutes in, shooting around, running back and forth, full court, really going behind my back whenever a Volvo passed me hoping it was like a super hot housewife for their kids. Be like, "God damn, behind my back through the legs, pulling up threes, dude. Just [ __ ] raining them." And um see these kids, let them get warmed up. And uh you know, and again, I'm thinking, I'm going should ask them to play 21. I do this a lot.

22:04 This is something I'm getting away from in 2026, but in 2025, I'll like want to ask, they're [ __ ] kids. I want to play basketball with them. Takes me like 10 minutes to work up the gumption to be like, "Hey, you kids want to play some 21?" So, I'm like, you know, I'm sitting there. I'm shooting around. It was like a my my my mind like hijacked my body. I didn't even know what I was doing. I was like, "You guys want to play some 21?" I just yelled it across the court and I just they just both look at me like, "Uh" and like, "We don't know how to play that." And I'm like, "Oh, here."

22:31 And I gave them the rules. It's pretty much like oneon two when you have the ball and then if you make it, you go to the foul line, shoot, you know, from the wherever is 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. Started playing 21 and um I don't think here's here's the 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 [ __ ] hard on these kids. I I feel bad. Looking back on it, I was like, I shouldn't have done that. I went

23:20 so [ __ ] 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 you should train. you know, lift the weights and do all that [ __ ] There was one point I'm driving in. It's twoon-one, obviously. It's the nature of the game of 21. I'm going to lay it up. Both of them failed 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 [ __ ] like that, you little fuck."

23:56 I didn't. I said, "Oh, man. Oh, don't worry about it." went to the point, you know, I I I might have done a little in one, but whatever. I was [ __ ] You would have thought I got shot out of a volcano just fly soaring through the air with children on my arm. These were [ __ ] high school seniors. Hold maybe, you know, in my head. I might be dramatizing a little bit, but it was like I felt them try to pull me down and I just [ __ ] ripped through these children and laid it up. Made it and won and god I ended up winning. Again, it's not about that. If I lost, whatever, but I did win by a lot. And um no actually that little one little kid started coming back. I started getting nervous.

24:31 But I was like wildly and completely out of breath. And after I finally won, I got 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 sizable lead for a while and I just gassed. 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 4 feet away and hitting little like floaters. So, I finally I finally went and I'm completely out of breath. I'm shattered.

25:05 Dude, my Apple Watch I I don't know if you track you know your [ __ ] 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 350 400. I burned 668 on these kids. 668 calories of megawatts or whatever the [ __ ] they are of [ __ ] fat molecules exploding in my body to just defeat these children. Again, wasn't even about them. I'm battling [ __ ] time, death, my body failing. I could feel like my ankles like ah [ __ ] Like everything hurts the whole time.

25:47 and I beat these kids and um 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. Uh I'm turning 40 this year, guys." And they just both looked at me like, "Oh, whoa, that's cool." And I was like, "Yeah." They're like, "Wow, man. That was uh you played pretty good." And I was like, "Thanks, guys. Well, I'll see you up here again." And uh 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 uh we like a mailman pulled over, bought lemonade off us and just told us his like life story, all of his troubles.

26:29 Now I'm like, "Yeah, I get it, man. Something about it, man. You just want to like I don't know. It's it's it's a shame you get such a bad rap for hanging out with kids cuz honestly if I and again it's like I'm not like that. Like any of that funny stuff, but like I don't know, man. And I wouldn't mind chilling with kids if I'm being honest. Like I I feel weird around adults. I do. If I'm like at a party with adults, it's like h I don't know. But if like, dude, if you could just drop me at like, you know, like a 12year-old's, I don't know, 12-year-old's birthday party, I would for real vibe so hard with like 12, 14, 17year-old kids and just like, you know, play flag football, do a slip and slide, you know, if we got to wrestle, whatever. I would I would wrestle them on my knees to be fair, but like I don't know. I like no pedo on me.

