The Perfect Summary Podcast
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Barbara Kingsolver moves David Copperfield to the mountains of Virginia, where a red-haired boy nobody wants narrates his way through foster care, football glory and the opioid epidemic.
A mortal huntress kills a wolf that was really a faerie and is taken across the wall to a masked lord's enchanted, cursed court.
Chris Lee's seven steps for breakdowns: accept, take responsibility, process emotion, forgive, recommit, act with support, celebrate.
Five river children are stolen for a corrupt Memphis adoption home in 1939, and decades later a senator's daughter uncovers the trail.
Bill Perkins argues that money is only worth the experiences it buys, so the goal is to spend it, and give it, while you are alive and able to enjoy it.
A fragile would-be scribe is forced into a murderous war college for dragon riders, where her wits, two dragons and her family's sworn enemy become her only way to survive.
A thirteen-year-old whose mother is gravely ill is visited at 12:07 by a monster made from a yew tree, who trades three stories for the one truth the boy cannot say.
A high school boy spends one night listening to cassette tapes left by a classmate who took her own life, each side naming a person who played a part.
Simon Sinek argues that the leaders and companies who earn real loyalty all communicate the same way: purpose first, product last.
A teen search-and-rescue volunteer in Portland becomes the prime suspect in a murder, and his two friends race to clear his name.
The true story of how Evansville, Indiana lost nearly its entire college basketball team in a 1977 plane crash and how the city and its Aces rebuilt, all the way to the 1982 NCAA tournament.
James Clear's case that tiny daily habits, backed by good systems and a new sense of identity, compound into remarkable change.
In 1975 Missouri a one-eyed boy saves a girl from abduction and is taken himself, and the friend who refuses to stop looking for him spends decades chasing the truth.
A retired Navy SEAL and ultramarathon runner tells how he turned an abused, overweight, aimless young man into one of the toughest people alive, and hands over the mental tools he used.
Abandoned as a child in the North Carolina marsh, Kya raises herself among the gulls and tides, until the town's golden boy turns up dead and she is the one accused.
A wealthy family, a private island, four inseparable teenagers, and one summer the narrator cannot remember, however hard she tries.
Pema Chödrön's Buddhist advice for hard times: stop running from pain and uncertainty, move toward them with curiosity and kindness, and find peace right there.
A quantum physicist asks how atoms can add up to a living thing, and his answers, an aperiodic crystal carrying a code-script and life feeding on negative entropy, help launch molecular biology.
What the centenarians of an Okinawan village can teach the rest of us about purpose, calm, food, friends and a reason to get up in the morning.
Shiv Khera's step-by-step case that success is learned: begin with attitude, then build self-esteem, people skills, habits, goals and values on top of it.
In a world where career advice often sounds generic, intimidating, or completely out of touch with reality, this episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast delivers something radically different: data-driven strategies that are both empowering and immediately usable. Mel sits down with…
Sex educator Emily Nagoski uses the science of accelerators, brakes and context to show women that their sexuality is not broken, only theirs.
Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5 on hitchhiking, All Gas No Brakes, filming January 6, the Alex Jones backlash, and facing his own low point.
Comedian Kurt Metzger and Joe Rogan riff on meme coins, Social Security, CIA ops, Jehovah's Witnesses, Neanderthals, paid protests and soda money.
Retired FBI undercover agent Scott Payne recounts infiltrating the Outlaws biker club and the neo-Nazi group the Base, and the toll it took.
Big Jay Oakerson and Joe Rogan riff on stand-up's evolution, reading the room, hecklers, Hollywood side gigs and street-fight bravado.
Triggernometry's hosts and Joe Rogan on tribal politics, paid protests, DOGE, deportations, free speech and why any power granted can be abused.
Douglas Murray and Lex Fridman debate peace in Ukraine, October 7th, the Gaza war, Netanyahu, Iran and why antisemitism keeps coming back.
Exercise physiologist Dr. Stacy Sims explains why women aren't small men: eat before training, lift heavy, sprint briefly, and rethink cold plunges.
Former nephrologist Suzanne Humphries lays out her vaccine-critical reading of polio, smallpox and COVID history, views that run against medical consensus.