The “Steroid Olympics”

Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy not quite on humor me with Robert Smigel and friends me and hilarious guests from Bob Odin Kirk to David Letterman help make you funnier this week my guest SNL's Mikey Day and head writer streeter side L help an acapella band with their between songs banter Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes Those people are starving for banter Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Winning on clay is an art the rallies are relentless and at the French open only the toughest survive I'd know I competed there for decades Join me Renee Stubbs on the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast for no nonsense breakdowns of the biggest matches The toughest players and the moments that define rolling arous Jenshin Winner! She's an outsider to win the French ring And she likes clay listen Lena Rabakina is arguably the best player in the world right now and I actually can win on any surface Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Presented by capital one founding partner of iHeartWomen Sports Last night a blown call changed the game this morning the internet lost its mind And nobody's telling you exactly what happened that's where sports slice comes in I'm Timbo and every episode we're cutting through the noise breaking down the biggest moments in sports And giving you the real story behind the headlines and we're going straight to the source The athletes themselves their locker room stories their reactions in the moment and the stuff nobody gets to hear Listen to sports slice on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts And for more follow Timbo slice life 12 in the tiktok podcast network on tiktok Life is full of hurdles. So how do you keep going? On hurdle with Emily a body we're talking with the most inspiring women in sports and wellness From professional athletes coaches and Olympic champions about the challenges that shape them and the mindset that keeps them moving forward At our level at this scale being able to fail in front of the entire world like I can do anything I can like I can do anything listen to hurdle with Emily a body on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Presented by capital one founding partner of iHeartWomenSports Go iSco I am the fastest man in the world But you've never heard of me I have broken you same bolts 100 meter record but I can't show you face In the summer of 2023 this video started making the rounds online An incredibly fit build runner taking his place on a track starting line The race starts and he sprints off the whole time you can't see his face I am the proud and enhanced athlete The Olympics hate me I need your help to come out It's an advertisement for a new event that's attracted a ton of controversy Come join me at the first enhanced games and see me break the world record in public The enhanced games or the steroid Olympics as lots of people keep calling it I first heard about the idea when tech entrepreneur Aaron D'Souza went on Joe Rogan's podcast The Joe Rogan experience Well the Olympics is kind of a scam Because it generates billions of dollars in revenue and the people that are there to perform make almost none of that That's correct to get swasted building stadiums It gets wasted paying officials Aaron says the games are his Protestant revolution And this video plus the press release that went out with it They're his version of Martin Luther's 95thesys Whatever is corrupt about the Olympics Aaron says he has the fix I've been studying the Olympics my entire life, you know, 44% of Olympians admit to using ban performance enhancing drugs within the last year 44% 44% and the other You know probably lying Aaron sees it this way It's not the athletes fault Some teams play by the rules Others put pressure on their athletes to cheat And then I learned that the average American Olympian only earns 30,000 dollars a year And I thought to myself there's something really wrong in the system And instead of You know trying to reform it let's take a blankly slide of paper And invent the third Olympiad from scratch The idea for the enhanced games was pretty straightforward What if we take the world's best athletes Olympians let's say and let them take whatever performance enhancing drugs that they want to take Stuff like steroids, stimulants and peptides We all know that the Olympics are dirty We all know that funded state sponsored programs have existed forever And they've just been doing weasley things to try to avoid detection They're taking things everyone's taking things they're all hiding things Right and so instead of doing it underground in secret Let's do it out in the open with clinical supervision and and safety In other words If people are gonna dope anyway Why shouldn't we try and safely facilitate the biggest strongest and fastest humans in the world Getting bigger stronger and faster And why shouldn't we pay them to do it Besides Aaron says nobody has to dope You don't have to take enhancements to be at the enhanced games You can just be ready to purchase the Boston jeans Yeah, yeah, you can say hey I'm I'm I won the genetic lottery Yeah, right And I think I can beat all the enhanced athletes and make great television Yeah, that's fun too, right Personally, I'd be so down to watch that Wouldn't you? From kaleidoscope and iHard podcast This is superhuman I'm your host, Chris Guy Mollie The World Anti-Doping Industry and the International Olympic Committee were quick to denounce the enhanced games Calling it a "travesty" A mockery of fairness