The Perfect Summary Podcast

Michael Kosta and Joe Rogan talk joke writing, tennis and grit, knockouts, the Comedy Mothership, free speech, sauna habits and AI.

Mel Robbins explains why decision fatigue keeps you up late and shares a five-step evening routine you can do on autopilot.

Orthopedic surgeon Vonda Wright argues frailty is not inevitable and lays out her walk, sprint, lift and balance routine.

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.

Mel Robbins explains how the attention economy turns you into big tech's tool, what it costs your dopamine, and the boundaries that win your time back.

Pulmonologist Dr. Roger Seheult explains how sunlight, heat, cold, NAC, fresh air and darkness at night support immunity and faster recovery from colds and flu.

Mel Robbins' seven-item weekly checklist: brain dump, cross off, a hot 15, one meal, one workout, real rest and one connection.

Mel Robbins shares five science-backed ways to stop your brain turning on you, from giving it a project to looking for hearts and manifesting.

Dr. Rangan Chatterjee simplifies health into four pillars, with a 5-minute kitchen workout, the 3 Fs for cravings, and lessons on caregiving.

Felipe Esparza and Joe Rogan riff on old-school comedy, Hendrix and Elvis, 1800s sewage, toxic candles, prions, mercury tombs and more.

Pavel Tsatsouline explains strength as a skill: greasing the groove, avoiding failure, anti-glycolytic endurance and breathing for power.

Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer explains how noticing, uncertainty and mind-body unity can change healing, aging, stress and daily life.

Chess prodigy turned martial arts champion and coach Josh Waitzkin shares how loss, fear, empty space and a daily "most important question" drive learning.

Harvard addiction doctor Sarah Wakeman explains what alcohol does to your liver, brain, sleep, and hormones, and how to cut back or help someone you love.

Andrew Huberman explains dopamine's pleasure-pain balance, the here-and-now molecules, procrastination, and how intermittent rewards sustain motivation.

Secret Scholars creator Warren Smith talks critical thinking, his viral student videos and firing, campus ideology, filmmaking and Churchill.

Mel Robbins explains seven reasons mornings feel hard and a 15-minute, six-step routine: get up, make the bed, high five, water, light, walk.

Andrew Huberman explains how exercise boosts learning and protects the brain, and lays out five weekly training types for brain health.

Physician-scientist Dr. William Li explains how body fat works, which everyday foods help burn it, what to avoid and simple eating habits to start now.

Andrew Huberman explains why pain is a perception, how love and belief blunt it, and a sleep, walking and heat protocol for faster healing.

Mel Robbins walks through the seven-question yearly audit she has used for 20 years, sharing her own answers, to plan a better year.

Andrew Huberman walks through his daily routine for learning and creativity, from morning light and delayed caffeine to NSDR and evening light.

Yale's Laurie Santos explains what really makes us happier: real-time connection, delight, contrast, time affluence, strengths and helping others.

Julian Lennon talks photography, the white feather sign from his father, anxiety, quitting smoking, UFOs and quantum computing with Joe Rogan.

Physical therapist Dr. Kelly Starrett shares low-cost tools for mobility, posture, pain, pelvic floor health, warm-ups, recovery and sustainable training.

Mel Robbins redefines confidence as the willingness to try, debunks three myths and shares five tools to build it as a skill.

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.

Mel Robbins and Dr. Scott Lyons explain why constant busyness is an addiction rooted in avoidance, and how to start slowing down.