The Perfect Summary Podcast
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Stanford psychologist Alia Crum explains how beliefs about food, exercise, stress, and side effects change what happens in the body.
Senator John Fetterman talks with Joe Rogan about surviving a stroke, his fight with depression, campaign money, immigration, energy, and food.
Matthew Hussey joins Mel Robbins to answer listener questions on taking partners for granted, compromise, hard conversations and dating without burning out.
Former FBI cyber agent Chris Tarbell tells Lex Fridman how he caught Ross Ulbricht and Sabu, and what cybercrime teaches about security and humanity.
Python creator Guido van Rossum explains readability, the 3.11 speedup, type hints, the GIL, Python 4, Copilot and stepping down as BDFL.
Mel Robbins draws five life lessons from the Paris Olympics: feel your visualization, compare down, stay enthusiastic, quit wisely and know what you want.
Andrew Huberman explains why low-stakes play is a powerful portal to neuroplasticity for children and adults, and how to add an hour of play a week.
The day after the 2024 election, libertarian comic Dave Smith and Joe Rogan dissect Trump's win, media lies, war, abortion and psychedelic therapy.
Recorded on election day 2024, Joe Rogan and comedian Tim Dillon riff on the race, the media, foreign money, AI and the future of humans.
Huberman explains how light, screen height, posture, ceiling height, sound, and movement can tune your brain for focused or creative work.
Bethesda's Todd Howard on simulated worlds, reactive NPCs, Starfield's planets, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, mods and loving what you make.
Andrew Huberman explains how childhood attachment, the autonomic nervous system, empathy and positive delusion shape desire, love and lasting bonds.
Roger Gracie breaks down his win over Buchecha, why mount beats back control, practicing your weaknesses, and never quitting.
Mel Robbins runs a workshop on the Five Whys, with her sister-in-law and daughter showing how the surface want often hides a deeper one.
Meta AI's Noam Brown explains how Libratus and Pluribus beat poker pros and how Cicero learned to negotiate with humans in Diplomacy.
Stanford microbiologist Justin Sonnenburg explains the gut microbiome and why fermented foods, plant fiber and less processed food support it.
Days after the 2024 election, Joe Rogan and Theo Von riff on politics, cops, Maui, MMA greats, pythons and why comedians need each other.
Fraud investigator Coffeezilla breaks down the FTX collapse, SafeMoon, MLMs and fake gurus, and what it takes to hold powerful people to account.
Comic Adrienne Iapalucci and Joe Rogan riff on gambling, quitting sugar, prisons, Genghis Khan, brain injuries and her Netflix special The Dark Queen.
Stanford psychiatrist David Spiegel explains the brain science of hypnosis and how self-hypnosis can ease stress, pain, insomnia, phobias and trauma.
Harvard stress expert Dr. Aditi Nerurkar shares simple habits, from shopping the grocery perimeter to a fake commute, that lower stress fast.
Former Mexican counter-narcotics officer Ed Calderon explains how cartels, corruption and fentanyl work, and what surviving violence and PTSD taught him.
Green Beret, CIA veteran and Black Rifle Coffee founder Evan Hafer on war's hidden costs, psychedelic healing for vets, and bowhunting.
Civil rights attorney Josh Dubin reflects on a former client's alleged killing, lays out the Ohio 4 case, and talks justice and politics with Rogan.
Michael Malice and Lex Fridman, in Santa suits, trace Soviet terror from Lenin to Gorbachev and argue that cynicism is a choice, not realism.
Andrew Huberman explains how the brain senses salt, how sodium drives thirst, stress and neuron firing, and how to find the salt intake that fits you.
Exercise scientist Andy Galpin gives clear protocols for strength, hypertrophy and endurance, plus hydration, cold, heat, recovery and supplements.
Comedian Jeff Dye and Joe Rogan riff on discipline, self-improvement, group thinking, politics, cowboys and the craft of stand-up.
Mel Robbins distills expert advice into three basics: breathe through your nose, add 5,000 steps a day, and work with your body clock to sleep.
Dr. Rhonda Patrick explains sulforaphane, omega-3s, vitamin D, magnesium, cold exposure and sauna, with the doses and protocols she uses herself.