and safety in sport Should the enhanced games be allowed to go? Your anthly goose competing in the Sabine You're risking your career and you'll rip your tires Absolutely not The enhanced game is counter to every day Which cheater comes out on top But by that point Aaron had real buy-in Hundreds of news outlets covering his games New and eager investors Which included billionaires Some of the world's most notorious investors Like Peter Teal and Donald Trump Jr Imagine an Olympics where everyone is on performance enhancing drugs What might be any anti-doping regulators night near Is some millionaires dream? All told The enhanced games have entered 2026 With hundreds of millions of dollars behind them And they're happening Soon At the end of this month in Las Vegas In the lead up to the games The athletes are all living together At a cushy hotel on the other side of the world They train, eat lunch, do wellness check-ins, recovery Everything And while the enhanced games get compared to the Olympics They're not much like the Olympics at all The Olympics, corrupt, though they may be Are owned and governed by the IOC An independent Swiss non-profit To the extent that there is a product It's literally the Olympics An international event where different countries compete for gold The enhanced games are privately funded for profit event The entire enterprise is valued at 1.2 billion Their intention is to go public And they've raised another 40 million to do that They've got a lot more planned And Hans Games, we hope, will be a crystallization factor Christian Angermeier is one of Aaron's co-founders that enhanced For a whole societal change on how we look at body autonomy How we give the decision back to people What they want to be with their body, with their mind And all of that When it comes to enhance There's one thing that everyone Funders, founders, they all have in common Broadly speaking, it's a vested interest in human optimization Improving our bodies and brains to maximize one's potential and well-being It all fits into the larger bucket of longevity Or anti-aging The idea that we humans can effectively reverse age our own bodies Christian and Aaron, they're so bought in on this They're already enhancing I have, yes But I'm not as enhanced as some of my colleagues If you want to talk about And as we talked to Christian, I can tell you, I started the whole process So I'm going through the enhancement process of an athlete myself And it's unbelievable Like you feel 20 years younger in like recovery, I can train every day I wake up in the morning and don't feel stiff anymore I'm like, oh shit, this is how it felt when I was in my 20s And you know what? I want that too I'm 41 and have a young kid and I wake up most mornings feeling my age So I'm pretty much in the bullseye of whatever enhance is selling I am also a journalist based in New York City I work that cheek you as an editor for almost a decade And my day job right now is in fashion But outside of all of that, my journalism is mostly about the human body All the things it can and can't do I've written about men who break their bones to become taller I've spent a lot of time profiling UFC stars And I've tried to figure out why the business of protein is suddenly booming I also work out a lot Practical This moitai like five times a week. And I run this health and wellness newsletter called Heavies. But it's not really sports that I care about. I'm mostly interested in human augmentation, how we can make ourselves feel better and more powerful. Who do you see being like the de-enhanced customer? Anyone. Yeah. If you have a body, enhancements can help you become closer to achieving your goals. Or like better I voice you want to do, then without. OK, so we've got this crazy idea. To let world class athletes slid a rip and just go ahead and use whatever drugs they want. And it's got some legs. It's pretty marketable. People want to see what's going to happen. You have all these Olympic athletes across three initial sports-- swimming, track, and weight lifting-- basically turning themselves into the Avengers. It proves on some level that humans are capable of doing impossible things. Some people are calling it cheating. But whether you think it's cheating or not, you might still want to watch. But before any of that can happen, what does enhanced need? It needs athletes. Athletes will in a dope, which is a hard sell. To take drugs would jeopardize the revutations understandably, not to mention a shot at the actual Olympics. From Go, a key question is, who would ever say yes to that? As a 34-year-old, I'm actually really excited about that prospect, because having been an athlete, my whole identity was linked to being the fastest or the strongest, or things that are linked essentially with being young. James Magnuson is a three-time Olympic medalist, 6'6", super-handsome dude. Captain America except he's Australian. And his nickname is the missile. He's won heaps of championships. And at one point, he was one of the five fastest swimmers in the world. And as I got into my 30s and well into my 30s now, I'm like, as I get older, what is my identity if I'm no longer that young, fast, fit guy? And that's a daunting prospect for someone whose identity has been linked purely to their physicality. James is in his mid-tharies now, which in the rude time continuum of professional sports means he's old. He's washed, which also makes him exactly what in-hands is looking for. Not that James needs much convincing. Here he is on a sports podcast back in 2024, before in-hands had even been in touch. I'll