2016 Pop Culture Mount Rushmores

Ten years later, 2016 still feels like it’s running the playlist in your head and picking your comfort watches when you’re tired. We’re marking the 10-year anniversary by building 2016 Pop Culture Mount Rushmores, the kind of friend-group argument that instantly turns into receipts, hot takes, and “wait, that was THAT year?” energy. 

We start with the best movies of 2016 and chase both craft and cultural gravity: Rogue One as the Star Wars outlier that stays grounded, Arrival as sci-fi that hits like a human drama, and the Moonlight and La La Land pairing that can’t be separated from the Oscars moment that made history. From there we jump to the best TV shows of 2016, back when streaming was simpler, and make the case for Stranger Things season 1 as a nostalgia engine, Atlanta as a singular masterpiece, Veep as political satire that keeps aging uncomfortably well, and Insecure as the breakout that turned Issa Rae into a force. 

Then it’s time for the best albums of 2016: Beyoncé’s Lemonade as a full-on cultural event, Frank Ocean’s Blonde as the record people still beg to be followed up, Solange’s A Seat at the Table as a statement with real staying power, and Rihanna’s Anti as the era we’re still waiting to get back. We close with what we’re loving in pop culture right now and what we want to disappear forever. If you’ve got your own 2016 Mount Rushmore, hit play, then subscribe, share the show, and leave a review so we can keep the nostalgia debates going.

Transcript

Welcome And The 2016 Anniversary

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What's up? It's your boy Ryan. This is the Nothings Ever New podcast, and it's time to buckle the fuck in. Welcome back, everybody. My name is Ryan. My world's on fire. How about yours? This is the Nothing's Ever New podcast where we talk about pop culture, nostalgia, pop culture, present, past, future, and beyond. And today we are talking about 2016. We are in 2026. So we're doing the 10-year anniversary. This kind of worked out. Also, for me, it's like a nice little like full full circle moment because I graduated from college in 2016. So there's a lot of like nostalgic feelings, both in the positive and in the negative categories. Cause if you've ever uh graduated from college, it's both like incredible and super exciting. And also going out into the real world and adulting, hate that term, uh, isn't just a it's a terrifying thing. So this episode, we are doing our 2016 Mount Rushmores plural. Okay. We're not doing like one for the whole year. That sounds terrible. You guys know this concept. If you have like, you probably have done this with your friends before, it's like a fun exercise. It just like gets people going. So we're doing Mount Rushmores for movies, TV, music. I'm looking at my notes here, everybody. Music, fashion, uh, style. I'm kind of looping into one. And then we have just like a general category. Here's what I'm not putting in is sports. It's not because I don't okay. You know, everyone take a deep breath. First of all, if you're looking for sports content, you're probably in the wrong place. You, I think you're probably gonna know that pretty quickly. You saw me on this camera and you heard a couple of minutes and you were like, maybe this isn't the place to find sports. Not to say that sports aren't a part of pop culture, because I deeply think that they are. I think that in the grand scheme of impact for a longer tale, I think that it's less. There are obviously photos from like sports moments or moments at like a Super Bowl or an NBA playoff game that last they're memorialized in a very different way than some of the things we're gonna talk about that like just stick around a little bit more, which is kind of the point. The the reason why this is called Nothing's Ever New is like this was new at a time, but it was probably somebody filtering through something else. And some of these things stick with us today, and you don't even realize that it's been 10 years since they happened, or maybe you do something or you say something and you don't even know the origin of it. We all are guilty of it, I'm guilty of it, everybody's guilty of it, and so that's kind of the fun

College Graduation Memories And Style Fail

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thing. So, what was going on in 2016? I what who who was I in 2016? But a we lad. Uh in 2016, I was 22, going on 23. I had just graduated from Ohio State. I was moving to Los Angeles to dance professionally. I was just, I was myself. I've always been myself. I my my fashion at the time was still figuring itself out. Uh, in my group of friends, there is a hilarious thing. We will post this somewhere. I did a photo shoot with a friend for fun, and I'm wearing shorts, overalls, with no shirt on underneath, and a giant yellow puffer jacket. And in my little corner of the internet, and in my little corner of the world, that photo was a whole thing in 2016. One of my friends changed his LinkedIn photo to that. Um, it my friends made a parody. It's a whole thing. This is for a very select group. That moment is for a very select group of people. I'm so sorry. We I will post the photo when with this so that everybody can get the vibe. It's insane. It was a choice. Uh, shout out Kelly, Kelly, who was a photographer. I've known I knew Kelly from high school. We knew each other for years. Amazing photographer. The photo was insane. We are talking about

