Why Scott Galloway Wants Us To Celebrate Masculinity, Not Diminish It | On With Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher interviews Scott Galloway about his book "Notes on Being a Man," exploring the crisis facing young men and his attempt to redefine masculinity as a positive, aspirational code built around providing, protecting, and procreating responsibly. Galloway grounds the discussion in his own upbringing with a single mother, the absence and later partial redemption of his father, his drive to become financially secure, and his evolving role as a father of two sons. They also discuss how politics, culture, education, and policy can better support boys and men without diminishing the progress and rights of women and other marginalized groups.
Stop Letting Fear Drive Your Money
Ken Coleman and Jade Warshaw co‑host a caller-driven episode focused on getting control of money by facing fear, shame, and relational pressure around finances. Callers discuss massive consumer and business debts, student loans, divorce settlements, housing decisions, and family dynamics around borrowing and lending money. The hosts emphasize practical baby steps, strong boundaries, living below your means, and choosing long-term freedom over short-term comfort or appearances.
Parents: Keep Out!
Psychologist Peter Gray argues that modern societies have dramatically reduced children's opportunities for independent, self-directed play, replacing it with constant adult supervision, structured activities, and academic pressure. Drawing on anthropological work with hunter-gatherer societies, his own research, and personal stories, he explains how free, age-mixed play builds social skills, problem solving, independence, and psychological resilience, and links the loss of such play to rising anxiety and depression in young people. He and host Shankar Vedantam also discuss practical ways for parents, schools, and communities to restore more autonomy and unstructured play to children's lives.
"Benedict Cumberbatch"
Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes talk with Benedict Cumberbatch about fatherhood, his upbringing as the only child of two working actors, and how that shaped his path into acting. They cover his experiences at British boarding schools, a formative gap year teaching in a Tibetan community near Darjeeling, and his early TV and film work, before diving into his approach to roles, working with major directors and actors, and navigating fan expectations around iconic characters. Benedict also discusses learning to surf in his 40s, dealing with a serious shoulder injury, and his producing work on a new film adaptation of Max Porter's grief-focused novella "Grief is the Thing with Feathers," as well as his long-gestating adaptation of the novel "Rogue Male."
Divorce Lawyer James Sexton: #1 Conversation Every Couple Should Have Before it's Too Late (Use THIS 3-Step Script TODAY!)
Divorce lawyer and author James Sexton shares insights from 25 years of facilitating the end of marriages about what actually destroys relationships and what helps them last. He argues that disconnection and not feeling seen, rather than cheating or money alone, are the primary marriage killers, and emphasizes the importance of small daily gestures, honest communication, and preventive "maintenance" conversations. The discussion also covers prenups as a mutual safety tool, the impact of divorce and conflict on children, gendered patterns around infidelity and divorce initiation, and how ego and unexamined stories sabotage both marriages and breakups.
"My Financial Advisor Told Us To Take Out A HELOC For A Tax Write-Off"
Hosts Ken Coleman and Rachel Cruze take live calls about money decisions, including retirement planning, debt payoff, parenting and consequences, college and career choices, and running small businesses. They consistently discourage debt-based tactics like HELOCs for tax advantages or student loans for ministry school, and instead promote cash-flowing expenses, simplifying plans, and aligning financial choices with personal values. Throughout, they emphasize budgeting, communication in marriage, and making hard lifestyle changes to get and stay out of debt.
How to communicate with your dog, from a Westminster champion | Jennifer Crank
Host Elise Hugh introduces a TED Talk by dog agility competitor Jennifer Crank, who demonstrates an agility course with her border collie High Five and explains how the sport depends on precise interspecies communication. Crank describes the structure and difficulty of modern dog agility, the six primary cues handlers use, and why dogs respond most naturally to motion and body position rather than voice commands. She then connects these lessons to human relationships, emphasizing clarity, timing, consistency, and trust in any form of communication or leadership.
