EPISODE · Dec 30, 2025 · 49 MIN
Books, Bops and Brotherly Bromances: The Good Girls' 2025 Pop Culture Recap
from Good Girls · host SJ and Kay
In the chaotic glow of 2025's close, we reflect on pop culture that absolutely delivered in a year that aged us a decade: uncomfortable brotherly vibes in The White Lotus, steamy hockey romance in Heated Rivalry, and the ultimate female friendship glow-up in Wicked (shoutout to Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo's interlaced fingers). We talk 2025 book news like Onyx Storm and Rebecca Yarros's boundary-holding brilliance, debate fantasy's sneaky progressivism amid self-pub smuts and tropes galore. We bop to Taylor Swift's joyful era, Sabrina Carpenter's energy, and rising pop girlie Adela. We mostly keep it light with music recs for millennial moms, book hauls from Ali Hazelwood to Emily Henry, and a dystopian Love Island twist in The Compound. But...we do dip into the depressing (Epstein files, weird "machine-gun lips" mentions, and disturbing JD Vance AAO3 fanfic) with a side of Satanic '80s history. Wrapping with wishlist hilarity: athletic heroines, Issa Rae for prez, elderly Love Is Blind sex ed, and bipartisan blowjob scandals. It's silly, smutty, supportive, and the perfect cognitive offload for good girls surviving the void, cheers to 2026!
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In the chaotic glow of 2025's close, we reflect on pop culture that absolutely delivered in a year that aged us a decade: uncomfortable brotherly vibes in The White Lotus, steamy hockey romance in Heated Rivalry, and the ultimate female friendship glow-up in Wicked (shoutout to Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo's interlaced fingers). We talk 2025 book news like Onyx Storm and Rebecca Yarros's boundary-holding brilliance, debate fantasy's sneaky progressivism amid self-pub smuts and tropes galore. We bop to Taylor Swift's joyful era, Sabrina Carpenter's energy, and rising pop girlie Adela. We mostly keep it light with music recs for millennial moms, book hauls from Ali Hazelwood to Emily Henry, and a dystopian Love Island twist in The Compound. But...we do dip into the depressing (Epstein files, weird "machine-gun lips" mentions, and disturbing JD Vance AAO3 fanfic) with a side of Satanic '80s history. Wrapping with wishlist hilarity: athletic heroines, Issa Rae for prez, elderly Love Is Blind sex ed, and bipartisan blowjob scandals. It's silly, smutty, supportive, and the perfect cognitive offload for good girls surviving the void, cheers to 2026!
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