Who Won 2025? (Spoiler: Not Us)
Frangela: The Final Word
Frangela Duo
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
It’s our final Something Ain’t Right of 2025, and baby… we checked the scoreboard. Whoever won this year, it sure wasn’t us. We dig into the quiet, fateful shift in who’s buying America’s debt—because apparently even our IOUs are getting nervous. Then we wade through the heavily redacted Epstein files, which somehow manage to be both incomplete and still horrifying, reminding us that we’ve only scratched the surface of the evil behind his trafficking network. We look at how surviving a disaster now depends on what you can afford, because nothing says “land of the free” like tiered catastrophe pricing. And finally, we count down the 55 mind‑blowing facts we learned in 2025—some wild, some weird, all of them proof that this year has been doing the absolute most.
Grab your snacks, your side‑eye, and your sanity—Frangela is sending you into the New Year with laughs, truth, and a whole lot of “something ain’t right.”
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| 0:00.0 | It's no surprise that newsmakers try to manipulate the audience. |
| 0:05.7 | They want you to believe that they are the one holding the line and they'll use any trick they can to get you there. |
| 0:10.4 | But don't let them fool you. |
| 0:12.0 | Get unspun. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Amanda Sturgel. |
| 0:15.2 | I've been a reporter and today I teach future reporters to cut the spin and think critically about what newsmakers say. |
| 0:21.9 | My podcast, Unspun, shows you how to know when you're being manipulated by the news. |
| 0:27.0 | Learn to spot the tricks and how to make up your own mind about what's true. |
| 0:30.5 | So if you're tired of being fooled by the news, subscribe to Unspun today. |
| 0:34.6 | Unspun, because you deserve the truth. |
| 0:49.5 | MSW Media. |
| 0:52.9 | Hi, I'm Frances Calliard. |
| 1:13.7 | And I'm Angela V. Shelton. We are for Angela and welcome to something ain't right. It ain't right. Because it's not right. It's absolutely not right. You feel it when you see it, when you read it, you know something is wrong. Something is wrong. And that's why we're here. First off, our first something ain't right. |
| 1:16.2 | That was, if you heard that way, did you hear that? |
| 1:16.7 | No. |
| 1:24.8 | Okay, my phone, the volume was up, and my text notification is Lando Caleresean saying, Hello, what have we here? |
| 1:28.2 | And I just played it. |
| 1:29.6 | I know if you heard it. |
| 1:32.3 | Our first something, |
| 1:34.2 | our first something, |
| 1:35.4 | ain't right up is |
| 1:36.9 | the quiet, faithful shift |
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