Focused Intensity Is The Only Way To Make Financial Progress
This call-in episode of The Ramsey Show features listeners seeking guidance on issues ranging from getting out of consumer and student loan debt to navigating financial infidelity, divorce fallout, and complex family dynamics. George Kamel and Dr. John Delony emphasize focused intensity on a single financial goal, the debt snowball method, and clear relational boundaries while discouraging debt consolidation schemes and emotionally driven financial decisions. The conversations also explore how money intersects with trauma, parenting, adult children supporting parents, and succession planning in a family business.
Emma Grede: #1 Trick Successful People Use Every Day (THIS Will Open Doors You Didn't Know Existed!)
In this live conversation, Jay Shetty interviews entrepreneur Emma Grede about overcoming self-doubt, navigating the structural barriers women face in business, and building confidence through action and excellence. Emma shares how focusing on what she does best, asking for help, and embracing trade-offs has allowed her to grow multiple companies while raising four children. Together they explore redefining success on your own terms, the power of focus and self-talk, and end with a live coaching session where Emma advises an audience member on how to start testing her TV show concept immediately at a small scale.
The Power of Family Stories
Host Shankar Vedantam first speaks with psychologist Robin Fyvush about how family stories shape children's memories, emotional development, identity, and resilience. They discuss research on parent-child reminiscing, different styles of family storytelling, and why knowing intergenerational stories predicts better well-being. In the second part, philosopher Massimo Pagliucci answers listener questions about stoicism, clarifying common misconceptions and showing how stoic ideas can help people handle anxiety, grief, relationships, and large-scale problems like climate change.
572. Navigating Education, Ideology, and Children | Answer the Call
Michaela hosts a call-in episode with her father, where they answer listener questions about homeschooling, the corruption of K-12 education, ideological capture of schools, art education, and the limits of changing IQ. They discuss how parents can socialize homeschooled children, evaluate and supplement institutional schooling, inoculate kids against woke ideology through broad political and historical education, and the importance of teachers explaining why subjects matter. The episode closes with a reflection on IQ as largely stable, the difficulty of increasing it directly, and the greater importance of building character, wisdom, and motivation through challenging experiences.
"Claire Danes"
The hosts open with light banter about facials, manicures, and self-care before welcoming actor Claire Danes, who talks about her relatively low-key beauty routine, life in a New York City brownstone, and becoming a mother of three after an unexpected pregnancy at 44. She describes growing up in an artist loft in Soho, starting acting as a child, the whirlwind of early fame from "My So-Called Life" and "Romeo + Juliet," and how therapy and family grounded her. Danes also shares how she researches roles-including observing brain surgery and visiting Langley-her experiences on "Homeland," working with directors like Baz Luhrmann and Francis Ford Coppola, her eccentric family history (including an ancestor hanged in the Salem witch trials), and her new psychological thriller series "The Beast in Me" with Matthew Rhys.
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet | Kate Marvel
Host Elise Hu interviews climate scientist Kate Marvel about her book "Human Nature, Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet," which explores climate change through nine emotions rather than just data or policy. Marvel discusses why scientists should acknowledge their feelings, how climate communication needs storytelling as well as charts, and how humans still have agency to shape a wide range of possible futures. They cover topics including grief for changing places, the limits of individual action, practical climate solutions, technological interventions, and how hope can be understood as something we do rather than something we simply have.
"RE-RELEASE: Jenny Slate"
The hosts talk with Jenny Slate about her life split between Los Angeles and a small coastal town in Massachusetts, where her husband owns a general store and she records voice work from various closets due to poor internet. She discusses her need for tidiness rooted in a messy childhood, stories of extreme mess-related consequences, quitting weed after an accidental massive THC overdose, and adjusting to motherhood while navigating performance anxiety in stand-up comedy. The conversation also covers the long creative process behind Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, from its improvised origins to the seven-year production of the stop-motion feature film.
