2025 Year in Review: Top Episodes, Global Reach, and What’s Next

Hello, hockey friends and families around the world, and welcome back to another edition of Our Kids Play Hockey. It's Lee Elias with Mike Bonelli and Christie Casciano-Burns. And special guest today, our producer, her nickname is Glue, Katelynn Reiss, joining us today. Because today, my friends, is the two thousand twenty five year in review. The recap for those of you who are new to the show is actually a really fun one, typically a shorter one. But we go through the stats from the year. We look at the episodes that were top of the charts. We look at some of our stats. We look at some of our really to not just show ourselves, but to show you how the impact of the show is having around literally the world, right? So what I will do is I'm going to go through the stats from last year. I'm going to go through some all-time stats that increasingly get better and better and better every year. But before I do that, let's welcome in our normals. Mike, Christie, Katelynn, great to see you again. Always wonderful to see you. Great to see you. Can't wait to hear how we did this year. Are we doing a countdown to number one? Oh, we can do that. Kind of like a Casey Kasem. I like, I can't do my Casey Kasem. Well, anybody over forty will. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's what I'm going to do. I've got my stuff printed out. I always love having Christie Anderson's printouts. It makes me feel like a real, somebody you like at a desk at a talk show or something like that. Absolutely. So we can talk about this, okay? So let's just do the, these are the stats from the last year, from January one to December thirty-first. So We are entering now into our sixth year. We are into our sixth year of podcasting, which means last year was our fifth. Last year, this is a cool number. We did one hundred and fifty six episodes last year, which, if you're wondering, averages to exactly three episodes per week. There was no decibel on that. So that's that's that's always a pretty cool stat. And just for those of you listening, yes, we do record these every single week. We have not missed a week in the entire six year period that we've been doing this, which is a really testament to my co-host, to Katelynn and to the staff here as our editor, Xavi. We make this show work. Right. All right, Christie, you're going to love this next one. Minutes of podcasting last year. We put out four thousand four hundred and fifty four minutes in twenty twenty five. And just in case you're wondering, that's seventy four point two three hours of just over three days straight of content. And those of you out there, you listen to it. So you've spent three days of your life with us last year. And you're better for it. You're better for it, everybody. That also means that Mike has had to spend days with us on the air, and he's smiling right now. For those of you watching at home, he's got a big smile on his face right now. This is a cool one. Obviously, last year we hit our four hundredth episode. And we are surging towards five hundred as this episode is released. We're actually quite close to that, which is a real milestone. For those who don't know in podcasting, most shows don't get past ten episodes. So we're about to hit five hundred. Here's a cool stat in twenty twenty five. This is not an all time stat. In twenty twenty five, we reached one hundred countries. One hundred countries around the world. That's an insane stat. And we reached more cities than ever with three thousand eight hundred fifty three cities. Wow. That's amazing. I do have a list of some of these cities. We'll get to that in a bit. Yeah, I definitely want to hear what some of the top cities are. Well, I do have the top three cities from last year. OK, you want to go backwards or forwards on this one, Christie? Let's go backwards. OK, I'm thinking I'm just going to take a guess. Is Chicago in there? Chicago is on here. Yes. Actually, coming in at number three is Chicago. I do get some email and some notifications on Facebook from some of our fans in Chicago. So that does not surprise me. Hello, Chicago. Great guess for number three, Chicago, Illinois, number three. Number two, should not be a surprise, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Right. Minneapolis, Minnesota and that greater region. Obviously, a hockey hotbed. That makes a lot of sense. Number one. Tell us number one. Let's guess. Mike, you want to guess number one? Guess number one. North Salem, New York. That is not correct, sir. They're on the list, though. Number one. Because I make everybody listen to it in town. But I would say I'm going to go with somewhere in Canada. It is somewhere in Canada. How? It's the city you would think it is in Canada, Mike. Think about that. It's in Ontario, Mike. What city do you think? I'm going to say Toronto. Toronto, Canada, number one city. on the show many times canada listen we salute you we're friends of yours right you guys play hockey we're the same we all our kids play hockey so toronto um honestly like always happy to have everybody from north america now as usual this kind of flips when you get to the countries okay so number three coming at number three Going to give a big hello to those friends of ours five hours ahead of the Eastern time zone in the United Kingdom. You are number three. All right. Always lovely to have you. Number two, this is where it gets funny, is Canada. All right. So Canada. Again, this is a population equation. Okay. This