#535 - The 2025 YARDIE AWARDS

22:46Fuck! Alright, it was valiant. Wait, why do you have a big one behind you? That's been there. Why? I don't know. Where did that come from? It may have been like an old yardies, to be honest. Oh, you got a tiny one. Next award.

23:05Alright, the Landscaper of the Year reward. What does that mean? Give me a second. It's on there. The person or a moment that needed to touch grass the most. You spent the good part of the year annoying the hell out of us, so here's a shiny reward. Unbelievable, unbelievable, great award. For my nominee, I put the whole debate this year, 100 men versus one gorilla, and dudes just getting on the internet and just being all bent out of shape and being like, we can take on a gorilla, but the reality is this. A gorilla's gonna kill 100 men. You're definitely not gonna take it down, you and your boys.

23:43That ain't happening, okay? And I don't need the discourse anymore. I already got one person over here in my life that thinks that he could take down moose and great white sharks and shit, okay? I don't need the whole fucking internet out there thinking that they can beat up the strongest animal that exists. Annoying. Touch grass. unbelievable well may i first open up by saying you read that really well like with such a plum and just an unbelievable amount of riz this just in folks we have a new nominee for gagger of the year now listen i give credit where credit is due and he deserves so much credit um i'm going to transition though sorry i thought that would upset you based off of your uh monologue

24:39my winner of landscaper of the year is not a group of people that i necessarily disagree with but the reaction that they elicited definitely showed me that they need to see phone they need to see life outside their phones. And that were, that is the winner. My nominee are the people that posted those crying over TikTok, going away TikToks. Now, listen, we all been on TikTok. We've all established a beautiful connection with the people that love us and support us. Thank you guys so much. Hey, thank you too, by the way, you really did a great job just standing there. The idea that although I understand that this is going away, you've amassed the following and some people a livelihood i support that but you can live life outside your phone a little bit you can go outside you could touch grass you need it you need to feel the energy of the earth underneath your feet you need some blades of grass between your toes some kentucky bluegrass maybe i don't know the type of grass but you need it and you need to touch it so that's why my nominee are the people that cried on tiktok when it was going away i would like to point out that frank was one of these people whoa frank frank posted a video i didn't cry he didn't cry but it was one of those like uh i really appreciate well the judge is laughing so that's that's one thing that's this is tampering you've tampered him no tampon tampered no you've tamponed him and also i think that also let's just get this out of the way i mean people crying because these are their full-time jobs sometimes and then it's going away they have a year and then you're making fun of them for all and in a way you're kind of forced to give me the trophy oh mine's silly Frank I don't know maybe we're laughing at people that lost their jobs I don't know do you know who he wants you know the people that he's talking about that said that they have a chance at beating a hundred men versus one gorilla it's all the big fans of like the hyper masculine like evil dark web podcast bros and I'm so that's what you want to award that's what you want I want to award them.

26:46I'm awarding them for being annoying. Oh no, but they're not going to take it that way. They're going to take it as like, yeah, I won this because I'm a macho man. I'm a good boy. And that's not right. I think mine, I'm not saying I don't agree with the reason that they got emotional. I fully support and understand it. But I will say the realization that a social media app could go away and like you can go outside and you could see the earth. You can look at the sky. You can let the rays hit you on the face. Unfortunately, the clouds don't pay the bills. So, what are you gonna do, Ant? I'm sensing a cloud of hypocriticism As am I!

27:23On some side of the way But no, I didn't cry I wasn't crying I was just, I was saying like It was a joking manner No one said who I was talking about That's true Felt a little defensive there Come on, bitch Even though I do think A hundred men can take out a gorilla I'm gonna have to give it That's why! Hey! This is - this is - he's part of the - the cohort! This is why you're doing this! Oh, you picked answers because he's in them. Because he says he thinks he's one of those people. I didn't even know that. If you didn't make a f - a video doing it, you might have had a better chance. Oof. I made a video of me showing off a talent.

28:00What? It was me singing a song that I memorized. You sang a song in that video? Yeah. Oh, I should get another one. I should get another one. No! No! No! No! There's plenty down here. It was not a real, like, singing. That I would do. What was the song? Imagine all the people. If that was that, I would have given him the award. You would have given me a cyanide tube. Oh, I would have changed the locks if that was that. Okay, 1-1. Okay, moving on. Here we go. This card just says jizz. Ew! This is a professional setting. This card just says jizz. Why does it say it so little though? It's so tiny.

28:42It's a tiny amount of jizz. Yeah. Well, you know, some people just don't have giant loads. Okay. So maybe don't be so judgmental. What did you prepare over there, you freak? Put jizz in there? This is like on TV. I guess no one wants an award for that one. Okay. Well, hold on. Are you giving out awards for jizz? The moment passed. Next category. the Lifetime Bereavement Award. This will be awarded to something that died in 2025. We're either sad to see it go or happy that it's gone. Either way, it's dead. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Great job reading that. Am I going first every time or do you want to go?