Movies That Owned 2016

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Mount Rushmore. So we're gonna start with movies. This is the year, and this will maybe play into our Mount Rushmore. So, not that many people follow the Oscars. I like the Oscars. I like just like have a touch on movies and like what's going on in directors. It's like I'm a little cinephile on the side. Not actually, because I don't have enough time in my life to watch everything and all of that. I like to read about it and I like to know what's going on. This was the year of the Oscars mishap when they're laughing in in the studio, when say it with me, La La Land was announced as best picture. It was supposed to go to Moonlight. Even if you don't pay attention to movies, you know what I'm talking about. This was like a whole thing. It was like, how did this happen? How could this what? But like it was a big deal. And it was also a big deal that Moonlight, a black, queer film, won Best Picture. It was a huge deal. Um anyway, this was that year. Obviously, the those Oscars happened technically in 2017, but it was for the movies that came out in 2020, 2020. Lord have mercy.

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My brain is right already.

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In 2016. Um, so we're gonna start. I this is in no particular order, okay. So everyone just like gird your loins already. Okay. It's okay, it's not in a particular order. And certainly there's gonna, I'm not gonna say someone's favorite movie, and absolutely people are gonna come for me in the comments and think, this elitist, the like intellectual movies. Fine, okay. These movies are my personal Mount Rushmore for 2016. And I think in the culture collectively, okay. Number one, Rogue One. Whether you are a Star Wars person or not, this was this was the best, this is one of the best, if not the best, Star Wars movie. It also gave us what is now the TV show Andor on Disney Plus. They're not a sponsor. If they are hearing this, I'm open and available. Please hit me up. Hulu, Hulu ESPN, Disney Plus. Uh the DMs are open for you. Uh I am out of place to take money from you. Anyway, uh, Rogue One, it was like a really grounded Star Wars movie. It was kind of about like how you started a revolution. Where you fall politically, this was kind of a year there was a lot going on. It was an election year. So, you know, uh, he who shall not be named. And I'm just gonna leave that at that. So, Rogue One, first one on my route, Mount Rushmore. Again, it's not in an order, it's just like that one. If you're a Star Wars hater, I beg you, give this a try. I promise it will beat what your expectations are of it. Next one arrival. This movie is it never doesn't hit me. It never doesn't work. Um it I think the marketing of this movie did it a disservice when it came out because it was marketed as like an alien movie, which it kind of is. It I guess it technically is, but I the alien part is so like like almost inconsequential. It's like not really about that. The twist at the the twist at the end, it it hits me every single time. It it just works. And this is Denis Villeneuve is the director. Again, I'm doing my film nerd crap, who then goes on to do the crazy run and is super relevant right now because Dune. Denis Villeneuve is the director of all of the Dune movies, which just like had everybody in a chokehold. If you have ever done the I'm gonna do this uh this I'm gonna do this audio and I'm gonna be so embarrassed. The uh the from the Dune. You know what I'm talking about. I can't believe I just did that on a microphone. Oh, help me. Okay, that's arrival. Amazing Amy Adams performance, amazing Jeremy Renner performance, and like still still hits. I'm gonna talk about the next two together because unfortunately, unfortunately, you kind of have to. The final picks for the movie Mount Rushmore are Moonlight and La La Land. Cultural moment like is a part of