WEBVTT - Our Favorite Things in 2025 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.960 Today's episode contains mild spoilers for a variety of this 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:23.760 year's best stuff. Oh anyways, Jason gets up to own 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.000 and I'm Rosey. Night and welcome back to xt revision 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.560 of the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.640 comics of pop culture. Conday over my our podcast. We'll 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.080 ring you three episodes a weekly. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:38.520 News sometime in today's episode, twenty twenty five Favorites, it's 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:39.480 our award show. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.199 We are going to be awarding our favorite books, TV, comics, games, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.639 and all our favorite things that stood out to us 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:46.280 this year. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.600 And before we jump in, guys, it's me again, back 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.640 with the production note. For the holidays, we are sharing 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:56.080 some short stocking stuffer episodes with you that will help 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.400 you decide what beautiful books to buy for your friends, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.520 what FI movies and TV to explore, and some little 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.080 festive treats along the way. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.600 So keep out an ear for those throughout December. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.039 Welcome to the twenty twenty five X ray Vision our 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:17.240 Favorite Stuff Awars. It's me, It's Rosy, just talking about 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.680 what our favorite stuff is. Yeah, let's start with the 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.880 year twenty twenty five in movies, it was a fantastic 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:28.600 WHI year in movies, some of the standouts. Let's just 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.399 mention some movies that we liked. Let's just and then 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.520 we'll talk about our favorite Superman, the long awaited Superman. 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:40.280 Wow, unbelievable, so fun, so fresh, so colorful, so joyous, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.240 just ten out of ten, big fan. Great set off 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.800 to the DCU. What's going to happen next? We don't know, 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.360 but at least we have Superman and David corn Sweat. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:50.120 What a blessing. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:56.440 A wonderful year in horror, including weapons including bring Her Back, 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:01.000 including depending on how you classify this one in the 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:08.040 Moody the Monkey, including five nights at Freddy's two including 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:15.400 the final vout, many other final destination to the Long Walk, 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:23.079 well kind of time, Frankenstein, Frankenstein. Just an incredible season 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:27.280 for horror, and then just a lot of you know, gosh, 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:31.480 a lot of surprises, really, including I think probably the 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:36.639 biggest surprise, which is the box office breaking success of Sinners, 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:41.240 and more and more movies from tours being released on 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.320 streamers like Netflix. For instance, No Bombox Draight Kelly, which 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.040 is out right now. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.080 Actually delightful movie. I would love to see it in 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:51.760 the cinema. You know what, it was. 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.920 Okay for me? Have you handed for me? But I 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:54.480 enjoyed it. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.720 I was gonna say, I watched it last night. It 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.160 was Yes, I was in the glow of the Christmas 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.359 lights and it was a perfectly sacering kind of like 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.520 what it's like to be a star. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.040 But I gotta say, would I have enjoyed it more? 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:09.840 Probably if I'd seen it in the Magic of the 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.680 Movie Theater. Yes, Netflix, I would have. But again, George Clooney, 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.079 Big Hitter, Noah Bound Back. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:19.720 I mean also one of the biggest kind of stories 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.240 of this year, I would say, is and this will 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:23.600 come into play when we talk about one of our 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.400 favorite movies of the year. But like movies that performed 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.440 very well critically and failed at the box office, and 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:31.800 movies that performed. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.000 Very badly critically that succeeded at the box office. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.560 Obviously one of the biggest stories there being Paul Thomas 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:43.600 Anderson's One Battle after Another incredible office poison, box office poison, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.360 unbelievable roll out. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.560 If you lived in la you felt like it. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.960 Was the first time that Star Wars and New Hope 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.120 had come out, and you were there and you were 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.800 thinking about you needed to get into that screening at 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.000 Man's Chinese Theater. 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:58.560 You needed to be in there, Bro. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:00.680 That's how it felt to be trying to get into 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.280 a screening of one battle after another in VistaVision in 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.040 La You felt like it was the biggest movie in 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.520 the world. It was being carried by those incredible performances 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.119 by Teona, by Regina, by Chase, and you know what, 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.960 Eventually it didn't necessarily make the money they expected. The 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.720 Dad audience did not come out, but we still got 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.680 an unbelievable, crazily beautiful looking. