You want this in the voice of George Carlin? Fine. Here it is, with the edge and the bite he’d probably bring to a list of talking points that sounds like a TED Talk cooked in a lab with a punchline stuck to it like a Band-Aid. - (0:00) David Friedberg introduces Bryan Johnson, like we’re about to meet the savior of civilization, or maybe just the guy who keeps a calendar full of “intense self-optimization” meetings while the rest of us try to figure out where our car keys went. - (0:54) Why Bryan Johnson did 5-MeO-DMT, as if taking a magic lightning bolt to broaden his mind is just another life hack, like replacing your blender and calling it self-improvement. - (12:56) What brain scans actually show. Oh sure, they show you what your brain looks like in a chair, but not what you do when the fridge light goes on at 2 a.m. Don’t pretend spectroscopy is a soul-reader, folks; it’s more like a weather map for your neurons—nine times out of ten, it’s storms inside your skull, and the foreca...