is mostly a population equation because Toronto is the biggest city in Canada, as we know. Populations are not equal. So Canada is number two. USA being number one makes a lot of sense. Guys, your thoughts on the countries and the cities? Yeah, I'm kind of surprised. that toronto came in number one i you know when you think about the knowledge that canada has of hockey what an honor that they're listening to us you know that's it that's surprising really yeah but i i but i think i think if you listen to these uh you know the the If you listen, right, and you're in hockey communities, hopefully it's saying that people are sharing our episodes within their own hockey community. I hope so. I think that's, you know, we've heard these antidotal stories of them sharing it in their newsletters and sharing it in their team chats. And, you know, I get approached all the time like, hey, I just started listening to your show and I just listened to, you know, binge listen to eighteen of them you know in a row on a road trip so I think that's great so yeah anytime anytime we can get those those countries you would imagine that United States and Canada have to be the two big ones to listen to. So that's awesome. Yeah. And I'll look, I'll echo what you're saying in the sense of Mike, I think you're, I think the biggest growth from our show comes from people like you listening, sharing it with other people and telling them something and whether it's a specific episode or just the show in general. And yes, I am kind of advertising that because that's how we grow the audience here of word of mouth. But, honestly it's that community that has made the show yeah well i mean we're not advertising we're not we're not in a hockey magazine and we're not in you know we're not on your i mean except for in syracuse new york maybe but if but we're not but we're not you know i think it's great that i mean i the the true measure too is that's so exciting is that obviously families within teams are sharing the episodes in a good way or a bad way they might think you gotta listen to these yahoos they think they know something, you know, like let's, and I love that. I want to, you know, you want to debunk anything we talk about, please email us and call and write and just explain how we're wrong. But I think it's awesome. I think it's great. Can we bring Katelynn to the conversation? You read my mind. You read my mind because the last stat kind of leads perfectly into her joining. We were in the top ten percent. of all Buzzsprout podcasts. Now, for those who don't know what Buzzsprout is, that's who hosts our podcast. So no matter where you listen to it, it originates from Buzzsprout. Katelynn has a really great working relationship with Buzzsprout. Being in the top ten percent is actually kind of a big deal. There's very few people in the top ten percent, believe it or not. And Katelynn, I want to bring you on, too, because we actually use these stats um when we produce when we find guests so for example for those of you out there um when we saw toronto really starting to creep up the charts a few years ago you know we made sure we started bringing in not just canadians but but you know topics and ideas that we knew were facing people in toronto so why don't you just talk as a producer a little bit about how you know we approach that and and maybe tell people all you do because it's not just sitting there watching us talk the whole time Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. While we were talking about the different countries and stuff, I was actually pulling up some global statistics just in general on podcasts. And I was looking at the chart based on podcaststatistics.com. USA is actually ranked seventh in the world for podcast listenership. And then Canada is ranked twelfth. So there's a bunch of other countries in there. So it's interesting to me that obviously we are going to be the top two countries because it's hockey. But it's a very interesting stat to see. Like Canada makes up thirty one percent of podcast listenership across the world and USA makes up thirty nine percent of it. So it's really cool. But as for the top ten percent, like that, that comes down to listens per episode. And so the more listens that we get per episode, the higher we rank in that. statistic too. So it's really, it's awesome. Yeah. There's so much competition out there too, Katelynn. I mean, there's a podcast for everything on every topic. So it's really hard to separate yourself and to stand out. But what I think you have done so successfully is you use the right taglines. You promote the content and, people share it. It's kind of interesting. How are you able to just get the attention so successfully that we've gotten to help grow our audience? For sure. Well, it comes down to what you guys talk about, really. I mean, the conversations that you guys are having are super pertinent to the game. And so it's really just about capturing that in one title and making sure that the the total, like, not everything from the episode in the title, but what they want to hear from the episode in the title so that they want to listen to it. Well, I can attest to how good those titles are because I never remember the episodes, like, this like exactly I go I know we talked about that somewhere so I can go into the search bar and our kids play hockey and just search a little like one little word or two and then I could bring up that episode because you know I get asked all the time like oh what do you think about this I go I got