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April 23, 2020 THRILLIST'S BEST: The Board Games You Should Be Playing Right Now (and on Zoom!)
There's never been a better time to start playing board games than right now… for some very obvious reasons. In this episode of Thrillist's Best Podcast host Wil Fullton hops on Zoom to play a spirited game of Codenames with:
Matt Rogers host of Gayme Show on Quibi
Comedian Rachel Sennott
Langston Kerman, Bless This Mess, South Side
Thrillist staffers Alex Robinson and Gabrielle Williott
He also speaks with our in-house board game expert/office icon Kyler Alvord, who details:
The best board games for people who like Clue, Risk, and Monopoly (though we mostly agree that Monopoly sucks)
The best games for sloppy parties
The best games for 1 v. 1 duels
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47 min
April 20, 2020 THRILLIST'S BEST: How Pro Athletes Use Cannabis for Performance
On this week's episode, host Wil Fulton is speaking with several professional athletes (and one doctor who works out a lot) about cannabis in the sports world, and how they use it to recover physically and mentally. Featuring:
Former NBA pro Al Harrington on his cannabis venture Viola, and why he advocates for cannabis use in the NBA
Cyclist and disqualified Tour De France winner Floyd Landis on how he uses CBD to help ease chronic pain and anxiety, and how cannabis changed his life
Dr. Mike Hart, a cannabis-focused physician on how cannabis can be used medicinally, and the safest ways to consume
Eugene Monroe, former top draft pick and NFL offensive lineman who has become a leading voice for implementing cannabis use in professional football.
Wil's own experiment taking edibles and then working out (it's very scientific)
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43 min
April 16, 2020 THRILLIST'S BEST: Why 'The Office' is the Perfect Comfort TV Show For a Pandemic
On this week's episode of Thrillist's Best and the Rest, host Wil Fulton surveyed dozens of his friends and colleagues on their current go-to comfort TV show, and the results were (disturbingly) unanimous: everyone is turning to the Office. So in an effort to discover why, Wil speaks with: a media psychologist (named Pam!) to talk about comfort tv in the age of Covid-19 Andy Greene, Senior Writer at Rolling Stone author of The Office: The Untold Story Shea Serrano, NY Times Best-Selling Author, Staff Writer at the Ringer, and the mind behind Conference Room, Five Minutes: Ten Illustrated Essays About the Office Robert Shafer -- better known as Bob Vance from Vance Refrigeration Thrillist's Senior Entertainment Writer Esther Zuckerman, who details her picks for shows to binge that aren't the Office If you love the Office, you'll love the episode. If you don't love the Office but wonder why people watch it over and over again, you'll also love this episode. If you think the Office is just OK...I still think you'll like this episode. Everybody wins! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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43 min
April 09, 2020 THRILLIST'S BEST: We Found the Best Frozen Pizza in America
On this new, kind of greasy, definitely quarantined episode host Wil Fulton is asking the question that has plagued pizza purists and freezer evangelicals alike: is there really such a thing as a great frozen pizza? Along the way Wil, along with his partner/Thrillist Executive Travel Editor Keller Powell: taste test five, expertly picked, nationally available frozen pizzas talk to pizza expert Scott Weiner on why it's so hard to find a good frozen pizza debate the merits of U2 vs. the Police (this will make sense in context) get insight from Andy Kryza, Thrillist's in-house frozen pizza expert Do our best Al Pacino from Heat impressions (again, this will make sense in context) Declare a final, power ranking Overall, their perceptions on frozen pizza change over the course of the episode -- and yours probably will, too. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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48 min
April 02, 2020 THRILLIST'S BEST: How an Adult Performer, My Mom, and People All Over the World are WFH
On this jumbo-sized SEASON 2 PREMIERE, host Wil Fulton (recording from his own kitchen in Brooklyn) is calling people all around the world, from all walks of life, to see how they are adjusting to working from home, including:
Australian adult performer Laura Lux on the OnlyFans pandemic boom
Wil's mom, on teaching preschool on Zoom
A lawyer, living in Italy, working online (and trying to homeschool kids)
Wil's weed dealer
A woman in Hong Kong who lived through the SARS outbreak in the early 00's
A writer who just had a baby (!)
Overall this episode should make you feel a little less alone, and maybe even a little more positive. After all, the whole world is in this together -- so we should all feel free to commiserate together, too.
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1 hr 4 min
April 01, 2020 THRILLIST'S BEST: How the Service Industry Is Helping Each Other Right Now
In this bonus episode, we're looking for the helpers in the restaurant world: those individuals who have taken it upon themselves to bolster their own communities during this unprecedented crisis -- and, we'll cover how you can help, too.
We're going to tell you where you can support undocumented workers who find themselves out of a job. We talk to the James Beard award-winning chef Abe Conlon and business partner Adrienne Lo on how their restaurant Fat Rice selflessly dedicated their food supply and talent to feeding service workers. We speak with a rum distiller in D.C. who pivoted from spirits to hand sanitizer, and a strip club owner [NSFW link!] in Portland who managed to keep his employees working with a... bold new idea. And, we speak with microbiologist Jason "the Germ Guy" Tetro on how to properly clean your takeout and delivery orders, and why he is still ordering delivery and takeout meals.
