It’s time for the Meet in the Middle Big Fat Quiz of the Year as the gang look back at the most unhinged news pop culture moments and internet madness from 2025. From solar maximums lighting up the Northern Lights to drive through fines nuns on the run and a truly baffling cockfighting law in Oklahoma nothing is off limits.

The quiz takes a sharp turn through viral moments music trends and internet chaos including Coldplay drama Eurovision madness glitchy AR filters AI generated music and TikTok trends that took over everyone’s feeds. There’s nostalgia with Stranger Things controversy from Big Brother Southern Gothic influences and a breakdown of the shows songs and celebrities that dominated the year.

Packed with trivia banter wrong answers and competitive energy this episode is pure end of year entertainment. Play along at home and drop your final score in the comments so we can see who actually won the Big Fat Quiz of 2025.

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It’s the Meet in the Middle Christmas special and the chaos starts immediately. The gang swap gifts in a full Secret Santa unboxing, sharing big laughs questionable choices and some genuinely unexpected reactions. It’s festive friendship at its finest.

The episode dives into weird Christmas traditions from around the world, last minute gift panic and festive language quirks before Rachel takes over with Rachel’s Festive Riddle, testing everyone’s Christmas knowledge. Things wrap up with outrageous Christmas party confessions proving the festive season is never as wholesome as it looks.

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This week on Meet in the Middle the gang are back with peak comedy and absolute nonsense as they unpack their recent Amsterdam trip Christmas madness and one of the strangest news stories you will ever hear. A South African pastor claiming he can heal people by farting sets the whole room off and it only gets worse from there.

The crew dive into the messy reality of public farts marriage farts and church farts then switch into a full breakdown of male bathroom habits. From the infamous 45 minute toilet break to men treating the toilet like a daily safe haven nothing is off limits. The team compare male and female bathroom behaviour share skitterface slang from Belfast and roast each other into the ground while trying to keep the podcast on the rails.

There is proper chaos mixed with real friendship energy. The Mix and Match quiz returns with big laughs and even bigger ego battles before the episode takes a turn into bizarre ER stories featuring medical madness and the kind of oversharing that only this podcast can deliver. It is stupid smart ridiculous and honest. Classic Meet in the Middle.

Listeners get comedy banter cultural slang Christmas stories Amsterdam memories and some of the worst bathroom confessions known to man. If you want pure entertainment games humour and a group of friends who cannot get through one topic without collapsing into laughter this episode is for you.

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The gang jumps into their first ever live Twitch episode, giving you the unfiltered, unedited madness that usually gets chopped out. Late entrances, tech meltdowns and Danny turning up dressed like a colour-coordinated icon.

In Have You Heard, Jake reveals a £20k home robot that looks like an Apple-approved Teletubby and sends the whole chat into meltdown about privacy, stairs and whether it secretly moonlights as a sex bot.

Danny rolls into What the FAQ with the live viewers chiming in, before Rachel unleashes a fiery Boys Catch Yourselves On, dragging the lads for coat denial, DIY disasters and refusing to watch anything new ever.

Then it’s straight into the Quiz with Twitch helping (and roasting) and finally we wrap with Confessionals, where the chat delivers some absolute gems — from wardrobe mishaps to dating disasters — all landing live on air.

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Two years in and the gang are somehow still standing as James absolutely butchers the intro, everyone argues over who’s actually turned up for the most episodes and they realise the 100th isn’t far off. Jake kicks off Have You Heard with Tom Brady cloning his dog, sparking a full moral meltdown over science, souls and whether bringing back your pet is sweet or straight-up unsettling.

Rachel then dives into Boys Catch Yourselves On and drags men who use 3-in-1 (and Jake’s cursed 5-in-1) shower gel, while Danny backs her up and James pretends he hasn’t packed a multipurpose bottle on trips. From there Danny’s What the FAQ unleashes “Malkinroot,” a feral old-school insult for someone who shags like they’re summoning spirits, which slides perfectly into a savage two year anniversary quiz that tests their memory on aliens, Big Brother secrets and Angelica Pickles. Finally James opens Confessionals and it gets properly filthy: a listener caught hiding in a lad’s wardrobe by his mum, a jalapeño pizza incident that set someone’s bits on fire and a bloody birthday hook-up that ended in dry-clean-only sheets.

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Back in their cosy home studios, the gang debrief a wild weekend: customs swabs, delayed flights and Danny accidentally sharing a plane with Cheryl Baker and Will Best while everyone else missed the memo. Celebrity Traitors gets a spoiler-heavy recap, Alan Carr’s big win gets surprisingly emotional and Jake wonders if event TV has officially resurrected. In Have You Heard, Jake dives into the cosmetic “arms race” down south with Scrotox for millennials and penis filler for Gen Z, while the others debate smooth bollocks, Coke-can girth and whether anyone is really inspecting balls that closely.

In What the FAQ, Danny serves up the word cacoethes which is sadly not a difficult shite or having two minges stacked like a lasagne. Instead it’s the fancy term for the urge to do something stupid which perfectly explains drunk texts to exes, Zara sprees on Klarna and Jake thinking Hinge would help his mental health. Then Rachel’s Pendulous Riddles make a triumphant return in the Quiz with mirrors, eggs and fire, unhinged buzzers, scoreboard drama and Jake desperately trying to get on the board while James and Danny clean up.

