What if Christmas itself needed rescuing… from Santa?!

In this special end-of-season episode, Andy welcomes his traditional guest: Santa. Except this year, something’s... off.

Santa sounds robotic, obsessed with efficiency, and surprisingly keen on replacing elves with 3D printers. Before long, AI Santa is talking KPIs, surveillance elves, and children asking for tactical flamethrowers. Christmas is on the brink - optimised, automated, and completely soulless.

Just when things get properly Black Mirror, the real Santa bursts in, boots stomping, jingles flying, to shut down his malfunctioning metallic twin. What follows is classic Santa wisdom... that happiness is getting drowned out by noise, presence matters more than presents, and joy doesn’t need upgrading. AI might be clever... but only humans know how it feels to be truly connected.

The episode wraps with both Santa's giving their verdict on what we need most this year - and spoiler... only one of them gets the answer right.

A funny, warm, surprisingly moving Christmas finale about slowing down, switching off, and remembering that the real magic isn’t in the tech... it’s in each other.

What if “feeling fine” isn’t the finish line… but the warning light?

In this episode, Andy records from Windsor (with a much cheaper parking rate this time) to unpack one of the biggest myths about happiness... that it’s just positive thinking with a smiley sticker on top.

What follows is a fast, funny reality check on modern life - the low-level Monday-morning glumness, the commotion, the sense that your get-up-and-go quietly got up and left.

Andy lays out the classic wellbeing scale (from -10 to +10) and explains why most of us are wobbling around the “mildly happy...ish” zone while the modern world keeps nudging us downward.

He also dusts off the story of a sceptical delegate who once told him a PhD was “just a long essay on positive thinking,” which gives Andy the perfect excuse to explain what a PhD actually is, why positive thinking isn’t enough, and why psychology has spent 150 years trying to fix brokenness instead of studying brilliance.

And that’s where he lands the big idea... traditional psychology is a life-saver - it pulls people from -9 back to zero.

But positive psychology? That’s a life-enhancer! It explores what takes people from “I’m fine” to “I’m thriving”

If you’ve ever wondered why some people radiate energy while the rest of us cling to ‘mustn’t grumble,’ this one will help you find the switch.

Ever wondered why some things only make sense after someone points them out?

That’s the energy of this episode - Andy sitting in a Wembley car park, paying £60 an hour for parking and using the pressure of financial ruin to deliver a whistle-stop tour of the most obvious idea psychology somehow missed for 150 years.

From world-famous double acts like fish & chips and Laurel & Hardy, he lands on one glorious truth... suitcases and wheels existed for millennia before anyone thought to combine them.

And that, he argues, is exactly what happened to the science of wellbeing. Psychology studied everything that goes wrong with humans... and barely touched the humans who were actually thriving.

What follows is a funny, nerdy, surprisingly gripping story about grumbly bonobos, forehead real estate, early brain evolution, ice-pick lobotomies (grim), and how a American psychologist accidentally blew the doors off his own profession by saying, “Hang on - why don’t we study what’s right with people?”

Andy loops it all back with one big idea - positive psychology is just suitcases finally meeting wheels. Something obvious in hindsight, but completely game-changing once you see it.

Tune in if you want a smart, enjoyable reminder that flourishing isn’t fluffy - it’s overdue, it’s scientific, and it’s hiding in plain sight.