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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MIT computational biologist Manolis Kellis explains how genetics is revealing the hidden circuitry behind obesity, Alzheimer's and more.
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.
Big wave surfer Shane Dorian and Joe Rogan cover stem cells, a meat diet, bow hunting under pressure, fentanyl and brain recovery.
Mel Robbins makes the case for doing nothing on purpose, why rest feels weird, and a one-minute daily practice to unplug.
Comedian Jimmy Carr and Joe Rogan on comedy's golden age, teaching stand-up, gratitude, dyslexia, envy, conspiracies and finding your purpose.
Mel Robbins shares her own trauma story, explains the nervous system as your home's wiring and offers six ways to flip from fight or flight to calm.
Kernel founder Bryan Johnson puts a brain interface on Lex Fridman and explains measuring the mind, data-driven eating, depression and zero principles.
Mel Robbins uses autumn leaves to show how to spot what drains you, remove or redirect it, and quit complaining and controlling others.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin explains the Shiba Inu donation, proof of stake, sharding, rollups and the merge, then turns to longevity and meaning.
Mel Robbins and her friend Amy work through bad moods live, using two therapist exercises: locate the feeling, then fire up a peak-moment memory.
Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg and Lex Fridman explore symmetry, topology, Poincaré, primes, Conway's Game of Life and how to love math.
Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and Lex Fridman cover sleep, naps, fasting, REM dreams, psychedelics, neuroplasticity and pushing mental limits.
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.
IT Cosmetics founder Jamie Kern Lima tells Mel Robbins how setbacks, rejection and trusting your gut lead you to your purpose.
Mel Robbins shares five evening habits, from the 3-2-1 rule to keeping your phone out of the bedroom, that set up a calmer, more productive morning.
Dr. Ramani returns to answer listener questions on narcissists in dating, family and work, with tools like yellow rocking and the DEEP rule.
Mel Robbins explains why procrastination is a stress response, not laziness, and gives a research-backed method to break the cycle.
Brigham Buhler tells Joe Rogan why he thinks peptides are being squeezed out, how insurers profit from disease, and where stem cells and AI fit.