--:-- Sean Rameswaram: 2021 it was gonna be fun get a couple shots and then you're done.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Then the second the year'd begun we had an insurrection.
--:-- Noel King: Yeah, it wasn't just what we hoped to see. We might have started too optimistically.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: So if we keep our expectations low maybe the world won't seem so terrible.
--:-- Noel King: Yeah, it wasn't just what we hoped to see. We might have started too optimistically. So if we keep our expectations low maybe the world won't seem so terrible.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Dial back to when the year had begun. We were looking forward to the end of hibernation. But it didn't even last a week.
--:-- Noel King: No, it didn't even last a week.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: On the sixth day of 2021 Vanilla ISIS tried to flip the election.
--:-- Noel King: But looking back we can agree on the facts.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: No we can agree.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Pretty soon we were signing up for shots. Talking about shots. Shots. Shots. Shots. Shots. Everyone was a Pharma fan. The Pfizer fam. The Moderna clan. J&J.
--:-- Noel King: But we should have known Delta would happen. Most of humanity not getting back. Stand fourth wave. Fifth wave in rhythm. That's one more wave than feminism.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: 2021, it was gonna be fun get a couple shots and then you're done.
--:-- Noel King: But according to Joe Rogan you should take Ivermecton.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Yeah, it wasn't just what we hoped to see. We might have started too optimistically.
--:-- Noel King: So if we keep our expectations low maybe the world won't seem so terrible.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: The booster, I'm not sure, I need it.
--:-- Noel King: Dune on the IMAX, I seen it.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Back to the good life, I dreamed it.
--:-- Noel King: Wake up, reality don't fit.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Hope you don't need a house or a condo.
--:-- Noel King: Hope you don't need a trip to Toronto.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Hope you don't need some gas for your Durango.
--:-- Noel King: Hope you don't need a can of dried mangoes.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Everyone is feeling frustration.
--:-- Noel King: Quitting jobs the great resignation.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Blaming Biden for rising inflation while billionaires shoot off the space racing.
--:-- Noel King: Till we fix the grid in Texas.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Yes.
--:-- Noel King: Figure out how wide the Suez is.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Yes.
--:-- Noel King: Don't ask me.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: All I see on TV, it's just fights on critical race theory.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: 2021, it was gonna be fun get a couple shots and then you're done.
--:-- Noel King: Moving on to issue number one, whether to allow abortions.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Yeah, it wasn't just what we hoped to see, we might have started to optimistically.
--:-- Noel King: So if we keep our expectations low maybe the world won't seem so terrible.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: I just want to be free.
--:-- Noel King: I'm thinking about COVID-19 and I just want to see something done about global warming and I still don't get NFT can understand because they're currency.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: And we can agree on anything no we can agree.
--:-- Noel King: But at least we got together to be free with me.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: 2021, it was gonna be fun get a couple shots and then you're done.
--:-- Noel King: Then the second we thought we'd won we're learning how to say Omicron.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Guess you never know what's gonna come through.
--:-- Noel King: Making plans for things you'll never do.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: But take it from a brown guy and a Jew there's always 2022.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: 2021 it was gonna be fun get a couple shots and then you're done.
--:-- Noel King: Then the second we thought we'd won we're learning how to say Omicron.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: Guess you never know what's gonna come through.
--:-- Noel King: Making plans for things you'll never do.
--:-- Sean Rameswaram: But take it from a brown guy and a Jew there's always 2022.
--:-- [Music continues to the end of the episode]