Loose talk that keeps finding the point.
You Are Here Podcast runs on quick jokes, side stories, and two-way momentum. A coffee gripe, camping video, NBA memory, or suspicious clip can suddenly become a bigger conversation about masculinity, belief, ambition, and how people make sense of the world.
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You Are Here Podcast feels less like a formatted interview program than a long conversation that keeps discovering what it is about. It moves quickly. One minute the speakers are reacting to a truck crash, a coffee shop, a camping video, or a supplement routine, and the next they are asking why people chase fame, what men are allowed to admit, or how faith changes the fear of being forgotten. The show is casual by design. It likes interruptions, repeated agreement, sudden jokes, and stories that take a while to reveal their point. That looseness is also its structure. A bit about diner coffee turns into a softer discussion of masculinity. A childhood memory of seeing Vince Carter and the New Jersey Nets becomes a window into idol worship and growing up. Talk about YouTube reaction videos opens into the pressure of trying new creative directions. The show is not afraid of politics, but it approaches politics through gut reaction and personal suspicion rather than detached analysis. Epstein-related episodes are especially blunt, frustrated, and distrustful of official silence. Still, the show’s center is not outrage. It is people using the day’s weirdness to talk about how they are changing, what they believe, and what they are still trying to understand. Guest episodes fit into that same current. Keith Jardine’s appearance moves from vinyl and music into acting, writing, journaling, scripts, and the discipline of learning a new craft. The show can be messy, funny, sincere, and restless inside the same stretch of conversation. That is the draw. It sounds like friends talking past the easy answer until something honest appears.
Made for: For listeners who like conversational shows with jokes, tangents, faith talk, pop culture, politics, sports memories, and unpolished honesty. It suits people who prefer chemistry over format.
What sets it apart: The show turns everyday irritations and videos into larger reflections without cleaning up the path it took to get there. Its speed, overlap, and sudden sincerity make the digressions feel like the main event.
two humans who happened to become friends and are growing through their conversations with each other and guests.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Candid conversation makes emotional regulation, faith, fitness and changing ambitions feel like parts of ordinary life rather than separate improvement projects.
Mike and Dave turn ordinary aggravations into loose, searching conversations about how to live with more steadiness. A bad day at work, a check-engine light, career insecurity, free will, faith and mortality all become prompts for examining reactions and choices.
A check engine light meets free will; if you like a wandering talk, pull up a chair.
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A wild tractor-trailer story sparks a funny, suspicious riff on panic, politicians, and public performance.
A tractor-trailer plowing through a nearby building gives Mike and Dave plenty to work with. They linger on the practical absurdities: waking up to an 18-wheeler in the bedroom, trying to understand why the driver kept going after losing feeling in his legs, and watching a…
Keith Jardine talks fighting, filmmaking and the patient work of learning to write.
Keith Jardine talks about fighting, filmmaking and the awkward work of learning a new craft. He is frank about struggling with grammar and business emails, and says dialogue comes more naturally to him than action writing.
A loose, reflective episode about YouTube reactions, fame, mortality, belief, AI jokes, and kindness.
Episode 373 starts in an easy, catch-up mode, with the hosts thanking new viewers and talking through YouTube reaction videos, spooky camping clips, and the urge to change direction when a podcast starts to feel stuck.
A scrappy turn from fidget spinners and scandal to the harder work of becoming yourself.
Fidget spinners, a maybe-misread T-shirt, and a quick like-and-subscribe ask give the episode a loose, deliberately scrappy start before Mike and Dave steer into Epstein's Island and the anger around what the public still has not been allowed to know.
A warm, loose conversation about bad days, free will, and choosing to keep going.
"Role Playing Life" frames recovery as something handled day by day, not as one clean breakthrough. The episode moves from a rough workday and a check-engine light into the harder choice to keep going when life will not immediately change.
A practical gym tour opens into a candid story of redirecting fight energy into purpose.
Raw Fitness Lodi plays like a grounded gym visit shaped by Brian Giraldo's move away from street fights. As he walks through the high-intensity interval training space and the newly added mixed martial arts side, the Fuji equipment, 16-foot boxing ring, and Goku and Chun-Li…
A relaxed episode about moving past insecurity and finding steadier footing in creative work.
Episode 355 opens in a relaxed, teasing mode, as the hosts check in on what they have been watching and listening to before the conversation turns toward a more pointed question: what shifts when insecurity stops steering the work.
Cavaliers playoff detail, every day.
Fast takes, sharp turns, loud sports arguments.
Brian Giraldo, owner of Raw Fitness in Lodi, New Jersey, gives a tour of his expanded gym with a 16-foot boxing ring and Fuji mats.
Hosts Dave and Mikey discuss their current media consumption, including podcasts and Japanese band Sakana Action.
Haimish Saunders discusses cultural differences between Australia and America after getting his green card.
You Are Here Podcast EP375, "Sanity Lost," opens with a tractor-trailer driving through a pool-service building before the conversation turns to politics and religion.
Keith Jardine talks with the You Are Here Podcast hosts about growing up in a small Oregon town, wrestling in Oregon and Los Angeles, and using football scholarship money as a path out of poverty.
Dave and Blake open You Are Here Podcast EP373 by reacting to recent YouTube traction from their spooky camping clips and saying they want to keep testing new ideas.
Two friends discuss their experiences with creatine supplementation and its effects on workout performance.
Two friends discuss their coffee preferences and the pressure on men to appear tough, touching on vulnerability.
The host shares a childhood memory of attending a New Jersey Nets playoff game and seeing his idol Vince Carter play.
Two podcast hosts discuss the new Epstein files and a viral frat police cam video.
You Are Here Podcast episode 367 is almost entirely a two-host discussion of the Jeffrey Epstein files, with Mike arguing that email exchanges he has read — including one allegedly containing the phrase 'loved the torture video' from a Bill Gates associate — confirm the existence of a protected trafficking network and have cost him all remaining faith in any political party.
In You Are Here Podcast episode 368, co-hosts Dave and Mike discuss Dave's renewed journaling practice, which he is using specifically to change his internal voice from self-criticism to deliberate self-compassion, with the stated intention of 'just to love myself more.' Mike describes his early-stage exploration of Christianity — attending church and beginning to read the Bible from the start — finding the Book of Job particularly relatable to his own pattern of suffering, questioning, and returning to faith.
Haimish Saunders discusses cultural differences between Australia and America after getting his green card.
Brian Giraldo gives a tour of Raw Fitness Low Dive, a gym combining HIIT classes and MMA training, with a mission to help troubled teenagers channel their energy positively.