The Perfect Summary Podcast

The Triggernometry hosts and Joe Rogan riff on conflict, parenthood, sex robots and AI, free speech, JFK, protests and why collaboration beats competition.

Mark Zuckerberg discusses the metaverse, polarization research, the Instagram whistleblower, free speech, AI translation and raising his daughters.

Dr. Mindy Pelz explains metabolic switching and the six fasting lengths, from 12 hours to 72, and what each is said to do for the body.

Chemist Lee Cronin explains assembly theory, why life may be common but alien, why time is fundamental, and how robots can program chemistry.

Joe Rogan and Kill Tony co-host Brian Redban riff on AI, comedy writing, Kill Tony's arena success, leaded gas, microplastics, lab-grown meat and EVs.

Brain coach Jim Kwik teaches Mel Robbins simple tools to read faster, remember names and keys, and ten habits for a sharper brain.

Gladstone AI founders Jeremie and Edouard Harris explain why AI scaling alarmed them, what lab insiders fear, and how government should respond.

Stanford psychiatrist and optogenetics pioneer Karl Deisseroth explores what mental illness reveals about the mind, from depression to consciousness.

Robert Greene argues that greatness is a path anyone can walk: find your calling, serve a long apprenticeship, learn from mentors, read people well, and let deep immersion ripen into intuition.

Salk Institute scientist Satchin Panda argues that when you eat, sleep, see light and move matters as much as what you do, and shows how to reset the body's internal clocks.

A novelist turned historian argues that methamphetamine, opiates and cocaine ran through Nazi Germany, from the blitzkrieg to Hitler's own veins.

A journalist's twenty-year obsession takes apart the official story of the Manson murders and follows the threads to Hollywood secrets, a protected parolee, and the CIA's mind-control experiments.

A psychiatrist and a writer show how dopamine, the brain's chemical of anticipation, drives our love lives, ambitions, addictions, creativity and politics, and why lasting happiness means balancing it with the chemicals of the present.

Stress scientist Elissa Epel explains how to turn threat into challenge, protect your cells from chronic stress, and drop the rope on what you can't change.

LL Cool J tells Joe Rogan about launching Def Jam at 16, starting jiu-jitsu, the language of success, Musashi, lost civilizations, and AI.

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal trace Walt Disney's repeated bet-the-company gambles, from Mickey to Disneyland, and the flywheel they created.

Former Navy SEAL and novelist Jack Carr talks writing, his Beirut bombing history, AI weapons, D-Day, UFOs and JFK with Joe Rogan.

Impractical Jokers star Sal Vulcano and Joe Rogan riff on ADHD, dangerous animals, a near plane crash, AI anxiety, and the comics who built stand-up.

Harland Williams commits to absurd bits with Joe Rogan, who also remembers Phil Hartman and explains how comedy thieves operate.

Oscar-nominated documentarian Skye Fitzgerald talks starvation as a weapon of war, filming in Yemen, rescues at sea, and why the camera is a tool for change.

Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell riff on AI, war, algorithms, psychedelics, Satanism and Jesus, landing on love as the answer to fear.

Rick Rubin and Lex Fridman on reducing music to its essence, recording Johnny Cash's Hurt, depression, running, and why art must be protected.

Tony Hinchcliffe and Joe Rogan riff on sudden fame after the Tom Brady roast, Kill Tony, Austin comedy, politics, COVID, markets and AI.

UFC pioneer Tank Abbott tells Joe Rogan wild stories from MMA's no-rules era, explains fighter's fortitude, and recounts nearly dying before two transplants.

Cornell geneticist Chris Mason on what space does to the body, engineering humans for other worlds, and our duty to protect life.

Max Lugavere tells Joe Rogan why dementia starts in midlife and how diet, exercise, toxins and air pollution affect your risk.

Filmmaker Oliver Stone shares his contested view of Putin, the Ukraine war, US foreign policy and nuclear power with Lex Fridman.

Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds opens up about depression, losing his Mormon faith, fame, ayahuasca, therapy and how he writes songs.

Mathematician Eric Weinstein steelmans and critiques Terrence Howard's ideas, praising his geometry while calling out errors and broken peer review.

OB-GYN Dr. Mary Claire Haver explains how estrogen loss affects every organ and shares her toolkit for perimenopause and menopause.