Math and Musings

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Ithaca, New York. Highlights include hiking at the famous Buttermilk Falls and dining at the famous Moosewood.

Mike and Franklin discuss a recent trip to Winchester, Virginia, and the glorious pizza buffet known as Cicis.

Mike and Franklin celebrate the crowning achievement of Mike's youth: catching a foul ball at a baseball game twenty years ago.

Mike and Franklin discuss the remainder of their recent trip to Denver, including the grand finale: an evening of dining and entertainment at Casa Bonita.

Mike and Franklin discuss (as best they can) their trip to Denver, Colorado, and its highlight, the Convergence Station exhibit from Meow Wolf.

Mike and Franklin celebrate the beginning of the baseball season with some good old-fashioned MLB trivia.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trips to a few local art galleries: the Renwick Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, and Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Mike and Franklin discuss the start of this year's NCAA college basketball tournament... a.k.a. March Madness!

Mike and Franklin celebrated the 250th episode of Math and Musings with some college basketball stories and predictions.

Mike and Franklin remember Joe Sullivan, 20 years after his passing.

Mike and Franklin celebrate the latter's upcoming birthday with, among other things, trivia from 1994.

Mike and Franklin discuss this year's "week of holidays" with a special emphasis on Lunar New Year.

Mike and Franklin celebrate Snow Day #3 talking a little Valentine's Day and Presidents' Day.

Mike and Franklin celebrate Snow Day #2 with a preview of this year's Winter Olympic Games.

Mike and Franklin celebrate the first snow day of 2026.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Hanover, Maryland... home of the Medieval Times dinner theater extravaganza.

Mike and Franklin continue their discussion of Walt Disney World, this time covering some magical rides and experiences.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Walt Disney World with a focus on culinary delights. Highlights include the rekindling of Franklin's Food Review!

Mike and Franklin celebrate all things 2025 with an eye towards 2026.

Mike and Franklin discuss their progress on the Christmas Schedule and all things Winter Break, including Festivus, Boxing Day, and cinnamon rolls.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Binghamton to see some friends and see some hockey.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent late-night diner trip and test their knowledge of "diner lingo."

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Hershey, Pennsylvania, discovering there's a lot more to Hershey than just chocolate. (Though the chocolate is really good too.)

Mike and Franklin discuss the famous O'Connell Christmas Schedule, complete with a few additions and potential additions from previous years.

Mike takes a metaphorical holiday and lets AI (Google's new Brisk feature) plan the show. Brisk and Franklin discuss.

Mike and Franklin continue their conversation from last week, recreating the most talked about episode of Politics After Dark.

Mike and Franklin celebrate the 20th anniversary of the most talked about episode of Politics After Dark ever aired. 

Mike and Franklin discuss Halloweens past, present, and future, capping things off with some Halloween (and Diwali and Dia de los Muertos!) trivia.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Binghamton, commenting on several of the area's mom-and-pop pizza joints.

Recorded on Yom Kippur, Mike and Franklin celebrate the Yiddish language. Included in the episode are all things related to the Jewish holiday season, or as we Gentiles call it... Pumpkin Spice.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent excursion to Winchester, Virginia, home of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley... and Zaxby's, the home of Southern-style deliciousness.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to the mecca of fall festivals: Cox Farms.

Mike and Franklin discuss all things fall... and quiz each other a bit.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to central Virginia. Stops include Charlottesville, the Blue Ridge Tunnel, and the greatest of all... Buc-ee's.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to the Glenstone art museum in Potomac, Maryland.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent excursion to upstate New York: the famous Watkins Glen and the not-so-famous Binghamton.

Mike and Franklin discuss their first days back to school, and for the first time it's... the same school!

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Camden Yards in Baltimore to see the Savannah Bananas in action.

Mike and Franklin, home from Japan, celebrate all things America, including baseball, bull riding, hot dogs, hamburgers, and a little Texas gas station now with a location in Virginia.

In Part Three of their Japan Trilogy, Mike and Franklin discuss the last stop on the tour: Kyoto.

Mike and Franklin continue their journey through Japan, this time from the mountain oasis of Hakone.

Mike and Franklin discuss (the beginning of) their trip to Tokyo.

Recorded long before leaving for Japan, Mike and Franklin describe their few days of summer vacation at home... in case recording from Japan has proved too difficult, or was enjoyable to leave.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Trenton, New Jersey, among other things witnessing some Trenton Thunder/Tomato Pies baseball.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Coney Island. Topics include the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, Brooklyn Cyclones baseball, and an old-school weekend in New York City.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Atlantic City, their third in what is now becoming an annual tradition.

Mike and Franklin discuss their recent trip to Richmond, Virginia, home of Belle Isle, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Richmond Flying Squirrels baseball club.

Mike and Franklin celebrate the final day of the school year.

Mike and Franklin discuss the former's upcoming birthday, and relive one of their childhoods with some '80s trivia.

Mike and Franklin discuss two famous streaks that both began on May 30, one from 1982 and one from 2008.