The Worst Takes of 2025 [TEASER]
12/29/202550 min
The boys catalog the definitive worst takes of the year, from the pundits who misunderstood our political moment to a guy who wants to have sex with a computer.
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First 90 secondsPeter Shamshiri· Host0:00
... did we make the joke last year that, like, the worst take was some- someone criticizing us?
Michael Hobbes· Host0:04
(laughs) (laughs) I think we did.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:06
I hon- I think we might have too.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:07
What if this whole episode is just us reading feedback to the show, negative feedback?
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:11
Your worst takes, the Boi- like, the Bois take feedback or whatever.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:15
Uh, do, uh, tagline- I'm doing the zinger. ... do a little zinger.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:18
Um, okay.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:19
Peter.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:20
Michael.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:20
What do you know about the worst takes of 2025?
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:23
All I know is that for the third year in a row, the worst takes of the year were all light criticism of me.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:29
(techno music plays) So, the year in worst takes, the year in bad takes. Uh, this was an incredible year for bad takes. This was one of the championship worst takes years.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:53
We have sort of kept tabs on the worst takes of the year.
Michael Hobbes· Host0:57
Yes.
Peter Shamshiri· Host0:57
And I think that means that we h- we have between us the actual worst takes of the year.
Michael Hobbes· Host1:02
This is the definitive list.
Peter Shamshiri· Host1:03
Number one, people saying that I was too nice to Elon Musk.
Michael Hobbes· Host1:08
(laughs) (laughs) No recency bias either, that's just this week what you've been thinking about.
Peter Shamshiri· Host1:12
No recency bias- Mm-hmm, nope. ... just the last blue sky reply I got.
Michael Hobbes· Host1:16
The only thing you've been thinking and, uh, texting me about for the last two weeks.
Peter Shamshiri· Host1:19
You do a two-parter about how this guy is the biggest piece of shit on Earth- (laughs) And then people- ... 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."
Michael Hobbes· Host1:29
As usual,