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Shi Heng Yi on the Five Hindrances, the RAIN Method and the Path to Self-Mastery
Shaolin master Shi Heng Yi explains the five mental hindrances, the RAIN method, and how to turn a vision into a real skill.
Rainn Wilson on Why Fame Didn't Fix Feeling Unlovable, and What Finally Did
Rainn Wilson on being as unhappy famous as broke, grieving his father, taming the ego, and learning to believe he is enough.
Pierre Poilievre on Tariffs, Canada's Resources, Inflation and a Shared Love of Martial Arts
Canada's Conservative leader makes his case on tariffs, resources, inflation and freedom, and trades kettlebell and fight talk with Rogan.
Sundar Pichai on Leading Google Through the AI Race, AGI Timelines and the Future of Search
Google's CEO on his Chennai childhood, why AI beats fire and electricity, AGI after 2030, AI Mode, Chrome, Waymo and calm leadership.
Fight Companion with Joey Diaz, Brendan Schaub and Eddie Bravo: Evloev vs Murphy and the White House Card
Rogan, Joey Diaz, Brendan Schaub and Eddie Bravo watch UFC London and argue about matchmaking, pay and the White House card.
Dr. K on Identity, Self-Sabotage and Why You Control Your Responses, Not Your Thoughts
Psychiatrist Dr. K explains why a negative identity protects you, how goals cause procrastination, and what you can really control.
Arthur Brooks on Finding Meaning: Screens, the Four Idols and Choosing Happy over Special
Arthur Brooks explains why screens crowd out meaning, how to find the idol that drives you, and four habits that revive a marriage.
Brigham Buhler on the Fight Over Peptides, Compounding Pharmacies, Stem Cells and Cash-Pay Medicine
Clinic founder Brigham Buhler makes his case for legal peptides and stem cells, a cash-pay health model, gene sequencing and Muse cells.
Jeff Ross on Roasts, Lost Friends, Surviving Colon Cancer and Enjoying the Process
Jeff Ross talks dogs, roasting Tom Brady and Kevin Hart, the comics he misses, and getting through colon cancer and alopecia.
Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown on Notation, Infinity and How to Really Learn Math
Grant Sanderson on why notation hides the beauty of math, whether math is discovered or invented, and how to learn it.
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Putin, and Why Power Needs Constraints
Historian Stephen Kotkin on Putin's popularity, Stalin's rise, the failure of Marxism in practice, and why institutions matter.
Drink, Drugs and What Comes After: Five Stories and a Psychiatrist's Frame
Tim Dillon, Ed Calderon and Mel Gibson describe getting sober, while Scott Storch is still slipping and Chris Harris describes a drinking slide rather than a finished recovery; across all five, what helped was something put in the substance's place (work, cars, a higher power, a new town and new company, honesty with others), not willpower alone. Anna Lembke's psychiatry supports the abstinence and self-binding parts of their stories, and warns that swapping one escape for another is not the same as recovery.
ADHD Stimulants: Real Benefits, Real Risks, and Two Comedians' Stories
Psychiatrist John Kruse, Andrew Huberman and neurologist Masud Husain agree that stimulants can powerfully help the right person at the right dose, but they warn of psychosis, cardiovascular strain, addiction and diminishing returns for those who don't need them. Comedians Raanan Hershberg and Kat Timpf add first-person accounts of a prescription that became an addiction and of a woman medicated since age five discovering life without amphetamines.
Childhood Words and Reactions That Harden Into Lifelong Self-Image
Terry Bradshaw, Nikki Glaser and Ethan Suplee each trace a belief they still carry to things said or done to them as children: a mother's verdict, a classroom insult and constant sibling comparison, a grandparents' alarm at a five-year-old's body. Their stories show that a remark rarely works alone but lands inside a pattern that confirms it, which is why parents should watch both words and reactions, and why adults should trace their old labels back to where they started.
Diagnosed With ADHD as an Adult: Relief, Grief and Years of Masking
Mel Robbins, diagnosed at 47, and Terry Bradshaw, diagnosed with ADD after he retired from football, both describe the relief of a diagnosis that finally explained lifelong struggles, and Robbins also names the grief that came with it. Psychiatrist Sasha Hamdani, who was diagnosed as a child, explains why women in particular are missed for decades while they mask, and tells patients that mourning lost time is normal but that those years were not wasted.
Fentanyl changed the stakes: why one counterfeit pill can now kill
Laura Berman lost her 16-year-old son to a suspected fentanyl-laced pill, Stanford's Bonnie Halpern-Felsher warns about fentanyl in the drugs teens experiment with, and former counter-narcotics officer Ed Calderon explains the cartel pipeline that pushes fentanyl into the supply. Together they show that experimenting with a pill bought outside a pharmacy now carries a risk of death that earlier generations did not face, which changes what parents need to tell their kids.
Panic Attacks as False Alarms: What Two Comedians and a Psychologist Learned
Joey Diaz and Raanan Hershberg describe stage panics that felt life-threatening, and Nicole LePera explains panic as a nervous system reacting to threat that its past has defined, not to danger in the room. Knowing it's a false alarm helps, but all three accounts suggest the body only learns that through practice: breathing trained before the crisis, and staying in the situation instead of fleeing or sedating.
Don't wait until life is fixed to have fun
Kelly McGonigal calls joy a survival tool that people need because life is hard, not a reward for a perfect life. Mel Robbins urges prioritizing fun especially when life feels heavy and says not to wait until you feel better to live, and ten-year-old Elton tells adults they need to have fun too. Treating fun as a resource for hard times, and not a luxury for later, changes what people allow themselves while they struggle.
Grief isn't only for the dead: mourning jobs, hopes and empty nests
Grief expert David Kessler defines grief as any change we didn't want, including a divorce or a lost job. Andrew Huberman explains that the brain grieves people, animals and even objects through the same craving circuitry, Ramani Durvasula says healing from a narcissistic relationship means grieving the person you hoped they were, and Mel Robbins treats the empty nest as a loss to work through. Calling these losses grief gives people permission to mourn them instead of wondering why they can't just move on.
Donald Knuth on Algorithms, TeX, Faith, and a Lifetime Writing The Art of Computer Programming
Donald Knuth on how he writes The Art of Computer Programming, why P may equal NP, faith, mortality, and being happy enough.
Mel Robbins on the Science of Unexpected Connections and Happiness
Mel Robbins shares research and five true stories showing how saying hello to strangers can boost happiness, health and change your life.
Mike Baker on the Trump Assassination Attempt, the 2024 Race, Iran, Ukraine and Distrust in Institutions
Former CIA officer Mike Baker and Joe Rogan discuss Secret Service failures, the 2024 election, Iran's proxies, Ukraine's push into Russia and the JFK files.
Judie Robbins at 86: Walking, Connection and Adventure as the Secrets to a Long, Happy Life
Mel Robbins's 86-year-old mother-in-law Judie shares her daily routine, adventures and why staying connected matters most for a long life.
John Grisham on Golden Moments, Rejection and Writing One Page a Day
John Grisham tells Mel Robbins how drifting, rejection and one page a day at 5 a.m. turned a small-town lawyer into a bestselling novelist.