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| Bring Back Crossover Episodes | 27 mai 2025 | 00:47:07 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Picture this: the year is 2006, and Disney's three-episode crossover series 'That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana' is releasing its first episode at 8/7 central, and you're SAT, ready to witness a piece of history. James and I take to the podcast to nerd out over iconic crossover episodes, spiral over the sensation of an itch, and pick apart some truly cursed celebrity endorsements. P.S. This marks the end of season 9, we’ll return in August! Until then, join us on Substack for monthly bonus episodes to tide you over. ;) Get silly with us on social: | |||
| We’re All Afraid Our Kids Will Be Losers | 20 mai 2025 | 00:56:33 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) We're all secretly afraid that our kids will be losers, and listen, I'm here to tell you that if that happened to me? I wouldn't talk to him either! James and I jump on the podcast to toast to bar games (think pool, darts, shuffleboard, yktv!!!), lament the fact that our thousand-dollar pocket computers require protective gear just to survive, and side-eye parents who let their kids wear AirPods during family time. Get silly with us on social: | |||
| The Breakfast Industrial Complex | 13 mai 2025 | 01:13:43 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Why did breakfast box itself into such narrow thinking? The day's most important meal could be so much more than eggs, if only we let it become fully realized!!! Sadie and I jump on the podcast to chat about nicknames we love, bike lanes we loathe, and our deep dissatisfaction with the oppressive egg agenda. Get silly with us on social: FOLLOW SADIE | |||
| Novelty Snacks | 06 mai 2025 | 01:23:56 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) If there's a viral snack collab unfolding, Lilly is on the scene! Mountain Dew x Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? Sign her up. Swedish Fish Oreos? She's buying 'em, and nobody can stop her, damn it! Lilly and I take to the podcast to indulge in absurd snack innovations, spiral about accumulating too much “stuff,” and express our utter disgust at some of the world’s most nauseating smells. Get silly with us on social: FOLLOW LILLY | |||
| A Biggie for Your Troubles | 29 avr. 2025 | 01:20:06 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Who eats sardines straight from the tin, carries a wad of rubberband-bound singles, and is in “talks” with the Italian government? Depends on who's asking. Adam and I take to the podcast to toast to tinned fish, raise a stink about early morning construction, and pour one out for the many folks who were recently denied Italian citizenship thanks to the consulate's ever-changing rules. Join in, we just might make you an offer you can't refuse. Get silly with us on social: FOLLOW ADAM | |||
| Sexy Unique Restaurant | 22 avr. 2025 | 01:10:23 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) It’s important to remember that the SUR experience has little to do with the food. Its true specialties lie in campy ambiance, overpriced cocktails, and the chance to share a room with some of reality TV’s messiest players—pure bliss! FOLLOW MATT | |||
| The Waterpark Capital of the World | 15 avr. 2025 | 01:26:25 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Picture this: You're freshly thirteen, you've got your brand new Ocean Pacific swimsuit on, and you're patiently making your way up the wooden staircase with your tube in hand. What's waiting for you at the top, you ask? None other than the Wilderness' most infamous waterslide, the Hurricane. Talk about full-body chills! Get silly with us on social: FOLLOW COLTON | |||
| Wrestling Is the Straight Man’s Drag | 08 avr. 2025 | 01:00:40 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Name something more c*nty than a giant chiseled man with a spray tan and platinum blonde blowout strutting to the ring in a bedazzled outfit to the tune of "Real American"—you can't! Rohan and I take to the podcast to celebrate grown men finding an outlet for self-expression, reject the creation of breast milk-flavored ice cream, and criticize the wealthy elite hoarding their fortunes. Get silly with us on social: FOLLOW ROHAN | |||
| Just Scan the QR Code on the Table | 01 avr. 2025 | 00:46:52 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) If I have to use my own cellphone to pull up the menu at the restaurant, I'm clocking in because I work here now. I said what I said! Get silly with us on social: LISTEN TO I <3 BASS: | |||
