506: Nick Nichols—Folds of Honor
What does it really feel like to fly into combat knowing you may not come home? Colonel Nick Nichols knows the answer. A 30-year Air Force v...
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20 of 507 episodes505: Brooke Rollins—Where's the Beef?
This is a two-parter in one episode! Part One was recorded in May, when Mike sat down with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to talk abou...
504: Victor Davis Hanson—The Counter Revolution
What happens when a nation forgets the value of the people who make, build, fix, and grow things? Historian, classicist, farmer, and Hoover...
503: Alex Clark—Don't Eat That
What if some of the food we've been told is convenient, affordable, and perfectly safe is actually making us sick? Alex Clark , host of the...
502: Chris Power—The Other Hadrian's Wall
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Roman Emperor Hadrian built a wall to protect the empire's northern frontier. Today, another Hadrian is building som...
501: Andy Stumpf—Gray Noise
Andy Stumpf knows what it takes to operate when everything goes wrong. A former Navy SEAL who served with SEAL Team Six, Stumpf spent 17 yea...
500: Tamara Thornton—The Mother of Mach
What happens when your son drops out of MIT at 19, starts a defense company in his twenties, and sets out to reinvent the way America builds...
499: Ted Decker & Ian Cinnamon—Orbiting Home
What do a Home Depot employee and a satellite have in common? More than you might think. In this episode, Mike Rowe talks with two CEOs abou...
498: Bill Whittle—Communism for Dummies
What exactly is communism—and why has it failed so spectacularly everywhere it's been tried? Bill Whittle has spent years answering those qu...
497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems
Ethan Thornton doesn't shy away from problems—he goes looking for them. At just 22, the founder of Mach Industries is tackling some of the b...
496: Dr. Philip Ovadia—Meat is Medicine
For decades, Americans have been told that cholesterol is public enemy number one. But cardiologist and heart surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia says...
495: Todd Rose—One Good Thing
Todd Rose , bestselling author of Collective Illusions , former Harvard professor, and co-founder of Populace , joins Mike for a conversatio...
494: Scott Bessent—What's Up with Those Trump Accounts
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joins Mike for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of the U.S. economy, the ideas behind his influe...
493: JD Vance—Communion
Vice President JD Vance joins Mike for a wide-ranging conversation about faith, family, and the future of America. From the dignity of work...
492: Jon Erwin—Young Washington
Before he became the Father of His Country, George Washington was a young man with doubts, ambitions, failures, and a calling that would eve...
491: MacKenzie Price—The Most Talked About School in the World
What if school could be reimagined from the ground up? This week, Mike sits down with entrepreneur and education innovator MacKenzie Price ,...
490: About My Father
In honor of Father's Day, we're sharing several hilarious chapters from the audio version of Peggy Rowe's bestselling book About Your Father...
489: Michael Easter—The Hard Way
Why do so many of the things that make us stronger, healthier, and happier require doing things the hard way? Mike sits down with bestsellin...
488: Connor Boyack—Spontaneous Order
Spontaneous Order might sound like a contradiction, but according to author, entrepreneur, and educator Connor Boyack , some of society's mo...
487: Blake Scholl—Making Supersonic Travel Real
Mike Rowe sits down with Blake Scholl , the former Amazon software engineer turned aerospace entrepreneur who walked away from Silicon Valle...