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All righty, folks. So it's been a really, really busy year. A lot happened this year, particularly in the cultural space. And so today we're going to take 10 of the top cultural moments from 2025 and rank them in order of importance. So let's begin. Alrighty. So we begin with January. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is inaugurated again. And obviously this goes number one on our list of sort of most culturally important moments, because the entire universe revolves around Donald J. Trump. That's just the way that it works. Him being president again has shaped everything from culture to politics. And so, without a doubt, that is number one of our ten events here. Alrighty. The second thing that happened this year, apparently it started in late 2024, but it only came to my attention in mid-2025. And that is this craze of young people saying 6, 7. By young people, I mean my own kids and all of their cousins. And in terms of cultural importance. Cultural importance. I'm going to put this at number two, because nobody will shut up about this. And it's deeply annoying and speaks to the fact that nothing has any content anymore. So as a, as a condemnation of our culture and for its ubiquity and it's deeply personal annoyance to me because again, my own children will do the six, seven thing to me. They know it's a joke. THEY LAUGH Still, I'm going to, I'm going to put that at number two in terms of important is the 6, 7 trend. So you can see this year started well already in April. Katy Perry went to space. Now this was hilarious. This is like the funniest thing that happened this year was all of these women going to space. And the jokes and the memes were just wonderful. Katie sh up in space and the fact that many people didn't want Katy Perry to, you know, ever come down. She could just live up there for a while. And then her declaring herself an astronaut, it was really quite delicious and delightful. However, in terms of importance, this one goes at like number 10. This is not an important moment in American culture. In fact, it was because it was so deeply unimportant that everyone found it amusing. This was not us beating Sputnik. This was us putting a bubble headed singer in space. So that's like number 10. So, okay, so we have already accounted for 1, 2 and 10. Okay, now another one of these crazes that apparently swept up the whole country this year was this Lububu craze. Now, I will say this has not invaded the these spaces in which I live. Like, I'm aware of it only because my producers made me aware of the Labubu craze. And also because apparently some members of our company were very upset that we even discussed the Labubus. Apparently there's something satanic about them or something, I don't know. But because I don't know that much about it, I'm going to put this at 9. I just don't think the Labubus are that important. Now again, that may be my own personal sort of bubble that I live in, but yeah, I'm put that at 9. This episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Your online activity isn't private. Data brokers track your habits, beliefs and spending, and then they legally sell that information. Corporations use it to target ads, platforms manipulate what you see during elections. It can be used to sway your vote, to protect your freedom and your privacy the way I do. You need ExpressVPN. With ExpressVPN, all of my online activity gets rerouted through secure, encrypted servers. So my Internet provider has no way of seeing what I'm doing it feels good to be online without that sense of someone looking over my shoulder. On top of that, ExpressVPN hides my IP address, the unique number that identifies you on the Internet, which means data brokers can't track me or build a profile to sell. I use ExpressVPN all the time. 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This is pretty great because it did initiate a gigantic conversation, not only about the merits or demerits of Coldplay, but also about why people cheat on their spouses, why you would possibly go to a public concert with somebody that you are cheating with the merit of the big screen, and why people probably should not be canoodling on the big screen in the first place. And of course, it became one of the funniest moments of the year. Now, the fallout for the family wasn't tremendously funny, but that was going to happen anyway. That's not the fault of the screen operator or the fault of Chris Martin. That is the fault of the two people who were involved in this thing wrecking their respective families. So I'll put that at six because it was indeed ubiquitous. All righty. Sydney Sweeney for American Eagle. That was also in July, and this one I'm going to put at probably 7. The reason I'm putting it to 7 as opposed to the Coldplay Kiss Cam is because we could at least all enjoy the Coldplay Kiss Cam thing. Sydney Sweeney for American Eagle was culturally important in one sense only because there had been a sort of wholesale rejection in the advertising space of the idea that female beauty standards existed. And Sydney Sweeney is obviously a return to older beauty standards. That is clearly the case. It also was culturally divisive because so many people decided that she must be some sort of insane right wing white supremacist and then have been trying to take it out on her movies, which is really kind of nasty and terrible and stupid. Because as far as I'm aware, Sydney Sweeney is not particularly political. If anything, she's studiously apolitical. Much more like Chris Pratt. He's so cool. But the rule apparently seems to be in political media that if you don't declare yourself a Kamala Harris fan, that somehow you deserve to be humiliated and the critics ought to go after you and all the rest. So there has been a sort of sustained campaign to harm Sydney Sweeney's career, particularly on social media, which is ugly and could bode ill for the future. So I could see this elevating on the list as time goes by. But I'll put that at seven. Alrighty. Travis and Tay Tay, they got engaged in August. That is a thing that happened in all of our lives. In all of our lives. And, and so I will say that that amounts to like a 4. We'll put that at 4. Is it going to initiate a new marital boom in the United States? Doubtful. Is it going to initiate a new baby boom? Doubtful. Is it destroying the Kansas City Chiefs this year? Maybe. But in terms of its earth shaking quality, sure. I'll put that right behind 1 and 6, 7. We'll put that at 4. All right. Jimmy Kimmel got suspended from the air in September. Now the media wanted to treat this at 1, but I actually think this is like 8. I don't think that Jimmy Kimmel getting suspended was all that important. It didn't last. He was back on the air within a week. There was, I think, a really interesting debate on the right about the proper uses and scope of government. But other than that, I just don't think there was a ton of there there with regard to Kimmel getting suspended. I know everyone wanted to say that this was the authoritarian moment, it was finally happening, it was all happening. But I, I, you know, I just think that it ended up being a tempest in a teapot. So it's long lasting impact is going to be fairly low. A thing that will not be ranked low here is the Netflix, Warner Brothers, Paramount plus fight that is going to have an impact on the future of media for the foreseeable future. And so, I mean, you know what, I'm going to move that to number two and I'm probably going to move six, seven to like number five. Actually, we'll move six, seven down significantly to number five. If we're talking about the future of media and the consolidation of gigantic media companies into huge streaming platforms, the sort of reconsolidation of the digital media into what looks more like traditional media. It does have some tidings for the future. For consumers, it's probably good you're going to pay for one subscription as opposed to nine. But for the sort of broadness of outlets and the generality of output, it probably will mean a reduction. It sort of means that we were in a bit of an entertainment bubble and now we may be going into a bit of an entertainment bus, which is sort of fascinating. So I'll put that at number two and then at number three in November, of course, a socialist one. New York City. Now, the reason, again, that that's not number one or number two is because Zormandani becoming mayor of New York. We've had a socialist in charge of New York City in the recent past. Bill de Blasio is a commie, but Zor Momdani being treated as sort of the wave of the future in the Democratic Party, as opposed to de Blasio, who is treated as almost an afterthought by the Democratic Party for years. That could have some significant ramifications for the Democratic Party going forward. I'll put it at 3. It's possible that rises to 2 or even 1 when all is said and done, depending on how much the Democratic Party decides to embrace Zoran Mamdani as the new face of its progressive future. All right, so There you have 10 of the most important cultural moments of 2025 reviewed in order of importance. And to say it again, number one, Trump's inauguration. Number two, the Netflix Warner deal. Number three, Zormandani winning New York. Number four, the Tay Tay engagement. Number five, six, seven. One of the most important things happening in our in our lifetime. Number six, the Coldplay Kiss Cam. Number seven, the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad. Number eight, Jimmy Kimmel suspended. Number nine, Labubus and number 10, Katy Perry in Space Foreign.
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