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
227 episodes
Raff's Brain #226: Hot Yoga Problems - Parking Garages, Penguins, and Perspective
In this introspective yet humor-laced episode of Hot Yoga Problems, Raff explores the tension between control and inevitability—whether it’s protecting a pristine car from its first inevitable ding or processing the emotional fallout f...
Raff's Brain #227: Hot Yoga Problems - Prone Shavasana & The Lie of ‘I’ll Start Monday’
In this introspective Hot Yoga Problems episode, Raff reflects on a surprising new yoga experience—prone shavasana—and uses it as a launchpad to explore a deeper theme: why we delay the things that are good for us.With May 1st a...
Raff's Brain #225: Hot Yoga Problems - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (Again)
In this introspective and humor-laced episode of Raff’s Brain: Hot Yoga Problems, Rob reflects on a fleeting but powerful moment of motivation sparked by a hot yoga class. With a mid-year doctor checkup approaching, he confronts the ga...
Raff's Brain #224: Hot Yoga Problems - Did a Robot Win the Boston Marathon?
This episode of Hot Yoga Problems may be Rob Raffety’s self-declared “worst episode ever,” but that might also make it one of the most honest. Fresh off another punishing hot yoga session, Rob tries to make sense of pain, progress, mot...
Raff's Brain #223: Hot Yoga Problems - YOGA WARS! Claiming Space in a Packed Studio!
In this Hot Yoga Problems episode, Rob navigates the collision of everyday inconvenience and personal growth—from DMV bureaucracy to a yoga studio packed beyond comfort.With one location under renovation, the overflow has turned...
Raff's Brain #222: Hot Yoga Nearly Broke Me Then the DMV Finished the Job!
In this episode of Raff’s Brain: Hot Yoga Problems, Raff battles through consecutive hot yoga sessions only to face an even greater challenge—modern bureaucracy. A simple parking issue spirals into a comedic yet insightful rant about D...
Raff's Brain #221: Hot Yoga Problems - Back on the Mat and Immediately Exposed!
In this Hot Yoga Problems episode, Raff makes his long-awaited return to the mat—only to face one of the most awkward and revealing class setups imaginable: a near-private session with a highly advanced yogi. With nowhere to hide, Raff...
Raff's Brain #220: HOT YOGA PROBLEMS - Packed Mats, Flying Toes, and OBX Hot Yoga!
In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, Rob Raffety recounts a brutally hot and unexpectedly crowded yoga class in the Outer Banks, complete with fogged-up mirrors, loud breathing, minimal mat real estate, and a dangerously tall yogi whose...
Raff's Brain #219: HOT YOGA PROBLEMS - Trade-In Tactics & Stick Shift Blues!
Broadcasting from the Outer Banks after another punishing session at OBX Hot Yoga, Rob delivers a classic Hot Yoga Problems episode that starts with sweat and spirals into an unexpectedly sharp monologue about cars, culture, and negotiat...
Raff's Brain #218: SPECIAL EPISODE - Action Creates Information - The Mindset That Separates the 2%
This special episode of Raff’s Brain captures a live talk with 22 undergrad and MBA students from West Virginia Wesleyan College during their DC immersion trip.Instead of a traditional keynote, Rob turns the session into an inte...
Raff's Brain #217: Hot Yoga Problems - Reese’s Cups, Headstands, & Total Domination!!
Rob Raffety is feeling dangerous in the best way after a monster hot yoga session. In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, he reflects on the thrill of unexpectedly crushing class, the satisfaction of finally locking into a monthly flow, a...
Raff's Brain #216: Riffin' w Raff feat. Grauben Lara on Meta Glasses, POV Content, & the Future of Creation
In this episode of Riffin’ with Raff, Rob is joined by returning guest Grauben Lara for a thoughtful conversation about smart glasses, content creation, and the blurry line between innovation and intrusion.Grauben recently ...
