161: The year Pete finds LOVE...

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1:05Now is the time to make a real change in your life, career, and community. At Walden University, we give you the support and flexibility to get the W. Walden's online programs are designed for working professionals like you. You'll gain hands-on skills to take on real-world challenges and succeed. Your future is waiting, and Walden is here to help you achieve it. Take the first step to make your impact. Visit waldenu.edu. Walden University. Set a course for change. Certified to operate by Shev. Welcome to Staying Relevant, the New Year episode. Hosted by two best friends, me, Sam Thompson and Peter Wex.

1:47We're back, baby. So this, you'll be listening to this in 2026. So happy fucking New Year. Happy New Year, everyone. We are recording this in 2025. We're still in this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. The team has still got the Christmas PJs on, but Sam and I have changed into our adult clothes. We'll be swearing in this, the same as in 2025. If you don't like it, then go f*** yourself. Also, make sure you rate, review, do all of that sort of crap. This is the first main episode of 2026, which means it's a Monday, so you'll be able to watch this on Josh and Kira's YouTube channel from 5pm on Wednesday, and then there'll be a bonus episode coming out on Thursday, which you'll be able to watch on a Sunday, which means that you can still catch us in 2026 on a...

2:32Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday. Lovely. Excellent. Wonderful news. How are you feeling? Mate, I feel fucking phenomenal. I feel great. Even though we're not in 2026, I feel like the energy is flowing. We're going to have a fucking good year. You're going to have a fucking good year, by the way. I'm talking to the people listening as well. I did look up then and then realised you weren't looking at me. And I thought, well, okay, I'll have a bad one then. But do you know what? We are also filming this because we don't ever want to leave you without an episode. So this is us giving what we can and doing what we must.

3:07Yeah, exactly. I am technically out of hibernation, although I wish I wasn't. When you're listening to this, hopefully you're over the Christmas hangover. Obviously, this is pre-2026. Thank you so much. I'm still just getting through on Redbourne Cigarettes. but the question is, did Pete go into hibernation abroad? Because you were talking about it. I did not. Did you not? Oh, no. I did not, no. And, you know, we are recording this. There's a reason why I did not. I'll give you the back story. I may be adding a new member to my family. Oh, yeah. Oh, God, that's going to be huge. So at this point, when you're listening to this, I may or may not have a new child.

3:48Oh, Olive's going to have a sister, brother. Or of the four-legged variety. Yeah. Eric will have a new. Yep, brother. An actual, yeah, yeah. Or sister, who knows? So, yeah. You know, in the next episode, they could be sat here. Oh, my God. Two doglets. Who knows? But, yeah, that's why I didn't go away because, yeah, that's basically it. Although, I imagine if we're pretending that this is 2026 for me, I wish I had. How was your Christmas? My Christmas was fucking brilliant. I hope. I really hope Christmas is amazing. Well, I'm sure it will be for you because it sounds like you've got loads of exciting things coming up.

4:24So, 2026, brand new year. What does everyone do? Brand new year, new year, new me. And we love it. Now, we on this podcast are all about new year, new me's. We really sort of condone it. In fact, we push it. So, we hope that you really, really enjoy sort of the New Year's resolutions that you set out. We hope you stick to them. What's the one that fucks you off the most, Pete? Well, before we get on to that, I want to say congratulations. Oh, bloody hell. Well, I don't know if you know this, but you won an award to the back end of 2025. I never won awards. So I feel like, well, you fucking did.

4:58And this is a big one. So to start us off on 2026, everyone give a round of applause to Heat Magazine's star of 2025.

5:13Bloody hell. Yeah, but they didn't forget me because I was quoted in Heat magazine with the quote, if I could hibernate until January, I would. Do you know what I love so much? Sam's been named Heat magazine star of 2025. We obviously asked Pete for a quote. Now that we come so as a package now that it's like, well, if any awards been won, there has to be a quote from the other. Yeah, yeah. So you are the star of 2025. It was a big year for you. Jesus Christ. That is a stretch. How does it make you feel? That is a stretch. I want to know what for. I don't really know what I've done, but I'll take it.

5:48Well, mate, it was a big year. It was a big year. You did the fucking, you did the challenge. You did fucking, like, do you know what I mean? All of the fucking bits. It was a big year, Sunday Times. You had a very big year. You are Heat Magazine style of the fucking year, mate. How do we do it again for 2026? We didn't. How do you do it again? So how do you retain the title? That's the question. So today we're going to find some goals for 2026. Well, to be fair, I've already got a first one. I think my next sort of award that I'd like to have is a sexiest man for 2026. Jonathan Bailey won it for 2025.

