The Perfect Summary Podcast
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Computer scientist and game pioneer Rizwan Virk explains why we may live in a simulation and what it could mean for religion, memory and UFOs.
The Triggernometry hosts and Joe Rogan riff on conflict, parenthood, sex robots and AI, free speech, JFK, protests and why collaboration beats competition.
Physicist Brian Greene and Lex Fridman explore meaning in a dying universe, consciousness, string theory, time travel, aliens and the fear of death.
Rabbi David Wolpe talks with Lex Fridman about who God is, debating Hitchens and Harris, evil, free will, faith, controversy and meaning.
Mark Zuckerberg discusses the metaverse, polarization research, the Instagram whistleblower, free speech, AI translation and raising his daughters.
Dr. Mindy Pelz explains metabolic switching and the six fasting lengths, from 12 hours to 72, and what each is said to do for the body.
Chemist Lee Cronin explains assembly theory, why life may be common but alien, why time is fundamental, and how robots can program chemistry.
Joe Rogan and Kill Tony co-host Brian Redban riff on AI, comedy writing, Kill Tony's arena success, leaded gas, microplastics, lab-grown meat and EVs.
Gladstone AI founders Jeremie and Edouard Harris explain why AI scaling alarmed them, what lab insiders fear, and how government should respond.
Actor Terrence Howard lays out his self-developed theories rejecting straight lines, gravity and standard physics, plus his patents, Iron Man and life advice.
Stanford psychiatrist and optogenetics pioneer Karl Deisseroth explores what mental illness reveals about the mind, from depression to consciousness.
Salk Institute scientist Satchin Panda argues that when you eat, sleep, see light and move matters as much as what you do, and shows how to reset the body's internal clocks.
A lawyer turned amateur classicist argues that the ancient Greek Mysteries, and perhaps the earliest Christian Eucharist, were powered by psychedelic sacraments that let initiates 'die before dying.'
Stress scientist Elissa Epel explains how to turn threat into challenge, protect your cells from chronic stress, and drop the rope on what you can't change.
LL Cool J tells Joe Rogan about launching Def Jam at 16, starting jiu-jitsu, the language of success, Musashi, lost civilizations, and AI.
Former Navy SEAL and novelist Jack Carr talks writing, his Beirut bombing history, AI weapons, D-Day, UFOs and JFK with Joe Rogan.
Impractical Jokers star Sal Vulcano and Joe Rogan riff on ADHD, dangerous animals, a near plane crash, AI anxiety, and the comics who built stand-up.
Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell riff on AI, war, algorithms, psychedelics, Satanism and Jesus, landing on love as the answer to fear.
Tony Hinchcliffe and Joe Rogan riff on sudden fame after the Tom Brady roast, Kill Tony, Austin comedy, politics, COVID, markets and AI.
UFC pioneer Tank Abbott tells Joe Rogan wild stories from MMA's no-rules era, explains fighter's fortitude, and recounts nearly dying before two transplants.
Cornell geneticist Chris Mason on what space does to the body, engineering humans for other worlds, and our duty to protect life.
Astrobiologist Sara Walker and chemist Lee Cronin debate alien life, assembly theory, time, free will and whether robots can truly be alive.
Max Lugavere tells Joe Rogan why dementia starts in midlife and how diet, exercise, toxins and air pollution affect your risk.
OB-GYN Dr. Mary Claire Haver explains how estrogen loss affects every organ and shares her toolkit for perimenopause and menopause.
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues evolution tuned our senses for fitness, not truth, and that consciousness, not spacetime, is fundamental.
Economist Robin Hanson explains his grabby aliens model, a UFO hypothesis, hidden motives in the brain, prediction markets and our far future.
Sebastian Junger tells Joe Rogan how a ruptured aneurysm nearly killed him, the vision of his dead father, and what it taught him about life.
Journalist Annie Jacobsen explains how a nuclear war could kill billions in 72 minutes, while Joe Rogan explores AI, ideas and humanity's future.
Physician Jonathan Reisman tours the weird, gross and wonderful human body, from the throat's flawed design to Arctic whale blubber and ER life.
The director of Harvard's 86-year study explains why warm relationships, not money or status, predict a long, healthy, happy life.