In Moderation

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We Try To Make It Dumber And Weirder

2026-09-1737:12

We take a hard left into news and politics, using Canada’s EU chatter as a springboard to trade lanes, travel freedoms, and why U.S. policy choices can feel like they’re powered by ego and spite instead of outcomes. We also get into PFAS forever chemicals and environmental rollbacks, not as a textbook explanation but as a gut-check conversation about incentives, misinformation, and how fear sells online. If you care about media literacy, science communication, and why people keep falling for ...

The Fitness Industry’s Anger Problem

2026-09-1058:35

The fitness internet has a weird addiction to cruelty, and it’s messing with people who are genuinely trying to get healthier. We sit down with coach and creator James Coppola to talk about the “concern trolling” DMs, the hate comments that don’t even make sense, and why performative outrage online isn’t the same thing as punching down. We also get honest about the difference between being blunt and being a bully, and why the loudest voices often have the least useful advice. From steroid cu...

Rocky XVI - Peaches Gets Creamed

2026-09-0335:14

If you’ve ever argued with friends about “how many sequels” a franchise really has, you already know the problem: counting is easy, defining is hard. We start with movie math and quickly realize the only way to make the question interesting is to set rules. No reboots, no recasts that reset the timeline, and no loosely connected “brand” entries. We’re chasing direct sequels with continuity, where one story actually leads into the next. That sends us through the sequel jungle: the Marvel Cine...

Emotional Eating Explained

2026-08-2757:23

I tried recreating my old McDonald’s order from my heaviest days and the number was wild: roughly 5,000 calories in what used to feel like a “normal” day of eating. But the most important part wasn’t the calorie math or the fast food breakdown. It was the reason I always bought two of everything: a real, irrational fear that I’d run out of food and the comfort would end. That’s emotional eating in plain English, and we pull the thread on how routines, familiarity, and anxiety can drive overea...

This Is Not The Greatest Podcast In The World, This Is Just A Tribute

2026-08-2025:47

Last week’s show was “the greatest podcasting that’s ever been,” and you definitely missed it, so we decided to do the only reasonable thing: make a tribute and then immediately derail it. What starts as a joke about exclusivity turns into a full-on philosophy of “equal inopportunity” where nobody gets in, everyone is equally rejected, and reclusivity becomes a lifestyle choice we pretend is a movement. From there we bounce through the weird ways pop culture rewires our brains, including the...

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