6:22Well, I reckon you could be up there for the fucking sexiest man. Sexiest man would be quite nice. I think that's obviously the natural next step for any. Well, I mean, if you look at 2024, I mean, you were real down there, 2025, the star of the year, but you also have come up in sexiness during 2025. If you continue on that upward trajectory. Anything's possible. Trajectory. That's the one. Trajectory. trajectory trajectory if you continue on the upwards curve yeah um then 2026 you could be up there with jonathan bailey i mean do you know what like what would it mean to be to be sexiest man you know what's jonathan bailey doing right now is he giving a quote i imagine i don't know i mean i feel like you should give a quote for star of 2025 i mean you know couldn't have done it without my family could have done it without my friends couldn't done without you pete like to thank God and your family.

7:15I'd like to thank God. I'd like to thank everyone that's been with me on this journey. There's ups, there's downs, there's lefts, there's rights. But here we are, ready to fight another day. Bring on 2026. We were about to talk about goals. I'm really excited for that. I do want to ask if you have any sort of New Year's resolutions. I know you don't believe in them. But anything that you'd like to do? Survive another year. I think has got to be top of the list for me. If I can make it to this time in 2026 and see in 2027, then I think I've achieved something for the year. So we're going to start quite basic.

7:55Do you know, I was actually talking to someone about this. I'd like to look after myself more in 2026. Nice. In terms of what? In terms of the fact that towards the back end of this year, I've been quite ill. We both have the last three months and can't shift it. Struggling through. And I think a lot of that is in terms of, and when I say quite ill, that sounds like I've got some sort of real issue. I mean, just run down, just done. And then someone said to me, do you take medicine, vitamin? I don't do or take anything. Maybe I need to actually look at drinking water, sort of eating, vitamins, sort of a bit of self-care maybe.

8:36A little bit of self-care for Pete in 2020. He said, God, you'd never have thought it. Well, I'm just, I am getting to the age now where genuinely... He's had a couple of falls. I'm having falls. I'm doing... Maybe it's to the point where, as funny as it is, I need to start thinking about it before I do die. What, yoga? Oh, let's not fucking take the piss. Well, you know, yoga's good for you. Good for the soul. Yeah, but can you imagine me fucking going to fucking Pilates or yoga? Bit of therapy? Oh. No. We've gone... A bit much, though, innit? We'll start with some cod liver oil. Mate, baby steps.

9:09Yeah, you know what I mean? Let's not run before we can walk. Okay, absolutely fine. It would just be nice to be able to walk again without fear of falling. Yeah, fair enough. Understandable. Okay, so looking after yourself is a big one. A little bit more time off? Fucking yes. A little bit more time off? Yes, yes. I think finding time to do the things that I want to do, I think is probably up there for me as well. And then staying relevant. Well, of course. It's going to be a big year, 2026, for us as a company. So I think, yeah, spending some more time, you know, with all of us and fucking developing what we do, I think would be wonderful.

9:48We've got some big plans for 2026. Irons and fires, as they say. Yeah, we've got fingers in pies. And yeah, so that's going to be a big one professionally. In fact, I'm going to put Sam Redavant up there as one of probably my career priority. Yeah, I think we both should, to be fair. That should be number one, because we want to bring you the very best. bit of a personal question, Pete, looking for love 2026? Not looking, just if it happens, it happens. If it happens, it happens, you know, I mean, it would be wonderful, wouldn't it? Because as I say, finding a bit more time for myself, you know, looking really not just for love, but someone that can help me up when I fall, not penis wise, that's generally up fine.

10:34So far. So far, but we are getting to that age, aren't we um but yeah maybe it would be nice maybe maybe it is the year of settling down oh my god tip him and tap that away on the laptop maybe clip that up maybe it's the year i think it's about time i think i've had some time to to to define all the problems that i have um i haven't started correcting them yet but therapy is on the agenda it is for some people so yeah so I think yeah maybe just having a bit more of a me year yeah I completely agree because do you know what it can sometimes feel like sometimes feel like you're a robot and it can sometimes feel like you're actually not living well we're all so worried about the destination we're forgetting to know the journey exactly and then you get to the destination you've forgotten about the journey do you know what I've said it before and I'll say it again I want to stop being a human doing and I want to start being a human being He said it before.

