Ep 592 - 2025: A Year in Review

15:52Shane Gillis:So I came to a stop, like too slow for his liking. And I'd like pulled up to an intersection with an old man, a Subaru giving me the stank eye. And I don't know what it was about that, but it just like, I, you know, I was already, it's been the holidays. I'm I'm like me and my wife and kids are just fucking crammed in the house. It's all day, nonstop, blah, blah, blah. So I'm a little cranky. I'm a little bit cranky. Obviously, I'm stoked to come here and do the best of 2025. But like a little cranky, man, I'm a little fired up. And I take a taking a 40 plus vitamin that has Tom got a lease. So my tea is kind of going nuts.

16:24Shane Gillis:And like I pull up to this intersection with this old man in a Subaru looking at me like he's about to beat my ass. And I just like he was giving me this. he was going like sitting there he's just going like i pull up to this guy just going and i fucking look at him like what the fuck are you gonna do and i literally out my window i said what the fuck are you gonna do old man you bitch-ass subaru i'll fuck you up in that fucking subaru and i was like that's not me i'm leaving that me behind in 2025 because i really for a second was hoping that the old man would get out of the subaru and i would do i would literally fucking bash his head into the winch.

17:04Shane Gillis:I would have killed this guy. I know it's disgusting. I don't want to, I'm not trying to do that kind of shit in 2026, but like for a second, I was like, dude, if this old man gets out of the Subaru, I'm not saying I'm the toughest guy in the world, but an old man in a Subaru in Austin, dude, I could British bulldog his head right through the fucking passenger window easily. I would have left this guy in a bloody discarded heap on the side. I would have drove over his concussed body. I was so fucking angry. But he drove off and, you know, I calmed down, cooled off, made it to my creative workspace.

17:40And I don't know, man.

17:42Shane Gillis:It was just something about that old man in a Subaru flex it on me. I'm like, bro, like, again, not the toughest guy in the world. I'm not out here looking to fight people. But like an old man in a Subaru just giving me the nastiest look. and what I wanted to tell him was like dude I have a fucking tube amp in the back of my CRV if this falls over it's going to be pretty costly to repair this and all I'm doing is braking slowly taking my time to get to the stop sign and you're looking at me like I'd already run it you're charging me of a crime I didn't even commit and now you're looking like you want to fight it's like I'll fucking fight you right now dude 2025 leave the shit behind we'll both move on maybe you won't make it to 2026.

18:22Shane Gillis:It was a pure lib spaz. That's all it was. And again, I'm not, you know, whatever about politics, we're done with those, but like an old man, the lib in a Subaru probably has 47 potted plants in front of libs. Old libs love putting 97 potted plants in front of their fucking houses. It's another thing, man, get them out of the fucking sidewalk. I'm trying to walk, fucking put them in your backyard. You don't need 40 fucking fern plants outside of your house. Nobody gives a shit. It's 40 fern plants of Ruth Bader Ginsburg sticker on your window. Get a fucking garden, put it in your backyard, put those plants.

18:59Shane Gillis:You have a backyard. I know the layout of the whole neighborhood. Put them in your fucking backyard. Don't have 40 potted plants and drive around your Subaru, giving everyone the stank face. Cause you clearly see, I mean, dare I say a silver Fox alpha coming, you know, I have a Princeton reverb in the back of my CRV. You want me to break a fucking tube. And I'm like, let me just come to an easy stop. You're going to fuck you. I'm like, excuse me, sir. Fucking excuse me. Anyway, guys, that's not good. Guys, let's go to a fucking clip. That story sucked. I didn't know you got drunk. We were on the plane together.

19:38Lemaire Lee:Do you know why scuba divers? You know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah. Do you know why they do that? Look cool No, because if they fell forward, they would land in the boat.

19:53Lemaire Lee:Come on, guys.

19:55Shane Gillis:Classic. Highlight reel 2025. Mark that.

