160: Did Sam and Pete Hit Their 2025 Goals?!

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1:51out just then. We're both wearing glasses now. No, but I'm wearing a tinted glass because it takes the kind of lights off my eyes. You've gone full sunglasses. No, we're both wearing shades. These aren't shades. We need the shade. No, no, no, no. I medically need them. Alright? And also because of the angles that Josh gets me on, every time I look round, it takes one eye goes first and the other one follows up. I can't wait to start drinking with you over the Christmas period. Well, actually, sorry, this is coming out. This is actually coming out in between Christmas and New Year so we will have been out a few times by now I can't wait to see the wandering eye as the booze goes down well let me tell you when you say we'll have been out a few times by now I can almost guarantee the only time that we will have been out will be the Christmas because uh up until that point Sam will be otherwise engaged I won't actually be engaged well you never know we'll have a go we'll have a go um anyway where are we what are we doing Well, we are in a very special place.

2:51I haven't done an intro. Oh, yeah, shit. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Welcome to Staying Relevant, the podcast hosted. But I feel like we've got to the real end of this year and we're the minders mush. Hosted by two best friends, me, Sam Thompson and Pete Wicks, having a wonderful time and hoping you've had a wonderful Christmas. This is a main episode. So that means that it will be out on Monday, which is now because you're listening to it. But you'll be able to watch this on Wednesday on Josh and Kira's YouTube channel from 5pm. And then there'll be a bonus episode which comes out on Thursday audibly, which you'll be able to watch visually on Sunday on Josh and Kira's YouTube channel from 5pm.

3:26Which means that you can catch us on a... Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday. And that is the last time you're going to hear that in 2025. You lucky, lucky little sods. Oh, no way. Very special episode though today. Because this is a lovely time. Yeah, our candy glasses are off. This is the time that Pete Wicks loves so much. The time between Christmas and New Year. If there is anything that I hate more than Christmas, it's New Year. What about that time frame in between as well where no one goes out or does anything? Well, the problem with the time frame in between, my biggest problem with Christmas is that everyone decides they want to have time off.

4:09And, you know, oh, I shouldn't have to work. It's Christmas. Why? I would work all the way through if I could. I don't see it as being any different. So what happens is it's basically, it's a great time for bone idle. Bone idle. God, I haven't heard that since. My granddad said it. But it's true though. And then if I don't really know what to do, go back to work then. No, I love it. No, things are closed. Everything's got different opening times and closing times and you've got to fucking check when this is opening. Oh no, we're actually closing at 6pm today. It was Christmas, isn't it? Oh, I love it.

4:40No, it's not Christmas. It's Tuesday. Yeah, but no one, the beauty I love the time in between Christmas and New Year where you don't know what day it is and everything just merges into one and you can wake up at any time go to bed at any time and just really really relax I'll be up at 5am every morning but that just have a day off I get up at 5am on my days off

5:08I just I just I just really feel like you'd benefit from a little bit of Christmas and New Year To do what? All that means, all that means is I've got to wait. I have nothing to fill my day. So what am I going to do? What is there to do? Come and hang out with me. Come on. No. Do you know what I've just bought? Oh, I don't know. New kitchen. Two lightsabers. Two lightsabers? Two lightsabers. Is that for your next date night? It's for me and a lucky friend. Oh, shit. Fuck me. We'll get on to that in the other one. Did you do Mario and Luigi? No, not yet. Not yet. It still hasn't happened. Still hasn't happened.

5:47We'll get on to that in another bit. But I do have two lightsabers. Yeah? Yeah. And you were gifted them. No, no. I bought them from Amazon. You bought them from Amazon? Yeah, I bought them from Amazon. I did you do that. So we could maybe, if you fancied it. I don't. If you fancied it. So we could maybe, if you fancied it. I don't. I don't fancy it. Are you sure? Yeah. Quite fun? No. Go to the park? No. what you've planned for the whole Christmas period, because for you, it's a very exciting time, mainly because you know I physically am not working, which means that when Sam goes, oh, I feel a bit down, can you come do a video?

6:22Which is why he's prepared props. Well, we are coming up to the one year. Well, I have got down there. So what that means is that it will be, invite me around three, four o 'clock, just it gets dark, curtains will be drawn, the lights will switched off, and then there will be a lightsaber video of Sam and I. That's exactly what's going to happen Right What we've worked out And based on yesterday as well Is that Despite the fact that everyone thinks Sam stalks me I know Sam inside out I know his next move everything Yesterday we were at a job And he tried to play charades with people And I literally looked up And within five seconds Of each thing I knew exactly what it was So film one word Matilda Mate, it was mental.

