212. The Year's Hottest topics of TV and Pop Culture: 2025 Recap Part 2 w/Kaya (@Bravowhileblack)

The Mix with Mani

Imani Marcus

Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 771 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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PLOT TWIST! No wait! PART 2 coming out right now BEFORE the new year (because why unwrap a year past, when in a new year?!)Happy New Year, Mixologists! We did it. Survived. but still so much to discuss. 2 Part episode much. So pour your winter bevvy and let's process and chuckle at what we experienced...together!Gather around Mixies! it's time to end the year (finally!). 2025 is about to get BOOTED out of the Mixer but not before we discuss the year in review. Kaya (@bravowhileblack) is here to work through the highlights (and low lights) of the year in tv and pop culture. The gaggable courtroom moments and cases we watched, the HWs we welcomed back and said good bye to, money problems, money solutions, divorces, tv shows that were terrible, tv shows that were great! Mani and Kaya work through so much of it with cackles, detours, shady bits of extra information, secrets Kaya thinks should go to Mani's grave, and more. Recap and send off the year with a tear (OF LAUGHTER, BOO!) and with us. Come mix it up!Podcaster note: What is discussed in the mixer/on this podcast...stays in the mixer. You'll know why...Catch up on Kaya's Podmas, recaps, content @bravowhileblack Listen to their pod Bravo We're BlackListen Early and Ad-Free In the Mix on Patreon: patreon.com/mixingwithmaniFollow me on Instagram and Threads @mixingwithmaniWatch Katya and Trixie Mattel Watch Hunting Wives MORE TO COME IN THE NEW YEAR--THANKFUL TO YOU FOR LISTENING!

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0:00.0	Sounds right.
0:08.5	Hey, mixologist, Monty here again.
0:11.3	Thanks so much for listening to Part 1 of our wrap-up, of my wrap-up with Kaya from
0:16.4	Bravo Wear Black, of the highlights of the year of pop culture, TV, all the things that we thought.
0:23.7	If there were things we forgot, feel free to DM me or take a listen to some other podcast.
0:28.9	That might be coming out that we'll tell you about at the end of this episode.
0:32.7	But up next is part two of the highlights and hot topics of the year with Kyah from Bravo We're Black.
0:41.6	Thanks for listening and happy new year.
0:45.5	Yeah.
0:46.2	Speaking of fantastic women writers and writers rooms doing their damn thing, we got some feedback from a mixologist whose daughter is a writer on my favorite breakout drama
0:59.4	of the year.
1:01.0	That would be hunting wives, which we have both talked about and covered extensively.
1:07.3	How do you feel about the major success that this show, this little show that we were
1:12.7	like, now, what do we just stumble into?
1:14.7	Lesbian Republicans? Lesbian Republicans. What?
1:20.0	Musby and Republicans with wigs.
1:22.4	With, with, y'all, guys send me the absolute funniest.
1:28.1	I might just have to link it in the goddamn description of the episode.
1:32.2	Please do.
1:33.0	Of some of my favorite drag queens.
1:35.9	I don't know how you do.
1:37.0	These are my favorite ladies.
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