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From Hangovers To Highlights: Our 2025 Wrapped

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New Year energy, real talk, and a few chaotic confessions: we pull back the curtain on a year that stretched us, surprised us, and reminded us why this show matters. Listener numbers climbed to 3,937 downloads and we crossed the 100‑episode mark, but the most powerful moment wasn’t a metric—it was you choosing our women’s health conversation as the most‑played. We share what that vulnerability cost, why it connected, and how it’s reshaping the way we plan future episodes.

We also dig into the nerdy stuff people secretly love: Buzzsprout vs Spotify numbers, where you listen (hello Norfolk, Dallas and Singapore), and what our YouTube start taught us about pacing, edits and the value of candid pre‑show chatter. On the personal front, there’s travel highs and health lows, the thrill of a sold‑out gig, and a creative reboot that brings voice acting, new stories and a proper production umbrella into the mix—plus the practical fix that unlocks more guests: another mic and a refreshed, self‑made intro.

Music remains our north star. We compare Spotify Wrapped notes—alternative rock, ska punk, pop rock and instrumental scores for deep work—and unpack what it says about focus, nostalgia and taste. We also wade into AI’s exploding footprint in music and video, why labelling matters, and how we’ll keep the show human: clear voices, honest takes, and topics that meet life where it’s actually lived.

If you’re new here, expect warmth, wit and straight talk without the corporate sheen. If you’ve been with us a while, thank you for every listen, message and share. Tap follow, leave a quick review, and pass this episode to a friend who needs a hopeful wrap and a laugh—what should we dive into first in 2026?

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Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter, a special father-daughter podcast with me, Hannah. And me, Davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world.

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Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view. And influences throughout the decades.

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Or you could choose one by contacting us.

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Via email, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. Links in bio. Happy New Year.

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Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy hangover?

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Uh happy hangover. Happy Hangover.

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What did you do last night?

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Yes, I am hanging. I'm gonna predict that I'm hanging. It was probably a late night watching, I don't know, Hoot and Annie probably.

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Yeah, yeah, that's probably what I'll be doing.

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Graeme Norton show, Hoot and Annie, and then the the The London Eye.

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And then the London Eye, yeah. Yeah, watching all the d do they still do fireworks or is it gonna be a drone show now?

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I think they do a bit of both.

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Do they?

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Yeah.

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I'll tell you what, I don't tell you what I do like watching on um You are loud today, dude. Am I sorry? Sorry, I turned that up.

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No, no, I've got it, I got it, I got it, yeah, I got it.

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So I'll tell you what I do like watching is when they do the uh the shows from all over the world, because it starts off in Australia, doesn't it? And they do the Fiji, isn't it? Is it is it Fiji? Fiji the first one? And then it of course it then comes all the way to all the way around. Yeah.

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It it it's crazy to me that there was someone that was like, this is where we're gonna draw the dateline.

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Yeah.

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How crazy. I wonder if any of like the like any of the islands near there got a choice. Well, can I be today or tomorrow?

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There is there is that that place in the ocean, isn't there? I think I can't remember if it's one island or two little islands, and they're like, I've got Fiji on my brain, honestly. They're literally across the dateline. I can't remember it's some it's somewhere in like the Pacific Ocean somewhere. Yeah, there's there's Okay.

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No countries lie directly on the zigzagging international dateline, but several nations territories sit right next to it, causing them to be one day apart, like Samoa, uh American Samoa, uh Russia, obviously, some of the US, uh, I can't pronounce some of their names, but ki Kiribati, Fiji, Tonga, uh Tuvalu, and New Zealand.

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Oh, there you go.

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All have adjusted datelines.

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Yeah.

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I knew Fiji had something. Yeah. Yeah. Fiji are just west of the line, putting them on the same date as Australia. Okay. There you go. I knew Fiji had something to do with it. Good old Fiji. Anyway, um Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Yeah, we're not recording this uh uh well as you're listening to it, but we're uh we're we're still in we're actually still in 2025.

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It's still before Christmas, actually, isn't it?

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It's also still before Christmas, yeah. What is it? The 21st day.

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It's the 21st. Yes, 21st. Yes. Yes.

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Have you had your work do? Do you do you have a workdo?

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I don't have work dos. Oh, you don't have work does? No, no, no, no.

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I guess it's too your I guess your place is too big for a workdo.

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Yeah, yeah. But people have individual work dos inside in their department, yeah. But it's quite well known that I don't like Christmas, so I I wouldn't get invited. I wouldn't get invited even if um well I get invited, but I just politely decline.

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You get invited. And I had my work due on Friday. How was that?

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Was there any office scandal?

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There was not any office scandal. We're a really small office to be fair. We're quite a small company, so there was I think there was probably about 15 of us. We went out for a meal, three. Oh nice. Had a nice Indian meal. It's good. And um sat I sat in a pub for about four hours on a really wooden, really, really hard bench, and then my bum the next day really hurt for some reason. It still hurts now. Like I feel like I'm I feel I feel like I can hit feel my my my my tailbone. Yeah. Which is, you know, fastball problems.

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Your mum went out on a Christmas do thing the other day.

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She did. She did.

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She went and she went and ate somewhere.

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She did tell me, but I know she went because of Run Club because I was also invited, but I couldn't go because of my own work do.

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Yes, yeah, that's when that's when she went. But I just stayed at home and played um Claire Obscure Expedition 33.

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Very nice.

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Which I've been play which I've been playing since five o'clock this morning as well.

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Obsessed.

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Yeah. Well, actually, there's something like because I told you about the game before we started the podcast recording. You did, you did. There was something that I didn't tell you about the game. Okay. So there was a bug in the game. I played it for 16 hours, and I think I turned the PS5 off whilst it was saving.

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Oh no, did you lose some of your progress?

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I lost the lot.

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The lot?

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The lot. I lost 16 hours worth of progress.

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Oh.

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So I'm I'm trying to cat I'm kind of backtracking and catching up again on myself.

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Oh guy. You wouldn't think that was a problem in this day and age.

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Yeah, well, it's it's got an autosave function. You can't manually save. So I think as the or save thing came up, I turned it off.

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16 hours is a long time for an autosave not to kick it.

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Yeah, I think it corrupted the data.

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Were you dilly-dallying?

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I was dilly-dallying. Yes. I think I corrupted the data.

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A bugger.

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Yes.

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And it's that is so frustrating.

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Yes. Anyway, we were going to have a this is going to be quite a special episode, isn't it? It's going to be a bit of a mishmash.

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A mishmash of things. As we often do at the end of the year, we have a nice 2025 wrapped.

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Indeed. Frick and freaking wrap. We're going to talk a little bit about the podcast, some figures on that. We're going to talk about what we've done last year. We've got a month by month serious versus funny edition of things that happened in the last year.

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Oh, have we?

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We have indeed. Yes.

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I haven't looked that far.

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And I've also got you a little quiz.

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A quiz?

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I've got you a quiz. So it's just not I didn't ask you to do one, but I've got 10 questions about the video.