it. The fact that the Oscars moment happened is like a big deal. Like it it is still something that is that is talked about. Like, if you are talking about the Oscars, the biggest moments in recent history are that and the Will Smith slap. Oh, bad luck, bad luck, tough look for my guy. But this moment, okay, this is this is great. Moonlight, incredible movie. Um, just like absolutely electric performance uh from everybody on screen. Also a story, not to again be a film nerd, just a story that like isn't told and doesn't get told. And I think is something that people are still like people in my circles still talk about when we talk about like some of our favorite movie, favorite movies, some of like our best movies. Same thing. I think Lala Land maybe has stuck around a little bit less, with the exception of like, I do think this is like the full arrival of Emma Stone as we know her, as like a movie star, like just in your face, like electric movie star. LaLeand was huge for me. Uh, this is an embarrassing story, but I'll tell it anyway. I was living in LA, and this whole story is about like trying to make it in in the entertainment industry. And I was living in LA and I went to see this movie, and there's a whole thing about like trying and trying and not making it and moving home. And I just like ugly cried in the movie theater by myself, like watching this, and it could not have been just like a just more of a stab to the gut. Um, I think Moonlight has stayed around more than La La Land. I think La Laland is a little bit of a like people kind of joke about it now. That's fine. I I think it's like amazing. I think it's incredible. That's my my my uh Mount Rushmore for movies. So Rogue One, Arrival, Moonlight, La La Land. Fight me in the comments. I know it's coming. Bring it on. Here are my honorable mentions in no particular order, okay? In no particular order. Kubo in the Two Strings, amazing animated movie. There's plenty of other animated movies. I think part of the reason I'm saying this is like I don't think that that many people actually know about it. The other ones that came out this year are Zotopia and Moana. I don't need to talk to any of you about Zootopia and Moana. You've seen them, you know the songs, okay? Most of you probably haven't seen Kubo in the Two Strings. Do yourself a favor, go do it. It's it's beautiful, it's amazing. The animation style is awesome. I think it's technically considered claymation. I think so. Great. Manchester by the Sea. If you are in a dark place in your personal life, don't turn this movie on. Okay. Don't do it. Don't you're you think that a good cry is what you need. It's not. And it might be, but it's not to this movie. Incredible movie for a moment when you can watch it and then go outside and be in the sunshine. The first Deadpool movie. Sorry, it's just funny. It is like hate, hate or love Ryan Reynolds, hate or love the premise of this. It's funny. The Witch. Scary, I mean scary movie. This is Robert Edgers. This is the introduction to me, and I think to most people of Anya Taylor Joy, who is now like a name that if you pay attention to any of this stuff that you know, love her, love this movie. It's crazy. Um, some niche, some more niche picks. Again, my film Nerdbro stuff is coming out. 20th century women. My two international picks are The Handmaiden and Train de Busan, and then my documentary pick, which like it was shown originally as one thing, and then I think got broken up later, is called OJ'd Made in America. It's a documentary, it's like eight hours long. Watch it like a TV show, you'll be fine, but it was made as a documentary movie. This was also the year of like the OJ Renaissance is weird to call it that, but we'll circle back to that when we get to our next category. Next Mount Mushmoor Rushmore. Mount Mushmore. Next Mount Mushmore. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage. Mount Mushmore doing entry number 762, a jazz number. Sorry.

