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The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 10 min read
Steven Bartlett on the 51% Rule, Type 1 vs Type 2 Decisions and Thinking From First Principles

Steven Bartlett shares how he makes decisions: question the story, use the 51% rule, move fast on reversible choices and reason from first principles.

The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 18, 2026 · 10 min read
Craig Jones on the Million-Dollar Craig Jones Invitational, ADCC and Grappling Pay

Craig Jones brings a million dollars in cash to explain his rival grappling tournament, athlete pay, steroids, Volkanovski and his road through jiu-jitsu.

The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Tom Green on Farm Life in Canada, Training a Mule, a Devastating Burn Injury and Leaving Hollywood

Tom Green tells Joe Rogan about life on his Canadian farm, a mule that reads his mind, a near-catastrophic burn in Costa Rica, and why he left Hollywood.

The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 18, 2026 · 9 min read
Joe Rogan and Bobby Lee: Sobriety, Comedy Store Stories, Writing Discipline and a World That Feels Fragile

Old friends Joe Rogan and Bobby Lee finally sit down to talk relapse, 90s Comedy Store tales, writing habits, Star Trek, politics and why podcasts changed comedy.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 10 min read
Michael Saylor on Lex Fridman: Bitcoin as Digital Energy, Inflation as a Vector, and the Future of Money

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor argues inflation is badly mismeasured and makes his case for Bitcoin as ethical digital property and digital energy.

The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 18, 2026 · 10 min read
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.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 10 min read
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.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 12 min read
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.

The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 18, 2026 · 10 min read
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.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 9 min read
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.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 10 min read
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.

The Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 8 min read
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.

The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 18, 2026 · 9 min read
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 Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 18, 2026 · 8 min read
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.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 13 min read
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.

The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 18, 2026 · 10 min read
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.

The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 18, 2026 · 8 min read
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.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 9 min read
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.

Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 10 min read
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.

Book summary · Oct 17, 2026 · 9 min read
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.

Book summary · Oct 17, 2026 · 8 min read
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.

Huberman Lab · Oct 17, 2026 · 10 min read
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.

Book summary · Oct 17, 2026 · 8 min read
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.

Book summary · Oct 17, 2026 · 9 min read
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.

Red Queen · Oct 17, 2026 · 8 min read
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.

Book summary · Oct 17, 2026 · 9 min read
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.

Book summary · Oct 17, 2026 · 8 min read
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.

Book summary · Oct 17, 2026 · 8 min read
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.

Book summary · Oct 17, 2026 · 8 min read
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.

Book summary · Oct 17, 2026 · 9 min read
Desiring God

John Piper's case for Christian Hedonism: that chasing your deepest joy in God is not selfish but the very thing that honors Him most.