29:30That's his rules. I'm just telling you. Oh, okay. My nominee for the Lifetime Bereavement Award is none other. than Hulk Hogan. Joey, Jesus Christ. Who died in July. He died in July. Come on, man. It's a lifetime bereavement. We don't know whether you're happy. What was it? That you're happy to see it go. Happy to see... Sad to see it go or happy that it's gone. Right. We don't know that, but Hulk Hogan did die. An iconic guy. Whoa. Love the N-word, brother. I...

30:10Jesus Soft rails He's had some champagne He's had some champagne That's what's going on What you gonna do brother He's really setting me up on I would have to give him that award Probably in hell brother That's where my vote is going My nominee Hulk Hogan I mean you went with a literal Someone died I mean it's I understand it could be a moment It could be something Listen, instead of... By the way, you look great. That shirt-jacket combo, out of control. Is there like a... I'm going to throw up. Is there like a... There's like a texture on there, like a pattern? Yeah, it's a texture. That's really cool.

30:46Yeah, what is that? Couldn't tell you. All right. No one cares anymore. Yeah. So... So instead of putting you in a position where you have to pick between awarding the death of Hulk Hogan, I'm going to give you one that's an easy pick. My lifetime bereavement nominee is for uncomfortable press junket interviews. Now, what do I mean by that? Well, we've seen some examples for some pretty big movies come out where the stars of these movies get a little comfortable. May we say handsy. May we say touchy-feely. And it makes us as the audience just feel a little strange and a little odd. Now, listen.

31:27These individuals have their own relationships, but I don't need to see Pedro Pascal having Vanessa Kirby's hand stuck off his ass during an interview. I don't need to see that. Okay? He's got anxiety. Whatever the reason is, it's something that as a society thing all of us have seen and just gone, yeah, that ain't it. And I'm happy and hopeful that it dies a fiery death in 2025 and we can move on. The only argument that I will make, we don't know if it's dead. Yeah. It does say that died in 2020. Oh, it died. It died. It died. It was born and died in the same year. Did it? Because Ariana Grande and Cynthia Rivia, who are very talented women, I will point out.

32:12Whoa. You just identified their gender. Who knows what they identify as? They say that. They are women, Joey. You're trying. I am. And I don't know my way out of this. I will say this, jokes aside, just an unbelievable amount of talent in those two individuals and then collective as a unit is ridiculous. It's interesting. But they are crawling all over each other in the interviews. Yeah. But it happened in 2025 and it's dead. We're moving into a new year. You're killing it though. We don't know that it's dead. Listen, sometimes in order for things to not go on, you need to bring them behind the shed and put two in the back of their head.

32:52I'm talking Lenny of Mice and Men style. And that's what I'm doing in this, and you're welcome. I believe he was near a lake. It was behind a shed. Technically, everything is behind a shed. The world is behind a shed. So I have to choose between a dead Hulk Hogan who has a choice word selection. Definitely does. I think that's minimizing it. Or an answer that doesn't even fit in the category. Excuse you! How does that not fit in the category? It's not dead. It is dead. I Killed it. You know what? I like the initiative Frankie. Whoa Unbelievable. All right. Now we've we've we've now established that ant can be bought.

33:38That's what we've established Bought and I just think that you just gave an answer. That was insane. Hulk Hogan died Yeah, you went with a literal Frank. You let it go. He's dead. I let it go I've moved on with my life. I don't know, but... I think... Thank you, by the way. Thank you so much. To be fair, I also want it... I want the interviews to stop as well. Thank you. If you have the power to kill it, I would like that. You guys... I'm going to take that back. The next round of interviews that we see where people are all over each other. If that happens, I will come on this show and you will have to give me my fucking thing back.

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38:48That's a pretty clever way to name an award. How do you feel about that? Which part? COVID-19. The naming of the award. You think it was Fauci? You think it was him? I mean your monologue seems to say. Right yeah. Right. How do you feel about that? The name of the award? Yeah. I think it's fitting. It's fitting. The entire world couldn't escape it. They couldn't. Do you like it? Which part? The the award. I don't know yet. What are the answers? I mean, what are you doing? What's going on? Why are you pointing me like this? I don't know. What am I doing? What are you doing? What percent is this?

39:27Percent down the hatch. Bone apple teats. Thirteen. That'll do it. Okay. Joe, it sounds like he's read the award category. Be respectful. Okay. COVID 2025 award. The most viral thing I will say. I'm gonna go with Ashton Hall's morning routine so you remember the yuked dude who's fucking putting his face in Saratoga water every fucking morning at 2 a.m or whatever the fuck is going on that became so popular that like every single company was like we're gonna have our mascot do this thing everyone's putting their face in water in the morning sometimes squeezing some lemon all of a sudden we started putting banana peels on our face and stuff like that I've never done any of this to be honest but i'm not against it i don't know if it works it feels gimmicky but i think that was probably the one thing not the one thing but one of the things this year that were so viral that everyone and their mother knows about this joe do you mind um showing some respect to your award and put it in front of you please wow what an unbelievable he doesn't even care.