11:34I have said that before to you, is that, haven't I? Oh, it's a new one. I can see you being with a nice Susan. Oh, we're back on the love. Just a Susan, but I don't know. As I said, if it happens, it happens. If not, it doesn't, whatever. I mean, listen, that's my personal kind of stuff and a little bit to do with Stan Relevant. For you personally, I mean, you went through an awful lot in 2025 in terms of changes. You went from the pits of hell to the, you know, the top of Everest. A bit more balanced for me. me i think would be quite nice actually so less of a roller coaster less of a roller coaster year because i'm a bit of a roller coaster guy i think um you know i have i have wild highs and depthly lows um it'd be quite nice just to have a sort of like a medium it's sort of like you know just a one of these all right yeah quite nice to stabilize i like to stabilize nice yeah but again just like pete said you know a bit of a human being um and actually I think a lot of people always look for growth.

12:30Yeah. Sometimes it's nice to stabilise. Sure, it's nice to stabilise. And I think this year, well, me and Pete have actually said, you know, that we want this year to be a building year. Yes. Especially for staying relevant. We want it to be a building year for us all. I presume it would be, you're not just talking about your house still. No, the house. And oh, that's another, no more house works. Right. Is on the agenda. Oh, well, that is big for you. It'd be the first time you get your house back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're going to be booted out. Yeah, they'll be gone. That'll be nice. Any out of the box goals, Sam?

12:58Out of the box goals. I mean, fucking hell. What do I want to do? I mean, look, I've already touched on the streaming. I want to be a Twitch streamer. Well, yeah, I mean, you're going to, you know. Going to make that happen. That's got to happen. That's got to be one of the things I do. I'd actually quite like to get back on the Sam T-30. Oh, nice. Yeah, well, I thought you'd like that one. So in terms of stabilise personally, but grow your streaming and Sam T-30, presumably you're going to increase your audience on TikTok Live. Well, just, you know, I just want to do things that actually, that like I really, really like enjoy.

13:32And I feel like that will be something that I think I'll quite enjoy because it's gaming, but live. And I think that could be a bit of me. I love football. I'd love to do a little bit of a football commentary and stuff like that. So, yeah. Do you mean just on 70 foot? Just on 70 foot. Are we looking to host match of the day? No, we're not. But just, I'd like to do a little bit of that. And a few pet projects is what I call it. A few pet projects would be quite nice. Awesome pet project. Give us some. So what other pet projects would you like? Well, those are kind of the two, really. Oh, right, okay.

14:01There we go. All right, we've got them. We've got them, the pet projects. Well, I'd like to travel a little bit more. This is maybe a little bit nerdy, but I'd like to maybe go and see some archaeological sites for, like, genuine trips. So, like, I've always wanted to go and see, like, the hanging gardens of Babylon. That would be quite cool. It's always been up there for me. And see, like, because I don't even know if they, like, still exist or if there's any excavations of them or anything like that. So that would be really cool. I'd want to go and see like where the potential city of Troy may have sat in Turkey.

14:30And who are you planning to go on these trips with? It might be a solo trip, I don't know yet. Or you can go on these excursions for like holidays, do these things. But yeah, that could be quite cool. I'd like to go and do some like history travel. I know, a bit random, but yeah, but like a bit of time for me to go This has reminded me of when you wanted to be a man of the cloth. I'd like to be an archaeologist. Yeah. Oh, excellent. No, I just want to go and see some of the intrigued by and i'd like to go and see them in the flesh that's what i'd like to do cool this i mean we are starting 2026 you are listening to staying relevant just in case you're worried about what's happened here and you feel like you're listening to some sort of new wellness this is not begin again with davina mccall we are still at staying relevant um no one's said for a while yeah we're all talking quite quite nicely about this um but a big one actually for the pod i would say and this i would like this to be you know a destination that we all achieve I would like to follow up and get Tom Hiddleston on the podcast.

