👨💻 Closing Tabs on 2025
A few reflection on the year before we hit refresh for the next one!
🤠 Rapid Round Up
💪 Watch Sabrina became a master debater. She represented Team Canada in the TinCanBros’ Great Debate, and took on SmarterEveryDay in defense of entertainment’s role in education.
🧩 The gang was on the Lateral Podcast with Tom Scott again! Catch their episode here.
🏆 The podcast Sabrina worked on, You Feeling This 2, won Best Scripted Fiction at the Signal Awards. Thank you so much to the newsletter readers who voted!
🎧 Mixtape by Melissa
Cozy Cafe
It’s the end of the year, so here’s a cozy cafe playlist to help you reflect, vibe, and pretend you’re the main character who’s gonna finally get their life together… next year.
⭐ Cool Stuff by Sabrina
Sabrina Made Another Website
Sabrina is running up AIP’s web hosting bill with a new website: Cool Things We Found, a human-curated collection of cool things on the internet. It’s part-blog, part-zine, part-selfish desire of mine to have a database of cool things to scroll through instead of instagram.
How it works:
Folks like you submit a link to something you find cool.
A curator looks through them and compiles an issue of semi-related things
We all enjoy some cool stuff!
This thing is definitely in beta right now but if you like the idea, the biggest way you can help is to submit links to videos, art, music, podcasts, blogs, interactive websites, creators that make you appreciate that the internet exists because it gave you access to such a cool thing.
📢 Help Us Out
Do you know a flight attendant?
Sabrina is working on a new video about air travel and wants to interview seasoned flight attendants, folks who have truly been around the block and has witnessed the industry evolve over the last 40–50 years.
If you know someone who fits the bill, we’d love to interview them!
Please email us at answerinprogress@gmail.com with:
Their name
Their email address
A quick note about their experience (airline, years in the industry, anything relevant)
🔓 Patreon Unlocked
The 2025 AIP Theme, reviewed
Every January, we set a theme for Answer in Progress to guide the vibe of the year (think a gentler form of a new year’s resolution). The theme for 2025 was Space to Play in response to the 2024 theme (Ride the Rails) left us burnt out and exhausted.
In this Patreon-exclusive podcast, we talk about how we think the theme went and start brainstorming what 2026 will hold.
If you want to support our work and get access to even more bonus content and aftershows, consider subscribing to our Patreon :)
🔦 Creator Spotlight
Goodbye Forever Maybe
We first watched this video maybe 2 years ago at a film festival and have waited for it to come online for years just so we could share it with you.
So rarely can a piece wholly delight all the senses and sensibilities.
So rarely can a piece engage with the zeitgeist yet remain timeless in humour and poignancy.
So rarely can a piece be about the act of creation without being incredibly annoying.
Goodbye Forever Maybe? is rare and it is special. Please enjoy.
🙏 Thank You
Thank you for subscribing and following our chaotic little journey - see ya next year!
from ur neighbourhood nerds,
Sabrina, Melissa, and Taha <3