Fairly Harmless: Take a Break from Being Smart

Andrew and James celebrate the third annual Fairly Harmless giveaway in this comedy podcast episode, plus a visit to burger country that did not go as planned, and ATV adventures that probably should have had more safety briefing. A funny episode that covers podcast milestones, fast food misfortune, and the particular chaos of motorized vehicles in the hands of people who are very enthusiastic but...

Andrew and James crown themselves kings of the cobblestone in this comedy podcast episode covering getting completely, confidently lost, the deep pleasures of vinyl record collecting, and outdoor trail adventures that tested their limits and their knees. A funny conversation about navigation failures, music obsession, and the trails that look manageable on a map until you're actually on them. This...

Pointless banter about transcendent tumbling, extravagant curios and an astral ancestor.

Pointless banter about derelict diversions, tech tunnel vision and illusions of grandeur.

Pointless banter about the pursuit of the truth, alternate history gaming and fair use fun.

Pointless banter about mathematical inquisition, trebuchet troubles and French fry infernos.

Pointless banter about forthcoming communal diversion, ancient emblems and trekking with ground round. 

Pointless banter about covert operative analysis, cosplay sparring, and celestial trickery.

Pointless banter about getting swindled on confections, motorcar maintenance and backwoods romances.

Pointless banter about density vs distance, alien mammals and statistically improbable success over time.

Pointless banter about derelicts of winter, bovine rituals and the smorgasbord of defeat.

Andrew and James welcome Woody for a year-in-review that reviews almost none of the year. They cover sequels that beat the original, whether the British ever had a Wild West, and the mortality statistics for single men. Then things get personal. James unknowingly gave Andrew jelly beans from a Bean Boozled box. What follows is a reckoning, a resentment, and an on-mic jelly bean revenge arc that en...

The Fairly Harmless Holiday Extravaganza is here! Hosts James and Andrew welcome first-ever female guest Betty and holiday spirit animal Omar Jones for a chaotic yuletide roundtable covering the Die Hard Christmas movie debate, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Bad Santa, Elf, Scrooged, Muppet Christmas Carol and whether It's a Wonderful Life deserves its reputation. Additionally Elf on the S...

James and Andrew are back to waste your time more efficiently than ever. This episode opens with a holiday Yule log DVD, yes, a DVD, about a fake fireplace from the seventies, and somehow gets weirder from there.  Topics covered: a James Bond ranking homework assignment nobody asked for, a sequel-movie debate that may never actually happen, and two grown men presenting eyewitness evidence of confi...

Omar Jones joins Andrew and James for a round of "What's in the Box," braves the Fast Eddy Experience, and sits through a full unpacking of the Mandela Effect and the time travelers walking among us. Omar makes a blood pact with the boys about how he wants to be distributed at end of life. Tarantino gets ranked. Dune gets defended. Christopher Nolan gets a polite warning. If you like long-form non...

Andrew and James are back with a new studio setup, a pile of listener feedback, and absolutely no plan. The guys ease into a freewheeling conversation that somehow manages to touch on merchandising empires, future podcast concepts, a heated consumer complaint, and what may genuinely be the greatest business idea of the 21st century. There's a moment in this episode where you'll think they've final...

Together with special guest Ed, the boys somehow connect Gilligan's Island to the Illuminati, propose a Purge-style holiday exclusively for geese, and uncover the military's secret coast-to-coast underground maglev trains running Portland to Portland. Also covered: TikTok challenges that should exist, why Mary Ann's boyfriend was almost certainly fake and why Goodfellas might be the best worst com...

The Fairly Harmless podcast finally breaks the two-man format and welcomes its first ever guest, Shua from Duncan, North Carolina, the spiritual home of Duncan Hines cake mix. What follows is what Andrew and James doing what they do best, which is failing to stay on topic while their guest goes with the flow. The crew tackles the truly important questions: Did the Monopoly guy ever have a monocle?...

Pointless banter about moving picture shows, music theory and courtship rituals.

James had a vision at a yard sale: a pizza restaurant that opens at nine in the morning. Andrew thought this was brilliant. Everyone else at the yard sale did not.  This episode also features a genuinely compelling pitch for a professional insult delivery service where hired randos approach your enemies, say something devastating, and vanish forever. Passive aggressive? Sure. A legitimate business...

Two guys, 11pm, downtown Raleigh. Andrew got a haircut from a barber whose hands would not stop shaking and stayed in the chair anyway. James broke two lawn chairs in the same month. By the end of the episode they are working out the physics of surviving a free fall out of a plane using a bazooka and a broken lawn chair as a parachute. Also there's a hilarious discussion about wearing glasses that...

Pointless banter about eateries, sound and parallel universes vs insanity.

Andrew and James open up with James confidently mixing up Tommy Lasorda and Tony La Russa. Two different people, two different teams. Not even close. The NBA takes a beating next. Neither host has cared much since the Jordan-Pippen Bulls, and they will tell you exactly why. College ball is a different story: real teamwork, real stakes, and an NC State shoutout for good measure. Then things get ent...

Two guys from Raleigh walk into a podcast and immediately get sidetracked by Grey Poupon, grocery store rankings, and a secondhand audio interface bought at 3am on eBay. Welcome to Fairly Harmless. In the debut episode of Fairly Harmless, Andrew and James officially introduce themselves, explain how they deleted the actual first episode, and somehow turn a conversation about mustard into a meditat...