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For Better or Worse: Lab-Grown Meat vs. Regenerative Beef Nov 10, 2026

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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 Now a newer version of the cow is being grown in steel tanks, with no cow at all.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, the first in the new For Better or Worse series takes on cultured meat: how it’s made, the strongest case for and against it, and who’s paying on each side of the fight.

What actually happens inside the bioreactor, and the single chicken behind a whole product line
The fetal bovine serum problem underneath the “slaughter-free” pitch
Why regenerative grazing can’t meet global meat demand on its own
How the biggest names in beef ended up funding both sides
Why no state has banned a bean

This episode is for anyone who cares about where their food comes from, and anyone who wants the full picture before choosing a side.

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Plastic, MAHA, and a New Congress with Chef Johanna Hellrigl Nov 05, 2026

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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-systems advocate and chef-owner of Ama, a restaurant built on farm-direct organic ingredients and a kitchen she has worked to pull plastic out of. She knows a bill backed by only one party usually goes nowhere, and that every fight in Congress eventually reaches someone's dinner table. In this episode, she and Jeff talk about what it would take for food policy to reach the people who need it most, whoever holds power.

Why she says "you can't defund and deregulate and make America healthy again," and still sits down with MAHA supporters to ask how they got there
The farm bill votes she says she helped flip, and what new leadership on the agriculture committee could change
The FRESH Act, and why she believes states should keep the power to lead on food policy
What a shutdown or surprise recess does to a restaurant that depends on Congress being in town
Heat, fat, acid, and time: her rule for keeping plastic chemicals out of your food

This episode is for the parent decoding labels in a grocery aisle at 7 p.m., and anyone waiting to see whether a new Congress changes what ends up on their plate.

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Big Boys Do Cry: A Final Word on Fatherhood Nov 03, 2026

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“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 this episode, Jeff closes the series by tracing the fatherhood he inherited and the one he’s tried to build in its place. He starts with a bitter divorce at 13 and a dad who fought for custody to break his own cycle of abandonment. He offers a long-overdue apology to the mother he shunned, and he credits Schuyler, whom he met at seventeen, with making the healing possible. He also lays out what the girls taught him in return. He let Phoebe decide whether to come home from a miserable school trip to Joshua Tree. He found two meditation apps on the iPad of a daughter who forbids him from saying the word. His closing case is for a different kind of masculinity: courage as vulnerability, discipline as discipleship, and pride as mudita, the Buddhist joy in someone else’s joy.

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Don’t Trust the Experts? Media, Big Pharma, and Real Skepticism Oct 31, 2026

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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. On one side are the compulsive contrarians, who distrust every institution. On the other are the contrarians to the contrarians, who defend those institutions by reflex. He argues that both have confused skepticism with ideology.

Why questioning Big Pharma’s ad budget is fair, and calling medicine a scam is not
What Vioxx, OxyContin, insulin, and HIV treatment tell us about the same industry
How engagement algorithms reward the most extreme voice in the room
A case for “discrimination” in its original sense: the ability to see distinctions

This episode is for anyone tired of being asked to choose a tribe before looking at the evidence.

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Is Telepathy Real? Dr. Rupert Sheldrake on the Science of Connection Oct 29, 2026

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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 Sheldrake, the Cambridge-trained biologist and author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, to look at the evidence for telepathy. Rupert walks through decades of filmed experiments with dogs, nursing mothers, and phone calls, and explains why he thinks the effect depends on emotional bonds, not distance.

Recorded on a pilgrimage in the English countryside, the conversation widens into the limits of materialism, the trust crisis facing our institutions, and why Rupert, a practicing Anglican, finds more open inquiry in church than in a lab.

Why telepathy shows up most between parents and children, twins, partners, and close friends
The experiments with dogs who wait at the door when their owners head home
Rupert's telephone tests, where people guessed their caller far more often than chance
Why he compares telepathy to quantum entanglement, but stops short of calling it that
Whether science has become as dogmatic as the religion it once challenged

This episode is for anyone who has felt an unexplained connection to someone they love, or who suspects science doesn't yet have the full picture of the mind.

