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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Cancer neurosurgeon Rahul Jandial shares his playbook for crisis, the daily breathing ritual he relies on, and what dying patients wish they had done.
Michael Pollan on the unsolved mystery of consciousness, plant awareness, chatbots that crowd out our inner lives, and the gut-brain link.
Yellowstone's Luke Grimes on stage fright, leaving Los Angeles for Montana, songwriting, elk hunting and what jiu-jitsu teaches.
Rick Perry and Bryan Hubbard report that Texas will fund $100 million of ibogaine drug trials, and make their case for the compound.
Shanna Swan explains her home plastic-detox study with infertile couples, where hormone-disrupting chemicals hide and what to swap.
Stanford's Tony Wyss-Coray explains how blood factors drive aging, how organs age at different rates and what is proven.
Dr. Andrew Weil shares his habits for protecting the brain, from the 4-7-8 breath and turmeric to social ties and psychedelics.
Dr. Richard Davidson explains how five minutes of daily meditation changes mind and body, and the four trainable pillars of flourishing.
Andrew Huberman condenses the science of sauna: how often, how hot and when, for heart health, growth hormone, stress and mood.
Joe Dispenza explains how he uses meditation to break old patterns and what he says his retreat research shows about self-healing.
John Fogerty tells how Proud Mary and Fortunate Son were written, and how lawsuits, lost savings and drinking nearly broke him.
Dr. Alex Marson explains how the immune system works, what raises cancer risk and how CRISPR-engineered T cells treat disease.
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains how childhood adversity wires the stress response and how buffering helps adults reset it.
Marc Breedlove explains what finger ratios, older brothers, rams and intersex conditions reveal about the biology of sexual orientation.
Rhonda Patrick details her training, fasting and supplement routine and the science linking gut, inflammation, visceral fat and aging.
David Cross and Joe Rogan revisit the Boston comedy boom, Mr. Show and NewsRadio, then worry about AI, kids online and war.
RZA talks his new film, Shaolin-style discipline, channeling anger into art, cobalt mining, quitting weed and why movies belong in theaters.
Fertility doctor Natalie Crawford on AMH testing, egg freezing myths, lifestyle and supplements, and what harms eggs and sperm.
Social scientist Kasley Killam explains why adult friendship feels hard, which reasons for cancelling are excuses, and small ways to reconnect.
Norman Ohler on methamphetamine in the Wehrmacht, Hitler's opioid use, the Berlin resistance, and how LSD went from Sandoz to the CIA.
Stanford epigenetics researcher Dr. Lucia Aronica explains which foods signal your genes and the kitchen tricks that unlock them.
John Hopfield explains associative memory, why feedback and collective behavior matter, and what biology does that AI still ignores.
Filmmaker Alex Garland on truly alien aliens, Ava's smile in Ex Machina, Silicon Valley's veneer of virtue, and a universe without free will.
John Wick director Chad Stahelski explains how the franchise was built, from stunts, dogs and gun work to editing, and what AI may mean for film.
MIT's Robert Langer on early rejection, starving tumors of blood, engineered tissue, patents, biotech startups, and why his students are his proudest work.
Jitendra Malik explains why vision is hard, why self-driving is far off, and why AI should learn the way children do.
Steven Pressfield on war as a metaphor for the inner fight, where Resistance comes from, serving the muse, and the daily routine of a working writer.
Ben Goertzel on where the term AGI came from, his OpenCog design, decentralized AI, the truth about Sophia the robot, and why death is bad.
Lex Fridman maps eight long-term futures for Neuralink, from easing suffering and telepathy to saved memories and merging with AI.
Daphne Koller on using stem cells and machine learning to find new drugs, lessons from Coursera, and why AI must know when it is unsure.