Podcast
Normal Men
Hosted by George Pearkes · EN
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.
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Episode 65 - Deliberative Bodies
2w ago01:19:27Tap to summarizeLindsey 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, and how Graham Platner actually got out of Maine. Links: the Institute for Hispano Studies, the hand dryer at the Crown and Treaty, and Allagash, Maine.
Transcribe →Episode 64 - Happy Birthday to US!
3w ago01:26:49Tap to summarizeSome 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 trees and the golf course Trump confirms he asked FIFA to review Balogun's red card Balogun: born American by accident Canada joins Eurovision Frederick Douglass, “Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country” (1847) Albion's Seed Groverhaus
Transcribe →Episode 63 - Thermal Shock Doctrine
4w ago01:35:34Tap to summarizeThe 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 well-insulated episode.
Transcribe →Episode 62 - Thinking Like Bad People
Jun 2601:41:37Tap to summarizeCome take a mind-safari with us to Beirut, Manchester, and West Palm Beach. Plus: tilling the GOP 2028 field way too early.
Transcribe →Episode 61 - Transatlantischism
Jun 1701:06:01Tap to summarizeA 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
Transcribe →Episode 60 - Smoothgroins, Smoothbrains
Jun 901:10:09Tap to summarizeUnfortunately additional Maine. Then: a bit of fish and the Intercept Cinematic Universe.
Transcribe →Episode 59 - The TeXrrible SecreXt of SpaceX
Jun 301:39:14Tap to summarizeA 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.
Transcribe →Episode 58 - The Pope Should Wear Air Monarchs
May 3002:01:20Tap to summarizeLots 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.
Transcribe →Episode 57 - Bracketology
May 1501:43:56Tap to summarizePatrick 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.
Transcribe →Episode 56 - Bottom Feeders
May 601:49:42Tap to summarizeThe Men get chippy, Fed up, car talk, Giuliani hantavirus and other pathogens, Graham crackers and some states that are probably in the Midwest, and the AI capex bubble (?).
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