TV Picks That Still Hit

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The next Mount Rushmore that we're doing is TV. Okay. Again, this is not, this is anything that was on during this era. Um, this is pre, I think the full, like you had this was when the streaming services were still a bit more narrow. You didn't have to have every streaming service under the sun. You could still get away with it. And you also could like still get away with like cable television. Like there was still some stuff. Granted, my picks are mostly not that for my Mount. I can't say Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore. I need like a, you know what I need? I need a button that I that I press that I've pre-recorded that says Mount Rusmo. Welcome to my Mount Rushmore for TV. Anyway, okay. My first pick. My first pick is Stranger Things. Again, love it or hate it. This is season one of Stranger Things. The nosebleed, the Millie Bobby Brown of it all, the echo waffles, like the whole thing. This is this was great. This is such a good TV show. There was like nostalgia to it. There was like a realism. Again, bringing this back to like nothing's ever new. This was a show made like an 80s blockbuster movie set in that time, but released in 2016. Like just awesome, awesome. And now, like these are people who are in our lives. Like people know who Steve Harrington is. People like if I were a betting man, I didn't do the research. The number one Halloween costume for children this year was 11. If I was a betting man, I don't know, but I'm just, I bet. Okay. So Stranger Things. Again, not in a particular order here. Okay. Just you all have to take a deep breath. Next one, Atlanta. If you've never watched Atlanta, you are missing out. It is hilarious. It is different. It is just like brilliant. It's um, I always want to call him childish Gambino because that's how I know him, but it's Donald Glover, it's Brian Tyree Henry, it's Lake Stanfield. Like it's just this like incredible cast. The writing's phenomenal. It's it's so funny. It's just like out of pocket. It's just do yourself a favor, go watch Atlanta. I think this was the first season. I think Atlanta came out in 2016. I think that was season number one because it ended a few years later. Do yourself a favor. It's amazing. Watch, watch, watch. Next, Veep. Julia Louis Dreyfus is a national treasure. We must protect her at all costs. I she's never done anything wrong in her entire life. That's probably not true, but regardless. This show is also so relevant in like the way that the current political landscape looks. And that's all I'm gonna say on my thoughts on the current political landscape. But her playing a like ego-centric, self-obsessed, I'm always right, and everybody else is always wrong, vice president is so electric and hilarious. I can't even to begin to tell you. So that's choice number three. Choice number four, I I know people are gonna be mad because I didn't put their show on this on my Mount Rushmore. Choice number four, I believe also, this is the first season of this show, Insecure. This is the introduction to a broader audience of Issa Rae and the people that are in this show. Um, I'm blinking on a bunch of like names of people, but um, one of her best friends is the woman who ends up going in um who's on The White Lotus. Issa Rae becomes just like Issa Rae. I I would argue she's probably close to a household name now. She's been in a bunch, she just like is a force of nature. This show is incredible, like it there's so many like real life moments and like real life emotions that are portrayed and also like done in a way that feels both wholesome and is done for a laugh. 10 out of 10. I'm like not even doing jokes. This is not even like a funny episode. I just think this is like so it's so good. So treat yourself to it. Here are my honorable mentions for TV Westworld. It's fine. It's fine, okay? It's unique in what it's interesting to look at Westworld with like what's happening in the world right now. Again, nothing's ever new. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. This is the the the important part of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is Titus Burgess, and all of the things that he says, I feel like this is so clippable. I can't even think of some of the things that he says in this show that are still relevant, um, and how he is still relevant. Um, also just the concept of a woman who has been captured from like has been living. This is not something to laugh at, but is played for laughs, who's like living in a basement and comes out as an adult and is like, what is the world like now? It's it's funny. It's like a a different version of elf, like a person who like doesn't know what's going on in the world and now has got to figure it out and is an age where they're supposed to know what's going on. The crown, not for me. I don't love a like British like drama, but it is good. I've I have watched it, it's great. Bringing back the OJ, the people versus OJ Simpson. This is Ryan Murphy, peak of powers. I think we need to stop letting him make multiple television shows a year, but this one was really good. Uh flea bag, hot priest, and that's all I'll say. The good place, this is Chris. I think for anybody under the age of I'm gonna say 30. I'm gonna say under the age of 35, this is their introduction to Kristen Bell. They probably didn't watch and or know what Veronica Mars was, they maybe do now, but the good place was the introduction to her and a lot of people, and also just like a hilarious show, a hilarious concept for a show. Um, the night manager, again, a little bit more like a high drama indie pick. Uh, go watch it, you won't regret it. Orange is the new black. Do you all remember when nothing, nobody could talk about anything but Orange is the New Black. I think it was maybe the one of the first, I think before Stranger Things, Orange is the New Black was like the first Netflix original. And everybody was talking about it. And now we kind of talk about it because there's so many Netflix originals. I think this was the last season. I think 2016 was the last season of Orange is the New Black, but like iconic. Characters, iconic premise, and then also for years everybody was saying blank is the new black, like insert is the new black because of this show. Brooklyn 99, shout out uh Andy Sandberg, uh Better Call Saul.

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Okay, this one's also not for me, and that's okay, but I know it's really good and people really like it.

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So just it's fine. Honorable mention for a reason. And the Americans, which is uh Carrie Russell. Carrie Russell? I think it's Carrie Russell. Those are my honorable mentions. That's TV. Reminder TV Mount Rushmore is Stranger Things, Atlanta, Veep, Insecure. I know we're just like regurgitating moments here. It's I'm not the funniest person on the planet to try to crack jokes about things like this. That's fine. Um, and I'm talking really long. So we're probably gonna break this into a part one and a part two, and we'll we'll come back. So we'll figure out how to do this later. My next Mount Rushmore is music.

