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Welcome to the Head Chat Podcast. The woman can't be in your ears. They're quite pretty, very witty.

Wow, shucks. What can I say? Thank you, Rebecca, for that wonderful bingle. Welcome to the end of year Hat Chat podcast of 2024 with your hosts...

That guy over there is... He's pointing at me. My name is Ross Hornby. This is the voice of Ross Hornby. You didn't even say your own name. No, it's because I'm in the middle of the shot. So I'm Chris Trott. What if they're not watching this? We have people who listen. Well, you should probably look. And then we've got another guy. Yeah.

Hello, I'm here. My name's Michel Barnier. That's not real at all. It's so weird that your name's not my name. Michel Barnier. My name is not the former Prime Minister of France. It's the name that will always trip up in passport security. Yeah. The Border Force will always put them aside and say, they will not let me through. That's not a real name. They think this is true. That is not a real name. I think I was talking about this before, but in case you find this interesting, I cannot use e-gates.

The price of progress is too high. And I've never been able to use one of those electric gates in an airport because... I thought you were saying V-gates then. E-gates. V-gates. How are you in German? Yeah, thank you. How are you in German? No, no, that's what they have to say to me in person every single time. But the fun thing is that they don't let me immediately go to,

a border person, a border patrol person. They make me try and do the gate first and then when it inevitably fails, after a few times of this happening, like literally countless times, I eventually asked someone, I was like, this is like, this has happened a lot. Why does this keep happening? And they're like, it's because your name's Mr. A. Smith and criminals use that as an alias all the time so we want to see what you look like to check the or not. Criminals would be savvier and you'd have such a more unique name that just kind of blends in.

Yeah. A. Smith is just like Joe Bloggs, isn't it? It's like, that's obviously a placeholder name. I don't know, but then obviously, well, yeah, a smart criminal wouldn't use A. Smith. But then there's not very many smart criminals. The criminals that get caught aren't smart. So they're just trying to literally be like, wow. So you're saying there's tons of criminals out there that have really good names that have got through. Like Michelle Barnier. And they're stopping the wrong people like A. Smith. That's made up. Yeah.

Sorry, I thought you were asking for that. If you were to change your name, would you keep A or would you lose Smith? I like my name. I've said this before. I've thought about this. No, I don't like everything about myself. Google A Smith. Let's see what comes up. I like my name. I've Googled it and Stephen A Smith comes up first. Not even A Smith. It's just Stephen A Smith. I'm not the most famous Alex Smith. That's annoying. Tom A Smith comes up next. Stephen A show Adam Smith.

who's a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of the political economy, et cetera, et cetera. You don't come up here at all. Well, if you guys type Chris Trott or Ross Hornby into Google, you guys are the first results. You type Alex Smith into Google, I am not the first result. Alex Smith comes up with the American football quarterback.

And that's basically the entire page. Does it come up with you at all? Even in the, like, where it says people also search for, then it's all of his teammates from the game he plays. You're not in the first page. No, it sucks. Well, I guess it doesn't. I'm not actually that hyped about making things, making myself searchable, I suppose. I suppose. So Chris Trott. Oh, man, there's only one Chris Trott. There's only one Chris Trott. Apart from three notices down, Chris Trott is...

The British ambassador to the Holy See. And a little further down, it's a whole thread on I stand with Chris Trott. In the Reddit, yeah. What did he do? What did he do? I wonder if the ambassadors had to explain that to the Vatican at any point. There's also a piece people also search for, and it's like Ross, Sitz. Dricken that, Chris Trott, the Vatican guy. Simon Lane. Knows about me. Oof. And Smith. Smith is last on that search list.

of my own name when searching for Chris Trott people also search for and you are sixth on that list Terps is before you oh my god there you go I don't know how often people are searching for hold on a sec go on sorry I'm looking at Chris Trott the other guy let's have a quick look here hold on he looks like that pained smile guy meme

Doesn't he? He does. That looks like a pained smile. That looks like the pained smile guy. Yeah, Harold is his name. And now he's the British ambassador of the Holy See. To the Holy See. To the Holy See. Sorry, not of. To. Hey, I pushed down that ambassador that was of Canada. He's not even on the first page. It's all me. Hell yeah. Owned. Holy shit. Original name. Done. Tick. Nice. Mental. Anyway, that's enough of Googling ourselves. That really messed up my buttons. Okay, now.

So, yeah, why don't you Google yourselves and find out if your name's common or not? Yeah, come on, everyone do that. Are you on famous birthdays? Which means we can look back.

to the year we had. What a bloody year. I'd like to know what the hell happened. 2024. Let's have a look. I'm thinking holidays happened that didn't happen. Holidays. You said you thought we went to Amsterdam. We went to Rotterdam. And I thought we went to Iceland this year as well. Didn't happen. The thing is, this is the thing. Now I feel like once you hit 30, every two years should be one year. I think we discussed this about birthdays. No, Christmases. Or birthdays, I suppose. Every other year. But the two years should be one year because everything's going so fast. It's just all...

Blurring. Wait, hold. No, I'm hung up on my name now. I'm fucking pissed. What's wrong? Actually, I'm number two for the last name Trot. I'm not number one. Oh, shit. Someone's called Abby Trot. Oh, no. Shit.

She's a voice actress known as Voicing Ivy on Carmen Sandiego. Oh, Carmen Sandiego. What a show. Yeah, that's a great show. Where in the world. So going back to where we were and moving away from the name thing again. Good, good, good. Move away. So in the end of 2023, we did Mr. Sam and the Dead Nuts Live in Bristol. So that's a good way to punctuate that thought. Yeah, that was great. Is that November 2023? End of November, yeah. And then the next time we did something that wasn't like...

gameplay videos. We did a three-hour film challenge where we made Ross was a starring role in that glass one. What was it called? One Man, One Jar. Yeah, yeah. Didn't they have a name though? Like we came up with a name. Glass...

oh is it not written on there i guess if you skip to the end of the video maybe it was a very clever pun yeah oh shit hold on it's uh glass roots last root yeah because it was about the history the story of the guy so that obviously yeah we did that um that was good i think that we all really enjoyed that three hour film challenges really uh push us to the you know adding that

heavy restriction yeah and then prompts or we have to work off of it often creates the most batshit insane stuff but also the most enjoyable so yeah this is a format that craig suggested to us where we essentially have an old video camera um and everything as soon as you start filming that's it the shot is live then you stop and that's your cut and the next thing you film will be the next shot essentially the next cut to another thing so you are editing within the camera essentially

but sometimes it's hard to get your head around. No editing out. That's it, yeah. No removing of shots, no reordering of shots.

