Christmas Party, Debris & Ping-Pong

December 19, 2025·42 min·3 clips

Vogue Williams thanks listeners and calls her co-hosts 'human beta blockers' after a stressful day.

1. My Therapist Ghosted Me records a year-end episode with Joanne McNally and Vogue Williams reviewing 2025 predictions, discussing consumer news, and planning for 2026. 2. Joanne McNally is an Irish comedian; Vogue Williams is a TV presenter; producer Jo handles the edit — all three are thanked by Vogue in an opening speech for the support the podcast provides. 3. The episode's loose thesis is a year-in-review format — checking predictions, flagging what's next, and indulging in tangents — with no single dominant story. 4. Vogue notes the renewed search for MH370, which disappeared in 2014, ten years ago — a $56 million reward for finding the plane and $300,000 per body recovered. 5. She claims to have been 'close to hijacking a Ryanair flight' to raise awareness for the search, and offers to investigate personally using her PADI diving license (good to 17 metres), a dinghy, and a metal detector. 6. Joanne reviews predictions from Irish predictor Theophilus Moore's 260-year-old book: assassination of Elon Musk (didn't happen), death of Joe Biden (didn't happen), Taylor Swift pregnancy (didn't happen), aliens arriving in November (didn't happen). 7. Joanne discusses a politician — later identified by Vogue as Mitch McConnell — who 'just stops at the podium and stands there' before being walked off, compared to her late Auntie Joan stopping in the middle of roundabouts to reflect. 8. The Golden Globes gift bag breakdown: a three-night Turks and Caicos villa at $500,000, a Bordeaux wine dinner at $272,000, a non-surgical stem cell facelift at $40,000, a luxury yacht charter around Indonesia's Coral Triangle — total value just under one million dollars. 9. Joanne reveals that podcasts have been added as a Golden Globes category for the first time and speculates the hosts need to 'branch into the informative space' or find Malaysia Airlines to qualify. 10. A 2026 social media prediction claims it peaked in 2022 and will continue declining — coffee shops will remove plugs, introduce journaling areas, and board games will make a comeback. 11. A predicted 'sex recession' continues into 2026 — Joanne notes morale in the 'hetero world is low' and cites a speaker called Scott who argued liver cirrhosis is less dangerous than social isolation among young people who no longer drink. 12. The Dutch parenting tradition 'dropping' involves leaving children in the woods at night to find their own way home, designed to build confidence, teamwork, and navigational skills — monitored from a distance. 13. Japan's practice of sending children as young as three on solo errands using public transport is contrasted with Joanne's plan to keep any future child 'on a bungee cord' and hire a security guard for them from age 16. 14. The Enhanced Games are launching in May 2026, openly allowing performance-enhancing drugs, prompting Joanne to joke about entering her mother Pat for gymnastics and lacing her Christmas turkey with steroids. 15. Vogue describes the Roxanne Pallett incident on Celebrity Big Brother — where Pallett accused Ryan Thomas of hitting her despite footage showing otherwise — as 'the most insane reality TV moment' she has seen. 16. Vogue introduces SD Kid, a grime rapper who hides his face like Banksy, and the viral theory that he is actually Timothée Chalamet, who told Heart Breakfast he 'can't confirm or deny' the claim. 17. Chalamet is noted to be promoting a ping pong film for which he reportedly trained six years and recently called Susan Boyle one of his British icons during his UK press tour. 18. Tone is end-of-year festive but ragged — Joanne has cancelled all remaining Christmas plans to eat bone broth in a bath, and both hosts are clearly winding down. 19. Best for regular listeners of the show who enjoy the running gags, in-jokes, and rapid topic switches without needing context. 20. Less suited to new listeners, who will find many references opaque and no single topic developed enough for a standalone listen.

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A weary year end chat that turns stress into warmth, predictions, and companionable banter.

The episode settles into a weary, affectionate year end check in. The hosts thank listeners, praise one another, and make a plain case for the show as a place where stress gets aired out instead of dressed up.

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For your last-deadline week, when you need laughs, end-of-year gossip, and a bit of human ballast.

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