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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Sex neuroscientist Debra Soh and Joe Rogan discuss ideology in academia, dating in the app era, sex robots, social media's toll on kids and trust in media.
Mel Robbins shares simple tools to keep other people's bad moods off you, win over grumpy colleagues, stop gossiping and spread good energy.
Mel Robbins uses an ocean metaphor and happiness research to explain three ways to be happier now: more fun, warm relationships and presence.
After a day at the Staccato factory, Joe Rogan and Colion Noir talk carry habits, self-defense law, cars, family courts and gun-control narratives.
UT Austin's Risto Miikkulainen explains how evolutionary algorithms discover surprising solutions, from sleepless basil to scheming robots.
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.
Mel Robbins records a stressful morning in real time, then unpacks with husband Chris why she overfunctions under stress and he underfunctions.
Author and podcaster Rob Reid explains why synthetic biology is our nearest existential risk and how cheap defenses could neutralize it.
Ramit Sethi and Mel Robbins trade budgets for money dials, a 10-year bucket list and four key numbers that define a rich life.
Mel Robbins and Dr. Nicole LePera explain why many people remember little of childhood, how it links to trauma, and a daily first step toward healing.
Belcampo co-founder Anya Fernald explains how to cook meat well, what regenerative and humane farming mean, and why simple food wins.
Coach John Danaher explains how he builds champions: escapes first, heuristics over details, smart drilling, leg-lock control and five-year reinvention.
Mel Robbins and her team share hilarious stories and four rules for caring less about others' opinions and more about what you actually value.
Mel Robbins coaches two listeners to name their inner critic, talk back to it and program a believable new mantra in its place.
Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach argues we live inside a dream our brains generate, and explores free will, suffering, GPT-3, ideology and love.
Mel Robbins' 17-year-old son Oakley opens up about two anxiety breakdowns, the scary thoughts he hid, and how therapy helped him heal.
Roboticist Rodney Brooks and Lex Fridman debate AI hype, self-driving cars, whether computation is the right metaphor, and lessons from iRobot and Rethink.
RZA talks with Lex Fridman about losing his mother, kung fu wisdom, hip-hop greats, Allah, filmmaking, veganism, chess and life's meaning.
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.
Mel Robbins coaches four listeners through hard conversations and shares her six-step formula, from knowing your why to validating and setting boundaries.
Divorce lawyer James Sexton explains why marriage is a technology with tradeoffs and how candor about sex and money keeps couples together.
Amanda Rizkalla tells Oprah how her teenage experience of losing housing shaped Hungered, the 125th Oprah's Book Club pick.
Psychotherapist Amy Morin and Simon Sinek treat mental strength as a daily practice and share small, practical moves for bad days.
Emory professor Marina Cooley explains how to get noticed at work and beyond: sticky ideas, sharing wins without cringe, and meeting prep that pays off.
Arthur Brooks and Simon Sinek on the 80/20/0 gut check, careers as spirals, the arrival fallacy, and why AI may erode the struggle that builds wisdom.
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal trace Disney from its 1984 near-breakup through Eisner, Pixar, ESPN, and Iger to the Disney+ streaming era.
Simon Sinek and Oprah on finding your why, real optimism vs. positivity, the 'great rebalancing' of work, and the friend test for purpose.
Esther Perel on how love and work turned happiness from a perk into the glue, why play matters, and why Gen Z should talk to strangers.
Stanford urologist Dr. Michael Eisenberg explains testosterone, erectile dysfunction, male fertility, and prostate health as windows into a man's overall health.
Mel Robbins, her daughter Kendall and producer Amy explain how to pick a North Star and close the distance with emulate, assimilate, innovate.