Index

Guests

Every notable guest, and everything they said across the shows we cover.

Adam Sandler

Comedian, actor, and filmmaker best known for the original Happy Gilmore, here reprising the role for a sequel due July 25th.

Adam Sosnick

PBD Podcast panelist known for pop-culture and money commentary.

Al Franken

Former Saturday Night Live writer and performer who served as U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018.

Alan Castel

Alan Castel is a UCLA psychology professor who studies human memory, cognitive aging, and how people remember what matters.

Alan Zweibel

An original Saturday Night Live writer, author of Laugh Lines, and longtime collaborator of Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal, Garry Shandling, and Larry David.

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneur and author who built and sold gym chains before founding Acquisition.com, a portfolio of companies, and became one of the most followed voices in business self-improvement.

Alex Wagner

Journalist and MSNBC host, and host of the podcast Runaway Country.

Alexis Bellino

Former Real Housewives of Orange County cast member who divorced Jim Bellino and has been navigating co-parenting their children since.

Aman Narang

Aman Narang is the co-founder and CEO of Toast, the restaurant technology and point-of-sale company.

Amy Elkins

A field producer on the early seasons of Real Housewives of Orange County who helped coax Vicki Gunvalson through multiple near-walkouts and went on to a 23-year career in reality television.

Amy Goodman

Host and executive producer of Democracy Now, the listener-supported daily news program she has run for thirty years on roughly nothing.

Andy Cohen

Bravo's late-night ringmaster, host of Watch What Happens Live, and the executive producer who built the Real Housewives universe.

Anne Beatts

One of the first female writers on Saturday Night Live and the creator of the CBS sitcom Square Pegs.

Anthony Kaldellis

A historian of Byzantium and the Eastern Roman Empire known for arguing that Byzantium should be understood as a continuation of Rome.

Ari Matti

Estonian stand-up comedian based in the US, known from Kill Tony and as a founding figure of Estonia's first independent comedy scene.

Artie Lange

Former Howard Stern Show regular and stand-up comic, co-hosting here with characteristic controlled chaos.

Aubrey Plaza

Actor, producer, and witch-adjacent figure best known for Parks and Recreation, White Lotus, and Agatha All Along.

Barack Obama

The 44th president of the United States, now running the Obama Foundation and opening his presidential center in Chicago this summer.

Ben Felix

Canadian portfolio manager, CIO, and YouTube finance educator known for evidence-based, index-fund-focused investing content.

Ben Rhodes

Former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, co-host of Pod Save the World, and author of the upcoming book 'All We Say.'

Ben Shapiro

Co-founder of The Daily Wire, conservative commentator, and author, best known for rapid-fire political debate and a media company that rivals legacy outlets in right-leaning digital reach.

Benjamin Hardy

Organizational psychologist and author of 'Be Your Future Self Now' and 'The Gap and The Gain,' known for his work on identity, future-self psychology, and high performance.

Bill Burr

Stand-up comedian and host of the Monday Morning Podcast, here conducting an interview he spent most of preparing to avoid asking about Fonzie.

Bill Hader

Creator, writer, director, and star of HBO's Barry, and former SNL cast member.

Bill Maher

Bill Maher is a comedian, talk-show host, and professional irritant best known for making politics feel like a nightclub argument.

Bill Murray

Mark Twain Prize-winning comedian and actor, five decades deep in the business, still somehow the most interesting person in any room.

Billy Bush

Former Access Hollywood and Today Show host who was fired in October 2016 after the Trump hot mic tape surfaced, and who now hosts the podcast Hot Mics with Billy Bush.

Bo Derek

Bo Derek is an actor and cultural icon best known for Blake Edwards's 1979 comedy 10.

Braunwyn Windham-Burke

Former Real Housewives of Orange County cast member who filmed her sobriety journey on-air and has been publicly open about her alcoholism and recovery.

Brennan Spiegel

Dr. Brennan Spiegel is a gastroenterologist and health services researcher at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Bruno Fernandes

Bruno Fernandes is a Portuguese footballer and the captain of Manchester United.

Caleb Hammer

Caleb Hammer is a personal-finance YouTuber best known for Financial Audit, where he confronts guests about debt, spending, and budget denial.

Caleb Hearon

Stand-up comedian and podcaster from Kansas City whose HBO debut special became one of the surprise critical hits of the past year.

Caleb Williams

Chicago Bears quarterback, 2022 Heisman winner, 2024 number one overall draft pick, and now the cover athlete for Madden NFL 27.

Candace Bushnell is the author whose New York Observer column became the 1996 book Sex and the City and, in turn, the HBO series that defined a generation's idea of dating, friendship, and ambition in New York. She created Carrie Bradshaw and has spent the decades since writing novels (Lipstick Jungle, The Carrie Diaries, Is There Still Sex in the City?) and touring a one-woman stage show. Nearly thirty years on, she remains one of the sharpest chroniclers of money, sex, and single life.

