The Daily Zeitgeist - Best Music & Movies Of 2022

Episode Date: December 29, 2022

In this holiday special, Jack and Miles are joined by super producers Anna Hossnieh and Becca Ramos to talk about the best music and movies of the year 2022.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this special year-end episode of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist. It's a production of iHeartRadio. And this is the episode where we're cramming in two eps in one baby get ready we're just really jamming it in like some of my favorite movies this year which really packed a lot in uh this year yeah yeah this year i'm jack that's miles yeah and this year just that's called a tease you're gonna get to hear him say this year and then put thoughts after that pretty soon.

We also have super producer Anna Hosnier. Hi, Anna. Hello. And we're also thrilled to be joined by super producer Becca Ramos. Hello. I had to do it with you. I had to do it with you, Becca.

Hello. Hello. Becca Ramos in the building. Ana Jose in the building. It's so wild. We were all talking about like, I don't know if I even saw a movie. And all of us like, oh, yeah, I saw that. Oh, yeah, I saw that.

I only went to the theater for Elvis. Everything, everywhere, all at once in Jurassic World. Everything else I saw on streaming. Well those were the three best movies so you did it right. Yeah yeah yeah Yeah I think in theaters I only saw actually I saw quite a few of these in theaters I saw Nope in theaters, Spider-Man in theaters Everywhere Everywhere, Everything Everywhere

All at Once. Everywhere Everywhere Everywhere and Batman I think are the movies I saw and I saw the new Black Panther. Yeah. Okay. I think those are the movies I saw. And I saw the new Black Panther. Yeah. Okay. I think those are all the ones. So Becca, you and I have a similar in our top five here.

You're the only person who actually like went through and made a list. But I only made it to movies. I didn't make it to the other things. I mean, I could only force myself into remembering four films I saw and then jarred it with a list of like Netflix listings. So you have at number one, which is probably my number one or like, you know, top top three everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, everything, everywhere, all at once. Absolutely. Hands down.

I have that. He's in the decade. Yeah, it's really I think it's inarguable this was the movie of the zeitgeist this year like just a movie that came out of nowhere and was massively successful without like a huge marketing budget it was just everybody was telling it's all everyone else about it all at once um and it just blew up it was one of those things where you had to ask people like hey did you see everything everywhere all at once absolutely and they're like no like you have you like that was the thing i'd be like you have you have to go go see that shit go see that shit

go see that i mean it's a movie that made me really be like gosh that's why i love movies you know like it's the first time i felt inspired watching a movie in a long time in the sense of like inspired by art and cinema and what the medium is, I was like, this is why we go to the movies. Not to be cheesy like Nicole Kidman ad vibes, but this is why we come to the movies. That's how I

felt watching it. It inspired me to go back to karate class, getting my first green stripe on my white belt for some of the fighting that happened in that. What was your best movie, Emma? I know you're over here being like, what did I see this year? I don't know. I feel like movies failed this year in a way. I just feel like I didn't hear or see a lot of film or hear about.

I always thought my big example is Black Adam, which I finally watched. like black adam which i finally watched and i felt like it's so strange that a movie that stars like notably one of the biggest stars in the world outside of michael jordan uh the rock i feel like it should have like the rock is finally playing a superhero and i feel like i wasn't like um in a way like beat to death with marketing and advertisement for it you know like i feel like it slipped by in a way that was like oh my god did you hear black adam anyway and that was like surprising for me because i'm like but it's the rock like we all like we love the rock we love the rock i've been falling it and this is something that my couple's therapist and i've been talking about i've been falling out of love with the rock for the past four or five years.

I see a couple therapists just about my relationship with the rock. And, uh, it's been, it's been rocky these past days. Uh, he's like de-sexualized that I think it's cause he's too vague with his politics.

