10 things that turn 10 this year (Lemonade, Pokémon Go, Harambe, etc)

We're getting OLD. Welcome back to the podcast. This week I'm diving into to the year 2016 to remember all the things that feel like they happened in another lifetime. Frank Ocean's Blonde, Hoverboards, VINE. Simpler times. If you enjoy the show please consider subscribing wherever you listen and leaving a review. Follow me on instagram and TikTok @cremebrulee2d. Peace. 

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It's me. It's me. That's cool. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh bitch. Crib fucking brulee. Yeah, it's crime fucking brilliant. It goes up. Gotta come down. Hello. Welcome to Krimworld, the Crim World Podcast. Episode 40. Question mark. I'm your host, Krim Brulee. Never gonna learn. Never gonna figure out what episode of the podcast it is, but still gonna come in strong, uh guessing every time, apparently. Uh please, well, thank you for being here. First of all, please subscribe on whatever platform you're listening on. Follow me on social media at Crim Brule2D. Rate the podcast if you enjoyed it. That's

4th of July Weekend and the Realities of Parenting

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the that's it. That's the whole business. Krim, how you doing today? I'm doing great. It's the 4th of July weekend. Um, I don't I don't I just don't I don't the 4th of July doesn't move me. 250th birthday of America doesn't move me in one way or the other. I'm not like yay, America, and I'm also not like we need to use this opportunity to do whatever else people need to do. If you if that's how you feel passionate about this, is just a place that I live. You know, my my kid, he's three, he's about to turn four. A phase he's he's in a phase right now where he'll just randomly three or four times a day just go, we live on earth. Just make sure we know, just hey guys, we live on earth, and you know, that's how I feel about America. I live here, nothing, nothing else. You know what I mean? I don't have deeper thoughts about it. I've obviously like care politically and stuff, and we'll get to it, I guess, but that's just to say I didn't feel particularly festive. Fireworks, I have a dog and a and a three-year-old fireworks, uh like I get like I bet my kid would be into fireworks, honestly, but it's summer and they don't start, it doesn't get dark until like 9 30, 10, and that's way past his bedtime. And I think I don't know if it made the podcast, but Zy and I were talking uh a week or two ago about realizing as a pa as parents now realizing that bedtime is just parents only enforce bedtime because they got other shit they're trying to do. I only have you know a quote unquote strict bedtime for my kid because after eight o'clock I got it's you know, uh I love my child, but every moment I'm not near him, I'm like, I gotta this is it's free. I'm free. So that's having a that's having a kid. I also just I guess I'm having kid it's kid talk now. Like the the the I I'm starting this later than I want to. That doesn't matter to you, it's gonna come out the same time, but I'm starting like an hour later than I want to because when you have a kid, the activity of going to bed, at least for the first couple of years, the activity of going to bed is such a roll of the dice in terms of experience. It could be a five-minute process that's simple and joyous and painless. Tonight it was like two hours with like a break in the middle and lots of trips for me to go get more water for them. Sorry, my audio is tweaking, but I guess what I was trying to say is I imagine people in my demographic that are listening to this, y'all are probably y'all probably have kids or are thinking about having kids. Let me know. I can do more or less kid content. Like I am, I do talk about I I have thoughts and feelings. We could do I could do 60 minutes on potty training next week if y'all demand it. But I get the feeling uh a lot of a lot of people who follow me aren't necessarily uh uh looking for kids content. However, uh that's my life. Anyway, um

Exploring Seattle's Beauty and a Trip to Bremerton

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oh that was I was talking about my weekend or the 4th of July. Uh yeah, that's probably all the thoughts I have. I took the ferry. Me and my uh family took the ferry out to Bremerton, which is if you don't know Seattle, Seattle, I'll just let me just say this now. Seattle, I've only lived here less than a year, six, well less than a year, let's say that. Elite city, maybe the best city. I don't obviously newly biased, but in terms of what you want in a city, Seattle's got most of it. Like it's not the biggest in scale, like it's not New York, Chicago in terms of just like sheer density and number of people. And I guess if what you want is sheer density and number of people, there's other, you know, Chicago, New York, LA, Dallas, uh exist. But if you just want like big city feel, lots of neighborhoods, diversity, not as many niggas as I'd like. I'll say that. I would love to see us, I would love to see us get the nigga number. Because the thing is, I looked into it, and Portland gets reputation for being like the whitest city in the country, and Seattle's 1% less white. Like Seattle is one has 1% more niggas in it, debatably, by some estimates. Some estimates have them as exactly the same. So there could be more niggas, a lot of Africans, a lot of my homies African. And they count as niggas. I want to be clear, they count as niggas, but more black, you know. Now I'm like, oh no. We could have more Africans too. We could have more Africans, but also black Americans would be cool. But there is good diversity, obviously, a lot of Asian people. Uh I do now understand. What's crazy is like this, I don't know how this is gonna sound, but like I at least and like the post stop Asian hate education I did that was like the first time I like was critically had the critical understanding that like Asia the Asia is represented in like American media and as Americans are taught to think about Asia is like you know, China, Japan, Korea, the like East, I guess North, but like Eastern Asian places and like you know, North, I think what's Swana, Southwest Asian, North African, uh, there's Southwest Asian people, there's North. I don't know what the I don't know what North Asia is. Is that Russia? So you can see even my education is still limited, but it wasn't until I moved here that I had like a critical understanding of like, okay, all brown people aren't Indian. There's like there's like South Asian people, and that's like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. And then there's like, you know, like I have coworkers that are Vietnamese and things like that. Like I I now understand the nuances of quote unquote Asian culture, and I do think it is crazy that we just call all that one thing, especially because Russia is included, right? I gotta I'm not gonna fact check it. Russia is Asia, and if it's not, this is a funny, wrong thing to stand on. Um so yeah, that's all that to say. Seattle's got diversity, especially if you want to talk about the the several different Asian communities, but there's also, like I said, a lot of Africans here, a lot of Europeans, etc. etc. Um, I don't know the numbers on Latino people, but I had one, you know, I work in kitchens, so my idea of the Latino population anywhere is always skewed because I'm always like, I know hella Latinos. Um anyway, good diversity. We have like sports teams, we have the arts. There's like just talking about Seattle generally now. It is, I'm struck constantly by how beautiful it is. Like I was leaving Safeway, my Safeway today, and like through a clearing, like across the street, I could just like see the mountains, like, and I could tell that there's there's just mountains on pretty much every side of it. There's mountains that are closed that you're like, oh shit, there's the mountain. Beautiful, there's so many lakes, there's so much water, the buildings look sick, the space needle. I I'm I'm here. I'm a proud Seattle. I don't know if we have a term yet, and that's a thing I should know. Uh, at least maybe by a year, I'll figure out what we're called. Seattleites, see, I'm trying to do AT aliens, but with Seattle, but that's even harder. Seattle T aliens, you don't care. Um, so I took the ferry. Well, one of the nice things about Seattle is you can just like ride a boat. Uh pretty, I mean it's not free, but you could take the train. The I mean, I get the train for free because of my job. A lot of people. There's also like I'm pretty sure the subway and the bus are just free here. Like you have to tap to ride stuff, but there's no turnstiles or anything. And I've seen the fair checker people who come around to like check the fair. I've seen them like once or twice, and the two times I saw them, they weren't even check-in fairs. They were like, hey guys, we're not even check-in fairs right now. Um, and I've definitely heard through other because comedians are vandals generally. So I've heard from a bunch of other comedians talk about how they never pay the fare. So that just like great public transit and it's free. But one of the things you can do is take ferries to two, there's like ferries and water taxis, but there's two islands. Like, I don't know how islandy they I mean, I guess they are islands because they're called islands, but I know you can drive to them too. But you can take the ferry to it's Bainbridge Island. I guess Bremerton's not an island. Only Bain, you can take the ferry to one island and one other just like part along the Puget Sound. Um, and so we took the the ferry up to Bremerton on Wednesday, uh Friday. Beautiful riding a boat on a beautiful day, it's just it's a top-tier experience. Just looking at the water. Y'all ever looked at the water, saw some jellyfish, uh, just looking at the coast. Kid loves the boat. 10 out of 10 riding the ferry. But we took it up to Bremerton. Wow. No disrespect to Bremerton. If you listen to this in Bremerton, you're probably not, but uh, if you listen to this in Bremerton, that city is some ass, man. We went on a Friday, that shit was dead. It had some decent looking infrastructure, but it was like, I guess it's like a lot of navy people. It's like a big Navy town, and it just was sleepy and the vibes were weird. Um, but it was a fun uh, you know, we got to ride the boat for like 90 minutes total. So that was that, and that was my fourth of July weekend, um, besides more kid stuff, and y'all already told me y'all don't want to hear more kids stuff.

