Two Percent with Michael Easter

Every four years, Americans suddenly remember soccer exists. The World Cup is here and it may be the single biggest sporting event in human history: 48 teams, 104 games over 39 days, and a final that draws north of a billion viewers.

Host Michael Easter sits down with two guests to make the case. First, soccer writer Leander Schaerlaeckens, author of The Long Game, on why this World Cup is bigger than ever. He also shares his take on if the USMNT can actually make a deep run, the players you need to know, and why America took so long to get good at the world's game. Then psychologist Dr. Daniel Wann, who has studied sports fans for 40 years, explains why caring about sports is one of the most underrated things you can do for your mental health.

The World Cup and fandom might be exactly what a lonely, divided country (and world) needs right now.

Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today’s episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. This episode was edited by Will Mayo. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.

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Chapters:
00:00 — Cold open
01:39 — Why 2026 is the biggest World Cup ever
03:55 — The case for Team USA
06:49 — Team USA's real odds (and avoiding Argentina)
07:44 — Why America took so long to get good at soccer
10:36 — The players you need to know
14:38 — Pay-to-play & Ricardo Pepi's backstory
16:34 — How to fix U.S. soccer (Texas vs. Spain)
19:24 — Which U.S. athletes would've been great at soccer
21:09 — Who to root for ("bench Ronaldo")
25:21 — From 1950 dishwashers to 2026: how programs rebuild
27:09 — Prediction: who wins it all
28:09 — Dr. Daniel Wann: the psychology of fandom
33:34 — The four psychological needs fandom meets
38:41 — "Watch football while I eat ice cream"
42:09 — Do the connections have to be in person?
45:08 — Why sport is unlike any other fandom
47:42 — Collective effervescence & the Miracle on Ice
51:37 — Why sports are the great unifier
53:50 — Are stadiums secretly public health?
1:00:17 — Can you overdo it?
1:02:07 — How to become a fan
1:04:35 — Wrap

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Why do people lose their minds over seed oils, raw milk, carnivore diets, and long Covid? Alan Levinovitz isn't a doctor or a health journalist — he's a religion scholar. And from that vantage point he noticed something you can't un-see: the way most of us think about health functions exactly like a religion, complete with ideas of purity, contamination, salvation, and tribes that turn on you the moment you question the doctrine.

Michael Easter sits down with Alan to unpack his explosive WIRED piece on long Covid and the vicious backlash it triggered. They get into why so many of our fiercest health arguments aren't really about data at all — they're about identity. Alan shares more points to illustrate his thesis, like the “guru” who mailed strangers his own feces to prove a health theory, and how the term "natural" in wellness circles became a stand-in for "holy."

Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today’s episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. This episode was edited by Will Mayo. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.

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Chapters:

00:00 — Cold open

00:52 — Why we think about health like a religion

02:11 — The WIRED long-Covid piece and the backlash

03:57 — $2 billion, five years, and still no biomarker

09:07 — "Natural" is just a secular word for "holy"

10:31 — Why people really choose natural childbirth

14:44 — The man who mailed his poop (and RFK Jr.'s shirtless pushups)

16:27 — How to weigh evidence vs. personal experience

19:56 — Why one study means almost nothing

23:28 — Why people get so vehement about health

31:28 — A hunter-gatherer village gets electric light

35:02 — "A lot of caves with a lot of trolls in them"

42:14 — Fear, danger, and why CPS takes long-Covid kids

46:59 — How debilitating long Covid actually is

51:53 — The "web of belief": why raw milk leads to anti-vax

1:12:18 — 20 people "overdose" by touching nothing

1:15:50 — We called them lazy. Then came Ozempic.

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What if you juiced a roster of athletes to the gills with performance-enhancing drugs and let them compete for a million-dollar prize? That's the Enhanced Games — the billionaire-backed "Steroid Olympics" held in Las Vegas — and the results were not what investors expected.

Michael Easter sits down with journalists Chris Gayomali and Sam Eagan, hosts of the Superhuman podcast, who were embedded with the founders, athletes, and scientists during the games. Despite being hyped as the future of human performance, almost no world records actually fell. In many cases, non-enhanced athletes beat the juiced ones. Within about a day, it became clear the event was really a marketing engine for selling testosterone and peptides to the public, and a glimpse of how we're increasingly being sold a frictionless, "enhanced" version of ourselves, all with the swipe of a credit card.

Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today’s episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. This episode was edited by Joey Fischground. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro

00:04:29 - What the Enhanced Games actually are (the "steroid Olympics")

00:07:00 - "It took me a full day to realize this is an ad"

00:08:00 - The real business model: Hims with a WWE marketing layer

00:13:13 - Peter Thiel, transhumanism, and how it started

00:16:17 - The "44% of Olympians dope" stat — and the cherry-pick

00:18:28 - Doped so much he got slower in the water

00:21:04 - Inside the "wellness Coachella" in the desert

00:23:48 - The money: $250K to win, $1M for a world record

00:28:03 - The event: almost no records, and the clean athletes won

00:31:16 - The banned super suit and the Barry Bonds problem

00:36:04 - The IOC's own-goal: "I don't believe in paying athletes"

00:38:07 - The stock crashes 75% — and the spin that followed

00:40:08 - What they actually sell you (peptides, testosterone, NAD+)

00:41:49 - Why the "study" proves almost nothing

00:51:00 - Is removing life's friction making us weaker?

01:00:06 - "$250 shoes are the testosterone for your feet"

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UFC fighters routinely lose 10 to 20 pounds in the 5 days before a weigh-in — then put it all back on in the 24 hours before stepping into the Octagon. It is one of the most extreme metabolic feats in sports, and almost no one talks about what it actually teaches us about everyday fat loss.

In this episode, Michael Easter sits down with Tyler Minton, the nutritionist behind some of the UFC's top fighters and current advisor to Naval Special Warfare. Tyler nearly died from his own weight cut years ago preparing for a fight, which sent him on a long quest for knowledge to rebuild how elite combat athletes prepare. He breaks down the exact protocol fighters follow and why the old "eat less, run more" model destroyed careers. Finally, they discuss the science behind UFC weight cutting and what it reveals about crash diets, GLP-1s, and why most diets cause rebound weight gain.

Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today’s episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. This episode was edited by Will Mayo. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:00 - "I Nearly Died" — The Weight Cut That Started Everything

00:03:22 - How Tyler Got Into Fighting and Stumbled Into Nutrition

00:07:15 - "Eat Less, Run More" — The Old-School Playbook

00:11:50 - What 10% Over Really Means on Fight Week

00:13:30 - Where the Lost Weight Actually Comes From (Mostly Water)

00:17:12 - The Full 5-Day Cut Protocol — Fiber, Sodium, Fat, Water Loading

00:24:05 - How Much Weight Fighters Lose in One Sauna Session

00:27:04 - The Female Fighter Calendar: Cutting Around a Menstrual Cycle

00:29:46 - Refeed: Electrolytes, Ice Cream, and Projectile Vomit Warnings

00:35:28 - Why Crash Diets Cause Rebound Weight Gain

00:37:35 - The GLP-1 Rant: Why Most People Are Using Them Wrong

00:41:56 - Calories, Macros, Quality — The 3 Rules of Weight Loss

00:46:42 - The Aesthetics / Performance / Health Triangle

00:52:32 - 70% of Americans Overweight, 70% of Food Ultra-Processed

00:53:24 - What Max Holloway's 170 lb Camp Looks Like

00:56:10 - UFC 250 White House Lawn Picks: Gaethje, Pereira, O'Malley

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Miesha Tate became UFC women's bantamweight champion by choking out Holly Holm in the fifth round at the MGM Grand. Two weeks after the highest moment of her life, she realized the title hadn't fixed anything. The next loss almost ended her. She packed her dog into a Kia, drove up the coast, and rebuilt herself layer by layer. She came back to fighting on her own terms, synced to her hormonal cycle for the first time in 15 years, and called the comeback the best fight of her life.

In this episode, Michael Easter sits down with Miesha and they go deep on what she learned walking onto an all-boys high school wrestling team. They unpack her first MMA fight where she fell in love with fighting, despite a broken nose. Then they get into why winning a world title left her contemplating suicide. They explore what Gabor Maté's books changed for her. And they name the single biggest mistake she made for 15 years of her career: training from a male model of fighting instead of from a women’s biological reality, hormonal cycle and all.

Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today’s episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. This episode was edited by Will Mayo. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.

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Chapters:

00:00 — Cold open: ready to die, prepared as a man, hit in the face

02:33 — The choke-Robby joke

03:00 — Why she joined the all-boys wrestling team at 14

06:40 — Redefining what a "win" looks like

11:00 — How she found MMA in a college dorm hallway

14:35 — Her first MMA fight: three weeks of prep, 50 bucks, broken nose

19:25 — The blood pool on the mat: "I'm going to kick her ass"

21:24 — Her corner threw in the towel

23:30 — The walkout: "It's almost like a possession"

27:00 — When the toxic relationship started drowning the focus

29:30 — The lie she told herself: "The title will fix everything"

32:00 — The Holly Holm fight, round by round

36:30 — "She was punching the air because she was dreaming"

37:10 — Two weeks. The title didn't fix anything.

