Really Important Thinking

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By: Griffin Wenzler & Tom Fell

NOTE: Dr. Chismoore is currently away. He has left really important thinkers, and comedians, TOM FELL and GRIFFIN WENZLER in charge.*Each week Dr. Chris Chismoore takes on the impossible task of discussing neuroscience, biohacking, men’s health, and men’s culture.Dr. Chris Chismoore is a heterodox neuroscientist, polarizing archeologist, persistent entrepreneur, and tenured professor in the Department of Research at a really good college. He’s been profiled in Scientific American, Harper’s Weekly, and TigerTeen Beat. His work has been published in the Journal of Thought, the New England Papers, and Wine Yum Today. His studies on biohacki...

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The Wisdom of the Ancients w/ Jenelle Cheyne
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#48
Yesterday at 6:09 PM

Dr. Linda Vista joins Tom and Griffin to discuss how we can optimize the power and wisdom of the elders and the ancients. These people are OLD and they know some crap about shit, man. They frickin' do.


How to Optimize Your Birthday
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#47
09/02/2026

Something incredible has happened. Griffin had a birthday nearly a month ago. And now you get to celebrate his brith, your birth, and humanity's birth in the thinking man's way...by listening to Really Important Thinking


How to Optimize Your Microbiome
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#46
08/09/2026

Gut health. Tom thinks it is about crapping and Griffin thinks it is about so much more. Come with us on this journey as we discover who is louder about this incredible topic.


How to Optimize Traffic
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#45
07/26/2026

Griffin was on steroids when this was recorded.


How to Optimize Your Garden
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#44
07/19/2026

Two geniuses discuss what we can improve in the modern garden. And the answer? Is looking backwards. But also forwards as well. You see, we must learn lessons everywhere we can. Come, gentle listener, and optimize garden.

It's just been so long. I'm sorry y'all. That's on me. This is Griffin. You see, I am a filmmaker and I was busy making a short film. I have three of these fuckers in the can and I just keep making more. Eventually someone will screen one of them in a festival, right? Christ. Email us if you want...


How to Optimize Trash
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#43
06/29/2026

Refuse. Rubbish. Waste. There are many names for one of the most incredible things human beings create. Trash is in the crosshairs this week. Take out your notepads as Tom and Griffin educate you about how trash can be better.


How to Optimize Your Cult
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#42
06/14/2026

Have a cult? Thinking of starting one? This is the episode. you should listen to in order to make it hugely successful and to change the world. Welcome to the Family, the Army of Really Important Thinking.


How Can We Optimize Hats?
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#41
06/07/2026

Two genius podcasters finally face the ultimate question: hats, where did they go wrong? And, where can they go right?


Why the Past Was Objectively Better but Why We’re Also Excited for the Future
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#40
05/03/2026

Things used to be great. We can all agree. And in the future they will be better. But right now? Well, join Tom and Griffin as they discuss why right now sucks absolute ass and other times ripped/will rip.


How to Optimize Concerts w/ Eric Rahill
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#39
04/06/2026

Bresslin Summers himself joins us this week as we discuss the most important way to spend your time - listening to music at concerts.


How to Optimize Saunas and Steam Rooms
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#38
03/29/2026

The ancient art of sweating and then cooling. Yes, it can be improved upon according to our modern standards. Everything needs to be perfect and good all of the time and that includes sweating or else weak men will ruin the world. We must stop them, brothers, and the best way to do that is to listen to this podcast


How to Produce an Heir w/ Jen Jackson
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#37
03/15/2026

Another week, another no show from Dr. Chismoore. But! Tom and Griff are joined by Lady Dr. Malcolm Baby to discuss producing a suitable heir (or heiress or heirthem) for yourself. Thank you for no reason at all to Jen Jackson whose credits include television's Miracle Workers, Animal Control, and multiple Second City writing 6 shows.


How to Optimize Male Living Spaces
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#36
03/08/2026

Look around you. What you are likely sitting in listening to this podcast in is what is known as a "male living space". Tom and Griff offer really important thoughts to help you optimize, maximize, and spruce up your house, apartment, car, tent, or wherever you live.