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.520 Movie, and by all accounts, in its early days, that 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.680 is the film that appears to be running away with awards. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.160 Absolutely no question, at. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:36.120 Least the narrative awards ry point in the season. Okay, Rosie, 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.320 your best movie of the year. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.400 I think that for me it has to go. I 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.800 know that this conversation has changed. It has been a 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.120 crazy year. It's felt like it's gone on forever. So 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:47.920 it might be a shock that this movie even came 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.679 out this year, But I still stand by that the best, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:55.960 most important, coolest movie of the year was Sinners. That's 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:00.680 an unbelievable movie. I'm still standing by Sinners. That is 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:05.440 my Rosy Cool Stuff Awards. Stuff I liked extro Vision Award. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.520 I'm giving it to Sinner's Best Movie of the Year, Jason, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:09.799 watch yours. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:14.000 My favorite movie of the year is One Battle. Another 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:20.520 is you know, very close up there. All apologies to 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.320 Chloe Joe and Hamnet, which I have not seen yet. 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.000 I was gonna say I'm eager to see. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.880 Let us give a disclaimer here, some of the best 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.080 of the Year lists are. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.000 Gonna include movies that. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:37.120 Because of the festival roll out this year, many critics 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:38.920 I've seen that we have not seen. Me and Jason 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.240 have not seen Hamnet, but we will have Joelle coming 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.719 on to talk about Hamnet. We have not seen Marty Supreme, 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.440 which many people are saying is one of. 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.279 The best films of the year. Cannot wait. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.480 Also, just need to shout out my boy little Timmy 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.480 Tim taking an a twenty four ping Pong movie to 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.599 cc XP and acting like he was Tom Hardy promoting Venom. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:58.359 I love it. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.200 We need to see more of it. But they're going 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:01.839 to be some of those movies that we haven't seen. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.400 New Valve the New like movie about the making. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.720 Of Breathless by clay and stuff like that we haven't seen, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.520 but these are the ones we have seen. Jason tell 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.000 us why one bottle after another edged over the top 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:13.719 for you this year? 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:19.960 Just the It was a cathartic film that, especially in 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:26.320 the times in which we lived, these fallen, rotten, toxic 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:31.440 and utterly devoid of ethics type situation that we are 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.560 currently living in, one battle after another, felt like a 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.320 wonderful fantasy to live in for two hours and fifteen minutes. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:45.159 What a wonderful escapism that hits a person like me 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:50.640 right in the fields. And a movie experience from Paul 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:55.159 Thomas Sanderson that I haven't quite had before. You know, 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.719 it's not he hasn't really made a popcorn. I guess 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.560 you'd have to go back to Boogie Nights. He's a 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.560 really made even that movie before and even then, and 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.040 I just I enjoyed it like I would have enjoyed 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:06.880 an action movie. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.359 Yeah, it was exactly. It did feel like when you 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:10.760 were in that cinema. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.760 That crazy car chase scene, like you felt like you 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.840 were watching an eighties kind of schwartz the Enegger esque 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.280 romp through these gorgeous cinematic landscapes. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.240 But there was this hope and this fury and this anger. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.160 And as someone who has been living in the South Bay, 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.960 who's living in an area where you know isis stayed 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:35.920 on the Terminal Island right now, we had like seventeen 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.120 kidnappings yesterday. 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.320 I you know, it's it's constant. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:44.040 There was something very visceral and different about seeing a 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.240 movie that actually dealt with what was going on right now, 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.119 even though you know, the moments we saw them break 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.200 into the border patrol places and stuff was so earlier. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:54.800 It felt very visceral. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.040 You know, the Benicio del Toro character, the sense character, 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.480 the way he was helping people. And there's been so 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.960 many great critiques and call outs and thought pieces. You 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.680 can read all about them. But I did think it 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.880 was a movie that blew me away. But Sinners takes 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:12.680 it for me. Jason, what is your most underrated. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:16.080 Underseen movie that you wish more people had seen this year? Wow? 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:21.040 Oh my gosh, underrated underseen movie? 