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It's Pretty OK
by It's Pretty OK
Why don’t more bars serve beer in pitchers? How do you pick a song for karaoke? What does the word “home” mean to you? Those questions range from silly to serious, but if you’ve ever pondered the answers to all three in a single day, you’re not alone. Pour yourself a cup of coffee, crack a 40, or anything in between, and join the gang here at It’s Pretty OK as we attempt to answer these questions and many more. We promise it won’t be boring. Hosted by Pierce Bishop, Max Handler, Kevin Linger and Sean McGoey, and (very loosely) produced/edited/mixed by Sean McGoey. Logo design by Jack Costello. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Ep. 410: HoopGoons
This week, the SPORTS BOIS are talking about a quality that was on abundant display during the first round of the NBA playoffs (this episode was recorded when most of the first-round series were still going, and Patrick Beverley hadn't yet chucked a ball at a fan's face): goonery! Is this another...
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Ep. 409: Beercast
This week, the gang (minus Sean) gets together to talk about a thing that's been a key part of so many moments in our lives and friendship together: beer. But it seems that everyone's relationship with a frosty-cold oat soda has maybe changed in the past decade or so, so it's time to unpack that!...
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Ep. 408: Playoff Time!
This week, the SPORTS BOIS are here to talk about the NBA playoffs and how things have changed in the Play-in Tournament era. Are we punishing the #1 seeds somehow? And do the Celtics have anything to fear but fear itself? NOTE: This episode was recorded before the play-in games, which means any...
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Ep. 407: Nothing Was the Same
This week, the gang talks a little bit about their March Madness trip to Los Angeles, and the sushi spot that maybe ruined all other sushi spots for Kevin. What did YOU experience one time and know you would never match that level again? MUSIC: "A World Without Pain" – Spiral Heads Hosted on…
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Ep. 406: Adaptation
This week, Pierce's experience both reading and watching L.A. Confidential has the gang pondering a classic conundrum: How are you supposed to evaluate movies based on books? MUSIC: "Grifter's Grief" – Yard Act Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 405: Goal-Oriented
This week, the gang talks about setting goals for self-improvement, and ponders Pierce's theory that you can't really evaluate any goal like that on a timeline shorter than a year. MUSIC: "Playing Favorites" – Sheer Mag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 404: ENDGAME
This week, the SPORTS BOIS are talking about why the last minute or two of sporting events get treated so differently than all of the preceding minutes, especially by the referees. MUSIC: "I Got Heaven" – Mannequin Pussy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 403: This Little Podcast Went to Market
This week, the gang talks about why it feels like something's missing from the grocery store experience — vanished to make way for dumb stuff like palm scanners. MUSIC: "Clubs" – Myra Keyes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 402: A Pod for Sickos Who Love Punts
This week, the gang gets together to draft their favorite moments in sports. Some of them will make perfect sense. Others — hell, maybe most of them — will make whatever the literal opposite of perfect sense is. Check it out! MUSIC: "Make a Joke" – Mama Zu Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy…
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Ep. 401: Back in the Office Again
This week, the gang talks about how some companies are going about trying to bring their employees back to the office from time to time with perks like an occasional free lunch — and why that strategy seems doomed to fail. Will one of these four fully remote workers argue that companies should…
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Ep. 400: Wow, We Feel Old
This week is a bit of a throwback, with Sean and Pierce doing a little reminiscing on the past 400 episodes before shifting gears and talking a bit about how friggin' old they feel when it comes to going to concerts — but why it may be important to grit their teeth and do it anyway. MUSIC…
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Ep. 399: (Album) Artsy Fartsy
This week, Kevin asks the gang: Does anyone still care about album art? MUSIC: "Blast Off" – CZARFACE ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: Bud vs. Miller vs. Coors - Pro Brewer picks a favorite! (Tree House Brewing Company on YouTube) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 398: We Swear It's Not a Drake Podcast
This week, some spicy words for Drake by Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) sparked some discussion online about whether or not Drake's music reminds you of shopping at Target. That points the gang toward a conversation about "selling out" and how cultural fandom has become about our identity as fans…
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Ep. 397: Way Too Late to Be an Emergency Podcast
Was there enough time between when we recorded this podcast and when it's finally coming out that Bill Belichick hadn't actually lost his job yet and Alabama hadn't hired a successor to Nick Saban? Yes! Does that make this podcast about what feels like the end of a coaching era kind of useless?...
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Ep. 396: The BBQ Diaries
This week, the gang returns for a new year with a discussion of Max's BBQ travels over the holidays, and what makes a place like Franklin Barbecue in Austin, Texas, so different from a place like Dreamland Bar-B-Que, the Tuscaloosa, Alabama rib shack that has expanded to several locations across...
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Ep. 395: Push It to the Limit
This week, the gang closes out 2023 by discussing the firehose of "breaking news" notifications that Sean and Pierce get on their phones, why it's so frustrating that we spend so much time on national political news, and why it's still important to get information about the world around you. Does...
