0:05 Welcome back to another episode of Careful Boys. There's a lot of like talk online where people are sort of comparing and people of all ages are kind of comparing whether or not the 2020s is in fact like the craziest era. You know how like >> ████ yeah. >> Yeah, that's my reaction, too. But then like I guess like people are trying to graph out things that actually happened in like the 2000s and the 2010s. >> Like the ████ nerds. >> I guess like maybe like I I I can understand if I missed a lot of stuff that happened uh in the earlier years because I didn't feel the impacts. I was so busy with other ████ Or I was like an idiot and I wasn't noticing it. But um >> So from 2010 to 2020, they're saying that more crazy ████ went down? >> Some people are saying that that it it could be crazier. I still think in like
0:56 my first place that my mind goes is I can't think of anything crazier than COVID. >> You know what COVID is? You know what 2020 feels like till now? It feels like you found out your mom has been ████ your dad's best friend and now it's 2026 and you're still healing from it. That's what it feels like. You know what I mean? >> What's what's the events What's the events uh for you? Is it also like COVID? >> Yeah, the whole thing. The COVID, the crazy BLM ████ then ████ the whole Dr. Fauci ████ states getting shut down. ████ it like all of it, you know? Like from George Floyd to the riots. >> stopping. Like the world like halted, dude. >> My mom My mom's stuck in Taiwan for 2 years. I wish she would stuck longer, but it was still stuck for a long time. I was like, "Dude, this is crazy." >> Yeah, it was wild. >> regret for COVID that she didn't get
1:47 stuck longer. >> I'm going to list some some big events that had happened in like the earlier decades and then just tell me based on your reflex, like do you think this even compares? >> I'll tell you based off of the Taco Bell hot sauce which level it is. >> It's picante right there. >> Okay, so let's start let's start in 2000, okay? 9/11. >> That's a big one. >> That's >> Oh, we're going from 20 2000 to 2010? Cuz I thought it was 2010 to 2020. >> Both. We're going to do all of it. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. So, I would say >> All right, strong start. >> I would say that's like uh jalapeno, but I don't think it's habanero. >> I actually think 2000 to 2010, a lot of ████ went down. But 2010 to 2020 >> We'll start at like the as far back and we'll get there. So, we'll just keep
2:37 I'll just list them and just let me know like what your reaction >> 9/11 was pretty wild. >> And then my my feeling of it is because as crazy as it is, my feeling of it is oh, we've seen it before through Pearl Harbor. So, it doesn't seem like some brand new ████ You're like, okay, I guess this is what happens when nations are warring, right? You're like, oh, ████ it sucks. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> COVID was like a everybody getting sick at once? What the ████ >> We actually had everyone sick at once. >> But I didn't live through it. >> No, it was um >> The Black Plague? >> No, the flus. >> We'll get there. There's They're all listed, but like just re- Just react to each of these and let me know each of them if how it compares to like because these are people's These are people's points on like how they'll be like, nah, dude, 9/11 is what set everything in motion to get for things
3:27 to be crazy today, you know, like that's >> Yeah, I I think that there's truth to that, but like thinking about scale of how much COVID affected the world and like the economies and how long it lasted, I think that's what the thing is. Like, 9/11 was definitely a big blip in all of our histories and it affected how the world and economy shifted, but I just feel like COVID was the dagger, dude. >> COVID is ghost pepper. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I that's still top dog. 9/11 is like probably right under it, though. >> Really? Carolina Reaper? >> Other Oh, we're going to keep moving I'm going to keep moving forward, okay? Um the dot-com bubble burst, which uh gave way for the Great Recession. >> Bell pepper, dude. >> Okay, cool, cool, cool. >> To me, I don't know. >> That's just like a crypto crash. We've been through that. I barely even remember it. >> I don't either, honestly. The 2004
4:18 Indian Ocean tsunami. >> I don't know what that is. >> You remember that? 230,000 people died. >> That's a lot of people. >> Yeah. >> It's a lot of people, dude. >> feel it? Did we feel it, though? I mean, I didn't feel it. No offense, I mean, I really didn't feel it. >> Name Name the Name the spice. >> I feel like India has a flood every year and hella people die. >> Anaheim pepper. >> He's like, "That's Tapatío." >> Yeah. >> Uh Hurricane Katrina. >> That was wild, but >> It's two That's 2005. >> See, if if if that's Okay, if the last one, the South Indian one, was a jalapeño, this is also probably like a serrano pepper. >> Yeah, like like it's a >> But then But then how many hurricanes do they get where ████ goes like ████ up? >> It was >> I feel like every year they get a hurricane. >> But Hurricane Katrina was like the worst-case scenario. >> Pretty horrible. >> It was like all the safeguards were failed and
5:08 >> And then everything that happened in the dome after that was pretty crazy. >> How like nobody helped anybody. >> But we had We had the Lahaina fire, so it's like >> All right. Um okay, that's a good comparison, the Lahaina fire. All right. >> Um Enron. Does anybody care about Enron? >> You know, what? When you're a kid and broke, all the financial like >> Yeah, it went right over your head. >> That's 2001, 2002, and then uh that's what kind of shook a lot of investor confidence in the market. You know, the guys committing suicide and stuff. Yeah, that doesn't seem like a lot. The Darfur conflict. Remember Darfur? That was like the thing that everybody all the celebrities were about. Uh and then we have SARS, West Nile, H5N1, H1N1, swine flu. >> I remember SARS was the big to me from my uh memory, it was the biggest one.
