2025: The Game of the Year
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4.6 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Canada and the United States usually have a pretty good-natured sports rivalry—but from hockey to baseball, that was not the case in 2025.
Guest: Alex Kirshner, contributing writer at Slate, co-host of Hang Up and Listen and the Split Zone Duo podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do. |
| 0:02.0 | Dominate your finances. |
| 0:04.0 | Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the Fintock Bros on his social feed. |
| 0:11.0 | Drowning in green. |
| 0:13.0 | Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale. |
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| 0:35.6 | Okay, Alex, for our listeners who don't know you, describe your relationship with sports. |
| 0:43.4 | How into sports are you? How into sports am I? |
| 0:48.7 | Alex Kirshner is a contributing writer at Slate. He writes about sports. He also talks about sports. Well, most sports. |
| 0:57.9 | I've never been into cycling. I don't think I've ever watched a single stage of the Tour de France. |
| 1:02.7 | Oh, interesting. I see the Tour de France and I just think, wow, you're charging me for tap water in your restaurants. |
| 1:08.4 | That's kind of what comes to my mind. All this week, we are spending time on the cultural touchtones that encapsulated this year. |
| 1:16.0 | And Alex arguably got a layup. We gave you this assignment. This assignment was most |
| 1:21.6 | 2025 game of the year. It feels like cheating because there's an obvious one, right? |
| 1:29.1 | My producer was like, what do you think it is, Mary? |
| 1:34.6 | And I'm like, it's that crazy World Series where they played for a million hours, right? |
| 1:38.6 | The Dodgers stand tall and win back-to-back titles. |
| 1:47.8 | You seem to be divided about the World Series game. |
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