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Hi guys, I'm Emma and I'm Julie.

And welcome back to another episode. Hey, Joel.

Hi, Am.

Okay, this is not just any episode. This is our 2025 end of year recap.

And I have to tell you every year that we do this, it is one of my

favorite episodes to record. Same because A, we have so much fun. And B, because of our memories,

every single thing on this list is a surprise to us. Right. And also because sometimes week to

week we feel like we're scraping the barrel for stories. But when you look at it as a whole,

it's kind of like low-key,

a lot did happen. No, it did. Specifically when we get into September, what a month.

Okay, let's just start it off. We'll see where this goes. As you guys know, we just typically

pick out a couple of the major stories from each month. Then we go through some of the top performing posts from that month. It's a little bit of a free-for-all. So just a caveat going

into this, not everything that happened is going to be included. It's just a sampling of things

we'd like to talk about. Can I make a confession before we start? Yes. I have to get this off my chest.

I didn't necessarily run this by you, but I think you will agree.

Technically, the Blake and Justin lawsuit started in December.

And so if you look back at our outlines, it dominated the first half of this year. And I just made the executive

decision that we are just not talking about it in this recap. Okay, first of all, I could not be

more aligned with that decision. I noticed when I was going through the outline that you

included the initial Blake and Taylor rumor of it all, which does feel necessary to highlight.

That was an important one.

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