Megyn Kelly says Al Roker wears a decent mask and has rage under the surface
Kelly uses Billy Bush's Today show story to turn friendship envy into a bigger theory about suspicious public niceness.
Maureen Callahan says Paramount slapping Mark Ruffalo as anti-Semitic is Hollywood’s canary in the coal mine
Josephine Skriver says A Court of Thorns and Roses should be animated like Arcane, not live action
Daymond John says big-box retail puts more small brands out of business than it puts in business
Rebecca Serle says In Five Years came from a psychic love prophecy that was off by one day
B.K. Borison says her romance heroines rarely give head because male pleasure is already centered in media
Alex Aster says Starside is true enemies-to-lovers because they want each other dead
The Lightlark author is selling Starside as a rage quest with sword magic, revenge, and a romance that starts from actual murder energy.
Haley Grace McCormick says she made her dad read her novel's spicy chapter out loud
The 'Enemy of Time' author explains the unconventional, slightly mortifying editing process behind her debut romance.
Troy Millings says Nvidia is acting as the 'central bank' of AI
The GPU giant is essentially buying its own customers and funding its own competitors to make sure the AI bubble never pops.
Josephine Skriver says she spent the 2019 Met Gala standing in the bathroom because her dress was too big to sit in.
The model learned the hard way that a red carpet gown requires an immediate costume change the second you get inside.
Amanda Frances says a $21 offer made $45,000 in three days
The money mindset coach is betting that the next version of her business is not higher-ticket everything, but thousands of people buying $20 challenges.
Kevin O'Leary says Steve Jobs told him entrepreneurs should do only three signal tasks a day
O'Leary's Steve Jobs story is clean, brutal, useful, and then the PBD Podcast accidentally stress-tests it with a merch pitch.
Maureen Callahan says Prince Harry is contradicting himself about the U.K. after calling America the life Diana wanted for him
Callahan’s point is not subtle, but the tape helps her: Harry made California sound like destiny, then the royal weather changed.
Ian Bremmer says Anthropic's new AI model is dangerous to all of us globally
The geopolitical-risk expert argues that AI needs the same kind of emergency oversight finance got after crises, and he points to Anthropic as the warning flare.
Roy Seiders says YETI raised prices 15 percent after its manufacturing partner was murdered and blamed raw materials
The YETI origin story has bootstraps, bears, and a very expensive cooler, but the revealing part is a crisis price hike that became proof of real pricing power.
Sadhguru says turning your palms over changes which part of your lungs expands
On The Shawn Ryan Show, Sadhguru turns a mystical woods story into a very physical claim about hands, breath, and the body’s hidden switches.
Roman Yampolskiy says AI labs may have artificial scientists improving AI in one or two years
The AI safety researcher’s warning on the Danny Jones Podcast is specific, grim, and a little too confident about a clock nobody can actually read.
Patrick Bet-David says foreign leaders snubbed JD Vance because they think Marco Rubio will be president next
The PBD Podcast turned a few awkward diplomatic clips into a 2028 power read, and the read says JD Vance has a respect problem.
Bruce Bryan says wrongful conviction cost him 29 years, but not his ability to become a thriver
The Nightmare Success episode sells Bryan’s story less as an innocence-case postmortem than as a startling argument about what a person can still build after the state takes three decades.
Patrick Bet-David says the UK has had seven prime ministers in 10 years
The PBD Podcast framed a tearful Labour resignation as proof that Britain has turned Downing Street into a revolving door, but the number depends on counting the successor too.
Ian Silber says AI is already an incredible product designer
OpenAI’s head of product design makes the case that designers aren’t doomed by AI, they’re late to the most useful tool in the room.
Billy Strings says he found his mom’s meth stash after her fatal overdose and wanted to save some for a rainy day
On This Past Weekend, the bluegrass star gave one of the rawest descriptions of addiction you’ll hear from a famous musician, because he refused to make himself the hero of it.
Heather Lynn says archaeology was primarily used as a cover for spying operations
On Danny Jones Podcast, Lynn ties cabinets of curiosities, King Tut money, and Middle East mapmaking to archaeology's oldest dirty secret.
Dave Asprey says about 50,000 entrepreneurs and many politicians are on modafinil
The biohacking evangelist framed the narcolepsy drug as a cognitive edge for founders, then casually suggested asking ChatGPT how to get a prescription.
Kathy Griffin says she hasn't been in the black for six years since the Trump head photo
On Club Random, Griffin makes the cancellation sound less like a scolding and more like a long, expensive layoff with lawyers.
Carlton Calvin says hacky sacks are coming back in a huge way, and Razor is already shipping them
The Razor founder is trying to turn his kid-culture radar into a system, which is either founder wisdom or the world's strangest succession plan.
Nadia Drake says Susan Gough's psyops résumé is normal comms work, not proof of a UFO cover-up
The Danny Jones Podcast tried to turn a DoD spokeswoman's LinkedIn into a smoking gun, and Drake refused to salute.
Rashad Bilal says one Micron call made him more money than Investfest
The Earn Your Leisure cofounder framed Investfest as a community-first loss leader, not a cash grab, during a pointed public address to critics.
Priya Parker says talk is sometimes bad for connection
The Art of Gathering author argues that families, teams, and friend groups often need a shared activity before they need another deep talk.
Ralph Adolphs says AI can diagnose your personality from one page of text
The Caltech neuroscientist argues that text may reveal more about your personality than your face does, which is bad news for anyone who thinks their punctuation is innocent.
Nikhil Mohindra says padel participation will overtake tennis in 10 years
The Team GB padel player makes the bullish case for the sport, then accidentally explains why the boom could also eat itself.
Chris Williamson says too much self-awareness can make you a coward
The Modern Wisdom host turns Hamlet into a diagnosis of the modern overthinker, and he is more right than a Shakespeare scholar would enjoy admitting.
Andrew Aurigema says a $1.50 foam warp-drive thruster could get a 45-ton ship to Mars in 3 and a half days
The pitch is part garage project, part Star Trek fever dream, and the gap between two pieces of paper of thrust and a Martian landing is the whole story.
Max Amini says Jimmy Carter helped put Ayatollah Khomeini in power to hold back Iran
On Club Random, the Iranian American comedian walked into a classic diaspora theory and Bill Maher, of all people, played the skeptic.
Laura Modi says Bobbie’s FDA recall got the only U.S. formula contract manufacturer to make its product
The Bobbie founder’s best origin-story twist is that the disaster that could have killed the company became the thing that made it manufacturable.
Suzanne Venker says daycare is the bottom of the bottom for children under 3
The author argues that career-first culture pushes mothers into outsourcing the exact years when children need quantity time most.
Henrik Svensmark says a 1 or 2 percent shift in low ocean clouds can rival all greenhouse gases
The Danish physicist’s cosmic-ray climate theory is still a fight, but his cloud math is the part you can’t just swat away.
Hunter Biden says the White House cocaine wasn't his because he hadn't been there for weeks and was being drug-tested
On Modern Wisdom, Biden gave his most sitcom-floor-plan defense yet of the 2023 White House cocaine story.
Matt Ehret says the CIA shaped the National Enquirer to seed a one-world alien religion
The claim is wonderfully lurid, and also a perfect example of how a real Cold War fact can become a cosmic corkboard theory in about 90 seconds.
Tamra Judge says Alexis Bellino has months of damaging security footage of Shannon Beador
The RHOC star's Page Six interview turns the Alexis versus Shannon fight from ex-boyfriend drama into an alleged surveillance archive.
Charles Buhler says he has built a Star Trek impulse engine that needs no propellant
The electrostatics researcher’s claim is wildly specific, wildly consequential, and still miles from the kind of public proof that would make physics Twitter stop throwing chairs.
Megyn Kelly says Condé Nast should keep Chloe Malle if it wants Vogue to die
Kelly’s attack is theatrical, personal, and occasionally unfair, but her real target is the soft corporate language now passing for fashion authority.
Rob Shuter says Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's 2005 Maddox beach photos were staged, not paparazzi
The celebrity journalist says the early Brangelina family image was not discovered in the wild, it was packaged.
Kier Gaines says the world is designed for your productivity and attention, not your peace
The therapist's best point on The Mel Robbins Podcast is also his bleakest: your stress isn't just a personal failure, it's a business model.
Erik Allebest says poker players will care about ratings as much as money
The Chess.com CEO is taking the site's status machine to poker, where the chips are fake, the ego damage is real, and the rating may be the whole product.
Stuart Anderson says admitting he saw red flags helped turn him into a federal fraud defendant
The former attorney says he thought he was helping investigators, then walked himself straight into the legal phrase every white-collar defendant learns too late.
Don Lincoln says the speed of light comes out of Maxwell's equations for electricity and magnetism
The Fermilab physicist makes the old physics story feel properly weird again, then uses it to defend basic research from the eternal question, what good is this?
