About this podcast
Normal Men is four guys talking about the news. We want to help explain what’s happening in the world around us and have some laughs along the way. And we think you might enjoy hearing what we have to say, as long as you don’t mind a bit of normalcy in a world without much of it.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 79 episodes
- Episode 79 - Rational Exuberance · 1 h 15 min · Episode 91Election predictions, with a normal degree of confidence. Plus: pumpkins, cheesecake, Utah.George's North Carolina early-vote trackerVotecaster: George's election-night Senate…
- Episode 78 - A Particular Set Of Skills · 1 h 37 min · Episode 89College football acts normal. Ed reveals the Hobby Acquisition Algorithm. Also: some random memories and the semiconductor industry's toilet problem. Then: butts.Show notes…
- Episode 77 - Placeholder Topic · 1 h 28 min · Episode 87Grab bag (contains at least one Politics, probably an Econ). Canada has the water. We have some ideas about staffing.Airline reporter mentioned on the show: @wanderme.paxex.aero.
- Episode 76 - Mods! Mods! · 1 h 20 min · Episode 85Ugarles joins us to talk meats, football, and SCOTUS. Alito has grievances, Roberts has neighbors, and retiring at the right time turns out to be part of the job. Plus: major…
- Episode 75 - Hectoring Achilles · 1 h 23 min · Episode 83This is a normal amount to think about an Idaho Senate race, I don't know what you're talking about.Donate to Todd Achilles’s campaign.
- Episode 74 - Songs in the Key of Me · 1 h 26 min · Episode 81Musicology Duck returns with a unifying theory of Trump's inner playlist! Also: architecture in the DMV, midterm polling, and diesel prices. Follow Musicology Duck.
- Episode 73 - Less Than Normal · 1 h 21 min · Episode 79Why every enterprise open-weight model is bad, digging holes in your yard, consumer AI and warfare, the Amodei Pause, capex math, and dayenu on the models. Lowtax turns up late…
- Episode 72 - Yr Beatdown Sommelier · 1 h 16 min · Episode 77This week: leatherwork. Ed tries on a harness, George does some shoe-leather reporting, and we kick around the ol' pigskin. Also: an old coinage, and a departure reviewed. Links…
- Episode 71 - Thirst Traps · 1 h 40 min · Episode 75This week: the Lake Effect and CBC comes packing. The Men investigate pheromone-maxxing, chicken-tender nation, and (unfortunately) data centers. Links: Shiv Ramdas's Rice Truck…
- Episode 70 - Harps and Minds · 1 h 23 min · Episode 73This week: a brief exploration of comparative religion and the lost art of letter-writing. George teaches us about USMCA and les dangers du Québec. Ed thinks they should cut the…
- Episode 69 - Take Sennett · 1 h 17 min · Episode 71the Ed-less Men tackle the state of the Senate states. Buckle up, it's the preseason!
- Episode 68 - I See Sea People · 1 h 19 min · Episode 69Down one normal man and up one provisionally normal historian: Bret Devereaux joins to discuss Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, and we make it about twenty minutes before the Late…
- Episode 67 - Getting Defensive · 1 h 29 min · Episode 67Mike Black joins the Men for a wide-ranging conversation about mostly the NDAA. Authorized and appropriate at all times.
- Episode 66 - Nolan, Diarrhea, And Antitrust · 1 h 24 min · Episode 65Improv episode after Glonzo ate our guest's internet connection. Three thousand words about lettuce, Nolan does Homer, Troy in Maine, and Taco Bell totally exonerated. Then: some…
- Episode 65 - Deliberative Bodies · 1 h 19 min · Episode 63Lindsey Graham and the McConnell succession watch. Brazil's World Cup exit gets blamed on Protestantism. Count Binface takes the fight to Clacton. Michigan's Senate proxy war…
- Episode 64 - Happy Birthday to US! · 1 h 26 min · Episode 61Some futbol, moderate arborism, the fast road to Argentina, and Eurovision. 250 years and Normal as ever. Show notes:Mexico 2–3 England at the Azteca (match report)The cherry…
- Episode 63 - Thermal Shock Doctrine · 1 h 35 min · Episode 59The normal men get hot and bothered, fix what's wrong with NYC politics, are gone to look for America, and contemplate an unwise conflict that expects too much of the Curds. A…
- Episode 62 - Thinking Like Bad People · 1 h 41 min · Episode 57Come take a mind-safari with us to Beirut, Manchester, and West Palm Beach. Plus: tilling the GOP 2028 field way too early.
- Episode 61 - Transatlantischism · 1 h 6 min · Episode 55A 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)…
- Episode 60 - Smoothgroins, Smoothbrains · 1 h 10 min · Episode 53Unfortunately additional Maine. Then: a bit of fish and the Intercept Cinematic Universe.
