The Perfect Summary Podcast
Every summary, narrated: the GIST of great conversations and books in minutes, so you can decide if you want the REST.
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Journalist Jenny Wallace tells Mel Robbins why grind culture backfires and how helping kids and adults feel they matter builds healthy achievers.
Former CIA officer Mike Baker and Joe Rogan cover deepfakes, foreign influence, Gaza, Ukraine, China's rare earth grip, AI dogfights and UAPs.
After watching a swimmer's search turn into a recovery, Mel Robbins asks trauma researcher MaryCatherine McDonald how the brain files trauma and how to integrate it.
Philosopher Philip Goff argues consciousness is the intrinsic nature of matter, and explores zombies, free will, expertise and meaning with Lex Fridman.
Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan range over UFOs, AI, free speech, government secrecy, sauna rituals and the idea of a real battle between good and evil.
Anaconda co-founder Peter Wang talks Python's design, open source value, cybernetic systems, human layers, love, and why we face a meaning crisis.
Anki co-founder and Waymo trucking head Boris Sofman on giving robots personality, why Anki failed, and the hard road to driverless trucks.
Sex expert Dr. Emily Morse tells Mel Robbins why stress and shame kill desire and how talking, solo sex and scheduling bring pleasure back.
Comic Eleanor Kerrigan and Joe Rogan swap Comedy Store stories, talk finding your real voice on stage, women in comedy, Ambien, and culture war tangents.
Coleman Hughes joins Joe Rogan on his colorblind book and The View clash, fear and greatness, chess cheating, Gaza, OpenAI and a future of superintelligence.
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson on human nature, why chemical rockets are an accident of history, solar geoengineering, AR, crypto and writing by hand.
Elon Musk tells Lex Fridman how Starship, full self-driving and the Tesla Bot are built, and why becoming multiplanetary is life insurance for life.
Gad Saad returns to Rogan for a tenth time to discuss antisemitism after October 7, suicidal empathy, stubborn minds, evolutionary psychology and AI.
Sebastian Maniscalco and Joe Rogan riff on turning 50, wellness overload, money and freedom, podcasting, air rage and Tyson vs. Jake Paul.
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.
Therapist KC Davis answers listener questions on overwhelm, self-compassion, rest as a right, paper plates and dividing chores through fair rest.
Wait But Why's Tim Urban on aliens, Mars, Elon Musk's first-principles thinking, Neuralink, polarization, reading habits and procrastination.
Psychiatrist Paul Conti argues that trauma spreads like a hidden disease through people, families and whole societies, and that knowledge, compassion and community can treat it and even prevent it.
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.
An orthodontist and an evolutionary biologist argue that modern life is shrinking our jaws, crowding our teeth and narrowing our airways, and that parents can do something about it early.
A science journalist and a neuroscientist sort the hype from the hard evidence to show how meditation can lastingly change who we are.
Rogan and three MMA veterans preview UFC 300, relive legendary fights, debate TRT and Jake Paul vs. Tyson, and roast Star Wars.
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.
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.
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.
Comedian and libertarian Dave Smith joins Joe Rogan on media failures, COVID, the Israel-Gaza war, NATO, political corruption and why dogs never lose enthusiasm.