A defence of the pastoral lifestyle and also the barbacoan lifestyle. Also: your gut health and soda, thunder v swamp, grudgingly handing it to the Knicks, and 10 mpg(ame).
Links: Musicology Duck’s reflecting pool · The Double Pivot · Sickos Committee
Episode 60 - Smoothgroins, Smoothbrains
06/09/2026 | 1h 10 mins.
Unfortunately additional Maine. Then: a bit of fish and the Intercept Cinematic Universe.
Episode 59 - The TeXrrible SecreXt of SpaceX
06/03/2026 | 1h 39 mins.
A Very Special SpaceX Episode with Quantian (@quantian) and ESGHound (@esghound)! Come for the S-1, stay for the physics. Contains not even homeopathic levels of investment advice.
Links: Ann Lipton, "No Votes, No Sales, No Suits" · our earlier space ep with Normal astrophysicist Mike Boylan-Kolchin, We Are All Made of Starmusk.
Episode 58 - The Pope Should Wear Air Monarchs
05/30/2026 | 2h 1 mins.
Lots of tech, somewhat more Pope than usual, and a well-conceived 2028 Presidential Democratic contender tier list that will never embarrass any of us in any way. Plus Jack White's upholstery era and Stephen Colbert.
Episode 57 - Bracketology
05/15/2026 | 1h 43 mins.
Patrick Wyman joins the Normal Men to talk dirty soda, apartment deposits we definitely did not get back, the only bracket that matters, 1619 and its descendants, and sharp little lads.
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