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Chad Daniels and Joe Rogan on Comedy Craft, Mortality and the Simulation
Comedian Chad Daniels and Joe Rogan cover where jokes come from, funerals, comics lost too soon, Tyson's rise, pool, free speech, Bigfoot and the simulation.
Grimes on Music Production, Motherhood, AI and Choosing Humanity's Future
Grimes talks with Lex Fridman about music production, becoming a mother, optimistic futures, AI, consciousness and why we are now Homo techno.
Dr. Ramani Durvasula on Spotting Narcissism: Entitlement, Myths, Love Bombing and Why It's Not You
Dr. Ramani explains narcissism as a rigid personality style built on entitlement, busts four myths, and shows how to spot love bombing early.
Josh Dubin and Sheldon Johnson on a 50-Year Sentence, Redemption and Fixing a Broken System
Sheldon Johnson, sentenced to 50 years for robberies, tells Joe Rogan and Josh Dubin how he transformed in prison and now keeps kids out of it.
Ben Askren on Wrestling Mastery, MMA Dominance, Losing, and Coaching Champions
Ben Askren talks Jake Paul, Jordan Burroughs, his loss to Masvidal, how he built his funk wrestling, coaching, and why he loves Bitcoin.
Niels Jorgensen on 9/11, Ground Zero, Leukemia and the Unity of 9/12
Retired FDNY firefighter Niels Jorgensen recounts 9/11 at Ground Zero, his leukemia, the fight for responders' care and the unity that followed.
Mel Robbins on the American Time Use Survey: 6 Truths About Who You Spend Your Life With
Mel Robbins walks through six findings on who we spend time with across life, and how to be intentional with family, friends, partners, kids and yourself.
Sam Tallent and Joe Rogan on Road Comedy, the Muse and Punk Ethics
Comedian and novelist Sam Tallent talks touring the world, punk-rock work ethic, the muse, cults, money guilt and politics with Joe Rogan.
The Enhanced Games: Aron D'Souza and Christian Angermayer on Performance Enhancement, Paying Athletes and Psychedelics
The Enhanced Games founders tell Joe Rogan why they want an Olympics that pays athletes and allows supervised performance enhancement.
John Vervaeke on the Meaning Crisis, Relevance Realization, Religion and the Search for Wisdom
Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke on the meaning crisis, relevance realization, wisdom, non-theism, flow, psychedelics and learning to love wisely.
Tyler Fischer on Joe Rogan: Growing Up With a Gay Dad, Pandemic Fallout, Discrimination and Why He Moved to Austin
Comic Tyler Fischer tells Joe Rogan about his wild youth, losing work in the pandemic, a discrimination lawsuit and finding freedom at the Mothership.
Noland Arbaugh on Joe Rogan: Life as Neuralink's First Human Patient
Neuralink's first human patient explains how he moves a cursor with his thoughts, what went wrong, and why he chose to go first.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on 5G, Snapdragon and the Connected Intelligent Edge
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon explains 5G, how Snapdragon packs a computer into a phone, the chip shortage, and Qualcomm's push into cars and PCs.
Bobby Lee on Comedy, Skyrim, Relapse, Khalyla, Fame, Power and the Meaning of Life
Comedian Bobby Lee mixes absurd humor with raw honesty about his father, a recent relapse, recovery, love with Khalyla and finding wonder in life.
Count Down
A leading reproductive epidemiologist explains why sperm counts in the West have halved in forty years, what everyday chemicals have to do with it, and what you can change at home.
The Telomere Effect
Victoria Aveyard's farewell to the Red Queen world: five novellas and a scholar's records that trace a kingdom from its apocalyptic birth to the hard, hopeful work of peace.
Dr. Scott Kanoski on How Food Shapes Memory and Cravings: GLP-1, the Vagus Nerve, Sugar and the Microbiome
Scott Kanoski explains how GLP-1, the vagus nerve, sugar and processed food shape hunger, cravings and hippocampal memory.
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt argue that three bad ideas and a culture of overprotection are leaving a generation of students more fragile, more anxious and more divided.
God and the Gay Christian
Matthew Vines argues, passage by passage, that Christians who hold the Bible as fully authoritative can also bless committed same-sex relationships.
Broken Throne
Victoria Aveyard's farewell to the Red Queen world: five novellas and a scholar's records that trace a kingdom from its apocalyptic birth to the hard, hopeful work of peace.
Do the Work
The Holistic Psychologist's guide to why willpower fails, how childhood wires our automatic patterns, and the daily mind-and-body practices that let you choose who you become.
War Is a Racket
One of America's most decorated Marines argues that war is a business run for the few at the expense of the many, and offers three blunt ways to shut it down.
People to Be Loved
A New Testament scholar keeps the traditional Christian view of sex and marriage while telling the church its treatment of gay people has to change.
My Big TOE
A NASA physicist's theory of everything: consciousness is the foundation of reality, the physical world is a virtual training ground, and the point of it all is to grow from fear toward love.