Latest Contrarianism Podcast Episodes

011 - Guy Fieri with Caroline Goldfarb

Actually Good - June 26, 2018 00:24 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
We brought on the incomparable multi-hyphenate Caroline Goldfarb (@officialseanpenn) to discuss the living Jimmy Buffett song that is Guy Fieri. If you don't appreciate Guy by the end of this, you're officially banished from Flavortown.

010 - Paul McCartney and Wings with Grant Pardee

Actually Good - June 12, 2018 03:29 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Writer, comedian, and—as you'll soon learn—human Wikipedia page Grant Pardee (@grantpa) joins us on the podcast today. His topic is Wings. (The post-Beatles McCartney project kind, not the TV show. That topic is still up for grabs.)

009 - Reddit with Justin and Mike

Actually Good - June 04, 2018 18:44 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Mike and Justin, free from the shackles of hosting duties, let their hair down and really dig in on the merits of Reddit dot com, one of the most popular websites in the world, and a foremost hub of racism, sexism, fascism, and other sorts of unchill mindsets. Is the front page of the internet r...

008 - Soylent with Eric Downs

Actually Good - May 28, 2018 22:23 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Eric Downs is a busy touring drummer, and the composer/creator of the Actually Good theme song. When Eric's not making music, he enjoys Soylent, a notoriously colorless, flavorless food-esque liquid. Eric says he's always pined for something he can sip from an old tuna can in order to stay alive...

007 - Full House with Paige Devitt

Actually Good - May 21, 2018 23:41 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Champions writer (and Mike's girlfriend) Paige Devitt joins us to defend the family-friendly sitcom that helped her through childhood, Full House.

006 - Encino Man with Allegra Ringo

Actually Good - April 23, 2018 19:07 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
It looks like we've settled upon Monday as our release date for this podcast, and what better a way to celebrate that commitment to a set schedule than with an episode about an unfrozen caveman familiarizing himself with the scheduling rigors of high school. Hell of a segue, right? This we...

005 - Ashlee Simpson with Alexandra Tweten

Actually Good - April 16, 2018 16:28 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Author, podcaster, and Instagram's leading curator of inappropriate DMs (@byefelipe) Alexandra Tweten talks about her how being a punk, emo-hating kid in the smallest town in America's frozen northlands somehow turned her into an Ashlee Simpson fan.

004 - Southland Tales with Dave Schilling

Actually Good - April 05, 2018 21:16 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
A goateed Justin Timberlake, The Rock twiddling his fingers like Mr. Burns, and cars having sex. Richard Kelly's sprawling Bush-era epic, Southland Tales, may sound like a fever dream, but our guest, Dave Schilling (@dave_schilling), thinks the unintentionally prescient movie deserves your time ...

003 - The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift with Jen Yamato

Actually Good - March 28, 2018 18:58 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
In our third ep, LA Times film reporter Jen Yamato (@jenyamato) brings a strong case for the handbrake-induced turning point of the Fast & the Furious film franchise. But does she have enough nitro to win over Justin and Mike and bring them into the family of Tokyo Drift fans?

002 - Third Wave Ska with Jack Wagner

Actually Good - March 19, 2018 20:55 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
iTunes no longer hates us so you get to hear Jack Wagner (@jackdwagner) struggle with the Actually Good studio's unorthodox mic setup as he attempts to defend third wave ska and the genre's top acts. Songs fairly used in the ep: The Aquabats - "Red Sweater" The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Th...

001 - Now You See Me with Demi Adejuyigbe

Actually Good - March 11, 2018 22:08 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
In Actually Good, hosts Mike Pearl and Justin Caffier bring on a guest to help resuscitate a universally reviled cultural artifact. In our inaugural episode, tv writer and podcaster Demi Adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) attempts to defend the Now You See Me film franchise.   Are these performance-...