In Moderation

Jaksot

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  We Try To Make It Dumber And Weirder 17.09.2026 37min

  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 ...
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  The Fitness Industry’s Anger Problem 10.09.2026 58min

  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...
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  Rocky XVI - Peaches Gets Creamed 03.09.2026 35min

  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...
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  Emotional Eating Explained 27.08.2026 57min

  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...
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  This Is Not The Greatest Podcast In The World, This Is Just A Tribute 20.08.2026 25min

  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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  Consistency Beats Perfect 30.07.2026 55min

  A DeLorean window that opens like a prison food slot somehow turns into one of the most honest conversations we’ve had about sustainable weight loss, running, and what actually keeps you going when motivation disappears. We’re joined by Tracy, one of Mike’s students, who shares how she’s down around 70 pounds, recently got certified as a running coach, and is training for a half marathon after dealing with serious heart issues. The headline isn’t “a perfect plan.” It’s the decision to keep sh...
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  Poop Lettuce And Shopping For A DeLorean 23.07.2026 59min

  People are getting sick, the internet is panicking, and somehow we end up arguing about whether “poop lettuce” can put out a fire. We start with the Cyclospora outbreak chatter and the uncomfortable truth about food safety: outbreaks are real, tracing contamination is slow, and a single headline like “false positive” doesn’t magically erase risk. If you care about public health, FDA oversight, supply chains, and why fast-moving stories get distorted online, you’ll feel the tension immediately...
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  How To Eat More Beans Without Hating It 16.07.2026 50min

  Beans are cheap, filling, and weirdly controversial, and that’s exactly why we wanted bean.supporter on the show. She’s a bean recipe developer who’s built a whole online identity around getting more people to eat legumes, not by selling perfection, but by telling the truth about what works. We talk about how beans helped her through real-life health issues, why a 30-day only-beans challenge sparked her creativity, and what she learned from watching the internet react to fiber like it’s a hor...
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  Alone In My Childhood Bedroom 09.07.2026 10min

  You ever hit that point where you don’t want productivity, progress, or another plan you just want sleep? We’re in that place tonight, and we say the quiet parts out loud: the exhaustion after an emotional week, the loneliness that shows up when family leaves, and the weird way your brain starts rummaging through childhood memories like it’s searching for proof you used to feel safe. We walk through what it’s like to end up back where you started, right down to remembering a loft bed, ...
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  Laughing At Food Fear 02.07.2026 58min

  Fear sells faster than facts, and nutrition misinformation knows it. We start this one in near-whisper mode and immediately slide into the kind of internet chaos that makes health grifters thrive: vague “toxic ingredient” warnings, anxiety-driven shopping, and the constant hunt for something to blame. We talk about why that fear-based marketing works so well, how it shows up in fitness influencer culture, and the difference between someone showing you a genuinely useful product versus someone...
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  I Refuse To Be A Fitness Influencer 25.06.2026 38min

  The fitness internet is getting louder, meaner, and weirder, and it’s exhausting. Today Mike flies solo and says the quiet part out loud: platforms don’t reward the most helpful coach, they reward the most shareable fear. If your feed is full of seed oil panic, sunscreen paranoia, “miracle” peptides, and comment-section cruelty, you’re not imagining the shift. We talk through what that does to real people trying to lose weight or get in shape, especially beginners who already feel exposed. M...
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  You Will Not Outsmart Your Diet With More Gym Time 18.06.2026 1t 4min

  You can train hard, sweat daily, and still feel stuck, and the frustrating part is you might be doing everything “right” except the one lever that moves the fastest: nutrition. We sit down with Jackson Jen, tech builder and entrepreneur (yes, including Cameo), to unpack the turning point that took him from “lifting with no results” to visible abs in months, without changing the workout plan. The conversation stays grounded in the stuff that actually works: calorie tracking, protein targets, c...
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  We Somehow Turn A Vasectomy Into Duct Tape DeLoreans 11.06.2026 46min

  A vasectomy is supposed to be simple. So why does it sometimes turn into ice packs, nausea, and that unmistakable “my body is rejecting this” feeling? We get candid about what the snip can feel like in real life, including the vasovagal reaction some people get with blood, needles, and certain sensations. It’s funny, but it’s also practical: what to expect, what’s normal, and why it can still be 100% worth it even if you hated the experience. From there we chase the thread into nitrous...
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  Autism And Dating Without The Script 04.06.2026 42min

  “Meh” can be the most honest answer you give all week, and we start there, with a messy check in that turns into a surprisingly practical talk about mental health. We unpack why you cannot eliminate grief, stress, or depression, and why the real win is shortening the turnaround time, building habits that help you come back faster, and remembering to text the people you love before things get heavy. From that foundation, we shift into neurodivergence and autism spectrum reality without the ti...
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  Coffee Nerds Unite 28.05.2026 58min

  Ring lights make us irrationally angry, and somehow that turns into a full-blown deep dive on coffee science, coffee myths, and why the internet can’t stop being weird about both. We’re joined by Han (Son Of Han Coffee), and what starts as a sponsor shout-out quickly becomes the kind of practical coffee talk we wish more people had: how roast level changes flavor, why “I hate coffee” often means “I’ve only had burnt dark roast,” and what actually makes a bag of beans worth the price. We get ...
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  Stop Trying To Be Liked And Start Being Yourself 21.05.2026 58min

  We start with a dumb question that turns into a real one: what happens when you stop trying to be impressive and just become yourself, fully and loudly? Between the bean jokes, the made-up “wordologist” vocabulary, and a quick detour through conspiracies, our guest Gyrodactyl (Garrett) lays out a simple personal development framework that actually sticks: if something about you bothers you, either change it or learn to love it. That sounds harsh until you realize it is also freeing, because i...
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  The Long Game 14.05.2026 53min

  A 155-pound weight loss doesn’t happen because you “finally got disciplined.” It happens when you build a system you can live with on your worst Tuesday, not your best Monday. We sit down with our friend Nolan Taylor (briefly rebranded as Nolan DeLorean) to talk through the unglamorous, repeatable steps that took him from nearly 400 pounds to the low 200s and into a new phase of chasing performance and body fat percentage goals. Nolan breaks down the real timeline: years of posting workouts ...
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  Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Please Come On The Podcast 07.05.2026 37min

  A ring light complaint turns into a surprisingly honest question: are people listening to podcasts for the ideas, or watching for the performance? We kick things off by messing with each other about audio vs YouTube, then swap real podcast recommendations, from Conan-style comedy interviews to darker history shows that dig into what you never learned in school. It’s light, it’s unserious, and it’s exactly how a hangout conversation should feel right before it isn’t. The mood shifts har...
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  The Drug League 30.04.2026 37min

  One random bump on your body can turn into a full mental spiral, and we start right there: the weird mix of health anxiety, gallows humor, and the reality that American healthcare costs can feel like a coin flip. When the “best plan” is comparing lumps and hoping you don’t need a GoFundMe for medical bills, it says a lot about the system and about what we’ve normalized. We also poke at how politics has gotten so surreal that you can say almost anything and it sounds plausible, which sets the ...
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  What If Masculinity Looked Like Care 23.04.2026 51min

  The internet can watch two people eat the same thing and hand out two completely different verdicts. One gets “icon” and “girl dinner.” The other gets called disgusting, lazy, and doomed. We start there, with the weird psychology of viral eating content, the shame spiral it can trigger, and why a donut and matcha can somehow become a public trial when the person holding it is overweight. Then we bring on Joey T Fitness (Joe Douglas), a creator who stitches misinformation for a living and sti...