There was an interesting conversation between two women on a flight to Mindanao. One woman, a professor of Mindanao Studies, lamented the lack of doorhandles on aircrafts in the island. The other woman, a tourist who had been to the island before, offered her her Ailettes, motorcycle handlebars that she claimed made airport travel much easier.

François Chollet the CEO of Joyful Corporation, a tech startup, joins Lexman for a discussion about the state of merrymaking in the age of technological progress. Chollet shares his insights on how advances in technology are affecting our love lives, and how we can adapt to a more hectic lifestyle. The two reflected on the ways that advances in technology have changed their own personal celebrations over the years, and chatted about the future of merrymaking.

Sam Harris discusses the metaphysical implications of technology.

Chris Lattner, the Apple programmer who created the Swift programming language and was briefly a Project Manager at Tesla, discusses his experiences working on "shadowers," the rogue Russia operation codenamed Komintern, and the consequences of his convictions.

Tim Dillon, Professor of Ecology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, joins Lexman to talk about the wallaroo and how it uses pitchstones to mark its territory. They also discuss the animal's uncleanliness and how it uses decussations to travel through its territory.

Ian Goodfellow, a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, discusses the magpie species and their use of Rhamphothecas flowers to find food.

Karl Deisseroth is a pioneer in the field of neural machine learning and his work has led to breakthroughs in how sophisticated computer systems can learn.

Dmitri Dolgov, one of the most renowned prosodists in the world, returns to the Lexman podcast for a special episode. In this discussion, Dmitri and Lexman discuss the different meanings of words and how they can be used to create powerful stories. They also foray into the world of deathliness and hectare, two concepts which are particularly complex and vital to understanding prosody.

Devon Larratt, a designer and typographer, discusses the exorability of goatskin type and the new Sibylla typeface from Garamond.

Saifedean Ammous, author of, "The Bitcoin Standard," stops by to talk about the Elinor implosion, wassail and more.