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Dr. Stacy Sims: Fasting, Protein, and Lifting Heavy for Women

Women are not small men. Most of the fasting, training, and recovery advice women follow was built on research in men. Dr. Stacy Sims has spent her career correcting that

For Better or Worse: Lab-Grown Meat vs. Regenerative Beef

Every domestic cow alive today traces back to roughly 80 wild aurochs. Now a newer version of the cow is being grown in steel tanks, with no cow at all. In this episode,

Plastic, MAHA, and a New Congress with Chef Johanna Hellrigl

Voters just sent Washington a message. Chef Johanna Hellrigl will be watching what happens next from four blocks away. Johanna is a James Beard semifinalist, food-system

Big Boys Do Cry: A Final Word on Fatherhood

“I guess big boys do cry.” Jeff’s daughter Lolli said this after he collapsed onto her bed in a full, pillow-drenching sob while his father was fighting colon cancer.In t

Don’t Trust the Experts? Media, Big Pharma, and Real Skepticism

Somewhere between “trust no one” and “trust the experts” is a harder and more honest position. In this episode, Jeff looks at the two sides of a growing cultural standoff

Is Telepathy Real? Dr. Rupert Sheldrake on the Science of Connection

Have you ever thought of someone right before they called? Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake says that's not a coincidence. In this episode, Jeff sits down with Rupert Shel

My Father’s Feet: Jazz, Hospice & Saying Goodbye to My Dad

For twenty years, Jeff’s father wore a pinstriped Brooks Brothers suit every day, riding the Metro-North from Connecticut to an office on 45th and First. Somewhere in tha

Can AI Be Your Nutritionist? GLP-1s and Weight Health with Ashley Koff

Every bad thing you’ve heard about GLP-1s may be true, and so is everything you’ve been told about calories in, calories out. Ashley Koff says both miss the real problem.

Late for Pickup: Watching Lolli Dance Alone to Debussy (Dispatch 19)

Running late to pick Lolli up from dance rehearsal, Jeff arrives to find the studio empty except for his daughter, dancing alone to Debussy's Rêverie. Instead of going in

Why You Keep Dating the Same Person with Sabrina Zohar

At 25, Sabrina Zohar sent a man she barely knew 173 unanswered text messages from a friend's bathroom floor. Years later, she realized she was never in love with him. She

Christmess: The Morning I Learned My Mother Was Leaving (Dispatch 18)

"Well, if you're going to leave in June anyways, you might as well leave now!" Thirteen-year-old Jeff heard it from the stairs on Christmas morning, with his little broth

Zach Bush on AI, Death and Biological Elegance

When Jeff's father entered hospice, Jeff showed up with a plan to fix him. What actually healed them was jazz, touch, and surrender. In this episode, recorded live at The

Dad, I Got My Period: Getting a Little Better at Fatherhood (Dispatch 17)

The first rule of the dance studio parking lot: always yield to the minivan. Hell hath no fury like a dance mom scorned.In this episode, Jeff plays a round of Frogger thr

Love Is Freedom: Yung Pueblo on Lasting Relationships

What if love isn't about sacrifice and limitation, but is actually the thing that sets you free? In this episode, Jeff sits down with Diego Perez, the #1 New York Times

A Steady Hand on the Wheel: What My Daughter Taught Me About Safety (Dispatch 16)

Jeff Krasno spent years driving his family through the most terrifying stretch of I-95 there is: the dark part after New Haven. His daughter remembers it as the safest sh

Why Your Body Feels Like a Dead Battery with Wade Lightheart

Every cell in your body holds an electrical charge, and Wade Lightheart says most of the fatigue, pain, and brain fog people chalk up to aging is really a battery running

Thirty Years, Three Words: Our Marriage Finds Its Way Back to Paris (Dispatch 15)

Jeff doesn't say "I love you" often. When he finally does, on a bridge in Paris thirty years after he and Schuyler first fell for the city — and each other — her face tel

How Kids Learn to Trust, with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau turns this conversation with Jeff into a question most of us don't ask directly: what do we actually pass down to our kids, and what can we choose

The Blue Door: A Paris Street Party I Could Never Find Again (Dispatch 14)

Jet-lagged and wandering solo through Paris's Latin Quarter, Jeff slips through an unmarked blue door and stumbles into a hidden courtyard mid street-party — wine, a stra

Michael Pollan on Consciousness, AI, and the Self

Can artificial intelligence ever be conscious? Michael Pollan says no, and at the Harvest Series in Kaplankaya, he lays out exactly why, starting with what he calls a fau