 Anyway, we've made it here, bright and early. Yeah, really it's really great to have us, the team, all together in the studio. So excited to have you guys here today. It's the Christmas episode. So the last episode of the year. So we were like, yeah, let's bring us all together. Let's have a little bit of fun. It's going to be, you know, quick fun, small fun, you know, small after party and then because we know you guys are busy, you know, you've got things to do, you've got presents to buy. So as you guys know, in these episodes, I have been basically doing traumatic things to Claude by doing games with Claude. And I think, did you enjoy the first one we did? I did. Apart from like, as I was saying off camera, I'm hella competitive. Courtney said the same thing. Yeah, I felt like I didn't win at Riddles and I was not happy. What do you want to gain from winning the challenges I'm going to present today? What would be? What do you want? Personal satisfaction. Confidence, self-esteem. Bragging rights. Bragging rights. Okay. All right. Well, let's see how it goes. I'm going to start off with the Riddles again. We're going to do a few Riddles just to warm you guys up. And then we're going to play one of my favorite games, which is guessing the song from the lyrics. Yeah. So I've never seen you do that look before. Claude is on edge. What do you want to play games? I'm not going to win this one. That's a limiting belief. I'm going to try and help you out. Let's start with Riddles. I wish we had a buzzer for the first person to get it. Okay. What can't talk, but will reply when spoken to? A clock. Because it tells the time. Can a clock? Let's do it one more time. Does it reply when it's spoken to? What can't talk, but will reply when spoken to? I should have started with an easier one. That's actually really hard. I'm going to start with an easier one, but it is an echo. But you don't speak to the echo. I'm downgrading your point on that one. As for that one, I think it's... But you weren't expecting that. I wasn't, I thought we were... Like, okay, let's go easy for you guys then. What is always in front of you, but you can't see it? What is always in front of you, but you can't see it? Your future. Oh, that's good. Okay, so we have to make it so light for you to... Okay, what can you break even if you never pick it or touch it? Your heart. Ooh. That one was romantic. You're close, but what can you break even if you never pick it up or touch it? Silence. That's a great answer as well. I think I'm too deep for the game. But the answer is a promise. That's why when you said your heart, I said, I would give that to you. I would give that to you. But the thing is, you can actually pick up a heart. What, your heart? You can physically pick up a heart, so relax and you didn't say anything. Sorry about that. Not again, but it is. So lots of picking apart. So it's true. I don't think you should get that point. So I'm still winning. What goes up but never comes down? Kat, we did this. Yes, that's why I'm doing it again. Because I've already challenged you on this before. It will eventually... Your age. Yeah, he remembered. But that's not fair, so no point. I just wanted to help him out. He doesn't need help. Sorry. He doesn't get that point. Okay, we're going to do two more and then we're going to move on. I have branches but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I? Time. Can you... No, it's not right. Just take that time. I found the question. I have branches but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I? I still think it's true. That's a great answer. I think Mom is still right there. If you think about that parallel... No. That's a great answer. That was a great answer. Oh wow, I love that. It was warming up. It was coming. Okay, the final one. Wait, this is a tie-breaker between me and Courtney now. You don't have the point that you gave last time. I don't think... I'm just here for fun. I don't know who is winning. Okay, David's parents have three sons. I had to do one of these words. David's parents have three sons. Snap, crackle and what's the name of David? That was definitely me. That was definitely me. But it's not a tie-breaker. It's a tie now. What do you mean? That first point, did it get it? Stephanie said and I said no. Because you already knew the riddle, Claude. It's true, you didn't. Exactly, you're recording from memory again. Isn't that my third point? No. What was the first one? That's no important. Okay, okay. To figure out who's going to win this, what gets bigger when more is taken away? A whole. Yes, you won. That's it. Well... Ladies and gentlemen, well, 2023, we're the Dreams Games champion. Well done. Okay. Thank you. You came through. All right. The next game we're going to play is guess the lyrics. Maybe I should have made this a bit... Oh, gosh. I'm not going to do well in this. And to be fair, as well, Courtney is actually a Cambridge grad. What's that got to do with anything? I didn't go to Cambridge, but I'm good with lyrics. Exactly. What do you mean? No, I'm here for the last game. But what's that got to do with anything? That was not on the curriculum. It's burning away. For me to make sure that this is actually fair, do you actually listen to... That's true. Because maybe it's not fair. If somebody was to say to you, what was the latest... Oh, gosh, I'll be giving it away. Music can be hard, though. It's hard, isn't it? What if we did a word and you had to come up with a song from... All, like, Word Association? Yeah, maybe that would be better because I feel like this is not fair. I just remember I am significantly older than... What? Like, they're basically... They're basically... What are you guys like? Gen Zs at this point, yeah. I'm not a Gen Z. You're saying it like... Are you your Gen Z? Yeah, but you guys are saying it quite a derogatory way. No, I feel like... It's just about little something called... Little who? I only know Little Fizz. Who's that? Who's that? Oh, from B2K? