This is Good for You

Cannabis does what I need it to do and I don’t need much else, but I had to do some research to settle my fears about certain things, including examining who gets to be the cool, funny stoner and who gets to be labeled criminals and degenerates. That is why I’m talking to Laura OG, founder of SMKBRK, who is advocating for equity and diversity within the cannabis industry and hopes to normalize seeing women in all discussions about weed.

Indulgence

Nichole recommends a return to jewelry!

Guest

Laura OG is a cannabis cultivator, educator, and consultant dedicated to teaching women how to incorporate cannabis into their everyday life through conscious consumption and self-care practices. She is an advocate for equity and diversity within the cannabis industry and founded SMK BRK in the pursuit of normalizing conversations between women and cannabis through storytelling, design, events, and music curation. She lobbies for home grows and believes everyone should have the knowledge and space to grow their own medicine.

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Production

Producer: Eric Silver

Editor: Brandon Grugle

Executive Producers: Amanda McLoughlin and Nichole Perkins

Theme Music: Donwill

Artwork: Jessica E. Boyd

About The Show

Nichole Perkins wants people to stop feeling bad about feeling good, and This Is Good For You lets you know you are never alone in what you like. Every episode, Nichole explores something that people love—whether it’s needlepoint, watching bad movies with friends, or cowgirl exercise classes—and asks experts and devotees why it makes them happy. She ends each show with an Indulgence: a recommendation listeners can enjoy with no remorse. There’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure when you learn to love it freely! To find out what’s good for you, listen to new episodes every other Friday.

This episode is two things good for you for the price of one from some of my favorite longtime podcasters. Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings started For Colored Nerds, which morphed into The Nod, and now they’re bringing back For Colored Nerds, and I can’t wait for it. But today, we’re talking about what they do when they’re not working: the pleasures of wandering aimlessly and coloring outside the lines.

Indulgence

Brittany recommends eating by yourself. Eric recommends A Million Little Things.

Guests

Brittany Luse is an award-winning journalist, on-air host, cultural critic, producer, and editor. She most recently co-hosted and executive produced The Nod with Brittany and Eric, a daily streaming show. Before that, Brittany hosted and produced The Nod and Sampler podcasts at Gimlet Media, and the independent podcast For Colored Nerds. Follow her @bmluse on Twitter and Instagram.

Eric Eddings is the Director of Lifestyle Podcasting at Stitcher and co-host of the For Colored Nerds podcast. He most recently co-hosted and executive produced The Nod with Brittany and Eric, a daily streaming show about Black culture on the Quibi platform. Previously, Eric hosted and produced the podcasts The Nod for Gimlet Media and The Decade Wrapped for Spotify. Follow him @eedings on Twitter and Instagram.

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Twitter: @ThisIsGoodPod

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Patreon: thisisgoodpod.com/patreon

Nichole: @tnwhiskeywoman

Multitude: @MultitudeShows

Email: [email protected]

Production

Producer: Eric Silver

Editor: Brandon Grugle

Executive Producers: Amanda McLoughlin and Nichole Perkins

Theme Music: Donwill

Artwork: Jessica E. Boyd

About The Show

Nichole Perkins wants people to stop feeling bad about feeling good, and This Is Good For You lets you know you are never alone in what you like. Every episode, Nichole explores something that people love—whether it’s needlepoint, watching bad movies with friends, or cowgirl exercise classes—and asks experts and devotees why it makes them happy. She ends each show with an Indulgence: a recommendation listeners can enjoy with no remorse. There’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure when you learn to love it freely! To find out what’s good for you, listen to new episodes every other Friday.

One of the ways I end up stuck inside during the winter is too much comfort tv. I’ll burrow into a cave of old sitcoms from my high school days when all I had to worry about was how not to get caught skipping school. I don’t fool myself into thinking the old days are better. I know they’re simply different, but sometimes the nostalgia does take over. But Tracy Clayton and Josh Gywnn, hosts of Back Issue, love that nostalgia so much they made a podcast examining it.

Indulgence

Josh recommends big cooking projects. Tracy recommends elementary-school-style arts and crafts.

Guests

Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist, podcaster, and social media expert born and raised in the West End of Louisville, Kentucky. Tracy is co-host of the award-winning podcast Another Round with Heben and Tracy. She loves bourbon, true crime, animals and fancy cheeses, and hates most seafood, all beer, and every owl on the planet. She is the co-creator and co-host of Back Issue.