Albums That Defined The Year

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Once again, this is a personal taste thing, and certainly people are gonna have things to say, and everyone's always got things to say. This is my personal Mount Rushmore for what I think is I it's not even the best. It's not even the best. It's like what was most relevant, like hit the hardest, and it's still like in some ways relevant. Still things that people are like talking about today. Not to say that, like, you know, obviously people talk about things in different corners. Music is so like democratized now. But these are my four. Number one, lemonade by Beyonce. I mean, come on, come on. The fact that this was like you gotta look into her and Jay-Z marriage, everyone's freaking out. That every the the girls who should be hired by the FBI and the CIA for the level of research that they can do online, doing research to figure out who Becky with the good hair is for months, it needs to be studied. There should be a class at universities about this album and everyone's reaction to this album. There was that whole thing, there was everybody freaking out because she did formation at the Super Bowl, the music videos, her, we're gonna talk about this later, in that yellow dress, looking crazed out of her mind, walking down the street, smashing car windows. This was also like a feature-length film when it came out. So you got the whole album, and then I think it was on HBO, and you could watch the whole thing. This was a moment, and then and then you also got the moment at the Grammys. Again, don't really care about the Grammys, but where Adele won album of the year, and basically used her speech talking about album of the year. Adele, shout out, love you. You you can sing your face off, but used her speech to basically be like the album of the year should have gone to Beyonce's Lemonade. Cra We're I'm we're we're nodding in the studio. When when that's never happened before. No one actually, you know what? It did, I think it did happen once before. No, no, no, no. That's that's him being like a crazy person. It's I'm talking about like the winner, the winner saying the winner saying, I think, I think, and I don't remember exactly, I think it happened one other time, and it was Macklemore winning album of the year over Kendrick Lamar. And I think in his speech, he said something about like, thanks so much. This should have gone to Kendrick Lamar. I think it's the only other time it landed when Adele did it. It didn't quite land when McLemore did it. So I don't know if the you guys can hear the studio uh asking me why. Uh I think that McLemore, I think that there was a little, I think there was a flavor of racism that was was undertoning that. And I think that Kendrick was early on by people who know rap seen as basically like one of the greats. And so the fact that Macklemore, who hasn't really had a huge cultural impact, won album of the year over Kendrick, who should have won album of the year. I think there was like some controversy to it. I think people were were were not pleased, uh to say the least. So that's number one. Beyonce does lemonade and just like all, I mean, like it was a moment. It was it, it it had so many things attached to it. Next, this is probably a personal, this is definitely a personal pick. The studio is locked in. They're like waiting for what's going on. My the next one is Blonde by Frank Ocean. Okay. He has made once again. I, you know what? I'm gonna do a running bit on this show where every episode I find a way to look dead into the camera and speak to Frank Ocean, person, my close personal friend Frank Ocean, and say, sir, get back in the studio, get back in the studio. We need another album. It's 2026 right now, it's been 10 years. I've had it, we've had it. Release the album. Thank you so much. Blonde in 2016 was a huge deal. It was a couple of things. He had released an album technically the day before to fulfill his contract with his record label and then released Blonde as an independent artist. I'm certain this wasn't the first time that something like this had been done, but it was like a huge deal. He had this like live stream going with he was like building stairs to nowhere. It was it was odd, but it was Frank and he was this enigma, and everyone was locked in. And then he was doing merch and he had a zine and all sorts of things. And then this album just like cuts to the soul. Oh Lord. Um yeah, I just and I think because it was his last album and is kind of seen as like reclusive artist, it just it's got saying power, it really does. I don't it has saying power for me, and I think for a lot of people, I think there's some people who have no idea who Frank Ocean is, totally fine, but I do think that this maintains and is still talked about. I think it changed the way that people like produced music, etc. Uh, next one. This isn't a cop-out, but it, you know, it's like a I guess not a cop out. It's a seat at the table by Solange. Is it a is it a crime to have both the Knolls sisters on this list? I whatever. It's my list, and everyone else can eat shit. It's it's just good. And like also, I don't think a lot of people knew that she made music. I don't think that anybody knew. I think there's a lot of people who didn't know that Beyonce had a sister. If you had asked them, they probably would have said that Kelly Rowland was her sister. I think that a lot of people didn't know. And then Solange came out and made like this very like indie ethereal album. I don't even know how to categorize it. And it's amazing. It's an incredible album. It's like, and it's again, it stuck around and it like established her as this as her own entity in