Cozy Zone

Every week, Comfort Zone co-hosts Christopher Lawley, Matt Birchler, and Niléane hang out in their Cozy Zone for exclusive bonus episodes — diving into extra topics, wilder challenges and games, and their best (and worst) takes on tech and beyond.

The Great Star Wars Quotes Quiz 07/13/2026

The Great Star Wars Quotes Quiz Niléane has concocted a quiz for the boys. Can you name the character and the show or movie in which it was said? Will Chris absolutely dominate? Can Matt pull off the upset of the century? Can you do better than both of them??? /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/42056630

Our Development Workflows & Advice 07/06/2026

Our Development Workflows & Advice In today's episode, the gang discusses what sort of advice they'd have for new developers and what their development workflows look like. /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41973710

Tier Listing the Biggest iPhone Features 06/29/2026

Tier Listing the Biggest iPhone Features Made with the lovely . Check out the final tier list and remix it on your own as well: /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41861115

Check Out Niléane's New Workspace 06/22/2026

Check Out Niléane's New Workspace /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41717625

Our Second Top 3 Apps 06/15/2026

Our Second Top 3 Apps In episode 94 of the main show, we talked about what 3 apps we would isntall on our Macs if that's all we could get. This time, we get into what we'd install if we were gifted 3 more apps. /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41617055

Roasting (and Tiering) Your Old Home Screens 06/08/2026

Roasting (and Tiering) Your Old Home Screens Video version here: Final list here: /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41571805

The Google Graveyard Tier List 06/01/2026

The Google Graveyard Tier List This tier list is also a quiz! Niléane had the boys guess dead Google apps from their icons alone and then rank them. Video version here: /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41492100

Our WWDC Predictions 05/25/2026

Our WWDC Predictions The gang makes their very realistic(ish) predictions for WWDC. Just 2 weeks away! /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41409665

Tier Listing F1 Liveries 05/18/2026

Tier Listing F1 Liveries I don't know if you've heard, but Chris and Matt love Formula 1. /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41330785

Roasting Your Old Home Screens 05/11/2026

Roasting Your Old Home Screens /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41214915

Defend Your macOS Dock 05/04/2026

Defend Your macOS Dock This week the gang takes turns walking through their macOS docks, sharing the apps they keep within reach and bickering about everything from web browser counts to whether badges on email apps are a war crime. /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41135410

Tier Listing Olympic Logos from the 2000s 04/27/2026

Tier Listing Olympic Logos from the 2000s We tier-listed all the Olympics logos from 2000 through 2034 (yes, 2034!). Video version here: Tier list website: /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/41022635

Tier Listing macOS Wallpapers 04/20/2026

Tier Listing macOS Wallpapers In this members-only episode, we tier list all the default macOS wallpapers. As always with these lists, we learn some things (including some disturbing things) about everyone in this episode. This does have as well, but each chapter has its own artowrk so you can listen and follow along in audio. /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40898310

Le Code de la Route 🇫🇷 04/13/2026

Le Code de la Route 🇫🇷 Niléane gets her revenge, teaching the boys the rules of the road in France. Some call it a more civilized society, but those people are not Chris. Matt's on the fence. YouTube link here (we didn't forget this time!) /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40779490

Roasting our 10-year-old home screens 04/06/2026

Roasting our 10-year-old home screens All screenshots are below, and they're also the chapter art, if you podcast app suppors those. /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40739915

48 YouTube Channels You Should Follow 03/30/2026

48 YouTube Channels You Should Follow Video version: /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40659790

How We All do Backups 03/23/2026

How We All do Backups The gang discusses how they each do backups, and they range from "I used to do this professionally" to "what's a backup?". . /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40573165

Teaching Niléane The REAL rules of the Road 03/16/2026

Teaching Niléane The REAL rules of the Road Chris and Matt have some…let's just say "questionable" rules of the road to teach Niléane for her driver's exam. It's nice to have helpful friends 🫶🏻 /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40402585

We Tier List Non-Apple App Icons 03/09/2026

We Tier List Non-Apple App Icons We challenged ourselves to rank a bunch of Mac icons, separating our feelings on the apps from their icons (it was harder than we expected). /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40310050

We Play Geoguessr 03/02/2026

We Play Geoguessr We all played co-op, and did…kind of amazing???? There is a video version of this one as well /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40271510

We Finsh(?) Roasting Your Home Screens 02/23/2026

We Finsh(?) Roasting Your Home Screens Maybe we'll be back one day to roast some more… /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40202890

A World Without Apple 02/16/2026

A World Without Apple The gang discusses what life would be like if they suddenly couldn't use any Apple products. Coincidentally, did this topic as well recently, but we swear we recorded ours first! /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40124115

Chris's Glow Up 02/09/2026

Chris's Glow Up It's rebrand time! /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/40000140

Star Wars Tier List 02/02/2026

Star Wars Tier List We tier listed all of the Star Wars movies and TV shows. Surely, none of that will be controversial. SPOILERS: here's the final rankings, in case you can't see chapter art in your podcast app. /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/39950505

iPad Tier List 01/26/2026

iPad Tier List It's Chris's time to shine in a tier list episode! This week, we're tiering out iPads! , if you'd prefer to watch. Spoilers: the final rankings will be in the chapter art at the end, or . /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/39862150

Where is Everybody? 01/22/2026

Where is Everybody? Matt's on his own for this one, as Chris and Niléane managed to both get sick at the same time. Fear not, we get to rant and rave about the latest "Xbox"! This week's Cozy Zone, we roast each other's backpacks. One's all black, one's is full of color, and the other is just a mess! Want more from the gang? Cozy Zone is a bonus podcast every Monday where we let loose on all sorts of fun topics. You can get cozy with the Comfort Zone crew for just or , which not only makes the bonus episodes possible, but supports Comfort Zone, too. How would you have done our challenges? How would you answer the question at the end of the show? ! Main topics Follow the Hosts /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/39819370

Roasting Our Own Bags 01/19/2026

Roasting Our Own Bags What does the gang's everyday bags look like? Whose bag is most put together? Whose makes them look most like a serial killer? All will be answered in this episode. /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/39727340

We Roast More of Your Home Screens 01/12/2026

We Roast More of Your Home Screens We're still looking for more, so if you want to get roasted next! /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/39667380

Our tech white whales 01/05/2026

Our tech white whales If money was no object, what tech would we add to our lives? As you may expect, this goes off a rails in the second half… /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/39590700

The Messy Business of Paying Musicians 12/29/2025

The Messy Business of Paying Musicians /episode/index/show/2d22fe55-4401-4b19-95b1-f9d06c5fbf29/id/39545080

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