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Geoff Graham

Geoff Graham is joined by builders, farmers, entrepreneurs, architects, technologists, writers, artisans, and theologians. They discuss their work, their lives, society, our past, and the future.

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  • August 8 · 1 hr 50 min

    Nassim Taleb – #36

    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.

  • July 2 · 1 hr 24 min

    Jason Cox: Rural urbanism and firetrucks – #35

    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.

  • June 5 · 1 hr 15 min

    Willy Denner: Intro to Georgism – #34

    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.

  • February 23 · 1 hr 23 min

    Grant Broggi: Strength & Service – #32

    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.

  • February 12 · 1 hr 35 min

    Russ Greene: Total Boomer Luxury Communism – #31

    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.

  • February 6 · 1 hr 49 min

    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. 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.

  • January 22 · 1 hr 38 min

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

    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.

  • January 9 · 1 hr 36 min

    Zak Slayback: Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII, Capital, Labor, and Morality – #28

    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.

  • Dec 9, 2025 · 1 hr 34 min

    Vince & Geoff Graham – #27

    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.

  • Dec 3, 2025 · 1 hr 12 min

    Clay Routledge – #26

    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.

  • Oct 4, 2025 · 1 hr 31 min

    Steve Mouzon – #25

    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.

  • Jul 25, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min

    Orthodox Masonry – #24

    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/

  • Jun 27, 2025 · 1 hr 36 min

    Matt Simmons: Culture, History, and Identity of the American South – #23

    Professor W. Matthew J. Simmons, Sr. is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina and a self-described old-school humanist academic. He teaches courses on Southern culture and literature, as well as an immensely popular new course on barbecue. In this episode, Geoff and Matt discuss the identity of the South, changing cultures and places, barbecue, and more. Show notes at the Yeoman website:https://yeomanpodcast.com/2025/06/27/matt-simmons-23/

  • Jun 14, 2025 · 1 hr 35 min

    Lenny Wells: Pecan History, Trees, and Growing – #22

    Lenny Wells is a pecan grower, writer, and Professor of Horticulture and Extension Pecan Specialist at the University of Georgia. Show notes: https://yeomanpodcast.com/2025/06/12/lenny-wells-22/

  • May 16, 2025 · 1 hr 17 min

    Ari Bargil (with Vince Graham): The Legal Context of Zoning – #21

    Ari Bargil is a senior attorney with the Institute for Justice and a co-lead of the Zoning Justice Project, a campaign to protect and promote the freedom to peacefully and productively use property. Ari frequently represents property owners battling aggressive zoning regulations and excessive fines in state and federal court nationwide. Ari’s work has been featured by USA Today, NPR, Fox News, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News and other national and local publications. Vince Graham is Geoff’s brother and business partner with the I’On Company, as well as the owner of Loci, a developer in the Charleston, SC area. Vince has also appeared previously on the Yeoman Podcast. In this episode, Geoff, Vince, and Ari discuss the changing legal landscape of zoning, the history behind key court decisions, issues raised across cases, and more. Shownotes: https://yeomanpodcast.com/2025/05/13/ari-bargil-with-vince-graham-21/

  • Apr 9, 2025 · 1 hr 14 min

    Emily Hamilton: How policy and code reform can shape the future of housing – #20

    Emily Hamilton is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Urbanity Project at the Mercatus Center, where she focuses on urban economics and land-use policy. She publishes both academic research and policy work, contributes to outlets including the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and writes an occasional column at Governing. Emily also advises state and federal policymaking and has testified before several state legislatures and the U.S. House of Representatives. In this episode, Geoff and Emily discuss building code reform, case studies on housing policy, the potential for progress around the country, and more.Show notes:https://yeomanpodcast.com/2025/04/07/emily-hamilton-20/

  • Mar 13, 2025 · 59 min

    Vibes with Craig, CBQ, & Geoff – #19

    Geoff is joined by two good friends, Craig and CBQ, to discuss how people are feeling about the current state of the world. Craig is the co-founder and CEO of Matchstic. CBQ is the co-founder and CEO of Greenzie. Geoff is the co-founder of Periodical.ink, a partner in the development of I'On, the developer of Big Ridge Mountain Club, and the shepherd of the Yeoman podcast. Shownotes at https://yeomanpodcast.com/2025/03/12/vibes-with-craig-cbq-and-geoff-19/

  • Nov 23, 2024 · 1 hr 4 min

    Kevin Klinkenberg: Subsidiarity, Local Governance, and the Human-Scale – #18

    Kevin Klinkenberg is an urban designer, architect, planner, and writer. He is the Executive Director of Midtown KC Now, a nonprofit in Kansas City working on effective community development and management in Midtown Kansas City. Kevin is also the host of the Messy City Substack and podcast, where he dissects work on design, development, planning, and placemaking around the country. In this episode, Geoff and Kevin discuss localism, effective municipal governance, New Urbanism, the human-scale, and more.Show notes on the Yeoman website: https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/11/27/kevin-klinkenberg-18/

  • Nov 1, 2024 · 1 hr 16 min

    Saifedean Ammous, Austin Tunnel, & Jaime Izurieta-Varea: Time Preference & Beauty - Episode #17

    Geoff Graham is joined by Saifedean Ammous, Austin Tunnel, and Jaime Izurieta-Varea to discuss how monetary policy, hard money, fiat currency, time preference, and the regulatory environment impact the quality of our built environment. https://yeomanpodcast.com/2024/11/01/saifedean-ammous-austin-tunnel-jaime-izurieta-varea-time-preference-beauty-episode-17/

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