5:59 >> Cuz it was telling us not to visit Asia. >> Yeah. >> And it was like that's when you started to see some some bubbling and that's what you compared COVID to. >> You're like, oh, it's going to be like another SARS thing. Like that's what it was. >> felt like nothing, right? >> Like it didn't feel like that big of a deal. >> SARS is like a shishito pepper. >> It was on the news, but it didn't come here. >> Yeah. >> It didn't affect us. >> Yeah, that's true. It it felt more like it was trying to be what COVID became. >> Yeah. >> Okay, yeah, that doesn't Oh, yeah, there's also the um the West African Ebola outbreak. >> Happened in Africa. >> Bell peppers, dude. >> Oh, no, that's much later, actually. All right, let's So then I guess like 2000 to 2010 doesn't sound as crazy, right? >> It was kind of chilling, dude. >> Yeah. >> It was kind of sick, actually. >> Cholula. >> Yeah. >> It's Cholula? >> For >> On average, to >> How I look at the world and everything, 2020, after that, that's when I was like, all right, what's happening? Like
6:49 this is crazy. >> Move on to the 2010s, then. >> Okay. >> You have Sandy Hook. >> School shootings were a big ████ problem. But you know what's crazy, though, is that now and this is ████ up, but I think for a lot of people when they hear a school shooting, they're like, how many dead? Three? Oh, okay. Like that's how they take it, bro. Like kind of. >> Yeah. >> Like because it happens so much, we're like, oh, it's less than five? Oh, that's good. >> But we had Columbine in the 2000s. That was that was the big one. >> Columbine was in the 2000s? >> 90s, 90s. >> I thought it was like when I was a kid. >> That was when I was in high school, so that could have been Columbine you were in high school? >> Yeah. >> No way. >> Are you sure? Yeah, I thought we were talking about it in the high school. >> 1999, yeah, it was high school. >> Right? >> Yeah. Oh, yeah, 99. >> That's why it was a big one cuz we were
7:39 all in high school and talking about what would happen. And then like I was in the ghetto ass high school and where I was just like, you know what? We have we already been having gun crimes. >> Yeah, damn. >> what I'll say about Sandy Hook? I think Sandy Hook was another like big low because it was like young children. And I think that was like one of the big stories. >> Okay, we had Parkland and Las Vegas. >> Bro, the Vegas one was crazy. >> But you know like all these shootings though, the reason why I don't think it passes jalapeno, it sucks ass. It sucks ass, but >> I'll listen to >> Corona's around. >> think about it, they're like like single or like a few bad actors. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. >> COVID, it's when you're like oh, the world leaders all coordinated to act against us. It feels way crazy It feels like war way more devious. >> How did they coordinate the whole world
8:29 to shut down? >> What do you think about this one? The We also had the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2011 Japan earthquake. >> Oh, was that when the tsunami went down and it That was pretty bad. >> Hoku earthquake tsunami. >> Well, we didn't really feel it that much over here. That's like you're in a movie theater and your neighbor farted and you don't know if he did or not. >> Your neighbor farted and all a ton of people died. >> And you're like wait, did you fart? I don't know. >> That is the American mentality though. It's like damn, the world's ████ up. >> Barely touched us. Like it was like that. >> I was like that wasn't us. >> That wasn't his city, that's cool. >> An interesting one is like so that decade of 2010 to 2020, that's when they pinpointed that social media addiction first began. >> I believe it. Cuz I remember checking MySpace or Facebook like once a week or once a month. >> It didn't stick. >> Yeah, I was like ah, whatever. I'll look when I'm bored. >> And it was
9:19 what's it called? That's it's the first like when climate change impacts started to happen. If you believe in that. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Bell peppers. >> Climate change I felt like in the grand scheme of things, I feel like everyone's totally forgot about climate change. >> Yeah, like they dis- they dismiss it now. >> That's f███- that's not even a pepper. That's like an onion or something. >> Brexit happened. How do you feel about Brexit? That was a big deal. >> I honestly as an American, what's Brexit? What is that, dude? Who is that? >> Yeah, yeah. Okay. >> Steve was rooting for it. >> The opioid crisis had actually like worsened in 2010-2020. >> Yeah, that's I think that's when the the rise of homelessness started to happen, too. And like Otherwise the skid row numbers started getting bigger. >> people problems.
