1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,480 Hello, I pledged allegiance to the flag, but stuff still happened. 2 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:10,560 So what's up? It has been a heck of a year, and now we're at the end of it. 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:16,160 The 2024th one. There's been probably some more than that, but yo, a lot happened this year. 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:18,960 Let's talk about it. January! 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,600 Substack got into a beef with everyone because they refused to de-platform Nazi. 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:27,040 An airplane door blew off mid-flight. Real cool. 7 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:31,680 A 13-year-old beat Tetris. The Epstein documents actually released. 8 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,960 That happened. I got COVID in January, too. 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,560 Elon banned a whole bunch of journalists who were critical of him from Twitter. 10 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,160 The free speech haven. 11 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:46,080 Voice actors in the gaming industry were blindsided with a new industry contract that 12 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,360 allowed for a lot of AI usage they were not okay with. 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:54,000 A study looked into the effects of the male gaze on women as they are performing 14 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,320 things, tasks, and such. And it turns out they were largely unaffected. 15 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:02,400 But annoyed, Joe Biden confirmed that if given the power to shut down the border, 16 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:03,360 he would do it. 17 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,280 February! TikTok tried to compete with YouTube in long-form content and was like, 18 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,640 hey, everybody, just turn your phones to the side. We're going to start pushing 19 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,440 long-form horizontal video. You know. 20 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:18,800 Universal media pulled their streaming licenses from TikTok, silencing myriad videos. 21 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:25,280 Anti-trans policymaking took off like wildfire across several states, just passing anti-trans 22 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,760 laws for the fun of it. Congress invited a whole bunch of social media CEOs to come testify 23 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,240 about how bad they are with kids. 24 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:38,080 Farmers in Europe from France to Italy broke out in protest over very strict new regulations 25 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,720 that basically gave them no room to work financially. 26 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:46,160 Despite not being at war, the US dropped hundreds of bombs in Iraq and Syria after 27 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:50,400 three US service members were killed by a drone strike from Iran in Syria. 28 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:56,160 Disney invested $1.5 billion into Epic Games to get a, like, stakeholder shit. 29 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:00,480 John Federman began really leaning into his heel turn against the progressives that put 30 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:05,200 him into office, siding real hard with Israel and basically telling progressives to shut the 31 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:10,400 fuck up. Taylor Swift joined the ranks of Elon Musk, who would later offer to give her a baby. 32 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:15,440 In suing a person who was publishing her already public flight data to Twitter, 33 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:21,680 an abandoned half-built tower in LA got graffiti bombed, and the LAPD called it a worldwide issue. 34 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,280 The Apple Vision Pro released. 35 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,480 Biden's mental acuity finally made it into the mainstream media discussion talking point stuff. 36 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:36,960 Because, obviously, Israel dropped all pretents of not attacking Rafe and just started to bombard 37 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,320 Rafe, a zone previously designated for refugees. 38 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:44,640 An abandoned ocean vessel that no one knew who the owner was off the coast of Trinidad 39 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,440 began leaking oil into the ocean. Was that yours? 40 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:53,280 Congress passed a $100 billion funding bill for wars in Ukraine and Israel, 41 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,920 and Republicans were mad that they couldn't send more money. 42 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:01,280 Despite a police presence of 800 cops, there was a mass shooting in Kansas City during a 43 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:06,640 Super Bowl celebration parade. Air Canada deployed an AI customer support agent, 44 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:11,040 which started just making up policies about returns, and it landed them in court. 45 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,840 Reddit sold all of their content to train AIs. 46 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,520 For $60 million. That's nothing. 47 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:23,280 Alexei Navalny, a notable Russian opposition figure, died in prison after being imprisoned 48 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:28,960 for being an opposition leader. Medical research discovered that long COVID brain fog is indeed 49 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:34,880 very real and is caused by the thinning of, like, artery walls in your brain. 50 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,360 It's not good. Don't get COVID. 51 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:42,800 Alabama's Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through IVF treatment are considered children. 52 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:48,800 This sent shock waves through the medical community because, obviously, that's insane. 