Shutdown Ending, Trump's Pardons, and Guest Curtis Sliwa
In this live Pivot show from Brooklyn, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway interview Curtis Sliwa about his New York City mayoral campaign, alleged attempts by billionaires to bribe him out of the race, his animal rescue advocacy, the Guardian Angels, crime and policing, and his views on New York politics and Andrew Cuomo. Swisher and Galloway then discuss the congressional shutdown deal, Democratic strategy, and Trump's pardons, followed by a wide-ranging conversation on feminism and the workplace, universal childcare, masculinity, parenting, AI risks and regulation, and audience Q&A on marriage, kids, and technology. The episode closes with reflections on mentorship, male role models, and the importance of lifting up young men without demonizing masculinity.
Gabrielle Bernstein: The Simple 4-Step Method to Heal Anxiety, Stop Overthinking, and Stop People-Pleasing for Good
Gabrielle Bernstein discusses Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and how it transformed her life, explaining the model of "parts" and the concept of Self as a calm, compassionate inner presence. She and the host explore how protector parts like anxiety, addiction, control, people-pleasing, and workaholism develop to guard against childhood pain, and how befriending rather than banishing them can reduce anxiety, overthinking, and people-pleasing. Gabrielle teaches a simple four-step daily check-in process, guides a live exercise, and shows how this work can improve self-judgment, relationships, parenting, boundaries, leadership, and self-forgiveness.
Follow a Proven Plan, Quit Making It Up As You Go
Hosts Jade Warshaw and Dr. John Delony take live calls about money and life decisions, focusing on debt payoff, budgeting, relationships, and long-term planning. Callers include young families struggling with daycare and car payments, near-retirees behind on investing, people navigating enabling family members, and listeners wrestling with combining finances, massive credit card debt, and post-divorce purposelessness. Throughout, they emphasize following a proven step-by-step financial plan, facing emotional and relational issues directly, and making short-term sacrifices for long-term stability.
Selects: How Conversion Therapy Doesn't Work
The hosts examine the history, methods, and impact of conversion therapy, also known as reparative or ex-gay therapy, which claims to change a person's sexual orientation from gay to straight. They trace its roots from early pseudo-scientific psychological practices to its adoption by the Christian right as a major culture-war issue, and detail why the medical and psychological communities now condemn it as ineffective and harmful. The episode also covers specific abuse stories, research findings on mental health risks, legal efforts to ban conversion therapy for minors, and the movement's public unraveling through high-profile ex-gay leaders who later renounced it.
She's 20 and Her Parents Want Her To Buy Them A House
Hosts George Campbell and Rachel Cruze take live calls from listeners navigating difficult money decisions that are tightly intertwined with family dynamics, relationships, and life transitions. Callers ask about everything from a 20-year-old pressured by her parents to buy them a nicer house, to high vehicle and student loan debt, to whether an aging parent should invest or stay in cash, and how to handle condos, weddings, and grad school. Throughout, the hosts stress boundaries, rapid debt payoff, clear communication in relationships, and prioritizing long-term financial stability over short-term comfort or people-pleasing.
A $60,000 Mistake Turned Into a Wake-Up Call
Hosts Ken Coleman and Jade Warshaw take live calls from listeners about money mistakes, debt, relationships, and big life transitions. They coach callers through issues like an unaffordable RV loan, restarting debt after paying it off, complex child support situations, side hustles that aren't profitable, and saving for a home in an expensive market. Throughout, Jade shares pieces of her and her husband Sam's journey paying off $500,000 of debt and emphasizes the emotional side of money-shame, fear, anger, and endurance-as critical to long-term financial change.
Jay & Radhi Talk About the Pressure and Expectations Around Parenthood
The hosts discuss the intense social, biological, financial, and emotional pressures surrounding the decision to have children, especially for women. They explore why the common question "When are you having kids?" can be insensitive given issues like miscarriage, infertility, financial strain, and differing life goals. The conversation emphasizes defining your own timeline, recognizing many valid ways to express maternal and paternal energy, and rejecting the idea that parenthood is the only path to a meaningful or successful life.
