Better late than never, here’s what I was into in 2025. You can find previous year breakdowns there as well.
Author: Adam
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The 2025 Draft
https://adamriff.com/2025/12/30/the-2025-draft/
For the last nine years I’ve participated in a unique year-end culture draft. Eleven uniquely selected individuals snake draft everything from film, television, gaming, sports, memes and anything culture related.
You will definitely not find a year-end list like this, so go check out some of the wild picks to close out the year.
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Southbound
Do you ever remember being 13 years old and hearing something and it changing your life completely? I can still feel this album viscerally rearranging the atoms in my body. I really wish more shit like that happened when you get older.
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Who mourned him best?
I can’t eat a cracker without quoting this. How has it been over ten years since we lost Harris Wittels.
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There is a Nuke for every mood
I learned about drugs from RoboCop 2 when I was like eight years old. Nuke seemed so wild and bad. The eye drops I currently use come in basically the same dispenser. It’s Nuke every night for me now.
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Unproven Testing
Nathan Fielder is living in another universe when it comes to constructing television.
