Sophie Hearns 
In a conversation on The Joe Rogan Experience, comedian Tim Dillon and host Joe Rogan discussed the growing influence of therapy in American culture and what it may be doing to family relationships. Dillon illustrated his point with a personal story about a political disagreement involving his father and stepmother. When he told his therapist … Read more
Terrence Howard has built a career on playing complicated men, but nothing he has done on screen is quite as bewildering as what he is now doing online. The actor, best known for his role as Lucious Lyon on ‘Empire’, has spent the better part of a decade championing an alternative theory of mathematics and … Read more
There was a time when Joe Rogan was the guy asking the questions nobody else would ask. The outsider. The independent voice who built a platform on the promise that no topic was off limits and no guest would get a free pass. That version of Rogan feels like a long time ago. Stavros Halkias, … Read more
A woman named Molly has gone viral after sharing how losing 170lbs effectively brought her marriage to an end. In her video, Molly, who once weighed 350lbs at 5’7″, described the physical and emotional toll her weight had taken on her life. “I was in pain every day,” she said. “I was the most unhealthy, … Read more
A former JPMorgan banker who accused a top executive of workplace harassment and turning him into a personal servant has taken a dramatic legal turn, dropping his entire state lawsuit and arriving at court with five new attorneys ready to file a sweeping federal case. The saga began when the banker, identified as Chirayu Rana, … Read more
Branded content has been around for decades, but a new format is quietly taking over the marketing world, and the results are as strange as they are revealing. Micro dramas, short-form vertical video series chopped into dozens of bite-sized episodes, have become a multi-billion dollar global phenomenon. Brands are now pouring money into the format, … Read more
China is reshaping its higher education system at a scale rarely seen in modern history. Between 2021 and 2025, universities across the country revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programmes while introducing 10,200 new ones. More than 30 per cent of all university programmes in the country underwent significant changes, according to Ministry of Education … Read more
For years, Nate Bargatze built his career on being the comedian everyone could enjoy. Billed as family-friendly and resolutely non-political, he packed arenas without ever wading into the culture wars. That carefully maintained neutrality came to an abrupt end this past weekend when Bargatze turned up at one of the most politically charged spectacles in … Read more
Marc Maron has never been one to hold back, and his recent conversation with Kara Swisher made that abundantly clear. He called out the current podcast culture and took direct aim at Joe Rogan, Theo Von, and what he sees as the collapse of comedy’s moral compass. Discussing the current state of podcasting, Maron argued … Read more
Comedian Matt Rife appeared on Theo Von’s podcast ‘This Past Weekend’, and the two spent part of their conversation discussing a topic that clearly unsettled both men: artificial intelligence, mass surveillance, and the rapid expansion of data centers across the United States. The discussion began when Theo brought up data centers. Rife revealed that he … Read more