Graeme Hancock says every world leader should take ayahuasca a dozen times before running for office
The lost-civilization author turned a mortality chat into a psychedelic hiring policy for presidents, prime ministers, and anyone near the nuclear codes.
Professor Jiang says he is not really a professor and does not have a PhD
Theo Von's geopolitics guest built an anti-expert case on prediction, then admitted the title is not an academic credential.
Steven Wolt says many men under 40 are mistaking porn-induced sexual dysfunction for a testosterone problem
The porn recovery coach makes a strong case that the problem is not always the body, sometimes it is the phone.
Khabib Nurmagomedov says Islam Makhachev can overtake Jon Jones, Demetrious Johnson, and Georges St-Pierre, but time is running out
Khabib’s praise for Makhachev comes with the most Dagestani compliment possible: you can become the greatest ever, now hurry up because your body is betraying you.
Rashad Bilal says Big Meech belonged at Invest Fest because he served 25 years
The Earn Your Leisure crew turned a photo-op controversy into a bigger argument about reentry, respectability politics, and who gets counted as Black culture.
Bobbi Brown says not every business has to be a rocket ship
On How I Built This, Brown pushed young founders away from Target envy and viral growth panic, and toward the unsexy religion of testing small.
Meg Josephson says you cannot make kids reconcile with an alcoholic father on Father’s Day
The psychotherapist’s advice was simple and bracing: the holiday does not outrank the wound.
Adam Ward says asking 'who's the best product engineer you know?' is the worst recruiting question
The Cursor head of talent argues that most companies hire from a 'funnel of doom' and end up with whoever was available, not whoever was best.
Shannon Elizabeth says OnlyFans is the only relationship she needs now
The American Pie star told Bill Maher that her fan chats have replaced dating, which is either a very modern boundary or the cleanest sales pitch in the parasocial economy.
Scott Payne says he sucked clotted goat blood during an FBI undercover operation inside The Base
The retired FBI undercover agent describes a Halloween ritual with The Base that sounds like a Satanic panic fever dream, then explains why the goat was the least scary part.
Victoria Aveyard says the original Red Queen ending gave Shade time travel powers and switched Mare with her future self
The author says her agent made the right call by cutting a finale that would have blown past the book's own rules.
Jeremy Boreing says he should have fired Candace Owens two months earlier
The former Daily Wire boss frames the Candace Owens split not as a business breakup, but as a delayed moral decision.
Tim Ferriss says AI could drive his nonfiction book sales down 67 percent in 2026
Ferriss's most useful AI warning isn't about robots writing books, it's about robots making certain books feel unnecessary.
Rob Shuter says mainstream outlets refused Justin Baldoni interviews because they feared upsetting Blake Lively
Shuter’s claim turns Baldoni’s kitchen-table video from a celebrity pity post into an indictment of entertainment media cowardice, though the unnamed-outlet caveat matters.
Salma and Nima Fotovat say MadeGood's first factory hand-wiped wrong date codes off 200,000 Costco bars
Before MadeGood became an organic snack giant, its founders were in a new factory trying to rescue a massive Costco order one alcohol wipe at a time.
Jeremy Boreing says Daily Wire layoffs followed his exit and Jordan Peterson’s illness, not the company’s demise
The former Daily Wire CEO gave the cleanest insider explanation yet for the company’s recent cuts, while insisting the grave-dancing is premature.
George Mack says Spanish chicken farmer Juan Pujol was one of D-Day's three most important people
The Juan Pujol García story is real, absurd, and slightly overpolished in the telling, which is exactly why it works.
Rich Roll says The Rich Roll Podcast started as a one-off recording on a mango farm
At the 1,000 episode mark, Roll's origin story is less media empire, more broke-family fever dream with a microphone.
John and Julie Gottman say contempt in a 15-minute fight predicts how often you'll get sick for four years
The Gottmans' bleakest relationship warning is not that contempt kills romance, it is that it may also show up in your immune system.
Daniel Kokotajlo says mass unemployment starts in 2028 or 2029, after AI companies automate themselves first
The former OpenAI researcher argues that the scary part is not today’s chatbot taking your job, it is AI labs building superintelligence before the labor market even knows what hit it.
Erin Brockovich says AI data centers can push water bills from $40 to $800 a month
Brockovich’s warning on The Shawn Ryan Show is specific, scary, and still missing the paperwork that would turn it from alarm bell into indictment.
Adam Sosnick says a couple is suing a surrogate for $600,000 because their son with a cleft lip is alive
The PBD panel framed an Ontario surrogacy lawsuit as the nightmare version of designer-baby logic, but the legal story is messier than the moral one.
Annie Jacobsen says Soviet scientists engineered plague with a euphoria gene so victims would go to discos
Jacobsen’s bioweapon nightmare is not just a germ that kills, it is a germ that allegedly hacks the victim into becoming its hype man.
Sarah LaFleur says premium kidswear brands should skip influencers and sell through trunk shows
The M.M.LaFleur founder gave the quiet luxury kidswear playbook a very offline answer: find the elegant school-drop-off parent, not the algorithm.
Kevin Spacey says Netflix has shelved his completed Gore Vidal film and should give it to Paramount
On Club Random, Spacey made his cleanest case for a comeback by arguing that Netflix is punishing an entire finished movie over allegations against him.
T.D. Barnes says the Tic Tac UFO sightings were probably radar spoofing tests, not alien craft
The former Area 51 operator argues the famous Navy UAPs look less like visitors from another world than a very familiar Pentagon habit: testing pilots without telling them.
Sebastian Mallaby says the Trump administration took control of who gets Anthropic's cyberattack model
The Infinity Machine author argues that AI regulation has already moved from abstract safety talk to Washington deciding who can touch the dangerous stuff.
Charlie Stubbings says the FA can oppose Gianni Infantino because FIFA money is only 0.5% of its revenue
The sports-business argument here is blunt: England has enough money, status, and safety to stop pretending it has to kiss the FIFA ring.
Byron Allen says Johnny Carson let him strike The Tonight Show set for his own show
Allen’s best story on Club Random isn’t about becoming a billionaire, it’s about getting the king of late night to say yes to an absurdly intimate favor.
Dan Farah says a former intelligence official found childhood Air Force enlistment papers after a UFO encounter
Farah’s wildest claim on Danny Jones is not just about UFOs or remote viewing, it’s about an alleged paper trail hiding inside a family archive.
Neil deGrasse Tyson says English-speaking cultures report vastly more alien sightings than other cultures
On The Diary of a CEO, Tyson argues that the alien boom says less about extraterrestrials than it does about human brains, Hollywood, and who knows how to file a weird story.
Lily Kanter says a rescue deal made it impossible for Serena & Lily to raise another dollar
The prettiest crib bedding company in America got dragged into the ugliest corner of startup finance.
Leanne ten Brinke says a 'douche smile' can reveal psychopathic traits in 5 seconds
The forensic psychologist's best warning sign is not a dead-eyed stare, it's the creepy mismatch between cruelty and charm.
Kathy Wakile says she doesn't miss Teresa Giudice or Melissa Gorga and won't return to RHONJ
The former RHONJ cast member gave the rare Bravo answer that sounds less like a tease and more like a closed tab.
A former SEAL Team 6 operator says his only regret is not sharing his faith with Louie before Louie died two nights later
The combat story is brutal, but the confession is stranger: he says the fear that still haunts him was not the door, it was the conversation about God he avoided.
Bill Maher says he was “particularly bad” at blaming audiences when his jokes bombed
On Club Random, Maher turns a comedy cliché into a little self-indictment, while Lisa Kudrow offers the healthier, actorly version of bombing.
Gary Vaynerchuk says entrepreneurs who ignore their partners may not actually value the relationship
GaryVee’s productivity gospel gets its sharpest domestic translation: if you really wanted to see them, you would.
Kurt Metzger says the Hat Man people see on Benadryl is Papa Legba
The comedian turns a grim diphenhydramine folklore meme into an occult radio theory, which is funny, vivid, and not remotely good medical advice.
Myles Garrett says Taylor Lewan spit in his face during Garrett's rookie year
Garrett's live New Heights appearance turned into a tiny oral history of offensive line warfare, with one very specific accusation at the center.
Sarah Jessica Parker says Northwestern graduates were 'a beautiful burden'
The line was meant to sound intimate and literary, but it gave The Megyn Kelly Show exactly the kind of celebrity commencement goo it was built to roast.
Martin Picard says Steve Jobs's reality distortion field was an energetic quality, not just charisma
The mitochondrial scientist turns Steve Jobs lore into a theory of human energy, and yes, the metaphor is doing push-ups.
Dr. Tommy Wood says six months of Norwegian 4x4 intervals protected older adults' hippocampus for five years
The Huberman Lab guest made the anti-cortisol crowd sound like people afraid of rain because floods exist.
Don Lincoln says we exist because the early universe had one extra matter particle per billion antimatter particles
The Fermilab physicist framed existence as the leftover scrap from a cosmic matter-antimatter wipeout, then admitted nobody knows what caused the imbalance.
