Neil Freiman

For this special holiday week episode, we're going to pick out the best of Neil's Numbers for 2025.

Our team poured over every stat or figure I discussed in Neil's Numbers from the year and picked a couple that stood out from the pack.

either for representing a broader theme from the year or just because they were so bizarre.

Toby, are you ready to go?

Yeah, and I've been pretty good.

I've been meal prepping, getting better sleep, and hitting the gym.

That feature is pretty sick.

You can literally type in any prompt, such as, from renewable energy companies with high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers growing revenue over 20% year over year, and put the AI to work.

It screens thousands of stocks, builds a one-of-a-kind index, and lets you backtest it against the S&P 500.

As I was reviewing all the Neil's numbers from the year, I found that many of them fit into distinct themes or buckets that speak to what the world was like in 2025.

And Toby and I are going to run them down now.

The first clear theme that emerged was the death of partying, especially among young people.

The writer Derek Thompson has been beating this drum for a while and put together some jaw dropping stats to highlight what he describes as

as the anti-social century.

Between 2003 and 2024, the amount of time Americans spent hosting or attending a social event plummeted by 50%.

Among Americans aged 15 to 24, they spent

70% less time partying than they did just 20 years ago.

And the list goes on.

Men who watch television now spend seven hours in front of the TV for every one hour they spend hanging out with somebody outside their home.

The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends in face-to-face contact with human friends.