The Challenges and Vulnerabilities of Solo Podcasting

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What are we getting to on today's episode? I can't believe how long that pre that pre uh actual topic filibuster was. I didn't even mean for it to be a filibuster. I guess I was just talking about myself. Do you guys like it when I talk about myself? Why I'm sorry, this is an OD insecure uh crim you're getting right now. I couldn't tell you why. I couldn't tell you why, honestly. Um I think sometimes sometimes I get ner and then I immediately do. Sometimes I get nervous that I'm like a boring person, and I know that sounds I actually don't know how that sounds. I don't know how people through the internet interpret me, but I have like a really hard time making friends and like maintaining conversations and doing small talk, and my heart will be in it, and I'll be like, I like I can be I know how to be curious and I know how to I know how I know like I've read books on communication, I've gone to therapy, I just I'm just not good at talking to people a lot generally, and sometimes there'll just be several instances where I can just like tell a person is like bored or just like I don't know, I'm insecure, so that's why I'm here. That's why, you know, part sh like I like doing this because I think it's uh part of like stretching that muscle. I guess I know it I said earlier, I know it sounds crazy because it's like you know, people expect well. I guess now that we know now that every comedian has a podcast and like you know documents their life, it's not as like uh it's not it's like less of a secret that a lot of people who do comedy are like very socially awkward and anxious and like go to comedy because it's a way to like have total control over a type of social interaction and be able to communicate like in this extremely manicured uh curated version of yourself that is easy to like I don't know that is very likable. Uh and so all that to say I definitely feel that way, and like outside of comedy, I like am a pretty quiet person and like I don't talk a lot and like I don't like talking about myself generally. Uh just even to people I know you have to like pry. Like, I I notice how other people I'm fascinated by it will just like volunteer information about themselves, and I know that sounds really crazy, and maybe this is the type of like whatever I have wrong with me that I I have, but like I'll notice in the conversation someone will just like bring up something about their life, and I'm like I'm shocked when people do like it happens a lot, and like that's how a conversation works, so it's not like crazy, but if someone, you know, if we're just at work and someone's just like, Yeah, I did this this weekend, and you know, my girlfriend thought this about it, I'm like, you're just telling people that like the idea of volunteering information about myself uh publicly or just like in just like two people that aren't like um aren't people I have like super intimate relationships with makes me like really uncomfortable. Um and so this like I like like just cards on the table. I do think I like doing the solo podcast, but I do it's easier, obviously, for me to do an episode with a guest, and I think a lot of times that could be a more dynamic listening experience, and I don't know if what people y'all prefer of the two. I personally, from a listener perspective, enjoy listening to the conversations more because you know the other the other version is just me listening to myself talk for an hour, which I I pretty much don't do at anymore at this point. Um what am I saying? So this is just an exercise. The solo episodes are an exercise in me trying to figure out how to share things about myself and open up more as a person. Um, and I hope that you don't judge me. It's too late. You're gonna have to judge me, and I can't escape your judgment. Now we will get into the main topic of the episode because I have a main topic of the episode. It's not just the Krim feels socially awkward sometimes hour. Though, again, much like the potty training episode, if that's what y'all want to hear, I got it in my bag. I just generally try and do things with a wider uh net in terms of potential listen enjoyers of. Okay. So uh hello, welcome once again to