It's start to end. So if there's a shot you want to start with where a guy's walking down the street and you want to go back to that at the end, you literally have to physically go back to that location at the end of the shoot. So we're walking backwards and forwards across the street. We didn't really think about that fully when we were thinking about the time travel thing, but alas. Time travel, yeah. Don't get time travel involved, basically. Try not to. Unless you can really control it in a very concentrated way that probably involves writing it.

then yeah I'd like to do another one of those and hopefully the new year will bring us I think Craig was mentioning doing another one at some point and that would be that would be good to do when the weather picks up yeah yeah this one was done in pretty fucking awful weather by listening as well so yeah that was the first three hour film challenge Glass Roots of that year and then we had the Vegas vlog where we went to Vegas wait wait

Wait, was that before? Was that 2023 or was that... Oh, it was 2023. No, it came out in 2024. I'm just looking at it when it comes out on the channel. Oh, did it come out? I guess that makes sense because it took a little while to edit, didn't it? Yeah, yeah. Anyway, well, we showed everyone we'd been to Vegas. Wait, when was it?

Yeah, we went in like late. Yeah, it was October, I thought. Fucking out three months. Jesus, need to work on that. But yeah, we showed everyone our Vegas trip. We had a good time. It was really fun. It was, I don't know, it was another Vegas trip. Again, they blur into one, don't they, really? We got into that casino that's now shut down forever, Tropicana. We did. I had a great time in Tropicana. The drinks were terrible, but the slushy cocktails. It felt...

You could feel the age of the place. It was very... It's on its last legs, and we literally saw it before it gave out. Everything was tan, like the interior of a Toyota Land Cruiser. It was tan leather everywhere. Yeah, and there was some neon pink on the walls and stuff as well. Yeah, some tropical neon signs. Faded pink colouring as well. Pretty bad. We took Remy and his mate to a firing range again with...

We shot some more guns. Very exciting. And yeah, had generally just had a nice time. Ross met a lady that had some lizards in a... She was a lizard lady. In a random place in the middle of a casino. He said, that woman's smuggling lizards. And it turns out she's just somebody who, I guess, hands lizards to people and then expects a tip. Yeah. Okay. That's her whole thing.

That's a whole deal. I think we did do a bit of a podcast on this one, didn't we? Oh, did we keep in touch, Ross, with that lizard lady? I message her most days. Nothing. Every day. I message her daily. Yeah, but do you get anything back? No. Not even any pictures of lizards. They're probably all dead. Well, they live a long time. They do, wow. The way that she's keeping them inside her pockets. She might just release them to the wild again. Get a new one every day.

Next big thing I can see here we did was the World's Worst Dagdue, where we had the alien suit. I've got the alien suit. A birthday video for Chris Trout, which was also a World's Worst Dagdue. It's a staple to do birthday videos and or pancake day videos that will come up after this because it's all February. But yeah, that outfit was hilarious. I can't remember the pancake day video. What did we do for that one?

Oh shit, the Wheel of Pancakes, of course. Fucking hell. Is that this year? Again, two years. I think we should be moulding these into two years. I just can't even remember what we do. We did also do the Hat Day Live, or at least the Hat Day Live announcement was before that, but we did a couple of Hat Day Lives this year. It was pretty good, wasn't it? What's a Hat Day Live? Yeah, we did two, didn't we? Hat Day Live, if you're not familiar with Hat Films Law, which I think that we do fall into that trap because just on a little kind of tangent, recently we had a...

a TikTok slash short slash real. Whatever you call it. Go semi-viral, which was of the quiz from last year, a clip which was about bridges. And what would you make a bridge out of? Alex Smith confidently looks into the camera and says, steal! Which isn't wrong. Sensible answer. We would build it out of filth. And there's so many comments on there just saying, what the fuck are these guys talking about? And we do a lot of content where we reference ourselves or our own jokes

And I think it's an interesting way that we just don't really think about the external. But for that niche that have been there since the start. It would have been natural. God, they get like a wry smile when they see it. There's no context otherwise. I understand. That's what we get. That's what it's all for. So Wheel of Pancakes, that one did great. We had the Wheel of Pancakes. What did we use for that? There was lights. There was... A spinning wheel that we...

We put permanent marker on that thing. We did. Ruined it. Unfortunately, it was the Yorks cast. Wheel boys wheel. Okay, so yeah, we had to make the best pancake from the things that we ended up getting and it was a sort of chaos, live chaos and everything looked kind of rancid at the end. A couple of them look edible. Some of them are green because obviously sometimes food coloring would go in.

Yeah, that did happen. What did you do? Did you have kimchi in yours? Oh, there was some kimchi. Nice. Korean pancakes often have kimchi in it. That was my thinking. These pancakes weren't like Korean pancakes. Okay, so moving on.

We got into Medieval Dynasty. Medieval Dynasty became a thing. Yeah, that was the beginning of the year. Power World as well. All these games enshrouded. They all came out at the same time. Yeah, we had a real clog of survival multiplayer games where we had too much footage and there was a wealth of stuff for Craig and Thomas to edit. Yeah.

That's also a good point. Tom has done his first full year at Hat Films and joined towards the end of 2023, didn't he? A lot of the more bombastic shorts that we've done. And the realisation of what he's got himself into has probably sunk in at this point, I think. He's done a lot more regular edits and stuff for us as well, for videos. He's done a great job. He's also helped Craig work on some other projects.

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Yeah, yeah. So after Medieval Dynasty and Shrouded All That, we did our first Hat Day Live, which was nine months ago now. And Hat Day Live was, like Ross says, a full day of streaming. The green screen challenge came out of that one. And that was the first and last time we ever did that.