15:28Well, I mean, there's some big names. He's the new Meyer. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully it doesn't have the same ending. Yeah. And I hope, and I really, really hope we can get some awesome guests on this pod. I think like if we can get like a Tom and maybe a Stephen Graham, like, because you fucking adore him. Vicky McCurr. Yeah. Hi, Vicky. Vicky would do this in a heartbeat. I think she loves us. but I think would be really nice is to get some of our bucket list guests onto this podcast would be really nice if we don't really get guests all that often mostly people don't want them yeah I know so hopefully maybe if we had to make a one resolution or one goal for each of us what would you get what would you have for me oh are we going funny or serious one funny one serious funny if I had one for you it would be

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17:26Set a course for change. Now is the time to make a real change in your life, career, and community. At Walden University, we give you the support and flexibility to get the W. Walden's online programs are designed for working professionals like you. You'll gain hands-on skills to take on real-world challenges and succeed. Your future is waiting and Walden is here to help you achieve it. Take the first step to make your impact. Visit waldenu.edu. Walden University. Set a course for change. Certified to operate by Shev.

18:04Get back on the glow up train. What do you think I've fallen off? I think you've fallen off slightly. I think we made a conscious effort for three months and then went, this will do me for another five years. Just continue it. It's constantly evolving. Constantly evolving. Oh, God. What I mean by that is we've done the mullet now, all right? What's next, though? What's next? Well, I don't know. Well, exactly. It's a constant evolve. I think maybe, you know, again, you went through a big stage of going through the kind of shopping and the clothing. You've done them outfits now. We've seen the rotations.

18:38Keep it going. I just don't know what else to do. I just don't know. I don't know. Do you know what? Actually, my missus said something to me recently. She goes, fuck me, I can't believe you used to look like that. Mate, it was a year ago. But I think that's something. And actually, that's semi-serious. I've got another serious one. But that's semi-serious is that you went through such a big change. If you look at January to December, you look completely different aesthetically and just in yourself in a good way. But the danger is, is that then you go, right, the work's done. Because that's what you did previously.

19:15And then in five years' time, you have to go through another glow up. And by that point, I'm 40. Continue glowing. Yeah, but continue glowing. Okay, continue glowing. And then my serious one for you, find yourself. Oh, bloody hell.

19:32How? That's the question we all ask ourselves, is find your passions and run for them. Run for the passion. So if that's streaming, do it. Go and do it. What would mine be for you? Mine would be funny. Mine would be funny. Mine would be... What I wish for you next year is just to be funny. I think next year, I think it'd be quite nice if me and you both went and maybe got a two-for-one hair tranny. I think that'd be quite nice. I feel like we could go and do that experience together. So it's not really, again, not for you. Not for me, is it? It's us. It's not really for me, that one. Especially, to be fair, talking of hair, maybe that is a year, because, you know, my hair has changed from January to December.

20:20Will it continue going? Will the buzz cut finally come? And then when the buzz cut comes, and I finally do it and think, oh, it's not that bad, and then go, fuck me, it is. I will be straight on the plane to Turkey. So that's the case. So get the buzz cut is, I think, a goal for Pete. I don't know if it's a goal. It's a potential. It may happen. It's not going to happen. Well, we just don't know, Sam. The fear is at the minute is my hairline has come back because I've got curtains. Yeah, well, that's a good point. I've managed to find a way to cover it. Yeah. But if I do keep going shorter, it's going to be harder to cover.

20:56And then I might go, fuck. Then we go for a hair. Well, yeah, it'll be, what would you like, lads? We'll have one at the front, one at the back. Quite nice. Quite nice. Everyone's doing it at the moment. Who? I know quite a few people are doing it at the moment. Well, you know, who knows? Who knows? There's some... Oh, serious one quickly as well. I actually would agree with you. Very boring. Spend more time for yourself. Yeah. More time for yourself, mate, I'd say. I think spend more time, as you said, looking after yourself and enjoying things that you enjoy to do. And if you want to come on an archaeology trip with me, you can't.

21:33Do you know what? I will seriously think about it. Now, a big one for you, which you've mentioned a number of times, which I think could be in motion, especially considering something that Pippa has organised, which may stoke the fire. You want to set up a run club? Oh my God, would I love to. Yeah, I think we should do a run club for 2026. We are going to be doing a half marathon as a team. Okay, so just a caveat, because we're not doing this as no two thing here where we announce it's happening, then it has to happen. There's been talk of it. It hasn't been agreed yet. Yet. Put it this way. Don't fucking look at me like that.