19:58Lemaire Lee:Joke world. Clip it.

20:00Shane Gillis:Joke world. Highlight reel 2025. Just run that back 25 times. That's what we'll do for the New Year's episode. Just that joke. Over and over for three hours.

20:11Lemaire Lee:you fall asleep to it but you're gonna laugh every time you're gonna try to sleep

20:16Shane Gillis:oh man we're back dude also guys please make sure to like comment and subscribe and when you comment it really helps the algorithm um it just boosts us into the algorithm and makes us more visible so more people can access this kind of content you love and uh know and love so all right so we talked about the old man in the subaru and it's like i've already moved past it man i forgave him instantly it's just you know it's just god damn it i hate that face when you pull up and someone goes it's like how dare you question my you don't even know what the fuck i'm doing dude acting like i'm gonna i should i should have just fucking veered my car ran it like no you go ahead and this one fucking crashed a subaru fucking asshole anyway guys enough about that um what else i want to talk about also i played basketball yesterday first time and man i can't remember it's been a long time.

21:10Shane Gillis:But as you know, I've been training, man. Look, I don't talk about my training that much, but I've been training pretty intensely. And, you know, so I'm just up at the basketball court yesterday. It's a little cold, a little windy, not ideal conditions for, you know, an outdoor basketball court. But my goal this year in 2026 is to become something of like a streetball legend in my white and Asian neighborhood, which I honestly think I could, man. I was up there yesterday shooting around on a windy day, just totally stroking myself. Like, I don't even know why just being like, of course, I'm the only person out here shooting on a windy, cold day, just different.

21:46Shane Gillis:Every car that would drive by in my head. I'm like, this is the hottest housewife possible. I'm going between my legs. I'm shooting the three I'm air balling. I'm like, fuck. All right. Let me just, you know, maybe she didn't see that. It was, it was pretty pathetic display now that I'm saying it out loud, but I'm out there and you know, I'm shooting around. I'm getting warmed up and, uh, you know, I got the Apple watch on burning a surprising amount of calories. And I'm like, this is, you know, this is not a bad little workout, man. I'm going to, I'm going to try to like, you know, get to, uh, really know this court kind of feel these rims out so that, you know, I can become a street ball legend just up there all the time.

22:19Shane Gillis:And I'm playing shooting around and these two young whippersnappers, these two kids come up, uh, high school. I didn't realize they're in high school. They're seniors in high school came up. I see him shooting around and I'm like, you know, again, nothing against them. They just weren't really that good at all. And I was like, bingo. So I'm going to play these kids in 21, just fucking demolish them, go as hard as I fucking can. Cause I'm finally, and again, I've, I've, I've always like, I remember being young and seeing the old man on the basketball court. And even back then I'd wonder, like I had enough weird, I don't know, foresight or curiosity to be like, it's gotta be crazy playing basketball as like an old guy.

22:57Shane Gillis:And I'm finally like yesterday, absolutely confirmed it. I'm finally the old man at the basketball court. Dude, it felt kind of, it's everything I thought it would be. Put it that way. I've always wondered like, what's that like, dude, it's literally, it's, it can't get better. So I'm sitting there, I'm shooting around. I see the young kids. I let them warm up. I'm not going to fucking, I know I'm not going to be all warmed up 20 minutes in shooting around, running back and forth full court, really going behind my back. Whenever a Volvo passed me, just hoping it was like a super hot housewife with their kids.

23:24Shane Gillis:Be like, God damn behind my back through the legs, pulling up threes, dude, just fucking raining them. And I see these kids, let them get warmed up. And, you know, and again, I'm thinking I'm going, I should ask them to play 21. I do this a lot. This is something I'm getting away from in 2026. But in 2025, I'll like want to ask their fucking kids. I want to play basketball with them. Takes me like 10 minutes to work up the gumption to be like, hey, you kids want to play some 21. So I'm like, you know, I'm sitting there. I'm shooting around. It was like my mind like hijacked my body. I didn't even know what I was doing.