Revisiting 2016: Personal Memories and Cultural Impact

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the show. Today's topic. I'm doing 10 things that turned 10 this year. This is one I've wanted to do for a while and to keep it a buck. Oh, I meant to do this too. Happy birthday, Zai. Uh, I got double, I won't say canceled on, because now after I say happy birth the happy birthday saying he canceled on me sounds crazy, but I got double can't record today's, and I was like, damn, I really thought I was gonna have someone to record with today. But no, I'm happy for Zai and happy birthday to Zy. So I was like, Where's what are some topics I've wanted to do for a while? Uh this is the only one that can expire because or over halfway through the year. Um, have I said it yet? Yeah, 10 things that turn 10 in 2026, and like I said, this one expires in terms of when I can do it, because in 2027 I can no longer do it. But in 2027, I can do 10 things. You know what I mean? So maybe this, if I like this format, this will be uh one I can check off the uh the lit like ideally for the solo ones, I've I slowly over time figure out 26 repeatable episodes so I never have to put effort into this again, you know. I already have so definitely I'm always gonna do an end-of-the-year music roundup. I'm always gonna do a maybe I'm always gonna do let's just punch in. There's always gonna be three music episodes a year, right? We're gonna do three music episodes a year. I'm gonna do white tears again. Um we'll probably do the blickies again, but that's over in the Zy category. So uh five out of 52. So we're at roughly five out of 52. I'm trying to think if there's any more. No, none of the other ones I feel have been repeatable, like the greatest songwriters one. Yeah, no, that's just a different music. Let's say we could say four music though, because I really be talking about music. Um, what am I talking about? Yeah, just explain. Just to say if this one, if I like this, this will be a yearly one. Because going back, it was a lot of fun to look at the different things that turned 10 this year um in 2026. Uh just just to give a quick snapshot of my own life in 2026. First of all, if you want a uh an in-depth look at a lot of my life in 2026, you can look at listen to the episode I was in a Christian frat, which is on this feed uh probably three three months ago or so. I say that because in 2026, uh 2016 rather, that I mean I think I was I was in that for two years, but I talk a lot about 2016 and my experience in the Christian fraternity, um, which I'm obviously not gonna rehash now, but that was definitely uh the predominant social set setting I functioned in in that year, at least during the school year, and I was mostly in school before I dropped out for a final time that year. Shout out to Lipscomb University. I went through my iPhone photos from 10 years ago. Excuse me, just to get a sense of what I had going on that I might not have remembered. Um, so here's just five notes I I took uh while scrolling my my camera roll from 2016. Uh one punched in the nose in 2016. That's I've never been in a fight. I've I've been in one fight, but it was real pathetic, and I I would rather not get into the details. Um, but yeah, in 2021 or 2022, I did get into a s uh what what I think legally can be called a fight, but spiritually was less than. I'll say that. Um but in terms of like a fight where I would like proudly like that afterwards I felt like yeah, I could be in a f I was in a fight. Like I've never been in a fight that I feel like prideful about. I don't know if people feel prideful about being in fights. Anyway, but I have been struck many times. Uh I've been struck a handful of times. You you see what see what I did there? Struck a hand a handful. Okay. Um the first time I remember it was 2016. I had the picture on my phone of me with a bloody nose with the Snapchat, uh, the Snapchat clock on it, which really dates the photo, in my opinion. Uh 2016 was Peak Snapchat, which we'll get to a little bit. And um, yeah, so I was at a bar in Athens, Georgia, with my friends. Uh as far the story, as I remember, is and let me just tell you, this was me 20, I was drunk, so who knows how accurate this is, but this is my memory of it. Me and my we're on this roof of this bar, me and my two friends, there's some other people in the area, a couple ladies in the area, and another group of guys. This other group of guys uh from our read was kind of making these girls uncomfortable. Um again, I say from our read because I just I refuse to believe I'm the hero in every one of like in all of my memories, I'm the hero, but I refuse to believe that's true. But from my recollection, me and my friends thought these guys were being creepy to these girls. Uh I don't remember how exactly. Like, I think I might have like pretended to be one of the girls' boyfriends or something to like get this guy to go away, but I do remember there were like. Like, thank you afterwards. So, whatever we did, the girls were again, maybe in my memory. The girls were like, Thank you. And as soon as the girl we got these guys to like kind of leave them alone, the girls like thank you. Someone taps me my shoulder. I walk, I turn around, one of the dudes, pow, right in the kisser. Uh punches me in the nose. I bled. I didn't punch back. I do, I did laugh. That is, in two of the three times I've been struck, my response was to laugh. I think in that situation, it was A, I was drunk. B the guy was like significantly smaller than me. And so to me, it was just like, come on, like, come on, man. Like, we're not doing that. Um, yeah, so got punched. Number two, uh, two note I took down going through my camera all from 2016, tried Coke for the first time. I don't have this on good authority, meaning I don't have like a note uh from 2016 or like a photo that says try coke for the first time. But based on who I was hanging out with in some of these photos and some of the places we were going, that was the year I tried Coke. So I can't say I did it for 10 years because I haven't done Coke in several years. I probably got a good five years of Coke use though. Do with that what you will. Uh three, I was for Halloween, I was the black kid from Stranger Things. Um, you know, looking back on it, the the guys that asked me, they weren't even my real homies. Like they were like we were cool, but they just asked me because I was the only black guy they knew. And like looking back on it, looking back on it, I'm just like, man, I shouldn't have done that. Um, I don't even like the show. I think I watched the first season of the show like everybody else, but I wasn't even into the show like that. Um, I think his name was Lucas, so I regret being Lucas from Stranger Things. I want to take a sip of Red Bull. Number four. Uh there was a photo I took uh from 2016 of all the jerseys. I don't know why I did this, but I took a photo of all the jerseys I owned, and it was quite a few. It was a good collection, maybe 15 to 20. A lot of them were for from was it DH Gate? I think that was a place before DH Gate that we got jerseys, though. I don't remember what the jersey plug was 10 years ago. I don't know what the fake jersey plug is now, but a good number of them were fake, but a good number of them were also from Goodwill. Anyway, I wrote down that I had seven soccer jerseys 10 years ago. I own I was the owner of seven different soccer jerseys. And today, 2016, the World Cup is happening. It's by all accounts a great World Cup. There's games happening in the city I'm in. I haven't watched a single game. So I would say my soccer, my soccer fandom peaked at 20, and I think that's right. I think at least if you're an American, because once you're in your 20, you're in college, you're playing field, you're like, yeah, I like soccer. But then you turn, you have kids, I have I have real things to do. Well, honestly, I would still be into soccer. Like, I this this argument kind of falls apart now because like there are games happening now that I'm not doing it, but it's just hard for to be an American soccer fan because like the good soccer happens in Europe, and Europe's on a totally different time schedule. So if you want to be a team, a fan of a soccer team in Europe, you gotta wake up on Saturday at like 7 a.m. And once you hit like once you're once you're drinking, that's not really an option. Once you're in your 20s or you have a job, if you have a job and you wake up early every day, and then on Saturday, like I'm gonna wake up early also to watch soccer, you gotta really love soccer. And I can't say I did. Um uh number five, uh Heartbroken by a Christian girl. Once again, you can go listen to the uh I Was in a Christian frat episode of the podcast for a full story on getting my heartbroken by a Christian girl. But I just want to say, if you're out there and listen to this Hannah Runkel, I'm I'm open to things. I'm open to things, okay. Um so 10 years ago, 10 things that happened 10 years ago. Um, I'm gonna have I tried my best to do 10 things that are in like different topics. So there's like one music, one uh with two music, one album. You know, I had to do multiple music, but one album, one song, a TV show, a movie. Um did I do a movie? I don't even think I did a movie, honestly. None of the films from 10 years ago moved me. Um, here are the movies just before I skip over this category completely. Uh Deadpool, Rogue One. I saw Rogue One, it was cool. Arrival. Arrival was really nice. I liked Arrival, but I don't know enough about it to talk about it. La La Land, Moonlight, obviously classics. That's all I'm gonna say about that. So I didn't have any movies, but I'm doing 10 things that happened 10 years ago. Uh and some of them are just kind of like more as a jumping-off point to talk about that general category. Like, I have a couple of memes here, but I want to look at the entirety of the spread of memes because from both like I know, I don't want to say like starting with meme culture, but from things like even like everything kind of peaked isn't the right word, and I don't want to at the risk of sounding like everything, like the everything was cooler when I was young, and like that's when all the important stuff happened. I don't want to sound like that, but like 2016, especially compared to now, in terms of the output culturally of like important's a weird thing to say, but like viral moments, major sh television shows, albums, movies, they're just felt and you know, this year has been a huge year for movies too, so I don't even wanna I don't even know if that's super fair of a thing to compare it to negatively, but I think 2016 at least was such a foundational year in understanding the technological and just cultural landscape we're in now, and as we'll get into especially it like politically the political element looming over 2016. We know it happened in 2016, we'll talk about it. But that's kind of the defining that kind of is the beginning of the era we're in now. We're in, I don't know what historian I heard talk about this, um, but basically, like US history has been divided into like I don't remember, since the 1900s, like a handful of key eras, and the era we're in it just started in 2016 with Trump getting elected, and they argue it's not gonna end until he dies. And I would probably say I agree with that. It's just such a cloud that hangs over our society and culture, you know, generally in a negative way, but in an omnipresent way, either way, if that makes sense. Um Yeah, so I'm gonna have another another another sip of my Red Bull. Then we're gonna get into the first

