The Perfect Summary Podcast

Dr. Andrew Weil shares his habits for protecting the brain, from the 4-7-8 breath and turmeric to social ties and psychedelics.

Dan Martell shares how he went from juvenile detention and near suicide to faith, self-acceptance and optimism about AI.

Dean Graziosi on choosing your focus, acting before you feel ready, raising driven kids and a simple way to start using AI.

Emma Grede on turning a tough East London childhood into self-belief, managing anger, asking for money and choosing trade-offs.

Bob Lazar and filmmaker Luigi Vendittelli revisit his S4 claims, the craft's strange technology and doubts about disclosure.

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.

John Fogerty tells how Proud Mary and Fortunate Son were written, and how lawsuits, lost savings and drinking nearly broke him.

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains how childhood adversity wires the stress response and how buffering helps adults reset it.

Paralympic medalist Amy Purdy on refusing to be a victim, a second devastating injury, and falling in love with the process.

Australian comic James McCann on losing a job mid-move to Ohio, finding his feet in Austin, Australian gatekeeping, and AI worries.

Luis J. Gomez and Joe Rogan riff on outrage culture, independent platforms, AI, wealth, odd laws, lucid dreams and ibogaine.

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.

Criminal psychologist Julia Shaw on why nobody is born evil, what really drives murder, how false memories form, and green crime.

Snowboarder Chloe Kim on competing with a dislocating shoulder, her father's all-in bet, therapy, a new ADHD diagnosis and self-worth.

Marc Brackett explains what emotion regulation really is, why no emotion is bad, and tools like the Meta-Moment and precise labeling.

Norman Ohler on methamphetamine in the Wehrmacht, Hitler's opioid use, the Berlin resistance, and how LSD went from Sandoz to the CIA.

John Hopfield explains associative memory, why feedback and collective behavior matter, and what biology does that AI still ignores.

Philosopher Nick Bostrom walks through the simulation argument step by step, then turns to the promise and risk of superintelligent AI.

Richard Dawkins on why evolution is wasteful yet brilliant, how memes spread, where morals come from, and why even a simulator needs explaining.

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.

Howie Mandel tells Joe Rogan how a dare made him a comic, how he copes with OCD and depression, and why he embraces AI while Rogan worries.

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.

Jitendra Malik explains why vision is hard, why self-driving is far off, and why AI should learn the way children do.

OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever explains why deep learning keeps exceeding expectations, what GPT-2 shows, and how AGI should be built and governed.

Stephen Wolfram explains why simple rules produce endless complexity, and how that idea drives his hunt for the rule behind physics.

Bioinformatics professor Dmitry Korkin explains how his lab modeled the new coronavirus's proteins and what that reveals for drugs and vaccines.

Ms. Pat tells Joe Rogan how she turned a brutal childhood into a hit sitcom, a tour and a family, with plenty of jokes along the way.

Joscha Bach tells Lex Fridman why the self is a story the brain tells itself, what consciousness is for, and why civilization may not last.