334: BRYAN JOHNSON: The Controversial Anti-Aging Millionaire Determined To Live Forever

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 155 minutes

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If you’ve been on social media for more than 20 minutes in the past two years, chances are you know about Bryan Johnson, the tech millionaire in Silicon Valley intent on living forever. For most of his career, Bryan has been an unassuming CEO in the style of early Jeff Bezos. He has been documenting every moment of his process on social media, including the 100 pills he takes every day, constant red light therapies, experimental gene therapy, plasma swaps with his son, and nighttime boner monitoring. However, while a lot is known about his current obsession to live forever, less is known about his early life, time with the Mormon church, scandals with an ex-partner, ideologies, or even his motivations behind wanting to live forever.

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Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
An Extremely Brief 20 Minute Rant 0:53
The Early Life of Bryan Johnson 28:58
Bryan Finds his "Calling" 35:45
From "Rags" to Riches 39:48
Wanting to be Seen 45:14
The Founding of Kernel 47:35
Horrors at Neuralink 48:02
We Truly Hate AI 49:49
Silicon Valley Believes in the Absence of Choice 57:21
Taryn Southern's Controversy 1:01:29
$2M a Year to Live Forever 1:15:11
Would You Want to Live Forever? 1:17:55
Doctor Zolman's 3 Levels 1:24:18
Bryan's Unbelievable Routine 1:38:00
Trying Bryan's Supplements 1:45:24
Trying Bryan's Olive Oil 1:49:42
Trying Bryan's Cocoa Mix 1:54:48
We Were Very Disappointed 1:57:28
30 Minutes of Social Time, 7 Hours of Sleep 2:02:04
Not Beating Those 'Vampire' Allegations 2:07:03
Unofficial Trials and Risky Tests 2:14:01
Hiking With Bryan 2:23:43
Bryan's Inevitable Future(?) 2:27:12
Final Thoughts & Outro 2:32:14

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0:00.0	Hey, what is up, everybody.
0:17.8	And welcome back to Mile Higher podcast, episode 333. And you guys, today
0:23.9	we are getting into a fascinating topic. I am so excited for this episode. I have so much to say.
0:29.1	Josh and I have so many thoughts. We actually started watching this documentary on Brian Johnson,
0:33.7	who we will be speaking on today. And it's called Don't Die. It's a new documentary on Netflix. I'm sure a lot of you have seen it or probably have heard of Brian Johnson. But after we watched it, we basically did a two-hour at-home podcast by ourselves. And we're like, we need to sit down and record an episode on this because we just have so many thoughts.
0:59.5	Well, yeah, because Brian Johnson alone is such an interesting dude.
1:00.1	Yeah.
1:04.6	But then all of the questions that sort of get posed throughout it, all of the regimens,
1:12.4	all of the different ideas and philosophies this guy has opens up a whole other can of worms that we want to talk about.
1:18.5	And I think you'll find interesting as well. I mean, if you've been on the internet, you've seen this guy.
1:23.5	He's all over the place. Good chance. Yeah. I'd be surprised if you had it, honestly. I would too.
1:29.2	I mean, I had definitely had heard of him before, but never really knew his full deal and honestly kind of judged him, which there are things to judge him for. There are certainly critiques to be
1:32.9	about Brian. He is a very controversial figure. I've, I've grown to like Brian in a lot of ways.
1:39.4	Like, I think he is so fascinating and I don't know. I mean, at the end of the day, what he's doing isn't
1:45.2	really harmful to anyone. And you could argue that a lot of what he's doing is, is helping humanity
1:50.8	in some ways, although I wish I think he could do more. I'm getting ahead of myself. But he's just
1:55.8	such an interesting person. And, you know, we were talking about it with some of our other team
2:00.2	members who don't work on Mile Higher this morning. And one of them was like, oh, is that that like vampire billionaire that like drinks blood? And I think that's like what a lot of people think he is. Because he does some pretty wild shit. I mean, it's, it's pretty extreme. It's very extreme. But it's also just
2:20.1	fascinating. And him as a person's really interesting and his whole upbringing and how he got to
2:26.1	what he's doing now. And I don't know, just so many things to say. So this will be a, a great
2:31.6	episode for discussion. And we also have some of his products that we're
2:35.5	going to be trying throughout the episode. Not sponsored, by the way. We paid with their own money.
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