We’re back for our annual recap episode featuring Daniyel Turner, longtime friend of the show. We reintroduce Daniyel and let him share about his time in the Bay Area and what’s next for him.

Then we get into our long-awaited albums of the year discussion, highlighting all the records that kept us moving forward. We transition into our favorite moments of the year including travel, concerts, and festivals. What a year for film?! Barbenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, and is superhero fatigue real? We’ve got a blockbuster-packed chat of the big screen’s big moments before gushing about some television standouts. The data is in…every second counted this year. Concluding the show with our hopes and desires for 2024. Check out each of our faves in the show notes below.

Shaun’s favorites of 2023

Music - Top 10 albums

1. Gia Margaret - Romantic Piano

2. Local Natives - Time Will Wait For No One

3. Sophie Hutchings - The World Outside

4. Bully - Lucky for You

5. Hania Rani - Ghosts

6. Cicada - Seeking the Sources of Streams

7. Land of Talk - Performances

8. Home Is Where - The Whaler

9. Post Malone - Austin

10. Hotline TNT - Cartwheel

Fave moments, concerts, and festivals

• Traveling to New York City with Shelby
• Riot Fest 2023 in Chicago with Lydia, Shelby, and Joe
• Summercamp Music Festival 2023 in Illinois
• Death Cab for Cutie / The Postal Service in Minneapolis
• Sam Gellaitry in Colorado
• Leo Fest 9 - OnHell, Jeez Luis, Lunar Satin, and more!

Movies

• Super Mario Bros Movie
• Guardians of the Galaxy 3
• Air
• Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse
• Oppenheimer
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Barbie

TV

• The Bear - season 2
• Succession - season 4
• The Last of Us - season 1
• What We Do In the Shadows - season 5
• Life on Our Planet
• The 100: Blue Zones Around the World
• I Think You Should Leave - season 2
• America Symphony - Jon Baptiste documentary

Video games

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Super Mario Wonder
• Pikmin 4
• MTG: Arena
• Fortnite
• Snake io+

Lydia’s favorites of 2023

Music

• Skrillex - Don’t Get Too Close
• Trevor Hall - And the Great In Between
• Arm’s Length - Never Before Seen, Never Again Found
• Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden
• Daily Bread - Invisible Cinema
• RL Grime - Play
• Goose - Autumn Crossing
• G Jones

Fave moments, concerts, and festivals

• Decadence NYE 2023 was awful…
• Infrasound
• The final Summer Camp
• Electric Forest
• Riot Fest
• Disney World
• Mersiv at Red Rocks
• Leo Fest

Movies

• Talk to Me
• Infinity Pool
• The Flash
• Guardians of the Galaxy 3
• Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse
• Oppenheimer
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Barbie

TV

• I Think You Should Leave
• The Last of Us
• Succession
• The Bear
• Blue Eye Samurai
• What We Do In the Shadows
• Great Expectations

Daniyel’s favorites of 2023

Music

• Beyonce - Renaissance
• Streaming cancellations and changes midyear
• YouTube Premium

Fave moments, concerts, and festivals

• Moving out of the Bay Area and heading the SLC for Sundance Film Festival!
• Barbenheimer
• Renaissance World Tour
• New York City with his mom - Brooklyn for the Fourth of July
• September 11th Memorial Museum

Movies

• Oppenheimer
• Barbie
• Talk To Me
• Across the Spiderverse
• Past Lives

TV

• The Bear
• The Last of Us
• Daryl Dixon
• From
• Fired on Mars

Shaun's 2022 faves list:

Top 10 Albums of the Year

1. Sweet Pill - Where the Heart Is
2. ODESZA - The Last Goodbye
3. The Envy Corps - Born in Fog
4. Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
5. Sam Gellaitry - VF VOL II
6. Chat Pile - God's Country
7. Sticky Fingers - Lekkerboy
8. The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
9. Armor for Sleep - The Rain Museum
10. Anthony Green and the High and Driving Band - Boom. Done.

Shouts

Queen of Jeans - Hiding in Place EP

Glitterer - Fantasy Four EP

The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist

Concerts

1. 10/3- La Dispute / Sweet Pill / Pictoria Vark (KS: Granada Theater - Monday -
2. 9/16- Odesza / Sylvan Esso (CO: Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre - Friday)
3. 10/16- Rufus Du Sol (CO: Red Rocks - Sunday)

• 11/5- Jack Kays (MN: 7th Street Entry - Saturday)
• 3/26- Iya Terra / Cydeways ( CO: Cervantes - Saturday)
• 2/20- Tyler, the Creator / Vince Staples / Kali Uchis / Teezo Touchdown (MN: Target Center - Sunday)
• 2/17- RL Grime (CO: The Church - Thursday)
• 4/16- LSDream / Meso / VEIL b2b NotLö / Lucid Vision / Comisar (CO: Mission Ballroom - Saturday)

Festivals

Kosmic Kingdom

Kosmic Kingdom - G Jones / CloZee (DSM: Sleepy Hollow - Friday-Saturday)

Wakaan Music Festival Day

Wakaan Music Festival Day 1 (AR: Mulberry Mountain - Thursday-Saturday)

Okeechobee 2022

3/3- Okeechobee 2022 - Rezz / Charlesthefirst remembrance show / Eprom (FL: Okeechobee - Thursday)

3/4- Okeechobee 2022 - Tame Impala / Caribou / 1788-L / Of the Trees (FL: Okeechobee - Friday)

3/5- Okeechobee 2022 - Megan the Stallion / Griz / Jai Wolf / The Glitch Mob / Washed Out / Papadosio / Lab Group / Haywyre / Rome in Silver / Player Dave (FL: Okeechobee - Saturday)

3/6- Okeechobee 2022 - Porter Robinson / Jungle / Flying Lotus / Clozee / Goth Babe / The Librarian / Veil b2b Notlo (FL: Okeechobee - Sunday)

Heatwave Music Festival 2022

7/16- Heatwave Music Festival 2022 - RL Grime / (CHI: Douglass Park - Sunday)

7/17- Heatwave Music Festival 2022 - Zeds Dead / Rome in Silver / (CHI: Douglass Park - Sunday)

Performances

7/9- The Envy Corps @ 80/35 Music Festival (DSM: Sculpture Park - Saturday)

TV Shows

1. Better Call Saul - Season 6 (series finale)
2. House of the Dragon
3. The White Lotus - season 2
4. What We Do in the Shadows - Season 3
5. Euphoria - season 2
6. Severance - season 1
7. Ozark - season 4 (series finale)

• The Staircase
• Peacemaker - season 1
• Prehistoric Planet
• Murderer: Jeffrey Dahmer story

Game of Thrones rewatch

Sons of Anarchy rewatch

The Office rewatch

Movies

1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Thor: Love and Thunder
3. Nope
4. Barbarian
5. Jackass Forever
6. The Batman
7. Smile
8. The Northman
9. Avatar: The Way of Water
10. Prey

Where the Crawdads Sing

The Unimaginable Weight of Massive Talent

Halloween Ends

Bones and All

Glass Onion

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Top 5 Games of 2022

1. Elden Ring
2. As Dusk Falls
3. Tinykin
4. Somerville
5. Marvel Snap

Gotta get back to:

God of War Ragnarok

Kirby and the Forgotten Lands

1. Ultimate Chicken Horse
2. League of Legends: Wild Rift
3. Pokemon Go
4. Fortnite with Stryker
5. Magic the Gathering Arena

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