Did we make the joke last year that like the worst take was someone criticizing us?

I think we did.

I think we might have too.

What if this whole episode is just us reading feedback to the show, negative feedback?

Your worst takes, the boys like the boys take feedback or whatever.

Do a tagline.

I'm doing the singer.

Okay.

Peter.

Michael.

What do you know about the worst takes of 2025?

All I know is that for the third year in a row, the worst takes of the year, were all light criticism of me.

I'm... So the year in worst takes, the year in bad takes, this was an incredible year for bad takes. This was one of the championship worst takes years. We have sort of kept tabs on the worst takes of the year.

Yes.

And I think that means that we have between us the actual worst takes of the year.

This is the definitive list.

Number one, people saying that I was too nice to Elon Musk.

No recency bias either. That's just this week what you've been thinking about. No recency bias. Just the last blue sky reply I got. The only thing you've been thinking and texting me about for the last two weeks. You do a two-parter about how this guy is the biggest piece of shit on Earth. And then at one point, you're like, hey, and by the way, he knows how to do vertical integration. And then people are like, Peter, you're a sucker. As usual, I am using this as an opportunity to reflect on the year that has come behind us. I think politically the central fact of this year was that it became undeniable that we're in the middle of an authoritarian resurgence. Yeah, yeah. It's really fucking obvious what has happened to United States at this point.

And so the op-ed pages of the country had to like deal with it.

Like what are they going to do as this becomes just increasingly thuddingly obvious?

Right.

So I have pulled out a couple of categories of bad takes because they're all kind of interchangeable on some level.

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