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Hey, it's Noam. Got a little bonus episode here for you before the end of the year. Last year, I got together with Sean Ramos-Furham, the host of Today Explained, and we wrote a song to try to cover the news of the whole year. We sang it with our friend Christina Anamashan. We put it out as a standalone Today Explained episode and as a song on Spotify. We decided to do it again this year, and I thought we'd drop it here as a little extra episode. Hope you like it. ♪
2021 it was gonna be fun get a couple shots and then you're done then the second the year'd be gone we had an insurrection 2021 it was gonna be fun get a couple shots and then you're done then the second the year'd be gone we had an insurrection yeah it wasn't just what we
to see we might have started too optimistically so if we keep our expectations low maybe the world won't seem so terrible yeah it wasn't just what we hoped to see we might have started too optimistically so if we keep our expectations low maybe the world won't seem so terrible
Dial back to when the year had begun, we were looking forward to the end of hibernation. But it didn't even last a week, no it didn't even last a week. On the sixth day of 2021, vanilla ISIS tried to flip the election. But looking back we can't agree on the facts, no we can't agree.
Pretty soon we were signing up for shots Talking about shots Everyone was a farmer fan With the Pfizer fam The Moderna clan But we should've known Delta would happen Most of humanity not getting back Stand fourth wave Fifth wave in rhythm That's one more wave than feminism 2021, it was gonna be fun Get a couple shots and then you're done But according to Joe Rogan
We should take ivermectin Yeah it wasn't just what we hoped to see We might have started too optimistically So if we keep our expectations low Maybe the world won't seem so terrible
A booster, I'm not sure I need it. Tune on the IMAX, I seen it. Back to the good life, I dreamed it. Wake up, reality don't fit. Hope you don't need a house or a condo. Hope you don't need a trip to Toronto. Hope you don't need some gas for your Durango. Hope you don't need a can of dried mangoes. Everyone is feeling frustration.
Quitting jobs, the great resignation Blaming Biden for rising inflation While billionaires shoot off the space race Did we fix the grid in Texas? Yes! Figure out how wide the Suez is? Yes! Don't ask me, all I see on TV It's just fights on critical race theory 2021, it was gonna be fun Get a couple shots and then you're done Moving on to issue number one
Whether to allow abortions Yeah, it wasn't just what we hoped to see We might have started too optimistically So if we keep our expectations low Maybe the world won't seem so terrible I just want to be free I'm thinking about COVID-19 And I just want to
I just want to see something done about voting and I still don't get at it. Can't understand because of currency and we agree. We can't agree. But at least we got together to free Britney. Oh, Britney, Britney.
2021 it was gonna be fun Get a couple shots and then you're done Then the second the year'd begun We had an insurrection And people lied about the last election It made it harder to vote in elections At least we don't have another election Wait, I think there's another election
2021 it was gonna be fun Get a couple shots and then you're done Then the second we thought we'd won We're learning how to say Omicron Guess you never know what's gonna come through Making plans for things you'll never do But take it from a brown guy and a Jew There's always 2022
