Claim OwnershipNormal Men
Subscribed: 23Played: 583
Subscribe
© Copyright 2025
Description
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.
47 Episodes
Reverse
Propter's smart home journey goes sideways. Dogs: better evolved than us? The AI chip crisis hits gaming. The Jones Act and the art of the subsidy. Iran, oil, and who benefits. East Coast braces for snow. State shapes are wrong. And maybe log off for a bit.
Just desserts, DHS shutdown and caucus integrity, the future of B2B and internal tooling, and the Yakuza games.
Normal Astrophysicist Mike Boylan-Kolchin (@mbkplus.bsky.social) joins us to talk about the terrible secret of space and the Lone Star State. Also: black olives on tacos, Love Da Seahawks, and Jeff Bezos has some explaining to do.
Normal Woman skelly (@iid.bsky.social) joins us from France to talk about- well, the plan was to talk about the American expat experience in Europe during Trump II but actually it wound up being mostly about comparative educational structure. we hope you like it.
also: Texas Toast (Republican State Senate edition), handicapping 2026, Fed Warsh, Epstein and the shallow bench of evil.
ED NOTE: we are unbleeped compared to our usual because Ed is working very hard and is gassed this week. please be nice to Ed if you see him.
Speculative fiction, moderation at scale, radicalization at scale, parenting at low-scale, and turophile priorities with Theophite.
On dogs, football, Blorth Carolina, the spirit of the cities, Chipotle, why you should care about Claude Code, adventures in transatlanticism, and the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ms. Malone and Ms. Speedrun-Enjoyer stop by to explain the appeal of murder. Also, we talk about the Horrors foreign and domestic.
The Normal Men talk college football, Venezuelan stabs, and what genAI won't do for you.
Goodbye to 2025! The Normal Men talk food, travel, optimism, and dating.
The Normal Men dive into appellate immigration strategy and the Battle of Chicago with Mark Fleming of National Immigrant Justice Center. Also, stroads and the modern authoritarian; primary ethics and efficiency.
National Immigrant Justice Center: https://immigrantjustice.org/
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights: https://www.icirr.org/
Organized Communities Against Deportation: https://www.organizedcommunities.org/
We interview Mike Sacks, who is running for Congress in NY-17; people are doing more mass shootings; Propter sounds robotic; and what is truth, really?
Mike Sacks (https://bsky.app/profile/mikesacks.bsky.social) is running for Congress in the New York's Fightin' Seventeenth: (https://bsky.app/profile/mikesacks.bsky.social/post/3lmev4vf4hc2n)
Learn more here: https://www.mikesacksforcongress.com/
Give his campaign money here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mike-sacks-donate
Early corvid scholarship by Mr Sacks: https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/cb488d23-ab03-42be-994b-1fe5b2054038
An AI-generated video of a crow sledding on a frisbee: https://www.facebook.com/reel/864322122972412
Infant diction, Noted Underdogs Duke, birthright citizenship, c-c-c-cocaine, coffee: black.
Norwegian outreach: https://bsky.app/profile/norwayinusa.norway.no/post/3m4bcalmg7s2u
Coffee, black: https://bsky.app/profile/bmhughes.bsky.social/post/3m6wc33skm22z
The majesty and the mystery of Lane Kiffin, what on earth is up with oil, war crimes in your war crimes, and optimism in Tennessee.
Talking turkey, taking questions, slandering yams, and giving thanks with distinguished alumnus golikehellmachine.
Green energy and touring finances with Jael Holzman of Heatmap and Ekko Astral (@jael.bsky.social), the Epstein Files, and Peak Trump.
listen to Horse Glue by Ekko Astral here: https://ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/horseglue
and submit questions for mailbag here: https://golikehellmachine.com/2025/11/16/thanksgiving-mailbag/
Normal Man Haydon (@haydonmp.bsky.social) joins us to talk about strokes and those who may have had them! In addition to that premortem, shutdown perimortem and election postmortem.
Truck Talk returns with harsh words for Stellantis, SNAP impact discussion (human edition not macro edition), and just-in-time election previews (at 43:50).
please help some people out at:
https://teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/7634
Prof. Liz Sepper joins us to talk state of play on reproductive rights (remember those?), we do the needful on Graham Platner, and the Trump Administration prepares to Thanos SNAP.
add'l reading:
Hospital system outcomes in Texas:
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-rates-dallas-houston
George's coffee table:
https://bittersoutherner.com/magazine
The incomparable Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) joins us to talk administrative burden, No Kings gets people in the streets, and there are hijinks in Argentina.
On the joys of travel, Chinese tariffs and mineral access, and appropriate appropriations.
Comments
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States