The 25 Coolest Things We Discovered In 2016

It’s not just us right? There are too many damn movies and TV shows to keep up with. When we’re not in the middle of a season of Game of Thrones, Westworld, Silicon Valley, Stranger Things, or House of Cards, there are always 40 other shows just waiting to get started. If only you were ready to make the commitment. Your girlfriend wants you to propose but you can’t even commit to Six Feet Under, let alone the next 60 years of your life.

This glut of TV shows we’re experiencing completely fails to lack the steady stream of quality movies coming out not only in the US but all around the world. And the surplus of movies doesn’t even address how behind you are on music. Open up Spotify or look at the next festival lineup and you can barely recognize a third of the bands there. And we’re not being old fogies complaining about music these days– most of these bands are good– we just can’t keep up with them. 21 Pilots, 21 Savage, 21 Scarecrows. Only one of those band names is completely made up.

So to give a little order to this exponentially insane world, Jack O’Brien is joined by Cracked editors Soren Bowie and Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) to talk about some of their favorite they discovered in 2016. They commiserate about the superabundance of content and Soren gives some completely unsolicited home improvement advice.

Our next live podcast is on Saturday, January 14th at 7pm at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles. Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark from ‘My Favorite Murder’ are back for another hour of creepy unsolved murders and even creepier solved ones. Tickets are $5 and on sale soon at sunset.ucbtheatre.com (https://goo.gl/UNy5YF)

Footnotes:

Website: Pandora — Search Standup: https://goo.gl/tXZB

Video: Youtube FanFest: https://goo.gl/RhW2jK

Netflix: John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid: https://goo.gl/EPZMWF

HBO: Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds: https://goo.gl/zIxXV4

Album: Kyle Kinane: Loose in Chicago: https://goo.gl/UYTPsS

Netflix: Michael Che Matters: https://goo.gl/TiM4Jm

Video: Dave Chappele SNL Monologue: https://goo.gl/5D6dB0

Website: Nextdoor: https://goo.gl/R1XSI

Video: Red Letter Media: Wheel of the Worst #11: https://goo.gl/zYUXeo

YouTube: Jim Sterling: https://goo.gl/r4SguC

Wikipedia: Square Screws: https://goo.gl/uGtgQY

Amazon: Wet Vacuums: https://goo.gl/auLfij

The Elf on the Shelf: https://goo.gl/I9CJ0P

Screenplay: Monsters, Inc: https://goo.gl/71xVcx

Video: Train to Busan (Trailer): https://goo.gl/4Zbxfo

Video: I Saw The Devil (Trailer): https://goo.gl/6ojCqo

Netflix: Amanda Knox: https://goo.gl/y4LTOa

Netflix: David Blaine: Real or Magic?: https://goo.gl/olbb48

Netflix: Planet Earth: https://goo.gl/vrZwiE

Video: Bill Burr Makes a Pie Crust: https://goo.gl/rJ5CV8

Netflix: F is for Family: https://goo.gl/Cnokr6

Website: Stitcher: https://goo.gl/R5h4rX

Podcast: Science Vs: https://goo.gl/Fa4g7D

Podcast: Doughboys: https://goo.gl/idq8zm

Podcast: The Bill Simmons Podcast with Andy Cohen: https://goo.gl/ok3LTs

Video Game: The Last Guardian: https://goo.gl/PTRsMj

Video: Robyn “Call Your Girlfriend” on SNL: https://goo.gl/CC2ozz

Video: Chance the Rapper “Same Drugs” on SNL: https://goo.gl/1TOJ3R

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