Yeah. He's, he's vague with his politics and like vague with his whole charisma and vibes and i just like can't anybody wakes up that early to work out and is just like so ceaselessly positive but like it's not clear what they're positive about like i don't know it's just right he he's starting to weird me out a little bit huh and i think for a movie like black adam where he is a superhero i think he just wanted to be a superhero like he wasn't embodying the like the dc comic character that is black adam like he was like i the rock deserve to be revered as a superhero and i'm gonna be a superhero but he made it very clear that he did not want to be a part of the Shazam movie that's coming out,

which like Black Adam is a supervillain to Shazam. So it is just like, I think also part of, in terms of like comic book land, he did not respect the genre in a sense or respect like the comic book lore in the way that like a lot of these marvel you know superheroes and villains embody those characters like actually like you know i mean that's disney's

policing too of like this is what we want the cinematic universe to look like but dc doesn't have that same realm or you know like hold on their universe i think as you know disney does with marvel so i think that's a big part of it too is that like he just didn't want to play the game that is to be a superhero like he's like no I'm the rock yeah he's not a superhero he's the rock and he would have made more money if he came out with a movie that was about the rock

I'm not even joking if there was a The Rock movie where he just had superpowers or like if it's just it's called like young rock isn't it or like if you like sort of play within the reality of him when he was the wrestling character like the rock

like I feel like more people be like oh my god this like if he did the unbearable weight of talent type thing that Nicolas Cage did but it was about the rock people would beat that shit up people would like the weird owl biopic. Yeah, he's too self-serious, I think.

I mean, he has a sense of humor, but to your point, the Black Adam felt like, here I am now. I guess, yeah, I guess DC does not have a good grasp of what they're doing. The DC universe is a mess.

It's such a mess. They just blew it up, right? They had a structured demolition fairly recently. What's his name? What's his name? Cavill? Henry Cavill! But he did agree to come back.

But that doesn't make sense. Well, this is all... None of it makes sense. But he also is at the end of Black Adam showing up as Batman. Wait, what is he? Superman. That would be wild if he showed up as batman and they were like it's clearly superman it's so confusing but he's like drunk and he just

put the costume on it's like it's me batman they're like henry man get the fuck off camera man so i just want to say because anna and i do kind of have this ongoing conversation where she's streaming. I am more of a movie person and I actually think movies had a great year and that movies kind of figured out what they do better than they have it. Or at least for me, it became clear, like, I don't know. Movies are not just short streaming series and streaming series are not just

long movies. Like everything everywhere all at once are, are, are, are are are just these like maximalist things that they just it's like the whole thing is a is the finale of a firework show it's just everything all the synapses are firing the whole time that you're watching it and those were both movies that i felt like had a lot of energy this year a lot of energy this year. A lot of people were excited. I'm not saying every movie has to be that, but it does feel like movies found a second wind because of things like that.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You said we talk about this a lot. We don't talk about it a lot. No, the theme of the show, though, I would agree.

Like, on a streaming corner, you know? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I enjoy streaming. You're right, because you feel the prestige is there. I just don't think movies do would agree. Like, on a streaming corner, you know? Yeah, yeah. Like, you are a TV. I enjoy streaming. You're right, because you feel the prestige is there.

I just don't think movies do it anymore. Like, they don't give us enough. It's not that interesting. They're just, like, rebooting the same thing over and over and over again. To that point, that's probably why Everything Everywhere All at Once was so refreshing, because it wasn't based on existing IP, and it was just so... The idea itself was kind of went against all the traditional thinking of the kinds of films that are developed by studios and you're like oh wow

they trusted these two creators to just book and go off like that is really how you know that's how you're gonna get these more creative projects but um what else was there what else maverick the top gun maverick movie uh maverick was very fun very i mean i heard so many good things i didn't catch it in theaters i was a little bummed but i think that's okay it was political propaganda and also of course it was so apparently rrr is like really like problematic propaganda in india like i i just don't know all the details of the forces at work, but yeah. So,

so as Maverick, Top Gun Maverick was definitely political propaganda, but also a very good time at the movies. I think it's more interesting, like all the sort of stories you hear afterward about how like Tom Cruise wants you to die for every role you do in a movie of his and yeah oh yeah i think is more problematic than the actual like propaganda of it all because i'm not joining the air force but i'm kind of like you should get jet fuel poisoning like what are

you talking about how is that okay wait what happened yeah you know remember that article that came out where like Miles Teller He got like he got like jet fuel poisoning and like had to be hospitalized. And then like he came back I hang on the side of the airplane. Why can't you hang on the side of the airplane?

Yeah. You know, he came back. He told Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise was like, welcome, man. That's how it goes. Basically,

his reaction was like, same bro. Get used to it. And it's like, that's not okay. That's not okay. You shouldn't have to get jet fuel poisoning. like, same, bro. Get used to it. And it's like, that's not okay. That's not okay. You shouldn't have to get jet fuel poisoning. Oh, he had jet.

