Big Boys Do Cry: A Final Word on Fatherhood
“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...
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Commune with Jeff Krasno
Commune is a podcast where we explore the ideas and practices that bring us together and help us live healthy, purpose-filled lives. We believe personal and societal health are two sides of...
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Don’t Trust the Experts? Media, Big Pharma, and Real Skepticism
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...
Is Telepathy Real? Dr. Rupert Sheldrake on the Science of Connection
Have you ever thought of someone right before they called? Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake says that's not a coincidence. In this episode, Je...
My Father’s Feet: Jazz, Hospice & Saying Goodbye to My Dad
For twenty years, Jeff’s father wore a pinstriped Brooks Brothers suit every day, riding the Metro-North from Connecticut to an office on 45...
Can AI Be Your Nutritionist? GLP-1s and Weight Health with Ashley Koff
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 sa...
Late for Pickup: Watching Lolli Dance Alone to Debussy (Dispatch 19)
Running late to pick Lolli up from dance rehearsal, Jeff arrives to find the studio empty except for his daughter, dancing alone to Debussy'...
Why You Keep Dating the Same Person with Sabrina Zohar
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 w...
Christmess: The Morning I Learned My Mother Was Leaving (Dispatch 18)
"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...
Zach Bush on AI, Death and Biological Elegance
When Jeff's father entered hospice, Jeff showed up with a plan to fix him. What actually healed them was jazz, touch, and surrender. In this...
Dad, I Got My Period: Getting a Little Better at Fatherhood
The first rule of the dance studio parking lot: always yield to the minivan. Hell hath no fury like a dance mom scorned.In this episode, Jef...
Love Is Freedom: Yung Pueblo on Lasting Relationships
What if love isn't about sacrifice and limitation, but is actually the thing that sets you free? In this episode, Jeff sits down with Diego...
A Steady Hand on the Wheel: What My Daughter Taught Me About Safety (Dispatch 16))
Jeff Krasno spent years driving his family through the most terrifying stretch of I-95 there is: the dark part after New Haven. His daughter...
Why Your Body Feels Like a Dead Battery with Wade Lightheart
Every cell in your body holds an electrical charge, and Wade Lightheart says most of the fatigue, pain, and brain fog people chalk up to agi...
Thirty Years, Three Words: Our Marriage Finds Its Way Back to Paris
Jeff doesn't say "I love you" often. When he finally does, on a bridge in Paris thirty years after he and Schuyler first fell for the city —...
How Kids Learn to Trust, with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau turns this conversation with Jeff into a question most of us don't ask directly: what do we actually pass down to ou...
The Blue Door: A Paris Street Party I Could Never Find Again
Jet-lagged and wandering solo through Paris's Latin Quarter, Jeff slips through an unmarked blue door and stumbles into a hidden courtyard m...
Michael Pollan on Consciousness, AI, and the Self
Can artificial intelligence ever be conscious? Michael Pollan says no, and at the Harvest Series in Kaplankaya, he lays out exactly why, sta...
The Inferno: Dante Never Had to Sit Through a Dance Comp (Dispatch 13)
Dante reserved his ninth circle for traitors, frozen for eternity. Jeff reserves it for competition dads who risk a bathroom break and miss...
GLP-1s, Anhedonia, and the Dopamine Trade-Off with Dr. Robin Berzin
A low dose of tirzepatide, taken purely to move the needle on cholesterol, turned out to move a lot more than that. In this episode, Jeff si...
The Half-Known Life: A Birthday in the ER (Dispatch 12)
On her birthday, in a rented house in Hanalei, Jeff's daughter can't stop vomiting — and nothing he does helps. In this episode, Jeff traces...