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.560 I will start because you did mention it. You mentioned 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.320 it momentarily with Bring Her Back. I think Bring Her 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:34.800 Back to Me is If Sinners hadn't come out, I 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.600 would have been going all over the place talking about 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.080 bring Her Back best picture. I mean, I still have 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.080 been shouting it out. We had a great chat with 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:42.720 the directors. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.920 You can watch it on our YouTube channel. I love 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:46.920 the Philipo brothers. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.280 I think Talk to Us great, Talk to Me is 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.440 a great movie, But Bring Her Back is a treatise 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:53.319 o bleak. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.280 Existential horror on trauma. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.439 When I watched it for the first time, I felt 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:01.160 like I was watching something like Your God is a 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.800 Dog Tooth, like a movie that haunts you for so 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.600 much longer than you watch it. And also as someone 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.840 who you know, didn't have the best adults in my 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.800 life as a kid. It sparked off this thought process 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.480 for me about this year's movies, about how these movies 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.880 are about horror that happens to children and the lack 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.800 of agency you have as a kid. And I think 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.120 that ended up being a through line for weapons and 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.079 loads of other stuff that I loved, I. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.280 Mean, even stranger things. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.440 Me and Carmen were texting about how so much of 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.239 it has those similar themes and there's something very interesting 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.360 right now about children in horror and what we have 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:38.679 fears of for children. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.359 But yeah, if you can deal. 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.199 With a sad horror movie, and you love to feel 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.880 like depressed and you want to go to Amac's bleak 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.160 week Watch Bring Her Back. I truly think Sally Hawkins 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.280 should have got an oscar for this performance. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.320 It's unbelievable. The young actors are unbelievable. Go watch it. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:57.520 Jason Wat's Yours. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.920 I'm gonna go with Steven Soderberg, the prolific Steven Soderberg's 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:07.640 Black Bag, which is a delightful little indie spy thriller 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:13.439 that turns into like one of the ultimate wife guy movies, 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.040 like of Recent Memory, Incredible. It's a fantastic wife guy 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:23.960 movie and just a delightful little puzzle box of a 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:28.880 thriller that happens like in meetings, it happens on the phone, 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:33.000 it happens over movies, and I don't want to You 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.079 probably haven't seen it because I think it's a very 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.160 It's the box office box office forty three million on 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.640 a budget of fifty to sixty, so nobody saw this movie. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.040 But it's just. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:50.079 Too thriller kind of vibe. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.480 It's like, I mean, a lot of the film is 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:58.839 like can can this long married couple rediscover like the verve, 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:03.920 like find each other hot? Really really fun movie, Black 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.840 Bag You Kill It's where is it streaming on Netflix 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:07.240 right now? 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:08.840 Or it's streaming right now? 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.960 Okay, find it on Amazon Prime streaming service. 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:17.880 Alight makes me happy because, as a Boo mentioned in 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.040 the comments as we were recording this, rage Joan Page 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.520 one of our recurring conversation topics, he's getting some. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.640 Walk in that gig. And guess what, guys, He's coming 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.800 back to Netflix for an erotic thriller. He's returning to 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:29.479 the homeland. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.560 Here's a fun story about Reggie Junt Page. 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And then I was like, and this 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.280 is the name that got us there, I said, I 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:06.679 feel like it's something like Jamaica Paul Incredible, incredible. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:06.840 Just like happens. 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.880 And so that is the name that got us to 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.080 incredib J Jhon Page. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.800 Classic, and he's gonna be back. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.640 Guys, He's going to be back, the handsome almost bond 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:19.920 ray j John Page. Let's take a quick break and 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:37.840 we'll be back with more best of five. And we're right, 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:39.680 let's go to books. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.240 Ooh, I love to talk to you about books. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.920 I'd love to talk to you about books, Rosie. What 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.240 are some of your favorite books of twenty twenty five 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.640 or that you read in twenty twenty five? Before you 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.840 get to your top pick, my favorite book did not 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.000 come out in twenty twenty five. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.840 Yeah, I think that's really normal, right, Like, Okay, So 0:12:59.920 --> 0:13:02.280 I have read some incredible books this year. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.719 I was blessed to get send an early copy of 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:09.760 this really incredible book called a Eternal Ruin that is 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.959 a sequel by an author called Tai Jess Germu. It's 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:18.160 like a crazy supernatural fantasy just like totally immersed me. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.920 I've been reading a lot of a lot of fantasy 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:26.160 and a lot of horror tinged fantasy. This year's definitely 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.040 been rare for me because I am usually not a 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.680 literary fiction guy. I'm definitely more of a mainstream or 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.240 ya or romanticy or even just nonfiction. 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.360 But there were two books that. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.080 Definitely fit into that this category this year post This 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.720 incredible book I read at the beginning of this year 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.559 that really did change my perspective on books, and it's 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.640 probably my biggest pick, so I won't mention it, but 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.520 it was a Japanese translated book that got me into 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:55.640 more like female literary fiction in the horror space. So 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.800 two of my faves that I read this year was 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.040 Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Vien. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.800 It's basically about two twin sisters. 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.000 One of them gets married off to like a sexy, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:13.800 hunky lord of the manner, very very gothic romance, and 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:19.520 they find a bog woman all the woud yeah, and 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.560 she becomes obsessed with the bog woman and the bog 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:28.960 woman's history, and it's this incredible, gross textured, fantastic gory 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.440 horror that's about love and about sisterhood and it's very 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.080 gothic and very fantastic. What was one of your favorit 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:35.760 reads this year? 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.520 Oh gosh, I read a lot of stuff that I 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.960 didn't like this year fiction wise, but I read a 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:47.640 lot of nonfiction that I really enjoyed. Let's see, what 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.240 did I read that I liked. I read a old 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:55.840 book that is a New York Review of Books re 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.560 release called The Gallery by John horn Burns. It is 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:05.560 a a story about a gay soldier in World War 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.480 Two and the kind of the aftermath of World War 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.320 Two came out. When did this come out? Hold on, 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.120 let's say it came out in the forties. Here nineteen 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:19.760 set in nineteen forty four, and it's it's shocking, and 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.880 it's in the fact that it came out in the forties. 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:29.480 It's a really really like gripping emotional read just about 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.960 that really takes you to a place in time. It's 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:36.200 not just like the chaos of and rebuilding in post 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.480 World War two in Italy, but the kind of like 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:47.520 the way that this gay soldier has to find these 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.160 fleeting moments to have connections with other people that then 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.240 are just over and done and you have to because 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.720 this is like something that is a risk to his 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:03.479 life and to these others. Incredible book. And then nonfiction, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.160 Oh my god, I've read so much stuff that is like, 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.880 what are you doing? I read this book called Tallyrand, 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.760 which is a biography by the British writer Duff Cooper. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:16.760 Came out in your early twentieth century. That's about this 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:27.160 Marshall Tallyrand, who was a French politician for like the 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:33.920 end of the French monarchy, the French Revolutionary government, Napoleon, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.960 and then the reinstitution of the French monarchy. Oh my gosh, 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:43.560 every one of those regimes like hated him, distrusted him 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.400 and didn't like him and thought about exiling him or 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.920 like putting him to death. But then they go a 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:51.760 little bit down the road and be like, fuck, he 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:52.920 is really good at his job. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.280 We got him, and. 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.640 Yeah, and it's kind of a it is still just 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.600 like a fascinating by our. And then I would say, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.399 if you want to be depressed, the Fort Bragg Cartel 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:12.280 as a non fiction book about a about a drug 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:16.679 ring run out of Fort Bragg, not incredible during the 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.600 Global war or terror. But finally, the book that I 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.240 enjoyed the most as a fiction book, and again I 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.760 dislike a lot of books sadly that I read this 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:32.560 year would be Sa Crosby's Blacktop Wasteman. Sa Crosby a 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.960 crime writer whose stuff is just like bloody and brutal 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.960 and like really wonderful, like modern noirs. I had not 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:46.240 read a ton of his stuff before, but Blacktop Wasteland 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.480 is one that just really hit it for me. And 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.200 the opening like ten pages like description of the setting 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:58.600 is fucking great. It's okay, I've really enjoyed it. 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.400 If you're pitching it, what's it like? The central log 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:02.760 line of the story. