Ep 101 Immortality: This Podcast Won't Kill You

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

For what was originally going to be our 100th regular season episode, we wanted to turn the vaguely threatening title of our podcast on its head by exploring a topic that’s not about something that can kill you but rather the hows and whys of staying alive, forever. That’s right, this week we’re taking on the immense and amorphous concept of immortality, viewed primarily through the lens of biology. Why don’t humans or any other organisms live forever, evolutionarily speaking? What can the long search for an elixir of life tell us about our future prospects of life without end? How close has current technology brought us to achieving immortality in even the remotest sense of the word? This may not be your typical TPWKY episode, but we promise laughter, trivia, and existential contemplation about the meaning of life, so you’re not gonna want to miss it.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Bridger Winegur and I host I said no gifts on exactly right.
0:04.2	Each week I invite my favorite people in comedy over for conversation and I tell them no
0:08.2	gifts, but every time they bring me a gift and then we have to talk about the gift.
0:12.6	It's infuriating.
0:13.6	You'll love it.
0:15.1	Listen to I said no gifts on Amazon Music Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:20.1	It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child.
0:24.4	For many, it's their biggest fear.
0:26.4	I'm Marissa Jones, host of The Vanished.
0:28.9	A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked and unsolved missing persons cases in an effort
0:34.2	to uncover the truth.
0:35.8	Follow The Vanished on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:42.0	Hi everyone, Erin here.
0:44.8	You are about to listen to a very exciting episode on immortality.
0:50.5	And this episode is not just exciting because of the topic, but also because it was going
0:56.4	to be our 100th regular season episode.
1:00.6	But when things with Monkey Poc started to ramp up, we decided that we wanted to make sure
1:05.2	that we got a Monkey Poc's episode out to you as quickly as possible.
1:10.2	And that meant pushing back this immortality episode, which we had actually recorded before
1:14.9	Monkey Poc's.
1:16.0	So, throughout this episode, you may hear references to this being our 100th episode, even though
1:23.4	it's actually episode 101, and we just wanted to explain why in advance.
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