Part 2 of Favorite 5 from 2025 w/ Lissa Rubin!
The Midnight Air
All Things Comedy
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
We close out our lists of the 5 favorite things we watched from Movies and TV in 2025! But before we do that, I tell you some Rochelle news, and cover the Holi-Days like, National Buffet Day! Then we close it out with Ronda and The Tribune! As a bonus for Premium Subscribers, we have one extra honorable mention and talk about the Netflix drama, Adolescence.
Thank you to Aaron Brungardt for engineering, mixing, and production expertise, Geoffrey Tice for artwork, Bobby TBD for theme music, and All Things Comedy for their support, production, and distribution.
Email the show at themidnightmailbag@gmail.com!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello. It's the midnight air. I'm Daniel Van Kirk. I don't know why there's an extra |
| 0:16.5 | timber in my voice, but it feels very, very deep. I apologize. I don't know what's going on. I don't |
| 0:23.1 | know what's going on. I do know what's going on with this episode. Segway, I've got Lissa Rubin back. |
| 0:29.6 | We are doing part two of our top five things that we watched. I want to get right into that, |
| 0:36.6 | because as you can imagine, we talk at length. |
| 0:40.0 | Before we do all that, though, I'm going to tell you what I have going on. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm going to give you a little update as to what's going on in my neck of the woods. |
| 0:49.8 | And I'll do our holidays. |
| 0:53.4 | And then we'll talk to Alyssa and then I'll close things out with the Tribune from Rhonda Goldsmith in the Marquette County Tribune. |
| 1:01.0 | And I get mentioned. |
| 1:03.1 | But we'll get into all that later. |
| 1:04.7 | First up, hey, Portage, Wisconsin, Saturday, February 28th, go to Daniel Van Kirk.com. New York City, Thursday, |
| 1:15.5 | March 26th, Wilmington, North Carolina, April 24th, and 25th. On the horizon after that, in June, |
| 1:23.1 | I've got Jamesville, Wisconsin. I've got Hub City Comedy Week in July, Green Lake, Wisconsin in July, just locked up Cincinnati |
| 1:32.3 | for August. |
| 1:34.9 | Everything is going to be up at Daniel van kirk.com. |
| 1:39.8 | Thanks to everybody who joined in for the True TV altcast of the NHL game of the Blackhawks |
| 1:48.9 | versus the Philadelphia Flyers, the scholars, and I had so much fun doing that. |
| 1:54.1 | I saw some midnight air listeners jumping into the fray. |
| 1:57.4 | Thank you, Kevin Harrington. |
| 1:59.3 | That was a really, really fun show to do it. I hope in 2026 I get to do a lot more of them because it's just me and the Sclaas goofing off. Let me know what you think, though. Send in a message to the midnight mailbag at gmail.com or just shoot me a message straight to my heart. It'll get right to me. If you do it via the Patreon, if you're a premium subscriber, |
| 2:18.6 | you can do that at patreon.com slash Daniel Van Kirk. |
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