22:16There've been quite a few people in the office who have said yes to doing it. You did agree it. Have you entered me? No, but I can't. Well, then it's still yet to be agreed. So if I enter you, it's agreed? No, because I'm telling you, I'm giving... Don't you fucking start nodding in the corner. What I heard is if you're entered, it's... Okay, all right. Well, let me just put this into perspective for you. Listen, great that you're doing it. Great that you run. Listen, you've run to the ends of the earth and back, so you're going to be fine. The old fucking athlete over there that's never won a fucking thing in his life, all right, is going to be grateful of you.

22:51Let's just remember, towards the back end of 2025, I was having falls. So I think it's quite a long way from he's having falls to is going to do an half marathon. You've got till May. You've got till May. You could train. We could all train together in the run club that we're going to set up. And one of the reasons that I know you want to do this run club is because you want to create more connections. Yeah, we want more of a community feel around staying relevant. Yes, because there hasn't been enough of that. Yeah, but we need more. So what we're going to do is I think we're going to at some point announce a place and a time and we are all going to go, nothing big, like a 5k little jog around some sort of park and body of water maybe and really sort of get to know each other.

23:32Yeah, we can just have a this and yap. This and yap and really enjoy ourselves. I think it'd be a really good chance for us all to get to know each other a little bit more. I imagine we'll have to take security. No one's allowed to touch Pete's arse as he's running. Or lick my face. Or lick his face. Or grab my cock. Or grab his... Well, no. If you need to. Yeah, don't. But yeah, a run club, I think, would be really, really lovely. I would very much like to do that If you're keen, I think it'd be really nice. Get us in front of everyone. Get us all running together. I'm keen for you all to do that.

24:03And you'll come? I'll wait for the finish line. Okay, great. Will Pete be there? Listen, I'll set you off. And then I'll see you at the end.

24:19And that is all we need to hear. So, yeah, lots of different things. I think next year, listen, how do we top Stay in Relevance 2025? I don't know Pete only Wembley no I don't know no I don't know Ryan even asked me this he goes what do you do next year and I was like I don't fucking know put it this way all I'm going to say is I think next year we're going to go back to basics we want a building year we're going to go back to because 2027 we've already started planning and there is something very big potentially happening in 2027 Sheffield get ready Sheffield will be 2026 Birmingham and so will Birmingham because you know we love the Midlands but 2027 this could be a big one but next year I think we're going to go back to basics a little bit aren't we?

25:12Yep, some good things coming I'll tell you that much for sure and there's good things coming for you guys too listening, you know you probably at this moment are taking part in 75 hard 75 hard it's a it's a big sort of new challenge well it's not new actually has been going on for a while now actually it's a sort of bit of a trend uh 75 days you have to do consecutively things that you wouldn't normally want to do so whether that's go for a run whether that's go to the gym every day whether it's read a book it has to be something that you want to do that you that you will struggle with but will better you as a person 75 days in a row so you can pick anything within reason yeah what would yours be so six commitments you must complete every day 75 days they can be oh so is it a specific thing no they can be like drinking like a certain amount of water each day or they could be like I want to have an ice bath every day 75 days because there's obviously the winter arc as well that we're all going into now and that's really important for everyone to be involved in no the winter arc is a huge huge deal it's where you go into hibernation you like that and you come out of the winter arc after really working on yourself and putting in that hard graft at the gym and sort of making yourself look and feel great, you come out of hibernation ready for the summer, ready to sort of take on anything.

26:31So you do a secret glow up? You do a secret glow up, but it's called the winter arc. Oh, because it sounds so mysterious. Yeah, exactly. You go mysterious, basically. You go off grid completely for the entirety of winter. What about if you just live in the winter arc forever? That's the thing. I feel like, yeah, I feel like I don't really know sort of what you would do. I mean, some sort of examples here where we have two 45-minute workouts. That's every day for 75 days. One workout must be done outside, one inside, so you can go for a run maybe and then do some weights. Adhere to a diet. Reading 10 pages of a self-help or education.

27:06You love Mel Robbins. We can get you a little Mel Robbins, but you can read 10 pages of Mel every day. I mean, that would be fucking odd. How do you find it? Maybe we'll do that. No, no, no. No, I think by day one, after fucking 10 pages, do you know what? I'd end it. Oh, nice. Do you know what you could do as well? You take a really nice little progress picture every day once you're doing your 75 hours. So over those 75 days, Pete, you do a nice little mirror selfie, top off and see how it's all going every day. What do you think about people who do that? What do I think about them? Oh, well, let me guess.

