Time for Singing Christmas Songs: A Festive Farewell

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Time for singing Christmas songs Welcome to Why Is It So?

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We're welcoming you now to our last podcast for the year and it's a happy time

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of the year with Christmas and New Year and kids running backwards and forwards to Christmas tree.

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It's been fantastic to be with you all for the last two and a half years and

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we've got something a little bit different today.

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We're not going to go into normal banter, but actually, we're just going to

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try and have some fun, a bit of laughter,

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cheer for the rest of the year, and looking forward to the new year of 2026 and the end of 2025.

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Actually, today, Vince is obviously with us, and we're just going to be able

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to chat, as I said, and we'll see where we go from here.

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Good morning, Vince. How are you this morning?

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I'm feeling all right, Paul. It's not far to go now.

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We've got Christmas around the corner, and a week later we'll be celebrating another new year.

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That's a little bit different to what we were talking about before.

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Oh, right. When you came in and said, oh, I don't know, I'm still here.

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I think we should all be grateful that we're still breathing.

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Well, yes, that does help.

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Which is more than you can say for a lot of people who passed away this year, by the way.

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Yeah, there has been a few. There's been some notable passings during 2025.

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In the show business world, we saw actors like Robert Redford,

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Gene Hackman, and of course, the wonderful Diane Keaton.

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Much loved actors who stood the test of time and made a lot of iconic movies too.

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Yeah, well, this being Christmas and New Year, let's keep it on a... Upbeat? Upbeat...

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And let's have a look at the good things that are happening.

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As you said, we are... Okay, that's the end of that. Now let's look at the bad

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things that have happened.

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It has been pretty good. But I have noticed that the Indian population have

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really taken on the Christmas scene.

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And, you know, there's a few quite good medicines, actually. Let me play you this one.

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We've picked three or four, what I think is a good sample, of the music that makes everybody happy.

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I thought that was quite good, but actually they get better as we go.

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A couple more there that we can probably have a look at or listen to and see what you think.

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They've got like Christmas carols similar to what we do, but of course they're doing them in Indian.

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Is that the Indian language, I suppose, since you'd call it? Yes.

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I'm riveted, Paul. Well, Vince, let's face it. That was very entertaining,

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to say the least. Well, we haven't done it yet.

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But this is actually one of our popular carols, if you like. Well, it's not a carol.

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It's a Christmas song. Oh, a Christmas song. I'm sorry, yes.

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And sung way more professionally than what George Michael ever did. Oh, yeah, absolutely.

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But let's have a listen to their version of this.

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And, yeah, this could hear you up a little bit too. Hang on a sec. Okay.

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Well, there you go, Paul. I've got to ask you, thinking back on the year 2025,

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what is the one thing that more than anything else put a smile on your face

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or made you laugh this year?

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Oh, look, there's probably plenty of things that happened in 2025.

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But the one that I remember because it really killed me, I was laughing.

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I think it was actually, you couldn't have done it any better.

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Okay. As a thing to cheer you up, really.

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It was one of those songs that you sort of, you walk away whistling the song

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and you can't get it out of your head. Okay. And it was very, well.

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It's a Christmas song, isn't it? It is a Christmas song. Oh,

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okay. It is a Christmas song.

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And look, let me just play it for you. Okay.

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Now, we do not take any responsibility for anybody that comes off the road in laughter.

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I mean, if someone crashes their car because they're laughing so much,

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I must warn you now, make sure you've got some tissues and dry your eyes and

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slow down when you're on it.

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You're building up the audience here. Well. But you better deliver on this.

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I think it's pretty good.

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Okay. However, before we do, we've got two more to play. So I'll put in the second last one in now.

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That'll sort of warm the audience up, I think. And then we'll go for the big shot one at the end.

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We'll go with the second last one now.

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If you liked the last song, you'll love the last one that's coming up now.

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So, look, no further ado, let's just put it on now, see what you think.

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Well, that's it as far as Christmas songs go. If you'd like to hear some more

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Indian music, jump onto YouTube and type in Vindaloo Singh.

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No, I didn't believe it either, but he's there. We'll have to give Vince a chance to stop laughing.

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I trust that you enjoyed our offering and had a bit of a laugh and took it all

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as a bit of fun as it was intended.

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But in the meantime, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank our loyal listeners

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who have been with us on our journey for the last two and a half years.

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We have now got ourselves, well, we've just actually posted our 53rd episode.

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Right. Which is pretty good, I thought. You know, considering we started with

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nothing, we've still got nothing.

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But it is very good. We should thank our listeners, all three of them.

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If it's all three, they've been actually working overtime with the listening

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bit, because we've actually, funny enough, America, two months ago,

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were 50% of our audience for that particular month, and that's when we were

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doing all the American...

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Episodes and interviews, yeah. So that's pretty good. And they've stayed with

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us. Germany is another country we go to.

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Japan, England, Great Britain.

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But half your audience is from the United States. In that particular month,

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yeah. Do you see what happens when President Donald Trump endorses you?

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No, look, we're very grateful that people like it.

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And, well, someone must like it because we've been doing pretty well there. That's good.

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So let's wish our audience a very, very happy Christmas or Merry Christmas. Indeed.

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A happy new year and a very safe one too. So this will be our last podcast for

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the month or for the year.

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And we'll be back in the middle of January to sort of maybe have a look forward

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as to what's going to be happening for the year.

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Oh, the predictions episode that we did last year.

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Yes, and the year before. Actually, we should look at the predictions we made

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in January this year and see whether any of them actually occurred.

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I don't think anything occurred like this year.

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But no, it's been good. Thank you again. Do have a safe holiday.

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Do you know what New Year's Eve signifies this year? It signifies that New Year's comes the next day.

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Yeah, apart from that. No, what is that? The first quarter of this century would

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have been lived and completed 25 years.

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So it's like quarter time in a football match, isn't it?

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I'd go to the football match. At 2050, it'll be halftime. I don't think we'll

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be here by then. I don't think so.

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Somehow something gives me the idea that we won't be here.

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Well, I hope you enjoyed all of that, and if you did enjoy listening to some of that,

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very enjoyable and entertaining Christmas music, feel free to share it with

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all of your friends and family, and pass it on to others, and let them have

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a laugh, just like we did. Absolutely.

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And again, we'll talk to you in January sometime. Look forward to seeing you

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in 2026. Not if I see you first.

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Have a good day. Merry Christmas everyone Have a wonderful time Thank you Have a good day.