Confessionals go extra spicy with a Twitch special: walking in on three blokes in the kitchen mid “take this dick” then a cruise ship roommate whose sleep-apnoea snore is so violent it gets secretly recorded and weaponised. The gang weigh up petty revenge, shame and actual health risks before wrapping things up and inviting you to join them live on Twitch next time for more unfiltered madness, questionable decisions and deeply unserious life advice.

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Jake’s flown from Nottingham to Belfast (probably just for a Tinder match), Rachel’s still recovering from her weekend bender, James has turned up dressed like a homicidal clown, and Danny’s rolled in from Hastings faster than an EasyJet flight — yep, it’s another episode of Meet in the Middle!

This week, Jake takes us on a wild one in Have You Heard? — the story of Karl Bushby, the man who’s literally been walking around the planet for 27 years. No flights. No cars. Just blisters and sheer stubbornness. The gang debate if they could even commit to walking to Tesco every day, never mind across continents.

Then Rachel dives into Boys, Catch Yerselves On! and drags the lads for their abandoned online shopping baskets — turns out men treat their baskets like exes they can’t quite let go of.

Danny resurrects another filthy gem in What the FAQ with the word “QUOZ” — 18th-century slang for someone acting like a total idiot (so, basically, modern Twitter).

The quiz gets fiery — literally — in For Flip Sake thanks to @rockadoodledo Belfast Hot Sauce, before James closes the show with a trio of Confessionals that have us gasping, groaning, and weirdly emotional — from a coffee-stained carpet cover-up to a love confession sent to the wrong girl that somehow ended in marriage.

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The Halloween Special is here and it’s a full-on disaster from the start. James opens as Freddie Mercury reincarnated, Rachel looks as dead on the outside as she is on the inside, Jake argues about how to say “trick-or-treating” and Danny can’t stop peeling his fake skin off mid-recording. Somewhere in the middle of all that, we talk about our Belfast Meet-up, questionable costumes, and how Jake has never been trick-or-treating in his life.

James kicks off the scares with Dublin’s haunted Kilmainham Gaol, setting the tone for the night. Rachel tries to tell her Crumlin Road Jail story but ends up in a full breakdown over the word “incarceration.” Danny and James LOSE IT and any hope of a serious ghost story dies instantly. Then the team share listener stories from haunted nightclubs, ghost kids running under streetlights in Florida and a few unexplainable UFO sightings over Belfast. Things wrap up with talk of haunted pubs, prison weddings and whether ghosts actually touch people — or just stick around for the craic.

It’s haunted history meets total breakdown. Loud, ridiculous and somehow still one of our funniest episodes yet.

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This week on Meet in the Middle the crew takes flight with a deep dive into the rise and fall of Hooters Airlines, the short-lived American carrier that tried to combine air travel, entertainment and chicken wings. The hosts unpack how this bizarre concept ever got off the ground, what it says about early 2000s marketing, and how cultural attitudes toward gender and branding have changed since. It’s the kind of nostalgic, eyebrow-raising reflection that only this bunch could turn into pure comedy.

From there, the conversation nosedives into the everyday chaos of modern life — specifically, cable hoarding. Why do so many of us keep drawers full of ancient chargers, mystery cables and dead tech we’ll never use? The group debates whether it’s hoarding, habit or just forward planning disguised as procrastination. There’s plenty of self-awareness, a few confessions and the usual back-and-forth banter that defines British and Irish humor at its best.

Listeners also learn about the forgotten English word fudgel, meaning to pretend to work while doing nothing. Naturally, the hosts take it too far, confessing to their own expert-level fudgeling moments at work and at home. The discussion somehow leads to a mix of cultural commentary, relationship talk, and a brand-new quiz segment called Mix and Match, where logic and laughter collide.

And just when you think it can’t get any wilder, one of the hosts drops a confession involving a mum and daughter that sends the room off the rails. It’s awkward, hilarious, and very Meet in the Middle — the kind of story that’ll make you laugh, cringe, and question your life choices all at once.

Packed with personality, honest stories and proper laughs, this episode blends everything listeners love about Meet in the Middle: unpredictable conversations, sharp humor, relatable confessions and cultural commentary that somehow makes sense by the end. Whether you’re into nostalgia, British-Irish banter, workplace procrastination or outrageous storytelling, this one’s for you.

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This week intro kicks off with a wild opening chat that somehow blends serial killer Ed Gein with the inexplicable rise of marble racing on TikTok. It’s unsettling, hilarious, and exactly the kind of nonsense you’ve come to expect.Jake kicks off Have You Heard with the Taco Bell 50km ultra marathon, a race designed for people who enjoy both running and regret. Just as the story gets going, Danny decides to whip out his “puppies,” derailing everything in classic fashion. Danny then takes the mic for What the FAQ, diving into some truly weird body modification scenarios. The chaos ramps up with an Ed Gein quiz, and James finishes strong with confessionals that’ll make you laugh, wince, and question humanity.FOLLOW AND HIT THE BELL NOTIFICATION TO NEVER MISS AN EPISODEWant to contact us?Mail: ⁠[email protected]⁠Website: ⁠www.meetinthemiddlepod.com⁠Instagram: @podcast.meetinthemiddleIntro and Outro: Living Kills - The Noise#ComedyPodcast #MeetInTheMiddle #BritishPodcast #IrishPodcast #PopCulture #TrueCrime #EdGein #MarbleRacing #TacoBellMarathon #BodyModification #TopTenQuiz #FunnyConfessionals #PodcastChaos #UnfilteredHumour #SpotifyPodcasts #ComedyShow #PodcastMoments #JakeJamesDannyRachel #UKPodcast #IrelandPodcast #ViralPodcast