27:17 I'm just like it's so it was so fun just [ __ ] balling out with these kids yesterday and uh you know I I hope I see them again on the court. I hope I ignited a little fire in their bellies cuz I mean dude, if I was if I was a high school senior and some 40-year-old was giving me the [ __ ] business and I I I'll be honest, I could have been a lot more physical but I I let him taste it every now and again. I would drive and be like, "Okay, you want to get how you [ __ ] 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 [ __ ] I'm not sitting here tooting my own horn like I'm stronger than a couple kids. But like they did try to hold me down from jumping and I leapt through the air with them holding on to me and I'll never forget that. That was so nice, dude.

27:56 Just to go home, that was a nice feeling. But guys, let's check out one of these [ __ ] clips. What do you say? Best of 2025. I didn't know you got you were that drunk. We were on the plane together.

28:06 You know what I found? Do you know why scuba divers, you know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah.

28:10 Do you know why they do that? Look cool. No. Cuz if they fell forward, they would land in the boat.

28:23 Come on, guys. Classic highlight reel 2025. Mark that. Joke world. Clip it. Joke world.

28:30 Highlight reel 2025. Just run that back 25 times. Yep. That's what we'll do for the New Year's

28:35 New Year's episode. just that joke over and over for 3 hours. You fall asleep to it, but you're going to laugh every time. You're going to try to sleep and you go, "Oh, all right, guys." And we're back. Um, big year 2025. Uh, what else we had? We We talked about some of the geopolitical stuff. Also, the comedy world, bit of a hot bed, a lot of turmoil going around the comedy world. A lot of a lot of comedian infighting. Um, which I'll say and one thing I'm I'm grateful for in 2025 is to not uh 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 [ __ ] eyeball flickers myself and it's it's tempting to be like, you know who I [ __ ] hate and you know, and all that stuff, but a lot

29:33 of that stuff going on, man. It's been uh there's like comedian verse comedian, there's YouTuber verse comedian, there's comedian verse YouTuber, and it's like this endless swirl of just kind of negativity that we can't [ __ ] keep our eyes off. And I've said it before, Cat Williams cra, I mean, he's, you know, obviously this is older than him. It predates Cat Williams and probably Sanm comedy itself, but like he blew the lid off the jar when he he [ __ ] spilled the tea. It was the It was a That was that 2024 2025? I don't know.

30:03 Let's I'm going to put that in 2020 in the 2025 bucket because 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

30:18 January 2012, dude. that we started 2025 cuz it was the Will Smith slap. That was so that was 2024. The thing that finally stopped that was the Cat Williams te 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. Um which you know kind of launched his podcast and then Shannon Sharp had a bit of a strange year as well. A lot of sexual stuff and uh I think he's that's crazy. It's crazy to get so much [ __ ] that Disney's like, "Dude, we got to cut ties. That's way too much [ __ ] hunk, we're [ __ ] you're killing it right now." He got so much [ __ ] that Disney was like, like, he's getting so much [ __ ] that he's like hitting his phone. You know when you fake call somebody or 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

31:10 Sharp's getting so much [ __ ] that when his phone bumps to like call somebody or go live, which was suspicious. It's just him digging out a lady being like, "Oh, god damn." Shannon Sarp got so much [ __ ] in 2025 that Disney dropped him and I think he's fine. But my whole point was Cat Williams on the podcast, blew the lid off it. And I don't I don't know if it was that or what, but there I I did start to see that show. I saw people come on that show trying to get their Cat Williams moment where people were trying to like, you know, give the sensational take and like this guy, that guy, blah blah blah blah. And no one ever, you know, it was lightning in a bottle. No one ever recaptured the cat [ __ ] crack off on the tea. But then I 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 don't do comedy, they're always