Originally released in 2025.

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My Father’s Feet: Jazz, Hospice & Saying Goodbye to My Dad Oct 27, 2026

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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 that daily friction, his trousers wore the hair from his legs and left his feet improbably smooth. As a boy, Jeff would rub them on the couch after dinner, often reluctantly. It was the simplest pleasure his father knew. Decades later, those same feet are swollen with edema at the end of a hospice bed in Miami.

In this episode, Jeff turns from fatherhood to being a son. He spends a week at his dad’s bedside with his brother Eric, and after days of trying to fix everything, Jeff finally stops. He puts on Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald and takes his father’s feet in his hands one last time. In that small act of tending, time folds in on itself: a boy on the couch, a man who walked so many city blocks, a father briefly free of his failing body. There’s nothing left to say and nothing left to fix, only the care a son can give with his hands.

This is the twentieth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff’s own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.

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Can AI Be Your Nutritionist? GLP-1s and Weight Health with Ashley Koff Oct 22, 2026

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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.

Jeff sits down with Ashley Koff, RD, a registered dietitian and author of Your Best Shot, to talk about GLP-1s, weight health, and whether AI can ever be as curious as a good practitioner. Jeff shares what happened when he started low-dose tirzepatide and his appetite disappeared overnight.

Why "weight loss" can include bone, muscle, hair and testosterone, and what Ashley measures instead
The first two days after a weekly shot: why she moves fiber later in the week and leans on soups and smoothies
Why feeling no hunger at all on a GLP-1 can be a sign the dose is wrong
Why calories are "only potential energy" until digestion turns them into something usable
How Jeff used AI to keep five specialists on the same page for his father, and why Ashley built her own AI nutritionist

This episode is for anyone who started a GLP-1 and can barely eat, or who's getting textbook nutrition answers that don't fit their body. Ashley's book Your Best Shot is available now.

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Late for Pickup: Watching Lolli Dance Alone to Debussy (Dispatch 19) Oct 20, 2026

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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, he stays outside the plate-glass window and watches.

In this episode, Jeff traces those few unguarded minutes: a kid moving like water, and a father reaching for Kabbalah, Alan Watts, and the Japanese art of kintsugi to explain why it felt like watching something broken get put back together. Then she catches his eye, and the dance changes. Flow becomes performance, and Jeff is left with a question every parent eventually meets: what does it cost our kids to dance for someone they want to make proud?

This is the 19th episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.

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Why You Keep Dating the Same Person with Sabrina Zohar Oct 15, 2026

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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 was in love with being chosen.

In this episode, Jeff sits down with Sabrina Zohar, relationship coach, host of The Sabrina Zohar Show, and author of the new book Why Am I Like This?, to trace how childhood wiring shows up in who we date, how we fight, and why healthy love can feel boring at first.

How anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment styles form, and why they're more fluid than social media suggests
Repetition compulsion and why you keep dating the same type of person
Why chemistry doesn't mean compatibility, and why money, kids, and shared life goals matter more
A word-for-word script for talking to your partner about a trigger
Why green flags can feel uncomfortable, and how corrective experiences change what feels safe

This episode is for anyone who keeps repeating the same relationship pattern and wants to understand where it comes from. Find Sabrina's new book, Why Am I Like This?, at sabrinazohar.com/book.

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Christmess: The Morning I Learned My Mother Was Leaving (Dispatch 18) Oct 13, 2026

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"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 brother beside him in footed pajamas.
In this episode, Jeff tells the story of the holiday his parents' marriage broke open: the Hail Mary trip to Brazil, the presents opened quietly with Gramma, and the night Eric slept in his bed. He follows the fallout into adulthood, including choosing to stay with his broken father, cutting off his mother for nearly a decade, and setting out into life "rudderless and leaky."
This is the eighteenth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.

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