This week, we're looking back on a year that certainly happened. We're joined by a more vocal Rowan French as we get into our favourite films, music, games, pieces of media, experiences, relationships, and crushing disappointments.

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1:54 Top five events

22:41 Can't you hear me knocking?

24:00 Top five TV shows

33:59 Top five relationships

39:20 Top five disappointments

49:46 Top five games

1:01:05 Top five bands/albums/songs/etc.

1:11:19 Top five movies, and also some Game of Thrones talk

1:24:02 Books we're gonna read

1:29:14 Top five podcasts (that we've done)

1:32:32 #goals

1:45:47 Wrapping up (the year)

In this episode, ya boyz get into Christmas. Alex Ryan loves it, but Alex Vellis isn't on board. Will he change his mind by the end of the episode?

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4:41 Phone Call #1 - Amber

7:12 Phone Call #2 - Ameera

11:08 Attempted Phone Call - Rowan

12:40 Phone Call #3 - Arthur

18:05 Why Alex Vellis hates Christmas

25:05 Phone Call #4 - Josh

30:25 Attempted Phone Calls - Sam and Chris

34:24 Phone Call #5 - Heather

42:07 A Christmas Miracle

49:02 ... And We Start Drinking

50:29 Attempted Phone Call - Corin and Laura

53:53 Phone Call #6 - Ella

56:35 Phone Call #7 - Dan and Zoe

59:57 Attempted Phone Call - Kat

1:01:56 Phone Call #8 - G, feat. Alex Vellis singing

1:09:01 Phone Call #9 - Patrick

1:12:31 Touching on Jesus, and the True Meaning of Christmas

1:23:38 (Christmas) Wrapping up

In today's episode, uploaded a little late because Christmas, we talk with special guest Jonas Lewis-Anthony about what it takes to make a living from creative stuff.

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5:20 #listenupbirches #health #blessed

7:27 Introduction, streaming porn, and the pros and cons of making people cry.

12:23 Getting paid, holding hands, and phone calls.

19:03 The Four Roads, and more struggles of getting paid.

38;11 When did you know you wanted to do this?

43;29 Have you ever tried rapping? And electrocution stories.

56:53 ... But how did you know?

1:20:39 Quick questions that take a while, genres, Smash Mouth, and where would you live?

1:41:27 Wrapping up.

After a serious medical emergency last week (Alex Vellis had a headache), Alex and Alex jump right back into it with an episode on memes. What are they about? Where do they come from? Are they racist? Buckle in and we'll find out.

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3:09 The Alex and Alex Dating Show

4:30 A real Samson and Delilah-type situation

7:24 Sad memes, happy memes, and Australians

13:23 Anti-memes, the meaning of memes, corporate memes, 'same'

38:30 Big Shaq and politics

40:30 Pepe the frog, and niche memes

53:25 Quick memes!

1:08:47 Question Time, with your favourite memes

1:16:14 Wrapping up

In our second episode on a topic we still can't seem to get right, we discuss time travel again. Specifically, we chat about what we would both do given the ability to time travel (spoilers: probably not a lot).

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2:35 If you could go back to any point, where do you go?

7:56 If you could go back and punch anyone, who do you punch?

12:01 If you could go back and sleep with anyone, who do you sleep with?

17:08 We talk movies and TV for a while

22:50 Seriously though, who do you sleep with?

24:45 Nazis!

29:30 What about the British Empire?

31:29 Can Kelly Osbourne trump Trump?

32:27 We're back (in time) - would we screw it up?

36:37 Doctor Who facts (?)

40:23 Spider-Man fight, the Ex-Men, and more pop culture

54:45 If you could go back and change on thing, what do you change?

1:14:55 Wrapping up

In the first of an ongoing series that we just can't seem to get right, we talk about time travel. In this episode, we talk mostly about how different stories play with time in different ways, as well as mentioning how we're going on a Romantic Dinner for Two very soon ...

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2:36 Perceptions of time (it's always running out)

6:45 Our Romantic Dinner

8:38 Time travel stories

14:53 Playing with time, and whether the Earth is flat (it's still not)

25:26 Multiple yous? And a very quick ending

27:50 Alex and Alex from the past discuss something you've just heard us discuss in the future

In this episode, we celebrate Alex Vellis's successful completion of Sober (most of) October. We celebrate it by getting drunk. We also talk about his experiences during the whole thing, and some more general thoughts on drinking, stopping drinking, and everything in between.

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3:30 Why did you decide to do it?

8:43 Segue!

12:30 Stop-tober, Bird-tober, and the Arctic

22:30 Stop-tober (Sober October) and depression

42:44 One thing you liked, and talking about motivation

54:25 We get into superhero movies for some reason

58:40 Saving money, and treating art like a business

1:06:25 Did you save any money?!

1:08:35 One thing you hated about the whole thing?

1:15:40 Would you do it again, and has it changed your attitude?

1:19:07 Question Time!

1:29:15 Wrapping up

In this episode, we talk about comic books. A lot. We also answer some questions. Click through to give it a listen!

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Getting into comics, and why we love Spider-Man 1:50

Marvel and DC characters: men and gods 9:30

Continuity, and Ultimate Marvel 12:45

The X-Men movies and cartoon, and death in the MCU 41:09

Comic book adaptations, and we argue about movies 45:30

Question Time! 1:44:27

In this short segment of bonus content, we ill-advisedly get into Physics. Click through to hear us talk whether or not the Earth is flat, and whether our bodies have more space in than space.

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