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I was going to say I did not prepare a quiz. About last year, but they are Oh my god, this is like Big Fat quiz of the year, but bonus dad, bonus daughter edition.

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A little yeah, a little bit, a little bit, but the questions aren't very easy.

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They never freaking are with you. I'm gonna make it my New Year's resolution. Oh, this is gonna be a tough one.

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Go on.

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No more quacks.

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No more quacks.

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No more quacks. You've made me do a quack for you. That is so unhard. You never have a quack.

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And look, look.

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Yeah, you got the merch.

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You got the merch? Got the merch with a little lemon in, look.

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A little lemon. That looks like you've put half a lemon in there. Well, it's it's you know I don't know if it's like made it look bigger because of it is, yeah, the water makes it look bigger, yeah.

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That's that's like a that looks honestly like half a lemon. That's like a quarter of a lemon.

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A quarter of a lemon, that's still a lot of lemon.

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No, it's an eighth of a lemon. So you cut it in half, cut it in half and cut it in half again.

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Cut it in half.

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Yeah, so you've got half a lemon. Yeah, then quarters, then eighths. Yeah, eighths come on, do both.

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It's like a Terry's chocolate orange, but lemon.

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But lemon.

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Lemon drink.

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Yeah, lemon. Yeah.

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So we're how many how many segments is a Terry's chocolate orange?

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Go on, have a look. Have a look. I love it.

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You guess, you guess.

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Uh how many there are there? I would probably say they're uh uh eight. I would probably say either twenty-four?

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Close. Go on. There are twenty. I don't know how they've split that.

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They must be in th in twentieths.

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Obviously.

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But if you you can't So there's there's uh there's four segments of five, right?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

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Four segments of five. So they split each quarter into fifths, into fives.

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Yeah. Yeah. There you go. There you go.

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So you know if that ever comes up in the quiz. Is that in the quiz?

SPEAKER_00:

No, it's not in the quiz. Well, what's your favourite Terry's chocolate orange, actually? I like a dark chocolate orange myself. Oh, um Because you can get them ones with little bubbles in it and all of that as well, can I?

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You like the mint one? The mint one is so good. Really? Yeah, the mint one is good.

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Really? I really like the dark one.

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I imagine you would. You like dark chocolate.

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Yeah, I really like the dark one.

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Shall I go through some of the podcast facts?

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Go on.

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Should we actually get started on the episode that we've actually planned?

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Shall we? Yeah.

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So, unlike before, I've actually planned some of this episode. Half of this was actually me.

SPEAKER_00:

It was actually. You wrote a lot of this.

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So get ducked. So um, I don't know why I've said start to 2024. I think that was because we started in halfway through 2023.

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Yeah.

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Um, so at last year we revealed that we had um a total of 2,405 downloads. We've increased that by 1,532 downloads, which means we now have a grand total, a thir no, I only said 3,900 there. 3,000. I'm really bad at like I'm really bad at numbers. Yeah. 3,937 downloads. That's amazing. Thank you. Downloads, I think, is basically what BuzzSprout identifies as a full listen. I don't know how much of a listen it is, I don't know how many seconds into an episode it is, but that's how many unique listens we have.

SPEAKER_00:

I do question these figures because these figures are from BuzzSprout, but when I've actually gone onto the Spotify one for creators, it's got more on there.

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Yeah, which I don't I don't quite understand. I've just done the Buzz Sprout ones because that covers everything, but I I assume maybe it's from start of episode to end of episode.

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I I genuinely don't know.

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Perhaps a little unfair because we have an intro and an outro.

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Yeah.

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So I don't know. Uh which I assume people skip because I would skip my own intro.

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Yeah.

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Well, actually I do. Every time I every time I I I mix one of these, I skip the whole intro.

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We need to do uh we need to do a new intro, I think.

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I think we need to write our intro.

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I think we need to what the music the musically.

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Well we're both musical. Why have we not done this? We've had this discussion before.

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Well we haven't got I haven't got the music production software to No, but someone might soon. I know, Ben G.

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Should we get him involved?

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Yeah, hell yeah.

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He sent me a message the other day. Hang on, let me let me remember what episode it was. It was when we were talking about ASDF.

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Yeah. He showed me them all.

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Oh.

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We were he was playing he was playing them to me the other day.

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Well, apparently I mispronounced it.

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Yeah, Azdev.

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As dov.

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As dov.

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Which is not how we used to pronounce it. I think he's made that up.

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But no one.

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And I know he's gonna at me for that. I know he's gonna message me after he hears this and say, how dare you.

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Of course he will.

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Um but yeah, we did, we did send a bunch to each other. Yeah. And I was I was actually really busy working that day, but I was like, you know what, I'm entertaining this shit.

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Find me more jewellery.

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I can dream, Harold.

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So what was the top episode last year, Hannah?

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So the top episode last year was Family Memories Part One, where we had mum involved. Um this year we we ditched all of our um guests. I don't think we had a single guest episode.

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No, it's because we haven't got another microphone. We don't, we don't have done that.

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We could it's not that we hate people now. No.

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We could we could um make a make a phone call and get people in, but then it wouldn't come through on the video.

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Yeah.

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Because obviously we've got the lapel mics for the video. It's more of a technical yeah, the actual roadcasters for the for the audio.

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But worst case scenario, if it comes in its own feed, I could put it into post-production, but that would involve you having to transfer data across to me as well.

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Yeah, but that that's easy enough. But the other thing that I got that I'm gonna do now is I will buy another mic.

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Yep!

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I've got enough money to buy another mic and another mic stand.

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Yay!

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Yeah, another XLR as well. Yeah, yeah. I I cannot contribute to this fine in a monetary because Joel wants to come on, Becca wants to come on, Benji, Benji wants to come on again, uh after your mum on again, Annual wants to come on again. I've got to get Father Jack on as well.

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Father Jack. Father Jack, because I'd probably have been saying this actually. We have to get Father.

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I am going to do an episode on religion. I feel like we need a religious person to make sure that we don't and obviously my brother-in-law, Jack, is a reverend. So, yeah, so Jack's gonna come on. I told him I'd be nice as well.

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You better be nice. Of course I will. It's Jack. I am respectful. I love Jack. You are not respectful. I love Jack. I know you love Jack. Yeah. So yes, our top episode last year was a Family Memories Part 1, but this year, to my absolute shock and surprise, was actually Women's Health, which is an episode where I felt probably my most vulnerable episode yeah. So I think for me, I just want to say like thank you, because that was very, very tough one for me to get through, and I am absolutely completely flabbergasted that that is our top episode. So thank you for listening to me rant about women's health for what, an hour? Yeah, no, that's just a lot of fun. That was a really good episode. Um so yeah, thank you, thank you so much. Because that yeah, that was that was uh that was right from the feels. That was not very uh not very I feel like when I come on this podcast, I'm I play the role of Hannah, a podcaster, but that episode was Hannah, real life Hannah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um because we I think we've talked about this on uh before, like when we go on stage, we're we're performance Davy, performance Hannah, like they're they're different people you're millions. Yeah, you almost like play a part as such. Um and that's how it kind of feels on the podcast. As much as we are real on the podcast, these are our real thoughts and feelings, but you know, we do it in a comedic effect, whereas women's health was not.