Was that the one where we did the one hour film change in there as well? We did that as well. The custard. I was eating custard. Yeah. Smith was eating. What were you eating? In what? In the one hour film change where you were the priest. Beans? With the French accent. I think it was tins of beans. Tins of beans. And Trot came in in his cowboy hat with... Somebody else. Well, well, well. I'm pretty sure you were eating something. I've got the video here. I don't know why I'm not... More beans, I think. Oh, yeah. You had beans.

No, you had peanut butter. Oh. You had peanut butter. And the whole thing was just chugging it down. You got it on your screen, didn't you? If you haven't, I can put it full screen, yeah. I've got it, yeah. If you haven't seen this, it's because you're not a member, I don't think. I guess it's only available for members, which it's just a, I'm quite happy with how it turned out considering. Random. Very random. Just unnecessary amounts of eating. Someone feeding you beans. He really beans us up. Smith's just feeding you beans from the sidelines.

I like that one a lot that was actually really funny we'll just do more Woody that caught you Woody in that particular part anyway he really beans this up that was it he really beans this up that was the line we had to say or something wasn't it I don't know something like that yeah

We went to Rotterdam. Yeah, we went to Rotterdam after that. Not Amsterdam. Not Amsterdam, no. Those are different places. We went there for TwitchCon. Millions of miles away from each other. Did we do TwitchCon in Europe in Rotterdam? We didn't go to TwitchCon. We didn't actually go to it. Yeah, we didn't bother going. But we did take part in that Yogscast, like, I don't know, where's Wally kind of find things around Amsterdam. I can't remember what it was called. Oh, so did you brush past our dance tournament?

Yeah, I did, yeah. I saw you wouldn't notice. You son of a bitch. That was the best highlight of the year. I do love some darts. It's good fun. We're experimenting with our warehouse a bit more at this point. Yeah, because at the beginning, well, again, yeah, about nine months ago, we finished the set design for Crocoman. Yeah. And Crocoman was launched as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Eventually. That was later in the year. It was. Yeah.

Which is great, yeah. It's almost coming to a close, would you say? Yes, it's in its final stretch, which we're going to revisit, obviously, after Christmas and get those done. And then at the end of that, hopefully, our members will put the project on green light. And it's up to them if they want it to be released to everyone early or not. So it's kind of their responsibility. Will you gatekeep?

They could gatekeep if they wanted to. You could. You have the power to just, nah. It's their choice. Nah, fam. If it does get released, it will become a podcast version as well. So if you're listening via podcast, this might be something that appeals to you. Ooh, yeah. Sorry, I'm speaking on their behalf. I don't know why. If it goes live, we'll tell you how to find it online.

But yeah, that's a TTRPG roleplay session where we've taken our music making streams of the Neon Musk saga and I've kind of created a whole prequel to it involving our strange crocodile human hybrid characters called the Crocoman and where they came from and why. So yeah, just wacky.

Very wacky. Very wacky. Kebab Chefs had a big roll this year. Yeah, I just noticed that. God. People loved that, though. It was good fun. It was a good blast. It was kind of distilled hat films-ness. It's weird, isn't it? Like Ranch Sim is in a similar boat where it's like the type of games where you don't expect there to be any longevity in them. They're like, play it for a little bit and then just go, yeah, that was fun for that and then move on. But we played a lot of Kebab Chefs. We played a lot of Ranch Sim as well.

Some of it on our Hat Films Extra channel. Hat Films Gaming. Hat Films Gaming. Remember that one? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember when we just uploaded to a different channel for two years? Oh, yeah. Then we did a big thing with Sips for ages, Planet Crafter. We took Mars or a barren planet and gave it life over a long period of streams. We had him for quite a bit there. Sips is cyclical with us where he's like, I suddenly really want to do something with Hat Films and he'll be obsessed with it.

And then we won't hear from him again. Well, that's down to us as well. Because it is a time consuming thing and we've kind of been a little bit chopsy.

Because also in the background, we've been working on Men Is Fate, which I guess we will be announced later in the year. Yeah. That's a big project undertaking this year. And it's going to be the start of next year is going to be the kicking off of it. But we'll chat about that chronologically, I guess. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We did the Metamark music stream. Was that sooner? I don't know where I'm at. Where are you at?

I'm six months ago now, abiotic factor. And then we cut things perfectly in half for Smith's birthday. Oh, that was a great one. I mean, that was pretty good. I thought that was great. That was a digital set. Well, that was like a big green screen set as well, wasn't it? That was our first usage properly. And a CGI trot. We finally got a CGI trot in. We did. We almost replaced him. What? That was magical. That's not the intent, though, is it? That'd be the dream. We had a private meeting with Craig and we were thinking about it. We paid for a chat GPT subscription for the year, but we're going to trial it.

We're going to A, B test real trot and AI trot in all the videos. I love this, though, because I'm disregarding the fact that they're going to replace me entirely. But this half-cut thing was, I thought, a great proof of concept that Craig has been wanting. There's me, CG version, going up the stairs. A proof of concept that he can use Unreal Engine to put us anywhere. And we can actually pull it off, and we did. It's janky, but in a good way. In a fun way. I think it was seamless.

It turns out cutting dolls in half is really difficult. Yeah. It's something we learned the hard way. The bodies of them are so solid. Like, the little tiny bodies. So hard to cut through. It was the fabric, I think. Yeah. Trying to cut them with an axe. But also that hard-ass plastic core they have. It's like the hip. Unkillable. True. Yeah. Something that most people don't have to worry about. But we did. We had to worry about it.

So that was Smith's birthday on May. It was Smith's birthday. So we're in May now, halfway through the year, coming up to June at this point. I think we did a... That's when we did the music stream. We must have done a music stream at that point. Again, another proof of concept that we could do a music stream from our warehouse. Yeah. It actually turned out really well. Like, the sub seemed to be... Yep.

