Introducing Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever
6/2/20265 min
Mangesh Hattikudur (Part-Time Genius, Mental_Floss) dives into the booming business of living forever—meeting the scientists, biopunks, and entrepreneurs trying to turn immortality into reality, and framing death as a choice. But the more he learns about an immortal future, the more he finds himself drawn to the people he loves…and wondering if an endless life can be a meaningful one.
Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever is the follow up to the beloved Skyline Drive (season 1), named a “Series Essential” — an Apple Podcasts honor for top-tier narrative podcasts — and highlighted on several Best of Year lists including NYMag, Guardian, and others.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
You were like, it's fine to die at 64.
Mangesh Hatikuder· Host0:03
Well, I mean, either it'll happen or it won't happen, right? I have a confession to make. I don't want to live forever. I'm not really concerned with living a super long time, and I'm kind of okay with whatever I get. My friends and family think I'm nuts. What's wrong with him? Why would he be okay with that? And right now, I seem to be alone. Everywhere I look, people are talking about peptides and perfecting their longevity stacks, trying to live longer, or at least age better than our grandparents.
Speaker 30:39
If at 100 I look like I'm 80, that's fine.
Speaker 40:43
We can still be doing a triathlon at 90, 100.
Speaker 50:46
I just want to keep going until I'm forced out.
Mangesh Hatikuder· Host0:50
If you believe the futurist Ray Kurzweil, by 2029 people will start aging backwards. And so, to hit that deadline just three years away, science is getting weird. Wait, wait, wait, tell me more about the black boys.
Speaker 61:07
It's either going to be like, it'll be the best of times and the worst of times.
Mangesh Hatikuder· Host1:11
A couple of years ago, I made a podcast called Skyline Drive. It was supposed to be about astrology, and it was. But my first visit to an astrologer showed me it was also going to be about grief.
Speaker 71:27
Situation doesn't look good for father.