The Errant Heel: Episode 6

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In Episode Six, Brian and Tom discuss misogynist high school baseball teams and the sleepy heroes of the Clemens trial jury, all while exploring a new studio space.

8 Things Every Good Man Needs To Know

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Christin Myrick has something to say to the good men of the world: thank you.

What We Talk About When We Talk About My Military Career

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Lots of people want to talk to Ryan Björklund about his service in Iraq, but few actually want to listen to what he has to say.

The Errant Heel: Episode Five

The Errant Heel

In Episode Five, Brian and Tom do their best to recap what was truly a strange and depressing week in sports. They also continue to compulsively make Game of Thrones references.

Michael Oriard: Ordinary NFL Player, Extraordinary Man

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Michael Oriard spent only four years in the NFL, but he has left behind a far more notable legacy than many of his contemporaries: the best memoir written by a professional football player, and one that’s more relevant now than ever.

The Errant Heel: Episode Three

The Errant Heel

In Episode Three, Brian and Tom discuss ESPN’s nattering about marijuana, murderous hockey players, and the Ultimate Disc League.

Why Stuff White People Like is Something I Don’t

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Plenty of white people found something to love about the hit website Stuff White People Like. Oliver Lee Bateman wasn’t one of them.

Please, Define The Word ‘Coward’

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Jake DiMare wonders why there seems to be so many ways to rationalize cowardice.

Belo Cipriani on Being A Good Man

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Belo Cipriani, a visually-impaired author and speaker, talks about what it takes to be a good man in the 21st Century.

Competent Dads and Other Mythical Creatures

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Kim Quinn asks why people act like good fathers are some miraculous rarity when, to her eyes, they’re all around.

I Knew Don Draper–A Whole Town Full

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Steve Jaeger loves and hates Don Draper, and he can’t help but see the complexities of Mad Men in his own boyhood memories.

Is Being a Man in 2012 Different Than Being a Man in 1982?

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Now that he’s on the other side of 50, Ted Cartier takes a look at the how men have changed from when he entered adulthood in the 1980s.

Good Men Don’t Have Sex With Other Men’s Wives

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Nicole Johnson argues that the best solution to an affair is not to have one.

Bush-Nominated Judge Sends Racist Email About Obama

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Jake DiMare wonders what Judge Cebull was feeling when he hit send?

Prisons Of The Mind, Dementia In Aging Inmates

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Julie Gillis reflects on how trusting prisoners with the care of inmates affected by dementia increases their ability for compassion.

Lust in Translation: Every Woman Is Horny in Her Own Way

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Brandon Ferdig responds to Noah Brand.