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So um Although although saying that, saying that, the the the episode that you uploaded where you didn't actually cut the beginning out and you actually just saw us talking normally beforehand, Benji even remarked on that, thought it was hilarious. And you can actually see that is uh we we are genuinely like this pretty much all the time. Yeah, with each other.

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So about that episode, what's really annoyed me is I did mix that. I just uploaded the I uploaded the raw footage as opposed to my mixed footage. So not only did I make a mistake, I also wasted my time doing all the things. I don't even know if I swore in that episode because normally I I duck it out, of course, like quack, I quack it out. So yeah, if there's any swearing on that episode, and then we were just like, well, it's so funny, we might as well just leave it up. Exactly. Because it's been left up. Yeah. But yeah, that was just me uploading the wrong footage, like an absolute donut.

SPEAKER_00:

Um so we hit, what was it, 2,500 downloads this year?

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So that was that was our that was like a milestone that we hit on Buzzspray. So yeah, we so because we have uh uh 3,937 in total, 200 uh 2,500.

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We hit that milestone this year. Yeah. And we had our hundredth episode.

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Come out this year. Come out this year as well. I think this is like episode this will be like 103, something like that.

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Yeah, something like that.

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Um I actually missed kind of some of the promotion for the hundredth episode, just snuck up on me, really. It's amazing that we've done a hundred episodes. Yeah, so that is uh, you know, less just less than maybe eighty-five hours of content.

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Yeah.

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Perhaps, yeah, because no none of the episodes are over an hour. Um so yeah, incredible, incredible. Uh we've we've done so well. Pat on the back. Yeah, we have government. And we're still here. Yeah. So 46% of you guys are Spotify listeners, which is not surprising to me.

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PS Money Spotify.

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Yes. PS Money Spotify. 14% of you are Apple Music users. Uh, despite most of you having an Apple phone, uh, 70% of you are using a mobile device. Because we we it's scarily, we get to know what devices you're using us on as well.

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We even know the um the the the age range and gender of people that are listening.

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I didn't get age ranges up.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh I didn't bother, but it is mostly your age than it is mine. Yeah.

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High gen Xers, Xers, and Elder Millennials. So when I went onto Spotify, we had a 740% increase in a new audience. So hi new people. Um nice to see you, to see you nice. And we had a 41% increase in new followers on Spotify as well. We did indeed. Awesome. So, in terms of geography, unsurprisingly, 75% of you are in the UK, uh, which is where we're from. Uh, in case you didn't know, by the accent, um or by how much we talk about Norfolk and Norwegian.

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Although people in in America thought I was Australian.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Uh because of our Norfolk accent.

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We do get that a lot, yeah. Uh 40 14, sorry, percent of you are in the US, so hello US peeps. Uh, four percent of you in Singapore, so hello Singaporeans.

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Singaporeans. Singaporeans. Singaporean.

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Hello, Singaporeans. No, very nice to meet you as well. And then Australia, which you absolutely bashed the entire country the other day. Sorry, Australians, but thank you for listening to us. I love you guys. He just doesn't like the animals that live in your country. Um, nothing. I love the people.

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The people are amazing. It's just the it's just the we're huge Margot Robbie fans. Yeah. It's just the fact that everything wants to kill you in that. Yeah.

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And then we've got some French listeners. Even the weather.

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Even the weather.

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Even the weather wants to kill you, yeah. Yeah. And thank again, thank you again. Or should I say merci to our French listeners as well. So um I haven't seen France on there. That's the first time I've seen France pop up on our videos, I think. Yeah. Breaking that down into actual sectors. So 19% of our listeners are from Norfolk, which is where we're from. Understandable. 7% of you from Lincoln, 7% from your neck of the woods. Uh 5% from Attleboro, which is basically just down the road of Norfolk. I don't know why Norfolk is separate to Idleboro, yeah.

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Well, mm.

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Are they classed in their own? I don't know.

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Yes, in Norfolk.

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3% from Singapore that uh itself. And 3% from Dallas, Texas.

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I know, I like that.

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Hello?

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Yeah.

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I mean, I have a lot of family in America, but no one in Dallas.

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None in Texas. So if you are listening from Dallas, Texas, hello. Yeehaw. Yeehaw. Are they cowboys generally? Yeah. I I uh what I know the most I know about Texas is is barbecue. I just think of barbecue.

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Yeah.

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So I hope you're having a nice barbecue today. Thank you for listening to us. Um so we we've got some YouTube stats for you now. We did not start our YouTube journey really until March this year. Yeah, was it in March? Yeah. Specifically the 27th of March, I Googled it. Well, no, I didn't Google it, I YouTube it. Uh, to find out. We have 17 subscribers. Hello, 17 subscribers. We assume you also subscribe to the Spotify.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, actually, we've got 16 because one of them is me.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, actually, good point. I think one of them might be me, actually. Solid point there, Father. Solid point. Yeah, I didn't think about that. Yeah. Uh 15, hello, 15 subscribers, because yeah, I'm definitely one as well. The top views was Whatever Happened to, which was our white, uh, our first episode. The reason I just said white was because we talked about white dog poo on that particular episode, and I just thought it was a funny thing to say. But yeah, that was our first episode on YouTube, so I expected that one to be higher than the rest. Anyway, uh, but randomly, Easter came in second, which must have been around that same time because it's around March. So it's cool. So I think maybe we should just talk about the years that we've had. That's all the stats I have. So before we go on to talking about the kind of year that we've we've both had, I just want to say a massive thank you. Like thank you for being with us on this journey. This is the third rapt now we've done.

SPEAKER_00:

This is the third rapt, yeah.

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Yeah, so we've been doing this now two and a half years, I think that makes it. So, so yeah, thank you for coming along with the journey. And I think again, genuinely from the bottom of my heart, women's health episode being the being our top one this year, um, really uh gets me in the feels. When I saw that, I actually uh I may have shed a tear when I saw the uh Spotify wrapped. So I was like, oh yeah. Um because it's just uh yeah, it's a tricky subject for me to talk about, and I'm I'm glad people resonated with it enough to to listen to it. So thank you very, very much from the bottom of our our hearts. Um anyway, enough gushy, gushy, mushy, gush, mush. Tell us about the year that you've had.

SPEAKER_00:

So me, I've had quite an eventful year. Um go on. I went to America twice.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, you lucky thing.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I went to Florida very early on, Florida in March, and then went back to New Jersey in uh June.

SPEAKER_01:

I remember picking you up from Gatwick.

SPEAKER_00:

You did it with your little with your little sign that said whales on it. My little sign. Yeah, little sign that said whales on it. Yes. Yeah, yeah, that was sweet.

