2025 Year In Review

1. MSMichael Seibel0:00

   Hot take, depopulation. Is humanity gonna make it, Dalton? And will it be too few people or too many?

2. DCDalton Caldwell0:08

   Yeah. I mean-

3. MSMichael Seibel0:09

   [laughs]

4. DCDalton Caldwell0:09

   ... the graphs look bad.

5. MSMichael Seibel0:11

   [laughs] They look really bad.

6. DCDalton Caldwell0:12

   [laughs]

7. MSMichael Seibel0:13

   [upbeat music] This is Dalton + Michael, and, uh, this feels gonna be a little different. We're gonna do a little bit of a 2025 in review. What are hot takes from 2025?

8. DCDalton Caldwell0:27

   The hottest of takes, Michael.

9. MSMichael Seibel0:28

   The hottest of takes. Dalton was inspired by the Colin Jost, Michael Che end of the year SNL skit-

10. DCDalton Caldwell0:36

    [laughs]

11. MSMichael Seibel0:36

    ... where they give each other extremely challenging jokes to say out loud that will get themselves canceled.

12. DCDalton Caldwell0:41

    Let's not do that.

13. MSMichael Seibel0:42

    We're not gonna do that, no.

14. DCDalton Caldwell0:43

    [laughs]

15. MSMichael Seibel0:43

    But it's a cool idea. Maybe next year.

16. DCDalton Caldwell0:46

    [laughs]

17. MSMichael Seibel0:46

    Anyways, where do you wanna start? Where, where, what's the first, first hot take topic?

18. DCDalton Caldwell0:49

    So let's start with, um, San Francisco, Michael. Let's start at the, the hottest of-

19. MSMichael Seibel0:54

    Ooh, yes

20. DCDalton Caldwell0:54

    ... hot takes. So what's your hot take on the status of the city and politics and, like, the whole shebang?

21. MSMichael Seibel0:59

    My hot take is, like, if you're reading it on Twitter, it's like, it, it's, there's a greater than 50% chance it, it's wrong.

22. DCDalton Caldwell1:07

    In what way?

23. MSMichael Seibel1:07

    Just, just wrong. Just, like, just assume anything that is meme-ing about San Francisco, either positive or negative, on Twitter is wrong.

24. DCDalton Caldwell1:16

    So is it better? You're just saying it's different.

25. MSMichael Seibel1:18

    It's just different. It's just, like, it's just, like-

26. DCDalton Caldwell1:20

    [laughs]

27. MSMichael Seibel1:20

    ... there's no signal. Like, the signal that you're getting on the things that are meme-ing is, like, you should ignore that signal. It's the fuzz. It's not real signal.

28. DCDalton Caldwell1:29

    I'm sure they're all gonna listen to you. You sol- you solved it, Michael.

29. MSMichael Seibel1:32

    Solved the problem.

30. DCDalton Caldwell1:32

    Thank you. [laughs]

Episode duration: 26:18