23:55Shane Gillis:I was like, you guys want to play some 21? I just yelled it across the court. And I just they just both look at me like, uh, like we don't know how to play that. And I'm like, oh, here I gave him the rules. It's pretty much like one on two when you have the ball. And then if you make it, you go to the foul line, shoot, you know, from the wherever is a two. If you shoot from the three, that's a three foul shots or one point. If you make three foul shots in the row, it's your ball and you get to go again. Start playing 21. And I don't think here's here's the thing. This is the joy of being the old man at the basketball court.

24:24Shane Gillis:Those kids were playing. I wasn't playing. I was like, I was like fighting time and death itself. When you're an old man at the basketball court, you're battling time. The kids are like, oh, we're playing each other. It doesn't matter who I'm playing against. I'm raging against my mortality playing these kids on the basketball court. I went so, so fucking hard on these kids. I feel bad about looking back on it. I was like, I shouldn't have done that. I went so fucking hard driving. There was one point, again, this is where my training comes in. you think like, oh, why should I train? I'm 40 years old.

24:59Shane Gillis:I'll tell you why you should train, you know, lift weights and do all that shit. There was one point I'm driving in. It's two on one. Obviously, it's the nature of the game of 21. I'm going to lay it up. Both of them fail me. And again, I'm not bragging. This is just what happened. Both of them failed me. I lifted both children up on my arm and laid it up. No problem. And it took everything in me not to look them in the face and go, fuck. You fucking like that, you little fuck. I didn't. I said, oh man, oh, don't worry about it. Went to the point, you know, I might've done a little in one, but whatever.

25:33Shane Gillis:I was fucking, you would've thought I got shot out of a volcano, just fly, soaring through the air with children on my arm. These were fucking high school seniors. Hold on. Maybe, well, you know, my head, I might be dramatizing a little bit, but it was like, I felt them try to pull me down and I just fucking ripped through these children and laid it up, made it and won and god i ended up winning again it's not about that if i lost whatever but i did win by a lot and um no actually that little one little kid started coming back i started getting

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29:26Shane Gillis:I'm shattered. Dude, my Apple watch, I don't know if you track, you know, your fucking calories you burn, dude i burnt 668 calories in less than an hour which go test it for yourself it's it's really that's that's a lot like if you do a standard hour 20 minute lifting thing you might burn like 350 400 i burned 668 on these kids 668 calories of megawatts whatever the fuck they are fucking fat molecules exploding in my body to just defeat these children again wasn't even about them i'm battling fucking time, death, my body failing. I could feel like my ankles, like, Oh fuck, like everything hurts the whole time.

30:09Shane Gillis:And I beat these kids and, um, and I don't know what possessed me to do this, but I went and got my ball and I was like, thanks for playing guys. And I was like, Oh man, uh, I'm turning 40 this year guys. And they just both looked at me like, Oh, whoa, that's cool. And I was like, yeah, they're like, wow, man, that was a, you played pretty good. And I was like, thanks guys. Well, I'll see you up here again. And, uh, I don't know why I just like told these children I was 40. It was a very, it reminds me of the time when me and my cousin sold lemonade at the bottom of our, we had a shared driveway and, uh, we like a mailman pulled over, bought lemonade off us and just told us his like life story, all this troubles.

30:51Shane Gillis:Now I'm like, yeah, I get it, man. Something about it, man. You just want to like, I don't know. It's, it's, it's a shame you get such a bad rap for hanging out with kids. Cause honestly, if I, and again, it's like, I'm not like that. Like if I know that funny stuff, but like, I don't know, man, I wouldn't mind chilling with kids. If I'm being honest, like I, I feel weird around adults. I do. If I'm like at a party with adults, it's like, eh, I don't know. But if like, dude, if you could just drop me at like, you know, like a 12 year olds, I don't know, 12 year olds birthday party, I would for real vibe so hard with like 12, 14, 17 year old kids and just like, you know, play flag football, do a slip and slide.

