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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Pick as many as you like: any of them matches within a group.
Neuroscientist Michael Platt on how attention, hormones, status and tribe quietly steer our choices, and how to decide better.
Bert Kreischer and Joe Rogan swap career advice, sleep and health tips, wolf and bowhunting talk, mob stories, and why comics should inspire, not compete.
Michael Kosta and Joe Rogan talk joke writing, tennis and grit, knockouts, the Comedy Mothership, free speech, sauna habits and AI.
Bill Murray swaps Hunter S. Thompson stories, defends John Belushi, explains golf as a mind-body practice and talks homelessness with Joe Rogan.
Director Peter Berg joins Joe Rogan on making American Primeval, Brigham Young, handling critics, writing rituals and what makes champions.
Billy Corgan unpacks the Bill Burr half-brother saga, his mob-connected father, comedy legends, unconscious messages in songs and refusing to sell out.
Behavior expert Chase Hughes explains novelty and authority, cult recruiting, hypnosis, MK-Ultra and how to spot psychological operations.
Huberman explains how ghrelin, CCK, insulin and brain circuits drive hunger and fullness, plus tools like meal timing, food order and movement.
Felipe Esparza and Joe Rogan riff on old-school comedy, Hendrix and Elvis, 1800s sewage, toxic candles, prions, mercury tombs and more.
Kurt Metzger and Joe Rogan riff on meme coins, Cold War spraying tests, the CIA's sabotage manual, gold, aliens and how people get programmed.
Chess prodigy turned martial arts champion and coach Josh Waitzkin shares how loss, fear, empty space and a daily "most important question" drive learning.
Secret Scholars creator Warren Smith talks critical thinking, his viral student videos and firing, campus ideology, filmmaking and Churchill.
Dr. Mark Gordon and Joe Rogan on brain inflammation, TBI treatment and research fraud, then bears, alleged alien mummies, UFOs and privacy.
Rogan, Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir riff for hours on the LA fires, comedy history, fighting, gambling and show business.
Andrew Huberman explains how exercise boosts learning and protects the brain, and lays out five weekly training types for brain health.
Jordan Peterson and Andrew Huberman link brain circuits, biblical stories and prayer to addiction, purpose, and why responsibility is the real adventure.
Duncan Trussell and Joe Rogan's Christmas hang: telepathy, consciousness, drones, Biden, quantum computing, fatherhood, religion and farts in jars.
Andrew Huberman walks through his daily routine for learning and creativity, from morning light and delayed caffeine to NSDR and evening light.
Julian Lennon talks photography, the white feather sign from his father, anxiety, quitting smoking, UFOs and quantum computing with Joe Rogan.
DMT researcher Rick Strassman and Joe Rogan discuss psychedelics as amplifiers, reading Genesis in Hebrew, Neuralink, fluoride and faith after illness.
Tarantino and Avary revisit their video-store years, how they broke into film, why TV isn't cinema, and Avary's journey through prison.
Medical inventor Dr. Jeff Karp shares six simple tools he uses to break autopilot, focus attention, learn from failure and reconnect.
Psychologist Ethan Kross explains the inner voice, why chatter hurts, and tools like distanced self-talk, mental time travel, nature and WOOP.
Computational neuroscientist Terry Sejnowski on the brain's learning algorithm, learning how to learn, exercise for brain energy, and AI as a partner.
Andrew Huberman explains the nervous system's parts and functions, and how focus, sleep and 90-minute cycles drive adult neuroplasticity.
Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki explains how even a 10-minute walk changes mood, focus and memory, and shares a moving family story.
Mel Robbins breaks down six free daily habits from Warren Buffett, Taylor Swift, LeBron James, Sara Blakely, Shigeru Miyamoto and Jamie Kern Lima.
Andrew Huberman explains why testing yourself soon after learning halves forgetting, plus focus, sleep, study habits, emotion and interleaving tools.
Cannabis researcher Dr. Matthew Hill explains THC, CBD, the munchies, potency, edibles, psychosis and schizophrenia, and cannabis's real risks and uses.
Andrew Huberman and Lex Fridman talk creativity, the cannabis and math controversies, nicotine and peptides, sharks, psychedelics, family and deep work.