You say he had jet fuel in his blood. Yeah. Jet fuel in his bloodstream. Like, that's not. That sounds like some shit. That sounds like some shit Tom Cruise would look at you and go, that's right, man. In your blood. This is how I was born with jet fuel in my bloodstream.

Really absurd. Like, you know, like, yeah, like, I have it in my blood right now. And it makes me strong. Something that you're like, whoa, you need help. Yeah. Because that's not okay, in my opinion. You shouldn't force a person. Like, the fact that he was like, you have to be down to actually be in these planes and actually flying them. It's like, I'm an actor.

Right. Yeah. I'm not acting. Wasn't that that other headline that other headline too or like emily blunt said like on edge of tomorrow he was like don't be a pussy to her because she was talking about like one of the like the costume was like super fucking heavy and that was him like just snapping back at her about it he was like sorry i just heard that phrase for the first time i don't i, I'm using it with everyone. Um,

he's like, why are you trying to live? You're like, Hey, jump out this plane with me with like, no shoot. And let's just fucking see what happens. Maybe we'll die.

I don't know. Maybe we'll live. See, that's like, I get it. We love Tom. Wow. He's so crazy.

He doesn't sound. He's sitting on top of the, uh, uh, Dubai. We love Tom. That's the energy people give off. We all love Tom Cruise, Becca. This guy is trying to kill people. We love Tom Cruise. That's the energy people give off. We all love Tom Cruise, Becca.

This guy is trying to kill people. Or himself. Or it's all like the king of Scientology. Did you see the other one, Anna, where he jumped out the helicopter over South Africa for the Mission Impossible thing? The latest one. And it's the same energy of like, Hey, I'm dying inside! Later!

It just falls out of a plane. He's on a plane and he's like hanging off the top of the plane and the audio is so gargled and it's like this isn't worth it okay here I go and then the plane like mirrors away and you're like okay did he die

that was the thing that when I was watching the helicopter one I was like wait I've seen this before he basically just ran it back from a previous one right he's always somewhere higher yeah but he's always somewhere being like hey man it's me bye basically the gist of every tom cruise thing and it's like wow he really almost died he's gonna be like yeah i am at the top of a volcano that's erupting and i'm going inside it oh okay those volcanologists have no idea the power within these volcanoes xenu told us what is inside of these and i will unleash its power bye-bye that would be great if that's how he went out just one of these like weird little yeah because of the zinu just and i have such faith

that i'm jumping into the volcano oh no tom that's not what we discussed just bones that's all unnecessary in my opinion not me i want people to die for my entertainment uh soon enough that's i feel like within two years tlc will be showing people dying in slow motion as like a reality show. I mean, don't put it past them. I think the only person who should be allowed to die during filming is like a jackass person. What do you mean? What do you mean allowed to die? I think that's what I'll be like.

That was pretty crazy. But like, that was like, they did what they love. I can't be mad at it. They're like, I mean, he should have known. He wanted to light a fart underwater that imploded the entire tank. He wanted that. And I'm supposed to be upset? No, God bless.

He's smart. Check out forever. You guys all saw that, right? Check out forever. I'm eating an apple. Did you say check off forever? Check off forever. I didn't want to see it it's definitely like that is my least favorite genre of thing is the jack the jack off movies

oh yeah as an elder millennial i it was calling me and i watched yeah same i was seeing the originals back in the day but you know i'm good I'm good. I still haven't seen this one. I don't think I've seen any of the movies end to end. It's not as much as a bummer as I thought it would be. They threaded the needle there. But at the end, you're like, damn. That is a resounding endorsement for a comedy movie. Well, and part of me, at that point, you're like, look at Johnny Knoxville, dude.

He has like CTE probably and all this. Like, just put himself through it. No question. You know, and then you're like, and you're like, y'all are getting the gang back together one more time. I had like, I got nervous when they announced it. And then when I saw it, I was like,

I was like, what could this be? Yeah, it's whatever. At the end of the day. Best poster of the year. I can say that. Best movie poster of the year. Some people never learn. And then him just being shot out of a cannon

with angel wings on. Yeah. Classic. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We're going to talk about, nope.

