Macrodosing days are usually chaos days, and Monday was no exception. The headline drop is a new Nano with Sen. Eric Schmitt running through the NBA Finals shift, USMNT, MLB and the Myles Garrett trade — a legit sports-and-politics grab bag that the show has been quietly leaning into more and more.
The new Nano with Sen. Eric Schmitt covering the Finals shift, USMNT, MLB and the Myles Garrett trade.
That's the actual episode pitch. Schmitt sitting across from the Macrodosing crew, his book on the shelf behind him, talking ball and the biggest trade of the NBA offseason — Myles Garrett ending up somewhere new. If you wanted the straight sports content, the Nano is where it lives.
But the rest of the Macrodosing timeline got hijacked by an extremely unexpected co-star: actor Jerry O'Connell, who apparently spent his guest spot delivering verdicts on everything from juvenile podcast lore to the shady underbelly of Hollywood. First up — he was handed the floor to officially weigh in on Hen Ease's farting incident, which is a sentence I cannot believe I just typed.
Jerry O'Connell, somehow, gets the final word on the Hen Ease farting saga.
From there the bits kept escalating. There was a riff about CD ROMs still somehow being culturally relevant, an Occam's Razor lecture tied to a story about an overwhelmed police chief, and then the actual money clip — O'Connell pulling back the curtain on the sketchy side of being a working actor, managers and all.
O'Connell on the shady manager-and-handler layer of Hollywood, captions teasing the story mid-setup.
So that's the Macrodosing universe right now: a senator breaking down the Garrett trade and the Finals on one feed, and Jerry O'Connell holding court on flatulence and showbiz on the other. Pick your poison — both are very on-brand for a pod that has never met a tonal swing it didn't like.