Ryan Hawk says the Beatles were afraid to play their own music and started by copying others verbatim
On Young and Profiting, Hawk turns the Beatles into a permission slip for early-career imitation, with one giant warning label attached.
Matt Ehret says Majestic 12 is fake because its typewriter and Truman signatures give it away
The UFO disclosure debate gets a paperwork problem, then turns into a full CIA myth-management theory.
Chris Riccobono says tariffs pulled $9 million from UNTUCKit’s bank account
The UNTUCKit founder turned an advice episode into a grim little postcard from the new retail math.
Darren Candow says elevated kidney markers from creatine are false positives 99 out of 100 times
The creatine researcher says the supplement’s scariest reputation is mostly a lab-test misunderstanding, not kidney damage.
Arthur C. Brooks says 95% of diets fail because the reward is realizing you can never eat what you like again
The happiness scholar's best point is not that willpower is weak, it is that weight-loss goals are often designed to emotionally collapse the moment they succeed.
Carl Hayden Smith says 78% of IV DMT users see entities, and some meet the entities' children
The claim is wild, oddly domestic, and a useful reminder that psychedelic research keeps producing data that sounds like a Pixar sequel written in a hospital ward.
George Mack says Belgium’s driving theory test raised the death rate for new drivers by 32%
On Modern Wisdom, Mack turns Belgian road safety into a brutal little parable about false confidence, bad incentives, and the danger of thinking you know what you’re doing.
Sean Stone says a black program craft may have used lasers to spread the Palisades fire
The filmmaker and conspiracy media regular turns the LA fires into a secret aircraft theory, and the leap from eyewitness weirdness to smart city arson is doing Evel Knievel work.
Caitlin Bea says she nearly became a Sims creator instead of a BookTok creator
The BookTok personality's pandemic fork in the road explains why her reading taste feels less like literary canon and more like hobby monetization with better lighting.
Vincent Oshana says Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has no Greek actors in major roles
The PBD Podcast liked Nolan's Homer epic, but Oshana couldn't get past the weirdest casting detail: a Greek story with almost no Greek presence.
Greg Carlwood says Neo’s Matrix passport expires on 9/11 because it was advanced sigil magic
The conspiracy podcaster rejects the usual karmic warning theory and offers something stranger: mass-media magic hiding in a single movie-prop frame.
Chuck Surack says Sweetwater sales engineers can make nearly $500,000 a year in Fort Wayne
The Sweetwater founder’s best argument against Amazon is not nostalgia for phone calls, it is a sales job that looks more like a paid residency for music gear obsessives.
Andy Stumpf says the Green Beret community has lost more people to suicide than combat since 2001
The retired Navy SEAL turned Huberman guest offered the bleakest metric in an episode stocked with discipline advice, then made the case that the real danger is often the quiet man who won’t say he’s in trouble.
Annie Jacobsen says a biological attack could push America from outbreak to anarchy in six days
The author of Nuclear War: A Scenario argues that the real bioweapon nightmare is not just death, but the speed at which fear of infection breaks a country.
Mark Milley says he’d probably call China before a U.S. attack to calm fears Trump was starting a war
The PBD Podcast turns Milley’s “I’ll probably give you a call” line into treason bait, but the quote itself is messier and less explosive than the outrage version.
Mel Robbins says writing your unfinished to-do list at night can work better than some sleep medication
The strongest idea in Robbins's bedtime script is also the most suspiciously useful one, put the unfinished mess on paper and stop letting your brain cosplay as a project manager at midnight.
A CERN physicist says CERN is not trying to create a black hole
On The Shawn Ryan Show, a theoretical physicist punctured the best CERN conspiracy by making the real thing sound both safer and, somehow, nerdier.
Marc Brackett says teachers can grade the same essay one to two full grades differently depending on their mood
The Yale emotional intelligence researcher makes a useful, slightly terrifying case that your feelings are already making decisions before you think you are.
Alex Petkas says The Odyssey is about the collapse of the patriarchy and how violence restores it
The Cost of Glory host reads Homer less as a travel adventure than as a bloody manual for putting a household, and a civilization, back in order.
Nick Hanauer says Bernie Sanders's 50 percent AI ownership plan is common sense, not socialism
On The Diary of a CEO, the venture capitalist made the capitalist case for grabbing a public slice of AI wealth before the layoff machine starts printing money.
Rena Malik says people who have sex once a week live 49 percent longer than people who have sex once a year
The urologist brings a big longevity stat to The Diary of a CEO, then quietly admits the boring but crucial part, sex is probably a marker of health as much as a cause of it.
Gary Wayne says Satan would never have let Jesus be crucified if he understood the resurrection
Wayne's argument turns Satan from an all-knowing horror-movie mastermind into the most powerful being in creation who still missed the trapdoor under Calvary.
Ian Dunlap says McDonald's biggest competitor is Eli Lilly, not Burger King or Chipotle
On Market Mondays, Dunlap made the case that appetite-suppressing drugs are now part of the fast food bear case.
Curt Richardson says OtterBox revenue fell after a $1.1 billion peak, but profit rose
The OtterBox founder gave the rare founder update that actually explains what happens after a breakout product becomes boring.
Dr. Chris Palmer says a ketogenic diet made a schizophrenia patient’s hallucinations and delusions go away after two months
The Harvard psychiatrist’s metabolic psychiatry pitch is fascinating, hopeful, and still not the same thing as proof that keto cures severe mental illness.
Marie-Pierre St-Onge says Doritos, Fritos, Cheetos, and Tostitos fried in corn oil had better lipid profiles than other snacks
The Columbia nutrition researcher also makes the less memeable, more useful point: sleep and food choices keep pushing each other into either a bad loop or a good one.
Koa Smith says three grams of psilocybin mushrooms ended his post-concussion depression
The big-wave surfer’s story is powerful, but the leap from spiritual breakthrough to brain-injury treatment needs a warning label.
Susan Griffin-Black says EO Products went from a $30,000 packaging account to owing $2 million after COVID sanitizer whiplash
The EO Products founder turned a sanitizer surge into a warning about the ugly math behind sudden growth.
Anthony Kaldellis says Byzantine Greek fire came in hand grenade form
The historian’s best detail on Lex Fridman was not just that Greek fire burned on water, but that the Romans apparently bottled the stuff and threw it at siege engines.
TD Barnes says Annie Jacobsen's Roswell source made up the Nazi children story for 'something juicy'
The former Area 51 worker doesn't just dismiss Bob Lazar, he says one of the most lurid modern Roswell claims came from a source who was never at Area 51.
Joey Shamah says a fake Bloomingdale's buyout rumor sent e.l.f. from 300 orders a week to 18,000 a day
The e.l.f. co-founder says the strangest growth hack in the brand's history was not a hack at all, just a chain email, a price panic, and a logistics nightmare.
Dr. Brennan Spiegel says a thumb that touches your forearm may help explain IBS
The Cedars-Sinai gastroenterologist gives Mel Robbins a sticky new theory of gut trouble, posture, balance, grip strength, and the indignity of being a human sack of potatoes on Earth.
Doug Brunt says Stalin’s erasure of Immanuel Nobel inspired George Orwell’s 1984
Brunt’s claim is a great lost-history grenade, though his Stalin-to-Orwell line compresses a messy Soviet story into one very TV-ready villain.
Elizabeth Stone says Netflix needs fewer narrow specialists and more systems thinkers in the AI era
Netflix’s CPTO argues that AI makes cross-functional judgment more valuable than one-lane expertise, though she’s not ready to throw engineering, design, or data science craft into the volcano.
Jack Whitehall says Channel 4 pulled his show at 11 p.m. because Michael Jackson died after it had a pedophile sketch about him
On Club Random, Whitehall described the sort of pre-smartphone comedy near-disaster that now sounds less like showbiz lore than a deleted scene from Broadcast Standards Hell.
Aman Narang says Toast's revenue fell over 90 percent during COVID before it cut 55 percent of staff
The Toast CEO's survival story is a reminder that being essential software for restaurants is fantastic right up until restaurants are legally unable to be restaurants.
Douglas Brunt says Stalin’s erasure of Immanuel Nobel inspired George Orwell’s 1984
Brunt makes the case that the forgotten Nobel oil empire was not just a business story, but a prototype for Orwellian erasure.
Mel Robbins says the Red Sox are making their first bobblehead honoring a woman for her Let Them Night
The summer-reset episode mostly sells anticipation as self-care, but the searchable nugget is a Fenway promo claim big enough to make Red Sox fans squint.
Erin Brockovich says the AI data center boom may really be a water grab
On This Past Weekend, Brockovich was skeptical of the sci-fi theories, but deadly serious about the water.
Bill Maher says his high school talent show was canceled after he stole a risqué Johnny Carson joke
Maher’s first cancellation story is less a free-speech epic than a very on-brand origin myth: a teenage comic, a Carson bit, and a room full of parents who were not having it.
