Gary Shteyngart

And I remember it.

You know, this is the shocking thing to the thousandth decimal point.

And that, I think, prepared me in some ways.

Stuyvesant prepared me for this world in which every single metric is constantly deployed against you, I would say, because none of these people are enjoying life.

You know, when you look at all these men who are measuring their cheekbone to the nth millimeter, this isn't a good way to live.

So this, to me, it's the other interesting thing about the book, and it also comes up in your book of essays, but...

It is this simultaneous obsession with living forever without enjoying life.

And what I always find so fascinating about when I watch Brian Johnson, and I don't mean to be insulting anybody's life decisions here, but I don't know if I was, I don't want to live like that.

I think the reason he is so fascinating to people, in part, is that to constantly have this level of self-examination, this level of self-diagnostics.

I mean, you have a partner now, and so the first thing you do is you go online and talk about her vaginal biome.

Good relationships are really rare.

Got to get that vaginal biome.

Clavicular, who it's like you've divorced getting hot from the point of getting hot.

He talks about how you can't have a girlfriend given the life he leads.

He is not fertile.

Why are you infertile right now?

So you're not producing any testosterone naturally?

No.

None?

No.