7:11How'd you know? It was mental. I literally... Film. Two. Yeah. Every time. It was crazy. He'd literally just sit there on his phone. I wasn't even doing... I wasn't even playing the game with Pete. I was playing with another guy. I was literally... They were over there playing and I was sat in the kitchen just on my phone. I'd look up and go... You're mad. So let's get back to it. So this is the last episode of 2025. So what we thought we'd do for this episode, because I feel like everyone is in that period. You don't know what to do between Christmas and New Year. the reflection period everyone's being reflective aren't they because they're all thinking about the year they've just had they're all thinking about next year you know what's it going to hold for me am i going to be a better person all the things that i wanted to do for the year you know i'm going to make resolutions i'm going to stop this i'm going to do this well let me just tell you now all right and let me just be real about it you're going to be the same you was in 2025 by january the 3rd of 2026 there is no point doing the resolutions you ain't going to stick to i'm going to go to the gym i'm going to change you'll all be at the fucking gym for fucking two weeks of January because you've got fuck all else to do and then you'll fucking mug it off so it's not going to happen you're bone idle piece of shit it might happen make the make the change you can we can all change we can but you can change any time of year you don't have to wait till the last week of fucking December to make all the changes because you don't know what else to do with your life because when life starts hitting again in January you're going to forget all the things you want to do it's all well and good trying to be the best person in the world when you've got fuck all to do but actually when life starts life in you're going to go back to what you were well so positive at the end of 2025 i do um i do i'm i'm really looking forward to the uh the new year's uh the the new year instagram videos that are coming out yeah they are my favorite and for that the 2025 season has come to an end well let me tell you something you can all let me tell you something you can all look forward to because i know full well it's probably why ted's been late in a couple of videos he's making sam's annual fucking roundup of the year video which you can all expect and let me tell you how it's going to start to you my community um my family my family you know what i'm meaning and then it'll be all sorts of different beautiful clips sam on his run and we're all looking forward to it i can't wait i'm excited for it so am i and let me tell you there'll be three or four different edits of it just to make sure we can get the right algorithm so that as many of you can see it as possible it will be sent to pippa it will be sent to pippa who will get the pre-orth on it.

9:31But judging by the way her head has swollen, if you can believe it, over the year, she'll probably be quite pissed off she's not in more of it. So, you know, that's how it's going to be. We're all excited for that. And let me tell you what you can expect from me. Fuck all. Well, you never know. It could be New Year, New Peter. But I'm very excited for a little reflection, mate. I think we should all start reflecting. Well, let's do it then. Let's start with our, the staying relevant, Sam and Pete reflection for 2025. how are you feeling about the past year do you know what i feel how do i feel i feel fucking great actually i don't want it to end it's been it's been one it's been probably the wildest year of of personally in my life so and and i i feel like it's going to be a bit sad when it comes to an end which is wigs at the start of the year i was pretty excited for it to finish i mean that that in terms of a storyline and a journey that's been a journey has been something in the uh this period last year we were in the depths of hell and uh he has risen like a phoenix from the flames soaring into heaven where he is now um just riding that wave you have been through uh i mean it's been up and down like a fucking yo-yo for you in it this year this time last year when you're listening to this i was on the phone to the christmas decoration girl please come and take the fucking decorations down i don't want them anymore this time last year recording the pod we I mean, oh, dear me.

10:56Talk about carrying him through winter. We all had to really just group together to get him through every ep in between the tears. This year, have you ever seen a... He's smiling like a Cheshire cat, hey? It's been a great year, man. It's been a really fucking good year. A lot of that's down to the pod. You know, we obviously did the O2. We obviously went... I mean, we did the run, and that was kind of like a wee thing, I feel like, because we all went on that journey together. Fuck me. We went on the book tour, went to Vegas. Like, we've done a lot this year, man. I mean, pretty tired, but it's been fucking great.

11:31And I can't even remember what resolutions we, I mean, I'm sure people... Well, don't you worry, because we're going to get onto this. And I'll tell you what we are going to do in our first step back for 2026. We're going to hit the resolutions for next year. So it's going to give you a bit of time, all right, between now and then to think about what you want to achieve. And our first step back is going to be our resolutions and goals for 2026. I've got a goal for both of us. Well, it's going to hit on that first of Jan. Well, let's just a little tease now. All right, give us a tease. Tease me, tease me.