SPEAKER_01:

Picked you up.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Uh but obviously a lot of money.

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Ah, father, we've got to believe that one out, darling.

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What's that?

SPEAKER_01:

You've just said your last name.

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People know my last name.

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Do they? Yeah, we were not revealing that.

SPEAKER_00:

It's quite obvious what my last name is. Okay. Yeah. But yeah, I said it loads of times because of the mammal not fish thing. I thought it was a lot of things. Okay. Uh but but yeah, moving on. This year has been I've been doing a A lot of work with music this year because obviously we had our final gig. So that was quite bittersweet. That was that was quite bittersweet. Meow meow. So yeah. But we did a lot of work. Me and the boys did a lot of work early on. Right doing some writing of new bits for the tracks and putting it all together and coming up with the show. And then performing to a sold-out show in the waterfront.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, I was there.

SPEAKER_00:

And you were there.

SPEAKER_01:

I was there.

SPEAKER_00:

Not only were you there, you were part of it as well.

SPEAKER_01:

I sang My Little Heart Out when you'd done summer sickness and you didn't look at me once. Devastated by the way about that.

SPEAKER_00:

I was concentrating because that was a cover. And yeah, it wasn't one of my songs, so I was uh I was concentrating.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

That's a good song. We've oh, your poor mum as well this year.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

As well. She's had her operation on her knee.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Which it's starting to get better, but yeah, she'll get there. Bless her. She's uh still in she's still in a lot of pain.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

A lot of pain. And other things I've done this year is coming up with the new idea for um for my new little venture.

SPEAKER_01:

Your new venture, your new musical venture.

SPEAKER_00:

My new musical venture. Which I'm not going to say too much about at the moment on that one. Creative venture. Creative venture. And but I will say about the the voice acting and also the uh uh the stories that I've been writing. So I've been I've I have been quite creative this year.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and I feel I think BDBD will probably just be absorbed uh presumably into that nest of things um within that sector. So uh BDBD will be become well we're not changing BDBDB, but um BDB BDB.

SPEAKER_00:

It'll be part of MNF productions.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it will it will be under its own own production company of yours. Yes um so yeah, nothing's changing. I'm not leaving. I hope you're not getting rid of me. No, no, no, no. New management coming in and they're gonna they're gonna get rid of they're gonna get rid of her. Of all the ones they're gonna get rid of it, it'll be me. The one that doesn't ever read the uh script.

SPEAKER_00:

I have to give you an appraisal.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. I maybe I need to like re-interview for the job. I I'm I'm pure nepotism, baby.

SPEAKER_00:

You are a Nepo baby.

SPEAKER_01:

I am a Nepo baby. Oh dear. Do you know what? I've been watching Stranger Things recently just on Nepo babies. I love Stranger Things. It's great. Sorry, just to cut across your uh your year, but um I every time she does like a little face or something, I'm like, duh gosh, does she look like her mum? What Maya Hawk? Doesn't Maya Hawk look like her mum? All I can see is kill Bill. When I'm looking at her, I'm like, that that is Uma Ferman.

SPEAKER_00:

Funny thing, I saw an interview with her and that where they had an interview with other people, and they said, Do you ever get mistaken for any other actors and actresses? And she sat there and went, My mum. Yeah. It was like, yeah, my mum. Yeah. So she's walking down the street and someone will just seen Pulp Fiction and go, Oh my god, you're so good in Pulp Fiction. She's just kind of like, That's my mum.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, they do look very alike. Yeah, very alike.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, actually, you talk about Stranger Things. So, because this will be going out on the on New Year's Day, Stranger Things has come out. That's what I've done last night.

SPEAKER_01:

It would have been closed.

SPEAKER_00:

That's what I've done last night is I watched the final episode of Stranger Things. Because it's coming out New Year's Eve.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

So we've got another four episodes coming out on Boxing Day, and then the final episode on New Year's Eve. So that's what I'll be doing.

SPEAKER_01:

So yeah, so as when this episode comes out, Stranger Things will be dusted.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, Stranger Things will be done.

SPEAKER_01:

And dusted forever.

SPEAKER_00:

Done and dusted forever. So we'll know who died, who survived. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

If anyone.

SPEAKER_00:

If anyone survived. And yeah, how it all how it all ended. Exactly. So that's kind of what I did. Although I did write something else below there, but I didn't. I just seen that, like honorary mention. Yeah, yeah, honorary mentioned, but that's not for that's not for now, that's for later on. I'll put it in the I wrote it in the wrong segment. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01:

I wrote it in the wrong segment. No worries.

SPEAKER_00:

So over to you, Hannah. What what have you done this year today?

SPEAKER_01:

Do you know what? I've had I've had a really weird year. I've had yeah, I've had a really weird year. I think 2025 for me, I'd I'd be very, very glad to see the back of, to be honest.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh god, so am I.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Uh for me, I think just health-wise, generally, it's not been a great year for me. But having said that, I did go to Vegas this year, which is it just seems mad to me that that was this year. Like that that happened in February, and it just seems so long ago. It feels like it was the year before. So I met Flowrider this year, which uh I don't think many people can say. Yeah. I forgot about that. I also won on the roulette quite big this year as well. So that's that's mad.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I celebrated 10 years of being with my husband this year. Ten years together. Uh, not married for 10 years, but been been together 10 years. We've been together for a decade now. Um, so yeah, that's Dada Frere. Do you know?

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, yeah, yeah. Oh, he's amazing. Icelandic guy. Yeah, yeah. He's a brilliant.

SPEAKER_01:

You get him better.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, I saw him in um I watched a YouTube video of him the other week on in concert.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

He's brilliant. He sings just as good live as the videos. No, and he still does all the weird dancing and stuff. He's great. Love it.

SPEAKER_01:

I went to a lot of music gigs this year, obviously, namely Mammal Not Fish, but I also I went to Reading this year, so I saw quite a few peeps there. I saw Chapel Roan, I saw Hosier, I saw the Kooks, which was awesome for me because it's very nostalgic. Well, who else did I see this year? Fickle Friends have seen this year. Uh I think I saw Rory earlier this year. Yeah, you saw Rory. Um, so so yeah, um, been a good year in in terms of music for me or seeing music stuff. And then a couple of babies were born. So a nephew of mine has been born, and then I've become an honorary auntie this year as well, so that was cute. Um so doubles, double trouble. I've just found out actually my friends are expecting a new baby next year as well. So everyone's being brought in by a stork. Yes, yes, yes, traditionally, uh as as as foretold by the prophecies. Yeah, bringing bought in on a stalk. Um Actually, that's the point.

SPEAKER_00:

We've got an episode coming up on fortune telling and psychics.

SPEAKER_01:

Have we?

SPEAKER_00:

We have, yeah. Very nice.

SPEAKER_01:

Exclusive BDBD there.

SPEAKER_00:

There you go.

SPEAKER_01:

Then I guess also I went to Tenerife this year.

SPEAKER_00:

You are umming a lot today.