The Alabama Murders - Part 6: The Porterfield Sessions
Malcolm Gladwell explores the life and psyche of death row prisoner Kenny Smith through the work of psychologist Kate Porterfield, who evaluated him after Alabama's botched attempt to execute him by lethal injection. Porterfield explains the unique physiological and psychological impact of mock and botched executions, situates Kenny's crime within a history of severe childhood abuse and family dysfunction, and reflects on how trauma and unconditional child-to-parent love shape later violence. The episode ends by tracing Kenny's deteriorating mental state, previewing his second execution via nitrogen gas, and questioning the human cost of the system that tried to kill him twice.
Normal Is Broke-Don't be Normal!
Hosts Rachel Cruze and Jade Warshaw take live calls from listeners about insurance, debt, car purchases, student loans, home buying, career changes, weddings, and family financial decisions. They contrast whole life and term life insurance, argue strongly against car loans and other consumer debt, and walk callers through the Ramsey Baby Steps framework. Throughout the episode they emphasize peace and freedom over mathematical optimization, encouraging listeners to live below their means, avoid debt, build emergency funds, and be honest with partners about money.
Reframing the Battle of Wills
Host Shankar Vedantam talks with psychologist Stuart Ablon about why attempts to change others' behavior often fail when we assume the problem is a lack of motivation or willpower. Ablon explains how many challenging behaviors arise from lagging cognitive, emotional, and social skills, and describes his collaborative problem solving approach that emphasizes empathy, identifying unmet concerns, and jointly generating solutions. He illustrates the method with cases from psychiatric hospitals, juvenile detention, families, and workplaces, and discusses research showing it reduces challenging behavior and builds skills in both the people being helped and the helpers themselves.
The surprising science of adolescent brains | Jennifer Pfeifer
Neuroscientist Jennifer Pfeiffer argues that adolescence is not a period of dysfunction but a transformative stage of growth spanning roughly ages 10 to 25. She explains how puberty, brain development, and social context shape adolescent behavior, debunks common myths about smartphones and mental health, and highlights the far greater importance of relationships and caregiver well-being. The talk calls for changing the cultural narrative about young people from doom and blame to respect, support, and shared opportunity.
"Oscar Isaac"
The hosts talk with Oscar Isaac about his winding path from playing in Florida ska and hardcore bands to training at Juilliard and becoming one of Hollywood's most versatile actors. He shares stories about nearly joining the Marines, his immigrant family background, his deep collaboration with Guillermo del Toro on Frankenstein, and how grief, family, and theater intertwined during his Hamlet run. The conversation also covers his sci‑fi work in Ex Machina, Dune, and Star Wars, his views on acting craft and decision-making, and his life as a husband and father who still makes music at home.
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff
Joe Rogan talks with actor Katie Sackhoff about her career-defining role as Starbuck in the Battlestar Galactica reboot, how that show reshaped science fiction television, and what it was like to gender-swap a beloved male character amid early internet backlash. They dive into the emotional power of sci‑fi and entertainment as escapism, the rise of AI in art and media, parenting in a social‑media-saturated world, and the profound perspective she gained from her young daughter's rare cancer diagnosis and the broken pediatric healthcare system. The conversation widens into AI as an emerging life form, homelessness and addiction, underfunded education and pediatric medicine, the possibility of extraterrestrial life and strange objects like 31 Atlas, and why strong female characters in sci‑fi mattered so much to her.
Inside the mind of a newborn baby | Claudia Passos Ferreira
Host Elise Hu introduces philosopher, bioethicist, and clinical psychologist Claudia Pasos-Ferreira, who explores when and how consciousness begins in human life. Drawing on recent neuroscience and developmental psychology, Pasos-Ferreira argues that newborns, and possibly late-term fetuses, display brain signatures associated with conscious perception and attention. She discusses the ethical implications of this evidence for medical practice and debates around personhood, and concludes with a broader reflection on consciousness as a "flame of awareness" shared across life and potentially machines.