Donald Glover's Atlanta: A Love Letter to the City

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the first thing that turns thin this year. Bye. Number one is the television show Atlanta. You knew I would talk about this, man. Um I don't know how often I talk about being from Atlanta on the show necessarily. I did go on the whole I Love Seattle diet tribe earlier, and I stand by that, but I love Atlanta more forever. No matter what, that'll never change. Um, but Atlanta the television show premiered in 2016, created by and starring Donald Glover, mixed comedy, surrealism, and social commentary, introduced a number of breakout actors, including Brian Taihee Henry and Lake Stanfield, and won widespread critical acclaim and helped usher in a new era of auteur-driven television. Now, I this is a hugely important, sh impactful show to me as someone who grew up in Atlanta, and you know, the the the bigger thing about this for me is like the Donald Glover of it all. Like I think this is kind of the crowning, I don't want to say the crowning achievement, but this is kind of I don't even think it's necessarily what Donald Glover is best known for, seeing that he's had a couple of songs that were super popular and he's been in Star Wars and he was just in Super Mario Galaxy. So there's a lot of different entry points people have, including like even earlier, you know, uh writing for 30 Rock, uh what he was in something. Oh, community. So there's a lot of entry points. It's hard to say what he's most known for, uh, but in terms of like the most critically acclaimed and probably the most uh universally praised thing he's ever done is Atlanta, um, which is really interesting. I am like I grew up as I grew up as you know as big of a Donald Glover fan as one can be. I really don't know how much I've talked about this on here, but I, you know, for a long time in my life was modeling my career after Donald Glover and wanted to be the next Donald Glover and like you know I have super embarrassing, but like I have uh I looked at some like emails I sent like super long ago when I was like doing music and like trying to like send my shit to labels and like things like that to get them listened to. I tagged my a lot of my shit with like the next Donald Glover. Um so that was he he he loomed largely over my entertainment career, like the beginnings and the inspiration during the beginning and the inspiration of it, like before I started doing comedy and doing music, like that's who I wanted to be. And because I found his second, I guess it's his first album, but I found Camp, uh his first musical album, at a really important time in my life when I was 16. Um, and Camp and like a lot of his music at that time really I think I talked about this in the Tyler the Creators Creator episode, actually. So listen to that for more on this. But he was the archetypical with Tyler the Creator, they were the archetypical, at least for my age group, like black figure, weird kid, like weird black successful people, if that makes sense. Like weird, not even the right word, but like you know, there is a mold of what being uh successful or like hypermasculine or whatever you want to say black person in America is, and there were a lot of people, myself included, and a ton of black people, but who felt like we didn't necessarily fit, and you know, the cliche uh thing. I I think Donald says this at one point in his music, and I'm not sure if Tyler does, though I'm sure it's I think they probably both say this at some point musically, especially in their earlier stuff, but the feeling of being uh too black for the white kids and too white for the black kids, that's the feeling of my uh adolescence, and both of them, especially Donald Glover, Childish Gambino, uh really spoke to that and spoke to like the the like hopeless, romantic, like nerdy, like big dreams from like a small place, not a small place, but big dreams um from like humble beginnings type of uh that was like their story. And Donald Glover is from Atlanta, and I'm from Atlanta, I was from the north side, and he was from the east side, and the girl I started dating when I was 16 was from the east side and like went to the same school. Her sister went to the same school as him, so he not only was it like this super famous person, you know, in my mind at least, but this famous person who made it on like NBC and was like, you know, playing music festivals and shit, uh he was doing all the things I wanted to do, and he was like from a place that was familiar to me, and like he rapped a lot about places like Stone Mountain and DeCab and even Lithonia and Lyttonia when I went back to rehab a couple years ago is where I went to rehab. So all of that music has always been super duper special to me, and yeah, and even you know, the the comedy aspect that got into him way before that, during he had uh a sketch comedy group called Derek Comedy that put videos on on YouTube, and even before I knew Chowder Scambino, I was a big fan of Derek Comedy, and then he was on community, and excuse me. All this to say, he was just constantly doing things where uh I really wanted to do. I had I was talking to one of my friends earlier, and they said something like super insightful, uh, because we were both I'm a comedian and they're an actor, and we're both just talking about I was just confessing to being like, yeah, I like we can all we can dance around how much uh I don't know how much we don't like this about ourselves, but I think anyone in entertainment, because of the nature of the business and the you know, for comedians or actors for whatever, there's only a handful of spots and the really coveted things that everyone wants. There's only a handful of Netflix specials, only a handful of people are gonna get cast for whatever the cool movie is or whatever play people want. Like, there's a finite amount of spots, so we all, you know, we're but we're all jealous people. So I was just talking about being jealous people, and they were telling me, like, yeah, one good thing about jealousy though is it does show you what you want, and I was like, that's really insightful, because like I didn't even realize how much necessarily I wanted to do comedy or like sketch or like the whole UCB side of the world. Um, like I knew I wanted to do music, but once I saw like Donald Donald start doing all these other things, I was like, Yeah, what? Why does he get to do that? Like, I want to do that. That's who I want to be. So yeah, all that to say, even before Atlanta, I was as big of a Donald Glover fan as one could be. Um, you know, during Atlanta and right before, even with his music, because during Awaken My Love is when he put out Redbone. I think that might have been around this time or even a little before 2016, but he puts out Redbone and then Atlanta comes out, and between the two of those, those were just like the our boys gone mainstream moments, and since then my relationship with him as just like at least parasocially, has been a lot different, meaning that like I was thinking about it a lot earlier today, and it's like I think there was a moment where he stopped, like he never stopped being himself, but like for the hyper-specific niche that is my experience that he was trying to go at with early albums like Camp, and even like you could say kind of the more niche, darker humor he was doing with their comedy, like the more narrow stuff. Like once you go big and once you go mainstream, and like you put out a red bone and you put out Atlanta, those things are those if those are casting a wide net, they're more general. Like Atlanta is still super weird and nuanced, and there's a lot of things. Like, if you aren't from Atlanta or aren't within black culture that you won't understand, but both his musical output from that point and his like filmography and just creative endeavors in general stopped being so much for me and started being more for everyone, and so I was like, all right, man, like all this is cool now, but you know, and also I grew up and he grew up, so um, yeah, I I really like Atlanta. Uh I really think it's a super important show, it's one of my favorite shows ever. I do think A, I have never watched the last two episodes because I don't want it to end, and that's a thing I do sometimes when I don't want things to end. So uh I was thinking about it. I'm not gonna do a rewatch right now, right now, but I will re-watch at some point and I will update you with how I feel about the end. So I can't speak about it in terms of its finality, it or it as like a fully completed project. I have seen like 98% of it though. Um yeah, I do really, really appreciate about it how what I do really, really appreciate about it is how much of a love letter it was to Atlanta. You know, as much as I just talked about how it felt like as like a super fan he started to cast a wider net, and that's undeniably true, but he still stayed very true to his roots as an Atlant Atlantean. I guess I don't know what anyone in NAC is called. Um, but as a nigga from Atlanta, you know, I think the the seminal moment for that for me is there's uh a scene where Donald Glover and Michael Vick have a foot race in the Magic City parking lot. And if you're from Atlanta, and if you're me specifically, like I already told you about how much I love Donald Glover, and like I it's controversial to say now, maybe, but I had the same amount of love growing up for Michael Vick. Uh just you know, still being a black kid from Atlanta, nerdy or not, like everyone loves football, and there was no one cooler in sports at that moment before you know the scandals that happened than Michael Vick. So seeing him and Donald Glover race in the Magic City parking lot, it's so Atlanta, and it was also so hyper like that was a moment where I was like, oh, he still sees the me out there, which was really beautiful. Um, yeah, I think there's probably more critical things that could be said about Atlanta, but I haven't watched the show in like several years, so I'm not gonna pretend like I like I have deeper thoughts. Um

