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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Michael Bungay Stanier shares the questions and habits that turn conversations into deep, safe, and repairable relationships at work and in love.
Josh Brolin and Joe Rogan talk wild living, writing his memoir, money and ego, Hunter S. Thompson, comedy, fighters, and No Country for Old Men.
Mel Robbins gives four research-backed reasons fall beats January for change, and how to use the last four months of the year for yourself.
Mel Robbins answers listener questions with happiness research: stop chasing 'I'll be happy when,' prioritize fun, warm relationships and presence.
Astrobiologist Betül Kaçar explains life's ancient translation machinery, resurrecting billion-year-old genes, and whether we should seed other planets.
Marc Andreessen tells Joe Rogan how censorship, debanking, and planned AI controls pushed him away from the Democrats, and why he feels hopeful now.
Price Pritchett explains quantum leaps, the five C's of hidden negative thinking, and why changing your approach beats trying harder.
Astronomer David Kipping and Lex Fridman discuss exomoons, the hunt for life, technosignatures, the Fermi paradox, AI and the simulation argument.
Neuroscientist Emily McDonald explains how identity, belief, and nervous system state shape what we perceive, choose, and ultimately manifest.
Psychiatrist Paul Conti explains what trauma is, why guilt and shame keep it hidden, how to find good therapy, and when medicines and psychedelics help.
Everyday Astronaut Tim Dodd explains SpaceX's rockets, engine cycles, Starship's belly flop, Soviet engine history and why he's joining dearMoon.
George Kamel explains why 40% of $500K earners live paycheck to paycheck and how adding friction to spending builds real wealth and peace.
Movement teacher Ido Portal and Andrew Huberman explore movement as a whole-life practice: play, failure, squatting, spinal waves, vision, touch and variety.
Psychiatrist Paul Conti and Lex Fridman explore envy as the engine of evil, narcissism, trauma, therapy, emotion over logic, and living a good life.
Mel Robbins shares nine simple, easy-to-remember habits for mindset, sleep, stress, clutter, spending and connection that you can start today.
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.
Harvard physicist Andrew Strominger explains black holes, string theory, holography, soft hair, and photon rings, and why now is a great time for physics.
Life coach Martha Beck coaches Mel Robbins live on getting unstuck, tracking joy toward your purpose, and using creativity to quiet anxiety.
Wait But Why's Tim Urban explains his Ladder framework for how we think, echo chambers versus idea labs, power games, cancel culture and procrastination.
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.
NYU psychologist Emily Balcetis explains how narrowing your visual focus, planning for obstacles and tracking data help you reach physical and mental goals.
Lewis Howes explains five mindset shifts for overthinkers, from trusting yourself to acting as your future self, plus a 30-day challenge.
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.
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.
Conservationist Paul Rosolie tells Lex Fridman about anacondas, jaguars, uncontacted tribes, gold mining, ayahuasca and saving the Amazon.