Christmas is basically next week 🎄

Are we ready?

Short answer: one of us is.

The other is absolutely vibing on panic.

This episode of Bestie Boos is festive, chaotic, and packed with pop culture - exactly how we like it.

This week, we get into:🎬 Pop Culture Chaos

• Is Warner Bros + Netflix still happening or nah?

• The Taylor Swift documentary on Disney+ - the first two episodes, the heavy moments, and the whiplash of Taylor also casually handing out huge bonuses

• Australia banning social media for kids 16 and under - thoughts, feelings, concerns - we are not on the same page BBs • A quick-fire countdown of the biggest pop culture moments of 2025 (top 8, no overthinking, just vibes)

🎤 Real Life, Zero Filter

• Sam’s latest guest speaking gig, featuring an elevator that chose the limelight during her presentation

• Teacher gifts - are they mandatory? Are we overthinking it? Who’s organised and who’s pretending not to stress

• Sarah announces Sam must issue a formal apology to LinkedIn after a major brand slid into our DMs there (turns out LinkedIn… works??)

• Are we doing too much with Christmas presents for the kids? • A genuinely ridiculous dilemma about a new neighbour and whether offering to lend your lawnmower is wholesome… or unhinged

✨ What Are You Vibing? - Best of 2025 Edition

• Best purchase of the year

• Favourite music of 2025

• Best TV show or movie

• Drink of choice for the year 🍸 (very on brand)

🎄 Coming Up

• Our Christmas party is locked in

• A special guest episode is on the way (you’ll have to listen till the end to find out who 👀)

• Plus, a Christmas Eve episode dropping because we love a festive overachieveUnfiltered, festive, slightly unhinged - welcome to Bestie Boos.

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Sam Baxter & Sarah Direen. Two besties (& mums) from Aotearoa, New Zealand — an unfiltered podcast with hot takes, real talk and laughs about our lives, our friendship and pop culture.

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