Slaying the Liver King with Ahmed Al-kadri and Gianmarco Soresi | 26
The Big Flop
Wondery
4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Wellness influencer and self-titled “Liver King” Bryan Johnson reigned supreme with 5 million TikTok followers. His followers, known as "primals", believed in his ancestral lifestyle of eating raw meat and biting heads off of fish. His supplement empire grew into a $100-million-a-year business. But the Liver Kingdom was shaken to its rock hard core when it was revealed Bryan's eight pack abs were actually thanks to over $10,000 worth of steroids each month.
Gianmarco Soresi & Ahmed Al-kadri join Misha to disect the legend of the Liver King.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Big Flop early and ad-free. |
| 0:05.3 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:19.3 | You're scrolling through TikTok and you have to stop. |
| 0:23.8 | There's a gigantic, bearded Hulk of a man sitting on a golden throne in the middle of a lake. |
| 0:30.9 | He calls himself the liver king. |
| 0:33.9 | He has bigger arms than most pro wrestlers. |
| 0:37.1 | His torso is thick, like so thick. He apparently can't find a shirt to fit him. Otherwise, why is he always half-naked? Hold on. Is he trying to catch a fish with his bare hands? And are those bold testicles on a little table in front of him? |
| 0:56.4 | After biting the head off a still squirming fish, |
| 1:00.3 | the muscular dude gestures to the raw organ meats |
| 1:04.3 | and pills he's about to consume. |
| 1:07.1 | You get the message loud and clear. |
| 1:10.4 | You stop eating processed foods. |
| 1:13.3 | You empty out your wallet on supplements from this liver king caveman guy, |
| 1:17.8 | and then you wait for some results. |
| 1:21.0 | But nothing happens, except that sick feeling you get whenever you try to eat organs. |
| 1:27.6 | Then one day, the truth comes out. |
| 1:30.9 | The liver king is a liver pretender who actually got swole the old-fashioned way. |
| 1:37.5 | Steroids. |
| 1:38.8 | And now his majesty has to own up to his lives. |
| 1:42.9 | You shut off your computer in anger and dump all your desiccated |
| 1:47.0 | meat supplements into the trash. A cupcake would really slap right now. |
| 1:57.4 | The name is Liver King because liver is king. The Liver king thing drives me nuts because that guy's on steroids. |
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