The Perfect Summary Podcast

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.

Andrew Huberman explains how the brain and immune system talk to each other, with tools from nasal breathing to cyclic hyperventilation and sauna.

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.

Mel Robbins explains three painful triggers, jealousy, being called out and playing small, and how to turn each into fuel for action.

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.

Pastor and author Sarah Jakes Roberts tells Mel Robbins how to stop punishing yourself for the past, use every part of your story, and step into your power.

Mel Robbins shares three truths about adults: if they wanted to they would, you can't make anyone change, and stop being mad at who they aren't.

Chamath Palihapitiya tells Lex Fridman about an abusive childhood, why mistakes drive success, early Facebook, zero-cost energy and feeling equal.

UCLA's Jack Feldman explains how the brain controls breathing, why we sigh, how breathing shapes emotion and cognition, and simple breathwork to try.

Hospice physician Dr. Zach Bush shares his near-death experience and what the dying teach us about wholeness, fear and living without performing.

Stanford psychologist Alia Crum explains how beliefs about food, exercise, stress, and side effects change what happens in the body.

Matthew Hussey joins Mel Robbins to answer listener questions on taking partners for granted, compromise, hard conversations and dating without burning out.

Mel Robbins draws five life lessons from the Paris Olympics: feel your visualization, compare down, stay enthusiastic, quit wisely and know what you want.

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.

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.

Roger Gracie breaks down his win over Buchecha, why mount beats back control, practicing your weaknesses, and never quitting.

Mel Robbins runs a workshop on the Five Whys, with her sister-in-law and daughter showing how the surface want often hides a deeper one.

Fraud investigator Coffeezilla breaks down the FTX collapse, SafeMoon, MLMs and fake gurus, and what it takes to hold powerful people to account.

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.

Michael Malice and Lex Fridman, in Santa suits, trace Soviet terror from Lenin to Gorbachev and argue that cynicism is a choice, not realism.

Andrew Huberman explains how the brain senses salt, how sodium drives thirst, stress and neuron firing, and how to find the salt intake that fits you.

Comedian Jeff Dye and Joe Rogan riff on discipline, self-improvement, group thinking, politics, cowboys and the craft of stand-up.

Mel Robbins distills expert advice into three basics: breathe through your nose, add 5,000 steps a day, and work with your body clock to sleep.

Cell biologist Bruce Lipton explains how childhood programming runs 95% of life and how he believes you can rewrite it.

Mel Robbins forgets her hiking boots before climbing Mount Katahdin and shares the life lessons she and Appalachian Trail thru-hikers learned.