a podcast for you or hey you know what do you think about this I go oh I got an hour of conversations about this I'm not going to talk to you about it why don't you listen to it first but it's so easy to you know I don't know what is it search it like it's so easy to go in and search for for our because I think of the way Katelynn puts this together. Yeah. That you could go in and say, okay, I want an episode about the, you know, car rides to the rink, or I want an episode about, you know, bullying and sports. I want an episode on mental fitness, like boom, you get all of a sudden you get, you know, episode after episode after episode that fit into the subject matter you're, you're speaking with. So if you're at the rink, and you're stumped and you can't answer a question, you go in, search it, share it. You're good to go. And let's talk about that. So it's ourkidsplayhockey.com is what Mike is talking about. However you get there, however it works. No, because there's a lot that goes into getting an episode done. ready for air. Right. And I want you to talk about that because I do think the most common question we get, Mike, to your point is, hey, do you have an episode about this? And Mike, believe it or not, I don't remember every episode we did either. So I do the same thing. I go to our own website and search. But why don't you talk about, you know, at a high level, the post production, post production process, like when we're done recording, we hit end. I feel like we're like the Hershey's Chocolate Factory or something like that right now. Like it has to go through a whole series of things before it gets to the air. You're not going to get a Hershey kiss after this, though, unfortunately. No, but it's just to echo what you said, Mike, like it's really cool because going into it, we also have transcripts attached to every episode. So if there is a topic that isn't in the notes or isn't in the title, you're going to find it based on transcripts too. So yeah, when we finished recording, when we hit end recording here, it gets saved in our studio. And then our team, Xavi, he downloads it from our software and he then edits it, puts it together with the title and the ending. And from there, he uploads it into another program to help us cut social clips. With that, he's able to get a transcript and we're able to create the copy, the description copy and the title. And it's really, it's a long process, but it's, it's foolproof for us. That's really what, it's a well-oiled machine at this point. Yeah. You know, what's cool is I'd say ninety eight percent of episodes. We have some some time to get them done every once in a while. I'll go to Katelynn and I say, look, this episode we're recording today needs to come out tomorrow just because it might be timely or we're trying to keep up with the news. We did one recently, actually, when we were talking about the World Junior Championship. So we want that to come out while the World Junior Championship is still fresh in people's minds. This one is going to be a rush. That's a great point. This one's coming out immediately after. So we go into rush production. But the reason I'm bringing that up is that our crew is so well oiled that it gets done. I mean, it gets done well. Katelynn also brought up our micro content, our social content. The stats I'm giving out right now are solely podcast listen stats. If we were able to give you the stats on video, these would all double because our video views in terms of our micro clips, even the video version of this of this podcast gets major listens and watches as well. Right. These are just more finite stats. We'll do a video one maybe next year. But but everything we tell you can be virtually doubled. Our videos get tens of thousands of views, sometimes per video. Yeah, if I can jump in on that too real quick. We've had that we've had our Instagram account for a very long time. It was a different account before. Our Kids Play Hockey, where we were sharing hockey knowledge before as well. And we were hovering around nine thousand for years. We actually hit ten thousand this year and we're at two thousand at the moment. So it's really been a lot of growth, especially this past year. Yeah, we're always continuing to grow. And it's funny when people send me the clips. One of my favorite things, I've got good friends that listen. I know they're listening now and they'll say, hey, I saw the show. I love that show. Yeah. which which one it's not i'm not trying to be like saucy with them it's like i don't know which one you just saw because we do so much right it could be it could be i just want to point out some of our best shows have come from our viewers and our listeners when you reach out to us with you know a dilemma dilemma that you're facing in a hockey or an issue that you want us to talk about or something your your kid has just been through And we can help guide you. Those are the best episodes. And I just want to let everybody know we are responsive. We don't delete you. When you reach out to us, we read it. We listen to it. We talk about it. We kind of kick around ideas of how can we make this an episode. It's very similar to the concept that we have at our news station at News Channel Nine. we have a franchise called Your Stories, where we invite our viewers to email us, to write in, to call in. What's on your mind? What do you want us to investigate? You know, have you seen something in the community that you think needs to, we need to put a spotlight on? Reach out to us. Let me turn