The Perfect Summary Podcast

Physicist Michio Kaku explains how quantum computers could remake medicine, AI and the world economy, and what comes after.

Marc Andreessen tells Joe Rogan the real AI danger is censorship and regulatory capture, not killer robots, and makes the case for open source.

Bronx comic Adrienne Iapalucci and Joe Rogan talk Ari Shaffir, New York open mics, the drug war, family addiction and a charity show gone wrong.

Steven Wright and Joe Rogan on the 1980s Boston comedy scene, how Wright writes jokes, the value of doing nothing, and his novel Harold.

Jack Dorsey on how Square widened access to the economy, why the internet needs Bitcoin, AI risks, UBI, fasting and mortality.

Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell riff on cults and costumes, procrastination, the Gospel of John, child influencers and UFO secrecy.

Replika co-founder Eugenia Kuyda on loneliness, losing her best friend, and building an AI companion that makes people feel seen.

Lisa Feldman Barrett explains why the brain predicts rather than reacts, how emotions are constructed, and why empathy costs energy.

George Hotz on Comma.ai's openpilot, why end-to-end learning beats Tesla's approach, crypto, programming and hacking the simulation.

Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman on going big, spotting the lint on the dress, the MIT College of Computing, China and AI.

Filmmaker James Reed on 400 days inside the Ngogo chimp community: monkey hunts, silent patrols, alpha politics and a rare split.

Chris Lattner on Swift's design, value semantics, LLVM and MLIR, RISC-V chips at SiFive, Moore's Law, GPT-3 and staying a long-term optimist.

Zach Bryan tells Joe Rogan how he went from loading Navy missiles to viral fame, and how he handles writing, criticism and stage fright.

Jim Gaffigan and Joe Rogan riff on sugar, social media, cold plunges, gardening, politics, overfishing, microplastics and why busy beats bored.

Karl Friston explains brain imaging, the free energy principle, Markov blankets, and why moving non-randomly makes you alive.

Michael Malice and Lex Fridman trade jokes and history: the white pill, Stalin and Hitler, North Korea, anarchism and secession.

MIT roboticist Sertac Karaman on self-driving at scale, Optimus Ride, lidar vs cameras, and drones that fly faster than humans can.

Joe Rogan and Brian Redban catch up on their Austin comedy clubs, AI voice fakes, VRChat, salt myths and fast-food nostalgia.

Former SEAL and thriller author Jack Carr joins Joe Rogan on his new book, failing-up generals, the writers' strike, hunting, and UFOs.

Berkeley professor Dawn Song explains how AI models get fooled, how training data leaks, and why people should own their data.

Anarchist Michael Malice and Lex Fridman spar over the state, trolling versus love, conspiracy theories, Ayn Rand and the meaning of life.

Tony Woods and Joe Rogan swap military and comedy stories, man-eating animals, parasites in history, and a cold-plunge fix for high PSA.

Lex Fridman interviews Joe Rogan on 2020's chaos, his violent competitive streak, ideas as living things, podcasting advice, and love.

MIT biologist Manolis Kellis explains the genome as digital code, what evolution reveals about SARS-CoV-2, and why messiness makes life robust.

Georgia Tech dean Charles Isbell on predictable people, interactive AI, hiring bias, what computing is, hip hop, and race in America.

Scott Aaronson critiques IIT and Penrose, weighs GPT-3, and explains universality, the Complexity Zoo, and why he bets P is not NP.

The Protect Our Parks crew returns for a boozy, rowdy hang covering microplastics, fluoride, Carl Hart, the Donner Party, hippos and Tom Cruise.

Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson on exponential tech, the productivity J-curve, free digital goods, lies online, and AI and jobs.

Religion scholar Diana Walsh Pasulka on how beliefs shape reality, how religions start, and why UFO belief may be a new religion.

MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis explains how genetics is revealing the hidden circuitry behind obesity, Alzheimer's and more.