Christmas Recap/ Top 10 Songs of 2025

Start with a question: what happens when your words shape your year? We dive into that idea headfirst, sharing New Year goals about speaking with intention, listening better, and even using silence as a strategic tool. From high-stakes business meetings to decompressing at home, we talk about how choosing our words—and choosing when not to speak—can shift outcomes, mindsets, and relationships.

Then we pivot into our favorite kind of chaos: holidays, family, and music. We trade stories about Christmas hosting mishaps, perfect plates from an ex–Italian chef grandpa, and gifts that fuel creativity, like a personalized guitar capo and a full art chest. Parenting makes a surprise entrance too: a toddler’s sudden language burst, color naming, and the first proud “trash can.” It’s the kind of moment that reminds you growth looks flat until it rockets ahead.

On the music front, we break down the 2025 charts and confess our personal favorites, from Alex Warren’s Ordinary to Teddy Swims and Billie Eilish. Sparks fly when we challenge the ease of country crossovers and ask whether dominant sounds invite outsiders to take over. It’s lively, opinionated, and packed with examples—why some artists thrive across genres, why others don’t, and how “90s alternative” still echoes through modern playlists. We also compare mood-based listening with old-school genre boxes and ask what really drives a hit in the streaming era.

We wrap with pure fun: movies that blindsided us with big feelings, game recommendations, and a slate of plans for Pokemon’s 30th anniversary—think retro runs, builds, card openings, and music-themed teams that listeners can help name. Hit play for a candid, energetic ride that blends real life with real music talk.

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Transcript

Welcome Back & New Shows Plug

SPEAKER_01 0:38

I'm the worst person to have a podcast. I can barely. What is up, everybody? Welcome back to the Hook and Bridge Podcast. I am your host, Harley, joined by my co-host and little sister Taylor. And as always, please go give our Instagram a quick follow. Go over to our YouTube page. Check out Chris and I's new show called Off the Record. It's out right now. Episode one is so fun. It was a lot of laughs. People are loving it so far. Um, that'll come out once a month. And be sure to look for our new murder show that uh will be coming out here very, very soon. Um, it's it's not a murder show, it's a true crime podcast.

SPEAKER_06 1:37

It's how to commit a murder.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

It is going to be called um The Dark Side of Music, where we discuss all of the crimes within the music industry. So, anyways, just you know, go check out all our stuff, but be sure to give us a quick follow over on our Instagram and subscribe to that YouTube page. We love every one of you. Thank you so much for listening. Welcome back to the show.

New Year Resolutions And Language

SPEAKER_05 2:01

Woohoo! Happy New Year!

SPEAKER_01 2:03

Happy New Year, buddy.

SPEAKER_05 2:04

You got any new year resolutions?

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Uh, I have two. The one that I always have to lose weight and be healthy.

SPEAKER_06 2:12

Yeah, same, same, same.

SPEAKER_01 2:14

And then I have another one to swear less.

SPEAKER_06 2:18

Love.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

Yeah, I got the little guy running around, you know.

SPEAKER_06 2:23

Yeah, he is saying words now.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

A lot of words, a lot of words.

SPEAKER_06 2:28

He's a very smart baby. Um, Shiloh, sorry, Schmiloh was just on the phone with Dylan and he was swearing a little too much. And she said, Why are you swearing so much? You need to watch your mouth. I said, Oh, my bad. All right. Um, no, I love that. You do. You have you got a little guy, he's a big guy, he says raw very well. Um, yeah, Lindsay sent me a little video of him yapping it up.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

It's like a switch happened within the last two weeks. Like, we went to the doctors, we went to the doctors, and I questioned the doctor. I was like, hey, like define like a because part of his like development thing, yeah, is um, you know, like clear representation of words, like like yeah, so I was like, define like what is considered clear language, like he's not talking like we are, you know what I mean? So I was like, is there an issue or or like I don't I don't know what you consider clear? And she basically was like, any wording that you can like represent if he's using the same word to represent something over and over, then that is clearly like him learning language.

SPEAKER_06 3:46

Yeah, even if it's like the wrong, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

Yeah, but that makes a lot more sense because like he doesn't say dog, he says duck, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's not quite there.

SPEAKER_06 3:56

Well, yeah, because he hasn't figured out the whole gh, you know, like there's a lot that he hasn't figured out.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

But within the last two weeks or so, like I said, a switch has happened where like, dude, he's saying giraffe, he's saying purple, he's identifying colors. It I don't know, I don't know what happened the last few days, but it's like boom.

SPEAKER_06 4:20

I mean, that that makes sense because he's what 18 months now, 15. 15. I was close.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

Three months off.

SPEAKER_06 4:30

I was close. Um, it's okay. I said Shiloh was 12, but I got corrected real quickly today. Um she's 11.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Crazy, dude. It's crazy. He he colored for the first time today.

SPEAKER_06 4:43

I saw that was the video she sent me was him coloring, and then you said the word purple.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

He says the word purple.

SPEAKER_06 4:50

He says the word trash can. Like, that is a clear, like I I know we're not like well, I don't know if you guys are sharing him, but like they whenever I FaceTime them, he and Harley says, say trash can, he goes, trash can. Like that that's fully trash can. That is a two-syllable word. He is saying trash can.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Yeah, he he's learning it up, man. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_06 5:15

He's he's a little sponge baby.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

Um, just to start things off, Taylor. Yeah, we're we're gonna talk about Christmas. Uh, but I took my family to the mall today, and inside of the mall, there was one of those Japanese stores.

SPEAKER_05 5:34

Yeah, Pop Mart.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

No, no, it was um min mini so oh mini, yeah, I gotcha. Anyways, there were a bunch of Japanese snacks in there.

SPEAKER_06 5:48

Hmm, you're gonna try some snacks?

SPEAKER_01 5:50

So I was thinking a little Japanese try some Japanese kickettes.

SPEAKER_06 5:56

I don't have any, but yeah, I'll watch you try them.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

So this is what song? This is the Japanese uh strawberry kickette.

SPEAKER_06 6:05

Um little strawberry and cream.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

Let's give it a go.

SPEAKER_06 6:08

Um, well, while you're doing that, can I talk about my new year's resolution since you didn't ask me?

SPEAKER_01 6:12

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 6:13

I was getting there. Oh, sorry. Um, mine is to say things with intention, to speak with intention. Oh, do you like it? Is it a strawberry cream? No.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 6:27

Are you gonna swallow? Swallow. You got it.

SPEAKER_01 6:32

It's like it's strawberry, yeah. It's like somebody took one of those lifesavers and dipped it around a Kit Kat.

SPEAKER_06 6:42

Oh gross.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

Say things with intention. What what does that mean?

