Pete and Cliff wave goodbye to 2025! Cliff brings Extra Elderflower Vedett to the table and the rest of us bring the receipts: this episode is our noisy, affectionate attempt to rank the Top 10 popular-culture moments of 2025. We’re not doing academic history — just what made feeds explode, pubs argue, and watercoolers crackle. Expect everything from art-world sleuthing to meme formats so baffling they became a shared language.

Highlights include our take on the Louvre Heist saga and the online detective subculture that followed; the baffling, contagious “6/7” meme that refused to explain itself; the continued intersection of celebrity and geopolitics (a papal moment that got everyone talking); and the year’s big music and streaming beats — Coldplay/Chris Martin moments, superstar collaborations and whether live-show spectacle still moves the needle. We debate gaming culture (the Football Manager 25 phenomenon), the nostalgia bounce of Top of the Pops and Tomorrow’s World-style tech chatter, and whether Game of Thrones references are still a reliable crowd-pleaser.

We also go big-space: Atlas 3i and deep-space mining talk spin into conversations about Elon Musk, space junk and the ethics of asteroid prospecting. Because this is Pints of View, we add ridiculous detours — Pi day mania, the “Who Would Win?” superhero debate (Justice League vs The Avengers; Iron Man vs Superman? Batman vs Gandalf?), and the political noise (midterms, online activism figures like Zohran Mamdani) that coloured the year. All of it is tasted against Cliff’s floral Vedett: elderflower aroma, light sweetness and a sessionable finish that somehow pairs with both optimism and sarcasm.

This is a Year-In-Moments done our way: subjective, loud, and full of arguments you’ll want to join. Pour something fizzy, hit play, and tell us which 2025 moment you’d put at number one.

Cliff brings Extra Elderflower Vedett. We count down the Top 10 pop-culture moments of 2025 — Louvre Heist, the “6/7” meme, space-mining chatter, Coldplay & more.

Think we missed a 2025 moment? Tell us on social with #PintsOfView and your pick — we’ll read the best ones on the next episode. Want a 30-second highlight reel for socials? Say the word and we’ll draft three edits.

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