Josh Gwynn is an audio producer and host from Southern California who has created work for companies like Pineapple Street Media, The New York Times, Netflix, Essence, Stitcher, Mailchimp, and Nike. He is passionate about providing platforms for underserved voices. Given his California roots, Josh describes his vibe as a combination of palm trees, confetti, limes, rhythm, vitamin E oil, melanin, and bones. He is still waiting on a ticket to Oprah’s Legends Luncheon. He is the co-creator, co-host, and senior producer of Back Issue.

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Nichole: @tnwhiskeywoman

Multitude: @MultitudeShows

Email: [email protected]

Production

Producer: Eric Silver

Editor: Brandon Grugle

Executive Producers: Amanda McLoughlin and Nichole Perkins

Theme Music: Donwill

Artwork: Jessica E. Boyd

About The Show

Nichole Perkins wants people to stop feeling bad about feeling good, and This Is Good For You lets you know you are never alone in what you like. Every episode, Nichole explores something that people love—whether it’s needlepoint, watching bad movies with friends, or cowgirl exercise classes—and asks experts and devotees why it makes them happy. She ends each show with an Indulgence: a recommendation listeners can enjoy with no remorse. There’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure when you learn to love it freely! To find out what’s good for you, listen to new episodes every other Friday.

The holidays are hard for me, so I'm constantly looking for things to occupy myself in a way that suits me. Last year, I started buying jigsaw puzzles. Someone on Twitter posted a puzzle that was a collection of erotic pulp fiction and I thought “well, surely that was made for me!” It was great until I adopted my cat, who liked to sit on top of the puzzle and pull at it. But my special guest today may convince me to get back into them!

Rachel mentions the NYT Guide to starting crossword puzzles, the Queer Qrosswords collection, and her Buzzfeed piece on puzzles. Her favorite puzzle producers are Galison, Mudpuppy, and NY Puzzle Co (especially ones by Jim Golden).

Indulgence

Nichole recommends showing off.

Guest

Rachel Wilkerson Miller is a Senior Editor at Vox and the author of The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People and Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, BuzzFeed, VICE, and Huffington Post, and she’s been a guest on NPR, the Today show, and Good Morning America. Find out more about her at rachelwmiller.com

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Dipsea is offering a 30-day free trial when you go to dipseastories.com/thisisgood!

Find Us Online

Twitter: @ThisIsGoodPod

Instagram: @ThisIsGoodPod

Merch: thisisgoodpod.com/merch

Patreon: thisisgoodpod.com/patreon

Nichole: @tnwhiskeywoman

Multitude: @MultitudeShows

Email: [email protected]

Production

Producer: Eric Silver

Editor: Brandon Grugle

Executive Producers: Amanda McLoughlin and Nichole Perkins

Theme Music: Donwill

Artwork: Jessica E. Boyd

About The Show

Nichole Perkins wants people to stop feeling bad about feeling good, and This Is Good For You lets you know you are never alone in what you like. Every episode, Nichole explores something that people love—whether it’s needlepoint, watching bad movies with friends, or cowgirl exercise classes—and asks experts and devotees why it makes them happy. She ends each show with an Indulgence: a recommendation listeners can enjoy with no remorse. There’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure when you learn to love it freely! To find out what’s good for you, listen to new episodes every other Friday.

At the beginning of 2020, I realized I didn’t have a hobby that was not monetized. One day, I was cleaning up a bit and came across a cross-stitch project I’d abandoned, and little angels started singing. So I talked to two people for whom needlecraft is really important: my mom and BadassCrossStitch.

Indulgence

Nichole recommends Blood of Zeus!

Guest

Shannon Downey is the artist, activist, and craftivist behind @BadassCrossStitch.

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Twitter: @ThisIsGoodPod

Instagram: @ThisIsGoodPod

Merch: thisisgoodpod.com/merch

Patreon: thisisgoodpod.com/patreon

Nichole: @tnwhiskeywoman

Multitude: @MultitudeShows

Email: [email protected]

Production

Producer: Eric Silver

Editor: Brandon Grugle

Executive Producers: Amanda McLoughlin and Nichole Perkins

Theme Music: Donwill

Artwork: Jessica E. Boyd

About The Show

Nichole Perkins wants people to stop feeling bad about feeling good, and This Is Good For You lets you know you are never alone in what you like. Every episode, Nichole explores something that people love—whether it’s needlepoint, watching bad movies with friends, or cowgirl exercise classes—and asks experts and devotees why it makes them happy. She ends each show with an Indulgence: a recommendation listeners can enjoy with no remorse. There’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure when you learn to love it freely! To find out what’s good for you, listen to new episodes every other Friday.