It's Pretty OK

This week, the gang is back together for the first time in several weeks. What better way to celebrate than by revisiting a classic pod concept and seeing if we can’t make a rule for society to live by? This time, it’s about what is acceptable attire for a craft brewery — specifically, is it okay to wear another brewery’s T-shirt?

MUSIC: “Gotta Let It Go” – Joyce Manor

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This week, Sean and Pierce talk conference realignment. Heads spin as they attempt to understand the concept of a college athletic conference that stretches from Piscataway, New Jersey to Los Angeles.

MUSIC: “Elvis Is in the Freezer” – Ratboys

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This week, it’s just Sean and Pierce, and they’re talking about Stranger Things and the phenomenon of borrowed nostalgia. What’s different about this show as opposed to other prestige-TV period pieces like Mad Men or The Americans? And why doesn’t Sean like the Kate Bush song as much as everyone else?

NOTE: This episode was recorded before the release of the Stranger Things season 4 finale release, but after we had watched the previous S4 episodes. There’s not much in the way of spoiler-type stuff, but keep that in mind — if you’ve been saving Season 4 to watch until you could binge the whole thing, maybe wait until you’re done to listen?

MUSIC: “Once More for the Ocean” – Slothrust

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This week, the gang gets together to discuss what makes a college campus beautiful. Is it more than just having a picturesque quad and a few buildings designed in an aesthetically pleasing style of classical architecture? (Yes.) Pierce finally says something nice about Virginia Tech; how long will it be before he goes back to reflexively insulting them? (It’ll be less than a minute.) And we have perhaps our most thrilling Rolling Stone rock trivia question yet.

MUSIC: “Mulholland Dr.” – Bartees Strange

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This week, the gang is talking about “stunt foods" — the parade of food challenges (like the Steak ‘n Shake 7x7) and ridiculous seasonal items (like Burger King’s black-bunned Halloween burger) that fast food customers find themselves bombarded with. Is this all the fault of Hardee’s and their risqué mid-2000s burger commercials? And will Sean take more stances that are probably more anticapitalist than he intended for them to be?

MUSIC: “The Amarillo Kid” – Craig Finn

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This week, the gang gets together to talk about the frozen delicacies that have sustained them through many a hot summer. Will Sean get overly regionally proud about the snowball and then rebut an argument about snowcones that no one actually made? You better believe it. Do multiple people on this podcast endorse the consumption of custard on scorching summer days? Incredibly, yes! And will Max be shocked to discover that the thing he thought was a Northeastern specialty is all over the place, just without the region-specific name? You’ll have to listen to find out.

MUSIC: “She Bangs the Drums” – The Stone Roses

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This week, the gang is talking about the fact that Max went to a midnight movie premiere (no matter what time zone he saw it in). They discuss the phenomenon of the special early release of movies/books/video games/etc. before the conversation unexpectedly turns into a referendum on Kevin’s approach to capitalism. You know, normal stuff.

MUSIC: “Heavy Heart” – Bartees Strange

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This week, the gang gets together to talk about the fact that Pierce is still getting email updates from local businesses in a town he hasn’t lived in in nearly two full years. How has everyone’s inbox gone so crazy? Can Pierce convince us that he’s actually in the right somehow? And is Max ever going to check his damn email?

MUSIC: “Intervention” – A Giant Dog

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This week, the Sports Bois™️ are together to talk about yet another NBA conference finals that finds itself without Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers. And while Sean would probably like to spend the entire pod taking a victory lap about that, it fortunately turns into a broader discussion about the dangers of sports teams taking an entirely long-term (or short-term, for that matter) approach.

MUSIC: “I Don’t Live Here Anymore (feat. Lucius) – The War on Drugs

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This week, Sean talks to Pierce and Max about “the end of the iPod” and what it means. He also reveals that he is, in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-two, the owner of a still-thriving (modified) iPod and tries to explain why he is the perfect target audience for the iPod modding craze.

MUSIC: “Chaise Longue” – Wet Leg

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

An Ode to the iPod Classic (The Ringer)

iPod Modders Give Apple’s Abandoned Music Player New Life (WIRED)

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