Best Mistakes

It's been exactly 1 year since our last episode! Surprise, b*tch, bet you thought you'd seen the last of us... It's been a wild year and we can't wait to catch you up on all of it. Even though we haven't been posting, we have still been recording here and there, and as our big return we present to you our time capsule series. The first episode from the last year we are sharing with you is the episode we recorded...

Correction from this episode: we say the investigation of the Marshall Fire began in January 2020, but we meant January 2022.

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Hosted by Nika Lomazzo (@nikalomazzo) & Anya Volz (@anyavolz), edited by Elisa Coia (@elisa_etc). Follow the podcast @bestm...

The besties talk romanticizing hypothetical future lives as community theater teachers upstate, in healthy relationships, etc. Nika discusses her current stint of sobriety, Anya talks pulling out of a depressive episode, and the girlies praise Hunter Biden for his iconic f*ck up this past week. The experiment of replacing the Deep Dive segment with a Highlight of The Week segment continues this week, what do you think? Finally, Nik...

The girlies are back with another incredible live show at Parkside Lounge in Manhattan. Featuring performances by Honey Pluton, Esther Fallick, and Justin Covington. Thank you to all the besties that came out, we can't wait to see you at the next one!

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The obligatory Roe v Wade episode! Things are bad! We are scared! But we are still funny because you have to laugh through the pain. The besties talk about

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Nika and Anya discuss the importance of straight men redistributing their wealth of knowledge about cars to the queer community. The besties discuss problematic age gaps, the intersection of the queer experience with queer representation in cinema (specifically the new film Fire Island), Nika’s depressive episode coming to an end, and Anya getting robbed in London in 2017. Nika tells us about the leaps and bounds made by the pre-Na...

Welcome to the audio from our very first live show! Featuring performances by Dylan Adler, Dave Ross, Nekia Hampton, Irene Fagan Merrow, and of course the besties themselves Nika and Anya!

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Nika comes out as a depressed contrarian. The besties discuss therapy, medication, mental health & friendship…what else is new? A listener writes in about Burning Man. Nika tells us about her terrible holistic therapist in Rhode Island. Anya picks apart the history and the wording of the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, perhaps the biggest mistake in law.

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DON’T MISS OUR LIVE SHOW IN NYC NEXT WEEK! MAY 26TH AT PARKSIDE LOUNGE!

In this episode Anya expresses remorse for the time they broke a cancer’s heart, which they also believe put a curse on them to pay repentance to cancers for the rest of their days. Nika, like the comrade she is, tells us about The Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest armed uprising since the American Civ...

The besties are BACK from their week in the woods! Nika & Anya talk about their Beltane festivities, their highs, their lows, their life lessons, etc! You know, the stuff you came here for. A few trigger warnings: This episode is NOT for tempeh lovers! Beware! On a more serious note, the listener mistake this week is heavy and somewhat controversial, containing subject matter related to sexual assault and suicidal thoughts.&nbs...

OKAY WE MESSED UP PLEASE FORGIVE US! We are uploading this a week late but we have a good excuse! Kind of! Anya regales us with the story of her bloody UTI when camping on mushrooms at 19. Nika gives the entire low-down on grifter-influencer / "performance artist" icon Caroline Calloway.

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Actual real life best friend of the besties JP Maddock joins Nika and Anya on this very special road trip episode (excuse the audio), to talk Dungeons & Dragons, pansexuality, the subway shooter (brace yourselves), time management, and so much more!

The besties discuss the stress of taxes, savings, and the fickle, uncertain nature that is planning financially for one’s future during what feels like global societal collapse. So live in the present and enjoy life as we know it while we can! Or something! We talk Ezra Miller being the face of problematic they/thems, and how no amount of nail polish can do The Work for you of unlearning toxic masculinity. Nika tells us about the t...

The besties lament on the trials and tribulations of doing laundry– why do we have to keep doing it?! Nika tells us about her panic! on the dancefloor, and the girlies cosplay as intellectuals by discussing French politics briefly. A listener writes in with a truly horrifying tale of forgetting to collect their money from a John and Anya tells us about the time she messed up in her early attempts at non monogamy. Nika gives us the ...

Please NO LAUGHING at the episode number! Have some composure. The besties talk about their favorite cult-run restaurant in Anya's hometown, the importance of taking breaks from both people and substances sometimes, and Anya regrets an iPhone vs Android debate from earlier this week. Nika tells us about the time she accidentally sent a scathing shit-talk text to the person it was about, and chose to dig her heels in. In wake of wat...

Nika and Anya are back on their bullshit (waxing poetic about their gorgeous gorgeous friends) and Anya is officially in their late 20s (ok fine…mid to late 20’s!). The girlies talk about Anya’s iconic birthday party, community care, and the beauty of saying no to cancel culture within their own chosen family. Anya takes us on a deep dive about the time they accidentally made their work environment uncomfortable in the long run bec...

Nika and Anya discuss Anya's embarrassing encounter with comedian Pete Holmes when they were 18, the recent controversy around trans women in sports, and of course lots of spiraling the queer community politics drain. Nika tells us about her regrets of which high school she chose to go to, for her father's approval, and Anya takes us on the amusing and tragic journey of original formula Four Loko.

The girlies talk about International Women's Day, Women’s History Month, and Nika being a *NASTY WOMAN*. Nika and Anya once again wax poetic about the enduring legacy of Mean Girls and circle the drain once more about the complexities of being queer, trans, non binary and hot! We talk about the infamous New York Times opinion piece making the rounds this week: "I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead," &n...