12:01Come on and tease me now. We're going to do a half marathon. Well, that wasn't a tease. That was a stage. So we might do some running. Yeah, right. We're doing a half marathon. Is it a marathon? We're doing a half marathon. Well, it's in discussion. No, it's happening. As a team half marathon. And a run club. We're going to put a run club on as well for everyone. Okay, so we're now just doing the resolutions, are we? That's it. That's all I'm giving away. All right. We'll stop there. Well, let's look back. If you've had a tough year, come and join us in a run club. Let's look back at last year.

12:33Not just a tough year. You can have had a good year as well.

12:39Want both. Any more? That's it. Okay. Let's look back at last year then, what we said we were going to do. Let's start with mine because I didn't really have many. Well, you know, you did. You wanted a hair change. You considered a buzz cut. So I feel like I've half done the hair change. You have. You've progressively got shorter and shorter and shorter. The only thing I've got to ask now is, if you go any shorter than that, it's no longer long. I don't know how much shorter you can go. I think it's perfect as is. I think I'm on mid-length now. Mid-length. I don't think I have long hair. I can't tie this up anymore.

13:16Would you go one shorter? I don't think so. I'd like to see a little short of the back size, but keep the long like that. I think the next step for this will be buzz cut. So this is half the length of what it was in January last year. Cut the other half off. I think I half did the hair change. Are we working towards the buzz cut? Is that what we're saying here? We're working, well, not nature is working towards the buzz cut, if anything, mate. I don't think it's, you know, there's not much choice in it for me. Nature is working towards it. I feel like now that I've shortened it, the hairline is less apparent because I've kind of gone boy band curtains again.

13:56You know what I mean? It's just sort of just flopping about a little bit. It's a little bit sort of Hugh Grant. Hello. And that's where we're going. But nature is slowly leading me towards the buzz cut. At some point that is going to happen. And to be honest with you, I'm in a position now where a year on, what we have worked out is I'm no longer the one in need of the hair transplant as much. I feel like you've really caught up over the last couple of years. I don't think it was ever a competition. Well, no, I think it was because, do you not remember, it used to be your one thing was the hairline for me.

14:28Every edited picture was the hairline. Oh, yeah. And now what's happened is we've caught up and we're on a level playing field. We're losing it in different places. Yeah. But we are on a level playing field. So when I do it, you will also be doing it. We should go together. Well, listen, maybe that is something that we'll talk about at January. Maybe that is a thing. Oh, my God, me and Pete should both go for hair transplants. Well, again, not a tease there. Just said it. Listen, it could be something we'd do. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? You never know. You never know. We'll have a go. Mate, you wanted to bring out Staying Relevant merch.

15:03That was on your goals. And I can only speak for one of us here, but one of us has absolutely smashed it apart. No, Staying Relevant has smashed it. I think I've sold about five, what are they called, dishy cloths? No. Worryingly, actually, on these dishy cloths is I've actually got my rig out in this one. And actually, I was in the best shape of my life at that point. You look incredible, don't you? Yeah, I think it's the face cards just not serving. What we saw from your last dishy cloth, which people will remember, you know, when we had the tour, I mean, it didn't. It was a bit boy-like, a bit boyish.

15:41Well, it was a headshot. It was a headshot. It was a headshot. So we thought, listen, it's a dishy cloth. You know. My man has been in the gym. He looks great. He's been working out. Let's get rig out. You know what I mean? Oil him up. He looks fucking great. Oil him up. And it did sell more. By five. You know? And all I can go to on that note is it's got to be the face card. It's got to be what people call it the bullpen. If they just fold it over. Maybe they will. But I just, you know, if they can get a more well-rounded dishy cloth, which is a Pete Wicks, you know, they're going to go that way.

16:16I don't think it's well-rounded. I just think it's... I'm going to have to get some more work done, I think. No, I don't think it's that. No, I think I'm going to have to go and get more work done. Do you know what it is? I think it's... I mean, let's be honest. You're the fucking fan favourite here. I think it's just different appeals. I think people would... They want you. They want to be around you. They don't want me to speak. They just want me to stand. and squat. Squat? No, I don't think you'd be squatting. Anyway, so we did the merch. Wanted to release an SR book. We absolutely did that.