Glazing Blonde

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number two thing that came out 10 years ago was the album Blonde by Frank Ocean. I maybe have talked about this on the show before, but I'll talk about it every chance I could get. Uh Blonde by Frank Ocean is my favorite album that's ever been released. It's no doubt the most listened to out. Maybe there's other albums more listened to, just because Blonde isn't the most uh it's not just let's let's throw this on in vibe kind of album. You know, it's more of an experience, it's more of an album you want to take in. That kind of sounds whitty-toity, but whatever. Um, you know, follow it released the day after endless. Let's see, there's nothing else you need to know. I mean, yeah, released after years of delay and mystery, widely considered one of the greatest albums of the 2010s, submitted Frank Ocean as one of his generation's defining artists. All that is uh it's it is what is it is true and it's not enough. Um yeah, what can I say about Blonde? You know, this is an album, it feels crazy that it's 10 years old, um, but it also it feels right because it feels like the defining album for me of like being young and in love. And I I mean, I'm still like a younger person, like 30s, not old, I get that, but I definitely don't have the same ability to be as like infatuated with someone, and you know, my life's just not at a point where I'm having the type of experiences and you know uh devastating emotional exp hopefully I'm all set on devastating emotional uh experiences. I know they will happen again, but that's not where I'm at in life, where that's like really what's on my head top. Um a lot of other really uh great albums released this year. Eliminate the life of Pablo and T Anti by Rihanna Views, coloring book is here at the table. Uh will Frank Ocean or Rihanna ever release another album? I think Rihanna will because she puts out some kind of song every two years or so. So she's still on this do. Uh Frank Frank seems like he Frank seems like he hates us. And that's not even like on some bitter fan shit. I think I think like uh he seems like a nigga that doesn't enjoy the things that come with being famous, and that seems super rational. So when I say he hates us, it's like, yeah, anyone uh who just wants like a private, quiet life would hate uh thousands of people bothering them about music or really anything. Um but yeah, I love Blonde, one of my favorite albums. When I get back on my uh S. Of songs, I'm gonna get back on that. The real listeners know I started a thing, I've not continued because I don't have the bandwidth. But when I get back on my essays about songs, I'm definitely gonna write one about blonde because Blonde Um is just my favorite. I don't know, I think it's perfect from Nikes to White Ferrari. It is uh I guess Futura Free, which is the last song. It is uh it is a genuine it is a genuine emotional roller coaster that to me takes you through all the feelings of I think being in love and not understanding what that means, right? Like being in love, but also being young enough to be throttled by all the things that come with that and the feelings of withdrawal when that is lost, and the feeling of being made whole when it is present. Uh yeah,

