Episode 90: Best of 2025
Bad Books for Bad People
Jan 03
Episode 90: Best of 2025
Episode 90: Best of 2025
Bad Books for Bad People
Jan 03
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.
The hosts’ Best of 2025 is a personal recommendation list rather than a ranking of new releases. They discuss environmentally minded true crime, monstrous fantasy, sexploitation cinema, vintage ghost stories, macabre television, sleazy soundtracks, eclectic heavy music, fighting games, and the many incarnations of Creature Commandos. Their choices consistently favor vivid genre pleasures, cult discoveries, and works that turn excess, camp, or historical strangeness into a source of entertainment.
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01:12
A recommendation list, not a release-year ranking
09:43
09:43
The feel-bad, get-angry book of the year
14:53
14:53
The book wins on pure fun
19:39
19:39
The book gets a double seal of approval
23:37
23:37
Russ Meyer unlocked
33:41
33:41
Period degradation can add to the atmosphere
41:05
41:05
The strangest film stories lead to new obsessions
46:34
46:34
Wednesday is fun despite everything
53:34
53:34
A soundtrack so sleazy it feels illicit
57:20
57:20
Rabbit Junk’s impossible range
1:05:37
1:05:37
A fully escapist half hour
1:10:46
1:10:46
Monsters ruining Hitler's day
1:15:33
1:15:33
Classic monsters earn your attention
1:19:39
1:19:39
Ninjas ruled the 1980s