give you an exclusive here on the show. They've said they've got a billion dollar person backing them. If they put up a million dollars for the 53-star whole world record, I'll come on board as their first athlete. I'll juice to the gills, and I'll break it within six months. [SCREAMS] And Hanz actually did make James the exact offer that he asked for-- $1 million, in an attempt to drum up more media attention. In exchange, he needed to break the world record in the 50-meter freestyle, a zippy single lap across an Olympic pool. That record was 20.91 seconds. That was the number that James needed to be. He said yes. This was 2024. He moved across the world to Irvine. This extremely stepper-dest suburb in Southern California, where he trained in secret with a swim coach in Hanz had recruited Bret Hawk, also a former Olympian. The local indoor pool wouldn't let him train there on account of the doping. So he practiced for hours a day at an outdoor community pool. People out walking their dogs would stop to watch him. At this point, James was already doping, or what Hanz calls the protocol. Their system is doctors work with athletes, presenting them with a menu of doping options, and then help them decide. And, other while, James was training his butt off. The first seven weeks I was here in America, I trained seven days a week, twice a day, for 49 days straight. So seven weeks straight without any recovery days. It prescribed testosterone to boost his muscle mass and improve bone density. He also got on peptides, which maybe you've been hearing about. There are a lot of different kinds that are said to do a lot of different things. There's TV 500, which is supposed to help the body create new blood vessels. Or maybe you've seen PT-141, which is said to make your skin tan. There are a lot of different kinds of peptides said to do a lot of different things. Think of them as chunks of protein, or rather the building blocks of proteins, amino acids, that signal to your body to take action. To say, rebuild itself, to aid in recovery. From what we know, Magnuson's peptide protocol included the Wolverine stack to help him heal really fast. Plus, other peptides that boosts his natural production of growth hormone. Because I'd wake up in the morning, and I'd feel fresh. I'd feel strong. I'd feel fit. And I'd say, let's go again. Let's go again. Let's go again. Right. He felt awesome. Every day, James woke up chomping at the bit, eager to get back in the pool. At one point, he was even training twice a day, seven days a week. It was a lot. What I didn't realize is my central nervous system was just getting beat down. My muscles were fine. They were bouncing back. I had no muscle soreness for five months. But neurologically, I was being torn down by just having to swim fast every day. And those-- He claims he gained nearly 40 pounds in muscle mass in just a few weeks, which is almost unbelievable. His racing suit no longer fit. They'd sometimes bust open when he tried putting them on in the mornings. After seven weeks in California, it was time to go to North Carolina to Greensboro, where Enhanced was staging a sort of publicity stunt. James was going to try winning the million dollars by breaking the 20.91 second world record for the 50 meter free. By the time I got to Greensboro, it was almost like we're limping towards the finish line, because I'd absolutely cooked myself from training so hard for so long. In spite of how on the protocol made James feel those past few weeks, something was wrong. He wasn't registering any pain, but that didn't mean his body wasn't experiencing it. I wasn't respecting the fact that my brain was working so hard every day as well to fuel my muscles, to tell them what to do. And his pathways for my brain to my muscles were slowly getting fried over that seven week period. The day of the 50 meter race, James squeezed into his speed suit. His traps spilled out. His muscles couldn't be contained, like he was trying to fit a twin size sheet over a king size mattress. And then-- [CHEERING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [CHEERING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Brett was running alongside the pool, clapping, and cheering him on. So was his fiance. For swimmers as good as James, a single second might as well spend an entire year. He got nowhere close to beating the record. He tried twice. His best of the two came in at 22.72, nearly two seconds slower than he needed. I'm really disappointed with the time on the board, because I don't think it's a true reflection of my preparation and the sacrifices I've made. But I wasn't in North Carolina back when this race happened, but enhanced did have their own documentary crew on site. That's where this tape comes from. Washing all of this on YouTube a few months later. This guy had worked really hard, put himself in this isolated situation, injected himself every morning with a bunch of weird shit, and got really big, only for the enhancements to make him a lot slower. But this was just a test run, and James was effectively a guinea pig. He's going to adjust his protocol with doctors and try again at the Games in just a few short weeks in Las Vegas. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite on humor me with Robert Smigel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odin Kirk to David Letterman helped make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer, Streeters Side L, helped an acapella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. 