| Feeling Insecure About My Water Bottle | 25 mars 2025 | 00:39:55 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) I recently found myself feeling insecure about my Hydro during a Zoom call full of Stanleys and decided enough is enough! Screw your trendy water bottle! Unless you're still chewing on your Camelbak straw, like seriously, it's time to move on. James and I hit the podcast to celebrate mixing metals, call out water bottle fads, and critique public feuds. Join in, you know you wanna! Get silly with us on social: LISTEN TO I <3 BASS: | |||
| Leaving It All on the Field | 18 mars 2025 | 01:22:33 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Picture this: The year is 2025 and you're making the active choice to jump back on the reading train after it dawns on you that you've forgotten how to do anything besides watch TV. Sound familiar? If so, you're safe here! Grace and I take to the podcast to celebrate Chelsea Handler's new book, I'll Have What She's Having, recoil at the thought of receiving an out-of-pocket text (examples included), and pay homage to all of the grown men who have ugly cried to the national anthem ahead of the Big Game™️. Get silly with us on social: | |||
| Seafood Boil Mukbang | 04 mars 2025 | 01:04:16 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Have you ever been out to eat when your waiter suddenly goes missing, only to reappear on stage, mic in hand, bringing down the house? It's like, sure you wanted another martini, but ultimately you're happy they're having their moment! | |||
| Gleek Hive Rise Up | 25 févr. 2025 | 01:11:51 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Were you normal, or were you spending your iTunes gift cards on Glee covers? Don't worry, you're amongst friends! Donnie and I take to the podcast to celebrate authenticity, stress over our favorite strategy-based reality TV game shows, and complain about men, naturally! Btw, did we ever figure out if Lea Michelle could read? Lmk, seriously. | |||
| Breakfast Is Thrust Upon You | 18 févr. 2025 | 01:31:28 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Brunch is something you plan in advance. It's an event you prepare for. Heck, you might even put on a cute outfit! Breakfast, on the other hand, is thrust upon you (whether you like it or not!) Get silly with us on social: | |||
| Death of the Mainstream | 11 févr. 2025 | 01:03:49 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Everyone can be someone and anything can be cool — and isn't that beautiful? Sure, there will always be pop stars with seismic fanbases like Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, but the "mainstream" is over, you heard it here first! James and I take to the podcast to dive into the death of the mainstream, protest our apparent collective dedication to ignoring the human desire to hibernate, and shame TV and movie franchises that refuse to let a good thing go. Get silly with us on social: | |||
| When Your Pants Get a Little Loose at the Knees | 04 févr. 2025 | 00:46:00 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) We're back, babies! And ever so grateful to be back in your ears each week. We missed you terribly — what a long two months it has truly been. Much to catch up on, so let's take it from the top! | |||
| You Seem Tired | 26 nov. 2024 | 00:31:15 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Friendly reminder that the absolute worst thing you can do is tell someone they seem tired, it never goes over well. Instead, you could try, "You look like shit," or "What the hell is your problem." This week James and I take to the podcast to encourage more themed parties, commiserate about just how much it sucks to throw up, and to render our final verdict on the fake Christmas tree of it all. | |||
| Becoming a Better Person | 19 nov. 2024 | 00:40:16 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Great news team, becoming a better person is actually incredibly easy! Follow our 5-step process and you'll surely go straight to heaven or be reincarnated as something really cool or whatever. In this week's episode, James and I take to the podcast to celebrate the versatility of the fist bump, condemn the act of killing bugs outside, and drag the folks who film strangers in public without their consent — seriously, don't do that! | |||
| What’s up with Delaware? | 12 nov. 2024 | 01:07:12 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Have you ever been to the state of Delaware? Because me neither, and I have no designs on visiting! Devonte and I take to the podcast to celebrate finding fulfillment in our respective careers and shared community, to burst the bubble that is traveling for work, and to throw shade at the CTA. | |||
| Weaponized Incompetence | 05 nov. 2024 | 01:28:38 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Playing dumb is all fun and games until you're on the receiving end of such behavior — we said what we said! Aidan and I take to the podcast to sing the praises of our favorite fast-food chain (Taco Bell, duh!), deliberate over the appropriate way to deplane after a flight, and expose people for weaponizing their incompetence. | |||
