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Episode 461 Promo - Suing Bryan Johnson, the Health Tech Mogul (w/ Matt Bruenig)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Friend of the show and People's Policy Project wonk Matt Bruenig returns to Bad Faith to give the insider perspective on the lawsuits against health tech CEO Bryan Johnson. You may know Johnson as the guy who used his kid as a "blood bag" (i.e., injected himself with his son's plasma) and who goes to great lengths to "live forever." As it turns out, he has also gone to great lengths to prevent his employees from talking about the hostile work environment they allegedly worked under. Matt represents several former employees in their labor lawsuit contesting the confidentiality agreements they were made to sign. Come for tech guru gossip, stay for some preliminary thoughts on the Abundance discourse that has recently taken over left media.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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0:00.0

Is Joe Biden personally, does he personally like really like unions, almost in like a Trumpy way,

0:06.4

likes the construction worker who has like the hat and like the little union sticker on it?

0:11.2

I think he does.

0:12.5

I think, you know, whatever's left of his mental faculties at the time, for sure, he seems to love

0:18.2

the whole union stick.

0:19.2

But did that translate into anything other than,

0:23.6

well, he appointed some good people at the NLRB, which, what does that amount to when the NLRB has to

0:30.1

operate the way it has to operate? He didn't pass labor's big demand, which was the pro act.

0:35.0

And if you're not going to reform the labor law, the administration

0:38.8

of the existing labor law is not going to achieve very much, no matter how hard you try. You could

0:44.7

put me in charge of the LRB, and it's not going to do a whole lot unless you change the statute,

0:49.9

unless you fund it more. And none of that was done. So, and now you could say, well, that's not his

0:55.1

fault. It's because the senators and, okay, whatever. However it was, the dim trifecta didn't deliver

1:00.0

that. And if it didn't deliver that, it doesn't matter if he went and spoke on a picket line.

1:04.7

This doesn't matter. Yeah, and I'm sorry. And the Trumpian role that we live in where

1:09.5

there's seemingly no obstacle.

1:12.5

They always have the votes.

1:13.8

There's no parliamentarian.

1:15.1

It does feel like these kinds of arguments are falling really flat.

1:18.2

I frankly, I'm Googling it now.

1:19.7

I can't remember.

1:20.8

Sorry.

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