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:15.240 A struggling mechanic gets caught up in a interstate crime 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.080 ring and has to get his kind of shoot his 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.240 way out of it while also working through issues surrounding 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:29.240 his his feelings towards his father, who is a longtime criminal, 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:34.040 and feelings that he has of responsibility to his own 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.040 family as a person dabbling in crime. 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:38.720 Yeah, I love that. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.919 My final two are definitely still in this kind of 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.080 like genre is space. I read this another incredible twenty 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.480 twenty five book called The Midnight Shift by Chunson Ran, 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.680 which is an adaptation of a really really I mean 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:57.000 a translation of a really popular Korean novel and it's 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:01.040 like a queer treatise on loan, and it's about a 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.919 nurse who or a woman who notices that there has 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:06.320 been this spate. 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.120 Of suicides at all people's. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:09.720 Home and comes to find out that maybe it's a 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:14.560 vampire but it's really about modern loneliness and relationships and 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:15.160 being queer. 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:15.880 It's so good. 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:17.560 But my favorite book of the year, which I'm in 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.639 a copy from you, Jason, did not technically come out 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.040 in twenty twenty five, but I've read it this year 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.600 and it changed my life. I've sent it to so 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.080 many people, I've bought it for so many women. It 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:31.240 is the incredible novel. It's already won every award, so 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:31.800 you know. 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:33.240 It's gotten its due. 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.560 And it is an incredible novel that originally was published 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.440 in twenty seventeen but got an English translation last year 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:45.240 called Butter by Asoko Yazooki, and it's about a woman 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:50.560 who is a journalist who connects with a female serial 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:57.520 killer through jail penman letters and begins this journey of 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:02.840 understanding fatness and woman who and food and misogyny in Japan. 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.960 But it's incredible because every single woman I have given 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:12.000 it to, whether American, whether English, whether any race, any gender, Honestly. 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.439 Anyone I've given it to immediately. 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.960 Within ten pages text me and goes, oh my god, 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:21.280 there's like no universal experience in the single like unique 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:25.399 experience in the world, like even this incredibly specific book 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.360 about a woman in her thirties in Japan who probably 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:29.960 I think she weighs like one hundred. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:30.240 And four pounds. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:31.720 They talk about her weight a lot in the book, 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:36.280 so she's incredibly slim by you know, Western standards. And 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.800 yet every single woman who reads this book, which by 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.119 the way, was recommended to me by by mother. That 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.040 is how it like intergenerationally fantastic this book is. It's 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:50.560 a mixture of true crime, it's womanhood, it's fatness, it's murder. 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:52.919 It will also introduce you to some of the best, 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:57.359 most simple and nourishing Japanese dishes. Me and my mother 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.400 in law, me and my besties, We've been texted each 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:02.879 other eating the books, the stuff from the book like. 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:06.439 It is truly a fantastic book, and I love that 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:08.880 we widened the scope because I cannot recommend it enough. 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.680 It's it's just so engaging and kind of depressing, but 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:12.600 in a good way. 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:19.320 Up next, video games, Oh, interesting videos. I've had a 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:21.320 few that have managed to grab me. 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:22.320 Rosie. 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:26.120 What are your some of your best games of the year. 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:27.720 Again, I want to give a shower out. 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.600 I want to give a shout out first to Dispatch, 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:32.359 which I've only played a little bit of so I 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:34.120 did not think it was fair to put it in here. 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:38.320 But it is a sexy superhero episodic slice of life 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:41.520 action game. It's so much fun. That animation is beautiful. 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.080 I was my friend Kai is super into it. She 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:47.080 was playing it last night and I was like, Oh, 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:48.159 it's almost gonna make it. 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:49.880 But I haven't played it enough. It's eight episodes. 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:51.600 I've only played through like one, but I want to 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:53.080 give it a shower because I think it's going to come 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:54.360 up as one of the best games of the year. 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.080 It's so much fun, my favorite games of the year. 0:21:57.119 --> 0:21:59.560 I'm starting off with one of the biggest releases. It 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:01.320 was on this which to when I got my switch 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.840 to which I have loved Mariocart World. 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:05.720 I think it deserves to be up there. We've had 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:06.440 so much. 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.359 Fun playing it with our friends online, playing it with 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.360