Raff's Brain
Raff’s Brain is my playground for goofy stories, real-life adventures, and experiments in how openness, creativity, and technology can bring people together and improve our lives. Expect Hot Yoga Problems, Riffin’ with Raff, Drive & Jive / Walk & Talk, and various zany side projects that are sometimes cathartic, sometimes ridiculous, and hopefully worth your time.
Episodes
256 episodes
Raff's Brain #257: Hot Yoga Problems - Step, Hop, or Flop to the Top!
Rob emerges from another hot yoga class with not one, but several revelations—including the disturbing possibility that he’s been doing pigeon pose wrong for roughly a decade.A well-timed hands-on adjustment changes the entire posture, p...
Raff's Brain #256: HOT YOGA PROBLEMS - The Slugs Have Entered the Studio!
Another morning. Another 100-degree room. Another voluntary beatdown.Raff is back for Day 5 of his latest hot yoga run, fresh off a recovery day after four consecutive CorePower sessions. This time it’s Yoga Sculpt, where the weights may...
Raff's Brain #255: HOT YOGA PROBLEMS - The Eagle Pose Sucks, But the Eagles Do Not
Raff just finished Day 4 of consecutive hot yoga, and the evidence is becoming difficult to ignore: evening Raff may be significantly better at yoga than 6 a.m. Raff.That realization creates an inconvenient dilemma. Early classes fit the...
Raff's Brain #254: HOT YOGA SCULPT PROBLEMS - The Two-Pound Dumbbell Era
Raff has now survived three consecutive days of hot yoga—and this time, Yoga Sculpt reminds him exactly who is in charge.After walking into class with a little too much confidence, Raff finds himself humbled by aching muscles, brutally ...
Raff's Brain #253: Hot Yoga, Doggie Drugs, & the Immaculate Reception
Rob Raffety has officially entered the dangerous territory known as back-to-back hot yoga.After a punishing Yoga Sculpt session, he wakes up sore, tired, and feeling approximately like a roadway after being attacked by industrial ...
Raff's Brain #252: Let's Pretend I Enjoy This - HOT YOGA SCULPT PROBLEMS!
Welcome to Hot Yoga Sculpt Problems, the latest questionable expansion of the Hot Yoga Problems universe.Rob has discovered Hot Yoga Sculpt—a combination of heated yoga, weights, cardio, jumping, sweating, suffering, and wondering...
Raff's Brain #250: HOT YOGA PROBLEMS - Bird Dog Betrayal & the Robot Apocalypse!
250 episodes. One destroyed yogi. Zero mastery of the eagle pose.Raff’s Brain reaches Episode 250, and Rob marks the occasion in the most appropriate way possible: stumbling out of an absurdly difficult hot yoga class and immediat...
Raff's Brain #249: Hot Yoga, Cold Symptoms & Questionable Decisions
Rob is back in the hot room—and this time he’s bringing a lingering cold, questionable judgment, and an intense appreciation for one of yoga’s most underrated poses.After surviving another brutal class, Rob discovers something extraordin...
Raff's Brain #248: Hot Yoga Problems - Death, Taxes, & Supine Twist
Rob is approaching 51, his high school buddies are comparing health problems in the group chat, and suddenly the consequences of advancing age are becoming a little harder to ignore.Welcome back to Hot Yoga Problems.After a...
Raff's Brain #247: Hot Yoga Problems - September Fitness Reckoning
Raff is back. His conditioning? Less so.After more than two weeks away from hot yoga, Rob returns for a Labor Day class and discovers that the hot room has absolutely no sympathy for vacations, excuses, or declining cardiovascular fitnes...
Raff's Brain #246: Riffin' with Raff - College Anxiety, Coffee Pressure, & Cartilage Piercings
On this episode of Riffin’ with Raff, Rob welcomes back his niece Mallory Moss for a conversation recorded just before she moves away to college.At 18, Mallory is entering a completely new world: new friends, harder classes, colle...
Raff's Brain #245: Hot Yoga Problems - West Coast Edition - YOGI RAFF TAKES LA!
Rob takes Hot Yoga Problems to Los Angeles and discovers that West Coast hot yoga is apparently the major leagues.After surviving a packed CorePower Yoga session in Studio City — surrounded by what appear to be Jedi-level yoga p...