31:33Shane Gillis:You know, if we got to wrestle, I would wrestle them on my knees to be fair. But like, I don't know. I like no pedo on me. I'm just like, it's so, it was so fun just fucking balling out with these kids yesterday. And, uh, you know, I hope I see him again on the court. I hope I ignited a little fire in their bellies. Cause I mean, dude, if I was, if I was a high school senior and some 40 year old was giving me the motherfucking business and I, I'll be honest, I could have been a lot more physical, but I let them taste it every now and again, I would drive and be like, okay, you want to get how you fucking like that.

32:02Shane Gillis:But I did my best not to just try to like physically overpower. Cause that's, you know, it's kind of coward shit. I'm not sitting here tooting my own horn, but I'm stronger than a couple of kids. But like they did try to hold me down from jumping and I leapt through the air with them holding onto me. And I'll never forget that. That was so nice dude, just to go home. That was a nice feeling. But guys, let's check out one of these fucking clips. What do you say? Best of 2025. I didn't know you got, you were that drunk. We were on the plane together.

32:29Lemaire Lee:Do you know why scuba divers, you know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah. Do you know why they do that? Look cool? No, because if they fell forward, they would land in the boat.

32:45Lemaire Lee:Come on, guys.

32:47Shane Gillis:Classic. highlight reel 2025 mark that

32:50Lemaire Lee:joke world clip it joke world

32:52Shane Gillis:highlight reel 2025 just run that back 25 times yep that's what we'll do for the new year's episode just that joke over and over for three hours

33:02Lemaire Lee:you can fall asleep to it but you're gonna laugh every time you're gonna try to sleep and you go

33:11Shane Gillis:all right guys and we're back big year 2025 what else we had We talked about some of the geopolitical stuff. Also, the comedy world. Bit of a hotbed. A lot of turmoil going around the comedy world. A lot of comedian infighting, which I'll say, one thing I'm grateful for in 2025 is to not have gotten caught up in any of that kind of turmoil and kind of just like, this guy, that guy. It's like, man, I feel like a younger me could have. You know? Because you see that. That stuff gets a lot of attention. and unfortunately you know i am in the business of fucking eyeball flickers myself and it's it's tempting to be like you know who i fucking hate and you know and all that stuff but a lot of that stuff going on man it's been uh there's like comedian versus comedian there's youtuber versus comedian there's comedian versus youtuber and it's like this endless swirl of just kind of negativity that we can't fucking keep our eyes off and i've said it before cat williams i mean

34:10Lemaire Lee:And he's, you know, obviously this is older than him.

34:14Shane Gillis:It predates Cat Williams and probably stand up comedy itself. But like he blew the lid off the jar when he fucking spilled the tea. It was that it was a that was that 2024, 2025. I don't know. Let's I'm going to put that in 2020 in the 2025 bucket because that couldn't have been more than a year ago. That seems like that was so 2025. That is not so 2024. But I think, man, we might have even like started the year. that might have been like the dude that we started 2025 because it was the Will Smith slap that was so that was 2024 the thing that finally stopped that was the Cat Williams tee that set the tone for 2025 and dude I don't think we've ever recovered that got 30 zillion views on the Shannon Sharp podcast which you know kind of launched his podcast and then Shannon Sharp had a bit of a strange year as well a lot of sexual stuff and uh i think he's that's crazy it's crazy to get so much pussy that disney's like dude we gotta cut ties that's way too much pussy hunk we're fucking you're killing it right now he got so much pussy that disney was like like he's getting so much pussy that he's like hitting his phone you know when you fake call somebody or you like accidentally pocket dial yeah it's just usually you just like walking through the grocery store like fumbling your keys in your pocket shannon sharp's getting so much pussy that when his phone bumps to like call somebody or go live which was suspicious it's just him digging out a lady i mean like oh god damn oh shannon sarah got so much pussy in 2025 that disney dropped him and i think he's fine but my whole point was cat williams on the podcast blew lit off it and i don't i don't know if it was that or what but there i did start to see that show i saw people come on that show trying to get their cat williams moment where people are trying to like you know give the sensational take and like this guy, that guy, blah, blah, blah, blah.