Very good. And Craig was very happy with how simple it was because in the past we've set up these types of streams in the studio here. And it always is quite a lot. There's a lot more stuff there. Yeah. To fuck up. Whereas we've kept it minimal. And it was designed for not a music stream. It was designed for streamers to sit at their desks with their own mics and games and play games and

Our music stream was basically pulling the plug on all of that and rerouting it through instruments and laptops and all that kind of thing. So, yeah, this time we could do it bespoke for us in the warehouse and it works. And Craig made another nice unreal set where it looked like we're in the Albert Road area.

It's our little custom studio and he has his own little cubby behind us. That's nice, isn't it? It is. It's very funny. Very nice. So we're hoping to do more of that in the future. Well, this is it. Yeah, next year hopefully we can finish off the Musk album because there's only a couple of songs left on that. Do some little finalising bits on what we did at Christmas Stream recently.

And yeah, get some more musical bits out there because it's always good fun. And it's great to have like a product at the end of it, a thing. Indeed. A song. And also just use that green screen as well. Yeah. For example, on our green light, which is the other thing that we set up this year as well, which I'm sure we'll get to, but we are...

Doing Night Terror, which is a full-on, like a lot of Unreal Engine usage where we're literally going to be put into different dungeons and rooms and stuff. And it's like a challenge. So I'm very excited for that to be greenlit by our members. You can do that now if you are a member. You can go to greenlight.hatfilms.co.uk and you'll see the projects. And indeed, if you're just a Hat Chat Patreon subscriber, you can also...

You also get a vote for these things. It doesn't cost you anything more. You do. You can go to this website. Link your Discord with it and your Patreon subscription and then we will give you a vote. Your voice will be heard and then promptly discarded and ignored and thrown down a well.

It's just a way for you to pledge for the things you actually want to see, which is good. It's nice to have that feature. We've always wanted to add value to people giving us money every month beyond obviously giving you extended versions of series or some behind-the-scenes things. In fact, Crocoman is entirely an experiment of should it be members only? We knew that our TTRPG stuff is quite niche-y.

And it appeals to that core member audience anyway. So we kind of decided to do that. But beyond that, we were like, there's got to be a way to like utilize and make them feel like they're taking part in the projects that we're making. And so we felt like Greenlight is a good way to do that, where you literally use your money every month to vote and fund a project. And you want to make it happen. So it's very cool that we made that. We're cool people, aren't we? We're cool for that. We're really good, aren't we?

agree with me very cool we're really cool people we're very cool we provide people i'm not sure how that bears any relevance to whether or not we can design a website no it's good that we can give you a little bit of choice there because sometimes it's difficult for us to choose what to do as well so like yeah you know we're all helping people helping people people helping people and also like what happens is i get all of your pledges not votes i've been told to say they're called pledges it's put them all onto a usb drive and flush them down a well

which well do you choose different wells depending on where i am in the country green light huh which world do we choose on green light on green light yeah yeah we'll give you three three choices it's all gonna be everything's democratized yeah every detail you control every decision this is like twitch plays isn't it yeah like when do i piss yeah when do i do i get to piss yet they've said no so we're holding like i'm getting the diapers

We also utilized sips after Planet Crafter for unchained or chained together, sorry. Ah, yes. That was frustrating, wasn't it? It was difficult. He just did not want to play ball on that, did he? In terms of not being a... He was a useless middle chainer and a useless lead chainer. Yeah, but he had fun. That's the important thing. Well, of course, yeah. But, I mean, you say that...

I feel the important thing is to establish a hierarchy and rigidly stick to it. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah. Cut out the weak. Yeah. Cull the weak. Let them fall to the ground as we jump higher and higher on placed assets. It wasn't long after when we made another three-hour film video or three-hour video. What was that one? Three-hour film.

Which one was it? Which was Mind Dagger. Mind Dagger. Do you remember Mind Dagger? Mind Dagger. Was that the alien one? It's the one where aliens come down to Earth. Yeah, yeah. And we do a little kind of like a diorama style, like a little model of a UFO landing. Standing on a printed out Google Maps. Yeah. Of where we wanted it to land. And then Trot comes out of the Millennium Square. In front of tourists. Yeah. So many. And they were so excited for your big reveal as well. So stupid.

But I think, yeah, I think that was a hit. It was a big hit. That was ridiculous. The prompts were really hard. It was about Smith mind controlling a dagger, which ended up killing the alien that gave him the ability. Gave him the powers, yeah. It was really like... There was a metaphor in it. Yeah, it was a lesson. I can't remember the prompts, but it was hard to shoehorn in certain things that had to be historical, I think.

and stuff like that. Because the way we shoehorned in the historical was that it went back in time to the point where this will happen so you have to stop it from happening or some shit like that. Another time travel. It's another time travel thing. So what if this is being recounted in the present day as a historical drama? I think that's what we did. Oh, that was it. Historical drama, yeah. Let me just see if I can find some bins. I've got it on my screen if you want to share it. But yeah.

Chris Trott and his tinfoil hat, of course. I look like an alien there, don't I? You can tell. Well, you actually look like the guy from Star Trek. Spock. The Spock. The young Spock. Yeah. But I feel like you look like that even if you weren't wearing this outfit. And a little touch of the pianist from Moulin Rouge as well. I love the zoom in. Do you know what I mean? No. With the face tattoos he's got on there. That's a very specific...

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I think it's the pianist.

No, wait, not the pianist. The pianist is the one with... It's the World War II one, which is about... No, not the pianist of film. What, by Roman Polanski? Not that. That's a very different film. Ewan McGregor's little clutch of people. They've got somebody that looks a bit like that, but only because he's got a little...

the little things on his face um but sometimes we do create cinematic magic that just has i don't know how we did that knife it's a what i would say is time we spell y out in potatoes and i think that you don't get that there's just some fucking tomato puree and smith's nostril that's just streaming out of it where it's just kind of globuled under his nose um but yeah we make some film magic and i think that we will have to do some more of that next year maybe um

yeah i think that's you can see the hands you can see the hands i can see the hands oh and then this one looked pretty good as well i thought wait for it the knife coming out i thought that's not bad it was supposed to be done with his mind but there's a fist holding that knife yeah you can see a couple times to break the illusion i was fully immersed into that point

yeah but that's it guys that's it yeah wow moving stuff um what else did we do after i mean all of our creative juices were drained by that god that's the report big things we did yeah

We did Athens. We did a lot of retro games. Yeah, it's an Olympics year. Around the Olympics time. Yeah. So we did that quite hard. Crockerman came out soon after that because we did another Hat Day Live, which was exciting. Hat Day Live where we tidied everything up. We got rid of certain segments that didn't work as well. And we put in new ones. And it was great. We did a music one in there instead of a three-hour film challenge just to mix it up.