Raff's Brain #244: Hot Yoga Problems - The Fallen Angel / Fallen Triangle Push-Up Must Be Stopped!!
Rob is back in the hot yoga studio—and back behind the microphone—with an acknowledgment, not an excuse, for the recent slowdown in Hot Yoga Problems episodes.In this sweaty return to action, Rob examines the difference between explanati...
Raff's Brain #243 - Riffin' with Raff - From Creator Burnout to 10M+ VIEWS IN 30 DAYS!
After nearly a year of producing political and news-oriented content, Grauben Lara was feeling burned out. Then the World Cup began—and a spontaneous creative pivot changed everything.In this episode of Riffin’ with Raff, Grauben ...
Raff's Brain #242: Hot Yoga Problems - I THOUGHT NECK ROLLS WERE OUTLAWED!!
Rob thought full-circle neck rolls had been banned decades ago. Then a hot yoga instructor opened class with one.This episode of Hot Yoga Problems begins with a potentially controversial cervical-spine maneuver and quickly rolls i...
Raff's Brain #241: Hot Yoga Problems - If Your Fitbit Didn’t Track It, Did HOT YOGA Even Happen?
Monday is not the enemy. It didn’t choose to become the beginning of the workweek, and Rob Raffety believes it deserves slightly more respect.In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, Rob celebrates the promise of a fresh start whil...
Raff's Brain #240: Hot Yoga Problems - Nama-Slay, Sis!
A Raffety Family Hot Yoga Field TripIt is a Hot Yoga Problems family special as Rob’s sister Jennifer joins him for a surprisingly demanding Core 2 class.Jennifer offers an honest review of the experience, from complicated ...
Raff's Brain #239: Hot Yoga Problems - Detox to Retox: Paying the Piper in Advance!
In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, Rob Raffety gets absolutely wrecked by a 75-minute Sunday morning CorePower class and lives to tell the tale. After believing he had reached peak hot yoga confidence, he finds himself packed in...
Raff's Brain #238: Hot Yoga Problems - The Every-Fourth-Day Hot Yoga Theory
On this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, Rob may have stumbled onto the most dangerous revelation of all: doing less hot yoga might actually work better. After crushing a one-hour class with minimal suffering, he starts questioning...
Raff's Brain #237: Hot Yoga Problems - New Leaf Baby: Hot Yoga, Summer Resets, & Butterfly Crimes!
After a week away from hot yoga, Rob returns to the studio and immediately remembers that the body keeps receipts. In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, he gets wrecked by a CorePower class, navigates the disruption of summer travel seas...
Raff's Brain #236: Riffin' with Raff - The Internet Is a Messy Library - Cord Blomquist Explains SEO
Is SEO dead, dying, or quietly becoming even more important?On this episode of Riffin’ with Raff, Rob Raffety welcomes Cord Blomquist of Tallest Tree Digital for a lively and surprisingly approachable conversation about how people...
Raff's Brain #235: Hot Yoga Problems - The Shortest Straw - Who Wants to Teach Hot Yoga at 6 A.M.?
After a bittersweet final class with his regular Monday-morning instructor, Rob wonders who will inherit the shortest straw: teaching hot yoga at 6 a.m. on a weekday.That question triggers a winding post-yoga meditation on the unusual ps...
Raff's Brain #234: Drive & Jive - THE CANARY IS CHIRPING!
The Canary Is Chirping: A Doctor’s Visit, High Blood Pressure, and a Midlife Health Reset!A routine doctor’s appointment turns into a midlife health reckoning.In this Drive & Jive episode, Rob Raffety talks candidly ab...
Raff's Brain #233: Hot Yoga Problems - FIND YOUR HOT YOGA!
Hot yoga can feel like a workout, a personal crisis, and a spiritual journey packed into a single class.In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, Rob Raffety emerges from an intense Friday morning session feeling exhausted, energized,...
Raff's Brain #232: Hot Yoga Problems - Chin Stand Disaster & the Gizmo Generation Gap
Rob Raffety has two words for you: chin stand.After surviving one of hot yoga’s least intuitive poses, Rob reflects on fitness motivation, weight-loss goals, diet struggles, and the ambitious health plans that do not always surviv...