We're going to talk some other movies that came out this year. Some that we didn't like as much. And then we're going to talk about some music, I guess the Kendrick album the whole time. Cause that's really the only new music that I listened to. Um, I just heard this new Toto album. That's sick,

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because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the black effect podcast network iheart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast the black effect podcast network is sponsored by diet coke and we're back and all right, another one that we have in common in our top five, Becca. Yeah, Nope was my top three. I put it on there, not that I felt like it was my favorite movie,

but I felt like it was new IP, which I really appreciated. I love Kiki Palmer. And obviously, big fan of all of Jordan Peele's work. I feel like it's been really hard to recreate the magic that was Get Out when Get Out came out. Because I would say Get Out is in, like, my top five favorite movies of all time.

Yeah. But, you know, Us was a little disappointing to me. I didn't like Us as much. But I really liked Nope. I thought it was really fun, especially me as someone who doesn't really love, like, sci-fi worlds. I thought it was a great venture in the sci-fi.

It was like not too long. It was obviously like an incredibly artful movie. So that's why it's my top three. Yeah. I had like the images that stuck with me longer than anything. Oh yeah. Yeah. So the costumes that came out of it for Halloween were very fun.

I saw people make giant alien spaceships and the flags and the ladders come out of them. It was, it was great to watch. Oh shit. Oh, that's, yeah, that's a pretty in depth.

And it's exactly what I want it. Like, because I, I like being excited about filmmakers and like, it's the movie that I was like, yes, like that, that is the perfect movie everything about that is

like awesome and it's like amazing in like a new direction that i hadn't seen him do i don't know i know nope is amazing people definitely should have seen it on the big screen but yeah i didn't catch it on there caught on my tv though and i turned the volume real loud and it still hit decent it was just I thought it was really it was real fun it was like very tense when it needed to be and like in these very subtle ways I mean that those whole flashbacks with Steven Yeun when he's like a

kid on the set of that show those that shit but more than anything I was like shit this fucking part always like I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about that. That part had me really stressed out. Yeah.

That might be the best, like, five minutes of any movie this year, I think is my opinion. The chimp turning up. Yeah, that shit was, whoo. Yeah. Anna, what'd you think about Nope? I enjoyed it.

I like... I mean, I haven't seen Us. Too scaly. But I do like basically anything Jordan Peele puts out that's not too scaly for me. But I really enjoyed Nope. That is a quote on the poster for the movie. Too scaly. From the visionary mind of Get Out.

And then in quotes, too scaly yeah no but i i mean like you know like get out nope all of them um other than the too scaly one i really enjoy like i really can't you can't go wrong i feel like his mind is so interesting like even from like the um oh my gosh the new twilight zone series he did that was really good that was great i enjoyed that so much and i'm sorry to bring it back to streaming i know i'm sick i'm sick he could do a movie about me i'm so sick in the head but anyway you would bring the movie about you back to some streaming show unrelated sorry what are you pitching to us anna it's about me and i'm sick with it but i love coming back to streaming what? sick with streaming disorder

no but yeah I just really enjoy anything he makes and so I really I can't go wrong like people have critiques of like well this one's better than this one I was like it's all different he just has like so much going on in that fascinating mind of his that I can't help but enjoy it

I just I can't wait to see what he does next. And I will be first in line to be, well, depending if it's too scaly. I will be first in line if it is too scaly. Too scaly? I'm like you, when it's too scaly?

My mind is scaly enough. I don't need help. I gotta shout out uh barbarian which came out this year wait question was that um written and directed by one of the whitest kids you know yeah it was written direct by one of the ways could you know i just learned that that's starring somebody that we had on the show uh the day before i saw the movie and uh very embarrassed in retrospect of the questions we asked him.

Yeah. So what's up about this Barber? This movie about a barber? Bar-bar-bar-bar-bar-bar. It's about Bar-bar-bar-bar-bar. What's the elephant? The little elephant? Babar?

So Babar, he joins up with the Aryan Brotherhood? Oh no. Oh no. This guy's like, what? I do just want to say there are two movies that also suggest to me this is the year of maximalism because of how bad they are, but how much everyone is fucking with them. Elvis is on all these top 10 lists and was a certified hit.

It's the fucking Oscar marketing. I swear to God. Because why is it on all these top 10 lists and was like a certified hit. It's the fucking Oscar marketing. I swear to God. Cause like, why is it on all these top 10 lists? I was like, I thought this was a bad movie. It's because of the, the what's his name?

