It's time for our annual Best of Call In show where past guests and listeners send in voice memos of some of their favorite things from 2025. This year's episode includes a 30 minute interlude with Rabbi Michael Zedek to talk about his newest book!

Korman Siblings

Hosts of Friday Night Movie Podcast

Producers of The Floaters

• Koln 75
• F1 in the theater
• Stranger Things
• Avatar Fire & Ash
• Adult Children

Pam Rose

• Severance
• Traitors
• Stranger Things on Broadway
• Damiano David (music)
• Weapons
• Sinners
• The Naked Gun
• Dinosaur improv
• Ben Schwartz & Friends
• Taskmaster
• Celebrity Boyfriend - James Acaster
• Would I Lie to You
• Off Menu Podcast

Abbas Jaffary

• Mini ITX gaming computer
• Geometry Wars
• Ball Pit
• Switch 2
• Metroid Prime Beyond
• Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Itality - indigenous vegan food
• Work team
• Students
• Tilted Access Press
• Canned Podcast
• HDTGM
• Hello from the Magic Tavern
• Arcane - Netflix
• Resisting ICE

Steve Higgins

• 20th anniversary of teaching at Lewis & Clark
• 15 years of Ink & Drink comics
• Katharos - Steve’s own comic
• Assorted Crisis Events (comic short stories)
• Severance
• Pluribus
• KPop Demon Hunter
• Maybe Happy Ending

Andy

• Minecraft in person
• Birdwatching
• Going to the beach
• Anime conventions
• Cosplay photo shoots
• Making and wearing cosplay
• BINGO Resolutions
• Punch Card Resolutions

Jasmine Davila

• Heated Rivalry
• Fandom & community

Ezra Butler - independent researcher

Jute Backerei in Berlin

Jesse Dukes - host of Upper Middle Brow

• Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
• Sweet Thursday - Steinbeck
• Exhalation: Stories Ted Chang
• Robot Stories - Isaac Asimov
• Salt-water fishing
• Wet Legs - Moisturizer

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