Don't Be Weird About It

Bailey Edmonds and Maggie Ludwig

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Fast banter, stranger details, bigger bits.

The gist

Don't Be Weird About It turns casual conversation into a runaway group chat with microphones. Maggie, Bailey, and recurring on-mic friends bounce from NYC life and dating stories to fanfic, 2016 nostalgia, roller-coaster lines, and whatever detail suddenly deserves a dramatic reenactment.

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About Don't Be Weird About It

Don't Be Weird About It is casual banter with the speed turned up. The show runs on Maggie and Bailey's overlapping energy, where a thought rarely stays small for long. A contact lens becomes a friendship doctrine. A pink smoothie becomes a visual investigation. A dating anecdote becomes a mock-serious audit of housing, romance, and hypothetical goats. The rhythm is loose, but the comedy is precise in its own chaotic way. Tiny details get seized, repeated, dressed up, and pushed until they become miniature theater. Episodes move through NYC life, pop culture, girlhood, fanfic, Broadway-adjacent chatter, video games, dating, nostalgia, and whatever odd memory has the most charge that day. The show is not trying to sound polished. That is the point. It feels like sitting near people who already have six running callbacks and are willing to explain only half of them. Eli appears in the room, sometimes becoming part of the joke simply by existing. JK is named as the editor and occasionally pulled into the on-air atmosphere. Amari joins as a friend for an episode that moves from Super Bowl talk into stories about being on a film set and seeing costumes, dancers, and vampire makeup come to life. The show's funniest moments often come from over-specific imagined scenes: courtside outfits at a game, a stern Pilates instructor from New York, or a hotel stay spiraling into panic and restaurant enthusiasm. It can be irreverent and blunt, but it usually stays anchored in affection. The attitude is playful exasperation, not distance. Topics are treated less like segments and more like doors someone keeps opening into another hallway. That makes the show especially good for listeners who want personality first and structure second. Its charm is the momentum: the bit finds itself while everyone is already moving.

Made for: For listeners who like loose comedy podcasts, friend-group energy, NYC anecdotes, pop culture detours, and stories that spiral into theatrical bits. It fits anyone who prefers animated chemistry over formal interviews.

What sets it apart: The show turns ordinary observations into elaborate comic scenes almost instantly. Its signature is not the topic list; it is the way Maggie and Bailey keep escalating tiny details until they feel absurdly important.

In their own words

Don't Be Weird About It: a weekly podcast hosted Bailey and Maggie. They'll delve into pop culture, weird stories, life in NYC, broadway, video games, who knows! They refuse to limit themselves!! Maggie and Bailey would never deign to be weird about it and neither should you. xoxo

As heard by us

Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Bailey and Maggie make social awkwardness funny by escalating small personal details into fast, collaborative riffs.

Bailey and Maggie turn ordinary disclosures into conversational comedy by worrying a detail until it becomes a shared bit. Dating mishaps lead to elaborate questions about housing and imagined futures, while matching eyesight prescriptions become proof of friendship.

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Why you'd press play

Matching eyeglass prescriptions count as friendship here, and you may find yourself agreeing.

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  • a dating debrief that asks where a couch-surfer would keep his dowry goats
  • to hear Maggie and Bailey puzzle over the social rules of sharing fanfic
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NYC lifedating storiesfanficgirlhood and nostalgia2016 nostalgiaBroadway and performancevideo games and nerd culturefriend-group banter

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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.

Don't Be Weird About Nerding OutApr 15, 2026

A friendship hang that turns eye prescriptions and fanfic into a very specific kind of comedy.

Glasses, contacts, and a stray fanfic conversation turn into a small but funny test of friendship here, with Maggie, Bailey, Eli, and Nick making a lot out of what counts as normal.

Don't Be Weird About Eli On MicApr 8, 2026

A loose, high-energy hang that turns pink smoothies and queue misery into the bit.

Don't Be Weird About Eli On Mic keeps things breezy in the best way. The whole pod squad is finally together in New York City, JK is in the room, and two pink Hailey Bieber smoothies end up carrying more weight than they should.

Don't Be Weird About DatingApr 1, 2026

Messy dating talk that turns one sleepover complaint into a string of absurd jokes.

This episode circles a women's month gripe, a couch surfing complaint, and a run of dating jokes that jump from a bed to a dowry, goats, a Navy ship, and a locket.

