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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Psychologist Dr. Shefali tells Mel Robbins why the urge to control our kids comes from our own unworthiness, and how presence, curiosity and boundaries heal.
Matt Walsh and Joe Rogan discuss his film Am I Racist?, race hustlers, social media's toll, a moon landing debate, the Trump shooting and free speech.
Former Navy SEAL and podcaster Shawn Ryan joins Joe Rogan on censorship, border security, China, UFOs, ibogaine and how his show began.
Levy Rozman (GothamChess) walks Lex Fridman through the Niemann-Carlsen cheating saga, chess engines, online hate and his own darkest moments.
Ex-Secret Service polygrapher Evy Poumpouras teaches Mel Robbins how to read baselines, spot verbal red flags, own your voice and handle your stuff.
Harvard psychologist Dr. Susan David explains emotional agility: naming feelings precisely, setting kind boundaries, and meeting others' reactivity with calm.
MIT robot ethicist Kate Darling explains why robots are more like animals than humans, the risks of social robots, and what the Epstein scandal taught her.
NYU professor Adam Alter shares a research-based roadmap for getting unstuck: find your friction, set a signal goal and take the smallest next step.
On his album release day, Jelly Roll talks with Joe Rogan about storytelling, sobriety, losing 100 pounds, imposter syndrome and why you can't cheat the game.
Ye talks design, Parler, fashion deals gone wrong and his family, as Lex Fridman repeatedly challenges his remarks about Jewish people.
Andrej Karpathy talks transformers, Software 2.0, Tesla's vision-only bet, Optimus, aliens, AGI and how he works and learns with Lex Fridman.
Andrew Huberman explains how the brain and immune system talk to each other, with tools from nasal breathing to cyclic hyperventilation and sauna.
Bioinformatics professor Dmitry Korkin explains protein domains, the SARS-CoV-2 shell, what AlphaFold 2 really solved, and the odds of alien life.
Vice co-founder Shane Smith and Joe Rogan talk media, staying small, money and happiness, AI and jobs, surveillance, immigration and UFOs.
Teen thinker Zev Weinstein on why deep thinking is dangerous yet vital in stagnant times, plus truth, free will, music and his father.
MIT physicist Max Tegmark on understandable AI, alignment, algorithmic news bubbles, killer drones, consciousness and our place in the cosmos.
Country star Luke Bryan and Joe Rogan swap stories on Vegas gambling, grizzlies, elk hunting, media spin, American Idol and raising kids outdoors.
Neuroscientist Tali Sharot explains why good things stop thrilling us and how breaks, novelty and anticipation make life sparkle again.
Huberman explains why gratitude lists fall short and builds a brief, story-based gratitude practice grounded in neuroscience and immune research.
UCLA's Jack Feldman explains how the brain controls breathing, why we sigh, how breathing shapes emotion and cognition, and simple breathwork to try.
On the eve of the 2024 election, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan discuss X and free speech, immigration, government waste, tariffs, AI and robots.
Stanford psychologist Alia Crum explains how beliefs about food, exercise, stress, and side effects change what happens in the body.
Python creator Guido van Rossum explains readability, the 3.11 speedup, type hints, the GIL, Python 4, Copilot and stepping down as BDFL.
Andrew Huberman explains why low-stakes play is a powerful portal to neuroplasticity for children and adults, and how to add an hour of play a week.
Recorded on election day 2024, Joe Rogan and comedian Tim Dillon riff on the race, the media, foreign money, AI and the future of humans.
Huberman explains how light, screen height, posture, ceiling height, sound, and movement can tune your brain for focused or creative work.
Bethesda's Todd Howard on simulated worlds, reactive NPCs, Starfield's planets, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, mods and loving what you make.
Meta AI's Noam Brown explains how Libratus and Pluribus beat poker pros and how Cicero learned to negotiate with humans in Diplomacy.
Stanford psychiatrist David Spiegel explains the brain science of hypnosis and how self-hypnosis can ease stress, pain, insomnia, phobias and trauma.
Harvard stress expert Dr. Aditi Nerurkar shares simple habits, from shopping the grocery perimeter to a fake commute, that lower stress fast.