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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Dr. Nadine Burke Harris explains how childhood adversity wires the stress response and how buffering helps adults reset it.
Pastor Michael Todd on how unhealed wounds drive relationships and success, his own health turnaround, and choosing partners by purpose.
Paralympic medalist Amy Purdy on refusing to be a victim, a second devastating injury, and falling in love with the process.
Australian comic James McCann on losing a job mid-move to Ohio, finding his feet in Austin, Australian gatekeeping, and AI worries.
Luis J. Gomez and Joe Rogan riff on outrage culture, independent platforms, AI, wealth, odd laws, lucid dreams and ibogaine.
David Cross and Joe Rogan revisit the Boston comedy boom, Mr. Show and NewsRadio, then worry about AI, kids online and war.
Dacher Keltner explains how awe is measured, how to find it daily, and why embarrassment, teasing and community bind people together.
RZA talks his new film, Shaolin-style discipline, channeling anger into art, cobalt mining, quitting weed and why movies belong in theaters.
Social scientist Kasley Killam explains why adult friendship feels hard, which reasons for cancelling are excuses, and small ways to reconnect.
Criminal psychologist Julia Shaw on why nobody is born evil, what really drives murder, how false memories form, and green crime.
Marc Brackett explains what emotion regulation really is, why no emotion is bad, and tools like the Meta-Moment and precise labeling.
Norman Ohler on methamphetamine in the Wehrmacht, Hitler's opioid use, the Berlin resistance, and how LSD went from Sandoz to the CIA.
Speaker Ryan Leak on preparing for difficult people, pre-deciding how you show up, generosity without strings, and honest friendships.
Harvard's Leslie John on why hiding costs more trust than revealing, the weight of unsaid thoughts, and simple ways to open up.
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.
Richard Dawkins on why evolution is wasteful yet brilliant, how memes spread, where morals come from, and why even a simulator needs explaining.
Comic Mike Vecchione and Joe Rogan on the slow craft of stand-up, lessons from wrestling, boxing fandom, cold plunges and writing jokes.
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.
Howie Mandel tells Joe Rogan how a dare made him a comic, how he copes with OCD and depression, and why he embraces AI while Rogan worries.
John Wick director Chad Stahelski explains how the franchise was built, from stunts, dogs and gun work to editing, and what AI may mean for film.
Jitendra Malik explains why vision is hard, why self-driving is far off, and why AI should learn the way children do.
OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever explains why deep learning keeps exceeding expectations, what GPT-2 shows, and how AGI should be built and governed.
Stephen Wolfram explains why simple rules produce endless complexity, and how that idea drives his hunt for the rule behind physics.
Bioinformatics professor Dmitry Korkin explains how his lab modeled the new coronavirus's proteins and what that reveals for drugs and vaccines.
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.
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.
Turing Award winner David Patterson on why simple instruction sets won, open RISC-V, Moore's law slowing, machine learning chips, RAID, and teaching.
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.
Theo Von and Joe Rogan celebrate the Comedy Mothership and talk routines, SSRIs, vapes, exercise and drug companies.