SPEAKER_01:

I am umming because I was just I I I've do you know what?

SPEAKER_00:

Every time you do that, I'm thinking, oh, I've got to cut that out.

SPEAKER_01:

It just feels like this year, I think it's because it's hard for me to talk about this year without talking about the medical stuff. I have had one MRI, two CT scans, one day procedure.

SPEAKER_00:

It's just been a partridge and a pear tree. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

How many how many I think I might have had seven, eight maybe even double figures of doctor's appointments this year. Like it's just been a lot. That's all I can think of is the medical side of things. So that's why I'm I'm an NR and because I'm trying to think of things that aren't medical, medical related. Yeah. I've been in so many waiting rooms this year, it's unreal. So yeah, colonoscopy was probably the low light of this year, I would say. But yeah, there's there's there's been a few things going on. But I I think uh overall it's uh this year's been fine. It's been fine. You okay?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, no, I was I was looking for my Spotify uh stuff because we're coming onto that section and I opened up my phone and there was that.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh Archie eating a carrot.

SPEAKER_00:

Archie eating a carrot. Cute. Bless him.

SPEAKER_01:

Cute, cute. Um are you struggling to find yours? Because I can do mine if you prefer.

SPEAKER_00:

You you start yours, I will, I will scroll.

SPEAKER_01:

So enough about our year, uh 2025 year, we're gonna move on to our Spotify rap. So our individual music taste spotified rap. So I'm gonna start with genres because I think that's another easy one for me.

SPEAKER_00:

I've got mine up so we can do genres, what you, me, what's the boy.

SPEAKER_01:

Well bouncy bouncy, fancy bounce. Bouncy bounce.

SPEAKER_00:

Fancy bounce, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So my top genre this year, no surprise, was pop rock. Okay. Um, I also had uh gentle mention to indie rock was in there, electropop was in there, neoclassical, I'll explain. Neoclassical. I'll explain in a sec, and then alternative country, which I'll also explain. So neo. So neoclassical, I'll we got both kinds of music.

SPEAKER_00:

We got country and west.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh so neoclassical, I have been listening to a lot of music that is instrumental, um, and I like to use that to concentrate on. I've had some massive projects at work, and sometimes I can't listen to songs with words in it. So neoclassical, so a lot of that stuff is like music music soundtrack, uh music soundtracks, movie soundtracks, things like that. Yeah, instrumental, just just just modern instrumental shit.

SPEAKER_00:

Listen to the Expedition 33. Okay. Put that on there. I will. That song, Loom in the Air. Oh. No, no, not that one, not the video I showed you earlier. Um gotta be careful what I say about the game because some people might might play it and there'll be spoilers. But Luminar. Yeah, don't spoil it. Yeah, don't spoil it. But that that song is it's phenomenal, and it's just it's just strings.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, a lot a lot of gaming gaming soundtracks are on there. Uh Lord Ring soundtrack is on there, like those things. Um, alternative country was because I don't know why, but my top artist well, I do know why. My top artist was Bill Murray this year. Sorry to move on because I know we're doing genres. I think he is classed as alternative country. Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Which Well, you mean Ghostbusters, Bill Murray?

SPEAKER_01:

No, no, no, no, no. It's I'll I'll explain Bill Murray later when we talk about top artists. But I think that's why Alternative Country is in there, because I don't actually listen to any country. And I can only he's the only person that's remotely close to that. So what your top genres?

SPEAKER_00:

My top rock scar reggae. Uh do you know, top one? Alternative rock. Oh, alt rock. Alt rock, an alternative one.

SPEAKER_01:

Basically dad rock now.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and that yeah, exactly. When did Foo Fighters become classic rock? Uh so number two, Scar Punk.

SPEAKER_01:

Of course.

SPEAKER_00:

Of course, of course. Number three, soft pop. Soft pop. Soft pop, whatever that is.

SPEAKER_01:

What have you been listening to that's soft? I've no idea.

SPEAKER_00:

I've no idea.

SPEAKER_01:

What have you been listening to? Like Ariana Grande?

SPEAKER_00:

No. It would be like old old older stuff. It might be like 80s sort of stuff. Could be that.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, can we? Um four is soundtrack.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh and five, dance.

SPEAKER_01:

It's such yours is such a mix.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

It's like rock meets scar meets well, pop, basically.

SPEAKER_00:

I've got every you know You've got everything. Everything. Every genre you've got.

SPEAKER_01:

Every genre other than jazz.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Because yeah, no one likes jazz. No one likes jazz. Do you know what jazz is? Jazz is. Can you play all of the notes?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Yeah. Every instrument all of the notes.

SPEAKER_00:

And now do it in the wrong order.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that's jazz.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Um, what was your listening age?

SPEAKER_00:

My listening 26, baby.

SPEAKER_01:

How the hell yours is 26 and mine is 39? As a 29-year-old, I'd gained 10 years. How many years have you 24?

SPEAKER_00:

I lost.

SPEAKER_01:

You've lost 24 years and I've gained yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so it's literally half my age.

SPEAKER_01:

I think, well, it said to me the reason my age is 39 is because I listen to a lot of naughty stuff. Yeah. So maybe we should swap. Maybe we should swap.

SPEAKER_00:

Maybe. Yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Although is mine closer in age than yours? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I've just had a little look at my top song for this year.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It was Portugal the Man.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, okay. That brings in the pop side.

SPEAKER_00:

So that probably brings in the pop side. That brings the pop side. Oh, do you know what Youngblood is in there as well? Yeah, Youngblood. No, no, no, um, sorry, Five Seconds of Summer, the song Youngblood.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh.

SPEAKER_00:

Ah, I know why I was listening to that because I like the way the drum comes in. Oh. And I was listening to that drum pattern.

SPEAKER_01:

I did not have you pegged as a Five Seconds of Summer girl.

SPEAKER_00:

No, no, that was listen. I was listening to that because of the the arrangement of that song. I was like, oh yeah. So that was research purposes. That was research purposes, okay.

SPEAKER_01:

I listened to a total of 2,139 songs this year.

SPEAKER_00:

Wow.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh and several minutes. How many songs did you?

SPEAKER_00:

Only 1,300.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh.

SPEAKER_00:

Ha ha. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

How many minutes did you have?

SPEAKER_00:

Minutes was I have a feeling I might beat you on this one. Minutes, minutes, minutes, sorry, bear with me. It was 15,773 minutes.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, so double that for me. 37 minutes uh oh god, I can't I can't say work. I can't say numbers. 37,175 minutes, but caveat that I do work from home. Yes, you do. So I can literally have it on all the time. Um what was your top artist?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, do you know what? I listened to 246 genres. Ooh, I don't know if it's a lot of things. They said taste like yours can't be defined, but let's try anyway. And I listened to 246 different genres.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know how many genres I had.

SPEAKER_00:

What did you say, sorry?

SPEAKER_01:

What was your top artist?