Business Communication And Silence

SPEAKER_06 6:48

So, like, like be like, how do I want to see? I'm working on it. How do I want to put it? Like speaking with intention and purpose to be heard, because I am a yapper, everyone knows this. I just talk to talk, and that's not something I'm going to change because I have been told by many people it is a great personality trait of mine. Like, there is never an awkward silence when I'm around. I can talk about anything all day, every day. Um, but a lot of times I find myself talking a whole lot about nothing. You know what I mean? So I want to speak more intentionally and think more about the words that I'm using, you know, because I'm also a firm believer that like you get from the world what you put into it. So, like we weren't recording, but I went on a whole rant before this episode. And that energy, yes, it needed to be released because I'm still feeling some type of way about it. But I feel like the more you give into that energy, you know what I mean? That the more you're getting back. And I have felt that before, and I don't want to feel that because it's really hard to get out of that. It's like a vicious cycle. And I see a big difference when I'm speaking more positively about myself, about others, about my life. You know what I mean? Like saying out loud what I'm grateful for, I do that a lot with Dylan. Like, I'll just talk about what I'm grateful for. So that's what I mean. Like speaking more with intention and purpose, and just trying to, you know, watch what I'm saying, watch what I'm putting out into the world, be a better person.

SPEAKER_01 8:18

There you go.

SPEAKER_06 8:19

I will still be petty.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

Nothing wrong with that. Uh, I will say that not necessarily here on our show, but in my day-to-day with what I do for work, um, being involved in business. Um I've learned that there is wisdom and silence, and yeah words matter for sure. And properly articulating the phrases that you're trying to get out and and your word choices really, really matter, especially in in a business atmosphere.

SPEAKER_02 8:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

Because I I have to constantly be looking for like social cues and meetings and and I don't want to say like it's like a chess game, but it kind of is. Like I have to I have to watch body language and words that people use to determine how to go about the rest of that meeting.

SPEAKER_03 9:21

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

But because I already do so much of that, this is kind of my escape from that.

SPEAKER_06 9:28

Harley doesn't know how to read the room when he's at home, is what he's saying.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

No, I I feel like I feel like I do.

SPEAKER_06 9:35

Um, you do.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

But like I don't want to say that I pretend to be dumb. I don't feel that I pretend to be dumb. No, you just are I do feel like I I do feel like I dumb myself down at home, not purposefully, maybe it is purposefully, I'm not sure. But like the amount of mental energy that I put into my day-to-days, um just it gets exhausting to to think that hard.

SPEAKER_06 10:09

Yeah. No, I I get it. I have since working at my place of employment where I am a barista and we have a drive-thru, because normally I get put on drive-thru because I am very personable. Like even like if you meet me out in the wild, I used to not always be that way, but I will talk to a stranger. It's that simple. Um, so because of that, I normally get put in those positions to talk to the customers, you know, because I love people. I want to hear about their day, their lives, what they got going on. Some people just need to talk. And if that's gonna be me, like I had a lady come through and she had gotten scans done, like for like cancer, pre-cancer screenings and everything. And like she had a really bad day about it. And she we talked about it at the speaker box, and then she got to the window. I fully took my headset off. I gave it to someone else. I said, You take the next couple orders. Uh this girl needs to talk. She she needs to let it out. And she was like, Thank you. She said, I haven't gotten to talk to anybody about it. Like, she was really stressed out. But because of that, I find myself now when I get home, I don't talk as much. And like, and Dylan pointed it out a few weeks ago, and he was like, you know, are you okay? Like, you're not yourself. And I'm like, No, I just all week I have talked so much that by the time I get home, I don't want to talk. I don't want to do it.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

That's understandable.

SPEAKER_06 11:27

No, but it's it's the same way where like you just don't want to think, you know what I mean? Like when we get home after our hard jobs. Yeah, those things, you know?

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Um, so this one, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 11:39

Oh no, that one looks sketch.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

This one is uh orange, orange chocolate.

SPEAKER_06 11:46

You're gonna hate that.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Probably. I didn't much care for the last one.

SPEAKER_06 11:50

No, you did not. Um, should we should we do uh silence? Should we do moments in silence? What did you say?

SPEAKER_01 11:57

See, this is one of I'll also being a better listener is on my I I said there's in silence.

SPEAKER_06 12:04

There it is. Yep, just took me a minute. See, guys, I listen.

Christmas Recap And Gifts

SPEAKER_01 12:07

You can also learn a lot from it's a power move. It's a power so just to talk to talk business for a moment. Uh, they do teach you in business school, and uh in my place of employment, we have our own business school that they send us to. So uh I had to take a class about power moves within corporate meetings and corporate structure, and they call it negotiation tactics. Um, but allowing yourself to sit and let the other person talk to you um and refusing to talk. So, like, let's say that you think that there's something you want to say in response to something that I'm saying, rather than saying it, just sitting there, that moment of silence will force the other person to talk, and they may end up saying something or giving away a card that they may not have planned on giving you. Yeah, it's a it's a whole thing, it's a whole psychological thing. But anyway, this is this is orange, anyways.

SPEAKER_06 13:18

This was wonderful. Is it bad? You know, not as bad as a strawberry, not as bad as a strawberry.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

I'm actually a bigger fan of this.

SPEAKER_06 13:33

Can you crunch into the microphone again? You sounded like the dogs when they get when they have the microphone, they're like I'm sure that's gonna be great for the audio listeners. No, it is. It scratched my brain in the right way. Why do you sound so much like a dog?

SPEAKER_01 13:56

Because I sit and do that all day to your nephew.

SPEAKER_06 13:59

Um, Dylan does it to me. He'll come up to me and get like in my ear and go. I'm like, go away. Like it's it's enough.

SPEAKER_03 14:09

I know how Adam feels. I know.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

No, he loves it.

SPEAKER_03 14:14

Oh, I do not.

SPEAKER_01 14:16

Um so we are a music show.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

I know we haven't been for a little bit. Later, we are gonna be going over the top 10 songs of 2025. Real quick, I just want to recap Christmas. Oh, Taylor, how was your how was your Christmas?

SPEAKER_06 14:38

I worked, I got time and a half, baby.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

I heard, I heard. I worked eight whole hours, but maybe not your actual Christmas, but like your celebration.

SPEAKER_06 14:47

Um my celebration. So we hosted Christmas Eve, and that was super fun. We have seen Dylan's family more the past like four weeks than I have seen them in my whole life. It's crazy. Um, but we had a celebration. I want to say the Saturday before Christmas Eve. We went to his aunt's house. I don't just for something, just to go. And his whole family was there. Like a lot of family from around came and and we played Uno. I played Uno No Mercy for the first time. It was a great time. Um, and then Dylan's uncles, who actually live in Orlando, or yeah, his uncles, they came and surprised everybody. So, like Dylan's mom's brother, and she doesn't because he lives in Orlando. And for those listening, that's about four and a half hours away. Like it's it's a drive. Um, so that was really fun. And then we ended up Christmas Eve hosting, and everyone came. Uh, just just the normal, the normal group of people, you know, that comes. It's Dylan's dad's sister, and then uh Dylan's mom's side. They all came and we played Uno again. We had some great food. His grandpa cooked, his grandpa used to be an Italian chef. So anytime he's hosting, it's always good food. Or oven caught on fire. Oh like actually, like in flames on fire. Um crazy. It happened on Thanksgiving too, so we just weren't quick with it. Like we saw, we said, Oh, someone get the towel. And Dylan went and put the fire out. And and Jean-Luc was trying to get the smoke. It was it was really funny.

