401: Brent Haken—A Farmer is Fixing it

The workforce participation rate that is.  The number of able-bodied men choosing not to work is a crisis, and Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Ins...

18 Okt 20221h 2min

New York Times bestselling author Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career. She has been writing all her adult life. In fact, she doesn't know how not t...

14 Okt 20221h 15min

It's a classic catch-up with mom that starts with a dramatic reading of her viral short story Old Blue, becomes an announcement that her third New York Times bestseller Vacuuming in the Nude will be a...

11 Okt 20221h 16min

The lifelong environmentalist and one-time California gubernatorial candidate talks about the current energy crisis, climate narcissism, and how what's good for the climate is not necessarily good for...

4 Okt 20221h 27min

Today's episode honors the man who unwittingly inspired Mike's career by inventing the first flushable commode, Mike shares a David Sedaris story about a turd that won't flush titled Big Boy then, in ...

26 Sep 20221h 3min

For half a dozen years Chuck has been trying to introduce Mike to Peabody Award winning actor, Nick Searcy who is best known for playing Chief Deputy U.S. Marshall Art Mullen on the FX series Justifie...

20 Sep 20221h 12min

Journalist Salena Zito keeps the conversation lively by dissecting the student loan forgiveness act, the lost notes of Baptist churches, moonshine coal, and her obsession with Fiestaware.

13 Sep 20221h 14min

They say you can't judge a book by its cover and that is certainly true with this week's special Labor Day episode. It begins with a true story written by Mike about a particularly industrious Dirty ...

5 Sep 20221h 13min