| The Quest to Become a Morning Person | 29 oct. 2024 | 01:18:46 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Are you buying into the propaganda that morning people are more productive? Because we’ve sold our souls and signed on the dotted line. Manu and I are just a couple of night owls on the quest to become early risers and get that damn worm if it's the last thing we do! Join us on the podcast for a conversation about embracing new hobbies, getting bad sleep, and the curse of the Hyundai Sonata. | |||
| What Your Cracked iPhone Says About You | 22 oct. 2024 | 00:50:53 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) If you listen to this episode I'm sorry and if you make it all the way to the end something is literally wrong with you! Truly rubbing my last two brain cells together for this one, enter at your own risk! James and I take to the podcast to relive the golden age of computer games, lament the hassle of cleaning one's makeup brushes, and shame anyone with a cracked iPhone based on what it says about their personality — trust me, it speaks volumes! | |||
| We're Not Friends We're Business Partners | 15 oct. 2024 | 01:11:29 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) We're starting a support group for people who have had to execute a Facebook Marketplace pickup while viciously hungover—do you want in? Luke and I take to the podcast this week to chat about our favorite micro-influencers, our aversion to submitting maintenance requests as renters, and our deep disappointment when we reconvene with our besties after a night out and no one has collected any good tea. | |||
| Concert Etiquette | 08 oct. 2024 | 01:33:13 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) If it's one thing about us, it's that we're going to buy tickets to the concert! Annie and I take to the podcast to share in our love for being "woo" girls at our favorite live shows, to bitch about music venues that don't have water stations, and to shame our friends who don't know how to purchase concert tickets without getting scammed. (You know who you are — said with love!) | |||
| 9 Beers, 9 Hotdogs, 9 Innings | 01 oct. 2024 | 01:26:04 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) How many hotdogs could you reasonably consume in a 2.5-hour sitting? The 9x9x9 challenge has officially met its match, and I have the absolute pleasure of hosting our fearless champion on this week's podcast! Neil and I take to the pod to chat about the joys of trying your hand at something new, the horrors of bad plumbing, and the ultimate buzzkill—getting slapped with a parking ticket (or two). | |||
| Autumn's Rebrand | 24 sept. 2024 | 01:18:43 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Is it just us, or do all Midwestern dads have the same undeniable penchant for building elaborate underwater ecosystems within the home? What’s the story there? This week on the podcast Grace and I share our affinity for Autumn's rebrand, our loathing of overcrowded spaces, and our tendency toward bad sportsmanship. Join in, you know you wanna! | |||
| The Man Behind the Curtain | 17 sept. 2024 | 01:01:26 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) If you're chemically addicted to watching Chicago apartment tours on TikTok, this episode is for you! Get to know the man behind the curtain (or camera), from his least favorite household chore to his go-to Chipotle order. Dean and I take to the podcast to chat about how he got started doing his now infamous apartment tours, the ups and downs of social media, the challenges that come with growing out of friendships, and so much more! | |||
| Nature's Still Got It | 10 sept. 2024 | 00:47:42 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) You know you've been spending too much time indoors when you go outside and think to yourself, man it rocks out here!! James and I take to the podcast to chat about the benefits of being curious, the worst smells at the Logan Square Farmer's Market, and the absolute freaks that think it's okay to litter. | |||
| This Year We're Acting Hot | 03 sept. 2024 | 00:59:14 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Now, I'm not here to tell you to fake it until you make it, but sometimes the key to being hot is simply acting hot!!! Pat and I take to the pod this week to share our mutual love of Google Calendar, divulge our early interest in retirement, and discuss doing the hard work of confronting our emotions. | |||
| Not Going to Let a Man Tell Me What to Do | 27 août 2024 | 01:13:10 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) If it's one thing about us, it's that we're never going to let a man tell us what to do. Dante and I take to the podcast to sing the praises of this summer's pop girlies, lament the horrors of moving, and ruminate over the audacity of people at the airport. Join in, you know you wanna. ;) | |||