around and we do a news story edit. Very similar to that. And those are some of my favorite episodes that come from you. So please, Keep participating because it's really, it's encouraging to us. We resonate with you because if you're going through it, chances are a lot of other hockey families are too. It's a great segue into our next section, Christie. And I'll say this too, to your point, I can't think of any emails we don't respond to. Right. And just in case you're wondering out there, we always ask, if we're going to turn it into an episode, we always ask the person emailing, do you mind if we do an episode about this? And it's ninety nine percent anonymous unless they want us to say their name. So please, yeah, teaminourkidsplayhockey.com. Feel free to write. We're not going to share it with the world unless you want us to. And yeah, the best topics always come from you because we don't know what's going on in your life unless you tell us. Now, Christie, you bring up a really good point here, all right? In that those episodes we sit down and it's just kind of the three of us of what are we talking about today? So typically in previous years, when we have guests and a lot of work goes into getting these guests, right? Katelynn's got to email and produce. But for the first time, I think ever, the top five episodes there's only one guest episode in the top five this year um which which shows that these topics resonated with people so well they're in there and they're they're they're they're i think that that's because we're in the hockey community i think the coolest thing is like we i mean yes it's great having guests because i i like i tell people all the time like the guests like this is my own personal library of knowledge like i love having our guests But when we speak about hockey, we're speaking from a place of, you know, having experienced it. In my case, sometimes it's that, you know, twelve hours earlier, especially the negative ones. But I think it's like, you know, it's just more of the, you know, I think that's because of the people that listen to the show. I get... And all the time, like, oh, I really love that perspective. I didn't think about it that way. Or, wow, you experienced that, too. And I think when somebody asks a question, Lee, you said it earlier, like, don't be afraid to, you know, we're not going to mention your name. But if you have a question, it's like the kid in class. Like, everybody probably has that question. But somebody has to raise their hand. And I think it's like one of those things where if you're able to speak up like, oh, yeah, right. I bet you if we put this out there, there's there's twenty thousand people have the same question. Guaranteed. And, you know, you're making a good point. I should also mention you can actually contact us anonymously through the link in the in the podcast description. If you click on that, you can text us. You don't have to. We always say leave your name and location. You don't have to do that. You can just write us anonymously. Well, and it's applied. Yeah, to jump in on that too, if you do text us though, make sure if you want it to be traced back to you, let us know who you are because we have had texts come in and we can't respond to them. We can't respond back to you guys via the text. So email us if you do want us to respond to you because it's hard to do. That's a fair point, Katelynn. So when you text us, it's a one-way text for your security. So yes, if you want us to get back, that's teamatourkidsplayhockey.com. All right. Real quick too, we also do have a forum on the website as well. So there's another place that you can contact us too. Kidsplayhockey.com. You're winning at home right now if you want to contact us. That's where we're going at. All right, listen, we're going to get into these top five episodes right now. I have an honorable mention that I'll start with, which was number six, which is the underappreciated defenseman from February eighth, episode three forty three was very close to being number five. So I want to give that one a shout out. But here we go. And I want to take credit for that because I am I love defenseman and I think defenseman need love. And I'm glad so many people listen to that. That was your idea, Mike. That was your episode. Defensemen need, need love. Listen to it more for next year. It sounds like you're making a campaign to get this out of number six and up the charts a little bit. Let's go by tomorrow, by tomorrow, by tomorrow. Nobody wants to hear about them. They're boring. So episode three, forty three, the underappreciated defenseman suggested by the underappreciated Mike Bonelli. That's not OK. Here we go. Top five. We're going backwards to number one. OK. Number five. Episode three. Ninety nine. Do early hockey stars stay ahead? That's from July twenty six. Interestingly enough, a lot of stats came out about that over the last month. Clearly, people listen to our show and took that. OK, that was a good episode. We had some good time talking about that one. We did some good stats on that. Number four, episode three ninety. This is a really good one. I want to talk about this one for it. What skills should my kid have at their age? A parent's guide to youth hockey development. That was in June, June, you know, what's funny in my friends is in the summertime when hockey slows down a bit, you know, we really do think about some of those evergreen topics that we can record in the summertime that you can listen to all year. And I remember sitting down and