16:51That was massive. Sunday Times bestseller, we did that. I wanted to see you reach seven world records. We did that. O2 Arena, we did that. The CBB's bedtime story, I didn't do that. Yeah, I thought you were going to do that. You were Tom Hardy, wasn't it? It fell apart. It fell apart at the last... It fell apart. And that is still... It kind of disappoints me because I feel like that's the one thing I haven't hit. Mate, out of all of them... So if anything, I've failed this year. No, I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that. I think you got most of them right. But I didn't complete it. I failed.

17:24That's a metaphor for Pete's life. So that is another year... Five out of six completed, put one wrong, failed. That is another year being unsuccessful. Another year wasted. Well, you know, unfortunately for you, I can't say the same thing. No, because now let's because as we know, I'm not big on the resolutions thing. So we've skipped through mine because they're all quite fucking boring. Let's get on to the big one. All right. Now, this one I actually forgot about, but I'm hoping just in the background, you've been doing some some private work on yourself and in the background, because I know it's something that meant a lot to you.

18:01your main resolution for 2025 and as we head into 2026 and we, you know, 2025 draws the curtain you wanted to become a man of the church I wanted to become a man of the cloth you wanted to do a little bit do a little bit more church and preach, you wanted to preach to your flock. Yeah, I wanted to be a man of the faith Now I presume this is where you surprise us all and tell us that you have been ordained No, I haven't had the time to, in fact, haven't been to church once, which is quite bad. But it is still on the agenda and something I would like to do. Bought a Bible. Okay, so you did buy a Bible.

18:42And where does the Bible sit? In the bedside drawer. It hasn't been read. Reason being is because it's really hard to concentrate. But it is there. Well, especially these days. And I just, mate, I still would like to go to church a little bit more often. So, yeah, I would like to, I would like to Sonomani Partry and all that stuff a little bit more. Another one that I had, though, another little resolution I wanted to do was was to see how far Pete's Strictly success could take us as a duo. And that was that was that was a nice one because I didn't have to do much. Yet again, failed at last hurdle.

19:20So that's another unsuccessful fucking thing. I don't know. We went to the O2. I think Strictly had a nice little sort of a reason for being in that one. I mean, yeah, I mean, I kind of, at that point, yes, it was how far it would take us. Do you think it took us further? I do, actually. I really, really do. I think we gained a whole new listener base. Hello, by the way, Strictly fans. I have to say what's worrying for us both is the year before we had the success of You in the Jungle. Now we had, yeah. This year we had the success of Strictly. What the fuck? Next year we have nothing. Just age.

19:53Next year we have nothing, Sam. I know. The mate worries me too. We've rode the wave for two years. based on two individual kind of attempts to keep us going. And then what we've both done is nothing. Not capitalised. Yeah. We are both still just here watching the world spin by. Let's get on to some things that you have done. Well. You wanted SR to get to 100 subs and to get the plaque. Now. We have done that. We've made it to 100 ,000 subscribers, baby. Well. we're actually you wanted to get to 100 ,000 by the end of this year and Josh we are on 115 ,000 slowly creeping up ever so slowly but it is going in the right direction now this one I forget but another one of your incredible ones which we all enjoyed Become Better at Swimming I think we can tick this one off for you as well I think we can because me and Pete did an aquaerobic session with some Olympians I think it's called Synchronised Swimming Synchronised Swimming with some Olympians That was a really big moment, actually, for both of us.

20:58We learnt some new tricks, and that was near the start of the year, actually. God, we've done a lot. Yeah, I mean, you wanted SR at the O2. It was a joint one, so we've ticked that one off beautifully. We have indeed. Travel across the pond, we went to Vegas, so that's a massive achievement for all of us involved, apart from the team who didn't come, but the ones who did. And if we just add on to that, it wasn't just travel across the pond. You wanted to become superstars in the US. Now, talk us through whether or not you think you've achieved that. Hasn't quite happened, that one. I feel like we still have next year for that.

21:28Something I've been talking to people about. We're going to have another bite of the cherry on that one. I would like to go to the States and do a couple of pods, actually. Please, listeners, do let us know. Would you like to see us on Joe Rogan? Would you like to see us on Theo Vaughan? Yeah, because he's been in touch. Well, we've got Tom Hiddleston in touch, so you never know. Maybe we should take Tom Hiddleston with us and see if he can open some doors. Maybe he can. Theo Vaughan's podcast. Andrew Schultz, another one that I'd quite like to do. So there's a few that I'd like to go over the pond and do with you if you fancy it.