The Viral Hit 'Broccoli' and a Legendary Concert

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back in my bag. All right, number three, uh thing that came out that's 10 years old this year. Uh this is a song. We're so we're still on music. I wanted to do bad and bougie, right? But we've talked about bad and bougie on the blickies. Uh, and so I'm not gonna spend the block on bad and bougie, though. I love the Migos, it's kind of related to the uh Atlanta, because when Donald Glover won the Emmy for Atlanta, he shouted out the song Bad and Bougie. So there's just a cap tip, and I'm sure we will return to Bad and Bougie. Song I wanted to single out is Broccoli by the artist Dram. Uh Dram D-R-A-M. Such an interesting artist. Um so Dram really I feel bad for Dram in a lot of ways because what happened at the beginning of his career seems really, really unfortunate. If you don't know, he's he created this or he made the song Cha Cha, which Drake sampled or interpolated into the mega hit Hotline Bling. I I don't know what the full label, like behind the scenes dispute about the business of that is, but Dram tried to approach Drake at one point to ask him about some elements of that business that he felt he was being wronged or slighted by, what have you, and Drake sent his bodyguards to basically beat him up. Uh, so that sucks. And then uh he he changed his name, and then I remember he changed his name to Shelly, FKA Dram, but then so a lot of people only knew him as Shelly, but then or knew him, so a lot of people I think later he changed his name back to Dram, and I saw an interview when he changed his name back to Dram where he was like, Yeah, changing my name really fucked up my career. So it just seems like he's been through it. I imagine he changed his name because of the whole like trauma situation. I don't know what happened. Anyways, Dram gave us cha cha, then he gave us broccoli. Broccoli featuring Lil Yachty came out in 2016, uh, launched Dram into the mainstream, made Yachty a household name. The song uh reflected the rise of melodic uh melodic the what's the word? Melodic trap music. Um Dram or at least I just this song was the most like obviously Bad Mouji's up there too. That hangs over all this, but there's a way a song when it comes on, like the first couple of notes of it just automatically make you go nuts, and you know, I think of like Mo Bamba da da da you know, you everyone's like if there's like a a song, like a lot of popular songs when they start, people get excited, but their songs were just the first four like beats, people are just like going feral. And Broccoli by Dram starts with the d d d. It has just like a really simple but cute little key bouncy keyboard sequence. Uh it starts off with just a generational little yachty verse, and then it's just fun after that. Dram has a great the the hook is great, uh it's about smoking weed in a party. I just I did a lot of that in 2016, so it it was always in rotation. Um I remember a fun story about 2016 was and speaking of Lil Yachty, me in 2016 was like the rise of Lil Yachty as well. That's why I uh a big reason why I wanted to include this. And he had One Night in Minnesota, one night was I think the bigger hit by far. I don't know how how far it got up the charts, but one night is really what put Yachty on the map, and then he had this song and a slew of other hits within the next couple of years, and you know, he is where he is now. Um but after so he put out the first mixtape. What is the first mixtape called? I forget. Um is it just called Lil Boat mixtape? Anyway, he puts out the first mixtape, he goes on tour that year, 2016, uh national tour. The last stop of the national tour was in Atlanta. Lil Yachty's from Atlanta, if you don't know. Um, so I'm in college. Me and one of my good friends were like, yo, let's we're in college at Nashville, Tennessee. We're like, yo, let's go to this little Yachty concert. Uh so we did, and so we drove like we drove down there just one night with class the next morning. Really, one of my favorite musical experiences, like if you're in college, drive down to another city one night for a concert with your with your best bud. Uh shout out to Cole Buttry. Hope you're doing well, big dog. We went out to so we we go to this concert. We expect it to be big. You know, little Yachty, he's like one of the hottest rappers uh in in the world, and it's his birthday, it's his it's the last album of his tour, it's in his home state, and it's his birthday, right? So we're like, we know the show is gonna be crazy. We had no idea how crazy it would be, though. Over the course of the show, Yachty and you know, the former sailing team, they all perform. Uh who else can't who all came out? But during his performance, he had surprised performances by Offset, um, Lil' Uzivert, Dram came out and they played broccoli, and Dram brought out the platinum plaque they had just got for the song. It was Dram, it was uh it was Offset, it was Uzi. Uh and then for I think there might have been one more person, but then for the Encore, they brought out, and this was a surprise to Lil Yachty. His the his friends booked this and they made him turn like stand on stage and close his eyes. And for the encore, they brought out Lil B. And that it was I never thought I'd see a Lil' B show. I'm sure I'm not gonna go through all the time of explaining who Lil B is at this point. You either know who Lil B is or you don't, a mythical figure in hip-hop, especially 10 years ago, especially around the advent of like the SoundCloud YouTube uh era, uh, one of the biggest ever do it in that space. Yeah, just he came out, everyone in the crowd, me included me and my homies, just the just the cook. Have I talked about this before? I don't care. We all start cooking. It was one of the best concert experiences of my life. Um and then, yeah, that wasn't there was another show like a couple weeks later or a couple months later, where uh Quavo almost hit me with his car, but that wasn't the same show. All that to say, uh, I love the show Song Broccoli by Drem and Loyati. That's a story from 2016. Number four thing uh from 2016, it's

Mannequin Challenge, Memes, and the Pokémon Go Craze

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kind of musical as well. You know, you know what we was gonna do. But this is the mannequin challenge, right? Do you remember the mannequin challenge? Everything was so much simpler. Like we all there was an element of whimsy, and maybe this is like I don't want to blame Gen Z, but I will say millennials. We operated with like a level of whimsy, and well, like we could say cringe, you can look back on it as cringe, but we were vibing, right? Like the mannequin challenge in retrospect. I couldn't imagine watching one of those videos now. I couldn't imagine us as a society because you know what the mannequin challenge took? The mannequin challenge took community organizing. In order to do a mannequin challenge, you have to have a bunch of people around you who are willing to collaborate and listen and work together for a greater good, and that's what we don't have in America anymore. The man, the lack of mannequin challenges follow following the mannequin challenge, it's Trump's fault. It's Trump's America since since the MAGA base came in. It's been division and no mannequin challenges. Have we had any cool any cool challenges? Was it one where's Tide Pods? Was Tide Pods before this or after this? I don't know. Um, if you don't remember the mannequin challenge, people froze completely while camera moved to the scene, usually set to black beatles. People participated everywhere. One of the last truly viral challenges before TikTok. I guess the TikTok did have the crate challenge. The crate challenge was cool, uh, but that definitely the crate the mannequin challenge shows that we were together as a nation. The crate challenge shows we were we were falling apart and we were uh willing to watch each other's pain for fun. The crate challenge is like the inverse of the mannequin challenge because the mannequin challenge is like we're all we're all together laughing at our at our jewel. I don't know. Um uh just to it so that's the mannequin challenge. Shout out to that, shout out to Ray Sherman, Black Beatles, all trip banger. Um, other huge memes. This is where I was like, damn, the memes have not been the same since uh 2016. We had Haram Bay in 2016, we had Damn Daniel, uh Salt Bay, Cash Me Outside, Dat Boy, Evil Kermit. It was just that was a lot of motion. That's like one every two months. I couldn't believe Damn Daniel was 10 years ago. To me, that was not even more recent. To me, damn Daniel, like that was that was like uh the Bush administration. Damn Daniel, because that was on Ellen, so I guess Ellen was still hot in 2016. Wow. All right, we're moving on to number five. I gotta I gotta drink some water first. Number five, Pokemon Go. Ten years ago, everyone and their and their grandma got Pokemon Go, the biggest mobile game launch ever at the time, got millions of people walking outside, park became packed with players, businesses brought lures to attract customers, stories of people finding bodies, crashing cars, and wandering into restricted areas, dominated local news and pop popularize augmented reality for the masses. That one sounds kind of sinister. Um, so I'm not big into gaming, but I'm just gonna read off the other big games that happened in 2016 in case y'all are into that. But it says over I remember Overwatch. Overwatch, Stardew Valley, Doom, Titanfall 2, Uncharted 4. I don't know what any of those things mean. Um I I just main thing I wanted to say about Pokemon Go. A lot of people are still playing Pokemon Go. If you don't play Pokemon Go, then in your head, I think a lot of our sentiments is like, remember when everyone played Pokemon Go, now no one plays it. A lot of people are playing Pokemon Go. You ask, basically, I don't know. Maybe my opinion is skewed because I hang around a lot of nerds. Um, but in the last two places I've worked, like over half the staff was still playing Pokemon Go. And I was like, I I I didn't I had no idea, and I don't I guess their shit's gotta be like it's been a decade. There shit's gotta be like I don't know. I don't know how Pokemon level, but yeah, gotta that Pikachu's gotta be a thick Pikachu at this point. Is that something you should say? Uh