40:35He does not even care. Look, I have these. Damn, this award's got a fat ass. I have the, he doesn't even care for them. Nah, my shit's got a You know why I care for these? Your shit's got a fat ass? It's got a dump. It's got a bump. It craps. You know why I care for these? Because I earned them. You know why else I care for them? Because you put in the hard work and dedication to get them. And I thank you for that. That's incredibly kind. Gonna freak out. Joey, you know what? That is a pretty viral moment. And I am not gonna sit here and try to bring down something that clearly is deserving of this award.

41:06Have you done a face plunge? I have not done a face plunge. Have you fluff a plunge? Not yet. He does seem like someone who would recreate the video, though. Frank? Why is that? I don't know. I mean, I'm up pretty early sometimes. So, you know, maybe. Because he gets up at like 2. And then the first thing he does was at like 4. 1 million push-ups, I think? Yeah, well, that I'm not doing. I think I might have a tore bicep, chest, pec. Right, yeah. So I can't be doing that. Yeah, yeah. But that is, Joey, you know what? I will give flowers where they're needed. That was a very viral moment. However, there is one moment that not only took the U.S.

41:49by storm, because that's really what that was. That was localized to the U.S. as far as I could see. I mean, there were videos of him in Dubai. That ain't the U.S. it is by definition not the u.s but you know what was even bigger joey it was the cold play concert moment now this guy did something as anyone else does okay he took a video of himself he's already a pre-established influencer i believe he makes content about you know like routines and vlogging and stuff like that health wellness you know what was even bigger a moment that was candidly caught on camera at a Coldplay concert where allegedly there were people having an affair and Coldplay himself saw them.

42:31Chris Martin is his name. Chris Martin himself saw them. Okay. So I think that, yes, although you have some grounds to stand on, I'm over here laying down streets for the world to drive on. This thing was everywhere. Gritty was doing it. Other mascots were also doing it. everyone was doing it where they were hugging and then the camera got on them and they jumped out of frame it was massive you couldn't escape it and it was significantly more deserving of this award than yours i actually think that that was very viral but it lasted very short it wasn't a long time the putting the face in the ice thing i feel like lasted a very long here's the thing i think the face in the ice thing if i'm being really honest i didn't even hear about it until like after it was viral, really.

43:18Like, it was like maybe a week and a half later. That's how virality works. No, no, no, but I'm saying, I'm saying like, it became viral and then it was like two weeks later, I was like, why is everyone buying Saratoga, why is everyone talking about Saratoga Springs water? And then I saw the original. You couldn't escape this Coldplay concert video. It was massive banana sandwiches. Well, we'll see what the judge thinks. I think we should probably look up and fact check which is more viewed. How would we do that? We have to count up all this dude's videos. No, I'm sure it's like pinned on his TikTok, right?

43:52No, he has a bunch. He does it in every video. But what was the one? I don't even know. But he just kept doing it. Is there a the one of the Coldplay concert? Yes, it was from a girl, like someone's Twitter account. I think this is actually very hard. I think these are two of the best answers probably that we've been given so far. Thank you so much, Ant. To being hard. Hey, yeah, to both being hard. To both making Ant hard. Why not? You don't like that. No. It's not good. I can tell. It's not good at all. I do think the mascot argument doesn't work here because with the Saratoga water, a lot of mascots did it as well.

44:36And I've seen a lot of influencers do it and mimic that. Not so much the other thing. So unfortunately, I'm going to have to give it to Joe here. What the fuck? Thank you. Man, you were doing so well. Now that I have this in my possession, unfortunately, what the fuck is that about? Whose team are you on? Did I say unfortunately? You did. You certainly did. I can't back you up here unless you want me to. I would like that. Yeah, dude, leave him alone. He's trying to do his best, man. Well, unfortunately, because it was such a hard decision. Not that unfortunate that you won it, of course. Unbelievable.

45:09You know what? They're in cahoots. I want to say, you navigated that with such aplomb. and I'm very, very proud of the way that you handled that. And although I lost, I'm proud to be a part of your team. If I had a grenade, it'd be alive. I think he used aplomb twice now in this episode. He could have. He knows about five interesting words and they will rear their ugly head through this episode, I'm sure. Joey, that is so not very aplomb of you. See, now we're on to number three. Next award. The I'm an old pathetic fat loser award This goes to the award that made us feel old Yeah I mean I have a very obvious one for us I mean me and Frank are 33 Who knows how old they are You're like an elf How old are you?

46:01You look great I would never call you an elf 28 You're not 20 Are you 28? I think you're 29 No, his birthday is January 16th I'm just going to throw that out there Which is his astrology sign That's Sagittarius Capricorn That's the one I can't believe he didn't know your birthday I did not know it You're telling everybody I'm 29 Well that was more of a feeling And energy It's not a fact, it's how I feel So you can't really tell me how I feel About your age You hear what he said? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Just put that down there. I mean, for this one, I think it's obvious I put 6 '7". This was probably one of the first things that appeared on the internet that I was like, oh man, I'm so aged out of this and I just can't get in because I'm so old.

