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# Year-End Special | 2025
- URL: https://www.craftpolitics.fm/episodes/year-end-special-2025/
- Published: 2025-12-23T14:21:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-09T13:21:17.000Z
- Author: Joseph Lavoie
- Tags: Holly Mumby-Croft, #episode, #scan, #ai-5

It’s our final episode of 2025 — and we’re going out with a bang (and a beer). Joseph, Holly, and Andrew reunite after a winter bug-induced hiatus to bring you our first-ever year-end special. We make bold predictions (that we’ll surely regret), hand out highly scientific year-end awards, play games, roast each other’s beer tasting notes, and toast to the chaos that was.

It’s everything you’d expect from Craft Politics — unfiltered, occasionally insightful, and always a bit ridiculous.

🗳 Rapid-Fire Reflections:

One word to sum up the political year? Fruitless, chaotic… and a bit shit.

The story everyone thinks they understood?  
\- Doug Ford’s World Series ad  
\- Trump’s tariffs  
\- Labour’s tax strategy — and still nobody gets it.

What we’re all pretending won’t matter in 2026, but will?  
\- Alberta separatism  
\- UK house prices  
\- Defence spending… and apparently, Andrew’s age.

🔹 Serious Predictions:  
\- Canada heads to the polls — and the Conservatives win (Joseph)  
\- Conservative leadership could change… in Canada (Andrew)  
\- Reform UK will peak in spring… then fade (Holly)

🌶 Spicy Predictions:  
\- The Parti Québécois doesn’t win in Quebec — CAQ makes a surprise comeback (Joseph)  
\- Zack Polanski’s meteoric Green Party rise hits a bump (Holly)  
\- Something very spicy happens in Labour ranks (Andrew… vaguely)

🕵️‍♀️ Quiet Shifts to Watch:  
\- Canada’s election becomes about chaos vs. control  
\- Doug Ford and Donald Trump become unlikely friends  
\- Joseph steps down from the podcast due to… “an incident”

🧠 Trivia & Games

📊 Real Headline or Fake?  
\- Doug Ford on The Amazing Race?  
\- Signal-gate?  
\- Andrew Percy in the Lords?

Let’s just say, trust no one — especially Grockipedia.

🗣️ Who Said It?  
“I don’t particularly want to wipe someone’s bum”  
“The best is yet to come… get the bungee harness ready”  
“I originally saw AI as an efficiency gain. I was wrong.”  
(Many of your favourites are quoted, willingly or not.)

🍺 Beer Notes or Erotic Fiction?

Andrew and Holly put Joseph’s Untappd beer reviews under the microscope.

\- Did he really say a beer had a “beautiful head”? Yes.  
\- Did he really sneak one into a soccer match? Also yes.  
\- Did any of it make sense? You be the judge.

🏆 Year-End Awards  
\- Most Predictable Surprise: Angela Rayner resigns  
\- Best Attempt at Spin: Signal-gate  
\- Worst Use of a Chart: Lib Dems still doing Lib Dem things  
\- Phrase We Never Want to Hear Again: “Looks gorgeous. Tastes like a marvel.”

00:00 Welcome and year-end special intro  
02:55 Rapid fire warmup — the word that best describes this political year  
04:01 The story everyone thinks they understood but didn't  
06:32 The thing we're all pretending won't matter next year but absolutely will  
12:16 Serious predictions for 2026  
22:15 Spicy predictions — the out-there calls  
30:58 Nobody's talking about this — the quiet shifts  
36:04 Trivia time — real or fake headlines  
40:41 Who said it? Quote attribution game  
47:03 Beer porn — testing Joseph's tasting notes  
59:14 Year-end awards and wrap