Welcome to the New York Times pop cast, your could be Jan one sound like July 4th of Music

News and Criticism.

I'm your host, John Caramonica.

The mailbag provides, we originally thought there was going to be one episode who's

there was too many questions, we're stitching it all together.

It's episode number two, 2022 year end mailbag, Joe Costco relies here, Karen Gans is here,

everybody locked in at the top, you were listening to jam.

That's Michael Jackson and heavy D. You will understand why we are playing that song momentarily

when we get to the questions.

But before we get into it, this is the final episode of 2022.

We have had a phenomenal year, everybody has really showed out.

We had our first live event, we have our first t-shirt, it's the popcast.myshopify.com.

If you don't have one, come get one, I'll write you a little note, I'll back it, I'll

walk it over to the post office.

A lot has happened this year and next year is only going to be bigger and better.

The end of every year, I like to shine a light on everybody who has taken their time to

be on popcast and who I'm grateful for, their knowledge, expertise, wisdom and general

good cheer.

Let me just quickly run through the 2022 roll call because there's some heaters on here.

We're taking the list alphabetically, there's no judgments attached to the order here, just

very simply, they came, they saw, they kicked ass, so we're going to kick off, Jerry Barrow,

OG, happy to have you, Jerry, Tom Bryan, cop Tom's book that came out a couple of months

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