46:58So it was definitely an indicator that I am no longer part of the younger generation that pushes culture. and now I'm just on the outside and I have to accept what wave crashes over me. Interesting. Well, while you're gasping for air, drowning under this wave, let me explain to you my point of view, which is surfing above the waves and going to win this award. My nominee for the I'm a fat old bitch, what is it? I'm a fat old pathetic loser? Yeah, whatever it is. Old pathetic fat loser. Okay. Let's make sure we get that right. Joey, that's a great point too. However, there's one reason that my answer is better than yours and should win.

47:37Because my answer is the labubu craze. Now, yes, 6 '7 is a massive, massive thing. However, we at one point were in that age bracket. We at one point were in that demographic. We understood inside jokes with our friends and they became big. You and I better than most people. We didn't have the internet at that time, but you know what? You and I definitely can relate to that. You know what we can't relate to? the massive explosion of labubus, these hideous little rat demon looking things that all of a sudden are becoming like status symbols. I mean, they're selling some for thousands of dollars.

48:17Yes, collecting is something that is understood. But when there is something that is collecting that I have no understanding about, I am completely a fat loser about it. So that's why I take the labubu craze. All right. I assume this is going to be tough for our drudge here. Yeah, I mean, the LeBubu answer was awful. It's an awful answer. It's like an actually, it's not very good of an answer. What? I mean, you've gone through many iterations of that. The Beanie Baby. You know, like, it's not new. Furby. No, but Beanie Babies were adorable. Furbies were adorable. They did something. LeBubus did nothing.

48:48They're ugly. They do nothing. I would never talk about a little toy that has eyes like that, just in case they get demonic. Unfortunately, what's going against you is the definition of 6 '7' is literally nothing. So even looking it up makes you feel old. Well, let me ask you something. Why? Give it away, give it away. No, no, no. Yeah!

49:14Woo! Unbelievable. Woo! Woo! All right. I believe Joe takes the lead there. Yeah, now that he finally put his awards on display. Yeah, and I'm petting all their butts Next award The I'm gonna cut my head clean off If I hear this one more time award Yep This goes out to the song or vocal stim That we couldn't get out of our heads in 2025 Uh, I have here I mean The only thing that kind of pops out in my head Is the Now I have my head The fucking Jet 2 Holiday was that and that was bad it's not don't go off of the impression of it because that wasn't great but i i feel like that was such a fucking like when i was scrolling on tiktok it was every other video was this and i was and i like those types of videos where there's crazy shit going on people falling down a flight of steps old people shit in their pants or whatever it is those are the type of videos that i like and now i'm forced to sit through this the sound of of nothing beats It's a Jetsu holiday every single second of the day.

50:27Very annoying. That's what I'm going with. The second attempt. That was good. I can do that part. Yeah, that part was good. I mean, I can't hit that. That's not my tone. Is the vocal stim, that's a terrible sandwich, by the way. Is that this year? Yeah, that is. I love that one. What was that? I don't even know which one that is. Little kid gets off the school bus and goes up to his mom, and he goes, mom? And she goes, yeah. He goes, terrible sandwich, by the way. Terrible sandwich. So every time there's something like that doesn't get happened, I'm like, terrible sandwich, by the way. Either way.

50:55That's adorable. And you saying it is cute. Thank you. You know what? That was big. But I'm going to make it harder. Okay? Because not only is my vocal stem, my little audio snippet or whatever you may call it, not only was it big in social media and people couldn't escape it, but it was big in the real world. Okay? And that's why my nominee for the, what's the award title again? Fucking I'm going to kill myself if I hear this one more time. Close enough. My nominee for the I'm going to chop my head off if I hear this one more time award is Chicken Jackie. Listen, Minecraft movie is, I think as of recording, the biggest movie of the year financially.

51:38Really? And it is a phenomenon that spans over like 15 years at this point in time. so the fact that the movie came out and not only were people on social media unable to avoid chicken jockey and everything with the minecraft movie but they had to go in real life to the movies and they would be covered in popcorn and nachos with kids bringing actual chickens into the movie theater i couldn't get this out of my head it was borderline torture and it needs it It was a lot. It was a lot to deal with. I have no rebuttal. I know that you love Minecraft. I'm simply just... It's not really about that, but Joe gave a good answer, and then your answer blew it out of the water.

52:21Good! So this has to go to Frankie. That's a very good answer. Wow. Also, Ant, can we look up how much the Minecraft movie grossed? Wow. Now you've got to run over there and do it. I'm not. I just wanted to do that from this side of the world. You know you've got to do it. You want me to tell you how much it grossed? I'll tell you right now. It's just the first thing on my phone. I don't know why. It's a picture of J.D. Vance? Yeah. Is J.D. Vance your background? Okay, give me one of those fucking jokes right now. Frank's background is J.D. Vance. All right. How many categories do we have? So the Minecraft movie, as of recording, worldwide made about$958 million.

53:00That's a couple bucks. Couple bucks. On a budget of$158 million. Recorded. That's a lot of money. Yeah. That's a lot of money. So, chicken jackie. Next cap. This card just says cum. Oh, so, okay. This card just says cum. I know, I know. Frankie's laughing a little hard at that one. I feel like he was the cum. Yeah. You were the jizz? We don't snitch. You're right. We don't snitch. You just snitch. I don't. I said I think. That's a snitch. I think the murder weapon's over there. You just snitched. And you heard about his free ditty line? You know how he feels about snitches? You can say that. I did read the paper.

