Are Goats Inherently Into Hypotheticals? - Episode 32

The Musers The Podcast

Cumulus Podcast Network

Sports, Comedy

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

February 18, 2026 - Mark Cuban once offered Gordon a six figure payday to legally change his name to “Dallas Maverick.” One year. Simple. He said no. Why? Integrity? Pride? Philosophy? Or just stubbornness? That story becomes the launchpad for a bigger question: are people inherently good, inherently bad, or just very skilled at rationalizing whatever they were already going to do? From there, the Musers spiral into the ethics of terminal diagnoses and crime rates, the honor system and surveillance cameras, religion as guardrail, grocery store morality, Sophie’s Choice, the trolley problem, and whether most of our “good” behavior is just enlightened self-interest. Somewhere along the way, goats enter the chat. What starts as a name change anecdote turns into a surprisingly thoughtful, frequently ridiculous exploration of human nature. Are we neutral until tempted? Do laws make us good? Would we still behave if no one was watching? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.6	Why you have to talk to it? Well, I mean, you got to...
0:27.8	That makes it weird.
0:31.2	It's the Musers, the podcast, in episode 32. Are goats inherently into hypotheticals?
0:39.4	Hello there, and welcome to The Musers, the podcast.
0:44.0	Three friends who have just been, we grew up in the same womb, and then we went on to go to school together all the way through elementary and middle school and high school.
0:53.9	Then we went to college together and then we started a radio show together.
0:56.7	Then we did a podcast together.
0:58.7	You are in for a treat.
1:00.0	I'm Gordon Keith.
1:01.5	I'm George Dunham.
1:02.4	I'm Craig Miller.
1:03.7	And this is episode 32.
1:06.5	And this is a very special episode because we received Word recently that we are now over
1:14.1	one million downloads.
1:17.1	Can you believe that?
1:18.3	Wow.
1:19.0	In three weeks.
1:22.2	Not three weeks, but we did only start this back in June of 2025.
1:30.5	So I don't I don't know how it all works.
1:33.7	That feels like a pretty quick trip to a million.
1:34.7	Yeah.
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