Carl Hayden Smith

Carl Hayden Smith is a professor and researcher who studies consciousness, altered states, and immersive technologies.

Cenk Uygur

Cenk Uygur is the founder and host of The Young Turks, a progressive political news show.

Chelsea Handler

Comedian, author, and TV host who conducts the interview and occasionally makes it about herself, which is its own kind of talent.

Chevy Chase

Original Saturday Night Live cast member and star of Caddyshack, Fletch, Vacation, and Community, with a famously prickly reputation.

Chris O'Connor

Stand-up comedian and host of the podcast Stuff Island, currently touring nationally.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese soccer superstar, five-time Ballon d’Or winner, and the eternal other half of the Messi-Ronaldo argument.

Cristina Mariani

Cristina Mariani is an Austin-based stand-up comedian known from Kill Tony and touring with Theo Von.

Dan Aykroyd

SNL cast member, co-creator of the Blues Brothers, and the guy who invented the Coneheads by staring too long at a television screen.

Dan Richards

An independent researcher and former electrician who investigates anomalies in the archaeological record, particularly around ancient Egypt and the pyramids.

Daniel Pink

Bestselling author and behavioral researcher who conducted the World Regret Survey, collecting over 26,000 regrets from 134 countries.

Daniel Rodriguez

Daniel Rodriguez is a UFC welterweight contender known as D-Rod, with a late-start MMA career built out of Los Angeles street-fighting experience and a hard left hand.

David Bach

Personal finance author best known for 'The Automatic Millionaire,' which he launched on Oprah, and the concept of the latte factor.

David Epstein

David Epstein is the author of Range and a science writer known for turning research on performance, learning, and creativity into arguments people can actually use.

Dennis Quaid

Actor and musician whose career spans The Right Stuff, The Big Easy, and now a Reagan biopic four years in the making.

DJ Shipley

Retired Navy SEAL who served nine years at the tier-one level and now runs GBRS Group, a training and consulting company, while advocating for ibogaine-assisted therapy for veterans.

Don Lincoln

Senior scientist at Fermilab and science communicator who has written extensively on Einstein and particle physics.

Doug Brunt

Doug Brunt is a New York Times bestselling author whose recent nonfiction focuses on overlooked industrial figures like Rudolf Diesel and Immanuel Nobel.

Douglas Brunt

Douglas Brunt is a New York Times bestselling author and the host of Dedicated with Doug Brunt.

Dr. Abud Bakri

Board-certified internal medicine physician who works hospital wards managing complex disease while maintaining deep expertise in peptide science, circadian biology, and longevity medicine.

Dr. David Unwin

A UK GP who spent decades prescribing medication over lifestyle advice before becoming one of Britain's most vocal advocates for low-carb nutrition.

Dr. Jordan Metzl

Dr. Jordan Metzl is a sports medicine physician at Hospital for Special Surgery and an author focused on exercise as medicine.

Elizabeth Stone

Elizabeth Stone is Netflix’s chief product and technology officer, overseeing product, engineering, data science, and design.

Emily Simpson

Attorney turned Real Housewives of Orange County cast member, co-host of the legal podcast Legally Brunette alongside her husband Shane.

Erin Brockovich

Environmental advocate and consumer advocate best known for her work on the Hinkley groundwater contamination case against PG&E.

Former Navy SEAL (guest)

A former Navy SEAL operator speaking from personal experience about military life, relationships, and the cost of service.

Garrett Morris

Original Saturday Night Live cast member and star of Two Broke Girls, with a life story that makes everyone else's seem thin.

Gilbert Gottfried

Legendary stand-up comedian and voice actor known for his abrasive delivery and weaponized bad taste.

Gina Kirschenheiter

Real Housewives of Orange County cast member who parlayed reality TV fame into a real estate career at eXp Realty.

Graham Hancock

British author and alternative historian best known for arguing that a sophisticated, forgotten civilization predates every culture in the official record.

Graham Platner

Mayor of Sullivan, Maine, Marine veteran, oyster farmer, and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate against Susan Collins.

Gretchen Rossi

Original Real Housewives of Orange County cast member, returning for the current season after more than a decade away.

Harry Shearer

Actor, voice artist, and satirist best known for playing multiple characters on The Simpsons and Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap.

Heather Dubrow

Actor, podcaster, and Real Housewives of Orange County cast member currently navigating season 17 and a life without a permanent address.

Heather Thomson

Former Real Housewives of New York City cast member who briefly returned to the show and made the decision as a family.

Ido Portal

Israeli movement teacher and founder of Movement Culture, a practice that blends physical training, somatic awareness, and philosophy, whose clients have included Conor McGregor and various elite athletes and performers worldwide.