53:46Next category. The that'll wake up your aunt moment of the year. It's aunt. Aunt moment of the year. That'll wake up your aunt moment of the year. I only spell aunt one way. That was bad. A moment this year that made everyone notice someone or something that was previously unknown or laying low there's a that's yeah i messed up squirreled out i messed up or laying low um for this one i i put something that i think is more recent or whatever but i put the the sorry can you read it one more time a moment this year that made everyone notice someone or something that was previously unknown or laying low right so something that like we all kind of new but now we have a term to kind of out these people but i went with the performative male okay the dudes who walk around with the tote bags and a little chain off of their pants and drinking a matcha latte and reading a book like a like a just a i don't know just some just some very performative book do people walk down the street and read books bro you gotta go to the east village in like the middle of the day i'm i gotta it's unbelievable that's uh walk into any coffee shop the dudes are drinking fucking matcha careful what matcha's great it's not about the matcha they're drinking matcha they're wearing tote bags they all just look the same that's what it is sometimes they have tattered clothing ironically but you live in the lower east side have you ever gotten to the coffee shop with a book i have not no he's protecting himself there i've never been to the coffee shop with a book i i i don't i like my apartment so i don't i'm not going to go work somewhere else makes sense even people i mean there's a co-working space in my building and a lot of people work there and i'm like i you know it's a nice building why Why don't you just work in your house?

55:50Interesting. Well, my nominee not only is great, but Joey should be disqualified because he himself said it. The award for the That'll Wake Up Your Aunt moment of the year is something that was previously laying low or people didn't recognize or realize. Is that correct? Well, he just said that we knew about these people. We just didn't have a term for them. So he is just going off someone that now has a title. But you know what? I'm going to tell you who wins my award, who is the nominee that I am presenting to the table, which, by the way, your table looks great. rate by the way I just want to say I know you did you build that I did my god it's so sturdy it's on a box now it's a little wobbly no no okay my nominee for this award is me playing basketball in Phoenix now hear me out hear me out yes yes Joey might have picked something that's a little bit more traditional but even Parasite won best picture at the Oscars one year.

56:46And why should I win? Because there was nothing but disrespect thrown my way for my basketball skills. Nothing but disrespect. Can I stop you? Hold on. No, you better hold on. And I'm just going to say this, okay? There was nothing but disrespect. And I told you last year I was working on my basketball skills. That's not what you said. Me coming out and putting on a clinic is worthy of praise and awardship. I will stop you there. One, that thing that I want to point out you didn't say you're working on your basketball skills you said i'm trying to dunk and i'm like that's not dunking a basketball skill you didn't dunk during the game that we played just just wait two i am going to actively surrender this trophy because if you were there in phoenix what a performance frank put on during that game wow it really it really was something It really was something.

57:38In 105 heat, the guy pulled up and he really just put a lot of points on the board. A lot of boards, a lot of hustle plays. The guy went after it. It was impressive. It was a big moment for me personally. A lot of hard work went into it. And I'm really excited that I opened some eyes that day. Some scouts might not have been there, but now they hear this and they might be a little more inclined. That was the basement yard's Lynn Sanity You know, like someone comes off the bench And you go, you're not expecting too much And it's like, what's going on? That's what happened They picked me and they were like, I guess just throw Frankie on that team You were on my team Yeah, I know They were like, just put him on that team And I was like, okay And then I fucking balled up like Mike Just balled up, it was unbelievable What was that one called?

58:26Oh, that'll wake up your aunt? Yeah, dude Deserving It's unbelievable Frank's basketball performance in Phoenix this year was great We don't even know if something like that can be replicated. Probably not. But it happened. I'll go one step further. It can't be. Okay? Let's make that very clear. There's a ton of pressure now. Oh, man. Okay. Next up, fan favorite, the Will Smith Award. The person or entity that lost credibility and continued to make matters worse for themselves. Yeah. I feel like this one's a little... You know what? this one is actually going to be super cool but we're going to let you know what it is right after these sponsors here tricky what'd you say you're tricky oh i thought i didn't know what you said for a second but we do have some sponsors here that we have to get to the first one being sea geek okay this podcast is always sponsored by sea geek sea geek is where you're going to get all of your tickets to any sort of sporting event or broadway play monster truck rally whatever it is whatever you're into i don't judge um but you can get tickets on sea geek um they have over 28 million down 28 million downloads they're the number one rated ticketing app in the app store and they have a bunch of you know all these live performances there's a bunch of things on there and right now you can save 10 off your tickets with the promo code basement 2025 okay so go download SeatGeek or go to their website and uh use the code basement 2025 at checkout for 10 off your next set of tickets okay and Christmas is is basically here I mean it passed actually now that by the time this comes out it will have passed but in the new year how about you take someone to something nice okay start turn over a new leaf and be like i'm gonna start going to cool events and doing things like that uh go to uh see geek and download their their app get 10 off of those tickets with the with the code basement 2025 uh and lastly here we have cash app cash app obviously everyone knows that cash app is one of those apps that will uh it makes it very easy for you to send money to your friends.

