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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Max Holloway relives his last-second UFC 300 knockout of Justin Gaethje and talks mindset, video-game striking, rule changes and retiring on top.
Stylist Erin Walsh asks 'How do I want to feel?' before getting dressed, social psychologist Amy Cuddy explains postural feedback and expansive posture, and Vanessa Van Edwards teaches claiming space and using your hands to project and build confidence. Each treats clothing, stance and gesture as inputs you can set before a hard moment, which gives people something concrete to do when telling themselves to feel confident fails.
Joey Diaz and Joe Rogan riff on scams and charities, Aspen in the 80s, comedy as redemption, MMA, Jiu Jitsu at 61 and staying disciplined.
Mel Robbins argues that high-fiving your own reflection every morning can quiet self-criticism and teach you to back yourself the way you back everyone else.
Futurist Ray Kurzweil tells Joe Rogan why AI will match humans by 2029, how longevity escape velocity works, and why he sees the singularity as positive.
Mel Robbins and her daughter Kendall unpack a backstage bout of imposter syndrome and the mindset shifts that turned it into a breakthrough weekend.
Comedian Deric Poston and Joe Rogan celebrate Austin's comedy boom, the grind of stand-up, rooting for your friends, and a wild tour of history.
GSP, John Danaher and Gordon Ryan share what made them great: finding undervalued skills, balancing confidence and fear, and training smart.
Drybar founder Alli Webb shares how a stay-at-home mom built a blowout empire by trusting her gut, and why she ignored it in love.
Legendary founder Thomas Tull talks blockbusters, patient capital, AI in old industries, Warren Buffett, touring with the Rolling Stones and stoicism.
A journalist plugs his own nose for ten days to show why breathing slowly and through the nose may be one of the most overlooked foundations of health.
Mel Robbins coaches live callers on using the Let Them Theory with family peacekeeping, a critical mother-in-law, fixer habits, addiction and a hostile ex.
Gary Clark Jr. and Joe Rogan talk about his genre-defying album JPEG RAW, obsession, the music business, fame, Austin's growth and forgotten songs.
Coleman Hughes joins Joe Rogan on his colorblind book and The View clash, fear and greatness, chess cheating, Gaza, OpenAI and a future of superintelligence.
Gad Saad returns to Rogan for a tenth time to discuss antisemitism after October 7, suicidal empathy, stubborn minds, evolutionary psychology and AI.
Psychiatrist Dr. Paul Conti explains where negative self-talk comes from, how it ties to past trauma, and how curiosity can change it.
Olympic champion and Iowa head coach Tom Brands talks hatred of losing, repetition, mental toughness, weight cutting and his twin brother Terry.
Harvard physician John Abramson explains how drug companies control what doctors know, and what reforms could put health first.
Richard Feynman's last book of memories moves from a childhood of questions and a doomed love story to his investigation of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Steven Pressfield names the inner enemy that keeps us from our real work, Resistance, and shows how to beat it by turning pro and showing up every day.
A Nobel physicist's mischievous, curious, sometimes profound life stories, from cracking safes at Los Alamos to drumming samba in Brazil, ending with a famous warning against fooling yourself.
A Harvard-educated wanderer trains and fights his way through the world's toughest gyms to discover why people choose to fight, and what the fight teaches them.
Performance coach Todd Herman shows how a deliberately built 'secret identity' can bring your best self out in the moments that matter most.
A busy sports columnist reunites with his dying college professor for weekly Tuesday visits, and their conversations become a final class on how to live.
Legendary sports bettor Billy Walters explains how he beats the line, why casual bettors lose, and his fight against the case that sent him to prison.
Harvard psychologist Dr. Luana Marques coaches Mel Robbins through a family transition and shares a 3-step method for facing change: shift, approach, align.
Mel Robbins turns a hilarious bodysuit wardrobe failure at an art event into a lesson on why laughing at yourself builds bonds, confidence and respect.
Author Will Storr explains how our hidden hunger for connection and status shapes cults, ideologies, economies, social media and mental health.
Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines tells Joe Rogan how tying Lia Thomas at the NCAA championships turned her into an activist for single-sex sports.
Royce Gracie looks back on UFC 1, his father's defensive philosophy, fight rules, discipline, bow hunting and his move to Florida.