Lucinda Holdforth
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yes.
I don't know, people might have noticed there was some footage of a big parade in Beijing and there was President Putin and President Xi talking, overheard on a mic, talking about organ harvesting.
And when you think of those countries, you think God only knows what that actually means with the Korean...
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un standing by smirking.
And this was before they went to view a parade of instruments of mega death.
And that struck me so hard.
And there's also the Brian Johnstons, the RFK Jr.
He's another one that's into all this longevity shit.
So this is Trump's head of the health...
And they are all into this kick that these guys are somehow Ubermen and their job is to live forever and that will somehow prove they're better than the rest of us.
Ah, the Blue Zones.
Well, the Blue Zones has a lot going for it at one level.
It's a guy called Dan Buettner who went around to Sardinia and Costa Rica and remote Japan and decided that...
they were very old people and they seemed quite happy to him and they were well because they ate, you know, simple food and they moved naturally and they had community.
So I also watched the documentary series of The Blue Zones and while others might have seen this romantic lifestyle of happy old people, all I could see was in Sardinia poor old women labouring up a vertical hill to the church while Dan said, look how fit they are.
I'm like, what are you talking about?
Or in Costa Rica, a poor woman making tortillas and he's like, look at her muscles.
And it's like, and she had a guy, there was an old guy working in the fields and his argument was that this was all so good for your health and wellbeing.
It just seemed to me such a disconnect.
And in Japan, some poor old fella picking up a few weeds outside and to chuck into the miso soup.