Don't Be Weird About Multiple HorrorsMar 25, 2026

Older-brother jokes, a wrong-door panic, and a Bucca di Beppo detour.

Don't Be Weird About Multiple Horrors starts with a more polished studio feel and a quick joke about being famous now, then moves briskly into older-brother material and the iCarly roleplay that sorts Maggie as Carly, Bailey as Sam, Freddie as a friend, and Nick as the older…

Don't Be Weird About Superbowls & SinnersMar 4, 2026

A loose guest hang that turns set stories and running jokes into the same bit.

The episode feels like a loose, affectionate hang, with Amari folded into the hosts' jokes and mock family dynamic. The film set talk is the strongest stretch: the on-location rehearsals, the hair and costume changes, the background actors in makeup, and the way the vampire and…

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Don't Be Weird About Holy Matrimony

    Sep 9, 2026·54m
  2. 2

    Don't Be Weird About Crime

    Aug 27, 2026·1h 3m
  3. 3

    Don't Be Weird About Beyoncé vs. Taylor Swift

    Jul 29, 2026·1h 6m
  4. 4

    Don't Be Weird About Travel

    Jul 15, 2026·1h 8m
  5. 5

    Don't Be Weird About the Big Summer Blowout

    Jun 3, 2026·1h 7m
  6. 6

    Don't Be Weird About New York City

    May 27, 2026·1h
  7. 7

    Don't Be Weird About Field Trips

    May 20, 2026·53m
  8. 8

    Don't Be Weird About Lululemon

    May 13, 2026·59m
  9. 9

    Don't Be Weird About the NFL

    May 6, 2026·1h 9m
  10. 10

    Don't Be Weird About Nerding Out

    It opens on glasses and contacts.

    Apr 15, 2026·1h·4 clips
  11. 11

    Don't Be Weird About Eli On Mic

    The episode kicks off with a burst of relief.

    Apr 8, 2026·1h 4m·4 clips
  12. 12

    Don't Be Weird About Dating

    Hidden gem

    Maggie and Bailey open by roasting the men in the room and treating women's month like a standing complaint line.

    Apr 1, 2026·1h 10m·5 clips
  13. 13

    Don't Be Weird About Multiple Horrors

    Hidden gem

    The episode opens with a cleaner, more polished setup.

    Mar 25, 2026·1h 6m·5 clips
  14. 14

    Don't Be Weird About Girlhood

    Two friends banter about a new pilates studio offering spray tans in their hometown and introduce their podcast's 'don't be weird' attitude.

    Mar 18, 2026·1h 7m
  15. 15

    Don't Be Weird About Wuthering Heights on Ice

    Mar 11, 2026·1h 4m
  16. 16

    Don't Be Weird About Superbowls & Sinners

    Hidden gem

    Maggie and Bailey pull Amari into the conversation right away and keep leaning into the running joke that they call her their daughter.

    Mar 4, 2026·1h 16m·2 clips
  17. 17

    Don't Be Weird About Jeffrey Keller

    Feb 25, 2026·1h 11m
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    Don't Be Weird About Being Basic

    Feb 18, 2026·1h 5m
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    Don't Be Weird About 2016

    Bailey and Aggie discuss the recent trend of romanticizing 2016 and how social media has changed self-awareness.

    Feb 11, 2026·1h 5m
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    Don't Be Weird About Workouts

    Feb 4, 2026·1h 7m
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    Don't Be Weird About Films

    Jan 21, 2026·55m
  22. 22

    Don't Be Weird About New Year's

    Maggie and Bailey discuss their New Year's resolutions for 2026, including growing their podcast and sitting courtside at an NBA game.

    Dec 31, 2025·58m
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    Don't Be Weird About Christmas

    Dec 24, 2025·1h
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    Don't Be Weird About Romantasy

    Dec 17, 2025·1h 7m
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    Don't Be Weird About Sisters

    Dec 10, 2025·1h 5m
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    Don't Be Weird About Boozy Brunch

    Dec 3, 2025·46m
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    Don't Be Weird About Parades

    Maggie and Bailey do vocal warm-ups and discuss being weird about parades.

    Nov 26, 2025·39m
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    Don't Be Weird About Meeting Us

    Two friends, Maggie and Bailey, introduce themselves and recount how they met through a mutual gay friend in high school.

    Nov 18, 2025·33m