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Jeff Holmes: prediction

23 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective

“In fact, I think you could multiply this year’s good films by two and still have the worst year for movies in a long time.”

— Jeff Holmes

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Jeff Holmes
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23 Dec 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…I would dismiss the carbon answer. The others are all factors, but keep in mind we’re asking it about the delta. What will change? They’re all things that have been in place. I think what also has changed, and we’re speaking the day after the election results, where the Democrats won a lot by more than expected, is this will motivate the Republican Congress to stand up to Trump more and be more resistant. That too can account for the delta in addition to the Supreme Court decisions. All right. Let’s move on to 2015 pop culture picks. As you mentioned earlier in the show, this is actually the 10th anniversary year of Conversations with Tyler. We started in April 2015. This is the first year you’re giving pop culture picks when the show was a thing. Now, we only did maybe four episodes that year. It was very sporadic at first. This might be the first year where CWT starts to actually inform some of the picks. Let’s start with movies. You start by saying, “I thought this was the worst year for movies since I have been watching them. In fact, I think you could multiply this year’s good films by two and still have the worst year for movies in a long time. ” That’s still true. Put aside pandemic weirdness. I went back and looked at the list. It was an awful year for movies. There’s very little on it that has stuck with me.…

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