36:07Shane Gillis:And no one ever, you know, it was lightning in a bottle. No one ever recaptured the cat fucking crack off on the tee. But then I noticed, you know, there was a lot of other little comedian beefs and, you know, this and that. And a lot of people just like, even when I meet people who don't, don't do comedy, they're always asking me like, you know, what's this guy like? And who's your favorite? Who don't you like? Blah, blah, blah, blah. And I gotta say, man, like, I do find it unfortunate that there is this fascination with comedians as like I like any sense like they're this guy's a piece of shit because they did this this guy's like the best because it's like dude comedians for real are they're just like I don't know they're like fucking mostly myself included they're just like theater dorks they're like a strain of theater dork that it's like yeah you didn't go full theater dork and do like musicals but that's in you that's your thing and it just like whatever that is has gotten mutated to where now you do stand-up instead of like musicals but it's like you're kind of the same guy as like a musical theater dork you just you know you wear a leather jacket and smoke and stay up late and you're like i'm a fucking comic you'd never understand my life but you're a theater dork man and i it's just so funny to have all this attention trying to dissect comedians and be like this is what they're really thinking this it's like in 2025 i get it but for 2026 it's like dude this is for real you have to look at every comedian like this is what it's like when people like comment and want to be like, this guy said this and they're a fucking hypocrite and I'll no longer support.

37:34Shane Gillis:Look, man, I hate to break it to you, but it's like, it'd be like if you watch the special Olympics and you're like, what the hell that guy's not even, it's like, yeah, dude, they're retarded. Just let them swim. All right. Just fucking let them swim, high five them. And if you don't like it, just turn it off. You don't watch the special Olympics and be like, what the fuck, man? This guy's not even, that's not how you do the backstroke. Yeah, dude, his fuck, he's missing a leg dude all right this guy's not all there let him do his thing if you don't like it tune it out but it's like you're you're barking up a fucking burnt down tree man you're not going to get anywhere by tracking them thoughts and opinions of can be they flitter and fly around you're this is a guy panicking saying whatever it is that'll just get him through another hour of the week or the show or whatever so he can sell fucking digital picture frames don't look into it that much.

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40:42Shane Gillis:Uh, Thursday was just like burlap sack. And then Friday, I swear to God, Friday was like, it was called a pointed wool military cap. That was your Friday. And what they did, I swear to God, look it up. And what they did was it was this five day work week. And the idea was for the machines to never stop. They were like, Hey man, if we want to make this dream come true, we, we can't be like all taking off on Saturday and Sunday and having the machine stop we got to keep this you know the industrialization or whatever just fucking plugging along so they purposely gave like wives and husbands and brothers and sisters and families different days off so like if your day off you didn't have like a weekend you just work all the time it's never-ending shift work and then let's say like uh on like you know loaf of bread day you were given off but your wife was off on woolen military cap day and for like a couple years everyone just lived this weird existence where the the calendar was perfect purposely stripped from like any religious connotation they didn't want sunday because that like you know sunday technically was about god and resting and that put something above the state so they took all that stuff away for a couple years no one got to really even see each other that all the holidays were stripped out they would give you a day off for like the day of fucking the day lenin was born i don't know some bullshit but he might have came later i don't even know but my whole point is they had this thing where they try to genuinely replace a calendar for several years, several years.