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1:01:42Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank members, FDIC. Promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit CashApp.app.com for full disclosures. Boy, that was a mouthful. How about we move on? What do we have? The award's already... The Will Smith Award. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the Will Smith Award. And my nominee for this award is going to be... Can you read it one more time? The person or entity that lost credibility and continued to make matters worse for themselves. Yeah, I'm going to go with Sidney Sweeney this year. Hey! That was mine too! Sidney Sweeney, we're on the same wavelength here.

1:02:22someone who I believe was uh America's darling for a certain amount of time and then we had this American American Eagle Gene thing which was one thing and it was kind of like people are like this is kind of tone deaf but some people are giving her the benefit of the doubt then goes on an interview and kind of has an opportunity to say something and really doesn't so just keeps consistently making it worse what are you gonna do yeah and this is an award that we've been giving out for several years. I mean, Will Smith has been a topic of conversation at these Yardy Awards for a couple years. I don't know why.

1:02:55I mean, he's had some, he's had a rough couple years, you know, and definitely didn't have a great year this year with the whole like, music thing. AI, fake crowd. AI, fake crowd. The whole like, performance in London. But we just, I mean, I decided to give it to Sidney Sweeney, and it sounds like we're in agreement. So what do we do in this situation? I guess. A tie. We both get one. Or, I do have two. Right. Yeah, I think that makes sense. But someone did answer first. Get the fuck out of here. Hold the fuck on. No way. One, two, three, four. I don't want it. Your pity award. Yeah, no, no. I got four butts.

1:03:31Wait, no, now we're tied. I do want it. No, no, no. You can't. You just can't. That's not how the show goes. That's not how it goes? Whoa. That's not how the show goes. See, this is what ha - You guys are seeing it live. Next award! The - hit us with it the orange phone award comeback of the year ah yes the comeback of the year the orange phone award i have justin bieber justin bieber this year made a comeback in a way that i don't think people are actually realizing one this guy's very cool i fuck with justin bieber okay two over the years he's had run run-ins with paparazzi and those have been iconic moments do you remember when he was i believe he was in paris and he said he'll beat i'll beat the fuck out of you bro something like that cool this year now we get a new one where he's like it's not clocking to you it's not clocking to you that i'm standing on business you know like he's he's serving all the gen z coded slang right to these motherfuckers the paparazzi then also is standing behind a fucking guard, like a security guard, and goes, fucking you too.

1:04:41Everyone gets these hands. According to Justin Bieber, the boy is back, okay? And now he's streaming on Twitch, apparently. The guy's back in a way that you would not believe, okay? If an album comes next year, I'm gonna throw up. Interesting. Well, first of all, let's say this. It's called the Orange Phone Award because the Orange Phone made its return. A lot of people were very excited about it. The Orange Phone deserves, by the way, round of applause for the Orange Phone. If we could please. Hey, Dad! Hey, by the way, great clapping there. Really good. Full of aplomb. I will say that although that is a serviceable nominee, my nominee is something that has transcended the year.

1:05:22Okay? And that's why my nominee... What's the award again? The orange phone. That's why my nominee... We just gave it a round of applause. Yeah, I know we did. That's why my nominee for the Orange Phone Award goes to 50 Cent Be - From athletic stuff like a full court pickup game, swish, to athletic-ish stuff like a half mile stroll. Get those steps in. Head to Sierra or Sierra.com for the brands you want at the prices that let you do it all. From athletic to athletic-ish, Sierra's got it. A generational hater. Now, this is a guy that has been in the news for being a hater for years. All the stuff about telling Floyd Mayweather to read a page from Harry Potter.

1:06:05All the stuff with buying a bunch of front row tickets to Ja Rule's concert. A bunch of his beef with Fat Joe. Listen, this guy stepped up the hating this year. And he is so back in the hater driver's seat. He not only produced a documentary about Diddy, but then he made sure that it was shown on a platform where inmates in prisons in the prison where did he is could watch it yeah that's hey that's hey he's drinking the haterade and this broke recently he just bought jim jones podcast did he really yeah this guy is taking hating to a new degree okay and joey wants to award someone that's sitting there offering violence if you award that, you're a bystander and part of the problem.

1:07:01If you don't, you're a good person. I think that's a threat. It's not. It's not a threat. It's a social awareness. He's kind of handcuffing me with the Diddy documentary thing here. I mean, he is threatening you as well. Well, listen, I think Justin Bieber has remained in the limelight for years. Are you going to be in support of him picking 50 Cent, who made the documentary about Diddy, when you very clearly in your opening monologue said free Diddy. Wow. And you know what, though? You have a moment. This is a moment in our lives where you can do the right thing, and you are being presented with an opportunity to do the right thing here.