Ronnen Harary says Spin Master became too rigid after he stopped being co-CEO
The PAW Patrol co-founder’s most revealing advice was not for a caller, it was the quiet admission that a hit-making toy company can get housebroken.
Dr. David Unwin says 93 percent of his prediabetes patients normalized blood sugar on low carb
The British GP makes a strong case for treating fatty liver and prediabetes earlier, but his blockbuster number comes from practice data, not a universal guarantee.
Alexis Bellino says RHOC cut her grief footage and made her Shannon Beador’s nemesis
Bellino’s complaint is specific, plausible, and very convenient, which makes it basically a perfect Housewives allegation.
The Twenty Minute VC hosts say Britain’s £300 million elite tennis pipeline has produced almost no champions
The episode’s best point is not that Jannik Sinner is ruthless, it’s that Italy’s club-heavy tennis system makes Britain’s expensive elite pipeline look weirdly barren.
Krishna Kaliannan says he first coated Catalina Crunch cereal in a washing machine
The Catalina Crunch founder's weirdest manufacturing hack is also the cleanest explanation of why making a modern keto cereal is much harder than making a pitch deck.
John Stryker Meyer says MACV-SOG reports went directly to the White House and he could not talk for 20 years
The Vietnam veteran’s account of the secret war is less a war story than a lesson in how a country hides a war from itself.
Mo Gawdat says everyone except China and America is about to become third world in AI
The former Google X executive's bleak AI forecast is less about killer robots than the UK paying rent forever to someone else's software stack.
Tom Ellsworth says IBM has 135,000 employees in India and only 40,000 in the U.S.
The PBD panel treated IBM’s brutal earnings reaction less like a bad quarter and more like a warning light for a company that may have outsourced its identity.
Bo Derek says Marlon Brando called Ursula Andress because he couldn't remember if they'd had sex
On Club Random, Derek dropped a tiny Old Hollywood grenade, then spent the rest of the hour proving she may be one of the last people alive who can make that story sound casual.
Jeni Britton says seed oil panic is too fad-like to build a frozen-fry brand around
The Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams founder told a beef-tallow fries startup to sell taste first, not online wellness panic.
Daniel Rodriguez says he became a Mexican citizen to get out of jail after an ounce of weed
The UFC welterweight told Joe Rogan that a border mistake after the Kevin Holland fight turned into eight months in a Tijuana jail, a citizenship workaround, and a very expensive lesson.
Cenk Uygur says Israel blocks an Iran peace deal every time Trump moves toward peace
On The Diary of a CEO, Uygur argued that Trump has a deal available with Iran, but Benjamin Netanyahu keeps pushing him back toward war.
Dr. Jordan Metzl says sports medicine doctors will prescribe GLP-1s for arthritic knees within five years
The sports physician’s most striking claim wasn’t that exercise is medicine, it was that Ozempic-era drugs may become part of orthopedic care.
Penn Jillette says Bob Dylan lied about hopping trains, then Penn lived Dylan’s hobo story himself
The magician’s best trick in this Club Random classic is turning Bob Dylan’s self-mythology into a story about teenage gullibility, showbiz hunger, and the glamour of being broke on purpose.
Kenneth Cole says wholesale won't build your brand if you don't own the customer relationship
On How I Built This, Cole gave a very department-store-era warning to modern founders: revenue through retailers can look like momentum while quietly leaving the brand in someone else's hands.
Cenk Uygur says Israel gave America a list of seven countries to attack after 9/11
The Young Turks host turns a Diary of a CEO Iran debate into a blunt accusation about U.S. foreign policy, while Kevin O'Leary argues the real issue is stopping Iran from getting a bomb.
Kevin O'Leary says he never saw Steve Jobs happy or laughing, and that Jobs thought being nice was noise
The Shark Tank investor turns a money episode into a bleak little sermon on Steve Jobs, genius, cruelty, and the Apple ghost that still sits in the room.
Tom Rinks says he would have settled the Taco Bell Chihuahua lawsuit for $200,000 before a $30.1 million jury award
Before Sun Bum became a sunscreen juggernaut, Rinks says Taco Bell could have ended the Chihuahua fight for a fraction of what a jury later awarded.
Ron White says a Proverbs verse on his dead mother's refrigerator brought him back to God
The memory champion's most striking claim wasn't about technique, it was about a Bible verse his mother left where he would see it.
Marisa Peer says proper hypnosis can fix extreme picky eating in an hour
On The Diary of a CEO, Peer hypnotized Steven Bartlett over sugar, then claimed severe food restriction can be changed in a single session.
Carl Hayden Smith says DMT entities told him he was not scheduled to die in an fMRI scanner
The psychedelic researcher’s wildest claim is not that DMT produces entities, but that those entities appeared to treat his lab scan like a cosmic false alarm.
Dr. Alan Castel says feeling younger than your age predicts how long you'll live better than your actual age
The UCLA memory researcher gives the Huberman crowd a squishy variable with surprisingly hard stakes.
Tulsi Gabbard says Democratic elites want to be God and compete with Americans' faith
On The Shawn Ryan Show, Gabbard turns a familiar anti-elite argument into something grander and darker, a theology of Washington power.
Bruno Fernandes says he rejected a reported £200 million Middle East offer because he still has Manchester United dreams
The Manchester United captain gives the romantic answer, and the episode mostly lets the romance win.
Jeremy Grantham says investors should wish SpaceX fails because success would supercharge AI robots
The billionaire investor gives Steven Bartlett the rare anti-hype SpaceX take, then tells him his own stake may be sitting on a bubble story.
Neil deGrasse Tyson says Kessler syndrome could wipe out 100 percent of satellites within a few orbits
The astrophysicist’s real apocalypse scenario isn’t aliens or black holes, it’s orbital shrapnel moving faster than a bullet.
Natalie Dawson says you should not think about passive income until you have $1 million in the bank
The business operator’s blunt advice on The Diary of a CEO is useful, if a little too clean for the messy reality of getting rich.
Will Ferrell says Lorne Michaels told him to leave SNL only after he started to dip
Ferrell’s exit advice from Michaels sounds insane until you remember the next three movies were Old School, Elf, and Anchorman.
Noam Segal says tech workers fear doing more for the same pay more than losing their jobs to AI
The AI job panic has been sold as a robot replacement story, but Segal's survey says the more immediate fear is much more office Slack: congratulations, your output just became your new quota.
Rebecca Serle says In Five Years came from a psychic who predicted her future husband’s name and timing
The novelist’s fate-obsessed bestseller has a very on-brand origin story, though it works better as literary fuel than as evidence for the supernatural.
Candace Bushnell says a typical 90s New York night was 20 drinks, a couple grams of coke, and two packs of cigarettes
The Sex and the City author gives Gen Z the least cosmo-glossy version of the myth: the real New York was darker, meaner, smokier, and much more financially brutal than the HBO fantasy.
The Circuit: the week the tidy story kept losing
Across nine conversations this week, some of the biggest names on the podcast circuit spent their time roughing up the clean version of events, the plague that supposedly ended Rome, the aliens in the government freezer, the trophy that counts as a World Cup. What kept surfacing was a preference for the smaller, stranger, less quotable truth.
Caleb Hammer says Gen Z is doom spending because algorithms make the future feel hopeless
The personal-finance YouTuber argues that young people are spending like the apocalypse is already on layaway, and he’s mostly right, with one big caveat.
Alan Zweibel says he and Gilda Radner hid behind a plant at the first Saturday Night Live meeting
The original SNL writer’s best story is not about cocaine, power, or genius, it’s about two future comedy legends quietly panicking behind office foliage.
Cristina Mariani says her parents have never come to see her perform comedy
On This Past Weekend, the Austin stand-up turned a family boundary into the episode's real punchline, and the punchline is sadder than it sounds.
David Epstein says General Magic failed because it had too much freedom
On Modern Wisdom, Epstein turns the most romantic Silicon Valley story into a warning label for anyone who thinks total freedom makes better work.
Cristiano Ronaldo says Euro 2016 is like winning the World Cup
The PBD Podcast panel heard Ronaldo’s post-defeat answer as pure ego, but the real story is how perfectly it fits the Ronaldo brand.
Mike Rowe says China built 1,000 ships last year while America built three
The Dirty Jobs host turns a shipbuilding stat into a warning about welders, electricians, student debt, and America’s bad habit of treating trade work like a consolation prize.
Dan Richards says Egypt’s Labyrinth giant metal object is called Dippy and is not from Filippo Biondi’s pyramid scans
The Danny Jones Podcast detours into the internet’s favorite archaeological fever dream, a supposed metallic Tic Tac under Hawara, and Richards is more useful as a skeptical sorter than a true believer.
Anthony Kaldellis says the Plague of Justinian probably did not kill half the Roman Empire
The historian's case is brutally practical: if half the empire died, why did Justinian's wars, taxes, and courts keep running?
