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Speaker 1: Already and this is the Daily This is the Daily OS.

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Speaker 2: Oh, now it makes sense. Good morning, and welcome to

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Speaker 2: the Daily OS. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Lucy Tassel.

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Speaker 3: We are coming to you this Christmas Eve with something

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Speaker 3: a little different. It's been quite the year in pop

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Speaker 3: culture and Lucy and I are very passionate about this topic.

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Speaker 3: So today we are recapping some of the biggest moments

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Speaker 3: Conrad and Team Jeremiah to celebrity engagements and weddings, Jojo

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Speaker 3: Siwa and the Big Brother controversy, to heists at the

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Speaker 3: Louver and Ossie Dancing Star, Viral Jeans, and much much more.

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Speaker 3: We are breaking down what captured our attention this year.

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Speaker 4: This has been a truly wild and unpredictable year in

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Speaker 4: pop culture. Very few of my twenty twenty five predictions

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Speaker 4: came true.

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Speaker 1: Yep, where do we even begin, Emma.

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Speaker 3: I think we should kick off with something that sounds

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Speaker 3: like it's straight out of a movie, because, in case

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Speaker 3: you missed it, in August, the Louver in Paris was

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Speaker 3: the target of a major heist, a very real crime

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Speaker 3: that took on its own life Online really captured our

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Speaker 3: imagination after thieves managed to steal several artworks in what's

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Speaker 3: been called one of the most sophisticated museum robberies in decades.

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Speaker 3: The Mona Lisa wasn't taken, but several other valuable pieces

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Speaker 3: were and French authorities are still investigating and some of

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Speaker 3: the works or most of them, remained missing.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of things that felt like movies and that happened

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Speaker 4: in the middle of the year, we'd be remiss if

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Speaker 4: we didn't mention the iconic I don't say.

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Speaker 1: That is a good or a bad word, just simply

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Speaker 4: An iconic image into pop culture. The Coldplay concert scandal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is one of those ones that really had

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Speaker 3: everyone talking across all age groups and workplaces and beyond.

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Speaker 3: During a Coldplay concert in London in June, the band's

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Speaker 3: famous kiss cam happened to land on a couple in

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Speaker 3: the crowd. Everything seemed normal, except the woman was later

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Speaker 3: identified as being married to someone else. Ye, this couple

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Speaker 3: were having an affair. The footage went viral, tabloid coverage

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Speaker 3: went into overdrive, and it sparked this massive conversation about

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Speaker 3: kiss cams. Honestly, I never saw kisscams as being the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was extremely unexpected, and that was truly a

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Speaker 3: A man. It was also their reaction on the kisscam,

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Speaker 3: if you can remember, I don't think the world would

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Speaker 4: Well, and this was the thing that people said, like,

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Speaker 4: if they had somehow been able to have their chill,

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Speaker 4: you know, to keep their composure while their affairs while

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Speaker 4: they're excuse me for laughing, their affair was being exposed. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: and no one would have.

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Speaker 2: Noticed, and we wouldn't be talking about it right now.

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Speaker 4: In terms of things that we are still talking about

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Speaker 4: that still can be fighter for small talk. We also,

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Speaker 4: I mean, we saw Trump versus the late night hosts

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah. I didn't have this one on my bingo

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Speaker 3: Trump's war on late night TV hosts in the US

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Speaker 3: though many and Colbert himself suspect that the comedians scathing

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Speaker 3: political commentary, especially regarding the Trump administration, as well as

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Speaker 3: the network's sixteen million dollar settlement with Trump, played a

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Speaker 1: That's his legal name, Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, first name, Jimmy, last name live moddle named kim.

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Speaker 1: L Kimmel Live. Yeah, it's actually it's a double barrel's name.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of events that had my group chat talking all

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Speaker 4: day long, we also saw, of course, Katie Perry.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is one of those moments in pop culture

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Speaker 3: the month after Katy Perry became one of the first

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Speaker 3: celebrities to travel to space on Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Rocket.

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Speaker 3: Because why not, Perry documented the entire experience on social media.

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Speaker 2: She performed a zero gravity music video.

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Speaker 3: The whole thing was a huge publicity moment, and it

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Speaker 1: And how far into space?

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Speaker 4: She actually went, Yeah, would we call it's over the

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Speaker 2: A little kiss of zero gravity.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she was floating, she had the daisy. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of celebrities, there are members of the TDA team

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Speaker 4: who would be furious if we didn't mention, of course,

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Speaker 4: Taylor Swift and trust stop.