Raff's Brain #215: Hot Yoga Problems - The Shiva Curtsy & Dancing Camel
In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, Rob exits another early-morning hot yoga class only to realize the practice he’s done for a decade still has endless ways to surprise—and punish—him.Today’s offenders: the Shiva Curtsy ...
Raff's Brain #214: Hot Yoga Problems - SPRING FORWARD & the Playlist that Saved the Day!
What happens when a hot yoga class accidentally turns into the best throwback playlist of all time?In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, Rob battles the post–daylight savings struggle just to make it to class. The whole world feel...
Raff's Brain #213: Riffin' with Raff feat. Charles Blatz - Yolk & Mortar Chicken Hustle!
Charles Blatz returns to Raff’s Brain for a wide-ranging conversation about DIY home renovation, backyard farming, and the unexpected joys of modern homesteading.After buying a modest fixer-upper outside Cleveland, Charles has s...
Raff's Brain #212: HOT YOGA PROBLEMS - Concrete Columns, Crow Pose, and Creator Chaos
This episode of Hot Yoga Problems begins where many great stories do: backing out of a garage and almost getting taken out by a concrete column with attitude. Rob spins that everyday moment into a funny meditation on cars, frugality, den...
Raff's Brain #211: Riffin' with Raff feat. Brady Bond - Fans, Flippers, & the Value of Cards
Rob Raffety welcomes Brady Bond to Riffin’ with Raff for a conversation about collectibles, card culture, and the economic ideas hiding in plain sight inside hobby markets. Brady, a college student with experience buying and selling card...
Raff's Brain #210: SPECIAL EPISODE - Go Crush & Dominate! - Brief Remarks to the 2026 MRU College Fellows
This episode is different — and deeply personal.Rob shares the remarks he delivered to the inaugural class of MRU College Fellows, a program focused on cultivating the next generation of communicators advancing economic ideas and classic...
Raff's Brain #209: Hot Yoga Problems - Return of the SLOTH!
After six days off, I return to hot yoga — and it’s absolute carnage.In this Hot Yoga Problems episode, I unpack the mental spiral of falling off routine, the speed of physical regression, and the brutal honesty required to admit when yo...
Raff's Brain #208: Drive & Jive - Zip Codes, Social Security & the Future of Freedom
Rob is back on the road from West Virginia to Arlington, and this Drive & Jive goes everywhere—in the best way.What begins as a casual riff about zip codes and phone numbers evolves into reflections on:Memory and how tech...
Raff's Brain #207: Riffin' with Raff feat. BRYCE THE THIRD - Stop Searching for the Secret Formula!
What if the secret to content creation is that no one actually has it figured out?In this Riffin’ with Raff episode, Rob reconnects with Detroit-based storyteller and creator Bryce the Third t...
Raff's Brain #206: Riffin' with Raff - GRIT & GROWTH with Mallory Moss!
Senior year is a proving ground.In this episode of Riffin’ with Raff, Rob sits down with returning guest Mallory Moss to talk about discipline, team culture, resilience, and what it means to grow — even when you don’t feel grown...
Raff's Brain #205: Drive & Jive - What If AI Changes Storytelling Forever?
On this episode of Raff’s Brain – Drive & Jive, Rob records on the road and wrestles with creativity, technology, and identity in real time.From Meta-powered sunglasses and Spanish vocabulary experiments to group text dynami...
Raff's Brain #204: HOT YOGA PROBLEMS - Namaste, Mofos, the Future’s Coming!
Two days of hot yoga. One impossible baby grasshopper. And a full-blown philosophical detour into the fate of newspapers.In this Hot Yoga Problems episode, Rob explores the tension between nostalgia and progress — from the tactile joy o...
Raff's Brain #203: Hot Yoga Problems - Blossoming Cobra (and other made up poses)
After more than a decade of yoga, Rob encounters something shocking:The Blossoming Cobra.Is it a pose? A metaphor? Or proof that anyone can invent anything if they add frog legs to it?This episode of Hot Yoga Problems