Jim Capers says his Operation Bulwark Silver Star may be upgraded to the Medal of Honor
The Vietnam veteran frames the possible Medal of Honor upgrade less as vindication than as a cruelly late receipt for men who never came home.
Martin Picard says some gray hairs can turn dark again in about a week
The mitochondrial scientist’s gray-hair claim is real enough to be fascinating, but not a permission slip to cancel your colorist.
A Marine scout sniper says Angela, a 14-year-old from Sunnyvale, gave him permission to keep living after Afghanistan
The Shawn Ryan Show clip turns the usual combat-hero frame inside out, making the rescue story not about air support or tactics, but about a freshman with a pen.
Kevin Spacey says Anthony Rapp's accusation collapsed because Spacey lived in a studio apartment with no bedroom
On Club Random, Spacey walks through the detail that sank Anthony Rapp's case, and explains why Elton John showed up in a British courtroom on his behalf.
Prince William says his dad, King Charles, hates football and had nothing to do with the Aston Villa obsession
The future king of England went on a podcast hosted by two NFL players and casually threw his father under the bus.
Sen. John Kennedy says AI could independently hack nuclear codes and launch missiles within five years
The Louisiana senator dropped a genuinely alarming AI prediction on a comedy podcast, sandwiched between Vienna sausage fishing tips and fig newton discourse.
Sean Stone says the real JFK files problem isn't what was hidden but what Richard Helms shredded when Nixon fired him
Oliver Stone's son thinks the JFK document dump is a distraction from a bonfire that already happened in the 1970s.
Ben Felix says young people saving money in their 20s is probably a financial mistake
The Canadian portfolio manager and YouTuber has the research to back it up, and a caveat that could save you from using it as an excuse.
Scott Horton says the Iraq War was planned in 1992 by the same neocons who wrote a plan for Netanyahu in 1996
The antiwar author lays out the paper trail connecting Paul Wolfowitz's 1992 global dominance memo to a literal strategy document his colleagues wrote for the Israeli prime minister four years later.
Dr. Kelly Casperson says vaginal estrogen cream prevents UTIs by more than half and costs $14
A urologist makes the case that the most overlooked women's health tool is a $14 cream, not a prescription drug, not a probiotic, and definitely not the advice to pee after sex.
Alex Hormozi says doing hard things physically does not make you better at doing hard things emotionally
The guy who built a business empire on the gospel of relentless effort is here to tell you your ice bath is not making you braver where it counts.
Exercise scientist StephOrrourke says 58-year-old women gained more mitochondrial efficiency from sprinting than 18-year-olds did
The guest making the case that your VO2 max decline is not aging, it is just neglect, and that the fix is embarrassingly simple.
Armie Hammer's new film 'Citizen Vigilante' is banned in Germany and its director says it will inspire real-world vigilante killings
A low-budget Armie Hammer thriller is topping Apple's charts while its director and one of America's biggest podcast hosts predict it sparks actual vigilante violence. That is not a marketing strategy. That is a warning.
Ido Portal says willpower cannot be built, only uncovered, and discipline is the thing you've been mistaking for it
The movement teacher and philosopher makes a distinction that quietly dismantles every productivity book you have ever read.
Jeremy Grantham says median male sperm count will hit zero by 2045
The billionaire fund manager behind GMO has spent decades tracking civilizational collapse, and he thinks the most urgent one fits in a test tube.
Nathan Apffel says pastor Ed Young Jr. may be claiming $3.6 million a year in tax-free housing allowance
The church accountability podcaster spent a night in a Texas jail just for showing up with a sign asking a pastor one question about his finances.
Rhonda Patrick says 1 minute of breathless exercise beats 53 minutes of walking around your house
The researcher behind the FoundMyFitness newsletter just made your gym membership guilt optional and your stair climb mandatory.
Army sniper 'The Reaper' says Obama's rules of engagement stopped a bomb drop while he fistbumped his teammate goodbye in a Chechen sniper standoff
Three hours in a crater, a Chechen sniper picking at every movement, and the only thing between these guys and CNN beheading footage was a rules-of-engagement memo.
UFO documentary filmmaker Matthew Perna says U.S. presidents have historically been kept in the dark about recovered alien bodies
The guest is not a crank with a podcast and a tinfoil aesthetic. He is a filmmaker who got Jay Stratton, the most senior UAP official in U.S. government history, on camera saying he saw non-human beings with his own eyes.
Jeff Bridges says a Big Lebowski fan theory claims Donnie never existed, and he thinks they might be right
The Dude himself has been sitting with a theory that would rewrite everything you thought you knew about bowling night.
DJ Shipley says he drove to a beach with a pistol to kill himself the same day he came back from an ibogaine trip in Mexico
The Modern Wisdom episode that starts as a SEAL career debrief ends somewhere most podcasts never go.
Creatine researcher Stuart Phillips says adding 5 grams of creatine to antidepressants doubled remission rates in women with major depression over 8 weeks
The muscle supplement has a surprisingly strong case for your brain, but one number from a Utah depression trial is the one worth arguing about.
Former Navy SEAL says the divorce rate in the SEAL Teams is over 100 percent
A former SEAL breaks down exactly why the Teams chew through marriages at a statistical rate that shouldn't even be mathematically possible.
Mo Gawdat says AGI is already here and your job has roughly three years
The ex-Google insider who wrote a book about AI happiness thinks the smarter-than-human threshold is not coming. It passed.
Paul Eastwick says women prefer younger men just as much as men do, they just won't admit it
The UC Davis psychologist has twenty years of speed-dating data that quietly demolishes most of what the internet thinks it knows about who wants what.
Joe Rogan says multiple sitting and former US presidents personally contacted Spotify to get him removed
Rogan names no names but the table fills them in fast, and nobody is asking for receipts.
Kenny Chesney says he has never once canceled a show in over 40 years, not even close
The country star and Bill Maher bond over performing sick, staying out all night, and never once giving the audience an excuse to demand a refund.
Lisa Kudrow says Sam Kinison was shooting heroin on set while they filmed a sitcom together
The Friends icon drops a genuinely startling piece of TV history buried inside a very pleasant chat about mushrooms and Spartacus.
Gastroenterologist Will Bulsiewicz says gluten intolerance is mostly a misdiagnosis, and the real culprit is a carbohydrate called fructans
The gut doctor behind a bestselling microbiome book has a study that upends a decade of gluten-free grocery shopping.
Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro Says Half the Internet Is Bots and Foreign Governments Are Buying Your Political Opinions
The Daily Wire co-founder argues that bot-driven fake consensus is the KGB playbook running on autopilot, and that Elon Musk is the only person alive who actually knows how bad it is.
Dan Richards says Egyptologists used Bayesian modeling to delete carbon dates that contradicted the pyramids timeline
A self-described electrician-turned-researcher makes a specific, technical accusation against mainstream Egyptology, and the accusation is harder to dismiss than it sounds.
Sheryl Crow says a songwriter paid $5 to clone John Mayer's voice and she couldn't tell the difference
Crow heard a demo, assumed it was her friend, and only then learned any amateur can now buy a convincing replica of a working musician's voice for the price of a coffee.
Mike Birbiglia and Conan O'Brien Compare Catholic Fathers, Pope Shoes, and What Kids Actually Think of Their Famous Parents
Two Worcesterites with doctor dads and a shared audience with Pope Francis spend an hour discovering they have basically lived the same life.
Braunwyn Windham-Burke Came on This Podcast 24 Hours After Her Life Imploded
Real Housewives of OC's most publicly sober cast member shows up raw, shaking, and still not drinking.
Billy Bush Finally Gets to Tell His Side, and It's Messier and More Sympathetic Than You Remembered
Nine years after the Access Hollywood tape, Bush walks Adam Carolla through the betrayal, the breakdown, and why he still has one corner of his heart reserved for NBC News chairman Andy Lack.
Graham Hancock Wants You to Believe Civilization Has a Missing Chapter
The author and ancient-history provocateur makes his case for a lost pre-ice-age civilization, and some of it is harder to dismiss than you'd expect.
Pete Holmes Retells the Prodigal Son and Somehow Makes It Funnier Than His Standup
The comedian and podcaster walks a live audience through evangelical upbringing, mushrooms at Bonnaroo, and why awareness is the only God worth arguing about.
Emily Simpson Has Been Through It, and She'd Like You to Know That
The Real Housewives of Orange County cast member opens up about five years of miscarriages, a sister who became a surrogate, and a son's diagnosis she almost didn't put on camera.
Gilbert Gottfried and Artie Lange Do an Hour of Bits That Would Get a Network Fired
The Compound Media show is less a podcast than a controlled detonation, and somehow that's the whole appeal.
Graham Hancock on Death, Lost Civilizations, and the Enemies He Can't Forgive
The ancient-history provocateur comes in reflective and leaves a little raw.
Alex Wagner on Why Republican Senators Are Torching Their Own Careers for Trump
The MSNBC veteran joins Brian Tyler Cohen to explain how the Iran war, gas prices, and a castrated Congress add up to a 2026 disaster Republicans are building themselves.