SPEAKER_01 16:29

Did anybody get a fire extinguisher?

SPEAKER_06 16:31

No, it wasn't that bad. There were flames.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

A little whap-up.

SPEAKER_06 16:39

Um, yeah, no, like a locker room. Uh no, I think that's so funny that it did in fact catch on fire. I made a charcuterie board that was beautiful. Um, I made the best cookies anyone has ever had. I made three dozen cookies. There were like 10 left by the time everyone was gone. We played Uno, had a good time. I got drunk on some wine. That was fun. Yeah, and then uh Christmas Day. Oh, we also opened present present. We opened presents Christmas Eve as well because Dylan and I both had to work on Christmas. So everyone opened their presents, and that was fun.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

What'd you get for Christmas?

SPEAKER_06 17:22

Oh, I got so much. Dylan got me a couple pairs of Nikes. Um, that was nice. And then his sister got me a switch, like I already showed you, but like a silicone cover for my switch, which is pretty cool. And then a switch game case, which is really cool. It's also pink, and then his mom got me a couple pairs of jammays. She got me a huge R set. Oh, actually, did I show you the R set? Stay there.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

Taylor has gotten up to grab said art set.

SPEAKER_06 19:32

So she got me this art set, and it came with three sketchbooks, um, some canvas, and then also it's this whole chest.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_06 19:46

And it comes with like paints, colored pencils, some pastels. Yeah, so I got that, and then she got me. I love this this uh Swedish candy, so she got me some Swedish candy. I'm trying to remember everything else I got. Um, I got some markers, and then my friend, oh, Secret Santa. We also did Secret Santa at work, so I got a bunch of Pokemon stuff from my Secret Santa, and then my friend also gave me a Christmas present that I got recently. She got me some fun socks, a pair of earrings, you know. Um, it was a good time. I got Dylan these headphones. How's my audio? Do I sound good?

SPEAKER_01 20:23

It sounds it sounds alright. It's it's it's better than usual.

SPEAKER_06 20:28

Well, that's good. I would hope so. They're they were$400. So better sound better than usual. Um, I can hear better than usual. They are very nice.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

That's good.

SPEAKER_06 20:39

Yeah, they're very comfortable. Anyways, what did you get for Christmas?

SPEAKER_01 20:43

So Lindsay got me this. Oh a Lego set.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

That is so fun with the baby.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Yep, yep, yep. Cutie patinese. She got me this. She got me some other stuff too, but these are these are the two big things that I want to show off. Um, so this is a a capo.

SPEAKER_04 21:10

Sick!

SPEAKER_01 21:11

But it's engraved with my name, dude.

SPEAKER_06 21:14

That's awesome. Yeah, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

I wish I could figure out how to make that zoom back out.

SPEAKER_06 21:23

Um, I don't know, but I want one that zooms in. That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

It does, it zooms in, but it zooms in automatically.

SPEAKER_06 21:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

Which is kind of annoying. Um, but anyways, yeah, that's what I got for Christmas.

SPEAKER_06 21:35

Dude, that's so cool. Sorry, I didn't know we were only showing a couple of things, my bad.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

Oh no, it's all right. Um, mom, mom came for Christmas, obviously, and fun, fun, funny out for a long time. Um, and yeah, it was it was a good time. Good. But yeah, we we had a we had a fun time. I've been off of work for almost two months. Weeks.

SPEAKER_06 21:59

That's insane. I wish.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:02

I wish.

Games, Burnout, And Sleep Struggles

SPEAKER_01 22:03

I found this new game that I am obsessed with.

SPEAKER_06 22:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Uh, it's not on the Switch, though. I'm hoping that it comes to Switch. What's it on? Um, I'm playing it on Xbox, but it's called An Anno or Ano 1800. I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's A-N-N-O eighteen hundred. And it's a uh city simulator where you like you manage and build a city and you like advance through like civilizations and stages and and is it's a fun game.

SPEAKER_06 22:36

You love a civilization game.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

I really do.

SPEAKER_06 22:39

I really love, and I really love that. You really do. Yeah, it's I'm I'm a plays obviously Minecraft, but then you have your little game where you're in the 1800s.

SPEAKER_01 22:52

No, no, that's medieval dynasty. You're oh medieval dynasty.

SPEAKER_06 22:56

So sorry. You you had Animal Crossing there for a while, Animal Crossing.

SPEAKER_01 23:03

Um uh was another uh I mean the Sims Oh Sims Sims back in the day. Yeah, I love I love a builder. Uh I'm a builder.

SPEAKER_06 23:14

You you're a building guy, and it's so funny Jurassic World Evolution.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

That's another one.

SPEAKER_06 23:19

That's another one. Sorry, I was looking, there's a bruise on my leg. Dylan hit me with my phone yesterday by accident.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

By accident, by accident, and it still hurts. Um, anyways, it was a good time. I I did nothing for four days straight.

SPEAKER_06 23:35

You deserve it.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

No, I hate it, and my body hated it. See, that's the thing. When you're when you're as unhealthy as I am, like everybody's always like, You're you're always busy, you you can't just sit down, blah blah blah. Like I get told that constantly. Yeah, everybody tells me that. They're like, you're always up doing stuff, and it's after four days of doing nothing, yeah. I I know why I'm always up doing stuff, because it's the little bit of activity that I get for my blood. So, like, if I don't do anything, dude, I thought that I had a blood clot for like two days. I would get up to walk and I would have a pain in the back of my calf, and I was like, uh, that is not normal, not good, and then for two and a half days it was just there and then it it went away.

SPEAKER_06 24:29

So I I had the opposite problem where I have been working so much, and like I know for those of you listening, and again, a full-time job. When you when you work, and I'm gonna say not that my job is hard, like I don't want to say that, but I feel like it's a job where working there eight hours a day, five days a week, it's a long time to be there. Do you know what? Like, it's one of those jobs where like you should go for like five, six hours every couple of days. It's like a it's a job for high school. Do you know what I'm saying? Um, no, the other day I was I was warming up food and my body like fully I had to text Dylan, I almost fainted. Like I had to hold on to the counter. Like my legs said, We're done doing this now. Thank you. Come again. Um, it was crazy. Uh no, I get that though. I uh I too my mine's not like a body problem though. Mine is a um like a mind problem. Like today, I I came home and I had to take a nap. Like it was just one of those days, and I usually do that when I open, anyways, because like that's a that's an early morning. I know you do that anyways. Like, you got a baby. I get that. I don't want to have to do that.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

Oh, it sucks. It does suck.

