Discussion of Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine – #30

Joel Hollingsworth: Restoring Agriculture through Commissioned Stewardship – #33

Joel Hollingsworth (@untappedgrowth [https://x.com/untappedgrowth]) and I discuss how Smoke River Ranch [https://www.smokeriverranch.com/] got started, their herdshare program, and the economics of farming and ranching.Show notes on the Yeoman website [https://yeomanpodcast.com/2026/05/05/joel-hollingsworth-restoring-agriculture-through-commissioned-stewardship-33/].

Grant Broggi: Strength & Service – #32

Grant Broggi [https://x.com/GrantSSC], founder of The Strength Co [https://www.thestrength.co/?srsltid=AfmBOorJUU48Yc2uyqCMHmZkUrC3_mi7pvyX01UO7EXllrJVeIHLV-Zi]., joins Geoff to talk about strength, entrepreneurship, and the Marines. I love Grant’s story: from a homeschooled teenage window cleaner in the South Carolina Lowcountry, to the Citadel then Marines, to a strength coach, to the (pandemic inspired) manufacturer of gym equipment, to balancing the obligations of his new business with his reservist commitments, to his year-long deployment and return late last year. “Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome!” Show notes on the Yeoman website [https://yeomanpodcast.com/2026/02/23/grant-broggi-32/].

Russ Greene: Total Boomer Luxury Communism – #31

Russ Greene [https://x.com/GreenPlusAnE] discusses Total Boomer Luxury Communism [https://americanmind.org/salvo/what-is-total-boomer-luxury-communism/], the burden it shoulders on young people and future generations, the existential threat it poses to America, and prospects for reform. Russ is the Executive Director of the Prime Mover Institute [https://www.primemover.institute/].  Show notes on the Yeoman website [https://yeomanpodcast.com/2026/02/11/russ-greene-total-boomer-luxury-communism-31-coming-soon/]. You can find Yeoman on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/6fpsx7Dzu7uouQmoqGQmxo], Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yeoman/id1728645748], Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@yeomanpodcast], and elsewhere.

Discussion of Paul Kingsnorth’s Against the Machine – #30

Justin Owings and Ty Abernathy joined Geoff to discuss Paul Kingsnorth’s latest book, Against the Machine [https://www.paulkingsnorth.net/against-machine]. Our two-hour, fire-side, dog-accompanied conversation covers a lot of territory—raising children in the age of the Machine, entrepreneurship, globalism and financialization, corporate bureaucracy, technocracy, rootedness, homelessness, skin-in-the-game, limits, GenZ—and we hardly scratched the surface. Show notes on the Yeoman website [https://yeomanpodcast.com/2026/01/24/discussion-of-paul-kingsnorths-latest-against-the-machine-30/].

Chuck Marohn: Strong Towns' Bottom-up Revolution – #29

Charles "Chuck" Marohn [https://x.com/clmarohn] is the president of Strong Towns [https://www.strongtowns.org/], a national organization he started in 2008 as a blog and grew into a widespread movement advocating for financially resilient, prosperous cities and towns through bottom-up, incremental development. Chuck is the author of countless articles [https://www.strongtowns.org/contributors-journal/charles-marohn] and three books [https://www.strongtowns.org/book]: Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (2019), Confessions of a Recovering Engineer (2021), and Escaping the Housing Trap (2024), and he hosts the Strong Towns Podcast [https://www.strongtowns.org/podcasts] while speaking widely across North America. Chuck lives in Brainerd, Minnesota, with his family. Show notes at the Yeoman website [https://yeomanpodcast.com/2026/01/10/chuck-marohn-29/].