Jack Whitehall

Jack Whitehall is a British comedian, actor, presenter, and star of shows including Bad Education and Travels with My Father.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis is an Oscar-winning actor whose public persona often lands somewhere between Hollywood royalty and your most theatrical aunt.

Jane Curtin

Original Saturday Night Live cast member, two-time Emmy winner for Kate and Allie, and Third Rock from the Sun co-star.

Jeana Keough

Fellow RHOC original, former Playboy centerfold, and longtime real estate agent in Orange County.

Jeff Bridges

Oscar-winning actor best known for The Big Lebowski, Crazy Heart, and True Grit, now voicing twin brothers in the animated film Minions and Monsters.

Jeff Cavaliere

Physical therapist, certified strength and conditioning specialist, and founder of the Athlean-X YouTube channel, widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on training for strength, size, and longevity.

Jeni Britton

Founder of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams and the fiber company Flora.

Jennifer Lawrence

Oscar-winning actress and producer whose credits include Winter's Bone, the Hunger Games franchise, No Hard Feelings, and Die My Love.

Jeremy Grantham

Co-founder of the asset management firm GMO, Grantham is one of the most decorated bubble-spotters in finance, having correctly flagged the dot-com crash, the 2008 housing collapse, and the 2022 growth-stock selloff before they happened.

Jessie Inchauspé

French biochemist and New York Times bestselling author known online as the Glucose Goddess, with 6 million Instagram followers and books including Glucose Revolution and Nine Months That Count Forever.

Jim Capers

A retired Marine and Vietnam War veteran known for his Force Recon service and valor awards.

Jim Downey

Legendary SNL writer who was there from the beginning in 1976 and whom Conan credits as one of the great comedy minds of the 20th century.

Jim Gaffigan

Stand-up comedian whose new Netflix special The Skinny tackles weight loss drugs, food shame, and parenting teenagers.

Jimmy Carr

British stand-up comedian known for dense one-liners and a delivery style that makes him look innocent of whatever he just said.

Jo De La Rosa

Cast member on the first season of The Real Housewives of Orange County, later starred in the franchise's first spin-off, and has spent the years since in digital advertising and content creation.

Joe McMoneagle

A former U.S. Army intelligence operative and one of the original remote viewers in the CIA's classified psychic espionage program.

Joe Piscopo

SNL alumnus, stand-up performer, and AM radio host whose memoir Average Joe: Memoirs of a Blue Collar Entertainer is forthcoming.

Joe Rogan

Comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience, the most-listened-to podcast in the world.

John Belushi

SNL cast member, future Jake Blues, and a man who once terrorized his cats with a broomstick while pretending to be Toshiro Mifune.

John Kennedy

Republican U.S. Senator from Louisiana, serving since 2017, known for sharp one-liners and a folksy rhetorical style that masks a Vanderbilt and Oxford education.

John Kiriakou

Former CIA counterterrorism officer and whistleblower who served prison time after publicly exposing the agency's torture program.

John Lennox

Oxford mathematician, philosopher of science, and Christian apologist who has debated Richard Dawkins multiple times and written extensively on the relationship between faith and reason.

John Mayer

Guitarist, singer-songwriter, and now SiriusXM channel curator who has apparently been waiting years to be Conan's friend.

John Mulaney

Emmy-winning writer and comedian, former SNL contributor, and the guy who turned a GQ interview about his overdose into an eight-minute comedy finale.

John Stryker Meyer

John Stryker Meyer, known as Tilt, is a former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who served with MACV-SOG in Vietnam.

Jordana Brewster

Fast and Furious actress who has spoken openly about using a surrogate and the guilt she felt around it.

Kara Swisher

Veteran tech journalist and co-host of the Pivot podcast and On with Kara Swisher.

Kelly Casperson

A urologist and women's hormonal health advocate who specializes in sexual medicine and menopause.

Kelly Dodd

Former Real Housewives of Orange County cast member, co-host of The Daily Smash with husband Rick Leventhal, and person currently in a feud with roughly seven people.

Kenneth Cole

Fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded the Kenneth Cole brand and built it through retail, wholesale, and cause-driven advertising.

Kenny Chesney

East Tennessee-raised country superstar who has sold out stadiums for three decades and currently headlines residencies at the Sphere in Las Vegas.

Kevin O'Leary

Investor, entrepreneur, and Shark Tank personality known for blunt business advice and the Mr. Wonderful persona.

Kevin Spacey

Two-time Oscar-winning actor who was effectively exiled from Hollywood after sexual misconduct allegations surfaced in 2017, and who has since been acquitted in every case that reached a jury.

Krishna Kaliannan

Krishna Kaliannan is the founder of Catalina Crunch, a low-sugar, high-protein cereal and snack brand.