How to Optimize Caves
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#35
03/01/2026

Caves, are they more than just holes in the ground? What untold secrets do they hold and how can we make them better? Join Tom and Griffin for another incredible week of hosting someone else's podcast.


Lessons from The Dark Knight w/ Tim Lamphier
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#34
02/22/2026

Dr. Greebo Mim finally joins us to discuss his important research about the 2008 Christopher Nolan film The Dark Knight.

This one goes way off the rails in a good way though.


How to Optimize the Winter Games
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#33
02/10/2026

The Winter Olympics, or as thinking men call them, "The Winter Games." Tom and Griff discuss cinema and sport in this whirlwind hour+ long episode about two guys talking.


Optimizing Hugging and Kissing
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#32
02/03/2026

Basically this is our Valentines Day episode. Griffin wanted to talk about prisons and filling them with our political enemies but Tom said "we see enough of that every day. So then Griffin said Hugging and Kissing and now you have to listen to it.


The Forbidden Fruit Episode
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#31
01/11/2026

As Tom celebrates the fruit of his loins (fatherhood) Griffin has decided it is time to go back into the archives and show you the forbidden Fruit episode. This is from our very early days when we were still Goober Time. Forbidden because we thought maybe this episode was too odd, too rambling, too utterly deranged. But with the power of time I can now safely assure you it is a banger! An all timer.

-Grungus


How to Optimize Guy Food
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#30
01/05/2026

Well it finally happened. Tom had a baby and Griff tried to bring up the Nazis. Sorry we've been a bit delayed dear listener. We're simply living our lives. Is that so hard? This one is about food and the types of ways men eat it.


How to Optimize Mountains
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#29
12/14/2025

Yeah, we're doing content on landforms. We're pretty much the only comedy podcast devoting an hour to mountains and what is wrong with them. Name another podcast. I'll wait.


How to Optimize Doctors
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#28
11/14/2025

Doctors, this is your final warning. Things are about to change for you and your lot. Things are about to get a lot more normal for you bastards. Gone are the days of you lording your knowledge over the rest of society. Finally, Tom and Griff tear you a new one.


How to Optimize Competition w/ Jo Scott
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#27
11/03/2025

Have you heard of mazes? Well, this conversation is a verbal maze. Yeah, you'll get lost in there but you'll also find some treasures or rare items to take home and change your sad life for the better. Dr. Jo Scott takes us down the dark paths of competition this week.


How to Leverage Your Stupidity w/ Thomas Kelly
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#26
10/26/2025

Thomas Kelly is incredibly stupid. And that's something that he has been able to leverage and use to compete in the marketplace of ideas. He puts Tom and Griff through their stupid tests to see just how absolutely moronic they can be. Listen in to get the full run down of how to be a dumbass.


How To Optimize Creativity w/ Ryan McFadden
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#25
10/19/2025

Music producer and engineer Ryan McFadden speaks with us at great length about creativity and what you can learn from a dying blues musician.


Optimizing Reading w/ Meaghan Strickland
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#24
10/06/2025

The gist of this one is that Meaghan basically comes in and rocks our world. She upends everything you thought you knew about knowledge and books and words too. This one is for the big brains. This one is for the truly free thinkers. Sponsored by Randallman's Sauce.


Optimizing Male Bonding w/ Danny Catlow
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#23
09/28/2025

The thing is that Danny is a master of male bonding. You name a guy, Danny can get you bonded to him. You see a guy? Yeah, Danny is maybe already pals with him. In this episode we talk about just how he does that and then everything falls apart at the end because Danny got sleepy.


Can We Optimize Children?
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#22
09/21/2025

A major announcement and then a childless guy and a guy who is yet to have a child face off in an epic debate about how to raise children.

No women. No children. Just pure guys talking.


How to Optimize Foreign Films w/ Wyatt Fair
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#21
08/25/2025

Today the guys speak with renowned film watcher, Dr. Wyatt Fair on how to subvert and manipulate the world of foreign cinema in order to extract more value. This is a must listen for anyone who has ever not "gotten" a movie.