SPEAKER_00:

My top artist was actually Authority Zero.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, top artist was Authority Zero.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh so my top artist was Bill Murray, not Ghostbusters Bill Murray. Um Do you know what third was? Go on.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, you have to remember the songs because we played them for so long. Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Uh Bill Murray uh was top, Stand Atlantic for me came in second, yours truly, Taylor Acorn and Rory. Now, other than Bill Murray, all the rest of them are all female-led bands. Really? Yep. Yep. Female vocalists. Excellent. Uh top song?

SPEAKER_00:

Go on.

SPEAKER_01:

What was your top song?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh my top song was uh Summer Sickness by Authority Zero.

SPEAKER_01:

Mine wasn't a Bill Murray song, surprisingly, even though he was my top artist. I Can't Feel by Yours Truly, which was my third artist. Yeah. The End, which was uh Bill Murray, Run It. Can't remember those things, run it. Uh Spinning You Around, which was Bill Murray, and Savior, which is Rise Against. Really? Excellent. Kills Me Nuts Notice for that. Oh, but just forgotten. I just just sang that one a lot.

SPEAKER_00:

My top songs were Summer Sickness Authority Zero, Youngblood, Five Seconds of Summer, What Me What Me Worry by Portugal the Man. Okay. And uh Hideaway by Mammal Not Fish. And Karma Boomerang by Mammel Not Fish.

SPEAKER_01:

Of course, yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, they're the they're the two W ones, and so I told the The W ones, yeah. The W ones. Um my top artists were Oh yeah, sorry. Yeah, my top artists. Skip over those, didn't we? Uh Portugal the Man.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Authority Zero. Yeah. Main Skin.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Lincoln Park.

SPEAKER_01:

Lincoln Park! Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, Lincoln Park.

SPEAKER_01:

Emptiness Machine.

SPEAKER_00:

And Ruskaja.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know that one.

SPEAKER_00:

Do you know this song that we started the gig off with?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh. That was Ruskaja. Right, right, right. Where I did the um the news presenter. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Here is the news. Bam, bam, bam, bam. It's mammal nut fish tag. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Well, that's um pig bag, is that? But they did. We all did different versions of it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So but I did pull some other little figures up as well from Spotify.

SPEAKER_01:

Did you?

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Intrigue me. Mammal knot fishes.

SPEAKER_01:

Of course. Of course. Share Mammal Not Fishes stats. How are they doing this year?

SPEAKER_00:

We we did 7,000 streams. So not too bad. Not too bad for a band that hasn't been around for a while. Yeah. 1.5,000 listeners worldwide. Nice. And the top one, uh 68 countries.

SPEAKER_01:

68 countries.

SPEAKER_00:

In 68 countries, we we were played. What was your we were played?

SPEAKER_01:

Do you have like top streamed song?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh yeah, we own the night last single. Yeah, 3.3k. We own the we own the 1.4k listeners and 68 countries.

SPEAKER_01:

Nice.

SPEAKER_00:

So I'm quite chaffed about that.

SPEAKER_01:

Good job, Mama Lotfish.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_01:

MF productions.

SPEAKER_00:

MF Productions. Yes. But you but there may be some other stuff coming out. Ooh. There might be, but we won't say too much about that. Okay. Yeah, but we'll we'll see where we go with it.

SPEAKER_01:

And I whether I need to reapply for my job.

SPEAKER_00:

No, no, you don't need to reapply for your job. You're on a rolling contract, you're fine.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, okay. I'm safe for now. It's not being made redundant yet.

SPEAKER_00:

No, not yet, yeah. Even though I don't get paid. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. But uh so next section of the episode.

SPEAKER_01:

Let's go.

SPEAKER_00:

We're gonna do a so I did a Google. You didn't. So I say I did a Google. I was a bit short for time. I must admit this is Chat GPT.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh I checked this one out, so it might not even be accurate.

SPEAKER_00:

It might not even be accurate, but I've just see I did give me one serious and one funny thing that happened every month of the year.

SPEAKER_01:

Go on then.

SPEAKER_00:

But before we do this, I want to give an honorary mention to something that happened this year.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Which I think is probably the best story I have heard for decades, and I I just loved it.

SPEAKER_01:

Have we shared this on the podcast already?

SPEAKER_00:

We have mentioned it, I think, before.

SPEAKER_01:

Go on then.

SPEAKER_00:

But it's it's about a guy um who's English and he flew to Nepal and when he got off the plane, he ended up in the middle of a revolution. And the TikTok videos and the subsequent interviews and all, and he became a face of the um Nepalese revolution. Just completely the best when he's being interviewed, and he's being they said they said, How long have you been here? He's like, one day. That bit when he's running through the running through the streets.

SPEAKER_01:

I haven't seen any of this footage. You've not seen any of this footage.

SPEAKER_00:

No. Have you not?

SPEAKER_01:

No.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my god, I'll send it to you afterwards. But yeah, put uh Nep Nepal Revolution Taurus. I I think you spend far too much time on TikTok. And have a look at that. It is amazing what happened to that guy. Okay. Yeah. So starting off in January, something serious is that record low temperatures in Scotland sparked a lot of climate debate.

SPEAKER_01:

As in because it's not happening?

SPEAKER_00:

So cold, as in people panicking about the climate in Scotland.

SPEAKER_01:

I thought you meant people were like, oh, because it's cold, climate change isn't happening, but isn't that the point? Like it gets really, really cold and really really hot.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Funny in January. Apparently, a gritter in Manchester named Ice Ice Baby becomes the first becomes the year's first beloved local celebrity after someone livestream it doing crispy 4am laps. So there you go.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know if I I understand what is happening in that sentence.

SPEAKER_00:

So basically, a gritter, they called it Ice Ice Baby.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. And someone street live streamed it doing laps at 4am. Oh, okay. I see.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't understand why that made news, but I I I I is it because of his name?

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, I think so. Ice Ice Ibe. Ice Ice Baby.

SPEAKER_01:

Vanilla. Can you imagine if Ice Cube was driving it? That would be funny.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh in February, it was announced that the NHS was uh pretty much overwhelmed. Yeah, for the worst time ever. And yeah, it's for the first time ever, well no, no, as in as in the the highest level of overwhelmingness.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Despite not being overwhelmed in COVID when the whole world was sick.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Yeah. Sorry. I know, I know.

SPEAKER_01:

Roll's eyes. Something funny happened? Yes, to get over that.

SPEAKER_00:

A London cafe accidentally goes viral for offering a deconstructed English breakfast, which is literally just each item in its own tiny jar. Can you imagine a pride egg in a jar? But apparently the cafe sold out for weeks.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, well, good for them.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, because it's quite niche and do do do.

SPEAKER_01:

Random.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I like it.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh of course, March, the London summit on Ukraine, puts the UK centre stage diplomatically on that. Eek. Yeah, let's uh let's move on from there. But in Wales, a flock of rogue sheep. That is so Welsh. Yeah, and uh locals called it a uh they this flock of rogue sheep escaped. Yeah, yeah, and formed what they called a sl a sheep flash mob and it blocked littles for two hours.