Kristen Wiig

SNL alumna and co-writer of Bridesmaids, here promoting Ghostbusters and carrying a guitar case full of Flintstone vitamins.

Laraine Newman

Original Saturday Night Live cast member, Groundlings co-founder, and prolific voice actor whose credits span decades of animation.

Lisa Kudrow

Emmy-winning actress best known for Phoebe Buffay on Friends and Valerie Cherish on The Comeback, which just completed its third and final season.

Marisa Peer

Marisa Peer is a British hypnotherapist and self-help author known for Rapid Transformational Therapy.

Mariska Hargitay

Mariska Hargitay is an actor best known for playing Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Mark Bowden

Body language expert and founder of Truthplane, a consultancy specializing in nonverbal communication.

Martin Picard

A mitochondrial psychobiologist whose work studies how stress, energy, and aging show up in the body.

Mat Edgar

Stand-up comedian and longtime friend of Tony Hinchcliffe, launching a new podcast called Bomb Shelter on June 1st.

Matt Ehret

Canadian journalist and historian, author of the Clash of the Two Americas series, known for connecting 19th-century secret societies to contemporary geopolitics.

Matt Rife

Stand-up comedian and actor known for viral crowd-work clips and his Netflix special, currently starring in the upcoming Netflix FTX drama series The Altruists.

Matthew Perna

Documentary filmmaker who produced 'The Age of Disclosure,' a film featuring on-record testimony from senior U.S. intelligence and national security figures about UAPs and non-human intelligence.

Maureen

A commentator on The Megyn Kelly Show who covers celebrity and media criticism.

Maureen Callahan

Maureen Callahan is a journalist and cultural commentator known for celebrity criticism and tabloid-seasoned media analysis.

Meghan King Edmonds

Former Real Housewives of Orange County cast member, now a newly single mom of three co-hosting the sex and relationships podcast Intimate Knowledge.

Megyn Kelly

Former Fox News and NBC anchor turned independent podcast host.

Mel Robbins

Mel Robbins is a self help author, motivational speaker, and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast.

Michael Che

SNL Weekend Update co-anchor, co-creator of That Damn Michael Che, and a man deeply suspicious of podcasts.

Michio Kaku

Theoretical physicist, co-founder of string field theory, and the rare scientist who can explain the multiverse using a bag of marbles.

Mike Birbiglia

Standup comedian, director, and solo show veteran behind Sleepwalk with Me, Thank God for Jokes, and Old Man in the Pool.

Mike Rowe

Television host of Dirty Jobs and founder of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, which promotes skilled trades and work ethic scholarships.

Mo Gawdat

Former Chief Business Officer at Google X and author who now focuses on AI risk and the future of humanity.

Natalie Dawson

Natalie Dawson is a business operator and entrepreneur known for advice on scaling companies, leadership, and personal performance.

Nate Bargatze

Grammy-winning stand-up comedian from Nashville, Tennessee, promoting his first feature film, The Bread Winner.

Nathan Apffel

A podcast host and church accountability investigator who documents financial transparency issues inside large American megachurches.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, science communicator, and director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York.

Nick Hanauer

Seattle-based venture capitalist and longtime advocate for higher minimum wages and anti-monopoly policy, known for his TED Talk warning fellow billionaires about inequality.

Noam Segal

Noam Segal is a product research leader who has worked at Airbnb, Intercom, Twitter, Wealthfront, Meta, Zapier, and Figma.

Patrick Bet-David

Entrepreneur, author, and host of the PBD Podcast, known for blunt political commentary and a large conservative-leaning audience.

Patrick Bet-David

Patrick Bet-David is an entrepreneur and the host of the PBD Podcast.

Paul Eastwick

Professor of psychology at UC Davis who studies attraction, mate selection, and relationship formation using real-world behavioral data rather than self-report surveys.

Paul Shaffer

Canadian musician, comedian, and David Letterman's longtime bandleader, known as the leader of the World's Most Dangerous Band.

Penn Jillette

Penn Jillette is the speaking half of Penn & Teller, a magician, comedian, author, skeptic, and longtime Las Vegas performer.

Pete Holmes

Stand-up comedian and podcaster whose special 'Silly Silly Funboy' is currently on YouTube.

Prince William

The Prince of Wales, president-turned-patron of the Football Association, and lifelong Aston Villa supporter.

Rebecca Serle

Rebecca Serle is the bestselling novelist behind In Five Years, One Italian Summer, Expiration Dates, and her new book Once and Again, emotionally precise stories that bend reality just enough to ask what we would do if we knew how things ended. In Five Years, with its single devastating flash-forward, became a word-of-mouth phenomenon and a fixture on the bestseller lists. Before her adult novels she wrote young-adult fiction and co-created the TV adaptation of her book Famous in Love.