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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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.
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.
Former SEAL and thriller author Jack Carr joins Joe Rogan on his new book, failing-up generals, the writers' strike, hunting, and UFOs.
Tony Woods and Joe Rogan swap military and comedy stories, man-eating animals, parasites in history, and a cold-plunge fix for high PSA.
Lex Fridman interviews Joe Rogan on 2020's chaos, his violent competitive streak, ideas as living things, podcasting advice, and love.
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.
Hot rod builder Steve Strope tells Joe Rogan about his eye surgeries, building magazine-cover cars in a parking garage, and more.
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.
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.
Whistleblower David Grusch tells Joe Rogan about alleged UFO crash retrievals, the reprisals he faced, and the push for a disclosure law.
Comedian Jimmy Carr and Joe Rogan on comedy's golden age, teaching stand-up, gratitude, dyslexia, envy, conspiracies and finding your purpose.
Comic Luis J. Gomez and Joe Rogan riff on legal weed, online outrage, fear of the future, jiu-jitsu, fatherhood and how bombing makes comedians better.
MIT's Manolis Kellis takes Lex Fridman through the songs of his life, the lore of 42, layers of reality, ideas as organisms, legacy and poetry.
Kernel founder Bryan Johnson puts a brain interface on Lex Fridman and explains measuring the mind, data-driven eating, depression and zero principles.
Green Beret Tim Kennedy tells Joe Rogan about rescue missions in Israel and Kabul, the border, preparedness, parenting and discipline.
Sam Harris tells Lex Fridman why free will is an illusion, consciousness is not, AI is perilous, and meaning is found by paying attention now.
Mel Robbins and her daughter Kendall work through a romantic curveball live, using energy, a crossroads image and small daily choices to turn insecurity into a win.
Immortality Key author Brian Muraresku and Joe Rogan explore psychedelic potions in ancient ritual, Homo naledi's burials, early Christian frescoes and AI.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin explains the Shiba Inu donation, proof of stake, sharding, rollups and the merge, then turns to longevity and meaning.
Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg and Lex Fridman explore symmetry, topology, Poincaré, primes, Conway's Game of Life and how to love math.
Daniel Cormier and Joe Rogan talk the fighter's inner monster, brutal weight cuts, Alex Pereira's power, Dagestani wrestlers and why kids should learn to fight.
Harvard geneticist David Sinclair explains his information theory of aging, a reset switch in mice, one meal a day, and a future of body dashboards.