The Best of 2025 | Roundtable

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Megan McArdle, and Mike Warren to discuss their favorite books, TV shows, movies, meals, and products from 2025. Show Notes:—Megan McArdle's podcast, Reasonably Optimistic—Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer—The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century—And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails—The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World—Daniel B. Kline's essay on liberalism—The Ungovernable City—Severance—Burma Superstar—Montague Diner—Mississippi pot roast—OXO Steel double jigger—Costco robot vacuum—Living (2022)—D'Oliva Smoked Habanero Olive Oil—Angelita Madrid The Dispatch Podcast is a production of ⁠⁠⁠The Dispatch⁠⁠⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of our articles, members-only newsletters, and bonus podcast episodes—⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠⁠⁠by clicking here⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the final dispatch podcast of 2025. I'm Steve Hayes. Today we'll discuss the best books we read in 2025, the best TV series or movies, the best meals we had, a new product we encountered or acquired during 2025, and finally New Year's resolutions. Do we do them? Should we do them?
0:21.7	And if we do them, what are they?
0:24.4	I'm joined by my dispatch colleagues,
0:26.5	Jonah Goldberg and Michael Warren,
0:28.2	along with dispatch contributor Megan McArdle of the Washington Post.
0:32.2	Let's dive right in.
0:33.1	Music Let's dive right in.
0:48.7	Welcome, everybody.
0:50.7	We are for the second week in row going to do something a little bit different.
0:54.6	There's plenty of the news these days.
0:57.6	President Trump just met with Woldemir Zelenskyy,
1:01.0	the phone call with Vladimir Putin,
1:04.2	their profiles of Marjorie Taylor Green running in the New York Times,
1:08.9	lots of to do about next year's elections. And we're not going to
1:13.1	talk about any of it. We are taking an aggressive news break. We don't want to talk about
1:21.3	anything in the news for this last podcast, Dispatch podcast of 2025. Instead, we're going to
1:27.3	talk about things that we want to
1:28.7	talk about related to this past year, things that we enjoyed, some pop culture stuff,
1:35.5	some Jonah stuff. Like, is Jonah one of the topics? Because I was the, I was not one of
1:42.9	2025. You'll be surprised surprised we're staging an intervention Jonah
1:48.0	I sent it just to the other panelists and not you most annoying Jonah moment of the year maybe that's
1:53.2	a good place to start no no no it's not we won't we won't do that we won't subject subject you
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