| Brat Summer | 20 août 2024 | 01:06:34 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Did you know that humans cement their taste in music in their late twenties? Feeling incredibly blessed to live during a time in which my Saturn Return overlaps with Brat Summer — formative years to say the least! Mickey and I take to the podcast to discuss the ups and downs of owning a fully developed pre-frontal cortex (try saying that five times fast!) and, more importantly, to talk mad shit about Glen Powell. Join in, you know you wanna. ;) | |||
| Standing on Business | 13 août 2024 | 01:08:54 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) The Olympics had us singing "Party in the USA" just before the Chicago Air and Water Show came along and knocked the red, white, and blue right out of us again — because that's where we simply must stand on business! Ciara and I take to the podcast to celebrate Team USA and triangular-shaped buildings before we debate over our differing tastes for spooky szn and so much more — join in, the water's fine! | |||
| For the Love of the Game | 06 août 2024 | 00:47:38 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) We're baaaack, and much to everyone's dismay, we're better than ever! Join us for our season kick-off where James and I take to the pod to share in our love for swimming and our distaste for servers that overcompensate, and stay for an impassioned speech about how much I hate having to get up out of my seat when the person next to me on a flight has to use the restroom. Did you miss me? | |||
| I Love Limes | 28 mai 2024 | 00:43:50 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Is there anything better than seeing how the other half lives? If you enjoy treating yourself to celebrity home tours or listening to Dakota Johnson ramble on about false fruit obsessions, this episode is for you! Join us for a silly little conversation about Architectural Digest tours, the impending cicada boom, and the horror of discovering you have self-tanner hands. | |||
| I Hate White Rabbits | 21 mai 2024 | 00:38:11 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Sitting around the campfire is all fun and games until you become the chosen one and suddenly you're blind and both of your lungs collapse. Not to mention the lingering smell that adheres to everything you own — 'tis the season! James and I jump on the podcast to fawn over reunion videos, complain about smoke in the eyes, and argue over whether being late is culturally acceptable, join in! | |||
| We Contain Multitudes | 14 mai 2024 | 01:23:53 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Did you have a Christian phase? Have you also been arrested? I'm not saying there's a correlation, but let's look at the facts. Kyle and I self-identify as total sweethearts, but previously we were singing hymns and doing time. Join us for an honest conversation about the joys of dating, the burden of having a downstairs neighbor, and the harsh reality of it being an election year.Get silly with us on social: FOLLOW THE PODCAST Instagram: @pessimisticatbest Facebook: @pessimisticatbest Website: pessimisticatbest.com FOLLOW SAMANTHA Instagram: @samgeorgson TikTok: @samgeorgson Twitter: @samgeorgson YouTube: @samgeorgson Website: samanthageorgson.com FOLLOW KYLE Instagram: @anakin__kywalker | |||
| Closing Time | 07 mai 2024 | 01:06:21 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Picture this: It's 1:30 am, the lights come on, 'Closing Time' starts playing over the speakers, the bartenders have turned on you and there are two big burly guys telling you that you can't wait for your Uber inside. Is there anything worse? | |||
| Death Penalty | 30 avr. 2024 | 01:21:50 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Do you suffer from road rage or are you medicated? As a proud passenger princess myself, I typically abstain — but I understand the urge, driving is hard! Let it out, bestie! Dylan and I take to the pod to grumble about physical labor and publicly shame people who don't use their turn signals. Join in the fun, you know you want to. ;) | |||
| Open Campus Lunch | 23 avr. 2024 | 01:07:53 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Did your high school have an open campus lunch or were you one of the unlucky ones? I hate to break it to you, but there is truly no experience that could compare to piling seven deep in a friend's car and zipping across the street to the mall food court for a slice of Rocky Rococo's pepperoni pizza and a pink lemonade. None! Join us for a silly little conversation about drunk McDonald's orders, quicksand, walkable cities and so much more. | |||