32:00 asking me like, you know, what's this guy like and who's your favorite, who don't you like, blah blah blah blah. And I I gotta say, man, like I do find it unfortunate that there is this fascination with comedians as like I like any sense. Like they're this guy's a piece of [ __ ] because they did this. This guy's like the best cuz it it's like dude comedians for real are they're just like I don't know. They're like [ __ ] 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 just like whatever that is has gotten mutated to where now you do standup 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 a leather jacket and smoke and stay up late and you're like, I'm a [ __ ]

32:48 comic. You never understand my life, but you're a theater dork, man. And I it's just so funny to have all this attention trying to dissect comedians and be like this is what they're really thinking. This it's like in 2025 I get it. But for 2026 it's like dude this for real. You have to look at every comedian like here this is what it's like when people like comment and want to be like this guy said this and they're a [ __ ] hypocrite and I'll 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 [ __ ] Just let them swim. All right? Just [ __ ] 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 [ __ ] man? This guy's not even That's not how you do the backstroke." Yeah, dude. His [ __ ]

33:36 He's missing a leg, dude. 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 [ __ ] burnt down tree, man. You're not going to get anywhere by tracking the thoughts and opinions of comm. They flitter and fly around. You're This is a guy panicking, saying whatever it is that'll just get him through another hour of the week or the show or whatever so he can sell [ __ ] digital picture frames. Don't look into it that much. That's all I'm saying.

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35:24 Download the Prize Pix app today and use code drench to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. That's code drenched to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Prize Pics. It's good to be right. Hey guys, we're back. Um, all right. So, we're back here. Classic. We never gets old. Um, what else? You know what I want to talk about today? The, uh, I was reading about the Soviet calendar back under Stalin when they eliminated all the days of the week. Like they still had like the months and stuff, but instead of the days of the week, they did a fiveday uh, work week where they took away like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and replaced the days of the week. This was, you know, Soviets, the Soviet Union or Stalin. They replaced the days of the week with like [ __ ] like instead of Monday it would just be like loaf of bread. Tuesday was star then Wednesday was hammer and sickle. Uh

36:20 Thursday was just like burlap sack and then Friday I swear to God Friday was like it was called uh pointed wool military cap. That was your Friday. And what they did I swear to God look it up. And what they did was it was this fiveday work week and the idea was for the machines to never stop. They were like, "Hey man, if we want to make this dream come true. We we can't be like all taking off on Saturday and Sunday and having the machines stop, we got to keep this, you know, the industrialization or whatever just [ __ ] plugging along."

36:51 So they purposely gave like wives and husbands and brothers and sisters and families different days off. So like if your day off, you didn't have like a weekend. You would just work all the time. It was never ending shift work. And then let's say like uh 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 years everyone just lived this weird existence where the the calendar was perfect 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.

37:29 So they took all that stuff away for a couple years. No one got to really even see each other. The all the holidays were stripped out. They they would give you a day off for like the day of [ __ ] the day Lennon was born. I don't know. Some [ __ ] But he might have came later. I don't even know. But my whole point is they had this thing where they try to genuinely replace a calendar for several year several years and it's just everyone is [ __ ] 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 cool down. The machines all start started to falter and break. And eventually the machines started getting [ __ ] up. So the Soviet government was like, "All right guys, we're going to

38:17 let you see your loved ones again." And they um they allowed people to start seeing each other. And then, you know, it's kind of fake as hell. You know what I mean? and they're like, "We see you and 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 I thought communism was more about like chilling, just like kicking up, you know, kicking with the homies. And uh no, it was just all about the machines and the machines collapsed and uh then they got to go back to the standard Gregorian calendar. So, I don't know, pretty chill, I guess. But then the whole [ __ ] society collapsed after that shortly after. And uh I don't know.

38:56 Now it's Russia's just [ __ ] Russia fighting. I guess you know I guess from Russia. Ah I don't think they had a good year at all. A lot of people died. So million they say a million [ __ ] people. Jeez Louise. That would piss me off if I was Russian like that wasn't even true. Someone's just talking mess being like, you know, like a million guys died in Russia and be like, "No, we [ __ ] didn't." Probably you think it's a million. I I'm under the impression that Russia's winning the war. But I look, let's not get bogged down in 2025 conflicts, guys.