SPEAKER_01:

That was their revolt. That was their revolution. Yeah their the Nepal revolution.

SPEAKER_00:

Can you imagine pulling up flash mob? Can you imagine pulling up trying to follow it? What everybody do with a flop? Can you imagine doing your weekly shop with Liddles and you get to your car and you can't go meh

SPEAKER_01:

They're trying to revolt. They're like Lamb Easter, nay nay, soldier. Yeah. It's March as well.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh dear lord. So in April, I don't know what this means, Railway 200 celebrations kick off nationwide.

SPEAKER_01:

What's that? Well, I feel like you should have checked this with Chat GBT to find out what these were. Let's go to the funny one.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, the funny one. Uh, a commuter on the Jubilee line becomes an overnight TikTok staff for hosting spontaneous guess the stop before the doors open quizzes.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, fair enough.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh in May, oh yes. I didn't know about this because Joe told me about this, actually.

SPEAKER_01:

Go on.

SPEAKER_00:

So Joe is obviously an archaeologist now.

SPEAKER_01:

He is uh Indiana Jones.

SPEAKER_00:

He is indeed. Did I did I tell you? Well, actually, no, I said it on stage, didn't I?

SPEAKER_01:

I think you did.

SPEAKER_00:

When I said about, you know, he needs to start his own company called Marriage.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Because he's always digging up the past. Yeah, get it?

SPEAKER_01:

I do. That's a very boomer joke.

SPEAKER_00:

I know, I thought it was great. Uh, but the Mel the Mellsby horde was discovered, and that basically reshaped Iron Age understanding. Oh now, I yeah, so Joe's actually found quite a few interesting things himself. Has he? He has indeed.

SPEAKER_01:

A girlfriend?

SPEAKER_00:

No.

SPEAKER_01:

Sorry, Joe. I couldn't help myself.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, blessed. He wants to come on as well, by the way.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, Joe wants to come on. I'm not sure if not. I don't think that's appropriate. I don't think it would be a good idea. Um, but apparently, a seaside town in the UK in May, they installed an animatronic seagull to scare off real signals, seagulls. Signals! Signals to scare off real seagulls. And the animatronic one actually became more aggressive than the real ones, and they had to switch it off.

SPEAKER_01:

Hold on. But surely it's being controlled by someone. Well no, it would be automatic. But how did it become more aggressive?

SPEAKER_00:

AI. Oh, that's what I mean. Yeah. AI.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Um, in June.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh the strategic defence review shakes up security debates. Shake them up. Yeah, exactly. So you know, again, looking at Ukraine and Russia. Because yeah, you're watching the news at the moment. You know, we're all the apocalypse is gonna happen at any moment at the minute.

SPEAKER_01:

I see.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, we're all gonna die. Um well, we are at some point, aren't we? Let's be honest. We're all dying. Yeah, we're all dying. Uh anyway, something funny that happened in June. Uh, somebody replaced every portrait in a small town pub with framed AI images as customers as Renaissance nobles. And no one noticed for a week.

SPEAKER_01:

That is the greatest prank I've ever heard in my life. That's so I love pranks like this, that that no one is humiliated. No, but it's just so funny when someone oh, yeah, that's that's that what a great use of AI.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Well, there was that those those guys in McDonald's as well. Did you hear about that? No. Where they got a picture of themselves and blew it up to like A2 size and put it on the wall in McDonald's, and it was up there for it was up there for a couple of weeks before anyone noticed.

SPEAKER_01:

What is this?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh in July, the Kensington, yeah, in July, my birthday, the Kensington Treaty strengthens UK-Germany relations. So again, there's a bit of a theme here, isn't there?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, there's a lot of let's make some allies. There's a bit of a big goes kaput.

SPEAKER_00:

There's a bit of a theme here. Everybody's scrambling to be friends and yet everyone on each side before the bombs start flying. Yeah. But in Bristol, an ice cream van apparently accidentally blasted heavy metal music instead of the jingle for an entire afternoon as it's driving around. Can you imagine Iron Maidens bring your daughter to the slaughter as you know I was thinking like killing in the name of Fuck, I won't do what they tell me.

SPEAKER_01:

Fuck you, I won't do what they tell me.

SPEAKER_00:

Do you know what I realized the other day? What? And it to it's taken probably 30 years for me to realise this. What? You know the Matrix? You know the film, The Matrix. Yeah, okay. What is the mate? Is he is literally fighting the machines, isn't he? Yeah. Yeah. So who do they get to do the soundtrack for it? Rage Against the Machine.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It was like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I know it's it makes sense. Yeah, it just, you know what it was one of those things about, yeah, anyway.

SPEAKER_01:

Full meta moment now.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, of course. Yeah, August. Remember this? The operation raise the colours. You know, putting starting to put the UK flag up everywhere. Yeah, let's move on. Funny, a Scottish man, uh Scottish man's attempt to break the world record for most iron brew cans stacked vertically outdoors ended when a gull came down and ploughed into them.

SPEAKER_01:

Why are there so many seagull-related ones here today? Yeah, yeah. Seagulls are taking over the world.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Um in September there's again the the anti-immigration rally and canter protests, dominate headlines.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um but but on the funny side.

SPEAKER_00:

But in September, a squirrel stole and hid 200 garden gnomes from a village over the summer. They're found in one giant stash behind a shed. And the squirrel promptly becomes a folk hero. Is it from one house? No, just around the whole village.

SPEAKER_01:

It's just funny, it's funny to me that he would have if he had targeted one house, they kept replacing the gnome and being like, What the hell are these gnomes going? Hilarious. Or do you think someone stole the gnomes and then blamed it on the squirrel?

SPEAKER_00:

Possibly. Yeah, possibly. Um, in October, it was there was a whole controversy about facial recognition tech.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Deep fake AI.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Yeah. But in Essex, a pumpkin at an Essex farm went viral for being shaped exactly like King Charles' profile. The farmer names it his gorgeous. Yeah, Gord as an yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Cool. Isn't there a name for something when you see humanoid uh things in everyday nature? Yeah, you do, you mind ghost stories. Not personification, but something like that when you yeah, when you see stuff. And that's why they think that's where a lot of ghost stories and stuff come from. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01:

Anyway, yeah. Cool though.

SPEAKER_00:

November, so you eat the pumpkin?

SPEAKER_01:

Who knows?

SPEAKER_00:

No, they probably they probably froze it, framed it. Well, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01:

Put it in a bin.

SPEAKER_00:

Put it in a bin. Um in November, the it was reported that where there were weekly large-scale cyber attacks worldwide.

SPEAKER_01:

Damn.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, lots of people doing cyber attacks. Exactly. There was.

SPEAKER_01:

I remember actually uh going into uh the the local Marks and Sparks. Very rarely do I go to Marks and Spencer, but I was I just happened to be in there and they were like, oh yeah, we're not we're not accepting card payment. We were like, oh like that's a big thing, not accepting card payment. Um so yeah, it's because all their systems got hacked.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I think it was like, I want to say like Marks and Sparks co-op and they're all like part of the same group. Yeah, um, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

That's how Flight Club ends, you know, destroying all the credit card companies and hacking them all and setting everybody's debt to zero.