The Austin Butler of it. Austin Butler. But like everybody went and saw it. Like, like not everybody, but a lot of, yeah, I guess that's true.

But it's just so much it's i think that's what it is i also saw a movie uh babylon that is like i walked out of it i was like man what a stinker like is that guy gonna ever work again damien chazelle and then i think it'll be fine yeah i went and read the reviews and everyone fucking loves it. But it's again, it's like, there's cool shit in it. There's so much of it. There's so, so much of it. And like,

that's what it's just like, there's so, so much of it. It is the most movie I've ever gone to see. I mean, we're going to go full maximalist in 2023 with a Barbie movie. And I am stoked. Yeah.

Yeah. The Barbie movie definitely looks maximalist and definitely looks like it's going I am stoked. Yeah. Yeah. The Barbie movie definitely looks maximalist and definitely looks like it's going to be a hit and one that I enjoy. I'm very excited. I think Elvis was also like

really forced down our throats, you know? And it's continuing to be forced down our throats with all this fucking Oscar shit. It's so stupid.

Then you got like Austin Butler being like, oh, so I never spoke to my family again after doing this role and they reported me missing to the police and then on SNL

they made him sing Blue Christmas that was crazy oh my god he's like oh I really can't oh hell for blue I shouldn't

I really Christmas without you I was like they really got him singing Blue Christmas and he screamed at me I really shouldn't oh I really without you. I was like, they really got him singing Blue Christmas. That's really me.

I really shouldn't. Oh, I really... My psychiatrist says I have to stop. I put that behind all of the room. His psychiatrist is like, please, dude. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I even married a teenager to get in the role.

He's like, oh no, I'm back. I can't lose it again. It was wild too because look, we all went to that movie together to be like, yo, this looks like straight trash that we can laugh our way through like a fever dream. And then again, I remember coming out of it and other people were like, yeah, it wasn't that bad.

And I was like, can you tell me, good person of earth, what your description of why you liked it? And they're like, it was fun. And blah, blah, blah. I was like, why you liked it they're like it was fun and blah blah blah i was like were you not put off by like the like just the whitewashing over of like all the shit that's wrong with elvis like it was truly being like it's called ignoring it yeah it's a it's a celeb and someone's like it's a celebration of elvis i was like all right man i can't even y'all are not serious it's like he married a teenager And then he would kiss other women on the lips

I mean, why don't you guys understand? That part was wild There was some good information in there About him kissing other women on the lips In front of his wife And her being like, ha ha ha I am gonna divorce this fool for everything he has Just kissing every woman on the lips

But I get it Shout out to, what's her name? Priscilla? Priscilla. Priscilla. Priscilla. She literally was like, mm-hmm, I'm gonna take you for half, bitch. Like, she knew. She knew. She's like, this fool's gonna die of a heart attack and then I'm gonna fucking have this guy's

damn empire. Hey, you want any more fried peanut sandwiches? Yeah, get him what he wants. Let him kiss whoever he wants. Jesus Christ. Have another bite, LV christ you can see it in her eyes she was like she's like i'm in control yeah she was like yeah yeah also that was also the beginning of like didn't that kick off the weird tom hanks roles too yeah this year like yes yes because pinocchio came out and i did not see it. But I will put that on my worst, even though I didn't even see it. I'm like,

there's no way that movie was good. There's no way. It was awful. Tom Hanks' performance in Elvis is, and I'm a Hanks fan, and a lot of stuff he's been in, big, one of my favorite performances. I think it's the worst

performance in anything I've ever seen absolutely because it's because of like what it does to the movie it's distracting it makes the movie not make sense it adds an accent that makes the movie not make sense you know what someone's counterpoint was when i brought that up to someone who loved it they said i thought it made it fun i was like you know i gotta hang out with this person what is this accent even it's like i don't know but it doesn't matter and i'm like it was so confusing it made me angry the whole time i was like it could be you're supposed to not be american but you're from louisiana i don't get it what is this right

because he's like dutch right uh but, I thought he's like a Polish, like Eastern European accent. He was supposed to be a con man who had convinced everyone he was from the South West Virginia. Yeah. He called himself the colonel was convincing everyone he's Southern, but the whole movie, he talks like,