53 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:53,920 This is an ongoing issue. There was, like, a temporary stay to help some operations continue, 54 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:59,440 and now there's efforts being done to amend their state's constitution to overturn this 55 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,480 absolutely absurd ruling. Mitch McConnell announced that he would not seek another term 56 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:10,240 as the leader of Republicans in the Senate. This is because he's only alive by Technicalit. 57 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:15,680 I launched my merch store, merchfrom.dev. March! Holy God, we're only in March. 58 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:20,320 A study released from the UK found that there are virtually no downsides to having a four-day 59 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:25,520 work week. On a podcast, the Florida Surgeon General said that COVID vaccines are severing 60 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:31,440 our connection to God. RFK, in an attempt to desperately try and pretend he's not vehemently 61 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:37,360 anti-vax, launched an AI support agent, of course, on his website for his political campaign. 62 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,560 The AI proceeded to say, yes, no, he is very much anti-vax. Let me explain why. 63 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:47,520 A group of Israeli soldiers took just a real cute selfie in front of all the destruction 64 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:52,240 and rubble in Gaza. Roosterteeth shut down. After the State of the Union, the Republicans decided 65 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:58,080 that their response would be from Senator Katie Britt, who gave a very strange monologue in her 66 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:03,920 kitchen. The TikTok ban sprung into full force, not being passed quite yet, but the rhetoric 67 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:10,320 began in true. I-F-R-O-L. Facebook was sued for Project Ghostbusters, which was a project to get 68 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:16,480 people to use their VPN so they could spy on everything you did in every app outside of Facebook. 69 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:21,200 They were upset that they couldn't track you once you left their apps and went to, say, Snapchat, 70 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:26,000 hence, Ghostbusters. But we should ban TikTok, obviously. A nine-year-old boy led cops on a 71 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,640 car chase when he tried to drive himself to school, and he almost made it. When eclipse happened, 72 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:36,640 in the sky. McDonald's started making some moves after the McDonald's in Israel were supporting 73 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:40,880 Israel's army in assaulting Gaza, and people were like, what the fuck? So corporate McDonald's was 74 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:47,440 like, we're gonna buy back all of these franchises because, mm-hmm, RPR, Discord, by accident, 75 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:52,720 broke YouTube's 24-hour view count record. It was an April Fool's announcement video that 76 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,800 played for everyone, and when you dismissed it, it just kept playing on loop in the background on 77 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:05,440 silence. So everyone who had Discord was looping the same video all day. The humane AI pin came out, 78 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:11,200 and it was horrendously bad. So bad that it started a pretty cynical conversation about 79 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:17,040 if tech reviewers have too much power because they can kill companies. Not, maybe we shouldn't 80 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,440 make terrible products. Google fired several employees who were protesting Google's contracts 81 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:25,920 with the Israeli government. Everyone forgot about the Apple Vision Pro. Amazon's ring cameras were 82 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:30,240 found to have been allowing unauthorized access to video feeds, and they were forced by the FTC 83 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:37,040 to give $5.6 million in refund. John Barnett, the Boeing whistleblower, was found dead, and Biden 84 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:43,760 signed the TikTok ban bill. May! Right on the heels of the humane AI pin fiasco, we got the Rabbit R1, 85 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:49,760 which was somehow worse. A second Boeing whistleblower died after suddenly becoming mysteriously 86 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:55,040 ill, despite being very healthy. Ceasefire talks continuously fell through with Israel as Netanyahu 87 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:59,040 maintained that the only path forward was the complete destruction of Gaza. Data published 88 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:04,720 by The New York Times showed that for the first time in history, billionaires were paying a lower 89 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:10,560 effective tax rate than the working class. That's right, you pay more taxes per dollar 90 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:16,800 than the billionaires do. A cop murdered a 23-year-old Air Force member who was sitting in his home. 91 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:22,240 After the cop went to the wrong hall, they banged on the door. He reasonably got his legally-owned 92 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:27,440 firearm, and they were like, ah, he's black and has a gun! The president of Iran and a bunch of his 93 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:34,080 closest allies died in a helicopter crash. Dorothy Jean Tillman II became the youngest person to get 94 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:40,160 a doctorate in her field at the age of 17, studying a particular kind of medical research that I 95 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:46,560 don't understand. Texas Governor Greg Abbott pardoned a literal convicted murderer who murdered 96 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:52,560 a protester at a BLM protest. This isn't like hyperbole, he was found guilty and convicted by 97 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:58,160 a jury of his peers of murder. But I guess if you kill a person who supports black lives, 98 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:05,520 that's pardonable, as opposed to terrorism if it's a CEO. