Yes, These Things All Happened in 2025
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The craziest moment of 2025, like there's some serious ones that obviously deserve to be in the category, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, chief among them. |
| 0:10.7 | There's some absurd ones that you could point to, like throwing a great Gatsby party while you're trying to cut food stamps. |
| 0:19.0 | I was kind of crazy. |
| 0:19.8 | But for me, the truly |
| 0:23.2 | craziest moment of the year was the Twitter war that erupted for a brief, glorious few hours |
| 0:32.2 | in, I believe it was like June or something between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. I was sitting here in this office. |
| 0:41.4 | Door was open to the bullpen of journalists and people were just hooting and hollering as the two of them |
| 0:47.3 | went out each other. And we were going crazy and everyone was just waiting for the next tweet to drop |
| 0:53.0 | and Trump's statement to be posted. |
| 0:54.8 | And we didn't know how I was going to end or if it was going to end. |
| 0:58.0 | But now I went back and I read it, read what was happening. |
| 1:01.5 | And some of the shit is really truly wild. |
| 1:03.8 | I mean, Elon accused Trump of being in the Epstein-Faust fact. |
| 1:08.7 | And then he said he was going to decommission the dragon two spacecraft, |
| 1:13.0 | which is insane because it was the only operational American vehicle, I believe, that could get |
| 1:18.6 | to the International Space Station. So that was pretty wild. Then he threatened to start a whole new |
| 1:23.4 | party. Then he called for Trump's impeachment. And then Trump was just sort of like, you know what, |
| 1:28.0 | we might just pull all these government contracts. At one point in time, someone was like, |
| 1:32.4 | yo, Elon, you've got to cool it off. And it's just a very random person. And I think Elon responded |
| 1:36.8 | affirmatively to that. So if you step back and you think just about that whole episode, the world's richest man, |
| 1:45.8 | one of the president's top advisors, basically going ballistic on him in the most emotionally |
| 1:53.0 | irresponsible way possible. And it made you really wonder, like, should these individuals |
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