38:00 — Amanda Nunes, Hashimoto's, and a horrible weight cut

40:35 — Why getting punched is how some fighters wake up

42:49 — Failure as a teacher: how the brain actually learns

46:12 — Parenting two fighter kids: the coin at the bottom of the pool

51:30 — The best fight of her career, the first one she prepared for as a woman

53:00 — Why training to a male hormone model wrecks female athletes

58:00 — Amenorrhea and the year-long recovery

1:02:00 — 80% of autoimmune disease is in women. Why.

1:04:13 — Advice to men: shut up and do more in the luteal phase

1:06:22 — Packing the car and driving up the coast after retirement

1:08:24 — "I was honestly contemplating taking my own life."

1:09:30 — Gabor Maté, eczema gone, the healing layer by layer

1:12:00 — The decision to come back as a fighter (and as a woman)

1:14:30 — Her message to women: do the hard thing

1:16:35 — Justin Gaethje at Freedom 250

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When it gets hot, most of us hide indoors with the AC cranked, the workouts moved inside, and the thermostat parked at 72°F all summer long. But humans evolved in the heat, and the new science says we can still use it to get stronger, healthier, and (maybe most surprisingly) happier. In this episode, Michael Easter sits down with two of the best people in the world on the subject of heat.

Ashley Paulson, the Badwater 135 course record holder (a 135 mile race through Death Valley), finished in 21 hours and 44 minutes, beating the old record by 2.5 hours. She shares what 120°F at 11 p.m. actually feels like and the mindset that lets her thrive in it.

Then Bill Gifford, author of Hot Wired: How the Hidden Power of Heat Makes Us Stronger, talks about how your body adapts in 4 to 5 sessions of sauna treatment. Michael closes with a hydration playbook and the 1960s WHO research that nailed the perfect summer drink.

Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today’s episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. This episode was edited by Ryan Mulhern. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.

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Chapters:
00:00 — Cold open: 11 p.m., 120°F, and the 40% depression stat
00:54 — Welcome to 2% and what this episode is
02:28 — Ashley Paulson and the Badwater 135
04:41 — Starting a 135 mile race at 11 p.m. in 120°F
05:13 — Breaking the course record by 2.5 hours
06:34 — What running in 120°F actually feels like
07:24 — How to heat-train (and why she trained in the sauna)
11:11 — The all-liquid fuel plan (ketones, protein, 70 to 90g carbs an hour)
13:36 — The pants confession
16:31 — Cheating accusations and the camera that proved her record
24:26 — Heat training advice for the rest of us
28:50 — 100 miles on a treadmill in 12:47
33:11 — Why you have to be willing to suck before you get great
36:30 — Rapid fire: Alpha Flys, punk rock, and an ice table for dinner
39:30 — Bill Gifford and *Hot Wired*
40:25 — The Blister Boys in Tampere, Finland
43:51 — The Las Vegas garage gym (and how heat adaptation works)
47:25 — The 4 to 5 sessions that change your physiology
48:44 — Hydration, thirst, and the 19 hour desert march study
51:50 — The sauna study that cut depression by 40%
54:01 — Dry sauna versus hot tub: there is no difference
55:13 — The runner who used his car as a sauna
56:32 — Why ice baths are mostly a fad
59:17 — Stop drinking Gatorade Zero this summer

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Dr. Julie Gurner has a two-year waiting list. The Wall Street Journal calls her the real-life Wendy Rhoades (the psychologist from the show Billions). Though her clients are CEOs, founders, billionaires, and elite operators, she actually started her career inside a supermax prison. In this episode, Michael Easter sits down with Dr. Julie Gurner to unpack what actually separates the top 0.01% from everyone else: audacity, what-if-it-goes-right thinking, and using anger as fuel. She also explains why "be humble" might be the worst career advice you have ever received.

Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today’s episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. This episode was edited by Ryan Mulhern. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.

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— CHAPTERS —

00:00:00 - Cold open & intro

00:01:47 - From Supermax Prison to billionaires: Julie's origin

00:08:49 - Audacity, imaginary rules, the side path

00:11:10 - What if it goes right?

