Well, we made it. After a year of scandals, resignations, culture-war stunts, public meltdowns, and at least one crazed banana-slicing incident, 2025 is finally over.  If you’ve already worked your way through TLO 69 Part 1 and Part 2, this is the last stop – the final batch of TLO’s best, dumbest, and most clickable…

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In 2025, food in America somehow got bleaker—more expensive, less accessible, and harder to justify. Thanks, Trump.

The average fast-food lunch has jumped 20–25% in recent years. That Big Mac, fries, and Coke now ring up around $15, and, sadly, there’s no sign prices are coming back down.

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Yesterday, we unveiled Part 1 of the TLO 69. Today, we drop Part 2 – and on New Year’s Eve we’ll drop the finale. Whether you skimmed a post to make sure your name wasn’t in it, died laughing in the comments, or actually pay for this thing, thanks for sticking with us. Patrick and Louis…

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While Patrick and Louis take time off to mentally reset for the coming year, I’ve been tasked with taking a look back at our best, dumbest, and most clickable stories of 2025. We call it the TLO 69 – a free, curated and chronological countdown of our favorite TLO stories; ones the reminds us how nutty…

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Each year, we take about a two-week break from producing new content to recharge the batteries, spend time with family, and – most importantly for me – financially recover from the TLO Christmas feast.

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It’s December 22nd, which means if you’re still looking for Christmas gifts, congrats! We are very much alike and should be friends.

Fortunately for you – and not me, because I own this website – I’m offering a special deal to my procrastinator pals. It requires zero crowds, zero shipping, and minimal emotional or physical investment.

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Let's start this epic tale of TLO's holiday dinner by saying that Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse, 7 S. Mickey Mantle Dr. in Bricktown, is the very definition of fine dining—from the service to the dishes to the old-money elegance of the place.

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Today’s basically a college football Saturday for me, so this Dumpster Fire will be brief. Before we get to it, a couple of internal housecleaning notes:

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About a month or two ago, I was stuck in a traffic jam around 10th and Classen, where the well-traveled and slightly compacted thoroughfare narrows from six to four lanes due to a random six-block segment of bike lanes.

As I sat there, running late to an appointment, listening to the Sports Animal, and watching some doofus try to merge from the right into the center lane while a car in front attempted to simultaneously turn across three lanes of traffic, I remember thinking, “What bonehead city planner thought this was a good idea?”

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It’s been a lot of Christmas, and for good or bad that’s almost over. This weekend, Oklahoma City spreads her twinkly arms with a more diverse offering of seasonal and holiday happenings, plus a wink to pagans, heathens, and recovering Catholics.

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