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Episode 90: Best of 2025

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Episode 90: Best of 2025

Bad Books for Bad People

Jan 03
Bad Books for Bad People

Bad Books for Bad People

Jan 03
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Shownote

Jack and Kate look at what they've read and watched in the year that was 2025 and make some recommendations in the world of books and beyond. The rules of engagement are simple: the hosts each choose one movie, album, TV show, and book that was the best ex...

Highlights

Kate and Jack revisit the year’s strangest pleasures, choosing the books, films, television, music, and games that gave them the most memorable experiences, regardless of when those works were released.
01:12
A recommendation list, not a release-year ranking
09:43
The feel-bad, get-angry book of the year
14:53
The book wins on pure fun
19:39
The book gets a double seal of approval
23:37
Russ Meyer unlocked
33:41
Period degradation can add to the atmosphere
41:05
The strangest film stories lead to new obsessions
46:34
Wednesday is fun despite everything
53:34
A soundtrack so sleazy it feels illicit
57:20
Rabbit Junk’s impossible range
1:05:37
A fully escapist half hour
1:10:46
Monsters ruining Hitler's day
1:15:33
Classic monsters earn your attention
1:19:39
Ninjas ruled the 1980s

Chapters

Books of the year: environmental crime and monstrous fantasy
00:07
Films and television: sleaze, ghosts, and macabre comfort
19:00
Music: cinematic sleaze and impossible genre combinations
50:59
Games and comics: escape, monsters, and genre reinvention
1:07:33

Transcript

Tenebrous Kate: Hello, and welcome to Bad Books for Bad People, the podcast that explores the lurid, the weird, the fantastique, the frequently dusty, the overlooked in fiction. And this time around, we're going beyond the world of books and fiction. And w...