27:42Well, sorry, what do you want me to say? Oh, I love it. I love it when people do that. This is, the set up is, you also hate that, but when you say it to me, I'm the one that has to go, and you're in the back going, oh, he's one miserable, he's looking, listen, I knew he'd hate it. Mate, I'm proud of the progress. How do you feel? Listen, let's swap it about. How do you feel about people that do that? If you had to watch one of your mates, someone you know, every day post their progress in the mirror, how would you feel? Why the fuck do you feel the needs that always find out? There we go. We're in the game.

28:21Why are you doing that for everyone to see? I understand a progress picture every now and then, though. Maybe what we should do is, you know, make a montage. You and I should just have a photo in front of a blank wall on every episode of Staying Relevant next year and then see the change in age. Oh, my God. That's quite fun. You know when people grow their hair and they do every week for like two years, and then they do like a flick book. Yeah. And it goes... And we could do that. That's quite fun. That's going to really bum me out, though, because we're going to get to the end of the year and be like, oh, no.

28:54Yeah, but look at it the other way around. It'd be like yours in reverse for 2025 because you started there looking like death and ended it looking lovely. You know what I mean? I just aged through 2025 and you literally went, oh, God. Heat magazine star 2025. Tailed off at the end, though. Tailed off at the end. So, yeah, we could do that. There's a guy on TikTok who is a Man United fan and they haven't won five games in a row for like, what is it, like two years or something? And he said, and he did it as a joke. And he was going, day one of not cussing my hair till Man United win five games in a row.

29:29He's two years in. Mate, it's out here. It's fucking, mate. It flops over his eyes. He has to pull it back. He does it every single day. Well, we could do something like that. Imagine us not shaving until fucking Great Bar United win a fucking another game. oh my god why don't we jump on that trend have you seen that guy Josh we should jump on that trend and do it for something that we did that would be mad yeah we'll think of something we could potentially do grow a bit I like the idea of the GBU but maybe there's something else that we could do but yeah I like that a lot yeah something yeah yeah because we'll probably fuck them off soon grow a bit until we hit 200 ,000 subscribers on YouTube oh right I mean that's a long long time yeah I mean and do you know what'll be worse is the company goes under will never do it.

30:15You'll never be out of shave. No, Merlin. But I've had a big beard, like a big beard, like down here. It's not a good look. It's not a good look. You with a big beard. Imagine me with a fucking massive beard. Yeah, but do you know what? It would be mad. It would just grow down. Just down here. Do you know what I nearly did recently? I nearly gave myself a moustache. I honestly... Yeah, I nearly did it. Because I'll say this. Listen, you look good at them. and you've got a nice jawline, I think you with a moustache would look all right. I've got a baby's bum. Yeah, but people love that. It'd go with the one dimple.

30:55I have one dimple. You do have one, don't you? I've only just noticed that. I have one dimple. I'm a singular dimpled man. Solo dimpler. No. Yeah, well, maybe, listen, I think you and a moustache, maybe we could do that. Start the year with a tash. I just don't think I could do it. I mean, I've had a tash at different points. I've seen you with a tash before. Yeah, I don't mind a tash. My 75 hard would probably be, I think I could tell people, like a certain amount of times a day, they're going to have a great day. You know? Yeah. Really go up to them. Get into their face. Get into their face and be like, you're going to have a fucking good day.

31:29Quite aggressive. Well, yeah, maybe not pointing their eyes. Maybe that's what we should do. You should do a 75 hard of every single day. Because I think, you know, it was a thing for a while, and then you kind of tailed off. And I think you were kind of telling yourself when you were going with the lion catches the first worm or whatever it was, but because you were going through a tough time. Now that you're good, you've kind of left off. Maybe you should go back to in January, from January the 1st, do 75 days of motivational morning messages for your followers. You want to create connection?