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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift, full stop.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, But Taylor and Travis got engaged this year, and yes,

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Speaker 3: the people who work at the Daily Ohs, including editor

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Speaker 2: The ring was estimated to be worth millions. Swifties went

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Speaker 3: Every single detail of their relationship became front page fodder.

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Speaker 2: There was the podcast interview in the Heights. It was

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Speaker 3: The wedding is reportedly planned for next year, so you

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Speaker 4: After she's taken over twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: It has been a big year for her. She released

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Speaker 4: Life of a show Girl. She's got her docu series

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Speaker 4: on Disney Plus dom editing these last couple of weeks exactly.

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Speaker 3: She continues to break all the records in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: But we love balance here at the Daily Odds. We

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Speaker 3: believe in balance journalism, and in the interests of that,

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Speaker 3: I do need to state that it wasn't all good

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Speaker 3: pr for Taylor Swift this year. Her name continues to

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Speaker 3: come up as part of the ongoing Justin Baldoni Blake Lively.

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Speaker 3: It ends with us, saga, It never ever ever ends saga,

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Speaker 3: and she really divided fans. I think us included Lucy

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Speaker 3: with her Charlie XCX disc track Actually Romantic on Life

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Speaker 3: of a show Girl. This was in response to Charlie's

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Speaker 3: track Sympathy as a Knife on her BRAT album, but

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Speaker 3: many saw Taylor's response as a bit of a miss,

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Speaker 3: a bit of a misinterpretation of Charlie's song Don't come

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Speaker 4: Please don't come for us. We don't do Opinion on

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Speaker 4: the daily Odds. We're just saying this was seen as.

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Speaker 2: Such a Yes, some people saw it as such.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're simply reporting the news on the topic of

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Speaker 4: topics of discussion, of heated discussions. A simple item of

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Speaker 4: clothing sparked a lot of chat this year, and that

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Speaker 4: being denim genes.

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Speaker 2: It was a big year for denim related headlines.

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Speaker 3: Firstly, I want to talk about the positive one, the

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Speaker 3: one that we all loved, an unlikely story from Kendrick

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Speaker 3: Lamar's halftime Super Bowl performance back in February, when his

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Speaker 3: you will. Kendrick's performance itself was obviously incredible, but those

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Speaker 3: the Sydney Sweeney ad that went viral. As you mentioned, Lucy,

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Speaker 3: a simple ad pair of genes that became much more complicated.

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Speaker 3: The actor started in a campaign for a denim brand.

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Speaker 3: It became one of the most talked about ads of

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Speaker 3: the year. It was at the center of controversy and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to do a hard pivot now away

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Speaker 4: Pond to London Town, the hometown of Lily Allen, who

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Speaker 3: Yes, thank god, Lily Allen is back in the zeitgeist.

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Speaker 3: She released West End Girl, an album which focused heavily

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Speaker 3: And there was something in the water for British singer

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Speaker 3: songwriters this year because twenty twenty five really was the

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Speaker 3: year of the UK pop star. Yeah, a huge year

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Speaker 3: for Olivia Dean and Dua Lipa do A toured the world,

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Speaker 3: And as for Olivia Dean, she absolutely exploded in twenty

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Speaker 4: On the subject of fashion icons and a wind Tour.

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Speaker 4: Stepping back from her role at Vogue this year.

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Speaker 2: Boo boo mL La boo boo.

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Speaker 3: Twenty twenty five, the year of the Laboo Boo. I

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Speaker 3: But these collectible figurines made by Chinese company PopMart, took

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Speaker 2: They're furry.

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Speaker 4: They have little plastic faces that have like a smile

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Speaker 3: The labooboo market really took off. I mean it was

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Speaker 3: Ones selling online for thousands and thousands of dollars. Parents

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Speaker 3: one for their birthdays, for Christmas, et cetera. They've opened

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Speaker 3: up stores in Australia. People queue up overnight or for

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Speaker 3: hours for new releases. And this was another big Halloween

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Speaker 3: Robert Irwin became an international treasure this year when he

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Speaker 3: Here remember that hard to believe that was this year,

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Speaker 2: It was chaos.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was huge, in a world first, the Australian

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Speaker 4: Wow, Emma, it has been quite the year in pop culture.

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Speaker 4: You've taken us all around the world see the best

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for explaining all of that to us, Emma.

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Speaker 2: And you for coming along for the ride.

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Speaker 4: Lucy, Merry Christmas, everyone, Merry Christmas. My name is Lily

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Speaker 1: We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,

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