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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Evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains what men and women want in mates, why we get jealous, and how evolution shapes love and conflict.
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.
Old friends Joe Rogan and Bobby Lee finally sit down to talk relapse, 90s Comedy Store tales, writing habits, Star Trek, politics and why podcasts changed comedy.
Comedian Chad Daniels and Joe Rogan cover where jokes come from, funerals, comics lost too soon, Tyson's rise, pool, free speech, Bigfoot and the simulation.
Grimes talks with Lex Fridman about music production, becoming a mother, optimistic futures, AI, consciousness and why we are now Homo techno.
Dr. Ramani explains narcissism as a rigid personality style built on entitlement, busts four myths, and shows how to spot love bombing early.
Mel Robbins walks through six findings on who we spend time with across life, and how to be intentional with family, friends, partners, kids and yourself.
Comedian and novelist Sam Tallent talks touring the world, punk-rock work ethic, the muse, cults, money guilt and politics with Joe Rogan.
Comic Tyler Fischer tells Joe Rogan about his wild youth, losing work in the pandemic, a discrimination lawsuit and finding freedom at the Mothership.
Neuralink's first human patient explains how he moves a cursor with his thoughts, what went wrong, and why he chose to go first.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon explains 5G, how Snapdragon packs a computer into a phone, the chip shortage, and Qualcomm's push into cars and PCs.
Comedian Bobby Lee mixes absurd humor with raw honesty about his father, a recent relapse, recovery, love with Khalyla and finding wonder in life.
Victoria Aveyard's farewell to the Red Queen world: five novellas and a scholar's records that trace a kingdom from its apocalyptic birth to the hard, hopeful work of peace.
Matthew Vines argues, passage by passage, that Christians who hold the Bible as fully authoritative can also bless committed same-sex relationships.
Victoria Aveyard's farewell to the Red Queen world: five novellas and a scholar's records that trace a kingdom from its apocalyptic birth to the hard, hopeful work of peace.
A New Testament scholar keeps the traditional Christian view of sex and marriage while telling the church its treatment of gay people has to change.
Secret Service polygraph examiner Brad Beeler says you get the truth by making disclosure feel safe, not by cornering people, the Robbins family's rule is that no one ever gets in trouble for telling the truth, and psychologist Michael Slepian explains how to keep the door open so kids confide their secrets. From interrogation rooms to kitchen tables, reacting harshly to an admission teaches people to hide the next one.
In these four conversations, love clearly turned a life around only for KGB illegal Jack Barsky. For veteran Kelsi Sheren it kept her alive until treatment helped, for smuggler Roger Reaves it waited out a career that prison ended, and for fraudster Brett Johnson it was first an excuse for crime and later one of several lifelines, alongside responsibility and therapy.
Jefferson Fisher says to apologize for what your stress did to the other person, not for being stressed, Becky Kennedy lays out the anatomy of a good apology, Esther Perel links apology to accountability and forgiveness, Lori Gottlieb separates shame from guilt in apologizing, and the Robbins kids credit their parents for apologizing fast. Knowing what an apology has to include stops people from offering excuses that leave the other person more hurt.
Five experts approach pornography from different angles. Urologist Rena Malik treats it as a habit to manage, sex therapist Laura Berman as miseducation that honest conversation can correct, Pastor Michael Todd as an addiction that grows in isolation and is undone by transparency, evolutionary psychologist David Buss as a product that exploits an evolved desire, and psychologist Dr. Shefali Tsabary as a force shaping children before they meet real intimacy. They largely agree that porn is a poor teacher, and they divide over whether ordinary use is a problem at all.
Donald Knuth recalls his first programs, literate programming, John Conway, the giant component problem, open source and staying curious.
Joe Rogan, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura and Ari Shaffir reunite in suits for a rowdy hang about ski wipeouts, fame, fighting, forgiveness and ancient civilizations.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz range from power and media incentives to discipline, vaccines, UFO lore, American pride and why joke thieves fail.
Old friends Kevin James and Joe Rogan talk early comedy days, stage anxiety, writing, a 41-day fast, his daughter's recovery and self-discipline.
In a kingdom split by blood, a poor Red thief discovers she has a power only the ruling Silvers should have, and is hidden at the heart of their court.
Texas rapper That Mexican OT tells Joe Rogan about a wild Bay City childhood, rapping since age four, gratitude, and why his next project is called Recess.
The FBI's former top kidnapping negotiator shows how listening, labeling emotions and asking the right questions win better deals than compromise.
Cognitive scientist Jay McClelland recalls the birth of neural networks with Rumelhart and Hinton and explains how mind emerges from simple units.
Comedian Fahim Anwar and Joe Rogan talk self-released specials, his alter ego Lance, parents, shadowbans, toxoplasmosis, Fear Factor and Muhammad Ali.