Fairly Harmless: Take a Break from Being Smart
Episodes

Oct 28, 2023
The Lost Episode - Part 1 - Marco
Oct 28, 2023
Oct 28, 2023
28 min
Pointless banter about eateries, sound and parallel universes vs insanity.

Oct 24, 2023
The Wrench and the Pauper
Oct 24, 2023
Oct 24, 2023
16 min
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 entrepreneurial. James pitches Shelf, a dating app for people who can balance a plate of food on their stomach, and the brainstorm spirals into a full graveyard of cursed app names: Doormat, Wrench, Turkey Baster, Meat Mallet.
The episode closes with an enthusiastic, completely unpaid endorsement of Prime Barbecue in Knightdale, and a nod to Longleaf Swine in Raleigh, who referred the business to a competitor when their equipment failed before a catering job rather than just canceling. Integrity in the barbecue industry. It exists.

Oct 23, 2023
The Business
Oct 23, 2023
Oct 23, 2023
21 min
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 meditation on sriracha trademark law, space monkeys, and whether the thug life chose them or they chose it. There's also an ASMR detour and a Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor reference that makes complete sense in context.
Intelligent and insightful are words other podcasts use to describe themselves. This is Fairly Harmless. We're missing the point from the very beginning, with musical accompaniment by The Boston Horns.