like in a accent like this i'm the snowman and then so bad at one point in the movie the people are like and we know you're not from west virginia you're like you know shit of course you know that he'll listen to how he talks and then you go back and watch a video of the guy and he spoke with a southern accent yes it's like it's so confusing because it's just it's a exaggerated it's like i's so confusing because it's just it's a it's a exaggerated it's like i don't know because every aspect of the movie was distracting awesome butler was distracting yeah and he only went because of that one scene where he was gyrating his hips and people's like hair was literally shooting off their head and that went up to the height exactly as advertised

also there's a korean movie decision to leave by the guy who made Old Boy that I highly recommend people check out when it's available. Wait, say again? Decision to Leave. He's mentioning good movies now for some reason. What do you mean by Decision to Leave? It is the title of the movie. Oh. It's called Decision to Leave.

It's by the filmmaker of Old Boy. It's got a lot going on too. It's great. Is it like Elvis or Nope at all? No. Also not like Sonic 2, which is on my list of bad movies. But this is kind of a sneaky endorsement for the first Sonic, which was actually pretty fun.

But Sonic 2 is a wreck. Sorry, folks. Sorry, folks. We should get to music, though. We should. But I do want to mention the rest of my list before I move on. My top five. Actually, before we get to the rest of your list, did we do a second ad break?

That's your job. Yeah. I don't know. Well, if we didn't, let's do it now. All right. Let's do it now. All right. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,

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iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. Okay, before I move on to music, I do want to give my top five best, plus my honorable mention, a shout out. Number one, Everything Everywhere All at Once, we already went over it. top five best um plus my honorable mention a shout out um number one everything everywhere all at once we already went over it uh number two spider-man no or whatever the new spider-man i don't think i wrote down the right name but the newest spider-man that came out this year

i think that was right no way home but no way home boys in the home this year when i googled it did i was i wrong i think it came out in december oh maybe it did and then we all saw it in january then i will cut it from the list to be technically correct oh yeah okay then number three would be turning red it was so good so cute highly recommend as a pixar movie um then number four coming in at the new father of the bride on HBO max, one of my favorite rom-coms of all time. Now it is a Cuban on the original. Love it.

If you are Latino, I feel like it hits home a lot. You're like, wow, dads are really controlling, but they love you. And I just, uh, it makes me cry every day. It's not a movie that should make you cry, but it makes me cry from the representation. Um, and then my number five is bodies, bodies, bodies.

I watched it on a plane recently and I actually really loved it. It was a lot of fun. It sounds like a lot of bodies and it goes with my maximalist theory. Yeah. Yeah. It's a maximalist slasher film. So this was also the year, speaking of the Spider-Man no way home where i got off

the like i i saw that the new dr strange movie and i was like well this is no longer for me and uh i like sam raimi i have enjoyed uh you know hit or miss like 50 50 marvel movies in the past and i now feel like i don't i don't have to watch them anymore after that strange one i did see spider-man no way home and thought it was fine. I cried. I thought it was the best. I was like, this is the best Spider-Man movie I've ever seen in my life.

I went back and saw it like three more times. I loved it. Wow. Yeah, you did love it. I really did love it. Amazing. All right,

guys, music 2022. We had a Beyonce album. We had a Kendrick album. Those are kind of the only things that i like went and sought out uh and then like just other otherwise just random music i heard and shazammed i heard this other album from aerosmith called get a grip wait get a grip on what i don't know there's a cow on it it's pretty sick so you're like gripping on the cow i it's so wild i've only there are only like a few

full albums i listened to because there was like uh they came like thick and fast i felt like over the summer there was like a streak where there was like four weeks where like you had a lot of homework to do caught renaissance caught mr morale big steppers caught the and see this is where i started forgetting the names that the band that tom york is in that he put out that oh yeah smile yeah yeah the smile smile um i caught a light for attracting attention i think it was called i'm halfway through the new sisa album i haven't heard the whole thing yet but i'm like so far i like what i've heard. But yeah, I definitely... This was a year

that I was discovering a lot of music backwards than keeping up with all of the latest things, I must admit. So you listened to it backwards first and then... For the message, man. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anna, any music recs? I mean, I only

really listened to the new Kendrick album, new Beyonce album. I listened to the Maren Morris album. I listened to Meg Thee Stallion. And then I listened to the new Richard Cheese Besame Queso album. Besame Queso? Yeah.