saying, we want to do this for players and goalies because the benchmarks per age, what I mean by that is where your kids should be at the end of Eight you, ten you, twelve you. Shock most people. Most people think their kids should be far more advanced or down the line than where it is suggested that they are. So what we did in that episode, and I do encourage everybody to listen to it, is went through each age group and said, this is what your kids should be proficient at by the end of that age. Obviously, some kids are ahead. Some kids are behind. This is not like the fight. It's like it's like when your kids learning to walk or the benchmarks when you're a baby. Right. Not everybody hits it at the same time, but we all hit it eventually. So that was a really good episode. And we did do a goalie counterpart to that one as well. But that's number four. Right. That's a good one. I like that one. Yeah, that was a great one. And I think the overall theme of that was, are your kids having fun? Right. Right. That was in every age category. Right. That was an every, that was a great episode. Yeah. I'm going to say number three, episode three, seven, six. This is another Mike Bonelli idea. All right. All hail Mike. No, seriously, Mike, Mike, you Mike, you I'm going to say it for I don't say this publicly a lot. Mike comes up with the best topics and usually brings in the best guests. When Mike says, hey, I got a guy that could be a guest. Nobody, nobody, including our producer, goes, well, who is this person? What we just go. When can they come on? Because it's always a great. conversation it's a collaborative effort but the people coming up me because they hear our podcast so our guests are from like hey i want to be on there like how do i get how do i get oh yeah because because like how do i i want i have something to say i don't want to listen because they don't like listening to me so like i want to i want to i want to speak but that's great let's hear it okay no well there's no guest on this one but number three uh episode three seventy six three pieces of advice hockey parents ask for and then ignore for may tenth I remember, Mike, when you brought that topic up. I got seventy five of them. I got seventy five of those things. We only have a part two. That might be a ten part series. Yeah, that was a good one. Oh, they're always so willing to take advice. But when you take it, do you actually follow that advice? We we we got several emails after that one. I'll just say this. The tone of the email was, well, yeah, all right. That's right. That's true. All right. So number two is the only one on this list with a guest. And I want to remind everybody, because I think this is funny. We have had NHL players, PWHL players, Olympic. We've had a lot of people on the show this year. And don't get me wrong. All of those episodes do very well. OK, like to be in the top five is a lot of listens. OK. But this one's cool. Episode three, fifty eight debunking youth hockey myths with Boston Bruins performance coach Kevin Neal from March fifteenth did very well. You'll also notice that almost every one of these episodes is from July or before because they've had more times to get listens. Right. That's that's another. Yeah. Yeah. But I remember that episode with Kevin. Not only was that wonderful that he was giving us time, but, you know, I think that got a lot of listens because of the title, like Debunking Youth Hockey Myths. And he came on and really laid it out about, hey, listen, this is where your kid should be at. This is what your kid should be doing. Well, it's that theme of searching, right? It's like, okay, where does my kid have to be, you know, when there's skill development? You know, what is the real reality of development and hockey and, you know, what are coaches look for and things like this. These are things like that. I would, you know, that's how I would search. Like, I mean, that can't be true. Let me look at that. Let me look that up, you know, or, or I'm doing this. And why is it, why do I think everybody around me is doing something different? I mean, that's how I would search. So I think it's, it just makes sense that, you know, these episodes are the ones that people mostly search for. We've had so many great guests on. It's interesting that he was more listened to than, let's say, the one that we had on reps, right? I would have thought that would have had a ton. Well, it's also because Massachusetts and Boston hockey fans are crazy. We put Bruins in the title. Maybe that had something to do with it. Yeah, who doesn't want to learn from a Bruins coach? Yeah, right. Yeah. And I will say this before we get to number one. For those of you watching again, you can see there's been some set upgrades behind me. I've got a Team USA, twenty six Olympic jersey here. I've also got a Montreal Victoire jersey on here. One of our co-hosts happens to play for both teams, but I'm bringing that up. Because in this coming year, we will have NHL players as guests, PWHL players as guests, Olympians who are at the Olympics as guests. We've got a slate of guests coming on the show this year. And again, if you're wondering at home, some of these guests, we schedule three, four, five months in advance just to get them on the show. That's the level we're at right now. It's January twenty first and we're booking in March at the moment. So. Gives you an idea at home. Actually, April. Well, you know, it's funny, Katelynn, that you bring that up. It's because we're having conversations like when you