Billy interrupts Jody at work to inform him that he is officially walking the Greasy Pole at the St. Peter's Fiesta in Gloucester. Not only that, he's walking on Sunday, the main event, with all the past champions.

Jody's response (other than shock): Don't tell my wife.

Spearfishing season has returned to New England, and with it all the excitement and fear that comes from putting a land animal -- in this case, a land animal who has seen the movie "Jaws" -- into an environment where it is ill-equipped and wildly vulnerable. 

Or you can just think of it as armed snorkeling, and try to feel all James Bond-y.

Either way, a successful hunt yields to all sorts of inner turmoil for Billy, as he finds himself bonding with the three dead flounder in his refrigerator, unable to gut them properly because he feels like they're looking at him.

It's a journey, people. A journey. 

In other news, the boys record at their new, top secret summer studio, just inches above the ocean; Jody again illustrates that he is an unfrozen caveman; more encounters with Mr. Outdoors; and the most important question a middle-aged outdoorsman can ask himself: Am I ready to acknowledge the functionality of dad sandals?

Is fly fishing the highest form of fishing? Or is it just a bunch of self-indulgent bullshit designed to make “catching a fish as difficult as possible?” And is this all Brad Pitt’s fault for looking so damn hot in “A River Runs Through It?”  These are the questions Billy has been wrestling with during his failed attempts to actually catch a damn fish on a fly, so to help unravel the riddle he spends a day fishing with Tom Rosenbauer, the "chief enthusiast" for Orvis and perhaps the most famous fly fisherman in America.

Also in this episode, Jody answers the question of what simple thing he could change in his life that he should change; the "Remembering I'm an Animal" t-shirt line is launched, courtesy of a listener; Billy goes on a rant about the condescending new terms "bromeotherapy" and "bromeopathic": the five types of hobbies you need; the magic of the pre-dawn "creator's time,” brahmamuhurta; and whether or not Jody should walk the greasy pole at the St. Peter's Fiesta in Gloucester.

Plus more testicle tanning, and Jody's contention that Billy needs to stop reading a table of contents at the top of the show because people read it here. But is anyone reading this? Hello?

This week we explore the enneagram, an ancient model of the human psyche that breaks everyone into nine different personality types. Billy and Jody establish their numbers, then use them as an excuse to explain all their failures, obviously.

Also in this episode, the guys rank the months of the year; Billy tells the story of watching his chiropractor break a world record by doing 21,000 pushups in 12 hours; Jody is horrified by Billy's new hobby of sunning his genitals; a bit about the power of wonder for adults; more Fundamental Abilities of the Human Animal are considered; Jimmy Buffett's 50 Things to Do By 50; Jordan Peterson's 42 Rules for Life; more than you wanted to know about the movie "The Notebook"; Billy continues to insist he can defeat an ostrich, and Jody comes armed with a Johnny Cash story to shut him up; and the answer to last week's question: "What's one simple thing you fix about yourself, that you would fix about yourself, that you're not fixing?"

Syd Sydla takes people fishing on the Quabbin. Will Staats hunts for moose antlers in the spring mountains of northern New England. They are great outdoorsmen who are not assholes about their greatness, and as such they are the inaugural class for the Remembering I'm an Animal hall of fame.

Also, Billy eventually loses his train of thought about his problems with people who are excessively core about their outdoor activity, the Mr. Outdoors-types who just want to be more right, a zero-sum status game of leap-frog...

Plus, Jody eats freeze-dried bugs live on air and it is as awful as it sounds; a reader/friend of Jody's/pyromaniac says interesting things about habitat restoration; three (maybe four) additions to the list of the Fundamental Evolved Abilities of the Build; and so much more. Our most action-packed episode to date. I'm exhausted thinking of typing any more of it.

PLUS EVERYONE HAS HOMEWORK: 
Figure out your enneagram number for the next episode.

For the first time, Billy took his young sons bowhunting for turkey, and it was a magical day, soaked in a deep connection to the fathers and sons who have done such things for millennia.

Then the cops were called.

Inspired by a recent New Yorker article about the booming Margaritaville retirement community in Florida, a Twitter thread about wealth creations, and his 46th birthday, Billy is on a mission to finally pay attention to wealth creation so that he would at least be able to move to Margaritaville when his time comes. (It all ties in. It really does, and in many ways the most primal urge of adulthood is to put hay in the barn for those years when you can't any more.)

Also, the fellas go deep into the "Lindy" theory and its connections to the "Remembering I'm an Animal" journey; Jody fails to convince Billy that "catch and release" fishing has any ethical basis; Billy finishes up his guided psychedelic therapy, then has the angriest birthday of his life; and the guys tackle the grandest question in life: What's the biggest animal you can beat in a fight?

William Patrick is an author and editor with a long connection to books that are very relevant to this journey that Billy and Jody are on. So much so that when Billy discovered him years ago, it felt so uncanny that he thought seriously of reaching out to this stranger to say “We have a lot in common and should meet.” Instead, years later, William happened to hear Billy being interviewed on NPR,  recognized the connection, and then he emailed Billy to say "We have a lot in common and should meet." 

So today, William joins the show to talk about the Mythopoetics of the early 90s, how the disappearing male tribe has created an era of loneliness, and what we can do to be 10% happier. 

Billy returns from a two-week road trip to Florida very much convinced that he has uncovered a hidden-in-plain-sight secret: that Florida Man is the most admirably primitive species in modern America.

Plus, Jody's emotional day appreciating the gift of human achievement whilst holding a sign atop Heartbreak Hill during the Boston Marathon; a vow to figure out what is meant by "lindy;" the strange magic of chimpanzees; the stranger magic of very cold water; and a philosophical discussion of whether wildlife should be managed for the benefit of humans, or the benefit of wildlife.

Male friendship is the focus this week, with the paperback release of Billy's book, "We Need to Hang Out," and an invitation to join a legendary crew of older guys who have been gathering in a barn on Wednesday nights for decades.

The boys also discuss the pros and cons of "bitch stance" while digging for clams, the "new golden age of wildlife," Jody's attempts to eat the random weeds that grow in his yard without dying, and whether or not the bird sounds on TV during The Masters are real. Plus a random story about how Billy's 94-year-old grandmother, who is from Spain, is wracking up huge charges on his credit card by watching TV shows in Korean.