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Listen to Sports Slice on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And for more, follow Tim Boat Slice Life 12 and the TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. The French Open is one of the toughest tests in tennis. And I know firsthand because I competed there myself. I'm Renee Stubbs, and on the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast, I'm breaking down everything happening at Roland Goes. Every match. every upset and what it really takes to win on clay. - Jen-Chen-Wen. - Jen-Chen-Wen. I mean, she went down to three to Revachina, but I'm delighted. - Yeah, she's an outsider to win the French way. - And she likes clay. - Listen, Lona Revachina is arguably the best player in the world right now. And I actually don't win on any surface because if she's serving, well, good luck. - Consider this your court side seat to the French open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. - Presented by Capital One, founding partner of I Heart Women Sports. - Welcome to my new podcast, learning the hard way with me, your hosts, and your favorite therapists, caregames. And in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, I'm bringing over a decade of my own experience in the mental health field. And conversations with so many incredible guests. I'm talking trip fontain, Ryan Clark. Sometimes when we're in the pursuit of the thing, we get so wrapped up in the chase that we don't realize that we are in possession of the thing. And we're still chasing it. And we don't know when we done enough because people scoreboard watch. Life becomes about wins and losses. 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A part of Ukraine that's been at the epicenter of the Russian invasion for about four years now. For months, Andre's family couldn't even get back home. From Germany, they went to Poland and then to Austria. We're a friend of his head and apartment that they could use. So far, the wars cost Andre a lot. Like for starters, his job. A business he was running to support himself and his family. When the artillery started going off, nothing was spared. Andre's business was literally destroyed. I'll while trying to keep up his training and compete in the Olympics. - But when it's happened, all my dreams, all my plans just vanished. Andre is tall and blonde and very broad. Kind of like a bulldog. He's someone who the minute you see him, you know he's an elite athlete. - I'm 33 years old. I'm the current World Records holder of the 50 Butterflies. - When he talks, it's just as obvious. - I'm fastest butterflyer in the world in the history of humanity. Plus I'm the finalist of Olympic Games in the 53 style. Imagine that you put everything in your life into this achievement and you feel that you're super here. You're unstoppable. You speak better, you think faster, you're smarter. Everyone wants to be with you and you're so energized. - Andre's a bit different from the other swimmers. Like he's a power swimmer, a specialist. And his specialty is the 50 meter butterfly. - Andre's a different animal, so I'm trying to figure him out, but he's just a powerhouse. - That's enhanced swim coach Brett Hawk. So he's the ultimate power machine. And with him, he just takes a lot more recovery. And so you just gotta treat him a little bit different. - An injury kept Andre out of the 2020 Tokyo Games, but he kept training harder and planned on competing at the 2024 Games in Paris. I'm able to train at home and without a way to earn any money. Andre has lived basically as a nomad. And all the while he's been trying to maintain his training. I called every single organization who ever supported me. And most of them they were not interested. They say, "You know, in order to support, you need to show the result first." And I'm a World Record holder, an actual one, you know? And I mean, I'm fine to show the result, but how can I show the result without having any support? - The thing about training for the Olympics, it's expensive. And anyway, swimming, it's not the NFL or the NBA. Fairview Olympians can carve out a living for themselves, let alone for their families, even at the highest, highest level. - In order to be able to train, you need to have at least like six or $7,000 a month in order to have decent maintenance. - Elite athletes have a village around them. First you've got to pay your main coach, then if you're lucky, an assistant coach and a strength coach, then you have to pay for your recovery, massage, physical therapy, because if you can't stay healthy, you can't compete. And if you've got a manager to help you secure brand deals, they're taking a cut as well. - To be good and actually change the World Record, it's a 10,000 a month, at least. - And it isn't like winning the Olympics pays very much. If you're lucky and live in the US, you might make five or a low six figures. But those expenses add up. So most athletes turn to sponsorships to keep the cash flowing, or patrons. - Wealthy donors who fund your training for you. On top of all of that, Andre was still without a home. So his training for the 24 games was put on hold. Now he's missed two whole Olympic games, eight years of his career, just poof, gone. (upbeat music) In April of 2025, the International Olympic Committee announced some upcoming changes to this women category. One in particular stood out to Andre. For the first time ever, the IOC was including the 50 meter butterfly. Suddenly, Andre could have more than just a World Record. He could have a gold medal too. At the same time, Andre had heard all about enhance and how they were basically