Kiss My Cheese? Yeah, Jack. Besame. Besame Queso. Oh, like Besame Mucho. What? Besame. Besame queso. Oh, like besame mucho. Oh, besame queso. So it's saying kiss me cheese. Yes, yes, yes.

God, it's a joke. Jesus Christ. Kiss me cheese. Did you guys not get parody? No. I was at the other day. Karaoke with some friends. And they were playing all these songs

and the whole time i kept thinking god the weird albion has been i think i'm just a parody music person i think i just enjoy parody music more than actual music when i look at my like top songs of the year like they're like again it's only those like three albums that are represented everything is just backwards like it's all from years past um so in that sense you know i encourage listeners to always recommend things but i i usually keep up on the the main releases i think this one artist fred again probably had a like one of these years for me where i like it started off me being kind of interested in their music and then slowly being like oh i really like what this person makes they seem to be having a year not fred again yeah no indeed fred again becca hit us with the music you're young i mean i am young

come here young lady what are you listening kind of all over the place but obviously you know renaissance was on replay in this house she had a chokehold on my throat um so renaissance is number one for me and then probably um un verano senti by bad bunny uh and then after that i feel like i'm like i don't know how much new music i listen to after that um i've been catching up on the sZA album i listened to midnights and did not like it sorry hot take and then i thought it was definitely one of taylor swift's on the worser albums um and we already had that conversation come for me i listened to new independent artists i mean i feel like she's been out for a little bit, but she didn't have a full album come out. I think just an EP.

Chapel Rowan. I really liked her stuff this year. What genre is that? I feel like it's like indie. Think like King Princess vibes. Okay. Yeah, I'm like looking through my Spotify rap. But it's a lot of

old stuff. It's a lot of old Beyonce. I got Maggie Rogers on my spotify wrapped but it's a lot of old stuff like it's a lot of like old beyonce uh i got maggie rogers on here oh megan's new album i feel like that was that was good on my top list too um yeah and the rest of it is it's a lot of old beyonce and old bad bunny and old megan that's what i listen to it's like weird like weird old... Is Dawn FM this year? Or Dawn AM? Dawn FM? Yeah.

The Weeknd is like my second most listened to artist, so I guess I got into that a lot. Kendrick, The Weeknd, Kevin Morby. Anyone else? Kevin Morby? Seals and Crofts. Anyone else? No?

I actually... The Pusha T album I listened to a lot of that came out early this year right yeah like it's going dry or it's drying out what's it called came out this year oh yeah Moto Mami I had that I was I was gonna fuck out that album but we'll say that Drake's albums

were the worst those were fucking you use that to prop up your like table that is like has a wobbly leg. That's what those albums were this year. Wobbly leg albums. And also couldn't like do more to just like tank his standing with people like even more and more and more. Like I used to be like, oh, you got a new album. And now I'm like, man, shut the fuck up.

Like, here's a 42. Here's my 42 engagement rings necklaces yeah after his bullshit with the 21 savage album i was like nah like after he took down meg for no fucking reason he let people know what side he was on you're like oh sir you have no idea he's going in like an elon musk direction where he's just gonna like make us never even want to fuck with his old music i don't know because i feel like he has such a desire to be liked that he like tries really hard not to sway but i think but we're seeing him in his pleasing like stage of career where it's like truly he's

just thinking like i think people like this and they're like what yeah and we'd ask for a club album from you like that nobody was asking nobody thought that was necessary i think he's probably and i think like anything too like i it may be hard for him to switch up his formula when you've been doing it one way for so long that's what i'm saying like hey that's why there's plenty of new artists that's why i love discovering new shit because half the time it's like there's so many new artists that like you're always feeling like i wish i was hearing music like this and there's like a hundred percent chance someone is making it you just have to go find absolutely wait do you have a favorite song you recommended this year

miles my favorite song that oh man i like scotty pippen that was one of my favorite year recommendations i don't know if that song came out this year oh yeah that that track was dope the one that you just recommended the brazilian song was super dope oh yeah yeah yeah there's this one artist mima that i really liked didn't put out anything new this year but this like puerto rican artist who like they're do like folkloric music but it's a little modern but the lyrics are like actually like like they're talking about real shit um so i like that and it's wild down rodeo by fucking rage against the machine it was like one of my top 10 played songs this year because that shit go that's maybe that y'all listen to down rodeo by fucking rage against the machine on evil empire because that shit fucking goes that's an example of an old song that was in the zeitgeist i think people were yeah because there was a ton of reaction