Gina Kirschenheiter Has 24.2 Million Monthly Views and She Will Tell Your Listing Clients About It
The Real Housewives of Orange County cast member turned real estate agent makes the case that a reality TV platform is basically a free billboard the size of a small country.
Dennis Quaid on Reagan, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Getting Shot by a Ricochet
The actor brings a bulldog named Peaches and more presidential trivia than any podcast has a right to contain.
Nick Hanauer Comes to Yell About Neoliberalism and He's Not Wrong
The venture capitalist and self-described 'pitchfork-avoider' spends an hour telling a table of entrepreneurs that everything they believe about small business is right, and everything they believe about how to get there is wrong.
Graham Platner Wants to Be the Oyster Farmer Who Fixes the Senate
A Marine combat vet from Sullivan, Maine showed up on Jon Stewart's podcast and spent an hour saying the quiet parts loud about why Democrats keep losing.
Kelly Dodd Has Zero Regrets, Which Is Either Admirable or the Whole Problem
The Real Housewives of OC alum comes to Jamie Kennedy's podcast ready to relitigate everything, and she does not disappoint.
Harry Shearer on Spinal Tap, The Simpsons, and the Art of Being Famous in Public
The voice of half of Springfield explains why anonymity on the London Underground is basically the ideal career outcome.
Pete Holmes on Silly Silly Fun Boy, Carousel Guilt, and the Case for Paying for Your Porn
The comedian stops by Whiskey Ginger to workshop new material, defend OnlyFans on philosophical grounds, and explain why mushrooms change your walk.
Meghan King Edmonds Goes on the Viall Files and Cries on the Roof
The Real Housewives of Orange County alum talks divorce, dating apps, and the podcast about sex she's making with Brooke Burke.
Paul Shaffer Almost Became George Costanza's Neighbor
The Cowsills get Paul Shaffer on the phone and learn he didn't return Jerry Seinfeld's call, played Artie Fufkin in Spinal Tap, and once had to sing to Marty Allen.
Megyn Kelly on Anna Faris: What Entertainment Tonight Refused to Say
Maureen goes after the celebrity press for treating a visibly alarming red carpet appearance like a routine junket moment.
Caleb Hearon Says Improv Saved His Life, and He Means It Literally
The comedian behind one of the best HBO specials in recent memory sits down with Mike Birbiglia and ends up somewhere much more honest than either of them planned.
Heather Dubrow Has a Full-Time Driver and No Fixed Address, and She's Fine With Both
The Real Housewives of Orange County veteran stops by Out & About to talk queer kids, a $55 million home sale, and the one luxury she genuinely cannot live without.
Al Franken on Ted Cruz, Tom Coburn, and Why Democrats Can't Fit Their Message on a Bumper Sticker
The former SNL writer turned U.S. Senator explains why being funny in Washington is less a liability than a diplomatic tool, and why the Republican healthcare bill has the same approval rating as ghost sightings.
Matt Rife Came to Talk Comedy and Ended Up Eulogizing Ralphie May
The crowd-work king of Netflix stops by Theo Von's podcast and spends the best hour of the episode grieving a mentor most people forgot to miss.
Tara LaFerrara Built a Million-Dollar Fitness Business by Refusing to Be Perfect
The Broads founder on coaching funnels, a $130,000 app failure, and why 'do the cringe thing' is actually a business strategy.
Kara Swisher Says the Ellisons Are the Problem, Not Trump
On the Colbert segment the network wouldn't air, Swisher has a clear villain in mind, and it isn't the White House.
Shannon Beador's Hot Mic Moment Is the Most Honest She's Been All Season
She stormed off twice, lost half her party guests, and accidentally confessed her relationship fears directly into the camera she thought had stopped rolling.
Bill Burr and Garrett Morris Reminisce About Carnegie Hall, Cocaine, and Getting Shot
Two comics from different eras swap stories on Tom Green's web show, and somehow it works.
Amy Goodman Has Been Right About Everything for Thirty Years and Nobody Paid Her For It
The Democracy Now founder joins Jon Stewart to talk about what journalism actually costs, and what the corporate press gave away for free.
Gretchen Rossi Is Back on RHOC and She Has Notes
The Orange County original returns to Bravo with more grace than the show deserves, and a very clear memory of everything that happened.
Bill Murray Eats the Hottest Wings on Television and Doesn't Even Wipe His Face
The man who survived a wild groundhog and wrote Wes Anderson a personal check for a helicopter shot was never going to let some hot sauce rattle him.
Michael Che Finally Shows Up for Mike Birbiglia's Podcast, Five and a Half Years Later
Two comedians who actually trust each other spend an hour workshopping bits, diagnosing SNL, and accidentally conducting therapy.
Alexis Bellino Says She and Jim Agree on Exactly One Thing
The former Real Housewives of Orange County star gets candid about co-parenting with her ex, and honestly, one shared value is doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
Laraine Newman on Scorsese Breakfasts, Mime Shame, and the Accidental Audition That Changed Everything
The original SNL cast member tells the story of how she got famous without knowing she was trying to.
John Lennox on Hell, AI, and Why the Output Is Not the Point
The Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist comes to Diary of a CEO to argue that consciousness, not computation, is what separates humans from machines, and that hell is something you choose.
Tamra Judge Has Built a Full Life After RHOC and Would Like You to Stop Calling It Thirst
The Real Housewives of Orange County veteran stops by Up and Adam! to set the record straight on naked wasted, Shannon Beador, and why she does not need your television show back.
Jane Curtin Never Begged for It, and That's Why She Lasted
The original SNL anchor on improv, Lorne Michaels, Gilda Radner, and the one rule she never broke.
John Lennox Says Transhumanists Are 2,000 Years Late to Solving Death
The Oxford mathematician makes his case that AI is idolatry, atheism is self-defeating, and Christ already beat Silicon Valley to the resurrection.
Barack Obama Says Democrats Have the Harder Job, and He's Right
The 44th president sits with Brian Tyler Cohen and makes the case that not being cruel is actually a structural disadvantage, then uses Bad Bunny as evidence.
Jo De La Rosa Was Reality TV's First Reluctant Star, and She Knows It
The original Real Housewives of OC cast member finally does her first podcast interview, and it turns out she's been the most self-aware person in the room this whole time.
Anne Beatts on SNL's First Women, John Belushi's Veto Power, and the Hospital Bed She Negotiated Into Her Contract
The woman who helped invent the Nerds sketches, outlasted Belushi's war against female writers, and got a push-button hospital bed installed on the 17th floor of 30 Rock tells it straight.
Ben Rhodes Told You So: The JCPOA Was Right, the Iran War Was Dumb, and Everyone Knew It
The former Obama deputy national security advisor walks Jon Stewart through a decade of foreign policy failure, and the argument is depressingly airtight.
Vicki Gunvalson and Jeana Keough Revisit the Wine Throw, the Cheating, and Getting Paid in Location Fees
The two original OGs of Orange County sit down to relitigate two decades of Bravo chaos, and somehow the most revealing moment is about a bartender at Piccolinos.
Dan Aykroyd Hosts History's Weirdest Omnibus, and It Actually Works
Hollow earth theory, psychic Cold War spies, and a ghost who got her husband convicted: the Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd is exactly as unhinged as it sounds.
John Kiriakou Went to Prison for Telling the Truth, and He'd Do It Again
The former CIA officer and whistleblower sits down with Theo Von to talk torture, superdelegates, Israel's spy network, and getting adopted by the Mob in federal prison.
Mike Birbiglia Knows He Might Be Mediocre and Has Made a Kind of Peace With It
Two narrative comedians sit down to talk about control, cancer, and why nobody is watching your old special.
Vicki Gunvalson's Original Producer Reveals the Family Van Was Nobody's Fault
Amy Elkins, the producer who kept Vicki from quitting Real Housewives of Orange County before it ever aired, finally gets to tell her side of the story.
Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in 1978: Two Guys Who Weren't Sure the Show Would Last Seven Episodes
A newly surfaced interview captures the Blues Brothers at 26 and 29, still sleeping on foam slabs and genuinely unsure if any of this was going to work out.
Caleb Williams Is Already Planning His Second Madden Cover
The Bears QB visits New Heights to talk Year 2 with Ben Johnson, his swimming career, and why a 90 rating on your own cover feels like disrespect.
Andy Cohen Comes Clean About Grindr, GLP-1s, and Getting Denied the Gay Channel Job
The King of Bravo sits in Alex Cooper's shipped-in chairs and proceeds to be more candid than he is on his own show.
Chevy Chase Walked Into Bill Maher's Living Room and Refused to Leave
At 79, the original Saturday Night Live star is still the funniest guy in any room, and he knows it.
The Doctor Who Blamed His Patients for 25 Years Finally Turned the Mirror on Himself
Dr. David Unwin's sugar teaspoon test will ruin your breakfast cereal forever.