00:14:11 - The repetitive reflex

00:19:06 - Haunting agitation: the whisper that becomes a scream

00:25:18 - Why money does buy happiness

00:27:57 - Survival mode and the J.K. Rowling story

00:30:59 - Helping people get out of their own way

00:33:28 - In defense of billionaires

00:35:49 - Stoicism's blind spot: anger as fuel

00:38:14 - Bezos got laughed at for wanting to go to space

00:40:13 - Losing a dog, loving fleeting things

00:42:57 - Why "be humble" is bad advice

00:45:36 - Reframe, lean into your quirky self

00:50:12 - Farmhouse in Amish country: the cognitive break

00:52:42 - The moment that unlocked Julie's range of vision

00:56:28 - The whole game is exposure

00:57:18 - Five years from now

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A year ago, Michael Easter walked 850 miles across southern Utah in 45 days — about a marathon every day. Dr. Andy Galpin turned him into a lab rat, studying his body before, during, and after his 45 days in the desert. What he found surprised both of them.

In this episode, Michael sits down with Dr. Andy Galpin — the world’s top performance scientist and co-founder of Absolute Rest. He is the guy MVPs, Cy Young winners, and Hall of Famers call when something isn't working. They go deep on what 850 miles in 45 days actually does to a human body, what wearables get right and where they fail, and the 5-pillar exercise protocol that makes a body ready for anything.

Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today’s episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. This episode was edited by Joey Fischground. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 - Cold open

00:02:13 - Why Andy turned Michael into a lab rat

00:04:44 - What blood, urine, saliva, and stool tell you about a body

00:07:30 - The results: red blood cells up, metabolism down

00:12:10 - The testosterone crash: 750 to 650, free test cut in half

00:16:12 - Why hormones didn't recover even 45 days later

00:19:30 - The 80/20 of elite performance

00:25:15 - What wearables are actually good for

00:32:25 - Pro athletes vs. you

00:35:30 - The sleep apnea crisis nobody is talking about

00:40:50 - The didgeridoo study and the $20 device that fixes apnea

00:44:00 - The anti-Achilles exercise protocol

00:48:30 - The toughest athletes Andy has ever worked with

00:50:55 - Where to find more from Dr. Andy Galpin

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Adventure has been engineered out of modern life, and we're paying for it in ways we don't even realize. In this episode of Two Percent, Michael Easter sits down with two guests who have decentered optimization.

First up: Jay Carson, a former Clinton communications director and Hollywood writer (House of Cards, The Morning Show). Jay signed up for a 14-day Boulder Outdoor Survival School course in the Utah desert after a Covid power outage made him realize he had no idea how to take care of himself. He's now an instructor at the school. He shares what happened when his house burned down in the January 2025 LA fires, and why the BOSS course is the reason he survived the hardest year of his life.

Then: Sinhue Xavier an ex-North Face ski mountaineer mentored by Conrad Anker and Alex Lowe who recently sold his house to travel the American West out of a truck. He explains why the best journeys aren't on Instagram, why "the most efficient route" is almost always the wrong one, and how to find real adventure in your own backyard.

Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today’s episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. This episode was edited by Ryan Mulhern. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.

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What does it take to get genuinely strong, healthy, and creatively alive in your late 50s — while having one of the most demanding jobs in Hollywood?

Brian Koppelman is the writer behind Rounders, Ocean’s 13, and the seven-season hit show Billions. He also helped discover and promote the singer songwriter Tracy Chapman. At 57, he walked off a tennis court mid-match, certain he was about to faint, and decided to completely rebuild his body. Three years later he’s deadlifting 300 pounds, racing up seven flights of stairs with a weighted pack, and producing some of the sharpest creative work of his career.

Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today’s episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. This episode was edited by Ryan Mulhern. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold Open
02:39 Turning 60 and Racing Up 7 Flights With a Pack
05:50 Tufts, Tracy Chapman, and Trusting Yourself Over Experts
10:45 Poker, Harvard Kids, and Reading the Room
15:55 Rounders Rejection and How to Be Wrong On Purpose
20:05 Tribalism, the Turkish Get-Up, and Good-Faith Arguments
25:44 Ocean’s 13, a 5% Shot, and How to Prepare Like You Mean It
31:51 Writer’s Block, The Artist’s Way, and Beating Resistance
38:00 ADHD, Adderall, and the Morality of Medication
43:30 Screenwriter Overhears: Curiosity as a Creative System
46:42 Billions, Hedge Funds, and Studying Worlds You Don’t Belong To
50:46 The Polygamist Hitchhike and Finding Common Ground
53:05 TM Meditation with Bob Roth
57:12 The Tennis Court Crisis Point
1:02:18 The Doctor Visit, GLP-1, and Committing to Lift Weights
1:06:43 From 65 lb Deadlifts to 300 lbs at 60
1:09:46 Comfort Crisis, the Hailstorm Bike Ride, and Readiness
1:13:29 Reaching Out, Generosity, and the Long Game
1:16:50 Lightning Round
1:20:31 Outro

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