SPEAKER_06 25:41

So, like, like I came home today, I was like, I'm gonna I have to crash for a couple hours, but then I woke up and I was like, I'm angry that I did that. You know what I mean? Like I'm done.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Let me tell you about last night.

SPEAKER_06 25:53

Yeah, okay, I'm ready.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

He didn't go to bed until midnight.

SPEAKER_06 26:01

Put that big 12 p.m. Why is he not back on his schedule?

SPEAKER_01 26:05

12 a.m. 12 a.m., right?

SPEAKER_06 26:07

Why ain't he back on a schedule? What's happening?

SPEAKER_01 26:09

It gets worse. It gets worse. We had left earlier that day.

SPEAKER_05 26:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

Uh yesterday. I forget where we went yesterday, but we went somewhere. And um I went through Starbucks and I grabbed a coffee. So I had a brown sugar shake and espresso at like 9 p.m. So at midnight, I was like, I'm wide awake. Yeah, there's no way I'm going to sleep.

SPEAKER_05 26:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

So I was like, you know what? I like this game. I'm gonna chill down here and play this game. So then Lindsay texts me and she was like, Hey, I'm going to bed. And I was like, Oh, I thought you were gonna come downstairs and we were gonna watch Fallout because we've been watching Fallout. Yeah, she was like, No, I'm tired, I'm going to bed. I was like, Okay, well, I have the baby monitor, so I'm gonna stay down here and play my game. And then when he wakes up, because he's going to, I'll get him.

SPEAKER_04 27:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

2 a.m. Well, one 1 30 in the morning. So he went to bed at midnight, 1 30 in the morning, he wakes up. 2 a.m. I finally get him back to sleep, lay him down. So I went to bed at 2 o'clock in the morning, and I was up at 7.

SPEAKER_06 27:27

Why? Like, what is happening with your baby right now?

SPEAKER_00 27:31

Dude, I don't know. I hate it though.

SPEAKER_06 27:34

Like, is he napping too much during the day? Like, what is happening?

SPEAKER_00 27:37

Oh, dude, I wish.

SPEAKER_06 27:38

Oh no, I fear your baby have insomnia because that's no joke, dude. You should ask mom if I did that as a baby.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 27:46

So I do that now. I'm not a baby, but like I do that now. So I can make belt, I can take melatonin because I'm an adult, but I was once a baby.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

I am a baby, and I do not have insomnia.

SPEAKER_06 27:59

My name is Jared, and I never learned how to read.

Music Of 2025: Favorites

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Taylor, let's talk about music of 2025. What was your favorite song that came out last year?

SPEAKER_06 28:13

Ooh. Ooh. Can I phone a friend? Hang on.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

I mean, you can, but I assume it's gonna be Sabrina Carpenter. I thought I was obvious.

SPEAKER_06 28:26

I also am going to make that assumption, but I have to make sure what I choose is what came out this year last year. Do you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 28:33

Like fair enough. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_06 28:35

Let me see. I just I can't get over that. My my second genre of music was honky tonk. Um, or yeah. On Spotify rap. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

That is crazy.

SPEAKER_06 28:54

Like, I do want to say it's Sabrina, but also is it Sabrina?

SPEAKER_01 29:00

So while you're looking, I will say so. My favorite song of 2025 was AJR's um, so the album was what no one is thinking. What no one's thinking. Uh but the song is called A Dog Song.

SPEAKER_05 29:20

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Um or The Big Goodbye. I think both of them are really, really good. Uh, but those I would say are my favorites.

SPEAKER_06 29:31

It definitely makes sense that it was AJR, for sure.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

Well, as far as an album that came out last year, I I trying to think of other albums that came out last year that I no, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_06 29:45

Like, I'm trying to that's what I'm trying to figure out. Oh, this came out in 2024. Imagine I hit you with uh with a T swizzle.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

Oh let me guess. Is it uh oh ohite? Opalite?

SPEAKER_06 30:01

Ophelia, no, and it's opalite.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

Um oh opalite.

SPEAKER_06 30:09

Oh, right. No, I guess I am gonna have to go Sabrina Carpenter her new album.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Man Child.

SPEAKER_06 30:18

I haven't yeah, I haven't listened to it. No, man's best friend. Man Child is one of the songs. Yeah. Um, I feel like I haven't listened to a lot of songs that came out this year, like, which is crazy. I'm not up on the oh my gosh, I have music news. Okay, I forgot, guys. I'm so sorry. This is everywhere. I meant to text you. The manager of MASH box 20 passed away.

SPEAKER_01 30:43

Shut up, really. What?

SPEAKER_06 30:47

Yeah, he passed away. Um, Rob Thomas's son. I'm so sorry, I know you're on the podcast. Mason? Mason.

SPEAKER_01 30:54

Yeah, Mason.

SPEAKER_06 30:56

Um posted the obituary and then posted a picture of the manager holding him as a baby.

SPEAKER_02 31:01

That's it.

SPEAKER_06 31:02

And was like, you won't be missed. Yeah, he he passed away. Um so there's that.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

Yep, right here. Michael Lippman, yeah, long time manager. For George Michael, Matchbox 20 died at the age of 79.

SPEAKER_06 31:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:27

That's so sad. What a shame. Um, I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 31:32

It's it's so sad.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

We had some some big losses in music as well for 2025.

SPEAKER_06 31:38

We did. R.I.P. Ozzy.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

Yeah, let's see here. So um 2025 saw Brian Wilson from The Beach Boys.

SPEAKER_06 31:58

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:00

Sly Stone, Ace Fraley from Kiss.

SPEAKER_06 32:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

Roberta Flack died this year. I didn't even realize that. Wow. Todd Snyder. That's crazy. Long, long list this year.

SPEAKER_06 32:27

Um, I I have my favorite song.

SPEAKER_01 32:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 32:31

Ordinary by Alex Warren.

SPEAKER_01 32:33

Ordinary by Alex Warren. Wow.

SPEAKER_06 32:36

Takes takes the cake is be above Sabrina all day long. That song is beautiful. Is that that song that goes, hey, me. That's this is the one that goes, um Oh, can I actually just read you a couple lyrics from it? This is a music show.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, you don't, yeah. I mean you can, but I know what song you're doing.

SPEAKER_06 33:01

We're dead and buried. Dude, it's a beautiful song.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

Um, should we jump into this list of the top 10 songs of 2025?

SPEAKER_06 33:12

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 33:14

Okay. Uh what do you who do you think is gonna be on this list?

SPEAKER_06 33:18

Sabrina is definitely on there. T Swizzle is definitely on there. Um trying to think of what else came out in 2025. I think Tate McCrae had some new music, so I assume these aren't these aren't just songs that were released. Oh, just these are just five.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

The top 10 songs in the US for the year 2025.

