Two Percent with Michael Easter

#63: Why Today’s Kids Are So Anxious | Ginny Yurich

If you go on the internet, you'll find a lot of experts using the internet to tell us why the internet is destroying our kids' mental health. But Ginny Yurich, the founde

#62: Life Is Awesome. We Just Need to Realize It | Robert Greene

Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature, nearly died of a stroke in 2018. It left him unable to type, so he spent the next se

#61: Sixty Years of Strength Lessons | Dan John

Most of us were taught that getting in shape means more weight, more sweat, and more soreness. Strength coach Dan John has been lifting since 1965, and has coached everyo

#60: The Case for Going All In | Ravi Gupta

Almost everyone carries a list of things they want to do in life, and almost nobody gets to it. Michael speaks with Ravi Gupta, author of The Invisible List, who went all

#59: Why Being Scared Is Good for You | Coltan Scrivner

We’ve made life so safe that most of us are out of practice at handling fear. Michael speaks with Coltan Scrivner about why being scared can be good for you. Scrivner, a

#58: Why You Should Hike Right Now | Robert Moor

Michael speaks with Robert Moor, author of On Trails and the new book In Trees, about what five months on the Appalachian Trail taught him about quitting and comfort, why

#57: Stop Trying to Sleep Perfectly | David Samson

Up to half of Americans say their sleep is bad, and the rules for fixing it keep piling up. Michael speaks with David Samson, an evolutionary anthropologist at the Univer

#56: Misogi Is a Challenge You're Supposed to Fail Half the Time | Marcus Elliott

Most of us avoid anything we might fail at. Michael speaks with Dr. Marcus Elliott about Misogi, his yearly challenge with about a 50 percent chance of failure, and why w

#55: The Accidental FBI Director on Moral Courage | Brian Driscoll

Brian Driscoll became acting director of the FBI through what he believes was a clerical error in 2025. He was then asked to hand over the names of thousands of FBI emplo

#54: A Harvard Professor Tested Popular Diets on Himself | Dan Lieberman

Michael speaks with Harvard evolutionary biologist Dan Lieberman, author of Fed Up. They talked about how humans didn't evolve to think about what to eat, the history of

#53: Your Mind Lies About How Much You Can Take | Lindsay Crouse

A lot of us think of quitting as a path to failure. Michael speaks with Lindsay Crouse, the former New York Times writer, editor and producer, lifelong distance runner an

#52: What Convenience and Your Phone Are Costing You | Tim Wu

Michael speaks with Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor and author of The Age of Extraction, about how media and tech platforms learned to harvest our attention, why conve

#51: Creatine, Wearables, Carbs: What's Hype and What's Real | Brady Holmer

Michael speaks with Brady Holmer, the exercise scientist and 2:24 marathoner behind the Substack Physiologically Speaking, about which fitness trends hold up. Brady expla

#50: The Mormon Missionary Who Became a Real Housewife | Heather Gay

Heather Gay, star of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and author of Bad Mormon, tells Michael why she left the Mormon faith, what that decision cost, and how she reb

#49: Why We Should Stop Eating Lettuce | Tamar Haspel

Michael speaks with Tamar Haspel, The Washington Post's Unearthed columnist and author of To Boldly Grow, about her case for why we should stop eating lettuce. Starting w

#48: A Fox News Host’s Formula for Winning Arguments | Jessica Tarlov

Michael speaks with Jessica Tarlov, co-host of The Five on Fox News and author of I Disagree, about how to argue without losing friends. Outnumbered four to one on the mo

#47: Lessons from Singlehandedly Fighting Off a Terrorist Attack | Christian Craighead

Michael speaks with Christian Craighead, a former SAS soldier and author of One Man In, about the afternoon he singlehandedly fought off a major terror attack in Nairobi

#46: How to Learn Faster and Remember More | Jim Kwik

Michael speaks with Jim Kwik, brain coach and author of the new book Limitless Daily, about how to learn faster, remember more, and use AI to get smarter instead of dumbe

#45: Inside the North Tower on 9/11 | Chief Joseph Pfeifer

Michael speaks with FDNY Chief Joseph Pfeifer, who led the first fire units into the North Tower on 9/11 and later gave the order to evacuate the towers. Chief Pfeifer la

#44: How to Recover From Trauma and Come Back Stronger | Elizabeth Smart

Michael sits down with Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted at 14, survived nine months of captivity, and spent the decades after building her own path to recovery. She is t