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito 99 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:10,960 threw his wife under the bus after it came out that they were flying an upside-down American 100 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:15,680 flag above their house during the whole Stop the Steel fiasco. It was like obviously signalling 101 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:21,200 support for Trump, which is your Supreme Court Justice at least fake that you're impartial. 102 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,840 Or actually, I guess that that's just not important anymore, never mind. 103 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:30,000 Carry on, Samuel Alito. Carlo Acutis became the first millennial to achieve sainthood. 104 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,560 Belle Delphine announced that the whole Gamer Girl bathwater thing, she actually lost money on that 105 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:39,280 due to shenanigans from PayPal. Paper Mario, the thousand-year door, was remade for Nintendo 106 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:45,520 Switch, and you should play it. That game is a 10 out of 10. Gio! Switching hands. We got a 107 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:50,480 switch it off. This is a long one. A cattle farmer in Colorado was struck by a bolt of lightning, 108 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,640 killing him and dozens of his cattle in the middle of a field when there really wasn't a 109 00:08:54,640 --> 00:09:00,240 storm going on or anything. Tiktok began their full scramble in earnest as the Tiktok bill began 110 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:06,480 to get set into motion. Ceasefire talks continued to fall through with Israel, as Israel continued 111 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:12,400 to say Gaza must be destroyed. OpenAI announced that Israel and Russia were using chat GPT to 112 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:17,280 generate mass quantities of propaganda in multiple languages. Absolutely flooring virtually every 113 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:22,880 security researcher, Microsoft announced their Recall feature, which takes screenshots of everything 114 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:29,120 you do on your computer and saves them forever. Elon Musk was rejected a $50 billion pay package 115 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,680 for the first time. He wasn't happy. After the International Criminal Court started to suggest 116 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:39,520 that Netanyahu is committing war crimes, the U.S. House of Representatives sanctioned the 117 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:44,320 International Criminal Court. You gotta love being on the right side of history. The investigation 118 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:48,400 into the Ocean Gate tightens submersible that imploded with the billionaires on board, that 119 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:54,480 moved forward and the details just made it just that much worse. Worse, worse is a relative term. 120 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,880 The Wall Street Journal released a huge report where they interviewed dozens of women who were 121 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:03,040 abused and groomed by Elon Musk across a bunch of his companies. You know, the guy who's the 122 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:07,200 richest man in the world and essentially now has control over the entire ruling party of America? 123 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:11,840 Yeah, that one. Hunter Biden was found guilty of possessing firearms while having narcotics. 124 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:17,280 Daddy Joe said he would not pardon Hunter. This is foreshadowing. Del tried to tell their workforce 125 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:22,320 to get back to the office and their workforce, half of them, were like, nah, you could shove it. 126 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:27,760 Unrest boiled over in New Caledonia as France is continuing to lose their grip on the indigenous 127 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:32,960 population who is not very happy about the whole colonization thing. TikTok and several 128 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:39,360 creators sued the US government over the TikTok ban bill as the US population only has 30% support 129 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:44,480 for the bill. Some scientists emerged from a year long mission in a simulated Mars environment. 130 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:48,560 So they got to just not be here for a year, which is, I mean, sign me up. And for the last thing 131 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:54,080 for June, Biden took this stage with Trump in what would ultimately become one of the most 132 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:59,600 horrible and consequential presidential debate performances in history. July. We're gonna have 133 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,320 to pick up the pace, y'all. People got so sick of AI that even Goldman Sachs put out a report 134 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,560 saying, Hey, y'all, the investment is just not worth it. When are we getting some returns? 135 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:15,360 Boeing pled guilty to criminal fraud over their whole like everything. A giant Poseidon statue 136 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:20,480 kind of appeared in the Gulf of Mexico. I mean, someone put it there. Probably Joe Biden dropped 137 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:26,240 out of the 2024 presidential race after everyone was like, dog, what are you doing? He previously 138 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:31,280 stated that he wouldn't run for a second term. The US Supreme Court ruled that presidents have, 139 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:37,840 quote, absolute immunity in, quote, official acts. HR company, the lattice attempted to roll out a 140 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:44,000 change where they would list AI agents in the same places as human workers in org charts. 