The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood (re-release)
Relationship expert Katie Hood explains that while love is a powerful instinct and emotion, the ability to love well is a skill that must be learned and practiced. Drawing on her work with the One Love organization, she outlines five clear markers of unhealthy love-intensity, isolation, extreme jealousy, belittling, and volatility-and shows how these can escalate into abuse if left unchecked. She emphasizes using shared language to recognize unhealthy dynamics in all types of relationships and encourages daily practice of open communication, respect, kindness, and patience to build healthier connections.
Most Replayed Moment: Are Your Household And Beauty Products Secretly Toxic? Dr Yvonne Burkart
The conversation focuses on how everyday household, beauty, and personal care products can expose people to carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and how small, practical changes can significantly reduce that exposure. Dr Yvonne Burkart explains links between environmental chemicals and rising cancer incidence, especially breast cancer, and describes research showing that removing certain ingredients from products lowered breast cancer gene expression in just 28 days. She offers detailed guidance on identifying problematic ingredients like "fragrance" and phthalates in deodorants, candles, and incense, highlights children's particular vulnerability via contaminated household dust, and proposes safer alternatives such as essential-oil-based products and low-emission beeswax candles.
You're Either Building Wealth or Losing It
Rachel Cruze and Jade Warshaw take live calls to coach listeners through real-world money problems including family property disputes, debt repayment, student loans, housing decisions, and insurance choices. They walk callers through Ramsey "baby steps", tackle emotional issues like enabling adult children and comparing lifestyles, and give practical next steps for people dealing with layoffs, divorce fallout, and overwhelmed single parents. Throughout, they emphasize taking responsibility, tightening budgets, and aligning financial decisions with long-term values and family goals.
Judd Apatow: Fear of Rejection Holding You Back? THIS Trick Will Silence the Inner Critic & Help You Feel Confident to Create
Jay Shetty interviews Judd Apatow about his life in comedy, from his early days as a teenage interviewer of stand‑up comics to creating influential films and television shows. Apatow describes learning to treat failure as part of the path to success, developing his voice as a writer and director, and navigating ego, rejection, and collaboration in Hollywood. He also talks about parenting, long‑term marriage, therapy, meditation, psychedelics, and the importance of kindness, mentorship, and doing work that feels meaningful rather than merely successful.
You Won't Win With Money by Accident
This episode features a series of caller-driven money questions ranging from predatory HVAC leases, paying a parent's property taxes, and first-time homebuying costs to dream college tuition, secret marital debt, and large inheritance planning. The hosts walk callers through concrete next steps like where each debt belongs in the Baby Steps, how to prioritize insurance and cash when expecting twins, and how to structure wills and trusts in high‑net‑worth families. The show also highlights long, difficult journeys to becoming debt‑free and underscores that winning with money requires intentionality, boundaries, and perseverance, not wishful thinking.
"Julia Roberts"
The hosts catch up before welcoming Julia Roberts for a wide-ranging conversation about her early life, acting career, and personal life. Roberts shares stories about Martin Luther King Jr. paying her birth hospital bill, her parents' theater school, her path from would-be veterinarian and shoe-store worker to breakout film roles, and how she navigated sudden fame. She also discusses her long marriage to cinematographer Danny Moder, raising three children, becoming an empty nester, and her new film "After the Hunt" with director Luca Guadagnino.
How to Create a Successful Mindset: The Science of Passion and Perseverance
Mel Robbins interviews psychologist and author Angela Duckworth about grit-the combination of passion and perseverance for long-term goals-and how it predicts success better than talent alone. Duckworth explains the science behind growth mindset, deliberate practice, interest, purpose, and hope, and how each contributes to developing grit at any age. The conversation offers concrete strategies such as sampling interests, practicing deliberately, reframing "should" into "I want to," designing supportive environments, and building small wins to increase agency and resilience.