How the 2016 Election Changed Everything

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number six thing that happened 10 years ago, the 2016 presidential election. Like I said, the one thing that looms over uh all of this and the uh ensuing uh time till now we're still living in it. I will say the election of Trump, I don't remember having the the like exact singular thought, but looking back on it and like remembering the feelings I had and the way I moved based on like the way I saw the world moving, I do think Trump winning was a big reason I dropped out of college. Um partially because partially because I was in like a Christian college in Nashville that I won't say it just is that just is a conservative space. You know what I like I I wanna I look back and like the people I hang out with, hung out with uh I actually don't know I don't know what their politics are, frankly, but I imagine because they were all like cool, empathetic people, but I again I don't know. I imagine they're not all MAGA, but like a lot of people at the space I was in were MAGA and there was l various levels to how much they were willing to express that. So that was obvious like a big reason where I was just like, I don't know if this is I don't know if these are my kind of people, uh skip. And the other reason was for me, it just became that was like, you know, Zion and I were talking about moments that like made us grow up a couple weeks ago, and that was definitely a moment where I was like, I think I think what they've been telling me is false. Just like about how to move through the world and like what you need to be successful, and like I don't know, the election of Trump just for me, it just signaled that like playing by the rules and doing all the things you're supposed to do, at least for me, in terms of like, you gotta get an education, and you know, in retrospect, it was probably a smart decision for me based on the fact that I just want to be a comedian to stop going to college. But even the part of me that was like didn't know I wanted to be a comedian, but was clear that college necessarily wasn't what I wanted to do either, it just became clear for me that like if that dude can become president, I could figure out whatever else I want to do without having to jump through the hoops uh that you say I need to and taking out a bunch of bunch more debt. So yeah, that it definitely affected my life in a big way. And I guess the last thing I want to say is like I look forward to the day when the dude's name just doesn't dominate our news cycle. I I can't say like I'm like fully numb or apathetic. I I mean I wouldn't say that. I definitely wouldn't say I'm apathetic. There is a level of numbness that I think we've all we're all like more callous. Excuse me. We're all have like yeah, we're we're all just a lot more used to crazy shit now. And we've had to deal with a lot of uh a lot of seeing and hearing a lot of things that go against how I I guess I'll speak about myself. You know, the Trump administration has been seeing and hearing a lot of things happen that are incongruent with the way I think the world should work and the way I think people should be treated, and that's been happening for a long enough time that I know a part of me is like I know I'm less mad about it and like ah we gotta stop this guy about it than I was in 2016. Um but all that to say just from a this the standpoint of like I mean even just thinking about it like as a comedian, and this isn't the I know there's bigger fish to fry globally than how comedians how this affects comedians, but it's just not there's just no more good jokes to make about them. Like I still have I still have written jokes, even recently. I wrote a joke about the UFC fight at the White House and him, you know, asking that all the dudes there be jacked. And there's uh in like the Daily Show, I still from time to time watch the Daily Show, but even like a show like that, like all the jokes have been made. We've made all the jokes, ever all the think pieces have been thought the books, all the books have been written, like we've got it's just all out. We've all said all there is to say about it. From uh a purely and on this isn't to say like the moral uh the moral and like actual you know negative ways he's affected people are things that are to be ignored, no doubt. Like obviously that stuff matters a lot, but this is just to say from the sake of having the world be an interesting place, it's just it feels like we've just been bogged down by the same kind of stories and feelings about the same kind of figures and actions for a while, and I dream of a day. I don't necessarily think that when he's gone, you know, the quote unquote MAGA or like the right is just like cooked, but I look forward to a day where you know I I would I'm not I even even if let's say fucking Marco Rubio is the next president, it's not gonna happen I don't I'm not a political person, he's just a guy. Let's say Marco Rubio is the next president.

The Defining Rivalry of the 2016 NBA Finals

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At least we're gonna have some new shit to talk about. Uh so moving on from the election 2017, or number seven thing that happened in 2016 was a 2016 NBA finals. I don't talk a lot about sports on here. Um, but if you want to hear me do it, a third thing I would happily do an hour on, specifically the NBA. Uh this is like I added this, um, A because I want to excuse to talk about basketball, even if only uh at the most uh not specific level, or you know, just from like a uh zoomed out standpoint. Um but the 2016 finals, I mean, at least for me from like a sports perspective, was like the most important, maybe. Uh and as someone who doesn't care that much about as someone who basketball is the my favorite sport, I like the way the dribble. Uh um 2016 NBA finals is definitely the most, the biggest, most impactful in terms of the modern landscape of the NBA. Um that was just the that was the finals, man. That was the that was Steph Curry versus LeBron, the one LeBron won for Cleveland. It was the block, just just the defining moment of like a lot of basketball. Uh, I think the next year that's when the the the Warriors beat the Thunder and then Kim Kevin Durant left the Thunder to join the Warriors. Uh, if you don't like basketball, this is only gonna go for like 30 more seconds. I'm sorry. Um, but yeah, so that it it shaped the modern landscape of basketball. The most important NBA players of our era, LeBron and Steph, that's like the peak of their rivalry when their powers were going at it. Uh, it's like the second, the seventh Harry Potter book or something. If you're a nerd, it was like that. It was like Harry Potter versus Voldemort. I wanted to say Dumbledore to Troll, but I don't need to do that. Y'all know I don't really fuck with Harry Potter like that.