39:34 I just thought that was cool, the idea of just like trying to as a government upend time itself to be like, "We're in charge of how you view time." time and it's like what a [ __ ] crazy thing to do. It's just so crazy to get that into politics. I I was recently we had a nice little game night, you know, me, my wife, some other couples and uh someone there found out that I had never voted before ever. Uh until like my wife dragged me to do it this year and uh they were they were like they had a pretty serious like that's like [ __ ] up. You've never vote. And it's like look if you want to vote [ __ ] vote.

40:09 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 [ __ ] weird. Just don't just [ __ ] 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 it's like being [ __ ] stoked on the DMV. That's the government. It's the [ __ ] DMV. It's the capital. And it's just like all the weird human beings who are 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 a political identity left and right. It's like, oh man, I hope that stuff falls by the wayside soon because it is [ __ ] so unbelievably lame to just get into that. I don't know. People ask, "You never voted."

41:08 It's like, "Yeah, because I've never every single president I've seen, I've been like, this person's a freak, you know?" And it's like, I guess I'm kind of a freak, but not like that, man. If I was If I was president, I don't know. I I would go classic like school president style soda machines everywhere. That's probably why we're in debt. That's probably why we're in debt. We're 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 is 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 we're in debt?"

41:55 Let's just say [ __ ] it. I'm the government. The debt is to the C. No, it's probably to other countries. Whatever. Just call the other countries and be like, "Dude, are you really going to [ __ ] hold me to the fire on this, man?" 90 trill. Can we just forget about this? Can we just all chill, please? It's [ __ ] so lame. 40 trillion. Yeah. $40 trillion. The interest on that every year is got to be There's no way once you're once you're in a loan setup 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 let's do let's let's see if we ever can get out of this because I don't I honestly don't think we can. So, here we go. So, we have I don't even know if my calculator I got to hold it sideways. These are big dog numbers here. Hold on. We're entering big dog numbers. 40 1 2 3.

42:47 Okay. 40,000. 1 2 3 uh 40 million 1 2 3 40 billy one two three. Okay. I'm at $40 trillion. Let's go times 0.03. Let's Let's say we're doing 3% interest, huh? Let's see. 3% interest uh equals Okay, we the interest we're acrewing on $40 trillion of debt is $1.2 trillion a year. We're never getting out of this. They got This is embarrassing, dude. $1.2 2 trillion dollar and you're going to have a guy every four years be like, I'll tell you what, I'm an oldfashioned kind of guy and I get shut the [ __ ] up. Every year we owe one the debt it grows if we just pay our payments the minimum.

43:40 We pay the minimum, which we probably do 1.2 million more dollar 1.2 trillion more dollars. So, you know, next time someone's going to be like, well, you should vote. It's like, dude, get the debt down. Then I'll [ __ ] think about it. All right. Otherwise, what am I voting? It's a [ __ ] [ __ ] 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 trill." Is that really? That's 3%. 1 point 1.2 would be 3% of 40 trill.

44:17 How muchion? Jeez. And how how does it [ __ ] I've said this forever. If you're in 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 were $1 billion in debt and no one's going to 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, hm, we got to 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.

45:08 Cuz you always hear that. You're like, well, you know, your grandkids are going to be, you know, 350 million people with $40 trillion. our great grandkids are gonna owe a 20 bazillion dollars and they're it's like what the [ __ ] no they're not. They're never gonna what? Like it makes absolutely zero sense to say that's going to stop us in any way, shape, or form unless it's like all does our tax money go to paying the debt? I have no [ __ ] clue. All I'm saying is when AI takes your job right forget about the debt. That at that point, you should say, "All right, like AI taking your job, you know what I was thinking about today?" And I don't know if this is like a good thing or not.

