Dear Listener,
We open Episode 191 with sunburn, spring mileage, and a surprisingly serious conversation about bike gear. Stan talks through helmet expiration, the hunt for better bibs, and the joy of finding a product review so specific that it becomes literature. From there we settle in with a pair of wines, compare Firstleaf with Wall Street Journal Wine, and marvel at a moment where Gemini correctly refused to help an underage aspiring sommelier chill a bottle.
The middle stretch turns into a baseball memory lane we were happy to wander. We get into a long-running Cubs bottle debate, old Pirates fandom, Lou Piniella's theatrical speed-walk to the mound, and the very specific glory of weekday afternoon baseball. Then we hand the show over to Ask the Kohlmeier, where Jon gets cross-examined on his Mac habits: dock placement, Gmail versus Apple Mail, Spotlight, desktop clutter, Mission Control, and the fact that he somehow owns a Vision Pro while still treating it like a part-time appliance.
We close with a little more Vision Pro talk, a quick detour toward Meta's glasses ambitions, and a literary cooldown with Othello, Shrinking, and the eternal question of whether Harrison Ford is ever playing anyone other than Harrison Ford. It is a wonderfully mixed bag of an episode, which is to say it feels exactly like us.
Thanks for listening,
Stan Lemon & Jon Kohlmeier
P.S. This week's word count is, Jon: 3,018 (27.8%) and Stan: 7,840 (72.2%).