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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Dostoevsky's final masterpiece: a murder in a provincial Russian family becomes a battle over God, freedom, suffering and love.
Investor and writer Nic Carter explains Bitcoin's values, the blocksize war, layered scaling, energy critiques, Ethereum, Dogecoin and NFTs.
Ina Garten on leaving a White House budget job for a tiny food store, working scared, and building a life around what's fun.
Chuck Lorre and Joe Rogan on the fading multi-cam sitcom, difficult stars, a decade in Scientology, and why success never fills the hole inside.
Joe Rogan and fitness educator Derek discuss steroids, the Enhanced Games, stem cells, carnivore eating, dating apps, plastic surgery and Scientology.
A pregnant Whitney Cummings and Joe Rogan riff on birth control, toxic chemicals, online depravity, coyotes, the Mothership and free speech in comedy.
Jim Norton and Joe Rogan talk honesty in comedy, Andrew Dice Clay, radio's wild days, a lawsuit that turned deadly, jiu-jitsu, diet and UFOs.
UT Austin's Risto Miikkulainen explains how evolutionary algorithms discover surprising solutions, from sleepless basil to scheming robots.
Joe Rogan, Eddie Bravo, Joey Diaz and Brendan Schaub call UFC 297, from Evloev-Allen to Du Plessis edging Strickland by split decision.
Rogan, Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir drink through five chaotic hours of JFK theories, SNL, comedy clubs, fights and friendship.
Comedian Yannis Pappas shares how EMDR therapy is helping his panic attacks, then riffs with Joe Rogan on propaganda, AI, politics and being a dad.
Joe Rogan and Joey Diaz trade recovery tips, wild life stories and politics, then reflect on the Comedy Store and Joey's plan for a stand-up residency.
Comedian Moshe Kasher tells Joe Rogan the history of sign language, growing up with deaf parents and Hasidic family, and why destiny only shows in hindsight.
Michael Malice and Lex Fridman debate anarchism and voting, and discuss heroism under totalitarianism, cynicism and the family history behind their joy.
Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek on why the world is comprehensible, asymptotic freedom, axions as dark matter, time crystals, complementarity and aliens.
Rogan and Shane Gillis riff on workouts, cold plunges, Vikings, World War One, Goya's black paintings, JFK doubts and the greatest MMA moments.
Author and podcaster Rob Reid explains why synthetic biology is our nearest existential risk and how cheap defenses could neutralize it.
Belcampo co-founder Anya Fernald explains how to cook meat well, what regenerative and humane farming mean, and why simple food wins.
Brian Muraresku and Lex Fridman trace psychedelic wine and beer through ancient Greece, Eleusis and early Christianity, and ask what it means today.
Coach John Danaher explains how he builds champions: escapes first, heuristics over details, smart drilling, leg-lock control and five-year reinvention.
Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of The Black Keys join Joe Rogan to talk about their new album, Memphis tape rap, cults, chemicals and UFOs.
Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach argues we live inside a dream our brains generate, and explores free will, suffering, GPT-3, ideology and love.
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson explains proof of stake, extended UTXO, governance, Ethiopia and why crypto should give everyone fair access.
Old friends Jim Breuer and Joe Rogan riff on manipulative elites, 9/11 unity, farmers, monkey attacks, cars, 1960s music and psychedelic therapy.
Religious studies professor Diana Walsh Pasulka tells Joe Rogan about a New Mexico crash site, the Vatican archives and why UFO encounters echo mysticism.
North Korean defector Yeonmi Park tells Lex Fridman about life under the Kims, being trafficked in China, discovering love and freedom, and China's role.
RZA talks with Lex Fridman about losing his mother, kung fu wisdom, hip-hop greats, Allah, filmmaking, veganism, chess and life's meaning.
Harvard physicist Cumrun Vafa walks Lex Fridman through physics history, how to picture ten dimensions, string theory's evidence and the swampland.
Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains how 150,000 cortical columns vote to build our model of the world, and why he thinks intelligent machines won't turn on us.
Amanda Rizkalla tells Oprah how her teenage experience of losing housing shaped Hungered, the 125th Oprah's Book Club pick.