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Ep. 394: It's the Holidays, Be Kind to Yourself
This week, the gang gets together post-Thanksgiving to talk about Sean's experience with a simplified Turkey Day menu brought on by necessity. But it's not really a conversation about menus so much as a chat about finding ways to give yourself a break and not weigh the holidays down with...
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Ep. 393: And Then There Were Seven
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all — Sean, Pierce, and Kevin got together before going home for the holidays to talk about the 7 remaining undefeated FBS teams and what would be the best (or funniest) outcomes for each. Of course, that was before any of the games were played. So tune in to see how many of...
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Ep. 392: The Product Review Revue
We're almost back to a normal recording/release schedule, I swear. But in the meantime, the gang is discussing reviews. What are we looking at so many reviews for, and are we actually getting anything out of it? Also, Max brings an excellent trivia question. MUSIC: "Fresh Tattoo" – The Mountain...
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Ep. 391: The ACC Realignment Special
Apologies for the irregular recording schedule — someone is busy exploring the world. In the meantime, the SPORTS BOIS gather to discuss something they've been thinking about for a while now: how to rearrange the ACC's football setup now that Cal, SMU and Stanford are joining. They compete to see...
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Ep. 390: The NBA Is Back!
This week, the SPORTS BOIS celebrate the return of the NBA! They head back to the hardwood by picking some teams that they're excited about for the upcoming season. MUSIC: "Different Than" – A Giant Dog ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: Revealed: What Jordan Poole Told Draymond Green Before the Punch Seen...
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Ep. 389: PodGPT
This week, the gang becomes your favorite tech podcast in order to talk about generative AI and how it will affect the process of learning that your half-baked ideas are, in fact, half-baked. MUSIC: "Going to Die" – Fiddlehead ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: "Why Gen X Dads Can Appreciate Olivia Rodrigo"…
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Ep. 388: Blow It Out
This week, on the heels of the Miami Dolphins putting a historic beatdown on the Denver Broncos, the gang has a question...are blowouts good? MUSIC: "Doubt" – Slow Pulp Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 387: This Pod Is a Gift
This week, the gang gets together to talk about the act of giving yourself a gift. Is it something that should put a pit in your stomach? What's the right frequency with which to self-gift? Hell, for that matter, what even constitutes a gift to yourself in the first place? MUSIC: "Megalodon" –...
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Ep. 386: Keep It Cool(er)
It's a conversation about a cooler — specifically, the Oyster Tempo "performance cooler." But it's not actually a conversation about a cooler. The gang is talking about why it is that we feel like we need to be upgrading stuff all the time. MUSIC: "Birthmark" – Dizzy Hosted on Acast. See...
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Ep. 385: Free Returns on This Podcast
This week, the gang is talking about a story Pierce read in The New Yorker about what happens to products after consumers return them — a pretty important question, considering that the value of returned products is believed to be close to $1 trillion. MUSIC: "Through the Sewer" – C.O.F.F.I.N...
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Ep. 384: Football Is Back...
Football season is back, and believe it or not, the gang has very different relationships with the NFL. Nobody's particularly happy about the way that teams are kicking star players (especially running backs) to the curb — and in a surprising turn that will shock you all, Sean gets extremely...
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Ep. 383: All You Can Draft Buffet
This week, the gang is doing something that is definitely not a blatant rip-off of any other podcasts or anything like that...they're drafting restaurants! Each participant is picking 5 real-life restaurants to build a town around. MUSIC: "Pleasure Seeker" – Be Your Own Pet ADDITIONAL MATERIAL:...
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Ep. 382: Tchotchkes on Tchotchkes on Tchotchkes
This week, the full gang is back together for the first time in quite a while, and with Kevin back from a long trip, they're talking about the kinds of souvenirs and other little gifts/collections that you amass when you travel. MUSIC: "It's Alive!" – Ratboys Hosted on Acast. See…
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Ep. 381: Transaction Action
This week, Sean and Pierce are talking about the soccer transfer window — with its many twists, turns and sagas — and wondering how we got to the point where as fans, we're spending more time focusing on signings and trades and such than worrying about the actual games themselves. MUSIC: "All We...
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Ep. 380: MUSTARD SKITTLES
THIS PODCAST IS ABOUT MUSTARD SKITTLES. THAT'S A REAL THING. THERE'S REALLY NOT ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY ABOUT IT. JUST LISTEN! MUSIC: "Knockin'" – MJ Lenderman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 379: The Challenge Pod
No, it's not a podcast about the MTV competition show. This week, the gang (minus Kevin, who's on a jaunt around the west coast and Canada for a while) gets together to talk about summer reading and the concept of challenging yourself as an adult. Is it just a way to motivate yourself to do...
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Ep. 378: Pretty Patterns Podcasting
This week, it's the show you didn't even know you were waiting for...because you probably weren't actually waiting for it. Pierce and Sean finally do their long-rumored watch-along of the 2011 UEFA Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester United. (You can find the game on…
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Ep. 377: Pod or No Pod
This week, the gang is talking about game shows and why we love them the way we do. MUSIC: "Be Careful" – bdrmm ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: Juvenile's Tiny Desk Concert (NPR Music on YouTube) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 376: Greasy Bar Food for Everyone!