42:12Shane Gillis:And it's just everyone is fucking miserable. No one could see anybody you would have off. And no one else you really knew would have off, you would just sit there your whole you just sit by yourself alone on your day off. And eventually what happened was the machines from never like getting to stop basically and like cool down, the machines all started to falter and break. and eventually the machines started getting fucked up so the soviet government was like all right guys we're gonna let you see your loved ones again and they um they allowed people to start seeing each other and then you know it's kind of fake as hell you know what i mean they're like we see you we heard you but it was just the machines collapsed that's so sad that like they like pretty much dehumanized their population just to have the machines never stop producing crap which is funny because I thought communism was more about like chilling, just like kicking up, you know, kicking with the homies.

43:05Shane Gillis:And no, it was just all about the machines and the machines collapsed. And then they got to go back to the standard Gregorian calendar. So I don't know, pretty chill, I guess. But then the whole fucking society collapsed after that shortly after. And I don't know, now it's Russia's just fucking Russia fighting. I guess, you know, I guess from Russia, I don't think they had a good year at all. A lot of people died. so a million they say a million fucking people jeez louise that would piss me off if i was russian like that wasn't even true someone just talking mess being like you know like a million guys died in russia and i'm like no we fucking didn't probably you think it's a million i i'm under the impression that russia is winning the war but look let's not get bogged down in 2025 conflicts, guys.

43:56Shane Gillis:I just thought that was cool. The idea of just like trying to, as a government up and time itself to be like, we're in charge of how you view time. And it's like, what a fucking crazy thing to do. It's just so crazy to get that into politics. I was recently, we had a nice little game night, you know, me, my wife, some other couples and someone there found out that I had never voted before ever until like my wife dragged me to do it this year. and uh they were they were like they had a pretty serious like that's like fucked up you've never voted it's like look if you want to vote fucking vote but like this whole idea that like you can somehow embed politics into like your identity and the core of your being i don't know dude it's like it's fucking weird just don't just fucking don't do it the whole point of the government is to make sure there's like food and roads so you can go and do the stuff you need to do to get food being into that it's like being fucking stoked on the dmv that's the government it's the fucking dmv it's the capital and it's just like all the weird human beings were like i represent that and it's like okay dude like cool go do that i'm glad you do that but all these people thinking they can like wrap themselves up in like any a political identity left and right it's like oh man i hope that stuff falls by the wayside soon because it is fucking so unbelievably lame to just get into that i don't know people ask you never voted it's like yeah because i've never every single president i've seen i've been like this person's a freak you know and it's like I guess I'm kind of a freak, but not like that, man.

45:40Shane Gillis:If I was president, I don't know. I would go classic school president style soda machines everywhere. That's probably why we're in debt. We're in debt. I don't know. What's the debt? Like$90 trillion? It just keeps growing and growing. The first thing I would do as president is say, hey guys, we've been in debt long enough let's cancel the debt they could do that i think they could do that and they don't so it's like i'm not voting for anyone until they say hey guys you know that 90 trillion dollars were in debt let's just say fuck it i'm the government the debt is to the cut now it's probably to other countries whatever just call the other countries and be like dude you really gonna fucking hold me to the fire on this man 90 trill can we just forget about this can we just all chill, please.

46:34Shane Gillis:It's fucking so lame. 40 trillion. Yeah. $40 trillion. The interest on that every year is gotta be, there's no way once you're, once you're in a loan setup for$40 trillion, like what, what is that? If I'm guessing these people who own this debt are getting at least 3%. So let's, let's do, let's, let's see if we ever can get out of this. Cause I don't, I honestly don't think we can. So here we go. So we have, I don't even know if my calculator, I got to hold it sideways. These are big dog numbers here. Hold on. We're entering big dog numbers. 40, one, two, three. Okay. 40 ,000. One, two, three, uh, 40 million.

