The Perfect Summary Podcast

Columbia's Dr. Lisa Miller explains the brain circuits behind spiritual awareness and why a spiritual core protects teens from depression and addiction.

Gad Saad and Joe Rogan range over decision science, evolutionary explanations of behavior, academia, AI, odd coincidences, and choosing peace over conflict.

Physical therapist Jeff Cavaliere explains how to split training, build the mind-muscle connection, stretch, fix pain at its source and eat sustainably.

Taste scientist Charles Zuker explains how the tongue and brain create taste, and how a gut-brain circuit drives our endless craving for sugar.

Life coach Martha Beck coaches Mel Robbins live on getting unstuck, tracking joy toward your purpose, and using creativity to quiet anxiety.

Andrew Huberman explains bipolar I and II, the brain circuits behind mania, how lithium and ketamine work, and what talk therapy and omega-3s add.

Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty tells Lex Fridman how adversity, preparation and 'good power' shaped her leadership through IBM's biggest reinvention.

Harland Williams and Joe Rogan riff on submarines, aliens, AI creativity, wolves, simulation theory, the death of the sitcom and roast comedy.

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas tells Joe Rogan the real-life roots of Basic Instinct, stories of Hunter Thompson and Hendrix, and his path to faith.

Dr. Erich Jarvis explains how speech evolved from movement circuits, why only vocal learners dance, and what songbirds reveal about language.

Sam Harris and Lex Fridman debate Trump, COVID, experts, quitting Twitter, feuds with Elon Musk and Bret Weinstein, AI risk and free will.

Eliezer Yudkowsky tells Lex Fridman why he thinks we get one try at aligning superintelligent AI, and why we're failing it.

Caltech's David Anderson explains how brain states drive aggression, mating and fear, and how social isolation fuels rage through a peptide.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on how GPT-4 works, bias and alignment, AGI timelines, OpenAI's capped-profit structure, power, jobs and the future.

Mathematician Edward Frenkel on why reality is paradoxical, the limits of computation, the Langlands program, surviving Soviet antisemitism, and love.

Stanford psychiatrist Nolan Williams explains how TMS, ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA and ibogaine may reset the brain circuits behind depression and PTSD.

IONS chief scientist Dean Radin tells Joe Rogan about remote viewing at Stargate, presentiment experiments, psychic genetics and a nasal RNA therapy.

Max Tegmark explains the open letter to pause giant AI experiments, Moloch's race to the bottom, AI safety, consciousness, and hope for a good future.

UCSF neurosurgeon Eddie Chang on critical periods, rewriting the textbook map of language, epilepsy, stuttering, and decoding speech for paralyzed patients.

Inventor Simone Giertz on shitty robots, her brain tumor, turning a Tesla into a truck, mass manufacturing, and why enthusiasm beats duty.

Taylor Sheridan talks horses, running a 300,000-acre ranch, how he makes so many hit shows, government dysfunction and his travel guide to prison.

MIT biologist Manolis Kellis on what makes humans irreplaceable, evolution's layers, AI love and rights, the six-month pause, and self-actualization.

Tim Dillon and Joe Rogan riff on L.A.'s decline, UK speech arrests, AI and tech power, DMT, UFOs, CBS News and where American politics goes next.

Wall Street veteran Carla Harris coaches listeners on beating fear and fatigue, finding sponsors, negotiating pay and using AI to get ahead.

Tommy Lee and Joe Rogan talk bonsai and Zen gardens, the athletics of drumming, old-school muscle cars, Ferrari's misstep and why live music still wins.

Progressive commentator David Pakman and Lex Fridman debate Trump and Biden, labels, COVID, January 6th, wokeism, Twitter outrage and truth.

Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter traces 30 years of legged robots, from the MIT Leg Lab to Atlas backflips, Spot, Stretch and the fear of robots.

Stephen Wolfram explains how ChatGPT works, why computation beats statistics for truth, and how observers like us give rise to the laws of physics.

Sam Harris explains why meditation's real prize is seeing through the self, how it differs from psychedelics, and why he quit Twitter.

Serial entrepreneur Chris Koerner shares how to start earning with no money, why fear of failure is really fear of judgment, and why he gave a kidney away.