The Perfect Summary Podcast
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Psychologist Michael Slepian explains why we keep about 13 secrets, why living with them hurts more than hiding them, and how to confide safely.
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson on human nature, why chemical rockets are an accident of history, solar geoengineering, AR, crypto and writing by hand.
Mel Robbins, her husband and two kids unpack a morning fight and answer listener questions about repairing family relationships and moving.
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.
Stanford biologist Garry Nolan on UFO encounters, the Atacama skeleton, strange metals, the basal ganglia and staying open-minded as a scientist.
Dr. Amy Shah explains why we bloat, which foods and habits make it worse, and a simple fasting, fitness and fermented-food morning routine.
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.
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.
Harvard physician John Abramson explains how drug companies control what doctors know, and what reforms could put health first.
Painter Greg Overton and Joe Rogan talk art, Native American history, escaping office life, Bigfoot, solar storms and the Comanche.
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.
Therapist KC Davis answers listener questions on overwhelm, self-compassion, rest as a right, paper plates and dividing chores through fair rest.
Tim Ferriss uses cooking as a training ground for meta-learning, a system for picking up any skill far faster than the conventional route allows.
How the Comanches built a horseback empire on the southern plains, and how Quanah Parker, son of a captive white mother, led them through its violent fall.
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.
Dane Ortlund draws on Jesus's own self-description and the Puritans to argue that Christ's deepest heart toward weary sinners and sufferers is tender, eager, unwavering love.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A science journalist and a neuroscientist sort the hype from the hard evidence to show how meditation can lastingly change who we are.
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.