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The Rich Roll Podcast

ROLL ON: Enhanced Games

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.713.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Roll On, but enhanced! Adam Skolnick came over to help make sense of the Enhanced Games, the pay-for-PEDs enterprise that just went down behind a Vegas casino. Think Idiocracy meets The Hunger Games, with Bryan Johnson calling the action from under a giant UV umbrella. It veers dystopian: looksmaxxing, narcissism dressed up as self-optimization, and the slow creep toward transhumanism. Ultimately: why train at all? Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: Go Brewing: Use the code Rich Roll for 15% OFF👉🏼https://www.gobrewing.com  Momentous: Get up to 35% off your first order of Fiber+👉🏼https://www.livemomentous.com/richroll  Rivian: Electric vehicles that keep the world adventurous forever👉🏼https://www.rivian.com  Seed: Use code RICHROLL25 for 25% off your first month of DS-01®👉🏼https://www.seed.com/RichRoll  Ollie: Get 70% off your Welcome Kit with code RICHROLL👉🏼https://www.ollie.com/richroll  Check out all of the amazing discounts from our Sponsors👉🏼https://www.richroll.com/sponsors  Find out more about Voicing Change Media at https://www.voicingchange.media and follow us @voicingchange

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Today we're going to talk about the enhanced games, the event that transpired in Las Vegas the other weekend.

0:07.8

Adam and I are going to share our thoughts on what it was, what happened, what we make of it, our perspective, the implications, both financial, cultural, ethical, et cetera, and dig into our personal opinions on it.

0:26.9

Does that sound good, Adam?

0:28.2

That sounds good, man. I love it. Are these UV safe lights?

0:32.0

I don't know. You didn't bring your umbrella. You didn't bring your umbrella. Okay.

0:36.2

We're going to talk about that.

0:37.9

But first, before we get into it, for those that don't know what the enhanced games are,

0:43.5

this somehow eclipsed your radar.

0:45.8

The enhanced games is a obviously controversial, privately funded international multi-sport event

0:53.3

that lacks any kind of governmental body oversight

0:57.6

from like WADA or the International Olympic Committee.

1:01.7

And in this event, they don't just permit athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs.

1:05.8

They actually encourage it.

1:08.2

With the caveat that the use of these substances must be under medical supervision

1:15.2

and taken through an FDA approved regimen. They also, at the Enhanced Games, offered

1:22.3

significant prize money, especially if you broke a world record. We're going to talk about

1:27.2

that.

1:28.1

And this all took place the other weekend in Las Vegas. It was 42 athletes across three sports

1:35.9

swimming, track and field, and weightlifting. And it was only a few events here and there.

1:41.7

I think they had aspirations that it was going to be like all sports

1:45.4

and there were going to be hundreds of athletes, but this was the inaugural event. So humble

1:51.2

beginnings, but my perspective is this is only the first year of an event that is going to grow

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