The Perfect Summary Podcast
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Matt Walsh and Joe Rogan discuss his film Am I Racist?, race hustlers, social media's toll, a moon landing debate, the Trump shooting and free speech.
Andrew Huberman explains the biology of ADHD and focus, from dopamine and brain networks to diet, supplements, drugs, blinking and smartphone limits.
Author Annaka Harris tells Lex Fridman why conscious will is an illusion, why consciousness might be fundamental, and how seeing through the self can ease suffering.
Former Navy SEAL and podcaster Shawn Ryan joins Joe Rogan on censorship, border security, China, UFOs, ibogaine and how his show began.
Mel Robbins shares a simple game for escaping a rut: build a list of new places and experiences in your own backyard and try one a week.
Grappling coach John Danaher explains how his team went from collapse to ADCC's best performance, why confidence comes from skill, and who wins lion vs. bear.
Israel Adesanya and Joe Rogan talk Pereira, weight cuts, MMA rule changes, fame, boundaries and what comes after fighting.
Ways2Well founder Brigham Buhler tells Joe Rogan about testifying to the Senate on chronic disease, pharma incentives, GLP-1s, hormones and AI care.
Conservationist Paul Rosolie tells Joe Rogan how Junglekeepers nearly doubled its protected Amazon forest, and what he has seen at the edge of the map.
Levy Rozman (GothamChess) walks Lex Fridman through the Niemann-Carlsen cheating saga, chess engines, online hate and his own darkest moments.
Huberman explains how dopamine peaks lower your baseline, and how cold water, intermittent rewards and loving effort keep motivation high.
Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Matthew Johnson explains how psilocybin, MDMA and other psychedelics are studied as treatments, and what the real risks are.
Ex-Secret Service polygrapher Evy Poumpouras teaches Mel Robbins how to read baselines, spot verbal red flags, own your voice and handle your stuff.
Harvard psychologist Dr. Susan David explains emotional agility: naming feelings precisely, setting kind boundaries, and meeting others' reactivity with calm.
For episode 1,000, Lewis Howes revisits standout moments from Robert Greene, Tony Robbins, David Goggins, Brené Brown and Chris Lee on mastery and growth.
Chess super grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura talks Magnus Carlsen, cheating, blitz intuition, openings, streaming, risk and why he 'literally doesn't care.'
Andrew Huberman explains why when you eat matters as much as what you eat, and how to build a time-restricted eating schedule that works for you.
Michael Shellenberger and Joe Rogan debate censorship, institutional failure and drug legalization, and discuss a new UAP whistleblower report.
MIT robot ethicist Kate Darling explains why robots are more like animals than humans, the risks of social robots, and what the Epstein scandal taught her.
Siblings Calley and Dr. Casey Means argue that chronic disease is metabolic, industry has captured US health institutions, and root causes are fixable.
In a seven-hour talk, Balaji Srinivasan argues that building new alternatives beats reforming broken institutions, from startup countries to crypto science.
Circadian scientist Samer Hattar explains how to time light, meals and exercise, his tripartite model, jet lag fixes and why daylight saving time hurts.
Dr. Jason Fung explains the diet and obesity links to cancer, why constant snacking fuels growth, and how fasting works and why it's free.
NYU professor Adam Alter shares a research-based roadmap for getting unstuck: find your friction, set a signal goal and take the smallest next step.
On his album release day, Jelly Roll talks with Joe Rogan about storytelling, sobriety, losing 100 pounds, imposter syndrome and why you can't cheat the game.
Wolf biologist Diane K. Boyd tells Joe Rogan what 40 years of wolf research reveals about dispersal, elk, reintroduction and living alone in the wild.
Ye talks design, Parler, fashion deals gone wrong and his family, as Lex Fridman repeatedly challenges his remarks about Jewish people.
Andrej Karpathy talks transformers, Software 2.0, Tesla's vision-only bet, Optimus, aliens, AGI and how he works and learns with Lex Fridman.
Andrew Huberman explains how the brain and immune system talk to each other, with tools from nasal breathing to cyclic hyperventilation and sauna.
Bioinformatics professor Dmitry Korkin explains protein domains, the SARS-CoV-2 shell, what AlphaFold 2 really solved, and the odds of alien life.