Book · recommended on 8 episodes
The Comfort Crisis
Michael Easter ISBN 0593138767
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Michael Easter ISBN 0593138767
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This book by Michael Easter has come up 8 times across 3 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Joe Rogan, Tim Ferriss. 6 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Andrew Huberman, Dr. Peter Attia, Joe Rogan, Michael Easter, Mike Glover. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2023-03-15 and the most recent from 2026-03-20. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“There's a guy named Michael Easter. He's been on my podcast before. He wrote a book called The Comfort Crisis. Great book.”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Mark Normand: Stand-up comedian known for rapid-fire jokes and his podcasts 'Tuesdays with Stories' and 'We Might Be Drunk.' He's a New York club regular promoting a brand-new Netflix special. Joe Rogan and comedian Mark Normand riff for nearly three hours on AI conspiracies, comedy culture, aging celebrities, and why discomfort builds character.
“We had a guest on this podcast, Michael Easter. He wrote the book "The Comfort Crisis." It was an incredible book... an important book”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Dr. David Fajgenbaum: Professor of translational medicine and human genetics at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the nonprofit Every Cure. A former Georgetown quarterback and MD who nearly died five times from Castleman disease before curing himself with the repurposed drug sirolimus (rapamycin). A doctor told he was terminal five times cured his own rare disease by repurposing an existing drug, and now hunts cures for all diseases.
“One of the reasons Michael Easter is on this podcast is that his book, The Comfort Crisis, changed my daily life.”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Michael Easter: Author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His work explores how modern comfort undermines mental and physical health and how doing hard things restores it. Michael Easter explains why deliberately choosing discomfort, adventure, and weighted walking rewires the brain for focus, meaning, and resilience.
“Michael Easter's book Comfort Crisis is great. You know, it's it's like, you know, we used to walk like 10 miles a day”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Ryan Soave: Addiction treatment and trauma recovery expert who serves as Chief Clinical Officer for Guardian Recovery, with decades of clinical work treating substance and behavioral addictions including alcohol, drugs, gambling, video games, and pornography. Addiction expert Ryan Soave explains that addiction is a solution to distress, and gives zero-cost tools to build distress tolerance and recover.
“Mike Easter um he became a friend uh the Comfort crisis and I started uh rucking ... I think there's really something important in that book that Easter wrote”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Mike Rowe: TV host, narrator, and trades advocate known for Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch; founder of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation. Mike Rowe and Joe Rogan trade career stories about authenticity in media, the trades, hunting, and a brutal whaling-disaster history.
“The book Comfort crisis dopamine Nation are great books that talk about these kind of things”— Mike Glover
The guest here is Mike Glover: Former Green Beret and CIA contractor; founder of Fieldcraft Survival and American Contingency, preparedness educator and author of the book Prepared. Green Beret-turned-prepper Mike Glover on being branded a domestic terrorist by the FBI and Big Tech, plus survival psychology and resilience.
“he had read the Comfort crisis my last book and just wanted to chat so NASA will do this to sort of give astronauts a boost”— Michael Easter
The guest here is Michael Easter: Investigative journalist, professor, and author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain who studies human behavior, addiction, and how evolution shapes modern habits. Michael Easter unpacks the scarcity loop behind gambling, addiction, overeating, and why ancient brains struggle in a modern world of abundance.
“I think Michael Easter, who's written about this extensively in his book The Comfort Crisis... The Comfort Crisis, I can't recommend highly enough.”— Dr. Peter Attia
The guest here is Dr. Peter Attia: Physician focused on longevity and healthspan, founder of Early Medical, and author of the book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity. Peter Attia unpacks the longevity science behind Outlive: muscle, VO2 max, glucose, cancer screening, and emotional health.
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