Levon_Furnish-John - The Monday Morning Memo

“When I read stories about people—usually young men—doing incredibly dangerous things for the momentary bragging rights or ‘glory’ of pulling it off, I think about my little heuristic: ‘Is it worth it?’ For instance, there’s a tradition in Yellowstone to go ‘hot potting.’ This is when you briefly jump into a thermal spring. The problem is not hard to guess. If you don’t do a little research, you can jump into the wrong cauldron. Or you can jump in the wrong spot and not be able to get out. Whatever. Some springwater can reach near-boiling temperatures, and you can very easily die. (In 2016, a young man died and was quickly liquified due to a mixture of the heat and acidic water.) Would it be cool to pull it off? Yup. Worth the risk? Nope.”

- Jonah Goldberg, Oct 17, 2025

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