00:01:22.201 – Happy New Year!
00:04:34.438 – New year but same bullshit from Amerika… Donald Trump, ICE, and the deaths of Rob & Michele Reiner
00:27:25.414 – Christmas break, terrible neighbours, and pot smokers
00:45:19.842 – Boxing Day sales, and technology updates
01:02:10.740 – Movies, ads, and Christmas horror
01:17:40.818 – Our top albums of 2025 (See lists below)
01:23:44.223 – Picks of the week: Music, and TV
Stephen’s Top Albums from 2025 (not meant to be “a best of” and in no particular order):
- Testament – Para Bellum (Thrash metal from California)
- Paradise Lost – Ascension (Doom metal from UK)
- Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services (Hardcore from New Jersey)
- The Haunted – Songs Of Last Resort (Heavy metal from Sweden)
- Coroner – Dissonance Theory (Thrash metal from Switzerland)
- Gaahl’s Wyrd – Braiding The Stories (Black meta from Norway)
- Igorrr – Amen (Black metal from France)
- Warbringer – Wrath And Ruin (Thrash metal from California)
- Messa – The Spin (Doom metal from Italy)
Adam’s Top Albums of 2025 (in no particular order):
- Ed Sheeran – Play
- Finger Eleven – Last Night On Earth
- Big Wreck – The Rest Of The Story
- White Reaper – Only Slightly Empty
- Nine Inch Nails – TRON_ Ares
- Spiritbox – tsunami sea
- Deftones – Private Music
- Her Last Sight – Seasons SUMMER
- Killswitch Engage – This Consequence
- Sleep Token – Even In Arcadia
Recorded on Sunday, January 11, 2026.
Sources:
- ‘People are worried’: Air travel from Vancouver to U.S. falls for 10 straight months | Vancouver Sun
- Neil Young Scorches Donald Trump: ‘It’s ICE Cold Here in America’ | Rolling Stone
- Trump repeats criticism of killed Hollywood director Rob Reiner | BBC
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