The Perfect Summary Podcast

Divorce lawyer James Sexton on why marriages erode through small disconnections and the small, free habits that keep love alive.

Author Rachel Wilson tells Joe Rogan why she thinks feminism was imposed on women and hurt families; her claims go largely unchecked.

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

Jessie Inchauspé explains the four nutrients she says matter most in pregnancy, and shares her experience of miscarriage.

Elon Musk on testing consciousness, regulating AI, Neuralink's brain interface, Autopilot's progress and Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot.

Andrew Huberman on dopamine, visual focus, visualizing failure and a short space-time bridging exercise for pursuing goals.

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

Jaspreet Singh on AI's threat to jobs, the limits of the 401k and home ownership, and his three phases of wealth.

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.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas on her pirate film, India's colonial past, ancient mysteries, Bollywood, parenting and AI.

MIT's Gilbert Strang explains the four subspaces, singular values, why linear algebra deserves more room, and how deep learning uses it.

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

A compilation of seven guests on manifestation, from the law of attraction to a neuroscientist's version built on attention, habits and work.

MIT's Dava Newman on the search for life on Mars, the return to the Moon, her skin-tight BioSuit and caring for spaceship Earth.

Ray Dalio on learning from failure, thoughtful disagreement, credit and money, a rule for trusting AI, and why happiness peaks late in life.

The Triggernometry hosts and Joe Rogan on a war nobody can predict, media framing, bots, AI robots and combat sports.

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

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.

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

Theo Von and Joe Rogan riff on war, distrust, AI and comedy, plus Von's self-financed film Busboys with David Spade.

Alexa's head scientist on why dialogue is a top test of intelligence, how far-field speech was solved, and why reasoning is next.

Daniel Kahneman on System 1 and 2, why deep learning lacks reasoning, the remembering self, and psychology's replication crisis.

Rick Perry and Bryan Hubbard report that Texas will fund $100 million of ibogaine drug trials, and make their case for the compound.

Roboticist Ayanna Howard on why robots must adapt to people, how bias gets fixed, and why we trust machines more than we admit.

Terence Tao explains Navier-Stokes, primes and Collatz, how he attacks hard problems, and how Lean and AI are changing maths.

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