SPEAKER_01:

I thought you weren't supposed to talk about Flight Club.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh yeah, sorry. But uh but funnily, a cat funnily, a cat repeatedly disrupted a local council live stream by walking repeatedly across the camera and became known as the parliamentary cat. There is a lot of animal related like well I put animal, I did say funny animal once because I thought for of you. So you like animals.

SPEAKER_01:

I do like animals. I do like animals, these are cute.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

What happened in December this month? I was still in.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, then we're still in December at the moment, but there's still going on about the controversy with the with asylum seekers and immigration and duh into the UK. Cool. But did you know that a Christmas light switch on went viral when the mayor's microphone failed, so a random kid from the crowd did the countdown in the style of WWE.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, that kid has had good upbringing.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly. Nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Very, very John Cena.

SPEAKER_00:

So there you go. That was that was yeah, just uh as I say, I didn't write that, I didn't get time, I just literally popped that into chat GPT and I yeah. But I did do a little quiz for you. Have we got time? We've got time. This this literally uh just a couple of quick questions. Is this quick fire quick fire questions?

SPEAKER_01:

Let's rock.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay, so just just just a few.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. So do you know anything about uh musicals and theatre, Hannah?

SPEAKER_01:

No.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Hamilton.

SPEAKER_00:

So let's just ask a couple of questions here because some of these won't get because these are quite hard. So which iconic British music group performed at the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards? Was it Coldplay? Was it Take That? Was it Depeche Mode, or was it the 1975?

SPEAKER_01:

Depeche Mode.

SPEAKER_00:

No. If it was Coldplay, it was Take That.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, it was Take That. I they were my second guess.

SPEAKER_00:

Mm-hmm. Uh next question. I say we'll only do four or five. Uh which 1990s British band hit number one on the UK albums chart in 2025 with their comeback record. Was it blur? Was it Suede? Was it pulp? Or was it Oasis?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, it must be Oasis because of No. Oh. Well it's not blur. I haven't heard a blur song.

SPEAKER_00:

No, it wasn't blur.

SPEAKER_01:

I can't remember the other two. Pulp pulp.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Let's all meet up in the year 5000. Is that pulp?

SPEAKER_00:

Pulp, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Is that what I sang was pulp? Yes. I always get those confused with. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh not white era. So which British crime drama series became one of Netflix's most watched shows in the UK after its March 2025 release? And pretty much everybody in the country watched this because it was so good. I don't think I watched this. I watched this, yeah. It was it was amazing. Was it called Missing You? Was it called Adolescence? Uh huh. Was it called Unforgotten? Or was it called Trigger Point?

SPEAKER_01:

Adolescence.

SPEAKER_00:

Adolescence. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

My first question, right?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I still haven't seen it.

SPEAKER_00:

You still haven't seen it?

SPEAKER_01:

No. Been a bit behind. Been a bit behind.

SPEAKER_00:

Okay. So the next, the last two questions.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. Is I I put these in on purpose, very music related.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

In 2025, what was the biggest trend in song uploads worldwide? Okay. Was it AI generated music surged dramatically? Was it vinyl record vinyl recordings being uploaded was doubled? Classical music started to dominate the charts.

SPEAKER_01:

It did for me.

SPEAKER_00:

Or was it that live recordings started to replace studio tracks?

SPEAKER_01:

I am more inclined to say the vinyl record one because that that industry has boomed recently. I'm gonna go vinyl records.

SPEAKER_00:

Nope.

SPEAKER_01:

It's not the last two. It's gotta be A then.

SPEAKER_00:

It's AI.

SPEAKER_01:

It's AI.

SPEAKER_00:

AI.

SPEAKER_01:

I didn't want it to be.

SPEAKER_00:

Did you know I read the other day 50,000 tracks a day AI generated get uploaded to Spotify.

SPEAKER_01:

Really?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

unknown:

Damn.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm so I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01:

I I have to say I'm really against this, but there is one I do enjoy, which is the lady that explains how things work, but in song. Have you heard that? No. So it's like, say for example, like how uh something as stupid as how a boiler works, she'll explain it through song. And do you know what? That really sticks in my brain. Weirdly enough though, I can't actually remember now what what song that was what but say it was like fixing a car or something and it was all in AI. That's pretty I I think I can turn a blind eye to her. Well, fake her, not AI her.

SPEAKER_00:

But so much so they're actually putting through some kind of legislation so that people have got to label the fact that it is AI generated content.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, no, no, no, they have to. Like again, with like Instagram uploading videos and stuff, there needs to be some sort of this is AI.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Because it's so hard to know.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Because I think a lot of the footage I see that's now AI is even looks like it's been poorly recorded, like from a ring camera or something. Like it's really but it'll be something funny like a cat coming through a cat flap or something, or a hedgehog going through a cat flap. Yeah. It's really cute. And I'm like, oh, this is so cute. And then someone's like, oh, it's AI, and I'm like, oh. I'm annoyed that it's AI when someone says it is. Um we ending it there.

SPEAKER_00:

So there you go, yeah. But that's it, but yeah, 50,000 songs per day get uploaded to Spotify that have just been generated through our and I'm sorry, but as you know, someone who writes music and writes songs, that is just lazy.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and Spotify is barely pays you anything anyway for the real artists that put in all the work.

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_01:

So, yeah, that is annoying. But they very, very annoying.

SPEAKER_00:

But who knows? You know, the robots may take over the world in 2026.

SPEAKER_01:

Let's hope so.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, three eye Atlas, that went, came and went, by the way. That wasn't an alien spaceship in the end. That's I think that's gone past, got nearly gone out of the solar system.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, cool.

SPEAKER_00:

You know, the big old asteroid that everyone thought was going to be a uh the saviour of the broken. Either that or it genuinely was an alien. It genuinely was an alien craft, and they kind of flew past and was like, nah, keep going.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, keep going. Keep going. They're destroying themselves, don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_00:

Just leave them to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, if you enjoyed this very cheery end to this episode, um Happy New Year! Happy New Year. Um, no, uh a massive thanks to all of our listeners over over the years, um, but particularly this year, we've hit quite a few big milestones with 100 episodes out um and uh 2,500 downloads as well. So thank you so much for listening or watching us on YouTube. And um we hope you have a pleasant year ahead. Um, and I hope that in my future there's more fun and music coming my way. I hope there's more fun and music coming for you as well.

SPEAKER_00:

I sincerely hope there's more fun and music.

SPEAKER_01:

Here, here, goodbye, good riddance actually to 2025. Um, and let's hope 2026 has much more in store for us. Cue the outro. Thanks for joining us on bonus dad, bonus daughter. Don't forget to follow us on all our socials and share the podcast with someone who'd love it. We are available on all streaming platforms. See you next time. Bye-bye.