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BRB UK 662: From Underworld to Open Road

BRB UK Podcast

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Sguk, Brb Uk, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X, Dan Gibbons, Pc, Steam Deck, Chris Coleman, Playstation 5, Big Red Barrel, Xbox Series S, Games & Hobbies, Tim Hibbs, Podcast, Video Games

4.7533 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to stop circling and make the calls. We're locking in our final Game of the Year picks for 2025!

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0:00.0

Episode 6162.

0:03.1

I'm going to take your halls, Bob.

0:05.1

Nah.

0:06.1

God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God, God. Worst teeth, better accents.

0:25.9

Hello, hello, and indeed, oh, ho, ho, ho.

0:30.3

It's Christmas time.

0:31.9

Well, it's just been Christmas time.

0:33.5

You just missed it, we just, actually.

0:35.7

So we're coming to the day after Christmas, known as Boxing Day for reasons, only known the mists of time.

0:42.5

I know.

0:43.5

Do you? All right. And there's Coleman. He knows things. Coleman lay a knowledge bomb on me. Hi. Hi. The term boxing day, it's a UK term, and the idea is the day after Christmas,

0:54.7

it's the day

0:55.1

where you would re-gift the unwanted gifts to those less fortunate re-boxing, boxing day.

1:02.5

Whereas now it's just shoving it in a box, sending it back to Amazon. It's basically

1:06.9

what, what it said? It's boxing day for an entirely different reason. I I mean, at some point the focus then became around sales, but less so now, unless you're looking

1:16.1

for a sofa or some carpet, now the sales day tend to be the American Black Friday that we do

1:22.0

in the UK now. It's all nonsense. They always have sales on. Trust me, as a man who has recently had to buy a lot of things for the money pit, he calls his house, they've always got a sale on. They're like, oh, today's 20% percent off, 20% off sofas ends today. Next day they've got exactly the same sale on. It's just a new one. Damn. This is what makes me so old, grumpy, old and grumpy and cynical, all the things you

1:47.5

shouldn't be around Christmas time.

1:48.7

Talking of all the things you shouldn't be around Christmas time, Tim's ill, so we

1:53.0

won't be joining us for these next couple of festive shows, which we're totally recording

1:58.0

live during the festive period.

2:01.4

But my amazing powers of foresight and clinical acumen tell me that Tim won't be with us for at least the next three shows.

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