141 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:49,680 They rolled that back. We got really great news from HIV drug research and may have discovered a 142 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:56,080 new much less invasive prep drug. Elon Musk threw his full support behind Trump around this time 143 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,720 where he started to make like MAGA specific hashtag stuff on Twitter and started just being 144 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:05,520 very, very loudly pro Trump hundreds of employees across several sectors in Bethesda game studios 145 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,120 successfully unionized. And we had the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. 146 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:15,120 How do you miss August? A background check company called National Public Data suffered a 147 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:21,840 data breach affecting 2.9 billion people. Mr. Beats controversy around the whole beast game stuff 148 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:27,840 and child grooming and everything that this is around the time that all that started to pick 149 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,760 up. A woman got arrested at an Applebee's for trying to game the system with regards to an 150 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:36,480 all you can eat deal. So if you ever thought about trying to do that, we have the answer now. 151 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:41,840 Fuck the police. I want my food. Tenacious D kind of broke up after Kyle Gass made a joke 152 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:47,280 about Trump's assassination attempt on stage and then Jack Black had to distance himself from that. 153 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:52,800 And then everyone was upset. And apparently now they're not breaking up. I don't know. That was 154 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:58,240 dumb. Like we're all out here making jokes about Luigi Mangione killing the CEO guy like a joke 155 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:03,440 about an assassination attempt that didn't work. Like, come on. I'm so tired of all these pearls 156 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:08,240 that were clutching in video was caught very obviously trying to hide their attempts to scrape 157 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:14,240 data from YouTube to train their AIs. They were literally telling their employees to use nefarious 158 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,320 practices to try to hide the fact that these requests to get these videos were coming from 159 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:23,200 Nvidia's data centers. The bombardment of Gaza continued thanks to Israel and the United States 160 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:29,280 of America as the death toll rose to somewhere between the official tally of about 40,000 161 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:35,280 some odd souls to the third party estimations in the hundreds of thousands of lost souls. 162 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,600 Google released a feature for their photos app called reimagine, which lets you use AI to take 163 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:46,320 a picture and reimagine it with different contents such as drugs next to somebody you don't like. 164 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:51,680 RFK dropped out of the 2024 presidential race joining Trump's team and ultimately seeking a 165 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:57,680 position in the head of the government around health stuff. Oh no. 70 previously unpublished 166 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:03,680 works of poetry by JRR Tolkien were published and the founder of Telegram was arrested in France 167 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:11,280 for... we'll get to that. Do you remember? Something something September. I don't know 168 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:17,200 the song. A little stereo outbreak though from Boar's head. Australia joined several other 169 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:22,000 countries that actually have laws that make sense sometimes in passing a right to disconnect law, 170 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,320 which basically says that if you are off the clock you are not responsible for like checking your 171 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:31,120 email. Officials in Texas noted an uptick in sausage purchases, which apparently is an 172 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,760 indicator of a downturn in the economy. After arresting the Telegram CEO, France charged him 173 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:41,360 with money laundering and aiding the distribution of child sexual exploitation material. Cool. 174 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,600 He then was like, uh, we're not gonna... we're not gonna capitulate and then they capitulated 175 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:52,640 and now they're actually moderating Telegram. A Wells Fargo employee was found dead at her cubicle 176 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:58,080 four days after having clocked in to work. Work less hard. Brazil entirely blocked Twitter after 177 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:03,440 Musk refused to comply with local policies and that ultimately fueled a pretty mass exodus to 178 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:08,160 Blue Sky. Follow me on Blue Sky. The US Department of Justice revealed that Tenant Media, a right-wing 179 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:13,520 media organization that was pushing a lot of the usual suspects in that general space, turns out, 180 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,840 yeah, they were a Russian operation. They were being funded by Russia. So, you know, weird. 181 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:24,320 Oregon saw a measles outbreak among their children due to catastrophically low vaccination rates. 182 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,480 OpenAI complained that if they had to follow the law, they wouldn't be able to operate. 