365: 2026 - Everything Sucks Now!
Stiff Socks
Trevor Wallace and Michael Blaustein | Audioboom Studios
4.9 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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The guys bounce between real-life chaos and a full-on rant as the episode turns into an unplanned ranking of the worst tech upgrades, from apps and subscriptions to features that somehow made everything more complicated. In between, they spiral through airport disasters and a frozen yogurt gift card nightmare.
00:00:30 – iPhone Photo App
00:01:46 – Trevor got robbed by a coffee shop
00:17:38 – Presidents Timeline
19:03 – Worst Tech Decisions Ever
00:29:31 – NOT EVERYTHING Needs an App
00:34:05 – Spotify Wrapped for Everything
00:40:12 – Talking to Strangers in Public
00:51:00 – Devices Listening to You
01:12:30 – Dictionary Word of the Year Rant
01:15:00 – New Year’s Ball Drop Confusion
01:15:40 – Sock Talk
01:16:30 – Secret Sock
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I think in that world is not everything needs a Spotify wrapped. |
| 0:04.1 | Everything has wrapped. |
| 0:06.2 | Uber Eats's like, it's like, yeah, it looks like you're a late night owl. |
| 0:09.2 | You were getting talk about a lot this year. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm divorced. |
| 0:16.8 | Are we in? |
| 0:18.0 | Are we in right now? |
| 0:18.6 | Whoever made the iPhone photo app needs to go to hell, get reincarnated, shot in the foot. Just in the foot? Just in the foot, but they feel that pain every day. Like, what even is this? I hate the iPhone fucking gallery setup. I don't understand why they switched it. Who the hell was a person who's like, we hate this? No, we don't. It's the most intuitive thing ever. And then they went into this weird thing where it doesn't make any fucking sense. It's in tiles now and you accidentally zoom out and it's just all this. Who did it? I'm just trying to find a picture of Gigi holding a pineapple. Why is that so fucking hard? Go ahead. She's done that? No. What I'm saying? The screenshot take three steps. So there, I saw in your settings you can change that back to the OG. Oh, you can. Yeah, but also like, why was that their idea to be like, hey, do you ever want a screenshot and then open up fucking Canva Pro? You stupid fucks. God damn it. |
| 1:11.3 | Bring them back from the dead. What they've done with Apple is a fucking disgrace. Guys, I'm off the honeypack right now. Yeah, honeypack. What even is that? The thing is, his name is Steve Jobs, except he didn't, he did his job well and died. Steve, they need, these people who are at Apple need new jobs. Is there a specific person to hate |
| 1:28.8 | for the iPhone photo gallery? |
| 1:31.5 | I think, oh, maybe. |
| 1:33.0 | I was going to say, globally, it's whatever |
| 1:34.6 | is Tim, Tim Cook. |
| 1:35.6 | Tim Cook, cook something else up. |
| 1:37.2 | Just piss me off. |
| 1:38.2 | I hate change so much. |
| 1:40.1 | You do. |
| 1:40.8 | I hate change. |
| 1:41.8 | I only like dollars. |
| 1:43.3 | Bannap, bernat, 2026. |
| 1:46.3 | There you go. |
| 1:48.0 | Congratulations. |
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