45:48 It's sad. It's scary. It's kind of like what am I going to do with myself? But then maybe, you know, I'm brightiding obviously. The cotton gin kind of freed the slaves. It wasn't like the bleeding hearts of people. It 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. That's all I'm saying. How nice would that be? How nice would that be? I don't know. Whatever. Anyway, guys, um yeah, I think that's

46:24 Yeah, let's f let's do the final clip. And guys, this is a good one. Check this out.

46:28 I didn't know you got you were that drunk. We were on the plane together. You know what I found? Do you know why scuba divers you know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah. Yeah. Do you know why they do that?

46:35 Look cool. No, cuz if they fell forward, they would land in the boat. Come on, guys.

46:48 Classic highlight reel 2025. Mark that. Joke world. Clip it. Joke world. Highlight reel 2025. Just run that back 25 times.

46:57 Yep. That's what we'll do for the new year. New Year's episode. Just that joke over and over for 3 hours. You fall asleep to it, but you're going to laugh every time. You're going to try to sleep and you go, "Guys, 2025 was 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. 2025, we cried. We grew, you know. Um, in 2026, you know, my my goal is to really become more social. I want to get out there, you know, and here's the thing, like being more social, it's not about just going to parties and getting [ __ ] up. It's about genuinely getting to know other people and embedding themselves, embedding yourself into their lives in a real way. Um, 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 a an obstacle I'm trying to overcome just because when I talk to people, I don't

47:55 even think I hear them. They talk to me and I'm just going like, "Dude, [ __ ] I got to 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 [ __ ] 280 and I get my squat to [ __ ] 350, I'll be at the Thousand Pound Club pretty soon." guys. But let's let's end this on a nice on a nice note. Uh enough about that. Um 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 going to happen in the next year? Uh St.

48:35 Augustine or St. Augustine, however you say his name. He has a famous quote on time. He wrote a whole essay on it. I'm going to read you guys a little selection on uh we're going to close this out big with a a quote from St. Augustine on time. So here here's the quote. What then is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I wish to explain it to one that askketh, I know not. Yet 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, past and future. How are they when the past is no more and the future is not yet? As for the present,

49:19 brilliant. If it were always present and never passed into 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? H 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.

49:54 But a short time in the past we might call say 10 days ago and 10 days ago hence a short time in the future. But in what sense is something long or short that does not exist. He's saying that future and 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. H let's jump down here. H 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.

50:33 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 into past that it cannot be extended by any delay. For if it is extended, it is divided into past and future. The present has no space. Where then is the time which we call long? Is it future? We do not say it is long, for it is not yet. So as to be long, but 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

51:32 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 if it can be something long but instead as we said before the present cries that it cannot be long. Hm. What then do I measure? Where is the short syllable by which I measure? Where the long which I measure? Both have sounded, flown, passed away or no more. And yet I measure and confidently answer in as much as the rule

52:04 of measure as there is a rule of measurement that as through 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 thee, oh my mind, I measure times. Do not overwhelm me with noise. Do not overwhelm myself with a multitude of thy impressions. In thee, I say, measure times, the impression which passing things make on thee, 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 a distension, and thine right hand hath upholded 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

53:02 together again from my old days, following the one, forgetting the things that are behind, not distended, but extended, but to things which shall be and shall pass away, but to Those things which are before not distended, but extended, I press toward the prize 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 that drunk. We were on the plane together.

53:31 You know what I found? Do you know why scuba divers you know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah.

53:35 Do you know why they do that? Look cool. No, cuz if they fell forward, they would land in the boat.

53:40 Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Oh, wild west. Come on, guys. Classic highlight reel 2025. Mark that.

53:54 Joke world. Clip it. Joke world. Highlight reel 2025. Just run that back 25 times.

54:00 Yep. That's what we'll do for the new year. New Year's episode. Just that joke over and over for three hours. You fall asleep to it, but you're going to laugh every time. You're going to try to sleep.

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