SPEAKER_06 33:44

Ordinary is definitely on there. It has to be. There's no way that it's not, right? Um Sabrina Carpenter is definitely on there. Either when did you get hot? I'm I'm trying to think of trending TikTok sounds. Um again, I'm sticking with Taylor Swift, is definitely on there. Uh I'm trying to think. I assume probably Beyonce is probably on there. Their cowboy Carter album.

SPEAKER_01 34:14

Well coming in at number 10.

SPEAKER_06 34:17

Imagine you're like over four, none of them are on there. Anywho, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

Coming in at number 10, we have a personal favorite of mine, Pink Pony Club by Chapel Row.

SPEAKER_04 34:32

Oh, I forgot she existed. Oh, I forgot she existed.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

Um dancing in the Pink Pony Club.

SPEAKER_06 34:41

Um, Harley is all listeners to that song. You know what's so funny? Is I like that song when it's being covered by somebody else. I'm sorry for those listening. I can't get behind her voice. I don't like Chapel Rone.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

I I love that song. I love that song.

SPEAKER_06 34:58

I I love it. Like when Amanda from Smosh sang it, I was like, Where's the Spotify? You know what I mean? How do I add this?

SPEAKER_03 35:05

Because it's really good.

SPEAKER_01 35:07

I I'm not into Chapelone at all. Uh I think there's that other song that's pretty good. What is it? Hot hot to go.

SPEAKER_04 35:16

H-O-T-T-O-G-O.

unknown 35:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:22

That one's pretty catchy.

SPEAKER_04 35:23

Who else had new music that I completely forgot? Didn't uh JB have new music?

SPEAKER_01 35:28

Oh, yeah, Justin Bieber. Yeah, he had a new album.

SPEAKER_04 35:30

He had a new album. Anyhow, okay.

SPEAKER_01 35:32

But yeah, Pink Pony Club coming in at number 10.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

That's really funny.

SPEAKER_01 35:37

Number nine is the song APT by Rose and Bruno Mars. I don't know this one.

SPEAKER_06 35:48

Um, isn't that the energy source? APT? Isn't that what isn't Mitochondria the Powerhouse of the Cell or something? Um that's ADP.

SPEAKER_01 36:01

Anywho ADT is a security company.

SPEAKER_06 36:04

It is.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

Too many farmers.

SPEAKER_06 36:08

No, I don't know that song.

SPEAKER_01 36:11

I I have no idea what that song is.

SPEAKER_06 36:13

Didn't didn't Die With a Smile also come out in 2025 with Lady Gaga and um Bruno Mars? Yes. 2025 feels so long. Like that song feels like it was written five years ago. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 36:26

I don't know it.

SPEAKER_06 36:27

It's 2026. It's a really sad song. It makes me cry. I can't listen to it.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

So uh coming in at number eight, we have I Had Some Help Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen.

SPEAKER_06 36:42

I forgot. I forgot Posty went country.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

I was gonna say, you know what? Hot take I don't hate it, take guys. Hot take. I can't stand that Post Malone went country. I hate everything about it. I really am so upset with what country music has become.

SPEAKER_05 37:05

That's fair.

SPEAKER_01 37:07

And it is the one genre that fight me, try and fight me on this. I dare you come up with a solid argument to counter my argument on this. It takes next to no talent to become a country music artist.

SPEAKER_06 37:23

No, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 37:25

Not you, Taylor, but there are people that are listening that are going to want to fight me on this. I dare you to try and counter this argument.

SPEAKER_06 37:33

The country sound is so easy to replicate.

SPEAKER_01 37:37

Here's my argument. Here's my argument. Why it takes next to nothing to become a country music artist. I didn't say star, I didn't say star. Artist. Artist. Because literally every musician who has done any other music can come over to country music and not just do it, but completely dominate your genre. Yeah. How did you take post Malone? Yeah, the metalhead who went rap and bring him into country music, and he becomes the number one country music artist of all time. Of all time.

SPEAKER_06 38:20

Yeah. Come on. Um, what are you doing? We love you, Posty. I I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

I love Post Malone, and I know that he has country roots. I get the story. I understand why he went country. All of it makes sense. But the point is, no, I get the guy who wrote rock star, yeah, is now the number one country music artist.

SPEAKER_04 38:49

Pop and Billy's I feel like a rock star.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

Exactly. No kid rock. Also, so random. But he also did that.

SPEAKER_06 39:04

Beyonce.

SPEAKER_01 39:04

Waityonce.

SPEAKER_06 39:07

I no, I agree. I agree. Um, I will say I don't hate that post. He went country. I like all of his music. I like his rap, his pop, all of it. I love his singing voice.

SPEAKER_01 39:18

Oh no, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_06 39:20

Which and I think that's the one thing where I'm like, oh no, I like I like how you sound outside of that genre. There's a lot of people who I don't. Like, I'm sorry, Hot Trick. I don't like Beyonce's country album.

SPEAKER_01 39:30

Another solid argument for my argument, another solid point for my argument. How many artists have left country music and did the opposite?

SPEAKER_06 39:41

T Swizzle.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

I know, I know one. One.

SPEAKER_06 39:47

And dare I say T Sizzle was one heck of a country artist, and she is one heck of a pop artist.

SPEAKER_01 39:54

Yeah. You know who tried once? Um, Garth Brooks.

SPEAKER_06 40:01

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

Garth Brooks had an alternate ego called Chris Gaines.

SPEAKER_06 40:08

That's really funny.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

Where he tried to do emo music and it failed. I'll even give you uh uh Tim McGraw attempted pop for a moment and also failed.

SPEAKER_06 40:23

That's so funny.

SPEAKER_01 40:25

No one leaves country music and does the same thing, like they're yeah, which is proof that anyone can do it.

SPEAKER_06 40:32

Anyone can do it, anyone can do it, anyone with a guitar. Yeah, dare I say? No, I'm with you.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

Uh clip that. Let's see here. Coming in at number seven, Taylor, ordinary by Alex Warren.

SPEAKER_06 40:51

I knew it. It's it's the wedding song of the year.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Um, yeah, I think it's a solid song. I like that song. I like Alex Warren. I think he's a pretty solid artist coming up. Yeah. Uh we've got number six, beautiful things, Benson Boone.

SPEAKER_03 41:08

I love Benson Boone.

SPEAKER_06 41:14

I love Benson Boone. And that song is so good. It really like it's like no, it gets me going. You don't understand me.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

Whatever that sound is that he makes, I just you could put that, you know how like people take like people falling or hitting the head off of stuff and put it to music. Yeah, you could take his sound of him going and put that to other stuff, and I think that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_06 41:43

That's so funny.

SPEAKER_01 41:44

Uh coming in at number five, I don't really care for this song. I guess yeah, I mean, it's all right. Uh Birds of a Feather by Billy Eilish.

SPEAKER_04 41:55

It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 41:56

I think it's pretty obvious.

SPEAKER_04 41:58

Wait, she's Together.

SPEAKER_01 42:00

What movie was that in?

SPEAKER_06 42:03

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 42:04

It was in a movie. I can't remember what movie, though.