employing athletes, offering them a fresh start. And enhanced, they wanted Andre to forget the Olympics to come some with them. Andre had a decision to make. If he stuck with the Olympics, he'd have the chance to be a gold medal winning Olympian. Plus, if he did win gold, he'd be eligible for a Ukrainian grant reserved for Olympians, about $125,000, maybe. If he went with enhanced, well, he'd have money, which on its own, fair enough. But in Andre's case, considering his destroyed business, his displaced family. I have a son, I have a wife, and I went very deeply down financially because of that situation I had. Should Andre break a record with enhanced, they're offering to pay him a million dollars. And it gets free housing and free training with the best coaches, his food, his recovery, and even a monthly salary, all paid for. All he has to do is subject himself to enhancement and agree to be studied. It was a no-brain. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guide, not quite, on Hummer Me with Robert Smigel and Friends, me and hilarious guests from Bob Odin Kirk to David Letterman helped make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer, Streeter Sidel, helped an acapella band with their Between Songs banter. Listen to Hummer Me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tim Boat. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves. They're locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer-beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context, and ask the questions everybody wants answered. And for more, follow Tim Boat's Sliced Life 12 in the TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. The Friends open is one of the toughest tests in tennis. I'm Renee Stubbs, and on the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast, I'm breaking down everything happening at Roland Gers. Every match, every upset, and what it really takes to win on clay. - Jen Chowin. - Good one. She's an outsider to win the French way, and she likes clay. Listen, Lona Revachina is arguably the best player in the world right now, and I actually don't win on any surface. Because if she's serving, well, good luck. Consider this your court side seat to the French open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the I HeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. - Presented by Capital One, founding partner of I Heart Women's Sports. - Welcome to my new podcast, "Learn the Hard Way With Me, Your Host, and Your Favorite Therapist, Kier Games." 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Last May, about a year before the games, my producer Sam went to Las Vegas for yet another enhanced announcement event. This one officially debuted the location and venue for the inaugural enhanced games. You'll get to know Sam better as we go along. He was with me for a bunch of my interviews and vice versa. It'd be fun to say we're like Batman and Robin, or beevison but-head. But really we're just two guys who, like anyone, are getting older every day. Remember that term "longjevity" that aging is basically something we can and should be able to solve for? Well, Sam and I have been spending so much time reporting on enhanced. It's become a lot of what we talk about too. Aging, getting older. I'm 6'1" and a previous life I was a division 1 athlete. I was a wrestler at the University of Wyoming. I'm still very involved in combat sports. I fight more Thai. My hair is thinning a little bit on top, mostly in the front, none in the back yet, knock on wood. Also I should say I'm 30 years old. Cool. What about you? How would you describe yourself? Tell yourself to me. I am 41 years old. 5'5" Filipino man. I have bleach blonde hair, kind of like a dragon ballsy character. I'm pretty fit. I think, you know, on a good day, like I have a couple abs that pop out. I also do Moitai. I train like a crazy person five to six times a week. Something that Sam brings up a lot is that it's hard to keep up. And it's only getting harder. After college, he put on some weight, fucked up a disc in his back. The sort of thing he used to bounce back from a lot more quickly. So much of my identity at least is rooted in. is rooted in being physically capable. What I fear is. there's gonna come a time when like. I won't be able to do those things in the way that I want to be able to do them. And my body is not working as a machine anymore. What are you most afraid of. when you think about your body and like what it can do? And what it looks like? What are you most afraid of losing? I'm afraid of losing my ability to keep up on my kid. That's the big one for me. Makes my answer feel so vain. I promise you, I'm also very vain. Anyway, back to Vegas, we're Sam's waiting for this event to kick off. You know, when you first walk in through this like weird hotel mall area, there's like a nightclub called Zoop that you walk into. And there's a big crowd and people are. you know, mingling kind of right now. And there's this light up sort of LED board framed by these three arches. And there's just a bunch of like ripped men's bodies and very, very tight sort of speed of looking shorts. And you can't see their faces. And they're like a purplish blue hue. Like a mist is kind of covering them up. And it says superhumanity begins here. The time is now. Everyone I looked, ripped men, tight suits. German tech guys and vests. It was new money. Like Sam Francisco and Dubai had a baby. It's an interesting venue for this. It's very big. It's down nightclub. Instead of like traditional sort of like press-doc at seats, like empty nightclub