21:55Well, listen, you know, we can add that on to next year. Another thing, just going on the O2, and I don't want to put down on the O2, but you wanted to bring out Stormzy and we brought out Peter Andre. Yeah, I'm actually not unhappy with that. In fact, quite happy with that. Peter Andre was a hit. We still keep in touch. Good. Actually, Peter and myself, the other Peter. Yeah, I guess I know I'm in touch with you. Yeah, still keep in touch, me and Peter Andre. but I do love a bit of Storms Fire in the Booth Fire in the Park yep yep Fire in the Disco yeah and he's a really nice man very tall and still plays paddle where I go to the gym but I haven't said hello yet but not played paddle with him yet no still haven't done it so want to the last two which I think this one's big well the bungee jump oh no that never happened no that never happened well the last one I feel like we've kind of touched on it because you ventured into that world with your TikTok lives yeah but you wanted to become a

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24:39twitcher i did i wanted to become a twitch streamer and uh and it's something that i promise you i promise you going into next year i'm going to start a twitch streaming channel that's going to be my big new year's resolution for next year so this is the point where i think we can park the ipads because this is the point where you explain to me and all the divorcees listen what's in the fuck a twitch stream so a twitch stream is what all the kids are doing not all just kids actually some slightly older people as well uh it's basically that's good because you'd be quite awkward if it was just mid mid early to mid 30s is what i'm at and and it's basically where you sit in front of your computer and you have a camera and you stream live to whoever's watching on their phones but what are you doing what are they watching just discussion so you're just talking about things so you're bringing up clips you're talking about clips you You can talk, for example, about the jungle, like any TV that's going on, or if you support a football team, support about, like, talk about football.

25:36So it's like your life, all put in to one stream every day. It has to be every day. So it's self-indulgent chatting about shit. It's talking to your community. No, I can't. It is. It's talking to your community. Do you think we're going to take community into next year? 100%. We'll have a new... I would like to build the community even more. I would. And actually, you can gain... So you're building your own community now? My gaming community. The gaming community. Yeah. And Bodger and Badger are going to help you with that? They actually, I haven't played with them for a while, actually. DJ Frosty?

26:10No, there's no one called DJ Frosty. Reverend Randy? Reverend Boosty is the guy. David Badger. So you're going to become like the new Sidemen? No, no, no, no. So Bodger, Badger, Reverend Randy? No, it's just, I just want to. What's your name? Winkle Tinkle? No, I'm Jokesy Nooksy. Jokesy Nooksy, that's the one. Jokesy Nooksy. but I do I want to start Twitch streaming in the new year I think it'll be really really fun I want to connect with people more next year yeah so that's what I'm going to do and I'm going to game a little bit do you not feel like you've connected enough with people this year I just want to always connect so how do we think what you could do like I feel like you ever seen I Am Legend yeah you know like where he sits at the end of the pier every day at the same time maybe you could do that once a week and then whoever wants to connect can just come and chill with you well that's what we're going to do with our potential run clubs oh so that's more connection so really what you're looking for this year has been great for achievements yeah but what you've you feel like you have lacked this year is connection i genuinely do yeah human connection i want to connect with people on a twitch stream level so you've been so effectively this year you've become a human doing and you want to go back to being a human being yeah no i mean i love that but that's gonna that's a big goal that i have for next year.

27:22So keep your eyes peeled for Sam Thompson's Twitch stream. I may be the oldest one on there, but it doesn't matter. I mean, I absolutely love it. I mean, as a whole, as reflections go, I think it's been a good year. I think it's been a good year. I think we've done a lot. I think we've achieved out of all of them, as mad as they sounded in January of 2025, by December 2025, we've fucking ticked some boxes. I mean, we've achieved everything, I think, and more than we expected. The O2 being a huge one, the book being a massive one. You know, the travel with the podcast. Travel with the podcast. We've also hit milestones that we never thought we'd hit in terms of listening figures for this, for this pod, and in terms of the YouTube as well.

28:10Everything's been green. Well, before we do the full roundup, I'm just going to go through some of the team's ones. Pippa, 100k YouTube subs for staying relevant. Tick. Josh. Ted wanted to have a big Christmas party. It's happening. Josh wanted world domination. Sam, could you just discuss what you think? Whether or not he's achieved that. Josh, I think, I don't quite know what you mean by that. It was actually more for us in general. I didn't really like... Oh, sorry. It confused me because it just says Josh world domination. And I was going to say... I'm a team player, right? So I'm thinking everybody.

