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Two Percent with Michael Easter

Hosted by Michael Easter · health · EN · 58 episodes

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Lessons from the frontiers of health, psychology, thought, and human experience. Hosted by Michael Easter—New York Times bestselling author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain . New episodes are released twice each week.

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What is Two Percent with Michael Easter about?

Lessons from the frontiers of health, psychology, thought, and human experience. Hosted by Michael Easter, New York Times bestselling author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain. New episodes are released twice each week.

Who hosts Two Percent with Michael Easter?

Two Percent with Michael Easter is hosted by Michael Easter. The show has published 58 episodes to date.

What has Two Percent with Michael Easter covered recently?

Recent episodes include "#57: Stop Trying to Sleep Perfectly | David Samson" (22 October 2026, 53 minutes), "#56: Misogi Is a Challenge You're Supposed to Fail Half the Time | Marcus Elliott" (20 October 2026, 69 minutes), and "#55: Standing Up Costs Less Than Staying Silent | Brian Driscoll" (15 October 2026, 86 minutes).

How often does Two Percent with Michael Easter publish?

Two Percent with Michael Easter publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 60 minutes across 58 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Two Percent with Michael Easter?

Booking probability for Two Percent with Michael Easter is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Two Percent with Michael Easter requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Two Percent with Michael Easter's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Two Percent with Michael Easter?

The strongest fits for Two Percent with Michael Easter are Health & Wellness Services. Two Percent with Michael Easter has a health audience.

About the host

Michael Easter hosts Two Percent with Michael Easter, a health show with 58 episodes published.

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  • Episode #57

    #57: Stop Trying to Sleep Perfectly | David Samson

    Oct 22, 202653 min

    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 University of Toronto and author of The Sleepless Ape...

  • Episode #56

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

    Oct 20, 20261h 9m

    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 we overestimate the cost of failing, the benefits...

  • Episode #55

    #55: Standing Up Costs Less Than Staying Silent | Brian Driscoll

    Oct 15, 20261h 26m

    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 employees who worked the January 6 investigations...

  • Episode #54

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

    Oct 13, 20261h 8m

    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 food and humans, what Dan learned trying popular...

  • Episode #52

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

    Oct 6, 20261 hour

    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 convenience is among the most powerful forces of our...

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  • Episode #51

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

    Oct 1, 202651 min

    Michael speaks with Brady Holmer, the exercise scientist and 2:24 marathoner behind the Substack Physiologically Speaking, about which fitness trends hold up. Brady explains why he stopped taking creatine, which numbers...

  • Episode #50

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

    Sep 29, 20261h 1m

    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 rebuilt a sense of self and community. They also...

  • Episode #49

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

    Sep 24, 202659 min

    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 with the explosive diarrhea story behind her...

  • Episode #48

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

    Sep 22, 202646 min

    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 most-watched show in cable news, Jessica explains...

  • Episode #47

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

    Sep 17, 202656 min

    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 and what it teaches about acting while afraid...

  • Episode #46

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

    Sep 15, 20261h 1m

    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 dumber. They discuss: (00:00) Cold open(01:30) Jim's...

  • Two Percent with Michael Easter

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

    Sep 10, 202655 min

    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 later served as the FDNY Chief of Counterterrorism...

  • Two Percent with Michael Easter

    Trauma Does Not Define Who You Are | Elizabeth Smart

    Sep 8, 202656 min

    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 the Founder of the Elizabeth Smart foundation and...

  • Two Percent with Michael Easter

    Avoiding Anxiety Makes It Stronger | John Delony

    Sep 3, 20261h 3m

    John Delony argues that anxiety can be a signal, and avoiding the thing behind it often makes the alarm louder. Michael sits down with Delony, host of The Dr. John Delony Show and author of Building a Non-Anxious Life...

  • Two Percent with Michael Easter

    A Trial Lawyer's Rules for Hard Conversations | Jefferson Fisher

    Sep 1, 20261h 1m

    Michael sits down with trial lawyer Jefferson Fisher, author of The Next Conversation, on why hard conversations are some of the most uncomfortable things we do and how to do them better. They discuss: - The hardest...

  • Two Percent with Michael Easter

    Should You Take Peptides? A Doctor's Evidence-Based Answer | Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum

    Aug 27, 202656 min

    Michael speaks with physician and competitive powerlifter Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum about what peptides are, why they suddenly seem to promise everything, and what the human evidence actually shows. They discuss: Why GLP-1s...

  • Two Percent with Michael Easter

    A Navy SEAL's Case for Being Humble and Obsessed | Eric Frohardt

    Aug 25, 202645 min

    Michael speaks with Eric Frohardt about his twelve years on SEAL Team 6 as a sniper and assaulter—and what you can learn from it. They discuss: - How to stay calm under pressure (lessons from sniper training)...

  • Two Percent with Michael Easter

    A Harvard Psychologist's Case Against Following the Rules | Ellen Langer

    Aug 20, 20261h 1m

    We treat aging, fatigue, and even disease as things that just happen to us. Ellen Langer, the first woman tenured in Harvard's psychology department, has spent five decades showing that our way of thinking has a massive...

  • Two Percent with Michael Easter

    You're Living Through the Fastest Revolution in History | Tyler Cowen

    Aug 18, 202653 min

    Tyler Cowen has spent decades studying what makes people, societies, and economies thrive. He thinks we’re living through the fastest technological revolution humans have ever faced—yet most of us are still...

  • Two Percent with Michael Easter

    What AI Is Actually Doing to Your Workday | Cal Newport

    Aug 13, 20261h 19m

    Modern work has a giant problem: It keeps us stressed enough to be miserable, but never stressed enough to quit. Cal Newport, a computer scientist at Georgetown University, says that's not an accident: When work...

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