get back from the Olympics, that might be a good time. Like these are the conversations we have to have with our, not only our co-host, Haley Skimora, who's done a brilliant job on our girls play hockey, but the guests. But I'm going to tell you this, a flurry of Olympians, NHL players, PWHL players, collegiate players, and then obviously, you know, guests of note that work in the industry coming on. So be ready for that this year, my friends. We've got a really great, season coming up for you. Okay. Time to get to the number one episode of two thousand twenty five. We've got about five minutes left in the show, which means we have to run through the all time stats. Episode three fifty five from March eight. This is not a super big surprise. The truth about tryouts and evaluations. And not only did that get a lot of listens that got a lot of feedback from parents, from coaches, people saying thank you for sharing the information in this podcast and the broad realization. This is not to summate the entire episode. You should listen to it. But evals are a couple days, three days. The eval takes place all year. And that was the big point of that episode, that when you get to an eval or a tryout, especially in youth hockey, the coaches mostly know who you are unless you switch teams. So we gave some great advice in that one. Mike, I think that was another one you came up with in terms of how we were going to approach it. And I remember actually now I'm saying it. We had one direction in that show, and you did a Mike Minnelli left turn and said, we're going to go this direction. And you were at a hundred percent right in doing that. Thank you. And, and, and I will say this too, at least two organizations I work directly with have changed their tryout and evaluation process because of that episode. Just because they're just because it's because they all, because everybody in the organization says tryouts are BS. Like they don't exist anymore. Like just, they don't exist. Like there, there is, yes, there's pockets in the world that have tryouts and blah, blah, blah. But But go back, listen to the episode, and you'll get all the answers you need on why real tryouts don't exist anymore, but what you can do to replicate the need to have the ability to see who wants to be on your team and who doesn't want to be on your team. But it is the Wild West out there, and I think that episode probably exposes that because, you know, everybody asks that question like, oh, my God, what do I do about tryouts? And people have been asking this question for the last, you know, two and a half months, right? Yeah. I think it's funny, too. We always try to do some sort of tryout-based topic at the tryout season, and they always rank really, really high for us every year. So it's a testament to our listeners that that one was number one this year. And it's kind of interesting, even some of the NHL guests that we've had on. have shared when they didn't make a team, it certainly didn't break them. It actually helped to make them. So there's some really good lessons. Yeah. And ninety percent of them didn't make a big team like night. Like that's that's like that's is that one of our is that in the mix? Yeah, we had Chris Marion on last year. He talked about he didn't play a whole year. He didn't play a whole year when he was fifteen. That's right. So it is amazing. Listen to those NHL guys and girls and the PWHL pros and right here like like everybody doesn't have, you know, a slick, easy path to success. There's highs and lows and tribulations and fighting through adversity. And that's what that's why they are where they are. Yeah. Okay. In case you're wondering our number one episode, all time is still top three things you should say to your kids before they take the ice. We're very proud of that. That's our number one episode that continues to rank up listens and views. We should do maybe a follow-up to that at some point too. And if you want another tryout episode, it's coming in March of this year. All right. All time stats. We've got two minutes, three minutes. I'm going to run through these things for our team here. So last year we were very blessed and impressed by, that we were listened to on all continents. Now, I will say we don't have stats from Antarctica. Nobody does. I'm just going to assume someone listened there one time. Metallica does have stats there. Yes, right. We know Metallica has played a concert down there, so we've definitely listened. But last year we had several continents with like one or two listens, so that counts. I'm proud to say that every continent has at least the lowest amount is two hundred and thirty listens. All right. Obviously, North America and Europe and Asia together leading the pack. But North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Oceania, which is obviously New Zealand and Australia, all hundreds, if not tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of listens. So I believe that makes us a global community. podcast so congratulations on that uh talked about this all time united states leading the territories canada second united kingdom i'm gonna go down the list these are just the top few germany singapore very high on the list sweden norway finland japan and australia um check this number out guys in total seven thousand nine hundred and fifteen cities oh my gosh kids play hockey uh when it gets to uh um i'm sorry those were countries So getting into cities now, that's the number. Number one city, Toronto, then Minneapolis and Chicago. This