Links:
Win Son's Venmo: @win-son
Proceeds go to undocumented workers who make out at least 20% of the restaurant industry.
Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation, an organization that’s using donations to directly support individual restaurant workers and restaurants in crisis. Please consider donating: https://secure.restaurantworkerscf.org/np/clients/restaurantworkerscf/donation.jsp?campaign=2&forwardedFromSecureDomain=1&test=true
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46 min
March 24, 2020 THRILLIST'S BEST: How Covid-19 Will Change the Way We Travel
Season 2 of Thrillist's Best Podcast is coming soon! But, in the meantime, we're releasing some timely BONUS episodes dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
In this episode, host Wil Fulton and Thrillist Executive Travel Editor Keller Powell talk with Calvin Sun, an ER doctor working in NYC who runs the grassroots travel organization Monsoon Diaries. He speaks to his own outlook on travel, and how Covid-19 is changing his life and his work. We're also joined by Scott Keyes (of Scott's Cheap Flights fame) to discuss how the pandemic might permanently affect plane ticket prices. Last , but certainly not least, Wil calls Grant Giller, a professional snowboarder who managed to get back to the U.S. from a work trip aroad last week… with some major difficulties.
Thrillist's Best Podcast: The Best of the Best in Food, Drink, Travel, and Fun Every Thursday.
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47 min
March 05, 2020 THRILLIST'S BEST: What You Actually Need to Know About Natural Wine
What makes "natural wine" actually natural? Where can I find the best (affordable!) natty wines? Why is natural wine absurdly popular right now, anyway? In this episode, host Wil Fulton is joined by the person who (arguably!) first introduced natural wine to the United States: wine importer Jenny Lefcourt of Jenny and Francois Selections, as well as Lena Mattson, General Manager and Wine Director at June in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, to deliver a primer on all-things natural wine. Come to hear why you should be drinking natural wine, stay to learn why you should be swirling your wine clockwise. Calcarius, Frecciabomb Puglia, (sparkling) Koppitsch, Rét, Austria (red wine) Dufaitre, Premices, Beaujolais-Village, France (red wine) Christian Tschida, Himmel auf Erden Maischevergoren, Austria (skin-contact / orange wine) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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48 min
February 27, 2020 THRILLIST'S BEST: How to Cook a Surprisingly Excellent Steak With Just Your Microwave
How did Microwave Cooking for One become a meme? What’s the inside story of “the saddest cookbook in the world?” Can you really cook a steak (and eggs, and… fish) in a microwave? In this episode, host Wil Fulton is joined by Senior Food Editor Adriana Velez and contributing writer Jeremy Glass to dive into Marie T. Smith’s cult classic cookbook: Microwave Cooking for One. They test out some of the book’s most notorious recipes, and Wil has a heartfelt call with Marie’s daughter, Tracy. Come to find out how microwaves can be used for way more than just reheating, stay to see what happens when you put an egg, shell and all, in the microwave (hint: it gets messy).

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53 min
February 20, 2020 THRILLIST'S BEST: The Best Hidden Gems on Netflix
Are you looking for something else to binge after watching The Office 500 times? Is there a better guilty pleasure watch than The Circle? Have you ever heard of a goth crafting show that involves puppet assistance? In this episode of Thrillist’s Best (and the Rest), host Wil Fulton is joined by Entertainment Editor Leanne Butkovic, Senior Writer Dan Jackson, and Staff Writer Emma Stefansky to detail the Netflix original series that we all should be watching. They sift through the crap to find the golden nuggets of content we’ve all been missing. Come to load up your queue for the next year, stay to find out why The OA gives us some very mixed emotions. Also we would love to learn more about you and your thoughts on the show! Please take our survey here: thrillist.com/survey And as a thank you, we are now offering a $50 Visa gift card to one lucky listener who completes the survey. To be eligible, you must provide your email! (You won’t be added to any other mailing list, we promise.) Like what you heard? Here’s a list of shows discussed, in order of appearance: Comedy (6:44) I Think You Should Leave Big Mouth Bojack Horseman Medical Police W/ Bob & David The Characters American Vandal Best For Falling Asleep And/Or Drunk/Mindless Shows That Are Actually Okay (12:57) Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer Dirty Money Rotten Our Planet Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch Food and Travel (18:25) Street Food Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories Kantaro: The Sweet Tooth Salaryman Salt Fat Acid Heat Nailed It The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell So Bad It’s Good (23:22) The Circle The Ranch You The OA The Witcher Actually Good (38:31) MindHunter Cheer The Staircase Lady Dynamite Terrace House Aggretsuko The Disastrous Life of Saiki K Love, Death & Robots Sense8 Bonus: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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59 min

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