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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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.
Berkeley professor Dawn Song explains how AI models get fooled, how training data leaks, and why people should own their data.
Tony Woods and Joe Rogan swap military and comedy stories, man-eating animals, parasites in history, and a cold-plunge fix for high PSA.
MIT biologist Manolis Kellis explains the genome as digital code, what evolution reveals about SARS-CoV-2, and why messiness makes life robust.
Patrick Bet-David and Joe Rogan debate the 2024 race, COVID distrust, ESG and BlackRock, and why Rogan should interview Trump.
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.
Joe Rogan and Eddie Bravo talk Muay Thai, bare knuckle fighting, MMA rule changes, fight history, wild animals and Bravo's back rehab.
Rev's Dan Kokotov and Lex Fridman on human and AI transcription, word error rate, the data flywheel, podcasts, and loved products.
Mel Robbins explains why waiting for motivation fails and how the 5 Second Rule countdown helped her climb out of rock bottom.
Bill Maher and Joe Rogan debate wokeness, crime, obesity and Ozempic, gender medicine, Trump versus Biden, campus echo chambers and COVID policy.
Trae Tha Truth talks sobriety, removing his own bullet, Harvey rescues, UFC and boxing lore, AI fears and his album Stuck In Motion.
Neuroscientist MD Russell Kennedy tells Mel Robbins anxiety is a childhood alarm stored in the body, and how to heal it neck down.
Comedian Ehsan Ahmad and Joe Rogan talk about the Mothership, the craft of opening a show, media distrust, AI and luck.
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Joe Rogan discuss AI's net-good but disruptive future, UBI, neural interfaces, social media, and psychedelic therapy.
Dr. Becky Kennedy explains how childhood wiring drives adult triggers and shares three steps to repair and rewire your reactions.
Cal Newport and Lex Fridman on deep work, time blocking, boredom, quitting social media and replacing email's hyperactive hive mind.
Joe Rogan and comic Joe List riff on building the Comedy Mothership, crowd work, phones and boredom, sauna, AI and the soul.
Mel Robbins redefines manifesting as mental rehearsal: name the goal, visualize the hard steps, feel them, then do the work patiently.
Mel Robbins shares her own near-quit and coaches a listener who broke a 300-day sobriety streak, explaining why 'F*** it' moments help you grow.
Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov tells Lex Fridman how Waymo went from the DARPA Urban Challenge to a public driverless service in Phoenix, and what scaling takes.
Investor Anthony Pompliano makes the case for Bitcoin as digital sound money, and talks war, money as time, NFTs, Dogecoin and long-term thinking.
Mel Robbins and her 17-year-old son Oakley share how he went from hating himself to self-acceptance, plus simple tools to like yourself more.
Big wave surfer Shane Dorian and Joe Rogan cover stem cells, a meat diet, bow hunting under pressure, fentanyl and brain recovery.
Ralph Barbosa and Joe Rogan talk Austin comedy, going viral, ignoring comments, painting cars and finding your own comedic voice.