SPEAKER_06 42:07

I also love her Siggy voice. Like her head was it does something for me. Like I'm a big fan of it.

SPEAKER_01 42:16

It's fine. Um I mean Billie Eilish is Billie Eilish, and I think she has cultivated a sound in music that is unique. Um, I think that anytime you can have 20 famous artists try and replicate your sound and make a career for themselves, Olivia Rodrigo. Um, I think that that at least makes you stand out as an artist. It shows that you were there first. You came with the media first.

SPEAKER_06 42:43

I have a question for you. This this was brought up at work today. What do you consider red hot chili peppers, genre-wise?

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Ooh, uh California rock.

SPEAKER_06 42:56

Okay. Okay. I was asked that, and I was like, I don't know, like a groovy rock. I was like, it might have their own thing. You know what I mean? I was like, red hot chili peppers is just red hot chili peppers.

SPEAKER_01 43:08

Red hot chili peppers, blink 182, some 40 miles.

SPEAKER_06 43:12

Like they have their own, like vibe. Okay, I didn't know how to call it beach rock.

SPEAKER_01 43:16

I've I've called it beach rock in the beginning.

SPEAKER_06 43:20

I don't know, like a like a groovy rock. Like, it's not rock, but also we've already had this conversation. I don't know what to categorize rock. Like, there's a lot of things where I'm like, where's the difference between rock and hard rock? Do you know what I'm saying?

Movie Benders And Big Feelings

SPEAKER_01 43:33

Because like you'll say something's hard rock, and I'm like, Yeah, there's a fine line. Uh, but so like you can go, I don't practice santeria, I ain't got no crystal ball. That is in the same genre as dream of California.

SPEAKER_06 43:53

In my head, those also aren't rock. Like, I just couldn't figure out how else to put it, but I'm like, it's not anything else I want to put it in.

SPEAKER_01 44:01

They're like, Do you know what I mean? They're like 90s alternative.

SPEAKER_06 44:07

Alternate that's the word I was looking for. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 44:11

I consider them more rock songs now, just because alternative to me, alternative has become like the Arctic monkeys or um the Black Keys. Um, stuff like that.

SPEAKER_04 44:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 44:28

The Foo Fighters, I would say, uh no, the Foo Fighters are pretty rock. I was gonna say they're rock. Yeah, but like I'm not as I would say Weezer's alternative.

SPEAKER_06 44:39

Really? I would also put Weezer as like a soft rock, like that makes sense in my head.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

Like I said, I would say 90s rock or today's alternative.

SPEAKER_06 44:50

Okay. Because yeah, someone else said rock, and I was like, yeah, like I get like I'm not gonna fight on it, but also is it anywho? Continue.

SPEAKER_01 44:59

Like you could you could have California Cation, Santa Ria, and um Miss You by Blink 182 all come up on the same playlist, and you would be like, those are all supposed to be together.

SPEAKER_06 45:12

Well, even like Blink 182, I'm like, no, that is rock, but like Santa Ria to that's not rock to me.

SPEAKER_01 45:18

Dude, I I listened to I listened to a lot of Sublime yesterday. I was having a sublime moment yesterday.

SPEAKER_06 45:23

I love that. Good for you. I have a sublime shirt now.

SPEAKER_01 45:27

Do you?

SPEAKER_06 45:27

I do. Huh. Oh my god. Anywho.

SPEAKER_01 45:31

There was something I was gonna bring up. Oh, movies. Uh, we watched a ton of movies on this break that we've had, Lindsay and I.

SPEAKER_06 45:39

Barely watched any Christmas movies.

SPEAKER_01 45:40

I watched We didn't watch any Christmas movies.

SPEAKER_06 45:42

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 45:43

But what we did watch was Weapons. Have you seen the movie Weapons?

SPEAKER_06 45:48

Maybe.

SPEAKER_01 45:49

It's like about a bunch of kids that go disappearing and then they like run out in the middle of the street and shit. It was a bad movie.

SPEAKER_06 45:58

Bad as in like I shouldn't watch it, it's not good.

SPEAKER_01 46:02

I mean to me, yes. It was just a bad movie.

SPEAKER_06 46:06

Like um, Dylan's dad watches things on like Flickstore. So I've seen bits and pieces of that because he like he does what I do, he fast forwards through the movie, which is great, because because then we we're both on the same wavelength. Um, so I've seen bits and pieces of it.

SPEAKER_01 46:22

Uh it was it was intriguing enough, but like halfway through it just became like a super obvious nod to child abuse, and I was just like, All right, man, I get it. Like, is there any other point to this show? No, okay, then what are we doing? Like, yeah, and they try to like make it all out to be like, oh, this is based on a true story, and it's like, no, it's not, it's not uh okay, Olivia Benson. I'm sorry, but 17 children didn't run out of their house at exactly 217 a.m. And there's not some psycho witch lady that does you know voodoo shit, like it's just not a true story.

SPEAKER_06 47:06

Um, I recently watched, well, we watched the new Five Nights at Freddy's, and then I recently watched the movie Eternity. It's a new romance movie that came out. Dude, it's really good. I don't even like romance movies like that, but I was like, that was a good movie.

SPEAKER_01 47:23

A really good movie, House of Dynamite. It's on Netflix. So, so good. Like it was such a phenomenal movie. Yeah, and then uh another one that we watched was um 28 years later, which is the trilogy from 28 days to then 28 weeks and then 28 years. Dude, I don't know what it was. There was a section in that movie towards the end that I bawled my eyes out like a baby. Like Lindsay was sitting beside me and I tried to hold it in, you know, where you're like, you can feel yourself tearing up. Yeah, and you're like, I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. And then I just lost it. I literally lost it, was like really sobbing on the couch to the point where she was like, You all right? And I was like, Yeah, I don't know, man. I was like, I I don't know why this scene hit me so hard. Like, I could not explain it. It hit me so hard.

SPEAKER_04 48:20

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 48:21

Yeah, I don't know why. Uh any anywho, um you've seen the new Stranger Things. No, I don't like Stranger Things. Oh really.

SPEAKER_06 48:31

Well, I I spoiler for those listening, L dies. Or not L, 11.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

11. 11 dies, yeah. Shocker. You know why, right? Because I can no longer afford Millie Bobby Brown.

Pokemon 30th Plans

SPEAKER_06 48:44

She also is 30 years old, she just can't play a 10 year old. Like, I'm so like, and people are so upset about they're like, Well, we wanted more. I'm like, more, she has a whole baby and a husband. Please leave her be. Please let her live her life. Mike Boss.

SPEAKER_01 49:02

Yeah, man. Anywho, it's crazy, man. She's she's a completely different person than she was when that showed.

SPEAKER_06 49:09

I'm like, that show's like 10 years old. Please leave her alone.

SPEAKER_01 49:12

They could have just left it alone, they didn't have to keep going, but they did.

SPEAKER_06 49:15

They could have just left it. Oh well.

