Welcome back to The Conversationalists — today it’s Ryan, Richard, and Mark in the studio (Lewis is MIA, as usual… probably doing something suspiciously responsible).

We kick things off with some city/transit talk, then jump into Super Bowl reactions, what it’s like experiencing big games live, and a surprisingly deep rabbit hole on the Olympics and what those events really represent.

From there we slide into basketball / NBA talk, then hit a quick movies & shows check-in — including Richard’s completely scientific rating scale: “4 riches out of 5.”

Later we pivot into a real moment acknowledging recent tragic news and the importance of reaching out when things get heavy — then we lighten it back up with an absolutely classic Conversationalists segment: the fantasy of acreage / off-grid living… and why it sounds like a full- ...