What Google’s trending searches say about America in 2021

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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From wolf haircuts to Wall Street, Recode's Rani Molla explains what Americans googled this year. Read Rani’s story: https://www.vox.com/recode/22822257/google-trending-searches-2021-america Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Rico Daily.
0:10.0	I'm Adam Clark Estes, and my co-host Ronnie Mola is here as well.
0:14.8	And because this is the last new episode of Rico Daily for 2021, Ronnie, I'm thinking
0:20.7	maybe we should try something a little different to wrap up the year.
0:24.1	Do you want to play a game?
0:26.2	I'd love to.
0:27.2	All right.
0:28.2	It's called, How Well Do You Understand What Happened On The Internet In 2021?
0:32.6	Good.
0:33.6	Great.
0:34.6	I should nail this because I am a technology journalist.
0:36.4	I think not.
0:38.4	All right, Adam.
0:43.4	What's a baddie?
0:44.4	I'm a baddie.
0:45.4	I never been with a baddie.
0:46.4	She comes so out into the tummy.
0:47.4	I'm sure you are.
0:48.4	No, but really, what do you think a baddie is?
0:53.4	Okay.
0:54.4	So a baddie is probably someone who doesn't do bad stuff like smoke cigarettes or watch
1:00.2	HBO.
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