All Episodes

Tangent #120: Removed from your flight...midair

Tangent #119: Long pork

Tangent #118: A Kitchen with 12 Ovens

Tangent #117: Office Snacks and Working from Home w/Brandon Lien

Tangent #116: The Design Process w/Kevin Juhl

Tangent #115: Skydiving, Regulation, and Social Safety Nets

Tangent #114: Is math a model or a fundamental reality?

Tangent #113: Dateline, Chlorophyll, & Libertarian Obligations

Tangent #112: Am I being bamboozled?

Tangent #111: The Hostile AI Takeover?

Tangent #110: Not All Ad Hominems are Fallacies

Tangent #109: Mansplaining Surreal Moments

Tangent #108: Social Norms of Extroverts & Language Acquisition

Tangent #107: Foisted Fixations

Tangent #106: "Go Ahead and Send Them"

Tangent #105: Mental Health, Depression, and Suicide

Tangent #104: Honking Etiquette, Roadkill, and Car Swarms

Tangent #103: Insurance & Politics, of course!

Tangent #102: The Picts and Utopia w/Andy Moul

Tangent #101: A Podcast Podcast

Tangent #100: Benneth & Jackary, Vampire Grown-Ups

Tangent #99: Red Shift, Rock'n'Roll, and Redesigning Measurements of Student Aptitude

Tangent #98: Episodes since Major Recording Loss = 1

Tangent #97: The Flapping Cheek Meat

Tangent #96: Corvus, the Little Basket

Tangent #95: Transparency in Marketing w/Kevin Juhl

Tangent #94: The Weekends - Last, This, and Next

Tangent #93: If I were in charge w/Seth Chadwick

Tangent #92: Baboons, Borrowed Language, & Blackstone's Ratio

Tangent #91: The Person Holding some Papers

Tangent #90: Minced Meat Meat Pie

Tangent #89: Claustrophilia & Suspended Animation

Tangent #88: Caput & Coffins

Tangent #87: The Ends Justify the Means

Tangent #86: Why does coffee make you poop? & farm machine go vroom

Tangent #85: Lucid Dreams & Fascia Tissue w/Maggie Bowman

Tangent #84: Bond, Jim Bond

Tangent #83: First Responders & Law Enforcement w/Jesse Bowman

Tangent #82: Viscoelastic Fluids & Other Nonsense

Tangent #81: OUGH the Usual Duration

Tangent #80: The Florgensderf Case

Jack's Rants #1: Man Yells at Cloud

Tangent #79: Why do portals to other dimensions always spew terrifying creatures?

Tangent #78: The Theseus Paradox

Tangent #77: Multi-Purpose Careers

Tangent #76: Acoustics and Wave Propagation

Tangent #75: Speedrun from Curiosity to Viscera

Tangent #74: Infinity Paradoxes and Free-Market Employment

Tangent #73: Mullet Invasion w/Seth Chadwick

Tangent #72: Rewriting Education

Tangent #71: Sub-Prime Meridian

Tangent #70: Cyclopodestrian

Tangent #69: "Giggity"

Tangent #68: Treeweird w/Gurtej Bagga

Tangent #67: How to Hug Correctly w/Luke Moore

Tangent #66: The Grammar Police

Tangent #65: Energy, how does that work?

Tangent #64: Eight Squared a.k.a. Law & Order

Tangent #63: A Bonanza of Tangents

Tangent #62: Equipment Shredder Factories & Darth Vader's Battle T-Rex

Tangent #61: Eclectic Professors w/Matthew Hess

Tangent #60: Nudist Mammals, Wholly Water, and Staynear w/Kevin Juhl

Tangent #59: Human Intervention in the Food Chain

Tangent #58: Let's do some gort!

Tangent #57: "What is the difference between a sport and a game?"

Tangent #56: What do congress and murder have in common?

Tangent #55: Exploring the Unintuitive

Tangent #54: What is heaven like? w/JJ Harm

Tangent #53: What if humans were more like hummingbirds?

Tangent #52: Things which should be invented w/Andrew Lloyd

Tangent #51: Defining Things from Fast Food to Salad

Tangent #50: Food Delivery, Tips, and the Gig Economy w/Luke Palandech

Tangent #49: What if modern inventions didn't exist? w/Terry Koons

Tangent #48: Restroom Design Considerations w/Bob Bair

Tangent #47: Should you pay it forward?

Tangent #46: Jumping the Shark & Is breakfast cereal a chowder?

Tangent #45: Is the view worth the climb? w/Sam Sayles

Tangent #44: Driving Etiquette

Tangent #43 - Why is saying "no" so hard?

Season III, Episode 21: Twins, Content Creation, and Human Achievements w/Kabbod Alkhalil

Season III, Episode 20: Humans weren't meant for Modern Society & Technology

Season III, Episode 19: $120 Per Cubic Foot of Brie

Season III, Episode 18: Empirical Observation

Season III, Episode 17: How difficult is a hole-in-one?

Season III, Episode 16: Bababooey Burger vs. Double-Down

Season III, Episode 15: Vermilion & Albumen

Season III, Episode 14: Were ancient civilizations more advanced than we give them credit for? w/Andy Moul

Season III, Episode 13: Why do we find things beautiful? & Denying the Negative

Season III, Episode 12: Are worms bugs?

Season III, Episode 11: Figures of Speech or Idioms?

Season III, Episode 10: "Space Lawns & Skydiving"

Season III, Episode 9: "How old does a human need to be to survive on its own?"

Season III, Episode 8: The Unintended Consequences of Technology on Society

Season III, Episode 7: "What if all professions were like sports?" & Eggs

Season III, Episode 6: Workin' Hard or Hardly Workin'?

Season III, Episode 5: Ownership vs. Subscription vs. Transaction

Season III, Episode 4: "Why are humans fixated on keeping things the same?"

Season III, Episode 3: Polygamy

Season III, Episode 2: Memory Algebra, Genetic Mutation, and Human Uniqueness

Season III, Episode 1: I can't hear you over the fire

Season II, Episode 6: What is ranch and how did it become so popular?

Season II, Episode 5: Which college degrees are worth it? w/Luke Palandech

Season II, Episode 4: "Bad Holiday Traditions"

Season II, Episode 3: Strangers Who Greet You

Season II, Episode 2: Is "Are you okay with that?" a rhetorical question?

Season II, Episode 1: Do babies choose their traits?

Season I, Episode 15: The Finale

Season I, Episode 14: An Eclectic Mix

Season I, Episode 13: Does Atheism lead to Nihilism?

Season I, Episode 12: Heart Consciousness & Redneck Tales

Season I, Episode 11: Regional Terms & Linguistics

Season I, Episode 10: Why are napkins usually square?

Season I, Episode 9: Are people good?

Season I, Episode 8: More Bicycling Adventures

Season I, Episode 7: Great American Bicycle Adventures

Season I, Episode 6: Male Restroom Etiquette

Season I, Episode 5: Origin of Things & Mirrors

Season I, Episode 4: Irony, what is it?

Season I, Episode 3: Marketing Wordsmithery & Attribute Substitution

Season I, Episode 2: Nouns vs. Verbs and American Exceptionalism

Season I, Episode 1: Are humans like hives?