28:48Okay. So how far off world domination do you think you are? Or we are, sorry, because I forget you're taking us with us. You're pretty known here. We did Vegas, so it's not too bad. You want to go to Japan? Maybe we'll go there next. You're just, but I'd like to go on holiday. That's just travelling, Josh. That's what that is. Well, listen, but we are starting on the right foot because we are going Sheffield next year. Hooray! And maybe that ties into the next one. Annalise, find a new boyfriend. Maybe in Sheffield. Okay, I think we should move on because thumbs down, shaking heads as a whole.

29:22If you were going to sum up this year, Sam, because I feel like you're the wordsmith of the group. If you were going to sum up this year in a sentence for staying relevant, what would it be? I would say it has been a phenomenal year of a few lows but many more highs that we can take on in 2026 with real happiness. What do I say? I think it's been a fucking good year. I don't know if that's a good one, but that's... I don't know if I did justice there, but I think that's how we're looking into the new year. And we've got so much more stuff planned. The podcast is only going to be growing and growing and growing, and you can't go anywhere, listeners.

30:11You better fucking stay, because we've got plans. big plans Sam has built this community we've got a family to maintain oh dear just the thought of us as heads of a family listen it has been a great year it genuinely has for all of us that's the kind of personal thing big thank you to the team big thank you to you everyone happy days you'll like this Pete I think you'll agree with this sometimes I think we have quite a few listeners who agree with quite a lot of Pete's outlook on life. And a lot of people agree that Christmas might not be for them. I don't know if they do agree. I think they potentially just like to see me.

30:54No, no, there's loads of people who say they don't like Christmas or they feel alone at Christmas and stuff like that. We hope this podcast is for you. And we hope that, you know, we can be there for you throughout New Year and Christmas if you've got no one to spend it with. Don't mind, Pete is the same. and so you know we like to hope that this will sort of like we'll be your companions through these next couple of weeks yeah and if you, sorry I thought you were moving on to the next bit about rage baiting which is why I jumped in there I didn't know you were doing a nice thing, sorry that's why I was like I don't think they agree well we like to do with a rage bait but you were doing a nice bit yes yes and yeah I'm just going to leave that there yeah I think it's you know we have built a community and we're always there for you whenever you need it.

31:39A little bit of rage-baiting, though, just before we leave. Pete, brat was the word of the year last year. We're going to have a brat summer, I believe was the saying. A year on, can you please still try and define the word brat for us in this here studio in front of these here people?

32:00Totally brat, dude.

32:04Brat is...

32:09not giving a fuck what people think. Yeah, it is. Fucking yes, Peter. Being you, slay queen, fucking... Illy. I do what I want when I want because I can. Yeah. Because I'm a brat, babe. Because I'm a brat. You're going to have a brat year, Pete. It's been a mighty fine brat year. It has been a fucking good brat year. It's actually... Is that right? Yeah. It's actually... Yeah. Don't care. Not caring what other people think. just you doing you. Slaying with sass. You did just mention Rage Bait and that is because it was written in here by Pippa. Yeah, I've never used that word in my life. The Oxford Dictionary word of the year is actually Rage Bait and I thought it was quite a nice little sort of metaphor for this here podcast.

32:54The description, Peter, the manipulative tactic of eliciting outrage with the goal of increasing internet traffic and online engagement. if one word could describe this podcast, that is it. If they put a picture next to Rage, it'd just be my face, wouldn't it, during any record of this? It'd be your face with my face behind it going... So effectively, so what this podcast has just turned into is just pissing me off. That's kind of the... But really, your excuse for that is we were just doing it as a trend. Yeah, well, we're actually staying on trend this year, which is... I think we almost made the fucking trend.

33:33I was doing Rage Baiting before anyone else was fucking doing it. So what if next year's is being kind to co-hosts? Well, I think we both got work to do on that front. Both got reflections to make. I think I'm incredibly... I don't go out of my way to annoy you. It just happens. The only time I've gone out of my way to annoy you is when I've brought in my dog to shit in your face. another big trend this year has been girl dinner this one is so don't look at the iPad so girl dinner are we familiar what this is Peter you're saying this is a trend we've not even spoken about this once have we I have not a fucking clue what that means you literally live off girl dinner you just munch off girl dinner you are girl dinner again like Rage Bait if there was a girl dinner picture it'd be you I literally have not a fucking clue what you're on about.