It's like we got an hour to make a song and it actually came together, which was great. So yeah, Hat Day Live. What was that song? Come on down to Metamart. That was the hour song. Was it? I thought that was the Metamart song that we did earlier in the year. I don't think it was that. I can't remember the song. It was suddenly gone from the Jork Crusade, someone was saying. Was it the Jork Crusade? I don't remember. It was Jork Crusade, yes.

War Pope. It was the War Pope song. The War Pope song. Yeah. Of course. But yeah, we actually finished that song in an hour. So, you know, when we get pressured and we have a limit. Yeah, I think next year we should start releasing all of this stuff. Yeah, we need to. Because it's just, it's all kind of sat somewhere. A whole library of things. People want to listen to it. And even though it's stupid and silly and sounds something like complete shit, it's just, why not? Get out of there. I mean, I put silly songs on Spotify.

It is. And I feel like as a metric of, or like as a barometer of quality, we've done better stuff. Disagree those eyes, disagree. Silly Song is not like the... Are you hoping for us to say, no, you peak. That is the peak of our, that's the pinnacle of our achievements. The pinnacle of our achievements is the 1.7 trailer music, which we've already, we've explained. That's my musical peak. That was where all of our talent...

Just in general. I think the... So you're saying we peaked in 2012? Yeah, it was pretty bad, wasn't it?

I don't know. I think the music's got better because the tools have got better as well. Like, you know, like as in a lot of our stuff, it's quite basic when you listen back to it. I think it's got a little bit more complex and interesting. Ross's backing songs nowadays are far superior to Silly Song. Yeah. Well, yeah, that's the thing. Silly Song is like a music 2000. I could have made a better song on a PlayStation 1. Like, you know. You wouldn't have found such a quality sample. Well, well, what that...

I thought that was something you recorded. No, I found it on a website where they were doing copyright-free vocals that people submit. I found it and just wanted to try and make a remix, and that's what I came up with. And I also then challenged myself to a Neutrot with the breakdown. You succeeded. And you just drew all those little MIDI keys. It was all drawn in. It's what I would describe as music mania.

Right. And something EJ doesn't have. EJ has a bit more conformity to it. Too much restriction. EJ wouldn't allow you to do such craziness. I was using Music 2000. I wasn't using Dance EJ. Music 2000 was great. Yeah, I remember Music 2000. But how did you export anything? You did. You did on PS1. You could put it on a memory card, but then I don't really know what you could do with it after that. You could put a VHS in and record the screen. Seriously. You could. You could do that, yeah. Or you could put a microphone to the speakers. Yeah, and record it from the speakers like that.

Oh, yeah. You are running on CRT TV speakers, though. Oh, yeah. Honestly, yeah, making music on that was just... There's probably some lost magic. Yeah, there probably is. Some lost magic that people have spent all their time making music 2000 tracks, and it's gone nowhere. Statistically speaking, most musicians make their best music in their early 20s, so... Did you watch that Rick B. Allen video as well? No. No.

He went hard on that idea. I mean, it's not always the case, but... Most prolific musicians do it in their early 20s. Someone recommended using headphone jacks, which actually really is the most sensible idea. Fuck off with that crazy bullshit. I feel like we should go... I think they should be using Talkboys, if you remember Talkboys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a cassette recorder. The design was great. It looked amazing. Or headphone jack to mini-disc.

Yeah, we should be using retro things. Welcome to dead media. Yeah, dead media is the only way. And then print it to vinyl somehow, which is a live media.

So going back to our legacy of films and videos we made this year. Yeah. The films for the three-hour film challenge, obviously they were works of art, Sundance quality. But it wasn't until three months ago that we did a recap of 2023. Wait, what? That's when we released the Hat Films Top Moments 2023. Oh, yeah, we had Top Moments sent in. Thank you, Mordor, for that. It's just funny that it was like only three months ago that we...

put that out yeah i think it was at a time where we were like completely like swamped with other things and projects that uh we're like we've got this we should be we should have released this a while ago and then we did yeah so yeah huge thanks to mortar for putting that together for us they've done the past couple of our recap streams it's interesting because i think top moments tend to do better on other people's channels for like our top moments true do you know i mean isn't that weird it does yeah

I think it's because that's what those channels are known for, I guess. Yeah, I suppose so. Or sometimes it's just a random channel, which is just like, oh, they've just done a little kind of mashup of all of our best bits or funny moments from hat films. That's when you know you made it, when other people are making montages of you.

And then, yeah, we had a spate of ultimate chicken horse, liar's bar, again, going back to the Russian roulette thing, Ale and Tale Tavern, another, you know, open, buildy thing, kebab chef-y style. I put the question to all of us, which I think really started to shake our feelings on reality and stuff, where I asked, how many whole boiled eggs do we think we could swallow? That's true.

Yeah. But we saw the... Did you see the... You showed the video of the guy. I would show it. There was a guy who did like 12 whole boiled eggs to swallow. Oh my God. Yeah, you had to throw him up. That's so nuts. And then he threw him up and he came up like... It was hilarious. I would want to be able to do it just for that ability. You know, run over like a fucking Pokemon and fire eggs out of your mouth. I don't think it's going to feel nice.

Something that caught my eye just scrolling along here was there's a cock cage. Have you seen that on the worm? Yeah, yeah. Thumbnail is a cock cage. Yeah, yeah. That was a real... That really got a conversation going. They put your head on a worm and stuck it in a cock cage. I just want to see if that's demonetized or not because that seems insane. It looks like a dick from like... If you're just scrolling through, it looks like a cock in a cock cage. I think this is very smart.

smart play on it you know on cock cages yeah it looks like it did but it's not it's Ross it maintained revenue somehow that one it's such a fucking it's all over the place you might say fuck in the wrong place you might say shit somewhere and you'll get demonetized but a cock in a cock cage pretty much I mean it is me it's not a real cock Ross it's a head it looks like it's my head but a very long pink neck maybe their senses aren't prudes like you maybe maybe it's abstract enough that they're not sure if it's a cock cage in a thumbnail yeah

Most of the comments on that video comment on the cock cage. I mean, that's great. They added value to our video by some of the didn't exist videos.