Michio Kaku Calls Genesis a Fairy Tale and Then Explains Why That's Fine
The theoretical physicist comes to the Diary of a CEO to talk immortality, nuclear annihilation, and why the Bible is a metaphor he actually respects.
Kristen Wiig Tells Amy Poehler She Packed Up Her Car After a Dollar-a-Minute Psychic Told Her to Move to LA
Two SNL legends talk Groundlings, ghosts, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, and the particular horror of being asked to tell a story at a dinner party.
Jennifer Lawrence Knows Exactly What She's Doing
On Good Hang, Lawrence shows up as the rare famous person who is simultaneously very funny, very real, and apparently very willing to flash Amy Poehler on a podcast.
Steve Carell and Amy Poehler Compare Notes on Bombing, Boston, and the Baritone Horn
Two Second City survivors swap war stories, and the most revealing thing either of them says is about failure.
Aubrey Plaza Tells Amy Poehler About the Gorge Inside Her Grief
The most requested guest in Good Hang history shows up with sunglasses on, a sick dog, and more to say than she lets on.
Bill Hader on Celebrity Text Chains, Van Halen Brothers, and the Oompa Loompa Union Meeting That Went Nowhere
The Barry creator stops by The Best Show to discuss fake press conferences, David Lee Roth's inexplicable EP, and a pitch to the Roald Dahl estate that died on arrival.
Bill Hader and Ted Danson Bond Over the One Thing Funnier People Are Supposed to Hide
Two of the most decorated comedy actors alive spend ninety minutes comparing anxiety attacks, SNL nightmares, and the specific horror of bombing in front of a Sarah Palin crowd.
Adam Sandler on Bombing, Kevin Meany, and Why He Said Yes to the Netflix Special
Two hours and forty minutes of comedians talking about comedy, and almost none of it is boring.
Adam Sandler on Happy Gilmore 2, Bobby Boucher's NFL Career, and Why He Still Gets Nervous Around Taylor Swift
The Sandman shows up on New Heights and turns a sports podcast into a forty-minute masterclass in being exactly yourself.
Tina Fey on Las Culturistas: Great Americans, Mozzarella Stick Math, and the Danger of Having Opinions
The woman who wrote Mean Girls shows up, delivers a masterclass in institutional wisdom, and tells Bowen Yang his podcast career has maybe one year left.
Tina Fey Tells Amy Poehler She Has to Kill Every Time
The first episode of Good Hang is less a podcast debut than a reunion special where the guest happens to be the host's comedy wife.
John Mulaney on Arenas, Addiction, and the SNL Writer Who Thought He Could Dress Himself
Mulaney joins Dana Carvey and David Spade to talk sobriety, Madison Square Garden, and why Mickey Rooney wanted to shoot a serial killer.
John Mulaney, John Mayer, Jimmy Carr, Jim Gaffigan, and Jim Downey Walk Into Conan's Podcast
Five guests, one episode, and a running lawsuit fantasy that somehow becomes the most coherent bit of the whole thing.
Mark Bowden Reads the Room: Meghan's Empty Plaza, Blake's Fury, and Kylie's Headlock
The Nerve's body language expert makes his case that fame is just insecurity in expensive linen.
Martin Mallaloy Flew to Austin from Cleveland and Stole Kill Tony's Entire Episode
A 60-year-old schizophrenic comedian with an enlarged prostate, a frog-killing past, and a Opie & Anthony legacy walks into the Comedy Mothership and leaves with a golden ticket.
Benjamin Hardy Says You're Measuring Yourself Wrong, and He Has the Viktor Frankl Story to Prove It
The organizational psychologist behind 'The Gap and the Gain' explains why hitting your goals might make you feel worse, and what Mr. Beast figured out at 17 that most adults never do.
Jessie Inchauspé Says Your Breakfast Is Why You Feel Terrible by 10 a.m.
The Glucose Goddess on sugar crashes, aging like a chicken in an oven, and why orange juice is basically a can of Coke.
Daniel Pink Has 26,000 Regrets to Show You, and That's the Good News
The author of 'The Power of Regret' joins Mel Robbins to make the case that the emotion you've been running from is actually the most useful one you have.
Dr. Tara Narula Wants You to Stop Trying to Bounce Back
The cardiologist and TV medical correspondent makes the case that resilience isn't recovery, it's transformation, and your cardiovascular system is paying close attention either way.
Jeff Cavaliere Says Your Back Pain Is a Glute Problem
The Athlean-X founder makes the case that the small muscles everyone ignores are the only reason the big lifts keep working.
Dr. Abud Bakri Knows Where the Peptides Come From, and It's All China
A 33-year-old internal medicine physician walks into the Huberman Lab and proceeds to explain why millions of people are injecting compounds sourced from one Croatian research group and one country.
Michio Kaku Will Not Tell You Whether Aliens Exist, No Matter What You Threaten
The theoretical physicist comes prepared with one answer for every question: maybe.
David Bach's $27.40 Sermon Is Both Simple and Incomplete, Which Is Exactly the Point
The 'Automatic Millionaire' guy brought a brick of cash to London and made a very clean argument for a very messy reality.
Ari Matti Came to America for Stand-Up and Ended Up in Stanley Park
The Estonian comedian tells Theo Von about gay cruising, communist censorship, and why a wet foot at 34 is a medical emergency.
Nate Bargatze Is Building a Theme Park With His Own Money and He Knows It's Crazy
The cleanest comedian in the game comes on This Past Weekend to talk about his new movie, his Nashville theme park, and why he thinks stand-up is the last place you can hear a real person.
Five Guests on the Secret to a Good Marriage, and One of Them Is Actually Right
Shawn Ryan asks five people the same question and gets five answers that range from profound to a GPS dog collar ad.
Joe McMoneagle Says He Found Russia's Typhoon Sub With His Mind. A Soviet General Believed Him.
The CIA's star remote viewer told the National Security Council about a monster submarine. They called it fantasy. Then they took the photos.
Maureen Callahan says Harry and Meghan’s return to the U.K. is the first step toward divorce
Callahan’s tabloid grenade is that Harry is trying to work his way back into royal life while Meghan prepares, eventually, to cash out with a memoir.
Patrick Bet-David says Elon Musk can identify who is paying for fake bot attacks on X
The PBD Podcast host makes a very searchable claim about Musk, bots, and platform power, but the leap from suspicious traffic to a clean money trail is doing a lot.
Maureen Callahan says Timothée Chalamet looked like a privileged white boy pretending to be hardcore at the Knicks parade
The useful part of the clip is not Knicks fandom, it’s celebrity fan etiquette, and Callahan thinks Chalamet crossed from loyal supporter into main-character cosplay.
Maureen Callahan says Alex Cooper is complicit in Unwell’s alleged toxic workplace, not a bystander
The sharpest charge here is not that Matt Kaplan allegedly screamed at employees, it is that Alex Cooper’s feminist boss brand collapses if she stood by while it happened.
Rob Shuter says Today made him call gossip 'celebrity buzz' before its tabloid makeover
The gossip columnist argues NBC's morning flagship isn't newly tabloid, it just stopped pretending the towels were the classy part.
Patrick Bet-David says OpenAI is losing the propaganda war and no major tech company is defending Sam Altman
The PBD panel framed Sam Altman’s problem less as an AI fight than a public legitimacy crisis.
Rob Shuter says Goop has never made a profit
The gossip columnist’s sharpest claim on The Megyn Kelly Show was not that Paltrow is tone-deaf, it was that her famous wellness company has never actually made money.
Patrick Bet-David says the alleged White House UFC terror plot was not even a top 10 media story
The PBD Podcast framed the alleged FBI-disrupted attack as a media scandal, then accidentally made its own argument wobble by racing through it in about three minutes.
Maureen Callahan says JFK Jr.'s plane crash was a murder-suicide mission
Callahan makes the hardest possible case against the Kennedy myth, but her evidence proves recklessness more cleanly than intent.
Maureen Callahan says Lenny Kravitz's Men's Health body is not 100% natural
Callahan's target isn't just Kravitz's abs, it's the celebrity fitness machine selling agelessness as discipline.
Maureen Callahan says Sarah Jessica Parker will never get another acting job of consequence
On The Megyn Kelly Show, Callahan turned a commencement-speech critique into a full career indictment of the actress behind Carrie Bradshaw.
Maureen Callahan says Taylor Swift asked Steven Spielberg to film her dancing with Travis Kelce
The host treats the Spielberg phone handoff as the perfect little fossil of modern celebrity, famous people making even other famous people part of the content machine.
Maureen Callahan says Taylor Swift looked like Elaine Benes after asking Steven Spielberg to film her dancing
The burn is funny, but the sharper point is how completely Swift’s idea of spontaneity now comes pre-directed.
Megyn Kelly says Jennifer Lopez's True Romance sex list is J.Lo playing a game
Kelly bought Christian Slater as a believable celebrity crush, then bailed the second the list became a whole 1993 movie cast.