is all time, okay? Followed by Calgary, New York, New York, Montreal, Quebec, Vancouver, British Columbia, Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, Mass, Edmonton, Alberta, and very proud to say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Made the list this year. All right. For those who don't know, Katelynn and I are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. So that's good to know that people in our hometown are listening. And then this is kind of inconsequential, but how do you listen? Well, about fifty five percent of you listen on Apple podcasts. The rest is Spotify and then goes down to iHeartRadio, web browsers and other things. So you listen across the board. So unbelievable all-time stats here for this show. I will remind everybody what Mike Bonelli said, that you can go to OurKidsPlayHockey.com at any point, and you can search. Also, if you're an organization that wants to share this, we do have a poster you can print out with a QR code that will lead people right to the page if you want to put it up in the rink. Or if you're just a really great hockey parent that wants to share it and they have a bulletin board – You can put that up there. Just email us, teamatourkidsplayhockey.com, or find us somehow, and we will get that over to you. You can download it right on the website, ourkidsplayhockey.com. But, guys, overall, very successful year. I will end on this stat because people keep asking, are you still growing? November and December of twenty twenty five. which are typically our bigger months, top two months we've ever had on this show, which means that our audience continues to grow. We have not plateaued in any way. When you look at our stats, it is, and this is so cool, a hockey stick chart going straight up. What do you guys think about that? we've come a long way, babies, haven't we? And when you think about how this all started, the middle of the pandemic, we all got together, had no idea if there was a desire for something like this, if people would be tuning in. And we just kicked around ideas. And to think about When we started and where we are now and how many episodes we've been able to spit out and how many guests we've had out and now people wanting to come on this show, it's really quite remarkable. And I'm very, very grateful that we're all still doing this and filling a need. There is a great need for this. I wish this was here when I started as a hockey mom. What great guidance that we've been able to provide. just a great thank you to our listeners and our viewers. Yeah. I'll echo Christie. And I think, you know, during that time we were like, okay, my kids play hockey. Great book. Easy, easy to rip up all those subjects. We at least have, you know, so many chapters to do and we'll come in and get out, finish the book and go. And then, uh, I don't know, stuck here for the last five years. So it's like, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's pretty wild that you get to, you know, and again, my, and I've said this to everybody that will listen to me, like my, my motivation on this mostly, obviously other than being with you guys on weekly is, you know, how, how, much education i get from this show personally uh that i try to use with my own kids and my own professional life and and the ability to um you know this is our own little networking circle of ideas and i'm like oh i love that idea like right now please send me that poster because i didn't know we had that poster so uh you know that's something i'm going to put up in in my facilities and i think this is uh you know it's just a really great way to uh get you know In our case, you know, a hundred years of hockey education, you know, in a, in a minute episode, I think it's a really good, a good way to go. If you're a parent new to hockey or old to hockey and want to kind of see the new landscape. Well, I will say, too, that Mike shows up every Monday when we record the show. So whether you're stuck here or not, Mike, you keep showing up. That's a choice. Nobody's forcing you to be. No, it's always wonderful. We're out of time, my friends. But I do want to thank you all for listening to this episode and all the episodes that we do. And remember, share it with friends, right? That's how we grow the network. We're trying to make sure. We provide everybody with value and information that they can use on their hockey journey. And I have been the biggest beneficiary of that as my child. My son, Logan, was starting hockey when we started the show. And now as I navigate through with both of them, I'm so thankful for both Christie and Mike and all the people that come on the show for all the advice, because I have benefited greatly from that. And then the last shout out is obviously to you, the fans for listening. There's no show without you. there's literally no show without you and you put us on the map and put us in a position to really have an impact not just in your home but the hockey community as a whole and we feel that every time we get an email every time you come up to us in public and say hey i'm a big fan of the show so forth and so out and obviously let's give a shout out to Katelynn the glue Katelynn Reiss our producer and our editor savvy there's definitely no show without them internally as well so that's gonna do it for the A little peek behind the curtain. People like these kind of episodes. For Mike Bonelli, Christie Cascio, Burns, Katelynn Reiss, I'm Lee Elias. We'll see you on the next Our Kids Play Hockey, everybody. Have a good one.