47:13Shane Gillis:One, two, three, 40 Billy. Okay. I'm at$40 trillion. Let's go times 0.03. Let's say we're doing 3 % interest. huh? Let's see. 3 % interest equals, oh, oh, okay. We, the interest we're accruing on$40 trillion of debt is$1.2 trillion a year. We're never getting out of this. They got, this is embarrassing, dude. $1.2 trillion. And you're going to have a guy every four years be

47:52Lemaire Lee:like i'll tell you what i'm an old-fashioned kind of guy and i get it shut the fuck up every year

47:57Shane Gillis:we owe one the debt it grows if we just pay our payments the minimum we pay the minimum which we probably do 1.2 million more dollars 1.2 trillion more dollars so you know next time someone's going to be like well you should vote it's like dude really get the debt down then i'll fucking think about it right otherwise what am i vote it's a fucking bullshit puppet show unless we can get out of i'm embarrassed every time i travel to another country it's all i can think about i just go fuck we're really in the whole 40 trail is that really that's three percent one point one point two would be three percent of 40 trail dude how much juice oh and how how does it fuck i've said this forever if you're in if you're in charge of running any enterprise.

48:52Shane Gillis:And if you fell into, let's just say you're in a company and you fell into$1 billion of debt, you would think people would start looking around and go, well, hold on a second here. We were$1 billion in debt and no one's going to stop at, we were $40 trillion in debt. Once we hit a trillion, you're telling me nobody in this highly capable like million person machine turned and went, Hmm, we got to figure out how to get. And if they didn't, it tells me that debt is just a contrived thing. That's totally meaningless anyway. Cause you always hear that.

49:31Lemaire Lee:You're like, well, you know, your grandkids are going to be,

49:33Shane Gillis:you know, 350 million people with a$40 trillion. Our great grandkids are going to owe

49:39Lemaire Lee:20 bazillion dollars. And they're, it's like, what the fuck?

49:42Shane Gillis:No, they're not. they're never going to like it makes absolutely zero sense to say that's going to stop us in any way shape or form unless it's like all does our tax money go to paying the debt i have no fucking clue all i'm saying is when ai takes your job right forget about the debt at that point you say all right like ai taking your job you know what i was thinking about today and i don't know if this is like a good thing or not it's sad it's scary it's kind of like what am i going to do with myself but then maybe you know i'm bright siding obviously the cotton gin kind of freed the slaves it wasn't like the bleeding hearts of people was that we came up with a machine that kind of were like okay we don't need all these slaves ai could be the cotton gin of fat frumpy office workers That's all I'm saying.

50:32Shane Gillis:How nice would that be? How nice would that be? I don't know. Whatever. Anyway, guys. Yeah, I think that's. Yeah, let's do the final clip. And guys, this is a good one. Check this out. I didn't know you got drunk.

50:52Lemaire Lee:We were on the plane together. Do you know why scuba divers, you know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards? Yeah. Do you know why they do that? Look cool. No, because if they fell forward, they would land in the boat.

51:08Shane Gillis:come on guys classic highlight reel 2025 mark that joke world clip it joke road highlight reel 2025 just run that back 25 times yep that's what we'll do for the new year's episode

51:24Lemaire Lee:over and over for three hours you fall asleep to it but you're gonna laugh every time You're going to try to sleep and you go, guys,

51:36Shane Gillis:2025 is amazing. We recapped it. We had a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun. Everyone had a lot of fun. And we also cried 2025. We cried. We grew, you know, in 2026, you know, my goal is to really become more social. I want to get out there, you know, and here's the thing, like being more social. It's not about just going to parties and getting fucked up. It's about genuinely getting to know other people and embedding themselves, embedding yourself into their lives in a real way, which I plan to do. I just my problem with that is I'm just really only interested in my own life. So that's an obstacle I'm trying to overcome just because when I talk to people, I don't even think I hear them.

52:18Shane Gillis:They talk to me and I'm just going like, dude, fuck. I got to drop like 10 pounds and get shredded. I don't hear anything anyone says to me ever. Every time someone talks to me, I can do like 30 seconds of another person talking to me before I'm like, dude, if I get my bench to fucking 280 and I get my squat to fucking 350, I'll be at the thousand pound club pretty soon. Guys, but let's, let's end this on a nice, on a nice note. Enough about that. You know, it's the new year. It's one of those things where we start thinking about time. A year has passed and we start going, what's going to happen in the next year?