booths that you'd pay probably $10,000 a booth for on a Saturday night here. Also, it was really obvious that many of the guys there were already on TRT to stostroenter placement therapy. Not just the athletes, I mean everyone. But let's also talk about the suits. That's Costa Slenos, one of the bosses here at Colitisco. We're not talking kind of ill-fitting men's warehouse suits. They are incredibly well-tailored, very stylish men wearing very kind of provocative fabrics. I'm seeing white suits, I'm seeing collars kind of sticking out of lapels, I'm seeing gold-room glasses. Doctors, sports scientists, there's biotech investors, there's real estate guys. Everybody there is just trying to get a piece of the action. Las Vegas, let's make some noise, let's make some noise, Las Vegas! Welcome to Las Vegas. The city where time doesn't sleep. And starting today neither does human potential. Today we stop watching the clock and we start rewinding it. The time is now. And then out on stage came enhanced co-founder, Christian Angermire. Some people doubted we can redefine human limits. Today, hopefully, we've shown the world that we are happening. We've got a date, we've got a city, we've got events, we've got athletes, and we've got the science. But what about the world records? Well, here's one more thing I think you're all going to love. Christian's one more thing was surprise. They had a ringer in their back pocket. As it turns out, when James Magnuson was swimming in that public pool in California, enhanced was also working with a different swimmer. Christian Goldemief, a tall, lanky Olympian from Greece, and with him, they tried a slightly more conservative protocol. Like if they'd use James Magnus into the gills, let's say they'd use Christian a little bit less than that. Maybe just to the flippers. And unlike James, who had worked his nervous system to the bone, it worked. On February 25, 2025, Christian Goldemief pulled off what James Magnuson could not. He broke the world record for the 50-meter free by two tenths of a second. Here's tape of him winning, which they played on stage that day. That's super healing. That's the definition of enhanced baby right there. In Vegas, they paraded Christian on stage where he awkwardly smiled at the crowd. Behind him on a screen, flashed a photo from the day he'd broken the world record, alone at the podium in North Carolina. He was holding a giant novelty check. I looked out at Christian front and center, and then across the rest of the room. At the suits, the doctors, the assistants, it seemed to me like Christian was one of the only athletes there. I've seen what it takes to be an Olympian. I trained with them periodically throughout my early 20s. It's not fun. The monotony, the physical discomfort, the emotional turmoil of equating identity with physical performance. It's excruciating. The Christian I saw was separated from the only other people in the world who actually understood what he was going through. Other Olympians. On top of that, the rest of the world seemed pretty suspicious of Christian and his world record. Aaron promised us that Christian's record would be on the front page of every newspaper. And it sort of was. But in the New York Times the next morning, the headline read, "In handscames claims former Olympicswimmer broke two world records ahead of controversial launch. Heavy emphasis on the claims." In another headline, the current Olympic 50-meter champion describes Christian's record as meaningless. About six weeks after that, the biggest headlines were about Christian's ban from world aquatics. Obviously, that means no Olympics. But it also means he could no longer train at any pool that wants anything to do with the Olympics. He can't coach Olympic hopefuls. And other Olympians, his friends, now put themselves at risk if they were trained together. Since that announcement event a year ago, culture has done plenty of shifting. There's been a massive uptick in people, regular people, taking GLP ones. Injections like ozemic and zepbound to lose weight. And they're talking about it. It isn't weird to be at a party in New York or LA where guys reveal their peptide stacks. Terms like looks maxing and frame magging have broken into the mainstream lexicon. People are taking their healthcare into their own hands and spending a lot of money to do so. Actually, in the last year I started injecting myself. In the belly, with NAD+, a popular energy booster. My kid likes to wake up pretty early, so I've spent the last few years in a default state of groggyness. It works by speeding up how fast cells heal. A friend recommended it to me saying it helped get rid of her brain fog, and it helps me too. All to say, I get why enhanced would be interested in normalizing whatever drugs they're using on their athletes. I want to go back to that episode of Joe Rogan for a second. The one I first heard a few years ago with the enhanced guys. The one that made me go, I want that. It was something the founder Aaron D'Souza said. I come from the view that aging is a disease that we should be able to treat cure and eventually solve. And so I think we need a rough treatment. evolution here, where we say medicine is not about making just the sick people less sick. It's about fundamentally improving the quality of all human life so that we can become super human. That's really probably a good sign for the future of how these substances are at least allowed to be used. Exactly. And at the first enhanced games, athletes will break world records. 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