Cake in Space, a Musical Mushroom, and a Very Lonely Snail
Part-Time Genius
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It’s the 44th annual Part-Time Genius Awards! We’re honoring the people—and creatures—behind the year’s best stories, including a fungus that plays keyboards, a rare snail looking for love, a very nerdy math holiday, an incredible invention for astronauts who enjoy baking, an experiment with Batman, and more. Grab your tuxedo and let’s send 2025 off in style.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. |
| 0:18.5 | You're listening to Part-Time Genius, the production of Kaleidoscope and IHeart Radio. |
| 0:27.9 | Guess what, Mango? |
| 0:29.3 | What's that well? |
| 0:30.2 | We are finally here. |
| 0:31.5 | This is the end of 2025, and you know what that means. |
| 0:34.7 | It's actually time for, and I think this is right, |
| 0:38.1 | the 44th annual part-time Genius Awards. |
| 0:41.7 | It's hard to believe we've been doing this for 44 consecutive years |
| 0:44.8 | about a single interruption. |
| 0:46.4 | Like, we were doing this awards as a podcast |
| 0:49.7 | before podcasts were podcasts, before, Mango, how long ago? |
| 0:53.5 | This was forever ago. |
| 0:54.8 | So long. |
| 0:55.9 | We used to do it on our Walkmans or Sony Walkmans. |
| 0:58.5 | We were just like tape it and mail it to one another and just sync them up. |
| 1:02.7 | Incredible, incredible. |
| 1:04.8 | But, you know, this is one of the things I look forward most to because end of year lists are always really fun, |
| 1:11.6 | but somehow looking at the things that are so weird and so wonderful just makes my heart leap. |
| 1:19.2 | You know, it's so fun to see all the things that improve over the course of a year, |
| 1:23.8 | even in our really difficult years like this one. |
| 1:26.8 | Yeah, that's right. |
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