Remembering Vine: A Millennial Social Media Era

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Okay. Number eight thing that happened in 2016. Uh, we had the death of Vine, and this is actually when TikTok was invented, or I guess musically. I didn't realize Vine was even even made to 2016. Um what what could be said about Vine? Vine was like Vine will be the thing that millennials forever like are telling Gen Z and younger kids, like, you got y'all don't know nothing about this. Like, this was our shit. Um, because it definitely the fact that it ended made it so like it's its existence is self contained to a time period where only a certain amount of people or only a certain demographic really like Those millennials really got to experience it. Um man, I don't even know what to say about my my impressions of Vine or my experience in Vine. I never really made Vines. I wish I made Vines. I remember staying up and watching Vines all night a lot. I remember how funny Vines were. I, you know, I want to say none of the Vine stars. It's interesting that none of the vine stars really made the transition to like being real stars, but the Paul brothers did. Um, if you ever want to read a lot about this, I do recommend Taylor Lorenz's book, Extremely Online. Uh I was gonna try and quickly summarize what I read in that book, but I can't remember it. But basically, the story of the Fall of Vine is actually a lot more about how Vine, it seems like, didn't want to compensate the the handful of creators that were making the platform the most. I don't know if money is the right word, but they were driving the most traffic to it. It's very interesting. Um I remember there was probably a span of like two years where like once a year, maybe it was like three years up for once a year, someone, some entity would be like, We're bringing Vine back, y'all. And it'd be like it'd have like a launch video of like two famous people and be like, Oh my god, Vine's back, and Vine never came back, and it never can come back. Um, because TikTok is fully eating his lunch, it's it's over. Um yeah, and start of TikTok. Uh it's also the start of Snapchat story or start of Instagram stories, uh start of Facebook Live, uh Snapchat peaking. Snapchat, I can't believe people still use it.

The Brief, Fiery Reign of Hoverboards

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That's that's my only thought on Snapchat. Um number nine thing that happened in 2016 was the hoverboards trend. I don't know if y'all remember how yeah, you do remember hoverboards. I don't if people are younger, they might not understand how crazy, at least from my perspective, the hoverboards trend was because it really, maybe besides fidget spinners, I guess Stanley Cups, we still have this where like a specific item just goes crazy popular crazy quickly. But with hoverboards, it was like you know, if a water bottle gets popular quickly, like yeah, people can buy a water bottle from Amazon cheaply and get like it's it's not that weird. It did feel like I don't know if y'all this was y'all's experience, but I was in college at the time. It definitely was it was the peak uh college present in terms of like you went everyone went home for Christmas break, and then half the campus came back from Christmas break, just hovering around um on campus. Let's see, uh uh despite the name they didn't hover. Battery fires led to recall, recalls and airline restrictions, uh celebrities and athletes constantly posting videos, writing them, quickly replaced by fidget spinners in the trend cycle. Uh other things that happened this year, Yeezy boosts, Fitbits, ring doorbells, hydro flasks, air pods, and yes, classic. I just I just remember hoverboards. I remember being really, really scared when hoverboards came out that that was it was gonna stick, right? I was like, oh no, this is gonna be a thing. We're gonna do people are done walking. Like it I really and I don't know if you've seen Wally, but in WALL-I how the people are, you know, all the people on the ship are like laying back in the chair and you know, having all their needs met. You know, it's basically like hoverboard, full body hoverboard with full body TikTok interface over their face. I thought when hoverboard started, I thought we were at the beginning of that. I was like, oh no, people are done walking, like we're we're destroying society. Those things didn't even make it to summer.

Dave Chappelle's SNL Monologue and Netflix Specials

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Um, so RP hoverboards. Um, the last thing from 2016 uh that I wanted to include, I'm a comedian, you know that. And so I was like, okay, what happened uh in comedy that was interesting in 2016? The only thing that I could I could say happened um definitively that people who are outside of the comedy space would have some familiarity with or ability to connect with is this is 2016 when the Dave Chappelle turn to being who he is now or to being perceived as he is as he's perceived now, at least in the at least among the people on the left, and culturally, you know, you could argue about it. But this is when the turn begins, because 2016, he's the first host of SNL after Trump's elected, and he kind of famously, I don't know if you remember, gave the the the monologue where he was like, Yeah, maybe let's give Trump a chance, and people were that was definitely like the first sign of like, hey, what's going on? And then he signs a three-deal, three album deal or three special deal with Netflix, and I don't know if it was the first of those specials, but at least during that three special run is when he starts just going at trans people all the time, and he's still up until his latest special making jokes about trans people. Um and I'm like, how much of my thoughts do I want to give about this? Uh I'll I yeah, I just want to say, like, I don't, as a comedian, I don't think it's impossible to make a funny joke about trans people. I actually don't think this is uh I was worried about how that would sound. I'm like, I don't think that sounds crazy at all. I think any group of peop people is fair game to make fun of. Um you can make fun of uh trans people, you can make fun of black people, you can make fun of gay people, you can make fun of women without punching down, in my opinion, if you know how to write jokes in a creative and thoughtful way, in my opinion. And I don't unfortunately I don't think that's where Dave lands. I think I think generally it lands uh more in the realm of petulant child who doesn't like the fact that you know people online can not like your content. I still, as you can imagine, hold Dave in the highest regard possibly as a comedian. Um I don't think the newer stuff is as good, even if you take the transphobia away. It feels like oh, it just feels like he's very obsessed now with trying to make big statements about the culture through like storytelling and narrative kind of uh stuff that may or may not be fictitious. Um he's trying he tries to do that, and it it just it feels oftentimes like a long walk for a short drink of water. That's what I think a lot of his like let me do a big story about race or like the one he did about Lil Nas X, which was like a positive thing about Lil Nas X, but it ultimately felt like uh a long walk for a short drink of water. Um, so we lost Dave Chappelle 10 years ago, I guess you could say. That is gonna wrap up our list of 10 things that turned 10 this year. Did this episode make you feel old? Did it make you want to go back? Man, we could I kind of want to end the episode by just going back and quickly. Uh I'm gonna name because I meant to do this when I talked about uh the songs, but I'm just gonna because I was listening to a Rap Hits 2016 playlist, and let me just money longer, no problem, Uber Everywhere, Low Life, One Night, Two Phones, that part, ooh, pick up the phone, famous, lockjaw, no heart, X, Caroline, my shit, dang. Okay, like bad and bougie, panda, sneaking, neighbors, antidote, uh, digits, both, Timmy Turner, uh, Yclef John, like man, champion. Uh, that's just a lot of great shit happened in 2016. I just I would like to just keep thinking about it. Um, yeah, thanks for listening. I love that you're here. I love that we have these little talks. 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