Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 008: Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time!

The Nextlander Podcast

Leisure, Hobbies

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We're on break this week, so we bring you another hit from the Never Been a Better archives, when Abby Russell and Austin Walker joined us to talk about dream jobs, Generation Alpha, and much more!

CHAPTERS

(00:01:12) (Flawless) Intro
(00:02:29) Abby Russell is here!
(00:02:48) Austin Walker is here!
(00:03:34) Alex Navarro is here!
(00:04:43) To 2023 and getting together with friends
(00:06:00) Don't threaten me with a good time!
(00:07:13) The kids don't like using their i-statements
(00:10:50) Generation... Alpha?
(00:13:26) Kurt Loder was born in 1945!
(00:15:24) First Break
(00:17:55) The passing of the Queen
(00:26:33) The humans just don't like change
(00:27:46) Second Break
(00:27:58) The big basement reveal
(00:31:04) Sewage is a mess and has great job security
(00:32:31) Childhood dream jobs
(00:45:55) Gotta learn how to embezzle
(00:52:17) Aquatic nightmares
(00:54:42) Tom Cruise is chasing death
(00:59:56) Brazilian Butt Lift?
(01:04:33) Wrapping up
(01:05:24) See ya!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and happy July. We're off this week and I'm probably knee-deep getting ready for construction to finally start on my basement, which begins in about a week.
0:12.0	Maybe my next break I'll be moving back in. Big question mark there. We've got another episode of Never Been a Better Podcast in place of our normal podcast. Never Been a Better podcast features a rotating crew of Austin Walker, Jeff Backelard,
0:27.1	Dan Reichert, and Abby Russell, as they join me and Alex each month over on the Patreon side
0:32.9	of things. This episode originally aired in January of 2023 and features guests Abby Russell and Austin Walker
0:40.9	and actually also features some nostalgic basement talk.
0:45.5	It's also been slightly edited to include ad breaks.
0:48.5	If you want to hear more, never been a better podcast, you can head over to patreon.com slash
0:53.0	Nextlander.
0:54.1	Well, you'll find all the episodes and more.
0:57.1	As always, thanks for listening.
0:58.8	And we'll be back with the regular NextLander podcast next week.
1:05.4	And then it went like,
1:07.1	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to never been another podcast and we are continuing
1:18.8	with confidence into 2023.
1:23.3	We nailed 2022, no challengers.
1:32.1	Abby Russell, Austin Walker, Alex Navarro, never been a better podcast.
1:33.1	Let's keep it a lot.
1:33.5	That's not what you said. It's also never been another podcast.
1:37.1	That's the only one.
1:38.7	Doesn't matter the quality.
1:40.4	It's all you guys.
1:42.0	You have kicked into 2023 with a huge mistake.
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