317. Surviving 2025 With Laughter, Jokes, and Questionable Coping Skills

  If 2025 has felt like one long group chat you can’t mute, this episode is your survival kit. From the streets to the stage, we break down a year defined by MTV ending , No Kings protests, cultural flashpoints, and the uncomfortable truth that sometimes comedians are the only ones saying what everyone else is thinking.

We talk Bruce Springsteen and Deliver Me From Nowhere—art as resistance—alongside Sinners and One Battle After Another, where culture keeps fighting even when politics feels stuck on repeat. Our book of the year by John Fugelsang. We also look at how voices like Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Ricky Gervais, South Park, Jimmy Kimmel,  and Gianmarco Soresi are shaping the conversation by doing what institutions won’t: telling the truth with jokes sharp enough to hurt.

On the political side, we dig into the rise and reactions around Zohran Mamdani, Gavin Newsom, Jasmine Crockett, and Marianne Edgar Budde, and why satire might be more effective than speeches at cutting through the noise. With insight from J-L Cauvin and the absurdity that only 2025 could deliver, we ask the real question:

Are we laughing because it’s funny—or because it’s the only way to survive?

This episode is about humor as protest, comedy as commentary, and why laughter might be the last honest currency left

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