1:07:36You can stand by your Diddy comments, or you can vote an award against it. I think you'd make a great point. The award has to go to Joe. No fucking way! How? Where the fuck? What do you mean? Comeback of the year. Justin Bieber hasn't left the limelight. Bruh. Where? He just had that Georgia song a couple years ago. Georgia? By Peaches Down in Georgia. Yeah. Someone's called Peaches. Whatever it is. That was like five years ago. Whatever. Wasn't your comeback player of the year technically like a person's personality? It's the person being a generational version of a hater. But you also said that he was consistent in his hate Yeah No, I gave examples of years ago This is this year where he just sprung his hate upon us To be comeback, I would say were there moments where he was not hating Joey's getting after it Yeah, he really is God damn It's already open Let's count the trophies because we're on our final award here I have four I have five I need to tie this up It's true For the final award, we are playing for this big one It counts for the whole game It counts for the whole game, probably The whole one.

1:08:50There we go. It's actually up there. The whole one. This last award. Written very small. Big Roar Energy Award. Hmm. You can't see it? Can I see it? Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Command. Commanded the year with giant amounts of energy and aura. The Big Roar Energy Award. Which, of course, refers to Frank's roar. which was a big moment for us it was a big moment so actually for those of you who didn't make it to the live shows that was part of our intro it was the first thing that you would hear when you go to a Basin Me Art show would be Frank's roar you have yet to grace us with a legitimate roar and I feel that the year is ending and we would all be remiss if we didn't celebrate 2025 five and what was that

1:10:08i didn't want to make that sound that's not the sound that i was planning uh my vocal cords have like dummy dirty I think um and I apologize I think that was something else I gave it a go you can't fucking breathe all right come on give us a real one Frank that's I think that's the best we're getting oh god I'm sorry really and oh no I can't top that what's the word oh the big yeah the roar award the big roar of the year uh this is our big one i'm gonna say and and you know you know me bro swifty so i'm going taylor swift in this year i think she put out this album the ship broke records it was like the fastest selling album ever and blah blah blah shit went like super platinum and also she got engaged this year she's had a hell of a year she's had a run for the last three years honestly so it's about time she's awarded for that just gonna just gonna taylor swift that's my big roar unless i'm mistaken i think we gave like our year-end award to taylor swift last year hey man it's a it's a she's making a fucking run people win people win awards listen you know what i'm not going to speak ill of taylor swift because that's a good strategy Yeah, it's a pretty good astute strategy.

1:11:38But I got someone who just had a little bit more of Roar Energy this year, and that's why my nominee for the big Roar Energy Award for 2025 is Timmy Chalamet. Ooh, Timote! Right. He came into this year, and everyone saw Timote Chalamet as, like, he was coming in, and everyone was like, oh, he's kind of like a snooty, uptight, like, you know, like, it's Timote. Like, people had that image of him. And then he shaved his head. He put on a puffer jacket. And he started just spitting bars and just throwing ass at the Knicks games. This kid knows what he's doing. He had a generational year. Yes, Taylor Swift is consistently having great years.

1:12:19But I would say 2024 with her Everest tour was bigger than 2025. So I feel it's only right that we award someone that stepped out of the shell of being a snooty actor and into the limelight of being an absolute roaring motherfucking stud. It's hard to argue. It's hard to argue. And he had some viral moments too. Remember someone interviewing me? He was like, hmm, yeah, you know, something like that. I don't remember exactly. This is hard. You guys gave real answers for this one. Yeah. Oh, excuse me. I've given real answers for every single one that I have presented. Right. Right. Do you have any follow-up questions to help you make your decision?

1:13:06Was this year the year where Timothee Chalamet went on stage and said that you guys all suck, I want to be better than all of you? Was that this year? First of all, that's not what he said at all. That's not what he said? It was more internal. It was like I'm on the pursuit of greatness and I want to be one of the greats. It wasn't like fuck all of you guys. I knew that's what he said. I just wanted him to say it. That's a pretty good help for you. Thank you. Appreciate that. I'm tapped in, bro. I'm a big Timmy C guy. I think he just came out and just completely flipped the script on how people saw him.

1:13:37He's out there with a shaved head. Now people think he's a mysterious London rapper. That's true. They do think that. I think he's Scottish. Taylor Swift on her tour wrote her whole album as well, right? She did. Guess what year that was, though. Yeah, but I'm just saying, the album came out now. The album came out now, but she did it all this. Also, I will say that this year, I believe that she bought back all of her masters for her earlier albums. Listen, no one is saying that she's not generational. But every now and then, Tom Brady needs to lose. I will even make the argument for Timothee Chalamet of saying that, I don't think that people thought he was snooty or whatever, but he definitely, I feel like, has pushed himself into a different category as an actor.

1:14:29Like, people are like, this is a generational guy. I think... Oh! Man's gonna shit his britches. It's so hard. I think you should chug your drink first. Yeah. I think you should chug it. I feel like you should swallow the whole thing. Go, go, go, go, go. I feel like... Oh, that's good. Oh, he didn't chug it. He's gonna vomit. He didn't chug it. Oh, man. Chug it, come on Please You're gonna I wanna snap this in half And give it to you guys, honestly Where would you snap it? Someone will get the Oh, no, it's screwed in real tight at the bottom Yeah You know what? I'm gonna do this I think Because I opened up multiple of these You had to make a decision Yeah, it has to be one or the other There can't be two winners Whoa!