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Little Fizz from B2K. Little Fizz. See, that's why I said, I'm not going to do well in this music situation. Okay, let's not... That's your era. That's actually your era. You want to know the names. Yeah. Okay, so maybe not. You know what? What? You can just let me take it. Yeah. You can just let me take it. You just... Okay, yeah. Well, Courtney won the games then. Wow. Because I'm not... I just don't think it's fair. Don't let Hateration take over. And when we do... But if we do the Word Association... What words would we love? Dream. You. You. Find. I'm not fine. You run it. All right. Okay. But then she doesn't have a chance to win. Well, that's unfortunate. Okay. Another limiting belief, guys. That's how Claude lost the last time. Okay. Oh, but I like this game. Okay. Think of... What are we doing? So, Word Association. You have to find a song that is associated to a word. That has the word. I could legit say a title of a song and how are you guys... No, you have to sing the song. You have to sing the song. You have to sing. With the word in it. But if you don't want to sing, you can say the thing and we have to recognise it. Right. Okay. All right. So, the first word is... Helicopter. No, it's too hard. Oh, no, it's not. Um... Where is it? It's a J-Hus song. What's going on? Yeah, they both know us. No, I just... I'm struggling to recite the lyrics because there's a J-Hus song called Helicopter Featuring Coffee. This one even knows the whole... I don't know. Okay. Okay, so... No, you haven't sung it. Okay, let's go with... Okay. That was a test round. The first word is light. Um... You are the light... No, that's not the song. I mean, you guys all have a chance to sing. Um... Light of the world. You... Come on, how to lose. Come on, girl. Yes. Open your eyes. Let me see. Glory. There we go. Wonderful. Okay, okay. You know, I actually am prepared to lose to maintain my reputation because I start singing on here right now. But you can say. You can say. Okay, okay. Say the lyrics. The next... The next word is alarm. Ring the alarm. I've been through this so long, but I'm dead if I see another chick on your arm. What song is that? Ring the alarm by Beyonce. I don't... I'm not... You know, I'm not going to say that. I knew this side of the room is... I'm not making any Beyonce comments on the incident. Zero. Yeah, but it's not a comment. Yeah, it's not a comment. It's actually more about you. Scary. I'm actually... How do you not know these things? Like I said, I'm not... What is wrong with your arm? Okay, okay. Two more. Next word is... Oh, gosh. Butterfly. Oh, come on. Sorry. Okay, the next word is bird. Do you even know a song? Yeah. The thing is, I had one for Butterfly, but I can't say it because... What was it going to be? It was going to be to Pimba Butterfly. Sing it. I'm not going to. I don't know the song. You could just say the words. Oh, that's it. He doesn't know it. Ish, but they're not like internet apotheos for my girls. Oh. I like that. Is this the song? It's Kendrick Lamar, yeah. Oh, okay. Can you give us some, you know, like level one? Level one words. For me, I would just sing Nelly Furtado. I'm like a bird. I was my way. I don't know where. Final one before we get into this short... Short episode. Because we've got like 10 minutes. Dream. It has to be. Great. And everybody has to sing a song. Because dream is... Come on. Dream is actually kind of hard one. No. Dream. Is this a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare? Be the way I don't want to hate nobody. What am I doing? Beyonce. Go say it again. She's really raining right now. That also means I won, sorry. I'll accept it on this one. Thank you. But I thought... I'm sorry, you have to sing something. It's not going to happen. Come on, Claude, man. Play the game, man. I will shut down the entire podcast before I sing on the internet. You're so dramatic. What's your genre? You're too dramatic for me. I'm a hip-hop person. Do you want to give us a rap? No. But the last time I tried to do a game and I said, okay, let me do hip-hop, puns or lyrics. He was just like, don't give me that either. What do you want? Something that I can win. So what are your winning games? What's your strengths? You know, next time I think we should deal a one-in-one game of basketball or something like that. I think... How do we record that? That's not important. Logistics. It's not called dreaming. Maybe we can have like a little mini set up, like a hoop and then you just like mini balls. Yeah, yeah. How do you find me? You know what? We can look to a lot for the next year. That's a great segue. That's a great segue. You know, I feel quite good. Yeah, it's been a really, really great year. Maybe it's Claude that should do this to working with us. How has it been? I really enjoyed this year. It's been fantastic and hard. It's been fantastically hard, actually. Yeah, no, this is... I've been wanting to launch a podcast for a very long time. I think I sent Abusoye like a recording that I did in 2014, which is technically the first ever Dream Nation podcast recording, and it banged, but the second episode didn't come out until you launched this. So it feels really great to finally see this come to life. Working with all of you has been amazing. You're also talented. You're also talented. You're going to cry? Let it out. You're also talented, gifted, and the way you've come behind this vision, I'm so grateful for. Especially Abusoye, I have to say. As I say on multiple