How to raise confident kids in an age of anxiety | Lenore Skenazy
Journalist and free-range parenting advocate Lenore Skenazy discusses why children's independence has dramatically shrunk over recent decades and how this shift is linked to rising anxiety and depression among kids. She explains the cultural and media forces that fueled overprotective parenting, outlines concrete steps for parents, schools, and communities to safely restore age-appropriate freedom, and describes legal reforms like the Reasonable Childhood Independence Law. The conversation emphasizes how letting kids do things on their own builds competence, confidence, and resilience while revitalizing neighborhoods and preparing young people for adult life and work.
"RE-RELEASE: Paul Thomas Anderson"
Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson joins the hosts to talk about his upbringing as the son of a legendary ABC promo voice, his early obsession with movies, and how he learned to write and direct by making a short mockumentary about Dirk Diggler that later evolved into Boogie Nights. He discusses his collaborative process with production designer Jack Fisk and composer Jonny Greenwood, his views on theatrical exhibition versus streaming, and his work in film preservation alongside Martin Scorsese. The conversation also covers his love of comedy, how he met Maya Rudolph at Saturday Night Live, what he saw in Adam Sandler, and how he balances a demanding career with being a father of four.
#2389 - Sal Vulcano
Joe Rogan and Sal Vulcano talk about getting older, becoming parents, and reworking their lifestyles around health, training, and stand-up touring. They swap stories about humiliating youth sports experiences, dangerous stunts and punishments from Sal's show, brushes with possible ghosts, and the terror of the ocean and tsunamis. The conversation also ranges into archery and bowhunting, modern art and alleged CIA influence, UFO-like drone swarms, AI tools, and how energy, mindset, and the people you spend time with shape your life.
"Kirsten Dunst"
Kirsten Dunst joins the SmartLess hosts for a wide-ranging conversation about her life as a former child actor, her evolving relationship to auditions and awards, and her current slate of films including "Roofman" and Ruben Östlund's "The Entertainment System is Down." She talks about balancing a dual-actor household with parenting two young sons, her preference for a low-key life in the Valley, and an acting process that includes "dream work" to deepen characters. The group also digresses into food, TV habits, SNL memories, and why she now craves doing a big, fun comedy next.
CARDI B: Overcoming Depression, Blocking Out the Hate & Owning Your Power
Jay Shetty interviews Cardi B about her inner world, from the quiet, imaginative child planning her future to the global star navigating fame, motherhood, and relentless public scrutiny. She opens up in detail about growing up in the Bronx, her determination to escape poverty and be financially independent before having kids, and the hustle it took to build her music career. Cardi also shares candidly about severe depression linked to marital struggles, the toll of online hate on her creativity, her tough-love parenting style, deep faith in God, and the inspiration behind her new album "Am I the Drama".
Your relationship expectations could be holding you back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile (re-release)
Host Elise Hugh introduces a TED Next 2024 talk by couples therapist Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile about how conventional expectations can make romantic relationships feel harder than they need to be. Yates-Anyabwile argues that many relationship struggles come from comparing ourselves to societal norms rather than designing arrangements that fit two unique individuals. Using examples from her clinical practice and her own family, she shows how redefining success in relationships-sometimes in unconventional ways like living apart or commuting separately-can reduce conflict and increase connection.
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
Radiolab revisits the Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, centered on the custody of Veronica, a child eligible for Cherokee Nation membership, and the application of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). The episode traces the mid‑20th century history of widespread removal of Native American children from their families that led to ICWA, then walks through the conflicting narratives of Veronica's adoptive parents, her Cherokee father Dustin Brown, and their lawyers as the case moves through the courts up to the Supreme Court. A 2025 update explains that Veronica was ultimately returned to her adoptive parents and that, despite repeated legal challenges, ICWA was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2023 but continues to face ongoing challenges.
