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The Joe Rogan Experience · May 22, 2025 · 5 min read
Gad Saad

This episode of The Joe Rogan Experience featuring evolutionary behavioral scientist and author Gad Saad unfolds as a sprawling, deeply intellectual, and often humorous exploration of psychology, culture, politics, and the hidden mechanisms of human decision-making. The energy is…

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 21, 2025 · 10 min read
Bert Sorin on The Joe Rogan Experience

Sorinex co-founder Bert Sorin and Joe Rogan talk strength for fighters, Highland stones, bowhunting gear, near-fatal injuries and the 90% life.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 21, 2025 · 11 min read
Raekwon

Raekwon tells Joe Rogan how RZA united nine MCs into Wu-Tang Clan, the story behind C.R.E.A.M., and why 90s hip-hop still matters.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · May 20, 2025 · 11 min read
If You’re Feeling Uncertain or Anxious, You Need to Hear This

Psychologist Dr. Julie Smith shares practical tools for fear, overwhelm, self-criticism, comparison, anxiety and a life that has shrunk.

Book summary · May 17, 2025 · 7 min read
The Let Them Theory

Mel Robbins argues that two words, Let Them, free you from managing other people, and two more, Let Me, put your energy back into the only thing you control: yourself.

Book summary · May 15, 2025 · 7 min read
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

A clinical psychologist's twelve blunt, oddly named rules for carrying responsibility, telling the truth and finding meaning in a life that will include suffering.

Book summary · May 15, 2025 · 7 min read
10x Is Easier Than 2x

A coach and a psychologist argue that a tenfold goal is simpler than doubling, because it forces you to drop the 80 percent of your work that cannot come along.

Book summary · May 15, 2025 · 7 min read
21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari turns from humanity's past and far future to the present, asking how AI, nationalism, fake news and the loss of old stories will test us right now.

The School of Greatness · May 14, 2025 · 8 min read
The 7 Keys To Thriving After A Breakdown with Chris Lee

Chris Lee's seven steps for breakdowns: accept, take responsibility, process emotion, forgive, recommit, act with support, celebrate.

Book summary · May 12, 2025 · 8 min read
Can’t Hurt Me

A retired Navy SEAL and ultramarathon runner tells how he turned an abused, overweight, aimless young man into one of the toughest people alive, and hands over the mental tools he used.

Book summary · May 12, 2025 · 8 min read
Ikigai

What the centenarians of an Okinawan village can teach the rest of us about purpose, calm, food, friends and a reason to get up in the morning.

Book summary · May 12, 2025 · 8 min read
You Can Win

Shiv Khera's step-by-step case that success is learned: begin with attitude, then build self-esteem, people skills, habits, goals and values on top of it.

Lex Fridman Podcast · May 11, 2025 · 17 min read
Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI, the Future of AI, and Humanity

Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Amanda Askell and Chris Olah discuss scaling laws, AI safety levels, Claude's character, and looking inside neural networks.

Lex Fridman Podcast · May 11, 2025 · 13 min read
Marc Andreessen: Trump, Power, Tech, AI, Immigration & the Future of America

Marc Andreessen on America's growth potential, preference falsification, censorship, DOGE, high-skill immigration, AI coding and the trillion-dollar AI questions.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · May 10, 2025 · 11 min read
4 Books That Will Change Your Life

Mel Robbins shares four very different books that changed her life, from daily meditations to fantasy, and the backstories that make them matter.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 10, 2025 · 10 min read
Big Jay Oakerson

Big Jay Oakerson and Joe Rogan riff on stand-up's evolution, reading the room, hecklers, Hollywood side gigs and street-fight bravado.

Huberman Lab · May 9, 2025 · 15 min read
Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human Life with Dr. Brian Keating

Cosmologist Brian Keating on how stargazing shaped time, why astrology fails, his near-Nobel retraction, and whether we are alone.

Lex Fridman Podcast · May 9, 2025 · 14 min read
The Primeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God

ThePrimeagen shares his path from addiction to Netflix engineer and streamer, plus his views on learning languages, Neovim, asserts, AI and faith.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 9, 2025 · 11 min read
Chris Williamson

Chris Williamson and Joe Rogan on extremism, Ozempic, men falling behind, type A problems, algorithms and why personal growth is lonely.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · May 8, 2025 · 10 min read
6 Sneaky Ways People Are Disrespecting You & What to Do About It

Mel Robbins names six subtle forms of disrespect, from being talked over to backhanded compliments, and gives scripts to respond and protect your peace.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 8, 2025 · 11 min read
Josh Waitzkin

Josh Waitzkin on chess fame, Marcelo Garcia's genius, foiling, surviving a drowning and why a beginner's mind is our best defense against AI.

Lex Fridman Podcast · May 7, 2025 · 17 min read
Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India | Power, Democracy, War & Peace

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi talks with Lex Fridman about fasting, his youth, the RSS, Gandhi, peace, Pakistan, China, Trump, AI and learning.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 7, 2025 · 9 min read
2286 – Antonio Brown

Antonio Brown talks CTE awareness, life after the NFL, working with Kanye, his viral X awards and the foot exercises that kept him elite.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 7, 2025 · 13 min read
Michael Kosta

Michael Kosta and Joe Rogan talk joke writing, tennis and grit, knockouts, the Comedy Mothership, free speech, sauna habits and AI.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · May 6, 2025 · 11 min read
Look, Feel, & Stay Young Forever: #1 Orthopedic Surgeon’s Proven Protocol

Orthopedic surgeon Vonda Wright argues frailty is not inevitable and lays out her walk, sprint, lift and balance routine.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 6, 2025 · 12 min read
2281 – Elon Musk

Elon Musk on what DOGE says it found in government, media attacks, Starship's heat shield, Mars plans, AI risk and threats to his life.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 6, 2025 · 10 min read
Bill Murray

Bill Murray swaps Hunter S. Thompson stories, defends John Belushi, explains golf as a mind-body practice and talks homelessness with Joe Rogan.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 6, 2025 · 14 min read
2280 – Peter Berg

Director Peter Berg joins Joe Rogan on making American Primeval, Brigham Young, handling critics, writing rituals and what makes champions.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 6, 2025 · 10 min read
Andrew Schulz

Andrew Schulz and Joe Rogan on free will, comedy craft, class politics, padel and recovery, IVF, and how fatherhood changes a man.

The Joe Rogan Experience · May 6, 2025 · 9 min read
2283 – Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan unpacks the Bill Burr half-brother saga, his mob-connected father, comedy legends, unconscious messages in songs and refusing to sell out.