How to Optimize Foreign Films w/ Wyatt Fair
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#21
08/25/2025

Today the guys speak with renowned film watcher, Dr. Wyatt Fair on how to subvert and manipulate the world of foreign cinema in order to extract more value. This is a must listen for anyone who has ever not "gotten" a movie.


How to Optimize Bachelor Parties
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#20
08/17/2025

Back to basics. Enough of all these weird guests. Let's just get Tom and Griffin in a room and let them fix bachelor parties. Tom puts Griffin in jail at the end of this one.


How to Optimize Manners w/ Kate O'Connor
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#19
08/12/2025

Tom and Griffin speak with renowned manners, etiquette, and politeness expert Kate O'Connor about "how come people are being like that, and how can we make them be better?"

Follow Kate @kates_opinion and read her beautiful newspaper The Broken Elbow

https://thebrokenelbow.substack.com/


How to Optimize Jazz w/ Brian Heveron-Smith
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#18
08/03/2025

Today we have leading expert in the field and Jazz Scientist, Dr. Brian Heveron-Smith on to discuss strategies and solutions to upgrade, optimize, and extract value from jazz. If you like this podcast please consider supporting Tony Saporelli's Jazz Incubator.


What We Can Learn from Magicians
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#17
07/24/2025

Once agin Dr. Chismoore is unable to host the podcast this week. Magic. Some say it is all around us. Others say it is for virgins and people desperate to start a polycule with the other people in their ska band. Only Tom and Griffin are able to suss out the truth in this epic hour+ long conversation. Unearth the mysteries of the magician.


Optimizing Your Clothes
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#16
07/09/2025

Outfits, fits, fashion, what you wear. These are the many things we call "clothes". They are with us almost every day, and yet we never stop to talk about them. Almost no one talks about clothes. But today two brave men decided to talk about clothes and how men wear them. Join us, won't you please, on a journey to the center of the clothes.


Optimizing Relationships
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#15
06/25/2025

For this one we talked about Relationships. How to get them, how to have them, how to keep them. Basically if you are a lonely guy this is the episode for you. I think there's something in here for women too I hope. Idk really though because I don't remember what we talked about.


Optimizing Sleep
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#14
06/12/2025

The fellows discuss methods and strategies for becoming near lifeless at night. Or are you? There is simply so much happening when we are unconscious that we don't even know about good yet. Sound off in the reviews if you like sleep or whatever.


How to Optimize Regrets and Failures
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#13
06/04/2025

Here is the one where we finally do a bizarre blend of comedy and sincere self-reflection. That has never been done before on the podcast, so we are finally doing it.

Look. I know the audio is bad most of the time. We're gonna fix that in a few months probably. I don't know how it keeps being all screwed up. Chris is so disappointed with us.


How to Become the Perfect Physical Specimen
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#12
05/28/2025

Here is the one where we talk about how to optimize your body. How to achieve truly superhuman strength...and we mean that mentally but also emotionally and spiritually. We also have some good ideas for merchandise.

(This episode art is a picture of Griffin's grandfather when he was a body builder while he was enlisted in the Air Force during WW2.)

You are a genius of science and mathematics. Thank you, citizen soldier, for enlisting in the Goober Time Army


What Can We Learn From Animals?
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#11
05/21/2025

Animals. They're all around us, but what do we really even use them for? Well dear listener, in this episode we dive in and see how far we can optimize animals. And yeah, again, it gets weirdly sentimental. And yeah, Griff forgets what he's talking about maybe 9 times but I think that got edited out.


Dominating Your Vices
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#10
05/14/2025

Our first video episode. You can watch it at https://www.youtube.com/@GooberTimePod Wow. We're really here. I can't even. That said, I'm sorry for the audio. Tom is just so loud sometimes. You might say volume is one of his vices...

Enjoy, citizen soldier. Welcome to the Journey. Welcome to the Awakening. You are loved. No one thinks like you.