videos this year where people had clearly never heard rage against the machine and then they hear the first fucking line of it which is i'm rolling down rodeo with a shotgun these people ain't seen a brown-skinned man since their grandparents bought one and people were like oh my god every reaction video like it's so funny because there's a lot of black people who are like just starting to hear raids for the first time they're like hold up yo what did my mans just say you rolling down rodeo with a shotgun these people ain't seen up what it's i love it uh evil empire goaded but yeah i don't i have so many tracks i like it's so hard to do keep track of this shit because i listen to yeah it's probably too hard for you oh i'll give the

people dj just search djgb.disney oh yeah that track goes that track goes and uh sarah knows minor kata and then the, who's the artist of this? Keita da Jiglake na Situra. DJ GB da Disney. I'm sorry, I zoned out so hard. What is happening? I'll play it for you later and you'll understand everything because it's all Brazilian Portuguese.

Oh, got it. Okay, so these are artists I wouldn't have heard of. No, no. I found this in a TikTok because I got lost in Brazilian TikTok about, I think it's called Cajeta Furaçao or something. It's like these buses that go around in Brazil.

People could wear costumes and they just turn up dancing in the street and people like want to get down and dance along the bus. And this track was playing on one of them

and I was like, okay. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. Big Brazil vibes. We should have done a, and I'm sorry, this is irrelevant really to what we're talking about on this show, but we should have done a weird subcultures of the year that popped up episode.

Write it down for next year. Freaky obsessions, put it in our doc. No, I won't be here by next year. I will have floated to heaven. Yeah. No, don't say that. No, no, no, no, no. Our consciousness will be in the clouds.

See how you're already trying to make me do work for next year? This is what I'm talking about. Oh, no. All right, I'll write it down for next year? This is what I'm talking about. Oh, no. All right. I'll write it down for next year. Get it tatted, Jack. I got into some weird subcultures this year.

A little taste. Prison wives. Water. Water truthers. Oh, my God, y'all. Actually, let's just do it on our year in review and review.

We'll find a... Yeah, everyone bring a weird obsession, weird internet obsession to class for the next one. Honestly, sometimes TikTok will have you being like yeah why do you have 15 kids or you'll be like huh so you just live in a camper all year long i don't know man the oh i'm in a crazy one right now where it's um a really really rich family that has 15 kids and they all make music videos when they come home for the holidays.

Anyway. And their names are all like Paisley, Presley, Bessley, Cressley, Tessley, Jessley, Nestle. I'm not even joking. You think I'm joking? I'll send you a link. I'll send you a link. Don't worry. Hesley? Is that one? Hesley, Gessley, Nestle, Pessley.

I'm not joking. Their names are literally like that. Best C. And then they fight over who has the cleanest room in a mansion. Anyway, these subcultures. This is doing harm to my mental well-being. Anna, you're going to get white people pilled or something. Going down that rabbit hole.

You think I'm not all deep on at nomad family? Oh no, what the fuck is that? It's a family that lives in a camper year round. But like one of those high tech campers that the second all the sides of it pull out is a mansion. You're like, what?

You're like, one of my kids sleeps in a loft over the camper. And you're like how that's outside anyway anyway so i think we should do a strange strange obsession that you will discover over time that's pretty much all my likes on tiktok no for real same all right well that's gonna do it for this episode thank you so much anahnia, where can people find you? I'm at Ana Hosnia on Twitter. I'm at Selling Hosnia on Instagram.

Okay. Becca Ramos, where can people find you? You can find me at Bex, B-E-C-C-S, Ramos on all platforms. All right. That's going to do it for this one. Back tomorrow with another one. Hope you're having a great holiday and we'll talk to you all tomorrow. Bye.

Bye. Why do you say that holiday thing so threateningly like? Hope you're having a good holiday. Be ashamed if something happens to it. Okay. Keep that in. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.

And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and Shekinah Church. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Gianna Pradenti. And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden. We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career. That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do,

like negotiation expert Maury Tahiripour. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation, then I think it sort of eases us a little bit. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports. Up first, I

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