34:39A viral social media trend describing a low effort, no cook meal or snacks or random items from the fridge, eaten alone when too tired to cook a proper meal. You, sir, a girl dinner. I'd call that feast. Is that what all that means? See, this is what I have an issue with. That is just a make-do meal. A make-do meal. An MDM. So why have we got to call it something else? It goes back to that fucking infuriating group fucking 19, 7, fucking whatever it is. Why have you just got to call... Group 7? Well, all of that, Shire. 19. Why have you got to make a little word for something that just doesn't...

35:18Because it makes you fucking... No, I'll tell you what that is. That's lazy fuckers who've just eaten whatever's in the fridge because they can't be asked to cook saying... That's fairly normal and that's been around for fucking years. This is not a new thing that all the little fucking trendies think they've come up with. I'll tell you what we call this girl dinner because no one's ever done this before. People have been doing it for fucking years. So why have we suddenly... People in the 80s didn't go... Do you know what I mean? Like, if my mum had a fucking tough day, all right, and come home and went, I can't be asked to do a full meal, I'm just going to have a sandwich, she wouldn't go, this is girl dinner.

35:46She'd just go, I couldn't be asked to cook, I had a sandwich. Would she have an everything shower afterwards? Eh? An everything shower? What the fuck's that? An everything shower? You must know. Even I know what an everything shower is. if this is going to infuriate me already I can feel it no it's not what's an everything shower an everything shower is just when you do everything shave the legs do the hair that's just having a shower you shave your legs in the shower well I don't no but in everything every time I get in the shower I don't go oh I'll tell you what I'm going to leave the right arm out no I've done everything but I haven't done everything it's the hair it's not my everything day it's the shaving of the moustache of the legs it's the hair mask in we're sure you do that every shower no you don't You don't wash your hair every shower.

36:30Are you joking? Eh? My God, Pete, what the hell? The admin that would take. Right. All right, I get for a girl. How many times do you shave? Well, listen, unless you're Chewbacca, I get you don't shave every day. But for a bloke, surely every shower is everything. Josh, do you go in and go, I'll tell you what I'm not going to do today, the bollocks. I don't wash my hair every time. Eh? I don't wash my hair in the shower every day. I just wet it sometimes. I wash it twice a week. as in with shampoo right so just it's a shower's a shower no it's not that's not an everything shower but why does it need a name why can't you just say listen I'll tell you what I'd do I wash my hair properly twice a week there's the sentence you don't need to go what kind of shower it wasn't an everything shower why have we got to rename it how many times do you shave no No, we did have this debate in the office the other day.

37:29See, there we go. But this is another thing that pisses me off. It's the shortening of things, right? It's like someone said to me the other day, oh, God, that's ridiculous. I say that. Just say ridiculous. Why have we got a shortening? Why have you got to rename something that already exists? I'll tell you what it is. You're sounding cray right now. There you go. Yeah, there you go. That's shite. Why? and I'll tell you what's annoying as well like look at this right fucking LOL right that started and I get it it's easier to type out laughing at lad right but stop saying don't look at me and go lol I do that as well you ain't fucking I actually I do that quite a bit lol but why lol but you're not because if you were you'd just be laughing you wouldn't be able to say lol because you'd be laughing yeah but mate that's like saying why would you not have emojis when I put a laughing crying face emoji on things it's not like i'm going crying it just it's just like it's just all right but don't have emojis then well no because i want to show that i am enjoying the the the thing that's just well i see what explains that better i enjoyed that that that's the most autistic thing i've ever heard in my life someone says a joke and you go enjoyed that one oh sorry i'll tell you what well next time you're fun lols yeah but all right so imagine a song goes okay pete i'm sure i've received from you a ha ha ha ha ha.

38:55Right? I know you're not going ha ha ha. No, no, no. But you can acknowledge something is funny with a ha or an emoji I get when you're texting or whatever else. Same as lol I get when you're texting or abbreviating things because it's quicker to type. In person. Oh, so I wouldn't say laughing, crying face in person. No, and you wouldn't go lol, but you do. I do say ruffle. Right, don't ruffle me. I don't need to be ruffled. Or LMAO. Laughing my ass off. No. LMAO's a great one. We just have to have a fucking name. That needs to stop, all right? If I could banish all of that bullshit. Do you know what I like?

39:33Is it started as well, in my opinion, IMO, right? And then it went in my honest opinion. Oh, yeah. There you go. IMO. And then it starts, like, in my fucking honest opinion. And now there's just like, you might as well just have the word. It's that long. What's the one that she does all the time? Illy? No. I like Illy. I like an Ili. Yeah, I love you. No, no, no. Because also, it actually, what it does, it takes away from I love you. Riz? Charisma? No, no. That's having a bit of chat. He got the Riz. He's got a good bit of chat. I don't need Rizly Skiddly Weed. The Bants? Whatever it is. The Bants?