This week, the gang is talking about the wonderful world of bar food. Wings and fries and all that jazz. MUSIC: "Pressure Cooker" – DAZY and Militarie Gun ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: Daniel Ellsberg’s Life Beyond the Pentagon Papers (The New Yorker) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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Ep. 375: Being for the Benefits of Mr. Kite
This week, the gang talks about work benefits. Per diems on company trips, parental leave, health care, vacation time — the whole nine yards. MUSIC: "Carlos Is Crying" – The Hold Steady Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 374: Getting the Job Done
This week, the SPORTS BOIS talk about the Denver Nuggets' NBA championship victory. Well, they actually talk about Nikola Jokic's unexpectedly muted reaction to reaching his sport's highest pinnacle, and whether we would all do well to learn something from the big Serbian's perspective on work…
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Ep. 373: A Watch-along Built for Four
Dive on in for some hot sardine-on-mackerel action! This week, the gang is talking about the Futurama episode "A Bicyclops Built for Two," which is both eerily prescient about the internet of the 2000s and 2010s...and also somehow a parody of Married...with Children? MUSIC: "Freak" - Feeble…
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Ep. 372: Townie Summer
This week, the gang talks about "townie summer" — the phenomenon in which all of the students in a college town (or the tourists, depending on the town) vanish for a season, leaving the locals behind to do their thing for once. MUSIC: "Checks" – Dead Billionaires Hosted on Acast. See...
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Ep. 371: Every Pod Up In Equinox
This week, the gang gets together (hell, Max and Pierce literally get together!) to discuss what's going on with gym memberships. Max talks about his experience with ClassPass, and Sean suggests that the new wave of fancy "fitness experiences" like Equinox are the new-age replacement for a stuffy...
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Ep. 370: 7-Year, 370-Episode Warranty
This week, the gang is talking about the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad process of buying a car, so strap in. MUSIC: "Orion" – Rodrigo y Gabriela Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 369: Coffee Table Books
No puns or misdirection or anything in the title — this week, the gang is talking about coffee table books. Well, I guess they start talking about coffee table books as a way to get into a larger discussion of something that they refer to as "situational reading" and how it's changed in the...
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Ep. 368: What's Cooler than Being Cool? Kohlrabi!
This week, the gang is back at it to discuss CSA. No, not some horrifying dystopian hybrid of the CIA and the NSA — community-supported agriculture, in which you pay a local farm/producer up front for a season's worth of produce, to be collected on a periodic basis. Basically everyone on the pod...
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Ep. 367: Content Creep
This week, Sean, Max and Pierce are talking about the phenomenon of "content creep" — the way that as podcasters, video creators, and other creative folks get more popular, the demand for them to constantly be creating more and different kinds of output just grows and grows. MUSIC: "JOY (God Only...
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Ep. 366: Middle of the Road
On this episode, Sean is getting older and finding that his beer tastes are becoming, as he put it, "maybe not like MY dad's, but definitely like A dad's." Are there other things where we're changing in this sort of way as we get older? And how does the "27 Club" factor in? MUSIC: "Watching the...
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Ep. 365: Closing Time
This week, the gang is talking about the news that Pierce's favorite brewery in Atlanta is shutting down its local taproom and moving its production operations out of state. How do you deal with the loss of something like that that has become a fixture in your life? MUSIC: "Training Montage" –…
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Ep. 364: Death of the Big Man
This week, the SPORTS BOIS talk (in a very timely manner) about Purdue's first-round exit from the men's NCAA Tournament at the hands of 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson, the smallest team in the bracket. It seems to be part of an ongoing trend over the last decade or so in which the value of dominant...
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Ep. 363: The Instant Pod
This week, the gang gets together to talk about the hype around kitchen "multitaskers" like the Instant Pot as well as single-use implements like garlic presses. What's the argument for each, and how is Sean going to connect the Instant Pot to his iPhone? MUSIC: "Not Strong Enough" – boygenius...
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Ep. 362: Every Pod Everywhere All At Once
This week, the gang (minus Kevin) convenes to talk about movies — more specifically, the Academy Awards. What role do the Oscars play in the modern world of fragmented streaming services? MUSIC: "Futures Bet" – U.S. Girls Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Ep. 361: A Jefferson for Your Thoughts
This week, the gang is talking about $2 bills. Why do they feel like such a novelty, and should that maybe change going forward? MUSIC: "A Long December" – Oceanator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Why don’t more bars serve beer in pitchers? How do you pick a song for karaoke? What does the word “home” mean to you?
Those questions range from silly to serious, but if you’ve ever pondered the answers to all three in a single day, you’re not alone. Pour yourself a cup of coffee, crack a 40, or anything in between, and join the gang here at It’s Pretty OK as we attempt to answer these questions and many more. We promise it won’t be boring.
Hosted by Pierce Bishop, Max Handler, Kevin Linger and Sean McGoey, and (very loosely) produced/edited/mixed by Sean McGoey. Logo design by Jack Costello.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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