Maureen Callahan says Sarah Jessica Parker's son James Wilkie Broderick does not have what it takes to be a model
The Megyn Kelly Show clip turns a People-style celebrity-kid photo item into a blunt nepo-baby verdict.
Rob Shuter says Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Madison Square Garden wedding rumor is a decoy
The gossip veteran’s bet is that MSG is the meeting point, not the altar, and that the real wedding happens somewhere else while cameras camp out in Midtown.
Rob Shuter says Taylor Swift’s Madison Square Garden wedding rumor is probably a decoy
The celebrity journalist argues the Madison Square Garden chatter feels too Kardashian, too public, and too convenient to be the real Taylor Swift wedding plan.
Patrick Bet-David says Amy Coney Barrett should resign if threats made her vote less conservative
The PBD Podcast turned Barrett's bulletproof vest story into a much bigger accusation, that fear may be changing Supreme Court votes.
Annie Jacobsen says the U.S. has a classified devolution plan to send the president alone to a cold site in a 100 percent fatal plague
The national security writer says the public name is known, the actual program is classified, and the creepiest detail is not the bunker, it is the president alone in a room with the nuclear football outside.
Maureen Callahan says Belle Burden’s divorce memoir is “a lie”
Callahan’s objection isn’t just that Burden sounds privileged, it’s that the media is treating a very cushioned divorce story like a brave act of survival.
Maureen Callahan says Carson Daly drinking beer from his shoe shows morning TV is dying
Callahan used Daly’s on-air “shoey” and Jenna Bush Hager’s garbled “biggest ick” moment to argue that NBC’s breakfast hour has stopped passing the breakfast test.
Rob Shuter says Taylor Swift rejected Anna Wintour’s wedding gown help and has six dresses in the running
The celebrity columnist’s read is brutal and very Vogue funeral-coded: Anna Wintour’s old trade, access for influence, no longer works on Taylor Swift.
Don Lincoln says quantum field theory predicts dark energy 10^120 times too large
The Fermilab physicist puts a number on the vacuum catastrophe, and the number is so stupidly large it makes ordinary scientific failure look dainty.
Patrick Bet-David says Iranian mourners held Kill Trump banners while the U.S. was negotiating with Iran
The PBD Podcast turns a funeral clip into an argument against negotiating with a regime whose street theater still knows exactly which American buttons to push.
Maureen Callahan says Sarah Jessica Parker called the paparazzi for her Amagansett reading photos
Callahan’s case is less forensic investigation than Hamptons social anthropology, but the claim is wonderfully specific: nobody just happens upon Sarah Jessica Parker reading on a bench out east.
Mel Robbins says your life is an average Tuesday, not the big moments you keep waiting for
The self help star's best reminder is also the least glamorous one: stop treating ordinary days like filler.
Neil deGrasse Tyson says Obama was right that aliens probably exist, but UFO believers still need to show the alien
The astrophysicist’s alien position is less X-Files and more Costco math: too many planets, not enough proof.
Patrick Bet-David says the Pepsi jet lawsuit guy finally got 7 million Frontier miles
Frontier turned John Leonard's impossible Harrier jet prize into a Super Bowl bit, and the PBD crew correctly clocks the real winner, the airline's marketing department.
Matt Ehret says God letting Satan cause evil for a greater good is coping
On Danny Jones Podcast, Ehret pushed back on a Carmelite theory of Satan by arguing that divine permission for rape, murder, and genocide sounds less like theology than a bedtime story for the powerless.
Megyn Kelly says Jamie Lee Curtis’s “Los Angeles” pronunciation is an insufferable affectation
A tiny morning-show pronunciation squabble became, in Kelly’s hands, a felony-grade culture crime.
Anthony Kaldellis says Roman families voluntarily castrated their sons to place them at the emperor's court
The Byzantine historian explains how castration was sometimes a family's smartest power move, not just a cruelty imposed on slaves.
Kevin Spacey says he's been stopped 70 times a day in Europe by fans asking when he's going back to work
On Club Random, Spacey makes his case that nine years of industry exile is enough, and somehow the most revealing number he offers is 70.
Jeremy Grantham says US stocks may not recover for 20 years and Wall Street knows it
The veteran investor who called the 2000 and 2008 crashes says a 70% decline in US tech stocks would not be unexpected, and your financial advisor will never warn you.
Megyn Kelly says Natasha Lyonne will die if she doesn't get treatment immediately after Tribeca meltdown
Kelly pulls no punches on the Russian Doll star's onstage appearance, calling it a failure of everyone in her orbit and drawing a direct line to Carrie Fisher and James Gandolfini.
Matt Ehret says 'Ku Klux' is Greek for 'circle,' making the KKK a straight rebrand of the Confederate secret society that killed Lincoln
A Canadian historian walks into a podcast and explains that John Wilkes Booth was probably Manchurian-Candidated in Montreal, and that the KKK is just the Golden Circle with a new logo.
Rob Shuter says Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds will stage a public outing on Taylor Swift's wedding day to steal headlines
Gossip reporter Rob Shuter tells Megyn Kelly his sources say the couple's image rehab strategy involves a very petty, very public stunt timed to the biggest celebrity wedding of the decade.
Graham Hancock Wants You to Know Science Is Just a Pimple on the Nose of Human History
The ancient civilizations theorist comes to Diary of a CEO to relitigate everything, and some of it actually lands.
Graham Hancock Wants You to Believe a Secret Society Built the Pyramids
The ancient-mysteries author brings his lost-civilization thesis to Diary of a CEO, and the math is more interesting than the mythology.
Pete Holmes Went to Ayahuasca, Neal Brennan Is Scared of His Dog
Two comedians closing in on 20 years of friendship talk God, plant medicine, body dysmorphia, and whether love is just a dog following a turkey leg.
John Lennox Told Peter Singer That Atheism Is a Faith, and the Internet Lost Its Mind
The Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist sits down with Steven Bartlett and refuses to give easy answers, which turns out to be the most persuasive thing he can do.
Pete Holmes Teaches Bobby Lee the Way of the Whites
Baking soda in the freezer, gas before the light comes on, and other mysteries of white American life, as explained to two men who never learned.
Will Ferrell Didn't Know He Wrote Elf, and Other Things Harland Williams Told Him
The Harland Highway podcast reunites two Superstar co-stars, produces a fake ancestry reveal, and somehow ends with a cappella cowbell.
Will Ferrell Runs a Hamster Wheel 50 Feet in the Air and Still Had to Sing
A quarantine-era Conan interview that doubles as proof Will Ferrell genuinely cannot stop performing, even when strapped inside a steel contraption above a film set.
Will Ferrell Drafted Ron Burgundy as QB and Bombed His SNL Debut. He's Fine With Both.
The Anchorman star visits New Heights to talk hockey stunts, getting rejected twenty times on Anchorman, and why Lorne Michaels is constitutionally incapable of a compliment.
Will Ferrell Thought the Last Dab Was Just Ceremonial. It Was Not.
The comedy legend shows up without Julia Louis-Dreyfus, with an active ulcer, and still eats every wing.
John Mulaney Tells Theo Von About the Gorilla in His Head
Two comedians who have spent serious time in the wreckage compare notes on cocaine, sobriety, and chasing the version of yourself that existed before things got dark.
John Mulaney Ate Hot Wings at 11 a.m. and Told the Truth About Rehab
Baby J is Mulaney's best special, he says, and on Hot Ones he gave you the receipts between tears and fish-food flavors.
Gayle King's Cheating Story Is a Perfect Disaster, and Megyn Kelly Cannot Get Enough of It
A bath towel, a Jamaican nanny, a pair of psychologists, and one very long ride to the train station.
Don Lincoln Wants You to Understand Why Time Is Weirder Than You Think
A Fermilab physicist walks Lex Fridman through the history of spacetime, and the most interesting part is what nobody actually understands.
Don Lincoln Has Spent 30 Years Looking for Dark Matter and Has Absolutely No Idea What It Is
The Fermilab physicist makes a compelling case for something he cannot find, cannot name, and cannot stop thinking about.
Tina Fey on Athletes, Almonds, and Why She Can't Get Her Kids to Watch 30 Rock
The Kelce brothers haul in Tina Fey and Nate Bargatze for an episode that somehow covers manspreading at MSG, a Cleveland Guardians ownership stake, and the origin of Nashville hot chicken.
Tina Fey Has No Beef with Timothée Chalamet, and God Is Fair
The 30 Rock creator stops by New Heights to settle the great Knicks game manspreading controversy once and for all.
Michio Kaku Says We're Probably Not in a Simulation, and He Has 71 Years of Physics to Back It Up
The string theory co-founder visits Diary of a CEO and does something rare: he actually answers the big questions, then politely dismantles one of the internet's favorite cosmic theories.
Ex-Google Insider Mo Gawdat Says Your Job Has About Three Years
The former Google X chief business officer comes to The Diary of a CEO with a countdown clock and a dim view of Sam Altman's recent pivot to optimism.