Prior to that. So fair play. I'm going to now move us on to just a couple months out now. A few months from the... Go on. And we announced our Men Is Fate project. Which is a huge undertaking. I don't know if Alex Smith, you're the spearhead of this. You want to talk about it? Yeah, so that's been...

I mean, beginning of 2024, I think, was when we were like, right, I think we can do this with various people. And then, yeah, we started talking about it. And yeah, that's when it sort of started possibly becoming a reality. And...

now it's very much going to be a reality and we hope you come so if you're interested come to men is fate.com um we're about to release our look and feel document this weekend which has a shit ton of stuff on it about it's the thing that people have been gagging for yeah i think it's the thing that most people decide what they'll wear essentially yeah they give you much more in detail about the nations about the things they're interested in the trinkets identifying all that sort of stuff but yeah basically menace phase is going to be a massive fantasy larp yeah um

that we are creative partners in, business partners in with three other people that aren't us who have a background in the LARP world. LARPing is a hobby I've been doing for like over, like, well, it feels like almost a decade, I'd say now. You've been role-playing as some sort of YouTuber for a while. Yeah, I was role-playing as a YouTuber already. And now I'm, yeah, it's great. It's an amazing hobby. It's like D&D, but in real life. And we're aiming to give that experience to people.

But yeah, it's going to be a big undertaking. We're launching our first event in April 2025. It's coming around quick. Yeah, it is. And hopefully you'll see some more content from us about it and also on the Mania's Fate YouTube channel about it. Yeah, we want to make more stuff. We're doing stuff early Jan.

getting straight out of New Year's hangover straight into Men Is Fate filming literally first weekend of January we're doing all the media creation second day of our media creation yeah so there's no stopping but also still maintaining the old hat films at the same time as well yeah there's like a team of people we're working at so like it's not just us three we've decided to involve ourselves because we're passionate

What's the saying? A piss up in a brewery we'd struggle with. Yeah. So we have the help of experts. Yes. Yeah. Understand how it works and are very smart when it comes to mechanics and rules and then people that are extremely good at costume design and historical references and all that and then a bunch of writers that are very smart at what they do. All coming together to culminate to make this thing a reality which is exciting and

nerve-wracking and cool all at the same time yeah it's not long now so we'll see how that plays out and all the while whilst that's been going on in the background we've had things like green light and stuff developing as well and uh making sure that we've got plenty of new and exciting things for you guys if you're not interested at all in larp exactly yeah yeah appreciate that's a niche maintaining yeah

But that's what we are. We maintain a niche. We're good nichers. I just want to go UFO hunting, you know? I need it. They're up there. There's more up there now. There are fucking loads of them up there. But everyone's like, ignoring it now. It's become mundane. Stop talking about the aliens. Stop asking about that, all right? It is kind of funny, coming away from hat films now and into alien talk, which is where we really want to be, how most people's

take on UFO stuff at least read it let's be honest that's where we're getting most of it from is like it's funny that most people will be told that UFOs exist say we actually have contact and they're like

Fucking great. I've got bills to pay. Yeah. I've got worse problems. Yeah. Great. UFOs are coming at the worst time. Yeah. Bloody gifers. In another generation, I'm sure it would have been like a mind-blowing seismic shift. It's just kind of funny that we're kind of playing with the idea of like, oh, what? UFOs? Yeah. Also, the world's in turmoil.

I mean, we've had a hard fucking few years. That's the thing, right? Like, it's not like we've had like the quality 90s, you know, like ding, ding, ding, ding. Everyone's having a great time. We're all taking ecstasy, you know, we're like fucking idiots.

are here now buying shit from our costs yeah you know david blanchett i don't know what you're doing i was a child and they yeah no i mean but yeah i'm i'm playing up and and now it's like you know we've had fucking a pandemic we've got the impact of climate change we've got building fucking loads of walls hilarious jokey president like yeah nightmarish leaders um in positions of power so we're like look

Not now. Just give us a sec, alias, please. Yeah, just like... Or sort it all out quickly. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. I think ultimately, like, if things get even more fucked, we're going to go all the way around and we're going to be like, well, fuck it, yeah, chuck them in. See what the aliens do. Yeah, can they sort it out? Great. Yeah, fuck it, please. Or wipe out

Wipe it, everyone. Fuck it. Yeah, fuck it. Either way, these bills... We're done. These bills are going to have to be continued to pay, if they don't give us infinite energy, or if they don't wipe us out, Trot, those energy bills are just going to keep going up. That's true. So we need to blow up all the energy suppliers and all the landlords. Right, okay. A little bit UFO war. Right, UFOs, bizarrely, are very picky in what they're targeting. They're targeting landlords. Billionaires that aren't altruists. First guy to go was Elon Musk. Wow. Thank God.

Well, yeah. Oh, we also did Ape Air, which is probably one of the highlights. That was awesome. In terms of productions we did. One of the most recent green screen things we've done. It's really funny. Yeah, it's kind of an idea Craig came up with and just thought we could pull it off. We just arrived and wore our outfits and...

Flew to Amsterdam and back. Yeah, so the context is it's a green screen setup. We tried to make it look like a cockpit and you two were the pilots wearing your pilot outfits and I was the stewardess host and we had flight simulator, literally simulating the flight from Bristol to Amsterdam. And it was a study level plane, so this is as close to flying a real one as you can get. Yeah, we had the joystick and all that, the HOTAS setup, so it was like flying a real plane and visually...

