The Perfect Summary Podcast

Gad Saad returns to Rogan for a tenth time to discuss antisemitism after October 7, suicidal empathy, stubborn minds, evolutionary psychology and AI.

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom on the app's origin, the $1B Facebook sale, social media algorithms, hard work and choosing the game you love.

Joe Rogan and comic Brian Simpson celebrate his Netflix special and riff on fighters, Kill Tony, fame, AI, tribalism and money.

Psychiatrist Dr. Paul Conti explains where negative self-talk comes from, how it ties to past trauma, and how curiosity can change it.

Olympic champion and Iowa head coach Tom Brands talks hatred of losing, repetition, mental toughness, weight cutting and his twin brother Terry.

Charles Eisenstein argues that our debt-and-interest money system manufactures scarcity and separation, and sketches a gift-based, ecological economy to replace it.

C.S. Lewis closes his Space Trilogy on Earth, where a sinister scientific institute, a fraying young marriage and a sleeping Merlin collide in a battle for England's soul.

Wait But Why's Tim Urban on aliens, Mars, Elon Musk's first-principles thinking, Neuralink, polarization, reading habits and procrastination.

Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel argues that our faith in meritocracy has made winners arrogant, made everyone else feel humiliated, and fuelled the populist backlash, and that humility and respect for work are the way back.

Richard Feynman's last book of memories moves from a childhood of questions and a doomed love story to his investigation of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Computer scientist and game pioneer Rizwan Virk explains why we may live in a simulation and what it could mean for religion, memory and UFOs.

C.S. Lewis sends Elwin Ransom to an unfallen Venus, where a new Eve faces a tempter and the fate of a world rests on one reluctant man.

Steven Pressfield names the inner enemy that keeps us from our real work, Resistance, and shows how to beat it by turning pro and showing up every day.

Greg Koukl's friendly playbook for talking about Christian convictions by asking good questions, spotting weak arguments, and leaving a 'stone in someone's shoe' instead of starting a fight.

A Nobel physicist's mischievous, curious, sometimes profound life stories, from cracking safes at Los Alamos to drumming samba in Brazil, ending with a famous warning against fooling yourself.

The Pulitzer-winning life of J. Robert Oppenheimer: the brilliant, contradictory physicist who led the building of the atomic bomb and was later destroyed by the Cold War security state he served.

A Cambridge philologist is kidnapped and flown to Mars, where he finds a world without sin that looks back at fallen Earth with pity.

A Harvard-educated wanderer trains and fights his way through the world's toughest gyms to discover why people choose to fight, and what the fight teaches them.

Performance coach Todd Herman shows how a deliberately built 'secret identity' can bring your best self out in the moments that matter most.

A busy sports columnist reunites with his dying college professor for weekly Tuesday visits, and their conversations become a final class on how to live.

Legendary sports bettor Billy Walters explains how he beats the line, why casual bettors lose, and his fight against the case that sent him to prison.

Harvard psychologist Dr. Luana Marques coaches Mel Robbins through a family transition and shares a 3-step method for facing change: shift, approach, align.

Mel Robbins turns a hilarious bodysuit wardrobe failure at an art event into a lesson on why laughing at yourself builds bonds, confidence and respect.

Author Will Storr explains how our hidden hunger for connection and status shapes cults, ideologies, economies, social media and mental health.

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

Physicist Brian Greene and Lex Fridman explore meaning in a dying universe, consciousness, string theory, time travel, aliens and the fear of death.

Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines tells Joe Rogan how tying Lia Thomas at the NCAA championships turned her into an activist for single-sex sports.

Royce Gracie looks back on UFC 1, his father's defensive philosophy, fight rules, discipline, bow hunting and his move to Florida.

Mel Robbins answers entrepreneurs' questions on focus, slow periods, confidence, going full-time, self-care as strategy, and pushing past hesitation.

Rabbi David Wolpe talks with Lex Fridman about who God is, debating Hitchens and Harris, evil, free will, faith, controversy and meaning.