The Perfect Summary Podcast

Stanford ear surgeon Konstantina Stankovic explains how hearing works, what damages it, how to protect it, and why hearing loss matters for the brain.

Skiing champion Mikaela Shiffrin explains why thinking about winning makes her lose, and how she learned to race through anxiety.

Andrew Huberman explains how the lymphatic system clears fluid and waste, and how movement, breathing, side sleeping and cardio keep it flowing.

Greg Fitzsimmons and Joe Rogan riff on censorship, the moon landing, AI's dark side, an Alaskan prank and what makes a comedy scene thrive.

Bert Kreischer and Joe Rogan on viral breaks in comedy, tuning out critics, a blood clot scare, awards, competitiveness and Bert's Netflix series.

Yann LeCun explains why deep learning works, why human intelligence is not general, and why self-supervised world models are the next step for AI.

Mel Robbins shares five small steps, from a brain dump to claiming one win, for getting back on track within a day.

Neuroscientist Tommy Wood on why the brain needs challenge, how much dementia is preventable, and what Formula One teaches about performance.

Stanford lecturer Matt Abrahams shares drills and frameworks for clear, confident speaking, from stage fright to small talk.

Evan Hafer and Joe Rogan talk archery, coffee, courage, Rogan's path from taekwondo to comedy, and their worries about AI.

Donnell Rawlings and Joe Rogan trade comedy war stories and argue over why comics should ignore online haters and focus on the craft.

Michael Malice and Joe Rogan on online hysteria, AI risks, New York's mayor, assisted dying, immigration, lifting and starting stand-up.

Dermatologist Dr. Shereene Idriss on the three-step routine, what to skip, actives, adult acne, sunscreen and why jowls are structural.

Neuroscientist Glen Jeffery on how red and infrared light support mitochondria, vision and blood sugar, and why he worries about LED lighting.

Matt McCusker and Joe Rogan on comedy craft, bombing, his social work degree, therapy, diet experiments, UFO lore and news overload.

Watson lead David Ferrucci explains how the Jeopardy system worked and why real machine understanding needs shared human frameworks.

Joe Rogan and Jim Breuer trade comedy origin stories, lessons from bombing and jealousy, travel tales, AI worries and ancient mysteries.

Physicist Sean Carroll explains wave functions, entanglement and why he thinks the many-worlds view is the cleanest reading of quantum mechanics.

Michael Kearns explains how fairness and privacy can be built into algorithms, the trade-offs involved, and who should decide.

Columbia's Martin Picard explains mitochondria as energy transformers and why stress, sleep, food and purpose shape energy and aging.

Steve-O tells Joe Rogan about a clipped joke, years of repairing his image, Jackass knockouts, near-death accounts and his animal sanctuary.

Psychologist Rachel Goldman tells Mel Robbins how a pause, regular meals and kinder thoughts can ease emotional eating and body shame.

Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki explains what anxiety is for and shares tools, from joy conditioning to exercise, for putting it to use.

Noam Chomsky on what language is, why human cognition has built-in limits, and why deep learning is engineering, not science.

Cancer neurosurgeon Rahul Jandial shares his playbook for crisis, the daily breathing ritual he relies on, and what dying patients wish they had done.

Whitney Cummings argues fear of robots is a luxury, and talks codependency, neurochemistry, social media and love.

Mel Robbins explains her one-day plan for clearing overdue tasks: a brain dump, then blocks for calls, errands, money, email and rescheduling.

Michael Pollan on the unsolved mystery of consciousness, plant awareness, chatbots that crowd out our inner lives, and the gut-brain link.

Turing Award winner Judea Pearl explains why correlation is not enough and why machines need causal models and counterfactuals to be intelligent.

Psychologist Mariel Buqué explains how she believes trauma passes through families and the daily practices she uses to calm the nervous system.