“For Colored Nerds” Is Good For You
11/12/21 • 35 min
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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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.
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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.
Sponsor
BetterHelp, a secure online therapy service. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.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.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Previous Episode
Reading Is Good For You
Books are my happy place. When I was younger and read something that moved me or something that I recognized as being superbly crafted, I would sleep with the book under my pillow, hoping to absorb the talent. Even as my job revolved around writing, the act of reading has always felt important and constant. And Traci Thomas, host of The Stacks, feels exactly the same way.
Indulgence
Nichole recommends saying no.
Guests
Traci Thomas is the host of The Stacks, a weekly podcast about books and the people who read them, where she interviews authors and other book lovers about their relationships to books. Traci also moderates book and author events, and writes a monthly book column for shereads.com.
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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.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Next Episode
Puzzles Are Good For You
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
Sponsor
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.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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