The Perfect Summary Podcast

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

James Clear on making habits easy to start, showing up on bad days, identity-based habits, and shaping your environment.

Yellowstone's Luke Grimes on stage fright, leaving Los Angeles for Montana, songwriting, elk hunting and what jiu-jitsu teaches.

Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple explains why women should train like men: lift progressively, near failure, and ignore cycle-based rules.

Shanna Swan explains her home plastic-detox study with infertile couples, where hormone-disrupting chemicals hide and what to swap.

Dr. Andrew Weil shares his habits for protecting the brain, from the 4-7-8 breath and turmeric to social ties and psychedelics.

A compilation of Mel Robbins's best money clips: track spending, use four buckets, automate saving and define what enough means.

Stanford's Tina Seelig tells Mel Robbins how values, small risks, generosity and curiosity let you create your own luck.

Dr. Richard Davidson explains how five minutes of daily meditation changes mind and body, and the four trainable pillars of flourishing.

Joe Dispenza explains how he uses meditation to break old patterns and what he says his retreat research shows about self-healing.

John Fogerty tells how Proud Mary and Fortunate Son were written, and how lawsuits, lost savings and drinking nearly broke him.

Doctor Mike tells Mel Robbins how to spot health misinformation, fight medical bills and return to the basics of health.

Michael Pollan explains why ultra-processed 'healthy' foods harm us and how real food, shared meals and simple habits help.

Mel Robbins shares five rules for choosing a meaningful personal goal and sticking with it in a busy, overwhelmed life.

Rhonda Patrick details her training, fasting and supplement routine and the science linking gut, inflammation, visceral fat and aging.

David Cross and Joe Rogan revisit the Boston comedy boom, Mr. Show and NewsRadio, then worry about AI, kids online and war.

RZA talks his new film, Shaolin-style discipline, channeling anger into art, cobalt mining, quitting weed and why movies belong in theaters.

Fertility doctor Natalie Crawford on AMH testing, egg freezing myths, lifestyle and supplements, and what harms eggs and sperm.

Social scientist Kasley Killam explains why adult friendship feels hard, which reasons for cancelling are excuses, and small ways to reconnect.

Norman Ohler on methamphetamine in the Wehrmacht, Hitler's opioid use, the Berlin resistance, and how LSD went from Sandoz to the CIA.

Stanford epigenetics researcher Dr. Lucia Aronica explains which foods signal your genes and the kitchen tricks that unlock them.

Comic Mike Vecchione and Joe Rogan on the slow craft of stand-up, lessons from wrestling, boxing fandom, cold plunges and writing jokes.

Filmmaker Alex Garland on truly alien aliens, Ava's smile in Ex Machina, Silicon Valley's veneer of virtue, and a universe without free will.

John Wick director Chad Stahelski explains how the franchise was built, from stunts, dogs and gun work to editing, and what AI may mean for film.

Steven Pressfield on war as a metaphor for the inner fight, where Resistance comes from, serving the muse, and the daily routine of a working writer.

Theo Von and Joe Rogan celebrate the Comedy Mothership and talk routines, SSRIs, vapes, exercise and drug companies.

Gabriel 'Fluffy' Iglesias and Joe Rogan talk Dodger Stadium, early comedy grind, VW buses, diabetes, weight loss and aliens.

Cardiologist Aseem Malhotra tells Joe Rogan why he doubts statins, blames sugar over fat, and turned against the COVID mRNA vaccines.

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

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