Not Dead Yet
We?re all dying, but some of us have been brought face to face with that reality. Reflecting on this certainty is part of a life well lived. However long we?ve got, it?s up to each of us to redeem the time. In this new podcast, hosts Ben Sasse and Chris Stirewalt talk with their guests about lives lived with gratitude, grit, and joy.
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Jonah Goldberg
Jonah joins the boys for their first in-person podcast. Friendship, morphine (higher than average morphine-brain for Ben), note cards, institutions, and journalism. Ben and Chris talk about the why behind the podcast. Wonks have fun too.
2026-04-07Link to episode
Chris Pratt
The guys talk about hard work and hustle, the choices parents make, the ups, downs, and idols of success, and real vs Ned Flanders Christianity. The dude from Avengers, Jurassic Park, and Super Mario Bros. talks about how he wants his kids to understand what it means to be a man.
2026-03-31Link to episode
Amy Coney Barrett
Justice Barrett joins Ben and Chris. Ben shares his status as the founding member of the ACB for SCOTUS club. The three talk about how she writes her opinions, how parenting slows down the train, the importance of civics, and what horse-race political journalism gets wrong about the Supreme Court.
2026-03-24Link to episode
Mike Rowe
Is the Dirty Jobs guy secretly America?s most popular philosopher? Mike Rowe joins the guys. This episode has everything: vomit, Stoics, turkey insemination, philosopher welders, wonder, and the problems with institutionalized childhood.
2026-03-17Link to episode
Caitlin Flanagan
Caitlin runs circles around the guys. They talk about deadlines (for writing and living), living with cancer, raising families, how truth has the last word, and a little bit about California.
2026-03-10Link to episode
Conan O'Brien
Who doesn?t love two Harvard dweebs talking about jokes rather than telling them? The guys talk with Conan O?Brien about dopamine, families, why politicians aren?t funny, his new movie with Rose Byrne, and why Ben wants him to do a history podcast.
2026-03-03Link to episode
Al Michaels
The guys promised Conan, but when the USA defeats Canada in hockey ? 46 years to the day after the 1980 Miracle on Ice ? you gotta talk to Al Michaels. Ben, Chris, and Al talk about that incredible victory over the Soviet Union, the importance of sports, and a little bit about vocation. USA, USA, USA!
2026-02-24Link to episode
Introduction
They?re on the clock! In the kickoff episode, Ben and Chris talk about terminal cancer, procrastination, morphine, and parenting ? all to explain why they?re launching a podcast now about redeeming the time.
2026-02-19Link to episode