In this episode, the derailment begins before we’ve even settled in — welcome back to Out of Context Weekly Scenarios. This week’s curiosities arrive in two familiar-but-unhinged flavours: Imran opens with what sounds like a sudden descent into “gangster mentality”, throwing Shaun completely off the scent before revealing he’s simply started The Sopranos — a bait-and-switch that sparks reflections on masculinity, power, and whether watching prestige TV automatically makes you feel like you understand organised crime. Meanwhile, Shaun confesses to a far more chaotic ritual: verbally abusing The Coronas five nights in a row at five different gigs, purely to manifest one specific song from deep within the group-of-groupies energy field. Was it dedication? Was it delusion? Did it work? Emotionally, at least — yes.

Our Topic of the Week turns to something both aspirational and quietly terrifying: Goals and the Five Year Plan. We unpack what it means to plan a future when life keeps changing the rules — the tension between dreaming big and staying realistic, how goals evolve as you do, and whether a five year plan is motivation, pressure, or just a polite way of lying to yourself with structure.

Then, in Pop Culture & Current Affairs, we take aim at Santa Claus — not the man himself, but the spectacle. From elaborate traditions to escalating expectations, we question when festive magic becomes logistical madness, and how a simple idea turned into a full-scale seasonal production with emotional stakes.

And finally, we close with Your Distance Dilemmas — real listener stories of friendship, communication, and the blurry terrain between drifting apart and circling back.

As always, it’s just the two of us — chatting nonsense, poking holes in big ideas, and tracing that winding line between laughter and the things that quietly shape our lives.