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Michael Soyfer of the Institute for Justice joined me to discuss municipalities' use of surveillance tools like Flock Safety and their alleged infringements of our fourth amendment rights to privacy. We recorded this on September 4, 2026. Show note on the Yeoman website.

Brad Wilcox, University of Virginia sociologist and author of Get Married, joins me to talk about marriage, fertility, and why family formation is getting harder even as the data still favors getting married. Brad and I recorded this on August 27, 2026. Show notes at the Yeoman website.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb hosted Geoff for a casual conversation in his library. Their discussion began with books and meandered through a dozen topics before concluding for supper. Show notes at the Yeoman website.

Jason Cox of the Monroe Companies joins Geoff to discuss his work revitalizing downtown Graham, NC through historic rehabs and infill projects. They explore the outsized influence of fire departments and oversized apparatus on street design, zoning, and urban form—contrasting U.S. practices with more human-scaled European cities—along with Jason’s self-described identity as a “rural urbanist” who splits time between a small hobby farm and vibrant walkable places. The conversation also covers how building codes and institutional private equity tilt the system toward large-scale development, the need for honest conversations on topics like data centers, and North Carolina’s pragmatic approach to economic development. Show notes at the Yeoman website.

Willy Denner of Little Seed Gardens introduces Geoff to Georgism, the concept of the Land Value Tax, how it differs from conventional property taxes, the moral argument in favor of it, and the ameliorative impact it could have on our agricultural lands, rural areas, and urban environments. Little Seed Gardens is a hundred acre family farm near Chatham, NY started by Willy and his wife Claudia Kenny in 1995. Shownotes on the Yeoman website.

Joel Hollingsworth (@untappedgrowth) and I discuss how Smoke River Ranch got started, their herdshare program, and the economics of farming and ranching.Show notes on the Yeoman website.

Grant Broggi, founder of The Strength Co., 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.

Russ Greene discusses 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.  Show notes on the Yeoman website. You can find Yeoman on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, and elsewhere.

Justin Owings and Ty Abernathy joined Geoff to discuss Paul Kingsnorth’s latest book, Against the 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.

Charles "Chuck" Marohn is the president of Strong Towns, 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 and three books: 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 while speaking widely across North America. Chuck lives in Brainerd, Minnesota, with his family. Show notes at the Yeoman website.

Zak Slayback joins Geoff to discuss Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum, the context in which it was written, and its relevance to today. Topics include the emergence of nationalism and industrial-scale capitalism, the subsequent fracturing of cottage industries, the rise of socialist reactionary movements, the obligations employers have to workers (and vice versa), subsidiarity, and the moral challenges investors face in our hyper-financialized consumer economy. Zak is a venture capital partner at 1517 Fund and an occasional author. Show notes here.

Vince Graham joins Geoff to talk about the early days of developing I’On in Mount Pleasant, SC. Vince and Geoff commonly hear people wrongly assume the neighborhood’s success resulted from strict controls and prescriptions, and they felt that misconception is so widespread that it merited a conversation. They discuss setting the stage, vision, rallying key players around that vision, recruiting builders, and cutivating the neighborhood’s early culture. Geoff has spoken with Vince and their late father Tom in prior episides. Visit theionco.com to learn more about the history of the neighborhood’s development. Shownotes at the Yeoman website.

Dr. Clay Routledge is an existential psychologist who specializes in nostalgia. He is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. Clay is the author of Supernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World (published in 2018), Past Forward: How Nostalgia Can Help You Live a More Meaningful Life (2023), and many other books and articles. You can find his work at clayroutledge.com and he regularly posts on X at @clayroutledge.This episode is sponsored by Periodical.ink. Show notes at the Yeoman website.

Steve Mouzon and Geoff discuss the evolution of Steve's practice, the role of a town architect, vernacular construction, sustainability, beauty, lovable buildings, and the "Original Green". Show notes on the Yeoman website.

Seth Harris & Patrick Lemon of Orthodox Masonry to discuss what it's like to build a company that builds things that last. To my great embarrassment, I transposed two of the letters in Patrick's last name when I introduced him. Show notes: https://yeomanpodcast.com/2025/07/25/orthodox-masonry-24/