| iPad Kids | 16 avr. 2024 | 01:02:08 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Do you ride or die for Steve Jobs? Don’t worry, you’re safe here! Jake and I take to the podcast to discuss the finest technological advances of our lifetime (caller ID & iPhone cases with kickstands) while simultaneously confessing our unyielding need to touch grass and perhaps create something with our hands, because we contain multitudes! FOLLOW THE PODCAST FOLLOW SAMANTHA FOLLOW JAKE | |||
| With the Works | 09 avr. 2024 | 01:03:17 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) I need to apologize to anyone who listens to this episode and purchases a ticket to Lollapalooza because I said Phoebe Bridgers is on the lineup. That is utter misinformation, she's probably busy that weekend, and I have no idea where I heard this rumor or why it came out of my mouth. Please forgive me! FOLLOW THE PODCAST FOLLOW SAMANTHA FOLLOW CAROL | |||
| Who Invented Nicknames | 02 avr. 2024 | 00:53:01 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Do you have a nickname? Was it self prescribed or bestowed upon you? Do you prefer your god-given name? What if god isn’t real, then what? So many questions! FOLLOW THE PODCAST Instagram: @pessimisticatbest Facebook: @pessimisticatbest Website: pessimisticatbest.com
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| Watch This Space! | 26 mars 2024 | 00:33:58 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Becoming an adult means getting a printer for the home and we're officially shedding our youth today, folks. James and I take to the pod to discuss the versatility of breakfast sandwiches, lament over the incredible inconvenience of having to type in a password, and persecute anyone who willingly leaves the house with a chipped mani. Sorry, not sorry! | |||
| We Used to Have Class | 19 mars 2024 | 00:39:38 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) What ever happened to getting all gussied up for a night at the theater? We used to have class, we used to have taste, we used to have culture — now all we've got are a bunch of hussies wearing their "Kiss me, I'm Irish" t-shirts to the Saturday evening showing of My Fair Lady. Join us for a silly little conversation about comfort shows, modern architecture, and boring losers who refuse to shake ass on the dance floor. | |||
| Super Fresh | 12 mars 2024 | 00:33:25 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Not to be dramatic, but I would happily lay down my life for the man who sings songs to his goat on TikTok. Have you had the pleasure of encountering this sweet creature? His gentle spirit, his adoring fan, I simply can't get enough! Join us on the pod for a silly little conversation about whether our reverence for animal videos spans generations and stay for my hot take on what it takes to grow out a pixie cut — GUTS. | |||
| Choose Your Own Destiny | 05 mars 2024 | 01:11:30 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Did you know that if you get bad news during a tarot reading it's your fault? Anyway, Jasen paid 30 dollars for a woman to tell him he was destined to get famous by coming on my podcast, so here goes! Join us for a silly little conversation about rollerskating, apartments with no personality, and reality TV's latest innovation, The Traitors. You're going to love it, seriously! | |||
| Ketchup or Mustard | 27 févr. 2024 | 01:10:30 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) When it comes to condiments, how refined is your palate? I'm a mustard girlie, but I admittedly still fuck with ketchup, is that okay? You can be honest! Join us for a silly little conversation about our favorite mayo-based dressings, our biggest red flags, and our thoughts on the ugliest running shoes. | |||
| Locked In | 20 févr. 2024 | 00:47:40 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Besties, are you tweaking out or are you locked in? We're asking the tough questions today on Pessimistic at Best! Personally, I'm tweaking but I'm trying sooo hard to lock in. Join us for a comically unstable conversation about bidets, movie trailers, and the Twitter comments section. | |||
| Slay the House Boots Down | 13 févr. 2024 | 00:55:30 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) Are you a cat person or a dog person? I'm not trying to start drama but personally, I've never seen a dog boots the house down, just saying!!! Zoe and take to the podcast to fawn over the feline's primordial pouch, trash talk Chicago winters, and share our hot takes on hairless pets — join in if you're feeling frisky ;) | |||
| The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | 06 févr. 2024 | 00:48:38 | |
Send us a love letter (or hate mail, your choice!) It's 2024 and the rumors are true, I'm popping off this year! So sorry you had to find out like this, destiny is calling and I'd be a fool to let her go to voicemail, as they say! | |||