New Year, New Madness
Mon 9 Feb 2026
Shenanigan Report
The episode kicks off with a discussion of some of 2025’s Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Dragon, and Goodreads Choice awards. AJ spends entirely too much time talking about Chuck Tingle’s oeuvre for Marly’s comfort. Marly also absolutely did not buy most of the other books on the list.
Next our intrepid podcasters cover the Grammy winners and show their relative age and cultural status by being largely out of the loop and mostly go on about how they don’t like hype.
They move on to some select items from the 2024 Academy Awards and BAFTAs, and 2025 Golden Globes. Finally, they wrap up with a mention of some of the notable folks who left us in 2025.
Madness Resources and Links
- Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
- Check our episode on A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
- My Best Friend’s Exorcism - movie trailer for the film adaptation of the great book by Grady Hendrix
- Coffee by Chappell Roan - AJ throwing this in just to prove Chappell Roan has a pretty big range apart from Pink Pony Club!
- The Skyhooks
- The Escape Room was at Entermission Sydney
Music Credits
Our intro “music” was “composed” by AJ! Our lively outro track is courtesy of the Short Circuits album by Brevyn.
Disclaimer
All opinions have come from the twisted minds of AJ and Marly and have no basis in expertise or even reality.
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