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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Mel Robbins coaches two listeners to name their inner critic, talk back to it and program a believable new mantra in its place.
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.
UFC middleweight Joe Pyfer tells Joe Rogan about his punch record, an abusive childhood, a career-threatening arm injury and fighting Jack Hermansson.
Old friends Jim Breuer and Joe Rogan riff on manipulative elites, 9/11 unity, farmers, monkey attacks, cars, 1960s music and psychedelic therapy.
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.
Olympic judo silver medalist Travis Stevens walks Lex Fridman through throws, weight cuts, injuries, a 2012 heartbreak and his 2016 comeback.
Retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink talks war's bonds and costs, leadership case studies of tech CEOs, humility, his 4 a.m. routine and jiu-jitsu.
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 redefines confidence as the willingness to try, busts three myths and shares five research-based tools to build it as a skill.
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.
Rob Lowe and Simon Sinek on risk-taking, surviving public humiliation, refusing to self-edit, and finding humor in life's hardest parts.
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.
UFC light heavyweight Khalil Rountree Jr. tells Joe Rogan about his DHEA suspension, Thai training, weight cutting and his dream fight with Alex Pereira.
Mel Robbins, her daughter Kendall and producer Amy explain how to pick a North Star and close the distance with emulate, assimilate, innovate.
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan and Joe Rogan talk 1883's brutal history, critics, hunting, energy, politics and why coexistence has to come back.
OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba on GPT-3, Codex and Copilot, the Rubik's cube robot hand, consciousness as compression, meditation and love.
Joe Rogan hangs with comics Dave Attell and Ian Fidance, riffing on aging, the opioid crisis, squatters, drones, wildlife and the old Boston comedy scene.
Rogan, Brian Simpson and a former UFC fighter watch UFC Saudi Arabia live, debating weight cutting, glove design, judging and the state of MMA.
Ron White and Joe Rogan riff on tour buses, golf and pool legends, starting a church, political tribalism and why the Comedy Mothership saved Ron.
Cyc founder Douglas Lenat explains how his team spent decades hand-encoding common sense so AI can reason, explain itself and stop making absurd mistakes.
Myron Golden on wealth as a matter of belief and identity, selling without chasing, faith, loss and raising capable kids.
Steven Bartlett shares how he makes decisions: question the story, use the 51% rule, move fast on reversible choices and reason from first principles.
Craig Jones brings a million dollars in cash to explain his rival grappling tournament, athlete pay, steroids, Volkanovski and his road through jiu-jitsu.
Tom Green tells Joe Rogan about life on his Canadian farm, a mule that reads his mind, a near-catastrophic burn in Costa Rica, and why he left Hollywood.