Introducing Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever
Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Mangesh Hattikudur (Part-Time Genius, Mental_Floss) dives into the booming business of living forever—meeting the scientists, biopunks, and entrepreneurs trying to turn immortality into reality, and framing death as a choice. But the more he learns about an immortal future, the more he finds himself drawn to the people he loves…and wondering if an endless life can be a meaningful one.
Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever is the follow up to the beloved Skyline Drive (season 1), named a “Series Essential” — an Apple Podcasts honor for top-tier narrative podcasts — and highlighted on several Best of Year lists including NYMag, Guardian, and others.
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| 0:00.0 | you were like, it's fine to die at 64. |
| 0:04.0 | Well, I mean, either it'll happen or it won't happen, right? |
| 0:10.6 | I have a confession to make. |
| 0:12.8 | I don't want to live forever. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm not really concerned with living a super long time, |
| 0:17.8 | and I'm kind of okay with whatever I get. |
| 0:23.4 | My friends and family think I'm nuts. |
| 0:30.2 | What's wrong with him? Why would he be okay with that? And right now, I seem to be alone. |
| 0:35.4 | Everywhere I look, people are talking about peptides and perfecting their longevity stacks, |
| 0:39.2 | trying to live longer, or at least age better than our grandparents. |
| 0:43.7 | If at 100 I look like I'm 80, that's fine. |
| 0:46.5 | We can still be doing a triathlon at 90, 100. |
| 0:49.9 | I just want to keep going until I'm forced out. |
| 0:58.5 | If you believe the futurist Ray Kurzweil, by 2009 people will start aging backwards. |
| 1:04.7 | And so, to hit that deadline just three years away, science is getting weird. |
| 1:07.4 | Wait, wait, tell me more about the blood boys. |
| 1:11.3 | It's either going to be, like, it'll be the best of times and the worst of times. |
| 1:20.7 | A couple of years ago, I made a podcast called Skyline Drive. It was supposed to be about astrology, |
| 1:26.9 | and it was, but my first visit to an astrologer showed me it was also going to be about grief. Situation doesn't look good for father. |
| 1:30.9 | I had wanted to explore astrology because it was everywhere in my family and pop culture, |
| 1:38.1 | but I didn't think it mattered until it happened to me. |
| 1:41.8 | So now I'm wondering, what if I'm missing out on the race to live forever? |
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