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

People who betray spouses and betray children and so on, right? voice-verified

Like the pursuit of that feeling can obviously be a spur to very, very bad human behavior. voice-verified

Behavior as well. voice-verified

And again, I apologize for being sort of incomplete in my imaginings, right? voice-verified

But I'm it's just very easy for me to imagine how. voice-verified

people given this extra time, you know, get stuck in cycles, right? voice-verified

And don't advance and don't progress. voice-verified

I also voice-verified

You know, a vision of a future where everybody gets an extra fifty years and they spend it blowing their minds on, you know, hallucinogenic drugs sounds really stupid to me, if I'm gonna be totally honest with you, right? voice-verified

Like and I say this uh I have never taken hallucinogenic drugs, so it may be that this is this is again a failure of my own imagination. voice-verified

But it seems to me that the things that voice-verified

That like like I am much more impressed and I mean this sincerely when you tell me about the insane regimen that you've built for yourself in the real world than when you tell me about the mind blowing things that you experience taking taking hallucinogens, I guess. voice-verified

in that scenario, you would have to be assuming, right, that this magical pill strips away the barnacles, but leaves whatever accumulation of wisdom that you've found, right? voice-verified

Like I would there's a lot of ways in which I would never say that I want to roll the clock back, because I think there's sets of things that I've learned and experienced that have changed me and yes, made me older biologically and and mentally. voice-verified

But I would certainly before you handed me when you handed me that pill, right, I would want to read the fine print. voice-verified

I wouldn't want to become my twenty four year old self in this body. voice-verified

Although I certainly would like actually I get a lot of sleep. voice-verified

I s I sleep well. voice-verified

But there are other aspects of being twenty-four, obviously, that would be desirable. voice-verified

The body itself. voice-verified

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