ROLL ON: Enhanced Games
6/4/20261 hr
Roll On, but enhanced! Adam Skolnick came over to help make sense of the Enhanced Games, the pay-for-PEDs enterprise that just went down behind a Vegas casino. Think Idiocracy meets The Hunger Games, with Bryan Johnson calling the action from under a giant UV umbrella. It veers dystopian: looksmaxxing, narcissism dressed up as self-optimization, and the slow creep toward transhumanism. Ultimately: why train at all? Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: Go Brewing: Use the code Rich Roll for 15% OFF👉🏼https://www.gobrewing.com Momentous: Get up to 35% off your first order of Fiber+👉🏼https://www.livemomentous.com/richroll Rivian: Electric vehicles that keep the world adventurous forever👉🏼https://www.rivian.com Seed: Use code RICHROLL25 for 25% off your first month of DS-01®👉🏼https://www.seed.com/RichRoll Ollie: Get 70% off your Welcome Kit with code RICHROLL👉🏼https://www.ollie.com/richroll Check out all of the amazing discounts from our Sponsors👉🏼https://www.richroll.com/sponsors Find out more about Voicing Change Media at https://www.voicingchange.media and follow us @voicingchange
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First 90 secondsRich Roll· Host0:00
[gentle music] Hey, everybody. Today we're gonna talk about the Enhanced Games, the event that transpired in Las Vegas the other weekend. Adam and I are gonna share our thoughts on what it was, what happened, what we make of it, our perspective, the implications, both financial, cultural, ethical, et cetera, and dig into our personal opinions on it. Uh, does that sound good, Adam?
Adam Skolnick· Host0:28
That sounds good, man.
Rich Roll· Host0:29
Is that what we're doing?
Adam Skolnick· Host0:29
I love it. Are these UV-safe lights?
Rich Roll· Host0:31
Uh, I don't know.
Adam Skolnick· Host0:32
'Cause- You, you didn't bring an um- My umbrella. Umbrella.
Rich Roll· Host0:34
You didn't bring your umbrella? [laughs] Okay. We're gonna talk about that. Uh, but first, before we get into it, for those that don't know what the Enhanced Games are, uh, this somehow eclipsed your radar, the Enhanced Games is a obviously controversial, privately funded international multi-sport event that lacks any kind of governmental body oversight from, like, WADA or the International Olympic Committee. And in this event, they don't just permit athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs, they actually encourage it, uh, with the caveat that the use of these, uh, substances must be under medical supervision and taken through an FDA-approved regimen. Um, they also, at the Enhanced Games, offered significant prize money, uh, especially if you broke a world record. We're gonna talk about that. And this all took place the other