183 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,240 Which is weird. Because if I complain about that, I just go to jail. 184 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:37,040 Massive protests broke out in France after a deeply unpopular Prime Minister appointment 185 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:42,800 after a deeply contentious race. A man in North Carolina generated about 10 million dollars 186 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:48,480 using AI to create fake songs and then using AI's to stream those fake songs across various 187 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:53,040 streaming platforms. At that point, let him keep the money. JD Vance and Donald Trump both began 188 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:58,800 talking about the whole Haitian migrants eating pets thing. Facebook began to use the data of all 189 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:04,240 adult Australian users to train their AI's with no option to opt out because they're 190 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:09,840 happened to not be a law on the books in that region requiring an opt out. A massive suite of 191 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:15,120 security flaws were found in the dating app Field, ranging from being able to read other 192 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:21,680 people's messages to being able to send a message to anyone as anyone. We got a look at the new USPS 193 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:27,920 mail trucks and they're adorable. Israel detonated a whole bunch of devices across Lebanon, indiscriminately 194 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:35,200 killing civilians. The, um, Diddy situation. Habit. Mark Robinson, the then-goober-notorial 195 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:41,680 candidate of North Carolina, was outed for having referred to himself as a Black Nazi on porn forums. 196 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:47,200 And the Teamsters Union decided to not endorse anyone for the presidency. Bucking tradition, 197 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:52,880 they had previously endorsed the Democrat for basically ever. October, I had a bit of a meanty 198 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:58,640 bee. I took me a break. I stepped away. Probably because of all the things that I've been talking 199 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:05,360 about, among other personal situations. And so I just kind of, vibed for a while and caught up on 200 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:09,440 sleep and tried to be good to myself. Some stuff probably happened. It was mostly people yelling at 201 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:13,760 each other on the internet and everybody pointing fingers at everybody about everything. November, 202 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,840 the girl did not win. Also Netanyahu now has a formal arrest warrant. 203 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:28,240 December, we are here. Australia passed a bill disallowing social media from having users under 204 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:32,560 the age of 16. Biden pardoned his son. There's the, there's the payoff from the foreshadowing. 205 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:38,000 Trump has appointed just a who's who of terrible picks for his cabinet. Elon Musk was again denied 206 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:43,840 his $50 billion pay package, making him very mad. The French government collapsed. Well done, 207 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:49,520 Macron. Assad's grip on Syria since 2000 has finally crumbled and he had to flee the country 208 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:55,920 from the, the civil war that he lost. Two department in a holland, yeah. Two DHS agents were charged 209 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:01,520 with selling bath salts that were confiscated from criminals back to the people they got caught. 210 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:06,480 A whistleblower from open AI was found dead in his apartment. That's the third one that I talked 211 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:10,480 about this year. Well, third whistleblower from a company, a judge attempted to stop the onion 212 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:17,840 from purchasing info. We're in incel gamers got really, really, really upset from the game awards 213 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:26,960 and they started to call Siri in the Witcher four ugly, which is madness. It is actually wild. 214 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:32,960 You guys come on now. You can, you can change. I promise it's going to be okay and we'll 215 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:38,320 eventually forgive you, but you're, you're being a bit of a weirdo. And lastly, possibly the most 216 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:43,520 important story of the year, big mooshi. And so here we are. We talked about a lot of stuff this 217 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:48,960 year. Obviously I didn't cover everything that happened, but that's just a handful of things 218 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,240 that I picked that were covered this year. It's the end of the year. This is the last episode 219 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:56,400 of the year. And I just want to say thank you for being here. And as we look towards the future, 220 00:18:57,120 --> 00:19:02,560 I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It's going to get rough. We're looking towards four years 221 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:07,600 of incredible difficulty and we're looking towards four years of absolute madness, 222 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:14,000 basically every single day. And I know this sucks to hear, but it's true. The community that we 223 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,200 established for ourselves in these next four years is going to be critical. Make sure you're 224 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:22,080 reaching out to people locally in addition to people online. I'm going to keep doing what I can do to 225 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:28,720 bring a little bit of joy, shed a little bit of sunlight on situations. We'll see. It's going to 226 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:33,920 be rough. We only get through it together. But for now, I want you to relax. And as always, take 227 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:59,920 care, be well, and I'll see you in 2025. Bye-bye.