10:09 >> The pepper, though. Say do that again. Say the pepper. >> Garlic. I know. Well, cuz it's not even spicy anymore. >> But I feel like that's one of those silent killers of America. >> For sure, for sure, for sure. >> It gets ignored and then festers and then now it's like boom. >> Cuz it made like all the other drugs like heroin and all that spike. >> There's also the Flint water crisis. >> Yeah, that was pretty bad. It's still not fixed, right? >> No. There's the the Volkswagen emissions scandal, which was pretty big for the I guess, you know, auto world. Uh the collapse of Ashley Madison. >> Oh, when they got hacked? Where like hundreds of thousands of dudes got >> Dude, honestly that one that one is like salt. >> That's nothing, dude. >> I got no mistresses. I don't know. >> Yeah, that that doesn't affect me at all. >> Ooh, who you got caught for cheating? >> Yeah, that's what you get. >> Salt. >> Yeah, that's true. Like it still feels
11:00 like oh, gender politics. 2010-2020 gender politics taking a really a really strong front seat. >> I feel like that popped off that popped off because everything was going pretty chill. Like everything was pretty good. >> That's yeah, that's ████ table salt, dude. >> Like we're we're arguing about nothing. >> They got Bin Laden at in 2011. >> I mean, that's a good thing, right? That's not bad. >> Well, yeah yeah, you're right. Yeah. >> Not for Al-Qaeda. >> Ha- Half the people were like he was already dead. >> Al-Qaeda is like "Ah, THIS CANNOT LIGHT A REAPER." THIS LIST IS FOR AL-QAEDA. OH, THERE were some major oil spills in 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Gulf of Mexico. >> Yeah, that's bad. But once again, as as a s█████ American, as a piece of ████ American, you're like, "Huh? What's that?" >> Yeah. >> Oil. It's been spilling for years.
11:50 >> Oil's in the ocean? >> What about the the Chile mining accident? Chile, when those 33 miners got stuck underground for 69 days. >> I remember that, but I feel like a lot of people were like, "Oh, that's Oh, that's cool." They just They just They just watched the news coverage a little bit. >> the difference is, back then, we had the same news, too, but it was on it was text. Now, we get the actual like, we'll see a video of the mine collapse and then people dying and ████ And I think that's what makes it feel even crazier. >> That's true. >> Like, you get the news first hand because some ████ there was recording it. >> Dude, as you read on or hear about all these things, it really doesn't even come close to what happened for COVID, man. I really don't think so. >> How much does it affect your daily life, right? Like, the mining accident sucks,
12:41 but you could go out front and do whatever the ████ you want. I remember like COVID, you're in a rush to go somewhere and like, "Oh, ████ I left my mask home at home." You have to go back home and grab a mask, right? Cuz you can't even go on anywhere without a mask. You have to wear a mask all the time. Even ████ are driving sometimes. People look at you, "Where the ████ your mask?" I just equal judging. Yeah, they're judging each other. You can't go to the bank without a mask. It was like people on the streets with It's like it affects your daily life. >> And a lot of people have amnesia that they were like being North Korea about it, telling on everybody and >> It seems like um like if globally when your relative is passing away in the hospital and all you can do is look through a window and they just tell you this or this. That's there's no comparing to that. >> my uncle pass away like that. All of us had to be outside because of the whole
13:32 COVID scare and he's just in there just passing away. I'm like >> I think if you're like if you're living through the 2020s or if you don't even like let's say you're a a young person that wasn't even alive in the 2000s and people are trying to tell you that the 2000s were crazier, I hella don't believe that ████ >> Bro, especially I think it's the craziest now. >> If you're a kid and you went through COVID and you had to just be locked down, I think that's who suffered the most, bro. >> Because you know, think about how much they're missing out on on top of some kids, their escape is school. So when quarantines happened, they're stuck with their ████ up parents and think about all the bad downstream effects because a lot of social scientists and like medical guys were saying the biggest problem's not necessarily the sickness, it's the quarantine and like what that does to humans, you know? >> Yeah, and then alcohol sales rocketed. They're like getting drunk, beating the hell out of our kids.
14:22 >> fast-tracked us into more social media dependence. It fast-tracked us to more drug abuse, more alcoholic abuse, like >> Only like halfway through the 2020s. >> Yeah, but they robbed four, five years of our time. You know, making us >> response, yeah. >> What I hate about it the most was like you are murdering grandmas if you're going out without a mask and then they they made people feel like horrible pieces of ████ >> people so anxious. >> Yeah. >> Because like I think there was a lot of people that were truly scared and at the time you're like bro, get over it, not that big of a deal. But now when you look back at it and you think about like those first three weeks of messaging in the news, some people just were like that. They That's what they thought and they lived their whole next five years
15:12 thinking like oh, this is going to ████ kill me if I don't do something about this. >> There's still people today that I see sometimes that are like still stuck in that paranoia and they're wearing they look like ████ crazy like what they have gloves up to here a mask a ████ they're like I'm like what the ████ dude you guys are nuts >> Yeah I I don't think it compares. I think 2020s are the craziest decade by far by far bro. It felt like the ████ Avengers movie with the blip right where it's like everybody's together and then it just felt like we lost 5 years. What do you guys think put it in the comments below if you think we are wrong and you disagree with us let us know if you know for some reason you have memories of the earlier 2000s being crazier than 2020s I definitely want to know why so please comment below what you guys think.
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