The Perfect Summary Podcast

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains how childhood adversity wires the stress response and how buffering helps adults reset it.

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

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.

Snowboarder Chloe Kim on competing with a dislocating shoulder, her father's all-in bet, therapy, a new ADHD diagnosis and self-worth.

Marc Brackett explains what emotion regulation really is, why no emotion is bad, and tools like the Meta-Moment and precise labeling.

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

John Hopfield explains associative memory, why feedback and collective behavior matter, and what biology does that AI still ignores.

Philosopher Nick Bostrom walks through the simulation argument step by step, then turns to the promise and risk of superintelligent AI.

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.

MIT's Robert Langer on early rejection, starving tumors of blood, engineered tissue, patents, biotech startups, and why his students are his proudest work.

Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell mark episode 2,000 with four hours on power, war, censorship, UFOs, karma and prayer.

Ms. Pat tells Joe Rogan how she turned a brutal childhood into a hit sitcom, a tour and a family, with plenty of jokes along the way.

Joscha Bach tells Lex Fridman why the self is a story the brain tells itself, what consciousness is for, and why civilization may not last.

Comics Kim Congdon and Sara Weinshenk riff with Joe Rogan on podcasting, pandemic comedy, weed and hemp, Mike Tyson, UFOs, dreams, and a timeshare.

Ben Goertzel on where the term AGI came from, his OpenCog design, decentralized AI, the truth about Sophia the robot, and why death is bad.

Lex Fridman maps eight long-term futures for Neuralink, from easing suffering and telepathy to saved memories and merging with AI.

Daphne Koller on using stem cells and machine learning to find new drugs, lessons from Coursera, and why AI must know when it is unsure.

Beckley Foundation founder Amanda Feilding on psychedelics, blood flow and the ego, microdosing for Alzheimer's, and her self-trepanation.

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

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

Johns Hopkins researcher Matthew Johnson on psychedelic safety, psilocybin for quitting smoking, addiction economics, and consciousness.

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

Patrick Bet-David and Joe Rogan debate the 2024 race, COVID distrust, ESG and BlackRock, and why Rogan should interview Trump.

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

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

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett on falling in love by text, how brains really evolved, evil, many selves and consciousness.

Neuroscientist MD Russell Kennedy tells Mel Robbins anxiety is a childhood alarm stored in the body, and how to heal it neck down.

Dr. Becky Kennedy explains how childhood wiring drives adult triggers and shares three steps to repair and rewire your reactions.

Joe Rogan and comic Joe List riff on building the Comedy Mothership, crowd work, phones and boredom, sauna, AI and the soul.