SPEAKER_01 49:16

I stopped after season two. I couldn't get through it. I think I've not into this.

SPEAKER_06 49:20

Season one, and then season either three or four. I don't remember.

SPEAKER_01 49:23

Yeah, I just wasn't into it.

SPEAKER_06 49:25

Yeah. Anywho, back to our list.

SPEAKER_01 49:27

Um, coming in at number four, we have the song Lose Control by Teddy Skims.

SPEAKER_06 49:34

I love that song. I love that song.

SPEAKER_01 49:39

Teddy Swims. I mean, everybody loves Teddy Swims. Um, I don't know that song. I don't know a lot of these.

SPEAKER_06 49:46

Um, whoa, whoa. You know that one dude is really good. I love his voice. I love his erk. He's got erk to his voice, so I'm a big fan of that.

SPEAKER_01 49:57

Coming number three.

SPEAKER_06 49:58

Is Jelly Bowl on this list?

SPEAKER_01 50:00

No. We have a bar song by Shaboozy. Does anybody know who Shaboozi is?

SPEAKER_06 50:11

We can we can move on from that. I know that song. We can move on from that.

SPEAKER_01 50:15

Um is it good?

SPEAKER_06 50:17

It's not bad, it's just overplayed.

SPEAKER_01 50:19

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_06 50:20

It's not it's not great, it's fine. It's a song on the radio. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 50:24

I don't know it. Shaboozie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 50:27

I only know that song.

SPEAKER_01 50:29

Coming in at number two, we have Luther by Kendrick Lamar and Sizza.

SPEAKER_06 50:36

Of course we do. Of course we and again, the song is fine. It's just always on. Where's Sabrina Carpenter? Is she not on this list?

SPEAKER_01 50:49

Coming in at number one, Taylor. What do you think number one is? Remind mind you. Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift have not been on this list. And this is crazy. This is Billboard's year in Hot 100 now in the US.

SPEAKER_06 51:05

Is it like when did they stop it? Because Spotify stops their Spotify rap at in like October or something like that. So anything that you do from like October to December doesn't count, which is crazy. Because why was mine honky tonk? You know what I'm saying? Um, so I don't know. I'm going to say it's not Taylor Swift because her new album did not come out until October. And if they're not counting that, then I'm gonna go Sabrina Carpenter.

SPEAKER_01 51:38

I'm gonna go Sabrina Carpenter.

SPEAKER_06 51:41

When when did you get hot by Sabrina Carpenter?

SPEAKER_01 51:44

Well, coming in at number one on Billboard's year-end hot 100 list, we have the one, the only. Just getting it's two people. It's Die with a Smile by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars.

SPEAKER_06 52:02

I'm gonna kill myself.

SPEAKER_04 52:04

Clip that I I think makes me what a wild thing to say clip that after.

SPEAKER_06 52:22

I I know I said that it's like it does the song itself makes me cry, but that one actually is overplayed. Like I can't, it's a beautiful song. Don't get me wrong, but come on, guys. Also, dare I say I'm over Lady Gaga. I'm kind of over her. I'm gagawed out.

SPEAKER_01 52:41

I'm searching right now to see when they um because what do you mean it does not use the calendar year? Instead, the chart roughly runs from late October of 2024 through mid-October of 2025.

SPEAKER_06 52:55

Well, then that makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 52:57

So there you go.

SPEAKER_06 52:58

So they're dirty, dirty, dirty liars. Because Sabrina Carpenter's Sabrina Carpenter's album also didn't come out until what?

SPEAKER_01 53:06

Like Oh, I have no clue. No, no idea. Zill zero not a September?

SPEAKER_06 53:12

Probably September. But it was like later in the year, it was like right before Key Suso's album. So that's not even fair. Honestly, next year, we'll get them next year.

SPEAKER_01 53:22

2026 is the year of Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter.

Creator Life, Family Roasts, And Audience

SPEAKER_06 53:25

Do you know what I got told today at work? First of all, this guy, uh, I sorry, I know we're running on an hour hour, but I think everyone will want to hear this. So this guy came in to get a frappuccino, and he's like low key kind of a problem, but he just wants someone to talk to. So like I just let him talk. Anywho, he goes, you know, people are already counting down till Christmas for next year. And I was like, That's crazy, please.

SPEAKER_00 53:47

Let me that is crazy.

SPEAKER_06 53:49

And he was like, Yeah, he said, but you know what? I say during during Christmas, I'm counting down for my Easter sermon, and then do during Easter, I'm counting down for my Christmas sermon. And I said, Yeah, I was like, good for you, praise the Lord.

SPEAKER_02 54:00

Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_06 54:01

Right anyway, so I'm letting him go on and on. And he goes, You know, this this time next year is gonna be 2027. I said, Yeah, that's how the year works. You are absolutely correct. And then he goes, Yeah, he said, Well, I'm hoping this is crazy. I don't know. I'm gonna put it out there, I'm gonna, I'm gonna say it, and I'm hoping he does well, but it's quite literally not my problem. Uh he was like, Yeah, for Easter, I'm hoping to take a vacation. I was like, Oh my gosh, that's so fun. And then he said, a forever vacation, and then said, if the Lord willing.

SPEAKER_01 54:36

If the Lord willing.

SPEAKER_06 54:39

And I said, Are you gonna kill yourself on Easter? Is that what's happening? Because that's what it sounds like. And I don't think our Lord and Savior wants you to do that. Anywho, that's wish him well. I didn't know what to do with that information. I I am not a mandatory reporter, so I just leave that be. Um, anywho, yeah. No, I thought you get a kick out of that. Oh, I also sorry, go ahead. I have I have something else funny to say, but I'm I just wanted to say shout out to Chris.

SPEAKER_01 55:09

I know he's gonna hopefully listen to this episode. He just liked the A real on our Instagram. Sorry. Sorry you're not on this show, buddy. We missed you.

SPEAKER_06 55:17

Hey, Chris, I have been talking about you all day. I'm not gonna lie, I've been missing you a little extra. So send me who I love.

SPEAKER_01 55:24

All is well. I hope that uh that the uh the withdrawals from the nicotine aren't too bad for you.

SPEAKER_06 55:32

Um does he want us putting his personal information out there? That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 55:36

I I think it's important that he knows that we're supporting his his ventures.

SPEAKER_06 55:41

What if what if his mom didn't know he had a nicotine addiction?

SPEAKER_01 55:46

Regardless, Chris, I support your move and and I hope that uh I hope you're staying strong, buddy.

SPEAKER_06 55:52

Chris, I hope rehab goes well. Clip that.

SPEAKER_01 55:58

Oh man. No, that's so fun.

SPEAKER_06 56:00

We do be missing Chris.

SPEAKER_01 56:02

Also, it is officially the 30th year of Pokemon Taylor. Oh this this month and all of February, we are gonna be doing a bunch of Pokemon stuff. So look out.

