Smart facts for ordinary decisions.
Something You Should Know is a fast-moving interview show built around useful explanations of how people think, choose, spend, work, and stay safe. Each episode mixes quick facts with expert conversations that turn abstract research into habits, cautions, and decisions people can actually use.
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Something You Should Know is a practical curiosity show with a strong behavioral-science spine. It works in quick, usable turns. Episodes often begin with a small everyday question, then widen into interviews about how people see, decide, spend, work, cope, and relate to others. The show is not trying to sound academic. It prefers plain language, memorable examples, and a steady push toward what changes in real life. Mike Carruthers guides the conversation by asking the next obvious question before the audience has to work too hard. That gives the show its pace. A segment on tipping can become a tour through restaurant norms, social cues, and the psychology of generosity. A conversation about personal safety can turn politeness, intuition, and threat awareness into concrete decisions. Health topics appear often, but usually through practical misunderstandings: pain relievers, eye twitching, fitness myths, walking goals, and the daily habits people mistake for rules. The show also spends time on self-management. Confidence, procrastination, resilience, quitting, rituals, revenge, and self-talk all appear as problems that can be named, examined, and made a little less mysterious. Its best moments come when an expert idea is pulled out of theory and tested against ordinary situations, like a line, an elevator, a resume, or a lost set of keys. The format is broad by design. It is part interview show, part life-advice column, and part rolling collection of useful facts. That mix can feel busy, but it also keeps the show accessible. The episodes suit curious generalists more than specialists. The tone is calm and serviceable, even when the subject is danger or stress. Guests supply the expertise, while the host keeps the conversation anchored in examples and next steps. Something You Should Know stands out by treating self-improvement less like inspiration and more like a set of small, testable adjustments.
Made for: For curious generalists who like psychology, health, work, money, safety, and daily-life advice in plain English. It especially fits listeners who want expert ideas translated into concrete habits without a lecture-room tone.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its range: several useful ideas per episode, each tied to a real situation rather than left as theory. Mike Carruthers keeps expert conversations brisk, explanatory, and focused on practical takeaways.
Sometimes all it takes is one little fact or one little piece of wisdom to change your life forever. That's the purpose and the hope of "Something You Should Know." In each episode, host Mike Carruthers interviews top experts in their field to bring you fascinating information and advice to help you save time and money, advance in your career, become wealthy, improve your relationships and help you simply get more out of life. In addition, Mike uncovers and shares short, engaging pieces of "intel" you can use to make your life better - today. Right now.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mike Carruthers makes behavioral psychology useful by connecting confidence, resilience, emotion and attention to choices people face in ordinary life.
Something You Should Know turns everyday questions into direct, practical conversations. Mike Carruthers moves easily from confidence, procrastination and resilience to pain relief, rituals and emotional regulation, asking guests to explain both the underlying idea and what…
Mike Carruthers can make a tip screen feel like a small research problem you actually want to solve.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical hour on attention, smiling, and pain relievers, with a human story.
Something You Should Know pulls together driving risk, visual intelligence, smiling, and pain relievers in a practical hour that stays mostly grounded in everyday usefulness.
Everyday behavior is the through-line, from resume language and tipping to visibility, self-permission, and practical habits.
This Something You Should Know episode keeps a steady focus on everyday behavior, moving from resume language to tipping, then to why drivers miss motorcycles and bikes, and finally to the stories people tell themselves about what they can do and what they should not do.
A practical episode about trusting warning signs before politeness carries someone further into risk.
Personal safety is framed here as a matter of judgment before crisis. Mike Carruthers and Spencer Corson look at the social pressure that can keep a person in a situation after something already feels off: taking an unsettling elevator ride, lingering in the wrong conversation,…
A practical episode about confidence, procrastination, imposter syndrome, and the case for speaking to oneself aloud.
Confidence and procrastination sit closer together than they first appear in this single-episode review, which traces how belief can shape action before the outcome is even known.
A practical conversation about building resilience through repeatable mental habits.
Resilience is framed as something less mysterious and more workable: a skill that can be strengthened through practice. From there, the discussion moves into the mental habits that show up under stress, with Akash Kariya keeping the focus practical.
A clear, grounded episode about how ordinary habits become rituals through meaning, presence, and connection.
Something You Should Know starts with a workplace-performance idea, then moves into a more personal question: why do ordinary rituals help when they do not seem to do anything practical?
A grounded look at contagious emotion and the everyday leadership habits that shape influence.
Something You Should Know treats emotional influence as something practical rather than mysterious. Its strongest thread is the idea that feelings can move through a group almost before anyone notices: laughter can spread in a room without a clear reason, and a leader's…
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Masha Gessen narrates her own cousin's murder-for-hire arrest and custody battle.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Rhonda Patrick translates NAD, vitamin D, and coffee research into daily health protocols.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Host Mike Carruthers presents two segments: first with neuropsychologist Julia DeGangi discussing emotional power and how the brain handles uncertainty, revealing that obsessive certainty-seeking increases anxiety.
This episode explores the serious problems with AI, why humans drink alcohol, and the purpose of junk mail, featuring insights from host Mike Carruthers.
Host Mike Carruthers explores the psychology of rituals with Harvard professor Michael Norton, author of 'The Ritual Effect', who explains how rituals reduce anxiety and foster connection.
This episode explores the health impacts of loneliness and discusses solutions with psychiatrist Dr.
This episode explores practical strategies for mindful eating and the psychological science behind predictions, randomness, and coincidences.
It starts with an everyday risk.
Mike Carruthers opens with the words that probably should not appear on a resume or LinkedIn profile.
Something You Should Know turns to personal safety with Michael Carruthers and Spencer Corson, a threat management expert and author of The Safety Trap.
This episode explores hidden economic factors like credit card fees affecting consumer prices and discusses strategies for making wise decisions about quitting jobs or relationships.
This episode explores why rituals are important for mental focus and stress reduction, debunks health myths like the 10,000 steps rule, and discusses improving work productivity and the psychology of revenge.
Something You Should Know covers three topics: a study finding people with hard-to-pronounce surnames are less likely to be promoted, with fluent names like 'Dunlop' getting a 7-8% edge.
Communication expert Akash Kariya, author of 'Seven Things Resilient People Do Differently,' tells host Mike Carruthers that resilience is a trainable 'muscle' built through small 'micro challenges' just past a person's comfort zone.
This episode explores how culture profoundly shapes human behavior and examines the paradox of widespread agreement on exercise benefits versus low actual participation in America.
This episode explores how to handle difficult life changes by building resilience, examines why time seems to pass faster as we age, and discusses unconventional investments like Lego sets and key relationship principles.