1:15:29What are you, aren't you singing a Christmas song? How? What's the justification behind his winnership? A whole tour, the album. The tour ended in 24! I know, but she wrote the whole album on the tour. In 24! And then she, you know what she did? She made money forcing me to hear about Travis Kelsey's penis. Like you didn't think about it for free. That is true. She put out a song about Travis Kelsey's fucking apparent dong, dude. Apparently that. Have some respect, both of you. Yeah. You know what it is? He identifies with the dong. He's like, yo, she made a song. People have made songs about my penis before, probably.

1:16:12I believe it's called Redwood. I thought it was just called Wood. That's worse. The fact that you guys don't know The fact that you guys don't know Frank, I tried to help you Also, I didn't watch Dune Neither did I This is getting crazy now I don't think that came out this year Timmy, we would love to have you on the show We'll force Frank to watch before you get here I watched it But he was Bob Dylan I didn't watch that You're not going to award him for Bob Dylan? You didn't watch it You know what? You didn't watch Bob Dylan Did you watch it? Did you watch Wonka? I did watch Wonka Wonka was fantastic.

1:16:46You know what I'm going to say? You can sing, bro. You know what I'm going to say, Timmy? Don't let you are a generational talent. See the way that they just ripped that award from your fucking deserving cold dead hands? Technically, it was ripped from yours. Don't let this happen again. Continue to be you. You're crushing it. You see them? This is them. That's what they're doing. Being them and not allowing you to shine. You and I are on the same page, Chalamet. You were robbed again, and I was robbed. We should get Timothy on this show. Get him on here. Call him up Yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna send an email I'll be honest with you I'm furious Like not even joking I did not think I was gonna win that one This was a shock to me Especially when I started Petitioning for Timothee Chalamet But you know It is what it is Winners win Losers lose And it is what it is And it is what it is And like I was saying earlier That these ones Have fat asses This motherfucker's Got a butt No So this shit is crazy I appreciate it I love the show and thank you guys so much for an amazing year.

1:17:48All jokes aside, show gone. Like this show gone. It's still the show. Well, I'm saying this is our last episode. That's right. Well, seriously, all jokes aside. Let's make this very clear. Of 2025. Yeah, of 2025. No, we're still doing it. Last show of the year. Do want to honestly say that this has been a life-changing year. I mean, the last two years for me and Frank, similar to Taylor Swift. You know what? I do deserve this. Um, but similarly to Taylor Swift, the last few years have been very life changing for me and Frank. And, you know, we moved into this space, had a new studio set up and all this stuff.

1:18:24And it's been amazing. And now ants on the show, like we were going through a lot of changes at the moment and you guys have been so supportive and haven't wavered at all. And we appreciate that so much. And it's been so much fun. And like, I really look forward to the future and have no idea where we can take this. And it feels like we've been working for many years to get to this point, but in a way it also feels like the beginning of a next level so it feels like we just we're just getting started so uh we're very excited to kind of see what happens in the future and you know how far we're able to take this but it's it's fucking it was a crazy year i finished so yeah i'll cheers an empty glass chug the bottle probably i think you should i'm not gonna chug i think you should chug your drink i got no more no chug i think you should swallow both i don't No, don't do that, dude.

1:19:11Jesus Christ. I think you should put a little champagne in there and top it off and chug it. Now we're talking about something that's probably disgusting. Are you going to have some with me? Are you wearing lipstick? What is going on in that cup? I think it's the dishwasher. Also, Frankie took a sip of this. I took a sip through a straw, bitch. To not mess up your lipstick. No. I was going in with, do you want a little bit? Treating you with much aplomb. Yeah, just to cheers at the end of the year. I was going and treating you with much aplomb, and then you ripped that from my fucking hand. Five aploms is definitely too many for an episode.

1:19:46Well, folks, we are so appreciative. Some of us are flabbergasted that we didn't win this, but thank you for 2025. If you celebrate this new year, some people are Jewish, and some people are Chinese.

1:20:04Jewish people have a different new year, too? Yeah. What? No, they don't. Do they? They do, yeah. Jewish people have a different New Year. Yes. I don't want to mess up the name of it, but I absolutely know that they do. I know that the Chinese have a different New Year. The Chinese New Year. What's up? It looks like my olives are like little jets.

1:20:25What the fuck is going on in there? Bro, show him that. Let me see it. Yo, they're like moving and farting. It's like they have their little jets. Look, they're farting. Yeah. Isn't that... it's called rosh hashanah that's jewish that's their new year yeah oh i thought that was just like a like the hebrew it ushered in the hebrew year 5 786 wait what that's what it says 5 000 so we're in 2025 57 86 i don't make the rules but whatever you celebrate we want to thank you for the love for the support we're excited for 2026 and we hope that you'll join us and maybe bring along some new friends while you're at it so cheers cheers cheers big ears so you know he's insulting your ears that was a key thing i think did he say that too i think i think it's my dad used to say that to us oh that makes sense happy new year merry happy holidays all that stuff wow yeah and we'll see you in we'll see you next year see now you gotta ruin it i'll let me sign it off and catch you on the next year that was way worse

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