Culture Debate: 2025 Theater, Film, Concert Revue (w/ Mark Snyder)

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by All I Want to Do Is Talk About Madonna co-host Mark Snyder for a 2025 revue of our favorite theater, films, and concerts. Topics— Wicked ambivalence, Kristin Chenoweth's rough year, a Chess revival, Oh Mary predictions, the Plainclothes film, the Lilith Fair documentary, Mike Albo's Hologram Boyfriends, Julio Torres' Color Theories, and Linda Perry's reunion with 4 Non Blondes. Plus— an in-memoriam for Diane Keaton & Jill Sobule, and major existential Madonna happenings in 2026.

⭐ IG: @jessxnyc | @markbsnyder2025

⭐ Jess' docu-series on the rise & fall of SoulCycle — Cult of Body & Soul

⭐ Jess' docu-series on the history, mystique & lore of Fire Island — Finding Fire Island

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0:00.0	Welcome back to hot takes and deep dives and the time has come.
0:18.6	It is our 2025 year in review.
0:22.3	First of all, I'm here with Mark Snyder.
0:24.9	Hi, everybody.
0:26.1	Oh, Jess, it's so wonderful to be with you again.
0:28.8	We did this last year.
0:30.1	We did.
0:30.8	We're going to be talking movies, theater, concerts.
0:36.4	Yeah.
0:36.8	And then I do have some existential questions about,
0:39.5	gosh, about 2026. How are you, Jess? I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. How has the year been for you
0:46.5	overall? Overall, the year has been incredible. Yeah. The year has been incredible. Because this time
0:53.2	last year I
0:55.2	maybe, I think I was like wrapping up
0:57.9	the interviews for the Soul Cycle Doc.
0:59.8	Yeah. And ahead of me was like, oh my God, how am I
1:03.7	going to put this together? Like it was like
1:05.8	very, remember? You were, you were
1:08.0	very much like I have all this
1:09.9	great stuff and I don't know what it all looks like yet.
1:13.2	Yeah.
1:13.5	I mean, I feel like this year a lot was about the world was such a shit show.
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