52:56Shane Gillis:uh saint augustine or saint augustine however you say his name he has a famous quote on time he wrote a whole essay on it i'm going to read you guys a little selection on uh we're going to close this out big with a quote from saint augustine on time so here here's the quote what then is time if no one asks me i know if i wish to explain it to one that asketh I know not yet confidently I say I know that if nothing passed away there would be no past time and if nothing were coming there would be no future time and if nothing were there would be no present time those two times then past and future how are they when the past is no more and the future is not yet as for the present if it were always present and never passed in the past time it would not be time but eternity if then the present is time only because it passes into the past.

53:51Shane Gillis:How can we say that it is since the reason why it is will not be? In other words, can we truly say that time is only because it tends toward non-being? And yet we speak of, quote, a long time and a, quote, short time. And we say this only of the past or future. We call a hundred years ago, for example, a long time in the past and a hundred years hence, hence a long time in the future, but a short time in the past we might call, say, 10 days ago, and 10 days ago, hence a short time in the future, but in what sense is something long or short that does not exist? He's saying the future and past does not exist.

54:29Shane Gillis:For the past is not now, and the future is not yet. We should not say of the past, quote, it is long, but it was long, and of the future, it will be long. Hmm, let's jump down here. Hmm. Okay.

55:14Shane Gillis:is in fleeting moments. Whatever of it has flown away is past, what remains is future. If any portion of time be conceived, which cannot now be divided into even the minutest particles of moments, this alone is what we call the present, which yet flies so swiftly from future into past that it cannot be extended by any delay. For if it is extended, it is divided into past and future. The present has no space. Where then is the time which we call long? Is it future? We do not say it is long for it is not yet so as to be long we say it will be long when then will it be for even then when it is still future it will not be long because what may be long is not yet but it will be long when from the future which is not yet it shall have begun to be and shall have become present so that then if it can be something long but instead as we said before the present cries that it cannot be long hmm what then do i measure where is the short syllable by which i measure where the long which i measure both have sounded flown passed away are no more and yet i measure and confidently answer in as much as the rule of measure as there is a rule of measurement that as to the space of time the syllable is single that double and i could not do this unless They had passed and ended.

56:35Shane Gillis:I measure not themselves, therefore, which are no more, but something in my memory which remains fixed. In thee, O my mind, I measure times. Do not overwhelm me with noise. Do not overwhelm myself with a multitude of thy impressions. In thee, I say, measure times, the impression which passing things make on thee, and which abides when they have passed, that I measure as time present. that is what I measure or perhaps I do not measure times but the impressions behold how my life is at extension and thine right hand hath upholded me in my lord the son of man mediator between thee the one and us the many who are in many ways distracted that through him I may apprehend in whom I have been apprehended and may be gathered together again from my old days following the one forgetting the things that are behind not distended but extended but to things which shall be and shall pass away but to those things which are before not distended but extended i press toward the prize of the high calling wow what a quote did you get that makes perfect sense guys have a great new year let's get it one more time fire back up i didn't know you got you were

57:53Lemaire Lee:that drunk we were on the plane together do you know why scuba divers you know how they sit on the boat and fall backwards yeah do you know why they do that look cool no because if they fell forward they would land in the boat wow wow wow wow wow wow west

58:12Shane Gillis:come on guys classic highlight reel 2025 mark that joke world clip it joke world highlight reel 2025 just run that back 25 times yep that's what we'll do for the new year's

58:26Lemaire Lee:over and over for three hours you fall asleep to it but you're gonna laugh every time you're

58:34Shane Gillis:gonna try to sleep and you go watch new episodes of matt and shane's secret podcast on spotify do it