Podcast

The Best Worst

TV & Film, TV Reviews

Welcome to Night Vale's Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink consider the Golden Age of Television, at its best and its worst. Each episode, we consider a classic show by watching first its worst IMDB user rated episode, and then its best. What can we learn by watching the best and worst of classic TV? Let's find out together.

Episodes
89
Releases
Weekly
Typical length
12 min
On air since
2025
Latest episode
1 week ago

Episodes

89 episodes, newest first

  1. Out today! This Will Ruin The Tour by the writers of Welcome to Night Vale

    Episode 89

    Show notes

    From the writers and team behind Welcome to Night Vale, comes a new audio drama. Out today!

    Kiara Sloan has been one of the world's biggest pop stars since before she could legally drive, but now she is in her forties, and embarking on a big comeback tour after an embarrassing public incident almost ended her career.

    Neil Ritter is a small town boy from Texas, still in his twenties, and desperate for his big break as a music journalist. And here it is: spend the day in New Orleans with none other than Kiara Sloan. And maybe get something juicy about the pills and her dwindling ticket sales.

    What starts as a reluctant interview turns, to both of their surprise, into a genuine connection, as Kiara and Neil wander the Crescent City through the day and well into the night.

    From jazz clubs to tarot readers, from Jackson Square to a ferry on the Mississippi river, This Will Ruin The Tour invites us to listen in real time as Kiara and Neil try to find the balance between career and life, between stability and adventure, between self-control and jumping into love, even if it just might ruin the tour.

    For fans of Before Sunrise, Roman Holiday, and Once, This Will Ruin The Tour is twenty four hours in America's most magical city, spent with two people who just might be falling in love…

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    12 min
  2. 49 min
  3. 5 min
  4. 47 min
  5. Announcing: This Will Ruin The Tour from the team behind Welcome to Night Vale

    Show notes

    From the writers and team behind Welcome to Night Vale, comes a new audio drama.

    Kiara Sloan has been one of the world's biggest pop stars since before she could legally drive, but now she is in her forties, and embarking on a big comeback tour after an embarrassing public incident almost ended her career.

    Neil Ritter is a small town boy from Texas, still in his twenties, and desperate for his big break as a music journalist. And here it is: spend the day in New Orleans with none other than Kiara Sloan. And maybe get something juicy about the pills and her dwindling ticket sales.

    What starts as a reluctant interview turns, to both of their surprise, into a genuine connection, as Kiara and Neil wander the Crescent City through the day and well into the night.

    From jazz clubs to tarot readers, from Jackson Square to a ferry on the Mississippi river, This Will Ruin The Tour invites us to listen in real time as Kiara and Neil try to find the balance between career and life, between stability and adventure, between self-control and jumping into love, even if it just might ruin the tour.

    For fans of Before Sunrise, Roman Holiday, and Once, This Will Ruin The Tour is twenty four hours in America's most magical city, spent with two people who just might be falling in love…

    ⁠For more information and to pre-order, click here. ⁠

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    11 min
  6. 18 min
  7. 1 hr 3 min
  8. 5 min
  9. 49 min
  10. 8 min
  11. 49 min
  12. Cecil Baldwin and Kevin R Free perform more from The Nudge, by Night Vale co-creator Joseph Fink

    Show notes

    Please consider preordering wherever you buy books. Preorders make a HUGE difference for authors.

    If you're in LA, please come join us on September 1st a the launch event at Vroman's in Pasadena with Mara Wilson. https://vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-09-01/joseph-fink

    For more information, to preorder, and to see the book tour schedule, please check out: https://podiumentertainment.com/c/thenudge

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    9 min
  13. 7 min
  14. Excerpt from The Nudge, by Best Worst co-host Joseph Fink

    Show notes

    Please consider preordering wherever you buy books. Preorders make a HUGE difference for authors.

    If you're in LA, please come join us on September 1st a the launch event at Vroman's in Pasadena with Mara Wilson. https://vromansbookstore.com/event/2026-09-01/joseph-fink

    For more information, to preorder, and to see the book tour schedule, please check out: https://podiumentertainment.com/c/thenudge

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
  15. 46 min
  16. 11 min
  17. 50 min
  18. 9 min
  19. 50 min
  20. 10 min