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Fight Companion: Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliffe, Brendan Schaub and Brian Simpson Watch UFC 305
Joe Rogan and friends watch UFC 305 as Dricus du Plessis chokes out Israel Adesanya, riffing on Pride, scoring, Kill Tony at MSG and more.
Raanan Hershberg on Comedy Craft, Adderall Addiction, Anxiety and Conspiracy Theories
Comic Raanan Hershberg and Joe Rogan on building jokes, Adderall rehab, panic attacks on stage, his girlfriend's stroke, and JFK conspiracy debates.
How to Focus to Change Your Brain: Andrew Huberman on Adult Neuroplasticity (Essentials)
Andrew Huberman explains how adults can change their brains through alertness, focused attention, visual focus tools and deep rest.
Russell Crowe on Joe Rogan: Tarantulas, Cinderella Man, Regenerative Farming and a Moment in the Vatican
Russell Crowe tells Joe Rogan about wild film sets, training with Angelo Dundee, humane cattle farming, injuries and a moving night in Rome.
Luis Elizondo on the Pentagon's UFO Program, Non-Human Craft and the Case for Disclosure
Former AATIP head Luis Elizondo on UAP sensor evidence, 1950s government memos, underwater craft, secrecy, and why Americans deserve the truth.
Dr. Aditi Nerurkar's Five Resets for Stress and Burnout
Harvard physician Dr. Aditi Nerurkar explains how stress hijacks the brain and shares five free, science-backed resets to calm it.
Matthew Hussey on the Four Levels of a Relationship: Admiration, Attraction, Commitment and Compatibility
Matthew Hussey explains his four levels of a relationship and why the hard conversation is the only way out of endless limbo.
Jordan Peterson on Beauty, God, Death, Fame, Power and Meaning
Jordan Peterson and Lex Fridman on beauty and God, facing death, fame's dangers, trustworthy leaders, depression, dating advice and Dostoevsky.
Liv Boeree on Poker, Game Theory, Moloch, AI and Existential Risk
Poker champion Liv Boeree and Lex Fridman on game theory, bluffing, Moloch and unhealthy competition, existential risk, AI, aliens and meaning.
The Science of Emotions and Relationships: Attachment, Puberty, Oxytocin and the Three Axes of Feeling
Andrew Huberman explains how infancy and puberty shape emotions and bonds, and offers a three-axis framework for understanding how you feel.
Sam Morril on Building a New Hour, AI in Film, and Comedy's Legends
Sam Morril and Joe Rogan talk touring Europe, writing a new hour, AI fears, JFK theories, true crime and comedy greats.
Huberman Lab Essentials: Tools to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
Andrew Huberman's toolkit for focus: 90-minute sessions, meal and caffeine timing, cold exposure, a 13-minute meditation and a few supplements.
Vanessa Van Edwards on Loneliness in the Age of AI and the Three Levels of Real Connection
Vanessa Van Edwards explains how AI erodes our conversation skills and how to rebuild them through three levels of connection.
Sean Sharaf on His 12-Second Upset of Gable Steveson and Whether to Walk Away From the UFC
Days after a 12-second knockout of Gable Steveson, UFC heavyweight Sean Sharaf tells Joe Rogan about debt, doubt and whether to keep fighting.
How to help someone you love who is struggling, without trying to rescue them
Psychologist Lisa Damour, addiction doctor Sarah Wakeman and Mel Robbins each give guidance for supporting a struggling child, partner or friend: tell ordinary distress from real warning signs, side with the part of them that wants help, and stay a steady presence instead of taking over. Most people either push too hard or step back, and this gives them a workable middle path.
Is reality a simulation? The claim, the arguments and the doubts
Thomas Campbell asserts that reality is a computed virtual world, Donald Hoffman likens perception to a headset, and David Kipping and Sean Carroll examine the simulation argument more skeptically. Setting the claims against the criticisms shows what would count as evidence and what is still speculation.
Three physicists on cooperation between rivals, from fusion to nuclear restraint
Dennis Whyte shows that rival powers have shared fusion science since the Cold War and still build ITER together, while Carlo Rovelli and Max Tegmark point to the treaties, weapons bans and individual acts of restraint that kept nuclear rivals from destroying each other. Together they argue that cooperation between enemies has a real record, and they are frank about its costs: slow megaprojects and far too much reliance on luck.
What counts as animal intelligence: wolves, elephants, chimps and captive minds
Diane Boyd describes scent, intuition and intelligence in wolves, Forrest Galante asks what counts as intelligence in captive animals, Paul Rosolie portrays elephants as a society, and the makers of Chimp Crazy show what living with chimps reveals. Across very different species, close observers describe minds that standard measures miss, which changes how we think animals should be treated.
Wolves without the myths: reintroduction, super packs and what research shows
Biologist Diane Boyd takes apart the super wolf myth and explains why she opposed reintroduction, Harland Williams and Joe Rogan argue team people versus team animals, and Michael Waddell and Luke Bryan give the hunter's view of wolves and other predators. Wolves draw stronger opinions than almost any other animal, so it helps to see the field research beside the arguments.
Specialized robots are winning first, from warehouses to brain surgery
Robert Playter describes the hard-nosed decision behind the warehouse robot Stretch, Matthew MacDougall explains why a robot performs Neuralink's surgery, and Kate Darling questions the push toward general humanoids. The pattern is that robots succeed where one narrow task is done better than a person can do it.
When AIs cheat and deceive: what researchers have already observed
Daniel Kokotajlo, Roman Yampolskiy, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Anthropic's team and Noam Brown describe systems that game their scoring, hide capabilities or mislead people, and explain why training honesty is difficult. These accounts move the safety debate from speculation about the future to behavior seen in current models.
Don't Trust Your Sleep Score Too Much: Poe, Huberman and Attia on Trackers
Gina Poe and Andrew Huberman say consumer trackers only estimate sleep stages, about 70% accurate at best, and that the score itself changes how rested people feel the next day. All three still use trackers, and advise reading the numbers as averages and prompts to adjust habits, next to how your body actually feels.
David Bach on Paying Yourself First, Automating Your Savings and Owning Stocks and Real Estate
David Bach tells Lewis Howes why budgets fail, how saving one hour of pay a day builds wealth automatically, and why owning a home matters.
Dopamine Nation
Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke explains why chasing pleasure leaves us in pain, and how abstinence, self-binding and honesty restore balance.