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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The twin directors of Talk to Me tell Joe Rogan about drug trials, car-hit stunts, their indie horror hit, practical effects and a deathmatch wrestling documentary.
Online business expert Amy Porterfield coaches Mel Robbins' listeners on finding a starter idea, unbossing themselves and building a side hustle.
Joe Rogan and Kill Tony host Tony Hinchcliffe riff on bears, wrestling, AI, San Francisco, wolves in Colorado and the Austin comedy family.
Neuralink neurosurgeon Matt MacDougall explains brain implants for paralysis, robotic electrode surgery, animal research, and a sci-fi future for cognition.
Psychiatrist Daniel Amen shares simple habits, supplements, a calming breath and brain foods to boost dopamine, serotonin and brain health.
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.
Dr. Russell Kennedy tells Mel Robbins why anxiety is alarm stored in the body, and how younger-self work can heal it rather than just cope with it.
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.
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.
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.
Old friends Jim Breuer and Joe Rogan riff on manipulative elites, 9/11 unity, farmers, monkey attacks, cars, 1960s music and psychedelic therapy.
Michael Pollan traces the first wave of psychedelic research from its promise to its crack-up, Rick Doblin tells Lex Fridman about Timothy Leary and the Good Friday Experiment and tells Joe Rogan about the honest follow-ups of the Good Friday and Concord Prison studies, Norman Ohler explains why LSD was banned, and Dr. Mark Gordon discusses psychedelics, veterans and the 1970 drug laws. Knowing how the first wave of research began and ended gives context for the psychedelic trials being run today.
David Eagleman explains why time seems to slow down during a fall, and Andrew Huberman answers a live audience question on why time speeds up and slows down and links blinking to time perception in his ADHD episode. Together they treat the sense of time as something the brain produces, which helps explain why the same hour can feel endless or vanish.
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.
Amanda Rizkalla tells Oprah how her teenage experience of losing housing shaped Hungered, the 125th Oprah's Book Club pick.
Rob Lowe and Simon Sinek on risk-taking, surviving public humiliation, refusing to self-edit, and finding humor in life's hardest parts.
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal trace Disney from its 1984 near-breakup through Eisner, Pixar, ESPN, and Iger to the Disney+ streaming era.