Craig made it look like we were in flight sim. And to be honest, I said this to Craig afterwards. I felt really immersed. Like I was like, because we had the screen, a big TV in front of us, all we could see was the projected version of the cockpit. So me and Ross, especially didn't really look back at the green that often. So we just saw us in this place. We had the controls in front of us and we're just like,

Fucking hell, alright, we've got to try and take a plane off. The take off was easy. The landing. The landing was a lot trickier. The landing at night. Jesus Christ. I couldn't even find it. I couldn't even see the runway. I was just like, what, are we close? Yes, right there. It's right there. And that was in clear weather. That was in clear weather, yeah. My God, yeah. And then just trying to figure out how to fly it correctly and...

But also just the little green screen trickery and stuff with the doors and stuff. It was really cool. Yeah, it's great. And it came out really well and people really enjoyed the look of that on the stream and then the cut down version on the channel was well received as well. So that's something we'll have to do again next year, I think, with a bit of a spin on it maybe. But it was good fun.

Yeah, yeah. We like trying out new ideas and freeing up Kregel by having Thomas involved with the edit process as well. Allows us to do crazier projects like that and utilize our warehouse the way we wanted to when we bought it in lockdown. We found out that competitive farming was extremely stressful. Yeah, with the farming symptom. It was really good. It was a really cool mode. And it's all in-game. So it's in-engine. It's all set up in the game, but like...

The rush and the strats we were trying to deploy to try and actually get as many bales in that barn as possible. It was tricky. It was fun. And then we did another one for Jingle Jam. Yeah. Well, it helps that Farming Simulator has its own literal eSport tournament mode. Exactly. So a lot of the work is done for us. We just have to plow, so to speak. But yeah, it was good fun because Craig set all that up as well. So again, great guy.

Shane was losing his job this night. I know, last year. He's gone. I didn't realise we'd do it right now, but there it is. He's gone. We wanted to tell the public before we told him. All I'm going to say is it's going to be real awkward. Which is the right way to do it. I hope he's not tuning in because it's going to be a real awkward Christmas meal. He's too busy. We make a good Christmas day. Yeah, we do have our Christmas dinner tonight. Which we're calling the Last Supper. Are we doing the traditional thing where the new editor...

eats eats the old editor yeah yeah we've got Ralph Fiennes the traditional yeah yeah that'd be an interesting turnout yeah Thomas you have to go through with it you have to eat all of them it'd be interesting to see Thomas eat him stop crying keep eating anaconda you have to take all his power

As he walks out, you can see a visible body in his stomach, like an anaconda. Oh, don't worry, he just ate the old editor. He's absorbed the power. That's normal. He's Highlander. Yeah, he has gone out, he's Highlander'd him. But in like a cannibalistic way. He didn't have to just cut off his head, he had to eat the whole editor. But yeah, as we look ahead now, to next year. And also just like...

Jingle Jam. We did Jingle Jam stuff very recently as well. We did our music stream. We made some very silly songs. Yeah, I think it might be our most successful in terms of money raised in one stream. Was it really? That we've done, yeah. I think it was close to 100,000. 100,000 in that stream specifically. Obviously, it's not just us streaming at that time. There are other people involved in Jingle Jam. So we're not taking all the credit there, but it's just nice. I think we should. I think we should.

We've raised almost 3 million ourselves. Isn't that incredible? We are amazing people. We're like Atlas holding up the world of Jingle Jam. I don't need them to tell us that. No. I know that. He knows it. So it's nice that we're a staple of Jingle Jam and people look forward to it every year. When people ask you for money in the streets, do you scream out those stats as well? No! I raised X amount for this chart! You get a job! Work harder!

Hey, I tell you what, instead of fucking confronting people and begging them for charity money every fucking day, how about you go get a job, you fucking pay your taxes, and then that money gets used by the state to support social welfare programs. How about that? It's particularly ugly and very, like, you know, entitled. But we make sure we do it. Even if there's somebody just holding a little kind of jar or something just, you know, outside of a Tesco. They get the full verbal.

You don't know how much I raised this year. They get the whole thing. How much is in this? 50p? I've just got a card printed out. You know when people have those cards that they use as replacements for tips and things like that? I raised X amount this year. Sorry, I couldn't be bothered to say it all again to yet another chugger. But here's my card.

Well, I bet I look great for that person. I bet that person went, hmm, yeah, I've been told. Oh, wow. No, in reality, we stuff it full of 50s and walk away and don't say a word because that's how we are. That's just our attitude in life. We just have 50s to spare. I say, look, reach into my pocket. They always hand it back and say, we don't accept these. Oh, fucking hell. You don't accept a 50. You don't accept, no one's accepting these. Why are they made? I give them two options. I say, reach into my right pocket or reach into my left pocket. What do you get?

Sometimes they get money. Sometimes they get... Chocolate. There he is, yeah. Another song, another quality song, which hopefully will release again next year. We're just hit after hit, really. We just really nail it. Yeah, banger after banger. And then people are singing it everywhere, like the office is consumed by it. Consumed by... They just can't stop singing it. Our money is real. Where would they be without us, eh? Without us holding up the world. They wouldn't be singing those toe-tappers, that's for sure. Yeah. I don't know, there was...

The karaoke? It was the karaoke, wasn't it? Marioke, I think it was. We didn't do that, though. We didn't take part in that. No, no. Thank fuck. Let me say, yeah, on to next year. I mean, obviously, we did loads of stuff this year. Fuck. Who knows what's going to happen next year? We know we're going to do this bloody LARP fest. That's true. That's for sure. But that's not necessarily a hat films thing. But it will be interesting to see this thing become a reality and then what that does...

and how that is playing out that's going to be interesting like all these people that have decided to take a plunge and come to our lap and how it goes so we've I reckon that'll be an interesting vlog to say the least it could be a serious fire fest documentary yeah or it'll be like a holy shit we did it something's coming out of it when things started to go wrong I decided to start filming on my phone yeah yeah yeah

The security team didn't turn up, so I started filming all my friends crying. Oh, fuck. This is going really bad. This is a disaster.

I put one more time and energy into this. Oh, God. Hold on. Can you say that again? I just started recording. I only just started. I know you're distraught. I know you're distraught, but we've got to get something out of this. Something. You're kind of drying up tears because you get back into crying again. Yeah. Thank you. Other than that, no. Yeah, crack on with some more projects, some greenlit projects, hopefully, which we will be running throughout the year. Yeah.