episodes, I would not be here without the work that she's contributed to, so I'm really grateful for you on that. Thank you. Yeah, now it's been good. Expensive. Dreams are expensive. But you've got the bread. Dreams are expensive. This is why you need bread, guys. This is why you need the bread. Yeah, definitely. Is there anything that all of us are looking forward to in the new year for Dream Nation? Anything that we're doing? Yeah, so you should announce your time just to sprinkle. If not, it's fine, you know? I won't take it personally. There's many. I think for me, I think you are excellent at doing things in reverse to how most people do it. I think people really start with the shiny things, but you really do work from the foundations up. Even the fact that you've launched your podcast, but you have this whole team of really excellent people behind it, is amazing. And I'm really looking forward to seeing Dream Nation, because I think it can handle it, really go to the world. Really just putting it on the map, because I think that's the final thing. I think you've built the operations, you've got the excellence, you've got the team, you've got the capacity. Now let's blow it up, because it will be sustained with accelerated growth. So I'm looking forward to accelerated growth. Thank you. I'm going to jump on, because I want to bounce off Courtney's point. I do have a lot of things in place, but to me, there's still so many things missing on a systematic and process level, because truth be told is I'm still way too involved in a lot of the nitty-gritty detail side, and I do not have the time. I really don't. So when I finish doing that, so essentially, I prepare for episode, I'll be soyae, I show up to record, and then there's episode out. When that's my level of involvement, that's personally what I'm looking forward to, rather. And with that, that means I can then focus on some of the other areas of Dream Nation, which we've got a lot planned, which we'll get into, but it also means that we get to make some money, which will be very nice and needed, because as I've already said, this is not cheap. Well, you've got the bread. What would I say I'm looking forward to? I am looking forward to getting more of the community involved in what Dream Nation is really about. I'm looking forward to... Yeah, the courses! There's so much... I think we have such a great... It's themed the word in terms of being a practical dreamer and what the mission is really about. I think it's wonderful that there's a platform that exists to aid people as they go about achieving their dreams on a really, really practical level. So I love that the courses are coming out. I love that we're thinking about things to do to engage the community on a more practical level, because advice is nice, but the reality of implementing this advice, and I was talking to you about this recently, how a lot of the people that we see on podcasts and platforms are the exception, they are the one person. So for the everyday person that is trying to implement these things, what does that look like? And so engaging with our community and hearing some of their stories and getting them involved, I'm really excited for that. Yeah. Do you know what? Everything that has been said, I am excited. And I think just getting people to understand and know about Dream Nation, not even just behind the Dream Nation again, like the new audience, and then the people that's been riding with us since we haven't been around, but really just engaging with new audiences and new organisations, new businesses and how we can impact the people that they serve. I'm really, really interested in that in the new year and I'm like, that's where my head is at, because I think we'll be able to tell stories of people that just have never even thought to even talk. That's good. So yeah, that's me. Yeah, thanks guys. It's been a good year. We're going to round up in like a second if you could think of one guest. We do this for everybody, so we have to do it with us. One guest that you want to see in the new year, that you want me to basically harass to be on this podcast, giving you a second to think about it. To be honest, I've told you guys already so. It doesn't need to be realistic. No, it doesn't need to be realistic. We're dreamers out here. We're dreamers. We're trying to be practical, we're dreamers. Sir. Daniel Kalia. Wonderful. That's actually... That's doable. That's very doable. Yeah. Invite me. Jay-Z. Jay-Z, all of you. Ashley, you know it even better. Jay-Z and Beyonce. That would be good. Okay. For me, Kim K, Kim Kairashian. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. Mine's going to be Grace Beverly. I really... Yeah, very doable. I've tried. Make it happen, girl. One million in an hour. Yeah. You need to hear that. Honestly, were those puffers? Yeah. Serious. Okay. Yeah. Thank you guys so much for riding with us. Claude, you should do this, not me. Thank you. You know, I love these episodes. Can I get to, like, supposedly sit back and the episodes carry things, but... But then I remember. Thank you all for an amazing year. Thank you all for supporting and looking forward to seeing you in 2024 where there's so much more to come. Okay. Thank you for tuning in to today's episode. We release a new episode every Sunday, so make sure that you subscribe and follow us so that you never miss out. If you'd like some more inspiration while you wait for the next new episode, then check out the recommendation above. Don't forget to follow us on social media and you can send us a question or dilemma that you'd like us to answer on the podcast. This is Claude Williams. You've been watching Behind the Dreams and we look forward to seeing you at the next Dream Nation event.