From the start of President Donald Trump's second term to the assassination of TPUSA CEO Charlie Kirk, 2025 was a wild year with no shortage of significant events. Thomas, Sterling, and Andrew cover the political and cultural chaos, the AI takeover, DOGE, censorship battles, border enforcement, geopolitical events, and headlines that prove reality truly is stranger than fiction.

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In this episode of The Pop Culture Contrarian, Thomas, Sterling, and Andrew dive into the real dangers of AI: from economic disruption and job loss, to deepfakes and deception, to spiritual counterfeits and people literally forming religions around artificial intelligence.

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Thomas, Sterling, and Andrew compare "Wicked" (2024) and "Wicked: For Good" (2025) to the original "Wizard of Oz" movie."The Wizard of Oz" has been an iconic American fairy tale for well over 80 years. From the original novel to the silver screen and broadway, it has permeated pop culture across mediums and authors. Thomas, Sterling, and Andrew compare the latest film iterations — "Wicked" (2024) and "Wicked: For Good" (2025) — to the original movie and the wider Wicked universe and wrestle with what they are actually saying about villains, otherness, Oz as America, power and politics, truth vs. relativism, rewriting cultural touchstones, and more.

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