Looking back and forward.
Will and Max open 2026 by revisiting what actually mattered in 2025—personally, culturally, and publicly—and setting the tone for what’s next.
This episode covers:
- 2026 priorities & goals: nudge words, fitness, health, and midlife recalibration
- Sean Combs: The Reckoning — reflections on one of 2025’s most unsettling stories and Netflix documentary
- Beef & grudges: what the 50 Cent saga says about holding onto anger—especially in middle age
- Marauders of 2025 — the people, trends, and forces that defined the year:
- Culture & power: Time’s AI moment and its architects — Elon Musk, Lisa Su, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, Fei-Fei Lee
- Politics & place: Abigail Spanberger and Dominion Road
- Music: longevity and late-career runs from Clipse, Nas, De La Soul, Raekwon, Slick Rick
- Pop culture: Heated Rivalry director and author, Walton Goggins everywhere, Jon Hamm’s victory lap, Pamela Anderson’s reinvention, and late-night TV’s inflection point (Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart, John Oliver)
And finally:
WTF is going on with Nicki Minaj?
Thanks for listening--keep on marauding!
