Ryan D'Agostino

Five years, 275 pounds, one epic fitness quest: A year on the road with the country-rap superstar.

Lots of dreams, actually, and lucid. The kind of dreams he wants everyone to experience…so he performed brain surgery on himself and, well, uh, he can explain the rest.

The legendary boxing trainer has been doing this thing for decades—the drills, the throwing mitts—but this summer felt different. As he primed one of his oldest prodigies, Manny Pacquiao, to regain the welterweight champion title, he quietly had his own battle to face.

Marc Maron has interviewed over 1,600 people on his genre defining WTF podcast. What has he learned about himself?

Nearly three decades after the final episode of his beloved TV show aired, the Science Guy hasn’t lost his way. In fact, in an era when science often feels under siege, he’s doubled down on it. This time, though, it’s personal.

After a catastrophic accident, life as Noland Arbaugh knew it became a distant memory. Then came Neuralink, the Elon Musk–owned neurotechnology company that could transform how he engaged with the world. A brain implant from the richest man on the planet? Sure! What did he have to lose?

Dexter Holland, the frontman of the Offspring, also has a Ph.D. in molecular biology, and he competes in triathlons, and he’s a licensed pilot, and the band has a new album, Supercharged. How does the 58-year-old maverick do it all?

How the Mayor of Kingstown and Avengers star found the strength and grit to recover from the accident that actually sort of killed him.

When Sebastian Junger suffered a ruptured aneurysm on a quiet summer afternoon, he shouldn’t have survived. Perhaps even more miraculous than that, though, is what he saw—and what he now believes—when he almost didn’t.

First came the stroke. Then the depression, in the midst of running for, and winning, national office. How much can one guy take in a year, and what stopped him from putting an end to it all? In the case of John Fetterman, destruction breeds creation.

Gambling nearly ruined his life. Instead of quitting, he doubled down—and even he couldn’t have imagined how things turned out.

The father-son duo star in Netflix's 'Unstable'—but it wasn't a given that things would turn out this way.

"I still fight because I’m fighting for the next generation. I only wish our side would've had a bit more vision."

The star (and creator) of F9 is an action hero, a family man, a trailblazer, and much, much more.

Thirty years into Parkinson’s, life’s getting tough. He falls a lot, he talks different, and his knees are killing him. And you know what? He wouldn’t change a thing.