It helps us make some bigger projects that you guys be in control of saying what you like and what you want to see. And again, we make these projects anyway. We're just kind of bringing to the forefront what we've got in mind and then allowing you guys to put your money where you want it to be put so that it goes towards that project so that it happens faster. That's ultimately what it's there for.

Can I just set the record straight on one thing? One last thing. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So round up the year. Yojiro, it's spelled Y-A-J-I. It's Yojiro, not Yojiro. What did I say in the song though? Yojiro. In Sengoku, that's how it's spelled. Yojiro. No, it's not. It's spelled with an A. Is it? I just checked the video, yeah. Fucking hell. Yojiro!

It's like Yojiro. Which we say, we've said Yojiro. It just gets spelt Yojiro sometimes and it's not. Oh, okay. Fuck, man. Wow. That's a bombshell. Yeah. That is a bombshell. I don't know if I'm ready for 2025 now.

Yeah, that's true. Well, that's all the films run down. Obviously, there was a lot of other stuff that happened in the year, but, you know. We can only waffle for so long. We can only waffle for so long. Before Boring got married, didn't he? I did get married. Bless him. I did get married. Just a cheeky little highlight of the year. Doesn't include it. Oh, yeah, I just got married. Sorry, everyone. I'm off the market now.

That's going to make me more appealing, I reckon. Yeah. Everyone's just going to want a piece of this. Yeah, I think that should. Just go to bars. I'm going to see that ring and be like... Hold the ring up. Ooh, this guy's... Free drink? Free drink. That's how it works, right? I don't know. I don't have the ring to... I've yet to have anything like that happen. You don't? What bars do you frequent? Very few. Very few. Exactly. But I'll be out tonight hitting the tiles. Ooh, he's going to be at those bars seeing what they say.

No, I'm actually married. Fuck off. Fuck off. No, Jesus Christ. I wasn't joking. Actually, fuck off. But yeah, it's been a wild year for Hat Films. Just when you thought that it couldn't get wild or we fit into some sort of routine, it all gets shifted and we do more passionate, more ambitious projects year on year, so...

Thank you very much. Literally helping us continue. Indeed. I think just doing the same thing. It's like when we just do Minecraft and we moved on and started doing other things. It's very, it's when everyone asks, oh, how long have you been doing YouTube for? It's like, oh, fucking 13 years now. Yeah. Yeah, as well. On to the 14th. But we love reinventing. Which is quite a long time to stay on any kind of digital platform, really. So it is quite good.

good that we've managed to maintain it for this long. Rise the storm. Which I'm happy about. Yeah, I mean, yeah. It's amazing to still be doing this job this long. It doesn't always last. And some people have stuck with us all that time. Yeah. Which is even more amazing. So thank you to those. And especially to listen to the podcast, which is probably the least listened to media of Hep films. Indeed. So we were part of a niche audience.

You should all meet up. You should all just create meetups for yourselves. We won't be there. No, no, of course not. That'd be ridiculous. We won't come, but you can like... I don't want to be liable for anything if anything goes down. Just, you know, you do the meetup. You do it.

Well, we've enjoyed this year and it's good to have you guys along for the ride and we'll be looking forward to 2025. Yeah. We're not going to make any predictions for celebrities getting killed or dying. I hope Dame Judi Dench lasts another year. I hope she does as well. I'm sure she's doing fine. I wish her all the best. What is her age now? Judi Dench.

She is 90 years old, which is fine. Absolutely fine. She's got another decade in her. I don't know why we keep mentioning her as if it's a target.

My grandma's 95. Fair enough. Mine's 89. And she still has conversations. How old is Phil Collins? Conversations. I'm just like, what? What a metric. She still speaks to me. How's your brain still working at 95? But still, yeah, it's good. Yeah. Yeah, that's quite lucky really, isn't it? Yeah.

She never learned to drive. I think that's part of it. Oh, you think so? Okay, so the key to long-lasting life, don't drive. I feel like it creates that cortisol dose for you every day that's ultimately going to shorten your life, right? Because you get stressed. A little bit of stress, yeah. City driving, at least. It's not necessarily your driving, it's theirs that you need to worry about. Christ, yeah. She still drives, though. I've not seen a road traffic accident. Have you? An RTA? I only cause them.

they're right there's road traffic collisions collisions okay because uh you know why don't you

Because an accident suggests there is no one to blame. Oh, right, of course. There's always someone to blame. Because, yeah, my friend went to Sri Lanka recently and saw two road traffic collisions. One pinned a man against a wall, apparently. He's fine. But what a thing to witness. That's insane. That's crazy. I think I've seen the aftermath of a fender bender, if you will. Is that a thing?

That's a mild bump. That's a mild bump. A fender bender. Yeah, on the side of the road or something. A right-off. Yeah. You've bent the fenders. I think you saw a right-off, right? Yeah, did you see a right-off? I think it was definitely a right-off. I saw a Land Rover in a ditch. It was pretty smashed up. That's a right-off. Oh, yeah.

I've seen a few of those, but I've not seen them happen in front of me, which would be incredible. You don't want to. That would be traumatic. I don't want to see that. But maybe I will now that I've mentioned it. Fingers crossed 2025, eh? But Julian Dentures is still alive, so yeah. That's true. And we keep talking about it. I don't know why. Let's talk about someone else. Who else is old? Ian McKellen. Oh, don't say his name.

You asked me who else is old. We said we wouldn't predict this. We said we wouldn't and we did. We're doing it. Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump. Right, okay. Well, thank you for listening. Thanks for listening. Thanks for sticking with the podcast.

Even sometimes we don't do them some weeks because we're busy. And that's just how the cookie crumbles. I don't know why I said that. Quite. We've tried to stay on track with it. Yes. And we will aim to do so in the new year. And we hope you all have a happy holiday season wherever you are in the world.

And see you in 2025, I guess. Pre-Christmas. Enjoy your Christmas if you listen to it after Christmas. Hope you had a good Christmas. If you don't care about Christmas, hope you had a nice couple of weeks. We'll see you afterwards. Bye, everybody. Bye. Welcome to

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