SPEAKER_06 56:19

I can't wait. I I have to go um add my friends on my Pokemon game.

SPEAKER_01 56:24

Yeah, there's there's gonna be a lot of Pokemon stuff coming up. I I want to play Pokemon Um Crystal with Taylor on here and have her pick my team, and we're gonna name them after musicians.

SPEAKER_06 56:40

Fun.

SPEAKER_01 56:41

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 56:42

Taylor's just not learning about this.

SPEAKER_01 56:44

We're gonna do that. Um, I would like to open up some Pokemon cards on here if I can get my hands on some.

SPEAKER_06 56:50

Oh, don't even get me started.

SPEAKER_01 56:52

Yeah, and we'll we'll find out some other stuff to do, but like it's gonna be a big year for Pokemon.

SPEAKER_04 56:59

I can't wait.

SPEAKER_01 57:00

Um, Pokemon also is releasing their collaboration with Lego, and it looks incredible.

SPEAKER_06 57:10

Let me let me pull something up here.

SPEAKER_01 57:14

It looks so good. Oh, I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_06 57:21

Dylan's search history is crazy. If anyone cares, I'm not gonna out him on here. Um, but it's a lot of things with his little graphs on the computer. And then at the end it says, Does AutoSone install car batteries? I wonder whose car that's about. Anywho, what was I looking at? Not little old mine. I didn't hear nothing about a car battery. That is I I choose to stay out of the loop now, actually.

SPEAKER_01 57:53

Probably for the best, honestly.

SPEAKER_06 57:57

Is it Lego 2026?

SPEAKER_01 57:59

I believe so.

SPEAKER_06 58:00

Lego. Can I look up? How do I work a computer?

SPEAKER_01 58:07

You got this. You can figure it out.

SPEAKER_06 58:10

It's not giving me actual sets, they're lying to me.

SPEAKER_01 58:14

Well, I mean, they're not they're not out yet, so there's just been a lot of leaks.

SPEAKER_06 58:20

So then what are you seeing?

SPEAKER_01 58:22

Well, that uh there's just been some leaks. I'll I'll send you some stuff.

SPEAKER_06 58:26

Okay, because I've got to do it.

SPEAKER_01 58:26

I can't put it on here because we'll get in trouble. So yeah.

SPEAKER_06 58:32

Cough me. I go for a sticky or a sticky uh groupy sock vacation.

SPEAKER_01 58:39

But anyways, about that time.

SPEAKER_06 58:46

Sorry that this wasn't so so music.

SPEAKER_01 58:50

No, we we did we did like 30-ish minutes on music.

SPEAKER_06 58:53

Sorry guys, we're a mess. Our lives a mess. We're trying, we're trying so hard. Please just it's mainly Taylor.

SPEAKER_01 58:58

It's mainly Taylor's a mess.

SPEAKER_06 59:00

Guys, I'm always a mess. This isn't new. Should I start a TikTok in 2026?

SPEAKER_01 59:04

No.

SPEAKER_06 59:07

Hater, do you know what Shiloh said? I know we're supposed to be ending it. Do you know what Shiloh said?

SPEAKER_01 59:10

What did she say?

SPEAKER_06 59:12

She first of all, she was trying to figure out if I had a YouTube channel, and I said, I don't. She was like, Yeah, I see, I see pack with me when I Google your name and going through all these things. I said, Yeah, Charlotte, that's on the podcast channel. Nah. So then she argued with me, and then she looked at me and she goes, Why ain't nobody watching your YouTube videos? I said, I don't know, I'll let Harley know.

SPEAKER_01 59:34

Wait, did she she googled you?

SPEAKER_06 59:37

On she didn't Google me, she looked me up on her YouTube.

SPEAKER_01 59:40

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06 59:41

Yeah. Um, but I was like, Yeah, because but I'm assuming her YouTube does like the smart search, you know what I mean, or whatever. Like, she literally just put in my full name, and that's what popped up.

SPEAKER_01 59:52

I'm gonna I'm gonna try it. I want to see what happens. I've never done that before.

SPEAKER_06 59:56

What on YouTube?

SPEAKER_01 59:58

Yeah, let's see.

SPEAKER_06 59:59

I also have it.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:01

Taylor Cornell. Because the thing is, we don't, it's not like we use I know your Yeah, no, no, dude. That is that is not how it works.

Closing Thanks And Calls To Action

SPEAKER_06 1:00:17

I don't know. Then maybe she just went through something and and saw, I don't know, I couldn't tell you. But either way, it was really funny. We had a whole argument about it, and then she was like, Do you want me to have my friends go in and listen? I said, No, I don't. I said, Do not have your 11-year-old friends listen to our show. Do not do that.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:35

She tried to do that, she tried to do that with me too.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:37

I was like, No, I said, Shiloh, you shouldn't be listening to our show. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:41

For those listening, children, I hope you're not 11 years old.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:44

And if you are, I'm gonna tell your parents and they're gonna tell Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:48

Get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:49

Get out.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:51

Nobody invited you.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:53

Nobody invited 11-year-old. So you you guys are out here saying gang and clock it. I don't want that. Get out of here.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:01

What?

SPEAKER_06 1:01:02

Yeah, Charlotte kept saying gang and then acted like it's something that her generation invented.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:07

I don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:09

Like, let's go, gang. What's up, gang? Um, Dylan said that she needed to start calling people. I don't remember, but then she started going clock it. And I said, I'm done with this conversation.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:22

What is that?

SPEAKER_06 1:01:24

I don't know. Then she tried to say 6-7. I went eight nine. Anyhow.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:33

Uh leave that shit back in 2025 where it belongs.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:37

For realsies.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:39

All right. Well, all right, well, this was a mess.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:44

Okay. In a good way, not in a bad way, but I feel bad. Anywho, for those listening. No, I don't. If you enjoyed today's show, go ahead and give it a big thumbs up, subscribe, and don't forget to Hit that bell notification so you can notified every time we post a new video.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:03

And as always, like I said at the beginning of the show, please follow our Instagram. It really, really helps us. Um, we're at 477. I'd like to see 500 at January so that we can start gearing up for our first thousand by the end of 2026. Um, and then subscribe to the YouTube. We're at 210 subscribers over there. Uh, I'd like to see that hit 500 this year. So um thank you guys for all the support. Thanks for all of the listens. I I see every single one of you that listen, so don't feel like I'm not noticing. Uh, I try and interact with all the comments that come through. And our merch line is up and live and ready for you. We have DJ ABC shirts.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:50

I know. I'm I'm about to get that and my meanie. I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna do it tonight.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:55

So excited shirts, we've got hoodies, we've got this sick ass hat. I'm wearing or a hoodie.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:02

Yeah, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:03

Like we we've got good merch. It's very, very comfortable, it's a very high quality. These hats are incredible. I love my I'm excited.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:10

I am excited.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:12

All right, everybody. It has been real and peace.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:19

Thanks for listening to the Hokin Bridge Podcast.