a totally different, different universe than Beyoncé, who is a gigantic name. Um, and this album's amazing. It's so good. Um, I still listen to it like you know, very regularly. Um, just established. Last one on the route, Mount Rushmore. I again I can't say I need the button. Last one on the Mount Rushmore for uh music, anti by Rihanna. Rihanna again, looking dead in the camera, making direct eye contact with again my close personal friend, Rihanna Sap Fenty, whatever your name, full name is. Drop R9. We've had it. The people are sick of it. I know you have it, I know you've been in the studio. You just just showed up just to place this. You just showed up with Jay Z at his like final innings, extra innings thing in New York. Drop the album. The reason why this is on here is because it's been 10 years since we've gotten music from Rihanna. Anti is amazing, love on the brain. Uh, I'm gonna just my brain's gonna go blank here. It was the last time they've got Rihanna as Rihanna. Now she's like a billionaire and she's got like five businesses, and like, you know, shout out to the makeup company and to the underwear and everything. I will say one thing that's happened since then. If you haven't watched it and you have, I think it's on Amazon, she does these fashion shows for Savage Fenty. I think there's been three of them. They're like fashion as music video art videos. Paris Goble is this choreographer. She's from uh, I think New Zealand technically choreographs the whole thing. Unreal. They're unreal, they're so cool, they're they're beautiful, amazing. She's got like dancers, she's got models in in like different sizes, and and it just it's awesome. That's the one thing that Rihanna has done, and she gets a pass, but release the album. Anti, the last one on the music Mount Rushmore. So we've got Lemonade by Beyonce, we've got Blonde by Frank Ocean, we've got a see the table by Solange, we've got Anti by Rihanna. Honorable mentions. This is not the whole album, just this singular song, Closer by the Chain Smokers. Nothing will place your brain back in the year 2016 more than that. Uh hey, I was doing just fine before I met you. Nothing. Or that that first like didn't beat nothing. Just that song, not the whole album. Also, I the chain smokers are complicated figures. Coloring book by Chance the Rapper. This was peak, peak chance, okay? In pop culture, not his. I'm not saying this is the best album. Again, take a deep breath, everybody. But this was peak of him, and like these songs were everywhere. He was everywhere. Everybody couldn't stop talking about Chance the Rapper. I'm reticent to say this next person. I'm gonna say this and we're gonna move quickly past it. Life of Pablo by Kanye West. And we move on, and we move on. I like it when you sleep, you're beautiful yet, so unaware of it. Longest album title of all time, but the 1975, shout out to you. Free Town Sound by Blood Orange, Indie Pick, you're it's fine. Heaven by Jamila Woods, Blank Face LP by Schoolboy Q, Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 22 a Million by Bonnie Vare, Puberty 2 by Mitsuki, We Got It From Here, Thank You For Your Service, A Tribe Called Quest, My Woman, Angel Olson, also a complicated choice here, Views by Drake. It's fine, it's fine. And then Malibu by Anderson Pack. Those are my honorable mentions for music. Kind of again, this is all about taste. This is all about personal. There was a freaking um what is the band that everybody thinks is like amazing? And I'm we're gonna have to cut this because I'm just they're gonna get I'm gonna get flamed in the comments. They had an album that came out this year. Who Tom York is the lead singer of what band? Radiohead. Radiohead had had an album that came out this year. I don't like Radiohead. It's fine, okay? It's fine. It's just not for me. I understand that it's like amazing and it's not for me. Great. That's our music, Mount Rushmore. All right, you guys, we are gonna cut it there. I've got two more categories. We're gonna push them into the next episode so that this is not a two-hour long uh craziness. So we've got two more. So the next uh next episode, we've got uh fashion and style, and then general. General is gonna be like those other big moments, like memes and things that happen, just like stuff that's going on in the culture. So stick around for that. Uh,

Zendaya Praise Maxing Rant Closing

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as we do with every episode, um, one thing you're loving in in pop culture right now, one thing that you wish would just go the fuck away. Pop culture thing I'm loving right now. Zendaya, Zendaya on a press tour, Zendaya doing Spider-Man press tour, Zendaya doing the Odyssey press tour, any just anything, if she wants to uh step on my neck, empty my bank account, and run me over the Mac truck, I would be okay with that. I would say yes, thank you. Please, ma'am, may I have another? Anything that Zendaya does, I'm so in for. One thing that I wish would go away. If I hear somebody do insert something maxing one more fucking time, I'm setting a flame on the lawn. No more looks maxing, no more bedtime maxing enough. Okay. You all sound insane. Also, the origin of the maxing thing is from the manosphere, these like clown ass boys on Twitch that are smashing their faces with hammers to try to realign their bone structure. And then everybody wants to like try to reclaim that. Just let it go. Let it go into the night. Let it just die quietly and slowly, please, for the love of God. All right, you guys, that is it for the Nothing's Ever New podcast. Like, comment, subscribe, notifications, get into it, share it, love it. I'll see you next time. Have a good one, everybody.