40:10You got the Bants? He's funny. It's just your fun at parties. Pete, someone says something funny, and Pete goes, like that one. Like that. That was good. Good one, then. Oh, nice. No, listen, I get some of it. It's just gone a little bit fucking mad, hasn't it? It might have gone the other way a little bit. Like, I actually have been around someone who's gone at LMAO, and you're like, oh. Yeah, fuck off. It's just, it's too much for me. And it's the same as every week. We've spent 52 weeks of the year teaching me a new fucking word. All right? What was that? Well, there's been 52 different. Every week there's a new fucking thing and a new little trend.

40:53It's never ending. When's it going to stop? Never. That's the beauty of it. There'll be a new trend next year and we will be fucking first on it. There's a new trend every fucking week. Well, mate, people want to see how you suck up a fucking caramel. Creme caramel. Creme caramel. I wonder what was happening there. People want to see these things. But do we have to keep doing that next year? Yeah, mate, there's a bat trend that we need to do. You know? There's a bat trend. We've done it. We did it a month ago. There's more trends. And I'll tell you what, we didn't do it. I single-handedly did it whilst you just leaned in.

41:28There's more trends to do. Nearly broke me fucking back. I'll tell you what's coming back. Inflatable costumes. No, they're not. Yeah, they're coming back. They're not. They're in a big way in 2026. I literally looked up things coming up in 2026 and they went inflatable costumes. No, they're not saying. Yes, they did. No, they're coming back in your head because you feel like we haven't done it for a while. No. Listen, at some point we all evolve. I have evolved like a butterfly from a cocoon of inflatable pig. I will never forget you. It wasn't even the pig that really got me. It was when you were the gorilla and you couldn't even see your face.

42:04No, listen, let's just look back at things because in 2026, there's other things. Do you remember the time that you dressed me up as a bear in 35 degree heat and then walked me down, rode me, sorry, down fucking, down the fucking, down the road in the middle of the day? You know what I mean? these sort of things I'm nearly 40 mate my knees can't add it I'm having falls you know what I mean I'm having falls there's a point where grandad can't play anymore alright no we don't want to hit that stage yet though I'm at that stage oh you went a little bit I'm at that stage yeah but mate do you not remember when I put rollerblades on you yes imagine me I can't walk without the blade the fucking wheels now mate when I put strapped you onto a pair of rollerblades and we did a a synchronised dance routine.

42:50Oh my God, that was great banter. It is, oh God, lol. It has been some year. We are going to be back. We're still here. We're still doing it. But we're going to be back next year with our goals for 2026. What we do want from you is for you to tell us what you'd like from us for 2026. What do you want to see in 2026? So the first episode back, when we do that, We're going to go through, Sam and I are going to have a think about what we want from 2026. And we're also going to listen to what you want us to do from 2026. And we'll combine them and we're going to come up with a staying relevant goals for 2026.

43:29So that in December next year, if we've not been cancelled, we can reflect and see how many of them we achieved. Up until that point, Sam is now going to do a beautiful outro. Okay. Where he's going to, it's a little bit like the King's Speech. where he's going to give us his kind of Christmas and New Year's rundown. Oh, God. And a motivational, because we all know one of our favourite things from Sam is when the lion catches the new day. Oh, fuck, when the lion catches the dawn. Okay, I have just sprung this on him. Fuck. So you can just take a minute. Okay. To have a little think. But this is the last thing.

44:03All right, I'm going to say goodbye now. Thanks for listening. See you next year. This is the last thing that will be heard from staying relevant in 2020. The last voice you'll hear, the round, everything that has gone on in our community this year will be rounded up by our leader, confidant and inspiration, Samuel Robert de Corsi Thompson. Thank you and goodbye.

44:34Millipedes have legs that all need to travel in the same direction and if they didn't the millipede wouldn't move at all we should all endeavour to be that millipede with its legs moving in the same direction and I think if we all did do that life would be a better place the world would be a better sorry, be a better place thank you so much for listening to this podcast it means the world to myself from Peter James Wicks. We don't know where we'd be without you. We will see you next year for more rambunctious tomfoolery. We absolutely adore you. We love you so much. Have the most amazing New Year's Eve, whatever it is you're doing.

45:28And we will see you right ready and ready for the dawn like a lion springing to catch its prey. in 2026. Have at it, you ****.

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