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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Taste scientist Charles Zuker explains how the tongue and brain create taste, and how a gut-brain circuit drives our endless craving for sugar.
Life coach Martha Beck coaches Mel Robbins live on getting unstuck, tracking joy toward your purpose, and using creativity to quiet anxiety.
Andrew Huberman explains bipolar I and II, the brain circuits behind mania, how lithium and ketamine work, and what talk therapy and omega-3s add.
Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas tells Joe Rogan the real-life roots of Basic Instinct, stories of Hunter Thompson and Hendrix, and his path to faith.
Dr. Erich Jarvis explains how speech evolved from movement circuits, why only vocal learners dance, and what songbirds reveal about language.
Caltech's David Anderson explains how brain states drive aggression, mating and fear, and how social isolation fuels rage through a peptide.
Stanford psychiatrist Nolan Williams explains how TMS, ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA and ibogaine may reset the brain circuits behind depression and PTSD.
IONS chief scientist Dean Radin tells Joe Rogan about remote viewing at Stargate, presentiment experiments, psychic genetics and a nasal RNA therapy.
UCSF neurosurgeon Eddie Chang on critical periods, rewriting the textbook map of language, epilepsy, stuttering, and decoding speech for paralyzed patients.
Inventor Simone Giertz on shitty robots, her brain tumor, turning a Tesla into a truck, mass manufacturing, and why enthusiasm beats duty.
Taylor Sheridan talks horses, running a 300,000-acre ranch, how he makes so many hit shows, government dysfunction and his travel guide to prison.
Tommy Lee and Joe Rogan talk bonsai and Zen gardens, the athletics of drumming, old-school muscle cars, Ferrari's misstep and why live music still wins.
Sam Harris explains why meditation's real prize is seeing through the self, how it differs from psychedelics, and why he quit Twitter.
Neurosurgeon Mark McLaughlin shares how 25 years of brain and spine surgery taught him to dismantle fear, drop self-esteem and stop judging outcomes.
MIT's Neil Gershenfeld explains how digital materials, self-replicating assemblers and 2,500 fab labs could make almost anything, anywhere.
MrBeast and Joe Rogan pitch a real zombie survival show, talk creator careers and AI, and expose child labor in West African cacao.
Stanford's Tina Seelig explains why luck differs from fortune and how values, relationships, gratitude, risk and reframing help you create more of it.
Neurosurgeon Rahul Jandial explains what your brain does while dreaming, which dreams matter, and how to recall, shape and lucid dream.
Andrew Huberman explains how chromosomes, hormones and receptors shape sexual development, and how cannabis, alcohol, herbicides and phones may alter them.
IFS founder Dr. Richard Schwartz explains protectors, exiles and Self, guides Andrew Huberman through a live session, then leads listeners through one.
Psychiatrist John Kruse explains ADHD's causes, the four daily basics, sleep timing, stimulant risks and the full range of medication options.
Tim Robbins and Joe Rogan on turning down easy money, the Iraq War backlash, theater in prisons, Shawshank's slow rise, AI in Hollywood and life after death.
Stanford neurosurgeon James Doty explains how brain networks, self-compassion and service, not selfish wanting, make manifestation work.
The Tiger King filmmakers tell Joe Rogan about their reptile-trade series Monsters of God: smugglers, snakebites, turtle money and invasive pythons.
Savannah Bananas owner Jesse Cole on inventing Banana Ball, going broke in Savannah, refusing to sell, and fostering and adopting with his wife.
Comedian Joe DeRosa and Joe Rogan riff on coffee, money and gratitude, strength training, the birth of the Mothership, and greed in health care.
Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd gives Lex Fridman his view of expulsions in Sheikh Jarrah, occupation, resistance, and writing as a weapon.
Designer and scientist Neri Oxman on growing products with silkworms, bees and bacteria, plant language, beauty as agency, and designing with nature.
Walter Isaacson tells Lex Fridman what Musk, Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci and Franklin share, and how he turns their lives into stories.
Kevin Spacey talks craft, directors, Jack Lemmon, House of Cards, the allegations and acquittals, and his father's descent into white supremacy.