The Anxious Generation with Jonathan Haidt
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gary O'Reilly, and Chuck Nice interview social psychologist Jonathan Haidt about his book "The Anxious Generation" and the mental health crisis among Gen Z. Haidt argues that a combination of overprotected, low-risk real-world childhoods and underprotected exposure to smartphones and social media has driven sharp rises in anxiety, depression, self-harm, and loneliness, especially among girls. He outlines evidence for the crisis, explains developmental brain mechanisms, details platform-specific harms, and proposes four social norms and policy changes to roll back the "phone-based childhood," while warning about emerging AI chatbot toys aimed at children.
Jay's Must-Listens: Are You Still Holding Onto Childhood Trauma? (Follow 3 Steps & FINALLY Heal) Ft. Gabor Mate & Oprah Winfrey
This episode is a curated collection of conversations about trauma, grief, and healing, featuring insights from Dr. Gabor Mate, John Legend, Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Bruce Perry, and Anita. Jay Shetty explores how trauma can be loud or subtle, why it often hides behind overachievement or people-pleasing, and how reframing the question from "What's wrong with me?" to "What happened to me?" opens the door to compassion and recovery. The guests share personal stories and frameworks on authenticity, grief, intergenerational wounds, and learning to live fully while carrying past pain.
Stop Trying To Borrow Your Way Into Freedom
Host Dave Ramsey and co-host Rachel Cruz take live calls from listeners about real-world money decisions, emphasizing living on less than you make and avoiding debt. Callers ask about using business credit cards for rewards, oversized mortgages, car loans, student loans, home renovations, retirement withdrawals for a lake property, luxury purchases, and family conflicts over parent PLUS loans. The hosts consistently steer people away from borrowing, urge them to make mathematically sound choices, and highlight how character, communication, and boundaries in relationships intersect with money.
Don't Quit When the Journey Gets Hard
Dave Ramsey and Dr. John Deloney take live calls about money, relationships, and life decisions, helping listeners navigate complex family financial dynamics, marriage conflicts, debt payoff, and housing choices. Callers ask about parents borrowing from children, financial infidelity in a new marriage, a veteran trapped in an unsustainable VA jumbo mortgage, and how to handle inheritance after elder financial abuse. The hosts emphasize integrity, unified decision-making in marriage, avoiding new debt, using community and church support, and focusing on long-term financial freedom over short-term fixes.
Are You Investing in Tomorrow or Robbing It?
This episode features Dave Ramsey and co-host Ken Coleman taking live calls about real-world financial decisions, from handling debt and housing choices to navigating career changes and family dynamics. Callers wrestle with issues like credit card use in marriage, whether to use windfalls to pay off debt or buy homes, job loss and underemployment late in life, enabling adult children, and how to balance generosity and enjoyment when wealthy. Throughout, Dave and Ken emphasize shared vision, personal responsibility, ethical choices, and prioritizing debt freedom and long-term stability over short-term comfort.
(#4) Elise's Top Ten: The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown
Host Elise Hu introduces a replay of Brene Brown's seminal TEDxHouston talk, which explores her research on shame, vulnerability, and what she calls "wholehearted" living. Brown explains how a sense of worthiness is the key factor that separates people who feel love and belonging from those who struggle for it, and describes how embracing vulnerability-rather than numbing it or seeking certainty and perfection-leads to greater joy, connection, and authenticity. She closes by urging listeners to let themselves be seen, love with their whole hearts, practice gratitude and joy, and believe they are enough.
#611 - Louis C.K.
Theo Von talks with Louis C.K. about performing edgy stand-up in different kinds of venues, parenting, childhood neglect, race and taboo language, and the creative process behind Louis's novel "Ingram". They explore the American literary voice, the evolution of language, and broader cultural issues like polarization, social media addiction, and technology's physical footprint. A large part of the conversation centers on Louis's public downfall, his struggles with sex and pornography addiction, 12‑step recovery, and how confronting his own failures has reshaped his life, work, and friendship with Theo.