Ross Douthat

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4,896 appearances 23 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 27 Aug

Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 23 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 6.

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Interesting Times · Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint for a 150-Year Life: Is It Worth It? · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Like how many years of your life do you think you're getting through this kind of voice-verified

But I guess I'm uh what I'm driving at is there's a best case scenario where you do everything right and the end result is you're healthier in your eighties than you otherwise would be. voice-verified

And um you avoid some disease you otherwise would get and in the end you get an extra one to seven years of life and that's that's a win for you and for everyone who ever watched you on a video, right? voice-verified

But that's not defeating death. voice-verified

That's not don't die, right? voice-verified

Whereas voice-verified

actually defeating or more realistically, I think postponing death, some people would say, is gonna come from some big breakthrough that has nothing to do with the protein powder you take or anything. voice-verified

And everything that you do is gonna look sort of like voice-verified

Uh you know, like dieting advice before Ozempik, right? voice-verified

W what do you make of that argument and how does your work does your work actually connect is what I'm saying to the people who want to add not one to three, but fifty to seventy five years to human lifespans? voice-verified

Okay, right. voice-verified

But th there's a little bit of a what they call a Mott and Bailey argument here, right, where voice-verified

Yeah, everyone wants to be healthier. voice-verified

Uh, nobody wants to, you know, have a preventable disease. voice-verified

But that's different from don't die. voice-verified

And you are, in fact, at the same time talking about the vantage point of the twenty fifth century and the idea that death itself can be vanquished, right? voice-verified

And uh which which is more important to you? voice-verified

the actual goal of defeating death or just the goal of voice-verified

you know, adding three years to some people's lives. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

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