31:57That's one of the goals you said. Maybe every day you can tell your community. You want to create community? I haven't got enough quotes. No one would say. It's just motivational. You, listen. I'd like to see another challenge I'd like to see another challenge Like I don't know yet Yeah I'd like to see something Not next year The year after Okay Yeah Don't know what it is Well maybe we'll talk about that In 2026 At the end of that year Very nice Yeah Yeah alright We'll see Have you got a An inspirational quote For 25 Could you 2025 You've asked me I don't know I'm not off the top of my head I mean you know when the you have to come back to me mate I haven't got anything on the top of my head I haven't got anything here and that sums up 2025 the hippo laughs in the danger the caterpillar always burrows in doesn't even burrow a caterpillar does it

33:04hmm oh I mean, if we were going to do this quotes every day for 75 days, day one is a struggle. It's January the 1st. You'll have a good one. The beard scratch. Maybe more gym photos. Well, I hear from Pippa as well that people love them. So when you post a gym photo, the inbox floods. Yeah, people are really rude about it. I don't understand why. Proud of the progress. Well, exactly. What do you mean? Listen, sometimes I think to myself, the first thing I do when I get up in the morning, I go outside and I have my cigarettes and I get me coffee and I think, I hope he's posted one. And I don't go just straight on and refresh it.

33:54I go straight to the search bar, Sam Thompson. Oh, no, it's just him watching Harry Potter again. Every day. And then now and then, you know, once every couple of weeks, it comes and I go, yes! Got it! They'll fucking spit the coffee down me again. But God, look at my... I'm so proud of you, the progress. That's what happens. Keeps me accountable. So what I'd like to do is not sort of just be in fear of there not being one and just know that there is a specific... Maybe we should spend a specific time for you. So every Sunday at 6pm... Every quarter. You're going to see... What, only four a year?

34:30Don't be so bloody silly, man. What I'd like is every Sunday at 6pm, I'd like to see a black and white because you know I love black and white. And maybe every Sunday at 6pm I'll pop out to the lift and take a black and white selfie of myself. And I'll do a gym one. And you'll do one in the gym which is always my favourite one because for some reason in the gym you've always got your hands behind your back.

34:56Because the old triceps. The only lift weights from behind. My favourite thing about that was the click. Every bone. Every bone just clicked in Pete's back. No, do you know what's funny? It wasn't my back, that was my hip. Oh, no. And that's the second time it's clicked today. And you fuckers think I'm doing half marathon. I'll tell you what, we'll do half marathon. You'll be fucking pulling me along in like a little fucking... Quite fun. Well, you won a challenge. Pulling Pete along in a sled. From Land's End to John O 'Groats pulling me on a sled. I mean, it'd be tough for the both of us. Yeah, it's different types of tough.

35:39Do you know what I mean? Different types of tough. Do you remember when I wanted to go from John O 'Groats to Land's End on mopeds? I don't, well, I do remember, yeah. And the problem is, is it's quite often, it's great ideas and then you go, someone sort that. Yeah. And we didn't have anyone to do it, but we could potentially do it. Could do it now. John O 'Groats to Land's End on mopeds. So all the back. A motorbike. you'd have to come on the back roads well yeah that's the that was the funny part of it wasn't it that i can't go above fucking 40 mile an hour whilst he could still happen that well you never know that you never know we'll have a we'll have a go that's something we're taking in at 2026 that ain't fucking changed more tattoos yeah do you know i kind of stopped in the test funny isn't it because you go through something like we went like the start of last year we didn't go through it I'm just letting you know.

36:30Whenever something happens in your life, I feel like that's when tattoos start sprouting out of nowhere. And then you sort of balance out again. You're like, do you know what? I don't know if I can be arsed. Hilariously, I've not really been tattooed other than staying relevant for years, but you can tell my trauma through the amount of shit I've already got. I went through all my shit years ago. I'm quite happy with the fact that I haven't done anything for a while because it obviously means I'm in an all right spot. Well, listen, we're on three staying relevant tattoos. I think every year you should at least get one.

36:58a new Stayin' Relevant tattoo for something that we've done. This one could be the half-marrow. A couple of legs.

37:06Open.

37:09Sorry. Well, guys, what an honour it's been. This has been the New Year's episode. We're talking about some New Year goals, as you have heard. Hasn't been our finest hour. And the good thing about this is you start every year the same. You can turn it off. Well, no, not just that. the good thing about this is, you know, it's only up from here. Yeah, exactly. We want to start from the new year. We want to start from the ground up. We don't want to fucking excite you on going big at the start of the year. We're just going to keep you nice and calm, all right? Let you know that things are happening.

37:39We're going to come back refreshed. And I'll tell you, by next episode, you're going to think, fuck me, those boys. What have they done? Because it's so much better than the shit I've listened to today. Happy New Year. We love you so much. Whatever it is that you're doing, have a wonderful week. and honestly it's not often that I beg but I'm going to start the new year with it please come back this has been a Staying Relevant production

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